November 15-16, 2008
Tucson and Sierra Vista AZ

For several years, in solidarity with the annual SOA Watch Vigil & Action at Fort Benning GA, there has been a growing grassroots demonstration at the gate of Fort Huachuca in Sierra Vista AZ, to protest our country’s slipping standards on torture. The torture manuals revealed by a Presidential Commission in 1996, cirriculum at the U.S. Army School of the Americas for years as well as distributed to repressive governments throughout this hemisphere, were created and produced at Fort Huachuca.

Last year the Southwest Witness dramatically expanded to include a Teach-In Against Torture, a screening of “The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib,” as well as a procession and witness to end the Iraqi War in Tucson AZ.

On November 15-16, 2008, There will be a day of solidarity against torture with a variety of events in Tucson on Saturday followed on Sunday by a rally at Veteran’s Memorial Park in Sierra Vista, ending with a procession to and presence at the gate of Fort Huachuca.

The Southwest Witness is being organized entirely by volunteers. All plans will be posted on this site as they develop. If you want to volunteer to help organize, or if you have questions, please write to southwestwitness@gmail.com and we’ll get back to you as quickly as possible. If more than 48 hours goes by, you might try again.

Please help us organize hundreds of people for this important witness which, this year, will take place a week before the annual SOA Watch Vigil & Action at Fort Benning.