Revolutionary Worker #877, October 13, 1996
The following Call was sent to the RW from Refuse & Resist!:
It is being circulated for signatories. R&R! has requested that this Call be posted, reproduced and distributed.
REFUSE THE POLITICS OF CRUELTY
It's time to stand up. It's time to act. We are living in a season when mean-spirited politics and injustice ride high. With cruel and dangerous agendas dominating the election debates, our voice will be heard. Whether we vote or whether we don't, in big organizations or alone in small towns, as many and as one, we will not lie down for this. We say NO! to the politics of punishment, poverty, and injustice.
.UNLEASH A SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE
We will reach into every corner of society. We will break down the barriers among the people. We will stand with each other. We will bring into being a new spirit of resistance and new alliances. We will not allow the government to execute Mumia Abu- Jamal. Every new attack will be met with increasingly strong resistance. We will begin in October, and go forward from there to build the movement we need.
The following have endorsed as of 10/3/96:
Mumia Abu-Jamal, author, Live from Death Row,
PA | Act-Up/ Atlanta | Afro-American Lawyers Association,
Hawai'i | Bill Adler, Mouth Almighty Records*, New
York | Kazim Ali, United States Student Association |
Richard Barrett, Mighty Mighty Bosstones* | Father Luis
Barrios, St. Mary's Episcopal Church*, Harlem | Berkshire
Cat Hospital, Lenox, MA | Kekuni Blaisdell, Ka Pakaukau*,
Hawai'i | Daphne Bradshaw, President, Allegheny County,
MD chapter of NOW* | Prof. Dennis Brutus, Africa Network,
Pittsburgh, PA | Quo Canty & 7 other rebellious women behind
bars, HI | Kenneth Carroll, poet/activist, Washington,
DC | Rev. Robert W. Castle, St. Mary's Episcopal Church*,
Harlem | Center for Democratic Renewal | Angel Cervantes and
the 4 Winds Student Movement, CA | Dr. Phyllis Chesler,
author | Mark Colasurdo, founder of Gimme Shelter Productions*,
Baltimore, MD | Commandante Chrysalis, Urban Guerrilla
Poets, Cleveland | Robbie Conal, guerrilla artist | Ron
Daniels, Center for Constitutional Rights | Wendy Day,
Rap Coalition | Bernardine Dohrn, Chicago | Carol
A. Downer, Esq., Founding Director, Federation of Feminist
Women's Health Centers* | Prof. Peter Erlinder, President,
National Lawyers Guild | Jean Fallow, National Campaign
for Freedom of Expression | Brian L. Finkel, D.O., Metro
Phoenix Women's Center | Joseph Foti, Students Organizing
for Justice in the Americas, UC<|>Berkeley* | Freedom Socialist
Party | Marlene Gerber Fried, Director, Hampshire College
Civil Liberties & Public Policy Program | Kit Gage, National
Committee Against Repressive Legislation | Reg E. Gaines, playwright,
poet | Gloria, poet, performer, sculptor, educator, New
York | Frances Goldin, literary agent, New York | Mary
Lou Greenberg, Revolutionary Communist Party, NYC, and R&R!
National Council | Ronald E. Hampton, National Black Police
Association | Kathleen Hanna, Bikini Kill* | Osvaldo
Hernandez, Miami | Lister Hewan-Lowe, WUSB, Long Island
| Danny Hoch, urban griot, New York | Merle Hoffman,
founder and president, Choices Women's Medical Center |
Darius James, author, poet, journalist, New York | Wendi
Jones, Bay Area Coalition For Our Reproductive Rights, SF*
| Brenda Joyner, Director, Feminist Women's Health Center*,
Tallahassee, & R&R! National Council | Barbara Kingsolver,
author, Tucson, AZ | Frank M. Kirkland Asst. Chairman,
Phil. Dept., Hunter College, NY | C. Clark Kissinger, writer
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* For identification purposes only
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