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"Nelon Mandela' VI It to
Detroit produced a profound
outp uring of upport for him
and for the truggle which
continue iD South Africa:'
Young aid in a tatement.
Detroit accounted for one
quarter of the total $4.5 mil
lion raised in Mandcla'
even-city U.S. tour la t year.
Mandela money
on its way-one
'year later
DETROIT (AP) _ One year
after Dctroiters rai ed $1 mil
lion to benefit the anti-apart
heid cause rallied by Nelson
Mande.la during hi U.S.
Freedom Tour, the money will
be ent to South Africa.
Detroit i the only O.S. city on
Mandela' tour more than one
year ago that failed to end
money rai cd at a rally in Tiger
Stadium.
Local organizers have been
criticized f r holding on to the
money. They said they wanted,
to make ure the money would
be spent on humanitarian. not
political. causes. Mayor
Coleman Young recently an
noun ed that the $1 million,
plus $100,000 in interest, will
be ent to a tax-exempt group
e tabli hed by Mandela's
political arm, the African Na
tional Congre , That group
will transfer the money to an
educational and charitable
group Mandela cho e to
receive the money, Young
said.
WORLD AND NATION
fun non t i to b abl to
mplo many of th tat I unem
ploy d by r training or training th m
in employable kills.
TIll PROG
eiv
nior
all.
Th JTP A trains its tuden in
lerical and m hanical kill .
It al 0 t h th m everything
about fun tioningin th care rworld.
Wayn Stat University in De
troit i a contra tor of th ITP A.
"What we do here is train th city
of Detroit r idents to do clerical
. wor ," aid Mildred Burch, co-prin
cipal investigator at Wayne State
University, in th College of Educa
tion, for the ITPA.
Wayne State' program consis
of two emesters each 16 weeks. The
tudcnts receive a weekly tipend of
Four women charge King
Institute with discrimination
ALBANY, N,Y. (AP) - Four former
workers at the Martin Luther King Jr.
Institute for Nonviolence accuse
agency leaders of sexual harassment
and racial and exual discriminat on,
a new paper reported.
The four accuse upervisors at
the tate agency of a range of behav
iors-from underpaying female em
ployees to ki ing unwilling female
workers. "Under the gui e of
nonviolence, we were treated very
violently," said one of the women,
Brenda Motley of Albany.
The complaints were made with
th tate Divi ion of Human Right
I t February, according to the Sun
day Gazette of SChenectady, which
reviewed the complaints through the
tate Freedom of Information Law.
The division plans a hearing on the
charges. .
The women told the Gazette that
candals over mismanagement and
misuse of funds at the institute over
hadowed the�r allegations of abuse
against women.
THEWO N-Molley,Linda
Champagne Van Dy ke of Niskayuna,
'Lichu Wu Sloan of Clifton Park and
Susan Gaskin of Queens -said they
were fired because they cooperated
with state investigators examining
charges of cronyism and spending
abuses at the institute.
Motley and Van Dyke were com
munity research specialists, Sloan
was 'director of administration and
Gaskin was a secretary.
David Wukitsch, the attorney
representing the state, said the insti-
tute denies the allegations.
The complaints claim former in
stitute director Thomas Cooper and
Les Carter, the institute'S education
and training director, harassed
women by yelling at them and repri
manding them in front of co-work
ers. The women said Cooper and
Carter did not treat male employees
that way.
IN ONE COMPLAINT, Carter
was accused of sexually harassing a
female employee. Another complaint
charges male employees were paid
thousands of dollars more than fe
male workers for the arne job.
When cutting staff, Cooper laid
off women before men, the women
aid. Cooper 0 ce described women
employees as ggage:' according
to one complaint.
Cooper, who resigned in April,
and Carter would not comment on .
the allegations.
"It won't do any good to di cuss it
in the news media any more than !t
did Anita Hill or Clarence Thomas
any good to have all that stuff come
out in the news media," Cooper told
the Gazette.
Sloan, a Taiwan native, aid Coo
per called her" Madame Wu." made
comments about putting her in
charge of ordering Chinese food and
mocked her accent. She was fired
last May.
IN GASKIN'S complaint, she
charged her boss, Adeyerni Bandele
Marson, often kissed her and asked
her for hugs and massages. Marson is
gram.
"It m I good to g t
'om body wor 'ng,"Burch id.
or . ng, th y ar not. My
whot goal' to g t th m working."
Wayn Stat Universityi notthe
only contra tor in Detroit.
Wayn Community College, Fo
cus Hop and oth rs i t in th
training efforts.
H 0 RA is e -
p cted to put a certain number of
tudents in the wor force or else th
busines will be financially penal
ized.
"Twenty-live percent of their
mon y i held bac until they find
job for th m," Shearer aid.
Job can be obtained at K-mart,
law firm', banks, hospital and many
director of the institute'S New York
City office.
When he complained to Cooper,
some of her duties were taken away
and 'he was fired in October 1990,
Ga kin aid.
MOTLEY, ALSO fired in Octo- .
ber 1990, said she had been put under
the upervision of two less-experi
enced men who were- paid up to
$15,000a year more than she earned.
Van Dyke, fired in October 1990,
aid she found it ironic to preach
nonviolence from an agency so filled
with strife.
While working for the institute,
she spent several months trying to
restore peace at the Akwesasne In
dian Reservation, where two Indians
died in a tribal gambling war.
Human, Rights, Racism and the Enviro'nment:
A Struggle for Justice
featuring the film .
YOU GOT TO MOVE an Inspiring documentary about
struggles for ciyil ri,ghts and
envIronmental JustIce
Tu selay, December 10, 1991
Human Rights Day
7:00 p.m.
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(next to McDonald's)
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Tickets $5 In 8dvence, $8 at door
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grammar, p IHn and
taught comput
"I w offered many job a'
r ult 0 th program," M i r aid. "I
got a job wb r I h d t us com
pletely dif erent hardware and oft
war. I was abl to teach my elf
becaus of the program I took."
To participate in th ITP A, appli
cationsar taken, interview are held
and certai n cri tria 'h v to be m t.
Loworl
Michigan
b -
ing trained to handle mo t any job,
but in th' economic ree ion, .th
lack of need for tho e tudents i
what concerns the contractors the
mo t.
"If th
n my i in pretty
and you can find job
for .tudents," Shearer
"Who better to address the critical is ue of poverty than tho 'e who confront th i 'u every day their lives? "
asks National Center of Neighborhood ... nterprise Pre id nt Bob Woodson. Above, Wo d on di play a
" () Whining" tee- birt, aying" It' time to stop moaning about being rebuked and scorned ... Let' be
ahout tbe busin s of nurturing our own empowerment."
WASHINGTON. D.C, Dr.
Lenora B. Fulani, who is seeking
the nomination of five indepen
dent political parties, has become
the first 1992 presidential candi
date to be declared eligible-by the
Federal Election Commission to
receive federal matching campaign
funds, the FEC announced this
week.
Fulani, whose campaign com
mittee is based in New York City,
has declaied she is seeking the
nomination of the New Alliance
Party, the Peace and Freedom Party
of Vermont and the United Citi
zens Party in South Carolina,
During her 1988 campaign for
President, she received primary
matching fund totalli ng
$922,106.34, fEC officials said.
While Dr. Fulani i getting a
headstart on Demo rat and Re
publicans, two other African
American presidential aspirants are
till being considered in the nation'
two major political parti .
Although R v. Je e Jac on
has decided not t en ter the 1 2
White House sweep take, Vir-
ginia Gov. L. Dougl Wilder i
among the Democrati front-run
ners and national new paper tele
vision commentator Tony Brown
became the first journalist candi
date to Challenge the Grand Old
Party with his plan to rganize the
New Republicans.
"Fularii leads with
matching funds in
presidental race
By LARRY A. STILL
Special to Michigan Citizen
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Dr. Lenora B. Fulanf
and a presentation .
CAN THERE BE A CLEAN
ENVIRONMENT WITHOUT JUSTICE?
by MARY HoLLENS. delegate to the First National PeooIe of Color Environmental
Leadership Summit. October 24-27. 1991, and Outreach Coordinator for Labor Notes.
a Detroit-based publication for labor activists.
The First National People of Color Environmental Leadersh4> Summit was a response to
the recognition among those of us concerned wilh social, racial and economic ju tice.
that NatiVe AmeftcMj, African Americans, Latilo Americans, and AsIan PacifiC Ameri
cana we faced wtIh • dspropof1ionately high exposure to poisonouI chemicall and toxic
envIronmentI. Over 300 delegates att8nd8d this . oric conference which brought
together nUf.nM::iaI grassroots � tor the first time k) build a unified natiOnal
vOice n IgII1da lot chaIenging environmental injustice. •
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In announcing his 12-point
New Republican platform recently,
Brown urged the GOP to drop its
" outhern strategy" of apparently
sacrificing increasing Black vot
er for declining con ervative
white voters.
WIDL ,ar h-e nser
vative 'colurnni t- Whi te Hou e
advi or Patri k Bu hanan . ud
denly di I e plans to b' orne a
pre idcntial candidate to rally
right-wing v ter to block Presi
dent Ge rge Bush' efforts to shift
to liberal policies.
Ja n till plans to mobi-
lized the eight million voters-plus
he attracted in the 1984 and 1988
See Fulani, Page A·10