{news} Fwd: [usgp-dx] RELEASE Greens join rally to close Georgia's terrorist training camp at Ft. Benning

[Tim McKee]

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training camp at Ft. Benning
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(Distributed by the Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org)
Georgia Green Partyhttp://www.greens.org/georgia
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEThursday, November 19, 2009
For further information, contact:Bruce Dixon, Press Secretary770-592-7295 *
bdixon at georgiagreenparty.orgDenice Traina, Former CoChair706-364-7810 *
denice.traina at georgiagreenparty.org

Georgia Greens Challenge Congressional Delegation To Shut Down Terrorist
Training Camp in Georgia Give us some Change Worth Believing In

This weekend, Greens from Georgia and far beyond will again gather with
nearly 25,000 justice-loving individuals of all persuausions for an annual
vigil at the gates of Ft. Benning. Led by School of the Americas Watch (
http://www.soaw.org), the yearly ritual has become a centerpiece of the mass
movement to close a terrorist training camp operated on Georgia soil that
has led countries throughout the Americas to withdraw their students from
its program.
"Regardless of which corporate Party wins the election, it seems US foreign
policy continues to serve investment interests over those of the American
peaople," said Denice Traina, former Co-Chair of the Georgia Green Party, a
physical therapist from Augusta who has travelled with her kids to the
annual vigil 13 of the last 14 years.
The recent ouster of Manuel Zelaya as the legitimately elected leader of
Honduras has been tied to the leadership of graduates of the Georgia
terrorist training camp.  The military backed regime has suspended civil
liberties, authorizing arrests without warrants in blatent violation of the
Central American government's constitution.
"U.S. fingerprints are all over President Zelaya's ouster, despite the Obama
Administration's attempt to maintain plausible deniability for the coup,"
said Michael Canney, a Florida Green who recently represented the U.S.
 Green Party in annual meeting of the Federation of Green Parties of the
Americas in Santiago, Chile.
"Throughout the Americas, there is growing concern that the Obama
Administration is continuing the discredited policies of the Bush
Administration," added Canney, citing as examples the escalating military
presence in Colombia and the military buildup represented by the US Fourth
Fleet, recommissioned in 2008 to patrol the Carribean, Central and South
American coasts.
Noting that the Fourth Fleet's flagship will be a new nuclear aircraft
carrier, which will be based at a $500 million docking facility, soon to be
built at the Mayport naval base in Jacksonville, Florida, Canney said.
 "Obama's failure to break with the 'gunboat diplomacy' of the last century
is viewed with alarm by folks across this hemisphere. They feel betrayed and
disappointed, and they aren't buying the 'war on drugs' and the 'war on
terrorism' as pretexts for US military expansion in the region."
Prior to the coup, the Zelaya administration was planning to convert a major
Honduran military air base into a civilian airport, with funding from ALBA,
a banking and trade alliance for Latin America and the Caribbean initiated
by Venezuela and Cuba in 2004 as an alternative to the FTAA. Current members
of the alliance include Nicaragua, Bolivia and Ecuador. Honduras joined ALBA
in October 2008. The Soto Cano air base (aka Palmerola) was built up by the
US in the 1980's as part of the contra war against Nicaragua, and is home to
"Joint Task Force Bravo".
The Obama administration has declined to name the change of leadership in
the sovereign nation of Honduras as the "coup-d'etat" the world recognizes
it as.  When all other countries recalled their ambassadors, the U.S.
Government maintained its embassy and the recognition of the illegitimate
coup leaders as speaking for the people of Honduras.
"Once you are aware, you just can't ignore the truth," said Traina, whose
service in the Peace Corps took her to Paraguay where she met her husband
and the father of her two sons.  "One is compelled to be vigilant about the
injustices perpetrated in our names and with our tax dollars.  Closing this
school is no longer enough.  We must spread the truth to others so these
crimes are never conducted in our country's name again."
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Georgia Green Partyhttp://www.greens.org/georgia/
Background sources:
http://soaw.org/http://www.jtfb.southcom.mil/http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/soto-cano.htmhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolivarian_Alliance_for_the_Americas

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