Part 13, pages 361-390, 1981-1983

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S. Africa Connection Explored— Tiregey |

Activists Ask to Meet Stratton; | |
Topic: Arsena] Weapons Sale : |

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7 if ron ReANCHARD limeter guns was new to'the South | lar facility each year.
LBANY — An anti-apartheid

Africans, the report said. “The |. ‘ag to where these cannon

SRC-South Africa transactions | tubes are distributed once they

led to South Africa’s acquisition are produced by Watervliet, this

and vg clopment Of ad-, is something over which the Arse,

vanced. ..ar pod Systems | nal has no Control. Their poe

tion pry poem military ro pete within the 118. Arm | |
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pabilities,”’ according to the | and have no direct dealings | .

com

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has released copies of correspon. '
dence he bas bad with Stratton we a
pports that, in 1 could undertake to ensure that Arsenal to ship the tubes to;

such arms sales are not made in | Research Corporation in “
the future. ent”
; sg ok whose group was ‘ Dollard-said ih Seat reauests
ormed last summer to prevent or a wi a were
the South African national rugby rebuffed by ah Mott, the con-
team’s national tour, said he’s &ressman’s aide. Attempts to
been trying to meet with Stratton | reach Mott yesterday for com-
port ever sinc ubeomumitie re. the sabe uccessful, . i |
port ever since its release. “We subcommi report
Want Stratton to provide Support | the blame for the incident on the
for the Wolpe committee recom- | Centra hese /igence Agency,
mendations that wil] prevent this | among others. Says,
kind of incident from happening | “according to the nce
Again at Watervliet or any other | of evidence, it is ne that a

country of Angola. The transac-
tion, ‘Wack ‘Was a small part of
arms sales allegedly in violation
he 1963 arms embargo of
s , Came to light in a
report issued last month by the
House Subcommittee on Africa
The report, Prepared by the

subcommittee staff under the di. a vik : rere senett ng a i ot ie
DMick “maggie nt Wolpe Gratton which pollens vag eg Present Par Rerert vo

to § - | publicly yesterday. In the letter, | Offers ENC Or tt Sori in
tion of Vermont earch Corpora Stratton acknowledges the re. | arms to South Africa for use in

quest for a meeting but does not | Angola.

lard said last night that he | said. “this episode suggests seri-
has no Ph yoy mith the pd ous ng ati on fave ro of =
| nation for Watervliet Arse- | agency. most, there is a possi.
nal’s involvements Offered in ty that elements of the CIA

Stratton's letter: y evaded U.S. policy.”
Tag, The Arsenal received this par- Psloce 963, there has been an
ticular order from the Arwey's official U.S. and United Nations

Ballistic Research Laboratory at | embargo on arms shipments to
Aberdeen, Md,” wrote Stratton. | South Africa because of that
The request was routine in na- | country’s os Ma Pr dean or
ture since the Arsenal performs a forced segrega the races. |

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were a subterfuge for illegal
arms shipments to South Africa.

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ufacturing facilities, according to
the subcommittee report,

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NAACP Lashes Police |
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» By PAM SNOOK |...

Gazette Reporter aes

ALBANY ~ City police aggra-
vated rather than quelled poten-
tial violence at Se tember’s
controversial Springboks rugby
match at Bleeker Stadium,
claimed the Albany chapter of the
NAACP.

* * *

During the rugby game protest,

“the Albany Police Department

behaved in an outrageously
irresponsible fashion, doing far
more to incite violence than to
prevent it,” the NAACP said in a
{WO-page Stuternent

Numerous police were sta.
Goned with rifles on tall buildings
across from the Clinton Avenue
Stadium instead of in the streets
with the crowd, said NAACP
spokesman Harold Hamilton
Water, not guns and dogs, could
have controlled protesters.

After the match, police direct.
ed spectators into protesters,
creating potentially more trou-
ble, Hamilton said.

* * &* *

“This is not true,” said police
Spokesman Captain John Dale.

“We've worked numerous dem-
onstrations in this city. We're well
qualified te handle large groups
Apparently we did a good jud tat
Biveker). There was no trouble,”
Dale said

Some officers were Stationed
atop Niliding across from the sta-
dium to get the best view None of
thetn were snipers, he said.

"We've never used « alter, mace
or bullets.” Dale said

In addition to complaints of
crowd control, the Albany
NAACP also lashed at police

about related arrests and

searches,

"i ¢

“The Albany NAACP serves
notice it will increase its vigi-.
lance against inappropriate po-

lice behavior,” the Statement
read, .
“We condemn those pore
agencies that —_— to stifle pro-
test rather than keep peace and
sought to frame innocent
in a futile attempt to disrupt a
pesoeful, legitimate challenge to

Protest

Police helped trum up
charges against Michael oung
and Teun Spearman, two New
York City men who helped orga-
nize the protest, the NAACP
Claimed in its statement, '

But the group commended the
county jury which acquitted the
men of possesion of Weapons
tharges,

The NAACP called the warrant
for the related arrest and search
of an Albany woman and her Cen-
tral Avenue apartment “highly ir-
regular.” The group also lashed at
oe for holding the woman,

‘era Michaelson, in jail for sever- >
al days allegedly without legiti-
Mate cause {

Albany police are ill-trained to |
handle a large protest and under-
trained to handle pirat confron-
tations, Hamilton said,

“Their (police) approach to
stopping somebody on the street
SO often gets out of hand,’ he said.
Simple inquiries turn inte arrests
because police don't know how to
approach people on the street and
evoke hastile reponses unnecces-
Sarily, Hamilton said. 4

The group said in its statement
it will renew its 1968 request for
changes in the police department |
including better training, more |
minority officers. decreased ha-
rassment and increased protec.
tion of minority residential
areas,

‘

the existing order,” Hami ton Saial .

Perse aA aap

By EJ. McMAHON se piokgs
d | Knickerbocker Mews Reporter « administration, the statem
The Albany branch of the NAACP ie nur Med ae
m tday charged Albany police “behaved a ¥ dey f sng : m
of i an’ outrageously irresponsible fash- | ‘"omediately t preached for comment.
ion, doing far more to incite violence To Support its claim the police
3 than to prevent it” at last September's _ incited violence at the match, the —
~ Springboks rugby match in Bleecker NAACP said “numerous riflemen” were
& Stadium, PC Ob gaat i eae stationed on buildings along the route of
‘ In a statement, the NAACP said it a protest march from the Capitol to the
t Was planning to “increase its vigilance Stadium before the match. ao aS
t *84inst inappropriate police behavior,” “You cannot control a crowd by
; “We call on police to protect our preparing to kill people from a roof.
_ homes and persons from the muggers, top,” the NAACP said.
the rapists, the burglars, the criminals

of all sorts, but also protect as when we Af ter the
protest against injustices.” the state. departing spectators (from the stadi-
ment said. “We will challenge police ™) directly into the crowd of protes-
impropriety whenever we learn of it, tors rather than keeping the two groups
and urge all citizens to do likewise.” apart,” the NAACP Said. Police Chief

Capt. John Dale. the Police Depart- Thomas Burke has previously denied
ment’s public information officer, de- ‘hat allegation. 3

clined to comment on the Staternent
until he had seen a copy.

The NAACP statement ‘also com-
mended an Albany County jury for its
recent acquittal of John Spearman and
Michael Young, who were arrested on
Weapons possession charges hours be-
fore the rugby match Was played the
evening of Sept. 22.

Spearman and Young were both
involved with Stop the Apartheid Rugby
Tour (SART), a coalition of groups
Organized to protest the appearance of
the South African Springboks rugby
team in Albany's municipal stadium,

The association Statement said the
Case against Spearman and Young was
“a political frame-up, and the jurors
were smart enough to see it,”

The NAACP Statement said the two
men were fighting “a corrupt local
System that attempts to stifle protest
while protecting representatives of a
vicious, racist government that knows
not the meaning of freedom and
justice.” :
Itealled on Mayor Erastus Corning I

to “implement needed changes” in the
Police Department,

“We would consider (Corning's) anti-
racism rhetoric voiced while allowing
the rugby game to proceed to be more
than empty words if he would root out

: po 69,An, rugby case |:

Bame, police “directed the

_ _

‘, By EJ. MeMAHON Jr.
f Knickerbocker News Reporter
, A spokesman for the Albany Police
Department has denied a local civil |
sights group's charges police irrespon-

dibly handled securi- >

arrangements for

st September's con-
froversial rugby
thatch in Bleecker
Stadium.
| “There was noth-
ing done purposely to
agitate the situa-
tion,” Police Capt.
Dale said

Eats
ursday. “We're po-
lice officers and we

~ Bure as hell would

sd *
rn

Dale

ti,
*"*" not want a confr

In a statement prepared-by its 10-

_ member Legal Redress Committee, the
. Albany NAACP branch said the police
“behaved in outrageously irresponsible

fashion, doing far more to incite
vio than prevent it" when the
South African Springboks team played

at the city-owned stadium Sept. 22.
‘. The statement said the NAACP

sought to foment violence instead of
“provide order, that sought to stifle
protest rather than keep peace, and
Sought to frame innocent people in a
futile attempt to disrupt a peaceful,
legitimate challenge to the existing
order,” .

’ Dr. Harry Hamilton, chairman of the

‘tah xr. “police agencies that

“very well trained in crowd control.
“This is a capital city and we ha

are trained continuously in when not
use their guns,” é

He said the officers on ‘the roofs
“were there mainly for surveillance.
There were more news media people up

there than officers.”

Police Chief Thomas Burke has
previously denied police steered spec
protestors

tators in the direction of the
after the rugby match.

Dale, however, said police were

a wig as

NAACP

Legal Redress Committee, said Albany
police officers needed more training in
crowd control.

“You don't react to controlling a
crowd the way they did,” Hamilton
said. “They were out to hurt and
possibly kill people.”

Hamilton cited police “sharpshoot-
ers" he said were observed on the roofs
of buildings along the route of a protest
parade from the Capitol to the stadium
before the game started.

He also said police had improperly
directed spectators leaving the game to
an area in which demonstrators were
congregating. Only the efforts of the
protest marshals avoided violence
when the spectators passed heckling
demonstrators, Hamilton said.

Dale said all spectators were direct-

the Albany County jurors for the recent

had numerous demonstrations much
larger and much more violent than the
one up there (at Bleecker Stadium), and
in none of those have we had an officer
fire on anyone,” Dale said. “The men.

‘ed to “side exits” on the side of the
stadium farthest from demonstrators,
but “once they got to side exit. many
walked around the other side to their
automobiles or whatever.”

Despite a heavy rainfall the night the
game was played, thousands of persons
| converged on the stadium area to
protest South Africa's apartheid racial
policies. Hundreds of police officers,
State troopers and sheriff's deputies
formed a cordon around the stadium
while the match was being played, but
there was no violence and only a few
arrests on minor charges.

The NAACP statement coniiended

acquittal of John Spearman and Mi-
chael Young, who were arrested on
weapons possession charges hours be-
fore the rugby match.

Spearmdn and Young were described
in the statement as victims of a
“political frame-up.”

“I deny they were framed,” Dale
responded. “The jury found them not
guilty. The reason they found them not
guilty only the jury knows.”

Mayor Erastus Corning I dismissed
the NAACP statement as "just the same
sort of rhetoric that went on last
September.” He said he had no further
reaction.

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How did South Africa cet |

By ATITCHELL HINZ

\ recently released report by the House
Africa subcommittee documents once again
the links between the CIA and South African
attacls on Angolan independence.

The detailed study. released in late
March, attempts to pinpoint U.S. govern-
ment involvement in the actions of the Space
Reseorch Corporation convicted in 1981 for
violating the U.S. arms embargo against
apartheid South Africa.

The study first documents CIA programs
to use U.S. equipment and technology to
help South African and South African-backed
s during their aborted 1975 invasion of
newly mdependent Angola. In addition, the

foros

report implicates several U.S, povernment
agenccres in SRC" Hegal arms deal,
athoneh if fails to attribute any willful
Mselvciment in the seeret deal to any

CRIME Aeencies,

i he South Africans contacted SRC,
ni vwhart UL§ government oreanivations
fetus: knew about the arms shipments is stitt

(\lbany protest
By FRANK T. FITZGERALD
Spectal to the Guardian
Albany, N_Y,,

About 60 members of the Albany
Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism
(CAAR) rallied April 3 to protest
recently revealed U.S. involvement in
arms shipments to the South African
government (see story this page). The
rally was held at noon outside the
Watervliet Arsenal, a U.S. Army facility
which produces about 1000 cannons per
year, and which has been identified as a
major source of arms exported to South
Africa. .

‘We are here to hold our government

14... G UARDIAN-—APRIL 28, 1992

accountable for its own embargo,"’ ex-
plained Fr. Brian O'Shaughnessy, a simply U.S. policy as usual.”’
snerient a ’ celts eresenceintn aimee — -

the subject of much contention, What
is clear, however, is that between 1976 and
1978, the SRC shipped an estimated 60,000
long-range 15mm _ howitzer shells and the
guns to fire them to the South African
government. .

The arms deal, signed in Vermont in April
1976, was also extended to have the American
company provide the South Africans with the
technology and SRC technicians to train the
South Africans to manufacture the howitrer
system themselves. And in a final twist, the
South Africans ended up buying a 20%
interest in SRC, a company with operations in
three countries. The path of the arms to South
Africa involved at least eight countries and
countless intermediaries and third parties.

What concerned the House’ Africa sub-
committee was the high level of involvement
of U.S. government agencies both in initially
pointing the South Africans in SRC’s
direction and in actually helping the U.S.
company manufacture the shells. The
46-page House study, however, uneart ls

edetdheniabeceenean ey Caretenne ee

hits arms sales \.-

Roman Catholic priest ands pokesman for
CAAR. Although antiapartheid groups :
have long been aware of its loopholes ,
and limited effectiveness, an embargo
on arms sales to the South African |
regime has been imposed by the U.S.
government and the UN since 1963.
CAAR spokeswoman Vera ‘'Mike”’
Michelson said, ‘“‘When the Army,
State Department, and CIA join hands
to send millions in arms to South Africa,
what you have,’’ she -stated, “is not
‘systemic laxity,” but ‘systemic poli-
cy’. .. . Support for apartheid, as CAAR
learned last fall when it tried to stop the
South African Springboks rugby game
in Albany,’ Michelson concluded, ‘‘is

™

little new informations on the SRC case.
The report details the link-up of the CIA
with South Africa's ARMSCOR, via John
Frost, a Belgium-based ‘defense consult-
ant’’ who had done work for the CIA in the
past. Frost was enlisted by the CIA to try to
Procure arms for pro-Western forces in
Angola, inevitably working through and with
the South Africans, While noting that the CIA
has issued a blanket denial of
involvement, the report B0¢s on to prove its
general conclusion that the CIA's desire to
promote “‘covert actions in Angola overrode
its obligations to Strictly maintain the arms
embargo."’ The study refuses to go further
than this general statement and nowhere do
the authors ascribe any high level CIA
involvement in specific SRC shipments
When addressing the level of State
Department and Pentagon involvement in
the Space Research case, the report is even
less emphatic. For example, although
the report's authors clearly outline Army
involvement in providing the rough howitzer
shells to SRC that were later shipped to
South Africa, they refuse to ascribe any
willful involvement on the part of the
Defense Department. SRC was permitted to
»btain shells from an Army arsenal because
of ‘ambiguity’ in army requirements that
SRC “certify it is acting on behalf of a
friendly government,'' according to - the
‘Report. This is in spite of the fact that SRC
| Was tequired to provide such certification in

| a previous arms shipment to the government

/ of Israel. In the end, the study's conclusion

phat the Army provided the shells because of
/‘loose and ill-defined procedures’ casts
doubts on the credibility of the entire study,

In a similar ‘account, the Study notes that
the State Department's Office of Munitions

Control (OMC), wrote SRC a letter explain-

ing that “items such as rough, non-machin-
ed nose forgings do not require munitions
export permits,’’ in essence saying that SRC
‘did not require a license to export its shells
from the U.S. Later, the director of the OMC

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reported to the Africa subcommittee staff
that he actually ‘didn’t know if there could
be any rough, non-machined nose forgings”
that weren't arms. Yet the study concludes
that OMC simply “missapplied its own
regulations, "’

When the House Africa subcommittee
held hearings on the basis of this staff
report, the OMC director refused even to
say that the State Department had done
anything wrong. The State Department,
OMC director William Robinson said.
“considers that the SRC case was properly
conducted."

The lengthy government report still leaves
a number of important questions unanswer
ed, The report documents at fess) sis
incidents in which government agencies o»
persons working for them helped §8C wither ty
get the contract with the South Africans or ts
manufacture some of the equipment sen to
the apartheid regime, In addition, the report
notes a number of other incidents in whieh
government agencies probably bnew the
South Africans were coming to sien 9 dea!
with SRC. Yet the report and the he avinyges
that followed refused to conchids thar there
was any willful government involoo ment in
this. illegal arms shipment to South Afric.

Asked to comment on the report, Kenneth
Zinn of the Washington Office on Africa
noted that “the report and the hearings
show that there are gaping holes in the arms
embargo against South Africa.”’ Zinn went
on to point out that the need to enforce the
arms embargo was all the more urgent in
light of the recent Reagan administration
decision to, relax Commerce Department
restrictions on the sale of certain types of
equipment to the South African military
(Guardian, March 17), Perhaps most inter-
esting are recent reports by the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation that Centurion

_tank engines may have been sent to South

Africa along the same routes that SRC’s
howitzers traveled.

As Zinn pointed out, ‘There is not much
of anything left to use as sanctions against
South Africa except enforcement of the arms
embargo. *' —

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Take Our Fight to the World’s People!

Partial List of Endorsers
Biack Student Communications Organizing Network
(BSCON): Federation for Progress. Rep Mickey Leland
U.S. Congress, Texas: *William H Booth, President
American Committee on Africa: Rev limothy Mitchell
“Ebenezer Baptist Church. Mike Young, Communist
Workers Party; Coalition of Concerned Black Women; Rev
Dr. William A. Jones, *National Black Pastors Conference
Ossie Davis; Ruby Dee: New York TransAfrica Rev. Fred
Douglas Kirkpatrick, Black Theology Project; Barbara
Valentine, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner 8-A
President, People's Co-op Washington, 0.C.; Kojo
Nnambi, News Director, WHUR-Radio: Dr Manning
Marable, Professor, Cornell University: Roger Green, New
York State Assemblyman: Fr. Paul Washington, 1st
Church of the Advocate. Philadeiphia, Pa.: Dave
Richardson, Pa. State Representative: imari Abubakari
adele, President of the Republic of New Africa: Prot

“Hita Smith, *Pan-African Department. femple University,

Philadelphia, Pa.; Boston Coalition for the Liberation of
Southern Africa (BCLSA), Boston, Mass.: South West
African People's Organization: Pan-Africanist Congress of
Azania; Rev. Dr. Fred Williams. Church of the

March to the U.N. May 22!

AFRICAN
LIBERATION
DAY 1982

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SELF-DETERMINATION AND EQUAL RIGHTS FOR BLACK PEOPLE FROM THE U.S. TO S. AFRICA!
EQUALITY, JOBS, JUSTICE AND PEACE! sia
STRENGTHEN AND EXTEND THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT! NO TAX-EXEMPTIONS FOR RACIST SCHOOLS!
NO DEPORTATION, NO CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR HAIT IAN REFUGEES!
HANDS OFF THE CARIBBEAN! U.S. OUT OF EL SALVADOR!
FULL SANCTIONS AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA! FREEDOM FOR NAMIBIA, VICTORY TO SWAPO!

The lives and freedoms of Black people in the U.S., southern
Africa and the Caribbean are threatened by an onslaught of
unprecedented scale an ferocity, and the Reagan ad-
ministration is spearhea g the attack. REAGANISM IS
BLACK GENOCIDE,

In Florida, the bodies of over 200 drowned Haitian refugees
have washed up on the beaches. In Atlanta, 30 Black children
are murdered. In Buffalo, seven Black men are killed, their
bodies mutilated. In Boston, 14 Black women are murdered,
At least 150 Blacks have been wantonly slain, no one brought
to justice, and the body count multiplies daily. These racist
attacks are encouraged by the Reagan administration.

The Voting Rights Act is under assault. In Alabama, the
government jails two Black women for helping other Blacks
excercise their basic right to vote. The government is moving
to bring ona second, historic reversal of the democratic rights
of Black people in this country, The first reversal in 1877 (the
Hayes-Tilden Compromise) rolled back all the gains won
from the Civil War and Reconstruction. Now Reagan is try-
ing to reverse every gain in basic democratic rights won by
Blacks since the 1950s, to bring back Klan nightriders, lynch-
mob terror, and Jim Crow, 80s-style.

Reagan would subsidize racism by allowing tax-exemptions
for racist schools. Budget cuts in education will destroy a
whole generation of Black leadership. Black unemployment
is at least 30 percent, and over 50 percent among Black youth.

1 am definitely interested in helping to build for
African Liberation Day 1982 at the U.N. on May 22,

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I would like to:
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And with daycare centers closed due to budget cuts, working
women are forced to quit their jobs in order to care for
children. Black-owned businesses are being buried in an
avalanche of bankruptcies because of high interest rates,
Reagan’s record $200-$300 billion budget deficits — fueled
by bloated hikes in military spending and perverse tax cuts for
the rich are robbing the poor to pay the rich.

Reagan says ‘wait, give my programs a chance.’’ Wait for
what — more bodies of dead Black children, men and
women? We can’t wait because waiting means more Blacks
voteless, jobless, homeless and dead.

Reagan calls South Africa a “friendly nation.”’ The apart-
heid regime steps up repression against the Black South
African majority, launches terrorist raids into Angola, takes
a new offensive in Namibia and plots assassinations against
Black-ruled Africa. When the UN moves to condemn the
racist regime for its invasion of Angola, the U.S. protects
apartheid by vetoing the resolution. The Reagan administra-
tion moves to break South African isolation by removing ex “™
port/import restrictions, meeting secretly and illegally with ws
South African military officials, and equipping them with the
latest technologies of warfare and terror.

Reagan's support of Black slavery in South Africa also rears
its disgusting head in the Caribbean, His racist immigration
policy condemns Haitian refugees to concentration camps,
deportations and death by drowning. Interfering in the inter-
nal affairs of Caribbean and Central American nations, try-
ing to send U.S. troops to El Salvador and to destabilize
Grenada, Jamaica, and Nicaragua — these are just a few of
the Reagan atrocities,

Reagan’s genocidal war against Black people must be stop-
ped and the government punished for its war crimes. But as
Malcolm X said, ‘You don’t take your case to the criminal,
you take your criminal to court.”” We can’t take our plight to
the White House because the criminal is Reagan — the U.S.
government has proven itself to be the chief perpetrator of
Black genocide. Black people have no other recourse but to
take our cause over Reagan's head, and present our indict-
ments before the world's peoples.

This is the 10th anniversary of African Liberation Day, tradi-
tionally a day of protest and solidarity. 1982 has also been
declared the “International Year of Mobilization for Sanc-
tions Against South Africa’’ by the UN Committee Against
Apartheid,

In 1982, Black people have no voice, save our own. Hear this &
call and join the people of the world to protest Black genocid

from the United States to South Africa. Let our feet march as

one, Our voices thunder in unison. Our cause is just and we
must fight to make our victory certain!

Settvers:.

- geese

Area residents join 400

By Joe Mahoney
Statt Writer |

Wilkinson, the Imperial Wizard of the
Ku Klux Klan of the U.S, decked out in
the white vestments and tall, pointy cap
that are the symbols of the Klan's
message of racisrn.

Flanking him were 22 other Klans-
men, including several children, all of
them holding American flags.

“We believe in. segregation of the

races because it is our Christian belief,” ia

Wilkinson’s amplified voice crackled
over a sound system.

Standing in a sea of 400 anti-Klan
demonstrators, waving a cardboard
placard that said “No racism here,”
was Jim McCoy of Guilderland.

“This is a divisive technique by the
Kian,” said McCoy, a slender black man
who is a librarian at Hudson Valley
Community College in Troy. “Rather
than trying to bring the Americans
together, they are driving them apart
and sowing the seeds of hate.”

McCoy spoke in a voice that had gone
hoarse from yelling at the wizard.

The wizard drove into Vermont —
the first state in the Union to outlaw
slavery -- in a cream-colored Mercedes
Benz sedan with Connecticut license
plates “KIGY.”

It was Wilkinson's first trip to
Vermont and the Klan's second foray
into this state in two weeks in an effort

tion for the Advancement of Colored
People and the anti-apartheid

Germany, We can't sit idly by because
these people are dangerous and we need
to stop them in their tracks,” Josey
Said.

Separating the Klan from the crowd
were about 40 Vermont state troopers
and about 25 Brattleboro police offi-
cers.

Police kept video cameras trained on
the demonstrators, who were vocal —
they shouted, “Cone Heads, Get out of

Police reported no arrests and no
serious incidents,

"Its very ératifying that the 400
people here all seem to be Opposed to
these clowns who are a disgrace to
America and a disgrace to the dead
veterans,” said Irv Landa of Albany,
head of the New York Chapter of the
Gray Panthers. .

Pearl Campbell of Albany, an activ-

ist in the nuclear weapons freeze
campaign, said “This sort of thing
exacerbaivs hatred

into thinking we need more weaponry.”

She was Snapping pictures of the
demonstration with a pocket camera so
she could send photographs to her
daughter and son-in-law in California.

"They would be here, too, if they could,”
she said. nit
Mike Dollard, a New York State Civil
Service personnel Specialist and presi-
dent of the anti-apartheid group, said of
the Klan, “These people are an abomi-
nation. This is the same way Hitler
started in 1923 and he wound up

2. —-_ -

“Lf you want a definition of a terrorist
organization, it’s the Kian,” said Vera
Michelson of Albany, “They try to feed
on racism and people being out of jobs.”

Wilkinson denounced affirmative ac-
tion programs and saluted the Reagan
administration and “free enterprise.”

He called for school Segregation,
cutbacks in unemployment benefits and
4 round-up of what he termed “illegal
aliens.”

“You're the only illegal alien here,”
somebody in the crowd called out.

Vermont State Police Major Jarnes

he said,

inety minutes after the rally began,
the Klansmen filed off the Razebo and

neem.

membership rally in Vt,

“Ryan said the troopers had been
strained by having to come out in large
numbers at the Klan rallies. “It's
something I wish wasn't here, but it is,”

held back by police. One
Klansmen taunted the demons

of a pick-up truck that
accelerate.

climbed into their vehicles as the anti-
Klan crowd Surging toward them was
of the
raters,
Shouting “white power” from the back
had begun to

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2 More to Sue Uy iy, Over Kugby Arrests

The notices yet claim £075 2 men’s Claims, which char {dn the | charge malicious prosecution,”
men were filed by Albany can city, Police Chief Thomas countered Oliver.
ney Lewis Oliver, who is airendy Detectives John Tanchak, Lt. Wil- —s last night, Michael-

representing Estis in his suit liam gh | and ‘“‘unknown| son said fund to su
against the ci hoagy heh nb pag others" with false arrest, false} her su es ee ey athe s she
bers of the age malicious prose- oe

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pgp a -bg rrtemeeta Bg such actions are

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The national om .” Seven
‘some td months later, ss attacked
mer Pearl Harbor Fas United —
within 90 days of the te States was catapulted into World
quittal, whi they needed to] War Mo

Ae re ae

pete sk Mipseps sn rig Pas .
$ apartment on
ae match. Young, too, was ar-
rested when Albany police and
FBI agents stormed into the
apartment,
Michaelson and Estis were

to to Albany Cou County Jail. Michael-
tree days there, Estis
near a week. The charges
them were later
bit both conten were fa
: night risoned and denied their
fu

t to participate in the peace-

was cha with crimi-

nal yasmausn of 5 cape chee
ny. He and Spearman, both
members of the Communist

Spearman had been arrested
the evening before while sitting in
Young's car parked in a Albany
State University parking lot
across Washington Avenue from
the Best Western Thruway House
where the South African fone

Police dabeak at Ps time that
they had found a loaded 38 ¢a!i-
ber revolver under the front seat
of the car. A loader for that

wr afehachon® sparen
1

chaelson’s apartinent

later indlowed by Spearman were |
ose eee |
. pon fury on the weapon pos.
KORN TE a charge. rn Maret 4
following a five-day trial in which
the two men were defended by
famed radical lawyer William
Kunstler, the jury found the men
i ——

ee bE fe
jrea, R-Saratoga Springs, and Joan Hague, R-Glens
who were placed in the same district by the legislative
were glad to learn t'«~ would have districts of their
n the master’s plan.

certainty over which plan will be adopted is keeping
elections officials busy answering questions, many of

S Bee we

posed by would-be candidates who are preparing to
i circulating petitions June 22.

CONnSISting OL filma wi PRUMPMIDY BAUM ke Be) ee OU

and New Scotland. The of the master’s map made
available to the press this week is hard to read, but it appears
to put Conners in a district that consists ¢* art of Albany and
the town of Colonie — home of Repui in Assemblyman
Michael Hoblock.

The Legislature had created a heavily Democratic “river

Albany County and tne smai MONEE LLaUy CUuney Coo.
Princetown and Duanesburg.

“My own feeling is the master’s plan is probably fairer,”
Nolan said. “My own thought all along is that the wayt — ve
reapportionment done would be to have each party to, .« a
dean of a major law school and have those two in turn pick a

district,” straddling the Hudson River between Albany and

wm Oe Ke
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ime

JF HOME ~ Delmar resident Antoine
transiates Thursday's news accounts of

Knickerbocker News Reporter

Nearly 10 months after the contro-
versial rugby game that brought Al-
bany international attention, the city,
county and state face possible lawsuits
from two apartheid protestors.

A lawyer for Michael Young and
John Spearman has filed notice of their
intent to sue. Young and Spearman,
both of New York City, were acquitted
March 6 of weapons charges by an
Albany County jury.

The two were arrested’hours before
the South African Springboks rugby
team played in Albany's. Bleecker
Stadium Sept. 22. Police charged they
found a gun in Young’s car, which
Spearman was driving, and ammuni
tion in an apartment where Young was
staying.

Attorneys for Young and Spearman
contended police planted the gun and
‘ammunition... 6%) 0) patarod >

The notice of claim filed against the
city for Young and Spearman by

. Albany attorney Lewis Oliver charges

“the city, Police Chief Thomas Burke,

oon ;

Knickerbocker News/Tom LaPeint

the Israelis advance toward Beirut for his mother,
Georgette Gerbini of Lebanon.

Detective John Tanchak, LL William

arut’s troubles hit close oe "Murray and “unknown. others” !with >

‘false arrest, false. imprjsopment, mali-
: denial of. bail,

third independent person to conduct a reapportionment.”
«| 2 rugby protesters
threaten lawsuits

By SUSAN oninaeet® f2. At the time of the acquittal, Albany

County District Attorney Sol Greenberg
was critical of the jury’s decision,
saying “the fact of the matter is that the
gun was in the car.”

Albany police have also denicd
previous charges that Young and
Spearman were victims of a “political
frameup.”

With the legal action taken by Younr
and Spearman, the city now has four
such cases resulting from arresis
related to the Springboks game

Vera Michelson of Albany and Aaron
Estis of Massachusetts already have
filed notices of clair against the city

Estis and Ms, Michelson were arre:'
ed during a raid on Ms. Michelson:
Central Avenue apartment, wher:
Young was staying, but charges ©!

ion of marijuana and firewor!
later were dismissed in Albany Police
Court.
Estis, represented by Oliver, and Ms.
‘ Michelson, represented by Albany at-
“torney Anita Thayer, are each seeking
$1 million from the city for alleged

* violations of their civil rights.

Albany City ation Counsel

( Vincent McArdle said Thursday the

py
3 @ «>, cious prosecution, | Of ball, civil < faise arrest charges filed by Estis and
home for Delmar family) 832 3 Mier it
4 violations of the First, Fourth, . af ;
: _ Sixth and Eighth nrendiment ot the *' "Under munitipal law, the city now
By BRUCE SCRUTON Mr. and Mrs. Gerbini were born in Turkey where US. Constitution.'"© 87) peo" 1 has the.option of conducting a hearing
Knickerbocker Mews Reporter their Lebanese parents lived because it was safer Oliver said he also.filed hotices of to determine if the dispute can be
MAR — Antoine Gerbini laughed as he read there for Christians than in French-occupied | claim against the county ap . _—S- resolved without court action.

e service dispatch. “Civilians armed with
hine guns? That's a contradiction.”
connie cmmenee:-wt the room. his oarents

Lebanon, They moved to Beruit 50 years ago when it
became safer for Christians in Lebanon. -

_ With the creation of Israel from Palestine in 1948,

enim tus tinate e “ . =

Park

eS se homie caste
2 _ 2 rugby protester

* ‘hws deenenalvatcte, uttataa og

Es ramet hein evel ta” Albany,

have filed netics they intend to wes the elty for what
claim was a violation of their constitute

a peta, sig

* - , Michael Young and John Spearman filed their

prc< the number of such claims that have been file@. ..

ee rere City Corporation Counsel Vincent J. McArdle said

Thursday the city will argue the claims were

improperly filed because they came more than 90

days after the rugby match.

Both men argue they were improperly arrested
and detained by authorities so that they the
anti-apartheid demonstrations that accom the
match.

Spearman and Young were among nine

.. arrested in connection with protests at the Bleecker
. Stadium match between the South African —
«7 Springboks rugby team and an ali-star American
2+ eam. Both were acquitted of felony weapons ¢harges
March 6 in Albany County court. Notices of Gaims
have alse been filed against the city by Vera
Michaelson, of Albany, and Aaron Estis, of
Sommerville, Mass. Misdemeanor charges against
these two were dismissed in police court.

oy se tae eee eeree

+, Out,

., Africa, uni « s you happen to

The GOPers have been a! it most of the week
down in here York City, whee!ing, dealing, cajoling;
shouting, whispering and shaking hands with
avy thing thot moves — and » ‘ot of things that don't.

Next weck, the Demos wl be carrying on the
same way tp in Syracuse, © © with less chance of
getting mig ced.

it's novi nating time,
endorsemey go unheard Ar
the American way. It isn’t al)
clinker in te erep, you can

let no bellowing
ke it or lump it, it's

“ays vote the rascal

available in South
as white as a chunk

This deriecracy-for-all is

d, either. If there's a .

{

- Ralph Martin:
ai arge .

ce aK

Piecterese was q)ock with the pat answers on last
year’s rugby broulaha in Albany. No, his govern-
ment didn't back .t. No, he didn't find anything
wrong with it. An’, yes, he thought too much was

made of it.
Case closed — or is it?)

cake

AIrica © ge:

and give them better jobs. @ Aff 2-

But Pieterese retreated to present-day reality
when it came to “one man, one vote” for blacks. He
said if will never happen.

Pieterese didn't wait for a scornful flance before
explaining the black tribes — a dozen or <o that
speak a babel of tongues ~— don't really want to b:
part of the central government. He suid they are
jealous of one another and don't want to jose the
independence they fear integration would bring

This may or may not be poppycock (there wasn't
a Zulu in sight to give a counter view), bat the faet
is, is a far different political game in South Africa
than in democracies as we know thern,

It is a country rooted in colonialism, siraciured

+ of ivory. ‘sians, coloreds an) blacks needn't fret
sqabout beir, promised a turkey it Christmas for the
. weight vote Ciey can’t vote.

@ I left Pieterese with the feeling the Springbok

along class ij Pp ways and
protesters didn't do all that prancing around in the B class lines, laced with primitive ways an

diminished by exploitation. There are obviousiy no

in the wor'¢: To boost racist South Africa. That's. —

*A chap :amed Henning Pieterese stopped by the
office the o her day, and it wasn't many clipped
English woris before I realized how lucky I am to
live in thiscuntry,

Poor Pie's rese has one of the most uneviable jobs _

‘akin to the « hallenges facing a tobacco lobbyist at

an emphyseiia seminar,

>. PIETER! SE CAME ACROSS as a smoothie. He's

only 26, bul :arries the maturity you'd expect from

a more sei:oned vice consul. Maybe being asked |

about apaitieid, Springboks, blacks in diamond
mines and \hites in diamonds has something to do

" With the agirg process,

Bia

rain for nothing, They got their message across. It
helped increase awareness of the human rights issue
in South Africa, Thanks to the fuss they stirred up,

- people who didn’t know apartheid from canned
pears found out something is amiss. ;

They learned Asians.and coloreds (those of mixed .

racial lines) can't vote. They learned. 17, million

blacks (out of a population of some 24 million) can't »

vote. They learned about 4 million whites can voie.
And all this learning has embarrassed the ruling
class, or so it seems

PIETERESE INDICATED as much when he said
there is a movement afoot to give voting rights to
“the Asians and coloreds, He hinted at it when he said

_ there is a growing sentiment to educate the blacks

quick fixes for its plight,

But changes will come. Pieterese said as much
World conscience demands it. The cries for justice
won't be silenced. But it will take time.

As for Americans, the time has long since come --
thanks to a constitution that has given equal
opportunity to all and years of struggle to guarantee
this opportunity. ¢

Critics of any questionable wheeling and dealing
in the Big Apple or in Syracuse should be aware of
this and be thankful for our political process,
imperfect as it may be. | eae

Things could be a heck of aJot worse ~ like being

* ‘a non-white in South Africa.”

m *

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5
4
”

Rights Unit Parley

7 ith

re rr

allele

At 7 Monday Nig ght

; Be

the Kiu Khar Seas arek
lem in the south. Nazism was

wi out in World War I.

ost everyone knows that nel-
ther of these statements is true, if

they ever were. For racism and

anti-Semitism have been prob-
lems for some * gore. as there

have been people.

And, pe ao lems
do and have always though the problems
have never ines | any ad or
community-threatening incidents
in this area. A small but growing
organization in Schenectady

wants to assure that this remains

the case,

+ * |
Founded. earlier this spring as
an arm of the local Human Rights
Commission was the Sc dy
County Committee to Combar
Racism and Anti-Semitism,
which will be holding a planning
meeting at go Monday on the
first floor of the county Court-
house.
To be discussed at the session,
open to anyone interested, is a fall
rogram on “Dealing With a

arent to Our munity: In-
creased Picture’ en nti 5 Tard
tism.*

While local incidents may be
small and isolated cases, they are
happening, committee and com-
mission chairman James Stamp-
er and George Roman, Human
Rights Commission executive
director, noted,

And “the committee believes it
is critical that the awareness of
the community ... be raised .
with an increase in the number of
incidents of racism and anti-Se-
mitism and the klan movin
closer to New York,” they contin-
ued, alluding to the two recent
KKK rallies in Vermont,

Statistics show, Roman said,
that the number of incidents re.

orted to the Anti-Defamation
Aague were up 100 percent dur-
ing t oteel wart at is year and
that several police agencies in the
state have re rising num-
bers of racial and ethnic prob-
lems,

* 8 ¥
The local committee actually

s Dy St ee hit
fo poring neg hoe gi Feni-

of the NAACP senonry became
highly perplexed and concerned
—— ver repented questions when

net somebody was aski ing
tions, there had to be ing
there.” And so she went to work,
soliciting help and su from
the Human Rights jon.
At the earlier meeting, attended
there) by nearly 300, a circu ated ques-
ire showed that 95
felt some type of permanent,
working community organization
and program was necessary and
that 65 percent would become in-
volved. The Committee to Com. |

bat Racism and ead Semitism

was bors.
e's

ns is “to dramatize the
debil effects the increased

activity of the Klo Kiux Klan and
the neo-Nazis in this country will
have on us here In

“The violent Klu Klux Klan and :
the neo-Nazis do pose a real

threat to American society as

1 as the two groups es
aod direct their ouilaee y of

hate and venom toward blacks,
Jews and other minorities. Their
distorted views affect every man,
woman and child in America.

. we to make citizens of
the commun ty aware of the dan-
ger er and te their concerns in

ion of constructive, pre-

ventive actions,” Stamper and
Roman igen

it is owe aah, & this pur-
pose through four standing com-
mittees, that have, so far, helped

&j develop a training ram for

city policemen, conducted a
workshop for area school offi-
cials, asked 400 cler to dis-
cuss the dangers of racism and
anti-Semitic activity and estab-
lished a speakers bureau and a
film library, available to an
roup or orga —— laterested.
€ count has also pre-
pared a bi ts chy of feet. oe
available on , terrorism,
racism, anti- Pro cental ete.

And the commission, Roman
ee ee is asking that anyone
information pos hey a
dent “no matter how minor it
age appear,” to contact his office
in the courthouse, 612 State St., so
that records can be maintained
and any —, dese spotted.

‘toe erguniantinns sup-
ee commission through |
pvelvamant in the new commit- |
tee are the Albany and Schenecta-
ro NAACPs, the | local Interfaith

ommunity, Schenectady Inner
City Ministry, the Troy NAACP,
the Albany and Schenectady Uni-
tarian churehes, Albany Preaby-
tery, Troy Human Rights
Commission, the Schenectady
Roman Catholic Deanery and the
Schenectady B'nai B'rith, Friends
of the Schenectady Library, the
local Jewish Federation, Al-
bany Urban League and the Cath-
olic Diocese’s Peace and Justice
Committee, |

Why is the Klan Organizing in Vermont?
Who encourages Klan activity in our
area? Why are Klanemen running for
office across the country a6 Democrats?
Come hear discussion on these issues and
Join in the anti-Klan Organizing.

COME HEAR A DISCUSSION LEAD BY: :

VERA "MIKE" MICHELSON, Coalition Against Apartheid & Racism

ODELL WINFIELD, Mational Black Ind. Pol. Party

MICHAEL KOZAK, Socialist Workers Party |

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Capital District Coalition

Against Apartheid
and Racism

Box 3002 — Pine Hills Station
Albany, NY 12203

July 8, 1982

Chairman ******PRESS RELEASE***#*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
M. J. Dollard

‘ Contact:
Vice-Chairman o Anita Thayer

G3. Josey 462-6753 - days

Vera Michelson
489-1767 ~- evenings

NATIONAL ANTI-KLAN LEADER HELPS LOCAL ANTI-KLAN FIGHT

Rene Dubose, noted Anti-Ku Klux Klan activist and Baltimore,

Maryland civil rights leader, will hold a press conference at the Albany

Airport in the News Media Room on Wednesday, July 14, 1982 at 1:15 PM.

All press is invited to attend.

Two KKK rallies in Vermont this May and incidents of local Klan

im. -ivity have prompted the Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid

and Racism to hold a July 14, 1982 educational forum on the Ku Klux Klan.

Ms. Rene Dubose, the chairperson of People United Against Government

Repression and the Klan/Nazis, a national organization based in Maryland,

will speak on "The KKK: Closer Than You Think", Wednesday, July 14 at

7:30 PM at the Albany United Methodist Society (formerly St. Luke's
Church) at the corner of Clinton and Lexington Avenue, Albany.

Ms. Dubose is a staff member and national organizer for the American
Federation for Government Employees, and a former public school educator.
She will speak about her experiences in the State of Maryland which had
the highest level of Klan activity of any state in 1981.

In announcing the forum, Vera Michelson, forum committee chair said,

‘he first step in fighting racists like the Klan is to understand who
pee are and how they operate. The next time the Klan rallies near our
city we will be ready with even more demonstrators than in May."

The sponsor of this event, the Capital District Coalition Against
Apartheid and Racism was organized one year ago and spearheaded the
opposition to the September 22, 1982 rugby game with South Africa.

Over thirty local organizations and churches have endorsed this

\ important event.

WeiAeer acme.
RSENS NIA CANONS ACANN ANDRAS ier aheisery/canrmenuny

AY Laat wiles

Capital District Coalition

Against Apartheid
and Racism

Box 3002 — Pine Hills Station
Albany, NY 12203

Chairman
M. J. Dollard FEW ES ._._£_RELEA SE
Vice-Chairman For immediate release: For further information:
E. J. Josey — July 16, 1982 Michael J. Dollard
(518) 457-2952 (work)
(518) 436-8008 (home)
CA PITTA & pol Ee RS Ce ee ee Gy ae He ae aoe sy v.28. Ss
THREAT FROM KLAN

As a direct result of its recent work in opposition to the Ku
Klux Klan, the Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism has

uw ceived a threat from the Klan.

On Thursday, July 15th, a cleaner at the United Methodist Center
at Lexington and Clinton in Albany, found a manila envelope addressed to
Rene’ Dubose c/o the United Methodist Center. Ms. Dubose, a prominant
anti-Klan activist from Washington DC,had been the guest and principal
speaker at the Coalition sponsored workshop "KKK - Closer Than You Think"
the previous evening at the United Methodist Center.

Inside the manila envelope was a second envelope, also addressed

to Ms. Dubose, and bearing a large sticker reading, “The Ku Klux Klan is
watching you!"

Inside the second envelope was an assortment of Ku Klux Klan
..lling cards stapled to a letterhead of the "Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.”

These cards contained a variety of messages including one that read, "You

have been paid a friendly visit by the Ku Klux Klan. Should we pay you a

real visit?"

The Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism considers this
incident to be a direct threat against itself and against its guest, Ms.
Dubose. It is also a direct threat against all of the good and decent

i ** MORE **

This incident certainly reinforces the theme of the Coalition's
public education program "The KKK - Closer Than You Think." The KKK is
closer than you think! It is here in the Capital District. It was at the
United Methodist Center early in the morning of July 15th. It also was in
the Town of Bern last fall when a cross was burned. It was on New Scotland
Ave. and on Hackett Blvd. when anti-Semetic stamps and posters were
plastered on store fronts and on the doors of a synagogue.

The Coalition believes that this community must defend itself
against attacks by the Klan. We strongly believe that a community can best
defend itself when it is aroused, organized and knowledgable. Rather than
being deterred by threats such as that received at the United Methodist
Behter, the Coalition is determined to push on even harder and faster with
the educational program that was successfully kicked off Wednesday night by
Ms. Dubose's workshop for some 200 persons. A film series on the Klan will
begin in September, and Coalition speakers will be available to churches,
schools, community groups, senior citizens’ groups, etc. throughout the
summer and fall. The Coalition will also be promoting the National Education
Association curriculum on the Klan for adoption by local school districts.
The best defense is surely a strong offense. Ignorance, racism and hatred
cannot survive in the clear bright light of truth and knowledge.

The Coalition is reporting this incident to the Albany police

and making the threat documents available to them. Any subsequent incidents

11 similarly be reported immediately to the police.

* 30 *

Against Aparthe ¢
and Racism

Box 3002 ~ Pine Hille Station
Albany, NY 12203

RKK - CLOSER TRARH You ut oR"
A community Response Workshop

7:30pm Wednesday July 14, 1982
United Methodist Center
Clinton and Lexington
Albany, NY

* Z£RPtARCOR VC tr OR AND WeA@LbLCoMmME *
Michael J. Dollard, Co-Chair
Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism

* MODERATOR ®
Cora Watkins, Co-Chair
Capital District Chapter,
National Black Independent Political Party

ENDORSEMENTS AND LETTERS OF 8YUFP PORT ®*

* SPBAK SBR: *
Vera "Mike" Michaelson
Community Activist
Member of the Steering Committee,
Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism

* S€FAPCRAERRTS OF LO GAs
Viec?PtT he. 28h BY Fa

* AP PRAL ¥F-O38 9 BBS aC: O42 5.6.7.5.0.2..*°
Money is desperately needed to fund the Coalition's
work of community information and outreach, Please
give til it hurts! Every penny, every nickle helps
to get out the word of who the Klan is, how it
operates, and how to fight back. |

* 8@PRAKER*

Rene’ Du Bose
Community Activist

Member, Coalition Against Nazi/Klan Repression (Washington, Dc)
Organizer of Community Response Workshops in several areas of the country

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BEWDORSERS

Very Rev. Wilbur Hogg, Episcopal Bishop of Albany

Rev. David Ball, Dean, Cathedral of All Saints

Rev. William Roland, Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church

Rabbi Harry Rothstein, Congregation Bnai Sholom

Rev. Nellis Trombley, St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
Rev. Louis Brewer, Union Missionary Baptist Church

Rev. Allen Brown, Sojourner Truth A M E Zion Church

Rev. Randy Brown, Duryvee Memorial A M E Zion Chutch

Rev. Dr. Minnie L. Burns, Universal Baptist Temple

Rev. William Callahan, Riverview Baptist Church

Rev. David Giles, Shenendehowa United Methodist Church
Rev. James Murphy |

Rev. George Poole, Mt. Moriah Baptist Church

Rev. Dr. Walter Taylor, United Methodist Center

Peace and Justice Commission, Albany Roman Catholic Diocese
Capital Distric New Jewis Agenda

Albany YWCA

Labor Organizations:

Albany Teachers' Union
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Union

Public Employeees Federation, Division 202

United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America

Community Organizations :

Anchor Association
Alpha Delta Sorority

American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee
Capital District Grey Panthers

Capital District National Lawyers' Guild

Capital District Gay Community Inc.

Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES)
Democratic Socialist of America

Departtierit of African/Afro-American Studies, SUNYA
National Black Independent Political Party
NAACP _~- Albany branch

NAACP ~ Schenectady branch

Socialist Workers’ Party

Stop the War Drive Committee

Tri-Cities Alternatives to Violence Program
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Young Socialist Alliance

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Nebraska Brace

Nancy Burton
Arthur Mitchell

Clarence Parker

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society which aavocates white supremacy. The Xk

The an began in the 1950's rights after the civil war, when its

nies broke the Sikimatieued tan Governnents sn the Sou
imposed white racist rule.

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With white wah boheol ideted i the
South, “~ original xian was ap soem in ihe

The Klan was reborn at Stone Hountain, Guereie in 1915. This

new Klan was Siteined not only at Black people, but alse eeaiant

Roman Catholics, Jews and the foreign born. The Klan's influence

Spread outside of the South and became established in states such

as Colorado, indianna, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Oregon. Mysterious

meetings with fiery crosses and masked members robed in
became symbolic of the Klan.

sheets

To instill fear the Klan used whip-

pings, brandings, mtitilation and hangings. The Klan numbered as

many as six million members at its peak in the 1°20's, but by 1944

it was again disbanded.

The Klan was revived in Georgia in 1945 in reaction to the

movement for increased cévil rights for Black people. As the Civil

Rights Movement gained strength, unfortunately so did the Klan.

During the 1950's many bombings and murders were attributed to the

Klan, including the 1°35 murder of Viola Liuzzo, a civil rights

worker, for which three Klansmen were convicted,

In the 1670's and 80's the Klan has only a small percentage

a of its peak membership of the 20's ~ perhaps 15,000 members nation-

wide - but they are as dangerous as ever:

- On November 3, 197° a Klan mob attacked an unarmed anti-

Klan rally in Greensboro, NC and killed five of the
strators,

~ On April 1°, 1980 three Klansmen burned a cross in the

Black community in Chattanooga, TN and went on a random
ie shooting spree, wounding five Black women.

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THE KLAN TODAY

The Klan is no longer a single organisation, ut fue ‘Soekee”
into a rowniagd of Sects:

* nei. retina rights of rs ‘Ku Klux” Klan

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* New order Knights ‘of the Ku Klux Klan

* United Klans of America ‘

* Death Knights of the KKK

ad Adamie Knights of the KKK

* Confederation of Independent Orders of the KKK

The largest of these sects are the United Klans of America
heded by Robert Shelton, and the Invisible Empire, Knights of the
Ku Klux Klan headed by Wilkinson. These sects frecuently work with
with any one of a number of racist and facist fringe groups such
as the Christian Anti-Jewish Party, the National States Rights Party
and the American Nazi Party. In North Carolina Nazis and Klansmen

have openly formed a "United Racist Front."

It is the Invisible Empre Klan that is trying to establish
itself in New England and Eastern New York. Wilkinson himself has
appeared at Klan rallies in Vermont and Connecticut during 1°82.
The Invisible Empire Klan is regarded as the most militaristic and
violence prone of the so-called “national” Klans. In 1°30 and 1°81
alone, more than 250 members of this Klan have been arrested for
crimes ranging from illegal possession of weapons to murder.

While historically always armed, the Klan of the 1°80's has a
trained para-military arm. frained by former soldiers at places
like "Camp My Lai’ near Culman, Alabama or the camp near Warrior,
Alabama, or at the suspected training camps in North Carolina.
Pennsylvania, Connecticut and other states, these people are well

armed and dangerous. The Klansmen Who shot and killed the demon-

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He tells reporters that he trains buen eo- ged in weaponry merely
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for reasons of self defense. : ee PEavete. oeepeee his story is

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He is known to have made the following statements;
"I'm the only Klan leader who believes in having guns around".

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“These guns aren't for shooting rabbits, they’ re for wasting people”

‘we believe dn violence, Shere’ # no Gombe about that’. "we're

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Racism coalition to meet

The Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism
invites the public to a forum on the history and
recent activities of the Ku Klux Klan on Wednesday,
July 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Albany United Methodist
Church, corner of Clinton and Lexington Avenues,
Albany.

speaker will be Renee Dubose of Washington, who
will offer a national perspective. The meeting will
be followed by a group discussion of local events.

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Anti-Klan
Forum Wed.
In Albany

ALBANY — The Coalition
—_ Aparthied and Racism
sponsor an Anti-Klan Forum
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at 8t.
Luke's Church at Clinton and Lex-
ington avenues.

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Rene Dubose, chairman of the
Peoples United Against Klan and
Nazi Repression, a Maryland-
based national anti-Kian
will speak about the Ku Kiux
5 and how to organize against -
t. ’

The forum has been organized
in response to recent Klan activi-
ties in Vermont, says Vera Mi-_
chelson, spokesman for the
coalition.

The title of Dubose’s re
tion is to be “The KKK: Clover
Than You Think.”

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Alarmed by an increase of what it Says are racist
and anti-Semitic activities locally and across the

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Civil r ights leader uit pect aad | ism > Kidking aoe wane a
, leaders hope will be a Sustained effort to educate

to speak on K lan _ the public about the Klan,

As part of its program, the coalition is bringing

Rene Dubose, a civil rights leader and anti-Ku Klux Rene Dubose, a leading foe of the Klan in Maryland,
Klan activist, will talk on the spread of the Klan to Albany Wednesday.
Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the Albany United , According to Vera Michelson, a member of the
Methodist Society, Clinton and Lexington avenues, coalition's steering commitice, Ms. Dubose is known »
Albany. - nationally for her anti-Klan work.

Dubose is a national organizer for American The Maryland activist will s ak on ways to fight
Federation For Government Employees and chair- the Klan at St. Luke's Church tn Albany at 730 (eg

person of People United Against Government sn —

Repression and the Klan/ os:
Group protests WQBK

Nazis, a Maryland-based
organization. ~
y» interview with Klansman
ut GLENMONT ~— “KKK Go, Go Away,” read the

Her talk, entitled, “The
KKK: Closer Than You |

homemade cardboard signs protesting a phone
interview with a top Ku Klux Klan leader on radio

Think,” is Sponsored by the j

Capital District Coalition

Against Apartheid. : #

_ Citing recent Kian ral- nel

lies in Vermont, coalition 4 njstation WQBK scheduled for Sunday afternoon.
\ ‘The protesters found out about the interview
\V earlier in the afternoon while participating in an

uN anniversary celebration of the Sandinista victory
\ oyer the Samoza regime in Nicaragua, held in

member Vera Michelson * : _
- Said, “The Klan-type men. | ey.
Albany's Lincoln Park. They numbered about 30, said

: tality is something we rea)-
: ly have to be aware of

In recent months, She added, a black family John Wolcott, a member of the Capital District
Schenectady has received KK Coalition against Apartheid and Racism.
; WS 2 Cross-burning incident in the town of Berne. . “We didn't feel they should be given a platform to
The coalition plans to explore the promote hatred and violence,” Wolcott said Sunday
. aving New York schools adopt’ a afternoon, shortly after the picket in the radio station
. curriculum which raises consciou parking lot.

Klan’s message of racism. : Radio station officials could not be reached for

comment, but the interview with Ku Klux Klan
Imperial Wizard Bill Wilkinson was scheduled for
between 3:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Sunday. ;

Wilkinson, in Louisiana according to Wolcott, was
‘0 respond to calls from local listeners,

,, Last week local coalition members held a rally at
St. Luke's Methodist Church T% protest Klan
activities. Recently, there have been anti-Semitic and

ist posters showing up at stores owned by Jewish
Maple in the New Scotland and Madison Avenue
Breas of the city, Wolcott said. ”

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Influx of Klan in: Area Cited

At Meeting to Combat Racism:

By STEVE NELSON
azette Reporter

ALBANY — The white-hooded
kKlunsman standing befere a burn-
ing cross, once thought to be an
exclusive symbol of South, is
moving north and communities
here must be prepared to meet
the threat head-on.

That was the message yester-
day from Rene Du Bose, a mem-
ber and community organizer for
the Maryland-based P Unit-
ed Against Government Repress-
ion and the Klan/Nazis. Du Bose
was in town to tell of the struggle
against the Ke Kiux Klan in

aryland and other Southern
states and to help organize local
opposition to the spread of the
white surpremacist, racist move-
ment,

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Fianked by Rev. Robert Dixon,
pastor of the Mount Calvary Bap-
ust Church of Albany and -
bers of the Capital District
Coalition Against Apartheid and
Racism, Du Bose spoke to the
press yesterday afternoon about
what it Lakes to fight the spread of
the Klan.

The coalition sponsored a
workshop last night at the United
Methodist Center in Albany to er-
Ranize the Capital District

against the spread of the Kian. :
| “This is the beginning of an
education program in the Capital
District to combat the right-win
i niiment growing here,"’ sai
Vera “Mike” Michaelson, a mem-
ber of the coalition’s steering
committee,
“KKK — Closer Than You
Think’ was the theme of the

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workshop. A

chairman of the coalition, said
there has been recent evidence of
Klan sentiment in the area, be-
sides the recent Klan rally in Ver-
mont and — Klan organizing
in the town of Berne. |

He prodyced s of racist
material received last week by a
black fail who had moved into
“a so-called white neighborhood”
in Schenectady.

The written material drumpet-
ed ‘Today's New Kian" and
railed on about the effect “ape
niggers” were having on the coun-
iry. At the bottom of the diatribe
was a crude drawing of-a hooded
agra a cross rei the warn-
ing “we'll see you, nigger.”

A membership card for the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of White People, an
organization headed by Klan
leader David Dukes accompanied
the material.

“This kind of racism is going on
increasingly ld in this
area,” Dollard said. .

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The existence of such material
in the Capita! District might
shock some, but it doesn't sur-
prise Du Bose.

She lives in Maryland, which
she claimed has the hi num-
ber of KKK members of any state
in the country. She has traveled to
Alabama, North Carolina, and
Georgia in her attempts to orga-
nize communities against the on-
Slaught of racists.

- She said a new group formed by
the Klan, the United Racist Front,
has stated openly that they wanta
race war. And they have targeted

‘ North Carolina as the place for a.

future all-white state.

‘What they are saying in their’.

literature is they want a race
war,” said Du Bose, adding that!
peroeiiey camps are being es~

blished by various KKK pe
to train men, women and children.
for that war. 1? re

“We must ask why these cam
are allowed to exist openly,

grantly violating the law and why...

are in effect being protected.
by he aoveracuae” she said,

reading from a red sta
ome Popes ey

The outcome of a grand jury
investigation into the murder af
five anti-Kian demonstrators ia,
Greensboro, N.C. “will be one test
of the government's efforts to,
stop racist murders.” @ ee

“This Kian violence is being
shielded by the misguided notion
that the K hides eres
mate, law-abiding organiza ;
that should be protected by First,
Sennen rights,” Du Bos,
said. f

“The proliferation of parame
tary training camps, legal
weapons the Klan carries ai their
recruitment drives point out deci...
sively that the Kian is a violenl-

“The Kian organization is set

up to violate the civil rights of
others and only by communities

banding together with education- -

al ams, counter rallies, and
enforcing existing anti-Klan laws
will they be stopped,” she added.

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Sree mee: siuned

Klan activities re

on rise in Albany area

_ By Michael Muskal

:a ital Diane tupremacy group, the
Capital District Coalition Against
A y. -

partheld seid Frida

the

fter it sponsored an anti-Klan
meeting in Albany that drew 200 people.

The collection of

visit from the Klen. “Should
We Pay You a Real Visit?” it continues,

The

avenues, some-
time ¥ morning, said the Rey.
Andrew Taylor. During that time as
ory Mong children were inside the

“Inside we had children being cared
for by volunteers and outside we had
people who want to use violence, to
poison our community,” he said. “
— people do nothing, the bad people
will.”

The coalition
Wednesday ni featurin
ton, D.C, activist Rene Du
Coalition Against Nazi/Klan ;
sion. The group has been fighting the
growth of the both the Klan a the
NaziParty,

No one knows just how large
growth has been, but one indication hag
been the willin
Sponsor public
the one last month
Klan is really abou’ ® half dozen rival
Organizations that purport to trace
their heritage to the Klan that sw
through the South after the Civil War.

48 @ threat from blacks, according to
coalition members who refused to give
details.

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