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Keweenaw Now wishes "Peace on Earth" to all

Posted 12/22/2003

KEWEENAW PENINSULA -- Keweenaw Now wishes all our readers and their families a peaceful, happy and safe holiday season. Let us all do our part to make the Earth a healthier, more peaceful home for present and future generations.
Photo © 2003 and courtesy Eric Munch.

School of the Americas Protest: November 2003

By Sue Ellen Kingsley  Posted 12/16/2003

HANCOCK -- Guest author Sue Ellen Kingsley offers an eye-witness account of the November 2003 non-violent protest to close the School of the Americas (SOA) at Fort Benning, Ga. The SOA, now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), trains military leaders from Latin America. Kingsley, who was among the thousands of protesters at the event, notes these are the very leaders that ordered the massacres in the jungles of Guatemala -- military officers who continue to direct violent operations in Colombia and elsewhere. more