Today’s Good News: More Momentum Against SOA
Someday the School of the Americas will be shut down. Actions are planned this month to keep up the pressure.
Here’s the latest from SOA Watch: On April 23rd through the 26th, thousands across the Americas will vigil, fast, organize and pray to close the SOA/WHINSEC. Some of the ideas for activities include: meeting with your member of Congress urging her or him to sign on to HR 1707. Hold screenings of SOA Watch videos at a house party or do a presentation in a class to show why we are hungry for justice. Some folks will fast for the entire duration of the events while others will include the victims of the SOA/WHINSEC in a prayer service.
Vigils and fasts will take place from Nashville, Tennessee to Bogota, Colombia - from Oaxaca, Mexico to Chico, California, in seven Latin American countries and all across the United States. Fasts will also take place in 10 U.S. prisons where the SOAW 11 are scheduled to start serving prison sentences in the following weeks. [They could do more to tie torture, criminal justice and police brutality abroad to the same issues here at home, but fasting in the prisons is a start.]
Last year they held 100 events across the Americas and came within a few votes in Congress of shutting it down.
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