European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse Sunday july 17, 1994 . The stars and stripes Page 9 is guns Boston apr Jacqueline Mohamed hated having Harrison Ford aim a gun at her As she walked around her neighbourhood. For Marcy Jackson it was seeing a pistol packing Eddie Murphy smile Over the scene of a Street shooting. So the two women acted. And their actions eventually got results. Billboards showing people with guns have been banished from 15 locations in the Dorchester Roxbury and Mattapan sections of Boston. Other Boston area neighbourhoods where real firearms wreak havoc May follow. A if you want us to advertise Eddie Murphy done to put a gun in his hand a Lou Nickinello of Ackerley communications said Friday after his company put the new policy into effect. The outdoor advertising association of America said it was unaware of a similar practice among its 2,400 Mem Bers though voluntary guidelines exist to keep liquor and tobacco ads away from schools and churches Ackerley of Massachusetts is a division of a Kerr Ley communications inc., a Seattle based company with billboards in Florida Washington state and Oregon. But the decision Nickinello announced thursday covers Only a tiny fraction of the 1,200 billboards owned by his Massachusetts division and he admits he a unwilling to reject the ads altogether. That he said would be Murphy economic and professional suicide. But he said he will extend the number of billboards based on recommendations from police and Community groups. A a in a not going to be everybody a censor a he said. A a in a going to identify certain areas of my Market As no advertising zones for those kinds of civil libertarians Are concerned at what appears to be censorship targeted at neighbourhoods largely populated by minorities. But Mohamed and other neighbourhood activists said cleaning up the billboards was their idea. A a we re the ones who highlighted the Issue a said Mohamed whose coalition of family concerns in Dorchester has been pushing Ackerley to remove the billboards since 1990. Mohamed first contacted the company regarding fhe movie Patriot games. She said the and showing Ford pointing a gun at viewers was eerie. A a we have Many moms and families who Are mourn ipg the loss of their sons in our Community a she said. A we believe the billboards glamorize Jackson an assistant state attorney general drove past the Murphy billboard in Dorchester in May. At the time she was prosecuting a shooting that had taken place there and left one Dorchester Man partly paralysed. She said Ackerley changed the billboard a but not until the offending and had run its course a a in a like to get rid of All of the advertisements that show anybody holding a gun with a big smile on their face a Jackson said. A i done to think they re positive images no matter where they re Jackson and others said the images were particularly offensive in neighbourhoods where Young men Are kill ing and being killed with handguns. A Harrison Ford takes aim in Patriot . Muslims assail Schwarzenegger film Washington apr american Arab and Muslim groups launched a Campaign Friday to Tell moviegoers that Arnold Schwarzenegger a new blockbuster motion picture unfairly stereotypes arabs muslims and women. True lies starring Schwarzenegger and described As Hollywood a first $100 million film opened in major . Cities. Its Washington matinee premiere was greeted by two dozen marching protesters with placards echoing lines from a the terminator so past pictures. The messages included a open your eyes and terminate the lies a a Shasta la Vista fairness a a not All arabs Are terrorists not All terrorists Are arabs a a Arnold think before you act a and a reel arabs Are not real the Council on american islamic relations one of four sponsoring organizations said similar a educational Quot demonstrations were planned in at least 10 other cities. They Are san Diego los Angeles san Francisco Chicago Houston Dallas Minneapolis new York Newark . And Dearborn Mich. In True lies a superspy and his wife played by Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis Battle fictional Arab speaking a Middle East Quot True lies unfairly stereotypes not Only muslims but also women relegating them to the status of airheads and Bim bos a Albert Mokhiber president of the Arab american anti discrimination committee said at the end of an orderly half hour demonstration outside a Washington Cinema. 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With demand for clemency Washington apr leaders of 21 american Indian nations who finished a Cross country a walk for Justice plan to hand Congress a document this week addressing matters such As religious issues and the North american free Trade agreement. The document also demands executive clemency for Leonard Peltier a former member of the american Indian movement who they contend is innocent of the 1975 killings of two Fri agents at wounded knee . American Indian activist Dennis Banks and 27 others made the entire five month walk across the country. They celebrated the end of the trek Friday at the Lincoln memorial by demanding that president Clinton free Peltier. Peltier has been in prison since april 1977 when a Federal jury in Fargo n.d., convicted him of shooting the two agents at the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in southwestern South Dakota. The supreme court has twice denied his 400 activists who joined the 800-mile walk along the Way participated in a series of traditional Sage burning and pipe ceremonies near the memorial Steps. The walk began feb. 11 at Watraz Island in san Francisco calif., seeking to draw attention to issues such As treaty rights grave desecration nuclear waste dumping and sports team mascots. Joining the trek were walkers from Japan Denmark Australia Germany France and Britain. Quot we knew from the beginning that we would have a hard time and that the Many nations of people would help us along the Way a said Banks co founder of the american Indian movement. 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