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Father Roy Bourgeois, School Of The Americas Watch Founder

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Tags: Scool of the Americas; WHINSEC, torture, coups, Honduras, Oscar Romero, women priests

Our guest today is Father Roy Bourgeois, M.M., founder of SOA Watch and Nobel Peace Prize nominee. He will speak at Lakewood United Church of Christ, 2601 54th Ave. S. in St. Petersburg, on Friday, Feb. 19, at 7:00 PM.

Fr. Bourgeois founded SOA Watch in 1990 to close the School of the Americas, renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation in 2001 (SOA/WHINSEC).

The SOA/WHINSEC is based at the Fort Benning U.S. Army base in Columbus, GA, ...