Antioch University Guantánamo National Teach-In

Yellow Springs Campuses Participate in University-Wide Initiative

Please Note: The Panel - “Terror, Torture, and Imprisonment: The Long Road to Guantanamo.” will begin at 8pm October 5, not 7 pm as previously announced on this page.

October 5, 2006

Made even more timely by President Bush’s recent announcement, Seton Hall University School of Law hosts the first conference to study the government’s unprecedented detention in Guantánamo of hundreds of individuals described as “enemy combatants.” With public figures such as Thomas Friedman of The New York Times describing Guantánamo as “the anti-Statue of Liberty,” there could not be a better time for this event.

Organized around a series of panel discussions, the daylong event will be simulcast to Antioch university campuses across the country from Seton Hall Law School in New Jersey.

“After holding more than 500 people for nearly five years at Guantánamo without a trial, the President suddenly announced that he needed to import 15 people to try there. The continuing failure to try the supposed “worst of the worst” America already holds while now trying 15 others is a tacit admission that the Government has held mostly the wrong people. No wonder Guantánamo is fast replacing the Statue of Liberty around the world as a new and dark symbol of America,” said Seton Hall Law Professor and conference co-chair Mark Denbeaux, who also represents two detainees.

Inspired by the techniques of teach-ins of the 1960s but utilizing the technology of the present, the conference will be a collaboration of more than 200 colleges and law schools. Academics will join journalists, military officers, theologians, human rights activists, lawyers for detainees, and released detainees themselves in Guantánamo: How Should We Respond?, Thursday, October 5, 2006.

For more information, contact Laurien Alexandre, Ph.D, at lalexandre@phd.antioch.edu.

Yellow Springs Schedule

September 27	7:00-9:00 pm	Documentary - "The Torture Question"
October 5	9:00am-5:00pm	National Teach-In Telecast
October 5	8:00pm -9:00 pm	Panel - “Terror, Torture, and Imprisonment: The Long Road to Guantanamo.”

All events in Mcgregor Room 113 .

Events will also be posted on the Antioch College Events Calendar

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