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Subject: FLAIM Burns Wahoo
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 17:50:09 EDT

Subj: FLAIM Burns Wahoo
Date: 5/7/01 7:15:25 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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Greetings:

The American Indian Movement of Florida held two days of protest against the
shameful, disgraceful, and racist use of American Indian peoples as a sports
mascot by the Cleveland baseball team.

Nearly twenty AIM members and supporters protested Friday night for several
hours in front of Tropicana Field, handing out four hundred flyers to fans
scoring as racist the use of American Indian people. Interim Tampa AIM
Support Group Coordinator Elizabeth Dulac was accosted by fans while handing
out literature.

On Sunday more than two dozen AIM members and supporters-including a
contingent from the African Peoples Solidarity Committee marched from the
Florida AIM State Office to Tropicana Field. Florida AIM members and
supporters then demonstrated in front of Tropicana Field handing out hundreds
of flyers and then Florida AIM State Executive Director burned wahoo.
Sarasota AIM Support Group Coordinator Renee Stratton and Saint Petersburg
AIM Support Group member Beth McCormick entered Tropicana Field and unveiled
a banner stating "AMERICAN INDIANS ARE HUMAN BEINGS NOT SPORTS MASCOTS"  in
the stands right over third base. Beth and Renee were briefly detained and
ejected from Tropicana Field. It was the fourth straight year AIM members or
supporters had been ejected from Tropicana Field for unveiling the banner.

(Picture enclosed Sarasota AIM SG Coordinator Renee Stratton holds a placard
over the burning corpse of Wahoo.")

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