NACLA News
Thanks to Volunteers NACLA staffers found ourselves happily outnumbered around the office by volunteers last summer. Our plea for help in the March-April Report brought an...
...Helping us build bridges to Latin American research work in Europe, George Black comes to the NACLA staff from England, where he served as a national coordinator of the Nicaragua Solidarity Committee...
...We're happy to report that our salaries have taken a small leap thanks to your generosity...
...Sustainers Come Through In the last issue, we reported that our sustainers campaign had been a resounding success, bringing in over $14,000 and topping all past campaigns...
...She is presently finishing up a master's in International Affairs at Columbia University...
...Judy Butler, in Milwaukee for a teach-in sponsored by that city's Central and Latin American solidarity groups, had a chance to meet NACLA readers and get helpful feedback on our work...
...Our warmest thanks to Patrick Dolan, Debbie Sontag, Dan Shea, Lisa Habernickel, Lori O'Donnell, Margaret Low, Yolanda Benal, Tom Preston, Suzanne Sangree, Maria Bottino and Bonnie Tenneriello...
...Our plea for help in the March-April Report brought an overwhelming response from readers in the New York area...
...The chill in the air has not, however, reduced our need for assistance...
...Cataloging of our collection continues and there are numerous other library, research and production related tasks which could use some volunteers...
...4A Expanding Our Ranks Two new staff people joined our ranks this summer as full-time researchers, writers and jacks-of-alltrades...
...Call Eric Feinberg at 989-8890 to discuss opportunities for volunteer labor at NACLA...
...Little did we expect that tally to double by October, as readers returned from summer vacations and unburied our letter from their stacks of waiting mail...
...Janet Shenk, in Chicago for a taping of the Phil Donahue Show, met with members of the solidarity community there (all avid NACLA readers) to discuss her recent trip to Central America...
...We are also indebted to the sustainers who hosted gatherings for us this fall...
...Their help was largely responsible for keeping the office running smoothly while staff members were off doing field work or vacationing...
...We were also able to inititate a major new project-cataloging our 16-year-old library collection...
...He has traveled extensively in Central America and is now preparing a two-part NACLA Report on Guatemala for the first two issues of 1983...
...Deborah Huntington, coauthor of our forthcoming study of the Dominican Republic, brings to NACLA a background in corporate research at the Corporate Data Exchange, free-lance journalism and two years in the Dominican Republic as a United Methodist Mission Intern...
...that we've bought two new typewriters...
...An Oxford graduate, George is the author of Triumph of the People: The Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, published by Zed Press in 1981...
...and that we are truly grateful for your vote of confidence in our work...
Vol. 16 • September 1982 • No. 5
