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¡Presente! Spring 2012 Issue Coming Soon

The next issue of Presente is currently being produced and will become available in late February 2012. 

Spring 2012

We need your help to spread the information about the School of the Americas and about the reality of U.S. foreign policy. To that end, we want to expand the network of activist distributors around the country to get the newspaper of the movement to close the SOA in as many hands as possible.

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, andimage of newspaper delivery person with an issue of Presente more. 

 Click here to pre-order a box with 75 copies or a box with 150 copies of Presente.

You will receive your copies of the next issue of iPRESENTE! shipped directly from the printer to your home in late February 2012.

Excellent bulk distribution points for the newspaper are community centers, coffeehouses, universities, libraries and progressive bookstores. You can also give copies to friends, neighbors and strangers, hand it out at meetings or protests and use it for your general outreach work in your community.
 
The more people know, the more people will speak out and take action or as South African freedom fighter Nelson Mandela put it: “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
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SOA Violence
COFADEH 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.
The Americas
Image 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.
 
Survivors
Argentina mother 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. 
Local Organizing
Image 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.
 
Direct Action
You can jail the resisters, but you can't jail the resistance! The SOA Watch Prisoners of Conscience

NancySmith.jpgWhile those who train ChrisSpicer.jpgcoup-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 Omundi.jpgand communities fatherlouis.jpgof color also targeted by an oppressive drug war and exploitative prison system. 

 

 

Legislation
Image 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.

 
Latin America Project
Chile 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).
Anti-Oppression
Image 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.
 
Artists
Joel Pett

Empire in DeclineJoel 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. 

 
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