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ycbologtcally
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Dt to the polls in November aDd
fOr their city. The vo e wu I
tcb d Searl clo e up and move
e that Chrysler aa Ilso pullioa
predicted earlier, but all the 'Illy out.
--�·-r d Searl the bulk of the tax
IClIOOII. police ud fire protection.
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_DOI-dIY for African Americans i turning into just
uploitl joa,
er hal abut out all other developers. or
ODe aJorified fellow from Florida with a
Q)tIMc:cicut.
Floridl fellow is bringing n)1hirig to the
t. to pve him the land and exclusive rights
_NIl ..... lblil' la ia the city oone kno whar el e has
.-c.1l1Od aiD� the public has not been privy to the
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trr 0 thi hope ill
only become re lized when the
d tructive force of raci mare
e eel d eradicted.
One thing . olutely clear: "We
m t continue to truggle for justice
on all fron imultaneo ly with
re entl s vigor d lead mess of
th." 1.993 is the year of rene cd
struggle for economic justice, racial
ju lice, oci 1 justice, and
environmental j dee.
Our hopes and pirations must be
articulated in a manner that gives
voice to tho e who are mo t
oppre ed in thi nation and
throughout the world. The
imD1 rallty of human exploitation
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Ucense StucIo Inc • ChIcago
i�-
nd degradation requires a tronger
challenge and bolder national effort
than th challeng and effo made
during the 1960' .
The dispariti d inequiti of
thi oclety dem nd n ur ent
r vitalized "Civil Ri ht
Movement."
e h ve to move beyond just
d cribing the proble • e ve
even move beyond j t analyzing the
'problem th t beset our
communiti
1 93 BAS TO BE a year of
effective action in terms of the
formulation of public policl and the
building of ound economic
development program. -at the
community level. A priority to
be placed on youth leadership
development in all academic
di clplin and vocations.
The n ional call to invest in
America must be Ie-translated to
investing in communiti in ways
that help communities become
self-empowered with a ustainable
economic base.
Job tr ining mu t be tow rd
b in owne hip with th ulti te
go 1 0 over 11 community
de ppment. Thus, public
educ on mu t receive renewed
upport by all level 0 government
well support from the privat
ector.
The bottom lin i that th hopes,
pil'ltio and truggl for 1993 are
imilar in content to the immediate
p t years, but the I differen is
there no ppe to be ne
opportuni ty to expres our hope d
dreams with ense th t there will be
more receptiv ears in W hington
with the CliDton Administration.
Y , expectations are high. Some
will argue that expectations are too
high to pos ibly have il chance of
being fulfilled.
We ay, "We will make our
demands known, we will hare our
dreams and hopes, and we will fight
with renewed determination to
chieve racial and economic justice
by all means �I"
The brutal police bludgeoning of
Black Detroit father, Malice Green,
has illustrated the battle lines of the
so-called "War on Drugs" could
more accurately be drawn around a
"War on Blacks".
Published reports surfacing since
the early" November flashlight
beating of the westside father of five,
which left him dead of head trauma,
speculated on the issue of whether
Green was a user of crack cocaine as
police charged.
So what if he was? .
. 'The purported justification
behind the so-called "Drug War" is to
undo or lessen the damage that drugs
do to people. To be sure, drugs do
serious harm to people, by destroying
their health and taking lives as well.
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Were the police so concerned with
saving Green from drug's ill effects
that they beat his skull in with
flashlights?
One is reminded of the saying that­
came out of the Vietnam War when
U.S. troops ravaged and napalmed
villagers-"We had to destroy the
.village, in order to save it," they said.
The evocative artwork of Detroit
artist Bennie White, which depicts
the gentle visage of a young man wi th
shoulder length Afro, drooping
mustache and soft, serene eyes, h
been republished nationally (and
perhaps internationally) as a street
shrine to a man loved by his family
and friends of Detroit.
Did police destroy him to save
him from the sickness of drugs?
SO OON the high-tech
brutali ty against Rodney King of
LA, and the scene is repeated-this
y
time, fatally. The "Drug W�" is a
cruel farce designed to obliterate
those they claim to protect.
In the U.S. alone, well over
300,000 people perish annually from
that well known legal
drug-cigarettes.
In the U.S. alone, welJ over
20,000 people die every year from
the equally popular legal
drug-alcohol, As a result of
cocaine an estimated 18,000 people
died between 1989 and 1990.
Cigarettes produce an addictive
substance, nicotine, which poisons
lungs causing emphysema and
death.
Alcohol is literally an organic
poison which destroys living tissue,
such as brain tissue and livers, is a
timulant to crime, countl traffic
accidents, suicide and death..
Will those who wield deadly (to
themselves and others, through
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BUT WAS MAUCE GREEN
beaten to death in his car to save him
from the scourge of drugs?
MUMIA
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JAMAL
FROM
DEATH
ROW
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passive, second-hand moke
inhalation) tobacco be beaten down
in the streets?
WILL If KE D Uzi
·pointed at their bodies when they
imbibe their ne t alcoholic fix?
I don't think o.
So, when is a drug a "drug"?
When it destroys human life, or
when it fails to return a tidy profit to
U.S. industrie ?
Every single day, lives are
shattered by police nd judicial
actions which crumble careers and
families, in the same of a "War on
Drugs", while popular, financially
respected drug continue untold
social, psychic, human damage. The
Mal' Green case shows how the
'state, instead of solving the problem
creates an absurdity of "destroying a
life-only to ave it."