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Vol. 1 No. 2,
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POLICE
LIES EXPOSED
coalition score
court victories
The May 4th Coalition won a major victory in court on Monday, April
10, when Mark Canfora was acquitted of criminal trespassing charges stemming from an |
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Press notes...
THE TRUTH DEMANDS JUSTICE is a weekly publication of the May
4 Coalition. Funds for THE JUSTICE are received from contributions specifically earmarked
for the printing of a newspaper by the Coalition. Two thousand copies are printed and
distributed each Monday. Copies of THE JUSTICE are distributed on the campus and are also
available a the following downtown locations...Jerry's Diner, Rodney
Bookshop and the Kent Natural Food store.
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incident which occurred on July 7th. Mark
was arrested along with his sister Chic Canfora, in the first arrests of Coalition members
during the Tent City occupation of Blanket Hill. Their arrests were clearly a futile
effort to intimidate the Coalition and its supporters into backing down in the struggle to
move the gym and |
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THE TRUTH DEMANDS JUSTICE is
produced by a collective, volunteer staff, composed of May 4 Coalition members and many
other interested people. The staff will be honored to consider unsolicited articles,
photographs, artwork, letters and of course criticism. Please include name, complete
address and phone number. Submissions are due by Wednesday at 5:00 in the afternoon of
each week, for the forthcoming issue. OUR FIRST RESPONSE...The
first edition of THE JUSTICE was met with much praise, negative, unsigned leaflets and
comments, plus our share of controversy. It is our hope to mature and improve each week.
We feel our second attempt is testimony to this strong desire.We dubiously announce the
inclusion of Brage Golding, ruler of Kent State, and his staff into our bevy of
readership. With barely time to catch our breath after distributing THE JUSTICE, our
editorial office received a phone call from Brag's secretary. Thanking us for the three
copies we dropped off at the Presidents office, she informed us that Brage |
the fight against the May 4th cover-up. The
absurdity of the charges against the Canforas during this arrest has long been known and
probably accounts |
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asked her to call JUSTICE for some extra
copies. She said the President was 'acting in response to the great demand and interest
his staff had in desiring to read our first issue'. Needless to say, we promptly met this
most unusual demand, excuse us, we meant request! |
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THE TRUTH DEMANDS JUSTICE
post office box 463
kent, ohio 44240
Phone(216) 678-2751
the weekly paper of THE MAY 4TH COALITION |
for the fact that it took nine months to
come to trial! mark was charged with criminal trespass for being in a building that the
Coalition had been given permission to use. Chic was charged with disorderly conduct for
her attempts to aid |
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kent state
{Second in a series}
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her brother when the officers who falsely
arrested him engaged in severe acts of brutality which landed Mark in the hospital for
five hours. Fearful of the repercussions for their brutal conduct, the
police agreed to drop the charges against Chic, but only after she agreed to sign a
statement that she would not sue them for false arrest. But their fear only mounted when
Mark faced them in the courtroom last Monday morning, and the only witness they could
produce were one cop who claimed to speak for three others and the man who called the
police against the Coalition in the first place.
Since it was obvious that the jury had been presented no evidence whatsoever of
any criminal act, the judge acquitted Mark of the charge before his defense was even
presented.
Since the charges of both Chic and Mark Canfora fell so easily. This clearly
shows that there was something more involved in their case than a simple trespass--that in
fact, their charges were fabricated in an attempt to attack the May 4th Coalition and
destroy its growing movement.
In other court actions, criminal trespass charges against two of five persons
charged in connection with reading the first amendment in the student center plaza on
October 24th were dropped. It is anticipated that the same charges will be dropped against
the others when they appear in court next week. However, all five still face contempt of
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LAST WEEK'S ARTICLE REVEALED THE
ORIGINS OF KENT'S POLITICAL DEVELOPMENT IN 1965, EARLY ANTI-WAR ACTIVITIES, THE RISE AND
FALL OF SDS IN 1968-69, AND THE POLITICAL EDUCATIONAL PROCESS WHICH LED TO THE HISTORIC
STUDENT MOVEMENT AT KENT STATE IN MAY OF 1970. THIS WEEK'S ARTICLE DESCRIBES THE ACTIONS
OF KSU STUDENTS ON MAY 1 and MAY 2, 1970, AFTER THE CAMBODIAN INVASION AND PRIOR TO THE
BLOODY DAYS OF BRUTALITY BY THE OHIO NATIONAL GUARD.
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Richard Nixon announced the invasion of Cambodia in a nationally televised speech
on the evening of April 30, 1970. Instead of ending the Indochina War, he was expanding
the war into another sovereign nation.In the days and weeks to
follow, students across the nation took to the streets and righteous campus rebellions
rapidly spread across America. (Students at Kent State had an advanced political
understanding due to intensive political educational work by Kent SDS during the previous
year. Quite spontaneously, KSU students took significant actions.
On Friday afternoon May 1, 1970, KSU graduate students buried a copy of the U.S.
Constitution at the victory bell on the commons. They stated that the Constitution had
been murdered when Nixon decided to invade Cambodia without a declaration of war by
Congress. This rally of 300 was followed by another rally sponsored by Black students on
campus. Word quickly spread that another rally against the Cambodian invasion was to occur
on Monday, May 4, at noon.
On Friday evening, May 1, 1970, KSU students had flocked downtown to enjoy the
first hot evening of the spring. Politically motivated students gathered on
"the strip" on N. Water Street, and a spontaneous anti-war rally of 500 people
was formed in the street.
Students chanted ant-war slogans, a bon-fire was set in the street, people
blocked traffic for an hour and then the crowd charged down Water Street. Windows of
certain downtown establishments were destroyed by rocks |
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thrown by the militant crowd. Primarily
political targets were attacked, including banks, loan companies and utility companies. The
mass uprising ended for the evening after students marched east up Main Street and
dispersed on campus. Fourteen people were arrested and damage to the businesses amounted
to approximately $5000. The following day, students helped clean and repair the damage.
On Saturday, May 2, 1970, the second day of student rebellion occurred at KSU in
protest of the criminal U.S. invasion of Cambodia. 300 students avoided an 8:00 p.m.
city-wide curfew and assembled on the KSU commons. The campus had no curfew.
Students gathered to protest ROTC, a campus institution which was widely
resented because it directly served the war machine which massacred men, women and
children in Indochina. Unlike today, during the war students across the nation protested
the presence of ROTC on college campuses and very often were successful in removing ROTC
form their campuses. SDS had effectively exposed the true role of ROTC previously, and in
1970 KSU students took action against ROTC here in Kent.
A gathering of 300 on the KSU commons quickly expanded to more than 2000 during
a march around campus. When students returned to the Commons, they immediately attacked
the rickety old wooden ROTC building. The building was ignited by several students. When
the fire department arrived. hundreds of students seized the fire hoses, turned them on
the fireman and cut the hoses. When the fireman returned a second time, it was to no
avail.
More than 3,000 KSU students gathered across the commons, in the trees on Taylor
Hill, and cheered wildly as the ROTC building blazed brightly in the night and burned down
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COALITION VICTORIES
stemming form the same incident.The fact that people are
harassed with false arrests because they are part of a political movement, or are arrested
for reading the first amendment to the constitution in public. clearly shows that the only
rights guaranteed us the the U.S. Constitution is the right of the people to support the
status quo.
When the people use their supposed rights to oppose the status quo, these rights
seem to disappear.
golding's holdings (continued)
this tradition by supporting the South African people's liberation and
demanding that KSU and its administrators get the hell out of South Africa!!
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LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT OF KENT AND JACKSON STATE
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