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20,000 demand ‘Close torture school!’
Published Dec 4, 2008 8:42 PM
The annual protest at the gates of Ft. Benning in Columbus, Ga., drew an
estimated 20,000 demonstrators this year on Nov. 21-23. Through music,
speeches, banners, marches, chants and acts of civil disobedience, the
activists demanded the closing of the infamous School of the Americas, used for
training in torture.
Young people from high schools and colleges traveled from across the country to
join torture survivors from Latin America, trade unionists, nuns and clergy,
veterans, civil rights leaders and others to declare, “Yes, we can close
the School of Assassins.”
Six people were arrested for trespassing onto the military base. For more
information, visit www.soaw.org.
—Dianne Mathiowetz
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