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July 2, 2002
Sam Bahour
Ramallah
Occupied:
Uninvited Guests Become Neighbors
July 1, 2002
Norman Madarasz
Brazil's
Triumph
June 28/30, 2002
Kathleen Christison
The True Story of Resolution
242 or How the US Sold Out
the Palestinians
Cockburn / St. Clair
Death,
Juries and Scalia
Tarif Abboushi
Bush's
Double Standard
on Israel
N.D. Jayaprakash
Seething
with Rage:
The Palestinian Saga
Michael Yates
Taking
the Pledge:
Teachers and the Flag
Stephen Zunes
Bush's
Speech a Setback
for Peace
Walt Brasch
The Pledge
v. The Constitution
Cockburn / St. Clair
Strikers
as Terrorists?
Tom Ridge Calls Longshoremen
June 27, 2002
Ralph Nader
Reclaiming
Our Commons
Neve Gordon
Jerusalem
Under Attack
Robert Jensen
Alternative
Futures
David Vest
Darryl Kile's
Great Day
Gary Leupp
The Loya
Jirga Joke
Rahul Mahajan
Arafat
Says US Needs New Leadership; Calls for Fair Elections
June 26, 2002
Robert Fisk
Sharon as
Bush Speechwriter
Mokhiber / Weissman
Brokerman
June 25, 2002
Dave Marsh
The RIAA,
Library of Congress and the Web Pirates
Uri Avnery
Reform
Now!
Bahour / Dahan
Bush:
Off with Arafat's Head
Walt Brasch
Bush:
the Compassionate Exerciser
June 24, 2002
Bernard Weiner
Talkin'
About the F-Word
David Bates
Portland
Gets Dicked:
Cheney Does Oregon
Jo Freeman
Will
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Tom Gorman
The Only
Thing "Generous" is the Propaganda
Bezhad Yaghmaian
Caught
Between Borders
in a Borderless World
Ben Sonnenberg
Ted
Hughes' Spell
June 22/23, 2002
Douglas Valentine
Sex,
Drugs & the CIA
June 21, 2002
Norman Madarasz
Brazil
Over England:
The Gaucho's Wild Ride
John Borowski
Stossel
and Disney's Crimes Against Nature
Chris Floyd
Southern
Cross: The US Takes Aim at Brazil
David Martin
Of Lies
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James T. Phillips
Serbian
Reservations:
Kosovo 2002
June 20, 2002
Chris Kromm
The South
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Jacob Levich
The War
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Not a Suicide Pact
Mark Weisbrot
What
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Jeffrey St. Clair
and Alexander Cockburn
Fire
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June 19, 2002
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Red Targets in Terror War
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The Road
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July
2, 2002
Protesting the
School of Assassins
The Trial of the SOA 37
CounterPunch Wire
Columbus, GA Thirty-seven human rights activists will
stand trial in federal court next week for civil disobedience
at the School of the Americas (renamed Western Hemisphere Institute
for Security Cooperation) in Columbus, Georgia. They were among
10,000 who gathered last November to call for the closure of
the notorious school. The defendants peacefully crossed onto
Ft. Benning, site of the school. They are charged with trespass
and face up to six months in federal prison and $5,000 in fines.
Trial is scheduled to start July 8 before Judge G. Mallon Faircloth
in Columbus.
Judge Faircloth is known for giving the
maximum of six months to opponents of the SOA/WHISC. Seventy-one
people have served a total of over forty years in prison for
engaging in nonviolent resistance in a broad-based campaign to
close the school. Last year 26 people were prosecuted, including
Dorothy Hennessey, an 88 year-old Franciscan nun who was sentenced
to six months in federal prison.
"Those who speak out for justice
are facing harsh prison sentences while SOA-trained torturers
and assassins are operating with impunity," said SOA Watch
founder Fr. Roy Bourgeois.
The SOA/WHISC is a combat training school
for Latin American soldiers. Its graduates are consistently
involved in human rights abuses and atrocities. In 1996 the
Pentagon was forced to release training manuals used at the school
that advocated the use of torture, extortion and execution.
In December 2000 Congress authorized the WHISC to replace the
SOA. The renaming of the school was widely viewed as an attempt
to diffuse public criticism and to disassociate the school from
its reputation. SOA Watch maintains that the underlying purpose
of the school, to control the economic and political systems
of Latin America by aiding and influencing Latin American militaries,
remains the same.
"The SOA is the terrorist training
camp in our own backyard," said Bourgeois.
SOA Watch works to stand in solidarity
with people of Latin America, to change oppressive US foreign
policy, and to close the SOA/WHISC. For more information visit
the SOA Watch website.
The 37 SOA
Defendants
(listed in order of state)
Fr. William O'Donnell Berkeley, CA, 72, Catholic priest. Member of the San
Carlos Foundation.
Leone Reinbold,
Oakland, CA
Fr. Louis Vitale,
San Francisco, CA, Franciscan priest. Works with marginalized
children and the homeless.
Toni Flynn Valyermo, CA, 56, High Desert Catholic Worker member
and a Benedictine Oblate.
Jonna Cohen,
Denver, CO, 20, MacAllister College student. Student of Maharaji,
an Indian spiritual teacher.
Michael Sobol Golden, CO, 18, Graduates HS in May. Plans to defer
college for a year to work in Guatemala.
Kathy Shields Boylan, Washington DC, 58, Catholic Worker at Dorothy
Day Community. Plowshares activist.
Richard Ring,
Atlanta, GA, 33, Paralegal/human rights investigator. Witnessed
trial of SOA grad in Guatemala.
Mary Dean,
Chicago, IL, 37, Former husband tortured by G-2 (SOA grads) in
Guatemala.
Kathleen Desautels Chicago, IL, 64, A Sister of Providence of St.
Mary of the Woods for 42 years.
Brigid Conarchy Grayslake, IL, 23, Catholic worker with Little Flower
Community in Goochland, VA.
Fr. Jerry Zawada
Cedar Lake, IN, 65, Franciscan priest and Ecumenical. Just returned
from Palestine.
Janice Sevre-Duszynska Nicholasville, KY, 52, High School ESL teacher.
Women's ordination activist.
Ralph Madsen
Newtonville, MA, 68, Retired elementary school teacher. Stationed
at Ft. Benning in 1956.
Palmer Legare
Springfield, MA, Student at Springfield College. Low-income housing
issues organizer.
Rev. Charles Booker-Hirsch Ann Arbor, MI, 41, Presbyterian minister.
Maxwell Sadler Edwards Waterville, ME
Summer Nelson
Missoula, MT, 26, Environmentalist active in Buffalo Field Campaign
& Earth First.
Tom Mahedy,
Wall, NJ, 39, Former Navy ROTC. Traveled to Central America
with Pastors for Peace.
Linda Holzbaur
Ithaca, NY, 45, Mother of four. Peace activist. Part time journalist.
Catholic Worker.
Rae Kramer
Syracuse, NY, 55, Domestic violence activist. Member of Jewish
Peace Fellowship.
Laura MacDonald
Syracuse, NY, 23, Works with children with disabilities. Syracuse
Peace Council.
Mike Pasquale
Syracuse, NY, 33, Catholic. Program Director at Family Center.
Chani Geigle
Salem, OR 19, Student. Works with Oregon Peace Works mobilizing
youth for social justice.
Shannon McManimon Philadelphia, PA 26, Catholic Worker at Martha
House Community.
Rev. Erik Johnson Maryville, TN, 57, Presbyterian Church minister.
Father and grandfather.
Kenneth Crowley
Houston, TX, 60, Parent educator. Catholic. Member of Pax Christi.
Niklan Jones-Lezama Blacksburg, VA, 38, married to Nicaraguan Sandinista.
Part of fact-finding delegations.
David O'Neill
Elkton, VA
Lee Sturgis
Elkton, VA
Peter Gelderloos
Harrisonburg, VA 19, Involved in community organizing around
numerous justice issues.
Abi Miller
Harrisonburg, VA, 23, Involved in a community center, community
gardens, and tutoring ESL.
Sue Daniels
Pembroke, VA, 41, a doctoral student in avian conservation biology.
Nancy Gowen
Richmond, VA, 68, Member of Pax Christi and Murder Victims Families
for Reconciliation.
Lisa Hughes
W. Hartford, VT, 36, Worked in El Salvador as a nurse. Member
of War Resisters League.
John Heid Luck,
WI, 47, Quaker, living and working on social justice issues.
Member of Veterans for Peace.
Kate Fontanazza
Milwaukee, WI 53, Teacher. Catholic. Member of Pax Christi and
Peace Action.
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