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Spiro Agnew — Part 02
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HON
NETAT
DEMONSTRATION IN CONNECTION WITH
APPEARANCE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT,
BUFFALO, NEW YORK, OCTOBER 7, 1971
SPONSORED BY BUFFALO CHAPTER YOUTH
AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM BC, YAWF)
AND BUILD, UNITY, INDEPENDENCE, LIBERTY
ANDDIGNITY BUILD)
The Venceremos Brigade was formed in June,
1969, by a coalition of New Left organizations
to encourage American youth to travel to Cuba
in defiance of a ban on travel to that country
by the United States.Department of State. The.
ostensible purpose'of. the travel was to assist
the Castro regime in the harvesting of sugar cane
and other agricultural products and to give
young Americans the experience of living in a
revolutionary communist country.
The NLf was organized in July, l970, principally.
among the youth, as a coalition of New Left-
type groups in the Buffalo, New York, area
whose stated purpose is to bring new people
into collective-type units to deal with the
need for revolution in America.
An individual introduced as
of builD stated eighty percent of the prisoners in
jails are blacks and prisons are concentration camps
for blacks.. He stated.that recent wage-price freezes.
in the United States favor the rich and discriminate
against the. poor and he denounced Vice President AGNEW
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as an instigator of such discrimination..
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who' stated she represented pSC
Attica prisoners.
During the above demonstration, a group' of
placards and banners 'under the name of Young Americans
For Freedom (yar) marched around the perimeter of the
crowd.
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