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CONSTITUTION
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Ihe cyes and ears of the world
Jerence,AmericanIrish.Polti-
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will be on.Philadelphia on Con-
calEducation.Committee,
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stitution.Day.September.17th.
AncicntOrderof.Hibernians,
Classification:
Celebrating this 200th birthday
AmericanProtestantsforTru:h
Submitting Office:
of'thedocument.that.morethan
AboutIreland,AmericanIrish
anything, seis America apart will
Congressand theUnited Irish
Indexing:
be many.ethnic.groups whose
Counties Association. These are
ancestorshelped.to make his=
but a-few of:the.organizations
tory two centuries.ago.
which have participated in the
Mr.Gerry Adams,recently
invitation.
re-electedmemberot'the British
In the past. Mr, Adams has
been denied visas.for speaking
toursin'theUniied.States.This
isbecause of his.persuasive and
articulatedenunciationsofBritish
oppressionnecessarytocon
tinuedcolonial ruleinIreland;
Ms.Cassidy said: She com-
mentcdfurther."But thisevent
is quite different.This event—pait
ofwhatistobethe largest parade in
ihe history.of.theUnited
States-will proceed with-or
withoutMr.Adams.Shouldhis
visabe deniedthose Irishgroups
in the"Freedomof'Speech"con
tingent will march as.planned.
Their banners.however,will be
drapedinblacktohighlight the
deathoffreedom ofspeech.
Thus,as:literallythewholeworld
watchesthecelebrationsof'the
Constitution,a-huge represen-
OGERRYADAMS
tationofoneofthelargestethnic
Parliamentrepresenting
West
groups.in.the countrywill-be
Belfast-has:accepted invitations
announcing.what they deem tc
froma numberof Irish groups to
betheunconstitutional denialoi
leadtheir"FreedomofSpeech"
theirright tohear.all sides of a
contingentofthe.Irishsegtionof
mostimportantissue-the
the: parade. Political.Mction.
struggle forIrish freedom."
NetworkspokespersonKaileen
Ms.Cassidy explained-thai
Cassidy stated thatTheum-
any interested group or indiv-
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ber and sizeof the inter-
idual couldobtaindetails about
nationallyknownlrishgroQps
participation in the"Freedom
expressingsolidarity-withM
ofSpeech’contingent by con-
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Adamsandtherighttohearhim
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tactingthePoliticalActionNet-
suggest.thatthiswill bethe
Work,c/o MsKathleen Cassidy,
largestcontingentin theIrish
1518UplandAvenue,Jenkin-
AUG 2& 1987
section,ifnot.in thewholeparade.
town.Pa.11944.or by calling
The groups include Irish Northem
215885-2854(Cassidy)or215
Aid, Irish American Unity Con-
FOI NEWYORK
646-3822 (RacheNHoffman).
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