Update of the Videos page

We have finally put some order in the videos section of the blog. After editing and discarding some of the material posted since 2011 you will find an eclectic selection of short videos and longer features related to those issues we care about. Comme c’est le cas avec le blog vous y trouverez de matériel en Anglais, Français, Catalan et Castillan.

"Speak Rich in Tabernaque" Texte de Marie-Christine Lemieux-Couture, récité par Katia Gagnon au parc Émilie-Gamelin, le 25 avril 2012. Uploader  EdgarBlaar

 Hem intentat  que hi hagues una certa coherencia entre els videos i el material que hem anat pujant, de manera a il.lustrar situacions sovint complexes i allunyades dels mitjans massius de comunicacio. Seguimos editando (subiendo textos y fuentes) el material que tenemos en Onada Expansiva Redux. No podremos subir nuevo material hasta el mes de Junio. Tras el cierre del primer canal de Onada Expansiva en youtube por temas de copyright nos tomamos en serio los avisos.

The Role of Health Professionals in Detainee Interrogation

We recover a piece by Santiago Wills  originally appeared in The Atlantic in November 2012 on the responsibilities held by US health professionals (specially psychiatrists but also nurses and medical doctors) in military interrogations which could be considered under universal standards as torture.We inserted further hyperlinks and embedded a November 2013 Democracy Now video on the issue and a trailer for the Doctors of the dark side a documentary by Martha Davis  . As usual we have added some background and updated info from this blog, our twitter (@onadaexpansiva) and external sources.

A teenager tortured at Guantanamo, and the stalled legislation to ensure clinicians "first, do no harm"

On December 25, 2003, Mohammed Jawad, an Afghani teenager held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, repeatedly banged his head against the metal structures of his cell in an effort to kill himself. The dull echoes of the blows attracted the prison's guards. As they reached the cell, Jawad struck the solid surface once again. Even though suicide is prohibited in Islam, Jawad, a devout Muslim, thought that perhaps he could be forgiven in this case. The situation had slipped beyond his control, he told his attorney Eric Montalvo years later. 

Libye, Côte d’Ivoire: des interventions qui se ressemblent

On reprend un article de Colette Braeckman apparu sur son blog chez le journal belge Le soir. Nous avons  ajouté des liens, photos et quelques matériaux de contexte.

Le Crl. Kadhafi et Laurent Gagbo, lors d´une visite officielle du dirigeant Libyen à Abdijan, Cote d´Ivoire  en Juin 2007. C´étaient d´autres temps

Libye, Côte d’Ivoire: des interventions qui se ressemblent

Abidjan en avril, Tripoli en août…Certes, la Côte d’Ivoire de Gagbo n’est pas la Libye de Kadhafi. Cependant, d’un renversement de régime à l’autre, comment ne pas être frappé par les similitudes entre les deux situations, dans lesquelles des  forces spéciales européennes,  françaises d’un côté, franco-britanniques de l’autre,  ont joué un rôle déterminant ?

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