1. Get involved with Witness Against Torture's Campaign to Shut Down Guantánamo. Contact us for more information and subscribe to our announcement list. Or, get involved with Act Against Torture on the West Coast or form your own anti-torture direct action group.
  2. Buy and wear orange "Shut Down Guantánamo" t-shirts. Our friends at Can't Afford Em are making more t-shirts every day. They are made in the Bronx on sweatshop free t-shirts.
  3. Donate to support our Campaign. We are traveling, speaking, handing out materials, getting arrested, meeting with allies, building cages, all of this takes money. Please support our work.
  4. Educate yourself and others! Download a fact sheet or other materials.
  5. Organize a talk or forum on torture in your community. Witness Against Torture has many articulate and passionate members that are eager to spread the word about the disgrace that is US torture policy and practice and what people can do about it. This is a critical way of supporting our work. We also have many allied organizations that can provide speakers for a larger event, groups such as the Center for Constitutional Rights (which has organized legal representation for the detainees in Guantanamo), Amnesty International, the National Council of Churches, and MORE! Contact us for more info.
  6. Display a "Guantánamo cage"!
  7. Send a letter to your Congressional representative.
  8. Go see the film The Road to Guantánamo. This award winning documentary about three British prisoners will premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival the first weekend in May, and will open in theaters at the end of June. The more people who see it in its first few days of screening, the longer it will stay in the theaters.
  9. Write the prisoners and send them seeds.
    CagePrisoners.com, a website created to raise awareness of the plight of the prisoners at Guantánamo Bay and other detainees held as part of the War on Terror, has collected addresses for Guantánamo prisoners and their families. Also, a recent article in The Independent (UK) describes how prisoners at Guantánamo are secretly gardening, and highlights a campaign to send them seeds of hope.
  10. Email a friend about this website and encourage them to subscribe!. This website and our announcement list are important resources for building a campaign to shut down Guantanamo. (The list is low traffic, but it is important that our message and calls to action reach many, many more.)

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