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SOA Watch Close the SOA!
Watch SOA Watch Close the SOA!
Watch SOA Watch Close the SOA!
Watch SOA Watch Close the SOA!
Watch SOA Watch Close the SOA!
Watch SOA Watch Close the SOA!
Watch SOA Watch Close the SOA!
Watch SOA Watch Close the SOA!
Watch SOA Watch Close the SOA!
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About SOA Watch
SOA Watch is an independent organization that 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.
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.
In 1990 the SOA Watch began in a tiny apartment outside the main gate of Ft. Benning. While starting with a small group, the SOA Watch quickly drew upon the knowledge and experience of many in the U.S. who had worked with the poor of Latin American in the 1970's and 80's.
Today, the SOA Watch movement is a very large, diverse, grassroots movement rooted in solidarity with the suffering poor of Latin America. 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. The Pentagon has responded to the growing movement and Congress' near closure of the SOA with a PR campaign to give the SOA a new image. In attempt to disassociate the school with it's horrific past, the SOA was renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation
(WHISC).
Contact SOA Watch
SOA Watch
PO Box 4566
Washington, DC 20017
(202) 234-3440
info@soaw.org
Top Pun joins thousands of SOA protesters each
November to close the SOA. As the proud owner of the world's largest
SOA web store on the planet, Top Pun asks your cooperation in instituting
security in the Western Hemisphere - - Close the SOA, or WHISC! Please
enjoy my SOA designs. Feel free to share them with another SOA protester,
friend, or better yet, an enemy!
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Here is a sampling of Top Pun's
SOA designs:
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Top Puns SOA/WHISC designs are
available in these products:
T-shirts Buttons Button Greeting Cards
Stickers Mouse Pads Caps
Coffee Mugs
Aprons Key Chains Magnets
Can Coolers Tile Trivets Pocket Mirrors
Mini-Posters
Don't forget your
SOA FLAGS
If you are on a low budget, yet still want to launch a guerrilla campaign to
close the SOA, then check out Top Pun's
SOA Specials. Top Pun always has specials on buttons, T-shirts, and
stickers. Don't leave home without them!
If you are looking for that personal touch,
check out
Top Pun's "Another (Fill in the Blank) for Closing the SOA" Collection.
There are over 500 descriptors
personal descriptors in categories such as states (New Yorker, Texan, etc.),
cities (Houstonian, Bostonian, etc.), political spectrum (Democrat, Republican,
activist, etc)., religion-spirituality (Methodist, Jew, Muslim, etc.,
occupations (teacher, artist, worker, etc.), family relations (grandma, brother,
etc.), hobbies (gardener, book worm, biker, etc.)
and others for closing the SOA (senior, Gen Xer, human being, etc.).
If you don't find exactly what you want,
make your own
personalized descriptor - - at no additional
charge (there is a 12 character limit to make sure it fits in the design).
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