JC Orton on The School of the Americas

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JC Orton talks about his act of civil disobedience, protesting against the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, and his subsequent arrest and imprisonment.

JC Orton is the coordinator of Night on the Streets - Catholic Worker, a nonprofit that serves the homeless and the neediest residents of Berkeley and Oakland, California.

For more on the School of the Americas and efforts to close it, visit http://www.soaw.org/

Background music: "Halo" by Beyoncé from the album Halo. Copyright 2008 Sony Music Entertainment.

Directed by Ben Felsing
Sound by Joe Sciarrillo
Edited by Matt Werner
Produced by St. Charles Street Productions
http://mattswriting.com/videos/

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• JC
• Orton
• homeless
• outreach
• Catholic
• Worker
• School
• of
• the
• Americas
• Berkeley
• Oakland
• California
• Night
• on
• Streets
• civil
• disobediance
• SOA
• WHINSEC

[stuart20017]

Give'm hell JC. Always in support, Tim (the Paulist seminarian from last summer)