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‘ “s¥ on the words, of the “Second Dec * laration of Hi of Havana, tell him of “misery, feudal exploitation, il- Uteracy, starvation wages" and he will tell you that you speak of: Texas; cell him of “discrimina- ' , Yon, oppression by the oligarchies, unemployment, the policy of re: pression against the workers,” and | Be will tell you thut you Speak of California; tell him of U.S, domi- Bation in Latin America, and he will tell you chat he knows that Shark and what be devours, be- cause he has lived in its very enteails, When a War like Lyndon “John- * Sor’, who {the fact has been pub- Usted) first gained elective office through the fraduluent use of 80, 000 Mexican-American ‘‘votes” in Texas, becomes President; When a stupid, racist U.S. Sen- ator Such as George Murphy can praise the use of bracero labor because Mexicans are “built closer to the ground"; When reactionary, fascist gringo farmers through the California Grewers Association refuse topay Mexican - Americans slaving in thelr fields the minimum wage pscessary to the survival of their -- fymilies; but continue to harp and Pressure the boys in Washingron to reinstate the defunct bracero program; When Mexican-Americans are counted among the dead In the re- cent, prophetic insurrection ia | Watts, which immediately reminds | one of the infamous “‘Zoot Suit” riots in Las Angeles during World | War U; . “<~ When American Marines (Oper cent of them Negro) are sent to, . “cht Dominican Republic to sup-" press a social revolution for Con! stilutianal reform, and to prevent! the‘ legally elected President Juan: oy Bosch from returning to his Peon. ple; When the United States main- | When Americs lasplres @ bypo- fon critical racism against all the colored peoples of the world — brown, yellow and black; When police beurality, aational and international, becomes our . lomestic way of. Ule ar well as . our foreign policy; THEN, Senores, how can you sit . there so comfortably aware of. your “elvic duty" and expect me to the spond to your call for more mi: is. lexs assassins? i You must think I am « pacifist! Which Is to say that I am not us- _ wh Ung to learn the effective use of firearms. We are all murderers, due to the simple fact of our exis-, tence in an age of genocide and mass destruction. 1 merely re- Serve the right to choose whom- ever I must Kil, . You must also know that I be- Heve in the Constitution and shall indeed fight to preserve its prin= ciples for all men. ‘The events in Vietoam and he Dominican Republic do, in fect, endanger that Constitution. ! But the problem is not the Viet~ rong, It is not he Dominicanrebels pither, Ir ts the POWER of our ‘own country. It is the’ ever-fed apatky of the American people, who fail to see or care how their “Mandate for Peace’ has been brutally and cynically mocked, It ts the growing power invested in one man, one insane Texan, Surrounded by sycophants and pro~ fessional soldiers anxious andim~ " patient for their professional war. it ls cokd piss-yellow fear a! a " changing world and the unconscijus * “desire for nuclear suicide. Nevertheless, Africa, Asia and Latin America shall be free. The . United States cannot forever fatten bon the bloody excrement of war. 1 Will Noe Fight in Vietnaml tains, retains, and protects dic- tatorships, such as the Smezabro- ~ thers, in Nicaragua, France io Spain, and Chiang in Formosa;dic~ vtatorships all over the world against the -psputar: will of. the / nations involved; pis Miguel Valdez _o . °