The School of the Americas Protest took place on the weekend of November 19th. The Schools of the Americas Watch group organized this event. According to a WikiNews article:
Activists claim that both SOA (in the past, during 80's) and WHINSEC (at present day) trained militias in tactics of violence that are/were used against political dissidents in their native countries. They accuse SOA graduates of been responsible of death squads, drug deals, murders, rape and torture. They say the school is responsible by these acts and that many techniques of torture its graduated students have used in their countries had been learned at the military American school. A list of allegeds SOA graduated students's crimes can be seen at the Virtual Truth Commission, an anti-SOA webpage.
You can still help out even if you didn’t make it the protest. Find out how here:
http://soaw.org/type.php?type=6
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