Otto-da-Fé
Castro and Dodd wage an inquisition against a Bush nominee.
BY MARY ANASTASIA O'GRADY
Saturday, June 23, 2001
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According to people familiar with the situation, longtime Dodd staffer Janice O'Connell, who also slugged it out with Reaganites over Central America, has a key role in the "get Reich" effort. Asked about this, she wanted to know if she was off the record. When the reply was "no," she said: "I have no comment. I simply prepare the report and the members vote."
Ms. O'Connell's views are well known. On the TransAfrica Forum Web site, TransAfrica President Randall Robinson introduces Ms. O'Connell at a roundtable, noting her "opposition to Contra aid and military assistance to El Salvador" and support for "restoration of civilian rule in Haiti," which means she backed U.S. military intervention to return avowed Marxist Jean Bertrand Aristide to power.
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Ms. O'Connell's views are well known. On the TransAfrica Forum Web site, TransAfrica President Randall Robinson introduces Ms. O'Connell at a roundtable
TransAfrica's another interesting member of the pro-Castro lobby. Traces their ancestry back to the inspiration of CP members W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson; founder Randall Robinson linked to the Congressional Black Caucus; board of directors has included Carlton Goodlett of the KGB front the World Peace Council and Castro sympathizers Danny Glover and Harry Belafonte; president Bill Fletcher participated in the Boston Social Forum (a branch of the World Social Forum, a Marxist-Leninist international networking body linked to various Latin American guerrilla groups and Brazil's Lula) which held a meeting coinciding with the Democratic National Convention in 2004.