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Organizers for justice in the Americas have been gathering at the gates of Ft. Benning since 1990, and as our demonstration against the SOA has evolved into one of the most vibrant anti-militarization convergences in the United States, we continue to learn from one another's stories, tactics, ideas, information, theater, friendships, trainings, workshops, films, and more - see the schedule of events below!
Note: The following abbreviations signify different event spaces. Click on the links below to see where the spaces are located in Columbus.
CC (Convention Center, 801 Front Ave)
HJ (Howard Johnson Hotel, 1011 Veterans Parkway)
DI (Days Inn, 3170 Victory Drive)

warehouse (puppetista warehouse, 1353 23rd St)

click here for a printer-friendly word document of the weekend's schedule

Thursday, November 15th:

1 - 5 pm former prisoner of conscience gathering and re-entry workshop. Contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information HJ Presidential Room
7pm REUNION DINNER! All SOAW former prisoners/probationers of conscience are invited to gather for dinner with their friends & supporters at Lee's Golden China Restaurant, 412 13th St. in Columbus. Lee's Golden China
7 - 10 pm Nonviolence Training HJ Carter Room
7 - 10 pm SOA WATCH BENEFIT CONCERT IN ATLANTA, GA! Featuring Rising Appalachia, Holly Near, M.U.G.A.B.E.E. & more! Eyedrum Gallery


Friday, November 16th:

9 am - 12 pm Nonviolence Training: Introduction CC 207
9 am - 12 pm Nonviolence Training: Building Skills CC 208
9 am - 3 pm Fellowship of Reconciliation's Grassroots Civilian Diplomacy: Campaign Skills Workshop HJ Pres

9 am - 5 pm
From Violence to Wholeness/Engage: Nonviolence Trainings Sponsored by Pace e Bene CC 101
1 - 4 pm Nonviolence Training: Introduction CC 207
1 - 4 pm Nonviolence Training: Building Skills CC 208
1 - 4 pm SOA Watch Peacemaker Training for First-time Volunteers. WE NEED PEACEMAKERS! click here to see if you've got what it takes. CC 201
1:15 - 3:15 pm Film screening: "Beyond Rangoon" CC 205
2 - 3:30 pm Puppetista rehearsal warehouse
3 - 4:30 pm Research Working Group Retreat DI
3:30 - 5 pm Puppetista drum rehearsal warehouse
3:30 - 4:50 pm NEW EVENT! Civil Rights Organizer Ruby Sales presents High Intensity Warfare: the Intersection of Race and Militarism CC205
3:30 - 5:30 pm WItness for Peace Colombia Teach-In HJ Pres
3:30 - 6:30 pm Collaborating with Survivors in SOA Watch Human Rights Advocacy Work, facilitated by Adriana Portillo-Bartow of Amnesty International USA CC 202
4 - 5:30 pm Threading it Together: Movement Building in El Salvador and the United States, presented by CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) CC 211
4 - 5:30 pm Costa Rica: A Heritage of Peace with New Challenges CC 207
5 - 6:30 pm Race, Class and Criminal Justice: 10 Ways to Help Fix It CC 205
5:30 - 6:30 pm Clergy for Peace caucus CC 101
5:30 - 7 pm Citizens, not Terrorists: Water Privatization and the Struggle for Civil Liberties in El Salvador CC208
6 - 7:30 pm Latin America Project Working Group - first meeting! CC 207
6 - 8 pm AFSCME Meet & Greet for Students and Youth CC 211
6:30 - 8:30 pm Pax Christi sponsors The Human Costs of War in Iraq: A Call to Hope HJ Pres

7 - 8:30 pm
"Breaking the Silence: Torture Survivors Speak Out" film screening with TASSC CC 205
7 - 9 pm Fellowship of Reconciliation's Grassroots Civilian Diplomacy: Campaign Skills Workshop CC 202

7 - 9 pm
From Violence to Wholeness/Engage: Nonviolence Trainings Sponsored by Pace e Bene CC 101
7 - 9 pm Peacemaker Training for Experienced Volunteers CC 201
7:30 - 9 pm Human Rights Defenders Under Fire in Guatemala: How You Can Help CC 208
7:45 - 8:45 pm Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC) workshop: the ILEA & Increased Militarization in the Americas CC 207
8 - 10 pm Legal Observer Training--WE NEED LEGAL OBSERVERS! DI

8:30 - 10 pm
"Hijos de la Guerra" CC 205

8:30 - 10 pm
Debt & Taking Action Against Poverty by JUBILEE CC 211
9 - 10 pm Shabbat service with Rabbi Michael Lerner CC208
9 - 11 pm Direct Action Meeting CC207
9 pm Oh, Say Can You Cease! Benefit Concert HJ Pres



Saturday, November 17th:
7 am Presbyterian Peace Fellowship Breakfast. $10; RSVP to Marilyn White, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it (512/450.2766). Holiday Inn North
8:00 - 9:15 am Latin America Solidarity Coalition Coffee hour CC Ballroom
8:30 - 11 am Witness for Peace Breakfast & Open House HJ Pres
8:30 - 11 am Labor Caucus CC 205
9:30 - 11 am SOA Watch Morning Plenary. All participants are asked to attend to receive crucial Legal, Direct Action, and Legislative information for the weekend. Come and learn about SOA Watch's 2008 Campaigns to Close the SOA! CC Ballroom
10 - 11 am Kids Learn Songs to Close the SOA CC 103
10 - 11 am Middle School Teach-in CC 104
10:45 am - 5 pm Rally at the Gates of Ft. Benning Ft. Benning Rd.
2 pm Puppetista rehearsal Ft. Benning Rd.
3:30 - 5:30 pm John Dear screens a documentary about his peace work, "A Narrow Path;" Q&A follows CC212
4 - 5:30 pm 1,000 Grandmothers Tea HJ Pres

4:30 - 6 pm
SDS: Building Solidarity with Latin America CC 213

4:45 - 5:45 pm
Voices from the barrios of Venezuela CC 103
4:45 - 5:45 pm Haiti Action Committee workshop with Pierre Labossiere CC210
5 - 6 pm SOA Watch Regional Meetings: Come and learn how you can get involved with SOA Watch organizing in your region! All are welcome! CC Ballroom A
5 - 6:15 pm Strategies for Ending the War and "Winning" the War on Terror through Generosity, presented by Rabbi Michael Lerner CC205
5 - 6:30 pm Witness for Peace's A Different Side to Conflict: Violence against Faith-based Communities in Colombia CC 201
5 - 6:30 pm Counter Recruitment in High Schools Strategy Session CC 207
5 - 7 pm Addicted to War's "No More Victims" and "Arlington West" CC 211
5 - 8 pm Maryknoll Gathering CC 104
5:30 - 6:30 pm US LEAP presents Political Violence and Working Women: Standing Up for Labor Rights in Colombia CC 212
5:30 - 7 pm Film Premiere! "On the Line," the new documentary about the SOA protest with Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon, Fr. Roy CC Ballrooms B&C
5:30 - 7 pm "Justice without Borders" with Amnesty International USA CC 208
5:30 - 7 pm Guatemala, Metaphor for Iraq: Counterinsurgency vs. Human Rights, a Melville-Mische workshop CC 202
5:30 - 7 pm Christian Peacemaker Teams gathering HJ Carter
5:45 - 7:45 pm The Common Enemy and the Machete: Neoliberalism and Indigenous Resistance in Oaxaca, Mexico HJ Pres
6 - 7:30 Colombia Action Network: March on the RNC in 2008 CC 213

6 - 9 pm
From Violence to Wholeness/Engage: Nonviolence Trainings Sponsored by Pace e Bene CC 103
6 - 7 pm Long Island SOA Watch presents "Missing Children" CC210
6:15 - 7:30 pm Aimee Allison and David Solnit present People Power Strategy to End War and Empire CC203
6:30 - 8 pm Anti-Authoritarian caucus CC 205
6:30 - 8 pm Witness for Peace's The Roots of Migration: Free Trade, Immigration, and US Foreign Policy CC 201

6:30 - 8:30 pm
"Nightwind" & "IN-TEA-RRO-GATOR": Theater of the Oppressed with Hector Aristizábal CC Ballroom A
7 - 8 pm Addressing the Role of Complicity during Anti-torture Advocacy: Lessons from Socially Responsible Psychologists Opposed to Psychologists’ Participation in “Enhanced Interrogation” Methods HJ Carter
7:15 - 8:15 pm Blackwater USA: Training the Next School of the Americas CC 210
7 - 9 pm Panel: Turning Your Activism into a Career (organized by AFSCME) CC 207
7 - 9 pm Veterans for Peace gathering CC 211
7 - 9 pm Legislative Training CC 212
7 - 9 pm Ignatian Family Mass CC South Hall
7 - 9 pm Church of the Brethren Drop-In CC 202
7:30 - 8:30 pm Theater: Bread and Puppets! CC Ballroom B & C
7:30 - 9 pm For Women's Right to Live: Ending Violence Against Women in Guatemala CC 202
7:30 -11 pm SOA Watch/NE & Optical Realities Photo Exhibit & Fund Raiser CC lobby
8 - 9:30 pm US Elections 2008: Loving our Neighbor in a Shrinking World CC 104
8 - 9:30 pm Strength Through Peace: a workshop presented by the Dennis Kucinich campaign CC 203
8 - 9:30 pm Direct Action Meeting: All CD participants should come to coordinate actions and join affinity groups. Please attend if you wish to participate in a non-arrestable scenario, such as acting as a coffin-bearer. CC 213
8:30 - 9:30 pm Bolivia: Aymara women's perspectives with Felipa Huanca CC 205
8:30 - 10:30 pm Addicted to War's "What I've Learned about US Foreign Policy: the War Against the Third World" CC 201
9 - 11 pm Wake Up & Smell the Catastrophe! Benefit Concert HJ Pres
9:15 - 10:30 pm NEW EVENT! Coalition of Immokalee Workers: Fighting for Fair Food CC211
9:15 - 10:30 pm NEW EVENT! Cat Bucher screens "I Am Not Afraid," the new documentary about El Mozote survivor Rufina Amaya CC208
9:30 - 10:30 pm Spokescouncil Meeting: all Affinity Groups should send at least one representative CC 213
9 - 11 pm United We Dance! Benefit Concert CC Ballroom


Sunday, November 18th:
7:30 - 8:30 am Dominican Family Prayer Service. All are welcome. HJ Carter
8:30 am - 3 pm Memorial Service and Solemn Funeral Procession, followed by Nonviolent Direct Action, Puppets and Festival of Resistance at the gates of Fort Benning! Ft. Benning Rd.
10:30 am Puppetista rehearsal Ft. Benning Rd.
3 pm All are invited to join SOA Watch in stage break-down. Volunteers needed! Contact us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you or your group can help with this important job! Ft. Benning Rd.
4:30 pm Join the Legislative Working Group in preparing packets for Congress. Volunteers needed! DI meeting room

Monday, November 19th:
8:15 am - Noon SOA Watch Mailing Party!! Come support the movement in our most important mailing of the year. HJ Carter

 

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