Southwest Weekend of Witness to End Torture
HUNDREDS WILL JOIN TOGETHER IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA
on 
November 14 & 15, 2009 to
SAY NO TO TORTURE
Save the dates… plan to join us!
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 2009 demonstration at Ft. Huachuca will take place the week before the Ft. Benning vigil and action. All of these events are sponsored by Southwest Witness, Tucson SOA Watch, and Torture on Trial in solidarity with SOA Watch and their annual Vigil & Action at Ft. Benning, November 20-22, 2009.
Here’s a quick & easy way to help make this year’s event effective and successful…
Help us spread the word by downloading and distributing the Southwest Weekend of Witness – Say No To Torture 2009 flyer. Give one to a friend, put one up on a well trafficked bulletin board, hand some out at a busy intersection or business or mail one to your mom and make her proud of you!
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Someone will get back to you as quickly as possible. More info will be posted to this site in the coming weeks so check back here for updates.
Click here for video
of the 3rd Weekend of Witness, arrest of Fathers Vitale & Kelly and an interview with Tucson activist Jerry Wharton.
To find out more about the annual Vigil & Action at Ft. Benning on November 20-22, 2009, visit School of the Americas Watch
And many thanks to all who attended the talks by
Father Roy Bourgeois of School of the Americas Watch
on Wednesday 7 October 2009 at First Christian Church.
Please visit this page of our site for details.
