Eighty-six human rights advocates from across the United States were tried in January and February in federal court for nonviolent civil disobedience
School of the Americas
Rose Marie Berger, Susannah Hunter 1-01-2001
While 10,000 protestors gathered outside the gates of the U.S.
Holly Lebowitz Rossi 9-01-1999
From sit-ins against sweatshops to lobbying against religious persecution, many students today are proving themselves to be anything but apathetic.
Andrew Schleicher 7-01-1999
Nearly 4,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., in May to tell President Clinton and Congress that the U.S. training of Latin American death squads must stop.
Molly Marsh 5-01-1999
Father Roy Bourgeois, founder of the School of the Americas Watch, testified last December at the extradition case for former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.
Rose Marie Berger 3-01-1999
Organizers Carol Richardson and Heather Dean, mother and daughter, talk about how the movement to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas became a family affair.
Andrew Schleicher 1-01-1999
More than 2,300 people marched onto the grounds of the U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA) at Ft. Benning, Georgia, on November 22, demanding that the "school of assassins" be closed.
Jim Rice 11-01-1998
Lt. William Calley was convicted for his role in leading the 1968 massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. His conviction was later overturned by Judge Robert Elliott.