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WAT January 11 2025 Calendar

Frida Berrigan: “My Guantanamo Glasses”

Frida Berrigan opens our first WAT Community Circle for the January 2024 Witness for Justice, answering the evening’s question, “What keeps you coming back?”

January 2024: Speak Out to Close Guantanamo

Marking 22 Years of Guantanamo

Solidarity with the men, community with each other
January 8 – 12, 2024

Brian Terrell on Justice for Guantanamo Survivors

The publication ‘Hospitality’ from the Open Door Community in Baltimore published this piece by Brian Terrell, describing our January 2023 gathering in DC.

Jeremy Varon’s remarks at NYC protest

Jeremy Varon delivered remarks on Guantanamo and Empire at a protest in New York City on January 11, 2023.

Pentagon Vigil Program and Litany

Program for Dorothy Day Catholic Worker–Witness Against Torture Pentagon Vigil, January 9, 2023

WAT statement as Guantanamo turns 21

2023 DC Fast for Justice

Join us in Washington to call on President Biden and Congress to close Guantanamo now!

Another artist shines a light on Guantanamo

Mohammed el Gharani—one of the youngest detainees in Guantánamo, released without charge in 2009—is featured in Laurie Anderson’s monumental installation Habeas Corpus (2015), now on view at the Hirshhorn Museum in DC. If you can’t experience the powerful hologram in person, see the video titled “2015” to hear El Gharani tell his story.

WAT marked 20 years of Guantanamo with rallies around the country