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4 hrs ago | The Skanner

VIDEO: Guantanamo: Costing $150 Million a Year and Untold Damage to U.S. Reputation

And every day, up to 100 of the 166 inmates send them back. They're protesting their ongoing imprisonment by going on hunger strikes for what is now 100 days.

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19 hrs ago | San Francisco Bay View

100th day of the hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay

Reportedly over 130 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have entered the 100th day of the hunger strike protesting their infinite detention.

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Thu May 16, 2013

Stars and Stripes

Guantanamo: 30 of the 100 hunger strikers now being tube-fed

Guantanamo prison staff members were tube-feeding 30 of the 100 hunger-striking captives on Wednesday, the detention center said, reporting an all-time high last reached in 2005.

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Wed May 15, 2013

Inter Press Service

Q&A: "To Propel Change, You Have to Be in Their Faces"

Dressed in an orange jumpsuit, Wilson has been protesting outside the White House gates for over two weeks now.

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War Is A Crime

100 Day Guantanamo Hunger Strike Press Conference at National Press Club Thursday, May 16, 10am

CODEPINK will be hosting a press conference in the Zenger Room at the National Press Club.

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CNN

Gitmo detainees hurl insults, excrement

For the 160-plus inmates at the U.S. prison camp here, each sunrise brings a new day that most would rather starve than endure.

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Tue May 14, 2013

The Guardian

Guantanamo strikers threatened with body cavity searches, lawyer says

Clive Stafford Smith said US guards insist on a body search before any detainee can contact their lawyer.

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The Miami Herald

Medical alert in Guantanamo amid hunger strike

A U.S. military spokesman says medics at the Guantanamo Bay prison were called to a cell amid a long-running hunger strike at the U.S. base in Cuba.

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Salem-News.com

Wake Up Call for America

I'm tired of politics, of the injustices, the corruption, the assassinations, the gross illegal behaviour of the strong, the plundering of the poor and the indignities wrought on the weak.

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The Daily Star

Gitmo prisoner: Obama has 'abandoned' detainees

In this Jan. 14, 2011, file photo human rights activists, hooded and wearing orange prison garb to represent prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, demonstrate in front of the White House in Washington because the prison has not been closed down by President Obama.

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Mon May 13, 2013

The Huffington Post

ACLU, Human Rights Groups: 'Cruel' Force-Feeding Of Hunger-Striking Guantanamo Detainees Must End

U.S. military guards move an 'enemy combatant' within the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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Sun May 12, 2013

The Japan Times

Obama has leverage to salvage U.S.'s reputation

President Barack Obama's renewed request to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, confirms what the detainees have already shown with their hunger strike: Permanent detention at the U.S. naval station isn't viable as a matter of practicality or conscience.

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Sat May 11, 2013

The Nation

Guantanamo prisoners face body search

WASHINGTON: - Guantanamo officials have warned detainees at the widely reviled US prison that they will have to be patted down thoroughly each time they meet their lawyers, an attorney said Friday.

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Examiner.com

Guantanamo hunger strike to expose Ensure as a health hazard

Images emerging Friday from inside Guantanamo Bay Detention Center may ultimately backfire on "Ensure" manufacturer, as hunger-striker's conditions worsen.

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National Public Radio

In Guantanamo, Have We Created Something We Can't Close?

The detention camp at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba, was established after the Sept.

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Centre Daily Times

Bob Ray Sanders | Obama should close Gitmo - now

The ongoing hunger strike by detainees at the Guantanamo detention camp is doing exactly what a nonviolent protest is intended to do: call attention to the plight and grievances of those who feel they are being treated unjustly.

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Fri May 10, 2013

War Is A Crime

A Slideshow of 35 photos of a rally where a CODEPINK Activist Chains...

Activists from CODEPINK, a national peace and justice organization, and their human rights allies, staged a resolute demonstration in front of the White House on Friday afternoon, May 10, 2013.

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Daily Mail

Gulag that shames the West: Five years after Obama said he'd shut it, ...

Dawn is still two hours away and for those on the outside, beyond the reinforced concrete walls and coiled barbed wire, the good life in Guantanamo Bay has stilled temporarily.

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Thu May 09, 2013

The Huffington Post

Senator Urges Obama To Appoint Guantanamo Envoy

President Barack Obama should appoint a White House official to help transfer 86 Guantanamo detainees who have been cleared for release to other countries, Sen.

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TwinCities

Melewski, Moen: Taking exception: At Gitmo, justice is long overdue

In a recent commentary , Susan Gaertner reminds us that there is still a military commission -- a process bearing a loose resemblance to a trial -- ongoing at our military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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