[PAA-Discuss] SOA Watch Message from Father Roy Bourgeois

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School of the Americas Watch

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June 7,  2006

Dear Friends in the Struggle,

 
(http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=134545356&url_num=2&url=http://www.soaw.org/new) This week marks a major  milestone in the campaign to 
close the School of the Americas  and a major victory for all of you who have 
contributed so much to  this work. This is the time when we really need to 
keep the pressure  on Congress.

Please take a few minutes today to call your  Member of Congress and to ask 
them to support the McGovern  Amendment to cut funding to the Western 
Hemisphere Institute for  Security Cooperation, the place the world knows as the School 
of the  Americas (SOA/WHINSEC). You can reach Congress at 202-224-3121 or  
toll free at 888-355-3588.

You can also email and fax your  Representative right from the SOA Watch 
website: _http://www.soaw.org/legislative_ 
(http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=96) 

Right  now and all day today, many SOA Watch activists and our partner  
organizations are on Capitol Hill, talking with Legislative Aides  and Members of 
Congress and distributing information about the  McGovern Amendment that will 
be introduced this week with the  Foreign Operations Bill. Some of the groups 
that are walking the  halls of Congress today are my order, Maryknoll, the 
Torture  Abolition Survivors and Support Coalition (TASSC), the staff of the  
Methodist Church, the SHARE Foundation, Voices on the Border, Sister  Parish, 
Voices on the Border, Pax Christi USA, Sisters of the  Precious Blood, the RFK 
Center for Human Rights and  others.

Labor unions and members are mobilizing this week to  continue to build 
support for the McGovern Amendment. The United  Auto Workers and the Steelworkers 
are both faxing Members of  Congress to let them know how important a vote to 
cut funding to the  SOA/WHINSEC is to union members.

Yesterday, veterans from  around the country were flooding the phone lines of 
Members of  Congress asking for them to take a real stand for human rights 
and  military accountability by voting to cut funding to the School of  the 
Americas/WHINSEC.

Please join us this week and add  your voice to the growing wave of people 
speaking up for a more just  world. Thank you for giving me hope.

For a  victory,





Fr. Roy Bourgeois
School  of the Americas Watch



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