Guantánamo Public Memory Project

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This Week in Guantánamo: 2015 and 2010

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August 7th 2015: The American Psychological Association (APA) voted on Friday to adopt a policy of baring members from participating in national security interrogations. The vote came amid the controversy surrounding the recent release of  the Independent Review Relating to APA Ethics Guidelines, National Security Interrogations, and Torture (aka The Hoffman Report). The Hoffman Report…

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This Week in Guantánamo: 2015 and 1994

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July 16th 2015:  Cuban President Raul Castro addressed the nation’s National Assembly in a speech calling for a new relationship with the United States. President Castro called for an end to the animosity between the two nations, dating back to the end of the Cuban revolution in 1959. This speech is part of the recent on-going effort to normalize US-Cuba relations. While the…

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Exciting GPMP News

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In the past few weeks there have been some very exciting developments for GPMP….. First off, three weeks ago GPMP was granted funding from LAMP (Latin American Microform Project) for digitization of The Guantanamo Bay Gazette. Old editions of the Gazette are now being digitized and uploaded to GPMP’s online GTMO archive, hosted by Dloc (The Digital…

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Prejudice and the Public Historian’s Role in Difficult History

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My classmate and I recently sat down with Harvard Law Professor Deborah Anker for an interview on the role of immigration law in the Haitian refugee crisis at Guantanamo. One of the first court cases that jumped to Anker’s mind was the Supreme Court case Jean v. Nelson (1985). Decided a few years before the crisis, the…

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Failed States and Spaces of Exception: Somalia, Southside Chicago, and the Twin Cities

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A few weeks ago, as I was standing outside Target on Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis, an elderly woman approached me and shared her life experiences in the Twin Cities. She told me something that has been troubling me since our conversation. I asked the woman how she likes living in the Twin Cities and her…

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