Chicago-based organizer Prexy Nesbitt recalls this about the leaflet: "I believe that this was the flyer that I distributed along with some other people when the Portuguese soccer team came to play at Soldier Field in Chicago... I was arrested, charged with "handing out 'anti-imperialist literature' … and actually brought to court with that as the charge. The Chicago ACLU's Kermit Coleman defended me in court, though the police never showed and the judge gave me 30 minutes to explain Portugal's colonial wars. His honor, while dismissing the case, told me that my tongue was dangerous and that I should watch it! I remember taking the numbers of Portuguese troops...
Chicago-based organizer Prexy Nesbitt recalls this about the leaflet: "I believe that this was the flyer that I distributed along with some other people when the Portuguese soccer team came to play at Soldier Field in Chicago... I was arrested, charged with "handing out 'anti-imperialist literature' … and actually brought to court with that as the charge. The Chicago ACLU's Kermit Coleman defended me in court, though the police never showed and the judge gave me 30 minutes to explain Portugal's colonial wars. His honor, while dismissing the case, told me that my tongue was dangerous and that I should watch it! I remember taking the numbers of Portuguese troops [on the back of the leaflet] directly from the Peter Weiss play, "Song of the Lusitanian Bogey," first performed in the USA (down in New York's Village) by the Negro Ensemble Theatre." [Note: Prexy Nesbitt wrote the text for the leaflet; the person who created the image may have been associated with the New World Resource Center.]
