June 15, 2006
Guantanamo/bile Two Years On
In the late spring of 2004, the Guantanamobile Project first began filming interviews with the legal team involved with the upcoming Supreme Court Case regarding the indefinite detention of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. Those interviews were followed by others with human rights advocates, detainee families, and eventually with a series of 'man-on-the-street' interviews in the South and Midwest that tried to determine what, if anything, people knew about what was going on at Guantanamo.
Since then, Project members have traveled around talking about Guantanamo and showing clips from these interviews. Over the past few months, we've realized that the situation has changed so much -- and in most ways, changed for the worse -- that our documentary project needs some serious updating. We're in the process of trying to figure out who we might want to interview, and how to try to continue to tell a coherent story about Guantanamo in the wake of all that has happened over the past few months.
In the meantime, this website will continue to serve as a resource for anyone interested in finding out more about Gitmo. We will continue to update our news blog and the timeline and FAQS in the "Learn" section of the site. And many of the interviews we conducted in 2004/2005 are online and available for viewing -- just go to the "Interviews" sections for clips.
If you're interested in learning more about what we did in on the road, page through the "Project Update" weblog for a chronicle of our adventures with our mobile media van. And if you'd like to get in touch with us for any reason, contact us at followthebus@guantanamobile.org. We'd be happy to hear from you and answer any questions about the site.