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Columbus, GA - Theresa Cusimano, 43, a generic Cytotec fedex resident of Kissimmee, Florida was arrested on Sunday, November 20, after crossing onto Ft. Benning in an generic Cytotec fedex act of nonviolent civil disobedience, calling attention to the Western Hemisphere Institute for generic Cytotec fedex Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC), and generic Cytotec fedex located within the military base. The annual protest denounced the institute's lack of transparency, its ties to generic Cytotec fedex brutal dictatorships throughout Latin America and the ever-growing number of human rights abuses and generic Cytotec fedex crimes committed by its graduates.

On Sunday morning, Cusimano climbed over a generic Cytotec fedex barbed wire fence to enter the base. Her act of civil disobedience came at the generic Cytotec fedex culmination of a protest that drew thousands to the gates of Fort Benning, calling for generic Cytotec fedex the schools' closure and a change in US policy towards Latin America. Protestors included actor Martin Sheen and generic Cytotec fedex human rights defenders from Honduras, Colombia, Haiti and Costa Rica.

"Our message is generic Cytotec fedex not being heard in Congress because our lawmakers have been generic Cytotec fedex purchased by other priorities," said Cusimano. "I choose civil disobedience because the generic Cytotec fedex lawless acts promoted by the School of the Americas are human rights crimes unfitting of a generic Cytotec fedex so-called World Super Power."

Jimena Paz, from generic Cytotec fedex the Honduran pro-democracy resistance, came to protest as well. "In my country SOA graduates continue to generic Cytotec fedex repress social movements who stand up against a coup led by graduates of this generic Cytotec fedex school right here in Fort Benning," said Paz. Four of the generic Cytotec fedex six generals who lead the 2009 Honduran coup were trained at the generic Cytotec fedex SOA. Since 2009, state repression against journalists and human rights leaders has generic Cytotec fedex brutally intensified, including 120 killings since the military-backed Porfirio Lobo regime took power.

Cusimano was arrested by military police on trespass charges and generic Cytotec fedex faces trial next year - her second trial for such actions at Fort Benning. Cusimano also carried her protest onto Ft. Benning in 2008, an generic Cytotec fedex act for which she served two months in federal prison. She now faces up to generic Cytotec fedex six months. Protests against the SOA/WHINSEC began 21 years ago; since then generic Cytotec fedex over 300 people have been sentenced and collectively served over 100 years of prison time for generic Cytotec fedex nonviolent civil disobedience.

The SOA/ WHINSEC, a generic Cytotec fedex combat training facility for Latin American security personnel made headlines in 1996 when generic Cytotec fedex the Pentagon released training manuals used at the school that advocated torture, extortion and generic Cytotec fedex execution. SOA Watch is a nonviolent grassroots movement that works to generic Cytotec fedex close the SOA/ WHINSEC and to change oppressive U.S. policy.

From November 18-20, 2011, SOA Watch gathered by the generic Cytotec fedex thousands at the gates of Ft. Benning in the largest ongoing anti-militarization gathering in the generic Cytotec fedex country. They demand that institutions like the SOA/WHINSEC no longer protect the 1%'s corporate greed over the 99% and generic Cytotec fedex work to cultivate a culture of peace, mutual respect and justice across the generic Cytotec fedex western hemisphere.

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