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Dr. Kenneth Jernigan: You can reach your legislators and you can reach your public by saying, "This is supposedly helping us. It's hurting us and they're taking our tax dollars, which you appropriated and you think are going to help us. And those tax dollars are really going to support NAC, which is hurting us.
That will be effective. Then I think in addition to that, that the local people must assume the responsibility for going to the homes of NAC people and going to the businesses of NAC people and making representations to them first. And then if that doesn't work, making picketing and visible demonstrations.
I think beyond all of that, that letters should be written to the Washington offices of congressmen and Senators. And finally, I think as we can and as funds will permit, the national office, if it must, and the state Federation affiliates, to the extent they can, ought to pool resources.
And we ought to have a great turnout sometime during the next year in Washington and go and speak to Congress as a body. Now, all of those things I think we ought to do. [Applause].