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...Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, disrupted a Sunday Communion service at Manhattan's Riverside Church to demand, among other things, that the church, located on the edge of Harlem, turn over 60% of its investment income to the conference. Two days later Forman posted the conference's "Black Manifesto" on the door of the headquarters of the Lutheran Church in America; the Lutherans' share of the reparations bill, he said, was $50 million. Finally, he appeared at the New York Archdiocesan chancery to demand $200,000,000 from U.S. Roman Catholics...
...leaders together for discussions and action on the economic aspects of Black Power. The result was not what IFCO had expected. Forman took over a meeting of the conference in Detroit and called for an end to the capitalistic system in the U.S. Then he pushed through a "Black Manifesto," which passed 187 to 63, with many abstentions...
...this intended as a threat, although the situation is threatening. It is more in the nature of a manifesto, in the sense that I should like to present some facts about the condition of the radical left in this liberal university. This attempt is immediately in danger of being presumptuous in that, first of all, I am only one radical, and rather minor in relation to a large and complex movement, which I am only beginning to understand. Secondly, on the basis of my meager knowledge, I am presuming to tell those of you who more or less support...
...Convincer. In the group's hierarchy, Newton is flanked by his minister of information, Eldridge Cleaver, the ex-convict author of Soul on Ice (TIME, April 5), who is the presidential candidate of the multiracial Peace and Freedom Party. The code of the Panthers is a ten-point manifesto, written by Newton in 1966, that calls for complete black control of the businesses, police and courts in Negro areas. Newton also demands freedom for all Negroes in prison and draft exemption for Negroes. Last week Herman B. Ferguson, who is under indictment for a conspiracy to assassinate moderate Negro...
Shortly before dawn one Sunday this month, 214 left-wing Roman Catholics - including six priests and two nuns - "captured" the cathedral in Santiago, Chile. Barricading the doors against all outsiders for 15 hours, they celebrated an informal liturgy, then issued a manifesto denouncing Pope Paul's scheduled visit this week to the 39th International Eucharistic Congress in Bogota, Colombia. "Christ does not need masses of people singing in the streets, or acclaiming his vicarage, or thousands of wax candles," said the declaration. "The Christ of the poor needs courageous action aimed at changing the conditions of the Latin American...