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Pigs Roll Tank On Lower East Side Squatters Fight Back Thirty-one people were arrested after a twelve hour street battle with riot cops and machine-gun toting SWAT teams trying to evict three squatted buildings on East 13th Street. May 29, 3:05pm: It was like the Battle of Berlin, March 1945. Com- munity defenders and squatters worked furiously around the clock in preparation for a promised mass evic- tion set for 4:00 the following morn- ing. The sounds of chainsaws and generators filled the air as bikes and obstacles were welded to fire escapes. Windows and doors blocked, barrica- ded and welded shut. Building joists cut to size to block doors shut. Razor wire wrapped around scaffolding. Poles to push away police ladders. Booby traps throughout each building with large warning signs for the ex- pected invaders. A dead car stood by parked at the curb for later use.

CITY USES VACATE ORDERS TO CIRCUMVENT LEGAL PROCESS In the middle of ongoing eviden- tiary hearings brought by the squat- ters against the city, the Department of Buildings suddenly issued orders to vacate 541 and 545 East 13th Street and the ground floor of 539, based on 1 CHRIS FLASH non-existent "dangerous" conditions. After the vacate orders were nullified ALSO INSIDE: in court, the city obtained an Appel- late Division ruling that supported the MUMIA ABU JAMAL DEATH WARRANT SIGNED squatters' case while giving the city the ability to vacate the buildings INTERVIEW WITH DHORUDA DIN WAHAD until a later decision could be made PIGS CRASH PUERTO RICAN DAY PARTY WITH CLUDS AND GAS by the court. (For more on the court case, see SHADOWS #34 + #35) UK SQUATTERS VS. CRIMINAL INJUSTICE RILL See SQUATTERS FIGHT FASCIST MILITIAS AND THE GOVERNMENT On Page 4 BLOCKHEADS CLOSE LA PLAZA CULTURAL

% Centro de Documentação e Apoio à Pesquisa cm 3 4 5 unesp Cedap !0 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 25 29 SHADOW #36~(JUNE/AUG.1995) PAGE 2 We should however take the "anti- government" credentials of the militia demogogues with a grain of salt, how- ever. These wannabe Hitlers capitalize on people's honest distmst of govern- ment policies to set up the putsch that YELLOW RIBBON OF TERROR has stuck its nose in more people's busi- will put them in charge of the govern- ness than at any time in Amerikan his- ment. The Amerikan Nazi bible called By A Kronstadt tory. That supposed friend of the poor the Turner Diaries ends with white su- It is hard to condemn other human carried out from the turret of his man, Bill Clinton, has continued the premists taking over the government beings for talcing up arms in their own armored behemoth with little danger of trend, established by his predecessors and killing all the mud people and race defense; but it is hard to defend those being killed himself, because the Iraqis Reagan and Bush, of locking poor traitors, just like in Germany. Militia who commit aggression in the name of had few weapons capable of destroying people up intead of offering them fuhrers like Bo Gritz tell their followers bigotry. Oklahoma City mass murder a Bradley. opportunities. With a percent of our to hate the government because it is run suspects Timothy McVeigh and Terry Timothy McVeigh was not punished population already behind bars, the by Jews and protects niggers. They warn Nichols are no freedom fighters. They for what he did in the Persian Gulf. He government offers not classrooms or the rednecks that Bill Clinton is coming are Nazis. They believe that they belong was paid a salary by the Government, useful work opportunities but more jail to prevent them from dumping their to a master race and have the right to and in the end he was given a medal. cells. The Republikan promise of get- septic tanks in the river and Hillary is decide who will live and who will die. Fools festooned themselves with yellow ting government off our backs has going to make them stop beating their They and their cothinkers have a burn- ribbons throughout the country in hope turned into a lie for the common con- wives. The freedom that they crave is ing hatred for non-white people in of his safe return. The news of the war servative, and the Demokratic promise unrestrained patriarchal, white colonial general, immigrants in particular. Far was transmitted to Amerikans through of a free and civilized society has turned settler freedom. They'll restore slavery if from being the action of an anarchist, the slitty eyes of men like McVeigh— into a lie for the common liberal. These we let them get away with~as far as the Oklahoma bombing was a very "let's kill 'em all quick and get the job lies are making the number of people these neo-confederates go, that's free- government-like act. This does not done." The flaming human entrails, the who hate the government grow. There is dom with a capital "S." (necessarily) mean that any current men disfigured for life, blinded—you no easy stereotype for people who hate Aside from the literal loss of life, the government official ordered the were not allowed to see these things; the government. Some of us are tragedy of the Oklahoma City bombing bombing—but no one can deny that only the "professionals" like McVeigh thoughtful, others stupid and mean. is that the people who did it are not the Timothy McVeigh's habit of killing need to see the gory details in this most Some of us try to win over people's ones who will pay in the end. With the people with explosives developed while modern of wars. When several minds and create alternatives to govern- Omnibus Anti-Terrorism Bill winding he was a soldier in the United States SHADOW readers and writers plas- ment. Others, like Timothy McVeigh its way through Congress-it looks like Army. tered Manhattan with posters depicting are trained as professional killers and immigrants are going to take the rap for The Oklahoma bombing is really a a hideously burned Iraqi soldier crawl- will go out and kill somebody. McVeigh's misdeed. Under this bill, the sequel to the Persian Gulf war, of which ing out of a bunker-it could have been In response to the Oklahoma blast, answer to the terrorism of lily-white Timothy McVeigh is a decorated hero. one of McVeigh's rockets that did it~we the government is now seeking to ban immigrant-hating racists is to make it First of all, it proves that those of us were called "extremists." To show the bomb recipes from the Internet~but possible to deport immigrants without who protested the assembly-line slaugh- horrors of war those early months of there is no evidence that McVeigh or due process of law. Thus, if Timothy ter in the Gulf were right. When, in 1991 made you an extremist, to inflict his alleged cohorts got their deadly McVeigh's life is painlessly snuffed out January 1991, the Shadow editors and them made you a hero. knowledge from the Internet. The by lethal injection at the government's colleagues dumped a pile of pork guts A hundred and sixty dead people government is now seeking ways to new $350,000 death chamber, he will in front of the NBC offices and set the was probably about a days work for restrict the use of encrypted computer die a successful martyr. His icon will mess abaze with lighter fluid to demon- Timothy McVeigh in those heady data and phone calls, although no one hang on the wall of a hundred thousand strate the effects of war on humans—we months. What happens to a man's mind claims that any of the parties to the bonehead homes as the man who made were accused of being violent. "Violent," when he does such things, day in and bombing communicated with encrypted it easy for the government to deport the they said. While our pile of pig entrails day out for three months? Is it sur- data. The government is using the spooks back to Haiti and the bean smouldered in the middle of 57th street, prising that he should return to the bombing as an excuse to strip immi- eaters back to Guatamala. Not a bad Timothy McVeigh was sitting in the gun United States and continue his killing grants of the right to due process, end for a fascist pig! turret of a gigantic Bradley armored career. Once a man has been trained in though no immigrants were involved in the bombing~in fact the people who did COPY AND SUBSCRIPTION RATES: vehicle sending blazing human entrails mass killing, do you think that a mere FIRST CLASS-$2.00/COPY, $15 FOR 10 ISSUES flying in all directions. McVeigh's job difference in nationality—a piece of the bombing hate immigrants. Govern- BULK RATE-$1.00/COPY, $10 FOR 10 ISSUES during the war was to operate a huge paper that says somebody is an Ameri- ment officials are doing everything but CANADA/MEXICO-$2.00/COPY BY AIR asking themselves why people hate FOREIGN-$2.00/COPY BY SEA machine gun, a cannon, and four rocket kan and not an Iraqi—is going to stop •PLEASE SPECIFY METHOD OF DELIVERY WHEN ORDERING launchers mounted on the Bradley, a him from killing again? Is the demoniza- them. People hate the State because COPIES OR SUBSCRIPTIONS. multimillion dollar high-tech vehicle tion of "mud people" and "race trai- government has become a purely nega- (FIRST CLASS/AIR MAIL IS MUCH FASTER) tive force in most people's lives. THE SHADOW IS 50 CENTS LOCALLY, $1.00 OUTSIDE NEW designed to break through fortifications tors"—spewed forth by McVeigh's Nazi YORK CITY, AND $2.00 FOR PIGS EVERYWHERE. such as those built by the Iraqi army in gurus—really that different from the Government in 1995 comes bearing (•PLEASE DO NOT REQUEST AN ISSUE WITHOUT SENDING US PAYMENT FIRSTII) Kuwait. When the Iraqi fortifications demonization of Iraqis by the U.S. neither relief from poverty, nor educa- were breached, McVeigh would open media during the Persian Gulf war? If tion, nor health care-it comes bearing BACK ISSUES: A COMPLETE LIST OF SHADOW BACK fire on the men inside as they tried to they are convinced that surveillance will guns and handcuffs. From the inner city ISSUES CAN BE HAD FOR A SELF-ADDRESSED STAMPED to the boondocks-government is per- ENVELOPE OR TWO STAMPS. THE SHADOW AND ALL flee. 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% Centro de Documentação e Apoio à Pesquisa unesp Cedap 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 25 29 SHADOW #36--(JUNE/AUG.1995) PAGE 3 everyone began to move towards Park that students not be allowed to continue Row. As night fell, the group left the area their hunger protest overnight. without further incident. The student government is housed in the NAC building and is given permis- 43 HUNGER STRIKING sion to use the building at all times. STUDENTS ARRESTED BY Among the arrested hunger strikers CAMPUS SECURITY FORCE were two student government officers, On Tuesday, April 11, the City Col- Malik Small, President of the Day lege security "peace" officers arrested 43 Student Government (and son of CCNY students conducting a peaceful hunger Professor James Small), and Tyler Hem- strike to protest the Governor's pro- ingway, the President of the Graduate posed budget cuts to the CUNY system. Student Government. In solidarity with The students held their hunger strike in the group, they allowed themselves to the open rotunda in the North Academic be arrested as well. Center (NAC), a large building which is usually open to students around the clock. Yolanda Moses, President of City College, entered the NAC at midnight to announce that the building was closed and to order the arrest of all students choosing to remain there. With media observing, the special campus security team used their power of arrest to cart CITY UNIVERSITY STUDENTS off the students to the 24th police pre- cinct on West 100th Street where the PROTEST BUDGET CUTS: fifteen women and twenty-eight men PIGS SQUELCH FREE SPEECH!! were held all night until being released A Chronology of Protest Special Report From Coalition Press 12,000 STUDENTS PROTEST AT beaten and thrown to the ground. A rep- CITY HALL-70 ARRESTED resentative from City Council Member In the largest student demonstration Tom Duane's office was hit and shoved in years, twelve thousand students to the pavement and then told to get out swarmed over City Hall Park on Thurs- of the street. One police officer was hit day, March 23, to protest New York on his helmet with an army helmet Governor George Pataki's budget, which wielded by a student in the crowd. The calls for 25% funding cuts in city and officer was knocked unconcious by the state colleges and the reduction of finan- blow and had to be dragged off by his cial aid. CUNY (City University of New fellows. York) students were joined by thou- When the skirmish calmed and the sands of high school students, faculty attacking police were called away, the and staff members and students from crowd resumed its peaceful march private colleges. 60% of CUNY and around City Hall. As the marchers ap- SUNY (State University of New York) are proached full circle at the stage area, women and minorities and 50% come some gathered at the barricades at from households with family incomes be- Broadway and demanded to be allowed low $22,000 annually. (A smaller demon- to cross the street. The police gathered stration at NY's Hunter College resulted on the opposite side of the barricade, in a police attack on students.) shoulder to shoulder, about four bodies PIGS WRESTLE WITH BARRICADES Although the organizers of the rally, deep and pushed the barricades against the CUNY Coalition Against the Budget the protesters who, however, refused to at eight o'clock in the morning. All were From Coalition Press (CUNY charged with criminal trespass, a "B" Cuts, had announced its peaceful inten- give ground. Although rally leaders student activist journal) c/o the tions and had called upon the police in misdemeanor. Upon being released, the using bullhorns urged the students to Advocate, CUNY Graduate Center, letters to the Mayor and the Police Com- back away from the barricades, students students quietly returned to City College 33 West'42nd Street, New York, missioner to respect that peaceful intent, continued to gather to help keep the to continue their hunger strike. New York, 10036 (212) 642-2852. the police-in full force of astounding barricades back. The students and po- NYPD riot police had also been called numbers including riot police and police lice engaged in a ten minute face off onto campus but remained outside the For up to the minute Info, call mounted on horses-were given orders with the barricade between them. The building. This was the first time CUNY CUNY Coalition Against The Cuts to barricade the crowd in order to for- police began to shove the barricades security has arrested students. The at: (212) 642-2549. cibly prevent a march out of the City Hall over, entrapping students who were police-trained security team is an inno- GOT A T/PPP/^ area to Wall Street. Under these orders, sandwiched between their comrades on vation of Chancellor Reynolds in re- the police refused every attempt on the their side and the advancing police on sponse to the 1991 CUNY-wide take- part of groups and individuals to leave the other. The situation nearly resulted in overs. (See SHADOW #17-Ed.) the rally area for whatever reason. The serious injuries ironically prevented only The following day, President Moses police refused even to accommodate by the escalation of the police assault: explained that she had ordered the children's groups from elementary they sprayed the crowd with pepper gas arrests to prevent a building takeover. schools brought by their teachers. All causing sudden dispersal and confusion However, it was pointed out to her that exits were forcibly closed to keep the in the crowd, during which they made the students had made no attempt to crowd penned in. further arrests. close the building nor exclude anyone Violence erupted when the police The crowd, which had intended to from entering. Nevertheless, she insisted allowed a small group to begin a march gather peacefully and was not prepared north onto Chambers Street, then closed for these assaults, gradually backed off them off from their fellow protesters, with the arrival of the mounted police. surrounded them, and began to arrest Several school contingents then left the them without warning. Many in the park and headed to Borough of Manhat- group, among them a faculty Chair from tan Community College. There they re- City College in cap and gown, then sat grouped and headed to 1 Police Plaza down in sign of passive protest but were where many of the arrested students arrested anyway. were being held. After the initial violence subsided, the The protest then continued with police at the corner of Chambers and speakers using a small megaphone. As Broadway indicated that the demonstra- the speakers walked away from the tors should march to the east around area, they were arrested for using a City Hall. As they proceeded to march in bullhorn without a permit. Among the this direction, they encountered more speakers arrested was the faculty Chair police who were not informed that the from City College who had only mo- marchers had been told by the western- ments before been released from jail on most police contingent to proceed. his arrest at the City Hall rally site. The These officers pushed angrily into the by now modest crowd, which contained crowd, instigating further violence and many high school students, was almost making more arrests. Police hit indis- outnumbered by riot police. Observing criminately at women and men, hitting these arrests, the group decided that it one woman with a billy club who was would leave en masse to prevent any- loudly screaming that she was pregnant. one from being singled out for arrest. Several members of the press were After several more speakers were heard, WOMAN KNOCKED UNCONSCIOUS BY PIGS

% Centro de Documentação e Apoio à Pesquisa 23456789 unesp Cedap !0 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 25 29 PHADOW #36~(JUNE/AUG.1995) PAGE 4 SQUATTERS FIGHT EVICTIONS TALES OF THE TRIAL: BY PARAMILITARY PIGS!! Cops Abuse Reporters At Squat Eviction By Chris Flash By Paul DeRienzo It was noon in Justice Elliot Wilk's by venerable WNBC reporter Gabe corner of 13th Street + Avenue B and courtroom at State Supreme Court on Pressman to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani halfway up the block toward Avenue A. A June 12 and the judge was visibly and Police Commissioner William Brat- "Expect a cast of thousands"-- few cop cars arrived at 1:40 and watched perturbed. A witness who had been sub- ton. The letter, written with New York NYPD tipster to 13th Street helplessly as the barricading continued poenaed to testify wasn't present on the Press Club President and WCBS repor- squatters the day before the under their noses. More pigs arrived and witness stand ~ as he should have ter Deborah Wetzel, stated that what evictions. fled when they smelled the heavily gas- been. Prompting Stanley Cohen, an happened "was not in keeping with the The squatter community was tipped off soaked barricades. Music blared from attorney for the 13th Street Homestead- tradition of the relationship between N to the coming raid by two sources: a Bob Dylan and the Clash on squatter ers Association, to ask for a moment to police and press in New York." Press- ranking NYPD cop who knew the evic- stereo speakers as the number of defen- make a phone call. When Cohen re- man and Wetzel wrote that the three re- tions would be illegal and a source ders in the street increased. turned, he told the astonished judge the porters had press cards issued by the connected to HPD (Department of Hous- Cops were unable to respond to the witness wasn't coming to court because police and were on the rooftop overlook- ing, Preservation and Development). street action in force since their back-ups his lawyers said he didn't have to. ing the eviction with the permission of a As the building defenses were fortified, wouldn't arrive until at least 4:00am. Cap- The missing witness was writer and building resident who was also forced to some residents moved their most valued tain Conroy confirmed this at 2:30 when reporter John DeSantis and his attor- lie prone at gun point with the reporters. possessions to safe locations to later he was overheard by the SHADOW telling neys are from the legal department of Police claimed they were just trying to rejoin the work crews and put their Inspector Seta on his cell phone: "I have his boss, The New York Times. DeSantis "insure the safety of reporters" when bodies on the line when needed. An ar- very little manpower." After Conroy and was one of four persons, including two they ordered the press into "pens" far mada of moving vans and trucks loaded other ranking cops negotiated with photographers, who were on a roof away from where more than 200 cops belongings as squatters and their neigh- Stanley Cohen, some people agreed to overlooking the evictions of 13th Street were arresting 31 squatters as they bors hugged each other. Neighborhood douse the car with water and sand. squatters on May 30 when they were or- forced open their buildings. Police press kids hung out in front of the squatter bike By 3:20, the stand-off continued as the dered to lie flat on their stomachs by officers said the police "followed stan- shop at 539, using the free tools and parts number of squatters and their supporters gun wielding police officers. The Times dard procedure and as soon they [the to assemble and fix their bikes, seemingly in the street grew. Police moles told the reporter, who has also written books on reporters] were identified, they were unaware of the desperate activity around SHADOW that the head pigs were fright- police misconduct, recounted the story escorted away." But Pressman and Wet- them. Banners draped from buildings ened, unprepared for such an angry and at a protest on June 10. Two days later, zel say that they couldn't recall "any read: "This is an Illegal and Unjust Evic- organized response. Reconnaissance crews he received a subpoena to testify in the precedent for the procedure followed tion," "MOVE," + "Home Sweet Home." reported that only 25 or so cops were mo- squatters case. that morning." They complained that "the By 4:30, many joined the fortification ailized on 14th Street, versus the 80-100 DeSantis told Cohen and several by- attitude of the police was arrogant and effort. Food Not Bombs set up a food people on the streets and in the buildings. standers that police officers in military obstructionist," and their letter added: line and quickly fed everyone. Plain- Several layers of barriers were set up style jackets and helmets with 9mm pis- "It's time for drastic action." clothes cops passed by watching the activ- along 13th Street. tols drawn ordered him to first lie flat on Freelance photographer Q. Sakamaki ity, followed by a Fox-TV news truck At 4:00, recon crews reported that his stomach and then to get up. DeSan- testified in Judge Wilk's court on June shortly after. Inside, the homesteaders' more than 200 pigs in riot gear had tis said his awkward position leaning 12 before DeSantis was due. He told the legal committee was busily preparing arrived on 14th St. Reconners reported over the parapet of the building prevent- SHADOW: "Police press liaison came to motion papers to present in court the two buses full of riot pigs were deployed ed him from moving fast enough and me and gave me a kind of warning that following morning. along the 10th Street side of Tompkins the officers grabbed him by the scruff of when the action started I'd have to leave Later that evening, a violent thunder- Square Park half an hour later. Five head the neck. In pulling him up, they slashed the scene." Sakamaki was determined to storm with heavy rain came as movers pigs with binoculars were then spotted on the inside of his arm against an exposed get his pictures, so he found a tenant of continued getting stuff out. By midnight, it the roof of a high rise apartment building roof nail. a residential building across the street ended, allowing preparations to continue overlooking 13th St. Although reported on local radio sta- from the evictions who gave him permis- as cop cars kept passing by. Legal co-or- By 5:00, flares were lit as pigs set up tions, news of the gun pointing incident sion to enter the building and go the dinator Peter Spagnuolo went on Paul police lines at 13th + A, 12th + B and didn't make a splash until a June 9 See TALES OF THE TRIAL On Next Pag DeRienzo's WBAI-FM radio show to tell 14th + B. A metal jam then began in the Newsday_column reporting a letter sent New Yorkers what was about to happen middle of the block. A pig barrier truck on 13th Street. Completely broke, he was passing 13th + A was descended upon by given a free ride back to the squats by a a media mob and attacked by the angry cabbie listening to the show. crowd. News trucks from Fox and Chan- As 1:00am approached, welding crews nels 4 + 7 were on the scene. had to speed up their progress, but were At 5:30, the metal jam was going unable to weld some apartment doors strong, with neighbors joining in. Riot pigs since the frames were either too thin or in formation marched toward squats from of an incompatible metal. Soon, the call Ave. A, as some gained access to roof- came for all those who were staying inside tops. Defenders reinforced their positions to lock themselves in. The three buildings with added manpower, chanting "No were then sealed and welded shut. It was Pasaran, No Police State," while maintain- decided that the squatters would try to ing their positions at the Ave. B barri- hold off the evictions as long as possible, cades. Special riot cops in navy blue fa- giving their attorneys Jackie Bukowski tigues and combat boots appeared. Large and Stanley Cohen time to get a court gas cannisters and gas masks- as well as order the following morning to stop the plastic strips (used in place of hand cuffs) evictions. were attached to their belts. They ad- Outside, the dead car was turned up- vanced slightly toward one of the barri- side down and pushed into the street. cades near Ave. A. Rather than retreat, Gasoline was poured all over it. Heavy the very angry crowd advanced toward barricades consisting of joists, garbage them, with sticks in hand, continuing the ■ % dumpsters, old stoves, appliances and metal jam. The pigs quickly stopped and bags full of garbage were erected at the took to nearby rooftops instead. A Mutt + Jeff team from the office of pig detective kept asking people if the Deputy Commissioner for Public Info squatters inside had any guns, explosives (DCPI) walked up to media people with or weapons. press passes and told them that they As of 6:00, cops maintained their dis- wouldn't be able to guarantee their safety tance as the jam went on. Three pig heli- when the cops moved on the squats. They copters hovered above. Suddenly, a bagel offered the "safety" of media pens set up war erupted between defenders of 545 far away from the action. and people in the street. Some dumpster- At this point, the pig strategy was to dived veggies and jelly beans were added wait the squatters out, since most or all of to the fray. The pigs and media morons the defenders had been awake all night, don't know how to react to this strange with some drinking beer as well. Those display. The numbers of squatters and leaving the area to piss, get food and supporters were at a peak of 150-200. some rest were later unable to get past Just after 7:00, riot pigs began bolder the police lines to return to 13th Street. moves, setting up barriers at 13th + B. Another pig strategy was to give the Various city officials from the Corpora- impression that they didn't really want to tion Council, HPD, and NYPD arrived evict the squats; that they too were wait- and observed the scene from 13th + B. ing for the court decision the squatters Riot pigs slowly but surely fortified their hoped was coming in a few hours. A ranks and moved in closer to the action. SHADOW reporter was told by cops that The defenders used a short lull to begin a there would be no evictions and that they street clean-up with brooms and garbage were only there to "keep the peace." cans. Other cops spread this false information See SQUATTERS FIGHT On Next Page JACK DAWKINS to people in the crowd. An undercover

% Centro de Documentação e Apoio à Pesquisa unesp Cedap 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 25 29 SHADOW #36--(JUNE/AUG.1995) PAGE 5 CONTINUED FROM Cohen told the SHADOW that on June PREVIOUS PAGE 15 Justice Wilk asked the city's attorney, : Terryl Sellers, if she objected to the l !t tJÊL rooftop. According to Sakamaki, at Times reporter's testifying. Sellers around 9:15 am, "about five or six jumped up and voiced her objection as 1 special squad of police in black uniforms Wilk stared on incredulously. He mo- fWTM approached me, a New York Times cor- tioned the attorney to be silent and HHL respondent, an Associated Press photo- asked if the city understood the implica- grapher and the resident of the building tions of their objection. Wilk then said H . ,.,»W and pointed guns at us saying 'lay that Cohen would be entitled to call po- > m7*Vffí*Í6Í i / ■ ■ down' and ordered us to show an ID." lice officers who were present on the Sakamaki said he and the others were roof to testify about what transpired with made to lie face down on the roof with the journalists. Sellers shrugged aside his hands outstretched. He told the Wilk's warning and the trial continued. SHADOW, "We were so nervous, it was The next day, Wilk decided that while " - incredible, it was like a dream." Saka- Cohen would be permitted to call the * : ã ■ ■ maki said that after he produced his officers, he would not allow the issue to press pass, he was escorted off the roof delay the end of the trial. Wilk told by the police, who prevented him from Cohen he could consider the incident NOT CROSS taking pictures. between police journalists established as Against this backdrop, an attorney for fact based on photographer Q. Saka- X the New York Times, George Freeman,. maki's testimony. appeared before Judge Wilk at 3 pm on The issue of police misconduct to- Monday, June 12. Freeman argued that wards reporters seems to be growing in SQUATTER TANK ROLLS although he had only heard about the recent years. During rallies by CUNY case two hours earlier, he was con- college students in recent months, vinced that DeSantis was covered by several reporters and photographers OVER SQUAT K0PSU New York State's so-called "shield" law, have complained of being thrown to the By Chris Flash intended to protect journalists from ground or clubbed by police officers. Cops were again caught with their pants down as activists raided their turning over unpublished and confiden- But as in the case of the New York positions in a hit and run raid on June 3. tial information in a trial. Freeman told Times and cases involving the Daily Four days after the eviction of squats on 13th Street by riot cops, machine Wilk that the Times would "lose its objec- News and television correspondents, gun toting SWAT teams and an armored tank for visual intimidation, the tivity if reporters are made to testify in fear of being isolated from police news anarchist and squatter community decided to respond with a raid of their own, the case." He also maintained the news- sources have generally discouraged re- complete with a home-made tank. paper might lose the cooperation of porters from speaking out. The Times Days earlier, with participation from the annual Nationwide Nomadic Festival, people who believed their role might attorney argued that point when he told activists created banners, masks, wild outfits and a prop tank named "Little wind up in court. He summed up by Judge Wilk that to cooperate with the Rudy," (In honor of the mayor), made of cardboard. asserting that reporters are "not the paid squatters case might make DeSantis On June 3 at 6:00 pm, a parade of more than 100 people made their way up investigators for lawyers." appear partisan, giving the police a Avenues C and B to 13th Street, where only a handful of cops were guarding But three days later, a promised reason to come down harder on repor- the police line barriers in front of 539 and 541 East 13th. Cops on the street showdown between Stanley Cohen and ters. Judge Wilk responded: "You mean were caught almost completely by surprise by the marchers' arrival as cops on the New York Times failed to materialize. next time they might pull the trigger?" roof tops ran downstairs to back them up. Barriers were overturned and thrown at cops as bottles flew. People played tug of war with cops over the barriers. A stuffed effigy that read "HPD Sucks* was tossed out a nearby window. "Little Rudy" aimed Its "turret" at cops, who overturned the tank on top of several demonstrators In wheel chairs. A rope was tied around a scaffolding support beam and pulled by a group of people in order to make it collapse like the scaffolding at 319 East 8th Street did in 1989. (See SHADOW #3-Ed.) Pig reinforcements arrived en masse and cops made several arrests, gassing and beating as many people as possible. Witnesses told the SHADOW that Sergeant Mahoney and P.O. Blalr were seen gassing people they had knocked down. One pig, spotting activist attorney Stanley Cohen on the scene, ran up to him and sprayed him in the face. P.O. Murphy, running toward an activist who was allegedly trying to break a cop car windshield, tripped when someone pulled up a police barrier under him. Murphy landed square on his chin. The activist was beaten and then arrested,' with blood streaming down his face as he was led away. The resistance quickly withdrew and remobllized a few blocks away at 7th Street and Avenue A, where another street march began. Their numbers grew to more than 200, as they made their way up St. Marx Place and then back to Tompklns Square Park. By 7:30, they arrived at Avenue B + 7th Street, where a Speak-Out was held under the eyes of riot pigs. A MSTF (Manhattan South Task Force) sergeant with 50 riot pigs was overheard asking a lieutenant, "Should I surround them?" SQUATTERS FIGHT BACK.... When Stanley Cohen reminded them what happened in'1989, the lieutenant By 9:00, the pigs' strategies appeared pigs caught and tieat him, carried his thought about It and then told the cops to move out. to be working. The number of defenders prone body into the wagon and locked More than 100 cops spent the rest of the night at 13th Street, 6th St. and had thinned out to the point where the the doors. Ave. B, 9th St. and Ave. C, and St. Marx and Ave. A maintaining barricades riot pigs felt ready to move on the squats. An armored tank was used to pull from 12th-14th Street, waiting for another raid that never came. As always, too Attorney Stanley Cohen told the away the dead car, instead of using an much too late!! SHADOW that just before the pigs did so, EMS truck as before. 25-30 people lined he overheard plans to use tear gas gren- up in front of 541-545 behind a thick ades to get squatters out of two of the rope. At 10:00, a pig was heard on his buildings. He told the pigs in command radio saying: "We're where we want to be. that the squatters had welded themselves Stand bv." into their apartments and buildings and Only a few people on the line were would be killed in such a gas attack. The arrested, while others were released after surprised commanders repeatedly radioed being gassed. Pigs cut open 545 and adja- their troops: "Don't use the gas!!" cent garden gates with SAWZ-ALLs. Riot pigs led by Captains Fox + Spa- SWAT team pigs were seen on the roof daro moved on 13th + B, taking down of 539 with automatic weapons drawn. barricades. Two EMS trucks removed At 10:27, pigs entered the garden, as dumpsters. Pigs came from Ave. A, dis- white-helmeted bureaucrats posted Or- mantling barricades, arresting people and ders to Vacate on the front doors of 539 grabbing media persons at random, taking + 541. One cop read the Riot Act, saying away some of their press passes. They the squatters are "in violation of a vaca- chased people off fire escapes watching tion order." Everyone cheered and said: the action, taking over rooftops. "We* want a vacation!!" Riot pigs tried to arrest a man who Minutes later, 541 + 545 were opened. rolled under a parked car to avoid them. Pigs entered, arrested a woman and They lifted the car up, gassed him, and pulled people off the fire escape. Other roughly pushed him into a paddy wagon. pigs gained access to squat roofs through Another man objecting to the pig violence rear fire escapes and windows. got arrested too. The first man escaped Over the next few hours, sanitation from the wagon still cuffed behind his trucks removed garbage from the street 13TH ST. RAIDERS PUSH ■LITTLE RUDY* BACK ONTO COPS back, but he had nowhere to run. The CONTINUED ON PAGE 23

% Centro de Documentação e Apoio à Pesquisa unesp Cedap 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 25 29 SHADOW #36-(JUNE/AUG.1995) PAGE 6 PIGS AND BLOCKHEADS TAKE ABC HO RIO THREATENED OVER LA PLAZA CULTURAL!! WITH EVICTION BY HPDU By Chris Flash By Peter Spagnuolo

The world-famous L.E.S. arts and on Rivinglon St. for $2()0.()0monlh, and music center ABC No Rio finds itself under there ABC No Rio nourished to the present. threat of eviction by its landlord, the Dept. of Over the first seven years, the arts H.P.D. In answering the City's dispossess gallery and performance space became famous notice in crvil court on June 18th, attorney for installations, poelry readings, and solo Jacqueline Bukowski has bought some time and group shows by artists from around the for the embattled arts group, winning an world, and its early years of art shows from adjournment of the case until July 6. Since 1980 through 1985 are documented in a book 1981, the group has had an HPD commercial by Collaborative Projects, AHC No Dinero. lease for the store-front at 156 Rivinglon Throughout its entire fifteen year history, the Street, but beginning in May of last year, the space has received regular funding from the City stopped accepting the group's monthly New York Slate Council on the Arls, and has payments, and the following October presented artists funded by the National organizers received in the mail a packet of un- Endowment for the Arts. cancelled checks with a Notice of In more recent years, the space has Termination of Lease. "They gave us no become renowned for pioneering in New York explanation," says No Rio organizer City "all-ages" punk and hardcore shows. Matthew Bray, adding that the City didn't Amanda Trevins, a program booker and sound seem interested in honoring its long-term engineer for lhe music space, explains lhe commitment to the community arts group. importance of these shows to the community: Many homesteaders and squatters in "The music really comes out ol the kids, bul the community see this as only the latest because the bands mostly play in nightclubs attack on the self-help culture of the fx>wer and bars, the younger fans who need exposure East Side, coming less than a month after the to it can't get in The all-ages show makes On June 5, La Plaza Cultural, a city- During the second annual May Day military-style eviction of homesteaders on the music accessible without regard to owned formerly vacant lot taken over Pig Roast held in La Plaza, a New York East 13th St. While HPD has promised the whether someone is old enough to drink and renovated by neighborhood resi- Times reporter and photographer came building on Rivinglon Street to Asian alcohol." Trevins, who grew up in Boston, dents more than ten years ago, was by. The reporter was told that the Americans for Equality, AAFE has indicated points out that younger people need a place closed off to the community by a hand- roasted pig being eaten symbolized in the past that it has no intention of where Ihey can feel respected, inslead of developing the site, nor has it the funds to do ful of people helped by police. "dead cops." Two days after an article excluded, and that No Rio has filled that so. While most abandoned buildings in the function for years. In addition, its punk show After the sterilization of Tompkins appeared in the May 7th Sunday Times, neighborhood have been assigned to one or benefits over the years have helped many Square Park in 1991, La Plaza became about one dozen cops with cars, vans another community group for "site control," groups—ACTUP, the Durruti Anarchist the central meeting spot for political and paddy wagons entered the park. it is rare for HPD to carry out an eviction of Brigade (from Chile), Blackout Books, lhe activists, homeless persons and people They harassed the 20-30 people there, squatters or month-to-month leaseholders Black Hand Collective (from Prague), and who just want to relax and talk with their woke homeless persons, and checked when no project is planned. Speculation virtually every I.ES squatter organization. neighbors under the huge willow trees. IDs. Four people were arrested, alleged- about the timing of HPD's eviction attempt Bray emphasizes that the activities La Plaza has also been used by Hope ly for having open warrants. Apparently, leads many to wonder if ABC No Rio's of the music space have underwritten the For The Future Ministries to serve meals the cops were looking for the person activism in the squatter movement has earned costs of ABC No Rio's other, non- and bags of food to homeless and poor who made the "dead cops" comment to them special treatment. commercial events, saying, "The punk shows While many of ABC No Rio's neighborhood residents three times a the Times, but they failed to find him. sustain the space's costs with a surplus, activities in recent years have centered around allowing all the other activities to stay free." week. For many of them, this has been On May 30, as he watched the evic- the Vital L.E.S. punk and hardcore scene, its This summer, ABC No Rio has planned a free their main source of sustenance. tions of the 13th Street squatters at origins can be traced all the way back to one arts and crafts program for neighborhood Over the past ten years, a loose knit machine-gun point, Jerry The Peddler of the watershed events in the downtown arts children. The program, scheduled for six group of neighbors and community act- was arrested for having an open con- scene, as well as in squatter/homesteader weeks from early July through mid-August, ivists have looked after La Plaza, adding tainer of beer. Rather than receive the history. When in late 1980 a group of artists already has seventeen kids' from the new plants, erecting a barbeque grill, usual Desk Appearance Ticket for such intimate with the growing squatter community enrolled, and eight adult artists and even rebuilding the bleachers using an "offense," Jerry was put through the movement—including Rebecca Howland, committed to teaching assignments, classes a mosaic of recycled cobblestones, system, effectively removing him from Robert Goldman and Kiki Smith-frustrated in Spanish are being offered as well. Art bricks, slate and other masonery. the scene for at least 24 hours. That with creeping gentrification making it materials have been donated bytthe non- difficult for artists to live, they decided to profit group, Materials for the Arts, and any In February, cops suddenly began night, 9BC members raided La Plaza take over an abandoned, HPD in rem non-material expenses incurred will be harassing and chasing away sidewalk and destroyed the stone slab barbeque commercial space at Delancey and Norfolk covered by the No Rio general fund. peddlers along Avenue C. They had grill. Jerry told the SHADOW he believes Streets to stage a two-day art show and party. What will happen to. the arts been selling their wares along the he was held overnight in jail to keep him This show, known as "the Real Estate Show" program and its students if 11PD carries out ils Avenue every Sunday for the past 20 out of the way so that the block associa- for its critical theme, spawned many more eviction? "I'm not ready lo think about lhat years with the support of the community. tion could make their move without takeovers by artists, and its high-profile, yet," said Bray, vowing that the arts group After several weeks of this, the situation opposition. Jerry also reported that he critical success forced the City to deal with will fight for the space it has occupied all came to a head. On Sunday March 5, learned of a secret meeting between city the artists' group, collaborative Projects. As these years, and is not willing to leave cops stopped the Avenue C peddlers officials and 9BC members on William a result, HPD offered the group the storefront without a community-based struggle. from setting up. As the morning wore Street. He said that he was told if any- on, a metal jam began inside La Plaza one from the neighborhood other than with activists and residents shouting the 9BCers attended, the meeting would Also seen outside La Plaza on the face of the Earth..." (See SHADOWS (heir anger at cops as they cruised the be cancelled by the city. Sunday enjoying the new development #8 + #12 for more-Ed.) area Soon, the pigs raided the park and Oh June 5, after Jerry had been was Antonio Pagan's flunky Luis Soler Strangely, 9BC leader Don Yorti ticketed three people for making noise, again arrested at a demonstration (recently kicked off Community Board worked with many of the same activists stealing their instruments in the process. against cops on 13th Street, the 9BC Three by Borough President Ruth Mes- now forced out of La Plaza in order to The next Sunday, neighborhood act- blockheads moved into La Plaza, clean- singer), hanging out with undercover stop the city from giving site control of ivist and squatter Jerry The Peddler, ing the grounds, reinforcing fencing and cop Alicia DeCurtis from "Community the park to Pagan's group, Lower East along with four Hispanic community adding new locks. When they were fin- Affairs." members, approached newly-installed ished, several new "No Trespassing" Side Coalition Housing Development Sources have told the SHADOW that 9th precinct commanding officer Captain signs were visible through the fence. All (LESCHD), the same group now seeking several of the 9BC blockheads are also Ovese and negotiated a compromise of this was done even though they had to take over the 13th Street squat supporters of Antonio Pagan. Others that would allow the Avenue C peddlers no "Green Thumb" lease from the city, buildings evicted on May 30. reveal that Pagan is seeking control of to sell inside La Plaza Cultural on Sun- which would give them responsibility While La Plaza was in need of better city-owned and managed buildings at days. Ovese agreed and the cops over the park for a year. Without the care and maintenance, the 9BCers could 614-16-18 East 9th Street where he backed off for a while. The Sunday flea lease, the 9BCers had no more "legal" have made some effort to include those wants to hike rents from the current market at La Plaza quickly thrived, often claim to the park than anyone else in the who used the park in their plan to revi- average of $400 per hionth to more than spilling out onto the surrounding side- neighborhood. talize it. Together, a solution could have 51,000 per month. walks. The 9BC raiding party continued their been reached with full community parti- Pagan and his fellow real estate In recent months, the 9BC Residents occupation of La Plaza, even having cipation, not just control by a handful of developing poverty pimp thieves have Block Association (9BC), a handful of thugs stay overnight on Saturday, June people who represent themselves. long sought taking La Plaza Cultural people unhappy with the types of 10, lying in wait for the arrival of Instead, only Antonio Pagan's from the neighborhood. Pagan's efforts people attracted to La Plaza, suddenly peddlers the next day. agenda has been served. Using an op- to acquire the site to create phoney low- began to take steps toward taking over When the peddlers came to sell their portunity to play a few people against income housing for senior citizens failed the park for themselves. wares at La Plaza on Sunday morning, their neighbors, Pagan has temporarily in 1989, mostly due to exposure of his Like their counterparts in the cops forced them to set up a block succeeded in gaining a foothold on 9th Tompkins Square Neighborhood Coali- away, between Avenues C + D. Once role in what came to be known as the Street. (Senator Alphonse) D'Amato/HUD Scan- tion tied to City Councilman Antonio the usefulness of the 9BC blockheads La Plaza is now in the hands of a dal, in which federal guidelines were Pagan, who used political pressure and was over, cops then turned around and minority making decisions for the rest of violated in order to push the project help from the police department to close locked them out of La Plaza For the rest their neighborhood, using goons to through. At the time, Pagan testified at a and gentrify Tompkins Square Park a of the day, a cop van with two cops re- threaten those who don't like their power City Hall Board of Estimate meeting that block away, the 5 members of 9BC mained stationed outside. The next day, play. La Plaza now sits idle and vacant, Block Association decided to use the 9BC obtained a Green Thumb lease and La Plaza was "a vacant lot...a drug- removing the only true "People's Park" ridden hell hole that should be wiped off same tactics. posted it inside La Plaza. on the Lower East Side from the people.

% Centro de Documentação e Apoio à Pesquisa unesp Cedap 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2í 29 SHADOW #36~(JUNE/AUG.1995) PAGE 7 club on his skull. The police pulled the When they called an ambulance, none PIGS CELEBRATE PUERTO RICAN DAY man out of the car, beartng and arresting came. The police came to the door and. him. He did nothing to resist. Bottles asked if anyone needed medical attention. WITH CLUBS AND MACE!! were thrown at the cops as they beat the The injured people told them they did By Gabby Sloan man. not. The cops had inflicted the injuries. Joe Cuasco, another witness, told the Other reports received by the SHADOW SHADOW, "They beat the shit out of him include: a Chinese couple on a pay phone On the evening of June 11, scores of Meanwhile, /was told that police were for no reason. They were just driving roughed up by cops; a Polish man walking riot cops chased, beat and maced hun- saying that members of the press were go- along, and the cop hit him with a baton. through the neighborhood grabbed and dreds of people at random in the streets ing to get hurt. In fact, this reporter was He was hanging out of the window; they arrested in a sweep by cops; four men of Bushwick, Brooklyn, in an effort to within a few feet of the police beatings hit him and dragged him out of the car. driving by beaten and dragged from their disperse neighborhood residents celebra- and sprayings, and people mistaking me Police forced their way into buildings cars by cops. ting Puerto Rican Day. for a cop dropped objects out of windows on both sides of the street to gain entry to That night, people were still celebra- on me. the roofs. I saw them batter doors and ting by waving Puerto Rican flags, dan- At 12:00 sharp, police attacked. A break windows. They were screaming cing, and driving slowly through the squad car was bellowing "Vamanoose, "Open up, motherfuckers. Open the fuck- streets of Bushwick. Police were control- Vamanoose. You have to get off the ing door." ling traffic and arresting some people who street. Thank you very much. We will see Robert Miranda, who lives on Irving, were celebrating too boisterously. Inspec- you next year. Vamanoose-go home!" said, "They beat the shit out of everybody. tor Joseph Esposito, commanding officer Two squad cars blocked both ends of We have videotapes. They came over of the 83rd precinct, said the people had Irving Avenue (between Green and here and broke our windows to get inside. been given a permit until midnight, after Gillespie). Foot police in riot gear forced They arrested the guy upstairs for stand- which the police were going to clear the people off the sidewalks and stoops along ing on his stoop. They beat a pregnant street. Until then, according to Esposito, Irving Avenue. I was pushed out of the woman and a couple of guys." the police would arrest some violators and way with a club and people next to me A press vehicle drove by and had its allow everyone else to play. who were trying to see what was going on windows smashed. The crew split in a At approximately 10:30 pm, this were arrested. hurry. Bottles were flying. The police SHADOW reporter was in the vicinity of Police followed people around the broke the windows of 1237 Bleeker with Myrtle and Knickerbocker Avenues in corner onto Greene Street. They rushed their batons and went inside to the roof. Bushwick, where the police were engaging on to stoops and shoved people inside. Police swept Irving Avenue again, forc- BILL TURNBULL DAILY NEWS/ . Officer Paul Campson in unbridled violence against people as They kicked people into doorways and ing people off their stoops into their young as eight years old. Police blockaded sprayed them with mace. Denise Ace- apartments. I saw one policeman attack a One cop, P.O. Paul Campson of the streets and stomped on Puerto Rican vedo, who lives on Bleeker Street, told man who was trying to get in his door. He 83rd precinct, received a head wound re- flags that they had confiscated from re^ the SHADOW, "I was standing on my kicked the man in the stomach hard quiring 25 stitches when he got hit with a velers. stoop and they shoved me inside. I hit enough to kill him. brick. Sources told the SHADOW that Riot cops were sweeping down the myself on the door." She had a large Rosa Nunez of Irving Avenue told the Campson was one of the most violent sidewalk clubbing people who could not bruise on her left eye. Ray Velez, 24, a SHADOW, "We were at the windows and cops that night, viciously attacking people move out of the way. They were followed salesman who also lives on Bleeker said, they sprayed us with pepper spray. It at random. Said one observer: "He got by a command officer in a white shirt who "We were sitting here. They came in a went into our mouths and eyes. There what he deserved." casually sprayed Mace into windows at group and started shoving us. They hit were five kids in the window." The child- Police officials justified their actions, families inside who were looking out at her. One raised a nightstick and hit her. ren were with their parents. saying that a show of force was needed what was going on, like an exterminator A young male stopped his bicycle in I followed the screams inside and saw because the celebration was in danger of splashing roach spray into a corner. He the street to try and get his bearings. a family that was severely traumatized. getting out of hand. Inspector Esposito was followed in his wake by the amazing Police in car number 2337 told the boy to The children were hysterical, and their told the Daily News: "We moved in when sound of screaming parents and children. move. He didn't seem to hear them. They mother, Elsie Santana, was in agony. She we decided the conduct was becoming too At 11:15, David Tornella, a crushed the rear wheel of his bicycle with had been sprayed in the eyes. The child- dangerous for the people in the neighbor- construction worker in his twenties said: the squad car. The boy tried to get off the ren tried to help her. They were terrified hood." "We are Puerto Rican; we ain't done yet. bike and the cops were on him. They beat and in pain. Eight-year-old Crystal said, Mayor Rudolf Giuliani, who was booed The party has just begun." The crowd was him with their clubs and arrested him. I "The spray go into my mouth." as he marched in the Puerto Rican Day mixed, consisting mostly of families with did not see him do anything to provoke Miranda, who lives on the first floor in Parade on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan young children. The street was probably the attack. a front apartment said, "They sprayed me earlier that day, praised the police more orderly than it usually was in the Maria Morales, who was visiting her in the mouth. I was in the window. The actions. He said: "They got it under daytime. Police vans and Emergency Ser- aunt on Bleeker said, "We were on the cops said 'Get your ass in the window' control with a minimum of damage." A vice Unit trucks converged at the corner corner and they said everybody go inside. and sprayed me. This shit burns." total of 124 people were arrested, with of Knickerbocker and blocked the street. They pushed us inside. We locked the four cops injured. The cops that came out swatted a few door and they left. It's too crazy, they're kids and arrested four boys in front of a too wild." Burger King. Milagros Matos, 47, a disabled, retired Lisa Hernandez, 27, a housewife who funeral director said, "It's incredible the was pushing her baby in a stroller asked, way the police act. They came running "Why are they doing this? It ain't fair, and pushed us inside. They banged my el- they shouldn't be doing this." She and bow." (It was visibly swollen and bruised.) others said the boys were unaware of any "It's not right; we live here. We don't do trouble and were coming out of the res- nothing. There were five kids on the taurant when they were arrested. stoop." (Ages 2, 4,10,12, and 13). "They At 11:30, six police jumped a small pushed them too." man on the corner of Menahan Street Around the corner on Irving Avenue, and arrested him. He had done nothing to police had cleared the street. Two young provoke the attack. Cops began clearing men in a badly dented car strayed into both sidewalks along Myrtle and telling the area. The passenger was waving a people sitting on stoops to go inside. Puerto Rican flag out the window. A po- Fifteen police moved people from in front liceman batted the man on the head as he of the K+S market at 1364 Myrtle and passed, like he was hitting a fast pitch. arrested four others who didn't get out of People on both sides of the street were tbe way in time. sickened by the sight and sound of the

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% Centro de Documentação e Apoio à Pesquisa unesp Cedap 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 25 29 SHADOW #36~(JUNE/AUG.1995) PAGE 8 CRIMINAL INJUSTICE CRIME BILL CRACKS DOWN ON DISSENT IN THE U.K.

by Sarah Ferguson

Last December, the United jackhammer to cut you out," Allison Kingdom's Tory government passed the advises. Unless, of course, the cops Criminal Justice Act, one of the most resort to simple coercion. "They try to repressive measures in recent British wait till no one's looking then yank your history. Besides cracking down on arms. It can get pretty painful," she squatters, New Age travellers and added standing in the cluttered front ravers, the CJA bans most forms of room of the squatted flat that was protest and strips away the defendant's temporary headquarters of the anti-road right to silencf. Now housewives and campaign. On the wall behind her, amid schoolchildren are joining vegans and a flurry of newspaper clipping and fliers, crusty punks at the barricades to a slogan was scrawled in green magic challenge the law. marker: "The State will Wither As Green Rage Emerges" LONDON -- "It's best to do it in pairs, It took more than 700 riot police, or with cameras around. Otherwise 200 bailiffs, and hundred of private they'll torture you till they get you out," security guards to evict the Claremont says Allison, a soft-spoken 22-year-old campaigners, at a cost of over £2 squatter with paint-splattered dreads. A million-the most expensive and lengthy veteran anti-roads protestor, Allison was eviction of squatter in post-war British explaining the mechanics behind the history. There were 47 arrests and "sleeping dragon"-one of the many several injuries as police tore into the tactics that she and 350 other netting and dumped piles of rubble and demonstrators used to stave off police urine down the bunker holes. And it and wrecking crews during the 4 1/2-day wasn't just hardened crusties and eco- siege on Claremont Road in east sawy hippies at the frontlines. Local London last December. housewives, high school and college students, a record producer, even 93- , For weeks, protestors had strategized year-old Dolly Watson, born and raised to defend the block of 35 squatted in one of the homes, all took part in the houses-declared the Independent Free campaign-outraged at the government's Area of Claremont- that was slated for plan to tear up a community for the demolition to make way for a 3 1/2 mile sake of shortening the commute time to extension of the M-ll link road. They London by seven minutes. filled the ground floors with rubble, The Battle of Claremont reflects the concealing an underground network of mounting opposition to the tunnels and bunkers, where some buried government's £20 billion road-building themselves to create a living barrier scheme, which would ultimately put a against the bulldozers. They built fifth of Britain under tarmac. But it's fortified treehouses and erected a 100- also testament to the increasingly foot scaffolding tower, then welded militant-albeit non-violerit-protest "This is pretty much a revolution King or Gandhi." themselves inside a metal cage at the culture that has arisen with the passage going on. A non-violent revolution," says Last summer, as the law was being top. They flung themselves on cargo of the Criminal Justice Act last Stevidge, a member of the Freedom debated in Parliament, tens of netting strung up between houses and December. When it was first proposed, Network, a broad coalition of activist thousands of protesters took to the nearby trees, dangling 20 feet in the air Home Secretary Michael Howard groups which formed last year to streets in a series of mass demos that to escape the reach of bailiffs sent to touted the CJA as a "comprehensive combat the CJA. One of the chief rivalled the popular uprisings against the rooftops to arrest them. program of action against crime" that proponents of DIY (Do It Yourself) the Poll Tax in 1989. Protesters clashed And several, like Allison, cemented would restore social order to the culture, the network encompasses with police in Hyde Park, overtook their arms into the road using "sleeping countryside. In fact, by taking on squatters, environmentalists, housing Trafalgar Square with bicycle-powered dragons"-steel tubes embedded in travellers, ravers, squatters, and virtually and animal rights groups, even soccer sound systems, and scaled the walls of concrete. Each tube has a metal rod in all forms of protest, the government has fans-all united under the credo "Deeds Parliament. Since then, there have been the center so the protestor can slide her unwittingly united a wide range of Not Words." "Everyone is doing what a series of mass trespasses at the homes arm inside and clip on with a carabiner single-issue groups into a growing they can to push the law, bend the law," of conservative ministers-including the (a hiking clip). "It's good to mix scrap movement of direct-action style Stevidge says. "They're rebelling all over country estate of Prime Minister John metal in the concrete, so they have to dissidents who feel increasingly the place. But they've learned, this time- Major. use both hacksaws and a emboldened to challenge the law. -they're doing it a la Martin Luther These mass actions were aimed at challenging the "public order" provisions of the law which give the police vast discretionary powers to thwart protest. The CJA creates a whole new category of offense called "trespassory assemblies," which allows police to ban gatherings on both public and private land which they "reasonably believe" might cause serious disruption. Anyone that the police "reasonably believe" might be heading to such an assembly can be turned away under threat of a three-month jail term or a 2,500 pound fine. In addition, individuals who go on land with the perceived intention of intimidating others or disrupting lawful activity can be arrested for "aggravated trespass." The government claims these provisions are aimed primarily at ravers who take over empty property for all- night electro-pop bacchanals and hunt saboteurs-animal rights crusaders who disrupt fox and hare hunting parties. In fact, the CJA can be applied to a wide

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% Centro de Documentação e Apoio à Pesquisa unesp Cedap 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2í 29 SHADOW #36»(JUNE/AUG.1995) PAGE 9 drinking money was being diverted BRIT SQUATS annually to raves-presumably for more than just vitamin-jolted smart-food CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE drinks. And Britain's giant brewing range of peaceful protests, including companies have long been some of the trade union pickets, road actions, and Conservative Party's most generous anti-nuke demos. "In effect, it financial donors. criminalizes most forms of legitimate The restrictions on gathering and dissent," says Andrew Puddephat, protest are part of an overall attack on general secretary of Liberty, a civil all forms of counterculture-anyone who rights lobby. bucks the nine-to-five role. Critics say During the mid-80s, the Thatcher the CJA is tantamount to "cultural government used very similar public cleansing." Perhaps the most order laws to cripple the massive dramatically affected by the law are miners' strike by setting up road blocks gypsies and New Age Travellers, who and arresting labor leaders. Courts later roam the country in vans and buses, ruled that the government had acted working the land and setting up free illegally.'But now, police are allowed to festivals. The CJA revokes the 1968 stop and search persons and vehicles if Caravan Sites Act, which required they reasonably suspect that "incidents localities to set aside sites with facilities involving serious violence may take to accommodate Romany gypsies and place" in a certain area-regardless of Celtic tinkers. Now police can throw any whether they believe the persons intend gathering of six or more vehicles off the migrated to Ireland, southern France, than to actually arrest them. to take part in such incidents. land-even common or public land-and Spain, and Portugal. Others are seeking That's likely to change this summer, The CJA also explicitly targets raves, arrest the owners if they don't comply. housing or moving back into squats- warns Camilla Berens, a former Fleet defined by the Act as 100 or more Smaller gatherings may also be evicted although there's not much security Street journalist who's now editor of people playing amplified music if "damage" (by the cops' estimation) is there. POD, a pro-active journal of DIY characterized by a "succession of done to the land. Police may also The CJA ends what had been a culture. "Police forces are waiting for repetitive beats." If police suspect that impound the travellers' vehicles- relatively tolerant policy towards the the summer months to organize big as few as ten or more people are confiscating or even destroying the estimated fifty thousand people living in mobilizations to stop travellers, stop preparing to set up a rave, they can be travellers' homes along with all their abandoned and unauthorized property parties, stop squatters," Berens says. ordered to disperse and have their possessions and means of support. in the UK. It's still actually legal in "It's going to get very nasty in some vehicles and sound systems seized. Cars "There's been a constant trend of Britain to squat properties not in use. areas, but the good things will outweigh and individuals suspected of heading for eviction," says Steve Staines, founder of But now, landlords may gain an eviction the bad. The spirit is so strong." a rave can be turned back for up to five the Friends, Families, and Travellers' order without squatters even knowing Her prediction is echoed by Chief miles. Refusal to comply can bring up Support Group. "We get routine reports about the case; if the squatters don't Constable David Wilmot of the :o three months in prison or a £2,500-- that certain police forces are using the disperse within 24 hours, they may be Association of Chief Police Officers, ;ven if the event has full permission of powers extensively." Last year, as the jailed for up to six months. In addition, who warned in a recent article in the :he landowner. As if to dampen the passage of the CJA approached, attacks the CJA authorizes owners and bailiffs Police Review Journal that "Unless the party mood even further, the CJA also on travellers by both police and local to use "violent entry" to displace social problems which underpin the quintuples the fine for simple possession vigilantes, sometimes acting in concert, squatters. Housing advocates fear the traveller phenomena are tackled, the of marijuana and amphetamines, from increased. Travellers have had their law will be used by unscrupulous police and public could be caught yearly £500 pounds to £2,500 pounds. homes petrol-bombed and blasted with landlords against legal tenants and in a summer pincer movement of urban The rave crackdown may reflect shotguns, and had their dogs maimed or subletters, noting that the tenants will and rural violence." more than just noise complaints. A blinded by angry farmers. With free not be allowed to present their side in The expanded police powers are report released last year by the Henley festivals all but banned, this itinerant court until after they are evicted. particularly ominous given the CJA's Centre, a private think tank, estimated culture is losing its economic livelihood. Taken as a whole, the CJA makes a concerted attack on the rights of the that £1.8 million of young peoples' Thousands of travellers have already profound attack on the notion of public accused. Under the CJA, the space. Stevidge of the Freedom defendant's right to silence would Network compares it to the Enclosure essentially be eliminated, allowing Acts of the 1760s, which forced the judges and juries to infer guilt if a peasants off the common lands that suspect declines to talk. Previously, they had farmed for centuries, rendering arresting officers were required to warn them disenfranchised paupers. "From suspects the moment the bill became law, almost "you do not have to say anything unless completely it became illegal to be you wish to do so, but what anywhere that you don't own or rent - you say may be given in evidence"-- even if you had permission to be there." much like the Miranda rules in the U.S. . Just how draconian the CJA will be Now, officers would no longer be depends on largely on how police required to inform suspects of their choose to enforce it. As the Shadow right to silence, instead, they would be goes to press, police guidelines for warned that their refusal to talk could enacting some of the new provisions be used against them in court. have yet to be put in place. As of June, The CJA also extends police powers there have been 296 arrests, mostly of to forcibly take DNA samples from hunt saboteurs. (151 hunt sabs, 50 anti- suspects arrested for both violent and roads protestors, 25 environmentalists, non-violent crimes, regardless of 11 travellers, 11 tree-defenders, 3 whether the samples are needed to animal rights campaigners, and investigate the crime. Previously, police surprisingly, 45 soccer fans nabbed were empowered to take so-called under the new rave restrictions.) Still, "intimate samples"- blood, semen, at many protests, authorities have urine, pubic hair-only when seemed reluctant to implement the new investigating serious offenses such as regs for fear of exciting further unrest. murder or rape. Now, persons charged This year, over 1000 people have been with offenses as minor as shoplifting or arrested during protests against the resisting arrest can have hairs plucked export of live calves. But instead of from their head or a swab of saliva busting demonstrators under the CJA taken from their mouth, without regs, police have charged the animal consent. (The CJA also restricts a rights campaigners using an older public person's right to have their fingerprints order act. "I think it's because so many or samples destroyed, even if they are of the animal rights people are middle never charged with or convicted of the class. It would make the [CJA] too offense.) controversial," comments George of The stated aim behind the expansion Justice, an anti-CJA clearinghouse in in DNA sampling is the creation of the Brighton. world's first national database of DNA "A lot of the traveller sites and profiles. In November, the government squats are starting to get evicted, but announced that it was allocating £1 the police are mostly going through the billion for a new police computer old laws-which just means they have to system that would cross-reference DNA go to court to get people out," George samples with criminal records. adds. In some parts of the country, Authorities expect to take 140,000 police forces have complained that they samples over the next year alone. have neither the money nor the manpower to take on such wide-ranging powers. Others have found its easier to See BRITISH SQUATS On Page 23 simply harass squatters and travellers

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Since the cataclysmic April 19 blast •Richard Snell, who was already on at the Oklahoma City federal building death row in Arkansas which left over 150 dead, the news •Richard Butler, chiel ol the central media have finally started to focus on Aryan Nations compound at Ilaydcn the rapidly-growing Militia movement. Lake, Idaho Now organizing in some 20 states •I I>UIS Beam, the veteran Tern around the country, this homespun Klansman who is eonsidcrcd the Aryan paramilitary movement apparently Nations' "amba : tie- stands for local political autonomy and white supremacist movement in Europe thinks the federal government is the pawn of a United Nations conspiracy to The Aryan Nations is at the take over America. Hut in this era of forefront Of the so-called Northwesi "free trade" and radical industry Territorial Initiative, wMen calls tor the deregulation, the Militia agenda actually formation of a secessionist "While reflects much of the rhetoric and Bastion" homeland in what is now the political program which is issuing from states of Montana, Idaho, Washington Washington. and Oregon lhe Aryan Nations eoal me, proudly displayed at the OKIAHOMA CITY: Ilaydcn Lake compound, is lilted Ironi Forgotten Facts and Unanswered the insignia of a Nazi tank division Questions Federal proaecuton m the 'HH trial claimed that the 'Hi plot-wluch No government can perpetrate as included counterfeiting, armed robberies much violence around the world as the and plans to ass.isMn.iie federal judges US has, especially since World War II, and the Arkansas FBI Chief- was to without expecting to reap violence at begin with the detonaiion ol a truck home. Most obviously, Oklahoma City bomb at the Oklahoma Qty federal was the chickens coming home to roost Building. for the FBl/ATF raid on the Branch All Of the defendants were acquitted Davidian compound at Waco, TX, But that very same building would be which left scores dead, including many blown up by a truck bomb on the very of the children the raid was ostensibly day ol Richard Snett'i execution aimed at saving. It was after Waco that Snell died knowing of the explosion. the Militia movement exploded across His last words were a warning to the country, with many in middle Arkansas Governor (iuy Tucker: "I (x>k America coming to sec the federal over your shoulder, justice is on the government as the enemy of their way..." cherished gun and property rights. Snell remained an ImporUBI figure Less obviously, Oklahoma Qty was in the radical right network even from the chickens coming home to roost for his death row cell, publishing a periodic Operation Desert Storm and the reign newsletter called Ihr Sttktn, in which of terror instrumented by the Pentagon he claimed to be a POW in a "war to and CIA in Central America throughout esiabhsh righteousness" the 1980s. Accused Oklahoma City federal prosecutors in the KM case bomber Tim McVeigh is a veteran of based their claim on the testimony 0( Desert Storm. He participated in the James lllison, founder ol an Afkai incident in which Iraqi troops in Kuwait it right group called ["he Covenant, were buncd alive en masse by US the Sword &. the Arm of Ihe lord. military vehicles. McVeigh was also I llison told ol travelling 10 Oklahoma trained at the US Army's School of the viih Snell to case Ihe 11 Americas in Ft. Bcnning, GA, notorious Building in preparation for the in I.aiin America for training such bom! masterminds of massacre and torture as press accounts mat the fax had actually deaths of Weaver's wife and young son i iiison agreed to become a II Salvador's late death squad baas arrived minutes before the bombing. as well as a US marshall. government witness because he himself Roberto D'Aubtsson, Guatemala's Koernke, wanted for questioning, Richard Snell was the white *as facing 20 yean "ii rat keteering General Hector Grama jo, and Ham's disappeared into the woods of separatist who was on death row in charges Before his capture in 1'»KS, he I mmanuel Constant. Michigan. A federal manhunt and Arkansas for the murders of a had barricaded him.scti against 2n was persuaded lo surrcndci prominent in the country. The group's first at four seconds past 9:02, then on the Militias seemed imminent. Hut by his Mead end spiritual mentor political guru, "Mark from Michigan", another of "equal magnitude* at 14 the feds backed down, and Tim Robert (i. Millar, leader of an aka Mark Koernke, a janitor who calls seconds after 9:02. Federal investigators McVeigh's connections to the Militia apocalyptic while sepaiaiisi sect called himself an "intelligence analyst" and now deny that there was a second movement have since been dc- I lohim Qty, with its own armed claims to be a veteran of Army explosion. The North Point Tactical emphasizcd both by federal compound in Oklahoma Intelligence, is a favorite on the far-right Team, a North Carolina Militia group, investigators and the media. Alter Ihe Oklahoma blast, NtWM video, shortwave and lecture circuit. has produced propaganda seizing upon The Militias themselves have made citing unnamed sources, claimed thai The group's leaders denied knowing the "two-blast" theory as evidence that certain concessions. The Michigan McVeigh was suspected by federal anything about McVeigh or Nichols. McVicgh is an "Oswald" (that is, a fall Militia, which makes an effort to investigators ol ha. i I :>him Federal investigators alleged McVeigh guy), and that the blast was an "inside distance itself from open racism in its t Sty and that he had called the and Nichols were involved in illegal gun job"-a government tnck to justify propaganda, has since officially compound on April 5, two weeks before dealing to the Michigan Militia. martial law, a crackdown on the Militias vowed Mark Koernke. "Hie the bombing. Millar denied lo Ihe On April 24, NY Newsday reported and disarming the populace. Michigan Militia has also re shuttle d its that he had ever heard ol McVeigh Mark Koernke had sent a fax to Rep. The March edition of Taking Aim, leadership, after its spokesmen publicly Ihe Militia of Montana (MOM), Steve Stockman, a Texas Republican the newsletter of the Militia of alleged that the Oklahoma blast had which put out the call (I i on who is on Newt Gingrich's Firearms Montana, issued a call to arms for April been earned out by the Japanese in April 19, is at the vanguard of the Task Force, about an hour after the 19, the day of the Oklahoma blast: retribution for the gas attacks on the Miltia movement. MOM runs a mail explosion. "Bomb threat received last Tokyo subway (apparently believed to ordei clearing house lor militia week," the note read. "Perpetrator "// this day does not ring a bell for you be the work of US agents). propaganda and how-to videos MOM is unknown at this time." The word then maybe this will jog your mem Why did the Justice Department a focal point 11 I the network is "Oklahoma" was underlined below. 1. April 19, 1775: Lexington burned. change course? Were Uth-hour deals growing. Stockman said his staff threw out the 2 April 19, 1943: Warsaw burned. cut between the federal government and Mt >M i isly avoids neo Na/t note, then fished it out of the trash after 3. April 19. 1992: The feds attempted to Militia leaders? rhetoric. While Ihe Aryan Nations call learning of the blast. raid Randy Weawr... the feds the Ooalet Occupation I Tic National Rifle Association said 4 April 19. 1993: The Branch ernment (ZOO), MMM speak it received a copy of the fax from Dandtans burned. ill) 1 \s( isr CONNKCTlov UN conspiracies and a New Woild Stockman later that day. "We want to 5. April 19, 1995: Richard Snell wiU be Nazis In the Shadows Order. Aryan Natioas calls lot a know what was Koernke's source of executed—unless we act no* racially-pure while homeland; Mt )M information," a federal investigator said. In 1988, ten white separatist leaders talks ot delending the Conttitu I "Also, we want to know from the Randy Weaver is the Idaho white across the country were arrested by pite these style ditlcrciiccs. i> congressman what he's doing sharing it separatist wanted on federal gun federal authorities for their role in an arc connection with the NRA rather than an charges who got into an armed stand-off alleged 1983 conspiracy to overthrow investigative agency." with the FBI and ATI'. The stand-off the United States government by force. But the investigator denied initial climaxed in August of 1992 with the The defendants included: CONTINUED ON FOLLOWING PAGE

% Centro de Documentação e Apoio à Pesquisa unesp Cedap 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 25 29 SHADOW #36~(JUNE/AUG.1995) PAGE 11 CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE the Populist Party When the presa started making an ivsuc of Duke's The clilor statesman ol ihc M< )M IN "past", Ciritz dropped out, and the John Trochman, whose young nephew Populist Party split Orit/'s 1993 Randy Trochman provides ihc groups presidential bid climaxed with the para-miliiary leadership. Ihc clilcr Weaver episode at Ruby Ridge He Trochman has he en a guest ai ihc settled in Idaho after the incident, Aryan Naiions' Haydcn lake compound launching a paramilitary training on several occasions, including once in program called SPIK1 -Specially [990 when he was a guest speaker ai an Prepared Individuals for Key I venis Aryan Nations congress. i/ s strange beliefs about the US In 1992, John Trochman co-founded Constitution shed a sinister light on the United < ni/ens lor Justice lo support innrx-cnt-vxinding Mililia rhetonc about Randy Weaver alter his surrender. Ihc upholding the Hill of Rights c iniv s oilier co rounders were Aryan Nations presidential platform called for making "ambassador" I ouis Hcam and ('hits the United States a "Christian nation", Icmplc^a lollowcr ol the racist and called the Constitution a "divinely Christian Identity cult, which holds ihai inspired" dcxrument. non-whites arc sub-human offspring ol Ihc Christian Patriot worldview has Satan. a racist and theocratic view of the ('fins Temple was also the Montana Constitution Only the original organizer tor Ihc presidential campaign dixumcnt is "divinely" conceived, so ol Ret. I I Col. lames "Bo" Cirilz, a those who had rights under that prominent survivalist leader who came documcnt-i.c. white males arc in 10 mediate during the sir: considered "organic sovereigns." Those Weaver's home. Ihc charismatic (irii/ whose rights were recognized by later called lot "patriots" (read white amendments-e.g. African Americana separatists) from around the country to after the Civil War-are considered converge on the town ol Ruby Ridge to "wards of ihc State." Ihaac later dclcnd Weaver. I'ohcc Kittled aimed amendments were added by a skinheads who answered Ihc call government no longer "divine", but In < October 1992, two months alter increasingly in the sway of corrupt Ihc Weaver surrender, Pete I'ctcrsaa conspiracies Today lhe federal Christian Identity minister m Colorado. government is the Jewish-controlled called a meeting ol some 175 radical /()(i. bent on destroying the white right leaders. Among those in race attendance were Aryan Nations I ess mainstream figures such as ambassador I ouis Beam and his lawyer, Aryan Nations leader Richard Hutlcr SQUALLY OBNOXIOUS FORMS OF GOVERNMENT Kirk Lyons ol North Carolina Also in use these theocratic terms more openly attendance was former Virginia than tint/ I racing Butler's past also — Alley in the Memphis Commtrcial Appral. Icgislatoi and tiun Owners of America leads to interesting connections. leader liirry I'ratt, who advocated Butler was an early follower of the the Aryan Nations' regional director for Nevada's Nye County fix unilaterally "armed militia units" like those in Christian Identity cull in California in the Southeast and who served five years claiming jurisdiction over areas of the Central America. Ik-am presented a ihc I'XiOs. Another member of that in prison on charges of plotting to bomb Toryabc National Forest, and for pa|K-r to the meeting called "I cadcrlcss seminal Christian Identity congregation a synagogue. threatening National Forest Service Resistance", which called lor small was William Potter ítalc, who had been More terrorism may be in the works. officials last July, there was a tense autonomous cells united In ulcnln» hut a staff aide to (ien IXxiglas Mac Arthur On May 16, self-proclaimed white stand-off with federal forest rangers acting independently. in World War II. Gale's spiritual mentor separatist I^rry W Hams of Ohio was when County Commissioner Dick Ihis Ix'i.iinc the IIKXICI tor the was MacArthur's intelligence chic I arrested for buying SV» worth of the Carver, backed up by an armed posse, Militia movement and perhaps [or Charles Willoughby (real name: Adolf bacteria which causes bubonic plague bulldozed open a washed-out road in Timothy McVeigh and his co- Ivhcppc-Weidcnhach), who through the lab where he worked the Toiyabc, in defiance of orders to conspiraiois MacArthur affectionately called "my stop. Ihc Forest Service has backed It may also he the model tor the little fascist." Willoughby was an open 11 IK ANTI-KNVIKOVMI N lAl. down while the case is pending, and anti-abortion terrorist underground fascist sympathizer who was deeply CONNKCnoV ceded control of the road, citing which has escalated since 1993 In 1985, involved in iniclligencc intrigues with Corporate Power in Ihc Shadows "concern about the safety of the lives of the Aryan Nations released a statement the Axis He later arranged for the the crews." decrying that America's "sheep" arc I etas billionaire Hunt family (who None of this is to imply that the c arvcr, a local rancher, is a manipulated by the "Jew media" into hired Willoughby for a private rank-and-filc of the Militia movement is prominent spokesman for the fast- "killing their own children." Ihc intelligence probe into the JIX monoliihicalry neo-Nazi. Indeed, the growing County Rule movement. Some statement closed: "We the enlightened assassination) to fund Gales Militia leaders could not have been as 100 counties throughout the West have minority must show the dcxilc mass why paramilitary group, the California successful organizers as they have been unilaterally claimed jurisdiction over these murders arc happening... Periodic Rangers. if they hadn't played down the fascist federal lands, and threatened lo arrest disruption ol these murder parlors can die, in turn, was spiritual mentor to rhetoric. With banks foreclosing on federal agents who get in the way ol only slow down the real holocaust"' Tom Mct/ger, the leader ol White farms and federal marshalls evicting plans by local ranchers and miners to Alter Oklahoma City, llo (iril/ was Aryan Resistance (WAR), which farm families, with jobs heading south use the public lands. I itigation with teds quoted in ihc media as saying the blast organized a skinhead "Aryan of the border under the NAFTA trans- over such county claims is pending in was "a Rembrandt a masterpiece of Mock" in California in 19HV. WAR national economic regime, and with Idaho, Washington and other western science and art put togcthei was successfully sued by the Southern police forces routinely trampling ihc Bill states Ihc Forest Service has issued < MU/ recently lounded a "Christian Povcm 1 .m ( enter for complicity in of Rights to enforce unjust drug and official warnings to rangers throughout Patriot" community called Alm<»t the skinhead beating death of an gun laws, Americans have Icgiiimatc the west, along with protocol on how to Heaven in the mountains ol Idaho, I thiopian exchange student in Portland, reasons to be angry at their government behave if confronted or arrested by OR where he is an advisor to the local But powerful economic interests arc county authorities Ihc FBI has been Mililia Shortly after Ihc Oklahoma Wast, poised to exploit this groundswcll of alerted Idaho Mililia Icadci Samuel (iril/ travelled to the hills of North anger. Ihc very trans-national Ihrcc weeks before the Oklahoma Shcrwrxxl was recently quoted by AI* us >na, where he met with Kirk corporations which arc the architects of blast, a bomb New a hole through the telling his lollowers "(io up and l<*>k Lyons, the lawyer who represented NAFTA arc now aiming for a radical wall of a National Forest Service office legislators In the face, because some day Butler and Beam in the HH conspiracy reversal of the rmxJest gains made in Carson City, NV, reducing a computer you may have to MM n oil." case, about hi» plans to sue ABC over environmental prtxccnon over the last to rubble. Hours later, three pipe llo (irit/'s political connections lead their coverage oi his "Rembrandt* generation. The advance gaurd in this bombs destroyed a Forest Service sir.nght Into the ugly underbelly ol red statement. struggle for the complete unshackling df outhouse in Flko County. A few days whitc-and-bluc fascism. A veteran ol the Federal authorities have also issued corporate power from public oversight later a threatening phone message left (irccn Berets who IXMSIS ol having a warrant for a member ol the lar right arc the industry lobbyists who wrote at the Totyabc NFS office said, "YcxTrc partaken in hlcxxl-drinking rituals with An/ona Patriots said to have been an NAFTA and Contract With Amcnca. next." his Cambodian mercenaries, (im/ was Mandate of McVeigh. Members of the The rear guard are the "County Rule" On Halloween night 1°93, someone the real-life inspiration lor Ramho His Arizona Patriots are currently dang and "Wise Use" movements—a new tossed a bomb on the roof of the expeditions to Indochina to seek out lime for plotting to blow up the Phocnut Sagebrush Rebellion of ranchers and Bureau of Land Management's state I'OWs were underwritten by ft. Rosa Federal Building, a synagogue and corporate interests in rcvoU against headquarters in Reno. Perot, who also ottered to send him nearby power planta. federal jurisdiction over lands across the Much BLM land is leased out to down to I aim America to oil drug Michigan Militia leader Norm Olson- West. These movements are increasingly local ranchers for grazing, while NFS kingpins. Ills claims to insule knowledge -one of those who stepped down after armed, and interlock with the Militias. lands are made available to rag timber •bout CIA complicity in the Southeast claiming the Japanese were responsible Rep. Helen Chenoweth (R-ldaho) is companies for logging. Asian heroin trade have won him for the Oklahoma blast -says he plans a sponsoring a bill that would require Environmentalists sec wanton plunder admirers on the left-including an multi-million dollar lawsuit against the approval from local law enforcement of the public trust, and decry "welfare interview in lli^h limes niaga/me Southern Poverty law Center, which officials before feds could use weapons ranching" and "welfare logging." But the In 1'MvH, Bo Ortiz, was running male claimed in its newsletter Klaitwaich that or make an arrest. MOM sells a ranchers and loggers want federal limits with "former" I ouisiana klansman Olson is in contact with Bobby Norton. videotape of a speech by Chenoweth. David Duke on the presidential ticket of Ihc veteran Tennessee Klansman who is The feds have filed suit against SM MILITIAS On Page 21

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In a new development on the legal trout without leases la HPD central management import.int lor squatters and homesteaders. buildings and NYCHA housing, .is well as lawyers (roes the Cental lor Constitutional sqttatten and honeeteaden In abandoned Kights have tiled a class action lawsuit in htiildiuirs cai .ill Ix- Healed alike In the < il\ Federal District (unit. Eaatera i >ist nc t when it wishes to icuioie ilicin (Brooklyn), on behalf ol a wide class ol "\ lot ol people with claims to title to potential plaintiffs living in an) CilJ owned building! oi as leaseholder* an snipped ol or abandoned propcrl) In their miti.il filing then piopcitx h\ peaieahlc sell help Without bafou Judge Komi.in. co counsels Michael due process ol law." sa\s Hicscia "I Ins IVutsch ami Raymond Hrcscia announced violates out protections undei lhe idih and ihcir intention to strike at tin: heart ol what fourteenth Amrncndmcnls " Invoking Ihc III'D and < il> otlui.ils have long spectacle ol tin- last nth St evictions last characterized as "peaceable sell help* the month, Dcutsch and Brescia hope to win a use oi police to can) out ei Ictiom ol 1 cdcral ruling against the City's use ol cops "unaulhon/cd occupants" without lirst going as a form ol "vigilante sl\le landloidism." so through the courts that, in Mrcsi la's words, "no single mother I lie class will include anvonc living in with kids living in CilJ owned housing, no BORN IN THE USA ■It) ot) owned building witlxuil henelit ot ,i seniors, no people With \I1)S, evei need leal ihis iovers squatters, "licensees* with that llicv can In- lumed out in the street By Ronald L Kuby + William M. Kunstler, sublet or secondary agreements, straight .uxl without ihe ( it> first having to piove its Attorneys At Law gay conjugal partners who sun it c their lease-holding partners, holdover tenants who If slopped [roa using cops to evict oulslas their leaseholder roomales. ami people, the Qt) would ix- an as equal footing The haired and brutality that characterizes the Oklahoma City bombing was made conceivably mans others According to with priVSM landloids. ,1Md would have to lust entirely in America. The accused are native-born, white Americans, dedicated to preserving Brescia, New York (its has declined S3 oflni ■erra ■ Notice ol Dispute on ■ house holder that quintessential American iastitution-the stockpiling of weapons by private citi/cas leases to tens ot thousands ol apartment llu\ wished to cs u I \llei Ihal, Hicscia expressly for use against an elected government. Yet, at a time when we should be engaged holders now living in Cit) owned buildings. sass. "the t il> would Ix- obligated to prove in a national campaign to eradicate intolerance in the American heartland, politicians despite routine!) accepting rent Irom man\ o| c in lourt hke an) landlord, and it continue to clamor for the passage of the Omnibus Counter-Terrorism Act of I *W5, a law them I ndcr current policies, residents wouldn't Ix- able smiplv Io H l\ on its strong focused almost exclusively on foreign nationals living on these shores. Simultaneously, hand

President Clinton argues for a vague enlargement of federal surveillance power against :.: I(i >f( III I .. '.i 'it 'li','!'' ''''" :,:''' Ul''' Ml''''''''' ''' ;''''' Mi ''''''''''''''' '' '. domestic groups. These are bad proposals, directed at the wrong targets, and will provide little protection against terrorism while costing a great deal in constitutional protections GREAT MOMENTS IN THE HISTORY OF LOVE The centerpiece of the Omnibus Act would create special courts to hear dcportaiion cases. These courts could rely on secret evidence unavailable to, and hence, unassailable by, the deportee and his/her attorney. This proposal is anathema to the most basic idea of due process-the right to confront and cross-examine your accuser. Boosters of this provision have yet to explain how speeding the deportation of alien sheiks will prevent Zekc or Clem from going down to the implement store with a stock tank, buying 500 pounds of fertilizer, drenching it with dicscl fuel obtained from the local Ouik-Stop, and loading the whole mess into the back of a pickup truck for later detonation. The Omnibus Act will also permit increased electronic surveillance of suspected international terrorists. While an argument could be made that white, male flag-wavers with crewcuts and tatoos should be more closely monitored than hitherto has been the case, this legislation ignores them. And President Clinton's proposal that the l"BI also be given unspecified greater powers to survcill and infiltrate unspecified domestic groups is wholly unnecessary. The Fill has the authority to monitor organizations whenever there is | reasonable basis to believe that their members arc violating the law Ihc more potent, and intrusive, law enforcement techniques-wiretaps, secret microphones, and audiovisual monitonng-are available by showing "probable cause," that is, more likely than not, the suspects are planning crimes. Another part of the Omnibus Act would prohibit domestic fund-raising for any "foreign organization" whose members arc found by the President to be eqgaged in terrorist activities. Such legislation would affect not one whit the ability of rightist militias to acquire funds for weapons and land on which to build fortified bunkers and redoubts. Moreover, the designation of a group as "terrorist" has been notoriously political In 1988, then Vicc-Prcsident George Hash's Task Force on Combatting Terrorism designated the Irish Republican Army, Yassir Arafat's Fatah organization, and Nelson Mandela's African National Congress as "terrorist." In addition to being shortsighted (all of these groups are engaged in peace processes and arc bulwarks against more extreme organizations), such a designation had nothing to do with the safety of Americans. None of these groups had ever conducted an armed action on U.S. sal, nor targeted Americans Ironically, far from illustrating the weaknesses of domestic law enforcement, the FBTl investigation into the Oklahoma City bombing is an excellent example of how efficient law enforcement can co-exist with respect for civil rights. Justice Department officials have not V thrown up their hands and complained that compliance with the Constitution has harmed the investigation. To the contrary, the FBI has moved with amazing swiftness in arresting the alleged bomber, while simultaneously protecting the rights of all suspects. For example, when the hopelessly befuddled, dark-skinned, Pakistani-born Siddiqy 2 brothers made a wrong turn and ended up under arrest after asking the Oklahoma highway patrol for directions, the FBI did not start kicking down doors or rounding up Pakistanis, ihey sought, and received warrants to search the Siddiqy residence in Dallas They i searched the house in accordance with those warrants and then released the two hapless, innocent young men. Similarly, the Arab-Amencan travelling from Oklahoma to Amman, 3 Jordan on the day of the bombing turned out to be guilty of nothing more than ovcrpacking his luggage. In scrupulous adherence to the law, the Justice Department sought and obtained a material witness order from a federal judge, detained and interrogated the man in accordance with the Fourth and Fifth Amendments, then released him. Just as tellingly, when it came time to search the Decker ranch in Michigan, warrants were applied for, granted, and served as models to guide the searching agents. Mr. McVeigh was arrested pursuant to a warrant, he was swiftly arraigned before a federal judge, and he was provided the assistance of counsel. Granting him these basic rights hardly I makes it more likely that he will go free if guilty. To the contrary, providing these rights helps to insure that a verdict is obtained in a just and fair manner and that's it. The failure of law enforcement to detect and prevent the Oklahoma bombing has nothing to do with lack of police authority or manpower-groups like the Michigan militia can be surveillcd under existing law. Adding 1,000 agents, as President Clinton has 5o Aveoive 6 proposed, will not change the sad truth is that the radical right has never been perceived as a major threat by the Justice Department. Throughout the 1980s, the FBI re I used to classify abortion clinic bombings as "terrorism," and watched mutely while the rightist militias organized, obtained arms, and wrapped themselves in the flag and the Second SVA-TINU: 10-10, fr, ~$*+r 10-fl* Amendment. That myopia, obviously, is ending. The Justice Department needs to direct the formidable powers it now has against (212.) 777-H/.7 the proper targets, rather than seeking new powers that arc dangerous to civil liberties.

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Well, here we arc again!» The June 19 work at his job as a security guard NY Post reports th;it kops ;irc pulling out because of injuries suffered, was denied tin- heavy gcai in their effort to maintain workman'» compensation because he their cvei loosening control owr the had been charged wnh a crime. • • • populace. While every vxial program has been largcttcd lot budget cuts, the .VCM York NensJay re ported on May 8, untouched NYI'D has lound the funds lor 1993 thai Officer Anthony Abhatc is such things as an Armored I'hoio running for the post ol Brooklyn South Observation Truck, a Remote Mobile financial Ollicer ol the Patrolman's Investigator ROM ($100,000), a Torpi Benevolent Association. As he has Retriever Ship (S3J million), forward- obtained (he endorscmeni ol the I'M A. looking Infrared Cameras ($110,000), his election is virtually assured Ahhaie and even two tanks (one was used at the has had .10 civilian complaints and 121 May K) evic lions ol the I Ml Stieel allegations of misconduct lodged against squats). I t (ilenn l'ana//olo, ol the him. and has been placed on probation limcrgency Service Unit, Hid In the by the NYPI) for going AV\OI and current politic al climaic, you're going to disrespecting his superiors. In 1992, he sec that kind ol weapon on the streets ol was placed under special NYI'D New York." II only the kops were as monitoring because of ihc large number concerned alviui the criminal climate, but of complaints against him. assault in a bench trial he tore Judge then again, political BOtMtt don't shixit transmission». Ihcy havr been changing Phyllis Bambcrgcr. DeJcsus had been back, do thev '" their radio codes, using false codes, On May 13, 1995, Julio Nufle/ was with ♦ •• wrongly reporting what is going on, stopped by Rivera for a broken his family ai his apanment on Morrison headlight. He got out of the car and Pager to employ their new civilian combat switching to other new frequencies, and Avenue in (he Bronx when two reached for his wallet when Rivera gear, kops have now begun routinely they use cellular phones more often. We plainclothcs police officers cnicrcd with grabbed him by (he neck and hit him sptaying civilians with pepper spray at the wonder what they would be trying to hide (heir guns drawn, without announcing over the head, then threw him out of slightest provocation Irom the civilians ihcy arc supposed to be thai they were police officers Ihc cops the car and kepi hitting him over the Rccenily, kops HI demonstrations have "protecting and serving?" This might work had come in response to a complaint by (hanged their tactics noticeably Ki.ps lor a while, but remember thai cell head with a baton until other poi a man who said thai Nunez had officers arrived lhe trumped up used to try to disperse people by covering phones are only fancy radios, and ihcy ihrcatcncd lo kill him in front of the charges brought against DeJcsus were one end ol a block and then sweeping can be monitored as well as radios. building. Nufic7 was on the telephone in • •• them toward lhe other end Next, kops dismissed. another room, talking to the man with • • • would allempl to diudc the gtoup into Moving another step toward non public whom he had ihc dispute. Nunez was Officer Lowe of the 48th Precinct ha» several smaller groups that would not lie accountability, mayor Ghouliani has jusi shot once by ihc police, and allegedly since been indicted for ihird-dcg: dissolved the offices ol IK PI (Deputy jumped oul the kitchen window to his able to rejoin to create anothci demo assault in another incident in which he lhis maneuvei was piai Heed and Commissioner ol Public Information), death. Cops allege thai Nunez reached and another officer, William l-aham. thereby ending a source of info relied into his waistband and they thought he seemingly perfected in several skirmishes allegedly took turns beating a drug upon by mainstream reporter» lo cover had a gun Ihc cops nave been placed with civilians around Tompkins Square in suspect in ihc back of a patrol car on kop activities. Beside causing mainstream on sick leave as a result ol their the past loui years Nov., kops pie lei to December 18, 1994 Officers Michael press reporters to gel oil iheir asses more "trauma." cover hoih ends ol a MOOfc (amior using O'Connor and Matthew Siciliano were • • • liamcadcs (D eonlain a gtoup), olicn rather than rely on NYPI) versions also indicted lor stomping on the same of events, another result is a drop in the Ihc New York limes ol April 25. 1995 eliminating llu ey then suspect's hands at the station house and reporting of crimes, which makes the reported that four officers Irom the charge at ttootc napped off, using psppM puiting a gun in his mouth. IJOWC IS alv> crime rate appear to be dropping when 112th Precinci arc rx-ing investigated for spray and clubs Ml anyone within tange. accused of searching an apartment I his methixl was wilncvscd ai several it s nol, and the NYPI) likes that a la!! having handcullcd. beat, and kicked a • •• unlawfully and filing false reports about store clerk whom they had mistaken for CUNY/SUNY ileinos and al the I ihc search Siciliano is additionally On June 17, diminutive P.O. Nicole attack on Puerto Rican 1 >a\ iclchrants in a suspcel in the robbery ol a Oueens charged with stealing money from Matos ol the '/th precinct was seen supermarket. Marcos Maldonado Bushwick, Brooklyn another apartment thai he gained entry ♦ •♦ shoving around a group of young punkcrs vud that while he was handcullcd and to through a false 911 call. When kops stait uppmg the ante by using trying to enjoy the nice weather in • • • lying cxi the flixx ol the Ml lompkins Square Park. Apparently, she basement, one cop put a gun in his more than the usual brutality and In another 48th precinct incident, was trying to get them to respond to her mouth, used an ethnic slur, and told employing new gadgets and wcapxms like Anthony Amaroso of Arthur Avenue, a pi "vocations so (hat she could call in her him, "you know you're going lo die pepper spiay, leal gas. u/is and lanks, 55-year old parking lot attendant, back-ups to save her ass and make some tonight. I'm going to blow your head how long before formerly pcacclul and alleged that he was mistaken for a drug false arrests. (Hey Nicole, can you say off" Maldonado, a (iuatamalan non violent demonstrators respond in buyer lasi January by Officer Richard kind? Kops in charge should keep in mind "Hi IV icn limes fasi?) Matos did the immigrant and second-year psychology Rivera while walking near his home. same thing exactly a year ago in the same iludent at(Ouccns College, was being that lhe people can play the same game According to Amaroso, after Rivera park, resulting in the arrests ol three held hostage by robbers in the Kx>, only Ix-itci II kops remove the only threw him to the ground and stepped means of expressing displeasure with the people, including SHADOW editor Chris supermarket hascment when a on his neck, the cop took him to a system, attacking non vtolcnts with flash Docs (apt. Ovcse know ahcxii this plainclothcs cop entered and snot one nearby hospital to have hi» stomach violence, then they will drive people little loose pistol he's got on park patrol? of his captors, without identifying • •• pumped in an effort to find drugs. underground when- ihcy cannot he himself as a police officer Maldonado Roger Ippcs and his brother Mark When no drugs were found in fled and look cover in (he boiler room, monitored, infiltrated, negotiated with, were in Harlem al abcxji 11 I'M on the Amaroso's stomach, Rivera planted a eu ('icalivc guenlla actions ma\ DOOM bu( complied when the cops (old him to night of April 2(>. 1995, when Roger had crack vial on his bed and arrested him, come oul with his hands up, saying next Pethaps this is what the NYI'I I I an asthma attack I lis brother Amaroso alleges. Amaroso is quoted as "don't shoot, I work here." Ihc cops and Otullani'l siting pullers ill the attempted lo rush him to Harlem saying, "ever since (iiuliant came in, he Manhattan Institute want cause a violent immediately began hilling him with their Hospital in the process going through has given the police a free hand to do pistols and sticks, and later menaced response to NYPI) violence in ordei to several red lights. Two cops in an whatever they want." Rivera has been him wnh a gun. Ihc cops lailed to justify further violence and repression to unmarked car from the Street Crime indicted lor stealing money from two apologize and led Maldonado outside respond to the violence they onginally Unit began chasing them, without lights apartments and (or robbing a man in an the store to go to the hospital by caused. In other words, a nice liitle police or sircn--and when the Ippcs brother» apartment lobby He is also accused of himself Police spokesman lorn Kelly state right here in New Yotk City!! What stnp|>ed in front of the hospital, perjury in testifying about the arrest of said, "It is standard procedure for a pcrlormanccll plainclothcs cop Callanan ordered Mark two women. ♦ ♦ • officer» to be wary of everyone at a to lie on the ground and searched him Ml robbery scene to avoid being caught oil Kop Watchers tell us that kops have at gunpoint. When Roger l-'ppcs On July 2, IW, Olficcrs Michael begun using different mcthixls to report guard" staggered inside the hospital, Callanan's Kalaru and Michael O'Callaghan ol (he • • • police "actions" In order to foil reporters partner, Officer Newton Harvey 48ih Precinci heal Oliver Jones wnh Thanks lo all of our Kop-Waichcrs for all and anarchists who monitor kop radio pursued and stopped him, whereupon kick» and Mow» from a flashlight, of their contributions If you have any info i allanan turned his gun on Roger and leaving him unconscious in a pool of ACLU Hits (ops (stone», eyewitness reports, photos, badge prevented him from getting immediate bloixl Ihcy (hen arrested him for + plate numbers, etc.) thai you'd like to On Pepper (las medical attention in the emergency allegedly stealing a police radio and sec in the SHADOW and added lo our HI room. Roger I ppes died an hour later resisting arrest -charges (hat were Warning thai 87 orimtnal files, please send it all to Ihc SHADOW, pasta bava I4I<-l-p|H'l N|llll l>V |M.|l(l- I.Ill AND RELATED KOP HELPERS. v i he March 12, IMS beating beating Kalan/ and O'Callaghan have «•coming nieM-a-.inglv imiiM-rimi \nibal Dc I ;*s in the THEY WILL APPEAR ON THE mile despite written expn been charged with assault in the "grave arientific concern" b) tin- courtroom at the sentencing made incident, and Sgi. Michael McCarthy has INTERNET AND IN THE NEXT HIHIC Kiivironmenlnl I'rntaetion threats and (aunts toward Assistant been charged with filing a false rcpon ISSUE OF THE SHADOW. Agpney about Ita aaiat) I )istrict Attorney Carlos Caldcronc. in the incident, which he witnessed. 6-19.K Rivera was convicted ol 2nd degree Oliver Jones, who missed three months

% Centro de Documentação e Apoio à Pesquisa unesp Cedap 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 25 29 SHADOW #36»(JUNE/AUG.1995) PAGE 14 EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS COMMUNITY BOARD THREE REPORT: JULY 2-CREENWICH VIIJAG K RADICAI. along 41 si St between Fifth + Park Aves. at WALKING TOUR: Sites include: Thomas 1 :(X)pm for march down Madison Avc to 23rd (IT DON'T MEAN SHIT!!) Payne, The Rosenbergs, IWW, Draft Riots + St. for 3:30pm rally. Guests include Pete more. Meet in front of Village Cigars in Secgcr and Screaming Mimis. Call Naomi at: By Stuart Frankel Sheridan Square at 1:00pm. Only $6.00. Call 212-977-6023. 718-492-0069. For those interested in Stupid Political Games, a sort of bkxxlless spectator sport, JULY 24-TIAVA IN YA EAR": High school the downward spiral of Community Board 3 is at least vaguely entertaining. Of course, JULY 3--MUMIA ABU-JAMAL students from the Community Voices League the Community Boards are irrelevant for people with real lives to lead; they arc DKMONSTRATION: Protest the signing of speak out on budget cuts. On Public Access essentially powerless organizations which arc supposed to provide the government with the death warrant on political prisoner IV, Channel 16, 7:30pm. community input (which the government can then ignore), but in reality they wind up as Mumia, framed for killing a pig. At the playpens for amateur poiiticans who arc just as ignorant and opinionated as the Liberty Bell, 5th + Market St. 11:00am, in professional politicians but whose intolerance of diverse viewpoints (i.e. REAL Philadelphia, PA. Buses leave 7:30am from ANNOUNCEMENT'S: community input) rises in proportion to their impotence. Main Post Office, 33rd St. + 8th Ave. Tickets TOMPKINS SQUARE PARK SPEAKOI IS!! For reasons not clear, one of departing CB3 member Nancy Sosman's pet projects avail, from Creative Visions, 260 W.125 St. Gather to speak your mind and get it all off was to kill the lower BM Side Needle Exchange, which currently operates |ust outside (212-368-3560); Black Out Books, 50 Ave B your chest!! Meet every Saturday night at Tompk'ins Square Park, among other places. Ihc May ("in meeting was told the usual (212-777-1967); Revolution Books, 13 E.16 7:00pm where the bandshell used to be. horror stories about people finding needles in the park; one worker was stuck with a St. (212-691-3345), or call NY Coalition to Don't be fooled by phony Spcak-Outs held by needle deliberately hidden in a blanket. 'Ihcrc was no indication that any ol these Free Mumia: 212-330-8029. the CWO at 7th St.+ Ave. A!! needles were connected with the I.ES Needle Exchange; in fact, the number of needles in Ihc park has 1)1(1 INI 1) since the Needle Exchange set up shop. No one at Hu- JULY 3-BILL KUNSTLKR RKAIIS THK ABC NO RIO EVICTION WATCH!! Get on mecting pointed out the obvious fact that the Needle Exchange doesn't cause any CONSTITUTION: Famous activist attorney the contact list to pin the fight agaiast the needles to be put into circulation because it EXCHANGES them The point is to clean also gives the real deal on amenka's founding cay's attempts to remove one of the few truly up the needles that arc in circulation. In spite of these facts, the board voted over- fathers. Presented by Paper Tiger TV, on alternative spaces on the Lower East Side!! whelmingly to require the Needle Exchange to label their needles and not to Operated Public Access Cable TV. Channel 16 at Call 212-713-5743 or 254-3697. near schools or parks. The Needle Exchange reports that they used to label their 7:30pm. Call 212-420-9045. needles but the labelling has to be done by hand and is so time consuming that it would SUPPORT THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION!! interfere with their work; there's no indication that their needles arc any problem, they JULY 7-CENTRAL PARK TRAFFIC Contact the Zapatista Solidarity Committee do not sec why they should scale hack their activitcs to address imaginary concerns (>l CALMING R1DK: TIME'S UP-sponsored at: 212-642-5212, and the National course, they have no particular desire to exchange needles neat schools; il they were to bike rides to slow down park traffic. Meet Committee for Democracy in Mexico at: 212- move away from parks, they would be seriously crippled. And ol course, CB3 has no 6:15pm on Ixjwcr Ixiop Road, across from 614-6662. authority to tell them what to do or where to do it, so the CB3 resolution is of no Tavern On The Green restaurant at 65th + effect. No one at the board meeting mentioned this, cither. Cent. Pk. West. Call 212-802-8222. (Also on NFINA II HAITI I CENTER PROVIDES A Even more ridiculous, however, arc CB3 internal politics Alas, we will not tx- 7/14). WIDE VARIETY OF SERVICES on a sliding witness to the antics of board chair I.uis Solcr any longer; boro pre/ Ruth Messmgci, scale for those without insurance. Weekdays, fed up with his divisive and incompetent leadership (forbidding hoard members who JULY 7-RALLY VS POI.ICF: BRUTAIJTY: 8:30AM-4:30PM, Weds till 7:00PM. 279 1 -;,si disagreed with him from speaking, ordering the arrest of his political opponents, etc.), In memory of Anthony Rosano, shot 14 times 3rd Street, or call 477-8500 for more info. refused to rcappoint him to the board. She also didn't rcappoint his partner in in the back by pigs + Hilton Vega, shot 8 depravity, Nancy Sosman. In a futile attempt to forestall charges ol political lavoniism, times in the back by pigs. Noon rally at 2784 FOOD, NOT BOMBS prepares food every she pointedly failed to rcappoint two of her own supporters, Robert Schocnhohni and Claflin Avc, Bronx. March to Bronx Supreme Saturday + Sunday at ABC NO RIO. Come Marvin Wasscrman. (The attempt was futile because Sosman and company have Cl., 161 St. + Grand Concourse. Call 212- help them cook at 10am Sat. + 9.00am Sun. learned from the mentor Antonio Pagan to hurtle loud and frequent accusations against 614-5355. Share food at 2pm at ABC on Sat. + I .a your opponents without regard for the facts, and the press will report these- as solemnly Plaza Cultural (9th St. + Ave. Q. Call 212- as if they were true.) Sosman also, unprompted, denied to the SHADOW that she JULY 10-MOORISII ORTHODOX RADIO 254-3697. drinks gin. By contrast, former board chair Solcr, although he initially stayed away Irom CRUSADE: Erudite Anarchist banter with the May meeting in protest, did finally show up and gave a gracious speech in which he Peter Lamborn Wilson + Bill Wcinbcrg. LET THEM TAIJC radio show features said he had a life to live, and he asked everyone in the community to work together. Every other Tuesday on WBAI radio investigative activist journalist Paul His (rwn supporters on the board ignored this plea, however. As a "spit in your eye" (99.5FM), at 11:45pm. DcRienzo. Best alternative news and music!! gesture toward Mcssinger, they elected Albert Fabozzi for board chair. A ncighborhtxxJ Wednesday nights (technically Thursday activist once described Fabozzi as "so stupid he's almost endearing" I ntle Albert is lond JULY 16-RADICAL CENTRAL PARK mornings) on listener-supported WBAI radio, of swinging his (little) weight around; our favorite Fabozzism is "We have a WALKING TOUR: Sites include: Robert 99.5 FM, 1:30-300 A.M. neighborhood to run' (wrong: the community boards aren't supposed to run anything; Moses, Joseph Papp, Strawberry Fields, they're supposed to give advice. Fabozzi should read chapter 70 of the city charla | We Hoovcrville + more. Meet at main fountain I \( HANGE YOUR USED NEEDLES for alv) remember fondly the time when he was shouting inchohcrcntly to someone oi at SW corner of the park at 1:00pm. Only new ones. Bleach kits, condoms and other other in Tompkins Square Park (we don't remember the exact details) that he was a S6.00. 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% Centro de Documentação e Apoio à Pesquisa unesp Cedap 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 25 29 SHADOW #36--(JUNE/AUG.1995) PAGE 15 each other, to allow them to stay in To Kdilors: re "OliA's lines! Ik-tails Power. It's them who profit by our Cnnuplmn" (SHADOW #.<5) > Aurptcd fighting at the bottom and them who Irom I he SHADOW: "Dope and undiMi Create it. Ihcir GODs are plincd soldiers were problems CUtstillo led MOW Y. POWER and DBCBP- behind when he volunicercd lo |om a DON ihcir Mi)no is Divide and lecrei snipei unii in neighboring Cam Conquer. So please, all of you Come bodia in l°71. lhe Vieteong aVietnam since ihc US Congress any means necessary THIS IS A had declared it oil limns to American WAKE IT CAI 1 "" soldieis Castillo*! twelve-man team would George W White #94-8-0603 pick oil commanding officers at VC KIMS 135 S \uburn, NY 13021 with M-14 sni|HT rilles 'We ne\cr missed,' Castillo recalled. 'According to ttM Pentagon, we «nc ncsci itn In this place of Amenkan author- ihese wire the IIIM ol main US Ciovcrn- itarians, all sources of news other ment covet ups i astillo was to be In- than the mainstream party-line dog- volved with in his tWMMj one \c.ir career ma arc read with great relish. Ihc as a public servant whole "left" must unite and make an Things were tamer hack in Edinburgh, attempt to change society. And I I ex.iv Wten < .isiilln served as u police think s good way to start is the officct while earning a criminal justice spreading of knowledge. fegree irom Pan American University in (rtAcrnmcnt is like a zookecper 197s 'I tliank. in c\eiv detail (it the h controlling 3 billion animals locked lures, paving particular intention to am up in cages called countries and mention ol drug laws Itiev would be my kept weak and scared by force and weapons in the streets ' Serving first as a expose the government's Big Ue not ctxitrollcd by, or for, ihc People. intimidation. Now is the time for all dispatcher at the Edinburgh Police rather than keep quiet and stay alive nil Y ARE IORI ( LOSING ON animals to unite and bust out of our l>cpaiimciit. he moved lo the held, using while collecting a fat pension, like so AMERICA! Will you be ready when they cages. It's time for the animals to kill his Vietnam surveillance and combat skills msny others. Castillo still receives create more "emergencies," as an excuse their keepers arid to control their own well, olten surprising thieves and othct death threats on s regular basis. As to declare Martini Law, forever destroying destiny. miscreants during the commission of fsr as the SHADOW Is concerned, we our liberties and freedoms'.' Will you be Tim Olscn #11)0823 crimes " feel It Is Important to get this Infor- ready, when US and United Nations P.O.Box L, Yuma, A/ S3 M640Q3 What is this shu'" ltu- Vf were mation directly from former DEA troops come to enslave us all, massacring defending then families from ixmg agents like Castillo and Michael our loved ones in the sm bombed, crippled, kidnapped, tortured, Levtne (Interviewed in SHADOW #22.) Americans, Arm Yourselves! and and killed by Na/i American Storm- who put their lives on the line to edu- Wake Up*! lie ready and able to fight for troopeis like scumbag Castillo. What you cate the public. These men are not 1 rccdom!! (Photocopy and reproduce this All the news about call "Vietnam surveillance and combat "right-wing nazi gangsters,' they are message! It is not copyrighted. Spread the Latin America you skills" was nothing levs than Castillo's HEROS, and we praise them for com- message of Freedom!) don't have time to violent terrorism against an imjiosTrishcd ing forward with the truth. -Anonymous, California and relatively defenseless civilian popula- read, condensed Into By the way, the SHADOW does not Dear SHADOW, tion, ihc re were lots ol "anti-drug" thugs tolerate drug trafficking when It In- Now that St. Patrick's Day is finally six concise pages. in the Qtnma B8 Who cares? Ilicy aafi volves death drugs like heroin or co- torturers and murderers, the m ol the over. I have been thinking about the hell Delivered pioinpily. caine and when It serves ss a method raised by some of my Irish brothers about earth! Reporting government drug- of privately funding and arming facial Kverv single week. trafficking is one tning Hut your ártica) ihc so-called "gay Irishmen" joining in on government troops. Do you? st Pal's Day marci- liaises i asiillo, who is a murderer and a -The Editors terrorist, and is lower than any dope As we Irish all know, there arc really Weekly News pusher Dear SHADOW: no gay Irishmen and it is realty a case of I mm the SHADOW: "While Castillo Isn i it a coincidence that the Depart- Jews, Germans. Italians and Ihgltshmcn Update on (he cmpathi/cd with contra viidiets in the ment of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms who arc pretending to be gay Irishmen. held, wh.i were di-pendem u|*m the cleared out ol the Federal Huikling in However, at least in my opinion. St. Pat's Day is that wonderful experience Anicnras crralie sticam ol supplies by the US, he Oklahoma City hclorc II exploded (April when everyone becomes Irish for 24 would not tolerate drug trafficking by I», lW5--Fd.i. and that there were no anyone." A 11 casualties? noun. Send $25 for 52 issues. Ihc contras ran around Nicaragua Isn i it c,k. XY 10012 conltas loo, like yout pal Castillo? Slop *ho would say "only an armed people about the Fnglish queen and her royal family....!et the Jews and Germans shake 212-674-9499 [email protected] promoting right wing na/t gangsters! can he a free people," should be scape - hands, the gays wean green drevscs, and, -Anonymous, via the Internet goated and set up to look like psycho- if some of you New York jackasses must Dear Anonymoua, paihic terrorists, responsible for the come in the nude, you can at least dye Celerlno Castillo was a devoted deaths of innocent children, just when the aaaawaa—sssaasasws—saai aaaaj yourselves green. •gent of the DEA who really believed government wants to undermine our con- I do hope some of our airy Cath In hit government's phony War on stituiion nsclf and destroy and discredit FACTSHEET5 will quit going bananas over who's Irish Drugs. When he discovered and tried these true Americans, who would warn next year. Ihcrc are Irish Protestants to Investigate US-sponsored drug the people to resist being disarmed by our -John H. Dcnson. Honda trafficking, weapons smuggling, corrupt government, and the wealthy money laundering, tortures, murders, foreign and domestic interests who would and the training of death aquads In El easlaw PRISONER MAIL: Salvador and Guatemala by the DEA Vtould Ihc government who massacred lo Ihc I ditors. he was attacked and discredited. the iiranch Davidian children at Waco, In my 49 years, I have all but heard Finally, after avoiding an assassina- cremating them alive, have any qualms the truth about the problems that wc tion attempt, he was suspended for .itn>ui killing anyone (including children), Americans arc having. The reasons wm minor violations of DEA regulations. it it furthered their strategy of using the arc obvious, it's because we have always Castillo was also Instrumental In chaos that (hey would create as an excuse been exposed lo Ihc Establishment's point Oliver North's unsuccessful Senate to deprive us of our guns and our Const i of view, ihc Corrupt Politicians' points of race In 1994. By holding town meet- tuiional Rights in ihc name of a manu- view, and the Hate Groups (no matter ings and going on radio and television factured "National Sccunt what Color, Creed. Nationality or Reli- to expose North's drug use and deal- Ihc government would have no gious points of view) It has all served to ing, he waa able to convince enough qualms about doing this, and in fact, has preserve the Corporations, Special Inter- people that North was not their hero done this in Oklahoma Ihc fact that est Groups, and the Rich (Money Mon- IF IT'S IN HERE, after all. some Secret Service agents died in the gers). Wc ihc people have lo sec the IT'S OUT THERE. All of this Is In the article, yet you blast was worth ihc sacrifice to them, to truth and the truth is that all of (he Hate only chose to die Caatlllo's past In make it look believable to Ihc public Urn (for ourselves and others), Sullenng, RAH SAMPLES 1SUIS (6) Vietnam, Texaa and Nicaragua. Re- is the way the line» think about those Anger. Pain, Sorrow, I car, Depression, KEGULAR BULK RAH -no- S70 00 gardless of whether he was right or who would serve them, expendable at a Hopelessness, Helplessness, and Confu- F5FRIEND (1STCLASS) Se.00 $40 00 wrong, thla la all part of Castillo's whim I irst ihc International Hankers sion, etc, arc just Symptoms caused by the CANADA AIR Sé 00 US S3S00US pressures from the 'Criminal Flitc' We EUROPE All SÍ 00 US $45 00 US background that led him to become a stole our ccooomy by undermining our - DEA agent. Where do you get the Idea cuirency and contriving the usurious will never be able to get them out of CASH, CHECK. OR MONEY 0R0FR, (US FUNDS) TO: that we support any of Castillo's psst "National Debt" lo steal (he wealth of our Power if we don't Slop the fighting at Ihc deeds or misdeeds? Nation lhe corrupt rich and the cheap bottom and focus our efforts on those at FACTSHEET FIVE, P.O. BOX 170099 The big picture that you seem to be politicians of htHh our major parties were the I OP Wc can no longer affon/thc SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94117 missing Is that Castillo has decided to bought off long ago, our government is Pndcs and Prejudices that wc have for

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technology—I'm not. What I'm saying critical of how they act. And that plays, is that what people don't understand is of course, off of the racist mentality DHORUBA BIN WAHAD that the organization of information is a that underlies this society, especially revolutionary phenomenon that is among white males, in relationship to By Bill Weinberg happening right now as we speak. black people and black males. And as long as this organization of For instance, when something like Veteran Black Panther and 19-year political prisoner Dhoruba Bin Wahad information is in the hands of a system Rodney King happens, the jury can (formerly Richard Moore) won his freedom in 1990 after a New York State judge which has had a history of utilizing its come back and acquit these found that the FBI had suppressed evidence that could have helped dear him of military, its police forces and any other individuals because they rationalize, his 1971 attempted double-cop murder charge. Since his release, he has tools at its disposal to control its "Well, this was a big, black dude, you returned to outspoken political activism, and has been particularly vocal against- people, to usurp people's rights, their know, he just wouldn't lay down, they the War on Drugs. With his newly-organized Black Coalition on Drugs, he lands, their lives-we should be very had a hard job, so they had to do advocates decrlminallzatlon and 'harm reduction' strategies. Dhoruba spoke suspicious, at the minimum, of this what they did, how else were they with SHADOW reporter BUI Weinberg on May 11, 1995. Photographer John process; we should question this gonna survive in that ghetto, so what?" Penley also participated In the interview. process. And it's happening on a So once you realize that we are going multiplicity of levels under different to struggle against these conditions by guises. any means necessary, that means that there are going to be those of you BW: What has all this to do with the who are going to be framed, who are movie Panther? going to be murdered, who are going to be forced into exile. DBW: The movie Panther—even though it is not an accurate portrayal BW: That's what happened to you. of the Black Panther Party—shows how the police were very brutal and DBW: That's what happened to me, racist and functioned in a way that was and that's what happened to Mumia above the law because they had a Abu Jamal. That's why Mumia Abu mandate to terrorize the African- Jamal is on death row. Which of American community. And it shows course brings us to another issue—the that the way that we dealt with that death penalty in this country. And if we was to organize in our communities really deal with the death penalty in around those issues that related to this country, and its administration and people's lives. And we showed that we its purpose, we can only conclude that were ready to stand fast against that the death penalty does not protect its type of repression, and indeed, if citizens. In fact, it legalizes the murder necessary, kill in our defense of these of citizens under the guise of ideals. And three, that drugs—hard protection and law enforcement. In drugs, heroin—were introduced into those states which have the death the African American community for penalty, homicide is not appreciably BW: Have you seen the flick CD-ROM system and tune in to some political reasons, to control, to decreased. But the new Omnibus Panther? What do you think of it? of the most sophisticated levels of misdirect and ultimately to defuse the Criminal statute significantly increases organized information in the world. development of revolutionary the crimes that are punishable by DBW: Yeah, I saw Panther. I see this You can tap into mainframe consciousness. These three messages death. And they make struggle by the movie in the context of my own information banks. This was unheard come across clearly in the movie. And oppressed—when defined as experience, rather than in the context of as little as 20 years ago. As young it is for those reasons that I appreciate terrorism—punishable by death as a of where we're at now in 1995. One of people come up in a society that's the movie. means of intimidating those who would the things that people don't realize is increasingly dependent upon What it didn't show was that the stand up against tyranny. This is what how effectively radical analysis has information, if they have this kind of consequence of developing a happens, you get electrocuted, you been removed from the debate around access they could influence debates, revolutionary consciousness would get a lethal injection. issues that affect people's lives. This is they could begin to think for inevitably mean that you were going to a direct consequence, of course, of themselves, they could begin to become the targets of the state. And BW: You did 19 years in prison for the Counter-intelligence Program. It search out other like-minded folks. once you became the targets of the attempted murder of two New York delegitimized militancy, it delegitimized state, there were no holds barred. And City police. And in the interim, new revolutionary consciousness. And the BW: OK, so how is this process of the way they went about doing that, of evidence came to light indicating way it delegitimized that was by the democratization of technology course, was to first demonize the that you had been framed. How did criminalizing revolutionaries and being controlled? Black Panther Party in the minds of that new evidence come to light, and criminalizing the movement. And the white people, so the police would be what is your current legal status? criminalization process is continuing DBW: It's being controlled in a whole seen as having a difficult time at best, today in the African American host of ways. You've noticed the and therefore you couldn't be too DBW: It came to light as a community. recent brouhaha of the Clipper Chip? CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 For instance, you can talk about the We know that technology is the War on Drugs. The face of the War on modern means by which the rich utilize Drugs in America is the face of African the labor of the poor to transfer wealth people, it's the face of Latinos. Its the to themselves. Technology is now very face of people of color-that's the face important in criminal law enforcement. of the quote-unquote "criminals" who It is very important in the state's ability are the targets of this War on Drugs. to control its own vast bureaucracy. So And this image, this illusion, is the state is completely dependent on perpetrated by the mass media, which technology, and of course the state is plays upon people's emotions to gain a creature of the rich. So, they are support for the War on Drugs. trying to control who has access to And of course the ability of the certain types of information. They say state-and I think this is the bottom they have to write new laws to deal line-to control the democratization of with freedom of speech in the technology is directly contingent upon electronic age. There are security its capacity to get the masses to concerns, where you might access subsidize and support their own someone's business files or bank repression through the creation of account. They're moving away from foreign or domestic enemies. cash to plastic, so they'll have to have a more efficient way of identifying BW: What do you mean by the people. They want one universal "democratization of technology"? number, maybe your Social Security number. Look where we're moving. DBW: Because of the giant strides of We're moving to restrict people's technology, especially in the realm of access to certain basic resources organizing information through unless they go through a certain type computers and electronic media, this of electronic process. technology is readily accessible to And I don't want to sound like anyone. You can buy a PC and someone who's afraid of ici «./,ii in <

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By A. Kronstadt

On June 2, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge signed a warrant for the execution of Mumia abu Jamal, a former Black Panther and an award-winning journalist who was convicted in the 1981 shooting death of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Ridge set the execution date for 10:00 P.M. on August 17 (coincidentally or not, the birthday of Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey). Mumia abu Jamal, whose slave name is Wesley Cook, earned the title of "voice of the voiceless" for his exposure on radio and in print of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo's racist policies, in particular the persecution by Philly police of the radical Black back-to-nature group called MOVE. In the early morning hours of December 9, 1981, Officer Faulkner was found dying of gunshot wounds to the head and back at the corner of Locust and 13th Streets in downtown Philadelphia, with Mumia lying critically wounded no more than four feet away. Both were taken to the hospital, where Faulkner died shortly afterward. At Mumia's 1982 trial, the prosecution used eleven preemptory challenges to exclude potential Black jurors, ending up with a jury of nine whites and three elderly Blacks. This jury heard evidence to the effect that Faulkner had stopped a Volkswagen driven by Mumia's brother, Billy Cook, and that some sort of struggle was going on when Mumia arrived on the scene. A taxi driver named Robert Chobert also testified against Mumia, but Chobert told a very different story than he did on the night of the killing. At the scene of the killing had told police investigators that he had seen a Black man of approximately 225 pounds shoot Faulkner, then run away; later that night Chobert told investigators at Police Headquarters that he saw the shooter run approximately 30 steps on the opposite side of the street. But when confronted on cross-examination with the fact that) Mumia weighed only 170 pounds, Chobert admitted that Mumia did not look like someone who weighed 225 pounds and was not "heavy." Chobert said that he had been mistaken on the night of the murder, and told a new story in which the killer fell to the ground no more than ten feet from Faulkner. Could it be that Chobert's turnabout had something to do with pressure from the cops? It turns out that Chobert was on probation for arson (he had thrown a Molotov cocktail at a school for pay) and was under threat of being sent back to jail because of a drunk driving conviction. Similarly, the only person to testify that Mumia had a gun in his hand was Cynthia White, a prostitute who worked the area who had three open prostitution cases the time of Mumia's trial. During that trial, White was protected by undercover police officers while working the streets. None of the other witnesses testified that they lobbying for Mumia's execution. Sabo also allowed the prosecutor to question Mumia saw Cynthia White at the scene of the killing. The jury was also told by Officer regarding his political views, and his statement (as a teenager more than a decade Faulkner's partner that Mumia had blurted out a "confession," while lying wounded in before the killing) that "political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." the hospital. Another cop, Officer Gary Wakshul, who was there at the time the In the days after the signing of the death warrant, activists have gathered to demand confession was purportedly made, wrote a police statement noting that "the negro male a stop to the execution of Mumia abu Jamal. In Minneapolis, a June 3 demonstration made no statements." Wakshul was, however, unable to testify at Mumia's trial because against the execution was violently dispersed by police who sprayed pepper gas and the police department had sent him on vacation. No ballistics or other tests had been arrested 11 people on charges of "probable cause to riou" In New York, one thousand done to prove that Mumia's gun, which had been introduced into evidence, was indeed people marched around Penn Station on June 5 in a demonstration that seemed to the weapon that killed Faulkner. bring out every political activist in New York City. The large crowd was hemmed in on Mumia's attorney, Leonard Weinglass, is demanding a new trial, and is also the sidewalk in spite of obvious opportunities to take over Penn Station or af least, the demanding that Judge Albert Sabo, who presided over the trial at which all of this street, thanks in part to the demonstration marshals (from Workers' World Party and misinformation was introduced into evidence, be removed from the case. Sabo, who December 12 movement) who passed around a flyer that stated "no civil disobedience imposed the death sentence was deemed "a defendant's nightmare" by the Philadelphia of any kind will take place." (Actually, demonstrators did move aside police barricades Inquirer. Judge Sabo refused to postpone the proceedings to enable Officer Wakshul to that had been set up to impede the march.) Numerous demonstrators expressed return from vacation. Sabo also refused to allow Mumia's lawyer to cross-examine dissatisfaction with this policy in spite of cooperating to avoid a display of dissention witness Robert Chobert about his troubles with the law. A former sheriff, Sabo has had among the supporters of Mumia. It remains to be seen how long this "protest as usual" a long-time connection with Philadelphia's Fraternal Order of Police, which is currently policy will persist as the date for the judicial murder of Mumia abu Jamal draws near.

PIGS FINALLY EVICTED 3 BUILDINGS WITH THE HELP OF SWAT TEAMS AND AN ARMORED TANK....

A FEW DAYS LATER, THE COMMUNITY RETURNED THE FAVOR, HITTING THE OCCUPYING PIGS WITH A TANK OF THEIR OWN

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BEEPER USERS BEWARE!! COCOTS: WHAT THE HELL Beeper Buster Pager Intercept System Now Available!! ARE THEY, ANYWAY? By "..oooOO Count Zero OOooo.." By Frank Lee (The Midnight Computer Wiring Society) (The SHADOW'S man in the beeper business) make."....COCOTS are not naive...they Anyone who has or makes calls to Let's make this phile short and to the won't let you NEAR the unrestricted a beeper should be aware of the point...a COCOT is an acronym for dialtone until you fork over the "Beeper Buster," sold by Shomer-Tec, "Customer Owned Coin Operated Telefone"...in other words, a COCOT is a cash-ola...heh heh...or so they THINK! a law enforcerpent supply company See, the Achilles heel of the COCOT that only sells to pigs. The Beeper fone OWNED or RENTED by a Buster can "monitor every message PAYING CUSTOMER (most likely, a is the FACT that ALL PAYFONES MUST LET YOU MAKE 1-800 CALLS sent to any pager. 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You can put in a target. suggests that they can avoid the telephone number, such as a pay SLEAZY quality of a COCOT is the fact that it DOES NOT RECIEVE NOWL.what have we got here?...a "paperwork hassles" required of them phone at a street corner or a bad INCOMING CALLS..this, of course, is DIALTONE?...yes, you guessed it, the for each number they investigate, in guy's cellular phone number, and the because of $$...if people are calling IN to dialtone you now hear is the effect encouraging them to use this Beeper Buster monitors all pages on a UNRESTRICED dialtone of the equipment illegally. channel and lets you know who is a COCOT, the COCOT is not making money...and businesses always want to COCOTs customer loop...with an This new technology available to getting beeped to call that particular UNRESTRICTED dialtone, all vou need pigs through the private sector is phone number. It will provide you with make as much $$ as possiblc.even if it spooky. The Shomer-Tec ad the capcode of all those who called, hurts the consumer...(think about it.it continues: "The Beeper Buster can and you can then plug those numbers REALLY sucks calling someone at home See COCOTS On Following Page capture all messages containing into the Beeper Buster and watch each from a COCOT, then not be able to have particular search data (such as a of them individually. It can monitor up him/her call you back to save $$..."Guess phone number of a suspect location or to 100 pagers simultaneously and print I'll have to keep feeding the COCOT pay phone) or any combination of the out separately all messages any of quarters!") above. Special techniques are used to those pagers receives. Remember, Where is a good place to look for COCOTs? Restaurants, clubs, bars, hotels REVERSE determine the capcode (the unique you don't need anybody's co- and other "convenient" locations. address of each pager), meaning you operation to use the Beeper Buster. INFORMATION: How do you figure out if you have do not access to the target pager to No hassles, paperwork, or security found a COCOT? Simplc.a COCOT will capture its messages. The Beeper leaks. Many of the bad guys know you MORE ON HOW TO have NO TELCO LOGOS on it....no New Buster even perfectly intercepts the can hit their phones, so they avoid England Telefone symbols....it may look GET AN ADDRESS new alpha pages (these are the newer them. But they think that their pagers pagers that let you receive entire are secure, and the messages you'll just like a Telco fone...chrome, with blue FROM A stickers and all that...ALSO..a COCOT sentences). Since it operates intercept can be very revealing. And typically charges MORE for a local call TELEPHONE automatically, it can run for days they'll never know you're watching unattended. You can utilize the search their every move." than a regular Telco payfone (in Massachusetts, local calls are a dime, in NUMBER places like NYC, they are 25 cents..)....a COCOT will most often have a By Roy G. Biv synthesized voice that asks you to "please deposit 25 cents" or whatever..ALSO..^ome FaNcY COCOTS In SHADOW #34, we described will not look like payfones at all...some in two methods for obtaining hotels have weird LCD displays and look addresses when you only have a totally different..but they ALWAYS telephone number. We have recently charge you more than a normal discovered 'UnDirectory Service" payphone. which provides a reverse You must understand that the information service for only $1.00 COCOT is a MIMIC... essentially, it per minute. Just call 1-900-933-3330 wants you to THINK that it is just a plain and follow the synthesized voice ol' payfonc.pick up the handset..hear instructions. 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"Sarajevo Pipeline", an electronic link signalled the beginning of the end of the Support local, independent internet between the world wide web and the publicly-funded computer network infra- providers who give real internet access war-torn regions of the former Yugo- structure. and do not restrict usage. Encourage slavia. This race toward "privitization" is others to cancel their accounts on the The objective of the Sarajevo Pipeline taking place behind closed doors and in is to break the siege of Sarajevo by pro- "malls" and to sign up with independent corporate boardrooms, well outside the moting free expression and dialogue providers or get an account thorough a sphere of' public debate, and threatens with the inhabitants of Sarajevo. To raise university (students and professors the very existance of free speech over support and help provide the means to usually get free accounts on university electronic networks. Just as shopping maintain open channels of communica- servers). malls are private property,' where "free- tions and break the stream of disinfor- Some may resist giving up the "con- dom of speech" means that the owners mation by the mainstream media by pro- venience" of these services because it's of the property have the right to silence viding a public forum on the internet often more difficult to set up "real" those with whom they disagree, often where citizens of war can write their own internet access, and requires a bit more using their own private security per- history in their own words. To develop time to learn how to use it effectively. sonnel (rent-a cops), the private spaces direct contacts with the citizens of However, these should be more reasons on the internet will follow the same Sarajevo, Tuzla, Split, Belgrade, Skopje, Our intention is to expand the already to boycott the megamalls, who would model. 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% Centro de Documentação e Apoio à Pesquisa unesp Cedap 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2í 29 SHADOW #36~(JUNE/AUG.1995) PAGE 20 realize that there are progressive people in the Democratic Party who are black, and who are white and who are Latino. And there may be progressive people who have gotten into the Republican Party as a means community, had a policy of anti-heroin DBW: I'm trying to set up a Database of organizing from within. That may interdiction. A lot of these guys who I Institute for the Development of Pan- well be. But we think that if they are grew up with in the South Bronx who African Policy, which basically hopes truly progressive, that they will support were selling heroin—they knew that to embody Kwame Nkrumah's axiom within their own party the same kind of what they were doing was having a that before Africa could achieve agenda that we support. So the debilitating effect on the black economic unity it first must achieve presence of an independent political community. They knew it wasn't right, political unity. And I think that one of party can only strengthen their hand but they were just in it for the money. the keys to organizing the African- inside the Democratic or Republican So the only way that you could deal American community here is to party, it can only enhance their with these individuals was to deal with organize Africans everywhere, position. So we don't see them as them on a level that they could internationally, around a common being mutually exclusive. understand. They understood violence. vision and a common perception of I think that black folks and poor They understood intimidation. They the African condition. So I'm trying to people want results. And they can't get understood controlling territory. So we set up an institute that will develop results inside an institution that's had to wage that type of struggle with policies, programs, and ideas, and ultimately controlled by people like them. Of course, they had the police bring together people from the African Stanley Hill and other opportunists on their side. diaspora around the world. who pull $100,000 salaries, who have consequence of a long struggle to So we would try to identify where We have NGO status in Africa. We no relationship to the masses of prove my innocence. In 1975, four they hung out, where their processing are trying to train Africans in the people. I don't think that the years after I was captured, I filed a suit places were, and we would knock diaspora and Africans on the continent communities want that kind of political in federal court, in the Southern District them off. The most heinous drug in a common language and a common representation anymore. dealers, of course, we would have to in New York. At that time they had the organizational network, and organizing Church Committee hearings on try to make an example out of. I can't information through the Internet. It'll be BW: You've spoken against the government excess as a consequence go into that. a database institute much like the militarization in the name of the War But the police used the drug on Drugs. What kind of solutions do of Watergate and all that stuff, (and it RAND Institute, much like any other was revealed that the FBI had carried dealers as their network against the institution that studies problems and you see to the drug crisis? Do you out this massive Counter-intelligence black underground. They would tell presents solutions and analyses to support legalization? Program in the African-American them, look, you're not dealing any heads of governments and people in community and especially against the drugs here unless you give us what positions to make these policies into DBW: I support decriminalization, Black Panther Party. So when I heard we want. So they would use their viable programs. For instance, we because I think that decriminalization is this—knowing that I was innocent, of network of drug dealers and have a center that studies the in the interests of poor people in the course—I knew that the FBI must have informants in order to get information contemporary political, social and African-American community. I think its on the Black Liberation Army. information about my case and I filed geographical problems of Africa, and very important for people to my suit. They danced around for five presents its findings to the various understand what a political pretext for BW: So these actions against heroin years, and then in 1980, the federal governments in the Organization of repression the War on Drugs is, and dealers were carried out In 1971 by judge ordered the FBI to turn over all African Unity. how the War on Drugs has translated the Black Liberation Army. Did the of the documents that they had on me into a war on Black America It's and the Black- Panther Party in New BLA develop from elements within BW: Tell us about your current work important for us to understand that the York. And they turned over 300,000 the Black Panther Party here in New here in the US. entire militarization of the police pages. And when we went over these York City? department in our community has documents we found material that DBW: I work with the Campaign to gone on in the past ten years under DBW: This is true. It developed that indicated that they were working with Free Black and New Afrikan Political the rubric of the War on Drugs. The the New York City Police Department way as a consequence of a split within Prisoners in the US. One of the things erosion of our civil rights has occurred every step of the way and that at the Black Panther Party. It was an we are doing now is raising petitions to a significant degree as a major junctures in the investigation into ideological split, but it was also a split for Mumia Right now we have about consequence of the War on Drugs. We the shooting, they had been present, that was manufactured by the 2,000 signatures. We're going to have to understand that 80 to 85 and that they had taken in the- same Counter-intelligence Program, and in present those names not only to the percent of.the people in prisons, information. But, unlike the New York certain respects by the cocaine governor of Pennsylvania, but also to especially state prisons, are in prison City Police Department, they didn't addiction of people like Huey Newton the president of South Africa, Nelson for so-called drug-related crimes. So make like they had lost the documents and David Hilliard. The Counter- Mandela, whom we have a relationship we have to take the criminal justice Because they needed their information intelligence Program was able to focus with, and hopefully encourage him to system out of the drug problem. We to be accurate. So I got some of these in on these weaknesses in the speak out against the death penalty in need to see the drug problem for what documents. They were heavily excised, leadership, and that led to a split in the general and against Mumia' s it is. heavily deleted. But after fighting over Party which, absent the government's execution in particular. We need to see people who are each deletion, we got enough involvement and absent a certain We also are currently starting to addicted to hard drugs, first of all, as evidence to go back into state court amount of paranoia on the part of the develop a mobilization of young . people who should have help. They and overturn my conviction. That was leadership, could have been resolved. people around an independent political don't exist in a social vacuum. The another three-year process. But because these forces were there movement in this city. It's still in its largest segment of people who are So in 1990, I was released as a to make sure these contradictions infant stages at this point. But there's a addicted to drugs are addicted to legal consequence of this. I was the first were never resolved, the Party was considerable amount of potential. We drugs. They are the Stepford Wives, and only member of the Black Panther split. And then the government really think the time is right in this city for an you know, the everyday office worker Party leadership to overturn a went after the most militant faction, the independent black political party. At who's under pressure. So the use of conviction based on evidence received so-called Eldridge Cleaver faction the same time, we feel the time is right drugs to relieve the pressure and from the Counter-intelligence Program. which was mainly in the eastern United for a coalition in this city that cope with the quality of life in the States. And this was the beginning of transcends class and caste and developed societies has to be seen as BW: Is there going to be a retrial? the Black Liberation Army. gender.-People in this city are sorely a consequence of the alienating On the other hand, the West Coast oppressed, whether they're black, process, a wholistic alienating process DBW: No, they surrendered. faction of the party went more into ' white, male, female, gay, straight. We that we have to begin to address. electoral politics and, not ironically, into are all subjected to the Giuliani and BW: How's your case going? Are gangsterism. When they went into Pataki economic program, which is BW: In 1995, the most well-armed, you still suing the FBI and the New straight electoral politics without the subsidies for the rich and subjection radical, uncompromising movement York State prison service? revolutionary nationals' perspective for the poor. So I think that this city is in America is on the right. What's that we had on the East Coast, they ripe for a grassroots political your take on the militia movement? DBW: Well, yes. They're starting to resorted to gangsterism. Bobby Seale movement, ripe for an insurgency surrender too. and Elaine Brown ran for office, and within the rank-and-file of organized DBW: Two weeks before the bombing that really set the stage for the first labor. I think that all of these in Oklahoma who was on the cover of BW: You think they're going to election of a black mayor in Oakland. potentialities are here, but many of us Soldier of Fortune? The Michigan settle? I'm not saying that their involvement in who claim to be activists are not willing Militia saying they "defend America" electoral politics in the Bay Area didn't to come together and deal with them OK, Soldier of Fortune isn't your DBW: Yes, I do. have a significant empowering impact in any type of coherent fashion. mainstream, you know, Life magazine. on the black community there. I don't But if you look at the current militia BW: There's a scene In Panther think that was ever the criticism. But BW: What would be the stance of system, much of it was instigated and where the Panthers raid a heroin it's not coincidental that at the same this party towards the left wing of organized under the Federal warehouse. You were involved in time that they did that, they were into . the Democratic machine, Dennis Emergency Management Agency's similar incidents. gangsterism. The Party lost all Rivera, Ruth Messinger, et cetera? direction. These militias grew out of the relationship to the organization that I United States government. You notice DBW: Yeah, there was a place that the had joined—politically, ideologically, DBW: Well, of course an independent that Clinton was reluctant to condemn police let operate in Harlem; it morally. political tendency in this city would the militia even after the Oklahoma operated with their knowledge, and have to see the Democratic Party and bombing. He said, well of course they their pay-offs. We, the Black Liberation BW: Tell us about the work you're the Republican Party as part-and- CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 Army, the underground in the black currently doing in Africa. parcel of the same thing. However, we

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activity indicated an imminent UN Fortune magazine. military skills. MILITIAS.. invasion-only to find that it was the just In 1990, a similar scandal erupted in New York's Democratic Rep. on their activities overturned altogether. the Border Patrol on joint maneuvers Virginia, resulting in several hundred Carolyn Maloney is introducing New Mexico's Catron County has with the DEA. officers, of the Virginia Defense Force legislation to halt the Army Civilian joined Nevada's Nye at the forefront of However, federal plans for martial getting the sack. An investigation by the Marksmanship Program, which sponsors the County Rule movement. County law are quite real. In 1984, National state legislature revealed that units were local shooting clubs and sells surplus attorney James Catron (whose ancestors Security Council aide Lt. Col. Oliver engaging in similar "gung-ho" activities, arms and ammunition through the state gave the county its name) has drawn up North drew up a plan with the Federal including training for drug raids and National Guards. In the wake of the ordinances barring the feds from Emergency Management Agency planning to purchase a tank. Oklahoma City bombing, Michigan regulating its own lands in the county. (FEMA) to suspend the US Nonetheless, the following year, Militia members were expelled from the To help write the ordinances, Catron Constitution and seize draconian powers SDFs in Virginia, Georgia and other program at the state's Camp Grayling called in Karen Budd, a longtime foe of in the event of a US invasion of Central states were mobilized to help keep armory, but Maloney alleges that "40 environmental regulation who formerly America. Under the scenario, thousands order at home as army reserve troops- million rounds of ammunition have worked in the Reagan Interior of Central American refugees were which overlap with the National Guard- fallen into the hands of extremists." Department under Secretary James expected to flood through the US- were mobilized to Saudi Arabia for Given these connections, the Militias' Watt. She also worked in Watt's own Mexiço border, and anti-war protests Operation Desert Storm. paranoia about FEMA and martial law anti-environmental organization, the would erupt throughout the country. The biggest scandal was in plans may be based on inside Coors beer-funded Mountain States FEMA would establish detainment California, where an investigation by information (even if the paranoia about Legal Foundation, which defends camps on ten pre-designated military Assemblywoman Maxine Waters the UN takeovers based only on corporations and developers. bases across the country to round up revealed that the State Military Reserve kneejerk xenophobia). The Catron sheriff has threatened to thousands of refugees and protestors. had drawn up a contingency plan in the There are some pretty obvious arrest NFS personnel, and has formed A "readiness exercise" dubbed REX event that the California National lessons here. The challenge before an armed posse of local ranchers to 84 ALPHA was carried out by FEMA Guard was mobilized overseas. The plan progressive people in America in 1995 back him up. The October 1994 in coordination with the INS and other entailed arming the force with M-14 is to establish a grassroots network of newsletter of the Utah-based National related agencies. Mandated by an rifles from the National Guard's Camp folks across the country who are Federal Lands Conference, mouthpiece executive order signed by President San Luis Obispo and called for the opposed to both fascist violence and of the County Rule movement, featured Ronald Reagan, REX 84 ALPHA was force to open "counterintelligence police-state measures (whether they a lead article calling for the formation carried out in secret. However, word* investigative files." It was also revealed come from Democrats or of Militias, and reprinting Militia start- leaked out during the Congressional that a Soldier of Fortune editor was Republicans)—and find ways to act up info provided by MOM. hearings on Contragate in 1988, and a training State Military Reserve units in before it is too late. NFS personnel in Catron were few articles on the scheme briefly desert warfare. threatened with arrest last June for appeared in the press. However, bills to disband the State SOURCES & FURTHER READING attempting to run a water quality test at Interestingly, one of the first papers Military Reserve were consistently voted a gold mill owned by a local rancher on to break the story was The Spotlight. down in Sacramento. Burghardt, Tom public land. There is reason to believe that the Numerous federal bills, introduced "Neo-Nazis Salute the Anti-Abortion The County Rule movement radical right would be privy to inside by the likes of South Carolina's Sen. Zealots" interlocks with the Wise Use property- information on the FEMA martial law Strom Thurmond and Ohio's Rep. Covert Action Quaterly, Spring 1995 rights movement, which is underwritten plan. by real estate, ranching, agribusiness, Among the groups participating in James Traficant, to provide federal Connolly, Ed mining and timber interests as well as REX 84 ALPHA were the little-known arms and training for the State Defense "A Highly Irregular Force: private utilities and energy State Defense Forces. Under the Forces have also been voted down. But Scandals of the State Militias" conglomerates. Giant corporations like martial law plan, these groups were to under the REX 84 ALPHA scenario (in The Nation, March 18, 1991 Georgia-Pacific and DuPont are be armed and "deputized" by FEMA in. which Congress is out of the loop harnessing the anger of small property the event of national emergency. because constitutional government is Gordon, Diana owners-who often really are struggling The State Defense Forces are a suspended), the SDFs would indeed be "The Politics of Anti-Terrorism" under costly and labyrinthine federal revival of the defense militias which federalized. The Nation, May 22, 1995 regulations-to push through the existed in the US during World War II. Some researchers alleged that some political changes they need to further In the 1980s, they were created by state of the arms distributed to the SDFs in Helvarg, David plunder the continent's land, water and legislation at federal behest in 24 states REX 84 ALPHA were never in fact "Property Rights & Militias: forests in the global Free Trade order. across the country. During this period, returned to army stockpiles, but were The Anti-Enviro Connection" Western Republican leaders such as National Guard troops were being sent diverted to the Nicaraguan Contras. Tfie Nation, May 22, 1995 Sen. Larry Craig of Idaho and Gov. Fife down to Honduras and elsewhere in Others may have been diverted to the Symington of Arizona have attended Central America at federal command to rightist para-military groups linked to Junas, Daniel Wise Use meetings this year. back up US military efforts in the the SDFs. Oliver North was at that time "Rise of the Citizen Militias: Republican Gov. Mike Leavitt of Utah region. The US appeared to be working closely with many such groups, Angry White Guys with Guns" unveiled his "Conference of the States" escalating towards an invasion. If especially those under the umbrella of Covert Action Quaterly, Spring 1995 plan to end federal usurping of local National Guard troops were mobilized the quasi-fascist World Anti-Communist authority at the Western States Summit to Central America, it was reasoned, an League (WACL), in his efforts to secure in Phoenix last spring. auxiliary force would be needed to take private funding for the Contras. WACL Nye County's Dick Carver has been their place at home—especially to back chief Gen. John K. Singlaub, former a featured speaker at both Wise Use up police in quelling "civil disorder". commander of US forces in South and Christian Identity events. The State Defense Forces sought Korea, was deeply involved in the illegal .100% County sheriffs are also deputizing recruits by placing ads in para-military Contra resupply operation led by North. local posses in the name of good old and survivalist magazines. Consequently, In the 1970s, Singlaub had been (Pure American racist law-'n'-order. In many radical right elements were drawn groomed by his friends in the ultra-right Phoenix, Sheriff Joe Arpaio has to the SDFs. This soon resulted in a Lyndon LaRouche cult to lead a deputized local suburban weekend backlash. military coup d'etat against President Urine warriors~and outfitted them with guns In 1987, Governor Norm Bangerter Jimmy Carter. and uniforms-to help him round up purged the Utah State Guard of all but There are elements in the Pentagon Guaranteed Drug Free Mexican migrants and other 30 officers out of a force of 400 after who are clearly sympathetic to the Just Add Warm Water undesirables for the desert jail camps he investigators found that members of the Militias. After the Oklahoma blast, a Directions Included is building with barbed wire fences and Aryan Nations had infiltrated the group. newsletter called 77ie Resister: The Korean war surplus army tents. Tfie Salt Lake Tribune reported that Official Publication of the Special Forces In March, US Fish & Wildlife agents Utah State Guard officers were training Underground was discovered in the investigating the shooting of a wolf at the Hayden Lake compound in Idaho library at Ft. Bragg, NC, the Army base under the Endangered Species Act in and conducting commando exercises in where Green Berets are trained, and Idaho's Lemhi County beat a hasty the Utah desert with live ammo and where Tim McVeigh was posted. Filled retreat after Sheriff Brett Baraslou explosives. The FBI opened an with bitter diatribes against Clinton and threatened to "go to Plan B." A local investigation into weapons thefts from a the Waco siege, 77ie Resister is rancher explained to the agents that Utah's Tooele Army Depot, where apparently produced by active-duty means calling up the Militia. Utah State Guard officers were Green Berets, and circulated among Cal Greenup, a paramilitary buff suspected of diverting arms to the both Green Berets and "civilian" Militias arrested for threatening officials in Aryan Nations at Hayden Lake. across the country. One recent issue Montana in March, and now a fugitive, Also in 1987, the Texas State Guard included an open letter to the Militia Produced by Byrd Laboratories, movement warning that an armed told authorities: "There cannot be came under investigation. One Texas Purveyors of Fine Urine Products cleansing without shedding blood." Statp Guard battalion led by Robert confrontation with the federal Holloway, a former Vietnam Green government would be premature. POWDERED URINE: GUARANTEED THE MARTIAL LAW CONNECTION: Beret who had served as a mercenary "Should the federal government decide TO BEAT PISS TESTS!! 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% Centro de Documentação e Apoio à Pesquisa unesp Cedap 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 25 29 SHADOW #36--(JUNE/AUG.1995) PAGE 22 BW: What do you have to say about so-called "gangsta rap," and people like Tupac Shakur, whose mother was a Panther but who has mm obviously embraced a certain kind of nihilism? they have given rein to the right DBW: Look at Mexico's relationship to wing—rand then used the reining-in of the United States. Here's a full-blown DBW: We have to understand that the the right wing as a justification for peasant revolutionary movement that reason rap is so controversial is that it repression on the left, and against came out of nowhere, nobody even reflects the reality of lower-class black poor people all over again! And that's knew about it. That shows you how in youth. And this reality has come into exactly what they're doing now! touch they were with the rural Indian conflict with the black bourgeoisie, the population. black middle-class professionals who JP: And there are public figures who Increasingly in the Third World, and want to portray themselves as the were part of the Ku Klux Klan who particularly in Latin America, we see success story of African America. are now involved in these militias. the browning of the population. The Culture is a legitimate arena of the population is browning again after the struggle for liberation. Just like rock in DBW: Right. And this phenomenon is first wave of the European its initial form was a music of rebellion, rapidly occurring throughout the conquistadors. Every state in Latin a music that expressed the nihilism of spectrum of the European nation-state. America is a European settler state. white youth who were fed up with this Its happening in France, its happening Every one. Just like South Africa, just white mom-and-pop picket-fence in Italy... like the state of Israel. And almost reality that didn't reflect the terror that throughout the history of Latin was going on behind the picket BW: With Jean-Marie LePen and the America, only those who resembled fence...you know? The rape and Mussolini nostalgia people... the light-skinned conquistadors were ' have a right to march around on the brutalization of youth behind the picket in positions of power, up to the point weekends in uniform and of course fence. DBW: Yeah! I mean look what where some of them even have they have a right to bear arms, and we So look at rap music and look at happened with LePen in France, he German names. But with the browning shouldn't paint everybody with the where it came from. It came from out got almost 20 percent of the vote! And of the population, these light-skinned same brush as these two evil of the South Bronx. It came out of what's his platform? Anti-immigration. descendents of the conquistadors are individuals. Now could you imagine the Brownsville, it came out of Harlem. And what's the platform of the right- becoming increasingly isolated. They president of the United States saying These were kids who had no place to are depleting their resources at a wing militia here? That people of color go, who had no movement to go to, that about the Black Panther Party? phenomenal rate to maintain their and slime-balls from the Third World because the Panthers were destroyed, are diluting America. What's LePen's position, while the descendents of BW: Well, do you think the militia to whom a hero was nothing but a fish position on France? That France has Indians and of African slaves are has the right to bear arms and sandwich. So they would gather to reassert itself as nation with a great reasserting themselves,and reasserting march around on the weekends? together in the park or in the their rights and reasserting their mission, which is the same fascistic basement of vacant building and they vision that Hitler had for Germany. majority status. DBW: I don't think that's the issue. I would play tapes and rap over the What's the right in the United States think the issue is that the climate that music, or they would go get their talking about? About reasserting the BW: What do you have to say about was created by the traditional right, by mom's and pop's old records and old values that made them great. OK? so-called "gangsta rap," and people so-called conservatives in government, scratch on them, and they created a These aren't coincidences. These are like Tupac Shakur, whose mother and by big business, has engendered things that are happening in a way that was a Panther but who has whole genre of music that was first these attitudes on the part of white accrues to the benefit of a particular obviously embraced a certain kind attacked as being transitory, irrelevant. males. They define these people as But it was white males who controlled elite in this society. Why are working of nihilism? "angry white males with apocalyptic the music industry that made gangsta white folks, so-called "white trash", visions." I mean they're just making rap)—the 2 Uve Crew genre of rap, the attracted to the extreme right? What DBW: We have to understand that the excuses for that shit. misogynist rap, the homophobic was the greatest element in support of reason rap is so controversial is that it Their vision of the US government rap—the type of rap that was popular. slavery in the antebellum south? "White reflects the reality of lower-class black isn't all that crazy, you understand. It's trash." They didn't even own slaves. youth. And this reality has come into They didn't gravitate towards the just that they go to extremes, with talk But the existence of slavery was the conflict with the black bourgeoisie, the positive rap, because most of the of Russian troops on the borders and positive rap was black nationalist, that only thing that made them special. black middle-class professionals who all that. But their vision of government, reflected the ideology of organizations Otherwise they would have been want to portray themselves as the and how government treats the small slaves. success story of African America like the Black Panther Party. You see? person and relates to the people, is Now one of the things that the Culture is a legitimate arena of the This genre of rap was completely not all that different from ours. Which militia talks about isViow the struggle for liberation. Just like rock in ignored. gets back to my point about the government has bent over backward its initial form was a music of rebellion, development of the European nation- to deal with poor people, with people a music that expressed the nihilism of BW: What's your message today to state into a national security model of color, to give things to Black white youth who were fed up with this the kids in Bed Stuy and the South that sees all of its citizens as potential workers, to Latino workers, to the white mom-and-pop picket-fence Bronx? subversives. exclusion of white males. That's the reality that didn't reflect the terror that same rationale that poor white trash was going on behind the picket DBW: The same message that the BW: So where do you see the militia used in the antebellum south about fence..you know? The rape and Black Panther Party called forth. That fitting into this? slavery—if you freed the slaves, where brutalization of youth behind the picket they organize to defend the integrity of would that leave a self-respecting fence. the African American community on all DBW: They fit in just like the Ku «lux white man? That's why the Ku Klux So look at rap music and look at levels, and that they understand that Klan fit in during Reconstruction. If you Klan became necessary—to terrorize where it came from. It came from out because violence is as American as recall, during Reconstruction in this them back into submission. of the South Bronx. It came out of apple pie, they have to organize the country, they used the veterans who The bombing of the federal building Brownsville, it came out of Harlem. community's capacity to carry out had lost the war on the Confederate can be looked at from a number of These were kids who had no place to revolutionary violence in its own self- side, with the complicity of certain perspectives. If we believe in go, who had no movement to go to, interest. I say that with the proviso that Union elements, to organize the Ku conspiracy theories, we can say that because the Panthers were destroyed, as long as we don't have control over Mux Klan to terrorize black people law enforcement agencies that its really a fantastic "black op" on the to whom a hero was nothing but a fish away from the polls, to terrorize the brutalize and murder us, then we have part of US intelligence. Or perhaps we sandwich. So they would gather newly-freed slaves back into to deal with racist attack on that level. can say that it was something that was together in the park or in the submission and back onto the set into motion that got out of control. basement of vacant building and they plantation under share-cropping. That Or we can say that the government would play tapes and rap over the STOP THE MURDER OF MUMIA ABU JAMAL was their role. And they marched on had absolutely nothing, to do with it music, or they would go get their *What You Can Do* Washington a hundred thousand Harass these people: because they never suspected that mom's and pop's old records and strong. 1 they would need a justification from the scratch on them, ana they created a Pa. Governor Tom Ridge Main Capitol Bldg. Rm. 205 right in order to do what they are like the state of Israel. And almost BW: So how do you see the analogy going to do to the American people. I throughout the history of Latin Harrisburg PA 17120 to the militia in 1995? think it might be a combination of all America, only those who resembled (717) 788-1109, fax (717) 788-1998 President Clinton three. the light-skinned conquistadors were DBW: Just like law enforcement was 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Look at how the new legislation is in positions of power, up to the point involved in the Ku Mux Klan; law Washington, DC 20006 being pushed through. They're saying, where some of them even have enforcement is involved with these (202) 456-1111 fax (202) 456-2461 if you don't push this legislation German names. But with the browning militias. The military belonged to the Judge Legrome Davis through, you're soft on terrorism. But of the population, these light-skinned Ku Klux Klan, and trained them; the 1408 One East Penn Square look at states like Israel, which is a descendents of the conquistadors are military is involved in these Philadelphia, PA 19107 completely militarized national security becoming increasingly isolated. They militias—many of them from covert (215) 686-9534 fax (215) 686-2865 state—and they can't stop attacks on are depleting their resources at a ops, many of them special teams, like Judge Alex Bonavitacola their civilians. So what makes the phenomenal rate to maintain their SEALS and special commando units 516 City Hall United States think they can? position, while the descendents of that are indoctrinated with the anti- Indians and of African slaves are Philadelphia, PA 19107 terrorist theology of the state. OK? So BW: What do you think of the reasserting-themselves and reasserting (215) 686-9534 fax (215) 567-7328 the relationship is that whenever they Zapatista revolutionaries in Mexico? their rights and reasserting their Demonstrate June 3, 11 AM, Liberty Bell, needed to terrorize the African majority status. 5th & Market Street, Phila, PA community or terrorize poor people, See page 14 for NY bus information

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Many will undoubtedly come from common enemy. So they're focusing on demonstrators. With the end of the travellers, squatters, ravers-those Cold War and the IRA ceasefire, British people who represent an alternative intelligence is increasingly using lifestyle," says Mark Chadwick, lead computer surveillance to target singer of the Levellers, a rock group domestic dissent. Last summer, the that takes its name from the 17th government initiated Operation century rebels who advocated the Snapshot to monitor and record the abolition of all private property in movements and personal data of Britain. travellers But now, the government's and festival organizers. Since then, scapegoats are biting back. Scotland Yard has directed the Special Over the spring, the country was rocked Branch-the agency responsible for by increasingly violent protests by gathering intelligence on threats to animal rights groups intent on blocking nation security~to assemble the transport of live calves to Europe. computerized files on activists-including Police are now calling groups like the animal rights groups, "environmental Animal Liberation Front the biggest terrorists," and members of the threat to security on the mainland since Freedom Network. IRA laid down arms. And while the The increase in surveillance and government likes to portray the activists restrictions on right to silence have as "eco-terrorists" and "professional provoked a storm of opposition from agitators," many school governors and top magistrates and the leading law old age pensioners have also taken part societies. But like the Democrats in the in the blockades. U.S. with Clinton's Crime Bill, the Now, instead of big demos against British Labor Party did not actively the CJA, activists have spread out to a oppose the CJA for fear of seeming multitude of causes. There's a growing "soft on crime." While a few progressive land rights campaign-last April, several members campaigned against the bill, hundred people took part in a week- the leadership chose to abstain. long campout to protest the Liberty's Puddephat believes the privatization of public lands. In May, CJA marks a trend in "punishment 300 occupied the sacred stones of PIGS BEAT SQUATTER AFTER HIS ESCAPE FROM PADDY WAGON culture, spreading from the U.S. to Stonehenge to challenge the public Britain and propelled by what he calls a restrictions on the site. In addition, and covered oil slicks and paint with sand. reading: "Justice for the 13th Street "market approach to crime." bicyclists have mobilized a burgeoning Tow trucks hauled away vehicles parked Squats" + "OINK," "PIG," "SWINE." "Increasingly the crime debate is being "Reclaim the Streets" movement to near the squats. Stanley Cohen later told the SHADOW shaped by the interests of those who protest "car culture." Bikers in cities Later that afternoon, HPD's private that the commanding cops believed that have something to sell in that across the country are orchestrating contractors erected scaffolding at 541 + squatters would burn their buildings with environment-police, the security "critical mass" bike rides-despite the 545 and boarded up windows. A new roll themselves inside when the pigs raided. industry, the media, etc." He points out angry response of motorists, who have down gate was installed at 539. Upstairs Stanley feels that the large number of that in Britain, just as in the U.S., the already smashed several bikes. (One in residents were allowed to remain. Almost press people, street opposition and expansion of police and judicial powers 7 kids in the U.K; suffers from asthma, all those arrested earlier were released, NYPD Chief Bratton's presence on the is coupled with a move to privatize yet most of the country's cars still run except for a man named Cheese who scene is what kept the pig violence down. prisons. on lead fuel.) went through the system for "Obstructing "Ranking cops could not afford the battle The CJA authorizes private firms to "What we're really addressing is our Government Justice" and resisting arrest that would have erupted if they had not design and manage prisons, including social and environmental decline- when he was busted for miming nazi sa- been there," he said. new "youth training centres" for juvenile because they go hand in hand," says lutes and goose steps on the roof of 545. In the end, the pigs underestimated offenders. The CJA also permits the use Berens. "There's no point in pinning Several squatters allowed inside to the willingness of the community to de- of privately-run prison ships and allows your hopes on any political party. Just retrieve their belongings later that day fend the squats. They were surprised by the Home Secretary to declare any focus on what's causing you the most discovered many things stolen by HPD the level of resistance, which demonstra- building a prison if necessary. anger and take direct action, because contractors. Earlier, an HPD moving van ted co-ordinated organized collective deci- This trend toward for-profit that's the only way we're going to get also took a load of squatters' property to sions, as opposed to the random scattered incarceration goes along with a growing change. We've got nothing to lose." an unknown location. Nearby buildings unsuccessful responses to pig actions of tendency by the government to employ It's almost as if the government set had banners and signs hanging outside the past. private security guards to police out to give Britain's disparate demonstrations-particularly anti-road subcultures a cause to unite behind. GEORGE BUSH: THE SUPER-SPY demos. The government has also begun What's significant is how the young DRUG-SMUGGLING PRESIDENT contracting private detective to identify protestors have been able to transform Featuring Everything You've Always Wanted To Know activists so that the state can bring their disenfranchisement into a defiant, criminal charges or sue for damages. yet surprisingly celebratory About George Bush, But Were Too Disgusted To Ask!! The Department of Transport spent resistance movement. Ross is a 24-year By Bill Welnberg over £400,000 on private detectives at old Scot who's been squatting and living Claremont Road alone. on the road since his parents kicked Underlying the CJA is a fundamental him out of the house when he was 16. effort by the Tory Party to reassert "A few years ago, everybody was just tradition values as a palliative to social hanging out getting out of their heads," unrest. he told me, warming his hands by a fire Although the Tories like to paint at an abandoned dairy where he and themselves as the party of law and the other Claremont Road order, they've presided over the biggest demonstrators had retreated after the increase in crime in this century. The eviction. "Now everybody's getting addition of the CJA powers has only together and fighting. It's good. We've polarized the public further. The become one big family." clampdown on squatting and travelling A brawny kid with a tousle of ratty comes at a time of rising homelessness dreads sprouting from the top of his in Britain-particularly among young shaved head, Ross seemed an unlikely people, who can no longer receive convert to the ranks of non-violent road government assistance if they're under protestors-or "fluffies," as the more 18 and leave home or drop out of militant punks like to call them. While school. The Tories are also seeking to he defends those protestors who hurled gut the Homeless Person's Act, which bricks at police last summer as acting in requires localities to provide housing to self-defense, he emphasizes something homeless people. Worse still, new regs different. "We've got to fight 'em," he introduced by the Department of Social says. "But it's got to be peaceful. Any Services would allow the government to other way and you wind up with what deny public assistance to anyone with they've got. 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