VLVL2 '60s protesters & workers & etc.

[pynchonoid]

[...] First of all, the mass  of protesters were
overwhelmingly nonviolent. After the first  attacks by
the police, some people--but only a small
minority--began  to lapse into the unproductive
approach of calling the police  `pigs.' But, actually,
we circulated a leaflet--handed it out  to the
police--which said that we did not blame them for what
 they are doing. And saying that we supported them in
their attempts  to get overtime pay. If I remember
correctly, the police had  been in negotiations and in
some kind of temporary strike shortly  before the
Convention. But all that was laid aside. [...] Well,
the fact is that a lot  of the Black police responded.
And in our trial--which came a  little more than a
year later--one of the people who testified  for
us--although he was not allowed to say most of what he
wanted  to say to the jury--was Renault Robinson, the
head of the African-American  Policemen's Association.
He told us that many of the Black policemen  were so
upset by the unnatural violence against us that they 
spoke up about it. As a result, they were relieved of
duty during  that period, as part of the mayor's
attempt to be sure that the  police would be as
violent as they were.

Probably, readers won't know  that a presidential
commission was appointed to look into the  roots of
the violence at Chicago. And they unanimously ruled 
that most of it had been `a police riot.' They gave
examples  of police not only beating up demonstrators,
but going on to  porches where people were sitting
outside their apartments watching  what was going on.
Going up there, dragging the people down and  clubbing
them. [...] 

from:
Remembering  Dave Dellinger
A  1993 Interview
By  DOWNTOWN MAGAZINE
(This interview with  Dave Dellinger, who died on May
25, 2004, appeared in Downtown  Magazine in 1993.
Thanks to Bob Feldman for reminding us.)

..read it all:
http://www.counterpunch.org/dellinger05272004.html


	
		
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