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DESCRIPTION:A Night with Fr. Roy Bourgeois  Vietnam Vet, Purple Heart Recipient, and 
 Founder of the School of the Americas Watch   Sponsored by the Solano Peace 
 and Justice Coalition   Is Abu Graib an isolated incident? In Latin America 
 there is a similar pattern…   The SOA/WHINSEC is a US Military training 
 school whose graduates have been trained in the use of torture and 
 implicated in some of the worst human rights abuses and acts of terror in 
 Latin America.  §	Over 64,000 Latin American soldiers have been trained in 
 combat skills and psychological warfare at the U.S. Army’s School of the 
 Americas (now called WHINSEC).  §	Graduates of the school have been 
 consistently involved in human rights abuses and atrocities in Latin 
 America.  §	Manuals used for at least a decade to train Latin American 
 soldiers advocated torture techniques and methods for circumventing laws on 
 due process, arrest and detention.   §	The manuals recommended the 
 imprisonment of family members of those who support “union organizing or 
 recruiting,” those who distribute “propaganda in favor of the interest 
 of workers,” those who “sympathize with demonstrations or strikes,” 
 and those who make “accusations that the government has failed to meet 
 the basic needs of the people.”  According to Fr. Roy Bourgeois of SOA 
 Watch, “As in Latin America, officials claim the soldiers involved in 
 torture in Iraq are ‘just a few bad apples,’ but as instances of human 
 rights violations continue to grow around the world, a much larger picture 
 of systematic abuse becomes clear.”  There is a growing movement both to 
 close the SOA/WHINSEC and to confront human rights abuses.  For more 
 information on the SOA Watch go to http://www.soaw.org  Free admission.   
 Donations to benefit the School of the Americas Watch gladly accepted.   
 For more information go to http://www.solanopeaceandjustice.com or call 
 707-980-1688  \n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/06/20/41003.php
SUMMARY:What is the School of the Americas and Why Should We Be Concerned?
LOCATION:701 Suisun Street,   Downtown Suisun City  (Suisun-Fairfield United Church 
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 Directions to 701 Suisun Street:  Take Interstate 80 to Hwy 12 East towards 
 Rio Vista/Suisun City.  Go straight through several lights.  As you go over 
 an overpass take the “Civic Center Blvd” Exit towards downtown Suisun.  
 Bear right just before the stop sign at end of exit ramp (sign says 
 "Business District").  Go one block.  Turn left onto Main Street.  Continue 
 past four streets and turn left in the middle of the block to park in the 
 lot you will see there.  To reach the church, turn left at the entrance to 
 the parking lot and walk along Main Street to Solano Street, then walk up 
 Solano Street one block to the corner of Solano and Suisun Streets.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2004/06/20/41003.php
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