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COMMUNIST WORKERS PARTY P.O. Box 2256 NEW YORK, NY 10001 FOR I MMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 16, 1980 Contact: Marion Yuen, Press Officer, New York, phone 212-233-0988 or Signe Waller, North Carolina Press Secretary, Greensboro, 919-273-6379 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY LEADER AND ANTI -KLAN DEMONSTRATORS TO FACE TRIAL On May 5th, Nelson Johnson, longtime community leader in Greensboro, N.C. and leading member of the Communist Workers Party in North Carolina, will face trial for "inciting to riot". He was arrested at the anti-Klan rally last November 3, immediately after the KKK/Nazis assassinated 5 members of CWP and wounded 9 other anti-Klan demonstrators. Also facing trial are Nov. 3rd anti-Klan demonstrators, Willena Cannon and Rand Manzella, supporters of the CWP. Willena Cannon, a well-known community organizer, is charged with 'iinterference with police officers" as the police arrested a bleeding Nelson Johnson. Rand Manzella is a union organizer and shop steward at Cone's White Oak textile mill. He was fired after the November 3 rai:y. He is charged with "being armed to the terror of the people". As the three were arrested, the Greensboro police made no attempt to pursue 8 of the 9 cars in the KKK/Nasi caravan that entered the Morningside community and committed murder that day. As an attorney for the CWP, Stuart Kwoh, points out; while the three anti-Klan demonstrators are being brought to trial, 15-20 KKK/Nazis present in the caravan which attacked the Nov. 3 rally, have never been apprehended, even though their identities are known to the police, .... .conspiracy to murder charges have been dropped against the KKK/Nazis indicted District Attorney Michael Schlosser promised on March 25th to indict more CWP -more-
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Full text | COMMUNIST WORKERS PARTY P.O. Box 2256 NEW YORK, NY 10001 FOR I MMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 16, 1980 Contact: Marion Yuen, Press Officer, New York, phone 212-233-0988 or Signe Waller, North Carolina Press Secretary, Greensboro, 919-273-6379 GREENSBORO COMMUNITY LEADER AND ANTI -KLAN DEMONSTRATORS TO FACE TRIAL On May 5th, Nelson Johnson, longtime community leader in Greensboro, N.C. and leading member of the Communist Workers Party in North Carolina, will face trial for "inciting to riot". He was arrested at the anti-Klan rally last November 3, immediately after the KKK/Nazis assassinated 5 members of CWP and wounded 9 other anti-Klan demonstrators. Also facing trial are Nov. 3rd anti-Klan demonstrators, Willena Cannon and Rand Manzella, supporters of the CWP. Willena Cannon, a well-known community organizer, is charged with 'iinterference with police officers" as the police arrested a bleeding Nelson Johnson. Rand Manzella is a union organizer and shop steward at Cone's White Oak textile mill. He was fired after the November 3 rai:y. He is charged with "being armed to the terror of the people". As the three were arrested, the Greensboro police made no attempt to pursue 8 of the 9 cars in the KKK/Nasi caravan that entered the Morningside community and committed murder that day. As an attorney for the CWP, Stuart Kwoh, points out; while the three anti-Klan demonstrators are being brought to trial, 15-20 KKK/Nazis present in the caravan which attacked the Nov. 3 rally, have never been apprehended, even though their identities are known to the police, .... .conspiracy to murder charges have been dropped against the KKK/Nazis indicted District Attorney Michael Schlosser promised on March 25th to indict more CWP -more- |