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P.O. Box 356, Kingsville, MD 21087.
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CORRECTION: In the Baltimore story, the membership of Masjid Rahma should have been 380 (not 150) and has dropped to 250 (not 88), which is simply the number of people who have paid their dues. Also, the signatures on the reform petition are 130, not 70. So a few million dollars have been spent to accomodate 300-500 people.
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BEHIND THE MEXICAN BORDER TRAGEDY
Why do Mexican Peasants Come to the U.S.?
by Dr. Edward Miller, California
[An old friend of New Trend, well-known for his criticism of Zionism. -Editor.]

The Mexican border tragedy is but one result of Wasington's obeisance to the Farm Lobby. As taxpayers with a agri-subservient Congress, we have recently awarded our multimillionaire agricultural interests with over $18 Billion in "support" for the next few years. Organizatiions such as ADM (Archer-Daniels Midland) thus find it easy to sell their soybeans, wheat, oats, corn etc in Mexican villages at BELOW THE PRICE THAT THE SMALL MEXICAN FARMER CAN PRODUCE.

Unable to unload his wares, the Mexican farmer, thus failing to keep up his mortgage payments, loses his farm and is swept into the mass of millions of unemployed. Finding scant work in the Mexican cities, in desperation he struggles north into the US in a valiant attempt to earn enough to keep his family alive...Thus the increasing border-related deaths are directly related to Washington's corporate welfare for rich agricultural interests.
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YOU ARE INVITED TO a movie for LYNNE STEWART's DEFENSE COMMITTEE
She's the Civil Rights Activist who was Dr. Omar 'Abdel Rahman's attorney

Lynne Stewart Defense Committee and The Inner City Stingers Basketball Association Proudly Invites You To The Movies!

JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE - distributed by Reality Films - www.realityfilms.net
Saturday, June 7th at 6:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.
El Museo Del Barrio's Hecksher Theatre
1230 Fifth Avenue (at 105th Street) New York City
Admission $20 ($10 for students and seniors - no one turned away)

Also the first viewing of trailer from Documentary: "Who's Afraid of Lynne Stewart?" by filmmaker Flavio Fontes'

Travel Directions: By Subway take #6 train to 103rd Street, By Bus, take the M1, M3, M4 North on Madison or South on Fifth Ave. or call 212-831-7272.

Proceeds to benefit the two not for profit organizations above

Lynne Stewart Defense Committee, 351 Broadway, 3rd Fl., NY, NY 10013 (212) 625-9696 www.lynnestewart.org

ALSO

COME TO COURT TO HEAR MICHAEL TIGAR ARGUE LYNNE STEWART PRE-TRIAL MOTIONS ON FRIDAY, JUNE 13TH AT 9 A.M. UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT - SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 500 PEARL STREET, NEW YORK, NEW YORK
- JUDGE KOELTL'S COURTROOM
- FOR MORE INFO CALL 212-625-9696
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