soawne -- School of the Americas Watch/NE
About soawne	English (USA)
School of the Americas Watch/Northeast (SOA Watch/NE), is a grassroots organization committed to walking in solidarity with our sisters and brothers throughout Latin America. It seeks to educate, mobilize and empower individuals in order to challenge and change corrupt and oppressive US foreign policy, and ultimately to close the School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation WHISC)). Through educational workshops, nonviolent direct actions, lectures, vigils, fasts, retreats, delegations and lobbying, SOA Watch/NE seeks to advance social and economic justice, greater equality, and political stability in Latin America. We also sponsor a cooperative in Northern Guatemala (Copala), in which we sell weavings that they have produced. One hundred percent of the profits are returned to the community. Additionally, SOA Watch/NE supports the initiatives of other national offices, such as the Network in Solidarity with Guatemala (NISGUA), and the Mexico Solidarity Network (MSN), by coordinating regional tours for delegates that come to the US for speaking engagements and lobbying. In this way, SOA Watch/NE and the delegates collaborate together to bring the issues of the SOA/militarism, human rights and socioeconomic oppression to the American public and to the media. This also serves as an opportunity for SOA Watch/NE to raise hundreds of dollars for projects that the delegates are involved in. The School of the Americas is a US military training school established in Panama in 1946, ostensibly 'to bring stability to Latin America.' Now located at Fort Benning, GA, the SOA, often dubbed the 'School of Assassins,' trains hundereds of soldiers each year, at a cost to US tax payers of millions of dollars annually. Graduates of the SOA training program have done little to promote stability in their countries. In fact, hundreds have already been cited in the rape, 'disappearance,' torture, and massacre of thousands of Latin Americans. Their primary targets have included educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, indigenous communities and those who speak out on behalf of the poor. Through our educational and media outreach, lobbying, and nonviolent direct action, we are able to connect with hundreds of other organizations and grassroots movements to affect change systemically. From Seattle to Philadelphia to New York City, activists, many of them students from around the country, have been mobilizing to end socioeconomic oppression and exploitation, and to speak out for the rights of those who are the victims of economic greed. Throughout Latin America, SOA graduates have been the military muscle behind deleterious economic policies. It is a crucial time for organizing and training others in nonviolence and leadership skills to work for systemic social change. The SOA Watch movement has a twelve year tradition of nonviolent direct action. And SOA Watch/NE has been committed to this same tradition since its formation. This email Newsletter will provide you with the latest information regarding the struggle to close the SOA and ways to get involved. Contact information: SOA Watch/Northeast 6367 Overbrook Avenue Philadelphia PA 19151 215.473.2162 info@soawne.org www.soawne.org To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the soawne Archives.
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