INSIDE Azania’s Recent Struggles Welcome to Freshwo/men Reactions to Purple Rain BSU Polled on Identity Dedicated to h!/orm. Enlighten. and Educate Pan-Afrikanism Defined LAssessment of Grenada 1~ VOL. VIII Universityof California,San Diego NUMBER NOV/DEC 1984 PRINCIPLES FOR SURVIVAL I. We MUST seek unity with our 6. Our bodies MUST be treated Creator, recognizing the reality as temples ofthe Holy, therefore of God, as we search for the we must safeguard our health by Truth which will set us free. consuming good, life-giving foods and drink and not consume 2. Brothers MUST commence harmful, death dealing drugs and being real men and stop alcoholic beverages. exploiting the weaknesses of 7. We MUST stop imitating the Black women by disrespecting degenerate actions of white, and misusing the bearers and people whose world order is nourishers of our future. diametrically opposed to the legitimate aspirations of Black 3.. Sisters MUSTdress and havea and other oppressed peoples. decorum that commands respect, 8. We MUST stop lying and then demand that Black men gossiping on each other, as well cease abusing you for present, as check our roguish activities, short-termgratification at the the for these actions stunt the growth expense of future, long-range and development of both objectives. perpetrator and victim, thus 4. We MUST strive for academic undermining the faith and trust excellence,not for the purpose of so desperately needed among us. selfish material gain, but to 9. We MUST actively engage in prepareourselves for a lifetimeof destroyingthe artificialbarriers productive service for the of political,sectional, fraternal elevation and advancement of and religious differences which our people. so foolishly divide and fragment our race. 5. We MUST by our everyday 10. We MUST, today, work as examples challenge our friends, hard to integrate and be non- relatives, and associtaes to violent with ourselvesas we were, cultivate a wholesome race pride yesterday, to integrate and be which will generate warmth, non-violentwith others. love, and a spirit of community 17w 7~’n BI.A (’K (’ommandment.~ were uritten among us as a people. b.I (iodf~’l’ Patterson. a gradtlalt" AIlldenl O/ theol.g~ at IIo~ard Univer~itl. throughoutthe world were. As Toure While in SNCC, Toure used his Kwame Toure at UCSD beganto feelthe tide of history,he saw organizationalskills to addressthe the necessityfor organizationas an issuesrelevant to voterregistration, the Historyof His Struggle imperativetask for students to become draft,and othercivil rights problems. involvedin. Andhe becameinvolved in However,it shouldbe recognizedthat an organization,The Student Non- Touredid not makeany of hispolitical The sixties marked an era that activities.Toure was involvedin many ViolentCoordinating Committee decisionswithout first conferring with (SNCC). emphasizedpeople mobilizing for their organizations, along with other thecollective efforts and interestsof individualslike WillieRicks, Robert peopleinvolved in the organization. rights.This included the uprisings not SNCC was the first student onlyin theUnited States but in Africa, Moses,l)avid Brother, and Julian Bond The ideologicalpositions which SNCC ¯ Allof theseindividuals were concerned organizationto openlyconfront the supportedwere transformedfrom a the CarribeanIsles, and the other questionregarding the draftfor the Americas,as peoplesought justice irom withcivil rights for Africans residing in nationalistposition to an international the United States and other issues Vietnam War. SNCC was against one. Also,the originalidea that SNCC oppressiveconditions. This era also imperialistforces "im pl, ementing marked the period, as is common relevantto humanrights initially in the was to be an integratedorganization II.S.and eventually internationally. genocidalattacks upon the Vietnamese which dealt with the problemsof the historically,when students were in the via unnecessarywarfare. SNCC was U.S.-especiallycivil rights issues forefrontof exposingthe contradictions The examplewhich Toure portrayed opposed to Zionism, which is an changeddrastically after 1966. in their societywith a fervorwhich as a studentwho began to fulfillhis or imperialistpolicy’ designed to exploit shook the entireworld. An exampleof her responsibilityto the liberationof A viewof SNCCpre-1960 is essential the active role which students Africanswas not an individualtask andnegate the existence ofa Palestinian for all to interpretthe ideological exemplifiedin the Africanstruggle in which he accomplished¯ loure nation, and SNCC provided their growthexperienced by this initially particularcan be seenin theorganizing represented the voice of many unconditional support to the student-orientedorganization. This will effortsof Kwame Toure-knownin the Palestinianrevolution within what has also exemplify the role and individualswho workedcollectively to " sixtiesas StokelyCarmicheal. develop a method essential for beenillegally called Israel".SNCC characterisiticswhich students should During this era individualswere liberatingAfrican people, at firstin the wasinvolved in thesetypes of activitiesbc practingin 1984 and the yearsto inw~lvedin civilrights and anti-war U.S.,and eventuallywherever Africans twenty years ago, and these "old" come. conceptsare stillapplicable to the From the formationin Februaryof internationalproblems taking place in 1960, SNCC experienced several The People’sVoice NON-PROFIT ORG. [ 1984.In essence,the collectiveefforts of internal as well as external StudentOrganizations U.S. POSTAGE I the studentsand supportersot; SNCC transformationsin its structure, U.C ’,;anDiego PAID | were proof of the necessity for indicativeof the differentinterests, LA JOLLA. CA I organizationthat is essentialfor the values,and developingideologies of the la Jolla,California 92093 PermitNo. 268 ] successof thestruggle. students. continued on page 5 3 2 Motherland A Luta Continua--TheStruggle Continues Thots in Prism BSSO REPORTS Magechaha Unity of Purpose It givesthe BlackScience Students During the past few months the Jamho everybody! and welcome Organizationgreat pleasure to welcome of ar,noredvehicles and conlronted all new membersas well as returning strife that Azania, (commonly by soldiersarmed with rifles, machine to Never-NeverI+and, Munchkin l and. themind. Granted, it is moresubtlel) members. The BSSO wishes you much referredto by imperialistforces as guns. and grenade-launchers,who l)isne,.landamong the many names imposedand reinforced,but thisdeems successhere at U.CS.D.We are justas South Afrika) has suffered and e,llorced the administration’s used to describe this somewhat it moreeffecientl.v capable of makingus excited as you are about your o,,ercomecontinues to mount.As the paranoiddemand for a house- to- fantasticalha~,en known as UCSD. indigenousBlack populations, as well itsunv~itting agents. [ oday’s"masters’. matriculation.As you may know by hot,se,room-by-room inspection. Whatc~ername you chose,understand with the help of mass media as the(’olored group (the ’official" no~ the BSSO is an organizationthat At least350 people were arrested in thatnone of thisplace is real,and that (particularlytele~,isionL and the select statusfor the raciallymixed) rebels supportsand reforms Black science Scbokengfor ’passbook" violations. yoursta~ here is a temporarygift from distributionof narcotics,turn Black againstthe seperateraces policy of students,but withoutyour involvement lhis South Afrikan law requires thegods. a respitefrom reality, and is peopleinto Dopey, Sleep’,’, innocuous apartheid,the oppressivewhite power theBSSOfis capacity to functionwill be Blacksto, at alltimes, carry a small not granted without’ some future rebels:most of us workat subsistence structureonce again uses its leaden xcrvlimited, lhc BSSO office is located book which lists their personal obligation. level occupations and remain military hand to strangle Black in theStudent (’enter building A. room statisticswhich mum bc presentedat As BlackA[rikan students here, you dependenton the whitepower-structure xictims.But the people of Azaniaare 107.Please donfit hesitate to stopby any time upon requestto an} v~hitc forobtaining our food, clothes, sheller successcalls your name. Even it things noteasily quelled. are privy to new, exciting, and and seewhat information here interests whorequests it andfor which there ix particularlyunique experiences, things and toiletpaper. Exen those of us who ,~.cmto he goingwell for you, it is still VOU. Rebellionin Azaniais nothingnew. a grave penah) if the passbookis thatmost of ourpeople will never come beliexcthemselves to be part of the tmportantto share your experiences New ufficcrsfor the 1984-85academic Sincethe time of the Chakaand the inaccu,atc,lhe two o’clockraids to know or understand.There are some American middle-class and thus ~ittlothers because without hne.., it Zulu warriors,more than a century were carried out in three other wonderful people here, and some immuneto thewiles of thesystem, do so am’tranch. \ear: President:........ DelesieMorrison ago,the peopleof Afrika’ssouthern townships:Evaton. Sharpc~illc, the Grenada: one . strangepeople, and its importantto by the masterand government’sgrace. Iake your learninghome and gixc Albert McClain coast have fought the mercinary sight a heinouspolice massacre in keep an open mind. Don’t let this So if your reachingfor thatgoal, you Vice-President:.... yearlater your familiesan idea of what you go Secretary:........... Robin Benton motivationsof British and