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Siena College:
President's Office for Diversity, Committee on Teaching,
Women and Minorities Committee, History Club and
Phi Alpha Theta
Eye Witness
Report
Robert Nii Nartey, Ph.D. - Assistant Professor of History,
Siena College
Vera Michelson and Eileen Kawola - anti-apartheid activists,
Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism
Michelson and Kawola were members of a fact finding delegation which recently
visited Southern Africa ( Namibia, Mozambique and South Africa)
Siena College
Route 9, Loudonville, New York
Roger Bacon Hall, Room 202
Wednesday, March 3, 1993
8:00 p.m.
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SPEAKERS
NY Assennbivman from: Brookivn
Coordinator, Africa Fund's
Assemblyman Green is at the Stop the Apartheid Violence
forefrom of strugagles for Campaign, Mr. Kurnalo tours the
peace and fustice here in US. campaigning to intluence
New York and internationally. America's foreign policy
He is an aggressive advocate towards South Africa. He will
for a domestic peace agenda
give US an Update on the
focusing on youth Current situation.
JONAH SCOTT
Albany Service Corps Youth
THERESA WILLIAMS
South African Youth
TUESDAY, MARCH 16
7:00 PM.
ARBOR HILL
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Lark St., Albany; Near Whitney Young
Presented By:
CAPITAL DISTRICT COALITION AGAINST APARTHEID AND RACISM AND ALBANY SERVICE CORPS
JORSERS (partial list): Carver Community Center; Center for Law and Justice; New York State Youth Council; Albany NAACP; Akande
Phi Delta; Capital District Builders of Educational Achievement; Sigma Phi Rho Inc.; Women's Building; M&M Groceries, Albany; Black
Women's Coalition; Urban League of the Albany Area Inc.; Campus Action/St. Rose; Boy's and Girl's Club of Albany; 7th Day Adventist
Church. For more information call 432-4623.
Seas
and
SPEAKERS
NY Assembivmean from Brox KIN
Coordinator, Africa Pund's
Assemblyman Green is at the Stop the Apartheid Violence
forefront of struggles for Campaign. Mr. Kumalo tours the
peace and justice here in U.S, Campaigning to influence
New York and internatior willy. America’s foreign policy
He is an aggressive advocate towards South Africa. He will
for a domestic peace agenda give US an update on the
fOOuUSING ON youth
CLIT Situation.
JONAH SCOTT
Albany Service Corps Youth
THERESA WILLIAMS
South African Youth
TUESDAY, MARCH 16 /VG3 ARBOR HILL
7:00 PM. ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Lark St., Albany; Near W1 uitney Young
| Presented By:
CAPITAL DISTRICT COALITION AGAINST APARTHEID AND RACISM AND ALBANY SERVICE CORPS
ENDORSERS (partial list): Carver Community Center; Center for Law and Justice: New
Phi Delta; Capital District Builders of Educational Achievement; Sigma Phi Rho Inc.
Women's Coalition; Urban League of the Albany Area Ine.
Church, For more information call 432-4623,
York State Youth Council; Albany NAACP; Akande
; Women’s Building; M&M Groceries, Albany; Black
; Campus Action/St. Rose; Boy's and Girl's Club of Albany; 7th Day Adventist
Going the Last Miles
Apartheid to Freede
Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism,
Albany Service Corps, and Sigma Phi Rho, Inc.
ARE HONORED TO WELCOME
MIUNGISI (LULU) JOHNSON
DEPUTY PRESIDENT
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS YOUTH LEAGUE
Lulu Johnson, from Port Elizabeth, has been active in the struggle in South Africa from an early age. Since joining the
Congress of South African Youth (COSAS) at 15, he has held such positions as COSAS general secretary and COSAS
President. In the late eighties, during the state of emergency, he spent time in detention. Most recently, as a leading
youth and education activist in the Eastern Cape region, he has held positions with the ANC Youth League and the
National Education Coordinating Committee. He is also pursuing studies in Public Administration,
Lulu Johnson is traveling in the US as a member of an ANC Youth League tour. The poals of the tour are to discuss
the current situation in South Africa and to seek American support during this most critical phase of the struggle and
beyond.
“The fundamental goal of the National Liberation Struggle is a transfer of power from a minority to
the people as a whole and the establishment of a non-racial, non-sexist democratic society." ANC
THURSDAY, APRIL 1ST LECTURE CENTER 25
(BENEATH THE LIBRARY)
7 PM SUNY AT ALBANY
E’ RSERS (partial list): Center for Law and Justice; New York State Youth Council; Albany NAACP; Women’s Building; Campus
Acwon, ST. Rose; Boy's and Girl's Club of Albany: Bhai, Schenectady and Capital Region; Blacks in Government; Feminist Action
Network; Women and Minority Studies, Siena College, The Sisters of Color; Committee of Correspondence; Capital District Builders of
Educational Achievement
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~ MEMORIAL GREETINGS |
TO THE FAMILY OF CHRIS HANI |
AND THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS :
FROM THE FOLLOWING:
(PARTIAL LISTING AT TIME OF PRINTING)
African Peoples Christian Organization
Afro-Asian Peoples Solidarity Organization
American Committee on Africa/Africa Fund
Brehon Insh Law Society
Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism
Center for Constitutional Rights
Coalition for a Democratic South Africa
Committee for Health in Southem Africa (CHISA)
Committees of Correspondence
Communist Party, USA
Council on Interracial Books for Children
Educators Against Apartheid and. Racism
Freedom Road Socialist Organization
Friends of the ANC and the Front Line States
Immobilize Apartheid Coalition
International Association of Democratic Lawyers
Labor Coalition Against Apartheid
National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression
National Conference of Black Lawyers a on . ff
National Lawyers Guild ie a tite |
New Jersey Anti-Apartheid Coalition = Sas eS
New York State Martin Luther King Commission : : ?
Patrice Lumumba Coalition Curis’ MARTIN THEMBISILE HANI:
Sisters Against South African Apartheid 1942-1993
Socialist Workers Party
Stevens, Hinds & White, PC. | MEMORIAL PROGRAM cee)
Westchester Political Action Committee (WESPAC) Monpay Aprit 19, 1993 AK
Women’s —— League for Peace and Freedom a 7. 7:00 ~ 8:30 PM ! ‘
(U.S. & International) » CH or CuRist ca
132 West 116ru Sraser, N.Y.C. ‘
Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tec Walker, Senjor Pastor iy
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‘C °8’ MARTIN THEMBISILE HANI: 1942-1993
MEMORIAL PROGRAM
Monpay Apri. 19, 1993
7:00 — 8:30 pm
CANAAN Baptist Cuurcn or Curist
132 Weer 1167 Sraeert, N.Y.C.
Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker, Senior Pastor
Pion Chaos Frederick B. Williams, Rector, Church of the Intercession
Invocations
Rabbi Allen 8. Kaplan, Director, New York Federation of Reform Synagogues
Rev. Dr. Joan B. Campbell, General Secretary, National Council of Churches
Dr. Dawud Assad, Council of Mosques
Choral Presentation
Male Choit of Canaan Baptist Church of Christ
Memorial Remarks
Charlene Mitchell, Exec. Dir., National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression
Edgar Romney, International V.P., International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Jennifer Davis, Executive Director, Africa Fund
Karen Daughtry, Founding Chair, Sisters Against South African Apartheid
John Bess, Executive Director, Manhattan Valley Youth Program
Elombe Brath, Patrice Lumumba Coalition
Majidah Abdul-Kareen, Circles of Sisters, City College of New York
Vivian Lowery Derryck, President, African-American Institute
Jarvis Tyner, Communist Party, USA
Cleveland Robinson, Chair, New York State Martin Luther King Commission
Rey. Benjamin F. Chavis, Executive Director-Designate, National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
Eulogy
Hon. David N. Dinkins, Mayor, City of New York
Presentation
Kingsley Makhubela, Deputy Representative, ANC Observer Mission to the U.N.
Final Remarks
Rev. Canon Frederick B. Wiiiianss Offering
Lennox 8. Hinds, Esq., Interim Director, Mandela Freedom Fund;
Co-Chair, Coalition for a Democratic South Africa
Choral Presentation
THIS MEMORIAL PROGRAM WAS ARRANGED AS
A TRIBUTE TO Curis HANI AND THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
RY THE COALITION For a Democratic Serra Areca
‘CHRIS’ MARTIN THEMBISILE HAN) , 942-1993
At 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, April 10, 1993, Chris Hani, General Secretary of the South
African Communist Party, member of the National Executive Committee of the African
National Congress and former Chief of Staff of the ANC’s army, Umkhonto weSizwe,
was murdered outside his home. Chris Hani was among the most respect-
ed and admired younger leaders of the ANC.
In February 1990, immediately after the ANC and SACP were unbanned, Hani
returned to South Africa, topping the poll in the ANC’s National Executive elections in
July 1991. He was elected General Secretary of the SACP in December 1991, declaring:
“We are going to build the party into a powerful force . .. committed to find a form of
society in which people can live in equality, without poverty and squalor.” He was one
of the most sought-after speakers at rallies and meetings across the country and he
campaigned tirelessly for rapprochement and national unity.
Chris Hani joined the ANC’s Youth League at the age of 15 and by age 20 he was
a member of Umkhonto and of the Communist Party. Working as an apprentice lawyer
in 1963, he escaped from a jail sentence under the Suppression of Communism Act and
went underground. In 1967 he fought alongside Zimbabwean guerrillas against the Smith
regime. In 1974 he returned to South Africa to establish the ANC’s political infrastruc-
ture in the Cape. In 1982 he was appointed deputy commander of Umkhonto and, in
1987, chief of staff, responsible for day-do-day guerrilla operations inside South Africa.
He survived two assassination attempts by apartheid forces in the late 1980's. “I've lived
with death for most of my life,” he once said. “I want to live in a free South Africa —~
even if I have to lay down my life for it.”
As an influential member of the ANC, preparing the negotiations for the future
democratic South Africa, he said: “I don’t accept people calling for war... because I feel
we have achieved something . .. where the oppressors in the past are actually talking to
us and are showing readiness to negotiate for democratic elections.”
Chris Hani’s accused assassin reportedly used a stolen South African Air Force
weapon, had a target list of other prominent ANC leaders in his apartment and had close
ties with the racist Afrikaner Resistance Movement (AWB). The ANC is calling for an
end to the ongoing senseless violence and full protection for those working fore democ
ratic non-racial, non-sexist South Africa. In appealing for calm, the ANC. emphases that
those who plotted Chris Hani’s murder must not be allowed to succeed in the wider
objective of sabotaging the all-important peace process for which he worked so hard.
Chris Hani is survived by his wife Dimpho, and three daughters.
Lennox S. Hinds, Co-Chair of the Coalition for a Democratic South Africa, the post-
conference organization of the Conference in Support of the ANC and other Democratic
Forces for a New South Africa, said: “The assassination of Chris Hani highlights the
urgency of establishing an Interim Government of national unity. We in the United
States must call the Presidential hot-line and contact our Congress members to demand
strong pressure on the South African government to STOP THE VIOLENCE. We owe
it to Chris Hani’s memory to do all within our power to help with voter education and
registration so that the disenfranchised majority of the people will be able to enter the
elections for a free South Africa on a level playing field.”
HELP SUPPORT DEMOCRACY POR SouTH AFRICA
BY JOINING THE COALITION FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOUTH AFRICA
c/o Disraict 65 UAW, 77H FLoor, 13 Astor PLack, New Yorx, NY 10003
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NATIONAL MEMORIAL SERVICE
A Celebration of the Life of
OLIVER REGINALD TAMBO
Chairman of the African National Congress
1917 — 1993
O.R. cannot be consigned to the past, while those who are with us today
from the rest of the world remain as they have been, opponents of the
apartheid crime against humanity, proponents of the common vision
of justice and peace, defenders of the right of the child, the man, the
woman and the beast of the forest to live, to be free and to prosper.
Nelson R. Mandela. Evlogy of Oliver R. Tambo
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
1047 AMSTERDAM AVENUE at 112TH STREET
NEW YORK CITY
SUNDAY, MAY 16, 1993
2:00 - 5:00 P.M.
OLIVER REGINALD TAMBO 1917-1993
CHAIRMAN OF THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS
ANC President Nelson Mandela said of Oliver Tambo: “He was my partner, my comrade, my friend and wD
my colleague. He succeeded in developing the ANC to become the strongest political force in the country.”
On Sunday, April 25, 1993, Mr. Tambo died after a severe stroke. He presided over the ANC for 24 years,
The ANC said in a statement: “This is a moment of profound grief for all South Africans. The death of O.R.
Tambo, following so close on that of Chris Hani, has deeply affected our people. Comrade O.R. was a father
figure to millions of South Africans, whether members of the ANC or not.”
The Sowetan wrote: “It was the gentle-mannered Oliver Tambo who, almost single-handedly, built up the
external wing of the African National Congress and its military army, Umkhonto we Sizwe. It was he who
piloted the movement through the three decades it was banned in the country that gave it birth. And it was
Tambo who master-minded the Harare Declaration which in 1989 paved the way for negotiations with the
South African government.”
Oliver Tambo was born into a peasant family at Bizana, in the Transkei, on October 27, 1917. He attended
mission schools before going to Secondary School, in Johannesburg. In 1938 he went on to Fort Hare
University, where he was recognized as a brilliant student, graduating with a B.Sc. in 1941, He then studied for
an education diploma but was expelled before examinations for organizing a student protest,
At Fort Hare he began a lifelong friendship with Nelson Mandela. Together they became founding
members of the ANC Youth League in 1944, pressing for a more militant agenda within the organization, In
1945 O.R. was elected vice-president of the League and, in 1949, a member of the ANC National Executive
Committee. He trained as a lawyer and in 1952 formed with Mandela the first African law firm in South Africa.
In 1955, he married Adelaide Tshukudu. On their way to church, bride, groom and best man were arrested for a
pass law violation and bundled into a police van, Ultimately they were released just in time for the ceremony,
He was a principal organizer of the Defiance Campaign against Unjust Laws, which helped to propel the
ANC into a mass movement in the 1950's. In 1954, the regime banned him from all political meetings. In 1955,
the year of the Freedom Charter, he was elected ANC secretary-general. He was one of the 156 accused in the e
1956 Treason Trial but charges against him were dropped in 1957. In 1958, when ANC President Chief Albert
Luthuli was “banned”, the ANC appointed Oliver Tambo as Deputy President General.
A week after the Sharpeville Massacre in March, 1960, he left the country to put into operation the ANC’s
plans to establish missions abroad from which to lead the banned movement. In 1960, he became the first
person, not the representative of a member state, to address the United Nations Security Council. His effective
lobbying throughout Africa, Europe, Asia and the Americas was a major factor in increasing international
support for the ANC in the 1960’s and 1970's. He travelled from country to country, supervising the ANC in
exile, attending to the needs of individual ANC members, while meeting with political leaders worldwide and
maintaining the closest contact with headquarters in Lusaka, Zambia,
From the first days of exile, Tambo organized the political and military training of Umkhonto cadres and
violence . .. And yet, if the opponents of democracy have their way, we will have to wade through rivers of
”
In the years of masterminding the work which culminated in the O.A.U. adopting the 1989 Harare
Declaration -— the ANC’s blueprint for negotiations with Pretoria — Tambo suffered two minor strokes but
pressed on with completing the Declaration and ensuring its acceptance. However, a stroke in August that year
left him partially paralyzed and impaired his speech. In 1990, in Sweden to receive medical treatment, he was
chairperson,
Mr. Tambo is survived by his wife, Mrs. Adelaide Tambo, their eldest daughter Thembi, son Dali and @
youngest daughter, Tselane.
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ORDER OF SERVICE
The Reverend Canon Joel A. Gibson, Sub-Dean
The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Presiding
PRELUDE Bill Randolph, Organist
THE PROCESSION
When all are in place in the Cathedral, the Choir shall sing:
ANTHEM William Croft
WELCOME Hon. Mayor David N. Dinkins
The people remain standing, the priest says the Collect, first saying:
Priest: The Lord be with you
People: And also with you
Priest: Let us pray
THE COLLECT
INTERFAITH INVOCATIONS Dr. Abdul-Rahman Osman, Senior Imam, Islamic Center, N.Y.
Rev. Wendell Foster, Pastor, Christ Church, Bronx, N.Y.
Rabbi Janise Poticha, Temple Shaarey Tefila
READING from the Book of Isaiah Rev. Erik Kolbell, Riverside Church
PSALMS 23 and 121 Cathedral Choir
President Nelson R. Mandela’s Vinie Burrows,
Eulogy of Oliver R. Tambo (excerpts) Artist and Anti-Apartheid Activist
Song The South African Community
The Holy Gospel according to John The Rev. Canon Frederick B. Williams,
Rector, Church of the Intercession
The Congregation will stand for the reading of the Gospel
A Tribute The Right Reverend David C. Nkwe,
Bishop of Klerksdop, South Africa
CELEBRATIONS IN WORDS AND MUSIC OF THE LIFE OF OLIVER R. TAMBO
Hon. Lindiwe Mabuza, Permanent Representative to the United States
for the African National Congress
Lennox S. Hinds, Co-Chair, Tributes from Absent Friends
Coalition for Democracy in South Africa (CODISA) and Colleagues of Mr. Tambo
Harry Belafonte
Ambassador Joseph Verner Reed, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations
Nadine Hack, Commissioner, New York City Commission for the United Nations
George Houser, Executive Director Emeritus, American Committee on Africa
Zakes Mokae, Artist
Nomgcobo Sangweni, ANC Women’s League
Sathima Bea Benjamin performs Come Sunday, by Duke Ellington
Jennifer Davis, Executive Director, The Africa Fund
Prexy Nesbitt, Executive Director, Mozambique Solidarity Office, Chicago
Hon. Maxine Waters, Representative to the U.S. Congress, California
Cleveland Robinson, Chairperson, New York State Martin Luther King Commission
Hera tye tm eel Ys TanethatO stays
MUSICAL PRESENTATION
From the Cast of Sarafina: Nonhlanhla Mbambo — Ntombikhona Dlamini Lindiwe Dlamini
Tsepo Mokoena Juba Mbhene Snenhlanhla
Phumzile Sojala Thulani Sojala
The René McLean Quartet: René McLean, saxophone Bheki Khoza, guitar
Allen Palmer, piano Kimati Dinizulu, percussion
THE PRAYERS AND THE LORD'S PRAYER Canon Gibson
ANTHEM Cathedral Choir
Kiev Melody
THE BLESSING Bishop Nkwe
THE LIGHTING OF THE CANDLES
NKOSI SIKELEL’ i-AFRIKA (All Join)
SENDING FORTH
RETIRING PROCESSION
POSTLUDE
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HONORARY PALL BEARERS
Manhattan Valley Youth Program
The South African Community
Organ Selections,
Bill Randolph, Organist
The Congressional Black Caucus, Robert Deniro Quincy Jones Cleveland Robinson
Hon. Kweisi Mfume, Chair Ruby Dee Wilheim Joseph Jackie Robinson
Adjoa A. Aiyetoro Mary K. Delany Sen. Nancy Kassenbaum Randal! Robinson
Jean Ashe Dr, Pegey Dulaney Senator Edward Kennedy Edgar Romney
Diane Aviv Rev, Walter Fauntroy Willie itsile Carlottia Seort
Harry Belafonte Hon. Raymond Flynn Coretta Scott King Donna Shalala
John Bess Rev. Dr. James Forbes Reed Kramer Sen, Paul Simon
Riddick Bowe Rev. Wendell Foster Bertram M. Lee Rev. Timothy Smith
Elombe Brath Wayne Fredericks Tilden J. LeMelle Theodore C. Sorensen
Rt. Rev. Edmund Browning Nel Gibson George Lindshy Max Stern
Judge Margaret Burnham Danny Glover Rev, Willis Logan Vivian Stromberg
Dean W. Haywood Burns Whoopie Goldberg Rev, Joseph Lowery Percy Sutton
Prof. Golar Butcher Earl Graves William Lucy Maurice Tempelsman
Rev, Joan B. Campbell Hon. Roger Green Bill Lynch Thomas Van Arsdale
Betsy Hall Carton Hon. William Grey Hon, H, Carl McCall Hon. Cyrus Vance
Johnetta Cole Judge Leon A. Higginbotham Gay McDougal Rev. Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker
Jayne Cortez Jesse Hill Prof. Bernard Magubane Prof. Ronald Walters
Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis Stanley Hill Hon. Ruth Messinger Paula Weinstein
Bill Cosby Lennox §. Hinds Charlene Mitchell Gov. L. Douglas Wilder
Imani Countess Amelia House Zakes Mokae Cora & Peter Weiss
John W. Cox Rev, Dr, M. William Howard Hon. Basil Paterson Rev. Canon Frederick B. Williams
Hon. George Crockett Rev. Jesse Jackson Hon. Donald Payne Stevie Wonder
Rev, Herbert Daughtry Hon, Maynard Jackson Sidney Poitier Hon. Howard Wolpe
Karen Daughtry John Jacob Rt. Rev. Sir Paul Reeves Alfre Woodard
Ossie Davis Ted Jacobs Dennis Rivera
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
LINDIWE MABUZA TEBOGO MAFOLE
Permanent Representative to the United States, Permanent Representative to the United Nations
African National Congress African National Congress
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please write or call:
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C/o 116 West 111 Street, New York, N_Y. 10026 Tel: (212) 666-1288
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was designed to bring together
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By CARL STROCK
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No protests
over violence
in S. Africa
I have been dismayed by the
reports of violence coming out of
South Africa. Zulu workers storm
out of a hostel and massacre
Xhosa people in the streets of
some township in revenge for the
Xhosas having hacked to death a
Zulu peddier the day before. Nam-
ber of people killed: 30.
That was last weekend. The pre-
vious weekend, 70 people were
killed in similar street massa-
cres,
[am not talking about the white
rulers now; I am just talking about
black people being murdered in
the streets and in their homes by
other black people — partisans of
Inkatha attacking or attack-
ed by partisans of the Af Na-
tional Congress, or whatever the
dynamic is,
It struck me I have not heard of
ing government buildings and co
lege campuses from one end of the
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think about
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core in mind one profoundly
ironic fact: more black South Afri-
cans are being killed now, as their
country moves toward democ-
racy, than were killed in the dark-.
est days of apartheid. I looked it
up: at Sharpeville, which was a
ee a South African his-
tory, w
on a Pan alvinantel te
demonstration, 69 people were j
killed.
At the Crossroads squatter
camp, in 1985, police shot and
killed 18 people.
On one day in 1986, at two dif-
ferent townships, the police shot
and killed 30-some
During a rent @ in 1986, the
police opened fire and killed 20
people.
On the 25th anniversary of
Sharpeville, in 1985, the police
Shot and killed 19 funeral
marchers,
Those were the bloodiest single
incidents in the of apart-
heid, and by the of to-
day's cag ye they were smail
potatoes. In the first five days of
last week, 130 people were killed
— an average of 26 a day.
In the 3% years since Nelson
Mandela was released from |
dinary, everyday black le —
have been hacked, stabhed shot
and burned to death in South Af-
rica. Think of it!
Explaining it
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much af her adult life cam
ing for justice for black South —
Africans, makes of this just whatI ,
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government could stop it and |
doesn't. The
. titiously supports the Inkathe
Freedom Party and
attacks. ‘This is not tribal
lence,” she assured me, “not.
black-on-black violence, not rival
tical violence.”
violence,
ed, and of course the source lies
outside of the people who are
doing the killing.
She cannot entertain the
thought, Pring I bet most cam-
paigners for justice cannot enter-
tain the that black South
Africana are a each other
simply because are as cruel
and murderous as other human
beings. If they are killing each
other, first, it is best not to pay too
much attention, and second, it
must be someone else's fault.
So the Capital District Coalition
. Against Apartheid and Racism is
demonstrating in the streets,
one else is, either. There
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Carl Strock does two things in his
column of Aug. 8. He presents black
South Africans as murderous, cruel
and self-destructive, and he portrays
anti-apartheid activists as selec-
tively sanctimonious and morally in-
dignant.
He does this by misrepresenting
the South African situation, creating
the impression that black people are
just going around killing each other
because the thought of freedom is
just too much to handle. He would
also reduce the current violence to
the common media deseri ptions such
as black on black violence, tribal vio-
lence etc., ignoring any deeper
analysis of what is at the root of the
violence,
When it is explained to him he
brushes it off. preferring his own sim-
plistic description of the problem.
The systern of apartheid declares
black people as less human than
whites, simply because of the color of
their skin, This system has led to the
destruction and dislocation of entire
communities. It has justified the
Stealing of land and al} other forms of
wealth from black people. It has jus-
tified mass murder, aSSassinations,
subversion of courts of law, of educa-
tion, of health care, all in the inter-
ests of serving the white minority. By
creating a massive majority popula-
tion of dislocated and dis
people, the white benefactors have
also created conditions which have
led to much of the violence in South
Africa,
Carl Strock does not mention that
apartheid also created a small num-
ber of black people who have served
apartheid’s aims and who have defi-
nitely benefited from it. Among those
who have gained is Inkatha Freedom
Party chief, Gatsha Buthelezi. Buthe-
lezi is using all means at his disposal
to protect his ill-gotten gains.
Strock fails to mention that the
apartheid government has repeat-
edly been forced to admit its collu-
sion in training soldiers loyal to Buth-
elezi. They have financed Buthelezi's
activities and participated in acts of
violence intended to stir up factional
fighting.
The involvement of South African
security forces in township violence
has been documented by several in-
ternational human rights groups.
Mercenaries from other countries
have also been observed in Inkatha
training camps in South Africa.
The deliberate use of the indige-
nous population to create havoc at
Tax breaks for improvements a good idea
Did you notice the article on Capi-
tal improvements in the Aug. 10 Ga-
zette? No? It was easy to miss. I
called Sen, Hugh Farley's office and
bromptly received a copy of bill
ing to undertake a home improve-
ment? Would plumbers, carpenters,
electricians, and other jobs related to
building and home improvement ben-
efit?
vee va someon earth on ye hominem her.
Strock ignores white role in S. African violence
the dawn of freedom is not new. It
happened in Namibia. It happened in
Angola. It happened in Mozambique
and it’s happening in South Africa.
Parts of South Africa are being torn
apart by this violence which intensi-
fies in direct correlation to profess in
negotiations. This is not happening by
chance.
Mr. Strock does not see any of this;
takes no responsibility for any
analysis; and, with paternalistic myo-
pia, spreads disinformation with vi-
cious and unfounded sarcasm.
Like a leech, he feeds on the suffer-
ing and strife of the very painful
South African struggle for democ-
racy. In the process he does all of us a
grave disservice.
VERA MICHELSON
Albany
The writer is co-chairperson for
the Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid and Racism.
NASA was hurt by
political appointees
I read with great interest the arti-
cle “Lonely NASA” in the Aug. 15
Sunday Gazette. NASA developed
from NACA, the National Advisory
Committee on Aeronautics, the re-
search agency which designed and
tested military aircraft during and
after World War IT. It was certainly a
creature of the Cold War and always
existed as part of the politics of the
military-industrial complex.
It also attracted extraordinary and
dedicated talent. In the early 1970s,
after the landing of men on the moon,
By CARL STROCK
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about favors
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a bill thet would benefit the
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I should have known that I
would take some heat for what I
cae net South Africa a while
Racism — “the y mor-
ally indignant,” I called them —
for not the current car-
that, if you happened to see the
letters to the editor the other
"To teweniialie myopia”! “Disin-
formation’! “Vicious and un-
founded sarcasm’! “Simplistic”!
“Leech”! In short, not the kind of
letter you would clip out and send
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signed off on a design by white, Wha-
len-selectad engineer Hersh-
berg. The committee did make some
changes as to what scenes from
King’s life _— be rp on the
rhonument, the overall design of-
fered by Hershberg was ]
Aad other civil ts activists say
the organizers are too high a
priority on the monument. A group
raising money for legal expenses to
continue a federal lawsuit against
city police officers in the killing of
Jessie Davis, a mentally disturbed
black man, argue that seeking justice
is the truest tribute to King
Merton Simpson of the political ac-
tivist group, the Capital District Coa-
lition Against Apartheid and Racism,
and Alice Green of the Center for
Law and Justice, contend that if King
were alive now he would support the
Davis legal fund over a monument of
stone and bronze.
$30 million lawesutt
Davis was fatally shot by police
nine years ago and his sister, Louise
Thornton, is seeking $30 million in a
federal civil ts laweult echeduled
to come to trial in September. Green
and Simpson say that as « low-
income person, Thornton cannot af-
ford the cost of expert teetimony she
needs to win her case. Following
Davis’ death a grand jury cleared the
five officers involved of any criminal
actions but found the officers did pot
foliow proper procedures,
Dixon has turned down requests by
Green and Simpson to earmark some
of the money expected to be raised
for the monement A te the Davia
fund. The memoria} price tag is
43*5,000, and Green estimates
Vhorr ion needs about $30,000
But the question of the Davis fund
is an outside controversy. Other prob-
lems have come from within the
group working on the memorial.
A premouienny pamphlet lasued by
the King memorial committee states
the “project had its genesis with a
coalition of imterdenominational
ministers representing the area's Af-
rican-American religious commu-
nity. They proposed that a monument
to Dr King be constructed in Al-
bany’s Lincoln Park.”
Yet both Dixon, the memorial com-
mittee's i chairman, and Wha-
len say fem originally brought the
idea to Dixon, who then organized the
group of ministers.
So why does the promotional Mier
bay the idea came from the minis-
ters?
The Rev. Robert W. Dixon and his grandson, Antonio Dixon, vieit the
Sartin Lather King dr, Memorial ® Lineeén Park. Dinen is
Feners! chairmen of the King Memorial The plattorm
“He said he thought we abould have Hershberg. But he said the flier didn't
4 monument in the city for Dr. King need to be corrected because the me-
and he left the reat up to us,” Dixon ine overall pean nema bar
said He suggested something He overall project.
didn't suggest any particular thing.” When asked how Hershberg Wan
But Whalen said last week that he
sad Tehowel b tn en
—. and he said he would be in-
eresied in putting some flesh on
these bones [at no charge)” Hersh-
berg is a consulting engineer who fre-
quently does work on city pro
Whalen said the final result was
“very, very similar” te what be had
a handed to Herahberg.
ixon said recentiy he wasn’t
aware of the drawing Whalen gave
selected as the overall designer of the
monument, Dixon said: “The city was
pring $75,000 toward the project and
8 Came as the consulting engi-
neer,” The city didn’t force Herah-
berg on the ministers, but Dixon ac-
cepted his work when it was offered,
Dixon said.
But Anne Pope, president of the
Albany branch of the National Asso-
clation for the Advancement of Col-
ored People, said ultimately it is not
important whose idea it Was or who
designed the monument
"No one 25 years from now wit
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for the bine, and the stone base in the
beckground stands ready for the foot statue of King expected
to Dr. King, so is it so important who
generated the idea?” asked Pope,
who is a member of the memoria!
committee
But others don’t see it as posi-
tively
“Tf anybody really understood
what Martin Luther King stood for,
they'd see the way these people are
using him is a real travesty,” said
Simpson, co-chairman of the Capital
District Coalition Against Apartheid
and Racism. Simpson emphasized be
iS not against the monument hut is
mba
about and with Dixon's refusal to ear-
mark 10 percent of the $325,000 me-
mortal fund-raising goal for the Jes-
sie Davis legal fund
Dixon maintains the two fund-rais-
ing efforts should be separate
“We've asked people to give money
to the monument,” Dixon said. “We
can't turn around and give the money
to somebody else. They're just trying
{6 raise some loud stuff that's off the
wall.”
He noted that his church, Mount
Calvary Baptist in Albany's South
End, gave $150 to a fund for the Davis
Case set up by the NAACP. Dixon's
church also gave $1,000 to the King
memorial
Tha ab
nam Veterans memorial in Troy
does not fit with what King would
have wanted, Simpson said
“I think King would have wanted
an Opportunity for a struggling black
aruist to honor him,” he said
Resume submitted
Pope submitted the resume of a
black sculptor to the memorial con
mittee, but the committee had al
ready selected Barry to do the eight
foot statue and a bas-relief, Dixon
said
We never thought of a black
sculptor or a white sculptor We're
hot too well aware of who does this
stuff, you know. We had never done
this before,” Dixon said. Dixon said
Barry's waa the first name suggested
and the committee settled on her
without making any systematic at
tempt to find other sculpters
But according to the Rev. Robert
Linder, pastor of Walis Temple AME
Zion Church, some members of the
committee wanted to send out invita.
Lions to black sculptors. He said origi
nally the sculpture was to be added at
a later date, but that changed and the
schedule for selecting one was great
ly accelerated. Linder said it was
never fully clear to him why the
schedule for selecting a xulptor was
$0 abruptly changed. Dixon could aot
be reached Thursday to address the
change in schedule
The committee voted to select
Barry at a meeting called on short
notice that many of the committee
members could not attend, Linder
said
But Whalen, like Dixon, emphasis
ed the project was never meant to be
a strietly black endeavor
“It we had to find a black architect
and 4 black sculptor, I'm sure a lot of
people would be happy, but you do
your best under the circumstances,”
Whalen said “This was not to be
strictly a biack enterprise It was to
be a broad-based community effort
and people of all races and creeds
were encouraged to become party of
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Although Linder, a member of the
memorial’s Management committee
which Dixon heads, feels there should
have been more black participation
in the design, he said he fully supports
the memorial
Pope said many people have told
her how happy they are with the me-
morial so far The monument can.
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Project wasn’t seen as strictly black endeavor
Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid and Racism
Box 3002 Pine Hills Station
Albany, New York 12203
A project of the Social Justice Center
January - February 1993
Newsletter
Coming Up...and still going on
February 19, 1993. " Racism, Law Enforcement and
Violence" with Don Jackson and Tyra Ferrell Jackson at the College of
St. Rose (see enclosed fiver)
"STOP the violence - South Africa" - campaign.
Mozambique Support Committee ~ work.
(Note: The STOP the violence campaign and the Mozambique support work have
been ongoing projects of ¢ ‘D-CAAR. Information on both projects are included in
this newsletter.)
Time to Party - CD-CAAR is planning another fantastic party and we need
your help. Anyone who would like to work on this event, call 432-4623
immediately - leave message,
A CD-CAAR public Program in the Spring on the issue of
violence in South Africa and in the U.S. with particular emphasis
on Albany and the Capital District. If you are interested in working on
this program or want more information, call 432-4623,
The Center for Law and Justice Third Annual Community
Conferenceon Crime and Criminal Justice, 4/24/93
fenclosed flyer:
Wasted Talents or Wasted Resources?
Unlimited Minds is a not-for-profit organization founded to increase the educational, economic
and leadership opportunities of economically disadvantaged students with a primary emphasis on
$'@,"Ms of color in the Capital District.
UfMmited Minds invites you to our debut reception/fundraiser on Thursday, February
[8th ,6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Rockefeller Institute, 411 State Street, Albany, keynote
speaker - Patrick Swygert. For further information, 434-8933, Victoria Santos.
Mozambique Update
In the last newsletter we included information about
the CD-CAAR Mozambique Support Committee. As a result
of contacts made by CD-CAAR members who visited
Mozambique last summer, the Mozambique Support
Committee set three priorities: &
|. To find support for a Methodist Church outside
of Maputo. This church was holding services ina _ :
borrowed Catholic Church while trying to raise funds for a
church/community center which serves many needs of the
congregation. Pastor Jamisse of the church stressed how the
congregation is especially focused on working with children,
many who have been orphaned by the war.
2. ‘Ye find support for the Mocatini school - a
school in the bush for over 900 children who have been
dislocated by the war. The school has virtually nothing - no
building, no supplies - but it does have teachers and students
interested in learning.
ANAT incense ity terres
* To establish relations between teacher unions
in the United States and the Teachers Union of
Mozambique. |
: ; * a : Children at site of Methodist church
i . f S ; 1e ; WwW ;
PW sn of these ventures are meeting with ia semuxcse, Libuotesle,, Maetablies
|, The General Board of Global Ministries of the Methodist Church has informed us that
the Liberdade Church is on their list of recommended projects for second mile giving. They
have written about the church in the newsletter and advised churches that CD-CAAR members
are available to give slide shows and talk about the situation in Mozambique.
2. Different groups have expressed interested in raising funds for the Mocatini School.
We have already sent $250.00, half of which was raised at a collection at our November public
forum on South Africa and Mozambique. That first installment is being used by the teachers to
buy portable blackboards. Our contact person in Mozambique for the Mocatini School project is
a respected community person, Mr. Simiao Manhica. In this newsletter we have reprinted a
letter he has sent us, acknowledging receipt of the funds and also giving us some idea of what
the peace agreement in Mozambique is meaning to the people.
3. A meeting was held between CD-CAAR teacher union members, Bill Ritchie and
Eileen Kawola, and the Executive Vice President of NYSUT, Mr. Herb Magidson. Mr.
Magidson advised them to contact David Dom of the AFT International Committee. Asa result
of the meeting CD-CAAR sent a letter to The Organization of Teachers of Mozambique advising
them that the AFT international office will be getting in touch with them about establishing a
mutually beneficial relationship. Suggestions were made at the meeting about ways in which
teachers in the U.S, might be of assistance to teachers in war-torn Mozambique - including
training and exchanges.
. We are hopeful that progress will continue in all of these projects, CD-CAAR has a
slide show and speakers available if your group is interested in learning more about
Mozambique. If you would like to work with this committee or if you would like more
information, call Debbie Maxwell at 393-4002.
"Breathing other air..."
Muputo, Mozambique
December 24, 1992
Dear CD-CAAR,
Greetings from Mozambique at this Christmas time 1992, 1 trust that you are well and that
the holiday season will be a happy one for vou and yours.
Prexy Nesbitt is here for a few days and brought me an envelope from you containing a
check for $250.00 also the pamphlet concerning the Mocatini school. The direc tor feels that the
*ewt need is blackboards then | will be in contact with him to see what is next most important, |
reed try and keep in touch with you so that you will know how the money ts being spent. In the
name of all the children who will benefit from these gifts 1 want to thank you and the others who
remember these people who live in great difficulties but are interested in learnin rs
iknow you must accompany the news from Mozambique knowing that a general peace
accord was signed on Oct. 4th. We are breathing other air after so many vears of war and
destruction. Some of the children will return to their home areas but as you know there are many
orphans there who have no place to go and will need support for a long time.
Two weeks ago 1 was able to go by bus and car te Inhambane for our Annual Conference
of the Church. This is the first time in more than 10 years, Can you imagine the joy of the people
10 see friends and families again?!
1 will try and keep in touch with you. May you have a good year in 1993 with health and
jov and PEACE.
Sincerity yours,
- oe [Narkcea.
Simiao Manhica
CD-CAAK has determined to raise funds for the Mocatini school during
1993. Funds will be used for portable blackboards, chalk, notebooks,
textbooks, pencils and other basic school supplies. If you would like to
¢* ate toward this school, send a check to CD-CAAR, noted Mocatini School
yect,
Pea eit apoio to
In this newsletter we are reprinting some information about
the peace process in Mozambique. The information has been.
January, 1993 (a bulletin written and edited by Joseph Hanlon
and to he published irregularly until the first multi-party electrons in Mozambique)
Mozambique President Joaquim Chissano and Renamo president Afonso Dhlakama signed
a general peace agreement in Rome on 4 October, 1992. It came into force on the cease-fire day,
15 October. The accord includes seven protocols and four related documents.
After a few initial violations(four town were taken in October by Renamo but then taken
back by the government) Mozambique's 15 October cease fire is holding. Most main roads are
open and there is regular bus service between Maputo and Beira for the first time in a decade.
The U.N. Security Council! determined to put much more money into Mozambique than it
put into Angola in order monitor the cease fire and elections and to avoid a replay of the Angolan
fiasco. A force of more than 8,000 has been approved for Mozambique (15 times the number of
people it put into Angola)
Aldo Ajelio has been named interim special representative of the U.N. Secretary Gene
with responsibility for monitoring the cease fire and elections and also for humanitarian assista
Ajello spent a month in New York lobbying for a strong U.N. presence. On December 16, the
Security Council established the United Nations Operation in Mozambique (ONUMOZ), UN
Secretary General Boutros-Ghali stessed that it will have four interlinked components:
Political: to facilitate implementation of the agreement and chair the CSC (Control and
Supervision Commission.
Military: to monitor and verify the cease fire, concentration of forces and demobilization: to
authorize security arrangements for vital infrastructures; and to provide security for United Nations
and other international activities.
Electoral: to provide technical assistance and monitor the entire electoral process
Humanitarian; to coordinate and monitor all humanitarian assistance operations.
The UN is in Mozambique as observors and not as a peace keeping forces. However, the
U.N. has been given the role of both "monitoring and guaranteeing the implementation of the
general peace agreement." This leads officials in the government to warn that the U.N. could
become “a state within a state" and many feel that there will be much jockeying for power between
the U.N., the government and Renamo. |
More than 100,000 or more soldiers, many with wives and children, are to be demobilized.
Phis will require a major logistic and political effort at an estimated cost of $83.5 million.
_ Renamo continues to deny that it has child soldiers. But widespread reports, including
trom foreign non-governmental organizations as ell as on local t.v., tell of armed children in
Renamo units. Some estimates put the number of such children as one third the Renamo fighters.
The continuing denial makes it diffcult for NGO's to set up rehabilitation programs for the
children. ‘There is also concern that children with no other experience than war, secretly sent
home without any proper reintegration program , could form armed bands wandering the
countryside.
__ A draft election law is to be circulated early in 1993 and then there could be meetings ¢
parties to agree to the law. An electoral commission, media access, financial assistance to part
and foreign observors are all issues that have to be discussed.
_ There is cautious optimism that the peace process will work. Officials say both publically
and privately that they want to learn the lessons of Angola.
"Walk the remaining distance..."
National Conference in Support of the African National Congress
and Other Democratic Forces for a New South Africa
On the weekend of November 13-15, 1992, in New York City, over 1,000 delegates
from diverse national and regional organizations throughout the U.S. and Canada met in New
York City. The ANC and its allies in the struggle for a New South Africa sent a high level
delegation and these South African delegates, representing various interests and
constituencies, joined in the workshops which focused on 14 areas of concern.
A 50 page Program of Action came out of the Conference and it included resolves to:
|. maintain the effective pressure of sanctions until democratic forces call for their ending.
2. demand the U.S. government exert the maximum public pressure on the South African
regime to end its campaign of violence.
3. provide support and cooperation to the democratic movement to strengthen its capacity to
_ carry out the process of transformation. The ANC and other democratic forces preparing fora
© New South Africa face immediate concerns. They much prepare a population, which has
been denied the vote, for elections. The expectations for the ANC and a new government are
very high and they are asking the international community to assist with development plans in
the areas of health, education, housing, corporate investment, culture and art, to name a few.
Probably the most important thing to come out of the Conference was
the commitment by the anti-apartheid movement to "w ini
distance with the people of South Africa" (as Lindiwe Mabuza, ANC Chief
Representative to the U.S. put it in a thank you letter to Conference
participants) a ,
The “remaining distance" |
includes a black majority still —~
denied political rights
including the right to vote
(Mandela is free but he still
can't vote).
The "remaining distance
includes a destabilizing
violence campaign emanating
from the structures of
apartheid. At least ten people
die from political violence each
day.
The “remaining distance"
includes massive inequalities,
created by years of apartheid,
om. in education, housing,
~» employment ane gets etc. if
st have spec ic skills in any The Ritter dutaac hildren at squatter
of these development arse, call camp for 3,000 people with one use tas
Vera Michelson at 518 432- : : .
. , * : and 6 porta johns, Soweto, South Africa.
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Several members of CD-CAAR attended the National Conference and CD-CAAR
has made the "Stop the Violence” campaign of the American Committee on Africa
one of the priority projects for 1992-1993. If you are interested in working with this
committee, would like to show the "Stop the Violence” video, or would like more
information on this issue, call 432-4623. The Committee is now planning a forum
to be held in the Spring dealing with the issues of violence.
Special mention goes out to the Albany Service Corps for its dynamic
participation in a study group on apartheid violence. CD-CAAR looks to further
collaboration with the Corps as both organizations begin planning for a Spring forum on
violence.
Some updates on the violence in South Africa... @
| Nelson Mandela was released from jail on February 11, 1990. In the three years
since his release more than 5,000 people have been killed in violence in South Africa. For the
same three years, Mandela has been charging that apartheid security forces have been behind
the violence. On December 19, 1992,” in a virtual admission that members of the South
Atnican military had sought to establish a covert "third force” to thwart racial conciliation,
President F. W, de Klerk announced... the dismissal or suspension of 23 officers, including
SIX generals, suspected of activities including political assassinations." Upon de Klerk's
announcement, the ANC issued a statement: "The steps announced by President de Klerk
are a step in the right direction, but are not nearly enough. There should be full public
disclosure of all criminal activities and attempts at destination. The current revelations are
clearly only the tip of the iceberg.” (New York Ti mes, Sunday, Dec. 20, 1992)
In November, the government appointed Goldstone commission confirmed that
South African Police and Defense Forces were involved in fomenting violence.
Another aspect of the violence was addressed in an interview with United Nations
Radio on December |, 1992 with Popo Molefe, Head of the Elections Commission of the
Atrican National Congress. "Mr. Molefe said the issue of violence in the hostels was
supposed to be addressed urgently according to the Vance Report to the Security Council last
summer. The Goldstone Commission, he continued, had recommended to the Government,
among other things, that dangerous weapons be outlawed, that hostels be fenced and
searched regularly, None of these recommendations had been carried out, he said.” (U.N.
Radio Broadcast: Special Committee Against Apartheid Holds Consultations With European
NGOS and Anti-Apartheid Movements. December, 1992)
One step you can take to "walk the remaining distance" with the people of
South Africa is to circulate (feel free to make copies) of the petition on the >
next page,
lt is a message to President Clinton that the people of the U.S. want their
government to ‘pressure the South African government to end the violence
which is impeding Seuth Africa's progress toward democracy.
A giant has passed...
but the words
will carry us on.
New York Times, January 25, 493
-Marshall: Liberal voice in conservative times
Thurgood Marshall is remem-
bered as a lawyer who never ran
from a fight and as a justice whose
liberal voice sometimes echoed
alone in the waning years of his
service on an increasingly con-
servative Supreme Court:
BON SEGREGATION:
“The trouble with the doctrine of
separate but equal (is that it)
assumes that two things are
equal,”
Argument before the Supreme
Court in Brown vs, Board of Edu-
cation (1954)
@ ON FREE SPEECH: "The
mere fact that speech is accom-
panied by conduct does not mean
that the speech can be sup-
pressed under the guise of prohib-
iting the conduct.”
Amalgamated Food Employees
(8. Logan Valley Plaza (1968)
@ ON PRIVACY: “If the First
Amendment means anything, it
means that a state has no busi-
ness telling a man, sitting alone
in his own house, what books he
may read or what films he may
‘ watch. Our whole constitutional
heritage rebels at the thought of
giving government the power to
control men’s minds.”
Stanley us. Georgia (1969)
MON DESEGREGATION:
“Today's holding, | fear, is more a
perceived reflection of a public
mood that we have gone far
enough in insuring the Constitu-
tion’s guarantee of equal justice
than it is a product of neutral
principles of law... . It may be the
easier course to allow our great
metropolitan areas to be divided
up into two cities — one white,
the other black — but it is a
course, | predict, our people will
ultimately regret.”
Dissent in Milliken vs. Bradley
(1974)
MON THE RIGHT TO
COUNSEL: “The majority con-
tends that the Sixth Amendment
is not violated when a manifestly
guilty defendant is convicted after
a trial in which he was represent-
ed by a manifestly ineffective
attorney. I cannot agree. Every
defendant is entitled to a trial in
which his interests are vigorously
and conscientiously advocated by
an able lawyer.”
Dissent in Stickland vs. Wash-
ington (1983)
@ON PRECEDENT: “Pow-
er, not reason, is the new currency
of this court’s decision making.
... The implications of this radi-
cal new exception to the doctrine
of stare decisis are staggering. The
majority today sends a clear sig-
nal that scores of established con-
stitutional liberties are now ripe
for reconsideration, thereby invit-
ing the very type of open defiance
of our precedents that the majori-
ty rewards in this case.”
Dissent in Payne vs. Tennessee
(1991)
The Center for Law and Justice with co-sponsors
the Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism and
the Graduate School of Criminal Justice of the Rockefeller College
present a program
"Racism,
Law Enforcement
and Violence"
Don Jackson has been involved
in a long and couragous battle against
racism in policing in California, A
former police officer, Don set out to
expose police brutality and racism in
the Long Beach Police Department hy
orchestrating a sting operation in
which his own arrest and vicious
beating were filmed by the Today
Show (NBC). Don is currently
pursuing his doctoral degree in
Criminal Justice at State College, Pa
He continues to be an activist against
injustice and police abuse
Tyra Ferrell Jackson is an
actress (some of her roles have been as
@ African American woman who
fived in Bensonhurst in “Jungle Pever:”
the mather of Doughboy and Rickie in
"Boyz 'N The Hood:" Wesley Snipes’ wite
) White Men Can't Jump.") She is also
af activist against racism and. strives to
Promote positive portrayals of African
American women on. screen
Friday, February 19, 1993
7:00) p.m.
The College of St. Rose
St. Joseph's Hall Auditorium
Madison Avenue, Albany, N.Y.
For additional information, call The Center at 427-8361.
The Third Annual Capital District Community Conference on Crime and Criminal Justice will
be a three-part conference that will have as its theme: "By Any Means Necessary: The Fight Against
Racism, Police Abuse and Imprisonment." — Individual programs include:
I. "Racism, Law Enforcement, and Violence” - a program presented by Don Jackson and Tyra
Ferrell Jackson, February 19, 1993 at 7:00 p.m. at the College of St. Rose. (see above for details)
2. "The Direct Relationship Between Prisons and Communities” «a meeting of Black and
Puetor Rican Legislative Caucus members, prisoners, correctional administrators and community representatives at
Greenhaven Correctional Facility. It is tentatively set for Thursday, February 25, 1993 from 10:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.
3. "The Effect of Prisons on Communities: Issues and Alternatives" - a day long
conference to be held at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany on Saturday, April 24, 1993, This
year's conference will again be sponsored by a number of community residents, organizations and groups.
Assistance ts needed in all areas of the conference planning and execution. Those with skills in writing, graphics,
telephoning, research, fundraising, registration and planning are especially needed.
For more information about any of the above, or to co-sponsor or volunteer for the Center
conference, call 518-427-8361.
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CD-CAAR urges you to circulate the enclosed petition, part of the STOP Apartheid's
° Violence Campaign of the Africa Fund, urging President Clinton to publicly condemn Sti
Dizzy President BM de Klerk's government for allowing apartheid's ‘ilies to continue, The 5
By ABIODUN OYOWOLE Be Bop for Black folks week ending February 14, 1992 is STOP Apartheid's Violence week. Please return petitions
was a way of life to CD-CAAR, Box 3002 Pine Hills Station, Albany, New York 12203 |
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| No he didn’t die wake up when it sets “ ° .
- The God in him de- | the night life mesmerizes STOP Apartheid's Violence
cided those who'd like to forget A campaign initiated by the Africa Fund
tojoin MilesandArt | Strange shadows on dance floors
Wyss Philly and Dexter | just notes to a Song 7 .
Monk and Sarah collard greens and some chicken President Bill Clinten February 1993
Sammy and Pearl Right Now nothing's wrong The White House
Walter and Aunt Baby Ah Yes Dizzy heard Bird Washington 1D. C
La Rocque Bey and Dinizulu and the drums in his heart : . os
Kasa Allah and Akinyele he made the African Connection ae sas
ond Mother Male in an hainte thin Miaw Ait Dear President Clinton,
and all the other Black Stars Afro-Cuban rhythms ' .
‘i shining in tha Heacene'al Mambo through your mind We the undersigned urge that you publicly condemn the South African
21 ant It’s January 1993 Dizzy made you Dizzy wvernment for allowing apartheid's violence to continue and call for the
and it's very clear to me with the music immediate election of a democratic government.
that if we are to be truly Free of these times — ***This month marks the third anniversary of the release of Nelson
a S ———.s Night i Tania Mandela from 27 years in South Africa's jails. Mandela is free but he still ¢ t
from our Family Tree written on a paper bag vote. . anno
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p a iy %, e eee and the juice that we give Kush was his message aime at those who are struggling for democracy.
fa Miar that loina és shia aiken denned ae . Phe apartheid regime has refused to stop military and police
Black juicy grapes just like the Pyramids involvement in the murder of thousands of innocent people.
ut sweet to the taste we live eternally Until the white minority regime is replaced by a democratically elected
we're the favorite flavor Swing low sweet Cadillac government, there will be no peace in South Africa. ;
h of the whole Human Race Grandiose in his style
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Racism in Troy Housing... Moving for Change
The following facts about the Troy Housing Authority have been uncovered by
housing advocate and CD-CAAR member, Brian O'Shaugnessy. The pattern of
racism they reveal has moved him to take action in order to change the appalling
Situation that exists in the Troy Authority. (lt also exists in the City of Troy, in
general, which employs only one African American police person and no
firefighters of color!). He is beginning to call low-income Troy residents
together, hoping initial steps will lead to a campaign to address the injustice
within the Housing Authority. CD-CAAR strongly supports Brian and _ this
movement for change in Troy. If you would like more information or are
interested in working with him, call 272-8275.
Facts regarding the Troy Housing Authority
During the 23 year tenure of the present Executive Director, not one African
American or Hispanic American has been hired to a management
position; the tenant population is 40-45% minority.
Five “favored families,” holding a total of seventeen THA jobs, were paid
over $738,000 in salaries and benefits in 1992.
The Executive Director says he cannot find qualified minorities to
take the civil service exams. Yet of the 41 fulltime jobs at the Authority that
do not require an exam, only one is filled with a black and one with an Hispanic
employee.
In 1989, When one member of the "favored families” finished 9th out of 12th on
his civil service exam for Superintendent of Buildings he was not let go. He was
kept on and paid as Superintendent along with the person who finished first on
the exam. When this fact became known in 1992, he was promoted and given a
$12,500 annual raise. When the only black security guard did not pass the civil
service exam for this position, he was let go. The need for qualified people seems
to apply more to blacks and Hispanics than to whites at the THA!
The costs of racism cannot measured only in terms of this
exclusion from employment. How can anyone calculate exactly how
destructive it has been for minority youth to grow up in THA sites
be
without ever seeing a person of color in a management role? How g
has almost total exclusion from THA maintenance positions
contributed to the weakened economic state of black family life?
(The facts and commentary are from an editorial by Brian O'Shaugnessy which
appeared in The Record, Troy, N.Y. January 16, 1992)
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IN MEMORIAM - LORRAINE FREEMAN
Several years ago I shared a room with Lorraine Freeman in Washington , D.C. CD-
CAAR had sent a van with about ten people to attend a Martin Luther King Conference
sponsored by the Washington Office on Africa which focused on South and Southern Africa
issues, The conference was very interesting and very useful for those of us working in the anti-
apartheid movement. We also took time to do a little sightseeing in Washington and eat at some
wonderful ethnic restaurants. Whenever | remember that weekend, though, | remember
Lorraine. Up until that time I only knew her as someone | would exchange greetings with at a
meeting or see at a march or demonstration. In this chance pairing for rooms, | had the
incredible good fortune to get to know Lorraine a little. We discovered that we shared some
unlikely experiences - including time spent with the Catholic Worker movement. Lorraine had
lived at their farm on the Hudson River for several years and knew Dorothy Day well. And we
learned that we shared a common love of poetry, especially by African American authors;
Lorraine also wrote poetry herself.
: We spent hours talking that weekend and | came to realize that | was with someone who
pid spent her entire life in struggle for justice. Her own life was a difficult struggle in many
ways but she remained firm in her beliefs about the need for social change and her commitment
to working for that change.
Lorraine Freeman died of cancer at the end of 1992. To Lorraine, one of the unsung
heroines, rest in peace.
EASE EEE OEE PINE IELTS SEER SELENA I RIED ENGEL EAI OSE
A very sincere thank you...to Joyce Rose and the newsletter mailing
committee: Martin Manley, Sandy Gerrish, Peter Looker, Terri Robin, and Caitlin. For the
past two years they have done all of the grunt/gopher work that goes with putting out this
mailing - stapling, labeling, and sorting. In addition, Joyce has picked it up from the printer,
delievered it to the post office and kept our account straight with the Social Justice Center. Due
to other commitments, Joyce will not be able to continue the work and David Aube has
volunteered to take over. A most sincere thank you to Joyce and committee for an invaluable
service and a thank you to David for stepping in.
Some more thanks... to Peter Balint for assuming the CD-CAAR position on the
Social Justice Center Steering Committee. The Social Justice Center is Albany's umbrella
organization for many groups working on peace and social justice issues, As a member, CD-
CAAR accepts certain responsibilities, including Steering Committee representation. Peter will
represent us well.
..to Naomi Jaffee for printing up CD-CAAR's 1993 jazzy membership cards!
Lincoln Park Shelter Wish List The Homeless Action Committee, Inc. has
compiled a list of things that would be of great use at the homeless shelter this winter. The list
includes:sheets, blankets, towels, washcloths, iron, t.v., vcr, dishes, pots and pans, ironing
d, silverware, food storage containers, pajamas and robes, men’s winter outdoor clothing,
fe, cordless phone, garbage bags, laundry detergent, cleaning supplies, personal hygiene
supplies (soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothbrushes, toothpaste, shaving cream, razors.)
Piease drop off at the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Avenue, Albany, New
York or call Donna or Stu at 434-4037 for more information.
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And speaking of violence...what about Haiti?
by Vera Michelson
Anyone looking for examples of racism in U.S, foreign policy does not have to look
very far. The images of Haitians being washed up on U.S. shores, being intercepted at sea in
rickety boats, being held at Guantanamo Bay (approximately 275 remain, forgotten by the
world and living in unbearable conditions) and others being forcibly returned to a cruel and
illegal government never seem to fade.
The U.S. government tells us that Haitians are fleeing for economic and not political
reasons. Let them tell that to:
Aurelien Toussaint who was beaten and imprisoned after soldiers
found a picture of President Aristide in his home in Cite Soleil.
Albert Clotaire.24, and his coursin who were arrested by soldiers in
the Cite Soleil neighborhood of Port-au-Prince . Soldiers stopped the two,
thelling them they did not have the right to be out so late. Clotaire told the
soldiers they were on their way to visit a sick frienc and that the soldiers could
accompany them on the visit to verify that information. Instead, the soldiers
questioned the young men, demanding the names of neighborhood youths who
are members of local popular organizations. They then took Clotaire and his
cousin to. an unknown destination.
Father Ednard Devalein, of the Saintard Parish, who was arrested
by soldiers in Arcahaie. He was driving in his car when soldiers stopped him,
arrested and beat him and searched his car. He was accused bo being an
Aristide supported. They detained him for several hours.
Joanis Pericles, a hairdresser in his 50's who was sot to death in the
Canape Vert neighborhood of Port-au-Prince . The victim was known to be an
outspoken opponent of the de facto government and a supporter of President
Aristide.
The general population which lives in constant fear and terror of
political repression by the illegitimate government and police force.
During the U.S. presidential election campaign, President Clinton called the Bush
policy toward Haiti "inhuman". During the campaign, Clinton also promised to:
1. Intensify direct U.S. pressure to help restore the democratically
elected government of Jean Bertrand Aristide to Haiti;
2. Seek tightening of the Organization of American States' embargo on
a and urge our European allies to observe it, particularly with regard to
oil;
3. Provide safe haven for Haitian refugees until democracy is restored.
As this newsletter goes to press, Clinton has been accused of reneging on these promises.
Pressure from the grassroots is the only way to insure justice for the Haitians.
CD-CAAR urges all readers to write to President Clinton at the White House, 1600
Pennsylvania Avenue N.W., Washington, D.C. 20500 and tell him to keep his promises.
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Cuba is Not Our Enemy
An ad-hoc committee on Cuba has come together to work to change the United States government's policy toward Cuba. It is
the goal of this group to pressure the government of the United States to end the economic blockade of Cuba, normalize
relations, and begin an era of cooperation, In late February the committee is going to run an ad in Metroland, the text of which
is below. Among the organizations that have so far endorsed this ad are: the Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism, the
Committee for Palestinian Rights, the Albany Peace and Energy Council, and the Capital District Committees of Correspondence.
Please join us in creating a new and rational policy toward Cuba - return the coupon below. For more info call Mabel at 372-1531
Dear President Clinton:
We, residents of the Capital District, want you to know that Cuba and it’s 11 million people are not our
enemy. Cuba is a poor nation that has eliminated illiteracy, produced the finest health care in Latin
America and eliminated homelessness.
On November 24, 1992, the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a resolution on
the need to put an end to the economic, commercial, and financial blockade against Cuba, imposed by the
United States. Only two other nations voted with the US. against this resolution.
We believe that:
* the embargo has no moral basis and prevents critical medicine and food from reaching a nation
that in no way threatens the people of the United States;
- the United States government's pressure on the world’s nations to stop trade with Cuba constitutes
a blockade and an attempt to strangle Cuba economically and to starve the Cuban people;
» the United States blockade against Cuba is a violation of the rights of Cuba’s people and the
people of the United States. The blockade and travel restrictions against Cuba have prevented the
people of the United States from seeing an accurate picture of Cuban society.
We urge you and Hillary to visit the island to see for youself the Cuban reality.
We ask you and your administration to:
* End the blockade against Cuba
+ Normalize relations with Cuba
- Begin an era of cooperation and friendship with the beleagured Island
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Yes, please include my name as a signatory to the “Cuba is Not Our Enemy” advertisement.
| want my name to appear as follows:
Signature: City:
Organization/job/title: (optional, for identification only)
© Yes, | want to make a donation, as indicated below, to help defray the cost of the ad.
© 1 do not want my name in the ad, but | have enclosed a donation, as indicated below.
Donation: © $15 7 $25 Oo $50 ( Other
Please make checks or money orders out to: Committees of Correspondence - Ad
Mail to: Cuba Ad Committee, a Project of the Social Justice Center, 33 Central Ave, Albany,
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Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid and Racism Non-Profit
A Project of the Social Justice Center Organization
33 Central Avenue U.S. Postage
Albany, New York 12210 Paid
Permit No. 509
Albany, N.Y,
"Racism, Law Enforcement and Violence"
February 19, 1993 at the College of St. Rose (details inside) @
In Memoriam - Dizzy Gillespie and Thurgood Marshall
We remember...with thanks for all they were, and all they did.
(Inside this newletter you'will find a poem called “Dizzy” by Abiodun Oyowole, reprinted
from the Amsterdam News and some quotes from Thurgood Marshall
1993 Membership Reminder - Thanks to the many who have already responded to the
CD-CAAR membership letter which went out in January. If you haven't done so yet, please take
the time and money to respond - we need your continued support if we are to continue.
3002?, 2003?, 12203? No, just $10.00! An apology is in order to all our readers
for the confusion over what is our real box number. On the membership/fundraiser letter which
went Out in the middle of January our box number is listed differently, three different times! The
return envelope which was included is correct so that, at least, is a relief. If you don't have a return
envelope, our correct address is: Box 3002, Pine Hills Station. Albany, New York 12203. Sorry
for any inconvenience,
Somalia... If you haven't been reading the Amsterdam News you missed an excellent three part
series on Somalia written by WBAI journalist Samori Marksman. These articles entitled "Why
have Black Leaders rushed to support the invasion of Somalia?" "Somalia: Warlords, Cold
Warriors and Global Warriors" and "Somalia: The White Man's Burden." If you would like
copies of these articles, please send a stamped self addressed envelope with a note to CD-CAAR,
P.O. Box 3002, Pine Hills Station, Albany, New York 12203.
CD-CAAR reminds members that the Amersterdam News often carries interesting artic
and reports not found in the mainstream press. The paper is devlivered from New York City on
Mondays and is sold in Albany at Coulsons, Finnigans, some Stewarts stores and several
neighborhood grocery stores.
Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid and Racism
Box 3002 Pine Hills Station
Albany, New York 12203
A project of the Social Justice Center
March-April 1993
Newsletter
New Attitude - New Attitude - New Attitude
. YOu may have noticed that CD-CAAR has not been holding
yegular monthly meetings in the library anymore. This
decision was made after assessing our work, our resources, our
goals and the general state of affairs in the organization.
Many of us felt that, while for twelve years CD-CAAR has been
a successful and consistently active Organization in the
Capital District, it has become absolutely necessary to reach
Out to a broader and larger sector of the community. We also
wanted to assess the goals of our political work,
internationally and domestically, in these changing and
volatile times.
We have begun this review in an active way by focusing
Our energies on holding community centered educational events
throughout the year and involving more people in the planning
and staging of these events. This process has been dynamic
and exciting. We have many new members in the organization
who have worked hard on these events and have been
instrumental in the ongoing process of reshaping and assessing
the programatic goals of the organization. This process does
not happen overnight. And it requires commitment and a
positive outlook. We cannot afford the luxury of becoming
paralyzed because the injustices in the world, and down the
street, seem to increase.
SO we keep going. On the next page you will find a
@**"'ns of some of the events we have held in the last year...
SAVE THE DATE: SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1993 (details inside)
The third annual Capital District Conference on Crime and Criminal Justice
“The Effect of Prisons on Communities: Issues and Alternatives”
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New Attitude (continued)
a public forum on Haite: Haiti - Deny it No More, featuring the video, “Haiti Under the Gun,”
a Slide show and discussion: "The Effects of Apartheid on Southern Africa.
a forum entitled "South Africa: Stop the Violence: Mozambique: Promote the Peace"
with Bernard Magubane of the African National Congress (ANC) and Prexy Nesbitt Senior Consultant to the
Mozambique Government
with the Center for Law and Justice, "Racism, Law Enforcement and Violence” with Donald
Jackson and Tyra Ferrell Jackson.
int March we had scheduled an event (cancelled because of the blizzard of 93) with New York State
Assemblyman Roger Green and Dumisani Kumalo of the American Committee on Africa. That event,
"Promote the Peace; Stop the Violence" was to address the issues of peace in U.S, communities,
especially with youth, and peace in South Africa. We have rescheduled a special event for April Ist - Going
the Last Miles: From Apartheid to Freedom with Miungisi (Lalu) Johnson, Deputy President of
the ANC Youth League.
We have emphasized the same theme throughout - the need
for an end to violence if there is to be enduring peace, both
in the U.S. and in Southern Africa.
AS we continue to try to figure out new CD-CAAR strategies
we need your support. We encourage you to call us at 432-4623
to get involved. The struggle for peace and justice is long
and protracted and we aren't even close. But the struggle
continues!
And THANKS... On the back page of this newsletter is a form
for those of you who haven't sent in your membership yet anda
thank you to those who have. We would like to make special
mention to some "special contributors" - both local and far
away. You have really given us something to remember.
Gloria DeSole, Prexy Nesbitt, Sue McDermott and Torin Spellman, EJ. Josey, Tony Young, Alice
Green and Charles Touhey, Arlena Adams, Joe Levinger, Bob Cohen and Ruth Foster, Sara and Brian
McGraw, Renee Hariton and Mark Mishler, Maud and David Easter, Art Kamell. Carl and Theresa Swidorski.
Barbara Allen, Susan J. DuBois, Vijay and Arlene Macwan, Dick Melita, Christine Connell, Larry Peters,
Margaret and James Cunningham, Carol Hausen.
$4
' @ Lunch, Information Booths, Entertainment
The Center for Law and Justice, inc. presents
The Third Annual Capital District Conference on Crime and Criminal Justice
The Effect of Prisons on Communities:
Issues and Alternatives
Schedule;
8:30-9:45 vom, Empire State Plaza
Registration, Refreshments and Convention Center
"Prisoners Speak” on video Alhany, New York
Session 1 Saturday, April 24, 1993
10:00-12:30 8:30 aa. ~ 4:30 p.m.
~Keynote Address: Exktie Ellis*,
Warren Harry and George Prendes,
Activist Prisoners and Former Prisoners
Community Speakout **
12:30-1;:30
Free admission - donations accepted
Session 1
1:30-2:00
~Awards Ceremony - Presentation of the
"Frederick Douglass Struggle for Justice
Awan"
2:00-3:30
3 Roundtables** - One each focused on Albany,
Rensselaer, and Schenectady counties,
4:00
Coalition Against Racism and Violence (CAARYV)
~Reports and Summary
-Development of a Community Action Agenda
Closing
“Eddie Ellis, keynote speaker, is a former Black Panther, Activist prisoner and community worker for the
Harlem Neighborhood Defender Services.
“Community Speakout and Roundtable Discussions on Racism, Law Enforcement and Drugs, Prisons and
Alternatives, and more,
Justice “Effects of Prisons on Communities: tssues and Alternatives"
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@ here is no charge for this conference. However, a donation of $5.00 would be
appreciated. All donations are tax deductible.)
Please return this form to: Center for Law and Justice, Inc. Pine West Plaza, Building 2
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the next step
y NELSON R. MANDELA
JOHANNESBURG (IPS)
ees y early next year at
the latest -—— more
likely by the end of
1993 —-South Africa's
first truly democratic
Be elections will be held.
A constituent assembly will be
elected, which will draw up the
basis for the first democratic gov-
ernment,
The chapter of White minority
rule will finally come to a close. In
the context of South Africa teday,
this is a phenomenal achievement.
Despite the deadlocks and nu-
merous difficulties of the last year,
progress has been made: bans on
progressive organizations have
been lifted, political prisoners re-
leased, and exiles have returned.
Repressive legislation has been
either amended or repealed, while
freedom of political activity has
been introduced to most of South
Africa. In addition, we have a
declaration of intention from the
multilateral talks — Congress for
a Democratic South Africa
CODESA) — which laid the ba-
318 for a united, democratic, non-
sexist society in a new South Af-
rica,
I do not like to boast, but it is
necessary to point out that it was
the African National Congress
(ANC) which initiated this peace
process in July 1986, when, in
aes
prison, | asked to meet with the ..
then-President PW. Botha to pro-
pose that the ANC and the gov
ernment sit down together to re
solve our problems
Those who appreciate the re
alities of the South African situa-
tien must agree that the progress
made so far is satisfactory. But
there were, of course, far greater
and very widespread expectations,
many of which were naive and
romantic. There was the hope that
a messiah would step forth and
magically resolve all problems.
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I know that I was the subject of
such expectations when I came
out of jail, Many people, both at
home and abroad, seemed to for-
get that I was coming back to a
South Africa which had
been ruled by the Na-
tional Party for 40 years.
Yet not only did I not
have magic powers, my
fellow prisoners and I do
not think that a single pov
individual is responsible
for solving problems.
We are products of a
tradition of belief in col-
lective effort.
There is not one of us who is
above others in position or ability.
Ifanyoneis made the focus around
which our efforts revolve, this is
the reault of a team decision; and
without the support of that team,
Tor any other individual would be
useless.
Fortunately, the myths have
largely dissipated, and we are seen
today as ordinary human beings,
subject to all the usual frailties.
This is just as well, because there
are very harsh realines to con-
front, and there are no easy solu-
fons.
We must now adapt tothe situ
ation in which we find ourselves
and overcome the handicap of our
background as members of a re-
sistance movement. Previously we
opposed on principle anything
coming from the government. This
was a correct strategy for its ime,
but new conditions require new
responses. We should not leave
the initiative for problem solving
to the government.
Because of our history, we are
the custodians of justice and fair
play in South Africa, and we
should continue to lead the gov-
ermment.
Whether we like it or not, the
ANC and the National Party gov-
ernment are the major political
players in the present transition,
bi
and cooperation is essential. With-
out the involvement of the Na-
tional Party and the government,
there can be noeffective change in
our country. Similarly, without
the involvernentof the ANC, there
can be no forward movement.
The ANC on one side and the
government and National Party
on the other side must meet to
discuss each national issue and
come to an agreement which both
must honor in practice. We have
no less than 10 allies in the mul
tilateral forum, and we have given
the assurance that we will be able
to carry them With us in any deci
sion we take.
If the government is unable to
carry its allies — and it seers
they are in disarry —-wev jo
what we can to help thent=« he
process must not become bogged
down.
Though I am optimistic that
the process will continue and that
the ANC will win the future demo
cratic election, winning political
power will be more difficult. To
win political power, we will have
to gain control of the
civil service, defence
foree, police and judi.
ciary as well as the
support of business
This will take some
® ime,
oe We will also have
to guard against po
po) tential destablization
and counter-revolu
tionary backlash. The best way ot
preventing such a problem will be
to present a united front by form.
ing a voluntary government of
national unity.
The newly-elected democratic
government will have to invite
other political partes with sig
nificant followings to join the gov
ernment. The problems facin™ +
are so grave that I think su
step will be difficult to avoid. —
We must assure peace and sta-
bility in South Afrnea. Only when
that is done can we bemn the
crucial task of rebuilding its shat
tered economy
South Africa
"You have touched the women, you have struck a rock."
In September, 1991 the Women's League of
the African National Congress invited national
organizations to discuss a campaign for equal rights
of men and women in the new South African
constitution, Out of this meeting, the Women's
National Coalition (WNC) was formed, as a non-
party political body open to all organizations
interested in furthering the agenda of women's
rights. Following the formation, a National
Workshop was held in April 1992, attended by over
509 national organizations, ranging from the ANC,
the Nationalist Party, the Inkatha Freedom Party, the
mocratic Party, the Rural Women's Movement,
B. CODESA Gender Committee, to a wide range of
service groups and church organizations. As a result
of the workshop and a national survey to determine
what are the priorities of South African women in
regard to the new dispensation, a campaign has
begun to incorporate a South African Women's
Charter in the "new" South African constitution.
Here in the U.S., the Africa Fund of the American Committee on Africa, in Februrary,
announced the creation of a Women's Project. The project will support the women of South
Africa in this campaign for inclusion of a Women’s Charter. The Africa Fund is looking for
endorsers of the Women's Project from U.S. Women's and Anti-Apartheid organizations: the
Project was launched on March 8, in conjunction with International Women's History Month.
CD-CAAR has joined the Project in "..applauding current attempts by South
Africa's women to ensure their rights and equality will be protected in a
democratic South Africa. In order to secure the birth of a truly representative
and just seciety in South Africa, women will need to mobilize on their own
behalf. Therefore, we support the grassroots organizing undertaken by South
African women on all issues which determine the quality of their lives, from
political organizing and economic policy to health care, education and violence.
We salute the efforts of rural and trade union women, whose struggles have
encompassed all the harsh realities of apartheid South Africa. We pledge to
educate our constituencies about the position of South African women, and to
stand in solidiarity with their struggle."
5 If your organization is interested in endorsing the Project, contact Rachael Kagan at the
Africa Fund, 198 Broadway, New York, New York 10038, phone (212) 962-1210. For those
who are interested in working with CD-CAAR on setting up a committee to work with the Africa
Fund Project, please call lris Berger at 439-0297 or Eileen Kawola at 438-0309,
Angola In Crisis
by Debbie Maxwell
As intense fighting continues in Angola, it is clear the peace process has
suffered a severe setback. In elections last fall, the ruling Popular Movement for the
Liberation of Angola (MPLA) won a decisive victory in the vote for parliament and
President Eduardo Dos Santos barely missed the needed 50% to win the presidency.
But Jonas Savimbi, leader of the National Union for the Total Independence of
Angola (UNITA), has renewed fighting rather than accept the electoral loss and face a
runoff election for president, an election he was expected to lose.
The fighting is described as more intense than at any time during the 16 year
civil war that ended in May, 1991. Bombings of public buildings and assassinations
inside UNITA-held territory are among the terrorist acts being reported. More than ~,
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16,000 people have been killed. Thousands have fled UNITA-held areas, and
more than 1.4 million people currently face starvation. Most recently, UNITA has
seized much of Angola’s northern diamond and oil rich areas, putting a stranglehold
on the economy as oil accounts for 90% of Angola's revenue. Currently, UNITA
controls about 75% of the country,
Explanations of the failure of the peace process include several factors, First.
in their haste to get the election process moving, the United Nations and other
international monitors chose to ignore warning signs that Savimbi would not abide by
the election process should his party, UNITA, fail to win, Also ignored was
evidence discovered as early as July that large numbers of weapons were being
cached by UNITA. The failure to disarm both UNITA and government troops before
the actual elections has been heavily criticized. Another reason for the failure of the
peace process was that military monitors of the UN Angolan Verification Mission II
were far to few for a country as large as Angola.
It is widely accepted that UNITA’s current military offensive is being heavily
assisted by South Africans and Zairians as well as white mercenaries. The frontline
States called an emergency meeting in December to protest South African
destabilization tactics, and Namibian authorities seized three South African planes
attempting to ferry supplies to Unita from the northern town of Rundu. Meanwhile, a
UN ban on military aid to Angola is still in effect. Without immediate help defending
its people and territory, the Angolan government may have no alternative to breaking
this ban in order to survive.
pa
The UN, which most observers feel has been notably weak in performing any
monitoring function, has called for a cease fire and has been trying to arrange
meetings between MPLA and UNITA, so far unsuccessfully. UN observers,
systematically attacked by UNITA, have been driven out of most of their outstations.
UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has recommended that the UN scale
back its monitoring mission from 700 to 64 personnel and withdraw completely by the
end of April if renewed peace talks are not underway by then. The most recent
deadline for resumed talks, March 1, passed with UNITA failing to show up.
Clearly, with the rebels having seized 75% of the country, a UN withdrawal would
leave Angolans at the mercy of UNITA, its forces poised to take military control.
Recently, Angolan President Eduardo Dos Santos, in a letter to President
3 )Clinton, has personally appealed to the United States to recognize his government.
Last October, Herman Cohen, then U.S. Assistant of State for Africa, told Congress
that once the United Nations certified the Angolan elections the U.S, government
would recognize the government of Angola. The UN accepted the elections as "free
and fair," but the United States remains, with South Africa, the only country in the
world not recognizing Angola. President Dos Santos explained in his letter to Clinton
that the Bush administration's silence over recognition had encouraged Savimbi to
pursue a military solution. "To maintain a position which does not recognize Angola
means to favor UNITA," Dos Santos said. Certainly, after 16 years of backing
UNITA, U.S. influence and responsibility cannot be understated.
Many observers were concerned when Warren Christopher, U. S. Secretary of
State, in his confirmation hearings, suggested taking a cautious “wait and see” attitude
towards recognition. President Dos Santos has clearly stated that he needs the help of
the international community and that diplomatic recognition for the Luanda
government would signal a resounding setback for Savimbi and his rebels and hasten
their international isolation. After UNITA’s failure to show for renewed peace talks
March Ist, diplomats said that the U.S., Russia and Portugal were “weighing”
tougher action against UNITA. Even a Washington Post editorial (February 10,
1993) concluded that it was "Time at Last to Recognize Angola”.
{ Main Sources: Washington Office on Africa; Boabah Notes, Dec./Jan.; The
5 Guardian, Jan. 21; Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 25, March 2).
What can you do?
ANGOLANS CAN'T WAIT, ere FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1999 |
they are dying. Activist to lead workshop [
What can you do? By PATRICK KURP He will seek to portray Malcolm aa |
The Washington Office on Africa recently sent r se — x Be nei arg AA cant sity. ssh eniededbiehieiegns on
a ee ee EN lied ani ah att seamen
CS niteenc E radical hate-monger. That's not true States, but an increase in such inci-
We urge you to take the
following actions:
Write: Warren Christopher, Secretary of State,
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street N.W.
Washington, D.C., 20520.
Call the Department of State comment line.
Register your concern and recommendations.
The phone number is (202) 647-6575
Request that the Clinton administration:
“Immediately recognize the recent!
establish full diplomatic relations.
| “Isolate Savimbi and UNITA until there is a definitive renunciation of
violence and a commitment to peaceful political competition.
y elected Angolan government and
“I think Spike Lee did the beat he
could with his movie. But for me, in
terms of learning who Malcolm actu-
ally waa, the movie was a great
disappointment, It lingered too long
on the hustler routine, and it wasn't
as political as it needs to be,” said
_mpital District Coalition Against
parthied and Raciam.
On Saturday, Simpson will lead a
workshop on Malcolm X as part of
the third annual “Realizing the
Dream” conference on race and rac-
isin, Held in Ricketts Hall on Con-
gress Street, between First and See-
ond streets, the conference is
sponsored by the Troy Human
Rights Commission, Troy Area
United Ministries, Council for Citi-
zenship Education at Russell Sage
College, and the Sage Colleges.
“There's so much misinformation
and disinformation about Malcolm.
I'd like to give a better appreciation
of his basic ideas. Young people need
models today, and nobody's really
filled the vacuum since Martin (Lu-
ther King Jr.) and Malcolm were
killed,” Simpson said.
Sia Simpson, co-chairman of the
to the reality. Only when he belonged
to the Nation of Islam did he believe
that white people were universally
demonic. He changed,” Simpson
said.
Despite his dissatisfaction with
Lee's portrayal, Simpson said he was
pleased that Americans have re-
sumed their study of Malcolm's life
and ideas.
“The fact is, the movie's out, and
it's catapaulted Malcolm back into
people's consciousness. The net re-
sult is positive,” he said.
Another workshop, titled “New
Anti-Semitiam: Fourth Reich to
Jewish Studentsa Under Seige,” will
be conducted by Harvey Strum,
chairman of the social science divi-
sion at Sage Junior College of Al-
bany.
On one hand, Strum will examine
the emergence of ethnic nationaliam,
especially in Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union, since the col-
lapse of communism, and its rela-
tion to increased anti-Semitism.
On the other, Strum will discuss a
recent study published by the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
which reported an overall drop in
dents on college campuses. Strum
relates the upsurge to the increased
emphasis on multiculturalism and
cultural diversity.
“Often, it hides a hidden agenda.
Jews are perceived as part of Euro-
centriam,” Strum said, citing the
pseudo-scholarship of Leonard Jef-
fries.
“It has become more socially ac-
ceptable to express anti-Semitic
ideas, but to use other words for it,
Sometimes they're hiding behind
anti-Zionism,” he said, citing the
revival of the “Shylock image that all
Jews are rich, Jews contol the banks.
Jews control the merlia.”
The keynote address of Saturday's
conference, “State-of-the-art Racism
in the U.S.” will he delivered by
Vivian Gordon, professor with the
Africana studies department at the
State University at Albany.
Malcolm X
“Support funding for a continued and expanded U.N. presence in Angola,
adequate to facilitate full implementation of the peace process and run off
elections.
TROY HOUSING AUTHORITY (THA) UPDATE...last month we ran an
article about racism in the THA by housing advocate Brian O'Shaughnessy ) ee
Although snow still covers much of the ground, it is beginning to look like spring. This is
especially true for tenants who live under the rule of the THA. That is because the Troy paper.
The Record, ran a four-day, front page expose in March of the THA which brings to surface the
nepotism, racism, patronage and ee ri att Anata the Authority. hota is = lie e
‘ . . frke advantage of these revelations by calling for a thorough investigation. Please write to the
eee aes Angolan government for economic ER CO FUCRGN. Nai * UD nspeome General requesting an Tavewigntion of the Troy Houkite Authority. (Whether you
live in Troy or not this appeal applics to you because the THA is supported by your Pederal tax
dollars.)
Write: Mr. Lee Isdell, Office of the Inspector General
Department of HUD, Room 3430
26 Federal Plaza New York, N.Y. 10278-0068
“Investigate South African and Zairean intervention.
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What has happened around here...
Barry Walston, Tyra Ferrell Jackson, Alice Green, Don Jackson und Vera Michelson
In town...Don Jackson and Tyra Ferrell Jackson on Feb. 19th, to speak on
“Racism, Law Enforcement and Violence” sponsored by the Center for law and Justice, Inc
(CD-CAAR and the Graduate School of Criminal Justice of the Rockefeller College co
sponsored) Don's visit to Albany was long awaited and over 100 people turned out to hear
him speak. Getting his wife, Tyra Ferrell Jackson, to come with him was a bonus for the
Capital District.
Back from out of town..,.Welcome back to our friends Elombe Brath, Paula
Bower, Cleve Robinson, Nesbitt Crutchfield and all the others who attended the international
Solidanty Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa in February. CD-CAAR was not able to
send a representative but we know there'll be good information coming from the conference.
At Siena College...CcD-CAAR members Vera Michelson and Eileen Kawola
presented a slide show "The Effect of Apartheid on the Southern Africa Region” at Siena
College on Wednesday, Mar. 3rd. The program was arranged through Siena Professor, CD
‘CAAR member Nii Nartey who hosted the event. It was sponsored by Siena's Women and
Minorities Committee, President's Office for Diversity, History Club and Phi Alpha Theta.
At Junior College of Albany and Doane Stuart School... In
January CD: CAAR member Eileen Kawola presented a slide show at both of these schools on
Southern Africa as part of the Mocatini, Mozambique School Material Aid Project. CD-CAAR
has now raised almost $1,000 for the "school without walls” in Mozambique - money which
will be used to buy critically needed materials such as portable blackboards, paper, pencils and \g.
books. If you would like to contribute to this project, send a check (CD-CAAR, Mocatini
Project) to CD-CAAR, Box 3002 Pine Hills Station, Albany, New York 12203.
Merton Simpton on Malcolm X.. see article in this newsletter.
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What's Happening?
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in Amsterdam...Sat. April 10-8 p.m. to 2 a.m. Paradise Pr
Promotions presents Juan Merengue y su Orquesta Giencia | atina at €
Club, 59 Milton Avenue in Amsterdam. Tickets are $10 in advance ¢
more information, call (S518) 842-8142.
_ It runs from 6
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Every other Thursday...Watch for Latin night at Parc V in Alt
p.m. to 11 p.m and there is no charge. D.J.’s are spinning lots of Sals
Pare V for more information, (518) 869-9976.
Wednesday, April 21, 1993...Film showing: "The Meeting” - Discussion
"Malcolm and Martin - the Debate Continues"at SUNYA Campus Center, Conference Room
q at 7 p.m. No Charge. For information call Office of Minority Services (518) 454-5128,
24 Hour Peace Performance...The tenth annual "Readings Against the End of the —
World" will be held on Saturday, April 24 at The 8th Step (upstairs) at 14 Willett St. in Albany.
This is a community cultural project of the Albany Peace and Energy Council. The performance
begins at midnight Friday (4/23) and continues until midnight Saturday. This year's
"Readings" are an area Earth Day/Week event. For more information, call (518) 438-6314.
Pinksterfest Weekend, May 8-9... The Capital District Gay and Lesbian
Community Council will hold an Open House the weekend of Albany's Pinkestertest. A
Coffeehouse will be staffed during the weekend and an art show will be held on the thrid floor.
The Center is located at 332 Hudson Avenue, Albany. For information call (518) 462-61 38,
Peace Offerings...Peace Offerings, “the store with a social conscience,” is a not-for
profit venture designed to support the activites of the Social Justice Center. Products sold at the
Center are purchased from collectives, cooperatives, local craftspeople and wholesalers
committed to non-exploitation. The store is located at the Center, 33 Central Avenue, Albany.
Oral History on the Civil Rights Movement...The New York State Martin
Luther King, Jr. Commission and Institute for Non Violence has begun a project to create an
oral history of New Yorkers in the Civil Rights Movement. "Hundreds, if not thousands, of
New Yorker contributed significantly to the American civil nghts movement, said Virgil H.
Hodges, executive director of the King organization. Many of their experiences have never
been recorded. Tapes of conversations with people who were involved in the movement will
be stored in the Institute's archives where they will be available to researchers, educators,
stidents and the general public. If you were active in the Civil Rights, contact the Institute.
National Alliance Against Racist & Political Oppression...April 30 to
May 2, 1993 in Detroit, Michigan, the NAARP will hold a national strategy session on
"Stopping Police Crimes." For more information about the conference, call (212) 406-3330.
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IS AFRICA OFF THE AGENDA?
WHAT CAN I DO ABOUT IT
ANYWAY?
Imani Countess, of the Washington Office on Africa (WOA), has told us many
times how important it is that the people in grassroots movements make their
opinions known to the lawmakers in Washington. When WOA goes to lobby
for just policies in Africa, their work is much easier if the legislators have
hear their constituents’ concerns about the issues. In this newsletter we have
printed information on Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Haiti and
Cuba. Washington needs to know what you believe U.S. policy should be
toward these countries. Take the time to write a letter, make a phone
call. We have printed below the addresses you need.
Make your voice heard!
Write: Warren Christopher, Secretary of State
U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street N.W.
Washington D.C. 20520
Call: The Department of Statecomment line and Seeqr
register your concern and recommendations. ay
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(202) 647-6575 Seas
Write: House Afnca Subcommittee
817 O'Neill House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
Senate African Affairs Subcommittee
226 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
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Angola Tragedy-where is U.S. government and
media?
Have your heard that war is raging in Angola? Since the fall of
1992, 100,000 Angolans have died in the fighting which resumed when Jonas Savimbi
and his UNITA forces rejected an election defeat and resumed a full scale war. The U.N.
special envoy to Angola, Alouine Beye, said up to 1,000 people were dying daily from
fighting and war-induced famine, Relief workers are predicting that 2 million Angolans,
out of a population of about 10 million, face starvation if no peace settlement is found.
(Associated Press, 8/25/93)
U.S. recognizes Angola. On May 19th of this year, the Clinton
administration announced the long-delayed U.S. decision to grant diplomatic recognition to
the Republic of Angola (which since atk ae in 1975 has been recognized by every
country in the world except the U.S. and South Africa) This recognition cleared the way
for U.S. involvement in addressing the humanitarian and development needs of Angola
- but no rebuilding can begin until the war ends. Even UN relief planes are fired upon by
‘NITA forces. UNITA refused to sign a new cease-fire agreement which was endorsed
the UN, the US, Portugal, Russia and the Angolan government. Most observors
believe that UNITA will talk peace only when its military prospects no longer are viable.
UNITA is still receiving supplies through Zaire and South Africa.
What exactly does the U.S. recognize? Secretary of State Warren
Christopher, ina May 1993 meeting with delegates from the Washington Office on Africa
and the NAACP, stated that the administration wants to work with the Angolan
government and to pressure UNITA to stop the war. But, it is now September and what
sign is there that the U.S. has been able to put pressure on the UNITA supply lines in
order to get negotiations resumed? How successful is the U.S. or the U.N. in supplying
relief in the midst of this war?
And how would we know anyway? More people have been
killed in Angola in five months than in the former Yugoslavia in
two years! Not only are we seeing few initiatives on the part of the U.S. government
toward the Angola; the war in Angola with its staggering death toll is almost never even
mentioned by the U.S. media. The press and the electronic media have bombarded us with
news of the horrifying war in the Balkans and almost nightly debates about what the world
should do to try to stop it. We have seen the pictures and heard the stories of children
killed and maimed by that war. Yes, all agree that the break up of Yugoslavia has brought
tragic results. But why the shameful silence and inaction on Angola?
What can you do about it anyway? Again we are asking you to put
pressure on the U.S. government to help stop this war. Request that the Clinton
administration and the U.S. Congress: Isolate Jonas Savimbi and UNITA until there is a
ceasefire and a return to negotiations. Investigate South African and Zairean intervention,
porting effective action to bar the supply of arms, fuel and other critical supplies to
ITA, including monitoring of flights and sanctions ‘against countries, companies,
individuals or groups violating the ban. Support funding for a continued and expanded
U.N. presence in Angola.
Peace stalls in Mozambique = "As / write, Mozambique is "marking
time,” still waiting for the promising steps toward peace to become more than words on
paper. Or perhaps the better metaphor is “treading water because treading water is more
dangerous. If you stop you may drown because you are in over your head, And although
people determinedly move ahead trying to reconstruct their lives here, everybody knows
these are still very dangerous times, The “ceasefire” - which is all we have had since
October 1992 - could be broken and the terror could return.” ( Ruth Minter, Missionary
Correspondence Program, June 1993)
Joseph Handlon, who has written several books on Mozambique, is putting out a Mozambique
Peace Process Bulletin. It is being published irregularly until the first multi-party elections in
Mozambique. The following information on the peace process comes from that bulletin. :* .
Although the cease fire continues to hold and UN troops are finally arriving, in
general the peace process is stalled. “There has been little progress” in moving the two
sides’ forces to assembly points, and in demobilisation, although this is “crucial” to the
peace accord, UN Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said in a report to the Security
Council on 3 April. Publicly, officials of ONUMOZ, the UN Operation in Mozambique,
say the delays are not serious. In private, however, ONUMOZ officials talk of
“paralysis,” a “boycott,” and “impasse,” and “hitting a brick wail."
There had been general acceptance of Afonso Dhlakama’s (of Renamo) repeated
statements that he will not return to war but the Frelimo Party President of Mozambique,
Joaquim Chissano, has accused Renamo of bringing in arms via Malawi and of resuming
military training. Fears are growing that even if the fighting does not resume, the peace
process could drag on for years.
UN troops have begun to arrive but both money and staff has been delayed for
ONUMOZ, resulting from both internal UN and international problems. Mozambique is a
low priority compared to Yugoslavia and Somalia, which means it gets pushed to the
bottom of the list. This delay is seen as the single most important factor in the paralysis of
the peace process because UN delays mean the parties to the accord are not under pressure
to move forward.
At the time of the signing of the peace accord, Renamo and its backers pushed to
have treatment equal to the government and a tight timescale calling for elections in just one
year. Now the emphasis is being put on Renamo's weaknesses and need to develop from
a guerilla force largely involved in destruction into a political party capable of winning an
election. Most observors agree that delays tend to benefit Renamo As one government
official put it: “to some people an effective transition to democracy only takes place when
the governing party loses the election. When those people say they want to learn the
lessons of Angola, they mean that they want to ensure the opposition wins. But beating
Frelimo will take time, so they are slowing down the process." :
Update...At the end of August, Dhlakama and Chissano held an eight hour meeting
at which they came to agreement on two of three critical points which were in dispute
before a date for elections could be set, The issue still to be resolved concerns Renamo s
claim that the Frelimo government controls much of the information that is carried in the
U.S. Southern African activists need to keep reminding Washington to keep up
support for the peace in Mozambique - support for the UN forces, encouragement for
continuing negotiations, aid for reconstruction and resettlement of refugees, humanitarian
assistance for the victims of the war. The tragedy of Angola must not be repeated in
Mozambique.
Mozambican press. Continued talks were scheduled.
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__ On August 27, 1993 the UN Security Council lifted an oil embargo and a freeze on
Haitian assets overseas after the parliament approved a transitional government backed by
ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Under a UN mediated plan approved by the
army, military commander Gen. Raoul Cedras is to step down and Aristide, the country's
first freely elected leader, is scheduled to return by October 30.
An Inter-American Human Rights Commission reported that 300,000 Haitians
Waiting for justice
in the Carribbean
gg have been driven into song oe 1,500 killed since the bloody army coup which forced
y Arisited out of power in 1991,
The Commission reported that the army has created a
climate of terror for the people of Haiti.
Again, we need to make clear to the Clinton administration and Congress that we
expect the U.S. to give full support to the return to democracy in Haiti,
Cuba
(from the desk of Nesbit Crutchfield, Coordinator Bay Area Anti-Apartheid Network)
Dear Colleagues in the Anti-Apartheid Movement,
"Please reflect for a moment on these words of the ANC President Nelson
rae made during his speech to the people of Cuba when he visited their island in
"We have come here feeling a great debt to the people of Cuba. What other country
can show a history of greater selflessness that Cuba has demonstrated in its relations with
Africa? How many countries in the world benefit from the work of Cuban heaith workers
and educators? How many are these in Africa? What country has asked for Cuba's held
and been turned down ?"...
..The U.S. government is attempting to starve the Cuban people into submission
by tightening the criminal blockade at a time when Cuba is already staggered by the
dissolution of the Soviet block, and the”storm of the century" which hit the island in mid-
March leaving more than $1 billion in damage, including major food crops wiped out and
40 thousand homes destroyed.
..It is time to challenge Washington's hostile policies toward Cuba and its
inhumane blockade of the island. It's time to challenge the laws that violate our own
constitutional rights as U.S. citizens to know what's going on in the world, to travel in
ursuit of that knowledge and meet with Cubans both at home and on the island to learn
ut Cuban reality first hand..."
It is time for you to let your Congressmen and the administration know that you
oppose the continuing blockade against the Cuban people. To get involved locally in work
in support of Cuba, contact : Ad hoc Committee on Cuba, c/o Committees of
Correspondence, P.O. Box 6811, Fort Orange Station, Albany, New York 12206.
South Africa |
South Africa's first one-person, one-vote election is
scheduled to be held on April 27, 1994,
t about the violence; what about voter education?
ah American Committee on Africa has initiated a campaign to support free and fair
elections in South Africa, "South African Democracy." Ina letter this past May, ACOA's
project director, Dumisani Kumalo, reminded us that the tragic death by assassination of
Chris Hani, South African Communist Party leader, should be a wake-up call to those who
had doubts about the threat of apartheid's violence to the democratic process. On
apartheid's violence, he writes: “The pre-election control and accountability of
the police and military is a very touchy subject. There is ample evidence available,
including from Judge Richard Goldstone and his commission on violence, that the police
and military officers have been directly involved in fomenting apartheid's violence. There
is fear throughout the country that this will not change and the same forces that continue to
terrorize people will be standing at the doors of the polling stations on election day. .
The question of violence in South Africa comes up again and again. In this
newsletter we are reprinting a column on the violence by Schenectady Gazette writer, Car!
Strock, which included one conclusion that went "whatever the dynamic is.” We are also
reprinting a response to the Gazette by CD-CAAR Co-chair, Vera Michelson. and an article
by Allister Sparks which appeared in The Washington Post on August 16, 1993, both of
which help to explain just what the dynamic really is. ae
Another problem on the difficult road to real democracy in South Africa is the
question of voter education and voter registration. Kumalo writes of the problems
of 5,000,000 people living in the apartheid created homelands - no go areas. These are
KwaZulu, led by Gatsha Buthelezi (see Allister Sparks piece); Bophutatswana , led by
Lucas Mangope; and Ciskei, ruled by Oupa Gqozo. These are the le who continue to
be denied their fundamental right to hear the views of the ANC and its allies before voting.
In addition, it is possible that there will be no voter registration before the election.
Instead, identity cards will be required at the polls. The ANC estimates that there are at
least 5,000, black people who the government still has to issue with identity
documents.
Special Note: The King Center in
oe — a
Georgia has been asked by a number of South 4
African organizations to coordinate a national non © ONE PERSON
“partisan voter education project to support the
process of democracy in South Africa. The King ONE VOIE
Center is recruiting college and university students nationally
to take part in this history making effort. Sessions will be
four weeks long; participants will be actively involved in
preparing and disseminating voter education materials.
convening community meetings, and briefing South Africans
on democratization issues. For additional information
contact: Dr. Marcia Tumer, South Africa Non-Partisan
Voter Education Internship, 449 Auburn Avenue,
N.E., Atlanta, Georgia 30312 (404)524-1956 - FAX
(404)526-8969.
South African Spoiler
It is time Chef Magosuthu Buth-
elezi's admurers and financial support-
ers in the United States wised up to
the spouing role he is playing in South
Africa's difficult transition from apart-
heid to nonracial democracy
For years Buthelezi has managed
to project himself in the United
States as the moderate alternative to
the radical African National Con-
gress, the champion of nonviolent
struggle wrapped in the mantle of the
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the
committed democrat wedded to
American-style federalism and free-
market capitalism as against the
ANC’s alhance with Communists
He has also been projected as "the
leader” — implying that he is the
, isputed leader of South Africa's
largest black tribe, and therefore a
player ranking equally with Neilson
Mandeta and President F.W. de
Klerk
None of this is true The latest
opmon polls give Buthelez's Inkatha
Freedom Party 3 percent support
nationally and 31 percent m= its
stronghold province of Natal. The
ANC, meanwhile, is given more than
60 percent national support and 40
percent in Natal
But the most serious misjudgment
relates to the nature of the man and
the role he is playing. As South Africa
enters the critical last phase of trving
to agree On an interim constitution to
supplant the apartherd charter and
enable the country’s first one-person-
one-vote election to be held next
April 27, Butheledim has launched a
furious campaign to try to block
adoption of the constitution, stop the
election and recast the negotiations
He has withdrawn tis negotiators
trom the multiparty talks, formed an
ahanee with white extrenust parties
demanding a secessionist Atmkaner
slate and threatened to launch a
bigakaway constitutional convention
Ge: if he does not get his
way—~warning that this could be a
fiest Step toward civil war,
He is stomping the country in the
conpany of a phant Zulu king, warn-
ing that the present negotiations are
a conspiracy aimed at “obliterating
the Zulu nation” and that “now more
than ever the Zulu nation must stick
together .. . for mere survival.” It is
a reckless attempt to light an ethnic
fire in a highly combustible country.
Buthelezi's behavior has so alarmed
the local media that several major
newspapers have urged de Klerk to
cut the government subsidies that
keep him funded in his tribal “horne-
land” of KwaZulu, which was estab-
lished under the apartheid system
An Afrikaans-language newsmag-
azine, Vrye Weekbiad, recently de-
scribed Buthelezi as “the Jonas Sav-
imbi of South Africa,” likening him to
the Angolan rebel who was supported
LLANDRINDOD UBS CUNES I RELS
“It seems clear
Buthelezi’s main
concern ts to avoid
an election that
would reveal his
essential weakness.”
by the United States as the supposed
democratic bulwark against comrmu-
hism in his country, but who refused
to accept defeat in United Nations-
Supervised elections last year, plunge:
ing his country instead back into a
cil war--while an embarrassed
United States stands helplessly by
It seems clear Buthelegi's main
concern is to avon an election that
weuld reveal hes essential weakiess
He wants South Africa's final canst
tution to be agreed ut presdeetion
Hegotiations in which Inkatha would
have a veto, rather than mw an elected
constituent assembly where oo will be
reduced to a munor player ‘
There 15 alsa the suspic tht
while he clans to be a federalist,
Buthelezi’s real aint in teaming up
with the Atrukaner secessiomsts is te
achieve ethaw fragmentation sa that
by Allister Sparks
WASHINGTON Post Monpay, AUGUST 16, 1993
he can head a breakaway Zulu nation
in Natal province. The suspicion is
strengthened by the fact that the
draft constitution now before the ne-
gotiating council 1s a federal one that
would establish Natal as a US.-style
state,
Elections are all-Inkatha affairs.
with most candidates elected unop-
posed. Of the estimated 3 million
people living in KwaZulu, 780,000
are registered voters. Only 12,000
actually voted in the last #lection in
1988
He claims to be a federalist, yet
with the help af two conservative
American advisers he has presented
a constitutional plan for KwaZulu/Na
tal that appears to set the province
up for secession. Stephen Ellmann. a
New York Law School professor, tas
likened the plan to America’s pre-
union Articles of Confederation and
warned that it would “debilitate the
central government of a future South
Africa.”
Kuthelezrs commitment to non-
wolence is hkewise suspect. There is
mounting evidence that Inkatha “war-
lords” are among the prime wstiga-
tors of the political violence that has
racked Natal for the past three years,
although the ANC is clearly culpable
as well in what has become a battle
over turf in that divided province
Buthelez: accuses the ANC ot hav-
mg a private army although it has
suspended its guerrilla struggle,
while he himself has an official militia
in the shape of the KwaZulu Police
Force, which plays a highly partisan
role inthe Noral sislence
But it iy Butheleg’s links with the
rerightists and suspect elements of
the fablary-secunty establshmen:
that rouse most conmeeru. daa Maps
seal RoOwA as Tahathauate
reveded Iwo years ago that likatha
was secretly subsidized from police
hums. for vears the KwaZulu Moher
Force was headed by a seconded
Offer at the National fatetlarenee
i Wobs
Service. and there have been press
Hiwtoares af Lokatha dumber. re
COE eer rds Pete at ats fect
Hane at Nanri
Avcust 8, 1993
Tue Sunpay GazETTE
By CARL STROCK
No protests
over violence
in S. Africa
I have been dismayed by the
reports of violence coming out of
South Africa. Zulu workers storm
out of a hostel and massacre
Xhosa people in the streets of
some in revenge for the
Xhosas ha hacked to death a
Zulu day before. Nam-
ber of people killed: 30.
That was last weekend. The pre-
vious weekend, 70 people were
killed im similar street massa-
building in Albany
aod regularly mounted demon-
strations.
I wondered, where are they
now, and what do think about
these massacres? So I called Vera
Michelson, co-chairwomen of the
coalition, and asked her.
Se ee Soa che
side the Capitol
Keep in mind one profoundly
ironic fact: more black South Afri-
cans are being killed now, as their
country moves toward democ-
up: at , which was a
on wee i African his-
ory, w police opened fire
on a PanAfricaniel Congress
demonstration, 69 people were
killed.
At the Crossroads squatter
camp, in 1985, police shot and
killed 18 people.
On one day in 1986, at two dif-
ferent townships, the police shot
and killed 30-some people.
During a rent strike in 1986, the
ol nae fire and killed 20
peopie.
On the 25th anniversary of
Sharpeville, in 1985, the police
Shot and killed 19 funeral!
marchers.
Those were the biocodiest single
incidents in the of apart-
heid, and by the of to-
le ~
ing for justice for Baek boats
Africans, makes of this just what |
= she would make of it: she
it “apartheid violence” and
blames it on the government. The
overnment could stop it and
tia The surrep-
titiously supports the Inkatha
Freedom Party and encourages
attacks. “This is not tribal vio-
outside of the people who —®:
She cannot entertain the
thought, and I bet most cam-
simply because they are as cruel
and murderous as other human
@. If they are killing each
other, first, it is best not to pay too
much attention, and second, it
must be someone else's fault.
being built om college: campuses
sanctimonious hunger
strikes conducted in front of
ecobaatian. Laneng the parpotaally
all ts quiet.
SCHENECTADY COLUMNISS&
CARL STROCK, WRITES OF
"BLACK ON BLACK"
VIOLENCE... OR "WHATEVER"
| LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 64ze
Strock ignores white ro
.
VERA MICHELSON OF CD-CAAR
RESPONDS TO STROCK'S
LACK OF ANALYSIS
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TTE, August 29, 1993
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}
' Carl Strock does two things in his
| column of Aug. 8. He presents black
South Africans as murderous, cruel
| and self-destructive, and he portrays
| anti-apartheid activists as selec-
_ tively sanctimonious and morally in-
. dignant.
He does this by misrepresenting
it Ps outh African situation, creating
p-inpression that black people are
just going around killing each other
because the thought of freedom is
just too much to handle. He would
also reduce the current violence to
the common media descriptions such
as black on black violence, tribal vio-
lence etc., ignoring any deeper
analysis of what is at the root of the
| violence,
_ When it is explained to him he
_ brushes it off. preferring his own sim-
| plistic description of the problem.
The system of apartheid declares
black people as less human than
whites, simply because of the color of
their skin. This system has led to the
| destruction and dislocation of entire
| communities. It has justified the
| Stealing of land and all other forms of
| wealth from black people. It has jus-
| tified mass murder, assassinations,
| subversion of courts of law, of educa-
tion, of health care, all in the inter-
ests of serving the white minority. By
creating a massive majority popula-
tion of dislocated and dis
people, the white benefactors have
also created conditions which have
led to much of the violence in South
Africa.
Car! Strock does not mention that
apartheid also created a small num-
ber of black people who have served
apartheid’s aims and who have defi-
nitely benefited from it. Among those
who have gained is Inkatha Freedom
Party chief, Gatsha Buthelezi. Buthe-
lezi is using all means at his disposal
to protect his ill-gotten gains.
trock fails to mention that the
apartheid government has repeat-
edly been forced to admit its collu-
sion in training soldiers loyal to Buth-
elezi. They have financed Buthelezi’s
activities and icipated in acts of
violence in to stir up factional
fighting.
The involvement of South African
security forces in township violence
has been documented by several in-
ternational human rights groups.
Mercenaries from other countries
have also been observed in Inkatha
training camps in South Africa.
The deliberate use of the indige-
nous population to create havoc at
le in S. African violence
the dawn of freedom is not new. It
happened in Namibia. It happened in
Ange. It happened in Mozambique
it’s happening in South Africa.
Parts of South Africa are being torn
apart by this violence which intensi-
fies in direct correlation to profess in
negotiations. This is not happening by
chance.
Mr. Strock does not see any of this;
takes no responsibility for any
analysis; and, with paternalistic myo-
pia, spreads disinformation with vi-
cious and unfounded sarcasm.
Like a leech, he feeds on the suffer-
ing and strife of the very painful
South African struggle for democ-
racy. In the process he does all of us a
grave disservice.
VERA MICHELSON
Albany
The writer is co-chairperson for
the Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid and Racism.
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Namibia gets back Walvis Bay...in mid-August, 1993 the South
Atrican government decided to hand back the strategic port of Walvis Bay to Namibia. This
rt is the only deep-water harbor between Cape Town, South Africa and Angola. UN
urity Council
Resoltion 432 in 1978 had declared: W
Namibia. But when Namibia (formerly South West Afri
South Africa in 1989, the Pretoria government refused to
| | Bay. Now the bay, which belongs to Namibia by nature and
the legitimate control of the Namibian people.
ca
relinquish its claim to Walvis
constitution, is finall
(Report from the City Sun, 8/27/93)
alvis Bay as the sole property
) gained independence from
under
This isn't Los Angeles?
Upadate on civil rights cases in Albany
The following two articles which outline the victory of James Lunday in his
civil rights lawsuit against the City of Albany and Albany police detectives
and the long time case of the death of Jesse Davis at the hands of Albany police
are from the Advocate, Summer!993, the newsletter for the Center for Law and
Justice, Inc.
Victim of Police Brutality
Wins in Court
On May 28, Black police victim, James F. Lunday of
Albany was awarded $35,000 by a federal district court jury.
In a civil rights lawsuit, Mr. Lunday accused the City of
Albany, three police detectives, Kenneth Sutton, John
Tanchak, and Thomas Shillinger and police officer,
Sidoti of false arrest, using excessive force during his 1989
arrest, and malicious prosecution. However, the jury found
that only Kenneth Sutton used excessive force and rejected
the other claims.
During the trial, both James Lunday and ex-police
officer Sidoti thestified that Mr. Lunday who was simply
standing on Elizabeth Street, was approached on May 13, 1989
by the four officers in an unmarked car. Detective Sutton
asked Mr. Lunday to identify himself. When Mr. Lunday
refused and used profanity, Sutton and Tanchak threw him
against their car and arrested him. While on the way to the
police station, Sutton and Tanchak beat Mr. Lunday and Sutton
called him a “nigger” and “jungle bunny." Once at the
station, Sutton “rammed” Mr. Lunday's head against metal
lockers. Sidoti also testified that Detective Tanchak kicked
Mr. Lunday.
While it is not illegal to refuse to identify oneself to
the police or use profanity towards them, the jury did not
accept Mr. Lunday's charge that he was illegally arrested.
Also, it did not accept his claim of malicious prosecution
although Sutton charged Mr. Lunday with resisting arrest,
disorderly conduct, and assault, all charges that were thrown
out of court.
Mr. Lunday was represented by attorney Terrence Kindlon
and Martha Sidoti was represented by Mark Mishler. %
we ti 2G MM MIO ACRE oa a nnn icosemi heist peor
Jesse Davis Trial
September 16th
Moved to Syracuse
(Note: Since the publication of this article, the Davis trial has
been postponed from Sept. 16 to later in the fall.)
The family of Jesse Davis, who was killed by police in
1984, has made an urgent appeal to the community for help to
bring the civil rights case to court. For the past year,
family members and community residents have worked to raise
’ other costs
Martha @ @.:<* $20,000 needed to pay expert witnesses and
ssociated with the case. Louise Thornton, Mr. Davis' sister
and plaintiff in the case, said that "Justice demands that we
have our day in court. The police officers involved will
have all their expenses paid by the City, but we have no one
to help us."
Recently released photographs reveal that Jesse Davis
was clutching a toy truck and key case in his hands as he lay
dying. Nowhere is there a knife and fork visible, raising
questions about police contentions that Davis was shot when
he lunged at them with a fork and knife.
Folling the first verdict in the Rodney King beating
case, a local community fund was established to receive and
manage monies for the Davis lawsuit. Donations have been
made to purchase photographs, obtain records, pay fees, and
obtain the services of pathologists. Other fees and expert
witness costs must be paid soon. Because the trial will be
located in Syracuse, it will pose even more hardships on the
plaintiff, Louise Thornton. Additional monies will be needed
for housing, food, transportation, and other costs. It also
means that many of those in the Albany community who have
followed this case for nearly a decade will not get an
opportunity to be present in the court. .
All donations go directly to pay court expenses, none 1S
used for administrative costs. Those able and willing to
contribute any amount of money are encouraged to send
heir donation to: The Jesse Davis Memorial Fund, c/o The
enter for Law and Justice, Inc., Pine West Plaza, Building
#2, Washington Avenue Extension, Albany, New York 12205.
(See next page for details on the Jesse Davis Fund)
Merton Simpson and Alice Green
Fasting in Front of Omni Hotel
for: Jesse Davis Fund
DINIUSTICE
ANYWHERE
TERI CURRIE
HUNGRY FOR MONEY: Many of the guests who arrived at Albany's Omni Hotel Tuesday came
to attend a fund-raiser for the Martin Luther King Memorial Committee and eat dinner. But to get in,
they had to pass three of the area's leading civil rights activists, Merton Simpson (left), Alice Green
(right) and Gail Byrnes (not pictured), who were fasting overnight in front of the building. The trio
hoped to persuade the committee to donate part of the money it receives to a federal civil rights
lawsuit filed by the family of Jesse Davis, who was killed by Albany police in 1984, Last week the
case was transferred to Syracuse, greatly raising the expenses of the Davis family.
At the end of the first Rodney King trial in Los
Angeles, a Jesse Davis fund was established to help assist in
the raising of funds for the Davis lawsuit. The Center for Law
and Justice has raised significant funds; the Albany NAACP
has donated and raised over $1500 and has also arranged for
the services of a stenographer to help with the many pretrial
depostions necessary in preparing this case. However, much
more is needed.
Currently a monument to Dr. Martin Luther King is being
erected in Albany's Lincoln Park and community donations are
being solicited by a Memorial Committee. The monument will
be a visible reminder of the contributions of Dr. King and
the civil rights movement.
i
|
Executive Director of the Center for Law
on the eve of a vigil and fast to call
attention to the need for funds, wrote: “Although we
strongly endorse this (the King Memorial) effort, we have
asked "The Martin Luther King Jr. Mememorial” Committee to
expand its tribute by including a living component that
would address a current and recognized injustice in our
community - something that we believe Martin Luther King
would be involved in if he were here with us. It is our
strong belief that the Jesse Davis lawsuit is such a cause.
Therefore, we have asked the Committee to financially
support the case by contributing a portion of the funds it
raises to the Davis case so that Mr. Davis' family can gain
full access to the courts and justice."
Both Green and Merton Simpson, Co-chair of CD~-CAAR,
expressed the importance of calling attention to the urgency
for funds in the Davis case. On the fast, Simpson said:
> feel if Martin Luther King were here today he'd be with
im." Green said: "The Davis family is poor and we believe
this request is in keeping with Martin Luther King's
principles that urge us to seek justice."
Alice Green,
and Justice,
By JOHN MORAN |
Gazette Reporter (¢ -})34 -93
ALBANY — The head of the Mar-
tin Luther King Memorial Commit-
| tee said a hunger strike would not
move him to expand the memorial
fund-raising drive to include legal
fees for a civil rights lawsuit.
The Rev. Robert Dixon said the
King committee, which held a fund-
raising dinner at the Omni Hotel
Tuesday, was generating funds for
the memorial being built in Lincoin
Park and the money shouldn’t be
diverted to other things.
On Monday, three activists started
a Vigil outside the Omni to bring
attention to the pending $40 million
lawsuit against five Albany police of-
fice the shooting death of Jessie
Davi The activists, led by Alice
Green, are trying to raise money for
legal fees and other expenses Davis’
family is incurring in order to bring
their case to trial.
King memorial funds
won’t go for lawsuit
Davis was shot by police after they
responded to a report of a man going
berserk at a Clinton Avenue apart-
ment. Police said Davis attacked
thern with a knife and fork. A grand
| jury found it a justifiable shooting
and brought no charges against po-
lice.
“I'm not against the Jessie Davis
fund, but I'm not going to take money
for the King memorial and dish it out
to some place else,” Dixon said. “We
are raising money for the monument.
Alice Green hasn't put a cent into it,
and none of the people she’s working
with have put a cent into it.”
Dixon said Green’s request was
“way off base,”
When Dixon arrived at the Omni
Tuesday night for the dinner he told
one of the demonstrators handing out
fliers on the Davis case: “You're not
going to give me one of those things,
are you?”
Dixon added that his church had a
collection for the Davis fund that
raised $150.
Green, director of the Center for
Law and Justice, said she was disap-
pointed with Dixon's reaction.
“It shows they don’t understand
what is inscribed on the monument,
‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to jus-
tice everywhere.’ Are they just hol-
low words?” she said.
“We are saving Martin Luther
King Jr. would not want a bust of
himself. He would want to help peo-
ple fight injustice."’ said Merton
Simpson, another protester and co-
chairman of the Capital District Coa-
lition Against Apartheid and Rac-
ism.
“It raises the question of whether
they are using his name for their own
aggrandizement,”’ Simpson added.
Green said many people going into
the dinner agreed that the fund-rais-
ing should be broadened to include
the Davis legal fund.
. "
Long time community activist and CD-CAAR Co-Chair Merton Simpson was
awarded the "Frederick Douglass Struggle for Justice" award given by the Center for Law
and Justice. The award, made at the Center's annual conference on April 24th , recognizes
those in the community who follow the example of Frederick Douglass. Douglass was
born into slavery and spent his life working for abolition of slavery and for racial justice.
Victor Brown also was a recipient of the 1993 award.
Merton has dedicated a lifetime to working for global justice. With CD-CAAR and
with the Center for Law and Justice, he has been an outspoken and consistent opponent
against issues of racism in the criminal justice system, Congratulations, Merton! You
truly follow Douglass's words: "If there is no struggle, there is not progress." oe
Congratulations to Bill Ritchie, CD-CAAR member and union liason person, on
his June election to head up the Albany school teachers union. His overriding concern for
the education of all youth has been evidenced by the commitment he has made to many
progressive changes in the Albany School district. And his continuous recognition that the
struggle for justice for workers is not just a local concern has translated into numerous
concrete actions in the Albany union, the New York State United Teachers union and the
national American Federation of Teachers. Bill has successfully introduced resolutions
backing the democracy movement in South Africa and calling for peace in Mozambique at
national meetings of the American Federation of Teachers. We wish you the best of luck -
Amandla, Brother!
A play in two-acts, "Holding Talks by Himself,” written and directed by Katey
Assem was held on Thursday, August 12, 1993 at the Capital District Psychiatric Center
Auditorium. The play, featuring Greg Owens, Leonard Comithier, Barry Walston,
Darryle Martin, Terry Owens and Justin Dinkins, was sponsored by the Macedonia Baptist
Church Men's Group and CD-CAAR.
Proceeds from the play went to CD-CAAR to help sponsor CD-CAAR member
Barry Walston as a member of a US Delegation to the ANC Youth Conference in
Johannesburg, South Afnca. Barry has been doing invaluable work with CD-CAAR youth
projects. The conference was originally scheduled for August but has been postponed
until late fall. Thanks to all who gave their support to the play and have made donations ‘ee
Barry to represent us at this conference.
Good news continued...
The C ity Cl ic}
They're back! Former community newspaper, "South End Scene” staffers
Roseanne Campbell, Shirley Freeman, Irv Landa, Paul Stewart, Eleanor Billmeyer and
Clarence Parker have regrouped with Editor, Art Mitchell, and are publishing a new
community newspaper, The Community Chronicle." The paper publishes news of the
community which is generally not covered in the mainstream press.
CD-CAAR urges readers to support this effort by sending news and articles, taking
out ads, donating time and money, and subscribing. Art and his staff can be reached by
writing or calling: Community News of the Albany District, Inc., P.O. Box 503, Albany,
N.Y. 12201 (518) 459-3076.
rue
bite athways Book re @nG SUM a Fin riuaimh S/Pem:
Nathaniel Bracey, Neal Currier and their families have opened a new bookstore at
215 Central Avenue, Albany. Nubian Pathways specializes in books by and about Black
people, Afrocentric greeting cards, audio and video tapes by top scholars, original art and
jewelry and Afrocentric clothing and accessories. The store also carries used books.
Hours are Monday through Saturdays - 11:00 am to 7:00 pm. Browsers always welcome!
aa
.
100 Black Men of Albany, N.Y. Capital Region has been formed under the
leadership of President Richard Harris. Other Officers are 2nd Vice President, Elmer
Green; etary, Woody Fulton; Assistant Secretary, Douglas Williams; Treasurer,
Azzaam Taukeed Hameed; Parliamentarian, J. Marc Hannibal, Esq. and George a.
Yanhthis, Esq. 5 ies
The group has organized several committees which will help “utilize the talents and
skills of Black Men in the Capital Region as a force for positive change in the Black
community.” 100 Black Men can be reached by writing to P.O. Box 708, Albany, New
York 12201
ServAlbany
ServAlbany is a new event that gathers citizens to celebrate community service and
volunteerism through action. Set for October 23, 1993 at 7:45 am, the event will assemble
thousands of friends and neighbors who will do many service tasks for the community
(restore local parks and school grounds, sort and collect food at emergency distribution
sights, paint walls at neighborhood centers and much more!). ServAlbany is also a fund
raiser. On October 23, participants will work in teams and each of the members will have
solicited sponsors to support their work, in much the same manner as a bowl-a-thon or
walk-a-thon. ie
All funds raised from ServAlbany will be granted as training and educational
w scholarships to future graduates of the Albany Service Corps, a three year old city
-sponsored program that involves youth in service projécts throughout the city.
eit CD-CAAR urges your ; icipation in this event. Albany Service Corps is
definitely servin = . SERVE THE CORPS ! Call Paul Winkeller (434-5204) or Jose
)
Schramm (434-5128) for applications and more information.
Capital District Coalition Non-Profit
Against Apartheid and Racism Organization
a project of the Social Justice Center U.S. Postage
33 Central Avenue ' PAID
Albany, New York 12210 Permit No.509
Albany, N.Y.
Address Cerrection Requested
Wednesday, October 6, 1993 - 7:00 p.m @
Spike Lee Philip Agee Ronald Takaki Urban Bush Women
MYTH, MEDIA AND TEXTS:
Social Interpretation and Implication | |
Fall Lecture Series at Siena College
Hold these dates!
September 28, 1993 - Spike Lee, producer, director, writer and actor
Topic: His Books and Movies (Alumni Recreation Center)
October 28, 1993 - Philip Agee, former CIA agent, now its harsh critic
Topic: The CIA and US Foreign Policy (Roger Bacon Hall, Room 202)
November 11, 1993 - Ronald Takaki, Professor of Ethnic Studies, Berkley
Topic: Multicultural American History (Roger Bacon Hall, Room 202)
December 1, 1993 - Urban Bush Women. Using movement, music, a ’
cappella vocalizations, and drama , UBW creates and produces a mult-disciplinary
work rooted in popular African-American cultural traditions. (Foy Campus Center)
All events are at 8:00 pm., are free and open to the public
(CD-CAAR is proud to be one of the sponsors of this series)
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| versy in Albany missed
our a
torial; ping over King e-
morial,” could be-used as a train-
ing exercise in paternalistic racism.
None of the people you refer to in
your editorial argue with the fact
that Martin Luther King Jr. dedicat-'
ed his life for justice, reedom and ..
equality for all ’
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racism, but also the
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note the close proximity of Whalen’s ;
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would be likely,to march <°
think about building ,
monuments to MLK in lieu of raising .
interest in the King memorial and his : money to find justice for Jessie «
Your Aug. 3 editorial on the Martih
Luther King Jr. Monument contro-
the signifi-
cant issues raised in the Gazette story
of Aug.1,
First, critics called attention to the
almost total control of the concept,
design, and construction of the proj-
ect by powerful whites and a limited
number of blacks chosen by them. If
the project was to have been a
“broad-based” community effort, as
Mayor Thomas Whalen contended,
then the full community should have
been significantly involved from the
outset. ‘
Secondly, black architects and
sculptors were not even given an op-
portunity to offer their talents to a
project that was meant to honor a
man who fought for their inclusion in
American society. With all due re-
spect to the tect and sculptor
irno reportedly had little understand
| ing knowledge of Dr. King and his
work, they may not have been the
best choices to capture, express, and
communicate the full and
essence of Dr. King and the civil
— movement rob tay that could
inspire generations to come.
, those in charge of the proj-
ect communicated, for some un-
Davis. To say that no one would know .
25 years from now whether the sculp-
+ : _ tor was black or white is like arguing
the point that since there are few slaves alive
forget about the leg-
known reason, an urgency to com- today we should
plete this project immediately, As a Cy Of racism in America.
matter of fact, 90 percent of the proj- MERTON SIMPSON |
ect was completed before the fund- Albany _
raising kickoff. This process oper-
ated to exclude true grass roots com- +
munity involvement. To date, no one ,
has adequately explained this ur- :
& * Rede |
Finally, the president of the Al- :
bany NAACP is simply wrong to as-
Sert that it makes no difference who
conceived of and sculpted the monu-
ment. When will the dominant society ~
learn that blacks must define who
they are and what they value for |
themselves? Black youth clearly un-
derstand the modern day “sanitizing”
of Martin Luther King Jr. and the -
exploitation of his name by those who
earlier rejected him when he was
thought to pose a threat to America’s |
racial caste system. Does anyone bo
doubt that if black Albanians had
asked the city to construct a monu-
ment to Malcolm X that it would »
have happened so quickly, if ever?
ALICE P. GREEN -
Albany
The writer is executive director -
of the Center for Law & Justice, °
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cote
The writer is co-chairman, Cap- '
ital District Coalition Against
Apartheid and Racism.
SAncns wock |
A-6 TIMES UNION Albany, N_Y., Saturday, October 2, 1993
EDITORIAL __
———_VitORIAL
The lesson of South Africa
THE ISSUE
Nelson Mandela says it’s time the West lifted economic sanctions,
OUR OPINION
The plea is added evidence that boycotts can be a force for change.
Te: time to lift economic sanctions against True enough, there are extremists intent
South Africa. on dismantling any attempt at racial justice,
How often has the world heard thatpleain Yet their day is fast fading. President F. W.
recent years? Always it came from someone de Klerk deserves praise for standing up to
connected with Pretoria’s white, minority their tactics and freeing Mr. Mandela in the
rulers. Always they claim that relief was first place. He earns just as much praise for
warranted because progress was being made slowly but steadily pushing through reforms
to end apartheid. designed to achieve what Mr. Mandela envi-
The latest voice to join the chorus is none sions as a “united, democratic, non-racial,
of these. To the contrary, the plea is being non-sexist country.”
made by Nelson Mandela, long imprisoned
by the white rulers out of fear he would Yet credit, too, must go to those who urged
rican Natio : ic i the best way to push
provoke the African National Congress to SCOnOMIC sanctions as
violent revolution, Today those fears seem Pretoria toward democracy. Their strategy = <—
sheer fantasy. “The countdown todemocracy _ has proven itself over time. They also offer
has begun,” says Mr. Mandela, appealingto proof that boycotts can work wonders when
the U.N, toclose the chapter on the sanctions _ nations join together in a common pursuit,
it imposed to achieve just that goal. rather than breaking ranks for private advan-
There’s no questioning South Africa’s re- tage.
cent progress to enfranchise its majority The lesson of South Africa, and of Mr.
population, Just last week, Parliament voted Mandela's plea, should not be lost on strate-
overwhelmingly in favor of a transition coun- gists seeking to broker change in other places
cil that will accord blacks a share of real where violence and death are fueled by
power. Elections are scheduled for next April, longstanding hatreds, Sanctions, not arms,
giving er bate obese in - are often the answer --- provided participat-
democratic process, and nation rule, that ing nations stick te their principles by stricti-
was unthinkable just a few years ago. by Gum
tt ictal lieth icteat lens
CVSROOT E EY OD
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ng Capital District Coalition
le Against Apartheid and Racism
woo Fall Membership Meeting
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= ‘the new world 4§jorder
™ and its impact on
= Africa, the Caribbean
5 and the Americas
wih Samori Marksman
Program Director, WBAI Radio, New York City
eS Founding Member, Patrice Lumumba Coalition
mm Expert on African and Caribbean Affairs
gw Wednesday, October 6, 1993-7:00 p.m.
St. John Church of God in Christ
94 Herkimer Street, Albany, N.Y.
(In the Pastures, 2 blocks below Madison Ave. off S. Pearl)
free and open to the public
(for information call 438-0309)
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SAMORI MARKSMAN
Samori Marksman ie a veteran broadcast and print journalist hased
in New York City. He's the former publisher of Caribbean Perspec-~
tives, & journal of Caribbean and ‘Third World’ issues and the
former Program Director of Pacifica Radio station WBAI-FM in New
York. He's also worked for the Inner City Broadcasting Corporation
and is o regular contributor to the New York Amsterdam Hews and the
investigative magazine, Covert Action Information ulletin.
Between 1980 and 1983 he served as United Nations correspondent for
Pacifica radio and several stations in Africa and the Caribbean.
He'a currently executive producer of "Rehind the News", a nightly
program of breaking national and international news and analysis,
and executive producer of "Worldview" a nationally eyndicated
weekly radio pilot program, which explores the conduct and
interconnections hetween U.S, domestic and foreign policy.
Marksman is also a film producer. He co-produced and directed,
Grenada: The Future Coming Towards Us, in 1983. The film remains
the only comprehensive documentary on the short-lived Grenada
revolution (1979 ~ 1983). He's currently working on a documentary
on U.S. covert warfare against the countries of the ‘Third World’.
Marksman is a Jong time activist in the peace and solidarity
movements, No's heen especially active around ‘Third World'
issues. He helped set up puhklications and support organizations
around African, Middle Eastern Carthbean and Central American
struggles.
Marksman is a scasoned traveller. He's visited Europe, the Middle
Hast and South America for extended periods and he lived in Africa
for four years, where he taught and wrote for a number of
publications. Puring this period he became acquainted with scveral
of Africa's leading progressive inteJlectuals and activists --
including the tate President Ahmed Seku Turre of Guinea Amilcar
Cabral (of Portuguese Guinen), President Sam Nujoma of SWAPO (now
President of Namibia) and the late Dr. Walter Rodney.
He presently serves as coordinator of the African and Caribbean
Resource Center a New York based organization, which works to
heighten popular awareness of the greater conflicts and issues
involving the countrics and peoples of Africa and the Caribhean as
well as in their expatriate communities in the !linited States. The
yroup actively supports grassroots movements and projects in Africa
and the Caribbean.
Marksman attenited Pace College (now Pace University) and New York
University, where he studied political science -~ specializing in
Tnternationsl Relations.
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IT'S
(-OING AWAY)
THANG!!!
Friday, November Sth - 7:30pm
at the Blue Nile (corner of Livingston and Lark Street, Albany)
Barry Walston is leaving Albany!
Barry has been a spirited
Friend,
Community Leader,
Organizer,
Youth Worker,
and inspiration to all those who know him.
Come help us give Barry a warm and loving goodbye
For More Info Call 432-4623
Sponsered by The Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid & Racism and Community friends Donations : $3,00
4* METROLAND © Qet. 14-20, 1993
Sener me eae nenee neni ene A Gey te ae pene ak at meen teymentnen smut pene
appy Talk
THE CYNICS WILL SAY IT’S JUST
oreoleetion postarng, but Gov, Mario M,
Cuome and Lt, Gov. Stan Lundine have
cautioned New York's top business leaders
that it does no good to bad- mouth the
siate'secanomy. The dynamic duo, who
are likely to remain a team in next year's
gubernatorial race, dehvered this message
lathe New York State Business Council at
its annual membership meeting last month
tbelieve " Lundine said in his keynote
address thal Che people here, and your
snembers, are some of the worst
ambassadors for New York state that we
<#
er thibae Spore! aoy bartered oat
ork
telling people New i a terrible place
to do business.”
Cuomo took the same tack when he met
with the council's board of directors.
According to one source. the governor
suggested that it doesn't do the state any
good to advertige how had the economy is,
and scare possible investors away.
Council chairraan and Consolidated
Edison CEO Eugene McGrath obviously
didn't agree. {n his own speech, McGrath
said the way to heip "New York regain its
rightful leadership role” is to point out the
areaa where state policy is lacking.
Last week, Cuome got a chance to
demonstrate how to put a happy face on
bad economic news when it was announced
that KeyCorp would merge with the Ohio
based Socety Corp. to become the 10th
largest banking institution in the country
The deal calls
KeyCorp name but move its corporate
headquarters to Cleveland. While local
political leaders were bemoaning the loss.
Cuomo looked for the silver lining.
“The governor suggested that this isn't
necessarily a negative," anid hie
merging of KeyCorp and Society bank
makes a much larger and stronger bank,
therefore, Key's operation, being larger.
more profitable and more i, would
be able to invest mere in York state.”
the new outfit to take the
SPEAKING OF TRYING TO PUTA
favorable spin on econamic news, New
York Power Authority Chairman Richard
M. Piynen got into the act on Monday with
ah announcement that the authority will
take additional steps to cul costs and
fespond to a recent executive order from
Cuomo calling for greater accountability by
public authorities.
For example, the authority will stop
paying for cars leased by senior executives
Other steps include conducting a
competitive search for a new bond counsel
and a competitive selection pracess for
bond underwriters. Makes you wonder
what they have been doing up Gil now But
not to worry in the new era of the hapny
face. “i'm confident that we've taken all
reasonable actions to aveid even the
appearance of impropriety of appropriate
appending," Flynn asid
WITH THIS COLUMN | COME TO THE
end af what has been an exciting
journatietic journey. | wrote the first
Capital fadensive in May 1988. and each
week have tned to share some new insight
about the workings of New York state
government [t's not easy to fathom the
workings of a government with s budget
that tops 860 billion a year and generates
the work!’s 10th largest economy. But
there's always something going om that's
worth watching.
Around the ited, theae five years have
been dominated by the governor, who was
riding the zenith of hs popularity in 1988
and now has hit the nadir. But { expect
Cuomo will ryn again and win a fourth
term.
The only Republican who can challenge
the governor a Sen. Alfonse D’ Amato.
But why would the senator give up one of
the easiest jobs in politics for ome of the
moat difficult? With five years remaiaing
on his term, and a regular chance te
pontificate on the world stage, D’ Amato
ois naking ty conan oe
ashington te Albany.
Of course, one of the pleasures of writing
for METROLAND has been the
opportunity te report on s wide range of
issues, There have been high points, like
the collapee of the Albany the
Party machine, and low points. like the
laiture of the Commission on the
Adirondacks in the Twenty-First Century
ta get a fair hearing for its viseonary report.
Generally. there has been an increase in
environmental awareness these past few
years, and my respect for the activiaia who
fight for the ‘s future has onty grown.
But there has been a decrease in efforts ta
break down racial barriers and fight
eaciam. For that reason. one of the mast
praiseworthy. but least appreciated. local
organiaations is the Capital District
Coalinon Against Apartheid and Ractum
I leave METROLAND with beat wishes
for my colleagues aavcess and appreciation
ior all of vou have read this column evr the
years. And | look forward to a pew
beginning next week ag the asenciaic editor
of Empire Sirie Report, a monthly mayaczine
of politics and puble policy ia New York.
~Jett Jones
A an ante ©
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Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid
and Racism
Box 3002 - Pine Hills Station
Albany, New York 12203
A Project of the Social Justice Center
Helen Bayley
Troy Peace Coalition
415 Winter St. Extension
Troy, NY 12180
Dear Helen:
The time is fast approaching when South Africa will hold its first elections --
April 27,1994. The battle has been long and hard. Many have lost their lives. The
whole world has been in a Struggle to eradicate the apartheid system and now the
stranglehold of the white minority government will finally come to an end.
There are many obstacles Black South Africans face in the upcoming election period.
The governing Nationalist Party has money, vehicles to transport election workers,
phones, computers, trucks for supplying operations in rural areas, fax machines, printing
equipment, bull horns, paper and a history of voting. The ANC does not have adequate
money, vehicles, phones, computers, trucks. fax machines, printing equipment, bull
horns, paper and a history of voting...which are all imperative for a fair election.
As President Mandela has said, "This is not a contest merely between opposing parties. It
is a contest between oppression and freedom."
We have enclosed an important letter from President Mandela which further describes the
needs of the majority population to "level the playing field."
At home in the Capital District, the Jesse Davis lawsuit goes to trial in June, 1994. As
you probably know, the family has decided not to accept the $350,000 settlement offered
by the city. Excerpts taken from a very compelling letter of Ms. Louise Thorton, Jesse's
sister, which we have also enclosed, explain that the family needs to raise $6,000 for the
expert testimony of two pathologists who will testify that Jesse was crouching or on his
knees at the time he was shot through the brain, not standing as the prosecution says.
In order to address both of these needs, the Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid
and Racism (CD CAAR) is pleased to announce a very special event that we are holding
this Spring. As you can see from the attached flier, on March 19, we will be sponsoring
SOUNDS Of UBERATION, an evening with Jazz Ensemble Smart Set and special guests,
This is where you come in. This event is a serious fund-raiser to raise money for both the
ANC and the Jesse Davis Fund. WE NEED YOUR HELP,
We are asking you to fill out the enclosed tear off and send us a check for $25 or $50.
Your organization or your name will be listed as 4 sponsor/patron in the evening
program. Your contribution will go a long way in helping us reach our goals.
Towards Peace and Justice,
Stacey Dawes Mare Morris
for CD CAAR
TEAR OFF AND SEND
Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid & Racism
SOUNDS Of UBERATION
NAME OF INDIVIDUAL OR ORGANIZATION TO APPEAR IN THE PROGRAM
CJ $25 - SPONSOR C7 $50 - PATRON
ADDRESS
erreurs
PHONE
MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: CD CAAR
PAYMENT MUST BE RECEIVED BY MARCH 9, 1994.
hve
5 the spectacle of U.S. troops being killed
forced Somalia onto the front pages, the
administration was forced to shift course from
the previous military-dominated agenda of “getting
Aidid.” But the questions remain: Will future policy
have any basis other than getting the troops out? Will
informed policy-making be sustained once the publi-
city subsides?
In retrospect, it was relatively easy for the press to
identify UN Representative Admiral Jonathan Howe
and UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali as
the main culprits for the foolish decision to target
Aidid. But the negative consequences of that decision,
the consolidation of Aidid's Support, were obvious at
the time, even to casual observers. There were sub-
stantive complaints about the UN command's insensi-
tivity to Somali opinion, significant dissent within UN
structures, and strong criticism of the disproportion
between military resources and support for humanitar-
ian and political initiatives.
The question is why these had so little effect on
U.S. policy. The short answer, as unsatisfactory in
detail as it is discouraging for the future of this and
other African issues, is that no one with sufficient
clout to effect a change was paying any attention to
critical voices.
Even if the status quo that existed before the last
months of confrontation with Aidid is restored, the
| complex task of supporting Somali civil society,
demilitarizing and restoring viable state structures will
i} fequire consistent and sensitive U.S. policy, So will
other African crises. So far, despite initial hopes, there
| are little signs that the Clinton administration is devel-
oping the institutional capacity for this. More common
instead is, on the one hand, diplomatic business-as-
usual with litde urgency or clout, or, on the other,
Lsvereertnetieinenenanesneneeetn
Soosenannensnenerenaenarmtie reser eet reanaanrne
No Direction
high-profile and uncoordinated crisis-mode response
on the model of Somalia.
High on the list of the crises characterized by
neglect is Angola. The U.S. has continued efforts to
Promote negotiations, and finally recognized the
Angolan government in May. But it worked to delay
UN arms and fuel sanctions against Unita (finally
adopted in September), and has made no aggressive
effort to implement the sanctions. Journalists visiting
Huambo, for example, have reported the regular
arrival of flights from Kinshasa, Zaire. But there has
been no sign of vigorous Pressure by the U.S, on
Zairian President Mobutu Sese Seko to stop violating
the embargo.
An unnamed U.S. diplomat is quoted in a recent
Washington Post article as Saying, “We didn't create
Savimbi. We may have rented him for a few years. This
is a messy situation but it’s not our fault.” Such atti-
tudes are a cheap evasion of responsibility, The U.S.
joined with South Africa to build up Unita’s military
Printed on Recycled Paper
capacity; it now has an obligation to act deci-
sively to restrain its former client. We cannot
simply walk away, blaming the destruction on
the Angolans alone.
The war in Angola is intimately related to
developments in neighboring countries, The
keys to an effective embargo on Unita are Zaire
and South Africa. Failure to complete democratic
transitions in those countries made it possible for
them to provide Unita with military support to
restart the war.
Angola in turn sets a disturbing
precedent for Zaire, South Africa and
Mozambique. Each has heavily armed
groups opposed to democratic
transitions—-Mobutu’s elite army units
in Zaire, homeland and government
security forces in South Africa.
Renamo insurgents in Mozambique.
in all three cases, the feeble U.S,
response increases the likelihood of
escalated violence.
No single formula can guarantee successful
peacemaking in these diverse situations. All
parties need to restrain their followers and
show flexibility in negotiations in order to avoid
escalation or new outbreaks of violence, But
the international community, particularly the
U.S., must go beyond bland appeals to all
parties to show restraint. When there is clear
evidence that one party is violating agreements
or otherwise inciting violence, the U.S. should
focus pressures on that party, beginning with
strong and unequivocal public statements.
“We didn’t
create Savimbi.
We may have
rented him for
a few years...”
ZAIRE
A September report by Amnesty International!
charged that “Zaire is sliding inexorably towards
a total breakdown of law and order ... marked
by ruthless brutality of government security
forces under the control of President Mobutu
ee Stet ra cee See enn eeyesntnneiolreeitnanianaetisiicminaurnnns
Sese Seko, who have murdered or tortured
thousands of civilians and members of the
peaceful political opposition,” ¢
Although the National Conference, which L
Was Set up [o oversee a transition to democ-
racy, elected Etienne Tshisekedi as prime
minister in 1992, Mobutu's s¢curity forces have
refused to acknowledge his authority. Mobutu
appointed his own prime minister in March,
and the rival authorities have been locked in a
Stalemate since then,
The U.S. claims to Support the transition to
democracy in Zaire. Concrete measures to put
pressure on Mobutu through his overseas
economic assets have been under consideration
for over a year. But the administration still insists
that Mobutu has a constructive role to play in the
transition. Its response to Mobutu’s delays, his
repeated use of violence, and his assistance to
Unita’s war in Angola, have been quiet and
ineffective diplomatic statements. Neither high-
profile condemnations nor substantive economic
pressures have been forthcoming.
MOZAMBIQUE
The October 1992 cease-fire is still holding, but
the peace process and election timetable have 4
fallen far behind schedule. Elections are now
set for October 1994. In order to meet that
deadline, however, key Steps must begin right
away, including demobilization of troops,
training of a new national army, extension of
central administration to Renamo-controlled
zones, and preparation for the election.
Renamo has repeatedly raised new demands
in order to delay demobilizing its troops. It still
prevents freedom of movement in the areas
under its control. The UN has over 7,000
peacekeeping personnel in Mozambique, but
has warned they cannot Stay indefinitely.
A Security Council resolution in September
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calling for no further delays and an October visit
by UN Secretary General Boutros Ghali to Maputo
resulted in apparent agreement on troop demobi-
lization. Nevertheless, new delays were likely,
SOUTH AFRICA
The African National Congress, the South
African government and most other parties have
now reached agreement on a Transitional
Executive Council (TEC) that will oversee
critical government functions until the April 27,
1994 election for a constituent assembly,
But right-wing Afrikaner groups, Chief
Gatsha Buthelezi’s Inkatha Freedom Party, and
the homelands of Bophuthatswana and Ciskei
sull refuse to recognize the TEC or the election
process, All are well-armed. Their repeated
threats to escalate violence, as the prospect of a
democratic vote erodes their power base,
should not be taken lightly.
Already violence has reached new heights,
with more than 500 people killed each month
since the election date was announced. The
South African police have not yet made a good-
faith effort to stop the violence, and plans for a
neutral peacekeeping force are still Vague.
Continuing the policy of the Bush adminis-
ation, the Clinton administration has still
refused to lay blame for the violence or to
acknowledge the seriousness of the threat it
poses to a free and fair election in South Africa.
his quick review, limited to the most
prominent political cases in southern Africa,
is far from comprehensive. But it is consistent
with what Africa advocates are reporting con-
cerning issues elsewhere in the continent, both
political and economic. Deprived of the old Cold
War guidelines, and benefiting from no strong
leadership at any level, U.S. Africa policy is
adrift. It is buffeted by old prejudices of serving
officials, ad hoc responses, and pnonties depen-
dent on erratic and sparse press coverage.
Rhetorical support for admirable goals such
as conflict resolution, democracy and sustain-
able development provides the comtext for
some positive initiatives. Translating goals into
day-to-day policy has never been easy. It is
even harder when easy identification of ally
and enemy is ruled out, and the demand is for
nsitivity to multiple voices rather than an
establishment consensus. Effective policy
requires active advocacy by Africa 8roups and
Oversight by Congress. But its implementation
also depends on leadership on Africa issues
within the administration. Unfortunately, such
leadership is still not visible.
This issue of Washington Notes on Africa
highlights new developments in Angola and
South Africa, including several recent docu-
ments.
@ “Angola: Recommended Policy Deprived of the
Framework." The policy frame- O ld Co ] d War
work was prepared by the Wash-
ington Office on Africa and is guidelines, and
presently being circulated to
groups for endorsement. As we Tai
8° to press, there are reports that benefit ng fr we
new talks between Unita and the 70 stron 2
Angolan govemment may be be-
ginning in Lusaka, Zambia. De- leadership at any
spite an announced cease-fire by
Jnita, fighting continues in most level, US. Afi rica
parts of the country. : j
Few observers expect any con- pol icy A) adrift ‘
clusive outcome from the talks,
unless Unita's military capacity is
Significantly weakened by sanctions or
battlefield setbacks.
@ Statement by U.S. groups on the end of
sanctions and the Code of Conduct of the
South African Council of Churches. Many
states and municipalities have moved quickly
to respond to Nelson Mandela's call to lift
sanctions, but the campaign to promote new
responsible investment in South Africa is just
beginning. The House of Representatives
version of the bill lifting Sanctions, as a result
of work by the Washington Office on Africa
and other groups, includes a provision
calling for U.S. companies to work together
with South African churches and trade
unions to promote codes of conduct for
investment, to address the historical inequi-
ties of apartheid.
@ A listing of new policy resources on a range
of African issues, available from groups and
on-line.
Washington Notes on Africa 3
Angola: Recommended Policy Framework
he war raging in Angola since
late 1992 is one of the world’s
most serious and most ne-
glected humanitarian crises. As many
as 1,000 are dying each day, agricul-
tural production is paralyzed in many
areas by ongoing combat, and thou-
sands of displaced people are pouring
into government-held urban areas,
Diplomatic hopes for a renewed cease-
fire have been repeatedly disappointed.
The international community has
deplored Unita's resort to war and
called on all parties to continue
negotiations, finally imposing a manda-
tory arms and oil embargo against
Unita. But the slow international
response has failed to bring effective
pressures to bear to restore peace.
Despite what former United Nations
Representative Margaret Anstee called
“a conspiracy of silence by the interna-
tional media,” it is urgent to mobilize
support for active implementation of
effective policies.
Premises
1. Any lasting solution to the conflict in
Angola must build on the May 1991
Peace Accord and the legitimacy of the
elections carried out under its terms in
September 1992. Whatever adjustments
may be necessary to achieve future
settlements, they must be designed to
reinforce the trust that millions of
Angolans put in these guarantees of
peace and democracy, rather than to
entrench the cynicism aroused by the
violation of these agreements by force.
Respect for the democratic verdict in
Angola is a test case for South Africa,
Mozambique and indeed the entire
continent. And it is a measure of the
credibility of the U.S. and UN commit-
ments to the democratic initiatives they
endorse.
2, While no party can escape blame for
incidents reinforcing mistrust, primary
4 Washington Notes on Africa
responsibility for the relapse of Angola
into vicious warfare lies with the
leadership of Unita, which systemati-
cally evaded the Peace Accord’s
provisions to disarm and demobilize
and used its military advantage to
reignite war after refusing to accept
election results regarded as generally
free and fair by international monitors.
The United Nations and the three
countries designated as observers (the
United States, Russia and Portugal)
failed to expose and to react in a
timely fashion to these violations of the
Peace Accord.
3. There can be no purely military
solution to the conflict. Total military
victory by one side or the other is
neither possible nor desirable. Al]
parties should resist the tendency
towards attitudes of intransigence or
ethnic hostility, and should take mea-
sures to end human rights abuses by
their security forces. Despite repeated
frustrations, negotiations must continue.
4. At the same time, experience to date
leads to serious doubts about the good
faith of the Unita leadership in negotia-
tions. Without constraints on Unita’s
military power, or other concrete
demonstrations of good faith, appeals
for talks and new opportunities for
talks are likely to be empty charades.
Unless international resolutions are
accompanied by practical efforts to
curb Unita’s war-making capacity, they
will continue to be seen as empty
gestures to be ignored in favor of the
ebb-and-flow of the battlefield.
5. The United States, with South Africa
4 principal sponsor over the years of
Unita's military capacity, holds a
Special responsibility to take serious
action to restrain its former client,
rather than to walk away blaming the
destruction it helped foster on the
Angolan parties.
Recommendations for
U.S. Policy
1. The U.S. government should take
the lead in implementing the
mandatory United Nations
embargo on the supply of arms,
fuel and other war-related mate-
rial to Unita.
Unita's military capacity, while
dependent in part on stockpiles and
captured arms, also relies on resupply
through Zaire and by air from South
Africa. These supplies are funded
partially via sales of diamonds by
Unita. The arms and oil embargo
approved by the United Nations
Security Council in September must be
implemented urgently. It is an essential
prerequisite for any credible policy of
negotiations and a guarantee for
implementation of any new settlement
that is reached. To be effective, it
requires, at minimum:
® allocation of intelligence resources
to identify states, companies and
individuals involved in delivery of
supplies to Unita;
@ pressure on Zaire and on diamond
merchants involved in purchasing
diamonds originating from Unita-
controlled areas of Angola;
@ technical assistance to Namibia,
Botswana and Zimbabwe in identify-
ing overflights of supply planes
between South Africa and Angola;
® insistence on full cooperation by the
South African authorities in prevent-
ing flights, including those from the
nominally independent homeland of
Bophuthatswana.,
Like all embargoes, such measures
could not be 100% effective. But it is
critical that symbolism be followed up
with practical measures which will
force the Unita leadership to take the
alternative of good-faith negotiation
more seriously.
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2. The U.S. government should
reiterate, at high levels, its
warnings to Unita not to attack
U.S. and other oil installations in
Cabinda and offshore at Soyo. It
should also make clear that it
does not recognize the legitimacy
of Unita’s acquisition of territory
by force, nor recognize any
government that might be estab.
lished on that basis.
While such statements have been
made on several occasions by U.S,
representatives, Unita may continue to
doubt U.S. commitment unless new
statements are accompanied by evi-
dence of stepped-up contingency
planning for protection of these
installations. The United States should
also initiate or expand sharing of
intelligence data relevant for defense
with the Angolan government.
3. The U.S. government should
express its willingness to support
a greatly expanded United
Nations presence in the case of a
renewed settlement,
All parties are agreed on the neces-
sity of such an expanded presence, the
lack of which is generally agreed to
have been one of the failures in 1992
As specified in the points agreed at the
Abidjan talks of May 1993, it is neces-
Sary to ensure genuine disarmament,
full demobilization of Partisan military
forces, a policy of no reprisals and
completion of the second round of
presidential elections. A clear declara-
tion by the U.S. pledging necessary
resources would be an incentive to a
renewed settlement,
4. The U.S. government should
continue and expand active
Support of UN and other efforts
to deliver humanitarian aid to
Angola, It should also immedi.
ately initiate programs of devel.
opment aid in conjunction with
the Angolan government and
non-governmental organizations,
in those areas of the country
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United Nations on Angola
With the further intensification of the fighting, the humanitarian situation has
worsened dramatically. The humanitari
are catastrophic as some 3 million people, particularly the most vulnerable
population groups — children, women and the elderly — are suffering from
the consequences of the conflict. It is widely estimated that more than 1,000
persons die every day from the direct or indirect effects of the war, the high-
est fatality rate of any conflict in the world.
Secretary-General's Report, 13 September 1993
where security considerations
permit. Plans for both private
and public-sector economic
cooperation, through trade and
investment, should not be held
hostage by the war.
It is urgent that obstacles to the
delivery of aid to war-affected zones be
removed, Additional resources should
be allocated to city residents immedi-
ately, including large numbers of
persons displaced by the war, as well
as others in areas where security does
not impede assistance. There is urgent
need for medical and other services as
well as food aid.
While any comprehensive program
of development or economic coopera-
tion must await abatement of conflict,
there is significant scope for programs
aimed at relatively secure areas,
Particularly the coastal cities as well as
Lubango and the surrounding agricul-
tural area in Huila province. In
particular, the U.S. should play an
active role in assisting the nascent
Angolan non-governmental! organiza-
tion sector, and should consider
support for health, education, informal
sector development and other pro-
grams in accessible urban areas.
5. The U.S. government should
Stress to both parties the urgent
imperative for respect for the
laws of war, particularly con.
cerning attacks on civilians,
kidnapping, summary execu-
tions, and lack of respect for
an dimensions of the Angolan tragedy
humanitarian relief operations.
While responsibility for renewed
conflict and attacks on civilians lies
primarily with Unita, both sides have
been guilty of serious human rights
abuses in the course of the fighting.
Both the Angolan parties and the
international community have the
responsibility for establishing mecha-
nisms for investigating, exposing and
ending such practices.
6. The U.S. government should
recognize that stability in Angola
depends on completion of the
democratic transitions under
way in Zaire and South Africa,
and urgently address itself to the
obstacles threatening th
transitions. .
While activities in Angola set a bad
precedent for Zaire, South Africa and
Mozambique, delays in installing
democratic institutions in those coun-
tries in turn promote continued conflict
in Angola. U.S, policy on Angola must
be accompanied by effective action to
promote the departure from power of
Mobutu in Zaire, and to ensure that
violence and other obstacles do not
block the transition to elected demo-
cratic institutions in South Africa. A
policy of complacency toward threats
of violence by those threatened by
democracy will enhance the prospects
of escalating region-wide conflict in
southern Africa in the future.
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Statement on the Announcement of Elections
and the Call for End of Sanctions
in South Africa
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Code of Conduct for Businesses
Operating in South Africa
J introduction
i ieee apartheid system has historically bur-
dened South Africa with 8fOSs Economic
distortions, Stagnation, secrecy, severe discrimi-
nation and natural devastation. It has deprive
the country's workers, communities, and
environment of the fundamental rights written
into international conventions and upheld in
other countries.
In order to reverse this crippling legacy and
to improve the economic well-being of all
South Africans, investments by both South
African and multi-national companies needs to
be reshaped in the image of an equitable,
democratic and life-enhancing society.
It is out of this grave concern and motivation
1. Equal Opportunity: Companies should
ensure that their operations are free from
discrimination based on race, sex, religion,
political opinion or physical handicap, and
implement affirmative action programs
designed to protect the equal rights and
treatment of the historically disadvantaged.
2. Training and Education: Companies should
develop and implement training and educa-
ion programs to increase the productive
Capacities of their South African employees in
consultation with the trade union movement.
3. Workers Rights: Companies should recog-
nize representative unions and uphold their
employees’ rights to organize openly, bargain
collectively, picket peacefully and strike
without intimidation and harassment.
4. Working and Living Conditions: Compa-
nies should maintain safe and healthy work
environment and strive to ensure that the
working and living conditions they provide
accord with relevant international conven-
tions.
5. Job Creation and Security: Companies
should strive to maintain productive employ-
ment Opportunities and create new jobs for
South Africans.
based on ethical religious considerations that
the South African Council of Churches, meeting
in conference on 8 July 1993, takes this initia-
tive to introduce and support this code of
conduct. The code outlines ways in which
business can play a constructive and creative
role in partnership with workers, communities
and other members of civil society, to lay the
economic foundations for a stable and prosper-
ous South Africa.
While these standards are also expected to
inform the policies of a democratically elected
government, in the interim, they are designed to
apply to companies operating in South Africa.
South African Council of Churches,
July 1993
6. Community Relations: Companies should
share information about their practices and
proposed plans with communities affected by
their operations, and develop social responsi-
bility programs in ongoing consultation with
representative bodies in these communities.
7. Consumer Protection: Companies should
inform consumers of any possible dangers
associated with their products and cooperate
with consumer protection and broader
community organizations to develop and
uphold appropriate product safety and
quality standards.
8. Environmental Protection: Companies
should utilize environmentally sound practices
and technologies, disclose how and in what
amounts they dispose of their waste products,
and seek to minimize hazardous waste.
9. Empowerment of Black Businesses:
Companies should strive to improve the
development of black-owned South African
businesses by purchasing from and subcon-
tracting to such firms.
10. Implementation: Companies should
cooperate with monitors established to
implement these standards by disclosing
relevant information in a umely fashion.
Washington Notes on Africa 7
Pines niianpate
January 1994
MOZAMBIQUE UPDATE AND SUGGESTIONS FOR ACTION
The peace process continues to move forward, though lagging
far behind schedule. The major accomplishments to date are:
- a national ceasefire is being observed
- the electoral law was passed by the National Assembly
- @ National Electoral Committee has been appointed
demobilisation of troops has begun
~ yvretugee resettlement is underway
- €& new national army composed of soldiers from both FRELIMO
and RENAMO is being trained
- Many political parties have been formed and registered
Suggestions for Action:
1. follow the implementation of the peace process to ensure that
all conditions have been met, especially the demobilisation of the
forces and the creation of a new national army, so that elections
can be held as scheduled in October 1994;
25 lobby for financial assistance for the resettlement of
refugees, training of cx combatants, and the implementation of the
Electoral Law;
3. find places and scholarships for Monmambican students to pursue
higher education in the United States;
4. provide holiday acvumedation and activities for Mozambicana
presently studying in the U.S.;
5. participate in election monitoring;
6. support Mozambican non-governmental organisations which have
been created to assist in the rehabilitation of their country.
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As promised, | will try to outline some thoughts on possible objectives and Strategies for the
anti-apartheid/democratic development community, as we attempt to turn the historical
corner with our South African partners. This list is by no means intended to be definitive,
rather a tool to provoke further brainstorming and strategizing. The first five points apply
to South Africa, while #6 addresses the region. | look forward to our meeting in February!
Objectives and Possible Strategies: Where do we want to go:
: Supporting Democratic Elections in South Africa
a. Raising funds for the elections, and for election monitors
b. Campaigning for Washington to allocate assistance for the
elections in the most positive way
@. Recruiting and sending elections monitors
d. Maximizing public education and support for the South African elections
8. Campaigning for UN to maximize its monitors and implement other measures
to support free and fair elections;
2. Reducing the Violence
a. Launching public awareness campaigns to stop the violence
b. Sending violence monitors to SA through programs like EMPSA;
3. Promoting Corporate Responsibility
a. Encouraging companies to adhere to the SACC Code of Business
Conduct (direct contact with companies, letter-writing campaigns
shareholder resolutions, publicizing companies which “do the tight thing”)
bd. Pressing banks to make new loans to South Africa to reduce the
debt burden resulting trom the harsh terms in South Africa's agreements to
repay its outstanding debt
e. Campaigning for US banks to supply money and technical expertise to South
African banks to facilitate their lending to South Africa's unbanked
communities of color;
4. Promoting Democratic, Sustainable Development
a. increasing grants and raising funds for South African development
projects--especially those which are most accessible and accountable
ta South Africa's majority grassroots communities
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b. Channeling investments to projects which maximize the control, capital and
capacities of South Africa's majority community
c. Organizing work projects by which North Americans (and others) offer direct
technical assistance (and often get an education and build relationships in
the process!)
d. Lobbying for US governmental assistance to achieve the levels and
support the priorities outlined by South Africa ‘s new government
e. Campaigning to prevent the IMF and World Bank from imposing conditions
on new loans (along the lines of structural adjustment) which would restrict
the new South African government's ability to set its awn economic
policies;
5. Strengthening People-to-People and Constituency-Based Relationships
a. Organizing sister community projects (including sister schools, sister
churches, sister women's organizations, etc.)
b. Strengthening constituency-based partnerships and alliances
(such as relationships between unions, religious organizations,
educators, health care workers, youth, women...)
é. Organizing community and cultural exchanges;
6. Deterring intervention and promoting US solidarity with other Southern
African countries--particularly Angola, Mozambique and Namibia
a. Lobbying for US Government support for these countries’
political self-determination (including free elections in Angola)
b. Organizing to terminate ail US support for the forces of
destabilization in the region, including UNITA
C. Campaigning to maximize US support for the development of Southern
African countries--and the region as a whole
d. Educating the US public about Southern Africa and building support
for its self-determination and democratic sustainable development
CAPITAL DISTRICT COALITION
AGAINST APARTHEID & RACISM
Minutes of Steering Committee meeting
6/2/93
PRESENT: Mert, Mike, Eileen, Gail, Debby, Mabel, Mark
NEXT MEETING: Monday, June 28th, Mike's house, 7pm
(please call Mark if you can not be there)
make the discussion concrete and specific. A number of
st : (1) Mark will take Over the role of
facilitating the steering committee meetings, sending out
minutes, planning agendas, etc. (2) every member of the
Steering committee will have certain Specific assignments
and/or areas of responsibility
“Stop the Violence" committee: Mike and Barry will continue
to facilitate this committee. Main areas of focus for the
next year will be Participation in coordinating and hosting
the "Youth Summit” initiated by Assembl yperson Roger Green
ter i : This "new" committee, or proposed
committee, is really the continuation or re-creation of the
former Southern Africa committee. Debby and Eileen will
to co-chair it. The idea is that this committee is the
international counterpart to the work the Coalition does on
domestic racism issues. The Primary focus, of course, would
Still be southern Africa, but the new name indicates the
potential inclusion of other areas such as Haiti. A report
Will be made at the next steering committee meeting.
Newsletter: Eileen will continue to coordinate and produce
the newsletter, Gail also agreed to work on the newsletter.
mailing list and labels. Stil] needed: someone to take over
certain specific tasks, including dropping off and picking up
at NYSUT, dropping off at post-office,
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Also, there are problems with the non-profit mailing status.
We agreed to ask Anita to work with Carmen Rau of the Social
Justice Center on this issue. We also considered the
question of whether a new organization could be started that
would have not-for-profit status and would have as its
purpose preparation and dissemination of educational
materials such as the newsletter.
Press: Mert, Mabel and Mark will initiate this committee.
They will meet before the next steering committee and report
to the next steering committee meeting. The goal is to
establish a more public and consistent presence in the media
for the Coalition.
Telephone: We agreed that the telephone "tree" needed to be
coordinated better. Debby will speak with Celia and Dick
about this.
response to the "Tribute to Mayor Whalen" scheduled for later
in June. The precise Scope of this was left unclear, Mark is
NEXT MEETING: JUNE 28, 1993, 7:00 pm, Mike's house
agenda: (1) Fall program, (2) report on “international"
committee, (3) report on press committee, (4) other follow-up
from May & June meetings
Call Mark (438-2845, 462-6753) if you are unable to be at the
meeting and/or if you have other agenda points and/or if you
Wish to discuss anything else about the steering committee.
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Summary of 2/24 Steering Committee
(Mike, Mert, Eileen, Gayle, Mabel, Debbie, Celia, and Anita)
1. Dates of next four (4) Steering committees established:
Wednesday, March 10, 1993
Wednesday, April 7, 1993
Thursday, May 6, 1993
Thirsday, June 3, 1993
All meetings will be at the home of Eileen Kawola at 7 p.m.
(note new earlier time)
Zs Newsletter tasks were discussed. All members of the
steering committee were urged to write more, encourage others to
Write more, and tell Eileen about things that should be in the
newsletter. Por the next newsletter, Mert agreed to write
something about Somolia, Debbie agreed to do an update on
Angola, and Anita will do an article summarizing local news
tidbits of interest to CDCAAR members. EVERYTHING MUST BE TO
EILEEN BY MARCH 1.
Ss Eileen will talk to Dick and David about the mechanics of
mailing. We're not to sure who can pick up the newsletter at
NYSUT and who can take it to the post office.
4. Other tasks. Gayle wil} pick up mail at the Social Justice
Center and be responsible for assembling change of addresses and
putting them in order for Dick. She will also assemble addi-
tions to the mailing list and get them to Dick. She will pick
up the labels from Dick and add any necessary hand-written
labels and make sure they are all delivered to David. Anita
Sy Leeaflet distribution for 2/19 Center for Law and Justice
event discussed.
6. Various committee reports were discussed. Phone calls will]
be made for March 16 forum to those on phone list. An explana-
tion about the decision not to held monthly meetings every month
will be included in next newsletter.
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- Social Justice Center for Feburary dues (1/18)
. Social Justice Center for return postage (1/18)
. Paper Cutter for December-January bills
CDCAAR’s January Sprint telephone
. Mike for stamps ($43.50) and petty cash ($100.00) (2/3)
Postmaster for January mail
Postmaster for stamps
NAARPR membership (Given by Anita on 1/18)
NYSCASA for lobby day (Given by Anita on 1/18)
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Center for Law & Justice for annual conference
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Social Justice Center for March-April dues
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Postmaster for stamps
Social Justice Center for May dues
SJC for postoffice charging regular rate instead of non-profit rate
Postmaster for April mailing
CDCAAR's June NY telephone
CDCAAR'’s May Sprint telephone
Social Justice Center for postage dues
Eileen for mailing & copying
YWCA for journal ad
Walter et.al. for May fax
P.O, Box renewal
Paper Cutter’s May bill
CDCAAR'’s June NY telephone
Social Justice Center for June dues
CDCAAR’s June Sprint telephone
CDCAAR’s July Sprint telephone
Holding Our Own for an ad
CDCAAR’s June NY telephone
Postmaster for stamps
SJC for July & August dues
David Aube for July mailing
Paper Cutter for July bill
Mike for CDCAAR petty cash
$9.00
$44.81
$74.55
$16.37
$8.02
$21.90
$59.00
$73.00
$17.23
$17.30
$9.81
$18.63
$30.00
$11.00
$17.50
$18.23
$16.37
$23.70
$17.83
$20.00
$25.00
$16.70
$22.95
$43.80
$98.95
$60.37
$50.00
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54. CDCAAR’s July NY telephone $20.65
55. CDCAAR’s August Sprint telephone $39.55
56. Paper Cutter for August bill $34.05
57. Eileen for Coalition’s supplies $23.14
58. CDCAAR's August Sprint telephone $43.64
59. CDCAAR’s August NY telephone $16.94
60. Postmaster for August mailing $133.62
61. SIC for September & October dues $43.80
62. Samori Marksman’s bus fare for Oct. 6 program $43.00
63, Samori Marksman for Oct. 6 program $150.00
64. Reimbursement to Mike for meeting Mandela on Oct. 1 $134.00
65. SIC for postage dues $3.54
66. Mike for postage $50.00
67. Eileen for mailing $14.90
68. CDCAAR's September Sprint telephone $28.83
69. CDCAAR’s September NY telephone $18.10
70. CDCAAR's October NY telephone $18.87
71, Gift for Barry (given from cash collected at Barry's party) $50.00
72. Africa Fund for leaflets $13.95
73. CDCAAR'’s October Sprint telephone $40.29
74. SIC for November & December dues $43.80
75. Mike for xerox and photos $34.10
76. Mike for SA conf. in December $65.00
77, Mike for petty cash $60.00
78. CDCAAR's November NY telephone ; $17.94
79. CDCAAR’s November Sprint telephone $101.49
80. Postmaster for box $17.50
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81. Transferred to the new checking account
82. SJC for dinner ad & retum postage
83. CDCAAR’s December Sprint telephone
84. CDCAAR's December NY telephone
85. Postmaster
86. Sean Lewis for airline ticket
$2500.00
$51.23
$151.48
$15.22
$73.25
$118.00
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7.
Revenues 1/1/93 to 12/3193
|. Memberships ($25.00 checks returned)
. St. Rose for program on violence (1/16)
NO
3, January interest
4. Table money (given by Mike in January)
5. Annonomous donation from NY (1/18)
6. Feburary interest
7. Dewey & Margot Hill for Macatini school
8. NY State Youth Council for 3/16 event
9. Reimbursement from Eileen for Paper Cutter's bill
0. March interest
1. Siena College for the Mozambique project
2. For March 16 program
3. For Mozambique (given by Eileen)
5. April interest
7. Donation from Sabosa
18. Sage Colleges for Mozambique
19. Union Presbyterian Church (Schen.) for Macatini schoo]
20. May interest
21. For Barry Walston to attend a conference in S.A.
22. June interest
23, Raised at the Talking to Himself play for Walston’s trip
24. July interest
25. For Walston’s trip to S.A. (given by Mike)
26. For Walston’s trip to S.A. (given by Barry)
27. August interest
6. Reimbursement from Roli for mistakingly writing COCAAR’s check
$1438.00
$200.00
$1.28
$133.00
$1000.00
$1.36
$50.00
$10.00
$5.96
$2.84
$475.00
$110.00
$277.00
$4.59
$20.00
$200.00
$112.00
$130.00
$4.56
$370.00
$5.20
$375.00
$5.05
$225.00
$160.00
$5.37
prone
28. Collected at Oct. 6 program
29. September interest
30. October interest
31. Collected at Barry’s party
32, Another annonomous donation from NY (11/02)
33. November interest
34. December interest
TOTAL IN CHECKING ACCOUNT (old)
TOTAL IN CHECKING ACCOUNT (new)
TOTAL IN SAVING ACCOUNT
In the checking account, $1200.00 are for Barry Walston and
$500.00 for the Mozambique project. In other words, we
do not have much money for this year in the checking account.
$85.00
$4.72
$4.17
$117.00
$1000.00
$5.04
$3.29
$350.00
$2500.00
$3200.00
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From: Anita
Re: CDCAAR Questions
1. Roles and work that people are willing to take
responsibility for on a consistent basis.
I expect to be available to contribute less time to CDCAAR then
the relatively small amounts of time I spent this past year. I
do not anticipate that I will be available to participate in
steering committee meetings. I am available to work on specific
short term projects as needed - especially in a role that
involves a minimum of committee work.
2. Discussions of issues that we might work on.
Outline a comprehensive anti-racist justice not peace agenda.
Challenge all candidates for mayor to adopt this program of
principles and action.
Another material aid campaign--may be Angola
re~focus South Africa work. Slogan needs to connect more with
tasks we can here in U.S. Stop the Violence is too removed.
Maybe apartheid is not dead as a slogan.
Build support for democratic governments in South Africa and
Caribbean so that this aspect is not left out of the national
foreign aid discussion.
3. Structure of organization.
Spring and Fall bi-or tri-annual membership meetings 1 with
social event/program; each meeting should be tight with agenda
provisions for reports, action-to-take items, and discussion
CDCAAR needs working phone tree should be used at least 6X per
year, newsletter should continue with greater steering committee
support, and greater support from organization and community;
newsletter is very valuable. Steering committee should
continue but needs to try to be larger in size both to increase
representativeness and to encourage the development of new modes
of discussion. No need to rush expansion but should be done by
Jan 94,
All committees should be ad-hoc committees for certain task or
time frame.
4. Function of Steering Committee
Meet regularly 10x per year (except Aug and Dec); function to
educate membership and larger community; make sure all necessary
decisions are made; plan activities and programs or work with
committees who are planning programs;
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Direct political development of organization.
Enhance visibility of co-chairs
Tightly structure meetings learn how to do structured
brainstorming
Maintain relationships with other anti-apartheid (nationally)
and other community groups
Each member of steering committee should have general
responsibilities ie. to learn, to come to meetings informed
about current events and progressive developments in the world
(to some extent). This is needed so that we can direct the
organization's political energies appropriately. Each member
should also have some organizational tasks ~both housekeeping
and or an organizing nature. These may be on-going assignments
or ad-hoc.
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TO: CD-CAAR steering committee friends and colleagues
FROM: Mark
RE: Where do we go from here?
Summary of responses to questions re: structure,
etc.
Responses were received from 6 people other than
myself. Three responses arrived within the past
several days. I am not sure that the answers provided
really move us forward or resolve any of the differing
views that exist concerning the role and structure of
the Coalition. However, here is my summary and
Synthesis of the information I received.
Four people (Debby, Eileen, Mabel & Mark) explicitly
said that they were willing to serve on the steering
committee. Continued participation on the steering
committee seems implicit in the comments of Mert and
Mike.
A few people offered detailed lists of what they were
willing to do, while others were more general.
Celia - phone calls, leaflets, tabling
Debby - contribute to newsletter, ongoing committee
work
Eileen ~- newsletter editing and many associated tasks,
mailing list, pick-up and process mall, yearly
membership letter, Mozambique aid project, contact w/
Roli re: membership receipts
Mabel - press, telephone
Mike - youth conf., ANC contact, regional and/or
national networking, get Barry to SA, get Clayton to
SUNYA
Mert - police abuse (in conjunction w/ Center for Law
& Justice), press, “agitate, educate, organize"
Mark ~ police abuse: work w/ Center for Law & Justice,
Citizen Action, NYCLU, Nat'l Alliance Agst. Racist &
Political Repression
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ISSUES:
There were a range of responses to the question about
what issues the Coalition should work on. I think a
consensus exists (not Surprisingly) that we should
continue to work on the issues that we have had
experience in to date, namely: South Africa, police
abuse, "youth & violence", "other" Africa issues
(e.g., Mozambique, Angola).
STRUCTURE:
membership meetings (Four people mentioned this
explicitly, although some variation existed - 1 annual
meeting, 2 meetings per year, a "few" meetings per
year.)
newsletter (Again, mentioned by several people, but
with some differences - one person proposes a
"newsletter" committee, one suggests a bi-monthly
newsletter. )
Sub-committees - Several similar Suggestions: should
have committees on issue areas (i.e@., police abuse,
Mozambique, youth & violence, etc.); should have
working committees on press, telephone tree,
membership, programs, newsletter.
Steering committee ~ No consensus exists as to
structure and purpose of Steering committee. Some
Seem to want it to continue essentially as it has
been, some vehemently oppose that. I believe there is
agreement that, whatever its form, the steering
committee needs to function more effectively, with
minutes, follow-through on assignments, better
attendance, and closer involvement with non-steering
committee membership. Two people suggested that it be
re-structured based on specific assignments and
responsibilities, i.e., that membership on the
steering committee would consists of the chairs of
various committees.
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TO; CD~CAAR Steeri Committee Members
FROM: Gail Byrn
DATE: June 1, 1993
I am writing in response to our discussion at the last Steering
Committee meeting. The majority of the comments herein are
directed to the Structure of the Committee,
Committee are competent individuals committed to the work of the
Coalition. I also believe that when competent and committed
individuals sit on committees, business gets done and goals are
addressed is when its level of dysfunction interferes with
business and goal attainment.
At the last meeting, two members shared a perception that, of late,
the Committee has not been steering the Coalition in as productive
paths as in the past, 1 did not see the fashion in which this
polnt was made as being Particularly constructive either in terms
Of healing the individuals' hurt feelings or in helping the group
to focus its energies on the issues set forth in the agenda.
been some prior discussion of the topic, given the Significance of
the question for the Coalition,
At times it appears to me that our group is not really "group" at
all, that somehow we lack group cohesion, that in fact there is a
group within the group: There is a group in the room, but not
everyone is part of it, 1 think this can interfere with the
functioning of the larger body. I think it inhibits full parti-
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FROM: Merton Simpson
SUBJECT: What Next
DATE: May 28, 1993
At our last meeting, we said we would address certain points as follows:
1) Roles and work that people are willing to take responsibility for on a
consistent basis
As I stated I am willing to do what I have always done, in the words of
Marcus Garvey, “Agitate, educate, organize." I will specifically work on
antipolice abuse, press statements and mass education. Of course, I am
prepared to address issues of a diverse nature as appropriate.
2) Discussion of the issues we might work on
Same as above plus general CD-CAAR agenda.
3) Structure of organization
Regarding the structure, the issue of having working subcommittees is a
good one as well as increasing membership on the steering committee. With
regard to Police Abuse subcommittee, it makes perfect sense to me for CD-CAAR
to work under Alice Green’s Center for Law and Justice.
4) Steering Committee — What function should it play?
The Steering Camittee should continue to steer in the exemplary way it
always has, which has given CD-CAAR the local, national and international
reputation we so richly deserve.
On an“end note, I don’t understand this flagellation among certain
Steering Committee members. Same people have talked as if we are moribund
when my personal assessment (which is based on objective achievements and
reality) is that we are stronger than we have every been (see attached
documents ) .
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was the first lime the Air Force gave
details of the effect on the number of
active-duty slots at air bases, train-
ing sites and other installations.
The restructuring takes into ac-
bre aiade.
One of the states most broadly af-
fected is California, where signifi-
cant changes would be made at eight
bases. The state would have a net loss
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Mc(iuire Air Force Base and convert
the base to reserve status. The result
would be a net decrease of 2,255 ac-
tive-duty jobs.
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Albany man wins damages
By LAURA SUCHOWOLEC
Gazette Reporter 4 - 19 ay
ALBANY ~— A federal jury Thurs-
day awarded $35,000 to a black man
who said he was beaten and racially
harassed by a white police officer
during a 1989 arrest.
“The verdict shows that I was
treated wrong. A police officer
should not be allowed to do this to a
public citizen in this city,”’ said
James F. Lunday I, who filed the
Racing merger could affec
By SARAH M. SMERO
Gazette Reporter
SARATOGA SPRINGS — A state
panel's proposal to merge the New
York Racing Association and the
New York City Off-Track Betting
Corp. could result in a $1 million tax
revenue loss to local governments.
civil rights case against police in US.
District Court. “I feel it was a good
verdict. It really wasn't about the
money, it was the principle of the
thing.”
After deliberating for almost 10
hours over two days, a seven member
all-white jury ruled that former De-
tective Kenneth Sutton used excess-
ive force against Lunday and vio-
lated his constitutional rights during
a May 13, 1989 arrest.
The jury ordered Sutton to pay
A report by the governor's Advi-
sory Commission on Racing in the
2ist Century, which is scheduled to be .
finalized Tuesday, will recommend
the merger of NYRA and the New
York City OTB, according to prelimi-
nary statements made by commis-
sion officials,
NYItA owns three thoroughbred
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Ann Landers B10
Arts & Entertainment Di-6
Business C7
Classified 18-14
Comics Dis
Horoscope 10
Lifestyles B8-10
Goren on Bridge B10
Obituaries B15,16
Opinion nia
Ilere and There Hid
Sports C1-6
Stocks Bil-13
Television D6
Jury decides white officer abused black suspect’s rights .
Lunday $20,000 in compensatory
damages which are to pay him for
injuries. Sutton was also directed to
pay $15,000 in punitive damages
which are aimed at punishing a per-
son for conduct. ee :
The jury foreman sald he hopes the
verdict sends a message.
“I hope the fact that punitive dam-
ages were awarded will let people
know that this conduct is not condon-
See ALBANY, Page A4
t local revenue
race tracks, including Saratoga Race .
Course,
Under one proposal being consid-
ered by the panel, NYRA and the
New York City OTB would become
equal partners in a joint venture and
be overseen by a public benefit cor-
poration.
Public benefit corporations gener-
ally do not pay property taxes, 50
local governments could lose about
$1 million in annual property tax rev-
enue they currently receive from
NYRA.
NYRA is one of the largest local
taxpayers, contributing a little more
than $1 million. NYRA pays Saratoga
County about $170,000; Saratoga
Springs about $170,000, and the cily
See NYRA-OTB, Page A4
r3
that some bombers would be shifted
to the reserves as part of an overall
reduction and reorganization of the
service. Until today the Air Force
bases are to make changes
state would have a net increas
active-duty jobs and 777 reser
jobs, and South Carolina, wh
italian gallery blast
Firefighters remove debris from the famed Uffizi Gallery afi
bomb exploded in the center of Florence Thursday, damagin
the world's best known art collections. Story on Page A3.
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school district about $680,000,
Local officials are nervously
awaiting the state report.
“Anything that has any significant
impact on property tax arrange-
ments would have to be offset in
some other area,” said city Finance
Commissioner J. Michael O'Connell.
To make up a $170,000 shortfall,
for example, the city would have to
raise taxes about 5 percent for the
rest of the city's property owners.
O'Connell and other local officials
have criticized the commission since
it was formed by Gov. Marlo M.
Cuomo last May. They're angry that
no local officials were appointed to
the panel and fear the recommended
outcome may harm Saratoga
Springs.
O'Connell says the
Republican-dominated Saratoga
Springs is caught in the middie of a
battle between Democrat Cuomo and
downstate-oriented NYRA.
“We're perceived as country
bumpkins,” he said. “It's the battle of
the Titans. If you're not a Titan,
you're in a difficult position.”
Property taxes are but one issue.
O'Connell says he also fears the
commission will recommend an ex-
tension of the five-week meet at Sar-
atoga, destroying the “gpeciainess”
of the summer meet, The summer
meet is a major part of Saratoga
County's tourism industry.
Saratoga County Treasurer George
Gasser said he fears about half of the
county's OTB surcharge revenue, or
about $1.5 million, could be at risk
because it comes from New York
City OTB.
omo is scheduled to receive the
state committee's report Tuesday
and later, with state legislators, de-
cide whether the proposals should be
implemented.
The report is scheduled to be re-
jeased to the public next Thursday or
Friday.
O'Connell has formed a citizens
finance committee, and has called a
meeting for next week. The Saratoga
weet Board of Supervisors has
for a similar committee to moni-
tor the advisory commission's pro-
gress. The committees are planning a
strong and swift response to the com-
mission's report, both men said.
“We've got to take a very assertive
and aggressive stance,” O'Connell
said. “They'll hear from us.”
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Continued from Page Al
ed. People should not be treated this
way,” said Donald Hepp of Waterv-
liet, the foreman of the federal court
jury. “This conduct is not what you
want to see from police officers.”
Lunday's lawsuit sought §7.1 mil-
lion in damages but the jury wasn't
asked for a particular amount.
Lunday said Sutton beat him so
badly that he defecated in his pants
and almost lost consciousness. Lun-
day said Sutton showered him with
racial epithets.
Sutton and three co-defendant offi-
cers were cleared of allegations they
falsely arrested Lunday, which indi-
cates the jury believed Lunday’s be-
havior justified the arrest.
“We are very much elated that the
jury found that the arrest was a valid
arrest,” said Paul Collins, a lawyer
representing Sutton.
But Lunday’s lawyer received a
different message from the verdict.
“First, this verdict says Sutton is a
liar and second, it says that he has
been a brutal police officer,” said
Terence L. Kindlon, an Albany law-
yer.
Testimony during the five-day trial
showed that Lunday shouted profani-
officer ordered to pay
ties at the police officers. The offi-
cers said Lunday was loud, appeared
drunk and refused to give police his
name.
Police arrested Lunday, who had
no criminal record, on charges of dis-
orderly conduct, resisting arrest and
assaulting a police officer. He spent
the night in the city lockup after
being misidentified as a suspect in a
drug case. All the charges were drop-
within six months of his arrest.
The jury cleared two other officers
who were present during the arrest of
charges they used excessive force.
Lunday didn’t prove that retired de-
tectives John Tanchak Jr. and
Thomas Schillinger used excessive
force or wrongly arrested Lunday,
according to the jury.
“it has been a long ordeal for the
Schillingers. He was wrongfully
brought into this and he suffered for
three years,” said his lawyer, Stephen
Herrick.
All three officers denied that they
beat or harassed Lunday and all said
they didn't witness anyone else hit
him, Lunday never accused Schil-
linger of abusing him.
Lunday alleged that Tanchak kick-
ed him in the chest and hit him in the
face. “He waited a long time to be
exonerated. It’s a ve at thing to
be exonerated,” said William J. _:
who represented Tanchak. “Our only
sadness is that we wish the same
could have been true for Mr. Sutton
who is a fine police officer.”
Lunday’s testimony was corrobo-
rated by former Officer Mathia Sido-
ti, who testified that Lunday was
beaten by Sutton and kicked by Tan-
chak. Sidoti said she originally re-
spected the police “code of silence”
and said she didn’t see anyone abuse
Lunday.
Sidoti came forward with the new
account of the events after she was
fired from the force for using co-
caine, according to trial testimony.
Lawyers for the other police officers
suggested that she could be lying to
get revenge for her firing.
Sidoti was a defendant in the case
and testified in her own defense. The
jury found that she didn’t falsely ar-
rest Lunday.
Lunday was standing outside Big
John’s Restaurant on Elizabeth
Street in the city’s South End when a
car with four undercover police offi-
cers pulled up and asked his name,
Lunday said.
Lunday was waiting for his wife,
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Barbara, and 3-year-old son, James,
who were inside picking up takeout
food. Lunday, who admitted he had
been drinking beer at a cookout ear-
lier that day, shouted a profanity
at the people in the car.
Lunday, a mechanic at Albany
Medical Center Hospital, was appar-
ently mistaken for a suspect ina drug
crime. Lunday said he still clearly
recalls the incident.
His wife, Barbara Lunday, remem-
bers their son screaming “daddy,
daddy,” as the police handcuffed his
father and took him away in & police
car, The couple's son, now 7 years
old, attended portions of the trial this
week,
“] didn’t do this for the money,”
said Lunday. "I did it because I
wouldn’t want to see it happen to my
son when he gets to my age.”
A grand jury indicted Sutton, Tan-
chak and Schillinger on misdemeanor
official misconduct charges. Those
charges were dismissed in July for
technical reasons. Sidoti testified be-
fore the grand jury about what she
witnessed and was granted immunity
from prosecution.
Special Prosecutor Richard A.
Kohn said he is seeking to have the
charges against the former officers
reinstated by a higher court.
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19,300.
A number of major pend
ects could boost that figure, '
The long-stalled Albany Co:
so project would create
undred jobs, although con
could be delayed for as lor
other
year.
In addition, the expansion
gates Mall, a major regio:
ping center in Guilderland,
construction of several plan
shopping centers also coul
emp
oyment,
And while sales of existi:
in the Capital Region plum:
nt in April from a yea
iiding inspectors have rej
creases in ts for new
Overall job growth co
though the pace is slowing, :
labor markets analyst Jam:
For example, the gain in }
January 1992 to January ©
8,000, while the year-to-yea
April had narrowed to 4,10
And the outlook is for «
slowing. The Conference
business research ror re)
help wanted index for the Ci
gion declined to 99 in April
in March and 103 in Febri
index measures the relativ:
of help wanted newspaper
ing, with the base year of if
ing 100.
Growth in one of the stro:
tors, health-care employme.
slowing, Ross said, as the
takes a wait-and-see appro:
Clinton administration ref.
posals now being prepared
ington.
ut, with an aging po)
“that's still going to be a |
growth area,” Ross added.
Overall jobs totaled 423,-
Capital Region, up from 4
March and 419,300 in Apri!
The number of unemploy
19,700 from 23,400 in M
25,000 in April 1992.
But do the figures mean i!
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of the allegations by
James F. Lunday Il
By JOHN CaneR 5-29-43
ALBANY — A federal jury on
| Thursday found that Albany detec-
tive Kenneth Sutton used excessive
force during a 1989 arrest, but the
panel rejected every other allegation
| by a black man who said he was
| physically abused and racially
taunted bv city cops.
The jury seated before Senior U.S.
District Judge Lee P. Gagliardi
awarded James F. Lunday II $20,000
| in compensatory and $15,000 in pu-
nitive damages, a far cry from the
$7.1 million he had sought. The city
will pay the tab and also may be
ordered to pay Lunday's attorney,
Terence L. Kindlon of Albany.
wa ees = ae
- W here do we go
from here? We have
no avenues for
redress. This verdict
frightens me toa
point | don’t think I’ve
been to before.”
~ Alice Green
Executive director,
Center for Law and Justice
With the $35,000 split verdict,
attorneys for Lunday and the police,
including Sutton, were claiming vic-
tory Thursday afternoon. But civil
rights activist Alice Green, executive
director of the Center for Law and
Justice, said somberly that everyone
was a loser in a case she said shows
blacks cannot get justice on the
streets or in the courts.
“T lost a lot of faith with this case,”
said Green, who sat through much of
the trial, “Where do we go from here?
We have no avenues for redress. This
verdict frightens me to a point I don't
think I've been to before.”
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7
‘Victim gets $35,000
In cop brutality case
Lunday, 38, alleges that on May
13, 1989, he was attacked and racial-
ly insulted after police mistook him
for a drug suspect. He claims that
Sutton beat him and called him
“nigger” and “jungle bunny,” that
Detective John Tanchak hit and
kicked him and that two other law
enforcement officials, Detective
Thomas Shillinger and Officer Ma-
thia Sidoti, neglected to protect him.
The detectives are all retired, and
Sidoti was fired for using cocaine. All
of the former officers are white.
Evidence showed that the officers
encountered Lunday on Elizabeth
Street during an undercover opera-
tion and that they thought he was
wanted on drug charges. In fact,
Lunday has a clean record and was
not wanted for any hing.
One of the officers asked Lunday
his name and he responded with
vulgarity. He then was charged with
disorderly conduct, on the theory
that his profanity was aimed at
causing a public disturbance; with
resisting arrest, because he struggled
when police tried to handcuff him;
and with assault, because Sutton
was struck during the struggle. All of
the charges were dismissed.
The jury found that Sutton —~ but
only Sutton — used more force than
necessary to arrest Lunday. It reject-
ed claims of false arrest and mali-
cious prosecution and cleared Tan-
chak, Schillinger and Sidoti of
wrongdoing.
The case was unusual in that
Sidoti broke what she called the
police officers’ “code of silence” and
testified against her former col-
leagues. However, attorneys for the
city and the retired detectives at-
tacked Sidoti's testimony as the
vengeful rantings of a bitter ex-cop
who was forced out of the depart-
ment for using drugs.
Paul M. Collins, attorney for Sut-
ton, speculated that the verdict was a
“compromise” that largely exoner-
ates his client. But one juror on the
all-white, predominantly female,
and mainly rural and suburban pan-
el said the verdict was neither a
compromise nor an exoneration of
Sutton,
Wayne Palmatier said the jury
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fn other court action:
® Donald Ketzer, 45, of 42 5,
' Main St, Castleton, was sentenced
before County Judge John G, Turner
Jr. to 2 to 6 years in prison for his
auilty plea to second-degree rape. He
odmitted raping a 13-year-old girl in
fuly 1901.
@ Glen A. Cooper, 18, of 864
Maple Hill Road, Castleton, pleaded
wuilty before Breslin to two counts of
hird-degree burglary. He admitted
oreaking into Moto Photo at 1558
“ontinued from B-1
Breslin to six months in jail and five
years on probation for her guilty plea
to felony driving while intoxicated
stemming from an Oct, 29 arrest on
Mohawk Street in Albany.
@ Lauren Macaulay, 45, of Glens
Falls, was sentenced by Breslin to
time served and five years on proba-
tion for her yuilty plea to filth-degree
criminal possession of a controlled
substance. She admitted having co-
caine on dan. 19 at 048 Clinton Ave.,
Albany.
LUNDAY: $35,000 awarded
in police brutality case
concluded that Sutton beat Lunday
while he was handcuffed, racially
taunted him and then lied about the
incident on the witness stand. He
said the jury decided to award puni-
tive damages “because we wanted it
on record that they (police) can’t do
that” and considered sums ranging
from $5,000 to $50,000,
Palmatier said the panel agreed on
the $15,000 sum because that
amount “for somebody who makes
$20,000 to $30,000 a year... in a
pretty severe punishment.” What
the jury did not know, however, is
that the city, not Sutton, will pay the
award,
Palnatier said the jury, which
deliberated roughly nine hours over
two days, believed parts of Sidoti’s
testimony and not other parts, He
said jurors rejected Sidoti’s claims
that Tanchak slapped and kicked
Lunday because Lunday himself
seemed unclear on what, ifanything,
the detective had done,
Landay said tie was satistied with
the verdict.
“Albany police, they've got a hell
of a job to do and IT respect their job,”
Lunday said, “But you can't have
officers like this on the force.”
Sutton, by the time he retired
about two years ago, had become a
lightning rod for criticiam in the
minority community. Some critics
called him “batman” and alleged he
used a baseball bat to intimidate
African-American drug suspects, a
charge Sutton and the city adminis-
tration vehemently deny.
"I think what the jury is saying is
this: Sutton is a liar,” Kindlon said,
“The second thing they are saying is
that he has been a brutal police
officer. I have spent 18 years, since I
was o little assistant public defend-
er, trying to do something about the
brutal treatrnent of minority people
by Albany police and trying to do
something about Ken Sutton. This
is a very good start.”
Representing the other defend-
ants were: John Shea for the city; |
William Gray for Tanchak; Stephen
Herrick for Schillinger, andl Mark 5S.
Mishler for Sidoti, Gray and Herrick
said their clients have been vindicat-
ed after a long and tortuous ordeal.
“He (Tanchak) waited a long time
te be vindicated,” Gray said.
|
|
|
WHS VICE PORTO GHEE cad Gb Tbe sk
He was a professor at St. Joseph's Preparatory Seminary in
Princeton, Nad., and at Niagara University, director of St. Lazare
Retreat House in Michigan, principal of St. Thomas More Catholic
High School in Philadelphia, pastor of St. Mary's Church in *
Greensboro, N.C. and Queen of Miraculous Medal in Michigan, Holy
Family in Alabama at St. Joseph's in Maryland.
He was ordained May 29, 1943 by Cardinal Dennis Dougherty, and
i Sacrament Church in Albany.
The anniversary Mase will be celebrated at noon Sunday, June 6, at .
Blessed Sacrament Church, 607 Central Ave. A reception inthe school *
celebrated his firat Mase at Blessec
hall will follow for relatives and friends.
“ow
»
”
FOCUS joint worship Sunday
ALBANY — Gathering spiritual resources for their shared
ministries in downtown Albany, the FOCUS Churches will worship
together at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May
Church, Lark and Lancaster streets.
30in Trinity United Methodist
The churches include First .
Presbyterian, Trinity, Israel African Metho«list Episcopal, Emmanuel
Baptint and Westminster Presbyterian. ‘
‘The Rev. Richard E. Spalding, co-pastor of the Church of the ¥
Covenant in Boston and chaplain to undergraduate students at
Harvard, will preach. He is a former associate pastor of Westminster
Presbyterian.
Albany ft
telephone number of
Siena women plan
installation dinner
LOUDONVILLE — The Siena
Woman's Club will have the annual
installation dinner to honor officers
on ‘Tuesday, June 8, in Serra Hall on
the Siena campus.
Dutch treat cocktails will be at
6:30 p.m. and dinner at 7:30.
Officers are aa followa: Marge Artt,
president; Christine Kronau, vice
president; Susan Donlon, recording
secretary; Dorothy Jacobsen, trea-
surer; Mildred Dagner, correspond-
ing seerctary; rene Laware, parli-
mentarian; Fran Bologna, publicity;
and Kay Thornton, membership.
Reservations close Tuesday, dune
1. For more information call 237-
1621.
—~e— =
La Salle announces
new board members
ALBANY — La Salle School on
Western Avenue welcomed two new
members on its board of trustees, *
The Rev. Kenneth J. Doyle and
Dr. William Robelee were both elect-
‘od to serve five-year terms. The
number of active board members *
increases to 31 with the two newcom-
ers.
Robelee is a school psychologist’
for the Hyde Park Central District
and is an adjunct professor in teach-
er education at Siena College and in
school psychology at the State Uni-
versity at Albany.
Doyle is pastor at St. Catherine of
Siena Parish in Albany, an attorney
and a journalist,
of hospital
raignment
recurs, the agents allegedly
« McDonoughs kickbacks that
- Searly $640,000 since 1978,
iOlument gard
“O0UgS. 60, was hospitalized
irgay, May 15, several days
ye sadictrpent was handed up
‘ered from a blood infection
‘to Whe twice-weekly dialysis
ents be Must undergo for ail-
2eVS
‘ormer chairman was arraign
S hospital bed Fiiday by U.S
“ate Ralph W Smith Jr on ex-
racketeering and mail fraud
“talzed for some time
By LAURA SUCHOWOLEC
| Gazette Reporter
} ew eernne conn n,
ALBANY — Three white retired
pouce officers denied hitting a black
man ho contends im $7.1 million
lawsuit that he was brutalized and
racially harassed during an arrest
The police testimony contradicts
what James F. Lunday Il of Albany
told a seven-member federal jury
S€ated iD a police brutality trial Lun
day, a mechanic at Albany Medical
Cester Hospital, alleges that his crv:
rights were violated May 13, 1989
wWheo he was subjected to excessive
police foree, false arrest and mali-
cious ProsecuuoENn
He is suing the city of Albany and
four White police officers who were
present during his arrest: Three
defendant police officers were called
Monday by a lawyer representing the
city of Albany
"To the best of my knowledge, so
one Was striking Mr Lunday during
the incident.” said former Detective
; John Tanchak Jr. of Waterford. who
party source who observed |
Ug at Monday's fund-raiser
x. .
sed the appearance. "I could |
eve the gall.” the source said
aout it~ de drags a federa!
a5 to bis hospital bed on Fri. |
2 {en he’s out. *
imine land
on to the proposed access
{5 Opto the narrow Utica
and Doorttose Drive, where |
4 Sa¥ Condsuons are already |
The board is expected to |
new traffic information and |
JPCSION OG Lhe apartments at |
i meeung
“ng Board Chairman Peter |
ud hat whe Bugene Weiss |
vet submutted formal plans |
“esideatial subdivision. the |
‘eat of approximately 20
$i the area “is enough to |
Batters ‘on the review of |
wens
ind Ls expected to look atthe |
20 9... and chen reconvene |
“?UO8 at 8 p.m. at the Public |
208 Center, 347 Old Nis. |
Road
aces bid
Council
i received $434,000 in cobro
ees from RJ. Carignan & Co
16 Quinn was in Boston Moo-
1 COuld oe% be reached for
at
1. president of the William J
« Soas wsurance agency, was
scled Lo seek re-election. He
ressed a desire to pay more
" to family and business
a4 been a member of the
IUSIOg Authority board of
SONers since 1944 and is now
Maurman, after serving three
i Charman. He has worked
“OURTY aince 1986, and was
2 replace Romeo J. Naples.
county Democratic chair.
Legisiature clerk in late
inher, the late Edward J
40100, Was a Troy funeral
4 member of the county
Supervisors and first chair.
de Legislature when it was
1IRTN Mis lare grandfather
| allegedly kicked Lunday
after it appeared he would | ;
The officers said Lunday was loud
used profanities, appeared drunk acd
refused to give police his name
ve
_ Ex-officers
Trio contradicts plaintiff's testimony
“Just 80 we understand, there is no
obligation on citizen to give (berr
Kame to a police officer?” asked Ter-
ence L. Kindlon, Lunday's lawyer
That is correct sir,” Tanchak
responded
Former Detective Thomas Schil-
linger testified Monday that Lunda y
resisted arrest and “swung at’
another officer “He [Lunday] hut bir
[the officer} in the face,” said Schi}-
linger, who also denied Witnessing
any of the alleged abuse
James Lunday was arrested and
charged with disorderly conduct,
Fesisting arrest and assaulting a
police officer, He spent the might in
the city lockup befare a judge
released him. All the charges were
dropped within siz months of bis
arrest
He was standing outside Big John's
Restaurant on Elizabeth Street in the
city’s South End when a car trans-
porting four white people pulled up
dear him and asked who be was, Lun-
day said
Lunday was Wailing for his wife,
Barbara, and 3-year-cid son James
Who were inside picking up a takeout
Dau hes ee
wah be
order. Lunday, who admitted he had
been drinking beer at a cookout ear-
lier that day. shouted a profanity at
the people in the car
The four people in the car were
andercover narcotics detectives
WOrKing in &@ citywide drug sweep
when they spotted Lunday and
apparently mistook him for a
suspect
Lunday says he was grabbed by
police, slammed on the hood of a car,
handcuffed and showered with racial
epithets. Police transported him to
Division Two where the brutality
allegedly continued
Police allegedly played the song
“Welcome to the Jungle’ by rock
group Bon Jovi while Lunday was ina
TOO at Ube stauion
Lunday said he was so frightened
that be defecated ip his pants,
Lawyers for some defendants said
the force police used was justified
and pecessary to arrest Lunday.
Lunday's lawsuit accuses retired
Detective Kenneth Sutton of Coey-
mans Hollow of beating him and sub-
Jecting Sim to racial slurs while
deny hitting Lunday
handcuffed. Tanchak is accused of
locking Lunday
Former Detectives Schillinger of
Castleton and Mathia Sidot; were
present during the alleged abuse but
arent accused of participating
Sidoti, who was fired from the
force for using cocaine, Rave a state
ment saying she saw Sutton and Tan
chak strike Lunday while he was
handcuffed May 13, 1949
Lawyers for the other former
detectives suggested in their opening
satements that Sidoti could be lying
to get revenge for her firing Sido;
took the stand late Monday afternoon
and began to testify when the pro-
ceedings ended for the day
Sidou wasn't called by the city of
Albany to testify She is testifying cn
her own defense.
A grand jury indicted Sutton. Tan
chak and Schillinger on misdemean a
official misconduct charges. Those
charges were dismissed in July for
techoical reasons, Sidoti testified
before the grand jury about what she
Witnessed and was granted immuruty
from prosecution,
Special Prosecutor Richard A
Kohn said be is Seeking to have the
charges against the former officers
reinstated by a higher court
“Jury ruled man’s
rights violated
By LAURA SUCHOWOLEC
Gasette Reporter &-15-%
ALBANY ~ The city agreed to Dal ¥
319.000 to a man whose civ) rights a
jury ruled were violated by police who
assaulted hum during an October 1934
arrest.
That federal jurv in March, how-
for the damages he suffered in use
arrest. The issue of whether the co:
was llable for the damages still had to
be presented to a jury, but the serie.
roent chomet the case,
Grier said be wasn't satisfied #1.)
the settlement but hadn't been
Mm winning a large sur of
toaney anyway. “I really didn't wan:
acy Money. | wanted the officer cua:
did thas te 10 pay the price.” said
y's setUement
The jury ruled that retired Officer
Thomas lngiee used excessive force
during Grier’s arrest and violated hus
Consiituisonal rights. Grier broke a mb
when Ingiee sat on or somehow came
yy
ter
“Ad a black man living in the United
States, | really feel that we the black
said Grier. “We find that one officer
violated my constitutional Might which
is to be tree from excessive force
Grier said be agreed Wo settle the
Case because there was a chance that
the jury would also rule in bis favor in
the second portion of the trial dy:
+ eA hs
‘9a to (he proposed access
20th onto the sarrow Utica
‘ and Doorstone Drive, where
‘S Say CondiUons are already
' The board is expected to
dew traffic information and
i decision on the apartments at
el meeting
aing Board Chairman Peter
aid that while Eugene Weiss
{ yet submitted formal plans
‘ residential subdivision, the
pment of approximately 20
Uses in the area “is enough to
"ate Matters” on the review of
iriments
ward 1s expected to look at the
530 pm., and then reconvene
eeting at apo. at the Public
tions Center, 347 Gid Nia-
| Road
neces bid
Council
sd Peceived $434,000 in oo bro.
ees from RJ. Carignan & Co
#8 Quinn was in Boston Moo-
|
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1 could pot be reached for +}
% president of the WUttam J |
« OOS insurance agency, was
weted tO seek reelection He
essed a desire to pay more
10 family and business
’ has Been a member of the
fusing Authority board of |
soners since 1984 and is pow
harman, after serving three |
s Chairman
He has worked |
“ounty since 1986, and was |
c replace Romeo J Naples, |
sOunty Democratic chair. | |
s Legislature clerk io late
ther, the late Edward J
wUiQn, Was a Troy funeral!
". a member of the county }
Supervisors and first chair:
he Legisiature when it was
1970 His late grandfather, |
J Quinn also served on the |
' Supervisors in the late
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pay $19K
Jury ruled man’s
rights violated
By LAURA SUCHOWOLEC
Gazette Reporter b-359-95
ALBANY — The city agreed to pay
$19,000 to a man whose civil nghts a
jury ruled were violated by police who
assaulted him during an October 1988
arrest.
That federal jury in March. bhow-
ever, awarded only $1 in damages to
35-year-old Ronald W. Grier of Albany
for the damages he suffered in the
arrest. The issue of whether the city
was liable for the damages still had to
be presented to a jury, but the settie-
ment Closes the case
Grier said be wasn’t satisfied with
the settlement but hadn't been
interested in winning a large surn of
money anyway, “i really didn't want
any money. | wanted the officer vrat
did this to me to pay the price,” sad
Grier after Monday's setulement,
The jury ruled that retired Officer
Thomas Ingiee used excessive force
during Grier’s arrest and violated hus
constitutional rights. Grier broke a rb
when lnglee sat on or somehow came
into contact with his chest, according
to Grier’s testimony.
The jury awarded 3! in damages to
Grier,
“AS a black man living in the United
States, I really fee! that we the black
pom have very little rights and now
know just how litte thase rights are,”
said Grier. “We find that one officer
violated my constitutional right which
is nes free irom excessive force
and i call that justice |
don't think ane '
Grier said be“agreed to settle the
case because there was a chance that
the jury would also rule in his favor in
the second portion of the trial but
again award no damages.
“Sul at issue was Grier’s Claims
that the officer's conduct resulted
martied to the former Mary | Ambulance personnel treat victim of an Albany released after thelr cars collided at the W trom city policy.” said Mark Mishier,
a4 and ts the father of four | secident Monday atterncon. James T. Toscano, ton inn on Washi Avenue, Toscano received selitinn Gee ee Grier. Those
He was educated at St. Paul | 34, of Schenectady, and Richard Mee, 22, of two tickets to Officer Jerry Zimmerman Policies, Grier's lawsuit alleged,
u@ School. LaSalle Institute, Aibany, were treeted at local hospitals and of the Albany Potice Deparunent, encouraged and tolerated abusive
behavior by officers towards Airican-
$2 School, Hudson Valley
ty College and the State
ty of New York Empire
lege
sDudlican opponent for Dis-
iS not Deen confirmed. Two
o> Carmella Mantelio made
secessful bid to unseat
ce bids
sislature
“@ director of the Lansing-
ovs & Girls Club, “A great
ags have changed over the
at { see our roie as more
ut today than ever before
nore people need help at any
t I became a legislator.”
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embiyman Neil W. Kelleher,
sed 013 Opposition to what he
he “Democratic tax and
satality.”
« eredit for pushing for i.
@ e@isle low taal wae sign
ae eat Your, oppemag Ube
sod COMEtruction plan of the
‘ty ul and fighung against a
wales (Ax Pele increase.
ef, Sapervisor of the Hudson
aunumty College payuical
a GOP prumary last Sep-
Albany man faces riot charges
By JOHN MORAN
Gazette Reporter
ALBANY — A outburst of obacen:-
ties directed at police led to a sear
riot as & crowd attempted to puil
police off a man they were arresung
in a fracas that injured two officers.
police said,
Troy Carpenter, 31, of 331 FirsrSt..
faces a series of charges including
three counts of felony assault for aj-
legedly striking two police officers,
and first-degree inciting a riot fol.
lowing the Saturday evening inci-
dent, according to police records
Police reports say two officers
were chasing a drug suspect on foot
through backyards when Carpenter
appeared and began yelling that the
officers had a0 right to run through
Scenities at the officers and said,
“Tm going te throw boiling water at
you,” according to the report.
The reports states the followiag
events then happened:
The crowd then turned on police
and pulled officers away from Car-
peater. Carpenter knocked the offi-
cers to the ground, injuring both of
them. Carpenter was thea appre-
hended.
Besides the assault and riot
charges, Carpenter was charged with
disorderly conduct, resi arrest,
aod criminal mischief, the report
states, He was also wanted on a bench
warrant for a parole violation, said
Sgt. John Fischer, head of the foot
trol outreach unit and Tierney and
irwan's supervisor.
Fischer said the officers were
treated and released from Albany
Memorial Hospital. Kirwan suffered
sweiling and a cut to his face aad cuts
to his arms, the report said. Tierney
received cuts to his arma.
There were no other arrests made
, m
Inglee and other police answered
calls of a street traw! between blacks
od whites Oct. 9, 1988 on Second
Street near Bleecker Stadiurn. Grier
beard the fight aad left his 70 Ontario
St bome to see what was happening,
accomding to trial testimony.
Grier, who is black, asked police
oificers why only blacks were being
arrested, according to the lawsuit. One
officer toki him to shut up and Grier
refused to do 90, citing his constiru-
tional might to free speech, according
© court records.
Somehow, Grier went under a car
and refused to come out when officers
tried to arrest him. The officers man-
aged to pull him out and Inglee broke
Grier’s rib trying to restrain him,
according to the laveruit,
Grier was arrested on assault and
disorderly conduct charges. The
charges were dismimed.
Lawyers for the city said the settie-
tment isn't an admission of wrongdo-
Unter
his yard. Carpenter screamed od- to 36 to 49 people ip the iocident, Fischer said. ing.
e y .
anel:
By JOHN MORAN
Gazette Reporter
ALBANY - The cousty Charter
Review Committee voted Monday to
me bei nt emmy pate:
ee &-
No major party
boy Democratically controlled
bel voted downs 4 motion by Repub-
Scan James Ross for term limita-
vous of three four-year terms on
county lawmakers. it also voted
Arimem BD nme! +00 ment ban tn, “-
equivalent” and Committee Chair.
woman Julie Denison said the com.
Mittee would get a legal clarification
would save more thea $200,900 a
[rar bY reducing the sive of the Legis.
are,
Colonie Democrat Robert Reilly
Teid the natu Newadis
1. Pedersen started work today
He wit inave into a house he
git in Luther Forest in Malta
with his wife, Naney, 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.
le 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 he.”
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.
Siz OL LAE FYOO Wall Cheat ra cate
predecessor, Samuel S. Stratton.
Federal Election Commission
records show McNulty, 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 MeNulty 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
funds came from private donors,
Struttua
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, MeNul-
ty ‘spent his
MeNulty
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,
Cfute Guriniltew, goof ute
chairmen of MeNulty’« campa,,
“It's a political comuutrer
the support of Albany County-<
didates, candidates of the Der
cratic party who are running
different local offices,” McN:
said.
But many local Democrats g
to McNulty as well, so that
some cases the mutual polit
goodwill partly cancels out.
For example, the Rensse
County Democrats gave McN
a total of $1,000 in 1989,
McNulty’s campaign gave |
$305, leaving him with a net
of $695,
The Schenectady County D:
crats received $300 from the
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 Charlies 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,
Ata press conference yesterday,
al District Coa ainst
eid and Macism, said his group
simmpty 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 hushand’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
inappropriate or immoral stances their
government takes,” said Simpson,
The coalition said the 100 prisoners
have lobbied for Native American
sovercignty, black liberation and Puerto
Itican independence. They also work
against racism, women's oppression and
nuclear weapons, i ;
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
lunged over the embankment near 214
forts Ferry Road at 9:42 p.m. Dodge lost
control of the ATY 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.
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 Saturday, 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 jnjuries were reported, The cause is
under Soh lg 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. ‘
Troy man faces
DWI charge
TROY - A Lansingburgh man faced
driving while intoxicated charges at his
Police Court appearance today.
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OCTANE OPPOSITION =» Tha awner of the Bonfare convenient store,
in Dackground, is seeking permission to put a gasoline purmp with six
monies in the
fv RATE GCURNETY
Garetie Reporter
ALTAMONT ~ Plans for a gare
Lite pump inthe willage bave rua inte
CPDOsition f°om residents Whe ta¥
tratlic w dad enough at the fiveway
imtersection ai the heart af the vil-
lage, where (ne pump would be focat-
ed
James C. Mercer. president of the
Bonfare chain. is seexing permission
$0 PUl 2 Zsroline pump With sik nos.
ties im the front parking los of we
convenience store at the correr of
Main Sitvet ard Altamont Boulevard
Mlercer seeds a permit from tbe Zon
img Board of Appeals
N.J. Woman
Dies in Crash
On Route 85
NEW SCOTLAND — A New Jersey
Wemia died in a one-car accident
yesterday alier shding on icy pave
trent On Houte 63 and crashing into a
tree, said Oeputies at the Albany
County Sheriff's Ovparunent.
Jeanneste C. Jancota, 21, of Eng
Liahtown was eastbound on Royte &$
at about 3.30 pm. when her 1987
prckup trucx het a pach of ime, said
deputies. Deputy Charies Raudoign
and Sat. Thomas Russo deiped free
Janedia trom tye truce,
She was taken to Albany Medicai
Center Hospital, where abe was pro
bounced dead at 4.46 pin, The New
Saiem Fire Department. Slingeriand
Rescue Squad and fice paramedics
from Guilderland responded.
front parking tot of the store in Altamont. Ketchurn's
Two stores currently operate gas
purips al the corner where Route
130, Prospect Terrace and Heider:
Derg Avenue join with Main Sireet
and AiLamont Boulevard. Ketchum 4
Service Station and the Stewart's
Shop have 10 and four noazies, re
spectively A fymerai home and
bulcher sop are also on the corner,
in the viilsge of about 1.100 peogie
Franchise owners Seian and Ed
Fiowton want the sx-norzie pump io
help them compete with Ketchurm’s
and Stewart's. Ther pian to reroute
CaM using (here purnp off Main Street
by forcong (hem to exit onto Altamont
Boulevard, which beads south out of
ta¢ village.
However residents who oppose the
plan say it will only increase walfic
congestion. And they fear the location
of the purnp, which they say would be
directly in hime with the Neate 146 hill
where \rucks have fost contrat in the
past and landed on the tpt where the
Proposed pamp would de located
“Theres a ume dSomb up there.”
said resident Ronald Ginsburg. "Peo
pia could Se hurt or killind. Five roads
eMpiy unto that intersection.” Ging
burg also said che pump may not be
200 fewt away from Use Altamont Vil
lage Park, a9 required by village
jaw
Bruce Robertson, a retired mem-
ber of (he Altamont Fire Department
and Altamont Rescue Squad, agreed.
“The whole corner is dad." be said,
“Any additional traffic would en-
danger the salety op here further
than what aw.”
During the 10 years be was on the
Pescue squad. @ number of accident
occurred in that area, Robertson said.
A Kaos man was killed when the
dumpsier truck he was driving lost its
bradcs and clipped a pole en the edge
District Gets $80,000
For At-Risk Students
By KATE GUANETT
Garetia Reporter
GUILDERLAND » The scneot
district has gotten an $40,000 gtantto
help siudents wane are doing poerty.
Last year, the aumber of high
Sdool dropouts in ibe distmet rose
SURKUY, to 31 Loom 24 the year be
fore. Fewer chase aiternauve high
85061 equiveiency programs last
teem, perseverance ond desire to
take risks, Said Insiructienal admia-
letrator Faith Seballacrom, whe is ia
charge of the grant.
The funds will alse be weed to add
programs for students at risk of fail-
ing, such as counseling for muidile
schoulers and summer sessions for
Kindergarten pupils, the said
Piccemet et emmeoree 28m Meme the
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Service Station currently Operates gasoline pumps at the corner where
Route 196, Prospect Tetrace and Helderberg Avenue join with Maus
Street and Altamont Boulevard,
of the convenient storey parking lot,
Years carter, a bay truck lost comtrot
and filed the parking lot of what was
then Crupe's Market with bay, be
said
In response to a request by the rem
denta, he Zoning Board of Appeais
~( Garetie Phota ~ Sid Brows )
Too Many Gas Pumps at Altamont Crossroads?
bas asked state Deparument of Trane
portation engineer TE. Danneay to
attend a Maren t board meeung to
discuss safety and tratlie concerns.
Boik DOT and the Albany County
Planning Board have approved ine
plana.
2-Family Home Ruined
In Fire in Watervliet
WATERVLIET — A malfenction
ing clothes dryer apparently Sparked
# fire that took firelienters tour sours
io get usder control aod destroved a
two-family home at Ti2 19a St oe
Saturday altersoon,
Fire Capt. Dansel Spratt said the
$2.29 p.m blaze lett taree aduits and
two childreo withest a place te live.
He also sad firefighters had prod
lems with the (ire becaase it wpread
(© a bard-imreact atuc area,
He said the clothes dryer was at the
rear of the second-floor aparunent of
Gail Slagslasks and Ser two dauga-
ters. The deshdang ot owned by James
LeCuyer and tus wile, whe live on the
lirst floor aad were ia Floreda at the
tana.
Siagstasks is the LeCuyers’
douguier,
Dutch Settiars Set
Meeting Tomorrow
ALBANY ~ The Dutch Settlers So
clety will hold Me mext oreetumg at 8
Home Maintenance
After the fire spread ta the siuc,
firetighiers dad to Lear the roof off in
order t get at the fire, said Spratt.
Twe adjaumog Duiidungs were not da-
Maged by ihe fire,
Three firelighters — Cagts,
Thomas Holmes and Edwin Ogden
and firefighter David Clickman ~
feteived vaneus iajuries.
Hoimes suilered smoke iakalauon
and laugue. Ogden received cums to
bas eye alter a cmling collapsed og
tum; Clickman was knocked down a
armitiia alter the rood collapsed on
Holmes #29 treated at Samaria
Hoapstai in Troy and released. Ogaen
was ireated at St. Mary's Hospitat ia
Troy and retrased. Clickman was
eves first ani a4 We scene.
COMMUNITY NOTES
aicohed awareness day on Saturday,
March J. from i te 4 p.m, The event
wilt be hetd at Village Hall, 2 Thea
der
Representatives (rom the town Pa
lice Department, ihe Hospitality
House drug-ireatment program, sod
Political
Prisoners
In U.S. Too,
Activists Say
By KATE GURNETT
Gazette Reporter
ALBANY — While President Bush
is ismuing dinner invitations — mont
recently to former South African por
lives! prisoner Nelson Mandela -
the (semuly and friends of Herman 8
Ferguson would like the country to
hoow about asother elderly Black
Man Uey say ia in being held in prison
because of his political activities,
Ferguson, a 69-year-old former a>
SLAM principal and black activer:
fram Jamaica, Queens, was jarted
last year when be returned to we
United States to clear tus name alter
a 19-year exile in Guyana, Souths
Amenca, Supporters say he was one
Of many activists Largeted unjustly in
Whe 19608 by COINTELPRO ~ ie
FBI program set wp to intilteate crv:i
rights aad AlroAmeri¢an activist
groups.
Ferguson was arrested in 1947 soc
Sentenced te Jhe to seven years in
prison along with Arthur Marne for
coaspirimg to hill moderate civi)
rights leaders Roy Wilkins and Whit
ney Young. Harris remains in exile
“To me it was astounding that they
could come vp win suck charges ”
said Ferguson's wile, lyaiuua Fergu-
80m, who ipebe at a ferurn on political
isoners yesterday at the Tempie
sh E} im Altany,
Kin og
tant and member of the Revoiuuos
ary Actiio@ Mavemest whe once
chained humsell to 4 crane Wo protes:
the use of eoa-ingal white labor io
buald apartment complexes ws diack
Serghdorhewnds, afte suller physical
aod menial torture or are given
longer pruem sentences than other
convicta sad Joas Cibbs, a lawyer
with the Center for Constuuiena:
Rights ia New York Ciy. More thar
109 Afto-American, Indian anc
women's ghia acuviats are io jad ic
the United States, she said,
Awareness of political imorison
ment is “eatra unportant sow,” 291
Gidbs, “because greater world atten
hoa is being focused on pobucal prio
ners. These mean and wome
chailenge the image that Lee US.
truly humane and democratic to
ciety.”
COINTELPRO was “a prograr
that involved gross vielations of ¢1+
and humae MgAts sod was discrec:
od by Congremnonal iovestiqauon,”
jatler writtes on behalf of Fergus
by U.S Rep. Charles B. Rangel stares
Ferguson 3 caust w aise supported ©
Assemblymen Roger Green and ©
Vana and state inators David Patic:
son aad Aadrew Jenkins.
A clemency request to Gov. Mar
M. Cusme for Fergusea last year w.
mot (ulfiled. Mrs Fergusan said a
porters will apply again io Apr
"We were living io a ume of gre
hysteria... [when] Black Pani:
pay members were gunned down
thety beda. Herman did sot fee!
Was gong te Come out of sai) alive
Mra Ferguase said. explavung 4
busOand’s Might to Cuyana a 1970
Sioce kus return aed incarcerat:
ie Apr 1999, Fergusoa said, her hs
Sand has hewn mowed 18 Urnes (rx
one pripen te another. "That in its.
le haragemnens.”
*Peopie ally applaud -
release of Nelson Mandela a
they're met talueg about the situa:
that enssts here. Theretore (14) «
worse than Semh Aires, becausy
acdsee (e denag wha Uhey are.
dame tars,” aed ihe Rev. Lawre
Lucas, setber of “Biack Priest 4?
Churca,” aad of the Reaury
LO pittance thy sacm Beeurpery
, A trong incentive, of course, Bul
“J even then only three of thet five
members of the Town Roard were in
favor of creating the district. The
supervisor wanted the proposed dis:
trict’s views before casting his vote
So Jast week there were two days
of straw votes, and the surprising
result is that the affected citizenry ts
more socially conscious than the
Town Board. The vote was 104 to 42
for the creation of the district, which
means those voting in favor were
the enmational scars of thowe wha
served there
Parson labeled the trip a “psy:
chological tour of duty.”
“Many groups have returned
bul for reasons other than ours,”
he said. "Our reason to go back
. was lo overcome the traumns
of the war”
The participants were careful:
ly “sereened to make sure they
could tolerate the hind of stress
that is produced ly going back to
policy has worked, MeGrath said the
city has not received aay more flr”
{| money than tt hat always been
entitled to under Vehicle and Traffic
Law,
The amount of fine money collec:
| ed by the city has doubled, but so
too, have the number of traffic
tickets issued by police officer
MeGrath said
What has happened is that the city
no jonger imposes a surcharge:
against speeders, a policy that cosi
MNELIVING THE
PAST — Erwin A
Parson at work in tis
Guideniand home,
above, and, at rqnt,
ahqhtng from a heh-
copter at a Vietnam
ey
dpeake the
asking for an increase in their own
taxes of $200 to $300 a year.
This is no small consideration, and
it ts money that is behind the entire
foot dragging sewer sysiem problem
in Warrensburg. One incredibly con-
servative Town Board after another
has made a full-time hobby of
avoiding the letter and spirit of the
law by pledging not to spend a nickel
it wasn't forced to. Stale agencies
charged with enforcing the political-
ly unpopular environmental laws
have let them get away with H, often
because the message from their own
top officials was mixed, or worse.
Ultimately, sewage has remained
sewage, and the law the law. The
foot dragging has not done the town
any favors at all, because what is
now a $4.7 million project, with state
and federal aid down around 40
percent to $0 percent, was a fraction
of that 16 years ago ~~ with ald close
to 90 percent.
$0, Warrensburg has some catch-
ing up to do, a3 the town Is well
aware, The sewer district is only a
eae of it, because the same fiscal
ad-in-the-sand policy is coming
home to roost in two other signifi
cant areas: schools and the lown
landfill.
The state Education Department
has put the school district on notice
for physical piant violations. Aa @
result, the district, which is aome-
what biggest than the jowa of
Warrensburg, faces # $4 million bond
vote, Last year, district voters
turned down a $68 million proposal.
And, the town landfill ~ siready
higher than a telephone pole — faces
$1.4 million closure costs, probably
within @ year,
To say yes to new taxes at the
moment is indeed a brave thing to
Go 36. oo | mp, twe coeee for
Warrensburg. We'll withheld the
third cheer ewanag | completion of
the project, since Warrensburg has
shown there can be many a slip
‘twint straw vote and sewer system.
They've been on the right track
before and wandered off.
Now, we can fdeus atiention on
those of battlefields,” he said
See RETURN / 8-5
2 seek to ease burden of other nurse veterans
served in the war live and work in the Capital |
Dastriet, said Cate Negan, a readjustment and
counseling therapist.
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
surviver guilt, depression of post-traumatic
stress disorder. Years tater, the women might
still he haunted by sexual harassment they
were exposed to in the military, Regan said
By Michael Lopez
Stall weiter
ALBANY — Judi Scott and Shirley M. Wilson
found out by chance (hat cach had served in the
Vietnam War,
A stray, now-forgotion remark, something
only a military nurse would know, got the two
Russell Sage graduate students talking about
their wartime service
it was a relief to talk about the memories,
such a relief, in fact, that Scott and Wilson
decided to find other Vietnam-era nurses and
help them “put some of (hose ghosts to rest,”
Scott sard,
Their support group ~ the first in the Capital
Histriet for Vietnanvera nurses — is meant to
help the women overcome the shame, guilt and
other problems, such as depression, they may
feel as a result of their service in the war
The group will meet at 6.30 pm. Wednesday
in the Vet Center and Readjustment Counseling
Services at 875 Central Ave. Hf the first meeting
{ails to draw people, Wilson said she and Scott
will keep trying to reach vetoran nurses and
schedule alternative meeting dates.
it'y difficult to soy how many nurses who
War battle site.
See NURSES / 8-5
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piped into the Hudson, and
helow that, which has @ broken-down
primary treatment system that
wight as well not exist.
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Court order prohibits
| publicizing documents
Queensbury Town Hall dispute
By John Caher
Strait wrter
The Warren County town of
Queensbury and two firms involved
in the dusign and construction of its
expanded Town Hall ard embrotted
in a bitter lawsull that could Involve
millions of dollars in public funds.
Recause of a court order, which
forbids Wugants from sharing duce
ments with anyone not involved in
the lawsuit or countersull, attorneys
say they are afraid to discuss the
case publicly,
The case involves Saratoga Asso-
tlatex, a Saratoga Springs architec:
tural firm that had been hired to
design the new Queensbury Conter
and an eddition to the adjacent town
athee building. Saratoga Associates
and the tuwn squabbied over the
design and another firm, Rist-Frost
Associates of Glens Falls, was hired
io finish the job.
In December 1988, Saratoga Assxo-
viates sued the town, the Town
Board and Adirendack Construction
Co, the cuntractor for the new town
facilities. Saratoga Associates
sevking $41,680 29, which It claims it
ig owed for its work, It alsa seeks 51
mittion in gencral damages, alleging
that the town “intentionally, mali-
chousty and without reasonable justt-
fication interfer with the cone
tract.”
Nearly a year later, the town
eountersued Saratoga Associates,
blaniing the architectural firm for
alleged design problems. Around the
saine time, town Supervisor Stephen
J. Borgus proposed building a whole
new government complex.
The issues in the lawsult. are
ding in a state Supreme Court
action before Justice John G. Dier of
Glens Falls, Tut a side issue has
janded the matier before an appel-
jate court,
During a conference on Jan. 24,
Diet agreed tu prohibit disclosure of
case-related documents to, anyone
not involved im the hitigation. His
arder states, “Said documents and
See COURT / 1-5
the state at least $100,000 last yea:
according to estimates provided t
MeGrath.
Of the approximately 11,000 tick
ets issued by Troy police officers !s
year, between 69 percent and .
percent were for speeding, accordiny
to MeGrath. That means Mc(irat!
waived the M7 surcharge more tha
6,000 Limes,
MeGrath said he stopped imposin;
the fine because it only applies |.
violations of Vehicle and Traflie
Law. There is no such requiremen:
for tickets written under Jocal tralty
laws, he added.
“My interpretation of the lav ts i:
dowsn't apply,” he said. “I'm not
going to read into the statute.”
McGrath said he’ did receive a
copy of a memo from the static
complrolter’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, he said.
Mary de Rourbon, a spokeswoman
for the state Office of Court Admin.
istration, said she was not familiar
with the twsue, The office collects
fines and surcharges from municipal
courts.
Estabilshed in 1982 as an econon:
ie sanction againal people convicted
vf felonies and misdemeanors, the
surcharge program was expanded 4
year tater to include trafic tay
violators. Seen as #8 way of increas
ing stale revenues, the program hy
pot lived vp te its potential, accor!
ing (o a state comptrolter’s audit.
Approximately $13 million in
traihe surcharges was not collecten
by the slate, according to the audit
whieh examined the program be
tween 1985 and 1947. The compiro!
jer’s office blamed the problem on
the failure of motorists to answer
summonses and the lailure of arrest:
ing officers to appear in court,
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By Jay Jochnowilz
Stat wister
ALBANY -- Demonstrators gathered on the steps of
City Hall Monday to protest alleged police brutality and
announce a mecting 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, Date is expected to be
confronted with demands that the department end the
alleged use of excessive force and racial profiles in
targeting drug suspecis,
The coalition said it will further press Dale to support
an independent civilian review board which would have
the power {o Investigate allegations of police berulality
and misconduct and make recommendations on discipli-
nary action.
“We should be able to hold the police accountable for
what they do,” said coalition tepresentative Vickie
* Smith, whe also serves on the city's Polive-Commumnity
Relations Board. About three-dozen people aliended the
tally.
The coalition also is expected to ask Dale to
investigale one narcotics detective who has been dubbed
“Batman™ for his alleged use of a baseball bat during
interrogations. The officer, identified as Kenneth Sutton
of the departinent’s Special Investigations Unit by
Albany defense attorney Terrence Kindion, apparently
earned the name from a complaint filed last year.
Sutton, Kindon said, was cited in an Internal Altairs
complaint made by Robert Butler, a man siopped for
questioning last Septernber. Butler maintained in the
complaint that Sutton hit him with a bat and he required
matical atlention
Buller was later charged with striking police officers
Colonie gets fewer recyclables than expected
police chief next week
Police spokesman Sgt. Nobert Wollgang was untamil-
jar with the allegations. “I don't know anyone who har
been referred to as (Datman) nor do | know of anyone
who's involved in that type of activity,” he said.
Wolfgang also disputed the coalition's claim that the
depariment cannot investigate its own, “It's our
contention that we do thoroughly investigate any
complaints that are brought to us and take a late
action if any misconduct is uncovered,” sald Wolfgang.
At the rally, Smith and others repeated assertions thal
tice, particularly in the department's detective and
pecial Investigations Unit, Systematically have beon
targeting and abusing minorities,
Alice Green, head of the Aibany office of the New York
Civil Liberties Union, aceused police of treating blacks
“as animals” and cited routine searches and arrests of
blacks and Hispanids at the Greyhound bus terminal
downtown. “The sad thing is that the community has not
become outraged” she said,
Several people gave accounts of incidents of abuse,
among them Marjorie Sinums, the mother of a black man
who said her son was beaten during an arrest on drug
charges that would later be dropped.
Simins’ son, McKinley Uranch Jr, 23. was arrested
Nov. 10 on North Swan Street on drug charges after he
allegedly gave a quantity of cocaine to a i4-year-old
earlier in the day. Branch also allegedly flailed at
narcotics officers and was charged with resisting arrest
and obstruction of governmental administration,
Bul ihe charges were later reduced to a non criminal
count of disorderly conduct, said Uranch's atiorney,
Alack Mishier,
Police acknowledged Branch sustained a lump on top
of his head during his apprehension, Stating in their
arrest report they used a “reasonable amount of force”
te take him into custody. Mishler said Branch has filed a
notice of claim signaling his intent to sue the cily,
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Driver listed serious after accident
An 18-year-old Latharn man was listed in serious
By Vincent Jackson
Sat weeter
COLONIE — Town residents are participating
in a five-month-old voluntary recycling program
at less than expected levels.
Gilicials anticipated that after each month of
operation, | percent of residential waste in the
town would be diverted from the town fandiill for
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
{8 collection stations.
By December, 3 percent of the residential trash
was being kept out the landfill, which equalled 250
10 770 tons of material Since then, the growth in
the program has been flat.
“The rate of increase has not been there in
tither it has not been conveyed effectively enough
thal the voluntary program has started, or there's
a lack of understanding how it works.
The voluntary recycling program started last
Sept. 17, and was preceeded by TY commercials
featuring Colonie Town Supervisor Fred Field
and a mass mailing bo every household.
“Part of the difficully fs that people nced to
bring these things to a location,” said Gerald
Magnes, the Shaker Hidge:Viy Hoad Neighbor.
hood Association president. “It takes a special
effort, at least that's my observation.”
Magnes said the yard waste program gets
better cooperation from residents because they do
not have to leave their homes to participate.
The voluntary recycling program works on the
principle that residents will bring their recyclable
material to a drop-off location that has specific
lunes for collection.
“At our last board meeting. we did express
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 programm.”
Stockbridge said there are plans to have an
education campaign about recycling in the
schools within the town,
There have also been discussions to increase
awareness through placing something on town
bills or envelopes thal are mailed to residents.
The mailing that will be sent oul next month
about (he town yard waste program may include
information about the voluntary recycling pre-
gram, according to Stockbridge
Town officiats have undertaken the voluntary
recycling effort lo keep residential waste from
filling up the town landfill
A inandatory program is scheduled to siart in
July, and more residents are expected to make
use of { because the recyclables will be picked up
at curbside,
condition in Albany Medical Center Hospital Monday afier the all-
terrain vehicle he was driving on Forts Ferry Road went eut of control
and ran down an embankment, authorities said,
Christopher M. Dodge of 36 Brookwood Drive was being treated in
the intensive-care unit aller the Sunday night accident that also left a
passenger on the ATV, Cory Van Bergen, with minor injuries. Van
Bergen, 16, also of Latham, was not hospitalized, police said.
Neither Dodge nor Van Bergen was wearing helmets when the
wesibound vehicle failed to negotiate a turn near 214 Forts Ferry Road,
Colonie police sald the investigation by Sgt. Joseph P. Fitzsimmons
and Investigator D.A. Mesick is continuing.
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‘| a protest of alleged police brutality in Albany. At left, in glasses, is Vickie Smith of the Capi-
» tal District Coalition Against: Apartheid and Racism, who is also a member of the City of
# 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 organized by
tT the Coalition. Coalition representatives will meet next week with Albany Police Chief Jotn
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State union gay:
to political camry.
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 cammittees 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, $10,7
to the Republican New \
Senate Campaign Comn
GOP, which controls
Senate, is expected to gi
fight this year from LD:
who need just four seat:
turn the Republican maj:
PEF also contributed
the Democratic Senate |
Committee, just in case.
Other large contribut:
to the Democratic Asser
paign Committee ($7,00:
Republican Assembly |
committees ($6,250).
Locally, State Sen. Jo
no, R-Brunswick, and Se:
Farley, R-Niskayuna, we
the legislators who rec
highest contributions tc
als from PEF in 1989,
$1,000 apiece.
Other local lawmak:
PEF contributions
Assemblyman Neil Ke
Troy ($500); Assemblyr
Tedisco, R-Schenecta:
New superinten de
Have You Met Albany's own
BATMAN
TUCCTCCT?T
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
ot
Monday Feb.19 1:00 pm
Albany City Hall
(corner of Washington & Eag gle) us
For more information Contact Mentanom
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If the continuing pattem of police abuse is to be STOPPesL, Fi) Senne 0) Medi must demand that the city
take immediate steps to Stop police violence. The alleged wrongdoing by the Albany Police Department's
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 beoten by an officer with a basebail bot and injured so
badly that he had to be transported by ambulance from the police station to Albany
Medical Canter;
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 intemal 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 clieges that he was severely beaten and kicked by
officers ond taunted 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 aileges 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 jailed for six
months in an incident in volving the use of a portable toilet on a city street;
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. The city has simply 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,
discovered;
> An independent civilian review board must be established immediately to hear complaints 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;
> The community must be permitted significant involvement in the development and implementation ofa
real pian to combat drugs;
> Medical treatment and substance-abuse treatment should be made available to anyone who requests it;
> Minorities and women must be sought out in order to have a more representative police force.
& We must work in cooperation with law enforcement authorities to eradicate drugs from the community
and build working relations between the police and the community. ;
The Capital District Coalition Against Apartheid & Ro
Box 3002 - Pine Hills Station: Albany, New York
Monday, May 4, 1992
mre apenntnsern mans
Arthur J. Clayman
ditorial Page Editor
gst
‘dize emergency response
able that aldermen are
y more than called for in
cap has proven popular
22 percent already consti-
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e way or the other, the day
ayed much longer. (Thurs-
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middle of June, aldermen
the following to deal with
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imore, borrow (as the city
bail itself out of a similar
th some other significant
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is, and there is always the
f course.
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wand June 15.
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
SHE ic Alicd ALE od
Strock’s ignorance s
In his April 16 column, Carl Strock
offers his observations on the April
13 Page Hall lecture by Dr. Leonard
Jeffries. The column illustrates a
number of the problerns which have
plagued the coverage of Dr. Jeffries
since his lecture at last July’s Em-
tre State Black Arts and Cultural
estival in Albany.
To his credit, Strock states, ‘'I
r came away convinced he is not par-
ticularly anti-Semitic or anti-Italian,
and I believe he has gotten a bum rap
in that regard.”
Unfortunately, whatever objectiv-
ity which might be attributed to Mr.
Strock based on the previous quote is
f constables to take effec- | placed in doubt by his very next
antime does nothing to
i deterrent.
be to authorize the consta-
two who are also peace
ests, but town authorities
do so. Former Supervisor
‘e were concerned about
uy or a young kid into a
tagers.”
why not create a police
‘ficers who can take action
les, as well as protect the
we aerione crimes? New
statement referring to Dr. Jeffries:
“He is certainly anti-white, which I
believe he would grant, but if he
makes any distinction among whites,
it ls on the basis of their money and
power and not their religion or na-
tional origin."
To state (rather matter of factly)
that Dr, Jeffries is “anti-white” and
that he would “grant” that borders on
libel. Dr. Jeffries was scrupulous
about pointing out that he is not anti-
white or antl-any other group of peo-
ple inherently.
In the next-to-last paragraph,
Strock says, “It was all kind of pa-
thetic really, reminiscent to me of
the Sioux Ghost Dances of the 19th
Century, after ped poy had been
all but destroyed, it would not be
worth commenting on if Mr. Jeffries
were not being paid good money to
teach young people at a public uni-
versity.”
Mr. Strock’s comments were di-
rectly related to Dr. Jeffries pouring
As a resident of Feura Bush and a
member of the neighborhood associa-
tion, I would like to correct some
misconceptions that may have arisen
about an April 3 dog attack on a child
in the town and subsequent efforts by
neighbors to do something about it.
| Hold owners of vicious animals liable
tirely appropriete for the town to ad-
dress the matter of vicious dogs for
example, by defining what sort of be-
havior can cause a dog to be officially
labeled vicious, and what the owner
should be expected to do to protect
the public from the animal and vice
verea Revnnd that the town naade tn
howed on Jeffries column
of libation, “as Africans do”; however
the comments also seem to summa-
rize his net assessment of what Dr.
Jeffries hadtosay. . ve?
What is problematic about Mr.
Strock and so many of the other com-
mentators on Dr. Jeffries is his either
lack of knowledge or lack of under-
standing of history and culture or
both. ;
The point is that it is at best igno-.
rant and at worst racist for an indi-
vidual who is not a scholar to believe.
they can make meaningful commen-
tary regarding a scholary treatment
of a topic. 5 eek
president of the Student Coalition.
Against Apartheid and Racism.
For term limits 3
Term limits for elected officials,
are being considered by election re-
formers, who want to break up the
concentration of power inherent ir
incumbency. These limits would
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big at SUNY
I hied myself over to Albany the
other day, to the state university,
to catch a lecture by Leonard Jef-
fries, the professor of African- -
American Studies at the City Uni-
versity of New York who recently
lost his chairmanship of that de-
partment because of remarks he
made that offended many Jews
and Italians, and I must say I was
surprised.
Thad expected a dose of anti-Se-
mitic invective, and I got no such
thing. After Listening to the good
professor — ‘master teacher and
supreme scholar,” as he ingen-
uously refers to himself — for two
hours and 20 minutes, I came
away convinced he is not particu.
larly anti-Semitic or anti-Italian,
Or to put it another way, he is
what I would call a
fantasist. That's
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“Africans create, Europeans
imitate,” as he put it, to
tive applause. “Africans created
ne Hem: and Eerepeane Sunt to
i had heard mention of Profes-
ee advancing a theory of
ent “ice people” and Africans
being warm, “gun people”
and wondered if ps some off-
hand remarks had been lifted out
of context, but not at all. That's his
theory, all ,
ed around cave development" —
mere survival — and the Euro-
pean environment was one of
‘domination, destrection, death,”
and the pty ape value system
je ve still is, characterized by
“Iodividualism, “ee
The sun people of Africa, mean-
while, developed a culture that is
“communal, cooperative, collec-
tive.”
So there he was, master teacher
and supreme scholar, after arriv-
ing an hour late without explana-
poy or apology. Leonard ero
of New Jersey, sweeping in at last
in his African cannes ~~ es
cap, sow on the stage o
Page Hall before an adrniring au-
dience of young blacks telling
them their ancestors had “laid the
foundations of human culture,” fa-
miliarly referring to an Egyptian
haroah as a ‘beautiful black
other,” denouncing mantra-like.
“rich white men with property
and power,” and asking rbetori-
cally, “Do you realize what they
have taken from you?”
There he was ridiculing the
“Founding Father bastards’ of
the United States and telling his
audience, “It's your blackness that
makes you first and foremost in
the human family.”
There he was greeting the audi-
ence with “Hotep!” which he told
us meant “peace” in “the ancient
African of the Nile,” and asking to
be greeted thus himself. There he
was telling us he had been made a
chief of the Shana people in West
There he was pouring water on
the stage, in libation, as Africans
do, in name of those Africans
who founded civilization in the
Nile Valley.
It was all kind of pathetic
really, reminiscent to me of the
century, after those people had
been all eo destroyed, and it
would sot be worth commenting
on if Mr. Jeffries were not being
young
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NATIONAL ALLIANCE AGAINST RAC!
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& POLITICAL REPRESSION
VOLUME XX NO. 1 i JANUARY-MARCH 1993
Public presses to stop police crimes
Around the country civilians are speak
ing out and Organizing to make police de-
partments responsive to the people they
serve as incidents of police brutalitv and
abuse increase
A wide assortment of solutions are being
advanced from civilian complaint review
boards to civilian control boards. What fol
lows is but a sampling of the activities swell
ing the nation
ALBANY, NY
A SAFE (Safety, Accountability and Fair
Enforcement) Coalition has been initiated
by the Capital Region Chapter of the New
York Civil Liberties Union. The coalition is
uming to Create an effective. independent
investigation and review process for allega
ions Of police misconduct. The coalition is
seeking to establish a permanent, autono-
mous body that will receive complaints
against individual police officers: empioy
independent investigators: have subpoena
power fo compel testimony and the pro-
duction of documents: hold hearings with
procedural safeguards; determine discipline
for police officers found responsible for
misconduct, and reinstate Community con-
fidence in the police department. The coali
Won has stated that police accountability to
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membership
NAARPR members have received
their forms to renew their member-
ship for 1993. Take a moment to re-
new today if you haven't done so. If
you're not a member, join today and/
or send a contribution to keep the
NAARPR in the thick of the battles
against racist and political repression.
bene —
the public is sacrificed when police are put
in the position of policing themselves
through internal review of police miscon-
duct. Among the members of SAFE are
Merton Simpson, Mark Mishler and Gail
Byrnes of the Capital District Coalition
Against Apartheid and Racism, an affiliate
to the NAARPR
BALTIMORE
Discussions are underway among com:
muruty Organizations to form a city-wide
coalition to build support for civilian con
trol of the police. The discussions came in
the aftermath of City Council hearings on
November 17, 1992 on a resolution entitled
‘Police Department Citizens Review Board.”
The resolution was introduced in May, 1992
by Councilmember Lawrence Bell. It calls
for a nine member board of which seven
will be appointed by the mayor and con-
firmed by City Council. The other two would
be appointed by the police. Of the 84 re.
cent complaints of excessive police force
81 were dismissed by the police's Intemal
Investigating Division Community activist
Charles Dugger pointed to the Booker Jones
case where Jones was shot eleven times
and killed by a battery of police, as he held a
knife. He also cited the police killing of a
blind grandmother. Herb Singleton, speak
Continued on page 4
Birmingham’s Mayor Arrington
to be honored in Detroit at
20th Anniversary Conference
Mayor Richard Arrington of Birmingham,
Alabama will receive the 20th Anruversary
Human Rights Award and keynote the 20th
Anniversary Celebration and Banquet, which
will close the NAARPR's national confer.
ence on Sunday, May 2 in Detroit
Mayor Arrington was first elected mayor
in 1979 after he led a campaign against
police brutality. He was most recently re-
elected in a landslide in 1991 despite a
campaign by federal prosecutors in the
Reagan and Bush administrations to entrap
him on a variety of phoney changes.
The conference will be held April 30.
May 2 in the St. Regis Hotel.
Conference participants will include
people who are involved in struggles against
police crimes, anti-hate crimes activists, ad-
vocates for freeing political prisoners, in
addition to legal experts, elected officials
and clergy.
For more information see page 3.
Mayor Richard Arrington, Jr
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| NAARPR Officers and |
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Executive Board
Chairpersons
| Anne Braden
| Southern Organizing Committee
| for Economie and Social Justice
Angela Davis
Atty. Lennox Hinds
Vice-Chairpersons
| Marshall Garcia
| Local 1199
| Hospital Workers Union
| Judge Claudia Morcom
' American Association of Jurists
| Treasurer
| Atty. James Drew
| General Counsel
| Atty. Lennox Hinds
| Executive Director
| Charlene Mitchell
_ Executive Board
Atty. Adjoa Aiyetoro
National Conference of Biack Lawyers
Merulrine Anthony
NAARPR Branch, Birmingham, Al
_ Carlos Arango
United Network for immigrant &
Refugee Rights
Atty. Charles Brown
National Lawyers Guild
Norma Chandler
Or. Mary Charison
Atty. Bruce Ellison
Leonard Peitier Defense Committee
James Hogue
NAARPR Branch, Perry County, AL
Mattie Jones
Fellowship of Reconciliation
Katherine Jordan
NAARAPR Branch, Rochester, NY
Coraminita Mahr
Local 1199
Hospital Workers Linion
Prof, Mari Matsuda
Richard Metcalf
_ Amaigamated Clothing & Textile
| Workers Union, AFL-CIO
| Bonita Phinney
NAARPR Branch, Baltimore, MD
| Judge Roy Roulhac
NAARPR Branch, Detroit, Mi
Dr. James Tate
NAARPR Branch, Las Vegas, NV
Pamela Talley
NAARPR Branch, St. Louis, MO
Frances Thomas
NAARPR Branch, Louisville, KY
Atty. Opie Toure
NAARPR Branch, Oklahoma City, OK
Mildred Williarns
NAARPR Branch, Gadsden, AL
Josephine Wyatt
NAARPR Branch, Chicago Il.
Organizations for identification onty
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JANUARY-MARCH 1993
EDITORIAL
The NAARPR—now
more than ever!
Two years after the founding of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political
Repression, trade union leader and NAARPR Co-Chair Abe Feinglass told Alliance
conference participants that “I am sure there are a number of important people in this
country who could see no reason for the kind of meeting we hold here today.
Repression—there is no need to be concerned about that—the Constitution of the
United States fully protects basic liberties. Racism—why agitate about that when laws
in the statute books and decisions of federal courts have declared this evil out of
existence?”
Feinglass went on to detail the problems of mounting racism and repression in the
country and thereby made a convincing argument for why the NAARPR was needed,
He summed up, “The attack, whether it takes the form of racism or repression or
outright economic robbery, is directed against us all. It can be overcome—it will be
overcome -—by a new unity and even firmer resistance from all our people.
“But these are mere words unless accompanied by an organized, dedicated effort
to rally all sections of the people who are affected by all forms of repression.”
Feinglass's stirring words to NAARPR members, associates and friends in 1975 rings
ever so true today.
There is new hope in the country in the aftermath of the ouster of 12 years of right-
wing Republican rule from the Oval Office. But, the road ahead is fraught with
renewed dangers from the ultra-right and those who unwittingly will try to appease
the ultra-right.
in our 20 years of existence, Frederick Douglass's words that “without struggle
there can be no progress,” have been reaffirmed a hundred fold. And as our organiza-
tion noted immediately after the 1992 elections, the heat will have to be turned up on
the incoming Clinton administration during its first 100 days to help set the tone for
the next four years.
Clinton already lashed out against women’s leaders who merely demanded that he
keep his promises and deliver a cabinet that is reflective of the U.S.
While it is true that human rights activists will have greater access to Clinton than
we did with Bush, what good is it to have a foot inside the door if that foot is stepped
on as bad policies are drawn up?
It will be an uphill battle with this administration on abolishing the death penalty,
because Clinton favors it. It will be an uphill battle with this administration on curbing
police crimes, because Clinton favors stronger police. We will have many uphill”
battles. But, with a more organized and mobilized NAARPR, we will have a greater
ability to sail uphill and win some of these crucial battles.
Civilian control of the police from the local level to the federal level is winnabie.
Enforcement of the Proxmire Anti-Genocide Law is winnable. Release from prison for
COINTELPRO victims, starting with Leonard Peltier, is winnable. A moratorium on
executions is winnable.
But we can't win if we don't engage in the battles in the board rooms, court rooms
and streets. Working out winning strategies will be one of the significant contribu-
tions we can make in our 20th anniversary conference preparations and at the
conference.
THE CENTER FOR LAW & JUSTICE, INC.
COMMUNITY ACTION AGAINST RACISM & VIOLENCE PROGRAM
PROJECT UPDATE
Capital District Black Bar Association Study on Minority Group Participation
in the The Jury System
Several events in 1992, particularly the Rodney King incident in California
and the Vada Hoggs case in Schenectady, have prompted the Capital District
Black Bar Association (CDBBA) to analyze why so few Blacks and Latinos are
Serving on juries throughout New York State.
The study titled: How Far Have We Come Since The Magna Carta: Jury of our
Peers, Minorities and the Third And Fourth Judicial Districts, offers a number
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of recommendations. Among the major recommendations of the report are;
that the Office of Court Administration increase the source of names of Blacks
and Latinos, by using social services, unemployment, utility, telephone,
high school, and naturalized citizen lists; that judges deter attorneys from
using racially motivated peremptory challenges; that residents of Black and
Latino communities pursue jury registration rigorously and use creative
methods of distributing jury registration forms; that an optional question
be added to the jury questionnaire asking racial identity (this information
should be used solely for statistical purposes); that the Legislature analyze
the fiscal implications of increasing the jury fee or directing employers
CO pay for employees jury service; and that the justice system consider day
care options for primary care takers so that they can serve on juries,
The major work on this report was done by: Randy Treece, Ralph Byrd (Center
Board Member), Robert Balachandran, Onnie L. Barnes, Sharon Bowles, Albert
Brooks and Michael Sims.
Jessie Davis Memorial Fund
On July 8, 1984, Jesse Davis, a Black resident of Arbor Hill was shot and
killed by police officers who claimed that Mr. Davis threatened them with
a knife and fork.
A photo taken by George Venter, an Albany police officer who came on the
Scene minutes after the shooting, shows no knife and fork. Instead Jessie
Davis is pictured with a toy truck and key case in his hands as he lay dying.
The photograph, which was in police files, has raised doubts as to whether
Jesse Davis ever had a knife and fork. A member of the Grand Jury that
investigated the Shooting said that the jury was never shown the picture
of Mr. Davis. The juror also claims that the Albany County District attorney
acted more like a defense counsel for police,
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Currently, Mr. Davis’ sister, Louise Thornton, is pursuing a civil law suit.
Her lawyer, Mr. Lewis B. Oliver, has filed both a Federal and State civil
rights abuse and wrongful death lawsuit, naming the City and the Albany Police
Department as defendants. The civil trial is the only way to satisfactorily
determine what happened in the Davis apartment. Since Mr. Davis is obviously
not alive to help in. the reconstruction of those events there must be a costly
analysis made by experts. These donations are tax deductible and may be
made to: The Jesse Davis Fund c/o The Center for Law & Justice, Inc., Pine
West Plaza, Building 2, Washington Avenue Extension, Albany, NY 12205.
The Center for Law & Justice Study of Alternative to Incarceration Programs
in Albany County
The Center for Law & Justice set out in August of 1992 to complete a smal]
study concerning state, county, and municipally-funded alternative to
Incarceration Programs in Albany County. Among the informational areas
included in the study were: geographic area serviced by the program, primary
funding sources, referral sources, entrance requirements for clients; 1991
data on the racial and ethnic composition, gender, and age of both clients
and program staff; the programs affirmative action policy regarding services
to minority clients; and the program's affirmative action statement concerning
the hiring of minorities.
The agencies included in the Study were: Albany County Probation, Albany
County ROR/RUS Program (Release on Recognizance/Release Under Supervision)
a Pre-Trial Release Program; Alterative Sentencing Program; Reverend Peter
G. Young Center (Altamount House); Honor Court Program; TASC Program of the
Capital District (Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime); Albany County
ISP Program (Intensive Supervision Program); and Community Service Sentencing
Program.
Through out the data gathering process for this project, it became readily
apparent that certain agencies were not only apprehensive about providing
the Center with the information requested, but they were also actively
circumventing the Center's request for information. Although virtually all
the information requested from the various agencies falls under the auspices
of the Freedom of Information act, and therefore open to public scrutiny,
Several agencies balked at Providing the information which the Center
requested either verbally or in writing. As a result of the poor overall
response rate, the study is incomplete at this time. Whether through the
Center or some other group that study needs to be completed. The lack of
data collection and maintenance by most of the groups in this study is a
clear indication of bad faith and the overall lack of cooperation may signify
a desire of some agencies to cover up their lack of efficacy. It should
be noted that TASC was very cooperative and appears to be a viable program.
The research on this project was done by Mr. Andrew Feverhorn.
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Child Care Facilities in Courts Project
At the April 11, 1992 Community Conference on Racial Bias in Policing and
the Courts (presented by The Center for Law & Justice), residents of the
Capital District made it clear that there is a need for child care facilities
in courts so that parents will have easier, more effective and more dignified
access to Justice, At the Conference, people related their experiences of
being in the Albany County Family Court with their children and having court
officers rudely~tell them to "keep your children quiet or else they must
leave the court house." Others Spoke about the lack of adequate space
available for their children in waiting areas. AS a result of the recognition
at the Conference of the need for child care facilities in courts and the
community's interest in addressing this issue, the Child Care Facilities
in Courts Project Committee was formed.
This Project under the able leadership of Helena Heath, has been extremely
productive in a short period of time. The Committee has established a working
relationship with Judge Judith Kaye of the New York Court of Appeals and
Judge Karen Peters of the Ulster County Family Court. Judge Kaye is the
ComChair of the Chief Judge's Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for
Children, and states that the Commission is currently exploring the need
for child care facilities in courts.
The project members have conducted an informal survey at Albany County Family
Court with the consent of Judge Beverly Tobin. The Survey results coincide
with the general belief that there is a Clear need for child care facilities.
The project members are in the process of identifying resources to make basic
but important changes to court facilities. Making small improvements such
aS providing changing tables, books and toys in the courts are realistic
goals which can be accomplished by donations and with the approval from
necessary court staff. More complex issues such as Space allocation for
child care facilities is a major priority for the Project members because
once a& commitment for space allocation is obtained, community organizations
can be given the opportunity to Sponsor the staffing needs of a facility.
Project Embrace: An Outreach Model to Prevent Violence
The proposed project, entitled Project Embrace: An Outreach Model to Prevent
Violence, is a part of a larger on-going effort by The Center for Law &
Justice and other members of a developing coalition to establish a just
Society in which intentional injury and homicide are not a daily threat to
individual and community well being. The primary goal of this program is
to broaden community understanding of the nature and source of violent
behavior and to promote the Perspective that much of the violence addressed
by the criminal justice system should also be recognized as a public health
issue. A major obstacle to be overcome in order to achieve this goal is
to counteract the belief held by both professionals and lay persons that
violence is “normal”. This belief must be replaced by the understanding
that violence is learned behavior and that it is preventable.
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The objectives of this violence prevention outreach program are:
1. Enlist greater medical, criminal justice, and other professional
involvement in understanding and redefining violence as a public health
issue.
2. Implement a community-based educational program to empower minority groups
to actively work to prevent the use of violence in their communities.
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3. Operationalize youth and violence prevention curricula.
4. Design and establish an information center on violence prevention and
a directory of services to assist those Seeking or in need of assistance.
Such services include those that address family violence, mental health
Problems, drug and alcohol abuse, institutional violence, and sexual
abuse,
The overall outcome measures of this Project are:
i, At-risk youth will have increased alternatives to violent behavior.
2. At-risk youth will understand the relationship between substance abuse
and health risks,
3. At-risk youth will engage in lifestyle changes which include the avoidance
of high risk activities such as Participation in drug-related and gang~
related activities.
4. A Significant number of mentors will be recruited to model non-violent,
non-self-destructive behavior.
5. At-risk youth will know their legal rights.
In conclusion, an Advisory Council, comprised of community representatives
as well as professionals will be established should funding be approved,
Referral Guide For Women Published
In January 1993, The Center for Law & Justice published and released On Your
Qun, &@ referral guide for women in the Capital District, particularly those
faced with imprisonment or released from jails or prisons. The directory
lists some of the available services in education, employment, training,
health, housing, child care, social Services, and transportation.
Individual and multiple copies of On Your Own may be obtained free of charge
from The Center for Law & Justice or The Women's Building which is located
at 79-81 Central Avenue in Albany. as well, copies are available in local
jails, welfare departments, community centers, women's Shelters, and other
locations.
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Jury Determines Albany Officer Violated a Black Man's Civil Rights
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Mark Mishler Esq., a member of the Legal Advisory Committee of The Center
for Law & Justice and Co-Chair of the Police Abuse Subcommittee of the Capital
District Coalition Against Apartheid and Racism has won an important victory
for his client Ronald Grier.
A federal jury ruled on Monday, March 22, 1993 that a city police officer
violated Ronald W. Grier's civil rights during an October 1988 arrest in
Arbor Hill.
The same jury ruled on March 17, 1993 that the police officer committed
battery, a violation of state law, on 35-year-old Ronald W. Grier of Albany,
No monetary damages were awarded on March 22 for the civil rights violation.
The question of damages could be determined at a later date if a judge allows
a second phase of the trial to take place,
U.S. District Judge Thomas J. MCAvoy split the trial into two parts. Still
at issue are Grier's allegations that the city and its top officials including
Mayor Thomas W. Whalen III showed "deliberate indifference” to the way city
police officers treat African~Americans. The jury determined on March 22
that Thomas Inglee, a retired officer, violated Grier's constitutional rights
during the arrest. This is a violation of federal law, not state law.
On March 18 the jury ruled that Inglee used excessive force during Grier's
arrest, Grier's rib was broken when Inglee sat on or somehow came in contact
with his chest.
Though the jury didn't consider damages on March 22, the panel on March 18
ordered the City to Pay Grier "nominal" monetary damages for Inglee's
violation of state law. No specific amount of money was given to compensate
Grier,
Inglee, Dolan and other police answered calls of a street brawl between blacks
and whites in Arbor Hill on October 9, 1988. Grier heard the fight and left
his 70 Ontario Street home to see what was happening, according to trial
testimony.
Grier, who is black, asked Police officers why only blacks were being
arrested, according to the lawsuit. Dolan told him to shut up and Grier
refused to do so, citing his constitutional right to free Speech, according
to court records.
Somehow, Grier went under @ car and refused to come out when officers tried
to arrest him. The officers managed to pull him out and Inglee broke Grier's
rib trying to restrain him, according to the lawsuit.
Grier was arrested on assault and disorderly conduct charges. The charges
were dismissed,
The Significance of Mark Mishler's legal advocacy in obtaining a federal
jury ruling that a police officer violated Ronald Grier's civil rights must
be viewed against the backdrop of the Rodney King verdict and within the
context of the legacy of chronic police abuse and cover-up in Albany. '
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The Center for Law & Justice has developed a newsletter titled the "Advocate".
The newsletter provides insightful commentary and a rather Sophisticated
analysis to Criminal Justice issues and their impact on people of color.
It is distributed free of charge to the community,
Prepared by:
Merton Simpson, Jr.
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Mailing Address; Pine West Plaze Bidg. 2, Washington Ave, Ext,
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Main Office: 524 Broadway, 2nd Floor
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"FREDERICK DOUGLASS STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE AWARD"
Asa self-educated author, his mnobiography was published in 1845 and two years later, he began publishing
the “North Star”, an influential antislavery paper, He became a strong spokesman for the abolitionist cause.
Touring the United States, he rose in stature to counsel President Abeaham Lincoln. Afies the Civil War, he
continued to campaign for equal rights for Diacks and for women. With great distinction, he served as Consul
General to Haiti and actively remained in the struggle for pastice until his death in 1895, Dy example and with
hus dignity intact, he taught us the "Hf there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
We honor him by recog nizing wo community residents who exemplify his courage and commitment to justice
theough their work and iavolvement in that continuing struggle.
Since February 1992, Victor Brown has been the Program Director of the
Employability Skills Plus Program (ESPP), an early intervention and recidi-
visi prevention program for young people ages 1610 21 who are incarcerated
in the Albany County Correctional Facility,
Mr, Brown has worked with recovering alcoholics a New York State
Correctional Facilities and was Director of the Albany Citizens Council on
Alcoholism Community Residences Program for over ten years,
He is a Credentialad Alcoholism Counselor, # member of the Governor's
Task Force on Drugs and Alcohol, Association of Recovery Care Homes, the
National Association of Black Alcoholism Counselors and # past member of
the Board of Directors of the Albany Cuizens Council on Alcoholism, Inc.
(ACCA).
In 1983, Mr, Brown co-founded the ACCA Honoe Couwt, an alternative to
incarceration program inthe Albany County Police and Justice Courts, VICTOR BROWN
Bora ia Jamaica, Mr, Brown has lived in Albany since 1966, Ile was educated at the Congregational and
Bucksion schools in Kingston and attended the Rutgers University Program in Alcohol Studies, He is married
to the former Irma Campbell and has eight children and thineen grandchildren. He has received numerous
awareds over the years for his service to the community.
Merton D. Simpson, Jr. has a long and disti nguished record as an activist in
the continuing struggle for social justice. Mr, Siinpson has been co- chairper-
son for the Capital District Coalition Agsinat Apartheid and Raciam since its
inception in 1981, He is also affiliated with the Community Action Coalition
Against Racism and Violence, the Alliance Against Racism and Militarism,
Hacks in Government, and the Patrice Lanvunda Coalition in New Yok C ny,
Mr. Simpson has been a leasler in the community on issues ranging from
racism, police abuse and equal justice in the courts to apartheid in South Africa.
Mr, Simpson earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Public Adminisira-
tion degree from Long Island University, C.W. Post Center, He is one of the
foremost authorities on Merit System Affirmative Action Programa in the
country and is constantly sought out for his technical knowledge of Affirma- ‘
tive Action and Equal Employneot Opporunity, Since 1980, Mr. Simpson
has served as an Affirmative Action Program Specialist for the New York State
Department of Civil Service. MERTON SIMPSON
Prior to 1980, Mr. Simpson worked as a Minority Group Personnel Specialist for the New York State
Department of Civil Service. He does extensive taining and lecturing in the areas of Affirmative Action,
Diversity and Multiculturalisin.
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New Attitude (continued)
a public forum on Haiti: Ekaiti - Deny it No More, featuring the video, "Haiti Under the Gun.”
a slide show and discussion: "The Effects of Apartheid on Southern Africa.
a forum entitled “South Africa: Stop the Violence: Mozambique: Promote the Peace"
with Bernard Magubane of the African National Congress (ANC) and Prexy Nesbitt Senior Consultant to the
Mozambique Government
with the Center for Law and Justice, "Racism. Law Enforcement and Violence” with Donald
Jackson and Tyra Ferrell Jackson.
in March we had scheduled an event (cancelled because of the blizzard of 93) with New York State
Assemblyman Roger Green and Dumisani Kumalo of the American Committee on Africa. That event,
“Promote the Peace: Stop the Violence” was to address the issues of peace in U.S. communities,
especially with youth, and peace in South Africa. We have rescheduled a special event for April Ist - Going
the Last Miles: From Apartheid to Freedom with Miungisi (Lulu) Johnson, Deputy President of
the ANC Youth League.
We have emphasized the same theme throughout - the need
for an end to violence if there is to be enduring peace, both
in the U.S. and in Southern Africa.
AS we continue to try to figure out new CD-CAAR strategies
we need your support. We encourage you to call usS at 432-4623
to get involved. The struggle for peace and justice is long
and protracted and we aren't even close. But the struggle
continues!
And THANKS... On the back page of this newsletter is a form
for those of you who haven't sent in your membership yet and a
thank you to those who have. we would like to make special
mention to some "special contributors" - both local and far
away. You have really given us something to remember.
Glona DeSole, Prexy Nesbitt, Sue McDermott and Torin Spellman, EJ. Josey, Tony Young, Alice
Green and Charles Touhey, Arlena Adams, Joe Levinger, Bob Cohen and Ruth Foster, Sara and Brian
McGraw, Renee Hariton and Mark Mishler, Maud and David Easter, Art Kamell, Carl and Theresa Swidorski,
Barbara Allen, Susan J. DuBois, Vijay and Arlene Macwan, Dick Melita, Christine Connell, Larry Peters,
Margaret and James Cunningham, Carol Hausen.
TIMES UNION
BY PATRICK KURP
Stal writer
TROY — Malcolm X -~ demon-
aed and beatified, commodity and
martyr, subject of T-shirts and films
- remains elusive even to his ad-
mirers.
“| think Spike Lee did the best he
could with his movie. But for me, in
terns of leaming who Malcolm actu-
ally was, the movie was a great
disappointment. It lingered too long
on the hustler routine, and it wasn't
as political as it needs to be,” said
Merton Simpson, co-chairman of the
Capital District Coalition Against
Aparthied and Racism.
On Saturday, Simpson will lead a
workshop on Malcolm X as part of
the third annual “Realizing the
Dream” conference on race and rac-
isin. Held in Ricketts Hall on Con-
“ress Street, between First and Sec-
omd streets, the conference is
sponsored by the Troy Human
Rights Commission, Troy Area
United Ministries, Council for Citi-
zenship Education at Russell Sage
College, and the Sage Colleges,
“There's so much misinformation
and disinformation about Malcolm.
I'l like to give a better appreciation
of his basic ideas. Young people need
models tuxlay, and nobody's really
filled the vacuum since Martin (Lu-
ther King Jr.) and Malcolm were
killed,” Simpson said.
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He will seek to portray Malcolm as
a complex, always-changing person-
ality, not an inflexible ideologue,
“The conventional picture of Mal-
colm, especially in the media, is a
radical hate-rmonger. That's not true
to the reality. Only when he belonged
to the Nation uf Islam did he believe
that white people were universally
demonic. He changed,” Simpson
said,
Despite his dissatisfaction with
Lee's portrayal, Simpson said he was
pleased that Americans have re-
sumed their study of Malcolm's life
and ideas.
“The fact is, the movie's out, and
its catapaulted Malcolm back into
people's consciousness. The net re-
sult is positive,” he said.
Another workshop, titled “New
Anti-Semitism: Fourth Reich to
Jewish Students Under Seige,” will
he conducted by Harvey Strum,
chairman of the social science divi-
sion at Sage Junior College of Al-
bany.
On one hand, Strum will examine
the emergence of ethnic nationalism,
especially in Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union, since the col-
lapse of communism, and its rela-
tion to increased anti-Semitism.
On the other, Strum will discuss a
recent study published by the Anti-
Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
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dents on college campuses. Strum
relates the upsurge to the increased
emphasis on multiculturalism and
cultural diversity.
“Often, it hides a hidden agenrla,
Jews are perceived as part of Euro-
centrism,” Strum said, citing the
pseudo-scholarship of Leonara Jef.
fries.
“It has become more socially ac-
ceptable to express anti-Semitic
ideas, but tu use other words for it.
Sometimes they're hiding behind
anti-Zionism,” he said, citing the
revival of the "Shylock image that all
Jews are rich. Jews contol the banks.
Jews control the media.”
The keynote address of Saturday's
conference, “State-of-the-art Racism
in the U.S..” will be delivered by
Vivian Gordon, professor with the
Africana studies department at the
State University at Albany.
Malcolm X
TROY HOUSING AUTHORITY (THA) UPDATE...(last month we ran ar
article about racism in the THA by housing advocate Brian O'Shaughnessy )
Although snow still covers much of the ground, it is beginning to look like spring. This i
especially true tor tenants who live under the rule of the THA. That is because the Troy paper
The Record, ran a four-day, front page expose in March of the THA which brings to surface thi
nepotism, racism, patronage and favoritism that tightly controls the Authority. Now is the time t
take advantage of these revelations by calling for a thorough investigation. Please write to th
HUD Inspector General requesting an investigation of the Troy Housing Authority. (Whether yo
live in Troy or not this appeal applies to you because the THA is supported by your Federal tay
dollars.)
Write: Mr. Lee Isdell, Office of the Inspector General
Department of HUD, Room 3430
26 Federal Plaza New York, N.Y. 10278-0068
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(518) 462-5016
266 Delaware Avenue, Delmar, New York 12054
The Fund promotes economic justice in Albany,
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making loans to community groups who create
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residents. Capital for these loans comes from
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The Women’s Building
Joins Holding Our Own
and
Our Brother’s Keepers in
Celebrating the Diversity
of Our Community
The Women’s Community Center of the Capital District
79 Central Avenue, Albany NY 12206
465-1597
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Dedicated to creating educational, economic, and leadership oppor-
tunities for students of color by providing students with leadership train-
ing, non-violent conflict resolution, cultural enrichment programs, tutor-
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and career support.
The community response to Unlimited Minds, inc. has been
enthusiastic. We would like to thank everyone for their support.
Our two future events include:
* Summer leadership training program
¢ Community forum on educating and empowering students
of color.
Mentors, tutors, workshop facilitators, and students are being
sought. If you are interested in being a part of or supporting Unlimited
Minds, or if you know of a student who could benefit from our pro-
gram please contact Victoria Santos at 434-8933.
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We would like to thank
Our Brothers’ Keepers and
Holding Our Own
for your continued support of us
and our community.
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May 8, 1993
Thank you all for joining us this evening for an exciting benefit
performance featuring Lavender Light: The Black and People of Ail Colors
Lesbian and Gay Gospel Choir.
Holding Our Own: A Fund for Women was established in 1982
by a locai lesbian to create and advance feminist social and economic
change for girls and women, and, by extension, their families and
communities. The foundation supports initiatives that build and
strengthen women's communities, enhance the ability of lesbians of all
races to lead more open lives, promote the leadership and interests of
women of color of all sexualities, and serve the needs of all women who
have limited access to traditional sources of funding.
The strength of women's communities and their potential impact
for change rest on the recognition of diversity as well as commonality,
and the ability to work in coalition to create a world free of racism,
sexism, homophobia, class oppression, anti-Semitism, and discrimination
based on age or disability.
in the spirit of our belief in coalition work, Holding Our Own is
pleased to co-sponsor this event with Our Brothers’ Keepers Foundation.
Through this event, the two organizations are attempting to bring our
resources and our many communities together. We want you to know
who we are and what resources are available. We also want to
encourage you -- our many different communities -- to come together
around common concerns which threaten mutual survival. For Holding
Our Own, the proceeds of tonight's event will help us continue to
Support Communities working together.
On behalf of the Board of Holding Our Own, | thank you for
being here, and for giving your time and dollars and advice. Your
contribution in any form or amount is greatly appreciated.
Vickie A. Smith
President
(578) 462-2871
79 Central Avenue Albany NY 12206
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OUR BROTHERS’ KEEPERS FOUNDATION
PO. BOX 1872
ALBANY, NEW YORK 12201.1872
May 8, 1993
wide range of direct services to persons living with HIV/AIDS, their
families and loved ones. The Foundation raises money by sponsoring
social events and by accepting voluntary contributions and memorials.
Our administrative costs are primarily limited to printing and postage.
Comprised solely of volunteers, the Foundation is incorporated with the
New York State Department of State.
We have made our mission known to various community service
providers and institutions.
for any funds so awarded. Since its inception several years ago, the
Honorary Co-Chairs
Hon. Arthur O, Eve, Deputy Speaker, NYS Assembly
Ms. Sandra J. Lowe, Former Director, Governor’s Office of
Lesbian and Gay Concerns
Sponsors
Kathy A. Ahearn and Susan M. Firneisz
Barbera Allen
Judith Avner and Steve Eckert
Mary Ann Awad
Norma Bail and Jola Cope-Nydegger
June “JB” Brown and Millie Deigedo
8. Broderick and M. Etcheverry
Rev. Kathleen Buckley and Susan Kremer
Meredith Butier and Gloria DeSoie
Lynn Canton
Capital Travel
Thornas Clift
Marian S. Cohen
Chris Colarusso and Rita Nolan
Richard Conti and Steve Snow
Bonite Davis
Winifred deLoayza and Thayer Heath
Helen Desfosses
Rose Dill
Alexandria Douglas
Steven M. Earle
Maud Easter
Rev. Jill Farnham and Rev. Jane Jerome
Francine Frank
In Memory of John Gaffney
Gail R. Gerdiner and Judith £. Sigler
James M. Gaughin and Keith C. Lee
Marjorie Geiger
Fr. Ron Gerber and John Saupp
Celia Gonzalez
Michael K. Grady
Gustatson Physical Therapy Services, P.C.
Robert J. Haren
Jacquelyn Hawkins
Sheila Healy
Beth Hershenhart
Zelda Holcomb
Ariene istar
Gioria Jimpson
Steven E. Johnson
Elissa Kane
Elleen Kolly
Andrea Lurie
Dahlia Mazengia
Kevin X. MoNemare
Tom Manelie and Michael Watters
Linda Nicholson —
Meureen O’Brien and Judith Mazza
Jean Paim
Charies “Jud” Panneci
Bill Pape
Russell J. Parker and Steven Waruch
Anne Pope
Ruth Pelham Music
Maria Perez
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Carol Reichert and Susan Russell
Dr, Jack Richtman
Curt Rogere
Judy Romm
Polly N. Rutnick
Sheliah Sable and Stacey Miliman
Michaail A. Saboi
Judith and Peter Saidel
Bob Schaffer
Joan E. Schulz and Bonnie Spanier
Audrey Seidman and Sarah Bratspis
Vickie Smith and Susan Spang
Keith St. John
H. Patrick Swygert
Christine Tomlinson
Lucy Tretiek-Caruso
Lois Uttley
Jim Vallee
Jahn T. Vernieu
Dolores Willierns
Gwen Wright and Geri Pomerantz, Esq.
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Black and People of All Colors
Lesbian and Gay Gospel Choir
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Vickie Smith, Holding Our Own
Paul Gustafson, Our Brothers’ Keepers Foundation
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Opening Remarks, Honorary Co-Chairs
Hon. Arthur O. Eve. Deputy Speaker, NYS Assembly
Ms. Sandra J. Lowe, Former Director, Governor's Office of
Lesbian and Gay Concerns
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Lesbian and Gay Gospel Choir
HOLDING OUR OWN: A FUND FoR WOMEN
79 Central Avenue
Albany, NY 12206
(518) 462-2871
OFFICERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Vickie A. Smith, President Meredith Butler
Bonita C. Davis, Program Vice Pres. Chris Colarusso
Marjorie Geiger, Admin. Vice Pres. Elissa Kane
Lois Uttley, Secretary Blanca Ramos-Wright
Bonita Sanchez, Treasurer Sheilah Sable
Victoria Santos
Audrey Seidman
STAFF Sheila Stowell
Naomi Jaffe, Executive Director Carolyn Walker
Gwen Wright
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OUR BROTHERS’ KEEPERS FOUNDATION
P.O. Box 1872
Albany, NY 12201-1872
OFFICERS BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Robert J. Haren, President Kathy Ahearn
James Gaughan, Vice President Marian Cohen
Vickie Smith, Secretary Steven Earle
James Vailee, Treasurer Paul Gustafson
Michael Kane
Linda Marowitz
Michael Saboi
Paul Spradling
“Thanks!
Hoiding Our Own and Our Brothers’ Keepers would like to express our
great appreciation to the donors of refreshments for the reception:
The Altamont Program L'Ecole Encore
Butcher Biock Stone Ends
Gourmet Gallery Unlimited Feast
We are also grateful to The School of Social Welfare of the University at
Albany, for their co-sponsorship of this program. The University has, as
always, been generous in making the beautiful and convenient spaces of
Page Hall and Page Hall Lounge available to.the community.
Thanks to our sign interpreters, Lori Lipman and Howard Hines, and to
Karen Garafola of the Troy Resource Center for independent Living and
dedicated volunteer Julie Rio, for arranging the sign interpretation.
And heartfelt gratitude to all of the many sponsors, advertisers, ticket
holders and volunteers who made this event possible,
SISTERS AND BROTHERS IN THE LIFE
P.O. BOX 2131
ALBANY, NEW YORK 12220
(518) 426-9462
Sisters and Brothers in the Life (S.A.B.L.L.) is a newly created organization of
lesbian, gay and bisexual people of color in the Capital District. The group evolved
out of conversations among lesbians and gay men of color about our roles in our
various communities. Many of us felt marginalized within mainstream gay rights
organizations and heterosexual communities because of their unwillingness to
acknowledge the combined impact on our daily lives of racism, sexism, and
homophobia. It became clear that a visible and active organization that specifically
dealt with our issues as lesbian and gay people of color was needed.
Sisters and Brothers in the Life seeks to reflect the diversity of our life experiences.
We recognize that our sexual identities are inextricably linked with our cultural
gender, and economic status, and we refuse to prioritize any aspect of
ourselves. S.A.B.1.L. Works to create a safe space for social interaction, to promote
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