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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Sean O'Torain,</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Originally from Derry Northern
Ireland.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>He has lived in Chicago since the late
1990's.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>He was in Belfast on Bloody Sunday in the early
1970's, he was also for many years an Organizer for the Socialist Party of
Ireland.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>In the early 2000's in Chicago he organized
Working class people in Whitting Indiana, an area of former Steel Mills and
other Industrial Manafacturing in the Chicago metro area, to oppose a 1000 %
property tax increase that the City Council voted in because the Steel Mills and
B.P. Petroleum Refinery had their Accountants prepare financial statements
that alleged they were almost bankrupt and could no longer pay their property
taxes. They of course had help from corporate bought and paid for
politicians of BOTH the dems and the repubs.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>They resisted with a " Can't Pay, Won't Pay "
slogan and they went to every City Council and County Board meeting and
advocated and harrassed / exposed the corrupt
politicians.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>They eventually got everything back to the normal
/ affordable tax rates because of their direct action
activism.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>Sean O'Torain helped make this happen through his
experience with a similar campaign in Ireland years
prior.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>He also spoke at a Labor Conference here in C-U
back in I believe in 2007 at the Institute for Labor and Industrial Relations at
the U of I and wrote a book a few years ago tittled ; " The Donegal
Woman ", based on the life story of his Grandmother, which takes place in the
1920's and 1930's shortly after the Irish Revolution and the tragic
Irish Civil War, who was an Indentured Servant to a wealthy Farmer
who raped and brutalized her.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>It is a best seller in Ireland and many other
English speaking countries EXCEPT the United States. U.S. Publishers
wouldn't touch his book with a ten foot pole.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial>David Johnson</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jencart13@yahoo.com href="mailto:jencart13@yahoo.com">Jenifer
Cartwright</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=dlj725@hughes.net
href="mailto:dlj725@hughes.net">David Johnson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 24, 2013 3:31
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Peace-discuss] An opinion
from an Irish National about the new Pope</DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top>And the Irish National would be???<BR><BR>--- On <B>Thu,
3/14/13, David Johnson <I><<A
href="mailto:dlj725@hughes.net">dlj725@hughes.net</A>></I></B>
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David Johnson <<A
href="mailto:dlj725@hughes.net">dlj725@hughes.net</A>><BR>Subject:
[Peace-discuss] An opinion from an Irish National about the new
Pope<BR>To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;@mail0.frost.chambana.net<BR>Date:
Thursday, March 14, 2013, 1:05 PM<BR><BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I see also that this new pope, a Jesuit,
the ideological thu<FONT size=2>g wing of the Catholic church,
</FONT>is from Argentina. The Catholic church there and
internationally crushed their liberation theo<FONT size=2>l</FONT>ogy
wing and <FONT size=2>took</FONT> the side of the military
dictatorships in Latin America in the slaughter of the left and active
workers and peasants. I think the<FONT size=2> Argentine church</FONT>
even had to apologize for not opposing the dicta<FONT size=2>torship
and its methods in Argentina. So from the last pope, a former Nazi
youth member to a man who<FONT size=2> helped through his organization
the murderous military dictatorship in Argentina. What an outfit. Yes
the main and brutal church of capitalism.
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