Save the Date: January 11, 2012, 10 Years Too Many: National Day of Action Against Guantánamo
Join a rally in Washington, DC and help create a human chain of more than 2,000 people, representing the individuals still detained without charge or fair trial at Guantánamo and Bagram, from the White House to the Capitol.
We will raise our voices and demand:
- Close Guantánamo & end abuses at Bagram
- End indefinite detention and unfair military commissions
- Charge and fairly try detainees or release them
- Ensure accountability for torture: investigate, prosecute and provide
- remedy for victims
- Close the “torture loophole” in Appendix M of the Army Field Manual
- Fight Islamophobia
With few exceptions, the Bush detention regime has been more deeply institutionalized by the Obama administration, and the failure to close Guantánamo is but one in a string of unkept promises. While the media has largely abandoned the issue, a bipartisan consensus is emerging to commit permanently to terrible policies. We need to speak out with a new determination to reach policy-makers, the media, and the public. Buses will be coming to Washington DC from cities throughout the Eastern United States.
For more information, e-mail: security@aiusa.org or jan11@witnesstorture.org or visit: www.amnestyusa.org/gitmorally, www.witnesstorture.org
Sponsored By: Amnesty International USA, Witness Against TortureCenter for Constitutional Rights, Physicians for Human Rights, No More Guantánamos, Pax Christi, Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC), Catholic Worker, War Resisters League, World Can’t Wait, Code Pink,War Criminals Watch, School of the America’s Watch (SOAW), Voices for Creative Nonviolence (VCNV), September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, WarIsACrime.org
