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March 6, 1981

news

The Other Press

page eleven

 

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E] Salvador

 

One thousand people
marched through Vancou-
ver, Saturday, in protest of
American intervention in El
Salvador.

 

by Carol Pope

The stream of people
marched over the Granville
Street bridge to the Pacific
Press building to draw at-
tention to ‘‘The lies of the
media’’ regarding the El
Salvadorian situation.

“The media lies while
thousands die’’, chanted the
marchers who carried pla-
cards and banners which
condemned the intervention
of the United States in El
Salvador.

Led by four men carrying
a coffin “‘to represent the
thousands of innocent ‘peo-
ple who have died at the
hands of the U.S. backed
military junta’’, the police-
escorted marchers left rob-
son Square after a_ short
rally beginning at 1:00 p.m.

The march was in res-
ponse to the Revolution
Democratic Front’s (FDR)
call for ‘‘solidarity with the
Salvadorian people’s strug-
gle for liberation’’.

‘“‘Canada’s External Af-
fairs Minister, Mark
MacGuigan recently  flip-
flopped on his El Salvador
position by retracting an

earlier statement about gra-
ve concern regarding U.S.
intervention,’’. says the
FDR.

The FDR has called for
demonstrations to pressure
the Canadian federal go-
vernment to recognize the
FDR as the only official
representatives of the Sal-
vadorian people as nearly
fifty countries have already
done.

In Mexico, 100: ,000 peo-
ple marched for the FDR
as did 15,000 in West Ger-
many and many in the U.S.

President Ronald Reagan
recently promised to increa-
se U.S. military aid and ad-
visors to El Salvador’s go-
vernment.

The FDR claims that the
U.S. backed junta has been
responsible for 13,000 mur-
ders including those of
Oscar Romero, arch bishop
of San Salvador, six FDR
leaders and four nuns.

El Salvador could become
another Viet-nam if the
U.S. does not cease inter-
vention,’’ says FDR solida-
rity group member, Jane
Kalmikuff.

The FDR is a coalition of

solidarity. groups,  small-
business people, liberals,
social-democrats, commu-

nists and sections of the
Catholic Church.

 

9-4

 

Book Sale
Douglas College

libraries announces

the a clearance sale
of 5,000 used books

Coquitlam

Campus —
Fri.., March 13,

Sat.,

March 14 9- noon

 

 

 

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