Father Roy SOA Watch Nobel Peace Prize nomination announced at annual vigil

November 22, 11:16 AMHuman Rights ExaminerDeborah Dupre'

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Father Roy Bourgeois, MM, and School of the Americas Watch (SOA Watch) have been nominated for one of the most prestigious awards in the world - the Nobel Peace Prize - for their sustained, faithful, nonviolent witness against disappearances, torture, and murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians (peasants, community and union organizers, clerics, missionaries, educators, and health workers) by foreign military personnel trained by the U.S. military at U.S. taxpayer expense at School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia.

The candidacy of Father Roy and SOA Watch for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize has been officially submitted to the Nobel Committee in Oslo, Norway by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC), a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.

AFSC representative John Meyer made the official announcement today at the gates of Fort Benning (home of the School of the Americas) during the annual November vigil to close the SOA.

Bourgeois, the Vietnam veteran, Purple Heart recipient and Catholic priest who helped found SOA Watch said,

We are deeply honored, and deeply humbled to be nominated for the prize of peace... This nomination is a recognition of the work of the thousands struggling against militarism across the Americas."

Frank Dorrel commented that when people tell Father Roy he is their greatest inspiration, he says he gains his strength and inspiration from those who  join the struggle to close the SOA. Dorrel is at the vigil at Fort Benning, his eight time to join the tens of thousands working to halt the U.S. terror training school there.

SOA Watch is a nonviolent grassroots movement that works through creative protest and resistance, legislative and grassroots media work to stand in solidarity with the people of Latin America, to close the School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) and to change oppressive U.S. foreign policy that institutions like the SOA/ WHINSEC represent.

This weekend, SOA Watch is gathering by the thousands at the gates of Ft. Benning to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the killings of 14-year-old Celia Ramos, her mother Elba Ramos, and the six Jesuit priests she worked with at Central American University in San Salvador in November 1989. Human rights defenders from Colombia and Bertha Oliva, founder of human rights organization COFADEH, Committee of Family Members of the Detained and Disappeared in Honduras, which has been actively resisting the SOA graduate-led coup as part of the resistance front.

In the 2008 PBS program, Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins, (below) Fr. Roy recounts that when he was imprisoned for 18 months in solitary confinement for one demonstration, in the name of Bishop Romero, to close SOA, "I was brought down to my knees. Despair started to set in, but something happened…I came to what I consider a spiritual insight.”

Humbly attributing his insightful message to others, Fr. Roy imparts them to people of goodwill everywhere:
 

Don’t worry about being effective. Try to concentrate on being faithful. Faithful to the truth, what’s in your conscience, what’s in your heart. Try to concentrate on being in solidarity with the poor...Do that. Do your best where you are, where your feet are planted.

Fr. Roy says that was the insight that made him free.

Father Roy: Inside the School of Assassins

PBS, 2008

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