This Saturday, January 11, marks the 12th anniversary of the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay-Boston Action

 

--and the 8th

anniversary of actions in DC by the group Witness Against Torture, including a solidarity-with-hunger-strikers fast. Other groups, 

including Codepink, Veterans for Peace, World Can't Wait, & CloseGitmo.net -- as well as Amnesty International

and the Center for Constitutional Rights -- have become increasingly active and vocal in demanding that the many detainees

held for years without charge or trial be released, that Gitmo be closed.  (You'll recall that many VFP and CP members heldlong-term fasts last summer, at the height of one unreported hunger strike, and committed acts of civil disobedience both at the White

House and the Senate Office Building to draw Americans' attention to the plight of detainees and to try to force the administration to take action.)

Because this is an important anniversary, involving national actions that deserve lots of press coverage, I am forwarding 

the following info on this week's Saturday Park Street protest, prepared by Michael Borkson and Susan McLucas, Committee

on Peace and Human Rights. Please pass it along to your networks, to your friends, to anyone who cares about justice, and join

the Boston speak-out and protest, if you can. Thanks!

Peace, Joan 

Boston activists will join a national anti-Guantanamo protest on the 12th anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo Saturday, January 11 at Park Street Station beginning at 1pm.  Come raise your voice against the indefinite detention of Muslim men at Guantanamo and elsewhere in the US "War on Terror."  There are now 158 men being held at Guantanamo, of which 86 have long since been cleared for release.  Help us restore our national reputation and bring justice to these people, most of whom have done nothing wrong. 
Jumpsuits and signs will be available, but bring any you have as well.  We will have an open mic. 
See WitnessTorture.org for info on the national protest and week-long fast. 
Contact Susan McLucas with questions or ideas: (617) 776-6524.

Here's a Facebook event link: https://m.facebook.com/events/702568239775374

P.S. To get more reports on actions to close Gitmo, see the website PopularResistance.org. The photos below

are from that site.

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