ll IC lilt KG . VOl t. ft0.17 PlAZA REW' TUE.(. AUG. 61985

by Reiko Cl:muna

This week, as thousands of people around the world C<XI1IBID­rate the 40th anni versa.ry of the bcmbings of H:i.rosh:ina and Nagas?­ki, a quiet 40-year struggle involving the Japanese in Anerlca continues at l'x.lre.

U.S. C'oocentration Camps

In 1942, 1201000 Japanese Arrericans on the West CooSt ~e forcibly removed from their communities and interned in Arrerican concentration ~ for a period of four years- without any evidence of wrongdoing~ specific darges or due process or law. As a consequence, ·they lost property, savings, i.n.cooe, busi­nesses and countless int?ngibles such as health, freedom and di8!rlty- all of the fus:ic hman rights sup_posedly guaranteed by the US. U:mstitution.

(cont. on OOck p:tge,

500 Two Arrested at Site D)

Two people were arrested as the fifth campaign to stop nuclear testing at Sit~_ 300 began yesterday. Scott O'Keeff and JUdy Foster ~e on-site for 12 hours before be:ing arrested! cited and released. IE is not c ear whether their presence interrupted testing.

Star Wars particle beam research ·and tests of high explosive detonators for rruclear warheads are conducted on the site. The tests :r:egularly release berry lliun and other deadly toxins into the at:nnsphere.

Cb:up:~,tion will continue all this week in an attempt to stoQ testing on the 40th arnu ver§arY of Hirosfiima and Nagasaki. Contact Li vernpre Action Group (LAG) for mre details.. . · ., . ·

FREE SPEECH?

u.c. Police .AtUrlc Free Speech

The U.C. Police sean to want to get the fall sarester off to a good start even before it ~ On Friday, Aug11st 2, the U.c, Police, lea b_y Officer thokehold' Johnson and Lt. Ellenor Stetson, attacked SAIC'A (Students Against Intervention in Central .Aiiirica) activists' right to free . ~res­sian. Police Seized three banners and tried to get a fourth. This 00nner vas saved, lx:lwever. Police arrested one demonstrator, Kyle Reniche when he att:a!JP.ted to save ~sonai belongings ana literature taken. The diarEe is 148 P.C.­obstructing a ponce officer. A few minutes later, police seized Andrea Pritchett as people daron­strated outside of police headquarters damnding thcit Kyle be freed. Andrea was later released with no charges filed ~t, OOI-.;~~t;.,qq,·~,~~ .

PAGE 2 TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1985

~'JEWS

around ~he worl Terrorist Trock 1bnber Stri.kes

A truck carrying ten on~ton bombs from a terrorist bomb factory in McAlester_, Cklaham, blew a 35-foot wide, 2t-foot deep crater on U.S. Highway 40. At least 47 peo_ple \\'ere injuredi and no one haS c.Iairred responsibi ity.

Have You Hugged Your DEA Agent T<Xlay?

The cities of Berkeley and Oakland received ~4 milhon to pursue a "drug war.'

Believe it or Else

A IS-year-old Boy Scout has been expelled fran his troop for being an atheist.

Woold Beer \thtk?

A. Soviet tank .ce.~ rold their tank for 24 bottles of vodka. I hope the firing S}uad doesn't llBke too much noise, as the hangover rm.tSt be lll.Jrder.

Roe Vs. Fraoco

S))Clir! has legalized abortion in cases of ra_pe or IIDrtal danger to the life of the wcmm.

Smke Bites Pig

Canton, N.C.- A non-denarrina­tional religipus service was dis­ru:Qted by a local sheriff who was en!orx;.ing a law against RQisonous reptiles. The minister Who owned the snake said it was a "sign of the lord." The s:lVed handle the deadly an:i.nals as a show of faith.

Itt 9Jdd.ng in Bed?

The Im.ladelptpa fire 11l3rshall has the~erception to cite the cause of the inferno on Ossage Ave. as the banb which the wlice drop~ oo ~VF.. Guess that's \\by he's the fire IIBrshall.

'IbiS fulld Be It

The National Union of Miners has called for a nationwide strike to 2!'0test the State of Ehergency in South Africa. All gol<f and coal mines will be affected August 25, when the Wilk-<>ut is slatea: to . begin.

'De Fire Next 'l'.ine

Chilean riot :[X)lice used tear gas and batons to break up the funeral of three communists who were murdered by police.

It's No Gme

The U.S. and its friends-­Egypt, Somalia and Jordan- are ~illl?-ns iii a ~ war exer­cise invol v lO,OX) U.S. troops. Code rare Bri tstar85.::: : .. ·:.·,·.

Schedule RALLY TO SITE 30m

Ch August 6-9, 1945, the first and only nuclear weapons ever used against a people were exploded over Hiroshiim and Nagasaki.

In an effort to resist- and to draw public attention to the urgent need for resisting-- the nuclear arms race, the Li veriJDre Action Group is organizing a series ot_ act;ions around the HiroshirrB/Nagasaki anniversaries •.

The following is a calendar of the protest events:

August 6 - August 9

Occupation of the facility; picketing, vigiling and leaf­letting at the main gate.

August 6: I¢~

6 am: Canxx::>l fran LAG office, 3126 Shattuck, Berkeley.

7 - 8:15 am: Picket, vtgil and leaflet the anployees of Site 300 as they care to WJrk.

All IBy: Infonmtion Booth­infopning the IJU:blic and anployees of Site 300 about the nuclear wea~ test:ing and the contami­nants Site 3Xf explodes in their open air testing. Also to ask ~ple to express their concerns aboUt toxicity.

Contra danCing with fiddles and guitars, decorating the fence, JiBk:!ng Shadqws and other creative acti Vlties. Bring signs, banners costumes, leaflets, musical instrurrents and anything else you would li~e to express your opinion.

A peace camp wi 11 blossom in downtown Berkeley for 24 hours on August 8.

7 am: Set up, Martin Luther King Park, Center and Milvia.

9 am - 3 pm: Nonviolence preparation and A.G. fonmtion.

10 am: Elders and Youth rally, follo~ by a 11Brch to University Hall, Add1son and Oxford, for a rally and ci vi 1 disobedience protesting U.C. management of labs.

8:15 am: Camaroration of the 11 am - noon: Scenario Hiroshima bombing- Wear white briefing for August 9th/ Legal (Ja~ 11Dt.rgrl.ng color). Blood briefing for C.D. _ spilling, explos1on of a mushroan cloud, other activities. Noon: lllnch-t::irre protest and

Civil Disobedience at University 9 am: 2nd carpool, from LAG Hall, Oxford and University.

office. D:irect:ioos to Livemme

10:30 am: Balloon Release, main gate. Take I-500 beyond LiveriJDre over

' Altarrount ~ Take right-hand 11 am - 2 pn: leaflet Trac_y!- fork \\hen mterstate forkS. Take

the downwind corrununity of Site COrral Hollow exit, drive 4 to 5 300. This is a good Chance to miles south on COrral Hollow. communicate to pe()ple about the Main gate of Site 300 on your dangers of Site 300and nuclear right a:Eter the road curves to the ~. -west. look for green lawn and big

blue sign.· 3:30 - 4:30 pn; Vigil, ¢.,cket

and leaflet with 'U>nt:fadanse" and fiddle accanpan:iirent at main gate

u.s. to Res::ue lmte SuptmBcy?

by Russel Heffernan

About a week ago the U.S. Department of State released a "studft' on W:lat they call ''a new ~' in the political situatio!J of South Africa. The "study' .asserts that although unrest lS IJDre wide;wread than ever before, there is ''no threat p:>Se<J to the· Pretoria reg:ine or white daninated society."

This study is historically con­sistent witli ~ U.S. actions to come to the aid of an embattled South Africa. In ~t crises in South Africa, the U..':i. has played a key role in orchestrat:inz econo­mic brll-<>Uts for the reg:ure.

The first such U.S. economic lifeboat came after the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, where 69 Africans were killed. South Africa faced a crisis in the confidence of foreign investors that nearly__proved fatal to white control. International capita­lists' confidence in Pretoria was considerab~shaken· by the rrassa.cre, 1 · to a flight of near 1 y $300 mi ion in forei~n investments. The government s foreign ~e rates fell fran half a billion to one quarter billion rand.

However, the P9litical and econanic cnsis srmked by Sharpe­ville was "stabilized'' o_y a t:\\10-pronged approach of barbaric goverment repression and the U.S. finapc;::i<:ll $d cor~orate aid.

Overland OCCUJlltion will beg:ip. August 6th and continue through the 8th.

Through a canbiriation of loons by the U:S.-daninated World Eank and the IMF totalin~ near $200 million, a loan of $10 million fran gooo. ole Cl1ase Manhattan, and mre Ehan $30 million in private U.S. industry in vestment, South Africa's econanic WJeS YJere cured. Over the next two years fran 19ro to 1962 U.S. corporate investn:ent went through an initial post­massacre downturn, then sharply rose to 25% over previous invest:Irent levels. -The net effect of the U.S. rescue was to strengthen the white economy to such "heal thy" levels that the rest of the -west c:are cl~ OOck to continue and escalate the exploitation of African labor.

The Soweto uprisjpg in 1976 was the next major cris1s in South Africa that the U.S. lent its "stabilizing" dollars to. The Soweto crisis, like that of SJ::!arpeville, caused a mjor econo- · mic recess10n. This time thE economic downturn was more thE result of direct action by the Blacks, such as str:ikes and boy­cotts, rather than, as in the case of st¥rrPeville, fearful and quick fleeing foreign capital. Diring

,Soweto, foreign capital waS IIDre resistant to pressures to ~ up after strqpg reassurances by t.he U.S. that "stability'' (and thus a ''healthy investment climate") would be achieved. In the midst of plunging foreign investnents and a deepening recession, U.S. banks IIBC1e available huge anoonts of cash, thereby bailing out MUte supremacy one more time.

cont. on~ I;l9g~~.

Waren's Dragoo Act:ioo at Livemme

Camarorate the 40th anni ver-of the banb · s of Hirosh:irm

~Nagasaki with~ life-affi:nnipg walk around the Lab where the nuclear weaw.ns are designed and engineered. Many wrnen are needed to ~ the Peace Dragon oo all can view her hanchmde r:anels and their messages of disarmament. Also, bring personal items to redecorate the fence around the Iab.

Leave Provo/Martin Luther King Park in Berkeley at 6:30 a.m. (come camp the night before!) or meet near Vasco and East at the Iab around 7:45 a.m.

To carpool or for more information call 441-6238. For general info on 40th Anniversary activities call 644-2028.

'. fl' t . r.

THE BIKO PLAZA NEWS PAGE 3 , TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1985

fo~ crimes againSt humanity -.

. desigpers of the ·neutron homll . ·deSigners and lobbyists fo~ "Star Wars" designers of cruise missile warhead

ARREST LIVERMORE LABI

Livermore Action Group

ARREST-A-THON

~:by Li:vemm:e Act.ioo Grmp

Al.tgust 6-9, 1985 3126 Shattuck Berkeley, CA 94705

Niclesr loeapoos Tests \

--L.A.G.

The development of nuclear weapons is a long and ·complex process which begins.with the .wea~ laboratories and mi:litarv cooiiands and ends with t-h.:> final production of a "systan.'r- ·

•.

·To conmemorate. August 6-9, 1~. the t.oth armi '{~ of the at:anic 1:xmbiru!s of Hirosfri.nB and ~,· IAG'is pl~ civil diSobedience actions at Li venrore Weapons lab and the Site .n::> 'Test Area.

At the JB:nt of 1:00 developOOnt phase of nuclear weapons . production is the testigg of the Warhead. The t~sti~Jf of noclear .Warheads is abooluteiy :ft.mdanmtal

~i~~l~~~= You can relp with our outreach and ~ for this actioo. by qoci.ng IBrt in. the lAG Arrest-a­thon. Like a walk-a-thon or a dance-a-th::n, this involves ~ yc>1.!I' friends, neighbors, relatives and total strangers to sponsor

. your arrest and jii.l t::ine. .

The Arrest-a-th::n is nnre than ~ a fundraiser. Your sponsors will feel connected into our action in a special way, which helps us build camunity support for our \\UI'k. .

1 . .

You can aloo personalize }'O!li" ~pJ1e8l. . In 1983~ seyeral _jle()P.le had their sponsqrs SLgn a T -slii.rt that they ~re during the action; one person wore a sash with pictures of his sponsors and their Chil~.

weapons have been tested by the U.S., U;.S.S.R.,· Great Britain, France, China and 'India. On the av~, there is a n_ uclear 'We<l{lOil or 1ts ~t' J:est;ed everyctay ~ m treuld. .

Test:ing itself involves many facets. -rt is a combination of design theory, comP.Qnent" des~gn, canponent tests ariCl full wa:m300 tests. The U.S. operates four.

t test. facilities am ooe ~b test facility. The Soviets operate two full· limb test facilities.

Currently both countries are working on the development of ''Ihird Generation'' noclear \Eapons whiclr include the X-ray laser- a nuclear, explosion powered raJ

E if ~- 1 t c desimled to Oe.stroy tfie o~ts ven _you u:.c:ul 00:!-Y _ge a LeN satellite · · the camunic&-sponoors, please ffilp lAG 8nd help - wanu.gg yourself by takiqg part in the tion· systems. Third Generatiqn Arrest-a-tlion.. Iryou have any noc~ear \Eapons threaten to quah-~ons or ideas, p~ease give ne ~v~ cljange ~ ~ ~ a call at the lAG off1ce- George, (knocking ~u~y missiles ·

·. (415) 644-20"~

~tical). · They aloo threaten to erode the thin Safety net created by· international arms control treaties by .circumventing or·. completely· abrogating some of theSe agreenents. ·

Since that t::ine there have been no further agreements to halt nuclear weapons test$. · While scientists all over'the world agree that a ~,Prehensi ve Test Ban Treaty is' cfieat proof," the Reag_an Administration remains fi.rnily . o~ The Soviets for their P¥'J: have stated publicly their will. . . . to end ~· the Reag~~nistration has­called that P.08ition a bluff. Unfortunately there seans to be no interest on the part of the U.S. admin:i.stratioo. to chall that bluff. enge

uo:h at the Atallic Olfe

en AumJst. s (''Ihe. Iay Before',, about 45' peQPle served ltmeh at the Atoniic cafe, aka University Hall. The atan:ic rhi:>-f lDsted ·the menl in his ·"come-'dle-in' with .us a&on.. The guests included Dr. love, a d:i.st::i.ruru: U.C. Berke ey JhYsic;ist, a 'bloOdy nuclear nurse, the New Teen Mutants, and in a. special appear­ance Rainbo.. Studerits, ~ and other activists also attended. ·

~,·HELL:. ·it_,.~,

f)

llf) G1 ' Wilking 'Around with oUr QJts

!iqpng"(ht

for~,~~~~i~¥f~ us UIS8I.le,. A1 t:hot.uili partic:t.p:ltion in war is fore:!gn l:o a great deal of the population, we have isolated ourselves beCause of the guilt \ole. 'feel as a ·bloodletting nation.. We all p_robably can conclude the CAUSE of this estrangarent is tB: ~t of the ~ 8nd the .reahzation ·that our destiny is not very much in our aYn lBiids. fut the ·symptans are IIDr'e illusive. .

I>raw.!ng fran my aYn expeii,ence, I have foUnd it easier to IIBSk the symptOOB rather than attanpting to even understand ·the cause.

· fhro!JgOOut our smll existence, it has Mr-~ pitifully obviQlJS that r:mnk:ind--rs inherent. ekness . is the willingness to be pacified, patroru.Zed into accepting q_uiek answers and soothed by paltry half-truths. Pecause \ole wmt · oo OOdly to· be ooothed, the desire to be 1gnorant and numb is almost iRC¥acitating. We all want to ward off the tiig nasty beast in the closet withoUt havl.tlg to feel -the jaws that bite, the c1.aws that catCh. .We find only comforting su~stances or peaceful ~­that will attanpl: to stave off the guilt.

· But today there is an anniversar3 that no_ptayer or · valiun will placate. T"qday is the t.oth ami versary of the banb:i.ng of Hiroshima, and even more horri:!=ying, three days hence is the 40th anniversary of the. bombing of Nagasaki. If our COUll~ contin~ to nnver use the "WOl'ds ·eliminate I Or murder" we will rever face the ~' the . beast of war. ·

Because of these constant reminders, our country is under constant · ~ by the IIDlSt:er that roams cities like Godzilla, ~ le and .1m2:insz ~ on tile ~J:f. · ·aur "healthy· Anerica is 'WOill1ded with _&~Jilt aiJd intrepidation. It is riddled with slow lmn, the ld.nd that sticks to the Sdn and peels off to reveal scars of atrocities too far in the p3St to camiiserate. <Air vict:iJJB are vict:inB of generals of cl:d.efs of. staff, of catiinet IIEetings and Presidential· decis.i,g). .

The rage does not contain itself to obvious · ev~y minor outbreaks of violence. The anger spills into the daily .chores of getting out of bed or winding a clock. What is the point of perpetrating the · mvth tlilt \ole are livirig to see a better America When we see the corrosion all arotmd · us and \ole do not know why? All·\ole see are the casualties aDd ~ can be allaet to be told it 1s because of inflation or unempl_gy ....

.. . . '.'. ,·, nt ot; the ~o~t·~&~~k~, .. :.: .. ~. , 644-:mB. . . , .... , , , ... , ~1e~~\ia~~.~~

' ,'~:..e.~, ' ' ' '' -'' t 1 f ' • • ' • ' ' \ ' , 1 0 t l. l 0 1. l. I '.t I j .. I' ' I>! • t ,i "" ,\' { • ~ ' /:. ' '· ' r ' ·!·1 ·.·'· •.

''. ' I I ... • • ~ • • '

. . ....... ·,'

' • ' ' •, I •'''' '' • •'

· ... .. ·, . '''

• ......... ·• •• _,_. ' .. ~ • .,... •.• -"< ·~' --·····--'· -.""~~

!AGE 4 TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1985

~--JI 2425 Channing Way, Berkeley, Ca. 94704

*Open 7 Days •Self-Service Copying *High Quality Duplication

Hours: M-Th: 8 AM- Midnight F: 8 AM- 8 PM 843-6000 Weekends: 9 AM- 7 PM

(cont. fran p. 3)

sufferi~ we see, but we do not see war ~ it is -~ fran us. If we were to be living in Central AnEr:i.ca. or the middle east or 8DY point beyond the borders of the Umted States, we would- not have to pretend to be involved. We would have to slowly addict ourselves to chemicals, holy commitment or psychiatrists, because we \\QUid know why.· Pure and sim_ple. The powerdog, the beast of war.

I ~ we· take example fran the poet' Wordsworth. Ire would lie 1n a ditch by the side of a road and pretend to be dead. . He wanted to feel nature stake its claim agatn. But today He in a ditch and try to feei what it \\OOld be like if t:hree-<Juarters of our po~ulation were !ying with you. There would be no cars to sl<M and ~ no tongyes clicking at the casualty, and no one to llD.li'IlEr ''what a tragedy," and turn away.

--Jeep

U.C. fu1ice Attack Free Speoch ••• (cont. fran front JEg--e}

Friday's attack is a frightening example of how the D.C. Police plan to deal with JX>litical activity on~ The situation Friday went l:ike this:

People invol veq with SAICA hung a 1:mJrier ~ '11 Students on Hit List in El Salvador." The wlice catre. The JX>lice · clainal that campus rules forbade the affixing Of OOnnerS to trees. (The banner was strung between a @Sting board and a tree.) At this P9int, &rt:. Freamn (brutal JIDtOOifucker) fore the sign down. Another banner went up. The police came again and too. k it down. A thir<f banner went up. The JX>lice ca~re and t<X>k the thi:fd banner1 and some resistance was offerea.

The fourth and last tmner went up. Thi~ one simply read ''FREE SPEECH!!' The _police held back awhile. The University even sent Mary Jacobs oot to regotiate with us. We• humored her for awhile. The cops then moved in for the last tl.IIle. As they approach~d, one of the da!Dnstiators graboeo the 00m1er to prevent the JX>lice fran haV:ipg it. The JX>lice then proceeded to grab for personal belongings.. Kyle Remche was arrested at this JX>int.

This attack is undeniably an attEmpt to suppress leftist JX>li­tical acti v1ty on campus. It might be interesting to note that the fourth banner was held by ~ datDilSt::iator and was not attached to a tree. It· might also be interesting to note t.fla.t on Satur­Qay, a man set up a tightrope across the entrance to campus. This ro~ was tied between .two trees. !his was a clear viola­t:i;on yet IlQ act:j.on was f:a!<en. (I dQ• .~'\{er,. oo~ -~ ,f~hng. that

U.S. ·to Res:ue \thite Suptemcy? •••

(cont. fran p. 2) F.i.nancial help was. not all that

the U.S. gave Pretoria in its lnir of crisis. llirin~L the height of ' rebellion, Ienry_ ~. then U.S. Secretary of State1 arrived in Pretoria on a d:~,.plomatic mission. ~'s trip was an obvious U.S. move to assure Pretoria as well as U.S. investors and 1Bnks that the good ole u.s.A. was still a strong ally of Struggle for Redress ....

(cont. fran front JE.ge) The u.s: also ~nitiated a

''hemispheric plan' in '"hich· 10,000 Japanese Canadians were interned l.n Canada, and 10,000 more throughout Mexico, Central and South Aiilrica ~ b:i:ooght to concentration camps in the Th:i.ted States.

Who were ··these "enemies," whisked off to the JIDSt desolate areas of the country, forced to live in roans of 20 by 24 feet for an 8-person family1 and kept behind barbed wire ana under arnB:l guard for four years?

Two-thirds of them were citizens who were born and raised in the United States and had never set a foot in Japan. The r~ internees were ~t residents of the U.S. who had left Japan at least seventeen years earlier1. and had ramined Ja~ nationa s because citizenship was denied than thr~ discr:iminato U.S. naturalization laws. Whi:D; the u.s~ was valiantly fighting fascism and defending democracy overseas, within its own borders the most basic constitutional rights were conveniently swept asJ.de.

The econanic losses. in ~Y and ~ons that resulted fran the mt:ernnelt have been conserva­tively estinBted at $400 million. And this f~ does not include losses resulting from the disruption of educations and careers, .nor the arotional costs suffered by broken homes, coomm:i.ties am lives.

if the · ler had been carry:ipg an F .s.L.~~lag1 . the JX>lice might. have hassled lii.m).

Why is it that SAICA gets hassled and people are arreSted for doing what the juggler did? The answer lies in JX>htics.. The University is doing its danndest to stifle any dissent on ~ Your ~ l.S free alright, JUSt don't talk JX>litics. 'llie PQiice have begun early this year- tnJ-. so we must ·also start. The U.C. Police and administration ·llllSt be stopped fran arbitrarily hassl!Pg those who breed dissent. The right to free speech must be protected.

K le Reniche will be arrai~ on :lugust 19th at 2:00 p.m. in ~JE.!"b!!mt 1 of the Berkeley Mun:i.- . ci}l3.1 Court... All . and any .. SUPJX>rt is needed. .

THE BIKO PLAZA NEWS

aparti'leid. Soweto ochoolchildren r-----'----------------, reacted to Kissipger's visit with 8-180-.PLA..,A Rill• protest~J in wh1ch one banner 6 • read, '~issinger get out of · -

~d~~r~~~J~ ~ COIITRIBUTORI With the economic help from the Thank you for this 1oieek's 1oiOik to: U.S., Pretoria went aoout using brutal force to repress the Reiko <Jmuma, Steve Maso~er1-uprisings and strikes. I\n'md Mdliffi.D, Roy W3:'bel, Jell

Kravitz, Skip TraceCla Thorn, R. The white minority succeeded in ~lC,~L--t,yl.t.:~11e ~rarily repr~ the tmrest u..u...IULIJI:U.u ,·u.ua:::

of the ~to !lP~ ~ver Faocett, (lie GJevara, ..Jc9:l Kan1an. since late 1933, · theY have ~ Big Mountain, Joe Blackburn~ a . more ·sustained, intense and Livermore Action Group, Etienne continually growmg pattern of ~asa .• , Jgey Jo. ~-· n_.1 · .• PaJe;;_k. rebellion than has ever before ~~ J<n ~ JOOat:nall oAJUL._,

occurred. I:t is in this context Ton~ls, . Ben Frank, Aloke

~- a~in u~ it,a~F!!:~ ~~ ~ist; tra~rw::se~~i~lJ: white supramcy. Fuller, Psycbe..t..__¥1 mje, Ald

The State ~~t study is a Andrew Clay, ~-~· Yanngh an P.Jlitical stat:amnt of ~JX>rt for Bobby Sands (Victory to the the reg:ine given under ffie gu1_se I.R.A.)! of. neutral an<:\lysis, with its DTVn nr a'7a d:!.r. . _ intended audience peirig co rate w.l\V c.usu\ '~

and finailcial AnEr:i.ca.. cnWt:ine ~~err ~0r will tell if it isn't alreai:ly too (.415) 'r:1.n ~ late for the U.S. to come to the J+7'"".:M.IJ rescue of the ailing apartheid L------------2......._ ___ _.

Struggle for Redress/Reparations ..

The st:ruggle for redress t<X>k almost 40 years to ferment, and today- 43 years later- no fornal apology has been made to those forced by racisn and war hysteria to suffer irreJ?a:rable damage to their lives, and no si_gnifl.cant economic reparations nave been IIBde. But tfie struggle continues.

The National Coalition for Redress and ~tions (JaR) was fonred in July, 19:n, initiating a nationwide CCI!l¢gn to seek resti­tution for losses and injuries suffered by JaJ?OOSe AnEricans CJild others unjustly uprooted and/or incarcerated by the U.S. government (such as the the mhabitants of the Aleutian Islands, who were also forcibly removed and incarcerated throughout Alaska during WWII), and to seek preventative nmsures so that sinn.lar acts and viola­tions of C<?fiStitutional rights IIBY never aga:m occur.

Pranpted by persistent activity gy the JIDvarent for redress, the O::mnission on W:lrt::ilie Relocation and Internment of Civilians (OJRIC) was authorized by an act of ~ in 19:n, and Conducted public hearings tlrrou_ghout the nation. In its finaT reJ>Ort, ''Personal Justice Denied, the CWRIC states that the causes of the evacuation were "... race prejudice, wa.r hysteria and a failure or · litical leadershi " In 1~, the~fist redress/~ tions bill was introducea by Representative Jlynally, but died last year in aliOOSe Stibccmnittee.

Earlier this. year, House Democratic M~"ority Leader Jim Wright (1}-Texas and ~tor S~ Matsunaga (D- waii) introduced two updated and revJ.sed redress and re~tions bills, HR-442 and S-1053; The key provisions of the bills are a formal apology by Corurress on behalf of the Nation, ~20';tm :1)3.Y!JE!lt to each surviving 1ndividual, and Presidential ~dons to those convicted of violating int:ernnelt-~od laws based on racial discrimination.

(Gordon Hiraba~, who defied the internrent ofders in 1941 and is seeking to overturn his 1943 conviction, finally lBd his 1~ awaited day, in court on Jtme 12th of this year, after a 40-year legal ~le. Jud.ge. lhnal.d J~ Voorhees is oot ~ted to issue his decision unt1l October or Novenber of this year.) ,

Currently, these bills are stuck in su&amrittees, and as of now, lack sufficient support to lll3ke it OOck to the full floors· of the fuuse and Senate.

While the Coolition for Redress supports the wssage of these bills, they still req:>gnize the need to educate the wblic about their srortcan:ingS. For example they feel that the definition ol individual elig_ibility for re~tion should 1nclude those who ' voluntarily" deoorlfed ~ the \vest Coast- for the "choice to move "voluntarily" was no choice at all, g1. ven the options of moving_ or being forcibly interned. '!hey are also concernea by the fact that neither of the b1lls provides for tax-exempt status, prompt payments, or bilingual filing instructl.ons.

You can .help attain p:lSSage at, these bills by writing to your representatives and urging t:han to7 supJX>rt the struggle for -redress reparations. Bay Area residents IIBY want to take ~1 note of Congressman Ed Zchau (R-San Mateo/Palo Alto area), who is the only representative in the Bay Area who does not yet supJX>rt the bills.

And in case think that the incarceration onpan_ese Ameri­cans was only a terrible mistake in the distant ~t, :;t:l'len think again: During the Korean War, tllere were Stlggestions raised to incarcerate ~ ~cans to use as potential hostages in ·exchange tor Anerican prisoners of war. kld :in response ~ the urOOI1 rebellions of the 1900 s, the U.S. goverrm:mt rmde contingency plans to reopen the concentration camps to. incarcerate Blacks.

As long. as national oppression exists, .fhe concentrat1on camg ~ence · of the Japmese could happen again to another nationality or group. Only by officially ackriowledging the injustice of the p;lSt nn.ght we be able to avoid making the same mistakes in the future. Who will be next? Central Atrericans? The tine for reparations is mol.

People intereste,d in more infonmtion or in ~ nanbers of the National Coalition for Redress/Reparations can contact their San Francisco office at 1858 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94115, Qr by calling (415) 921- ·

',~1.~, ' ::,' .. ' ·. . .