Close Guantanamo NOW!

Join us in-person:
Sunday, Jan. 11th, 2026
Wilshire/Westwood Federal Building,
11000 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90024
12:00 - 1:30 pm Pacific Time
Free and open to all - RSVP on the website: https://www.icujp.org/01_11_26guantanamo

Please join ICUJP and allies in-person at our new location in front of the Wilshire/Westwood Federal Building on Sunday, Jan 11th, 2025, to mark 24 years of existence of the Guantanamo Bay prison camp and the human rights violations and torture it spawned.

At its peak, the illegal detention center at Guantanamo Bay held almost 800 men and boys of Muslim faith - most of whom were never charged with a crime. Today, 30 prisoners still languish there. 

After the Guantanamo Bay prison camp was opened, the Bush Administration commissioned the torture memos, a series of documents designed to retroactively provide a pseudo-legal justification for crimes against humanity. To date no one in the Bush administration has been called to account for writing and implementing these documents, and the mainstream media has seemed to forget about what those torture documents have meant to subsequent administrations and the liberties our military and elected officials have taken in illegal detention and torture.

Let's send a message to the White House:

Close Guantanamo NOW and release all detainees!
End torture NOW and prosecute the torturers and those who authorized them.

USPS: 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20500
phone (comments) 202 456 1111
phone (switchboard) 202 456 1414
fax 202 456 2461

Speakers:

          -- Khalid Hudson, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

          -- Michael Rapkin, Guantanamo Bar

          -- Rebecca Husaini, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)

          -- Jim Lafferty, National Lawyers Guild

          -- Mohammad Tajsar, ACLU of Southern California

          -- Rachel Bruhnke, Code Pink

          -- Shane Que Hee, Out Against War.

          more speakers to be announced!