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...posters are blue and white, the same colors as the Salvadoran flag, and they usually show three happy citizens standing together. "El Salvador deserves your vote," reads the caption. On radio and television, scrupulously nonpartisan spot announcements urge voters to turn out on election day. "This time your vote will be respected," they insist. "Your vote will make the difference...
...chances for political change unfortunately also make clear the need for a thorough going transformation. Of course, there can be no stinting of political effort on foreign policy issues like El Salvador. All the traditional methods will have some effect; grass roots mobilization, so effectively achieved in the last two years by opponents of nuclear weaponry; intimidating of the Democratic Party into steadfast support of a strong human rights posture; and marches and sit-ins and slogan changing. But at best that will not be enough to do more than change policy as it regards El Salvador. It will...
FIRST THERE MUST come the recognition that movements like the one in El Salvador closely resemble movements like the one in Poland. Harvard leftists who organized yesterday's rally in support of Solidarity are on the right track, for if people begin to draw the connections between different examples of oppression they will begin to sense their kinship with these people. Salvador and Poland are both examples of movements that include the vast majority of the people, that are the result of institutionalized opression, and that have faced bloody suppression. Both attempt to move their nations towards the same goal...
...looking at the world around it. And though the view of the Catholic bureaucracy is still often regressive and dogmatic, the theology and the political practices of many Catholic priests becomes more human, more revolutionary, more Christlike with each passing year. It is no accident that Poland and El Salvador share an active, powerful, and near universally respected Catholic Church; in both cases, organized religion has been empowering, emboldening. In both cases, it has been instrumental in the decision of the people to cast off the oppressive weight they had borne so long. The theology of liberation will continue...
Born in eastern El Salvador to a middle-class family, Oscar Arnulfo Romero, was by his own admission a conservative. In the months after his appointment as archbishop of the church in El Salvador, though, Romero watched the right kill several of his priests. And he read his Bible again. And soon he was speaking out so loud that the pathetic "men" running his nation had not choice but to kill him. The day before he died, Romero said this from the pulpit--"It is time that you come to your senses and obey your conscience...