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CONSTITUTION THAT “The Pond’ is one of the most di- HM lapidated areas in the City of Winston- Salem, North Carolina, It has certain A characteristics of a fish pond, in that Bithe people of this area wonder around from day to day worrying about where 4 their next meal is going to come from, and other basic necessities denied them by this greedy capitalistic system. H =Most of the people are unemployed wand being welfare recipients have to worry a lot about where their next H meal is going to come from when their Mf food stamps run out. A lot ofthem don’t even know how to apply for food “stamps - PEOPLE STARVE HERE, 4% This is directly related to the system iy of exploitation that we now live under. lt is related because it is typical of MW this system that a lot of people should Rigo lacking, while a few have plenty of a everything, with those in-between re- A ceiving a tiny part of that, which is rightfully theirs. 4 Education of the children of ‘‘The HPond’’ is not much at all, With the Eyschool board’s new plan for desegre- B gation it is probable that this year man, woman and child in the society. Justice according to lawis not known % - (the Boston o a) H GUARANTEES THE RIGHT TO LIVE here, and therefore peace isa strangers | ii thatthe p tool: to the streets wick’ to repay pigs, Pigs who thought ii their duty to kecp niggers in their place by beating a blood tv a ee ce i ee ed Wor a tt “4 Winston- Salem Constitutional Convention Information Center death on his own front porch, The whole community witnessed this act of aggression and responded by driving ‘the pigs out of their community. Housing is another area in which the people are denied, Mrs, Louise Ames, a 104 year old resident of ‘‘The Pond’’ has been struggling for all these years. She states that she pays $55.00 a month to a slumlord (W.F,. Baldwin) for this house that doesn’t have a bathtub, hot water, sufficient heating or adequate wiring for proper lighting; she is tired but she continues to struggle, and she recognizes the need to change the con- stitution that allows all these injustices | to be perpetrated against her, her : family and her people. The present system of government : has failed to provide the basic ne- cessities for survival ~ land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace, It (the system) has denied i these necessities to Black people throughout Babylon, And so wearenow demanding a change in the system that allows these necessities to be denied, We are demanding that the constitution