The School of the Americas (SOA) in Fort Benning, GA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in interrogation tactics, psychological warfare, and counterinsurgency techniques, and its graduates have tortured, raped and killed union and student organizers, teachers, clergy and others working for human rights in Latin America.

The movement to close the SOA is gaining strength. Read abou the history of the movement to close the SOA and about legislative actions, and see the photos from the November 22-23, 2008 vigil.

Greg Love and Ken Love look at the struggle of sanitation workers in Charleston, S.C., who are fighting to organize a union despite anti-union laws.

"As expected, the City Council refused to recognize the workers' right to democratically elect representatives to negotiate on their behalf--specifically, Charleston Local 1199 of the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees-1199B of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)."

"ALTHOUGH THE workers knew that they wouldn't receive justice in the July 21 City Council meeting, they used the opportunity to take their case to the public and build support. The workers, all African Americans, gathered in a room surrounded by large portraits of slave owners and heroes of the Confederacy--including South Carolina Sen. John C. Calhoun, former president Zachary Taylor and Confederate Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard. They told stories of management abuse, dangerous and unsanitary conditions, and injury after injury."

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 The next meeting will be on Tuesday, October 20, at 7:00p.m. at the Circular Congregational Church, 150 Meeting Street (upstairs in the back building.) For information, contact bflosue(at)earthlink.net, 843-763-7304.   3096

To reach those working to abolish the death penalty or for information about the SOA vigil in November, contact anna(at)charlestonpeace.net, 843-312-9741

Peace Vigil at Marion Square
12:00p.m., first and third Saturday of each month 

Come and join us at noon at the fountain in Marion Square on the corner of King and Calhoun.  We welcome support  in handing out flyers on the cost of the war as well as carrying signs for peace. For more details, you can contact Carol at carolgdotterer(at)hotmail.com or call 406-9673 (before 10 pm) or reach Dick at gofigure(at)gowebway.com.

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