Vol. 5, No. 24

THE BLACK PANTHER 2: Black Community News Service F INFORMATION m a he . : we souk * SAT TS MINISTRY OF INF 10 eeriy THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY 20x 736, CUSTOM nOUSE oOcerher - #6 lt re dll, lily, lia,” A, il lle ts a PRESS RELEASE FROM CHAIRMAN BOBBY PIGS ATTACK BERKELEY COMMUNITY WORKER @ INSIDE: MESSAGE TO BLACK Gi's FROM KATHLEEN : STATEMENT FROM ELDRIDGE ON BOBBY SEALE ye wan coimes TRIBUNAL AT U ef CAL THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 1970 PAGE 2 PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ON HOUSING CRIMES : CITY OF NEW YORK AGAINST THE GOVERN CITY OF NEW YORK, LANDLORDS OF N.Y.C., N.Y.C. - DEFENDANTS’ The Grand Jury of the People of the City of New York, by this indictment, hereby accuses the above- named de fendants of the following crimes: FIRST COUNT: SLUM CONDITIONS Conspiting to force and actually forcing hundreds of thousands of te- nants of the City of New York to live in slums, said slums containing filth, broken toilets, broken windows, no windows, no heat, no hot water, &c. &c. &c., all in violation of the Building Code, Maintenance Code, Health Code, and Administrative Code of the City of New York, in violation of Section 120.05 of the Penal Law (Assault in the Second Degree — intentionally causing injury to a person), Section 120.20 of the Penal Law (reckless er dangerment by intentionally creating a tisk of injury), Article 145 of the Penal Law (homocide and manslaughter), and international laws against geno- cide. Furthermore, the slum conditions willfully perpetrated on poor poeple by the defendant Government, Land: lords, and Banks of the City of New York are in direct violation of the Fe- deral Constitutional Amendment which guarantees cqual protection un- der the law. By permitting and even encouraging these conditions, the defe- ndants have: a) forced many good citizens to suf- fer the destruction of their communi- ties by such means as Model Cities and Urban Renewal b) caused the poor, and particularly the Black and Puerto Rican peoples, to live in increasingly restricted and conf ined arcas c) denied the people sufficient space to accomodate their numbers ade quately in their communities and thier provate lodgings d) forced the poor out of their homes to make way for middle-income or luxury housing or the playthings of the rich (Lincoln Center, ¢.g.) ec) brutalized and demoralized hun- dreds of thousands of good citizens and destroyed their health INDICT ’ ’ How long will he and his family be forced to live under these inhuman Uving conditions, vermin causes discase, depression, and sometimes death to the children of the City of New York d) intentionally failint to provide heat and hot water, with the know- ledge that said failure causes physical suffering, disease, and sometimes death to the People of the City of New York, more especially to infants and to the elderly ¢) intentionally maintaining housing with broken toilets and leaky and in- operative plumbing, with the ledge that said conditions cause cal suttecring, bad sanitary conditions, know phy st- New York's ogcupying force. f) caused the poor to suffer fraud, deceit, trickery, and all manner of cor- ruption in the rental of squalid apart- ments, especially among the Pucrto Rican peopic, who may not understand the language g) forced the people to shift from one overcrowded area to another in seatch of liveable quarters h) caused the poor to endure worse accomodations than the middie class, though, despite Rent Control, they may pay the came rentals i) generally forced the poor to abide circumstances very much akin to those suffered by a subject, colonial people SECOND COUNT: CRIMINAL NE- GLECT Conspizing to maintain and actually maintaining unsafe, unsanitary and unh calthy living conditions for the tenants of the City of New York, in violation of the laws cited in the First Count, including, but not limited to, the fol- lowing: a) intentionally leaving leaded paint on the walls of apartments, with the full knowledge that said paint is Making and causes brain damage and some- times death to young children who cat it. b) intentionally leaving filth in the public areas, basements, and yards of buildings in the City of New York, with the knowledge that said filth breeds vermin and disease c) intentionally permitting vermin, such as rats, mice, and roaches, to thrive by not properly cleaning and/or by failing to repair walls, floors, and ceilings, and by failing to exterminate or to provide proper exterminating st vices, with the knowledge that such and discase to the tenants of the City of New York THIRD COUNT: NO FUNDAMENTAL SERVICES Conspiring to deprive and actually depriving the tenants of the City of New York of essential services for which they pay rent, and which are re- quired by the Fire, Health, Main- tenance, and Administrative Codes and rent control laws, including, but not limited to, the following: painting, re- pairs of walls, windows, doors, floors, plumbing, wiring, &c.; extermination services, repairs and painting of public and common areas; securing locked doors; cleaning and painting of hall ways; providing heat and hot water, &c., &c., Jc. FOURTH COUNT: FIRE- TRAPS Conspiring to commit and actually committing the crime of arson, in vio- lation of Article 150 of the Penal Law, by knowingly maintaining and inte- ntionally maintaining to tenants of the City of New York dwellings which de- fendants know contain serious viola- tions of Fire Department regulations; and which defendants know are likely to cause fire, resulting in death, injury, or property damage to the tenants of the City of New York, FIFTH COUNT: RACISM Racist and genocidal practices against hundreds of thousands of poor Black, Puerto Rican, Chinese, and White tenants of the City of New York, by forcing them to live in slums (as noted in the First Count), with rats, roaches, filth, broken toilets and win- dows, no heat nor hot water, &c,, &c., &c., by knowingly and intentionally re fusing to rent apartments to said te- nants outside the slums, all in violation of the Civil Rights Law of the State of New York and the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964. SIXTH COUNT: EVIC- TIONS Conspiting to evict illegally and act- ually illegally evicting tens of thous ands of tenants of the City of New York from structurally sound housing, which had reasonable rents, in ordre to build luxury housing and high-rise of- fice buildings, and also needlessly re- novating structurally sound housing in order t. evade the rent control laso that such housing might be decon- trolicd; and in order that tax-free insti tutions, such as hospitals and schools, may expand their physical plants; said illegal evictions taking place despite the fact that the defendants knew and know that the tenants have no other apartments to which to move, and in violation of the rent laws of the City of New York. SEVENTH COUNT: HAR- ASSMENT Conspiring to hatass and actually harassing tens of thousands of tenants of the City of New York into vacating their apartments, said harassment con sisting of threats, partial demolition of the subject premises, luring addicts and alcoholics into the buildings, depriving the tenants of heat, hot water, and other essential services, including the receipt of their mail on the premises; destroying plumbing, causing resultant Nooding; setting fires, &c., &c., Ac., all of which harassment being for the pur- pose of evicting tenants in order (a) to obtain rent increases from successor te- nants; (b) in order needlessly to reno vate and thus evade the rent control Housing conditions mice, PEOPLE OF THE MENT OF THE BANKS OF MENT NO. 1/1970 laws; and (c) in order to demolish to build luxury housing at unconscion- ably high rents and to construct office buildings containing no_ residential space EIGTH COUNT CRIMINALLY HIGH RENTS Conspiring to commit and actually committing the crime of larceny, in that the defendants, acting in concert, have profiteered and gouged tenants by charging excessive and unconscionable rents in all housing, especially uncon: trolled housing, by unconscionable in- creasing rents in controlled and govern- ment-financed housing: for example, by increasing rents in controlled hous ing more than 110% since 1943, while quality and service in such housing was permitted to decrease markedly; in- creasing rents in Mitchell-Lama housing by as much as 42% with no increase in quality or service; and by increasing rents by 300% to 400% or more in for merly controlled apartments by per- forming necdiess renovations in struct- urally sound, habitable apartments, and thereby evading the rent laws NINTH COUNT: NO PEOPLE'S HOUSING Conspiring to fail to build and actu- ally failing to build housing at rents the People of the City of New York can afford, said failure being caused by the defendant City of New York ceasing to build public housing, by the defendant Banks profiteering by charging exorbi- tantly high interest rates on bonds and mortgages; by defendant Landlords en- gaging in land and housing speculation and profiteering, by charging outra- geously exorbitant prices for land and tation, which people on Welfare have no choice but to accept; of refusing to provide even the minimum of service required by law, of refusing to make repairs, furnish heat, hot water, and other vital services, and of generally conducting themselves in an insolent and abusive way towards Welfare te nants The Grand Jury of the People of New York accuses the Government of the City of New York of permitting and encouraging the landlords to prae tice the above criminal acts; of IF censing and paying real estate brokers who refer people on Welfare to apart- ments unfit for human habitation, con- trary to law; of refusing to properly relocate people on Welfare evicted from buildings being demolished, and of refusing to see to it that those peo ple on Welfare who have been forced from their neighborhoods are relocated back to the neighborhood when recon- struction is completed; of refusing to build new, comfortable public housing which is the most burning need; of sub- jecting people on Welfareto all kinds of bureaucratic harassment whenever peo- ple on Welfare try to help themselves; of encouraging landlord abuse by refur ing to ensure that landlords maintain proper services and conditions in pre-, mises of people on Welfare particularly by refusing to withhold rents even where the landlords have created dan- gerous and unhealthy conditions in their buildings and refuse all services; of paying slumlords astronomical rents for premises unfit for human habita- tion while pleading poverty in meeting The children are the ones who suffer the most. by gouging tenants in rents and by tak- ing advantage of the housing shortage. Defendant City of New York's failure to build housing at rents people can afford is in violation of the purpose clauses of numerous housing construc tion laws, including the Mitchell-Lama laws TENTH COUNT: NO FIT HOUS- ING FOR WELFARE RECIPIENTS The Grand Jury of the People of New York accuse the landlords of con- sistent refusal to rent decent apart- ments to people on Welfare, while offering premises unfit for human habi- rats and roaches thrive on, just demands of people on Welfare for money to cover their basic needs. ELE- VENTH COUNT: BAD CITY-OWNED HOUSING The Grand Jury of the People of the City of New York accuses the Govern- ment of the City of New York of building substandard, inferior, prisorrlike public housing for the poor; of operating public housing in an ar bitrary and authoritarian way, of sub- jecting tenants to bureaucratic haras- sment and red tape; of refusing tenants any practical means to redress their ge evances, of providing insufficient s- curity to tenants in public housing; of refusing to build public housing for large families;of subjecting tenants to ” arbitrary evictions; of preventing pub lic housing tenants from enjoying the same rights as tenants in private hous itk The Grand Jury of the People of the City of New York accuses the Govern- ment of the City of New York of prac tices typical of the worst slumlords when it takes over buildings slated for so-called Urban Renewal; of refusing to make any repairs or maintain essential services, of allowing dangerous and un- healthy conditions to exist in buildings under its jurisdiction, TWELFTH count CONSPIRACY OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT The Grand Jury of the City of New York accuses the defendant Govertr ment of the City of New York specif- ically of aiding and abetting the de fendant Banks and Landlords in all of the above mentioned crimes by the fok lowing acts: (a) Maintaining slums; dangerous, Uf- sanitary, and unhealthy living cond tions; depriving tenants of necessary Set vices; and argon, by willfully and knowingly failing to, enforce the Buikd- ing, Maintenance, Health, Fire and Ad- ministrative Codes and the rent and re ceivership laws, all in violation of the oath of office of all governmental of ficials involved, which ‘constitutes the crime of perjury (b) promoting discrimination in the rental of housing by failing to enfore® continued on next page Vide the necessary maintainence and re- full measure of the costs of real estate and other taxes; ; by subsidizing real ‘of mich subsidies on to citizen tax- payers; ‘Wiberaltax-abatements and tax havens for landlords, which costs are borne by DUMP IN BLACK COMMUNITY BREEDING GROUND FOR RATS AND DISEASE Disgusting dump in the Black community of Rockford, I[il, Rockford, Illinois is largely an industrial city. It ranks as the sixth largest industrialist city in the United States. To getan idea of the vast amount of wealth cen- tralized here, it must be made known that more millionaires live here than In any othercity in the State of Illinois. Like any indust- rial town., Rockford has a high concentration of Black and oppres- sed people. It is common for people to work from 6to 7 days out of a week, Since the workers put in such long and strenuous hours it would Seem that they would share in the vast majority of Rockfords wealth, but this isn’t the picture. Black people are still living in areas re- sembling the most adverse condit- fons of the South. People Avenue, a section of the Black community located on the East Side of Rock- continued from last page ford has a large population of Black people. In the heart of the com- munity isa Dump, The Dump is no more than a breeding ground for rats, disease and stray dogs, lured to the area seeking food and she- lter. The only barrier between the Dump and the Black community Isa narrow street. Itiscommonto see dead rats and mice lying in the streets after being run over trying to cross over tothe Black com- munity. On windy and dry days it is impossible for the people to open their windows due tothe stench (smell) from decaying waste. The garbage is covered daily to make room for more garbage, but this only worsens the existingproblem, because the rats then dig holes under the groundwhere they make their homes and breed, The Dump is owned and operated by the Rock- ford Disposal Service. Private companies after paying Rockford disposal Service are allowed to dump refuge here in the Black community, The mayor of Rock- ford, BenSchleicher, recently en- dorsed an e@cogoly program, but failed to recognize the people’ s de- mand for an immediate closure of the Dump. The Mayor and the city officials of Rockford, by allowing this Dump to be placed inthe Black community are showing how little regard they have for the safety and welfare of the people living in the area. This gross violation of a peoples safety is the primary re- ason We are calling for an immedi- ate inactment of the first point of our Platform and Program which states, We Want Freedom We Want ™ the Power to Determine the Destiny of our Black Community, to pre- vent reasons such as a dump from being put in an area where people must live. In the same area to add ho the people’s misery is a slaughter factory known as Quaker Oats, Horses are killed here for the pur- pose of making dog food, This de- plorable odor of dead horses along with the stench from the Dump Is enoughto make the air unfit for hu- mans to breath, There have been numerous complaints by residents that children are being constantly chased and some have been bitten by stray dogs, This neglect by the city to remove this health hazard from our community is unexcus- able. The people of Rockford in general and the residents in the area of Peoples Avenue in particu- lar are charging Governor Ogilvie and Mayor Ben Schleicher with gross neglect of human welfare, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Rockford, Illinois PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL the Civil Rights laws of the City of New York {c) promoting evictions and haras- sment of tenants by private and institu- tional landlords, by refusing to enforce the rent laws, relocation laws, and pe nal laws barring harassment and evic- tions; by permitting vacancies to exist in structurally sound housing, and by not permitting homeless tenants to oc cUpy Vacant apartments (d) promoting fraud in the area of public housing by repeatedly promising the people that more public housing would be built, with the knowledge that sid promises would not be kept {c) promoting the violation of Mitchell-Lama and other housing con- struction laws, and the misuse ofpublic funds by using such funds for the con struction of luxury housing, in direct violation of the purpose clauses of said laws, which direct that low and moderate income housing be construct- ed (f) promoting evictions, harassment, and speculation by changing zoning laws so that poor and middle income people will be evicted from their homes to permit the construction of luxury housing for luxury rents (g) promoting larceny, profiteering, and cconomiic exploitation by defend- ant Banks and defendant Landlords by passing laws increasing the rents and thus guarantecing enormous annual in- creases in rent without regard for the incomes of the tenants or the value of the premises? permitting utter evasion of the rent laws by permitting cvic- tions, unlawful rents, and neediess re- novations; paying excessive interest to defendant Banks on bonds which fi- nance publicly- aided private housing; charging excessive rents in pub- licly-owned housing (h) promoting dum conditions by permitting the criminal abandoment of rental housing, by failing to pro- secute landlords for such criminal abandonment, and by fuiling to pro pairs in such buildings (i) permitting landlords to evade the estate speculation and passing the costs by providing citizens; by failing to collect emer- cy repair costs, which costs are pro- ly the obligation of landlords who criminal negligence, and which ire again forced on the citizenry izenry of the City of New Undecent housing conditions of NewYork’s op- bressed communities York THIRTEENTH COUNT: CON- SPIRACY OF THE BANKS The Grand Jury of the City of New York accuses the defendant Banks of the City of New York of acting in con- cert and aiding and abetting the defendant landlords and the defendant Government of the City of New York in all of the above-mentioned crimes, by the following acts: (a) actually owning, through mor- tgages and bonds, over half of all the housing in the City of New York (b) larceny and profiteering by chatging exorbitant interest rates, Death to the fascist oppressor! which interest costs are passed on to tenants (c) aiding and abetting landlords and the Government of the City of New York in all of the above crimes, by fin- ancing private and public purchases of property and private and public con- struction and renovation of housing, with the complete knowledge that all of the above-described crimes were taking place, and sharing in the fruits of all the above-described crimes. The above indictment is returned this 23rd day of November 1970, in the City, County, and State of New York. THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 1970 PAGE 3 AVENGE RAYMOND — BROOKS The cold earth has claimed the body af yet another Black victim of U.S, fascism, ano- ther servant of the people has fal- len fromur ranks, murdered in cold blood by an ‘‘off-duty"’ pig. Raymond “ Twine’ Brooks was a revolutionary working with The Young Lords Party, Once hewasa member of the Marine Corps, but he realized that the war he was supposed to fight was not in his and his people’s interests, but to ' enrich capitalist pigs and he, therefore, went AWOL Early Saturday morning, Noy. 28th, at 12;30 A.M,, 2) year old Raymond and John ‘ Brad'' Whit- more were at Tubby’s lounge at 15th and Fairmount. Tubby's Lounge is a notorious hang-out for off duty pigs and there they got into an argument with two of Rizzo's nigger lackeys, Thear- gument continued outside with the busted John Whitemore inthe back of his head with his pistol butt, Coming to the defense of his com- rade, Raymond said, ‘What are you doing? This is my brother,’’ In reply, foul pig Carter shot him point blank through the nose, Two of Raymond's brothers, John and Donald, came upon the scene after this cold-blooded erisly crime, immediately, John knelt beside his dying brother and checked his body for weapons, but found none, The pig, then, knelt beside Raymond and came up with a black stilletto-type knife in his hand, as John relayed to me in an interview, he saw that something was concealed in the pig's hand as he knelt down, Mrs, Brooks, Raymon's mother, had called Ray- mond upstairs from her front win- dow at 668 N. 15th St. (A few doors from the lounge) when she looked outside and saw the argu- ment. He told her that he couldn't that he had to get Brad, so she shut the window, As soon as she did this, she heard the shot. Outside, she found her son, lay- ing on the ground gasping blood everywhere. As she started to kneel down beside him, the pig oinked, ‘‘Don’t touch him,'’ “What do you mean don’t touch him? He's my son! You shot him! I never shot him,’ she replied, Carter only stood and looked on while she touched him The pigs took several witnesses down to the Administration Build- ing at 8th and Race and intimidat- ed them for 9 hours, though they weren't under arrest, The Sunday inquirer carried an article stating that Raymond had slashed at pig Carter with a razor, (Overnight, the ‘‘knife’’ changed into arazor’’ which is justa sample of the Phila- delphia pig Det, Wonderland.) A blood test for alcohol in pig Car- ter's blood was requested, but na- turally the pig department refused to incriminate one of the ‘‘finast'’ {in that manner. Carter has nocri- minal charges against him, Not unusual at all, Especially when we remember that Harold Brown was murdered in cold-blood by 4 of Rizzo's bloodthirsty hench- men last February, (The pigs sald he lunged at them with a knife, which witnessesses didn't see.) That murder was termed ‘justi- {lable homocide.’’ It's not surpri- sing when we recall that Robert Clark was shot and killed by plg Ismael Plaza who also said he lunged at him with a knife (the bullet woulds were in his back) Last September, it's not surpris- ing , recall the murder of Dwight Byrd by pigs Byrne and Winches- ter, last fall, in which Dwight was Raymond‘ Twine’ Brooks twirling a cane above his head, ignoring the two pigs when they shot him. With these and countless more gruesome memories, why isthere singing and dancing in the slave quarters? Or does it have to hap- pen to you or your relative be- fore you realize that the streets of our communities are the pigs shooting galleries and that we're the targets? Will we ever relate to thefact that Rizzo Is a self- styled Hitler, that his troops are not in the community to serve and protect but to oppress and mur- der? The race of the pig does not matter, Pig Carter is a nigger as is pig Winchester (one of Dwight Byrd's murderers), Pig Plazaisa Puerto Rican (the murderer of Ro- bert Clark.) Their common bond with the White racist pigs is their complete lack of regard for human life and a trigger happy mentall- ty, don't let the term ‘‘off-duty"’ fool you. A pig is a pig 24 hours a day whether he is being paid at a certain time or not, This is proved by their practice, The faith we have that justice will be done must not be placed in the fascist U.S, courts, as the power structure is working fever- ishly to term this ugly crime“ fus- tiflable homicide.’ Our faith can only be placed in organizing armed self-defense groups to protectour communities, The time has long been here to respond to the vicious pig attacks on our people byarmed force. The gunshots which snuffed out the lives of Raymond Brooks, Harold Brown, Dwight Byrd, Ro- bert Clarkand so many other in- nocent Black people are our call to arms, The murders of Raymond Brooks and many others must be answered by the only political con- sequence that pigs can understand --their destruction, Only in this way can we insure the safety of our people on the streets and In our homes, A shotgun speaks much louder than words to pigs break- ing down our doors like storm troopers just as a well placed bul- let fired by a member of a self- defense group stops a pig from brutalizing,or murdering one of us in no uncértian, terms, AVENGE RAYMOND BROOKS! AVENGE THEM ALL! DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! FIRE POWER TO THE URBAN GUERRILLA! \ Lynn Smith Black Panther Party Philadelphia Branch, . THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 1970 PAGE 4 THE SPIRITS OF FRED HAMPTON AND MARK CLARK ARE EMBODIED IN THE REVOLUTIONARY YOUTH OF BABYLON 30,000 STUDENTS AND WORKERS STAYED HOME IM HONOR OF FRED HAMPTON'S MEMORIAL; * On Dec. 4th , the masses came out in large numbers to pay tribute to Fred Hampt On December 4, 1970, the Black Panther Party called for a city wide strike here in Chicago, in memory of Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton and Downstate Peoria Branch Captian Mark Clark, Ex- actly one year ogo today, the ges- tapo lackies of the corrupt power Structure, under immediate or- ders of Edward V, Hanrahan, local States Attorney, made a pre-plan- ned dawn raid of Fred's apartment murderi him while he slept, and also killing Mark Clark and wounding four other Panthers who were also in the apartment. The next day the pigs tried to justify this evil deed with a host of contradictions. Thoy said that the occupants of the apartment opened fire on them first and in 5,000 PERSONS ATTENDED THE THREE MEMORIAL SE at ” % RVICES HELD IM CHICAGO. . ¢ 7 4 ) EP ns, My ES OE BY OR, t 5 a 5 1 er a % murdered by Chicago fascist pigs, Dec. 4, 1969 the end were overcome by super- for pig numbers, We say that the nature of a Panther is never to attack anyone, but when we are aggressed upon, our objective is to wipe out out the enemy, “wholly thoroughly, completely and reso- lutely."’ We say that Fred and Mark and the other revolutionary bro- thers and sisters never got a chance to defend themselves, for if they did, that apartment would have been splattered with the blood of the gestapo, The pigs also portrayed as evi- dence the door leading to Fred's apartment. They said the door was riddled with bullets fired by the brothers on the inside, They plas- tered a picture of this door in all Bill Hampton, brother of Fred Hampton speaks to the people attending the rally, FROM THE IRANIAN STUDENTS ASSOCIATION IN THE UNITED STATES All Power To The People, The Black people inthis country have been subjugated to the most oppressive and impovished condi- tions created by the capitalist sys- tem which has created the illus- fon of a ‘constitutional demo- cracy. *' This system was built upon the brutal slavery of the mas- ses of Black people and the ex- ploitation of the minorities, Today this viclous system has developed into its final and decaying parasi- tic stage which is the imperialist era, The capitalist system breeds racial discrimination and denies economic freedom and as our brother Huey Newton, has stated no one can have political freedom without economic freedom, As long as this colonialist and imperialist system remains it will deny such to Blacks, members of groups and the poor rights minority Whites. There has always been a tre- mendous revolutionary force in the Black. people in America, Now we are witnessing this explosive power, The momentum of the Black of the oppressors papers. But, on the investigation, the marks on the door the pigs said were bullet holes were found to be some- thing totally different, they were nalls! No, the contradictions were so apparant that the people could not be duped, and they made very clear their revolutionary love for Fred and Mark by supporting the strike that we called for on the anniversary of these vallant bro- ther's assasinations. We had three rally sites and students came in overwhelming numbers todem- onstrate thelr contempt for the power structure and their deter- mination to rid themselves of the oppressor at all three locations Deputy Minister of Defense, Bobby OANAAN rT . The undying spirit of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark lives within the Youth will fulfill thety revolutionary goal. And make the wordsAll Power To The People a reality, liberation movement will not only mobilize the masses of Black peo- ple, butalsoall progressive people in U.S, Think of such a force; what power can withstand a force of millions of revolutionaries refus- ing compromise, and determined to destroy that which has denied their basic rights? The struggle of Black people has much in common with the struggle of other oppressed minorities, fe. poor Whites and Inevitably the workers whose conditions are his- Rush spoke at these sites and told the students that, ‘THE YOUTH MAKE THE REVOLUTION,’ and all of you are the baddest niggers in the history of the world, The students responded with revolutionary fervor unequalled in the history of Babylon. You could sense the presence of Dep. Chairman Fred and Mark Clark all around you saying, ‘YOU CAN KILL A REVOLUTIONARY BUT YOU CAN'T KILL THE REVOLUL TION, YOUCAN RUN A FREEDOM FIGHTER AROUND THE COUN- TRY BUT YOUCAN'T RUN FREE- DON FIGHTING AROUND THE COUNTRY, AND YOU CAN JAIL A LIBERATOR BUT YOU CAN'T The JAIL LIBERATION" beat goes on, who Program, torically bound to deteriorate to the point of creating revolution- ary consciousness among them, this struggle is bound to merge into a united force which will to- tally defeat the criminal rule ofthe capitalist class in U.S. At this moment, when re volutionary struggles are being waged in every corner of the world, the struggle of Black people in U.S, stands as an integral part of the world revolution, We the Iranian Students As- sociation in U.S. salute the Black ee ee on, and Mark Clark who were Later on that night, we held a memorial benefit in tribute to Fred and Mark. Michael ‘Cete- wayo’ Tabor, delivered a devas- tating speech to the people, Cet, held his audience captive for forty minutes blowing on the pigs and calling for the people to resist. The Black Panther Party, re- afirms its revolutionary commit- ment to the people and thanks them with sincere love for sup- porting the strike we called in honor of Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, If you have a profound love for Fred and Mark, you'll havea great hate for the pigs. SHOOT TO KILL Ministry of Information Illinois Chapter Black Panther Party At the Dec. 4th rally a young brother recites the Ten Point Platform & Panther Party for its brave and revolutionary struggle that tt is waging against U.S, Imperial- ism, We salute this conference, and give our full support for the task it has undertaken. LONG LIVE ‘THE ANTI. IMs PERIALIST STRUGGLE GF THE BLACK MASSES, VICTORY / TO THE ‘HEROIC STRUGGLE OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY! Iranian Students Association in the United States. f The Chicago Police Department detailed 55 men to patrol building interiors in the Cabrini-Green housing development, The new program marked the first time Chicago policemen have been used to guard building interiors on a regular basis, It also marked the first foot patrols at Cabrini-Green since Sgt. James Severin and Pa- trolman Anthony Rizzato were shot to death there J uly 17, Deputy Chief of Patrol Robert Lynskey said the new program, called the Cabrini-Green Vertical Patrol Unit replaces the ‘‘walk and talk” unit to which Severin and Rizzato were assigned. Seven two man beat cars and an squadrol will also patrol the out- door area, gms Taken from the Chicago Sun Times - December 2, 1970 seecemmmmms CABRINI GREEN HOUSING PROJECTS ... THE SAME AS THE WARSAW GHETTO OF POLAND IN 1942 Observing the historical actions of people who are oppressed versus the Oppressor, we study dialectically their actions, analysing the course that strug- gle took at that particular time. We, understand that these actions are not remote historical incidents uncon- nected to our struggic, but rather as in all things that happen they are very connected to our struggle, in fact inter- connected and even reflective of the problems we face in our struggle Therefore we understand that the his- torical actions of our oppressor is what we use to base much of theory to com bat him on. As the oppressor moves to control oppressed people, intensify the system of oppression, and obtain a maximum degree of exploitation at the least loss to himself, we see several mass me- thods used to control those who are oppressed. The oppressors authority is eximplified in very blatant and brutal actions against those who are op pressed. The society is structured as a result in such a manner that in order for it to exist and continue to exploit people the level of terrorism and bruta- lity against oppressed people has to be intensified. Man as a higher animal is capable of reasoning, and this is inti- citive of our behavior when faced with a situation which threatens his total be- ing, such as the problems in nature, the contradictions in the society causes us to react in antagonistic manners, parti- cularly dealing as oppressed verses op- pressor, slave vs. master. When our freedom to live is threatened because of various reasons, then the change and development of people manifests this. Where there is oppression and brutal terrorist repression against people who desire to be free, then those people change and development will be about dealing with anything keeping them from their precious freedom, However, the oppressor, using all the means he can to maintain hissystem of oppres- sion cannot use absolute terrorism in order to control reasoning men, but rather he must create ways by which he can justify the conditions, he must give them reasons for their state of re- pression. In order to do this he uses the wants and needs of the people which have been denied them, as objects of attraction, to promote or perpetuate this system. The oppressor uses modern tech- nology to help create and advance new avenues of exploitation, and control of the people. This is the case with socalled public housing. The oc- cupants having come from wooden frame slum fire- traps, or tenant shacks in the south, mistakenly recognize moving into a concrete apartment (a family Jail Teir) as a change for them Within the society. However despite the technological advances which are exposed to the peopke, their position and function in the socicty is still the same, and that is as neo-layes for the collective good of the ruling capitalists In this situation, modern technology is simply used as a means of getting max- imum usage out of oppressed peopk, categorize and organize them for easier control This is the purpose behind Ca- brini Green and other public housing The people in Cabrini have recog: nized the necessity to struggle against the oppressor, this is why so much pig attention is focused around Cabrini Recently about 100 new pig troops Were centered in and sround the Cabr inl Housing Projects. This is primarily becuuse Cabyini has a history of strug gling against the pigs Luring the Martin Luther King rebellions, the resi- dents of Cabrini held the pigs at bay with sniper fire, One reporter stated, “they did a lot of burning on the Westside, but on the Northside over in Cabrini homes they did a fot of shooting™. Early this year the pigs were penned down by residents’ gunfire for over 3 hours. Two walk and talk spy pigs, were shot todeath by residents of Cabrini. It is these reasons that the pigs have moved on Cabrini in order to eli- minate thethe revolutionary forces working there. When we look at the pigs in Cabrini, we realize that the residents will be willing and ready to combat them, but Pig Frank and Lt, Pig Thompson attempt Cabrini Green Housing Projects with any resistance ‘at home to thet imperialistic acts of genocide aguinst oppressed people abroad. At this particular time the pigs are trying to pass on a local level, laws which will enable them to arrest and detain all people and communities which might threaten the security of the capitalistic system. However, we are aware that this system is so decadent that it is fal- ling and all the internal and external security cannot save it. But despite this, we must organize ourselves to pre- vent the pigs from moving on us as the Nazi Germans did to the Jews in War saw, Poland, the result of Jewish wets iz wey eeewe > Sa oS destroy the minds of our youth, what We must remember is what the pig? historical actions have been when confronted with armed resistence by oppressed people, In Warsaw Poland the pigs wiped out a complete commu- nity of jews, ticy will not hesitate to allempt to do the same thing in Cabrini. What we and all oppressed people must do, is prepare ourselves to move whenever the pigs attempt to do this. We must be aware and conscious of the political situation in the whole world global commune, It is a fact, that the pigs are practicing armed warfare abroad and at home and are organizing and passing laws to deal to failure to organize carlicr was six million people executed. If you love the people, your family, your life, then you will not hesitate to prepare yourself, your family, your people so that as a People’s Liberation Army, we can survive / ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE LET OUR LOVE FOR THE PEOPLE BRING DEATH TO THE ENEMY’ Monk Teba ’ Illinois Chapter Black Panther Party THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 1970 PAGE 5 In Babylon at this time Black avenues to let the people know it, and oppressed people are concer- Oppressed people relate to en- ned with dismantling the institutions tertainers, but In order to change of oppression via wayofrevolution, a system of oppression we must In order to enslave and oppress relate to change, and that means us and then keep us in a state we must relate to entertainers who of perpetual slavery, neo-slavery, are also about change. There are it was necessary for the master blues singers who through music to employ means which would keep and prose, tell a very fitting story our desire to be free controlled, of our problems, these artist should and expressed in the interests of go on and take their songs to a the master, Entertainment {s used higher level, Instead of just singing by the master to help perpetuate about the ‘‘sad and blue situation the system of neo-slavery. Nor- we are in because our love is mally entertainment entertainsand gone’’, or because of‘ someone you perks people up, it recreates their can’t get next to’’; we should sing consciousness to the point where also about the system which made reactions can result. Thosewhoare our love leave us, or prevents us entertainers are usually talented from getting next to you. We must artists who employ their talents understand that everything in this for various reasons. However, liv- society is interrelated, and we must ing in an oppressive, capitalist express it as such. The problems society an artist must deal with’ we have as oppressed people, ts using his talents in the intrests the oppressor and all his manifest- of the oppressor, or in the intrests of the oppressed, Oppressed people, are enslaved people, therefore anyone working in their intrests must be about de- stroying the bondage of oppression, It is very important that we under- stand that the bonds which enslave us are no longer overt shackles, but rather a soclety based on cap- italism (man exploiting man) using the covert chains ofour basic needs which are controlled by the insti- tutions of capitalism, The threat of overt shackles always remain eminent, manifested in the jails and prisons within this country, The oppressor is not powerful enough to enslave all the oppressed people of the world, Oppressed peo- ple are in the majority and the op- pressor is in the minority. In order to keep these social bond- ages on us, the oppressor uses his institutions to justify our sit- uation. He has us thinking that we are oppressed because our credit is bad, because we have 10th grade education, or because wéare Black. These reasons are reflective of the institutions which control us, Even our entertainment Is the type which justifies and reaffirms our op- pression, We see Black entertain- ers using their talents to portray us as shiftless people or as peo- ple happy and content with op- pression, On t.v. we see Black entertain- ers using their talents to make people think that they can become intergral parts in this system. Everyone ts portrayed as being functionally aspiring in the bour- geolse lifestyle. We see people playing roles such as Dianna Car- roll in ‘‘Julia'’ and nothing in the role she plays reflects the pro- blems oppressed Black people face, in fact the Beverly Hillbillies ex- emplify more soul than Julis. Peo- ple like James Brown are cought on the same stage with a racist such as Lester Maddox, and be- cause James Brown has a lot of fans who dig him as an enter- tainer, they think Lester Maddox is alright, When James Brown did this perhaps he was sincere, and really wanted to help his people (There had been 6 people shot, murdered in Augusta, Georgia, and the people were reacting in aspon- tanious manner by rioting), James Brown asked the people to calm down and stop rioting, this is correct because rioting is reaction- ary and more people are killed than pigs. However, James Brown al- lowed racist governor Lester Maddox to use the same platform and say that the National Guard should blow up all buildings with suspected snipers, and shoot tokill the rioters, We say that this is criminal, and that James Brown should have been against this if he was concerned for his people, and he should use his talents and ations, Most Black artists are very sen- stive people who undarstand the problems our people face, What must be done at this time Is for those artists to come forward and begin to serve their people, There can be noartists greater than he who serves the people. Black artists must come forth and support op- pressed Black people, they must support the revolution, the struggle to change this decadent society. Black artists should follow the ex- amples of the ‘‘Lumpen’’ in the Black Panther Party, a singing group who have dedicated them- Selves to the people. The Lumpen sing about what needs to be done, how to do it, and then go forth and put it into practice, using their creative talents. Our message is that all Black entertainers should address them- selves to the revolutionary situa- tion in the world communities, they should come forth and do whatever they can to support the struggle. The Black artists’ participati should be about doing whatever they can to help the struggle, from fund raising benefits to feeding hungry children, We say that al- though you may not be able to do everything, you can do something. Let us turn ‘‘soul power’ into a force for liberation ofall oppressed people, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Ain't no words to this song, you just get a gun and hum along, Dare to struggle, dare to win, If you don’t dare to struggle you don’t deserve to win, We say re- volution is the only solution tc the pigs pollution of the peoples’ institutions, we're calling for a socialistic redistribution of the means of producing. PEOPLE POWER Monk Teba Chicago, Il. Black Panther Party THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 1970 PAGE 6 BERKELEY COMMUNITY WORKER VICTIM OF AN UNPROVOKED ATTACK BY PIGS Monday night November 16, 1970, Herman News and I were hicthik- ing West on University Avenue to San Francisco. On the corner of Acton and University we saw three car Joads of pigs. There was a Suspect in the pigs’car, We decided to get out of the car we were in and investigate the situation, We got outand crossed the streetwherethe Pigs heldthe suspect, we askedhim what was theproblem? While doing this we were moving back to legal observation distance. The pig then told us tokeep on moving, we moved back still even a little further and watched the pigs carrying outtheir duty. At thar point a nigger pig (badge # 36) took the initiative to provoke a confrontation, He grabbed me by my arms and then pig 4140 and # 85 came to help him, | told the pigs they didn't have any right to touch me unless I was under arrest. The pigs then proceeded to brutalize me by hitting me over my ears, eyes, back, and twisted my arms until I fell, at that point he handcuffed me. By the timelhad fallen to the ground from the pain which had been inflicted, Iwas hit on the back of my head with either a black jack or a pistol, I was then maced two times by pig #35. By now Iwas almost completely knocked out and did not offer any type of res- istance, | wes only then toldtha! was under arrest. Itoldthe pigs that I would Uke to know the charges. 1 toldthem they didn’t have any right to brutalize me. They thenput me inacar and took me toHerrick Memorial Hospital, There I was treated by a Doctor Deal who gave me stitches forthe laceration on my head, he also ad- ministered some novacaine for the pain. Later they took me to the ex- ray room, They ex-rayed my whole head, While I was laying there I was having awful pain inmy nose | asked the doctor to ex-ray my nose, the doctor told me I was wasting his time. Iwas eventually taken back to the ex-ray roomfor further ex-rays. During thistime! was constantly being provoked by the pigs, they keptsaying thar I didn’t have any mentalityor, thar it was very low and other things of this nature. Ihadanurse call my home andtellthem whathadhap- pened. I asked a brother inthe ex- ray room for 4penciland apiece of paper so Icould write the badge numbers of the pigs down. We left around 12;00 A.M, for the Berkeley Pig Pen wece Iwas booked They gave me two phone calls, Iwas hav- ing aterrible headache and asked the jailer for some aspirin thar | never received, Iwasthenputin « cell where I stayed allnight. The next day [had togoto court at 1:30 P.M, At that time they came and opened the cell block so all inmates could be taken and chained and then proceed like a chain gang to the court room wherethey would re- celvo trumped up charges, When Igot to court I found out I was charged with battery ona pig, when in fact the pig brutalized me. This charge carries amaximum of ten years and is afelony, The judge was trying to further railroad me by trying to send me to Santa Rita for two days then come back and have a quick trial, I would have no time to prepare my defense. My lawyer requested more Ume and also that the bail be reduced. The judge reduceded it from $3,375.00 to 3,000.00, I was released from the Pig Pen around 4:30that after- noon, 1 feel that since [ hayebeen seen many times on the strects of Ber- keley selling papers anddolng pro- paganda work for the Party that nigger pig 436 singled me out to beat up anigger, something that has been done for years. It {s a normal process that | stop to observe pigs when they are car- rying out there‘‘duty.’'I'm tryin to get more people interested Indoing this which they do have a legalright to do. They can prevent someone from being brutalized or even kil- led for that matrer. Another thing I wis severly brutalized, my eyes are red & puffy from the mace that pig #36 sprayed into myeyes. A patch of my hair is missing, Ihave six stiches in the back of my head where they hit me with something, yet they have charged me with bat- tery on 4 police officer.The evi- dence is very clear and plain, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Carlos Jordan West Berkeley Community Center Berkeley, California AN OPEN LETTER TO THE B.S.U. AT LANEY COLLEGE, We have been accused of crying to create dis-unityof Blacks on Laney College campus. This attack was the result of us expressing our opinion on the policy andpractices of the Laney B.S.U, We will try to clarify our position go as toletthe students (our peers) judge the right and wrong of this disagreement, In order for me tocreate dis- unity, we have to assume thatthere is some unity inthefirsctplace. We cannot bring chaos out of chaos, Is the 8.S.U. a Black Student Union 7? What is the purpose of the B.S.U_ 7 If its purpose is to meet the needs of Black students then Its (B.S,U,) first job is to define the needs and problems of the Black students, Our problems and needs as Black students are inseparately tied to the problems and needs of the Black Community: Political op- pression, economic exploitation, and racist degradation, To try and separate the problem of the student from those of the Black Community ie like trying to getto X minus 5 by Starting at 0 and going to 1; -2; -3; A; etc. We as Glack Americans are living within a system thatis de- signed tokeep us politically power- less, economic beggars, andsocial ‘niggers’, The schools are institu- ‘dons ofcapitalistic America and OAKLAND Why we Criticize Laney B,5.U. like allother institutions in inthis decadent society, are controlled and designed to perpetuate our wretched condition, The same people who control the schools are the same people who control the Black communities. The schools are not controlled by the Lackey Administrators who sit in the offices on campus. The schools--like the Black commun- ity-- are controlled by the big bus- iness men, lying politicians, and the military CIA, National Guard, and local police), These people make the decisions that control our every day lives. They determinethe policy and what is taught in the schools. The police, CIA andNat- fonal Guards are the guardians of this dictatorial order, The same racist warmongers who go around the world murdering, raping and oppressing people under the ban- ner of ‘freedom’ and ‘democracy’; who invade the Black community and killin the name of ‘law and order’, are the same ones whode- fine the type of education that you and | are supposed to get, If there le to be 4 Struggle on campus, it has to be linked with the struggle that is taking place {in our comnun- ities, and the world communities. They are dor andthesame! Are they not 7 If we fall into the crap of an iso- lated Struggle on campus (it is # pre-planned trap!) our children if they survive--will have the same struggle on their hands, The policy-makers designed and or initiated the programs we are fighting for on campus: books, lun- ches, and Joan programs. We are not against these programs, but even ‘if’ these demands aregrant- ed, what about the killings, the bad housing, the hunger, the denial of our human rights. Dead people cannot read, nor attend school: Our Struggle is about our right to survive, the right to live! Without life, everything else is useless | Our opinion Is that it istimetore- define our priorities. Weare sure thar the preservation of our lives and the lives of our people are more important than the book loan pro- gram | The BS.U (Black Student Union?) asserts that it has the interest of Black people at heart. Action, not words, Is the criterion for the truth! Dare to Struggle ! Dare to be Victorious | St. Augustine Community Workers Oakland, Culiforata BLACK CONDEMNED TO DEATH TRAPS Point y3--10 Point Platform and Program --‘We want an end to the robbery by the capitalist of our Black community’ Point £4--10 Point Platform and Program——We want decent hous- ing fit for the shelrer of human be- ings’ Venango Halls at 1923 Venango St,, is considered by the People of that building to bea death trap, One Sunday in November (at or about 5:30 A.M,), Alfred Jordan leaped from his fourth floor apartment window inthe agony of being onfire. A few days later, he died at Temple University Hospital. What caused this brother’s death ? What type of machinery was put into operation that resulted in this brother’s death 7 Alfred Jordan dled avyictim of robbery by a fool anda liar, Super- intendant Henry Murphy, This lac- key of a pig lied about the occup- ation and condition of apartment D-6 in which the brother lived. This apartment was rented to Alfred Jordan for $40,00 which the superintendant did not record and which he himself kept for his own use. This same lackey has been known illegallyenter the People’s apartments, and rip off property using excuses such as he Was re- turning a rent book or mail which he could have easily slid under the door. After the robberies occured, the door of the apartment would not be forced and nobody had a key but the tenant and the superintendant whose brother works at Venango Hardware Store and makes the keys for the apartment building, Alfred Jordan was also a victim of indecent and unsafe housing. For example, the faulty electrical our- lets which started thefirein the bullding, His death was the resulr PEOPLE of the lack of work done over ape: tod of two years by this house ger and his Boss Pig Shapiro. 1406 Locust St. This Pighas ‘ continuously to keepthe proper maintenance and has refused to supply the apartments ii the bullding with fire extinguishers or with the proper escape equip- ment, The only fire extinguisher is” in the basement where the superin- tendant lives. There are two firs escapes with wooden stepsthatcan: only be reached by going through the hall, So, if the hallway is on fire, you are trapped. This is what happened to Alfred Jordan causing him to leap from his windowtoes- cape that Infernal death trap. There is acountless number of - Venango Halls throughout Babylon, — How much longer must Black People be subjected to these inhu- human conditions at the hands of these murderous Pigs ? Howmiich longer must these things happen before Black people as awholerise up and take the head of the oppres- sors? The people within Venango Halls will not forget these acts of terror, nor will they rest until Pig Sh iro and his bootlicking ac! Murphy, are dealt with, And Black people as a whole, must not forget it or rest until justice s done, ORD! DEAL WITH YOUR Suu \ ea ALL POWER TO Te PEOPLE ro ae , q Bobby cou Gan Black Panther Party — cm Philadelphia Branch > r oe THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 1970 PAGE 7 ...AS THEY WATCH THEIR ARMORED VEHICLES GO UP IN SMOKE. THEIR HELICOPTERS FALL DOWN IN FLAMES menacing--which helps with com- the same manner they are used In munity relation-but she packs a Vietnam (ground to air support, wallop and can't be stopped. air to ground support). They use The imperialists’ technology is the boomerange which has begun its return trip, to wipe the op- advertisement It's a new game. Now police have to dislodge armed groups barricaded behind sandbags, firing .30 caliber Armor Piercing ammunition, In the mili- tary that's a job for armored ve- hicles. But most cities and towns can't afford to buy a fighting ar- mored vehicle, so the police just have to take their chances, Until now, Now Aveo, the leader in person- nel and vehicle armor, introduces the AVCAT. It goes anywhere, fights with a variety of weapons (non-lethal on up) and will pro- vide guaranteed protection against any specified threat up to and In- cluding the .30 caliber (30.06) AP at a price that will easily fit into any department's budget. Put a high pressure water nozzle on the AVCAT’s universal weapon mount and she'll control any mob, The CAT will chase into parks, up alleys, almost anywhere. With elght drive wheels-bulletproof-and an ability to turn within its own length; it's hard to escape from AVCAT. Worried about Molotov Coctails? Order AVCAT with Av- co’s unique fire protection coat- ing. It's similar to the material which we used to protect the Ap- pollo moonship, Order an automatic weapon or a tear gas grenade launcher on the AVCAT or use her with the crew firing from the gunports and you will be able to drive right up to and through (or over) a sandbag bunker. The AVCAT ts too small to look Choose a gasoline or diesel en- gine, Pick a mounted weapon and protection level. Then ask for the price, You'll be amazed, Built by Aveo-armor experts. The pig forces of America have proven by their practice and with this advertisement, that they are implementing their blue-print of genocide-leveled at all progressive people, Black people in particular and the Black Panther Party as the bulls-eye, Aveo (the leader in personnel and vehicle armor) has only help- ed to bring the genocidal tactics of this imperialistic commune to light. Aveo has stated that their carrier would stand up to anything up to .30 caliber (30-06), Well what about a .357, a .44, a .308 or some well placed explosives, or a pipe-bomb thrown between the tracks or tires, They say that the Avcat ‘packs a wallop and can't be stopped.'’ We know better than that, because we understand that the spirit of te people Is greater than the mans’ technology. They cannot produce a weapon to stifle the spirit of the people. We have nothing more to lose and everything to gain, so that this tank nor any of their tools of re- pression instills fear in the hearts of the oppressed people in Babylon, In checking out the situation here in imperialistic U.S.A, we find that they also employ the use of heli- copters, In Oakland, California for example, the pig department (in escalading the repression against the Black communities of West, East, and North Oakland) has two helicopters, To get a better under- standing of the fascist methods of the Oakland pig department, we must look at the purposes of thetr tactics, Tho two helicopters are used in the helicopters to step us their military patrol of the Black com. munities, taking note that the pigs have now placed large numbers on top of their patrol cars, so as to be seen better by the helicopters, Until now helicopters were thought of a5 rescue vehicles, traffic and fire watchers, But now they have a hew role, revolutionary watchers; and making assaults with intent to kill. The pigs also employ the use of surveillance cameras (The Black Panther, Oct, 24,1970), These cam- eras are placed on top of telephone poles in the Black communities to spy on the people - Big Brother is fast becoming a reality, Another program of destruction is the ‘‘Home Alert Groups'’, This is a program set up in the com- munity to divide the people, This program wears the mask of ‘‘Law and Order’’ and ‘let's unite against burglars and crime in our com- munity'’. community relation pigs as their pass into the community. The com- munity relation pigs are to report immediately any suspicious acts, or suspicious persons In the area. In other words, having the people inform on each other. We fully understand that Babylon is a hattle-ground, no different from the battle-grounds of Indo- China. The dogs do not have to come tn the form of Marines, para- troopers, etc. because the loca! gestapo has adopted the same methods as used by the cowards of Song-My, or Mi Lal, These intercommunal gangsters are at- tacking the Black communities with the same tenacity as in Vietnam, But by organizing self-defense groups, armed with the correct Political and technical knowledge- dedicated to the people, we will construct a new world on the rub- ble of Babylon--fn spite of thoir toolsof repression, The pigs select Black + pressors off the face of the earth forever, They're laughing now, but their laughter is fast fading - as they watch their armored vehicles go up in smoke, their helicopters fall down in flames and they them- selves having no place to run or hide. Babylon must be totally de- Stroyed-and with pity, We will pity each pig heart that we cut out- Pity it to death, FOR THE SALVATION, LIBER- ATION, AND FREEDOM OF OUR PEOPLE, WE WILL NOT HESI- TATE TO EITHER KILL OR DIE, MRS. KATHERINE ROBINSON WAS BRUTALLY BEATEN BY PIG AND FOUR RACIST DOGS OF EDITOR’S | STATEMENT In our struggle for freedom we must combat many evil forces, One of these forces is a very powerful news media which is controlled and used by the fascist ruling class against the people fascist ruling class against the peo- ple’s just struggle, So it was necessary to create an alternate media, a people’s media, The Black Panther Black Com- munity News Service is the voice of the people and the community, The people must have a means to express their true wants, needs, and desires, In order for the Black Pan- ther newspaper to function, the people must support it, not only by reading it but by contributing community news, We ask the people of all communities to bring or mail in news articles to the Central Ministry of Information, 1048 Peralta Street Oakland, California, On June 5, 1970 the racist dogs from the Richmond Pig Depart- ment again showed the Black community that Black people are neither respected nor free from plg brutality anywhere, not even inthe privacy of their own homes, Betweeen 7:30 P.M. and 8:00 P.M. two pigs, Telles and Ar- hold, arrived at the South Rich- mond residence of Alton Turner, Supposedly to investigate adistur- bance, Upon entering the house, with riot helments on, the pigs be- gan questioning the brother who was in his ownkitchen. After a brief discussion the brother came into the ving room to Socialize with the rest of his family. Since the matter had been resolved the pigs began moving toward the door to leave As Telles was about to leave he walked back to Alton Turner and began to show his Plg power of In- timidation, Upon approaching brother Turner, pig Telles started waving his finger in the brother's face and began to babble about taking the brother to Jail if he (pig) had to return. Alton, refus- ing to accept this blatant act of degradation pushed the Pig's finger out of his face, Unable to accept anything but to- tal submission, Telles snatched the brother from the couch and vi- clously throwing him to the floor, placed him under arrest, Telles has a long history of brutality to- wards Black people and ts cur- rently assigned to radio dispatch- ing because of the number of com- plaints about him. Upon seeing her brother being treated so brutally, Mrs, Katherine Robinson walked over to the pig and asked him why was he acting as he was, Her reply from pig Telles was a barrage of blows to the face. After this assault Telles ran out of the house only to im- mediately return with his hand- i4awy RICHMOND cuffs, (Pig Arnold was taking Al- ton Turner to the pig car at this me.) As racist-dog Telles was re-entering the house, he viclous- ly knocked Mrs, Robinson's 59 year old mother, Mrs. Corrine Johnson, to the floor. Then he proceeded to Mrs, Robinson, (All of this was in the presence of 12 year old Jocelyn Robinson.) The sadistic dog snatched Mrs. Robinson from a couch and threw her on the floor, applying hammer- locks and handcuffs, Then true to his racist nature, pig Telles began to beat Mrs, Robinson about the head and back, When Mrs. Robinson raised her head she only saw 4 Plainclothes pigs entering the house, One of the gestapo invaders, pig Curley, grabbed the sister's hair, pulled her head back and kicked her twice in the mouth while the other fascists were also beat- ing her about the body, When these five pigs finished their brutal beat- ing of Mrs, Robinson, they took her to jail for battery on a pig and re- sisting arrest, But, at no timewas she informed of being under arrest until she arrived at the jail, After she arrived at the jail the pigs, trying to make things right, took her to Brookside Hospital de “as > ; where she was treated for injuries to the eyes, head, and mouth, par- tial paralysis of her right hand, and the many bruises which she had, Since this overt fascist attack, Mrs. Robinson has been going to court on the absurd battery and re- Sisting charges. The pigs tried to showthat they were victims of an unprovoked attack but their Mes weren't totally accepted. On Dec, 4, 1970 a mistrial was declared because the jury couldn't decide the matter. Pig D.A. Yancey im- mediately asked for another trial so that he could again try to rail- road Mrs, Robinson and thereby § clear pigs Telles, Curley, and the other fascists of guilt, Her next trial starts Jan.4, 1971 but we must move to make sure that no other Black people have to Stand trial for being the victim of a racist plg attack, We must real- ize that there are thousands of Telleses and Curleyes throughout our Black communities. We must also realize that since pigs only respect force, that whenever these fascist dogs come into our community brutalizing and mur- dering our people that we should meet them with the necessary force that will insure their immediate deaths, we must shoot very ac~ curately, Black people must no longer be the passive vicitms of Sadistic pigs; for our survivalasa people we must pick up guns and see to it that these acts of terror are stopped, “The racist dog policeman must withdraw immediately from our communities, cease thelr wanton murder and brutality and torture of Black people, or face the wrath of the armed people, ; ALL POWER TO THE, PEOPLE; DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS} Richmond Branch ; Black Panther Party +1/Atiien tS hee THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 1970 PAGE 8 PRESS STATEMEN ~ TPA. PAWN nor 5 ~ é = > — af FROM CHAIRMAN BOBBY SEALE The People’s Committee here in New Haven, working to serve the hungry peo- ple in the community, has moved to a level of real peoples’ revolutionary work, The demogogic politicians, only talk about solving hunger, housing, un- employment and medical problems of the poor and oppressed and the Black community, The pigs of the power structure only make false promises and false, non-producing gestures This is reactionary on the part of the power structure, The Black Panther Party and the People’s Committee are not just making false gestures but are movingon a revolutionary level, Itis heart warm- ingly revolutionary to start andimple- ment the Free Food Programs, as it is thoroughly necessary to implement Free Health Programs for the Puerto Rican, the poor Black and oppressed communities, These programs are why sister Ericka Huggins and I are being tried as political prisoners, because we are dedicated in this very same re- volutionary way of serving the people with these cooperative - socialistic community programs, POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FREE ANGELA DAVIS AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! Bobby Seale Chairman / Black Panther Party : Delivered Thursday, Dec.3, 1970 Chairman Bobby Seale Political Prisoner 1 Comrades: We now must point the bony finger of disorder not at the future generation; for the results of the so-called con- stitution of the United States, but at the mis-guided concepts of our fore fathers, relating to the masses rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, Right on? Comrades, we are now engaged in a Reyo lutionary Struggle to bring acom- plete change into that unfit constitution that is serving this system, that is keeping, or is attempting to keep all poor and oppressed people of the United States and the world in genera!, poor and oppressed, People of America, we must Unite and-change this decadent system, And New-Haven , Connecticut by /John Seale MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE, FROM mm LONNIE MCLUCAS, PRISONER OF WAR put an immediate end to all acts of genocide against the masses by the systems running dogs and paper tigers, By any means necessary! We need not the polluted, decadent desires of the past, From our ancestors, to oppressed people like us now, to our children in the future, what we do need is a New and change- able constitution, One that the masses can change whenever or wherever they the people see that there is a reasonable need for it (the constitution) to be changed, Because then, we will have the full benefits of all our constitutional rights!! Even if we have to die for others to obtain these rights; Right, Right on!!! We, the Revolutionists of America, will not, and shall not sit back in these times of Revolution, and commit any kind of willing and knowing acts of un-revolutionary suicide, We will react politically to any manner of ag- gression perpetuated against the poor, oppressed people and our comrades and supporters of the world, ‘‘REVOLU- TION IN OUR LIFE TIMEB’’. + FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 3, 1970 The BOBBY AND ERICKA FREE FOOD PROGRAM is being established by the People’s Committee to help meet one of the most basic and immediate needs of the Black community, The ever-increasing unemployment rate in the Black community and the Inflationary prac- tices of the Nixon Administration demonstrate the goy- ernment’s unwillingness to meet the need of the poor and oppressed people in general and Black people in particular, The Black community is reminded daily that the machinery of this government does not work in its interest, Both Chairman Bobby and Ericka Huggins saw the necessity for meeting the basic needs of the people through the implementation of socialistic Programs like the Free Hot Breakfast for Children, Free Clothing and Free Health Centers, The incarceration of these servants of the People and others is clearly an attempt by the government to put a stop to the people’s programs, But the people have shown that the spirit of Bobby and Ericka stil! prevails and that we the people will continue to move to feed, clothe and defend our communities, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE FREE BOBBY AND ERICKA People’s Committee Contact; Pat Gallyot/203/777-5752 our major political objectives, We must always be aware of products of bitterness, such as controversy counter versions, go-betweens, peace makers and compromises from outside of the People’s Vanguard Party, There comes a time when we must all give up certain things and take other things, We knew that when we joined the peo- ple’s struggle for liberation, from the -Many chains of oppression and ag- gression, we knew that there would be many times when we would have to make do with the tools that we had on hand to work with, We are brothers and Sisters - we have over three hundred years of oppression and ag- gression in common, I am sure that all of my Comrades, like myself want nothing more than to die a Revolutionary type death in the People’s Vanguard Party, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Revolutionary Love Lonnie McLucus Political Prisoner/ prisoner of W Comrades, we must not letourselves Connecticut State Chapter be divided or prevented from reaching , Black Panther Party y a Cre ver LETTER TO ERICKA HUGGINS FROM KATHLEEN CLEAVER Black Panther Party Inter-communal Section Algiers, Algeria Dear Ericka, You can understand why it has taken so long for this letter to reach you, for the communication among Political Prisoners --~ all of us incarcerated in misery by the bars of fascism -- is stifled on the inter-personal, inter- family, inter-state, inter-national, and inter-communal level, Regardless, we share the same aspirations and Struggles to create communal solu- tions, | always think of the pain you feel at being torn asunder from Mai, whom t only met once when she was but a few days old. But she was a beautiful and healthy child at that time, being the daughter of you and Jon, and I know she is evenunimaginably beautiful and healthy now, As well as thousands of other people, the picture of you standing in front of the New Haven courthouse with clenched fist raised, shouting ‘‘Free Huey’’, gives me new encouragement to persist and perform even more powerfully every time I see it and think of you now, [ love you, Ericka, as all re- volutionary sisters and brothers must, and we cannot allow you to endure this torture much longer, The respect and admiration that is in the hearts of the people for your resistance and beauty is boundless, Hexe in Algiers, we have gained the confidence and cooperation of the most deadly enemies ofour racist, impetrial- ist bestial slave masters, and have joined our forces into a common struggle, Our revolutionary sisters in Asia, Africa, and Latin America -- the hinterlands of the American Empica -- ar2 enduring parallel conditions for parallel reasons, and our numbers and Romaine ‘‘Chip”’ Fitzgerald Political Prisoner THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 1970 PAGE 9 fortitude increase daily, All over the world, it is known that we, the people, Shall triumph in America, Your courage in the cage of death enables us all to have greater Strength, and your heroism is what will bring the Oppressed people of the whole world the salvation of liberation andthe peace of self-determination and the brother- hood of mankind, The liberation of the black com- munity, specifically, means the har- nessing of the united men, women, and children into one harmonious and creative social unit in order that our lives may cease to be a living death and our deaths may cease to be a living shame, Only revolutionaries will step for- ward in the name of the people to create the conditions whereby the people, en masse can unite and fight for these goals, Because you ar2 a revolutionary, you know that sacrifice is the essence of love, and love is the essence of victory, As long as we retain our love -- for each other, our families, our Party, our People, and our justice -- we shall never be- defeated, Love is all that enable our people to survive the agonies of chattel slavery, slave-catching war, and all its subsequent elaborations that brought American Imperialism into being. By translating that power into the ideological and human machinery, the political and practical apparatus, capable of bringing our basic needs and desires into being, as Huey P, Newton and Bobby Seale have done, we guarantee the future security, peace aad happiness to our children, It is they who shall finally gather and enjoy the fruits of our labor that has maintained for centuries human life and civili- za‘ion on the planet earth, We shall meet again soon, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Kathleen fits of humanity. A twenty-four of all the reactionaries and ego- maniacs who are responsible for They have snuffed out the genius of Malcolm, Lil Fred Hampton and others for REPORT ON VISIT WITH ROMAINE “CHIP” FITZGERALcD POLITICAL PRISONER , SAN QUENTIN Chip is now back at San Quentin, bring salvation to the entire world. where he ts preparing and studying The overt fascist conspiracy has the brutalities of indecent housing, his appeal for the four day trial not ended there, it continues to rip unemployment, which he was railroaded through off humanity's earlier this year. He sends the Bobby, Ericka, and in Detroit, New following messag: to his comrades. York, New Orleans, Chicago, Den- ver, etc. The common denominator level in knowledge and technolog- ‘*T have been takingalonganalytic of oppressed peoples’ past, pre- ical advancement whereas human look at the collective persecution Sent and future is that we all strive suffering can be eliminated and the which wehave/are suffering histor- for a better livelihood for the Peo- world can live In perpetual peace, {cally at the hands of insane m{s- ple, ourselves and the world. We can then make “from each of compassion, retain their satis- hour period cannot pass without according to his/her ability to@ach faction from rapacious endeavors. me giving some thought to history, according to their needs'', a real- The day will soon come when the the present state of affairs and ity. Indeed, this will be theepitome masses of Oppressed people are possibilities ofthe future, However, of mankinds existence and critism going to “soixe the time” giving at times, I look at the absurdness and self-criticism will replace the the hoge complete satisfaction and whip, penitentlaries, the gun, elec- the White House will become the tric chairs and gas chambers and new site for Boothill, the infinite ravages of the world. all primitive methods designed to maim the body and psychologically ALL PpowEeR TQ THE PEOPLE Bobby, Toure, damage the mind in the interest numerous of the ruling class, The masses ERS Stepping forward to throughout their communities will Chip ‘seize’ their rightful destinies and be ezhilarated withthe gaiety, color ad ercach ya eriealee Ericka Huggins Political Prisoner and the spirit of socialism minus Selfish capitalist Chairman robbery, and gestapo troops. But the outstanding contradiction is that man has developed to the finest; These avaricious pigs being defunct FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISON. Political Prisoner NEITHER THE PEOPLE INSIDE NOR OUTSIDE OF THE U.S.A. WILL TOLERATE BOBBY SEALE BEING CONDEMNED TO DEATH ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, MINISTER OF INFORMATION, BLACK PANTHER PARTY Vwaes invited by some etadents in West Germany, aid also by the Solidarity Comm.- ittee to visit West Germany and to speak about the situation that sow exists in the United States vis-a-vis The Black Panther Party and the repression brought by the government against the Black Panther Party, Unfortunately the Minister of the Interior of the West Geeman government made the decision that if | came to West Germany, | would be turned over to the U.S. authorities and extradited to the United States, This was done on the basis of a judgeinent con- seraing the political siruation inside the United States, | am now living in Algeria because | was a victim of political per- secution inside the United States; because of my position in the Black Panther Party as Minister of Information, When a govern- ment decides to extradite a person to a government that requests such extradition, what they're doing is making the decision that this person has no standing for calling upon a given government for the sSpectal privilage of immunity from extradition, This if & very serious decision, reached by the Minister of the Interior, because in effect what he te doing fe endorsing the political repression and the genocide that's belng carried cut against Black peuple inside the United States, He is saying that everything ie golng along well in the United States and that he is properly fulfilling his duty of up- holding standards of human rights aod de- fending the rights of people by turning me over to the fascist government of Richard Nixon, t's for this reason that | am not able to viwit West Germany at thia time, i think hit in regrettable bosaune the German people who have had experience with feeciam, who have had experiences of towing thelr civil Iberties, and having avery Oictatorial governmesat over them; are in a NOAA = i || J | vanitt Oo { ini very good position to judge what's going on in the United States and to mount acampaign to do whatever they can to resist the process that’s developing in the United States and which is also involving their own govern- ment, And it's for all of these reasons that Tam not able to visit West Germany at this time, It’s very important that we have access to various platforms or to be able to speak to various people around the world, Principally because of the fact that many people now face the death penality in the United States for their political activity. Because they spoke out in defense of human rights and because they resist the process of fascistization of the American social order, The number one symbol of political re- pression and persecution in the United States at this time is the Chairman of th Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale; who is on trial for his life in New Haven, Connec- ticut, accused of complicity in the Nqui- ation of an alledged police informer, Bobby Seale has a long history of persecution by Various local and state governments and now “oe nomi government in the United States, it’s very important that people understand that when you look at the Black Panther Party you find thar Huey P. Newton is the chief, the inspiration of the Party. he and Bobby Seale founded the Party. Huey is the ideologist of the Party, the idea man of the Party and the brainsof the Party, while Bobby Seale {* an organizational genius, Bobby Seale is responsible for or- ganizing the machinery of the Black Panther Party on a communal-wide basis, And be- cause of this activity, he became known t the government and they looked upon him a3 4 danger anda threat, and they mark- ed down as their number two target tn their campaign of repression, After eliminating ih hii} Huey P. Newton by imprisoning him, they began to move agains; Bobby Seale on a series of trumped up charges. Because we had some very good |egal assistance, It took them a long time before they were able to get him on « charge that put his life on the line. That is the situation that we now confront, We feel that the judicial system in the United states has become so overtly repressive and so overtly unfair that it's necessary to rake our case to the people, to the people inside of the United Stares and also to tis people outside of the United Stares. So t they may make their thinking on this loar to the American government that they will not tolerate Bobby Seale being condemned to death because of his political activities, When you look at the situation that exists throughout the United Stares you find within the United States Black people who have suf- fered a four-hundred year history beginning with chattle slavery and many forms of in- voluntarily servitu ymbinating inthe pre- Sent situation where a population of 30 million people are being contained and re- pressed and still subjected to a vicious form of colonization, We define the situation of Black people historically as being colonized, The slave system that existed within the United States was established at the same time that the other Third World people were being colonized by the European powers. And of course, as timehas gone by this system and this situation has been modified to suit a change of conditions, Buc still we are not free, we're suffering many forms of disadvantage. At the pre- sent time a virtual date of war exists in the United States beeen Black people who no longer are willing to tolerate and accept quitely this colonized situation, and on the other hand a government and a ruling class that ia fully determined to maintain the system of oppression that allows them to exploit Black people. It was because of this contradiction that the Black Panther Party was born in the first place, and we have taken a very strong stand in favor of the freedom and the liberation of our people. We have looked at the policies of the govern- ment and the policy of the ruling class and we see very clearly that the only way that we can acheive the freedom of our people and extricate our people from this very dangerous situation ts by fighting for our freedom. And we make no bones about the fact that we are willing to fight with arms in hands in order to liberate our people from a government and from aruling clase that does not take our human rights and our human interests into consideration, We say that the oppressor has no rights which the oppressed are bound to respect, And we apply that to the siruation of the political prisoners in the United States, simply because the people are no longer willing to go along with these farcical judicial proceedings, Where in the case of Bobby Seale he suffered everything from being bound and gagsed, and shackled like a slave before the ®-called courts of jus- tice, So the position of the Black Panther Party is thar americ4 (5 tn need of a social revolution to allow th¢ millions and millions of people who are OPPressed at the bottom of society room to M°¥e around in and room for them to have # g0°d life, In order to acheive our goals, we have made alllances with evolutionary elements within the White Comunity, the revo- lutionary elements within the communities of other oppressed people, Many people when they look at the United States think that it’s only Black people who are op- pressed inside the United States, We have large communities of Mexican-American people, Puerto Rican people, Indians, Eski- moes, and a large namber of poor White people who are also oppressed, And he- cause there are millions of millions of people Involved in this oppression,we seek to make alliances with these people for the purpose of harnessing the strength that we know that we need to bring about the change that we cannot live without, Because the system of oppression that we are struggling against inside the United States is an inter- communal system, involying on the one hand many capitalist countries, particularly the capitalist countries of Europe and the puppet governments throughout the Third World, because of this situation the people who are struggling for their liberation and their freedom around the world have found it to thefr advantage vo unite and to form al- liances and relationships of solidarity with other oppressed people in order tomutually gupport each other. The Black Panther Party feels that Black people must do precisely the same thing. We have established the Intercommunal Section of the Black Panther Party here (nAlgeria and through the In- tercommunal Section we are also submitting our ties of solidarity and our relationships for mutually supporting ourselves and other oppressed peoples in their struggle against the oppressor particularly U.S, imper- talism, We find our most efficacious and use- ful alliances are with those people who are directly confronted with the aggression by the U.S, imperialist government, And this means of course that the hottest spot on the face of the planet earth, is in Asia, Korea, China, and Indo-China are the focal point of where the spearhead of U.S. im- perialist aggression is buried, We fec] that by uniting the strength of our 30 million people along with the strength of the mil- lions of millions of oppressed people inside the United States with the oppressed peo- ple throughout the world we can in this way marshall enough strength to bring an end to the imperialist aggression, The United States is able to deceive many people around the world by talking very much about democracy, government of the people, for the people, and by the people. But when you look at the United States historically in terms of Black people, you'll find that in particular the judicial system has functioned as a blatant instru- ment of oppression, We have togo no further back than 1857, when Chief Justice Taney of the U.S, Supreme court made the state- ment that “‘a Black man has no rights which a White man is bound to respect,”’ And | don’t think that the judicial system has changed very much since that time, The 14th amendment of the U.S. constit- ution is supposed to guarantee “due pro- cess of law"’ and equal justice to all cit- izens, But Chief Justice Tancy waa speak- ing about a run away slave, a slave that had run away from the South and made tt to the North and thought that once he reach- ed the North he would be free and safe and he would not be sent back to the South, The trial of Bobby Seale, all of the cases that he has had have taken place in the North of the United States, And fn each of FOOTOTNTE CEH RT OWE TF Pee these cases he has been treated in the same manner that a slave virtually was treated during the daya of Judge Taney. The whole process in the United States has been to rely upon the judicial system for redress of the greivances of Black people; including many moderate Black civil rights organizations, all of the White liberals and of course the ruling class and the polit- icians, they propagandize and urge Black people to rely upon the judicial system for final justice, The Black Panther Party took the position that it was necessary to thoroughly expose the so-called justice and the so-called judicial system in order to make Black people realize that they have no hope in looking towards this system for jastice, I think that the case of Hucy Newton and the case of Bobby Seale in Chicago other cases that he has had, but now par- ticularly the case pending in New Haven, Connecticut serve to thoroughly foreclose any hope that Black people have from the judicial system, Now this leaves us with the situation where Black people know thar they have no justice coming from the local and state governments, They know that they have no justice coming from the federal government, and now their last hope the federal judiciary is closed to them; so they have oo choice but to take their case to the strect, And this is in the best of the American tradition, to step outside of the framework of the so-called government when the government ceases to function in the service of the people. And this is what the Black Panther Party has done, There aremany people within the Black com- munity who do not fit inside of the economy, they do not fit inside of the social structure, they do or fit inside of the political system, They have no representation, they have no security, and we look upon these as the lumpen-proletariat, And this is where the Black Panther Party has tts social base, These are the people who fully and readily understand the true nature of the American social order, These are the people who are most willing to move, and these are the peo- ple that the Black Panther Party is most interested in, We estimate the number of these people to be some 7 or million people, Mostly young people between the ages of 16 and 25 years of age, The Black Panther Party has a very strong appeal among this particular element, We have been suc- cessful with no parallel in the history of the United States in organizing and dis- ciplining these people; and we make no bones about the fact that we will stop at nothing including armed violence in bringing about a just resolution to the present sit- uation confronted by our people, We fully understand that a fascist such as Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew will follow the very oppportunist line, They care nothing about the future of America or the world, they care only about maintaining thelr own power; about maintaining thele own political party in power at any cost or demagogic approach to the electorate, They stop at nothing in order to achieve thelr alm. So in order to deal these people we will move in a collective fashion, bur df that not work we have hang-upa about lutionary suicide ; \ ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE ) Eldridge Cleaver Minister of Informa! Block Panther Party eh ee ae Re et ee Te THE BLACK PANTRER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 1970 PAGE 12 All power to the people, brothers! This is Kathleen Cleaver, Com- munications Secretary of theBlack Panther Party, and | am present- ly in Pyongyang, Democratic Peo- ples' Republic of Korea, I would enjoy having the chance to meet and talk with you directly --we're hot that far apart, but the legacy of the Korean war makes that ut- terly impossible. I know that you're uptight being dowf there in South Korea, in the U.S. Army, wishing you were somewhere else doing something else, because ifit were left up to you, I know you'd find better things to do with your time. You've got a wife, ora fiancee, or a girlfriend back home that you didn’t want to leave or if you don’t , you'd rather be at home where you could find one. In- stead, you're in South Korea, going through changes for some racist pig who you feel like killing, What for? And how long can you deal with it? And now, here comes that mur- der mouth mad dog racist pig Spiro Agnew with some new plots hatched at the Pentagon to get you killed to keep him and his kind {hn power, To keep them in the post- tion to continue murdering, bru- talizing, torturing, andoppressing your own brothers and sisters at home as well as all the people of Asia, Africa, and Latin America that they can get their bloodthirsty claws on, You're down there help- ing him do {t-- for a price. Is it worth it? You probably weren't thinking too much about that when you went in, and I'm sure you didn't know what Korea was all about, or really what the racist U.S. government was all about because Ifyou did, you'd be at home carrying that gun on your own streets with your eyes focused in on your real enemies, instead of playing the role of the oppressor of the Korean peo- ble who have never committed a Single crime against you, But you've been tricked Into be- ing a Black lackey for the White racist government of the United States, presently participating in the systematic repression, bruta- lization, and torture of *he Korean people which the U.S. Army has been carrying out for the past 25 over there as a tool of repression have consistently been escalating their oppression and repressionof Black people in the United States during these same years to the point that they now have militarily equipped police forces occupying our own Black communities at home to viciously attack ys,and if you don’t wake up and deal with it how, before you know {ft they'll have you back there patrolling Harlem, For the same reasonthey have you occupying Korea, todes- troy the people's just struggle for freedom, justice, and the power to determine their own destiny, the inherent rights of all peoples. Our people back home are fight- ing for your freedom as an op- pressed Black man, and we need you to fight in defense of our long denied freedom and long cherished justice, but you're away in South Korea, carrying a gun against a people who are fighting for the same things, against the same ene- my) My husband, Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party, sent meto North Korea to have our second child, Our son, Maceo and | came here several months ago in order that I could receive the proper rest and medical care necessary years. The same pigs that sent you — at this time, I have received while here the most excellent and thorough medical attention inmy life, and been afforded the most pleasant and comfortable liv- ing conditions for myself and my family, All my desires and needs have been freely taken care of by the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, This has been done becaus€ of the genuine desire of the Korean people and government to offer our Party and ourYevolutionary strug- gle whatever form ofassistance we can use; my casg@ is merely a single example, but.a good one to show the sincerity and tannanity of our comrades ioarms inthe strug- gle against U.S. ioiperlalism, lL was also fortimate enough to be able to be with my husband during this périod; as he also visted the Democratic. People's Republic. of Korea as. the leader of the U.S: people's antl-imperial--. ist delegation and hewas here when our: daughter: was born-on July 31,1970. 1 -you left your own children: at-home; or-if your wite was pregnant when you came over here, theo you can understand hiow grateful we are for this opportus nity to have everything arranged for. us since we are unable to do this for oorsolvos at this time, At hoot, however, sisters in our Party have been forced to give birth ‘to their (children In-pirison, aod have them taken away by the State. Some wives, like Brother Fred Hampton's wife; have seen thelr husbands slaughtered by the pigs, their children: being born never to know thelr fathers; some mothers, tike Sister Ericka Huggins, whose husband John was murdered in Los Angeles’ when their daughter was three weeks old, have been jailed without ball and are unable to be with their children, they sre facing the death penalty for trumped up charges; some dathers, like Randy Wij- liams, have been arrested and placed under exhorbitant ransom, $200,000;and are separated from their wives and children, pertaps forever. Our famillés are still be- ing divided and destroyed by being ‘‘sold down the river’ by racist stave masters who are lynching beasts, “The plight of our Party members and our revolutionary peopte ts be- ing duplicated and triplicateda thousand times in South Korea and in Indo- China everyday by the murderous savages whocomnrand the U.S, Army, tut you're: stil carrying a gun for those criminals, still taking ord@rs from those de- vils. If you weré in control of your. thoughts, I'm sure you wouldn't choose to do those things Iknow your mother didn’t raise you-to become a hired killer In Asia ‘to murder innocent people und if she had any say so; she'd have -you have you back homié]in &@ miodte, But our people do not-have any say so, any power whatsoever. Over what is done with our Hyes and to our children's lives. This is why the Black Panther Party was or- ganized in the first place; to de- fend our people against the terror of the pi¢ power structure and wrench control of our destiny from our oppressors Point number one of our Ten Point Platform and Program states; ‘We want freedom, We want. the power to determine the destiny ofour own Black com- munity. We believe that Black peo- ple will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny,” And the leaders ofour Party, A MESSAGE T0 THE BLACK 1.’s IN SOUTH KOREA FROM KATHLEEN CLEAVER, COMMUNICATIONS SECRETARY, BLACK PANTHER PARTY Minister of Defense Huey P, New- ton and Chairman Bobby Seale picked up the gun and organized our brothers to go forth with orga- nized arms and force to get us this freedom and this power, Point number 6 states: ‘‘We want all Black men to be exempt from mi- litary service. We belfeve that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military service to defand 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 victimized by this racist government. of America, We will protect ourselves from: the force and violence of the ‘racist police and the racist. military bywhat- ever méans necessary,’’ I don’t know what you were doing in 1945, 1 was just being’ new born baby, and -many of you weren't even that far along, But now, I'm in. the Black Panther Party, visit- ing North: Korea, and “you're in the 0.S> Army, doing time in South Korea and alot of water has washed under the bridge to bring all Unt about: But check what the US: goveromaent was doing, specifically where you are right now. At the ond of World Wac Tl in Septetiber, 1240, the U5 Army occupled South Korea, supposedly to force the defeated Japanese out of the country, The Korean people, under the leadership of Marshall Kim 0 Sung, had waged a vic~ torious and arduous guerilla war against their Japanese colonial ru- lers for 15 years; The United States, supposedly the enemy of Japan. doring Worid War i did not withdraw after eliminating the Japanese, but stayed on to esta- bliish a military governoient over the Korean people who had fought 50 long and hard for their own free- dom from thr Japanese, and even proceeded to reorganize the vic- fous repressive system the Ja- panese had used to rule the Ko- reans, Today, these pigs are plot- ting to drag the Japanese fascists back Into Korea to further esca- ‘yes their aggression against orea, After occupying South Korea, the US, army unleashed a massive reign of terror and brutally sup- pressed the Democratic and re- volutionary forces in the South, They murdered thousands opon thousands of patriotic and revolu- onary fighters, as well as Inno- cent citizens, destroyed their or- ganizations, banned their publica- tions, burned their homes, plund- @red their posessions;raped their women and massacred their child- ren, They converted South Korea into an armed camp, militarized the economy, whipped together a reactionary govVernmont anda pup- pet army, and sot out to attack the liberated North by unleashing the Korean war in 1950, And they had confused niggers helpingthem then In those days just like they have now «just like you, ; Most of you were small children at the time and have never yr: Sy wulerstood what the Korean war was all about, They tell you a pack Of Hes In the army about stopping comimonism and guarantesing freedom and democracy, but how muchdreedom anddemocracy have those pigs ever guaranteed you? Yow ouch freedom and democra- cy do you have tn the U.S, Army in South Korea? And how muchdo you @xpect to have when you get back home? If you come from Alaba- ma, Uke I do , then you don't even have the freedom to be buried in the military cemetary after dying on the battlefield with honors for the U.S, Army. If you come from the Asian peoples. These are the Los Angeles, like brother Jerry forces backing Nixon and the Pen- Lee Amie , who won three pur- tagon, whose foreign policy de- ple hearts in Vietnam, you don’t mands unlimited aggression in even have the freedom to stand Asia for unlimited profits in the outside your own front door and U.S. for the rich racist capitalist talk to your sister without being elite who are exploiting us to the murdered in cold blood , shot 25 extent that our people can hardly times by racist fascist pigs. And get jobs or decent housing and just as the pigs who run the army force young brothers like you to don't wait until you getbackhome join the army to make a living, to. segregate and brutalize and The herole Korean people murder you, to fail and attack and Opened a beachead for freedom by Persecute you, to deny your bas- defeating the U.S. imperialists on {c human integrity and manhood, the battlefield in 1953, Peoples you cannot wait until you get back around the world have made con- bome and out of the army to’start tinuous advances in successfully thinking about and dealing with freeing themselves through valiant the predicament you're inas.a armed struggle from colonial do- Black man today who happens to | mination and plunder against var- be-in'the U.S. Army. fous imperialist powers since that The real reason the wus time all of whom have been backed imperialist Army has for beingin Up and financed by the pig of pigs. South Korda fs to prevent the the racist fascist U.S. government, peaceful unification of the country You are on the center stage ina and perpetrate war, plunder, and. world wide struggle against racist, barbarism againstthe Korean peo. Lmperialist dominationwhich Is, at plein order to-maintain a foot- the present time, being most in- hold for their military domination tensely waged in Asia. Even our over the peoples of Asia Sincethe Own people, the most thoroughly end of ‘World War Il the United enslaved of modernday slaves, the States governnienthas established domestic slaves of the world wide a military stronghold throughout Slave master-of modern times, Asia and-has continuously com- the U.S. government have been able . : to makeoa Strategic breakthough mitted Aggression ‘against the in ouy 400 year long struggle for Asaian peopies.to prevent them secodom because of the valiant from determining their own des- wars being waged by the revolu- “ny the sameas they havé Pre “tionary peoples in Asia, Africa ’ ’ Vented Black people atthomefromtsand Latin America. The poor co- determining ours. Lookatthe cof- ionized colored peoples of the dittons of the people around you, world have risen up as a mighty the miserable poverty anddireop- storm to chase the imperialist pression that they are subjected to, aggressors from every corner of and understand that this is the the earth, and everyday the strug- direct result of the occupationand gle graws more fierce. Timeison colonization of the South of Korea the side ofthe revolution, by the U.S. Government. For inthe \hour the revolutionary forces grow North, the people ive acomforta- ble life with adequate food, cloth- ing a/x shelter provided for everyone, receiving free education and medical care, having a flour- the reactionary forces, whose stronghold ts the US. army are getting weaker, Right biside ofthe U.S, Imperial- ist beast’s army, you are strate- ishing economy with jobs for. gicatly plated to begin the process everyone, and an advanced social system created to meet their needs. And look at the bestial commit against the innocent Ko- rean people, --men, women, children, This is how our have been treated for generations Our party recognizes that you are over there against your will, d rather join the army ibanien es jail, but the time has come allowing ourselves to be forced to carry out our own oppression and the oppression of our true friends pkey world, and to begin to ree se pigs up against wall! sabia tas ts The peoples of Asiahavehero! - cally fought against colonial op- Presssion and feuda) exploita- tion and several communities are Partially liberated; China, North vietnam, and North Kores, The U.S, goverment still occuples Tai- Wan, Sooth Vietnam, and South Korea, But China, North \ fetnam, and North Korea are now liberated territories Where the people have power andilive a humane life with dignity and integrity Throughout the Asian communities uider Seige Vigorous liberation struggles are being Waged in different degrees of intensity, from Cambodia tothe PHRilippinos. That is what koeps the US military forces crawling all over Asia they are there to sub. vert and destroy the people’ s Struggle for self-determination and to back up the rigged puppet regimes so the warmongering rul- ing class of the United States can continue to profit from their boodthirsty war industries amd from the misery and exploitation of ot- destroying him from within as the people's wars proceed to des- troy hint from without. Our. fight is not in Korea nor against the Korean people, but and right at home against the racist people fascist pigs who are murdering and brutalizing us today like they haye Ver since the beginning of Slavery, and are murdering and brutalizing the peoples of Asia with genocidal war just like they did to'stop’ the Indians, We must leave the uni- fication of Korea to the Korean people, and leave the aggression against the people of Asia to the mad dog racists who will meet their deserved end facing the wrath of the armed people in the just struggle for liberation. You can no longer stand there and block the struggle for freedom by doing nothing, but cast your lot with the fighting peoples against oppres- sion and start to fightagainst your true and longtime enemy, We must proceed now to build our ownarmy for our own liberation of our own people and for that crucial task,up- on which our survival as a people rests or falls, we need you I know there are a few of you in South Korea who have your minds together, who ralate to the Black Panther Party\and the people's revolutionay strumgle at home, but you're still in a small minori- ty. Most of you’ brothers in thear- my are stil not clears tout the true ains of the’ U.S" gowrumente- reduce the’ Iiople of vm: By vither to its slaves, orite antes or about the real role of the U.S Army asthe main instrument of fas. cist terror and repression in the continued on next page On a Spring day the calm in Sacramento was broken when Sacramento Police of- ficers rushed into James Mc- Clatchy Park to disperse .a group of people who sat and ghythm and blues music flowing out of a public address system the park, That incident, many believe, set the stage for the most alarming wave of repression ever witnessed by Black area. : an enraged crowd in the park. in the course of the melee which followed attempts to close down talkie knocked from his hand and he too was Imocked to the ground. This allegedly led to the two by, what police supposed to be sniper. An immediate influx of police, with riot para- press picked up the story with all the drama involved in covering stories of ghetto yio- lence. The shooting was first reported to have taken place from the roof of a local clothing store, but the suspected sniper’s position was changed over tothe former headquarters of the Black Panther Party. This quick-change investi- Black people, Virtually ignoring the paucity of substantiated facts the local news media began to refer to the earlier incident in James McClatchy Park as a probable motive for the shooting. The Park incident was re- peatedly cited as a probable motive to the extent that the police investigation began to reflect the press reports rather than the press reports reflec- ting the police investigation. Shortly after police began to investigate Bennett’s death, local residents sensed what was in store for them. As the screws began to tighten on the predominately Black commu- nity, a delegation from Oak Park appealed to the City Council not to allow their rights to be violated by what they saw as overzealous and possibly vindictive police. The council turned a deaf ear to their pleas and as if a more definitive rebuff was needed the council voted to support the establishment of <a $5,000.00 ‘bounty’ for infor- mation leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer. Alleged suspects were pulled off the streets. Young Black men were repeatedly harassed and threatened, Sacramento’s police depart- ment was a veritable steam tea Be eats ane toed streets Blacks with insults and other dersive language. continued from last page MESSAGE TO ern world. Many of our own members, including our rman Bobby Seale, were in the U.S, Army at one time, some of our brothers were over In Vietnam fighting against the revolutionary Vietnamese people, so we are very ‘Conscious of you and how you are being duped and brainwashed, with sister Ericka are facing the death sen- electric chair in the id as political prisoners on ped up murder charges. by Seale is facing death in the chair for having the revo- ition courage to start to or- ize Black people to struggle and iting our total destruction, In bh Korea, the founder ofthe Re- on Party forthe Unifica- of the Fatherland, Kim Jong ‘Was brutally murdered bythe le after a farcical trial on yes of perpetrating commu- for the. same reason that W Seale faces a similar fate; tablishing a revolutionary BLACK GI's... political desires and needs of his people. His wife, Mrs, Rim Young Sok, is presently incarcerated in a foul prison as a political priso- her, as well as hundreds of others like them, These South Korean re- volutionaries are victims of the same type of police repression that Black Panther Party membersare facing at home, your own Black brothers and sisters, for fighting against the same capitalist, fascist racist pigs whoare trampling over the rights of our people and kill- ing us like dogs. You brothers in South Korea are presently being used to back upthe freak puppet dictator, Pak Jung Hi, who ts there to back up that freak fascist rat, Richard Mealymouth Nixon, who is oppressing all of us and is responsible for unspeaka- ble and countlesscrimos against the people, Even if you think you had best be cool until you're safe- ly home and out of the army It just may be too late, you may gethome just long enoughto catch some pig's bullets whose guns are aimed at everyone in the Black com- munity, particularly against young brothers Uke you. Our Black brothers are belng murdered left One young Oak Park resident reports officers were de- terminea to make Oak Park pay for the death of officer Bennett, who died four days after he had been shot. Inside the Department patrolmen cir- culated a petition which said that law enforcement in Oak Park was far more lax than the enforcement in other parts of the capital city, even though police cars sometimes crowd the streets of the small com- munity. Officers while not openly cri- ticising their chief, asked Dehner to take more ‘vigorous’ steps to improve law enforcement in Oak Park. It appeared officers were seeking a ligitimate way to exact a type of revenge upon the Oak Park community. Chief Dehner responded by saying that no double standard existed. He declared that the best possible job was already being done. He called for sup- port from the citizens and the city council, Residents of the Oak Park community and particularly the student population began to hold rallies and general com- munity support for aninnocent- until - proven -guilty policy by the police with regards to Oak Park, As one Black observer said almost prophetically “when they come for their scape goats they’ll take anyone they want.’" The Black community grew tense in light of the obviously political nature of the arrests. Residents and students immedi- ately formed the Oak Park Con- spiracy 7 Defense Fund. This group was established to ge- nerate funds for those arrested as wel] as to serve as a clearing house for legal infor- mation on how one should con- duct himself under questioning or when confronted with police and right in the streets of Babylon by racist pigs, and their being veterans or servicemen doesn't make one bit ofdifference. They'll kill you just as quick for being a nigger whether you went in the army, the Black Panther Par- ty, or whether you're just standing around trying to mind your own business, And everytime a Black man Is murdered In cold blood by those cowardly back shooting dogs, it ts invariably considered a case of justifiable homicide, Our Black communities are in a state of un- declared war against the exploita- tive system, and every brother Is viewed as a potential threat whe- ther he is plotting revolution or just trying to make it, You'd better start getting yourselves together now and prepare to deal with this monster atany moment, for time is preciors and he is planning our ge- nocide this very second, You don't have to wait until you get home to begin to fight, you can strike your first blow for freedom right where you stand because you stand there in chains of slavery, Plot your moves now sabotage from within until you get in a po- sition to destroy from without! We need you, your military skills your military equipment, and your courage for our own struggle. We need you to turn your guns against your true oppressors, Weneed you to get as much information and technique together to lay plans for our total liberation as a people, and we need you to begin right where you are, within the pigs ar- THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 1970 PAGE 13 ETTING FOR PROTEST door-to-door campaign to fa- miliarize the community with the case. They told residents why police rode four-to-a-car armed with shotguns and carbines. Committee workers labored long into the night making up leaflets and press releases. With its headquarters in the Oak Park School of Afro-American Thought, at 3545 Sacramento Blvd., the committee was right in the center of the commu- nity. They are continuing to work hard for the political prisoners held in Sacramento County Jail. Prisoners have been under extremely tight security. When court appearances were 5 each man was escorted by four officers. They were ‘trans- ported to and from court in a heavily guarded police van. Some local attorneys not in- volved in the case hinted that the police were in the process of conducting ‘‘rousing.’’ Rousing, a common practice in the Union of South Africa, involves a mass arrest with the purpose of trickling, intimida- ting or confusing one or more of the arrest victims into a self-incriminating act or state- ment, The long awaited ‘raid’ took place May 26. Sacramento police left the station that day and proceeded to arrest every Black militant they could find, Those arrested were Jef- fery Howell 17, of 3928 Ist Avenue; Dale McKinney, 20, of 2388 Glen Ellen Circle; Lamont (Buster) Rose, 21, of 2541 37th Street; Jack Stri- vers, 19, of 3552 6th Avenue; and Mark Anthony Teemer. They were charged with ‘‘con- spiracy to commit murder,’’ The conspiracy charge, in the my. Keep track of those bootlick- ing buck dancing handkerchief head officers, those are the ones the pigs are counting on to implement their fascist genocidal designs against Black people at home as their most vicious and faithful shackbullies, and those are the ones we'll have to destroy first, Unite with those brothers who agree with you, organize yourselves within, and proceed to educate more brothers to the reality of their rac- ist oppression and capitalist ex- Ploitation inside the U.S. Army, Establish a revolutionary network throughout the army with those brothers you know fromallover and back home as well, Defend those brothers being persecuted In the military courts and jafled inthe stockades for standing up against the army plg hierarchy, Organize educate, sabotage, and destroy! Make it Impossible for the US Army to function, This is not only in your power, it is your duty to your people who are fighting and dying and suffering for our libera- tion at home, In this way you can begin to assist the liberation of the Struggling people in Korea and in Asia as well as the brothers and sisters back home, instead of standing in the way of everyone's freedom , including your own, Every actof revolutionary cour- age that Black people display gene- rates a chain reaction--there is another, then another, then ano- ther. You can no longer struggle alone, everything you dotodestroy the machinery of our oppressors State of California, carries the same penalty as the felony of murder: The Gas Chamber. All those arrested were either political activists inthe Sacramento City College Black Student Union or former members of the Black Pan- ther Party. Police refused to release any information to the public or the press shortly after the arrests were made. | Defense for the seven is fender Kenneth M. Wells for Jack Strivers. Archibald M, and turn it to the service of the people brings the day offreedom one step closer for us all. Every action brings the day of our free- dom one step closer for us all. Every action contributes to the magnitude and power of our grow- fight for our liberation, we need you now, and we will continue to need you and thousands like you until our people are victorious, Start to fight now, and continue to fight when you get back home, by discharge or desertion. You can contact the Intercommunal! Section of the Black Panther Party for more information about the internal struggle within the army or on the liberation struggle at home at Bolte Postale 118, Grande Poste, Alger, Algeria. Don't wait another day, every second you delay causes more death and suffering to be perpe- trated against the revolutionary forces in the world, and every effort you make for freedom brings the U.S imperialists one hour closer to their ultimate and fi- nal doom, Join the world wide struggle against. US, fascism, racism, capitalism, colonial. sim, and imperialism! Fight on the side = ‘ibe Fi meee people for our true ra n your guns against your real enemy, destroy from within! SIEZE THE TIME! Kathleen Cleaver Communications Secretary Black Panther Party Pyongyang, Korea THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 1970 PAGE 14 THE FOUNDING Se OF THE ANTIJAPANESE GUERRILLA | ARMY AND THE INTENSIFICATION AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE BY KIM IL SUNG In the grimmest period of Japanese imperialist colonial rule, Comrade Kim It Sung, the respected and beloved Leader of the Korean people, brightly illumined the only right path for the Korean people in their struggle for the liberation of the nation and the inde- pendence of the country Comrade Kim I Sung set for the cor- rect line of developing the nationakliberation movement of the Korean people against Japanese imper- jalism into an armed struggle, its high- est form, on the basis of a scientific analysis of the historical lessons of the preceding anti-Japancse national-liberation movement of the Korean people and the political situa- tion in our country from the late 1920's to the carly 1930's. Since long ago the Korean people had incessantly waged, in various forms and methods, the struggle against the Japanese imperialist aggressors for na- tional independence and liberation The volunteers’ struggle, the inde- pendence army movement and the patriotic cultural and political move ment were waged around the time of the Japanese imperialists’ occupation of Korea, and the working-class move- ment, peasant movement and other anti-Japanese mass movements were unfolded extensively under the influ- ence of Marxism-Leinism in the 1920's All these struggles, imevs tably sustained failures because they were not waged in accordance with the scientific Marxist-Leninist strategy and tactics and because of the brutal supe pression by Japanese imperialism and of their own defects. Moreover, from the late 1920's to the carly 1930's the Japanese impcrial- ists, while making more frantic war preparations for their aggression of the continen:, intensified their fascist sup- pression of the Korean people more than ever and did not leave them even the least room for any lawful activities In this period the Japanese impcrial- ists stationed large armed forces per- manently in Korea and established more than 2,500 police and gendarme Organs in a bid to suppress all the patri- otic struggles of the Korean people by force, and they enacted various fascist evil laws to suppress the Korean people brutally. In the period from 1929 to 1931 alone the Japanese imperialists arrested and imprisoned more than 16,000 patrioticminded Koreans under the name of what they called “political of- fenders.” In the meantime, the Japanese im- perialists’ fascist policy of tyranny against the Korean people went side by side with an unheard of economic plunder, Keeping Korea as their food supplier and commodity market, the Japanese imperialists turned it into their supply base for an aggressive war on the con- tinent and left no stone unturned to plunder it of its manpower and mater- ial resources to the maximum. The intensified fascist suppression and plunder of the Korean people by the Japanese imperialists aggravated the national and class contradictions between the Japanese imperialists and the Korean people to the extreme. This led to the rapid acceleration of the violent advance of the workers and peasants from the late 1920's to the carly 1930's, among them the gencral strike of the Wonsan dockers, the riot of the workers of the Shinhung collicry and the riot of the Danchon peasants. But all these struggles, without ex- ception, ended in failure, because they were unfolded dispersedly without the unified leadership of the Communists and were not guided by correct strate- gy and tactics. Moreover, the Korean revolution could hardly be carried for ward nor coukd the Korean people be saved from a life-ordeath crisis by this method of struggle in the prevailing sit- uation in which Japanese imperiaust colonial rule of tyranny over the Korean people was strengthened as however never before The situation created in those days made it imperative to deal a decisive blow at the Japanese imperialist aggres- sors who were strengthening their ty- rannical policy against the Korean peo- ple and bent on preparing for a a new aggressive war, provide organisation ami purpose to the mounting violent Struggle of the workers and peasants and switch over to an active struggle for its further development The solution of this question pre- sented itself as the most serious and pressing task facing the Communists of our country in those days. It, however, was Very difficult to duly mect this re- quirement of the revolution under the prevailing situation It was at this time that Comrade Kim Il Sung brightly illumined the road for the Korean people to follow in their struggle and indicated the ways and means of strugglic As carly as at the age of 15, Comrade Kim tl Sung embarked upon the road of revolution independently and rallied the masses of revolutionary youths by forming the “Down-With-Imperialism Union,” an illegal revolutionary organi- zation, and carried out brilliant activi- ties in the vast areas of the country- side, Comrade Kim II Sung also mapped out the future course of the Korean revolutian and pushed ahead, in a far-sighted way, with preparations for armed struggle. On this basis, Comrade Kim I Sung laid down a new line, the line of un- folding under the banner of Marxism Leninism an organized armed struggle by a powerful standing armed force re- sting on the broad mass foundation, in conformity to the requirements of the prevailing revolutionary situation. The line of anti-Japanese armed struggle laid down by Comrade Kim I Sung was the only correct line for ad- vancing the revolution and expediting its victory under the obtaining situa- tion in which the fascist suppression by Japanese imperialism was intensified as never before and even the slightest pos- sibility of lawful activities obliterated The line of the anti-Japanese armed struggle set forth by Comrade Kim Il Sung was a revolutionary line, a line of Juche, which is a creative application of Marxism-Leninism to the specific conditions of our country. As is known to all, the armed strug- gle is the highest form of struggle in the nationalliberation movement. As in all the revolutionary move ments, the forms of struggle are varied in the nationallibcration movement, and they change according to subject- ive and objective conditions. But, of the forms of struggle in the nationakliberation movement, the most active and decisive form of politr cal struggle is the organized violcnt Struggle - the armed struggle, national liberation war. This is an inevitable conclusion deduced from the nature of the aggressive forces of imperialism Merely with peaceful demonstrations or strike struggles, namely non-violent forms of struggle, it is impossible to defeat the imperialist forces that are armed to the teeth In this connection, Comrade Kim Il Sung taught as follows: “Only by tak- ing Up arms can we scize power, With- out taking up arms we cannot attain power...In order to seize power we should wage an armed struggle; it is impossible (6 seize power by playing elections." This is all the more so, notably in the case of the nationabtiberation struggle against the ferocious colonialists. The allegation that the imperialist ag- gressors can be defeated by means of a peaceful struggic is nothing but a fool- ish pipe dream. When the working class stands in the van of the struggle against the aggress- ive forces of imperialism, the fascist colonialists in particular, and unfolds a thoroughgoing revolutionary struggic against imperialism and feudalism, the struggle will develop eventually into an armed struggic, the highest form of na- tional-liberation movement, The = nationalliberation struggle which fails to develop into an armed struggle even when the revolution sit- uation has been created, only means that the struggle is cither as much backward or has not yet reached a de- cisive stage. Having correctly grasped the revolu- tionary situation created in our country in the early 1920's, Comrade Kim Il Sung put forth the line of de- veloping the anti-Japanese nationalliberation movement of the Korean people against the most feroc- jous Japanese imperialist aggressors and of organizing and unfolding an armed struggle, the highest form of the nationabliberation movement in colon- ies, and eluctdated concrete ways of its execution. Firstly, Comrade Kim Li Sung taught that progressive elements of worker and peasant origin should be newly reared in the practical revolutionary struggle with the fine communist core as the backbone who had already been stecled and tested in the course of pre- paration for the formation of the antiJapanese guerilla army, and that an armed struggle should be unfolded with them as the main body Only by so doing was it possible to form an anti-Japanese armed force and strengthen and develop the armed struggle and ensure leadership for the revolutionary movement as a whole and its ultimate victory. Secondly, as for the form of armed Struggle against Japanese imperialism, Comrade Kim I Sung defined guerilla warfare as the basic one and said that the guerilla army should be founded for the prupose, Thirdly, Comrade Kim ll Sung, ad- vancing the question of building guer- illa base areas under the conditions in which the anti-Japanese armed struggle was to be unfolded in the form of guer- ila warfare, taught that the guerilla base area shoukl be set up in the mountainous and rural arcas along the Duman and Amnok rivers around Mt. Backdu, the borderlands between Korea and Manchuria which had both military and geographical advantages. Fourthly, Comrade Kim I Sung taught that the solid mass foundations must be laid to wage the armed strug- gle successfully, Particularly in view of the fact that the armed struggle assumed the form of guerilla warfare, it was a decisve guarantee of victory in the armed struggle to actively mobilize broad sec tions of the people to the struggle against Japanese imperialism by further strenthening the ties with them and make the masses support and encour- age the guerilla army in every way. Having set forth the correct line as mentioned above, Comrade Kim I] Sung lost no time to push ahead act- ively with the work of founding the anti-Japanese guerilla army. Comrade Kim Il Sung expanded var- tous revolutionary organisations includ- ing the revolutionary mass organisa- tions he had personally organised and led from the early years of his revolu- tionary activities, and united around them revolutionary masses numbering tens of thousands Under the wise leadership of Com- rade Kim 1) Sung, such semi-military PART 1 organizations as the Red Guards and Juvenile Vanguards were formed in an extensive way and they conducted vigorous activities to defend the revolu- tionary organizations and revolutionary masses against the assault of the Japan- ese imperialist aggressor army Under the leadership of Comrade Kim It Sung, the Communists carried on the work of founding the anti Japa- nese guerilla army closely in keeping with the revolutionary advance of the masses of the people and endeavoured to build up the military forces by rally- ing the sons and daughters of the pro- gressive workers and peasants tested in this course Meanwhile, a fierce struggle was also waged for the acquisition of weapons, one of the two major essentials of the armed force. It was really a difficult task. The Communists had to secure arms on their own through an arduous strug- gle under the circumstances in which the country had already been reduced to a complete colony of Japancse im- perialism and they had neither state power nor national army, and under the conditions in which they could not receive assistance in arms from any- where nor could they take over wea- pons from anyone The struggle for arms was joined ex- tensively by the Communists, and Communist Youth League mombers, Red Guards, Juvenile Vanguards, Women's Association members and even by the aged and children. The Communists earnestly explained to the masses the necessity of armed struggle against Japanese imperialism and the importance of tthe acqusition of arms and instilled into them a firmer convic- tion of victory, so Urat all of therm are mobilized as one and display bravery; boldness and creativeness in the strug- gle for arms. The following appeal affords an am- ple illustration of how energetically the revolutionary Organizations woused the masses to struggle for obtaining arms in those days “Proletarian youths bereft of father, mother, brothers and sisters! Let us turn out on the general front of the proletariat with set teeth and clenched fists in the adamantine fighting spirit, and take revenge on the enemy in the decisive battle!...Arms are our life and soul...Hot-blooded youths! Came out, putting on your shoes tightly! Equip yourselves with the line of arming. “Comrades! unite and get yourselves ready! Come all out to carry through the line of arming.” Methods were varied of the struerle for obtaining arms for the anti-Japanese guerilla army. Of these methods, the most funda- mental one was to capture the enemy's weapons to arm themselves. Under the slogan, “Arms are our life and soul!” the revolutionary masses fought on the principle of obtaining their weapons on their own by making surprise attacks on the Japanese im- perialist aggressor army, puppet Man- chukuo army, Japanese and puppet Manchukuo police, armed “self-defence corps,” and wicked pro-Japanese landlords and bureau- crats In this way, under the leadership of Comrad Kim Il Sung, the struggle for organizing the armedunits wascar- ried on in parallel with the strug- gle to acquire arms, On the basis of such preparations, Comrade Kim fl on April 2S, 1932 the ant Japanese guerilla army, the first Marxist-Leninist revolutionary armed force of the Kgrean people, with the fine young Communists as nuciei whom he had brought up from the car- ly years of his revolutionary activities. continued next week Elaine Brown and Andrew Truskier, ' members of the U.S. peoples Anti- impetia’ Delegation which travelled ; this summer to North Korea, North Vietnam, and China, recently spoke before a war crimes tribunal held on the University of California campus They reported on U.S. imperialist war ctimes in Asia and on the revolutionary socictics that the US aggressors arc trying to destroy, Andy Truskier (Red Family): Some of you have been reading reports of atrocities being committed in Victnam by U.S.-mass murders such as My Lai, the torture of prisoners, and the use of diabolical new weapons such as na- palm. And you've heard a lot about the commitment of war crimes What is a war crime? Legally, a war crime is an act of war which involves the violation of international law. The fact that there are such things as in- ternational agreements on war indi- cates that all governments, even the imperial powers, have at least paid lip-service to basic moral values. Scan exposure of war crimes can be very ef- fective-For example, fascism was so dis- credited an ideology after the end of the second world war and after the Tokyo and Nuremberg Military Tri- bunals, that today almost none of the neo-fascists are willing to publically proclaim this ideology The U.S. in Indo-China has com- mitted war crimes by violating inter- national agreements that stretch back to af least 1900, Some of the outstand- ing ones are the 1907 Hague Conven- tion, which banned several kinds of new weapons, the 1925 Geneva pro- tocol banning chemical warfare, tho 4948 Convention on Genocide which is binding on most of the countries of the world except the US. Also the Princi- pals of the UN Charter adopted in 1949, which cefines war as an act of aggression; and in the case of Vietnam the Geneva Accord which promised... Vietnam an election in two years. Probably most important are the Principals of the 1946 Nuremberg Mili- tary Tribunal and the Tokyo Military Tribunal which were largely organized and prosecuted by the US. The US gov- ernment really put itself out on a limb in organizing these Tribunals. Justice Robert Jackson, who was the chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, stated that if an act is a crime, it is a crime whether Germany committed it or the US com- mitted it. And "We are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others that we would not be willing to have enforced against us", he said the principles of the Nuremberg Tribunals define three types of war crimes: the first is called “crimes against the peace,” which is the plan - niry or preparation of waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties and agreements. Second are “war crimes” which include | murder, ill-treatment or deportation of civilian populations, murder or ill- +treatment of prisoncrs of war, killing of hostages, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or destruction not justified by military necessity. The third category is called “crimes against humanity”. Murder, discrimination, en- slavement, deportation, and other in- human acts done against any civilian populations, or persecution on poli- tical, racial, or religious grounds, when ‘Sich acts are done in connection with “any crimes against peace or any war crimes. The Principles of Nuremberg : are very specific about assigning guilt to individual war criminals. Principle Four states that a person is not relieved of responsibility under international law because they acted on the orders of their Government or superior. Presi- dent Roosevelt was very explicit when he called on the German people to “renounce the crimes of their ruler. He “Hitler is committing these crimes humanity in the name of the German people. | ask every German every person under Nazi domina- | to show the world that he does In these insane criminal de 1ask them also to keep watch record the evidence that one | be used to convict the guilty.” PERLE ast a. . t wi Now the US itself is engaged in war crimes. In fact, war crimes have been a constant feature of US involvement in Asia. For 25 years, the US has cither directly or indirectly been siding against people's wars and mass based popular liberation or revolutionary movements in Asia. Between “45 and “49 the US supplied and supported the Chinese Nationalists against the Chinese Communists in the Chinese Cwil War. In 1950-1953 the US was directly involved in the brutal Korean War, which sought to maintain a fascist and unpopular regime in South Korea and to roll back the sea of revolution- ary forces in the north. Already at that time the US was getting involved in Victnam and Indo-China; in the last years of the French-Indo-Chi~ ssc war (which ended in the defeat of the French forces in Dien Bien Phu in 1954). The US carried 80% of the cost of the war for the French. After the French defeat, the US was instrument- al in creating a fascist government in South Vietnam similar to the one that was installed in South Korea. Since 1959, the US has been fighting directly against the Victnamese. Since 1960 it has also fought an insurgent war in Laos, Cambodia and waged war against North Vietnam. Out of 1.3 million US troops stationed overseas, | million of them are now in Asia The fact that when an imperial power tries to invade a country and the whole people of that country fight back, there is a certain inherent logic and development to that war. For one thing, an imperial power has a very high level of technology, whereas a people's army has a relative ly low level of technology. The US is using incredible firepower in Indo-China; the fire-power of the NLF is Only a few percent of that of the US In the Korean war the US expended 10,000 bullets for every wound or death to a North Korean soldier or a Chinese volunteer. A people's war is inherently a defens- fve war and a popular war. It is the mobilization of an entire population in a fight for liberety and independence, struggle where revolutionary gains have already been made. The participants of the people’s war are fighting for a cause that they understand well, and they are very effective, The US soldicrs say they wish the South Vietnamese troops could fight as well as the Vict Cong. And MacArthur stated that he'd never run across better soldicrs than the North Korean soldiers during the Korean war. Historically, we can also see that is very difficult for an imperial power to defeat a people's war; the US is experiencing continual failure in at- tempting to do this in Vietnam. How- ever, there is an alternative for an im- perial power, If an entire people are unified against it, it can institute a genocidal policy against the people asa whole. The answer to a people's war is to remove the people. And this is ex- actly what the US has been attempting to do in Indo-China. This basic strategy in South Victnam which goes back a ‘ pee — we - .* ale een ae more than 10 years, has meant either taking the niral population and forcing it into concentration camps (which they call “strategic hamicts™ and “new-life hamlets") or forcing it into the cities, (they call this “urbaniza- tion”) and at the same time deliberate ly destroying the countryside, so that no one can live there It’s hard even to begin to imagine what this sort of policy has meant tn practice. It’s impossible even to list all the types of crimes that have been committed. The Bertrand Russel Tn bunal ran many months and inter- viewed hundreds of witnesses and even they weren't able to list and document all of the crimes. The types of crimes that we want to talk about fall into several categories, all of which have been covered by international laws. The first weapon [| want to talk about is herbicides and poison gases Since 1961 the US figures themselves, 5 million acres, or 12% of the total land area of South Vietnam, have been subjected to defoliation. And at least one-half million acres of this total, and quite probably more than that, involve the destruction of food crops, which the US refers to as “food-denial pro- grams”. The chemicals that are used have been used in other countries as herbicides. In Vietnam they're used in undiluted form in concentrations ten times or more than that used on any kind of crop. In 1968 it was discovered that the chemical 245-B can cause mis- catriages and fetal deformities similar to those caused by Thalidomide. The provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam reported a sharp in- crease in miscarriages and deformities. CS gas and CN gas have been used in Vietnam since 1962, About 60,000 tons have been used that is enough to provide a battlefield concentration of tear gas over a land areca twice the size of South Victnam. Also, gases have been combined with other weapons in a genocidal way. For example, tunnels and airraid shelters are gassed to drive people out into the open where they can then be bombed and napalmed and shot Both napalm .and anti-personnel bombs have been used in huge quan- tities in both North and South Vict- nam, Napalm is probably one of the most diabolical weapons that’s ever been devised. Before its use in Indo-China’ it was very widely used in Korea. Napalm is basically jellied gaso- line, designed to stick to human skin and burn with a very intense Mame, It comes in 50 or 100 gallon containers, and when it hits the ground, it pro- duces a very fast-moving blob of Name which can go up to 100 yards or more in length. Being burned by napalm is much much worse than just being burned, because when napalm lands on the skin, it burns four to IS minutes When we were in Hanoi we met a 25-year old man who had been napalmed about a year and a half ago in February 1969. On that day, he was going to work, carly in the morning, THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 1970 PAGE15 ™ AINE BROWN AND ANDREW TRUSKIER, MEMBERS OF THE S. PEOPLE’S ANTI-IMPERIALIST DELEGATION, aN i AS Fs with two other members of his work team, and an American plane appeared This was after the bombing halt in February 1969. The American plane suddenly veered and dropped a can- ister=they later discovered that the cannister landed about 65 yards from where he was, He was covered with flames and lost consciousness and woke up in the hospital For the past year and «@ half he's required very ex- tensive skin grafts. At first his right arm was fused to his body, and his mouth had melted and formed into a tiny opening. He also lost his sight in one eye. After a number of surgical op- erations, his arm is still paralyzed, and he still looks very deformed, but there has been quite an improvement. He says he still feels great pain when the weather changes a little bit. Napalm causes this kind of damage, that re- quires very sophisticated surgery and skin-grafting techniques. Another category of weapons antl personne! pellet bombs-are designed to drain the resources of the Vietnamese by causing wounding and maiming rather than death. They were first used on an experimental basis in Korea. | have a sample here of one of the more recent types. This is called a guava bomb. You can see it’s just a tiny little thing, except that there are thousands of these in a large cannister that’s called the “mother bomb". Each of these guavas is made up of two halves of cast metal, and cast into the metal are about 350 littl .22 caliber pelicts. The whole thing is filled with high ex- plosives. When the guava bombs hit the ground they explode; the pellets go flying in every direction, and cause very serious wounds in a 40 feet radius. Just one plane can cover an area of about one half mile square. It com pletely fills that area with a hail of these pellets Because there is neither time nor facilities for X-rays, a cluster bomb victim hit in the stomach will simply be split from the top of the stomach to the bottom and the con- tents of the stomach are emptied out on the table and fingered through for fragments ..and when the sorting is done, the entrails are replaced and the stomach is sewed back up. More recently-this year~-the US has developed cven more efficient anti-personnel weapons that go beyond this type of bomb. Instead of being loaded with these little pellets, they're loaded with what looks kind of like a little nail an inch and a half long, with fins on one end of it so it will en ina straight line. They are more eficctive because when they penetrate the body the victim finds it very difficult to move because as he moves he feels the instrument inside him work its way deeper Another weapon shown to us in Hanoi is called a bat-wing mine. This is 4 little plastic thing, about the size of a lange leaf, in fact it is designed to look like leaf. It's designed to look like part of the surroundings, to blend in with the vegetation, except that the bottom part is filled with small powder charges, and if you step on it it will blow your foot or your leg off, or in the case of a small child, it will kill the child. These have been dropped over both North and South Vietnam by the hundreds of thousands. They even have some that are designed to look like cigarette packages or little toys so that children will pick them up. All these types of weapons are de- signed not to kill but to wound and maim, the reasoning being that it takes more people in the society, it takes up more of the resources to take care of the wounded person than it would if the person had been killed. That's the kind of reasoning that goes into these weapons. The next crime is the wanton de- struction of cities, towns, and villages. First of all, this has been carried out by massive bombing against the civilian population. The scale of the bombing is almost unimaginable. During the four years of the air war in North Vietnam, the US dropped closed to one million tons of bombs..a million tons of bombs is twice the total tonnage of bombs that was dropped in the second world war by the US against the Japanese, and this includes the Hiroshima and Nagaskai atom bombs. In South Vietnam the bombing has been even heavier-much heavier, and it's been intensified after the bombing halt in the North. Another form of wanton destruc tion, which is also a part of the “food-denial program”, is the systema- tic destruction of dikes and dams in North Victnam. In addition to foods, which kill many people and destroy the homes of many more, destruction of the rice crop causes starvation. The so-called strategic hamlets into which thousands of Vietnamese have been herded, are really concentration camps, surrounded by rows of barbed wire, with guard houses and guarded gates manned at all times. The people must be inside by 6 p.m. and recently the names-and sometimes the photo- graphs-of all family members inside must be posted for identification. The living standard of these camps is itself a war crime. An Army Infuntry- man has stated “From what I could see of these people, they looked like they were starving, Shortly after we got there I was on a work detail to dump some garbage, and as soon as we dumped it, the citizens...literally jumped into this hole full of garbage and fought like animals for this garbage. They also had to be in the re- fugee camps at certain time, and if they showed wp outside the South Vietnam perimeter they were liable to be shot as Viet Cong.” Another war crime is the murder of civilians. Of course, the most) publi- cized case/ was the massacte of $00 un- armed civilians at My Laj in March of 1968, This was not an isolated. inci- dent, the NLP news agency has published many such accounts. This kind of massacre also occurred during continued on next Lage THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14,1970 PAGE 16 U.S. IMPERIALIST WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL AT UNIV. OF CAL. continued from last page the Korean war. In Korea, we visited a place called Sinchon, where several massacres took place. In one case, over 300 women and children were driven into a large air-rakt shelter, gasoline was poured through the air vents, and they were burned alive. On the walls of the shelter are scratch marks where people clawed with their fingernails, trying to get away from the heat. The Koregns said that they kept uncovering mass graves until 1958, five years after the war ended. Another crime practiced by the Americans and by the puppet army of South Victnam, is the murder and ill- treatment of prisoners of war. Pri- soners are usually interrogated immedi ately after capture. One interrogation method is the use of electricity. Elec trodes from a hand-cranked telephone are attached to the fingertips of the prisoner. The phone is then cranked up and electricity is produced. One soldier referred to this as the “Bell Tele phone Hour”. Elaine Brown: (Deputy Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party): Eldridge Cleaver said that the only thing standing between U.S. imperialist war c the people and paradise is the pigs. And we've got to realize that right now the mighty technology of the US em- pire is raping the world and keeping the people from Paradise So we should be shocked when we hear about these things. When the Anti-Imperialist Delegation artived in Korea, in Vietnam, in China, we were outraged, because we had never really known what it was like to live in a human socicty, to be surrounded by human beings, to be accepted by the people as human beings. And we were outraged that people like Nixon, like Mitche! and like Pat Nixon, stand in the way of our having the same thing the pdople have in these socialist countrics. And maybe when you hear about the things we saw and felt in these countrics, some of this outrage will go out to you, and you can begin to relate the war in Vietnam to what is happening here in the U.S. Then you won't be surprised when Nixon pro- mises to withdraw the troops and turns around and invades Cambodia. Thut shouldn't surprise anybody. That's how Nixon has been responding all along. I'm going to tell you about the kind of society we saw so that you'll have an idea of what you can have. And we can eliminate the things standing between ourselves and a human and de- cent society. We should feel a kind of particular outrage for Richard Nixon's ability to continue to sit in the White House and have the unmitigated gall to show his face before the people, to so much as speak a word, when he has perpetrated crimes for which there are no words The kinds of things that he is putting down on the people through- out the world are really unbelicvable When we arrived in Pyongyang, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, we were met by young girls who gave us flowers and greeted us, "You're the People’s saying, Anti-Imperialist Delegation And from that moment on there was a transformation in all of our attitudes, even toward each other. Martin Luther King said that he had been to the top of the mountain, We've been to the other side of the mountain, Pyongyang is a very beautiful city, very bright and very clean, with elec tricity and all the modem conven- iences. But the thing we noticed most was the human kindness, the fine res ponse that people have to cach other A lot of books have been written, like Lord of the Flies, trying to prove that it’s human nature to be greedy and not able to overcome personality problems. But in Korea we saw the reality of peo ple responding to cach other coopera - tively We went out into the countryside and began to sce how people can live together, We went to cooperative farms where 7,000 people live and work to- gether. And that doesn’t mean that they all wash their clothes in the same bowl. People fix up their homes any way they like. But they live on cooper- ative farms, and everyone who is able to, works. And everyone receives the food, clothing, medical care, and so on, that he needs. For cxampie, every working woman receives 77 days of maternity leave, These human things, automatic for every single person in this society, are the very things that people in our society struggle for yimes in South Korea, In our society people go to school and do the things they do because they want to have a place to live, some kind of position, food, maybe a car, what ever things they need, of think they need, to survive. But when a Korean baby grows up he knows that he will have a place to live, food to eat, cloth ing, and medical care. All these things are atitormatically taken care of for everyone of the Korean people. That is, everyone of the Korcan people north of the 38th parallel These people fought the Japanese for 1S years and then turned around and had to fight Sam. And then Sam wants to talk about observer teams and dé vides the country at the 38th parallel and sets up a fool like Pak Jung Hi as President of the South. He sits up there in Seoul and can't move a toc own capital uniess Sam tells him what to do. And this fool is the only thing standing between the Korean people and the reunification of their country- -but of course, he's got Sam's backing And every once in a while Agnew runs over there and pats him on the head and tells him we've brought more troops. And Pak gets to crying and carrying on and Agnew says, well, it’s alright, Jung, look at the Japanese And Pak Jung Hi and Richard Nixon are all that’s keeping the Korean peo- ple from having one unified country We went down to the border and saw the MP’s-they look just like something out of the Berkeley Pig Department in their riot gear. They had the same kind of uniforms-they just said MP instead of BPD. And what werethey doing over there? They were standing right in the middle of the country, talking about protecting the rights of the people Well, the people in the South are stars ing. And you can't get away by cross ing from South to Northe-there families that have been separated for 15 years In North Korea, the people say they have nothing to envy anybody in the world. They getting everything they need, while just a few miles away, in the South, people who speak the same language are starving The most important thing that we warited to bring back and to tell people about is how beautifully the people in his are are live together. The Koreans have begun to solve the problem that has plagued man throughout history-—they have cli- minated antagonistic contradictions among themselves by living together as human beings. They have food, shelter, clothing, all the things they need. And more-the Korean people say that they are looking forward to freeing man from arduous labor. In a completely human society, to free man from ar duous labor means to see to it that everyone has the ability to enjoy every- thing out of life. They want to advance the technology so that the people can enjoy its benefits, and won't have to work. The Koreans are one people, and the South Koreans want to become a part of that. And it’s the US pig, along with Pak Jung Hi who is keeping them from it, by constantly stepping up oppress- jon and fascism, just as they're doing here. The Koreans expect the US to launch a full-scale attack on their peo- ple af any minute. And when it happens, they're prepared to deal with it. They took a stand before and they'll do it again, when the US comes mess- -_- - ss or a _ > ing around in their territorial waters, or their air or land. But most of all, the Koreans want to reunify their land and their people From Korea we went to Hanoi. It's a very hard thing to define the situation in North Victnam. The Vietnamese people have been fighting for so long- fighting the Japanese, fighting the French, and always secing the US gov ernment behind everything, secing the people killed, the land deforested, the (eer rr errr THEY EVEN HAVE A BOMB DESIGNED TO LOOK LIKE TOYS SO THAT LITTLE CHILD- REN WILL PICK THEM Z ‘ a Anti-Imperialist Delegation from U.S.A. in the D.P.R.K country destroyed. We asked them . about US pilots who are prisoners of war, and they told us, “we feed the pilots better than we feed our own guerrillas. The reason is not that we have more respect for them-it's a favor to their way of living.” Now these pilots--arrogant fools with AD | bombs-coukl survive on a rice dict. But because the Victnamese people have not lost touch with their humani- ty, they do this “favor to their way of living” The Victnamese people are unbe- lievably far ahead of anything we can } undertstand—they’re on the other side of the mountain. It’s also unbelievable that the war is still going on, and that we, we should be so naive as to try to convince Nixon that he must withdraw the troops. Those people are human and while they're slaughtered by hundreds of real beings being the «+ thousands we're sitting here saying to oursclvc’, what a bore, hearing war crime figures. Well, I'm bored too. I'm bored with hearing that there's a way to move Nixon and the whole clique-the whole mob, the whole bunch, the whole gang-Hoover, Mitchell, all of them. All those dogs that have closed their own cyes are slaughtering the Vietnamese people, who are human beyond belief. There is a way to deal with that-but it's not marching in the streets and telling Nixon to move, because Nixon's not going to listen to that. He didn’t listen to it before, he invaded Cambodia in- sicad. Who did that? We all did that-we said get out of Vietnam now, And Nixon said, well, I'm thinking about that And he did—he moved some of the troops out of Vietnam and into Cambodia, And he’s bombing Laos 24 hours every day now The only thing that can stop the war in Vietnam, the only thing that can help to unify the Korean Fatherland, the only thing that can deal with the situation here at home, is for us-those people who are concerned about the conditions of mankind-to begin to move nght here In 1969 the Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party, David Hilliard, stood up in Golden Gate Park and said that we would kill Nixon, we would kill anyone who stood in the way of our freedom-and there were people there who booed. Now that was shock- ing to me. The Vietnamese people are saying the same thing. And if we're concerned with the Vietnamese people, if we really want them to have peace in their land and the chance to develop in the sume way the Korean people have; if we want to sce people throughout the world unite as one world com- munity, one group of human beings; then we've got to move away from na- tional tics to become one work! peo- ple. If we are really interested in these things, then we can't sit around booing people who say they want to off Richard Nixon, People are dying over there, motto mention what's going on right tere in the US, And we are ino position, right here, to deal a blow to bring the whole thing down We are in a key position, and the Vietnamese people and the Korean people and all the people struggling for their own survival and towards their own freedom and liberty and revolu- onary change recognize it, and have faith in the American peopk who are opposed to the war. These people know that they oan never have peace in their own lands while the US exists in its current form. We are just not aware, as they are, of the importance of our own role in history. I won't say much about China, ex- cept that it’s a very powerful country, where human beings respond to cach other as human beings for the first time in history, But whether or not you believe the things we've said, or even respond to them, | would like to say that there are 780 million Chinese people united around the thoughts of Chairman Mao Tse Tung; and together with the 40 million Korean people, and the Vietnamese people, and the Cam- bodians, and the Laotians, that’s over a quarter of the world’s population ready to deal with Sam at any time. And that quarter of the world’s popu- lation sends you the messages Our hope rests with the American people because we know we can't deal with this crap unless there are people fight ing with us from within. So one quarter of the world is look- ing to the American people, because without our struggle here there's no possible way they can begin to have a real peace in the corners, the com munities, the countries of the world. It's time now to link all this up in our minds and say, well is it the Viet- namese war, or is it Nixon? And is it Nixon, or what Nixon represents? Is it what Nixon represents, or is it capitalism? We say it's capitalism, and we say that capitalism is a vicious system and that it has caused racism and all kinds of madness within this country to rape the people of the world We are in a key position, a position to stop the war in Vietnam, to reunify the Korcan fatherland, to return the province of Taiwan to the Chinese peo- ple. But being in the position is not good enough, because Chairman Mao's got 780 million behind him, ready to deal with Sam if he attacks them, and they know that Sam attacks people with hydrogen bombs. And they've got them too-they could send one over here to Los Angeles or San Francisco or to New York. That's the reality of the situation. Time is running out. So even if you don’t understand or respond in any human way, even if you say, Yes, we've heard about war crimes before, understand that there's one quarter of the world’s population in Asia alone with its guns and everything else it's got traincd on Sam, waiting and watching him messing with the people. And they're also waiting for the American people to start feeling again, realistically and sensibly. It's important for you not to leave here saying, yes, we've heard about war crimes. You didn’t come here to hear the news that people are being killed. You have to understand that it isn’t just one thing, it isn't just what's happening to Black people here in the US it's what's happening to most of the world’s people, And keep in mind that we're in a position to deal a fine blow to Nixon, Nixon’s wife, Nixon's children, Agnew, anybody who's following Nixon, anybody who's mess ing over the people of Uie world. And remember too that the people of the world includes ut-wo're \not part of this systers. Unless you're 2 pig, you came bere because you objéct fo cer tain things in the system already, And you'll have to deal with it on that fevel, Eldridge Cleaver said it-The only thing standing between the people and Paradise is the pigs THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 1970 PAGE 17 - On the momentous occasion of the Fifth Congress of the Worker’s Party of Korea, the vanguard of the Korean Revolution, the Black Panther Party extends our fraternal congratulations and full fledged solidarity tothe Korean people under the wise leadership of Comrade Kim 11 Sung. Revolutionaries around the world are united by the firm bonds of love, struggle, and bloodshed in their heroic struggle against world-wide imperial- ism, especially U.S, imperialism. The revolutionary and progressive people in the United States have a profound respect for the Korean people, for it is they who initiated the downfall of the U.S, imperialist aggressors in the 20th century by defeating them on the battlefield in 1953, The heroic Korean people, under the leadership of Marshall Kim Ul Sung, have fulfilled their highest re- volutionary duty towards the liberation of all oppressed and exploited people by dealing a death-blow to Japanese and U,S. imperialism in their own land, weakening the chains of servi- tude that bind the people of the whole world and by continuing to wage a - valiant, unrelenting struggle to com- pletely destroy the U.S. imperialist aggressors and their stooges, The Korean people extend to all freedom fighters and revolutionaries, their moral, material and political support in their just struggles to gain libera- tion, self - determination, intercom- munalism and peace, The Black Panther Party recognizes _ the communality of the struggle of Black people in the U.S. to free them- selves from the racist, fascist, colon- ization of the U.S, imperialists and the Struggle of the South Korean community to liberate itself from the same dicta- torial, military, political, economic, and social apparatus created by the U.S. imperialist aggressors, The ar- duous struggle lying ahead for the people of South Korea to liberate them- TO THE FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE WORKER’S PARTY OF KOREA selves from the domination of the U.S, imperialist aggressors is sure to be victorious, for the indominatable power of the people, firmly united by the correct ideology around a great leader, will always defeat the cowardly decadent system of imperialism and fascism, The forthcoming unification of the painfully divided Korean community into one community is a key struggle in the world-wide war against im- peri alism, especially U.S, imperial- ism, The Black Panther Party pledges: our full support in all efforts of the Korean people to carry out their su- preme revolutionary task of unifying their community without any outside interference, As the U.S. imperialists face their final and ultimate defeat, the wrath of the armed people in South Korea will escalate the inevitable des- truction of U.S, imperialism and further consolidate the strength of the world- wide revolutionary struggle for libera- tion, self-determinatton and intercom- munalism, and peace for all peoples, We fully recognize the struggle to de- feat the U,S, imperialists as one universal crusade and we are honored to make common cause with our com- rades-in-arms in Korea, Under the leadershipof Premier Kim Il Sung and the Korean Worker’s Party, the people of North Korea have achieved fantastic successes in defeating colonialism, fascism, imperialism, capitalism, poverty unemployment, il- literacy, and all forms of human de- gredation, In their marvelous efforts to construct a human society capable of becoming man’s paradise, toharness technology and science into servants of mankind, the Korean people have made lightening fast progress and set an outstanding example for the oppressed and struggling people of the world, By applying the Marxist-Leninist ideology to the realities of Korea and establishing Juche in the social, cultural, political, economic, and mi- UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF PREMIER KIM IL SUNG AND THE FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE WORKERS PARTY OF KOREA, THE PEOPLE IN NORTH KOREA HAVE ACHIEVED FANTASTIC SUC CESS, SL ————_——ESS EEE ESSE OEE litary domain, the Korean people have institutionalized the indominatable re- volutionary spirit throughout their land making them prepared to defend and guarantee all the successes they have achieved, The celebration of their revolution- ary advances and re-dedicationto their revolutionary tasks by the Korean people at the historic Fifth Congress of the Worker’s Party is a joyous occasion for fighting peoples around the world, The Black Panther Party salutes Comrade Kim Il Sung and the Korean people as shining heroes and valiant fighters in the cause of world- wide fraternity, peace, and solidarity, We are fighting the same enemy, we Share the same _ goals, and we re- cognize our ultimate victory as one communal success, We haye no doubt that the Fifth Congress of the Korean Worker’s Party will bring forth new light, success, and brilliant analysis useful to the people of the whole world, We wish great success to you in your work, LONG LIVE A UNIFIED KOREA! LONG LIVE THE KOREAN WORKER’S PARTY! . LONG LIVE THE GREAT LEADER OF THE 40 MILLION KOREAN PEOPLE, COMRADE KIM IL SUNG! Black Panther Party U.S.A, RALLY FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS ___ A coalition of women’s groups is _ -Sponsering a rally at | P.M. on Sat- ‘Urday, December 12th, at the Ala- ‘meda County Courthouse. _ The focus of the rally will be on political prisoners, male and fe- “Male; the oppressive and Segrading ilo of prisoners in this researched, and toward liberation, Speakers ; @ discussion of political Cry toners, Ericka Huggins, Bobby Los Siete Defense Committee, a = pg = » Angela Davis, the ‘Soledad former woman prisoner, Fay Sten- Black Community News : Brothers, and the Panther 21; and der a el 2 fon Se Soledad § Service was created to [.StATEZIP¢ COUNTRY he growing repression ofthe revo- Brothers arol Kurtz,are- 9. PLEASE MAIL Honary ayer presentative of the Coalition and PPresent factual, reliable Ga ncnay Olaan tO: ere rb yy oh re This rally has been conceived, organized by women of Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, and Palo Alto as part of an effort to Involve all women in the collective struggle include Mathews a member of the Black Panther Party, Donna James of member of the Red Family. Huey would say,“a newspaper 2s the vowe of a party, the voice of the Panther must be heard throughout the land.” ra We found we as citizens of this country were being kept duped by the govern- ment and kept misinformed by the mass media, The Black Panther Party Connie information tothe people, Enter my subsctiption for (check box): 3 MONTHS: (13 ISSUES)... ......... O $2.50 L) $9.00 6 MONTHS: (26 ISSUES)... ......... O $5.00 _ $12.00 ONE YEAR: (52 ISSUES) ..........-. © $7.50 35.00 (please print) NAME ADDRESS __ Foreign Subscriptions THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14,1970 PAGE 18 CFF RS fff EA Lf ff ff I I I I IIL | OD | | | NEO fF PF SELL Stitt 44242 L425 SELL SLL SD ff Lf ET SL Sr ere LS SS LL | ET LS Sf GS LL ff EE ff Lf ES ff ff ET LL LS ee LL ST PS a ae FSS ET October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER OF DEFENSE, What We Want What We Believe I. We want freedum. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community We believe that black peop!e will not be free until we are able to deter mine our destiny 2. We want full employ ment for our people We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every mun employment or a guaranteed income We believe that i the white Amer then the means of produchon should be taken from the businessmen and placed in ol the ian usiiessmen will not give full employment the community so that the poople cCODUMUDITY Can organize and em plox all uf its pe ople and ive a high standard of living SLL EE | SL SS | ff CE LL LL CE | L | LE LL LS LL LL! | LL, LL LS LE ! SS LE! LE! RE FL iF 3. We want an end fo the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of. forty acres and two mules, Forty acres and two mules was promised 100-years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Ger- mans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest 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 our 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 to our people a knowl- 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 believe that Black people.should not be forced to fight in the mifi- tary 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 victimized 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 self-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 thefefore believe 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. black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial! 5. 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 30 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 a 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 man” 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 alter 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 happiness. Pru- dence. indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient 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 forms to which they are accustomed, But. when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pur- suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism. it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern- ment, and to provide new guards for their future security. Oe el en Ee eee + THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY DECEMBER 14, 1970 PAGE 19-— ALL SEASONS Salinas G-ENDRYe ALSO POSTERS 10¢ ea. 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