March 29, 2013: The International Committee of the Red Cross sent delegates to Guantánamo amid a growing number of protracted hunger strikes. In the past, inmates that protest by refusing have been force fed through a feeding tube inserted into the nose. March 26, 1992: International human rights and health organizations visited Guantánamo as makeshift…

Since its release, the controversial Zero Dark Thirty has been an ongoing source of contention. The film’s depiction of torture in the CIA’s hunt for Osama bin Laden has provoked a multitude of responses, largely inconsistent with party politics that have often framed discourse on the War on Terror. It is arguably Zero Dark Thirty’s…

An article recently published in Connection, a magazine of the University of West Florida, interviewed UWF students and former residents of Guantánamo about their involvement in the Guantánamo Public Memory Project. Professor Patrick Moore led the team of students as they collected stories from former GTMO residents to contribute to the Project. As Sarah McCartan, the author…

March 20, 2013: The U.S. military has acknowledged that 21 inmates at Guantánamo are protesting their detention by refusing food. One prisoner said the hunger strike was a result of detainees feeling like they are “living in their graves.” 111 of the 166 inmates at Guantánamo have been unanimously cleared for release or relocation to prisons in…

In 2012, students at 11 universities around the country joined together as part of the Guantánamo Public Memory Project and asked: what can GTMO’s history tell us about what’s happening now—there, and here at home? They dug through historical and visual archives; talked to people who worked there, lived there, or were detained there; and explored…

March 12, 2013: Three attorneys for Guantánamo detainees testified before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, arguing that indefinite detention and a harsh environment are creating conditions at the facility that amount to inhumane treatment. March 12, 1957: Three American teenage boys who ran away from their home on the base at Guantánamo were…

March 4, 2013: Defense attorneys representing detainees at Guantánamo have discovered audio monitoring and recording units in locations they have discussed confidential aspects of their case with their clients. The discovery comes amid increasing debate about the legality and legitimacy of military trials at Guantánamo. March 10, 2002: Just months after the first detainees arrive at Camp…