SOA WATCH's Peace Activist Roy Bourgeois Presented with First Passion for Peace Award  http://www.soaw.org/category-table/3706-peace-activist-roy-bourgeois-presented-with-first-passion-for-peace-award

Peace activist and outspoken and embattled Maryknoll priest, Father Roy Bourgeois, the founder of the School of the Americas Watch, addressed a crowd of more than 200 friends and supporters at the Friends Center, 1501 Cherry Street in Philadelphia on Sunday, May 15th at 3 PM. His powerful talk was punctuated by two standing ovations. Even after the talk and during the reception, the crowd was clearly moved and thrilled with the opportunity to see and hear Bourgeois close-up and in person. After the program and the Q & A session,

guests moved into another room for the book signing, reception and performances by vocalist Veronica Underwood and her young performers. Bourgeois, a 2010 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, talked about his 20-year crusade to shut down the School of the Americas on Fort Benning military base in Fort Benning, Georgia; the progress he has seen in Central America; the civil rights abuses of the poor in El Salvador and Honduras; and his conviction that woman have the right to be ordained priests in the Catholic Church-a stand that might result in his expulsion from the Maryknoll order with a request for laicization.

[HE SHOULD BE COMMENDED,HE HAS BEEN AT FOREFRONT OF MOVEMENT TO CLOSE THAT EVIL NORTH AMERICAN TERRORIST TRAINING SCHOOL SOA...THE FIGHT CONTINUES HOWEVER..