Schedule of Events

Organizers for justice in the Americas have been gathering at the gates of Ft. Benning since 1990, and as our demonstration against the SOA has evolved into one of the most vibrant anti-militarization convergences in the United States, we continue to learn from one another's stories, tactics, ideas, information, theater, friendships, trainings, workshops, films, and more, see the schedule of events below!

Note: The following abbreviations signify different event spaces. Click on the links below to see where the spaces are located in Columbus.

CC (Convention Center, 801 Front Avenue)
HJ (Howard Johnson Hotel, 1011 Veterans Parkway)

Schedule of Events

Monday-Wednesday

Puppet Building, Warehouse

Thursday

2PM-5PM Re-entry for former Prisoners of Conscience HJ Pres
7PM Former Prisoners and Probationers of Conscience Dinner Lee’s Golden China Restaurant
Concert to Close the SOA Atlanta
3:30PM Protest Drummond Coal Birmingham,AL
Puppet Building warehouse

Friday

9AM-8PM Listening Room: Come and Write Down Your Feelings About If SOAW Should
Move Its 2010 Vigil to Washington, DC. CC202
9AM-8PM Latin American Initiative: Silent Auction Riverside Lobby
9AM-12AM Tabler and Vendor Space Riverside Lobby
9AM-5PM Pace E Bene: Nonviolent Action Training CC211
9:30AM-12PM SOA Watch Nonviolence Training: Introduction CC207
9:30AM-12PM SOA Watch Nonviolence Training: Building Skills CC208
11:30AM-1:30PM SOA Watch: Translators Meeting CC101
2-5PM SOA Watch Nonviolence Training: Introduction CC207
2-5PM SOA Watch Nonviolence Training: Building Skills CC208
2:20-4:30PM Sisters of Mercy Workshop CC201
2-3:20PM Puppetista Building and Rehersal Warehouse
3-6:00PM Colombia Teach In HJ Pres
3:30-5PM Puppetista Drum Circle Rehersal Warehouse
4-6PPM Church of the Brethren: Drop In to Connect with other Brethren
(Sponsored by the Brethren Witness Washington Office) CC205
5-7PM Stop Killer Coke Campaign: Paramilitary Violence and Union Organizing in Colombia CC101
5-7PM Respect Democracy: How Your Tax Dollars Buy Latin American Elections CC201
5-11PM Optical Realities & SOAW Northeast Photo Exhibit: Colombia, El Salvador, Haiti, Iraq, Guatemala, Palestine..., South Hall / Entrance area of Jesuit Teach-in, Contact: Linda Panetta
5:30-6:30PM Optical Realities & SOAW Northeast Slideshow in conjunction with the Jesuit Teach-in, South Hall, Contact: Linda Panetta
6-8PM Inclusive Catholic Liturgy HJ Carter
6-8PM Meet and Greet for Students and Youth CC205
6-8PM Prison Reform: From Racism and Classism to Justice CC207
6:30-8:30PM Companero: Don White in His Own Words CC208
6:30-8:30PM Pace E Bene: Nonviolent Action Training CC211
7-8:30PM Pax Christi USA: An Evening with Jon Sobrino, SJ HJ Pres
7:30-9:30PM Homosexual Marriage: Parental Notification Before Abortion with Tikkun CC201
7-9PM Peacemakers Training for 1st Time Volunteers CC101
8-10PM Women’s Ordination Matters: Gender, The Gospel, and Global Justice HJ Carter
8-10PM Citizen Diplomacy in an Age of State Terror: Election Observation in El Salvador and Human Rights Accompaniment in Colombia CC212
8:30-10:30PM Venezuela: Towards A New Social Contract Among Latin America CC207
8:30PM-12AM SOAW Benefit Concert HJ Pres
8:30-10PM Latin America’s Debt Crisis: A Story of Economic Violence CC208
9:00-10:30PM Line Halvorsen’s Award Winning Film: “USA vs. Al-Arian” CC211
9:30-12PM Direct Action Meeting CC207
9:30PM-12AM Low Risk and Non-Arrestable Action Meeting CC208
9:30-10:30PM Report Back From Latin America Initiative Paraguay and Chile Delegations CC201

Saturday

9AM-7PM Latin American Initiative: Silent Auction Riverside Lobby
9AM-12AM Tabler and Vendor Space Riverside Lobby
9AM-11PM SOAW Council Table: Should SOAW Move
the 2010 Protest to DC? Riverside Lobby, Coucil Table
8-11AM Witness For Peace Breakfast and Open House HJ Pres
8:30-11AM Labor Caucus CC212
9-11AM Guides/Peacemakers Training CC202
9:30-11AM Morning Plenary. Hear John Sobrino, SJ, Survivor of the UCA Massacre, George Martin, Rabbi’s Deborah Kohn Lerner and Michael Lerner, Orlando Tizon and TASSC, and SOA Watch’s Audrey Stewart, Sr. Kathleen Desautels, Liz Deligio, Eric LeCompte and Pam Bowman speak.Learn About SOAW’s 2009 Campaign! All Attendees
Are Encouraged to Attend For Important Weekend Logistical, Direct Action,
Non-Violence, and Legislative Information. CC
10AM-12PM Legal Observer Training Days Inn
10-11AM Kids Learn SOA Songs to Close the SOA CC103
10-11AM Middle School Teach In CC104
10:45AM-5PM RALLY AT THE GATES Ft. Benning
11AM-12:30PM Costa Rica’s dilemma: Video and Discussion with Costa Rican SOA Graduate CC208
11AM-12PM Help Obama Be Obama: Transcending the Inside-the-Beltway Culture
of “Being Realistic” and Becoming a Manifestation of God’s Will CC201
11AM-12:30PM Students of Conscience: Ignatian Teach In featuring Kim Bobo CC213
2PM Puppetista Rehearsal Ft. Benning
4-6PM Depleted Uranium Weapons: Why Not Believe the Pentagon? CC103
4-6PM Update on Bolivia CC211
4:30-6:30PM Veterans For Peace Workshop CC207
4:30-6:30PM GHRC Presents: Migration CC212
5-6PM Students of Conscience: Putting Our Faith Into Action to Support Low Wage Workers CC201
5-7PM Franz Jagerstatter: Render to Caesar Play CC205
5-7PM Countering Military Recruitment on High School and College Campuses CC202
5-7PM Accountability & Transparency: Tactics for Ending Complicity in Torture from
the SOA to the American Psychological Association CC208
5-6PM SOAW Regional Meeting Ballroom A
5-11PM Optical Realities & SOAW Northeast Photo Exhibit: Colombia, El Salvador, Haiti, Iraq, Guatemala, Palestine..., South Hall / Entrance area of Jesuit Teach-in, Contact: Linda Panetta
4-6PM COLOMBIA: Repression and Resistance. Update on the situation of Afro-Colombian
and indigenous communities, and trade unionists. CC213
5-7PM Film Showing: Beyond Rangoon Ballroom C
5-8PM Maryknoll Gathering CC104
5:30-7:30PM Christian Peacemaker Teams Gathering HJ Carter
5:30-7PM Optical Realities Slideshow: Finding Hope in the Shadows of War CC207
5:30-7PM Film Showing: On the Line Ballroom B
6:30-7:30PM Eyewitness Reports from the People’s stuggle in Colombia CC201
6:30-8 PM Nightwind: Theatre of the Oppressed with Hector Aristizabal Ballroom A
6:30-8PM Migration Workshop CC103
7-9PM Anti-Union Violence Panel CC211
7-9PM SOAW Legislative Training CC212
7-9PM Turn Your Activism into a Career Panel CC207
6:30-9:30PM Pace E Bene: Nonviolent Action Training CC213
7:30-8:30PM Church of the Brethren: Drop In to Connect with other Brethren
(Sponsored by the Brethren Witness Washington Office) CC208
8:30-10:30PM Freedom For Lily Obando! Justice for Colombian Trade Unionists! CC208
8:00-10:00PM Immigration the Collapse of the Global Economy: Solidarity with Crucified Peoples with Jim Harney CC205
8-10PM Breaking the Silence Torture Survivors Speak Out CC202
8-9:30PM Latin American Initiative AUCTION and Update: With Roy Bougeois CC201
8PM-12AM SOAW Benefit Concert: IGNITE CC
8-10PM Soldiers of Conscience HJ Carter
7:30-8:30PM Ignatian Family Mass South Hall
9-10PM Optical Realities & SOAW Northeast Talk / Slideshow: Bishop Gumbleton & Linda Panetta, Finding Hope in the Shadows of War, Contact: Linda Panetta, CC101
9:30-10:30PM Stopping War at the Point of Production, CC212
9:30-11PM Sustainable Harvest International: Providing Farming Families in Central America with the Training and Tools to Overcome Poverty while Restoring our Planet’s Tropical Forests, CC207
9:30-10:30PM Engaging the Powers: How Grassroots Political Action Can Leverage the Obama Presidency for Good, CC202
9:30-11PM Report Back from Latin America Initiatve Paraguay Delegation, CC211
8:30-10:30PM Low Risk and Non-Arrestable Action Meeting/Funeral Processions and Mourners Meeting, CC103
8:30-10:30PM Direct Action Meeting, CC104
10:30PM-12AM Spokescouncil Meeting: All Affinity Groups should send at least one representative, CC103

Sunday

7:30 AM Dominican Reflection Services, HJ Carter
7-8:30AM Wisconsin SOAW Reflection Services, HJ Pres
8:30-3AM Memorial Service and Solemn Funeral Procession and Puppetista, Ft. Benning
10:30AM Puppetista Rehersal, Ft. Benning
3PM Stage Breakdown, Ft. Benning

Monday

8:15AM-12PM Mailing Party: Come Support the Movement in our Most Important Mailing of the Year!