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N16 Reports *N21-23 Shut Down S.O.A. Ft. Benning, Georgia, USA

N16 | 18.11.2008 10:14

Photos/Reports - N16 U.S. Embassy Dublin/Ireland "Shut Down the S.O.A.", Colombia Report, Arrests at Ft. Huachuca, U.S.A

*Photos N16 "Shut Down the SOA" Vigil U.S. Embassy Dublin, Ireland
 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/89769#comment238807

*Dublin/ Irerland Vigil Report

Sunday Nov 16th. solidarity activists, Catholic Workers and folks who had worked and were raised in Latin America gathered outside the U.S. embassy in Dublin, Ireland, to remember the martyrs of the Nov 16th '89 massacre and tens of thousands killed by graduates of the School of the Americas www.soaw.org

Two of the Jesuits slain on the Salvador campus Nov 16th. 1989 were educated in Dublin, one having been ordained here. The names were of the dead were read out to the response of "Presente"! Justin reflected on his time in Peru and the bloodletting by the U.S. sponsored government. Ciaron reflected on nonviolent resistance to the S.O.A. A Colombian woman thanked those who had assembled in solidarity with those still suffering in her country.

Next Sunday night Nov 23rd at 7 pm there will be a memorial mass in the Jesuit parish in Ballymun. Dublin. From Nov 21-23 20,000+ are expected to gather at the gates of Ft. Benning to shut down the S.O.A. and support ongoing nonviolent resistance there. Update reports will be carried on www.soaw.org as the weekend of celebration and resistance unfolds.
 http://www.soaw.org

* LINK - Fr. Raymond Murray Chaplain of Armagh Prison/north of Ireland and human rights defender of political prisoners during the troubles reports from his recent visit to the Social Movements of Colombia
 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/89871

*N16 Arizona/U.S.A. - 3 Arrested at Torture Training Centre, Ft. Huachuca, Arizona, USA
 http://tortureontrial.org/media.html#november16

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