Monday, October 25,1999
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The University Daily Kansan Nation/World
Large crowd opposes Klan
Only 16 members appear at NY rally without their masks
The Associated Press
NEW YORK—After days of legal maneuvering about their right to rally, only 16 Ku Klux Klan members Saturday stood silently inside a pen fashioned from police barricades and literally faced the jeers of thousands of protesters.
New York City succeeded in unmasking the Klan when a federal appeals court ruled Friday that the city could refuse to permit the event if participants insisted on wearing their traditional masks. The Klan continger wore their traditional pointed hats, minus the usual face cover.
Denied a city permit to use a sound system, the Klan stood
silently inside the pen, surrounded by police officers in riot helmets. The Klan members — including two women — were joined by two skinheads, one sporting a White Power patch.
"We can't get our message out," complained Jeffrey Berry, the National Imperial Wizard of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. "We are silenced."
The crowd of anti-Klan protesters, estimated at about 6,000, jeered and shouted angrily at the Klan. There also were about 2,000 onlookers, police said.
"We're fired up! No more talk! Klan crawl back under your rock!" they chanted.
Three police officers were injured trying to control the angry anti-Klan crowd, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said.
Among those demonstrating against the Klan were several people who had argued for their right
to rally — including Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., and civil rights lawyer Ron Kuby.
"We protect the right of free speech even if it is stupid and hate speech." Nadler said.
The rally ended after 75 minutes, with the Klan members flashing a Nazi salute to the crowd and shouting, "White pride!" Police escorted the Klan inside the courthouse as the demonstrators dispersed.
The rally followed a legal battle that eventually reached the U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday. Gluiani initially tried to deny the group a rally permit, but was overruled.
The city then argued that under an obscure 1845 law, the Klan could not gather if they wore hoods that covered their faces. On Friday, a federal appeals court upheld the city's position.
The Klan appealed Saturday to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to keep their masks, but Ginsburg turned down the request.
Colombians march in protest demand cease-fire, peace talks
The Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia—Millions of Colombians marched yesterday in the largest anti-war protest in nearly four decades of civil strife as long-awaited peace negotiations began in a rebel-held town.
began his life as a Claiming inspiration from such nonviolent crusaders as Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., marchers in 15 major cities and dozens of towns turned out to demand a cease-fire, swift progress in peace talks and an end to violence against civilians — the principal victims of a war that has claimed at least 30,000 lives.
Tacking peace ribbons to their lapels, painting their faces in the green-and-white colors of the budding peace movement and waving small paper flags bearing the simple slogan No Mas — no more — people filled main avenues in Bogota, Medellin and Cali.
"We have awakened from the
nightmare of apathy and fear," said Francisco Santos, a key organizer and newspaper editor from one of the country's most influential families, to a gathering in Bogota's Simon Bolivar park.
Santos claimed at least 5.2 million people marched nationwide in this country of 40 million. Police said two million protested in the capital.
Meanwhile, government and guerrilla negotiators convened in Uribe, a ranching town, to launch formal peace negotiations that have stumbled since their ceremonious January inauguration.
Armed rebels mingled through the hundreds of people who had gathered to witness the ceremony involving delegates of President Andres Pastrana's government and the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the hemisphere's most powerful rebel band.
After rebel negotiator Raul Reyes
read a speech railing against U.S.
military aid, a presidential peace envoy said the country faced two possible futures.
"Either we will destroy ourselves or we will rebuild ourselves," peace commissioner Victor G. Ricardo told the gathering.
While both sides boast that peace prospects are more promising than ever, they also are cautioning strongly against expectations of a quick resolution.
Many Colombians are hoping the anti-war movement — unprecedented in the South American nation where peace activists have been systematically killed by extremists — will light a fire under the negotiators' feet.
The civic protests come amid an escalation in violence that dampened much of the optimism generated by bold moves to forge peace that began with Pastranna's visit 14 months ago to the jungle hide-out of FARC chieftaine Manuel Marulanda.
Bluegrass' best event this year was festival held in Winfield
The Associated Press.
WINFIELD—Picking and fiddling are sweet music to Bob Redford's ears.
So is this: Winfield's annual Walnut Valley Festival has been named "Bluegrass Event of the Year" by the International Bluegrass Music Association. It edged out better-known festivals, including one established by bluegrass legend Bill Monroe.
The award was announced Thursday at the international association's convention in Louisville, Ky. Redford, producer of the Winfield festival, accented the trophy.
"He was really excited when he called about it," said Marilyn Alberding, a member of the Walnut Valley Festival's office staff. "He just couldn't believe he would get an award like this. Before he left, he said he wasn't going to get it, that he was just in the running, and he said he was still thinking that when you announced the award."
The other finalists were the Grass Valley Bluegrass Festival in Grass Valley, Calif., produced by the California Bluegrass Society, and the Bill Monroe Memorial Bluegrass Festival in Bean Blossom, Ind., which was founded by the late Father of Bluegrass himself.
"The winner is selected by a special awards committee, people with a special knowledge of bluegrass events," said Nancy Cardwell, IBMA special projects coordinator. "Iused to live in Missouri, and went to Winfield every year myself, so I know what a great event it is."
The Walnut Valley Festival doesn't always feature the top names in bluegrass, but up-and-coming players and late-night amateur jam sessions make it a popular draw. Those also were factors in the festival's selection for top honors, Cardwell said.
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