The virtual world of Second Life offers great opportunity for activism. the virtual gitmo built in Second Life (by USC professor Peggy Weil and filmmaker Nonny dela Pena) is a great example of an immersive experience, that is unparalleled and simply cannot be re-produced in other media. Over 300 men and women are still at the US military run detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, most of them never charged of any crime...they are enemy combatants in the war on terror. January 11, 2008 marks the six-year anniversary of the arrival of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. The author visited the virtual detention center in SL and felt how it is to be utterly hopeless!