ANT!'RACISM NEWSLETTER Racist lerror,
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yoliieviy-iil Tom Metzger and WAR:
Soulh Ai/Ucan Con^iUatCf San FeAttando Vaiiey:
Anti-Racists March in King Day Rallies
Down but not Out NBc-nazi Tgiti netzger.
his son John,
and thair
Two major antl-racist demonstrations are scheduled
organization WAR -- White Aryan Raaiatance — uiera
for January 21, the Hartln Luther King Day holiday in
socKBcl uith a muiti-mi 11 ion dollar
L.A.
judQfflBnc by a civil
PART Is participating in both.
Jury in Portland OR which found them liable for In citing the death of Ethiopian rafugea nuLugeta Seraui at the hands of
several
of
their nazi
The King Day Coalition Against Hate Crimes has scheduled a candle-light rally and march at North
bonehead followers.
Hollywood Park, Tujunga and nagnolia, beginning at 5:00
But in southern California, natzgar is still a racist menace not to be ignored. His followers staged
p.m.
a fund-raising rally in an Orange County park in November . About 30 neo-nazis were mat by counterdemonstrators. even after changing the site of their
march, who demands this year also include an end to racism and hate crimes at home, and for peace and
get-together at the last minute.
Juscica in the niddle East and Central America.
Earlier the seme day,
the L.A. Student Coalition
is holding Its fifth annual King Day anti-apartheid
Wyatt Kaldenberg, an
The
march will gather at Pan Pacific Park in the Fairfax
ex-leftist follower of netzger s, is also raising funds for the white supremacist's appeal of the Portland verdict. Paul Smith, a "former" nazi-skin, has put "Race and Reeson," netzger's calk show, on the air on
area at
10:00 and sot off
for
the South African con
sulate in Beverly Hills at 11:00. Cion elsewhere
in this
CSae more informa-
issue.)
a cable-TW system in Torrance. and plans to run all 80 segments. neanuhile.
San niegn,
rnrl Straight,
Mere Racist Vandalisffl:
a frequnnt
guest on Race and Reason and one of netzger's hard-core followers for years,
has been subpoenaed by a federal
Racists vandalized the Laguna Hills home of ■ Black family in November. Delano Da Sllva. whose home
grand jury investigating the pipe-bombing of Che S.D. federal Building in October. The White fighting nachine which cook credit for the bombing,
suffered thousands of dollars in damage and was -sprag-
demanding
that netzger's Portland trial be stopped, hate crimes
painced inside with racial slurs, most of them mia-
laws be dropped, end Che border be sealed. The fBI arrested one men. a racist named Soames. for sending
apeiled.
threatening letters to norris Oees,
be intimidated out of his home.
charging netzger
Da Sllva, who had previously been thinking of
moving with his family to Atlanta, vowed ho would not
the attorney
in the case.
netzger is trying to extract political mileage
In uan Nuys, Grant High was the target of racist
from his Portland defeat, proclaiming himself a martyr of free speech. He appeared on "Harvey in the Lion's Oen" on Channel S spouting this Una with a couple of
vandals, who spray-painted swastikas and noo-nazi
slGgans on the school.
principal, a white man married to a Black women, racBivad threatening racist letters.
racial altercation in the San femando ualley several
several co-defendants are facing trial
Police have ar
rested Bob Snydar, an 18 year old senior for sending the letters, and suspect him of having vandalized the
months ago.
netzger's legal problems ars far from over. Richard Butler of the Aryan Nations in Idaho, and
At least one Black student, a
Black teacher, the Black assistant principal and the
dozen nazl-bonahead followers, including Geraml Rineman, who was shot and partially paralyzed in a
He,
teacher's home this past Juno.
Bail was set at
SIO.OOO.
In Los Angeles
on charges arising from a triple cross-burning carried out by WAR,
the KKK,
the Nazis and Aryan Nations more
"Mock" Klan robes, cross-burning in Fire Department, Sheriffs Department
Chan 7 yeers ago. The case was kicked out of court twice by judges impressed by netzger's free speech claims, but that decision has bean overturned on appeal -- too late to save the lives of the people killed by
several of the co-defendants ( including Jewsih talk
show host Alan Berg and a niasouri state trooper) after
Racisi IS oarticuiarly threatening insiae the rants of
they became federal fugitives. netzger is scheduled for a hearing in the L.A. Superior Court, Oept. lOS, on January 11. at which time
tne untforieii services, vnen tne force of governient is in the nands of ahite suoreiacists. Tmo recent cases in L.A. snoN this oroblei is not restricted to the deep South. In the L.A. County fire Oepartient, the Black Esoloyees
e new date will probably set far trial on the cross
burning, which Cook place m Sunland in Dec. 1303,
Association is calling for tne oisatssal of a firs captain, ■ho donned a enite paper bag cut out to loot like a KKK hood td intiBidate a Black Moian Morking at the dispatch center.
RACISTS
In the Sheriff's Oeoartient, Sheriff Sherian Bloct has
Quietly reinstated t«o deputies, guards at a local jail, who
OUT!..,
•aoe I paper cross and set fire to it Nith an aerosol can used as a blOHtorch to intiiidate Black onsoners.
0
is looking into the case.
The FBI
WHERE WE STAND
People have been asking PART to make clear what it
stands for, apart from being
against racist violence. WMe
3) All forms of racism
and domination most be opposed and ended.
There are links among racist right and neo-nazi forces
we do not have a hard and fast
in various social spheres, such
ideology, and aren't affiiiated with any party or other politi cal group, here's an outline of
as the and-busing, and-abordon, and and-immigradon
some of the principles we
unite with other progressive forces in the U.S. and around
think should guide anti-racist
movements. And-radsts must
activity.
the world. To win the battle,
1) White people need to oppose racism inside
not just knock heads with a
our communities.
we need to change the world, few bald or hooded racists.
In LA,the cops and
has been using one such lys-
Metzger, Aryan Nations head
tern., Anmerican Voice
Richard Butler, and a half a
Retrieval, to project his hatemongering into several dozen
dozen other racists get away with burning three crosses
here in 1983. Participants
does. Boycotting AVR if it's in your town, and giving the
went on to form the racist un
nazi hate-lines a dose of the
derground Order, robbing
harassment chey dish out, may
banks and killing a Jewish talk
be called for.
show host.
5) Racist propaganda and mobilizing are not free speech issues.
Apartheid, colonialism, system that breeds racism. We need to fight for women's
Find out if there's an estab
lished civil rights group in
The KKK/nazis have no
Zionism, sexism are pan of a The U.S. is one of the
Tom MetzgeYs WAR
prosecuton similarly let
right to cany out organizing
your area. Also, there arc
peace movement and religious groups around the country who are concerned about racism. The YWCA has a com mitment against racism. Some
of these groups are not always
most race conscious countries in the world. 'Race* is a
rights, to opj>ose U.S. military
campaigns, spout their vile racism on TV or cable, or
category with no scientific
intervendon in other countries,
march and bum crosses.
basis, since Africans, Asiaru,
to support independence for
Palestine, Puerto Rico,
These actions are not speech, but simply the above-ground
to start.
Europeans, and indigenous peoples have always mixed
Namibia and other nations
activity of factions that have al
publicize your concern, cspedally if you're making people
together genetically in the
who are sdll colonized. We
ways been committed to secre
course of human history. But
must oppose the hatred of gay
tive violence and terror and
racism is a hard reality, and what it means is not only prejudice or hatred toward another 'racial' group, but the use of power and privileges to
men and lesbians that has
para-military operations.
motivated so much violence by nazi skins recently, and al lowed Reagan to sit idle while AIDS claimed thousands of lives. We need to defend un documented workers and lan
receptive to young people or new ideas, but ihe/re a place Once you begin to
aware of racist activity in your area, you'll probably quickly
Groups like the ACLU that go
come into contact with at least
to court to win parade permits
a few other people who will
for che Klan when com
want to work with you. With some support, you can begin
munities cry to stop their mar ches axe misguided. Their
to do things like leaflet music
racism is not a matter of 'ex
shows and other more public
guage minority groups. We can't depend on the cops or
pression'; it's pan of a strategy to legitimize and inteiuify
word even further.
lem. During the civ^ rights
the goveiivraent to fight
racist terror.
era, concerned white people were eventually told to stop trying to be missionaries tc op pressed groups, and start clean ing up our act with our own people. As a whole new
racism.
enforce that hatred and main
tain 'superiority'. As such, in America,
racism is white people's prob
generation of hard-core racists
is growing up, this imperative is more true today than ever. 2) Oppressed people have the right to selfdetermination. The solution to the
4)Asrd-racisU ean^ rely
individuals out there con cerned about racist terror and
turned.
courage everyone to start
"Blue by day, white by night* is a slogan that expres
anti-racist work and organiz ing. Even one person can es
support and encouragement is
ses a real connection between
tablish an anti-racist focus and
really important. Excuse us if
the police and organized
attract othen with the same
we don't always write back per
feelings and concerns.
sonally or at length.
where they're at to develop
over their own communities,
P.O., the San Bernardino
their land and labor. This is a
"Aryan Officers Assodarion",
T^ to your friends, classmates, teachers or people you work with. Maybe even
people in your family, or neigh
kind of de-cencralization,
and possible KKK memben in
bors, will share your ideas.
democracy in action. The prob lem of gangs, for example, can be seen as a result of power-
the LA Sheriffs. In Portland,
You can start to put out a 'zine
hatred. Black gangs generally anack Black people. In other words, they are not an ex ample of'Black racism' against
whiles, but an example of the way the Black conununity has
and-radst skins have had to
without much effort. There's
face a campai^ of harassment
lots of material you can use in
and iniimidadon by the police even while under attack by
newsletters, other 'zines, na
nazi-skins. Nationally, there have been klansmen exposed in che cops, prison guards and the military in dozens of ddes.
tional and-klan resources like those listed in this issue. You
can get stickers and flyers from
these groups chat you post, or
and the English-Only move
reprint with a locri address, preferably a p.o. box. If you've got a few bucks
ment are examples of a cam
to spare, most cities have
The anti-immigrant hysteria
been forced to internalize white racism.
paign in which proto-fasdsts
answering services which can
The difference between 'Black Power' and "White
have achieved respectability and widespread support with
take your messages for $10 or $15 a month. We recommend
government backing. The cur
that you not use the "voice bul
calling for power over themsel
rent wave of nazi-kJ^
letin boards" where you can
ves, for the first time in this
violence was unleashed when
get an answering service based
country, while "white power* is
federal agents allowed the
on a computer that allows you
a demand to maintain the
radsts to kill 5 anti-klan or
power of the white society over other people it has always
ganizers in North Carolina in 1979, and then the courts let
dominated and exploited.
them get away with murder.
to record your own message and then record incoming call^. They are too easily jammed up by harassing phone
Power* is that Black people are
work.
and stolen land are over
radsm. Locally, there have been exposures of coitsolidated racist groups in the Glendale
society directed into self-
putting out this newsletter and cany out other anti-racist
orgaruzing in their area and wondering what to do. We en
problems of poverty, racism and exploitation in this country is for the people who are exploited to have power
lessness, of the racism of
P.VIT needs all the uc.'p
and support it can get to keep We get a lot of leners from
Racism won't end until the
HOW YOU CAN DO YOUR PART
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CANDLELIGHT
MARCH, MOTORCADE HATE CRIMES Aao\v\^
Black family's home gutted by racist vandals.
Tafuana:
White supremacist shoots up inter-racial party.
\jan Nuut:
High school splattered with nazi graffiti, principal and assistant principal receive racist threats. No^OvMlat: Inter-raciai couple target of repeated anti-Jewish, anti-Asian harassment and violence.
Bmianfc
Racist, homophobic graffiti regularly defaces library.
Suniand:
Nazis. KKK. Aryan Nations and WAR burn three crosses: case still dragging through courts for seven years. Stmt VaUui: North Hollywood Adult School teacher's home vandalized by nazi-skinheads.
OUndaU:
Anti-arab t-shirts sold by novelty store spark protests.
LA. Countu:
2500 hate crimes and bias incidents reported in the schools last year.
Throughout the San Fernando Valley and southern California, hate crimes — violence and harassment motivated by bigotry against Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans, Arabs. Jews, women, and lesbians and gays -- are Increasing at an alarming rate.
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This reicm of racist, sexist, anti-semitic terror must be stopped! In ou\ 6chooii. communities, places oi u)0\ship, these is an usgent need (oi united g^a^-^oo^S action, education and coaiition-iuiiding to ^ht this menace, and to
pxevent organized neo-nazi ioxces luUding a lacist lose among young people. Join tn a xallg, candle-light match and motoxcade against hate csimes on King Day.
MOMY, JANUARY 21,
5:00 pm RALLY, NORTH HOLLYWOOD PARK, cr. MAGNOLIA S TUJUNGA. 6:30 pin CANDLELIGHT MARCH & MOTORCADE TO 1st PRESBYTERIAN CH. 5000 COLFAX, FOR VALLEY-WIDE INTER-FAITH KING DAY SERVICE KING DAY COALITION AGAINST HATE CRIMES: Valley Interfaith Council, PART -
People Against Racist Terror, Green Party/SFV, Skinheads Against Racial Preju dice, Democratic Party of SFV, LA Student Coalition, Valley NAACP, Valley DSA, Women's Intl. League for Peace & Freedom, Emma Lazarus Jewish Women's Committee and other concerned organizations and individuals. Info, call VIC 810-718-6460.
KememUh the LA Student Coalition King Day Manch Againti Apahtheid, 11 am Pan Pacific Pank, LA
O
STACAP 0\JT
Heard it
RACIST <3RAFr<r//
A+*eje symbols
yoii rec.
through The Swastika was used in Nazi
the
Germany by
grapevine
Hitler and his
K critical situation saaoa to b« davaloping in Colorado. I would UKe to stress that the following infonaation is only hearsay. we have no docmaentation or anything of the sort. What we do have is the word on the street. We've been hearing
forces.
the sasie story from too aany different people to discredit what we've heard. As soae of you may hnow, a skin named Horm HiUier was recently stoned to death by Nati Boneheads in Boulder.
SS: Hitler's elite, like the Marines
Anti-racist skins in this area have informed us that Sorm was formerly involved with a racist youth group in Michigan. We've heard he was with HanmMrakins, Church of the Creator, and Aryan nations.(Does anybody out there know for sure?) Re soved to
of the Nazi's.
WAR: Whi-fe Aryan
Colo, to escape all the Nazi shit, and became anti-racist. Word
on the street is. he was killed by his former Nazi associates or another group acting on their behalf. (Confederate Katmserskins were passing through at the time.) The police say he was a Nazi (based on tattoos] and that he was killed by his Nazi 'friends* over money. We are asking anybody who knew Horm or anyone who about thia incident to write to ut with what they
c
Celtic Cross. A
symbol stolen
have a better handle the situation, and see that
from old Irish
the truth cooes to light.
culture by Vikings. Many white supremists
How for the issue I spoke of earlier. We've been hearing from many sources that major Nazi activity is about to occur in tolo. tooeticne during tha Pall of this year. As we understand it, the Aryan Nations has many anemias isgtriaoned in the Colo,
penal system. Metzger is supposedly sending a » of skint (People arc saying anywhere from 5-508) to« One. get into jail anyway they can for the purpose of killing their enemies. -Pwo.
claim It as their
to recruit and organize Hazis in Boulder and Denver. Three, to
establish an
own.
Aryan Nations outpost in Grtelay. Pinaily, to
cause general hell and make sure the border to Wyotting(the supposed new 'Aryan Stata*) is clear of non-whites. A Nazi in
Craeley, formerly with a group known as the A.U.A.(has anybody heard of it?) in Idaho, is helping with the set-up of the future outlet.
I find
1^^
it hard to believe that Matzger could send 58
/•'! " in PortlandT"-*" and withw"?his upcosvlng trial. But if th.re90ing is notonany
tr^h to what we have been hearing, somebody has managed to pull orchestrated lie. We've heard this information
AF: American
Front symbol. RMK: Kt \CWn
in four different tovna. from people cospletely unassocisted.
lelan
If anybody knows anything at all let us know as soon as possiblal We are the only organized anti-racist force in Colo,
vAmH
that I am aware of. Even if Metzger is only sending 5 skins, it
wouldn t be hard for 5 asaholes who knew what they were doing to turn the dleorganited Nazis in Colo, into an effactive fores. We muet be ready and aware, or our senall else and lack of
infection will destroy our group. Again, please respond as quickly as possible with any information you have. finally, we are asking anybody who knows of anti-racists or anti-racist groups in Colo, to send us their address or to send them oure. We don't have the money or the reeources to reach
all the people we'd like to. and as a result many people may not know of our axittance. We need to get aosM unity in our scene, and it naede to happen nowl
Thanks for your time.
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IN 16391
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Dear PART
and readers:
This IS the second letter I've written to your publication concerning the false
Bllegations branded on the L.A. chanter of Dear TIT.
ShARP.
1'm Just uritlno to aau chat after getting gour publication for six months, I've kind of taken it for granted that you put out
was a victim of fag-bashing from some of our
members.
this truly fantastic newsletter.
isn t now and hasn't ever been a member that
I 'd love to
One of your readers once wrote that he This is a straight-out lie.
There
contribute some money to you, since I"!!! sure
believes a person has more or less rights
you need It, but I 'm unemployed right now. Uhen I get enough SS, I'll definitely send
someone on this basis would be the same as
some.
Judging them on religion.
because of their sexual preference. To judge I'd be the first to admit that skinheads
I like TTT because it's not a liberal
anti-racist paper. Uhat I mean by Chat la that you don't have white guilt and think that all minorities are saints, you're also not afraid to tell people to fight back at racism, and most of all you don't apologize. You're also not some slick glossy high
are aggressive, but we're not out to take
over the world,
uie just want to live out our
life without anybody getting m our way; after all. we don't get in anybody else's way.
I'll bet most of the people that make
priced magazine that you can buy for SS.95 at
these accusations don't know uhat they're
Uons or Ralphs supermarket, and you don't
talking about. They just hoard it from somebody else. How many of you people have written ShARP to ask what we're about' Let's not be prejudiced against each other. Let's
have big corporate ads.
You also criticize
the system, whether it's dealing with capitalism, police brutality, or the U.S. forcing "democracy" on other countries. Please keep up the great uorki
get together and fight the cancer chat affects us all.
Peace through punk,
_
Unity, Jonathon, L.A. ShARP
S.h, Steppenwolf
P.O. Box 5E956
C/O Food Not Bombs P.O. Box 1472
Long Beach OA S0804
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Sherman Daks, CA 91413. PART RESPONDS:
We can only speak from our experience. In severel different coalitions and activities we have worked on with L.A. SHARP
over the last couple of years, they have been willing to participate with gays and
lesbians, to support lesbian and gay rights, and oppose gey-bashing and hate crimes against gays and lesbians.
This is a batter
record of action than many people and groups who claim to have an enlightened position on gey liberation.
In regards Portland, I have seen SHARP skins doing security for gay events and an AIDS benefit, and at the recant ARA national
^IGHT , ' 1 siroF " /bigotrY! » hate;
conference in Portland, the local SHARP
chapter participated actively and honestly, including in discussions about sexism and
homophobia and how to overcome them. Several SHARP members showed more wlllingnees and openness to hoar criticism and examine
themselves than some members of ara, which specifically defines itself as anti-sexist.
•jrestings!
Christian here from Front Range fl.R.A. m Colorado ... In a recant copy of TTT. a guy wrote in with a lettar out of Homocore Ca fabulous zine for homos/bl's and yes even us heterosj talking about a group of SHARPS as fag-bashing. As much as I'd like to write this off as bullshit sensationalism, I'm afraid it's quite true.
We need to uproot homopncbla and
®f"*^iCato gay bashing. We also need to be very careful of blanket condomnacicns and of spreading unaubstantiatad rumors. In the
"SO's and 70's. progressive end anti-racist
groups did themselves fatal damage through sexism. In that same time period, the government was working over-time, with great success, to heighten disunity, spread rumors
A friend of mine was living with a oarent in L.A. last summer, and he was
and discredit groups, wa don't want to fall Into either of those traps again.
assaulted by a group of SHARPs for the crime of having Che majority of his head shaved but not being a skinhead. I 've bean told by a fellow aRa member from Portland <a black
skinhead himself) that many SHARPs in Oregon, and other states, do indeed go fag-bashing. I have corresponded with narcus Sharp and I 've written to and spoken with many
other SHARPs and I thought they were above this hypocrisy and hats. If SHARP is indeed
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anti-racist, antl-sexist, yet remaining
homophobic, it has destroyed its credibility with a lot of us.
I'd like to hear from
SHARP members in the U.S. or UK as to the
excuse or a lame excuse. — keep the faith!
Thanx for your time P.O. Box 102 Sreelay CD 80632
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I have been receiving vour newsletter for quite a while now and I must sa" I'm greatlv impressed Vou seem to be creating quite a networh
I alto enjov the fact that vou deal with issues
that do not ne-tetsarilv directl" revolve around racism This shows
a level of political sophittication that tadlv i: lacking in a let of it'ue-onente-i political groups
Bravo'
After returning from rhe '.'S-oP for the second time a few
da"i ago I've begun to think that the struggle for Social Justice i'la; s'jt to be internationalized The Toviet Union's reform; like anvthing are a double edged sword New or»anizations and mo'/ementt are only nov' oeginning to spark and catch fire
JUSTICE DENIED IN
PENNSYOANL AMEBKASlAErSlfcBE?^
Save ffljfllia Abu-Jamal/StopTeganynchiiygl
interesting Anarcho-C,em.x:ratic partv are growing stronger bv the dav But there have been some horrifying new trends
Ca(SgO)SJ2-oni cav. ROBERT CASEY-Anhimio
Groups like the Soviet 'areens and the dubious but never the less
unearthed bv -alasnost's wave of change The most frightful of which IS -pamvat' (Memorv*)
Pamvat. which started as a preservation group, tupposedl" lobbying to restore Piustian church is now the equivalent Europe's National Front or Metager's WAP. Pamvat is a testament to the complesjiv and strangeness of the current situation in the USSR One would think that m a country that lost over 20 rmliion people to Nazi terror, a bunch of Swastika
-brandishing boneheads would have no chance of becoming much more than a backyard club On the contrary, Pamyat continues
to gather support especially among the youth of Lerungrad and Moscow
If Pamyat and similar groups throughout Eastern Europe were to link up with other organizations in the world who share
thier racist ideology, we could be looking at a MAJOR problem Already, Le Pen is the third largest Political entity in France and
here in America Ciavid Duke could be setting a horrible trend (n your last issue of TTT, you talked about a British chapter of the kKK I hate to sound like a McCarthvesque witch-hunter, but there guvs seem to be popping up ever'/where
Mv organization, the Alternative Youth Brigade, a fellowship •M activist minded kids from across the political spectrum, is dedicated to building a network to combat Facsism and other
threats to human rights There are a few international political action groups. (Amnesty etc ) but none that are entirely youth
An altered billboard in Fennsylvannia flumia «bu-ramal is ■ Hlack journaHst. a Panther and a supporter of nooE
who is an death row in Pennsylvania on a political frame-up. For more information on his case and that of other political
Pfl^®0"«rs and prisoners of war in the U 5 S3 East van Buran" "
•1^00, Chicayo IL S060S. 312-663-4399.
ANTI-IMMIGRANT HVSTERIA:
RACISM AT THE BORDER, The vigilante "Light Up the Bordercampaign marked its first anniversary ^h
^ictiier mobilization of RV's and pick-up "
dI?' I in apprehending border andundocumented assist the Border Patrol workers. However, in the wake of counter-mobiliza tions by the immigrants' rights movement, the num^r of participants was down.
exchange wing-the John Reed Foundation, we want to send people ail over the world to work with different groups The object is to
trucks to shine their headlights along the U.S
controlled and influenced-as the AYS is Through our youth then host activists from these foreign countries in the states We have contacts in Finland. Sweden. Poland, Israel and an AYB
chapter in the 'Jkrame The AVE u not a huge group, and we've jutt begun building ourielves, but those of us that are working on our many projects are ver*.- optimistic
It there is anvone reading this letter who u interested m our work
The border was blocked from the Mexican
side by demonstrators protesting the shoot ing or a teenager by the Patrol.
please contact us
Racism provokes student sit-in
Daraka Lanmore-Hall "
At Occxd&ntai College:
Power to the People'
AVBSE FO Bo* 90537
Santa Barbara, OA 93190-0537
Mon Iku M Oadeots have bcc* dtttBg-a ai the OcddenaJ Cotlege ahninianboQ building in Los Angeles since No*. 15. foUowing a decisioa by Dean of Students Bhgida Knauer to cancel a scbedyU rap concert and grafTiti an eahiMiion. The smdenis charge the
LOSING GROUND
school with racism and hypocnsy. and the [xwcst has broadened to include demands foe an effective student voice in campus decsioa-niaking.
The administrauon's initial lesponse was lo allow the building to be locked up and ventilatian shut off with the demonsiraiors sbll inside. OfTicials have since agreed to negotiate 00 student demands. One of the supporters wbo camped overnight outside Cootu Hall in solidarity with those inside said,"This actioa is the first real multiculturai event at this
school It has brought all the different racial and ethnic groups together."
In Brief Geacrel Motors lamed a forvnl apoiegy wiiea the San Francisco Board of Supervisors protested about abusive language in a compeny training and promcdooai film for employ ees. The filin referred to a Japanese truck as a "liltie faggot vehicte."
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The 5th aTumal Martin Luther King Day
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March Against Apartheid Monday,January 21, 1991. MLK National Holiday! Assemble at 10:00am at Pan Pacific Park
3rd and Gardner, march begins at 11:00 March to the South African Consulate
at La Cienega and Wilshire End Apartheid in South Africa
Peace and Justice in the Middle East and Central America End Hate Crimes and Racism in the U.S.
Keep the Dream Alive! The march is in the planning stages.
If your group wishes to be a sponsor, please attend the Sunday meetings at noon at 7213 Beverly Bl,just west of La Brea.
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