100 Days to Close Guantanamo

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100 Days - Forum - April 27 2009
Speakers at WRL Forum on War, Prisons and Torture on Monday, April 27, 2009

Protesters outside the White House on the 100th day, April 30, 2009

Protesters outside the White House on the 100th day, April 30, 2009

See media releases on the 100 Days Campaign:

May 1, 2009 – 61 Anti-Torture Demonstrators Arrested at The White House

April 29, 2009 – Justice Delayed is Justice Denied: Accountability, Torture, and the Obama Administration

January 10, 2009 – Anti-Torture Activists to Fast and Rally Sunday to Call on Obama to Close Guantanamo

March 19, 2008 – War Resisters Block IRS HQ, 32 arrested

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