NATIO AL CHAM.PIONS- Highland Park Community Hllh Scbool' "ParU Be rs"
captured back-to-baek national titles In parliamentary procedure, last month, In KI Immee,
Florida. T e' even member team members are Vlcent Bryant, eated, and left to rl ht, Dara
Jobnson, Anqulnette Hughe , Candace Hunter, Le Ite Kilgore, Sylvia Looney and Key
Cbr topher. Bry nt, wbo affectionately call blm elf Kina, w dethroned, John on ld, when be
explained the te m' ucce with the e no bral, Just fact word: "With aU tbe e women on the
te • I (t "Parll nil) can't help but be. eee ." (P oto by N. eott) .'
Complaints
by DE
C .L WI
.
In
state remain constant
brut lity i n tionwide nd lip rt
of the routine" of police wor .
De troi t police officer w
ch r ed with m n I ughter
April 23 for lledgedly hootin
u pect he I y on the round
being fri ked.
The u pect wa hot in the
b ck Nov. 26 fter he nd
nother man were topped by of­
ficer looking for rmed robbery
u pect .
Wat on ay the ca e i not
under inve tig tion at the gen­
cy becau e no one filed com­
plaint, but he did indic te the
NAACP wa lnve ti ting two
other ca e of Hedged police
brutality, one which he y
w definitely race related.
SltlgWriUr
Report of police h r ment
in the t te have rem ined con-
tant over the pa t five yea ,
according to Fred Horn of the
Michigan Civil Right Depart­
ment (MCRD).
Of 6,282 complaint filed
with the MCRD from 1985-90,
complaint concerning law en­
forcement ver ged about 1.5
percent of the total.
From 1985-86, 77 complaint
were filed, from 1986-87, 83,
from 1987:-88, 106, from 1988-
89, 89, from 1990-91, 74, nd
this year' present total i 43
complaint ..
Horn indicated the com­
plaint range from unfair ticket­
ing to verbal and phy ic I
abuse.
The wide publicity given to
police brutality in the beating of
Rodney King by Lo Angele
police officers thi year, has
focused attention on the ac­
tivitie of police departments
acros the nation, and Michigan
police departments are not the
exception.
NAACP DETROIT Chapter
Executive Director Joanne Wat-
n aid tbe pr tern of 1
o
ro
By Ron e el
CO"t pontknt
People doing bu ine in the
State Plaza Buildin in
Downto n Detroit, where tate
busine in conducted, will be
Mov ment on to change govern ment prioritie
by DERRICK c. LEWIS
. Staff Writer
being activist's since 1948.
Celeste told them defense
spending hurts the community
and "co ts us our competitive­
ness" in the world, by focusing
research and development in
the defense industry in tead of
the private sector.
He said people tend to look
at defense cuts as a threat,
when instead they should 100
at converting defense money to
private uses.
SAYING THE MIDWEST
suffered tragically during the
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Changing federal budget
priorities and promoting
economic conver ion from a
military to a peacetime
economy' was what former
Ohio Governor Richard
Cele te spoke on during the
Jobs, Peace and Justice Con­
ference last Saturday, at the
University of Detrot.
Sponsored by the Jobs,
Peace and Justice Coalition,
over 100 people, mostly over 50
years of age, attended the con­
ference. Some could boast of
Michigan
Speaker Le i Do(lai
recently appointed p.
'Alma Stallworth, D·
Detroit, to the COD­
fer ence committee on
automotive i urance
reform.
StaUworth will be part
of ix member commit­
tee compo cd 0 three
ember each, from both
the House a d the
Senate.
The committee will
develop amendments for
the Essenti Insurance
Ac and ub °t it to the
o e and Senate for a
WASHINGTON; D.c.-Despite
some modest improvements
over Reagan admini tration
pclicies, President Bu h has led
the nation away from equality of
opportunity, failing to offer con­
sistent moral leader hip and at
time fanning the flames of ra­
cial intolerance.
That js a concl usion of LOST
OPPORTUNITIES: The Civil
Rights Record of the Bush Ad­
ministration Mid-Term, relea ed
at a news conference here April
17th b the Citizens' Comml -
fon'" Civil Rights, a bl-par­
tlsan' group of fourteen former
federal government official .
The 251-page tudy was
developed with upport from the
N. Charle Ander on and Joann Wat 0 brought Urban
League and NAACP concern to the conference.
Ford- and Rockefeller Founda­
tions.
"After two years, it is clear
tha t deali ng effective l y wi th
inter-group tension and con­
flicts has not been a top priority
for the Bush admini tration,"
'aid Arthur Flemming, Chair of
the Ci tize ns ' Commission and
former Chair of the U.S. Com-
mis ion on Civil Right .
"Opportunity to set the nation
on the right course ha been 10 t.
In fact, by injecting the false
claim of 'quota ' in vetoing the
Civil Right Act of 1990, the
Pre ident escalated racial ten-
ions in the nation."
LOST OPPORTUNITIES
u
REPORT:, BUSH LOST OPPORTUNI IES, SPLIT RACES
walking around homele s
people and their upporters,
prote ting tate policie , which
they charge dd to homele s­
ne and the uffering of the
poor.
The Union of the Homele
and upporting organfz tions
have staged a it-in in ide the
door of the State Plaza Build­
ing.
Repre eritatives ofthe protest
vow they will not leave until
they get a re pon e to demand
the t te re tore service ,
which were drastic lly cut back,
uch a emergency needs,
medicaid, and gr nts to
provider of ervice .
Noting that ocial ervice
cut in March have made it im­
po ible for people to pay their
rent, prote ters are calling for a
moratorium on emergency evic­
tions.
They are al 0 demanding no
further cut in the ocial service
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commend improvement in
voting right enforcement, a
more expan ive enforcement of
the fair hou ing laws, and Bu h
admini tration upport for the
American with Disabilities
Act.
It give . the President high
mark for appointing highly
See REPORT, Pig. 18
JA I ORLE : "1t�s
fine if they're willing to ta e
the r e ponsibility and go.
against what everyone el e
thin ."
ORGA : "If the
elll e tablished
b c ground, I think it's all
I thin it should work
