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Published Monthly by The Commemoration Committee for The Black Panther Party VOLUME 3 NO. 5 ·· March 1993 Con1n1unit Tensions High Photo ~I ~.:~e:L!t'!f~~ A Close Look.At Famine The phenomenon of famine in the world today American soldiers currently invest ing portions of Somalia under the ban ner of famine relief are entering a coun try listed as one of three prime markets on the international cocoa exchange, with an abundance of untapped uranium deposits as well as petroleum and many other outside interests. Like many African nations suffering famine - defined by Webster's Second Un With four officers-on reasonable bail- being tried for violating Rodney King's civil rights, and a second .trial abridged Edition as "an acute and - of three black youths unable to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars - about to start,judicial rulings ap- general shortage of food in a popula . perar designed to preclude the possiblitly that institutional racism in Los Angeles might be proved in court. tion" - Somalia's agriculture has for many decades prioritized export com Los Angeles (USA) modities first. Famine exists in areas in this state and in this country, right now, here in the United States as well as around the world. "Somalia is a drop ,in the buck A Call for Justice et," said March Cohen, one of the Defense manipulation began to hit the case. They dwelt on how the LAPD Did a black jury woman contaminate authors of "Hunger 1993." Out of a home early in the face of passive plain police were placed at the edge of the her would-be jury mates by repeating world population, according to the tiff passages au contraire. Judge John ghettos in an overt attempt to entrap criticism of the previous jury's racial U .N. 's Food and Agriculture Organiza Davies began by announcing that US v. those who had done their homeboy make-up, as alleged by a part-time tion, of 5 .5 billion people, "2 billion are Classic( which ruled that racial bias did drinking and now were headed for policeman who somehow gained ease malnourished in some way. not have to be proven in order to town, pre-identifiable by low-rider ment to the jury itself? By that time, 3 "The numberof poor American chil prosecute in a civil rights case) would vehicles and bumper stickers as well as out of 4 of the defense had selected the dren is larger than the entire population stand as the final ruling toward recog their cars' locations and their safety unusual and totally overburdened of Somalia," as recently reported ·by the nition of racism as a motivating factor violation status. provision of summary dismissal of the . U.S. Children's Defense Fund. in the hands of the officers. Accordingly, an immense volume of present case. In conjunction with an ·international Organizational amicus curiae briefs; intense work redefined the terms of the The defendants' hastily selected study by the United Nations, the Chil including a group from San Francisco's test in US v. Classic which Judge position of solidarity, which appeared dren's Fund report reveals how hunger Coalition of Concerned Legal Profes Davies was free to interpret for the in the wake of the 4th King defendant in this country is also on the rise. Ac sionals, asserted that racism entered in entry of defense on other issues of less beginning-his original defense by at cording to the first study. one in every to the picture long before the body of general or more subjective strength. tempting to :withdraw from the claims four black American children goes to King became the motivating thing in of the rest, only to be pulled back by a bed hungry each night. defense meeting on the strategic trap, According to Kevin Shelley, Presi now seems ready to collapse again. dent of the San Francisco Board of INSIDE: The worries of the King crowd of Supervisors, the infant mortality rate • Pan-Islamic Movement ...... Page 4 the 3-:to-nothing formulation the among black children of San Francisco is higher than in thirty countries in the • BPP Archives ...... Page 13 defense has so far set in pre-trial mo tions leaves King advocates in other world. • Garment Workers' Labor Action ...... Page 15 cities ready to address the situation There are 14.3 million poor children in the U.S. today. The United Nations ConJinued on page 5 ConJinued on page 7 2 THE COMMEMORATOR MARCH 1993 Speak Out For Change by Tony Love Editorial We spend too much time fighting the flock to victory or change. If they are wrong people. We go after the drug called by God, they will not fear death, lords but we are not at the root of the but will fear . the One who gives problem. The problem is the system life ... who is God Almighty. Church and the way the system is functioning. leaders must be a voice for the people So Much for We need a better school system. and speak out. People want to know Our children need a better education. how you are going to help solve these Teachers need to be paid more money problems that the American people are to teach a better education to our facing. children.We need better payipg jobs, · We want to know when you are Justice going to stop talking and do something and we need jobs that _reach every per son.If you can give a parking space to . about this dying world. "Pardon Me, but ... " someon~ who is handic.apped, We spend too much time fighting the whatabout a job to those handicapped wrong people. We go after drug lords; President Bush's pardon of former the hands of this illegal action, but to Americans who don't have a job to take but we are not at the root of the prob defense secretary, Casper Weinberger give the impression to the American care of themselves. If you cannot take lem. The problem is the system and the and five other government officials and public that the justice system is fine and care of yourself, you are harid-. way the system is functioning. CIA operatives, in the 1986 Iran-contra well. icapped.We need better assistance in If there are not church leaders who mega-scandal holds no surprises for Mr. Walsh is said to be a person who our need, in this city where the poor are will stand up for you and me, I will use many people, but it does give us a will go to great lengths to prove a point, being oppressed.We need more money the knowledge that I have and go as far blatant case of a cover-up on top of a even if the point is "pie in the sky." This for our medical needs. · as I can with it; but I need your support. cover-up! When one compares this to case reflects the same corrupt legal sys We need more honest police "to pro I'm ready for change. How about the many instances where justice for tem as last April's Rodney King ver-' tect and serve" our community and to you? I want to help better our com members from the low-income com diet, the upcoming trial of the four protect our children as they go to ·and munity condition and our condition. I munities are concerned it becomes black men charged with beating truck · from school...some don't make it home. need other organizations who want to really telling. Who does the American driver Reginald Denny, and the federal The government needs to fund jobs work hand to hand to make a change. civil rights case against four officers system of "justice" serve? that pay a living wage for all the people We need all churches who are will As second in comµiaild on former video-taped participating in the beating who choose to work. We deserve the ing to get together in this world and of King. The objective of both hearings president Ronald Reagan's watch, Mr. right to work, but the government took march for change and equal rights.If Bush denies know ledge of the "Iran is to perserve the illusion that the Ame that right when it snatched the jobs the gang members can come together, deal" where U.S. weapons were sold rican justice system works for all Ame from our community. what about you and I? for the release of American hostages. ricans alike. Because justice, on the People who live in the low and mid .. ·. ·, We ca:11 ourselves ministers. This is This was brought to light during the local level, failed for Rodney King, the dle income bracket are not incluc;led in the time that the people need you the November, 1986 Congressional hear federal government, in an effort to try this system when it comes to sharing most. They are looking for someone ing which found that the administration the pie. However, we are included who God has led to th~ front line to lead illegally diverted money from the sale when it com~s to paying the bills, the His people, so that they can make it of weapons to Iran (a nation classified The government taxes, and too, police brutality we don't through the oppression and struggle. by the U.S. government as "terrorist") even get justice. We always.want to attack the dead to the Nicaraguan Contras ( a CIA force needed to give the We are still fighting racism, when beat daddies, but we don't want to give attempting to overthrow the constitu impression that the we should be fighting for change.We the deadbeat daddy a job. How can tional government of Nicaragua). Back need to focus on the things that will deadbeat daddies' buy milk without ing the Contras itself violated, not only criminal justice system help the American people to live suc moriey? This system is designed to the U.S. Constitution and the Boland cessful lives. turn the poor into criminals. · Amendment (a law forbidding U.S. in serves all. Now it's time ... The rich man is the "crook," and the tervention in the affairs of a sovereign It's time for all the church leaders to :"crook" is the "system." Who runs the nation), but also international law. to show that the justice system stiil . take the front line for the people whom system is the problem and the P.roblem The Reagan-Bush team chose for works, is going to try these police of tney shepherd. They must lead their must be eliminated! Now! ~ mer Marine Corps Lt. Colonel, Oliver ficers for "violation of Rodney King's North as point-man for this operation. civil rights!" He .served as someone who could be Already steps have been taken to sacrificed, if need be, without jeopard minimize the result. The court has izing the executive office, to indirectly ;uled that prosecutors must prove Editor's Response lead this illegal clandestine operation. (beyond a reasonable doubt) that the North and other government offi officers were motivated by racism Dear Mr. Love, cials brought to light when subpoenaed when they beat King. It is very difficult by Congress some of the illegal ac to prove a state of mind, so this in Thanks for writing us and expressing your concern for a better society and, also, thanks tivities that were carried out under the creases the officer's chances of going for pointing out that it is "the system and the way the system is functioning ," that is the Reagan-Bush team, yet none of th~se free. Curiously, it also implies that it's point of address. principal players have been brought to ok to treat citizens the way the officers Of course, this point of address was the first point of address thai-the Black Panthers or justice. And North remains proud of treated King,. as long as racism is not ganized around over twenty-five years ago when the plight of poor people in the United States was not as desperate as it is today. We-can see,for instance, how the homeless what he did. the motive. White folks should be quite population has grown ove.r the pgst JS years, the squeezing out the local businesses by large Special prosecutor, Lawrence worried about that. No~one has ever corporations and multinaiional corporations, the growth ofprison labor for profits Walsh mounted a campaign to go after been held accoµntable for w}?y oniy ydung black men ana m_inorities making up over 80% of the prison population. The result is the pruicipal playSrs, six-years later. four of -12 or· more dfficers were wealth _being concentrated infewer and fewer hands. Which means poverty being $pread out Walsh1s·0eui'rent investigation, focus charged, nor why only ~eating of the a,f:umgst nwre and mo.re people. r . • 1 ing on Bush s·'pardon ·of Weinberger King, not of th~ two othe( passengers, - !' All this i~ i,.~ppe~ing with our governmeni' s help. For exqmple, in the rec.ent ·e.1ec.1io~'- : for his ?die intHe l<:!ase, hai cause the· was investigated.'',. . ; '" . ,. ':'"' J:. bath major presicleiitial'cctndidaies, Mr. Bush and Clinton;proposedfree t~~de agreeine'rlt collab'oratfonisfmedfa to gg into a'sefi- , i Then there are' moreJblanfaiitiy' il- a{a ~rr.teipr.isizones;as;econ:(f/miC 'Solu)i'ansfjor. the.economy and unimploymenDBoih iMse ~ , ...... ;.- ~ ~-· ~ ..~ ..-- ....,· '"": ·-- ;. ,.r -~ . .• ~- · ~ sational' blitz, riot · for redressing ·th'e ·· legal measures, ~~ch asthe·anonymqus prpl,r:fW.:wef~IJ.4qm.f!_ntq!ll. ;:~,;jpk,l,({,r!,,o_v.:1/'. lf!.(;{!,l'/WJlics. T,his ec;on(Jmicphi!(Jsophy .c/qims. Nicar.fg(iah p-ehple wnese eouniry~ ii§'.J ma1li'rig' ofl:federal-'p~8s'e~ors' ''ifM1f •"; th'tzt if money - in the form of tax incentives, common labor subsidies, and government con '(iO!r i i! "··nq ~ ) J,.l • .::;r: ; :f:\~ .~ru;;n-:-!'~-.:...... :_.;<: trbcts - is provided to the wealthy, they will invest it in production and create new jobs. dev.astat.~ "~lfldiuwhose people died at ! . Continued on page 14 '-.- --,-.------.~---·--· ··- "-,..-- .. -.- ·-. - -~· ------continue oiilfnl'jiage- · .MARCH 1993 THE COMMEMORATOR 3

urged Los Angeles fo sale the Los Angeles International Airport too. They bend over back Editor's Response wards to carry out the financial plans recommended by their creditors and lqrge fin ancial. Conlinued from previous page institution. Brazi.l' s austerity orders dictate producing and selling cattle to pay off it's' debt, it is The/act of the matter is that the money is not invested in jobs but in whatever will make forced to cut down its rainforest and homes of the people who live there, to make grazing them the most whether that be prison labor,jobs low-paid in Mexico or in enterprise zones. land,for the cattle, that will not go to local markets but will be sold in the international Thus, socialism does exist in this nation, at this time, national socialism to a .closed market to the highest bidder. The money from ihat sale will then go, not in the nation's economic community for ihe wealthy, government assistance, government subsidies, wealth, but to the pay off the debt, to service a debt that will never be paid off. government protection/or corporations and free market, screws you over first, capitalism The U.S. austerity orders are capital gains tax cuts, enterprize zones.free trade agree for the rest of us. We are left to compete with each other for what crumbs that "trickle ments, prison labor and cuts in government services to all its people not just it poor, leaving down." .It means no government assistance and protection/or working people, cut-back in access only to those who can still purchase their own services. social services, health, education and welfare. All this will be done under the guise of "cutting government spending", we will deregu The government of the U.S. is cons(itutionally bound to protect the interest of the people late the f ood industry, transportation, construction, pharmaceutical industry, etc. For us of this nation, all of us; not just the wealthy. The law says the government as a repre that means, poor quality food, plane crashes, poorly constructed bridges, buildings, unsafe sentative of, by and/or the people, all people do not have a choice as to whose side 1t will and ineffective drugs. be on, particularly when the well being of the peoples life, liberty and pursuit of happiness Under our present economic, poli(ita/ and social arrangement, as you correctly pointed is on the line. When the government breaks that constitutional pack with the governed, it out, the question "How can deadbeat daddies buy milk without money?" is a very relevant forfeits the right to rule. Those who says it will trickle down is either ignorant of the/acts, question to raise, especially when the government has moved to enact legislature to im or playing us all/or fools and suckers. The "good" slaves have always looked to the master prison "deadbeat daddies" for not paying up. The types of laws are coming down at a time to throw some bones out the back door. · when decent employment is decreasiµg and the economy is in a depression, when labor That is what the Commemorator will reveal in its pages. Not through rhetoric, but facts unions have been growing weaker and weaker, especially since the. '.'trickle down" formula and figures. Remember, "figures don't lie, but liars figure ." has become the order of the day. "Deadbeat dads" is tlie governments (state, local and Our studies have shown time after time profits of the wealthy ( corporation) do not federal) way of moving the ·questionfrom lack ofjobs that pay adequate wages, "systemic "trickle down," but are merely used to buy up more businesses to make more profits, or to problem" to a personal problem, Good vs. Bad people. invest in advance technology to cut the cost of labor and therefore to make more profits. The government is on a plan of cutting money spent on us people, in order to use that Anywhere that enterprise zones have beeiz implemented.or the "maquiladoras" that are the money to pay their creditors, the wealthy. That means that AFDC has to go, Planned Pqren · forerr,mners of the free trade agreement. What is always missed in this approach is that thood has to go, general assistance has to go, Medi Cal and Medi Care, has to go, Un American workers are the primary market/or American business, and ifAmericans aren't employment and Workers Compensation, has to go. (NOTE: Keep an eye on these working, or don't get paid enough to but, expanding markets is the only way to sustain a programs, watch how they are phosed out.) business. For many, we won't miss them, they were put there as second or third rate medical care · Even if we assume good intentions on his part, Mr. Clinton will ncit change the in the first place, part of the institution ofpoverty, but what it does mean, is that those able economic priority of the wealthy and those who work/or the wealthy, the" comprador." to appease their concern through giving the helpless a hand, many personal moral His proposal to tax those who make over two hundred thousand dollars a year is a mere problems have that facade of assistance taken away and may find themselves closer than drop in the bucket, especialy, with n~arly a $5 trillion debt and a $400 billion deficit each they would like, economically, to those they were handing out to yesterday. year. The COMMEMORATOR does not think it is possible this situation can be changed When they finish rallying the uninformed around "dead beat dads" the or,.ly thing left of without fundamentally changing the priorities as they materialize through economic policy. AFDC, or any government assistance will be the work provision, called workfare, where · Mr. Clinton will likely bring about a/ace-lift or tid-bits of some social reform, such as sup you work/or your welfare. We call it Slavery, it's not voluntary - it's mandated. porting abortion rights, or Gay rights legislation, while the majority of the population, Thank you and keep writing, we want to know how they are dealing with these issues in working pe.ople are left to pay off the debt with incomes already too small to pay for subsis South Central. tence . The federal government does not have the political will to change the priority, regard Peace! less who is president, because it is indebted to the wealthy financial institutions ofthe world. These large financial institutions force all governments that owe them money to ad The Commemorator Newspaper here to an austerity program of some form or another. This is_ currently happening in · Mexico, Brazil, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. This is called privatization. Wall Street's interest, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are forcing governments all over the world to sell public property to private interests, such as hospi Commemorator's tals, prisons.fire departments, airports, utilities, etc. A lot of the U.S.federal debt is owned to foreign and international banks. Ten years ago, here in Oakland, the mayor sold the Oak land Auditorium to private corparations who are now making a profit off the former public Exp·ansion and Growth facility. It now cost the city, and the tax-payer whose money built the facility, more money to use a facility thai they once owned. Jn New York City, the government is talking about selling Kennedy and LaGuardia Air: port, just as the rest of the indebted countries of the world.for fear of losing their credit rating and worst their positions ofpower within their country. The federal government has •

"SERVING ALL OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES" Volume 3 Number S March, 1993 Oakland~Ca lifornia

EDITOR ...... ~ ...... Melvin Dickson · Frorp its initial distribution in Oak with The Party but who are looking for MANAGING EDITOR ...... : ...... Gary Johnson land, the Commemorator attracted the an analysis of what is happening in the PRODUCTION MANAGER ...... Margaret Williams attention of former 111embers and sym country and what they can do about it. CONTRIBUTING WRITERS .. . .. Bonita Best, Tony Love, Roosevelt C. Erby pathizers of th~ Black Panther Party As a result The COMMEMORATOR COMMEMORATOR STAFF ...... Vickie M. Myles, Roosevelt C. Erby, throughout the country. is now being . distributed in twelve More recently The COMMEMO states from coast to coast. Within · ...... Natak'a Crayton, Sam Diener, Jane Welford' RATOR has expanded its audience to California the paper is distributed in

include many who had no prior history Continaed on Page 12 4 THE COMMEMORATOR MARCH 1993 · Behind The· Pan-Islamic Movement

Many of those in Washington, DC, while representing the United States within ·It is to be remembered that Bush, in order to mount his attempt to punish Saddam the confines of the United Nations in New York City, the World Court, not to Hussein for his infringement of UN Security Council resolutions, had to divert two _ mention the various embassies that constitute the so-called Arab Bl~c within the U.S. battle groups from the 7th Fleet to provide take-off points for unmanne(j. world today, would possibly do well to remember that there is a growing "third Cruise and Tomahawk missiles, as Arab Nations, including those under financial sentim_ent" rapidly emerging from that bloc, which is fed from other ~ources than obligation to the U.S., refused them the air space loaned two years before. This, propaganda, agitation and loans. It .takes its nourishment from · a growing in the view of objective history seen by our mythical influence in Cairo, always suspicion of the strictly U.S. transliteration of the events of the day in s1,1.ch a · proved to be the objective way to know who was winning a war, and more manner that the statements, which once could be called ultra-Islamic nationalist importantly, who was losing. propaganda, and some ofthe new, larger, Middle Eastern political movements are Darius ofPersia, 8 centuries B.C., lost the world he had to gain as former allies beginning to draw together. . . · · ·refused him easement and supplies. Five centuries later, Alexander the Great This is reinforced by the course of history emerging as established by fact. The . turned back from conqu·est of his world when the core ofhis army was reduced to average merchant in Cairo,for instance, having watched the course of the war in 45,000 Macedonians, and ihe 2 million other soldiers he commanded refused him Iraq, harbors a growing insistence in the back of his mind that U.S. aid had a stand on their land to fight their own neighbors. When his Macedonian strength pre-paid the Iraq-Iran affair in an attempt to weaken Saddam Hussein long before · wavered, Alexandet went home. The great Caesar, with his two legions, lost his "Satanic forces" within Western thinking were set loose to conduct a false momentum when he couldn' tforce the Egyptian army into friendly regions on land, campaign of hate and propaganda against Saddam, even before a plan of war and Marcus Antonius, like George Bush, left ihem scattered at sea in the same two could be instituted. regions, the Gulf of Persia and the.Adriatic Sea. Two years later, after the only Western victory, the a!Jility to conduct Operation The paragraphs above were donated by a friend with some experience in the . Desert Storm, appeared within th.e American-dominated forums of the UN and region under consideration. They provide a face for an explanation of thinking other places. George Bush is now. turned oµt of his office, our average Cairo absolutely contrary to any understanding allowed to U.S. diplomatic missionaries merchant noted, how Saddam, coolly, after two years of war, conducts another and much too logical for the confines of the obsessively lurid mind in places of K1,1.wait invasion as the undisputed leader of his people, while at the same time power and position within the Western European press corps, in order tq be able · magnanimously offering a cease-fire line to Mr. Bush's competition, now in office." to present an abrupt departure from U.S. thinking, s'omething larger than the Saddam, in effect, threw him a pitiful form oibaksheesh or bribe, given by a major headline of the minute. We must realize that ever since 936 A.D., the thinking of player-to the leader of servants to encourage his efforts to lead them to endeavors the great Islamic movement and presence of the·Satan which drove it from M~cca pleasing to himself into a pilgrimage army of its own after displaying itself for the· first time seve~al In America, George Bush may be home in Houston after holding down his years earlier before the gates of Medina has been enunciated formally five times assigned role ofleader under the Constitution. However, America is dealing with a day as Muslims prostrate themselves to the one real God. God's embodied a trading bloc that began to seriously conduct international diplomacy I 8 genera presence can but allow Satan in many forces and places to attempt to rebuild, and tions before the Christian era under the watchful eye of Zoroaster himself and all can clearly understand Satan's diverse p1ys~nces .in the hands _arid tbe.qiings,of nearly 4,000 years before the word of Allah was spoken through the.. mouth of 1 th'ose who increase· Satan~s:counter-attacks unt-il·alLof Jslam- is foFeed•to refr.ain Mohammed. In this ancient sphere, political bankruptcy, like the economic kind, : from placing arty further strain on orie of their natioos. - · was _treated with exile often followed by suicide by the elders of Satan and seven We have put the following together from the minds of that Cairo businessman, years ofself -sold slavery to the .later leaders who would hitch their star to Satan's from the power behind the endless "new-think'' movement, and the advisors and_ agents, leaving even them, the seeds of our current major bankruptcy statutes. factory owners in Pakistan, oil dealers in Iran, and those who make common . They also left a current major leader free from baying packs of hounds and other message with them on two onhree minor issues. . forms of annoyance as he went about his business buying those who replace Part of it is history and part of it becomes prophecy of the minds of men. who Satan's agents a chance to redeem the forces they now represented from policies toil under its influence; here are words contributing to it five times a day. One against those who constituted and still do, the minor edges ofhis empire. cannot conclude to have any sort of an education in the topic itself until one realizes That message was among many that came in loud and clear. George Bush had that those advertised above have something to say that speaks for itself in the been stripped of his leadership veneer and it was up to William Jefferson Clinton current set of everyday actions. It comes from the place where Satan may make to show his gratitude to Saddam to prevent contim.{.ed estrangement ofhis remazn many appearances, but usually is restricted to one form at a time until his forces ing allies. are virtually destroyed or dramatically ~edeployed by men of better will. The Great Satan

by Comrade Muslim lbn AI-Haqq them in Iran, encouraged Islamic fundamentalists in the former Soviet Union, The United States recognized many decades ago that Pan-Islamic movements, aided the Philippine government in suppressing the Moro Liberation Front and disguised as various national liberation struggles, could be used to build a fascist aligned with the W ahabi Islamic guardians of Mecca, Medina and the oil reserves order accelerating the disintegration of the Soviet Union as a force for intercom of Saudi Arabia. . munal scientific socialism and distracting millions of the hungry and disposed of Eduard A. Shevardnadze, former Soviet Foreign Minister under Gorbachev and other lands from their true enemy. current head of state of Georgia's governing council, recently endorsed air strikes Afghanistan, where U .S .-backed so-called Muslim nationalists engaged the against Muslim militants and other separatists in Abkhazia, a formerly autonomous Soviet Army in a protracted guerilla-style war is a prime example of the execution republic within the Georgian SSR, now seeking to break away from Georgia. of this grand strategy. But in Sudan, Lebanon, Algeria, Egypt and other lands Islamic nationalism is also at the center of armed conflict in the central Asian where there is strong faith in Islam, populations disillusioned by corrupt semi · former Soviet republic of Tadjikstan, while a similar si~ation is about to explode socialist or quasi-democratic bureaucracies are turning to religious warfare rather in Uzbekistan. In the former Yugoslav Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina, where than to poli*al formations capable of building production and ensuring distribu Catholic Christian Croats and Orthodox Christian Serbs were already battling-each tion to all according to need. other over pre-socialist tribal feuds, with the newly reunited WWII occupier, The "Great Satan" realized that given the large concentration of Muslims and Germany, once again backing Croatia, the extension of warfare to Bosnia/Her Islam within the USSR, ~'Pan Islamic Fundamentalism" would be a major in zegovina with a majority Muslim population _has added yet another religiOl;JS fluence determining the economic, social and political orientation of the new dimension to international intervention in what is left of a once-sovereign republic. nation-states that would inevitably emerge from the Soviet Union's disintegration. Global fascism is seeking as grand· strategy to portray itself as an -ally of Depending on where the best advantage for U.S. monopoly investment and control Muslim-based so-called national liberation struggles under the pretense of sup- lay, the U.S. alternately backed Islamic mudjahedeen in Afghanistan; attacked ConJinued on page 6 · MARCH1993 THE COMMEMORATOR s

replace him, one might think thatjus LA tice was right around the oorner. But for · Continued from page 1 Rodney King justice may be "three Non ~College Bou·nd strikes you're out." · with a series of defense committees Strike 1) Last November a govern committed to the process of demonstra ment memorandum that lays out the tion, should the lack of plaintiff motion · Youth Neglected· prosecution's strategy against the by Karen Jewett · . and some of the premises of the policemen who were seen on video by defense, leave plaintiff .as a target, not Our eduction system is in crisis. One aspect of this crisis is the deplorabl~ (tens of millions of) people beating contestant, in a pre-trial shooting gal- neglect of non-college bound youth - by seemingly everyone but our friendly King, was leaked to the defense attor . lery of motions. Any one of those shots neighborhood recruiter. The current education system does not adequately prepare ney who represents the policemen. 2) could drop the King situation into an youth for entering the labqr market (let alone provide the skills needed to critique · The government delayed tQe trial until uphill filing battle of national salvation and resist the exploitation of their labor if they do-find a job). . after the November presidential elec for the case, rather than the already While the military still spends about $10,000 merely to attract each military tions. Strike 3) Whereas the video granted· federally relocated trial. The enl1stee (over $2 billion per year), the federal government spends an average of showed more than a dozen officers at only possible alternative is that Judge only $9000 over the course of an 8-year period to train a non-college bound young, the scene now only four are indicted for Davies publicly warn the defense for person. civil rights violations (not criminal frivolous and capricious motions. Federal Dollars Spent per Youth (16-24 yr. olds) violations which would carry a much Two San Francisco groupings higher sentence. Now, the police of notified this paper of a planned proce *Non-College $ 9,000 ficers who are charged with the beating dure toward uncontested reinstatement *College $20,000 are being courted by the media, giving of the matter against the Siini Valley 4, the indicted officers · a voice to the *GI Bill Students ·$ 29,000 should the King case indictment go . American public. Recently on the Mc away, dimmed by whimsical prosecu.:. *ROTC $65,000 Neil-Lehrer News Hours one of the tion, based on traditional motions, **Military Academy $212,000 officers charged with violating King's against the notion the federal grand civil rights made light of the upcoming jury was made to see only the minimum *9,600 from Government GI bill contribution. trial in joking way saying he had periphery oflocal behavior as to which a **numbers from a 1991 GAO report on the Military Academies. nothing to worry about because the jury the LA court system claimed itself Source: Training Strategies - Preparing Non-college youth for Employ has to prove that he is biased and vio savior. Else it is being allowed to be ment, in the U.S. and Foreign Countries. GAO 1990. lated King's civil rights which they come a simple addition to the Daryl There is no mandate in public education_to provide options or career counseling cannot do. Gates system of criminal justice, to the 50% of young people aged 16-24 who don't go on to college. A recent study The upcoming trial of the four white whereby legal aid attorneys spend their by the GAO found that "schools and employers in the community generally policemen indicted for the beating of time categorizing simple chargements provide little systematic assistance to help non-college youth obtain employment. - Rodney King will be held at the same - into pigeon holes of committed crime Left to themselves, many young people flounder in the labor market, remaining time as the trial of the four black males under LEAA (Law Enforcement Assis- · jobless or obtaining jobs that do little to improve their skills for future employ (the LA 4-Plus) indicted for the beating tance Administration) funding, run by ment." of the white truck driyer, Reginald federal attorneys using loopholes-the While both the curriculum and the counselors in our public high schools focus present judicial system has chosen, that Denny which was part of the aftermath on the college-bound, the recruiters focus on the other youth. With promises of job leave procedures under state arrange of the King verdict. Their trial is skills and adventure, they can attract a large number of new recruits from this.pool. ment of chargement for local complaint scheduled for early next month. As counter-recruiters, it is just as important that we reach these young people against one's betters too ridiculous to Already folks are saying tpat the trial as those who are attracted to the military by promises of money for school. of the LA 4-Plus, accused of beating contemplate. · Identifying apprenticeship programs in the trades, vocational training programs, Denny, is being held at the same time Currently King case defense and Government supported programs like JTP A and Job Corps, and then providing as the triai.of the four police officers teams fill the. mail and the airwaves this information to students at "career fairs" and in counseling centers, is a vital indicted for beating Rodney King to with tirades against the situation. allow the media to overshadow and Under the current need to explain ab- play down the LA 4-Plus trial with the Few Gls will receive anywhere close . sences and presences of organizing that big, flashy, federal prosecution/ show maimed the nation, with the current trial of the four police officers, said to $25,000 in fOllege benefits. · case managing to explain the decima Melvin Dickson, Chairman of the . tion of the case's surroundings, how do part of youth outreach. Speakers bureaus which unite with working p~ople in the Commemoration Committee for The you suppose to bring justice in the face community can help young people identify alternatives and opportunities outside Black Panther Party. of the Simi Valley thing? This is where the military. Just because our school systems neglect these young people is no "The tension is very hig~ in the com . we shall begin. excuse for us to do it too. · munity, and people are looking for Now that former Los Angeles police ·answers that will change the conditions The Montgomery GI Bill: The Myth of College $ chief Daryl Gates has resigned because of poverty and police violence they of the Rodney King affair and the city All recently published recruitment literature promises money for school. . Neither recruiters or the literature tell the potential economic conscript the whole has hired an African American to Continued on page 10 truth about this money. · The Montgomery GI Bill seems to promise $10,800 for college. To be eligible, the soldier or sailor must, immediately upon enlistment, sign up and begin paying $100 a month during their first year of service. this $1200 "voluntary _<::ontribution" · represents up to 14% of a new enlistee's paycheck. · The $1200 is non-refundable. In order to get any money from the Montgomery GI Bill, a soldier or sailor· must receive an honorable discharge. A general discharge "under honorable conditions" doesn't make it. Discharges are supposed to be based upon the individual's record, buffatism. and other command biases often play key roles. One out of four Gls aren't discharged honorably. They won't get one red cent of college assistance, and the government keeps their $1200. A bill passed by Congress for fiscal year 1993 makes one exception to these rules. Mid-ranking Gls, who accept bonuses to leave the military, can sign up'for the Montgomery GI Bill as they exit. It is not clear what kind of discharge they will need. Further, there are rules for length of service associated with the Montgomery GI Bill. In general, one must do at least three years of active duty (and continue

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which _20 percent of the world's oil is the U.S. warship, Vincennes, killing at Pan-Islamic shipped. least 209 civilians, could also be Famine Continued from page 4 The U.S. led .grand strategy appa reasonably foreseen as potentially Continued from page l porting human rights and democratic rently includes shifting the axis of "Pan provoking Iranian use of its military report has called on rich and poor ideals. Toward this end, the U.S. has Islamic fundamentalism and nation option against the U.S., with certain countries to spend 25 billion dollars to intervened in post-war Iraq on behalf of alism," away from Iran, or potential obviously disastrous results for Iran. fight malnutrition and curable diseases so-called anti-Saddam Hussein dissi- Iran, (or potential Iran e.g., Iraq) to A target of opportunity arose to iso that kill 250,000 children a week. . dent Shiite Muslim groupings - the. hand picked U.S. Arab proxies such as late and smash Iraq. When Iraq in Children world wide can be fed, same branch of Islam that brought Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United quired of Washington what its response receive clean water, basic health care Ayatollah Khomeini to power in Iran. and primary education for about 25 bil At· the same time the U.S. is in the lion dollars a year, the report said. process of positioning itself as support So long· as the fight is between these two forms of According to United Nations Inter ing an end to reported atrocities against national socialism-the secular version national Children's Emergency Fund Bosnian Muslims and others under a (UNICEF) this amount is, "less than so-called "ethnic cleansing' program, proclaimed and enforced by the United States Europeans spend on wirie, less than colored by the implication that com Americans spend on beer, and less than munist elements with-in the disintegrat- . and the religious fundamentalist version . Japanese spend on busines·s entertain ing former Yugoslavian federation advancrd by Iran-the nations of this part of the ment." tacitly approve if not openly sponsor . A closer look at famine on a global "ethnic cleaning." · world will be denied national liberation. scale will show that in countries wheie Notwithstanding the U.S. role in Af populations once had basic food to sur ghanistan, the U.S. orchestrated, Arab Arab Emirates and -United Arab would be if Iraq exercised a military vive, famjne is on the rise. For instance, ba~ked Persian Gulf War was justified League. option in Kuwait to resolve a conflict there is hunger and privation in the on the basis of defending the human This strategy depends in large part over riparian rights stemming from Ku . former Soviet Union, which hasn't and self determination rights of a U.S. on isolating Iran and potential Iran vis wait siphoning off of Iraq oil, the U.S. known that.phenomenon since 1921. It leaning so-called moderate Muslim na a-vis political propaganda, disinforma in essence replied it would not get in is spreading all across Eastern Europe. tion. tion, economic embargo, frozen assets volved. Iraq took the bait and invaded It has overwhe4ned the African conti Iran represents a major threat to and other means. Kuwait. Iraq was then prematurely nent, where entire populations are global fascism's U.S. led attempts to The intended internal dest~biliza concentrated and isolated vis-a-vis threatened with extinction by famine portray itself as a major arbiter of Mus tion within Iran, Iraq, et al., will theo "Dessert Shield," and "Desen Storm." and pestilence, a. secondary phenome lim nationalist forces seeking protec retically give rise-to internal opposition Now that Iraq has been successfully non which generally accompanies iL tion from violation of human and self and dissident groups with a moderate isolated, the focus is on Iran, such that Uganda, for example, lost an estimated determination rights. position toward global forces headed U.S. Arab proxies become positioned 60,000 people last year from AIDS Global fascism seeks through this by the U.S. These grouping are to be Continued on page 8 , Continued on page 7' grand strategy to gain hegemony in the cultivated by the intelligence c;om struggle to emerge a chief beneficiary munities of the U.S. and select allies. of Islamic based and or · influenced This analysis ultimately led to the nationalism lying at the core of armed now infamous "han-Contra" affair and conflict in the former Soviet Union. It "Iraq-gate·" and an unknown number of recognizes that these forces will help similar plots and plans the real determine the economic, social and evidence of which is only now emerg political orientation of whatever new · ing: The U.S. reasoned that Iran and nation-state emerges from this process, Iraq could be weakened both militarily what boundaries they will exist within, and economically if the U.S. and its as well as the. effect this phenomenon allies armed tJ:iem both simultaneously. will have on the allocation and This would have the effect of causing redistribution of resources, including both of them to spend high percentages those of a military nature. ~ · . of their gross domestic product on an . Iran, who cal!s the U.S. the "Great arms race, while at the same time . . making them more predisposed to use THE RIO Satan", is not only current axis and Solid oak frame with of the "military option" to resolve clear finish and 6" vanguard of "Pan Islamic fundamen couon futon. regional disputes, such as arose be Full $27!1 talistrevolution", but is also geographi Queen $299 cally situated in close proximity td the tween Iraq and Iran and Iraq and Kuwait. former U.S.S.R. republics and their AU SPRING AIR MATTRESSES .satellites which are currently ex ·The Iran-Iraq War served this 0own-'"""""""""" ON SALE ,1111, comforter oo,.cn, comroncr scu,all-oottonllanndshcct strategy by accelerating isolation of 2-piec:e twin starting at $99 ,._,...... ,, periencing a wave of armed conflict 2-pia:cfullswtingai$139 1 . sas.__.ManCll 2QO.thrcad-ooun1 2-piec:cquem wutlnaa1. $189 miatmsspads,towelseu,,and Iran and Iraq while providing an oppor Z-piex kin& ~mg at and separatists movements based in $24, all)OW'linmn«ds. whole or in part on Islamic nationalism tunity for them to destroy each other at ~ ~ and/or fundamentalism, hence Iran as the same time. The Iran-Iraq War also ~ Top-Quality SHOJI SCREENS the rival heir apparent has already increased the probability of Iran and · · .....,__...._ 6' tall, available in natura.1, black, white, arid walnut ·threatened to dispatch her"Revolution Iraq · becoming entangled in interna 3-panel $69 4-panel $89 ary Guards" into Bosnia to halt tional disputes vis-a-vis their war ef reported Serbian Massacre of Bosnian forts. Muslim separatists. Iran began· interdicting ships in the Iran has always been vie\\'.f!:l_,as gulf from staging areas on Abu Musa, being strategically located, for an island in the Straits of Hormuz, geopolitical reasons. Most of the Per strategically situated at the entrance to sian Gulf's northern shores lie along the gulf. President Reagan's order Iran's southern coasts. Iran was a authorizing Kuwait tan.kers to fly "Old primary-access-land bridge between Glory," the American flag in the gulf, the former U.S.S.R. ·and the Persian could be reasonably seen as potentially . Gulf. Additionally Iran has been in provoking Iranian use of its military control of the largest of three strategic option against ships flying U.S. colors islands in the Strait of Hormuz, which in the gulf. Similarly, the unexplained is the entrance to the gulf,· through shooting down of an Iranian air-b1Js by ,;:,,:.;_.;. •

MAR!Zf:I 1993 THE COMMEMORATOR 7

ing more and faster was the purpose of Famine the factory. The factories also put the Continuedfrom page 6 "out-of-work" cottage workers'into the THE CAUSE OF FAMINE alone and the numbers are doubling labor pool. as propertyless, nameless annually. One in three Ugandans is workers in competition for the jobs. through the irrigation system. HIV positive. Entire villages stand with the unskilled, lowering still f'ur What Causes A Famine? Without all of them, it doesn't func empty. The disease has,·as quickly and ther the going wage. tion, and with it they can produce The government of Somalia was at what none can produce without it. quietly as the plague that invaded A famine is organized hunger. one time ·a client stat~. of the USSR. Somalia's present situation invol Europe at the end of the Middle Ages, One can call a famine an Act of God, During its entire history, not even the ves a struggle between forces ex destroyed the working population. say there has been no rain ma nation; United States Department of Agricul terior to the population, if not neces however, nations exist in the world India ture accused a USSR client state or that sarily the nation, seeking to impose today where huge sections of their of the People's Republic of China of an organization on a population, The British paid, in parts of India, most productive land get much less tribal or traditional leaders, for keeping having a famine. That didn't leave while those suffering under the ef · the country in line., making sure that them short of accusations, just no oc; fects of famine, see~ to organize during, the time that the United States -casion for relating to famine. --Irrigation, of course, themselves in . the most efficient, and Egypt were raising th~ cotton that There are 'two other countries that coope:t:ative manner possible to the people of India raised the indigo have cocoa on the exchange: Ivory · provid.e$ the cure achi~ve the · production which will that made the dye that was _sold. Coast and Dutch Guiana -'-- Surinam. for famine . end privation and death. _ Without irrigation, their crops failed Over the last ten years, Surinam has A variety of mean-: are at hand for -, not the indigo crop, of course-the seen four revolutions, one of them led those with other ideas in mind than than the needed 16 inches of raih per crops by which they fed themselves. and run by sixteen men in the army and increasing production to meet the year yet do not suffer famine. Gandhi's first revolution after com the only country is South America that problem. Force, of course, is one. Irrigation, of course, provides the ing back from his South African trek has seen a 700,000 population loss over The use of insufficient quantities of cure to famine in areas where rain was in the Punjab when he organized the last five years plus the fact that food and other resources to buy off .fall is insufficient. Irrigation the peasants there against the English 50,000 of their so-called remaining · ~ portion of the population, causing societies are among the oldest landlords whose eternal call for more "urban" population have deserted the them to fight amongst themselves is known governmental forms. A indigo had left the entire province dy cities and now live_back in the trees another. · Removing those most functional irrigation society requires ing a slow death from hunger and star with the aborigines. They've had the . capable of leadership at the local that the producers on the land are vation. That was followed by Typhus. same organized famine as we saw in · level or removing the need to or working together. Despotic govern-- Only rats continued to live in villages. ganize to fight to change the or-: . ments, governments which are un The idea th~t farm land lying bare, ·ganization -of society to increase its fair, do nc;,t dare trus! the capacity for typhus spreading across the ground and They've had the same · production (thereb·y improving their organizing that lies inside an irriga cholera in the air, left Gandhi with the individual situations) and blunting organized famine as tion society. ,'.\fld countries under ability to organize against the indigo by the need for inventiveness and scien extended periods of colonial and im organizing a boycott against English we saw in India - tific achievement is another means. perialist control have seen their his- ·cotton .. '[hat's whe~ the pictures that In each case the proble01 is the followed him all of his life with the cocoa-production took . toric irrigation systems disrupted same: political and economic orga the irrigation while the and destroyed. nization is imposed from the outside ·.. "The number ofpoor · In ancient times when irrigation for the purpose of achieving profit peasants starved. societies were organized, thirty mil- · for a few, which requires preventing American children is lion unschooled peasants could walk forms of social organization that ad . . India - the cocoa production took the away from . the masters or con here strictly to the maximization of · larger.than the entire irrigation while the peasants Starved. querors and say, "Run it yourself'. th.e production to feed people. 20-40% of the world has receded Even if the strongest army in the Famine is ORGANIZED hunger, as population of Somalia". back into savagery and barbarism since land is poised to shoot them or lock opposed to society which is orga 1980, where organized civil govern them up, the soldiers can't run the nized to feed the population. Civilized spinning wheel came from. The people ment as a practical matter does not exist thing anyhow. Those peasants ·are society must be organized to produce who were patriotic about the cause in the face of famine, national or tribal · strong, because they are producer!i for all the people. That is its func wore Indian homespun again, even the conflicts, and undeclared wars, from and they are united by cooperation tion. That's what makes it

nuclear weapons program linked in Pan-Islamic part to the former Soviet Union, current Continued from page 6 Commonwealth of Independent States, -The North American as protectors of Muslim human and self marketing military hardware and tech determination rights, .Toward these nology as means of addressing internal · · Free Tr~de Agreement ends Saudi Arabia, who has purchased economic crises. It has been reported at least 13.7 billion in U.S. aims since Iran is emulating the metho<:tology used and th-e New World· Order 1991, the United Arab Emirates, the by Saddam Hussein which involves For many years the federal govern needs enabled them to be able to pay United Arab League and· the United purchasing "dual use," material which ments of United States, Canada and lower wages and be assured CON States have stated their intent to intro can be converted rapidly from peaceful Mexico have been negotiating terms of TROL over their workforce. And so, duce and back a U.N. security council uses to weapons production. Iran has a "free trade' agreement" which, ac the growers were -allowed by the resolution against Iran stemming from also, allegedly, constructed at least.ten cording to government agents, will ere- Department of Labor to claim an artifi a territorial dispute between Iran and potential nuclear we~pons facilities as . ate tremendous economic growth, new cial labor shortage in the U.S. so they the U.A.E. well as chemical and biological jobs and prosperity. Organized labor .could apply for Mexican braceros. In The dispute between Iran and the weapons for which they now have long and newerforms oflow -income worker the bracero-dominated crops, the U .A.E. centers around three islands in range missile capability due to equip organizations charge it will , create wages remained frozen for years, and the Straits of Hormuz, which are ment and technology purchased from massive unemployment in all three in some cases even dropped. strategically located at the e~trance to nations including, China, India and countries, undermining the last traces The Bracero Program was supposed the Persian Gulf. It was from Abu North Korea. It has been reported that, of health, safety and environmental to be a "temporary" measure, but with Musa, the largest of these three islands, 60 percent of all Irania,n license ap protections, and bringing wages below grower interest Congress -extended it that Iran staged its interdiction of ship plications from 1987 to 1990 were for subsistence level for all but a favored time after time, until finally further ex ping in the gulf as part of its war effort dual use nuclear items and of 456 ap few. tension was defeated and the program against Iraq. The islands in question ·plications reviewed, 306 were ap Recently made popular by President was officially shut dowq in 1964. were reportedly ruled traditionally by proved. The isolating implications of Bush during the Persian Gulf War, the Two hundred thousand farm Sharja, one of seven of the United Arab - this media blitz are clear. term "New World Order" is becoming workers were suddenly jobless. Un Emirates. In 1971, the British dis The prize, for instance, in Iran's dis increasingly clear to the lay person in employment reached 50 percent among so~ved their protectorate over the pute with the U .A.E., Saudi Arabia, America. We have witnessed the the manual laborers in border cities like Emirates and control of the islands U.A.L. and U.S., is not so much about military dimension "of it with the mur Mexicali and Ciudad Juarez. were divided between the Shah of Iran ownership, pos~ession of the three is der of over a half-million Iraqi civilians U.S. industrialists proposed the crea and the U .A.E. The Shah maintained a lands in question, as it is about whether and the devastation of that country's tion of a free trade zone on the U.S. military garrison on Abu Musa and Iran will be abl_e to maintain its grand infrastructure. We are just beginning Mexican border that would both fulfill civil administration was divided be strategic position as the heir apparent to understand the economic dimensions tween Iran and the U .A.E. After the to the current surge of armed conflict of the North American Free Trade Shah was overthi;own , the Iranian and ~eparatism in the former U.S.S.R. Agreement (NAFfA) internationally With NA.FTA the same revolutionary . government declared and its former satellites, which is oc and (Enterprise Zones) domestically. sovereignty over the island; In 1992, curring under the disguise of "Pan Is lp.e NAFfA idea is not a new one, concepts: enterprise talks between Iran and the U .A.E. over lamic," or Muslim nationalist move corporations have always sought loca -zones go international , control of the islands broke down. The ment posing as struggle for national tions where the labor is cheapest. The U.A.E . is now demanding all three is liberation. So long as the fight is be North American Free Trade Zone - the parallels are lands be turned over to it. Saudi Arabia tween these two forms of national so simply PUTS THE U.S. GOVERN has accused Iran of expansionism and cial ism- the secular version pro MENT IN A POSITION ONCE obvious. together with ·the U.A.E., the United claimed and enforced by ~e United AGAIN OF AIDING AND ABET U.S. manufacturers' ne~d for cheap Arab League and United States are now States and the religious fundamentalist TING THE PROCESS OF BUSINESS labor and create jobs for Mexico's un preparing to move in the U .N. Security version advanced by Iran- the nations EXPLOITING LABOR. employed. Council against Iran and on behalf of of this part of the world will be denied Bracero Program Thus was bom the Border In t:qe U .A.E. with regard to this issue. national liberation.· Global fascism is dustrialization Program (BIP) in 1965 Recently, U.S. led forces began to clearly using Pan Islap1ic fundamen From 1942 to 1964 the Department with _the maquiladora system of twin accelerate propaganda regarding an al talism to build a fascist new world of Labor used the Bracero Program to plants, one on either side of the border. leged Iranian military build-up and order. control and direct the flow of con .tracted Mexican migrant workers - Labor-intensive sweatshops were to be known as braceros- into the United located in Mexico: the ·maquUadoras States. The governments of the U.S. were used for sewing, welding, gluing EARL'.S and Mexico themselves, negotiated and assembling and then shipped back contracts between growers -and to the·U.S. for distribution. workers, on the grounds that U.S. farm They call the border the "new Hong BEAUTY SUPPLY . workers had left the fields in droves to Kong." At least 1,300 U.S.-owned fac 3228 Adeline St. B_erkeley, CA 94703 - fight in World War 11, and then the tories, employing nearly 500,000 Korean War or work in the defense-re workers, churn out jeans, hospital (510) 652-8041 lated industries that kept the wars gowns, saxophones, radar detectors, · going. On the books, the Secretary of file folders, chain saws, and false teeth. Open Sundays JOAM-SPM Labor was supposed to certify that In less than a decade, Nogales, a CARRY ALL MAJOR BRANDS there weren't enough U.S. workers at Mexican border town south of Arizona, the time, the grower needed to harvest has became a. center of international his crops, and that the existing wages commerce. The companies have been . and working conditions of American lured south by the free fall of the workers would not be adversely af- Mexican peso. In 198t 25 pesos would Don's Headquarte.rs -fected by the Mexican workers coming get you a d9llar. Now it·takes 2500 in to do the work. pesos. Former·ty In reality, the jobs. were not well So Mexico now competes with Asia promoted or:publicized. No real at and Indonesia as a center for low-wage temptto enlisfU.S. workers was made. manufacturing jobs. Parts and raw Cook's Barber Shop Growers didn't really try to enlist local materials are shipped to Mexico from 3019 Shattuck A venue ·Open: labor because they knew importing American, South Korean, Japanese and Berkeley, CA 94705 Tu - Fri 9am-7pm . migrant workers from Mexico, depend · European companies, assembled at low ent on the grower for housing and other (510) 540-9115 Saturday 9am-6pm Continued on page 10 MARCH1993 THE COMMEMORATOR 9 Prison Labor Exploited Will Somalia become By Corporations another Vietnam? There is a very real danger that Bill The '72 election looked-like a man "As you know, there are many ad and big business against the interest of date from the people that suddenly vantages to doing business in Califor labor... " Clinton will inherit a situation not un stopped by what was supposed to be a nia. Now, I am very pleased to tell you For example, the first company to like that which J oho Kennedy inherited small crime conducted by residents of about yet another way companies can take advantage of the prisoners through from President Eisenhower in Viet his re-election committee. gain a competitive edge, while helping the JVP was Data Processing and Ac nam. We had committed troops to try There are forces who lately have an to provide California's inmates an op counting Services. In August of 1992, to bolster a failing puppet regime nounced that they were greatly dis portunity to rebuild their lives." after the first 8 mg_nths of the program, placed in position after the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu demonstrated mayed when Alexander Haig, Former - Governor Wilson in a letter to Bob Tessler, the company president, General, moved into the White House business leaders bragged that the prisoners, "show up on the disinclination of all concerned to and one step away from the Presidency, time (and) they know what they're sup continue the French colonial attempt at but sometimes military control and in California Governor Pete Wilson is posed to do." government. Kennedy was asked to add more troops in order to -protect the tent is more effective through a civilian promoting a program that encourages Additionally, Sears is in the process cover. In 1918 when the Kaiser was corporations to increase their profits by of completing construction of a · forced to abdicate, the German General using prisqn labor. It is called the Joint 1,000,000 square foot distribution cen Staff handed the nation over to the Venture Program (JVP), not just be ter at the prison in Delano, California. There are some who _ socialist machine - the right wing of cause it's set up in "the joint", but be- It seems clear that locating the say a humanitarian it - and let them take the blame for the warehouse in a prison will take jobs mistakes made at Versailles which away from the civilian labor work mission at home would bought the nation ten years of poverty A recent study pointed force. And, as is noted in a NP report not be taken amiss, and fear. out that prison on the status of the program in May June, 1992, Sears is well aware of the Then Adolf Hitler came along col that if it were really lecting public participation. They additional subsidies available because institutions are getting handed the nation over to him and fol the Delano prison is also located within humanitarian aid, and lowed him through. He invaded the Su more money than an enterprise zone (please see the _not armaments, we dentenland, Czechoslovakia, took Aus schools. coverage of enterprise zones in our September, 1992 issue). Essentially, · tria and finally Poland and nearly all of need it here. western Europe. In each of his eastern cause the state and corporations col for taking jobs away from the com munity, Sears will be getting a double advances, he claimed it was in protec lude to exploit prisoners. The JVP was generals who were running South Viet tion of German nationals there and for established following passage in 1990 subsidy, and making double profits, nam, after assassinating the President from the JVP and the Enterprise Zone humanitarian purpose. It was a lie. of Proposition 13 9, the Inmate Work and his brothers, protecting them fur There are still those that believe Initiative'. - ' - programs. ther in the face of organized popular Hitler's power will be generated again, The JVP program offers subsidies An African American male inmate discontent. He refused to do so. Ken for corporations to relocate in prisons. in Massachusetts argues that prison job nedy was assassinated within weeks of According to a letter from the Gover programs, while making huge profits the decision. Those who control the nor, the companies will get low-cost for corporations, will end up costing The original policy was continued long term leases, a ten percent Califor the state even more money. Writing in by Lyndon Johnson, who was eventual country at the present. nia tax break, and, most importantly, a the California Service Workers As~ ly voted out of office because of the time -NEED a war to labor force that cannot say, "no." sociation magazine, he explained, popular discontent engendered the con California now joins the U.S. "There are 450 inmates in MCI in tinued failure of just that policy. In justify condnued colonies that first set up prison labor dustries. MCI industries pulls down $9 1972 it became necessary for Richard programs: Puerto Rico, the Virgin Is million a year. Simple . mathematics Nixon to join the anti-war movem~nt military appropriati,ons ... lands, Guam, American Samoa, and tells you that every 50 inmates equal $1 and promise to "bring the boys home" The Trust Territory of The Pacific Is million. If inmates are paid $1.05 an to a domestic economy not ready either : perhaps in the events taking place in the · lands. What was first imposed on the hour then simple mathematics should for them or for peacetime production. newly formed Fourth Rei.ch. The colonies of the United States is now tell you what the difference is." In other The situation has not changed since that slogans are already springing forth that being forced on the colonized popula words, the inmate is being paid only time. Those who control the country at Hitler "was all right in the beginning tions in the United States. $2,100 a year, while the corporation the present time NEED a war to justify but he went too far" and "the stories of The companies will pay the inmates makes $20,000 in profit from the continued military appropriations, as well the holocaust are grossly exaggerated the minimum wage, but the inmates inmate's labor and receives a tax sub as to employ a portion of the American for political purpose." They are trying will only get about 20% of these wages, sidy as well. ,,.,labor force Uust remember the protests to organize a sector of that society and the state will take the rest. Through The state loses money on all sides. last year when Congress announced its which is trying to retain its jobs and.its this program, writes former Boston First, it loses corporate tax dollars hit list of bases which were going to be pay in the face of competition from Black Panther lbn Al-Haqq-, "the forces through JVP subsidies. Second, closed, protests over the cancellation of refugees from other nations, rather than which are most hostile and reactionary prisoners traditionally have worked on the economies of every town around building a vehicle for transforming the toward labor have consolidated them jobs which at least nominally them). They also needed it to attempt to society to one which produces enough selves in a position of power, through benefitted the public, like work on galvanize a dissatisfied public behind for all to eat. · intermarriage between the government Continued on page 17 the government. Continued on page 17 ___;,; Jimmy's Atito Service 5443 Shattuck A venue, Oakland, CA 94609 illalll'il 10 THE COMMEMORATOR MARCff 1993

Normany Aves., So. Central Los An Los Angeles' super zone, will waive L.A. geles, stated that the demonstration NAFTA minimum wage requirements and Continued from page 5 was peaceful until the police began to Continued from page 8 others require hiring from a pool of suffer from, but the mass media is harass people by shoving, pushing people in "first choice" programs, like people and demanding people stop cost, and sent back under sopecial tariff making it seem like it . is strictly a provisions. welfare recipients seeking job training black/white problem. Although passing out leaflets. or forced to work for their welfare. Some critics said that there was a Tijuana, a leading border city just 15 racism is an important factor it's not the miles south of San Diego, has over 400 Wages in Mexico for a U.S. com traffic problem, but it should have been pany previously paying assembly only factor." maquiladoras, most of them small handled by traffic officers. Duren fur workers $5.00 per hour, is 50 cents an To ease the growing tension, Willie sewing and sorting operations. Juarez, ther stated that "Concerns over traffic hour. For instance, a garage door L. Williams, the new Los Angeles the other kingpin city of the north, police chief, a black man and a former do not justify the use of para-military opener factory in Nogales, Mexico force, what people were doing was ex ushered in the maquiladora age 20 Philadelphia police chief, has been years ago. Today, although it's said it called The Chamberlain Group of brought in to replace Daryl Gates, who ercising their first amendment rights." Chicago sells one garage door for $149 Most people from the Black com has all the maquiladoras it can handle, the black community perceives as more still come. Many Mexicans la retail price. The price of that one door munity believe that the LA4-Plus equals a full day's wages for 20 of the biased. Williams headed the Philadel ment "maquilazacion,'' saying that phia police department where eleven (Damien Williams, Eugene Miller, company's workers. Henry Watson, and Gary Williams), Mexico is becoming a sweatshop for blacks were murdered, including In some cases enterprise zones are who are now held on $250,000 bail industrial countries. Bishop Ricardo women and children and several city exempt from meeting environmental each with 56 charges against them, will Watty Urquidi of Nuevo Laredo said, blocks were burned down when police standards by local government, tax not receive justice. "Our weak economy could become dropped an incendiary bomb on their credits are awarded to companies in the Ms. Georgia Dorsey (black woman), enslaved economies of these larger house. In Philadelphia. zones by local governments, govern church-going and activist, strongly powers, which undermines the living Immediately after the Rodney King standards of poor and working-class ments promote and encourage estab verdict last spring, the city, with Go believes in peaceful mass protests as lishment of zones. popularized by Martin Luther King,Jr., Mexicans." vernor Wilson's and President Bush's While NAFfA, on a international. points out that when Pursuit of cheap labor in the support, implemented a "Weed and it's only a few level, is promoted by governments, the demonstrators they can walk over you, NAFTA's finds its complement in the Seed" plan which allowed the police, United States, Mexico, Canada and but when you have thousands, includ growth of enterprise zones within the with' National Guard and U.S. Army multinational corporations to maxi ing professionals, e.g,doctors, lawyers, United States. Direct, overt aid and backing, to arrest, search and seize peo mize profits through tax subsidies and etc., like during the Martin Luther intervention of the U.S. government in ple and property without due process. wage control, EZs, on a national level King, Jr. days, they are less likely to clearing the way for that pursuit is ap- Recently, Los Angeles Mayor, Tom are being promoted by U.S. govern violate your rights, and if they do you Bradley implemented another plan, ment on local, state and federal levels have a lot of people backing your case. called "Neighbor to Neighbor." This Wages in the zoned.areas purported as solutions to urban un "People riot and protest because of plan seeks to hire 10 coordinators for employment. Both undermine the injustice and oppression. The Los An "recruiting volunteers - including are kept artificially low, power of worker representation. parents, gang members, teachers, and geles police acts in a fascist manner While Mexico made a public effort because they 're trained that way,'' by a government subsidy ministers - who will visit shopping to appear environmentally concerned stated Michael Zin Zin, former Black while the treaty was being debated, the centers, housing projects and schools parent in both. With EZs it is the each day of the trials," according to the Panther member and coordinator of the reality of a highly polluted lower Rio Coalition Against Police Abuse. deliberate softening or the elimination Chris DeBono, organizer for WSWA. Grande Valley is a more realistic When asked to comment on the altogether of the business taxes, en City officials issued a statement to predictor of Mexico's intentions. city's "Neighbor to Neighbor" plan, vironmental and occupational health the press that the city "will find what From a truthful economist's Zin Zin said, "This plan is fascist to the and safety standards required of busi ever resources necessary in dollars or standpoint, the only legitimate way to core because the city is doing exactly nesses that operate in our communities, volunteer time to get the job done." make businesses grow and create new what it's supposed to do - and that's to offering government subsides that A growing number of city officials jobs is to expand productivity in the nothing - nothing about the economic make it attractive for businesses to have stated publicly their support for work place, and to expand into new conditions that breed poverty and relocate in our communities. the Mayor's plan. Joe Wachs, a city markets. From the US perspective this police brutality in the first place. With NAFTA the same concepts: councilman, said, "police training and . program does neither. Rather it is an "This ·Neighbor to Neighbor' pro enterprize zones go international - the planning should be well publicized, attempt to exploit the existing gram goes hand in hand with the city's parallels are obvious. along with the Nyighbor to Neighbor American market using low wage 'Weed and Seed' plan and they are plan." Enterprise zone workers instead of more productiv:e but designed to create the illusion that the County Supervisor Ed Edelman says capital intensive technology. city is doing something worthwhile. Wages in the zoned areas are kept "a certain amount of mediation is fine, The Commemorator is a participant But, we know what they're about - artificially low, by a government sub but in the end the most important in the fight to just say no to EZs, that training citizens to snitch on their sidy for all wages below a certain resource is having adequate law enfor instead, through organization of actual neighbors and allowing policemen to amount, usually 150% of the "mini cement to assure that disturbances can prepresentation, policies and programs violate people's constitutional rights. mum wage." Some zones like that be quelled immediately." that build up the economy must be in Of course, this produces a higher level which was proposed and defeated for "People who are thinking of doing stalled. cw 9l of fascist repression. ., something wrong should know they "This is all a part of the cover-up should forget about it," Wachs said at against the Rodney King beating and Lee's the LA Times. the four brothers who are now being The new police chief, Willie Wil held on $250.000 bail each, while the liams and Sheriff Sherman Block have four white policemen are out on bail giving the city officials assurances that and are being hailed by the media," he "law enforcement will be better further commented. · prepared for any unrest." According to Dickson, "They would But, according to a numl;,er of South like nothing better than a race war to Central residents and community ac keep people of different cultures divi tivists, if the city officials took the same ded. It only serves the status quo when attitude toward fighting poverty, police . people are divided. Fighting one ano harassment and brutality, then there Super , ther instead of their common oppres would likely be less protest and rioting. sor. People have to look at the fun B. K waku Duren, Chairman of the damental question of c\ass to pin-point markets Free the LA4-Plµs Defense Commit the economics of racism - the real BEST INDEPENDENT GROCER IN TOWN tee, who led the protest last December ·' enemy" ~ 6925 E. 14th Street Oakland, CA 94602 at the very,. same site of Fl_orence and

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off active duty for two weeks only, and following any protocols for dealing no further action was taken by the po with mentally disturbed people. POLICE VIOLENCE lice accepting his claim of self-defense. Marietta Christo"pher, a family On May 13, 1985, the house at 6221 Watching from the porch of her mo Officer Chew had only recently friend and chair of the ad hoc Commit Osage A venue in Philadelphia was ther's house next door, Mrs. Rozell saw recovered from being shot five times tee of Friends and Relatives of the Fry bombed by government instigation, as the SWAT team enter her house after by a 15 year old in Oakl~d. By any Family pointed out, "Cuts in funding a response to the resistance of a group shooting tear gas into the home, then standard protocol, the decision to send for mental health from the federal level of people to eviction. These people had heard four shots that killed her son. in this officer was inappropriate. on down have not only swelled the radical politics and spoke out against August 25, 1992, Rosebud Abigail The media hyped up Rosebud's ranks of the homeless with thousands racism in the city, and believed in Denovo, a 19 year old woman, active mental instability for taking such an of patients suffering from mental .ill defending their community. 11 people in the attempts to block the University action, but she had been homeless for nesses, but have forced public health died and 61 homes burned as a result of of California's building of volleyball several months iQ Berkeley, abused as practitioners to drop or distort critical this bombing. A County Investigating and basketball courts in the historically homeless people are all over the coun follow-up treatment." Members of the Grand Jury, called into existence by user-developed Peoples' Park, broke try, and was yery angry over the Uni victim's family reported that Fry had D .A. Ronald D. Castille on May 15, into the chancellor's mansion on the versity's take-over of the Peoples' park. been a patient at a local mental health 1986, exonerated all but the late Move U .C. campus carrying a machete and a In any case, the police did not take clinic for ten years. In the past year, participants, (six adults and five chil hunting knife. Rosebud had triggered a this into consideration though they do however, according to Mrs. Rozell, dren,who had died in the bombing and silent alarm in the mansion and the have codes of behavior in cases where "the clinic had stopped making follow the one survivor, Ramona Africa) from U.C. police had entered the place and emotionally disturbed people are con up calls when patients missed appoint criminal liability. The news of their brought Chancellor Tien and his wife cerned: no tear gas was used, no shoot ments, and at the time the police shot decision ca)lle on May 3, 1988, very out of the building and called -in the ing to disarm, no use of the police dogs him, Fry had been without his quietly at a small news conference. Oakland police with canine patrol. nor calling in of mental health profes prescribed medication for a month." The amount of time that passed be Rosebud was shot dead. sionals. In each of these cases the response tween the beginning of the investiga The official police story had been An in-depth investigation into the was widely condemned as inappropri tion_and the final decision of the grand that an Oakland police officer had dis shooting dea,:11 of Rosebud A. Denovo ate. The punishment clearly did not fit jury could only aid in the cover up of covered Rosebu·d in an upstairs has been demanded by her parents and the crime. Police nation-wide are dis unwanted information and the tainting bathroom, that she had pushed a door has been taken on by the lawyer who playing a tendency of over reacting. of the most salient testimony. open making a threatening motion with One policeman stated in the Green case The idea of using a crane and the machete, causing the officer to fall that "nobody knows what it's like out 2,0001b. ball to knock the bunker off into a bathtub and that he had shot her "Cuts in funding for -there." the roof, had been examined and dis in the arms and chest in self defense. Almost any law enforcement officer missed as being too expensive. The According to the Coroners' report, mental health from the can identify/locate the areas of high mayor had reported that he was unable however, Rosebud was shot four federal level on down crime in any community in which they times: twice in the back from above, work because those areas are generally and once in each arin. have ... swelled the where living/working conditions are -Police nation-wide are worse. So if the source of rising crime On November 5, 1992, Malice ranks of·the homeless displaying a tendency' Wayne Green, 35, of Detroit, was beat can be located in and around conditions en to death with a flashlight by two with thousands of of poverty, then the answer to stopping of over reacting police officers as five other officers the rising crime rate is to fight poverty watched or took part. Green died of patients suffering from itself. Anything short of that is dealing to get the money for that option. -After head injuries in. a hospital emergency with symptoms and the problem will the bombing, one of the police officers, room. mental illnesses ... " continue to grow. The choices are Powell, was asked to write a · memo It was not clear when the beating clear. Policeman will either join in the stating that the ·crane and ball idea was started and how many officers were was representing her around the fight against poverty as a means of not feasible. He testified that, although physically involved. Police Chief Peoples' park protests. addressing crime, or he will be fighting the crane option had been workable, he Stanley Knox said initial reports Similarly, in the Fry shooting case in a genocidal war against his poor remembers "thinking in depth, should showed Green was beaten while still Sacramento, police did not appear to be brothers and sisters. I or shouldn't I do it, and I remember inside his car and again outside, even ~ saying, well, maybe I will do it, be7 after he was handcuffed and cause I don't want the world to know paramedics arrived. . GOODS FOR that we burned down sixty-one houses According to a senior police official, YOUR HEART because they wouldn't give us $6500." when Green was stopped by officers August 15, 198&, Sacramento, Ca. Nevers and Budzyn they asked Green llrA-.1 a black man, Jerry Darnel Fry, suffer for his driver's license, and he got his ing from a mental condition requiring driver's license out of the glove com medication, rest and medical care was partment of his car. The officer told ...... ____ _..,;. at the home of his mother, Pearl Rozell, him to drop it, Green did not and the where he was recuperating when she • COLLECTIBLE AFRIKAN ·Officers began hitting him on the hands ARTIFACTS & SCULPTURE phoned police to help her get him to ,a with their 3-pound flashlights. The • ETHNIC.CLOTHES hospital after her son had not taken struggle quickly escalated and Green •JEWELRY prescribed medication. Mrs. Rozell was dragged from his car. The beating • COWRIE SHELLS reported that, after being told by the • FRANKINCENSE & continued as backup police units ar MYRRH local mental health clinic that there rived, and at least one other officer also · HANDMADE INCENSE were no longer sexyices to see out struck Green, an official said. • IMPORTED FINE OILS patients in their homes and encourage The two white plainclothes officers, • WHOLISTIC HEALTH them to continue their prescribed treat Larry Nevers, 52, and Walter Budzyn, &BEAUTY AIDS ment, she called the police in despera 47, were suspended without pay. Also AFRIKA tion to ask if they would take her son to , suspended were four white officers and TOWN the hospital. When the police arrived, one black sergeant who are believed to 'GENERAL Mrs. Rozell said she told them she have seen the beating, according to STORE "wanted to make sure they didn't hurt - - Stanley Knox, Police Chief. BERKELEY FLEA MARKET him!' Police assured Mrs. Rozell, by In contrast, the Oakland police of S4TUIIIJAT0,-MIN1>~. 9-.A.M. • S:P.M., . ASHSYIAln'ffATIQN,MAIITINLU'ntER her own account, that if extreme mea ficer Craig Chew who shot Rosebud A. IClt(C WAY, IJOOIH N-16 sures had to be taken they would only GaCAU.K'!~V.AH,~UIL Denovo in the chancellor's mansion on fOaAN AP!'ODITMEHT AT use a sp~cial tranquilizer pellet. the University of California was .!aken 43 t•N:JJS f.:t 1:1 ------~- -

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cause we were not able to continue to 70's, elements the BPP by putting the centrated. Mexicans are regularly Distribution move forward then, today you have to intercommunal approach into practice stopped for no other reason than for Continued from page 3 almost laugh to keep from crying at the were able to establish working relations being Mexican (its informally called San Diego, Santa Ana, Los Angeles, ever-growing worsening conditions. and contacts with poor rural commu "Driving While Hispanic"). The stan Watsonville, Stockton, Sacramento, in Despair has replaced progress and nities through the Party's many pro dard reason that police officers give for addition to 80 sites in the neighbor hope. Many families that were iden grams. These are the communities stopping them is that it is a policy that hoods of Oakland. Distributors are also tified as "middle class" are becoming much of the urbanized Black Power the city supports because of the so at work in Oregqn, Ohio, Tennessee, restratified into lower rungs, to the ex movement and much of the radical called illegal-immigrant-from-Mexico Arkansas, New York, Pennsylvania, tent that they can not look forward to a movement of the 60's overlooked in question, and because many drug New Jersey, Massachusetts, Virginia, better future for their children. In the many instances, failing to recognize the couriers are alleged to be Hispanic in and Washington. · past many believed all you had to do reality that many poor communities are the area. The COMMEMORATOR is an all was get a "good" job, work hard, save oppressed and their oppression has Therefore, the COMMEMORA volunteer publication to advance a little and before you knew it bingo - been growing as working and poor ur TOR if it is to carry the legacy and founding principles and goals of the "you were making it." ban communities. These communities principles of the BPP must reflect the Black Panther Party under the rubric of That illusion has been shattered, are subjugated by the same goverment struggle of the various poor and op Dr. Newton's intercommunalism. facing reality is a struggle and the and the same economic forces. Without pressed communities that are strug With this understanding the paper is product is change. One of the main broad solidarity with working and poor gling for life as well as the survival of attempting to broaden its ties to more objectives of the paper, from its incep communities the other side isolated and the black community - this is the African-American and working class tion, is to overcome "official" media then neutralized through various coun original vision that led the BPP - in portrayal of the BPP-the "Bad"- BPP t~r intelligence operations. every state distributors are needed now, vs the "Good"- government. By not At one of our new distribution sites to join the network bringing The COM- ... during the era of the presenting accurate description of the in Medford, Oregon, where there is a . MEMORATOR to high schools, organization, the governl,llent, i.e., the large Mexican farmworker com neighborhoods, prisons, and busi BPP there were powers-that-be were able to divide and munity, Latinos experience police bru nesses. If you can get the paper· out in material and social conquer/undermine the positive· con tality as poor African American com your community, call or write: (510) tribution of the Party. By discrediting munies experience in major urban city 652-8828 4432 Telegraph Ave. P.O. problems in black and individual leaders and organizations where black people are largely con- 62/0akland, CA 94609. ~ through the media the government and other oppressed the ruling class were in a better position to undermine organization working for Youth Neglected though recruiters (and commanding of communities but they ficers) s·ometimes claim to encourage fundamental change. Out of 295 Continued from page 5 counter intelligence operations 233 enlisted personnel to "further their had not reached the serving in the inactive reserves) in were carried out against the BPP. education while on active duty" the order to receive benefits. This means level and the degree of Of course some of the FBI counter nature of work assignments and the that if a person is discharged early, for intelligence /operations occurred as a transience of military life make it dif suffering poor and any reason, even with an honorable reaction to premature concentration of ficult or impossible for most recruits to discharge, the opportunity of college forces against U.S. government injus take advantage of this money. -Few Gls working communities money, and their own $1200, is lost; tice toward poor and minority com will receive anywhere close to $25,000 According to P.J. Budhan, a columnist face ~oday. mnities arising out ofBPP inexperience in college benefits. for the Army/Navy Times, "The only leadership experience in dealing with Finally, if a GI actually has made people who ever get a Montgomery GI communities. The COMMEMO the government despite individual their $1200 contribution, completed Bill refund are the survivors of the folks RATOR has highlighted conditions of heroic actions. Th~se are some of the their active duty enlistment, received who die on active duty." oppression in communities around the lessons to move forward as we continue an honorable discharge, and is actually Recruiters often sit in front of a big country and provided a beacon of that struggle for freedom, dignity, and using their GI Bill benefits to attend sign which blares, "$25,000 For Col awareness of the ever changing politi justice. _ college, they're not home-free yet. If lege." This chimerical $25,000, how cal situation. In November, 1990,months afterthe the next crisis occurs before their 8- ever, is concocted by combining the Undoubtedly much has changed rally to commemorate the late Dr. Huey year-indentured-servitude is complete, maximum $10,800 from the over the past generation, but much P. Newton, co-founder of the BPP, The their education can be interrupted an Montgomery GI Bill and up to $14,200 remains the same. COMMEMORATOR began a local any time. The 'beneficiaries' of the from the individual services' College In the 60's and 70's there was no publication, well received by people Montgomery. GI Bill may well find Funds. The College Funds are avail Free Trade Agreement, no Enterprise who would like to see the struggle con themselves in the war-zone instead of able only to "participants in selected ,Zone. The levels of homicide and sys tinued, i.e., fundamental change occur the classroom. ratings with skills or specialties which tematic death, genocide, and incarcera ring in this country as well as around KarenJewettworksforCCCO-WR are experiencing personnel shortages" tion of black males were only a fraction the world. This of course can not hap and co-edits the newsletter of the Na according to the fine print in recruit of what they are today. That is to say, pen without an examination and tional Campaign to Demilitarize Our ment literature. The enlisted person during the era of the BPP there were evaluation of the past practice and Schools. c g must take advantage of this Fund material and social problems in black policies of the progressive move~ents .s and other oppressed communities but in the past. This could only be done on during their active duty period. Al- they had not reached the level and the the basis of honesty - dealing with degree of suffering poor and working reality and making sµre the facts are communities face today. , taught anyway you cut it. Today the health crisis is escalating Since November 1990, the paper has as we see in the growing tuberculosis, been reaching communities across the Sahuda measles, and AIDS epidemics. The country that are interested in what the overall economic and soci'al conditions paper has to say and what leadership it W.P. Secretarial twenty-five years ago were a drop in the can provide to the broader question of bucket compared to the current condi the advancement of oppression in this Services tions which our communities face-star country. Many of these are hinterland 5442 Martin L.King Blvd. vation and malnutrition. American and farrnworker communities. This · Oakland, CA P.O. Box 24902 people across race, sex and culture lines kind of organizing falls in line with Dr. Oakland, CA 94623 are dying from overexposure, home Newton and Bobby Seale' s approach to lessness, and a lack of proper health seeing the big picture as the point of (510) 547-2452 care. departure. A generation ago, there was more An exception to the general militant . (510) 839-3720 hope for a better tomorrow in our black Movement of much of the 60's and and other oppressed communities. Be- MARCH 1993 THE COMMEMORATOR '" 13

Why We Are-Not- Racist By Bobby Seale pose misconceptions of the day, like that's the key by which they maintain that is dominating, exploiting, and op from Seize The Time integration. their control. To divide the people and pressing the working and laboring . The Black Panther Party is not a If people want to integrate - and conquer them is the objective of the people. black racist organization, not a racist I'fn assuming they will fifty or 100 power structure. It's the ruling class, All of us are laboring-class people, organization at all. We understand years from riow - that's their business. the very small minority, the few avari employed or unemployed, and our where racism comes from. Our Mini But right now we have the problem of cious, demagogic hogs and rats who unity has got to be based on the practi ster 0f Defense, Huey P. Newton, has a ruling-class system that perpetuates control and infest the government. The cal necessities of life, liberty, and the taught us to understand that we have to racism and uses racism as 'a key to pursuit of happiness, if that means any oppose all kinds of racism. The Party maintain its capitalistic exploitation. We do not fight racism thing to anybody. It's got to be based understands the imbedded racism in a · They use black~. especially the blacks on·the practical things like the survival . large part of white America and it un who come out of the colleges and the with racism ..We fight of people and people's right to self derstands that the very small cults that elite class system, because these blacks determination, to iron out the problems sprout up every now and then in the have a tendency to flock toward a black racism with solidarity. that exist. So in essence it is not at all a black community have a basically ~acism which is parallel to the racism race struggle. We're rapidly educating black racist philosophy. the Ku Klux Klan or white citizens ruling class !lfld their running dogs, people to this. In our view it is a class groups practice. their lackeys, their bootlickers, _their struggle between the massive pro It's obvious that trying to fight fire Toms and their black racists, their cul letarian working class and the small, Our Minister of with fire means there's going to be a lot tural nationalists - they're.all the run minority ruling class. Working-class Defense has taught us of burning. The best way to fight fire is ning dogs of the ruling class. These are people of all colors must unite against with water because water douses the the ones who help to maintain and aid the exploitative, oppressive ruling to understand that we fire. The water is the solidarity of the the power structure by perpetuating class. So let me emphasize again - we their racist attitudes and using racism have to oppose all people's right to defend themselves to believe our fight is a class struggle and gether in opposition to a vicious monster. as a means to divide the people. But it's not a race stru&gle. c :a kinds of racism. Whatever is good for the man, can't be really the small, minority ruling class .. good for.us. Whatever is good for the The Black Panther Party \1/0uld not capitalistic ruling-class system, can't ~toop to,the low, scurvy'le~e1 _of a Ku be go.od for. the masses .of the people. ·u,.F:.ree .Geronimo ji Jaga (pratt) Klux Klansman, a white supremacist, We, the Black Panther Party, see or the so-called "patriotic" white citi ourselves as a nation within a nation, Political Prisoner U'.S. zens organizations, which hate black but not for any racist reasons. We see it Former Black Panther leader, ment claims to have mysteriously people because of the color of their as a necessity for us to progress as Geronimo ji Jaga (Pratt) has now spent "lost" their records for this period. · skin. Even though some white citizevs human beings and live on the face of 21 year in Califonia prisons and is one · Police agent Julio Butler was the organizations ·will stand up and say, this earth along with other people. We of the world's longest-held political main witness against Geronimo. It was "Oh, we don't hate black people. It's do not fight racism with racism. We prisoners, according to.the internation- his testimony that convicted Pratt. In just that we are not gonna let black fight racism with solidarity. We do not 1968 Butler infilterated the Southern people do this, and we're not gonna let fight exploitative capitalism with black Chapter of the Black Panther, in which black people do that." This is scurvy capitalism. We fight capitalism with Geronimo was a principal leader and demagoguery, and the basis of it is the basic socialism. And we do not fight provided information to the FBI. The old racism of tabooing everything, and imperialism with more imperialism. truth about Butler as well as the sup especially of tabooing the body. The We fight imperialism with proletarian pression of statements indicating j:hat plack man's mind was stripped by the internationalism. These principles are others had done the killing, the planting social environment, by the decadent very functional for the Party. They're of police spies in the defense camp, and social envi.J:onment he was subjected to very practical, humanistic, and neces many other abuses of justice were dis- in slavery and in the years after the sary. They should be understood by the • covered only years later when so-called Emancipation Proclamation. masses of the people. · 1 Geronimo won access to FBI files ... l - Black people, brown people, Chinese We don't use our guns, we have · IIi the Spring of IQ91, armed with people, and Vietnamese people are never used our guns to go into the white compelling new evidence of called gooks, spicks, niggers, and other .community to shoot up white people: Geronimo's innocence, wp.ich in- derogatory names. We only defend ourselves against ? eluded sworn affidavits by former Pan What the Black Panther Party has anybody, be they black, blue, green, or ther leaders Bobby Seale, David Hil d,one in essence is to call for an alliance red, who attacks us unjustly and tries to liard, Kathleen Cleaver, and Emory and coalition with all of the people and murder us and kill us for implementing al Campaign to Free Geronimo. Douglas that they were with Geronimo organizations who want to move our programs. AJl in all, I think people The government's own documents in Oakland at the time of the Santa against the power strµcture. · It is the can see from our past practices, that indicate that Geronimo is innocent of Monica crime, attorneys filed a motion power structure who are the pigs and OUJ"S is not a racist organization but a the crime for which he was convicted: for a new trial. Within 24 hours of the hogs who have been robbing the. peo very progressive revolutionary party. the senseless murder of a white school delivery of hundreds of pages and ple; the avaricious, demagogic rul_ing Those who want to obscure the strug teacher on a Santa Monica tennis court evidence, the Los Angeles ~ourts is class elite who move the .pigs upon our gle with ethnic differences are the ones, in 1968;. At the time of this killing, sued a one sentence ruling turning heads and who order them to do so as a who are aiding and maintaining the Geronimo was attending a week-long down the case. means of maintaining their same old exploitation of the masses of the Black Panther Central Committee Kept in prison solely because of his exploitation. people: poor whites, poor blacks, meeting 400 miles away in Oakland, political history, Geronimo had served In the days of worldwide capitalistic browns, red Indians, poor Chinese and · California. While the FBI had more time than murderers and imperialism, with that imperialism also Japanese, and the workers at large. Geronimo and the Panther leadership . criminals whose guilt was never in manifested right here in America Raci~m and ethnic differences allow under constant surveillance the go_vern- question, but whose ideology was more against many different peoples, we find the power structure to exploit the mas in keeping with the government's. it necessary, as human beings, to op- ses of workers in this country, because Continued on page 20 14 THE COMMEMORATOR MARCl:I 1993

their "independent polls" to gauge the pardon someone else in the very same offour African American children goes ·Justice situation and convince us that more of case that he is being investigated· for? to bed hungry each night and more than ConJinued from page 2 us agree with their actions than not. So, The -notes Mr. Weinberger kept 25 percent of American people live somehow those o{ us who disagree al during his tenure as secretary of below the poverty line. Will the people plan" to defense attorneys for the four ways end up in the minority. defense indicate that Mr. Bush, as Vice of Somalia find justice from a nation officers, and the infiltration of· the defense team for the LA4 by an ad If the government has to send their President under Ronald Reagan, was which refuses . it to its own citizenry? mitted FBI informer who said he was folks, and particularly members from present at a White House meeting, We think not! the wealthy· class, to jail to jl,lstify the Nov. 24, 1986, at which the president's The newly elected president, .Bill told to sabotage the defense. men planned the cover-up. At that Clinton, has stated that he stands four By comparison, for instance, we saw system, they will, like Michael Milken, meeting, attended by all of Reagan's square with the former President on his Richard Nixon lie to the American the junk bond genius, who spent a year and a half in a_ federal country top advisers, was then Attorney Middle East policy, despite the U.S. led people, lie to Congress, break the law, General Ed Meese who announced that military attack, the bombing and mur attempt to· cover it up, and was not club/prison on a ten year sentence and the missile shipments to Iran may have prosecuted.for any of these crimes, in is now free having paid a billion dollar dering of over 200,000 Iraqi women fine and retainin.g a comparable been illegal, ·but that the president did and children. He has stated his support stead, he was allowed to resign and amount to live on. Or Leona Helmsley, not know about the shipment at the of Bush's actions in Somalia, and his continue. play a role in U.S. politics! time and, "no one contradicted Mr. policy towards refugees from the brutal We've ·seen the CIA investigated for who flew a coporate jet to report to a federal prison in Lexington, Kentucky, Meese's incorrect statement concern regime in Haiti. Since Bush paid for its violations of its own charter, spying on _and was delivered to the prison by a ing President Reagan's l ack of foreign policy with an injust dv nestic American citizens and planning assas · private helicopter. The government knowledge," stated Weinberger. So? policy, we can only expect mor 'Jf the sination attempts with no one needed to give the impression that the same from Mr. Clinton. prosecuted and no measure · taken to criminal justice system serves all, but Foreign Policy and the Domestic Although. two things have been prevent a repeat performance, thus, Scene made clear under Mr. Bush: 1) the con Iran-Contra. Finally, we remember the while Geronimo ji jaga Pratt and Leonard Peltier have been exonerated It almost sounds like a scene out of nection between poverty at hom e and murder o~ three civil rights workers, of any wrong doing, yet are still being George Orwell's "1984," it reeks with intervention abroad is now clear. and 2) one Black and two White, in Jackson, held behind bars. When that same jus double-speak. The night before· the result of Mr. Bush's fot'eign Mississippi~ by Klan_smen. When jus~ tice system·comes in contact with low Christmas, Mr. Bush pardoned his tice failed for them, locally (like Rod income blacks and peopie-of other low crime partners while almost out of the ney King the all-White jury came from income communities, something · same breath he tried Jo convince the . The bottom line the same White community that _the American people that his mission to White· defendants did), the federal s~ange seems to come into play - and has always been that "something strange" is simply Somalia is a "humanitarian" concern government rode in on its white horse class and race. U.S. prisons and jails are for the starving people there, clearly . to serve the interest and, like the Rodney King case; not mentioning the "hidden" military charged the Klansmen with (not not filled with the likes of the Michael Milken, Richard Nixons, Oliver Norths, agenda that is unfqlding each day. The of the international premeditated murder, but) "violation et.al. The jails are instead filled with U .S; military is now involved in a con of these three young · men's civil ruling class members from the black and low-in frontation with the various clans to "re·-. rights," and called it "jus~ice." come communities, including the four store order." Nothing is mentioned · Whenever there is a mega-event policies produces socialism for the about ·the political.gain this "restoring where the question of the government's black males accused in beating the white we~th'y (through such programs as the of order" will produce· for u:s. geo credibility.i s on the line, they .call on truck driver in South Central LA, an free-trade agreement, enterprise zones, incident sparked by the injustice to political aims in the.region. Nothing is and a decrease of capital gains tax) and ' Russell's Version · Rodney King. Most are in jail for mentioned about the richness of the soil free enterprise for the poor. · economic and political crimes against there and the potential for international Of course, these economic schemes an unjust economic and political sys investment, in the rich stores of cocoa, are _not new. - International Monopo tem. plutonium and oil there. There is a large ly Capital. Tax breaks are given to Recently, President Bush retained demand in Western countries for cocoa those entities at the expense of the former Attorney General Griffin Bell once a Somalian .major export, ·and general public and working people as his lawyer in the Iran-contra inves plutonium which is in demand around the globe. Where justice is con tigation and dismissed as "stupid" any worldwide. A couple of weeks after the cerned, the fact that less than one per suggestion that his pardoning of key landing of the marines it was an cent of the world's population owns defendants in the case· made it appear nounced that Chevron and three other : and controls . over 95 percent of the that government officials are above the U.S. oil companies who had contracts world's wealth and resources cannot be law. "No, it should not give any such with Somalia, the tenns of which have seen as separate from what is happen: appearance. Nobody is above the law, been suspended since the Civil War ing with the working and low-income but the Constitution is quite clear on the broke out, were looking forward to the community in this country and around power of the president," stated Mr. marines ending the civil war to resume the world. Bush. The obvious. question now is the pumping of oil. Yet the president Despite religous and ethnic differen how can a suspect of criminal activities vistted that country on tax-payers dol ces, worldwide, economics is the com lars at a time when more than one out mon denominator that produces a . double standard on the social plane. If the question of famine was being seriously dealt with one would doubt that, of the world's 3 6 poorest countries would export food to north America. One would also doubt that each day 60,000 people wol]id die of hunger - 40,000 of them children. California alone grows and produces enough food to feed the entire United rt!\,tlf'.1191 States: yet more than one out of every four African American children go.to 4330 Sa_n Pablo Ave. bed hungry each night, and twenty-fiv~ Artistic - Emeryville, CA 94608 percent of the American people live ~ poverty. Jewelry Designs The contradictions in the justice sys - (209)951-6722 tem won't be seriously addressed Continued on page 20 MARCH 1993 THE COMMEMORATOR 15

Garment Workers Seek New The Recourse for Job Grievances Immigrant On Thursday, October 15, 1992, im They are also demanding a two-year manufactures know they do not pay the migrant Asian· women garment wor contract with McClintock. contractors enough money for them to Work·er kers and their supporters, assembled in According to Helen Kim, an or pay minimum wage and overtime. front of. the Je~sica McClintock man ganizer for the Asian Immigrant Ninety percent of the shops in the Bay Following the Civil War, the ufacturing headquarters in San Francis Workers Alliance, which the 12 Area do not pay overtime - this · United States entered the "Industri co. The purpose of the assembly was to ( which is mandatory in order to get the al Revolution" full swing. Newly demand restitutiQn from McClintock, products out on time) this is a fact the freed slaves flooded into the labor the multi-million dollar garment man- Garment workers and manufactures know." markets of the growing cities, fuel . ufacturerand 1990Womanofth.e Year, their supporters were One McClintock seamstress, who ing the engines of mass production. for work they had done but not gotten requested that her name not be men Railways welded together the paid for when a McClintock sub ·out oh the picket line in tioned for fear of retribution, said "My economic structure of the con contractortook off without paying them. heart dropped, after visiting tinent, linking the big cities and the The McClintock workers wore front of McClintock's McClintock's boutique on San rich land of the nation. Coal, tim~ small white plastic masks to protect .Union Square boutique, Francisco's fashionable Union Street. ber and minerals rolled into huge themselves from identification and When I saw dresses selling for $175 to mills and furnaces. Most of the blacklisting. where 'they were met by $200, for which I would have earned $5 ·fortunes that still control the politi The 12 low-income immigrant for my la,bor." Other workers !lave cal and economic life of the United women workers, who were technically San Francisco police. complained of having to work seven States today were made in the in the employ of L. Sewing Company, days-a-week, 12 hours-a-day, with mines and mills of the late 1880's. are demanding that McClintock pay workers turned to for help, McClintock only one break for lunch. In the 1880 's, the strongest force . them the $15,000 in wag~s they were · responded that "We do not involve our- . As was stated- by Helen Wong, building up the nation was the owed when the subcontractor closed up · selves in the internal working of these board member of the Asian Immigrant workers who came to the United after having paid them with bad checks. businesses that we subcontract to." Women's Alliance (AIWA), "The States from the slums and fields of Lora Jofoo, a representative of the Europe and Asia. Five and a half ConJinued on next page Asian Law Caucus countered, "The million immigrants came here in that one decade. , Westward expansion was made Trade Unions Under Government Regulation possible through railroads, and also by the freeing up of the U.S. Army. After the Civil War, most of the · Using the National Labor Relations censtnctions on · thes-e unions, or fr-orii; however the organization does union troops continued to occupy Act as a tactical device, John L. Lewis ganizers in 1972 began a new type of have the ability to spin off unions and the south to protect the Reconstruc led the greatest labor organizing drive labor organization, unrestricted by the is able, through its fights on behalf of tion government. In 1877 how in the history of the country, the CIO. NLRA and subsequent amendmen~. work~rs in the arena, to raise wages and ever, the Republicans in the nortl:i In the late thirties the CIO organized all improve conditions . cut a deal with the southern Demo the main production industries " steel, Community Organization The trade union under the NLRA crats. The Republicans got the Then And Now , · auto, rubber, electrical. The CIO drive exists because it got 12 workers sign White House, and the troops were also uncovered new tactics for labor, Those organizations that were suc ups and got 50% of the vote in an pulled out of the south. The army such as the sit-down strike. Workers cessful, such as the Knights of Labor at election against no union or. a rival was sent out west to force Native sat down and took over the factory so the end of the last century, were so by union. The union is dependent_on the Americans from their lands. Land they couldn't be locked out. If the virtue of the fights they entered into, governments largesse, the non-contract became available for settlement . . owners tried to come in to throw them the determination and tirelessness of · association, on the community.. The The biggest of all the land set out by force, the factory would be their organizers, and because they were . union has the power to collectively bar tfors were the railroads. The com destroyed, too. Workers went on strike clandestine. They also got their sup gain, but what is it bargaining with, . panies that built tl)e first transcon or sat down and put out the call for a po rt not from the government, as . especially when there are too few jobs tinental railroads and the other big CIO organizer. At its height, in 1936 present-day trade unions do from the and nobody has any money? trunk lines received huge land or 1937, it tooktwo weeks for the CIO Labor Department, but from the com There is neither enough money in grants along their rights-of-way. to get an organizer to some ·of these munity. They turned not to the courts, the strike fund, nor can the workers They wanted to build up pqpulation places. but to the population to change the afford to be out of work for a prolonged centers to establish new markets. laws. period. Since labor is entirely a buyers A~ advertising campaign was The Fallacy Of Contract Theory They won their victories not by sit market, the workers can simply be launched to entice settlers which With the existence of the federal ting at a table with the employers, but replaced. The government is hostile, made the Great Plains sound like unions, those organizing under state by strikes, often violent strikes, which and will promote and enforce the re the promised land. Railroad agents charters did not have a chance to do may not have resulted in a passel of placements. Companies will, if neces and steamship companies flooded more than gain a contract for a year contracts, but did drive the wages up sary, go bankrupt to eject the union, Em:ope with leaflets about the easy through recognition and jurisdiction and cut back the hours, to prevent them. reopening under another name or cor profits of western farming. strikes, at which point they would be porate legal fiction. John Swinton, who wrote on the How The Independent, "sweethearted" by the federal unions or conditions of the workers of that Non-contract Association Is Different "Organized Labor's" Loss the companies themselves, which they time, described how contractors Of Bargaining Position · could not, because of the provisions of Compare the non-contract associa . made their appearance under the the state act, retain the organizational tion, . and the trade union under the · Experience since the P ATCO strike American flag among the half power to overcome, In the: farm NLRA. The former exists and con has shown traditional labor unions to starved mudsills in some of the worker movement in California, under tinues and builds because of the interest be too weak to win in a head on fight most wretched districts of Hun Cesar Chavez, the passage of the of its members and the community. It · against employers, so more and more gary, Italy or Denmark, tell the Agricultural Labor Relations Act at offers benefits to its members, and the unions themselves are turning to the stories of fabulous wages to be got first swelled their numbers into the membership is open to all. It is open to MBAs for advice and assistance. Un ten in America, bamboozle the hundreds :of thousands, and later cost m.embers of other labor organizations. like the non-contract association, tradi poor creatures, rope them in and . them every contract and, therefore, vir In short, the organization is not depend tional unions have no broad com make contracts with terms that few · tually every member they Jiad save 4- ent upon any selationship with any munity support, but only the amassed 5000 presently. Because of the legal employ.er or any l;ggt:,s~e d.eriv~.dJhete .,ConJil/ue~ on next page .. • _Continued on ,iext pag_e 16 THE COMMEMORATOR MARCH 1993

shops" to exploit the w,orkers as much out, the working conditions for im Job Grievan.ce Immigrant as humanly possible. migrant workers in the United States Continuedfrom previous page The first contractor sub/et the work 'have not really changed over where Worker to a 'sweater' whose shop accom they . were more than one hundred public needs to know that many of the Continued from previous page modated from six to fifteen or twenty years ago. Language and racial dif clothes they buy are made in turn-of- can understand. When theY. reached · 'sweating' employees - men, women ferences; cultural characteristics and, the century sweatshops." . this country -tliey found their golqen and children. · Living, sleeping, and . where applicable, immigration status A sign at the L. Sewing Cq read dreams turried into nightmares, as cooking arrangements overflowed have all been used to force immigrant "You cannot go to the bathroom. No they are put to work at even lower into the workroom. Employees eat workers to accept less, or get nothing, loud talking" - wages than those whom they -threw where they work and sleep on the thereby keeping a wedge between Employees charge th.at L. Sewing out of work. ' goods. One fourth of the ready made them and other workers. That wedge, weµt three months without issuing .their The new Americans began life here clothing was put together this way. is simply reinforced by the National checks, and kept promising to pay as industrial serfs in mines, steel But this is not the worst. Single Labor 'Relations Act's criteria of or- . them. Most are the breadwinniners of mills, and railroad construction under . families with just one room would · ganizing employees of employers their family. terms of contract labor. Such im often have another family as sub The only advances made by im On April 1, 1991 the contractor told migrants were paid little or nothing tenants who would subcontract work migrant \_\'Orkers, regardless of their them they did not need to report to until they had reimbur~ed those from the 'sweaters.' These · command of the English language, work. The following day, April 2; when who had imported them .for their 'homeworkers' made another fourth · regardless of their country of origin, the workers came to. work, they found cost of passage and food, in effect of the clothing. The homes of these regardless of their immigrant status, the factory had moved. On May 5, the making them indentured servants, homeworkers included the most have been made over the last 20 years subcontractor filed for bankruptGy, working out the terms of their con wretched in which human beings as they joined with ·others in labor owing creditors $350,000. · tracts... exist. The conditions of squalor and organizations of a new type that did Picket lines on behalf of the workers, Despite already huge profits, filth- made even inspeqion impos not focus on the secutjng of a contract organized by AIWA have extended employers looked for other ways to sible. or the passage of a law or organizing from Providence Rhode Island,. keep wages down and keep workers From the wholesale manufacturer , employees of employers but rather Portland, Oregon, to Albuquerque, under control. They created a labor who handled millions of products ·organizes members into an associa New Mexico. News of the workers' . surplus through the importation of im each year, to the -contractor, to the tion. These free and voluntary mem strife ha.s reached audiences. as far migrant labor. "sweater", to the "homeworker", the bership associations offarm workers, away as Hong Kong. After the workers ,While the railroads lured the im steps are steadily downward, so that service workers and other low-in published an ad in the New York Times migrant farmers outt.o the arid west, the profit of each (except for the come workers standing outside of calling for McClintock to pay the in the urban areas workers were no wretch at the bottom) is "sweated" U.S. labor laws have improved wages worker the money they were due, the better off. Textile mills set up a sub from the next below him. and working conditions for low-in ad was countered by an ad from the contracting system known as "sweat- As the struggle being faced by the come workers merely· by their McClintock camp claiming she was not McClintock workers clearly points . presence within a community. responsible for the workers loss and that she would work within the industry .., . to make things better. Less than one During the war, the CIO had made the sympathy strike, the sit-down, and month later, McClintock faced a labor Government and kept a no-strike pledge, with the others. AlsO', many of the best and most action from the United Paper Workers exception of the UMW, Lewis own militant organizers and unions were International Union who claimed that Regulation union. But 1946 saw another huge remQved or broken because they were McClintock hired a contractor who had Continued from previous page strike wave. With the reintroduction of communists or led by communists, or already been cited by the State Labor the millions of servicemen and women alleg~d to be communists or "fellow Department and NLRB for violating dues from the members·in a strike fund, back into the labor market and the ar travellers" or simply wouldn't labor laws. that which has not already been ex tificially controlled wages and prices of cooperate with them. As recent as February 13, 1993, pended.on their salaries,.in the Political the war, they fought to gain what they The results tell the story.· Not one AIWA, the garment workers and their Action fund, or committed in the pen had been held . back from claiming new union was formed between 1947 supporters were out on the picket line sion fund, much less tied up in invest and 1971, when UFWA and Local] of in front ofMcClintock's Union Square ments·. the Cab Drivers were formed. The sole boutique, where they were met by San Consider also a new union, Say, Because most contracts exception was Harty Bridges Long~ Francisco police officers who set up they organize for the first time a local, ' shoremen, who organized the whole of barricades to allow cu·stomeis to: walk or a new. plant, or s~y. they beat a now are giving back Hawaii. However, since Hawaii was around the worker's picket line. company union in an election. They are concessions. ' won not a State, at the time, but still a Ter According to Latika Malkani, up for election again in a year, where ritory, the NLRA had no application. AIW A spokesperson, the workers on their success depends on what they earlier, m·ost unions are the picket line have become more re have gained for the workers in negotia AFL-CIO Leadership Says Labor Better OfrWithout Labor Laws solute. Latika quoted one of the wot tions with the emplr;,yers. Sin£e'they . better off NOT kers as s~ying th.at " I don't care about have little resources until the dues start renegotiating, and most Several years ago, even the head of. the money. I want to preve_nt others rolling in, they have little power'and the the AFL-CIO, Lane Kirkland, who was from going the through same thing." contract is likely to be heavily union elections are never everi MEMBER of a labor union, Because McClintock has _a high con weighted towards the employer. They but worked in the AFL-CIO centratiol'). of stores in California the will be forced to negotiate, since if the decertification . bureaucracy all his life recognized that workers have concentrated their efforts unions would be better off without parties change under a Supreme Court elections·.. ~ there, but the workers are currently ruling of a year ago, the previous con labor laws. The events of the late 60s planning, according to Latika tract is void. That makes it easy for a and 70s in the labor struggle had Malkami, to boost the national scope of during the war, Strikes took place in · company union or a more financially shown why. The events since that time their campaign. and to zero in on the unprecedented numbers in the first year powerful union to· promise more and have confirm~d the accuracy ·of the high school and ·college student replace it a year later. And because after World War II ended. analysis. market, pecause this market represents most contracts now are giving back So, in 1947, Congress passed The McClintock workers do not need one of the largest consumers of another bill, the Taft-Hartley Act, concessions won earlier, most unions a contract. They do not need a new McClintock's GUNNE SAX apparel. which was written by a team of are better off NOT renegotiating, and law. They need a labor organization of The w9rkers are asking all fyiends of most union elections are DECER hundreds of lawyers retained by the a ne_w type, based on the only typ~ of labor to boycott JESSICA McCLIN National Association of Manufac TIFICATION elections " turning out organization that has been winning for TOCK apparel and fragrance, SCOTT turers. The Taft-Hartley Act banned all the labor unions in favor of direct deal- · labor in the past two decades. McCLINTOCK apparel and fragrance of the tactics previously successfully ings with the company, which at least and qUNNE SAX apparel. c ll saves the dues. used by labor " the secondary boycott, c3fllK ...... ,.,, ' . ,,, ...- ..... ·-· _.... ______., _ ------·----·----· ...... ·-..-. ... - . -- ...... ~ --- ·-·- --"- " . MARCH1993 THE COMMEMORATOR - 17 Priso.ns Continued from page 9· The National Labor Relations Act .license plates, roads, or fire-fighting. Under this new mandate, these benefits are lost and companies will instead use . The National Labor RelatiOJ1S employees of .the employer, the off. With the dues check-off, the prison labor to line their own pockets Act was first passed in 1933 as latter of whom would be bound to members' dues were deducted by undermining the wages of workers part of the National Industrial .bargain collectively in good faith from their p~y, directly. Under on the outside. Third, when jobs move Recovery Act, which was with those representatives the new scheme, however, after a ·from the community to the prison, the declared unconstitutional as an toward contract terms. The Act local was organized, the fight st~te will have higher unemployment invasion of the rights of citizens thereby created two distinct ended. The union never had to do and welfare G6sts. Finally, with higher of the United States to contract. strata of the work force; the anything for its members and its rates of unemplpyment, crime will in: It represented a new era of busi~ recognized and the unrecognized members never had to do_any- crease, and the prison population will ness and labor regulation. The workers. The act gave impetus to . thing for the union. In the trade swell even more rapidly. Act, as rewritten, was sub the destruction of community or union of today~ perhaps 5% even To understand the imp!lct of these programs, it must be understood that sequently allowed by the ganization through the unions by know who their shop steward is. the United States lias the highest incar~ Supreme Court of the United divorcing them from mass tactics Since the NLRA defi_nes ceration rate in the world. (A few years States after general strikes broke like sit-down strikes which re unions as bargaining agents for ago, it was third, behind the former out in San Francisco, Min quired community support for employees of employers, wor USSR and South Africa, but the U.S. neapolis and other places and, in their success, by conferring a kers can be shut out of whatever has now surpassed them.) Five times as th~ throes of depression, the short-term benefit on a strata of · benefit unionization purports to many Afrjcan Americans are impri- . country seemed on the verge of workers that has never been more offer by giving work to indepen soned in the U.S. than Blacks in South · revolution. than 27% of the total workforce dent contractors, hiring through Africa. It-. provided that if a union at the same time as it based that temporary agencies, or sub The purpose of ~nterprise should not· be profit, but the benefit of the com signed up a prescribed percent benefit on the election rather than ~ontracting to small under munity. The needs of our communities age of the workers at a plant, they .the power of the organization of financed . shop~ as McClintock are great, and.society should provide-a could-seek a federal election, the labor itself. does. socially beneficial job to anyone who winner of which would · be cer Another feature of the Act was ~wants one, in or ~mt of jail. This would tified as bargaining agent for the that it introduced the dues check- ~ reduce crime. If prisons work, the state wouldn't continuously be building more of them. It costs more to imprison Somalia someone than to send them to Harvard, Continr,ed from.page 9 yet the state imprisons more African · American males of college age than are.., in college. To build a just society, we Mr. Bush sent in 13,000 of his need to realize point two of the Black Marines. There is "money" in running Panth~r Party platform, "We want full a country - including Somalia- and employment for.our people." there are a lot of professional soldiers c_. loose in Africa that for the right amount of "money" could stop an invasion by EDITORIAL NOTE: 13,000 of the kind of Marines that Pr!son labor seems to fulfill the graduate from Company 'F' in dream of bosses to have a workforce ·Frankfurt these day's - sea-going 'Weara6{e .91.rt, 'T-sliirts, (jifts & Co{{ecta6{e 'Do{fs that can do nothing but obey without Marines. A lot of them could be Lorraine !Rg,ne .9!iams .. protest or the right to unionize. If stopped by "punks and thugs" with .50 workers dared to strike, they would caliber machine-guns in pick-up trucks Artist• Designer . ]ace a collective lockdown, the threat unless Mr. Bush wants to let his "smart (510) 439-4502 of solitary confinement, the lo-ss of bombs" loose again, but this time it's visitor "privileges", beatings, nega against a civilian population he has tive parole decisions, etc. stated he is trying to save. - In Iraq it didn't matter, and it still doesn't. Froi:n July until the end of' November', 50,000 Iraqi children be INUNITY,'THEREIS STRENGTH_ tween the ages of gne and five died of We recognize that the fundamen strive to change this condition as own interests on our own behalf. Our the effects of the war that took place in tal problem of low-income workers, soon as possible. We must first, 11-Point Benefit Program, free of Iraq. Mr. Bush appears to be un in Oakland and the·Bay Area as in however, become united, an actual charge to association members, reasonablyunnerved by 700 Somalians communities world-wide, is the lack power that can make it possible for enables us to survive, while we or he says are dying a day of famine. of income: We Make a pledge to, us to help ourselves-to fight for our ganize and build that strength. As for the claim that the United States is moving in.on an humanitarian * EMERGENCY FOOD * NON-EMERGENCY DENTAL CARE * CLOTHING mission, there are some who say a * INFORMATION SERVICE * ALCOHOL INFORMATION CENTER * MEMBERSHIP NEWSLETfER humanitarian mission at home would CHILDCARE PREVENTIVE MEDICAL CARE JOB REFERRAL SERVICE not be taken amiss, that if it were really * * * humanitarian aid, and not armaments, * LEGAL ADVICE SESSIONS we need it hete. If the U.S. was really - COME JOIN TODAY! SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER TO ORGA,NIZE FOR OUR concerned about the well being of the BETTERMENT. 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.,. 18 THE COMMEMORATOR MARCH1993 Black Panther Party 10-Point Pro ram WHAT WE WANT, WHAT WE BELIEVE 1. WE WANT FREEDOM. WE WANT POWER TO DETER Black people, other people of color,a nd poor people inside the United States. MINE THE DESTINY OF OUR.BLAC~ AND OPPRESSED We believe its our right, therefore, to defend ourselves against such armed forces and that all Black and oppressed people should be armed Jar self-defense ofour COMMUNITIES. homes and communities against these fascist police forces. We believe that Black and oppressed people will not be free until we are able to determine our destinies in our .own communities ourselves' by fully controlling 8. · WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS OF all the institutions which exist in our communities. AGRESSION. 2. WE WANT FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR PEOPLE. We believe that the various conflicts which exist around the world stem directly from the aggressive desires if the U.S. ruling circle and government to force its We believe that the federal government is responsible and qbligated to give domination upon the oppressed people of the wor_ld. We believe that if the U.S. every person employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the government or its lackeys do not cease these aggressive wars that it is the right American businessmen will not give full employment, then the technoiogy and of the people to defend themselves by any means necessary agai,nst their means. of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the aggressors. community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living. 9. WE WANT F:REEDOM FOR ALL 3. WE WANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE NOW HELD IN U.S. FEDERAL, STATE, BY THE CAPITALIST .OF OUR BLACK I AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES. COUNTY, CITY, AND MILITARY We believe that the racist government has robbed us and PRISONS AND JAILS. WE WANT TRI now we are demanding the ~verdue debt of forty acres ALS BY A JURY OF PEERS FOR ALL and two mules. Forty acres and two mules were PERSONS CHARGED WITH SO promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and CALLED CRIMES UNDER THE LAWS mass murder of Black people. We will accept the pay OF THIS COUNTRY. ment in currency which will be distributed to our many We believe that·the many Bia.ck and poor op communities. The American racist has taken part in the pressed people now held in U.S. prisons and jails slaughter of over fifty million Black people. Therefore, have not received fair and impartial trials under we feel this is a modest demand that we make . . a racist and fascist judicial system and should be free from incarceration. We•believe in the ultimate 4. WE WANT DECENT HOUSING, FIT FOR elimination of all wretched, inhuman penal in~ THE SHELTER OF HUMAN BEINGS. stitutions, because the masses ofmr:n and women We believe that if the landlords will not give decent imprisoned inside the United States or by the U.S. housing to our Black and oppressed communities, then military are the victims of oppressive conditions housing and the land should be made into cooperatives whkh are the real cause of their imprisonment. so that the people on our communities, with government We believe that when persons are brought to trial aid, can build and make decent housing for the people. that they must be guaranteed, by the UnitedStates, juries oftheir peers, attorneys oftheir choice and S. WE WANT EDUCATION FOR OUR freedom from imprisonment while awaiting'trials. PEOPLE_THAT EXPOSES THE TRUE NATURE OF THIS DECADENT 10. WE WANT LAND, BREAD, HOUS AMERICAN SOCIETY. WE WANT ING, EJ)UCATION, CLOTHING, EDUCATION THAT TEACHES US OUR JUSTICE, PEACE AND PEOPLE'S TRUE HISTORY AND OUR ROLE IN Biack Panther Co-Founder, Dr.Huey P. Newton COMMUNITY CONTROL OF THE PRESENT-DAY SOCIETY. MODERN TECHNOLOGY. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to of self, If you do not have knowledge ofyourself and your position in the society dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to and the world, then you will have little chance to know anything else. _ assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws ofnature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions ofmankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel theni to the 6. WE. WANT COMPLETELY FREE. HEALTH CARE FOR separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created ALL BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE. equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; We believe that the government must provide,free of charge,for the people, that among.these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure health facilities_ which will not only ire at c_JUr Illnesses, most ofwhich have come these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers about as a result of our oppression, but which will also develop preventative from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any fonrz of government medical programs to guarantee our future survival. We believe that mass health becomes destructive ofthese ends, it is the rig ht ofthe people to a1ter or to abolish education and research programs must be developed to give all Biack (lnd it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, oppressed people access to advanced scientific and medical information, so we and orgaf!.izing its powers in such form, as to them shall se~m most likely lo effect may provide ourselves with proper medical attention and care. their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictqte that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accord 7. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE BRUTALITY ingly, all experience hath shown that mankind.are more disposed to suffer, while AND MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE, OTHER PEOPLE OF evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing thefomis to which COLOR, ALL OPPRESSED PEOPLE INSIDE THE UNITED they are accustomed. But, when a long train ofabuses and usurpatio~,pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute STATES. despotism., it is their right, it is their duty, to throw offsuch government, and to We believe that the racist and fascist government of the United States uses its provide new guards for their future security. cd9 domestic enforcement agencies to carry out its program of oppression against ~ .

-... ------·------_.,., .- ... ·~ ~.- -·- -·-- - ~ -- ..... 1-, ------. ------. - -- _ _ _ ._ ------·-- •- • ·· - -~ ••--•~ -- .. ~~-·· - ·-, .,... __.,r.-~----·- __ MARCH1993 THE COMMEMORATOR 19 COMMEMORATOR DISTRIBUTION -~ . - ' .. EXPANDS "NATIONWIDE ··--WIii··- ALABAMA Brand New Mkt. - 7923 McArthur Pennanan Mkt. - 3201 38th Ave. Williams Liq. - 5830 Telegraph Springfield Brookfield Groc. - 9786 Edes Ave. · Penny Saver-Mkt. - 4800 Foothill Your Scents - 2874 Telegr_aph Ave. AR~ANSAS C&C Check Cashing- 73rd/Bncrft Phil-AM Mart-4330C E.14th St. Redding West Memphis California Valet- 4330 E.14th St. Plucky's Liq. Store - 6415 E.l4th Sacramento CALIFORNIA Carriage Trade - 350 E., 18th/Park Popular Market - 1088 98tl1 Ave. San Diego Anaheim Century Petroleum - 403 E. l 2th St. Red Sea Market - 3800 Foothill Bl. San Francisco Berkeley Checkers Tailors/fradef - E. Mall Rich (Apparell) - Eastrnont Mall San Jose A&M Travel Conslts.-2647 Sn Pblo Cynthia Alterations - 73rd/Bancroft Security Groc./Liq. - 201 E.14th Santa Ana ---, Adan Market - 6604 San Pablo Ave. Dave's - 2484 Park Ave. Shop-Rite Mkt. - 5800 Bancroft Av. Santa Cruz· Stockton· Ann's Thrift Shqp - 2617 San Pablo Discount Foods - 1920 35th Ave. Star Liq./Deli - 7940 E.14th _St. . Watsonville Berkeley Hardware - 3280 Adeline E&R Liquor - 2101 8th Ave. Super Burrito - 2680 Fruitvale Yuba/Sutter Big Daddy's Fisl} Hs.-2649 Sn Pablo Eastlake Wash Hse - 1225 2nd Ave. Sybil's Liq./Mk:t. - 501 E.18th St. CONNECTICUT Black Oak Books - 1491 Shattuck Ene's Market- 7981 MacArthur Bl. Tony's Liq./Groc. - 2003 23rd Ave. Norwalk Brother Liq. - 3039 Shattuck Ave. Ezzan Market - 2627 38th Ave. Two Star Liq. - 2020 McArthur Bvd. KANSAS Bob's Liq. - 2842 S!!cramento Ave. Fairfax Liquour - 5403 Foothill Bl. U&I Liqs. #2 - 2710 Foothill Blvd. Ft. Leavenworth The Cannery - 2001 Fourth St. Family Market - 2627 Hillside USA Comer Mkt. - 105th/Edes MASSACHUSETTS Check Center - 2005 San Pablo Ave. Food King's Spr Mkt. - 8824 E.I4th United Supermarket- 6651 ~ancroft Amherst . Choices-Seafood Rest.-2725 Sa Pab Food Mart. - 6600 Foothill Blvd. Vernon's #1 - 3400 Vernon St. Berkshire County Discount Depot - 2020 San Pablo Food Town Groc. - 6423 E.I4th St. Willie Brown's - 1933 Fruitvale Boston , Dwight Liq. - 2440 Sacramento Four Star Liq. - 2884 38th Ave. North MICHIGAN Easy Market - 3045 San Pablo Ave. Fruitvale Liqs. - 2678 Fruitvale Ave. 65th Street Market - 6444 Sn Pablo Kalamazoo Food-TownMkt: - 3049 Sacramento···· « · G&M Liquors - 8301 E.14th St. Arnold Liq. - 34th/Telegraph MISSISSIPPI ; • Red Apple Mkt. - 2967 Sacramento Giants Liq. - 7629 MacArthur Blvd. Bay Area Liq./Deli - 3148 San Pablo Vicksburg Sacramento Mkt. - 2973 Sacramento Goins Comer - 2520 Foothill Brothers Liq. - 3039 Shattuck Ave. NEW JERSEY . U.S. Liquors -,2942 Sacramento Golden Star Ck. Cash - 5395 Fthill Chicago Hair Design & Co. - 3627 Atlantic City Crescent City Greer's Liq./Groc. - 610 98th Ave. Piedmont Ave. New Brunswick Daly City Harolds Mkt.- 7615 McArthur BlvcJ.. Doug's Texas Style BBQ- 3600 San Trenton Emeryville Harry's Liq./Groc. - 9002 McArthur Pablo Ave. A & Son Market - 5650 Market NEWYORK Hereafter Seafood/Deli- 448A High East Bay Mkt. - 5350 M.L.K. Blvd. Bellport Black & White Liq. - 3027 Adeline Hub's Liq. Store - 9414 E.14th St. General Liq./Groc. -4301 Market New York C&C Check Cashing - 3686 Brodwy J &LJ Market - 2201 14th Ave. Jugs Liq. - 3645 San Pablo Ave. Riverhead Choice Meat - 5676 San Pablo Ave. J&M Mkt. -2151 Seminary Ave. Kings Market - 5442 M.L. King Jr. Rochester Harris Design's Flower Shop - Jim's Liq./Deli - 8137 MacArthur L VS BBQ - 5895 San Pablo Ave. Sodus 4512 Market Street K&B Mkt. - 7701 Bancroft Ave. M & B Beauty Supply - Broadway Syracuse J&B Market- 3242 Adeline St. K&S Groc. - 2286 E.14th St. & MacArthur NEW HAMPSHIRE Janta Int'I. Mkt - 4330 San Pablo Kay's Liquor '_ 401 E.I4th St. Marcus Book Stores - 3900 M.L. K. Portsmouth Launderland - 5412 San Pablo Ave. Keeton Univ. Liq. - 8737 MacArthur Merrakesh II Deli - 5751 Market St. OREGON Mama Bears - 6536 ~elegraph Ave. L.M. Liquors - 1301 MacArthur Bl. Moler Barber College-3500 Brdwy · Ashland Moe's - 2476 Telegraph Ave. L.T Liq. - 7717 Bancroft Ave. Mr. Ward's Magnificent Barber Hillsboro N asan Market - 3401 Adeline St. Medford · LaFiesta Brava - 1462 High St. Shop - 4828 Telegraph Ave. S&M Market - 1049 51st St. Portland Lee's Mkt./Liq. - 96WMacArthur N & A Mkt. - 3198 Adeline St. W &L Market - 942 54th Street Lucky Spot Liq. - 700 Foothill Blvd. ' Nassan Groc.' - 3401 Adeline St. OHIO Your Black Muslim Bakery- Cleveland Lyons Liq./Groc. - 4100 Foothill New York Mkt. - 3446 Market St. 5832 San Pablo Ave. M&J Grocery - 730 I MacArthur · Northside Liq. - 4505 Market . ]:>ENNSYL VANIA Los Angeles ' Philadelphia r,.1:&A Grocers - 2401 Foothill Blvd. · P & M Deli/li9. 0 1405 34th St. Oakland McArthur Mini Mart-8888 McArthr Pifl Hill Instant Printing- 2815 TENNESSEE East. Memphis Madena Food Markets·- 2267 38th A-1 Sup~r Mkt. - 9509 E.14th St. Telegraph Ave. UT AH Mark Market- 8433 E.14th St. A&;B Mini-Mart- 59(3 E.14th St. Red's ·Marke(-' 5850 San Pab1o A_ve. . , Odgen A&M Market~ 1880 E.22nd St. , · Market/Groc./Liq. - 2728 Fruitvale· s & S Se'Mood - 4923 Telegraph Provo . A&N Market - 42nd & Foothill . . _' _Mean <;:hey Mkt._.: 4095 Foothill Saeed's/ Abdui'Liq. - 57th/Adeline VIRGiNIA

l ~&l{ M".u-,ket &.Liq, - 3615 Foothill . .. '. ' N&M Mkt. - 2731' 13th Ave.' Sana~t..,~_iioTeleg.A~e. , · - , WASHINGTON '' • ~ '"~ ..J AJ1,,,,Liqugr - )500 23rd Ave ,~ · ' ·. ·.' ' Niles Super Mkt. ~, 153623rd Av~. : T is Wau~i"R,~c;orcts. 3519 .Br?Jl~fay · :•. Olympia , C ., \ ,· ~ ),; ,. ' .; Bet~r,.lrad~ Mk, -:7838· E.l~fur: :-' . ,. ' ., })akTf~e Groc./D~li - !~()!'28th Av. /-~.s.,. ~iit .:~?4t~acrarf1,~nr ; .... ,_ .Wl\.S.UlNGTONJU.,C., J':.; 0 Big MGroc,©eli ~ 822 McArthur Bi,.-i'-> ~---- R~~? F, oci ~f-.9427 Ed.~i.Ave. · uriique PiatrStyhngCntr. -56% WISCONSIN _i ·: i : ;-_,. Black &,White·Liq. - 270'frFtuitvale ·_,:\, -.C?ak!_anp Y9uor,~_ 1,335 ,E.p_th St. San Pablo Ave. Madison. .. , . •. \ -.", B~~;:!615 MacArthur Bl. ;1 '' ... - ,qr\\StpB,.:;: ,&~~TiB.~C[Qft,Av.f, .. ,, ,, :r:UmtownMarket,!'5635'ShattucR,' " _. ·,,,,: .:·,,_\ , ·,\,,·,.· .; .. " '.'.'·: ,~' 1 " ""'" One Stop Liq. - 8400 E.I4th St. , . , ,s' wa:lton's... . GrMei:1e's- 6604 San• Pablo; . • . ,. ·\;.. · · ,,.· · ,.) ; , .·q·; · '·,.,. ,!• ,!t~·-.. ,_· \'··' '! ',h,,., \ '"

.,.,.,,.,_::,-,,,,.-·· ...... ,--~· ...-·,..;.;_ , __._-.... ,.,.._""~.&"·'"':°',...... ~..._,t·---·-...-~ ... ~·"--"""·" ... ~ . -~- .. -"'""'·~~~--~ 20 THE COMMEMORATOR MARCH l993 Justice Geronimo Continued from page 14 Continued from page 13 Black and Proud by Shavaugbn Michelle Baker, . N'ZING~S When Dan White shot San Francisco Age 12 either, not by the official media, Mayor George Moscone and gay government policy, or those at the top, County Supervisor Harvey Milk to because after all, there is hardly any death, he served less than 5 years in Black and proud, that's distinction between these players. prison. KKK and Aryan· Nations lead all I can be. Black and Those at the top, the wealthy, sets the ers Richard Butler and Robert Miles, proud, we slaved for free. agenda based upon what they need to charged in connection with bank rob increase their wealth, i.e., cheap l~bor, beries and racist murders, were freed by an all-white jury in 1988. In 1992, Brought by chains, not cheap resources, etc. The government by our own will; the spirit policies are fashioned to meet these Los Angeles exploded when four white needs, i.e., free-trade agreements, enter police were acquitted of the savage of my people strong still. prise zones, labor laws, and foreign video-taped beating of Rodney King. intervention. As allies of the govern Geronimo refuses to apologize for a Brought by chains, they FINEST QUALITY ment (the media), wants to sell us on murder he d1d not commit. And he will took us from our land; - the fairness and necessity of these not ever renounce his political belief. took our gold and cuffed EXPERT Like Nelson Mandela, Geronimo is in policies, i.e., "Just Cause" in Panama, our hands. Desert Storm in Iraq, the relief efforts prison for his principles. CR~FTMANSHIP For more information about the ef in Somalia, "more jails," corrupt The young, the gifted, *Hats unions, prison labor, etc. fons to free Geronimo contact the fol *Leather medallions There will be no justice for Rodney lowing: the Black - the future of King, there will be no justice for the International Campaign to - our people will get it back! *Purses *Bags poor of this country or the world and · Free geronimojiJaga (pratt) and More won't be, until we as a people replace P.O. Box 3585 ( 5t0) 6G3-2084 this system (which by its nature is un Oakland, California 94609 fair and unjust to working people (510) 268-0979 whom it must oppress), with a new Los Angeles Chapter system that puts justice and prosperity InternationalCampaign to Free for working people first. A ~ooa Jt 0 geronimo ji Jaga W co o Those in power know that the Ame ~ \\ooK Boo,t g ~-J. P.O. Box 781-328 q,o 0 e 'f- o rican criminal justice system is an es 0 O,t 0 Los Angeles, CA 90016 e = sential part of their oppressive appa 00,t ~ (213) 758-6888 e 'l>o ratus, and without it, those in power 0 OI( BOO~ would not be in_power. And what black CD and other low-income communities are 1 334 HAIGHT STREET ••• realizing, since the Rodney King affair, SAN FRANCISCO is that "justice" is only for those who CALIFORNIA 9411 7 can afford it($$$$). "JUST-US." 415 255 1490 cg,,

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