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In the 1968 Olympic Games,John Carlos and Tommle Smith gav^ the clenched fist salute while getting their medals. To many thl5 was the beginning of ''politics^* in American sports. But the real date goes back to the beginning of sports in the USA, Sports is but a mirror of society, with the same problems. Black ballplayers have always had to fight to make it (Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, etc.)* But 1968 was the start of sports protest on a large scale. It led to well-known in• cidents such as Muhammed All's title being taken away and the expulsion of Vince Mattheys and Wayne Collett from the Munich Olympics. Women are struggling to be allowed to compete in cer• tain sports. Athletes are fighting for unions and bringing suits against football team owners who force players to use drugs (ups and downs). Many people have written about this side of sports: Jim Bouton, Dave Meggyesy, etc.. Most of what they said was that sports and the stereotyped athlete is the perfect American Myth. The athletes are busting the myth and fantasy of sports as something divorced from the real world. Every youth can't make it in sports! Sports is a multi-billion dollar business with the problems of racism, drugs, workers (athletes) and fans being ripped off for profits by the owners. ^'Polities'' has always been part of sports, the politics of money, competition, national hatred as in the racism of the Olympics (allowing the Olympics to be held in Nazi Germany in 1936) . The ''polities'' now entering sports involves the change to cooperation, enjoyment and international unity. Sports protests reflect the whole society by demanding roorQ Pow^r to the Pooplcf B^^l^w ^f^Mg^f^^w examples of the winds of change. fOOtBALL ^ DIIII6S Dave Meggyesy grew up on footballj it shaped his life and controlledthim. He came from a poor family and foot• ball was his way out of the life that he and millions like nim were destined for. He played 7 years for the Cardinals. He describes mends Delng used tne coaches and shot full of novlcalne when In great pain, to turn In a good day for the **team'\ He tells of the use of bar• biturates, amphetamines, and steroids (death drugs) to keep the atheletes going. "I played for approval> not AMD for any great love of the IN JMEiNORY OF game* I can^t separate the BILL WALTON game from the payoffs* ROBERTO CLEMCMTE when society changes, foot• Roberto Clemente was a sym• Bill Walton, seven foot cen• ball will be obselete." ter for UCLA•3 '72 national bol for the Puerto Rican commu• charaplonsnip team, was arrested nity and all freedom loving last May. He t^^k part in a people. He was one of the first building takeover on his campus, Puerto Rican ballplayers and al• protesting US involvement in ways a fighter against racism* He was a great player, yet the Southeast Asia* What caused sportswriters always tried to the red headed> freckled-faced deny this. star, the "All-American boy", to do this? Walton*s reply Clemente died•on a humanita• was, ''I felt we had to raise rian mission, flying food to tne consciousness of tne peo• earthquake-torn Nicarauguao ple around uso They should His first plane load was robbed realize fascism is taking over by the military regime and and we have to stop it. Samoza, the dictator of Nica- raugua. So that the supplies "After a game the press wouldn^t be robbed again, Cle• would say we won because of m<^ mente flew them personally in aftid It wasnH true. I figured an overloaded cargo plane and if they printed falsehoods about crashed. In effect, his death me, they could print anything was caused by the military they want." Bill Walton feels regime just like his struggles that Just because he plays good in baseball were caused by ball, he shouldn^t be given racism. We won't forget this. special favors and lots of money. He feels we need a new END RACIAL DISCRIMINATION system called socialism. ^DAVE MEGGYESY / REMEMBSR CL£M£NT£ FOWER TO THE PEOPLE GRAPEVINE CONDITIONS AT HAVES H.S.

Last issuo wo wrote about sadistic rules & punishments In Catholic schools. A brother on 158th Street told us about some of the insanity of Father Ansaldl, Dean of Discipline at Cardinal Hayes High School. Brothers are not allowed to smoke after leaving school,un• o til they reach 149th Street ALL POWER TO THE SISTERS & BROTHERS AT COLUMBUS H.S< Sisters are not supposed to wait for friends in front of Hayes. Students have been threatened COLUMBUS GUTS with suspension for buying hot dogs from a vendor on the same side of the street as the school. Sisters and brothers at Of course, it's ties & jackets Coltimbus H.S. were really angry at all times--no matter how hot when they got their Spring it is. schedules. Students aire guilty until pro- Because of budget cuts, many von lnnocont--that is, you can Classes they wanted were axed. get expelled for any trouble with One sister has tried to get the cops. Modern Dance for over a year^ Priests like Father Ansaldi She got gym instead and it's want straight-laced robots as impossible to get it changed. Gtu<3entSt They muGt be afraid Another eister was stuck in that free thinking young people the same stupid algebra course would not ^w^llow th^ li^s ^nd for Che third time In a row. nonsense that pass for education Many classes ar^ packed with in our schools. forty or more people <> in Che words of one scudenc, WE DEMAND EDUCATION THAT RELATES "Kids refuse to go to school TO OUR LIVESI FOLCHI: because they get programs they DON'T BUY THIS PAPER." don't wantI" A Gist^r Who go^s to cnlumbug GUN HILL TENANTS High School recently told us about this incident. The princi• The united action of 90 fam• pal of Columbus, Mr. Folchi,took ilies living In conditions haz• ardous to life & health has the centerfold of White Lightning halted the outright robbery of School's A Drag" issue and put our hard earned salaries every it in the hall. He put a sign time the rent is due. above it saying,"Don't buy this Every year we pay more rent paper." He put it up a few for decreased service and no times because it was torn down repairs• The slumlord, H. Welsner every timeo & sons, will not get his rent until the second week of this We must have said something month. If he doesnH produce on true because the truth hurts, his promises, he won^t get the TENANT WINS doesn't it, Mr. Folchi? rent for March at all. City agen cies have done nothing about the broken windows, leaking roof^ A tenant who had no hot water POWER TO THE COLUMBUS STUDENTSI WE DEMAND EDUCATION THAT RELATES fallen plaster & peeling paint, for over a month has finally re• let alone the very dangerous TO OUR LIVES! ceived hot water. After receiving condition of the elevator. After a ridiculous 25

DECENT HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT! Brothers At St# James Park GXTNHILL ROAD TENANTS ASSOCIATION UNITY IN THE INTERNATIONAL WOMAN'S DAY March 8, International Women's Day, is celebrated by women all over the world• It is a day to remember and continue the strug• gle for equality of women• It is the fight for equal work, equal pay, better opportunities & an end to their exploitation by the rich which led to this day* Sisters & brothers celebrate International Women's Dayl

SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL'. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE1

Pising Up i^ngry, a revolutionary organization in Chicago, re• cently held a 2 day People'o /assembly • 300 people from all over the country were there including representatives fron Viet Nam Veterans i^gainst The War, Kalamazoo, Mich., ^aukegan 111., and White Lightning.

RUA'S Bob Lawson urged us all to, ''Laugh and cry with the peggl^e^ live and die with tKe people,'^ ^

ALL POWER TO ALL OFFRESSED PEOPLE! HAYES LETTER PIG SIREN The 46th precinct recently has I read tho lottor from th^ Installed new sirens in their ears COPS BUSTED WITH cer In Afalcon. She thinks she's The Siren has 3 pitches and also a got it bad. In addition to all th^ loudspeaker from inside the car. dumb subjects they teach at Hayes Ever since theyWe gotten the sir- ILLEGAL BLACKJACK I have to go by a bunch of stupid rules made by some old coot about Two brothers* O'Neal Con 30 years ago. My hair nas to be 6c Eldred Wallace, were waiting short. My pants have to be made for a friend in Manhatten Crim• of suit material. I have to wear inal Court when two cops came a tie (v jacket all the time. by and started picking on them Now we have a nazi dean of for no reason. The cops claimed discipline. If I get caught smok• that they were being '^unruly*' ing or c-Mtting, I'll get charged and so the cops decided to beat vjith high treason. I can^t leave them up with an illegal black• the hole for lunch and I*m surr• jack. O'Neal & Eldred ended up ounded by an All-/merican ass• pretty cut & bruised. To top it hole staff. This year I got bust• off, they were busted & charged ed by the pigs en soir- len^e with assault & resisting arrest. charge and the administration But after a grand jury inves• nearly croaked, tigation heard more than a dozen ens, the cops have played I dig roGcing yovr p^p^r b^- witneeses, the cops were cha-rged with the different sounds at cavse it makes me think of how with assorted misdemeanor counts jacked up the Catholic school all hours of the morning & of assault,harrassment 6e illegal night. Many complaints have system is. weapon possesion.Their trial will been made by resid• be on February 16. ents. They even whistle songs It's outta sight that Eldred MORE POWER TO YOUI on the loudspeaker at 5:00 in & 0''Neal won, but there are still th© morning I This hae cauoed thousands of brothers and sisters many officers to be told to that haven't had a chance to cut it out by the neighbors prove their innocence in many of and the sergeants. these bum rap charges. They're The police don't care about still sitting in jail because disturbing the community by they can't afford a good lawyer. playing with their new toys, so we must force them to stopI ALL POWER TO THE LEGAL STRUGGLES ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! OF OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS! COMMUNITY 500 DMOmATE TO 'SHOCK THE ROOK'' MORE COPS PUSH DOPE On Feb. 5» CK-narcotioo agent Francis 'IJaters was indicted for selling ^kilo of heroin to yet another narcotics agent* Charles McDonald, in 1968. McDonald was arrested for drug sales in 1969, sentenced to only 4 years and has since been paroled. Waters resigned from the Feder• al Narcotics Bureau in Dec. 1967, during investigations of the bur• eau which resulted in 6 indict• ments and 40 resignations. Lightning sister raps at Demonstratlon^^j The sales made by Waters were A dSnstration of 500 people that these death drugs will find in packages of k kilo each. One was held on Feb. 14, protesting no legal market. falf kilo is enough heroin to Rockefeller's proposals for deal- On one hand, Rocky says that at least 100 people, ing with victims of the drug heroin is the main menace of our plague. people today. On the other he COPS PUSH DOPEl STOP THE PLAGUE--STOP THE PIGSl The demonstration was organ- supports the corrupt Thieu reg- ized by United Citizens Who Care, ime in Soth Vietnam, whose con- coalition of working people, nections with heroin traffic are drug programs & community groups well known. IN MEMORY from all over New York, who are No di-ug victim was ever help• outraged at "our" governor's ed by jail. Rocky showed how he OF JOEY K. pf6p6i$5l res Sentence so-called feels about prisoners by order• A friend of White Lightning, pushers to life in prison. Roc• ing the murder of 43 o£ our bro• Joey K., died of an overdose on kefeller makes no distinction thers at Attica. January 16. He was 23 years old. between victims of the plague Another bill being fought by Almost everyone has friends 6t major suppliers who make mil• United Citizens Who Care, requir• who fall victim to the heroin lions off the sufforing ^nd es stai-^ lloensttjg & supervision plague. Our tears cannot bring dA5th of all oppi'^fifi^d people. of all drug pro^aras by highly them back, but getting involved paid 6e highly ineffective psych• These profiteers, who can in the struggle Co eliminate the ologists. Psychologists failed easily affoi?d to pay off the causes of drug addiction can to deal with the drug plague in right people & hire expensive save other brothers & sisters the past. Now the shrinks smell lawyers, will not be threatened from this form of oppression a profit & they're willing to by Rocky•B law. where the victim pays to be wreck the programs to make more killed. Neither will drug companies money. like Lilly, Abbott & Ciba, who n produce millions o£ barbiturates END FASCIST ATTACK^ S ON POOR AND & amphetamines, knowing up front WORKING PEOPLE. WHITE LIGHTNING Cops always cry about the lack COPS PUSH of public support. They act like victims of unprovoked attacks. Reality is, the people have MORE DOPE f^^^ ^^^^ been betrayed by the cops I Police CommlsslonGr Patrick Murphy has revealed that the new COPS PUSH DOPE: k^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^ total of death drugs ^'missing" STOP THE PLAGUE--ST0P THE PIGS! from police property rooms is But Joey, and hundreds like over 400 pounds, worth ?73 million, him, didn't just die. They were and the investigation still goes murdered. Murdered by every cop on. There is really no reason to that takes bribes to let dope relieve that there is even a $2.00 pushers go. Murdered by every bag remaining in police custody big time pusher or smuggler who out of all the drugs they've ever deals death drugs for profit. confiscated. Murdered by the pigs who stole It's gotten to the point where 400 pounds of heroin from the cops no longer trust other oops, police property clerk's office. (this is common among dope pushers•) Murdered by a society which rom now on, any cop who signs out puts profits before human needs ^rvgs fr^m thQ prc^perty «lerk must and drives people to use drugs. be fingerprinted & photographed. Brother Joe will live on in People should see thru this jive our hearts. We are deeply attempt to look good. Heroin and grieved at his death. We will other drugs kill many young people continue our fight with more every day-- over 1300 a year, and determination, in rememberance just who can the people blame for of him. thlg outrageous situation^ i£ not the cops? Commissioner Patrick J. Murphy DON'T MOURN--ORGANIZE! Lincoln Detox Developed Out Of The Needs And Strengths Of The People Of The South Bronx

Lincoln Detox developed out with methadone is completely could set up a phoney program of the needs and strengths of different from methadone main• and feed the millions of dol- the people of tho South Bronx. tenance. At Lincoln, detoxing l^r9 to th^lr friends. It hoa become the largest and has always been viewed as a In thoso 5 monthg Lincoln most successful drug program partial measure. The lack of DQtovi helped nearly 4,000 vic• in Now Yofl^. Th^ drug detoxi- fund^ h^Q pr^v^nt^d th^m frnm tims of the plague. This ficstioo pT-og-ram at Lincoln ^tairting a liv/e-ln facility. achievement shovjs the decer- Hospital began as a continu• mlnatlon and strength of the ation of fch^ hoepltal protest METHADONE LIBERATION CENTER workers in the program. actions o£ the Health Revolu• Lincoln. Detox tries to in• tionary unity Movement(HRUM) Lincoln DotOK is cho only volve victims of the plague in and thQ Young Lords Party in place in New York where sisters revolutionary struggle. Poli• 1969-71. and brothors on methadone main• tical education classes, which m tenance can be detoxed off of include a 100 people daily, methadone whenever they want deal with the nature of the to be drug-free. Many people are forced onto methadone main• tenance by judges and parole boards. Many are tricked into believing methadone is a cure and then realize their mistake. Methadone is 10 times as addic• tive as heroin, and therefore drug plague, the colonial op• it is extremely painful to kick pression in Black and Puerto In contrast to Lincoln a methadone habit without help. Rican communities, and the im• Detox, most drug programs are Brothers and sisters can escape portance of unity in the strug• developed by outsiders who methadone slavery at Lincoln. gle against imperialism. Ex- care more about salaries and The attitude toward methadone victims of 'the plague help set status than about helping vic• at Lincoln Detox is one of the tims of the drug plague and up rent strikes, fight for de• many reasons the government is cent jobs for third world peo• their families. These prog• trying to sabotage the program. rams never get involved in ple, and struggle for the libe• struggles for more decent ration of political prisoners. jobs or better housing condi• People receiving detoxification tions. They push a rigid are not required to attend any theory that all drug victims of these programs, but their have character disorders and enthusiasm is great because - then use this theory as an revolutionary struggle combats alibi for avoiding the fight the drug plague far better than against the social conditions psychotherapy. that cause drug addiction. THE WHOLE PROGRAM IS FORCED 1 OUT OF EVERY 10 PEOPLE TO BE CROWDED INTO ONE ROOM ARE VICTIMS OF THE PLAGUE Lincoln Detox still has the Lincoln Hospital had spent same facilities it had the day almost no money combatting it began. The hospital audi• torium g^rv^g ag a medical ex• drug addiction even though 1 200 addicts came to Lincoln out of every 10 people in the amining room, clerical Intake Hospital seeking treatment on room, waiting room, medication hospital district are victims a morning two weeks after the of the plague. Victims and room, and meeting room where 3 6th floor take-over. Acting different political education ex-victims living in the South out of fear, the administration Bronx joined with members of classes and many staff meetings let the auditorium be used as are held daily. The whole pro• HRUM and tho Young Lords to a "temporary" location. Just form the South.Bronx Drug gram is crowded into one room-- one day later--in an obvious with a few screens to make the Coalition. Michael Tabor, one effort to buy off the leader- of the Panther 21 and author medical area private. It takes Ship Of D6tox--the city and dedication and unity to build of ''Capitalism Plus Dope Equal sstate governments offered a Genocide'', spoke to the Coali• a program under these oppress• million dollars each to the ive conditions. tion many times. In November program. The newly-forming 1971, 20-30 members of the For 15 months.the govern• staff of Lincoln Detox, mostly ment drug agencies have promi• Coalition took over the half- ex-addicts from the South empty 6th floor o£ the former sed Lincdln Detox a large se• Bronx community, were never de• parate building. Nothing has nurses' residence building of feated by the bribes offered Lincoln Hospital. happened. No other publicly- by health officials and corrupt funded health program in this The Coalition began their politicians. program with a methadone detox country is short-changed like ification program, because Lincoln Detox and forced to EVERYONE WORKED 5 MONTHS operate under such harsh, de• ---WITH NO PAY to a person suffering from a grading conditions. heavy heroin habit, and (2) a Most of the 60 Detox workers Everyone in Lincoln Detox came to the program as victims drug-free state is necessary worked 5 months with no pay. for any person to grow stron• of the plague who were seeking After publicly promising imme• help. The strength of Lincoln ger. In this kind of program diate funding, the corrupt methadone is used for only 10 Detox shows THE REVOLUTIONARY officials held onto the money POWER OF OPPRESSED PEOPLE. days to withdraw a person in the hope that the program slowly off heroin. Detoxing would collapse. Then they STOP THE PLAGUE Ab mm m ^lu

A WOMAN'S RIGHT TO CHOOSE Whos^ t*ight is it to decida An abortion in New York—^cost• ed to welfare regulations so ir a woman nas a baby or not? ing between $100 & ^500—will that the poor must submit to The Catholic Church? The State? always be available to middle sterilization in order to stay BQth aro S^^oups of politically class and rich women^ but what on welfare. In Tennesee, where ambitious,rlcK^ white men who about the working women who must many poor whites and blacks are tOLJia force their Jive morality Struggle and save, sometimes for unable to find work, the legis- ]^i^.ia±^i^M*i^k?=^ >^^f or§ they carp, lature tried, two years ago, to to aerve^ Or Dhoulc pregnant get that kin. togetherr- pass such an inhuman woman d^oido tho fate o^' ^^^^^^ And ^v^n th^n^ t.iiey oi t&n have with on^ or more illegitimate ahlia? to go to dlty hospitals where children must submit to steril• The DeoDle won a big victory health care is often degrading ization if they want to continue when the Supreme Court rul^d and poor. to roceivo benefits/' Due to last yj&&ic tnat abortions UD to Lack of interest In the health great pressure from both men & 3 months were le^al and after or lives of the poor and working women in the statej^he bill was that th^y could bo regulated by ol^i^ss has created a birth control defeated, the state until 10 weei^s before system that uses and controls birth. But the long years of peopleo It is a well-known fact WOMEM PAVGR ABORTION strdggl^ thkt womerL»s or»ganiza- that th^ testing of the birth tions and pro-abortion gt»oups control pill had been done for I think we all can::7clearly see hafl tcs go through should be ex• 10 years on women In Appalachia that many of the laws that aff amined. In New YorU:^ there were and Puerto Rlco^ The U^S. govern• ect our lives were not made with many busloads of women who trav• ment clearly supported the drug our needs or wishes in mind* eled to Albany and flooded the companies^ racist attacks on poor According to a Harris Poll In legislative offices of abortion Third World and white women by the summer of 1972, 505^ of all opponents• The women demanded, allowing and even financing these Catholic Wc«nen favored abortion. first for repeal of the ancient experiments. But the UoS^ has But church officials all over ant1-abortion law which was vio- found a more effective way to the UfS, have condemned the new torlously killed in 1970, and control population growth of the liberal law* Cardinal Krol called then to 'make sure the-new^ lib*^ poor and oppr^assed around the it "an unspeakable tragedy for eral law was not knocllced off the world —sterilization o the nation' • It was also called booics by weii^rinancea cnurcn "shocking" and "horrifying"• pressure groups• The fight has Supreme Court Justice Byron White always been between politicians FORCED STERILIZATION who voted against the reform, who supported the richest & most used words like "whim" and "cap• powerful side (the church),and rice" to describe a WOTian^s the women who wanted to be able In 1964, Fanny Lou Farmer, a motive for seeking an abortion. to control their o\m lives. militant black civil rights work• Is it a "whim** to not want to er in the Mississippi Freedom bring up a child when you may lie ABORTION IS A CLASS ISSUE Party, exposed the fact that as economically or emotionally un• many as 6 out of every 10 black prepared for it? Abortion Is really a clasD women In Sunflower County had Until every woman and her issuea It is the poor and work• been taken to the hospital and family are provided with nour• ing women in this country who sterilized without consent or ishment, good health care, hous• have suffered when abortions knowledge of the women until the ing, dav care, and education were illegalo They have been operation was overj In the past there will never be a completely forced to so to butchers and few yearsi 9 states have attempt• free choice whether or not to often ended up with serious in• ed to pass sterilization laws-- have a baby. We must continue to fections They are also the Alabama, California, Delaware, fight for these rights as well ones blamed for creating too Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, as the right to free abortion. large a population to feed (no No4 Carolina, Tennesee, & Vir• one blames Ethel Kennedy for her ginia*. Often such laws are link- 10 kids). FREE ABORTION ON DEMAND! END FORCED STERILIZATION! for their fee, two months secur• ity a.nd then the month rent. That*D an original layout of 5 As W9 bogin a now year^ the times the rent you can afford to working people of New York are pay. Many of these hrolr^TS s.le<^ faced with another rent In- practice racial discrimination. oroas^ to go along virith the one If you are Black or Puerto Rican in 1972• Housing conditions are you are often shorn only the getting woi^s^ ds^jr by cl^y, C^n^nts wci^st housing & told thore is no c?^n look forv/ard to continued de- thing else available. If you are c^y of thoir apartments vathout on welfare, you ^re Ofton tOld much hope ot repairs, iiighor brok• erage fees, increased rents and flat out there is nothing avail• cutbacks in housing. able^ These outrageous fees and Let us tak^ a closer look at criminal racial discrimination some of these conditions and v/hat make it pretty hard for working cs,n do about thorn • people to find decent housing. ••WW

WOMAN F0INT3 TO DANGEROUS FALLING CEILING RENT INCREASES HOUSING CONDITIONS

nth the decontrolling of ap• Housing conQltlons in this artments, the rents have okyroek- city are rapidly getting worse. eted for working people. When The age of buildings plus the rent control was in effect, the lack of upkeep by landlords landlord could only raise the means nothing but trouble for rent 15^ when there was a change tenants. 7/inter is upon us and in tenants. Now there have been there's going to be many a day raises as much as lOOfo over the and night when tenants are go• previous rent. With the \mge and ing to go Without heat or hot price freeze in effect, v/hy vras v/ater. m many cases, people go there not a freeze on rents? mthout heat or hot water for A law passed last year gave days, even weeks, before it is tho landlords tho right to raiso fixed, but ?/e still have to pay rents in decontrolled apartments rent for this period. A New York law states that ^o in January •TS & 7 in Janu• if a landlord fails to provide ary '73• The law states that a a basic service (v/a.ter, electr• landlord cannot raise rents until icity, heat) neoeosary foi" sur• any violations in the apartment vival, a tenant can have their are repaired. Biit v/hat many ten• rent reduced in order to put ants do not know is that they pressure- on the landlord. A had to report the violation be• tenant recently applied for a fore Dec. 31, of last year.This rent reduction on the gro^unds lav/ was not m.ade knov/n to the that he had not received any public until the end of Ilovember. hot water for over a month. This is an example of how the His rent v/as reduced 250 a gOYornnont proteeto the landlord month— cheek it out* and not the tenant. With reductions like this a landlord Y/ill novor give peo"» BROKERS' PEES pie hot water. Many other il• legal conditions prevail in As rents slcyrocket so does this city's housing. Faulty el• the original investment of get• ectrical outlets have killed ting an apartment. In many cases many children. Lead poisoning, brokers require two months rent causing brain damage, has been on the rise in our city ijhettos the past that landlords^lre^^T^ because of sliunlord^s criminal going to voluntarily fix tho ap• use of load paint* Every build- artments we live in. Landlords xns 3.0 oupposed to have a locked don't'^are about the tenants ^nd LIVE HERE front door but this, along with the conditions of buildings. Thoir only concern is to make many other things^ is not com• mon practice^ lots or money, city ag^nox^s that are supposedly set up to protect Koaches, mice & rats are tenants' rights grant rent reduc• othor signs of decaying build• tions of a quarter. Landlord-ten• ings and in this city there are plenty of them. ant courts are set up to hear Recently someone spotted a eviction cases & cases of land• rat dov/n by some buildings on lords refusal to make repairs. "Fifth Ave." There were housing In this court, P.S in our"^ crim• inspectors on the scene the inal courts, the rich landlord next day to investigate. In alv/ays wins. Harlem, people have complained The ^mj we as tenants can fight some of these conditions of rats for years but inspect• is for us to unite and get to• ors never come. Broken mndows, gether. Tenants all over the broken faucets often take weeks city have gotten together and before they are repaired. 5Iany gone on rent strikes to get buildings in this city are fire- their buildings fixed. Rent traps and many people have died strikes have proven to be our in fires caused by the lack of only effective tool to have repairs. violations repaired. Two little children died re• Wlien criminal neglect by cently in Brooklyn because a slum, landlords cause injury or radiator was not working proper• death, these landlords should ly and these kids suffocated. be prosooutod and jailed. Y/e Those conditions continue to can" find out what violations exist a-rid nothing is done to stop are in our buildings and work them. President Nixon announoefl together to demand thoir imp• his budget cuts and housing, rovement . along Ydth anything else worth• while was among them. For further information on housing call White Lightning, SOLUTIONS 584-5984*

Q^xi soo from many of the ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLEI mOldents that have happen©a in

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VIOLATIONS CLASSIFIED AS GROUNDS FOR WITHHOLDING RENT

:1. Unlocked front door. 5. Inadequate supply of heat. :2. Defective fire escape"-must 5. Inadequate lighting of halls be properly secure and ac• or stairs. cessible. 7. Leaking roof. :3. Illegally locked roof door-- 8. Inadequate extermination of every tenant should be able roaches, termites, and to open door immediately. vermin. 4. Inadequate supply of hot or cold water. VIETNAM HAS WON

WHAT WB CAN LEARN FEW THE VIETNAMESE

Wo oan learn from the horoiQ example of the Viotnameso and apply the knowledge to our own otruggle for a decent life in the u.s. First, the deciding factor in any political struggle Is net money , technology or fire• power hut the spirit and deter- minatioi of the people. The Vietnamese fought and won bec^ ause they knew that they were fighting for a Just cause that served the people. The u.s. & so* Vietnamese puppet troops lost because they fought for money^ glory or out of fear & served only a handful of rich parasites. The recent Vietnam peace is more bullshit. The u^s. gov• Secondly, oppressed people treaty gives the Vietnamese ernment gave the French 1 bil• have the power to change soc• ! people the right to govern their lion dollars & 90% of lt& wea• iety and this power is based ! own affairs free from the terror pons to maintain French rule in on unity & organization. The j of U.S. military blackmail. It Vietnam. In 195^ the then vice^ Vietnamese revolutionat*ies have Is a sve^t victory in their president of the u^s. richard respected the culture and lan• long and difficult march towards nlxon, pleaded with eisenhower guage of the many minorities national unity, independence, to drop nuclear bombs on Viet• and also the rights of women and socialism^ nam in order to prevent a Fren• & have made them equal partners! ch defeat. This mass murderer in the struggle for national 100 TEARS OiF FIGHTING FOREIGN has always had a thirnt for liberation. The Vietnamese RUUE Vietnamese blood. have built a fantastic organ• After the French were booted ization that offers every man, The u«i« govemraent claims out of Indochina the u.s. moved woman & child a part In the that the Vietnam war started 12 in. Free elections in Vietnam revolution whether it is firing! years ago when the u.s* military were blocked in 1956 becauscj an anti-aircraft gun or per- | haa Its first combat deaths as eisenhower later admittedj forming in a play.. | Th±B ^ llA. The last 12 up tn 80?^ of the Vietnamese Finally^ we can see how the I years have only been the most would have votqi for Ho Chi rovolution serves the people*s bi^ut^l^ Over^ a 100 y^AI^S ago Minh as their leader. Since needs. Everytime Vietnamese re• the French tried to bring west• 1954 the U.S. has attempted volutionaries liberate a u.s. ern clviliaation to jVietnam at to s^ise control^of Vietnam controlled village, they dis• the point of a cannon• The Viet• by dividing the country in half tribute land to the poor pea• namese valiantly i»esistea. and ^supporting one puppet dic• sants, provide free medical ser In 194o the JaponcDC invaded tator after another whoso sur• vices tor^ the slclr & teach mod• Vietnam and took over from the vival wao based on u.s, mcnoy, ern techniques of raising crops Ft^^n^h. It <^nly at this time tanl^s and B52^s. For over a dec- They have a love for the people that guerilla units were organ• ado the Vietnamese traitors & & want to supply them with real ized by the Vletmlnh, a group their u^s. m.asters have huddled & useful services. or patriots tnat later became In Saigon where they are pro• What the u.s. government cal• tected fron an angry people by WAR RAOE& ON IN INBOeHTNA led the Vietcong* artillery & a fleet of war planes After World War II the Vict- unmatched in hiotory In destru• U,S« planes are still bomb• minh declared Vietnam a republic ctive power. ing the people of Laos & Cam• and elected Ho Chi Minh as their Fighting in a country with bodia and renewed u.s. aggress^ first president. The French, an uncooperative population & ion in Vietnam is still a pos• using Japanese soldiers re-claim- a liberation army whose great sibility. Indochina, however i^ ed Vietnam as a French colony. strength is in ltr> unbreakable only part of the picture. VJher^ The Vietnamese i^efused te sur• ties With the people Is the ever u.Sj, domination is threat4 render theix' country and fought reason the u.s. has had to wage ened by a people demanding lib4 the French until 195^ when^ at a war of extermination against eration, as in the Philapines, ! Dlen Blen Phu the French got the entire Vietnamese people. there is the danger of u.s. mil their ass kicked and had to The spectacle of a small, poor itary aggression. We must con• limp back to France. The u.s* country slussing it out So de• tinue to support oppressed peo• govei^nment claims that it has feating the greatest military ple throughout the world by only been responsible for the power in world history is an strengthening the revolution• Vietnam war since 2967- This inspiration to all oppressed ary movement within the u.So people. Long Live the Victory of the Vietnamese RevolutionI

t^f^l Implement the Peace Treaty! I SOCIALIST HOUSING t

What impr»^ss^s most about ooolaliot countries liko Cuba, IS tm spimt among tna people^ Tney ajpQ trying 1.0 xmpiiove theii* land so that working people can enjoy a better life. One of the gpoat neeas in tnese countries is fo5^ mor^ and b^tt^r* housing.

NO LANDLORDS-LOW RENTS wn^n people live toijether In a socialist society, there aren^t -any profiteers making money off the pooplOf Thero aro no land• lords ripping people off for high rentsp Rent in Cuba is 6~7% of one's income* In this country the average family pays 20fo of their income for rent, while low income families pay as much as 50^ of their income for rent^

ALAMAR-A NEW CITY

In Cuba they are now building ALAMAR-A CITY IN CUBA BUILT FOR THE WORKERS a city for 60,000 people called One worker when asked, "Why do you work so hard?" said, "Because the people need it. The people in socialist Cuba need housing and we are workers. We have a skill and we have to use that skill for the betterment of all the people. It has been det• ermined that housing is what is needed so that*s where I*m going to apply myselfo" - This was an attitude found among workers of all ages. Even the old run down housing which has not been rebuilt yet in Cuba has been cleaned up and are not places where disease & vermin breed like in the years before the Revolution.

PEOPLE HAVE A SAY

CUBAN IffiN AND WOMEN WORKERS RELAX TOGETHER AFTER HARD vJORK Another important difference in housing in socialist countr• Alamar, It is a suburban area here & there who did not have ies is that people actually have outside of Havana. It is being adequate living conditions a say in how their buildings are built on a beautiful sight near before. The people who are build• run. In Cuba there are meetings the ocean, a place which before ing this city realized their work of the tenants where things are the Revolution would have been was to help people like themsel- decided collectively. It is not used for housing upper middle ves to live a better life^ run by a landlord who has no Glass and fairly wealthy people. interest in the living conditions of his tenants; a landlord whose HOUSING TO FIT NEEDS OF PEOFLE only concern is how much money Unlike the ugly public hous• he can force out of the people ing in this country,.the build- who live in "his" building: a ingo under oonstruotion at building which was built by Alomar were built to look nioe working people themselves« & still serve the needs of the people. The buildings at Alamar In this country, where rents range from 4 to 12 stories high. are constantly being, raised and Schools & day care centers were low rent old housing is being being built and eventually every• torn down for expensive luxury thing necessary to build a small buildings, it is becoming harder city will be developed such as a for the average family to find clinic, a water purification a place to live. plant, a sports arena, etCo' Furniture for tne new apart• In all socialist count'f'ies ments is pr»odu^^d ±Y\ ^ j^u-j^nltur*^ like Cuba, China & Albania, factory on the site. People get there are housing shortages too^ basic things they needo Anything but working people are getting over that depends on how much together to build more and better money people have and what^s^ housing so all people can live decently. available on the marketo People who are going to live DECENT HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHTS at Alamar are bus drivers, fact• ory workersJ working people from II WOMEN IN •^Q'' h no PRISON \'o, lady, prison didn't improve -'^tsond Howlmi, i mc none. will stop Dwignt Reformatory Por WomenU.i 111. govGrmit^nt are committing mas^.. '.That this means is that nov/ theft, yet one woman v/ith four women have a very hard *i!Sie children spends 3 years in jail communicating mth each other for receiving food-stam.ps from once they are in their cells. 2 c0-^11:$s, and another, v/ho The lights burn all hour« of now ||pi|is 10 years in prison the day & night and they liave for ^^attempting" to pass a bad no way of getting away from the If correctional facilities are checllill' only S31*o6^ " vsfe are light. Already the problefa of supposed to do what their name not llill for bad crimes," one rats & roaches is creeping up. implies, I someone v/ould ex• v/omaa. s«4d. plain, or ev©n gust take into MEDICAL CARE IS SCARCE ARE DISCOURAGED account, the disease, "bad food, There are 4 or 5 doctors as• roaches and Xti general, the un• signed to 700-900 prisoners. sanitary conditions that face Wc are in the minority The ratio- of prisoners to doc• people in prison. I would like (30 men to 1 woman) tors makes it impossible f.cr to see someo|i€f #;ry & explain to suffer deeply the women to get proper me^^^ se:mal dppres^ioti. treatment» doctors ^Hre tact with th^™iminal justice isis iii woiae»*s -prt&i are available: oxily tm s^^t system that il^Fpurpose of pris• /-like conduct instead time basis and with all the ons is to refo^ns & correct womens Lng them skills that ^ red tape there is to see a doc• ;use on the outside. tor, thereto a good chaaie© a lives^ and nj^t:^.. .to oppY«ess them^ ^ing visiting regulatioM" prisoner's request will' be re• mjkc^ fused. PRISONERS M CHEAP LABOR |hip of mail usually \ destroying rolationsMp^^- Prisons ar^ <5vororowd©d, ste^l mds on the outside.OX3tee REHABILITATION IS A jmE & concrete c^g^^, v/ith little or leaves prison she has Jid nothing to do* Inadeq^uate food & ||rights with friends she• AS m many other pri^otis, bad medical care are common^ as ll in prison. all over the country, tM re• are rushed visits & strict lim• len are left v/lth no habilitation programo at Hik• itations on ajail. for ^up^ort, plus th^;y er's are well^publicized hut Prioon ina3!JiJS/1?«iD nave -DO carrj kfiSGfl i^omis of the "orlr« practically never used* fheir out jobs, siKl^li scimbbing " It's no wonder m excuse is that there XB not floorsy ol^n>^i^^, ironing, cock• n end up back in priacnjo; enough personnel to run the ing & sewing (nearly every large y've done ^ ^hort ^m^^t programs. iaasiitution a cowing indust- on the outsifle. Jails are no solution* The a}K^^0 xn^vt^tric© make huge prison, women suffej;*....^. p^^oblom 1^ no emplcymeat, bs^.d profits for big business.)They same brutality oppree-^- housing^ inflation. Can Jail also serve as butchers and truck male prisoners suffer. solve these? Does society have drivers. Thesr mreiy learn skills the rl^ht to 3ail someone for they can use on the outside. ISOLATED JAILS trying to survive? PriSioiiiers all around the country are beginning to sot together and domm^ bet• BIG BUSINESS IS THE REAL CRlMlHAL Th^::;:WoraQn ^ s Houso of Detention la^g b9m;,.oic^oa aoTTn, The Hikear*^© ter conditions* They demsaad to Island^Facility for V/omen has now have their rights given Mck. Almost all prison inmates are The Is^ mvaiting tri^^X ^rxd have "been con• taken"'$t|- place. Hiker's land facility is only part of a victed of notMng. ALL POOR PEOPLE ARE PRISONERS] More than Imlf the women v/ho 64 acre penal colony v/hich the are facing prison sentences now, goverwent plans to construct on are charged with drunkeness,vag• this i&l^a. rancy, disorderly conduct and Thera;".was a massive campaign other minor offences, others ?.re to ccHTiaoe the public that th^ booked and aettt to jail for ohop- women would be better off at lifting, prostitution, larceny, Hiker'*i*"The actual design and forgery, burglary and crimes re• techndlo^ is extremely brutal lating to aieolioi & drug addic• and st«^rile. The physical iso- tion^ !Eo'geth,^F j'dth traffic of- Xatioi^^ the pXace (it*^ a|>a' ffscioes^ the^^M^f encee cover . ^^^frw f^om tli$ olty j^lTrroSt ?5L11 t^^^-ri^e*? f*>ii^r»g^d to) it difficult for against women* Crimes involving those'wh^ support the T)risoneii*i violence constitute only a small such as lav/yers £z relatives to ^ proportion of tlie cases both get there. Host of the v/omen v?lio 'known against men ^4 vremeni have both jails v/ould pre• These crimes are desperate fer to live in the old one. attempts to survive in this CONDITIONS ARE HORRIBLE society. "The criminal justice system The cells are designed for is a bag of feMt," one woman only '5W person, but because of" prisoner said^ ^'..•I'm here for overcrowding they are doubling selling 6 bags of dope and I up & putting women together. Th& don*t see the Army being prosec• doors are made entirely out of uted for giving heroin & opium stee^.^ with small glass partit• to a thousand ^^I.'s in Vietnam.!! ions tmXike the old facility Large cojyporations and the where there v/ere bars. ITB LIOHTNINQ Govt, Attacks On Working People Nixon Cuts Methadone Kills Housing $$$ Government Laughs mm Nixon's cutbacks on housing Presidential advisor and top affect both urban & rural hous• narcoticG offical Myles J. ing. Hly gUXdGltneg eliminate Ambrose said that illegal methad• all federal rent control and one cold In rhe erreere oan red- leave it to landlords to *'res- use f^rim^. 'le implied that the tirain themselves'* from Incre^- government wasn't trying to stop sins rents. sales of illegal methadone. He In the cltXQe there Is an admitted that some o£ it came 18 month hold on government from manufacturers such as Lilly, subsidising of new housing. What he failed to mention was This means a stop on housing that methadone also causes hund• for working people. reds of deaths. The government In New York City alone, says it's trying to stop crime plans for an estimated 20,000 but leaves drugs in our commun• public apartment units, due to be ities. built will have to be scrappedo The government nas shown once Now not only x^ill landlords raise again that it is not interested rents but you can't look forward in the lives of poor & working to move into new housing being people or in stopping the drug built. plague. Nixon has cut all chances people have to live in decent •WFlTjtsYSTeM Housing.

DECENT HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT! STOP NIXON'S CUTS! Nixon Cuts Sliotguns For Cops? Vets' Benefits The Nixon administration is fecently the police have been pushing to cut off millions of Peking to oa-riry ehotguns . They dollars in government benefits claim it is only to proteet them to disabled Vietnam veterans. selves from, sniper attacks. There The VGceran who lost a leg in the Vietnam jungle, for example, a cop killing someone with an could find disability benefits ill^g^l shotgun. for his family cut from $6,740 From a technical point of view to $1272 per year. The loss of P It Is outrageous. Shotguns are a leg at the hip is currently close quarter weapons not good counted as 90% disability but against snipers. The shells spread drops to 407« under the new plan. when fired and wQvld havo the ef• Some 240,000 disabled Korean fect of killing bystanders. The war veterans also may be subject police are trying to act like vie- to change. tims of unprovoked attacks. But Tha plan, drsfcod by cho Vet• erans Administration, would pro• bably go into effect July 1. v7e must unite to stop drug Nixon is always pretending to traffic and people who protect care about the POWS & returning it such as narcotics officials. soldiers from Vietnam, but these cuts show that his only concern BOYCOTT LILLY--STOP THE PLAGUE'. is for money--not people's lives. School Officials Rip-Off Funds Local school boards in the fare and conventions, including city have been charged with trips to Europe by District "widespread misuse'' of taxpayers Board Superintendent William money on such things as trips Dorney and 3 school personal. to Europe and expensive suits for board members. Meanwhile There was also $14,000 spent there is less and less money on ''parents' snacks." spent on educational services for the children. Schools have been forced to cut back on important services mis report to city Hall was such as free lunch programs for mad© after a 9 month investiga• poor children.The money that is not worried about the people's tion which concentrated on the available for education is lives but their o\m position. Bronx. ripped off by bureaucrats. It was found that in Distr• NO SHOTGUNS FOR THE POLICE I ict 8 in the East Bronx, $18,000 EDUCATE TO LIBERATEI WHO WILL POLICE THE POLICE? was spent on conferences, car• ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! IWHIT E LIGHTNING WHAT'S GOIN'ON More Guards At Don't Abuse Remember Malcolm X ''They always said that I'm anti- The Grapevine white. I'm for anybody who's for John Jay freedom-- I'm for anybody who's At a time when the teaching . for justice. I'm for anybody who's staff at John Jay High School Ig for equality. I'm not for anybody being cut back* the school has |who tells me to sit around and guardThis is in addition to wait for mine/' Malcolm X the guards who have been there for years* These guards act as police. The movements of students within the school & outside it are al• ways checked by guards who hassle thera by constantly demanding that they show program cards, BROTHERS*AITO^STE?S GIVE THE FIST r The news in the Grapevine comes from brothers & sisters in the community. It is important to tell us the truth and how things went down factually. To tell false stor^ ies is to misuse & abuse the peo• ple' s news^ It not only hurts the paper but the people• The paper is for the communities and is the only place we have to tell about Incldentfi th^t h^pp^n to ne. It is an alternative to people with bad housing^ hasocls in achools^ etc. Malcolm X The priority of the Board of Brothers & sisters, any news Born: May 19, 1925 that affects you, let White Education is not on teaching stu• Assassinated: Feb. 21, 1965 dents but on policing and control-Lightning know and we^ll print it, ing thornf Malcolm was a fighter for Th^ ^Amhlnarlon of poor quali• EDUCATE TO LIBERATE: ty ^ducdtion ^nd m^sslve security racism. He was also an inspira• forces in th^ schools c^n only tion £QX poor whites v7ho felt lead to Btudent rebellions. et^pp^d on 5^ w^ntQd fr^adom, Malcolm will bt5 remembered by WE DEMAND EDUCATION THAT RELATES Anyone who wants their freedom. TO OUR LIVESI Jhite Llghtnln.c> remembers Malcolm X. Boro Park

Tenants Council • Mail to: WHITE LIGHTNING • 109 East 184th Street A racially mixed group of ten• • Bronx, New York 10468 ants in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn have gotten together to J One Year Subscription $5.00 fight for decent housing and a£- * (12 issues) ainst slum landlords. 5 Pledges Up To $20.00 The name of their organization I NAME is the Boro Park Tenants Council and they publish a monthly news• ADDRESS letter. The newsletter features new Brother Makes I CITY & STATE developments in tenant^s struggle for decent housing, information • ZIP CODE on tenant's rights and stories & Boss Pay Brother Art lost a key to a Free to Political Prisoners and poems by tenants in the Brooklyn iG.I.'s and sisters and brothers community. truck at work and payed $5.00 to replace It. -His arrogant Iin therapeutic communities, DECENT HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHTl boss refuseQ to give hlni back SERVE THE PEOPLE the $5«00, saying, "Why should I ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! I pay for your mistake?" Art told l^im, "You make lots | of money off me every week. You ' only pa^f me $2.50 an hour, $75.00l a week. Then the boss decided | to pay the money to Art. j BODY AND SOUL! m ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLEI ' ••••

WHITE LIGHTNING US. PERSECUTES FOREIGN BORN

I From Sept. To Dec. Last Year U.S. immigration Agents Raided Subway Stations 14 Times in Hunt For illegal "Aliens"!

When the rich bosses pit Black On July 11, 1972, 35 Latin against White.(racist hiring Am6i?icans W6J?S arrested toy im• practices), men against women migration officers in Corona* (sexist hiring practices), Qu«eas. young against old(seniority On Oct, 16, 1972, downtown system). It has the same effeffiS. Manhattan, 10 carloads of people Workers are made to compete Jvtst •were taken away for questioning to get a Job and thus have lea's by Immigration agents. time to unite to fight for better On Dec. 12, 197'^, 64 persons working & living conditions. were arrested at a Queens subway station. In all cases the agents The bias against Foreign-Bom would check every "Foreign Born" workers is already obvious in 1he looking person and. if he or she words "Aliens" or "Illegal All- could not produce an Alien re• ens", The correct terras would gistration fSard they would be be, for Aliens: Immigrants, arrested & taken away for in• and for Illegal Aliens: Persons ter ogation. The arrests were Without Documents, and for both Justified by Immigration auth• categories. Foreign Born. orities on the grounds that so-called "Illegal Aliens" wer^ Another propaganda measure taking jobs away from american is the raids on the streets. workers. According to the law it is only But these are the an administrative violation for facts J cloae to 10 million am- a person without documents to erloans are unemployed. The work. The arrests are unconsti• number of so-called "Illegal tutional—the american conatit- Aliens" is estimated to be FOR 200 YEARS IMMIGRANTS H/.VS Cition Qoes not distinguish beV ween oitisena and non-citizens. 300,000 to 400,000, 97% of tth<«tt BEEN THE LIFEBLOOD OF THIS NA• are Mex^^jsaus^-in the south-west TION 1 Arrests must be based on "pro• 5g for $3.00 a day (after FOREIGN BORN COME HERE TO bable cause"; looking Foreign _»oam & board are deducted, it Born is "probable cause" enough amounts to ^1,251). Most "Ill• WORK FOR BETTER CONDITIONS FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR NEW Pe>r> a racist police state*B egal Aliens" are worwng una^r agents'. conditions and for wages no am- COUNTRY - NOT TO TAKE WORK eriaan'Mork©)? would aoo«pt. AWAY FROM AMERICAN WORKERS I

THE RICH BOSSES REGARD THE ANTI-"ALIEN" UWS SCAPEGOATS FOR A FOREIGN BORN AS A SOURCE OF CHEAP LABOR AND BY SPREADING CORRUPT SYSTEM The anti-alien legislation ANTI-"ALIEN" PROPAGANDA THEY started In another economically FORCE FOREIGN BORN TO ACCEPT troubled period in this country, In reality, these raids on SLAVE LABOR CONDITIONS! During the 30's, 70 anti-alien Foreign-Born serve several pur• bills were introduced in Congr• poses for the ruling class & IN THEIR GREEDY HUNT FOR PRO• ess—1940 saw the Alien Regis• the government of this country. FITS BIG BUSINESS IS DRAINING tration act passed; I950 saw THE US. OF IT'S i'ffiALTHl the Internal Security act reqiD- The goveimment is using il• iring "aliens" to register once legally working Foreign-Born as a year; In 1952 the Immigration scapegoats for its own failure TO CHANGE THIS WE MUST REALIZE & Nationality Act that required to stop inflation & unemployment THAT THE RICH BOSSES ARE OUR non-citizens to carry an alien The rich bosses use the raids to REAL ENEMY - AND ALL POOR registration card to be shown create an insecure and hostile AND WORKING PEOPLE - FOREIGN on demand to police & omclals atmosphere for the Foreign- BORN AND AMERICAN - ARE OUR was passed. Born worker so that in order REAL FRIENDS'. for him to hold a Job*at all he or she must accept slave LOVE THE PEOPLE - labor oonditiongi such as low AND FIGHT*. pay, hazardous working condit• ions, no benefits etc. Because ALL REAL FRIENDS UNITE*. cheap labor means more profits, FIGHT THE REAL ENEMY'. It must be understood that some bosses even move their most Foreign Born came to this businesses to countries such country in search of a better as Taiwan, Hong Kong, So. Korea, life. There is no going back! Japan. Workers here are often The fight for better conditions paid as low as$.09 an hourI In mostly Europeans who had to is the fight of the working this way, 125, 000 jobs have fight the same prejudices and class and it is going to take simply evaporated in New York the same police state methods — place right here with Americans alone. the Italians in the 80's, the and Foreign Bom fighting to• Irish In the 20»s, etc, Eur• gether J That's the way the u.s. opeans seem to be in secure was founded and that's the way PROPAGANDA TO DIVIDE positions now, but they are still it will grow. We must unite THE PEOPLE being excluded frcMti many jobs. Black & White, men & women, Using the Foreign-Bom as the young & old. Foreign Bom & reason for unemployment is Ju^ American so we can change this Most persons busted for one of the many ways propaganda imperialist system where pro- working without docu^aents are is spread in order to pit work• erty comes before life and Latin Americans, But history greed before love of the people* shows that in the past it was ing people against each other. ordi> 'presi/eTity can rSSe

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