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- From: ZAHNISER_S%CUBLDR.Colorado.EDU@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu
- Subject: Re: SENDING COLUMBUS HOME
- Message-ID: <1992Nov10.204408.16636@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 20:44:08 GMT
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- With respect to the cancelled Columbus Day parade in Denver, one should
- be clear that the parade was not sponsored by the City of Denver. It was
- sponsored by a group of Italian-Americans who for several years have been
- trying to revive the Columbus Day parade. The sponsoring group cancelled
- the parade in the face of a large-scale, well-planned act of civil disobedience
- that was to disrupt the parade peacefully. The march and rally in honour
- of the native peoples of America was organized by the American Indian Move-
- ment (AIM) and not by "Denver, Colorado." Indeed, the mayor of Denver,
- Wellington Webb, spoke at a small rally held on the steps of the State
- Capitol after the parade's cancellation by the organizers of the Columbus
- Day parade and stressed that freedom of speech and assembly is a right of
- all Americans, including those who wanted to hold the parade.
-
- Steven Zahniser
- zahniser_s@cubldr.colorado.edu
-