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...unification of the Portuguese community in Cambridge has been a less-than-successful undertaking for the COPA organizers. The pressures to assimilate, though declining, are still strong in the Cambridge Portuguese community, and these forces have hampered COPA's efforts to foster Portuguese ethnic identity and political organization...
...irony of COPA's predicament is a sad one for the Portuguese people in Cambridge. For while COPA has based its campaign of political mobilization on the issues of ethnic identity and national pride, their major obstacle has been the heritage of oppression and forced non-involvement that the Portuguese bring with them from Portugal...
...Since in my country, nobody has the right to do or say anything, we are afraid of becoming involved with politics," Maurino Costa says. "Organizations like COPA and SPAL [Somerville Portuguese American League] must get the Portuguese together. They must explain what rights the Portuguese have and what they can do if they work together...
Leaders at COPA have made some progress combating the political apathy that Portuguese oppression has stamped in the Portuguese people, but COPA is aware that it is up against too big a psychological obstacle to expect immediate success...
Leading the Portuguese out of their political indifference is an arduous and frustrating task. COPA has made a beginning, as have regional conferences such as the Congress of the Portuguese in America held at Harvard last year under COPA's sponsorship...