Confronting the School of Assassins
Against The Current vol. 90
Olson, Peter
http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/973
Date Written: 2001-01-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2001
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX12965
More than 10,000 people assembled at the gates of the Fort Benning military base in Georgia on November 19th as part of an ongoing campaign to shut down the notorious U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA). Protestors have gathered at the base annually since a small group of founding activists of School of the Americas Watch staged an action there in 1989—shortly after the brutal killing of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper, and her daughter by members of the Salvadoran military trained at the SOA. This year, the protest was linked to a joint action in led by 300 members of Las Abejas from Chiapas, Mexico.
