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Article: SOA events draw more protesters than ever; labor caucus, nonviolence training, and speaker mourns son killed in Iraq.(Nation: SOA watch)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- December 10, 2004
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In 1990, brother veterans Charlie and Patrick Liteky joined Maryknoll Fr. Roy Bourgeois in an act of civil disobedience at Fort Benning, Ga., home of the U.S. Army's School of the Americas (SOA). All three were sentenced to prison for their actions that November day, the first anniversary of the massacre in El Salvador of six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter.
That day also marked the beginning of a campaign by Bourgeois, a U.S. Navy veteran and former missionary in Latin America, to close the school that has trained scores of Latin American soldiers, many of whom were later charged with gross human rights violations in their native countries. ...