'We
want service!'
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DETROIT - ore and bet-
ter city services. That demand
part of the tform drafted
by community ctivis during a
city 'de convention July 15.
Commu ity groups p r­
ticipating in the draftin of
platform ant didates for
city elections to re pond its
provisions.
The se ion' which drafted
the "Public Services" section of
the PEOPLE'S Platform was
chaired by two people Clive in
community issues --- Fraa
A Attorn y
G ral probe
of demolition
program
ac
o
'a ion'
Capi al
Larry A. till
WASHI GTO , D.C.
( PAl - Although Jesse
J ckson pecifically outlined hi
rea ons for moving to the
tioa's capital in an unusual
door ion with repre-
entative of BI ck-owned
. medi only, the former
(Democr tic) pre idential
c didate' action's are still
being cha11eged by pparently
outraged reporters and
politicians here.
Rev. d Mr . Jackson are
moving into an uptown apart­
ment pending renov tion of
home purchased near How d
University. By moving into the
D' 'ct in August, he qualifies
to run for Mayor or Congress in
the 1990 electio ' .
Emphasizing that he is locat-
. the District of Columbia
to e1p ·free the citizens· by
workll' • to complete Home
Rule, J cbon declared, '1 Ye
DO P to fUll for yor. The
Loc
Clark, a major figure in trug­
gles for the rights of those with
handicaps, involved in a suc­
cessful suit against the city to
make buses barrier free and
Angela Brown, a member of the
central board of the Detroit
Neighborhood Alliance, a staff
member of the Warren/Con­
ners Economic Development
Coalitmn and a member of
other grass roots organizatio .
Brown noted tfiat a l �or
concern of neighborhood resi­
dents at the meeting was Ser-
. are •
Participant called on the
city to:
C tiDed 3
deb te (over whether he should
seek to ucceed ayor Marion
Barry) is paralyzing the city:
Jack on told meeting of
African American journalists in
a luncheon se sion where
reporters from daily.
ne paper an� radio-tv sta­
tions were barred from entering
by D.C. police.
"We don't have to be defen­
about a closed meeting. I
meet ·th all-white media or­
ganization all the time," he . d.
Speaking at the ion ar-
· ranged by Calvin Rola
groups r
ch 0
j in-
DETROIT - They carried wived . the ovemeot, be
�. displayiDg crack said he did so because he used
pipes as local residents fol- to live in the e park, wbere
lowed them from Clark Park to the rally being beld, strung
Cass Park . a march d on uack a very while
beginning • spiritual rally
could be beard blocks y.
Though maDY of those
preading word to area
drua ddicts were miDiater
couoselon and the like, of
the pr re once ub-
FWD
s.
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J I es Jeffrey, a Ho of
Prayer member, 4035 W. Ver­
DOl' A Vc. carried an aati-drup
the fi march by the
coalition, the S turday, july 22
demo 'on attr cted 1Den,
women and children in oups.
Peap came to eat ttic food,
receive clothing and to
ICJ1DOIl • en to the
The Rev. E ene Smith,
Ho of Prayer fOUDder aDd
head pastor . d he also
to drug communi y
lived a life of drugs and home:
been there, they can kind of re­
). te to the failur and the pain.·
Becoming addicted to drugs
arts the cycle which leads to
other problems.
So many of people out
there are out there beca 0
drugs d yturn to their peer
group which is the drug cul-
, ture," he explained.
Showing that someo e car ,
through cbe and rallies,
lpsraisetheir If-esteem d
gives them spiritual bealin
needed to take th fir t e
of bettering their lives, be said,
beca , • A life' terrible·
Before he came back to
Detroit to help other had to
help himself first in California.
In S MODica, Smith was ad­
dicted to drugs and wandered
from er to I er, he id.
ot only did Smith have
serio drua problem, but so
did his . • They both sought
started . thier
Haviag "been there" lpa
him communicate . people
in need of help, he . d.
'1 had the same proble
Smith said. "When a person
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