Pizza Roma: Veggie Pizza For Protest of SOA
Correspondent:: feardevil420@yahoo.com (Will Dockery)
Date: 20 Oct 2004 10:38:52 -0700
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"Kathy" wrote in message news:...
> The Nicaragua Network has received the following call from
> SOA Watch. For more information, contact
> cpardew@soaw.org.
>
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> ** please forward widely ** please forward widely **
>
> CALL TO ACTION: SHUT DOWN THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS!
>
> NOVEMBER 19-21, 2004, FORT BENNING, GEORGIA
>
> The School of the Americas (SOA), renamed the Western
> Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation or WHINSEC,
> is a combat training school for Latin American security
> personnel located at Fort Benning, Georgia.
>
> Initially established in Panama in 1946, the SOA was
> kicked out of that country in 1984 under the terms of the
> Panama Canal Treaty. Former Panamanian President Jorge
> Illueca stated that the School of the Americas was the
> "biggest base for destabilization in Latin America." The
> SOA/WHINSEC, funded by US taxpayer money, has trained over
> 60,000 Latin American soldiers in such courses as
> counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando
> and psychological warfare, military intelligence and
> interrogation tactics.
>
> For over a decade, students, religious, labor, veterans,
> human rights, and social and global justice groups have
> been converging every November at the gates of Fort
> Benning, Georgia 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 20 and
> 21, 2004 to continue together in the struggle until the
> School of the Americas is closed and the policies it
> represents are changed forever!
>
> This "School of Assassins," in the guise of promoting
> democracy, has graduated eleven Latin American dictators,
> including Manuel Noriega of Panama, Efrain Rios Montt of
> Guatemala, and Hugo Banzar Suarez of Bolivia. Graduates of
> the school have been consistently linked to human rights
> violations and to the suppression of popular movements in
> Central and South America of people demanding access to
> land, safer working conditions and control of their own
> natural resources.
>
> For decades, while supporting death squads, propping up
> dictators and actually overthrowing democratically elected
> leaders, the US government claimed it was bringing
> democracy to Latin America. We do not believe that you can
> bring about positive social change through the use of
> force. You cannot spread democracy through the barrel of a
> gun!
>
> WHAT CAN YOU DO?
>
> ** Come to Fort Benning this November! Teach-ins,
> trainings, and caucuses will begin on Friday, November 19.
> On Saturday and Sunday thousands will gather at the main
> gate of Fort Benning for rallies, music, speakers and
> nonviolent direct action. Check back at www.SOAW.org as
> plans unfold and various events are announced in more
> detail.
>
> ** Engage in Nonviolent Direct Action on Sunday, November
> 21st. Every year groups of people decide to take their
> message onto the base, publicly defying the laws which
> prevent political speech on military bases and making a
> bold call for the closure of the "School of Assassins."
> This year, we encourage people to come as individuals and
> affinity groups to take nonviolent direct action to help
> liberate us all from oppressive US foreign policy in Latin
> America and to close the SOA/WHINSEC.
>
> ** Organize In Your Community: organize nonviolent direct
> action trainings, talks about the SOA, video showings or
> other educational events in your community in the next two
> months. Write to your Members of Congress and ask them to
> support legislation to close the SOA/WHINSEC. Organize a
> bus, vans or car-pool to Georgia, publicize the vigil
> action in your region and invite others to join you.
> Discern together with family and friends and consider
> engaging in nonviolent civil resistance in November.
>
> For more information, educational resources, outreach
> materials such as fliers and videos, logistics and travel
> info and to get plugged into the November organizing,
> please call 202-234-3440 and visit www.SOAW.org.
>
> Resistance organizing costs money. To help SOA Watch cover
> the costs of November organizing click here:
> http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=546.
>
> SEE YOU AT THE GATES OF FORT BENNING!
Hope to see you there, Kathy.
While in town, check out our local Open Mics, where the musicians and
poets of the Shadowville area gather:
Monday: SoHo open mic, Del Ranch open mic.
Tuesday: Coach's Corner open mic
Thursday: Del Ranch folk show
Pizza Roma is just a few blocks from the site of the annual protest---
we sell a lot of Veggie Supreme pizzas during that week...
"For Jim Morrison" by McClure & Manzarek:
http://www.mcclure-manzarek.com/images/forjimmorrison.rmj
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Art, music, poetry of Will Dockery:
http://www.lulu.com/dockery
Correspondent:: joecosby@mindspring.com (Joe Cosby)
Date: 21 Oct 2004 01:22:35 -0700
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feardevil420@yahoo.com (Will Dockery) wrote in message news:<47fc49bd.0410200938.554f5401@posting.google.com>...
> Monday: SoHo open mic, Del Ranch open mic.
Hey, Will!
Great to see you around again. I didn't know you were still hanging
around Usenet. It's always good to see an inspired artist at work
among the dusty ruins!
Say, what ever came of that child molestation charge? I KNOW that was
a COMPLETELY IRRESPONSIBLE accusation, but in this day and age, you
never know what people might believe! Well hell, Boy Scouts aren't
even your TYPE! They don't even get PUBIC HAIR until they are Eagle
Scouts.
Must have evaporated, I guess. Peace.
--
Zapanaz
International Satanic Conspiracy
Customer Support Specialist
http://joecosby.com/
Ever been to Utah? Ra-di-ation. Yes, indeed. You hear the most
outrageous lies about it. Half-baked goggle-box do-gooders telling
everybody it's bad for you. Pernicious nonsense! Everybody could stand
a hundred chest X-rays a year. They ought to have them, too.
- Dr. J Frank Parnell, forwards thinker