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We just got word from Fr. Roy Bourgeois of the SOA Watch that the House is expected to vote tomorrow, Thursday, May 18, on the Moakley Amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill to cut funding to the School of the Americas. The Moakley Amendment has bipartisan support, including cosponsorship by Tom Campbell (R-San Jose). It calls for the Pentagon to close the School and not reopen any facility until a Congressional task force assesses the current training needs in Latin America.

PLEASE CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY to ask him or her to:
         1) CLOSE THE SOA and DO NOT REOPEN IT UNDER ANY NAME.
         2) SUPPORT the MOAKLEY AMENDMENT to the Defense Authorization Bill.

Capitol Switchboard: 202/224-3121

Even if your Representative is already on board with the Moakley amendment, a call expressing your support and gratitude is important!

For a brief History, click on: Urgent Action
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Item #1 needs your IMMEDIATE action. Check through the rest of the items as time allows.
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          (1) CONGRESSIONAL ACTION ALERT for May 15-23 (Monday through following Tuesday)
          (2) Detailed Critique of the Dept. of Defense Proposal
          (3) Columbus (GA) News Article: An Overview of new Proposal Process
          (4) Thursday, JUNE 1: Next SOAWW MEETING in SAN FRANCISCO
          (5) Strategy Discussion from San Francisco Meeting of May 4
          (6) SOA Protesters and Convicts

To read the full message, please click on: Urgent Action
PLEASE CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND BOTH SENATORS NOW THROUGH WEDNESDAY, May 17.

Call early! Call often! Get others to call!

Capitol Switchboard: 202/224-3121

MESSAGE:
          ---CLOSE THE SOA and DO NOT REOPEN IT UNDER ANY NAME.
          ---SUPPORT THE MOAKLEY AMENDMENT to the Defense Authorization Bill.

Latest name proposed for "New SOA" is "Defense Institute for Hemispheric Security Cooperation."
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PRESS RELEASE:
          Dominga and Denese, and the story of the village of Rio Negro After 18 years, Denese Becker -- from Algona, Iowa -- is going home ... to Rio Negro, a small, isolated Mayan village in the department of Baja Verapaz, Guatemala.

To read the full Press Release and accompanying article, please click on: Denese is going home.
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National Delegation to Vieques and Puerto Rico
August 12 - 20, 2000

Sponsored by the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Caribbean Project for Justice and Peace

For full details and information please click on: Disarming the Naval Colossus in Puerto Rico From:


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Here is the final version of a bill to stop all military aid to Indonesia until certain essential conditions are met re East Timor. The complete text follows.

Since this was just introduced on May 2, only a few congresspeople have agreed to co-sponsor so far. It is very important that we get the other representatives to do the same a.s.a.p.

Please call your congressperson right away. And please forward this message. Thanks to East Timor Religious Outreach and Rev. John Chamberlin for the information.

Thanks, Carolyn

For all the details, please click on:
East Timor for the details.
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Dear Friends:

Next Tuesday, May 9, the Senate Foreign Operations Subcommittee of the Foreign Appropriations Committee will vote on a mark-up to military training for Guatemala. If it passes in the house and senate, this would mean that the U.S. would provide combat training to Guatemala's murderous military. WE CANNOT LET THIS HAPPEN! The priority between now and Tuesday is to contact the members of the subcommittee, especially if he or she is your senator. Please click on: ALERT for the details.
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I copied the original page (saves time, plus you get their links for additional information.) Just click on the sentence below to go the the article:
May 4, 2000 – Federal agents today arrested dozens of protesters opposed to the continuing presence of the US military on the Puerto Rican island of Vieques.
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