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Sr. Moira Kenny

Released
Full name:Moira Kenny
Date of birth:1946
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:2000s
Inmate Number:#91369-020
State:Georgia
Time Imprisoned:
10 Months 16 Days
Support
Anti-War School of the Americas Watch
Sr. Moira Kenny

Biography

Sr. Moira Kenny crossed the line at Fort Benning, Georgia during an SOA Watch vigil to close the U.S. Army School of the Americas / WHINSEC. Sentenced to 6 months.

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.

The third edition of From Warriors to Resisters, physical PDF page 38 (printed page 58), publishes Tom Bottolene’s photograph of SOA Watch activists at a Colombian Army post in 2010. Its explicit left-to-right caption identifies Sr. Moira Kenny, RSM as seventh of eight people. The portrait is a faithful 103 by 79 pixel crop of that named subject, retained at native resolution.

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Case

Charges: Trespass at U.S. Army School of the Americas, Fort Benning
Arrested: Nov 16, 2002
Sentenced: Jan 28, 2003
Incarcerated: Nov 16, 2002
Released: Oct 2, 2003
Sentence: 6 months