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"Steelyard Blues" in Spanish CIDE (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas) of Mexico City has published NACLA's Report on the crisis of the steel industry ("Steelyard Blues",...
...But even this is not likely to be enough...
...It is not only the factory and the labor courts that are wrong-it's the whole policy of this regime...
...INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON UNDOCUMENTED WORKERS In early May, NACLA attended a conference in Mexico City on undocumented Mexican workers in the United States...
...1979) in Spanish, in the Cuadernos Semestrales (number 7), the semiannual supplement of Estados Unidos: Perspectiva Latinoamericana...
...Tours...
...Guevara's trip to New York was part of a tour of Europe and North America aimed at heightening international support for the human rights struggle in Argentina...
...Volunteers and Summer Interns In addition to our hard-working year-round volunteers-Mimi Keck, Maisie McAdoo, Peggy Moberg, Jim Price, Mike Roland, and Aracelly Santana-NACLA has also benefitted this summer from the research and adNACLA Reportupdate * update . update * update ministrative work of Sam Friedman, Ralph Rivera, Danny Simpson, Casandra Torrio, Basil Wilson and Scott Woerner...
...Steelyard Blues" in Spanish CIDE (Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas) of Mexico City has published NACLA's Report on the crisis of the steel industry ("Steelyard Blues", Vol...
...But here's $10 to let you know how important you are to me...
...But most striking was her warm humor, a humor that affirms the possibilities of the living and thus, provides an element indispensable for the continuation of the struggle-hope...
...A 400-page report prepared by the Inter-American Rights Commission of the Organization of American States (OAS), after its visit to Argentina in November 1979, documents the military's four-year reign of terror: 5,000 people murdered and an addiJulylAugust 1980 tional 7-10,000 disappeared, most after detention by government security forces...
...The degree of repression which the regime had to employ to break this strike and the widespread support it commanded show that there will be no easy "abertura" in Brazil now...
...Last May, NACLA had the very special pleasure of a visit by Celia Guevara-Argentine resistance activist and the sister of one of Latin America's revolutionary heroes, Che Guevara...
...We'll keep you informed of our progress...
...Resumption of military assistance, now barred to Argentina because of human rights violations, has been actively promoted by certain Administration officials...
...In listening to and watching Ms...
...We take this opportunity to express our appreciation for their valuable contribution to NACLA's work, and to once again remind our readers that NACLA always welcomes volunteer assistance both in our research and in the administrative tasks carried out by our small staff...
...blindness and deafness can follow...
...Thanks to all for your help...
...NACLA TOUR TO NICARAGUA NACLA is planning a joint tour with Monthly Review Associates to Nicaragua...
...It was the first organized effort bringing together activists concerned with the undocumented from both the U.S...
...If you are interested or want more information, please write to NACLA, 151 W. 19th Street, 9th Fl., New York, NY 10011, Attn...
...In particular, we are desperately looking for volunteers who can help us in our mailroom, library, promotion work and with typing...
...1, January-February, to enable the employers to resist the workers' demands through direct aid to the companies and military repression of the unions...
...Guevara, we could not be other than deeply moved by her enormous strength in the face of the suffering of both her people and her family...
...For price information and to order write to CIDE, Estados Unidos: Perspectiva Latinoamericana, Apdo...
...Don't give up...
...As one young workers in Sao Bernardo do Campo said, "People are conscious of the fact that they are not just fighting for a raise...
...Guevara was, therefore, particularly heartened by the recent decision of the United Nations Human Rights Commission to establish a fivemember team to investigate the problem of disappeared persons around the world...
...NACLA SUSTAINERS Although this is going to press too early for us to be able to evaluate the results of our latest plea for donations, it is not too early to realize that we must have the most loyal and supportive readers of any magazine...
...a military regime, headed by President Jorge Rafael Videla, has ruled there since the overthrow of President Isabel Martinez de Per6n on March 24, 1976...
...The issues are too clear, and the lines are too clearly drawn...
...Postal 41-553, Mexico 10, D.F., Mexico...
...The participants, primarily trade unionists but also including representatives of political and community-based organizations, passed a "Bill of Rights" of the undocumented and set up a structure for continued exchange of information and working cooperation...
...The Carter Administration, anxious to block improved Argentine-Soviet relations, has moved to strengthen its ties with the Videla regime despite the findings of the Commission and of the U.S...
...XIII, No...
...The approximate cost will be $950...
...Our guest also shared with us the experience of her own family at the hands of the military...
...State Department's annual investigation...
...Her younger brother, Juan Martin, presently in prison on charges of "illegal association" and possession of arms, had been subjected to one of the regime's methods of torture: forbidden light, forbidden the sound of other human voices in one's cell, the prisoner's ability to see and to hear deteriorates...
...and Mexican sides of the border...
...The tour, a 10-day visit during the Christmas season, 1980, will be led by a NACLA staffer or associate...
...New forms of worker organization which encourage participation by many more than the traditional leaders will make it difficult to keep the unions in check for long...
...If you have some free time and can help us, please call 989-8890...
...The sentiment of many readers is best summed up in the following letter which we received from a subscriber in Ohio: "I don't usually pay attention to fund appeals (even desperate ones) because I'm usually broke too...
...Mimi Keck is a graduate student at Columbia University and a free-lance translator...
Vol. 14 • July 1980 • No. 4
