Vol. 5, No. 26

FIDO SSS Pe eee GGG GH HHO SHG Gardedeaeaeadeatoat THE BLACK PANTHER Black Community News Service 25 cents VOL, V NO, 26 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1970 THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY ‘“ixvetrotvrs PUBLISHED WEEKLY nD =u = ARMIN nt 4) f he SLEEP E SOOO SPOS ESOS SEIS H ESO SSS SOOO Panaracer --:-5-0055-000055058805 oho sie eSe ete aio eho ete of % es y7 DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS Poe sere eee Se eS hee ati aoato tie aioe te te dole ato ato ae abe etoateateatoatet ba THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1970 PAGE 2 ULTRA- FASCIST DOLL : It is no longer a secret that the U.S, big power structure is the perpetrator of a male dominating, double-standard, male chauvinist society, That is, that in the United States Empire a woman can be like a good scotch, she can be a good cook, a good mother and wife, etc., but never ahu- man being who shares equal partnership in ~ life with men. And all the discussions on ~ black queens have not made black women © feel any differently about being oppressed, © not only at the level of the other women in this society, but also because they are poor and black. Oakland Pig Academy shuffled out of its graduation exercise Miss Saundra Brown-- a 23-year old, Afro-coiffed, black all-Am- erican female, This black woman will be doing what all her white racist and black lackey male pig counterparts do--viding through the streets, brutalizing and killing members ofour community. she, like them, has been trained to do this. This ultva-fascist doll entered the Oak- nf land Pig Academy after graduating from Fresno State College as a sociology major. Now that she has become a model pig (with the blessings of Oakland Pig Chief Gain, who c & But there is one area where a black says he wants to ‘use her in a variety of woman, and certainly other women, do not experimental positions’.), Saundra is a ~ witness any semblance of male chauvinism: ‘happy darkie’; I’m a native of Oakland.,..I ; No pig ever hesitated putting his stick toa woman’s head or blowing her brains out be- know the problems of the young here, I feel in a city like Oakland, with its Black Pan- 7 < [ cause she was a woman. And black women thers and militant groups, thereis a special 1 ae ‘always been brutalized by pigs ona need for minority police officers.’ But be- u completely equal footing with men, re- cause she is ‘black and proud’, does she ex- , ceiving equal harassment under the law. ULTRA - FASCIST, SAUNDRA pect admiring glances while she beats or : Ericka Huggins is a prime example of how BROWN OF THE OAKLAND PIG murders our people, particularly our Youth : impartial the pigs can be toa black woman , in whom she is so interested ? . in meteing out injustice and brutality, And DEPARTMENT IS INSTRUCTED Well the people are not proudofher. But ; another case is Angela Davis. BY FELLOW FASCIST, IN HOW they will beproudtoremoveher. Andinthe = And now, asa response to the People’s outrage over Ericka and Angela, and trying to throw afew crumbs to the Women’s ywURDER PEOPLE OF THE BLACK Liberation Movement, the Oakland Pig Dep- artment decided to bring Shindana Toys’ Baby Nancy Nigger Doll to life and put a .357 inher hand, On December I8th the TO BRUTALIZE, TERRORIZE AND COMMUNITY OF OAKLAND, PIG SLUMLORD EVICTS BERTHA AND JAY SANDERS AND ELEVEN CHILDREN On Tuesday, December 15, 1970 The Sanders family received a 72 hour notice of eviction from their seyen-room house at 17 Tecumseh Avenue, Mount Vernone, N.Y, The Sanders, who receive sup- plementary assistance from the local oppressive welfare depart- ment, are just another example of a poor Black family struggling to survive on the meager allotments given to them by the oppressive forces of this community or any other community. Not only doesn't the welfare department give our people enough to live on - but, itis also in cahoots with the greedy avaricious slumlords. The eviction itself came as a direct result of a caseworker having vistited the Sanders, and inturn, complained to the pig building department that *tover -crowding'’ existed there. When in essence, Black people have over-crowded for over 400 years all of a sudden it becomes 4 violation in the Black community to be “over-crowded,"’ Edward Leavy, the Sanders’ at- rorney from the Mount Vernon branch of the Jegal aid society, wrote a letter to the pig urban (nigger removal) agency, the pig building department, demagogic Rep. Ogden Reid, Pig Mayor August P, Petrillo, and the oppressive de- partment of social services, ask- ing for help in staying an evic- tion notice and seeking 4 home for the Sanders family. Pig Mayor Pe- trillo offered his help; but, sald that nothing could be done about the eviction. kt happens to be com~ mon knowledge in and around the South side Black community that pig Mayor Petrillo is a ‘‘puppet”’ for greedy slumlords. The Sanders have been told thar they could move to52 PeariStreet. Mrs, Sanders said that she didn’t like that location. ‘*It's right atthe edge of the street at the rall- road tracks’’, she said, ‘It's no- where for children to be.’ She also says the house has a leaking toilet, a weakened floor, broken windows, and staircase rallings and ‘‘It's filthy from top to bot- tom,"* Mrs, Sanders has said that the home that she now lives in is large enough. Two other possibili- ties of houses were lost due to the negligence on the part of the op- pressive department of social ser- vices. Through their struggle for de- cent housing fit for shelter of hu- man beings, the Sanders have come to realize that greedy capitalistic Slumlords and the oppressive wel- fare system are in direct: cahoots with each other and care nothing about eleven children. it is families such as the San- ders that will, in the true spirit of Inter communialism, aid to link up our many dispersed communi- ties through out the world -andde- fear the oppressors. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! DEATH TO THESLUMLORDS AND THE OPPRESSIVE WELFARE SYSTEM! Black Panther Party Community Information Center Mt. Vernon Branch to same manner inwhich the people intend remove all pigs from our streets, All Power to the People ! Death to the Fascist Pigs ! LETTER TO THE PEOPLE FROM PRISONER OF WAR NALD FREEMAN Revolution] In our just struggle for the liberation of oppressed peo- ple in Babylon, we will struggle and sacrifice in order to bring about a democratic, socialist state. Some of us will die] Some of us will be captured . As some of us are captured; as some of our com— rades have died, serving the in- terests of oppressed people with love and dedication. the death and imprisonment of our comrades on- ly intensifies and clearly height- ens the contradiction between the oppressed and our oppressors. AS 1 am captured, confined, isolated \ and physically held, [ cannot be in , the streets to help resolve the con- tradiction. Because [ am a Black man and have lived all my life in the Black communities of Babylon, I have a good knowledge of the oppressed conditions of our communities, We are constantly subjected to all forms of genocide, And! know to change these conditions, I have to sacr \fice and struggic... no sacri- fice is too great, So, to be cape tured inour struggle for Liberation, only points out that our struggle to {free ourselves from exploitation and oppression 19 just. | continue to struggle inside the wall, up un- der these fascist conditions, Be- cause | am a member of the Van- guard Party, | onderstand the con- sequences in changing the imper- jalist empire. Being a servant of the people... no sacrifice is too great to put an end to capitalism and help the people in the building of asocialist society, free from ex- ploitation and oppression, The people ure golng to free all the communities of the world] ALL. POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FREE BOBBY AND ALL POW'S! Ronald Gene Preeman (Ronald Freeman hes been in jail since October , 1969, He was ori-~ ginally arrested for murder, but the charge/was changed. to man- slaughter,’ While Robert was In jaul, the pigs threw other charges t 4 on him, various ‘incidents’ ofas- sault on a pig, He now,is ato= tal bail of $41,500.00) th y fap | THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, A COMMON GRIEVANCE AND BASIC NEED FOR SURVIVAL: THE PEOPLE’S HOUSING CRIMES TRIAL On Sunday, December 6, 1970, RIRAaTesee Tess SESS KSA ARS 060195 R900 8.0 sisag00sg Seen Ke 9 6s\c9 ct KSte 5090-00 eee Oe OS ee CHARTER OF THE PEOPLE’S : HOUSING COALITION several hundred of the poor ands oppressed masses in New Yorks City met at Columbia University's + Wollman Hall. The people came: together because of a commongrie-s vance and basic need for survival--¢ Housing. . The poor and oppressed masses $ in New York are forced to live int rat and roach infested housing.: The collection and disposal is sel-; dom if ever done, heat and hot water; are rare, painting and upkeep of; apartments is practically non-? existant, toxic lead paint is used,: The youth of the oppressed die; by the thousands every year as a} result of lead poisoning, rabies? resulting from rat bites, and pneu-; We the bodies of the peoples housing coalition do resolve Inthe name of land, bread, housing, edu- cation, clothing, justice and peace to exist for the purpose of meet- ing the basic needs of the people. Therefore, we do hereby establish an organization to be known as the people's housing coalition. : PURPOSE monla caused by alackofhest. Thiss isa: WE. WANT-WHAT WE is what the masses who gathered. BELIEVE at the People’s Housing Crimes: Trial had in common, As a means: of educating thousands of others poor and oppressed people who haves been the victims of indecent hous-+ ing, the people sat for nine hour: For nine hours, the people testi- fied to the fact that they no longer intend to allow the avaricious slum- lords to take their hard earned money for services not rendered. The people spoke out against the deplorable conditions they are for- ced to live in and testified that they will no longer sit idly by while their children are dying be- cause of inadequate and indecent housing conditions. On December 3, 1970, Pig Mayor Lindsay and his accomplices in crimes, the avaricious pig slum- lords, were served summons by the people to appear atthe People’s Housing Crimes Trial, Pig Lind- say and his lackeys did not show. Their absence educated the people to the fact that the people have no L, We want decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings, we believe every man, woman and child on the face of this earth has an absolute right to the best housing technology can provide. 2. We want free breakfast pro- grams. 3. We want free day care centers We believe parents in oppressed communities should be able to leave their children under the best supervision, disciplined and edu- cational to reveal the objective truths of our decadent commu- nities under siege. 4. We want free Health clinics. Judges speaking at the housing trial. rights that the pig slumlords are told by pig Judge Scott (a boot- rumor was to use the uS5ual divide bound to respect, By not showing, licking nigger) to pay her rent Lindsay clearly admitted to his to the court. Knowing that the guilt. People from all over New York, glove with the pig slumlord and testified about the degradinghous- also realizing that the courts are ing conditions they ‘exist’ in. Pig Just 4 collection bureau for the laws were cited that alledgedly Slumlords, Mrs. Lesane refused make it a ‘crime’ for indecent to pay her rentto thecourt, As a housing to exist, By allowing unfir result of the sister's move to rec- housing conditions to exist, the tify the indecent housing, Mr. and pigs are showing the people that Mrs. Lesane, along with several they have no regard for their own other tenants at 1240 have become laws, especially when the people victims of police harassment and look to them to receive some kind brutality, Billy Lesane was arrest- of **justice,’’ ed twice, in reality, for demanding Mr. and Mrs, Bill Lesane of the decent housing, and for demand- Bronx accused pig slumlord Fred ing that the conditions that cause Grill of attempted murder and the lead poisoning in his son, be erad- perpetration of mass genocide on icated. As a resule of the lead oppressed people. Mr. and Mrs. poisoning, Gregory, who is now 3- Lesane have been tenants of 1240 years old, has brain damage and Woodycrest Avenue since Septem- is unable to talk, ber 1%9 and sincethat time com- At the present tfme, IS tenants plaints have been made to slum- at 1240 Woodycrest Avénue are lord Grill and to the pigs of the withholding rent which will be used Building and Housing Department to make the necessary repairs in of New York concerning the falling the building. These tenants realize paint, lack of heat, rats and in- that only the people themselves adequate elevator service, Yet no have the power to eradicate the attempt was made to correct these indecent housing conditions they are violations, by Slumlord Grill or the forced to Ilive in. pig courts are working hand in‘ pigs of the Bullding and Housing Department. On July 14, 1970, Mrs. Lesane rushed her 3-year old son, Gregory, to the hospital, *"because he was sluggish,”’ Tests were taken and it was discovered that Greg- ory had lead poisoning. Again Pig slumlord Grill was called and asked to do something about the lead paint. Again nothing was done. Mrs. Lesane then refused to pay rent to live under these illegal and inde- cent conditions. Expecting ‘'jus- _ tice’’ to be done, Mrs, Lesane went to court. In court she was Corky Lee, lives at 99 Madison Street in Chinatown, New York. Fifteen months ago representatives of the New York Telephone Company came to Madison Street and brought out three-fourths of the block that Corky lives on, Using their usual underhanded tactics, the Pigs of the New York Telephone Company Spread rumors that Chinese bus- inessmen had brought the property for the purpose of building high rise middle income apartment buildings. The purpose of this ind conquer method upon the peo- ple in the Madison Street commun- ity. These rumors caused the Iral- fan and other ethnic and racial groups on Madison Street to verb- ally and physically attack the Chi- We believe oppressed people are entitled to the best medical ar- tention that medical science has to offer. 5. We want freedom for all poli- tical prisoners. We believe no slave is held ac- countable for wanting to be free. : . 6. We want complete implementa- : tion of the Black Panther Party. Ten-Point Platform and Program» and extensions thereof. . We believe compromise is death, « DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGSI: HOOT TO KILLI e GF cc cveccccsaccesseecessessessssssssseesesesssssesssessessasesssesesssesasessessressrreee was done for the purpose of making conditions less liveable in order to keep the people from moving In, These are just two of the many testimonies from the People’s Housing Crimes Trial, They are also two of many classic examples of indecent housing that exists throughout Babylon, in general, and New York in particular. The People’s Housing Crimes Trial was not to provide the people with decent housing, it was for the purpose of identifying the parties guilty of genocide through Housing crimes. The people realize that indecent housing is Just one of the many aspects of the perpetration of fas- cism, of economic and racial ex- ploitation and oppression, Realizing this, the people pointed out the need to pick up the gun to deal with this situation, Many of those who testified said they felt it necessary for all oppressed people to pick up the gun and deal with the pigs ] Witnesses testify at Housing Crimes & Trial. nese brothers and sisters, An in- vestigation was made and the source of the rumors was disclosed to the people. Overcrowding is another problem the people on Madison Street are faced with. In order to eliminate this, the tenants organized and liberated vacant apartments, The pigs of Bell Telephone, in order to take and holdthe block of Madison Street, sent in lackeys to gut the apartments, Bathtubs, sinks and plumbing were ripped out and/or destroyed beyond use, Electrical wiring was ripped out and refrig- erators were removed, All of this of this fascist, racist andimperial- ists government and to put an end to indecent housing, mis-education, hunger, and all the many inhuman conditions within this empire. The People are saying that they have exhausted all legal means and are moving forth to control their own destinies -by any means necessary! Oppressed People's Justice is meted out in the streets! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Death to the Fascist Slumlords The People’s Housing Coalition Bronx, New York _WE WANT DECENT HOUSING FIT FOR HUMAN BEINGS DECEMBER 26, 1970 PAGE 3 NEW BEDFORD SCHOOL BOARD REJECTS REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION The Revolutionary Student Un- fon (RSU) began two months ago in New Bedford High School. It is a group of students working toward basic human rights for all people. .. The reason we call {et the revolu- tionary Student Union instead of Black Student Union or High School Union is because abasic change has been made in the way the unions run. We are not asking for petty things like a change in the curric- ulum or 4 Black Studies Depart- ment. We are demanding our basic right to self-determination because we wantfreedom, We want the power to determine the destiny of our aca- demic community. Since we began the racist pig principal, Paul Roderiques and his lackeys have realized the threat of an armed student union with a rev- olutionary ideology and have tried to keep us from growing. We are forbidden to sell Panther papers in school or distribute community newsletters or leaflets., A while ago, we had-a leaflet strike and flooded the school with Informa- tion, We are constantly harassed and threathened with suspension but we are not afraid and we are still strong. The latest act of madness was perpetrated by the New Bedford School Committee. In about two minutes, they virtually tore up the Constitution as it relates to students, Friday, November 6, the R,S.U, community attended a meeting of the School Committee to ask them for permission to set up registration tables in all schools for the Rev- olutionary People’s Constitutional Convention thar was held In Wash- ington, D.C, November 27-29, We understand that it is our right to alker or abolish the constitution and we asked them to make this right available to all students in the school system, After 45 minutes of waiting, New Bedford Mayor Rogers, who is also Chairman of the School Board, started off by asking if the request was. made by the Black Panther Party. And we said no, It was the R.S.U, They didn’t want to hear anything thar we had to say about the Constitutional Convention; they were too busy talking about putting rent-a-pigs in all city schools. When we showed therm the informa- tlon that would be put on the reg- istration tables, Rogers changed it around to his fascist way of think= ing and oinked some madness about killing people, But we all know that we love and serve the people. When we tried to explain about the Constitutional Convention, sup- er pig Rogers (who by the way got elected on the votre of the Black community and is now biting the hand thar feeds him), cut us off and railroaded a vote denying us the right to registration tables in school. We can clearly see that students have no rights that the School Com- mittee and its lackeys are bound to respect. This racist bunch of arrogant fools is constantly deny- ing us our right to free speech, freedom of assembly, and freedom of press, They are denying that Students have rights under the con- stitution, This only points out again why the Revolutionary . People’s Constitution is so important, As for those power crazed pigs on the School Committee, there willbe 4 political consequence for those who seek to deny us our rights, They will experience the wrath of the armed people, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Revolutionary Student Union New Bedford, Mass. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1970 PAGE 4 U.S. POVERTY - WIDE- SPREAD AND ON THE RISE The sufferings of our youth will be en ey. *. 1. ded along with the lives of the oppressor! In 1968, 25.4 million Americans lived in poverty. This was 12.8 percent of the total population. 925.7 percent of all nonwhite Americans lived in poverty. "41.6 percent of all non-white people under 18 years old lived in poverty. *46.6 percent of all non-white people aged 65 and over lived in poverty 33.5 percent of all families head- ed by white women lived in poverty. °00.1 percenrof all families toad- ‘Sy black women lived inpoverty, *The mumber of poverty-stricken families headed by women is not decreasing. It is sharply increas- ing. From 1959 to 1968, the number of poor nonwhites living in house- holds headed by women Increased 48 percent, from 1.8 million to 2.6 million, Looking ahead, poverty is going to increase in this country. **About 47 percent of all poor in metropolitan areas are in hguse- holds thar cannot be expected to become economically self-sustain- ing at any time in the future." These are some of the facts and conclusions of a study of poverty in U.S, cities released in November by the prestigious Committee for Economic Development. The CED is composed of presidents of tic biggest corporations and most in- fluential universities. It has 4 sig- nificant influence on the formulation of government policy. More than any previous top-level study, this CED report shows that discrimination against nonwhite © Americans and obove all discrimin- ation against nonwhite American women is a central aspect of pov- erty in this country. Entitled *‘Who Are the Urban Poor?” the CED report was writ- ten by Anthony Downs and Is svall- able to the public. Downs maintains that the gov- ernment poverty figures them- sleves are inadequate, He was forced to use them in the CED study, since they offer the most complete data available, but he offers several criticisms. The goverment poverty figures is arbitrarily set by the Social Security Administration as three times the cost of a minimal diet. In 1968, the ‘poverty level’’ income for a four-person household was $3,553. But Downs points out that 4 re- port issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics In 1967 set a‘'moderate"’ standard of Living for a family of two adults and two children at what would come to $9,361 in 1968 dollars. This is three times the ‘'poverty level.” Since the poverty-level figure is based upon food, it entirely leaves out the cost of housing. But the housing costs of the poor are dis- proportionately high and it is ob- vious that a ‘poverty threshold" figure that took rent into consid- eration would be much higher. Even with this important qual- Uication, the CED report presents new data that is extremely useful. The figures clearly break down Into separate categories: age groupings and mén-and women-headed famil- jes. And it is this division that uderlines the oppression of women and younger people in relationship to men. Of the 25.4 million Americans who lived in poverty in 198, 12.9 million lived In metropolitan areas, The remaining figures unless otherwise indicated refer to these city residents. The largest group of poor per- Sons in metropolitan areas consits of young people under eighteen, There are 5.4 million such young people, and they constitute 42.2 percent of all poor persons in the cities. Again, race discrimination is central, Thus, of all young nonwhite people in the country, 41.6 percent are poor, The comparative figure for white young people ts 10.7 per- cent. In the cities, 5.6 percent of all young poor people are nonwhite. Projecting these calculations into the future, Downs writes; “In central cities, the number of white children tunder fifreen will drop 1.4 million (8.5 percent) by 1985, but the number of non- white children will rise 3.4 million (91.8 percent). Since about one- third of nonwhite children in cen- tral cities Lived in poverty In 1968, this rapid expansion will pose a very serious problem in any anti- poverty program, "Ie might add as many as 1.4 million poor nonwhite children to central cities by 1985, The addi- tion of children from 15 to 18 might raise this total as high as 17 million, This study emphasized the poor educational system and the lack of adequate child care for young people as the main factor that perpetuate poverty, The study dis- missed out of hand notions that pov- erty caused by innate educational failure: "Schools of the lowest quality, with the least qualifiedteachers and REPRINTED PROM THE MILITANT - KA often the oldest buildings and equip- ment, are usually concentrated in Poor neighborhoods, especially in the big citles.Futhermore, wealthy suburbs often spend far more per student on all aspects of educa- tion.”’ "Many poor families with child- ren need the earnings which those children can bring in ata relatively early age - such as in the late teens. Hence poverty compels some children to drop out of high school to go to work, and certainly pre- yents many Intelligent children higher educational institutions.” If the number of young people under 18 is added to the number f persons under 65 Living in house- holds headed by females - the com- bined figures is the largest source of poverty in this country, Famil- les headed by females with many young people are most oppressed racially and economically, “About 86 percent of all fami- Miies headed by a female in met- ropolitan areas include children. /Of all the population groups anal- yzed in this paper, these families headed by a female with depend- Sem children had the highest inci- *dence of poverty. The proportion in poverty among women heading 4 family with one or more child- ren was 42,8 percent in 1968 G3.5 percent for white women and 60.1 percent for nonwhite.) Sixty percent of nonwhite women attempting to support families in U.S, cities live in poverty, And keep in mind that the poverty fig- ures used throughout this study are low. The study reported that most wo- men under these circumstances cannot work because of the absence of child-care facilities. ‘Of all the poor women heading a family in metropolitan areas, only 16 percent worked all year, 25 percent worked part of the year, and the remaining S59 percent did not work at all, ‘It is believed that many of these poor mothers with young children are unable to work because of thelr child-care responsibilities. Unless suitable child-care facilities are available, therefore, they cannot be expected to find any gainful employment outside their homes.” The CED study emphasized that this source of poverty is increas- ing: “In contrast to the generally declining trend in the number of poor in metropolitan areas, poor persons living inhouseholds headed by a female (of all ages) increased by 22 percent from 5.3 million in 1959 to 6.5 million In 1968. Downs indicates possbile sources of discomfort to the corporate of- ficials and university presidents who comprise the CED in this data; **To the extent that poverty com- pels mothers to reduce supervi- sion of their chfidren because they must work, or cannot afford living in areas where supervised play is possible, it tends to encourage the developement of relatively un- disciplined children. “‘Many of these children grow up almost spontaneously on the street In a vicious atmosphere of cynicism and exploitation, without any exposure to the basic values of American society and culture.” The fact is that these young people growing up in poverty get _ the fullest exposure to "the basic values of American society and culture,” ‘The values evidenced by American society and culture are vicious competition along with weakh for a few and poverty for many, These young people are not going to be "'disciplined"’ into this system, but will be some of the strongest fighters for the transfor- mation of this society into asocial- ist society, which - as the statis- tics underline - is the only solu- tion to the monstrosity. of wide- scale poverty in the midst of plenty, from poor families from going on to ‘Wwe OOrrEL eI edd \ WW THE TRUE NATURE OF BUSINESSMEN — ---GREED Daily inthe Black community the businessmen are making 4 profit off of the needs and wants of Black people. Along with this dally ex- ploitaticn there comes a yearly period in which the capitalists go beserk over profit. This period lasts approximately two months (November and December), In this short time the oppressors suck three, four, and five hundred per- cent profits from the people's al- ready drained slave wages. Most families in Babylon spend at least $100.00 or many times over, dur- ing the Christmas period. In fact around this time of the year many families go into debt because of the ticks and games of the capitalist. These include the ‘Buy Now-Pay Later’ deals where a person gets into a financial rut because he ends up paying for thenext three or more years, The manufactures make the che- apest and fastest items possible-- giving themselves a tremendous profit. This profit comes from selling junk at high prices. The capitalists are not satisfied with just selling junk, but the foulness of these greedy pigs goes further. At outrageously high prices, they sell and promote to the people i- tems which are dangerous totheir health, Especially dangerous are some of the toys thar are on the market. Even uiough these av- aricous manufacturers haye been told of the hazards of these toys and products they have ignored the warnings. The department of heal- th, education, and welfare which is Set up to perpetuate genocide and to exploit Black people has done noth- ing about the dangerous products. In fact, dielr statement is: “We have found no compelling reason, in the accident reports availible to us, for declaring any of the toys an imminent hazard,” ‘The de- partment has the interest of pro- fit at heart instead of the health and eration; THE GUN! When the people move for liberation they must have the basic tool welfare of the people. So products that can hurt and even kill our children remain on the market, The following are just a few of the toys that should never be bo- ught, Empire Little Lady, Ovan-Metal Ware Co. This oven reaches a temperture on the surface of upto 300 degrees. ‘The product is no longer being manufactured how- ever those already on the market are still being sold, Party Pack Five Fringed Bal- ‘. loon Squawkers—-American Party Favors. Anytime a part of 4 toy can easily be dislodged and swal- lowed, (has been done before by children) it should be banned, Jart Lawn Darts, R. B. jarts, Inc. Wasps Cap Gun, Ohlo Art Corp. Erch-A Sketch, Ohio Art Corp. Rapco Cast Right Metal Casting Sets, Rapco Toy Co, Suzy Homemaker Super Grill, Topper Toy Co. Winnie the Pooh Crib, Sears and Roebuck Co, The lists go on and itis not lim- ited to toys nor to Christmas time. However, this is a time when the capitalists make their tremendous profit especially from toys. Their motto is money by any means nec- cessary-even if it means the In- jury or death of children and people. Inorder to keep our people free must move in a manner to élim- inate the profit mongers by any means neccessary. All Love to our Children Black Panther Party Baltimore Chapter Community Infarmation Center of lib- from the flood of cheaply — made, harmful irems, Black people TO THE CONCERNED PEOPLE OF NEW YORK We, the prisoners of the Women's House of Detention, wish to inform you of the barbaric conditions we are subjected to by the correction officials here. The system breeds homosexuality, mental degradation, and physical deterioration. ‘The majority of us are Black and Puer- to Rican, We cannot afford theran- som theBourtscall bail. Iris appar- ent to us that you, the public, are not aware of the barbaric conditions that exist here, Our grievances are; 1. We do not receive adequate med- ical attention, We do not have a doctor on duty twenty-four hours a day although there are seven hun- dred and fifty-four women in here. The doctors we do have are old and senile. a, We ask that all doctors prac- ticing medicine here be requiredto take a Medical Board examiniation at least once a year, b. We ask for a doctor to be on duty twenty-four hours a day. c. We ask that it be required Uiat any inmate sulfering from any medical problem be permitted to see a doctor at any time day or night, and that it not be left to the discretion of the officer on duty or the nurse in artendance. d, We ask for first rate medicine; that it be labeled properly and after ft has lost its potency that it be thrown out, We do fot receive an adequate dier, We do not get any fresh veg=, atables or fresh fruits. Our diet consists of beans, rice, potatoes, and powdered milk. We get hot céreal twice a week, one boiled egg once 4 week, The rest of the days we get cold cereal und pow- dered milk. The meats that we eat are as old as the building we live in. a. We ask for our meats to be inspected. b. We ask for at least one glass of fresh milk dally. c, We ask for fresh vegatables and at least one piece of fruit a day, d. We ask once a day, 3. The House of Detention is infest- & for citrus julces CHICANO THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1970 PAGE 5 We are allowed to shower only once every five days. We ask that these cells be shut down immed- lutely, 5. We are beaten by the male guards, We ask that male guard brutality be stopped immediately, We are harassed and threathened with an infraction by the female guards, We ask for the harassment to be stop- ped. 6. Our funds which are sent and brought to us are misappropriated, We ask for an investigation, 7. We are unable to purchase in commissary—bras, panties, socks, er stockings. None of these are given to us by the state as long as we are being held in detention. We ask that we be allowed to pur- chase bras, panties, socks, stock- ings, bobby pins for our hair, hair rollers, make-up, large rubber combs for the sisters in here who cannot comb their hair with the very small combs we can buy now, creams for our faces, lotions for our bodies so that we can care for ourselves as women. 8. We are two in a cell. The cells are 5' x ¥. Out of a fifteen hour day, we are locked up eleven of those hours. We ask for longer recreation periods, 9. The adolescents are separated ed with mice androaches they roam the building freely, carrying filth from the adults as long as they and disease, We are often bitten by 8 on detention floors. Once they these have been sentenced, they are put germ-carrying ation ¢ in the same corridors as the adults. We ask that the adolescents be kept There is no exterm i. We ask that an extern campany be allowed to come intwice S¢parate from the adults after sen- 4 month to eliminate these health ‘cing. hazards, 10, .\When we are appointed a legal 4. There are four punishment strip representative by the courts they cells where we arepurifwereceive do not come to us to discuss the an “infraction.” ‘The cells do not facts of our cases, We ask that the have any tollets, sinks, or mat- courts require a visit to be made by the court appointed legal repre- sentative to us, the accused, before we Zo to court, resses. In them we are stripped of all our clothing. We do not receive any bedding for the cold tile floor. ll, We are often brought to court and required to wait In the bull pen five or six hours In order to see a judge only to be told thar our cases have been adjourned, We ask that when we are brought to court that we see the judge. 12, There are some of ua who have been here twenty months and stil’ have not gone to trial, We ask for speedier court dates, We ask thar our court dates be made known to us. 13, We have been raided ar five- thirty In the morning, made to strij off all our Clothing and squat down our personal belongings having beer thrown ontheflocr. The adolescent: have been made to go into the kit- chen and strip off their clothing i front of everyone, a, We ask that the seripping of inmates be stopped immediately. b, That the mannisti-looking of- ficers not be allowed to do the strip- ping of Inmates. We have refusedto lock ourselves ik our cells to protest this inhumaz treatment and have been met witi water hoses turned on us by the prison officials. We are locked tr our cells for eight to ten days ar punishment for protesting. All o: our privileges are taken away. We the oppressed women of the New York House of Detention humbly seek your support and help, We who are your fellow human beings need you, the public, to help us ir our struggle to eliminate these in- justices. Free All Political Prisoners ! All Power To The People | Captive sisters in the House of Detention, New York NEEDED OFFS then directed to the pig car where iy Campbell directed him to ‘‘assume >) 4 search position,’’ As Campbell i approached the brothers to make }4 search of his person, Manual turned and started firing with a ; +32 automatic pistol, hitting Camp- bell in the right knee. Campbell 7 ‘j tackled the brother and in the pro- cess lost his gun. Campbell then | yelled to his partner that the sus- > pect had a gun, Moreno then shot | Wallace, striking him in the upper adomen, He then turned and shot at Campbell again striking him In the left hand. After he was shot, Wallace drew a revolver and shot Moreno. Wallace then walked over to his partner, and seeing him in- Manual Richard Moreno jured, attempted to radio for assis- cance, But he collapsed at the door- way of the car, unconscious. Camp- The invading troops of the Black bell then pulled himself to one radio and Brown communities felt a taste and called for immediate assistance. of the defensive arm of the oppres- sed people last week, when a victim of this fascist reign stood up and defended his rights against the mur- derous attacks of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, On December 8th arapproximately 12 midnight, two pigs creeped out of the fog to put Into effect their usual plot of prolonged harassment and brutality of the people. Tired of beating up on some “‘niggers,’’ Pig Allen Campbell Wil ting pigs arrived at the scene ar 1:00 ef AM, Manual Moreno was dead, Pig Pig Louis Wallace of the Los Angel- Ses Sheriff's Department was dead > too. On the other nandthe people in that community saw the pig attack and have given an eyewitness account of what really happened: There is a parking lot in that part of Compton, on Long Beach Blyd., just north of Alondra Blvd, The people in that area know that the pigs use She was dead at 1:00 am. Moreno rights. Moreno pulled out a gun and Philadephie,Pe. and defended his very existence, Pig Wallace was killed instantly and Pig] Historically, emergency ambu- Campbell was wounded, At 3:00a,m {nor 1:00 am), a member of chat community came by the lot and saw Moreno shot and lying on the ground, uncovered, When the am- bulance arrived, Moreno, lying help- less, was attacked again by the pigs. He was shot in the back twice, and once again In the front. Manual Moreno was still allve, after 3:00 am; yet pig reports say lance service inthe Black commun- ity has been poor, Usually because it takes so long for the medical pigs to pick them up, the injured or sick person Is dead on arrival at the hospital. Sometimes the pigs just don't come at all. The Black Panther Party once again goes forth to meet the needs of the people. The need for « People's Free Ambulance Service, SO that the Mark Clark Free Med- ical Center can better serve the) community, is greatly needed, We are calling for donations of had been still standing- when the two pigs were hauled off to the hospital. Who shot and killed Manual Mor- eno? The only persons allowed to go any amgunt to be sent to the Mark near him were members of the LAPD,|Clark Free Medical Center. Our the Compton P,D, and the County! goal is to get $25,000 for an am- Sheriff's Department, bulance that is fully equipped How long are we to allow our) best serve the needs of the people. brothers and sisters to be ripped) We would Like to thank themass- off in the streets of our community?les of people for their support in ‘ the past, and we know that they People's Programs. Send all donation to: Mark Clark Free Medical Center. 1609 W. Susquehana Avenue ¢/o Black Panther Party Philadelphia Branch ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE the two pigs decided to victimize a22-year old Chicano brother, Manual Richard Moreno of 7019 San Carlos in Compton, The pig report given by the only survivor, Allen Campbell, a deputy sheriff working out of the Firestone Station is: Ar 12:15 am at 713 South Long Beach Blvd. in the city of ‘Compton, pigs Wallace and Camp- ) that parking lot to capture and beat | brothers and sisters mercilessly. > Manuel Moreno (the fatherofthree Or, how long must we wait for the small children) was dragged, around pigs to bring justice to themselves. midnight of December 8th, into that Learn from the practice and beau- lot after the pig discovered he was tiful example of Moreno, His was & Hessian (a local motorcycle club), & supreme revolutionary act; a final These low-lifed, pig dogs, Deputy act of virtue; a lust grasp for his Sheriffs Wallace and Campbell, began manhood, dignity and humanity, to kick the brother in theface,stom- The Oppressor Has No Rights We approached a vehicle which contained uch, back dnd groin, Finally at one Are Bound to Respect. 4 single person, This person was Point, these pigs, perpetrators of vio- 22-year od Manual R. Moreno, Wal- The injured pigs were then rushed lence, found that instead of a sub- ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE lace Supposedly asked Morenotostep to the hospital (within three minutes missive victim, they were beating SOUTHERN CALIF, CHA PTER out of the car, The ‘‘suspect’ was of the call for the help). Whenassis- a man who refused to be denied his BLACK PANTHER PARTY Black Panther Party Pig Louis Wallace ‘THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1970 PAGE 6 WE WANT AN END TO POLICE On December 9, 1970, around 2:15 PM, Jimmy L. Hooker, after coming from the direction of Mar- ket Street, entered his mother’s home, where he lives (864 Mead Street Oakland, Calif.) , Neighbors noticed, as Jimmy Hooker entered his home, that two men were follow- ing him. When they reached the house, acting in the manner of a Pig, one of these men pulled out a black-jack and began breaking a window on the door. Mrs .Hooker, Startled by the breaking of the window, pushed herself against the door, She asked the intruders, re- peatedly, “‘What are you doing," They oinked, *‘Get yourself and the baby (her grandson) out of the way because we're policemen.’ Before Mrs. Hooker could respond, these fascist pigs pushed through the door nearly knocking; Mrs. Hooker and her grandson down. These ag- @ressors ransacked the Hooker's home looking for Jimmy for the alleged crime of trespassing on school property. Mrs. Hooker's attempts to stop the pigs were in vain, At no time did these plainclothed pigs show any identification, One of the racist pulled his gun and gained entrance into Jimmy's bedroom, Both pigs grabbed and beat him in BRUTALITY the head and upper part of his body with blackjacks, dragging Jimmy from his room into the street (Under the protest of his mother and neighbors) Slamming him against the door and choking him by the neck, they forced Jimmy into a pig car thathad arrived while they were Inside, Jimmy L. Hooker is twenty-one years old and has a wife and ason two years old, Not until the next day (December 10), did Mrs. Hook- er find out that her son was jailed on one cotint of disturbing the peace, and two counts of assault Point number seven of the Black Panther Party Ten-Point Platform and Program states; ''We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people,” As long as the fascist pigs oc- cupy our communities, we are sub- jected to slavery at any givenmom- ent, All Black people should arm themselves for self-defense against the racist pigs that occupy our com- munities. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE West Oakland Community Informa- tion Center WHAT YOU'VE GOT TO GET WHAT YOU NEED} PANTHER LAWYER MUGGED Katy Roraback, Defense Attorney for Sister Ericka Huggins was phys- tcally assaulted at approximately “245 PM, December 10, 1970, This incident occurred as Katy walked to her apartment in mid-town New Haven, Avery well dressed assail- ant Stracked her from the rear, Dur- ing the struggle which ensued, he grabbed her pocketbook, Katy wes knocked to the ground and the as- sailant who was Black continued to intimidate her even further by plac- ing tus foot on her chest. After seizing the pocket book, the thief ran. Katy later found a knife lying next to her side, This attack on Katy is not the first, In the past, there has been u constant flow of pig harassment, hate-calls, cars trailing ber, and wire tappings, Members of the Black Panther Party, and others who are being de- fended by her (poor blacks, whites Puerto Ricans) deplore these acts committed against our atrornies, Katy is now recuperating. She will however continue her regular work 4s Defense Attorney for Sister Ericka Huggins, This attack re- guardiess of its criminal or pol- {tical rammifications will not stand in the way of Attorney Roraback be- ing in court challenging the mockery known as Justice in New Haven. Rosemarie Smith (NH 9) Conn, State Chapter B.P.P, WAR AGAINST THE POOR The poor continue to be the victims of a government which yal- ues the dollar high above human life. Our country is a rich man’s coun- try. A country in which the richget wealthier while the poor are forced to ive in misery by means ofan in- adequate and inhumane welfare sys - tem, According to evidence now avall- able, almost 90% of all mothers with dependant children will have their denies its own people the right to live as human beings, The voice of the poor must be heard. Let's seize the ume now, Let the people know the conditions and the hunger that our children and ourselves are forced to exist In, : Reagan and Nixon are using the welfare recipients as political scapegoats andare blaming the poor for the economic failures agd the high taxes. Athis inauguration Rea~ checks reduced, while the cost of $4” will attempt to showthatevery~ living keeps on going up. As result of the changes being made, ‘lon. welfare recipients willreceive only Sreat 69%, of their minimum famlly needs. people, a thing is fine under his administra- He will display himself 45 3 Jeader and a benefactor of the While the truth is that Rea- Some small children and elderly people will possibly die as a result of some of the cuts that are being made, f The cost of living increase is brought about by America’s war against its own poor people, the people in Vietnam and others throughout the world, lt is a widely known fact that our government spends ‘'80 billion dollars" s year, on military weapons and other war efforts. This same government BERKELEY PIGS CONSTANTLY EXPOSE THEMSELVES IN AN ATTEMPT TO FOOL THE PEOPLE a thorough search of the cars inside. They also attempted to intimidate people who were legally observing their act- fons, by ordering them out of the area and making insane statements such as, ‘‘this manhunt ts police businens now and the people's busi- ness later."’ However, the people knew they had a legal right to ob- serve the pigs and refused to leave. Another example of how the pigs Since the petition for Community Control of the Police was in- troduced, the Berkeley pigs have attempted to make the need for community control seem unneces- sary. Asthe April ballot ap- proaches, they are increasing their efforts to fool the people and to gain support for the defeat of the peti- tion, Recently they have steppedup their campaign to fool the people, but they constantly expose them- selves for the fascist, racist fools they are, On December th in pus area (The proposed amemd-- ment divides the city of Berkeley into 3 seperate communities-- campus, White , and Black) pigs held a massive manhunt in search of aman allegedly armed with a gun. The pigs became paranoid at the idea of anyone other than them- selves having guns, and were so scured that they evacuated and sealed off the student union garage the Cum- WATERMAN FAMILY PARADED 10 JAIL The mad rampage of the fascist dogs of Los Angeles hit another famlly this week, The Waterman family, of 2418 W, Alondra Blvd, in Compton, went to peacefully see the Christmas Parade in Watts, expecting no trouble, Butthe nature of a pig cannot allow for a calm family outing. Before the day was out three of the four membrs of the family were thrown In jail. At approximately 3;00 PM in Will Rogers Park in Watts, Robbin Waterman, [4 years old, was ap- proached by 4 pig, asking intimi- dating questions. The sister was carrying revolutionary posters, and this was why she was being harassed by the pig. The rudeness and dis- courtesy continued when Mrs, Waterman questioned the action of this pig. She was told to keep moving, get on her way, shut up, etc. At one point the low-lifed dog even spit at Robbin, Never- theless, Mrs, Waterman and her ld-year old daughter were arrest- ed and taken down to Firestone Sheriff’s Station, Mrs Waterman was charged with “abusive language in public.” Robin was locked up, harassed andintim- idared even though she was 4 juy- enile, To top it off, the pigs wok Mrs, Waterman's mattress and blanket. At 8:00 PM, Mr Jackie Water- man pal’ te ransom in ex- gan has betrayed and abused the people he is supposed to protect, We must seize the opportunity to demonstrate against the present administration. Our only force as poor people is to demonstrate in massive numbers against the in- Justices that we are made to suffer just because we are poor. On January 4, 1971, the poor will attend Reagan's inauguration for the Specific purpose of voicing our objections to his policies. We will and {illegally made expose themselves constantly is in the downtown shopping 4rea, where 4 pig petrol has begun since the beginning of the Christmas season The Pig Patrol is a Christmas pre- sent from the Berkeley pigs to the capitalists of the downtown area and is made up of pigs who walk up and down the downtown shopping district in search of their next vic- tims, These pigs are so goodat ex- posing themselves that they have been known to harass people who mying tO Cross the are merely change for his wife. Mrs. Water- husband an her insane actions o! man then gave account of the the pigs, particularly Pig Harri- Son. Mr. Waterman therefore asked was a policy to abuse children and women, Since the pigs refused to even acknow- ledge the question, the Waterman family turned to leave. Before the Watermans reached the door, ap- 8 pigs grabbed Mr, Waterman by the throat und threw him into jail, Once these vicious dogs got the brother Inside the cell, they beat him twice-—-once by the “8 pigs and the other time 13 pigs got their kicks. Mr Water- man now has boot marks’on his And he cannot eat due to that terrible the pigs if it proximately Side, his chest und jaw, night, Adding Insult to injury, the pigs booked Jackle Waterman, father of under a “John Doe" the book- ing for those who refuse to or can- 9 not identify themselves) with a charge of disturbing the peace and set 4 ransom of $125. It is also important to note that nelther Mr, or Mrs, Waterman were allowed a phone call nor were they told thelr rights, when arrested, But it has been obvious for 4 long time thet our rights are time and time again denied, That in fact we have never really enjoyed any rights, The only Way we con secure not remain silent, and we mi begin to prepare ourselves day in which the voice of the px people will be heard above the li of our government. news release to all media from the sacramento poor bt, people’S LIBERATION FRONT ‘The Sacramento Poor Peoples Liberation Front invites you our oppressed brothers and sisters everywhere throughout the state to at the state capital on Reagan's auguration day to protest the pro- posed welfare cuts specifically and capitalistic exploitation of poorand working peoople in general, The demonstration will take place onthe morning of January 4 on the west side of the state capital building, Anyone needing a place to stay, — should call the Sacramento switch- board at (915) 451-6222. For more information, call the switchboard - after December I7th. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE street. Although the pig department and the city council try to prove to the people with words that community contro! of police is unnecessary, their actions show a complete dis- regard for the rights of the peo- ple. Meanwhile the politicians are making statements in the racist Berkeley Gazzette about the effect- iveness of the pig department and the total Jack of need for change in the pig department. However, the pig's complete disregard for the rights of the people shows . is a definite need for the people of the community to have controlover the people who are supposed to protect therm- the police. —_ ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! DEATH TO THE FASCSTI West Berkeley Community Genter our rights is to first liberate some land and our people. f ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Southern California Chapter Black Panther Party : PIG HARASSES BROTHER AT PEOPLE’S FREE HEALTH CENTER Oppressed people have always fallen victim to Indecent medical care in a time of emergency, What may be in many cases anemergen- cy for us, is never anything urgent to the doctors in the illfatedemer- gency rooms of county and city hospitals or the local pigs who generally are on the scene Inquir- ing about the injured person, With the opening of the Peoples’ Free Health Center, the Black Panther Party has tried to deal with part of this problem and in the near future all of the problem will be dealt with by the people. On Sunday, November 15th, ar approximately 4:15, the staff of the Free Health Center in Roxbury were engaged in work when a loudsmash- ing nolse was heard outside. We are located at an Intersection where accidents frequently occur. Immediately part of the staff, 2 nurses and a doctor, rushed outside to the adjacent corner, There were 2 cars involved in an accident. It involved three people; two in one car and one in the other,a 72-year old man who at 4 glance looked pret- ty bad off. He was moaning and coughing and complaining about his arm, Upon further investigation, we found that he was able to move allof his extremities without pain and that he could walk with assistance. He was very emotionally upset over the whole Incident. We removed him from the car and walked him across the street to the Health Center. As Soon as we had gotten him inside, the pigs arrived on the scene, When the man was in the examinig room being treated by a doctor, all at once 4 pig came into the clinic de- manding to ask him questions, When the pig attempted to enter the examination room, he was stopped by the staff who stood in front of the door not allowing him to pass. We told the pig that the man's health was more important than any legal bureaucracy. By this time, four more pigs were at the locked door, banging and oinking. The patients in the clinic and the people of the community got a goodeduca- tion about the true nature of these pigs. We won't allow acts of inhu- manity inthe Peoples’ Free Health Center, Either you act like the people or you are a pig. We demand that respect for the people. Death to the Pig that Cross our Thresholds Black Panther Party Boston Chapter MEDICAL INFORMATION SESSIONS FOR WEST Broken bones, lacerations, burns-—-commonoccurrencesin the Black community, especially when circumstances force our children to use the streets, rooftops,and va- cant lots as playgrounds, and when our homes depend on archaic (old fashioned) heating systems. Our community has always been forced to live in the most indecent housing, eat the poorest food, andgenerally live under bad conditions. To add insult to injury, hospitals which are supposed to serve the people are nothing more to us than butcher shops. These oppressive medical facilities and the malpr- atice of their personnel play ama- jor role in the genocide of Black people. The establisiment of a free Health Clinic is in progress now... but to answer the immediate need of the people, the Black Com- munity Information Center will present a series of Medical Infor- mation Sessions beginaing in Jan- uary. They will deal with prac- tical first-aid: care of bleeding and shock, various types of wounds; broken bones, burns, andeye tnjur- jes are but a few of the areas that will be covered, Medecines and simple medical technique will also PLANNED OAKLAND be gone over, under the instruction of a qualified physician. In addition, sessions will also deal with the everyday problems which confront our community, Because we as Black People face an extremely high infant and maternal mortality rate, we'll have sessions on proper pre-natal care, nutri-| thon, and emergency delivery. Handling these sessions will be a of this!’’ All the while the fool and his two cohorts were wearing de- mented grins, The bootlicker pro- ceeded to frisk a brother saying, '*Didn't | arrest you the other day?” their captives through the campus to While the pale would ride, The sisters Mamas. that if their bro-|2!Ve all of their convicts an example also, But being pigs, they only re- sponded with, The white racist (badge #106) drove atomosphere of our community, To in an unsafe fashion and made Insult-|€et on campus, the pig pulled out|Free all students THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1970 PAGE 7 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA MAXIMUM SECURITY HIGH SCHOOL The quality of education has deter- jorated so that schools have been ned into maximum prisons. On cember Il, eleven students, seyen { whom are B.S,U, members, were Scaping the confines of Centennial Prison (high school). The students were escaping for varlous reasons. Four were going home on important usiness, The students had approa- ed 13lst Street from Slater, After walking approximately ten yards, a pig car turned into the driveway only a few feet in front of the nearest Students, Then a black bootlicking pig jumped out of the car, brand- ishing his club and yelling In ademen- ted manner, ‘‘Goddamn, what's all Schools are only temporarycells,thepigs must After going through the prelim- be blown out of our lives! inary pigisms, the young women were d that they would be taken in the ’ a mat ie iotace would ce set{YOUr eyes that you want me," Their]Each night you hear one or more ree, Finally, the pigs decided to[@tempts at degradation did not endisirens heralding the approach of a= make the 6 women ride in one car,}/ere. AS the prisoners were takenjone more group of marauding occup back to the school, the two boofte| tional troops. The time has come lickers counted cadence and attempt- ile the two ‘colored boys” (the when these fools must be removed wo black pigs) herded the young men, These two bootlicking” fools didn’t{“4to make Webrothers march, Fin) qorcibiy) from our community, When ealize that they would be walking|*ly reaching the school,theypar we have no control over our own bodies, and schools are only tem- porary cells, the pigs must be blown. ers had to walk that they should jof what happens to unsuccessful eS} (4,5 of our lives] capees, “Get in the car,’"| The pigs have pervaded the veryje.. an political prisoners remarks to the sisters by oink-|4 key to the gate. The principal ng, ‘You're my harem;"’ and to onejof Centennial did not know that they|Students of Centennial High School ister, ‘Il can tell by the look inJhad any key to get on the campus.|(Compton, Cclifornia) NEW YORK 21 TRIAL CONTINUES FOR TWO DAYS AS LAWYER IS HELD IN CONTEMPT OF COURT Trial was recessed early Wed- nesday the l6th because one of the defense attorneys, Charles McKin- ney was ll with aback constriction. There was no court Thursday as well, This fascist mockery of jus- tice resumes Monday, No one who On Monday, the léth of December the trial and fascist frame-up of the N,Y. 21 continued, Pig infilxra- tor Gene Roberts continued on the witness stand, This began the 4th week of this pig's testimony. Attorney Bill Crain, one of six Panther Defense Lawyers, ques- tioned Roberts closely about lis alleged activities in various Black organizations and brought out some views this sham of a trial can pos- Sibly doubt thar the courts serve no interest other than that of the ruling circle, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Black Panther Party East Coast Ministry of Information practicing community health contradictions in Roberts present nurse. Drug genocide stands as one| "Stimony as opposed to the one he of the deadliest problems facing] ™#d¢ previously before an illegal Black people, so therefore we will] T#c!8t grand jury. Roberts admitted also deal with this. Family planning} “@t one defendant or group of de- * 42. But You Kuow Me Da., Ove Denuines Wee You Wie Be Lust As Coun-Busoben As Your Demuncs In Thar Cover Boom”. and veneral disease will also be topics of discussion, Accompany- ing each lecture, we'll try to have movies and literature relating to each subject, All instructions will be geared toward the reality of our situtation as an oppressed community. We are not the aggressor in medical mal-practice, we are its victims. Medicine for health instead of wealth! For more information: call the Community Information Center ar 1690 10th Street, 464-7089, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE A kiss under the misletoe for old St, Nick, Tricky Dick’s buddy, ee fendants ordered or agreed to blow up anything at any time in any place, Later Attorney Crain was held in contempt of the fascist court for trying to defend his client by inquiring into the nature of the pig prosecution's objections and clashing with the fascist judge Murtagh over the basic rights de- nied his clients by the court. Pre- viously, Murtagh hadtriedto iatim- idare all defense counsel by telling them in a closed conference that any of them who spoke up after he had ruled on an objection would be placed in jail for the weekend, When pig Murtagh took ituponhim- self to make 4n objection for the D,A, to Crain's Line of question- ing and sustain it, Crain objected, The jury was immediately removed and Crain was found in contempt of court. Mudface Murtagh, the dried up racist judge, stayed execution of the contempt chargeuntil che crial wus completed The next day, the 15th of Decem- ber, opened with another defense attorney, Sandy Karz, cross exam- ining snake Roberts. Katz's cross- examination brought out that the agent’s sole purpose for infilrrat- ing any organization is to destroy it and get its members imprison- ed, This mental objective of the agent is important to consider, for it taints and distorts all that he Says and does. * wea POLITICAL PRISO NERS THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1970 PAGE 8 WE HAVE 10 STRUGGLE INSIDE THE JAILS AND PRISONS, SIMULTANEOUS WITH THE STRUGGLE IN THE STREETS Editors note: Robert the Southern California Black Panther Party and has been a prisoner of war in the L.A, County Jail since September, arrested at that time Williams is a WAGE A member of Chapter of the 1969. He was for ‘‘assault with intent to commit murder’? on a California Highway Patrol pig. He was convicted last September and is facing (The pig is now almost completely paralyzed from a bullet wound in the spine.) imprisonment, life I got busted after reading Huey’s art- icle, ‘Prison, Where Is Thy Victory’, so I already had a basic understanding trol of LETTERS TO THE PEOPLE FROM SO. CALIF. CHAPTER OF THE B : Al Armour As the rising tide of fascism in America gains speed and momen- tum, the diabolical schemes of the Nixon - Agnew - Pentagon regime come more clearly into focus. When Nixon announced he would destroy the Black Panther Party, his first tactic was to rely main- ly on guns and force, As this ter- roristic repression increased our Robert Williams -Political Prisoner are indisputable relationships betwee the Political Prisoner and the peop in the streets. In order for the Politica) Prisoner to be free, the state’s co and military arm must be broken. Th same method has to used if the peopk in the streets are to be free. So, being a Political Prisoner does not mean that we are divorced from the struggle being waged in the streets, We have to wage a struggle inside the jails and prisons, simultaneous with the struggle being waged in the streets, We have been jailed for our political beliefs and ideas. And because of the direction that we have chosen, jails and ) prisons are an almost inevitable stop-_ over on one hand, possibly death on the other, We realize that because of the lib- erating forces in motion that our situ- ation is only temporary and condition- al, and we will wage a continuing struggle ripped us from the comfort ofourhomes TORY. resistance, Nixon changed his tac- tic of speedy railroads through the courts. After a number of victims through the courts were realized (Charles GBursey, Luxcy, Robert, Clup, etc,), our resistance increased to the level of abandon- ing the courts entirely. In an effort to combat this lar- est move, these pigs have first of all intimidated bail bondsmen into not accepting anymore Panther cases and surrendering the bails of the Panthers already bailed out. This coercion of bondsmen became obvious in the case of four Pan- thers recently arrested in Los An- geles. An agent provocateur In the employ of the FBI, swine Arthur Harris, was a willing accomplice to one A CHILD OF THE REVOLUTION retain his hold on power. It is a historical fact that the slavemaster has to kill the slave or change the method of enslavement in order to maintain his rule. Gut we are de- termined to killor change him, For we must get our Mberation by any means necessary and being con- fined here is, in short, just a bus Stop on the way there, Injustice and oppression must give rise to H- beration Bruce (Bruce Richards was arrested on October 19, 1969, for attempted murder ona pig. The day before, @ October 16th, the same pig whom Bruce Richards Being confined physically here is a crystal clear reflection of the tactics the oppressor uses and to what lengths he is willing to go to Bruce was supposed to have shot at, murdered In cold blood brother Walter ‘Toure’ Pope, Bruce wis convicted of this charge inOctober of this year, and is now facing IS years in prison.) in a plot to trap Jimmie Johnson, Robert Bryan, Roland Freemanand 41 Armour into an alleged assault, After their arrest, the people im- mediately bailed them out. When the pigs aw how casy UM was for the people to free their warriors, they increased the bail at the broth- ers’ first court appearance, After this second jailing, the coercion of the bondsmen began, and there was some difficulty in freeing the brothers because cash was the only medium by which they could get released, Once again the people were undaunted in thelr efforts and the brothers were released, Once again the pigs were foiled, but they were relentless in their attempts. When three of the broth- ers went tod courtfor charges aris- ing out of theDecember 8th raids yn our homes and offices, two-- Robert Bryan and Roland Freeman found out their balls had been sur- rendered by the cowardly bail bondsmen. The third brother, Al, was kidnapped by the FBlon a pho- ny gun charge. All were held for $10,000 ransom. Also while in jail, Al's bail for the December 8th case was surrendered bringing his total bond to $25,000, Both these Sums are 4n outra- geous demand on a poor and op- pressed people. We, the POW's of Dodge city, have indefatigable faith that the people of Babylon will eventually free us-- and in the very near future, The wretched of the LET THE MADMEN For a person to be incarcerated for having certain political points of view in opposition to the reac- tionary regime in power, and try- ing t tions of oppressed people, he could ** Political Prisoner*’ of War’’ (P,O.W.). for these things that Ihave, change the objective condi- be termed a or 4 * Prisoner Ie i along been termed by reactionaries an *tenemy of the stete.’’ No doubt the racist pig thinks he has tast- ed victory. But victory can never be his, for my weapons are far superior to his, Infect, so superior that 1 alone with my comrades, im segregated from the general jail population, and kept in lock- with advocating revolution, _ Ml Robert Bryan up. You ask, what kind of weapon is that? | am armed with an tron- WE WILL FREE OURSELVES | am a political prisoner, One of the people’s many revolutionary warriors, who has been captured and incarcerated, I know that this is only 4 temporary Stop over before freedom, because the forces of Uberation will liberate all POW'S, Even though I'm incarcerated, it does not stop me from func- tioning in the interest of the people, Because there are inmates here that can be educated about the op- pressor and this corrupt system, All over this fascist America, in thelr concentration camps, are progressive: poople who are ready of the difference between the Political ;, jail until our release can be nego- Prisoner and the regular prisoner. Bul tiated upon or we liberate ourselves since then, I’ve really begun to under- . stand what Huey means. The single most important thing that I’ve learned is that the force that has CONTINUE THE REVOLUTION AND — ADVANCE FROM VICTORY TO VIC- and our comrades is part and parcel of Robert Williams, P.O. W. the state apparatus that maintains con- ‘ the people in the streels, There Black Panther Party PRISONERS OF WAR, LACK PANTHER PARTY Southern California Chapter earth will continue to supply the necessary funds to keep their war- riors'feet on the ground until con- ditions force thet to realize that no amount of money will sariate these pigs’ thirst for Panther blood. And when that day comes, we will say, let court be held on the streets of Babylon! The faces of the criminal willbe revealed to everyone, Nixon, Ag- new, Hoover, and all their running dogs will be charged with capital offenses against all humanity, Crimes for which there will be NO BAIL and only one final en- compassing sentence: *'DEATH"! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Al Armour OUT willed ideology, the teachings of our beloved Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton, and the desire to see my people free, That in it- self is enough to classify me exact- ly that way. But the decayed walls, rusty bars and decrepit pigs shall feel the ‘‘unleashed terror of the madmen." If terms cannot be reached, then we will take further steps to free ourselves, Robert Bryan (Robert Bryan is currently in jail because a bailbondsman refusedto contimie holding his bail. He was originally arrested on Dec.8th 1969, after the 1.\, pig raid.) to deal death blows to the oppres~ sor for a better change. So, the oppressor cannot win, because we aregoing tomake revolution inside the walls of his fascist concentra- tion camps. And we, the madmen, are de~— termined to strike death blows in the heart of this capitalistic dog. Then we can bring about some soc= jalism, \ The Duck / (George Yours, The Duck” Asin the L.As County jailfor ass r witty 4 deadly weaponon a piz, p has « “*milicary hold’ by the Marines, He has been a since December 7, 1969.) — i Chairman Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins DAILY REPORT #20 DECEMBER 15, 1970 Jan VonFlatern SEVENTH PANEL SWORN IN: NO NEW JURORS. The seventh panel of fifty jury candidates was sworn inthis morn- ing. Twenty-two were examined and excused -- we are nocloser to finding a jury. Everyday, as the number of ‘‘fixed opinions’ in- creases, it seems that we are gett- ing farther away, Those excused: ~because of prejuuice against the defendants or the Party ~because of exposure to pre- trial publicity ~because of hardship by defense challenges, The defense has used 22 peremp- tory challenges of their 60; the pro- Secution has used 13, The panel, as they passed through the courtroom before lunch and at the end of the day, appeared to be still older than the ones be- fore it. There was only one Black on the panel -a woman who belongs to the ladies auxiliary of the American legion and whose hus- ban is a yolunteer on the New Haven police auxiliary, Despite the obvious conflict of interest which her serving wouldcreate for her, the courtrefused to excuse her and the defense was placedinthe unfortunate position of having to challenge her, The defense attor- neys, who have accepted a juror who has two relatives on the police force because he is Black and they wish to have every Black person they can get to serve, excused her reluctantly, The others on whom the defense was forced to spend challenges were: ~ an elderly White man who Served on the Board of Alder- men of the city for 12 years and is now on the Board of Se- lectmen. He also belongs tothe Elks -- a lily-White organiza- tion in New Haven, ~an elderly White man who had attended a testimonial dinner for a man whom he believed was Ni- cholas Pasteur, a cop who is tobe a witness in this case. Mr. Mar- kle questioned whether it was the same Pasteur, but the candidates definitive *' Yes."' when asked about capital punishment seemed adefi- nite indication of where his head was at, Court recessed early, DAILY REPORT # 21 DECEMBER 16, 1970 JAN VON FLATERN SEVENTH PANEL FINISHED WITH NO NEW JURORS, EIGHT YEAR OLD BLACK YOUTH BEATEN BY RACISTS In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the vincinity around 72nd and Greenway streets is predominately White, There is a small predomi- nately Black housing project near- by. The district school is majori- ty White. On November 17, 1970 Daniel Pilling, an ll year old White boy attacked and beat an 8 year old Black youth, Anthony Harris, as he passed through a playground heading for home. A few days later on November 24th, Daniel again ap- proached Anthony anda friend,De- von Nelson (also 8 yeirs old), when they were enroute home from school, After Anthony jumped out of his way, Daniel grabbed Devon. Da- niel was giving Devon agoodbeat- ing until Devon's older brother, James Nelson (9years old), inter- ferred, At this point because he was getting the worse end of the deal, Daniel ran, He tripped and fell, hitting his head on the curb. He was taken to the hospital, treated by his family doctor and released, His mother alleges® that he was hospitalized for eight days. As a result of this, 4 petition was filed in Juvenile court against James which reads: it ig alleged that JAMES NELSON DID, ON OR ABOUT 1/24/70, AT OR ABOUT 3:30 P.M, IN COMPANY, WITH SIM WELDER, AND ANTHONY HARRIS, WHILE AT OR NEAR 6600 CHESTER AVE, ACT IN A DISORDERLY MANNER AND STRIKE THE COMPLAINANT DANIEL PILLING, THEREBY COMMITTING ASSAULT AND BATTERY UPON THE PERSON OF THE SAID COMPLAINANT, THIS BOY IS CHARGED WITH ASSAULT AND BATTERY: CON- SPIRACY: AND DISORDERLY CONDUCT, YOU WILL BE NOTIFIED To APPEAR IN COURT, Sim Welder, one of James’ friends {s another witmess to the fight.) James defended his brother in a one to one physical fight but because he’s Black and his oppo- nent is White, he has been charged with a crime. Since the complaint has been filed, the juvenile officers have been harassing James and the other young brothers at school and ar home, The pigs are attempting to degrade and label another one of our youth as a hoodlum, disci- pline problem or juvenile delin- quent, We recognize that even our youth are not safe from racist ar- tacks and we encourage them to de- fend themselves by any means nec- essary, YOUTH TION! MAKES THE REVOLU- Philadelphia Branch Black Panther Party WE WILL FIGHT FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT] THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1970 PAGE 9 THE TRIAL OF ERICKA HUGGINS AND BOBBY SEALE With the examination and dis- missal of 10 people today, the se- yenth panel of 50 was exhausted. Those excused today; because of exposure to pre- trial publicity. ~because of hardship ~because they said they would always tend to believe a cop over a lawman, -because they did not fully ac- cept the ‘presumption of inno- cence™’ principle ~by defense peremptories The defense has now used 23 per- emptories of 60to the prosecutions 13, They were forced to spend a challenge today on anelderly White man who kept referring to ‘‘my country’’ ‘‘my government,"’ etc. He said that as long as ‘‘my govern- ment’* did not call the Panthers ‘illegal’' he figured they hada right to exist, but if ‘‘my govern- ment’’ which knowns more about these things, decided that they were “Hegal”’ he would support their decision. At one point, he said, con- trary to the presumption of inno- cence idea, that he would expect Ericka and Bobby to provide him with some information which would prove their innocence, However, after being coached by the judge, he changed his position (saying that he had misunderstood the question - which was very clear) to say that they had the right to present evi- dence. After over an hour of such verbal games, the defense had to spend achallenge they never should have had to use. The average age of this pathetic group was 49,8. ... the elght panel sworn in; no jurors, DAILY REPORT # 22 DECEMBER 17, 1970 Jan VonFlatern THE EIGHTH PANEL SWORN IN; NO JURORS 19 of the candidates belonging to the eighthpanel of SO were examined and excused today. Those excused: -because of prejudice against the Party or against the defendants ~because of expostire tonega- tive pre-trial publicity -because of hardship ~because they could not accept the principle ~because they were opposed to capital punishment -by defense peremptory chal- lenges There was one Black person onthe panel -- he was excused without appearing for reasons which were not announced, The judge is becoming more and more difficult about who he ex- cuses, Obviously, the thought that we may never get a jury without a fight. For nearly two hours today the defense questioned aman whose racism, while clear toeveryone, was not verbalized to the judge’s satisfaction, The man said ‘'I think they (the Party) teach children to hate."’ At one point, he said, ‘I have my opinion and I'm satisfied with It."’ But he refused to ack- nowledge thar this extreme bias against the Party would interfere with his being impartial with res- pect to its members and chairman, “The Party’s not on trialhere, I don’t hink,"” he said, The defense was forced to use a challenge on him. Other Quotations of the Day: **The defendants should testify so that both sides understand each other.** ***I'm a little partial to the Black people, because of what they've un- dergone,’’ (same woman)‘'Tome, life imprisonment is another form of the death penalty, a slower form,"" **! realize the position of both counsel, I know its a very diffi- cult case, But I just think sooner or later you're gonna have to pick someone."’ (comment by a candi- date) FREE BUSSING PROGRAM December 27, 1970, to Combat Fascism The busses will be 79th Street at 10:00 am, the National Committee is sponsoring a FREE BUSSING PROGRAM to the Ohio Penitentiary for all inner-city residents, who have friends and relatives in the Penitentiary, leaving from 2312 East For further information, please contact: National Committee to Combat Fascism Cleveland, Ohio Louis McCoy, Co-ordinator of Free Bussing Program (216) 881-5054 sue a! a With the war in Viet Nam going into the 6th year of major U.S. Involve- ment, with 50,000 American dead and still no definite prospect for peace, we are being forced to take a closer look at the arguments used by the U.S. goverument to explain wity we are In that country, The U.S, Government has always said that we are in Viet Nam to ensure freedom for the South Viemamese peo- ple, But with thar they"ve already con- tradicted themselves: Direct U.S. in- volvement began tn 1955 when the U.S. Government unilarecally moved to block the tree elections for all of Vietnam, provided for by the Geneva Accords, (The Geneva Accords established peace after the First Indochina War in which the French were defeated by the Viet Minh, The U.S. Government hypocrifi- cally promised that it would ‘refrain from the use of force to disturb the Geneva Agreements."’) Elsenhower gave the reason why the U.S. didn’t allow the elections to be held when he sald in his memoir. that 80% of all Viemamese would have voted tor the communists, The U.S, Government has also said the American people would be threatened by a Communist govegument tn all of Viet Nam, But how could we de threat- ened by a small peasant country, under- developed and with no industry to speak of? The government says a VC victory would threaten America; but it never fays how we, the people, would be threatened, it just throws oar the word Communism and expects us to take (iat word’'as @ treat to our Tires; What the government doesn’t say is that its policy of international anti- communism is just an excuse it uses to try and justify making us fight agalast people who only want the chance Co run thelr own countries in their own wuy. The reason the government makes guys like us fight against these peuple ts not because the U.S. is trying wo help them but because U.S businessmen ar fill- ing their pockets by exploiting these countries and by manufacturing the weapons the government uses to fight wars to protect the profits of the same businessmen, The State Department likes to pretend that this aspect of U.S, foreign policy doesn’t exist, The liberal opponents of the war, that is, the ‘‘doves"’ in Congress like Fulbright, Goodell, and McGovern, do the same thing when they claim that the Viet Nam war ie just some soct of unfor- tunate "‘accident’’ and not a necessary outgrowth of US foreign policy and the economic interests of the U.S, businessmen, The hypocrisy of their position was shown recently when many of these same ‘doves’ outdid Nixon in calling for Intervention in the Mix Eam, where U.S, business controls 55% of chat area's huge oll reserve, In reality, however, America’s sco- nomic empire is too big for either the U.S, Government or the Senate ““doves"’ to ignore, in terms of production, US.- _ownet baalay tees abroad are the oco- nomic walent of the third largest country in the world (alter the produc- tion of the (50) United States and the USSR), ggcording to thé U.S-@egnet of the loternational Chamber of Game merce. Abd contrary to give lei ete big’ corp@rations like talprojedhyabout thelr overseas ~ investments just don't hilid upianital Or provide more jobs in the pook ggane tries. Thésuperprotita which USi burke Rossés reap, abroad ov iy-shadow the amoonts Of-capiital they thvest, Latin America) plcitation bag -been especially concen trated) provities: a-good example: Be- tweet I9S0. art 1957, US. businegers took OWer three.times ap touch capital oUt_of Latin. America in profits as‘wns Putin ag investments, This net love of capital represents 2 huge drain onthe economies of these nations; it- means bed. rrade balances, spiraling national debts, and ever-tighter dependence On the WS) Much. of the exnanaion ton- sluts of buying Gp: inca) entarprides- process which tightens WS, control but Provides po furthor develonmestorsobd for the Countrins affected So-called “foreign aid’ “igang tol of ecocomic. expansion, ‘The ald con. tlt moerly lof inane: country Le given tradecr withthe condition that tt boy from the U.S, or another ounrry {n this homty- phere (which fi tostcases ing from a U.S. Sidlary). Noor TOTS are acnunt> Hazet> Wxpand abroad: Rit peente ean no longer keep pace @ith pgoduction, Whagy ‘aut the@eapiralistiegs Offreagons why the buyfaz pow happens thea 15 treprenmics slow Bow: lay off workers. Bir this makes maffers Messe for the system, since tha. paapl> a6 ANWiole can a9w consume lessierill, MK Uje Chali redhtign oes on, the Fear Praspresiionnst< she Great Per Pression of mheSo°8 Houses Wece full St goods. ant heshuin- Sry and jobless ~masises. tt no whan. to buy them.) The niscor; -.! hag heen a history of boom=> and ge. 2etremendouq-suppl sh Ihe Defense Deparw<al uses o list of am obogic andveritics! raw macerigls.to pallid it» stockpiinsi~ grain Accords clussiieationy the US, is, SOE, to LOR dependenr on) fordizn SS of the Od@qméteniall Strategic to militias) Aad conmereial industrial paoduerica. Materials Squee Paw iywerials. atin: the wanes at least 402 supplied (coin a@hroad, Three-fourths of the im- ported materials inclised pile program Jeveloped countries. The process of cx frites for raw mate efffect on thelr econ0™-cs, An example: Venezuela ts heavily Sspendeut on ot! producricn, and its ofl production is tn the hands of fore’ Companies, At theerote these com Ales (Amertifan, Britusn, and Dutch) fe extracting: oil) Venezuela's oi) cesct¥es are expected to bo exhausted tn Sfteen years, tin- leas the profits from the off wre tised ti wstablish other (0° Stry, Veneziela be left an eve" poorer country thin it is nowe-bur t¢ buloprne pro- fits go» abrowl, busiaett 25° uses the under- markets for from ibe ander- After the Great Depressiag capical= ists had to find ways of at least got tiag around the problem of overpro- doction in order t) survive and avoid a revolution--even if thelr meaag tid not solve the problems bar created an even grearer monster of senseless pro-~ loitlng these coun- alts has @ brutal et around the probles' of overproduction is 1 create few con- simmer demands, cing the people that tinless.they }ave a new Car every two years they are than hiiman, Another~ diracciog capitaiiam has increasingly relied upoo fe to Sell their surplus of prodicrs to foreign countri#e, Finishes protccis are exported ar high prices ant raw | nported atcheapprices, US } vond atities Pir Covelepeyeas of the poor nations, Such trade hag always been maintained by ‘the WS., but hae musiiroomed since WWI, ; possiblity je that capital- iam can | produce things which dan't even | hayes te -be- consumed, anh o4 sot a means cornvin«- edits, usually. corporation or @ub- Maney eaves the U,5.: Money Comes into the US. developed’ countrie® finiuhed 5, product® The need for export markets fo Nat shed products * Of the type of ecdsomidieyatem we lin. tno canital- lat eysteni, aittforen “\erpriage must constantly compete © Plotore more and More in ordar co OUlF tp thelr cortter- tore, Thiss tends 00. Temulr ty crepe dekerdoction: “So much pro hace, shut materials are’ The valded'* calgon sane tre) tom hug \reriean equipment often mire expen tive than W, PANE enega petit, te sctually Ald totes. bas trong become obsolete before they are fin- ished, This is great for the business- man: The people are taxed to build armaments and pay for wars, The pro- fits from such senseless production go into the pockets of the capltal{st, and he isn’t faced with the problem of adequate consumer demand, since the the people don’t buy (or benefit from) this particular type of product, However, the armaments and Wars are in turn necessary to protect the Amer- ican Business Empire and assure the U.S, businessmen of continued access to cheap raw materials, foreignslave- wage labor and export markets for thelr goods. The military protects an Empire and provides lucrative defense contracts for business. The high government post which affect the military and foreign policy are filled right down the line by top men from business and finance. The other side of the coin ts the 2000 retired brass who step from the mili- tary into plush corporate posts andi help land the defense contracts for theic companies, The military and economic institu- tions Interlock and benefit each other beautifully, Only the people get screw- ed; We lose in terms of the 50,000 war dead and in terms of the young men being robbed of their freedoms in the military, The American people lose out by having to pay and work to main- tain the colossal war machine, As long as half the world's resources are absorbed by six percent of the world’s population, as long a& the U.S, ruling clase muintaines ite econamic empire while approximately one out of every two people in the world suffers from malnutrition--as long as this goes on there will be VietNam wars--Amer- icans will be forced to die for less than nothing in bloody wars of aggres- sion, The ruling power elite and irs current instrument, Nixon, understand one thing very well: [f the US, military is forced our of South-Hast Asia by the combined force of the Vietnamese people’s struggle and our anti-war movement, the effect on the stability of their Empire will be disastrous. Oppressed peoples everywhere will be encouraged in their struggles for national liberation, The American peo- ple will be far more resistant to the next attempt to launch America into a bloody imperialist adventure, U.S. business is not exploiting the Viet- namese enough even to begin to pay for the costs of the war, However, Uw “‘loss’’ of Viet Nam Iimperils the potentiality of U.S, businessmen to go on exploiting all the \non-Soctalist i worn the polatiot view ah tbase who rule America, the Vietnam War ts no ‘‘accident’’, [rt ta/ cons! with | the class interests of the ruling clagy Nixon represents, Vfet Nam Wars’ will go on until enough le realize where tes ar and {net the war and against those who profit fromtit § On November 4, 1970 the Pentagon’ released Its latest listing "9 4 - . COMPANY 2, General Dynamics Corporation . 3. General Electric Company 4, American Telephone and Telegraph Company 5. McDonnell-Douglas Corporation 6. United Aircraft Corporation 7. North American Rockwell Corporation 8, Grumman Corporation 9. Litton Industries ern p10, Hughes Atrerafe Corporation 1. Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc. 12. Boeing Company 13. Textron 4, Westinghouse Electric Corporation 1S. Sperry Rand Corporation %6. Honeywell, Incorporated 17, Genera] Motors Corporation 14. Raytheon Company 4 19, Ford Motor Company ‘| 20, Aveo Corporation = hen ’ - _ THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1970 PAGE 12 Industries moved from the number 21 spot to the number 9 spot, but other than that the top of really changed much from last year,,,or the year before that, As a matter of fact, the list never does vary too much} ause the corporations at the pinnacle of power in America never change, These are the great war corporations, HEADQUARTERS Burbank, California New York, New York New York, New York New York, New York St. Louis, Missouri East Hartford, Connecticut £1 Segundo, California Bethpage, Long Island, N, Y, Beverly Hills, California Culver City, California Dallas, Texas Seattle, Washington Providence, Rhode Island Pittsburgh, Penasylvania New York, New York Minneapolis, Minnesota Detroit, Michigan Lexington, Massachusetts Detroit, Michigan Greenwich, Connecticut SOME IMPORTANT DIVISIONS AND SUBSIDIARIES Ventura Mfg. Co., San Antonio, Texas Quincy Shipyards, Quincy, Massachusetts Stromberg-Carlson, Rochester, New York (most are identifiable as G,E, plants) Bell Telephone Laboratory, Holmdel, New jersey Western Electric Company Bellcomm Inc., Washington DC Sandia Corp,, Albuquerque, N.M. Douglas Aircraft, Long Beach, Calif, and Tulsa, Oklahoma Conductron Corporation, Ann Arbor, Michigan Pratt & Whitney, East Hartford Hamilton Standard, Windsor Locks, Connecticut Sikorsky Aircraft, S Stratford, Connecticut Norden, Norwalk, Connecticut Autonetics, Anaheim, Calif. Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi Data Systems Division, Van Nuys, Calif, and Dayton, Ohio Guidance & Control Division, Woodland Hills, California Manufacturing Divisions at El Segundo, Calif. and Tucson, Arix. Missile Systems Division at Canoga Park, California Memcor, Inc., Huntington, Indiana (most are Identifiable as Boeing plants) Bell Aerospace, Buffalo, N.Y. and Washington D.C, Bell Helicopter, Fort Worth, Tex. Dalmo-Victor, California Aerospace Electric, Lima, Ohio Defense & Space Center, Baltimore, Maryland Univac Information Systems, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Univac Federal Systems, St. Paul, Minnesota Vickers, Troy, Michigan Ordnance Division, Montgomeryville, Pennsylvania Marine Systems Center, Seattle and Los Angeles Allison Division, Indianapolis, Indiana Cleveland (Ohio) Ordnance Plant AC Electronics, Milwaukee Wisc, Hydra-matic Division, Ypsilanti, Michigan Philco-Ford, Philadelphia, Pa, Western Development Laboratories, Palo Alto, California Aeronutronic Division, Newport Beach, California Lycoming, Stratford, Conn, Everett Research Laboratory, Everett, Massachusetts continued from last page Ue. 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Westinghouse appliances and lamps Remington Rand office machines Remington shayers UNIVAC computers Honeywell computers Honeywell photographic products Honeywell thermostats Cadillac, Pontiac, Buick, ] Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Opel, Vauxhall Frigidaire appliances Delco products, AC spark plugs Amana appliances Radarange microwave ovens ‘Genocide against Blacks has eon tried on every level since the of this commtinity known as America, commencing with e conditions on the slave ships when Black people were taken from the Mother Country and brought to live as slaves. On the slave ships the slaves were all tied together, sometimes, without food or any human nec- essities, They were often tied to- ge in twos, by handcuffs on their wrists and irons on their legs. Their diet consisted chief- ly of horsebeans, Sometimes when they refused to take food, coals of fire would be placed on shovel and put on thelr lips resulting in Scorching or burning. The ex- clusion of fresh air was the most intolerable, The contaminated air produced fevers and fluxes which many Blacks died from. The floors of the spaces allotted to each slaye was covered with blood and mucus and the analogy to a slaughter- house was obvious. We could go on indetalls andex- plain the conditions that Blacks had to live under in order to survive during this perlod. These con- ditions were used in the murder of large numbers of Blacks. From the time the ships landed to the time the first bail of cotton was picked genocide was put into practice. From birth control me- thods forced on Black women, or no welfare checks, to pigs mur- dering Blacks in the streets incold blood. From the pig landlord who refuses to obey the order of the people by repairing houses so that they are fit for human habitation, to the federal, state, city and county prisons and jails that have owner- ship of thousands of Black people's lives. These are just a few of the genocidal methods practiced by the pigs of this society in orcr tokill off millions of Black people. The pigs have found another, not So blatant, but more effective me- thod, to destroy millions of Black people by destroying the so called Medi-Cal program. By destroying the program they have delayed a patient’s entry into a hospital even if itis an emergency. You will no longer be able to go to your doctor with an illness and be treated im- mediately, The doctor is allowedto EDITORI In Vol. V No. 25 A HISTORY OF GENOCIDE see you, check out you illness and then he must submit the patient's medical charts along with X-rays to the State Welfare Department and they alone will decide whether 4 patient needs that medication, operation, or any type of medical treatment. This process may take at least three to nine months. In the meantime your health will either deteriorate or you will die. Not only does everything have to be checked by the Stare Department for approval, but patients can no longer be admitted to any hospital unless they are in danger of death, Even then, the Welfare Department may not approve it and the bill will have to be paid by the doctor, Ur- gent operations will be postponed and drugs will be rationed for the poor and many will be impossible to obtain, even if a doctor wants to prescribe: that particular drug. There are new and severe rules which will limit the kinds of drugs that can be prescribed for Medi- Cal Patients, A patient with an in- fection was recently denied an an- tibiotic which was not on Medi- Cal's approved list even though it was urgently needed and this is just one of the problems that the op- Pressed people will be faced with. The people will have to decide what is important, Their health or a pig's budget program, If money was spent in areas that are ur- gently needed, there would never have been a cut-back on Medi- Cal. So whar the people have todo, is demand that Reagan and his other pig partno~ step down andthe people take over. It is the right of every human being on the planet earth, whether in the community of California or of Hanoi to have the basic neces- sities of life, if these are notgiven to us then ic is our duty as human beings to take them POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FREE BOBBY! FREE ERICKA FREE ALL SONERS| POLITICAL PRI- Gloria Smith Central Headquarters Black Panther Party Oakland, Calif. AL NOTE (December 19, 1970) of the Black Panther, an article con- cerning the trialofa Baltimore Panther, Ochika Young, contained a point of mis- information. The article stated that the jury was all white. However, nine of the 12 jurors were Black. This doesn’t mean, however, that he had a jury of his peers. All of the Black people on the jury were part and parcel of the oppressive system, They were com- munity lackeys and bootlickers who scorn anyone who struggles for the freedom of all oppressed people. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1970 PAGE 13 PRISON BULLETIN December 1970 New York's jails exploded in open rebellion in October, 1970. The stage had been set in July and August when rebellions occurred in the Tombs, and in October the fire was lr throughout the city, Firstthe Long Island City facility, then the Tombs again, followed by Brooklyn, Kew Gardens in Queens, and the Rikers Island Adolescent Remand Shelter. In Long Island City, the Tombs, and Brooklyn, hostages were seized to back up the demands that were made. The demands were simple--that men being held in jail be treated as human beings, and that the collu- Sion by 4 racist judicial system that keeps them confined before trial and then railroads them be ended, Shirley Chislholm, Herman Pad- illo, and John Lindsay were called upon by the inmates to bring an end to the conditions. After conced- ing that there was justification for the demands and a crying need for change, the promised ‘‘no repris- als’ in exchange for the release of the hostages. They lied, They betrayed the brothers who had be- lieved their lies. At the same moment that Lindsay onspiracy had been incarcerated in LIC. They were being held in isola- fon from the general population because of the fear of their ideas, and the guards themselves have tated that they could not have init- ated the rebellion, Meanwhile, the conditions have not changed at all--in fact, the atrocities have become more blatant, MUR- DERS, called suicide by prison of- ficials---Julio Roldan of the Young Lords, A, Davila, LaVerne Moore, David Negron-—-were justified by a supposedly impartial Board of Cor- rections working in collusion with corrections Commissioner McGrath and appointed by the same city admin- istration that had promised ‘'no re- prisals."’ Shirley Chislholm andHer- man Sadillo remain silent about was meeting with representatives of|their Mes, On December 17, addi- the inmates ar the Long Island City/tional indictments were announced, jail, after the release of the hostages, |this time it was seven from the Rikers inmates that had surrendered were|Island Adolescent Remand Shelter being beaten by the guards, Inmatesjand three from the Bronx House of at the Tombs were placed under 24|Detention, hour lock up, their visits were sus- pended and mail withheld, while sev- eral of the leaders of the rebellion were beaten severely. ection of the Young Lord Party, Days later, indictments werehand-jand the Black Panther Party, are ed down against a select group offworking with the brothers and sis- inmates--24 from the Hrooklyngers incarcerated In New York City House of Detention and 4 from thejjails. The beatings, the murders, the Long Island Ciry Jail. They wereffilth and degradation, and the high charges with riot, comspiracy andpails that kidnapping. Less than two wecksjsisters later, four more indictments werejinhumanly, MUST BE ENDED, THE OAK PARK FOUR In Sacramento, California, four brothers are currently on trial for the sniping of a pig last May 9h, Mark Teemer, Jack Strivers, Book- er T. Cooke and Cerlaco Cabrallis are charged with conspiracy to commit murder and murder, After pig Bennett met his death in the Sacramento Black commun- ity of Oak Park, a massive manhunt was conducted. Day and night, the people were terrorized In the same manner as the people in New Or- leans, South Africa and Viet Nam. When this Telgn of fascist terror didn't produce results, the Sacra- mento City Council offered a $5,000 reward for information that could lead to the arrest of the sniper. Ar this point, a deranged dope addict came to the front with not only evidence about the murderer but also with evidence about a conspiracy. On May 9th, Lamont “‘Buster"’ Rose allegedly/ over- heard the four defendants talking in McCletchy Park about killing a pig. Later on he observed the bro- thers iinplementing their plan, In order to avoid a preliminary hearing, the prosecution sought and obtained a grand jury indictment against the brothers. However, this in the final analysis was no better than 4 preliminary because the de- fense has been able to consistently point out major differences between his Hes to the grand jury testimony and his present ones, There are no finger prints, guns or any physical evidence against the brothers. Both Booker T. Cooke After hearing the doctor's expert analysis, the judge decided to accept Rose’s testimony anyway, To alleviate some of the physical Dr. Carl Drake, a psychiatrist and Dr. Walter Bromberg, a neurologist and pschologist have testified that Buster Rose is Incompetent as a witmess. The doctors heard three days of Rose's testimony without the SUry PEC. They a complete medical nistory of Rose which included a report of brain damage, suffering and to help combat the medical genocide being proacticed on the Black Community, the East Oakland Branch of the Black Pan- ther Party is implementing a Free Health Clinic, To get the people's clinicunder- way @8 Soon as possible, we need your help, We need carpenters, made in secret---they Include one] The Black Panther Party willsoon against Victor Martinez, who had]be been bailed out from the Long Island] PROGRAM to take the relatives of City Jail and was working with the |inmates Inmates Liberation Front, formed|Many relatives cannot afford the trip, lout of that crisis. They alsoincludedjand many inmates have no visitors © against Lumumba Abdul Shakur [because of this. and Kwando M, Kinshasa, of the] The Black Panther Party and the Panther 21. Ten of the Panthers|Inmates Liberation Front are calling urrently on trial in New York forffor the people to mobilize to end Starting a FREE BUSSING to visit upstate prisons. 1¢ inhuman conditions that exist in is city’s jails, and to support the ive point program that follows; 1) To insure that no person be detained in jail because he or she is unable to make bail. 2) To investigate and act on the brutal, unjust, and inhuman treat- ment being executed on the inmates. 3) To assure that an inmates com- mittee be set up in the concen- tration camps, and that they be permitted to communicate with the outside world, 4) To assure that inmates are given speedy trials, and have access to counsel of his or her choice, and that none of the people con- stitutional rights and basic human rights be violared, 5) To assist the inmates upon re- lease in meeting his or her basic needs; housing, jobs, education, food, clothing and medical care, Contributions to the Bail Fund of the Inmates Liberation Front may The Inmate Liberation Front, a]be sent to: INMATES LIBERATION FRONT c/o Young Lords Party 1678 Madison Avenue New York, N.Y. keep our brothers and/For further information, contact: Incarcerated illegally and|@lack Panther Party, 328-9009 or Inmates Liberation Front, 427-7754 Ceriaco Cabrallis In exchange for four brothers’ lives, Lamont ‘*Buster’’ Rosé will receive $5,000, enough money to Support his dope habit until he finds new victims, Every attack on the people brings the pigs closer to their death, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! NOTICE TO THE PEOPLE OF EAST OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA electricians, and. painters to donate thelr time. We need sheet rock, paneling, paint and other building material, We will counter-attack these fas- cists on all levels, -~We will build 4 People’s Free Health Clinic, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE East Oakland Community Center ~ ~ = THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER %, 1970 PAGE 14 NO JUSTICE FOR BLACK Airman Tim Demby, a black man formerly of the 47th Student Squad- ron (he has since graduated), last month found Air Force justicetobe “pretty expensive thing--espec- fally when you are black and the Prosecution witnesses are white. Once again, the Air Force lived up to its tradition of determining “how guilty’ a person is in a court-martial, when a special court-martial composed of a Lr. ~~~ Col, and three Captains foundDem- by guilty of assault on Oct. 7 and reduced him in rank to airman basic, as well as fining him $80 4 month for six months. Originally, Demby had been char- ged with aggravated assault; speci- fically, he was charged with strik- ing airman George Highsmith and injuring his eye in a fight ourt- side the 47th barracks the night of Sept. 1S. During the trial, Demby’s civil- jan defense attorney (Rick Halper- in) brought out the fact that High- smith himself had no idea who had hit him, More importantly, though Highsmith (who was ‘'mightly drunk" at the time--to use his words) denied doing anything to provoke a fight, his friend, airman Pigar, admitted on the stand that they had come from the Chevron, Singing loudly, and had shouted out- Side of the 47th and 48th Squadrons “48th sucks!’ and 47th sucks|'’ Following that, when Demby had appeared in a door of the 47th, Pigar had challenged him to *'come on out and fight.” Throughout his testimony, Pigar consistently re- ferred to the black men of the 47th as ‘*Negro boys."* The two other important wit- nesses of the prosecutor, Captain ___ Olson, were airmen Huff and Ga- tone, whose testimony often seem- PEOPLE ed to be in perfect harmony with each others’, who were roommates for awhile before the court-martial, and both of whom mysteriously transferred from the 47th to the S4th soon after Sept, 15. Olson was only able to prove through these two that they had seen Demby run out to the fight and that someone who they ‘‘thought’’ was Demby had moved his foot “‘back and forth,” in a kicking motion--that is, that they did not actually see Demby hit or kick Highsmith, only that he had run out to the fight that resulted after Pigar challenged the 47th. This however, was enough for the court of officers, working on the principle that ‘if Demby was there, he must have done something,” , and Demby was found not gulity as he had been charged, but guilty | nonetheless, Thiteen American Servicemen’s Union brothers are standing up to a Marine Corps frame-up in Japan, for striking back at brass harass- ment, The national office of the ASU is supporting the 13; ic has contacted some of the most experienced mil- who handled ASU cases before, They are reidy to go if expenses and Majstation in Japan decided that they © |had had enough bulls-- and rebelled swiagainst the harassment; lousy con- ditions and long delays in coming to mrial, Thirteen men are now fac- Bling S years each for ‘leading the riot.”” Most of the men were, of course, being held inthe brig for the‘'crime** fof U.A, (AWOL) and had not yet been tried, Iwakuni has been the scene of jstrong EM resistance to the Brass and opposition to the war in South- east Asia forthe last several months. ASU members and supporters have been putting out an anti-war, anti- Brass newspaper called ‘'Semper Fi’ and a strong ASU chapter has been there since last March. With the support of Japanese civilians ion the outside, marines staged an anti-war demonstration off post last April 12 and s small demon- Stration by marines followed on baord Iwakuni MCAS, The Brass retaliated last May and une by shipping out six of the or- ganizers of ‘‘Semper Fi'’ and the Iwakun! ASU -- some with one day's otice. Much to the dislike of the ers, “‘Semper Fi'’ and the ASU ontinued to grow at Iwakuni, in spite of the seare tactics of the Brass, What is important about this entire display of justice is not whether or not Demby was involved in the fight that developed after a couple of drunken airman from the SSth challenged the 47th, andcalled him a “Negro boy.”’ What is im- portant is that Demby was not tried in this case by a jury of his peers--but rather by a court of appointed officers. Point no. 7 of the ASU's de- mands is; ‘Rank and file control of court-martial boards." If Demby had been tried by a jury of his peers--specifically, if a repre- sentative number of black airmen, who could more fairly judge what should be the proper response to racist provovation such as Pigar was handing out the night of Sept. 1S, had been on the court, the ver- dict on Tim Demby’s trial might very well have been different WE WANT ALL BLACK MEN TO BE EXEMPT FROM MILITARY SERVICE! AN END TO SALUTING AND SIR-ING OF From time to time, we will run articles in AFB which will explain “> at greater length the basic demands of the American Servicemen's Un- fon’s ten-point program. The fol- lowing article is the second of this series; it was written by one of the ASU brothers here at Chanute, ASU DEMAND NO. 3. An explanation of this demand can be put simply in ‘just one word-- “why 7?’ Why should we salute and show respect for these idiots who are no better than us and in many cased know less and in almost all cases are generally worthless? How can we say that officers are worth- Jess? It is yery simple. Enlisted men can go about thelr work very easily without any harassment by the Brass However, if there were == no people for the honchos to order around, they wouldn't have jobs. To put it another way, they need us, but we don’t need them. And we don’t want them, Another reason to stop this non- sense is to put an end to the caste system that the American military is built on. Even in high school we knew enough to be horrified at the fact that caste systems still exist in remote, backward nations. But in the military, we are forced to accpet the concept iat everyone should go around - OFFICERS wearing their position on their Shoulder so that those of lower rank can be properly respectful and those of higher rank can be properly scornful. A.S.U. BROTHERS FACE BRASS COURT IN IWAKUNI, JAPAN While these things were happen- ing, ASU members and other EM imprisoned in Iwakuni’s brig were taking increasing harassment while waiting to be tried for their so- called crimes. On July 4, the s--t hit the fan and the men took over part of the brig, refusing to take any more of the harassment being dished out to them, Armed guards -violent- ly broke up the protest and 16 men were picked as scapcoats. With char- ges dropped against 3 of the men, 13 ASU members now face general court-martial the Marine Brass have decided to use these brothers as scapecoats, blaming them for the rebellion. The truth is that the Marine Corps Brass provoked the rebellion by harass- ing the men and denying them speedy trials. One brother, Pvt. Davidson, has already been sentenced to five years in prison and a D.D, These farme- ups must be stopped and our bro- thers must be set free! The ASU is calling on all its members to help these brothers now. Every ASU member can help. We must spread the word of this frame-up to as many of our fellow Gls as possible. Start a petition campaign in your unit calling for the release of our brothers--Grelf, Robinson, Cook, Hermansky, Rob- erts, Obledo, Weddell, Morgan, Dan- fels, Jotnson, Burton, Ewing, and Davidson, These brothers are being railroaded--we must come to thelr aid, FREE THE IWAKUNI 13! Money to help pay the legal de- fense of the Iwakuni 13 should be semt to A,S,U,, Room 536, 156 Pifd: Avenue, New York, N.Y, 10010 Grom the Bond) FT. RILEY --- Another alarming thing about this caste system is its similarity to the caste system which existed (exists?) in the Orwellian world of 1984. The officers are anal- agous to the inner party, Theyhave special privileges, more pay, better living conditions, there are fewer of them (this is very important) etc., etc. They wear uniforms that no other group is allowed to wear so that everyone will know whose ego to inflate as soon as these pigs are spotted, They are sir-red, respected and coddled to no end and are at the core of the power structure, Of course the NCO’s are the outer party. They are part of the power structure and have plenty of privileges, but of course don’t approach those of the inner party. And then these are the proles. Us. The airmen who get to do all the shit. And not only are we forced to wear our uniforms of despair which show we are the shit-eaters of the place, but they make sure our appearance is different (those haircuts for example) so thatevery- one knows we are the proles any- time they see us walking down the street, even in civilian clothes, Enough! End this caste system! David S. FIGHT AGAINST RACISM by Pvt. Mitch Smith (Ret.) Black GI's and white supporters The next day the Brass called directive to allcompany commanders at Fr. Riley have been letting the their own meeting. The command- co assemble their men for an addi- Brass know what they think of their Ing general of Ft. Riley assembled clonal lecture, One C,O. told his men racist military machine. the 15,000 men under his command, chat the Army doesn’t need a rey~ It started at a post theater last and addressed them on what had olution. (He and the other Brass month when the movie showed 4 been going on on base, The mili- certainly need one.) lynching scene, and someone inthe tary, he said, is the ‘‘least racist audience stood up and cheered, A institution in this society'' (if this The Brass were able to break up fight immediately broke out bewteen is true, all that tells you is how one meeting, but they weren’t able the black GIs there and the racists. racist is), Much of what the G.S, to save the mess hall in one com- Later that night, posters appear- said was incoherent, but he made pany that has a large proportion of ed all over the base announcing ahis own fascist mentality pretty black Gls, It was burned to the meeting of the brothers to discuss clear, He said that there was no ground, One black GI who had been grievances, The meeting took place excuse for what had been going on thrown in the stockade for leading and the Brass responded with the and that he would find out who was the struggle on base was released. usual racism. Officers Invaded the responsible and have them court- ‘The brass were afraid that what had meeting and each man was given a martialed ‘‘even if they are white.” happened to the mess hall might direct order to return to the bar- This 2-star pig also issued a happen to the rest of Ft. Riley. racks, DESERTION RATES SOUR Desertion rates for the Army and has really pissed the Pentagon off. al Crime Information Center compu- the Marines have shown 4 startling A directive, issued around last Sept. ter for help in making arrests. (it's not really startling, due to the 14, from Deputy SecretaryofDefense Not surprisingly, military officials circumstances; drastic might be 4 David M, Packard outlined for the lay the blame on the Vietnam War, better word) increase over the last first time a uniform policy for allthe ‘Most of those who go AWOL do three to four years. services to follow in dealing with so right after getting their Viet- Pentagon figures show that in the deserters and AWOLs. nam orders,” said one official, 1967 fiscal year some 27,000 men ‘The directive calls for the esta- j deserted the Army, The number in- blishmen of a Deserter Information - / creased to 39,234 in the 1968 fis- Point to act as a central processing on pi: dD getting cal year, 56,608 in the 1969 fiscal agency In each of the services “foro, may GU ch © problem. year which ended last June 30, The the control, hunting, and dissemina- See’ flight rather Marine rate over the same period tion of information” on absentees, ic 8" fight because they know’ thar increased nearly 2 1/2 times from also calls for an increase inthepres- {#f there were any purpose, excuse, 6,654 in the 1967 fiscal year to over ent §25-award for help in arresting °/UStificationfor war, it 48 to lay 16,000 in 1970, deserters, Information on alldesert- 0%" life on the Une for something This ‘referendum on the war'’ ers will be fed to the FBI's nation- “at one holds sacred and dear, THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1970 PAGE 15 PORTUGUESE IN GUINEA The Portuguese invasions of Guinea- Conakry over the last several weeks were a desperate! effort by Portugal to hold on to its colonial empire in Africa, Like the U.S. in South Vietnam, popular armed struggle has driven Portugal up against the wall in its West African colony of Guinea-Bissau, The invasion of neighboring independent Guinea-Conakry was Portugal’s ver- sion of Cambodia - its objective was to eliminate a friendly sanctuaryand supply base. PIGS AT BAY The colony of Guinea-Bissau is a small Portuguese-ruled enclave on the coast of West Africa, sandwiched be- \ tween Wie” African-ruled states of Guinea-Conakry and Senegal. Its peo- ple took up armed struggle against Portuguese colonial rule in 1962 under the banner of the PAIGC (the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and the Cape Verde Islands). Led by Amilcar Cabral, one of the most impressive revolutionary figures onthe world scene today, the PAIGC has already liberated nearly 80% of the col- territory. Despite these impressive gains, Port- ugal slill controls the coastal area of the country, This circumstance has forced the liberation movement to get Supplies and maintain international con- tacts through neighboring Guinea-Con- akry and Senegal. Portugal’s invasions of Guinea- Conakry were only the latest inaseries Of maneuvers designed to cut off and isolate the PAIGC’s support and assis- tance from fellow Africans, Last year, Portugal conducted terror campaigns against Senegalese villages in the areas bordering Guinea-Bissau. The Port- ugese bombed these villages and drop- bed leaflets warning of further attacks if the Senegalese people continued to aid the guerrillas in Guinea-Bissau, These campaigns in Senegal unfortun- ately produced tke intended results. The smug Senegalese leadership, headed by conservative Leopald Senghor, no longer permits the PAIGC to train or Seeksanctuary on Senegalese soil, Seng- hor has even stopped the flow of sup- plies through his country to rebel forces in Guinea-Bissau. Unlike Senegal, Guinea-Conakry has not been intimidated by Portuguese terror and harassment, Led by Presi- Amilcar Cabral dent Sekou Toure, it has openly support- ed the anti-Porltuguese struggle to the North, In the early stages of the lib- eration struggle, Guinea-Conakry allowed the PAIGC to maintain schools, hospitals, trianing facilities and other support institutions on its soil. Most of these functions are now carried oul in the liberated zones of Guinea-Bissau itself, but Guinea-Conakry continues to offer whatever support is necessary. The PAIGC keeps its headquarters in Conakry, the capital city. Most imporlt- ant, Guinea-Conakry remains the only route by which supplies from the out- side world can get through to libera- tion forces within Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Conakry has made periodic reports to the UN during the past four years that Portugal has been bombing its border villages and conducting fre- quent overflights deep into its terri- tory. The failure of these attempts to terrorize Guinea-Conakry into a change of policy left Portugal with only one more option- the resort lo naked aggres- sion. This option materialized in the recent series of invasions by Portugal, and again led to failure. Some Africans participated in the in- vasion force, including political exiles Jrom Guinea-Conakry and colonial quis- lings from Guinea-Bissau who side with the Portuguese against the liberation movement, It is difficult to establish exactly how many Portuguese and other European mercenaries there were be- cause many of the whites wore black- face. All of the officers were Port- uguese, and the invasions were planned and launched from the coastal part of Guinea-Bissau which Portugal still con- trols. According to Radio Conakry, the African soldiers involved were trained by the ubiguitous (seeming to be every- where atthe same time) Jean Schramme, a former Belgian army _ colonel. Schramme is one of the Free World’s Green Berets at-large, having fought as a mercenary in the Congo, Angola, and elsewhere in Africa, As an experl in such ‘‘Vietnamization’’ programs, he was probably invaluable to the Port- uguese in organizing the recent opera- tion in Guinea-Conakry. Schramme has just starteda chicken farm in Portugal lo keep busy during the off-season, The intentions of the invasions are fairly clear from the actions carried out once inside Guinea-Conarky. Pres- ident Sekou Toure’s summery villa was burned to the groundand the presidential compound in Conakry was attacked (without sucess), An army camp was seized long enough to release brisoners. who included both political opponents of Toure and Portuguese soldiers cap- tured by the PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau. Also, both the PAIGC headquarters and the home of its leader, Cabral, were totally destroyed. Fragmentary reports suggest that some 38 - 50 invaders were killed and another 100 taken prisoner, About 400 Guineans were killed, including random terrorist at- tacks on women and children. The invaders apparently sought to as- sassinate President Toure in the hope that a new regime would join with the Senegalese government in cutting off support for the people’s struggle in Guinea-Bissau, Portugal made common cause with political exiles from Guinea- Conakry in the attempl to eliminate Toure, Perhaps in return for Portuguese assistance in helping them try to seize power in Conakry, the exiles promised to cut off aid to the PAIGC, Strong as PAIGC now is, the loss .of sympa- thetic Guinea-Conakry next door would have been a crushing blow to ultimate victory, The Portuguese counter-insurgency effort in Guinea-Bissau is failing badly by all accounts, The invasions were a last-ditch attempt by Portugal to win in Guinea-Bissau by wiping out the top PAIGC leadership at its headquarters in Conakry, and especially to assassin- continued on next page 4 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1970 PAGE 16 continued from last page ate the charismatic Cabral, It was probably also intended to intimidate the peoples of Portugal's other African colonies, Mozambique and Angola, Both these colonies, larger and considerably more valuable to Portugal than is Guin- ea-Bissau, also have armed liberation _ Struggles, But of the three movements, Guinea-Bissau is the most advanced, Portugal desperately feels the need to defeat the PAIGC as a warning to the people of Mozambique and Angola that their armed liberation struggles are futile as well, The UN observation team recently returned from its fact-finding mission PORTUGUESE IN GUINEA Conakry brings home once again the in Guinea-Conakry has upheld Toure’s fact that Portugal can maintain its im- charges that Portugal invaded his country, though Lisbon continues to issue make-believe denials of any involve- ment, The UN mission noted that ‘‘the invaders had received support that could have been given only by a major foreign power with well-equipped and well- organized armed forces,”" Portugal, easily Europe’s poorest country, is neither a major power nor is its army well-equipped, But NATO ts, Portugal’s invasions of Guinea- perialist role in Africa only because of its NATO membership, It fights its colonial wars by grace of the NATO arsenal ~ Italian fighter planes, French helicopters, German boats, and Amert- can bombers, transports, rifles, am- munition, and napalm. While the U.S. occasionally yawns in protest over con- tinued Portuguese colonialism in Afri- ca, the peoples of both Guineas, Mozam- bique, and Angola dodge the shrapnel (shell fragments) of American industry. ORDER OF THE VIETNAM PEOPLE'S ARMY HIGH COMMAND ON DECEMBER 10,1970 In implementation of the appeal of the Party Central committee and the officers and men of the infan- try units, allservices and bran- ches of the armed forces, the militia and self-defence forces, the people's security armed for- ces, and the workers and employ- ees of national defence establish- ments; 1), To realize clearly the stub- born nature and arrogant and reck- Jess, acts of the U.S, imperialists who are plotting to attack the North In an attemprto stave off the danger of their defeat in Soutli Viet Nam, Laos and Cambodia, to realize clearly their sacred duty to defend the fatherland and the im- Portant significance of shattering all the new maneuvers of the en- emy against the North, seized every opportunity to wipe out neat- ly the enemy, coordinate witi other battlefields to inflict still heavier setbacks on the enemy. 2) To greatly enhance their combat-readiness, both morally and organizationally, work concrete plans, train in an urgent manner, stand ready to fight the u- = x ~ ~ 4 ‘ P From a collection of Chinese art works in support of the Vietnamese — . z list property and offices'of the party and government, and strictly ensure security and order, 5) Observe unity and close co- ordination among the various arms and services, between the three kinds of armed forces between the army and people, between the arm- ed forces and the local party and administrative organs, and strict implementation of the army's or- ders and discipline, andalithe pol- icies and laws of state. The High Command of the Viet Nam people's army appeals to the people in all localities to be al- ways combat ready, stand shoulder to shoulder with the armed forces to wipe out the enemy, while bo- osting production and fulfilling the Sacred duty of the greaétrea: cb she — great front. Holding high the banner of ‘de- termination to fight and to win,’ giving full expression to our fine nature and tradition of ‘loyalty to the Party, devotion to the people,’ and acting upon President HO CHI MINH'’S sacred testament, For independence, freedom and the reunification of the fatherland. enemy wherever and whenever they come and in whatever form and with whatever forces they come, Be resolved and take the ini- tiative to fight the enemy when- ever they come and fight violently and victoriously. Detect enemy planes whenever they e¢nter our airspace, shoot them down when they come, hit them with the first rounds, bring down many of them on the spot and capture many U,S, alr pirates. Be resolved to wipe out neatly people’s struggle. and quickly enemy commandos and infantry. 3) Be determined to keep com- munication and transport open in all circumstances, and if neces- Sary, open the way to advance, fight the enemy to move on, and al- ways meet in the fullest manner and In time all the requirements of the bartlefields. 4) Doeverything to defend the People’s lives nd property, socia- For socialism, For our noble internarionalist duty, let all our armed forces ad- vance valfantly | Hanoi December 10, 1970. VIETNAM VETS BRING WAR HOME Valley Forge, Pa. Sept. 7 (Gl Press Service) - A 125 man unit of Viet- nam veterans and active duty Gls Staged a sucessful search and des- troy mission, clearing the roadfrom Morristown, New Jersey, to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania of enemy forces along the route. “Operation R.A.W. (Rapid Amer- ican Withdrawal), as its organizers called it, was designed to dramatize the war by simulating actual combat conditions. Lasting four days, the operation staged incidents along the route of march such as ambushes, apprehension of VC suspects, and ; KIA’s, And actors from a Philadel- phia theatre group took the place of Vietnamese, Public response in the towns along the march route was mixed, ‘'tr shocked people beyond belief that this was. actual policy in Vietram" sald Craig Scott Moore, 8 march organizer and vice presidentof Viet- nam Veterans Againstthe War. Cralg told GI Press Service he sensed 4 Oe es ‘total aversion to actua) truth" by many people who saw the march, Some even refused to believe that the marchers really were Vietnam yews, or that some were Marines who had come back from Vietnam as little as two weeks before the Revolutionary Xmas Party: Rabbit DISCUSSION: Police MUSIC: Live Performance (Lumpen) ONE OF THE MANY G.ILS WOUNDED IN AN UNJUST WAR march, Operation R,A,W, was terminated in Valley Forge on Labor Day, The unit arrived at the purk, carrying TO THE PEOPLE Xmas Day, December 25 4PM to lO PM their mock M-l6’s, their wotnded, their body bags, and joined 2000 2230 10th Street supporters in a rally callirg for West Berkeley immediate withdrawal from Indo- . ‘ = . China, Community Cente? FREE FOOD--Turkey, Chicken, FREE REVOLUTIONARY GIFTS IN THE SPIRIT OF REVOLUTION Chairman Bobby Seale and all Po- litical Prisoners are fré Greet Santn Wits & Bans | FIL MS--Bobby Seale Battle of Algiers Huey Newton Fred Hampton Community Control o =e See = a eee 177 mummies 71+ | mmr + tt) mms} ttt mmm pp October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program ‘ N | ‘ N | ‘ ‘ ‘ | MINISTER OF DEFENSE, BLACK PANTHER PARTY What We Want What We Believe 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter- mine our destiny N | \ \ \ | ‘ ‘ N | N N N ‘ | s s N . ‘ \ N ; | HUEY P. NEWTON, N ‘ S | \ N N | s s | \ ‘ | S | ‘ N N 2. We want full employment for our people. We Selieve that the federal government ts responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income We believe that if the white American businessmen will not give full employment. then the Means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of The community can organize and em ploy all of its people and gave a high stundard of living LS Se ER LOLS pate, CEES OE LE LLL LEEE LLL EEE EE LEE CE ESS OE STS S tt tt es tts mmm 2 pp 3. We want an end to 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 inte 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 else “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- lary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being 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 thetefore 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! 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so 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 @ 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 nian” 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 peopie 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 scem 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 Bul. when a long train of abuses and USUrpalions, pur- suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism, it ix their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern- ment. and to provide new guards for their future security. 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