Biography
Joel Kilgour crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during the November 2000 SOA Watch vigil. Sentenced to 1 month.
Each year on the November anniversary of the assassination of six Jesuits, their housekeeper, and her daughter at the University of Central America in San Salvador in 1989, peace activists gather at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia, site of the U.S. Army School of the Americas / Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), to commemorate the dead and to call for the school's closure. Hundreds have crossed the line onto the base over four decades of vigils; many have served federal sentences ranging from 30 days to a year for trespass.
Photo credit
Joel Kilgour, identified as Project Organizer in Chum’s Stepping On Up staff section. Photograph published by Chum; photographer and capture date unspecified. Original 1440 by 1440 JPEG downloaded unchanged. No open license asserted. Identity cross-checked against St. Louis County’s Chum and Loaves & Fishes warming-center notices and his Catholic Worker organizing. Source staff page.
