As a collection that claims to want to “protect the poor and vulnerable,” one would expect the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) to be particularly sensitive to Catholic teaching about the sanctity of human life at its most vulnerable stages. Given the sheer volume of surgical abortions – around 50 million since the CCHD began awarding grants in the US – and countless millions of additional abortions from contraceptives – one would expect the CCHD to recognize that our most abused and vulnerable population is the pre-born.
No other social evil remotely approaches the magnitude of these numbers, although, in terms of human misery and evil consequence, the breakdown of family life probably runs a close second. Catholics, with an amazing body of social teaching literature at their disposal, know this – or should.
Yet, we find many of CCHD’s grantees are actually working against protecting these most exceedingly poor and vulnerable people. Every Alinskyian-associated or politically-progressive organization funded by CCHD is part of a vicious and effective pro-abortion web.
In Chicago, Alinskyian-associated or politically-progressive organizations are the majority of CCHD grantees. A laundry list of the more objectionable 2009 Archdiocese of Chicago grant awards is tedious reading but startling as one begins to absorb its significance:
Local CCHD Grants, awarded by the Archdiocese of Chicago
Vitamin D lifts mood during cold weather months
Field Museum archaeologists amend the written history of China's first emperor
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council has strong Alinskyian ties. It is a member of the Grassroots Collaborative founded by Madeline Talbot, who was also the founder of Illinois ACORN…only, it isn’t called ACORN any more but Action Now, which is also part of Grassroots Collaborative. Furthermore, Brighton Park Neighborhood Council is a member of the Developing Justice Coalition, an alliance of 26 Illinois groups, including ACORN and groups that are members of the premier Alinskyian organizing network, the Industrial Areas Foundation and its Chicago affiliate, United Power for Action and Justice.
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council’s progressive activity includes being one of the Partners of the Illinois Campaign for Responsible Sex Education, which is lobbying for “a comprehensive approach to sex education [that] promotes adolescent sexual health” by teaching, among other things, “contraceptives and other barrier methods.” [Illinois Caucus for Adolescent Health, www.icah.org/files/docs/Sex Education Curriculum Content Review 07.pdf]
Brighton Park Neighborhood Council also convened an Immigration Workshop at St. Pancratius School Hall, March 22, 2003 that included pro-abortion Congressman Luis V. Gutierrez, Attorney General Lisa Madigan, and Senator Richard Durbin, in violation of Archdiocesan policy against allowing pro-abortion speakers on Church property.
Seemingly unrelated but actually quite pertinent is Brighton Park Neighborhood Council’s endorsement of the March 10 Movement (M10M), “a grassroots coalition of students, workers, civil rights activists, trade unionists, religious and community organizations that labor together to bring about the legalization of the 12 to 18 million of undocumented immigrants that live in the United States.” The M10M coalition’s lead organizer, Jorge Mujica, Jorge Mujica, has endorsed the People’s Platform of ARC ‘09, which demands, along with health care for all, “an unequivocal commitment to reproductive choice for all women.” [ARC ’09, “A movement Re-imagining Change,” People’s Platform, 2009).
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos /Immigrant Workers Project: $20,000 (1st Year)
Centro de Trabajadores Unidos is one of 6 members of the Illinois Coalition of Worker Centers that includes the ARISE Chicago Worker Center (Collaborative). The ACWC was launched in 2002 by the Chicago affiliate of Interfaith Worker Justice, called the Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues, founded in 1991 by Msgr. Jack Egan (who was trained by Alinsky and was on the IAF Board) and others, and now called ARISE Chicago. Ana Guajardo founded and directs Centro de Trabajadores Unidos/Immigrant Workers' Project in 2008. Before that, she worked for the Chicago-based Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (a partner of the Center for Community Change).
Like Brighton Park Neighborhood Council and several other CCHD-funded groups in the Chicago area, Centro de Trabajadores Unidos endorsed the May 1 March 10 Movement (M10M), “a grassroots coalition of students, workers, civil rights activists, trade unionists, religious and community organizations that labor together to bring about the legalization of the 12 to 18 million of undocumented immigrants that live in the United States.” Again, M10M coalition’s lead organizer, Jorge Mujica, has endorsed the People’s Platform of ARC ‘09, which demands, along with health care for all, “an unequivocal commitment to reproductive choice for all women.” [ARC ’09, “A movement Re-imagining Change,” People’s Platform, 2009]
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless: $15,000 (1st Year)
The Chicago Coalition for the Homeless has a number of connections to Alinskyian organizing. It is a member of the Alinsky-founded Industrial Areas Foundation affiliate, United Power for Action and Justice. It is also a member Grassroots Collaborative, founded by Madeline Talbot of Illinois ACORN…only, it isn’t called ACORN any more but Action Now, which is also part of Grassroots Collaborative. And Chicago Coalition for the Homeless is a partner of the Center for Community Change (CCC), which is under the leadership of a former ACORN organizer, Deepak Bhargava. CCC works with ACORN, Gamaliel, and DART (which, together with the Industrial Areas Foundation are the larger Alinskyian networks) on the Fair Immigration Reform Movement. The CCC board includes Alinskyian organizers from other networks.
Further, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless is an “ally” of PACT – Public Action for Change Today: an organization “in the IAF tradition,” led by young adults (aged 16-35). Fiscal sponsors include the IAF, UPAJ (IAF), Lake County United (IAF), and DuPage United (IAF). And the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless is a member of the Developing Justice Coalition, an alliance of 26 Illinois groups, including ACORN and groups that are members the premier Alinskyian organizing network, the Industrial Areas Foundation and its Chicago affiliate, United Power for Action and Justice.
Needless to say, the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless is pretty tight with other progressive bodies. Its 20th Anniversary in 2001 featured National Honorary Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, Dr. Cornel West, as guest speaker. West “not only” spoke about “capitalism's manifest injustice,” but “of how the modes of domination in our society result in our being less than fully human.”
Chicago Coalition for the Homeless is a partner organization of Equal Voice for America’s Families and has a representative on Equal Voice’s regional planning committee. Equal Voice for America’s Families Platform calls for comprehensive sex education, a strengthening of federal control over local public schools, including expanded implementation of workforce-development programs, among other things. Although the Platform doesn’t mention it, a picture accompanying the materials calls for “reproductive justice.” (p 13)
Coalition of African, Arab, Asian, European and Latino Immigrants of Illinois (CAAAELII): $15,000 (1st Year)
CAAAELII doesn’t appear to have any ties to Alinskyian organizing but, like several other CCHD-funded groups in Chicago, it endorsed the March 10 Movement (M10M). “a grassroots coalition of students, workers, civil rights activists, trade unionists, religious and community organizations that labor together to bring about the legalization of the 12 to 18 million of undocumented immigrants that live in the United States.” M10M coalition’s lead organizer, Jorge Mujica, has endorsed the People’s Platform of ARC ‘09, which demands, along with health care for all, “an unequivocal commitment to reproductive choice for all women.” [ARC ’09, “A movement Re-imagining Change,” People’s Platform, 2009]
And like the CCHD-funded Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, CAAAELII is a partner organization of Equal Voice for America’s Families. It also participated in an Equal Voice Town Hall, a project of the Marguerite Casey Foundation’s “yearlong campaign to develop and advance a national agenda that puts families first” called the Equal Voice for America’s Families campaign. Equal Voice for America’s Families Platform calls for comprehensive sex education, a strengthening of federal control over local public schools, including expanded implementation of workforce-development programs, among other things. Although the Platform doesn’t mention it, a picture accompanying the materials calls for “reproductive justice.” (p 13)
Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN): $20,000 (2nd Year)
The Inner-City Muslim Action Network is a member of the CCHD-funded Southwest Organizing Project, which is in turn a member of the Industrial Areas Foundation affiliate, United Power for Action and Justice. These groups are Alinskyian organizations, as is the Developing Justice Coalition, an alliance of 26 Illinois groups, including ACORN and groups that are members of the Industrial Areas Foundation affiliate, United Power for Action and Justice…including the Inner-City Muslim Action Network .
Along with the Communist Party of Illinois, Gay Liberation Network, International Socialist Organization, Party for Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Workers Party, and others, the Inner-City Muslim Action Network endorsed the May 1, 2007 “Mass March for Immigration,” calling for “Full and Equal Rights for Undocumented Workers and All Immigrants Now!”
IMAN is also a partner organization of Equal Voice for America’s Families and has a representative on Equal Voice’s regional planning committee. Equal Voice for America’s Families Platform calls for comprehensive sex education, a strengthening of federal control over local public schools, including expanded implementation of workforce-development programs, among other things. Although the Platform doesn’t mention it, a picture accompanying the materials calls for “reproductive justice.” (p 13)
Kenwood Oakland Community Organization: $15,000 (1st Year)
Kenwood Oakland Community Organization is a partner organization of Equal Voice for America’s Families whose Platform calls for comprehensive sex education, a strengthening of federal control over local public schools, including expanded implementation of workforce-development programs, among other things. Although the Platform doesn’t mention it, a picture accompanying the materials calls for “reproductive justice.” (p 13)
Lakeview Action Coalition: $15,000 (2nd Year)
The Lakeview Action Coalition is a partner of the Center for Community Change, which is under the leadership of a former ACORN organizer, Deepak Bhargava. CCC works with the Alinskyian organizing networks ACORN, Gamaliel, and DART on the Fair Immigration Reform Movement and CCC board includes Alinskyian organizers from other networks.
The Lakeview Action Coalition is an affiliate of the National People’s Association/National Training and Information Center, founded by Shel Trap, who came from Chicago’s Alinskyian Northwest Community Organization. Furthermore, the Lakeview Action Coalition is an “ally” of PACT – Public Action for Change Today, an organization “in the IAF tradition “led by young adults (aged 16-35). Fiscal sponsors of PACT include the Industrial Areas Foundation and its affiliates United Power for Action and Justice, Lake County United, and DuPage United.
The Lakeview Action Coalition includes institutional representatives from pro-abortion denominations, including conservative or reform Judaism, the United Methodists, United Church of Christ, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, Presbyterian Church USA, Episcopalians USA, and the Unitarian Universalists…as well as the Service Employees International Union.
Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center is another member of Lakeview Action Coalition. The healthcare facility provides reproductive services: “From family planning through pregnancy, education, delivery and postpartum care, our experienced obstetrical and neonatal staffs are dedicated to giving mothers and their babies a happy, healthy start.”
Another Lakeview Action Coalition member institution is Deborah’s Place, begun by Patty Crowley, a public dissenter against Humanae Vitae and a founder of Call to Action.
Mothers Opposed to Violence Everywhere: $15,000 (1st Year)
Mothers Opposed to Violence Everywhere is a comparatively benign organization, though it participated in the Pax Christi USA National Conference 2009. Pax Christi USA is a member of the dissident Catholic organization, Call to Action.
PASO – Proyecto de Accion en los Suburbios del Oeste/ West SAP – West Suburban Action Project: $15,000 (1st Year)
Proyecto de Accion en los Suburbios del Oeste/ West Suburban Action Project isn’t an Alinskyian organization but, along with ACORN, various IAF, PICO, and Gamaliel locals (and regionals), which are, the Progressive States Network and others, it’s an endorser of the Campaign to Reform Immigration for America and numerous groups supportive of legalizing undocumented workers.
It is certainly has progressive connections. May 2009, PASO/WSAP participated in an interfaith service with the 8th Day Center for Justice, Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition, and the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs, calling for “comprehensive immigration reform.” 8th Day Center for Justice and the Chicago New Sanctuary Coalition both promote liberationism and the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs has “partnered” with organizations such as CAAAELII, the Center for Community Change , and the March 10th Committee for legalizing undocumented workers.
Restaurant Opportunities Center of Chicago: $15,000 (1st Year)
Restaurant Opportunities Center of Chicago is one of 6 members of the Illinois Coalition of Worker Centers that includes the ARISE Chicago Worker Center (or Collaborative – acronym ACWC). The ACWC was launched in 2002 by the Chicago affiliate of the Alinskyian Interfaith Worker Justice, the Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues, founded in 1991 by, among others, Msgr. Jack Egan, who was trained by Alinsky and was on the IAF Board.
South Suburban Action Conference: $15,000 (1st Year)
South Suburban Action Conference is an affiliate of the Alinskyian Gamaliel network, which is, in turn, a partner of the Center for Community Change network.
The Center for Community Change is politically active in progressive circles, launching the Campaign for Community Values and running over 80 “values forums” attended by four Democratic presidential candidates, including Obama. Campaign for Community Values’ priorities are: health care; immigration; and worker justice and CCC members includes other Alinskyian organizing networks.
Gamaliel, for its part, is pushing universal federal healthcare without regard to abortion components in the legislation.
National CCHD to the Archdiocese of Chicago
Chicago Workers Collaborative: $30,000 (1st Year)
The [ARISE] Chicago Workers Collaborative is one of 6 members of the Illinois Coalition of Worker Centers that includes the ARISE Chicago Worker Center (or Collaborative; acronym ACWC). The ACWC was launched in 2002 by the Chicago affiliate of Interfaith Worker Justice, the Chicago Interfaith Committee on Worker Issues, founded in 1991 by, among others, Msgr. Jack Egan who was trained by Alinsky and was on the IAF Board.
The [ARISE] Chicago Workers Collaborative is a partner of the Center for Community Change, which is under the leadership of a former ACORN organizer, Deepak Bhargava. CCC works with ACORN, Gamaliel, and DART on the Fair Immigration Reform Movement and CCC board includes Alinskyian organizers from other networks.
The [ARISE] Chicago Workers Collaborative held a workers assembly in 2009 to plan the March 10th Committee’s May Day march in Chicago for legalization of the undocumented. [Betsy Farley and Jorge Lertora, “Chicago workers plan for May Day march: Organize unions, fight for legalization!” The Militant, March 23, 2009] M10M coalition’s lead organizer, Jorge Mujica, has endorsed the People’s Platform of ARC ‘09, which demands, along with health care for all, “an unequivocal commitment to reproductive choice for all women.” [ARC ’09, “A movement Re-imagining Change,” People’s Platform, 2009]
Chicago Socialism 2009 conference, June 18-21, included speaker Martín Unzueta of the Chicago Workers Collaborative, who was also a speaker at the 2007 Midwest Socialist Conference, “Building a Revolutionary Alternative. The Socialism 2009 conference included a speaker who has written extensively about “women’s liberation” (Sharon Smith) and another whose topic was abortion “rights” (Jennifer Roesch).
Community Organizing for Family Issues (COFI): $40,000 (3rd Year)
COFI is another one of the few Chicago CCHD grantees without direct Alinskyian connections. It has progressive connection, though. Ellen Schumer, COFI’s Executive Director, is on the Board of Directors for the Crossroads Fund whose 2009 grant awards included 5 of the 2009 CCHD grantees, several LGTB groups, and at least one “pro-choice” health center (“We do not provide abortions at the health center but we provide referrals as requested.” They do provide abortifacient birth control, however, and emergency “contraception.”)
COFI is also a partner organization of Equal Voice for America’s Families. Equal Voice for America’s Families Platform calls for comprehensive sex education, a strengthening of federal control over local public schools, including expanded implementation of workforce-development programs, among other things. Although the Platform doesn’t mention it, a picture accompanying the materials calls for “reproductive justice.” (p 13)
Community Renewal Society/Senior Action Network (SAN): $25,000 (1st Year)
Community Renewal Society is a member of the Developing Justice Coalition, an alliance of 26 Illinois groups, including ACORN and groups that are members of the Alinskyian Industrial Areas Foundation affiliate, United Power for Action and Justice.
Interestingly, the Senior Action Network, which is the CRS organizing project that received a 2009 CCHD grant has one Catholic parish among its members, St Sabrina Catholic Church, whose pastor is Fr. Michael Pfleger of presidential campaign 2008 fame.
Along with the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America and the Communist Party of Illinois, among others, the Community Renewal Society sponsored the June 13, 2009 New New Deal Project conference, “with the long-term goal of promoting a wide-ranging multi-issue discussion of progressive solutions to the economic crisis and its root causes. The goal of the New New [Deal – sic]Project is to help bring together groups and individuals who are engaged in struggles for peace, equality, social and economic justice in order to collectively build a grassroots movement for comprehensive change.” The strong socialist representation of this group assures that abortion “rights” (or “reproductive justice” issues) are a presumed component of any political action they take.
Community Renewal Society also belongs to Change Illinois!, along with the pro-abortion Protestants for the Common Good, Common Cause, Grassroots Collaborative, and others. The Community Renewal Society was founded in 1882 by the Congregational Church (the denomination preceding today’s United Church of Christ). CRS material informs the reader that “Community Renewal Society's programmatic focus aligns with the mission principles of the United Church of Christ.” The UCC is a pro-abortion denomination.
Lake County United: $40,000 (2nd Year)
Lake County United, with eleven Catholic parishes among its members, is an affiliate of the Alinskyian Industrial Areas Foundation. Lake County United also funds PACT ( Public Action for Change Today), an organization “in the IAF tradition,” led by young adults (aged 16-35). Fiscal sponsors include, as well, the Industrial Areas Foundations and its affiliates United Power for Action and Justice and DuPage United.
In addition to its progressive political activism, Lake County United includes institutional representatives from the following pro-abortion denominations – Episcopalians USA, United Methodist, conservative or reform Judaism, Presbyterian Church USA, Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, and Unitarian Universalist.
Latino Union of Chicago/Trabajando por Justicia: $30,000 (1st Year)
The Latino Union endorsed the March 10 Movement (M10M), “a grassroots coalition of students, workers, civil rights activists, trade unionists, religious and community organizations that labor together to bring about the legalization of the 12 to 18 million of undocumented immigrants that live in the United States.” The M10M coalition’s lead organizer, Jorge Mujica, Jorge Mujica, has endorsed the People’s Platform of ARC ‘09, which demands, along with health care for all, “an unequivocal commitment to reproductive choice for all women.” [ARC ’09, “A movement Re-imagining Change,” People’s Platform, 2009).
Little Village Environmental Justice: $40,000 (3rd Year)
Little Village Environmental Justice doesn’t have overt Alinskyian connections but is certainly active in progressive circles. It was a participating organization in “Rethinking Our Future: International Woman’s Day 2001 Conference. Co-Sponsors of the conference included, among others, Chicago NOW, Chicago Queer Commission of DSA, Womyn's Radical Self-Help Network, and the Chicago Abortion Fund. The day included “screenings of women related/women produced videos, such as ‘Jane,’ a documentary about the Jane collective, a group that provided underground abortions for women in the late 60s and early 70s before Roe V. Wade; ‘Skin Deep,’ a documentary about the distribution and effects of the contraceptive Norplant in the U.S.; and “scenes from the internationally acclaimed ‘Vagina Monologues’.” Workshop titles included “Feminism & Theories of Liberation,” “Black Women Fighting Racism within the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Liberation Movements,” and “Reproductive Freedom Nationally and Internationally.”
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization has a representative on Equal Voice’s regional planning committee. Equal Voice for America’s Families Platform calls for comprehensive sex education, a strengthening of federal control over local public schools, including expanded implementation of workforce-development programs, among other things. Although the Platform doesn’t mention it, a picture accompanying the materials calls for “reproductive justice.” (p 13)
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Latinas Organizing for Reproductive Equality, Mexican Students of Aztlan, F.I.R.E., and Young Women’s Empowerment Project held a “Revolutionary Expressions: A Celebration Commemorating International Womyn’s Day” fundraiser on February 28, 2008.
Northwest Neighborhood Federation: $30,000 (3rd Year)
The Northwest Neighborhood Federation is an affiliate of the National People’s Association/National Training and Information Center founded by Shel Trap, who came from Chicago’s Alinskyian Northwest Community Organization.
Northwest Neighborhood Federation is also a member of the Developing Justice Coalition, an alliance of 26 Illinois groups, including ACORN and groups that are members of the Industrial Areas Foundation affiliate, United Power for Action and Justice.
Many of the early Northwest Neighborhood Federation founders came out of the Citizen Action Program – founded under the Industrial Areas Foundation by Heather Booth (who also founded the organizer’s training institute, the Midwest Academy) and her husband Paul.
Northwest Neighborhood Federation endorsed the March 10 Movement (M10M), “a grassroots coalition of students, workers, civil rights activists, trade unionists, religious and community organizations that labor together to bring about the legalization of the 12 to 18 million of undocumented immigrants that live in the United States.” The M10M coalition’s lead organizer, Jorge Mujica, Jorge Mujica, has endorsed the People’s Platform of ARC ‘09, which demands, along with health care for all, “an unequivocal commitment to reproductive choice for all women.” [ARC ’09, “A movement Re-imagining Change,” People’s Platform, 2009).
Progress Center for Independent Living: $30,000 (1st Year)
No problems. Guess they let one slip through…
Southwest Organizing Project: $45,000 (2nd Year)
The Southwest Organizing Project, with 13 Catholic parishes among its members, is itself a member of United Power for Action and Justice, an affiliate of the Alinskyian Industrial Areas Foundation. Furthermore, Southwest Organizing Project is an “ally” of PACT (Public Action for Change Today), an organization “in the IAF tradition,” led by young adults (aged 16-35). Fiscal sponsors of PACT include the Industrial Areas Foundation and its affiliates United Power for Action and Justice, Lake County United, and DuPage United.
Southwest Organizing Project is also a member of the Developing Justice Coalition, an alliance of 26 Illinois groups, including ACORN and groups that are members of the Industrial Areas Foundation affiliate, United Power for Action and Justice.
Among its more troubling associations is Change Illinois!, which includes the pro-abortion Protestants for the Common Good, Common Cause, Grassroots Collaborative, and others.
Southwest Organizing Project is a partner organization of Equal Voice for America’s Families. Equal Voice for America’s Families Platform calls for comprehensive sex education, a strengthening of federal control over local public schools, including expanded implementation of workforce-development programs, among other things. Although the Platform doesn’t mention it, a picture accompanying the materials calls for “reproductive justice.” (p 13)
TARGET Area Development Corporation: $35,000 (1st Year)
The TARGET Area Development Corporation is a member of the Developing Justice Coalition, an alliance of 26 IL groups, including ACORN and groups that are members of the Industrial Areas Foundation affiliate, United Power for Action and Justice.
TARGET Area Development Corporation belongs to Change Illinois!, along with the pro-abortion Protestants for the Common Good, Common Cause, Grassroots Collaborative, and others.
TARGET Area Development Corporation is also a partner organization of Equal Voice for America’s Families and has a representative on Equal Voice’s national planning committee. Equal Voice for America’s Families Platform calls for comprehensive sex education, a strengthening of federal control over local public schools, including expanded implementation of workforce-development programs, among other things. Although the Platform doesn’t mention it, a picture accompanying the materials calls for “reproductive justice.” (p 13)
In Closing
This is only one year’s CCHD funding in one diocese, examining grantees only for their Alinskyian connections and providing a few examples of how they are networked with pro-abortion progressive entities. We have not discussed the overtly socialist activities of many of these groups nor their liberationist (as in “liberation theology”) teachings nor their homosexual activism.
Yet, despite the exceedingly narrow window of this examination, one sees that the CCHD grants in Chicago are highly objectionable and profoundly anti-catholic. Whether or not individuals within these CCHD recipient organizations are pro-life (and some may be) and even whether or not these progressively-aligned groups have, or don’t have, abortion “rights” as an organizational goal, their allies do. Abortion “rights,” along with homosexual “rights” and statist solutions to social problems, are what define the progressive political package...and progressivism doesn’t help the poor – it eliminates them.
Stephanie Block is the editor of the New Mexico-based Los Pequenos newspaper and a founder of the Catholic Media Coalition.
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it uses the old tried and true method of guilt by association. if a group is mentioned in the same breath with another, if they are on the same endorsement list, then they are guilty as charged.
It is inferred the Inter City Muslim Action Network and the Community Renewal Society are subversive groups because we appeared on the same endorsement list with them. could it be they are part of the broader communist conspiracy?
There is not an ounce of real analysis of what these groups do on a day to day basis in the community.
This kind of tactic led to a total disfigurement of politics in this country for the last 50 years, it led to loss of jobs, harassment and loss of funding and thank goodness we are leaving it behind.
This is unconsciousable, it is dishonest and has no place in the public discourse. Shame on you.
John Bachtell
Communist Party of Illinois
jbachtell@cpusa.org