A-Infos (en) Black Radical Congress: Press Release

[Tom Burghardt <tburghardt@igc.apc.org>]

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                      BLACK RADICAL CONGRESS
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     PRESS RELEASE
 
     Contact: Walter David Greason, Media Liaison
     215.204.9569 (voice/fax)
     wgreason@astro.temple.edu
     BRC Webpage: www.tbwt.com/brc
 
     For Immediate Release -- February 6, 1998
 
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  PHILADELPHIA SIGNS ON TO THE CALL FOR A BLACK RADICAL CONGRESS
 
     Philadelphia, PA -- On February, 17, 1998 at 7:30pm in the
Temple University Women's Studies Lounge (8th Floor, Anderson
Hall, at the intersection of 12th and Berks), Philadelphians
endorsing the call for a Black Radical Congress (BRC) will
convene our first official meeting. The meeting is a call to all
students, community and religious leaders, workers, trade
unionists, professors, artists, cultural workers, the unemployed
and the underemployed, veterans, and everyone else ready to fight
in the best traditions of Black Radicalism.
 
     The purpose of the BRC is to bring together those opposed to
capitalist exploitation with its devastating effects on our
people and communities and move us into united action.
Unemployment, poverty wages, inadequate housing, crumbling,
underfunded schools, racism, sexism, police brutality, a CIA-
sponsored crack cocaine epidemic, homelessness, and poverty are
what capitalism has to offer a vast majority of Black people. The
Black Radical Congress is the way to fight back.
 
     The BRC will call for free health care for all, the right to
a job at a living wage, affordable quality housing as a basic
human right, free education from daycare through college,
civilian review boards with prosecutorial powers, and the right
to live in a society free from racism, chauvinism, or any form of
discrimination.
 
     Those answering the call will begin an outreach and
mobilization for a bus caravan to first session of the Black
Radical Congress, which will convene in  Chicago, IL, June 19-21,
1998. The Black Radical Congress promises to be a historic
formation in the life of our people and our country. Please come
and contribute.
 
     BRC National Office
     PO BOX 5766
     Chicago, IL 60680-5766
 
The Struggle Continues:  Setting a Black Liberation Agenda for
the 21st Century
 
(Chicago, IL; June 19-21, 1998)
 
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