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The annual local protest against the School of Americas/Western Hemisphere Intitute For Security Cooperation will take place on November 18, Saturday from 2:00-3:30 PM in front of the office of Rep Peter King located at 1003 Park Blvd, Massapequa Park. Park Blvd can be accessed from Sunrise Highway. if you are coming from Suffolk County, get onto Sunrise H going west. Pass the Sunrise Mall & continue to Park Blvd. There is a House of Pancakes on the south side of Sunrise H. Make the turn at this traffic light & head north. Peter King’s office is just north of sunrise H and is next to a post office.
This is the weekend when the annual anti SOA vigil will be taking place in Fort Benning, Georgia and is an opportunity for local activists who do not go to Fort Benning to show solidarity with those who do by coming to this demonstration.
This event is organized by the South Country Peace Group & PeaceSmiths.
The SOA/WHISC is an institution long associated with human rights abuses. So many of the Latin American soldiers who have graduated from this “school” have committed numerous atrocoties against the civilians in their native countries.
Many who have worked for labor & human rights in Latin American nations have been tortured & murdrerd by graduates of the SOA.
PLEASE GET OUT AND SUPPORT THIS ACTION!!!
REP KING IS ONE OF THE BIGGEST SUPPORTERS OF THE SOA!!
Let’s call for the closing of this institution!
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