Guantánamo Reading Project
About Us
The Guantánamo Reading Project is a collaboration of the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. CCR and BORDC thank Rosenberg Fund for Children (www.rfc.org) for helping develop the idea of producing Guantánamo: 'Honor Bound to Defend Freedom' in communities around the world.
The Center for Constitutional Rights
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a non-profit legal and
educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the
rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights.
CCR uses litigation proactively to advance the law in a positive direction, to empower poor communities and communities of color, to guarantee the rights of those with the fewest protections and least access to legal resources, to train the next generation of constitutional and human rights attorneys, and to strengthen the broader movement for constitutional and human rights."
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee
In November 2001 in Northampton, Massachusetts, the Bill of Rights
Defense Committee (BORDC) launched a national, grassroots movement
to protect the civil liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights, which
are threatened by the USA PATRIOT Act and several federal executive
orders. Seven state legislatures and nearly 400 local governments,
including the city councils of New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago,
Dallas, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., have passed resolutions upholding
the civil liberties of the nearly 62 million residents.
The Bill of Rights Defense Committee encourages ordinary people to stand up for the rights and liberties our country was founded upon. Our strategy and resources have brought the debate about important policy issues that affect civil liberties to town halls, church basements, and living rooms nationwide.
Victoria Brittain, Playwright: Victoria Brittain has lived and worked as a journalist in Washington, Saigon, Algiers, Nairobi and London. She has reported extensively from many parts of the Third World, for many publications in Britain and in France. She worked at The Guardian for 20 years, most recently as Associate Foreign Editor. She is currently a research associate at the London School of Economics. She is a patron of Palestine Solidarity, on the editorial board of Race and Class, a trustee of Widows’ Rights International and a candidate for the European Parliament as part of the Respect Coalition.
Gillian Slovo, Playwright: South African-born Gillian Slovo lives in London. She is a writer whose ten published novels include five detective novels featuring the character Kate Baier; a family saga, Ties of Blood; and a thriller, The Betrayal. Her family memoir, Every Secret Thing, was an international bestseller. Her novel, Red Dust, set around a hearing of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, won the Prix RFI-Témoin du monde in France and has been made into a feature film starring Hilary Swank and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Her most recent novel, Ice Road, was shortlisted for the 2004 Orange Prize.
Thanks to Nicolas Kent, Tricycle Theatre, Corin Redgrave, the Guantánamo
Human Rights Commission, the families of British detainees and those
interviewed.