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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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! 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