600 arrested at School of Americas protest: young and old join in non-violent action and civil disobedience - Fort Benning, GA - Cover Story

National Catholic Reporter, Dec 5, 1997 by Pat Marrin

For most of the 601 trespassers, crossing the line was an interior first-step, a "baptism" one called it, into greater solidarity with victims of both official violence and the economic injustice it protects.

For Roy Bourgeois and 27 others, the same ritual act will mean entering, for a time, into the silence of prison, where they will have to depend on the newest converts to keep getting the word out.