Hillary in the Venceremos Brigade! I love it! http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Venceremos%20Brigade These folks will believe anything. So that's why Johnetta Cole, who was in the Brigade, was gonna get a Cabinet post in the first Clinton admin. before the neo-con editor of the NY Forward made a huge stink in '92...
Michael Pugliese
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a396e16cb6411.htm ...The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest socialist organization in the U.S. It is affiliated with the Socialist International. Fifty-four U.S. congressmen are members of the DSA. Coincidentally (?), 34 of these "socialists" are among the most militant members of the pro-Castro lobby. To name just a few, on Capitol Hill we find in the pro-Castro gang Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC-Ala.), Jesse Jackson (D-Ill.), Julian C. Dixon (D-Calif.), James A. McDermott (D-Wash.), Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), etc.
All of them have been faithfully executing the orders of their tyrant-in-chief "unleashing a battle for" Elián's return to Castro. They are the dependable, fanatical and vociferous taxpayer-paid pro-Castro crowd on Capitol Hill.
Many of them have participated in press conferences and interviews promoting the tyrant's crusade. By their actions they have condemned an innocent 6-year-old child to a life of abuse in the hands of Castro's infamous psychiatric re-education facilities to eradicate from him the taste of freedom he experienced before being illegally kidnapped under false pretenses by Clinton-Reno's Gestapo-like troops to ultimately be sent back to Cuba.
Washington's James McDermot is a fanatical supporter of Castro and the infamous Venceremos Brigades, which in the '60s and '70s brought thousands of American students to Cuba under the guise of cutting sugar cane. But these Americans students also received indoctrination so that in the future (we are now seeing the results) they would help the Castro regime's campaign in the U.S. to favor his goals and serve as access to economic, political and military intelligence. These Venceremos Brigade graduates have effectively infiltrated the foundations of our society.
There are unconfirmed rumors that Hillary Clinton in the '70s was a Venceremos Brigade graduate. If that is true, we have at least one of them very close to the president.
The love affair of New York's Charles Rangel with Castro dates back to 1959, when Castro stayed at Harlem's Hotel Theresa and Rangel sat beside him at the dinner table. Ever since he has been the useful servant, and he travels to Cuba often, bringing members of the U.S. Congress' Black Caucus and TransAfrica to marvel at the socialist "paradise" that his friend, Castro - probably the biggest slave master in the history of slavery - has created in Cuba.
Apparently Rangel and company couldn't care less about the reigning apartheid in Cuba and that their black Cuban brothers are, at 80 percent, overpopulating Castro's jails and labor camps, and they are hardly in important positions in that socialist utopia. I do not have any recollection of Rangel and company protesting the gross institutional violations of human rights in Cuba, including against the many black pro-democracy activists and independent journalists in Cuba. Rangel and company, in their constant meddling in Cuban affairs and actions of support for the Castro regime, in their myopic view, do not want to meet any of the black political prisoners and harassed activists inside Cuba.
Another faithful servant of slave master Castro is California's Rep. Maxine Waters, who has worked actively on his behalf in detriment to the most famous innocent 6-year-old in the world. Rep. Waters travels to Cuba often, apparently for guidance or orders from her socialist comrades. She recently was in Havana cutting the ribbon at the opening ceremony of a Medical Convention with Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif.
Waters is siding with Fidel because she apparently is repaying his favor of hiding for her a former Black Panther convicted of murder in the U.S. On Sept. 29, 1998, Rep. Waters wrote a "Dear President Castro" letter saying, "I, and some of the Members of the Congressional Black Caucus, mistakenly voted for House Concurrent Resolution 254 which called on the Government of Cuba to extradite to the United States Joanne Chesimard and all other individuals who have fled the United States from political persecution [!] and received political asylum in Cuba. Joanne Chesimard was the birth name of a political activist known to most Members of the Congressional Black Caucus as Assata Shakur."
Chesimard, AKA Shakur, a militant member of the Black Panthers, was not politically prosecuted in the U.S. Rather, she was a convicted killer of New Jersey state trooper Werner Foerster, who was murdered execution-style in a turnpike shootout in 1973. She also wounded his partner. She was not a civil rights leader but a convicted murderer and one of New Jersey's 12 most wanted fugitives widely sought by various government and law enforcement agencies.
She escaped from prison in 1979 and surfaced in Cuba in the 1980s, where she has been living since. In her September 1998 letter Rep. Waters encouraged Castro not to extradite her and the other criminals hiding from U.S. justice in Cuba. That speaks volumes about a member of Congress!
Also among the crowd of influential and puzzling Americans who have worked so hard to push Castro's agenda in the U.S. we have Sen. Christopher Dodd, who on May 11, 1999, was heavily criticized in an article written by Angel Pablo Polanco. As an independent journalist living in Cuba, Polanco says, "Senator Dodd is not interested in the reality of the Cuban people, he is interested only in business." He and his followers show "disloyalty to the principles of freedom."
The now-jailed black human rights activist Dr. Oscar Elias Biscet expressed "consternation" for the statements made by Dodd in relation to the lifting of the U.S. embargo published on April 27, 1999, in Miami's El Nuevo Herald. A document released by the Lawton Human Rights Foundation in Cuba, founded by Dr. Biscet, says: "The communist system is the source and cause of the Cubans' hardship. The people suffer under the communist boot. Communism is the new slavery. The lifting of the embargo must be conditioned to the respect of the human rights, freedom of all political prisoners, a multi-party system and free elections, this is a matter of principles not business."
But, apparently, principles are lacking from Castro's U.S. fan club. As we see, the above-mentioned and others unmentioned (including the National Council of Churches, the Rev. Joan Brown Campbell, the United Methodist Church, Pastors for Peace, Randall Robinson, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Ramsey Clark, Jane Fonda, Greg Craig and many prominent members of the media such as Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Katie Couric, Bryant Gumbel, Gerardo Rivera, Ted Turner, Lucia Newman, etc.) reveal by their actions their part in the infestation of Castro's cockroaches.
© 2000 ABIP
*** Agustín Blázquez is producer/director of the documentaries "Covering Cuba" and "Cuba: The Pearl of the Antilles." ABIP at netkonnect.net
............................................................................ .................... Subject: [fla-left] [politics] House Progressive Caucus Called 'Front' for Socialism (fwd) From: Michael Hoover (hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us) Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 11:33:04 EDT
http://nuance.dhs.org/lbo-talk/current/0788.html forwarded by Michael Hoover
> Congressional Caucus Called 'Front' for Socialism
> By Cheryl K. Chumley
> CNS [Conservative News Service] Staff Writer
> 12 July, 2000
>
> (CNSNews.com) - Recent Congressional votes on health care and the
> environment may be seen as victories to millions of Americans. However,
one
> particular Congressional caucus boasts that the votes actually advanced
> socialist principles.
>
> The Congressional Progressive Caucus is comprised of 53 members, according
> to its Internet
> site and information provided by a spokesperson. Only one, Vermont
> Representative Bernie Sanders, is an avowed socialist. Sanders was elected
> as an Independent, but his loyalties are with the Democratic Party.
> According to the Almanac of American Politics, only two other Socialists,
> besides Sanders, have ever been elected to the US House [Moderator's Note:
> These were Victor Berger, of Wisconsin, and Meyer London, of New York.
Both
> were members of the Socialist Party of Eugene V. Debs and Norman Thomas].
>
> Among the other 52 members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus,
> http://www.netprogress.org/legis/index.htm 51 are Democratic US
> Representatives, and one, Minnesota's Paul Wellstone, is a Democratic
> Senator.
>
> The Caucus was reportedly founded in 1991 and is associated with the
> Democratic Socialists of America http://www.dsausa.org, according to the
> latter's Internet site. DSA members claim, "We are socialists because we
> reject an international economic order sustained by private profit" and
"we
> share a vision" of the "equitable distribution of resources."
>
> Socialism, according to a Cato Institute fellow, occurs when the
government
> "arranges social order through state ownership and control, to bring about
> desired ends."
>
> Those ends, Jim Phalmer said, call for individuals to "sacrifice (their)
> liberty in exchange for nothing."
>
> "The promise is prosperity, but you get poverty," he continued.
> [Moderator's note: hmmm ... sounds more like capitalism for millions of
> working Americans]
>
> Spokespeople for the Caucus deny any affiliation with the DSA, but one
> Democratic Representative from Illinois said he holds memberships with
both
> organizations.
>
> "I'm a member of DSA," Democratic Representative Danny Davis said.
"There's
> an active chapter where I live. They're basically no different than a lot
> of the people I know."
>
> Davis said he did not know if other Caucus officials held memberships with
> the DSA, but added, "There are members of the Caucus who interact with
> whomever they feel like interacting with."
>
> A spokeswoman for Oregon Democratic Representative Peter DeFazio - who
also
> chairs the Caucus - denied any affiliation with the DSA.
>
> "There is absolutely no relationship between the CPC and the Democratic
> Socialists of America," Kristie Greco wrote in a statement issued to
> CNSNews.com.
>
> Repeated attempts were made to reach about 10 other members of the caucus
> by telephone between July 3 and July 11, but none of them returned calls
> for comment.
>
> According to its Internet site, the "statement of purpose" for the Caucus
> is to advance an agenda that is similar in content to at least portions of
> the DSA philosophy.
>
> "(We) share a common belief in the principles of social and economic
> justice," the statement said. "(We support) a more progressive tax system
> in which wealthier taxpayers and corporations pay their fair share (and we
> support) adequate funding for social programs that are designed to extend
> help to low and middle-income Americans in need."
>
> Davis maintained he was a Democrat rather than a socialist, but also
> believed "there are a lot of people who should pay more taxes than they do
> pay" to help "those who have little," and cited Microsoft chairman Bill
> Gates as an example.
>
> "One of the things that drew me to the Progressive Caucus ... was (it) has
> a focus on trying to bring a greater level of equity and balance to our
> society ... so there is not as great a gap between those who have much and
> those who have little," Davis continued.
>
> Michael Warder, the vice-president for development with the Claremont
> Institute in California said the Congressional Progressive Caucus was
> basically a "front" for the advancement of socialist principles.
>
> "It looks like a front to a very left wing socialist agenda," he said. "It
> seems like it's (comprised) of some characters who ... are attempting to
> give socialism a good name."
>
> Davis criticized that statement, calling it "way out" and "farfetched."
>
> A Caucus scorecard, released in January, depicts some of the areas in
which
> the organization's beliefs were recently advanced - most successfully,
> according to the grading system, in the
> fields of health care and the environment.
>
> Greco described the scorecard as a way for members "to grade the
> performance of the (House) on issues of importance to many Americans, such
> as education, health care, environmental protection, and reducing wasteful
> spending."
>
> The scorecard rated 121 of the 611 votes cast by the House during the
first
> session of the 106th Congress in terms of how each was aligned with the
> advancement of seven different Caucus concerns.
>
> Those seven areas, as indicated on the Caucus Internet site, were "social
> and economic justice," "nondiscrimination and tolerance in domestic
> policy," "nondiscrimination and tolerance in foreign policy," "curbs on
> wasteful, inefficient government spending," "more progressive tax system,"
> "trade policies that increase exports, encourage job creation, investment
> in the US," and "adequate funding for social programs/budget priorities."
>
> Overall, the Caucus claimed 33 "progressive victories" and 88 "progressive
> losses" on its scorecard summary sheet posted on the Internet, rating the
> outcome of votes for health care and the environment as C and B,
> respectively.
>
> For example, the House voted against a managed care reform bill that omits
> measures dealing with "specialty care, chronic care, clinical trials, or
> access to drugs." The Caucus supported the failure of that bill, according
> to its scorecard result sheet, and therefore considered the vote a
> "victory."
>
> Aside from the B and C, the Caucus scorecard reflected grades of F in all
> other areas.
>
> "I think what (the scorecard) reflects is that the views of the members of
> the Caucus are quite different in many instances than the positions taken
> by a majority of the members of the House," Davis said. "It just really
> means the Caucus has views, goals, objectives, ideas that are more in line
> with the idealism that government should in fact project."