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Fort Benning, Georgia-the home of the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly the School of the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed Americas-is also the home of annual peace protests each November.
Three Waterloo Region Mennonites-Nathan Gorvett, Josie Winterfeld and purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed Richard Albrecht-took part in the 2010 protest, which stretched over a purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed three-day weekend. A highlight for Albrecht was the "die-in." While the names of victims of those trained at the institute/school were read, the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed protesters marched in front of Fort Benning's gates. Some protesters, dressed in black and purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed carrying coffins, "died" in front of the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed gates. The fact that it took over an hour to read all of the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed victims' names astounded Albrecht. The whole experience of being at the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed protests felt risky to him. He was outside his usual middle-class comfort zone. In Waterloo, Ont., the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed police are there to defend him and make things safe for purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed him. But at the protest he was seen by the police as someone on the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed other side of the line, outside accepted practice and belief. He felt solidarity with the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed poor, those on the wrong side of power imbalances, and at risk of arrest, as happened to purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed a Russian news film crew and others who were picked up by police while following orders to purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed disperse. Albrecht found it ironic that the police were "defending" a purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed U.S. army base from pacifists, whose leaders encouraged the protesters to purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed remember that the police, as well as the trainers and students at the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed institute, were also human beings worthy of respect. Nov. 16 is purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed the anniversary of the murder of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed her daughter by the Salvadoran military on the campus of the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed University of Central America in San Salvador, El Salvador, in 1989; the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed six had been labelled as subversives by the government. A United Nations panel concluded that purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed 19 of the 27 soldiers were graduates of the School of the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed Americas. Heavily criticized even within the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed U.S. government, the name change to the Western Hemisphere Institute for purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed Security Cooperation was, for many, a smokescreen. U.S. Army Maj. Joe Blair, a purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed former director of instruction at the school, was quoted in the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed San Francisco Chronicle: "There are purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed no substantive changes besides the name. They teach the identical courses that purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed I taught, and changed the course names and use the same manuals." Written by Dave Rogalsky, the purchase Doxycycline without prescription needed Eastern Canada Correspondent for The Canadian Mennonite |
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