Artists are a tremendously important part of the movement to close the School of the Americas. The creatively minded inspire the campaign. Art and activism is an effective combination that is able to reach people on a different level and moves them to take action.
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SOA Graduate Cited in Parapolitica Scandal
Colombian General Mario Montoya, the head of the Colombian military and a graduate
and former instructor at the SOA has been linked to paramilitary death squads.
Never Again a Military Parade
Transforming Experience
Building Supportive, Respectful, and Collaborative Relationships with Survivors of Human Rights Abuses
When You Build It, They Will Come
An amazing grassroots organizing effort brought the vigil to close the SOA to life in Los Angeles, California in January 2008.
A Place of Initiation
Some say there is healing in remembrance. We remember our wounds so that we can make sense of them, acknowledge them, and then re-member ourselves in order to heal.
Petition to President Barack Obama
President Barack Obama has the power to issue an executive order to close the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC).
Joining Voices to Close the SOA
Report Back from the November 2008 SOA Watch Prisoner of Conscience Delegation to Chile.
Eric J. Garcia
Eric J. Garcia created the Hypocrisy editorial cartoon from page 2 in the Fall 2008 issue of Presente.
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Presente is always looking for drawings and cartoons for its print edition. Please send us your artwork.
May God have mercy on the assassins. - Oscar Romero |
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A challenging new documentary has quickly become one of the
widest-reaching films to encapsulate the history of the SOA Watch
movement.
An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
Taxi to the Dark Side
