Presente Fall 2014 Issue - Coming Out in August

[Hendrik Voss]

The next issue of Presente is supposed to go to print in August 2014. Please email me with any content suggestions that you might have. We are looking for topics to cover in articles, artwork, comics, poetry, jokes, reviews, letters, possible questions that activist can answer in the "movement voices" section, graphics, statistics etc. Please take some time to think about this and send your ideas to pres...@soaw.org  Thanks!

1. ¡Presente! means "here" or "present" in Spanish. As throughout Latin America, it is used in the ritual at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, to remember the martyrs.
2. ¡Presente! is the name of the newspaper of the movement to close the SOA.
   
   

¡Presente!, the newspaper of the movement to close the School of the Americas (formerly known as the SOA Watch Update), is published two times a year and sent to thousands of subscribers. Dedicated organizers around the United States and beyond its borders are distributing additional copies as part of the ¡Presente! Activist Distributor Network.

The newspaper is intended to be a tool for the movement. Its purpose is to give updates about the state of the campaign, to provide information and analysis about events and developments in the Americas and to get more people involved in the work to change oppressive U.S. foreign policy and to end the racist system of violence and domination. Many thanks to all the authors and artists who have put their skills in the service of the movement and contributed to ¡Presente!

¡Presente! the most widely read English-language publication on Latin America Solidarity issues. 

¡Presente! literally means "here" or "present" in Spanish. There is a long tradition in Latin American movements for justice of invoking the memory of those who have lost their lives in the struggle. It is used in the ritual at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, when we remember those who suffered and were martyred by the graduates of the School of the Americas. We pronounce their names and bring their spirits and witness before us as we respond: ¡Presente! You are here with us, you are not forgotten, and we continue the struggle in your name.

Calling out the names of those killed by politically repressive regimes has a long tradition in Latin America. At the funeral of Pablo Neruda on September 25, 1973 in Chile, Hernán Loyala reports that mourners responded with "Presente" to the shouting out of Neruda's name, as well as that of Salvador Allende, the recently deposed (and killed) president. This was the first public act of protest against the 14-day-old regime of Augusto Pinochet.


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Hendrik Voss
National Organizer
SOA Watch
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