This Wednesday March 5 will be a busy day for NYC activists.
8:30 am Rally and March as the UN convenes the Third Meeting of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons at the Isaiah Wall in front of the U.N., 1st Ave & 43rd Street
Featured speakers include survivors of the atomic bombings of Japan in 1945, family of a survivor of a nuclear test in the Pacific, an Indigenous activist from New Mexico, an activist from Democratic Republic of the Congo and youth from Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Initiated by Manhattan Project for a Nuclear-Free World. Co-sponsored by World Can’t Wait, Peace Action New York State, NYC War Resisters League, Brooklyn For Peace, NYC Metro Raging Grannies, Pax Christi New York State and others.
4:00-5:00 Urgent global protest to close Guantanamo — NYC Action on the steps of the NY Public Library, 41st Street & 5th Avenue
Photo: Linda Novenski
Describing more than 150 migrant men as “the worst of the worst,” the Trump regime flew them to Guantanamo, placing most of them in the section of the prison built for “war on terror” prisoners. It was quickly verified by relatives and law enforcement that most of the men did not have criminal records, and court proceedings forced their removal from the torture prison. Abruptly, after two weeks, most have been sent on deportation flights to Honduras. Meanwhile, 15 men, three of whom have been cleared for release, still remain incarcerated after being interrogated and tortured in the aftermath of the “war on terror.”
Initiated by World Can’t Wait and cosponsored by Brooklyn for Peace, Center for Constitutional Rights, NYC War Resistors League, Amnesty International, Veterans For Peace Chapter 34, NYC Metro Raging Grannies, Peace Action New York State, Pax Christi NYS and others. Visit the Facebook Event page. Invite your friends and colleagues to join you. Let’s make this a big one.