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Socialist Action, Vol. 10, No. 10, October 1992 · scan pp. 6–7 · about 299 words

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being exposed as never before, in the newspapers, to international tribunal was held at that time that "There's an indictment being prepared," said Molina. terms like self-determination and political prisoners." "We'll be serving it to William Barr, the attorney gen- Molina continued, "The United States paints itself as from Europe and Africa participated in the event, which eral of the United States. And there will be an the defender of buman rights on a world scale. But on the organizers thought was a great success. opportunity for them to respond, if they so desire, at the other hand, it refuses to acknowledge that there's a broad spectrum of political prisoners here. The charges issue came up around the Quincentennial, and the Molina told me that the coalition backing the tri- range from frame-ups...as in the cases of Native Ameri- Native Americans sat down with us. We tried to continbunal was founded on three principal points of unity. can political prisoner Leonard Peltier and [Black ue the coalition work we were doing. To us, really, the "The first one," he said, "is to conceive of 1992 as a Panther member] Geronimo Pratt to the Plowshares Emancipation Proclamation was similar to the many time to destroy the Columbian myth, especially for prisoners (pacifist Catholics who served six months to treaties that have been broken by the United States govoppressed peoples within the United States. More 18 years), to the Puerto Rican Independistas, who were ernment with the indigenous people."

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