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y Counter-revolutionaries raiding Nicaragua, and military aid to the dictatorship in El Salvador — was met Saturday with a sctldpeteactac

: in Vancouver, outside the U.S. consulate on West Georgia street. Participants heard provincial NDP leader call forac ove in

1 government in Canada and the U.S., and pledge his party’s stpport for the Nicaraguan revolution. Ald. Harry Rankin and Guatemalan L etters. page 7 5 | a
) liberation worker Enrique Torres also. Story page 10.

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The unemployed wound up their protest

_48S planned May 25, and packed up their tent

City outside the provicial legislature in
Ictoria.

But they vowed at a wind-up rally that
they would “keep coming back to Victoria _
Until the government here is prepared to
deal with the problem of unemployment
4nd create jobs.”

“We will not be silent — we will go back
to our communities and make sure our voi-
Ces are loud and are heard,” said Michelle

Orrest, one of the three co-ordinators for
€ four day demonstration.

“We will keep coming back to fight for
Our rights, to fight for jobs,” she said.

Originally conceived as “a relief camp
Under another Bennett,” the tent city pro-
test was organized by a coalition of unem-
Ployed groups on Vancouver Island in
Conjunction with members of unemploy-
Ment action centres in Vancouver.

The tents were pitched May 22 and by
Mid-week some 35 tents were up, the blue
and orange nylon revealing to tourists a
different view of life in B.C. from the image
Of serene grace that the Socreds have sought :
to present at the provincial legislature. Tent-in co-ordinator John Hillrich (I) from Nanaimo and Bill Massey, Port Alberni, outside the legislature.

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