I wrote a bit here about two people I met on the bus trip to D.C. in September for the March on Washington. Both women intended to once again cross the line at the School of Americas protest last weekend, and both women have once again been arrested.
Rita Hohenshell, 80, and Chris Gaunt, 49, each possess a razor wit and unwavering convictions. Their combined wisdom on the subject, the trials and tribulations wrought by their efforts to close down School Of Americas, if communicated widely, would be an education the public wouldn’t soon forget and would cause immeasurable trouble for the gov’t that hopes you do forget about them.
Please don’t.
SOA Watch has posted slideshows and reports.
Orderly Protest
Ledger-Enquirer Monday Nov. 21, 2005
BY CHUCK WILLIAMS AND ANGELIQUE SOENARIE
There was no doubt Sunday they were still there, more than 15,000 SOA Watch protesters gathered outside the main gate of Fort Benning. For the 16th consecutive year, the protesters demanded the closing of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as the School of the Americas.
More than 40 people were believed to be arrested by military police and federal marshals for crossing over onto Fort Benning. Columbus Police made at least one arrest. “We ain’t going away,” said Father Roy Bourgeois, the Catholic priest who founded the movement. “We have our hands on the plow; and our eyes on the prize. We’ll all go away when they shut that school down.”