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IN MEMORIAM...
WE'LL NEVER FORGET...WE'LL NEVER FORGIVE!
THIS FOURTH EDITION OF THE TRUTH DEMANDS JUSTICE IS DEDICATED TO
WILLIAM SHROEDER, SANDRA SHEUER, JEFFREY MILLER AND ALLISON KRAUSE, WHO WERE SLAIN AT KENT
STATE ON MAY 4, 1970 and to PHILLIP GIBBS AND JAMES EARL GREEN, WHO WERE MURDERED AT
JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY ON MAY 1, 1970.
THE MEMORY OF WHAT THEY DIED FOR WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN... THE
STRUGGLE THEY WAGED WILL FOREVER INSPIRE US.

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WINTER POEM IN ANTICIPATION OF SPRING
Not surprisingly,
the tyrant Golding and his unseen partners
continue to reveal their dismal deceptions
amidst the storms of this dreariest winter.
These few easily merge,
with this cold winter's scenery;
and many have failed to notice them,
and their schemes,
But when spring arrives,
when trees and flowers blossom forward
along with the fresh air
of the call for truth and justice,
the powerful few
with their courts, their hired guns,
and their cowardice
will be clearly revealed to the people.
The day awaits upon the horizon
when not the season,
nor the lies of the Media Manipulators,
nor the entire empire of the rich
will be able to hide the truth from the people's eyes.
Justice will be ours!
The murderous few shall fall,
The people's day will dawn,
The seasons of this life will be a song,
and hasten its arrival
Alan Canfora
January 1997 |
ALL OUT FOR MAY 4, 1978
May 4th, 1978, is rapidly approaching.
Today, through our newspaper, we are calling on everyone to take a stand by participating
in this year's rally and march.
The stage is set for a significant and powerful May 4th. The backdrop is the events
of last year, when thousands of people, infighting to move the gym off the site of the
murders. make sure that no one would ever forget what Allison Krause, Jeffrey
Miller. Sandy Scheuer, and William Schroeder died for.
Pushed into the wings are Brage Golding, the administration and the courts, who
have unsuccessfully attempted to curb the power of thousands of students rallying on May
4th, 1978 to protest the continuing cover-up and injustice at Kent. Golding's efforts to
take May 4th out of the students' hands, through his phony Observance Committee, and the
wave of whiteslips and arrests meant to thwart May 4th organizing, have been exposed.
These feeble moves have been swept aside.
Ahead lies the new Civil Trial against Gov. Rhodes the National Guard officers and
the triggermen responsible for the massacre. The parents of the slain students and the
victim will bring these criminals to trial this summer.
It is we, the students of Kent, who ALWAYS HAVE and ALWAYS WILL play the crucial
role in this drama. Our campus is the scene of a nationally and internationally known
crime.
It's not long after coming to Kent State that you begin learning about May
4th. Your education might begin by walking on the hill where it happened, or stopping at
dorm program or information table run by students.
You rarely hear about May 4th in your classes. And the administration certainly
does nothing to give you the facts.
But gradually you begin to get a picture of what happened here. It's a picture of
students standing up in a powerful protest against an unjust war. It's a picture of rulers
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them down in cold blood, because
their authority to continue the war was so boldly challenged.
It's a picture of injustice. And you can't help but feel outrage welling up inside
of you as the picture becomes clear.
Something else is going on while you're learning the truth about Kent State.
Controversy. The Governor who called the Guard onto our campus sits in office as if
nothing had happened. The National Guard officials and triggermen have gone scot-free.
Campus officials are trying one thing after another to stamp out the memory of may
4th---saying the issue is strictly passe.
Time and again, students have stepped onto the stage of this drama fighting to keep
the day May 4th alive and demanding justice for the students who died at Kent.When the
administration refused to cancel classes on May 4th, we answered with a strike. When Gov.
Rhodes went to trial for the first time, Kent students gave thousands of dollars from
their own pockets to support the parents and victims.
When the administration announced its most odious attempt to bury May 4th---wiping
out the site of the murders under a new gym---thousands of people fought it. Setting up
Tent City to occupy the site, facing arrest with the parents of the victims, facing
policemen's clubs to move the gym.
Although the gym stands one-fourth built a year later, the movement against it
ensured that May 4th would not be forgotten. As we approach this year's Nay 4th, the date
has more meaning than ever.
We've heard that we are supposed to be an apathetic generation and that the student
movement is dead and gone. But it's becoming hard to be apathetic when our universities
are directly profiting from South African Apartheid. It's hard to be apathetic when you
see a "human rights" president pushing for production of neutron bombs. You
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when the Kent administration spits
on the memory of the four students who were shot with one attempt at cover-up after
another. Because of the struggle at Kent, thousands of students see May 4th as a dividing
line between us and the rich class who stand in the way of the kind of wold we'd like to
live in.
On the eve of May 4th, 1978, there's one crucial lesson of history which Kent
students must understand. The fight against injustice, including the Kent State injustice,
cannot be won by a few individuals.
In 1970, millions of students in America forced Richard Nixon to pull out of
Cambodia within 6 weeks after its invasion by U.S. troops. Other examples like the Civil
Rights movement, the labor movement, and the woman's movement are living proof that the
people united are the crucial force in altering history.
The new Federal Trial of Rhodes and the triggermen, which will be heard in court
this fall, was granted by the court of appeals because thousands demanded justice at Kent
State in 1977. The families of the victims and their attorneys are a lonely few without
the thousands of voices of their supporters who will come together as one on May
4th, 1978. We will gather together to demand an end to the cover-up of murder and
injustice at Kent State! If you oppose the continued Kent State injustice, be there
on May 4th, 1978.THE TRUTH DEMANDS JUSTICE...
NOW!
THE RAGE OF BRAGE...
"The National Guard has suffered, I think as much as many of the
victims...I really believe---that they're the victims just as much as the others"
--Brage Golding on the NBC
Today
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Press
notes...
THE TRUTH DEMAND 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 at the following downtown locations...Jerry's Diner, Rodney Bookshop and the
Kent Natural Food sortie.
The TRUTH DEMANDS JUSTICE is produced by a collective, volunteer,
staff, composed of May 4 Coalition members and may 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. |
THE TRUTH DEMANDS JUSTICE post office box
463 kent, ohio 442440
Phone(216)678-2751 |
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