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School of the Americas

Each year in November thousands of people, including hundreds of Sisters of St. Joseph, associates, coworkers and students, gather at Fort Benning, Georgia to call for the close of the School of the Americas. The school is the place where Latin American soldiers have been trained in commando tactics, psychological operations and advanced combat techniques.  These graduates have been responsible for some of the worst human rights abuses in Latin America including the murder of the four Churchwomen, Archbishop Oscar Romero, the Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her child in El Salvador, and Bishop Geraldi in Guatemala.  For more information, you may visit www.soaw.org .

Many Sisters of St. Joseph have been arrested because of acts of civil disobedience performed at the School of the Americas and two have served prison sentences.
 

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