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Audio: Two Sides, One Story - Cageprisoners National Tour - Sheffield

On Tuesday 20th of January 2009 the Cageprisoners "Two Sides, One Story -- Guantanamo From Boths Sides of the Wire Tour" -- a tour to mark seven years of unlawful detention, abuse and torture, came to Sheffield. Christopher Arendt (former Guantanamo guard, Iraq Veterans Against War,

http://ivaw.org ), Moazzam Begg (former Guantanamo prisoner, spokesperson for Cageprisoners,

http://cageprisoners.com/ ) and Omar Deghayes (former Guantanamo prisoner,

http://www.save-omar.org.uk/ ) were introduced by Jillian Creasy on behalf of the Sheffield Guantanamo Campaign. It was an outstanding and very moving event and the audio of the meeting is attached and some photos follow.

Audio Two Sides, One Story - Omar Deghayes, Moazzam Begg and Christopher Arendt - mp3 46M

Audio Two Sides, One Story - Questions and Answers - mp3 28M

The tour dates:

Two Sides, One Story - Cageprisoners National Tour

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2008/12/416350.html

The first night of the tour was also recorded at which Jaralla Al-Marri (former
Guantanamo prisoner) also spoke:

Audio - Two Sides, One Story - Cageprisoners National Tour - LONDON

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/419096.html

See also the Guantanamo Voices a blog tracking the tour:

Guantanamo Voices

http://guantanamovoices.org/

For more information see:

Cageprisoners

http://cageprisoners.com/

The National Guantánamo Coalition

http://www.guantanamo.org.uk/

The Campaign against Criminalising Communities

http://www.cacc.org.uk/

Reprieve

http://www.reprieve.org.uk/

Andy Worthington

http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/

Previous, related, meetings for which there are also MP3's available include:

The Rendition Monolgues

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/regions/sheffield/en/2009/01/419096.html

Moazzam Begg and Andy Worthington on Human Rights in The War on Terror

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2007/12/387568.html

Can Human Rights Survive the "War on Terror"?

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2007/09/380133.html

Guantánamo Bay: The Case of Omar Deghayes

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2007/06/374724.html

Craig Murray: Legality, Morality and the War on Terror

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2006/10/354417.html

Reports of protests in Sheffield:

Sheffield 11th June Guantánamo Protest

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2008/06/400985.html

Sheffield Guantanamo Protest 11th October

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2007/10/383417.html

Sheffield Guantanamo Protest 11th September

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2007/09/380837.html

Related Sheffield Indymedia feature articles:

Binyam Mohamed — the last UK resident in Guantánamo Bay — threatened with death penalty

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2008/06/401098.html

See also the Sheffield Indymedia "War on Terror" archive:

Sheffield Indymedia: Terror War

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/topics/terror/

Sheffield Indymedia: Terror War Newswire Archive

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/topics/terror/newswire/archive.html

And the UK Indymedia "War on Terror" archive:

UK Indymedia: Terror War

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/topics/terror/

UK Indymedia: Terror War Newswire Archive

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/topics/terror/newswire/archive.html

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Audio recording and production by ZKT,

http://zkt.blackfish.org.uk/

Chris & ZKT
Homepage: http://cageprisoners.com/

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If you manage to digest all the articles, audio and sites posted above and want more analysis about the nature of the Empire's "War on Terror" then listen to these talks from Nafeez Ahmed:

The Hidden Holocaust - Our Civilizational Crisis

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/01/388961.html

Ties With Terror: Western-Al-Qaeda Relations in the Post-Cold War Period

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/04/368971.html

International Terrorism: The Secret History

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/11/356939.html

Creating Terror

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/07/376665.html

And for a history of US Imperial Genocide this series of 9 lectures on "Empire as a Way of Life":

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 1

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/364938.html

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 2

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/365182.html

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 3

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/365880.html

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 4

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/04/366912.html

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 5

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/04/367787.html

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 6

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/369757.html

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 7

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/370754.html

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 8

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/372012.html

Empire as a Way of Life, Part 9

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/06/374166.html

Chris
Homepage: http://truthaction.org/

UK Indymedia

Audio: Two Sides, One Story - Cageprisoners National Tour - Sheffield

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