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Tag Archives: Central American Sanctuary Movement
News Coverage of the Grand Rapids Center American Sanctuary Movement in the 1980s
This is the second story dealing with the Central American Sanctuary Movement that existed in Grand Rapids. The first story provided an overview of the Grand Rapids Movement. There was limited news coverage of the Grand Rapids Sanctuary house, which … Continue reading
Grand Rapids was part of the Central American Sanctuary Movement in the 80s
(This article is part of a larger project about the Grand Rapids Central American Sanctuary Project. As a matter of full disclosure, this writer was part of that effort.) In the late 1970s and 1980s, US funded counter-insurgency wars were … Continue reading
