Vol. 1 No.4 Page 2, The Truth Demands Justice, May 4, 1978

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

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 gunning

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 can't be apathetic

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 Show 9/16/77

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

IN MEMORIAM...

ALL OUT FOR MAY 4, 1978