Vol. 79/No. 34 September 28, 2015
September 28, 1990
OKA, Quebec — Some 45 Mohawk men, women, and children continue to refuse to surrender to the 400 heavily armed soldiers of the Canadian army who surround their fortified refuge in a detoxification center at Kanesatake, a Mohawk community near here, about 30 miles northwest of Montreal.These besieged Natives have been facing down the army for nearly three weeks. The army invaded Kanesatake on September 1 and dismantled barricades that had been up since July 11, when more than 100 Sûreté du Québec provincial police attacked a peaceful blockade preventing the construction of an exclusive golf course on Mohawk land.
September 27, 1965
Once again, the game of the Democratic Party primary has been played in New York City and a large number of radicals and persons opposed to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam were sucked into it, mainly through having devoted considerable energy campaigning for the reform Democrat, Rep. William F. Ryan.Ryan has a certain attraction to the anti-war forces because — while he has not actually opposed U.S. involvement in Vietnam — he has been more critical then most capitalist politicians and was one of the handful of congressmen who voted earlier against President Johnson’s special Vietnam war appropriation earlier this year.
September 28, 1940
CHATHAM, Va. Sept. 20 — Protest telegrams pouring in to the court put a halt today to the attempt to railroad Odell Waller, young Negro sharecropper, to the electric chair by rushing his trial only three days after he was indicted.Judge Clement of the Circuit Court of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, backed by Commonwealth attorney Whitehead, had refused to continue the case or give the defense time to summon important witnesses. The protest telegrams brought a sudden change and the judge granted a continuance until September 26. Waller, a 23-year-old Negro sharecropper, is charged with shooting to death his white landlord in a dispute over the division of the crops.
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