 We so next up Frank why don't we show the Roy why don't we you introduce Father Roy okay thanks Rachel um Roy Roy wish you all uh Father Roy we like to call him he he um served in the Navy as an officer in Vietnam and after that he was moved by what he saw there so we've joined the Marino missionaries same with Blazos and Teresa Balpain were and ordained to the priest in 1972 and he served in the port of the south and central America his experiences with death squads uh there impelled him to oppose U.S. training of armies in counter-insurgency at Fort Benning Georgia hundreds of thousands have demonstrated to close infamous school of americas uh Roy the founder of the school of America's watched in 1990 and in 2008 he decided he must also address an injustice closer to home that of of the exclusion of women from the Catholic Roman Catholic priesthood his refusal to recant and deny the dictates of his contest eventually led to his being excommunicated as a priest by the Catholic church he was a marinal priest for 45 years and he didn't kick him out because he was fighting against U.S. foreign policy they didn't kick him out because we wanted to close the school of America's they kicked him out because he wanted women to become priests anyway we love Roy and there's a clip we're going to show now it's from the the clip this is a short clip and it's from the film paying the price for peace the story of S. Brown Wilson and it's about the school of America's and it features Roy and Brian is also in it and Martin Sheen are also in this clip we're going to see we're ready I got the clip ready girls ladies here it is well this is coming on and I know it will just a super shout out to Emily and Mary Emily right now doing tech is a monster of a program thank you ladies I could say I would tell everybody listening that Roy is not watching this because Roy doesn't have a computer he does not have email so that's why he wasn't able to join his live but we're hoping to get that clip to play with the sound on it but for any of any of you who've ever been to for bending for the protest here we go let's see if we get this time the train attack drew attention to the US military's involvement in illegal wars highlighting its role in training secret armies for other countries most of the covert training took place in Fort Benning Georgia at the notorious school of the Americas as we gather today at the main gate of Fort Benning this is a very sacred moment we cannot go about the business of killing without being changed we cannot come back from Vietnam Afghanistan Iraq and other wars and go on with our lives as before no you know all these suicides the PTSD that we're reading so much about now the message is clear we are not made for war this is where SOA watch started right here and I realized something that was uh staggering to me but it was uh something that all of you probably uh completely understand without having to go to war and that was that we're all one we're all connected and how can I be possibly participating and killing other people I did not know just because I was ordered to do it so I learned how to be disobedient when 525 Salvadoran soldiers arrived at Fort Benning Georgia to start training there in combat a small group of us went there to say not in our name and what we found through the freedom of information act was a school of assassins as we learned it was well known of in Latin America a school for dictators a school of torture Washington Post front page along with the New York Times had a very big article about the the the torture manners that were used at the school of the americas techniques of torture and this is serious this is serious stuff we're about to do crimes against humanity here and it was time to put out the word let's gather here every november that weekend before thanksgiving and in the name of solidarity let us come and call for the closing of this school of assassins and something happened we started with 10 and then the next year you know a hundred came and then the next year 500 then a thousand and 3000 5000 10 000 all of a sudden we had 20 000 people gathering here and when they sent us to prison it just energized the movement it just brought more people the next year and when they sent us to prison what we learned was that they could not silence us the truth cannot be silence and we organized from prison we went to latin america simply to request that they stopped sending their troops here and i'm happy to report that five countries made decisions to pull out those countries being in argentina uruguay venezuela uh bolivia we went to ecudar where we went with president rafael correa and at that meeting he announced that ecudar was pulling out of the school of the americas he said something very important president korea he said this school should not exist we cannot live without cooperation it's the most important characteristic of human survival when we become so arrogant we justify doing anything we want is if there's no consequences it's insane we've come to a level of divorcing ourselves from the reality of war the west has taught the east how to solve problems and it's basically through violence you can't make war okay thank you very much