Nov. 9, 7.30 PM SHARP Bringing GUANTANAMO Home:
The "Guantana-
mobile Project"
Creative Strategies To Resist Torture
The Brecht Forum
451 West St
(that's the West Side Highway) bt. Bank & Bethune Sts
Speakers Include:
Asli Bali (Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee),
Subhash Kateel (Families for Freedom) and
Lisa Lynch (the Guantanamobile Project)
This focused discussion and film screening on the policies of detention and torture of prisoners from the “war on terror” at Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba will feature activists, scholars, and legal experts involved in raising awareness about and resisting all that is exemplified by Guantanamo.
“The Guantanamobile Project” is a multi- media activist project designed to raise awareness about the ongoing atrocities in Guantanamo. One component of the project is a documentary film, where we hear from those involved in the Supreme Court case as well as from Americans unconnected to the case on the their perspectives on situation in Guantanamo. Project members have
been touring the U.S. with footage from the documentary-in-progress screened out of the back of a van and it has served as a basis to discuss both the facts of the Guantanamo detentions and strategies for media activism.
(Torture in Guantanamo?
"Not here!" says U.S. military.
Photo from Spiegel online)
The discussion will consider the place of Guantanamo as arguably the most visible part of a larger set of developments regarding detentions and torture, including the targeting of immigrant communities in the U.S.
This event is meant to create a forum to plan concrete strategies for new forms of activism and resistance against detentions and torture.
This is the 5TH WEDNESDAYS AGAINST THE WAR event at The Brecht Forum
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