Coalition Activities, 1990

JAN 4

10 +990 © NO

53 3@ TAKE ONE

Are Albany's blacks too often
victims of the strong arm of the law?

By Rekha Basu @ Page 8

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n Now 16. officers from the Albany
Pole Department were having
aome far roasting thee cr urinag
hose Ats party m hue honor the officers
were reading rock letters of
wiaTatuiatons to outgoing Police Ctuet
John Read One of those letters bore the
mame ef the Rev Al Sharpton
Considered taking the Grevhound bus to
the celebration, bul then thoweht better of
it sant the “letter i prohably wouldn't
have gotten aut of thr station
Twr weeks later. atan Arbor Hill
jmity forum on racemn and police
ty fobody was Gushing as aftorney
» Kiredion tole the mostly: black
ve ateout Nes iivestrgation bast ¢
at Atha

sere

\ wer police beha
Greyhound bus tertmal For tt
14 daws that police were under

’ are. thet were fund to be
Nhe and searching fin most cases
»<earchongtewery Slack and Hispan
getting off a hus while agnoring most
write
Wher the ia ter had! gutoded after the
™ x her retinemmeni! pearty
ef tae alter Of CONsTAtUATIONS was
Tt ® wuTOkedtty came from
ene Kind
Py At example of aliewet police
TP RAN MEY ‘ iy ukt hetter
trate the hetween the city »
PSHCe LOTCe @ he Afmcan Amencar
met Taye e that what police
MMS Fmt eRe ta parts ¢ is regarded
hy rt hacks a4 a state wee wRarmrat
thee A few hace actually Heened the
abe Ld South African agartheid
F sty i vearnow the streets of
Art H t heer a sort of hartlerwid
+ recitents sav there no hope al
“ «| hers are patie force
miensibl goal he eradwation of
mae 8 asualtieeee of the tall he
Teadeured in phyacaland mental scary hose

2h esteem and atenation—-are the city's

x Thales

* TeDOTTS It aATLOrners and vil
vata allewe iMewal stapes or

ves without warrants or prohable

aganst random black and Hiapan

Gmimunites oF upon entering

then Utes
~teemunal A growonge number allege
arte ws trurpped-ap charges followed by

beatings Rumilaton, threats af tarture and

Apt imants da rn

 Pohoe Department
hese stones have been tandomly collected
lear sudging from word-ct
he black Community. @
tha? (home cases that have heen reported
hare! surface. For many af
Those alleging victimization. there i sinmply
tor frugh at dtake to be identified or to
bring ¢ harges

There is litth question that illegal drug
use and sales are rampant in the Capital
Region as elsewhere aronund the country oF
that some of these police efforts do turn up
druws

Ii you search every perkoan that walics
down the street. vou're going to find
drugs. savy attorney Dennis Schlenker

but the Fourth Amendment to the
Constitwoen says you have an expectation
of privacy.”

"They tl} search 26 penpie: they'll find
one person with something.” netes
Kindion who has represented numerous
clients alleging police abuse Pht the
searches are 40 uaconatitutional, Kindlon
clams. Chat the district attorney knows
they wouldn't hold up in court and ends up
offering pica bargains. And a gout many of
the stops nesult onty in minor charges like
disorderty conduct oF resisting arrest ~
slapper! on, according fo attorneys, to
yustaty Che arrests. searches or use of force

le UhareSs ve

What seems
mouth reports

Vv scratch ¢

BLUE vs. LACK

Is Albany’s African-American community
bearing the brunt of the cops’ war on drugs?
By Rekha Basu

ames Lunday 34. is actent of
Kindion 4 Educated and well-built
he exudes an aura of aeticonfidence
But ask horn about the ewents of May 13
ard he falis apart. His eves fill with tears
and his vonce quivers
Ion a neremus wreck really.” he
contesses
A t6-vear employee of Afbanvy Medal
Center Luncday had no police record wet!
last spring Since then. hes tife has been
comaurteed tyy that oreo
surtauncing hes arres! and alleged abuse ty
pobee He wcurrentl some the Polce
Department in federal and state courts
harging, amorg other things. false arrest
faise innpraaonment, mals prosecution
assault and battery
As Lunday and has family describe tt. an
the maht before Mother's Day Lunday. hus
girtfnend and thew 4-year-old son had gone
to Big fotn’s im the South End for Gake-out
foxt W his wrrifnend was ordering
Lumday and the child waited on the
sidewalk Gutade the restaurant
An unmarked station wago
alongside them an the wrong aude of the
road, Lunday says. and the driver leaned
out and demanded to know his name andl t
see denufication
When the driver refused to mentify
fomeelf Lunday gays he cursed at the man
who suddenty fippert gut a pole hadge
They were out of the car and on ine so
quick the next thing | knew | was fave
down on the hoad of the car.” he says
Lunday save be was handcuffed thrown
inte the police car and punched all the way
to the station by owe police officers one of
whor was the orignal driver of the car and
whom Lunday identified as detective
Kenneth Suttan At the precinct he says he
was kicked up the stairs inte « detectives
office, where three detectives, including
Sutton, continued to hit, smack, prod and
punch him, calling hun “nigger. “black
bastard” and “jungie bunny.“

a lanees

pulled ap

"Then Sutton threw me dows i a chair
in fromt of a file cabinet and he took my
head and kept ramming it against the file
cabinet,” Lunday save. “They took mye inte
a big interrogation room { was hit so much
| lost control of my bowels and bladder

He savs the officers then used that to
humilsate hom, poking that he needed a
disper and about haw he smelted

Nex!, Lunday save while police filled out
arrest forma, they forced hun to sit ata
table with each of hia hands hooked toa
chain on either table leg. forcing his neck to
rest on the table Later he was strip
seare bed

Locked up overnight he was charged in

mart the next mornitig with disorderly
conduct, resisting arrest and second-degree
assault ona pohce officer

His mother Thelma DePremis. calls st
one Mother's Day she ll never forget
When she went to see her san in conrt, che
saves, he was black and blue. with dried
hit tn hes ear, crving atid barely able to
walk [! Sook theee people to get hin inte
the car for the mde to the hospital, He was
confined to bed and missed three days of
work

Lunday has heen offered varius plea
hargaine and turned them down Me wants
the case tried and the tr

Police Department spe
Set. Robert Wolfgang dict not respond toa
call seeking Comment on Lunday's case and
others, but he earlier told METROLAND
that fa complaint was brough! it was
mvesngated by the department's Interna!
Affairs unit and could not be commented
on. And if a conyplaitt wasn t brought. sand
Wolfgang, he woulitn'! have any way of
knowing about the mucodent

fren ite Internal Affaurs ainit, the

Police Department is charged with

the unhkely iob of polwsng itself, a
conflict that may be reflected in the results
of mont of its investigations

In 1988. the unit received 22 civitinn
complaints of all kinds against police
afficers Of thome, only one wax sustanned
The rest were either “unfounded
“exonerated” of not sustained “ and a
couple were withdrawn Of the 37
compiaints filed in 1987 only three were
sustained

As of Novernber 1989. only one
complaint had been sustained and that was
for negiect of duty

With that kind of track record, ot 5 not
sutpriaing that a majority of people don't
evets bother to file compiaints

A qumber of activist imcboding attorney
Mark Muahier who hae roercesented many
af these clients ©
the fact that they mighs mort of
drug-related offenses prevent mary virtins
from epeaking oul

tn fact several people who reported
incidenta of poher abuse aware
themselves or relanwes to ME TROL AND
dvd admit that the sale of druge was
involved

Since mart af the alleged ine it take
Place if police headquarters whey the
only witnesses are other offirers these

ation and

anes are alan very hard to prove
Thev hie’ save Kindlon. reterecg te the

officers, “They make stulfup Thev sa
what they need to aay

Twe peanle who have declined '
charwes atainat |
Arbor Hill brothers snared Downs
Tames Cancer. both of whom are ip ta
drug charges Both claim ti

her Device are

have heen

assaulted by police} a claim ’
shows up on their medical for A ise
Medica! Center's emergency r wher
police escorted them for treatment

Asked why they dutn’! file a compa

Sallv Cancer. sighs. “We
What goed was ¢ gonna do? Noting «a
gonna be done about

The Cancer brother
June 8 as the n
Stewart's at Northern Boulevard and
Lovngsion Avenue At the time of Uy
arrest, Donald, 18. was out on his owe
PEC ORTRAATIO® a Wwal ling
May ) SC arrest on
and lames 25 had a probation viety:

Donald alieges that t
the Divisnon Two pre
trying te get Donald to aan a canfession a
policeman he referred ta as Officer
Tancheck amacked his face ao man
that his lower frp split open He aaey hi
wrist was sprained from another officer
pulling a chat Out from under him. causing
him to fall back on hia handcuffs

Later Donald clams. the officers got hin
om the floor on his back and one shipper
large plastic garbage hag over hos head
holding & around hia neck for
mittutes He says several other attices
hooked on

Cancer says police told har
‘truth bag” that would ¢

"Lawes kickiog ory fret
inMterwrew at the jai
cause J was in handcuffa My
starting to bleed

Cancer whe said he wae of
the sale of cores claims he «
“soared to death” by the woes

Meanwiite, according to Donald and
Sally, their brather James was get
separate workup by an affur! whe
allegedly stomped on his legs and ankle snd
weparated his thumb and forefinger

The brothers were takes to the hospua
the next day after a lawver wiervened af
the request of their sinter

seater

i wore arresie

were mira

ourt actin of a

buries of com aitie aly

sth were beater at

nd that. white

res

4

he saad in a
feoutda' t move

der the Supreme Court ruling

in Tern os Oe an officers

reqamed t have reasonable Gise
iO suspect Chat someone is trafficking in
Jan 4-10, 1990 © METROLAND «9

firwt Gre i 31 pears on the force.

fot an mettutonhzed policy’

one year of the mowent

able tt) do that we've taken action *

CHIEF OF THE FUTURE

THE ARTWORK ON THE WALLS OF THE LARGE
wood- paneled office isn’t hus nor are the floor plants, He's
SH fishing through bewes for his papers anal haan’ t quite
gotten used to having the phone anewernd for him— for the

Apparenth uncomfortable behind the newty inherited

donk he jones the menrviewer on the other sade

With onty a month on the job as Altary pedice chief
setting into the physical space is the hems’ of the
challenge: facing Joly: A. Dale who mherits the awesorn:
task of restoring the cormrmnits ‘9 faith in the depertnanes
=a 10% made ne: jess dict became be a back

He & personmbte accent: war reputed wo be a man af
integrity So # seems no comcidience that mene of the
actwists and observers critcal of the department’ alleged
war Gn ermorities has » bad word to say about the

“There have heen cases Of racten among officers, bot e+

can enaily get from street comers and car windows tered to be
one

Is an ireportary dastincton, and ome that
lowt mm the mass of allegations and recrinina

Aba’ Mark Mishler's charge abou! the department’ s
fallsre to discipliwe pobice officers fownd guilty in civil “Now the dealers themsetves malce it may because
suite Dake earn the department often ico't #ware of the y' ‘
incrdents writil wears later. when the dpersasets are setiied
because the comphunant: don't fir charges with the
devartment. The poice officer's contract Pexputres then? ary
dewaplinary charges agains! officers be commenced within

“Obvenshy police have certain marhts."” he ada "P Aawe
to be able (0 prove that the officers are Comnvting crenes
thy sane as with anybody else And when we hare bees

But Dale alee grves he neancre wets each of the cases
Cited by Mishler deseiairuers tame would | have tamer:

are dirarderh: conduct and

5& vewae-old Denke Ce eee, Ant tote thet macy poeple been aware of
While not concerling that there i any banda for the Curing bes free yemr terre sep cheaity chiked
abega bons against his force he doesn't dewey thal there te Davr’s opuuon, the drag problem, and crack in
mught be inchs) racist officers peer ticxaker fas been the impor momarge of the 19600.
‘OW course. certunhy, definitely "he repiies quick ty ) he bediewne there ie more dirnag ine and makes én

He continves tn etrens the
Compacts to docunnert the
“Bren tf we can’t prove i." hee notes, “Yif} | hnonw for a
fect thst there's 2 prablern, there's « pattern dewedoping |
oan bag an offeer in and asy ‘Pree of the leet sx arrests

of
feNpornaeY of prcple Filing

were looking at other tactors in the Greyhound stops
There sanchore) .

Sommntains but

PORre ago.
about [the ctrugys] Dade says be
based profiles. Dade replies altar tone’

Drake says he je dinturtoert bry the tect that lent yer
SS percent to $3 percent of his department’ s arreats wert
Of young blacks. anc! that most of those were kniced tr

om RB.

aporopir ale

drugs in order toaton amt search him an the
Stree! However some cougets hee
Permitted the use of “prafies’” to
aiprehend drug traffickers

Generals sneaking @ Dreide Comsigta of a
se! of Characteraties appearance
behavier of “that pohee beheve to her

S8aW ated woth People dealing in drugs

In Alban civil libertarians tike Kinetic
and Alice Green legislative direc ter of the
New York Crvi! Liberties Unwin charge
that those profiles are hase’ almost
exc hiaively on race

Schienker who save he has represented
many such defendants and has heen
approached by many more with sunilas
STOPES, AVS The profile is often based on
the mores and norms of white middle-class
Officers

Tt deals with race. the nature of the
Person's Motor vebicle types of Clothing
and hats that white officers might not
weat.” he contends “Hy young black man
is behind the whee! of a very Nashy car that
they don't fee! fits his SOnTarC ONOMC status

{Hoth tate-mode! care and old. beat-up
Care are suspect he notes} A lot of it has to
dp with colar unfortunately *

The whole ides of a profile, Schlenker
Says, “almost compels a racial approach ft
Places a police offiwer in a very diffious
situation You look at peaple who are
different from you

“Unfortunately.” adds Schlenker. who's
been practicing aw for 20 years in Albany
“what t think is happening is the seal with
which we're trying (o win this onwinnable
War th Conveying the impression that the
end justifies the means—and it does not
Now we are making war on individuals, and
thone individuals happen to he largely black
and Hispanic

“T've had people whacked on the head
with the butt end of» pistol, heads
slammed against car doors. car door,
slammed on people people hit with billy

Clubs

Schlenker saves virtually every drug
arrest includes auch psy Chologwa! brutality
as threats of violence against other farnity
members. as well as agset forfeinure which
destroys people economically

Tromcally. be muses. black community
reawdents are getting it from both sides on
the one hand upset by the spread of drugs
on the other terrorized by a largely white
police force

“What's particularly troubling," save
Mishler. “is that the lawlessness of the
police helps t create an atmosphere where
lawlessness fs encouraged and allowed and
it’ a question of who has the brute
strength *

ke most Arbor Hill residents
Y¥ vette Norwood does believe Arbor

Hill has # drug problem But
Norwood says the drugs onginate in white
suburbs. They {the police} should be going
out to Colonie where it’s realty coming
from.” she says. “They're just measin’
with blacks in Arbor Hill. Yes they [ikiets)
are wrong for selling it but [the pod have
nO business just picking on us"

Norwood speaks from the expenence of
her nephew. 17-year-old Marokd Cowan jr
who was arresied Dec. 13 at around 9 PM
while coming oyt of his Arbor Hill home

When Cowan saw a bunch of police cars
outaide, according to his aunt, he knew
there would be trouble because police were
seeking to charge him with » drug sale
tartier thal evening, Inatinctively, he
started running. but seeing that he was
surrounded, he stopped.

According to Norwood. who learned
about the incident later, an officer hit
Cowan over the head with a flashight.
Causing bum to fall down, and then
proceeded to pound hin repeatertty on the
head and in the face in the presence of
witnesses

Norwood sae her nephew on court the
nex! day

“His eyes and iis nose were ali swollen.”
abe recalls. He had two Hashes in has
face"

Norwood is filing a complaint with the
Police Department's Interna! Affairs unit
Cowan, meanwhile. is in jail

Among other incidents reported to
METROLAND by alleged police abuse
victims all young black men—or thei
representatives

* A man charged with minor drug
Doasession over the summer claims the
police put a gun to his head and threatened
to kil him during an interroga then

* Aman claims he was put in ankle
res@uints and beaten mercilessty by four
officers after he was disruptive in court

* A man who was pursued and Caught
after attempting to flee out a back window
when police came to his home claims he
waa beaten so hard his nose was broken

* A man's mother claims he was picked
uf by police, choked and spat on after she
had appealed to police for help because
some peers were trying to get him to gel]
drugs

* A tman's mother claims he was pulled
over by police--who pointed a gun at him
and acarched hin car-—after he
inadvertently ran a red light. (Eventually
the police apologized. saying they bad
ohietaken him fora drug muaspect.)

Many others who don’t allege outright
brutality or asnault by police charge that
they've been stopped without CRUne,
harassed :

of them, while maintaining their innocence.
have accepted plea bargains to besser
Gaarites because of the difficulty of proving

Canes
"There's probably a hundred peuple
a taken these kinds of deals.” says

ishier

though Albany putice from
Division Two in particule have
been the facue of moet ¢ orp pla tits
surrounding communities also have beer
touched by the specter of pohce
harassinent
In Trey. 32-year-old Cornelius Moore
clais that on the evening of Apri! 9 he ways
on Ninth Street with friends outaute hus
mother's house fining her car wher a police
car pulled up An officer iumped out and
demanded identification
Moore, who works as a corrections
otficer at Greene Correctional Facility mye
he asked the officer why he needed j+ but
the officer would give no reason
"ft got to a thing where it was this officer
just wanting to show his authority" recalls
Moore, who says eventually the officer
threatened to ticket him and have him
towed for being parked tow far from the
curb. The officer wouldn't back off unri!
Moore showed hum hus license
Moore went to file a complannt with the
Troy Potice the next day. but
says the desk otficer refused to give him a
complaint form. After he wax similaris
UNsuccessful on two subsequent visits he
called the New York Civil Liberties Union
With the heip of that agency, Moore was
able to get and file a complaint form
supplying the names of witnesses, Bu! nine
months later. and after several follow-wp
phone cali, he 9 still awaiting « response
“We had noticed that they were
blacks on the street and people
were just accepting it and we knew it wold
happen to us eventually,” says Moore
“But there's nothing you can do becaune
they won't let you Ale complaints ‘
Another Cane that recently resulted

10

10* METROLAND ¢ Jan. 410. 1990

Mishie~ a meaty * phease of African A mencges

BLUE VS. BLACK «9

1 Ur tober 19RR and wes sitting it an
ve logking car with his brother and

hen two palice officers pulled up

ers reportedly harassed Murray

steed 1 him overnight

reeriy concert and

te arrest

Murray. who was represented by

Minhler was tried ang acquittes

P Court Me then filed a notice of clair
with ¥ COMporanior set charging
he officers with covienght tet .
' t his race
Miahier abearven that the aight of a
‘ “ek mar a
side the ofvicer as od?
‘ 6 . sid enter t mastic
November METROLAND reported
tase & WO-vear okt Robert
trhed a mipzlaicst with thy
Teeth aT Polwe Relating
e+ alleged tha the ry
wast beaten with ot

ported by ambulance

p Twe to Albany Medical Center
f ect to thoes three weeks of work, Butler
me The ince began when a couple of

, thes offivers in an unmarked car

te ket] humm on fis bic ecle on Arher

was charged with resisting arrest

a s8Sauchiig@ 4a poloe oPicer, tor which he
was recenth indicted by a grand jury

f i down an offer of

ASor i) exe hange for entering a guilty

vovember Butler was interviewed ty
he Police Department's laternal Affairs
his allegabons According to Green

rccampanuead him bul was not allowed
heournt appeared (0 have pu! hin
Through 4 grueling interrogation

he Capital District Comtition against
Aparthead and Racin. which
sponsored the recent Arbor Hil
Torun, Sas 4 stasding Committee on Raviet
Viohence i Pohee Abuse Coaliti
hair Vera Moctelion stresses that while
"hee COMMMCF OppoOmes police abuae. iH
Tees | support drug trafficlong
What we ve saving ix. police should ned
Stap making drug arrests, they should slap
police abuse. Mich nave. We
erite Poke ate called upon to dea
Tangerdye ob. We want the problem dealt
P Ne proper methods

On Co

a. RERMAN

MM RAPE

Comes: “a ware to hep Mack pecitde i sexi!

Kisedlon: 'T9eey fhe police? lie They vente ott! mp

Michelson alleges a “Conspiracy of
silence’ in the Police Department involving
the mawor pohce officials and oertan
members of the police farce that see this
toad of stuff ant don't aay anything

She also suggests that while police
excesses are often written off as necessary

tactics in the war on drugs, much of the
police abuse agarist Slacks has rochs
do with fighting drugs

In June rexample. the city

+ hornelees blaik ma
who had ¢ plaint with the fnterna
f % an. Gregory Barr
alleged’ he assent Wy tie kicked
ured a for sox ments ¢

eta cley park

4 rel ig hier the city of A fikary
and fua! police officer has
i tert s¢ of Adrwan
Ame exist without doing anvthing

thes weren't dusciplined by
Ard Mishler tefers 16 remarks made by
retiring Clue? Reid ateaut another officer
Fames Turlev, whe was arrested and
harged woth assaulting a black female in
October [GRR but was not indicted by a
grand jury Mishler quotes Reid as saving
that what Turley was subjected to was one
of the warst things to happen during his
tenure as che
What kite of mensage does that send
internal Affairs?” agke Mishler °°} think
the message is. “You better net even harge
One of our officers again
In Oetober, Mishier filed a lawauit
against the city on behalf of Ronald Grier a
biack man in his early 308. who claims
oolice ansaulted hirm after an Arbor Hil
fravas by pumping on his chest ane
breaking his rib
The officers in the Gnver case were
exonerated by the Internal Affairs v
the grounds that the conduct derurred but
was lawhal and proper
In the course of discacery Mishier hopes
to learn bow many cases of police
wrongdoing the city has settled with
monetary awards Such information is mot
row available, even to the Cormunity
Polee Relahons Board

Ton

ormed in Mav 1986 in the wake of

the [984 police shacting deat

fesse Dav a mentally
black man-—in his Arte Hill home, the
Camomunity Police Relations Board

followed two previous civilian comumitters
serking greater checks on police hehavicr

But the board has been wracked with
problems and crniticam almost from
Start, mostly stemming from its lack of
autonamy or clot

the

Although the board receives copies of
complaints to the Pobce Depart
Internal Affairs unit. {ts members aren’!

4 the parties involved

yr
?

an

atigate
int te tyesychen Pere ‘ formed of
how many new charge e been filed and
i ties Mave been su w Tanwar
he hoes kept cn the dark about
eve sine what act wa
taken whet a complaint was 4 Gg
A is he board carne ¢hallenge the
¢ of anv case
if it we sustained. by the fime it wera to
fiscussion they won't discuss i save
oh

fee vear Soard member Vickie Smith
representing the Coalition Against
Apartherd and Racism They tell us it's
heen closed for six months We can't
the com are even though
Kroes therr fharmes We

talk about wt

the coors

have to request {Internal A flairs'| presence
every month They re under no
tigi ties

Recently, cormununity activists have beer
Caing tor the hoard to be dishanded acd

replaced by autonomous independent

tewiew board with power ty
vestigate, subpoena witnesses and make
Ons OF wrongdong

We're a really inactive board and that
realiv speaks to the structure" save Smit?
nohng that many members of the baard are
on the city payroll and are therefore subpect
ta political pressures And the mayor hax
final aay ower wha sits on et

arn Payne is a former Athans
cap whe ia black Currentiy a
private investigator Payne
served on the force from 196] tn [980
when he left to jou the distr! attorney 4
Office as a detective, At the Police
Departrnent, he worked un the precuranr t
the current narootues division, which ala
handled internal affairs
Although Payne save racism was always
a problem. or the force, he beheves it's been
exaverthatest in the past eight years by
Reaganism and the drug epidemic. lead)
t an adware Of av rity
What haw happened co then 's sO
qeneraiion of pole offwers and ther }

]

«

rity

nterpreted 9 lot at thongs frown the older

generation.” Nw save Thos have taken it

oe teen

to extremes
fayst. Burst. Duet and fill rhe prmurs

Bla

according to Payne

get away with it Minorities dor ‘
enoueh money to hire goed attorney«
(Mter they enter squick plea harva
rast tO tee chone with it
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The Martin Luther King, Jr.
and Coretta Scott King
Lecture Series
at Siena College

January 15 & 16, 1990

Reverend Dr, Allan A. Boesak

The Martin Luther King, Jr.
and
Coretta Scott King
Lecture Series
on
Race and Nonviolent Social Change

In cooperation with representatives of many Capital Region community and religious
organizations, Siena College has established the Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta
Scott King Lecture Series on Race and Nonviolent Social Change. The Series is fund
ed through the proceeds of an endowment at Siena. The January 16 address by the
Reverend Dr. Allan A. Boesak is the third annual lecture in the Series

Dr. Boesak, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church in South Atrica, has
been in the forefront of the struggle against apartheid. A distinguished preacher and
biblical theologian, he ts increasingly recognized as a political as well as a religious
leader among the forces resisting South Africa's white supremust policies and

prac UiCceN

He is one of the major leaders who have inspired activists at Stena College and in the

Capital Region, such as Siena’s Student Anti-Apartheid Group and the Capital District
Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism, In response to questions raised by students at
Siena, the College Board of Trustees accepted the recommendation of its appointed ad

hoc committee in L986 to divest from compumes dome business in South Atnca

Since [¥82 Dr Boesak has been president of the Geneva-based World Alliance of
Reformed Churches, and he ts a member National Executive of the South Atmcan
Counce of Churches. As a co-founder of the multiracial United Democratic Front. he
has taken a militant but nonviolent stand in support of full human rights tor all South

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His theological studies included work in seminartes in South Africa, the Netherlands
and the United States, He recerved his Doctor of Theology degree from the
Theological Academy of Kampen in the Netherlands, His published works includ
Cenune out of the Wilderness, Farewell to lnnovence, The Finger of God, Black arid

Reformed, Walking on Thorns and Comfort and Pretest

Dr. Boesak has eight honorary degrees and numerous awards from organizations in
several countries, In the United States his awards have included the Martin Luther
King Award granted by the Souther Christian Leadership Conference, the Robert |
Kennedy Award and the Thomas Merton Award

The reception honoring Dr, Boesak benefits the King Lecture Series, Fund raising for

the endowment of the Series continues

Decisions about lecturers, topics, locations and administration of the Series are mack
by an advisory board composed of representatives of Siena College and the

COMUNURTYS

RECEPTION
IN HONOR OF
REVEREND DR. ALLAN A. BOESAK

INTRODUCTION ..........Dr, W. Merle Longwood
Professor of Religious Studies. Siena College
Chair, Advisory Board, King Lecture Series

WELCOME .....ccccscensoseavs Rev. William E. McConville, O.E.M.

President

Siena College

GREETINGS ................Rev. Dr. Allan A. Boesak
President, World Alliance of Reformed Churches

Siena College
Jerome Dawson Library
January 15, 1990

S p.m.

MUSIC ooo ccc. JOHN Charles Cook

PRINT AND ORIGINAL ART EXHIBITION ............... Presented by Ron Cook
of Harlem Street Gallery International, Ltd,

The King Lecture Series gratefully acknowledges the following individuals and
organizations for their gifts supporting this reception and lecture.

Rev. David A. Giles

Faye F. Harvey

The Most Reverend Howard J. Hubbard, D.D.
Rev, & Mrs. Robert C, Lamar

Manufacturers Hanover

New York State Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission

New York Telephone Company

Thomas D. O'Connor
Rose & Kiernan, Inc.

Siena College Friary

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RESAINIR SRO OTE ISH ois ec iniA ienni dlieniigniera ain

. BREAKFAST
IN HONOR OF
REV. ALLAN A. BOESAK
Public Employees Federation Headquarters
January 16, 1990
8:00 A.M.
INVOCATION Rev. Allen A. Stanley, President
Empire Baptist Missionary
Convention of NY, Inc.
@vetcome Rand Condell, President
NYS Public Employees Federation
| INTRODUCTION Merie Longwood, Chair
} OF DAIS Advisory Board, King Lecture Series
** BREAKFAST SERVED **
INTRODUCTION Rand Condell
OF SPEAKER
SPEAKER Rev. Allan A. Boesak, President
World Alliance of Reformed Churches
CONCLUDING Rand Condell
REMARKS Al Vann, Chair, Black & Puerto Rican
Legislative Caucus
Vera Michaelson, Co-Chair, Capital
: District Coalition Against Apartheid and
Racism
Rev. William McConville, O.F.M.
z President, Siena College

The King Lecture Series gratefully acknowledges the Public
Employees Federation for sponsoring this breakfast

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THE THIRD ANNUAL LECTURE

MASTER & MISTRESS

OF CEREMONIES ....0.-css0000

Siena College

Alumni Recreation Center
January 16, 1990

10 acm.

shianvin Dr. W. Merle Longwood

Professor of Religious Studies,
Siena College
Chair, Advisory Board,
King Lecture Series
Ethel B, David
Director, Academic Opportunity Program and
Administrator, STEP/C-STEP, Union College
Vice Chair, Advisory Board,
King Lecture Series

A SONG OF INSPIRATION. ........... Gospel Ensemble

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Union College
Tyrone Foster, Director

parecer Rabbi Julie Wolkoff

President, Capital District Board of Rabbis
Rabbi, Congregation Berith Sholom
Troy, N.Y.

Rev. William E. McConville, O.F.M.
President
Siena College

shinies Anne Pope

Deputy Director for Administration and
Community Relations, New York
African American Institute

President, National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People -
Albany Branch

wrcaee Rev. Dr. Allan A. Boesak

President, World Alliance of
Reformed Churches

“King’s Legacy: The Defiance Campaign
in South Africa Today”

pirreinatimeemmeine ig,
NKOSI SIKELELIAFRIKA

Nkosi sikeleliAfrika
Maluphakanyisw’ uphondo Iwayo
Yizwa imithandazo yethu

Nkosi sikelela

Thina lusapho lwayo

Woza moya

Woza moya

Woza moya oyingewele
Nkosi sikelela

Thina lusapho Iwayo

Morena boloka setshaba sa etsho
O fedise dintwa le matshoenyeho

© se boloke

O se boloke
Setshaba sa etsho
Setshaba sa Afrika

O se boloke Morena
O se boloke setshaba
Setshaba sa etsho
Setshaba sa Africa

Makube njalo
makube njalo
Kude kube ngunaphakade
Kude Kube ngunaphakade

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fisnbenkealgseieoneaetis Led by members of the

Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid and
Racism

LORD BLESS AFRICA

Lord give your blessings to Africa
Let her glory rise above

Hear our pleas and hear our prayers
Lord bless

Her sons and daughters

Come spirit

Come spirit

Come spirit, holy spirit
Lord bless

Her sons and daughters

Lord save our nation
Rid it of wars and troubles

Save it

Save it

Our nation

Our nation of Africa

Save it Lord

Save our nation

Our nation

Our nation of Africa

So let it be
So let it be
Until eternity
Until eternity

5 dcbainddinidtatesiaian Rev. Allen A, Stanley

Pastor, Bethe! Baptist Church,
Troy, N_Y.

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BENEFACTORS OF THE ENDOWMENT

Sidney and Beatrice Albert
Harry Belafonte

Capital Newspapers

Fritz and Elsa deBeer

Carrol] Devitt

Rev. David A. Giles

The Golub Foundation of Albany
Neil and Jane Golub

Irving and Elaine Kirsch
Dorothy Ann and William Kite
Edward Marcelle

Ann Marcelle

New York State Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission

Ann G, Older
Dorann Zimicki

King Lecture Series
Advisory Board

Thomas H. Cooper

James 8, Dalton, Ph.D.

Lois K. Daly, Ph.D., Secretary
Ethel B, David, Vice Chair
Rev. David A. Giles

Neil Golub

W. Merle Longwood, Ph.D., Chair

Edward J. McGlynn, Ph.D.
Elaine R. Ognibene, Ph.D.
Anne Pope

Peter M. Pryor, Esq.

Rev. Allen A. Stanley
Jean M. Stern, Ph.D,

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RALLY
AGAINST POLICE ABUSE
AND BRUTALITY

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1990

AT 1:00 PM

ALBANY CITY HALL

CAPITAL DISTRICT COALITION AGAINST APARTHEID AND RACISM

P.O. BOX 3002-PINE HILLS STATION
ALBANY, NEW YORK 12203 434-4037

Have You Met Albany's own

BATMAN
PUTECEETT

A member of the Albany |
Police Department has
allegedly been using a
baseball bat to intimidate
members of our community.
We must stand together and
oppose these racist attacks to
preserve the safety of our

homes and our persons.

STOP BATMAN BEFORE HE "STRIKES AGAIN"
JOIN THE CAPITAL DISTRICT COALITION AGAINST APARTHEID & RACISM'S

RALLY

AGAINST
POLICE ABUSE

Monday Feb.19 1:00 pm

Albany City Hall

(comer of Washington & Eagle)
ror more information Contact Merton Simpson 434-4037

if the Continuing pattem of police abuse is to be stopped, the citizens of Albany must demand that the city
take immediate steps to stop police violence. The alleged wrongdoing by the Albany Police Department's
“Batman” Is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the larger issue of routine abuse ond use of undue
physical force by Albany police, including kicking, shoving, verbal taunting and racial slurs. Among the
incidents of alleged abuse of African-Americans by Albany police officers that have been reported recently
in “Metroland” and the “Times Union’ are the following:

In September, 1989, a man alleged that he was beaten by an officer with a basebail bat and injured so
badly that he had to be transported by ambulance from the police station to Albany
Medical Center;

In October 1988, a man alleged that he was assaulted by police officers, including one who jumped on his
chest and broke his rib. The officers in this case were exonerated by the internal affairs unit of
the police department on the grounds that the conduct "occurred but was lawful and
proper” The criminal charges against this man were dismissed. He has filed a lawsuit
against the city;

In May, 1989, a man was arrested by detectives and alleges that he was severely beaten and kicked by
officers and taunted with with racial slurs. The criminal charges against this man were later
dismissed. He has filed a lawsuit against the city;

In August, 1989, a man alleges that he was put in ankle and wrist restraints in the police station and beaten
by four officers after he had appeared in court:

In June 1988, the city awarded $12,500 to a homeless man who had filed a complaint with the internal
Affairs Unit, for allegedly being harassed, kicked, and injured by police. He was tailed for six
months in an incident involving the use of a portable toilet on a city street;

We believe there is a conspiracy of silence involving the Mayor and the Police Department. Certain
members of the Police Department see abusive conduct by other officers and don't say anything. While
police abuse is sometimes written off as ‘necessary tactics* in the “war on drugs”, this is not an acceptabie
explanation, Also, many alleged incidents of police abuse against African-Americans has nothing to do with
drugs.

The city of Albany--and not just individual police officers -have allowed a pattern of abuse of African-
Americans and others to exist without doing anything to stop it. In four recent cases, for example police
officers were found liable in federal court for violating civil rights, yet none were disciplined by the police
department. Tne city has simpty avoided and ignored this issue.

The Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid & Racism calls on Albany residents to report incidents of
police abuse and to join with our efforts to stop police abuse in our community.

THE COALITION MAKES THE FOLLOWING DEMANDS:

> Members of the Albany Police Department (APD) must immediately stop the practice of using excessive
physical force and abusive treatment of Albany residents;

G> The APD must conduct an investigation into the allegations of excessive force used by the police officer
the community refers to as ‘Batman’, and proper disciplinary action must be taken if wrongdoing is
discovered;

> An independent civilian review board must be established immediately to hear compiaints of police
misconduct:

G> The Mayor, the Police Department, and the District Attomey's Office must immediately condemn the use
of racial or ethnic “profiles” in police actions and investigations;

G> The community must be permitted significant involvement in the development and implementation of a
real plan to combat drugs;

> Medical treatment and substance-abuse treatment should be made available to anyone who requests it:
G> Minorities and women must be sought out in order to have a more representative police force.

IN ADDITION THE COALITION DEMANDS OF OURSELVES AND OUR COMMUNITY:

> We must take responsibility for setting the proper example for our children and monitoring their benavior in
relation to preventing and treating substance abuse:

C We must work in cooperation with law enforcement authorities to eradicate drugs trom the community
and build working relations between the police and the community.

The Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid & Racism (CDCAAR)
Box 3002 - Pine Hills Station; Albany, New York 12203

6 « METROLAND « Feb. 1-7. 1990

COPS AND
RUBBER STAMPS

JUST AS COMPLAINTS OF ALBANY
police abuse and racism are reaching a
crescendo, a proposal by Mayor Thomas
M. Whalen IT] to reorganize the civilian
board overseeing the police department
would, critics say, remove even the limited
clout it has had

The Community- Police Relations Board
was formed in 1986 in response to
community outrage over the potice
shooting of Jesnie Davis recently
members of the so-called special-interest
organizations represented on the board
{inchiding the Coalition Against Apartheid
and Racism, the NAACP, the Capital
District Lesbian and Gay Center and
Centro-Civico Hispano: Americano) have
complained that the board was stacked
with people representing the city, making it
too much of a rubber stamp for the city and
police department, They've been calling for
anexpansion of the board’s powers to
enable it to investigate allegations of police
abuse, issue findings and take steps to
correct it

However, at the mayor's urging, the
three board members representing the
city’s Human Rights Commission plan to
introduce a proposal at a meeting next
week that would cut the number of
members from 14 to 11, eliminate the nine
members representing special interest
orga nizations and replace them with six
people who represent different geographic
parts of the city. The reorganization would
leave on the board the three human-rights
commissioners and two members of the
Albany Police Department,

The meeting was postponed from this

“ist Monday because of the snowstorm.

Vickie Smith, a board member

representing the Coalition against
\partheid and Racism, said the plan to
replace the interest groups with geographic
representatives ‘‘really dilutes any strength
that the beard might have."’

Noting that allegations of police abuse
come mainly from the black communities in
Arbor Hill and the South End, and don't
necessarily affect people in Pine Hills,
Smith said, ‘1 think the impact would be
more peaple on the board who don't
understand police abuse. { think it’s
avenance on the part of the mayor to not
deal with the issue at hand, and that is

police abuse and police brutality They
wanted really a public-relations arm, and
that is not a role for this group."

Ina letter to board members dated
Nov. 30, 1989, but for some reason not sent
out until last week, Whalen wrote, ‘I have
never had the feeling that the board has
lived up to its potential... in forging good
relationships with the police department
and in assisting the city in resolving
community disputes and community
problems..."

The mayor proposed bringing in people
from different parts of the city "that have a
regular interaction with the police
department and police personnei.”’

Whalen could not be reached for
comment. Rabbi Martin Silverman, a board
member representing the Human Rights
Commission, said the commission voted on
the mayor's proposal at its meeting last
week.

“The discussion went that if we have the
organizational representatives, each one
comes with their own ax to grind... [f it’s
geographic, there's more of a unified
interest,” Silverman said, adding that there
had been some controversy on that issue.

Asked if it wouldn't effectively remove
any clout the board has, Silverman said, “*]
don't think it would reduce the clout of the
board. They [critics] are correct in saying it
does not have any clout at this point. But
that's in the nature of how it was set up.”

However, despite all the negative
publicity it's gotten, Silverman said he
thought the board has had some effect on
the police department in that “some
members are a little more careful than they
would have been in terms of not being
unnecessarily violent."

Keith St. John, a city alderman who
represents the Capital District Lesbian and
Gay Center on the board, saicl he hoped the
board would also be looking at other
proposals for reorganization besides the
mayor's. St. John said he has an alternative
one but he'll wait until the next meeting to
reveal it.

Rekha Basu

UNFAVORABLY
DISPOSABLE

AS AMERICA'S SOLID WASTE
problems mount, the packaging habits of
American manufacturers have become both

Dumping om disposables: NYPIRG's Judith Enck

tudicrous and dangerous, Last week, the
New York Public Interest Research Group
(NYPIRG) asked consumers to consider
this question: Do we really need products
like panty hose to come in plastic eggs or
cameras to be thrown away after one use?

Ina report released last Thursday, New
York state's largest environmental and
consumer group criticized products that are
unnecessarily disposable or needlessly
over-packaged. NYPIRG also published a
consumer guide on packaging waste and
launched a call-in campaign to put pressure
on companies that contribute to the
problem

“Most packaging is just marketing,” said
Judith Enck, senior environmental
associate at NYPIRG. The people who
really lose are the consumers. It's an
environmentally bad consumer choice,’”’

According to the NYPIRG guide, titled
"Plagued by Packaging,” containers and
packaging account for roughly one-third of
the nation's 160 million-ton-per-year
garbage output. NYPIRG targeted
products like the Kodak “Fling” disposable
camera, disposable microwave cooking
trays and plastic diapers for consumer
pressure

Enck also pointed out that so-called
“degradable” plastics—~a term bandied
about by manufacturers in recent years to
combat recycling advocates—are “nothing
more than a consumer hoax, bordering on

consumer fraud." Enck explained that
most degradabie plastics only break down
into smaller plastics, She added that
products are truly recyclable only when
they can be plugged into the municipal
recycling program, and that many
degradable materials can't be.

“People need to be able to put it out on
the curb," she said.

METROLAND contacted the consumer
hotlines of several of the companies whose
products appear in the NYPIRG guide. A
representative of Eastman Kodak, which
produces the Kodak ‘Fling.’ said the
disposable camera possesses the same bulk
as a roll of Kodak 126 film. To develop the
Fling’ film, the representative said, a
consumer must bring it to a developer who
follows state codes in disposing of the
camera, The representative said the
camera's plastic is recyclable

A representative of Quaker Oats, which
produces the Aunt Jemima Pancake
Express-~a plastic bottle of pancake batter
that makes only six pancakes-- said the
product's container is recyclable. The
representative said, however. that no! all
communities have the ability to recycle
plastic materials

“More important than recycling is
reduction,” said Enck. “Common sense
tella us that the less waste there is, the
fewer disposal problems there will be.”’

~~ Mike Goudreau

SMOKESCREEN

WHEN BIOMED SERVICES, INC
proposed a regional medical-waste
incinerator for the Schenectady County
town of Delanson recently, the town’s
planning board and a citizens group did
some checking on the company. They were
uncomfortable with what they found.

BioMed had billed itself as an
Alexandria, Va., company when it
approached Delanson (population 550)
about building a regional incinerator there
to help solve the medical-waste problem
faced by Capital Region hospitals. But the
town planning board called directory
assistance in Alexandria, asked for
BioMed, and was told there was no listing
under that name

The town had been discussing the
proposal with BioMed president Lloyd
Lipman, who is based in Florida. The
planning board was later tuld that BioMed

4 * METROLAND ¢ Feb. 1-7, 1990

mo

PULLING FOR
MAGNETS

CHANGE IS COMING TO ALBANY’S
public schools. And that’s good, The three
reform candidates who won last fall’s
school-board vote were elected with a
mandate to lead an energized community
that is no longer willing to tolerate second-
rate schools, Their electoral victory,
coupled with an apparent new willingness
to listen by the board‘s three veteran
members and one other newcomer, gives
the new board members beth an
opportunity and a responsibility.

Their first real test is the issue of magnet
schools. A proposal to start two such
schools is currently before the board,

Magnet schools have been around for at
least 15 years. They were conceived to
accomplish two objectives: integrate urban
schools and become centers—-models—for
innovative education. For the concept to
work, the two must go hand-in-hand.

The Capital Region, following the
national trend, has inner-city school
districts disproportionately black and
Hispanic, ringed with suburban districts.
Until recently, the nation turned its back on
these urban schools, producing what New
York State Education Commissioner
Thomas Sobol describes as parallel
systems of education: one that works, and
one that doean't.

To stem the white exodus from the city
schools, promote school integration and
quality education, some districts adopted
the magnet-school strategy, By creating
pockets of educational excellence and
Creativity, those who otherwise might have
left, stayed. The state made integration a
prerequisite for eligibility for funding
assistance

Sometimes the strategy backfired. Some
Magnets attracted a district’s best teachers
and had access to greater resources,
undercutting efforts to upgrade all of a
city's schools, At worst, magnets became
elite semi-private schools operating within
a school district. In truth, magnets are
merely a partial alternative to a systern that
should provide excellent schools for all its
children,

Nevertheless, magnets have often
worked, providing an environment where
highly motivated, creative teachers have
the opportunity and support to tap
children’s natural desire to learn, free of
the artificial pressures of tracking, testing
and bureaucratic interference. Successful
magnets become models for all the schools
ina district,

Albany could have started magnet
schools years ago, but it didn't. Only when
the parent-initiated reform movement
showed growing political power did school
officials act, The school board set up
committees to review the system, including
one to propose a magnet-school strategy,
That committee presented its report to the
board Tuesday evening and a vote on the
plan is due next week.

In spite of some legitimate criticisms of
the Magnet School Planning Committee's
work, their proposal is the nucleus of a
good plan. The schoo! board should
approve the magnet-schoal concept, thank
the planning committee for its hard work,
and then set about overcoming the
remaining problems so that Albany's first
two magnet schools can open in
September. @

|

NEW YORK’S DEPARTMENT OF
Correctional Services has grown faster
than any other state agency under Gov.
Mario M. Cuomo, This year, the
department's proposed operating and
capital budget is nearly $2.75 billion. That
includes more than $1 billion in
reappropriations carried over from last
year, Such growth confirms that this is not
an area where the governor has looked for
help to clase the state's growing budget
gap.

“The governor has to take
responsibility,” says Robert Gangi,
executive director of the Correctional
Association of New York, ‘but the prison
expansion in the state has been supported
by the political and legislative leadership of
both parties.”

There is no question that New York has
rapidly expanded its prison capacity,
outstripping by thousands of inmates
prison-population estimates that were
considered exaggerated just a few years
ago. Since 1983, the state has opened more
than 25,000 new prison spaces, In the
coming year, Cuomo is proposing funds for
over 5,300 more spaces, with a similar
increase planned for the following year

Gangi believes that the state's criminal.
justice system is on the wrong track,
following 'wrongheaded" policies,
“Experience should be telling the political
leaders that prison expansion doesn’t work
either to relieve overcrowding or to reduce

THE SUBSTANCE
OF ABUSE

To the Editor:

| became angry and upset when reading
your article titled “Blue vs, Black”’
{Jan. 4-10). | want to thank METROLAND
for highlighting such a painful and critical
Sue in Our community. Upon reading the
personal experiences of several African-
American men who have been brutally
beaten by police officers, | felt very
disturbed, and disappointed. In my opiuon,
the violence, hatred and racism that
reportedly exists within the cited police
departments is a disgrace to all area
citirens. As an African-American, ! know
that raciam is probably here to stay, but to
have a whole system that supports it, hides
itand gets away with it cannot be
condoned! I don't have any solutions te
offer to such an ingrained institutional
tacism, but I sincerely hope that Police
Chief Dale, the various community groups
mentioned and the brave lawyers cited in

Rroups.

It is easy to see why disenfranchised,
disadvantaged people would, out of
desperation, turn to the sale of drugs to
obtain an income. Also, if the use of drugs

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PAPITOL INTENSIVE

crime,” Gangi said, adding that it costs “an
extraordinary amount of money that could
be better spent on other useful and more
important programs.”

Along with others who advocate
reforming the state’s criminal-justice
policies, Gangi points to several measures
that have passed the Legislature in the past
two decades as major contributors to prison
overcrowding. These include the
Rockefeller Drug Law, the Second Felony
Offender Law and mandatory-sentencing
guidelines. These were passed in the heat
of election campaigns when tough-on-crime
stances seemed popular, But on sober
reflection, they have failed to achieve their
objectives while creating other problems
throughout the system.

Por example, while New York’s Chief
Judge Sel Wachtler pushes the governor
for more money to beef up a court system
flooded with drug cases, the governor's
budget, according to Gangi, “guts”
spending on programs designed as
alternatives to incarceration, These have
the advantage of working to rehabilitate
criminals while saving the state money, It
costs New York about $30,000 a year to
keep an inmate in state prison.

With the governor asking for more than
5,000 new prison beds this year, Gangi
points to the law that mandates jail for
second-time felony offenders, Last year, he
said, more than 5,000 people who
committed nonviolent second felonies were
sent to jail,

Gangi supports a number of jail
alternatives, including intensive
supervision probation, This plan would
place those currently subject to mandatory

is the only source of pleasure in one's life,
due to liviry, in the bleak surroundings of an
economically deprived envirormnent, one
coukl easily begin selling drugs to support
one's own addiction. There continues to be
perpetration of a “blaming the victim’
mentality in our society.

Until the roots of addiction in our
materialistic, “quick-fix” society are
addressed, and until self-esteem, pride,
education, good jobs and access to money
and power within our society is equal for
all, the problems shall remain, However, |
cannot state strongly enough that police
brutality canme? be tolerated as a strategy
to impact the drug problem.

A positive note is that a range of good
drug-treatment programs and self- help
recovery programs do exist here in the
Capital Region, and can be utilized to have
4 positive impact on those who want to
eliminate their drug addictions,

Roslyn Jefferson-Rhynhart
Director, Equinox Substance Abuse
Counseling Center

Albany
NO MEANS NO

To the Editor:

A few words to Ms. Delaney [Heroines &
Heretics, Jan, 25-31}...

For thousands of years, we have heen
taught that women are merely Possessions,
that men can do whatever they want,
whenever they want. Men have been
taught to accept this, as well as women.
The blame belongs to the people who made

sentencing under intense probation

could include randomly checked curte .. .
required jobs or community service, ‘It's
more expensive than regular probation,”
Gangi concedes, “but less expensive than
prison.”’ But the programs have to be there,
and judges have to have the discretion to
use them.

Last year, when the Legislature and the
governor negotiated the Omnibus Crime
Control Law, the Assembly agreed to go
along with increased prison construction in
exchange for increased funding for
alternatives to incarceration programs,
Instead of carrying forward its
commitment, the alternatives budget was
reduced in the governor's spending plan.
Now, says Gangi, it will be necessary to
fight for these funds to be reinstated.
“Now, we will be satisfied just to get back
to where we were last year,”’ he
complained.

“T'm not suggesting that people who
commit murder, rape or armed robbery and
who live by the principle of ‘might makes
right’ should go free,”’ Gangi said. "But
that’s not the lion's share of people in
prison.

“I think the evidence shows that
mandatory sentencing laws have not
worked to accomplish any useful purpose,
But it’s having some very undesirable
results, [t's leading to a breakdown in our
criminal justice system. Courts are jammed
to the breaking point. And crime is getting
worse, draining money and resources away
from other government programs that
could be more effective in responding to
crime,”

Je nes

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up the rules, and to those people who ¢tilf
choose to believe them,

We are finally learning that those ancient
rules are wrong, Not matter how
“considerate’' or polite’ your son may
seem to you, he is still guilty of rape. He
chose to believe the old lies about men and
women, the lies that you, and other
members of society, taught him. He was
wrong, Unfortunately, he was not the first
to make that mistake, and he won't be the
last.

When a woman says no to sex, she means
no. She does not deserve to be raped. The
number of men she chose to have sex with
in the past has no bearing on that “no.” Her
previous sexual activity is none of her
date’s business, and it is certainly not his
mother’s business.

The rules have changed, Ms, Delaney:
women have rights now. They have always
been entitled to them, and now, they are
exercising them, We've worked hard to get
where we are, It's about time enervone
learned some new rules.

Mary L.. Wade
Athany

CORRECTION

Credits for photos that ran with the story
“Rights of Way" (Jan. 18-24] wer:
inadvertently left off. All three ph
taken by Martin Benjamin,

Also in that issue, the Forum photo of
anti-apartheid leader the Rev. Dr Allan A
Boesak was taken by Jim Lucaszewski, at
Gigi Cohen as identified,

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Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid and Racism

Box 3002, Pime Hille Bitma ticxn, Albany, N.Y. 12208

February 7, 1990
Dear Friend:

We of the Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism
invite you join an international] campaign to continue and

intensify economic sanctions against South Africa. Reception
committees worldwide will celebrate Nelson Mandela's release from

prison while stepping up the call for sanctions.

Following De Klerk' state of the nation speech on February 2,
1990, George Bush and Margaret Thatcher responded by suggesting
that sanctions should be re-evaluated. In contrast, also
following De Klerk's speech, Thabo Mbeki, Director of
International Affairs for the ANC called for sanctions to be
intensified. In a statement released following the speech, the
UDF said, in part, that:

",,..the sanctions campaign must be maintained and
intensified. To lift sanctions now would be to run the
risk of aborting the progress to democracy. If
anything, the speech that De Klerk has made shows that
all the pressures we have been calling for and all the
demands for sanctions were pointed in the right
direction. This is no time to relent on this issue."

We must listen to the voice of the majority of South Africans,
not Bush and Thatcher, in deciding when to lift sanctions. The
South African government has only made any changes precisely
because South Africa has lost $32 billion through direct and
indirect sanctions over the last 5 years.

When Nelson Mandela is released, and as an initial step ina
campaign for intensified Sanctions, we will attempt to hold a
press conference using the enclosed press release. To use your
name on this press release will aid the campaign immensely. In
addition, if you or your organization feel committed to joining
us in the coming months please indicate this on the tear off
sheet.

Thanks,

For the Coalition

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PLEASE RETURN IMMEDIATELY TO THE COALITION, c/o Deborah Maxwell,
19 Snowden Avenue, Schenectady, New York 12304

Name an oA ” cigs cic ONG oe
Organization See ae Si Phone
Address im City ee ee

Please call about continued work on the sanctions campaign

PRESS STATEMENT

ON THE RELEASE OF NELSON MANDELA
enna MANUELA

We, members of the Mandela Reception Committee, join in
celebrations around the world which commemorate the release of
African National Congress leader, Nelson Mandela after 28 years
in South Africa's apartheid prisons. Mandela has maintained his
integrity and dignity throughout these long and difficult years.

He has been an inspiration to anti-apartheid forces everywhere.

While we are jubilant about Mandela's release, we want to
make it very clear that the struggle is far from over. The apartheid
System remains intact. Over 1300 political prisoners remain in
jail, 200 of these on death row. Several hundred individuals remain

restricted. Troops remain in the townships. The State of

break up meetings, rallies and marches and censor the press. Peaceful
anti~apartheid demonstrations Still bring police violence. All of the
basic laws which constitute the apartheid System of white minority
controlled government, racism and repression, remain in full effect.
Mandela's release has not come about because apartheid has had
a change of heart. The release is a result of the uncompromising
Struggle being waged inside South Africa and in the international
community.
The campaign to isolate the apartheid regime is beginning to reap
Success. International economic Sanctions levied against South
Africa are taking their toll and South African President deKlerk

is desparately trying to ward off any more sanctions.

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The Bush administration will attempt to use the Mandela release

aS an excuse to lift existing Sanctions against South African.

Virtually all anti-apartheid forces inside South Africa continue to

call for_increased sanctions.

We, therefore, join hundreds of Mandela Reception Committees
in the United States and around the world, in launching an intensified
campaign for comprehensive Sanctions against South Africa. We
Call on all capital district residents to join us in showing support
for the people of South Africa by pressuring our legislators to
move for full and comprehensive Sanctions against the apartheid

regime.

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THE DAILY GAZETTE

Area Foes
Of Apartheid
React Coolly

o- Reacting to —
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on hen 0 tae vetlawed African Na-
tional Congress, Vera Michelson, co-
ehairman of the Capital District Co-
alition Against Apartheid and
Racism, called it “a step in the right
on, but it’s not the end of apart-

heid. It’s the beginning of a process
that can lead to negotiations. But
there are very very specific condi-
tions that the people are demanding
be met before negotiations take
piace, and we're not near that

gt those conditions, she said,
are the release of all political prison-
ers, the lifting of restrictions and
bans on all people and organizations,
a complete to the state of emer-
gency including 4 total lifting of press
restrictions, withdrawal of all troops
from the townships 43 well as several

others.

say that. They don't need President
Bush or Margaret Thatcher saying
that, The apologists for apartheid are
$0 quick to give the impression that
we have reached the end of apart-

heid.”

Micheison was critica! of Bush's
talk of lifting sanctions against South
Africa. “This is a good example of

in our foreign policy. Pres-
ident Bush is not the one to decide
when sanctions will be lifted,” she
said, “When the African National
Congress says it’s time to lift sanc-
tions, then we lift sanctions. But
President Bush does not make deci-
sions for people inside South Africa.
And clearly ... all of the anti-apart-
heid forces inside the country have
called for continued pressure and
sanctions at this time.

She said that in the Capital Dis-
trict, her organization is in the pro-
cess of designing a campaign, to be
launched soon, to renew the efforts
for sanctions.

She also said, repeating a theme of
the Rev. Allan Boesak during his re-
cent visit to the area, “It’s important
to understand that the United States,
Britain, the Western powers and
Japan have been financing apartheid.
People in the country [South Africa]
aay repeatedly we can fight Pretoria,
but we cannot fight all those
powers.”

And she criticized Bush for “trying
to act like he's part of the process,
he's part of the problem, as have been
other U.S. administrations.”

Nathi Ngcobo, a South African stu-
dying at the State University of New

ork at Albany who is a friend of
Michelson's, said, “I'm really excit-
ed” about the news. But he said, “I
want to point out that [President
F.W.] de Klerk must not be credited
for these actions. He has not done us a
favor. In the first place, the release of
Mandela was long overdue. So whilst
we are happy, we are not in any way
thankful to de Klerk. It is the strug-
gles of the peoples inside South Afri-
ca and international solidarity that
has made us reach this point.”
Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid

and Racism
Box 3002 - Pine Hills Station January 1990

Albany, NY 12203
A Project of the Social Justice Center

Location: Albany Public Library, Main Branch, Washington Ave.
Albany, New York (location has been changed to the
library because it is centrally located and provides

easy access.)

Time: 7:00 p.m. ~ meeting will start promptly at 7 - (the
starting time has been changed to 7 because we must
be out of the library at 9:00 sharp.)

= x oh AS ¥ Video clips from “South Africa Now” on recent events
Pp we “2. in and affecting South Africa®
coset ale

A { /\\ Update on work of Police Abuse Subcommittee of the
\ i Coalition - follow up from December Forum

*(Note that “South Africa Now” is aired locally on Sundays at 2:00 p.m.
on PBS Cable Channel 45)

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Ja earlv December /989. the
Coalition sponsored a forua

at the Arbor Hill Community
Center to examine the connect-
ions and the conditions of

racism and police brutality in
Albany. The forum was attend-
ed by over [00 people and out

Of the forum Came many suggest-
tons for ways to combat police
abuse in Albany s African A meri-
can community. Among the pre-
senters at the forum were Albany
attorney Terence kind/on who has D
represented numerous clenis
alleging police abuse, and Alice
Green, Legislative Director of the
New Fork Civil Liberties Union.

Green: “a war to keep black people in jail.”

“Brutalizing the Community to Save It, Or Fighting the
Drug War in Albany” tiie

by Merton Simpson
As Rekha Basu so insightfully points out in her Metroland article (Jan. 4-
10, 1990), Albany's African American community is bearing the brunt of the
cops war on drugs. The Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism is calling
on people who were victims of police abuse or who know victims to contact
the Police Abuse Subcommittee of the Coalition.

The drug war is a legitimate issue but what in fact is occuring is a War
against people who are Black. The focus of the war is on young Black males
many of whom have no history of drug use.

The only way this scourge will be stopped is for individuals to stand up
and be counted if they are the victims of abuse. We are not underestimating
the difficulty and the repercussions for Standing up but the problem will not
go away if the community does not make a stand. |

If you have information you want to share or want to get involved in

this campaign against police abuse, call 434-4037 or write the CDCAAR.
Box 3002, Pine Hills Station, Albany, New York 12203.

LUNI) Announcements of Interest _|Il/WAWHANKNMIII

Northeast Southern Africa Solidarity Network - The next meeting of the

Network is tentatively scheduled for March 10, 1990 at Rutgers University
in New Jersey. This is an important planning meeting. Save the date.
For more information about the meeting, call 432-4623.

African National Congress - On November 9, 1989 the ANC office in Wash-
ington, D.C. was officially opened by Mr. Thabo Mbeki, Director of Inter-
national Affairs of the ANC. The ANC Washington office is headed by Ms.
Lindiwe Mabuza and constitues the representation to the United States
of America while the New York office will henceforth deal primarily with
he United Nations. On matters pertaining to solidarity and other related

clivities, inquiries should be addressed to:
Chief Representative
African National Congress
P.O. Box 15575
Washington DC 20003
Telephone Number: 202-543-9433

Look for “Mapantsula” - at the Spectrum theater in Albany at the end of
February. This is the story of the slow transformation of a fast talking

South African gangster. Behind his story can be seen the everyday
crippling effects of apartheid with scenes of poverty, squalor and in-
equality in the Black township, Soweto. The film receives critical
acclaim at the 1988 New York Film Festival.

The Critical Black Issues Conference Committee - invites you to participate

in the 1990 CBI “Maginificent Tomorrows: Men and Women Moving to
the Future” on Saturday, February 3, 1990 at the Arbor Hill Community

Center.

Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid
and Racism

NON-PROFIT ORG |
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. : “ PAID
Project of the Social Justice Center Perma No, 609
33 Central Avenue Albany, N.Y,

Albany, New York 12210

Michelson
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Albany,

Next Coalition Meeting:
Thursday, Jan. 25, 1990
7:00 p.m. Albany Public Library

"If the struggle against racism and apartheid in this country is to
go forward, if there is to be a real movement for change, it will
take the determination, dedication and long term commitment of many
people. Your help is crucial."

These were words used to appeal to you for help in a membership
letter which was sent at the very end of 1989. In that letter we
asked you to accept a membership card and to pay a yearly membership
fee of $5.00 (more, of course, gratefully accepted).The receipt of
these dues will guarantee continued mailing of this newsletter.

(We have no paid staff so all funds go directly to organizing efforts,
education, printing and postage.) If you lost the letter and card,
upon receipt of your $5.00 we will forward one to you.

The response to this appeal has been great but the needs of the
movement are pressing and constant. We need your help.

Thanks to all who have already responded so generously.

Make checks payable to: Capital District Coalition Against

Apartheid and Racism
send to: CDCAAR, Box 3002, Fine Hills Station, Albany, N.Y.12203

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A CONFERENCE FOR ACTIVISTS

SATURDAY, MARCH 17,1990

DISTRICT 65, U.A.W., NEW YORK CITY

SPEAKERS * WORKSHOPS * MUSIC

SOLIDARITY NETWORK

_——

The Northeast Southern Africa Solidarity
Network (NESASN) brings together anti-
apartheid activists in the trade union movement,
the peace and religious community, students,
educators, and cultural workers to consolidate
their efforts in organizing more effective mass
support for the African National Congress (ANC)
of South Africa, the south West Africa Peoples’
Organization (SWAPO) of Namibia, and the Front
Line States (Angola, Mozambique, Bostwana,
Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Zambia). The Network
includes organizations from twelve states in the
northeast, from Maine to Washington, DC, and

w Mes participation in the Freedom Rising
Com-erence by all who support our developing
program to meet the challenges of the new

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"As we enter this decade, it is only logical
that friends in the United States should
redouble their efforts in support of the
struggle for the total decolonization of
Namibia, the dismantling of apartheid in
South Africa and for an end to the campaign
of aggression and destabilization in Southern
Africa by the apartheid regime. Such
support will go a long way to assist in
realising our long cherished goal of Freedom,
Justice, and Peace, For these reasons,
SWAPO wholeheartedly supports the
convening of a Regional Conference by the
Northeast Southern Africa Solidarity

Ne rk.”

Hinyangerua Asheeke, Representative,
South West Africa Peoples’ Organization
(SWAPO) of Namibia.

“The release of Nelson Mandela and the othe?
ANC leaders is bound to have a profound
impact on the course of the freedom struggle
in South Africa, as well as being an occasion
to celebrate for all who have campaigned for
their release. The current situation imposes
tremendous challenges to the movement in
this country to intensify pressure on the
South African government until apartheid has
been abolished. The Northeast Southern
Africa Solidarity Network, as an organized
structure within the solidarity movement, can
only serve to render our collective effort more
efficient and strengthen our fighting capacity.
The ANC encourages your full participation
and support of the Network conference.”
Lindiwe Mabuza, Chief Representative of
African National Congress (ANC) to the
United States.

FREEDOM RISING IN SOUTHERN
AFRICA: STRATEGIES FOR THE 90'S

SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1990
DISTRICT 65 U.A.W.

(Registration - video screenings 8:30-9:30 a.m.)

* 1989 - YEAR OF BEGINNING,
1990 - YEAR OF BUILDING
A Network Report

* FREEDOM RISING IN SOUTHERN
AFRICA: CELEBRATING REAL.
VICTORIES, UNMASKING COSMETIC
CHANGE
A panel discussion with:

LINDIWE MABUZA, Chief Representative of
African National Congress(ANC) to the United
States.

HINYANGERUA ASHEEKE, Representative,
South West Africa Peoples’
Organization(SWAPO) of Namibia to the
United Nations.

His Excellency MANUEL PEDRO PACAVIRA,
Ambassador, Angola Mission to the United
Nations.

His Excellency PEDRO COMISSARIO
ALFONSO," Ambassador, Permanent
Mission of the Peoples’ Republic of
Mozambique to the United Nations.

“invited

* SANCTIONS IN A CHANGING
CONTEXT - SETTING THE
MOVEMENT AGENDA

AUBREY McCUTCHEON, III Executive Director,
Washington Office on Atrica

(Brown Bag Lunch - Video Screenings -
Constituency meetings.)

* STRATEGIES FOR THE 90's
Network Proposals: Sanctions,
Namibia, Sheil Boycott

* SANCTIONS UNTIL DEMOCRACY .-
MEETING THE CHALLENGE...
Workshops

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8:00 PM
JAM FOR JUSTICE &

INDEPENDENCE

* Show of traditional South
African women's fashion *
Sechaba Singers * Poetry
followed by...
Music * Food * Dancing

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Directions to District 65, U.A.W., 13
Astor Place. By car: Astor Place is a block-
long, two way street in Greenwich Village
running east to west between Broadway and
Lafayette Streeet. It is 5 blocks south of 14th
Street and 6 blocks north of Bleeker Street.
There is an indoor parking lot on Broadway, just
south of Astor Place and an outdoor parking lot
on Astor Place across Lafayette Street. By
subway: Astor Place stop on the Lexiry
Avenue subway. 8th Street stop on the : @
or#RR Broadway subways.

Endorsing organizations: American
Committee on Africa; Baltimore Anti-
apartheid Coalition; Boston Mobilization for
Survival;-Call to Conscience, Philadelphia;
Capital District Coalition against Apartheid
and Racism; Civil Service Employees
Association; Delaware Committee against
Racism and Apartheid; Educators against
Racism and Apartheid; District 65 UAW. ;
Educators against Racism & Apartheid;
Friends of ANC, SWAPO, and Front Line

States; lmmobilize Apartheid Coalition;

Interfaith Center on Corporate Repsonsibility;

Maine Project on Southern Africa; Martin

__ ther King Anti-Apartheid Coalition
(Philadelphia); Mozambique Support
Network of New England; National Lawyers
Guild; New Haven Free South Africa
Coalition; New Jersey Anti-Apartheid
Mobilization Coalition; New York Labor
Committee against Apartheid; Philadelphia
Friends of SOMAFCO; Rhode Island Divest;
Rochester Committee for Justice in Southern
Africa; Shell Boycott Education Project;
South Africa Women's Day Committee;
Southern Africa Action Group, Wesleyan
University; Southern Africa Commitiee for
RiversideChurch; Student Association of the
State University of New York (SASU);
Vermont Coalition on Southern Africa;
Westchester Peoples’ Action Coalition
(WESPAC); Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom (WILPF- Northeast
Region); Women for Racial and Economic
Equality.

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Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid

and Racism
Box 3002 - Pine Hills Station March 1990

Albany, NY 12203
A Project of the Social Justice Center

Next general meeting of the Coalition: Thursday, Mar.27.
1990 at 7:00 p.m.

Location: \ibanv bublic Library Main Branch. Washington Ave
sihany, New York (Note) meeting will start prompuy
di ~ because we must be out of the library at 9 sharp

Agenda for the March Meeting:
Recognition of Namibian Independence Day, Mar.2Ist,
1990 with a video update and a short presentation on
what's happening in Namibia now.

Report from Coalition Police Abuse Committee - results
of meeting with Police Chief Dale. What next?

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Report from the Mandela Reception Committee including
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Sanctions Worked ~- Sanctions Now!

\ate that South Atrica Now ts aured locally on Sundavs at 200 pm on PBS
Cable Channel! 47

° Please note that a snecial membership letter was sent out requesting

| a3) 00 membership ice (or 1990. Thanks to all who generously re-
sponded to this appeal. If you have not yet responded, your help is
Needed Make checks payable te: Canital District Coalition Against

Apartheid and Pacism and mail to box 3002, Pine ills Station. Albany.
New York [27%

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Albany police
policy changes

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Albany, N.Y... Tuesday. Feb. 27, 1990

ALBANY - In two policy changes hailed by minority leaders
and activists, Police Chief John Dale on Monday agreed to
allow advocates to accompany people filing misconduct
charges against police officers and to restrict his department's
photographic surveillance of public demonstrations

The changes resulted from a two-
hour meeting between Dale and
several jeaders and activists in the

By Jay Jochnowitz

Stat! writer

minority community Both sides emerged optimistic the
SESSION Was a Step toward better relations

“LT enjoy this type of meeting.” said Dale, contrasting the
gathering with the public — and often tense — sessions of the
city’s Community-Police Relations Board on which police,
minorities and various other community representatives sit

“They're a lot less formal. I have the Opportunity to say what
I want to say. and the citizens have a chance to voice their

concern, I think it was more or less setting the groundwork for
others.” Dale said.

Albany County Legislator James Bouldin, whose 3rd District
includes the predominantly black Arbor Hill neighborhood, also
emerged caui.ously upbeat. “I'm hopeful,” said Bouldin. who
was invited by the Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid
and Racism to sit in on the session. “It was a first step "

Dale addressed one perceived problem with his department »
internal-affairs investigations by agreeing to allow people
making complaints against officers to be accompanied by
someone else. The presence of a third party, he and others said.
Was aimed at providing support for people who would
otherwise be afraid to report a complaint.

“It was very intimidating.” Bouldin said of the previous
procedure that barred third parties from being present while
people were interviewed by internal-affairs detectives. “Sofne
people came out of there kind of bewildered. intimidated, and
that's not going “@ > the case.”

Alice Green, iilid of the legislative office of the New York

Civil Liberties Union and a vocal critic of the department's
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Vickie Smith of the Coalition Against. Apartieid and Racisrr

decision, predicting that
it Would result in more complaints.

“Certainly it will encourage peo-
ple to file complaints if they know
someone can be with them at that
critical time,” she said.

Dale will also restrict police
photographing of public demonstra-
tions, stating that officers will be
permitted to conduct such surveil-
lance at gatherings only on his
approval Former Chief John Reid
maintained that the department
needed photos for surveillance and
training purposes. and the decisions
were made by detectives and com-
manders.

Activists and attorneys have
argued for several years that the
practice raises constitutional ques-
tions and threatens to have a chilling
effect on public expression. The
debate resurfaced last week when
plainclothes police showed up to get

Snapshots of demonstrators. City
Hall protesting allegations 5 ate
brutality Most in Monday's

were among the crowd.

ting

Demonstrators openly questioned
why police needed to covertiy photo
graph the peaceful demonstration
and Dale said Monday that “at that
particular demonstration I don’t fee!
it was warranted.” He suid the
participants were well-known to
police and posed no threat

While activists have argued for a
civilian review board empowered to
investigate misconduct Cases and

recommend discipline, Dale re
mained firm on his and Ma
Theornas M Whaten THT s position t
tom strictly a Police Peart
fur Gen

To get invoived in

the Poiice Abuse

Com mittee of the
Coalition, cal! 434 4037
Your help is crucial!

The Mandela Reception
Committee of the Capital
District Coaki-*ion Against

Sanctions are actions taken by lables, a vit en
to express their disapproval of, punish orm af e caret
of another country. The term most often pint to - aces
measures by governments that impose pena — ° Baiae
states. When words alone seem too little and yl nit ore
aresponse, economic anh are one of the fewre re]

overnments can take. .
© hanlone can range from weak, symbolic penalties eee
economic wartare. Proponents of strong sanctions age ey
South Africa usually seek mandatory comprehensive a
nomic sanctions. These would include trade ee,
cut off imports and exports, as well as bans on fina "
relationships such as bank loans oF direct id orn nied
ment. Formal sanctions against South Africa, in ef ss _
plement at the federal level what state and local activists
long worked for with the divestment re ae —_

internationally, the United Nations Security egy A
enforce mandatory sanctions that are considered legally

binding on member countries.

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DEMOCRACY

a unified, nonracial South Africa.

C) NO, !don't believe that democracy is the answertor South

Atrica. | vote no to democracy.

Name

Organization
Address ba

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YES. every South African deserves full democracy — th
right to vote. ‘ols yes to the call for one person, one vote in

City State,Zip ete, iene

Apartheid and Racism is
i joining the call for a

strong sanctions campaign.
ane FILL OUT AND SEND THE
BALLOT BELOW. for more

y ballots for your organiz-~
= ation or to Join the
rf " Mandela Reception Committee
call 432-4623.

WY VOTE for Democracy
A VOTE for Sanctions

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SANCTIONS

YES. true democracy will come to South Africa only when

. That is why | vote for
h vernment is under real pressure.
phate mandatory sanctions immediately.

Ot eis vend
NO, we don't need to pressure the white minority go
— | vote no to sanctions against apartheid.

The Africa Fund will mail your ballot for democracy to the

of South Africa to register your support for their

i | ji Con-
demands. ballot for sanctions will be delivered to
pai push for comprehensive sanctions against

South Africa.
(1 I've enclosed my contribution to support the campaign.

19038
RETURN TO: VOTE DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN, The Africa Fund, 198 Broadway. New York, NY 100
Sanctions are Working

The international campaign to isolate apartheid South Africa has had a
devastating effect on the white minority regime. Sanctions Lave been the
strongest outside pressure and have been one of the factors which has
forced the Pretoria government to free Mandela and to unban the ANC
Randall Robinson, executive director of TransAfrica said "Until sanctions
were imposed four years ago, we saw no change in apartheid since it was
codified in 1948."

Now is the time for the international community to intensify
the pressure for comprehensive sanctions.

Since the imposition of sanctions South Africa has lost $6 billion in inter -

gpsuional trade and $11 billion in investments. South African @conomic

Bovis declined from a 6 percent annual growth rate in the 1960s to 3 per-
cent in the 1970s and 2 percent in the 1980s. Herman Cohen, Assistant
Secretary of State for African Affairs was quoted in the New York Times on
the impact of sanctions: “Sanctions have had a substantial impact on
persuading white South Africans of the need for a negotiated settlement”

Now is the time for the international community to intensify
the pressure for comprehensive Sanctions.

Lindiwe Mabuza, Chief Representative in the U.S.A. of the African
National Congress has stressed the need for continued sanctions. “No
country should, because of the release of Nelson Mandela and the
unbanning of the ANC, think that apartheid is over. The reason for
applying sanctions is apartheid. Apartheid still remains intact. Until we
have in South Africa the possibility Of a non-racial, democratic society and
we have a new constitutional order, we think the rest of the world has a
responsibility to maintain the pressure,
Now is the time for the international community to intensify
the pressure for comprehensive sanctions.
On the day of his release from 27 years in apartheid jails, Nelson

. 21 a comprehensive sanctions bill, has been introduced in the
House by Rep. Ronald Dellums (D.-Calif.), chair of the Congressional Black
Caucus, and in the Senate by Sens. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass), Howard
Metzenbaum. !D-Ohio) and Paul Simon (D-IL).

a
ARCHBISHOP TUTU'S VISIT TO PALESTINE
bv David Aube of the Capital istrict Comauttee or Malestiman Rights

On a Visit this past January to Uccupied Palestine. | had the opportunity to speak
with the Anglican Bishop of the Middle East Samar Kafity concerning the visit of South
African Archbishop Desmond Tutu s visit W Palestine Bishop Kafity, who invited Tutu.
stated he came on a pilgrimage to visit the holy land over Christmas During the trip,

Bishop Tutu prayed for genuine peace between Palestinians and Israelis
Archibishop Tutu came under attack from the press and Israeli apologists when he

made two Christian calls for peace. | He stated ‘if we support as Christians the security
of Israel we must support the establishment of a Palestinian state 2 After a visit to

Yad Vashem Holocaust museum. the Archbishop responded to the question, “What do
you tell the Israelis after what you have seeen’’ Tutu said that he deplored the

Holocaust and "as a Christian | ask them to forgive not to forget We have to forgive
start a new chapter, be forward looking © The statement was a basic Christian call for

forgiveness.
The Archbishop was attacked because he supported Palestinian rightsandthe

avenue of attack was his Christian call for forgiveness. Yet when these same Christ _
beliefs are applied to the situation in South Africa by the Archbishop. they do not

invoke similar criticism or campaigns to discredit him.

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NOTE: THE CAPITAL DISTRICT COMMITTE FOR PALESTINIAN RIGHTS WILL
HOLD A PALESTINIAN DINNER ON FRI. MARCH 23RD AT ST. PATRICK'S
CHURCH , 283 CENTRAL AVE. ALBANY. FOR TICKETS CALL 434-4037.

OTHER IMPORTANT EVENTS IN THE CAPITAL DISTRICT:

“SOUTH AFRICA: THE CORDONED HEART” PHOTO EXHIBIT AT THE STATE
MUSEUM. SEE TH\RD PAGE OF NEWSLETTER FOR DETAILS.

ANGELA DAVIS TO SPEAK AT SUNY, ALBANY CAMPUS. TENTATIVE DATE
SET FOR LATE APRIL. CHECK WITH SUNY FOR MORE DETAILS.

ARCHBISHOP ROMERO COMMEMORATION AND MARCH TO END THE US. WAR
IN CENTRAL AMERICA - MARCH ON WASHINGTON, SATURDAY, MARCH 24,
1990. LOCAL CONTACT: PLEDGE OF RESISTANCE AND CISPES. CALL FOR
TICKETS OR INFORMATION, 434-4037.

ALSO NOTE: PEACE OFFERINGS, THE CAPITAL DISTRICT S ALTERNATI\ ‘e
STORE LOCATED IN THE SOCIAL JUSTICE CENTER, 33 CENTRAL AVENUE,
ALBANY, OFFERS A WIDE SELECTION OF GIFT ITEMS FROM AROUND THE

WORLD OPEN MON THROUGH SAT, 12-6

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South Africa: The Cordoaed Heart”

The ‘ragedy of apartheid and the ravages vol a divided society are captured ia the

works of 20 South African photographers on exhibit 1a South Africa: The Cordoned
Heart at the New York State Museum in Albaay [rom March 3/ to May 1 1990. The above
Photo 1s trom a book of the same name
The exhibu lakes the viewer oa 4 journey into the heart of the apartheid state
sprawhag squatter camps of South Atrica 3 segregated cities. the overcrowed and
snpoverished Black rural ares. the homes of the old and the unemployed the migraai
compounds where workers live far trom their families ia heavily pollced and tsolated
hostels. the Mass protest meetings of workers aad studeals. and the 1nevilable fuaes ais

The brutality and poverty and horror of apartheid are paintully evideat but the
Photographers also capture the digaitv and pride of a people who have beea luag
oppressed by the wAile minorily regime.

Tats important exhibit will be accompanied by live aights of movies Which are alse

_ stroag statements about apartheid aad its impact ena the lives of South Atricans The

movies Will be Showa on friday evenings aad will include the receatly released film
Mapanthsula. which depicts life 1a a tewaship. A receptioa anda panel discussiva are
also planned

We urge Vou to see thus exhibu and these films - for more faformatioa
about the film schedule, call the museum at 4°4- 5877

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Students at the State University of New York at Albany celebrate the
release of Nelson Mandeia during a special raily at the campus last week.
Mandela, the leader of the African National Congress, was freed by the

South African government after spending nearly 30 years in prison. Man-
dela has led the fight against apartheid.

Gazette photo by Nacom Romero

African National Congress Unbanned

Un Feoruary 2, 1990, Suuth African President F.WideKlerk announced th.
unbanaoing of the African National Congress, the South Airican
Cummunist Party and other organizations. This is an important firs. whe ys
and the release of Nelson Mandela on February llth was another
important step but it 1s essential to note that the cornersiones of
apartheid remain intact and that the conditions fer negotiations as
established by the people of South Africa and py the Harare Declaration,
have not yet been met.

The people of South Africa had “de facto” unbanned the ANC before
dcKlerk’s announcement. in other words, the government was onty
recognizing a reality that in many Ways already existed. The peuple of
South Africa forced FW. deKlerk to take these actions and for them i: is a .
ercal victory.

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Sunday Morning at 9:15 Eastern Standard
Time, Feb., 11, 1990, Victor Verster
Prison, Paarl, South Africa ---

Nelson Mandela, the 71 year old symbol
abet EN TAR = \ oof Black South Africa's resistance to
ey er arr | apartheid, walked out of prison tall

: car no ae and erect, holding his wife's hand,
I surrounded by chants of "Viva Mandela.’
day Ne A few hours later in Capetown he spoke
bj

im eo Ea al Wate ~ “gee, tO a half a million jubilant supporter:
Babi, ee i oa" Siawe Si "WE HAVE WAITED TOO LONG FOR OUR FREE-
be eee Fh ae DOM. WE CAN NO LONGER WAIT. NOW IS TH
We TIME TO INTENSIFY THE STRUGGLE ON ALL
aq FRONTS."

Mie Mandela is not a free man. He is
not even a citizen in the country

; Peed of his birth, But the pressure
iy Kare byt ¢ from within South Africa an
4 Wah, A) Tien from the internat i ?™
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ae a ma tells f notice on the apartheid

regime and its backers

‘Africa It Is Ours! wes

FERUM BN BSLITEAL BRISGNERS

SUNDAY FEB.18 - 2 P.M.

TEMPEL BETHEL
153 JAY STREET ALBANY N.Y.

BETWEEN SWAN & DOVE STREETS ALBANY 434-4066

SPONSORED Br--- THE FREECOM FOR HERMAN FERHUSON COMMITTEE
CO-SPONBORED Br--

CAPITAL OISTRICT COLATION AGAINST APARTHEIO & RACISM
MALCOLM K STUDY NETWORK

SPEAKERS--

FATHER LAWRENCE LUCAS, PASTOR,CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION
AUTHOR OF; BLACK PRIEST WHITE CHURCH

MERTON SIMPSON CO-CHAIRMAN CAPITAL DISTRICT COLATION
AGAINST APARTHEID ANDO RACISM

YABARI PENDA: MALCOLM X STUDY NETWORK

IYALUUA FERGUSON: ACTIVIST @ WIFE OF POLITICAL PRISONER
HERMAN FERGUSON

MODERATOR
SUNNY CARSON: COMMUNITY ACTIVIST

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Albany Upstate Chapter of Blacks in Government

P.O. Box iGo Empire State Plaza Station, Albany, N.Y. 12220-2140

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J. Raymond Wright
Presiden:

Mary Berrings
View Presiden:

Treasarer

Jeannine Dominique
Recording Seeretary

Ci orresponding Secrerary

Partiamentarion

Donna Perry and
Merton Simpson
Members-at- Large

James Bouldin and
Colwyn Alien
Ahernate Regional Delegates

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Dear Member:

It's been along time since we've had a full meeting of

the group. Many of you have been working effectively
independently and others have been working in small groups.
Unfortunately some of you feel the organization has died or
fallen into a deep sleep ~--nothing could be further from
the truth. The organization is very much alive, just not as
noisy. But it's time to make some noise and take care of
some family business. We usually reserve this time of the

year for our serious economical throw-down, to raise some
operating cash, become reacquainted, reaffirm our goals and

make new friends. This year should not be different but it
might be difficult ---- TIME HAS ALMOST RUN OUT, BUT THERE'S
STILL SOME LEFT. It will require a great deal of effort
from all of us to make it work. First we have to elect
officers for 1990, then we have to set an agenda, commit
ourselves to the work and GET BUSY!

Our membership meeting will be held on Wednesday,
February 28th at the Washington Avenue Albany Public Library
at 6 P.M,

AGENDA:

o Nominations of Officers

© Throw~down Fund Raiser Plans

© BIG Sponsorship of a NY City Theater Trip for
School 20 Kids

© BIG Sponsorship of Street Academy Reunion

o Mandella and South Africa - What you should
know and its impact on the world.

Recent events in South Africa have focused new
attention on the issues, Organizations, the Government and
Nelson Mandella. It's assumed that most people have a
reasonable handle on the basic facts. Most of what we know
is brought to us by the press, which is often censored or
has a point of view that has limited input from the people.
This months meeting will define the terms you often hear
and give you some greater, probably more accurate, views
from the South African perspective. Our guests will be
Nathi Ngcobo and Shobahna Ghopal. You may not recognize
their names but you have seen their faces and heard their
voices on TV and Radio speaking out on South African issues
and adding a grass roots perspective to their scholarly
presentations. This will be a very informative program and
will be open to the public,

Help Build the Network --..-.--.... JOYUN BIG

| CHARLIE 2. THERE'S
SOMETHING ABOUT
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Albany's Police-Community Relations Board. Between Greer and Smith is Dr. Alice Green of

4 the American Civil Liberties Union, The protest, held at Albany City Hall, was ofganized by
‘ the Coalition. Coalition representatives will meet next week with Albany Police Chief John

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State union gave
to political camp:

By TERRY O'BRIEN

Record Capitol Reporter

ALBANY — The state's largest
white-collar public employee uni-
on shelled out nearly $90,000 in
contributions in 1989 to the cam-
paign committees of state legis-
lators.

The 59,000-member Public Em-
ployees Federation is expected to
significantly increase political ac-
tion committee spending this year
as lawmakers gear up for their re-
election campaigns, The union
made $10,400 in PAC contribu-
tions in January, according to a
union listing of its PAC spending.

PEF leaders earlier this month
approved a $17.4 million union
budget for 1990-91 that represents
a 20 percent increase over the pre-
vious year. Much of that increased
spending will go toward public re-
lations activities and increased
lobbying of the State Legislature,
union officials say.

Last year’s largest single cam-

paign contribution, $10,750
to the Republican New Yor}
Senate Campaign Committ
GOP, which controls the
Senate, is expected to get u
fight this year from Dem:
who need just four seats tc
turn the Republican majorit

PEF also contributed $5
the Democratic Senate Car)
Committee, just in case.

Other large contribution
to the Democratic Assemb!:
paign Committee ($7,000) a
Republican Assembly Ca:
committees ($6,250).

Locally, State Sen. Jose;
no, R-Brunswick, and Sen. |:
Farley, R-Niskayuna, were
the legislators who recei\
highest contributions to i
als from PEF in 1989, re
$1,000 apiece.

Other local lawmakers ,
PEF — contributions if
Assemblyman Neil Kelle}:
Troy ($500); Assemblyman
Tedisco, R-Schenectady

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1996

Man Rescues

Brother From
Lake Accident

By LEE COLEMAN
Gaverte BR
SARATOGA SPRINGS ~ A city
man jumped back inte the bitterly
cold waters of Saratoga Lake late
yesterday afternoon to rescue his
younger brother after the snowme-
bile they were riding bit open water
and sank off the west of the

lake. ‘
iy saved

“The older brother
bim,” said Jack Baker of Wilton, one

Winslow, 12,
alter Spm. y
both hive at 3}

Baker, an employer off the Wilton
Town Highway said he
was ice fishiogfon the igke when he

ea near the
er. He waa
the Kayas
derosseras Crbek enipties into the
lake in Sarato,

ite pear the
waa “nice and
+t Winslow to
swim to the
onto the ioe.

However, heflookel back and go
teod Unai his bgotherg Billy, was hav-
ing some troutge Hawent back inte
the water to re his brother
didn’t go unde:

“I flagged dbwn a paowmobile and
he drought the igtie guy on the

snowmobile, *
The snow rator Drought
the younger to the Lakeside
Market, locage the lake on
Route 9N, apd mgrket emplovee
Mary Ceviilo Rave hot cocoa,
The elder
camp oo the lake so Je could warm up
While rescue ber i were called.

then takeo to

Saratoga Ho the Malta Am-
bulance Corpg. Theviwere treated for
minor cases @f hy a and re
leased.

Just over o, a local man

cle he and ak
riding on
and sank off
Northview
The acciden} ocourshd of Jan, 24,
1989.

jow was tak
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through the »

areas of the bke duribg ibe winter
Pravda's son, on the lake
and belped be t one of the
victimes to sh

"They just until they
are init.” Pray vehioies that

eventually hit open witer. State po
lree recently warned) people abogt
driving vehicles Gp tha lake's tee.

Pravda said it Was especially dan-
gerous in the area where the Kaya-
derosseras emplita into the lake.
“You have to know the lake,” Pravda
Said,

He centirrmed that the older Wins-
Jow jumped back into the water to
help his younger brother. He said
Baker and Robert Paskiewicr, of
Route 9P, Saratoga Lake, used rope
and a life jacket to pull the two
drenched Winslows from the open
portion of the lake.

Zurig said the investigation is coe
tinwing.

Latham Teen

‘Serious’ After
ATY Accident

COLONIE «- A Latham teenager
Was if serious condition at the Albany
Medical Center Hospital yesterday
alter the all-terrain vehicle he was
driving plunged dows an embank-
ment aieng Ports Ferry Road on San-
day evening, police said,

Christopher M. Dodge, 18, af
Brookwood Drive, was io the inten
five care woit Last night being (read
for head, chest and facial injuries be
Sulfered an the accident, according to

CALL FOR JUSTICE — Alice Green, left, a leader of
Albany's black community, gestures toward Ronald
Grees, who is suing the city, claiming he was the

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Independent Police Review Board
Needed in Albany, Say Protesters

By LINDA BARNAS
Gasette Reporter

ALBANY ~— Demonstraters at a
City Hall rally yesterday called for «
crealion of an police re
view board to combat what they said
\s repeated police abuse of black and
Hispanic men,

“Anybody who practices criminal
law te the city of Albany knows thal
their clients are beaten up and dbruta-
lized by members of the Albany Po-
lice Department,” said lawyer Mark
Mishier

Some of the protesters at the
sparsely atteaded rally, organised by
the Capital District Coalition against
Apartheid and Racism, described
their own or their relatives’ alleged
mustreatment at the hamds of police.

Ronald Greer, a client of Mishier
who is suing the city, said he was
arrested and injured aller he ques
tioned officers arresting some of his
friends. When he persisted in asking
why only blacks were being arrested,
he was seized and beaten, he said,
With one officer pumping on his chest
and breaking bis mb.

The criminal charges against
Greer were dumissed, although the
district attorney's office is seeking to
teinstate them, Mushler said, Ao in-
vestigation by the ‘9 in-
ternal affairs unit, which handles
complaints of misewoduct, found that
the polioe action was justified.

Marjorie Sirsa, the mother of 23
year-old McKinley Branch, said her
son WAS ArTeSLEd and beaten by police
who stopped bim for a0 reason as be
was driving her Mercedes oo Swan

“It hurts," she said, that she cannot
let him drive her car for fear he'll be
thought a drug dealer or that he'll be
& suspect Uf he wears ice clothes,
“While parents want to give their
_ the best,” she said. "Why can't

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The city has lost or settled out of
Court some suits alleging police bru-
tality, including giving $12,500 to a
horneless man who was kicked by of-
ficern as be lay handeulied on the
curb. Other cases, including a $7.13
million federal civil rights auit filed
by Albany Medical Center Hospital
employee James Lunday, are pend-
ing, Lunday alleges that he was
wrongly arrested and beaten jast
May and that police covered up the
Socident,

Mishier said it was important to
make people understand “that it does
NOt have to be this way. It does not
have to be that when you're arrested,
you're brought down to a detective’s
office and beaten up. It does not have
to be that if you're a young black man
walking down the street in Albany
that you're stopped for oo reason, ft
does not have to be that if you're a
young black man and you get off the
Greyhound bus that you're stopped
and sirip-searched and brawght into
the bathroom in the moat dehumania
i Sep

@ and former Community: Police
Relations Board member Alice
Green said police handling of com-
plaints has been characterized by se-
erecy and unaccovntability. Even
when the courts have found wrongdo-
ing, said Mishier, the officer is pot
disciplined.

Sgt. Robert Wollgang, the depart-
ment's spokesman, deaied that the
department covers up incidents.
"We've made every effort to get the
community to take advantage of the
complaint procedure that is in place,”
he said. When a complaint is filed, he
said, it ly thoroughly investigated. In
some cases there is insufficient evi-
dence or officers are found 16 be per-
forming within guidelines, he said,
hat when there are violations, the de
partment takes the appropriate diaci-
plinary action.

Wolfgang said the department
would oot faver giving the Comunual-
ty Police Relations Board todepes-
dent power to investigate complaints,
as the protestors urged. The depart.
ment has been involved with the
board since its begining but does not
see the need for Uus, he said, adding,
“We stand by the department's pro-
fessionalism.”

But Green and the others said
many people are reluctant to make
complaints for fear of further police
harassment. An independent review
board is the only way to build confi
dence in the force anvong the funort
ty commenity, they said.

The term of the board expires at
the end of the month, It has been
ineffective according to most observ-
ers, and Mayer Thomas M Whalen
St has asked the board for recom:
mendations on how to improve its
performance. But his suggestions on
changing the board to more neighbor-
hood-based representation, rather
than having representatives from dif-
ferent advocacy organizations, would
only weaken the board, enics say.

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Demonstrators protest alleged brutality by Albany police

Coalition to meet with

By Jay Jochnowitz
Stall writer

ALBANY — Demonstrators gathered on the steps of
City Hall Monday to protest alleged police brutality and
announce a meeting with Chief John Dale next week.

The meeting between Dale and the Capital District
Coalition Against Apartheid and Racisim is considered
to be the first time in recent memory that an activist
group has arranged a face-to-face talk with an Albany
police chief on such an issue. Dale is expected to be
confronted with demands that the department end the
alleged use of excessive force and racial profiles in
targeting drug suspects.

The coalition said it will further press Dale to support
an independent civilian review board which would have
the power to investigate allegations of police brutality
and misconduct and make recommendations on discipli-
nary action. \.

“We should be able to hold the police accountable for
what they do,” said coalition representative Vickie

> Smith, who also serves on the city’s Police-Community
Relations Board. About three-dozen people attended the
rally

The coalition also is expected to ask Dale to
investigate one narcotics detective wha has been dubbed
“Batman” for his alleged use of a baseball bat during
interrogations The officer, identified as Kenneth Sutton
of the department's Special Investigations Unit by
Albany defense allorney Terrence Kindion, apparently
earned the name from a complaint filed last year.

Sutton, Kindon said. was cited in an Internal Affairs
complaint made by Robert Butler, a man stopped for
questioning fast September, Butler maintained in the
complaint that Sutton hit him with a bat and he required
medical attention.

Butier was later charged with striking police officers

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THE TIMES UNION * Albany. N.Y., Tuesday, Feb. 20. 1990 8-3

police chief next week

Police spokesman Sgt. Robert Wolfgang was unfarnil-
iar with the allegations. “I don't know anyone who has
been referred to as (Batman) nor do I know of anyone
who's involved in that type of activity,” he said.

Wolfgang also disputed the coalition’s clair that the
department cannot investigate Hs own. “It's our
contention that we do thoroughly investigate any
complaints that are brought to us and take appropriate
action if any misconduct is uncovered,” said Wolfgang.

At the rally, Smith and others repeated assertions that
police, particularly in the department's detective and
Special Investigations Unit, systematically have been
targeting and abusing minorities.

Alice Green, head of the Albany office of the New York
Civil Liberties Union, accused police of treating blacks
“as animals” and cited routine searches and arrests of
blacks and Hlispanies at the Greyhound bus terminal
downtown. “The sad thing is that the community has not
become outraged” she said,

Several ay i gave accounts of incidents of abuse,
among them Marjorie Simms, the mother of a black man
who said her son was beaten during an arrest on drug
charges that would later be dropped.

Simms’ son, McKinley Branch Jr, 23, was arrested
Noy, 19 on North Swan Street on drug charges after he
allegedly gave a quantity of cocaine to a 14-year-old
earlier in the day. Branch also allegediy fiailed at
narcotics officers and was charged with resisting arrest
and obstruction of governmental administration

But the charges were later reduced to a non-criminal
count of disorderly conduct, said Branch’s attorney,
Mark Mishier.

Police acknowledged Branch sustained a lump on top
of his head during his apprehension, stating in their

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io take him into custody. Mishler said Branch has filed a
notice of claim signaling his intent to sue the cily,

BEATINGS ALLEGED -—- Ronald Greir, at right, speaks Monday in front of about 36 people
assembied in front of Albany City Hall, Greir claimed to have been beaten by an Albany police officer.

Colonie gets fewer recyclables than expected

either it has not been conveyed effectively enoygh
that the voluntary program has started, or ipere's
lack of understanding how it works. =”

e voluntary recycling program started last
and was preceeded by TY commercials
sor Fred Field

By Vincent Jackson
Statt ermter

COLONIE — Town residents are participating
in a five-month-old voluntary recycling program
at less than expected levels.

Officials anticipated that after each month of
operation, | percent of residential waste in the
town would be diverted from the town landfill fur
recycling

Joseph Stockbridge, the town’s environmental
services director, said that for the first three
months of the program, there was an increase
every month in people bringing their recyclable
newspaper, glass, plastics, cardboard, and metals
to collection stations.

By December, 3 percent of the residenti
was being kept out the landfill, which
40 270 tons of material. Since then, the growth in
the program has been flat

“The rate of increase has not been there in
December or January,” Stockbridge said. He said

A rnam of one’s own

@ location,” said Gerald

eViy Koad Neighbor-

“Ht lakes a special
jon.”

er cooperation from residents beca
not have to leave their homes Lo participate?

The voluntary recycling program works on the
principle that residents will bring their recyclable
material to a drop-off location that has specific
times for collection.

“At our last board meeting, we did express
conlusion about what items are recycied and

which are not,” said Sonia Jonas, the Newtonville
Neighborhood Association vice president. “There
needs to be more of an educational program in the
town for the voluntary recycling program.”

Stockbridge said there are pians to have an
education campaign about recycling in the
schools within the town

There have aiso been discussions to increase
awareness through placing something on town
bills or envelopes that are mailed lo residents.

The mailing that will be sent out next month
about the town yard waste program may include
information about the voluntary recycling pro-
gram, according to Stockbridge

Town officials have undertaken the voluntary
recycling effort to keep residential waste from
ing up the town landfill,
mandatory program is scheduled to Start in
July, and more residents are expected to make
use of it because the recyclables will be picked up
at curbside.

Driver listed serious after accident

COLONIE ~— An 18-year-old Latham man was listed in serious
condition in Albany Medical Center Hospital Monday after the all-
terrain vehicle he was driving on Forts Ferry Road went out of control
and ran down an embankment, authorities said

Christopher M. Dodge of 36 Brookwood Drive was being treated in
the intensive-care unit after the Sunday night accident that also left a -
| assenget on the ATV, Cory Yan Bergen, with minor injuries Van |

rgen, 16, also of Latham, was not hospitalized, police said ;

Neither Dodge nor Van Bergen was wearing helmets when the .
westbound vehicle failed to negotiate a turn near 214 Forts Ferry Road. -

Colonie police said the investigation by Sgt. Joseph P. Fitzsimmons
and Investigator D.A. Mesick is continuing.

CUM Pian ©,

A strong incentive, of course. But
even then ontthree of the Vfive
members offs: Board were in
favor of creas. the district. The
supervisor wanted the pro i
trict’s views before casting his vote.

So last week there were two days
of straw votes, and the Burprising
result is that the affected ditizenry is
more socially conscious! than the
Town Board. The vote was 104 to 42
for the creation of the disjrict, which
means those voting in favor were
asking for an increase if their own
{axes of $200 to $300 a yepr.

This is no srnall consideration, and
it is money that is behigd the entire
foot-dragging sewer sygtem problem
in Warrensburg, One intredibly con-
servative Town Board Biter another
has made a full-tige hobby of
avoiding the letier anf spirit of the
law by pledging not tofspend a nickel
it wasn't forced to. Plate agencies
charged with enforcigg the political-
ly unpopular envi
have let them get a
because the messag
top officials was mi

URimately, sewage has remained
sewage, and the law the law. The
foot dragging has got done the town
any favors at all, because what is
now a $4.7 million project, with state
and federal aid fdown around 40
percent to 50 pe \, was a fraction
of that 10 years ago —~ with aid close
to 90 percent.

So, Warrensburg has some catch-
ing up to do, as}the town is well
aware, The sewef district is only a
part of it, becauge the same fiscal
head-in-the-sand [policy is coming
home to roost int two other signifi-
cant areas: schgols and the town
jandfinl.

The state Edgcation Department
has put the schqol district on notice
for physical plant violations. As a
result, the distfict, which is sorme-
what bigger Bhan the {town of
Warrensburg, faces a $4 million bond
vote. Last f, district voters
turned down a 86.5 million proposal,

And. the topn landfill — already
higher than # felephone pole ~— faces
$1.5 million dlosure costs, probably
within a year,

Te say yes to new taxes at the
moment is indeed a brave thing to
do, So. as I say, two cheers for
Warrensburg. We'll withhold the
third cheer pending completion of
the project, since Warrensburg has
shown there can be many a slip
‘twit Straw vote and sewer sysiem,
They've been on the right track
before and wandered off

Now. we can focus attention on
Luzerne, where raw sewage stil! is
piped into the Hudson, and Stillwater
below that, which has @ broken-down
primary treatment system that
might as well not exist.

y with it, often
from their own

the emotional scars of those who Sy veel Medigan

served there

Parson labeled the trip a “psy-
chological tour of duty.”
“Many groups have returned
but for reasons other than ours,” RELIVING THE
he said "Our reason to go back PAST — Erwin A.
was (0 overcome the trauma Parson at work in his

geo yt. Guilderland home,
partleipants were careful-

ly “sereened to make sure they wad ps8 a Woes
could tolerate the kind of stress ahgnting trom a@ hel.
that is produced by going back io = COpter at a Vietnam
those old battlefields,“ he said War battle site.

See RETURN / 8-5

sore eeneeneeeneneenerneeeeeee

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2 seek to ease burden of other nurse veterans |

By Michael Lopez Scott said

Stat wreter Their support group — the first in the Capital
ALBANY -~ Judi Scott and Shirley M. Wilson District for Vietnam-era nurses — ig meant to
found out by chance that each had served inthe help the wornen overcome the shame, guilt and
other problems, such as depression, they may
A stray, now-forgotten remark, something foel as a result of their service in the war,
The group will meet at 6.30 p.m. Wednesday
Russell Sage graduate students talking about in the Vet Center and Readjustment Counseling
Services at 875 Central Ave. If the first meeting
It was a relief to talk about the memories, fails to draw people, Wilson said she and Scott
such a relief, in fact, that Scott and Wilson will keep trying to reach veteran nurses and
decided to find other Vietnam-era nurses and schedule alternative mecting dates
It's difficult to say how many nurses who

Vietnam War.

only a military nurse would know, got the two

their wartime service

help them “put some of those ghosts to rest,”

served in the war live and work in the Capital
District, said Cate Regan, a readjustment and
counseling therapist. i

Many female vets — because of negative
stereotypes that labeled them as “man-crazy,”
for instance —~ are unwilling to admit that they |
served in an unpopular war.

The support group may help them cope with
survivor guilt, depression of post-traumatic
Stress disorder. Years later, the women might
still he haunted by sexual harassment they
were exposed to in the military, Regan said

See NURSES / 8.5

Times Union phate by Reberte Smitn

Voicing concern
Vickie Smith of tha Coalition Against Apartiveid and Racism tatks
Monday about alleged police brutality before a crowd of about 36

people on the steps of Albany City Mall, Behind her is Alice Green
of the New York Civil Liberties Union. Story on B-3,

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Court order prohibits

By John Caher

Stat wrter

The Warren County town
Queensbury
in the design a its
expanded Town oiled

in a bitter lawsuit t

millions of dollars in funds.

the Inweuit or co
Say they are af
case publicty.

The case igvoives Saratoga Asso-
clates, @ Saghtoga Springs architec-
tural firm Ahat had been hired to
design thefnew Queensbury Center
and an adgition to the adjacent town
office buikling. Saratoga Associates
and the town squabbled over the
design and another firm, Rist-Prost
Associates of Giens Falls, was hired
tn finish the job

In December 1948, Saratoga Asso-
clates sucd the town, the Town
Board and Adirondack Construction

id to discuss the

fo, the wontractor for the now town
facilities. Saratoga Associates is
secking $41,680.29, which it claims it
is owed for its work. [t also seoks $1
million in general damages, alleging
that the lown “intentionally, mali-
ciously and without reasonable justi-
fication interfered with the con:
tract.”

Nearly @ year later, the town
countersued Saratoga Associates,
blaming the architectural firm for
alleged design problems. Around the
ine time, town Supervisor Stephen
rgos proposed building a whole
ernment complex.
ues in the lawsuit are
state Supreme Court
action before Ingtice John G. Dier of
Giens Fatis. Bu side isaue has
fanded the matter before an appel-
late court.

During a conference on Jan 24,
Dier agreed to prohibit disclosure of
case-related documents to. anyone
not involved im the litigation. His
order states, “Said documents and

See COURT / B.5

pending i

policy has worked, McGrath said the
city has not received any more fine
money than it has always been
entitled to under Ne and Traffic
Law.

The arnount of fine money callect-
ed by the city has doubled, but so,
too, have the oumber of traffic
tickets issued by police officers,
MeGrath said

What has happened is that the city
no longer imposes a surcharge
against speeders, a policy that cost
the stale at least $100,000 last year,
according to estimates provided by
MeGrath

Of the approximately 11,000 tick.
ets issued by Troy police officers last
year, between 60 percent and 70
nt were for speeding, according
rath. That means MeGrath
the &)7 surcharge more than

MeGra Mposing
the fine applies to
violations of and Traffic
Law. There is ch requirement
for tickets w r local traffic

8 to read into the statute”

McGrath said he’ did receive a
copy of a meme from the state
comptrolier’s office last year advis-
ing municipalities to impose the
surcharge, But nothing short of an
amendment to the law will make
him change his mind, be said.

Mary de Bourbon. a spokeswoman
for the state Office of Court Admin.
istration, said she was not familiar
with the issue. The office collects
fines and surcharges from muniwipal
courts.

Established in 1982 as an econom-
i¢ Sanction against people convicted
of felonies and misdemeanors, the
surcharge program was expanded a
year later to include traffic law
violators. Seen a3 8 way of inereys
ing Slate revenues, the program has
not lived up to its potential, accord
Ing to a State comptrolier’s audit.

Approximately $13 million in
traflie surcharges was not collected
by the state, according to the audit.
which examined the program be
tween 1985 and 1987. The comptrol-
jers office blamed the problem on
the failure of motarists to answer
summonses and the failure of arrest-
ing officers to appear in court.

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noxzies in the front parking

Too Many G

By KATE GURNETT
Garette Reporter

ALTAMONT -— Plans for a gaso-
ine pump ia the village have run inte
opposition from residents who sav
tratlic is bad enough at the five-way
intersection at the heart of the vil
lage, where the pump would be locat-
ed

James C. Mercer, president of the
Bonfare chain, is seeking permissio
tO put a gasoline purnp with six nox
tes in the front parking lot of t
convenience store at the corner $f
Main Street and Altamont Boulewsgt
Mercer needs a permit from the Zén-
ing Board of Appeals

N.J. Woma
Dies in Crakh

On Route BS

NEW SCOTLAND -—~ A Nee Jersey
woman died in a one-carPecident
yesterday alter sliding ey pave-
ment on Route 6S and craghing into a
tree, said deputies at the Albany
County Sheritt's Departgent

Jeannette C. Janeclaf 21. of Eng-
lishtown was eastbound on Route 65
at about 3:30 pm. when ber 1987
Pickup truck hit » patéh of ice. ssid
deputies, Deputy Cagries Kudoiph
aod Sgt Thomas Rugto beiped free
Jancola from the tryubk

She was taken tafAlbany Medical
Center Hospital, were she was pro-
nounced dead at Y4d pin. The New
Salem Fire Depagiment, Slingertand
Reseve Squad ads fire paramedics
from Guiderland responded.

of the storg in Altamont. Ketchum’s

Route 156, Prospect Tetrace and |
Street and Altamont Boulevard,

Service Station currently operates gasoline pumps at the corner where

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~{ Gazette Photo — Sid Brown )

$ Pumps at Altamont Crossroads?

wo stores Currently operate gas
pu at the corser where Route
136. Phespect Terrace and Helder:
bere Av&pue join with Main Street

d Aitantgnt Boulevard. Ketchum's

ervice StMMion and the Stewart's
Hop have 1Xand four nozles, re
Spectively, ANfuneral home and
butcher shop ar@\giso on the corner,
in the village of abyut 1.300 people

Franchise owner, Brian and Ed
Fioulon want the six-hpzle pump to
belp them compete wit) Ketchum’s
and Stewart's. Their plang to reroute
Cars using their pump off Paain Street
by forcing them to exit onto Aytamont
Boulevard. which beads soutyput of
the village

However, residents who opposAyhe
plan say it will only increase tra
congestion. And they fear the locatiog
of the pump, which they say would be
direetty in line with the Route 16 hill
where trucks have fost control in the
past and landed on the spot where the
proposed pamp would be located

“There's a time bomb up there,”
said resident Ronald Ginsburg. "Peo
ple could be hurt or killed. Five roads
empty into that intersection.” Gins-
bus'g aiso said the pump may not be
209 feet away from the Allamont Vil-
lage Park, a3 required by village
law

Bruce Robertson, a retired mem-
ber of the Altamont Fire Department
and Altamont Rescue Squad, agreed.
“The whole corner is bad," he said.
“Any additional traffic would en-
danger the safety up there further
than what it is.”

During the 10 vears he was on the
rescue squad, a oumber of accidents
occurred in that area, Robertson said.
A Knox man was killed when the
dumpster truck he was driving lost ite
brakes and clipped a pole om the edge

District Gets $80,000
For At-Risk Students

By KATE GUANETT
(arette Reporter
GUILDERLAND ~ The sehool
district has gotten an $40,000 grant to
help students who are GOINR poorly,
Last year, the number of high
school dropouts in the district ruse
SugSUYy, to 3 from 2¢ the year be
fore, Fawer chose alternative high
SCHOO! equivalency ¢ fograme beat

teem, perseverance and desire to
take risky, Said instructional admin
latrater Faith Sohulistrom, who la in
charge of the grant,

The funds will also be used to add
programs for students at risk of Lail-
ink, Such a8 counseling for middle
schoolers and summer sessions for
kindergarten pupils, she said

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of the convenient store's parking lot
Years eartior, a hay truck lost contro
and filled the parking lot of what was
then Crupe's Market with bay, he
Said

In response to a request by the reai-
dents, the Zoning Board of Appeals

bas asked state Department of Trans-
portation engineer TE. Dannehy to
attend a March | board meeung to
Giscuss safety and traffic concerns,
Both DOT and the Albany County
Pianning Board have approved ue
plans.

2-Family Home Ruined
In Fire in Watervliet

WATERVLIET ~ A malfunction.
ing clothes dryer Apparently sparked
a fire that took firefighters four hours
to get under control and destroyed a
two-family home at 712 19tb St. on
Saturday afternoon.

Fire Capt. Daniel Spratt said the
12:20 p.m. blaze left three adulls and

0 children without a place ta live,

also said firefighters had prot
lem with the fire because it spread
(0 4 Mardtoreach atic area,

He adyg the clothes dryer was at the
rear of (Be second-floor apartment of
Gal SlagMaski and ber two daugh-
tors, The diNding is owned by James
LeCuyer and Wile, who live on the
first Noor and were ia Florida at the
lime.

Slagslaski 1 the LeCuyers'
daugther

After the fire spread to the attic,
fireiighters bad to tear the roof off in
order to get at the fire, said Spratt.
Two adjoining buildings were not da-
Maged by the fire,

Three firetighters — Capta.
Thomas Holmes and Edwin Ogden
and firefighter David Clickman ~—
received vanous injuries,

Holmes sultered smoke Inhalation
and fatigue, Ogden received cuts to
his eye alter a cesling collapsed on
him; Clickman was knocked down 4

Stairway after the root collapsed on
him.

Holmes was treated at Samaritan
Hospital ia Troy and released, Ogden
Was treated at St. Mary's Hospital in
Troy and released. Clickman was
Sven first aid at the seene.

COMMUNITY NOTES

Dutch Settiers S
Meeting Tomorro

ALBANY — The Dutch Setthars So.
ciety will hold its nest meetinaat &
p.m. tomorrow at the First Ch of
Albany, North Pear! Street and Clig-
ton Square, A board Meeling will be
held at 7 p.m. in the Fireside Room,

Dr, Robert $. Alexander will speak

on “Albany and the Leister Rebellion
of 1690,"

Humane Society
To Meet Tomorrow

COLOMIE — The Capital District
Hurnane Association Ine, will hold ita
monthly meeting 7.30 p.m. tornorrow
at the Colonie Community Center,
1653 Central Ave.

Home Maintenance

Senior Citizens Center aad the village
Youth Couneu witl sponsor a drug and
alcohol awareness day on Saturday,
March 3, from | to 4 pm. The event
will be held at Village Hall, 2 Thun
der Road

Information on drugs and alcohol
Will be supplied, aa well as pizza,
soda, coffee and other refreshments,
all for tree.

Representatives irom the town Po
Nee Department, the Hospitality
Hoose drug-treatment program, and
other youth-oriented organizations
will atiend the event.

Political
Prisoners

In U.S. Too,
Activists Say

By RATE GUANETT
Gaxette Reporter

ALBANY ~ While President Bush
is issuing dinner invitations — most
rerently to former South African po
litical prisoner Nelson Mandela —
the famiiy and friends of Herman B.
Ferguson would like the country to
Know about another elderly black
than they say is in being held in prison
berause of his political activities,

Ferguson, a 69-year-old former as-
sistant principal and black activist
from Jamaica, Queens, was jailed
last year when he returned to the
United States to clear his name after
& 19-year exile in Guyana, South
America. Supporters say he was one
of many activists targeted unjustly ia
the 19608 by COINTELPRO ~ the
FBI program sat up to inGitrate civil
rights and Afro-Americas activist
groups.

Ferguson was arreated in 1947 and
Sentenced to 3% to seven years in
prison along with Arthur Marriy tor
Conspiring to hill moderate civil}
rights leaders Roy Wilkins and Whit-
ney Young. Harris remaina in exile

“To me it Was antounding that they
could come up with such charges,”
said Ferguson's wile, lyaivua Fergu-
Son, who Spoke at a forum on political

rine yesterday at the Tempie
th EJ in Albany.

Sponsored by the Capital District
Coalition Against Apartheid and Rac-
jam and the Freedom fer Herman
Fergusoe Committee, the forum was
Sel up lo expose the plight of political
prisoners in the United States

Activists such as Ferguson, a mili-
tant and member of the Revolution-
ary Action Movement who once
chained tumael{ to a crane to protest
the use of non-local white labor to
build apartment complexes in black
deighborboods, often suffer physical
and mental torture or are given
longer prison sentences than other
convicts, said Joan Gibbs, a lawyer
with the Center for Constitutional
Rights in New York City. More than
100 Afro-American, Indian and
women’s rights activists are in jaul ia
the United States, she said

Awareness of political imprison.
ment is "extra important now,” said
Gibbs, “because greater world atten
Gon is being focused on politica) pris
overs, These men and women
challenge the image that the US. isa
truly humae and democratic so
ciety.”

COINTELPRO was ‘a program
that invelved gross violations of civil
and buen rights and was discredit.
ed by Congressional investigation,” a,
fetter written on behalf of Ferguson
by US. Rep. Charies B. Rangel states.
Ferguson's cause is also supported by
Assemblymen Roger Green and al
Vana aod state snators David Patter-
#00 amd Andrew Jenkins,

A clemency request to Gov. Marie
M. Cyoeno for Ferguson last year was
not (uililed. Mrs. Pergosen said sup
porters will apply agais in April

“We were living in a time of great
hysteria... |when}] Black Panther
party members were gunned down in.
their beds. Herman did not feel he
Was going to come out of jail alive,”
Mrs, Ferguson said, explaining ber
husband's flight to Guyana in 1970

Since his return and incarceration
in April 1989, Ferguson said, ber tus. |
band has been moved 18 times (rom °
one priaon to anther. “That in itself

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(@ harassment,” :

“People hypocritically applaud the .
release of Neison Mandela and:
they're not a aboui the situation |
that exists here fore [it's] even
worse than South Airica, because in .
addition to doing what they are, we're
dasa liars,” said the Rev. Lawrence
Lucas, autbor of “Black Priest White
Charch,” and pastor of the Resurrec.
tion Church of Harlem.

eee

peer gre

Pedersen started work today.
He «*' move into a house he

gut in Luther Forest in Malta
with his wife, Nancy, and their
three children, Erik, Jessica and
Whitney.

“I wanted to be a part of the
community as fast as possible,” he
said.

Pedersen comes to The Record
from the Binghamton Press and
Sun-Bulletin, where he had worked
since September 1988.

Before that he owned a weekly
paper in Colorado Springs.

-edersen has a degree in jour-
nalism from the University of Col-
orado and more than 12 years’
experience in advertising, market-
ing and public relations.

He said Troy offers new chal-
lenges and opportunities. “The Re-
cord is in the midst of some
exciting new changes that will
better serve our readers and
advertisers. We are committed to

Greg Pedersen

making this newspaper the best it
can be.”

Pedersen vowed that The Re-
cord advertising department will
take the initiative and make the
extra effort necessary to attract
and better serve its customers.

Size Ol TNE AVOG Wat bit. bre eae
predecessor, Samuel! S. Stratton.

Federal Election Commission
records show MeNulty, who plans
to run again next fall, started 1989
with $21,000 in his treasury. The
Green Island Democrat raised
almost $97,000 during the year,
but spent approximately $51,000
on travel, fund-raising and other
campaign-related expenses.

More than half — $58,000 — of
the 1989 funds McNulty raised
came from special-interest
groups.

Defense contractors contributed
at least $12,000 of that money —
perhaps because McNulty sits on
the powerful House Armed Serv-
ices Committee, which helps shape
the defense budget.

A little more than a third —
$35,800 ~ of McNulty’s 1989

Strativn
was expected
to run for re-
election, but
he suddenly
changed his
mind, and lo-
cal Democrats .
backed
McNulty.

During his
first year in
office, McNul-
ty ‘spent his McNulty
campaign funds in a way that
Stratton did not — at least not in
1988,

A former state assemblyman,
McNulty gave $4,340 of his own
campaign funds to other New
York Democrats running for
office on the state, county or mu-
nicipal level.

Chuius Gumliniltee, b Uses
chairmen of McNult, : campa.,

“It’s a political comiuaitee f
the support of Albany County c..
didates, candidates of the Dem:
cratic party who are running [«
different local offices,” McNult
said,

But many local Democrats ga\
to McNulty as well, so that |
some cases the mutual politic
goodwill partly cancels out.

For example, the Renssela:
County Democrats gave McNul
a total of $1,000 in 1989, b
McNulty's campaign gave the
$305, leaving him with a net ga
of $695.

The Schenectady County Dem
crats received $300 from the cc

BRIEFLY

Siena student

killed in accident

NEW SALEM — A 21-year-old Siena
College student was killed yesterday when
her pickup truck slid on a patch of ice and
smashed into a tree on Route 85.

Jeanette C. Jancola of Englishtown,
N.J., was pronounced dead at Albany
Medical Center a little more than an hour
after she lost control of her truck and hit
the tree about 3:30 p.m., according to the
Albany County Sheriff's Department.

Deputy Charles Rudolph and Sgt.
Thomas Russo used the Jaws of Life to
free Jancola, who was alone in the truck.

She was wearing a seat belt.
An autopsy was to be performed today
to determine the cause of death.

Group wants release

of ‘political prisoners’

ALBANY — A local group is calling
for the release of what it says are more
than 100 political prisoners incarcerated
in United State prisons.

At a press conference yesterday,
Merton Simpson, co-chairman of the
Capital District Coalition Against
Apartheid and Racism, said his group
simply wants the release of these
“wrongly incarcerated” men and women.

In particular, the coalition wants the
release of Herman B, Ferguson, who is
serving a sentence in a New York State
prison for conspiracy to murder a black
activist.

Ferguson's wife, lyaluua Ferguson,
talked of her husband's plight and urged
the public to exert political pressure on
the Cuomo administration to grant her
husband clemency.

“These people are being imprisoned
because of their opposition to

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funds came from private donors.

inappropriate or immoral stances their
government takes,” said Simpson.

The coalition said the 100 prisoners
have lobbied for Native American
sovereignty, black liberation and Puerto
Rican independence, They also work
against racism, women's oppression and
nuclear weapons, Vi

Driver ‘serious’
after ATV crash

LATHAM — An 18-year-old
Brookwood Drive man is in serious
condition at Albany Medical Center this
morning after his all-terrain vehicle
tumbled down a small embankment last
night, the Colonie Police reported.

Christopher M. Dodge of 36 Brookwood
Drive was hospitalized after he was
thrown from his four-wheel ATV when it
plunged over the embankment near 214
Forts Ferry Road at 9:42 p.m. Dodge lost
control of the ATV after failing to
negotiate a turn, police said.

Cory VanBergen, a passenger,
sustained minor injuries. He was treated
at Albany Medical Center and released,
hospital officials said this morning.

STIP? Call our City Desk, 272-2000

Neither man was wearing a helmet.
Charges might be lodged following an
investigation, police said,

Fire destroys’

summer home

WATERFORD — A'summer home
owned by a Cohoes man was destroyed by
fire late peg ber town police said,

The blaze broke out at about 11 p.m. at
75 Hudson River Road in the Kelt’s Grove
section. Police said the owner, Michael
Green, of 23 Eagle St., was not at the
home when fire broke out.

No injuries were reported. The cause is
under rhb pia by the police and the
Waterford Village Fire Department. .-

Firefighters were called back to the ©
scene at about 4 a.m. Sunday when some
of the rubble rekindled. 9

Troy man faces y
DWI charge

TROY - A Lansingburgh man faced
driving while intoxicated charges at his i
Police Court appearance today,

Theodore “Bootsy” Williams Jr, 28, of

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LENS COP

A TWO-YEAR-OLD CONTROVERSY
was rergnited Monday when an Athany
Police detective was spotted taking
surveillance photographs during a
demonstration sponsared by the Capita!
District Coalition Against Apartheid and
Racist. "

More than 45 coalition members and
their supporters were protesting on the
City Hall steps, calling for an end to what
the groups says is excessive police force.
According to coalition spokesman Merton
Simpson, the group wants to encourage
more people who feel they have been
victimized by police brutality or verbal
racial abuse to step forward and report the
incidents,

But while the demonstration was in
progress, with the media's attention
focused on the speakers, a METROLAND
reporter observed Albany Police Detective
Alden Manion taking photographs of the
gathering. Manion was seated ina black
1990 Jeep Cherokee leased from a Latham
car-rental company. While holding a police
radio in his left hand, Manion raised a
camera from the car seat to the dashboard,
then quickly pulled it back down to the seat
when he saw someone walking past the
vehicle.

Manion has been known to follow and
observe area political activists, Last
Friday, he was seen monitoring a vigil in
Albany's Townsend Park sponsored by the
Homeless Action Committee, In 1988, local
activist Donna DeMaria, who had been
followed on numerous occasions by
Manion, asked the Police-Community
Relations Board to help clarify the Police
Department's surveillance policy. The
board was informed by then-chief John F.
Reid that photographs and video camera
surveillance were considered appropriate
law-enforcement activities in sone
Crounstances

John Dale, the department's new chief,
confirmed Tuesday that a similar policy
was currently in effect. "Oh yes, we have
filmed demonstrations,’’ Dale said
Tuesday. This is something we do and
will probably do in the future if we feel that
we should.”

Dale confirmed that Manion had been
assigned to cover the Monday

demonstration by Sgt. Thomas Fargione.
head of the Special Investigations Unit
(SIL) and that his picture-taking had been
approved, But the chief assured that since
no criminal activity had taken place at the
rally, “the fllm would not be developed.”’

The SIU includes the department's
Rarcotics and vice squads, and, according
to Dale, has the responsibility for keeping
tabs on political demonstrations
Fargione's narcotics squad has been
responsible for many of the controversial
drug raids in the city's black community
and has been criticized for USING a Tace
profile to stop, and sometimes search,
black and Latin males passing through the
Greyhound bus terminal.

“Hf the police department believes in all
honesty that they have a right todo this,
why didn’t Manion just stand up there and
take the pictures?" asked Anita Thayer,
another attorney who was present at the
protest. ‘T cannot understand any
legitimate law-enforcement reason for
taking surreptitious photographs,

Dale did not explain Manion’s behavior
with the camera, other than to Say that
Fargione had approved the photo
surveillance, ‘It has a chilling effect on the
exercise of First Amendment rights if
peaple believe that every time they
participate in a demonstration there will be
an undercover police officer taking their
photograph,’ complained Mark Mishler. an
attorney who once represented the
coalition on the Police-Community
Relations Board

Michael Ratner, a volunteer staff
attorney with the New York City-based
Center for Constitutional Rights, agreed
with Mishler, Photographing protesters
“arguably violates the First Amendment
right to demonstrate,” he said. Ratner was
one of several lawyers involved ina lawsuit
agatnst the New York City Police
Department's so-called Red Squad” in the
1970s. “It smacks of what they had done
for years in New York City to intimidate
political demonstrators,” Ratner
commented. It's something we would go
completely nuts about in New York City,”

“We've given it a lot of thought,"’ Dale
sad when asked about the constitutional
issue. “When the problem came up several
years aga, we got legal opinions on that, [f
we felt it was illegal, we wouldn't be doing
it. It’s a precautionary measure.”

MONDAY, FEB, 26

Lecture: Women and the Law. W K.
Santord Town Library, 629 Albany Sheher

Dale added that the department has a
“responsibility” as a law-enforcement
agency to “ensure the safety and well-
being of the demonstrators and the citizens
in general.” While Dale acknowledged that
no legal activities have been anticipated at
Monday's demonstration, he &aid there was
always the concern of vir Hence between
Rroups of counter-demonstrators and that
surveillance photographs had been
“helpfut” during previous vielent incidents,
The chief said he was not aware of the New
York City case

Meanwhile, Vicki Smith, the coalition’s
representative on the board, announced at
the rally that chief Date had agreed to meet
with members of the group Monday to
discuss the critivizms of police behavior

Jeff Jones

OVERSTEPPING
AUTHORITY

THE CITY OF ALBANY IS BILLING

its proposed ANSWERS Wasteshed
Authority as part of the sohstion te the
solid-waste crisis in the Capital Region. But
several citizen and public-interest sTOUpS
say the establishment of such an authority
would give Albany officials free rein to
spend millions of dollars on unwanted
landfills and garbage incinerators.

The authority would comprise
representatives from Albany and 14 other
local communities that depend on Albany‘s
ANSWERS program for solid-waste
disposal. Governing bodies from all of those
communities have passed resolutions
approving the authority, which would have
the power to spend up to $200 million on
any solid waste project and to condemn
Property — presumably for the purpose of
building an incinerator or landfill~in any of
the member communities. A hill to approve
the Albany Wasteshed Authority died in
the Senate last year but is once again being
considered in both houses of the
Legislature.

Although Albany officials say the
authority's board would represent the
interest of all communities involved, it
appears that Albany's Democratic Party
machine would own a considerable slice of

AGENDA fees

Forums, lectures, meetings, rallies and other pelitical events.
Road, Loudonvitie. 7 PM. Louise Byer Miller,
prrsonc af political sclence at WEDNESDAY, FER, 28
SUNY A, will discuss women’s istues, Lecture; United States, and
under Japan: Global
raha be ) rare belay ren tencamaienn
protection clause of the Fourteanth ies Newell, assistant professor of political ecieece
at the Rocketelles College of Public Affaire
March: For and Poticy. Question and answer period to
Steps of the Capitol + Albaiy. 2 follow. Being a bag lunch; coffee and toa
ett gl heeuallcsighecigy Provided: Pree. 475-1326. We

march te demand that state representatives Meeting: RESULTS. The Women’s
vote in favor of environmental protection in 79 Central Ave,, Pe
be : “ bine | ve, ny ag
TUESDAY, FEB, 27 rook ne organization dealing with

As hunger poverty inaues,.
Campus Center Faculty Lo College of
fare hehe eh 3
discussion series on the civil-righty movement Please note: The deadline for

the decision-making pie. Five members of
the 17-member board would be appointed
by Mayor Thomas M. Whalen fl and an
additional four would be chosen by the
Albany County Legislature's majority
leader {at present, Democrat Harold Joyee)
Also, the chairperson of the authority
would be chosen only by the five members
appointed by Whalen

“| think," said Judith Enck of the New
York Public Interest Research Group
(NYPIRG), “that some elected officials
{who approved the authority] aren't aware
of how dangerous this could be in the
future."

Enck pointed to the authority's power to
condemn property and spend enormous
amounts of money on solid-waste projects
with virtually no citizen input.

“These kinds of authorities are being
Created across the state,’ she said, “And
most every one which has been set up has
used its power to build garbage
incinerators.”

One such authority is the Western
Fingerlakes Solid Waste Management
Authority, Ontario County, a member of
the authority, has been trying to withdraw
since Febraury 1988 for various reasons,
including the authority's preoccupation
with incinerators rather than recycling and
the use of composts. Ontario County has a
lawsuit pending against the authority,

According to Bill Bruce, director of
Albany's city planning office, 14 solid-
waste agencies such as the ANSWERS
authority have been approved throughout
New York state thus far.

“Authorities just make sense," said
Bruce, as an ageney that can manage
waste on whatever you define as a regional

basis,”

Bruce added that any landfill or
incinerator the authority might choose to
build would have to meet state Departmen
of Environmental Conservation muidelines,
“You can't put a landfill or incinerator
anywhere you want," he said

When asked about the Albany
Democratic Party machine's apparent
majority standing in the authority, Vincent
McArdle, counse! for the City of Albany,
said, “I forget the exact mix. I don't think
it's a majority," When informed that
Mayor Whaien and the majority leader of
the Albany County Legistature would
appoint nine of the board's 17 members,
McArdle said he thought the board would
have more than 17 members.

“We've been working closely with
representatives from all the communities,”
said Broce. “They participated in the early
drafts, We ended up with a proposal
everybody is in agreement on,”

Enck said that there are strong
indications that the authority would use its
power to build 4 waste incinerator or
landfill in the town of Bethlehem. She said
that American Ref-Fuel, the company
attempting to build its own Rarbage
incinerator in Bethlehem, opposes the bill
in the Legislature. Bethlehem Work on
Waste, although almost certainly for
different reasons than American Rei-Fuel,
opposes the authority along with NYPIRG
and the Environmental Pianning Lobby,
Enck pointed out that Bethiehem would
have only one representative in the
authority,

Bruce said that no specific sites have
been identified for solid-waste projects yet,
He said the construction of another garbage
incinerator to go along with Albany's
ANSWERS plant is “always a possibility,
but 1 wouldn't see it{being done by] the
ANSWERS wasteshed,”’

~Mike Goudres

oy

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ae

BMD APARTHEID:
Vote For The People

CAMPATI QR UPDATE

Mareh, 1990

The first three months of the EMD APARTHEID: Vote For The

People Campaign have produced a great range of activities,
with ballots being cast in increasing numbers across the country.

Chicago, Albany, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Denver, Seattle,
Detroit, Washington D.C., Pitteburgh, Miami, Houston, Boston, Bew
York, Tuscon, Kalamazoo, Champaign-Urbana, and San Jose are among

In addition to grassroots actions, a growing number of state
and city governments have been adopting the Belson Mandela VOTE
Resolution which is being heavily distributed by activists
involved in the Vote Campaign. The Resolutions welcome Mandela's
release, highlight the persisting existence of apartheid, and
Call upon the U.S. Congress to pass full comprehensive sanctions
against South Africa and keep them in place until full democracy
is established in that country.

Following are highlights of Campaign activities in local areas.

stores, the invol t of
regular Vote events, ait iindreds
Africa Fund each month;

‘Council became the first in the
Mandela VOTE Resolution on February

IN CHICAGO... trade unionista with the Chicago Labor
Committee Agsinst Apartheid have Pledged to collect
thousands of votes FOR DEMOCRACY and SANCTIONS,

*IN DETROIT. human rights activists with the Michigan

Coalition for Ruman Rights, in conjunction with the United Auto
Workers are holding votes weekly.

*IN THE NORTH EAST-~ the North Bast Southem Africe Solidarity
Network has agreed to take up the campaign as a priority.

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_« "IM CHAMPAIGN-URBANA-~ Votes are being cast at every
#Oreening of the Southern African Pilm Festival on the University
of Tilinois campus, organized by the Champaign-Urbana Coalition
Against Apartheid.

"IN LOS ANGELES... the City Couneil passed the Heleon Mandela
VOTE Resolution. Students at the nearby Clareszont Colleges are

holding Vote events on their campuses, Especially active are the |

Students for South African Awareness at Pomona College.
*IM OAKLAND-~ the Wational Congress of SANE/PREEZE adopted
the Vote Campaign as a nation-wide project. eee ot ae

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Sutton, whose dedication and talent out, “That's Sutton, that’s Sutton,”
a . for narcotics iovestigations have ear- “But they don't know me,"' he
ne “ce ned him both respect and notoriety in said.
# 20-year career with the city police “I fust wanted to show people that

force, is rettring this week. there's a problem,” Sutton said. “Tt
les Anger Nicknamed genta” by civil all got completely lost, I don't “~ i
f rights activists or allegedly using 4 want to go on a raid anymore, y
[ I] ] baseball bat during interrogations, heart goes with all of the guys and | i
enta y the 44-year-old Sutton Sayshisretire. always will. I just don’t have the
Ment is not related to the charges. heart for it anymore. And as bad as it

ay the state's new anti-smok- “I haven't stepped over my bound- is I don't have any answers for it,
trict Psychiatric Center said | aries,” Sutton said. “What they're “The problem is so enormous and it
¥ Want could be considered a claiming is assault, {t's completely affects every Single one of us. There’s
against what | believe in.” bot enough room in the prisons, and
‘igarette sales at the com- Detective Sgt. Thomas Fargione, we don't have the money. They don't
i may smoke drew criticism | who heads the city’s narcotics unit. realize how much money's involved,
y. No smoking at all will be said such allegations did not diminish How can you fight something nicke)

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Sutton’s ability to do his job. and dime that's worth} a million dol-
satients will be severely re. “Certainly it hurt him to be accu- lars?
*hich they will be allowed to sed of things out of hand, non-eub- “T felt the people in Arbor Hill de-
of Advocacy for AMI Action, Stantive allegations,” Fargione said. served a lot more than what they got
i@ National Alliance for the “It's something we all accept as part and I still do. I've seen black guys

of the job. People are allowed to with a small of cocaine get 8
shtoning thence Will | make omtrageous claima [oor hace I've seen middie class white
eitening the stress already them up] and move on. So in that ds with four ounces of coke get a
U3g Ulpesses,” he said. | sense, it hirn. That's one of slap on the wrist. But they're at it
umer Drop-in Center and a the reasons these charges are levied Out on the wrong person. It's not for

sot tO sell cigarettes in the It's been that way since I've been in the policeman on the streets to rea.
atients to simply leave the narcotics. It’s the old red herring and = son why, it's for him to do

it works very effectively.” “We're at war, bat we
in anti-smoking zealotry not “T'm pot worried about anyofit. It war. All we're
#d the law, which went into will all come out," Sutton said. the corners of {our} mouths. That's
“Years ago | was on the front pages what is the most disgusting thing to
three out of seven days for com- the Guys on the street,”

rug Charges [paints wat were sever founded. Bu In 1972, Sutton became a narcotics

that goes with the territory.” detective, dealing mostly with the
Sand an Albany man arrest n January, Sutton was Hamed Was &
ed with cocaine possession with three other cs structor for the Municipal Police
ming. tectives in a $7.13 million lawsuit a Quest speaker
on Street, was picked up at against the city and the Albany Po. on narcotics identification. More re-
d and Livingston Avenue by lice Department. In the suit, 34-year. cently, he was a sworn federal agent
is Dolar old James F. Landay claims he was and group leader with the Capita!
# Liner venue; Chenier falsely arrested and severely beaten District Regional Drag Enforcement
(7, of Deie...umt Avenue: and by the four officers dur. Task Force

ing & weekend city-wide narcotics “He believed in being on top of the
ghth of an ounce of cocaine. last ae | re
f possesion of a controiled - The three other detectives are re. learn. And within the boundaries of

' to Albany County Jail on “and “Jane Doe,” a con-
‘were released on $500 bail train i eno he iy be the limits of our imagination,”
. nee = rir say Who was Sutton's jun-
. The suit is to federal court. partner for many years, Deer GRAVE DEPARTS — Kenneth Sutton leaves the Albany Polis
ed in Albany wares, aoe tapered mop Seen +) Shiba ceneteten rate was “well Department this week after a career that has earned respect from=

it Albany County League of God

*7% State and federal laws sion,
a8 weil as the legai and and
like

Liberties Union. Butler has filed no- would tolerate someone being ag:
or Sth amendment ont with his drive, and expertise and on Cf @ law suit in state Supreme gressive to me. I would take sein
at St. Paul's Episcopal a can eee be "He was at Court. of the situation. That's just the basics
‘Id at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow at to himeelf, chuckle, and step readi laced, The charge is “ tently absurd,” of being a police officer.” :
‘eastern Ave.. Guilderiand. | right over it” Kindion said, fie. el) dedicated narcotics detec- said Fargione. “He's properly ag- — Although he felt he was the best

ive, controlled aggressive. when it came to narcotics, Sattoa
Twenty years age Sutton was a : f ir *

rookie from Ravena aiking a bea “Over the years been sin what we strive for and Ken has said, he now feels that it’s time to
’ $1 000 Be rd pth ve tate taught that to many of us. I've been move on. Initially, he plans to work
es 3 Northern Boulevard, after work- Out because of the job that I was round Ken Sutton for the | i$ ane ty guard when he reti

on
re we years with the Penn Central doing,” Sutton said. “What happens spent more time with him “You know when it's time to go.

Fe T Railroad patrol. Back then, Sutton when you start to get a high percent. Years. niles
rees said, although he wasn't “a city per. age of conviction rates abd you win Jory family. I have never obser. The lawsuits you can't change

$0n,"” he got to know al! the bar your cases {is} the only Way they can etanilered go beyond what would be silage aoe me ae ed ok tee

: the eve, s0 to speak, of Earth ae #00d professional police
hich will be Sunday. pwhers and all the people, and he yun you into the ground is to try to run char:

‘ loved being street EE credibility down.” my family and me. | have a young som
¥, he said, has a “long history 00 the stres Sieh mnt an oe ty na. sald Kinsey “Fant to spent ae Soweae Up an
§ for its environment." Parks “My philosophy on lite and'the. fob...’ “Last fall, Robert Butler of Albany ong,” said Kindlon, the wyer. . | want to spend time with my wi P.
idemy and adjacent Lata. is that your name is the main thing, complained to the department's in- “That's not the problem here, He just want 0 relax for the rest of mj
® an indication of the city's Years ago there was respect back rrtere papi unit iat Sutton had hit pot act with sufficient re. Pike wht ahilee otine te cleus
Ment to green space, the and forth, You could talk back and with @ baseball bat ques straint. : eileen 2 a u
dded, “Planting Pr si goes forth. I've had convicts cal} me from * toning, An tavestigntion ment there “I enforce the laws of the State of . school and just helping the world for
vay to ensure the beauty of prison because they knew I was hon- was not enough evidence to prove or New York,” Sutton said. “I don't go awhile, Sutton added. “{ don't think
"he told Marcalus. “We'll eat. Kids today have no respect for disprove Butler's allegations, said out do my own thing. I don't con- there's enough laughter in the
to plant as long as you pro-life.” Alice Green of the New York Civil sider myneif aggressive, but I never world.
he checks,”

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Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid

and Racism

Box 3002 - Pine Hills Station
Albany, New York 12202
A Project of the Social Justice Center

Next general meeting of the Coalition:

Thursday, April 26, 1990 at 7:00 p.m.

Location: Albany Public Library Main Branch, Washington Ave.
Albany, New York (Note: meetings start promptly at
7p.m. because we must be out of the Library at 9 sharp.

Come to this very important
Spring Planning Meeting

Your help is needed in the struggle
against apartheid and racism

Last Call:

In January we sent out a special membership letter requesting that you send
your $5.00 yearly membership fee for 1990. The response has been
great.However, if you have not yet responded d you want to
remain on our mailing list, be sure to mail your membership
check NOW!

Make checks payable to:

Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism
Box 3002-Pine Hills Station, Albany, New York 12203.

You Can Help
Cast Your Ballot Today

“VOTE for Democracy [4 VOTE for Sanctions

Enclosed in this mailing is a full page flyer asking for you to vote for ,
sanctions against the government of South Africa. The Coalition has

joined a national campaign demanding that the U.S. Congress

maintain and intensify sanctions until apartheid is eliminated. On

the day of his release from 27 years in apartheid prisons, Me/soa

Adandela called on ‘the iaternational commuatty to continue

the campaign to isolate the apartheid regime. To lift

Saactions now would be to rua the risk of aborting the 7 .
process of complete eradication of apartheid. ~

TE
mPEOPLE

You Can Help
Cast Your Ballot Today

VOTE for Democracy [4 VOTE for Sanctions

encourage you to copy the flyer and encourage others to vote. If you
would like to become more involved in the sanctions campaign, your
help is urgently needed and welcome. The Coalition has established a
Reception Committee - there are hundreds of such committees

Capital District Coalition -~--—----—-— si tenia

nationally and internationally. To work with.this committee, call Against Apartheid BALLO
432-4623. And Raciem
DEMOCRACY SANCTIONS

C) YES, every South Africandeserves full democracy — the YES, democracy will come to South Africa only when the
right to vote. | vote yes for one person, one vote in a unified, goverment is under real pressure. That is why | vote tor

CI NO, | don't believe that democracy is the answer for
South Airica. | vote no to democracy

comprehensive mandatory sanctions now.

NO. | don't want to pressure the white minority govern:
ment to end aparihedi. | vote no to sanctions against apart-

Bares “South Africa: The Cordoned Heart,” « photo heid.

exhibit showing the effects of apartheid in South Africa is on display until casted

April 30th at the State Museum in Albany. An night reception, — CRY Organization -
to Blection The Africa Fund will mail your ballot on democracy to the
people of South Africa to register your support for their — Ackiress ; bie
your generous demands. The ballot on sanctions will be delivered to CO” ow, Sate Zip
inn ee : ;
‘South Alnica.

cosponsored by the Coalition, wes held on April 6th.
District 10 of NYSUT and PEF Local 165 at 0.D Heck for
contribution to this reception. On Friday April 27th there will be a panel

discussion to close the film series which is being held in conjunction with thes”
exhibit. The panel discussion will follow the 7:00 p.m. movie showing of the
film “South Africa Belongs to Us.“

RETURN TO: VOTE DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN, The
Africa Fund, 198 Broadway, New York, NY 10036

(] Ive enclosed my contribution to support the campaign

Te ee ee — ee tem Seeatiiaemnl oe

Capital District Coalition ' Non-Profit
Against Apartheid and Racism | Organization
Project of the Social Justice Center “PAID
33 Central Avenue | PERMIT NO. 509
Albany, New York 12210 Albany, NY

Versa Mi Chelson

13 Pennsylvania

| Ave,
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Very important Spring planning meeting
April 27, 1990 at 7 p.m., Aibany Library

The ANC conditions for negotiations include that the Government declare
an unconditional amnesty for exiles and political prisoners, lift the state of
emergency and end political triais.

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Albany, N.Y., Wednesday, May 2, 1999.

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to honor women

ALBANY - The YWCA of Albany
honors nine area women, including a
nun who teaches at a jail and the
founder of the Albany Teen Pageant,
at the annual Tribute to Women
Friday at Chancellor's Hall, State
Education Building.

The honorees are:

® Sarah Blacher Cohen, a profes-
sor of English at the State University
at Albany, where her Specialty is
Jewish American literature, drama
and humor. The author of five books,
three plays and 25 scholarly articles,
Sohen was awarded a Fulbright
professorship to Yugoslavia in 1981
and received SUNYA’s President's
Award for Excellence in Teaching in
1884,

@ Anabel S. Puels, a veteran
volunteer for 60 years, having
worked with Camp Thatcher, the
Neighborhood House, Family and
Children’s Services Child Guidance
Center, Camp Opportunities, the
Arbor Hill Community Center and
Trinity Institute. ia 1948, she became
the first black woman elected to the
YWCA's board of directors and in
1970, the first black and the first
woman elected to the Albany YMCA

board.

@ Nancy Burke, an educator since
1960, mainly in inner-city schools,
Her “whole language” system of
teaching reading and writing, for
those without home resources, is
being introduced in Albany's public
schools. At age 45 Burke joined the
Peace Corps, Pe theory and
tethniques to teachers in Paraguay.

@ Milagros Baez O'Toole, deputy

director of facilities operations for
the state Office of General Services,
overseeing nine OGS operations with
more than 2,300 employees through-
out the state. Active in the Hispanic
community, in 1989 she was honored
by Gov. Mario Cuomo with the
creation of the Milagros Baez
O'Toole Award for Distinguished
State Government Service and Ca-
reer Advancement. . , f

®@ Sister Jeanne Pierre Mittnight.
In 1976 she resigned from the College
of Saint Rose, where she had been a
professor and chairwoman of the
English department, to volunteer an
a teacher at the Albany County Jail.
She is now director of the jail's
school, She is still a student, having
learned Spanish in her 70s to teach it

a3 4 second language,

@ Anita Thayer, a founding part-
ner of the law firm of Walter,
Thayer, Long and Mishier who is
active in civil rights causes. She has
worked with the Capital District
Coalition Against Apartheid and
Racism, the Albany Citizens for
Excellence in Education, Kenwood
Child Development Center and Citi-
zens of Albany Responsible Educa-
tion (CARR),

@ Mildred Charch Dandridge,
founder of the Center for Women's
Education at Russell Sage College.
She has presented workshops and
counseling sessions aimed at helping
women establish goals, develop con-
fidence, change ifestyles and ca-
reers, and take responsibility for
their lives,

®@ Rekha Basu, an editorial writer
for The Daily Gazette and a former

aon meinen meta cena tn

O'Toole. .
reporter for coptal Newspapers and
Metroland. Writi
cerning women and the Third World,
she has received several awards
from anti-defamation “Organizations |
as well as the New ork State
Society of Newspaper Editors.

@ Lacille M. McKnight, president of
the Albany Teen Pa t, which she.
founded in 1948. She Is past president 4
of the Creighton Homes ¢
Neighborhood Association, chair.
woman of the Albany County Coop-

as oe, Cohen ‘

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erative Extension Urban Advi
Council and coordinator of Albany's

South spring clean-up commit-
tee. End i P | ‘

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YWCA selections committee after
having been nominated by members
of the public, . FO
&
Almeda C, Dake, mayor of Sarato-
| @* Springs, will be the keynote
' Speaker at the awards ceremony.

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‘Brothers’ Fought for Equality ir

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te 19608 oyi) rights movement.
Like Leon Van Dyice. an ex-protes-
Sonal borer, janitor and COMrCted
burglar Or Andrew Gill, a 25-year.
old Graduate of state college in Or-
fonts. Or Clarenos Newton, aa Army

In the late 19608, The Brothers rone
“8D Out Of the frestrations i the city’s
lorneed ot Arter Rall Penne

ef Arbor Hill Por the ment
several years, they personified a
cause then called “hack power.” And
Unie, adervomet ae maiienty ax they ap-
peared, The Brothers faded.

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Brothers scattered in a variety of
places and joda, Thme has dtrumed

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The Martin Luther King, Jr.
and Coretta Scott King
Lecture Series
at Siena College

January 15 & 16, 1990

Reverend Dr. Allan A. Boesak

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The Martin Luther King, Jr.

and
Coretta Scott King
Lecture Series
on

Race and Nonviolent Social Change

In cooperation with representatives of many Capital Region cor
Organizations, Stena College has established the Martin Luther
Scott King Lecture Series on Race and Nonviolent Social Chan

nMunity and religious
King. Jr and Coretta

ire The Series is tured

ed through the proceeds of an endowment at Siena The January 16 address by the

Reverend Dr. Allan A. Boesak is ihe third annual lecture in the

‘

Dr. Boesak, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Mission Church

been in the forefront of the Struggle against apartheid. A disting

biblical theologian. he is iner astigly recognized as a political as well as a rel

SOTIES

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wished preacher and

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Kobi CREE

leader among the forces resisting Sc wth Africa's white supremist policies and
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He ts one of the major leaders who have imspured activists at Sie

Capital Region, such as Siena’s Student Ante Apartheid ¢ OUP §

fa ¢ Mleve and on thy

ind the Capital Diss

Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism. In response to questions raised by student

sicna, the College Board of Trustees acc epted the recommendation of its appointed

hoc committee in LONG to dis est from companies doing business

since 1982 Dr. Boesak has been president of the Ge neva-based
Reformed Churches, and he is amember National Executive of
Council of Churches. As a co-founder of the multiracial United
by

nas taken a mulitant but nonviolent stand We su

Viricans

bias theological studies included work WD scmunaries in South Af

und the | nited States He received his | doctor ot | heoalogy Che gt re

Hr south Atpica

World Atianes
the South Ati can

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rica. the Nether! tits

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Pheological Academy of Kampen in the Netherlands. His published works includ

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Ry loarmed Walkine On Thy rs and C myporl and Prete ‘f

Dr. Boesak has cight honorary degrees and numerous awards fre

several countries, In the United States his awards have inchided

Ov Gye uf Blu A (ih

4H OTPANiZabiwys in

the Martin Luther

King Award granted by the Southern Christian Leadership Conterence, the Robert |

Kennedy Award and the Thomas Merton Award

Phe reception honoring Dr. Boesak benefits the King Lecture Se
the endowment of the Series continues

Decisions about lecturers lopics, locations and administration of
by an advisory board composed of representatives of Siena Colk
COmMUNID

ries. Fund raising tor

the Series are mack
pe and the
Deeo=

RECEPTION
IN HONOR OF
REVEREND DR. ALLAN A, BOESAK

Siena College
Jerome Dawson Library
January 15, 1990
5 p.m.

INTRODUCTION .......... Dr. W. Merle Longwood
Professor of Religious Studies, Siena College

_ Chair, Advisory Board, King Lecture Series |
WELCOME ........... iets Rey. William E. McConville, O.F.M.
President
Siena College >
GREETINGS .. ::.....000c00i0 Rev. Dr. Allan A. Boesak

President, World Alliance of Reformed Churches
Loh | re ... John Charles Cook

PRINT AND ORIGINAL ART EXHIBITION... Presented by Ron Cook
of Harlem Street Gallery International, Lid.

The King Lecture Series gratefully acknowledges the following individuals and
Organizations for their gifts supporting this reception and lecture.

Rev. David A, Giles

Faye F, Harvey

The Most Reverend Howard J. Hubbard. D.D.

Rev. & Mrs. Robert C. Lamar

Manufacturers Hanover

Fane

New York State Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission
New York Telephone Company

Thomas D, O'Connor

Rose & Kiernan, Inc.

Siena College Friary,

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THE THIRD ANNUAL LECTURE

Siena College
Alumni Recreation Center

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MASTER & MISTRESS
OF CEREMONIES ise) cssissisecsssapsssvies

A SONG OF INSPIRATION...........

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ADDRESS

FPA PEN TEER CCFO AERO RENE ER HMA pees

nuary 16, 1990
10 a.m.

Dr. W. Merle Longwood
Professor of Religious Studies,
Siena College
Chair, Advisory Board,
King Lecture Series

Ethel B. David
Director, Academic Opportunity Program and
Administrator, STEP/C-STEP, Union College
Vice Chair, Advisory Board,
King Lecture Series

Gospel Ensemble
Union College
Tyrone Foster, Director

Rabbi Julie Wolkoff
President, Capital District Board of Rabbis
Rabbi, Congregation Berith Sholom

Troy, N.Y,

Rev, William E, McConville, O.F.M.
President
Siena College

sfasiphs inwtleeiiandevess Anne Pope

Deputy Director for Administration and
Community Relations, New York
African American Institute

President, National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People -
Albany Branch

Rev. Dr. Allan A, Boesak
President, World Alliance of
Reformed Churches

“King’s Legacy: The Defiance Campaign
in South Africa Today”

“5-

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wi wtie REASON N IN SS R R H E RS carn
AFRICAN NATIONAL ANTHEM. .......0:0:0.c0s:seesed by members of the

NKOSI SIKELELIAPRIKA

Nkosi sikelehiAfrika
Maluphakanyisw’ uphondo lwayo
Yizwa imithandazo yethu

Nkost sikelela

Thina lusapho lwayo

Woza moya

Woza moya

Woza moya oyingewele
Nkosi sikelela

Phina lusapho lwayo

Morena boloka setshaba sa etsho
© fedise dintwa le matshoenyeho

() se boloke

© se boloke
Setshaba sa etsho
Setshaba sa Afrika

Ose boloke Morena
© se boloke setshaba
Setshaba sa etsho
Setshaba sa Africa

Makuhbe njalo
makube njalo

Kude kube ngunaphakade
Kude Kube ngunaphakade

Language: Xhosa and Sotho

BENEDICTION .......

Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid and
Racism

LORD BLESS AFRICA

Lord give your blessings to Africa
Let her glory rise above

Hear our pleas and hear our prayers
Lord bless

Her sons and daughters

Come spirit

Come spirit

Come spirit, holy spirit
Lord bless

Her sons and daughters

Lord save our nation
Rid it of wars and troubles

Save it

Save it

Our nation

Our nation of Africa

Save it Lord

Save our nation

Our nation

Our nation of Africa

So let it be
SO fet it be
Until eternity
Until eternity

Rev. Allen A. Stanley

Pastor, Bethel Baptist Church,

Troy, N.Y

BENEFACTORS OF THE ENDOWMENT

Sidney and Beatrice Albert
Harry Belafonte

Capital Newspapers

Fritz and Elsa deBeer

Carroll Devitt

Rev, David A, Giles

The Golub Foundation of Albany
Neil and Jane Golub

Irving and Elaine Kirsch
Dorothy Ann and William Kite
Edward Marcelle

Ann Marcelle

New York State Martin Luther King. Jr. Commission

Ann G. Older
Dorann Zimicki

King Lecture Series
Advisory Board

Thomas H, Cooper

James S. Dalton, Ph.D.

Lois K. Daly, Ph.D, Secretary
Ethel B. David, Vice Chair
Rev. David A. Giles

Neil Golub

W. Merle Longwood, Ph.D., Chair
Edward J. McGlynn, Ph.D
Flaine R, Ognibene, Ph.D
Anne Pope

Peter M. Pryor, Esq,

Rev. Allen A, Stanley

Jean M. Stern, Ph.D

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MPACICU bare dane.

(5/ ‘ {/ 90 Tle ae

2 local activists to meet Mandela

By Jay Jochnowitz
Staff woter

ALBANY ~-- Two activists from the Capital District
Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism will be among
100 leaders from around the country expected to meet in
New York later this month with African National
Congress leader Nelson Mandela.

Mandela, 71, the deputy president of the ANC who was
released from jail in South Africa this year after 27 years
in prison, is expected to address the invitation-only
gathering June 22 in New York City.

The all-day event, said Vera Michelson, co-chairwom-
an of the Captial District Coalition Against Apartheid
and Racism, is aimed at drawing anti-apartheid leaders
from around the nation to plan strategies for lobbying
the U.S. government to maintain economic sanctions
against South Africa.

Anti-apartheid activists are also organizing a bus trip
to New York City that day in connection with Mandela's
arrival there. Mandela, who has been meeting with
Western European leaders, is also scheduled to stop in

Boston, Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, Oakland and in
Washington, D.C., on June 25 to visit the White House.

Micheison, invited to the gathering with the coalition’s
co-chair, Merton Simpson, said: “The excitement is just
tremendous. Clearly his presence in the U.S. is just going
to he an outpouring.”

Anti-apartheid forces want the government to main-

tain sanctions, she said, until “the time there is one

person, one vote,” in the country where whites are a
minority but retain power. “The time to lift sanctions is
when there's a free South Africa,”

Also expected to address the conference in New York
is Walter Sisulu, another ANC leader who was released
ed before Mandela after 26 years in jail, Michelson
sald.

Workshops and policy briefings are slated throughout
the day with the ANC delegation touring with Mandela.
Among the groups coordinating the event, she said, are
the American Committee on Africa, the American
Friends Service Committee, the Washington Office on
Africa and Trans-Africa.

... lo address NYC gathering
Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid

and Racism
Box 3002 - Pine Hills Station
Albany, New York 1/2202

A Project of the Social Justice Center
MAY 1990 NEWSLETTER

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HE, May 24, 1990 at 7:00 P.M. PERSON, |
green R Albany Public Library, Main Branch °~ gt oun
"(St | Weshington Quenue, Ribeny, New York ANG,

May veotine

What do we do this summer? %

LET'S BE FRIENDS... FROM A CO-CHAIR, VERA MICHELSON

hou see us tn the streets, you tell us “keep up the good work.” You shake hands with one

our our meny organizers ahd say “how can / help ?" Whea you see us representing CICAAR at
foruins, meetings, matches and rallies your are siinply amazed at how we can keep gotag al)
the time (nine years to be exact), When Mandela was released you told people how you were
broud to be part of an organization (COICAAR) that hed contributed so much to the struggle
against apartheid tn Southern Africe sad recisin at heme. VOU GAY ALL OF THESE THIMES
BUT YOU DOM’ T SEHO US YOUR $5.00 MEMBERSHIP SO THAT VOU CAM KEEP
GETTIMG THIS MEWSLETTER. Lon’ fret. This probiem is 90 easy to resolve. Just stad &
“00 check (or more) to COCAAR , P.O. Box 3002 - Pine Hills Station, Albany, MV. 12203

ahd we can be friends 89817?
The preceding message does not apply te our many Triends who have already pard their
Member shi p (ee.

WATCH SOUTH
AFRICA NOW

On TV!

COMMISSIONER SOBOL CALLS FOR CURRICULUM CHANGE
A salute to Thomas Sobol, New York State Commissioner of Education,

for his plan to draft broad revisions in the state’s public school

curriculum to give much greater recognition to the contribution ofe .
people of different ethnic, cultural and linguistic groups. This™ as
proposed “curriculum of inclusion” is an important step in making New

York State public schools the schools of all the children.

APARTHEID 1S WRONG: A CURRICULUM FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

This curriculum by Paula Rogovin Bower offers educators 4
comprehensive curriculum on South Africe with extensive plans for
teaching of the evils of apartheid in al) disciplines. it can be adapted
to all age levels and is even 6 useful educational tool for anti-
apartheid activists because of the substantive material included.

You can order Apartheid is Wrong: A Curriculum for Young People by
sending $15.00 and $3.00 for postage and handling to: Educators
Against Apartheid, 164-04 Goethals Avenue, Jamaica, N.Y. 11432.

reeemem omaten —

(Back in the Studio - Congratulations te Art Mitchell, veteran)

radio announcer who recently returned to the studio after many years. Early
birds can cetch Art on Sunday mornings on 59 AM WROW from 6:45 a.m. to
7:30 a.m. The show is called Mews, Views, Interviews end Gespel Music.

By the way, all community announcements should be sent to Art at WROW, 34 »
Northern Boulevard, Albany, New York 12204. Deadlines are Tuesdey before the) ~ ve
\ the Sunday show. Good luck Art -we support you 100% y

REPORTING AND ABALYSIS. venlesis

Congratulations to Anita Thayer. on your recognition
from the Albany YWCA as a “Woman of the Year.”

THE COALITION WOULD ALSO LIKE TO CONGRATULATE REKA BASU. A

JOURBALIST WHOSE WRITIBGS IN METROLAND AED MOW I THE
GAZETTE PROVIDE THE CAPITAL DISTRICT VITH PROGRESSIVE IN-DEPTH

There are many members of the Coalition who work tirelessly
year after year and remain consistently committed to the struggle
against injustice in this country and apartheid in South Africa. Anita
Thayer, a practicing attorney with the law firm of Walter, Thayer,
Long and Mishier, and a member of the National Lawyers Guild, is
one of those individuals whose behind the scenes work is essential to
the Coalition. Congratulations, Anita, on this well-deservec?
community recognition. Characteristically, Anita took the occasion o
the award to make a strong political statement which we reprint
here:

"I am honored that I was nominated for this award by the Capital
District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism. I'm proud of my

association with the Coalition.

One of the things that I have learned from association with the
many people who are involved in the Coalition is that every occasion
is an occasion to deal with the problems of racism in this country and
to educate people about the evils of apartheid in South Africa.

As some of you know or have learned tonight, the YWCA
organization has a position on the question of racism. Its “One
Imperative” is a declaration by the Y that it will “thrust its collective
power toward the elimiantion of racism wherever it exists and by
whatever means necessary.” This is an incredibly powerful slogan
and is a huge and important challenge to all of us who are gathered
here together tonight under the umbrella of the YWCA to celebrate
our unity and diversity.

The elimination of racism in the United States is a major.
responsibility for us all..but what does this responsibility really”
mean? What can be done?

ae

se

Thirty-six years after Brown v. Board of Education, we still have de
facto segregated schools, even Fight here in Albany. All our public

schools, with the exception of the one public high school, are
prdominantly either white or black.

Voting participation in the U.S. is far from universal. We have the
lowest percentage of adults voting in our elections of any Western
democracy. Our local democratic party is only recently beginning to
feel the winds of perestroika.

Our children, black, white and brown, do not have teachers of
color, They learn quickly that equal opportunity looks great on
paper and in the cute little boxed inserts of their social studies
textbooks. But our children rarely see equal opportunity in action...

The pervasiveness of racism is not a problem that can be resolved
or eliminated solely by self-examination, sensitivity sessions, guilt, or

«good intentions. The tested and surest path of reversing racist
conditioning and eliminating racism is to actually work on the
specific problems of our day. Day by day, side by side with people of
all colors as equal partners in struggle.

Only with a united, hands-on effort against bias, prejudice, and
institutional racism can we become a truly democratic society.

Before I conclude, I also want to add that we are citizens of the
world and we have world citizenship responsibilities.

On behalf of the Coalition, 1 would like to give each of you here today
an opportunity to participate in a national campaign of the anti-
apartheid movement to support democracy in South Africa and to
lobby for comprehensive economic sanctions against South Africa. The
south African government refuses to address the core demand of the
South African people for “one person, one vote.” Nelson Mandela is out

of jail but still not free. The anti-apartheid movement, through its
“VOTE” campaign, gives the people of this country an opportunity

vote for democracy in South Africa and to support economic sanctions
against South Africa. These ballots for democracy, will be sen e

anti-apartheid movement in South Africa to show our support for their
le and the ballots for sanctions will go to the US. ess.

Struggie and the ballots for sanctions will go to the U.S. Congress. I
urge you to take this opportunity to stand in struggle with the people
of South Africa. > >>

NOTE: THE “YOTE” CAMPAION WHICH ANITA REFERRED TO IN HER SPEECH HAS
BEEN A COALITION EFFORT SINCE THE TIME OF MELSON MANDELA'S RELEASE FROM
PRISON. IT IS PART OF A MATIOWAL EFFORT TO MAINTAIN AND STREWOTHEN

SANCTIONS AGAINST THE APARTHEID REGIME. FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS WE HAVE
PUBLISHED THESE SANCTIONS BALLOTS IN THIS WEWSLETTER. BECAUSE THIS
CAMPAIGN FOR SANCTIONS IS SUCK AN IMPORTANT ONE WE HAVE INCLUDED THE
BALLOT AGAIN IN THIS MONTHS MEWSLETTER.
THE BALLOT AND MAIL.

PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO FILL OUT

MOTE: The American Committee on
Africa (ACOA) which organized the
7 YOTE campaign reports thet ballets

r THEIR from the Coalition are flooding
ITE

their Mew Yerk Office. Let's keep
the beilots coming. If you heve al -
mt PEOPLE
You Can Help

reedy sent one, pass it on to a friend,
copy and distribute —
Cast Your Ballot Today

“VOTE for Democracy [VOTE for Sanctions

Capital District Coalition ~
Against Apartheid

And Raciem
DEMOCRACY

— YES. every South Aircandeserves full democracy — the
ngm to vole | vote yes for one person, one vote in a untied,
nonracial South Atnca.

BALLOT |

SANCTIONS

comprenensive mandatory sanctions now

— NO. | dont betieve that democracy is the answer for
South Alnca. | vote no to democracy

herd.

enema tenenatinn

Signature : City . vs be

YES. democracy will come to South Atrica only whenthe
government is under reai pressure. That is why | vote for

NO. | dont want to pressure the white minority govern
ment to end apartherd. | vote no to sanctions against apart

Organization
The Afnca Fund will mail your ballot on democracy to the
people of South Afnca to register your support for ther  - Address

demands. The dallot on sanctions will be deivered to Con-
Qr@SS 10 ax] Ihe push for comprehensive sanchons agains! City, State, Zip
South Afnca

+ RETURN TO: VOTE DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN The
Ainca Fund, 198 Broadway, New York, NY 10038

— 've enclosed my contnbution to support the campaign

{Nee emn, Aeneme seein Semen —_ wm

os

The National Alliance Against Racist and Political
Repression has been struggling for the past seventeen years against
racist and political repression. At the April membership meeting of the
Coalition, Mark Mishler, a member of the Coalition steering committee,
proposed that the Coalition join this Alliance as a way to strenghten
and broaden the work of the Coalition against police and racist
violence. The membership unanimously agreed and Mark will represent
the Coalition at the 10th Netional Conference of the Alliance in
Chicago during the latter part of May.

The Alliance is a multiracial, multinational coalition with varying
political persuasions united by a common struggle to end racist and
political repression.

There is a national emergency of hate-related violence. Racist, anti-
ammitic, homophobic and other hate-motivated attacks deny millions

‘Gf Americans their basic human rights. This national emergency not

only threatens the direct victims, but the society as 4 whole.

Vt Aas taken over FO years, bul the US. Congress hes
finally pessed an anti-genocide saw. This Jslandmark
lagisiation, coming as part af the ratification of the United
Wations Convention to Prevent Genocide, makes it a crime tea
atiempt to destroy @ national, eathnic, racial or religious
group. Stgnificantly the act includes incitement as a crime.
Stil? penalities include bath Sines and prison sentences.
Resolute and aggressive federal entfarcement of this

Jegisiaetion can be the key to turning back the tide of hate
-motivated violence..we know from toe much expertence

that this and ather statures are not worth the paper they are
written on unless @ mass mavement can unleash them as
weapons in our arsenal, Building that movement wil] be the

business af this conference. ~
Two years ago the Coalition joined the Northeast Southern Africa

Solidary Network. This affiliation with other anti-apartheid groups

from several Northeast states has served to strenghten the work we
mare able to do in the struggle for democracy in Southern Africa.

Affiliation with the National Alliance Against Racist and Political
Repression will provide us with the strength of 4 network working
against racism and racist violence in this country.

Capital District Coalition ‘ete.
Against Apartheid and Racism Organization
Project of the Social Justice Center RATE
33 Central Avenue mae
Albany, New York 12210 Albany, NY _

Ar merece

NEXT GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
MAY 24, 1990 at 7-00 p.m.

eee

SOUTH AFRICA NOW is a weekly
television news magazine,

Produced by Globalvision as a non-profit
project in association with The Africa Fund.

The program features news, footage,
analysis, background reports and cultural
segments not seen elsewhere on d

ments in the region of Southern Africa.

South Africa Now is seen nationally on
The International Television Network.

Never-before-seen footage and expert reporting
break the Sovernment-imposed silence.

The present regime should, at the very least:

 \%e

@ release all political
unconditionally and re
any restrictions on them "

@ lift the bans and re
and organizations:

® end press censorship; and,

© cease all political trials a
executions,

ne

a These measures a

prisoners and detainees
train from imposing

Strictions on all Persons

nd political

re necessary to
produce the conditions in which

free political discussion can take
place - an essential] condition to
ensure that the people themselves
Participate in the process of re-
making their country. These
measures listed above should
precede negotiations.

Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid

and Racism
Box 3002 - Pine Hills Station
Albany, New York 12202
A Project of the Social Justice Center

June 1990 Newsletter

NEXT GENERAL MEETING OF THE COALITION:

THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1990 AT 7:00 P.M.
Ribany Public Library, Main Branch

Summer Planning Meeting,
OTB Tennis Boycott jag

Black Arts Festival - Coalition Table*

Assessment of Committee Work:
Sanctions Police Abuse

Note that ne regular meetings are planned for July
and fugust - hewever, Cealitien work will continue
and this meeting will set up the plens for that werk.

*“\4 Black Arts Festival is scheduled for Sunday, July 22, 1990 at the

Empire State Plaza. If you can work the Coalition table, please call
456-0562 to arrange hours.

Permanent Mission of the Republic of Namibia
To The United Nations

801 Second Avenue, Room 1401, New York, N.Y. 10017
Telephone: (212) 557-2450, Telex 237249, Fax: (212) 986-9736

CIRCULAR.

Dear Friends,

I have the distinet honor to inform you that, since the
independence of Namibia on March 21° 1990, and particularly
following the admission of my country to the membership of the
United Nations on April 23, 1990, this office has changed status.

{ts official designation is : The Permanent Mission of the
Republic of Namibia to the United Nations,

it is our wish to continue having cordial relations wich «ail
of you who have assisted us in the struggle for the
our ceuntry, and to strengthen ties during this face of
national reeonstruction and development,

Yours sincerely,

Att rr eZ

Asheeke

Hinyangerwa V,
Ambassador
Charge d'Affaires,

liberation of

Announcements

The Martin Luther King Jr. Institute for Nonviolence

Rebuilding New York - "Nonviolence at Work"
2nd Annual Summer Workshop on Nonviolence

August 12-16, 1990, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.
For more information, call the Institute M-F 9AM-5PM at (518) 426-2300

~

THE BERKSHIRE FORU

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Stephentown, NY 12168-9723
(518) 733-6013

June
22-24

Communist Parties

at the Crossroads

The widespread reports of the death of rhe
Communist Parties, North and South, East and
West, are greatly exaggerated. And yet, recent
events have certainly challenged their historic
mandate as vanguards of emancipation. What
is 10 be done? A provocative exchange of views
with Gil Green, member of the Central Com-
mittee of the U.S. Communist Party: Deirdre
Griswold, editor of “Workers’ World’;
Joseph Kaye, writer and long-time progres-
sive activist; Sandra Levinson, executive
dif or of the Center for Cuban Studies;
Br Richard, labor activist; Merton

Simpson,co-chair, Capital District
Coalition Against Apartheid and

Racism

July
27-29

South Africa:
The Continuing Struggle

When Nelson Mandela was released from
prison, the struggle for the ‘iberation of South
Africa entered a decisive phase. Nomazizi

Sokudela, chairperson of the African Nation!
Congress’ Regional Political Commuttee in the
U.S. and a member of the ANC Womens
Section, is a dedicated, resilient "ighter ano
will explain the current situation in sour
Africa and the significance of negotiations
Vera Michelson, co-chair of the Capital Dis.
trict Coalition Against Apartheid and Racisir,
will discuss tactics and strategies in organ zir
movement work.

NATIONAL ALLIANCE AGAINST RACIST & POLITICAL REPRESSION

406-3330

np

WE CAN FREE JOHNNY IMANI HARRIS
Demand Clemency or Immediate Parole

of justice.

BIRMINGHAM FRAME.UP

in 1970 the Harns family moved onto a previously all white
block in Birmingham, Alabama. There was a neighborhood
pethon campaign demanding the family move, acid thrown on
them cara cross burned on their lawn Threats from the Kas
Kiux Klan were followed by visits by men claiming to be focal
police

Five months after moving into his new home, on August }}
1970. in this atmosphere of racist wolence and terror, 19-year
ald Johnny Imam Harris was arrested without a warrant while
un his way to work. He was placed in a line-up where his pho-
tograph was handed around to insure that he would be the
man identified. The next day Haris was charged with four
robbenes in the amounts of $11. $67, $90 and $205. and with
the alleged rape of a white woman. Each of these charges in
1970 camed a maximum penalty of death

There followed a travesty of the rights to counsel and due
process. One of Harris court-appointed lawyers never visited
him before the tial. No pre-trial motions challenging Harris
warrantless arrest or the warrantless seareh of his home were
filed None of Harris’ attorneys exammed the medical report
on the alleged rape victim. which stated there was no evidence
of rape, None of the five people providing Harris with an unim

peachable alibi for the time of the alleged rape was ca as a
withess
\ few minutes before the tinal began, Herre) attarnd natty

counseled him to plead guilty. One had not subpeenaed any

defense witnesses and was totally onprepared to defend his

lent. The other felt the court weuld take the white woman «

werd over Harns regarding the rape and that Haris pat
the death sentence if he didn?t plead guilty. And th nes
chan t intend te buck the sestem. Faced with this OtHOT)

eating hor fis tito, Hore pleated arate dle recered five con

secutive Te senancas and was sent te Atmore Pires te sore

suit bas time

CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT

The horrers which awaited him were indesenbahle | atthe

had changed since the davs when the Scottshorn defendants
sere imprisoned there. Federal Judge Frank M. Johnson tater
found Agnore Prison to be untt for hum wn haitatien ard mn

hon of Consttutranal protections wWainst cruel and
unusual punishment

Harris wong with other pasoners jormvwed famates for Ag
Wen (EFA) to ty to impreve conditions Prison officials
mswered ther protests with he atings and brutality

In January, 1974, 64 prisoners who had protests d—inchied
ine Horas were confined ta heh hualtior 32) There were
ner torlets or beds Gaurds fied tes thy petsomers caus ties
had just beaten an [FA mernber to death Behevirg they winstd
be nest, the prisoners seed hwo guards as hostages and mady
one? chemand— that members of the press, legealoture. and

bh

Chery « hroustt to Atevere ty we Comiitions

Warden Manen Bo Harding ordered the guards to attack
the prisoners and break up the protest. A guard, Officer
Barrow, and a prison leader, George Dobbins, were killed, Ac
cording to evewrtnesses, the Warden repeatedly stabbed Dob-
bins in the face after having him shot by a guard

SENTENCED TO DEATH

Harris was brought to trial by a politically ambitious Ala:
bama Attorney General, Bill Baxley, using an 1859 slaveholder
law carrying a mandatory death sentence. No evidence was
presented that Harris had killed the guard, Baxley maintained
Harris was guilty of murder if he had been part of the protest.
During the trial Baxley stated that the warden “should have set
up a machine gun, given the prisoners two minutes to come
out, and then aut them all down.”

The jury was all white and all male, Harris was convicted and
sentenced to death.

( : wey as

if you would like to get
involved working on the
issue of police abuse, join
the CRAR subcommitte,

\ Mark Mishier, 318- 462-6 #53)

In January 1990 the state of Alabama chose to continue its racist vendetta against Harris, denying |
him parole. Last September, Alabama courts overturned Harris’ conviction in the 1974 death of a |
prison guard. After nearly tv. decades in prison, 14 years on death row, it is time to end this travesty |

NEW TRIAL WON

In 1978 Jesse David Jett, a white former prisoner at Atmore,
came forward with eyewitness testimony that Harris had not
killed the guard. He had not said anything before due to
threats by the prison guards. Harris’ attorney won a new trial
in 1983, but Jett suddenty refused to testify. Once again an all-
white jury convicted Harris and sentenced him to death

THE CASE TODAY

The ruling overturning Harris’ conviction resulted from
effective legal work and the [5 years of struggle fed by the
NAARPR. The court said, “the appropriate relief is the dismmis-
sal of the indictment rather than merely granting a new trial.”

in 1987, a U.S. Supreme Court decision in another case led
to the overturning of Harris’ death sentence. And on March 10,
1989, over the vindictive opposition of the state's prosecutor,
the Alabama Supreme Court ruled Harris could not be
resentenced to death

The case had been on appeal to the Alabama Court of Crim-
inal Appeals. But an effective appeal had been made impos
sible by the fact that key sections of the transcripts ing
with the discriminatory jury selection process were p< iff
Harris’ current attorneys raised a nurnber of issues, inGting
the highly prejudicial statements made by the state's prose
cutor, the racially discriminatory composition of the indicting
Grand Jury, and the jack of evidence linking Harris to the
enme

NOT AN ISOLATED INCIDENT

Of the over 2210 people on death row across th: $ atry
almost half are people of color. Over 42% are Black. even
though Black people make up only 12% of the U.S. popula-
tion. In Alabama 62% of those on death row are Black, Of the
over 2210 nationally, not one is nch

WE CAN FIGHT BACK AND WIN

The National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression
(NAARPR) has spearheaded the building of a national and
international movement to save Johnny Imani Harris’ life and
free him from prison. We have marched, rallied, vigiled, peti
tioned, passed out leaflets, and written letters. Support has
come from elected officials such as Detroit Mayor Coleman
Young, Congressmen John Conyers, William Clay, and Walter
Fauntroy, Chicago Alderman Jesus Garcia, Detroit Council-
members Maryann Mahaffey and Mel Ravitz, and Alabama
State Senators Hank Sanders and Ear! Hilliard. They have
been joined by the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists: the
Board of Church & Society of the United Methodist Church:
singer Carmen McRae; writer Alice Walker: Southern Chris.
tian Leadership Conference (SCLC) President Dr. Joseph
Lowrey; Daniel Berrigan; Abdeen Jabarra, President.
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee; Chicago
activist Lupe Lozano; Dr. Jonathan House, President, Com-
mittee of Interns and Residents, New York, and many, many
others

WHAT YOU CAN DO;

Johnny Imani Harris should begin the new decade outside
any prison walls. With struggle and organization we can free
him and begin to heal the terrible wounds inflicted 20 years
ago. Let Alabama's governor and parole board fee! the re-
newed pressure of a national and international campaign to
free Brother Harris. It's time!

* Move your church, organization, union, etc., te demand that
there be no more delays. Demand Harns’ sentence be com-
muted to time served, or at very least immediate parole
ranted

* Write Gov, Guy Hunt (1 South Union St. Montgomen

AL. 36130) and separate letters to each member of the parole
board: Mr. Joel Barfoot. Rev. John Nettles, and Mr. Jack
Shows (Alabarna Board of Pardons & Paroles. 777 South
Lawrence St. Montgomery, AL 36130)

Capitel District Coalition
Against Rpartheid end Recism

fi project of the Sociol Justice Center

DEATHS AND COVER-UPS AT NEW YORK STATE PRISONS
Prisoner Support Network

For the second time in ten _months,a young African American prisoner in the New York State
prison system has died after being "subdued" by guards. James Charles, 30, of Queens, died
at Attica on May 24th, 1990. Ronald Smith, 33, from the Bronx, died at Clinton on July 20, 1989.
In both cases, the official Department of Corrections version is that the prisoner, following an
"altorcation"” withguards, was restrained with noundue force, developed unrelated respiratory
problems shortly afterward, collapsed and died. In both cases, inmates say they saw savage
beatings. Hundreds of inmates at both prisons risked (and incurred) severe reprisals to try

to get out the message that they believe Smith and Charles were beaten to death by guards.

On July 23, 1989, six hundred prisoners at Clinton boycotted the mess hall in order to make
known that they believed Ronald Smith had been beaten to death,

Smith’s autopsy was performed by the State Police Medical Examiner, Michael Baden. Dr.
Baden’s autopsy report notes, without comment,"abrasions, contusions, and lacerations" --
scrapes, bruises, and cuts -- all over Smith’s body, including the head and testes. Dr. Baden
concludes that the cause of Smith’s death was cardiac arrhythmia caused by coronary
arteriosclerosis and toxic levels of the antidepressant medicationamitriptyline.In other words,
he had a heart attack caused by hardening of the arteries and medical drug overdose.

Prisoner Support Network obtained the informal opinions of five medical specialists who were
asked to read Dr. Baden’s report. They expressed the following views: (1) that cardiac
arrhythmia cannot be diagnosed in an autopsy, but only by electrocardiogram while it is
happening; (2) that the amount of coronary artery narrowing -- to 60% in one artery --
reported by Dr. Baden is almost never enough to cause death; (3) that high amitriptyline levels
are consistent with therapeutic use, and that the levels reported were probably not fatal, That

The Corrections Officers’ own account of the death says that Smith, gasping and collapsing,
was taken to the Mental Observation Unit instead of the infirmary and allowed to lie,
handcuffed, face down in his vomitfor six minutes. Medicalattention arrived after he was dead.

The réport on Ronald Smith’s death by the Commissionof Co ction, the state agency which
is supposed to monitor state prisons, is_an insult to the people of New York. Its two short
pages simply repeat the conclusions of Dr. Baden’s autopsy report and emphasize Smith’s
history of mental disorder and assaultiveness. Why did the Commissionnot investigate, or not
report on, witnesses’ claims to have observed Smith being beeten, the evidence of traumatic
injur ithe autopsy report, and the delay in obtaining medicagpattention? Instead, the report
says, “Post mnortemexam did not reveal traumatic injury that caused or contributed to the
death of the deceased," creating the false impression that no traumatic injury was found,
Injuries were found, but were not considered important by the State Police Medical Examiner.

Retin alive Nesinn 9)

Charles became involved in an altercation with corrections officers in A-yard at Attica in the
late evening of May 24th. Over twohundred inmates were in the yard al the time, and many of
them saw 20-30 guards restrain Charles, cuff his hands behind his back, and beat him to the
ground. The guards then dragged Charles into the corridor of A-block, wherethey continued
to beat him while prisoners watched through the window. Less than two hours later, James
Charles was dead. Department of Corrections spokesperson Amy Colodny announced that
preliminary autopsy results "failed to disclose" a cause of death, but there is "no indication
of any traumaor injury that would have contributed to his death." (Buffalo News 5/26/90)

On the night of May 26th, 700 prisoners gathered in all four of Attica’s yards to protest the
death of James Charles. 459 of them either stayed out or were locked out in the yards
overnight. Most have now received punitive transfers and disciplinary proceedings for their
attempt to be heard, Although the prisoners in the yard on the night of May 26th were
chanting, "No more murders, no more beatings: James Charles!" the Department of Corrections
announced, and the media repeated, that they had no idea what caused the protest.

Same artinets clasts

Gevernor Mario Cuomo Commissioner Thomas Coughlin Correction Committee
Attn: John Poklemba NYS Dept of Correctional Svcs Daniel Feldman, Chair
State Capitol State Campus, Building #2 N.Y.S. Assembly
Albany, NY 12223 Albany, NY 12226 Albany, NY 12248
(518) 474-3334 (518) 457-8182 (18) 455-5214

For further information, please contact Naomi Jaffe, Prisoner Support Network, 137 Oak wood

Ave, Troy NY 12180, (518) 272-0501.
alot sg fee Capitol District Coalition

figeinst Apartheid end Racism
fA project of the Social Justice Center

Please post

On the occasion of Nelson Mandela's visit to the
United States
the Capital District Coalition Against
Apartheid and Racism
requests the honor of your presence at a
reception for a representative of
the African National Congress
and the launching of a renewed sanctions
Campaign
for full f eedom in South Africa

Wednesday, June 27, 1990
2:00 p.m.
Legislative Office Building, Reception Room 7IIA
State Street, Albany, New York

also co-sponsored by New York State Assemblyman Roger L. Green

fer further tavermation, call the Maadels Reception Committee
telephone (518) 432-4623

Project of the Social Justice Center

ED

For several months the CDCAAR has been
m PEOPLE planning a reception in honor of the re-
lease of Nelson Mandela. In keeping with
his demand for continued Sanctions against
the white minority regime until apartheid
is ended and there is one man, one vote in
South Africa, this reception will also be a
renewed and urgent call for sanctions.

Several celebrities and politicians have
pledged their support and will be in attend-
ance. Resolutions are being prepared for
introduction in local governm it bodies.

We need to make this the _rongest
call for sanctions ever. The South
African regime is calling for sanctions
to be ended. The Bush administration
is talking about lifting sanctions to
encourage “reforms.”

Neison Mandela, and the people of
South Africa are calling for sanctions
to continue and be intensified.

Take a stand for real democracy in South
Africa. Your attendance at this reception

and your support of sanctions will be a
real "welcome" for Nelson Mandela.

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By Jay Jochnowitz

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ALBANY — Two activists from the Capital District

Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism will be among

100 leaders from around the country expected to meet in

New York later this month with African National

Congress leader Nelson Mandela.

Mandela, 71, the deputy president of the ANC who was
released from jail in South Africa this year after 27 years

in prison, is expected to address the invitation-only _

gathering June 22 in New York City.

The all-day event, said Vera Michelson, co-chairwom-
an of the Captial District Coalition Against Apartheid
and Racism, is aimed at drawing anti-apartheld leaders
from around the nation to plan strategies for lobbying
the U.S. government to maintain economic sanctions
against South Africa.

Anti-apartheld activists are also organizing a bus trip
to New York City that day in connection with Mandela’s
arrival there. Mandela, who has been meeting with
Western European leaders, is also scheduled to stop in

Boston, Atlanta, Detroit, Los Angeles, Oakland and in
Washington, D.C., on June 25 to visit the White House.
Michelson, invited to the gathering with the coalition’s
co-chair, Merton Simpson, said: “The excitement is just
tremendous. Clearly his presence in the US. is just going
to be an outpouring.”
Anti-apartheid forces want the government to main-

tain sanctions, she said, until “the time there is one

person, one vote,” in the country where whites are a
minority but retain power. “The time to lift sanctions is
when there's a free South Africa.”

Also expected to address the conference in New York
is Walter Sisulu, another ANC leader who was released
shortly before Mandela after 26 years in jail, Michelson
said

Workshops and policy briefings are slated throughout
the day with the ANC delegation touring with Mandela.
Among the groups coordinating the event, she said, are
the American mittee on Africa, the American
Friends Service Committee, the Washington Office on

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depressing irony in these days of “triumphant capitalism” is that
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share the triumphalists’ delusion that this society is a solid,
unchangeable crystal.

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“therapy,’’ all discussions at the Berkshire Forum illumine the truth
that, indeed, “the present society is no solid crystal,” superficial
appearances to the contrary notwithstanding. Here, progressives, in
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JULY

june 29- Leonard Weingiass. Edith Tiger, Robert Meeropol,
July 1 Patricia Levasseur. Muhammad Kenyatta and
Mary Kenyatta
* ‘Human Rights’ U.S, Style:
lilusion vs. Reality”
6-8 irene $. Woods
“Linifled Germany: Opportunity or Menace?”
13-15 Doug Henwood
“Copy Cat Capitalists: Market Socialism?”
20-22 Arnoido Ramos
“El Salvador Venceral”’
27-29 Nomazizi Sokudela and Vera Michelson
“South Africa: The Continuing Struggle”

Katherine Yih

“Marxist Environmentalism’
10-12 Larry Birns

“Cuba under Siege”
17-19 Dr. Milton Terris

“Public Health and Social Justice”
24-26 Sean Gervasi

“Germany: Kohl's Economic Anschluss”
3- LABOR DAY WEEKEND SPECIAL PROGRAM!
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Forum events. The Forum holds weekend workshops from May through
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celebrated as a codeword for consumerism, rugged
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“Human Rights” U.S. Style:

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hypocritical use of those words as a slogan of

world conquest. join us along with participants

Leonard Weinglass, Edith Tiger, Robert

Meeropol, Patricia Levasseur, Muham-

mad Kenyatta, and Mary Kenyatta. This

special workshop is sponsored by Betty and July

Herman Liveright. 20-22

July Unified Germany:

6-8 Opportunity or Menace?
A native Berliner, lrene $. Woods, lived under
Nazi rule for six years and has lived ever since
with the fact and memory of genocide. Cur-
rently she helps develop Holocaust educational
materials and works with the post-Holocaust
generation, Woods will raise and discuss the

poignant, troubling question whether a unified
Germany could become a renewed threat to
world peace. This weekend workshop is spon-
sored by Boston Friends of the Forum. How-
ever, public participation is welcome.

July
27-29

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Copy Cat Capitalists:

Market Socialism?

The editor of the Left Business Observer,
Doug Henwood has since 1986 provided a
surprisingly witty and cogent analysis of the
deterioration of the capitalist system, from
union-busting to junk bonds, increasing pover-
ty to mega-mergers. Given the financial crisis
of the West, Henwood takes on the puzzling
changes in the USSR and Eastern Europe: is this
“Market Stalinism”, as Soviet conservatives
(Marxists) fear?

El Salvador Vencera!

The war in El Salvador rages on and the Bush
Administration delivers millions of dollars into
the blood-drenched hands of the Christiani
regime. Arnoldo Ramos, spokesperse” and
U.S. press liaison for the FMLN-FDk E]
Salvador, is a powerful speaker and represen-
tative of the courageous people of this war torn
nation. His task here is to elucidate FMLN-FDR
perspectives and to promote solidarity be-
tween our people.

South Africa:
The Continuing Struggle

When Nelson Mandela was released from
prison, the struggle for the liberation of South
Africa entered a decisive phase. Nomazizi

Sokudela, chairperson of the African National
Congress’ Regional Political Committee in the
U.S. and a member of the ANC Women’s
Section, is a dedicated, resilient fighter who
will explain the current situation in South
Africa and the significance of negotiations.
Vera Michelson, co-chair of the Capital Dis-
trict Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism,
will discuss tactics and strategies in organizing
movement work,

AUGUST

August
3 tod

Marxist Environmentalism

When The New York Times announces on the
front page that “the environment has reached
the forefront of American politics,”” when Con-
gressional spokesmen for corporate polluters
appear on the hustings in the shining armor of
ecological St. Georges, it is high time for the
Left to demystify the mystifiers. No one is
more qualified to do that than Katherine Yih,
a progressive biologist who for years worked
on development strategies and the regenera-
tion of rainforests in Nicaragua, and |s current-
ly writing on the politics and international
implications of environmentalism.

August
17-19

August
24-

SUMMER 1990

Cuba under Siege

As the United States attempts to roll back the
tide of revolution in the Caribbean Basin, the
Cuban people are striving to maintain social-
ism. Larry Birns, Director of the Council on
Hemispheric Affairs in Washington, D.C., is a
friend of the Cuban Revolution, a frequent
visitor to the island which for 31 years has been
a beacon of hope to Latin American people.
Birns will discuss tele-aggression, the economic
embargo and the future of Cuba in the light of
Perestroika policies towards the Third World.

Public Health and

Social Justice

So, you think that better public health is pri-
marily a matter of more effective medical
therapies? No way, says Dr. Milton Terris.
One of the most eminent public health author-
ities in the United States and Canada, Terris
has outraged the medical profession for years
by demonstrating that good public health
depends less critically on medication than on
social justice, that it is less a function of the
standard of medical practice than of the stand-
ard of living. Dr. Terris balances sharp criticism
with bold proposals for a progressive national
health program.

*

Germany:

Kohl’s Economic Anschluss
Sean Gervasi, an American economist teach-
ing in Paris and a sparkling speaker, recently
returned from a fact-finding tour in West and
East Germany. He will analyze the real reasons
for Kohl's Anschluss and the harsh terms
imposed on East Germany. A re-unification of
the two Germanys, consummated in an atmos-
phere of near-hysterical nationalism, promises
dangerous instability. Is the U.S. pressing rapid
re-unification in order to undermine the
Common Market of 1992?

August 31- Labor Day Weekend

Sept. 3

Special Program!

Details will be announced in the Fall Brochure.

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ENERGIZED BY AFRICAN NATIONAL
Congress leader Nelson Mandela
eight-city US. visit, local anti-apartheid

Proving
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Additionally, four members of the
Albany Common Council were
acknowledged for their efforts in the anti-
apartheid movement. 4 Ion,

Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid

and Racism

Box 3002 — Pine Hills Station
Albany, NY 12203

June 21, 1990
FOR IMMEDIATERELEASE
Contact: Naomi Jaffe, 272-0501

OSSIE DAVIS TO GREET MANDELA ENVOY AT ALBANY RECEPTION

Actor Ossie Davis will be a keynote speaker at an Albany reception to honor a
memberof Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress visiting delegation, and to
call for increased economic sanctions against the government of South Africa, The
event, hosted by the Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism and
the New York State Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus, will be held on
Wednesday, June 27th at 5:00 p-m.in Room 711A of the Legislative Office Building
on State and South Swan Streets, and is open to the public.

The African National Congress representative will be greeted by Assemblyman
Albert Vann, Chairman of the Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus, and other

community leaders and anti-apartheid activists,

In conjunction with Mandela's current U.S. tour, the reception will launch a
renewed campaign to intensify economic sanctions against the government of South
Africa. Mandelahas made the call for continued international pressures against
the white minority regime a central theme of his tour. Mandela’s representative in
Albany will be presented by the anti-apartheid coalition with signed ballots

pledging U.S, supporters’ commitmentto the sanctions campaign.

According to Vera Michelson, co-chairperson of the Coalition Against. Apartheid

and Racism, "Mandela's release is a tremendous victory, but he spent 27 years in
prison for a goal which is stil) far from wonta democratic, unified, nonracial South
Africa. It would be a tragedy if the international community pulled back now. We

are campaigning for sanctions to be increased rather than removed."

ALBANY
PUBLIC
SCHOOLS @

Unsung Hero of Street Academ

Eileen Kawola, social studies
teacher at The Street Academy, stands
seemingly unaffected by the barrage of
compliments given her by former |
Students, colleagues and various repre-
sentatives from state government at the
school’s reunion. As organizer of the
event, held at On The Shelf, Kawola is
mostly cited as being “caring, unselfish
and giving.” A teacher with the district |
for 15 years, Kawola is quick to tell you |
she’s seen a lot in that time, and thor-
oughly enjoys being at the Street
f  ‘emy.

|

"One hears the
success stories and
if you take the time
to listen, you
realize anyone can

overcome
difficulties..."

The reunion was held in conjunction
with Albany Upstate Chapter of Blacks
In Government , under the supervision
of James Wright. Wright was ap-
proached by
Kawola to help

sponsor the

event, which

met with

great en-
thusiasm
by the Or-
ganization
of State
Workers.

“Eileen is truly an unsung hero,”
said Wright. “She follows up on students
all the time, especially after they leave.”

A fact substantiated by Georgette
Tillman, a 1979 graduate who's a
supervisor with a cleaning agency. After
graduating, Tillman left the area, living
in Los Angeles for two and one half
years before relocating back in Albany.
“Eileen’s like a mentor to me, sne kept in
contact with me the whole time I lived in
A.

Nearly 100 students, state and school
officials attended the event. Said Ward
DeWitt, board member, “Coming to an
event such as this, one hears the success
stories and if you take the time to listen,
you realize anyone can overcome diffi-

Junelg990

y Reunion

culties. It just takes a degree of pa-
tience and understanding.”
Successes are due in part to the
Students’ determination and abilities.
but also to the time and energy ex-
pended by the school's teachers and
administrators, Students credit the
entire staff's dedication, as well as the
efforts by Lillian Tillman-Dewitt,
principal, and former principal and
board member Harriet Gibbons, in
getting students to stay in school.
“It’s most gratifying this exists,”
said Patrick Amodeo, school board
president. “There’s more closeness
between these individuals — students
and faculty. It gets to me to see how
these kids have grown into adults.”

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Optical Careers Focus Of New A.L.C. Program

Albany’s Adult Learning Center is
offering a new 14-week optical careers
course in its continuing education
program . Designed to prepare students
for careers as fashion eyewear consult-
ants, contact lens or optical laboratory
assistants,

Unique to the center, the courses
emphasize the financial and professional
opportunities available in the eyewear
industry, according to John Tracy,
director. Tuition is free to eligible
applicants and state educational grants
are available from V.E.S.1.D. Rehabilita-
tion, Job Training Partnership Agency
and the federal Trade Reimbursement
Act.

“Participants should be functioning
at a tenth grade level in reading and

mathematics, though a high school
diploma is not necessary,” says Tracy.

Students will learn basic optics
and prescription analysis and interpre-
tation, lens concepts, occupational
vision needs, interpretation of frame/
lens selection, laboratory fabrication
and job seeking skills.

The course is full time, Monday
through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
with instruction by technically trained
professionals. In addition, the center
provides academic support, job
preparation workshops, three week
work experience, placement assistance
and day care. For more information,
contact Camille Shoudy, recruiter or
George Gides, head guidance coun-
selor at 462-7292,
Page 2
Captain
America

Goes To
War Against
Drugs

Captain America has a new assign-
ment, fighting the evil tyranny of drug
and alcohol abuse among youngsters in
Albany. The comic book character,
created by Marvel Entertainment
Group, publishers of the comic, has
been involved with the New York State
Association of Life Underwriters to
produce a serial of comics designed to
warn youngsters on the hazards of drug
and alcohol abuse.

The N.Y.S. Association of Life

Faculty Art Works
On Display

Two Albany High School an
teachers’ works will be exhibited at the |
Ninth Annual Stuyvesant Invitational
Arts Festival, June 9 and 10. Susan
Schmader and Roberta Wallack submit-
ted slides of their work to a jury for
consideration for this years event,
which is sponsored by the plaza's
Merchant's Association.

Seventy-five regional artists were
invited to display their art after partici-
pating in a juried competition. Sch-
mader and Wallack will be among
painters, sculptors, printmakers, photog-|
raphers and mixed media artists, In
addition, 40 craftsmen from the area are|

invited to display and sell their crafts.
Ribbons and cash prizes will be
awarded in both fine arts and crafts
Categories.

Entertainment for the two day even
will be performed by the Berkshire
Ballet, Guilderland Ballet and Empire
State Youth Orchestra Jazz Ensemble to
name a few.

Underwniers, in conjunction with its 32
local associations and 15 member
companies of the Li’e Insurance Coun-
cil of New York, presented the Albany
school district with 3,600 copies of the
comic titled Captaix America Goes to

War Against Drugs, to Dr. Bruce
Venter, assistant superintendent of
business affairs at a recent press confer-
ence, The book is also produced in
cooperation with the Federal Bureau of |
Investigation and has been approved by
the National Institute on Drug Abuse,
Office for Substance Abuse of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human
Services and the American Council for
Drug Education.

Marvel Entertainment has been
involved with many public service
projects, often printing “special issues”
for children on such topics as physical
and mental child abuse and cancer .
Material is geared primarily toward
Students in grades 2 ~ 6. The books will]
be distributed through the Health and

Physical Education De >artment.
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Accolades To

Giffen Staff

Several staff members at Giffen
Elementary have recently been honored
by professional organizations for their
contributions to the school district and
community.

Mrs. Leonna West, fourth grade
teacher, received the Lewis Romano -
Child Care Worker of the Year Award
from Parson's Child znd Development
Center. West has been a part time
employee of the center for nine years.

The award was established in honor
of Lewis Romano, a former member of
Parson's staff,

Donald “Ducky” Ray, fourth grade
teacher, was inducted into the City of
Albany Diocesan High School Sports
Hall of Fame. Selections for the nomi-
nation were made from over 500
applications.

Mrs. Ann Emery, public crossing
guard, received the American Legion
Outstanding Crossing Guard Award,
and was honored at a special reception
at the school.

In Brief...

* Forty Albany High School seniors
participated in a job fair at Hudson
Valley Community College, under th
direction of Beverly Jermanok, Jackie
Bayle, guidance counselors, Curtis
King, Albany coordinator of School and
Business Alliance and Linda Rauche,
job placement coordinator. Students
received three to five interviews each
with many individuals hired at the fair,

* New York City Mayor Dinkins
received special visitors recently, when
School 20 sixth graders paid a visit. The
School trip was sponsored by the
Albany Upstate Chapter of Blacks In
Government with the assistance of the
School and Business Alliance. The trip
also included visits to the World Trade
Center, South Street Theater , featuring
a history of New York City and Radio
City Music Hall.

* The Occupational Center paid
tribute to its students at the third annual
awards dinner. Savings bonds worth
$100 were donated by area businesses
to students demonstrating exemplary
talents in each area of study. Keynote
Speakers for the event were Lou Emer-
ick, principal, Emanuel Abrookin,
secretary, board of education, Joseph
Mahar, director of occupational educa-
tion, Mrs. Angelina Rivers, school
nurse teacher, Paul Moyer, instructor,
culinary program and James Lewis, vice
president of the advisory board.

Science Teachers Sought

In a recent Times Union article, The
College of St. Rose was awarded a
$40,000 federal grant to fund its two-
week summer workshop for high school
science teachers.

According to the article, 52 science
teachers from around the state will be
accepted into the program, designed to
help them teach Regents Earth science
classes.

For more information, write to John
McGrath, a Saint Rose chemistry
professor and chairman of the college’s ~
division of natural science, at the
school, 432 Westem Ave., Albany,
N.Y., 12203.

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AGAINST APARTHEID — Actor Ossie Davis speaks at a reception in
Albany rouereey for a member of Nelson Mandela’s group from the
African National Congress. The Coalition Against Apartheid and Rac-
ism sponsored the event, which included an address by Assembi
Albert Vann, chairman of the Black and Puerto Rican Legislative
Caucus. The ANC is asking for increased economic sanctions against
the white-controlled government of South Africa.

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Keep the Pressure
On Apartheid

“Apartheid has not been defeated.
Keep the Pressure On. Support the
African National Congress (ANC)!”

This was the Message at a June recep-
tion held at the Legislative Office Build-
ing welcoming a representative of the
A.N.C., Victor Mashabela, to the Capital
District. Actor Ossie Davis and writer
William Kennedy featured in the program
which drew over 150 Capital District
residents and New York State Legislators,
was sponsored by the Capital District
Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism
(CDCAAR) and the Black and Puerto
Rican Legislature Caucus.

While Nelson Mandela was being jubi-
lantly received by millions of people in
the United States, the local event was held
to coincide with the Mandela U.S. Tour
and to respond to Mandela's call for
maintaining sanctions against the racist
South African Government. A “Vote for
Sanctions Campaign” was launched and
over $500.00 was raised for the A.N.C.
The vote campaign is a national effort
to persuade congress to maintain sanc-
tions until “The progress towards democ-
racy is irreversible,”

The audience responded enthusiasti-
cally to Ossie Davis as he wove a humor-
ous yet poignant tale of his connection
to the Antiapartheid movement and the
need to carry on the effort to defeat apart-
heid. Davis also evoked a warm response
when he praised the intelligence and the
capability of the African National Con-
gress to lead the struggle for freedom in
South Africa,

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On the Occasion of Nelson Mandela’s Visit to the United States

The Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism and
The New York State Black and Puerto Rican Legislative Caucus

Request the Honor of Your Presence
at a Reception for the Representative of the
African National Congress of South Africa
and the Launching of a Renewed Sanctions Campaign
for Full Freedomin South Africa

Wednesday, June 27th, 1990 at 5:00 p.m.
Legislative Office Building, Room 711A
State and South Swan Streets, Albany, New York
RSVP 432-4623
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By Carl Strock |

NELSON MANDELA'S visit to this
country is shaping up as a unique
ovens es not that a private citizen is
being received as a head of state; it

has gone well that.

Nelson Mandela has achieved in
life the kind of standing that Martin
Luther King. for example, had to die
to achieve. It

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dured 27 years of prison for the sake
of‘ racial equality, and he holds his
gray head high, so we cannot do otb-
erwise than honor him. President
Bush will receive him, of course,
along with every politician who can
possibly squeeze onto the stage or
into the photographs.

In New York City, Mandela will
share a stage with three Puerto
Rican nationalists who 36 years ago
distinguished themselves by shooting
up the House of Representatives,
wounding five Congressmen with a
barrage of bullets from Lugers and
automatic pistols. The three were
pardoned after spending 25 years in
prison, so they know what it’s like to
po a quarter of a century behind

rs for the sake of the freedom of
their people, and they will be there,
even though Mayor David Dinkins
said he didn’t think it was a good
idea.

_. He didn’t come right out and urge
the New York Welcome Committee
to withdraw the invitation, but he did
Say it wasn’t a good idea to dilute

“the wonder which is Nelson Mande- —

la" with this other issue of Puerto
Rican independence and the old
shooting up of the House of Represen-
tatives, which he deplored.

I WOULD LOVE to be at Yankee
Stadium tomorrow night for the big
concert and Mandela rally there, but

1 already have tickets for the Ray

Charles parol at the eye en
ater in Latham, which bought
fore I knew what Mandela's schedule
would be, so I will be at the Starlight
instead.

ae Still, there is something to savor in

that, since Ray Charles has long been

{| a bogeyman of the anti-apartheid

movement in this coun on account
of a visit he made to rath Africa in
the early 1980s, a Visit for which he

I always relished the cle
white middle-class iheraly ts this
country picketing Ray Charles, a
blind, black man from Georgia, in the
interest of achieving racial justice in
South Africa, and would have gone to
his concerts at the Saratoga Per-
forming Arts Center just for that,

even if I didn't love hi i
i m and his

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campaigners will be in New York

welcoming Mandela. Vera Michel-
son, co-chairman of the Coalition

at Yankee Stadium in order to hear
y Charles at the Starlight but will
wa od it in advance by
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UNWARRANTED

LOCAL ACTIVIST DONNA DeMARIA
said that several times in the past week or
80 it has occurred to her that helping the
area's disenfranchised has caused her only
trouble. However, DeMaria said, she
quickly dismissed such thoughts

"This is not going to stop me from
working at all.” she vowed.

Last week, DeMaria was arrested by the
Albany Police Department on felony
charges of first-degree coercion and
aggravated harassment, It was the second
tirne in less than a month that DeMaria had
been arrested, and the ironic connection

between the two arrests was this: On July 16,

DeMaria attempted to help a suicidal man
and eventually was arrested for allegedly
intertering with police on the scene at the
time. When DeMaria was arrested last
Tuesday by two Albany police detectives at
the Social Justice Center, it was the result
of a complaint filed by the very man she
had tried to help.

De Maria was ordered held in Albany
County Jail on $10,000 bail by Albany City
Court Judge Larry Rowen. (Her bail was
posted and she spent about 24 hours behind
bars.) The arrest and subsequent bail
assignment have prompted DeMaria and
other community activists to charge that
the police and the court are attempting to
stifle critics of the local law-enforcement
system, On Tuesday. some 40
demonstrators including many prominent
commuruty activists gathered in front of
Albany Police Court to express outrage and
disbelief at the arrest

"We have to view what's happened here."
said local civil-rights attorney Mark Mishler.
“as a breakdown of our legal aystem."

The complaint against DeMaria was filed
by Michael Lord. who along with his
girlfnend. Christina Smuth. had claimed
that the police were physically abusive on
luly 16 in responding to Lord’s suicide
threats at the couple's Myrtle Avenue
apartment. During that incident, DeMaria,
an acquaintance of the couple, was arrested
and charged with obstructing governmental
administration and resisting arrest, She
allewed that. during the arrest. an officer
kicked her

In his complaint against DeMaria, Lord
claimed that she threatened him over the
phone, saving she would “get someone to
beat{him}up'’ if he didn’t testify on her
behalf

DeMaria said that she never asked Lord
to testify at her trial, mainly because he
was too intoxicated on July 16 to be of any
help. She added that Lord turned against
her when she confronted him about his own
physical abuse of Smith, which DeMaria
said she had witnessed.

“T'm going to have you arrested.”
DeMaria said Lord told her, ‘‘and if that
doesn’t work, I'm going to have 25 bikers
come over and take care of you.”

Activists at the demonstration Tuesday
were enraged at how little evidence Rosen
had—apparently. a single complaint
without a shred of corroberation~in issuing
the arrest warrant. DeMaria and others
also blamed the police, saying that Lord’s
mental-health history~a history they said
the police were aware of after responding
to several mental-health crises at Lord's
apartment should have prompted police to
verify the complaint,

"I do think that someone's history should
have some bearing on {a case like this},""
said DeMaria, who will appear in court
Sept. 10 for opening motions on her first set

of charges and a preliminary hearing on the
felony accusations, “The police seem to be
using him to get to me.”’

“We're not in a position to label someone
based on their mental capability,” said Lt.
Robert Wolfgang. a police spokesman,
“That's not our business, Michael Lord isa
citizen who wished to make a complaint.”

“T would imagine,"’ said Mishler, ‘that
the police department was not hesitant to
act if they thought they had a way to get
Donna DeMaria in jail."

DeMaria claimed that when she went to
the Police Department's internal-affairs
division with her abuse charges stemming
from the July 16 incident, the officers she
talked to were angry about the ‘bad press”
they had received because of her complaints

Wolfgang denied that the department is
harassing DeMaria and pointed out that it
was the court that issued the charges and
arrest warrant, although the police did
perform an investigation

“We are following the judge's direction.”
he said.

Mishler was incredulous at the decisions
of Rosen. who has seen DeMaria in his court
many times answering to activiam-related
charges. Mishler pointed to a section of state
cniminal-procedure law that says if the
defendant can be relied upon to show up for
a court date, the judge may issue a summons
and may nof issue an arrest warrant.

“Judge Rosen.” said Mishler, “who
knows Donna and has dealt with her as a
citizen activist before, knows that if she
was given ia summons] she would show up.”

DeMaria, who has been an especially
sharp thorn in the police's side for some
years now, said she believes the
department is ultimately to blame

“Had it been against any other person,”’
she said. ‘they probably would've taken
the complaint and thrown it in the garbage.”

~~ Mike Goudreau

FOREST RANGER

WHEN PAUL COLEMAN WALKS,
peapie listen.

Coleman is on a walking journey that
began on July 26 in Kingston, Ont.. and will
end when he reaches the Amazon rain forest
in time for a United Nations Conference
there scheduled for July 1992, A cherubic
native of Manchester, England. Coleman
has been traveling the world since the age
of 15. spending much of the last 10 years in
Canada, organizing and educating people
about the destruction of the Amazon rain
forest,

Coleman arrived in Albany last Saturday
night, after a stop in Amsterdam, and by
Monday afternoon he had been interviewed
by the Times U/eien, the Daily Gazette, and
WCDBS(SUNYA's radio station). Coleman
also gave a slide show at Artists for a New
Politics, a meeting space on Madison
Avenue in Albany, about a recent trip to
the rain forest, and told some of his fairy
tales at Pierce Hall Day Care Center,

In Canada, Coleman formed the
Children's Action Network and
Development Agency, a group dedicated to
“encouraging kids to come forward with
their ideas on the environment,”’ he said,
While telling his tales at Pierce Hall, he
said later, ‘one of the kids asked me if
trees could talk." His answer: “I don't
know, maybe I'm deaft"

The United States is the main contributor
to the destruction of the rain forest, and any
change must involve a new consciousness
regarding the native population of the
region, One of Colernan's goals is to further
the idea that the indigenous Amazonians

A waik ta the forest’ Paul Coleman

~Aae fae

must be included in the process of
determining the fate of the rain forest, The
tribes and their shamans~spiritual
leaders ~ know the forest better than any
multinational corporation could ever hope to

“These people have a 30.000-year
history with the forest,’ Colernan said
“It’s time we beyan recognizing that.” The
problem is that the indigenous people have
become an expendable commodity~a
roadblock to progress, in the eves of the
industrialized world. ‘The shamans are
killed if they leave the forest." said
Coleman. The cnsel irony is that they and
their culture are being killed by staying in
the forest, as well

By Tuesday morning. Coleman was on
the road again. walking south on Route 4,
along the railroad tracks to New York City
“Th be in New York City for Labor Day
he said. “then on to Washington. 9 C | for
International Rain Forest Week

“Evervone knows what's going on in th:
rain forest but no one knows what to do
about it," he said. “That's why I'm walkin
through the States."

~Torm Gogo

SUB MISSION

THE BATTLE OVER THE

installation of a new, extremely powerful
nuclear reactor model at a Knolls Aromiu
Power Laboratory facility in West Milton
intensified last Thursday. as national and
local environmental groups filed a toint 5:
ina Washington. D.C., federal court to
block the reactor.

The people of the Albany area.’ said
Dan Reicher, an attorney for the
Washington-based Natural Resources
Defense Council. Care entitled to know th
risks of this proiect “

The Albanv-based Krolis Action Proie:
jnined the coun)! in filing the suit, which
attacks a U.S. Department of Energy
decision sof to perform an environments!
impact statement on the installation af thi
Advanced Fleet Reactor at the Knolls
Kesselring Site in West Milton. iGenera!
Electric runs both the Knolls main facilin
located in Niskayuna. and Kesselring for
the DOE.) The Advanced Fleet Reactor
would be a prototype for the reactors thar
will power the Navy's Seawolf submarine

“Why the government is reluctant to d:
this kind of analysis,” Reicher said, '{
don’t know,"

DOE spokesman Phil Garon declined
comment on the reactor or the suit, citing
the fact that the matter is under litigation
He did, however. release a letter that the
DOE wrote to New York state officials
informing them of the new reactor, whic!
said that an environmental assessment’
would be performed. An assessment ia u

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Bi ode bens AAPL ALAA ARS,

“Aeother crime-related fact,
how °, also has an abundant
harvest of statistics. As the
Savings and Loan debacle, the
biggest swindel ever per-
petrated on the American tax-
payers, unravels, it is crystal
clear that the predominant
criminal is a white male.”

“And of course,"’ Owens add-

whe BOL WAALS BRAASOD ES A DRa AEF

stealing of millions of dollars
‘minorities need not apply’ has
been the unwritten rule.”

The speculative and econom-
ically unproductive Sunbelt
deals have reaped for the finan-
cial community “‘enormous pro-
fits from the U.S. Treasury”
with the failures of the Savings

and Loans banks whose depos-

ato weed by S44 8 Baw he -
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corp., rote.

New irk taxpayers have suf-
fered because: “‘the high-

powered hustlers refused to in-
vest in legitimate enterprises in
this state or throughout the
Northeast;"' they put their
money to illegal purposes that
brought them “‘rake-offs"’ while

one blame,’ he told Rohatyn.
Urging Rohatyn to “utilize
your prestige, influence and
lwadership position to promote
ways for the banks and your
financial community
steps to redirect some of their
resources into che rebuilding of
New York City,” Rep. Owens

(Continued on Page 4)

Prison system's big business
Upstate, more Blacks jailed

By YUSEF A-SALAAM
Special to the AmNews

Albany, N.Y. - When one
thinks of upstate New York, one
envisions majestic mountains
stretching toward blue skies
and puffs of cotton-like clouds.
Or oceans of grass everywhere
with trees dressed in gowns of
every green hue imaginable, Pri-
vate homes with manicured
lawns; a sure refuge from tur-
bulent Manhattan.

Under the veil of such a vision
exisis the face of a brutal and
shocking reality: Although
African-Americans and other
non-whites are a minute minori-
ty in Albany (23,130 -— 1980

of Caucasians who are the over-
whelming majority (285,909,
1980 Census). Albany activist,
Dr. Alice Green, stated in a re-
cent interview, “In 1950, most
of the people from the Albany
area in jails and prisons where
white.” She noted that during
the 60s and 70s the dominant

color complexion of those ar-
rested, convicted, and im-
prisoned were Black and brown;
during the 80s, Africans and
other non-whites felt. the bite of
the policeman's handcuffs more
so than at any other time.

On Oct. 25, the New York
State Coalition for Criminal
Justice sent a memo to Dr.
Green, who is legislative head of
the New York City Civil Liber-
ties Union in Albany. It re-
ported that in 1987, non-whites
were 8 percent of the Albany
population but counted for 22
percent of the people arrested;
non-whites also were 52 percent
of the inmates in Albany Coun-
ty jail. On July 10, a survey
revealed that 10 percent of the
young African male population
(16 - 35 years old)-in Albany
County were in jail.

The arrest, conviction, and
imprisonment of Africans in Al-
bany County and the whole of
New York State mirrors that of
enslaved Africans in racist.
South Africa. In 1984, the
South African slavocracy had a

Black incarceration rate of 504
per 100,000. In 1985, New York
State had a rate of 776 Blacks
imprisoned per 100,000, over
one and a half the rate of South
Africa.

Africans in New York State
are imprisoned at 10 times the
rate Caucasians in the state are
imprisoned,

Caucasians in Albany and
surrounding upstate counties
are not only arrested less fre-
quently than the minority
population but are given proba:
tion more often when they are
found guilty of crimes: Non-
whites are usually given jail
time and prison terms. “The
whites are given probation or
relegated to alcoholic and other
drug-treatment programs,” Dr,
Green related.

The New York State Coalition
for Criminal Justice Center for
Justice Education issued a
report that cited these facts: As
of January |, 1990, 76 percent
of convicted Caucasians in the
capital district received felony
probation while Blacks received

21 percent; 51 Caucasians were
imprisoned and 218 were on
probation for drug-related of-
fenses. 111 Blacks were in
prison with 189 on probation for
the same type of offenses. lroni-
cally, as the Times Union, an
Albany daily, noted, ‘Most of
the illicit drugs in the
region...are consumed by
whites.”’ The editorial stressed
that in white neighborhoods,
“drugs are usually traded more
secretly behind closed doors.”
It urged Albany police to
broaden its drug-related arrests
to include white drug pushers
and users.

Dr. Green emphasized that
the criminal justice system is
big business. “Last year, a
white-controlled system spent
nearly $60 billion and employed
a largely white workforce of 2
million people.

“In 20 years, the prison in-
dustry has grown by an as-
tounding 500 percent. The
state's prisons now hold 53,000
prisoners, of whom 48,000 are

(Continued on Page 4)

to take’

Qua: _ back lesson
Sandsport internat.onal,

inc. will sponsor a teaching
clinic on the “Fundamentals
of Quarterbacking’’ for
children, 10-18, on Saturday.
Aug.

Blvd., in St. Albans, Queens
from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

For more information,
contact Shawn Norris at
(718) &28- 9711.

They will wed

Denise M. Baynes will
marry Craig B. Cassel on
Sept. 1 at St. Gabriel's Cath-
olic Church in Queens
Denise, a native of New
York City, received a BA
from Smith College in 1986
and a MBA from the Univer-
sity of Texas at Austin in
1988. She presently works
for 1BM in Houston, Texas.
Craig, a native of Houston.
Texas, received a BS in
Chemical Engineering from
the University of Texas at
Austin in 1987. He currently
works for Fermenta ASC in
Houston, Texas.

Trade confab

The Caribbean-American

Trade Connection will host
its second annual socio-eco-
nomic conference in
Kingston and Montega Bay,
Jamaica, W.1., from Oct. 31 -
Nov. 7.

if you are interested in
participating in CATC, or
would like more information,
contact Ms. A. Ortiz in New
York at (718) 282- 2957 or
284-4453,

11 at Roy Wilkins |
Park, 119 Ave. on Merrick |

MS Of LeGerai Cossipreripgas
ancing laws following 1972
esidential campaign. Disposi-
m: Charges dropped after
onths of investigation and
olonged negative media
verage.

Name/Office: Wiliam L. Clay,

S. Representative, Missouri.

cperiences: From 1974 to

177, subjected to a succession

incidents involving un-
unded charges by the media
ised on erroneous information
metimes resulting from and
her times leading to investi-
ations by federal agencies, in-
uding the FBI, IRS, Drug En-
reement Administration, and

.S. Attorney's Office. Allega-
ons involved drug trafficking,
sorting with hoodlums, pay-
ol] padding, failure to report
umpaign contributions, misuse
f government funds, and in-
ome tax irregularities. Disposi-
ion; Clay collected a series of
-tters from the Justice Depart:
nent exonerating him of any
vrong-doing.

Name/Office: Joel Patterson,
“ormer Mayor, Benton Harbor,
vlichigan. Experiences: Fifteen-
nonth federal investigation,
riggered in part by awarding
f city contracts to Blacks and
ippointing of Black employees,
eading to indictments on vari-
ous charges in 1981. Disposi-
tion: Defeated in reelection bid
in the midst of widespread
media tion about the in-
vestigation. Charges sub-

sequently dropped for lack of
evidence.

Name/Office: Samuel Gard-
ner, Former Recorder’s Judge,
Detroit, Michigan. Experiences:
Media allegation led to investi-

Experiences:
U.S. Attorney under Hobbs Act
and indicted on two charges of

racketeering. : Ac
quitted of all charges in 1980.
Neame/Office: Theodore
McFarlin, Sheriff, Wil-
liamsburg, S.C. Experiences: In-
dicted in early 1980s for miscon-
duct and obstruction of justice
related to operation of the coun-
ty jail, Disposition: Two trials
—o
dropped.

oh BA 4ARS A ON Be Se ee

overturned on appeal in 1982.

Name/Office: Eristus Sams,
Former Mayor, Prairie View,
Texas. Experiences: Financial
misconduct alleged in 1982. Dis-
position: Case dropped.

Name/office: Coleman Young,
Mayor, Detroit, Michigan. Ex-
periences: Biased news coverage
following 1973 election; opposi-
tion to affirmative action
policies, especially in police
department; repeated federal in-
vestigations of city projects, in-
cluding 1983 grand jury investi-
gation of city contracts initiated
by organized crime strike force
of Justice Department and lead-
ing to indictment of one city of-
ficial; Young characterized press
coverage of investigations as
“trial by media;'’ county grand
jury investigation resulting in
misdemeanor indictments of
two former city officials. Dis-
position: No charges filed
against the Mayor who remains
in office, Negative impact on ci-
ty image and on Black-white
relations.

Name/Office: Kenneth Gib-
son, Former Mayor, Newark,
New Jersey. Experiences:
Federal grand jury investi-
gation in 1979-80 accompanied
by prominent news stories bas-
ed on rumors and leaks from the
U.S. Justice Department. In-
dicted in 1982 on 146 wwniv c
conspiracy, misuse 6! .oM)s onc
misconduct in off) .  isposi
tion: Acquitted of oc .' ..°
Won fourth term as iuyer
Supsequently ran for lieutenant

Former Mayor, Fayette, Missia-
sippi Experiences: Death

threats, shote fired into his

~ "“home,* privatdé * bu’idedses*

edly delayed or demed; negative
and inaccurate news coverage.

Name/office: Clarence
Lightner, Former Mayor,
Raleigh, North Carolina. Ex-
periences: During campaign for
releection in 1975, family mem-
bers were subjeced to police
harassment which then became
the basis of inflammatory news
stories. Disposition: Defeated in
reelection bid.

Name/office: William J.
Chenault, Former Vice Mayor,
Cincinnati, Ohio. Experiences:
Charged with embezzlement
and theft in mid 1970s. Disposi-
tion: Charges dropped after
pleading guilty to four mis-

ever OFUUpiie.

Name/Office: James Hopkins
II, Former Circuit Court Clerk,
Macon County, Alabama. Ex-
periences: After election of
1970, denied the usual resources
to run the office and forced to
close it; cited for contempt when
he failed to obey a court order ‘»
reopen. Target of rum
characer assassination, allega-
tions of being a ‘‘trouble
maker.'’ Constituents threaten-
ed with job losses; votes bought
by the opposition. Disposition:
Spent six hours in jail before be-
ing released. Defeated in his
reelection bid.

(To Be Continued)

Prison system big biz

(Continued from Page 4)

Black and Latino. The truth is
that this shameful business has
become dependent upon an ever-
increasing incarceration of
Blacks and Latinos.”

In a historical overview, Dr.
Green said that during the
Holocaust of Enslavement in
the USA, enslaved Africans
were rarely imprisoned because
they were considered property.
After the Civil War, large num-
bers were quickly jailed and
soon they became 33 percent of
the population in prison camps
in five years. Vagrancy, labor,
and other laws were quickly
nassed to allow for massive
African imprisonment, which in
vurn, resulted in their lease as
laborers to whites for less than
slave wages.

“Since the Civil War, the
criminal justice system has seen
the disproportionate incarcera-
tion of Black males. Because
Caucasian males have histori-

punishmen
. ist within the United States,”

Dr. Green advocates that
African-American leaders in Al-
bany and other areas in New
York State organize themselves
and come together with state
prisoners to create effective ap-
proaches to fight against crime
and those in the criminal justice
who are using the system for
the reenslavement of African

people.
Cong. Owens

tells Rohatyn
(Continoed from Page 4)
proposed:

That Rohatyn lead in ‘‘expos-
ing the big lie that investing in
New York housing and business
is more risky and will pay
smaller dividents than invest-
ment in the Sunbeilt."” Thus
banks should join pension funds
in building or rehabilitationg
moderate and middie income

housing ‘‘on a large scale."
“Stop jet-setting New York

money to the Sunbelt in pursuit
of dishonest payment using
brokered deposits,"’ and rather
invest in lower-yield but sure
and clean returns.

"I hope you will join us in call-
ing on the banka to annually

prosecution of the Sunbelt
and he himself with-

“Neither slavery nor i Gow his call for a five percent

Guiguanomen wipuk tha b..daer
tial investment banker.
Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid

and Racism
Box 3002 - Pine Hills Station
Albany, New York 12202
A Project of the Social Justice Center

September 1990 Newsletter

_ NET GENERAL MEETING OF COCAAR

THURS. SEPT. 27, 1990 AT 7:00 P.M.

ALBANY PUBLIC LIBRARY
Washington Avenue, Ribany New York

Fall Planning Meeting “peu
Summer Work Assessment.
South Africa Update t

Enclosed in this newsletter you will find
en article on what is really happening im
Natal. Your understanding of this issue
is very impertaant since the U.S. press is
generaliy pertraying the viclence as
tribal or “black on black" in an attempt
} cover up the reality of the collaboration
.. tween the GeKlerk government and ay
Chief Buthelezi of the KwaZulu “homeltend.’ os

JUSTICE... AND INJUSTICE
ON THE LOCAL SCENE

Center for Law and Justice Fermed

Dr. Alice Green, long-time leader in the struggle against police misconduct and

racism, has opened the Center for Law and Justice, Inc. The Center hes 4s its chief
goal to diminish the undue governmental reliance on imprisonment as 4 means of
social control of people of color and the poor. The Coalition greets the opening of the
Center for Law and Justice with enthusiesm and with best wishes for its success. The
Police Abuse/Racist Violence Committee of the Coalition will work closely with Dr.
Green and the Center and will do everytbing possible to hlep the Center achieve its

goals. Volunteers are needed in the areas of administrative assistance, police abuse .
complaint inteke. computer progremming. data entry. research, court monitoring _

and in the erea of anti-death penalty work. For information, contact the Center at
427-4361 or Merton Simpson, chair. CDCAAR's Police Abuse /Racist Violence Committee

Step Police Harassment of Activists

On August 14, 1990, Donna DeMaria wes arrested, charged with a felony and is
now out on $10,000 bail. Donna has been a leading Albany activist for many yeers
and for the past two years hes been an advocate of the homeless in Albany. She has a
history of disagreement with policies and activities of the Albany Police Department,
including her consistent challenging of their treatment of the homeless.

A brief background on this most recent harassment of Donna: A man named
Michael Lord told the police that Donna had threatened over the phone to have him
“beaten up if he didn't testify sgainst the police in an upcoming triel.” Donna had
been supporting his girlfriend. Christina Smith. in trying to stop his continual
beating of her. As soon as Donna brought up the abuse to Michael, he turned against
her. twisting the truth and blaming Donna for situations she had nothing to do with.
In July. Donna had been arrested for coming to the aid of the couple when Michael
was suicidal, and the police arrived and started manhandling them. She should never
have been arrested either time. She never threatened Micheel, nor did she ever ask
him to testify for her.

The police and Judge Larry Rosen, Albany Police Court, arrested and charged
Donna with no evidence other than the statement of a disturbed man with 4 history
of instebility and violence. There was no support from other witnesses or
corroboration of his story.

As of this writing. the case is scheduled to go before the grand jury. To stay
updated on the case. call the Social Justice Center. 434-4037. Meetings and

demonstrations in support of Donna are being erranged. You can also help bh.

attending Donna's court appearances and by writing letters to the editors of the lo<.
newspapers and to Judge Larry Rosen, Police Court, Morton Ave. and Broad Street,
Albany. N.Y. 12202. Ve need to unite and offer support for Donna, as well as for any
individual who has the courage to challenge the abuses of the police and the judicial
system.

Thanks...

mMickee! Gelleard - whose contribution of computerized mailing

labels each month makes the mailing a possibility.
Roli Varma - whose careful and conscientious attention to detail as

the Treasurer of COCAARR is invaiuable.

Celie-Bess Cetten - who used her wonderful artistic talents to
create a new Coalition banner - too slick to duplicate here. We aiso
thank her mother who we understand helped in the venture. The first
unfurling took place at the Welcome Nelson Mandela event at Yankee

Stadium - a suitable coming out!

NEW PUBLICATIONS
SQUNSS GF THE BRUM } '
Gowns OF THE BRUM 1S AN ANTHOLOGY OF e a 4

AFRICAN AMERICAN POETRY FROM CAPITAL
DISTRICT POETS, PUBLISHED BY THE AFRICAN
AMERICAN WRITERS COLLECTIVE, A CONSORTIUM
OF CAPITAL DISTRICT AFRICAN AMERICAN WAITERS
WHO ARE TRYING TO ENHANCE THE APPRECIATION
OF BLACK LITERATURE IN ALBANY. THE FIRST
VOLUME APPEARED IN THE SUMMER OF 1990. FOR
MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT BRIAN ANSARI,
EDITOR AND PUBLISHER, SOUNDS OF THE DRUM,
AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITERS COLLECTIVE, 65
FIAST ST., ALBANY, NEW YORK 12210.

RFRICR NEWS BRIEFS
THE WESTCHESTER COMMITTEE ON AFRICA OF THE WESTCHESTER PEOPLE'S ACTION

COALITION (WESTPAC), 255 GROVE STREET, WHITE PLAINS, NEW YORK 10601, 1S NOW
PUBLISHING f NEWSLETTER WHICH REPRINTS DIRECTLY QUOTED PRESS CLIPPINGS FROM
ANC NEWS BRIEFINGS. THE NEWS BEING REPRINTED 1S EXTREMELY INFORMATIVE FOR
THOSE WORKING ON ISSUES OF SOUTHERN AFRICA AND IT 1S NEWS NOT GENERALLY
AVAILABLE IN THE U.S. PRESS.

Emergency Committee to End U.S. Intervention in the Middie East

formed locally to create a visible, broad based grass roots opposition to the current
deployment of U.S. forces in the Middle East.

Th anization favors multi-lateral and Middle Eastern-ied non-military
Sapp hes to resolving the present crisis. One of the orgenizers, David Aube,said,
“We' @ to see US. resources to fund human needs and develop safe renewable
energy instead of whipping up anti-Arab racism and war hysteria es the pretext
for & militery buildup.” The group held a relly at the Washington Ave. Armor’y in
Albany on Sept. 10th. Regular meetings planned-your help needed. Call 434-4037.

What did we do this summer...

Aithough there were no regular membership meetings in July and
August, the work of the Coalition continued unabated. On June the
2ist Coalition sent a bus (organized with great efficiency by Mike
Riddick) te New York City fer the Maendele rally at Yankee
Stadium. This was an almost unbelievable occasion for many who
have been working in the anti-apartheid movement for years, often
attending rallies where one of the most frequently heard chants was
“Free Nelson Mandela.” To see Mandela and hear the strength and
inspiration of his message ~- AMANDLA.

The Coalition teble at the Blacks Arts Festiva! on July 22nd
was very active.
UNITA bandits in Angola, led by Jonas Savimbi, and for the U.S. to gr
diplomatic recognition to the legitimate government of Angola were
widely circulated. (Note: the only two countries in the world that
have not recognized Angola are the U.S. and South Africa - speaks for
itself!) Theusends of Festival participants voted for sanctions
against Seuth Africa. The VOTE sanctions and democracy for the
people of South Africa is a national campaign of the AFRICA FUND.
. (Note: the Vote campaign is continuing through 1990. On September
i2th, a distinguished delegation of religious, civil rights, trade union
and political leaders and prominent entertainers delivered thousands
of ballots to Congress. in the Capital District we have been very
active in the VOTE campaign. The VOTE ballot has been included in
serveral of our mailings. We will continue the cali to keep the
pressure on.)

Which brings us to our biggest event of the summer months, a
Reception fer the ANC, where @ representative of the ANC
wes presented with a huge VOTE sanctions ballot containing
several hundred signatures. The reception was held on June 27th
at the Legisiative Office Buliding in Ribany and was co-sponsored by
New York State Assembiyman Roger L. Green and the Black and Pu
Rican Caucus. A very dedicated sanctions committee of CDC
worked on this event for months. Committee members were: Mabel
Leon, Deborah Maxwell, Nathi Ngcobo, Celia-Bess Cotton, Naomi Jaffe

Petitions to stop U.S. government funding of %

suzy Persutti, Nii Narty, Sandra Lamm, Deborah Williams Muhammed,
Ethel David, Pat Trowers-Johnson, Ericka Wienman, tris Berger,
michael Earhart, Haziine Eytina, Zaida Kajee, Varsha Saxena, Uera

michelson, Eileen Kawola. Mere detaiis ekbeout this

event in this newsietter.

On August 9th, Eileen Kawole, COCAAR Newsletter Editor attended
the Internetional Bay of Selidarity with the Struggle of
Women in Seuth Africae and Nemibie at the United Nations in New
York. The day of solidarity is organized by the Special Committee
Against Apartheid of the U.N. to call for continued international
support and solidarity for the women in their just struggle for
liberation in Southern Africa.

oth Coalition co-chairs took pert in seminars at the Berkshire
F m in Stephentown, N.Y. From June 22 to 24, Merton Simpson
participated in Communist Parties at the Cressreeds and from
July 27 to July 29, Vera Michelson took part in Seuth Africa: the
Continuing Struggie.

' delegation from the Aibany Public School Teachers Association
attended the American Federation of Teachers Convention in July in
Boston. Bill Ritchie, a member of the COCAAR Steering Committee,
introduced a resolution which strengthened considerably the AFT
position on sanctions. The AFT resolution which was passed at the
convention now means that the AFT is “vigorously supporting passage
of HR 21 and $ 507, the Dellums Simon Comprehensive Sanctions Bill."”
This bill calls for the continuation and intensification of the 1986 f Anti-

Apartheid Act. peMocRACY BALLOT SANCTIONS

C? YES. democracy wi come to South Africa onty when the

c C7 YES, every South Aincan deserves full democracy — the

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CDCAAR Sanctions Reception Committee

On Wednesday, June 27, 1990, the Capital
District Coalition Against Apartheid and
Racism sponsored a reception for the African
National Congress launching 4 renewed
sanctions campaign. This was partofa — 3
national "Yote Democracy-Vote Sanctions fe 5
cafapaign of Africa Furid calling for continued B CAPITAL DISTRICT COALITION
and intensified sanctions against the South AGAINST & PAP THEIN
African apartheid regime. The event took
place at the Legislative Office Building in Albany
and was cosponsored by the Black and Puerto
Rican Caucus and State Assemblyman Roger L if
Green. Assemblyman Green and Assemblyman
and Chair of the Caucus, Al Vann gave intro- | ;
ductory welcomes to the audience of over 200

The actor Ossie Davis, gave the psc speech
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the struggle for justice, called on all present to
cofamit themselves to continue the work against
apartheid in South Africa and injustice in the U5
Pulitzer Prize winning author, Villiam Kennedy NK
read South African poetry. Alice Green, of the Center| i
for Law and Justice made the connections between
South African racism US. racism. Zaida Kajee,
student and member of CDCAAR spoke of the current
Situation in South Africa.

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of the Coalition presented a huge sanctions ballot wiry
containing several hundred signatures to Victor ' ie gd
Mashabela, 4 representative of the African National ai bal
Congress. The event was hosted by Pat Trower's- “Vor
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AMERICAN STUDIES AT SUNY/ALBANY, ALBANY BRANCH OF THE NAACP AND THE
CAPITAL DISTRICT COALITION AGAINST APARTHEID AND RACISM.

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ON SUNDAY, OCTOBER 7,1990, THE BLACK CATHOLIC APOSTOLATE OF THE DIOCESE OF
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KLAN OF ACTION

“WE PLAN TO DEFEND THE RIGHTS
of white people, who are fast becoming
William Hoff, New York State Grand
Dragon of the Invisible Empire, Knights of
the Ku Khix Klan. “We offer the white
Christians what the NAACP is for the
blacks, and B'nai Brith ia for the Jews, If
this makes us raciste, so are they ig
Reached by telephone at his Queens
residence, Hoff was eager to talk about

would result, eventually, in the PCR’
being dredged from the river and buried in

what he claims is the growth of his white dredging and is attempting
supremaciat organization. to develop a method in which

Hoff said that since he led a march of 26 would break the PCBs down into harmless
robed KKK members in Scinzylerville on substances without removing them from

Sept, 29. his phone has been “ringing off

the hook.” Hoff would not provide names the sediment.

“The bacteria degrade the PCB chiorine
molecules," said Batty,  Pac-Man-style,”

Clase whites feel that their jobs are Marching orders: Sherpives scxsmds the because of the PCHea.) The state could force
threatened. ne ainrtnnenneenanetten GE to pay for the dredging project, which
According to Hoff—and law-enforcement of their policies,” he said, ‘'so anyone who could coat $280 million or more. Opponents
sources and civibrights activists agreed — opposes them is really saying the same of GE, distrusthul of the company because
thia was probably the first time the Klan thing we did on June 30." But neither of the massive dumping, think that the

| had marched in full regalia in New York Sharpton nor any other representatives of PCBs should be removed immediately
state in some 60 years. Now the march the coalition have contacted local clergy. “This is not just a ine,” Batty argued
from Schuylerville High School to the ¢ have not received communication explaining that GE hae spent some
pown's Revolutionary War memorial and from him or any of his orgunizations asking on the project and expects to
back, has garnered statewide and national us to joan the march.” Adriance said. spend about $50 million before it is done
publicity for this sleepy town on the west The idea for the march seemed to occur “It seems that these {environmental}
bank of the Hudson River, some 35 miles to Sharpton while he was in Albany last groupes would have everybody apend lots of
north of Albany, week for a court appearance in hia long- money and not create a permanent solution
Moreover, the cowerage is likely to increase delayed income-tax evasion trial (the start to the problern."’
this weekend, when the Rev Al Sharpton of the trial has now been postponed until GE says that it has observed natural
leads 4 planned march there, co-sponsored April). He had warned that if the charges degradation of the PCBa in the river and it
Nae United African Movement and the were not diamissed, he would have no is working on accelerating that process by
New Allignce Party Sharpton and activist choice but to move to Albany and injecting bacteria into the sediments, Barty
attorney Alton Maddox have endorsed the “concentrate my Gagoing secia! sai the company has hired Celgene
full slate of New Alliance Party candidates involvement’ in the Capital Region. because ‘we're into the critical stage of
running for statewide office in the Madebyn Chapman, « spokesperson for this project’' and because Celgene han
November general election. both the New Alliance Party and Sharpton, particular expertise in one kind of hacteria
The Rev. Carter Adriance, pastor af the defended hie call for the march, that would be used to attack the PCBs,
United Methodist churches in beth she na pan ina civibrighte activiat,” ‘This is not the first time,” Barclay said.
Schuylerville and nearby Quaker Springs, she amid, * 2 what he does, he “that GE has claimed to make a major
was among those who organized s protest responds. When he finds out about breakthrough.”’
of some 500 people last June 30, when it something that is unjust, he responce." Barclay said that the timing of GE's
was firet rumored that the Klan was coming Meanwhile, Hoff hae said that the Klan's hiring of Celgene was no accident. Sloop
to march. The protest caused the Klan to Schuylerville march will not be ite last. Clearwater and other environmental ps
cancel the march “There “We've been organized for a number of made presentations on the need to dredge
were those of we in this who felt years” he ‘only we kept a low 43 900n a9 powsible at 4

community explained # .
that we wanted to witness to the effect that profile. Now we've become strong.” Hoff bcommittee hearing on Oct. 1. And
we were not in favor of their policies and said that the next time the Klan paraded, it Barclay end that DEC dreseieg ns call
for the department i t

stood against their making use of would be in several places in the state at to begin pursuing a
Schuyierville as a forum for their own the same time. state permit to dredge this fall,
agenda,” Adriance said. ~Fetf Jones “The news release [on the hiring ] wasn't
The Kian chose Schuyierville because of even put out by us,” countered Batty. ‘It
the controwersy over the court-ordered waa Ceigene's release,”
removal of # large painting of the , ists have found themseives
crucifixion from the high school. The Klan THE RIVER S on both sides of the PCB issue. Like
finally & low-key march on Sept. 29 (it Barclay and DEC, some favor immediate
wes 8 well-kept secret to avoid protestors), dredging contamination s
“aeeeghe that they had to cine eee mony enh nto
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Cancel out leet time, and had to do it thie LAST WEEK, G ELECTRIC CO the dredged Pie aieiy nn, where
time in secret,” said Vera Micheleon of the Capaunced that it had hired a private firm, don't want to see the problem
Dintrict Coalition Against Celgene Corp, of Warren, N.J., to assiat in simply move from one place to another,
Aparthesd and Raciem. GE's efforta to polychlorinated GE and others have critic: 1 dredei

neutralize i
But Hoff defended his group's secret biphenyls, or PCBe, in the sediments of the ;
cor un wikhent sre i Beale could seving tee peg ancere move toward oe, bec ee
chine tare ee ernie.” Save ae Problem? Or, init as some of bacteria into the sediments could very
Claims thet the Klanamen received a warm cavironmental groupe charge, simply ’
Seratoge Con, <alled a statement by the another delay tactic being coaplonta oy the Title ap ae Tehsil, cen

Saratoga County sheriff to the contrary company that some 500,000 pounds it’s always vahwabie to find ways of dealing

outrageous lie,” of PCBa in the H: and would foot the ‘ )
Adriance, however, agrees with the bill should New York state dredge the Gis been dog i cores of what
sheriff. During the June 30 protest, “it was highly toxic chemicala? ne ; ee, really
evident that the community was sotidly “We see it, once again,” said Bridget going anywhere —Mike .
opposed to the Kian,” he said. “I think that Barclay, environmental director for Goudrea
Contimaes to be the same today.” Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, an

Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid

and Racism
Box 3002 - Pine Hills Station
Albany, New York [2202
A Project of the Social Justice Center

Gcteber 1996 Newsietter

~) Next General Meeting of COCAAR

Thersdag, Gct. 26, 1990 at 7:00 p.m.

Simang Public Library
@eskiagter Svenue, Bibeny, N.%.

fil interested in working in the
nti-apartheid and the anti-racist
movement,
Welcome
The struggle continues...

Permanent Mission of the Republic of Namibia
Os To The United Nations

Gah Sana” 801 Second Avenue, Room 1401, New York, N.Y. 10017
Re: Relocation Telephone: (212) 557-2450, Telex: 237249, Fax (212) 986-9736

Kindly be informed that the Permanent Mission of the Republic
of Nemibia to the United Nations will be moving to a new location as
oot September |, 1990. The new address is as follows:

bia Permanent Mission of the Republic of Namibia
te the United Nations

135 East 36th Street
New York, N.Y. 10016

Im lest month's newsietter we announced the formation of the Center
for Law & Justice, Inc. by Dr. Alice Green. Beiow iz a more detailed

description of the Center:
Center for Law & Justice, Inc.
Pine West Plaza Building 2
Washington Avenue Extension
Albany, New York 12205
(518) 427-8361
Alice Green, PhD.

The Center for Law @ Justice

The Center for Law and Justice, Inc. is a private, not-for -

profit tax exempt organization. Funding will come from publi gagnd ae
private sources including donations and grants.

The Center is a civil rights and civil liberties organization
whose primary mission is to provide advocacy and research
information in an effort to shape public policy in the area of
criminal justice. Furthermore, the center is concerned with
promoting fairness, justice, and accountebility within the systen.
Its chief goal is to diminish the undue governmental reliance upon
—— &3 & means of social control of people of color and

@ poor.

To accomplish its mission and goal, the Center will:

‘Monitor local and state activities of major criminal jusice

agencies, programs. amd legislation and make recommendations
for change

oe crimina 1 justice advocacy to the poor and people of
color.

*Provide research information and statistics in the treatment
ped hea cra of people of color in the criminal justice
systen.

*Sponsor commumity symposiums, forums, and programs to edu-
cate and explore ways to empower people of color so that

they can improve the quality of their own lives. Pg

What about
the violence
in South Africa?
in recent months there has been an escalation of violence in South
fifrica. This violence is often attributed to “tribai“ differences
between the inkatha movement of Chief Gatshe Buthelezei which is
made up of Zulu peopie and the African National Congress which
counts many Khosa people in its leadership. The mainstream U.S.
media has been quick to label the violence as “tribal” or “Biack on
Bleck" struggles offering little or no analysis of what Is really going
on. Be aeed te read betweer tke lines. There are many forces,
both in South Africa and in the U.S., who would like to see a lessening
of the role of the ANC in the negotiations for a New South Africa. Be
arge gee te reed the fellewiag press release, issued en
September 13, 1996, bg the @fricae Netiene!l Ceagress fer a

clearer pictere ef what is realig behiad the vieleace. ™

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS

Second Ave., Suite 605, N.Y., N.Y. 10017 ,
Observer Mission to the United Nations

Since the Sebokeng massacre of 22nd July, 1990, an
unprecedented wave of violence has swept across the face of the
Transvaal. Despite numerous attempts to end it, undertaken by
community leaders, the regional leadership of the African
Natiional Congress (ANC) and the intervention of the ANC's leaders,
it has not abated and seems set to continue unchecked unless taken

in hand.

During the night commencing 3rd September, a brutal pre-dawn
raid was launched on the inhabitants of the hostels in Sebokeng.
During the course of that incident it emerged that no less than
four white persons, their faces concealed by balaclava helmets,
participated in the carnage that followed.

After the residents of Sebokeng had surrounded the hostels,

trapping the raiders inside, South African Defence Force (SADF)
units were called in by the police. In an unprovoked attack they
opened fire on the crowd, killing 11 people. In the ensuing
confusion, the pre-dawn raiders, including the four whites, were
taken out of the hostels and bussed out of the area, still fully
4

armed, reportedly in police casspirs. ~

Among those arrested and detained by the police, after been
identified by a number of residents and hostel dwellers, was one
Mr. Themba Khoza, leader of the Inkatha Youth Brigade in the
Transvaal. Mr. Khoza had already been named as implicated in a

number of incidents of violence in the Transvaal. Sebokeng was the
first time he was caught, practically red-handed, ferrying firearms
to Inkatha supporters. Various eye-witnesses saw Mr. Khoza
shooting some of the victims of their attack.

On 24th. August, 1990, The Weekly Mail carried a lengthy
account by a "frightened hostel dweller" who had been coerced into
joining Inkatha and forced to commit acts of violence against other
hosté¢i' dwallers® atid ‘township residents. It was’clear from this
report that the violence was not a spontaneous eruption but rather
a well orchestrated plan, conceived by some diabolical agency with
a view to spreading death and mayhem. The Weekly Mail's’ informant
unequivocally stated that the police are involved’ in -both
organising and transporting the attackers from place to place at ~
night.

On 26th July, 1990, three days before the official launch of
tig South African Communist Party (SACP), an Inkatha leader
ad@tressed meetings in Jabulani Hostels inciting the audience to
launch attacks on persons displaying the insignia of the SACP.
These activities and the name of the speaker were brought to the
notice of the police. On the weekend of 28th July, a number of
crudely forged leaflets, ostensibly issued by the ANC, were
ditributed in Soweto and other townships. Their intension was to
create a climate of fear and apprehension among the Zulu-speaking
population of the township, especially the migrant workers, by
giving the impression that the ANC, the Congress of South African
Trade Unions (COSATU), the South African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
and the Unided Democratic Front (UDF) intended attacking them and
driving them out of the hostels. These too were brought to the
attention of the authorities and the media. A similar leaflet
appeared in townships of the East Rand during the week of August

26th.

The mounting evidence and the avalanche of allegations of
police and other security personell involvement with the vigilantes
of Inkatha convinces us that we are confronting a phenomenon which

| has become quite familiar in the Frontline States. We witnessed
| it when the bandit gang of RENAMO, established, trained and

provisioned by the illegal Smith regime of former Rhodesia, first
went into action. It is a matter of record that since 1979 the
South African government has taken over that function.

The intention of the campaign of violence is quiet clear. Its
pum ose is:

To incite violence among the different sections of the African
population and thus distract their attention from the root
causes of poverty, hunger, low wages and economic exploitation

in this country.
SS

To destroy the ANC and other democratic formations in the
townships by the piecemeal murder of their personnel and
supporters;

To build a psychosis of fear, insecurity and terror among the
people so as to make them more amenable to a regime of martial

law?

To derail the process of peaceful transition presently

underwaye

The fact of the matter is that while the ANC has sincerely
been talking peace with the gorvernment, war has been declared on
the ANC, its allies and the other democratic formations of our

people.

The South African government has been called upon to put a
end to this violence by every quarter of public opinion in the

country. And yet:

It has failed to act against the perpetrators of the massacre
of July 22nd in Sebokeng

It has failed to take action against those individuals who
have delibarately stirred up the violence in the Trandvaal.

It has failed to take the appropriet steps to uncover those
in its security forces, including the police, who are
implicated in these acts of terror and violence.

The National Working Committee of the ANC, after lengthy
deliberations, has decided to convene an emergency meeting of the
National Executive Committee which will specifically focus on the
violence which has now become endemic, reveiw the prevailing
situation in our country, and our strategic and tactical options
in the light of the current circumstances. The National Executive
Committee meeting is schedul to commence on Tuesday, September

18th, 1990 in Johannesburg.

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Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism
Police Abuse /Racist Violence Subcommittee

I am interested in working with the Police Abuse and Racist Violence
Subcommittee of the CDCAAR in conjunction with the Center for Law &
Justice. I am interested in work in the following areas:

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ue Police Abuse complaint intake
—- Administrative
——- Computer Programming
-—_- Computer Data Entry
gu. Research Projects
— Anti-death penalty work
—- Court monitoring Rensselaer and Albany

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Telephone:

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CDCAAR, Police Abuse/Racist Violence Committee
¢/o Merton Simpson
439 Livingston Ave., Apt. #2

Albany. N.Y. 12206
If you have any messages or questions, please call Merton Simpson ¢/o Alice Green.

518) 427-8 61.

Update on Donna DeMaria ond the Aibeny Police...
in jast month's newsletter we reported about the trumped up charges against

EC mmunity octivist, Donna Demeria. Justice was served when the Albany Country

6reng Jury refused to indict Donne. Community protests and letters to local
newspepers showed the extent of support for Donne. Congratulations te Donne end
to the community which responded to the police department's nonsense - but
chilling - charges.
Neu York Times, Sept. 27, 1990

De Klerk Is No Hero to Me

By Randall Robinson

WASHINGTON

s Pr-sident Bush welcomed
South Africa's Presi-

dent, F. W. de Klerk, to

the White House yes-

terday, I hope I wasr 't

the only one asking

‘What'» wrong with this picture?"

In ex.ending a friendly handshake
to Mr. de Kierk, Mr. Bush set an im-
portant precedent: He became the
first U.S. President to meet the high-
est representative of a society organ-
ized on the principles of segregation
and brutal racial exploitation.

Mr. de Klerk's public relations
team has worked hard to portray him

~&S a crusader for reasonable and
moderate change, a patient and well-
intentioned man. And the Bush Ad-
ministration hag at times appeared
eager to accept exaggerated claims
of progress and reform.

The reality is that little has
changed under the de Klerk Govern-
ment. In some respects, things have
gotien much worse.

While Mr. de Klerk tours Washing-
ton, his nation is gripped in a spasm
of violence. Over the last six weeks,
more than 800 black South Africans
have been killed in what the U.S.
press usually describes as ‘‘faction-
al’ or “tribal” violence.

in fact, this violence is directly
rooted in the apartheid system Mr. de
Kierk’s Government still maintains.
There is also convincing and disturb-
ing evidence that security forces
under Mr. de Klerk’s control have
permitted, and even participated in,
most of this “factional” strife.

Some of the fighting is an out-
growth of a political rivairy between
elements of the African National Con-
gress and supporters of Inkatha, the
Zulu organization headed by Chief
Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi. But
Chief Buthelezi and Inkatha have
themselves been permitted to amass
power, often by intimidation, with the
direct collusion of Mr. de Kierk's
Government. Indeed, the last six
weeks of escalating violence coincide
almost to the day with Chief Buthel-
zei's announced intention to e
his power beyond his Natal base.

Eyewitness accounts of police par-
Ucipation or acquiescence in Inkatha
violence are far too numerous to dis-
credit. In Natal, the police openly side
with Inkatha, usua in

"s thugs

well after Chief B
have attacked and retreated,

A recent report by the Geneva-
based International Commission of
Jurists concluded that “‘the are
seen as both player and referee, and

Randajl Robinson is executive direc-
tor of TransAfrica, a foreign-policy
lobbying group,

in some Cases their conduct has been
violent and cruel.’ Another report,
issued in Pretoria in August by the
Government-appointed Goldstone
Commission, has lent further cre-
dence to reports of police collusion
with Inkatha. The commission found
that police sometimes failed to stop
attacks that they had advance know!-
edge of, and that often failed to
disarm Inkatha members.

The latest revelations of a “hidden
hand” or “third force” implicate se-
curity forces as well. Numerous af-
fidavits from journalists and South

He has done
little for
blacks, and
he tolerates

the violence.
SSiRALRota Rana

ay

African<itizens detail attacks in
which white men wearing hoods, or
with faces blackened with soot, have
particir -d in the fighting. Whites
have t seen shooting from mini-
buses and directly Participating in
the hacking deaths of innocent by-
Standers. Whites have been spotted
assisting Inkatha vigilantes in at-
tacks on townships, in brutal massa-
eres On & moving train and in the raz-
ing of a squatter settlement.

In response, Mr. de Klerk has initi-
ated “Operation Iron Fist,” a re-
sponse that calls to mind those of his
predecessors: blacks’ civil liberties
are suspended, troops are sent to
biack residential areas, townships
are enveloped in razor wire.

These sad and bloody scenes are
the proper backdrop for the image of
F, W. de Klerk in the White House. We
hope that President Bush clearly ex-
presses to Mr. de Klerk our nation’s
disgust at apartheid, and our insist-
ence on its dismantiement.

Americans believe in Nelson Man-
dela's message of “sanctions until
democracy" and in the fundamental

sense of justice and fair play so mani- :

festly offended by the de rk Gov-
ernment. These beliefs should not be
swayed by the South African's much-
coveted photo opportunity with Presi-
dent Bush.

Mr. de Klerk must seek an end to
the violence sweeping his country. He
must make genuine and irreversible
ey bow toward dismantling aparte-

And he must pursue these objec-
tives through concrete steps at home,
not through smiles and handshakes in
foreign capitals. Q

IA hil BANY
AFRICAN RMERICANS
THE B.S. GOVERNMENT
AM® SQUTHERN RFRICA:

THE RISE OF
RFRICME

Randall Robinson, Executive
Director of Transffrica, an African *
American foreign policy lobbying
group for Africa and the Caribbean,
will appear in Aibany on Octo*r 23,
1990. He will be here to take part in
a lecture series sponsored by the
New York African American i--titute
Co-sponsors of the event are .he
Department of African and African
American Studies at SUNY Aibany,
the Ribany Branch, NAACP and the
Capital District Coalition figainst
Apartheid and Racism, Albany, N.Y.

There has been a change in the
venue which was announced tast
month. The lecture will take piace
at Page Hall, Aibany SUNY downtown
campus ~ not at the Patroon Lounge,
SUNY uptown campus. The program
begins at 7:00 p.m. it is free and
open to the public. We urge your
attendance to hear this tireless and
long-time opponent of apartheid
speak on:

AFRICAN AMERICANS, THE UNITED
STATES GOVERNMENT, AND
SOUTHERN AFRICA:

THE RISE OF AFRICAN POWER

SETTING THE RECGRS STRAIGHT ON REEBOK

‘Reokek is net in Seuth @frica. Reebok shoes are not made
in South Africa. Rebbok instructed its United Kingdom distributor not
to renew its distributions contract in South Africa in 1986. Reebok
acquired fviea in 1967; Avia has no business relationship with any
company in South Africa.” THE @FRICR FOND 1968

“Those of us who have been involved with the struggle to end
apartheid have used various strategies to reach that goal. One of our
most effective approaches is to highlight and reproach American
corporations which are doing business in South Africa. We have been
very successful in getting hundreds of corporations to withdraw from
bolstering an economy based on oppression. in addition, we have
been keeping the giere of public scrutiny on those stili operating in
South Africa.

in is incumbent, therefore that we in the anti-apartheid
community salute those corporations that are actively involved in
peacefully transforming South Africa into a democratic state. Yours
(REEBOK) is one such corporation. Your cheirmand and president, Paul
Fireman and Joe LaBone respectively, have demonstrated above and
beyond all expectations their commitment to human rights and « free
Swwth Africa. was

Theugh gour compeayg has been haunted by @ rumer thet
i* is doing business im Seuth Sfrice, Reebek,is new the awig
+ otweer compeng i'm certain is net in Seu @fricea.

Furthermore, it is one of the few corporations, if not the only
one, thet has embraced human rights as a corporate velue.

Thus, | would like to salute Reebok and all of its employees for
their dedication to human rights, a free South Africe and « responsible
corporate America."

GANGALL ROBINSON, TRANSSFRICR, 19e9

New Svailable -f Unified List of United States
Companies Doing Business in Seath @frica

This Third Edition 1990 identifies companies with ownership in South
Africa as well as companies with licensing, franchising, distribution
agreements and other business ties. Aiso included are banks with
loans or financial links to South Africe. Some 700 companies are
profiled. This is es indispensebie reseuerce fer angene
ceacerned abeut the @.$. cerperete rele ia Seutk @frice.
Updated through mid-1990. This directory is available through the
Africa Fund, 198 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10038. The Price is $10.00
for individuals, $30.00 for institutions. Ali orders must include $2.00

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Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid and Racism

Non-Profit
Project of the Social Justice Center Organization
33 Central Avenue “PAID
Aibany, New York 12210 pratt NO. SOD
Albany, NY

Two important dates:
Randall Robinson in Albany, OCT. 25, 1990
9 OCT. 25 1990

anizations working on issues of peace and justice in the Capital District. CDCAAR
tae member end our reletionship with the SK is a very veluabie one. We encourage
ail our members to attend this dinner - a time to socialize with others in the activist
community. The event will page tae on nog pcin ge sang Mer Frio _" to
m at Bethiehem High School, Delaware Avenue, Delmer, N.Y.
childcere ere avaliable. To get your tickets, call the $C at 434-4037 or Peter Belint,

CDCAAR representative to SIC at 438-5975.

OCT. 24, 1990

resentation b Andrew Courtney of Westchester Peopies Action Committes - “What
eae arene o” The crisis in the Arabian peninsula has detracted
attention from the under occupation. However, life under occupation

chenged. The killings, beatings. end demolitions continue. This s is
ong the public and will teke piace at the Aipany Public Library. veandpsy.

October 24, 1990 at 645 pm.

ct Comm ttee for Palestinian Rights is sponsoring ©’

Brothers seek help

to revive referral center

By Catherine Ciabby

Statt writer

The Reverend

is ailing financially.

The $350 monthly rent for October is overdue at the 225 Clinton Ave.
storefront and another month’s payment is due Thursday. Utility and

phone bills also need to be paid.

It was Van Ness, said Newton, who pursued a4 fund-raising drive by
known to be sympathetic to the

organization's efforts. And it was Van Ness, who died of a heart attack
was lining up people to develop

writing letters to several people

at age 50 earlier this month, who
strategies for addressing local problems.

“The vision was that we would have our own building, own paid staff,
a place for young people to come from jail,” said Newton, sitting in an
office whose walis are covered with copies of news articles detailing

See BROTHERS / B-4

money to share because of shrinki help residents resolve problems in-
BROT HERS : By volving landlords, utility companies,

ow Continued from B.1

the Brothers’ activism in the 1960s
and ‘70s. Attention now is focused on
survival, he added.

Newton said he will pursue Van
Ness' efforts to obtain $48,000 from

with from that

which in recent years has had leas

program coordinator for the fledgling
ain access to mail addressed to Van Ness and bank accounts
on behalf of the organization, but knows the organization

federal grants.
The Brothers were jaunched in
Albany in an era when the push for

civil ts inspired political activ-
ism over the country. With a
membership made up mrt of
black men, the group protes' poor
housing in Arbor Hill and the South
End and battled for improvements in
jobs, the welfare system, education
and the delivery of city services, It
also operated a ] center.

Times Union photo by Roberta Smith

PICKING UP THE TORCH — Clarence Newton will ask mem
Community to help start the Brothers Community Referral Center at 225

welfare programs,

police matters or al or dr
abuse. ‘ia

Both Van Ness and Newton were
founders of the Brothers and organ-
izers of a reunion last spring that
eee ee Newton on
Monday was putting finishing
touches on a hopes to

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packed a small church Monday to
Say goodbye to one of the city’s

foremost civil rights leaders.

group here, bid Van Ness
farewell, lauding him in simple,
somber terms.

“He was a very nice person and he
stood his position when he knew it
was right,” said the Rev. Norman
Macklin of the Union Missionary
Baptist Church on Morton Avenue,
where the service was held. “He set
an example that some of us can
follow ... to do right by our fellow

Van Ness, 50, who died Thursday
of a heart attack two days before his
birthday, ae a founder By: Fin
Brothers, who, during the civ ts
unrest of the 1960s,

He was a member of the Albany
Human Rights Commission and
sheet of the Albany branch of the

Employed as an affirmative-ac-
tion officer for the state Health

our basic mission of the
black community ... and to act as an

and agent for ” gaid
Thurmon Myers of the of

had came
ficwiad s08 @ few swaying in their
escort-

Attending were an array of Al-
bany figures: defense attorneys
Mark and Lanny Walter,

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NEXT GENERAL CD-CAAR
MEMBERSHIP MEETING
, THURSDAY, NOY. 29, 1990
7:00 P.M. ALBANY PUBLIC LIBRARY

Speaking of 1991, in September of 1991 , CD-CAAR will cele-

brate its wath year anniversary!!! Ye are in the beginning stages of
planning for this very Special event. We want to make ita meaningful and

big occasion. We will be asking for your help in the near future - start form-
wating your ideas now.

’
Save Friday Night. December 14,1990

Inside this newsletter you will find a flyer about
the next CD-CAAR special occasion - A Party!

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CD-CAAR Meets With US Representative Michael McNulty
Mark Mishler

Four CD-CAAR members - CoChair Merton Simpson, Mabe) Leon, Zaida
Kajee and Mark Mishler - met with Congressperson Mike McNulty recently
to discuss issues related to Southern Africa. This was the second meeting
between the Coalition and McNulty. We presented the Congressperson with
recent educational material in South Africa and discussed the situation in
Angola as well 4s Inkathe-inspired violence in South Africa. We also
informed him that thousands of Capital District residents had “voted” for
continued sanctions against South Africa as part of the American
Committee on Africa's sanctions ballot campaign.

Representative McNulty reiterated his support for ongoing sanctions
against South Africa and stated his commitment to vote for continued
. tions, He also indicated his opposition to U.S. funding of UNITA, the
“contra” group causing such destruction and disruption in Angola.

The CD-CAAR delegation agreed that Congressperson McNulty is a
friend and ally of the movement in solidarity with Southern Africa
liberation. The Coalition will stay in touch with him and will continue to
provide him with our views on issues affecting Southern Africa. Our work
and presence has had an impact.

PEACE OFFERINGS

Remember to do your holiday shopping at Peace Offerings, the
Store which offers gifts made by non-exploited laborers from
around the world. Peace Offerings is located at the Social
stice Center, 33 Central Avenue, Albany, N.Y. 434-4037,

Election Reminder LV
At the general membership meeting in October it was announced that
there will be an election of members to the CD-CAAR Steering Committee.

} ~*k Mishler and Merton Simpson are chairing an election committee. If
you are interested in being nominated or would like more information,
please call Mark at 438-2845. Nominations will also be accepted from the
floor at the November meeting.

f

~ €& decision was

CD-CAAR gives support to the Emergency Committee to Excerpts from Position Statements ojo
end U.S. intervention in the Middle East. National Mobilization for rs phere Ge icaece oan nae
The Capitel District Coslition Against Apartheid end Racism gy pct an th been South Afria
condemns the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and the even more dangerous US. lated every principle of nonintervention be cut in half if a sound ‘aids tality and
intervention in the Middle East which followed the invasion. We support and self-determination. It hardly has a focusing on renewable resources and phe middle East
single defender beyond the reach of the conservation was in effect
the “Principles of Unity” articulated by the Emergency Committee to End Iraqi army and police. But the U.S. gov- Our oil consuming western lifestyle Compare the
U.S. Intervention in the Middle East which was founded in August, 1990. Se at te ret te, | i8 destroying the earth and it is our U.S. me-
These principles include no U.S. intervention, no war for oil, negotiated sap re crisis to help the oil compa- | nears pel saree ppnow ey he
solutions, self-determination, funding of human needs and the nies, use the Pentagon’s power, and Our presence in the Middle East has 21 Took years
development of alternative energy sources. joetify to badignt. destroyed any hope of any ‘af ever of pressure from
On September 10th a rally was held - "No war for oi]: U.S. troops out | East Bay Women for Peace wailed uses dean 4 Goins Gatco the WS. anti-
now.” The rally took place in front of the Washington Avenue tig @ hat Fe et, onic (not | day in Saudi Arabia while the Oakland dpantheid more.
Albany and drew between 150 and 200 people. It was covered in all odsne saaiiaalaaais. we tea Uke: Satna Sree aot, pel ——e meat te get the
local electronic and print media. Many CD-CAAR members took part. We ee pet pgp acco tggpnb streets, and while the $ & L criminals ( ¢, Congress to
encourage you to take part in the next rally when it is called. hatilaaiiian tee Seams ap eats oc, Pate Oi ae és Bush pass Sanctians
it 1s hoped that pressure by the American people will force the is the time for peace and diplomacy. ... ty NN Reagan- '

We call om the president t move toward administration encouraged the sale of Qaaint Soath
administration to bring the U.S. troops home before war breaks out. There iti ‘ademas andes chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein. the mest
1s @ need to be able to respond quickly to any U.S. action that brings us crisis, through the United Nations and '

| human rights when Hussein used the pa; isl régime
the Arab League, to refrain from precip- weapons on his own people. Bush oy garth - and
ED War tous military action, and to withdraw wants us to forget that he turned his
Rapid Response American military forces as quickly 85 = Ge. when innocent men, women and YAdl had fe be
possible. children were being gassed. clone over @
for Oil A rapid response network is being organized War Resisters oan eeu Ge Rualo eal areridélil VEN,
if you send your name and phone number to “U.S. politicians and the U.S. media ieeseniiiin, ao a ponelia'as es ean But let the US.
Emergency Committee to End US. Intervention rs Remar tive igg 220 2 dng neg others in the service as fodder for his “(ay of li fe'—
& = : in the Middie East, 33 Central Avenue, Albany, general. Similar propaganda campaigns sora Bal ccf onset. Rey cnc oll’ ~ he threslened
os 3 59°94 |New York 12210, the Committee will inform page aoe enor oe en bea beings as wrgets. It has taken me Ang nef only do
q ave : é 3 5 you quickly on actions if (or when) a shooting | attacks on Libya and iran. Projecting aan ieee dniie ance tana: Aaa TR ve creed
SOopas4s = [wer begins. The rhetoric and the actions of _ ‘Monster images of the lragi people be damned if I'm going to be a part of =‘ Eci!
o°— "Boon Z whips the U.S. public into a frenzy and “sented internsfional
db re wae ~= |the US government make this a dangerously canada tek tastes dadaaneas te aa ag er al snynen agen Ft eahyeapel
yedte 5 “gs real option. Also note if you are able to make tained bloodletting between our coun- Pp het. Stnd in hundreds
~p“%  -S4q [phone calls or want to be on a notification SS eee oe eee I will refuse orders to ship me to of thousands of
ob @ we @ bp 3 | ' ae 1 ee Couey. Saudi Arabia to defend our polluting,
Ae.%ycgad., flist for meetings of the Committee. Dona Fons G@varinec Cc Erik Rasen U.S. Troops. U.S.
-as.s £* Sela, aid aac orps Corporal exploitive lifestyle. ft cade
ioe” oRAge a e needed an eepiy appreciated. For more Glen Larsen’s Statement of I will refuse to face another human foreign pny
gas bee ay ae information you can call (518) 434-4037. Refusal to Participate in being with a gas mask and my M-16 g iy
go SSL PY ae } Interventionist Wars drawn. nrious Sf aun e Ful
asogesssse It sickens me to hear Mr. Bush |_| declare myself as a conscientious Aypacr/ Sy:

announce that 40,000 of my fellow objector.

in memoriam - borden BanNess
{2-£HARB mourns the death af Gordan, a fang
,/mne civil rights activist in the Albang community.
He wil! be remembered far his titetime struggle

far justice, as @ member of the 8rethers in the
4G6@ 's up until this gear when he mas one af the
feunders of the Community Referral Service.
Mis fass is deeply felt.

A& Case tor Htumen Needs- One of the demands of the Emergency
Committee to End U.S.intervention in the Middle East is the the U.S.
government spend more money on human needs than on war and
greed needs. One of the greatest needs for millions of American $
for adequate health care. The Medical STudent Association of Ribany
Medical Center is sponsoring an evening

where this need will be the topic. The speaker will be Or. Peter Orris,
Attending Physician in Occupational Medicine and General Internal
Medicine at Cook County Hospital in Chicago. Or. Orris has a long
history of involumentin the U.S.labormovement.
November 30, 1990 at 7:60 p.m. at the Gibany Public Library
U.S. Health Care System...dow did it get se bad? What can we

de about it? The cese for « National Health Care System.

The event is being cosponsored by the Solidarity Committee, Physicians Tor Social
Responsibility and the Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism. If yo
‘ questions, call Sarah Kemble at 432-5282.

The Half Moon Cafe and Artists for a New Politics of Madison Avenue in
Albany are sponsoring o Unity Week around the theme of Black and
White unity as a way to build a more democratic and just society. The
week includes nights of music (reggae, jazz, blues and rock), on

readings and poetry and o Town Meeting on Sunday, Nov. 18th. For a
complete schedule of events, call 436-0239.

AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
OF SOUTH AFRICA

Regional Youth Committee
(U.S. Region)

October 16, 1990

Rapulane Sidney Molekane

Rapu Molekane, lS the General Secretar y of the South

\Erican Youth Congress (SAYCO). On September 27, 1990, he

,
and detained by South African authorities
me in Sowet@® He 1s present] Y being held at the

oy

tea Police Station” under Secti on 29 of the Internal securit ey

me Mas not been charged, and unaer this law he can be

Rapu began his political invol vement in 1978 as a member
Young Christian Students. He was actively involved
Duilding the Congress of South African Students (COSAS )
participated in the founding of the United Democratic

nt. fe Was elected president of the Seweto Youth Congress

rounding membe

noe W OONeKal Secretary j mn

967 « In April, 1990, at the first
ationai congress of SAYCO, he was reelected General secretary.
\t the time of his arrest, Rapu was helping to re-establish

. oe , a? iT. y ee | a > + a ae - - ae ry ~
Cent V & eqgar.lzed Africa n Nati Ona: Congress a > @a Mass

iL. So a aoe

Sa S@tCained in 1980 , ne was released after Six Months
witnout being charged. In 1982, he was detai: li@d again and

released in 1983, In 1985, together with thousands of youth

throughout South Africa, he was detained under the emergency

egulations and released after S$1X months. [In 1988, he was
ca .ned with other members of SAYCO until “ay, 1989,

‘

t

me attengea the snedisoso Lower Primar. And Mapetla

sPWANG SEeCONndars eT i {fe a l SO TOOK c Ourses at th @ Sowetc

Toe OS RENO Sh On Res Le 3 Saemer menor: a8 the Genera
ibd me WOE Kars SEY ROTL ne 1S WMaLcrieu and RAS Cwo Chudchters .

in August, 1989, Rapu toured the United States as part
of tne Defiance Campaign. He traveled to New York, Washington
D.C., Birmingham, and Los Angeles.

801 Second Ave., Suite 405, N.Y.. N.Y. 10017 Tel: (212) 490-3487 Tix: 225602 Fax: (212) 973.6400"

The Regional Youth Committee (U S.Region) of the African Netional Congress hes
asked for assistance in getting petitions signed which demand the releese of Rapu
Molekane. (For more information on Molekane, read the reverse of this petition. At
the last general membership meeting of CD-CAAR., the case of Molekene wes discussed

end members were asked to get as many petitions signed as possibie to return to the
November meeting. (An ANC mug wes offered as « prize to the person who returns
the most signatures). We are asking those on our mailing list to join this petition
campeign - arrests and detentions without charges are still occurring in South
Africa. Make copies of this petitions and pess them outin your communities. Please
return the petitions to:

the tal ct Coalition Ageinst Apartheid end Racism. Box 2003
Pine Station, Albany. New York 12203. Ve will forward them to the New

York ANC office.

We the undersigned demand that South African authorities
release Rapu Molekane, general secretary of the South African Youth
Congress, from prison.

We strongly protest the police shooting of Molekane in his home
on September 27,1990, and condemn the use of undemocratic laws
like the internal Security Act, under which he is being jailed
indefinitely without charge.

ie further demand freedom for Maxunweell Moss, president of
Sayco in the Western Cape region, and the end of government attacks
against SAYCO.
? These acts by the South African government illustrate the need

‘to continue the international campaign of pre sre against apartheid.

We reject any move by the U.S. government to llift current sanctions.
The United States should impose mandato and comprehensive
ecanctions against South Africa until apartheid | abolished.

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Against Apartheid and Racism US POSTAGE
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33 Central Avenue roe oe BOM <g

Albany, NY

Albany, New York 12210

Vera Michelson
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Albany, NY 12206

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Next General CD-CAAR Meeting:
Thurs. November 29, 1990

Also note: the event you have been waiting for...

a_CD-CAAR party is almost here - Fri. Dec. 14th 1990
The Albany Branch of the NAACP will celebrate its 55th
anniversary at the Annual Freedom Fund Dinner. The theme
of the dinner is The African American Family: Accentuating
Its Positives, Building on Its Strengths. The dinner wil!
take place on Friday , December 14, beginning at 6:30 p.m
in the Convention Center of the Empire State Plaza, Albany.

For more information call the Albany NAACP at 462-1623.

(This 1s the same evening as the Coalition fundraiser,
“Party with a Purpose.” Note however, that you can attend
both events with no problem as the “Party” doesn't begin ff
until 10:00 p.m. A rare chance in Albany to make a long
night of it!) d

Special Thanks from the editor - to Joyce Rose, who each
month for the past several months has assumed the tedious, behind-dime
“scenes job of collating, stapling, preparing for bulk mailing and taking to
the post office the CD-CAAR newsletter. Aided by Martin Manley ond
other volunteers, Joyce has taken on this task and has done a responsible,
efficient and much appreciated job.

Capital District Coalition

Against Apartheid

and Racism
Box 3002 — Pine Hille Station

Albany, N'Y 12203

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PUBLIC SERVICK ANNOUNCEMENT’

Party With A Purpose - Part II - is the theme of this
year's holiday event being sponsored by the Capital District
Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism.

The party will take place on Friday, December 14, from
10:00 pm until?...., at the Mason Hall in Albany, 120 Madison
Ave. D.J. Maria Perez will be spinning sounds of Reggae, Latin,
Calypso and House Music. Tickets are just $7.00. For more
information call 374-8709 after 5:00 pm. Proceeds will go to

the Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism.

*for peace in the Middle East and
justice in our communities
*against cuts in Jobs, education,
housing, and health care

*against hate crimes & police abuse

JOIN US FOR A PEOPLE'S MARCH
AT THE NYS MARTIN LUTHER KING

CELEBRATION, MON. JAN. 21ST
9 am. St. Peter’s Church, State & Lodge, Albany

Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism; Feminist Action
Network; Emergency Committee to E nd U.S. Intervention in the Middle East

Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid

and Racism

Box 3002 - Pine Hills Station
Albany, New York 12202
A Project of the Social Justice Center

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December 1990

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Struggle,

The past year has seen many changes in Southern Africa. Nelson
Mandela has been released by the apartheid jailers after twenty seven years
in South African prisons. His visit to the United States in June was an
extraordinary and emotional event. But his visit is over and the struggle
continues for a non-racial, democratic South Africa with one person one vote.
Nelson Mandela is out of jail but his country is still under the control of the
most racist system on earth. Four out of five citizens of South Africa still
cannot vote, eighty seven percent of the land is still controlled by whites
only and repression and violence fueled by the South African government
continue as the daily reality.

Namibia gained its independence in 1990 but South Africa left the
Namibian economy in shambles and still controls Walvis Bay, Namibia's only
deep water port.

Hopes that the bitter war in Angola would end were dashed by UNITA’s
refusal to participate in the peace process. Continued U.S. funding of Jonas
Savimbi's UNITA contras shows the hypocrisy of the Bush administration's
Africa policy. The U.S. still refuses to recognize the legitimate government of
Angola (the only country besides South Africa which has not granted Angola
diplomatic recognition).

Mozambique is struggling to survive beyond the chaos and destruction
wrought by south African supported Renamo contras.

At home, as the United States prepares to go to war in the Persian Gulf,
much needed dollars are being diverted from domestic priorities. AIDS,
homelessness, unemployment and drugs are problems of crisis proportions.
Incidents of bias related violence are increasing. Racism is still a major part
of the fabric of American life and is devastating whole communities.

If we hope to influence U.S. government policy on Southern Africa and
if we hope to see a real movement for social change develop in this country,
we must be prepared for a real fight against our government's policy of
supporting apartheid in South Africa and racism in the U.S. As you know
this very important battie means cash and commitment.

We deeply thank you for the support you have given to the Capital
District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism(CD-CAAR). 1991 marks
the 10th year anniversary of CD-CAAR. We could never have continued
for ten years without the commitment of so many of you. It has been your

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generosity in time, money and other resources that has made it possible for
CD-CAAR to continue the struggle.

CD-CAAR is a member of the Social Justice Center of Albany, the
umbreiia organization for many groups working on issues of justice and
social change in the Albany area. CD-CAAR is also a co-convening member
of the Northeast Southern Africa Solidarity Network, (a network of
anti-apartheid organizations in a twelve state region); and a member of the
National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. We do solidarity
work with the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa and worked

with SWAPO of Namibia prior to independence.
As a recipient of the monthly newsletter of CD-CAAR, you are aware

that we ask for a yearly membership fee of $5.00. (Of course, any larger
contributions are gratefully accepted.) This membership campaign is one of
our most important fundraising efforts. Your dues will pay for your monthly
newsletter - printing and postage. Additional funds will help us pay for
other organizing expenses. Please mail your contribution in the enclosed
envelope. Your 1991 membership card will be sent upon receipt of your
dues.
Thank you for your continued support.

In solidarity,

Vera Michelson, Merton Simpson
Co-chairpersons

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