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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 L. BROWN EMMA CHAPPELL DR. JAMES CREEK 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 NAME SMITH PERCY SUTTON DR. ANDREW THOMAS SAMEL 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]] [[image]] We must renegotiate our economic relationship with corporate America. PUSH FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE 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 [[boxed text]] Partial Listing Of National Selective Patronage Council Reverend Bennett W. Smith Chairman [[image]] 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. [[/boxed text]] 344