[blind-democracy] 25, 50 and 75 Years Ago
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Vol. 81/No. 42 November 13, 2017
25, 50 and 75 Years Ago
November 13, 1992
A massive explosion rocked the Texaco Corp. refinery in Wilmington,
California, on October 8, injuring 16 people, sending flames more than
100 feet into the air and triggering a neighborhood evacuation.
Residents of the mostly Latino neighborhood within a two-mile radius of
the refinery were evacuated on Los Angeles city buses.
The blast occurred at 9:45 p.m., just before shift change, when the
operators were in the control room preparing their written turnovers for
the oncoming shift. Union members from Texaco described the scene to
other oil workers: the control room, designed to be explosion-proof, was
compressed by the force of the explosion. The blast raised the floor and
forced the ceiling downward. Workers were forced to crawl out to escape
from the control room.
November 13, 1967
In the pre-dawn hours of Oct. 28, Huey P. Newton of the Oakland,
Calif., Black Panther Party for Self Defense was shot and seriously
wounded in the stomach by police. Newton was driving with a woman friend
when police apparently stopped him. A struggle followed, and one
policeman was killed and another wounded. Newton is being held on
charges of murder.
It was around the issue of police harassment that Huey Newton and other
leaders of the Black Panther Party organized. The Black Panthers
initiated armed patrols of Black neighborhoods at night. The defense
committee statement explained that “when they saw a policeman stop a
Black person on the streets they would stand a few feet away to observe.
Whenever they observed a cop getting out of line, they would speak up.”
November 14, 1942
The exacting and exhausting demands made on the mechanized soldier in
the present war have caused all the nations to turn for man-power to the
youth. The United States is preparing to take the unprecedented step of
applying conscription to those who are eighteen and over. Thus the youth
are being called upon to make the supreme sacrifice in the imperialist war.
It seems that democracy ends where youth begins. The right to vote is
reserved for their elders. The law which acknowledges their manhood by
sending them to the battlefield, gives them the status of minors when it
comes to politics. They are not asked to make up their own minds
concerning any of the larger issues of the war or the post-war world.
That will be done for them by those with greater experience, the
experience that brought on the war.
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