Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Force Feeding at Guantanamo and the Politics of History
Today on Press Play, we take a look at the first trial over force feeding at Guantanamo Bay. Plus, we discuss the fight over history lessons in a Colorado school district.
By Madeleine Brand • • 52m ListenOn Monday, the first trial over force feeding at Guantanamo Bay begins for a man who’s been detained for 12 years and hasn’t ever been charged with a crime. We talk to the detainee’s lawyer. Plus: Who should decide what students learn in their history classes? We take a look at the fight between the Colorado school district’s board and students. And our film critics look at the new film Gone Girl and this weekend’s other releases.
Banner Image: Nasal tubes, gravity feeding bags, and the liquid nutrient Ensure used in Guantanamo force feeding; Credit: "Force-feeding kit" by DoD - http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/pdfs/App12_Pt13.pdf. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
In this episode
4 storiesGuantanamo Bay Force Feeding Trial
On Monday, the first trial over force-feeding Guantanamo detainees begins. The man behind the case is a prisoner named Abu Wa’el Dhiab. He’s been at Guantanamo for 12 years. He hasn’t been charged with any crime and was cleared for release five years ago. Since then he’s protested his imprisonment with hunger strikes. That led to force-feeding.
Read the story14 minThe Politics of History
For two weeks now, thousands of public school students in suburban Denver have been walking out of classes and protesting alongside parents and teachers. They’re unhappy because a conservative majority on the local Jefferson County School Board doesn’t like the new AP History curriculum.
Read the story11 minMysteries, Technology, and the Rapture
An icy blonde. A strong-jawed all-American man. The ingredients of many Hitchcock movies...and now also David Fincher’s new film, Gone Girl. That’s the big movie opening this weekend. Madeleine talks to critics Kyle Buchanan and Christy Lemire about that film and other new releases this weekend.
Read the story15 minEbola’s Breakdown
Today, health officials in Texas identified the 10 people most at risk of contracting Ebola from an infected African man in a Dallas hospital. The man, Thomas Duncan, wasn’t diagnosed until several days after he started showing symptoms -- even though he’d visited an emergency room and told a nurse there he’d been in West Africa.
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