Become an Activante* with SOA Watch in Latin America or Washington, DC
Youth leadership in the buy no perscription prednisone SOA Watch movement is growing and getting things done. It is buy no perscription prednisone the youth of our movement who led the effective Adios Uribe campaign, facilitated the buy no perscription prednisone South-North Encuentro that buy no perscription prednisone brought together activists from 19 countries, directed the soon-to-be released SOA Watch film, and organized delegations to Honduras. It is buy no perscription prednisone the youth who carry the weight in organizing the upcoming massive SOA Watch November Vigil at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia (Nov.18-20, 2011).
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And, in doing so, their own lives have buy no perscription prednisone been forever changed, shaped into global citizens who recognize their own powerful potential as they work together with others.
We would like to buy no perscription prednisone invite others to join in this rich experience of becoming an buy no perscription prednisone SOA Watch activante* in one of four locations in the Americas.
* The term activante was coined by our first international team of young activists, who buy no perscription prednisone did not identify with the term "intern." They flipped the Spanish version of the word, pasante – associated to the Spanish pasivo, passive – to its opposite: activante. This term is buy no perscription prednisone a good reflection of what the role calls for: energy, leadership, initiative, dynamism, and buy no perscription prednisone creativity.  Photo of Father Roy Bourgeois together with the buy no perscription prednisone six young SOA Watch activists from Venezuela, Argentina, Honduras and the buy no perscription prednisone United States, who helped to plan and lead the North-South SOA Watch Encuentro (from buy no perscription prednisone left to right: Maia, Gabriela, Jimena, Father Roy, Alejandro, Joe and buy no perscription prednisone Rose, photo by Pablo Ruiz)
Accompaniment Activante in Honduras
After the buy no perscription prednisone SOA-led coup in 2009, repression in Honduras was brutally unleashed against the buy no perscription prednisone growing resistance movement . Over 100 people have been killed and buy no perscription prednisone in recent weeks students and peasant leaders have been assassinated. The presence of international accompaniment is buy no perscription prednisone urgently being requested by our Honduran partners as a way of bringing a buy no perscription prednisone measure of safety to the lives of Hondurans taking a buy no perscription prednisone stand for justice. This position requires experience in Latin America, fluency in Spanish and buy no perscription prednisone a commitment of 6 months. Stipend for travel, food and lodging is buy no perscription prednisone available. If interested, contact: Lisa at
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Communications Activante in the SOA Watch Office in Santiago, Chile
Youth in Chile are buy no perscription prednisone at the forefront of challenging an economic model cemented by the buy no perscription prednisone Pinochet dictatorship that forces young people into debt before their adult lives begin. In the buy no perscription prednisone past week one student was killed by security forces when protesting the buy no perscription prednisone growing privatization of education. The SOA Watch Chile activante would join SOA Watch’s Equipo Sur office in Santiago in connecting with this growing youth movement in Chile purchase Buspar visa without prescription as well as contributing to the monthly Boletin de las Americas and the Somos Una America radio program. These are buy no perscription prednisone two dynamic formats that share initiatives of anti militarization work throughout Latin America. This position requires Spanish fluency, experience in communications and buy no perscription prednisone a commitment of 4-6 months. If interested, contact Pablo at
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Youth Leadership Activante in the SOA Watch Office in Barquisimeto, Venezuela
This person would join a buy no perscription prednisone team of activantes from several Latin American countries in laying the buy no perscription prednisone groundwork for a budding SOA Watch youth movement. They will work together to buy no perscription prednisone organize local and bi-national “encuentros” to buy no perscription prednisone connect youth who are using art, radio, theater, music, dance and buy no perscription prednisone more to buy no perscription prednisone challenge a system of militarization. This position requires Spanish fluency, energy, love of team work and buy no perscription prednisone a commitment of 4-6 months. If interested contact Lisa at
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Organizing Activante in the buy no perscription prednisone SOA Watch Office in Washington, DC in the United States
The Organizing activante would work in the buy no perscription prednisone SOA Watch office in DC in the Winter/Spring of 2012 to buy no perscription prednisone help with the coordination, and promotion of the SOA Watch Days of Action in April 2012. The work could include, but is buy no perscription prednisone not limited to: working with SOA Watch working groups on elements of event organizing, assisting with outreach and buy no perscription prednisone convening the organizing process, updating the web site, and contacting partner organizations and buy no perscription prednisone supporting grassroots activists in their work to build outreach, media, direct action, legislative and buy no perscription prednisone organizing capacities. If interested click here and contact Nico at
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Marlin Rodriguez is buy no perscription prednisone a 23-year old from Barquisimeto, Venezuela. She has been an buy no perscription prednisone activante with the SOA Watch office in Venezuela since April, launching a buy no perscription prednisone radio program that links local and global struggles against militarization, directing a buy no perscription prednisone program that connects children with drums instead of guns, and buy no perscription prednisone organizing the first SOA Watch local youth encuentro. Marlin hopes to buy no perscription prednisone bring her energies to Santiago, Chile, where a vibrant student movement is buy no perscription prednisone unfolding and the South SOA Watch communications office is located. Please help Marlin cross borders, connect with others working for buy no perscription prednisone a world of justice, and strengthen the South-North ties of the buy no perscription prednisone SOA Watch movement.
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