Report Card
Schonemann, Natalie Pearson and Raoul
REPORT CARD Natalie Pearson and Raoul Schonemann Legacy of Dictatorship GUATEMALA: The Group for Mutual Support by Jean Marie Simon Americas Watch, 36 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036. 57...
...With the election of a civilian president, Christian Democrat Vinicio Cerezo, last December, many have proclaimed democracy in Guatemala...
...It compares the way various states handle programs and includes a directory of interest groups around the country that provide further information and support...
...The Group for Mutual Support, an organization of 760 families of the disappeared in Guatemala, continues to apply pressure on the government to investigate past human-rights abuses...
...Unfortunately, the recent assassinations of two of the group's most outspoken leaders and the death threats that other members continue to receive underscore the still-present danger...
...But the real test for Guatemalan democracy—whether the new government will punish those military officers responsible for the thousands of disappearances and political killings of the last three decades—still lies ahead...
...Although previous human-rights groups have attempted to reunite families of the disappeared in Guatemala, the Group for Mutual Support is the "first to have survived more than an ephemeral existence," says author Jean Marie Simon...
...In the right hands, this book could do much good...
...Simon, who illustrates this important booklet with her own powerful photographs, shines a light on the dark world of Guatemalan politics...
...As the number of Americans in poverty continues to climb, the information in this handbook should be useful to a growing segment of the population...
...Despite Ronald Reagan's tales of welfare mothers driving Cadillacs, dealing with the public assistance bureaucracies in this country is neither profitable nor fun...
...This report by Americas Watch traces the development and progress of the group from its three-member inception to its present status as a prominent leader in the fight to restore human rights and to bring justice to the Guatemalan people...
...Community organizers and social workers should distribute it as widely as possible...
...While the handbook could be of some use to community organizers, it is the most helpful at the individual level, informing the unemployed, the single parent, the immigrant, and the juvenile of their rights and explaining how to keep them...
...The Action Guide is a valuable tool for dismantling the arms race...
...But it's a missile silo, one of 150 such silos scattered throughout western Missouri, each with 1.2 megatons aimed at the Soviet Union...
...191 pp...
...12.95...
...57 pp...
...The manual focuses on individual rights, but it also offers advice and instruction on everything from doing your own legal research to getting AFDC or organizing a rent strike...
...Poster/map, $2...
...Welfare Rights SURVIVING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: What You're Entitled to and How to Get It by Marcia Henry Center for Third World Organizing, 3861 Martin Luther King Jr...
...In Guatemala, it has been too dangerous for any human-rights monitoring group to operate within the country...
...With this guide to the missile field, notes Nukewatch, citizens can now "find and visit the missile silos and launch control centers, hold vigils there, and, while doing so, contemplate the danger they pose to humanity...
...Holes in the Ground SHOW ME...
...Nukewatch has pinpointed the 150 Minuteman II silos of Whiteman Air Force Base near Kansas City, and published this first-ever map of their locations...
...You could almost mistake the site—"a few poles and gauges and a thick slab of concrete surrounded by a chain link fence enclosing a barren plot of land no bigger than a parking lot"—for an electric power station or a sewage treatment plant...
...Way, Oakland, CA 94609...
...A Citizen's Action Guide to the Missile Silos of Missouri Nukewatch, 315 West Gorham Street, Madison, WI 53703...
Vol. 50 • February 1986 • No. 2
