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From Draft NOtices, March - April 2003


— Jorge Mariscal
 

The 2000 census teaches us two interesting facts about the way in which Latinos are contributing to the changing face of the United States. First, more legal immigrants arrived in the decade of the 1990s than in any previous decade in our history. The economic boom (or bubble) of the Clinton years attracted large numbers of people from around the world. Second, the majority of these immigrants came from Latin America (approximately 51%; 26% are from Asian countries). For the most part, the new arrivals are workers searching for a better life, without much education, and deeply attracted by the promise of economic opportunity north of the border. The overwhelming majority of them will work hard, their children will become educated, and they will make significant contributions to our society.

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From Draft NOtices, January - February 2003


— Rick Jahnkow
 
During the days of the anti-Vietnam War movement, I remember hearing of a tactic that some people used to try to bring home to the public how completely twisted our values had become. As I recall, a news release and fliers would be circulated inviting people to gather at a specific time and place to witness a live animal (usually a dog) being immolated with homemade napalm. Immediately, there would be vigorous debate and loud outcry against the idea of such cruelty. Then, at the appointed time and place, fliers would be handed out to the media and any outraged individuals who showed up, telling them that there would be no immolation of a dog, and that the purpose of the hoax was to demonstrate how hypocritical it was for the public to be so completely incensed by such an act while the same thing was being done everyday, in our name, to men, women and children in Southeast Asia. The hope was that this lesson would turn more people against the war.

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From Draft NOtices, January - February 2003



— Sean Bell
 
    

"They gave me the bronze star for my efforts," said Joe Queen before he snapped and opened fire onto the spectators at the opening game of the 2027 World Series.

This was the fictitious thought that entered my mind as I read about a Private First Class Joe Queen, whose job during the first Gulf War was to bulldoze and cover up the bodies of the Iraqi dead.

On February 24, 1991, in an area between Saudi Arabia and Iraq known as the Neutral Zone, the 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized) began the ground war to retake Kuwait, breaking through the defensive front lines of Saddam Hussein's army. This ground attack of thousands of M1A2 Abrams tanks and other vehicles followed a bombardment of howitzers and multiple-launch rockets decimating the Iraqi troops.

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Ninth CIRCUIT COURT RULING: CONFRONTING MILITARISM BY USING EQUAL ACCESS TO HIGH SCHOOLS

When the military comes to your local high school, you have a legal right to give students an opposing view. This has been the position taken by federal district courts in Florida, Pennsylvania and Illinois and two federal appellate courts. The most broadly-worded decision came from a case that COMD took to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the 1980s. Here is the background:

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