School of the Americas Watch
School of the Americas Watch is an advocacy organization founded by former Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois and a small group of supporters in 1990 to protest the training of mainly Latin American military officers, by the United States Department of Defense, at the School of the Americas (SOA). Most notably, SOA Watch conducts a vigil each November at the site of the academy, located on the grounds of Fort Benning, a U.S. Army military base near Columbus, Georgia, in protest over human rights abuses committed by some graduates of the academy or under their leadership, including murders, rapes and torture and contraventions of the Geneva Conventions. Military officials state that even if graduates commit war crimes after they return to their home country, the school itself should not be held accountable for their actions. Responding to "mounting protests" spearheaded by SOA Watch, in 2000 the United States Congress renamed the School of the Americas the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), rather than closing the academy. In addition, all students must undergo a minimum of eight hours of class on human rights and the principle of civilian control of the military.
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Turn It Into Something Special
by: SashaThere's a voice inside our soul
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Turn it into something good
There's a chance you really could
Turn it into something special
When you see it's time to choose
Gonna find you'll never lose
Turn it into something special
Turn it into something new
We all have our part to do
take a chance and make it special
And you'd still be standing strong
Hold your crown and carry on
Turn it into something...
Just believe in something
Naa naa naa na na naa.
Just believe in something, yea yea.
Naa naa naa na na naa.
We gotta carry on, we gotta carry on and on.
Naa naa naa na na naa.
Oo oo oo ooooo.
You gotta believe in something
Naa naa naa na na naa...