July 1st is called “International Freedom Day” on the Detroit River.
On the Mekong River, which runs through Cambodia, Laos and south Vietnam, it is international freedom day. While the United States and Canada celebrate the pollution of the Detroit River and the brotherhood of imperialist policy, we will celebrate and explore the real potential for international freedom.
July 1st is however more than a celebration. It is the beginning of a movement which understands the fact that every imperialist war abroad comes home in the form of increased racism and repression, inflation and unemployment, hypocrisy and Agnewism.
The United States has been at war with the Vietnamese for fifteen years. It has been at war against the liberation of black people for four hundred years.
July 1st will be international freedom day only if the government changes its policy of control of Indochina and immediately withdraws its armed power, and the government of the City of Detroit changes its policy of control of black and brown people and withdraws its armed power over schools, hospitals, factories and communities.
A broad alliance of organizations will be celebrating the ongoing victories of the Indochinese people and the recent victory for the black and Puerto Rican struggle in the acquittal of Rafael Viera and Clarence Fuller in the New Bethel murder trials.
Beginning at 7:30 p.m., the program will include Frank Joyce, People Against Racism (PAR), reporting on his recent trip to Vietnam, a speaker from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and perspectives for building a more effective movement in Detroit, free sparklers and music!
Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church. 4605 Cass (one block south of Forest).
The sponsors of the program include the Fifth Estate, Detroit Organizing Committee, the National Lawyers Guild, PAR, and the Radical Education Project.
Related
See Fifth Estate’s Vietnam Resource Page.