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 Taken from "Another Brother" on Rikers Island by Elena Schwolsky-Fitch:
"My name is Clarence Fitch. I was born in Harlem, Harlem New York. My parents came to New York City from the South after the War. They were working-class people. My father was an auto mechanic. My mother was a telephone operator."
The gravelly voice of my husband Clarence fills the classroom. The dim light from the TV screen flickers across the faces of the young men gathered to watch the video documentary, "Another Brother." Chairs scrape across the tile floor as kids fidget in their seats. A few murmured comments, a nervous laugh and then Clarence's voice again: "I was eighteen years old, right out of high school. I wanted to get away from the authority of my parents. I believed in the so-called ideals that may or may not exist. I believed the whole spiel - I went for it hook, line and sinker. I enlisted in the Marines right out of high school.... Read More
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- No War with Iraq No Blood for Oil or Ego by Barry Romo, Dave Curry & Joe Miller
- VVAW Catalyzes Teach-In by Janet Curry
- From the National Office by Barry Romo and Joe Miller
- Notes from the Boonies by Paul Wisovaty
- 2002 Homeless StandDown by Bill Branson
- "Another Brother" on Rikers Island by Elena Schwolsky-Fitch
- Ground Zero 9/11/02 by Jim Willingham
- A Cowboy President by Marco Palacios
- VVAW Memorial Day Event, Chicago, 2002 by (Photographers)
- VVAW 35th Anniversary by Dave Kettenhofen
- Gimme an "F" by Stephen Sinsley
- Is the Plantation (Corporation) the Model for America? by Horace Coleman
- Things You Aren't Supposed to Ask by Horace Coleman
- Madame Binh Visits New York by David Cline
- Taking the Hard Way Out by Paul Wisovaty (Reviewer)
- Welcome to Milwaukee: 35th Anniversary Opening Remarks by John Zutz
- John Kniffin (1940-2002) by Veteran Staff
- A Comrade, Friend and Brother by Tom Wetzler
- Dr. Le Cao Dai, Agent Orange Researcher, Activist by Veteran Staff
- Ralph C. ("Bud") Schremp (1945-2002) by Annie Hirschman
- Colleen Novosielski by David Cline
- Unveiling the Unknown War by John Kim (Reviewer)
- The Long Road Home by Matt Davison
- CONCERNING JOE MCCARTHY (1951) by Sandra J. Fulton
- Listen Up! by Lisa Boucher (Reviewer)
- Letter to the Editor by Jim Murphy
- The Village by John Mitchell
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