by Robin Kirk | Apr 29, 2013 | Robin Kirk
Margaret Thatcher’s death reminded many of her more outrageous policies, including the failure to constructively deal with prison-based protests, like hunger strikes. In Northern Ireland’s Long Kesh prison, also known as the Maze, ten men who belonged to...
by Robin Kirk | Jan 15, 2012 | Robin Kirk
(published in the January 15 edition of the Raleigh News and Observer) BY DEBORAH WEISSMAN AND ROBIN KIRK The 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks was a searing reminder of the pain felt by those who lost loved ones on that day and in wars in Iraq and Afghanistan....
by Robin Kirk | Nov 21, 2011 | Robin Kirk
A friend had recently watched Unthinkable, a 2010 Hollywood exploration of the use of torture, and recommended it to me. Along with offerings like Rendition and the last seasons of the TV show “24,” the movie purports to be a thoughtful examination of the...
by Robin Kirk | Sep 10, 2011 | Robin Kirk
On the morning of September 11, I was having the first slow day after weeks of intense work in my job as a senior researcher for the Americas Division of Human Rights Watch. In Washington, I had been meeting with Secretary of State Colin Powell’s staff, who were...
by Robin Kirk | Jun 17, 2011 | Robin Kirk
From the July 2011 issue of Sojourners. When Mel Gibson premiered The Passion of the Christ in 2004, pundits wondered if Hollywood seriously believed that movie-goers would pay millions to see yet another sandals-and-robes epic about the Holy Land, especially since...
