School of the Americas

SOA Vigil and Non-violent Civil Resistance Days

November 2005

During her LCWR Presidential speech in the month of August, Christine Vladimiroff, OSB said:
“The prophets’ vocation is to cry out – to God, to the town square, to any open heart that will listen. Women religious will gather outside the gates of the School of the Americas again this year. And we will do it next year and the year after. Is it futile? No; it is an investment in changing the face of the mountain.

We will not have our voices muted by accommodation to the politics of war. I am confident that someday, our daughters, who will follow us into religious life, will witness the closing of the School of the Americas. They will gather and celebrate their foremothers who went back year after year, decade upon decade, never wavering in their resolve to dismantle institutions that bring death.”

Dominicans from the Alliance Congregations will be attending the non-violent rally and vigil scheduled for November 18-20 in Columbus, Georgia. They will join thousands of others at the gate of Fort Benning to stand in solidarity with so many of our Latin American sisters and brothers. We ask you to please accompany in spirit and hold in your prayers the following Alliance Dominicans:

Akron
Mariellen Phelps, OP

Grand Rapids
Marie Rachael Guevara, OP
Joyce Ann Hertzig, OP
Orlanda Leyba, OP

Great Bend
Kathy Goetz, OP
Dominic Haug, OP
Joan Ice, OP
Francine Schwarzenberger, OP
Terri Wall, OP

Houston
Jane Abell, OP
Ceil Roeger, OP

Sinsinawa
Delena Stephens Brown
Alice Ann Byrne, OP
Summer & Jeremy Cushman, OPV
Bev DiStefano, OP
Rosaleen Hanley, OP
Maureen Kelly, OP
Candy & Paul Krepel
Joan McCann, OP
Reg McKillip, OP
David & Nancy O’Byrne
Liz Sully, OP
MaDonna Thelen

Springfield
Judith Hilbing, OP
Peggy Knoepfle
Margaret McCormick, OP
Georgiana Stubner, OP
June Volpe, OP

Let voices and prayers be raised for peace and justice!