January 11, 2023 begins the third decade Guantanamo has been open. WAT remains in solidarity with the men who suffer in Guantanamo and those still suffering outside Guantanamo, calling out their names since 2005.
Join WAT for their 21st Anniversary Virtual Rally: Building our Power to Close Guantánamo on Wed Jan 11, 4 – 5:30 pm ET. Learn more and RSVP here for the link.
You can support the men in actions that go way beyond rallies and vigils: donate to the Guantanamo Survivors Fund; send a visual J11 message to President Biden via the Gtmo Clock; contact the President directly, and write letters to the men still inside. Take these actions now and gear up for yet another year of solidarity.
Shabe Yalda: A Celebration of the Winter Solstice in Solidarity with the Women & Revolution in Iran
Light dinner served. Music – Poetry – Open Mic. Free to the public.
Speaker: Grahame Russell, international human rights activist and co-author of “Testimonio: Canadian mining in the aftermath of genocides in Guatemala”
Rights Action, founded in 1995 by Grahame Russell and Annie Bird, was born out of the work of Guatemala Partners and its predecessors – GHRSP and PEACE for Guatemala – that during the 1980s and early 90s provided funding and support for the huge number Guatemalans (a majority being Mayan) violently displaced from their homes and communities by the U.S.-backed repression, many forced to flee into exile.
Rights Action supports education, legal work and activism to hold accountable the U.S. and Canadian governments, and our companies and investors that oftentimes cause and profit from exploitation and poverty, environmental destruction, repression and violence, corruption and impunity in Honduras and Guatemala.
Free and open to the public. Canisius College Science Hall at Main and Delevan near the NFTA metro station. Please Note: one parking lot is closed there during construction, but there is street parking along Main Street or in the parking lot by the M&T bank.
