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Tag Archives: protesting Congressman Paul Henry’s support of the Contras
Anti-Contra Aid action from 1986 in Grand Rapids
As we have mentioned in numerous postings before, there was an active Central American Solidarity Movement in the 1980s, resisting the US wars in El Salvador, Guatemala and the US funding of the Contra War in Nicaragua. US aid to … Continue reading
