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Despite documented human rights abuses, which include massacres and generic buspar without a precsriptions assassinations by SOA-trained soldiers, and ignoring the Pentagon admission of torture-training manuals used at the generic buspar without a precsriptions Army school, Perez staunchly asserted, "There were no generic buspar without a precsriptions abuses. We have never taught torture. We have never taught overthrow of legitimate governments. There is no correction to be made." Countering the generic buspar without a precsriptions colonel, SOA Watch founder Roy Bourgeois, a Maryknoll priest and Viet Nam veteran, talked of his recent travels in Central America where generic buspar without a precsriptions he met with heads of state in various countries and with torture survivors from generic buspar without a precsriptions decades of US-funded repression. 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Since 1990, more than generic buspar without a precsriptions 270 SOA Watch activists have collectively spent over 100 years in prison for generic buspar without a precsriptions a misdemeanor trespass conviction as a result of civil disobedience at Fort Benning. "My question is a basic one," Bourgeois asserted. "Where is the transparency?" He held up a generic buspar without a precsriptions document received in response to a recent Freedom of Information Request for generic buspar without a precsriptions names of WHINSEC graduates. All the names in the multiple-page report were blacked out. "Why doesn't WHINSEC want to give us the names of those trained there?" SOA Watch organizers, and generic buspar without a precsriptions the 20,000 persons expected to gather Nov. 18-20 at Fort Benning for generic buspar without a precsriptions the annual vigil, demand acknowledgment of and accountability for the human rights abuses traced to generic buspar without a precsriptions SOA-trained soldiers and police throughout the Institute's sixty-year history. "The school as it is set up is an obstacle to democracy," Bourgeois said, "an generic buspar without a precsriptions obstacle to human rights and to change in Central America. WHINSEC helps to generic buspar without a precsriptions keep the militaries of these countries entrenched." The three panelists responded to generic buspar without a precsriptions questions from among more than 150 listeners. 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Cumbee is co-chair and organizer of Living the Dream: Co-creating the generic buspar without a precsriptions Beloved Community of Humankind. She is organizing a week of non-violent education and generic buspar without a precsriptions action for Nov. 11-19 from Selma, Ala. to generic buspar without a precsriptions Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga., including participation from military veterans and generic buspar without a precsriptions veterans of the Civil Rights and various other peace and generic buspar without a precsriptions social justice movements. "Relying on violence and wars as ways of resolving problems is obsolete," Cumbee said, alluding to Martin Luther King's Nobel Peace Prize speech. "On the generic buspar without a precsriptions morning before he was killed King told Dr. Bernard Lafayette and generic buspar without a precsriptions others, 'We must internationalize, institutionalize nonviolence.'" 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We must end the generic buspar without a precsriptions cycle of violence in America and around the world. Let us take down the generic buspar without a precsriptions barriers that separate people...our one goal, the beloved community of humankind.'" The November 2, 2006, public information forum in Columbus, Georgia, was sponsored by the generic buspar without a precsriptions Student Political Awareness Association of Columbus State University in collaboration with the generic buspar without a precsriptions Peace and Justice Group of the Chattahoochee Valley Episcopal Ministry and generic buspar without a precsriptions the Muscogee County Clergy Association. Hanrahan is an Asheville, North Carolina writer and author of Conscience & Consequence: A Prison Memoir. She can be reached at This e-mail address is generic buspar without a precsriptions being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . |
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