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Article: 600 arrested at School of Americas protest: young and old join in non-violent action and civil disobedience.(Fort Benning, GA)(Cover Story)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- December 5, 1997
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COLUMBUS, Ga.--Lil Corrigan, a 74-year-old grandmother from Marietta, Gal, struggled mightily all weekend deciding whether to risk arrest by crossing the line at Fort Benning, home of the School of the Americas.
She and about 2,000 others here joined in a Nov. 14-16 demonstration against the U.S. facility that has trained some of the most notorious human lights violators in Latin America.
As she (and hundreds of others) struggled with their decisions, she recalled the beginnings of her activism. She and her husband, Bill, 77, who has already spent two months in jail for an earlier protest, took a trip in 1987 to Honduras and El Salvador.
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