November 17-19, 2006: Converge at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia

Close the SOA and Change Oppressive U.S. Foreign Policy

November is just around the corner and the movement to close the SOA/WHINSEC is growing, organizing and as relevant as ever.

With former SOA graduates being unmasked in Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Paraguay, Honduras, and Peru for their crimes against humanity, and with the blatant similarities between the interrogation methods and torture methods used at Abu Ghraib and those described in human rights abuse cases in Latin America, the SOA/WHINSEC must be held accountable!

The SOA/WHINSEC does not represent the values of most Americans. Torture, deceit, political corruption, mass assassination and unlawful incarceration are inhuman and unacceptable, yet our government seems bent on convincing us otherwise by justifying those actions as a “struggle for freedom and democracy” or simply denying their very existence.

The SOA/WHINSEC is funded by American tax dollars, and it is in our power to shut it down.

http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=1295



Three days worth of non-violence seminars, art, music, community, and protest.

Vets for Peace, Christian Peacemaker Teams, Sister Helen Prejean...just a few of those who will be present.

Sister Anele has provided travel/housing funds for me to go with the Dominican Sisters (http://www.adriandominicans.org/) from Michigan...via my friend Chris Matthias...an old friend from "ten thousand villages" in Boston.

Eric Stetler knows about a community or two that you can crash with...should you want to meet with us down there.

do it