Document Group: DG 184

Size: 5.625 linear feet

Provenance: Donated by LAWG, Dec. 2002

Restrictions: None

Microfilm: None

Finding Aid: Preliminary checklist for Acc. 02A-063 created by Anne Yoder, January 2003

This checklist is the property of the Swarthmore College Peace Collection.

Introduction

Founded in 1983 as the Central America Lobby Group, a project of the Coalition for a New Foreign and Military Policy; became a separate entity in 1988, under the name Central America Working Group; it changed its name in 1995 to Latin America Working Group to reflect its expanded mandate. The group was based in Washington, D.C. and did most of its work in coalition through such means as sign-on letters to which the leaders of various organizations and religious bodies would attach their signatures. Its main purpose was to lobby Congress about issues of concern relating to Central America and Latin America.

The material in this accession came to the Peace Collection arranged by year, with each item produced by LAWG (such as sign-on letters, newsletters, mailings to Congress, etc.) in a separate folder, interspersed with reference material folders. The archivist sorted through the files and removed the items that reflected the group's program work and placed them in box 1, merging many documents into new folders of similar material. The newsletter "Legislative Update" from 1989-1994 [incomplete set] was removed to the Periodical Collection. Many folders were marked by LAWG as "drop" letters, meaning that a mailing, memo or sign-on letter was created and then dropped off at legislative offices. It was difficult when sorting the files to tell when CAWG/LAWG was the sponsoring group for such drops; thus, the researcher should be aware that there may be "drop" material in the reference files in boxes 2-6 as well (though it is likely that this material was sent to CAWG/LAWG to show what other organizations were doing).

A previous accession for DG 184 was received in 1995 (Acc. 95A-74); see the SCPC office files for its preliminary checklist.

Contents of Collection

Box 1 (paige box)
Program files & correspondence
Program work, 1989-1992
Outgoing correspondence [includes general form letters], 1989-1992
Mailings/Memos/Letters to Congress, 1989-1992
Mailings to Congress: foreign policy legislative aides, 1989
Sign-on letters to Congress [sponsored by CAWG?], 1990
Mailings to Congress: foreign policy legislative aides, 1990
Legislative alerts / action alerts, 1990-1991
Central America legislative hotline updates, ca. 1990-1991 [no year designated on updates]
Discussion meeting re: El Salvador, Feb. 16, 1990
CAWG Task Force on Democratization/Demilitarization, Nov. 1990
CAWG Task Force on Guatemala, Dec. 3, 1990
Work re: Talking Points on El Salvador, 1990
Work re: legislative re: El Salvador, 1990
Summaries etc. re: Dodd bill (S2125), ca. 1990
Press release, 1990
Work re: 10th anniversary of the assassination of Oscar Romero, 1990
Packet "El Salvador: the 1990 Congressional Debate"
El Salvador briefing packet, 1990
Booklet "Let Justice Be Reborn in El Salvador: An Appeal from U.S. Religious & Labor Leaders," Oct. 1990 [includes NYT advertisement]
CAWG Economic Issues Task Force, 1991
Sign-on letters to Congress & State Dept. [sponsored by CAWG?], 1991-1992
Central America legislative hotline updates, 1991-1992
Mailings/Memos/Letters to the press, 1991-1992
McHugh letters, May 1991
Work re: legislation in House of Representatives re: Guatemala, May 1991
Work re: foreign aid to Nicaragua, Sept. 1991
One minute floor speeches [in Congress], Nov. 1991
Work re: legislation re: El Salvador, 1991
Work re: Moakley-Murtha legislative language re: El Salvador, 1991
Mailings to Congress: foreign policy legislative aides, 1992-1994
Re. letters re: legislation re: El Salvador, June 1992
El Salvador Ad Hoc Commission, July 1992
Attendance (by Bill Spencer) at Central America Solidarity Roundtable, Blue Mt. Lake (NY), Oct. 22-25, 1992
Work re: Central America, 1992
Work re: FY93 Foreign Aid Appropriations Bill, 1992
FY92 notifications re: El Salvador
CAWG Economic Issues Task Force, 1993
Sign-On Letters to Congress [sponsored by CAWG?], 1993-1994
Mailings/Memos/Letters to Congress, 1993-1994
Action alerts, 1993
Penny resolution, Jan. 1993
Letter to Clinton transition team, Dec. 16, 1992; letter to Feinberg, Feb. 4, 1993
NGO testimony before Christopher Panel on El Salvador, May 26, 1993
Letter to NGOs from Democratic Convergence re: serious problems confronting Salvadoran peace process, June 2, 1993
Moakley et.al. letter re: elections in El Salvador, Aug. 20, 1993
Work re: Dept. of Defense involvement in Central America (re: building democracy & human rights), 1993
Work re: FY94 foreign aid for Central America, 1993
Work re: SouthCom joint exercises in El Salvador & Guatemala, 1993
Work re: Truth Commission, 1993
Work re: Ecumenical Consultation for Peace and Democracy in Guatemala, 1993
Letters to the press, 1994 [includes op-ed by Joy Olson in Barricada]
Central America legislative hotline updates, 1994-1995
Program files, 1994
A Fresh Start -- House & Senate, Jan. 26, 1994
U.S. Admin. response to CAWG aid letter, Feb. 7, 1994
U.S ambassadors's responses to CAWG civic action letters, March 1994
Hearing on landmines, May 13, 1994
SOA t-shirt drop, June 1994
House-Senate drop on Nicaragua provisions, July 20, 1994
House Foreign Affairs hearing re: Haiti, Sept. 27, 1994
NGO letter to Mickey Kantor, Sept. 28, 1994
Letters in support of aid for Central America, Oct. 1994
Economic issues workshop, Oct. 8-9, 1994
Harbury sign-on letters, Oct. 21, 1994
Attendance at WOLA conference re: police reform in Central America & Haiti, Nov. 3-4, 1994
"Summit of the Americas: Local Media Organizing Packet," Nov. 17, 1994
CAWG voting record / scorecard, Nov. 1994
Analysis of McConnell "International Partnership" bill, Dec. 1994
Mexico, 1994
NGO sign-on re: Mexico, 1994
Work re: elections in Mexico, 1994
Work re: FY95 foreign aid to Central America, 1994
Documents written by Lisa Haugaard, 1994

Box 2 (paige box)
Reference material, 1989-1990

Box 3 (paige box)
Reference material, 1990-1992

Box 4 (paige box)
Reference material, 1992 (cont.) - 1994

Box 5 (document box)
Reference material, 1994 (cont.)

Box 6 (1/2 size document box)
Reference material, 1994 (cont.)

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