Vol. 5, No. 22
1970-11-28
19 pages
✓ Indexed
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THE BLACK PANTHER 2:
Black Community News Service
REVOLUTIONARY OPE |
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
HOWARD UNIVERSITY
WASHINGTON, D.C.
NOVEMBER 27, 28 & 29, 1970
oe D3” Oe ae
"HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER ( OF : DEFENSE
WILL READ THE PEOPLE’S NEW CONSTITUTION
— Page 2 —
NIE BLACK PANTHER, S\ITRDAY, NoveAter 28, 1970
TRIAL REPORT ON
CHAIRMAN BOBBY
PAGE 2
SEALE
AND SISTER ERICKA HUGGINS
The Sasa task of
choosing a jury
Co judge the guilt om inwcence of Sister
Ericka Huggins aad Cha’ rman Bobo;
Seale has begun, Charged cum-
mulatively with aiding and abetting
murder, conspiracy to murder, con-
Spiracy to kidnap and kidnapping
resulting in death, Sister Ericka and
Chairman Bobby are oa trial for their
lives, a fact of which everyone in the
courtroom is constantly aware,
Before the first caadidate was
examined, Charles Garry, defense at-
torney made two motions, The first was
that the press be allowed to sketch in
the courtroom, Earlier that day an
artist’s sketches had been confiscated
because they had been drawn in the
courthouse, Judge Mulvey denied the
motion saying only that p: ‘eviously
another judge had so ruled and he would
uphold the decision, The second motion
was to have the jury sequestered, Judge
Mulvey denied this also; h's only reason
being that he had denied it when Fricka’s
lawyer, Katherine Rorabach had re-
quested it earlier,
Before jury selection begins, the
candidates are told what function they
will perform ‘f chosen to serve, Al-
though the instructions are given with
oaly the jury, the judge and the de-
‘endants present, the transcripts of
those proceedings are read to the
Spectators and the press when they are
later admitted into the courtroom,
Mulvey repeatedly mentioned the
phrase “Innocent until proven zui':y’’
and stated that the standard of proof
in a criminal case is higher than tha:
in a civil case, He also stressed that
the burden of proving guilt is on the
stare,
While it appeared that the statement
indicated the impartiality of the court,
it soon became clear that it served
oaly to tell the pfospective jurors wh 2”
to say wiea exami ied, Tae judge’s in-
structions anticipated the answers to
many defense questions by telling the
inexpelenced jurors what the correct
answers were, They were told
repos ty that a policeman is the same
as anvous else and that grand jury in-
*dictmemts do not indicate guilt, Because
of this, the defense has been forced to
examine individual candidates at length,
often two to three hours before their
true feelings and prejudices are re-
vealed to the court,
The defense strategy seeks to
eliminate jury candidates on at least
three basi: points, Their questions at-
tempt to discover the candidates degree
of exposure to negative publicity, their
level of racism and their amount of
complicity with law enforcement
agencies, The responses which the
defense questions evoke usually force
the court to excuse a juror, Ifthe court
does not do so, the defense must use
a pre-emptory challenge, The consti-
tution of the two panels exhausted this
week bears out the defense claims that
the jury selection process dis-
criminates against the youigg, the poor
and the non-white, he median age of
the candidates 49 years old and of
the first 100 people only three were
Black, The amount of monetary com-
pensation that a juror receives ($10
a day) has also eliminated several
poorer candidates,
The defense lawyers have said that
old mildle-aged white people could not
understand the defeadants or the
majority of defense witmesses, given
theily difference in background, life
styles and language, One prospective
juror has said that she has no idea of
how Black people are living, “‘never
associated with them,’’ And then the
woman said she ‘‘knew’’ the defendan‘s
had killed ‘‘one of their owncolor’’, aad
left honestly not unde¢standing why she
had been so readily excused,
hus far 100 candidates have been
considered, of these only two have been
accepted as jurors, Both State’s At-
torney Markle and the defense attorney
have used two of their 60 pre-emptory
challenges to eliminate four persons
from the jury. One of Charles Garry's
challenges was used against an in-
surance investigator who works closely
with the police, in fact doing police
work, Markle made use of one of his
challenges to reject a men heavily in-
volved in unton work, The remaining
number have been excused by
for various reasons, Amorg the s
given were becaise of hardship, be- —
cause the juror would belleve the word
of a policem4n over a layman, because
the juror felt arrest or indictment _
evidenced guilt, because the juror — ag
had a ‘firm opinion of the case ale
ready, because of prejudice againstthe 3
defendants or the Black Panther Party, P
because the juror did not believe in |
capital punishment, and because the :
juror felt Ericka and Bobby could aor
get a fair trial,
Of the jurors accepted, both a “male, Ps
one is White aad one ‘s Black, The 3
first is a 37 year old madiiseace who
attended eight years of grammar
school, His wife is a factory yorkel
and he has stated that ‘‘as far as [ am
concerned, I’d be a too good juror’,
He said that he had no feelings either —
way about the Black Panther Party and —
his oaly regret abou ‘erving was that —
he would miss the Christmas overtime
at the Post Office, ;
Also, chosen was a 64 year old man .
who was the only Black on the first —
panel of 50, He is a retired floor man ;
from Olin-Matheson,
He has three sons, two of whom are © 4
unemployed, He has two nephews onthe 4
New Haven police force whom he rarely
He says he knows nothing about |
the case of the Panthers, a
The question of whether or nor the 4
State will seek the death penalty was
raised th's week, Although Markle has
neither coafirmed nor dented it, it a
seems fair to assume that he |
Mate has mate mo fons which
"a3 granted, challenging for —
jurors who are categorically opposed t 4
the death penalty, Bothdefenselawyers
introduced a study by a law professor _
at the University of Chicago which found - |
that a death oriented jury is also a
conviction oriented jury. Later when —
a young Black woman appeared well on —
her way to being chosen, Markle asked ~
if she would consider the death penalty, —
Despite the concerted efforts of Garry, — "
Rorabach and even Malvey, the woman
1g
te
a
4
‘
sees,
insisted that she could never decide —
die,When the judze finallyrold her that —
she was excused, Attoraey Rorabach |
acataee dismissing people because they
do not believe in the death penalty, —
to decide a verdict and not to cones .
mine the sentence, She said that it woula
sentencing if necessary and that it was”
unfair to continue to search for a con- ie
possibility hat they would have tocon-— a ;
sider
recorded but made no immediate aie
ference, Somepiie latex, a man simply —
woether another person should live or
To82 W present another argument
She noted that they were picking a ane
be possible to empanel another jury for —
viction prone jury because thers was B |
sentencing, Her arguments were —
said “Ll dong believe,
eye"’ and h¢ 7 as ee
The third panel wilh) worn inon —
Puesday, NOWI24 Att rate it
seems likel¥ tha Rt ten panels
will be defeated Within: cleat paaalan .
necessary a whole pamaal osot
It appears evident thar jury
will extend into the next tew NO
far exceeding the 4 Week pertod in
a jury was chosen for the Ce .
McLucas, td
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for REPRESENTATIVES or INDIVIDUALS for the
BE IN
REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION WASHINGTON
November 27-29 1970
C¢ COCrast hberween the arc
Kects of our present 155 year olc
stink i the writers of the
‘ titution, waiting. to be
worn, are SMrikite.
The people who drafted the pees -
oc em Coasthotion had already
emeesccaececce a eS a ein a a Bourgeois Democratic Revolution
The ere idive-iyed. rit,
siite men Many had slaves
I ¢ woo will meet in Wasbing-
t ve et to wege the \merikas
Soctalist Revolatio They will be
poor, mukti-ratia) mea anc
anes
N 1 : ihorack nion, 4 Los Aageles
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D : . . . lev ate od, at che RECS
u at what went on
me ? there pr rroup to spon-
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cpa f ‘oehiva ‘ We < pretty good idea of
MAT! , , what we want. Cetting & will be
the crucial problen
I AM PLA I =a » N *We should dreum |’ wrote Lenin
I WILI Ay a PLP WIT n 1 INSTITUTIONAL in What is To Be Dene ? Hurne #
CONVENTION ing Questions of Our Movement
ALL CHECK 1001 BE M NSTITUTION VENTION COMMITTEE in IX, He approving quoted a
c/o UNITY BAN sf RUST. 1 RED EET, KOXBURY, MASS. man pamed Pisarev:
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: natura) mar of events or may fh
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wiich oo pateral march of events
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CHEN 2 ee Se re ee eee ee ee es will ever proceed. In the firs:
cate dream will oot cause any
city STATE z2iP
harm; if may even support and agu-
meu the energy of the working men
HOME PHONE ORGANIZ._ ss NON-ORGANIZ. .. There ix morhing in such dreams
that would distort or paralyrve labor
PHONE (FOR ORG.) ADDRESS power. On the contrary, ifman
were completely depeived of the
CITY STATE ability to dream tn this way, if he
a7 : coond not from time to time cen
head and mentally conceive, ina
. . entire and completed picture, the
Survival Through Service To The People pent eo wikh Ns bands are oa
just begining to lend shape, thea!
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THE SPIRITS OF FRED HAMPTON AND MARK CLARK LIVES!
>
12:00 noon December 4th
South Side 4 Chureh Of 6fr Redeemer
6430 South Marva vd
West Side = Chitchvot the Fpithany
201 South AShinand
North Side -"Saint Dominics
, Sedgwick and Cocust
Leave school and work a* 10:00 a.m, — FREE ALL POLITICAL
Assemble at the People’s Ra'ly at these "4 . Illinois Chapter
Dhatinns MARK Black Panther Party
Che spirit of Deputy ¢ hairman Fred
Hampton and Mark Clark lives on,
Demoastrate your determination to
stop police terror in the oppressed
communities,
STRIKEtt NO SCHOOL; NO WORK on
December 4th 1970,
PRISONERS
— Page 4 —
iE BLACK PANTHER
SVT VY. NOW
THE SPIRIT OF
SPURGEON JAKE’ WINTERS
LIVES
‘When they killed Jake, they took
the best that humanity possessed,’’
Spurgeon ‘“‘Jake’’ Winters 19, mem-
ber of the Ulinois Chapter, of the Black
Panther Party, gave the most that one
can give towards the liberation of op-
pressed pepples~ hts life. At 3:30 A.M,
Nov, 130,969, Saxe rderedina
shooto ArChivag where three pigs
were
fas Mu
addndsseven Arere wounded,
The } Ragthouh, Wiis precipitated by an
ambugh2y by, the standingearmy of
C hicAgo | Bicags Police Deparuynent)
on/ an abated brildihg-areSB0l S.
_Caltinter.) krxising on the &Seney With
sarmamenfs)and\ men ALTO FS than TOO
sotigeme! equipped. with taguaze shots
"guns, Me tye carhines, .357-makaums,
billy’ club§, mace, Near’ gas; paddy
copter and, Canine (units)
>warfare againstthefireple
€Solony, these fanannal pias
by opening fife athe
: ‘in the billding. Party Cemrdde
Lance Belh-20 was wounded\ by th®
pigs as they shot wildly in that area,
With these seemingly insurmountable
odds, Jake defended himself as any per-
things named, Butprim
son should do, In essence, he had no
was kill or be killed, And
Jake tried to enact a
of war: preservation of
destruction of the enemy, But
although Jake was equipped only with a
shotgun and was mur dered, the results
attest to the fact that the people with
their intense desire for freedom can
combat the forces of aggression,
A June 1969 honor graduate of Engle-
wood High School, Jake worked in the
Breakfast for Children Program and for
the Free Health Clinic;he was a member
of the Education Cadre. In essence he
was a servant of the people.
There can be no compromise with
the forces of oppression or the forces
of fascism, The enemy must be wiped
out thoroughly , completely and reso-
lutely, And we say, “‘Right on, Jake.’’
Jake, a dedicated brother will never
be forgotten and not primarily for the
arily because he
lessened the forces of aggression and
choice; it
realizing
premise
such,
basic
self and
or
Me
because he said as_ Alprentice
‘Bunchy”” Carter, John Huggins, Syl-
vester Bell, “‘Lil’’ Bobby Hutton, and
‘Jake’’ Winters
Spurgeon *
L. arry Roberson said;
‘Wherever death may surprise us, it
will be welcome provided that this,
our battle cry, reach some receptive
ear, that another hand stretch out to
take up weapons and that other men
come forward to intone our funeral
dirge with the staccato of machine guns
and new cries of battle and victory,”’
LIVE
JAKE
THE REVOLUTIONARY
WINTERS!
LONG
SPIRIT OF
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
OSPAAAL SUPPORTS THE AFRO-AMERICAN PEOPLE
cri ‘ le t re
. : : inorit
kod t ol t ’ p
ist t ne ‘ j
‘ voult t : eh
, 5 — germinsti
tors of the t
1) inte
P °
terror]
thow! e ¢ l f the ic recour
war in Su axkkee im- “ leade;
ori calat- wave Black
jon t tending the wat m, together
' revolut
i ei lirt M mer
t Indore ight is
d ° Vit © exte Nort e
er if
the wor : rc pusty thew
Ni e e of the ili
< eh c patr .
: ‘ ! hore ¢ t ie
l the \sian peop! - © <
N {to our i ‘ ; anke ‘
from uve itay Sole i “
e ? t N e
\ and other Sector thre mor" ‘ of
} more w Nixoa's UN
tal contempe for thelropinionaad ‘i
thetic will confirmed i tri S
Angela Davis e rital ¢ ‘ {re e%
“wll ures t " € coune othe
try. In re j repressive wh turned
face rled evi. N
Declaration of the executive secretariat Of aoiseives apainst the st : wi and
‘ “alin: , ,t » Afr i ite :
OSPAAAL in_ solidarity with the Afro- Eee .
“yr rea <A) tor » ’Y
I ric
American people and Angela Davis, eee ae sifishie rention’
t ‘ r \ Nix lic t )
Vir imi we Nix . efeatet
‘ :
. . TT ro
The government of the United I cet i ve istr t licy
se
Sraes, under the Nix \dminis- Wey sggressi g4inst the people { exter ' the \Mro-
7 j r < ‘ voer
tration, is travelling frantically of the work » efuse co live eri vie t ute
. ‘ e ~
toward the establishmen of fa sxdere imperislist oppression, the ole 7 Vanke i , ;
. . b , ressive
cism as the logical culmination of US Government requires ihe ! ism is conteot with the one - essive
momtaly domination over the ec- icity or the silence hour ¥ {the people woo suffer berate then
onocry andthe politics of the nations omir n the United States, Tre ts boot t als sctices 4simi- e4slon
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5 es ’
Ulinois Chapter
el Dp >
Black Panther Party
: ch nati- Today Angela Davis, Iteey P.
l Newion yoy Seale sundother black
. ‘ fle thei ficher re suffering at the hands
TT tir {f Yaakee cialis tea their
< : ¢ like tho »*’ Ma'toolm \ and
{ fetes Martin Uathec King Ir. are already |
‘® e ‘ : e feo on nla
"te ee Tk t ‘ : \inericans
hich is d there brothers in the etcuwcele,
whic
every corne of the carth
a} i | weld volces ks opinios,
hisilit- ¢] ing for the liberation of An-
ere y ster , ctim of a victous and
in { dastardly sccusatiog
| gi
: wlobre
ir ir strugzle t Ihe executive Secretariae of
a ey tid . OSPAAAL reaffirms on this oce
z Ny ton Ks resolute solidarity with
- corm es \fro-American people aod with
ie Slacks in order to ll the progressive forces that
rr of ormins flehec t yankee tromerialism ‘
i = its own emralls, cour-
moously ex ing themeelves to
t Il the risks this implies, &
as also calls for all the aid and so-
rity ieir just cause deserves.
itte j
:
; Freed eu le aoxd other
rder.i k fives is.
yal inst he ;
ne 6 Tew for Angela Davis |
: ; Pe\iom for the Afro-Americaa 3
Alger inne Lome pepe | «
. : 885 De wa Rh th Nixon Admintstrate
. such 4 }
a02 scale R3P Tne Nosr Miitrican people will ;
‘ ers, So DOR en | ‘<
inst Angela Qivis ‘
a
J
ialis atl 3
ly expell PAROVTIVE SHC TARIAT OF :.
is
ries M pow oppres- OSPAAA -
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fr atia ‘Fa
ll . >= “ .
lita rushed Havana Octoder 31, 1970 ae
\ioweme ind a “= @
~~ ' e Y :
COCs thas strugelet This great bumaaity bet eek)
Selves fron inte Enough \ad bas started to noee
lorwin!" ie J
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DECEMBER 20th--OUR THEORY
WILL UNITE WITH OUR PRACTICE
AND WOMEN WILL TRULY
BE IN SOLIDARITY
WITH POLITICAL PRISONERS
Behind the iron bars
of the Women’s house of
De-eation in New York,
Earliee last month, when J ed:
Murtagh revoked my ball, [had the
troaic pleasure of revisiting the
Wownen held inside New York
City’s oaly female detentior
ceme®. In the six Jays that | was
there, something Struck me chat
had previously patsed as another
hopeless trait of capitalism. 1!
would like to describe it here anc
now aboag with its connection fo4
well keoawn principle, ‘*informa-
thon is the raw material for nea
ideas”, Information: Although &
most sisters inthe Women’s House
of Doteajoa, diere is litth p> acti-
<al difference in bails of $100 0%
$10,008), $1,000 and $10) 4 Lorge
aumer of women are Deing dr-
calned at amounts ranging from
SI) to $1000, Simukancously.
great deal of the charges accom
aoving these balls, ace what we
shall refer to as survival (6:
defensive) offenses. This means
that these charges stem from acts
which, tf successful, would nave
cused some of the ccosomic burden
of the sister, thas elimniaaing any
aeed to steal, prostitute. con, stick
up or sel] marijuana or devges
-
Obviously the prodler , fromthe
beginning, wis # economic nece
thus we nave 4 political comradic-
tion. When the tained mercenary
(Police, discovered this act of de-
fense, he a% no time inquired of the
sister, why she fel such a com
oulsion to cisk death or impri-
sonnet, for auch # small act
i ever occurs’ to him fo inves-
tigace che situasion fairly and ob-
jectively. lle needs to m ike only
his monthly arwest qoota to insure
his job security. Uf he makes sc
many access, bis chances of pro
metion are greaer.. ile can.
maintain his joo ifhe makes no ar-
rex in 4 moat, o i he ooh
makes tw, errests
from this tha; his interest is never
in fairness of Objectavity. The
nature of his joo as a policeman,
dictates that he be en
We can see
St and>ul-
jective
Ate uwhile the aister ty Cacen tt
" jail cell, «nere sheets goked an
eld ponding wial, Noone a4
stked ber if she is i
her actions wre }
if her childres are take
the sume aight
tified, oF eve
“are otit
her absence. | itive
fo! brat's bo" nin, am |
taken before 4; are, Ile does
speak (© wer & ath. be os
takes turns, looking cither ata yel-
how ser Geet hes her
aune, adiress, #04 age racerel
or he
or Uw
not
ally
sheet OG }
ree of Cherres
gion 4 “i «
looks at the
torecy, Who
the case minute rt hours before,
has made oo objective investiga-
tioa himself, aad is pald to be the
accusor, I s not asked to dis-
cover wuecther or not the sistec Is
iky or i
pald to assume she is cuilly, and
to gather aay ond all information
and materials to lend crecence to
Dik 4SSu pptloo
The 3 Aset. District
reads off the c!
two new ones added for goul mea-
sure, then he recites 3 well used
speech about the criminal threat
the «w poses on society, He
asks the judge to i ball ar
sane eidicaulous amount thai
nothing to do with the co..siituttiog-
i) requirements for bail. He dors
not bother to folloa those require-
nents because he understsods that
he will aot be held re#possible for
spbolding any of its codes, He nas
already been cosditioan to ignore
such aa incfficicn: document.
The jodie follo as the sugecstion
of the Aset, Discrict Aucoreey and
seus bail, Ile does not ask ber Lf
sive cxten recently , if the
clothes she wears wre ber oaly rem-
nants. ile doosn’ 45k beri! ber
babies are fed everyduy or if they
have 42 deceat houte to stay In.
All he does, is Set what amounts
to ransom ad confines ber to 4
bulkling where she is guarded. ig-
nored and sarassed. There is no
poim in her eveo dresiniey
golm home, because She kyowy she
mo mozey, (if she dd she
wouldn’s be there Her
fricemix have oo mosey, om if they
do, it is just enough to survive
with. She faces a oe to three your
sentence, oF even 4 4X Mow
sermence and se cinnet pest bail
or hire a lawyer,
wittiog.
\suistant District At-
just bees told of
oceat, rather he is
\uorney
arges “ivi O@e or
ma
<*
}
has
nas
about
has
anywey).
She leys there
The court appoinrs, ot random,
sleval ak! He is employed hy the
state, Ie is given soproximeteh
ten caseloads « ay and Le either
nak, or chooses # to adequate -
bh defend { them, tic bas vers
little time co file all the comple
ow bos corse ey he thowh of
a ial is repucnant to him 4
caus exmoatihec t orw ""
prepare for one,
The beral aad fe wth his
“clien” ly the diy r
comes to court, Ihe poctoticallh
takes portfolio « caves to te
Asst. District Attotecy aed asas
for deals, in recur © ses
net to take the te diroerh the
costh trial pros ihe then tells
is client t oma WO © leaser
ree so that c ca.) yet t of
pall ge the ‘earl t p ible
thne.”* She h very lithe cholce
In fact She hat oo choles ‘ -
coms. The puke fir ives her
jor se t her “‘celminal
vature”™’ ‘) tells enible
litate So » he an “asset ¢
society,”” Then Se gives ber ninety
da v mhs, times he
ive hew year. She is tr cal
. ,
She spend
pen lire Migence
ff diys
coum! In pall, #he ouste
kes & vive. Stramme isa’t it
Even tn jal), the name of the game
is tr She cannot buy cle-
“etter personal baste neces-
snle or the Samay newspaper,
The ccotomntc nee! is till there
Her instinctive compulsion f
her to, in effect,
if hee «listers in jail.
onher restrictions of
ranbcutions
survival mores
prirng
bre of ti
jalls, isc
wone) 3
is ao history of elther poli-
struyzle, in wo-
center There
ied ro-
religious
Ktention
0 Muslims wih
years ago for yurvup
victories, against the atiminista-
As a result, these sinters are
bog Loniag to feel as thouzh
part of the revolutionary
liberation,
il prisoners
ich they readily as
Uca! o
ne
. ¢
wether te
100
St few
struggle for complete
The ery to free politic
if oO one Ww
xe with We
ther
hve mot Gone
onmiorstand our
enough to het
concern for them. As 4 resuk of
these coutitions , a groep of women
in New York, have come together
in ocder to eliminate some of Mose
conditions
We are organizing brigades of
wornen to force the prison id-
ministration to admit us into here
pie peas so that we can find ov
from the sisters themeclves, wi
thelr specific peeds are, We will
then take Steps to Meet Hose bas-
ic needs (just a« the metium
security of our coinmenities, we
are trying to meet the busic seeds
of our people) We will begin to
take the otcessary steps to in-
sure the weWfare ofour sisters
Where there is 4 bail of an amoant
thaz wo can raise, we will ball
the sister out of the pig pen. We
are vegioning to seod letters in-
side, so char the sisters know ciat
we ie potting our theories into
practice, We want to utilize all
of the progressive services avail-
sole fo that these sisters aregiven
better treatmeo it. The oaly way to
educate is to communlicae We
need help in all areas. We oced
moxy, decent jobs, advice,
stamens, paper revolutiowary
press oa the prison adminis-
craion and help for sistess who
wore addicts ot the time of thelr
arrest, We need cleahes, houses,
bens, every am! anything. We aood
people to belp us turn this Wea
ine a revolutiosary reality.
On December 20, 1970, there will
evening rally a the nouse
of Decention to demonstraic our
solidecity endto inform the sisters
of It will alee
’
re
be Jn
we are ding.
» in support of the Provisions
Revobuthonary Goverarmne O°
~ourh Viewnam’s eight poi pro-
vyam, For information or offer of
conract: Afent
» or, Ea of In-
' x, New York, 1657, Phone:
win
please
st Coast Ministry
LST) Dowte
acy loes
57K. NO or 328-991) Hlo.me: 5437-
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Ven sur
New York 21 Conmmunicuth
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Nib WLACK PANTHER, SYTERDAY, SON
MOLH %. 19770 PMS
PIGS MURDER FATHER
AND SON
WITHOUT
PROVOCATION
The family of John Daniels
i) s i} i
cK af oppressed
overetand that asl
iniaa (American) citizens,
sublect to brutality, torture, and
qerder ag any civeatime, We knox
thar deat comes inmany formes.
sometimes overtly Uke whea pigs
gun down the people aa the streets
and some times covertly like the
need for avedical facilities, food,
sheker and clothing. However
when ‘Slaent cold blooded murder
straches out aod strikes downone
of our potestial warriors we are
eeminded in a very cruel manner
| an
The body of
john Daniels
people iby loo
we are
that death will continue to be our
fate 2g loa 4% we cemain prison-
ers in the minimun security
prisons of Bab/low
Our vecy existence i6 & stake
aben acide in anavtomobdile dows
the street of the black coloay leads
to humiliation, torture, sod mer
der, On a cloody Moady afternoon
et approximately 2:0) p.m. Joho
Daalels 39 and his gon Johan Willia-
ms 22, took cheir last automotdle
ride, The 2brothecs along with
sisters Ruth Howard 19, Ywoune
Jones and brother Moses Me, loud
were on their way back to New
jersey from New York wihenthree
pigs of the N.Y, City Narcotics De -
tective Squad pullal along side
thelr car as they rode down Atlan
tic Avenue in Brooklyn aad tok
them to pull over. \s the dred
piss did not identify themselyaay
ke D. continued to ktive Ale®
nimates batter the same Cariap=
proached Joho’s car, only thik tie
one of the pigs beki agunxo i of the
window and forced them on (RRS
curb a Alantic aad N coimaad
we, --the beart of the flack co
unity, Without ®rning ort
iemest Provecation, ¢
Thomas Aroett, Poul Weedeahacam
and A\nthoy Palt crew thelr
service vers ~orytied
jnte the automobile aft! ”
to the
eal
werk
re ant
thew
cogard abrads of people,
:
gad John Willams
women aed chikiren. who bad
gathered to witness the slasgiter.
John Daniels, wae fatally wounded
amd Joan wis critically wounded.
After celo ting their revolvers the
cacist sadistic pigs approachedthe
The three surviving victims
@ sisters and | brother) were 4n-
uched from the car and lined up
agains: the plz car. John Wille
lam’s Mfeless body wus dragged
from the car and thrown in the
strex. Joba Dantels who was dy-
ing wat throws of the street and
"hot again in the head aod chest.
The older brother Moses McC loud
was haodeuffed and taken to Grant
Awe. pig pen where be was sever
ty been The cwo sisters Ruth
Howard aed Yvome Jones were
also taken to the pig pea where
chey ware forced to strip-naked in
froat of the sadistic perverted pigs
for thelr amvsement.
The pigs. have stated that kt was
reli~<fense. Although cyo Witeess
reports stated thag the victim:
were armal§ it wos also state:
that they oever drew oc used their
gums and thar all of the fire cam,
from ps. Black people mas
jearn to take the pocessary action
to shoot first to prevent the an
nibilation ofour people, We as op.
pressed people mist oever reli
our vigil, for In the miniinum an
maximem security . Prisoms «s
Babyloa death is at every corne:
With our Lives at stake constant!)
men
ear
Ee’
(>.
a
,
The body of
Toho Wiliams
we AOU BOE Best ate to kil! aad
id fom dm Freedoin. To be inict
ute, TO hewitate Ib reactionary » |
Cle ~<a me wine less Geach tha
Oy FErves \the oppressor.
we aeeet dic ket it be in an a@
ere er can cur treetion
f a neest be sutotbal bet @ tw «
obtionwcy suicide
roi ive [hr aach
lack Pvether Party
see
— Page 6 —
THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1970 PAGE 6
TO THE PEOPLE--MESSAGE WAR
FROM FLEETA DRUMGO
The majority of the people in
America have becn immobilized by
the thought of death, Revolution
to many persons scems to mean
dying, and actually, the people are
dying everyday. The people must
know that the revolutionsry move~
ment of today is to change the
existing conditioas which have and
are comtinucusly destroying the
people in general, the black people
in particula:.
Revolutionsrics area’t mili-
tants; they’re 4 segment of the
People devoted to gain that wich
is amd bas been denied dive people
‘for centuries. Their devotion is to
end genocide, aad US, fascist ax
imperialist aggression.
The establishment and those few
wio control this country cure
nothing or Little at all afsout the
peverty that exists surrounding
them, Necdless to say, they aren't
coacerned about their cucism and
exploitation besides, This reality
ss forced the revoluiooarics’
stance, his stance is taken ot
of love for the people aanl to bring
bout freedom and ruc humanity,
Nixon, Agaew, Reagan and thelr
other flenkies, Rockefelles and J.
Ldgar Hoover criticize am) con-
deron the revoluthiooary movemen
merely because the movement has
aad will continwe to expose their
deceits aad repression. The riot
in Watts sod other cities through-
out America was forced up out of
deep frustrations which finally
boiled over and reached its peux.
‘The revolutionary movement today
diffecs from those acts in Wats
however. The basic elements thar
existed in Watts, Detroit, New
Fleeta Drumgo
Haves aadcther cities were caused
by the decadence ia which the ¢s-
tablishamem exists and the con-
ditions it totally ignores.
Decem housing, employment,
educmional centers, medical fa-
cilities, child cure cemers are of
utmest necessity throughout the
black communities 45 well as in
the Mexican and poor white com-
menities. Countless petitions and
demoastrations don’t seem tohave
been the proper remedy. Only die
revolutioniry armed struggle caa
and will obtain those basic weeds
am rights that are denied us
The bluck liberetion movemect
is ne loager an isolated movement,
actually, it never wis, The rics
amd fight for freedom, justice,
power by the blacks are the sapic
ceies and strugeke of all people
“io are oppressed and explo'ted,
Trough the teschings of Hury
P, Newton, Eldridge Cleaver,
Hobby Seale and George Jeckson,
today's black freedom
fighters now have 4 much brosder
scope of direction.
Blacks had been Caught through
trials and cribulagions that all
whites wore dogs and the cause of
ebusement thag wus inflicted upon
our people, mach of which still
exists. However pow more and
more blicks sce who the real
dors are ~ the caphtalistic pigs
ami the fascist poate structure,
mrt necessarily white peuple,
Our beloved brother Hiey P,
Newton throagh the Party program
has shown us the real murderers,
ropists that enshave people in
general, black people im partie
cular,
Many people see actions of true
revolutionaries 4s brazed and sul-
cidal acts, but these acts or actions
are motivated oat of the deepest
love that the people have ever en-
coaumered,
LONG LIVE THE VICTORY OF
THE PEOPLE'S WAR,
DEATH TO US, FASCSM
IMPERIALIST AGRESSION
ALL POWER Tuo THE PEOPLE
Fleeta Drumgo
vo ang
WD
a THE PIG PRESS LIES ARAN!) ——————
Last week in the trial of Black Panther Party Chairman, Booby
Seate and Sistec Ericka Hugsias, in New Haven, Conmnesiicur a de
fense motion to have the jury sequestered during the tcial wos dented,
Tae jury will be allowed to read the prejudiced accounts of the
case in the paper and listen to racist news comme tafors give their
‘public opinion’ as co the guilt or innocence of the defendants, By
allowing the jury to be exposed to the escablishment press, judze
Mulvey, in conjunction with the fascist U.S, government, is insuring
the railroad of Chairman Bobby and Ericka wo the electric chair,
To gather support on a national leye}, the pigs all across the country
have intensified their vecba! defamation and actual hatassme? of
the Black Panthec Party.
In the dark hours of this morning, Noy, 23rd., the Comnton vig
deparcment raided a house of some memtess ofthe Black communtity,
In the raid on the house at 30] W, Fig S:,, the pigs stole weupons
and ammun‘tion, A few hours later, the pig press reported that
the
pigs had raided the Compton Headquarters of the Black Panthec Party
and seized a ‘large cache of weapons, 40 sticks of dynamite aad
written plans to a*tack police atations,
This ajiedgei ‘anthers fortress’ is in no way connected with the
Black Panther Party, or our offices, or our N.C.C.F. comin unity
centecs. By indoccrinating the commu ity with this false tnformarion,
the pigs wpe .o build supver: to justify gestapo raids on the Black
Panther Party,
By a constant program of incense harassment and charactec
slander against the Party the pigs are waging a frantic pr paganda
camps gn throug’: the press ‘0 salvage even an ounce of recognition
in the comin-iity.
This propaganda campaigno is desigoed to insure the fascist rail-
road to prisons o- gas chambers of all Panthers, Wien Paathers
are constantly being vilified by the press, it is impossible to gel an
impartial or unbiased jury, Panthers like Ronald Freeney
‘tle
Angeles, Rory Hithe and Landon Williams ‘n Deaver, the N.Y, 21, and
Chairmai Bobby and Sister Ericka in New Haven will never be able
to receive a fair crial aaywhere ia Badylon
Ai. POWER %O THE PEOPLE
L.A, CHAPTER
BLACK PANTHER PARTY
\ warrant has been issued for the
arrest of Charles K. Garry, chief
attorney for the Black Poeaher
Perty, The warrant was issued by
Pig Jude Scauts in Alameda County
(Callf.) to be applied when Garry
returns to the jurisdiction of his
court,
The pigs ordered attoroty
Charles Garry to appear in Alv-
meds County Superior Court last
week to defend clients in another
case, knowing that in New Huvea
Conmecticut the trlal of Chairman
Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins of
the Black Panther Party wis
Schedualed to start thar same
week and that it is Impossible for «
person to b¢ In two places atonce.
Charles is now in Comnecti-
cut defending Bobby and Ericka and
has been charged with concempe of
court for failing to appear in court
in California. f Garry bad stayed
in California and failed to appear
in Connecticut pigs would have
found him in contempt inConnecti-
cut. This is a viclous, fascist cir-
cle crying to silence santher {ree-
dom fighter.
Charles R. Garry has been fight-
ing fos and defending the Black
Panther Party in the courts of fas-
cist America indefatigably for
tiree years, In 1967 he fought for
the life of Hoey P. Newton, our
beloved Minister of Defense, who
now. with the revoletionary love
and assistance of CharlesGarry is
tack on the streets with us fight-
ing Cascism, For that fact aJose we
PEOPLE
PEOPLE
Siace the Inception of the Black
Panther Party, an armed, organi-
zed political body of Black people,
in 1%6, maoy aew Black organi-
vations have sprung up. Some of
them are revolutfonary and
suicere, some are just Sincere,
but most of them are individual-
isth aad opportunistic, However,
a8 more aad more organi ations
are being focmed in the Black com-
munity, the bad ones are being
weeded out from the productive
ones. Only the people are the
righteous exainioers of the social
practice of any organization set up
in thelr cominvaity and claiming
to exist solely to serve them.
We find that as more and more
orginizations sprog up withinour
communities the ones most like ly
fo Succeed are those based on a
Platform either adored from the
W-point Platform aad Program of
the Black Panther Party or those
who basically meet the immediate
needs and desires of the people
of that commutity. The ones that
Succeed are those that truly serve
the people. .
People For The People, afair
ew OFyanization founded upon
need for drag control and edi
Goa in the heavily deur in
community of Coromact) as:
burst, does nor Surface as a .—
Portunistic wpe procram 17 ft
maawnl oy 4 hard workine tea;
Gedicated brothers, Some, of thent
OXmrug addicts, most of them ro.
thers off the street. This hw wram
WS oot funded by the city me the
government. it is aa indepeaden
Of SUZation working solely on its
own Mt the present time Wey are
working towards teoving their
office location from Astoria Ol.
RANT ISSUED FOR BLAC
PANTHER ATTORNEY
CHARLES R. GARRY
eur
ak.
aoe Ye
t; ’
ace gratefal to him, In
of those three years he as
nimsetf a faithful serva oo
poople and the party by exposin
fascism in the comtrooms of
America, Now he is fighting §
the Lives of Chairman & ys
amt Ericka Huggins who rete
cect of the crimes they have
accused of, He is og!
pis, jodkes, district attor
the American Empire by f
Garry who bas and is
life i defense of the pe
right to life, Uberty and cx
suk of happiness, We
together if we are ever to If
harmony with each other,
ney Charles R. Garry ts f Ae
Phas
=
ual
with as so it is pow our ra to
defend him. The masses of eo
ple are the most powerful force
in the world. It was essential thas
the people's power be benind
revolutionary lawyer tn freeing
Hoey, Now it is esseneial that the
people demonstrate thelr power
even more by defeading Chark
R, Garry so that he may assisg
us in freeing Bobby, Ericka ap
all other political prisoners
bring death to the fascist ¢
the American empire,
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE
National Headquarters
Dlack Panther Party
and 6th street to Northera &
amd 108th St. At their pres
located on Astoria Blvd,, th
in an area thas could ger
be classified as
However, by moving to Nord
Biv. they will be com!
workin: with both cloments of U
Black social structure of Coront
Fast Elmhurst - che Black
houry,coisie andthe Black Lampea
People For The People are |
the process of fixing ep ne |
story building on 108th Screet &
Northern Blvd, which they 1
use as thelr office. They have &
use of the entire pullding and pl
to implement such proxmams ;
Breakfast for School Chtldre
activities for the povple of
community, 4 day<are ¢ a
advice on Purecs and Child mn
lattonships as well as ¢
cation and prevention pr
The office will be opened 24h
4 Gay and the telephone
will be made available ford a
mouty, - ae
\Anyooe willing to help:
\aheaa
should contact Feo
‘
om \
i
my
ul AN
ALL POWER TO
— Page 7 —
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THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28,170 PAGE a on
ss plece of foam rubber that is passed
Standing at 814 Jackson St, inthe
heart of the law and order section
of downtown Toledo, Ohto, is ain-
famous bullding apporpriately
named "The Dungeon” by its in-
habitants. k is knows by unin-
formed citizens of Toledo as the
Locas County Jail run by Sheriff
Merzer,
‘This jail is over 80 years old
and was built to Sold a maximum
of ISO inmates fn 1887. ‘The pre-
Sent total population is over 200
inmates of which approximorety
SO are Black. The rest of the in-
mates are Mexican-American or
White, Although the Inmates are
from different ethnic groups, they
all come from the game oppressed
class of people in this city and
county. So therefore they could
Mot get their stories of starvation
atrocious unsanitary conditions,
2nd inburman treatment, (compaura-
ble to « medival dungeon) printed
in the power structure's pig news
media,
After relating to these brothers
for almost a month om the per-
Pose of the Black Panther Party
and the voice of the people, the
Black Panther Paper, they agreed
to tell their stories knowing they
would be published in the people’s
paper. Some of thetr’s and our
Persosal experiences and obser-
vatloas are toki factually and
truthfully to the people for the first
time
In the maximum securky section
there are five useable cells with
the sith cell converted Into a
uncovered mattress or
on from inmate to inmate without
any type of cleaning. No sheet
or bed covering except one wool
blanket per inmate is issued.
These bunks must be placed next
to each other inside the cell in
order to fit, so there is no room
to move around,
To use the washbowl or tolier
you must walk sidewnys between
the bunks. Two ‘nmates cannot
g§erous, because when the collets
leak or overflow as they all do,
on the floor have to be
away after being contami -
ON THE SEATTLE EIGH
Dear Friend:
With the expansion of the war in
Southeast Asia andthe faltering of
the ecoaomy a home, dissent has
risen from every corner of Ameri-
ca. Not surprisingly, the “law ‘n
order”’ Nixoa Administration has
responded to protest with its
most discredited weapon, repres-
sion of political dissidents in the
courts. This fall, Washington State
will be the site of the second fe-
deral conspiracy trial the case of
the Seattle Bight,
As you will recall, on February
Ith, the day after the exorbitant
sentences of the Chicago
tiel were announced. chousands
protested ai the Seattle feders)
courthouse, Similar demonstra -
oat occured all over the count-
et —
“THE DUNGEON”
EXPOSING CONDITIONS IN TOLEDO’S LUCAS COUNTY JAIL
Almost all inmates sheep with
their personal belongings at the
foot of their bunk, Five men are
assigned to spaces in the hall of
this sectloa. These five sleeping
Spices take up the entire length
~and half of the width of the one
area accessible to inmates outside
the cells. This Is supposed to be an
excercise area, but because ofthe
overcrowlal conditions of this jail
there is barely room for two in-
mates to walk pass each other.
Three of these men assigned to
the hall are fortunate to have steel
bunks. The other two must sleep o2
matteresses on the floor, One of
those presently siceping on amat-
tress is a crippled 73 your old
Black man, These five men have no
Privacy or toilet facilities. They
must use the tollet facilities of the
already crowded five cells, which
were originally designed for one
man per ceéll.
There are no lights in the cells
of inside the ceil range. The only
light comes from the lights in the
guard's hall on the outside of the
cells. Seeing is difficuk andread-
ing is impossible for any length
of time
Roaches and gnats are al! over
the cell range. It is hard to sleep
with them crawling al over the
beds and inmates bodies. The col-
let facilities in the cells consist of
@ Collet and weshbowl prowlded with
a cold water faucet oaly. Hoth are
the original toilet facilities in-
stalled when this jall was bailt in
1887, They leak and overflow con-
tinwously, causing afoul nausear-
ing smell to hover permanersly.
There are oo facilities for wash-
ing the inmates clothes, An in-
mates’ relatives or friends must
Pick up his dirty clothes on visi-
tors day and return them, Clean
towels are passed out every 2 or
3 weeks when one bar of soap
is given.
The food served in this jail ts
not fit for consumption by human
beings. It is passed out in impro~
Perly washed unsanitary metal
trays. Hardened food from pass
meals is alwuys presers inthe cor-
ners of these trays, Even though
the inmates constaraly complain of
this, nothing is done to improve
the situation, Only two meals are
served each day. Breakfast is al-
ways the same. Cooked meat is
served in very small portions once
or twice 4 week, A typical days
meal served in this pig pen would
be: Breakfast: Two small hard
rolls, amd one cupof coffee with no
sugar, Lunch; Ege saled on a piece
of bread, stewed tomatoes-pud-
ding. one cup of tea, Diner: Mac-
T DEFENSE
aronl cheese, petetoes, apple
Sauce with one cup of coffee, and
no Suger,
The size of the portions given
in each meal is very small, No
Seasoning is put in the food and ir
is served cold. It took « nine.
day bucger strike and near rlot
to get & small packet of salt and
pepper included with the dinner,
Almost all food served is thrown
awiy dy the Inmates because It is
mor fit to eat. Candy bars, cookies
and milk from the jail’s commis-
sary make up the meals of al-
most all inmates,
All food is served aad handled
by sentenced Inmates wo have noe
had any type of heakh examina-
tlon, and are Mable to spread
Scrious diseises, These same men
mop the halls and empty the gar-
bage cans of the various cell sec-
tions. They wear the same clothes
while serving food as they do while
working Im the halls. Sometimes
they keep on the same clothes for
two or three days without change
ing.
Proper medical treatment can
not be odtaired . The jail doctor
@r. Dejre) iy paid $6,000 a year
to do nothing but sit and issue
sleeping aad pain pills. He has
never physically examined any in-
mates, He only stens totheir pro-
dlem and isswes a pain pill, When
an inmate complains of stomach
trouble, sinus problems, 4 sore
throat or anything else, all be will
be given is one of these pills, Re-
cently ose inmate contracted a se-
vere rash and infection in his
genita) area caused by the unsani-
tary conditions of the rollets. Dr,
Dejute told him to por the jail’s
foot powder on Uiis severe painful
condition. Without examinig the
inmate, Because of severe pain
caused from using this powler the
brucher could not walkor sleep for
2 days. He had to call his family
doctor who Lmmediately told him to
Stop using thar powder because ir
Wis Gangerous to Use 00 that type
of skin problem.
The warden (Sam Lauria ) is
in the doctor's office a sick call.
He also Listens to the inmates pro-
blem aad chen cells the doctor if
the inmates can of cannot have
medical treatment, Some guards
have the same sadistic attitude
towards inmates being sick as the
warden. One inmate had a severe
toothache for four days. Finally
be couldn't stand the pain any
longer and began to bang his cup to
gain the guards atrention.
The guard stated that there was
nothing that could be done for the
toothache aad if he didn’t stop the
oolse, be would be throws In the
hole. This inmate was eventually
Placed in the “Hole” for continue
ing his pleading for the guard to
get 4 centist.
The ways of disciplining an in-
mate varies from being (pet onfire}
locked in your cell with ao com-
miseary or T.V. for aay length
of time felt necessary by the
guards, or being thrown in the
“Hole.” The hole is a small beick
room in the basement of the jail,
k is about half the size of are-
gular cell, There is no beat, light
oe vertilation in this room. An
inmate is beaten and stripped
nazed before he is thrown in the
hole, There are no toilet facili-
tles, So an inmate cannot keep
cleio, All human waste must goon
the floor to be sat and slepe in, No
drinking water other thanthe water
served daring the meals can be od-
tained, The only food served is
bread and water.
Women Inmates are put in the
hole also. If men inmases are inthe
hole, the guards will elther walt
tll their time is up or lee them
out.and put the women in, I women
are in the bole, and they want to
put men in there, the method is
reversed,
Walle in the hole, if an inmate
makes any noise, he guard will
turn & high pressure water hose
on him. Sometimes they are
threatesed by a German Shepheard
Gog. The hole is constantly damp
aod full of rats, roaches, spiders
and all other types of crawling in-
Sects which prey on the unclothed
bedies of the helpless inmates,
‘These are but a few examples
of the inhuman, barbaric, bruta]
treatment suffered by the inmates
of this detention center. Most in-
mates are awSiting ball or ontrial.
Therefore by the existing constitu-
thon are supposed to be Innocent
until proven guilty. The freedom
and right guaranteed in wie pigs
Constitutioa are nothing but empty
promises, All the rights and free -
doms of the oppressed people of
Babylon have been cancelled cat by
the existing social and political
Systems, which the ruling class of
American has used the constitution
to create and maintain. The ruling
class controls the means of pro-
duction, and the institutions of this
country. To maintain this comrol
they bave organized an oppressive
exploktive capitalistic system that
comrols the lives of all people liv-
ing in American and influences the
lives of other peoples inthe world.
‘CONSPIRARE’
(LATIN ROOT OF CONSPIRACY -- TO BREATHE TOGETHER, UNITE, AGREE)
ry. Two months later, seven men
and ome woman were indicted for
breach of the sotheriot law, and
couspiracy to incite the activites
of Fedruary 17th in Seattle,
As Delense Attorney Michael
Tigar has poteted out, the defend-
ants are charged with no substan.
tial acts themselves (assaul, da-
mage to property, etc.). Those
charged with crossing state lines
with intem to incite to riot had
all bees Living in Seattle before the
demonstration and are still living
there, They are charged with
meeting together, manirg
speeches, leafletting, and ovher
activities protected by the firs:
Ame ximent, The Washingtoa State
ACLU has decided to actively sup~-
port the defendants, by cootribut-
ing $15,000 for legal expenses, be-
cause of the obvious violation of
their right to speak and organize.
In fact, the US, Attorney In Sea-
ttle refused to prosecute, forcing
Attorney General Mitchell to send
one of his own assistants to take
the case,
The theory behind this kind of
Prosecution is the old outside agi-
«ator myth used by southern po-
lice against the civil rights move-
men, Today it is applied with
alarming frequency to identi-
fiable scapegoats when demon-
“rations occur,
The trial of the Soattle Bight
will be the first real test of the
conspiracy lew, (The Chicago de-
feodans were acquitted on the coa-
splracy charge.) Former Supreme
Court Justice Robert Jackson has
characterized conspiracy as “"thaz
elastic, sprawling and pervasive
offense... #0 vague that kt almo
defies definition.”
These eight young peo
enormous Court costs (mi
$50,000), endless lity
dooal anguish and the po
of ten years in prisoa,
even larger issue if typified
sad comment of Tom Hayden, o
Calcago triah:*' Fascism will come
to American by compromise: ax
through the strength of reaction,
but through the weakoess of the
good people,” Many will recogaize
the threat to the civil Mberties
of all Americans inberest in the
In order to stop the burburic
mercer of all oppressed people snd
change the deplorable coudiions of
their many commnanities, the peo.
ple rust rise up and move inare-
volutionary manner to take back
what is rightfully theirs from the
ruling class. The first steptoward
making real freedom axd ending
Oppression 4 reality, is to make
Sure that the Revolutionary Peo-
ples’ Constitution ts written, so
Ghat the rights and freedoms of
every person in America will not
only be guaranteed, but protected
by the soclal syste Implemented
by the people Living by it,
Raids are characterized by
highly secret, quictly executed
Surprise attacks,
The inmates of the-maximum
Security section and other sections
of "*The Dungeon” although not
able to he physically presest at
the Revolutionary People’s Coce
stitutional Convention, Nov. 27h
be there 100 percent In true revo-
lutionary spirit, so that atrocites
like these will be abolished,
All the men (live Black and five
White ) incarcerated in this jail’s
maxioum security section have
Signed this report being well
aware of the physical and mental
reprossion that will follow from
the jall’s administration. ‘They
wish the people to know that no
matter what happens to them, they
have stood up and are resisting
as men.
Leooard Mayne jr., Jimmie Jen-
kins, David Hill, William Brows,
Leonawed Maidx, Haalel Wortham, —
Terry Bovee, Leo Augustyniak,
Heary Burton, Raymon Gentile.
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPL
Mike Cross and John MeClellaa
The Toledo Iw (Political Prison-
ers)
Lucas County Jail
Searke wial, But will we oppore
this growing injustice, ax! will we
_ give our Ume, our volces and our
\money to reverse it? Thetrialbe-
pinion November Sh, and several
Seattle Bight Defease
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; $10,000 wich 2
TE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVENER 28, ITO PAGt x
FREE THE DETROIT 15
The judicial system is proving
a every turn of evems thet it is
limpossible for Blick people tore.
ceive 4 fair trial in tal, lon.
Fifteen members of the Dervit
NAO.CF, are illegally being hel
fo the Wayne County jail, Seren
bwothers and eight sisters are
being beld on charges of murder,
conspiracy to commit mader and
malictous destruction of police
Property.
These chacyes stem from an ine
cleat that happened On October
24th when = a aine peur okt youth
aed 2 members af the NCLCLE,
were -cverly beuten yy uhe fis
cist PIES The peuple in the co.n-
tounity showed thelr costempe for
the pies by hurling bricks und
teackes in their direction, In
response, the pins drew their yues
and besan firing into the crowd
of people. \n exchance of fire took
Place betwetn the pigs a9! aa w-
known assailant. The results were
one dead pig aod ove wounded! plc.
and a victory for the people.
Using this as an excuse the pies
raided de N.C CF, office, The
brothers aa. sisters inside the of-
fice relating to L sewutive M indate
No, 3, defended their bome in a
comfromation that lasted) from
O70) pam, to 4:00! tin, the aext
mornics. The pies aad clerted the
mations! gourd and they were about
to enforce the Moc arrvn \ct. if
the uhole community would have
been armod the cowurd), pics
woukdat have even come into the
community brutalizin: the people,
the brothecs and sisters would nes
be in jail and tie pouple wold
have had an even cremer victory,
As it stands gow they are all
being hell on tramped-ap chores.
The sisters have ranour of
SMTeIUES . the bro-
thers’ ramsoms are S25 FP es TR
for ene brother (Lire x) waose bail
ransom is $.0,(9") nus ? earecities
They have al] beea Srura'h
Doaten “nd SORSUAPLY Sarassed In
the dots Since they have been in-
carcervted, ( aseun dre limes,
to @ beating from the pies),
entire left side of Linda's fave
is swollen from bein: besten:
David's face is also swollen, fro:
being bovten, Kim's right forearm
war busted by 4 pic wleo <lamet
4 cast trom door on it. \od Jerome
has severe bucns Gis face, neck,
cars ond cight arm). from « pig
trying to set him 3 fire
They were arraigned in court
on the 24h of October und iad
their preliminary besriny on the
Urb of Osteber, A preliminary
hearing is beld to determine if
the pizs have enough evideace co
prosecute the defendants.
‘due
The
Uf there isa’t suf-
ficiert evidence prodacod then rhe
defendant is to be released fron
custody, The pigs realivias that
they dido't have «a, evidence what-
soover te coctinue the confinement
of the brethers ae] sisters,
decided to empto, the fascist tac-
tics of “the [7-man cituzens grand
jory”’. This grand piry has been
given tie suthority to continee the
confinement of the defeadant on
given word from tue Police de-
partment. “The I7-mian citizens
gread jury’ «4s caked ancoosti-
totioaul by Genesee Circuk jodge
Kira 1 Paop. Jude Papp coled
apainet the grand jury lawonthree
counts.
The first issue deals with the
provision in the Lew chat « Solease
attocne, comet see gerund jury
testimo nw from « witeess until
after that witness has testified a:
the trial, Judge Pupp foend thar
this procedure does not “where
to we principles of a fair trial"
“Never could I effectively
prosecure or defend without
thotuen® mivestbration, disoce sery
dnd preparation’. sie sald,
The second? issue coacerns the
right of 2) accused person to have
ao eNexthe attorney,
The jodie ruled that an atcorney
cannot be effective when be yets
4 copy o@ groad Jury textimony
during the trial.
“Ihe can neither properly pre -
pare a defonse . nor can he
recommend to his client that he
plead silty without knowlede of
wind, Witnesses have said azalast
that client’ Judse Papp said,
Tie third issee involves the
dcealal «@ 4 preliminary examie
natlon to persons indicated ly a
citizens yraad jory,
"Preliminary ex unioation or ut
least S to the prand fury
tracscript before wial is vital for
one accused of a crime’ she said.
\ preliminary examinations
purpose is to dxermine if there
aweet
is evidence wo Jotve «4 person to
Stand trial,
Jake Papp said thet under the
cutveas yrand jury low, this is
dome by inexperiesced Lay people
“acting a8 a. arm of the pro-
secutor”’,
le pies are Gesperutely trying
to muke «a case, They have oo
evidence, sioce all of the orizinal
complaints and warrants have been
dismissed, [ot the fascists aro
still try ime to railroad these pro-
thers 4nd sisters on make believe
trumped-up charges, This is just
wether example of the need for a
Revolialonary People’s Consti-
tutional Conventios
DEATIE TO THE PASCIST PIGS
N.C.C PF, Detroit
JUDGE MURTAGH AND PROSECUTOR
FRANK HOGAN EXPOSED
"He's abangmig, a hagchet man,
dad a killer. tle wukes Julius
lboffmun look like Kins Solomon,
That's whet New York [anther
2)" lawyers Say aboot Juke
Joa M, Murtagh.
Mefore the trial had started Mar -
tagh bad been involved in quite 4
few cocist things, [le woulda’t bet
Lee Herry have dnceat metical ate
tention for e.er four months while
Lee was held for $100,000 cansoen.
Loe has since been severed from
the tris!, three operatioss amt ten
menhs after bis kiduip oy New
York's finest from Veteran’ & hose
pital.
On June UU. 1969, 4a attorecy
was forced to bes Mertagh: "One
bast reqvest, your [bower. Cue of
the defentinte, Mr. terry. | be-
liewe, We attempted to beim bio
4 staace of shirt taky, We were
told ly the Correction Depirtincnt
to Sring that up to your Hloaor's
attention as to wether be muy
change tis shirt. [he could pot de
it earlier, because the Correctioa
Depurtment said that would have
to be decided b, the Court, We
have the shirt with os, Vat it
would be 4 simple motter just te
give & to alm, Uf peur llonor would
vppreve it.”
Murtagh replied: “1 will allow
the mamacement of matters of that
kind to be bandied ly the Depart-
ment of Corrective.” Qo other
words, vo devl with the DB. ot ©
M the same time, the busers
utked if the "21" could meet to-
gecher 48 4 group since was im
possible wo prepare 4 defense ons
“conspiracy” rap whee the
Pouthers «ere spre cot ie
doneoas all over New York, Mur-
tach refused saying to view them
Individuals does “require preater
effort” but that it could be dove
Tien te dida't even bother to
Pucthers
une : ohms ort ; al 1
be allowed to see their own
indictment, niich the corrections
depictment refused them.
ik took him ueail November to
allow the 21" to meet together
for “one bour 4 week" to prepare
their trial,
On Janaary 20. 1970, the lawyers
tried to have Mortagh kicked off
the case, Lawyer Gerry Lefoourt
charged that Murtagh was hand-
picked fy Destrict \Mtorney Hosa
to hear all of the Puather causes
in New York. When Murtagh was
askel co remove himself froin the
case in November, he saidthaathe
\ppehate Division ussicoat aim to
the case,
\ check with the \ppelae
Deviston showed that \h tach wos
lying. \ few core things like this
occurred and people bosun to check
oot ulo Mortach wor.
This is anet was foul in oh!
Nea Yoo Times ond [ere Tri-
bene clippings
sumreme Court Justice Jol M,
Me@tach lias « pollo recend. Oa
\La TS, PS1 be wus indictet iad
arteste! oa chunses of “willfal
merlot of duty’ Garin: his teem
as New York Commissioner of
bwesticasion « from lh thew
SO under the iofanwersty ¢cuntal
ridhtee administration of former
Minor William OWDeyer. te wes
cole reed Without puvias bul even
Chowne be dems nded and: a a (eu
4 ter 64 Oak), mer
formally s«mewore! tec be wre
lore he bit such slik Leavers
that he appesied wath faa Lia
sults te wore bis wey oot of ve
‘ereressive’” prosecuthet, Nove
that be refused to hewer the ont ition
duller raneon of the Puetherss
\s a fpersendl ant political
prieee of «YDayer. the po.
secuter sail Mortach was susre
of pay-effe stand on arrests, col-
lusive amone e © felive depurt-
Maxwe eri es a yer
mem to establish police cevords,
inefficiency amon che higher
echelons of the cop department
aod corruption al] alons the line.
llis oan files were used a* evi-
dence ogainst him. Murtagh’s files
showed that top cops hdd large
bunk sccouns and dat pluin-
chtheunes aimitted to owning
thousands of dollars in war boads,
In Urooklyn, the cager beaver
peosecutor decided be wasn't going
to let Murtach off. Murtagh was
beourtt before Jude Samuel 5.
Lethowiez and a Grand Jucy. (Lei-
bowitz, ty the way wes Capone's
lwayer). Lebowitz asked Mi tagh
why the cops weren’s prosecuted
whea the District Mtorney pro-
docal volumes of files from Mur-
tach’s own office, inerbninacing
the cope, inchating = financial
questionnaires from over SOONew
York cope,
Lech time, be was asked Mur.
Gagh denied be knew anything about
the rummpont grait.
**\ighounh che acqound unts broke
down these things, chut's abere
the investicution broke down,”* the
prosecutor suid
Martech almost scteumead from
the witness stand, "Do vou realize
mio of these men micht hive
iohcrited thet money? Many of
thom worked jeurs for i? \y
investigation Was evaaustive, bud |
wwe! thew + Cornea dowenes and
courtesy, [would tuther be barmuse
than o & sed, ual air Prosec aor."
“This is all vor) strvmre since
he's key the Mvntlers jiled for
) triel om the vs.
sargsion that they are “ver
dancerous poopie’ of like the pro-
sevuter subi '' The) abe Mverthers,
are at ordioury defemtumas, The,
are Wrroriets.”") Ooe cra ooh
cunts that Ge rultee cliss
eras bew to tuke core of ft»
owt
si .our Without
PIGS auneul
UNARMED BRO
On the morning of November 0,
70, the AJco [lar on Bth Ave.
in Htarlemm “as robbed of $50.00
and US beatles of ligser, \ short
eulle later on I73rd Street and
Lenox \Aweaee, Arthur Rats uho
was runing with « case of liquor
in his hors was shea 5 times in
the heal ty pkes from the 28h
precinct, The brother “us un-
irmed, Arthar’s bereeher,
Ross, came t his side when be
fell and was trmediately anagched
up, har douffed an! drown irae a pix
cur
The pigs sealed off 123cd St.
and several pir vans carrying wea-
pox came lato the area, The pigs,
Suited up in bullet proof vests and
armel wit, rifles, began breaking
into somes and intimidating people
on the streets. They were al-
leckedly looking for two more
roobery suspects who were sup-
posed t have ren down 123ed 4.
The tension in he commamity
bevai to mount and the people
Poured into the street aod beyas
Shouting at the pigs about the mur-
der of Arthur-Rosw. Ac this poire,
the police called the ‘search’ off
aml left the ares,
\rthur Ross woo
Corliss
lived ¢ 1754
\wenwe Jn the (roex was
“*I made at Jeast ten »
repocts to the Mayor,”” My. tagh
respocded, “Ill tell you, the
Minige matter in Queens, ove in
the [iroax, anceher to District At-
tornmey ilogén and one in West-
chester.”
"The Pledse report!’ sbouted
Jude = Lelbowirz, “‘Tocy white
washed that one too.. That was
wien Joe Pledge, a hookic, charged
& police Inspector with taking
graft, and they made Pledse the
defendam instead,”
Then Judge ‘Lethowity ordered’
the files seize!,*'Have these curds
Stored in a wurchouse for use py
the Grand Jury. Vader no circum -
stances are hey to go outside of
the state” he warned,
Murtagh had made a olg thing
of his files before Senator Ke-
fauver’s racket committee. Me
Hell provided him with duplicates
of all the coll curd slips of the
biz canesters in the New York-
New Jersey area (us therelephone
company often does with com
menists® and other such in-
cendiaries" phone slips) and Mire
tagh vaunted the slips before the
Press and varbous “investigating
committees, [at be never did any-
thins about nuiline the cops or the
HaNgsters whe were stealiog from
ten
the peuple.
Leibowitz asked, ‘‘Aren’t you
shocked vy these disclosures?"
“Ver Jude."
“Of course, you are."”"
Murtagh got scared and fiyured
that Lemowilz Was Colne to expose
him. Leowitz, by this time, had
threatened Murtarh with a con-
term of court chtagion for tying:
in court, for lying to the presy
ie told reperters tha be was
just “‘belplas the grand jury in-
vestigation’ but the grand jury
issued 4 statement Qxhich is vory
unustial) to the offect that Murtach
we oot “helping the mwesti-
gation” but was, in fact, being in
vesticated himself,
Murtagh started 4 Lawsuit Afi.
tivh wa. Leibowitz tohae the case
suttoed from Leibowite'« juris
diction in Brooklyn to \anba
were his friend Prank tte:
the District \ttereey,
Murtosh argued that if be
Wted 4 criwe, i teak pl
Manhottae, Nis evidence? W
Qvuree, be polnte! oot that ev
dy KNOWS thot City Mal
woere tits office was hacured aad
CRS tall wax im Manhattaa, “The
Serene Court aml the \Woee ote
Division threw the suit oot 4
the Court of Appeals im \then
reverse! the hwer courts and
Pulled! that Mewtiaeth woedkt be triel
Mere *
21 years old, Archer
ar Lie thous of of!
ovth in Hatylosa hve heen. ryt
to take auat he needed, Through
the rhettos of New York
tla) lon the masses of Blac
are enraged daily ina sa
alleviate hunver in their families
to kill rats and roaches aad avol
kead poisoning in thelr bomet
Once again the pie killed . _ e,
Hlack man to protect the 4
clo capitalist bt ;
are rotting the people daily.
Qypes of deahs in dhe Ula
munity are endless and wll
tinue uneil the people strik
agtherealesem;. =
The realenemy is the rich:
class of America that pays the pl
from Nixon on down to o ore:
Black people, They pay Niwa
carry on the wir in Nam
They pay the U.S, Senate (0 ari
repressive laws: they pay
judges for convictions and f
cist rullroadings aed he.
pigs to protect thelr r
the Hlack community. :
To em! suffering in our It
must belp to get rid of the opp
sors,
*
a
ALL POWER TO THE
in Manhattan, (it has not t
determined if Mortagh hada f
in Albeny). .
Now Prank Hogan is 3 :
powerful maa. tHe is one of
few WOisurkct Amoroeya Lp
country who can pick and ¢
wo will ory Bis cases, SN fer
example ts the Paather ’
Parthers and
courts knew that‘
peaprhert, f .
antil the District
there.
On the final aed
period for crim oe
Manhattan Grand Jury pe
thar the “key witness” r
show up for the hearing, ’
witness was Mayor O'Dowye
meee See oat
he was engaged in “secret tus
ress" as the Ambassador to
Mexico. O'Dwyer skipped out «
New York juxt as soos as it heoum
clear that be was ant
Pinched for his s
ministration. le "stepped
from bis
mooths later but stayed on as
resident of Mexico rr 3 }
litele business uneil the S
of Limitations for criminal
against him ran cet in the
1960? s.
la the mesatime, many me
of his atministration were i
satel, tint and prosecuted fe
graft and coreuption. Many other:
left thelr jot in d
inchidine to) cehelons int
and fire deparunent,
Mugtagh kepe his
the crand jury * ca
O"Dayer awarded ator the jade
ne
+
met?
ship in 150, phe
Grasd Jory “cleored” MV ae
because thes coukle’s
pin tho vp eo baa “~
“We must commcet a dis
upon othe = opiystcrkais
PAraose of rartmcet of be me
Department
Pte.
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PAGE 965
iH2 BLACK PANTHE AY, NOVEMBER 24, 1970
continued from last page i \CK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBEK 25, 197
MURTAGH AND HOGAN PROGRAMS OF
ip gieay SURVIVAL
Shocking fact is, however, that oilfice.’
not one of those documents, which The Jury said that it had to
concerned 4 most vital phase of
the tnvestizagion could be located:
and that not « single person could
be found who could or would supply
the slightest clue as to where or
how they had vanished."’
The Grand Jury report investi-
Rating Murtagh contineed: ‘Ir
Seems to us that the investication
omered by Mayor O’Dwer and
conducted by the defendant, was
hardly calculated to uproot
corruption in the police de-
pactment. In the first place, the
fect that the defendant had been
directed to investigate the depart-
ment was blatantly publicized by
the Mayor, The corrupe members
of the police departinent, thus were
put on notice of thelr peril and
Riven an opportunity to cover their
tracks.”
The Grand Jury continued: ‘The
chances of siuccess’’ an ine
vestigation so instituted might
have had certainly been lessened
when the defendant failedto pursue
leads obtained from the financial
inquiries and questionnaires.
While there appears to have been
consideraole endeavor tocheck the
basic statements of the rank and
acquit Murtagh because he suid
be had talked to the Mayor about
the corruption io the cop depact-
ment and iis technically was all
that the law required bot ‘This
suspicion naturally is accentueted
where the Commissioner follows a
general practice of sutunitring
written reports to the Mayor then
departs from i In a particular
instance, The defendam, like his
predecessors ... ordinarily
mitted wrkton reports but failed
to follow vag practice with regard
to the Police Department investi-
gation.”
“From the emirc pattern of
the investigation and the sur-
rounding circumstances we were
thoroughly convinced chat, in the
mind of Mayor O’Deyer, the up-
roxing of corruption In the police
department wis not, in fact, the
true purpose of the investigation’.
“Remembering that it wis
O"Dayer who promulhzared this in-
vestigation, that he
qeestionably cognizane of its
direction and progress throughout
and the defendane’s confidential
relationship with him there canbe
to doult that the defendant was
Sub-
was
une
VS
THE RULING
GLASS
When we calk of survival as hue
man beings whhin a oppressive
Social, economical, and political
system and super structure, we
Mus! Vy Moces sity talk of creating
Programs Ula, will insure our sur-
viva), and to go even further lay
the foundation for 4 now okeraa-
ilve to ube present racisg stare
mochinery now In existence najoy-
ing the cloak of legitimacy
it hae Lees historically proves,
through observation of humans toce-
lety and ts developinen from the
cwles recorded eras until the
duct, (mosey) by a few mea: fk
is precisely this cootradiction,
that is in opposition to the realky
we a8 human beings aad poor and
dea trodden people are coxfront-
ed woh, for the material life of the
masses caamor coatinue deprived,
dealed aad Explolted while 4 few
enjoy the power derived frum the
social product of our labour, Tye
profits and fruits of soclety’s
Sweat caanot go to a few but must
be used by and for all
History has showa us tha inor-
der to truly and thoroughly chaage
organize co~wperwmive stores in
the norctherea Black communities
coupled with farming collectives
ron by rural and semi-arben op-
pressed people who, based upoathe
Same principles of co-operatios
and revolutionary theory, coski
supply the northern areas with low
priced good quality food, to Se con-
sumed by those ahs belp produce
it. This is a simple, outlined,
example. kt is examples like this
that represent direct threats to
fascism, because it Is maxbing
more than the oppressed class or-
gaaizing itself, aad renin coa-
presew, that bumanseocietymores he peoples relatioaship to the
file plainclothesmen, cosxcerning merely carrying out O’Dwyee’s from a lower level of matecial meaas of production which iscor- trol by degrees from the ruling
the rank of their asserted assets, purpose.” the Grand Jury stated. life to a higher level, andthe min Wolled by lessthat21/2%oftheto- pigs and placing thelr destinies
no effort was made to ascertain
the source of those axsets, eveo
where the amounts called for
“Ot greater significance is the
"*[lustrative of these ineffectual
measures was the highly publici-
zed departmental “shake-up” of
August, I947, which transferred
police supervisors of questionable
driving force, or decermining fac-
cor in the development of human
society {s man’s abflity to pro-
duce the means of survival or
those things that will insure his
tal populacios, and place control of
all of the material] cesources, in
the bands of the misses. & is
mocossary Uiat the masses of de-
prived, eqiloited and oppressed
firmly in their own hands. Ie fol-
lows thas is order to have com-
plete freedom, or the highest level
of freedom possible under given
circumstances. We mustengage in
failure to check the financial i- caliber from one locality to survival in his struggle agains; Pevple begin to organize hem- the highest form of struggle aec= §
formation ottained from the 45 another. This move, while sti- nacure Ie is the material fe Slves into a force ani restbyde- essary. For only the highest form ..,
high-ranking officers. The luck of mulaiing decisive executiveaction of society that determines the Frees 41 the power and wealth of struggle can resolve Acontra=
accounting personel serve! only to provide differest consciousmess of those wihin it {fom the ruling class, the racists diction such as whether ove Sur=
Sserted by the a dows yeographic spheres of activity for and it is the relacions, social re- = coment oe bandit rap Yip oaths a free man, or ‘Deel
ly Cxplainhis decision the game suspect personne!.”’ lations we enter Into in order to rich @ super-rich Geath of an ordinary elec- ia
to expend make and months of One year lover, Chief Megiscrate survive Unat croace the political their political puppets. Because fronical 2(rh century Slave. . ried
effort in the analysis of the Murtagh. back on the bench de- and social superstructure thag is these pigs have created the nec- For those wbotalkofuniy et
finances of over 300 plainclothes- — clared that the time liad come for knows as governmeant. essacy machinery, state andfode- as being primary, a prerequiske ee
men, to the exclusion of a less the woers of New York to clect History Sas amply Mlustrated ral aod volstered dieir Kieologi- to any to any hope of freedom or ad
onerous Inquiry into the officers a non-political candidae for thar when tn the development of Cal fourdition with a racists ‘* Wiberation; you have falled to Ss
of the 45 officers,” Mayor, He cited Frank Hogao, haman society the social celations, “Blondes have moce fun’ cairo] realize that only through struggle ; ‘a
The Grand jury kept right on who was running for Mayor, as political, religtous, cultural o¢ in poms pisvan caper nd ane plage at » 4
writing: “‘Nor is there any per- the type of candidarehe had In short ideological raving thelr press peoples str mast form of ,
suasiveness in the defendant’s mind, (Remember that Hoganhad pasis in ideas) = of ture take Is that which will pot only in- maximarn revolutionary solidarity .
contentions thar retirements just finished ‘‘prosecuting’’ Mur- aad bo aoc conform with the mag- Sure thelr survival, but also lay ani the highest degree of unizy ; a
among, officers reduced the im- tagh the year before). ses maceria! life «ad their rela- 4 fowndation and basis for anew examples illustrated in various ;
portance of the investigation, and In 1958, when Hogan ran for tionship to the meant of peoduc- “vvlety. Every obdnoctery SERRE eras aad cpocts prove, thag force — ir
thar he did not, at the time, have Congress, 4 reporter asked him (om, Quatural resources axtidis- 94% with the seeds of he new k is the midwife of social change
@ satisfactory questionnaire form what his relations with Carmine ¢ibution of material goods) then 8 the old Soctety that must give and thas armed scruggle inthe final ‘%
available" DeSaplo were. Ile answered the pecessary conditions existthag WwW") to the mew, oF stagnate and analysis is the highest form of q
The Grand Jury, at this point ‘‘Friendly. [ admire the manner will resolve ints very key contra- die, Heace it is definitely in the struggle aa oppressed people en- <
pointed out that O'Dwyer told in which he has provided leader~ diction. This is wheu the people, labouring masses best interest to gage in to acquire their end when s
Hogan tha: “highly secrec, ship and | don’t know of any other the labouring masses, areproduc- ‘institute thorough surviva] pro- all others have failed or missed oF
eS ce ocr catia bs ee ounce, Geen colereceaiste easy commal te pele) salle scopes) ned Kevebaienecy cat
e in Mexico and = self available to the same extest goods, aad ure unable to enjoy © ne, ; ut
be ‘hast rages about Mertagh to the press, radio, andtelevision. substantially the social fruits of Ke profits froin the tollandeco- is the medium by which social a
and his dealings with him, The There is nothing of the backroom their labour, (iighes: standucd of 90mic hardship of the masses, will chaaye oa a revolutionay level is aa
Jury wrote: ‘*There is Little doubt character avout his operazion.” living possible, housing. freome- 0¢ Surender the poate andpres- tained, then the resulting unity ort
thar the defendant was the Mayor's Hogan's “friendliness” with ical care etc.) because iney donot tige of their class position. can oaly be the highest degree of 9
protege, dependant upon him for 2 comrol anything. their relation to Here in Babylon hoping toco-opt unity: Revolutionary wulty. ;
political preferment aod beholdes continued on page 16 the means of prufucion has been oF repress any pcograms geared —*To talk of Survivalespecialiyas 4
him for advancement io 0 usurped by usmallgroupofgreedy Cow ur! serving the acwal needs of Black people withinracist Babylon =|
sid tycoons and super-conartists who he masses Of Black people, They we mast talk of revolution. foroaly
EAST ST. LOUIS JLLINOIS
SCHOOL BOARD TRAMPLES
ON THE RIGHTS OF
22,000 BLACK CHILDREN
UNITED FRONT NEWS RELEASE:
October 1970
The people of Eact Sc, Louis,
Illinois, are finally beginning tore
alize the need to imolement po.st
5S of the Black Panther Party, waich
states that ‘We want an education
for our people chat exposes the true
wacure of this decadom American
society. We want 4) education that
teaches us our true history and our
role in the present d+y society.”
After countless efforts of negeo-
tations, four nigger lackeys and
threo white fascist pigs oo the
schoo! board of t asa St. Louls have
end in sight. Hut this situation only
points to use fact thar the lying de-
mogonic politicians who comrol the
school system don’t cere about the
black chikiren. The president of
the school board is a boxlickin
lackey pamed Charles ‘pighead’
Merritts, who during the ceisis left
for a three week tour of Europe on
*doctor’s orders’. Wesayrighton,
pig-head Merrixts, but only extend
your trip percmasently because the
community is hip to your foul act,
Upon analyzing the situation the
United From of Hast St. Louis,
ahich has adopted the
Diack Panther Party platform, be-
gan to organize Liberation schools
claim ttles like Rockefeller, Du-
pom aad Morgan etc. ht is this
cvatradiciioa: oapership and coa-
trol of the cullecuive social pro-
Be He ee SS
the situation blockaded the school
board pigs in the board of educa-
tloa office. After belag held in the
building for about 12 hours whe
school bourd pigs were rescued
from the people's tribupe when
about 60 agents from the IL
Bureau of Investigation, aloag with
the East Se. Louis ple force and
reinforced by state croopers,
stormed the bullding and Inthe pro-
cess brutalized innocem people,
whose only crime is the desire to
have their kids in school, The
gestapo forces wore led by the Di-
rector, a bootlicking sigcer named
Mitchell Ware, along with the R amd
R boys of Last Se. Louis, Robert
Rice, St. Clair County state's att-
orney, and Ress Raodolph, head of
the pig department im East St.
have unleashed thelr private army
of armed pig police upon the pro-
gressive and revolutionary forces
particularily Uiose programs thas
are aimed ar the establishmest of
aa akeraative to their pig explotc-
ive machinery. An alternative co
inferlor high priced foods, is lox)
priced good food, or free food for
chikiren, along side of co-operai-
ively owned food stores where the
people of the com nity are part
ami parcel of 4 comin salty collect-
ive that own, support aad run
couperative stores, shops, pe
heuw otc,, tus is the oasis one
inning im creating 4
alternative to 20th cent!
under which we are the
destined to remain raw ta
for the pigs ledustry and rm
In order to reach cis ged
must establish firmly, ;
programs Sy serving the peo>
and working in a menner tha nec
essarilly favetves the community
" 4 “= . » wih ~ because t relacesto their survival
ecttherighs throughout the city. Also on Oct~ Louis, We say right on tothe par
ry Na nlack couicres tohavean ober : Gh--(echools have been enss of Fast St. Louis in their jast i the face of 4 reactionary Tac~
Sees Schoolshaveveenclos- closed since September 1-309 efforts to control the destiny of 1&t stace machinery that Is bent on
ed for soot seven weeks with no
parents who were coacerned about
thelr chikiren,
killing wt a!l, Instead we shoubd
hee Ee is self-creative and co-
through and by revolutios can we
survive, _
With this in mind it is clear
that our prograins of survival must
deal with these conditions and by
necessity our conditions are the
primary motive force in the or=
ganizing of the masses into 4 re~
voksionary force, that can insure
our survival and the establishment
of a pew system based on the ob-
jeciive oeeds of the people ant in
mre with man’s basic nature,
— Page 10 —
against
American [mcerialism,
The civil rights struggle is no more
than an extension of the American Re-
Everyone should rea-
and with that realization we
volutioa of 1776,
lize this
things that we
popalat of 1776 lb
sad forn in other words of
-cO England gained
the also the human
ght hat they were scking at tha*
I size at this was l whea
Vhit le of rica gained himan
g was truly a revolutionary
fort I Biacks, be-
1 the ntry and the
9 ‘ this we hadthe
} Mi inorder to gain
ts tha gained in 1776,
two hundred years have passed
n’t gaized those basic
sn’trevolu-
ij even thowsr) there was arevyo
not revulu-
production
Zain
alth or
there
nD *ect-
A constitutional Coavention is ex-
tremely imoortant at thistime because side of this country,
we must redefine and clarify our ac-
tions and our future plans as well as
mate known 20 the people and to the Emancipation Proclamation and then
world the justification of our struggle
bureaucratic capitalism and Freedman’s Bureau was established
tile market in which to favest, Noe In-
1 would like to backtrack a little to
the period of 1863, 1865, after the
the so-called Reconstruction, The
during the Reconstruction in order to
allot one of the chief points argued in
Congress by Thadeus Stevens, that
Blacks be allotted forty acres and a
mule, Because without the land it was
realized that thece would be no free-
dom, But this did not occur, | would
like to emphasize this to show that
America has compromised our free-
dom again and again, The Hayes Com
promise of 1877 devastated the whole
Reconstruction period and the few
crumbs that we'd gained during that
period,
So I refer to a time when we've
been forced out of the society, we've
ion of
been forced out of equal prote
the law, and himen respect, And it
leaves us with nothiag to lose, really
and everything to gain, because we've
lost everything, And of course when
s lost everything, nothing is open
one
to him hut total rebellion, Rebelli
against that force and those conditions
which Save stripped him of his vecy 4iZ-
nity as a ‘wna being,
What are the alternatives? We've
concluded that there’s no room for us in
the capitalistic system because of the
overdeveloped nature of the country.
We see tha: as far as autonomy ofour
community in any res as far as
self-governing our institutions; this
cannot exist under capitalism either
Sy t lictated | ve small ruling
f profit for the
into avery be ~
Slave driver and the capitalists, So
we question the very system, We don’t
only question the established o1
but we question the very sy
We feel thar (a2 only way that w
get freedom at this time
serving ande
(p2eriencing the conditions
ive a DYropor-
tional r
munalist
esentation in a inter-com-
framework,
his means that the Industrie tha
d by a small ruling circle
and all ethnic
will be guaranteed a place in
should be nationalized,
gro ips
Proportion to their o
ri ui ‘2 administratr
at (ie worker's level, Anythinz
of this would be c mpromising
freedom
igain, aad we wi
‘
Matter of fact, any c
would be suic
al. [t would be whar I
ll reactionary suicide, To accept a
compromise, Reactionary suicide
means the conditions, the reactionary
condtitions, would be the cause of our
suicide, If we stand aad do nothing,
TOWARDS A NEW CONSTITUTION
HUEY P. NEWTON,
MINISTER OF DEFENSE,
BLACK PANTHER PARTY
it would be self-murder, | would rather
cnoose the reverse, if it becomes aec-
essary, and that is a revolutionary
suicide, That's suicide motivated by the
to change the system,or else die
trying to change the reactionary cond:-
tions, But this is a freedom of choice,
And | would choose this for the gene-
ration to come and | would choose it
for my own integrity, for the simple
reasoa tha’ | refuse, our generation
refuses, to live as slaves,
So, we ¢
re demanding a Constitution
that reflects the ethnic and the plural-
tstic nature of the society, Wedemanda
Constitution that would guarantee us
the right to live, We demand a Con-
Stitution that has respect for the peo-
ple, and a Constitution that serves the
People instead of a Constitution that
Serves the ruling class.
We know tha? in this country there
ar2 certain oublic instituthons, <hat
ine suppyaeadly se: :
bur in reality are set up by the ruling
circle, to pretend to serv the people's
basic needs, Vhis is the Social Se-
curity, Employment Insurance, Wel-
fare Subsidies etc, The ruling cla3s
Sets up these public agencies to buy
un by 1a Jvupie,
off the people with a small example
of socialism, But we see that the rul-
ing class even uses the public faci}.
"les to their own advantage, The rul-
ing class really uses public funds on a
Bigantic scale to further its own in-
terests,
Aan example of this is the big rail-
way barons who receive subsidies. tn
other words, they receive welfare aid,
The big farmers, such as Senator East.
land, receives subsidies from the pub-
lic institutions in the country, while
the people, when they need welfare aid
are harassed, hounded, even to the ex-
tent that in order to get the aid they
must reveal who they sleep with at
night, while Eastland and all of
others receive millions of dollars each
year, yet they don’t have t veal the
last woman or man they sl with, I
think thar this is a good example fa
dictatorship by the
mean by
people,
that, is not that
will abuse what u
the
sed to be bour
but it is simply tha
will be take
under consideration and
they will the p focus af all
times in considerat given, And no
le class, no one assortment of people
will rece the benefits and the wealth
of the < rye
Black ple in this country, after
such a long period of suffering be-
cause Of capitalism and racl
, have
a right to exclusively control the insti-
tutions of the Black «
other ethni
groups
their community in a co- pers
fashion, And the national enterpzise
whac I call ente i 2
hose big moaopolies will be nationa-
have a repre itative on the t
boards, But those other ethn J
ll be dead. B ‘so
e righ: to have thi
entation because
st because
* lost faith--faitt
country, And for a safeguard,
3t we'll have to have exclusive
over our local com
ring these thi
c
reactionary s yr suicide
by the reactionary cond tions, | stan
against it, If | have a choice ich I
do, and if it con 2 poin aere
there’s only ther to a
cept reactionary suict i> ~ revolution-
arv suicide,
I think it goes without say that
Blacks are perfectly justified in de-
claring a Republic or a Liberated Tec-
ritory, if we find that we cannot,
through some mvtual coalition, bring
about this type of pluralistic society
that is desired, The only other alter-
native to declare a Republic, and
as I said, face the cowardly imoeri-
, and thereby either de-
suffer revolutionary su‘-
alistic army
feat them or
cide, which is glorious simp’y because
it would be our choice, and we won't
stand by and let us be killed one by one,
Killed in 30 mary ways, killed api
riiual'y, ed throug’: lack of basic
needs mediciis, £2 4 for s+ "ta, all
these things that are so basic we don’t
even have to aggue whether we're due
them,
As revolutionaries, | would Iike to
point out, to clarify our catechiam
that we have been completely cr sshed
a3 members of this so-called civili-
zation. And when | say comple
crushed, as revolurt onaries, w
not only rejected a eat by t 4
Preasor those sear ot he offer
merely crumi we a re *.
dinary | say ordinary for lack of aati
’ :
are Offered y be-ay .
np: W ' ’
We Nave t — ¢
wife n |
Kind ¢ s ‘ °
Pp ni f
ma :
b
: " :
f > | n
ondittlor r t 1 ‘
J ipital Ww -
o ition r
yt | ,
kid che i 4
a | et "
in rle
1 -
tt. r
) revolut tr
} me g2ar }
Ww *y 4 2!
i mal’’ ir
herr i»
tar ly s
«
k t We r
S } ‘
we A
our job h
tions that w t
the ba th
fa f th
hat 5 ym ’ r
iQ have 2 am ‘
kids that ar a
r ¢ al 1 yf i
n n ar } b
- W.2
we ft xt Y
dehumanized, But because we''
been dehumanized we've become very
dangerous people, d th
who won't lena ba hum
| woulde@ad that it im ’ways b
remembered , unders
that our goal is) to,
capitaligm and American imper-
ialism, Becaose wichoar Us, we
do nothing,
All. POWBR TO THE PROP
Huey P, Newton
Minister of Defense
Black Pan*he
— Page 11 —
THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMUER 25
CARBOWDALE, ILLINOIS
1970 PAGE 12
PIGS CREATE LIE
TO ATTACK
THE BLACK COMMUNITY
" ! : the i :
reseed Co ity of Ca
I), was att edby the;
lesedly the | Soot crume
inklens ified r t= at tu
< curity rd I
. t( seu :
t 1 t& house t North
<then of tow ’ i '
' € t 1 “ t
WMain poople who I r
t with the Black Pact t
“ ity Center, wik }
cated née bloc . rn i
chim t 7
the house
occu
witnes
cked the
7UuNnS, tuns, tearg dother
powerful hand we $, An arme-
ored tank was called infrom rear-
by Cairo, (@ conn ity which ha
been attacked times.
The pigs atracke! the house o-
round 6 a. plying the Same
Faicing tactics used by Chicago ph
wen theyassassinated Deputy Chair
man Fred Hampton and Mark Clacx
yn December 4, 1909. It was evid-
ent fromthe assault pattern thatthe
pigs intended to murder ormaimall
the occupy. i se. State
pigs and County pigs, combined
with Carbondale pix mdStv pics
all parccipated in the attack
SSeS say that Jocal rucists
also involved even t!
ck itself affectednot
Wit-
weve
O40 Ue 4ata-
y Dlack pe-
ople, but poor white people wh:
in the area.
The pigs ot holes in people's
cars, damaged their homes and
property. One brother named le
sel] wa
sister n
t in the shou-
med Vera Mk
si¢ Rus
kder. ..\
wio has
re,
ten children and lives next
dour to the house which was attack
ed. said that bullets came toto jer
house so fase that she andthe chil-
drea had to lay flat oathe floor
The pigs used this attecs the
house u i pretext to arrest other
brothers in the community w
were active inthe liber ati
gle or worked wit
me ce
We, the People’s Action (
mittee, of Frederick, Maryland
write this letter So that you willbe
yw the city and county
ne
» of
veoms are violating the hu-
man rigats and cignity of Black
people in this com:
We are is that
will investigaue our charges
against the local government so
Gat « inity ca c least
stop living in constant fear of the
police state in wiich we are liv
now,
The discrepancies we speok of
involve, among other things, con-
stant barassment of the community
by police officials, improper ar-
rex procedures,
gula, if not il
excessive bond being placed of
members of the Black comin tity
wan
govern
vemity .
hope someone
ir own
on the mostirrce «
The most recem examples of these
charves ure the following
Recently in this coumy 4nurco-
tics raid © condicted which re-
sukted in the arrest of 23 people
wn marcecics charge l4 Black
wople acre arrested and 5 Whites
jix of these eight Whites had bonds
low 7 (eh). of the two other
Noites arrested, cae nad « bood
f $5,000 md ese for $15,000
Abey FA vee ann
a) ¢ were { {
‘ mot ‘ it
th in criti t
the entire « mity . -
lated, no mail I : r
le < | lr «
re : ed, tri ’ t
t retry! pee
rrect form ati fr few
Che t
ft r tthe the brot
in tl irronded the (
nity and cameforward to | r 4
the : tarder the tt
” re; ed that prev to ihe
reender is t \
learned that the brother were
i a, they atteznpted to Jis-
perse 1 ¢ nity people, b
thremening t pe with furthes
—
"he people gathered to insure that when the occupants surrendeced they
wou'd nor be murdered be
Brothers emerging from bu'lding after 3 hoacs
shooting. |
the comunity
the pigs intentions
ywever, the people in
were welluwire of
, D€Cause many
gua baitle with Carbondale pigs,
mooths prior hey had taken 4 pos-
ition Stating that they dida’t want
the pigs com! Inte he. rt Commun
houses ich as the;
.
on December
ttack In Carbondale
hicate a lot of people on
ature of the Sltuati
Slack and oppressed people [ace In
Poople must understand
that everything that happens to op-
pressed people this society is
intercossected, When anincident
occurred on the campas ofS,1,U, it
was taken by the pigs to the oppres-
sed community of Carbondale,
when an incident takes place in
Southern Ill it can take place in Chi-
cago, or Boston, Rakimore, New
Orletas, Detroit. When the people
move t
the dayt
tacks by the pigs, tie peoples ser-
vans, those who educate sod or-
ganize the © first to
be att If we can understand
this,
assaultpactern ofthe pigs, and w-
see why the Black Paather
Party isthe Vanguard force
in the peoples strugele for liber.
1, bas had over 3O servants of
"le killed, and burxtreds im -
noned
The attack
The
to¢
'
u loa.
protect themselves from
day ppressior ind at-
people, are t
cked.
then we can see die National
can
whic
al
the pe
in Carboodile shows
PRESS RELEASE
€ people weve arrested before
x conmittee mack wiblic a
rate t tioning the fact that
nds wer > low for White peo-
"le aad i for Black. All
Whites with lo« S hive been
released, most of them oa their
personal recoy
(ft the l4 Blacks arrested, 2
a we
Strange re
Black people were released
<i with the sume charges the
other Glack people have on chem.
This was after our public state-
ment on the miter, However,
there are still 12 Black people In-
eurcerated under bonds raagin
from $5.000 to $45,000 » suc
ch as being a Lic auls ance
keeping 4 peblic nuisance “l -
temgxting to distribute cocaine, or
possession f comrolied para-
phe al
the ist ruld policeinen en
tered the house without « searct
wirrant, They search
roon WHNOUT a4 Searc witraw,
ie that be € 4 young Ii)ack ait
« rrested, tle was chaurgedwitt
ttemm™ to sell attempting to dis-
tribute Coane io wich there was
ever y Coraine or oloer
Peeeeeee
drug involved
mm the 2nd raid
illegally «
forced the door
hone was
tered; the policeman
. This?
it asearcn
mire
!
was also searched with
iildren were un-
frightened
Chim the
Wy police
home, young
wortin (Pregnant)
rged
in, cons-
Ao aM your
rrested. nN >) wre c
distribution of her
to distribute |
wore
with
piracy
ejsion of
vin, and
poss comrolle! para-
phecnalia and keeping
ombined together the
C
was $50,000, The young wo-
released
cald the home wus
1s the 2od
the
taken off to
set at 345,000),
thrown inse the
force! the door
i wis Is
and hi rm twisted by the
the 4th ruid the house was
policeman oski infor matic
centered the sume us the ! and
cd, \ wSiman
to jail, ller { wus
$22,004
ws taken off
set at
li Blocks and
irreste!l no
is invelved
al) Whites thar were
we of their doors were forced tn
"| White youth’, a policeman’s
soa, this is his 4th arrest, On the
first charge marijuana was found
in flower pot growin; In his
home, On the 2nd it was marijuana
and the id arrest he was
seized with $8.00) worth of mari-
juansa, Bond » Se at $2,000,
On the 4th arcest he was charged
with possession of marijuana, bond
Set af 51,000,
‘n the recent raid, s
warrants
me of the
were in direct
violation of the 4th aod Sth Amend-
mems of the US, Constitution
Defendants were denied tt eir
right to see a counse),
ilgo denied visi-
tors. is in solitary. of
ll Blacks that are i i), the
Se. tch
They are
the right t ‘
One your
courts ure givine then ouret
Speedy trial so they cun railroad
the Y
This twister 3 White secrée
taries were arrested aad charged
with possessk of $50.0) worth af
marcotics, They were released
2 onl J eventually thelr
cases were thrown outofl court. 0
Nov, 4, 4 Glace wis arrested
for assault because he was alleged
SMICS Aen on
the Digs in Carboadale, Ill,
us the urgency of the Revolutionary
Peoples Constitutional Convene
tion, and ft clearly potars out that
4 state of war exists between the
oppressed and the oppressor. We
say that war is the highest form of
resolving coorradiction, and the
comradiction between oppressed
and oppressor, slave and master,
has reached a stare where the
master is openly attacking the
shive camp, openly preventing us
from freedom and Uberation,
therefore we must openly declare
him the enemy and create a
sitution to bare our struggle
Uberation on.
The brothers in Carbondalehave
been arrested on several charges
raying from atrempeed murder to
disorderly conduct, bonds range
from SIMUto Doa jackson at
$100.00 The Revolutionary fervor
is high in Carbondale. The 3
hour battle served to educate and
revolutionize the masses. Let
that fervor become an Intergral
part in the Revolutionary fervor ac-
cross the world, which will helpto
free us all from oppression.
\ll Power to the People.
Monk Teba
the lth of Oct. to stop narassing
him. for he keew he was an un-
dercover agem, 50 just stay away
from him. This maa was ar-
rested Nov. 4, held Incommunicado
under $1,000 bond, tried on Nov.6
without legal counsel, and found
guilty. This list could go on and
on, Hike the incklent a few months
ago where a Black woman who just
happened to be walking down the
Street, was shot in the arm by 3
White men who just didn't have
anything else to do. Thenthe potice
appretiended these assailants §
blocks and told them it
would be bese if they would leave
COR aad BoE to come back for a
while .
We fecl there Was a sirogg ole-
ment of recism yavolved in the
Ac 0est Proon Mare, attitudes toward
BiWek arresrees, and amount of
cand levied,
We feel thar discrepancies
Should Warren, on investigation,
away
Sigeed by We the People \ction
Committees
Sigoedl the Chairman-....
Bobby H. Lee
Vice Chairman Phillip ©. Holsey
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IN FEAR OF
VOSTER'S ‘THUGS
dioun voasrma ~
eavtioer of civilisation
These pictures were token in o Johonnesburg street The
Africans were queveing outside o furniture store, A slight
disturbonce broke out Instontly, white South Alfnicon po
lice ottocked with dogs
The cameromon hod covroge. Photogrophy is o donge
rous hobby in modern South Alrico. When Johon Smit
took on innocuous smopshot of o non-European restou
font, secret police noted down hit nome ond the number
of his cor
Smit is o 40-year-old Docto Dutch ancestry English
born. o South Alricon resident since he wos 13. Now
he lives in London with his wife ond stmoll ton They've
quit South Africo for ever, sickened by the brutolity of
opartheid
But feor remains. Johor Smit is not his reo
deotihied hus relotons
tspoken criticism of the Vor
nome. Hes
oalroid thot if he were in South
Africa would suffer for his ©
Mer regime
It's o nightmore place’ he soys South Alico is the
worst police stote in the world. Only Nom Germony wos
worte
I've olwoys hod misgivings about oporthed Under Ve
justification: a
woerd there wos o leat! tome otfemp! o
politicol philosophy thot the soces 4? vid be hepl oport
to develop the owr tures ‘ jer Vorster ots lost all
semblance of anything but grotut us brutolty
You see it in the streets every CO My nine-year-old son
wotched on Alrican youth beoten Bloody by two Al ons
policeme les colles with therm
Vou go to your office jlimdt @ ol the metsenge:
boys there. Hes been pulled ‘ ol corryng o@
pot the po er © ed ow wi t o torme on
the tinge of town. Hes bept ; npound under guard
holl.storved. working att t poy Tecinicolly as Hlego
t hoopens of! the time
The government i the vo "oO shies pe ote
believe he enstons er ' the cor ey
wont to tee him put down Whore ! es die of ma uv
t Notedy « 3 @ less
um shoot on Atiicor he stree he police ten y
to drag the gorden. You wont be ores
ted. You've found him burgling your home thot him
pte into your
in detence of your property ond lite
| know of on Altikcons former who beat a native to
death. The man wos disobedient
gunny tok
died Thet wos one cose thot got into the newspopers
Nobody wos particularly shocked
In Johannesburg | sow o fotive gir
The former put him in o
tied him to o tree ond whipped him unti! he
being beoten By o
group of Africons. Three policemen were sionding
neorby. They just shrugged their shoulders They were
completely indifferent
‘So | drove to the police stotion. There wos o white
womon in the waiting room. When told her whot wot
just toid So what? One kolfic less
white mon tor sleeping with
happening she
She'd come to form
eo bloc git!
The Immorolity Act forbids sex relations between the
ces Smit shows you o pile of South Alfricon newspopers
oll glooting ower trogedy The young couple whose morr
s9¢ wos forcibly onnulled, when the wile wos found to
have Coloured blood The sax girl expelled from schoo
for the some reoson. A picture stop shows © white mon
ond two small blod duldren. Headline: The sea butte
ond two kids for fortedden love Caption Ace immorality
Act cop Sergeo Piet Ras ond the teo Coloured Gwidrer
of so-and-so both oaorents were jailed
To sleep wit? yliwe g ‘ te sleeping wth on
rie says Smut That's how the Boer thinks of the
Alinco it's @ criminal offence And there are plenty of
informers. Men howe been known to blow thew broins out
rother thon foce charges under the Immorolity Act
At the weekends you get gongs of drunts going Mhrough
the border into
out getting
Swortland. where they con get tes with
dire thew’
The newspapers cre crommed with propogando the
Rond Daily Ma us one of the few free speaking popern
like hell to stoy thot
ryupting in
m the country, ond it hos &
t bonned
hight
'
woy letevrtion it's sound to be o co
Huence. They're afraid of broadening the consciousness of
the people
‘The South Africons think England is degenerate. That
it's betrayed the white mon. They see themselves os the
true soviours of white civilisotion. The lost bostion of
Christion virtues. They find excuses for opartheid in the
Bible
The choirman of the South African Broedcosting Corpo-
ration has o ton nomed Iran. it sounds like o nice Old
Testoment nome, Unt! pou spell & bodrwords
Mony Boers wanted the Nazis to win the wor. Hitlers
racialist policy agreed with their own. They used to beot
up their own soldiers who'd enlisted to fight Germony
Today the police weor blue-grey uniforms like the Wehr.
mod. There's o Supermon comples. Johonnesburg 6 full
of weight-lifting clubs, ju-jitsy cluds
As o motter of foct Johannesburg is grotesque. The lost
bastion of civilisotion? Certoinly, if you equote civilisation
with juke-boxes ond drive-in cinemas and on ostronomi
col divorce rote. Everything's o pole copy of America. Ci-
Wiitotion it you don't notice the police beoting up old
notive women ond the block children try ng to sel llowers
when they should be of home in bed
The whole country is mentolly vader vege They're ter
lied thot the gverilos moy Come down from the north
it's olmost impossible for on able-bodied mon to leove
the country between the oges of 15 and 26, He has to be
teady to fight in the Defence Force. They're marching
ogoinst the Hood of history They con only hope to beep
the Alricons down by strenathening the police force
t's a pokce stote. But thot doesnt meor thot the police
«ill go into action if you have o burglary Trey re obsoty
tely inefficient os for G8 normal polite dubes ore con
cerned. But they'll olwoys be there to tee the blocks hove
their posses, that they dont go in the tubwoys reserved
tor Whites
South African whites ore completely brainwashed They
ebeut anything except rugby end
Thot's why spect is so importent te them
continued on next page
cont tek
trouble
servont
lhe
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THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25,
1970
continued from last page
IN FEAR OF VOSTER’S THUGS a
haven't got anything else. The anti-Springbok demonstra
tions hurt them very much. It's o pity Britoin hos to suffer
But thonk God somebody is moking on effective protest
I've left for good now. My only regret is thot | didn't leove
sooner. There's a new brand of refugee today. People
like me, who have grown to detest the woy of life in
South Africo
“We don't pretend that oll block men ore saints. But
they're humon beings. The woy they're treated is inhuman
They're horassed ond hounded oll doy ond oll night
“The white mon is dragged down too. He's besmirched by
association with this regime
"To live in South Africe today is to be degraded.”
t Direct help to the nationo! hberotion movements
the struggle
2 Propagende ond more! support tk
The international community con contribute to the
success of the struggle for national liberation of
the Portuguese colonies at two essential levels,
Comrode Dos Santos spoke to SECHABA in Rome while
attending the recent internationc conference in support of
the liberotion fighters of the Portuguese colonies
He soid: ‘Since we are engaged in on armed sMruggi¢ we
require armaments, uniforms, ond so on but then there
1s olso the work in the liberoted orecs which involves edu
cotion, health ond production
Of course everybody cannot ge arms but there ore those
who con. We hove seal needs in this sector therefore mote
ol assistance must cover militory oid There are the Socio
list countries who con do this and they do st With uniforms
its the some. On the level of Notional Reconstruction we
hove progrommes for educohon for health ond production
For exomole in the progromme of education in our country,
we hove to develop primary education. create new schools.
produce new books for the pupil's. increase the stocks of
books, orgonise troining courses for mew teachers, improve
the level of existing teochers, ond eapond literocy closses
for odults. We olso hove other sectors of higher education
for “cadres”. medhonics and other tednicions for whch
we do not hove sufficient moteriol meons of present parti.
culorly for nurses, electricians etc
CADRES
The formation of “cadres” is a difficult problem since we
depend on certoin moteriol resources which are not olwoys
eotily obtoinable. There ore two solutions: either we orga
nise tt ourselves with financial ossistonce of we send the
troinees to other countries. The guerilios have undergone
sod) courses in the countries where they troined Whot we
now want is to do these progfommes ourselves in occord
ence with our needs We therefore need eaternol oid ond
we don't know to #hot estent non-governmental orgonisa-
bons can help. We hove found thot politico! orgamsotons
snd committees of support hove great dilficulties in find
g moterio! resources to help in such programmes, but it is
ot impossible. it means hord work and the mobilisotion of
ndwiduals end orgonisotions which ore not in direct con-
tact with us. We hove olready certain religious orgonsa
t 6 from which we receive substontio! assistance. In our
health programme we have o real need to greotly improve
ospitals which are in the bush. Conditions ore very
snd there is o great shortage of medicines
Theo we have programmes for the increase of production
be se we wont to produce os mud) oF we con tor our
ves by Our Own lobour, We also wont to improve the
ality of this production by improving the techniques used
i by diversification
ve © specio! section deoling with these aspects. but
wt yet of o very high stondord We hove o section of
‘ abutoo ond commerce ond we hope to develop i into
Marcelino Dos Santos
PAGL M4
o Deportment precisely to increase production. We bodly
need agriculturol equipment. We do not produce this
equipment and yet this is the very basis of agriculturol
work
SECHABA osked Comrade Dos Sontos several questions
ond his answers reveoled in vivid descoption
HOW FRELIMO LAUNCHED
THE ARMED STRUGGLE
Sechaba. We would like to turn to the struggle itself, por
ticulorly to the beginning of the armed struggle in Moraom
bique Can you tell me how FRELIMO set oboul the tosh of
loundying the armed struggle? Did you begin with politico!
work. did you send codres in to prepare the ground belore
Morcelino Dos Santos
said MARCELINO DOS SANTOS, Vice-President
of FRELIMO in an Exclusive Interview with
SECHABA:
you storted the guerilla action?’ Whet wos your “modus
opercndi’t
Des Santos. When FRELIMO wos ~ecoted we were olmost
completely convinced thot only on ormed struggle would
ollow us to fulfill our osprotions. We did not moke o greot
discovery, in reading conclusion, os Angola hod
olreody started, and Guine as well. It wos therefore mot
difficult to see thot the Portuguese Government would not
the people of Moramb:
to create the minimum
this
reserve some special treatment for
que. Nevertheless we were toying
conditions for embarking on this ormed struggle At our
congress September 1962 we had no ideo when we
would start. But we set ourselves o number of tosks; first, to
consolidcte the orgoniuotion inside the country, the polit
col organisation
m
Were the people in the north of Mocombique well politic!
sed betore this stage? Hod they porticipoted in ony kind of
political movement before you started loying the boss for
the armed struggle?
There were smo!) groups which hod been formed olter the
last war, 10 be more exact from 1948~-49. They were spread
oll <clondestine anc
quite widely, particularly in the towns
unknown to eod) other
IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
But in the countryside?
First they grew in the towns but certain other mowements
such os the cooperotive cattle movement, were formed in
the countryside. They were not at first o politico! movement
but the noture of Portuguese Colonialism forced them into
political commitment There were conflicts with the Admin
strotion ond the disputes become politicol. But it wos the
Uttle groups | first mentioned which hod clear politico! ob
jectives. From 1955 some of these groups learnt about each
other ond linked up. In this woy the political work progres
sed. There were also orgonisotions tuch os the Mozaomb
ave Africon Notione! Union which organised in the North
at Cobo Delgado Democrotic union of Mozombi
que, formed around 1960 which organited in the provinces
of the centre and the South Gut it is in the Northern dis
tnet thot important work wos done. All these groups were
inherited by FRELIMO, o8 most of the comrades who worked
in these groups in Morambique left for Tonronio otter inde
pendence and orived there after November 1961 These
comrades had contocts with the external orgonisotbons who
moanoged to organise the meeting of 25th lune 196? ond
then the Congress of September 1962
FRELIMO proceeded to consoldote them into a network
inside Morombique whilst defining the tosks of the new
organisation
or the
‘
of the organisotion wos
to bring them
to howe
From the very beginning the tosk
to transform the consciousness of the people,
to occept the idea of Notiono! Independence. ;
corer ideo of the meoning of this ond also convince the
people thot only an armed struggle would moke it possible ."
to reoch this goo! —
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MILITARY CADRES -
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While carrying out this mobilisotion for ormed struggle and ©
svucturol octivity we were also organising the troining of
“\litery codres 4
As eorly os Id of 4th Janucry 1962, thot is only three
months after the Congress, the first group of 80 comrades
elt for Algerio to learn the ont of guerilla warfare Loter
we sent other groups to Algerio where obout 250-300
guerilios were trained. When we hod the minimum miltory
organisation to loundh the ormed struggle we turned our
attention egoin to the problem of the political structure
which would support o minimum military network. ‘
co
The problem wos to establish what wos o minimum military =
organisction - how mony comrodes? Further, it wos not
possible to determine the leve! of political consciousness — -.
necessory to support armed struggle. We alto reolised thot =
t wos not possible to develop o strong political organisa.
tion under o foscist system You moy hove o clondestine *
political network but ot o certoin level it becomes vulner —
able to enemy oction We therefore created the minmum
network to give ossistonce to the fighters. by supplying © ;
food. orgenising hiding ploces and to give informoton 0 3
the guerillas. We then felt thot it was through the ormed
struggle thot the politica! organisation would grow a
So ot first there wos only the political network, then, when —
our comrades hod trained in Algeria we had o military —
orgonisation which wos received everywhere by the political - ‘_
wing. We then started our oction in Cobo Delgodo, —
Nyosso. Zombesi ond Tete. But we were forced to stop the
action in Tete ond Zambesi in July 1965 becouse of insuffi-
cient supplies ’ ‘
I must soy thot the politicol work wos essential, the ormed —
struggle being only an instrument, o tool. But it is now the
principe! ection tor independence. Others have had to mo-
bilise the mosses os their principe! oction towords indies 4
pendence, but for us it hos been the ormed struggle, whilst
political work has not been neglected ond is o determining
factor ea
NEW CONDITIONS
work? Wos there higher morole?
The stort of on ormed struggle created new conditions for
oc new development of the political organisation. Under o-
foscist coloniol system there ore mony militonts who ore
not sure of the other militants. They ore not sure who is”
with or agoinst them. Becouse conditions ore so difficult,
people don't trust each other. When the ormed struggle
storts, two comps ore established; the one who shoots oo ,
the Portuguese can surely not be on the wrong side. We *
then have o sure test. Whilst ot the stoge of political orgo-
nisotion, people cre never sure ewen when somebody mokes a
the right political statements, but when he fires on Porty-
guese troops ond kills them you know who to trust Se- |
condly this military action creotes the conditions for cleon- |
ing up ond detecting the enemy elements and to destroy
them, thereby creating new conditions for more efficient |
ection by the orgenisction. This is how the ormed struggle — 4
onptributed to the polinecal network
DOS SANTOS THEN DISCUSSED
POLITICAL-MILITARY ORGANISATION —
IN MOZAMBIQUE J
When you made the recent ottocks in Tete did you prepore
the ground with political work there too of wos ito que .
of the “focus” opening the woy? 4
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, our work ot the beginning of 1962, we storted with the —
orgonisation of the politico! network. At thot time there wos
no militory orgonisotion, so ft wos purely politicol work,
Then when the comrodes returned from troining we hod
two sectors: the sector of political work ond the one for
itory work. We tried to estoblish o coordination between |
the two but this wos not olwoys eosy. Its not eosy to 07
eroctly why ond to establish the link between olf the toe
tors. The people who mode up the politico! network inside — "
did not alwoys hove the highest politicol understanding. ‘.
These were the people «ho hod estoblished little groups ‘
even before the formation Af FRELIMO 5 ,
These orgonsers gomed the tespecho! the people bet
did not hove ony(militory tho\ning whilst those who
undergone gvuerdle troining bod alte) ocavired
knowledge, onc we were 10 find ‘ater thot the lotter were
the best militonts of FRELIMO, the true interpreters of FRE:
LIMO policy, «hen the ofmed struggle wos lounched
the comrades of The m)|(ory sector or/wed they were
under the outhorty of the politica! OQ Qon sobon which
the orders, But new problems arose with the
struggle ond the polititel OF_ON sation could not
them. At the some time the populotion were saying
wos the militory wing which wos killing the Portuguese,
the politico! wing and this gove immediote prestige to
miitory wing 2
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PANTHER, SAT NOVEME
RUOVY,
IN FEAR OF VOSTER’S THUG’S
When the Port tuguése withdrew from certoin oreos whid
become liberated rones the people started to soy thot be
fore the militory wing arrived there wos only tolk of inde
pendence etc, so the prestige of the army grew. In the poli
tical network we hod Group “Chairmen” ot the Dist rict
evel who hod previously done useful work ed icating the
People but when the army units Qtew o certain rivalry stor
ted. The Chairmen. becouse of their lower political under-
Monding, thought thot the armed struggle would be short
tading to independence
They believed that in the independant Morombique under
FRELIMO they would be the leoders of the new odministra
tion. Many of them begon to behave os traditional chiefs
We must odmit thot the blome for this situation must be
borne by the leadership of FRELIMO for foiliy resee
such © situotion. It was not the foult of the people but of
the FRELIMO Commond. We did hot foresee these revolu
tonary problems and conflicts developing
g to lo
PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
Once these conflicts co ito the open we had to cnolyse
the situction ond impose certain solutions. This we did. But
certoin of the comrades hod wrong
me
conceptions about the
Chairmen, in spite of their inab lity to govern the liberated
areos. The population wos olwoys costing for solutions to
problems such os how they were to obtoin c othing etc
after the deporture of the Portuguese
At this stege did the peosonts fee! thot they were goining
from ther new freedom?
Well, there wos no more tax t poy. but get
clothes. where to get soop? In 1965 we hod not yet mode
Provision for this. But the fighters had a good understend
ing of the situotion and this wos natura
were forced to hove this full comprehension of the pro
blems. They understood that in the tight agoinst the Portu
Quese they hoc to kill the soldiers or they would be killed
they were olso forced to discuss ond understond whot re
lotion they should hove with the people
where to
becouse they
But the population themselves; there must hove been some
conflict in their minds between the motericl conditions
under the Portuguese and the new situation, ond they hod
to choose?
They chose the bad conditions
Why? Whot foctors helped them to choose?
Just one ot the beginning — freedom. They said we hove
nothing but we ore free. But to be reolistic this stoge could
not lost long.There had to be something else. We hod to
Sotisty their needs. But where to obtoin clothes? And other
materiols? We knew thot whotewer our eHorts we would
not be able to supply ol! their requirements in this field
Therefore we were forced to give them something else = o
politica! awareness. We hod to develop political mobiliso
tion. It wos simply impossible to soatisty oll the moteriol
needs. We hed to explain this and show thot we were
creating conditions for improving the situotion very quickly
Were the conditions very bod at this point?
Yes, we hod many cases where people went bock to using
bork to clothe themselves. But we explained to the people
thot it wos ao new situction for everybody and that we
were trying to find solutions
Whot cbeout the urbon groups during this period? Was
there olso struggle in the urbon creas or not?
In the towns we only incrected the pressure of the clande
Stine movements but did not take ony military action
HE PRESERVATION OF LEADERSHIP
Te turn to another question, whot is your policy on the
Question of preservetion of leodership? Cleorly o more-
ment has to preserve its experienced codres, this is on ob-
jective requirement, but ot the some time there is o neces:
Sity to involve the leadership Whot is your policy on this
question?
Eorlier we were tolting of the polit
soid thot ot the beginning we hod two sectors and thot we
hod mony problems We hod to solve these problems by
Pulting into proctise Our Weos of O Quer al]
mely thot everyone is 0 politico! codre ond yet everyone is
alse o fighter But one must determine the tosks for each
sector — for exomple whot ore the tasks of the guer! ilo?
First to fight then mobilise the populotion, then to pro
duce. Whot is the fa som? First to produce
then fight in self. detence. and detence of the region where
he is. For the teacher, his first tosk is to teach. then mobi-
lise. then produce The medico! orderly, whot 1s has tosk?
First to treot potients, then produce. then fight Everybody
hos o common tosk which 6 prody Al every school
there is o field for production, olso in every Dose, in every
hospito! It wos estoblished ossory But
conditions difier greatly, When we wonted to re-sort the
fighting in Tete recently, we sent comrades who olreody
hod o politico military formation But there were islands of
mobilned people in certain areos where the terran wos
not lovouroble to an armed struggle. On the other hand
whee people hod not been mobilued the
lovourable to gueri! With the help of the politico
militory Codres we were oble to detect the most favourable
points for militory action in the Tete province ond corty owt
° timultoneoys mobibsoton of the populotion in these
col problems and we
oc movement
lost oO peo
ton
thu wos ee
ot
terrain wos
o ochon
in this woy
which ee S$ onisted
pose the pr
We reolised thot there
thot the pre
Mt thot one
we were oble to correct the delicienc
abo Delgodo ond Nyosso ond ix
solution of th codre
ly new. We ob
clotle, ond
the phenomeno
octica e po itco militory
our tosks were roa
sorveo yems were quite
unpred
we 'eor ust De ottentive to o
ond problems os they arise This means thot there must be
Cetect the problems quickly by
19 on. This con only
ders being in the area. This is
then dec
presence
we con then tole of the preservation
comrades who ore o
1g ond understond
be done by retponuble le
e to
observ the situo
absolutely
politic
respec
necesscry. tf we can accept the of
sible
the leoders
but in the battle oreo
leader of FRELIMO
| hod to moke this esplonotion
Question becouse it is
eoder
tary codres and the need tor the
leoders of
The requisite vigilonce which must be assured
is is where it must be done Every
ity but
to answer very clearly your
orgued thot the security of o
the battle oreo. This is not the
nm this oreo
hos 0 tecu curtoin ground him
often
picces him outside
cose, his security must be ossured
Frelime Women militants
Did you hove any requests from the people in the South to
introduce guerillas to fight lor their defence?
Yes, we hod our organisation in the South, clondestine ond
political. and the comrodes trained in Algeria went to the
South in 1964
Frelimo guerillos
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PKOBLEM OF SUPPLIES
In view of South Africo’s aggressive militory strategy and
the proposed base ot Lilongwe in Molew! and others in
Zimbobwe have you considered the possibility of o mebtary
three batalions of 600 each, in the province of Nyosso
there were 25 SA planes two yeors ago. Then there ore the
personnel ond technicians of SA in the hospitols of Bede
and Nompole. Tete hos doctors and nurses in lorge num
bers and certoin means of tronsport purely SA. They have
thelr own security personnel and their own comps for their
soldiers and polce
i think thot the South African’s policy is thot # the Portu
guese Government connot ensure the defence of Mozom
bique, South Africa will do it. They soy it openly. South
Alrice is ot present on Imperialist notion in Southern Africa
ond unless she chonges her present policies it is SA which
will be the greot enemy of everybody Portugal will be the
secondary enemy. We cre now fighting the Portuguese but
it is South Africo which directs the Strategy and determines
the policy. But we are convinced that if our fight develops
in Morombique. if it continues to develop in Angolo, if the
South African people develop their liberation struggle with
the Zimbabwe people it will be South Africon forces which
we will hove to engage in the wor. It is difficult to see on
Independent Morombique or Angolo whilst there is o fo
cist South Africa ond Xhodesio. unless there is o change in
the orientation of imperialism
Se you see your struggle as @ protracted wor, with o steody
increase in terntonal power in Morembique, but ot the
some time a situction of constant struggle wotil the whole
of Southern Africa is treet
| agree with this perspective. And this Ports to certain re
sponsibilities which we. must shoulder to creote greater
cooperation. We must lecrn to coordinate our action to
foce the enemy ond ossume ovr historic responsibilitvtes
secling off ot the Tanzanion Border? In thot event would
you be able to corry on your struggle in Mozambique?
fam convinced thot ormed struggle cannot exist without
supplies, but whot ore the possibilities of ensusing supp-
est
Without ony doubt
tont role bul
Tanrania ond Zambio pkey on impor.
ot the present stoge of our struggle | think
that even if the border with Tanzania wos closed. we would
Mot stop our fight Why? becouse the resources of our
Mruggie ore now very large. Our ability to creote ot this
stage ofe very good
It is possible to break through any such berries ond | must
say that we would be oble to stop the creotion of o borries
Furthermore there are other ways of assuring supplies
Do you use the coost ot oll? Are you able to penetrote to
the coastline? | understand thot some coastline forts hove
been attoched by FRELIMO forces, have you been able to
get to the sea and hove you been able to estoblish some
permanent presence on the coastline?
We hove already some presence on the coastline
S. A. INVOLVEMENT IN MOZAMBIQUE
Whet reports do you get from inside on the SA economic
ond militory presence in Mozombique?
The information which we hove is that South Africo is trying
to consolidate her position in Mozombique by investing in
componies ond also by direct military intervention. For
exomple there are SA battolions at Fingue ond Chione.
REPRINTED FROM SEC
OF FICIAL ORGAN OF
CAS
HABA
ANC,
(SOUTH AFRIC
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BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1970 PAGE
continued from page 9
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else’, lic thinks that “‘forei wouki get the tof trial
policy, to effective t t ret in I
backed » by the greatest mili york. The televisi « it!
tary strength in the world,” Mm the indictment w e-
| was warded the annual cedenrc! I i r istrict
mnericanism award ofthe Colone] A\ttorn I ide before ¢
Franci Vis Post Americ ther lawyers had c€ to See
Legion ‘“*for hi ervices to the the indictment
i WWE] UTE PEOPLI lay of judicial genocide or le
1 etles the form of a tynet Four r ro
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luring ¢ tir lays of tobe 4 t false r
of uit year. Due e pig i is amt lo s¢
ropagaads (w lied the reefold purpose: (1) To ¢
fetal t people do not know ily soothe t c
“ the rebelli i ‘ rrection tacticul force ipo
We demanded the dignity and just- iy ‘“ er left standi
ice thar r wuiet Cup inki cer r
won und is being denied us. Qur hrems as we were tr erred
pattie must and will continue to t th ri ?\ T ear
grow Stronger throughout al] of into the hearts row
the prisons + caged oc uncaged - Red, amd Yellow political prison-
mil we can walk in Gegnity ba - coximately 10 chers
look ipoa meiness wit have been beaten to dest
prise strengt only respect i y have been hospitalized
strength and we are dealin: wih: Mme « { N.Y. City Pris
ove of the (wo most powrrtul are still on reprisa!] conditions -
military complexes in the world with all day lock-ins catines,
So we trust stand tall. uo » il, The nao f ine
\t Branch Queens we witnessed metes is stil) 90" Black i Puert
the power of the people, andeven Kicon. The bulls are seill « :
Ow r bodies are wrapped in Ditant, the judces, ‘
the ms s (shield of your ley ick re still onthe c
hove = for without the peoples’ teu. The only thi ‘
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128 PAGES OF REVOLUTIONARY ART
WE WILL NOT HESITATE
TO EITHER KILL OR DIE
FOR OUR FREEDOM
Cove uterery art
wy tmery Gowgier
Me mister of Coltere
Bleck Peather Party
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WE HAVE TO BEGIN TO DRAW
PICTURES THAT WILL MAKE
PEOPLE GO OUT AND KILL PIGS
EMORY DOUGLAS
MINISTER OF CULTURE
BLACK PANTHER PARTY
Our Minister of Culture, Emory
Douglas has a new book in print-
ing to be released in near
future. The title is ‘‘We will not
hesitate to cither kill or die for
our freedom,”’
Emory illustrates the essence of
revolutionary art, “‘the people’’,
in pictures as well as gives the
Black Panther Party’s positionon
revolutionary art,
the
THE LATEST RECORDING OF
THE LUMPEN, BLACK PANTHER PARTY
BOBBY MUST BE SET FREE
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October 1966
Black Panther Party
Platform and Program
What We Want
What We Believe
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1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny ef our
Black Communily
We believe that black peopte will not be free until we are able to deter
mine our destins
2 We want full employ ment for our people
; iment is responsible and obligated to
We believe thal the federal government bs i ga
uaranteed income We believe that if
see ever man emplovinent of a 4
a I not pive tu ! employment. then the
neeen W
the white American tusiticssnien i
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means of production hould be taken trot
le of The community can organize and en
the businessmen and placed m
the community se that the poop ,
plos allot at pcopele carnal grieve stigh stundard ving
LT CE | | | | AO
Nit BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1970
3. We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black
Community
We believe that tl int
demanding the overdue debt
covernment has robbed us and now we are
4. forty acres and two mules. Forty acres
md two mules was promised 100 vear ago as restitution for slave labor
and m murder of black people. We wall a cep! the payment in currency
Which will be distrib mmunities The Germans are now
aiding the Jews the genocide of the Jewish people. The Ger
mans murdered six million Jews, The American racist has take nm part in
the slaughter of over fifty million black people. therefore. we feel that this
iS a modest
ted to our many
israc: to
demand that we make
4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.
We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to
mir black community. then the housing and the land should be made into
Cooperatives so that our community, with government aid. can build and
make decent housing for its people
5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this
decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true
history and our role in the present-day society.
We believe in an educational system that will give Lo our people a know!l-
edge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position
in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything
vlse
6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service.
We belicve that Black people, should not be forced to fight in the mifi-
lary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us We
will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who. like black
people, are being victamized by the white racist government of America.
We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police
and the racist military, by whatever means necessary
7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER
of black people
We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or-
ganizing black sel(defense groups that are dedicated to defending our
black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear
arms. We therefore belicve that all black people should arm themselves
for self-defense
8 We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county
and city prisons and jails.
We believe that all nlack people should be released from the many
Jails and prisons because thoy have not received a fair and impartial trial
9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by
a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as
defined by the Constitution of the United States
We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution
© that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the
U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer
is 2 person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, en-
vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be
forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black
defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries
that have no understanding of the “average reasoning rman” of the black
community
10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.
And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis-
cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial
subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the
will of black people as to their national destiny.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with
another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and
equal Station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a
decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the separation
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal;
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights;
that among these are life, liberty. and the pursuit of happiness. That. to
secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of
government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people
to aller or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its
foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form. as
to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and bappiness. Pru-
dence. indeed. will dictate that governments long established should not
be changed for light and transent causes; and, accordingly, all experience
hath shown. that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are
sufferable. than to right themselves by abolishing’ the formMis.to which they
are accustomed But. when a long train of abuses and \ usurpation, pur-
suing invariably the same object. evinces a design to reduce them under ab-
solute despotism, itis their right. it is theie duty, to throw off such govern-
ment, and to provide new guards for their future security.
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RULES OF ThE
BLACK PANTHER PARTY
NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
1048 PERALTA STREET
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA
Party ember car ive & weapon In his possession
UNK or loaded off narcotics or weed,
Yo Party er ’ ig any crime agaiast other
rarcty members or | ople at all, and cannot steal or
take from the peopic, w even a necdie or a piece of thread,
%, When arrested BLACK PANTHER MEMBERS will give
only name, ackdiress, and will sign ching. Legal first aid must
be understocd by all Parry members
The Ten Point Platform and Program of the BLACK
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