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"Of course I appreciate federal funding...but Demo Dear editor, cannon airplane Ee bomb Brother Atwood's article in the Do Hh last issue of Socialist Action plosion Ff Gg [April 1986] on the New York dogbor heticopter City anti-contra aid and anti-aid to UNITA demonstration was flas pronade TINY TOT fine as far as it went, but «CENTER unfortunately left out the two most significant aspects of this historic demonstration.
First, this demonstration was the first held in New York City that was cosponsored by the Central America Week forces and the South African Weeks forces. (And, it was the single largest event of the combined three weeks of activities by the two groups.) compulsory ROTC really necessary?" Second, the rally was not merely sponsored by the three groups that brother Atwood mentioned in his article. In fact, it was "sponsored" by the Central America Week and South Africa Weeks coalitions. And, it was endorsed by over 100 groups representing the full spectrum of movement groups in and around New York City. dollars to break the union and destroy the community.
Mr. Knowlton, Mr. Nyberg, and other Hormel spokespersons: How can you go to church, while doing what you do to your fellow man? With each lie, another becomes necessary to protect yourself. Whatever you try to do P-9 stands proud. You cannot destroy the will of the people.
Kermit Thomas, Austin, Minn.
P-9 coverage Dear editor, I appreciate the articles written on the Hormel strike and the support your paper has given to the members of Local P-9.
Just recently I had the opportunity to hear a spokesman for P-9 and just could not believe all they have been through. placed in the proper perspective? When a band of contra rebels, crossing over from Honduras into Nicaragua, encounters a truckload of Nicaraguan peasant women and then decides to rape the young ones, I consider that an act of monstrous brutality.
And when the U.S. president calls the contra rebels "freedom fighters" and asks Congress to allocate $100 million to their "noble cause," I consider that the most monstrous of all brutalities.
Today, all remnants of ration -ality have been supplanted with cries of retaliation and of "seeing justice done." The war machine has been firmly planted in the press. Now it appears that we as a nation could be following this pattern of irrationality to the point of investing our sons sometime in the near future.
Kingston, N.Y.