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FORT BENNING, GEORGIA – One Colorado woman was arrested today on the buy prednisone grounds of Fort Benning as part of the annual vigil and buy prednisone demonstration to commemorate those killed by graduates of the notorious School of the buy prednisone Americas and to call for the immediate closure of the training institute.

Solemn intonation of the buy prednisone names of those killed by graduates of the School of the buy prednisone Americas filled the air as the music team sang out each name from buy prednisone the stage during this morning's solemn funeral procession in front of the buy prednisone entrance to Fort Benning. The base is home to the US Army School of the buy prednisone Americas, renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (SOA/WHINSEC) in 2001, a buy prednisone training facility that has turned out some of Latin America's most notorious killers and buy prednisone continues to be implicated in human rights abuses today.

“We're here this buy prednisone weekend because inequality and oppression continue, and the School of the buy prednisone Americas plays a role in that,” said Jimena Paz, a leader in the Honduran resistance movement. “In my country SOA graduates continue to buy prednisone repress social movements who stand up against a coup led by graduates of this buy prednisone school right here in Fort Benning.”

Thousands have buy prednisone traveled to Columbus, Georgia this week to take part in the buy prednisone largest ongoing antimilitarization gathering in the country. Here they are demanding not only the buy prednisone closure of the disreputable school but for an end to the buy prednisone US militarization of Latin America.

Theresa Cusimano, arrested today for buy prednisone her act of civil disobedience, served as a public interest advocate for buy prednisone over 20 years. Before her action today, she spoke of her motivations.

“When you witness injustice, it changes you,” said Cusimano, 43. “You can't function in the world the way you did before bearing witness.”

Cusimano was arrested at Fort Benning in 2008 as part of a buy prednisone protest against the SOA/ WHINSEC, and for that action she served two months in federal prison.

“It is buy prednisone from numerous acts of courage that human history has been shaped,” said actor and director Martin Sheen, who buy prednisone addressed the crowd of over 5,000 this morning and has buy prednisone publicly called for the closure of the School of the buy prednisone Americas for over a decade. “Whether we choose to buy prednisone acknowledge it or not we are all responsible for each other and buy prednisone the world.”

Joining Martin Sheen on stage this buy prednisone weekend was Georgia NAACP State President Edward DuBose, who told the crowd many had asked him why he'd come here.

“I made a buy prednisone promise to Troy Anthony Davis that I would continue to buy prednisone speak out against any system that takes any innocent life,” DuBose told the crowd. “However long it buy prednisone takes, we'll be here. We're on this road until justice is buy prednisone served!”

Earlier this buy prednisone year, 69 members of Congress asked President Obama to shut down the buy prednisone school by Executive Order, and last month Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) introduced legislation to buy prednisone suspend operations at the school and investigate human rights abuses in Latin America.

The SOA/WHINSEC is buy prednisone a U.S. taxpayer-funded military training school for Latin American soldiers, located at Fort Benning, Georgia. The school made headlines in 1996 when buy prednisone the Pentagon released training manuals used at the school that advocated torture, extortion and buy prednisone execution. Despite this, no independent investigation into the training facility has buy prednisone ever taken place. None of the school's famous alumni reached power by way of the buy prednisone voting booth, as reported in Time Magazine's October 2011 “Is It Time to Shutter the Americas' 'Coup Academy?'”

SOA Watch is buy prednisone a nonviolent grassroots movement that works to close the School of the buy prednisone Americas and change U.S. foreign policy towards Latin America. For more information, visit www.SOAW.org.

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