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CALLING ALL PUPPETISTAS!
A few people have expressed interest in making large paper mache puppets to bring to the Ft. Huachuca protest this November. Want to join them?
On Sunday, November 16, activists will gather in Sierra Vista to SAY NO TO TORTURE - first gathering at a park for a rally, then having a procession to the main gate of Ft. Huachuca for a vigil. Ft. Huachuca is the home of USAICS, the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School, and is where U.S. Army interrogators are trained. (more info below)
There will also be a procession the night before to the federal building in Tucson for a vigil.
If you're interested in connecting with other puppetistas and helping to make this happen, please email Ken at <kkennonaz@cox.net>
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please share with your groups (newsletters, websites, listserves, etc.) -
Southwest Weekend of Witness
HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WILL JOIN TOGETHER IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA ON NOVEMBER 15 & 16 TO
SAY NO TO TORTURE
Save the dates... plan to join us!
Saturday, November 15
Tucson, Arizona
Plan for Action: Civil Initiative to Stop the Training and Practice of Torture will be held from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. We will work together on a plan for beyond the weekend that will accomplish this goal, followed by:
Sign making
An evening program
Procession to federal building for a vigil
Sunday, November 16
Sierra Vista, Arizona
An anti-torture rally with music and speakers at Veteran's Memorial Park, ending with a procession to and presence across the street from the main gate of Ft. Huachuca. Ft. Huachuca is the home of USAICS, the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School, and has a long history of complicity in U.S. crimes of torture. The torture manuals used at the School of the Americas came from Ft. Huachuca.
For several years, in solidarity with the annual vigil and action at Fort Benning, Georgia to close the U.S. Army's School of the Americas (now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) there has been a growing grassroots demonstration at the gate of Fort Huachuca to protest our countryıs slipping standards on torture, being practiced in our name and with our tax dollars in places like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. The November 2008 demonstration at Ft. Huachuca will take place the week before the Ft. Benning vigil and action.
The Southwest Witness is being organized entirely by volunteers. Can you help? Working groups include:
Media
Hospitality
Peacekeepers
Communications (website, email, etc.)
Sunday rally, procession and vigil (program and logistics)
Sign making
Puppets
Music
Federal building vigil
Saturday Plan for Action: Civil Initiative to Stop the Training and Practice of Torture
* Saturday evening program
If you want to volunteer, please contact Ken Kennon at <kkennonaz@cox.net>.
If you have questions, please write to southwestwitness@gmail.com and someone will get back to you as quickly as possible. Updated information will be posted at http://southwestwitness.org
To find out more about the November 21-23 vigil & action at Ft. Benning, visit http://soaw.org/
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