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Vol. 78/No. 29      August 11, 2014

 
Letters
 
Hamas’ strategy
To conclude that Hamas’ strategy is to maximize the number of civilians killed by Tel Aviv to gain world sympathy, without one example as to why, is reckless. It belies other reasons. All of them show Hamas’ dead-end bourgeois leadership and motives that continue to put the Palestinian people needlessly at risk.

K.M.
Baltimore, Maryland

Paper ‘empowers my mind’
Thank you for empowering my mind with wholesome information. I am an indigent individual and if I was able to procure funds for your publication I would. Without your publication so much would remain in the shadows. As a trade electrician this information and truth provided informs and establishes a better ideal on my return outside these walls in two years five months.

A prisoner
Texas

Tomás Villanueva
Longtime farmworker advocate and union organizer Tomás Villanueva died in Seattle on June 6. He was 72. Villanueva was a founding member and president of the United Farm Workers of Washington state founded in 1986. During the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s thousands of farmworkers in eastern Washington fought for better wages, housing and working conditions in the apple orchards, and fields of hops, asparagus, cherries, grapes and pears.
In September 1986 Villanueva spoke to the Militant about the farmworkers’ fight in the Yakima Valley: “Although we do not have a contract as of yet we have had a lot of success. People are starting to lose their fear and work together.” In 1995 the union won an eight-year battle at the Chateau Ste. Michelle winery.

Mary Martin
Seattle, Washington  
 
 
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