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Reaganism: Black Genocide

Reaganism: Black Genocide Take Our Fight to the World's People! March to the U.N. May 22!

From a Communist Workers Party-linked Poster advertising a protest in 1982:,

"Reaganism: Black Genocide Take Our Fight to the World's People! March to the U.N. May 22!"

"Leaflet advertising an African Liberation Day 1982 demonstration at the United Nations. The leaflet says the lives and freedom of Black people in the U.S., southern Africa, and the Caribbean are threatened by an onslaught of unprecedented ferocity spearheaded by the Reagan administration. Reagan supports Black slavery in South Africa. The leaflet notes it is the tenth anniversary of African Liberation Day and 1982 has been declared the "International Year of Mobilization for Sanctions Against South Africa" by the UN Committee Against Apartheid. Slogans include "Take Our Fight to the World's People! March to the U.N. May 22!" "Self-Determination and Equal Rights for Black People from the U.S. to S. Africa!" and "Full Sanctions Against South Africa! Freedom for Namibia, Victory to SWAPO!"

Signatories

• Black Student Communications Organizing Network (BSCON)
• Federation for Progress
• Rep. Mickey Leland, U.S. Congress, Texas
• William H. Booth, President, American Committee on Africa
• Rev. Timothy Mitchell, Ebenezer Baptist Church
• Mike Young, Communist Workers Party
• Coalition of Concerned Black Women
• Rev. Dr. William A. Jones, National Black Pastors Conference
• Ossie Davis
• Ruby Dee
• New York TransAfrica
• Rev. Fred Douglas Kirkpatrick, Black Theology Project
• Barbara Valentine, Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner 8-A, President, People's Co-op, Washington, D.C.
• Kojo Nnambi, News Director, WHUR-Radio
• Dr. Manning Marable, Professor, Cornell University
• Roger Green, New York State Assemblyman
• Fr. Paul Washington, 1st Church of the Advocate, Philadelphia, Pa.
• Dave Richardson, PA. State Representative
• Imari Abubakari Obadele, President of the Republic of New Africa
• Prof. Rita Smith, Pan-African Department, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
• Boston Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa (BCLSA), Boston, Mass.
• South West African People's Organization
• Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania
• Rev. Dr. Fred Williams, Church of the Intercessions

SWP event

A celebration of their publication of "Che Guevara and the Cuban Revolution: Writings and Speeches of Ernesto Che Guevara" was to be held on Sunday, December 6, 1987 in Manhattan, New York City, sponsored by the Socialist Workers Party run Pathfinder Bookstore, 79 Leonard Street, NYC, NY. Speakers for the event were listed as:

• David Deutschmann - book editor
• Gus Newport - former mayor of Berkeley, Cal.
• Roger Green - NY State Assemblyman, NY State Assembly
• Teresa Walsh - Venceremos Brigade
• Ray Santiago - Secretary-Treasurer, FLOC Farm Labor Organizing Committee
• representatives of SWAPO and ANC

"Unity"

In 1988, in the July 18 issue, Roger Green endorsed Unity, the newspaper of the League of Revolutionary Struggle.

"A call to build an organization for the 1990s and beyond"

Unity, January 28 1991, issued a statement "A call to build an organization for the 1990s and beyond" on pages 4 to 6.

This group was a split in the League of Revolutionary Struggle which soon became the Unity Organizing Committee.

Those listed as supporters of the call included Roger Green, New York state assemblyman, Brooklyn.

Ujamoa Institute

Roger Green, Ujamoa Institute, contributed an article to Unity Organizing Committee's Unity, October 14, 1991.

"Where to in'92"

The the February 1992 issue of the Unity Organizing Committee's Unity, carried commentary from several activists on their thoughts on politics in the 1990s.

Those interviewed were Rose Sanders, civil rights attorney, Selma, Oscar Rios, mayor of Watsonville California, Roger Green, state assemblyman Brooklyn, Wilma Chan school board president Oakland, Dr. James Zogby, president Arab American Institute, Pedro Noguera, president Berkeley School Board, Richard Moore, SouthWest Organizing Project, Tajel Shah, United States Student Association president, Merle Hansen, North American Farm Alliance, Wilma Mankiller, principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, Walter Johnson, secretary treasurer San Francisco Labor Council, Ginny Montes general secretary NOW.

Endorsed Unity

Roger Green endorsed Unity, June 1992.

New Party builder

New Party News Fall 1994 listed over 100 New Party activists-"some of the community leaders, organizers, retirees,, scholars, artists, parents, students, doctors, writers and other activists who are building the NP" the list included Roger Green, NY State Assembly

Paul Robeson celebration

On May 31 1998 the Peoples Weekly World held a Paul Robeson birth centennial celebration in New York, at the Henry Winston Auditorium.

Attendees included;

• Judith LeBlanc, Communist Party USA
• Gus Hall, chairman of the Communist Party USA, talked of meeting Robeson annually to collect his dues and renew his party membership
• John Bachtell, chairman of the New York district of the Communist Party USA
• Amiri Baraka, who read poetry
• Yasmin Adeigbola, who sang "Amazing Grace"

Tributes came from ;

• Tom Duane authored a City Council proclamation praising Robeson's lifelong fight for a "world at peace, free of racism, inequality and for unity"...and his fight against the erosion of domestic freedom of expression and fanatical anti-communism....Paul Robeson has become a model and an inspiration to all of us..."
• Richard Gottfried, presented a resolution from the New York State assembly honoring Robeson. Democrat David Paterson introduced the resolution in the State Senate. Republican John Marchi and Democrats Richard Gottfried and Roger Green, introduced it in the State Assembly.

Sponsors

On May 31 1998 the Peoples Weekly World held a Paul Robeson birth centennial celebration in New York, at the Henry Winston Auditorium.

Speakers included Gus Hall, chairman of the Communist Party USA and Roger Green of the NY State Assembly.

Sponsors of the event included poet Amina Baraka, Grace T. Bassett, actress Vinie Burrows, former Peoples Voice editor Marvel Cooke, Councilmember Tom Duane, Attorney Rob Ellis, Assemblymember Roger Green, Gus Hall, Councilmember Bill Perkins, labor unionist Bobbie Rabinowitz, actor John Randolph, Pete Robinson, poet Sonia Sanchez, singer Pete Seeger, labor unionist Chris Silvera, PWW editor Tim Wheeler, New York City Coalition of Black Trade Unionists president Jim Webb and labor unionist Ira Williams.

2000 WFP Convention

The New York Working Families Party 2000 Convention was held at the Desmond Hotel, March 26.

Attendees included;

• Jim Duncan, WFP co-chair and statewide political director of the United Auto Workers
• Bertha Lewis, WFP co-chair and chair of New York ACORN
• Bob Master, WFP co-chair and statewide political director of the Communication Workers of America
• State Senator Eric Schneiderman
• Chris Silvera, Treasurer of Teamsters local 808
• Dennis Hughes, president New York Federation of Labor
• Jose Velazquez, Lithographers local 1 organizer
• Ed Vargas, director of the state council of UNITE
• Karen Scharff, executive director of Citizen Action New York
• Jim Hightower
• Maude Hurd, national chair of ACORN
• Bradley Erck, a rep. on the Niagara County legislature and UAW Local 686, legislative committee chair
• Larry Handley, President Amalgamated Transit Union
• Arthur Cheliotes, president of Communication Workers of America local 1180
• Hillary Clinton
• State Assemblyman Roger Green
• Senator Chuck Schumer
• Antoine Thompson, new board president of Citizen Action, upstate New York

There were sizable delegations from ACORN and Citizen Action.