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it's willing to maintain some control of itself right at this point. Present their, uh and I'll state again my commitment to the faculty and the student body and to the Third World people that, uh, the efforts both understand the tensions on the campus and the racial

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and ethnic base of those tensions. The tensions of students in relation to the appropriateness of the instruction and to the appropriateness of the administrative procedures are important issues. They cannot all be resolved in a large convocation. All situation they certainly many of them can be resolved

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over a longer period of time. And I really do believe, too, that we're in the process of trying to like to speak blacks fake. That's right. Shut down on strike strike. I'm try to shut it down. I'm strike. Shut it down. Oh, Oh, yeah. What right.

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That's not from a class city. The important thing is that you tell people going into the classrooms that or whatever they do, let them know that we want the whole school out here. 12 have come out with 15 demands. Minimum demands very clear demands concerning survival

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of black, brown, red, yellow people at San Francisco state demands that we felt where minimum and demands that we felt that with goodwill, with commitment and with the possible readjustment authorities we met quite readily. The faculty had a meeting, and as I related yesterday, they discussed

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what could be done after a large number of the faculty, in addition to the entire academic Senate, went down to the board of trustees meeting and he went down there and the board of trustees very simply said, uh, go fuck yourself. We don't like what you're

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doing down there. We don't like the fact that San Francisco State is always in disruption. We don't like the fact that San Francisco State tries to address itself to what's happening socially in the world and in the United States and in San Francisco. And what we

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want is people who are going to be a Tom Martin. We're gonna be burying themselves, reflected and they assimilated and they talk and reflected until until a woman got up and laid it on him very, very strongly and totally like it was a woman grin. Much

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to my chagrin, I learned to know it was not just 12 classes. There were many many classes being held, many, many classes being held. And so we brought it up right out front. We brought it up to President Smith right there. We said, President Smith, is

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this true? Oh, my job. But, uh, due to the crystallization and due to democratization and all that bullshit Mhm. And finally, President Smith got around to saying yes, that is true. We said, President Smith, will you make a directive? Will you just really sent out a

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directive that no classes will be taught. He said no. It took him 20 minutes to do it. But he said no. And I'm not saying these things again for you to crap. And I'm not saying these things again for you to laugh because they aren't funny.

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Really. Comedy is tragedy in disguise, and that's what we're dealing with. So what happened? What happened was we went on with it. We entertain one demand of the Black Student union. Uh, and then we try to to get to a demand of the I. C. S.

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A. And we talked for so long we decided we will delay it until tomorrow. Last night had a meeting, and, uh, representatives of the Third World Liberation Front went over to that meeting. I was there. Roger was there. Tony was there. Many, many brothers and sisters

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were there. And again we wrap. We wrap very, very hard. We pleaded almost team 28 with one abstention, that they would urge President Smith to close down all all excuse me, all classes today, all classes today that the convocation would be a reality. The convocation would

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be constructed. That's the first part of the motion. The second part of the motion was that if any political ramifications occurred based upon his decision with the backing of the academic Senate the day for the first time in probably the history of the United States would

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back him to the hill, that's what they passed. And I thought that was nice. And so then they said, We're gonna work like hell to convince President Smith that we do this. Apparently they tried to do that, and President Smith ah decided not to do that.

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And so then what happened? We have to go back up on that stage today, you know, with our heads bowed because basically what had happened was that the administration had made all of us look like fools. They conflicted. Something could possibly happen constructive and creatively in

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reference to trying to re address ourselves to the causes and to the reality of why people are in conflict. Because the administration didn't do their part. I just want to make that clear. And I hope those contradictions are very clear to everyone there very clear to

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me. And I hope they're very clearly other people because this is very, very important point now. Roger's gonna rap to you and some other things on some thing that was figured out in a classroom on a chalkboard. Do not come out of sensitivity groups that come

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out of the educational needs the Third World people have in relationship to this institution. Two years ago, Third World people began to work towards the implementation. These demands. Since that time, the work has been escalated. Paperwork, the meetings, the bullshit has gone on and on. It

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has increased and this institution has continually refused to make any commitment and fulfilling the implementation of a third world school on this campus. When the strike was called, strike was called in order to get a fulfillment of Third World student needs at this college. Since the

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beginning of this stripe, the administration has consistently refused. What that means is that Smith is saying faculty, give me your vote on what I should do. But I'm not going to do what you tell me to do issues to deal with the demands. What it means

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is that the Chancellor, the board of trustees, march just as well be sitting up there in that building. As far as how this colleges run and its chancellor and the administrators and the board of trustees and the politicians and the pigs can go sit on their

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fat asses someplace else because we aren't gonna deal with this shit. We know what we want. What we have to do now is make sure that we get it. We're not gonna get it as long as this college function, we're not going to get it. As

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long as we have to continually keep moving to close this campus, the only way we can get it is we we can sit down and we can deal with the issues one at a time. If we can resolve those issues one at a time, the only

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way we can get to that point is by taking control of this college and by telling Smith nasty that we get what we want, what we decide that we want on the basis of our needs. Fuck what the chancellor think. Fuck the board of trustees and

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fuck wild rigging than any other mother. Yeah, Yeah, thank you. Trick. And it is incumbent people here who's the path to strike at this time, Mark and some type of fashion to close down the school and their demands are met. So the Black Student Union and

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the Terrible and Liberation Front realizes very clearly that we are caught in a contradiction. We can either capitulate to the administration the broader custody than other fascist pigs. We can stand up like, turn him around. A says we can stand up and decided to take our

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destiny into our own hands at this point. Oh, it's the move as a body to close the school down until those demands are met. And this is what we're calling our students to do right now. Mhm. Okay, Sure. After our buildings to close the school down

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until our demands are met. Okay? Mhm. okay. Mm. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Well, yeah, yeah. Psychology was moderating the panel. Imagine that all of us do hope that out of this that a climate will come in which true

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settlement of the situation can come about now. Um, and then there are some announcements, announcements, but some three of us are going to speak concerning events that have happened last night in subsequent action that's been taken today. I think, first of all, will go back and

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just consider the events that led to the development of this convocation and the kind of commitment that was made. Yeah. Two people being informed on the basis of the demands and the process of implementing those demands. Yeah, that people be urged to attend the complication, to

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become informed on the issues and to understand just exactly mhm what the demands were about from the perspective of people who were making the demands. Yeah. This morning, members of the academic Senate I met with President Smith to relate to him the decision that the Academic

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Senate had made. Following that President Smith has decided to call for a faculty of the vote the vote of the faculty asking them whether or not the classes on this campus should be closed. That vote is to be taken tomorrow afternoon. Let me finish right. Analyzing

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exactly the objective of this convocation and understanding the president's situation of the convocation. Yeah, and we understand this the faculty and all other people who are sincerely, who are sincerely committed to understanding our demands and seeking to have these demands implemented. The responsibility is on you

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and on us too. Enforce or to demand of Smith that the courses and the classes be discontinued until the issues are resolved and understood. Stayed in this bullshit. We were refused to participate because that's all it is. What is happening is, uh, the black students and

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Third World students and the faculty are being contained in this small room while the world outside is being manipulated in a fashion that racism can continue to permeate. What is happening is that Smith Smith, with all his lackeys, realize this. And while he's sitting his fat

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ass over there in that chair, his lackeys are out. Ray Smith will have his opportunity to talk. And if you'd like to hear his response, I'll be happy to out instituting racism. Mm hmm. Uh, I can just I can sense I can sense the presence of

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pigs in this In this in this auditorium with all the pigs, all the members of the federal state judicial, municipal body Police. Stand up all police officers. Oh, no, Mr Goodwin. Mhm. People got one thing. Excuse me, Mr Devon. Now there's one thing that I didn't

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mention that I mentioned yesterday. Now, I don't know how many of you in the audience I repeat from yesterday, but I said I was proceeding on a no gavel basis. I do not have a gavel up here. I intend, as long as I am here not

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to have one. And I said that the only way I could operate is with everyone's cooperation. And that's what we're trying to demonstrate here, to the school and to the community is that we can sit down and solve our own problems and that we can do

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it together. Now. I don't think that it can be done if clapping takes place. I think Mr Alvarado mentioned yesterday that the I'll let you finish Mr Goodwin in a minute. That's I'd like to recognize President Smith At this point, I said to the groups that

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were present yesterday that one of the that there were hopeful and important things going on in this convocation. And in this a series of discussion, it was made clear repeatedly that the effort was by the Third World people that the effort was one was an education

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and clarification of the demands for all of those people, uh, listening and attending the conference. And it was made clear by the Senate when they set the A convocation up that we were not intending to negotiate. And the Third World people said that too, I believe,

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negotiate, uh, in this setting and, uh, that it was on that basis that, uh, administrators and members of the faculty I understand came to participate and participate in uh huh for several hours yesterday and again today. The issues being presented, uh, as they are presented to

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you today, is, uh and as the development of this convocation progresses is clearly one that I thought might very well happen when I decided to participate, uh, concurrently with a class schedule, and that is that it's a beautiful setup for isolating me as a president if

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I have any, uh, perception of what is appropriate for the whole college from the faculty and possibly from a large number of the student body and particularly from the student body. Uh, and, uh, I just President. President Smith is talking. I want to get to know

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President Smith is talking right now, and if he wants to explain his position, he can explain his position. I have not. Please, Mr. President Smith has the floor and let him explain his position. This is what we're here for is to try to talk about the

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differences in position after to get an advisory expression on the process of maintaining. That's strong. You know, other states desire I'm having from ladies and gentlemen. Still, President Smith still has the panel floor. Would you please be quiet while we're leaving? Tell me right down. I'm

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dead, Johnny. Yeah. Strike shape on. Shut it down on strike. Yeah, there would be. No way. Yeah. Did you hear everybody good? I don't know if everyone has man. Okay. Yeah, yeah, sure, Captain. Mhm. That would take place around people. Team.

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