Eyes Wide Open Film Series, Part III
Hidden In Plain Sight
April 26, 2006
On Wednesday evening, April 26th, the Eyes Wide Open series continued with the showing of the film, “Hidden In Plain Sight.” The film gives an account of the School of the Americas (SOA) now renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation(WHINSEC) in Fort Benning, Georgia. The documentary contains actual footage and several interviews with people from the U.S. military, U.S. Congress, writers, professors, a Catholic priest and nun, a widow and torture victims speaking/telling their stories from both sides of the debate about this controversial training center.
Discussion following the film touched on the following points:
How does one argue against the point that: “one cannot prove that the SOA is where these Latin American military personnel learned how to kill?”
How do we continue to point out the “doublespeak” of our government/military; when they call labor organizers, students, clergy…”enemies of the state?”
Who is going to prosecute the perpetrators of these human rights abuses/torture?
Why do the same “bad apples” continue to play an active role in current day politics, like John Negroponte and Major John LeMoyne?
We concluded by noting that the following three campaigns/efforts are working diligently to close SOA/WHINSEC down:
Our Eyes Wide Open Film Series is suspended; for further information click here.
Upshot of our Nov. 9th group discussion on current politics:
It wasn't the Russians that got us Trump. Or Comey. Or even the massive GOP election fraud. It was the DNC.* *Dem National Committee
To learn how to stop the DNC
from delivering us another Trump, read Autopsy: the Democratic Party in Crisis.
Photo of a school in Yemen bombed by Saudi Arabian jets supplied by the U.S. and fueled in the air by the U.S. Air Force.
Tell Trump to STOP THIS CARNAGE, not fuel it! Click here.
Also participate in the CodePink email and/or phone initiative:
Click here to sign a petition, to put an end to the sanctions against Syria - their only effect is to take a terrible toll on the population, causing them to migrate! And click here to see the video by the Italian Committee to lift sanctions against Syria.
Did someone tell you that U.S. military intervention in Iraq was over? Not true: we're at it again. This time the pretext to drop bombs is "curbing ISIS" (which was created by the U.S. in the first place, to overturn al-Malaki in Iraq and then Assad in Syria, and is now out of hand.
Like what happened to "our" creature al Qaeda in Afghanistan). And the death toll continues to rise...
Write your senators and tell them: "Enough! U.S. out!! Iraq has shown it can curb ISIS by itself!"
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