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well, I think that one thing is very clear the way in which they were attacked in Los Angeles by the police with this massive violence has to be challenged, has to be uh attacked. And we identify completely with the campaign against police repression in that respect,

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because we know that we can also be victims of the same kind of attack. And so while of course, you know, and we've always made it clear that we believe that the revolution is going to come through uh utilizing different strategy organizing masses of people and

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not through the kinds of things that the S. L. A. Was committed to do. Nevertheless, we have to uh, you know, challenge that police profession of which they were victims every form north Carolina represents a microcosm in repression and in racism. And we feel that it

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is in that state, that it is possible to set up an actual police state and to make that a real model of the New South and therefore a model for the rest of the country. For example, there are 33 prisoners on death row in North Carolina

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at the moment. 26 of them are black, one is Indian, That's almost 46% of the people on death row throughout the country. Uh, if they are allowed to carry out the north Carolina. Supreme Court's decision to reinstitute the death penalty, then the United States Supreme Court

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will be in a position to make that the law of the land and then in the state of California. Uh, the capital punishment will be able to be carried out here as well. The problem appears to be that there is no organization, there is no way

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to make that that that interest and and that concern felt and seen. And I think that um at this particular historical moment in in our country, we have to be very much concerned with building organizational forms if we don't. Um we may very well be facing

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an era of extreme repression, an era of intensified racism. And I think that we are beginning to see the beginnings of that now and the reason for that is that with the ruling class in such a condition now with the president, the person tries to be

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president under the kind of justified attack. With the whole administration crumbling, they're going to try to prevent the development of any kind of a united multinational movement among the people in this country. And racism is the way you prevent that repression is the way you prevent

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that.