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SOA Watch
SOAW is an independent organization and grassroots movement rooted in solidarity with the people of Latin America. The goal of SOA Watch is to close the School of Americas /WHIN- SEC (“School of Assassins") and to change U.S. foreign policy in Latin America by educating the public, lobbying Congress and participating in creative, nonviolent resistance. SOAW.org
Protest the School of the Americas Reserve Your Spot Today: November 19 through 22 Fort Benning, Georgia. Veterans for Peace, Chapter 27, has openings on their bus for the annual trip to close the School of the Americas (SOA). Bus Cost: $200.00. Room Cost: $50.00 per person. The chartered bus will leave St. Stephen's Church, 2201 Clinton Avenue South, Minneapolis on Friday, November 18, 8:00 a.m. and will return there the following Monday, November 22 at about 5:00 p.m. Space is limited. FFI and Reservations: Call Jim Steinhagen, 612-722-1112.
“Latin America & Twenty-first Century Socialism: Inventing to Avoid Mistakes” by Marta Harnecker. “... the need for a new left culture, a tolerant and pluralist culture... a culture that promotes unity around values— such as solidarity, humanism, respect for difference, and protection of the environment and turns its back on the view that hunger for profit and the laws of the market are the guiding principles of human activity.” 86 pages. Monthly Review. Vol 62. No. 3. July-August 2010.
Revolutionary Social Change in Colombia book by James J. Brittain. An examination of Colombia’s internal conflict. Based on extensive first-person research by Assistant professor in Dept. of Sociology, Acadia University, Nova Scotia, Canada. Pluto Press. 2010. 234 pages, with 95 pages of notes.
Interview with Greg Grandin, author of "Empire’s Workshop: Latin America, the United States", and the "Rise of the New Imperialism" (American Empire Project), Metropolitan Books, 2006.
www.democracynow.org/2010/8/10/.
“Colombia Journal,” recent articles by Garry Leech
He is the co-author of "The Failure of Global Capitalism: From Cape Breton to Colombia and Beyond" (Sydney, NS: Cape Breton University Press, 2009), ISBN 978-189700932
and author of "Beyond Bogota: Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia" (Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press, 2009), ISBN 9780807061459.
"Colombia: Genocidal Democracy" by Javier Giraldo, 1999: (This book is out of print but may be available through libraries and can be found at Amazon.com).
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