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Government Accused of Criminal Neglect
urging participants to give one
dollar each week for victims.
Earlier, Jesse Jackson, the
president of the Rainbow/PUSH
Coalition, urged people to chan­
nel their frustration about Katrina
toward change theircommunities.
He also told the crowd that “a
barge in the canal hit the levee
and the waters came rushing in,”
but he did not elab o rate on
whether he believed this may have
been deliberate.
F a rra k h a n a p p e a rs to be
bro ad en in g his m essage b e­
yond those of concern sp ecifi­
cally to black Am ericans and
the poor. He denounced P resi­
dent Bush, the war in Iraq and
M uslims who kill “innocent life
for political purposes.” He also
called for unity with Africa,
reparations for slavery, inclu­
sion o f undocum ented im m i­
grants and a governm ent apol­
ogy to A m erican Indians.
Disaster inspires Millions
More Movement
(AP) - Railing against the de­
layed relief for victims of Hurri­
cane Katrina. Nation of Islam
leader Louis Farrakhan said Sat­
urday that the federal govern­
ment should be charged with
“criminal neglect of the people of
New Orleans."
“For five days, the government
did no, act. Lives were lost,”
Farrakhan said at the 10th anni­
versary of the Million Man March.
"We charge America with crim i­
nal neglect."
A crowd of thousands cheered
as dozens of prominent speakers
— academics, activists, artists
and media pundits — spoke, re­
cited poetry and sang songs in
the 12-hour program on the Na­
tional Mall in Washington, D.C.
Pointing to the broad spec­
trum of participants, Farrakhan
said the march included an "un­
precedented" array of black lead­
ers of organizations "coming to­
gether to speak to America and
the world with one voice.”
"This tells us that a new day is
dawning in America," he said.
Ten years ago, F arrakhan
urged black men to improve their
fam ilies and com m unities —
women, whites and other minori­
ties had not been invited. On
Saturday, all were welcome at the
Millions More Movement, which
organizers said would build on
the principles of 1995 and push
people to build a movement for
change locally and nationally.
Some speakers paid tribute to
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Nation o f Islam leader Louis Farrakhan addresses the
Millions More Movement rally Saturday on the National
Mall in Washington. (AP photo)
Cliff Booker, from
Toronto,
Canada, points
victim s o f the hurricanes in
to
the
National Mall
prayers and pledges of support,
showing
his
son Sage,
and many participants said the
the
number
o f people
storm helped inspire them to
arriving
for
the
Millions
come.
More
Movement
Satur­
During his speech, Farrakhan
day
in
Washington,
D.C.
announced a M illions More
(AP
Photo)
Movement disaster relief fund,
Ohio Community Deals with Racial Tension
An “Erase the
Hate“ sign stands
in the front lawn of
a home Monday in
Toledo, Ohio, near
where a mob
looted and burned
a neighborhood
bar, smashed the
windows of a gas
station, and hurling
rocks and bottles
at police on
Saturday. (AP
photo)
Riot Erupts Over White
Supremacist March
( AP) - A feud between Toledo, Ohio neigh­
bors - one white, one black - over a dented car
and kids trampling on a yard simmered all
summer, eventually touching off a riot that has
shaken this blue-collar city.
The violence that erupted Saturday over an
aborted white supremacist march has moved
leaders in a community marred by race riots in
the 1960s to once again talk about race rela­
tions and re-examine efforts to combat gangs.
"This is something that’s going to be with
us for a while,” Mayor Jack Ford said Monday.
Police say the squabble between the
two neighbors was the catalyst for the
sidew alk march planned by the National
Socialist M ovement. The neo-Nazi group
said it wanted to draw attention to gangs
and crim e in the neighborhood, once a
thriving Polish com m unity that is now a
mix of whites, blacks and Hispanics.
A mob that included rival gang members
turned out Saturday to protest the supremacist
group. But when the march was called off, they
turned their anger toward police who they
thought were protecting the neo-Nazis.
Protesters looted and burned a comer bar,
smashed the windows of a gas station and
tossed rocks and bricks at police. Twelve offic­
ers were injured and 114 people were arrested.
The area known as Polish Village once
was the heart and political center of O hio’s
fourth-largest city, though it’s hard now to
find a place that still serves kielbasa and
pierogis.
Jimmy Carter once dropped in during his
presidential run, stopping at Jim & Lou’s Bar.
the tavern that rioters torched. “It was an
institution,” said Keith Wilkowski, a promi­
nent local Democrat who grew up down the
street.
C I A L e a k P ro b e N e a rs E n d
(AP) - Special prosecutor Patrick
Fitzgerald’s CI A-leak inquiry is fo­
cusing attention on what long has
been a Bush White House tactic:
slash-and-bum assaults on its crit­
ics, particularly those opposed to
the president’s Iraq war policies.
If top officials are indicted, it
could serio u sly erode the
administration’s credibility and
prove yet another embarrassment
to President Bush on the larger
issue of how he and his national
security team marshaled informa­
tion - much of it later shown to be
inaccurate - to support their case
for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in
March 2003.
The grand jury is concluding a
22-month investigation of whether
administration officials illegally
leaked information disclosing the
identity of an undercover CIA of­
ficer, Valerie Plame, in an effort to
discredit her husband, former dip­
lomat and war critic Joseph Wilson.
Anxiety at the White House
increased after Bush adviser Karl
Rove’s fourth appearance last
week before Fitzgerald’s grand
President Bush refuses to answer a reporter's question Monday
about the involvement o f two o f his top aides in the leak o f the
identity o f a CIA operative. (AP photo)
jury, and with a New York Times
reporter’s firsthand account of
her d e a lin g s w ith I. L ew is
“Scooter” Libby, Vice President
Dick Cheney’s top aide.
“The grand jury investigation
has the possibility of really shining
a light on the credibility of the ad-
ministration, how officials tried to
undermine those who were criticiz­
ing them and how they then cov­
ered up that attempt,” said Ameri­
can University political scientist
James Thurber.
Earthquake Leaves Children Vulnerable
(AP) - Doctors, parents and aid
workers offer up the tragic toll of
the massive earthquake that dev­
astated northern Pakistan: When
the roofs and the walls came down,
more often than not they fell on the
children.
At the hospital here, bed after
bed holds small, crumpled bodies
of toddlers and adolescents, some
tended to with love and worry by a
mother or father, some all alone.
There are injured men, women, eld­
erly, too. But doctors here said the
young make up half their patients.
Children suffered injuries in
larger proportions than the rest of
the population, doctors and health
A boy looks at the damaged building of his school, right, at the
officials said, mostly because they
border village Sultan Daki in India on Monday. (AP Photo)
were in classes when the 7.6-mag-
nitude earthquake hit just before 9 ficer for UNICEF, said the agency with their families, counsel them
and others are trying to create a and provide assistance and protec-
a.m.
Tamur Mueenuddin, a health of- mechanism to reconnect children tion for those left alone.