An interesting read about officialdom’s push-back against the exhibition of art work created by men interred at Guantanamo. In some ways it made me think of Gender Affair’s/Brenda Lee Browne’s creative writing programme here in Antigua and Barbuda’s prison though given that Guantanamo’s prisoners have had no due process, it’s a bit of apples and oranges… but the connective thread is the ways art allows us to communicate with ourselves and the world at large…and how for some the very act of creating art can be dangerous and revolutionary (even when the art itself is quite benign). We need to do all we can to encourage creativity and fund programmes that allow it to exist.
An Editorial from the New York Times. The American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba — where men suspected of terrorism are for the most part being held indefinitely without trial — has long been a stain on this country’s human rights record. Now the military has stumbled needlessly into a controversy over, of all things, art. […]
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