[pjw] Event: "Guantanamo: 22 Years of Imprisonment without End... for 29 People" Fri 1/12/24, 4:30 PM

[Peace and Justice Works]

Iraq Affinity Group supporters
We're once again setting aside the second Friday in January to mark 
another horrible year of Guantanamo Bay prison being opened, 22 years 
later. The below event announcement can be found on our website at
https://www.pjw.info/guantanamo22yl.html

A flyer is linked there too but you can download it, print it out and hand 
out/hang up copies if you go here:

https://www.pjw.info/guantanamo22yl_flyer.pdf

We can also make multiple copies for you if you want them.

Feel free to share the announcement.

We're very glad to have our allies at Amnesty International Group 48 on 
board again for this event.

Thanks
dan handelman
peace and justice works iraq affinity group
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      "Guantanamo: 22 Years of Imprisonment without End... for 29 People"
                        Expanded Friday rally and march
                           Friday, January 12, 2024
                                 4:30-6:00 PM
                          Pioneer Courthouse Square,
                            SW Yamhill and Broadway

    On Friday, January 12 at 4:30 PM Portlanders will gather for a rally
    and march calling once again to close down the prison camp in
    Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The US opened this "detention facility" on
    January 11, 2002, twenty-two years ago. Twenty-nine (29) people remain
    there. Most of the active military aspects of the "war on terror" have
    subsided and over 700 prisoners have been released. Many of those
    remaining have never been charged with a crime. Guantanamo is seen as a
    blemish on human rights, including its history of torture and endless
    incarceration. Brigadier General Jackie Thompson of the United States
    Army Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps recently said "Guantanamo is
    a symbol of what not to do" (Telesur, November 7, 2023). The event is
    titled "Guantanamo: 22 Years of Imprisonment without End... for 29
    People."

    Efforts to shut down Guantanamo have been hampered by Congressional
    bills prohibiting funds being used to do so. Instead, America spends
    hundreds of millions of dollars a year to maintain this site of
    injustice.

    The Friday Rally for Peace and Justice has been held weekly since
    November, 2001. For the first 18.5 years it was coordinated by Portland
    Peaceful Response Coalition, and since March, 2020 by Peace and Justice
    Works Iraq Affinity Group. Normally the rally begins at 5 PM; this
    event begins at 4:30 to underscore its importance. Due to the ongoing
    pandemic we ask that participants mask up and stay distanced.

    Event coordinated by Peace and Justice Works Iraq Affinity Group,
    cosponsored by Amnesty International Group 48.

    For more info or to cosponsor the event contact Peace and Justice Works
    Iraq Affinity Group: (503) 236-3065 or iraq at pjw.info.