[Dear editor, A sweeping class-action lawsuit which seeks…]
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Dear editor, A sweeping class-action lawsuit which seeks to hold San Francisco officials responsible for false arrests and injuries during the 1984 Democratic National Convention has reached a critical stage.
The city attorney's office has filed a motion for "summary judgment" (dismissal) of the suit in Federal District Court. Arguments will be heard Dec. 1l. Lawyers for the plaintiffs will argue that the suit they have been working on for three years should be heard.
The suit is complex, with 17 named plaintiffs representing over 600 people who were arrested or harmed on seven different occasions. They are seeking money damages and an injunction against future police repression.
The plaintiffs claim that a policy was developed in advance —and vigorously carried out—to suppress their First Amendment freedoms. Press clippings from 1984 bear ample support for this analysis.
San Francisco Jesse Dear editor, I am writing regarding your article on the "Jackson Campaign" in the October edition of Socialist Action. led the demobilization of the Black Liberation Movement (BLM), but this could only succeed in conjunction with the armed attack on Black Panther Party headquarters by the police, police murder of the leadership of the BLM, the COINTELPRO program, and finally, the colnow.
Your article on Jesse Jackson is a good one. If you are honest about the Black Liberation Movement and about self-determination then you have to study the Burning Spear newspaper.
Jane Reardon, San Francisco, Calif.