Re: Anti-War Up - Father Bourgeois & S.O.A. Watch nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize

[Dr. Vincent Quin, Ph.D.]

redvet wrote:
>
> Subject: Father Roy Bourgeois and SOA Watch Nominated for the Nobel
> Peace Prize
>
> For immediate release
> Sunday, November 22, 2009
>
> Father Roy Bourgeois and SOA Watch Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize
> Father Roy Bourgeois, MM, and School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch)
> have been nominated for one of the most prestigious awards in the
> world - the Nobel Peace Prize - for their sustained faithful
> nonviolent witness against the disappearances, torture, and murder of
> hundreds of thousands of civilians (peasants, community and union
> organizers, clerics, missionaries, educators, and health workers) by
> foreign military personnel trained by the U.S. military at U.S.
> taxpayer expense at the School of the Americas at Fort Benning,
> Georgia.
>
> The candidacy of Father Roy and SOA Watch for the 2010 Nobel Peace
> Prize has been officially submitted to the Nobel Committee in Oslo,
> Norway by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Nobel Peace
> Prize Laureate. The official announcement was made by AFSC
> representative John Meyer on Sunday, November 22 at 9am at the gates
> of Fort Benning (home of the School of the Americas) during the annual
> November vigil to close the SOA.
>
> "We are deeply honored, and deeply humbled, to be nominated for this
> prize for peace," commented Bourgeois, a Vietnam veteran, Purple Heart
> recipient and a Catholic priest, who helped found SOA Watch. "This
> nomination is a recognition of the work of the thousands struggling
> against militarism across the Americas."
>
> SOA Watch is a nonviolent grassroots movement that works through
> creative protest and resistance, legislative and grassroots media work
> to stand in solidarity with the people of Latin America, to close the
> School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for
> Security Cooperation) and to change oppressive U.S. foreign policy
> that institutions like the SOA/ WHINSEC represent.
>
> This weekend, SOA Watch is gathering by the thousands at the gates of
> Ft. Benning to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the killings of
> 14-year-old Celia Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos, and the six Jesuit
> priests she worked with at the Central American University in San
> Salvador in November 1989. Human rights defenders from Colombia and
> Bertha Oliva, founder of human rights organization COFADEH, Committee
> of Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, which
> has been actively resisting the SOA graduate-led coup as part of the
> resistance front.
>
> ###

Father Roy has long been one of my Heroes and he has well earned this nomination!
;-)

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no government or army may ever take that responsibility away.

definition:
murder - the unjustifiable and intentional killing of people, NO EXCEPTIONS.