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No. 419, January 9, 1987 25¢ WfJliliEIiSNo. 419 ''''''(J''II'~t~~ X-523 9 January 1987 Gun Control Kills Blacks! Mobilize Labor and Minorities to Stop Racist Attacks I WV Photo WV Photo Spartacist League" and NY Labor Spartacist League StJltement October 1985: SL protests South Black League protest Koch's rac­ Africa's executionof anti-apartheid ist killer cops,.september 1986. fighter Benjamin Malaise. DECEMBER 26-Last weekend the savagely beat three black men, killing youths. And only a half-hour after and stepfather and coworker Cedric Sandi­ racist punks that roam the Howard 23-year-old construction worker Mi­ one block away from the earlier assault ford, who told Newsday (22 December): Beach section of Queens went on a chael Griffith, driving him into the path in Howard Beach, two carloads of bat- "It was like a lynch mob. Like some­ bloody rampage. A gang of a dozen of an oncoming car. Three hours earlier "wielding thugs beat up a white fireman thing that would happen in the days of punks, screaming racist epithets and in neighboring Ozone Park another after trying to run him over. Assaulted slavery." wielding baseball bats and sticks, racist gang attacked two Hispanic along with Michael Griffith was his continued on page 8 • • nc In In New York City is at the flash point. The other two were hounded past booked, a crowd outside the Ozone Michael Griffith, a young black con­ nativity scenes and trapped at the fence Park/Howard Beach stationhouse struction worker, was murdered by a along the Shore Parkway where they cheered. The next weekend, as black racist lynch mob; now his two surviving were clubbed with bats and a tree limb. preachers and politicians called a march companions are getting a lynching by Cedric Sandiford, 36, survived by to the pizza parlor, hundreds of white the courts, the media and the racist feigning·unconsciousness. But 23-year­ racists turned out to taunt the marchers. politicians, while the murderers go free. old Griffith was chased onto the It was entrenched Northern-style segre­ Howard Beach, a white ethnic enclave in parkway where he was struck by an gation that fueled this murderous Queens, has become synonymous with onrushing car and killed. rampage. When the protesters chanted, the racist terror inflicted on minorities The working people of this city must "Howard Beach, have you heard, this is in Reagan's America. For years, Mayor share the grief and anger ofthe family of not Johannesburg," the mob responded Koch and his killer cops have whipped Michael Griffith at this wanton racist "Bullshit!" .. up the bigots with their wanton, mur­ killing. Representatives of the Sparta­ After first comparing the Howard derous attacks on minorities. And now cist League and Partisan Defense Beach murder to a racial lynching, now the machinery of state-D.A., judge, Committee attended the funeral services Koch is leading the lynch mob. So when mayor, governor-is proving once in solidarity. Griffith's stepfather and coworker San­ again that there is no justice for black After the pumped-up punks killed diford denounced the official handling people in this racist system. Griffith they cruised the neighborhood of the case and refused to testify for the Just after midnight December 20 in boasting of their crime. When the cops "prosecution," Koch obscenely called Howard Beach, a racist pack set upon finally got" around to picking up the this refusal "another type of hit and run MICHAEL GRIFFITH the three black men who had walked lynch mob, the murderers "showed no operation." According to Newsday (31 1963 - 1986 into the 98 percent white neighborhood remorse," even admitting they were out December 1986), on the MacNeil­ after their car broke down. They were to kill. Koch and the media insist that Lehrer Newshour, "Koch said the UPI brutally beaten leaving a pizza parlor. "the community" is not to blame. But as refusal by Sandiford to cooperate was Timothy Grimes managed to escape.. three of the killers were led off to be perhaps worse than the attack itself"! people.t'-A similar call was raised at the The victims are now being pilloried, December 29 New York port meeting along with their lawyers. Koch's black of the National Maritime Union by police commissioner Benjamin Ward a member of the Militant-Solidarity denounced Sandiford's attorney Alton Caucus. Maddox, claiming he was looking for a Legal Lynching fat fee in a future civil suit. The Spartacist League responded to The legal persecution of the black the atrocity in Howard Beach with a victims began as soon as the racist mob leaflet (see above) demanding: "Mobi­ was finished with its deadly work. At a lize Laborand Minorities to Stop Racist January 3 press conference in Harlem, Attacks!" Ourcall, reprinted (with some Cedric Sandiford described what hap­ excisions) in the Black American (I Jan­ pened when the cops arrived. "When Mob of racist uary), urged the formation o("integrat­ thugs in Howard they took me off the highway, they were Beach. ed armed workers defense guards, telling me about a crime committed in drawn from responsible union men and Queens. I was trying to tell them about women" to patrol the streets where the beating the mob was giving us and Griffith was attacked and killed. NYC the death of Michael Griffith but no one transit militants of the Committee for a seemed to care anything about it. AH Fighting TWU issued a leaflet noting, they were concerned with was some "If Michael Griffith had a gun at least he robbery. After taking me to where might be alive today. But he might also .Michael was killed, they took off my be in jail. The anti-gun laws are killing coat 'and searched me.... At that time black people." The CFTWU called for nobody offered any medical attention to "a caravan of flatbed trucks filled with me. I was bleeding in my head, my eyes integrated union defense squads, to and my legs and back were swollen and SEE PAGE SIX patrol Howard Beach to ensure that this severely beaten. I stood out there for neighborhood is . safe for all working continued on page 7 a new man,''' Poindexter said.... 'Of Nevertheless, I helped them, as I felt it to course, Cuba's a long way from that, be my duty to help those in need if it was Parti§au Defeu§e you know.' "Poindexter said society may appear to in my capacity to do so." have moved on to a new agenda since It is the duty of the workers move­ £o......ittee the I960s, but underlying problems ment to fight for Ed Poindexter's im­ remain. mediate freedom. It is criminal for this '''It's not just a racist society,' he said. class-war prisoner to spend another day 'It's a class society. Where you find a racial problem, you'll also find some­ behind bars. Free Ed Poindexter Now! thing just as serious on a level that has nothing to do with race. Class against * * * class. Capitalist interest versus the Free Black Militant .. people'." MOVE member Ramona Africa told us last week she has been denied parole When the PDC asked Ed if there was for her "unwillingness to comply with Ed Poindexter! a holiday gift he would like, he told us he special condition of parole that you not had depleted his funds to buy an associate with the MOVE organization Ed Poindexter was framed up and "[After four years in prison including electronic keyboard for a friend's 10­ in any way...." The Board told Ramona year-old daughter. We sent Ed $50 to sentenced to life imprisonment in 1971, some time in the hole] 'I tried to stop her case will not be reviewed again until being so bitter.' help pay for this generous gift. following an explosion which killed "What followed for Poindexter was an October 1987. Protest this outrage! an Omaha, Nebraska cop. As former Prison walls have not stopped Ed Send telegrams to: Herman Tartler, intense analysis and exploration of the Poindexter's activities on behalf of oth- leaders of the National Committee to world's religious and psychological Board Secretary, Pennsylvania Board Combat Fascism, a successor organiza­ disciplines and a survey of knowledge in of Probation and Parole, 3103 N. Front tion of the Black Panther Party, Ed and a range of subjects .... Street, Harrisburg, PA 17110. '''I no longer subscribe personally to David Rice were targets of the racist any particular religion, but recognize COINTELPRO conspiracy to destroy the beauty in all of them as well as the * * * the Panthers and their supporters. Since commonalities they all share,' he The PDC holiday fund appeal has June, both Poindexter and Rice have said.... "He spent six years in the service where, raised over $400, receiving contribu­ been among the class-war prisoners he said, he encountered racism despite tions from three continents. This has to whom the PDC sends monthly an initial desire to make the Army a enabled us to send additional monies to stipends. career. He left the Army and returned to class-war prisoners and holiday gifts to Ed was able to transfer to a prison in Omaha, where he became an active their family and friends. Minnesota to further his education, and leader in the struggle for civil rights." is working 01). a master's degree in man­ Poindexter was convicted on the * * * agement of instructional systems, while testimony of 15-year-old Duane Peak, The PDe has published the third also writing movie scripts. He recently who admitted placing the bomb and issue of our newsletter, sent us a profile of himself which calling police to the scene.
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