Our Struggle Continues! Venceremos!
From November 16-18, over two thousand students, prison abolitionists,
teachers, nuns, immigrants, musicians, farmers, activists and workers
from across the Americas mobilized to the gates of Fort Benning, to once
more express our humanity and solidarity against the school of death
 and destruction. This year, we were fortunate to have so many activists
from Latin America and the Caribbean who shared their stories with us
and walked with us. It was a true manifestation of the saying: "Somos
Una América! We are One America!"
Click here to see more photos from Tom Bottolene. And from Steve Pavey. If you have any pictures you took and would like to share them, you can upload them to the SOA Watch Flickr page.
Special thanks to the Mobile Broadcast Network who livestreamed the Vigil. Check out a clip of Rebel Díaz and Fr Roy here, and of the Puppetista pageant and interviews in Spanish here.
Also, check a report back from Father Melo about his experience at the gates. Nina spoke of her first trip to Fort Benning, as did Dominique, who rode on the Veterans for Peace bus from Minnesota. From Ft Benning to Cairo, Eva reports on her views of militarism. Also, Rebel Diaz rapper Rodstarz wrote of his encounter with undercover police. Check the reports out!
We marched to the Stewart Detention center to protest unjust
immigration laws; we connected our issues during caucuses and workshops;
we remembered the names of the victims; and one of us took our
collective message over the fence. We left with the renewed knowledge
that our struggle did not begin or end at Fort Benning, but that we will
continue to build a just and peaceful world in our communities every
single day of the year!
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Stand with Father Roy Bourgeois |
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 Show your Solidarity: SOAW.org/StandWithFatherRoy
With great sadness we are letting you know that the Vatican has dismissed Father Roy Bourgeois from the priesthood and from his religious order, the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, because of his stands for gender equality in the Catholic Church. Father Roy has served with great courage and commitment for 45 years. He has dedicated his life to serving the poor and oppressed, those whose human rights have been violated by dictators, assassins, torturers, bullies, and racists.
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Thousands Converged on Fort Benning |
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Click here to read the Media Release: SOA Watch Activist Arrested by Military Police While Thousands Gather
Remembering the Victms of SOA Violence and Celebrating the Resistance
From November 16-18, 2012, over two thousand students, prison abolitionists, teachers, nuns, migrants, musicians, farmers, activists and workers from across the Americas mobilized to the gates of Fort Benning, to once more express our humanity and solidarity against the school of death and destruction. This year, we were fortunate to have so many activists from Latin America and the Caribbean who shared their stories with us and walked with us. It was a true manifestation of the saying: "Somos Una América! We are One America!"
(Photo by Ann Dowling, NYC SOAW - click here to view more photos)
Also, check a report back from Father Melo about his experience at the gates. Nina spoke of her first trip to Fort Benning, as did Dominique, who rode on the Veterans for Peace bus from Minnesota. From Ft Benning to Cairo, Eva reports on her views of militarism. Also, Rebel Diaz rapper Rodstarz wrote of his encounter with undercover police. Check the reports out!
We marched to the Stewart Detention Center to protest unjust immigration laws; we connected our issues during
caucuses and workshops; we remembered the names of the victims; and one
of us took our collective message over the fence. We left with the
renewed knowledge that our struggle did not begin or end at Fort
Benning, but that we will continue to build a just and peaceful world in
our communities every single day of the year!
Mobile Broadcast News live streamed the events this weekend.
Watch the footage from Saturday's rally at the gates:
SOA Watch Met with the White House
After protests and nonviolent direct actions, thousands of petitions, and letters from religious leaders and Members of Congress, the White House finally sat down with an SOA Watch delegation to discuss the School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Click here to read the report back from the White House meeting. |
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Death Squads, Then and Now |
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By Liz Scherffius
October 7th, 2012
A climate of fear and repression has taken hold of Honduras in recent years. After the June 2009 coup-- in which Porfirio Lobo Sosa, a man loyal to the ruling elite and its armed forces cronies, replaced Manuel Zelaya-- violence against Honduran activists has increased sharply.
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Washington's Open Door on Terrorists |
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By Nick Alexandrov
Counterpunch
"This hypocrisy isn’t a new development, of course, and other recent
news items provide more evidence of Washington’s true principles. In
August 2011, it emerged that Inocente Orlando Montano, El Salvador’s
Vice-Minister of Public Security from 1989-92, had been living
comfortably in a Boston suburb for years. Several months earlier,
Spain’s National Court had indicted Montano and nineteen other
Salvadoran military officials for their roles in the “Jesuit Massacre,”
the 1989 slaughter of 6 Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her
14-year-old daughter. But the U.S. government couldn’t care less about
these legal proceedings."
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