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<P align=left><FONT face=Georgia color=#000000 size=3>June 7,
2006<BR><BR>Dear Friends in the Struggle,<BR><BR><A
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align=left vspace=8 NOSEND="1"></A><B>This week marks a major
milestone in the campaign to close the School of the Americas</B>
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.<BR><BR><B>Please take a few minutes today to call your
Member of Congress</B> 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.<BR><BR>You can also <B>email and fax your
Representative</B> right from the SOA Watch website: <A
title=http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=96
href="http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=96">http://www.soaw.org/legislative</A><BR><BR><I>Right
now</I> 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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR><B>Please join us this week and add
your voice to the growing wave of people speaking up for a more just
world.</B> Thank you for giving me hope.<BR><BR>For a
victory,<BR><IMG hspace=8
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vspace=8 NOSEND="1"><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>Fr. Roy Bourgeois<BR>School
of the Americas Watch<BR></FONT></P></DIV>
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