SOA Watch Events, TOURS & WORKSHOPS

Click here for Current & Upcoming Presentations & Photo Exhibits.
To schedule an event call: (215) 473-2162

 

2008 Protest / Vigil to Close the SOA / WHINSEC

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(Rally photo by: Mike Haskey)

Rufina Amaya Commemorative Poster

  Order this Commemorative Poster of Rufina Amaya
It's the same layout as the banner from the SOA protest!


- ORDER A SLIDE SHOW OF OVER 250 PHOTOS ON CD -
Included will be hundreds of photos from SOA Protests, throughout Latin America, Afghanistan& the Middle East!
[ The slide show is viewable / playable in PowerPoint or as individual slides ]

- Click Here to View the Slide Show and to Order the CD

 



El Salvador

Support the "Suchitoto 13"

 


- To view select photos from Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Palestine, Venezuela, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and others click here -
See additional links below

 

* Also on sale NOW! is the newly revised, award-winning documentary "School of the Americas: An Insider Speaks Out!" - available on DVD with the option of Spanish subtitles and updated info about the WHINSEC! Major Joseph Blair talks about how some of his own students at the SOA were responsible for the massacre of the 6 Jesuits and their 2 co-workers.  Over 10,000 copies sold - this is a must buy, especially for veterans, and teachers who will hear the first-hand accounts of a former military instructor who taught at the SOA!  Rarely seen footage from Latin America, and music by Bruce Cockburn make this a moving and powerful 18-min documentary. Click the link above to order this DVD.

 




 


 

Rally to Close the SOA / 2006 Slide Show Presentation

 


"Plan Colombia... Plan of Death"
- Recently revised (Aug 2006) with optional Spanish translations (see link below)-
A shorter version (9 pages) was published in the 2006 McGraw-Hill textbook:
"Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Latin American Issues."
- pdf version is available upon request -

Spanish Version: "Plan Colombia... Plan de Muerte"


"Dreams & Nightmares: Life and Death in Iraq"


Argentina - 30 Years After the Coup

Two of the military dictators who orchestrated the coup in Argentina that resulted in 30,000 people being "disappeared" were 2 SOA graduates: Roberto Viola and Leopoldo Galtieri.

Uruguay - (20 Years of Impunity)


El Salvador ~ December, 2005
Remembering the Lives of Maura Clark, Jean Donovan, Dorothy Kazel, & Ita Ford

Nicaragua
Learn how you can support the victims of "Nemagon"

El Salvador (April 2005)


For a selection of photos of Fr. Roy - click here


What's the School of the Americas/WHISC?
Article: "Grim Future for Global Foreign Policies"

"Salvador Option" - US to Send Death Squads to Iraq...
> By Scott Ritter (Former Senior UN Arms Inspector in Iraq)
> By Michael Hirsh and John Barry (Newsweek)


HAITI (Nov 2004)


CHIAPAS, Mexico


PHOTOS from IRAQ (Jan. 2004)


Choco Jungles, Northern Colombia (Dec. 2003)




PHOTOS from IRAQ (Jan. 2003)


"Collateral Damage & the Uncertainty of Afghanistan"



Ft. Benning Vigil Photos:

Click Here to View Photos from the 2006 Rally to Close the SOA

 

- To view photos from the 2005 protest, click on the photos below -

SOA Protest (Nov. 19 -21, 2004)


Additional Photos of SOA / Anti-War / Related Events
by Linda Panetta


Clicking on a photo will take you to each of the actions, or select the link above the photos for more options


Order SOA T-shirts:
100% Organic T-shirts from a Workers-Owned Co-op in Nicaragua!

SOA RESOURCES:
Great Organizing Tools!!!
"Solidarity in Action... A Guide for Grassroots Organizing to Close the SOA"
Videos & Other Resources

"Mayan Blessing" Stationary

SOA-Related Articles
Media Guide for Activists


CONGRESS

  HR 1707 to Close SOA/WHISC

2006 Congressional Results

2004 Congressional Results

Talking Points
Don't Know Who Your Rep is? Click Here for a Congressional Directory

SOA Congessional Voting History


STATE / CITY / STUDENT / BISHOP RESOLUTIONS
NJ Passes First State Resolution to Close the SOA...other Resolutions Passed
Philadelphia Passes Resolution to Close the SOA!
"Students Against Sweatshops" Pass Phila Resolution
US / Latin American Bishops:
List of U.S. Catholic Bishops Calling for the Closure of the SOA
Nearly 300 Bishops (17 Archbishops & a Cardinal) Call for the Closure of the SOA...
SOA Graduate Arrested for Murder of Guatemalan Bishop


GRADUATES / TRAINING MANUALS / RESEARCH
SOA "Torture" Training Manuals
SOA Instructors, Speakers & "Hall of Famers"
SOA Graduates


COUNTRY FACTS
"Plan Colombia" ... "Plan of Death"
Rio Negro Massacre, SOA & the World Bank
SOA & Colombia
SOA Graduates


Important Links!

 

 

SOA Watch/Northeast

SOA Watch/NE is a grassroots organization committed to working in solidarity with the poor. It educates the public and Congress about atrocities committed by graduates of the School of the Americas (SOA), located at Ft. Benning, GA. Renamed the "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation" (WHINSC), the school trains hundreds of soldiers each year–supported by millions of US tax payer dollars. Many of these soldiers have been responsible for some of the worst human rights violations and the most brutal terrorist attacks on civilian communities in our hemisphere, including: the massacre of more than 900 people at El Mozote; the Trujillo" chainsaw massacre of over 100 civilians; the execution of six Jesuit priests; the assassination of Archbishop Romero and Bishop Juan Gerardi, and the brutal rape and murder of 4 US churchwomen.

Please use your voice to help end the violence and to close the SOA/WHISC." Contact your members of Congress and ask them to support legislation to cut funding to the SOA/WHISC! Call the Capitol Switchboard: (202) 224-3121, or Send Letters to: The Honorable (name): US House of Representative, Washington, DC 20515; US Senate, Washington, DC 20510

This website and its links will offer you revealing insights into this "School of Assassins" and some of the issues which relate to it. Please refer to this site for important information on how you can get involved to help close this infamous school.

For more info contact SOA Watch/NE: (215) 473-2162

soawnortheast@aol.com