Photo Credit: Robert Corsini/Videocratic Media

Close Guantanamo NOW!

Join us in-person:
Saturday, January 11, 2025
NOTE NEW LOCATION!
Wilshire/Westwood Federal Building,
11000 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
12:00 - 1:30 pm Pacific Time
Free and open to all - RSVP At Bottom Of Page

Please join ICUJP and allies in-person at our new location in front of the Wilshire/Westwood Federal Building on Thursday, January 11, 2025, to mark 23 years of existence of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and the human rights violations and torture it spawned.

At its peak, the illegal detention center at Guantanamo Bay held some 800 men and boys of Muslim faith - most of whom were never charged with a crime. Today, 30 prisoners still languish there.

After the Guantanamo Bay prison camp was opened, the Bush Administration commissioned the torture memos, a series of documents designed to retroactively provide a pseudo-legal justification for crimes against humanity. To date no one in the Bush administration has been called to account for writing and implementing these documents, and the mainstream media has seemed to forget about what those torture documents have meant to subsequent administrations and the liberties our military and elected officials have taken in illegal detention and torture.

Let's send a message to President Biden:

Close Guantanamo NOW and release all detainees!
End torture NOW and prosecute the torturers and those who authorized them.

USPS: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20500
phone (comments) 202 456 1111
phone (switchboard) 202 456 1414
fax 202 456 2461
web page for messages to the President: whitehouse.gov/contact

Speakers:

• Annie Ehler, Jewish Voice for Peace
• Jim Lafferty, National Lawyers Guild LA
• Mohammad Tajsar, ACLU of Southern California
• Shaheen Nassar, CAIR
• Shakeel Syed, South Asian Network
• Lisa Hajjar, UC Santa Barbara
• Vincent DeStefano, Assange Defense Network
• Ysabel Gonzalez, Code Pink
• Shane Que Hee, Out Against War
• Mark Friedman, LA US Hands Off Cuba Committee

Co-sponsors:                                            

Amnesty International USA • Anti-Racist Action • CIA torture whistleblower John Kiriakou • Council on American-Islamic Relations      90.7 KPFK • Muslim Public Affairs Council • North Carolina Stop Torture Now • Pax Christi USA  • St. Camillus Center for Spiritual Care

Endorsers:

ACLU of Southern California • Addicted To War • Amnesty International • Guantanamo Survivors Fund • Jewish Voice For Peace • National Lawyers Guild  



Please assist ICUJP in fulfilling its mission:
Religious Communities Must Stop Blessing War and Violence
 

RSVP At Bottom Of Page