Portland Observer, August 31, 1983 Page 3
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Participant« ara inapired by speeches and the word« of M artin
Luther King.
Reverend John Qerlington end Ronnie Herndon Join the merch.
M ore than ninety organizations w ere represented.
West Coast actions
March for Jobs, Peace, Freedom
Oregon______
San Francisco
Nearly 1,000 people inarched
from Salem City H all to the State
Capitol building in Salem, led by the
Jazzmin
Comm unity
Marching
Band. A tape o f M artin Luther
King’s " I Have a Dream ” speech
was played and the crowd sang,
“ We Shall Overcome.”
Ronnie Herndon, co-chairman of
the Black United Front, captured
the audience with his Firey speech,
urging those gathered to remember
the suffering and sacrifices Black
people had to endure in order to
achieve even their basic civil rights.
Ada Sanchez o f People’s Test
Ban said that as long as people of
color in other parts o f the world are
expendable, people o f color here are
expendable. She linked the willing
ness to wage war against colored
peoples abroad with the willingness
to overlook struggles at home.
The Oregon march was officially
sponsored by over 90 organizations.
The rally was followed by music and
entertainment.
Shouting “ Bread, Peace. Black
Power" and a myriad o f other
chants and songs, approximately
30,000
people
marched
from
Golden Gate Park to San Francis
co’s civic center to participate in the
West Coast "Jobs, Peace and Free
dom " memorial march and rally.
The march, which stretched for
blocks up and down San Francisco's
hills, included Black, Latino, Asian,
Filipino, and American Indian
groups, communities, religious or
ganizations; groups advocating soli
darity with the people o f Nicaragua,
El Salvador, Guatemala and Puerto
Rico; peace, anti-nuke, and disar
mament groups; organizations rep
resenting women, the elderly, youth
and gays; nearly every political
party (except the Republicans); and
a large contingent representing
many labor unions, some carrying
"O n Strike" signs.
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Speakers emphasized the need for
broad coalitions to defeat Reagan-
ism and pointed to the relationship
between racism, imperialism, m ili
tarism and unemployment and
poverty. Virna Canton, Western
Regional Director o f the N A A C P ,
admonishing the crowd to remem
ber those whose sacrifices made the
march possible — M artin Luther
King,
Roy
W ilkins,
Whitney
Young.
A.
Phillip
Randolph,
Malcolm X, W E B DuBois and
others — and said this is just the
beginning o f the next 20 years of
struggle.
Other
speakers
included
Geraldine Johnson, Chairperson of
the Coalition of Black Trade Unions;
John Henning. Executive Secretary-
Treasurer o f the California Labor
Federation,
A F L -C IO ;
Frieda
W o lff, President o f California Gray
Panthers; M ario Obleda, President
of the League o f United Latin
American Citizens; Felix Kury, an
official representative of the FM LN Z
FDR in the U .S .; Delores Huerta,
United
Farm
Workers;
Bill
Wapepah,
International
Indian
Treaty Council.
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An estimated 10,000 to 12,000
marched in Seattle. Reverend Sam
McKinney, co-chairman o f the
rally, brought the crowd to their feet
with his cry — "O et Ronald Reagan
out o f the W hite House: Get him
out; Get him out; Get him o u t!"
Juana Mangoang read Frederick
Douglass' speech which states the
amount o f oppression a people will
tolerate is what they will have to
suffer.
Bernice
Jones o f
the
Washington
State
Employee's
Union 1488, A F L -C IO , presented
labor’s “ fight back."
W orm sunshine and cool w a te r made a pleasant day.
Kids join Black Dollar Days
Portland's N A A C P Youth Coun
cil has joined the national N A A C P
“ Black Dollar Days" campaign.
Thaddeus Creecy. president, and
Derrick Harris, treasurer, urge
Black persons in Portland to use $2
bills and Susan B. Anthony dollars
when making purchases between
September 1st and 3th. These
should be purchased at American
State Bank, Oregon's only Black-
owned bank. Harris said.
Announcing
the
nationwide
campaign.
Executive
Director
Benjamin Hooks said, " It's as
simple as going to the bank, yet it
has the potential for helping provide
jobs and business opportunities for
Black folks around the country.
The Washington "C o alitio n of
Conscence” plans to continue its
organizing with a voter registration
campaign
targeting
Black
and
Chicano voters. Rev. McKinney
predicted that in two years Seattle
could have a Black or Hispanic
mayor and that Washington could
-become the first state with a Black
governor.
A special purchase
though not reduced
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Juniors: we have
pants and
tops galore
just for you
Once the business community sees
the thousands o f $2 bills and Susan
B. Anthony dollars that we put in
their registers during those days, it
will register with them — Black
Americans have economic clout
worth S I30 billion dollars And we
plan to put our dollars where they'll
benefit us."
Portland was not one of the 23
cities with large Black populations
selected for the campaign, but the
local Youth Council decided to par
ticipate. "W e will check with the
stores and banks to see what impact
we have," Creecy said. Any signifi
cant showing will demonstrate what
impact Blacks could have with a
selective buying campaign.
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