{news} Fwd: [usgp-nc] Discussion Has Begun on GP-US Proposal: ID 320- Condemn the Western Hemisphere Institute for SecurityCooperationEndorse Nonviolent Direct Action

Tue Oct 16 09:41:09 EDT 2007

       I agree completely with Mike on this. This
school of assassins has been a black mark on America
especially every since the 70's and the complicity
with the Death Squads in Central America under Ronnie
Raygun. The Congress under neither party sees fit to
rid us of this fascistic training ground. And now we
find some of the worst persons involved in Central
America under Reagan recycled into powerful positions
to make a similar mess in Iraq and the Middle East
policies.

       Ken
--- Mike DeRosa <smderosa at cox.net> wrote:

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we should yes on this.  Too many good people
> have been killed
> because of the "School of the Americas" (aka Western
> Hemisphere
> Institute for Security Cooperation)
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Mike DeRosa
> 
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> Subject: {news} Fwd: [usgp-nc] Discussion Has Begun
> on GP-US Proposal: ID
> 320- Condemn the Western Hemisphere Institute for
> SecurityCooperationEndorse
> Nonviolent Direct Action
> 
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> 
> CT GREENS,
> 
>  
> 
> I AM SURE CHARLIE AND I BOT WOULD WELCOME ANY
> COMMNETS ON THIS PROPOSAL TO
> THE FORUM LIST SERVE
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> TIM MCKEE
> 
> voting at gpus.org wrote:
> 
> Date: 9 Oct 2007 04:05:02 -0000
> From: voting at gpus.org
> To: natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org
> Subject: [usgp-nc] Discussion Has Begun on GP-US
> Proposal: ID 320 - Condemn
> the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security
> CooperationEndorse Nonviolent Direct Action
> 
> Discussion has begun for the following proposal:
> 
> Proposal ID: 320 
> Proposal: Condemn the Western Hemisphere Institute
> for Security
> CooperationEndorse Nonviolent Direct Action 
> Floor Manager: Sarah echo Steiner,
> echothegreen at riseup.net 
> Discussion Dates: 10/09/2007 - 10/15/2007 
> Voting Dates: 10/16/2007 - 10/22/2007 
> 
> Voting ends at Midnight Pacific Time
> 
> The GP-US strives for consensus, which involves
> several steps,
> taken in order..
> 
> Clarifying questions and responses from the group
> making the proposal.
> Airing of concerns and discussion about how to
> improve the proposal
> by taking into consideration those concersn
> Call for consensus on the final proposal.
> 
> Background: NOTE: THIS IS AN EXPEDITED TIMELINE
> 
> The School of the Americas, renamed in 2001 to
> Western Hemisphere
> Institute for Security Cooperation (SOA/ WHINSEC),
> located in Fort
> Benning, Georgia, was founded in 1946 with the
> purpose of teaching
> Latin American militaries the values of democratic
> civilian control
> over military forces while promoting "friendly"
> assistance to our
> Latin American neighbors.
> 
> The School of the Americas (SOA)/(WHISC) teaches
> such things as
> assassination training, commando operations,
> counter-insurgency
> techniques, intelligence-gathering, psychological
> warfare,
> extortion, sniper training, and low-intensity
> conflict; and Pentagon
> documents released to School of the Americas Watch,
> in September of
> 1996, through the Freedom of Information Act, show
> that training
> manuals at least through the nineteen-eighties at
> the School of the
> Americas/WHISC included instruction in such things
> as extortion,
> assassination, threats and torture.
> 
> There is documented evidence that many SOA graduates
> have been
> involved in murderous plots. This was demonstrated
> in the 1980
> assassination case of Archbishop Oscar Romero in
> which two of the
> three Salvadoran officers responsible were graduates
> of the SOA.
> Further, nineteen of the twenty-six Salvadoran
> officers cited in the
> November 1989 murder of six Jesuit priests, a
> housekeeper and her
> daughter, were also SOA graduates.
> 
> Guatemalan Colonel Julio Roberto Alpirez, an SOA
> alumni, was
> implicated in the killing of U.S. citizen Michael
> Devine and Efraim
> Bamaca.
> 
> It is estimated that there are more than 600 SOA
> graduates who
> have been accused of human rights abuses including
> the massacres of
> entire villages.
> 
> Millions of dollars of US taxpayer money is spent
> annually to
> maintain the School of the Americas/WHISC at a time
> when budgets are
> being cut at the expense of our own schools and
> children, and the
> US Congress is currently reducing Federal spending
> on many social
> services.
> 
> This history and the continued existence of the
> School of the
> Americas/WHISC stand in the way of moving our
> country's
> relationships with Latin America towards emphasis on
> Human Rights
> and democracy.
> 
> Nonviolent direct action has been part of many
> struggles for
> justice. It is also the backbone of the movement to
> close the SOA.
> Countless actions have taken place in this country
> as well as in
> Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, El
> Salvador, Austria,
> France, Germany and other countries around the
> world. Thousands have
> put their bodies on the line, fasted and vigiled and
> hundreds have
> gotten arrested for speaking out against the
> violence perpetrated by
> the SOA and US foreign policy.
> 
> 
> Proposal: The United States Green Party opposes the
> continued operation of
> the School of the Americas and stands in solidarity
> with the People
> of the Americas to support and endorse the
> nonviolent direct action
> that is proposed by School of the Americas Watch to
> shut down
> SOA/WHISC
> 
> Resources: TIMELINE: Until the school is closed
> 
> RESOURCES: Press release from the Media Committee
> when proposal passes
> 
> References: WWW.SOAW.Org
> 
> Full details are available at:
> 
> http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=320
> 
> Please send your comments to
> natlcomvotes at green.gpus.org.
> 
> Thank you and have a wonderful day!
> --The GP-US Voting Admin
> 
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