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<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Clements</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Clements4Congress@gmail.com" target="_blank">Clements4Congress@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
<div><p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">Dear friends,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">In 1978 I was 17 and a freshman at Harvard. At a student meeting I learned that the government in South Africa made black South Africans live in “bantustans” – secluded wastelands – and carry passes to come to the cities and suburbs to work as maids or gardeners. Hundreds of protesters had been shot down in the Sharpeville massacre, Steve Biko had been killed in police custody, and Nelson Mandela was in prison on Robben Island. But the Harvard endowment was growing from profits made in South Africa, benefiting from the racist state.</span> </p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">To do what I could I joined our campus’s Southern Africa Solidarity Committee, and helped to organize teach outs and demonstrations calling for divestiture. A great university should not profit from racist oppression.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">On Mandela’s passing, I want to honor and appreciate his leadership not only in ending apartheid, but in accomplishing the near-impossible, a largely peaceful transition to a democratic, inclusive, multi-racial South Africa.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">I’m grateful to have made my small contribution. Harvard’s divestiture movement was one of the first in the country, and divestiture is a cause I’m proud to have shared with Congressman Howard Wolpe and two-time 6<sup>th</sup> District congressional candidate Don Cooney.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">On Mandela’s passing, let’s remember that racism remains a blight on American society. The preponderance of young black men in America’s prisons represent a failure of our society. In recent years we also see rising inequality, poverty, and hunger throughout our country, while 90% of the gains from America’s economic growth have been going to the top 1%.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">Can you help me to carry the struggle for social justice to Congress? December 31<sup>st</sup>, the next Federal Election Commission campaign finance filing deadline, is crucial. The following deadline is the end of March, and by then the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and most of the national organizations will have chosen the races they will support in 2014.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">To gain the national support my campaign needs in order to win, my fourth quarter finance report needs to show grassroots support continuing to build; I need to raise another $30,000 by the end of the year.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Times New Roman,serif">Thank you!</span></p><p><span style="font-size:14px"> Paul Clements</span></p>
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