This Friday, head over to the New School and check out a documentary about one of the SOA’s biggest clients: Plan Colombia: Cashing In on the Drug War Failure (dir. Gerard Ungerman, 57 minutes). Following the screening will be a panel discussion with Colombia Support Network’s Patricia Dahl and Renata Segura, of the Conflict Prevention Peace Forum, a New School Ph.D. candidate who is writing her dissertation on constitution making as a mechanism for conflict resolution in Colombia and Ecuador.

Friday, October 27, 7:30-9:30pm
The New School
66 West 12th St, 5th floor, room 510
Presented by Inti Raymi Network
For more info, contact: Max Ashwill at ashwim13@newschool.edu

Lesley Gill, American University anthropology professor and author of The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas, is coming to Long Island this month for a talk on war, torture, and U.S. foreign policy. In Gill’s 2004 book about the SOA, she presents a comprehensive portrait of the school, its institutionalization of state-sponsored violence, and the “dirty wars” it has wrought in Latin America.

Lesley Gill: “War, Torture, and U.S. Foreign Policy”
Thursday, October 19, 2006
1pm at Nassau Community College
Tower Building, Room 1208; info: 516-572-7794
4:30pm at Hofstra University
Breslin Hall, Room 103; info: 516-463-5602

The annual SOA protest is around the corner! If you’re looking for a ride to Fort Benning, NYC SOA Watch is organizing transportation and hotel rooms for the Vigil. Contact Andy Kafel at 201-207-1493 or e-mail him at akafe@earthlink.net to reserve your spot today!