Council sponsors human rights conference
By JIM GERSBACH
Ol the Emerald
Eugene is half a hemisphere
away from the torture chambers
and mass graves of Latin
America. But for the three
dozen active members of the
Eugene Council for Human
Rights in Latin America, inform
ing Eugeneans of Latin Amer
icans’ struggle to overcome
social injustice is a daily task.
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The council formed in 1974 to
protest General Augosto Pino
chet's military take-over of
Chile. Since that time, ECHRLA
has sponsored films, concerts,
speakers and vigils for los de
saparecidos,the victims of
police assassination in South
America.
The council also is
sponsoring tomorrow’s two-day
conference on human rights in
Latin America.
Since the group's formation,
government repression of
human rights has spread
beyond Chile to Argentina, El
Salvador and many other coun
tries. Political refugees from
nearly every country in Central
and South America, as well as
Anglo students, faculty
members and Eugene re
sidents, now work at the coun
cil’s office at 547'/2 E. 13th Ave.
University student Daniel
Malarkey joined the council
after traveling in Guatemala for
several weeks last summer.
"I saw the effect the United
States has on Latin America,”
Malarkey says. "And right now
that effect isn’t good."
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Pauline Lasse and Carl Seese, members of the Eugene Council for Human Rights in Latin America,
confer on how best to educate Eugeneans to the social injustices occuring in Latin America.
Maiamey says ne is worried
that Reagan's "tough" attitude
toward reform movements in
Latin America could result in
military intervention.
Avoiding another Vietnam is
one good reason for young
people — especially those of
draft age — to work for social
justice in Latin America, Malar
key says.
But there are obstacles to
working for human rights even
in an ostensibly liberal environ
ment like the University, he
says.
"People think that if you're
the least bit progressive you
must be one of those commies,"
Malarkey says. "But we (ECHR
LA) don’t advocate any political
philosophy beyond self-deter
mination and respect for human
rights.”
Nellie Link, an Argentinian
member of the council, agrees.
"We’re in the same position
as Marco roio returning from
China. How do we make people
listen? You don’t do it with a
diatribe.”
Link says that Americans,
with their idealism and strong
sense of public morality, could
exert enough pressure to end
human rights abuses in the
Western Hemisphere.
For example, Link says, when
it was reported that American
nuns and journalists were as
sassinated in El Salvador,
Americans began asking ques
tions about what was going on
in Central America.
But flooding right-wing
leaders with telegrams was
more effective when U S. Dolicy
stressed respect for human
rights, Link says.
"(While) Carter’s policies
didn’t make much difference in
South America, compared to
Reagan he was a moderate,”
Link says.
He put pressure on coun
tries to conform to what was in
America’s interests but he
rejected armed intervention as a
solution.”
With the new administration’s
friendlier line toward military
governments in Latin America,
members of the council are
pessimistic about the eventual
success of eliminating oppres
sion in Central and South
America.
”1 can understand the temp
tation of the officers in the Pen
tagon (to use military force in
Central America) because it is
extremely effective,” says
ECHRLA supporter Argentina
de Erdman, a former political
science professor at Lewis and
Clark College in Portland.
But no matter how pitiful
working for social justice may
seem under present circum
stances, says de Erdman, it is
the only moral alternative.
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