Four Thousand VISTA Volunteers Fight Nixon Plan to Merge Agencies
Across the nation about 4,000 young volunteers oppose President Nixon’s reorganization proposal to merge VISTA with Peace Corps and other groups into a new Action office. The National VISTA Alliance says the plan would turn volunteers into low wage office workers, while Congress debates, with June 4 as the automatic effective date if not blocked.
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Welfare co ops organize poor to seek better benefits
Police brief reports Opal Co. Green, 51, charged with disobeying a traffic signal in a case tied to a broader background on worker and oyster harvesting co ops and other groups rallying the local poor for welfare gains.
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