On Thursday, December 10 at 7 PM, representatives from the School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch) will present a report back from the recent vigil at Ft. Benning at the Brooklyn Society for
Ethical Culture. Tom Martinez, minister of All Souls Bethlehem Church and a
photographer, was at the vigil and he will be
sharing a slide show of some
of images he took there. "This should be a good, educational and
inspiring event for photo enthusiasts and
all those who are concerned about the human rights abuses related to
the so-called "school," says Martinez.

Brooklyn Ethical Culture Society Meeting House
53 Prospect Park West (at 2nd Street)
Brooklyn, NY 11215-2693
(718) 768-2972

On November 16, 1989, six Jesuit priests, their co-worker and her
teenage daughter were massacred in El Salvador. A U.S. Congressional
Task Force reported that those responsible were trained at the U.S.
Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Georgia.

SOA Watch seeks to close the US Army School of the Americas,
under whatever name it is called, through vigils and fasts,
demonstrations and nonviolent protest, as well as media and legislative
work.

In 1990 SOA Watch began in a tiny apartment outside the main
gate of Ft. Benning. Starting with a small group, SOA Watch
quickly drew upon the knowledge and experience of many in the U.S. who
had worked with the people of Latin America in the 1970's and 80's.

The goal of SOA Watch
is to close the SOA and to change U.S. foreign policy in Latin America
by "educating the public, lobbying Congress and participating in
creative, nonviolent resistance."