Word: salvadors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...joining in the efforts to bring emergency medical relief to the people of EI Salvador and to pressure Congress, we accomplished more than we would have had we restricted our activity to the Harvard campus during this pivotal weekend...
Andrew Bates criticized COCA for what he sees as our 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...
Bates suggests that COCA's intent in sending the draft cards was to "generate hysteria" over a "highly improbable U.S. war in the region." For the record, The New York Times reported yesterday that U.S. pilots were flying night-time bombing missions over San Salvador. In addition, the 55 United States military advisors in EI Salvador are presently engaging in combat, and U.S. warships have moved to EI Salvador's coast...
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