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ane . . <7 a t id . So , . . ‘ > ss . . . DEMONSTRATION IN CONNECTION WITH APPEARANCE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT, BUFFALO, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 7, 1971 SPONSORED BY BUFFALO CHAPTER YOUTH AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM (BC, YAWF) a AND BUILD, UNITY, INDEPENDENCE, LIBERTY, AND DIGNITY (BUILD) . The Venceremos Brigade was formed in June, 1969, by a coalition of New Left organizations to encourage American youth to travel to Cuba in defiance of a ban on travel to that country by the United States. Department of State. The ostensible purpose of, the travel was to assist the Castro regime in the harvesting of sugar cane | and other agricultural products and to give . young Americans thé experience of living in a revolutionary communist country. “The NLF was organized in July, 1970, principally - among the youth, as a coalition of New Left-. ‘type groups in the Buffalo, New York, area whose stated purpose is to bring new people . into collective-type units to deal with the ~~ ow. need for revolution in America, a An individual introduced as [jor BUILD stated eighty percent of the prisoners in jails are blacks and prisons are concentration camps for blacks., He stated. that recent wage-price freezes in the United States favor the rich and discriminate against the, poor and he denounced Vice President AGNEW - b6 as an instigator of such discrimination, , bl co Cres tho stated she represented PSC - of YAWF appeale or donations from listeners to support Attica prisoners, | During the above demonstration, a group of approximately 25 to 30 counter-demonstrators carrying placards and banners under the name of Young Americans For Freedom (YAF) marched around the perimeter of the crowd. These banners and placards read "Canisius YAF", "Students For Agnew":and "Amherst YAF Wants Agnew." irc i Me Sh ed