The Spring 2014 issue of Presente, the newspaper of the movement to close the SOA, is fresh off the presses and 25,000 copies have been delivered to subscribers! Please help us spread the word and forward this email with the pdf version of Presente to your networks: soaw.org/presente/images/pdf/Spring2014.pdf The Spring issue contains mobilizing information for the Spring Days of Action in DC, and also focuses on recent developments in Latin America and within the SOA Watch movement: - The election of Juan Orlando Hernández amid evidence of fraud in Honduras - The 2014 SOA Watch Youth Encuentro, to take place in Venezuela this summer - News from around the region on the involvement of SOA/WHINSEC grads in human rights abuses Download your copy here: soaw.org/presente/images/pdf/Spring2014.pdf If you would like to receive Presente sent to your address, please click here to subscribe: org.salsalabs/o/727/signup_page/presentesubscribe __________________ ¡Presente! literally means here or present in Spanish. There is a long tradition in Latin American movements for justice of invoking the memory of those who have lost their lives in the struggle. It is used in the ritual at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, when we remember those who suffered and were martyred by the graduates of the School of the Americas. We pronounce their names and bring their spirits and witness before us as we respond: ¡Presente! You are here with us, you are not forgotten, and we continue the struggle in your name. Calling out the names of those killed by politically repressive regimes has a long tradition in Latin America. At the funeral of Pablo Neruda on September 25, 1973 in Chile, Hernán Loyala reports that mourners responded with Presente to the shouting out of Nerudas name, as well as that of Salvador Allende, the recently deposed (and killed) president. This was the first public act of protest against the 14-day-old regime of Augusto Pinochet. Click here to download the Spring 2014 issue of Presente: soaw.org/presente/images/pdf/Spring2014.pdf
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:40:07 +0000