Hundreds of CTA members will again participate at the annual School of the Americas (SOA) vigil and protest Nov. 19-21 at Fort Benning, Ga. Because so many of the 10,000 participants are young people, CTA Next Generation leaders have planned new outreach. CTA will celebrate a progressive Catholic Eucharist early Friday evening, with several men and women presiders, including Dave Corcoran, a CTA married priest/peace activist from Chicago being released this month from his second hitch in federal prison for SOA Watch civil disobedience. Homilist will be CTA Next Gen leader Karon Van Antwerp, a campus minister and pastoral associate from Mt. Pleasant, Mich.
CTA has also coalesced in a progressive Catholic forum with several other church reform organizations setting up booths in a shared hotel conference room near Fort Benning. Other groups in the coalition are Women's Ordination Conference, CORPUS, Federation of Christian Ministries and FutureChurch.
Full details about the events at Fort Benning are at www.soaw.org So is the latest about HR 1258, the bill in Congress to close SOA. Principal sponsor, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), is emphatic that he will get the bill to a vote in 2005, regardless of the Nov. 2 election outcomes. The bill has at least 128 co-sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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