WarCriminalsWatch Events

Doors open at 6:30 for art exhibit, videos
Program begins at 7 PM

We will begin the evening with visual art projects related to the movement to close Guantanamo Bay Prison (more details to come soon!).

At 7:00 pm we will join a discussion with 3 panelist on the current legal and political situation at Guantanamo Bay, followed by Q&A:
Candace Gorman, a U.S. attorney for 2 men detained at Guantanamo (one has been released, the other remains in prison),
Mario Venegas, an activist and torture survivor from Chile, and Dr. Antonio Martinez from the Institute for Survivors of Torture and Human Rights Abuses and a co-founder of the Marjorie Kovler Center here in Chicago.

If you are on Facebook, please "join" this event there, and invite friends.


The Chicago Coalition to Shut Down Guantanamo (World Can't Wait Chicago, Witness Against Torture, White Rose Catholic Worker, Illinois Coalition Against Torture, Chicago Committee to Free the Cuban Five).
Endorsed by 8th Day Center for Justice, Voices for Creative Non-Violence, Neighbors for Peace, The Chicago Cuba Coalition, Veterans for Peace Chicago, Amnesty International USA

They are artists of torture,
They are artists of pain and fatigue,
They are artists of insults and humiliation.
Where is the world to save us from torture?
Where is the world to save us from the fire and sadness?
Where is the world to save the hunger strikers?
-Adnan Latif (found dead in his cell, Sept. 8, 2012)

Watch "Death of A Prisoner," a film by Laura Poitras on the Story of Adnan Latif, published Jan 11, 2013