Why Should Unions Work To Close the SOA?
The U.S. Army School of the Americas (SOA), located at Ft. Benning, Georgia, is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers. In its 50 year history, the SOA has trained 60,000 Latin American troops in commando tactics, military intelligence, psychological operations, and sniper fire. These soldiers are taught to make war against their own people. They have massacred entire villages of women, men, and children. SOA graduates target grassroots leaders for assassination, torture, rape and intimidation – especially religious workers, student organizers, and LOCAL UNION LEADERS. The School’s unstated mission is to silence leaders who organize for the rights of working people and the poor. Our tax dollars train Latin American union busters at the SOA. Union members in the U.S. know that an attack on workers anywhere is an attack on the rights of workers everywhere. U.S. workers must speak out and join in solidarity with those trying to close this anti-union, anti-American institutio
