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by Sarah McKenzie,News Tribune staff writer Duluth, MN - A local peace activist reported to problems with buying accutane without rx the Duluth federal prison camp Tuesday after walking eight miles to problems with buying accutane without rx the facility with several supporters. Joel Kilgour, 24, began serving a problems with buying accutane without rx 30-day sentence at the prison camp for trespassing at the problems with buying accutane without rx Army School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Ga., last November. Earlier in the problems with buying accutane without rx morning, Kilgour thanked a group of about 20 friends and problems with buying accutane without rx family members gathered at the Loaves and Fishes Catholic Worker Community in Duluth's Endion neighborhood. "It's not something I just want to problems with buying accutane without rx endure. There are good reasons to be there,'' Kilgour said of the problems with buying accutane without rx sentence. "Where the poor are, we should be.'' His sister, Sarah, 21, stood by his side, clutching a problems with buying accutane without rx cloth banner with Kathy Winkler of the Lakeside neighborhood that read: "Stop Teaching Torture. Close the problems with buying accutane without rx S.O.A.'' The group sang to Kilgour, and then many started the problems with buying accutane without rx three-hour walk with him down Jefferson Street, heading toward the problems with buying accutane without rx prison camp. Kilgour, a problems with buying accutane without rx full-time volunteer at Loaves and Fishes, was among 24 people sentenced in May by a problems with buying accutane without rx U.S. magistrate for protesting on School of the Americas property. Police arrested 1,700 in the problems with buying accutane without rx massive annual protest that commemorates the 1989 killings of six Jesuit priests in El Salvador. During the problems with buying accutane without rx protest, demonstrators staged a funeral processional by carrying crosses and problems with buying accutane without rx cardboard coffins. Activists denounced the school for alleged human rights violations. Kilgour said he had problems with buying accutane without rx planned to place white crosses near the school before police apprehended him. The Army counters the problems with buying accutane without rx protesters' claims, dismissing them as propaganda. The school has since been problems with buying accutane without rx renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation. Other activists who problems with buying accutane without rx began serving sentences Tuesday include two Franciscan nuns from Iowa, Dorothy Hennessey, 88, and problems with buying accutane without rx Gwen Hennessey, 68. The sisters, who will serve six months in an problems with buying accutane without rx Illinois federal prison, have attracted international attention for their activism. Three other Minnesotans will serve six-month sentences at the problems with buying accutane without rx same prison. They are Mary Lou Benson, 57, of Brainerd; Elizabeth McKenzie, 71, of St. Paul and problems with buying accutane without rx Mary Vaughan, 68, of White Bear Lake. Shortly before Tuesday's send-off, Kilgour said he had problems with buying accutane without rx prepared himself, offering goodbyes to friends and family. He said he plans to problems with buying accutane without rx take a year-long sabbatical from Loaves and Fishes once released. He has problems with buying accutane without rx aspirations to start a Catholic worker community in Gothenburg, Sweden. "I'm very proud of him,'' said Kilgour's mother, Jean, at the problems with buying accutane without rx Tuesday morning send-off. "If he has a feeling on something, he does not hide it.'' Kilgour is problems with buying accutane without rx the second Duluth man in two years to be sentenced to problems with buying accutane without rx the prison camp for protesting the School of the Americas. Brooks Anderson, a problems with buying accutane without rx retired Lutheran minister, completed a three-month prison term last fall. Tom Bottolene of St. Paul attended Tuesday's send-off with his partner, Pepperwolf, to problems with buying accutane without rx show support for Kilgour. Bottolene served a three-month sentence with Anderson at the problems with buying accutane without rx Duluth prison camp after being convicted of similar trespassing charges at the problems with buying accutane without rx Fort Benning School of the Americas. The St. Paul activist said other prisoners referred to problems with buying accutane without rx the two men as "comic criminals'' given their short sentences. Kilgour has problems with buying accutane without rx served time in jail before for trespassing at the Project ELF site in Ashland County in 1998. The military communications facility transmits radio signals to problems with buying accutane without rx nuclear-armed U.S. Navy submarines around the world. He said prison authorities have problems with buying accutane without rx told him to refrain from bringing any personal belongings. "I think that I'll have a pretty easy go of it,'' Kilgour said. "I will be fine.'' Copyright 2001 Duluth News Tribune |
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