Latin America Committee of Brooklyn For Peace

Schedule for the Fall of 2009

Meetings and public events sponsored by the LatinAmCom

as well as those of other BFP committees

SEE DETAILS BELOW

Lisa Sullivan, Latin Am Coordinator for SOA Watch speaks. Currently based in Caracas, Lisa works with Fr Roy in meeting with heads of Latin Am governments to encourage them to withdraw their security personnel from the SOA and all US military training institutions.

Monday, September 21^st at St Mary’s Church, 521 W 126^th St in Harlem. Flyer to follow.

BFP Forum on Darfur, Thursday evening, Sept 24^th. Check BFP website for location

David Rovics Concert benefit SOA Watch at Bklyn Ethical Culture Society, Thurs Oct. 1st, 7 PM

Tom Hayden BFP sponsored talk, Fri Oct 2^nd at the Park Slope Methodist Church, 6^th Ave & 8^th St 7

LatinAmCom MEETING Monday, October 5^th 7 PM

LatinAmCom Public Event CINEFORO: screening of VOCES INOCENTES, feature film by Luis Mandoki (2005, Mexico) about El Salvador during the Civil War of the ‘80s and discussion of the connection of the Honduran military with the SOA. Thursday, Oct 8^th 6:30 to 9 PM Film promptly at 6:45. Bklyn Society for Ethical Culture Prospect Park West at 2^nd St in Park Slope

Nuclear Zero Committee of BFP public event Wednesday, Oct 14^th 7 to 9 PMat the Friends Meeting House on Schermerhorn St off Boerum Place in Downtown Brooklyn

Hip-Hop Concert Fundraiser for BFP Sunday, Oct 18^th at 8 PM at Public Assembly on North 6^th St (Kent & Wythe) in Williamsburg. $15 donation suggested. Tell your friends.

Counter-Recruitment during parent-teacher meetings. Wednesday evening, Oct 28^th and Thursday afternoon Oct 29^th. Prospect Heights Campus 883 Classon Avenue near Eastern Parkway

Give out the opt-out forms that allow families to maintain confidentiality of young people’s contact information so they cannot be harassed by military recruiters.

CINEFORO A MAN FROM TWO HAVANAS ( 2006 US) discussion with John McAuliff on Obama policy towards Cuba. Thursday, November 12^th, 6:30 BSEC Film begins promptly at 6:45

PROTEST TO CLOSE The SOA (now called WHINSEC, Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia From Friday, Nov 20^th through Sunday the 22^nd.

CONTACT US AT latinam@brooklynpeace.org

Lisa Sullivan's talk on SOA Watch Sept 21 '09

THE COUP IN HONDURAS

WHAT IT MEANS FOR LATIN AMERICA AND WHAT YOU CAN DO!

A School of the Americas Watch Report by

LISA SULLIVAN

Monday September 21, 2009

St. Mary’s Church

521 W. 126^th St., Manhattan

(Take 1/9 Train to 125^th St.)

$10.00 Donation (no one turned away)

Lisa Sullivan directs the School of the Americas Watch Latin America Office and its Partnership America Latina (PAL), based in Venezuela, where she is raising her family. Since 2004, she has accompanied Fr. Roy Bourgeois on visits with the leaders of 17 Latin American countries to inform them of the horrendous human rights records of the graduates of the SOA (WHINSEC). These visits have resulted in six countries withdrawing their military personnel from the SOA.

In April 2009, Lisa met with President Zelaya of Honduras to request him to withdraw his troops from the SOA. In July, Lisa returned to Honduras as part of the SOA Watch human rights delegation, in support of the movement resisting the coup that forcefully removed President Zelaya. This delegation notably exposed SOA graduate, General Romeo Orlando Vasquez, as the person who ordered the gunpoint expulsion of President Zelaya.

In the above photo, Lisa (blue shirt) is shown with Honduran resistance leaders Bertha Oliva (pink shirt) founder and coordinator of the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared (COFADEH), union leader Carlos Reyes (white shirt), and SOA Watch founder Fr. Roy Bourgeois (far right).

Lisa will share her unique perspective, knowledge and insights on the Honduran coup and the reactionary efforts to roll back recent progressive political gains in Latin America, and how North Americans can take action to support democratic changes in the Americas.

Luis Barrios is a former SOA prisoner of conscience who served three month in federal prison for “crossing the line” onto the Fort Benning military base where the SOA is located. He is Professor/Chair of Latin American and Latina/o Studies at John Jay College, New York City.

Sponsored by: New York City School of the Americas Watch

For information, call: (201) 207-1493, or go to: www.nycsoaw.org.

For more information, go to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GS1HbFnYgk.