http://www.nycsoaw.org Close the School of Assassins Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:24:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On June 21, Long Island SOA Watch activists Mara Bard and her husband, Enzo Bard, joined leaders of 20 social movements from the U.S., Canada, and Latin America at a conference where they will share strategies to resist the increase in U.S. military intervention in the region, as well as ... http://www.nycsoaw.org/?p=131 Next Thursday, Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of School of the Americas Watch, will give a talk on President Obama’s Latin American Policy, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation in Manhasset. He'll also report on his recent trip to El Salvador, where he led an Oscar Romero Legacy Delegation in commemoration of ... http://www.nycsoaw.org/?p=129 On Wednesday, December 2, United for Peace & Justice will hold a silent vigil in Times Square, joining with many other groups around the country that are speaking out against continuing this war that is having devastating affects on the Afghan people, the troops, and people here at home. From UFPJ: ... http://www.nycsoaw.org/?p=128 More than 100 people from Long Island and New York City are outside the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, for the 20th annual vigil and direct action (see photo below, taken today by SOA Watch's Linda Panetta) to protest the School of the Americas (now called WHINSEC), the notorious training ... http://www.nycsoaw.org/?p=121 Please join the annual local protest of the School of Americas in front of the office of Rep. Peter King in Massapequa Park. King supports the SOA/WHINSEC, and has even said that "the School of the Americas has advanced democracy in Latin America." The protest began 20 years ago, shortly after a ... http://www.nycsoaw.org/?p=118 Cinema Arts Centre is screening the documentary The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers on Wednesday, December 2. Ellsberg or filmmaker Rick Goldsmith will speak live via Webcast. Show this wonderful theater your support--it's a great place to see a flick! The Most Dangerous Man in ... http://www.nycsoaw.org/?p=120 The World March for Peace and Nonviolence started on October 2 in New Zealand and will be in New York City on Monday, November 30. Long Islanders will be joining the marchers in Brooklyn Borough Hall, then march across the Brooklyn Bridge at 1pm for a 3pm rally at City ... http://www.nycsoaw.org/?p=119 In preparation for the annual vigil at Ft. Benning, Georgia, SOAW LI and Cinema Arts Centre host a film and talk with SOA prisoner of conscience Father Luis Barrios On Thursday, November 5, Cinema Arts Centre will screen the documentary The New Patriots, a documentary by renowned filmmaker Robert Richter, about ... http://www.nycsoaw.org/?p=110 There will be an NYC SOA Watch meeting at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 5, 2009, at John Jay College, 445 W. 59th St., Room #4115-N. We will discuss our trip to the vigil and direct action at Fort Benning, November 20 to 22. Please attend this ... http://www.nycsoaw.org/?p=113 With such songs as, "When the Sweatshop Workers Went on Strike," "Coke is the Drink of the Death Squads," and "Jenin," David Rovics has been described as a "musical version of Democracy Now." Opening performance by: Jose Matias Guardado, Salvadoran folk singer Come to the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture Thursday October 1 ... http://www.nycsoaw.org/?p=109