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Alienation and fear are a miniscule price to pay for increased dialogue and enlightenment about U.S. policy in Central America. Our original plan had been to follow up on interest generated by the draft cards with a teach-in Friday afternoon. Educational forums such as teach-ins are consistent with COCA's objective of educating the Harvard community...
COCA's other main objective is to work with the people of Central America for social and political change. Thus, when we learned on Thursday of the slayings of six Jesuit priests by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran military, we postponed the teach-in. Although the draft cards were already sent, COCA felt it was more important to join in the nationwide effort to pressure Congress into calling for an immediate end to U.S. military aid to EI Salvador...
...blind eye to human rights abuse in Nicaragua. To in any way compare polling policy in Sandinista-led Nicaragua to the genocide enacted by ARENA-led EI Salvador shows unspeakable disrespect for human rights by making all offenses equal. Bates' piece also cheapens the lives of all Central Americans by submitting to the terms of a cold-war discourse (and along the way forgetting that while Soviet aid to Nicaragua began during Carter's presidency, so did U.S. aid to contras...
COCA's true (and successful) intentions were to stimulate discussion over escalating U.S. involvement in EI Salvador. We invite the Harvard community to join us for further discussion today in our teach-in at 11 a.m. on the steps of Memorial Church. Harvard-Radcliffe Committee on Central America...
Leverett House residents spent yesterday afternoon in the cold after Harvard engingeers shut off the heat to perform one-day emergency repairs on the house's central heating system...