Torture in the land of make believe: Zero Dark Thirty bends the truth
Hollywood has long been the culprit of taking a real-life accounts, adding multi-million dollar budgets, and perhaps an actor or director with the words “Oscar-winning” or “Oscar-nominated” attached to...
View Article11 years later, Shaker Aamer still in Guantanamo
Shaker Aamer, a Saudi national, was captured in Afghanistan back in 2001 while engaging in humanitarian work. After he was captured he was tortured in Bagram, and later in Guantanamo, where he was...
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February: A Month to Focus on the Hunger Strikes at Guantanamo
February 2014 marks the anniversary of the massive campaign of hunger strikes by Guantanamo Bay Detention Center detainees. People in Chicago will be holding several events in solidarity. The attempts...
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Guantanamo North and the Denial of Prisoner Rights
In late April, Bureau of Prisons’ (BOP) documents describing the process for designating prisoners to Communications Management Units (CMUs), or as some call them “Guantanamo North”, were made public...
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Bergdahl Homecoming: Islamophobia, Anti-War Traitors, and Guantanamo
The press “controversy” around the release of Bowe Bergdahl has been the perfect storm of Islamophobia (Bergdahl’s father’s beard = he’s Muslim = he’s a terrorist); only traitors are anti-war...
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Torture in Our Own Backyard: Chicago’s Story, America’s Dilemma
As June ushered in rising temperatures, the month also brought about focus to a unique and controversial topic: torture. June was Torture Awareness Month and in light of this, Chicagoland held major...
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DePaul Students Call for Deposing Dean Implicated in Guantanamo Torture Report
DePaul University students have begun calling for the deposition of Dean of the College of Science and Health Gerald Koocher after being explicitly mentioned multiple times in the recently released...
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DePaul Coalition Calls for Removal of Dean Implicated in Guantanamo Torture
A coalition of DePaul University students, faculty and alumni held a press conference on Thursday, October 1st, 2015 with academics Dr. Frank Summers and M. Cherif Bassiouni to demand removal of Gerald...
View ArticleGitmo 20 Years Later : A Short History
The United States claimed the land that is Guantanamo Bay, known as GTMO or Gitmo, in 1898. Marines took over the 45-square-mile territory during the Spanish- American War, and America has controlled...
View ArticleGitmo 20 Years Later, Part Two
The Bush Administration Shortly after the arrival of men to Gitmo, President Bush delivered the 2002 State of the Union Address. Guantanamo was mentioned only once, stating, “terrorists who once...
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