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Wand To Host Salvadoran Speaker

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October
Year
1990
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The usual second-Sunday meeting of WAND will be very special this month. Lucia Ramirez, a 34-year old Salvadoran who has been imprisoned and tortured for her work with the poor in her country will give a slide presentation "The Struggle for Life: Lucia Ramirez Speaks for the Voiceless of El Salvador." Ms. Ramirez is Treasurer and Executive Committee member of UNADES (National Union of Earthquake Victims, Disappeared and Marginalized of El-Salvador). UNADES was founded in January 1987 to unite 66 shantytown communities among the 300,000 left homeless after the October 1986 earthquake. Because of widespread government corruption, very little of the $186 million in international earthquake aid ever reached the disaster victims.

UNADES has responded to the institutionalized indifference to the homelessness, desperation and hunger of the earthquake victims. In communities consisting of shacks built out of wood and metal scraps with no water or power supplies, the group has built health clinics, helped procure drinking water and electricity, and organized adult literacy campaigns. UNADES also serves as a human rights monitor, tracking the arrested and disappeared and offering legal services to those unjustly imprisoned. The group has been severely oppressed by the military and the ARENA government.

Lucia Ramírez' talk will begin at 8 pm on Sun. Oct. 14, at First Baptist Church, 512 E. Huron. Before her talk there will be a 6 pm Salvadoran dinner catered by Salvadorans in sanctuary in Ann Arbor. Reservations are required tor the $6 per person dinner. Call 761-3971 by Oct. 6 to make reservations. The whole evening is co-sponsored by Guild House Campus Ministries, Huron Valley Greens, Interfaith Council tor Peace and Justice, and Latin American Solidarity Committee.

Washtenaw County WAND (Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament), P.O. Box 1815, Ann Arbor, Ml 48106-1815; 761-1718.

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