10,000 march for peace in Los Angeles
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LOS ANGELES-While President Reagan was busy campaigning in Southern California on behalf of pro-contra-aid candi -dates, about 10,000 people demonstrated here on Nov. 1 against that policy.
Chanting slogans such as "No aid to the contras" and "Embargo South Africa, not Nicaragua," this determined crowd marched through downtown Los Angeles to City Hall, where a rally was held. The action was sponsored by the Fall Mobilization on Central America—a coalition consisting of over 100 church, labor, community, and political organizations.
Dr. Charles Clements, a Vietnam War veteran who was a doctor in El Salvador, told the crowd: "We are outside the community of civilized nations."
Another Vietnam veteran, Charles Liteky, also spoke. Liteky, who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor in Vietnam, turned in his medals in Washington when he initiated and led a hunger strike by Vietnam veterans in protest against the government's Central American policies.
James Lawson, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in Southern California, was cheered when he said that the U.S. government is "still trying to keep Central America as our plantation, rather than recognize the people there as people who want dignity and freedom now."
Other speakers included representatives from the Southern California Interfaith Task Force, CISPES, and the Labor Committee on Central America.
Rally organizers promised this is just a beginning. They announced that meetings will begin soon to plan spring protests. intervention coalition that will cover Canada from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The coalition's first task is to serve as rallying points for mass demonstrations across Canada on May 9, 1987. The coalition also plans to send delegations to proposed mass rallies in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco next April 25.
The outcome of the conference will be better coordination of broad Canada-wide work against the war in Central America and Canadian government complicity with U.S. militarism.
Action Closing date: Nov. 24, 1986 Editor: ALAN BENJAMIN Asst. Editor: MICHAEL SCHREIBER Staff: Paul Colvin, Suzanne Forsyth, May May Gong, David Kirschner, Hayden Perry, Joe Ryan, Carole Seligman, Kwame M.A. Somburu, Sylvia Weinstein.
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