Hi Green House Community!
Many thanks to Matt Phillips for taking the time to give a presentation on City Repair's Village Building Convergence Project, and a special thank you to the 25+ who helped make our first workshop of the year a beautiful and intimate evening.
This Thursday January 15th at the Green House Collective, Ryan from School of the Americas Watch Oregon and Green House resident, will be doing a teach-in about the School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC) and a report back from the annual Vigil/Protest at the gates of Ft. Benning Georgia, USA from this past November.
Thursday January 15th
4407 SE Tibbetts St. (between Clinton and Powell, and bus lines 9,14,4,72)
6:00 pm Vegan Potluck
7:00 pm SOA Teach-in, report back, short video, picture show, and discussion
The School of the Americas (SOA), in 2001 renamed the "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation," is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers, located at Fort Benning, Georgia. The SOA, frequently dubbed the "School of Assassins," has left a trail of blood and suffering in every country where its graduates have returned.
Over its 59 years, the SOA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. These graduates have consistently used their skills to wage a war against their own people. Among those targeted by SOA graduates are educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, and others who work for the rights of the poor. Hundreds of thousands of Latin Americans have been tortured, raped, assassinated, "disappeared," massacred, and forced into refugee by those trained at the School of Assassins
Looking forward to seeing all your beautiful faces soon.
In peace and solidarity,
The Green House Collective
"You can jail the resisters, but you can't jail the resistance"
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