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A Community Letter 9- Again, we intend to publicize our story to the world, and we are already assured that it will be written about and widely Jo suonneu fuew u! pue sagens pannun dyn punone Auew Aq yo ueyods the world who have taken a profound interest in what Peoples Temple is doing for international co-operation in Guyana in setting up a model, multiracial community, and in what is happening to wipe out perhaps the most successful and active peoples organization in the United States.. Our only and basic desire is to be left in peace. However, if this political frame-up is seriously pursued, we will be accpgting Hao tte se noom se neae segeauy sot dyn ut sdnoas tge woag duoddns California and elsewhere who have offered to protest on a broad front in our defense. Many have recognized the campaigns against Peoples Temple as an attack on all poor and oppressed people (urban blacks in particular, who make up the majority.of those of us signing this letter), and all people who are trying to work for social and economic justice in America. It will be considered a serious matter for your office to try to make a civil rights church that has been in the forefront for racial justice for twenty five years look like it preys upon elderly blacks by dignifying this cruel plot. Many of us know the couple concerned. in the case that is being prepared, and were present when their property was discussed. The fact of the matter is that there was no coercion or any sort of 'deal' made: indeed, the position taken by Rev. Jones on the only occasion he referred to the matter was that Peoples Temple did not want the property in question. Many of us were present and can testify in support of this. The plot being hatched is a tangle of lies. Make no mistake about our resolve. We are pledged to defend our integrity, our community, and the justice of our cause. We are not afraid, and have been through battles before. We are an embattled people, with a heritage of struggle. We have no antagonism towards you at all -- we have no reason to believe it clear that we have been pushed to the wall, that we have gone very far in this cause, which for us is identified with our very S