Massive anti-drone action today at Georgia Tech!

SOA Watch founder Father Roy Bourgeois, Field Organizer Maria Luisa Rosal, our newest Council member Kevin Moran, and long-time SOA Watch activist Irene Rojas DeCambias have walked 120 miles from Fort Benning, Georgia to Atlanta, Georgia, to call attention to the SOA, drone warfare, and the persecution of immigrants. Learn more about the walk on  facebook and on SOAW.org.

The School of the Americas and the use of killer drones are both part of a broader system of militarism. The school and the remote control killing are not aberrations of US foreign policy, but clear examples of it.

The Right to Peace Walk concludes today at Georgia Tech, where millions of Pentagon dollars fund research into further development of killer drones to be used in wars, often undeclared, with civilian populations too many times the victims.

The Walk began April 26 at Ft. Benning, site of the School of the Americas where for decades Latin American troops have been trained in counter-insurgency and population control methods that have been used aginst peasants, indigenous people, union members, students, faith and community leaders seeking equity and justice. The base is also now a testing site for killer drones.

US militarism in all its forms exacts an unbearable price on the human rights not just of the people of this country where education, healthcare, housing, transportation, and so much more are sacrificed to pay for the policies of endless war.

It is the people of the world who bear the brunt of death and injuries in the millions, the loss of homes and workplaces, the destruction of land and water resources and the misery of displacement.

Georgia Peace and Justice Coalition demands a complete and total ban on the research, development, manufacture, testing and use of killer drones

For More information check out the following link http://georgiapeace.org/georgia-peace-justice-walk. You can livestream today's event at the the WFRG Labor Forum.

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Join the Georgia Peace and Justice Walk

Join SOA Watch's Field Organizer Maria Luisa Rosal and SOA Watch's newest Council member Kevin Moran on the "Right to Peace" walk from Fort Benning, Georgia to Atlanta, Georgia. 

The 120 mile "Right to Peace” walk will culminate with a rally at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, to draw attention to the connection concerning the research and development of the next generation of autonomous killer drones by Georgia Tech; their partnership with the Maneuver Battle Lab at Fort Benning, where Georgia Tech conducts drone flight testing, and the training of Latin America's police, and military forces at Ft. Bennings School of the Americas (SOA/WHINSEC) in the use of the tools and tactics of oppression. SOA Watch founder Father Roy Bourgeois will participate in the kick off rally at the gates of Fort Benning, as well as in the protest at Georgia Tech in Atlanta. 

If you are interested in participating in the march, or for more information, please email Kevin at kevin@soaw.org.

Goals of the walk – The Right to Peace

Raise public awareness to inspire specific calls to action by attracting mass media exposure to:

Call for an immediate moratorium on the research and development of autonomous drones by Georgia Tech as recommended by the U.N.’s Special Rapporteur on Summary Executions, Christof Heyns.

Call for an immediate closure of the SOA, a U.S. military training school for Latin American security personnel located at Ft. Benning, GA, by demanding congressional support of passage of H.R. 2989 the Latin American Military Training Review Act – the bill to suspend and investigate the School of the Americas.

Georgia Peace and Justice Walk: The Right to Peace
April 26- May 3
From Ft. Benning to GA Tech

The Right to Peace Walk Schedule & Outline

Saturday, April 26: Mass Rally at Noonat the Gate to Ft. Benning, Featured Speaker: Father Roy Bourgeois, Walk begins 1 PM to Flatrock Park, Columbus, Georgia 

Sunday, April 27: Alterna Community Forum, LaGrange, Georgia. Walk begins at EL Refugio, Lumpkin to Stewart Detention Center

Monday, April 28: Walk begins at LaGrange to Hogansville

Tuesday, April 29: Walk begins at Hogansville to Newnan

Wednesday, April 30: Walk begins at Newnan to Peachtree City

Thursday, May 1: Walk begins at Peachtree City to Jonesboro

Friday, May 2: Walk begins at King Center, Atlanta to Federal Prison, Georgia State University, Georgia State Capitol Press Conference, Atlanta City Detention Center, ICE Building Immigration Court, Federal Prison 

Saturday, May 3: Walk begins at Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Center, Atlanta to GA Tech 2:00–3:30 Mass Rally with feature speakers: Father Roy Bourgeois, Medea Benjamin, renowned activist from CodePink, as well as Azadeh Shahshahani, President, National Lawyers Guild; National Security/Immigrants' Rights Project Director, ACLU of Georgia.

More information about the walk will be posted at Georgia Peace

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Spring Days of Drone Action 2014