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do not or
From boo i pectic to tax collec-
o bo i uthori and public wo departmen --w hatever
t job or ervice t government i upposed to upply-it doe n't
or ver the city.
T e yor Colem n Young' rema about the beating 0
Green. He ked rx1 ted though he were not the top cop.
Uatene ould think Youn d nothing to do with the police.
. Yet he' the one who ppoints the chie and the police commis­
IOn. �� 1 � chi.ef i in jail for stealing $� million and the police
ecmmissron 1 JO e. Attorney repr entmg brutality victims ad-
e their ellen they are w ting their time filing complain with
tbe commi ion. "The commission alway finds against the victim,"
one ttomey told a daily paper.
Noone ms in Charge. Secrecy rul to di tance the leadership
from the public. City and chool busines is more private than
public. There is a great expensive struggle waged to pry open
vemmental bodies in the cities to find out what is going on.
J t the empowerment concept in the schools is a good
ono-parents and community in charge at the local level- so i it
good idea for the police department.
We aid it the Chief Hart scandal unraveled and we'll ay it
again: w.e need civilian review boards as clo to the community
tbe precinct, These boards should be elected by the people in the
precin� and hould sit in review of all complaints, hirings and
promono .
The attitude too many officers have of "us versus them" stems
from tbeir isolation. Answering to a community-elected board
would put them back in touch with reality: they work for the public.
Organized communities keep officials accountable. It's past time
10 put an end to the 'w ho 's in charge?' state the cities find themselves
in. It's past time to put accountability into the inner cities. Commu­
nity control of police and chools. It's just that basic ...
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I 0 0, B hand
Quayle ttempted to bide th truth
from the people of th il tion on 0
many different thin from th tate
of the economy to racist and
divi ive motives of ppointments to
the judici ry that they began to
believe their own ntis ta ments nd
misdeeds.
. On dome tic policy, we
recommend that Pre ident-elect
Clinton take the necessary teps to
identify and to dismantle what
amoun to an "American apartheid"
y tem in regard to r cially
di criminatory policies and practices
in employment, education, ho Ing,
delivery of health care, environment,
CIVIL
RI H
JOUR AL
crimin I ju tice nd economic
development. th n tion mov
tow th 21 t Century, th pidly
ch n In r ci I demographic
dem d Pre Idential le de hip in
helpin to rid thi n tion of
I titutionaUzed rae' m.
On foreign policy, we
recommend th t Pre ident-elect
Clinton ct with dispatch to revamp
Americ n policy interest in
particular in the Caribbean, Africa,
Latin America, A i and in the
P cific.
Specifically the United State
hould top being the world' large t
arm e porter. We hould be
ending grain, bread and food to
other n tions rather than bullets,
mi Be and bombs. The global
economy nd ecology will be
dependent upon the implementation
of long term policies which commit
the United Stat as a global partner
with the rest of the international
community than as a domination
"superpower. '!
In conclu ion, African
Americans, like other Americans,
are looking to President-elect
Clinton for real leadership that will
lead the nation as a whole forward
and not backwards.
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Ou rage in
Hoyerswerda, and in Rostock.
In-Restock, not only did the cops
stand idly by, while fascistic mobs
firebombed a Vietnamese shelter,
but firefighters did Ii tie better as
they were unable to quell the flames
of destruction.
THE TATE'S inability or
unwillingness to act, however, did
not carryover to German
anti-fascists, who, days later, as they
staged a counterdemo in Rostock,
were met by 4,000 cops who held up
over 5,000 anti-fascist
demonstrators for 7 hours at police
checkpoints on the highways.
The delay, however, eemed to
work in their favor as over 20,000
people, from anti-Fascist and
autonomous group , trade unionists,
the Party of Democratic Socialism
(PDS), the Greens, immigrant
groups, and other organizations,
staged a demo on August 29th to
denounce the Rostock outrages.
This, despite the slanted press
coverage that painted the antis '8$
Germany' "image abroad," not the
human concerns, of safety, of
personal integrity, of families
terrorized by fires in the night.
ONE DI TRICT poli tican
justified the pogrom by demeaning
the refugee a "too loud, too dirty
and too lazy."
Others have campaigned for the
repeal of Section 16 of the F.R.G.
Constitution, the guarantee of
a ylum clause.
In some respect , the burning of
Ro tock i a p ychic de cendant of
B i tburg, where the U.S.
ommander-in-Chief, then
Pre ident Reagan aluted the
azi/SS dead, and by so doing gave
imperial legitimacy to the neo-Nazi
movement in Germany. His vi it was
a precursor to the celebrations of the
Waffen-SS at the war cemetery in
Halbe, outh of Berlin, in November
1991.
The official government said they
were going to prevent the gathering,
ut in the end, did nothing, just as in
MUMIA
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It' been a year in e the raci t
outrages of Hoyerswerda, the little
East German town where rednecks
and skinheads torched refugee
shelters, while poli tood by and
neighbors applauded. A year later,
and the whole of Germany, East and
West, is gripped in a growing age of
au landerfiendlichkelt: political
exploitation of ho tility against
foreigner called 'au landers" in
German.
The image from the harbor town
of Ro tock of crowd of neofasci t
youths torching the home or"
Vietname c famiiic .. again while
cop tand by, and nei hbors clap
approval, prove that Hoyerswerda
was nothing but an ugly beginning to
a national campaign of nakedly
raci t and anti-refug e repr ion.
Poli ticians eager lo expand thei r
constituencies, have trno t totally
refused to condemn the carnage,
terrorism and arson, opting in tead to
echo anti-refugee n em'. thereby
fueling a fireball of anti-foreign
hatred. Their only cone �rm were for
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"violent leftist mobs," the police
intimidation and attempted
obs truction, the poli tical
denunciations that fell only on tho e
who dared tand against the
terrori m, not the terroris ts
themselves.
As the "anti fa" movement grows,
so too does the reign of tate
supported hatred that truck in the
village of Kretzin, Brandenburg
State, where another shelter wa
molotoved, and burned down.
In the street and alleys of
reunited Germany the future of
Europe and much of the world is
being forged. '
Time will tell whether it will be a
future of p omise, or of pogroms.