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LlTTL ROC ARK. - Democra­
tic Pre idential Candidate Je e Jack n
received hi torically signific nt upport
M rch 12 hen former Arkan Gover­
nor Orvil F ubu civil right veteran
Dai y tes, and Ern t Gre n, on of the
'Little Rock ine" tud nt who inte­
gr ted Central High Sch 01 here in 1957
came together vi telephone hoo -up to
upport J J ckson.:
Through a conferen e call between
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the rkan Jack n Pre idential head­
quarter, Faubu in hi bu inc office in
HuntsvilJe, ab rna and the Dexter
Avenue Bapti t Church in ontgomery,
Alab rna, Rev. Jack n and a crowd t a
mid-day rally at the church heard Faubu '
expre sion of upport on behalf of the
candidate.
"When we 10 k at all the Demo­
cratic candidate and as our elves the
question Who amon the candidares if
he were president uld trive the hard­
est to reduce high intrest and utility
rates? a ked the former govern r rhet r­
ically. "Je e J kson is the be t candi­
date becau of, his background and
date because of hi background and u der
standing of the poor", Faubus said.
Jes e Ja k n enjoys both rural and
urban upport in Arkansas. Fran
Watkin a long time Jack n ciate
advisor, and Carolyn Katzen from the
HUD to study.ways to desaqreqate housing
lNGTO D.C. - study has
been I unched by the U.S. Department of
Housi and Urban De elopment in an
effort to determin or ble ppro he
to the cia! d regation of public hous-
ing throughout the United State.
HUD Secretary Samuel R. Pierce, J .
h announced that the Department has
arded a 70,000 contract to Inter­
national Busine - Service , Inc. a minor­
ity-o ned firm based in ashington.
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ATLANTA - Over 1,000 Blac
progre lves crowded into the Warren
ethodist Church for the opening on
of hat organizer called an "historic"
occa ion.
Afte! three day the
Organizers Conference
eluded it deliberation
tional Black
BOC) con­
ith a call to
organize a nationwide People's Consen s
Petition Campaign to nominate Rev. J
Jack n for Pre 'dent of the United
State.
Declaring that "the national con­
vention of the Democratic and Republi ..
. can partie have never reflected the will
of the majority, particularly Bl ck peo­
p ," the Conference voted to promote
the Censen us Petition in churches,
hool, communitie, and place of
"The p urpo of the national peti­
tion campaign is to build on and solidify
th co n us repre nted in the positions
e . J k n has t en," according to
Johnny F ir a middle-aged trade union
1 d r from Baltimore, d.
emph ized that Rev. Jackson
rong po itions ranging from
tr program to p cial taxes on
corpo t on in order to fund hu­
to ending U. S.
(fair of other
iz rs id local pre
d throughout the
of the
The contractor will examine dat on
ubje ct uch a the phy ical conditions
of public hou ing, its availability, man e­
ment practices, and the impact of ar
demographic pattern . It will con ider the
ffect of court decisions on tenant lee­
tion or rejection and how the , in tum
ffect an agency' ability to carry out
desegregation plans. International Bu '­
ne Seme Service will cont ct and
interview organization with ignificant
experience ith public hou in program
and de gregation i sue .
In ddition to the data collected by
the contractor, the Department is
intere ted in hearing from others.
Comments should be sent
in riting to the Office of Policy Deve­
lopment 0 f Housing and Urban Deve lop­
ment, 451 7th Street, Southwest,
ashington, D.C. 20410.
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drive to nominate Jae
people on the issue s and expose some of
the old leadership now out of touch
with the people.
The Con n us Petition Campaign was
one of many agreement to grow out of
a conference made up of people from
historically conflicting philosophies.
Bl ck ministers, lawyers, educators, grass­
roots activist, and ollie r describing
themselves as Muslims, Christians,
nationalists, pan-african 1 s, sociali t ,
communists, and more were the re and I
according to elson Johnson of Greens­
boro, .C., a Co-Convener of BOC,
"its significance is that the participants
reached unity which was translated into
agreement to wor together."
At the opening session, Minister
Louis Farrakhan of the ation of Islam
told the overflow crowd of over 1 ,000
to' ake up a nd Organize!" He said
organized Black people could "Back up
America to the wall!" To a rou ing
ovation he said, "mack people are the
same, but you expre s yourselves dif­
ferently," and he a ed "why can't
there be diversity among us as Black
people, while expressing unity? Is there
not a 'cause big enough to transcend
the thing that make u think \ e are
different from one another?"
Farrakhan oke nearly� three hours
using Biblical parables to drive home
his point that Bl cks must cea e "hostil­
ities' towards e ch other and 'organize
for power." At the same time he harply
criticized Black leaders whom he called
"surrogate of whites," and called on
Blacks to "ostracize" . nd "punish"
the Black reporter whom Minister Far­
rakhan identified as Milton Coleman
of the Washington Po t who reportedly
leaked the story of Rev. Je se Jack on's
remarks about Jew .
Farrakhan said Jackson meant no
malice by the remark, and that Jac son
De
t 0
weeks a isting.Jac v.
Jame Demus III in org nizing Jac n
upport rs. tzen is mem r of Rural
American Women.
Bates and Green were . n little
Rock for the nnouncement. •
The b j of Faubu' upport for
Jackson Ii in the fact that the two re I
a dual concern for the economic ri of
poor nd middle income people and
hold populist belief that gove
m t serv the people, poke perso for
th campaign said. Faubus gave the can­
didate high marks for hi u ful
efforts to free Lieutenant Robert Good­
man from Syri n captivity. Citing J ck­
son's record on behalf of young people,
the poor and the unemployed, fonner
governor Faubus .. who identified e ces­
sively high interest and utility rates a
bringing the nation short of ruin, . ed
enthusia m for Jackson's quest for the
Democratic nomination.
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intervention in Central America
unknown to many people,
of the opulation is Black.
The latter resolution adopted
unanimously immediately after the Satur­
day. addre by Francisco Campbell,
Political Affairs Director of the icara­
guan Consulate in Washington.
Campbell denied that ica gua a
military threat to the U.S., yin ra he r
that the nation of roughly three million
FRANCISCO CA BELL a Blac man and political affain Director of the icarguan
Consulate in W . gto talk ith si er Adjua aantaabuee. Cambell de a vin
and po erful presentation at th conference pointing out that Central America' �
B ,and his country men "cam to erica on the e ip you did."
was under constant threats, with at
le 10 people in jail now who were
plotting to kill him. He said Jackson's
California office had been firebombed,
and w�rned that a climate was being
created similar to that around Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. when King wa called
a 'notoriou liar" by FBI chief J. Edgar
Hover, before he was assassinated.
Aft r hi sp ech which was punctu­
ated many time by applause, Farra han
a pre nted the First Annual "Black
Organizer' Award" by Greenville, is ..
attorney Johnny Wall .
In his remarks on the purpo e of the
conference, Phil Thompson talked about
U.S. military ventures in the iddle
Ea t and Central Am rica and id
, somewhere, meone i goin to call
Reagan' bluff!"
A re lution was passed to tak the
United States before the United ation
and to charge the government with
genocide against Black people. A resolu­
tion was also passed to "strengthen'
the movement of Blac against U.S.
inl) addressing t atiooal
en table, from ft to ri&ht: Owen
; Dr. 1iff y n, . orlan from Luther Coll e in 10
Director of the Co late; d Rev.
, Atlanta.
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inhabitants, which overthrew the U.S. -
backed Somoza regime in 1979, wa a
"threat of a positive example of what an
organized people who are ready for
sacrifice can do to end their oppre sion.'
Campbell said Blac in icara ua
came to America "on the same lave hips
you did' and he invited Bla ks to ' om
to our country to e for your elves"
the improvement in' the li e of hi
people since the revolution.
Campbell wa pre eded b Rev. Ben
Chavi of Wilmington 10 fame ho ton­
tinued the theme of 'unity and org ni­
zation' adding that Black face a
"serious itua tion '.
R v. William Thurston, DO ector of
Operation PUSH in tlanta id Re .
Jac n wa the "only candidate that
i expo ing the true n ture of not nl
the Democratic Party but the Republi­
can a well ... They repr ent the me
thing, those who dernin te the 'e on­
omy.' Thur ton said 'we mu build
the ational Blac Orga nizer' Con­
feren e.