January 11 Day of Action: Last Chance for Leadership to Close Guantánamo

Date 

Add to My Calendar Monday, January 11, 2016 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location 

The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20500

On January 11, 2016, join CCR and allies in Washington, D.C. to call on the President Obama to close the prison, end indefinite detention, and ensure accountability for torture.

Today, there is a renewed climate of fear and hate reminiscent of the post-September 11 mindset that led to torture and indefinite detention in the first place.  Guantánamo is the bitter legacy of a politics of fear, which must be rejected. ​President Obama has just one year left to fulfill his first-term promise by closing Guantánamo and ending indefinite detention. It is the last chance for leadership.

12:00 pm: Interfaith Service (sponsored by the the National Religious Coalition Against Torture)
12:30 pm: Program and rally

Event Sponsors: Amnesty International USA, Bill of Rights Defense Committee and Defending Dissent Foundation, Center for Constitutional Rights, Council on American-Islamic Relations, National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, No More Guantanamos, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition (TASSC), Witness Against Torture, World Can’t Wait, and others.

 

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December 23, 2015