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A Report to Member hip JULY 1999

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JOIN US FOR LEBRATIONS OF UMANRIGHTS D DIVERSITY!!! akfast with Senator Larry Craig Thur day, July 8th 8:00 am, Cd'A Re ort 'The Importance of Diversiry in the Workplace"

ke Lemonade from Lemons Make your pledge to Human Rjght !

an Rights Celebration Saturday, July 10th, 10:00 am, North Idaho College Auditorium "A Celebration of Human Rights '

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OEUR d'ALENE -Th American Ci il Lib rties nion will idc with the Aryan ati n in i fight to march downtown thi w ek nd.

The whit upremacy group filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court demanding that the city of Co ur d'Alene let its member march down the traditional parade r ute on herman A eaue on aturday.

The Aryan Nations will be repreat d b the Idaho chapter f the A L i:n what Lhe gr up director call · it first ·'hate p ech" ca e.

Th uit centers around-claim that the city violated tbe Aryan ation con tin1rioaaJ right to equal treatm nl h making the group march d wn Ram ey Road, a rout veral mile from t o tbal pa · e by the former city dump.

City fficial ill gall moved the parade ba ed on th nature of the Aryan ' mes age, the . uit laim . It also accu e the city of hiftiog tbe group' annual march t "an b cur and, mbolicall , degrading local ( o." ' ree pe ch right. apply t verybod ,' aid Jack an Valkenburgh, th Idaho L ' ex cutive dire -

'Free speech rights apply to eve1ybody. Th~ , re not good for any of u if they 're not good for all of us. ' Jack Van Valkenburgh, Idaho chapter ofthe

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tor. "The re not good for aa of u · if they re not good for all of u ."

Thi i tJ1e fir t time the ch.)pter will be repre enting a hate group Van allcenbu1gh aid.

"We certainly don't appr ve of th Aryan ' viewp int on race bu1 th y have the right to expre s them ' he aid.

U ing a law drafled lhi pring, the city denied the Aryan prefened parade route down Ea t Sherman.

La t month the city told th · group t > march d wn ·Ram ey becau e of traffic and acce conConHnued: Aryan Nations/AB

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City official - and a local human rights group - reacted critically to the legal challenge.

Coeur d Alene Mayor Steve Judy said he dido t regret the decision to make the Aryans march on Ramsey.

"Not a bit ' Judy aid. "It was based on a criteria that our police chief and city clerk used, one that came out ofour new ordinance. • The Aryan did not file an agpeaJ lo the permit, he added. 'That definitely will be omething we ll be arguing in court.'

Last May, Aryan leader Richard

Butler appLied for a permit to march down Sherman Avenue the site of everal other parad thi year including the Fred Murphy Pioneer Day Parade and the Kiddie Parade.

The city approved a permit, but for Ram ey Road on July 10.

According to legal document the lawsuit wa prompted by the city' July 3 .rejection of a letter from ACLU cooperating attorney Harold Smith that asked officials to reconsider and let Butler' group march downtown.

The uit calls the message of the Aryan Nation speech by a di eofranchi ed group addre ing ba IC notions of political participation and the tructure of our Amencao poLitical democracy.

But a human rights activist aid the ACLU misjudged the i sue and may lo e membership becau e of it.

Tony Stewart, of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relation aid marching down highly visible, four-lane Ramsey Road doe n t limit free peech for the

Aryan Nations.

'The ACLU made a mistake,' he aid. ' It certainJy won't heJp them any.

The action come just day after Aryan and human right protester cla hed in City Park la t Saturday.

The Aryan have said they won t march thi Saturday if the Ram ey Road route tand . An attorney for the group wa unavailable for comment.

The uit eeks a preliminary injunction that, bl.ocks the city from enforcing its parade permit.

A U.S. District Court judge could heat the ca e before the week ends, Van Valkenburgh said. No hearing had been scheduled Tue day afternoon.

Several lawyers expressed reluctance to handle the ca e, he said.

The ACLU relie on volunteer assi tance.

Pullman lawyer Dawn Reynolds is the lead attorney, joined by Coeur d'Alene s Harold Smjth.

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Craig: Work force diversity a good thing Business needs to 'adapt to changing cultures, economy'

By JOE BUTLER

Staff writer

CO EUR d ' ALEN E - Th r are many good rea on to make Idaho more diver e, but Idaho' n. Larry Craig said the driving r a on could b that it make good bu in s sense.

Idaho enior U. . s nator told a rowd of r giooal edu ator • bu ine mb r and

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human right ¡ official Thursday that a mart busine man or bu in womn mu t learn lo appreciate oth r culture and ra 'e .

"It may b a good idea to do thi ju t t promote diver ity, give people equal opportunitie open the doors to more minoritie and rve a ocial good th e ar all good rea on ," raig aid . "But beyond

that, the American bu ine sman mu t a k if it is good for my bottom line."

Craig said in the busine world , companies which don't embra a changing world or anticipate futur change imply won t pro per.

The fourth-ranking Republican nator was the main peaker at a br akfa t pon ored by the pokane and Coeur d Al near a chambers of commerce the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, North Idaho College Hwnan Equality Club and the Coeur d'Alene Downtown Association.

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pool are becoming mor culturally diverse, including more minoriti s, women and discontinued from A4 abled populations.

He aid smart busines es have already Aft r y ar. of trong human right activi- addressed the need for diversity in their ty. area bu in es are now beginning to strategic plans, aying that a heterogeneous get iuvolv d and consider the economic work fore com up with more olution , impact that diver ity or a lack of diver ity can be mar flexibl and more innovative. can hav on th r gion.

"It' ba ically hybridizing," Craig said.

Dee Jam on, pre id e nt of the Coeur "It's creating new energies - these multid Al ne chamber's board of directors, said it is ple relationships are good for us." important for bu ine to set a good example.

He also talk ed about th e di cus ions "Our m s age i trong - we won't go going on in Coeur d'Alene ov r the Aryan back to apathy" he aid.

Nations de ire to march through downCraig off red statistics about how the town. Som have blasted the city for allowworld's employm nt market and the world's ing the march, and oth r bla t them for de mographi ar hifting toward more looking for way to refu e this.

American of work force age along with a "What we are experiencing i the burden larger per entage of work force needs. of the Constitution," Craig said. "But it i Employ r hould expect to compete the weight of thi that free u as a nation." tronge r wi th more employer to attract But he praised the community for at more quali ty employ , not ju t from the ¡ least trying to addr ss aspects of the docuarea bu t from around the world. Labor ment.

"It's not a living document if we choose not to use it," he said. "It speaks well for our area that we recognize this paper is more than something kept in the National Archives, but something living."

Following his speech, Craig said that the message also needs to get out that the Aryan Nations represent just a small minority of Idaho citizens.

And efforts like the task force's Lemons to Lemonade efforts are important as well.

"With expressions of hate, it's very important that we have people who say we don't want anything of this kind here," Craig said.

He ended by saying that setting goals for diversity won't be easy, especially in a quite . homogeneous area like the Inland Northwest "You can make these goals part of your business plan and then part of the community," Craig said. "It's our job to welcome these people and become their co-workers, neighbors and friends."

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Sen. Craig urges development of diversity Speaks at event aimed at countering possible Aryan Nations march Saturday B Emily P.hillip taff writer

COEUR d'ALENE - Diversity j good for bu io , U.S. Seo. Larry Craig told a gr up of Coeur d Alene bu ine and community leader Thursday.

Craig va the ke note peaker at a breakfa t ponsored b the K ot nai County Ta k Force on Human Relation . About 100 pe pie attended the event the fir t of everal aimed at countering a po ible Aryan ation march in d wntown Co ur d'Alene thi weekend.

Tl ~ enator challenged busine people to wt

for more diverity among their empl y e . Craig cited re earch don at the UniDecision allows Aryans ver ity of Mich.ito march downtown. ga n which h Story,A1 aid how that a group of people with man different point of view can more creati ely olve problem . America n w workforce" of the next millennium, Craig aid will b 85 p rcent worn n and minoritie .

H al o aid that in.the next 10 year the number of working age American wiJI iocrr~ e by nly 10 p re nt but job opportunitie will mcrea e b 14 ALSO TOD AY

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"In the years ahead," h aid, " ou can expect to be comp ting with m re and m re mpl ycr Lo attain the be t and the bdghte I of employee ¡.''

Tho e emplo ee Craig add d will hav t c me from around the countrv aod around the world. 0v rcoming communicati n barrier b tween employee will. be a major challeng for bu ine e in the beginoiog of the next mill nnium, Craig aid.

The r k force. in conjunction with veral other area organization i pon o.ring the ortbwe, t Human Right Rally and Celebration on Saturda m ~ning .a an aJternati. e to the Aryan parad . To avrnd being confrontational ta k fc rce presidenc Doug Cr NeLI aid pe pie houJd go to th ta k Continued: Cra.

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The Noflhwest Human Rights Rally and Celebration wlH be held at 8oswel Hall on the North Idaho College campus at 10 a.m. Salurday. It Is expected to last for about an hour

force event which will include music and speeche , a a "celebration of diver ity.

Tony Stewart, a former task force president who now is a board member, said the task force never has promoted attending any of the Aryan Nations' events even in prote t. <But it' really important not to be silent," he added.

Sen. CTaig said he thinks the city of Coeur d'Alene has done a good job handling the Aryan Nations member increase in public activity during the past couple of years.

Sometimes, he said the Constitution feels like a burden, but that burden is what allows us to be free. " In a free ociety, you have to deal with it," he said. " It not an easy thing, nor is there a simple answer. " He said he supported some form of "counterexpression' to the Aryans' views, but said he thought the group might disappear on its own were it ignored for a couple of years.

Last year, the task force raised about $23,000 in

and15"*"'8s.

The program, which wlQ Include music and speeches promollng diversity, la sponsored by the Kootenai County Task Fon:e on Hllnan Relations, the NIC Human Equality Club, the CdA Area Chamber of Commerce, the Spokane Arla Chamber cf Commerce, and the CdA Downtown Business Assoclallon. donations through its 'Making Lemon into Lemonade" campaign. Through the campaign, community members could pledge some amount of money for every minute the Aryans marched.

The campaign will be repeated thi year if the Aryans march this weekend. Pledges and donations can be sent to the task force in Coeur d Alene at P.O. Box 2725 Stewart aid the money raised last year wa used to fund $19 000 worth of educational program in area school .

Parade response planned in Moscow MOSCOW, Idaho - The Latah County Human Rights Task Force is planning a cultural awareness event here in response to a possible Aryan Nations parade Saturday. ' We cannot stop the march, but we must not be silent ' said Task Force Chair Joann Muneta. "We will expres our opposition, and we choose to do o in a positive way that will leave a lasting legacy for our children."

Entitled 'Remembering Anne Frank," the event will be held in Friendship Square at the Moscow

Farmer' Market frbm 8 a.m. to noon and will kick off a fund drive to help build the Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial in Boise.

Community members will be invited to write messages oo flyers with Anne Frank's picture, and children can dress and display multicultural pape_r dolls. The flyers and dolls will be hung across Friendship Square. The Latah County Humans Rights Task Force has pledged to raise at least $1,500 to help build the memorial in Boise' cultural district.

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CdA girds for hate parade Governor to addres_s human rights rally as Aryan Nations marches downtown

By Bill Mortin Staff Ken Olsen Stafr writers

COEUR d'ALENE-Backed by a federal judge order the Aryan Nation and other white upremaci t are . et to march today through downtown Coeur d'Alene.

Hundred of prote ter are expected to confront the Aryan as they

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Other human right activi lS will tay away and imultaneou ly h Id a rally at nearby North Idaho College.

Idaho Go . Dirk Kempthome i cheduled to addres the co11ege rally. ' He' decided that it i important that he, as the chief executive of the

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Human rights rally Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations will hold ahuman rights rally today at 1oa.m. at North Idaho College. Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthome is scheduled to speak. rate join in the celebration of human right to h w that the malcon-

tents and oat-of-t wner that are demon trating on all ide do not repre ent Idaho' aid Mark Snid r, Kempthorne' , pre ecretary.

"The governor want to participate in an ev nt that doe repre em Idahoans and the tate. ' Polke and heriff' deputie pent Friday getting ready for th Aryan parade and th counter protest .

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Parade: Aryans likely to be outnumbered Continued from A1 ering of_ HeU Angel and other outlaw biker expected for a motorcy~le wap at the Kootenai County Fairground .

The Sheriff' Department and Coeur d Alene poHce canceled day off a!ld om officer are working overttme because of the event .

'We know peacefuJ law abiding pro~esters have the right to prote 1 " Poltce Capt. Carl Bergh aid. "We re pect tho e right 路 and would ask that they wouJd respect the law of the state of Idaho and the city of Coeur d'Alene.路路路 . Polic~ pla~oing for the parade kicked mt? high gear Friday a day after a ruling by U.S. Di trict Judge Edward Lodge that allow d the white upremaci t parade. ' We wil_l march ' Aryan Nation founder Richard Butler aid Friday.

Butler gave no hint as to how many marcher he will muster.

It is et to begin at 8th and Sherman. The marcher will go down h~rmao Avenue to Independence PomL, adjoining City Park.

Expert who track. Butler : group expect far fewer than the 100 followers who rallied last weekend in Coeur d Alene's City Park or the nearly 100 who marched in last year Aryan parade down Sherman Avenue.

Coeur d Alene Mayor Steve Judy and other leaders are encouraging people to boycott the parade and attend the college raHy spon ored by the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relation .

But other protester say they will take to the . treets to confront the Aryan .

"We will outnumber the Nazi su_b tantiaHy thi weekend ' Luma N1c~ol <;>f th_e Coalition Agajn t Nazi , a1d Fnday after arriving in Coeur d Alea from Seattle.

Prote ter from Seattle Canada and . CaHfornfa wiJJ join a izeablc co.ntingent from thi region, Nichol 0

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Police will string yellow pla tic tape down the treet in an attempt to keep prote ter on the idewaJk , awa fr m the Nazi marcher . Anyone cro ing the !foe could be arre ted on misdemeanor charge .

Butler' deci ion came a day after the federal judge ruled that the Aryan have a much right to march down herman Avenue a other groups.

L dge ruled on an emergency uit brought on behalf of the Aryan by the American Civil Libertie Union.

U ing a new parade ordinance, the city had told But! r he couldn't march downt wn but could march on Ram ey Road. Lodie srud that violated the Aryan Natt0ns right to free peech.

The city wa quick to is ue tatement aying it respect the judge decision.

Mayor Judy said he wasn't di appointed even though the city and tourism magnate Duane Hagadone pent $40,000 getting a con titutionaJ lawyer to advise them on how to write the new parade ordinance .

Judy aid the city wa trying to exhau t every avenue for controlling Aryan parade in drafting the new Jaw. He rud the citizens of Coeur d'Alene will ju t have to work to end the message very day that the Aryan don't r pre ent the Lake City.

Because of today' parade Sherman Avenue will be clo ed from Eighth west to city park from 9:30 a.m. to about lJ. The cros treets aJso will be do ed for a block north and a block south of Sherman.

There are far fewer law enforcement officers available this weekend to help keep the peace at the parade.

Sheriff' deputie. will be a igned to the Kootenru County Fairgrounds where the motorcycle swap i being held.

The Sheriff's Department aJ o must deal with the u ual summer explosion of people on Lake Coeur d Alene and as many a 40,000 people to the River City Rod Run - a hot rod show - in Post FaJI .

Still if city F,lice need help "we will be there, said Sheriff Capt.

Ben Wolfinger.

The Idaho State Police s riot squad on hand la t weekend for their u uaJ Fourth of July duty in Coeur d Alene, will not be around thi weekend.

Ev n plann d a alternative o downtown neo-Nazi march COEUR d' A LE NE ov. Dirk K mpth rn will ak al a div r ity · l bration today at rth Idaho oil•, "It'. important to him thal h b th r and how what lht• fan• of ldah reaJI i and r inforc that lh activili of out 1d r rlo not re r nt Idaho," aid K mpthorn ·pokt• man Mark nid r.

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COEUR d' ALENE - Aryan Nations 1eader Richard Butler aid Friday he has rounded up a few supporters to join him in a march through downtown Coeur 'd'Alen today.

··r think we'll go," he said Friday.

"There wiJ b very few participant .

Mo t of the people are workiag. But we'll have a ·ouple out there anyway."

Tn a faxed message, Buder wrote ·'Never doubt that a small group of Lhoughlful, proud and committed people can change the world."

Police Capt. Carl Bergh sa.id the Aryan marcher wi11 stage at Sherman Avenue and Sev e nth Street. The parade will begin at 10 a.m. with participants walking toward First Street and ending near the lake bore at Independen ce Point. The city-i ued parad permit expire at 11 a.m.

Bergh aid Sherman Avenue will close to through traffic at 9:30 this morning. Traffic will

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be routed on Lakeside Avenue between Northw t Boulevard and Eighth Street.

Front Avenue will remain open but must be acce sed from east of the staging are a betw en 9:30 and 11 a.m.

Coe ur d 'Alene police will r c ive some assistance from th Kootenai County Sheriff' D partment and Idaho State Poli e. Bergh aid about 40 police officers will handle traffi and monitor the march.

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Although city official ar asking people to ignor th neoNazi march and instead attend a simultaneou human right elebration at North Idaho College, it appeared Friday that Butler and his racist clan will b far outnumbered by ount rdemonstrators.

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Police tape will be set up to separat the parade parti ipants from th pro te sters. Anyone crossing the tape may be arrested, Bergh said.

Officers will search uspicious backpack on an individual ha is, he added.

"We expect spectators and participants to abide by state and city law ," Bergh aid.

An Aryan March last summer attracted le than 100 Aryans and supporters and about 1,000

Mo cow, S attle and Calgary, Canada have indicat d th y will protest the march.

A f d e ra] judge ruled .Thur day aft rnoon that the ity mu t allow Butler and hi n eo- Nazis to march down town on herman Avenue rather than banish him to Ram ey Road north of the city center.

Coeur d'Alene Mayor Steve Judy aid Thur day the city won't appeal the deci ion.

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Police arre ted 25 d mon strators fiv of wh om received an $80, 000 ul ment from Koot na i ounty after they claim d their right ' were violated.

They till hav a n a Li civil righ t law uit fil d against th e city in f d ral.

Some of tho e peopl ha indicated they will r e tu rn tu Coeur d'Alene to lead prot t • against today's Ar yan march.

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But Coeur d AJene Police are optimistic. Bergh said they are ' very thankful" Judge Lodge i sued h.i order in. time to allow the city to plan fo r the parade.

Some bu ines es, uch a the Sport Cellar won't open until 11:30 a.rn., after the parade is expected to end. "We will try to tay out of harm 's way, said Ro Gustaf: on at the porting goods tore.

Java on Sherman whicb â&#x20AC;˘is just a fe~ feet away, wiJl . remain open, a !Stant manager Chn ty Groh aid .

People who may be traveling d wntown thi morning bould allow e tra time to ~et around because of po ible traffic congestion, Bergh said.

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Due to the Aryan Nations parade, traffic will be rerouted from 9:30 a.m. until 11 a.m. today. The parade starts at Eighth Avenue and heads west along Sherman Avenue into Independence Point In City Park. Access to Front Avenue is only from the east.

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diversity Aryans don't belong In Idaho, Kempthorne tellscrowd of 400 B Zaz Holland r Staff writer

COEUR d'ALENE - ldab ' g ernor joined about 400 peopl t orth ldah oUeg who turned their backs on the Aryan ation and champi ned diver ity on aturday.

1\vic a many peopl turned out along the downt wn parad rout to pr te t th 11 • Nazi.

But organizers aid that didn't djmini h the rally, held a mile from the parade.

We re o plea ed,'' aid T n St wan of tile Kootenai County T k Force on Human Relation .

Go . Dirk Kempthome in the keynote addre , aid the Aryan ''What ation doe n t b long in North Idaho. happening Kempthorne ugge t~~ th racist anti- here today in Sem1tic group po t a "For Sale ' 1gn at it this Hayden Lake comauditorium is pound.

"The idea that thi Idaho. oil is no~ u ed a verbal bat1leground for hatr d and the ui pla Gov. Kempthorne of swa tika i not Idaho ' he aid. 'What' happening here toda in thi auditorium i Idaho.'

The two-hour rally ended with musician n tage leading the er wd in 'W hall Overcome. me human right acti ist kipped the raJJ to face off with the Aryan .

Ha den Lake r ident kip Kuck, a Joni time member of human right · iroup rn K tenai and Bonner counties, aid he fell compelled to confront the hate group.

"We need to bear witne to thi mar h and let th Nazis kno, that w re no intimidated by them" Kuck aid. " W ' local people and we don t agree with their thinking. 1 Lhlnk it ju t being there an aying, o! Not in our tOW\l. ' eral ,peaker at the rally aid 1h presenc of the Aryan ations can·1 be ignored. '·Unfortunate! it on1 take .thi one incid nt to remind u that progre in human

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Hundreds gather al the Inland Northwest Human Rights Rally a.I . North Idaho College's Boswell Hall Saturday afternoon, closing the program with the song " We Shall Overcome."

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tion. that rlh Idaho and pokane aren 't minority-friend! , the p k ne and C eur d'Alene ham rs of C mm r e are Lryiog l b t diverity.

Rcpre, enting oeur d'Alen , ic1oria Bruno rold lh audi nc Lhe " ingle hall nge i. t make certain tha1 a group f fewer than 20 peopl from Hayd n do not paint our c mmunity a an into! rant mmunity."

P opl at the rall were urged to donate mon to lh "L m n to Lem nadc' human righ campaign, as d n the length f th Aryan parade. Last year. lhe campaign rai d m re than 35, After hi peech. Kempthome aid he doe, n t think raci m in rth ld h i aur ctfog \ hite . upr maci t:.

Th ra i I mu. 1 ha ttled her for the ame reas nm t lra plants d , ch g vemor nid. " h' the quality of life." he aid.

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Sit-in forces ans to skirt parade route March r det ur d as prot ter form blockade

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COEUR d'ALENE Prote ter er ssed police lines boldly sat in the treet and blocked marching neo-Nazi in downtown Coeur d Alen n Saturday.

Police ha lily detoured the Aryan Nations parade d wn a ide treet after about 16 dem n rator in Lhe bl ckade g t up and advanced on th talJed march rs.

The pr te t r wbo lock d arm wer

purred on by a large crowd of chanting upporter.

We wanted to make a tatement ' aid Matt John on, 19, f Mo ow, Idah , ne of a handfuJ of prote ters who were arrested.

'We topped them from marching d wn th treet, and tbat was exactly what it wa about.

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Parade: Butler appeared stunned by the sit-in Continued from A1 it-in occurred at the parade midway point 10 minut into the march.

Betty Elkin 23 trav led from Tyler, Texa , to join the it-in. They were having a hate march and they need to be confronted he aid.

The blockade came three day after a federal judge agreed with the Am rican Civil Li ertie Union ruling that the neo-Nazi had a constitutional right to march down h rman Avenue.

A imilar march la t year wa n't interrupted by prote ter , but there wa a ub tantially larger police presence.

Aryan Nation leader Richard Butler, who \ alked at the head of Saturday' ,parade, looked tunned as hi 20 marcher , including a 9-month-old baby girl in a troller were t reed to a halt.

Police conferred with the 2-year-old Butler then told him to take a seat in a plastic chair in the bed of a white pickup that was leading the parade.

Hi marcher were detoured south on Fourth and west onto Front Avenue past The Coeur d Alene Re ort.

Out ide the re ort, people attending a dental conference wer enjoying a unny coffee break when the Nazi marched by.

A the marcbe detoured around the human roadbl ck police urrounded the dem n trator who violated a city law by b tructing the parade route.

Other prote ter , many with camera , cro ed police tape line and tried to join the treet demon tration as the ituation e calcted.

Scuffles br ke out between police and ome of the demon trator a the crowd tarted yelling, "Let them go! ' A p lice riot quad appeared from a back treet but the houting crowd still ignificantly outnumb red police.

Th crowd roared ir appr val a a police upervi or made the decision to not arre l mo t of the prote ters clogging the intersection f Fourth and herman. Four prote ters wh uffled with p lice were arre ted.

" We faced a large group of people along the id walk ' aid police Capt. Carl Bergh. ' It wa n t the time to continue to make phy ical arre t on the treet of Coeur d'Alene."

The prote ters release was negotiated by

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Aryan marchers watch as John Mattmiller, who cooks at Zips on Sherman Ave., finishes posting the marquee message on the sign in front of the restaurant before the parade.

an unidentified ACLU attorney from eattle, B rgh aid. here were no eriou injurie and no prop rt damag , a Coeur d'Alene witne d it ec nd neo-Nazi event in the heart of the city in ven day .

There w re mor than a dozen arrests la t year in a imilar parade that wa the first of it kind in Co ur d'Alene.

ACLU attorney went to U.S. District Court la t week and convinced a judge that the Aryan have a much right to march down Sherman Avenue a other group do.

The Aryan had a city-i ued permit to march down Ramsey Road near an old dump but the ACLU aid that wa discriminatory and infringed on the Aryans' right of free peech.

One of the it-in protesters Saturday held a ign declaring 'Idaho wilJ not be the tomb of fa ism.'

Lori Graves of Mo cow, who joined the blockade aid he hope more people will take to the treet if Butler marches again next year.

Graves, who ued the city and won $15,000 for civil right violations in la t year' parade, aid police did a better job of protecting everyone constitutional rights.

Amanda Knapp 15, of Coeur d'Alene joined the sit-in protesters. They need to get out of here and not come back, she said of the Aryan .

As the blockade broke up, protester continued down Sherman to Independence Point apparently hoping for another encounter with the neo-Nazi . instead they held an imprpmptu rally Ii tening to peaker . A imilar message was being delivered at a human rights rally at North Idaho College about a mile away where G v. Dirk Kempthome addressed a crowd of about 400.

While that group was reciting the national anthem, Butler and hi marcher carried Confederate, azi and Aryan Nation nag down th parade route.

After the 20-minut parade the Aryan

quickly drove off in a car caravan and returned to the Aryan compound north ef Hayden Lake.

'We definitely con ider it a uccess,' said Chri tian Teague office manag r at the Aryan Nation . She marched with her two daughter who are 9 months and 6 year old and bu band, Michael Teague Aryan chief of taff.

Protesters yelled at her 6-year-old cfaughter, urging her to leave her Aryan parent .

'We didn't yelJ back," Cbri tian Teague said. "Pa tor Butler told us he wa very proud ofu all."

She aid it was the protester , not the Aryans who caused problems for the police.

Protester Jeremy Buck 29, of Seattle who tried to addre the crowd with a bullhorn wa the fir t to be arre led. He wa charged with illegal use of a bullhorn and crossing police barrier tape.

AJJan Mark Liiv, 27, of San Franci co al o wa arre ted for cro . ing police Line when be trayed into the intersection with a video camera.

:With baby in tow, an Aryan supporter repeatedly hits a taunting Dustin Ward of Coeur d'Alene after the Aryan Nations parade.

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Anthon T. P rto, 40 of Ocean ide, alif., wa arr t d ~ r trying to tart a fight.

Ab ut 4 officers lined the treet bet re the parade tart d. The officer weren t equipped wilb the helme aud hield that et the t n for la t y ar parade and gave ri e to everaJ civil law uit again t the city.

At Eighth and berman where the Aryan marchers formed for th 10 a.m. parade a worker at Zip replaced a hamburger- ale sign with a me sage proclaiming:"We Support Human Rights.'

But Butler' upporters aJ o bowed up on the ¡ideline , including Vincent Bertollini of Sandpoint, who rode in on hi HarleyDavid on motorcycle. ' He the only man tanding up for the white race in America that I know of and doing it in a rea onable way, aid BertoILini founder of the 11th Hour Remnant M enger which preaches white superiority.

Also watching wa attorney Larry Hilde who repre nted protester who ought damag again t police after last year' parade.

Hilde aid Saturday' police re pon e likely will bring more lawsuit .

"There very po ibly are ground for other uit Hildes aid. The attorney aid be aw exce ive force by police including u e of club and 'pain-compliance hold that were totally gratuit us."

Proce t ma sed at Eighth and Sherman an hour before parade time. A block away, David Doland at alone with a tall handmade ign memorializing a famou Ho! cau t victim.

Anne Frank we remember," the ign aid.

'Jesus was Jewish (and still i ). ' "l've been hearing for 25 year 'lf we ignore them they will go away ' aid Do.land, a Coeur d Alene native who ha lived in I rael And now they march every year. The idea that it will go away i not a Chri tian view.

The Bible ay to stand. up against evil."

Shauna Monge of Spokane aid la t weekend tense confrontation at City Park between Aryans and prof ter persuaded her to r turn and land up to hate.

'There no way I can go to my house and pretend this i n't happening ' the AfricanAmerican woman aid.

'This is Idaho' Governor defends state's reputation at rights rally

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Gov. Dirk Kempthorne speaks during the human rights rally held

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K mpthorn hared hi image of Idaho, a state that "welcome and c I brat people.''

H remind d th audience that Idaho wa the plac · wh r th di coverer Lewi and Clark met "fri nclly Native American who provid d them with food, helter."

"Th idea that thi stat i now u d a a battlegr und for hatr d and the di play of swastika is not Idaho." K mpthorn aid. "The mar b of malconnt · on ~ herman Avenue i not Idaho. What' happenjng her today, i · Idaho."

K mpthorne do ed by oH ring bu in advic to th Ar an Nation : "Y, u might a well packag your prejudice el ewh r , b cau it i just not selling in Idaho. If you'r looking for new placard to di play at your compound may I ugge t a ign that simply says 'For ale.' I'd gladly help find a buyer at fair market value."

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RIGHTS RALLY cont inued from A 1 Mayor Steve Judy did not attend the rally: Instead, administrative assistant Victoria Bruno read a message on

behalf of the mayor and the city council. ''We're proud to be a community committed to human rights," she read. "Local elected officials will continue to reject the message of hate in our community ... We must focus on our

challenge to encourage everyone to avoid hateful, manipulative tactics used by this group."

In closing, Bruno read a quote from Gandhi: "If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything else does from disuse."

A 6 THE PRE SS / NORTH IDAHO NEWS NETWORK Sunday, July 11 , 1999

ALAN STEINER/Press photo

A Coeur d' Alene police officer arrests a man after protesters blocked the parade route of the Aryan N ations marchers.

Four arrested during parade

By STAR SILVA Staff writer

Supremacist march full of sound and fury Small parade dwarfed by anti-Nazi contingent

By M IKE McLEA N Staff writer

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The Rev. Robert Hasseries of Coeur d'Alene turns his back on Aryan Nations Marchers.

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Restricted to the sidewalks, prot esters line Sherman Avenue Saturday shouting at the 18 Aryan Nations marchers taking part in the annual parade.

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After crossing police lines protesters block the parade route of the Aryan Nations marchers Saturday on Sherman Avenue. Police arrested four protesters at the scene.

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it right to be amu ed by an Aryan Nation march?

The igbt of19 neo-Nazi and a 9-month-old baby girl confronting 16 neo-hjppie in downtown Coeur d'Alene Saturday was the funniest I've een since, ~ ell my college day . I of cour e, thought a riot was about to break.out when the freaks illegally formed a human chain lO block the march. So I buckled when D.F. !he Nazi turned tail down a ide treet while a character Ollverla dre ed Madame Butterfly pranced behind the human arricade. Raci t Richard Butler and Diversity Police fro m Mo c w Seatlle and California points had faced off. And the Bully from the Rimrock had blinked. That's not to say the agitators were heroe . They were vulgar. And they tried their darnedest to provoke a fight with Butler and/or the police. Failing that, the selfappoin ted cen ors regrouped at Independence Point to pump each other up with anti-Nazi rhetoric. A surrealistic time was had by all.

Qulck~lhlnklng CPD Blue sans daJ, downtown aturday ilid have its heroes. They wore badge and gun . Toe restraint h wn by the Coeur d Alene Police Department and qwck-thinking by Lt. Ron Hotchki aved the day. Hotchki was the CPD Blue who ordered Butler & Co. to goosestep down the ide treet and out of harm' way . ..

The hortsightedn of the Nazi bashers was summed up by one con titutionally incorrect ign: 'No free peech for Naz.is' . . . At Independence Point one agitated outsider made a decent point before the p lice nabbed hi megaphone: The neo-Naz.i movement in North Idaho may look pathetic (and it is). But Hitler started mall too. All of u must remai n vigilant against prejudice- in our own way. In ourselves.

Aryans, protesters, media deserve each other inally, I'm ure mo t Coeur d Loonian would join me in wishing a pox: On Richard Butler for forcing our beautiful town to endure a march e tolling bis hateful creed. On the Looney Tune invaders whose foul language, ign and tactics undermined the cause of human eights. {And on u media for covering the event? Hmm. Do I feel lucky?) .... Another ign the San Diego Charger haven't hou ebroken enfant terrible Ryan Leaf: A Montana re ort decided not to pre charges after the former Wazzu QB and three friends reportedly trashed their room celebrating Independence Day . .. The crap coming oon to a theater near you how how much Hollyweird reformed after Columbine: 'American Pie" (in which a teenager copulates with a dessert) Spike Lee's uJtraviolent 'Summer of am' and ultra mutty "South Par.k Ir' and 'Au tin Powers Il. Uyou let your kids ee Lhis garbage, you re not part of the olution. â&#x20AC;˘ D.F. Oliveria can be contacted at (800) 344-6718 or (208) 765-7125, or daveo@spokesman.com.

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didn't go to the Aryan Nation hate march la t ummer.

PartJ I wanted to respect a request by the Kootenai County Ta k force on Human Relation to ignore the awful pectacle.

D.F. Partly I was bone-tired of Ollverla Ii tening to racist Richard Butler' rambling monologues. T didn't want to ruin a beautiful Saturday morning in July by watching Nazi march on my main treet in my town w tika aloft.

I regretted the decision to stay away. It s the new man in me. I had mi ed the opporrunity to watch a hi torical event, raunchy a it was. Al o, I'd missed a chance to see for myself who behaved them elves. Who didn't. Whether or not the police were heavy-handed in dealing with march prote ter . l've been in this busine long enough to know that per onal phito ophy and bia can color new coverage.

On July 10 some media repre entatives were delighted when 16 demon trators ignored polic barrier and blocked the Aryan march by taging a it-in on Sherman Avenue. I con idered it an irr pon ible action. If the Coeur d'Alene Police Department badn t diverted the oeo-Nazi march down a ide treet, the crowd might have rioted, endangerjog officers local residents and downtown property.

1don't blame anti-Nazi radicals for being incen ed by the presence of Butler and hi followers. But I do blame outside agitator for not understanding that the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution applies to the Aryan Nations, too. For u ing uch foul language and tactics that they undermined the cause of human rights. For

their arrogant belief that in-your-face confrontation i the only true way to combat raci m.

Seattle's Guerry Hodderson of the Coalition Against Nazis be t summed up tbi hy terical antiNazi fundamentali m when she said: Coeur d'Alene is a case of mass denial. The ugly truth is that Idaho harbors Nazi .'

Hodderson wasn t a hrill 10 year ago when he joined ome 1000 demon trator who marched up the bike trail along U.S. Highway 95 to protest a skinhead convention. Lisa Anderson of Coeur d'Alene organized the march after the task force refu ed to directly confront the kinhead gathering and a parade that was later canceled. At the time, Hodderson upported both Anderson s march and the alternative activitie planned by the ta k force as long as people did omething.

As I watched the parade thi month, [ wa struck by the thought that there are many right way to prote t racism.

The Kootenai County Ta k Force on Human Relations, which ha successfully opposed Butler's creed for two decades in North Idaho made an eloquent statement by scheduling a rally to celebrate human right at the ame time a the parade. Equally important Idaho Gov. Dirk Kempthome denounced the Aryan Nations at the rally making it clear he ub cribed to the humanright legacy e tab Ii hed by former governor Pbil Batt.

When Hodder on, Iiv Rubin of the Jewish Defense League and others denounce Coeur d'Alene s approach to human rights they're being willfully ignorant. Intolerant.

Twice Coeur d'Alene has been honored for its stand against bigotry in 1987 by the Raoul Wa:llenberg Committee of the United State and last year by the Anti-Defamation League of the

B nai B'rith for it oppo icion to the frr t Nazi march. The ta k force has uccessfully promoted tough Idaho law again t racism, produced a film that how communitie how to re pond to raci t and helped launch the Northwest Coalition Against Maliciou Harassment.

Unlike Hodder. on and Rubin the ta k force has â&#x20AC;˘ earned the right to be beard when it peaks. But that doesn't mean its wa i the onJy right one to combat neo-Nazi m either.

The Rev. Bob Has erie of St. Luke Episcopal Church provided another approach to how contempt for the hateful creed preached by Butler.

A ta k force board member he and ome 20 other local re idents felt compelled to peacefully prote t the Aryan Nation march . When the raci t pa ed on Sherman Avenue, H erie and hi group turned their back . Then Ha eries drove to North Idaho College to enjoy what remained of the task force rally.

One of the best way to prote l wa een last year in the' Lemon to Lemonade" pledge drive. The ta k force raised about $30 000 for human rights by soliciting pledge for each minute the racist marched.

On the other hand thi year' demonstrator provided one of the worst way to prote t -act like such a fool that you make the Aryan look like law-abiding citizen .

Local residents however, mustn' t be o turned off by the traveling freak how that they take the Aryan Nation Ughtly. Butler ha ucceeded in attracting sympathizer to North Idaho. Some are poised to fill Butler void when he gone. Some are more dangerou than Butler ever wa . Some have the money to continue funding an attempt to make thi region the mecca for white upremaci ts.

They won't go away if they re ignored.

ARYANS: Group hungry for public, media attention I criticized the Coeur d'Ale ne police for their handling of the Car d'Lane "riot" Now I applaud their handling of the Aryans' parade. The polic w r the heroes on July 10. Butl r' u e of Christianity to violateJe u 'teaching is reprehensible, but the protester broke the Jaw. My friend, Dr. Eli Ros , and others call the prote ters heroes. Yi t, lh y violated the Aryans' civil rights and demonstrated an ignorance of con titutionaJ guarantee . The e ar the tactics used against civil rights demonstrators in the early 1960s - a cau actively supported.

Comparing Butler to HiU r i l]awed thinking. Hitler used ver inflation, unemployment and years of limits on indu try imposed by the Briti h aft r World War I. Germany had littl div rsity, one Prote tant denomination, a strong Catholic population and a hi tory of distrust ofJew . Hitler told aggrieved German they were gr at when they were open to that mes age.

Butler's similar me sag appeal lo few _pathetic, lost souls.

Some claim that jgnoring ButJer won't work. In the 1980s Butler requested an assembly permit for Riverfront Park on Good Neighbor Days. Jim Chase, pokan ' black (and best) mayor, had Lhe p rmit issued. He also asked p opl to go on with their normal plan .

The result? Butler's speech to a motley little mob was marginalized by th media and ignored by most. The evening news howed Butler peaking while people played with Fri be , kid and dogs. Butler never went back.

Media coverage of the protesters at July's parade insures Butler's funding for the coming year. The prote t rs' actions bring contributions that k p him and hi merry band ¡of haters afloat.

Rather than the action of he ro , that' the action of the mi guid d and self-indulgent.

Where do we stand? Coeur d'Al n has an unwanted annual festival where the constitutional right of the lunati fringe are violated. Butler i fund d because he parade . Rubin i funded b cau prote t . Thos who ch o to prote t, rather than talc a po itiv tand for human rights al North Idaho College, support both ide .

The lunati are winning, th citizen of Coeur d'AJ ne are lo ing.

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Liberty going too far Re: ' Aryan Nation ay it has plan for Labor Day parade (July 22).

I am really angry that Richard BuUer and hj gang are trying to rub our no e in it. The Arn dean Civil Libertie Union got the parade for him in July. Now he thinks it ¡ the ticket to parade on every patriotic day.

I know the Fir t Amendment gives him his right of free peech but where are my right. and the right of my bu band, who fought in World War II a did thou and of others in the Pacific Northwe t to bury this kind of degradation? Why do we have to put up with it in our beautiful country?

This a-called liberty goe a bit too far. I do not believe the fou nding father would have allowed tru type of demonstration. l do not trunk tbi i what they bad in mind when the Bill of Right was penned. l don t have the answer bur do feel they should be hunned completely if they are alJowed to parade. Why would they parade if there i no one to watch? The big new coverage and the confrontations are what they want.

Free publicity and the chance to bas le with the Jewish Defense League are real incentive to the e who are without en itivity or intelligence.

Shirley Hethom Oldtown, Idaho

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From both sides Are the Aryan Nati-0ns entitled to a third para.de?

A good example of the American way Richard Butler loves a parade - and many in Coeur d'Alene would love to rain on it.

Who can blame them for asking,' So,just how many time does he get to haul his tired, broken, soulle s self down Sherman Avenue, flanked by his blinkered minions? The correct answer i : as many time as he likes.

If he wants to march 52 time a Allow the parade year, o be it. His right to do o is protected under the First Freedom applies every Amendment. The only alternative day, even to neo-Nazis. the City Council ha i to ban all parade . Hi group cannot be ingled out for muzzlfog.

Of cour e, the more he marches the more this tory become a non-story. 1f it s Saturday, that must be Butler. ' The repetition would quickly chase the spotlight away. But in the meantime i n t this an undue burden for any town to bear? lsn t this high-toned chatter about First Amendment rights blocking my rights to a peaceful summer during the best weather of the year?

If you 're not a First Amendment fan think of another you may covet. How about the Second Amendment? Should the citizens of Atlanta be able to rescind the right to bear arms? What they've gone through this summer is slightly more horrific than the stress and public relations brui ing the Lake City has endured. Twentythree people were murdered in three separate massacres in July.

Who could blame them for aying, "Enough! This right-to-beararm jazz i killing us! ' And yet, if Atlantans tried to ban all weapons, they would run headlong into the Constitution. Is this the path Coeur d'Alene residents want to take?

Think of it thi way. Birmingham, Ala. is still nursing the public relation shiner it so richly de erved after turning fire hoses and narling dog on "outside agitators'' 36 years ago. Most residents were repulsed by Martin Luther King Jr. s message. Busines es and law enforcement bemoaned the los of dollar . Emboldened by majority rule, Police Chief Bull Connor turned on civil rights demonstrator .

If Coeur d Alene were to succeed in rationing political speech the town would forever l.ive in infamy. Other cities could cite the Coeur d Alene precedent to muzzle groups with minority viewpoints. One day that minority view may be your . By granting tbe parade permit Coeur d Alene ha set it elf up as the opposite of Birmingham a defender of free speech. For that, we should alJ b grateful.

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Coeur d'Alene has done its '99 share No community group in Coeur d Alene parades more than once a year. Not the Chamber of Commerce. Not the Sbriners. Not the Right to Lifers. Yet the Aryan Nations has staged two major events in Lake City this summer - a . rally and a parade - and is about Stop the parade to hold a third one.

What's wrong with this One should be enough picture? No one can deny that to satisfy Constitution.

Hitlerite Richard Butler and his goons have a right to defile Sherman Avenue- at least once a year. U.S. Di trict Judge Edward Lodge made that clear last month when be reiterated previous court rulings by ordering Coeur d Alene officials to grant the Aryan Nations a permit for a July 10 march. But no court has said how many times neo-Nazis can march in a community. Twice a year? Three times? More?

Coeur d'Alene Mayor Steve Judy should have rejected Butler's request for a Labor Day weekend march and welcomed another court challenge. Butler bas no established right to march down Sherman Avenue or rally in City Park any time he pleases. That's malicious hara sment against a community that has rejected his gospel of hate for two decade . , First Amendment do-or-diers, of course claim free speech houJd have no limits. That the Aryans have a right to march in Coeur d'Alene 365 days a year if they want. But they ignore the limits already placed on free speech. No one has a right to libeJ another. Or to mischievously yell in a crowded theater 'Fire!"

Besides, Coeur d'Alene already can place legal limits on its parades.

Judge Lodge limited the Aryans' expression omewhat by ruling their preferred circular route downtown was unworkable. On Sept.

4 the neo-Nazi are restricted to 80 marchers and mu t be done by 11 a.m. They can't have any weapons. They will be held accountable for any trouble they cause. If Coeur d Alene can set those re trictions, why can't it limit the number of parades?

Richard Butler is staging the Labor Day holiday march because he was embarrassed last time. Not only couJd he muster only 20 others to march with him including a 9-month-old baby girl in a troller, but the racist were turned back by protesters who blocked herman Avenue.

Butler has had his shot at free speech in Coeur d Alene for the year. If he wants to continue making ape t of himself, be bould bother Moscow. Or PuJlman. Or Spokane.

D.F. Oliveria/For the edltorial board's dissenters

Media could agree to ignore them Year ago in California there seemed to be an epidemjc of arson fore t fire . Many were traced to then popular news media photograph of incendiary devices with how-to-do-it-and-avoid-detection de criptive "torie .

A publjc ry aro e to pa a law again t uch publication . The associations of new media met and voluntarily agreed to top display of uch photograph or rorie and the epidemic wa topped. This re: trictio.n i , till in effect.

The Aug. 3 Spokesman-Revi w gave the September date for anoth r Aryan parade, gi ing potential prote ter ample opportunity to regroup and an opporturuty to . ee them elve on 1V or in the papers.

Thi. publicity give the parade members great ati faction through lhe reaping of uch attention.

A letter writer (Aug. 3) stated that uch oppo ition is what will eventually rid the region of them. Hi tory provide no upport for that as umption. But the public continue to be exposed to inflammatory remarks and posturing through media reporter . This continue to feed the now epidemic flame of di cord.

What if by mutual agreement the media were to exerci e their right to judge what is new worthy by making a po itive contribution to the well-being of the commuruty and all citizens?

Benjamin Franklin said "If a man is not to be forgotten, he must write something worth the reading or do omething worth the writing. ' The best news then might be that there was a planned incendiary parade but no one came.

A. La Mont Smith Spokane

How utterly inappropriaJe, this march Labor Day wa originally et a idea a holiday in honor of labor - working folks hoping that economic condition would improve for the health and afety of their familie .

Richard Butler and hi Aryan Nation have been granted a 'parade permit to march down Sherman Avenue in th heart of Coeur d AJene during the Labor Day Holiday weekend.

I ee a real difference between a parade and a march.

A march, a defined by mo t djctionaries i : A movement together on foot and in time a in oldiers. An expre ion of onward progres in a olemn and dignified manner· to proceed teadily and to advance through a certain area or region. ' I have yet to find that the Aryan Natfon and Richard Butler/Neuman Britton to be olemn and dignified.

They're actually quite the opposite, cattered and eJfi h in their attempt to profit from the hate and anger of tho e who they preach to: felon , ocial outcasts due to their beliefs· and impressionable youth who wouldn't know what their right were thanks to Butler and Britton who profit from their mi ery hoping they would share it with their enemie .

Butler and Britton di honor working folks with a march not a parade, on Labor Day weekend. Butler and Britton don I work for a living and neither do mo Lof their foll wers.

They attack working folks or don 't even addres them a they pretend to repre ent our area. They are the nernesi of profit in our area.

James Gordon Perkins Colville, Wa Ir.

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Antithesis ofwhat Labor Day is about What a trave ty- the Aryan Nations conducting a parade on Labor Day. That hoJjday was set aside to honor the bard-working men and women of our country, a special day to send thank for the toil, sweat and sacrifice made each day so they can provide for themselve and their familie .

Labor Day wa never intended to be a di play for hatemongers who honor Nazi belief that included exterminating thou. and of unioni t and worker while forcing hundreds of thousands more into slave labor and then killing them when they were of no more use. Thi parade i a disgrace to the memory of worker . The proud brave worker of our country de erve a Labor Day tribute for their toil and acrifice that doe not include the e hatemonger . On thi Labor Day do not confu e the Aryan Nation with the true American heroes of our country.

Larry K. Kenck Post Falls

Pathetic, perhaps, yet dtingerous Jam o angry and o frustrated!

Richard Butler ha been granted the right to parade on Coeur d'Alene treets again because he has the right to free speech. Why does he have the right to parade his brand of torture and devastation on our streets?

The latest shooting this time of innocent children becau e they attended a Jewish chool "has links to the Northwest. 'The Unabomber the Oklahoma bomber, the Coeur d'Alene bombing and on and on, "have links to the Northwe t. Richard Butler is not the laughable buffoon some are wont to portray him as being. He does look like a fool but don t let him fool you! The Aryan compound at Hayden i a hotbed of hate and racist activity.

The Southern Defeo e League may have the goal of bankrupting Butler but that will not end the racists

operation. Vince Bertollini Carl Story and their counterpart will ee that the corruption keeps preading.

The shooting and bombing will continue. Of cour e it won't happen but armed guards are needed day and night around the Hayden compound to monitor the coming and going of everyone there. Certain people hould not be allowed to leave. lo other word , it hould become a prison camp for th violent.

We let Butler and hi traggler parade and give them great publicity so they can laugh up their le ves at our naivite a they continue to wreak havoc with our children.

How many children have they killed? When will yours be next?

Shirley V. Hethom Old1ow11, Idaho

Not what founding fathers intended -Edward L. Schafer had a well thought out letter (Aug. ll) but he mi ed an important point. lt's found in the Declaration of Independence, the founding fathers papers and the Con titution. The founding father opposed tyranny in all its forms.

Carrying the flag of a tytant down the treet of Coeur d Alene i not what th founding father had in mind for free speech. And hadn t Schafer better discuss with the Aryan Nation the fact that they tend to limit the rights of other?

Joan E. Harman Coe11rd'Ale11e

A6 THE PR ESS / NORTH IDAHO NEWS NETWORK Sun day, Aug . 15, 1999

Neo-Nazi chief tells Post l:Ft4' ~-路 ~od S0Idier' Mal carrlar'I famllJ, others In laar or attacks by racists

Jewish Community Center, injuring fiv e people.

Ileto's younger brother: Ismael, who works for the United Parcel Service, said the most frightening thing he and others in similar

By MARTHA BELLISLE 路 lines of work traditionally faced was befog Associated Press writer chased by a dog.

WHITTIER, Callf. - The white "Now that we have a son. I'm kind of look- , supremacist accused of gunning down a mail ing behind my back," Ismael Ileto said. ''It carrier and wounding five people at a Jewish could happen to you, too." community center won praise from a notorious He said he feared that speaking out might racist leader, as mourners gathered Saturday to spark threats from other members of hate bury the victim groups.

Buford 0. Furrow, 37, who is jailed in People visiting the Episcopal Church of connection with Tuesday's bloody rampage Saint Andrew & Saint Charles where 路the chilthrough the San Fernando Valley, was laud- dren from the Jewish center were taken after ed in a newspaper report Saturday by the shooting said the attack left them feeling Richard Butler, the head of the Hayden- vulnerable.

1'We feel like we've been invaded," Ester based Aryan Nations.

"He was a good soldier," Butler was quoted Moon, 61, of Sylmar, said Saturday. "(Furrow) as saying in Saturday's New York Post. "He wasn't a member of our community. How do was very respected among us." 路 you protect yourself from that" The 81-year-old Butler also said, ''I don't Marv Simmons, the church's parish adininknow why he did what be did; but I cannot con- istrator, 'said neighborhoods are susceptible to demn what' he did - nor do I condone it" outside attacks.

Telephone messages left Saturday for Butler "'This man drove off the freeway to do this,"

by The Associated Press with Aryan Nations Simmons said. "I don't know bow the commumembers and an answering machine at his nity can protect itself from someone driving off Hayden Lake, Idaho, compound wer.e not the fre~ay." immediately returned.

Furrow reportedly chose the Jewish comMeanwhile, family members prepared to Jay munity center as ir target at random after stumbling onto it during a stop for gas off the :free39-year-old Joseph Ileto to rest Saturday.

Furrow is accused of shooting Ileto nine way. He is suspected of considering other more times, several in the back of his head. He prominent Jewish facilities, but was deterred allegedly told investigators that the postal by heavy security there. ...... '\vorlterwas a good "target of opportunity" to Meanwhile, only one shooting victim kill because he was non-white and worked for remained hospitalized Saturday. Five-year-old the federal government Benjamin Kadish rema.i:nedin critical but stable Just prior to killing Ileto, Furrow had condition at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, allegedly opened fire at the North Valley said spokesman Steve Rutledge.

Monday, September 20, 1999 The Spokesman-Review Spokane, WashJCoeur d'Alene, Idaho

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Aryan ripple led to wave of protest Hate groups ralliesjumped into the spotlight

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ompared with today white upremaci t marches in Coeur d Alene Spokane only Aryan rally wa practically a day in the park.

It wa June 26 19 3. Two hundred people - divided evenly between prote ters and Aryan - confronted each other for 45 minut in a roped-off ection of Riverfront Park.

There was ome yelling, ome pu hing and ho ing. An Aryan wakicked in th groin. One prote ter wa arrested. A handful of local reporter covered the event. ow look at what Coeur d'Alene i enduring.

In July 1998 1.000 prate ters lined SbermanAvenue a 92 Aryan marched. Numerous booting matches erupted. Two dozen people were arrested. Reporter cam from a far London and Portugal to cover th parade.

Themaccb led to a second Aryan parade and a rally in Coeur d' AJene this ummer, and parked a human right debate that ha embroiled the town ince.

So bow did Chase Spokane k:irt that kind of attention 16 year ago?

Life is different now. Sixteen years of violence-including the Oklahoma City bombing - ha changed tbe climate from Spokane lukewarm rally to the white-hot temper now moldering in Coeur d ene. In 19 3 the Aryan were unknown. Now the group violen e

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The Aryan Nation never returned to Spokane. Some attribute that to the straigbtf rward, unclutter d way city leaders handled the rally.

"We found that you let them do their thing, don t pay any attention to them and they don t come back,' aid Jack Hebner a Spokane city councilman from 81 to 1993.

Hebner and others credit Spokane Mayor Jim Ch e with providing the leader hip that guided the city through a difficult time. Cha e th city only black mayor, quickly upported th park board in granting the Aryan permit. He never wavered from that tance.

Dick Gow wa on the uncil then and initiaJJ oppo ed the permit Cha e invited Gow into his office. B ConUnued: March/A?

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March: CdA tried to keep Aryans away Continued from AS the end of the meeting Gow' mind wa changed. ' I can onl tell the city of Coeur d'Alene the ame thing Jim ha.e told me: D n't d ny an one their right . You deny them their right you deny you r If th ame thing, · ow aid in a r1;cent interview. ormer City Manager erry Novak agree . ' 11 had n v r pent an hour in a cla · room on c n titutional law and he innately perceived that unlight kill genn. ,· Novak . aid f ha e.

"Hi · iew wa that we hand! it openl and give Lhem a chance t . how who they are. The media . how d up for a while and aw that it wa n·1 going to be a maj r deal o the packed up and went away.'

Lill, plenty of people in pokane oppo ed &rranting the permit. itizens repre enting the Jewi h black and Hi panic comm unitie went befo r th park board, a king them to den the request. Civil right attorney Carl Maxey in i ted rhe city could legal! den th permit and wrote to dozen of bu ine e a king for their , upport in qua bing it.

But city fficia l in i ted there wa nolgal way ut fit.

"That cau ed a terrible rift between m husband and Ma or hase, who bad been friends ince the '40 , ' recalled Lou Maxey arl Maxc ' wido . Maxe died two year ag .

Ch· e died in l9 7. The t\ o never fully reconciled Lou Maxe aid.

Chase made an eloquent peech at a City Council meeting laud ing fre d m of speech and asking the city' re ident to avoid the rail .

That wai - and till j - exactl the right approach aid Jim Carrier who writes about hat crime for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. Carrier aid a city hould loudly upport human right ear-round but when a hate rally occur . ray away.

"When good pcopl go to the thing they nly do , hat the white upremacist want them to do, whkh i create a cene, ' Carrier aid.

The Aryans have received lot · f all ntion ince their parade in Idaho.

Four m nth after the 199 parad , th Aryan requ ted another permit for the following ummer. Thi year, th y rall i d in a down town park on July 3, held a parad a week later, Lhen applied for another permit for pt. 4. That event wa. canceled becau e of publicity re. ulting from the arre t of former Aryan member Buford Furrow Jr. foJJowing a hooting spree in Lo. Angele, .

The repeal performance in eur d'Alene may have ·omething to do with how the two citie appr ached granting the permit . The city f pokane granted 'the pem1il within two week . Official changed the time of the rally - Crom 3 p.m. to lJ a.m. - and the ection of the park wh re it would be held - from the locktower to Gondola Meadow for afety reason .

The city of Coeur d'Alene deliberated for abou t ix week. before granting th L998 permit. Before the econd parade C curd Alene hired a $40,0 con ulrant to earch f r wa to alter it law Lo better control the parade. Then the i tried to reroute ne parade to a site ou tside th city center that pa e the old coun ty dump. That deci fon was o erturned b a judge two da before the event Each. new devel pment ga e the Aryan more publici .

Jim SI ane, p kane' city attorn y ince 1978, aid he under. land the truggle to legally put down a hate ra lly but aid it futile.

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I can only tell the city of Coeur d'Alene the same thingJim Chase told me: Don t deny anyone their rights. You deny them their rights you deny . 1ourself thesame thing.

Dick Gow,JonnerSpokane COLIIIClfman

fir L reaction i. LO ay 'How can you

tolerate this? ' he aid. ''The bottom line is that the Fir t Amendment protect th . p ech we hat . It a ery difficult i ue for communjtie to deal wi th. ' Al , aid Hebner trying to change th vent in om central way only rai. s it pro61 . " You could make the ca e in l983 that we didn't know a lot about the Aryan Nation .. Hebner aid. · T da , we kn w ab ut the organization.

We kn w that there are individual · who can b violent. But that doesn t mean ou put up a hurdle at tbe la ·r minute that a judge ha to overrule.

Look at lhe publicity that gave them.

And even though Spokane w ucces ful at downpla ing it rally omething happened there that complicate Coeur d'Alene', ability to do Lhe am .

It' wh n Bob Math w becam a leader.

Befurt: tht: rnU Matht:w · w a:, just an th r Aryan. But when a fight broke ou L betw en J wi h pr te ter · from eattle and Aryan -ecurity guard Mathew took charge. He marched forward and houted down the activi t. .

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explained what happened next in their book The Silent Brotherho d' : Some of the otbe then felt themselves pulled to Mathew ' side linking arm to form a moving wall and pu bing back the prote ters. here was a trength in that chain and ev ry man felt it.

Ju st months later, Mathew fo nned The Order, the original whhe upr maci t terrori t group that ha provided a blueprint for many that followed. A handful of other future Order member , including Randy Duey, Denver Parmenter and Gary Yarbrough al o attended Lhe Spokane rally. The Order e ecuted a tririg of r bberie and murder that culminated in a December 1984 hootout with federal agent on Whidbey Island. Mathew wa killed and numerou oth r were ent to jail.

But the fo undation had be n laid.

"Th turned out to be the mo t ignificant terrori t group to operate in th United State ' aid Wayne Manis, who investigated white upremaci t for Lhe FBI in the 1980s.

Wit h increasing frequency links were found betw en nationaJ act of terrori m and the Hayden Lake compound, cementing North Idaho reputation as a refuge for racist .

"We just have thi long hjstory with them. It' been a heavy burden for the people here to carry ' aid Tony Stewart, a longtime Coeur d Alene human right activi t That history add to Coeur d'Alene difficulty today in downplaying Aryan Nations events a effectively a Spokane did in 198 . aid tewart: " What a mayor can convince p ople to do in 1983 may not be what a mayor can convince people t do in 1999. ' • Alison Boggs can be reached at (208) 765· 7136 or by e-mail at alisonb@spokesrnan.com.

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OEUR d ALENE orrb ldaho College invite the public to gel eriou about combating raci m and promoting div r ity next week.

NT will join Pre id nt Clinton nationwide program "Initiative for One America a it ho t everal even de igned to ncourage conversation about raci m. Tbe initiative ncourage. college campu e to hold event on rac relation and to encourage peopl to re: pect diverity.

NlC event range from a ftlm a tolerance to a town ball tyl me ting Wedne day afternoon.

I think it' important that we addre th e is ue . The fir t tep i talking about it " aid Dan Sheckler an NIC ophomore and pre ident of the tudent body.

NIC ha made promoting div r·ity a priority. One year after e tabIi bing a Native American tudie program, th college ha een enrollment of Native American tudents jump from 54 la t year to 9 thi year. Enrollment among African American Asian and Hi panic tudent al o i up. till, the college uffers from North Idaho reputation a a haven for raci and the proximity of the Aryan Nation compound in Ha den Lake. ln pa t year , the white upremaci t organfaation ha pap red the c liege with raci t fli rs.

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All of the following "Initiative for One America" events at NIC will be in the Lake Coeur d'Alene Room on the second floor of the student union building.

Monday • 11 a.m.: ''A discussion on the meaning of race relations,'' directed by Pat Johnson, region 1 directorfor the Idaho Education Association.

• 1p.m.: Response panel, hosted by the NIC Human Equality CltJb, with students B.J. Johnson, Sandra Runcorn and Delian Oeltchev.

Tuesday • 10 a.m.: "Extreme Tolerance," afilm produced by KSPS public television. Adiscussion about the film will follow each showing.

• Noon: Student leaders meeting. Local student leaders meet to discuss race issues, hosted by Oan Sheckler, president of the Associated Students of NIC. • 1p.m.: ''Extreme Tolerance."

Wednesday • 9-4: Human Equality Club will host an information table in the student union building foyer.

• Noon: "Town Hall meeting on race relations," moderated by Josh Buhner, former NIC student. currently enrolled at Eastern Washington University. Members of the public are invited to share their thoughts.

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Iri 1995, member distributed literature defaming Martin Luther King Jr. on a celebration of the civil rights le,ade r's birthday, intended for schoolchildren. :"We have a very visible problem, wfiich i the Aryans," aid Pat Johnson, a member of the Kootenai Cpunty Task Force on H~man Relation , who i leading one of the dwersity event . Thi i. a place where people have been allowed ro b~ comfortable with their prejudice and thei r bigotry. I think we have dicided that we are not going to let tnem be comfortable anymore." :Tony Stewart, an instruc~or of poli tical . cience at NI<;, .md the oUege I a "beacon w1thm orth Idaho fo r advoca ting freedom and justice." Still, he said, the college ne d¡ 10 continue recruitment of ~tudenrs and faculty of diver e backgi-0unds. : 'There's a great celebration that take. place when you bring to a

"This is a place where people have been atiowed to be comfortable with their prejudices and their bigotry. I think we have decided that we are not going to Let them be comfortable anymore. " Pat Johnson, task force member

college community people of different culture and backgrounds," aid Stewart also a member of the task for.Ce. ¡ The thing people are concerned about is when organizations or group try to advocate the superiority of a race,' Stewart said. "We're not here to welcome people that are going to preach hate. We're here to welcome people that celebrate differences." â&#x20AC;˘ Alison Boggs can be reached at (208) 765-7136 or by e-mail at alisonb@spokesman.com.

NIC speaker: 'You can make a difference'

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By BILL BULEY

Staff writer COEUR d' ALENE When Pat Johnson was visiting in Paris last summer, she told some resideots where she lived in the United States.

The reaction surprised her.

"They said , 'what are you doing in North Idaho. That's the place where they have all these racists,.,, she said.

Johnson. a Coeur d'Alene resident who works on human rights, said people can change that perception if they're willing to try and take some risks.

"This is about how to connect with others who are differ¡ e at from you,'' she sai d Monday.

Johnson was the featured speaker at North Idaho College to kick off a three-day event as pa r t of Pres id e nt Clinto n's "Initiative for One America."

The idea is to encou rage college campuses to hold talks on race relations and to encourage people to respect diversity.

She said people can help by talking to others of a differe nt race and culture than their own.

"We've got to start so mewhere trying to bridge these gaps or they are going to destroy us," she said. "You can make a difference."

Americans believe they are broad-minded and accepting, Johnson said. A movement that "started big-time in the 1960s, continued in the 1970s has grabbed hold in the 1990s.

In culture, religion and busiBILL BULEY/Press photo ness, the United States is a Coeur d'Alene resident Pat Johnson, a director with the Idaho melting pot, Johnson said.

"It's very clear we are rush- Education Association, shares her thoughts on race relations ing toward more diversity, not during a discussion Monday at North Idaho College. less,n she said.

But not everyone wants to "We as Ame ricans seem to issue," she said. be withdrawing from facing this Americans a re freque ntly be part of that.

disconnected from each other.

More and more, people are isolating themselves with their computers, Johnson said. They communicate on-line, they buy food and supplie on-line and they work on-line.

She said there is nothing wrong with telling someone you want to meet them because you want to broaden your horizons.

"You hav e to do that or we're never going to change the isolation you feel from me and I feel from you," Johnson aid.

"We're not going to change this situation unless we take some ri ks." ln an afternoon discussion panel, former NIC board member Jeanne Givens said people must stand up to racism.

"You shouldn't just let it Ude," she said.

B.J. Armstrong, president of

NIC's Human Equality Club, said children will follow the example of their parent . Acts of racism , such as jokes and comments concerning cultures and race, must be "nipped in the bud," he said.

NIC advisor Monte Twin said "racism is generational."

"A lot of people don 't even know they're racist," he said.

Today's activities at NIC in Edminister Student Union building include the showing of the film "Extreme Tolerance," at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

At noon, student leaders are sche.duled to discuss race issues.

Marian Ackerman, NIC anthropology teacher, said she hopes the discu sions lead to more panel talks and eventually to real changes in the area.

"We need to get together as a community and get to know each other," she said.

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CO EUR d ' ALENE - Dan Shec kler to ed the en itive question out there for di u ion Tue day. ''What can w do if the Aryan Nations decide to march again?" asked the pre ident of As ociated Students of North Idaho College.

Students from Coeur d'Alene High hool offered up plenty of an wers.

Ignore th m.

Don't give them any publicity.

Develop a more po itive me age about orth Idaho. tay away and go to a diversity activity.

HS tudent Troy Klika said t h ere houldn't be an emphasi on alternatives to th Aryan march. Rather, it should simply not be acknowledged .

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Aryans march?" a k d Klika, who aid too much attention j paid to race, anyway.

'J.t' not our fault what rac w 're born, o why hould we mak it an i u ' he aid.

Tuesday' discu sion by HS tudent government I ader wa s part of NIC' effort to recogniz Pr ident Clinton's "Initiative for One Am rica.'

NIC is joining colleg and unjve~iti s acros the ountry Lhi w k in ho lding talk on ra e r lations and ncouraging people to respect diversity.

CHS tudents were joined by a few NIC students for the 40-minute di cus ion.

Most agreed orth Idaho ha an imag as being a place for ra i t . Some blamed that image on the national media, but aid it can be overcome.

"We should end out the message that we aren't a bunch of raci ts," said Helen Kath man , poli tical cience major at NIC and member of th Human Equity Club.

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P ter waghoven anoth r NIC student, aid th ollege ne ds to reorganiz itself o it's rnor welcoming to p ople of different culturaJ background whi h would lead to mor diversity in the ar a.

Bu t he a id NI should not try to r cruit minorities.

"I think it' a dange r ous thing ' Swaghoven aid. "Don't targ t them.''

CH tudent Lynette Page agreed.

"I don't think we have to worry about r cntiting people. North Idaho i growing" h said. 1f they want to come th y'll come. ' RACE continued on A6

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CHS tudent Eli Covington said ending out a positive m sage about the diversity and "community unity " of North

Idaho "gets th Aryan Nation out of the picture."

But be said the impact of the Aryan can't be ignored.

"You've got lo fa e those ues," be said.

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and human right leader Tony t wart said it' b t not to confront the white upremacist group.

"They love publicity. Th y love th confrontation,' h aid. ln tead, Lewart aid to off, r other activifjes for lhe ommun i ty that promote diver ity.

That approach ha proven u ce sfuJ in the pa t, he aid.

"Th point i , what work '' Stewart said. tud nt agre d if the Aryan mar h, it b sl to let them go il alone. withoul an audi nc .

'If you ignor them, th y'II go away," Klika aid.

CHS tud nt Trent G ry aid ' prot ster really egg 'em on.

"You need to not how up a all,'' h aid.

Th thre day of di ion on race relation at NI will wrap up today with a town hall meeting, noon, in th Edmin ter Student nion buildmg.

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By BILL BULEY Staff writer COEUR d'ALENE - B.J. John on pointed to the kin on hi arm and look d at the mall group seated b for him.

'That' all this i . 'Thi i a color," he said.

And it houldn' make any diH r nee how people ar tr ated. but it do , aid Joh Buebn r. ''It' not about l<ln color, it's who he

i " aid Buehner, a former North Idaho College tudent.

Johnso n, pre id nl of th Human Eq uality Club al NI , and Bu hn r I d a lively one-hour di u ion of NIC student and community members on rac relation and diver ity on ~ dn day.

OPEN MINDS continued on A9 Former NIC student Josh Buehner, left, and NIC Human Equality Club president B.J. Johnson lead a discussion Wednesday about different forms of discrimination.

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"It just comes down to appreciating differences," said Marty Becktell.

Different types of raci m, discrimination and prejudke in advertising, gender and the teaching of history and were debated at NIC to coincide with Pre ident Clinton' "Initiative for One America."

One key to overcoming cultural differences is reaching out to others John on said.

"We have to be willing to take that first step," he said.

That doesn t often happen.

Jennifer Jame aid people are afraid of saying the wrong thing so they stick to their own groups.

"I think there' that fear there," she said.

Cindy Sterling aid she love cultural diversity and offered one way to encourage it.

'The b . t advice I was given, 'If you don't know, ask'" he said.

Still, Johnson said North Idaho can be "kind of intimidating" for minorities because it's an area of mostly white people.

At work in Coeur d'Alene, he said he' exhilarated to see other African-Americans and they often exchange greetings.

The former college football player who.stands 6 feet tall and weighs around 250 said he arrived from California with an open mind and didn't run into any problems.

But other might.

"A lot of folk don t bave an open mind," he said.

James Woodard agreed.

"When I moved up here, I heard more than anything, Tm not a racist, but.."'

However, the group's consensus was that North Idaho ha been unfairly targeted as having racial

problems.

'There's nothing going in North Idaho that isn't going on in Tupelo, Miss.," Johnson said.

Buehner said while dialogue can help break down cultural barriers, more must be and is being done in North Idaho.

"When you look around here you can see some things have already happened," he said.

Buehner said discrimination isn't just a race issue.

He displayed a promotionaJ poster that bad been in the student union building Wednesday to advertise a women's sporting event at NIC. "What does women's voileyball have to do with cleavage?" Buehner asked.

'They use pieces of women in advertising," said one woman.

Women stiII face discrimination in jobs and pay, it was agreed, but not much is done. ~ A lot of women are reluctant to push the issues because they don't want to be labeled as feminists," James said.

Some also said the history of black people needs to be taught better in local schools.

"You have to know where you've been to know where you're going," Johnson said. "You have to want to know more about who you are."

Johnson said people have to focus on fixing the present and not worrying about past wrongs.

"Everybody's not getting a fair shake," he said.

"That's the problem we have, right here, right now."

"We do need to be sensitive, we do need to open our minds," he added.

Buehner said a general Jack of respect people have for each other is the ultimate cause of problems in relationships.

'The true essence of who you are is how you treat other people," he said.

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About 5 000 andpoint re ident in th 3 64 ar a code received the 16-page booklet and gl ssy tun Line arurday from Th 11th Hour Remnant Me enger Bonner A T A G L ANC E County Po tma ler Loui e ale aid.

The mailing The group's latest malling were addre ed includes an anti-Semitic impl_ t 'resident' booklet entitled ''The Sevenand listed a return Year Tribulation of Daniel addre for a Lea ed and Revelation." Residents drop b x at Mail also received a nearly B xe Etc. io Sand4-foot-long future tlmellne point prldictlon that begins with orkl War Ill between "We have bad Russia and Israel and ends plenty of calls from seven years later with cu tom r. 路 ale Armageddon. aid. ' ome peopl ju t want to leave it in th mailbo and not touch it but we can' t send them back. They re n t returnable."

The llth Hour Remnant Me eng r a Chri tian Identity whit upremac church i headed b R. Vincent BertoLLini and Carl E. tory weaJthy r tir d bu ines men who moved to the area from California a few years ago.

Bertollini i running a a rite-in candidat to become mayor of Sandpoint. He could n t be reached aturday to comment on the mailing .

La t year hundre f orth Idaho re. idem received anti- emitic bookJet and a 6-~ at-ta ll po 路t r published by The 11th Hour Remnant Mes enger.

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Bertollini and Story al o funded distribution of a videotaped interview with Aryan Nation leader Richard Butler.

The group latest mailing includes an anti-Semitic book.Jet entitled "The even-Year Tribulation of Daniel and Revelation.' Resident also received a nearly 4-foot-long future

timeline prediction that begin with World War Ill between Russia and Israel and end ven years later with Armageddon.

"Gods wrath is now poured out on the entire planet " the timeline reads.

'America will be nuked and destroyed. America will burn forever. " Postage on the bulk-mailed item cost thousands of dollar , Soles said.

Human right activist denounced the latest mailing.

"Any time a group end out literature attacking any group 1t 1 very much a violation of democratic principles of equality and justice," said Tony Stewart a member of the Kootenai County Task Force on Hum an Relations. "The people of

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Last July Coeur d'Alene police did a uperb of job keeping wbite upr maci t and unruly prote ters from hurting each other and t aring up downtown Coeur d Alene. ~ At any point during the econd Aryan Nation parade rioting r>.J c uld have broken out. Thi was especially trne when ~ demon trator ignored police barriers and staged a sit-in on Sherman Avenue to block Richard Butler and hi 20 marchers. The -~ quick deci ion by police official to divert Butler' gang down a side ~ treet and their reluctance to arrest antagonistic protester aved -.. theday.

That good police work however, now i being called into question by three of the four men who were arre ted at th parade. For the econd year in a row attorney Larry Hilde of Berkeley, Calif., ha announced plans to ue Coeur d Alene, thi time for more than $7.5 million total for alJegedlyviolating the three protester civil right .

Hildes al o repre ent five prate ter arre ted during the 1998 Aryan Nation march who are uing the city for more than $13.3 million combined.

C .::::, Although we're confident the legal system will ort out fact from fiction in the protesters claim we view thi threatened econd round of lawsuit keptically. After all prate ter with their an rney ¡ names and phone number penned on their arms blatantly defied police in truction and barriers. The it-in was only one of the act of civil di obedience July 11. As much a we hate to ay it the raci t marcher were far more peaceful than the verbalJy abu ivc demon trator .

Then there' a little matter of motive. ln the fall is ue of an Earth Fir t! new Jetter Jonathan Crowell of Mo cow wrote that the 1998 prate t bad a urprising ide benefit: fund-rai. ing. Crowell, who was arrested la t year after he refused to allow hi backpack to be earched, and at least one other Earth Fir t!er Lori Graves were among the five people who received a law uit ettlemeal of $80,000 total from Kootenai County. They're al o involved in the uit again t Coeur d'Alene.

We inadvertently discovered that organizing against Aryans is a great way to fund rai e for our forest defen e campaign ' Crowell crowed to other environmental radical .

Unfortunately Co ur d Alene, a city twice recognized for it human-right effort i caught between two warring ideological faction . On one side are the hatemonger who e continued pr ence in Kootenai County ha given a black eye to all of North Idaho. On the other ide are the prate ter who taunt police, break the law and are quick to ue whenever a police officer mu e their hair.

If attorney Hilde ue on behalf of his three new client Coeur d Alene bould fight it, and if ucce sful eek legal co ts. Who know ? Maybe Coeur d'Alene can recoup enough money off the protester to make a down payment on a community center.

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A college tudent hopes for greater acceptance intellig nee and humor.

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The new millennium presentsfresh challengesfor the human race, far our cormnunities. far each ofus.

With that in mind, we asked a variety ofpeople what they wmdd tell theirfelluw citizens ifasked to deliver a message of h()pe and prumise about the future. Here are their visions, i:n their awn words.

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Rev. Ron Greene Interim co-director ot the Spokane Council of Ecumenical Ministries: We ve learned at lea t ae thing from the 1900 - change is the nly stab! reality i.n our futur .

Who knows what technological advance wiU be developed in the aext J00 year ? These changes will affect the way we p nd ur time and th way w p nd our mon y the wa: we give birth and the way we die.

As we be me m red pendent on c mputer and macbin that mak life m re convenient J hope that we will give more consideration to the God who gives life that more than bi logical exi tence. We wilJ find meaning when we use ome of the time we ave to nurture our piritual connection with the God who ave u .

When we look at our changing community, we can ee that there i much that divid u as human being . Our neighbor won't aJway I k like us or peak the ame language we do. lf they arc committed to faith c mmunitie , their wor hip ervice may I ok for ign to u ¡. Whil w may har me family value our b u ehold won t alway look the me.

I hope ci ty' ad ances in civil rights will continue in th 21 t c ntury. [f we m v b yond I gal acti n that pr tect human right ¡ toward piritual attitud that r p ct all people and even welcome our difference we will be nriched by the diver ity of our neighbor '. Maybe then we wilJ volve more fully a human being in the imag of the od who reated u .

Gita Hatcher Affirmative Action officer for City of Spokane We have made great tride in the la t millennium in r pe t to the recognition and awarene f diversity and in attempting to eliminate social and economic barriers. In ome ca es, we have achieved uc . Y t we still have far Lo go in realizing the con titulional ideal of Life liberty and the pur uit of happine ' for every citizen of this country. Fear, discrimination pr judi e and violence ba d on hate are till part of th everyday live for tho. e who are out: ide of the main tream becau e of their race r ligion kin color ethni ity or way of liti . My hop i that th awarene and education provided have enlighten d us to the fact that ba i human need are common to u all and that if we continue to allow sy t n to ilJegaJI di criminate against anyone then we are inadvert ntly pennitting the po ibility of our elves being discriminated again t by tho e ame sy tern . It i my h p that th mi tak we ve mad in the pa t millennium have made us wiser with resp ct t creating a world of acceptance and mutual trust and re pect among all of the peopl of th world. â&#x20AC;˘ More messages can be found on E6

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Tony Stewart Board member of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations and political science instructor at North Idaho College , e enter a ne\ c nturv and

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millennium, lenis eek a ,·ictoryov rthe en mies of freedom. equality and ju tice: pre judice, bigotry, hate and 11na ceptancc. The h.istorical struggl. for human nghts ha . een the human race bedeviled by an unwiUingne s ro accep.t difference within the human farnily. lthough rh.e 20th c otury ~as brought meaningful progres · m guaranteeing human rights roan ' ver ~rowing number of person the victor over the forces of bigotr and discrimination is far from, on.

Isn't it time to exting-uisb the cultural iru. of prejudice and ig try? I n tit time :o end discrimination, malicious hara ment, violence and death ari ing from the hate?

Dr. Martin farther King Jr. reminded u that we all are le sened by act of prejudice whe~ he. wrote in hi · 'Letter fr rn the B1rmmgham Jail" - "lnju tice an., here is a threat to justice e ery,~h re ....

What ,. r affects nc directly, affect all indirectlv.''

It is mv dr am and prayer that th new inillcnnium will usher in a uoiver al human pirit leading to a world go erncd bv a celebration and a ceptance of our i~di idual diffi rcnces and equal ngbts f r all the members of the human family - a ,. orld free of prejudice and bate. t us hoP.e for the day when the human famil will acquire the 1isdom, ·trength, compassion and ourage to turn this dream into a reality.

Matthew R. Weaver Washington State University student, 1999 graduate of Rogers High School Vi/el m to Y2K. nlcss <' OU remember 999, the jump to rhre · zc roe is pretty

exciting. lt' scary, too: What lies io store for us on this side of 2000? We ar n't quite a far a "2001: Space dys e ,"butgiveu a year ..

I u pect this millennium will look a I t lik the la tone.

Politician wi ll be corrupt, friends will be friends, the entertainment industr will ontinue to straddle the fine line of good taste, and disco wi II still be dead. ure, e IJ make advancements. me ne lcid 'craze wiJJ a h right over Pikachu (Beanje Babic~ who?) mv brand-new computer 1s already defunct, and l lo e the idea f automobiles being transformed into bumper cars. Why not make crashes fun?

There will also be trife and, ar and grief. We'd like to think t_he dolf Hitler days are far behmd, bur who reall knows?

1 hope the ew Year holds an emphasis on acceptance· intelligence and humor. Who cares if someone i ga ? If you ch se to aet an abortion, isn't that our ~hoice? It's not up to me to tell ou what to d . 111 can ay i that I'm straight (single and looking) and J'lJ never have ao abortion.

I ve ·aid before, life is like the itcom ''M SH.' The doctor of MA 11 unit4077 behaved like loons during the Korean War knowing once the joking stopped, the horrors would kill them. So joke. B mature when the siruati n all for it. Very rare! does a siruati n call ~ ·r it. · U e tho c brains. Tb ink things through. Make intelligent choice . top and take more naps. \i ellrested people make smarter choices m re ea ii y. They re also les crabb . · srart th ear off right. o back to bed.

Rev. Woody Garvin Minister at First Presbyterian Church in Spokane

Garry Borders President of the Spokane Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and agency man_a9er ~f the . regional office of Benef1c1al Life and Equity Services

Sabino Hernandez Stationed at Fairchild Air Force Base I think rh millennium brings a new beginning and a bright f\iture o our community. Commumt in vol ernenc and awar ness in g vemrnent will in~rea e. I re~lly believe that good things are going to happen. Tho e unabl~ or u!1~i~l ing t cope with change, 1.e. ~n.1r_iat_ 1v 695 or the trong mayor 1mt1auve, will depart. The future\ iU brioga group of r am player_ that will t p in and lead us in making pokane a better place t Ii e for all.

I hoJ e the new year will bring more re hnolog to our . . commu nity, and along with chat, 1c viii bring better\ ag . Al o, l'i:n hoping for a quick a~d lon~-la n~g resolution to the Ki11ser strike. lt s hurting coo many people.

One fthe most important things, I h p the miJl~nnium bring a closer and un1t~d comm unity a community that ha ' learned from the pa ¡c and not ignored it.

Many around u point with de pair co problems that face u .

T hes probl ms are r al,.but th~y h uldn't cau e u to forget we live in the most wonderful and exciting rim in human hi cory.

Thcr ha been a Literal explosi n in learning. ur ability t deal with disease, poverty and och_er problem that have plagued mankind ha never been greater!

We are poised c step through a doorway into a new entury and a new 11\illennium filled with en gr acer promise and hope. This d rwa al o marks 2000 years ince the birtb of Je u hrist.

J u , the on perfect man co walk che earth. Jesu , who brought a mes age f love and h pe to the world. His demon era non of love came in His mini ¡er and d ach, where H ga e Hi life as a acrifice for all men. His at nement became the great st event in history, an act f grace~ r which men gav n thing, but which br ught the hope of the resurrection to all. ln the c nrurie since, Hi mes age at times ha seemed lost.

Suffering, hopelessness and hate have emed to pr vail. Yet coda more people know and are trying t live His mes age than ever before.

Thi growth will continue and . nlarge, t ucbing ~ r good the ltve of people everywhere until at ome time in the furur unkno, n even to tie angels in heaven ,Je _us hrist , ill again appear and reign on the earth. All of thi make thi a wonderful time to be ali e.

I dream for pokane to be known far and wide as " the great little city f merica." My dream arc born of m faith, hri tian and from my fai h' h I_ writ~ng, the Bible. In the Bible,Jer m1ah th prophet , rites, "S e k the peace and prosperity f the cio/¡. Pray to the Lord for 1t b cau 1f It pro per y u too will pro per.'_ . ity life i human life at 1t mo t inten e. pokane unique! bring together the city nd nature. I drea~ of our arch itecru r and our plann!ng intensifying the relationship between our businesses, chools and churches and our park , tree , lake and the river.

I dream of a renewed economic climat wh re people come fir t and everyone ha the opportunity of . meaningful work where people will come fr macros th country and gather along the banks of the riv~ and learn from our entrepreneunal econ mic succc e in the same wa chat they fl k t the Bloom day ra e.

1 dream that pokane will be the place where familie of all types and th childr n and the lderly who Ii e in tho e families will receive the Ii ing ign ofour devotio.~, wh~re the will say of p kane, the city with the little red wagon, where the little p opl are especially loved. ' I dream that everyone will have a decenr rlace co call home and no one wil sleep on the street. I dream that we will become known for the tabilicy of our political leader , , ho are called into leadership becau e f their unique idea and who har the ery dream with one another to create a compelling mo aic of our public life,. i~viting us all into a new c mmon I ion.

The Chri tian Bible open with the stor of an exquisite garden and ends ,. ith the story of an even more glori u ity with_ a great river running through its heart. Along_ th banks of the river are trees with I ave and fruit for the healing of all peoples. I dream that within 10 year f the beginning f t~e new mill nniurn in 2010, we w1U look back and say 'Spokane wa a 8_<><?d cit , a ery g od city but now_ 1t 1 the greatest little cit in America.

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Jan Polek Civic activist and retired gender equity program manager for Spokane Community College's Institute for Extended Learning . My ": ear' ~ i h for pokane 1 ne of faith- f, 1th in our cl ·. !'-1ay w find the c urag to inve r 1n our future.

\\ e ha that faith in our elves when we put n · 11.'po 'Hand howed tbe world hat a mall c mmunlt:y can do. Bur m ho, we have lo t ur ability t "think big,'' t take n ne\ chaJleng . !he last~ w year ar a liran of mis ed op rtunitic . \ e could ha\• built an inn vativc City Hall o~ a green , ard, perhap linking \ 1th county >ffice . We ould have

completed the rtti/ outh Fr •way. We ould have had a S i nee enter cn·ing thousands f ~ h lchiJdren. We µJd have in i tcd n effective tr et repair, eliminating h urs of " pot hole'

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You may have your \\ n project t add co the list, but rather than look backward, let's begin the millennium, ith a new attitude, with faith in our elv sand the courage to take tbe ri ks n ce ary to make our communit a ibrant, e n micall y tr ng place t pend the next century.

Idaho state senator (A-Hayden) and. director of the Sliver Valley Economic Development Council Rea on tells me that entering a new millennium h uldn't be any different than tarting a n w . c~r.

But for rca n that cape me, 1t ee~, to be m re exhilarating and more pro,,ocative than m t p ing ear . Di mi ing the fri~ge element who rtcnd oc1etal collapse and c truction borne .of w rldwide c mputcr malfun tton, I b Ii · vc there is a palpable ex itement in ad\'ancing centuri the father fa v ung child it i citing t think that ~1~ n will Ii e long enough od w1llm~, to regale th e yet t be born w1tb tafe~ from a "b gone" 'ra. Being 40. mething my elf, I ·et today f, ndl remember many eld rl relati' and acquaint nces telling ofho, life, a prior t the la t millennial change. I can rem m r in the ' Os, '60s and even the '70 · mu ing t my elf how far off th year 2000 eemed. , it i upon and I think of h w qu ickl the last fe, decade pa ed. a care · nat r. 1 am hearten d , ith the knowledge that the new century i but a arcing point _in techn I gical advan~ tbat \ ill usher in a rrul aroaz10~ future f'i r Idaho. Th cm tat 1s ahead of m of itS ontemporarie: in pr paring for the cyber-w rid no, upon u vastl .. xpanded. commumcat1 ns abilit , Idaho 1 • poi ed t cake full advantage of th~ opportunitic ·.that ~dva~a ment. m mpureriznt1on will bnng. And. although mnn of the tcchnol:>gical ad van es of th I decade of the 20th cenrur have cau ·ed ·ome to crv that the kv i falling J cann t liare the :un · c ncen . ln the end (ju t a figur f pe.ecb, n ta predic ion)! I am m t e~c1_red becau. e of my faith . 1\s a hn uan.

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Khalil Islam Activist and Spokane Human Rights Commissioner "I really expect America and our commun1t spec ifically, to have a significant amount of growing pain in this new millennium as America realizes that it is becoming a multicultural nation.

Specifically,, hire America is going to have a large adju tment pr b1em and a lot of growing pains , hen they are no longer the majorit, in this country.

It wi ll happen slowly in a lotof mailer communities such a our O\ n. But it will evenrualJ happen. folks are ·till trying to figure out where they are with a lot of stuff. I hope that more people, specifically from mainstream. white-majority culture, will reaJI take a close look at them elv s their behavior and their belief· and tart to identify thems I e racially. nd tart acting upon that identity and finding out what part of their identit , and the privileges that the. have, just don 't ~o with their identit. of social ju t1ce.

Tony Morrison in her book, 'Pia ing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination ' talks about ho, we re a nation both built on individuality and independent freedom and w 're built with the e incredible mechanism for racial oppres ion that is just devastating and horrible. The so ner we come t terms with that, , e realize how it impacts us, and it impacts my elf as a white p rson and other white ~ lk , then we can tart dealing with how wc can change that.

I want to ee anti-racism work becom a white n' effort instead a p r on · of c l r effort. L want to see whfre folk · start to realize racism i their problem and it' omething people of color ,;ave to deal with becau e it o devastatingly impa ts their life.

And r want co ee white folks ·tart cbangin$ their wa , their attin1de , tht'.ir beliefs and their beha ior · that empo, ers thi epidemic of raci m, and oppre ion

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Chairperson for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation "The fururc holds endlc. s Po sibilities. What will determine which po sibilitie become realities depends on the walk of life we cho e. We mu 'tremember wh we are and from , here v·e come, al" a s maintaining our cultural differ nces. For these are the unique gifts which th reator has given us and it is our respansibility to preserve protect, mamtai11 and live them. ft L in the remembrance of our past, we take the g d teachings and les on , and apply them to our future po ibilitie and realities.

And in remembering the not so good e nts of the past to a sure they are ne er repeated. If mankind as a whole can move to a true re pect of our differences, we will be attaining a brighter future for all. '

Sharon Schroeder Chair of Spokane Human Rights Commission r belie e the Millennium will brtng whatever each of u allow it to manifest. l hope our community creat an interacti n of people who exhibit true and hone t understanding, tolerance empathy, openn ss. and L ve.

I h pe to ee an increa e in true div rsity -pcopl acrually getting along and growing b undcr ·tandinS' differences, tolerating limitations and habits, and re pecting each citizen as an indi idual.

1t would be wonderful if the next centur brings us a world in which there is not the distinction that L believe thi century created between people. Let' make less 6f a difference between bow the rich are treated v . how the impoverished are treated. J think it ould be wonderful to have us all share in taking care of our co-inhabitant in times of need.

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that ub Jdy ' y tern ' place on anyon needing a istance would take to I ng for thi article. Do you think tho e who have could and would actually hare their re ource ?

And to tho e who do and have, 'Thank you. l hould point out here that I am thinking broader than only monetary. Ther are many re ources that can be hared when needed.

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to be a good neighbor. And if you think lam not talking t you becau e you have le than other p ople you are wrong. W aJl have omething to hare!

Which brings rn to not only what we have to hare but I think a lot of American are uncomfortable talking about and a king for what they n ed or want. Perhap the millennium will bring about a change in perception and the tatu quo. ometime the mo t beautiful idea can come from under an ugly cover.

As we leave thi century I hope the thr at that are being broadca t and

talked ab ut do not come to fruition.

I can't help but wonder what ha. happened to cau e uch violence in people. Have we become a ociety that only car about "me? ' Each action ha an equal or oppo ite reaction. We cannot control others action but each fu. can control our reactions. Perhap it would behoove all of u to be le controlling of others and mor c ntrolling of our elve.

I wish heaJth. wealth and happiness to all of us. And that everyone ha the treogth and under landing to walk along the path they are on in thi game called Life.

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Anne Frank rneniorial Idahoans send in more than enough to build center in Boise

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BOI E - [daho wiJJ get the fir. t permanent m morial Lo Anne Frank in the nited tal bccau e hundr d of people aero the tat have rallied t rai.e m ney f r the human right memorial and education center planned along the banks of the Boise Riv r.

Idaho Fall c mputer entrepreneur Greg Carr form r chairman f Prodigy Inc., had challeng d Idahoans to match hi $5 pledg by Jan.1. Th y did more than that- they ent in 739 000 in lhree montb , $300 of that in the final few da . ''What a great great i lOry t r human right ¡,' aid Tony Stewart, a board member fthe Ko t oai County Task Force on Human Relation . "It al . end a reall powerful me age that when peopJe m e t Idaho wb want to peddle hate, it will be rejected.

What more videoce d e one need?"

The donation ranged from a water jug filled with pennie , dimes and nickel gath red by cho lcb.ildren to pricey gift of . L ck and corp rate contribution .

"I think it r a!Jy doe ay omething," Carr aid. ''It mean that a wh le lot of pe pie ut ther heard ab ut thi and aid, 'Ye , rm in favor of th ideals I'm disgusted b hate me age and Im going t end in m $25' r whatever 1t w they ent in.

And I think if wonderful. ¡ onstruction n the $1.4 milli n memorial will tart in April with completi 11 el i r next fall. The parklike memorial wiJI 'erve a a living la r om where cb ol hildr n can learn about the young Jewi h girl wh e diary became on of the wodd mo I-read books and pond r her me sage that all p opl are g d at heart.

Word of other human right. her e from tJ1r ugbout hi tory al o will be carved ioto a 175-foot granite wall in the park.

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center that wiU work to teach choolhildren and other acr the tale ab ut human right .

Marilyn Shuler. pre ident of the center' board, said ·'There' a huge gr und well f supp rt from ldahoan who want to end a m age loud and clear: ldah is a human right tate."

Backers of the project aid the outpouring of support how Idaho' national reputation as a home of hate group i wrong.

'Not one of u randing up here can begin to express how overwhelmed we ar by Idahoan • response," Shuler said.

The project tarted when an exhibit about Anne Frank came to the Idaho State Historical Mu eum in Boi e in 1995. More than 46,000 people came to ee the exhibit in a ingle month - nearly 5 percent of !he tare population. The vi itor mcluded 15 000 choolchildren. Another Anne Frank exhibit is opening at the mu eum this pring.

Frank was just 15 when . he died in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. The diary that he kept while her family hid from the Nazis for two years wa found strewn

about after the Ge tapo tormed t~eir cramped hiding place. Jt ha mce been tran lated into 60 language .

During the ea rly fund rai ing for the memorial Pocatello High chool ludent put on a play abou t Anne Frank and prepared them elve by pending a night enclo ed in a pace under the chool bleacher imilar in ize to the hiding plac th Frank family hared with two other .

Last pring, Post FaJL Middle Sch?ol t~dent rai ed money for the proJeCt With a talent how-focu ing on difference that make peopl individuals.

As the Jan. 1 deadline neared the pr ject' fund-rai ing director L nn Sander said 'The mail ju t got bigger and bigger.'

A ga(den club ent $1,500. A Boi e public relation firm Oliver Ru ell & A ociates, is ued a $25 000 challenge grant. Donation of stock many of them anonymou , flowed in to a broker.

Mary Peterman executive director of the project, aid, 'lo the la t month of 1999, Idaho ha proven to the world as well as to our elves that we live in a wonderful tate where a vast majority of resident trive to live respectfully and responsibly with one another."

The money i till coming in. After the announcement, Peterman was handed several more checks.

• Betsy Z. Russell can be reached at (208) 336-2854 or by e-mail at bzrussell@rmcl.net.

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neofthe highlight of my career wa to watch at New York City Hall as the city of Coeur d'Alene received the fir t 'Raoul Wallenberg Award for human rights.

D.F. On that cold January day in Oliveria 19 7 the Big Apple toa ted Coeur d Alene and it three representative : Ray Stone, Bill Wa muth and Larry Broadbent.

The Time publi hed a column praising Coeur d Alene for it teadfa t battle against racism.

Bayard Ru tin, the late civil right giant delivered a ·tirring peech befor the world media claiming New Yorker could learn much from the example of ur lily white Norih (daho town. And each of the Idaho repre entative talked eloquently about human rights: Stone the fei ty mayor who once helped liberate a mall Nazi concentration camp· Wa muth the prie t who e home raci t had bombed a few months before· and Broadbent the chain- rooking under beriff with a heart a big a he wa .

Later, Wassmuth and r vi ited t. Patrick Cathedral around the comer from our hotel. 1 figured ather Bill a a Catholic prie t wa making a pilgrimage. l didn t r alize at the time that he already wa struggling with hi vow of celibacy and soon would leave the prie tho d to marry and devote him elf to human right . Nor did l know he was o haken by the bomb that battered hi Haycraft Avenue horn in eptember 1986 that he began drinking heavily.

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However re.ader bould be warned that Wassmutb and co-author Tom Alibrandi were striving to capture the mood of the time and not nece arily for factual accuracy.

That apparent on various occasions. They had to manufacture dialogue among Aryans- at a cross burning supervised by Robert Mathews at the scene of the murder of fellow racist Walter We t, a leader Richard Butler and bis secretary, Bett)' Tate, welcome newcomers to the Aryan Nation compound.

They also used the literary device to describe a press conference at which Aryan Nations leader Richard Butler i being badgered with questions from - me "an olive-skinned reporter from the Spokane newspaper. J never attended such a pre s conference, although J have interviewed Butler several times.

In another portion the authors wrote that a local Le porter attending a task force meeting at the old North Shore was ympathetic to the Aryan cause.

I know the section was merely for effect in telling a story. But nothing could be further from the truth. From the tart The Spokesman-Review and to a lesser extent the Coeur d Alene Press were solidly in the task force 's corner.

Nitpicking aside however, the book deliver on a number of front .

It tells how the local human rights movement began decades ago when some cowards painted racist graffiti on the Hayden restaurant of Jewish owner Sid Ro en. How Keith Gilbert taunted a multiracial Post Falls family in those bygone days and became the first racist in Idaho to be convicted

of harassment. How Richard Butler arrived here from southern California thinking he'd found fertile oil for his upremacist creed only to be thwarted.

More important it keep alive the memory and deeds of those who opposed Butler and hi followers, none more o than Broadbent, the loveable cop who died before his time in 1995. The book follows Broadbent as he evolve -from a small-town cop who thinks Nazism died in a Berlin bunker with Adolf Hitler to a true believer in the dangers of the neo-Nazi movement locally. On one occasion not reported in the book, Broadbent told skeptical Coeur d'Alene business owners that the task force had prevented Kootenai County from being overrun by upremacists.

Indeed a raci t transplant from California recently griped about the passion for human right he found in North Idaho.

The local human-rights activists who risked much to combat hatred in those early days made a difference: Wa muth Tony Stewart, MarshaJI Mend, Dfoa Tanners, Rick Morse, Norm Gissel Skip Kuck, Walt Washington Dana Wetzel and others. They're alJ in the book. So is the tongue-incheek reason task force members asked Wassmuth to lead them: As a priest, he was ingle and lived in a brick hou e.

'Hate Is My Neighbor" is not the definitive work on the remarkable human rights movement in North Idaho. That book still needs to be written.

But it does provide a good overview of what happened. ft explains how a group of dedicated people prevented Butler from fulfilling bis dream to make the Inland Northwest into a haven for racists. â&#x20AC;˘ D.F. Oliveria Is a member of The Spokesman-Review's editorial board.

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A Celebration of Rights Program honors lffe of Dr. Martin Luther King

By BILL BULEY Staff writer

COEUR d ' A LEN E - Firs t, they laughed. The n, they listened in somber ile nce. And fi nally, th y smiled and houted "Jambo Rafiki ," in uni on.

It wa mu ic to Ted Hutchinson' ears.

"We have a wonde rful country.

Don't eve r le t anybody tell you different. It' up to u to make it even better," he aid to th fifth graders gathered at Fe rnan Elementary School.

Hutchinson, who i from the Seattle area, will be one of the featured performers atThursday's 15th annual human rights celebration

Kill mamorlal, human rights gala scheduled The Kootenai County Task

Force on Human Rights is plan ning two upcoming events.

The life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be honored Friday at the First Baptist Church in Coeur d'Alene. The program will include several musical performances, readings from King's writings, comments by former state Sen. Mary Lou Reed and a candle-lighting ceremony.

The program is scheduled

scheduled at North Idaho Colleg to honor the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Toe theme of thi year's children program, "Smile on Your Sister and

for 6-7 p.m.

The 19th annual Human Rights Gala Event to benefit the task force is scheduled for 6 p.m. Monday at the Clark House Mansion.

The event includes food. music and a silent auction.

Proceeds go to fund such programs as Ted Hutchinson's week of performances in the Kootenai County schools during the King holiday week.

Tickets are $25.

Information: 765-3932

Brother," will featur mu ic, readings of Dr. King , a peace chain and a "Sea of Fae s" poster made by fifth-graders.

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TI1e ev nti exp ted to attract a capacity crowd of 1,200 fifth grad rs from area chool and i Clo ed to th public.

Ta k fore memb r Tony tewart aid the program i an important part of ortb Idaho' human right awarenes effort .

"Of all the thing we do, it' one of th mo t ignificant thing w hav v r don ," h aid.

'I thjnk il a marvelou way to tea h a ceptance and quality." t wart e Limat d the program ha attra t d mor than 17,000 fifth-graders ince it

began in 1986. ''What l find from talking to former fifth graders who are now here at the college, they till remember in great detail the program," h aid.

'There' something about a large auruence with the children doing most of the program that tick with them forever. ' Hutchin on p rforms around the nation as a one-man how of African American history through storie , folklore, ong and poetry.

He had tudents laughing a he told a tale of a baby crocodile trying hard to get a meal.

He had tud nts 1i tening quietly a he told of slavery and how Africans were taken from their home and shipped

to American.

He had students baking hands and shouting out ~Jambo Rafiki," which mean '1Iello Friend," in African.

Hutchinson even led the energized group in a vow to treat others equally.

"I won't judg , tease or hurt," he aid, word that wer e ho d by th students.

"I will do my very b t in every way o that King and his dream will never, nev r ever, die."

Ta k force pre ident Doug Cresswell urged resident to participate in the week's vent "It i through the support of many Idahoan that we ar able to carry on our human rights work and counter the voice of prejudice and bigotry," he said.

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h n it com to the 21 t c :itury, mor than 1100 orth Idaho fifthgrader hav on m ag they want to hare wilh the world.

There will b no room for pr judj

Ri b or poor. Black or white. TalJ or hart People are all the arne, rud Brian Lohman of Prairi Vi w Elementary.

'I b li v Martin Luth r King' m a o all people wa to look pa t appearan to th very nter of their chara ter, not to hav prejudic , but openh artednes ," Lohman aid.

Robyn Li ggi of Fernan Elem ntary hared a similar vi w.

"W ar all like a gr al big family o w hould try to b ni to each olh rand not fight, " he aid.

The 15th annual Human Rights I bralion in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. pack d tud nt into chul r Auditorium at orth Idaho Colleg on Thur day.

Th y cam d pit th now and i y road to pr ad an importan m age, aid Fernan Principal Pam Pratt.

"Peac on earth, human djgnity and re p ct for all n ed to tart with our youth, and that i you," Pratt told th tud nt .

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Events will celebrate life of Martin Luther King Jr. COEUR d' ALENE - The Kooteoaj County Task Force on Human Relation will hold three events this week to celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. Some 1,200 fifth-graders are expected to attend a childreos program at North Idaho ColJege oo Thursday. The program will include a performance by folklorist Ted Hutchinson. He will portray black

history through tories, songs and poetry. The event i clo ed to the public due to a capacity crowd of students.

The ta k force al o will ho t an evening honoring King life Friday at the First Baptist Church in Coeur d Alene. The program, from 6 to 7 p.m., will include mu icaJ performances, readings from King' writings by schoolchildren comments from

former state Seo. Mary Lou Reed, and a candle lighting ceremony.

The event is free and open to the public.

Finally, the task force's annual fund-rai er will be at the Clark House in Hayden Lake on Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. The event includes food, music and a silent auction. Tickets are $25 per person.

Proceed go co fund diversity activities.

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The 21st Street Singers from Fernan Elementary perform"We Speak the Same Language" during Thursday's 15th annual Human Rights Celebration for area fifth-graders at North Idaho College. Story, photos/A5

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A Seltice Elementary's Tony Riddle, left.and Sorensen Elementary's Jake Williamson joined their peers on stage for a pledge to always treat others with equal respect.

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A A dance team from Fernan Elementary performed a special number to "Smile On Your Brother/Sister."

A Ted Hutchinson shares a story of equality with more than 1,200 fifth graders who packed into Schuler Auditorium.

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A link to the civil rights giant tudents string together peace chain to carry on Kings legacy

By Ali n Boggs taffwriter

COEUR d ALENE- More than 1,000 me age of peace were Linked Thursday as fifth-sraders celebrated the life f the Rev. Marttn Luther King Jr. On chain made from colored paper 1 200 tudent each wrote a message uch as ' mile n your brother and si ter" and "LetLhere bep ace."TheCo urd'Alen and P t ·all ludenL joined the chains until they tretched all the way around North Idaho ColJege' Schuler Auditorfam.

The peace chain was part of the 15thannual celebration at the college honoring the ill of Lhe lain civil righ lead r. It wa spon ored by the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relation .

"We now cllaUenge you to li e your words,' Pam Pratt, principal of Femao Elementary Sch I told the tud nt a they prepared to return to school bu e .

Human right advocates place pecial importance on thi event because of the racist r putation tamped on North Idah by the Aryan Natio a white upremac· t group ba d near Hayden Lake. Th group

ha marched thr ugh downtown Coeur d Alene th past two ummer . ince it wa formed in 19 1, the ta k force has b en attempting to counter the Aryan m age. It ha held a erie of event honormg King ince Congr d dared hi birthday a national h liday in the mid-

19 Os. The fir t children who attended this program now are 25 years Id, n ted Tony Stewart, a member of the ta k fore . "Thar is a very major event for children in fifth grade, he aid. It will go with them Continued: MU(/A10

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The 90-minute program included storie , ong , dance , pe hes and a peac chain, all urrounding the theme of ' mile on Your Brother/Si ter."

1, d Hutchin on. whop rform around the nation a a on per on how of Afri an American ' hi tory through Lorie â&#x20AC;˘ folklor â&#x20AC;˘ ong and poetry, pent the we k vi iting with fifth grader . He had the audi nc roaring with taught rat his tory of a family divid d then unit d.

"All of our ountry i a ountr y of unity and we want you to remember that," h aid.

E ike Nicklas, a andpoint High hool tud nt who i from Germany told a ta.I of how th Berlin Wall, con truct d in 1961, divided Ea t and W, t G rmany.

Guard towers, he aid, were et up and pe pl could be hot for moving too lo to them. No on wa allowed to leave Ea l G rmany.

'It was Like a hug jail," h aid.

When the wall came down in 1989, its piec became symbol of fr edom. Nickla aid.

'It i one of th mo t important thing , peopl hav th ir fr dom and th y can liv how th y

ant to," h said. tud nt said word , not weapon , mu t b th rule for the future.

"If w ar kind and patient with oth rs they will trea u lhe am way" aid Laura Gonzales of !tic Elementary.

"We ar all in thi world tog th r, which i our horn ," aid Amanda My r of Borah El m ntary. "Wi ne d to tr at other people lik w want lo be treat d ."

Pratt, who emc d th how along with Soren n Elementary Principal Bob hamb rg, said he wa proud to tep up and help organiz the v nl. ''I ju t hav a pa ion for human rights and

that all p ople, no matter what, ar treated with resp t," h said.

Th voic of th rudent echoed loudly through th auditorium a they losed th v nt with a ng.

"W1 ar th p opt of th 21 t ntury, n they sang ouL "We hav th chance co do it right."

Tony t wart, board m mb r with the Kootenai County Ta k Fore on Human Relation aid th program wa "extr mely moving" and on lhal lift d piri and energy.

"It indicate that we're in good hand in the future," he aid.

'Th young p ople poke from th.e ir heart and their mind. lt was wond rful.'

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Ted Hutchinson reads the program backstage at the 15th-annual human rights celebration whose theme was "Sm lie on your brother and sister."

MLK: Lakes • principal, son sang the theme Continued from A1

through their live .

The theme for the day on Thursday wa "Smile on your brother and i ter imilar to the lyrics from the 1960s ong "Get Together by the Youngblood . ("C moo people now, mile on your brother, ev'rybody get togeth r, try to love one another right now.')

That ong wa played on loudpeakers as the children walked in, 'and it wa ung by Chris Hammon principal of Lake Middle School and his on Garren a Fernan fifthgrader. Jim Lien principal of Woodland Middle School, accompanied them on guitar.

More mes age of peace and hope were conv yed a a student from each chool walked up on stage and read an e ay in pired by King s writing. ' On Earth we are all brother and i ·ter , ' aid Laura Denning, of Dalton Elementary.

A leaders of Lhe 21st century we can encourage human dignity aid Laura Gonzalez of Seltice Elementary.

It doesn 't matt r what lh color of your kin i it' what in id of you that count " aid Robyn Lieggi of Fernan.

Folklori. t Ted Hutchin on of Tacoma told a tory about haring and cooperation then led the children in a chant: ' l will, from unup to undown treat other people a my friend, I won't judge tea e or hurt, I wiJI re peel the beauty in other I wilJ be ready to help And alway to care for other people I will do my very best in every wa So Dr. King and hi dream will never, ever die.

I will be Like Dr. King for a day everyday for the re t of my life.

Exchange student from Russia and Germany al o performed for the tudent , inging ong and reading peeches.

Eike NickJas, a German exchange student at Sandpoint High School relayed hi memories when a a young boy in 1989, he experienced the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and rejoining of Ea t and We t Germany.

"It is one of the mo I important thing that people have their freedom,' Nickla aid. 'Don t ever forgettbi .'

• Alison Boggs can be reached at (208) 765-7136 or by e-mail at alisonb@spokesman.com.

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801 E - Mo t Americans don t know mu h ab ut Idaho tate Commerce Director Gary Mahn aid and that' wby it o easy for people to a ociate the tate with group like the Aryan atioo .

'The impre ion of ldabo i vague r we have no image at all Mahn told legi lators Friday. Thi ituation create a void that i

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often filled with exaggeration p rpetuat d b outof- tate media who don t really know Idaho.

Mahn pitch d Gov. Dirk K mpthome campaign to improve the tate image LO keptical legi lative budget-writ rs

on Friday.

I'm wondering ifw don t create an image i ue becau e we k:eep talking about it,' aid Rep. R bert Gedde R-Pre ton coch airman of the Joint Finance-

Appropriation Committee. "Sometimes if you don t talk about omething I e found that the problem goe awa .

But Mahn aid misconception of Idaho are a rop w rry of bu ine he ha contacted in orth Idaho and concern bu ine tJ1rougbout the tale as they try to recruit and r tain worker . ¡ 1 th.ink i for real and we cant ju t ignore it ' Mahn aid.

Kernpthome bas propo d $100 000 in th coming ar budget to launch the image campajgn. Mahn aid additional fund wiU be ought from the private ector. ' W ve alread gol om preliminary iadi-

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Martin Luther King

By BILL BULEY Staff writer

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ame tog ther on a cold, dark wint r night for one r a on: To keep th dr am alive.

"We're here to celebrate diver ity, especialJy in our community," aid Joann Harvey, board member of the Koot nai County Ta k Force on Human R lation .

About 50 p ople attend d the Martin Luther King Jr. remembrance ervice Friday at the Fir t Bapti t burch.

They honored the lain civil right lead r with song and peech, and al o with pledge to continue the fight again t prejud i e.

The Rev. John Haven of First Bapti t Church said it wa 32 year ago when King' voi wa silenced by an a a sin' bulJet But li tening to a recording of that voi Friday; Haven ¡aid, ent chill down hi pin . H prais d tho who ame to the service.

Laura Gonzales of Seltice Elementary School takes part in a remembrance service for Martin Luther King Jr. on Friday at the First Baptist Church in Coeur d'Alene.

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"You are participating in a dream that began many generations before 1ou were born." he said.

Haven said King preached two them s.

"He called for ju tice, and he called for reconciliation."

He hoped Friday' remembrance of King would help "put away the gun of anger, the gun of fear and the gun of hatred.' and nd with a re olve to end all violence.

Haven read Micah 6:8 from th Bibi : "And what doe the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.¡ Former Idaho n. Mary Lou Re d said the people that tarted the civil right movement were 'armed only by their pa ion for freedom ."

Their battle hasn't ended, she said.

"We know that the war for freedom and equality is never completely won, R d aid.

But she said MLK and his legion of freedom fighters have followers in North Idaho.

"We know in our heart we halJ overcome omeday," she aid. veral tudents also spoke about what King meant to th m.

"He wanted u all black and white, to walk hand in hand," said Kristin Hatfield of Ponderosa Elementary.

Laura GonzaJe of Seltice Elem ntary aid King ju l wanted peopl to be treated th ame.

"He wanted everyone to be able to go to the same school and it where they wanted to," he said.

cations from industry,' he said. "They want to be on board."

The . first step in the campaign will be research to provide reliable data on Idaho' current image, and where it falls short.

In an e-mail survey, 373 advertising agency executives from across the country were asked what came to mind when they heard Idaho mentioned. Potatoes was the runaway winner at 65 percent, with outdoor scenery second at 15 percent and farming and skiing following at 6 and 5 percent. The "unique hape" of the state's outline was next, and extremists were at the bottom at 4 percent.

More complete and extensive data will help

Idaho target its efforts where they'll make a difference, Mahn said. After that, the state will plan and launch an information campaign that could include anything from ads to appearances by the governor on national television.

The aim will be to tell Idaho'.s story, Mahn aid, from it scenery to its growing high-tech indu try to its Native American heritage and cultures.

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de pile the frightening incidents. That' becau e Florida image a a unny touri t de tination, home to Di ney World and uch attraction , wa already o deeply ingrained.

"Thi i not a spin situation at all - it's getting the truth out,· Mahn aid. " We're the truth quad:· The campaign ' i not going to tum thing around overnight," Mahn said. 'The be t defense i a great offen e. ' Tony Stewart, a board member with the Kootenai County Ta k Force on Human Relation , prai ed the effort.

'There i a egment of th population in th United States that ha a mi conception of Idaho,

"This is not a spi,n situation at all - its getting the truth out. We 're the truth squad. " Gary Mahn, Idaho Commerce Director

and do believe that Idahoan are prejudiced and bigoted becau e of the publicity that ha come from the Aryan Nation " Stewart . aid. "There i a egment that are truly convinced that we are something that we are not.· The campaign can help reverse those miscon-

ceptions. he said.

• If the campaign i uccessful, it will encourage people of diver. ity to come and vi it or live here.

We'll receive mor diversity within our tate when the true mes ·age is out."

Mahn aid group that receive tate grant money to promote Idaho will be a ked to make ure their ad accurately repre ent Idaho. including it cultural diver ity.

"Over 7 percent of our population is Hispanic. If you've g t IO people in an ad, one of th m ought to be Hi panic 'he aid.

Mo t of all Mahn sa id the Commerce Department wants Idaho real tory to be told.

"Our j b i to create job and promote the state of Idaho " the form r bu ine man told lawmakers. '·We are your marketing department.''

• Betsy Z. Russell can be reached at (208) 336-2854, or by e-mail at bzrussell@rmci.net.

March 23, 2000

The Coeur d'Alene Inn

Welcome and Introductions

414 W. Appleway

-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·- Mr. Doug Cresswell President, KCTFHR

The National Anthem-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·---·-·-·-·------ Ms. Darcy Wright

Welcome to Coeur d'Alene -·-·-·---·-·---·-·---·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·---·-

Mayor Steve Judy Coeur d'Alene Mayor

Presentation of Contribution to Human Rights Education Foundation Ms. Margaret Sanger (portrayed by Ms. Mona Klinger) Introduction of Keynote Speaker ---·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·---·-· Ms. Jeanne Givens

Keynote Address

-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·---·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-· Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (portrayed by Mr. Jimmie Luca )

Musical Presentation: "Let There Be Peace on Earth" -·-·-·-·-·-·-·--- Ms. Darcy Wright

Response and Thank You to Jimmie Lucas -·-·---·---·-·-·-·---·---·-·-·- Ms. Cathy R. Silak, Justice of Idaho Supreme Court Presentation of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations Civil Rights Award for 1999 -·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·- Ms. Jess Wolfrum and Mr. Tony Stewart.

(KCTFHR board members) Presentation of the 1999-2000 NIC Minority Student Scholarships

Ms. Mary Lou Reed President Human Rights Education Foundation and Mr. Jim Coleman

President-Elect NIC Foundation

Musical Postlude "We Shall Overcome"-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·---·-·---·-·-·- Ms. Darcy Wright SPEClAL THANKS TO EACH OF YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT OF HUMAN RIGHTS FROM THE KOOTENAI COUNTY TASK FORCE ON HUMAN RELATIONS