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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
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{\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
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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.)

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Tom Jennings
Duke Crestfield
Shred of Dignity (info: 882-9973)
San Francisco CA
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Hernan Cortez
Chunk of Coal Productions (882-7195)
San Francisco CA

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