Interfaith Communities United For Justice & Peace
Invites You To A
Silent Vigil, Rally & Press Conference To
Close Guantánamo Now!
Friday, January 11th, 11 Years Too Long
Meet at Downtown LA Federal Building
300 N. Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles (Temple & Los Angeles Streets)
Silent Vigil & Tableau at 10:00 AM
Rally/Press Conference at 10:45 AM
Mark the 11th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo prison & the human
rights violations it represents, including torture, detention without
charge, unfair trials, Islamophobia & impunity for crimes by US government
officials.
Press Conference/Rally Emceed by Grace Dyrness, Vice Chair of ICUJP,
at 10:45 AM, Where a Number of Civil & Human Rights Advocates Will
Speak:
Speakers:
Salaam Al Marayati - Executive Director, Muslim Public Affairs Committee
Hector Aristizabal Torture survivor and performer, Program for Torture
Victims
Ahilan Arulanantham - Deputy Legal Director, ACLU-SC; LA-vs NDAA Coalition
Mario Avila - Torture survivor and activist, School of the Americas Watch
Virginia Classick, Board Member, National Religious Campaign Against Torture
George Friday Organizer, Bill of Rights Defense Committee
John OBrien Peace and Human Rights Activist, Out Against War
Michael Rapkin Attorney representing Guantánamo Detainee
Stephen Rohde - Chair, ICUJP and ACLU Foundation of Southern California
Christine Stone Coordinator, World Cant Wait
Ameena Qazi Deputy Executive Director/Staff Attorney, Council on American
Islamic Relations-So. CA
*Close Guantánamo and end
abuses at Bagram
*End indefinite solitary
confinement in US prisons
*Release detainees or charge
and fairly try them in federal court
*Repeal the detention
provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act
*Hold government officials
accountable for torture & other serious abuses
*End the Islamophobia that
fuels Guantánamo & US detention policies
"The United States has always asserted global leadership in the field of
human rights. But noxious facilities like Guantánamo, Bagram, Abu Ghraib and
the CIA black sites, where torture is allowed but due process isn't, make a
mockery of those assertions, as does the plague of solitary confinement in
our domestic prisons." said ICUJP organizer Jon Krampner.
The time has come for the American people to make their voices heard
against the scourge of indefinite detention. We must all demand that the
government repeal the National Defense Authorization Act, before the horrors
of Guantánamo are brought to us here at home, added Stephen Rohde, chair of
ICUJP and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California.
ICUJP and its coalition partners call on President Obama and Attorney
General Holder to investigate and, where warranted, prosecute high U.S.
government officials who have designed and implemented policies of torture
at home and abroad; calls on Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate
Intelligence Community to release the report on CIA use of torture; and
calls for the repeal of the indefinite detention provisions of the National
Defense Authorization Act.
For More Information Contact Andy Griggs: Program Director,
Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
andy.ic...@gmail.com - 310-704-3217
www.icujp.org
Religious Communities Must Stop Blessing War and Violence
Endorsers: Addicted to War * American Civil Liberties UnionSo CA *
American Friends Service CommitteeLA * Amnesty International USA *
Anti-Racist Action-LA * Bill of Rights Defense Committee * Café Intifada *
Center for Constitutional Rights * CODEPINK LA * Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR-LA) * Freedom Socialist Party * Hadsell Stormer Richardson &
Renick LLP * ImaginAction * LA Laborfest * LA-Palestine Labor Solidarity
Committee * LA Region Religious Campaign Against Torture (LARRCAT) * LA vs.
NDAA Coalition * Law Offices of Michael S. Rapkin * MLK , Jr. Coalition for
Jobs, Justice, & Peace * Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) * National
Lawyers Guild LA * National Religious Campaign Against Torture (NRCAT) *
No More Victims * Occupy The Ballot * Occupy the Hood * Office of the
Americas * Out Against War * Pax ChristiLA & So CA * The Peace Center of
United University Church * Program for Torture VictimsLA * Radical Women *
Revolution Books * Schonbrun DeSimone Seplow Harris Hoffman & Harrison LLP *
Shura Council of So CA * School of the Americas WatchLA * Spiritual Youth
for Justice and Peace * St. Camillus Center for Spiritual Care * Topanga
Peace Alliance * Unifying Peace With Actions Respect & Dignity (UPWARD) *
The WE Project * World Cant Wait-LA
To endorse or for information, go to www.icujp.org, call 213-748-1643 or
email ic...@pacbell.net
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