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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=3
color=red face=Verdana><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Verdana;
color:red;font-weight:bold'>ALERT: Congress Votes on SOA/WHINSEC and ILEA
this week<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><font size=2
face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>June 19,
2007<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>This is a big week in Congress! The House of
Representatives will vote to cut funding to the School of the Americas
(SOA) as part of the Foreign Operations appropriations bill. The bill
also includes funding for the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA)
in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>.
CISPES has organized a national call-in day for today (June 19) in
conjunction with the SOA Watch call-in days, in order to put pressure on
Congress to cut funding for the SOA and to do oversight on the ILEA with
the ultimate goal of shutting down the US-sponsored police academy in the
future. If we win the vote to close the SOA this year it will be a
huge victory and a big step forward in our campaign around the San Salvador
ILEA! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Please respond to the alert by our partners at <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>SOA Watch (which can be found at <font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'><a href="http://www.soaw.org/">www.soaw.org</a>)</span></font></span></b>
and use the expanded script and talking points below.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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font-family:Verdana'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>Shut it down!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Verdana><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Verdana'>-CISPES National Office<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font
size=5 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua";font-weight:bold'>Congressional Call-in script –
Tell Congress to vote to close the SOA and Push for Oversight of the
ILEA!</span></font></b><b><font face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-family:"Book Antiqua";font-weight:bold'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font
size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua";font-weight:bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><font
size=5 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua";font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>June 19, 2007 National
Call-in Day<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><b><font size=3 color=black
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";
color:black;font-weight:bold'>Background:</span></font></b><font
color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua";
color:black'> This week the House of Representatives will vote on the
Foreign Operations Appropriations bill. Included in this bill is
funding for the infamous School of the Americas (SOA, now known as the
Western Hemispheric Institute for Security Cooperation, or WHINSEC) as well
as funding for the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA), the
US-sponsored police schools which recently began operating in El
Salvador. The ILEA in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place> is functioning like another
SOA, under a new name and in a new location. The issue of the ILEA is
relatively unknown to most of Congress, and the <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
government has tried to keep Congress and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> public in the dark about
the ILEA since it opened a year and a half ago. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-indent:.5in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";
color:black'>Through calling this week we hope to educate Congress, and to
build support for oversight of the ILEA as part of our campaign to shut
down the police academy , We also hope to celebrate in our
effort to shut down the SOA this year once and for all! Rep. James
McGovern (MA) is prepared to present an amendment to cut the funding to the
SOA/WHINSEC. With a shift in Congress and over 100 bipartisan cosponsors,
this year’s House vote is our best chance ever to shut down the SOA.<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black;font-weight:
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><font size=4
color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:
"Book Antiqua";color:black;font-weight:bold'>Call the House Switchboard at
(202) 224-3121 <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><font size=3 color=black
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";
color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black;font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic'>When you call:<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><i><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black;font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'>1) Ask the operator
for your Representative, and then ask to speak to your
Representative’s foreign affairs legislative assistant, chief of
staff or legislative director.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'>2) Tell
them you are a constituent and want to know your Rep's position on the
McGovern amendment to the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill, which
would cut funding to the School of the Americas/WHINSEC.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'>3) If the
Rep. is going to vote for the amendment, thank him/her. Then ask if
they have heard of the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) and
move on to # 5.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'>4) If the
Rep is undecided or against the amendment, urge them to vote in favor of
it. Explain to them the horrible history of the SOA in teaching
torture and human rights abuse to Latin American military
officials. For more SOA talking points, see <a
href="http://soaw.org/article.php?id=96"
title="blocked::http://soaw.org/article.php?id=96">http://soaw.org/article.php?id=96</a>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'>5) Using
the talking points below, explain why the ILEA is another extremely
worrisome project of U.S. training of Latin American police forces and why
groups in El Salvador are demanding that it be closed. Ask if your
Rep. will work with us to get more information from the State Department
about the classes, instructors, human rights records of the teachers and
students at the ILEA. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'>6) If the
Rep. agrees to help work on the ILEA issue, send an email to CISPES (<a
href="mailto:krista@cispes.org" title="blocked::mailto:krista@cispes.org">krista@cispes.org</a>)
with the name of the person you spoke with and your Rep’s name, and
we can get that office more details about the ILEA and specific information
we need for our campaign.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=3
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>--------------------<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><u><font
size=4 face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";
font-weight:bold'>Talking Points:<o:p></o:p></span></font></u></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black;font-weight:
bold'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>* Resurgence of death squad-style threats and murders:</span></font></b><font
color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua";
color:black'> In early May 2007 the Archbishop’s Legal Aid and Human
Rights Defense Office (Tutela Legal) released a report implicating the
Salvadoran National Police (PNC) in eight death squad style assassinations
in 2006 alone. CISPES has published a list of recent repression beginning
with the July 2006 murder of the Manzanares couple, the parents of
long-time activist “Mariposa”. In many of these cases, the
evidence leads us to believe that the police and/or death squads were
involved in their disappearances; </span></font><font face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>meanwhile, the calls of family members for
investigation have fallen on deaf ears. The ILEA does nothing to remedy the
central problem of the high-up corruption and links to death squads within
the Salvadoran police.<font color=black><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>* The Salvadoran government is militarizing the police, which is a
direct violation of the Peace Accords.</span></font></b><font color=black
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'>
The separation between police and military in <st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region> has declined dramatically since originally
established by Peace Accords in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>. It is now common
to have groups of soldiers “patrolling” rural and urban
neighborhoods in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>. <st1:country-region
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region>’s National Civilian Police
(PNC) was created by the 1992 Peace Accords to do the work of law
enforcement in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>. However, the PNC has
increasingly been used to violently repress protests in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>, especially the
protests against CAFTA, such as those led by market vendors struggling
under new-CAFTA imposed intellectual property laws. </span></font><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>The addition
of the military to these repressive policing tactics violates the Peace
Accords and the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>
government, through the ILEA, should not be collaborating so closely with a
police that violates the Peace Accords.<font color=black><span
style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>* Salvadoran Government using anti-terrorism law to target social
movement organizing:</span></font></b><font color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'> The Salvadoran right wing
passed an “anti-terrorism” law in September 2006, followed by
an “anti-organized crime” law later that year. The language in
these new laws is very vague, leaving them open to interpretation and a
wide variety of applications. The anti-terrorism law is similar to the
Patriot Act in that it threatens civil liberties supposedly protected by
the constitution of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>. The laws criminalize and
labels terrorist – with long jail sentences – protest tactics
commonly used by Salvadorans. The <st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region>
Ambassador to <st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region>
even expressed explicit support for this </span></font><font
face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua"'>law in a
speech, condoning the use of police force in protecting <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place> trade interests.
Similarly, the stated purpose of the ILEA is also to protect <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place>
interests and this is not the kind of training Salvadoran police need.<font
color=green><span style='color:green'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>* <st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region> has
become the satellite for <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
military and police training in Latin America, despite its poor human
rights record:</span></font></b><font color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span
style='font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black'> <st1:country-region w:st="on">El
Salvador</st1:country-region> is already the second largest recipient of
military training in Central America, is the host of a <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region
w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> military base and an FBI
office. The ILEA has the capacity to train 1500 students per year, more
than the current Western Hemisphere Institute for Security and Cooperation,
also known as the SOA. Salvadorans fear a return to the sort of torture and
repression practices used by the graduates of that US-sponsored school in
the 1980s. Meanwhile, <st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region>
officials refuse to acknowledge the corruption, misconduct and human rights
violations committed by the PNC, and continue to support the Salvadoran
police, both through explicit statements and by sponsoring the ILEA in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">El Salvador</st1:country-region></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>* ILEA has a lack of oversight and transparency: </span></font></b><font
color=black face="Book Antiqua"><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua";
color:black'>Congress has not been given sufficient information about the
ILEA and its activities, and human rights groups that have sought to monitor
it have been denied basic documentation, such as course descriptions and
names of students and instructors. Though backers of the ILEA promise
that only civilians would be trained there, in fact the agreement leaves
the possibility of military training open. Such lack of transparency is
especially alarming given that the ILEA would offer immunity to all foreign
officials involved in designing the curriculum and teaching the courses. </span></font><font
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style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Grande";color:black'>Go here to
see the list of COSPONSORS OF H.R. 1702 (102+ Rep. McGovern) (as of
6/12/07): <a href="http://soaw.org/article.php?id=96">http://soaw.org/article.php?id=96</a>
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