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.