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Vol. 71/No. 46      December 10, 2007

 
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Students push back migra
The November 7 Arizona Daily Star contains and article and a column by Ernesto Portillo Jr. about a student march against the Border Patrol on the campus of Catalina Magnet High School. The 100 who marched succeeded in getting the Tucson Police Department and the Tucson Unified School District to announce that they will no longer summon Border Patrol officials or immigration authorities to school grounds.

The article quotes Catalina High School sophomore Daninza Bautista, “We’re doing something positive, something valuable. We’re showing other students to stand up for what is right.”

Betsy McDonald
Tucson, Arizona  
 
U.S.: A possible revolution
I have been following the Militant’s coverage of the discussion in Venezuela about the question, is a revolution possible in the United States? One of the issues in that debate questioned whether the Civil War was, in effect, a revolution. In my opinion the answer to this question has to do with the fact that before the Civil War the federal government supported the interests of slave owners and after that war those interests were forcibly pushed aside.

This didn’t mean that discrimination ended. Today there are 580,000 Black men in prison while there are only 40,000 Black men who graduate college every year. These statistics reflect just one aspect of the systematic discrimination which continues in the United States.

Steve Halpern
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania  
 
 
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