Sirani avedis biography

22,000 people gathered in Columbus, Georgia and thousands more in ten other countries to protest the SOA. Although I have heard about this event for years, I have never attended.

This year, mainly due to the encouragement from political singer-songwriters like Pat Humphries and Sandy O and Charlie King, I made my way to the gates of Fort Benning. In its 17 year history, this was apparently the largest gathering ever.

Apparently, when it first began, there were just a few folks out front of those gates.

Sirani avedis biography

This is a great example of persistence teaching a profound lesson for long term struggle. What if, discouraged by the turn-out for the first event, they had given up? This is a very important point for activists to remember when we feel discouraged.

The name was changed from School of the Americas to Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), but it remains a combat-training school for Latin American soldiers.

My head is full of thousands of moments. Rather than