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Why did he do it? A Jesuit demonstrator goes to jail

America,  April, 2004  by J. Timothy Hipskind

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WHY? THAT IS A question I have been asked frequently lately. Why did Mike O'Grady, S.J., a member of our Claver Jesuit Community in Cincinnati, climb over the front gate at Fort Benning on Nov. 23, 2003, knowing that he would be arrested?

People know that Mike was performing an act of civil disobedience--he was trying to say that our country should not sponsor any program like the School of the Americas, whose graduates have a long history of human rights abuses. Still, his colleagues at Working in Neighborhoods, a community organization, wonder, "Couldn't he have done more ...