To mark the occasion the ACLU of Ohio Northwest Chapter and the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition Present, “Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak.”

Join the ACLU of Ohio Northwest Chapter and the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition for reading from Poems from Guantánamo: The Detainees Speak, edited by Marc Falkoff, attorney for seventeen Guantánamo prisoners. A collection of poems written by detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the book is available only because of the efforts of pro-bono attorneys who submitted each line to the Pentagon for scrutiny.

These poems – some originally written in toothpaste or scratched into foam cups with pebbles – poignantly illustrate the very un-American human rights violations our country is committing in the name of freedom.

Free and open to the public at: The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library, Sanger Branch, 3030 W. Central Ave., Toledo. For more information call (216) 472-2220 or 419 242-7317.