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Please help fund the Close Guantanamo NOW Tour Jan 9-17 Help make this possible: Andy Worthington & Debra Sweet Address How & Why the U.S. has Kept this Illegal Prison Open for 12 years, and Our Responsibility to Close It. The Bush regime filled the off-shore prison at Guantanamo Bay by rendering men seized from around the globe into indefinite captivity, employing and legally justifying a program of torture they called "enhanced interrogation." They slowly began to release prisoners for whom no case could be fabricated to justify prison, while planning to keep many forever, most of whom could not be shown to have played any role in opposing the United States. When Barack Obama was elected, he quickly promised to close it within a year... five years ago. The illegal prison is still open, with new infrastructure added and more personnel than ever. Most people in the U.S. have no idea there are still 78 prisoners there who were cleared for release years ago; 45 of whom the President says will never be charged or released; and 30 to be put through "military commissions" trials which are designed to cover the torture inflicted on the prisoners, depriving of them rights the U.S. has claimed to cherish. Why, as Obama says the "war on terror" is winding down, will this government not close Guantanamo? And what is our responsibility to see that it does? Andy Worthington @guantanamoandy, a journalist based in the U.K., has covered the prison intensely since 2006. In hundreds of articles, he's uncovered the lives of the men held without charge, and the stories the US created about them. Author of The Guantanamo Files: Stories of the 774 Men Held in Guantanamo and director of the 2009 film Outside the Law, he further developed the picture by sifting through the Guantanamo Detainee Briefs released via Wikileaks by Private Manning in 2011. Debra Sweet, @DSweetWCW is the Director of The World Can't Wait, leader of years of protest of indefinite detention and torture by the United States, including a full-page ad in The New York Times in May 2013 picturing Guantanamo prisoners for the first time in those pages, and bringing together prisoners' attorneys, academics, artists, and voices of conscience to declare “Close Guantanamo NOW.” Calendar of EventsInvite your friends via the Facebook event. Thursday January 9: New York City 7:00 pm: Film screening of Doctors of the Darkside  All Souls Church 1157 Lexington Avenue, Manhattan Co-sponsored by All Souls Church, No More Guantanamos, Psychologists for Social Responsibility & Revolution Books. Andy Worthington & Debra Sweet, with Todd Pierce, former U.S. military defense attorney for Guantanamo prisoners. Friday January 10: Washington, DC 5:30 pm: Film screening of Doctors of the Darkside, with Andy Worthington & Debra Sweet with Todd Pierce. Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Road NW. Saturday January 11: Washington, DC  12 noon Close Guantanamo Now Protest at the White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Procession begins 1:00 pm; ends 2:30 pm World Can't Wait, Witness Against Torture, the Center for Constitutional Rights, Amnesty International, and National Religious Coalition Against Torture. Monday January 13: Stanford University, Palo Alto CA 5:30 pm: Old Union 520 Lasuen Mall, 3rd Floor Common Room  with Andy Worthington & Debra Sweet with Jeffrey Kaye & Michael Kearns Tuesday January 14: San Francisco 12:00 pm: Hastings Law School  with Andy Worthington & Debra Sweet Tuesday January 14: Berkeley 7:00 pm Screening of Doctors of the Darkside at  with Andy Worthington & Debra Sweet.  Revolution Books, 2425 Channing Way @ Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley CA Wednesday January 15: Los Angeles 11:30am: MLK Luncheon with Interfaith Communities United for Justice & Peace Holman United Methodist Church 3320 W. Adams Keynote Speaker: Andy Worthington Wednesday January 15: Los Angeles 7:00pm: Screening of Doctors of the Darkside at Revolution Books 5726 Hollywood Boulevard with Andy Worthington, Debra Sweet and Jason Leopold Thursday January 16: Orange County Peace Coalition Location TBA January 17: Cal Poly Pomona 7:00 pm Bronco Student Center, Orion Room, 3801 W. Temple Avenue with Andy Worthington, Debra Sweet and Dennis Loo. Additional Speakers: Todd Pierce is a former U.S. military defense attorney for Guantanamo prisoners. Jeff Kaye @jeff_kaye is a psychologist active in the anti-torture movement. He works clinically with torture victims at Survivors International in San Francisco, CA. His blog is Invictus. Michael Kearns is a retired Air Force Captain, and a former instructor on the SERE program, which teaches US military personnel to resist torture if captured by enemy forces. He is a former colleague of Bruce Jessen, who, with James Mitchell, reverse-engineered SERE techniques for use in the Bush administration's "war on terror," to Capt. Kearns' horror. Jason Leopold is an investigative reporter covering Guantanamo, counterterrorism, national security, human rights, open government and civil liberties issues. He's been called a "FOIA Terrorist" by federal employees for his aggressive use of the Freedom of Information Act, which included suing the FBI and forcing the agency to changes its policies . Dennis Loo, Professor of Sociology at Cal Poly Pomona, is on the Steering Committee of World Can't Wait and writes at  dennisloo.com. Share this message: Make a tax-deductible donation Fund the Close Guantanamo Tour Jan 9-17 - All donations towards the Indiegogo campaign for the tour are tax-deductible. Or, make a tax-deductible donation online through our fiscal sponsor, the Alliance for Global Justice. You will see their name on your credit card receipt. To make a tax-deductible donation by mail, make your check out to "World Can't Wait/Alliance for Global Justice" (our fiscal sponsor; you can use the abbreviation AFGJ), and mail it to us at: World Can't Wait 305 West Broadway #185 New York, NY 10013. Call (866) 973-4463 with any questions. World Can't Wait is a project of our fiscal sponsor, the Alliance for Global Justice, a registered 501(c)3. Debra Sweet, Director, The World Can't Wait

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