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From: lbarrios@jjay.cuny.edu
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 16:22:41 -0500
Subject: SOA Watch News & Updates
| | In this SOA Watch Email Newsletter: · Work and Intern with SOA Watch · Pablo Ruiz to join Feb 14-17 Events in DC · Father Roy Bourgeois Update · Call-In Days to Release the Uighurs · SOA Watch Delegations to Latin America
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Work and Intern with SOA Watch
 School of the Americas Watch is hiring a Communications Coordinator and five different internships and two volunteer positions are currently available at SOA Watch.
The Communications Coordinator position will to be based in Washington, DC. The position is full-time with health benefits, paid vacation and holiday time. Salary is competitive, and there are opportunities for skills development. Click here to read the job description and for information on how to apply. SOA Watch Internships in Venezuela  For the first time, we are offering two people the exciting opportunity to join our SOA Watch office Latin America office in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Interns would form part of the new SOA Watch Partnership America Latina (PAL) initiative which has brought hundreds of Latin American organizations to join forces with the U.S. SOA Watch movement to bring closure to the School of the Americas/WHINSEC. A time commitment of 6-8 weeks would be expected during the months of June and July. There is flexibility with exact dates. Click here to read the Summer internship description and for information on how to apply.
SOA Watch Internships in Washington, DC  These are the internship positions in the DC office of SOA Watch (click on the title for a detailed description)
· Organizing Intern · Legislative Intern · Communications Intern · Fundraising Intern
Internships last for two to four months and interns commit to a certain number of hours per week. The minimum commitment is 20 hours per week; 32-40 hours per week is most common.
Interns become a full member of the SOA Watch staff during their internship. All staff responsibilities are expected of interns, such as participating in weekly staff meetings and sharing in the facilitation and note-taking of these meetings. By the same token, these interns are given the same decision-making power as a staff person. These interns have input into her/ his job description and work. In other words, an invitation to join SOA Watch in one of these four internship roles is an invitation to join the staff collective.
The internship program is generally very flexible and can be shaped for each person. An important part of the work environment is participating in the collective process and supporting each other in our work.
Father Roy Bourgeois Update
 Father Roy will be among the SOA Watch activists who will converge in Washington, DC for the SOA Watch Encuentro and the Lobby Days from February 14-17, 2009. Join us!
As many of you know, Father Roy has been threatened with excommunication by the Vatican after he participated in the ordination of former SOA Watch Prisoner of Consciece Janice Sevre-Duszynska. Father Roy is currently waiting for a response to a letter to the Vatican, in which he stated that he can not recant his belief and public statements that support the ordination of women, as the Vatican had requested.
Some of you have asked for addresses to write to in support of Father Roy and to ask that he not be excommunicated. Click here for a list of addresses.
Call President Barack Obama and Attorney General Holder
SOA Watch is part of the 100 Days Campaign. Please ad your voice to the call for the release of 17 Chinese Muslims from Guantanamo.
Click here to read more about the case.
Call President Obama and Attorney General Holder and tell them:
1. You support the Executive Order to Shut Down Guantanamo.
2. You request that, as a first and immediate step, the Obama administration should drop the Bush administration's appeal of Judge Urbina's order to release the 17 Uighurs into the United States.
White House: 202-456-1111
Attorney General: 202-353-1555
| February 14-17 Events in Washington, DC  Chilean Grassroots Activist and Former Political Prisoner Pablo Ruiz Espinoza Will Travel to Washington, DC for the SOA Watch Encuentro and the Lobby Days in February. The work with Latin American social movements in the campaign to close the SOA/ WHINSEC has been a highlight that has energized people around the Americas. The slogan North and South - the People Say CLOSE THE SOA! is being heard loudly after five Latin America countries denounced the School of Assassins and declared that they will sever their ties with the notorious institution.
One of the main people behind the grassroots mobilizing effort in Latin America that made these victories possible is Pablo Ruiz Espinoza, who is working with the SOA Watch Partnership America Latina.
We are excited that Pablo will be able to join the events from February 14-17, 2009 in Washington, DC.
Click here to read more about the recent victories in Latin America.
SOA Watch is working with other Latin America Solidarity and social justice groups on a series of events from February 15-17, 2009 to push the U.S. Congress and the White House to close the School of the Americas and to bring real change to U.S. Latin America policy. Schedule of Events Saturday, February 14
7pm Meet and Greet at the SOA Watch office
Sunday, February 15
9am - 4:00pm SOA Watch Encuentro / Strategy Meeting
4:00pm - 7:00pm Anti-Militarization Program
organized in cooperation with the Latin America Solidarity Coalition (LASC) and the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA)
Monday, February 16
9:00am - 11:00am Grassroots Lobby Training
1:00pm - 4:00pm Arts and Action Workshop
Lobby Visits and Street Theater on Capitol Hill
Tuesday, February 17
Lobbying on Capitol Hill
Join the Upcoming SOA Watch Delegations to Latin America!
May 31 - June 10, 2009: PARAGUAY
June 17-26, 2009: VENEZUELA
October 9 - 18, 2009: CHILE
a flier for the Chile delegation will be available soon!
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