Subject: UPDATE Re: RACISM AND VIOLENCE AT DENNY’S!!!! (fwd)

Just came from a rally here at Syracuse University. Students are calling for a picket and boycott of Denny’s here on THURSDAY, APRIL 17. Surely similar actions elsewhere in solidarity would be supportive, or even communications from elsewhere to Denny’s in your town.

The flyer distributed at today’s rally says:

“LATE NIGHT BEATIN’S AT DENNY”S!!!

On April 11th at approximately 3:30 a.m. (after being denied seating at Denny’s Restaurant), agroup of seven Asian Syracuse University Students were assaulted & severely beaten by a group of 20 white males, as 2 Denny’s security officers stood by and watched...

Students assaulted: President of A.S.I.A., Secretary of A.S.I.A., Cultural Director of A.S.I.A., President of P.S.O., Three International Students from Japan

Supporting our Cause: Asian Students in America, NAACP, Stusent African American Society, Filipino Student Association, African Student Union, Association of International Students at Syracuse University, LA LUCHA, Japanese Student Association.”

There was good local community media coverage at the rally, attended by what looked like a couple hundred people at least.PASS IT ON!!!!

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Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 08:09:43 -0400 (EDT)

HERE WE GO AGAIN!!!!!! LAST NIGHT (4/11/97 APPROX. 2:30 AM) A GROUP OF ASIAN AND BLACK STUDENTS WENT TO DENNY’S AFTER A PARTY. AT DENNY’S THEY WAITED TO BE SEATED FOR OVER 30 MINUTES WHILE OTHER GROUPS OF WHITES WERE SEATED. WHEN ONE OF THE ASIAN STUDENTS QUESTIONED DENNY’S MANAGEMENT ABOUT THIS THE STUDENTS WERE THROWN OUT. BUT.....

IT GETS WORSE!!!!!! THEY WERE “ESCORTED” OUT BY SECURITY AND POLICE (YALL KNOW HOW THAT GO!). A GROUP OF WHITES WHO WERE INSIDE DENNY’S FOLLOWED THE ASIAN STUDENTS OUTSIDE AND HARASSED THEM. THEN, THEY ASSAULTED THE STUDENTS. ONE YOUNG WOMAN WAS KICKED IN THE HEAD!!!!!!!!!

THE POLICE STOOD BY AND DID NOTHING!!!!!!!

IF YOU ARE NOT TRYING TO HEAR THIS B***S**T THEN DON’T SUPPORT DENNY’S!!! FOR ALL OF THOSE THAT ARE ON OR NEAR THE SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS THERE IS GOING TO BE A RALLY IN THE SCHINE ATRIUM ON MONDAY, 4/14/97 AT 12:50 PM!!! LET’S LET THESE FOOLS KNOW THAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO STAND FOR THIS INJUSTICE!!!!!

PEACE...FOR NOW

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