Monthly Archives: December 1983

1983: Part of a Left-Wing Church Network

This anti-communist screen from the 1990s perpetuates the inaccuracy that Sheila had been in the Weather Underground:

In 1983 the 60 minutes news program aired a segment by Morley Safer reporting on the support the NCC [National Council of Churches] has given to left-wing causes around the world… The Methodist Church was funding the Palestine Liberation Organization through its support groups in this country including the Palestine Solidarity Committee and the Middle East Resource Center reportedly directed by Sheila Ryan, a former member of the Weather Underground.

— From “Anti-Americanism: Irrational and Rational“, by Paul Hollander, Transaction Publishers (1995)

Anti-Americanism, Irrational & Rational, p 117