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Show On the march Groups protest war, racism BY BILL WILSON August was not the only first that took place last Saturday. About 100 people gathered on the lawn of the Community Action Center to hear speeches about the war and racism. The speakers ranged from a member of SDS to a lady from Welfare Rights, from a Black mother to several Black high school students. The main focus of the rally was the alleged racist practices of the Board of Education. Two of the four students that James Maher called "nigger" told why they Tonight will be the final performance per-formance of Juda Youngstrom's "The Successful Lives of Three" in Pioneer Memorial Theatre's Babeock Theatre. Included in the cast are Dan Handley, Rick Rozelle, Pat Freeman and John Gamble. Miss Youngstrom directs. di-rects. Admission is free. "The Successful Success-ful Lives of Three" starts at 8 p.m. felt that he should be fired. A white mother on welfare spoke on why the tuition in public high schools should be eliminated. What marked this as a significant signifi-cant change from other rallies is that peop!e taok to the streets after the speeches to, in the words of one of the participants, "take care of business." The route of the march was from the CAP Center up Fourth East to Second South. The reception recep-tion from the people watching when we were in Central City was one of silent approval, if not active ac-tive cheering or joining. On Second South we turned down to Fifth East and stopped in front of the Tracy-Collins Bank where a brief speech was given about the ownership of slum housing by the bank. From the Bank the march proceeded pro-ceeded up Fifth East to First South and on down to the Board Of Education. At the Board of Education Ed-ucation Building the cops were cut in force, or rather I should say, they were out in full force, because they were in a locked and bai ricaded building. As someone started speaking on the front of the steps a microphone was placed outside a window. To the chant of "out, out, ccme on out!", the mike was taken care of. Of course the reception that we received in this part of town was completely different diff-erent than the reception in the community. As we left the Board of Education Edu-cation we were booed, and people in cars suddenly had very urgent things to do, like try to run down a 100 people. Going down Second East people slopped at Dee's on Fourth South to protest the alleged al-leged racist hiring of Dee's, who now have a branch in South Africa. Af-rica. The march then proceeded acrcss the street to the police station. sta-tion. It went under the tunnel to the parking and when it came up the other side there were about 10 cops and one with his gun trained on us. After a brief stop so that they could read the signs we had the march finished up at the CA Center, Cen-ter, where there was a dinner and some films shown later that night. The five demands that will be presented at the next meeting of the Board of Education arc: 1) Fire Maher and Kerr, 2) No tuition for public high schools, 3) No cops on campus, 4) Hire more Black and Chicano Teachers and counselors, and 5) The right of high schools students to organize, organ-ize, leaflet, etc. |
