The next issue of Presente is currently being produced and will become available in late February 2012.
The bilingual and union printed Spring 2012 issue contains information about SOA Watch's legislative campaign and the upcoming April Days of Action, news from the Americas, and
more.
Click here to pre-order a box with 75 copies or a box with 150 copies of Presente.
Grave Human Rights Violations Continue in Honduras
The National Front of Popular Resistance denounced today that grave human rights violations persist under the Porfirio Lobo Sosa administration.
No Más Sangre - No More Bloodshed
Mexico has become a pivot point in the global movement against
militarization and human rights abuses under the so-called “war on
drugs.” In recent months, a citizens’-based Movement for Peace with
Justice and Dignity (MPJD) has emerged, calling for an immediate end to
the drug war and a new model of citizen security.
Continued terror in the lives of Argentina Dirty War survivors
Patricia Isasa was a 16 year-old high school student in 1976 when henchmen of a brutal coup regime disappeared her from her home in Santa Fe, Argentina.
M.E.Ch.A. and SOA Watch
The National Movimiento Estudiantil Chican@ de Aztlan (M.E.Ch.A.), a national student movement that promotes higher education, culture, and history endorsed the SOA Watch campaign.
While those who train 
coup-plotters and assassins continue to be free and the SOA/WHINSEC remains open, human rights activists are repeatedly imprisoned for calling attention to the injustice. But when the US “justice” system jails our resisters, it only strengthens our resistance when we connect our struggles with those of the poor, working class, immigrant 
and communities 
of color also targeted by an oppressive drug war and exploitative prison system.
Need to Cut Spending?! Close the SOA!
Call on Barack Obama to Issue an Executive Order to Close the School of the Americas
“Every dollar spent on the training of repressive foreign militaries is a theft from the poor,” said 22-year-old Venezuelan-American Maia Rodriguez before she was arrested in front of the White House.
Resistance to Militarization
People’s movements in the Americas are working together to confront U.S. militarization and to shut down the School of the Americas (SOA/ WHINSEC).
Looking Back to Move Ahead
I was asked to write a piece about people of color organizing to attend the 2009 SOA Watch vigil and about our plans for 2010. I believe everything happens for a reason.
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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.
Joel Pett, winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning, created the "Empire in Decline" cartoon that was published in the Fall 2011 issue of Presente. 
Taxi to the Dark Side
