href="http://londonist.com/2008/01/6_years_on_amne.php">Amnesty International bringing Guantanamo Bay to the American embassy to raise the profile of the continuing campaign to close the detention center.
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add to facebookIranian Film Festival The Red Card (Carte ghermez) Mahnaz Afzali, 74 minutes, documentary, Persian with subtitles Saturday, November 17, 3:15 pm Remis Auditorium, MFA, Boston $10, Tickets and More Info While Iran's culture seems largely shut off from the United States or represented by the face of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the culture shares two strong similarities with that of America--celebrity worship and an attraction to bizarre crimes. The documentary The Red Card is like the OJ... more ›
Ishmael Beah will read at the Brattle Theatre at 6:00 pm tomorrow, Tuesday, March 13. Tickets are $3. It's rare when you see Jon Stewart flummoxed. But author Ishmael Beah's life story almost left Stewart at a loss for words. He said the book "made his heart hurt." Just hearing about the book would "make your heart hurt." Ishmael Beah writes of his experiences fighting in Sierra Leone in A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of... more ›
Saturday was the third anniversary of the war in Iraq and was marked, as you might expect, by marches and vigils in the more liberal corners of our liberal Commonwealth. Today, the Globe reports that "a small but crucial number" of Guantanamo detainees - many of whom have been there since before the Iraq war began, make up a "hard-core group of firebrands" who have "called down the wrath of God on U.S. officials." And on Friday, Bostonist heard a story on NPR about how the U.S. is being forced to defend its treatment of the Guantanamo detainees, including force-feeding them to keep them alive. more ›
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