Mansoor Adayfi, “Detainee No. 441,†was imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay for over 14 years without charges as an enemy combatant. As detailed in the description for Adafyi’s new book Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantánamo, “Arriving as a stubborn teenager, Mansoor survived the camp’s infamous interrogation program and became a feared and hardened resistance fighter leading prison riots and hunger strikes protesting inhumane treatment and arbitrary detention. With time though, he grew into the man nicknamed ‘Smiley Troublemaker’: a student, writer, advocate, and historian.” In this special episode of Rattling the Bars, TRNN Executive Producer, legendary Black Panther, and longtime political prisoner Eddie Conway sits down with Adafyi to talk about his new book, his time at Guantánamo, the human cost of the War on Terror, and about the battle for survival in the dark heart of American empire.
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Thank you so much for this video. It was very beneficial. Keep up the Great Work! Much appreciated!
I have been thrilled to hear that Guantanamo Bay has been renovated and expanded. I've heard that many of our top politicians CEOs of industries religious leaders celebrities are being housed there for the tribunals of their crimes against humanity.
Mr. Adayfi is an impressive man. Yet another "casualty" of the failed war on terror, but he has managed to persevere and I hope he may live in peace moving forward.
Mansoor Adayfi, you're a beautiful spirit. We all walk our path in life and all experience in life, how awful it may be, makes us the man/ woman we are today. Carma follows each and everyone of us.
God bless you brother…â¤
Thank you, Eddie, so much.
I apoligize, regardless, Mansoor Adayfi, for what this awful awful obscenity of a country did to you.
PAYING PEOPLE TO ACCUSE OTHERS is even worse. We did that too.
You are an amazing talented human being. My love to you, Mansoor Adayfi!
the problem is, that new guantanamo bays are coming up, as one closes…
a major part of mainstream media is an economy based on misery, war, persecution, exile and death. Beyond that is what late-capitalism offers as speculative bullshit and using foreigners to tell stories of no consequence.
I got a question, did the US government ever offered them any compensation after 15 plus years of injustice?
As Pogo said “we have met the enemy, and it is usâ€. As humans beings, we all have the ability and choice to act with compassion and humanity, or with hate and abuse. These abilities and choices are on a spectrum of awareness and desire to live with compassion and care, or with hate and abuse. We all have blind spots and areas of our lives that we are not willing to face the discomfort of causing others pain. The willingness and ability to face the discomfort of causing pain to others is a fundamental requirement for compassion and changing our behaviors. Thank you for your bravery and eloquence.
This guy is really difficult to understand
What happened to all the comments posted
My own government makes me sick to my stomach every time I consider any aspect of it.