Protest Organizer Coming to Triangle This Week

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"I start my talks by acknowledging these are very challenging times. What are we to do? Because a lot of people are asking that question and I turn to people like Micah who said, 'Act justly, love tenderly and walk humbly with your God.' I mention Dorothy Day, who said, "The only solution is love,' and love comes with community. And then I mention, of course, Bishop Oscar Romero." Romero, the former archbishop of San Salvador who was an arch-defender of human rights, was assassinated in 1980 by members of Salvadoran death squads. Some of Romero's killers were SOA graduates.

"We've got to use our voices for the voiceless," [Roy Bourgeois] says. "People of faith with real spiritual wisdom. A lot of people are struggling for hope today when they see what our government is doing to others."

"He's one of the heroic figures out there that I deeply admire for their commitments," [Stanley Hauerwas] said. "The fact that he's staying with this - some people get in a cause and then afterward it kind of peters out. But he's staying with it because real people are suffering, and so I just admire that."

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Protest Organizer Coming to Triangle This Week

Rev. Roy Bourgeois, founder of a group that has sponsored more than a decade of annual protests at the U.S. Army's combat training school at Ft. Benning, Ga., is headed to the Triangle for two events this week.

Bourgeois has received international atten...

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