November 21-23: Vigil and Nonviolent Civil Resistance Action (SOA)

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Join thousands from across the Americas from November 21-23, 2003 at the gates of the U.S. military base Fort Benning in Georgia - home of the notorious School of the Americas (renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) - to stand in Solidarity with the victims of the School of Assassins and to speak out against terror and violence. Engage in nonviolent direct action to make your voice heard, to close the SOA/WHISC, and to change oppressive U.S. foreign policy.

For over a decade, students, religious, labor, veterans, human rights, and
social/global justice groups have been converging every November at the
gates of Fort Benning, GA to speak out in solidarity with the people of
the Americas and to engage in nonviolent direct action. We will gather
again this year on November 22 and 23, 2003 and continue together in the
struggle until the School of the Americas is closed and the policies it
represents are changed forever. The events this year will be preceded by
teach-ins, trainings, and caucuses on Friday, November 21.


The spirit of liberation is rising up in the people all around the globe.
It cannot be silenced by threats and violence any more than it can be
contained by prison walls. Our friends who were prosecuted for their
witness against the SOA in November 2002 will continue to speak out during
their sentences of prison and probation. We call on everyone to speak out
against the continuous atrocities perpetrated by graduates of the
SOA/WHISC throughout Latin America and to come to Georgia in November.

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