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Yes, my cousin is a COL POLAD who helped shut down Gitmo. (Which you would know, if you read my personal web page, that he is stationed in Iraq as of March 2008. He returned, finally, last week.) I protested actively and organized protests from 1999-2003 until I left the movement to focus on my dwindling financial situation and graduation which had been delayed. I can't talk too much about specifics of my involvement because several of my friends were arrested including my colleague Prof. Steven Kurtz. One of my friends fled to Thailand where he lived for 5 years and got married to someone he fled with. I've never really done anything as radical as Bill Ayers but it's just best not to focus on the past in that case. I'm a FAS scientist (I donated to "learning technologies").