BOSTON-Black Students Have Braved Racist Abuse to Attend the NAACP, Which Has Been in the Forefront of the Fight for Desegregated Education
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DECEMBER 19, 1975 25 CENTS VOLUME 39/NUMBER 47 A SOCIALIST NEWSWEEKLY/PUBLISHED IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING PEOPLE [The following statement was re leased December 10 by Peter Camejo and Willie Mae Reid, Socialist Workers party candidates for president and vice president.] Early this morning racist opponents of desegregation fire bombed the office of the~ NAACP in Boston. The home of a Black minister was also fire bombed. The terrorists struck in retaliation against yesterday's decision by a federal judge to take South Boston High School out of the hands of the Boston School Committee, which has done everything in its power to block court-ordered desegregation. [See news story on page 4.] The night-riding terror squads of the antibusing movement have thus served notice once again that they will resort to any means-including murderous violence-to deny Black students the right to attend desegregated schools in Boston. These outrageous attacks must be met with a nationwide outpouring of solidarity with Militant/Jon Hillson BOSTON-Black students have braved racist abuse to attend the NAACP, which has been in the forefront of the fight for desegregated education. They desegregated schools. Court order taking 'Southie' High out of must be met with demands that Boston hands of all-white school committee has been met with renewed Mayor Kevin White arrest and prosecute the antibusing violence. Continued on page 10 -PAGE 3 THIS \ WEEK'S In Brief ' MILITANT CALIF. STUDENTS PROTEST ARMED CAMPUS December 8, nine elections for union representation have 3 Women unionists debate COPS: Students at the Chico and Sonoma campuses of been held. With th~ UFW victorious in eight, the ninth has future of CLUW California State University are protesting the recent been challenged because of grower intimidation and decision to arm all campus police. Under the chancellor's harassment of the UFW and its supporters. Two of the UFW 4 Boston racists bomb order, all cops in the state university system are now victories were on ranches previously under Teamster office of NAACP required to carry guns. In Sonoma, twenty-five students contract. The drive was spurred by a fiesta in Calexico on 5 What good are Black were arrested in a sit-in at the administration building December 7. Conducted entirely in Spanish, the day-long elected officials? December 5. More than 200 Chico students continue a sit-in affair rallied 1,000 of the area's farm workers. begun Decemb€r 3. In a referendum on the second and third Meanwhile, in Los Angeles County, the UFW and its 6 Demand grows for new days of the Chico sit-in, 89 percent of students voting supporters will begin a march December 14 to publicize and inquiry into King murder demanded that campus police not be armed. Students are win support in the struggle to win union contracts. The 7 Future of unions considering further actions on a statewide level to pressure march will take participants from the San Fernando Valley state administrators when campuses open again in Janu through key areas of ·Los Angeles and will culminate in the at stake in N.Y. C .. ary. barrio of East Los Angeles with a rally on December 20. 8 Tribute to Filipino farm workers PGH. TEACHERS FIGHT STRIKEBREAKING: On 'NO HIKE, NO WAY,' SAY MD. STUDENTS: Chanting strike since December 1, Pittsburgh teachers now face a new "No hike, no way," more than 300 students at the 9 Interview with leader of strikebreaking tactic by the board of education. The board is University of Maryland Baltimore County campus picketed 'Washington Post' strike trying to force students and substitute teachers to scab by a Maryland Board of Regents meeting November 21. The 13 Atlanta Black students: setting up "special centers" for seniors at three city high regents voted in September to increase undergraduate 'Why we joined YSA' schools. Students who do not attend "classes" at the tuition next year by sixty dollars, making it one of the centers, the board claims, will not graduate next June. The highest for state universities in the country. Although the 14 Camejo confronts Democrats Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers has denounced .the tuition hike was not on the agenda, the regents reluctantly at Ma_ss. gathering board's actions in "educating students to be strikebreakers" agreed to hear Jack Neil, vice-president of the Student and has promised to mobilize several hundred teachers in Government Association, speak in opposition to the in 15 Cuban exile convicted in picket lines around the three schools. crease. attack on Coral forum The action's organizer, the Student Coalition Against 16 Portugal: junta steps up CIA RECRUITER SPARKS MICH. PROTESTS: A CIA Tuition Hikes, plans more activities for the spring semester. attacks on workers recruiter on campus touched off a series of protests at Among proposals being considered is a statewide march on Michigan State University in East Lansing November 19- the state capitol in Annapolis. 18 Spanish worke-rs, 20. A rally and picket line on the first day was joined by 300 students demand rights students. One of the most popular slogans was, "Out now! CONGRESS VOTES UP ANTIBUSING BILL: , Con Out now! CIA off campus!" The next day students held a sit gress has passed a bill prohibiting the Department of 28 Who ordered CIA in and speak-out inside the placement center, where· they Health, Education and Welfare from ordering busing to to kill Castro? demanded to speak with the CIA recruiter. The recruiter told achieve school desegregation. The antibusing measure, part campus officials, however, that he had been given "strict of a bill giving · $45 billion to HEW and the Labor 2 In Brief instructions" not to speak with any large group of students. Department, now goes to President Ford. He's expected to veto it-only because it's more money than he had recom 10 In Our Opinion At a meeting of the school's board of trustees November mended. -Nancy Cole Letters 21, students presented a letter pointing to the recent revelations of CIA assassination plots and demanding that 11 National Picket Line the trustees end MSU complicity with the CIA. By Any Means Necessary CLEMENCY BAIT REJECTED BY JOHN ARTIS: 12 Women In Revolt John Artis has rejected a state maneuver to pit him against Their Government Hurricane Carter. The two were framed up for a 1966 triple Our party· is ;La Raza en Acci6n! murder in a New Jersey tavern. Appointed in September to 25 In Review: 'Money' investigate the murders, state legislator Eldridge Hawkins recently promised Artis "immediate clemency so [he] can be your part~ tool WORLD OUTLOOK home by Christmas." The only catch was that Artis would 19 Lisbon's assa_ult on have to sign a confession placing both himself and Carter democratic rights outside the tavern on the night of the killings, thus only "conspiring" to commit the murders. "I won't sign the 20 Interview with Jiri statement," said Artis, "because it's not true." Pelikan on Czech dissident movement ACLU SUES FBI: The American Civil Liberties Union filed a class-action lawsuit in Philadelphia December 2 21 Iranian author denounces seeking an end to all FBI Cointelpro-type activities. The suit shah's terrorism points to the harassment of Black activist Muhammad Kenyatta while working with the Jackson, Mississippi, Human Rights Project at Tougaloo College in 1969. In THE MILITANT addition, it requests $125,000 in damages for each of the VOLUME 39/NUMBER 47 victims of 362 separate Cointelpro actions. DECEMBER 19, 1975 CLOSING NEWS DATE-DEC. 10 FBI TURNS OVER 'HOODWINK' FILES: The FBI released files under the Freedom of Information Act Editor: MARY-ALICE WATERS YOU HAVE BEEN READING THE MILITANT and know it as December 5 on its Cointelpro operation known as "Hood Managing Editor: LARRY SEIGLE the newspaper that fights for the interests of working people. Business Manager: ROSE OGDEN wink." According to the FBI, it was "a long-range program The Militant presents the views of the Socialist Workers party. Southwest Bureau: HARRY RING to disrupt the Communist Party of the United States by If you agree with what we say, now is the time for you to join Washington Bureau: CINDY JAQUITH setting it against La Costra Nostra (LCN)." It included the SWP .... 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