[Announce-DAN] SOA Protest Send-Off

["david martin" <p_hayze@hotmail.com>]

Hola Todo:

As you are aware, this weekend thousands of protesters will gather at the 
gates of US Army's School of Americas (SOA) in Ft. Benning, GA. Many will 
"cross the line" in a non-violent civil disobedience to demand that the US 
Congress close the SOA.

To support those that are going to the protest, please come to a "Mass for 
the Martyrs in El Savdador" at 5:15pm Thursday Nov. 16th at the Regis Chapel 
at Regis University (53rd and Lowell). At 6pm, there will be a commissioning 
of those going to the protest as our representatives.

On Sunday, Nov. 19th, there will be a 12:30 mass in solidarity with those 
crossing the line in Ft. Benning at the time in the Regis University Chapel.

This year the US Congress "closed" the school and reopened it under a new 
name, the Defense Institute for Hemispheric Security Cooperation (DIFSHC). 
The mission and the training are the same. The mission is to provide the 
Pentagon with "access" to Latin American military officers, that is, create 
a cadre of "professional killers" in the service of US corporate interests 
in the region.

SOA graduates have been responsible for most of the major human rights 
violations in Latin America since its founding: from the assassination of 
Archbishop Romero in El Salvador in 1980 to the assassination of Bishop 
Gerardi in Guatemala in 1998 from the massacre at El Mozote in El Salvador 
in 1981 to the massacre in Mapiripan in Colombia in 1997. Colombia has the 
largest number of graduates from the SOA since its founding. Not 
coincidentally, the Colombian military has the worst human rights record in 
the region. Currently, an average of 1 massacre (3 or more civilians killed 
at one time) occurs every day in Colombia, while 1.8 million people are 
internally displaced the largest refugee crisis outside of Afghanistan. We 
must stop US support political repression in Latin America. Shutdown the SOA 
by any name.

Please support the SOA protest this year.  Write a letter to the editor and 
to your legislators.

E-mail your letter to:

Rocky Mountain News

letters@denver-rmn.com

or send it to:
Letters to the Editor
Denver Rocky Mountain News
400 West Colfax
Denver, CO 80204

Denver Post

letters@denverpost.com or fax it to (303) 820-1502

letters must include full name, home town and daytime phone number for 
verification

The Colorado Congressional Delegation

Sen. Wayne Allard, US Senate, Washington, DC, 20510--DC-(202)-224-5941, 
Englewood-(303)-220-7414

Sen. Ben N. Campbell-- US Senate, Washington, DC, 20510--DC-(202)-224-5852, 
Englewood-(303)-843-4100

Diana DeGette (CD 1), US House of Reps., Washington, DC, 
20515--DC-(202)-225-4431, Denver-(303)-844-4988

Mark Udall (CD 2), US House of Reps., Washington, DC, 
20515--DC-(202)-225-2161, Westminster-(303)-457-4500

Scott McInnis (CD 3), US House of Reps., Washington, DC, 20515--DC 
(202)-225-4761, Pueblo-(719)-543-8200

Bob Schaffer (CD 4), US House of Reps., Washington, DC, 
20515--DC-(202)-225-4676, Ft. Collins-(970)-493-9132

Joel Hefley (CD 5), US House of Reps., Washington, DC, 
20515--DC(202)-225-4422, Englewood-(303)-843-0401

Tom Tancredo (CD 6), US House of Reps., Washington, DC, 
20515--DC(202)-225-7882, Littleton-(720)-283-9772

In Solidarity,
David Martin
Executive Director
Denver Justice and Peace Committee
901 West 14th St, Suite 7
Denver, CO 80204
tel. 303-623-1463
fax 303-623-3492
e-mail: p_hayze@hotmail.com
website: www.djpc.org


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