Mike Young

Mike Young

Mike Young was a member of the Communist Workers Party.

Letter to Samaranch

The '84 Mobilization for Peace and Justice, penned a July 25, 1984 letter to Dr. Juan Antonio Samaranch and Members of the International Olympic Committee, Olympic Headquarters Biltmore Hotel 515 S. Olive St. Los Angeles, CA 90013

We wish to express our outrage at the statements made by members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in support of the Racist Apartheid Regime of South Africa, which is seeking to regain membership of the IOC. Morever we think that appropriate measures should be taken to hasten Mr. Roby's planned retirement and to replace Mr. Roosevelt as members of the IOC.

Mike Young, '84 Mobilization for Peace and Justice, signed the letter.

"Survival Day 84"

Approximately 3,500 marchers attended the "Survival Day 84" march and rally in McArthur Park Los Angeles Sunday August 5 1984.The event was the culmination of a week of disarmament and and anti-imperialist solidarity events known as "Survival Fest 84."

The organizing coalition was dominated by the Communist Workers Party front Federation For Progress.

Coordinators of the rally were Makani Themba (Federation For Progress and Communist Workers Party member), Carol Ono and Judy Chu (MC with Jim Ladd.

They were supported by a "working committee" which included Julio Asturias, Rev. Gene Boutilier, Bob Erlenbusch, Rev. Rev. Dumas Harshaw, Rev. Aisand Riggins, Berta Silva and Mike Young.

"Survival Day 84" "benefactors"

The Federation For Progress' Survival Fest 84, "Survival Day 84" "benefactors" included Mike Young.

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