www.soaw.org

Thanks for your support. I raised $230 towards the trip on my Pay What You Want Send a Message with a Massage Days!
~ Tracey

My daughter and I will be protesting the School of The Americas.
Read more to see why.

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SOA Watch is an independent organization that seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas, under whatever name it is called, through vigils and fasts, demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative work.

On November 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests, their co-worker and her teenage daughter were massacred in El Salvador. A U.S. Congressional Task Force reported that those responsible were trained at the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Georgia.

In 1990 SOA Watch began in a tiny apartment outside the main gate of Ft. Benning. While starting with a small group, SOA Watch quickly drew upon the knowledge and experience of many in the U.S. who had worked with the people of Latin America in the 1970's and 80's.

Today, the SOA Watch movement is a large, diverse, grassroots movement rooted in solidarity with the people of Latin America. The goal of SOA Watch is to close the SOA and to change U.S. foreign policy in Latin America by educating the public, lobbying Congress and participating in creative, nonviolent resistance. The Pentagon has responded to the growing movement and Congress' near closure of the SOA with a PR campaign to give the SOA a new image. In an attempt to disassociate the school with its horrific past, the SOA was renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in January of 2001.

what a trip your on, you're taking on! how goes it (went it)? beautiful,
inspiring diverse cream-of-the-crop folks, no doubt, tastes of gorgeous nature
throughout, and an enraging monolith of evil? (reminded of my winter in
Nicaragua back in the late 80's volunteering on the Ben Linder project up by the
Honduran border where our boyish Sandanista soldiers were fighting the contra,
we'd hear the shooting in the hills). Amazing to think Ortega's still president,
and Chavez, and Morales, and Castro, et al. Hey maybe there is some good shit
going on in the world! thanks to folks like you, Tracey!

see ya soon i hope. and thanks for everything!
~ Ira Rabinowich, special needs educator, Toronto