\input ltr.sty \hfuzz4pt \date\today \letter {\obeylines\parskip0pt For your reference only: Tom Jennings, 164 Shipley, 94107 882-9832 (out of town 23-27 Nov) Duke Crestfield, Page St, 94117 863-7636 Hernan Cortez, 164 Shipley, 94107 882-7195 } {\it Dear BAR: The letter below is for the letters column. The¨ stuff above is in case you want to verify this nonsense. Tom J.¨ will be out 23 - 27 Nov; call Duke or Hernan during that¨ time.\par} \vskip .4in What happened at the ``No on 96/102'' march and rally at City¨ Hall is somewhat different than reported by Cesar Cadabes and Jim¨ Mangia in the 17 Nov. letters column. The No on 96/102 Coalition hired Chuck of Coal (Hernan) to do the¨ sound and lights for the rally on City Hall steps; Hernan asked¨ the other two of us to help him. None of us were involved in any¨ way with any other phase of the planning or execution of the¨ event. We had the equipment operating just as the march reached City¨ Hall steps, a few minutes early. While the people who were to be¨ speaking for the rally were being located, Dr. Fulani (who was¨ not on any list of speakers that we ever saw) approached the¨ microphone and started to speak on Props. 96 and 102, amidst¨ applaud from the crowd. After only a few minutes however, she¨ switched to the NAP political agenda, rather than the agreed upon¨ issue of props. 96/102, and the applause turned to criticism and¨ booing: ``Stick to the issue at hand!'' and other, less polite,¨ things were yelled quite loudly. When Dr. Fulani and her party refused to relinquish the¨ microphone, Billy from ACT-UP took up a ``No on 96! No on 102!''¨ chant using a microphone down at the soundboard; the next speaker¨ was escorted to a second microphone up on the steps, that mike¨ made active, cutting off Dr. Fulani mid-sentence, much to her¨ dismay. The rest of the rally went without incident. I suppose you could call it rude, but it was the minimum¨ necessary to keep the rally on target and operating smoothly, and¨ it was done without rancor. The other speakers had no trouble¨ sticking to the subject at hand (as if that should need to be¨ mentioned). Racism had nothing to do with the incident, and the¨ claim of ``racism'' here is just diversionary bullshit. Cesars¨ statement ``\dots I personally saw a number of people ripping¨ down posters which listed the various speakers who had been¨ invited'' implies that Dr. Fulani's name was on them; it was not,¨ unless NAP people put them up in the first place. Jim's¨ ``Democratic party thugs'' is absurd -- at least one of us is an¨ anarchist. From what we saw, the rally was a sucess; the speakers (all¨ applauded when introduced) spoke on a wide variety of views, the¨ people who attended the rally got the message and were also told¨ about the protest at the ``Midnight Caller'' episode filming that¨ night (which also went very well.) \medskip\leftskip3in\parskip0pt\obeylines Tom Jennings Duke Crestfield Shred of Dignity (info: 882-9973) San Francisco CA \vskip6pt Hernan Cortez Chunk of Coal Productions (882-7195) San Francisco CA \endletter