Alice Gerard

Alice Gerard is a journalist and peace activist who lives in Buffalo, New York. Work with School of the Americas Watch After protesting at the School of the Americas in Fort Benning, Georgia in 2003 as part of a group from SOA Watch, Gerard was convicted of trespass. She was sentenced to three months in the federal prison camp in Danbury, Connecticut. She crossed the Fort Benning fence two more times (2004 and 2006). She served six-month sentences in the federal prison camp in Danbury in 2005 and in 2007 In addition to fence crossing, Gerard has also written articles about controversy surrounding Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (the current name for School of the Americas) for Buffalo's Alt Press, including "Same Old, Same Old: Medieval Practices in a Modern Era", and she is a member of SOA Watch's Legislative Working Group. Other work