[Shadow_Group] 16,000 Protest SOA in Georgia

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      Published on Monday, November 23, 2004 by the Associated Press<http://www.ap.org/>  
      16,000 Protest U.S.-Run School of the Americas  
      by Elliott Minor 


COLUMBUS, Georgia -- At least 20 people were arrested Sunday while protesting a U.S.-run military school for Latin Americans, some of whose graduates they claim later committed civil rights abuses including murder. 
Charges filed against the demonstrators range from trespassing to "wearing a mask," a violation of a rarely invoked 1951 law originally aimed at fighting the Ku Klux Klan. 

Those arrested were among about a record 16,000 people who demonstrated outside the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation at Fort Benning, calling for the school to be shut down. 

Organizers of the protest said concern about the war in Iraq and President Bush's re-election boosted attendance at this year's event. 

Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon addressed the group Saturday, and Martin Sheen, who plays the president in NBC's "West Wing" TV series, delivered a fiery speech Sunday.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1122-01.htm<http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/1122-01.htm>

     
     
     


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