ANT!'RACISM NEWSLETTER Racist lerror,
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yoliieviy-iil Tom Metzger and WAR:
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Anti-Racists March in King Day Rallies
Down but not Out NBc-nazi Tgiti netzger.
his son John,
and thair
Two major antl-racist demonstrations are scheduled
organization WAR -- White Aryan Raaiatance — uiera
for January 21, the Hartln Luther King Day holiday in
socKBcl uith a muiti-mi 11 ion dollar
L.A.
judQfflBnc by a civil
PART Is participating in both.
Jury in Portland OR which found them liable for In citing the death of Ethiopian rafugea nuLugeta Seraui at the hands of
several
of
their nazi
The King Day Coalition Against Hate Crimes has scheduled a candle-light rally and march at North
bonehead followers.
Hollywood Park, Tujunga and nagnolia, beginning at 5:00
But in southern California, natzgar is still a racist menace not to be ignored. His followers staged
p.m.
a fund-raising rally in an Orange County park in November . About 30 neo-nazis were mat by counterdemonstrators. even after changing the site of their
march, who demands this year also include an end to racism and hate crimes at home, and for peace and
get-together at the last minute.
Juscica in the niddle East and Central America.
Earlier the seme day,
the L.A. Student Coalition
is holding Its fifth annual King Day anti-apartheid
Wyatt Kaldenberg, an
The
march will gather at Pan Pacific Park in the Fairfax
ex-leftist follower of netzger s, is also raising funds for the white supremacist's appeal of the Portland verdict. Paul Smith, a "former" nazi-skin, has put "Race and Reeson," netzger's calk show, on the air on
area at
10:00 and sot off
for
the South African con
sulate in Beverly Hills at 11:00. Cion elsewhere
in this
CSae more informa-
issue.)
a cable-TW system in Torrance. and plans to run all 80 segments. neanuhile.
San niegn,
rnrl Straight,
Mere Racist Vandalisffl:
a frequnnt
guest on Race and Reason and one of netzger's hard-core followers for years,
has been subpoenaed by a federal
Racists vandalized the Laguna Hills home of ■ Black family in November. Delano Da Sllva. whose home
grand jury investigating the pipe-bombing of Che S.D. federal Building in October. The White fighting nachine which cook credit for the bombing,
suffered thousands of dollars in damage and was -sprag-
demanding
that netzger's Portland trial be stopped, hate crimes
painced inside with racial slurs, most of them mia-
laws be dropped, end Che border be sealed. The fBI arrested one men. a racist named Soames. for sending
apeiled.
threatening letters to norris Oees,
be intimidated out of his home.
charging netzger
Da Sllva, who had previously been thinking of
moving with his family to Atlanta, vowed ho would not
the attorney
in the case.
netzger is trying to extract political mileage
In uan Nuys, Grant High was the target of racist
from his Portland defeat, proclaiming himself a martyr of free speech. He appeared on "Harvey in the Lion's Oen" on Channel S spouting this Una with a couple of
vandals, who spray-painted swastikas and noo-nazi
slGgans on the school.
principal, a white man married to a Black women, racBivad threatening racist letters.
racial altercation in the San femando ualley several
several co-defendants are facing trial
Police have ar
rested Bob Snydar, an 18 year old senior for sending the letters, and suspect him of having vandalized the
months ago.
netzger's legal problems ars far from over. Richard Butler of the Aryan Nations in Idaho, and
At least one Black student, a
Black teacher, the Black assistant principal and the
dozen nazl-bonahead followers, including Geraml Rineman, who was shot and partially paralyzed in a
He,
teacher's home this past Juno.
Bail was set at
SIO.OOO.
In Los Angeles
on charges arising from a triple cross-burning carried out by WAR,
the KKK,
the Nazis and Aryan Nations more
"Mock" Klan robes, cross-burning in Fire Department, Sheriffs Department
Chan 7 yeers ago. The case was kicked out of court twice by judges impressed by netzger's free speech claims, but that decision has bean overturned on appeal -- too late to save the lives of the people killed by
several of the co-defendants ( including Jewsih talk
show host Alan Berg and a niasouri state trooper) after
Racisi IS oarticuiarly threatening insiae the rants of
they became federal fugitives. netzger is scheduled for a hearing in the L.A. Superior Court, Oept. lOS, on January 11. at which time
tne untforieii services, vnen tne force of governient is in the nands of ahite suoreiacists. Tmo recent cases in L.A. snoN this oroblei is not restricted to the deep South. In the L.A. County fire Oepartient, the Black Esoloyees
e new date will probably set far trial on the cross
burning, which Cook place m Sunland in Dec. 1303,
Association is calling for tne oisatssal of a firs captain, ■ho donned a enite paper bag cut out to loot like a KKK hood td intiBidate a Black Moian Morking at the dispatch center.
RACISTS
In the Sheriff's Oeoartient, Sheriff Sherian Bloct has
Quietly reinstated t«o deputies, guards at a local jail, who
OUT!..,
•aoe I paper cross and set fire to it Nith an aerosol can used as a blOHtorch to intiiidate Black onsoners.
0
is looking into the case.
The FBI