No Separate Justice October Vigil: Speaking Out Against Torture, Racism and Islamophobia in Overseas and Domestic Prisons

Date 

Add to My Calendar Monday, October 5, 2015 6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location 

Metropolitan Correctional Center
150 Park Row
New York, NY

Please join CCR, Witness Against Torture, and our partners in the No Separate Justice (NSJ) campaign for our montly vigil on October 5.

Organizers, advocates, and attorneys will make connections between domestic abuses by law enforcement and in the criminal justice system and abuses in military detention facilities overseas. We will highlight the ongoing harassment of Yemenis and Yemeni-Americans by US officials; the case of CCR client Tariq Ba Odah, a gravely ill hunger striker at Guantanamo; recent victories in efforts to end solitary confinement in domestic prisons; and the connection between interlocking systems of Islamophobia, white supremacy, mass incarceration, and solitary confinement.

The program includes:

Pardiss Kebriaei - Center for Constitutional Rights, Senior Staff Attorney
Jeremy Varon - Witness Against Torture organizer, Professor of History at The New School
Ramzi Kassem - CUNY Law Professor, Director of the Immigrant & Non-Citizen Rights Clinic
Fran Geteles-Shapiro - Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement
Omar Shakir - Center for Constitutional Rights, Bertha Justice Institute Fellow
Luke Nephew - The Peace Poets
Christine Moore – Opera Soprano

Join the Facebook event and visit the NSJ website to learn more about the campaign.

Directions to Vigil: The closest subway to MCC is the 4, 5, or 6 train to Brooklyn Bridge.  Walk up Centre Street to Foley Square and look for Pearl Street, which is in between the two large federal courthouses on Foley Square. Walk down Pearl Street one block to where it dead ends on Park Row.  The vigil takes place on the corner across from the entrance to the MCC.

Last modified 

October 2, 2015