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HR/RI Party Convention

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
February
Year
1972
OCR Text

The Ann Arbor Human Rights Party will nominate its candidates and draft its platform for City Council this weekend at a convention in the Michigan Union.

On Saturday, February 5 the Party will draft platform planks on community services and planning, party structure, City Charter revision, the University, and racism in education. These sessions will be held in the Homer Heath Lounge on the third floor of the Union, beginning at 1 pm.

The convention comes to a climax Sunday at 1 pm in the Union's Anderson Room when an open meeting will finalize the platform, nominate candidates, discuss campaign strategy, and elect a new steering committee.

All are invited to come. HRP is an independent third party created a year ago to provide a leftwing alternative to the Democrats and Republicans. It is a local chapter of the statewide Human Rights Party. Not merely an electoral party, it has provided support for striking Buhr machine workers last summer, and Youth Liberation in its successful attempt to change youth curfew laws.

This convention bears special significance, since HRP candidates have a good chance to win at least two wards this year and will be bound, unlike Democrats and Republicans, to the party platform.

Last week, planks were drafted on racism, sexism, the legal system, the economic system, education, foreign policy, and the party's preamble.

For more information call the HRP office: 761-6621.