In the fall 2009, U.S. and Colombian officials signed an agreement granting the U.S. military access to seven Colombian bases for ten years.
Click here to watch the Faultlines documentary about the agreement online.
Click here to read the article Seven Bases by Diane Lefer and Hector Aristizábal, in which they take a look at the history of each of these bases as well as conditions in the surrounding communities and Colombia as a whole.
Military Coup in Honduras
The School of Coups is at it again: In June 2009, SOA graduates overthrew the government of Honduras.
Seven Bases
U.S. and Colombian officials signed an agreement granting the U.S. military access to seven Colombian bases for ten years.
Interview with H.I.J.O.S.
¡Presente! talked with Cecilia Gonzales of H.I.J.O.S. about their activism, re-militarization and the School of the Americas.
Moving the Vigil to DC?
Ad your opinion about the proposal to move the 2010 November Vigil from Fort Benning, Georgia to Washington, DC.
It's time to turn hope into reality
Obama's first 100 days in the White House - an article by SOA Watch Communications Coordinator Pablo Ruiz.
Building a Cross-Continental Movement
In June 2010, grassroots activists from across the Americas will come together in Venezuela.
A Challenge to Institutional Racism
One New York activist group transforms how they approach their work.
Dan Archer
Dan Archer and Nikil Saval created the two-page, full-color comic about the history of the School of the Americas (SOA/ WHINSEC).
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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
