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Article: Charging the Elephant: San Diego DSA Kicks Off Convention Week with a Call to Action
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- September 1, 1996
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Saturday, August 10th, 1996, the week end before the start of the Republican National Convention, over 300 people attended the San Diego Hearing on Economic Insecurity, a forum intended to hammer home a message to our elected officials that working America is hurting, and to demand that government take corrective action.
For two hours, a panel that included Congressman Bob Filner (D), California Assemblywoman Denise Ducheny, and five candidates who may soon hold seats in Congress and the California Assembly listened while a steady stream of local people told their stories. Testimony came from workers, seniors, welfare mothers, men and women seeking work and students soon to join them, ...