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co. ~ nner ie ae ee If this is an “art factory,’ where is the theater, the painting studio, the dance space? If this is about building a “multi-racial, multi-ethnic, working people’s cultural movement,” why haven't community-based art groups been invited to participate? The Money Trail The Natienal Alliance has explained how the New. Alliance Party raises money: “{Fred] Newman turned to the Social Therapy Centers. . .Therapy was the one activity of the political network of which he was the architect that generated a financial surplus... He assembled a team of grassroots organizers—he called them Community Social Workers—who began going door to door with a portfolio of community-based service organizations, soliciting members and contributors. The experiment was oriented towards creating a mass production organizing model that could turn the practice of political organiz- ing into a money making activity which could in turn fund the expansion of the mass organizing... The article went on to describe NAP’s outreach efforts in middle income communities following the formation of the Rainbow Lobby in 1985. “The results,” the article noted, “were startling” Within weeks the canvassers were raising between $50 and $100 in one evening shift. . .Canvassers collected consistently large amounts of money. . . Nearly 35,000 people have joined the Lobby in the last four years and an additional 90,000 have contributed to its cause. By 1988, the Lobby had dozens of canvassers in the field, was running a telemarketing operation to reach contributors for follow-up donations and grossed $548,000. In 1989 the Lobby has put 60 canvassers in the field and projects that ic will gross $1.2 million. . The scientifically proven responsiveness of broad cross sections of the population to a door-to-door appeal for more democracy gave Newman the data he needed to design the ground-breaking matching funds drive for. . .Dr. Lenora Fulani. . .In 1988 Fulani became the first African American woman in history to qualify for federal primary matching funds. Over 66,000 people contributed to the drive. Her campaign raised a total of $2,757 ,548—-$938,798 of which was the matching grant from the federal government. | (According to the New York Times of August 27, 1989, the Fulani campaign had adjusted . receipts of $2.15 million and expenditures of $2.13 million.) Foreign Policy Positions: The Libyan Connection The New Alliance Party has maintained sympathetic support for the Libyan regime of Col. Muamar Quaddafi. Dr. Lenora Fulani headed a New Alliance Party delegation at an “interna- tional Peace gathering” in Tripoli on April 14, 1987 to “commemorate. . .the genocidal U.S. bomb- ing of the Gulf of Sidra and the Libyan coast” The National Alliance reported on April 24, 1987 that Dr. Fulani stated: “It was so extraordinarily moving, so powerful to be a part of an entire nation’s demonstration against U.S. militarism and racism.” Highlights of the conference included an appearance by Muammar el Qaddafi. A simultaneous demonstration was held in Lafayette Park in Washington, DC. at which the New Alliance Party participated along with the Nation of Islam, the General Conference of Libyan Students in the USA, the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (a radical group headed by Kwame Toure, the former Stokely Carmichael) and several other groups.