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Monday, September 21. 1987 / University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Rice, beans show Latin-American club's solidarity
By VIRGINIA McGRATH
Staff writer
Members of the Latin American Solidarity club meet once a week to eat rice and beans and learn about ways to stop U.S. domination in Latin America.
The rice and beans are on the menu for a symbolic reason, said Rhonda Neugebauer, a co-founder of the group.
"We serve only what they (the people of Central America) eat." Neugebaur said. "Sometimes they eat that three times a day. They survive on it. So this is our symbol of solidarity with them."
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We only what they (the people of Central America) eat."
— Rhonda Neugebauer club co-founder
Lisa Jones/KANSAN
The group, which usually meets Thursday evenings at Ecumenical Christain Ministries, 1294 Oread Ave., has two goals: to educate the KU and Lawrence communities about the situation in Latin America and to invite them to take some action, usually in the form of fund-raising.
Money raised by the group is given to two national organizations, Medical Aid to El Salvador, in Los Angeles, and Medical Aid to Nicaragua, in Washington D.C.
Richard Kersenbaum, Lawrence resident, and Sylvia Suarez and her son, Evan, also of Lawrence, help themselves to a dinner of rice and beans. The three attended the dinner Thursday it is sponsored weekly by the Latin American Solidarity group
Latin American Solidarity was formed in 1978.
Neugebauer said. "We saw a real need to educate people in KU and Lawrence about what was happening in Latin America," she said. "Nicaragua wasn't an issue then, but U.S. domination was. We didn't like the economic penetration that sometimes robbed the people of their right to make their own decisions."
Neugebauer spent a year and a half in Costa Rica from 1976-77 as an exchange student and visited Nicaragua several times while she was there. She has been back twice since the Sandinistas came to power in 1979, and she thinks the changes since then have been for the better.
"I noticed a word of difference," she said. "In addition to eating rice and beans, menus have eggs, milk, brownies, cookies, physician, spoke Thursday. She has worked in child and maternal health care, nutrition and family planning for a Protestant relief agency in Nicaragua since October 1986."
Cookson said that conditions in Nicaragua were hard and that U.S. financing of the contras must stop because the contras were destabilizing the region and were perpetuating the poverty and other problems of that area.
Neuebauer said guest speakers gave legitimacy to the organization. "We talk about these things," he said.
Clark H. Coan, Lawrence resident, said he liked the meetings because they were informative. "They don't do a lot in terms of actual organizing, but there are great speakers and films," he said.
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