[GP-Eldorado-n] 1000 Grandmothers protest at School of Americas

[Diana Stauffer]

Following is from Chico Peace and Justice about the School of Americas in Ft. Benning, GA and the planned protest in Nov. (Yearly happening).  If you would like the attachments,(flyers and Holly Near Song) please let me know. I didn't want to send attachments to folks who aren't interested. Thanks, Diana

Hello all,

I have forwarded you the following message and
attachment in hopes that you will help get the word
out about the movement to get 1000 Grandmother's (and
other people as well) to cross the line at the next
School of the Americas protest.

Feel free to contact myself or Caathy (contact info
below) with any questions.

Many thanks for all that you do,

Devlin Donnelly
Assistant/Interim Coordinator
Chico Peace & Justice Center
(530) 893-9078
www.chico-peace.org

--- Catherine Webster
<athousandgrandmothers at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 16:50:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Catherine Webster
> <athousandgrandmothers at yahoo.com>
> Subject: 1000 G's info for Devlin
> To: chico-peace at sbcglobal.net
> 
> 
>    
>   LOOKING FOR 1000 GRANDMOTHERS TO CROSS THE LINE 
>   November 17-19, 2006
>   At the School of the Americas/WHISC, Ft. Benning,
> GA
>   Most of you know that the School of the Americas
> at Fort Benning, Georgia, is the place where Latin
> American soldiers are trained by the U.S. military
> in tactics that have resulted in assassination,
> kidnapping, torture, and repression of their own
> people. Graduates of the SOA (also known as
> WHISCÑWestern Hemisphere Institute for Security
> Cooperation) have been responsible for the murder of
> Archbishop Oscar Romero and six Jesuits, their
> housekeeper, and her daughter, the massacre of the
> entire village of El Mozote in El Salvador, and
> countless other acts of violence in Central America.
> Currently, the largest group of trainees is coming
> from Colombia, which is rapidly becoming the next El
> Salvador. The SOA represents all that we wish to
> fight against and change in our nation. It goes
> against everything we, as women, want for our
> families and our world. 
>    
>   My name is Cathy Webster. I live in Chico,
> California. Last November, one of the founders of
> our local Peace & Justice Center, Helen Kinnee, died
> at age 91 after a long life of working for peace. At
> her memorial service, one of our young peace
> activists sang Holly Near's song, "A Thousand
> Grandmothers." I was so inspired by this song, and
> by the arrest that same month of another local
> grandmother, Dorothy Parker, at School of the
> Americas, that an idea came to me: What if 1000
> grandmothers from around America and the world were
> to take this song as their rallying cry and march
> onto the grounds of the School of the Americas this
> coming November with SOAWatch risking arrest in an
> effort to shut down this training school for
> terrorism?
>    
>   This summer HR1217, an amendment to a bill that
> would cut Defense spending for the school and thus
> effectively shut it down, was refused attachment to
> the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill, even
> though eight other attachments were accepted. But
> the effort to effect the closing of the school
> continues unabated (see http://www.soawatch.org ). 
>    
>   Attached are two sheets that can be printed as a
> front side and a back side handout to be reproduced
> and circulated. 
>    
>   Please respond to athousandgrandmothers at yahoo.com
> with your interest, ideas, and comments. If not us,
> who? If not now, when? Grandmothers are rallying
> around the country to stand up for peace; let's do
> the same at the SOA.
>    
>   Paz, Cathy Webster
>    
>   Website developing: www.1000grandmothers.net 
> Check it out!
>    
>   PS.  If risking arrest and imprisonment is not for
> you right now, your soulforce and presence at Ft.
> Benning, November 17-19 is still needed!
>   

CHICO PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER
526 Broadway
Chico, CA  95928
530.893.9078
www.chico-peace.org
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