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SOA Watch Records
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Held at: Swarthmore College Peace Collection [Contact Us]500 College Avenue, Swarthmore 19081-1399
This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.
Overview and metadata sections
The SOA Watch was founded in 1990 by Catholic peace activist, Father Roy Bourgeois. The organization tracks and monitors the work of the School of the Americas (SOA), renamed the "Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation," (WHISC), in 2001. The WHISC is a combat training school for Latin American military personnel, located at Fort Benning, Georgia. The SOA Watch is a direct action protest organization.
The SOAW collection is unprocessed and remains in the order it was donated.
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection is the official repository for these papers/records.
Gift of SOA Watch, 2009 [Acc. 09A-049]; 2010 [Acc 10A-044]; 2011 [Acc. 11A-051]; 2012 [Acc. 2012-044]
This collection is unprocessed and remains in the order in which it was donated.
- AV items-video recordings
- Bumper stickers
- Buttons
- Periodicals
- Photographs (paper and digital images)
People
Organization
- SOA Watch (Organization)
- U.S. Army School of the Americas
- Western Hemisphere Institute on Security Cooperation (U.S.)
Subject
- Publisher
- Swarthmore College Peace Collection
- Access Restrictions
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None.
- Copyright has been transferred to the Swarthmore College Peace Collection. Rights to some items in this collection may have been retained by the creators/authors (or their descendents), in this collection, as stipulated by United States copyright law. Please contact the SCPC Curator for further information.
- Use Restrictions
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Collection Inventory
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