TToUsfi - Freedom Archives

FBI Klansman Cleared
in Liuzzo Murder
!Iune 1. A Federal judge denied a suit
against the FBI by the children of civil rights
worker Viola Liuzzo, murdered in 1965 by
Klansmen, one of whom was FBI agent Gary
'''homas Ro>we. Liuzzos argued that the FBI
knew of the plan to kill their mother, and in
fact, Rowe fired the fatal shot. The judge ruled
that though the FBI knew of the plan they were
under no obligation to stop it because "no
specific Federal statute was violated." He
accepted the FBFs argument that Rowe's shot
had missed. Anthony Liuzzo Jr. said, "I swear it
was as if he 'the judge) had not even gone to
the trial ... because I feel verv strongly th^t we
proved negligence and all the facts ^^were
overlooked." Still on the FBI Payroll, Rowe now
lives in Georgia under a new identity.
Punk Rockers Attack
Nazis in Germany
West Germany, May 21. Five thousand punk
rockers and angry youth surrounded a hall where
SS veterans were having a reunion dinner,
chanting "Nazis go home!" A VW bus filled with
uniformed neo-Nazis was attacked by the
demonstrators, the doors were torn off and the
Nazis teargassed, before the protesters were
driven away by police with mace. Also in
Gamany, youths threw stones and eggs at US
tanks in a NATO parade and greeted US troops
with mod< Nazi salutes. The parade reviewing
stand was bombed, and the police shrewdly
commented, "There is almost certainly a political
motive for tfiis bombing."
Klan Prison Escape
Alabama march
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Alabama March
Protesters carried out a weeklong, 300 mile
march and nriotorcade from Eufaula, Ala., to the
state Capitol in Montgomery to protest the
shootings of three Black people by police ance
Easter. About 1200 people began the march,
which departed on the 20th anniversary of
George Wallace's attempt to prevent two Black
students from enrolling in the University of
Akibama at Tuscaloosa.
USA vs. Puerto Rico
On June 2 9, four Puerto Rican
independentistas and community leaders in
Chicago were arrested and charged with seditious
conspiracy and being members of the F.A.L.N*
by Chicago's equivalent of the Joint Terrorist
Task Porce. Alberto Rodriquez, Jose Rodriquez
and Eddie Cortes are being held on $10 million
baiL Alejandrina Torres, stepmother of Puerto
Rican freedom fighter Carlos Aft)erto Torres, is
being held on $5 million bail. The excuse for
these arrests of public activists was that they
were planning to return William Morales to this
country before his arrest and were planning a
bombing of U.S. military installations on July
"th.
At 5:30 a.m. the following day, 50 jumpsuited
agents invaded the Puerto Rican High School and
Cultural Center for hours and stole equipment
and files and seized h cars, including
Alejandrina's. The F.B.I., State officials aid
Chicago police later held a press conference
laving out their story to justify this
counterinsurgency attacrk on the Puerto Rican
community and revolutionary activists. More
arrests and attacks by the government are
expected. A mailgram and phone campaign is
going on to stop these attacks on the community
immediately. Phone or Writet U.S. Attorney
Daniel We** at 219 So. Demfaom, Chicago, 111.
60601, Ol2> 353-3527 x672» to demand (1)
Return all equipment and materials taken from
the Puerto Rkan Cultiial Center; "^2) Return the
ft cars impomied to their owners; and (3^ St