Even if we go to jail, we have it pretty easy compared to the people in Latin America. . . Critics believe SOA graduates are responsible for hundreds of rapes, murders and other violent acts committed throughout Central and Latin America. Twelve years ago, six Jesuit priests in El Salvador were killed. Nineteen of the 26 military officers charged with that offense were SOA graduates. The school, which closed in December, reopened a month later under the name Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
Critics believe the name was changed in part to throw off the public.
In the early 1980s she was one of several women arrested at a nuclear weapons protest at the Pentagon. A few years ago, the couple served a few days in the Greene County Jail for trespassing after participating in a protest outside a Greene County cement company they said was using hazardous waste to fuel its process. He said the protests are part of an effort to raise the level of consciousness within the legislative branch and nation. Next week he will join about 10 people from the Dayton area's Pledge of Resistance who will go to Washington to lobby local legislators to support de-funding the school.