I wasn't talking about the brigadistas, a good number of whom I knew (and one of whom I dated for a time), though there were those who went to Nicaragua as a fashion statement. Yes, there were white secular lefties who did good things in Central America at that time; but in my experience it was the church folk, specifically in the Sanctuary Movement, who saved lives on a daily basis while putting themselves in the crosshairs of Reagan's "Justice" Dept. I still have tremendous respect for them, and they stood in stark contrast from the paper wavers who did nothing for no one. That, in a nutshell, is what I'm talking about.
DP