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Title:
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Southwest Weekend of Witness Nov. 14-15
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START DATE:
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11/14/2009
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START TIME:
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12:00 PM
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Duration:
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8 Hours
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Location:
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Tucson
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Location Details:
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Southside Presbyterian Church
317 W 23rd St., Tucson AZ
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Event Topic:
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Human Rights
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Event Type:
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Teach In & Workshops
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Contact Name:
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SWW
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Contact Email:
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info@southwestwitness.org
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Contact Phone:
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DESCRIPTION:
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download PDF (310.6 kibibytes)
Southwest Weekend of Witness
HUNDREDS WILL JOIN TOGETHER IN SOUTHERN ARIZONA on November 14 & 15, 2009 to SAY NO TO TORTURE
Ft. Huachuca is the home of USAICS, the U.S. Army Intelligence Center and School, and has a long history of complicity in U.S. crimes of torture. The torture manuals used at the School of the Americas came from Ft. Huachuca.
For several years, in solidarity with the SOA Watch annual vigil and action at Fort Benning, Georgia to close the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas (now the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) there has been a growing grassroots demonstration at the gate of Fort Huachuca to protest our country’s slipping standards on torture, being practiced in our name and with our tax dollars in places like Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo.
The November 2009 demonstration at Ft. Huachuca (11/15) will take place the week before the Ft. Benning vigil and action. All of these events are sponsored by Southwest Witness, Tucson SOA Watch, and Torture on Trial in solidarity with SOA Watch and their annual Vigil & Action at Ft. Benning, November 20-22, 2009.
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