Register for the event here: bit.ly/CounterpublicCafe

We will also be joined by:

-Jalil Muntaqim @jalilmuntaqim, Activist, author & former member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army & founder of the Jericho Movement

-Rashida James-Saadiya, ED, Muslim Power Building Project

-Andrew Kadi @andrewkadi, Co-Founder, DC for Palestine

Finally, writing has become a love of mine and a discipline and I take heed from the great James Baldwin, whose words always inspire me when I feel like I'm writing into an abyss.

Have you read my book? I'd love to hear your thoughts! Also, if you comment and share my post I'll randomly draw two names to send free promo codes for the audiobook (I'll draw names on Sunday night).

My taxonomy of the War on Terror includes 5 dimensions:
1) Militarism & Warfare
2) Draconian Immigration Policies
3) Surveillance
4) Federal Terrorism Prosecutions
5) Detention & Torture

The 5 modes of violence that I identified include:
1) Corporeal
2) Bordered
3) Panoptic
4) Juridical
5) Carceral

One of the ways I approached writing my book so that it could provide continued relevance in understanding the War on Terror, was to develop a taxonomy of the War on Terror & corresponding modes of violence as a framework for understanding the violence in the last two decades+ and as it continues.

It is my hope that my book will continue to be a resource for anyone who wants to learn about the devastation that was unleashed by the US on Muslims in the course of the War on Terror.

Finally, while this latest transfer brings the Guantanamo population down to 15 men, we must continue to push for the closure of the prison and the base, not just because of the brutal detention of the Muslim men housed there, but because of its use as a site for detaining and abusing migrants.

So the Guantanamo chapter, is far from over, for the men just transferred and the other survivors who have struggled for years and decades.