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Yeah, yeah. The point of the conference was to announce a series of demonstrations and a half a dozen cities starting tonight here in san Francisco. They want Congress to reject the president's request for military and economic aid to South Vietnam. They claim our money is being

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used to hold and torture political prisoners with one of those infamous tiger cage cells in tow. To emphasize their point. The group plans a mass meeting tonight at glide memorial Church and demonstrations and a half a dozen other cities this week. We asked MS fonda if

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her efforts are being greeted with interest or apathy. Well, I don't know if it's people really believe that the war is over and so it's just a it's a it's we're running into ignorance more than anything else. But we've learned in the past that one american

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people know the facts. They do act. That's why uh, the facts are kept from us. That's why Watergate. Because the Nixon administration knows that in order to continue these kind of policies in Southeast Asia, they have to suppressed democracy in this country and thus water gates.

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There are approximately 200,000 people in prisons in South Vietnam for their political beliefs. They are being tortured according to massive amounts of documentation. And we are traveling with someone who spent 2.5 years in one of these prisons. They are being killed and we're not talking about

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Communists were talking about catholic leaders, buddhist leaders, young Children, old people, rice farmers and members of the Saigon government. These are the people who fill the prisons of South Vietnam. We are responsible because we're paying for it. For example, the Nixon administration for this coming year

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is requesting $20.5 million that would go directly to the prisons and police system.