Singing at the Ignatian Family Teach-in, Columbus Convention Center
Mary McEvoy, of Loyola University Chicago, speaks at the Teach-in about her experience working with torture survivors.
The U.S. Catholic booth at the Teach-in. Stephanie Garza and Jennifer Henricks, two friends I met as a fulltime volunteer at Amate House, helped distribute copies.
Friday night marked the 18th anniversary since the killing of the six Jesuits and their companions on Nov. 16, 1989. A ceremony was held at the end of the Teach-in Friday night.
These two men were brought to stage after being threatened with arrest for protesting with their faces covered. SOAW leaders said that threat violated free speech.
David Solnit (center) is a puppetista who made a small puppet show about his efforts fighting military recruitment.
Catholic activists at the vigil/protest site
Catholic sisters at the vigil/protest site. You can also see the fence and cop behind it.
One booth provides a space for children to participate by making peace pictures, hung on the fence behind the tent.
The Beehive Design Collective draws a crowd with it's huge works of art promoting justice.
Representative Jim McGovern (MA) works to stop WHINSEC's funding in Congress.
Father Roy Bourgouis is lifted up by the dancers.
Father Roy Bourgeois held up by the dancers.
The puppetista show started with birds, from small children on stilts to a large bald Eagle and ended with Rufina Amaya.
Rufina releases her peacemakers.
The whole crowd turns away from the stage in a Mayan blessing to the East, West, North, and South.
Presidential Candidate Dennis Kucinich address the crowd, including supporters waving campaign signs.
The Indigo Girls performed two songs on Sunday morning.
Patriotic and protesting
Rabbi Lerner, Father Roy, and Dennis Kucinich lead the procession
The procession goes out to the entrance on the left and then comes back toward the stage and gates on the right.
Loyola University Chicago
Two of the crosses in this picture have been broken in order to meet the size guidelines of the Columbus Police that determine what is a dangerous weapon.
The procession was as long as the street. The front reached the gates before we had even started moving.
A display remembering the massacre of el Mozote
Members of the 1,000 Grandmothers movement (who wear white handkerchiefs) carry bloodied dolls.
Rufina Amaya, survivor of el Mozote, died last spring.
The 1,000 Grandmothers mourned the dead, wailing loudly along with them at the end of the vigil.
The mourning grandmothers comforted each other after wailing over the dead.
The drumming, puppetistas, and celebration of life begins.
A man jumped over the fence, using a jacket and gloves to protect him from the barbed wire, with the drums urging him on behind him.
The celebration continues.
