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| Photo: Kendal Blust/Nogagles International |
By Kendal Blust, Nogales International
November 14, 2017
Under a canopy of large white flags printed with the
Veterans for Peace logo, a group of activists and protestors from across the
country marched through downtown Nogales on Saturday carrying signs and
chanting slogans in opposition to U.S. military intervention in Latin America.
A weekend of events in Ambos Nogales and Southern Arizona
that included vigils, concerts, workshops and the protest march, the second
annual Border Encuentro is the re-imagining of longstanding School of the
Americas Watch protests in Fort Benning, Ga., with organizers calling for an
end to U.S. policies that they say are the root causes of migration and have
had devastating effects on refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants.
“We’ve been at this for 25 years before coming to the border
last year. We realized it was time to continue to call for the closing of the
school but to make a closer connection to our solidarity with the issues of our
country’s cruelty dealing with immigration,” said Rev. Roy Bourgeois, who
helped found SOA Watch, the organization behind the protests. “The detention
centers, the wall, which we see as a symbol of racism, especially now, with
(President Donald Trump).”
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