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Protesters demand closure of School of the Americas at Fort Benning
Police arrested about 1,700 protesters including actor Martin Sheen who gathered at Fort Benning to oppose the Army School of the Americas. Demonstrators carried coffins and crosses, while 6,500 protesters remained outside the gates. Bourgeois and Sheen urged closing the school, which is to be renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.
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School of the Americas
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