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Elvia Alvarado Galo, a Honduran woman, challenged U.S. activists
to be as concerned about injustice in this country as they are about
the injustices of U.S. policy toward Central America.
Photo by Richard J. Brown
U.S. Central America
Conference: Foreign Policy Com es H o m e"
by Avel Gordly
"A conference in the spirit of Ben Linder" focused on U.S. policy to ­
ward Central America, was held September 25-27 at the First Congrega­
tional Church in Portland. Linder, a Portlander, was killed by U.S.-backed
counter-revolutionary (CONTRA) forces last April. The Linder family,
parents Elizabeth and David and sister Miriam, presented a moving tribute
through words and slides of the "Life, Work and Spirit of Ben Linder."
The conference featured many nationally recognized experts on U.S.
foreign policy toward Central America and prominent representatives from
several Central American countries. The 3 days of activities were attended
by over 1200 participants.
Three of the speakers made a special point of linking injustices in the
U.S. with U.S. foreign policy abroad. One of the presentors, Elvia Alva­
rado Galo, a Honduran peasant woman, works as an organizer for the
National Federation of Rural Workers in Honduras. She helped found the
Honduran Federation of Peasant Women. In her efforts to use Honduran
land reform laws to secure land for rural families, she has been arrested
six times and tortured at the hands of Hondura's intelligence police. Her
home is next door to the largest U.S. military base in the region: The Pal-
merola Airbase.
Galo, in remarks at the opening program Friday evening, said that she
had seen poor and homeless people on the streets of San Francisco during
a recent visit, and people with AIDS begging for money. She challenged
the activists to be as concerned about injustices in this country as they are
about the injustices of U.S. Foreign policy toward Central America. This
theme was eloquently sounded again through Saturday evening's back-to-
back presentations by Bill Means and Ron Herndon who spoke on the
theme "Foreign Police Comes Home".
Means is the Executive Director of International Treaty Council, an
organization dedicated to voicing the concerns of indigenous peopie world­
wide. He has traveled widely through Zelaya province on the Atlantic Coast
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communities. He recently returned from the community of Sukatpin on the
Atlantic Coast where the International Indian Treaty Council is helping build
a new saw mill.
Means cited the critical need for people to understand the real history
of the U.S. and its inhumane treatment of the Indian people, which has
resulted in the extermination of many tribes. He said, "This history has
been denied you in America. The American Indian was the first victim of
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U.S. foreign policy."
Means said that what the U.S. government has carried out through its
policies toward the Indians of this country amounts to genocide. He sug­
gests that there are many lessons to be learned in understanding just what
the U.S. is capable of exporting abroad as its foreign policy. Means is prin­
cipal of an all-Indian, fully accredited school in Minnesota.
Herndon, also an educator and local activist, sounded similar themes
from a different cultural perspective. He said that education is the key to
helping people in this country, many of whom are ignorant and uninformed
about these issues.
Herndon challenged the participants to help in developing "a platform
of issues that the average person can understand." He said that too often
activists speak from what he reffered to as "lofty levels", resulting in a lack
of grassroots understanding and, thus, lack of support for the issues.
Very few Black, Latino or Indian people attended the conference,
pointing to the need for outreach to those communities.
Clearly, the conference was the scene of a high level of information
from a wide variety of sources. There were action and literature tables from
several organizations. Some had information on work brigades to Nicar­
agua, postcards to Congress, petitions and phone trees. Many of the con­
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