USA: Un día de Acción para Cerrar la Escuela de Asesinos // Social justice activist Father Roy Bourgeois to speak Nov. 1, 2

 

 










Friday, 26 October 2012 11:15 Administrador :  defensoresenlinea.com/

Este 30 de octubre 2012 activistas del movimiento de SOA Watch realizarán, en varias ciudades de Estados Unidos, ayunos en sus comunidades de origen como una forma muy concreta de llamar la atención, como de educar al público estadounidense, sobre la existencia de la Escuela de las Américas que tanto sufrimiento y muerte ha traído a los pueblos de nuestro continente.
Con estas acciones, SOA Watch sigue adelante con su compromiso de cerrar este lugar de la injusticia y donde se han graduado miles y miles de soldados latinoamericanos que han sido violadores de los derechos humanos en sus propios países.

Te invitamos a sumarte a las protestas contra la Escuela de Asesinos que se realizarán entre el 16 y 18 de noviembre de este año.

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Social justice activist Father Roy Bourgeois to speak Nov. 1, 2

Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Social justice activist Father Roy Bourgeois will visit Claremont Graduate University on Nov. 1-2 for a pair of events focusing on women's ordination and the Catholic church and his involvement in the School of the Americas Watch.

The talk on women's ordination and the Catholic Church, which includes a panel discussion, will be from 7 to 9 pm on Nov. 1 in Albrecht Auditorium, 925 N. Dartmouth Ave. Panelists include Rosemary Radford Ruether, visiting professor of religion; Jane Via of the Roman Catholic Womenpriests; and Gina Messina-Dysert, visiting assistant professor in the department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University.

Bourgeois' discussion on the struggle for social justice in Latin America and the School of the Americas Watch will be from 1 to 3 pm on Nov. 2, also in Albrecht Auditorium.

Bourgeois is a longtime peace activist and Maryknoll priest who has come under pressure from the church for his "defiant stance" in support of women's ordination.

He served as a Naval officer for two years before entering the seminary of the Maryknoll Missionary Order. Ordained a Catholic priest in 1972, he went on to work with the poor of Bolivia for five years.

He emerged as an outspoken critic of US foreign policy in Latin America in 1980 after four US churchwomen were raped and killed by Salvadoran soldiers. Since then, he has spent over four years in US federal prisons for nonviolent protests against the training of Latin American soldiers at Ft. Benning, Georgia.

He founded School of the Americas Watch in 1990. The organization advocates for the closure of the United States government's Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly known as the School of the Americas) at Ft. Benning.