CAIR, in partnership with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Amnesty International, Witness Against Torture, and ten other religious, human, and civil rights organizations, invites you to join communities across the U.S. and the world to urge President Obama and Congress to end indefinite detention and close the detention facility at Guantanamo.
The May 23 Global Day of Action to Close Guantanamo and End Indefinite Detention marks the one-year anniversary of President Obama promising to close the detention facility at Guantanamo. The president’s pledge came in response to the mass hunger strike by men protesting their indefinite detention and to the renewed, global condemnation of the prison. One year later, far too little has changed: few detained men have left the prison and hunger strikes and forced feeding continue.
The May 23 day of action includes a Friday rally in Washington, D.C. in front of the White House at 11 a.m.
May 23 Global Day of Action Rally in Washington, DC
Where: The White House
When: May 23, 11 a.m.
Contact Helen: [email protected]
Facebook event page
Additional information about at the May 23 Global Day of Action can be found on Witness Against Torture’s Facebook event page.
Other May 23 events and rallies across the U.S. and the world can be joined in:
Albany, New York
Where: Townsend Park (bordered by Henry Johnson Blvd and Central Ave)
When: May 23, 12 p.m. (noon)
Contact Linda LeTendre: [email protected]
Facebook event page
Baltimore, Maryland
Contact Amy and Ted: [email protected]
Boston, Massachusetts
Where: Ramsey Park to Boston Commons
When: May 23, 10:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Contact Chris Spicer: [email protected]
Facebook event page
Chicago, Illinois
Chicago Coalition to Shut Down Guantanamo
Where: Water Tower Park
When: May 23 4:30 p.m.
Contact Marie: [email protected]
Facebook event page
Cleveland, Ohio
Greater Cleveland Immigrant Support Network
Contact Don Bryant: don@immigrantsupportnetwor>k.org
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Contact Deb VanPoolen: [email protected]
Hartford, Connecticut
Hartford Catholic Worker [email protected]
Honolulu, Hawaii
(World Can’t Wait)
[email protected]
London, England
(Guantanamo London Campaign [email protected])
Where: Trafalgar Square
When: May 23 12-2PM UTC
Contact Aisha: [email protected]
Facebook event page
Website
Munich, Germany
Where: verschiedene öffentliche Plätze
When: May 23, 6PM UTC
Contact Anja Mayer: [email protected]
Facebook event page
New Haven, Connecticut
Where: Federal Courthouse steps
When: May 23, 12PM
Contact Mark Colville: [email protected]
(203) 415-5896
Facebook event page
New York City
Where: Times Square
When: May 23, 12PM
WCW and The Blue Lantern Project
Facebook event page
Contact: [email protected]
Raleigh, North Carolina
Where: Terry Sanford Federal
New Bern Avenue and South Person ST
When: May 23, 12-1PM
Contact Beth Brockman: [email protected]
Facebook event page
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
AmnestyUSA/OK/Group #238
Where: Penn Square Mall
1901 Northwest Expressway
When: May 23, 4:30 – 6 p.m.
Contact John Walters: [email protected]
Facebook event page
Pioneer Valley, Massachusetts
Contact Nancy Talanian: [email protected]
San Francisco, California
World Can’t Wait
[email protected]
Sydney, Australia
Film screening — The Road to Guantanamo with David Hicks and Rev. Graham Long
Where: The Wayside Chapel, 29 Hughes St, Potts Point NSW 2011
When: 24th May at 2 p.m.
Contact aloysia: [email protected]
Website
Tiffin, Ohio
Project Peace, Tiffin Area Pax Christi, and People for Peace & Justice Sandusky County
Contact Josie Setzler: [email protected]
Toledo, Ohio
Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition (NWOPC)
[email protected]
Toronto, Canada
Free Omar Khadr Now campaign
Contact Afroze: [email protected]
Tuscon, Arizona
Where: In front of the federal building on the corner of Congress and Granada
When: May 23, 4:45 – 5:45 p.m.
Contact Dan Wilson: [email protected]
Worcester, Massachusetts
Noon -1 p.m., Lincoln Square. Sponsored by Witness Against Torture and the Saints Francis & Therese Catholic Worker community.
Contact Mike Benedetti: [email protected]
Faceook event page
The May 23 Day of Action is being coordinated by: Amnesty International, Code Pink, Columban Center for Advocacy and Outreach, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) National, CAIR Maryland, Dorothy Day Catholic Worker, Interfaith Action for Human Rights, Franciscan Action Network, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, Methodist Federation for Social Action, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, Pax Christi USA, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC) International, Witness Against Torture.