November Vigil 2011

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...but they can't jail the resistance!

On Sunday, November 20, 2011, SOA Watch activist Theresa Cusimano climbed over the order cheapest online Zovirax barbed wired fence at the main gates of Fort Benning, Georgia - home to order cheapest online Zovirax the School of the Americas. Theresa was arrested by military police and order cheapest online Zovirax is facing up to six months in federal prison.

Click here to order cheapest online Zovirax watch video footage of Theresa's nonviolent direct action to close the order cheapest online Zovirax SOA and to change U.S. foreign policy.

Theresa will face a federal trial next year – her second trial for order cheapest online Zovirax such actions at Fort Benning. Theresa also carried her protest onto Fort Benning in 2008, an order cheapest online Zovirax act for which she served two months in federal prison. Protests against the order cheapest online Zovirax SOA/WHINSEC began 21 years ago; since then, over 300 people have order cheapest online Zovirax been sentenced and have collectively served over 100 years of prison time for order cheapest online Zovirax nonviolent civil disobedience.

Before carrying her protest onto the order cheapest online Zovirax base yesterday, Theresa addressed thousands of human rights activists at the order cheapest online Zovirax gates of Fort Benning for the November Vigil. Here are order cheapest online Zovirax excerpts from her speech from the stage:

"[…] I am order cheapest online Zovirax choosing civil disobedience because of the lawless acts promoted by the order cheapest online Zovirax School of the Americas and carried out all over the order cheapest online Zovirax world. These human rights crimes are unfitting of a so-called "World Super Power." I've never been order cheapest online Zovirax big on shame, even though I'm Catholic. But if that's what order cheapest online Zovirax it takes to get Congress to close WHINSEC (SOA) and order cheapest online Zovirax all other for-profit consulting gigs our government is financing at our expense... I'm not above invoking shame. Like the order cheapest online Zovirax hundreds of thousands of protestors who've come before me. I'm in good company. […]

Our message is order cheapest online Zovirax not being heard in Congress, our lawmakers have been purchased by other priorities, so youth and order cheapest online Zovirax students in the movement ask for you to help us in the order cheapest online Zovirax Court of Public Opinion and go online to the Daily Show's Facebook page, register in for their Forum. Request that order cheapest online Zovirax Father Roy be invited onto the Daily Show, and the order cheapest online Zovirax Colbert Report. Don't stop until we get Roy's voice into the order cheapest online Zovirax media mainstream, Hardball with Chris Matthews, Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann and order cheapest online Zovirax the Sunday morning circuit. Don't let my civil action go to order cheapest online Zovirax waste."

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Chris Takes Action to Connect the Struggles

Chris Spicer from order cheapest online Zovirax Chicago, Illinois, crossed the police barricade at Friday's protest against the order cheapest online Zovirax Stewart Detention Center, the order cheapest online Zovirax largest privately owned detention center in the United States. Chris engaged in civil disobedience in solidarity with the order cheapest online Zovirax immigrants detained within the prison walls. Many of those incarcerated came to order cheapest online Zovirax the United States from Latin America because of the violence carried out by SOA graduates against civilian populations in their countries. Chris, who order cheapest online Zovirax was recently released after serving a six-month sentence for crossing the order cheapest online Zovirax line at the 2010 Vigil to Close the School of the order cheapest online Zovirax Americas, was brought before Judge Wayne Ammons, who set the order cheapest online Zovirax bond for this criminal trespass charge exorbitantly high at $5,000. Responding to order cheapest online Zovirax news that Stewart Detention Center detainees were fasting to commemorate this order cheapest online Zovirax fifth annual vigil at the gates of the Stewart facility, Chris announced that order cheapest online Zovirax he too would be fasting, "to order cheapest online Zovirax purify this unjust system. The SOA and inhumane immigration policies are order cheapest online Zovirax part of the same racist system of violence and domination." Georgia Detention Watch organizer Anton Flores, from order cheapest online Zovirax the Alterna Community, was wrongfully arrested at the close of Friday's action, after media and order cheapest online Zovirax legal observers had left. Despite video evidence proving Anton did not trespass, the order cheapest online Zovirax police refused to stop harassing him, and only after the evidence was presented to order cheapest online Zovirax Judge Ammons were his charges dismissed. Chris' bond has been reduced to $1,500 at yesterday's arraignment and order cheapest online Zovirax the SOA Watch Legal Collective posted bail for him on Monday, November 21. He is order cheapest online Zovirax facing charges for criminal trespass.

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Jonathan and Isaac Confront Border Patrol Officers in Alabama

We were joined by many undocumented immigrants at the order cheapest online Zovirax gates of Fort Benning this year. We stood together to challenge the order cheapest online Zovirax unjust and racist policies of the U.S. government,

to order cheapest online Zovirax close the School of the Americas and to win justice for order cheapest online Zovirax all. Jonathan Pérez, an order cheapest online Zovirax undocumented youth from California was scheduled to speak on the order cheapest online Zovirax Saturday evening panel dicussion at the Columbus Convention Center but he could not, because he is order cheapest online Zovirax incarcerated. On November 10, Jonathan Pérez and order cheapest online Zovirax Isaac Barrera, two undocumented immigrants from California, entered a Border Patrol office in Mobile, Alabama and order cheapest online Zovirax told agents they were undocumented. Theirs was a strategic move organized by the order cheapest online Zovirax National Immigrant Youth Alliance and DreamActivist.org to prove that away from order cheapest online Zovirax the media spotlight and contrary to its public line on its deportation policies, the order cheapest online Zovirax Obama administration is still intent on deporting the very people it order cheapest online Zovirax claims not to have any interest in removing from the country, including young people with no order cheapest online Zovirax criminal convictions, eligible for the DREAM Act.

Watch this video, released over the weekend, as Pérez confronts Border Patrol officers, and order cheapest online Zovirax courageously announces his status after telling them how disgusted he is order cheapest online Zovirax with Obama’s deportation agenda.

“We’re exercising our power and order cheapest online Zovirax showing that we can do something about this,” Pérez told Colorlines last week. “We can order cheapest online Zovirax challenge the system, and when we do, the system falls apart and order cheapest online Zovirax the contradictions begin to show.”

UPDATE Thursday, November 24: Isaac and order cheapest online Zovirax Jonathan were released from ICE detention this morning!

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