Comments on: Twenty Thousand Protest at Ft. Benning http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/twenty-thousand-protest-at-ft-benning/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:25:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: rosemarie jackowski http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/twenty-thousand-protest-at-ft-benning/#comment-9374 rosemarie jackowski Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:15:24 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/twenty-thousand-protest-at-ft-benning/#comment-9374 Bill...I would also like to thank you for this report. Plus, I want to thank you for all of the other good things that you do that often go unnoticed. A while back I had the opportunity to hear Father Roy speak to a small group. He is one of the best speakers I have ever heard. Bill…I would also like to thank you for this report. Plus, I want to thank you for all of the other good things that you do that often go unnoticed.

A while back I had the opportunity to hear Father Roy speak to a small group. He is one of the best speakers I have ever heard.

]]> By: Ekosmo http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/twenty-thousand-protest-at-ft-benning/#comment-9364 Ekosmo Tue, 20 Nov 2007 19:21:51 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/twenty-thousand-protest-at-ft-benning/#comment-9364 Thanks for this report to Bill and DV... IMO its hard to think of a 'mini-movement' that's more deserving of a huge and substantial increase in US, Latin-American and world-wide activist publicity, support, solidarity -- even accolades -- than the SOAW... if only for the fact that they've [a] steadfastly maintained this demo-vigil for the past 17 years, [b] have grown their numbers from the initial 10 lone protesters to the current 20-plus thousand, [c] bring a widespread and diverse 'rainbow coalition' to the perimeter fence of this odious institution, and [d] annually declare their intention that they aint going nowhere until the entire rotten edifice of that 'School' is hauled down, then [hopefully] called to account for its crimes, and the crimes of its graduates... Its not often I praise priests -- of any religious persuasion -- but here I make an exception... The courage and the tenacity of Father Roy, his colleagues, and the SOAW movement have my unstinting admiration... lotta continua... Thanks for this report to Bill and DV…

IMO its hard to think of a ‘mini-movement’ that’s more deserving of a huge and substantial increase in US, Latin-American and world-wide activist publicity, support, solidarity — even accolades — than the SOAW…

if only for the fact that they’ve [a] steadfastly maintained this demo-vigil for the past 17 years, [b] have grown their numbers from the initial 10 lone protesters to the current 20-plus thousand, [c] bring a widespread and diverse ‘rainbow coalition’ to the perimeter fence of this odious institution, and [d] annually declare their intention that they aint going nowhere until the entire rotten edifice of that ‘School’ is hauled down, then [hopefully] called to account for its crimes, and the crimes of its graduates…

Its not often I praise priests — of any religious persuasion — but here I make an exception…

The courage and the tenacity of Father Roy, his colleagues, and the SOAW movement have my unstinting admiration…

lotta continua…

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