Note by Hunterbear: The racial situation in the Pocatello, Idaho area continues to deteriorate. At special risk are Native and Chicano people.
It's fast getting to the time to start seriously thinking -- among other approaches -- of economic boycotts: selective buying campaigns. Sadly but not surprisingly, the Bannock County [Pocatello ID] prosecutor, Mark Hiedeman, has backed the Chubbuck [suburb of Pocatello] police killing of unarmed Felipe Galloway, a 22 year old Native youth wanted for parole violation. He was shot in his grandmother's home on December 21 by a Chubbuck policeman who remains unidentified and who was part of a SWAT team operation. For days thereafter, police would neither confirm nor deny the fact that the victim was unarmed. But, although the prosecutor now concedes Felipe Galloway had no firearm, he indicates that Felipe allegedly held a metal "spray can" -- an aerosol deodorant can -- in his hand. The prosecutor plans no criminal investigation into the killing. And, not surprisingly, the local newspaper -- Idaho State Journal -- which traditionally whitewashes lawmen injustices, but which appears to keep these stories off its broadly reaching website -- carried this on today's front page: "Prosecutor clears Chubbuck officer of shooting death / Suspect allegedly shouted, "Just shoot me" Felipe Galloway's family has indicated it may well sue. Let's certainly hope so. This follows a string of racial incidents involving Pocatello-area police and Native youths in high school, racially mixed parties in a predominately Anglo neighborhood, Chicano-owned business. Given the stacked deck nature of this situation, and the fact that Pocatello-area officials are far from sensitive to minority concerns, the time may well be coming in which economic pressure will be placed on the basic power structure -- i.e., the business community: boycotts / selective buying campaigns. In Solidarity - Hunter Gray [Hunterbear] www.hunterbear.org Protected by NaŽshdoŽiŽbaŽiŽ and Ohkwari' In our Gray Hole, the ghosts often dance in the junipers and sage, on the game trails, in the tributary canyons with the thick red maples, and on the high windy ridges -- and they dance from within the very essence of our own inner being. They do this especially when the bright night moon shines down on the clean white snow that covers the valley and its surroundings. Then it is as bright as day -- but in an always soft and mysterious and remembering way. [Hunterbear] _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
