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Eleven SOA Watch Activists Report to
Federal Prisons Across the US
Eleven SOA Watch activists – including a Maryknoll nun, a 79-year-old retiree, students, and a farmworker – reported to federal prisons around the country on Tuesday, March 15 to begin serving three- to six-month sentences for their acts of nonviolent civil disobedience opposing the School of the Americas/ WHINSEC. The eleven were arrested at Fort Benning in November of 2004 as part of the annual demonstration calling for the closure of the SOA/ WHINSEC.
We honor their witness, their action and their spirits as they head off
to prison! We also hold in our thoughts our two probationers who have already begun serving their time, the two SOA Watch activists sentenced to community service and the more than two million people currently incarcerated in the United States, most for nonviolent offenses.
Click here for prison addresses and more information about each of these activists.
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http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0603-07.htmPublished on Sunday, June 3, 2001 in the Binghamton (NY) Press & Sun-Bulletin
Wrong Ones Are Going To Prison
by David Rossie
We can all breathe a little easier now; Jack Gilroy's in jail.
Jack Gilroy: retired Maine-Endwell teacher, Army veteran, peace activist.
Late last month, Gilroy, along with 25 other enemies of the state, was found guilty in Federal Court in Georgia of criminal trespassing. The criminal operation on which Jack and the others were trespassing is the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly called School of the Americas.
The WHISC is located at Fort Benning, Georgia. It specializes in training officers and non- commissioned officers from countries in Latin America so they can return to their homelands and help their countrymen and women and children become better citizens. Unfortunately, their methods often as not include killing the ones who are not quick learners.
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Jack will have plenty of distinguished company. Dorothy and Gwen Hennessey of Dubuque, Iowa, also received six-month sentences. Dorothy, 88, and Gwen, 68, are Franciscan nuns. No matter. You can't be too careful.
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