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New YORK - The C'om­
mis ion for Racial Justice,
major civil right organiza­
tion, announced that it will
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NNPA News SelVice
. W ASHI GTON, DC
The la t ctive duty task for
ex-Air Force Sergeant Mi e
Bo den w s to bring home
body b g of rines Killed
in the Beirut bombing in Oc­
tober 1983. Today Bo den
is mobiljzing nti -War ac­
tions in Philadelphi .
L rry Moore of Mil-
au ee recently organized a
pre s conference against
the Per ian Gulf deploy­
ment on the ame spot
here a 17-year old boy h d
been iIIed a eek earlier
during a di pute over a
leather j cket.
The pres confer en ce
me sage: "Bring the troops
home. End violence in the
iddle Ea t. combat 'the
ca usc of violence in our
cOlDmunity. "
Linda Stouts, ith the
Piedmont Peace Project in
rural orth C r:OIiD�, a
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convene the fir t National
Minority Environmental
Leadership Summit in
Washington, D.C. in Oc­
tober, 1991.
The Summit will probe
"environmental racism":
that minorities, despite
being disproportionately af­
fected by pollution and haz-
ardous wastes, have long
been Ioc ed out of the
policy deb teo
Several hundred national
and grassroots leaders in
the civil rights, minority, en­
vironmental, government,
, and corporate communitie
will be invited to ttend the
three-day um it.
Co tI ed 0
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Health Pla� for working
in q ble
Comml
By Ro Se blocked a health c re
-Toxic Wa te and Race . propo I for the orking
th 8 United Sta tes, It • _C�0rrI s, .... 'P�0I'I_4,;",;.e __ nl..._______ poor.
Co mi. Ion DETROIT - In overriding a County Executive Edward
for Racla. Ju.tlc. budget veto by the Wayne. McN m r claimed th t hi
County Executive, the county "Health Choice" propo al
Board of Commissioners would help people who
want d to wor part time, but
ere fr id of 10 ing he lth
c re benefit they had under
soci I ervice .
Mc id th t under
the pi n, employer would
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G·ulf policy
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a tounded to learn that t 0- one in the deser . One m D, two brothers, two brother­
third of some 80 people at a recent recruit of the or- in-I ws nd a sister h' ve
a recent meetin had a loved ganization, revealed th been shipped off to Saudi
Arabi.
Leon rd McNeil, 45-
ye r-old Vietn m w r
re ister who sent 1968
thr ugh 1970 in C n da is
engulfed the ys in the
dem nd of. c unselling
hundred of yo D men nd
women who re confronting
ne twi t on the old theme
Chell no we won't go.
T HA led
c r v n throu h out 37
communiti in the Gulf
Co t nd BI belt outh.
Forming human b rric de
t g pump, their b ttle
cry i boldly "No blood for
oil!"
Thi 1 the
gra sroot movement re
m de of. In Afric D­
Americ communities
acro s the Dation, a rowing
tide of oppo ition to the
Per i D Gulf war i building,
fueled by the di propor­
tio ate deployment of BI c
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