May 23: Global Day of Action to Close Guantanamo & End Indefinite Detention
Not Another Broken Promise! Not Another Day in Guantanamo!
Rally - 4:30 PM - Water Tower Park - Procession down N. Michigan Avenue
On
May 23rd of last year, President Obama again promised to close the
detention facility at Guantánamo. His pledge came in response to the
mass hunger strike by men protesting their indefinite detention and to
the renewed, global condemnation of the prison. One year later, far too little has changed: few detained men have left the prison, and hunger strikes and forced feeding continue.
Demonstrations
will be taking place across the United States and the world to demand
that President Obama and the US Congress end indefinite detention and
close the detention facility at Guantanamo.
Please join us in Chicago for a spirited demonstration and march, starting the Water Tower Park on Friday, May 23rd at 4:30pm. There
will be a performance piece highlighting the poems of the men detained
at Guantanamo and the speech that President Obama made one year ago. We
will march to Tribune Plaza and perform a skit to give voice to the men
at Guantanamo. Lastly, we will march to Millennium Park to end our
march.
During
his May 2013 speech, President Obama asked the American people: “Look
at the current situation, where we are force-feeding detainees who are
being held on a hunger strike . . . Is this who we are?” Sadly, as we
face yet another broken promise, this is what the United States remains —
a country that indefinitely detains and brutalizes the men at
Guantanamo.
The May 23rd Day of Action in Chicago is being coordinated by the Chicago Coalition to Shut Down Guantanamo (World
Can’t Wait, Witness Against Torture, Illinois Coalition Against
Torture, Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban Five, Vets for Peace
Chicago Chapter, and CAIR-Council on American-Islamic Relations,
Chicago) along with the 8th Day Center for Justice and more.
For information on actions in Chicago go to:
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