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OPERATION PUSH INC. 930 E. 50TH STREET • CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 60615 • (312) 373-3366

NATIONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS 
OFFICERS
REV. CLAY EVANS
CHAIRMAN EMERITUS

REV. JESSE L. JACKSON
NATIONAL PRESIDENT

MAYOR RICHARD G. HATCHER
CHAIRMAN OF BOARD

BISHOP H. H. BROOKINS
CHAIRMAN/INTERNATIONAL MINISTERS RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS DIVISION

CHARLES A. HAYES
VICE CHAIRMAN

REV. OTIS MOSS
VICE CHAIRMAN

ALLENE WALKER
SECRETARY

REV. B. W. SMITH
CHAPLAIN

REV. S. BILLY KYLES
ASSISTANT CHAPLAIN

EMMA CHAPPELL
MEMBER-AT-LARGE

SAMUEL C. JACKSON, ESQ.
GENERAL COUNSEL

BOARD MEMBERS
HENRY AARON
HENRY ALLEN
CLARENCE AVANT
JAMES L. BARNES
REV. HARRY BATTS
BISHOP H. H. BROOKINS
ROBERT L. BROWN
EMMA CHAPPELL
DR. JAMES CHEEK
DELORES J. ELLIOTT
WAYNE EMBRY
REV. CLAY EVANS
REV. E. A. FREEMAN
REV. WILLIAM GRAY
REV. FRANK W. HALE, JR.
REV. PHALE HALE
REV. JAMES HALL
REV. WALLACE HARTSFIELD
MAYOR RICHARD G. HATCHER
CHARLES A. HAYES
REV. E. V. HILL
REV. WILLIAM B. HOWELL
REV. JESSE L. JACKSON
SAMUEL C. JACKSON, ESQ.
NANCY JEFFERSON
REV. A. L. JOHNSON
DR. D. E. KING
REV. S. BILLY KYLES
REV. GEORGE LAWRENCE
THOMAS P. LEWIS
ELAYNE BRODIE LIGE
WILLIAM LUCY
REV. TIMOTHY MITCHELL
REV. JERRY MOORE
MATTHEW MOORE
REV. OTIS MOSS
DONALD NEWCOMBE
DR. ALVIN POUSSAINT
BISHOP FRANK MADISON REID
REV. CALVIN SAMPSON 
ALVERTA GRAY SCHULTZ
ROBERT SIMPSON
REV. ISAAC SINGLETON
REV. B.W. SMITH
NATE SMITH
PERCY SUTTON
DR. ANDREW THOMAS
SAMUEL TIDMORE
DEMPSEY TRAVIS
ROBERT L. TUCKER, ESQ.
ALLENE WALKER
CHARLES WALLACE
EUGENE WHEELER
REV. HENRY M. WILLIAMSON
JAMES L. WRIGHT
REV. CLAUDE S. WYATT
DORIS ZOLLAR

"....you can't ride to freedom in Pharoah's Chariot!"--Rev. Jesse Jackson

[[image - a crowd on the streets]]

[[image - cartoon of the arm of the Statue of Liberty upholding a dollar sign; a black arm and hand is reaching up toward the dollar sign.]]

We must renegotiate our economic relationship with corporate America.

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Our enemies are engaged in an economic and social cut-back program. If we are to survive, we must organize an economic and political fight-back program. You may think that Black people can do nothing or have little with which to resist, but you are wrong. We have two options: (1) we can accommodate; or (2) we can resist. If we accommodate, we are sure to go backwards. But if we resist, we can make progress in spite of a strong headwind.

Black people have some very powerful tools with which to fight. We are absolutely necessary to the American economy and body politic because we are strategically located in the belly of the whale.

• We pay $30 million a month in union dues and millions more to pension funds and taxes.

• We have the most educated minds and the best trained labor force of any developing nation in the world.

• We have 17 million eligible voters and all 435 members of the House and 33 Senators are up for election in 1982.

• Blacks spend over $140 billion a year--more than that spent by all but eight nations in the world. In most consumer industries, Black consumers are more than the margin of profit, Black consumers are the business.

Because we pay taxes, we have a right to demand our share of a $700 billion public economy. But we should not put all of our eggs in one basket.

There is a $3 trillion private economy that is immediately vulnerable to our disciplined appetites and consumer dollars in an economic withdrawal campaign. The private economy has locked us out. We must therefore fight to renegotiate our economic relationship with corporate America. We must demand that they comply with our economic development plan and formula.  We must use our dollars to fight for our share of private dollars.

Operation PUSH is organizing, initially, 100,000 Black consumers in a national economic resistance campaign. The National Selective Patronage Council, comprised 

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Partial Listing of National Selective Patronage Council

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Reverend Bennett W. Smith, Chairman 

Mayor Richard Hatcher
Chairman 
Conference of Black Mayors

Walter Fauntroy
Chairman
Congressional Black Caucus

Ed Lewis
B.O.C.A.

Pierre Sutton
President
National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters

Florencia F. Walker
Interamerican Travel Agents Society (ITAS)

Dr. Benjamin Chavis, Jr.
National Director
Commission for Racial Justice, United Church of Christ

Senator Clarence Mitchell III
President
National Black Caucus of State Legislators

W. R. Boyette
NUABA (National United Affiliated Beverage Assoc.)

Arnette R. Hubbard
National Bar Association

Dr. Dorothy I. Height
President
National Council of Negro Women, Inc.
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