Global Protest to Close Guantánamo

WHEN: June 4, 5pm-6pm
WHERE: New York Public Library

“Join us as we demand the closure of Guantánamo, and, most urgently, 15 men, 3 cleared for release, still remain incarcerated in the U.S. torture camp which will have been in operation for 23 years come January 2025. And now thousands of migrants are being rounded up and sent to Guantánamo…
Co-sponsors: World Can’t Wait, Brooklyn for Peace, Center for Constitutional Rights, Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace, National Religious Campaign Against Torture, No More Guantanamos, Witness Against Torture, NYC War Resistors League, Amnesty International, Veterans For Peace Chapter 34, NYC Granny Peace Brigade, NYC Metro Raging Grannies, Peace Action New York State, NY Raging Grannies Action League, Pax Christi NYS, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
There are different layers to the answer of why we won’t shut up about closing the U.S. torture camp at Guantanamo.
🌍 on the basis of morality, holding people outside the law is utterly immoral.
🌏 on the grounds of the rights of human beings, the prison gets a score of zero.
🌎 Guantanamo has set a precedent that the most powerful state and military can get away with depriving people of their rights, torture them and face no consequences; rather, such crimes enforce the invincibility of the empire.”