Descriptive Summary
| Creator: | Tamiment Library. |
|---|---|
| Title: | Tamiment Library Web Archive (Labor and the Left): Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp |
| Dates: | 2007- |
| Abstract: | The Tamiment Library Web Archive (Labor and the Left): Alternative Mass Media, was created with the Web Archiving Service from the California Digital Library. The Web Archiving Service was made possible with support from the National Digital Information and Infrastructure Preservation Program and the University of California, as part of a project to preserve born-digital political communication. The Tamiment Library creates topically based archives of websites documenting labor and left activity, principally that based in the United States. The collection contains periodically archived websites of entities documenting (including via U.S. government websites), and of those entitie critical of U.S. policy and its representation governing enemy combatants, prisoner interrogation, the related legal processes and issues, the global detention system established by the Bush administration, including efforts to secure civil and human rights for detainees. Contents include prisoners' testimony and documents from attorneys defending them. NOTE: For technical, privacy and other reasons, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Note: if a link does not work, click on the TITLE of this archive (in the "Description" section at the beginning of the finding aid) to access the archive, then go to the site list to access the web site(s) you wish to view. |
| Quantity: | 0.0010 linear feet (1+ websites; i.e., a collection of websites that grows on an ongoing basis) |
| Call Phrase: | TAM.506 |
Historical/Biographical Note
The Tamiment Library Web Archive (Labor and the Left): Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, was created with the Web Archiving Service from the California Digital Library. This service employs open source web archiving utilities developed by Internet Archive with the support of the The International Internet Preservation Consortium. The Web Archiving Service was made possible with support from the National Digital Information and Infrastructure Preservation Program and the University of California, as part of a project to preserve born-digital political communication. The role of the Tamiment Library during this project and thereafter was/is to create topically based archives of websites documenting contemporary and ongoing labor and left activity, principally that based in the United States.
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This archive contains periodically archived websites of entities documenting (including via U.S. government websites) and of those critical of U.S. policy and its representation governing enemy combatants, prisoner interrogation, the related legal processes and issues, the global detention system established by the Bush administration, including efforts to secure civil and human rights for detainees. Contents include prisoners' testimony and documents from attorneys defending them. Also archived are the Guantanamo Reports and other documents created and published online by the Seton Hall University School of Law's Center for Social Justice, where faculty are creating a Guantanamo Bay Detention Center archive, to be housed at Seton Hall and at the Tamiment Library, NYU. NOTE: For technical, privacy and other reasons, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl.
Note: if a link does not work, click on the TITLE of this archive (in the "Description" section at the beginning of the finding aid) to access the archive, then go to the site list to access the web site(s) you wish to view.
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Access Restrictions
Open for research without restrictions.
Use Restrictions
Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the:
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-2630
Fax: (212) 995-4225
E-mail: tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu
Access Points
Subjects
Habeas corpus |z United States.Iraq War, 2003- |x Prisoners and prisons, American
Prisoners of war |x Abuse of |z United States.
Torture |z United States.
Organizations
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp.United States. Constitution. 8th Amendment.
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Published citations should take the following form, copying the required information from the metadata supplied at the top of the archived web page:
Title (of web page), Archival URL, Date/time captured;
Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Elmer Holmes Bobst Library
70 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012, New York University Libraries.