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OOM a i i. 2. a i | Recent NAP Activities The past year has seen an intensification of NAP activities on many fronts. NAP activities, enterprises and front groups have multiplied. —The party has recently produced two more publications: Probe, “the intelligence magazine of the working left,” and Srono, “an international journal of culture and politics.” Both publications are lavishly produced. Stono states it is “anti-Zionist and pro-Jewish.. .we oppose the Jewish colonization of Palestine. . .a brutal settler regime supported by US arms and money.’ Stono runs an advertisement for itself in Probe which features a picture of a young black girl holding a large rifle. _A National Alliance article referred to some of the other NAP enterprises: “New Alliance Produc- tions, which produces one of the country’s largest amateur talent events, the All-Stars Talent: Show Network. . . Musicruise, a summer festival of ‘music under the stars’ on the Hudson River dayline featuring artists like Dizzy Gillespie, Hugh Maskela. . .The International People’s. Law Institution, which now takes on most contentious human and civil rights cases from Haiti to Harlem...” —According to the Boston newspaper, The Tab, the NAP’s Rainbow Lobby collected money from more than 1,000 people when it knocked on doors in Brookline and Newton in the summer of 1989. The Tab reported NAP activist Nancy Ross’s assertion that the Rainbow Lobby “ranks as the Ith largest grassroots lobby in the country with about 150,000 members nationwide.” A New “Cultural Center” The most significant recent development the party has reported is the construction of anew 9,000 square foot complex, the Castillo Cultural Center, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. A two column banner headline in the National Alliance announced: “U.S. Left Opens $2.7 Million Psychology and Cultural Center.” The newspaper reported that the center would house the group's East Side “Center for Short Term Psychotherapy,” which “grosses nearly $45,000 a month, $35,000 of which is income directly from the practice of Social Therapy.” The Castillo Cultural Center, “a multi-disciplinary collec- tive of radical artists,” would occupy about 6,000 square feet. According to the article, the price tag for the space came to “nearly $1 million.” The center will house an “art factory” {sic}, a dark- room, a workshop and a publishing house. The article also stated that the Castillo Center “grosses in the neighborhood of $55,000 a month, or nearly three quarters of a million dollars annually.” It announced a series of plays under the title, “A Festival of Revolution,” including one by Fred Newman, “No Room for Zion” ° An article in the Village Voice (October 17, 1989) referred to several artists and other cultural figures who have lent their names to the Castillo Center, and noted: One side of Castillo’s $2.7 million (!) loft serves as offices of the Institutes for Social Therapy and Research, run by Fred Newman, also head of the Castillo Center and the mastermind of NAP... . How are they paving for it all? Lenora Fulani. . .told me this is a ‘white liberal ques- tion’... .Signs on the wall record the total for last month’s efforts—$33,293. Ac that (unbelievable) rate, the center would have eaten up nearly seven years’ fundraising.