This week, we’ll discuss media coverage of the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay Prison. We’ll also talk about Hungarian journalists’ hunger strike to protest media repression. We’ll be joined by Harper’s Scott Horton, independent journalist Andy Worthington and Klubradio’s Julia Varadi joins us from Budapest, Hungary. Join us at 10 or email feedback@yourcallradio.org. Where did you see the best reporting this week? It’s Your Call with Rose Aguilar, and you.
Guests:
Scott Horton, contributing editor at Harper's Magazine
Andy Worthington, independent journalist and the author of The Guantánamo Files
Julia Varadi, Hungarian radio journalist with Klubradio
Resources:
Ten Years of Guantanamo: A discussion with Andy Worthington and Jason Leopold
Friday, January 13, Noon - UC Hastings - Louis B. Mayer Lounge - 198 McAllister Street, San Francisco
Scott Horton, Harper's: Gitmo at Ten
Carol Rosenberg, Miami Herald: Guantánamo Bay prison camps turn 10
Lakhdar Boumediene, NY Times: My Guantanamo nightmare
Murat Kurnaz, NY Times: Notes from a Guantanamo survivor
Close Guantánamo Campaign and Website
Nick Thorpe, BBC: Hunger strikers defiant in Hungary media protest
Robert Marquand, Christian Science Monitor: Hungarians cry foul as new Constitution comes into effect