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To: chalu2 who wrote (3222)	9/6/2001 10:04:50 PM
From: chalu2	Respond to of 23908

Arab Businessmen Boycotted: dailynews.yahoo.com Boycott Extended, Will Expand Community activist the Rev. Horace L. Sheffield is scheduled to announce Thursday that the "strategic buying campaign" his group spearheaded to steer blacks away from Arab-American gas stations to their black-owned counterparts will be expanded to other cities. Sheffield, president of the Michigan Chapter of the National Action Network, has scheduled a media conference at which he is expected to announce that the group's B-Gas (black gas) campaign will be extended indefinitely in metro Detroit and expanded to New York and Chicago. Those cities reportedly have a relatively small percentage of black-owned gas stations and similar racial issues between different ethnicities. The media conference is slated to take place at 8:30 a.m. at the Mobil gas station on East Warren near Interstate 75. Organizers say that station was chosen because the owner, Brian Cullens, is African-American. They claim that Cullens has endured pressure from Exxon Mobil because of his participation in the B-Gas campaign. Sheffield's group says it want to increase diversity among dealers, improve treatment of dealers by fuel suppliers and to address racial conflicts that exist between metro Detroit's mostly Arab-American retailers and black customers. Fellow activists Dick Gregory and the Rev. Al Sharpton will reportedly be on hand for Thursday's conference.