9th Anniversary of Guantanamo Today: It's Obama's Gitmo Now
Today is the 9th anniversary of the receipt of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Center for Constitutional Rights is holding events for "Obama's Guantanamo", beginning at 11:45 this morning with a Demonstration with street theater, signs, and speakers, and announcement of 12-day fast at White House Plaza, between Lafayette Park and “picture postcard” zone.
To mark the beginning of the ninth year of detention without charge or trial at Guantánamo on Monday, January 11, activists and lawyers of detained men will rally, march and hold a briefing to outline current issues related to President Obama’s Guantanamo, demand that the president make good on his pledge to close the prison, and declare their opposition to any plan for holding prisoners without charge or trial in the U.S.
...This is Obama’s Guantánamo now. He has failed in his pledge to close the island prison from a lack of leadership, bowing to the pressures of partisan grandstanding, and vigorous attempts to keep all cases out of the courts. The transparency we were promised has been discarded. This is an anniversary that should not have come.”
Details of today's events are below:
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