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Chapter Shorts

By VVAW

SAN ANTONIO,TX

Along with plan for their own Vets Day ceremony, San Antonio VVAW has applied ot join the official ceremonies. The chapter is also preparing a pamphlet explaining state veteran's laws.

The most unusual activity involves Spanish-speaking members of the Chapter who have been going to a nearby refugee camp for people who have fled El Salvador. There they have been providing humanitarian aid in helping refugees fill out the necessary forms for political status so that the Reagan administration will not be able to classify them as economic refugees and send them back to their death in El Salvador.

For more information contact San Antonio VVAW, 529 Everest, San Antonio, TX 78209 (512)826-2441

NEW YORK

Members of VVAW in New York City joined a Coalition of New York Vietnam Veteran Organizations in planning two days of testimony and rallies at hearings of the New York State Dioxin Study Commission at the end of September.

WASHINGTON, D.C

Members of the DC Chapter are still organizing their chapter, working with other vets groups and other organizations, particularly in getting together some of the early details for Operation Dewey Canyon IV.

BIRMINGHAM, AL

Plans are well along for activities for Veterans Day, working with the local Vets Center and concentrating on guerilla theatre to be put on during the city's Veterans Day ceremonies.