On April 3, 2014 CUNY students, faculty and staff, together with concerned individual and organizations (such as War Criminals Watch), came together to hold a public hearing to investigate charges that former…
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The complete text of the International Committee of the Red Cross on “The Treatment of Fourteen ‘High Value Detainees’ in CIA Custody” (February 2007), along with its transmittal letter to the
4-10-14 Knowdrones kick off forum in NYC
Photo by Cat Watters (Madiha Tahir, Carl Dix, Maria LaHood, panelists (l-r) and Debra Sweet, moderator, at the April 2 kick-off forum of Spring Days of Action – 2014.) On April 2,…
1-23-14 What we learned touring Close Guantanamo NOW
By Debra Sweet 5 years ago yesterday Obama signed an executive order to close Guantanamo. But the Obama administration is still making arguments in US federal court, and to the public that…
8-13-13 Two Plays on Bradley Manning
By World Can’t Wait Many of us are deeply grateful to Bradley Manning for telling us about things in Iraq and Afghanistan that we suspected but were not certain about. Two playwrights…
6-17-13 Stopping Indefinite Detention by the US: Guantánamo & Bagram Panel at the Left Forum
A multi-media presentation with an ongoing slide show of art against torture. Eleven years since the building of the US prison at Guantánamo, and nine years after disclosures of prisoner abuse at…
6-10-13 Whistleblowers Speak Out at War Criminals Watch Left Forum Panel
By Thomas Altfather Good From Next Left Notes | Original Article Whistleblowers and Supporters(L to R):Thomas Drake, Jesselyn Radak, Kevin Gosztola and Debra Sweet (Photo: Thomas Altfather Good / NLN) NEW YORK…
4-8-13 Videos from World Can’t Wait Panel at Historians Against the War Conference
On Sunday, April 7, 2013, H. Candace Gorman esq. spoke at the Third National Conference of Historians Against the War called “The New Faces of War,” which was held at Towson University….
2-6-13 Interview in French on Zero Dark Thirty
By Rémi Sulmont From RTL | Original Article A brief interview with Nancy Van Ness of the New York City chapter of World Can’t Wait. Zero Dark Thirty : l’affiche Le film…
1-22-13 Lupe Fiasco Gets Booted from Inauguration Concert for Criticizing Obama
From World Can’t Wait | Original Article Cheers to Lupe Fiasco for doing an extended version of his politically charged song Words I Never Said while performing at an Inauguration concert January…
1-14-13 Dark, Zero-Femenism
By Zillah Eisenstein From Zillah Eisenstein WebBlog | Orignal Article The film starts with a black blank screen and the voices from people stuck in the trade towers on that fateful day,…
1-10-13 Two Pieces on “Zero Dark Thirty” by Karen Greenberg
by Karen Greenberg From TomDispatch | Original Article Tomgram: Karen Greenberg, How Zero Dark Thirty Brought Back the Bush Administration We got Osama bin Laden — and now, for millions of Americans,…
1-13-13 Zero Dark Thirty, or How People Lose Their Humanity
By Annie Day From Revolution Newspaper | Original Article I was shaking as I walked out of Zero Dark Thirty, the new film about the CIA’s 10-year search for Osama bin Laden….
1-4-13 A Letter to Kathryn Bigelow on Zero Dark Thirty’s Apology for Torture
By Naomi Wolf From The Guardian | Original Article By peddling the lie that CIA detentions led to Bin Laden’s killing, you have become a Leni Riefenstahl-like propagandist of torture. Director Kathryn…
12-18-12 Why “Torture Doesn’t Work” Doesn’t Work: Dealing with “Zero Dark Thirty”
By Steven Jonas, MD, MPH From The Greanville Post | Original Article Jessica Chastain as Maya, the obsessed linchpin in the hunt for Osama. Both the actress and the character she plays…
10-10-12 The Russel Tribunal on Palestine held in NYC, Oct. 6th & 7th
By Richard Greve On October 6th and 7th, the Russel Tribunal on Palestine was held in theGreat Hall at Cooper Union in NYC. I attended this conference, and what Itook away from…