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| Dona Spring sez she never denounced Amerikkka |
| 2001-10-11 |
A Spring Clarification We heard from Berkeley city councilwoman Dona Spring, who offers the following clarification of a quote from the Daily Californian, which we noted yesterday: I never denounced America! I believe what I was trying to stay is that "to many of the Afghan people, the U.S. bombing of them is a terrorist act." Human life is precious. Whether it is the 6,000 people who cruelly lost their lives to the bombing attacks on Sept. 11 or the hundreds of thousands of people of the Middle East who have been killed through extensive U.S. bombing and intervention in the past two decades. Are not the lives of these people as precious as our own? One thing that history has proven again and again is that violence will only beget more violence. As our great American leader Cesar Chavez said, "nonviolence is our strength." I also told the reporter that a preferable solution for the U.S. would be to continue creating coalitions with governments in the Middle East and with Afghan civilians to unite and bring down the murderous Taliban. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |