Interested in Action for Social Justice and Solidarity with Latin America? Join us for the School of Americas (SOA) Vigil in Fort Benning, GA November 18th-20th. Since 1946, the SOA has trained over 64,000 Latin American soldiers in counterinsurgency techniques, sniper training, commando and psychological warfare, military intelligence and interrogation tactics. These graduates have consistently used their skills to wage a war against their own people. Among those targeted by SOA graduates are educators, union organizers, religious workers, student leaders, and others who work for the rights of the poor.
The yearly vigil is a peaceful gathering of thousands of people who are part of a nonviolent grassroots movement that works to stand in solidarity with the people of Latin America and the Caribbean, to close the SOA/WHINSEC and to change oppressive U.S. foreign policy that the SOA represents.
ECM Peace and Justice Panel: "The Arc of Justice: The Incarceration (and Exoneration) of Darryl Hunt"
Darryl Hunt was twice convicted of a 1984 murder he didn't commit. Although DNA testing proved his innocence, he was imprisoned for another decade before he was exonerated. On September 13, 2011 at ECM, Ecumenical Campus Ministries and the KU School of Journalism sponsored a screening of the documentary "The Trials of Darryl Hunt," and an in-depth discussion on race, justice, and the forces that helped shape Hunt's release with Darryl Hunt, Imam Khalid Griggs (founding member of the Darryl Hunt Defense fund) and Phoebe Zerwick (investigative journalist).
Contact: 864-4904 Department: Office of Diversity and Equity Ticket Cost:Free Sponsored by: The KU Project on the History of Black Writing, Department of English and The Center for East Asian Studies.
Peace with Justice Team
