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Each year nearly 10,000 people gather at the gates of Fort Benning in Georgia where the School of the Americas (now called Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) is located. This is the site where US tax dollars educate Latin-American military officers who are among the worst human rights abusers in their home countries. Some victims are famous and heralded as martyrs: in El Salvador, the four US women murdered in 1990, Archbishop Romero and the six Jesuits, their housekeeper and her daughter, and in Guatemala Bishop Gerardi. Their deaths and those of innumerable ordinary citizens,
especially in Colombia today, are attributed to graduates of the school located on the grounds of Fort Benning. The annual demonstration pressures our government to close the school.
This year everyone who is not able to go to Georgia will have the opportunity to gather and pray in solidarity with those who, on that same day, will be entering the grounds of the army base and risk imprisonment. The prayer vigil will be on Sunday November 23 from 1:00 to 2:15 pm at the international home of the School Sisters of Saint Francis 1515 S Layton Blvd (corner 27th and Greenfield.) For more information contact Sister Angela Ireland, SSSF
414-774-9027.
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| | Article created: 11/18/2003 |
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