Last week, I had an email out of the blue from Jeremy Varon, a Professor of History at the New School for Social Research in NYC and a member of Witness Against Torture, the campaigning organization that screened the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself) at the start of an 11-day fast and vigil outside the White House in January this year, to mark the eighth anniversary of the prison’s opening. Jeremy had just shown the film to a group of students, and I thought his comments — and those of his students — were worth posting below .. ·
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/05/03/great-feedback-from-screening-of-outside-the-law-stories-from-guantanamo-in-new-york/Last week, I had an email out of the blue from Jeremy Varon, a Professor of History at the New School for Social Research in NYC and a member of Witness Against Torture, the campaigning organization that screened the new documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (directed by Polly Nash and myself) at the start of an 11-day fast and vigil outside the White House in January this year, to mark the eighth anniversary of the prison’s opening. Jeremy had just shown the film to a group of students, and I thought his comments — and those of his students — were worth posting below .. ·
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/05/03/great-feedback-from-screening-of-outside-the-law-stories-from-guantanamo-in-new-york/