Vol. 6, No. 2

AGK PANTHER = Black Community News Sides 2 e cents MINISTRY OF INFORMATION BOK 2967 aes ieTeles PANTHER PARTY cusrom Mouse SAN FRANCISCO, CA S4176 PUBLISHED WEEALY BE camer, sa SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE 2 -—_------+--------- INTERCOMMUNAL DAY| OF SOLIDARITY For BOBBY SEALE CHAIRMAN OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY , . <ESS <a a a AE FRIDAY, MARCH STH, 1971 7:00PM to 11:00 PM OAKLAND AUDITORIUM ARENA 10= TENTH STREET , # = = ages OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA | me | , | A | | And POST-BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION For HUEY P.NEWTON MINISTER OF DEFENSE AND SUPREME COMMANDER OF 4 THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY | COMRADE HUEY P. NEWTON WILL ALSO BE SPEAKING 54 Revolutionary Singing By The LUMPEN Of The Black Panther Party backed by THE FREEDOM MESSENGERS | e Plus THE GRATEFUL DEAD Also _THE VANGUARDS EES =< <A ae ASS TICKETS ARE Maries AT THe WE FOLLOWNG LOCATIONS: TICKETS 5 $2. 50 Atl Door oor $2.5 50 EST BERKELEY BRANCH, 6.Pp. BLACK PANTHER PARTY CENTRAL DISTRIBUTION 13936 FILLMORE ST. SAN FRANCISCO | | E fy | | [ | | BAY AREA: BLACK COMMUNITY INFORMATION CENTER J106 SHATTUCK AVE 1321 99TH AVENUE EASTOAKLANOD = 425 CHESLEY ST RICHMOND = BERKELEY INFORMATION CALL 415) 465-5047 -5048 -5049 FOR FURTHER (415) On May 9, 1970, in the Black Oak Park Community of Sacra- mento, California, a city patrol pig was critically wounded by a sniper. A few days later on May 13, 1970 the pig, Bennett, expired. After Bennett's death, amas- Sive manhunt was conducted, Day and night, the people were terror- ized in the same manner as the People in New Orleans, South Africa and Viet Nam. When this reign of fascist terror didn’t produce results, the Sacramento City Council offered a $5,000 reward for information that could lead to the arrest of the sniper. At 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- \ ssihh =§ FOUR ACQUITTED heard Mark Teemer, Jack Strivers, Booker T, Cooke and Ceriaco Cabrallis talking inMc- Cletchy Park about killing a pig. Later onhe allegedly observed the brothers Implementing their plan, Both Dr. Car] Drake, 4 psychia- trist and Dr. Walter Bromberg, a neurologist and pschologist have testified that Buster Rose is incompetent as a witness. ‘The doctors heard three days of Rose's testimony without the jury present. They compiled a com- plete medical history of Rose which Included a report of brain damage. After hearing the doctor’s expert analysis, the judge decided to accept Rose's testimony anyway. However, later in thetrial pro- ceedings the judge refused to sani allow the *~osecution witnesses to corroborate their testimony. For the prosecuting attorney this was an unexpected turnover that forced him to file a motion for acquittal. Last week after eight months incarceration on obvious- ly false charges, the Oak Park Four were released. Like the people freed Black Panther Party Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton in August and now the Oak Park Four, so the people must go forward to free Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale and sister Ericka Huggins who are both facing the electricchair in New Haven, Connecticut. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE 3 HE OAK PARK| THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA CREATES “BLACK AMERICAN DAY” It is Interesting to note that the fascist Reagan regime in California has suddenly decidedto give its black folks some play, After a long legal struggle, Rea-~ g4n andcompany finally decided to set aside a day just for Black people. A month ago, the Black Panther Party had selected March 5, 1971 as an Intercommunal Day of Soli- darity for Chairman Bobby Seale and 4 Post Birthday Celebration for the Black Panther Party Minister of Defense and Supreme Commander, Huey P. Newton. Just a few days ago the State of California declared March Sth as Black American Day, Why the State chose March Sth Is a puz- zlement even to their own pig media who wrote, ‘‘the Senate Finance Committee changed the date with no explanation given.’ In the original bill, January Sth, the birthday of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was scheduled for the observance, Concerned Black citizens had been previously trying to get either the January [5th date or April Sth as a tribute to Mal- colm. One thing {s certain, the racist State legislators turned a deaf ear to the wants and desires of its Black citizens and arbi- trarily chose March Sth as the date to honor Black America, Allegedly this date was chosen because it is the anniversity of the death of Crispus Attucks. This year, 1971, marks the 20lst anni- versary of Attucks’ demise, Around the time of his death, the British Empire was extracting ex- cessive taxes from its American colonial subjects and the British Soldiers had set up garrisons in key cities such as Boston, Phila- delphia and Charleston, N.C. Dis- ciplinaryactions had already been taken against the people in New York by customsagents and, pro- test actions in other cities, parti- colarly Boston, had become very vigorous, The American people were demanding an end to British rule and an end to taxation without representation, Fights broke out between the colonial subjects and the British Empire. Crispus Attucks, ablack sailor, chaincabin boy and run away slave also believed in ‘‘freedom". The ex-slave of twenty years also be- Meved that British rule must come to an end, On achilly day in March 1770, Crispus Attucks led a group of patriots against British troops who were occupying Boston, The valiant black man was armedonly with a stick, The British opened fire and five people were killed, CrispusAttucks was the first tobe killed, thus becoming the martyr of the Boston Massacre, Ie is ironic that the first man to die in the prelude to the A- merican Revolutionary War wasa Black man, & run away-slave, who had interwoven his individual freedom and presumably the free- dom of his people into the freedom of his oppressor, What is even more saddening is the fact that some four to six years later, these same men who Crispus Attucks had cast his lot with and laid down his life for will- fully, systematically, and with cold-blooded and inhuman intent denied Black people the same rights this Black man had shed his blood for, This is the essence of the debt that the slave has to pay the master: he has to forfiet his Life to perpetuate the master's rule, The racist ruling clique of California, headed by Ronald Rea- gan, wouldn’t concede to the People’s demands and choose the birthday of ~ a black freedom fighter who is more relevant to Black people, such as Brother Malcolm, or Denmurk Vesey or Nat Turner. The State law, in part, states that ‘March Sth of each year is designated and set apart as Black American Day to direct attention to the develope- ment: of Black People inthe United States of America, In other words, the stipulation for Black people's developement is predi - catedon what lengths the slave will serve the master. The state law goes on further to state that “all public schools and institu- tions shall observe this day with Suitable exercises’, As if in sacred obedience, sud- denly since the official announce- ment by the State of Black A- merican day, numerous organiza< tions have set aside March Sth for various rallies and/or cele=- brations. It is reminiscent of the Congress of African People's fu- tile attempt to undermine the Re- volutionary People’s Constitu= tional Convention Plenary session in Philadelphia over the Labor Day weekend, 1970 by scheduling thelr conference in Atlanta at the very same time. The official emblem adopted by the state for Black American Day bears the inscription ‘‘Be all you can be,’’ However, the fundamen= tal question is for whom. Be all you can be in the {nterests of the oppressor or be. all you can be in the struggle for the Uberation of the world’s oppressed, FREE BOBBY & ERICKA Central Headquarters Ministry of Information Black Panther Party THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE 4 A STRIKE FOR SELF - DETERMINATION On February Ist, the students of Merritt College seized the business office of the college and called for 4 general strike in support of the demunds for community control of Merritt and “'keeping the Grove street campus open and in full opera- tion,”’ The take over started at $:30 in the morning and was led by the combined forces of the Black Student Union, Chicano Student Union, Asian Alliance, Women's Student Union and the Revolutionary Students Depart- ment.Over |,500 students parti- cipated in the picketing, and « majority of the students of the college boycotted classes. The take-over and strike was the culmination of 5 months of struggle on the part of the stu- dents to achieve self deter- mination for the students as well as for all oppressed people. Since the fall of 1970, stu- dents have been struggling to seek a just solution tothe prob- lems we face on the Merritt College campus, We had spoke to Doctor Norvel Smith, the Ad- ministration and the Peraira School board, But they refused to listen to our demands for self-determination. They told us that we were engaging in ‘cheap rhetoric."’ Finally after Several attempts at discussing the situation, we went in mass to a Peralta school District mecting and jammed the board until they voted in favor of the four demands that we presented, the accepted demands were; 1,.)Community control of Merritt 2.)Our own funds to run the col- lege. 3.}Community control of Ala- meda and Laney Colleges, 4.)Keep the Grove Street cam- pus open and in full operation. After voting in favor of our demands the board started to backslide, almost immediately. 8 UNITED Ww 350 see Tae noe ; mee Ay, - Rew emt | - Protesting students marched on the administrative offices at Merritt Junior College in Oakland They began to make plans to move equipment, supplies,most of the course offerings, and library materials to the Hill College campus. (A site in an all-White, petty bourgeois, sur- burban community), This was done in an effort to make stu- dents go by force, not by their choice, to the Hill Campus. As If thar weren't enough, they began to act as though they didn't know what Community control meant. They slandered us on T.V, and inthepress. They even went so far as to sic thelr top bootlicker, Norvel ''Fetchit’ Smith, onus. Understanding that we couldn't be sucessful in our struggle against the Board, if we didn’t develop 4 mass movement of students, we began an edu- cational program. We wanted to educate and involve all the PANTHER ARRESTED FOR From the time of the inception of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party, allofthe various fascist elements of Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside, Santa Ana, in conjunction with the U.S, Empire king of oppression, J. Edgar Hoover, have conspired and plotted against the existence of the vanguard Party. When Al- prentice Bunchy Carter, Deputy Minister of Defense of the South- ern California Chapter (assassi- nated on January 17, 1%9) or- ganized the Chapter, it became clear to the pigs that for their own-well-being they had to fabri- cate cases against Panther mem- bers; and two young bootlickers (black pigs) were chosen as the tools to help create these cases, These two lackies (Adams and Farwell) have been assigned as Party watch-dogs, scouts before a raid and court wimesses for conspiracy cases. Adams, however, liad not been seen by any Party members for quite a while after the December Sth, 1969, réids on our offices and homes. Gut recently Adams popped up again, trying to inti- midate a servant of the People. On January 26, 1971, while sel- ling Bleck Panther Party news- papers, Lemuel ‘'Hysiwa’’ James was kidnapped from the streets - on 4 jay-walking warrant, Hysiwa was disseminating in- formation to the People, when two Los Angeles County Sheriffs, Dep- uty Palmer and Deputy Stoneman of Lennox Division, pulled up and demanded tis LD, However, In 10 minutes, the pigs had produced an alleged jay-walking warrant. They arrested Hysiwa on dis pre- text. Once at Lennox Division, it became obvious that the real reason for kidnapping the brother from the streets was so he could be turned over to nigger pig Adarns for interrogation, Adams, in a desperate attempt to save face (as he had turned in So little information to his bosses re- cently), tlendishly questioned Hysiwa. Finding that he wasn't getting any answers, Adains be- came completely frustrated. He began to use coercion, And fina- lly, he resorted to physically attacking Hysiwa with the use of his goon squad, But all of this students of the campus in the struggle for control of the school, The 8,S.U, in particular be- gan to implement survival pro- grams in the community, such as a Free Breakfast and Free Clothing Program and a Day Care Center, and along with other organizations we conducted a very extensive educational program for stu- dents, faculty and community people. This educational pro- cess continued to the beginning of the winter quarter, At that point the board and administra- tion had completely gone back on their word, Instead of honor- ing our demands on community control, and keeping Grove Street campus open and in full operation, they began to sabo- tage our struggle for these de- on campus, JAY— WALKING proved void for Adams. Adams has moved from informer to gestapo trooper. For he, like his brother bootlickers, is the type who, a5 Malcolm sald, ‘*... would give their life to save the Master's house, quicker than the Master would,"" And the Peo- ple know who Detective Adams, former Jefferson High School Stu- dent, 77th Division, Los Angeles Police Department is. And the People know the Master's house is on fire, ALt POWER TO THE PEOPLE! mands, We examined the situation and decided that we had to take our struggle to a higher level, To combat the treacherous actiyi- ties of the Peralta Board, and the Merrie Administration, the different organizations moved on the Business Office, We weren't quite sure how the stu- dents would respomi tothe take- over. Tu our satisfaction, the students responded in a strong and revolutionary fashion. In short our educational campaign to raise the level of awareness of the students paid off. Over 1,500 students immediately boy- cotted and attended a mass meeting in the auditorium to make plans for the picketing and a unified gencral strike. Picket lines were set up and students moved through the classes school talking to other students in classes, 80% of the student body and faculty supported the take-over and strike . The Black Studies Department and Chicano Studies Department closeddown completely, Norvel Smith, President of the college, began to try and buy us off by of- fering the students, who were involved in the take-over, amnesty, But we wouldn’t be bought off. How can you com- promise your survival? The picketing lasted all day and we converged upon the school board meeting thateven- ing , 700 strong. It took many hours of oinks and lies, but we put the board up against the wall and they voted in favor of our demands. We submirred our previous 4demands andalsode- manded: 1.) That no pigs be sent on campus, and if they do come on campus, the board would con— demn any act of violence init- iated by the pigs, 2.) All equipment courses, li- brary material, cafeteria, everything stays at Merritt. At this time we left the Business Office and rescinded our call for a general strike. But understanding the true na- ture of the board and its lack- jes at Merritt, we understand that most of the demands that they voted in favor of, they won't be able to deliver. So therefore they will probably yo back on their words. At this time we are preparing for March, where we know, we will be beginning the final stage of our struggle, “Until victory for the demands we have made.”" BLACK STUDENTS UNION MERRITT COLLEGE MT. VERNON PIGS TO INSTALL PEOPLE WATCHERS As the political consciousness and awareness of the oppressed people here in the communities of North America Intensifies in understanding the necessity for armed struggle to transform the conditions of their lives, the re- pression by the American Em- pire’s ruling class increases, In the January 13, 1971 issue of a local Mr. Vernon, N,Y,, newspaper, the city announced its intentions of installing a ‘po- lice-operated, low level televi- sion system’ which will provide 24 hour remote control surveil- lance of the Mount’s Fourth Ave- nue shopping area, The federal government granted the city pigs $32,000 to install the cameras which will be placed on light poles on both the corners of Fourth Avenue and First Screet and Fourth Avenue and Second Street, Sometime in February these cameras that can detect anyone within 1/2 mile even in extreme darkness will be instal- led, The Fourth Avenue Area — just happens to be the heart of the Mt. Vernon Black community and the location of the shopping area most frequented by Panthers and community workers selling papers. However these new mechanical pigs being added to the force can- not stifle the revolutionary fer- vors In the masses of poor, op- pressed people. Following the example of the courageous Viet- namese people, we will not be trapped by the oppressor’s geno- — cidal attenyxs t6 pemus in the) many urban glettos throughout the North Américan community, ‘The spirit ofthe people tagre! = er than the’ man’s technology.” ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLEL The McKay family like all the people of the oppressed commu- nities throughout the world, are the victims of the same pig harassment, from the very same source: The U.S, Empire. Dur- ing the latter part of the summer of 1970, fourteen-year old Mel- vin McKay had a confrontation with the Oakland pigs. He was at that time falsely accused of as- saulting a police officer. Since this Incident, the Oakland plgs have launched 4& consistent program of harassment against the McKay family. On Monday, January 25th, 1971 around 10;00 or 10:15 P.M. in East Oakland, Johnnie Brown Mc Kay and some of his friends and relatives were driving from the Subranny Park area, going to- wards the North Oakland Hills. From there they went home to their residence at 6937 Lacy Ave. During the whole time they were driving, Johnnie McKay and his passengers noticed that the Oak- land pigs were following them. As Johnnie and the passengers of the car reachedtheMc Kay's home and got out of the car, Johnnie asked the pigs why they were following him, Words were passed between Johnnie and the pigs. Suddenly one of these pigs grabbed Johnnie, and another be- gan choking him. By this time some of the other pigs attacked Johnnie's friends and relatives, who had been riding with him. Johnnie's mother, Mrs. May Mc Kay, who was inside of their home heard all the shouting and ran our of the house. When she reached the front of her house, she saw these pigs beating her relatives and choking her son. She pleaded with the pigs to re- lease her son. She realized that they were actually killing him. SOCCOSCHESOHE DPGHODPHDIDOHHGSHHOOH We will not hesitate to kill or die for our freedom, hysterical, at the these dogs were Becoming thought that choking her son to death, she moved towards the pigs, shout- ing out pleas to’release her son, At this point one of the pigs drew his gun from his holster and pointing it at Mrs. Mc Kay'shead told her that if she came any closer, he would kill her. By this time pig reinforcements had arrived (approximately seven more pig cars). At the very in- stant of their arrival, these pigs joined in on the attack of these people. In the fight between the Mc Kays and the fascists, 4 gun was knocked from one of the pigs hands, Harry Mec Kay (who Is fifteen years old) and Mrs. Mc Kay went into their home to callsome oftheirrelatives to inform them of what was happening. When they did this, approximately 15 pigs kicked in the door. Melvin Mc Kay and Henry Mc Kay were bea- ten and handcuffed, Melvin was arrested under the false pretense that he had seized the revolver of one of the pigs and had ar- tempted to kill him. Melvin, as well as Mrs. Mc Kay's sister, her nephew and her husband were also arrested, All were charged with battery on a police officer, resisting arrest, and profanity. They were taken to the Alemeda County jail, where they were again beaten, while being taken down the hallway of the building, They were all booked. Fifteen year old Melvin Mc Kay was the only one released, He was released on $375.00 cash bail, But the rest of the family was held without bail. Johnnie Mc Kay and Robert Charles Wil- liams, (Mrs. Mc Kay’s nephew) were taken to the hospital, due to the injuries incurred from muce, And at the present time, fourteen year old Harry McKay is being held in Oakland's Ju- venile Hall for assault and at- tempted murder on 4 police of- ficer. The other people who were arrested were after a week, re- leased on $3,000.00 ball each, What happened to the Mc Kay family is one among many such terrifying incidents which happen daily within the U.S, Empire, as well as intercommunally, (throughout all the oppressed communities ofthe world) Just as the U.S, Imperialists invade, terrorize, and murder the people of the world, they use the same techniques here within the American Empire. Revolutionary people of the world have moved to the highest level of solving the contradictions between the op- pressed and the oppressor. We too must join forces with our In- tercommunal comrades for our survival, and take the power out of the hands of the U,S, ad- ministrators and return it to the oppressed peoples of the world, THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE b) ENTIRE FAMILY BEATEN AND JAILED EDITOR'S STATEMENT In our struggle for freedom we must combat many evil forces including the lying force of the establishment news media, For this purpose and. in the service of the people, the Black Panther Community News Service functions as the voice of the community, Your support is necessary however and we ask you not only to read the people’s organ but to contribute by sending in com- munity news articles to the; Central Ministry of Information 1048 Peralta Street Oakland, California PIGS HAVE NO CASE AGAINST SOLEDAD 7 Beginning in January, 19704 series of the most overt (open) atrocities in the prison history of this barbarous empire began, Soledad Prison guards began a reign of terror in a perver- ted attempt to quell the revolu- tionary fervor and potential of some of the most beautiful and productive members of the op- pressed community - those bro- thers in maximun security. They began with the vicious and brutal murder of three brothers on the ‘yard’ one morning by racist guard O.G, Miller. Shortly afterwards a guard was found dead, Searching for political scape goats, they came up with the Soledad bro- thers, Fleeta Drumgo, John Cluchette and George Jackson, Struggle and consciousness escalated and on July3, 1970 another guard was found dead, Not satisfied with railroading just the Soledad 3, the prison administration plotted again, Fifteen more brothers were put on the ‘‘block"’, isolated from the main prison population in strip cells for 28 days, and not advised of their ‘‘constitutional rights’. The number was even- tually cut to 7 brothers who were subjected to beatings, illegal interrogations, and charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. Tuesday, Feb. 2, 1971,Salinas District Attorney, William Curtis, admitted in court that he had insufficient evidence to convict the brothers, The court formally dropped conspiracy charges on all of the brothers. However, the prosecution re- fused to concede everything. Murder charges were dropped on only four of the seven bro- thers, Jessie Phillips, 19, James Wagner 29, and Rossevelt Wil- liams, 24, have been singled out as objects of D.A, Curtis’ and the Salinas county judiciary’s last stand for fascism. THE SOLEDAD 7 PTUV ICT eed iif THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY MURDER BERKELEY PIGS | Pa “) DONALD CHARLES ‘= THEARD On Sunday January 29th, two brothers walked into the Tele- graph Avenue Co-op Supermarket to expropriate money thar right~ fully belongs to the people. The events that followed left one of them dead and is a clear ex- ample of a vicious profit motive system which places more value on preserving capital (money) than presorving human life, The following is an eyewimess - account of the events thar led to the murder, Around 8:00 Sunday, (2%h) two brothers entered the store. One alledgedly put a gun to the ribs of Michael Day, the manager, and demanded that he turn over the money, The manager pro- ceeded to the cashier's booth where he tripped the burgler alarm which automatically reached the Berkeley Pig Pen. According to Robert Wood, cashier, the brothers proceeded toward the exit with money in hand. One of the brothers left the store before the pigs arrived, Then Woodsawthe second brother about to go through the door when a single pig arrived holding a shotgun, followed later by 12 shot- gun carrying pigs. Wood then be- came reactionary, an encmy of the people, an informer; he point- ed to the brother and told the pig, ‘That's the one.” The pig pointed his shotgun at the broth- er’s head and said, ‘‘Hold it right there."’ The brother re- mained calm and started to back away, backing down the hallway, past the pharmacy into 4 dead- end hallway. The brother was then ordered to lie down. According to the Gazette the brother wheeled and fired a .38 at the pig while he was going down. Wood, the eyewitness, did not see this. Wood saw the officer fall back from what the pigs called gunfire and opened up on the brother with “OO Buck"’ as he lay on the ground, FREE The Black Community Infor- mation Center of Las Vegas, Nevada, is implementing a FREE HOT BREAKFAST PROGRAM for school children, Breakfast will be served every morning, Mon- day through Friday, between 7:30am and 8:30 am at the Zions Methodist Church located at 2108 Revere Street in North Las Vegas. We recognize that our youth will be able to comprehend and learn more if they have been fed a good hot meal. So, a5 reyolu- tionaries we have to set up Sur- vival programs pending the re- volution. The FREE HOT BREAKFAST PROGRAM is one of fll Le to wee ee eeeeeeeeesoeeeeeeeeseree , FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE 6 The brother never had a chance. Anyone familiar with ‘OO Buck” is aware of the re- sults of anyone shot at close range. There were nine holesfrom what seemed to be “'OO Buck"* at the end of the hallway. Seven were grouped in a small foot wide circle going through the wall just to the right and another was very low --- three feet below the holes in the window. The so-called official policy at the Co-op Is to allow the parties involved in expropriation to leave the store before calling the pigs in order not to endanger the lives of others. Of course, like all other lies that have been piled on top of more lies regarding the preservation of human life under this fascist system of profit and murder, the cold, objective fact of the brother laying dead on the floor, slain by the protective arm of this fascist system, is fairly conclusive evidence about the values of this monstrous. ¢m- pire. The brother has now become another statistic, one of the countless number of oppressed people who have been cut down by the vicious hand of the oppres~ sor. We must never rest, we must never bend, we must never bow another head until we have totally succeeded in avenging the unnecessary murder of humanity. We must never be counted among the broken men, we must walk courage and carry the banner of inter-communalism to its highest, revolutionary inter- communalism. We must trans- form our oppressed communities into Uberated territory. Let us work together with gun in hand and drive these murderers from our community. Death to the Fascist Pigsilll Black Panther Party Berkeley Branch PROGRAM these survival programs. Ween- courage all of the beauriful people from the community to help us in implementing this program because we understand clearly that the people and the people alone ure the motive for- ce in the making of world histroy! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Death To The Reactionary Pigs! Black Community Information Center 1933 Hassell Ave. Las Vegas, Nevada Tommy Las Vegas, Nevada Ou Children Two young Black men, 17 year old Ray Chatman and 19 year old Melvin Lee Taylor have been ac- cused, tried and convicted of the murder and robbery last March 7 of Kenneth Meiner. Meiner was 4 17 year old white youth on duty at the Circle K convenience market located in Phoenix, Arizona atthe time of the alledged murder and robbery. The two defendants surren- dered voluntarily on March 18, 1970, and declared their in- nocence, Mrs. Chatman believes her son Ray is innocent and urged him to surrender saying, ‘‘there is no way of telling what might have happened to him. | was @- fraid he might be shot by police.” Mr. Taylor had similar senti- ments, saying, “I'm afraid if they find him and he tries to get away and he’s armed, or even if he isn't, they won't just shoot to stop him, They'll (police) shoot to kill.” Witnesses at the scene origi- nally described the two suspects as being 59 9, 120 pounds, medium build and complexion and & 7, . 180 pounds and stockily built, with one suspect possibly being Mexican-American, But Taylor and Chatman are 9 91/2" , 145 pounds and § 8, 140 pounds respectively . Both are dark complexioned, Neither eould be classified as short or stocky. There were no Black jurors or Black jury candidates. Black court spectators, present during jury selection, were strongly advised to leave the courtroom by an at- torney or face possible arrest. The Black spectators were told thar their silent presence Intimi- dated jury candidates. Five witnesses testified under oath that Taylor and Chatman were elsewhere atthe time of the crime. Chatman was said to be home sick with an infected tooth, During trial testimony, white evewitness said Negroes look alike to me.” After the trial one of the Public Defenders said to Mrs. Chatman "*t didn’t do my best because I wasn’t sure they were innocent-- 1 don’tknow much about Negroes.”” He also admitted that he should have investigated more than he did. The lawyers also admitted to friends of Ray and Melvin that they (the lawyers) felt the guilty of the one ‘all two were all time WE WANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BY BREAKFAST Point number three of the Black Panther Party’s' 10-point pro- gram states: ‘We want an end to the robbery by the capitalist of our Bleck community.” Ever since Biack people have become & community we have been cheated and robbed of our much needed money by the greedy busi- nessmen, who have offered us nothing in return. Folsom’s Market, located on the corner of Northampton and Washington Streets in Roxbury, Known for its cheating of Black people, has devised a new scheme tosteal money from our people, On January |S, (Martin Luther King Day), a community sister went to Folsom’s, one of the few Stores open, to cash her check, When the cashier re- eeeeee TREE EEE EERE EEE EEE TEETH HEE cececcvcccesseccceseesess turned her money, sherecognized YOUTH FACE GAS CHAMBER — On several occasions during the trial, Taylor and Chatman tried to dismiss their court-appointed attorneys. Their efforts were blocked by the judge. On December 18, the all white Jury found both defendants guilty of first-degree murder and or- dered them to pay with their lives. They were also found guilty of armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. On January 25,1971, Ray Chat- man and Melvin Taylor were sen- tenced to die in the gas chamber on April 14, 1971, Due to the stran- ge nature of white “justice” they were also sentenced to 40 years to life for each count of assualt with a deadly weapon (2) and for each count of robbery (2). On entering the courtroom one could see that white people, es- pecially the law enforcers, knew that the brothers are being messed over by the court. There were at Jeast seven (7) police inthe court- room and about 10 on the outside. Of course, we were searched as we came in the courtroom. One can only speculate as to whether or not the white people were sear- ched. One thing is clear, the white racist court system was at work. After Melvin Taylor was sen- renced, Ray Chatman was brought before the judge. When asked ifhe had anything to say before sen- tencing, Ray replied that he cer- tainly did. ‘The following is a list of some of the discrepancies he noted: 1. Ray had asked for a copy of the preliminary hearings. He was told he could not have one. Only after intense debate between he and his attorney did he receive the transcripts. After he did re- ceive the transcript, certain por- tions had been torn out. 2. One of the stare’s main wit- nesses, Mrs. Ida Long, a clerk at the market at the time of the robbery initially testified thet she had not discussed the case with anyone. Then in 4 later hearing when asked if she had discussed the matter with her sister (also 4 clerk in the store at the time of the robbery), she replied, “We talked about it, but we didn't discuss it!"* 3. The descriptions given to the police by Mrs. Long, initi- ally did not conform with those that she was one dollar short. When she asked for her missing dollar, she was told that the store charges one cznt on every dollar to cash checks, Because Fol- som's was about the only store open in Roxbury, almost every she mentioned in the trial, 4. Mrs, Long gave co testimony as to whether or she had read anything about situation in the paper, looked T.V, or listened to the anything in the media, Ho at alater hearing, she ad) "1 looked for it but Ic find iti" did you find out abourthereward, She answered, ‘'From a friend.” 5, When the police investigare they found palmprints allegedly — of the robbers on the cash re- — and Melvin’ palmprints they didnot — match, When the police were asked did they compare the prints with any other person's prints they as - any other person's prints they — answered, “‘No", when asked, ‘Why ?'' they answered, ‘‘We lost them,” 6, Ray Chatman learned that the police detective who investigated — the case was talking and framer- nizing with the jurors as they were waiting to be interviewed, He | asked his attorney to motion that these jury candidates be excluded - bur nothing was done. 7. Some of the jurors seated were not registered voters. When this was discovered these persons were taken to be registered. 8. Since Melvin and Ray are young some of the jury should have been young people. There were some jury candidates interviewed (young whites), but when it wa learned that they were law stu- dents or that they were interested in law, so they were dismissed. From the above it is apparent that the statement, ‘liberty and justice for all'’ does not Include Black people. Ir is necessary that all people who belleve In justice for the poor, as well as the rich, send funds immediately. It will be necessary to secure a compe~ tent lawyer. . an If you believe in “‘iberty and justice for all" send you contri- bution immediately to: The Taylor - Chatman Defense Fund Post Office Box 2662 Phoenix, Arizona §S002 mother on welfare had to go there, to get their checks cashed. som's took full advantage of One sister whose check only mounted to $43.50, had to Folsom's $1.50, a Folsom'’s by no means, This is an account told by Carol Rucker, a member of the San Francisco Branch of the Black Panther Party, of what happened Thursday evening, Jan, 28, 1971, when she was beaten and kid- napped by special pigs. “T had just dropped Earlene off at the San Francisco Black Panther Par- ty office on Fillmore Street, I was dri- ving down Fillmore Street headed to- ward Fisherman’s Wharf. I was down by Washington Street, when I looked in the mirror and noticed for the first time that there were three pigs fol- lowing me in a white Plymouth - two white pigs and a nigger pig. I was on my way to a book store to deliver Pan- ther papers, which is part of my re- gular paper route each week. The pigs followed me all the way to the store, When I got out I didn’t see them any more. I didn’t know whether they had turned or gone on past me, I went on into the store, and when I came out, I still didn’t see them anywhere, I got back in the car and drove on down the street further (I was on Geary Street). When I got to the corner and made my turn, I saw them inthe mirror again, I then decided to call into the San Francisco O.D. (Officer of the Day) and let him know what was happening. By the time I had parked the car and was open- ing the door to get out, the pigs had pulled up along side of me and had opened their car door and told me to get in, I told them that I wouldn’t get in the car until they showed some identifi- cation, and I also asked if I was under arrest, One of the white pigs pulled out a badge and I read the number on it, (it read 113, Special Police). They then asked me to get in the car again, Ll asked them again if I was under arrest and what were the charges. The nigger pig then grabbed me and pulled me out of the car completely, and one of the white pigs threw me on the ground, The second white pig pulled a stick from the back of the pig car and putiton my neck and held his foot on it. The nigger pig then walked over me and got in my car THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE 7 PANTHER KIDNAPPED AND BEATEN BY SPECIAL GESTAPO PICS and drove off. (The car is still missing, It is a: Green 1968 LeMans, license number WHY - 173.) One of the white pigs handcuffed me, while the other pig continued standing on my neck, Then I was picked up and thrown against the car and searched, Then for the third time they told me to get into the car. I asked them for the third time if I was under arrest and what were my charges. Then one of the pigs hit me and knocked me against the car and threw me in, This whole incident took place around 2:00 to 2:30 p.m,, in the downtown area of San Francisco, There were many peo- ble walking back and forth along the streets. Most of them were white busi- nessmen and housewives going shopping. CAROL RUCKER The only reaction the people had to the whole incident was what was it I had done to cause the pigs to treat me so. At no time did anyone try to stop the bigs or even ask them directly what they were doing. When the pigs had first gotten out of the car, I noticed they were staggering, and their eyes were ved, I assumed that they were drunk, When we were inside the car, they were laughing and making jokes about the Party (Black Panther Party), using ‘Party terminology. They were also try- ing to get me to answer a lot of ques- tions: one of them was about David Hilliard, Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party. They wanted to know what kind of ‘‘business’’ he had back East; and if he was back East or was he at ‘‘homebase”’ as they put it. They also made a joke about killing a Pan- ther sister by having sexual inter- course with her until she would die, They said it as if this would be one way of really hurting me, I didn’t answer any of their questions, They also asked me if this was the first time I was a victim of police bru- tality. They took me across the Golden’ the pigs sitting in the back with me, knocked me over, I had no control over my falling, cause my hands were still handcuffed behind my back, so I fell on the floor of the car, By the timel got up again, we were driving into the Marin jail. They took me directly in- side the building and put me in a hold- ing cell, I wasn’t booked or anything. Then some other pigs came in and started asking me a whole lot of ques- tions about my identity: such as my name, address in San Francisco, phone number, where I lived before I came to San Francisco, how long had I been working with the S,F. branch of the Black Panther Party, questions about my family etc. The only questions I answered was my name and my ad- dress, I refused to answer anything else, They threatened me to answer, until one reactionary pig came in and start- ed. beating me and knocking me into the wall, My hands were still hand- cuffed behind my back, so I was unable to control myself from falling. I fell into the wall and hit my head, and af- tery that I was unconscious, I don’t know how long I was out, but when I came to, they said I had been there for four hours and could make two calls, I first called the Central Head- quarters of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, They wouldn’t let me make the second call, just put my hand- cuffs back on me and threw me back in the cell. About five minutes or so later, the same two pigs who had picked me up, came in and.took me to Oakland, down at the very end of Seventh Street near the railroad tracks, They pulled me out of the car, searched me again and then kicked me down and then drove off. At no time was I told that Iwas under arrest, that Ihad committed some crime or anything. As Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of In- formation of the Black Panther Party has said: ** ....We must recognize that a woman can be just as revolutionary as aman... ..the pigs recognize a_ revolutionary woman to be just as much a threat as a revolutionary man,’’ ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! et Gate bridge towards Marin. One of W tag - ~ -a > tt ~<a Oe. ee i THE f BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE §& PIGS RAILROAD PANTHER EDDIE CONWAY TO LIFE IN PRISON Ve. ¢ « The vicious American judicial system has once again claimed the life of an innocent black man, Marshall Eddie Conway had been charged with murder of one Balti- more City pig (Donald Segar) and assault with intent to commit mur- der on two other Baltimore pigs. (one of whom was Sager’s partner, Sierakowski). Eddie’s trial began Monday January 4, 1971 and ended 22, 1971, EDDIE CONWAY The first day of the railroading, Eddie was brought into the court in handcuffs. This same day Eddie demanded that he receive a post- ponement, because he had never talk- ed to his court-appointed lawyer, and therefore knew that this lawyer could not offer sufficient represen- tation, The pig judge Charles Harris immediately said ‘‘No’’, and said that the trial could not be put off another day. After Eddie told Harris that the trial could go on, but he refused to be present, Hangman Harris ordered his henchmen to remove Eddie from SEARCH AND SEIZURE IN THE ILLINOIS COMMUNITY the courtroom, After Eddie was re- moved from the courtroom selection of the jury began, It took less than two hours to select a jury of 10 Bootlicking blacks, and two racist whites, All through the trial, prosecuting pig, Peter Ward, used lies and tricks to help insure Eddie’s railroading, The first four days were composed of the testimonies of pig wimesses who all testified against Eddie, based on other lies that other pigs had used, But, as witness after witness came to the stand, nobody could testified that he had actually seen Eddie kill pig Sager, On Friday, Peter Ward called on a paid inform- er, to present another lie against Eddie, Charles Reynolds, and the Black Panther Party, Earlier Rey- nolds was brought from another pris- on to share Eddie’s cell for three days to act as a spy for Peter Ward and his fascist machinery, Eddie knew before Reynolds was actually in the cell that Ward would try such a trick, and thus demanded that pig Reynolds not be put in his cell, However, when Reynolds took the stand, he said that Eddie told him that our present Defense Captain, Paul Coates, gave the orders for Eddie, and others to kill pig Sager. Coates at this time was not even in a lead- ership position, but was a rank-and- file Panther just as Eddie was, It would be only a fool who would be- lieve that Eddie would be stupid enough to say anything at all to a known pig, With the testimony of On Jan.24, 1971, in an op- pressed community near Chi- cago, Governor Olgilvie’s fasc- it (ILL. State Troopers) proved ofice again thar the oppressed have no rights that the oppres- sor is bound to respect. The pigs vamped on two buses tiead- ed for Chicago inorder to carry out another ‘Search and Seiz- ure operation.’ The driver of Greyhound bus No, 1542, stated to the passenger's after stopping iT the community of Braidwood “which is about 62 miles south- west of Chicago that, the bus had mechanical trouble and the passengers could wait inside the roadside cafe until a repair crew came, Also the deceiving driver stated that all luggage would be lefton the original bus. The fascist State Police then proceeded to search every piece of luggage on Bus No, 1542, and another bus No. 4127. In order to further befuddle the minds of the masses, the pigs came out with the He that a bomb wasaboard This story involves a basic contradiction, because the pigs in State cars 5-64 and 5-91 came in and stated that the bomb scare originated in St. Louis at the departure time of 12:15 A.M, andthe buses weren't stopped until 4:45AM, So In essence the pigs were say- ing thar they knew of the bomb scare in St, Louls and trailed the buses until they were 02 miles from Chicago before reacting to it. The other pigs assisting In the ‘‘Search and Seizure operation were curs 5-80, 5-5} and 5-100, 5-16, and §-33, 5-63, 5-78, Chief Pig J.J. O'Hagan, madea ‘routine check’ of the passengers themselves. As we all know the term ‘'rau- tine check"’ as used by the fasc- ist pigs of Babylon can mean anything from intense question~ ing to outright brutalizarton of the oppressed masses. The people's right’s were violated In every respect and finally the pigs confiscated the two buses and the people's Ing- gage and sent to Chicago for two more. All of the people who had to transfer buses In Chi- cago were held up and detained as if they were in Maximum Security (@rison). The bus driv- er and officers tried to pacify the people with flimsy excuses, but the masses knew that thelr rights were blatantly abused and trampled on. This Gestapo-like "Search and seizure operation’ is another example of Ameri- ca’s move wward open .isc- ism. It is the people's basic human right to travel un- hindered from community to community without fear of har- assment and illegal searches. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE THROUGH REVOLUTIONARY INTERCOMMUNALSM] East St. Louis, Ill. pig informer Charles Reynolds, we ste another attempt by the pigs to destroy our Party. As Eddie’s trial went into its sec- ond week, the contradictions between the pigs and the people became more apparent, Eddie had been absent from the courtroom everyday, Buthis rail- roading continued full steam ahead, He was denied the lawyer of his choice and against his will was forced to have a court-appointed lawyer represent him. The pig judge had Eddie brought into court several times just long enough to tell Eddie that it was his constitutional right to be present at his trial, And each time Eddie informed this pig judge that all his rights were being denied anyway and that he refused to participate in a political railroading, Friday, January 22, brought the pre-planned verdict from Eddie’s non-peer group jury. In less than 4 hours, the jury found Eddie guilty of murder in the first degree, which automatically carries a sentence of life in jail. In doing this the pig, feel that they have successfully laid a base from which they can build a pyramid of Panther convictions, Eddie has been in jail for 9 months now and we know that only through thepeople’sefforts will he ever beon the streets again. Free Eddie All Power to the People Black Panther Party Baltimore Chapter a . “It has been often remarked but seldom remembered that war is itself a crime. Yet a war crime is more, and other than war. It is an atrocity be- yond the usual barbaric bounds of war. It is legal definition, growing out of custom and tra- dition, supported by every ‘civil- ized’ nation in the world, includ- ing our own. It is an act beyond the pale of acceptable actions in war. Deliberate killing or tor- turing of prisioners of war is a war crime. Deliberate destruct- fon, without military purpose, of elyilian communities is 4 war crime. The use of certain arms and armaments, and of gas, is a war crime. The forceable re- location of population, for any purpose, is a war crime. ‘All of these crimes have been committed by the U.S. govern- ment over the past ten years in Indochina, An estimated 1,000,000 South Vietnamese civil- fans have been killed because of these war crimes. Agoodportion of the reported 700,000 National Liberation Front and North Viet- namese soldiers killed, have died as a result of these war crimes. And no one knows how many North Vietnamese civilians, Cambodian civilians and Laotian civilians have died as a result of these war crimes. “But we, as veterans of the war in Indochina, know who has com- mitted these crimes. Wehave — atthe behest and orders of the U.S. Military. And we say that the result, whatever the intent, is genocide, We say, whatever the furor and outrage and final out- come, that this policy--defacto or otherwise--of genocide, must be fully examined here and now in America. For itis America now, not Hitler Germany, that stands Barbaric atrocities of pig U.S. Military lackeys bloody-handed before the world in Vietnam. And it is America now, that ignores world opinion-- and outrage--at its peril. Ik is America now, that flaunts inter- national law, thar daily commits acts of genocide, that haunts the world. Yet we, the actualexecu- tloners of this policy of war crimes, are also its victims. As with Calley, Mitchell, Torres, Hutto and the others at My Lai, we are its present scapegoats, Yet we did not send ourselves to Vietnam. Wedid not make the or- ders. We did not give the commands, We did not write the policy. Most of us were noteven old enough to vote when we were inducted into this role of military executioners for United States foreign policy. “We did not write the rules in Vietnam. In fact, for the most part, we were not even told what they were, We certainly were THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE 9 STATEMENT BY JAN CRUMB, PRESIDENT OF VIETNAM VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR not told what the ‘rules of war’ were in any meaningful detail. But now we have learned, We now know--too late--what war crimes are, in definition and in gory--often personal--detail, We now know that much of what we routinely did in Vietnam is all classifiable as war crimes. We intend to tell America about this. “We intend to tell America that, yes, we killed andoftentor- tured prisoners; yes, we killed and often tortured women and children; yes, we destroyed villages and even parts of cities and entire towns for no discern- ible purpose; yes, we used weapons and munitions and even gas, banned by Internationa law; yes, we forceably removedentire populations, “But we intend to tell more. We intend to tell who it was that gave us those orders, that created that policy, that set that ¥ standard of war, bordering on full and final genocide. We intend to demonstrate that My Lai was no unusual occurance--other than, perhaps, in the number of victims killed all in one place, all at one time, all by one platoon of us. We intend to show that the policies of Americal Division, which in- evitably resulted in My Lal, were the policies of the other Army and Marine divisions as well. Wein- tend to show that the war crimes in Vietnam did not start in March 1968, or in the village of Song My, or with one Lt. William Calley. We Intend to indict those really responsible for My Lal, for Viet- nam, for attempted genocide. ‘*We intend to widen the circle of responsibility for war crimes to the top levels of society--and then to draw it tight, We intend to indict, to accuse, to hold res- ponsible our nation’s military and FREE RUCHELL MAGEE ! " YOU [AMERICA] ARE PLAYING DANGEROUSLY SICK GAMES AT THE WRONG TIME WITH HUMAN LIVES, AND YOU ARE NOT AND CANNOT HIDE THIS CASE NO LONGER” How can we, oppressed people, con- David McClain’. The time was approx- sider determining our oun lives and imately 10:00 o'clock a,m., and J was futures or, discuss thadestructionofthe on the witness-stand testifying before machinery of the racist American Em- a. trial jury of 12 people...While [ was pire, when in silence we seemingly testifying, up rose a young gentleman allow these very pigs, our confirmed whom I later learned was seventeen enemies, lo determine (as though they year old Jonathan Jackson.’* Rut the could) the very path our revolution will significant point is that 3l-year old take. We permit ourselves toconven- Ruchell Magee has Spent 15 years of tently forget those whom we need to his life in prison, and only a fool or a remember, those of our people, our man so beaten-down that he could not comrades who are truly working in our move would refuse this strike for some interest, And it's all done through tu/ semblance of freedom. miryor images. And while we cheer for Born in ela Loutsiana in 1939, ore iene eye have us ag ther#, at the age of thirteen, Hewas ey about those who are purposely pushed posed to have stolen $5.00. Whenhe was into the background, And we continue in sixteen years old, he was arrested ayain, thts pace from day to day. That time he went lo prison, He was Ruchell Magee is aglaring indictment subposed to have attempted rapa on a against all of us--for the people have White woman, And for that, “attempted seemingly chosen to forgethim,On Au- aggravated rape’, he Spent seven long @ust 7th of last year, he and threeothers years in a prison--openly recognized attempted to carry out a dynamic, rev- as one of the worst in the U.S., even by Olufionary act in behalf of their own the bigs themselves--the Loufsiana and others’ freedom from the oppres- State Penitentiary at Angola, sors’ clutches, The three other men, After suffering through those years,at William Christmas, James McClainand the age of 23, Ruchell was paroled to Jonathan Jackson were killed in thisat- the custody of his aunt, Ethel Burris, in tempt, but Ruchell Magee remains, re- Los Angeles, After a short seven-month captured to stand trial for this heroic period in the minimum Securily prison act, I! was a heroic, revolutionary act, of the streets, working as acar-washer and our opplause and our cheersandour and house-painter, Ruchell was again support and our actions shouldproclaim captured by pigs. (A 6-year old young that. But too many hove been silent, man had gone to prison, and lost his never fixing their lips--as youth; and @ 23-year old man walked i y the name of Ruchell owt and they were attempting to strip é of his manhood.) On March 23, he alone does 1963, he was arrested for alleged kid- yermain in the hands of the pigs, facing napping and robbery, The so-callad i t 3 RUCHELL MAGEE court decision, however, unlike mosthas escape with a hostage; (2) The primary conveniently not beenpublishedasapub- objective uf prison wardens..is to pre- lic record.) After a quickie new trial, vent any prisoner from getting away, he was again convicted in Aucust, 1965 (3) The life and/or safety of no hos- ond sentenced to life imprisonment, tage ts more important than is the pre- So he has been eight years in prison vention of an escape.”* now for this really unproven charge: “I And finally the court has forced a am allegedly in prison serving life for racist attorney (court-appointed), Leo- kidnap and robbery, which if given the nard Djorklund, upon brother Ruckeil, chance todo so, 1 will prove to be false.’’ which attorney he neitherrequestednor And then in August of last year, the wants, He knows there can be no justice final blow occurred, In a Marm County for him, for any Black man, any oppres- courthouse, four men grasped for their sed person inside the walls of the Em- oun and their comrades’ freedom, pire. He wants to have the status of Ruchell twas, of course, one of them, Propria Persona (to represent him- During the incident, host wee sel). This would allow him the right to judge, Harold J. Haley) were taken from to refer to attorneys, etc. The State the courtroom by these men, to simply of California allows for this, yet Ruckeli be released and exchanged for the lives has even been dented this right, He has of their comrades, They all proceeded been refused his request to transfer kis to a parked van outside the courthouse, case to a Federal Court (as prowided by Soon after this, the pig judge waskilled, Federal law, Title 28 U.S.C, Section as were three of the four revolutionary 1446), He has no visiling privileges and brothers, Thomas, the D.A,,claimsthat is constantly beaten, He is chained when in a sudden burst ofheroismonhispart, he does come to court, and a special after he allegedly watched one of the courtroom structure has been erected on brothers blow Haley's head off, he the San Quentin Prison grounds for him (Thomas) killed the three comrade bro- (to avoid transporting him). He has bean thers, And now he claims that Ruchell denied every civil right, He has been Magee killed Hatey (Ruchellis,ofcourse denied all human rights. In his own the only person left on whom he can words, “What remedy or feir justice “*stick’’ te judge's killing), However, does a Black man have when he has Ruchell can axpose this lic: “...0f my been willfully convicted on known (lies) own knowledge the first lethal shots perjured testimony, Repeatedly beaten were fired by would-be rescuers unmercifully by the police, Even during (police) on direct orders from Warden his trial, in presence of the trial juwige Louis S, Nelson, who predicated and and spectators of the same court. Plead — initiated such deadly orders upon a guilty by court-appointed counsels over long standing Director of Corrections’ his own objections, Raitroaded to pri- Rule which. provides that no person son, Denied the right to have the trial shall bo allowed to escape alive by transcript or timely-filed appeal. And means of any hostage or hostages... now ‘ opPTES: Har Warden Louis S. Nelson killed unneces- ges cgyeere pistons sarily ond 1§ now accusing me of his Where e PeTen: crime. I hereby call upon WardenLouis for Ruchell Magee, S. Nelson to tell the public the truth, or rallies, the posters, admil by default, that: () TheSanQuen- support of the tin Prison Guards were required by long is owr angry standing prison policy to just shootat MAGKEM anyone who seriously Urreatens to ALL POWER TO Tit FREE ANGELA AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS THE NEWSLETTER OF THE NATIONAL UNITED COMMITTEE TO FREE ANGELA DAVIS 3450 West 43rd Street Suite 104 Los Angeles, Calif. 90008 NEWSLETTER NO. 4 Sister Angela Arraigned The Marin County Civic Center is Frank Lloyd Wright's last creation; from the outside, it’s a beautiful and awesome structure—within it is the jail in which Prof. Angela Davis is being held captive. But, since it’s a “modern” jail, it has all of the depersonalizing and antiseptically dehumanizing features which a fertile and evil imagination can devise. There are no windows in most of the cells. All of the furniture—desk, chair, bed, toilet (without seat or cover) is of cold gray metal. The lighting is completely artificial, so that every object and person reflects the same pallid, washed out light. The prison is wholly empty of color. Angela occupies one of these 6° x 9° steel cells. She is allowed visitors now only twice a week—she may see a total of four people for twenty minutes each—and they must communicate with her by phone through the thick glass wall in the visitors’ room. Prof. Davis’ mail—which has reached avalanche proportions—is being held up because the Jail Commander, Captain Teague, claims that there are not enough censors to scrutinize her mail and determine what is “appropriate” for her to read. She is allowed carefully selected books, no magazines, and is not allowed to exercise outside of her cell. Angela’s instinctive reaction is to fight. At her arraignment, on January 5, she listened quietly while the whole catalogue of trumped-up charges was revited to her: first-degree murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy to commit both. Prof. Davis replied: “As a preface to my brief remarks, | now declare publicly before the court, before the people of this country, that | am innocent of all charges which have been leveled against me by the State of California. I am innocent and therefore maintain that my presence in this courtroom today is unrelated to any criminal act. “I stand before this court as a target of a political frame-up which far from pointing to my culpability implicates the State of California as an agent of political repression. Indeed, the state reveals its own role by introducing as evidence against me my participation in the struggles of my people, Black people, against the many injustices of this society—specifically, my involvement with (213) 296-4402 JAN. 15, 1971 the Soledad Brothers Defense Committee. The American people have been led to believe that such involvement is constitutionally protected. “In order to insure that these political questions are not obscured, I feel compelled to play an active role in my own defense, as the Defendant, as a Black woman, and as a Communist. It is my duty to assist all those directly involved in the proceedings, as well as the people of this state and the American people in general, to thoroughly comprehend the substantive issues at stake in my case. These have to do with my political beliefs, affiliations, and my day-to-day efforts to fight all the conditions which have economically and politically paralyzed Black America. “No one can better represent my political beliefs and activities than [L A system of justice which virtually condemns to silence the one person who stand most to lose would seem to be self-defeating. “It is particularly crucial to Black people to combat this contradiction inherent in the judicial system, for we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance. “In order to enhance the possibility of being granted a fair trial, of which at present | am extremely doubtful, it is imperative that | be allowed to represent myself. | might add that my request is not without legal precedent. “If this court denies our motion to include me as co-counsel in this case it will be aligning itself with the forces of racism and reaction which threaten to push this country into the throes of fascism, and the many people who have become increasingly disillusioned with the court system in this country will have a further reason to solidify their contention that it is no longer possible to get a fair trial in America.” As she spoke, a large rally was being held outside of the Civic Center (with simultaneous rallies in several other American cities). Angela’s family spoke out strongly: her sister, Fania Jordan, and brother, Ben Davis, both reiterated the call for the people to free Angela, while Angela’s father and uncles stood behind in silent support. Inside the courtroom, the prosecution and defense attorneys were getting an initial look at each other. The i ? Fit i f ; aati i : i Hy EF i! conducted the defense of the “Seattle Eight,” has carried a heavy case load in the Los Angeles area in recent years, and was singled out by Governor Reagan for investigation became of hie politica Al Brodsky, Charts Garry's senior partner, has epent move than 35 years at the bar, with much recent work in defending members of the Back Panther Party «ho have come under attack from the euthoriting Howard Moore, Angela's chief defemse attorney, will the trial itsel!, Moore needs mo introduction to those fought hard in equal of integrated education and housing | t re ¥ : E 3 5 = hi 3 iF i | ? i i é ; é : it Venve Problem The question of venue, or where the trial will be held, has not yet beet formally introduced in court, Marin County is the wealthiest county per capita in all of California, and, needles to say, it ie lily white and conservative to wretebed exeow-at a trial site, it leaves something to be desimd. Althongh state sources have waggested Los Angeles as a trial site (im order to wee the extremely expensive cell and portable ecireus cage built for Sichan Sirhan), the LA. County Supervivor has recoiled from the prospect of another million-dollar-show trial like that of Sirhan and the present Manson case, Let mo one believe that this indicates 2 cold, economic and objective view of the Davis case an the part of LA. offieial—County Supervisor Down said in a pres conference that Prof. Davis should be “sent back to Rusia, the country she loves,” while the somewhat senile Mayor, Sem Yorty, wants Angela “sent back” to Algeria. Bat the reluctant attitede of L.A. officials does present a problem since Governoe Reagan, who is spearheading the attenspt on Angela's life, has made it publicly elear that his bankrupt state administration cannot pay even for a part of the trial costs, Therefore, in pushing the trial costs onto overburdened coanty administrations, Reagan seems to be proving the old adage that there's just no honor among thieves Ruchel Magee Of thove convicts involved in the San Rafael courthoase hate on Aug. 7, only one survived. He ie Rischel Magee, « U-yearold Black man sentenced to life iexprisoament in 1963, Magee, a “jail lawyer” distrastful of court-appointed attorneys, is now Angela's codefendant, likewise charged with murder, kidnapping, and comspiracy to comeit both, wchel Magee may play a erucial role, if mot in the impending trial, them in the understanding of an arbitrarily erudl and oppressive court and penal system. His story is that of many thousands of blacks, browns, Asans, Puerto Ricans and poor whites who fill American jaila Because his ory is particularly shameful, it must be told over and over ev Magee was driving to Compton, in Los Angeles, in 1963 with a dope dealer and during the ride they began te argue; a fight eventually ensued whieh was beokes up by the LAPD. Magee and « companion were beaten so badly that each man «pent several days in a local borpital. In what was apparently 4 clumsy attempt to cover up the savage beatings, the police charged Magee with kidnapping for robbery. Magee was quickly convieted and sentenced to life imprisonment, but the trial was a crual farce: Magee’s public defender argued that hie client was innocent by teason of insanity (although it was clear to the jury that the outraged Magee was quite sane), and the state prosecutor aked that the state's principal witness be dismissed from the witness stand and his testimony stricken from the [ had record because the testimony was so obviowly perjured. Dy such means was Ruchel Mager sent to San Quentin for life imprisonanent, Since his conviction eight years ago, Magee has worked hard on his own defense. Undermtandably wary of courtappointed attorneys after his initial experience, Magee hae tred to sabenit his own briefs and make his own arguments. But he hae never been treated like a human being, much bess as his oven counsel, In the past eight years, Magee has often been dragged into court in heavy chains and shackled to a chair; he hax sometimes heen gagged for angrily protesting his tegal tvmchimg. He hue become a desperate tas, Magee is right ins believing that the state wante to Kill him, His knowledge of the beatings and munters of San Quentin inmates by guards has made the prison authorities afraid of what Magee has to sey. The rrmult was the incredible proposal made to Magre im his San Quentin cell by hie current coart-appointed counsel, Leorard Bjorklund. Magee alleges that in November of 1970 Bjorklund offered him imenanity from further proweution and parole if he would testify that Angela Davis had applied hie with « gun on of abowt Aug. 7, the date of the San Rafael shootout. Farther, Bjorklund claisned that he was making thie offer on behalf of Marin County Jodges Wilkow (Angela's pretrial jodge) ani) McGuire, Magee angrily told Bjorkdund that he wouldo't frame Angela for anyone. Bjorklund then sprung the state's trap: he told Magee that he woold either perjare himself and testify againet Angela of he would be sent to the gas chamber, Magee threw Bjorklund out of his cel, On Jan. 5, Fuuchel Magee was escorted into court in San Raphael by three hurty Dept. of Corrections deputies. He walked with difficulty im heavy chains, cat down ard was shackled to @ restraining wall, Judge Wilson entered the courtroom; hie first words were to Magee, He told the prmoner that if he engaged in amy disruptive activity he would be thrown out of court. That was the opening scene in the trial of Prof. Angela Davie and co-defendant Ruehel Magee. The Soledad Brothers Salinas, Calif, mot far from Sam Rafael, ix the site of another important political trial: The Soledad Brothere—George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and Jobn Guehette~are charged with the murder of a Soledad Prison gerd in January of LOTO. It was Prof. Davie’ work on the Soledad Brothers Defense Committee which helped epen the eyes of many brothers amid sisters to the opprrsive aature of the court and penal system, and her work on thie committee also made ber a more dangerous ememy a far a Reagan and his administration were concerned. Presently, the Soledad Brothers’ Three cave is boprett dover in legal red tape and pre-trial Litigation. The Beotherr lawyers, in ae attempt to get a» fale 2 trial ae pomible, are challenging California statutes which provide a mandatory death penalty for lifers assaulting guards; although the Soledad Brother played no role in the aetoal murder of a guard (and were charged became of their active political role in Soledad Prison), they feel that it i important that the jury have full discretion ower the trial verdict and not be bound by laws specifying a mandatory death penalty. The Monterey Cosinty legal blerarchy te making an attempt to parge Pat Hallinan, « Soledad Brothers Seven lawyer, evidently for hie eympathetic political stance im relation to the Beothers Although thie attempt i+ failing, another move by synmpathetic lawyers from the Bay Ares to represent five of the seven “new” Soledad Brothers recently charged is being resisted by Salinas lawyers; thes lawyers, politically wneyenpathetic to the Brothers, want to be appointed by Monterey County se as to reorive County funds in payment for what could only be an inadequate defense of the Soledad Seven. Needles to say, Monterey County judges would prefer te see county fiend given to their Lawyer friends rather than te the progressive tearm from Sam Francisco, In Soledad Prison itself, three black ienates and oor guard have been stabbed im the past week. Soledad become 4 very dangerows place foe black inmates, lawyers ure trying to document incidents “setup” prisom authorities The “setaup” works like this: instigation of a prison official of ranking guard officer, + regular guard contacts ane of the ™ * ae the white wuipremacist convicts call themselves, and points out a Adult Authonty, which controls paroles, in exchange for the murder of the “dangerows” Black man. And 90 it goes at Soledad Prison. The Soledad Brothers, both the initial three and the seven “new” Brothers are in need of hemy financial support to fight their legal lynching. Contributions can be sent to the Soledad Brothers Defense Committee efo Pat Hallinan, 345 Franklin St. San Franciseo (4102. Frif = This newsletter i « cooperative effort af people committed to freeing Angele and all political prisoners, We hope to uffer up-to-date legal information dnd paliticat analysis which your focwl paper won't give (for obvious newsletter will be. Send contributions tor : National United Committee to Free Angela Davis 3450 West 43rd Street, Suite 104 “Ste Los Angeles, California 90008 é' (213) 296-4402 ° GIVE THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND THE PRISONER MANACLED, Flanked by the minions Of an aged and decaying Director of political police, SHE STANDS! Head high in DIGNITY And COURAGE—DEFIANT! And, disdainful Of her captors, SWEEPS her shackled hand, Calling forth FAT, Toga-clad regents who Turn thumbs down on Education’s INTRUSION, And her tears, For REJECTION’S victims, Fall on my cheek. And I cannot see THE FACE She turns, compelling My attention to A coffle of SLAVES That moves across The path between us. And their faces, passing, Become the faces of GABRIEL! SOUJOURNER! DENMARK! HARRIET! NAT! FREDERICK! W.E.B.! MARCUS! MEDGAR, MALCOLM & MARTIN! LITTLE BOBBY! BUNCHY & JOHN! PETTIS! CYRIL! FRED! JONATHAN! And each, in passing, Nods my way, lifts the FIST Of brotherhood, and moves on— Trailing on the air, FREE HER! free her. And my cheeks are scalded By tears that flow From A FACE I cannot see. Her shackles pinch my wrists As, POINTING, she reveals Twisted, bullet-torn ASIAN BABIES In a never-ending ROADSIDE DITCH!! And now the FACES are those of ° BOBBY & ERICKA! TIJERINA & JOSE MORENO ANETT! JOSE CHAVEZ & LEE OTIS JOHNSON! THE 3 & THE 7 OF SOLEDAD! WALTER COLLINS! WELFARE MOTHERS & CHILDREN! WORKERS FROM FIELDS, PLANTS & MINES In endless procession. And the words of The prisoner kiss my ear FREE THESE! Free these and I'll be free. And as I look upon the FACE I cannot see, THE FACEIS MINE!! —Marque C. Neal, Jr. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE 12 U.S. EMPIRE’S ETHIOPIAN ESTATE We, Ethiopian students in Algeria, members of the National Union of Ethiopian University Students, have been saddened and angered by the most heinous, cowardly, and barbaric crime perpetrated on the peoples of Eritrea by the feudo-fascist, imperialist-pup- pet regime of Haile Selassie as well as the U.S. Imperialists and Israeli Zionists. We have been particularly shocked by the’ savage bombardments and massacres of civilians-- women, children, and the old -- of Keren committed by Haile Selassie’s air for- ce and army of puppet mecenaries on December 25 (1970). For more than a decade the feudo- bourgeois regime of Ethiopia has been committing untold crimes against the peoples of Eritrea. It has imprisoned, tortured, and murdered thousands of Eritreans; it has bombed villages; it has massacred innocent and peaceful workers and peasants as well as stu- dents. Since the recent heroic execu- tion by the Eritrean Liberation Front of the fascist general Teshome Irgetu, in particular, the feudo-fascist regime has, in despair and in shame, resorted to the most barbaric method of re- pression, Villages and towns, such as Keren, have been bombed; worse still, the wounded civilians have been left without any medical assistance, Ac- cording to the lastest reports, since December 25, 1970, alone, more than 37,000 Evitreans have been forced to abandon their homes and country to go to the Sudan where the misery and un- certainty of the life of refugees awaits them, The barbaric massacre of the civi- lian population of Keren is not an isolated incident in the long blood- drenched reign of Haile Selassie and his feudo-bourgeois ruling clique, The feudal regime has committed similar acts of savagery and genocide against peasants, workers, and students in the recent past in Eritrea as well as in Ogaden, Bale, Gojjam, and even Addis Ababa, Only a year ago this month (December), the imperialist-puppet, feudo-fascist regime massacred in broad daylight more than fifty unarmed students in Addis Ababa, It is worth- while to remember that the feudo-fas- cist regime committed this barbaric crime just because the revolutionary students began a public campaign to win support for the Right of All Nation- alities in the Ethiopean Empire, parti- cularly the peoples of Eritrea, to self- determination including independence, But the December 25 massacre at Keren ERITREA Eritrea, a little-known ‘*Province’’ | of Ethiopia, is a strip of land along the Red Sea where guerrilla war has ; been going on for eight years, The guerrillas are part of the Eritrean Su} Liberation Front (E.L.F.). A move- ment to free Eritrea from Ethiopian Gelassie’s) domination. After suf- fering under Italian colonizationfrom 1890 to 1941, Eritrea fell under the domination of Great Britain, In 1952 the U.N. placed Eritrea into a fe- deral relationship with Ethiopia. Soon after this, Eritrea was annexed to Ethiopia as a province. At present there are 1800 American military advisors in Ethiopia, most of whom are in Eritrea, They are there to train the Ethiopian Army. But the main reason those advisors are there is that Eritrea is needed by the U,S, because; 1) A military base (Kagnew) A is there, operating as a defensecom- ; ae r ec irtt munication system, a satellite earth - ee of a ee terminal, aNavy communications Sta- <5" tion and an Air Force Base. And Kagnew is strategically located to the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean and the Suez Canal; and 2) Eritrea is considered an area, if independent, that would become part of the ‘'Arab camp'’, and a8 such the Red Sea would be compeletely Arabcontrolied, area where the Ethiopia is the only place in thar surpasses all records of savagery committed even by the standards of the feudo-fascist Ethiopian regime, The crime proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the tottering feudal regime has been compelled to wimask itself and to come:out tn its true reactionary <a | sea cite ig WW Kassain ‘ a ers KENYA ‘ . 5. has overflight, land and port rights, and therefore ferocity. But this ferocity is just an- other proof of the universal charac- teristic of all reactionary regimes and decadent social systems which look most ferocious in their final death-bed struggle. The feudo-fascist Ethiopian regime would have neither the political stamina nor the economic and military capa- city to perpetuate such crimes on the peoples of Eritrea and Ethiopia if it were not for the total diplomatic, economic, and military aid and sup- port given to it by the Yankee Im- perialists, Israeli Zionists as well as the German revanchists, As officials of the U.S. State Department and Pen- tagon admitted publicly recently, itis crystal clear that the Imperialists and the Zionists finance, equip, train, and direct the puppet-mercenary army of Haile Selassie and his clique with the specific aim of putting down revolu- eR has great Importanc® to the Middle East Struggle. tions in Eritrea as well as in the Ethiopian Empire at large: they sup- ply the bombs, the air crajt, and the lethal weapons, and train the mercenary troops to bomb, massacre, and loot continued on next page continued from last page _ EMPIRE’S ETHIOPIAN ESTATE e olutionaries, beasants, workers, i d students in Evithrea and Ethiopia. mperialism and Zionism are as much nemies of the peoples of Eritrea and iopia as the reactionary feudo- bourgeois ruling class of Ethiopia. In the light of the above facts, we, Ethiopian students in Algeria, in a peneral meeting today, have resolved the following: _ To condemn vigorously the feudo- fascist regime of Haile Selassie and his clique for the fascist bombardment and massacre of the heroic peoples of Eritrea in general and for the savage - bombardment and massacre of the civi- lian population of Keren on December 25, 1970 in particular: To express our support of the right of the peoples of Eritrea to self-de- termination including independence; To express our solidarity with the heroic people of Eritrea and the valiant revolutionary combatants of the Eritrean Liberation Front in their revolutionary struggle for self-derter- mination; To express our total support of the revolutionary war and violence being _waged by the revolutionary combatants of the Eritrean Liberation Front and _the Evritrean peoples in justifiable re- sponse ta the counter-revolutionary war and violence imposed on them by the feudo-fascist regime of Haile Selas- sie, the U.S. Imperialists and Israeli Zionists; To demand of the feudo-fascist re- gime of Ethiopia to stop immediately its counter-revolutionary war and vio- lence against the peoples of Eritrea, to cease immediately all forms of _ political persecution against Eritreans, to recognize the right of the peoples of Eritrea to self-determination inclu- ding independence and to allow them to determine their destiny by genuinely _democractic means, i.e. by universal, direct, and equal suffrage of all Eri- trean nationals; To condemn the U.S. Imperialists and Israeli Zionists for financing, arming, training, and directing the _ feudal regime and its army; To demand of the Imperialists and @ Zionists to dismantle their bases and military installations of all le ategories from the Eritrean soil and lo withdraw their military personnel ; . am é E ri rea and the revolutionary comba- of the E.L.F. that the above Sitio and sentiments are fully red by all the revoutionary students Ethiopia who, at this particular ment, have no better way of ex- mn id their solidarity due to the THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE 13 Reign of Terror unleashed by the feudo-fascist regime following last year’s massacre of students, HAILE SELASSIE SLAYS CHILDREN FOR SACRIFICE Haile Selassie kills children in wiich- craft orgies. Yes, the ‘‘Christian’’? Em- beror of Ethiopia literally cuts the throats of children of 5 to 15 with certain physical characteristics every week-end in sacrificial offerings to the Devil, known in Ethiopia as ‘‘Korith’’, Every week-end in his highly-guarded and mystery shrouded palace on the shores of Lake Bishoftu Gust 40 kilo- meters out of Addis Ababa) the senile and diabolical autocrat presides over macabre orgies of witchcraft and Black Magic and cuts the throats of the week’s victims and sprinkles their blood in the lake, The Medieval, su- perstitious and primitive dictator is said to believe that the Devil ‘‘re- veals’’ to him all the secrets of the world and future happenings. What we are disclosing now to the incredulous world are the non-politi- cal crimes that Haile Selassie commits on innocent, totally non-political chil- dren and other individuals. The world may not believe it, but the veracity of Haile Selassie’s crimes is not doubt- ted by the Ethiopian people. They know only too well that the Royal Family, the Nobility and the powers that be, have always ‘‘indulged’’ in such su- perstitious, macabre orgies. The world demands evidence, we know, We challenge all men of truth and justice to check the veracity of these “‘accusations’’ for themselves, As for us, we shall prove our “‘allega- tions’’by circumstantial evidence, by a yecourse to Medieval History, a cur- sory analysis of the present Ethiopian Coptic Church which implicitly con- nives at such royal “‘practices”’ , We fail to understand why the world refuses to believe that such crimes are committed by a ‘‘Christian’’ Em- beror, First, it is a fact that the contemporary Ethiopian social system is, at best, at the level of the 16th and l7th century feudal Europe. It is a fact also that the Royal Families, the Nobility and Aristocracy of feudal Eu- rope, indulged in macabre witchcraft orgies and-child sacrifice as late as the 17th century, and that the ‘“‘holy’’ monks of the reformed Catholic Church brovided the lethal poisons for the poi- soning of ‘‘unwanted’’ people, The E- thiopian Coptic Church (which is 1600 years old) has produced its own church “‘literati’’ (in Ethiopia called ‘‘deb- teras’’) as well as a set of doctrine, dogma and rituals which is a strange mixture of Judaeism, Christianity and paganism, Totally isolated from the rest of the world and Christendom, since the 9th century A.D., the Ethiopian Coptic Church has not “heard: nor has it been affected by, the Reformation, the humanistic movement of the Re- naissance, and, therefore, its ‘deb- teras’’ (the literati, the intellectual elite of the Church) believe, like the monks of the Middle Ages, that they can, through incantations and child sa- crifice to the Devil, ‘‘reveal mysteries”’ and ‘‘prophesy’’, Therefore, whether the civilized peo- ble of the twentieth century like it or not, it is widely held by many su- perstitious and traditional Ethiopians that the ‘‘secrets’’ and the ‘‘mysteries’’ of the world are ‘‘revealed’’ to some “highly learned friends of the Devil’’ (t.e. the Church literati), Thus illi- terate and superstitious Ethiopians in- cluding Haile Selassie (he had a total of only five years of Church and French Mission school education, about 70 years ago) indulge in such witchcraft and the sorcerer’s practice, We now present some evidence for the specific crimes of the Emperor. First, the Emperor, unfailingly, spends his week-ends in his mystery-shrouded, highly-guarded palace on the precipitous shore of Lake Bishoftu where the ‘‘ter- rible and powerful’’ devil called ‘‘Kor- ith’’ is believed to have his lair. Secon- dly, some peasants have reported to have frequently observed a group of people descending from the palace in a pro- cession to the Lake in the late hours of Saturday nights, Thirdly, hundreds of Addis Ababa children with special phy- sical characteristics (one characteris- tic being meeting eye-brows) have, throughout the years, disappeared. Theiy unsuspecting parents have an- nounced over the Radio and inthe news- bapers the disappearance of their chil- dren, Immediately before and after the abortive coup d'etat the number of ‘‘disappearing’’ children became so high that Addis Ababa parents had to hide their children at home. And soon later the practice of announcing the ‘‘dis- appearance”’ of the missing children over the :government-owned radio and newspapers was abruptly discontinued; continued on next page THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE 14 POLAROID SHOOTS BLACK IN SOUTH AFRICA Liberation News Service CAMBRIDGE, Mass, (LNS)--— The Polaroid Corporation has announced that it will fight South African apartheid by continuing to do business there. It rejectedthe demands of the PWRM (Polaroid Revolutionary Worker's Move- ment) a black worker's caucus within its Cambridge factory who asked Polaroid to cut its ties with South Africa and contribute the profits it has made in that country since 1938 to several African liberation movements. The company announced in full page advertisements in news- Papers throughout the country that while it would stop sales to official government agencies, it will continue selling to private South African companies. Polar- oid admitted that it has been selling the South African govern- ment an instant photo ID system which the military uses to make “*passbook"’ photos at all times, Although Blacks make up 83% of the population, they can't vote, can’t organize trade unions or political parties, Skilled jobs are reserved for whites, Black people can be deported to rural re- serves and not allowed back in the cities, or be forced to leave their families for government assigned work. Polaroid also announced plans for an ‘‘experiment’’ in black education for South Africa, The program involves upgrading and training for non-white employees who Polaroid finally admits are underpaid, The proposal also in- cludes provisions for about 500 scholarships for Black African students. The total package will cost the company an estimated $100,000 per year. Polaroid's public relations campaign about this progressive experiment cost Just about as much. Polaroid's plans were drawn up when its four-man multi- racial fact-finding team recently returned from a ten day trip to South Africa, The trip was spurred by months of demon- strations and boycotts led by the PWRM, The company claims thar their team spoke to Black Africans who want Polaroid to do business in South Africa. It is a treasonable offense in South Africa, to support any cam- paign for economic withdrawal of foreign firms or sanctions. Anyone found guilty of such sup- port is sentenced to death, What South African would have been foolish enough to suggest eco- nomic withdrawal to Polaroid’s visiting team? South African labor legislation also makes it illegal for any black to occupy a position above any white in a company. ‘‘Equal opportunity employment” is completely out of the question in South Africa, When Polaroid headquarters in Cambridge announced that Frank and Hirsch, the firm's South African distribu- tor, was an Equal Opportunity employer, the distributor had to deny it. "I don't know what they were talking about,’’ Frank and Hirsch director Berman told the Johannesburg Star, ‘'We are gov- erned by the laws of the country. Would they allow the existence of such a policy? It 1s not pos- sible." Government controlled ‘’Ban- m'' education ‘specifically and openly trains blacks for inferior positions, The government Says, “There is no place for him (the black) in the European (white) community above the level of certain forms of labor.”’ Polaroid sales in South Africa amount to less than $1.5 million a year out of a worldwide sales of about $500 million, However, there are 300 other US, corp- orations which reap sizable profits in South Africa. Polar- old has economic connections with several of them. James Killlan, chairman of the MIT corporation and a director at Polaroid, is on the board of directors of GM, GMcontrols 18%, of the auto sales in Africa, They hire blacks who work in their factories with starting wages of 50¢ an hour. Polaroid deals with two banks --Morgan Trust Company of New York and the Chemical Bank. Morgan Trust was one of the primary financial supporters of South Africa following the Sharpeville massacre of 1%0 when nearly l00black people were gunned down ata peaceful demon- stration organized to protest the recently instituted passbook laws. The loans floated to South Africa allowed it to pull through the economic and political crisis which followed the massacre and to become the country with the highest profit rate in the world, The Chemical Bank has extensive interests In South Africa and is already the target of a UNresolu- tion against its pro-apartheidad- behind Polaroid and chairman of its Board of Directors, says thar he doesn’t want to be pushed around by agroup likethe PWRM, he speaks for a whole community of corporate and financial inter- ests. ‘'l know one thing," said Land, ‘‘If we at this moment, cut off all our business in South Africa, then the newspapers will be full of the vast Polaroid Reyo- lutionary Movement...We would have a series of new demands and there is no doubt that the management would not meet them..,The world is watching us right now, Other companies are Saying that if Polarofdcan'tmake the grade, none of us can,” The Polaroid Worker's Revo- lutionary Movement has called for an international boycott of Polaroid products until the com- Pany pulls out of South Africa. continued from last page U.S. EMPIRE’S ETHIOPIAN ESTATE and the government now announces the names of children that have been “‘found’’. Finally, many children have reported to people of having been taken to Haile Selassie’s palace along with their friends, and that after examination of their face they were toldtogoto their homes while their unfortunate friends have remained in the palace and, since then, disappeared, But then, child sacrifice is not theonly crime committed by the senile dic- tator and his ilks in the Imperial Court. For instance, when the late Empress was taken ill and dying, a series of fantastic incidents were reported to have happened in Dire Dawa ( a town in eastern Ethiopia, the birth -place of the Emperor). Tens of mutilated corpses of adult males were found lying along the streets for some successive mornings before the death of the Empress. The corpses had one common characteris- tic: the heart was missing. Some people claimed that they were chased by tall and strong young people whom they believed were soldiers of the Im- perial Body Guard. It is believed that the author of such nocturnal and maca- bre murders was none other than the Emperor; it is said that in his despair to save the life of his empress, the Emperor, after ‘‘consultation’’ with the erstwhile ‘‘Korith’’,had ordered that the heart of certain people with certain pigmentation should be brought from Dire Dawa for ritual and witchcraft ceremonies to ‘‘save’’ the Empress’ life. It is a historical fact that, as re- cently as 1943, when slavery was final- ly ‘‘abolished’’in Ethiopia, ladies of noble birth Slaves so that their ‘health may be perfect and their life elongated’’, Even today some of the most powerful mem- bers of the nobility do occasionally ‘tindulge’’ in such ‘‘practices’” in ex- treme secrecy. In fact such bathing macabre practioner of witchcraft that rituals are carried in palaces in the remote interior, It is an open secret that some of the most powerful feudal land-lords_ sacrifice some unknown tenant or labourer before every har- vest so that the harvest may be ‘‘bles- sed with abundance,’’ But this is not all. Haile Selassie’s superstitious, wilful and cynical crimes against humanity have no end. There is another “‘insignificant’’ fact. As the Emperor leaves the country for his innumerable boot-licking visits to his U.S. imperialist masters and for a luxurious stay in the international re- sorts, and when he returns to his Em- pire, ceremonies of pageantry and pomp wishing him “bon voyage’’ or ‘‘Wel- come”’ are held in the capital. But Haile Selassie is never pleased at these ceremonies; his heart genuinely re- lishes the ‘‘other ceremonies” held in public in the Empire’s prisons as well as in some dark cellars in out-of-the way places, In these places tens of prisoners as well as unfortunate in- nocent people are hanged and their heads chopped. Thus the Emperor li- terally crosses over rivers of blood as he departs and leaves the country, The primitive Emperor, like other su- perstitious people, believes that sa- crifices should be offered to the devils and spirits as one sets on a journey and as one returns home, Listen, all progressive Americans, It is this primitive and superstitious used to bathe in the blood of criminal against humanity who all the occupants of the White House from Eisenhower to Nixon have feted and eulogized as, in the words of John Kennedy, ‘‘a man whose place in His- tory has been assured’’! It is this the Pope and Patriarchs of Christendom eulogize as a ‘‘great Christian ruler’’, The imperialist press deliberately, and the duped neutral press unknowingly, recalling the historic appeal he made to the League of Nations, have called him the “prophet of the demise of the League of Nations’’, whereas the true ““prophets’’ and authors of the historic appeal (Ethiopian then Foreign Minis- ter, Heruy, and the Representative to the League, Dr, Lorenzo Taezaz) were actually both poisoned and murdered by Haile Selassie in 1941 and 1947, re- spectively, How long can you be deceived by this diabolical, primitive sorcerer and prac- — tioner of witchcraft who masquerades as a “Christian” and ‘Benevolent’? Em-— beror and “‘elder Statesman’’ of Africa. How long should you remain adamant to the bitter cries, woes and suppli- cations of the Ethiopian people. But, never mind! The Ethiopian people have now fully realized that only in Self- Reliance can a genuine Revolution be consummated and Salvation achieved. Members of the National Union. “ of Ethiopian University Students UERRILLA ACT OF SABOTAGE AND TERRORISM IN THE UNITED STATES 1965- 1970 REPRINTED FROM _-SCANLAN'S PART 5 . wat Perr Taare, 22 Mar. New York, N.Y, A pepe ime bomb shattered the front door and blue-glass windows of Magier, Weissman & Co. Inc, » stock- brokerage office cated in the North Bron. There were mo injuries, but windows in meighboring buddings were broken by bomb fragments. 22 Mar, New York, MY. A pipe time bemd was found on the window ledge of the Chase-Manhattan Bank, Bron Branch, one-hall hoor after All @ : peatby brokerage firm was bombed, Il was disarmed by police. 23 Mar, Orkland, Calif, A garage shed at the Oakland Army Base was mond police officer's home blew out the living room window and the target of arsomivts. A fork-titt truck and @ tanker truck were 74 Mar Basten, Mare Three trebembs caused fret im an outlet eto 4 20 ingerance Company, aed 66 4 perked car in the Jamaca Plains orea ak @ domaged the wails and fwrnishings : 76 Mart. Santa M, The Farst Northern Saviwgs and isan Com- pany was the target of a bombing attack No inguries were reported, KK i s@Deo 24 Mar, Richmond, Cali. A homemade bomb planted owtude a Rich- 27 Mat. San Francesco, Calil, 11 Trovaters Tavern was the target oa bombing attach. The bar is frequented by policemen from the nearby Hall of Jestice, Damage wat estimated at $5000. No injured were reoertes_ 2 — 28 Mar. Seattle, Wash, Parrington Mall on the University of Washiegton- ton campos was the target of arsonists. Damage wat estimated at a a a 30 Mar, Ella, Ohio, A bombing attack on Elda High School resulted in $30,000 worth of damage Pa& 30 Mar. Civcago, ill, FBI agents and polxe found a bomd factory in a North Side apartenent filled with enough explosives to blow up a city Dloch. Experts worked foe several hours desmantiong Beoembs, blasting capi, erplowre liquids, plastic explotivet, and hydrochlone and twi- pheric acid. Police alto found an atmy carbine. two 12-geuge shotguas, 4 22-cabber fle, a revolver, communist Merature and instructions for making tombs and waging guertilla wartere LEGEND TARGET he il HOD KKKRK O A THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE 15 La ie Agr. Chicago, HL. A poles otter responding te report of guofire * topped to talk to two groups of youths and was shot in the hand by an Unknown pete alts a ee oe A 15 Ape Harlan, Ky. Four of five sticks of ¢ymamite exploded at the front door of the County Health Department Gudding There were no injuries — = eee = 15 Ape. Los Angeles, CaM, The Los Angeles Board of Education sus tained $75,000 worth of Gamage at a retutt of arson. Ne injuries were teperted 16 Apr. Detroit, Mich. A car conteming two males wat stopped for s trafic violates. As the officer stepped trom his car, he was fired ufos and serioutly ejored. The two men were arrested 17 Apr. Oskland, Calf, An Oabland police van carrying two officers and four prisoners was ambu by # group of men atreed with folly sutemale weapons Holt eters were wounded severely, A chase ensued Setween police aod the assadants. The arsailents threw frag- mentation grenades at the pursuing polee cart, uly damaging them. "WE Ape. Isla Vista, Calif, A University & Calvtcenes student was killed by police as he was trying to quell an arson blaze in the temporary Bank of Amenca strectere on tala Vista 18 Apr. Baraboo, Wit. The Badger Army Amemunsticn Plast was bre- bombed couung $150,000 damage 20 Apr. Lawrence, Kan. Two separste explomon: caused the Studest Union Building at the Univeruity of Kansas to burst into flames. Damage estimated at ase mullinn dollars : 70 Apt, Los Angeles, Calil, Two tirebombs were hurled threwgh the window of the Bank of America branch neat downtown Los Angeles. The reseiting fire cacied an estimated $25,000 in damage 22 Apt, Milwaukee, Wit, A tirebomb damaged the Schmidt Budding which hoases feceral government offices. No injures were reported ee = — 74 Apt. Baltimore, Md. Four of mere men sppevached s police car and fired shots into il, One officer was killed, The ether war in critical condition. 31 Mar. Seattle, Wath. Two jeeps owned by the Univeruty of Wanhing- ton were bombed while carked on camows. They ware extensively damages + V8 24 Apr. Baton Rowge, La. The windows and walls of the Capitel building were damaged by explosives, 2 Apt. New York, LY. A homemade bow found in the vestibule of @ Chase Manhattan Bank om the South Brona was Gismantied by cetec- Pr oie ee we 3 Apt. Chicago, itl, Two polce officers resconding to a rowtine call were feed at tron a held in the vicenity of Altgeld Gardens. One offcer re- cefved minor injures. a J Apt. Hamilton, Ohse. Police called to the Community Center to break Gp a fight were arsautied. One officer was shot in back, and three others were jojured. Four crumers were damaged pt. New York, WY. A homennade pipe bomb was ‘ound atop the might depowtory of Banco de Porce and another at & Dury street inter- sectoa in Sooth Bron 4 Apr, San Francisco, Call, Western Chemical Company was destroyed by arson. The loss is estemated at $200,000 ee OMS EEE == 7 Apr, Pullman, Wash, Roger's Field Stadium om the Washiagton State University campus sustained $700,000 in damages a4 a result of arson, 5 Apr, Sandusky, Ohio. The Sandesky Negh School principal's home wan set on fire, No damage was reported. 5S Apt. Howston, Tex, A firebomb destroyed the office of the Deas of Students at Rice University, A clesssoom wat also damaged. Damage wat extimated at $50,000. =a = —, 6 Apt, Lortus, Va. Fires caused $300,000 camage to Loriun Llementary Schosl. The caleteria-aeditorium was destroyed, furniture burnt and windows broken, OB => “ Tf 7 Api. Hew Orleans, La, The ROTC Buidding at Tulane University was completely destroyed by arson. No inpuries were reported. ee oa _ - — ’ S Apr. Lewrence, Kaz, Pipe bom® explosion blew out two windows of ry the Anchor Savings & Loan Co. No injures were reported. TApe. Los Angeles, Call, The vice princspal's office and the stlendance and counseling offices at Roosewell High School were destroyed by atsen, to the extent of $100,000, There were also two bombings of the administration ettice, No snjuries werereported. Ti Apr. Freeport, Tex. A lvebamb caused $250,000 damage te the Dow Cheemcal plant. _——_eee -_ —— —_ 12 Apt, Las Vegas, Nev, One person was billed aod Ih injuted curing 2 Eng the Stondost Motel, Authorities state the fice was celiberately set, The building sustained comrdetable camage Fates "TD Apr. Berkeley, Cali, A bomb exptowen toppled an BO-foot whbity lower catryng power to the Usiverwty of Caldornia campus and the nearby Lawrence Radinton Lab z TS Apt, Kansas City, Ma. A bombing oxcarred about midnight at the alos Aesdemy, Sooning windows in the Academy and i several ther homes and busioesses. Cause 1s unksown 26 Apr. Baton Rouge, La. A bomb exploded in the Senate Chambers of the Louisiana State Capitol. The entire front ares of the Senate Chamber was on vhambles from the explosion, marble was ripped (rom the walls, 3 hole was knocked @ the cevling and another im the Moor and elec- had been placed in the Speaker's alcove at the front of the chamber, Estemates of damage tange from $250,000 ta $500,000. “36 Apr. Washingion, B.C. President Niom fecelved a bomb In the mall It had bees sent from Seattle and was found belore it detonated. 27 Apt. Ames, lows, An explouve Gevice wat found in the garage af State Judge John McKinney, 28 Apt, lows City, lows. An explosive device detonated on a street and caused an estimated $20,000 damage to 12 butness ettablishments 36 Apr, New York, N.Y. A homemade pipe bomb was fewnd in « brown conven bag in front of the Harlem Police Station, 1 May, Detroit, Mich The. police Damage was not reported 2 May, Carbeodale, WL Thee policemen were injuted when + Molotov cocktail was IKrown from 2 Germitery wiedow of Southern Ilinois University 3 May. River Forest, iil A fitebomd exploded on the wniverwty ad- ministration bwildung, courting $100,000 worth of damage. No injuries 4 May, Madison, Wis. The ROTC buildyng and the home of » millary instructor were firebombed at the Univeruty of Wisconsn METROO é 64 = Gevernmest Corporstiens Homes High Schools Colleges Polce Mobdary Siping BomborOynamite Tene Bomd Arson Molotow Cochtad Terroriam Buiideres Diementary Schools 1970 wn Ri RKO 7 itgy. Carbondale, [IL Two betldings on the campus of Seethern Itinots University were destroyed by arson. 5 May, New York, N.Y. There was an attempt to bomb s computer at New York University. The competer, owned by the Atomic Energy Commission, sesteined $100,000 damage. 5 May, Canyon, Tex. Three Molotov cocktails were tomed through the ec hcahrel ged ie Rete Non arbi beck to * * a te 9 May, Sacramento, Cal, A police officer was critically woended by tmper fire while patrotling the Oak Park section, it May Woeky Flats, Cela. Arsonists strech the Atomic Cnergy Com. mission in Rochy Flats, causing Cameges io excess of $45 miflion "Ti May, Hazard, Ky. A dynamite blast damaged the mobile home ol a Kentucky State policeman and slightly damaged his police cruiser There were oo injuries. xe 13 May, Des Mownes, iowa. A dynamite explosion mpped theough the Der Meanes Police Station injuring one person and cawsing an ext mated $200,000 damage. (The building was the target of a bomb threat 2 week earlier.) The bomb, placed against the South wall adjacent # tansformer and several feel drums, knocked out all primary perges Bee a hee ceninane Sacamies,: Mew Beles outer KK *a x2 18 May, Holyoke, Mats A policeman waa shot while investigating Gistatbance. 19 May Grand Rageds, Mich A polceman attempting to make oa errest on an auto theft was assaulted by 15-20 youths He was struck by a brick and tojuted Oe llle RRe tronic gear wat demolished. An estimated 20 to WO sticks of dynamAg ———=—_—_______.__ May 13-20. Freseo, Calif. The Computer Center ot Fresno State College oe! damaged by 2 firebombing. Damage extimated at one million ari. May 20. Chartestan, Ind. An explosion of unknown origin at the Indiana Ammumtion Depet injured 20 persons. 20 May, Quincy, Fis, A dynamite explosion and fire left a mani of senching, twisted steel at the Quincy Substation of the Flaside Power Co. The main transformer estimated to have cost $600,000 was com- pletry destroyed *a 20 May, Muncie, Ind. One high-powered rifle slug, two shotgun blasts and six shots {rom small caliber weapons struck s police car xa 22 May. St. Paul, Minn, An officer responding to a call at 699 Hague Aveoue was alain by a mmiper bullet. xe “feeruiting office was lirebombed «oa 73 May, Ames, lows, A bomb exploded directly below Ames Police Headquarters in City Hall Ten persons were injured, two cars were demolished, and there was extensive damage ts one side of the build- ing. It also shattered about two hundred windows im a hotel. 26 May, Philadelptua, Pa. An officer was shat in the leg by an enknown person lll S 37 May, Oxlord, N.C. Two tobacco warehouses were fivebombed, re. sulbng i $1 million worth of damage. K& to ie 24 May, New York, N.Y, An Laat Village poleenan was stabbed lo eam "Way. Oakland, Cali. A pipe bomb exploded om the tront porch of the family of the deceased Oakland chiel of police 29 May, St. Levis, Me. A bomb was placed on window pil Of the Teak dence of # St. Lovis County Cirewit Court Judge, Rain put owt the fuse. Way. Orocklyn, N.Y. A patrol car was struck by shotgun pellets fired * o) by 2 sniper. 5 May. Hazard, Ky. A State Police civiser wan damaged by @ dynamite bomb. Damage wat estimated st $500 xa 5 May Cheaeo, rm Two oftcers were ted on by woknown smipers as hey returned to thew squad car atter ticketing 2 parked car ~ 6 May, Mew Maven, Conn, A police officer waa physically assaviled by three Yale Univermty students. 7 May, Tuscaloosa, Ale, Two buildings on the University of Alabama camper were hit by firebombs, One wes completely certroyed, . . versity was Cestroyed by firebomb, KK Ms ro F__ an isrwpting electrical service in the Feliciana an 7 May, Valparaiso, Ind. The Administration Building st Velpatesa Uae 29 May. Cleveland, Ohio, One polcemin wat injured by a whooteng inte his patrol car, ” eS aor 31 May, Detroit, Mich, The Food Cily aupermachel sustained Gamage a1 9 rest of AIuebomme ; es "Ebene Baton Rowge, La. An aaplénive device Oalennted Undet States Ublities Co. transformer chusing an estimated $40,000 oe 2 June. Joliet, tL Ad tive William G. Bart turmed on Baer was badly injured. tiploded when State the lamitieon hey in his late model Cadillac continued on next page si ~ THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE 16 GUERRILLA ACTS OF SABOTAGE AND TERRORISM xo “ee 5S June. Tallulah, La. One -apstceyror ewer fal ot eam 7 jena. Los Angeies, Calil, Firestone Park Staten was *«e miktary type arenades. There were se ‘het and yy continued from last page wn 23 June. Ationta, Gs, An of-dvty poicemen wap shot. The exieat of his d a injuries ate wnknown, wounded, two were shghily injured. Two officers investigating a poot hall disturbance —— cies Detroit, Mich hee otficert were AmbUtNEG, one was teriounly ilie 7 th lune. Des Momes, iowa Viltees te 20 pounds of high power dynamite high power dynamite war ered to demage Harvey Ingham Hall of Science at Orake Univer- sity There were no injutres Oamage might reach 0,000 W June. Washingion, OCA pipe bomb won throws inte the Inter- xo American Oelense Board tudding, 1600 16th St. N.W. ———$———— —— ee oe gai Beir Hew Eznswich, 1D. Police were aniped at in a ghetto ovigh- borhesd, No mmjeries reported. < . cae cw wane Wt = Thine. Oakland, Celt. An armed forces patrol car was damaged by 8 bomb which consisted of two sections of pipe filed with Mack powder *a and tacks aed tied to s bottle of gasoline. No injuries were reported. ~~ & June. Mew York, N.Y, Polige Headquarters ot 240 Centre St. was % A ds rocked by a= explosion which Aeavily damaged the 2nd floor of the five-story budding. At beast four officers and four other persons were 0 june. Pieinheld, WY. Two patrolmen were wounded by led by shotpen fire ia an ambusd; one officer was critically wounded, ihe qiher was tepdited ia good condition 3 Ixty New York, NY Police found » bomb outeide the Geer of State Supteme Court Jastce Jawn A. Sanciler’s Fiflm Ave, apartment, ry xe 5: Deputy Comeismecer in Charge of Acmimistracon, blew out many windows and smashed walls in Centre Market Place a — end, 4, and S and wrecked two cars parked in front ef No. & — TP 1._ B dune. Stratiord, NJ. A Molotey cocktad caused a fire whch destreyed the Stratford Police Station, Estimated damage was $35,000, incleting the dexiructen of 6000 records. TO june. Sivationd, NJ. A polkce sergeants garage was fredembed.— Ke 10 june. Sorta ha, “Calt. Two persons were ialered when prison when prises ot inmates set a fire in retaliaten for the shooteng of an inmate, inpured. The aie demohsres several offices incleding four rooms ~~ cecupetd by the 4 12 Jone, Caira, tit, An Iilinces State polke wnit wat 4 fired wpen n end one hl a «a Officer feceived minor injuries 1) Jone. Chicago, itl, Crase bombs were thrown by three youtns ua eo ws police car, The cat was seriously damaged, and the policemen's legs were burned. were herled at police and firemen, Eight civilians and ose policeman were injured. 13 Jone. Des Moines, lows. A dynamite explosion caused an ertioates $75,000 worth of damage in the Greater Des Molees Chamber of Com- merce building The blast blew out approsimately 275 windows in surrewnding buildings and Gamage to wrrouncing property was exti- mated at $25,000 15 June. San Diego, Cali, The US. Novy Destroyer Richard hard B. Ascer- Acder- Ok adn sustained $200,000 worth of damage when an unidentified object Ne was thrown isto the ship's gears. The destroyer was bound for Vietnam 17 June Emeryville, Calit. Homemade pipe bends exploded at s ciner and three persons were slightly injured, Local police ofcers frequent o xe erethet wes sirichen with & heart attack while fighteng the incendury Datiiong © two-alarm apartment Dlare. One fireman eet injuted enc Gevee is Me festruce Oe 5 July, Sawgus, Call, Arson was vurpected m ipected m the ¢ $60,000 lire fre damages xe 6 July, Flusteng, ~~ ____ 13 June. New York, MY. A crowd of peopte, angered by trash on the x streets, sat a supermarket and 8 liquor store on fire. Rocks and bottles 18 bene. New York, 1. A fwetruch was Twebombed while firemen were ; x 2 sitting in his patrol car *e 19 Auwe. See Francesep, Calif A police incest was shot and billed shibe 18 june. 0) Monte, Calf, One officer was shot and is critically inured foblewing an spparent ambush whee he was questioning a pedestrian Camaged when & Gispute among teenagers 19 Jone. Chicago, 10. A patrolman was billed by @ shotgue blatt. *s 22 June. New York, WY, ee large crowd gathered owtude an wpper Manhattan pale ont young il man aka int cata taowse «YY dy 5 luly New York. NY. Ter Molotov cack ads were found under the ens the parking let at the polke station in tanks of fwe pete! cara on Queens of the Snerifl's Wayside Honor Hanch 1-L hole in a reghca ol a was found nearby . July New York, NY. The Hadian comulate, the ihe South Alncan Oe e consulate and @ Portuguese towtitt agency were hit with pipe bombs. Theee people were injured, property damages were cot reported. 16 July, Palo Alto, Calit “Police found four pounds of mibtary arplowvet aod sa slicks of dynamite at the Bank of Amence building The @x- ploxives faded to explode because the hands of a clock stuck “TE july, Chicage, lil, Two policemen were billed by ampers 73 luly, Peoria, til. Two ‘vores were tretomoed and police were sniped were sniped xe at when two tenants were evicted from a bowsing project in @ ghetto N.Y, The Hall of Science was Bembed Diasting r rocket jnxide the budding A Viet Cong Mag “D Avt. New York, and cee policeman wrunded. The policeman had to be hespitalized, 8 Aug. San Raphei, Calif. it, Daring the trial prisoners at the Marin Civic Center, sever en tered the courtroom with weapons, freed the prisoners, and took hostages, including the judge and prosecutor. When @ police guard opened fire on the esta: 2 cluding the e judge were bi were hified, 15 [5 Aug. Chicago, HL In retaluation to heteswment by police, # sniper billed coe policeman, Twenty persons were arrested, thrown jato _paddy ws wagons ant and beaten. besten. — a a is Aug. 1g. Omaha, Jeahs, Neb. Seven en pole weit enjered acd one billed when a bevetcare loaded with dynamite exploced. SS ae 1 Age. New York, 4.7 The Bana of Brart had its windows blown out by 2 pige boenb Two Viet Cong flags and “Weathermen” srewled oo 8 wall were lound No ene was injered. es “WTA shootout after a dope bust lett coe crnlian —_ . —__ ) Avg. San Joue, Cali. A polceenan was shot ead while sitting tf his cat wilting out @ tac thet. ii z i a ' xa Kke i Aue. Mieneapolis, Ming. A Domb consisteg of twenty sticks of dyramete Mew up in the Federal Office Buibcong, canting $00,000 __ damage. The buliding houses the Armed Forces Canminatian Cooter, "20 Aug. Bevheley, Cala, Alter stoppiag « youth on a motercye™, # policeman was approached by # man who thet him im the eye sed then fled, The officer died “WW Ave ‘Madison, Wa. A bomb set off at the University of killed ope person and injured tour ethers. The Army M: _ Research Center war demolahed. officers. wat Dil with @ can Mied with explosives thet was thrown from « car 4@ july. Oakland, Calif, The Oakland Highway Patrol Headquarters r Qo an the freeway, It blew a 2-1t. crater im the budding. No injuries were reported 4 July. St. Lous, Mo. The presecent ol the Contivental Pheae Co. wat killed when a bomb expioged in hes car when he tursed on the (griton blocks away on the sme sight 15 July, New York, MYA vtorelront used Bs depot ‘wpoly. quarters by *a the New York Telephone Co. was freboenbed, Oawages) were light, Three frebombs were fownd wear the telephone company's trucks two barricaded homes. xe 1S Joly. St lgnace, Mach. A bomb eiplodet at the CIA office Dam- ages were moderate “IG july. Houston, Tex. Following a politcal rally # police shootest wound occurred in which two civilians were ed r7 July saten ve an ano w puries were reported. Spatta, Wri, Al Camp McCoy Army baw expisworns took ‘expiswons took place uel aneowsly at three widely separated spots. The damage was *a xa "JS Aug. Tuita, Okla. A bomb set under the hood of a a cat went off, serioutly injutimg one pohceman, It was the Latest in a see ” tack agaiest prominent Oklahoma atteeneys and law 2. ee ee a ee 30 Aug. Bronz, N.Y. A policeman was wounded by a shotgue blast while walking hen beat. i, Tl Aug. Philadelphia, Pa. Pa. Thvee petconts we oe ee xa oc“ on neighborhood cen Ti Avg. Tt Aug. Philadelphia, Pa. A policeman, the Mth in fess than 36 beurs, was moeded who fis potea sett beteted Bt eee Ji Aug. Crescent City, Calvl, A dynante bomb exploded when a Sher- i's deputy started bis car bebind the Sheriff's office. ; Ji Aug. Philadelphia, Pa. Police raids on ghetto buildings Drowght the pwmbder of polkemer others were bospitalired. 1 Sept. New York, N.Y. A pelcomen, respondeng 5.8 eapert site fire, wes shat io the arm whule sitting 2 his patrol car shot te seven, one of whom was billed, the 2? duly. New Yor, 11.1. A pokce cat was Detned by @ firebomd in oe & East Vilage. There were no inguries, 78 July. San Francisca, Cali, The Atwed Forces Police Nesdquarters Pa rs wat bombed. Osmages were lgtt 3 Sept. San Francisce, Cald. A bomb was thvoen inte ® squed cart moments after two officers befl it to investigate » burglary complaint Darsage was extensive. D Sept. Los Angeles, Cait. The tall of Juste was but by # bomb: which detonated on the Gth floor, mert to the District Attorney's office, Damage was estimsted at $10,000, 2B july. Sen Francisco, Calf, A 2512 Nike, Ajax missile was damaged at Fort Scott (Presidio) by 2-inch pipe, time bombs. * 7 Sept. Brochiya, N.Y. A trying to Deeah wp a street fight. He policeman wat stabbed in the stoenach while deed of his injures COMMUNITY CONTROL OF POLICE In April the Community Con- trol of Police charter amend- ment will be placed on the Ber- keley municipa) ballot, Decentra- lized, elected neighbortiood coun- cils would be the mechanism used to make community control 4 reality, The present structure of the pig department gives no one any legal redress when criminal acts are committed by those crim- inals - the up-holders of law and order - who have no respect for human life. How many times have we heard the words ‘justifiable homicide’ echoing from the cor- ridors of the Hall of justice after 4 young Black brother has been murdered by the pigs? With the present structure, the city man- ager, the mayor, the police, the Judges, the city councilmen all collaborate in a city manager type government to deny people proper legal redress against those who would act in the manner of crim- inals, In this type of operation the city manager hires allemployees, plus police chief, The city man- ager is appointed by the city council, and the chief of police is responsible to the city man- ager not the city council, People of the community have no control over determining the police act- fons except to vote on fund ap- propriations. The council itself has no contro] over determining police action or policy. The police are responsible to one man, se- ‘cret. pig Hankey, the city manager who is not an elected official by the people, but an appointee of the ruling circles, Because over twenty thousand signatures were initially secured to place the initiative on the ballot, the Berkeley power struc- ture has begun its campaign to sabotage the community contro} initiative by molding and shaping public opinion, With the help of the fascist Berkeley Gazette the pig power structure is projecting two endorsed spokesmen as the torch-bearers of the anti-initla- tive campaign, In the White com- munity, Capt. Plummer (the pig who put together the armored assault on the old Black Panther Party headquarters onShattuck’ is the endorsed spokesman for thar campaign, On the other hand Wilmont Sweeny, vice mayor and city councilman, is the Negro en- dorsed spokesman used by the pigs’ power structure to project a positive and trusting image of the pig department to the Black community while at the same time projecting @ negative and sus- Picious image toward the petition and those responsible for ir. Wilmont Sweeny is typical of the countless number of "‘intell- igent, rational, and articulate Ne- gtoes"’ who are used to project the image that all is well in the slave guarters, and that we are content with our humiliating po- sition as an oppressed people. Sweeny tells us that community control of police would be a step backward into the dark ages be- cause it is the same separate but equal conception likened to Southern segregation. We realize the contradictions in this stare- ment, We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people in the Black com- munity. One way of achieving this Is to organize the necessary machinery to rid the community of the racistoccupying army which has been responsible for the real seperation...that of Black people from the control of their external environment. Sweeny further claims that the initiative would destroy the police department and establish three Separate communities, lle claims that separate police departments would make it virtually im- possible to mobilize a majority of police swiftly to handle an em- ergency in any particular part of town, if we properly analyze this statement we understand that it’s not so much the division by the petition of Berkeley into three seperate comimunities because the boundaries are natural ones. In addition the Black community has in reality always been iso- lated geographically, economical- ly, politically and socially from other sections of the city, The underlying concern of Sweeny and his employers is that if the in- itlative is passed, the pigs could not mobilize in mass to swiftly move against the Black com- munity. The Blick community would no longer be held incheck by racist occupying armies be- cause these pigs would be re- Placed by elements in the com- munity who have the interest of the community at heart, Sweeny goes on further to say that the worst feature of the plan is that it redefines who has the right to bear arms. **Anybody with the right to bear arms js potentially dangerous. It’s not the Police who commit crimes, other People go around robbing, steal- ing, and murdering each other. I wouldn't want every Tom, Dick, and Harry who lives in my neigh- berhood to have a gun," The Potentially dangerous right to bear arms thar Sweeny Speaks of is 4 constitutional right granted to every U.S, citizen. Finally Sweeny claims that Berkeley has the country's finest Police department because of {ts rigid qualifications for recruiting Officers and its strict guidelines for the use of weapons. But of course we know this is the most nortorious Le Sweeny has told, Objective conditions in the Black community Is carloads of Berk- eley pigs armed with shot-guns, automatic rifles and walkie- talkies, surrounding our com- munity centers and staging mili- tary maneuvers. We recognize that these acts aren't carried out by fine, disciplined officers bur by vicious, undisciplined madmen whose jobs are to contain Black People in a position of ever- lasting servitude while protecting the propertied interests of those elements that exploit Black peo- Ple on every conceivable level of human existence, The charter amendment offers not a step backward as boot- licking lackey Wilmont Sweeny would have us believe, but a step forward to implement a plan of mutual co-operation where the people would have total and com- plete involvement in the admin- istering of justice. In each of the three districts, the people would elect neighborhood councils from the respective areas who would fn turn 4 police com- missioner. Policy rales of con- duct, recall, hiring, and ail other functions of the police \depart- ments would be/determined by the People In the gommuntty, ALL POWER To THE PEOPLE! West Berkeley Branch Black Panther Party October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program HUEY P. NEWTON, 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 peop!e will not be free until we are able to deter- mine our destin 2, We want full employment for our people, We believe that the federal government is 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 meais of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the conmenity so that the people of the community can organize and em ploy all of its people and yave a high standard of living 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 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE 17 4. We want decent housing. fit for shelter of human beings. We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people. 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society: We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowl- edge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance_to relate to anything 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- tary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary. 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people. We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or- ganizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We 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, plack people should be released from the many jails and prisons because thy 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 30 that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social. religious, geographical, en- vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the ‘average reasoning rian" of the black community 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis- cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life. liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That; to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers In such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru- dence. indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not he changed for light and transient causes: and. accordingly, all experience hath shown.that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable. than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and Usurpations, pur- suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern- ment, and (o provide new guards for their future security. = BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE 18 Huey would say, “a newspaper 7s the voece of a party, the vorce of the Panther must be heard We found we as citizens of this country were being kept duped by the govern- ment and kept misinformed by the mass media, The Black Panther Black Community Service was present information The Black Panther Party Black Community News Service is the alternative to the ‘government ap- Party News created to factual, reliable to the people, proved’ stories presented in the mass media and the product of an effort to facts, jictated by not the seen present the stories as oppressor, but as from the other end of agun, POWER PEOPLE! 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The Ten Point Platform and Progran PANTHER PARTY ind understood by nember 9, When Tlust derstood by of the BLACK must be known each Party li, Party Communications must be Central and Local ll member 12, The 10-10-10-program should be known by all members 13. All Finance officers will of the Ministry of Finance, 14, Ejact 1 WILL sulumit 1S. Euch Sub-Section Leac ubmit Dail So uty i perare under the jurisdiction f daily work. Leader, Lieuten pers 16, 4 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1971 PAGE 19 CHAIRMAN, -BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOBBY MUST BE SET FREE! — Pa eaten CONCERT ANZA CO LLEGE ve k & Stelling Ral PERN panies f SUNDAY FEB. 7,19 THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY PRESENTS a, THE LUMPEN- pl fe hag) THE FREEDO j THE 1 yl Plus GUEST Two Shows 7PM & IOPM SPORTSMAN CLUB 53rd & Grove Sts Oakland, Calif. é DOORS OPEN AT 6PM DONATION: $2.00 AT DOOR yal. 2 THE PIGS THINK THEY CAN INTIMIDAT ME WHEN | SAY FREE BOBBY AND. ERICKA, BUT INTIMIDATION BREEDS RESISTANCE... “FREE BOBBY, FREE ERICKA!” DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGSI