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America: More Like El Salvador Every Day

Posted on September 25th, 2005 by

OPS News, September, 2005

I preface these remarks with the encouragement that elections and voting are the only viable means for changing the faces in government enacting policies affecting all of us. Beginning with President Ronald Reagan’s two terms, I have observed an America becoming more like El Salvador every day.

During the 1980s, under President Reagan, the UmiliS annually poured $500 million dollars into El Salvador in mostly military [...] Continue reading America: More Like El Salvador Every Day

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Letter to the FCC

Posted on August 19th, 2005 by

Dear Friends, Using the email address below, you could write the FCC too.

TO: FCC Managers & Directors, fccinfo@fcc.gov

Dear Sirs and Madams:

The call from Rev. Pat Robertson for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez struck me as profoundly obscene …. both because Robertson’s words defiled Christianity itself ….. but also because his call for assassination will no doubt be replayed endlessly by the news media throughout the [...] Continue reading Letter to the FCC

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Caesar Chavez Remembered

Posted on May 22nd, 2005 by

Cesar Chavez was born March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona. Grandson of a migrant farm worker from Mexico, he toiled in the fields of California himself for years until becoming an organizer and labor-rights advocate for migrant farm workers.

Through the 1960s he organized fellow migrant workers. After just six months 300 members of the Nat’l Farm Workers Union met at Fresno, CA, and “La Causa” was born … the [...] Continue reading Caesar Chavez Remembered

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