[pjw] EVENT REMIDNER: "ILLUSTRATING IMPRISONMENT: Sarah Mirk Presents 'Guantanamo Voices'" Tues 1/12/21 7 PM PST

[Peace and Justice Works]

PJW supporters

The following information on next Tuesday's event has been updated to include a 
link to a Facebook page, and to indicate the start time is Pacific Standard 
Time. It can be found at
   http://www.pjw.info/guantanamo_smirk011221.html

Please share widely!
dan handelman
pjw iraq affinity group

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Peace and Justice Works Iraq Affinity Group
                PO Box 42456
                Portland, OR 97242
                (503) 236-3065
                iraq at pjw.info


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For immediate release       January 4, 2021


                           ILLUSTRATING IMPRISONMENT:
                     Sarah Mirk Presents "Guantanamo Voices"
                     Tuesday, January 12, 2021 7:00 PM (PST)
                          Streaming live on Youtube at
                    https://youtube.com/peaceandjusticeworks

Portland area author/journalist Sarah Mirk compiled an amazing graphic
non-fiction book ("Guantanamo Voices: True Accounts from the World's
Most Infamous Prison") exposing the human rights abuses at Guantanamo
Bay prison, which the US opened in Cuba exactly four months after 9/11.
Mirk will speak on a livestream event Tuesday, January 12 at 7 PM
(Pacific time) at the Peace and Justice Works (PJW) youtube page:
https://youtube.com/peaceandjusticeworks. . The presentation will be
followed by an audience Q&A. The event will be hosted by local media
personality Theresa Mitchell.

Guantanamo held close to 800 prisoners, and 40 remain in legal limbo.
President Obama promised to close the prison in 2009. Mirk invited a
diverse set of 12 artists to illustrate discussions with former
prisoners, guards, lawyers and others whose lives have been forever
changed by the US' use of an offshore facility to torture and imprison
people indefinitely.

Sarah began as a reporter including at the Portland Mercury, where she
covered political issues including police accountability. She also
edited a national feminist magazine and now is a contributing editor at
graphic journalism website the Nib. She also works as a digital
engagement producer for Reveal at the Center for Investigative
Reporting. Sarah is also the author of several books including You Do
You: Figuring Out Your Body, Dating, and Sexuality.

Instructions for adding to the Q&A period will be posted at the time of
the event. The presentation is coordinated by Peace and Justice Works
Iraq Affinity Group and cosponsored by Amnesty International Group 48.

For more information, especially if your group would like to cosponsor
or endorse this event, contact Peace and Justice Works at 503-236-3065
or iraq at pjw.info.

A facebook page for this event can be found at
https://www.facebook.com/events/228477595576633. *


* PJW does not endorse facebook but recognizes its usefulness as an
    organizing tool