Theresa Cusimano: Crossing the Line

On Sunday, November 20, 2011, SOA Watch activist Theresa Cusimano climbed over the barbed wired fence at the main gates of Fort Benning, Georgia - home to the School of the Americas. Theresa was arrested by military police and is facing up to six months in federal prison. Theresa engaged in nonviolent direct action to call for the closure of the School of the Americas, and for an end to the oppressive policies that the school represents. The School of the Americas (renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) is a U.S. military training school for Latin American soldiers. It's graduates are consistently involved in some of the worst human rights abuses throughout the Americas (visit www.SOAW.org for more information).

Theresa will put the SOA on trial in federal court next year -- her second trial for such actions at Fort Benning. Theresa also carried her protest onto Fort Benning in 2008, an act for which she served two months in federal prison. Protests against the SOA/WHINSEC began 21 years ago; since then, over 300 people have been sentenced and have collectively served over 100 years of prison time for nonviolent civil disobedience.

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• SOA Watch
• Nonviolent Direct Action
• Protest
• Resistance
• Latin America
• School of the Americas
• Fort Benning
• Georgia
• November Vigil
• Close the SOA
• Justice
• Accountability
• Dignity
• Self-Determination
• SOA
• WHINSEC

[gophomaxx]

Fort Benning Georgia home of the School of the Americas should be closed to save our reputation as libertarians and anti-imperialists.

[jethob5]

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