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NEWSPAPER OF THE JOHN BROWN ANTI-KLAN COMAWFR P.O. Box 406 Peter Stuyvesant Station, New York, N.Y. 10009 JULY/AUGUST 1983 No. 2 In spite of adl this violent intimidation on the part of the state, over 300 people entered the area. 1BAKC, INCAR flntemational Commitee Against Racism^ and CEDAR, a local pacifist group, accounted for about 150 arrti-Klan demonstrators. Another 50 were unaffiliated, but anti-Klan. Police also let throu^ 75 to 100 open Klan supporters, mostly bikers, who attempted to intimidate people. At noon the Klan emerged from the front door of City Hall, in their hoods and robes, carrying a large .Amerikkkan flag and a banner reading "Peaceful Patrbtic Protest by the KKK." Bill Wilkinson, Grand Dragon of the Invisible Empire of the Knights of the KKK, spoke throu^ a large sound system. At times he was drowned out by "Death to the Klan" and other chants. The Klan played "God Bless America" and other patriotk: songs over the speakers and returned to City, HaU after *5 minutes. After sneaking out the bad< dcxsr, tiie Kim left town in a feeding caravan led by patrol cars. Local teenagers and anti-Klan activists slipped through police lines and showered the Klan with stones, shattering a windshield on one Klan car. San Antonio, Texas In San Antonio, the Knights of the White Camelia attempted to continue organizing with a May 1 St march. Police sealed off a «f bluck, area, so that even though 800 to 1,000 Arilonio Kbn mavch demonstrators came, mostly from the cit/s large Mexican community, no one ever saw the Klan. Claiming to be enraged that they were .Kl ttujiAltvii* TToUsfi m ole, including the Chicago CC and Klan rally in Kakmazoo. The "Naizi SS Action -:i;r..-. Group" from Dearborn fa Detroit sdburb) led the rally with a large banner proclaiming "White In Houston, the police called it Houston is not Austin, where there is a lohg Power — the only power." Daniel Vincent "state-of-the-art" crowd control. It meant 1800 history of leadership from groups lB<e the Black Bfflery,-King Kleagle of the Realm of Indiana of poBoe on ?,000 rfemonstrators, plainclothes "tails" Citizers Task Force in the Black community and the National Kni^ of the Ku Khjx Klan tried on all known anti-Klan activists, selective where there has been 3 years of consistent to speak for almost an hour. The Nazis and seardies of demoretrators, and a midnight raid anti-Klan work among white people. Houston is Klan were totally (frowned out by the crowd on an anti-Klan punk benefit. a conservative city with a Chicago-style police which chanted, "E)e«th to the Klan," "Nazis and • force infamous for brutalitv. Still, %000 people Klan, scum of laid," and "Cops and tfie Klan *• In Meriden, the press called it "a peaceful came out to oppose the Klan march and made go hand in hand," among other chants. day." There were roadblocks at interstate exits, 'Tteath to the Klan" the main slogan of the day. The Nazis, Klan and police were hit by flying pat searches of everyone entering the vk±uty of The klan completed their 18-minute march at a vegetables and other objects at several points in Town Hall ^occupied by the KKK^ and snarling near-rm, even though nothing was thrown and the demonstration. The police arrested foir police dogs on chains. protesters 'vere kept behind rope barriers, people who face misdismeanor charges. At Sb< anti-Klan activists were arrested by several points the crowd diased the police and *• In San Antonio, so much of the city was police, who had mobilized the largest force in tried to free anested demonstrators. The entire sealed off by police barricades that protesters Houston's history to protect the Klan. The day white supremacist rally was made possBjle by the hardly saw the Klan, and even the Klan was a defeat for the Klan because it ^wed See Fighting the Klan, page 70 complained that they were being denied their that they cant mardi unopposed even in their 'Vighf to a pitolic rally. own backyard and it was a step forward for the anti-Klai movement, whidi now has a -IBAKC *• In a suburban shopping mall in Connecticut, chapter in Houston. cops outnumbered shoppers and SWAT teams lurked in the lingerie when the Klan came to Meriden, Connecticut recruit and anti-Klan demonstrators stopped The Klan held their third annual "White them. A New England factory town was turned Christian Solidarity Day" rally on the steps of into what kxal papers called "an armed camp" Meriden City Hall on April 29. Three hundred in a futile attempt to herd demonstrators into a people ttaned out to oppose them, a smaller and stadium with the Klan! less militart crowd than last year. Efforts to orgemize anti-racist people from all over were AmeriKKKa, 1983. Never has so much naked frustrated by an almost total media "whiteout," police power been mobilized to protect the by police roadblod<s that turned cars away, and ability of fascists to march and rally in the by the low level of development of the anti-Klan streets. These events show not only the state's movement among white people in New EnglarxJ New Britain, 3uie 25thi commitment to build the Klan, but also the at this time. Some pacifist and reformist groups growing strength of the opposition. The and even some anti-Klan groups had joined with resistance to the Klan is becomir^ a movement, the state in urging people to stay away. and nowhere can the Klan march without Still, the opposition was enoi^ so that the In This Issue massive oolice protection. Klan didnt attempt to march as in previous News Briefs 3 'See centerfold for photos.> years and had to remain behind police lines and Interview with RICO Defendant 5 hide in City Hall befc«e and after the rally. Chicago's Mayoral Eledion 6 Houston, Texas Checkpoints were used for blod<s aromd City The KKK that marched on April 2 in Hall, forcing everyone to submit to a search in Communiques 12 Houston was the same "Knights of the White which even sandwiches were confiscated. The Know Your Enemy: California Klan Leader 11 Camelia" and "Klan Boat '^atrol" that met with City Hall in the center of the sealed area was The Struggle in the Congo 14 disaster in Austin on February 19th. Based surrounded by a ring of 200 riot-equipped police, And More! primarily in the Houston/Pasadena area, they bad<ed ip by SWAT teams, snipers on rooftops, were marching doser to home this time. and dDgs on chains. EDITORIAL FROM THE NEW AFRIKAN INDEPENDENCE MOVEMENT ar Is War Even as Black mavors are elected in Chicago war that with each passing day daims the lives to do with any of them'' Such are the questions and Philadelphia, even as the talk about a "Black of hundreds of our women, men and babies — that jBg us like a sore wound or a big bump on presidency" grows more clamorous, even as physically as well as psychologically and the head. All the same, we inderstand that it thotsands of New Afrikans 'Blacks^ are being spiritually. There are those unscrupulous forces was the enemy that duped and continues to mobilized to march in Washington, D.C. on that seek to liquidate support for our war mislead white workers to do savage things that August 27th under the barmer of symbolism and against colonialism and all forms of exploitation are counter-productive to the struggle for a reformism, even as all this takes place, the by pointing at those weak individuals who turn better life and the power to control our lives conditions of War in Amerikkka are escalating their back on our people. We must not, fyau, yours and we, ours). WhUe we understand and intensifving. however, let them take us off course. these things, the gas chambers in Germany, the This war began with tiie coming of the first Comrade Sekou Odinga correctly states: extinct Indian populations and the bones of europeans to Africa for the purpose of buying "Most struggles have their traitors, and in millions of our ancestors that lie at the bottom and trafficking in human beings to serve as the Amerikan struggle they had theirs, of the Atlantic Ocean refuse to allow us to slaves. This was the commencement of a war Benedict Arnold and others ... In War, i tolerate white supremacy for the sake of "unity between the oppressed, enslaved and eventually guess, that's something to expecrt" as a dass". colonized Afrikan masses and the oppressing, Without a doubt, the U.S. bourgeoisie through Recently an article appeared in the enslaving and colonizing europeans. Everywhere the government, through the media, through bourgeoisie press 'New York Times, June 11, that Afrikans were dispersed became a political chemical and biological weaponry, through their l'?83^ entitled: "Investigator Sees Links Among and militarv front in this struggle for freedom official armed forces ^especially the police) and Heavily Armed Right-Wing Groups." It starts and to end oppression. through their unofficial white supremacist and out, "Federal authorities ... say they are This reality of war was in no way diminished right-wing armed forces; through these means uncovering some troubling links among small by the fact that Afrkans acted as middlemen, and others are intensifying an undeclared war groups of heavily armed right wing extremists" translators and mercenaries for the barbaric against the New Afrikan nation; that is to say, with ties that "cut across organizational lines interests of the white marauders.

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