From
Witness for Peace
September
28, 2017
This
year, from November 10-12, Witness for Peace
staff, along with human rights activists, torture survivors, anti-war veterans,
students, families, union workers, artists, and educators will converge in
Eloy-Tucson-Ambos Nogales for the SOA Watch Border Encuentro. Register for the Encuentro HERE!
We
hope you'll join us and our partners SOA Watch for three days of vigils,
workshops, rallies (including at the Mexico-US border), music, and other
collaboration to deepen the resistance against US-led militarism and other
harmful policies throughout the Western Hemisphere.
WFP
will be hosting a happy hour, to connect with our teams from around Latin
America, meet our grassroots organizers from across the US, and learn more
about our work on both sides of the border. Join us on Saturday,
November 11th from 5:30 to 6:30 PM at the Quality Hotel
Americana in Nogales, Arizona: 639 N Grand Ave, Nogales, AZ, 85621.
Here's
just one of the speakers (a partner of both WFP & SOAW) who'll present at
the Encuentro:
Since
2014, Gaspar Sánchez has served on COPINH's
leadership team as the Sexual Diversity & Rights Equality Coordinator.
COPINH (Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras) is
the first Indigenous organization in Latin America to establish LGBTQI+ issues
as a pillar of its work. Gaspar is a popular educator who works to shape the
next generation of young Indigenous leadership, and serves as a spiritual guide
for the Lenca people in their collective efforts to recuperate historical
memory through the processes of life, land defense, and ancestral practices.
Gaspar has represented COPINH all over the world: from Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela,
and Brazil, to the United States and the United Nations. He will be on tour
throughout the US this fall--including with WFP in the Great Lakes, Midwest, and New England regions.
See
you at the border in November!
In
solidarity,
Witness for Peace
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