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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:39 PM
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AOL has the vandalism story up on their front page with a poll
53% think the peace camp is in danger.
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etherealtruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:40 PM
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1. Here's a link
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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 03:44 PM
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2. thanks
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Generic Other Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 04:06 PM
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4. oops...DUH....
Glad someone's on the ball.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 04:06 PM
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3. I voted yes
Edited on Tue Aug-16-05 04:07 PM by IanDB1
Do you think the activists at 'Camp Casey' are in any danger?
Yes 52%
No 48%
Total Votes: 32,365

See:

Greensboro Massacre
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


The Greensboro massacre occurred on November 3, 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina. It was the culmination of attempts by the Maoist Communist Workers Party (CWP) to organise industrial workers, predominantly black, in the area. Five CWP marchers were killed. They were: Sandi Smith, a nurse and civil rights activist; Dr. James Waller, president of a local textile workers union who gave up his medical practice to defend workers; Bill Sampson, a Harvard University graduate in the school of divinity; Cesar Cause, an immigrant from Cuba who graduated magna cum laude from Duke University; and Dr. Michael Nathan, chief of pediatrics at Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham, NC, a clinic that helped children from low-income families.

Rally and attack

On the day in question, a rally of industrial workers and communists against the Ku Klux Klan, then active in the area, was due to march in Greensboro. Normally at such events, marchers carried firearms openly for self-defense, as allowed under North Carolina law. However, on this day the marchers were unarmed. It is alleged that the police had prevailed upon them not to carry weapons so as to avoid trouble. It has also been alleged that the protestors were armed, but evidence suggests that only one protestor had a firearm.

The generally accepted version of events is that a combined contingent of Klansmen and members of the American Nazi Party attended the rally. Accounts vary as to whether they were set upon by the demonstrators or not, but they were armed, opened fire at the demonstrators, killing several immediately and wounding others, some fatally. Incidentally, much of the armed confrontation was captured by a local news crew, the graphic footage of which has been widely aired over the years, fueling speculation the Klansmen and Nazi Party members may have indeed been the aggressors.

More:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_massacre

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