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BY ALUSON JONES
DETROIT - A soi mn h h
fl 11 0 r t hall hen 95-year­
old Audley Moore of Harlem
pleaded tearfully in a barely
audible, husky voice: "Repara­
tions. Reparations .... Keep on.
Keep on. We've got to win."
As if to answer her, delegates
to the fifth annual N'CQBRA.
convention took a historic step
forward with a vote to sue the
government for reparations.
Whether that suit will be a
single suit against th federal
government or � state-by-state
battle remairu to n, said
Ray Jenkins, a troit business­
man and long-time activist in
the reparations struggle.
The National Conference of
Black Lawyers, under the lead­
ership of Adjoa Aiyetoro, Na­
tional Director, will research
and prepare the details of the
la wsuit. Fundraising efforts to
finance the lawsuit will ·begin
shortly, Jenkins said.
"There are 35 million African
Americans in this country,"
ark
Highland Park nd 0 troit vat to win the 0 mocratlc noml·
nation He ur d voter to turn out on Au �t 2 and partlcipat
in hi hi tortc bid for the U.S. Senate. (Photo by N thalli I
Scott)
Jenkins, "Financing this lawsuit
Id no b difticUlt if all do
rt."
OWN AS THE Queen
Mother, Moore has been fighting
for decades to win government
compensation for th uff ringof
Black Americans under 250
years of slavery and over 100
years of legal apartheid.
The annual convention for
N'COBRA, or the National Coa­
lition of Blacks for Reparations
in America, attracted almost a
thousand participant from
across the nation last w k, in­
cluding those more new to the
movement than Moore.
That's a far cry from th hand­
ful Moore said sh u d to s in
the initial years of th move­
ment. Th issu ai the arne.
or Moore' and oth rs at the
convention, the kidnappi ng and
tortuous sla ve-ship ride from Af­
rica, and the cotton-picking un­
der the crack of the overseers'
whip remain unfinished busi­
ness.
John Conyers
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By RON SEIGEL
Michigan �/tlz,!!!
and poor people in order to get
the land for business or affluent
suburbanit
DI TR CT OU en,
were t up to give community
residen a role in planning de­
v lopm nt of their as, in or­
der to pr vent such ab
R ntly, how v r, th city
has ncour ged citiz n district
oun ils to form non-profit corpo­
ratio in order to get funding for
developm nt proj on th ir '
aged the University City "A"
Citizen District Council to use its
nonprofit standing to expand its
role. Rather than simply recom­
mending a developer, the council
is going into the bu in of de­
velopment itself.
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cludingU.S. Rep. John Conyers,
D· Ieh., n th Je
J ckson.
But h t to
be growing, pecially after t
1988 u of Japan Ameri-'
cans in winning h payments
of 20,000 for each of the 60,000
survivors of forced internment
during World War II.
"We are owed reparations. We
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be giving th m "a wink and
nod."
He said that while Clinton
was v rbally supporting th
ousted democratically el cted
p iden , Jean Bertrand Aris­
tide, th CIA was p ding a
"camp ign of misinformation"
calling him unstable.
Conyers aid part of th prob-
lem was that th we many
R publican holdov r in h
State Department from the I t
administration.
RUE TO say, how­
ever, that Clinton is ing ub­
v rted by his employ
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CONYERS, D6
DETROIT - Congressman
John Conyers, representing
Highland Park and some por­
tions of Detroit, said that U.S.
President Bill Clinton can rid
Haiti of the military dictatorship
without invasion or the ]0 of a
single Am rican life.
Th only thing that is n s­
sary, h aid, is to show that h
i really seriou about it.
Conyers char that while
h Clinton dmini tration d -
nounced the military dictator­
hip, which h aid, "criminally
umed power" ov r the eoun-
tty, our govemm nt m to
. force in
tional Action Cen r, founded
by former Attorney General
Ramsey Clark.
A} dy th U.S. has sta­
tioned 13 wa hips off Haiti'
co t. Included in thi annada
is a naval ault group with
2,000 marin .
P ident Ari tid himself
has ted ntly a July
14 that h is no king for
military interv ntion.
Many H iti
11 too w 11 .h 1 im
10 rv n d 10 Haiti. This
milit ry occupa ion 1 d
from 1915 01934 of
By JOHNNIE STEVENS
Sp.cl., !!! �/ch!R.n Cltlz.n_
EW YORK �Demonstra­
to rallied in ew York city on
July 28 gainst any U.S. inva­
sion of Haiti. The rally marked
the 79th annive ary of h
first U.S. intervention in Haiti.
I th United Sta going
toinvsdeHaiti?Would uch an
inva ion r tore th d mo­
cratically lected Haiti n
P ident J n-B rtrand Ari -
tid or ill it bring a n w for­
eign occupation of Ha i I?
Th qu tio w pos by
r lly organiz r, t Intern-
19 years.
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