Southwest Weekend of Witness
HUNDREDS WILL JOIN TOGETHER IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA on
November 15 & 16, 2008
to SAY NO TO TORTURE
Save the dates… plan to join us!
Saturday, November 15
Tucson, Arizona
Plan for Action:
Civil Initiative to Stop the Training and Practice of Torture
10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Pima Community College, Downtown Tucson Campus.
We will work together on a plan for beyond the weekend to accomplish this goal, followed by:
- Sign making
- An evening program
- Procession to federal building for a vigil
Sunday, November 16
Sierra Vista, Arizona
Anti-torture rally with music and speakers at Veteran’s Memorial Park
10 am - 3 pm
ending with a
Procession to and presence across the street from the main gate of Ft. Huachuca
Ft. Huachuca is the home of USAICS, the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School, and has a long history of complicity in U.S. crimes of torture. The torture manuals used at the School of the Americas came from Ft. Huachuca.
For several years, in solidarity with the SOA Watch annual vigil and action at Fort Benning, Georgia to close the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) there has been a growing grassroots demonstration at the gate of Fort Huachuca to protest our country’s slipping standards on torture, being practiced in our name and with our tax dollars in places like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. The November 2008 demonstration at Ft. Huachuca will take place the week before the Ft. Benning vigil and action.
If you have questions, please write to southwestwitness@gmail.com and someone will get back to you as quickly as possible. Updated information will be posted at http://southwestwitness.org
To find out more about the November 21-23 vigil & action at Ft. Benning, visit http://soaw.org/
