Al Simmons, retired preschool teacher, Quaker, peace maker, arrested at School of the Americas (WHINSEC), will serve time as prisoner of conscience. SOA Watch worked with social justice groups 2/15-17/2009 to push the U.S. Congress and the White House to close WHINSEC to change to U.S. Latin America policy. Thousands converged on Washington, DC calling for new Latin America policy opposing militarization. Visit SOAW.ORG to learn of direct action toward closing the school.
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Al Simmons, retired preschool teacher, Quaker, peace maker, arrested at School of the Americas (WHINSEC), will serve time as prisoner of conscience. SOA Watch worked with social justice groups 2/15-17/2009 to push the U.S. Congress and the White House to close WHINSEC to change to U.S. Latin America policy. Thousands converged on Washington, DC calling for new Latin America policy opposing militarization. Visit SOAW.ORG to learn of direct action toward closing the school.
Al Simmons also spoke of an organization called Prisoner Visitation and Support through which he visits prisoners. Prisoner Visitation and Support (PVS) is the only organization authorized by the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Defense to visit any prisoner in the Federal and Military prison systems. The primary focus is on seeing those prisoners with an acute need for human contact -- those prisoners without regular visits, those serving long sentences who are far from home, those in solitary confinement and on death row, and those who are frequently transferred from prison to prison You can learn more at PrisonerVisitation.org
Al Simmons, Peace Maker and Prisoner of Conscience
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