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Gathering as a People of Light and Hope: Casting Out The Darkness of Torture and Guantanamo Forever:  An Interfaith Service of Song, Prayer, Light and Public Commitment

The principal speaker will be Gitanjali Gutierrez, Staff Attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights and the first lawyer to visit a Guantanamo captive. She is a powerful and passionate speaker.

Religious leaders involved in the service:

Rev. Winnie Varghese - Priest-in-Charge of St. Mark's Episcopal Chuch in the Bowery

Rabbi Simkha Weintraub - Rabbinic Director of the Jewish Board of Family & Children's Services, Founding Board Member of Rabbis for Human Rights - North America

Imam Samer Alraey - Chaplain at Baruch College

Sensei T.K. Nakagaki - New York Buddhist Temple

The location is near the 4,5, and 6 Lexington Subway lines at the 86th Street stop. From the station, walk one block west to Park Avenue and 2 blocks south to 84th street.

Sponsored by the Metro New York Religious Campaign Against Torture (MNYRCAT) and by NRCAT.