Vol. 2, No. 8

22 THE BLACK PANTHER Black Community News Service iy : 4 ’ e e ane Sky's The Limit’ rss THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY fefttieas POWER STRUCTURE ESCALATES POLITICAL PRESSURE AGAINST PANTHERS Panthers Account of NY Incident Justice of Injustice --Page 3 Page /3 Panthers- Yippees hold Joint Press Petition to Keep Eldridge Free Conference --Page 2 --Page 16 White Radicals VS. Pigs at Chicago Imperialism, Economics and --Page Il Heart Transplants --Page 6 PAGE 2 THE BLACK PANTHER SAT., OCT. 5, 1968 Panthers — Yippees Hold Joint Press Conference PROLOGUE: OPENING SALVOS FROMA BLACK/WHITE GUN Following are two statements on the same subject by mad- men grappling with the cause of their madness in search of a cure. We have been driven out of the political arena into the wilderness of our own dumb minds. We will not dissent from the American Government. We will overthrow it. 1968 — the year of the pig. The death of the ballot, the birth of the bullet — here is the choice — contemptuously thrust in our face by this deca- dent racist power structure: racist pig Humphrey, racist pig Nixon, racist pig Wallace for President! So where do we go from here? Into the streets! Into the alleys! Back of town! Onto the rooftops! Be- hind whatever shelter remains for a black person here in Babylon! This is the nightmare election year of the American dream. The Republican Party and the Democratic Party have told black people to kiss the ass of the elephant and the donkey. They have done this in no uncertain terms. It is time for black people to tell the elephant and the jackass to go fuck each other — political and moral cretins that they are. Yet we cannot sit idly by and allow these vipers to run their game on us without even rais- ing a dead finger in opposition. It is very clear that there is no way left for us to offer any opposition through the traditional political machinery. These merciless demagogues have so firmly grasped this machinery in their clutches that even the white supporters of McCarthy and Kennedy got all the fat whipped off their heads in Chicago when they tried to op- pose the mad dog power play of meathead Humphrey. Our only recourse is to join in a second Boston Tea Party in order to blow their game. In order to blow their minds, we must chart our own course, a new course designed to manifest how we feel about the insufferable political manipk lation and chicanery that has made the national election into a circus devoid even of the saving grace of humor. This shit is not funny. These pigs are plotting our death. These vicious reprobate, conniving scound- rels are plotting genocide against us. What do you think this feather- weight, featherbrain Alabama racist, George Wallace, has up his sleeve for niggers? Extermination. The final solution to the Negro problem. We don’t have to go for that. That’s not our issue. That is not the goal towards which black people have been struggling, dying, for these pain- ful four hundred years. Our fight is for freedom, for liberation, by any means necessary, as Brother Malcolm also said that it’s gotta be the bal- lot or the bullet. The pigs of the power structure have taken off their masks and revealed themselves to be precisely what we have always known them to be. Murders, liars, miserable genocidal wretches. These pigs themselves have already closed down the polling places, the ballot boxes, in so far as any meaningful solution to the black man’s problems is concerned. Right on! Are we to lie down and grovel on our bellies, on our knees, like a beg- ging Lazarus, hoping that these fiends will toss us a few crumbs when they introduce another bullshit four-year program into the pigpen of the United States Congress? Fuck these motherfuckers! Let’s go for our- selves. Let’s go for what we know. And what do we know? We know, in the words of Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, that the spirit of the people is greater than the pigs’ technology. They seek to deprive us of life, of our human rights, of a future, through their rigged technological-political crap game. Only snake eyes are on the loaded dice for us within the confines of the American political sys- tem. So there’s nothing left for us to do but to break up this crap game, to pick our money up off the wood and demand a brand new pair of dice from the house. Let the pigs dance a jig to the star spangled banner. Let us do the dog in the streets. Let the pigs of the power structure put each other through these assinine changes and let us put all the pigs through a final change. Let us join together with all those souls in Babylon who are straining for the birth of a new day. A revolutionary generation is on the scene. There are men and women, human beings, in Babylon today. Disenchanted, alienated white youth, the hippies, the yippies, and all the unnamed dropouts from the white man’s burden are our allies in this human cause. The entire anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist world of man- kind is with us. Let us manifest our solidarity with them. Let us say loud , and clear that we are not going to accept four more years of Slavery, Suf- fering and Death under the hooves of racist pigs. Until this house is set in order, let us plant our tent on the fighting words of Brother Robert | Williams: “America is a house on fire. Freedom now or let it burn, let it | burn.” Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information Come into the streets on Nov. 5, election day. Vote with your feet. Rise up and abandon the creeping meatball! Demand the bars be open. Make music and dance at every red light. A festival of life in the streets and parks throughout the world. The American election represents death, and we are alive. Come all you rebels, youth spirits, rock minstrels, bomb throwers, bank robbers, peacock freaks, toe worshippers, poets, street folk, liberated women, professors and body snatchers: it is election day and we are everywhere. Don’t vote in a jackass-elephant-cracker circus. Let’s vote for ourselves. Me for President. We are the revolution. We will strike and boycott the election and create our own reality. Can you dig it: in every metropolis and hamlet of America boycotts, strikes, sit- ins, pickets, lie-ins, pray-ins, feel-ins, piss-ins at the polling places. Nobody goes to work. Nobody goes to school. Nobody votes. Everyone becomes a life actor of the street doing his thing, making the revolution by freeing himself and fucking up the system. Ministers dragged away from polling places. Free chicken and ice cream in the streets. Thousands of kazoos, drums, tambourines, triangles, pots and pans, trum- pets, street fairs, firecrackers—a symphony of life on a day of death. LSD in the drinking water. Let’s parade in the thousands to the places where the votes are counted and let murderous racists feel our power. Force the National Guard to protect every polling place in the country. Brush your teeth in the streets. Organize a sack race. Join the rifle club of your choice. Freak out the pigs with exhibitions of snake dancing and karate at the nearest pig pen. Release a Black Panther in the Justice Department. Hold motorcycles races a hundred yards from the polling places. Fly an American flag out of every house so confused voters can’t find the polling places. Wear costumes. Take a burniag draft card to Spiro Agnew. Stall for hours in the polling places trying to decide between Nixon and Humphrey and Wallace. Take your clothes off. Put wall posters up all over the city. Hold block parties. Release hundreds of greased pigs in pig uniforms downtown. Check it out in Europe and throughout the world thousands of students will march on the USA embassies demanding to vote in the election cause Uncle Pig controls the world. No domination without representation. Let’s make 2-300 Chicago’s on election day. On election day let’s pay tribute to rioters, anarchists, Commies, runaways, draft dodgers, acid freaks, snipers, beatniks, deserters, Chinese spies. Let’s exorcise all politicians, generals, publishers, businessmen, Popes, American Legion, AMA, FBI, narcos, informers. | And then on Inauguration Day Jan. 20 we will bring our revolutionary theater to Washington to inaugurate Pigasus, our pig, the only honest candidate, and turn the White House into a crash pad. They will have to put Nixon’s hand on the bible in a glass cage. Begin now: resist oppression as you feel it. Organize and begin the word of mouth communication that is the basis of all conspiracies. Coordinate information and ideas by writing to Youth International Party, %Eldridge Cleaver, Ramparts Mag- azine, 495 Beach St., San Francisco, California, 94133. Every man a revolution! Every small group a revolutionary center! We will be together on election day. Yippie!!! Stewart E. Albert Abby Hoffman Jerry Rubin CAPTAIN JOUDON FORD NEW YORK BLACK PANTHER PARTY CHAIRMAN DAVID BROTHERS BRUTALIZED BY NY PIGS Panthers’ of N.Y. Incident EYE-WITNESS REPORT (NEW YORK) The police rolled on us today about 2:30 PM. It all began when we were in the basement of 780 Headquarters on Nostrand Avenue cleaning it out. Myself -- my name is Warren by the way. Myself, Brother Gue, Reg- gie, Scrappy, a brother by the name of Reece, Those are all that took part in the whole incident. Well, those brothers were cleaning up the basement downstairs and I was mopping and Reggie and Gue went downstairs to get the bull horn. Reggie came upstairs half- way through the basement door and Gue stayed on the inside of the basement and he was speaking through the microphone of the bull horn. He was directing himself directly to the black people. He was telling them exactly what the police were here for; what they expected to do; and besides that, he was calling the pigs names such as racist, crackers, pigs (as we all call them) and in general, he was sort of rapping in a heavy fashion. Well, these two pigs who had rode down and had planted them- selves in front of the office were just laying there doing nothing in partiuclar. One of them got out and went into this store, this crack- er’s store beside us, then came back out and took his seat. After a while he got on the phone - one of them - the one who was driving got on the phone and called head- quarters, I guess, for more aid, Then, the one who was on our side of the door got up - came over to us and he asked Gue, who had already finished his rapping and was standing in front of the door, He asked Gue, ‘‘what permit did he have to use the bull horn’’, Gue jumped up and said that he had a permit. The pig asked him to see it. Gue said, ‘‘l ain't going to show him nothing." This brother by the name of Reece told him he had to see the cop again. The pig asked, who was in charge. He wanted to get into the office, Reece said he was in charge and he was directing himself then to the pig. The pig was calling him over to the car and Reece said NO, gestic- ulating, you know, and the pig started to grab him to wry and Account handle him, Gue sawthis andhe got on the pig. The pig immediately took his night stick and he started to hit Gue on the head, and Gue got pissed off. By the time Gue got pissed off, we saw more pigs rolling down on us and a brother by the name of Kosack came out and he was heated -- he was really gett- ing ready to go into action and he started going over towards Gue’s aid when this other pig came up and pushed him straight on the car, the pig car. And that’s the way it took place, After that, well, they all moved in on us. A couple stayed around to block us off. The rest of them got onGue, about six to eight of them got on Gue, and they started a sort of mass man- slaughter, really. Because it was manslaughter. After they had downed him, they put the hand- cuffs on him and they kept on beating him, They said he was re- sisting arrest. How could he re- sist arrest if he was onthe ground. He was pushed against the wall: He was pushed againstthecar. The pig had his night stick up against his neck pulling it towards him- self and the rest of them hadblack- jacks, They hit him onhis legs, his thigh and on his behind, also, on the back of his head. Therefore, he had no choice whatever and the rest of us, myself included (especially me) was standing there and I did nothing to aid. The reason why they all jumped down on Gue was be- cause ~he was rapping to black people as I stated before andI guess it was too heavy for them you know - for the pigs, that is, because black people had begun to gather around, Some people across the street, I won’t say who exactly but they called the pigs as they have done before on previous occasions, Ev- erytime we start a rap, the pigs seem to come down in full force. So we really have a fight on our hands anytime we get outside and Start to use a bullhorn or just keep a pig in close surveillance, There was no statement issued by the pigs of any sort of arrest. They did not inform him of any consitutional rights. They did not inform him that he was breaking a law in-the using the bullhorn, All they said is, do you have a permit for the use of the bullhorn. PAGE 3 THE BLACK PANTHER SAT., OCT. 5, 1968 OFF DUTY PIGS WHO VAMPED ON PANTHERS Press Conference of N.Y. Panthers The Black Panther Party of New York City went into Federal Court today and filed a law suit asking for the de-centralization of the New York City Police Department. Named as defendants in the suit are: Police Commissioner Howard Leary; The Law Enforcement Group; Robert Raggi, Chairman of LEG; Police Cap- tain Vincent J. Borgan; Police Officers with scield numbers 18675 and 3689; and Brooklyn District Attorney Aaron Koota. Captain Joudon Ford, a plaintiff in the law suit, said, ‘‘Racism in the police department will never be stopped until de-centralization is achieved and de-centralization means community control.’’ The details of the suit sponsored by the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, the Law Center for Constitutional Rights, and the National Lawyers’ Guild were announced ata press conference today held at the Overseas Press Club. Present at the conference were three leaders of theNew York Black Panthers, Captain Joudon Ford; Chairman David Brothers; Deputy Fred Richardson, Ministry of Information; Henry di Suvero, director of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee; William Kunstl- er of the Law Center; and Gerald Lefcourt of the National Lawyers’ Guild, In addition to community control of the police department, the suit asked for an injunction against the N.Y, City Police Department preventing further acts of violence, intimidation and humiliation against black citizens, It asked that all policemen wear name tags and that off-duty policemen be disarmed when engaged in political activity, or when in or around a courthouse. Acts of humiliation that the suit makes reference to are the use of racial epithets and the handcuffing in open court of black citizens. An end to harassment of Panthers such as surveillance of their activities and unlawful searches of their premises are also hit in the suit. The complaint further asks that the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office be prevented from issuing any public statement which would have the effect of prejudicing the trial of any Black Panther. The suit follows an attack on a handful of Panthers and white sympathizers who had come to the Brooklyn Criminal Courthouse on Sept 4, 1968 to attend a hearing of three Black Panthers who had been charged with possession of stolen property (a pair of shoes), resisting arrest and felonius assault on a police officer. Original bail for two of the three was set at $50,500 and $11,500 for the third, after a Brooklyn assistant District Attorney asked for such high bail because the three defendants were membersof the Black Panthers. More than 100 helmeted police attended the defendants? arraignment. Bail was subsequently reduced to $20,000; $10,000; and $2,500 after a series of motions by attorneys for the defendants. The handful of panthers were attacked on the 6th floor of the Criminal Courthouse by about 200 off-duty policemen and supporters who swung blackjacks and night sticks. Many of the policemen wore “Support Wallace’? buttons next to their police shields and shouted “White Power,’? ‘*We’re the white tigers,’ ‘‘White tigers eat Black Panthers,’’ and ‘*Win with Wallace.’’ At least five persons were injured during the melee including Chairman David Brothers, A photograph of the wounds of Chairman Brothers was made available at the press conference. There were also photographs of three other injured persons who required hospital treatment - Thomas McCreary, a Panther, and Ulysses Woodrow Barnes and Preston Mardenborough who are not Panthers. As further relief, the law suit calls upon the Court to order Commissioner Leary to take effective steps to discipline the officers who were involved in the ¢¢lynch mob’? and also to discipline the on-duty officers who took no action. NECLC, a civil liberties organization says that numerous eye- witnesses have come foward and given them statements. Jack Lang, a small businessman who appeared at the conference typified the kind of eye-witness who will be produced at the trial of this case, The suit is being brought under the Federal Civil Rights Act of the post Civil War era, It invokes an almost forgotten provision by requesting the Federal Courts to assign Federal Marshalls to the Brooklyn Courthouses in order to arrest persons who violate the civil rights of black citizens. Henry di Suvero, director of NECLC said, ‘‘This suit asks for the end of white racism in the police department in New York City. When black citizens cannot enter a courthouse without fear of a lynch mob of police officers, it should be clear to everyone what kind of suffering the black community is subjected to on a daily basis in their communities and behind the thick walls of precinct houses. This suit is also designed to compel Commissioner Leary and District Attorney Koota to take action instead of just issuing press releases.’ According to Captain Joudon Ford, the Black Panthers is an organization of black people who are working toward a 10-point program including full employment, an end of robbery of black and white men, decent housing, black oriented education, exemption of black men from military service until black citizens have been accorded a truly equal place in society, and immediate end to police brutality and the retrial and future trial of all black men by black people, ‘Tis the Season By RANDY WILLIAMS Brothers and Sisters it is time to intensify the struggle. Hunting season will soon be upon us. If you are going to participate it is very necessary that you arm yourself with the correct political ideology of the B.P.P. and the proper weapons, The first weapon you acquire must be a high powered rifle. You will need a rifle with enough killing force to knock the pig out of his shoes at a distance of three or more blocks -- a normal block equals about 100 yards. This way you can do your thing without exposing yourself unnecessarily and be secure inthe knowledge that the beast never knew what hit him! Brothers and Sisters you can do all the preliminary work, study- ing the ideology of the Party, marksmanship and invesitgating the pig; his water-holes, his fay- orite feeding grounds, his rest areas, and his pad, but if all the power you can muster against a 200 or 250 pound porkchop is a .22 rifle or a .32 pistol, then you are only setting yourself up to be just another casualty of a wounded pig! It is suicidal to hunt swine with .22’s, .25’s or .32’s. Small calibre weapons such as these should only be used on target ranges. At point blank range a .32 pistol delivers only 100 pounds of force, While against us the pig can apply at least 540 pounds of forcel So when hunting swine at close ranges 0-25 yards you must use at least a .38 (point blank 255 p.f.) However 357 magnums are even deadlier 640 p.f.) Medium distances about 1/2 block a 12 gauge shotgun firing 00 buckshot or slugs (Slugs at a block, 1810 pf.) For long deadly accurate shooting a 30,06 rifle is a very fine piece, (at 3 to 4 blocks 1360 p.f.) Remember armed with the correct ideology and weapons you will never return from the hunt without a good pig. The only good pig is a dead pig!I!! Summary of Pig Control Amendment This amendment to the City charter would give control of the police to community elected neigh- borhood councils so that those whom the police should serve will be able to set police policy and standards of conduct, The amendment provides for direct community control of the police by establishing separate police, departments for the two major communities of Richmond: the Black community and the pre- dominantly white area, The de- partments would be separate and autonomous, They can by mutual agreement use common facilities. Each Department will be admin- istered by full time police com- missions. The Commissioners are selected by a Neighborhood Po- lice Control Council composed of fifteen members from that com- munity elected by those who live there. Each department\shall have three Community Councildivisions within it. The Councils shallhave the power to discipline officers for breaches of Department policy or violations of law. They may direct their police Commissioner to make changes in department wide police policy by. majority vote of the five depart- ment commissioners, The Council can recall the Commissioner ap- pointed by it at any time it finds that he is no longer responsive to the community. The community can recall the council members when they are not responsive toit. All police officers must live in the department they work in. PAGE 4 THE BLACK PANTHER SAT., OCT. 5, 1968 BLACK SURVIVAL In the year 1968, Black people have awakened from a dead dream, with the knowledge that we are still living in slavery after over 400 years. We realize that we are living ina mad racist America in a NOTORIOUS racist decadent society. A de- generate society that is trying to dehumanize black people and peoples of color throughout the world. Racist America is trying to committ mass genocide on black people here in the United States. This is why here in Oakland, Pig Chief Gains and his ultra racist pig department are trying to agitate the Black Panther Party into fighting on unfavorable terms, in an effort to exterminate the Vanguard Party. I, as a sister in the Vanguard Party, have realized that women play an important part in any revolution, At present we are only concerned with the role of Black women in a revolution. We play a dual role in that we have two major and common duties; 1. our military duty, that of a soldier and 2. that of a domestic. First, as women we are expected to be by our men’s sides, gun in hand to help them carry on. Secondly as women, WE MUST reproduce warriors so that there will be future generations to carry on the revolution, household duties, such as cleaning, caring for the family, sewing, and cooking etc. Included also in domestics is for every woman to have a basic knowledge of emergency medical care and a basic knowledge in survival. Earlier I mentioned that racist America was tryingto exterminate us by waging war. In creating a rebellion, racist America knows that many black people will die because they haven’t received proper emergency first-aid. This is exactly why, we as black women are going to know what to do, When the streets are closed or there’s a 24-hour curfew on, and no legitimate means of communication or travel, black women and men also, must know how to treat certain illnesses and accidents. First-aid treatment given in many cases can be a matter of life or death, so it’s IMPORTANT to know the proper things to do. Sisters! Although this is by no means a medical encyclopedia, and you’re not trained nurses, if you learn and put into practice these few helpful suggestions you might save someone’s life, maybe even your own when the dog’s vamp. We all know this will happen sooner or later, because its inevitable, because these devils, pigs or whatever you want to call them, are inhuman, and because we are posing a threat to them. FIRST - AID The following maladies requires emergency treatment. 1, heart attacks 6. chemicals 2, comas 7. wounds (bullet or lac- eration) 3. suffocation 8. uncontrolled bleeding 4, shock 9. childbirth 5. burns 10. broken bones CUTS AND MINOR BULLET WOUNDS Cuts and minor bullet wounds should be washed with soap and water, doused with an antiseptic like iodine, and bandaged. More serious cuts should be covered if they’re not dirty, or bleeding profusely (heavily or uncontrollably) and treated by a doctor as soon as possible. Be cool about taking anyone out to find a doctor when there’s guerrilla warfare being waged. If the injured person is BREATHING ALRIGHT, 3nd NOT BLEEDING too badly, and is only hurt in a NON- VITAL AREA, give him a pain pill and stay home until it’s safe to go through the streets without being ar- rested or killed. MINOR BURNS For minor burns, cold water and OINTMENT are good. More severe burns should be covered with thin vaseline guaze and the victim given fluids to prevent dehydration (loss of important body fluids.) Please DON’T try to give any fluids to an unconscious person. He will only choke. SHOCK Shock, the condition caused by acute failure of the circulation of the blood in the veins and in the capillaries farthest from the heart. Shock may occur during times of great emotional stress, injury, pain, sudden illnes and accidents like burns. It is believed that loss of blood is the cause of shock in most cases. The first change that occurs in shock is dialation of the blood vessels on the surface. When this happens, the person begins to sweat, while his skin is relatively warm. His blood pressure falls and his pulse becomes slow and feeble. The victim of shock should FIRST OF ALL be placed with his head low, sincé loss of blood from the brain may result in failure of the brain to function. If the state of shock continues over a period of even a few hours, it may be fatal or cause permanent impairment of the brain. He must be kept comfortably warm. Pain, which may be a contributing factor to the intensity of shock, is relieved by sedative drugs. A secondary shock due to damage of the tissues follows the initial (1st stage) shock from the wound or injury. A person in secondary shock is pale, weak, exhausted and if conscious, may complain of thirst. Perspiration is cold and clammy, pulse rapid and thready and breathing rapid and shallow, blood pressure low, and outer blood vessels collapsed. Secondary shock is seen mainly after severe burns. In shock following burns, the patient, if conscious, should be given salt and soda in water. 1 quart of cold water, 1 teaspoon of salt, and 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda, to replace the salty fluids lost from the tissues. This is only a first-aid measure to be taken until the doctor arrives. CHEMICALS Chemicals (mace, etc.) sprayed in the FACE should be washed off with warm water and soap, Chemicals IN THE EYES should be rinsed with plain water. Unconscious people should never have their heads tilted back. NEVER move a person suspected of severe back injury. You could snap his spinal cord and kill him. Watever you do be realistic in your plans for survival. Do whatever you can to insure basic survival but don’t get hung up on any one list of articles, alter to suit yourself. KNOW what to do in any situation you can control, and DON’T SPEND excess time worrying in situations you can’t control. Most important DO NOT show signs of hysteria around the injured person. Excess shock could cause the person’s death. Fill your medicine cabinet with these articles for your first- aid kit. 1. first-aid book 2, surgical tape (adhesive) 8. guaze (sterilized) 4, vaseline 5. alcohol 6. aspirin (purest form of pain killer) Two Strikeouts For Nebraska Power Structure OMAHA, NEB. -- The me evil cone of Netrsskas struct out twice on this September week, Once on the 18th of September and second on the 20th of September, +e- They struck out in their attempts to contain members of the Black Panther Party, It seems in both instances that the pigs in this State are really a bunch of dumb ass hicks. That they would have the audacity to even take such cases that they laid'claim to into court. Being such a backward part of the country, I can somewhat see how this would be possible. Since I have been in the State-a month, I would venture to say that the Midwest is at least ten years behind the rest of the country. The first time they fucked up is when they arrested me, which incidentally happened the very night Brother Huey’s jury returned the verdict; to be more exact about twenty minutes after the jury came in, long enough for their National Pig Teletype to get that information here, They busted me on an alleged stolen car warrant. It seems that 1 had stolen the car that I had rented in a little white racist colony of 7,000 population called York, Nebraska, They insisted in pursuing their insane persecution right on up to a preliminary hearing. In short, they should have been reading MAO, particularly INVESTIGA- TION AND STUDY, They did not invesitgate; they reacted like pigs with their madness, The case was dismissed because they didn’t have a case. And now, I shall proceed to treat them as pigs and bar- becue them with a tremendous law suit for false arrest, which I have already put into motion, an excellent chance of winning, and we will deal from there, The second fuck-up was the case of Sub-Captain Veronza Bowers of Omaha, Nebraska who is constantly harassed by the pigs. It seems Captain Bowers was at or near the scene of some rebellion in the Black community. When some pig gave an order to disperse. It seems that this gig was attended by several hundred people. Brother Bowers was observed some four or five minutes later walking from the direction of an alley where allegedly some brick and bottles had been thrown in actuality. He was emerging from an By ‘CAPTAIN CRUTCH all-night eating establishment, He was’ placed linder arrest for fail- ing to disperse. When he protested stating he hadn't caused any trouble and was going home, They then forcibly arrested him and also charged him with resisting arrest because he is a known Panther. He appeared in court before a known racist judge, was convicted and appealed the conviction. He appeared later in another court before another racist judge, moré biased than the first. But because of the tremendous amount of reséarch‘on the part of one of the Panther attorneys, the pigs lost their case, even after a lot of perjured testimony of their part. The judge eyen stated with his racist pig ass, that he believed the Brother was wrong. He believed the Brother was involved in the rebellion and that he was sorry he had to find the Brother not guilty. But there was no evidence to indicate that he was guilty. So the pigs dragged their asses ou of the courtroom, looking sicker than a motherfucker after all their lying and coniv- ing, including an Uncle Tom clown ass Nigger pig, who looked like Smiling Jack with his head up a baboon’s ass, Many Blac! citizens in Nebraska believe that the Black Panther Party is the only alternative for prompt action in combatting the hideous, barbarious killings and brutality by several Nebraska policemen in Omaha. Since May 3, 1968, there have been over 275 provocative cases of severe police brutality on the Northside Streets of Omaha, Nebraska. Severe beatings of pregnant Black women, stomping of Black youngsters, spraying of the incredible poisonous chemical Mace, the swearing to Black citizens with the use of gutter language. Normally spoken big poor white trash is alarming, Many want to claim that the Black Panther Party organizing in Omaha is bad news, If the Black Panthers are bad news, they are only bad news to a racist society. They are the answer to the present society which has promulgated all of the ills which the Panther Party is at- tempting to correct and will correct by any means necessary. Many law abiding Black citizens have already given the go ahead signal to the Black Panther Party in Nebraska. So like it or not pig power structure, the Panther-Party is here to stay, with the gun and Panther Power, Captain Crutch OAKLD PIGS BOMB OWN PIG PEN I heard on the news that some ex- Plosions have occurred, Two of them that occurred, one at the Oak- land Police Headquarters, Police Station, and another one at the Alameda County Court House, where brother Huey was tried, The Party is looking at this in the manner that the pigs must be try- ing to get some sympathy of some kind -- trying to justify their occupations of the Black Com- munity probably by staging the explosions themselves, Chief Gains, a pig has said something about these particular explosions weren’t aimed at hurt- ing anybody, He also made state- ments that he’s going to go out Bobby Seale Chairman and patrol the community. I don’t know why he’s going to try to go out and patrol the community when explosions are occurring around the Police Station, Sheriff's De- partment, and the County Court House, These pig pens are not in the Black Community. They are controlled by the racist pigs down- town. So, it looks like just that, they’re going to use certainmeans to try to get the community to antagonizing, harassing, andmur- dering the black people’s com- “munity who are organizing to elect Huey P, Newton and get signatures for brother Eldridge Cleaver and all the other things we are doing. Which are in fact, the Ministry of Health of the Black Panther Par- ty is in the process, hopefully in the next couple of months, to be- gin to start some kind of construc- tion and organization to put up a free black clinic in the black com- munity in Oakland, And I’m pretty sure that the power structure in downtown Oakland is going to be very definitely in opposition to black people or revolutionary or- ganizations like the Black Panther Party, doing things for the people, serving the people, and showing them as what they are; ‘‘racist pigs.” rr A OCTOBER 1966 BLACK PANTHER PARTY PLATFORM AND PROGRAM PAGE 5 THE BLACK PANTHER SAT., OCT. 5, 1968 WHAT WE WANT WHAT WE BELIEVE The program is usually divided into one section of ten points entitled ‘‘What We Want’? and then ten paragraphs explaining these points in a section entitled ‘‘What We Believe.’’ For the sake of clarity, we have put each one of the ten points in ‘‘What We Want’? immediately above its corresponding paragraph in ““What We Believe.’’ 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny. 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 means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living. 3. We _want_an_end to the robbery by the white man 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 resti- tution 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 Germans mur- dered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make. 4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. We _ believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people. 5. We want education for our pegs that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We wan ation 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 knowledge 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. €. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military 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. EE We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by organizing 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 therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self defense. 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. We believe that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial. 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black Communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. eee We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S, Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, environmental, his- torical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the ‘‘average reasoning man’’ of the black community. 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothi justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations- Supervised plebiscite 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 le 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 con- nected 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, vernments are instituted amo men, derivil eir just wers trom the consent o e governed; thai enever an orm 0 vernment mes 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, an organizing its wers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw olf suc’ government, and to provide new guards for their future security. FREE HUEY NOW GUNS BABY GUNS PAGE 6 THE BLACK PANTHER SAT., OCT. 5, 1968 Imperialism, Economics and Heart Transplants by Landon Williams Plainly put, imperialism is a system who’s main concern js the profit. Without something or someone to exploit, imperialism would soon die and perish into dust. These are true facts independ- ent of man’s arguments. The first regard of imperialist is always with getting the most profits and mostusefulness out of everything Oil is one example of what that means and the use of the hog is another. Oil is used for many purposes other than putting in cars for low- riding. Plastics,, some synthetic fabrics, bug spray and even imitation flavorings for ice cream are made from oils. On the hog everything is used in some way, the guts, the brain, the tongue, and even the vital organs. Imperialism makes the most economic use of all its materials and wastes nothing. Some of the things Black revolutionaries have used to try and wake up some of our dreaming brothers and breakdown the myth of Black people ever being assimilated into America’s imperialist system, has been the fact that Black people everyday are becoming less of an asset and more and more ofa deficit here in racist America and the fact that racist U.S, imperialism in Viet Nam, when faced with losing its profits, has falsely thought it more economical to try to destroy people of color than to risk profits with them around. Some of our brothers and sisters however re- fuse to believe these’ facts and recognize the real danger that this situation presents to Black people. Some even go so far as to spout forth such insane things as ‘‘America can’t do without the Black man, she needs us.’’ By this, I take it that they mean it would be uneconomical for America to get rid of the Black man because to think of America needing us in anyway other than dollars and cents or profit motives would be unrealistic and completely opposite to the true nature of American imperialism. After observing the latest medical developments and most re- cently what took place last week I hate to admit it but they may be right. It may be a decadent America’s interests to keep the Black man around. A white ‘‘doctor’’ from racist Nazi like South Africa seems to have found a very economical and profitable answer to the problem of what to do with Black people. Last week Sept 8-14, Dr. Christian Bernard succeeded once again in making medical history and doing another barbaric act reminicient of Hitler’s mad doctors. His feat was shockingly ghastly and showed the true savage nature of racist imperialism. Dr. Christian Bernard ripped the life giving heart from the breast of a pregnant Black woman and transplanted it into the cancer infested chest of a racist white pig. The details weren’t fully released though the regular news- papers and only one radio station carried a partial report of the story. Dr. Bernard was being very economical indeed he succeeded in killing three birds with one stone. That is he one: aided in the genocide racist imperialism is waging against people of color by murdering a fertile young Black woman, two, he eliminated the future threat that the yet to be bornblack child might have presented to racist imperialism by dealing with the child in typical cowardly racist manner and snuffing the life out of the unborn Black child in its mother’s womb, and thirdly, he extended the life of a decay- ing white pig in Nazi South Africa. Black people everywhere in the world and especially here in cancerous decaying America, must begin to pay closer attention to what’s being done, all around us, in white chirstian countries, in the name of ‘(medical science’’ and ‘‘humanity’? Black people must begin to analyze what’s happening everywhere around us. When we realize that the only logic imperialism follows is the logic of profit and loss, then perhaps the reasons why so many white ‘‘chris- tian’’ Americans, after 100 years, are suddenly so against black seperation will become much clearer. Perhaps it is not that they believe so much in intergration, as they insis:, or equality but rather that they, like Dr. Christian Bernard see the usefulness of keeping Black people haniy as a ready Supply of spare parts. Anyway with the rate that heart disease and lung tancer deaths are increasing and with the enormous profits to be made from cancer ridden pigs, who wish to extend their lives, it would behove each of us, when we feel ourselves being watched by the pigs, if we think not only of the immediate and obvious threat to our lives that they constitute armed with their guns and tanks, but also think of the sutler but far more gruesome threat of Tule Lake, the Stanford Medical Center and Heart-transplants, W TAKE OVER HE George Murray Reflects The same dogs that shattered ‘lil bobby’s face and head with all those bullets laughingly as the people looked on screaming pigs don’t murder him and panthers retreated into ancient crevices, presenting the community with an african funeral, are adding newer and bolder spirits to their funeral pyre all those black, brown, red, and yellow people .who suffer the homosexual breath of these capitalist monsters, that slobber on the world always they have a sentence for a black man, these cracker jack racist rain gas chambers,*poverty programs, electric chairs, cotton fields, and construction jobs on our people, and their scientist make up new sentences for us everyday, last night, the cracker dogs rained bullets, on our office. while cursing the minister of defense and on tomorrow the dogs will do it once more until we make them reach for the sky is the limit -- George Murray Minister of Education BLACK PANTHER PARTY BLACK PANTHER PARTY were violated. Every member of the party must know these verbatum by heart. And apply them daily. Each Member must report any violation of these rules to their leadership or they are counter-revolutionary and are also subjected to suspension by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, THE FOLLOWING RULES ARE: party work. 2. Any party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from this party. 3. No party member can be drunk while doing daily party work, 4. No party member will violate rules relating to office work, and general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, ANYWHERE, anyone other than the enemy, 6. No party member can join any other army or force other than the BLACK LIBER- ATION ARMY, ‘. No party member can have a weapon in his possession while drunk or loaded off narcotics or weed, 8. No party member will commit any crimes against other members of BLACK People at all, and cannot steal or take from the people; not even a needle and a piece of thread, 9. When arrested BLACK PANTHER PARTY members will give only name and address and will sign nothing, Legal first aid must be understood by all Party members, 10, The Ten Point Program and platform of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must be known and understood by each Party member, including all other material of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, SHOULD HAVE 4 RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS - OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Every member of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY throughout this country of racist America must abide by these rules as functional members of this party. CENTRAL r COMMITTEE members, CENTRAL STAFFS, and LOCAL STAFFS, including all captains subordinate to either national, state and local leadership of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY will enforce these rules, Length of suspension or other disciplinary action ncessary for violation of these rules will depend upon decisions by national, state or state area, and local committees and staffs where said rules or rules of the 1, No party member can have narcotics or weed in his possession while doing 5. No party member will point or fire a weapon unnecessarily or accidentally at WHAT IS A PIG? A low natured beast that has no regard for law, justice, or the rights of the people; a creature that bites the hand that feeds it; a foul depraved traducer, usually found masquerading as the victim of an unprovoked at- tack. CENTRAL COMMITTEE of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY Minister of Defense HUEY P. NEWTON Chairman BOBBY SEALE Minister of Information ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Chief of Staff DAVID HILLARD Field Marshals UNDERGROUND Minister of Education GEORGE MURRAY Minister of Finance MELVIN NEWTON “Minister of Justice H. RAP BROWN Prime Minister STOKELY CARMICHAEL Communications Secretary KATHLEEN CLEAVER Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS Address all correspondence to: BLACK PANTHER PARTY Central Headquarters P.O. Box 8641, Emeryville Branch OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 94608 PAGE'7 THE BLACK PANTHER SAT., OCT. 5, 1968 HUEY P NEWTON FOR THE 17th CONGRESSIONAL DIST. ALAMEDA COUNTY BLACK PANTHER WRITE IN CANDIDATE ON THE PEACE AND FREEDOM TICKET g In the upcoming November election the Peace and Freedom Party are running four members from the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, on the PANTHER’S HUEY P. NEWTON ten-point program. Minister of Defense, is running for Congress in the Seventeenth Congressional District. He is currently being held as a political prisoner allegedly accused of killing a policeman. HUEY P. NEWTON has implemented a program within the Black Community that will give his constituency the right to decide their own destiny. The BLACK PANTHER PARTY'S ten-point program stems from HUEY P. NEWTON. We realize that HUEY P. NEWTON understands the need and aspira- tions of the people in the Black Community. He offers something new to political arena which is revolutionary politics, which should be known as the people’s revolution. To fully comprehend what HUEY P. NEWTON is doing is to understand the ten-point program. Once the community reads and comprehends the party's program, they will see the necessity of the revolution and the national liberation for oppressed people. To achieve these goals, we must have the political and military force for all oppressed people that has never existed in this country. This is why we of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY offer to the masses, HUEY P. NEW- TON, a man with a revolutionary program. FIRST: SECOND: THIRD: FOURTH: FIFTH: ‘ To pull out of the Democratic and Republican Parties be- cause they do not (DO NOT!) represent BLACK PEOPLE and other oppressed people in this colonized country. To alleviate the problems of bootlickers, which refers di- rectly to bootlicking so-called Negro politicians. To enable us (the “for real” BLACK PEOPLE!) to heighten the consciousness of our BLACK brothers and sisters. And as a major political objective for all black people, a BLACK PLEBISCITE a United Nations supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the Black Colonies—in which ONLY Black Colonial subjects are allowed to participate. BUT—FIRST AND FOREMOST, WE (the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, THE PEOPLE OF THE NATION, the Peace and Free- dom Party and other supporters of our BLACK LIBERATION) ARE INTERESTED IN THE FREEDOM OF OUR LEADER AND FOUNDER OF THE “BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF- DEFENSE, our MINISTER OF DEFENSE, the Honorable HUEY P. NEWTON. PURPOSE FOR ENTERING THE POLITICAL RACE: AGE 8 THE BLACK PANTHE A ELDRIDGE CLEAVER FOR PRESIDENT BLACK PANTHER CANDIDATE ON THE PEACE AND FREEDOM TICKET PAGE 9 THE BLACK PANTHER SAT., OCT. 5, 1968 BOBBY SEALE FOR STATE ASSEMBLYMAN a] wi 17TH ASSEMBLY DIST ALAMEDA COUNTY BLACK PANTHER CANDIDATE ON THE PEACE AND FREEDOM TICKET 1968: BALLOT OR THE BULLET = | t ‘ t | | i ee ig | Seam: | ory ony i ' i | ee KATHLEEN CLEAVER, COMMUNICATION SECT., BLACK PANTHER PARTY 18th ASSEMBLY DISTRICT S.F. PEACE & FREEDOM PARTY SHOOT YOUR SHOT THE BLACK MAN’S FIRST LESSON Tarzan, the king of the jungle Friend to all monkeys and hunters Protects helpless Jane From the wicked black savage Whom he thinks Wishes to ravage Lily white Jane Ashanti '67 Panther and the pig By Thearthur Wright Oakland has a panther, a baleful beast, a rayening monster by the tail and there is no book that will tell her what to do. The beast lies and purrs and Oakland trembles like the skull of a desert vul- ture with a dune wind howling through the openings. The pan- ther crouches and Oakland hol- lers like a street whore and strikes out at the darkness but nothing seems to be there, But something is there. Believe that, Nothing in the oldschoolever taught anybody how to resist it. Nothing ever destroyed that muse standing between the devil and the road to hell, The Huey Newton trial was what was happening until Czecho got squared away by the Soviets. He was the news until Chicago hap- pened, But for black people the world over Huey: is still the man on the scene. The slender young man, a brother to his soul, a brother who always showed me how together he is, sits in the dock, the very forefront of the forefront, and is cool. He is very cool, He sits there waiting for the DA to cool his pill. He says without words that the DA and his boys will never see the day again when they walked with power and impunity. Huey’s message is that the DA and his boys have sworn to uphold their own destruction. When they took oath to office they swore they would do their duty. Their duties included prosecuting the case of Huey Newton, which in turn became the case of black peo- ple and people of rebellion and these people have promised to re- locate the thinking and the morals of America, A judge was taken from the gutter with a silver spoon in his mouth to pass sen- tence on how well his man did his flunky job; his peon job of executioner with a dull and cum- bersome guillotine. And Huey is cool through it all in his black turtleneck and powder-blue, And time rolls on. A monster that has chewed up people and lives in ut- ter righteousness and fertilizes itself on manure while the black cat stares at it with golden eyes and y-slits. It licks its paws and its tail slowly sweeps from side to side, Watching. And waiting. And why not? Time is on its side and it is about to run out. This black cat has taken lessons from the masters, Masters felines taught this game to the young black cat. The young rascal is still learning, but what youngthingis not? With fresh lessons in his mind being examined with vigor, he looks with fresh alert eyes upon the stagnant swamp discovered by Co- lumbus, the mildewed threads that masks a dragon’s breath. He is learning quickly, and waits with impatience, Black Panther Book Review THE IND{AN IN AMERICAN HIS- TORY by Virgil J. Vogel; Inte- grated Education Associates, 343 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, Illinois 60604; 1968, 24pp, SO¢. The maltreatment of Indians in American history books, and es- pecially in textbooks, is the focus of this brief but powerful com- mentary by Virgil J. Vogel. In a dozen pages of lucid text, supported by 78 footnotes and an extensive bibliography, Vogel has taken the measure of another major credibility gap in the structure of American society. His concern is twofold: justice for the Indian, and accuracy in history. As important as these are, a broader issue is implied in his statement. If America has, and continues to find it necessary to lie to itself through the writers of its histories and textbooks, about the Indian, about the Negro, about Labor, foreign policy, and so forth, what does this say about America? “POLITICAL POWER GROWS OUT OF THE BARREL OF A GUN.” To All Sisters and Brothers Who have Guns Sept. 14, 1968 Palama, Calif. Please don’t go and shoot another brother unless it is in self-defense, Keep yourselves from being in the position where youneed a piece to protect yourself from one an- other. It is the ‘‘PIG'’’ we need protection from, 4 When we have 4 gun in our hand it will be hard to shoot another human, but we must always re- member that a gun in our hand is for the purpose of killing some- one. If we don’t kill the pig, he will kill us, He has killed our black brothers - brother with minds, brothers who have been close to use, and he will continue to kill our brothers unless we are pre- pared, This man we are confronted with is no value to us. He is sick. We can attempt only if we know how to use that gun, to kill him. When we shoot we must be ready to kill that man not waste bullets. Or risk our lives. We must be sharp with our guns or not use them. We must go to the desert and learn to shoot to kill, we cannot risk any- more lives because we are unor- ganized o1 unprepared, CHRYST deBECKER Black & Proud . ~ By “THE DIP" The correct phrase is ‘I am proud to be Black’’, We should get ourselves together and stop saying and acting Black; we’ve now got to BE BLACK, Nat Turner, Denmark Vessey, Martin Luther King Jr., and count- less others who have died for the liberation of Black people. Now we have a million Blacks who talk Black and sleep white. Maybe those who died gave their lives for chocolate covered peanuts. The time is coming for all totake a stand, either help defend the Black communities from these abuses or leave, { Tommy iScUSSiod OF-FIOA| é PAGE 11 THE BLACK PANTHER SAT., OCT, 5, 1966 White Radicals VS Pigs at Chicago White Americans are being beaten in the streets of Chicago and only white America is truly stunned by it all. [happen to be listening how to a truly white honky who has no- thing but praise for Mayor Dailey and the poor cops who had to take a firm stand against the Yip, Hip and Black people, Otherwise it would have been a great disaster... to something. What these people would have disastered was some- thing he failed to explain but he went further and said he certainly has no respect for anyone who supports them, This man will prob- ably die in the first wave. Itisnow becoming, to borrow a phrase, “crystal clear’’ how the shit is falling, and has been falling, The delineation of the American power structure is beginning to burn into the minds of Salt - of - the- earth honkies who holler and deep- ly believe in equality for all justso long as nobody endangers what their honky forefathers snatched from the Indans and beat the Black man to keep up. It doesn’t register yet, but oh, how did they explain their ‘‘law and order’’, the necessity for ‘‘rules’’ and the upkeep when they woke up the morning after Chicago?How could they ‘‘law and order’’ those clubbings away? What terrifies them even more and intensifies the cruel mechanism of capito -de- mocracy and the methods of per- petuation is that those who estab- lish, maintain, and command these destructive forces are seomtimes caught in the trap. For some reason this makes the brutality more brutal to carefully brain- washed minds. They just get sick digging on that scene, They could condemn, from one side of their mouths, when death-dealing dogs bit Black men, women, and chil- dren for trying to breathe a few more breaths of melting-pot air. Some of the crude honky brothers misread what true equality meant. Bull Conner was well-meaning but on the wrong track, There were even some honkies that didn’t go for the shit because Bull was a redneck cracker and was from the South, which is, other than lowly ex -, now - but-not-future- slaves, the favorite place to piss, But theycould overlook that and get King out of jailto keep the ‘‘Negro’’ votes under the Demo banner. And what really got them by the big nut was the four or five well- intentioned white people who picked their asses off the ground and got killed for it. But white folks don’t get pissed off about that. Because they knew time takes care of allthatails, But set in motion the roadblocks that would damn well require time to overcome, No, they still kept cool. The FSMers deserved what they got for talking shit for fat-mouth- ing, for hot-breathing, for trying to dodge the draft, for leaving free speech and taking to LSD, or nuding it at Funston, or where- ever it was fun to be nude at, or for fucking (and letting it be known; that was the real crime) without that necessary piece of Paper. The honkies were pissed off but that only tickled their balls a bit and they hitched their pants and zipped up. But when a fine young honky babe got a billy club in the mouth, that was police brutality. The first time ever on the American scene, All the beatings, extortions, killing by cops with L&O on their side was not brutality but a fictitious, fabri- cated, false lie against this or that city’s finest. Hallelujah, bru=- tality exists at last. Conventions are valuable, aren’t they? Black Students Union News Service _ Oakland Technical High . The Black Student Union is a political party within the schools; it deals with the need and desires of the people. “Politics is war without blood shed” —‘twar is a continuation of politics with bloodshed”— war is a life and death. struggle. When politics (negotiation, talking) de- velop to a certain point beyond which it cannot proceed by peace- ful means, war breaks out to sweep the obstacles away. The term Black Power, which is frequently used by Black people, is a political objective. Black Power is defined as “the ability to define (break down) phenomenon (a thing, problem) and make it act ina desired manner”. =~? “Our people must be educated by and with the Black Student Union. Ideological education is the key link to be grasped in uniting the whole Black Student Union for great political struggles. Unless this is done the Black Student Union cannot accomplish any of its pol- itical tasks. resistunce.”” Black people now pro- claim their pride. “The part of himseif that he wanted to be re- spected he proceeds to place above everything else and proclaims it preferable to everything, cven to life itself.” foo long has the Biack Man uccepted the Understanding of White Liberals and now he shouts that he must be treated not merely as u Man, but solely as a Black Man, Péssible Revoluiioa Man. If whites must invariably look By Tod Kops Up until recently Blacks settled commitment to for a part-time their own at Black people as different, let them see Black as a positive addi- tion, not an unfortunate liability. Blackness is now foremost. “ft advance in terms of society. “What was at first the becomes for him the supreme (Black) man’s obstinate resistance good.” Having up till now been now becomes the whole man, who Willing to compromise, the slave is identificd and summed up in this suddenly adopts an attitude of All School, Oakland, Calif. Recently there has been a falling off in ideological and political work among students and intellectuals. and some unhealthy tendencies have appeared. Some people seem to think that there is no longer any need to concern oneself with pol- itics or with the future of the people and the ideals of mankind. It seems as if it was once all the rage but is currently not so much in fashion. To counter these ten- dencies, we must strengthen our ideological and political work. Both students and intellectuals should study hard. In addition to the study of their specialized subjects, they must make progress both ideologic- ally and politically, which means they should study current events and politics. Not to have a correct political point of view is like having no soul. Power to the People And Black Power to Black People Gregory Harrison Chairman or Nothing, {f justice does not shine through, then the sky’s the limit. To die imithe service of your cause, to iinpale yourself like kamikaze planes on the Racist enemy arma- ments, dos nut represent that as an individual you just “couidn’t take any more.” For *‘it the individual in fuct accepts death and happens to die as a consequence of his act of rebellion, he demonstrates by doing so that he is willing to sacrifice huuseli for the sake of the common good which he considers more important than his own destiny.” Are the rights Black peuple seek more important than individual sac- rifices? Of course they are. Those Cont’d. on Page 14, Col 3 PANTHERS IN MEXICO by LANDON WILLIAMS In keeping with its policy of attempted isolation and suppression of the growing black liberation struggle, the racist U, S, govern- ment flexed it’s international muscle the week-end of August 10th thru 12th, and prevented a three member Black Panther delegation from visiting Cuba at the invitation of Cuban Premier Fidel Castro and the Cuban people. The groundwork for the trip had been planned out a few weeks earlier when members of the Central Committee of the Black Panther Party took the case of our Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton, to the halls of the United Nations in New York and talked with some of our brown brothers in the Cuban mission. The week of August 18th thru 24th was to be proclaimed worldwide as “The Week of Solidarity of the Asian, African, and Latin American People With the Afro American People in Their Struggle Against Violent Repression,’’ The purpose of our trip was to be educational. We were to carry to the Asian, African, and Latin American peoples the true story about the conditions black people are sub- jected to in racist decadent America and how in ever-increasing numbers more and more of our black brothers and sisters are turning to the teachings of Huey P. Newton, picking up the gun and using it. In return we would get a chance, first hand, to examine and study for ourselves the country andthe people of Cuba. A country and people free of the domination of racist American imperialism. A country and people that have taken up the gun and now realize their own destiny. A country of truly free people. That was to be our mission, For this purpose, George Murray, David Hilliard, ana myself, left from San Francisco Airport, Friday night, July 10th, ona Western Airlines jet for Mexico City where we were to spend the night before traveling on to Cuba in the morning. From the moment we set foot outside the airport in Mexico City until we arrived in New York a day and a half later, both David and myself were for the major part completely ignorant of what was being said around us. Neither David nor myself could speak Spanish and from the airport on, we relied heavily on brother George to hip us to what was being said, George easily hailed a cab at the airpot and we were soon on our way into town to the hotel, Once the cab driver found out that brother George could speak Spanish, he gave up on his meager attempts at speaking English and began to speak nothing but Spanish. In between the chattering of our cab driver and his laughter. George managed to explain part of what was being said and pointed out to us, The cab driver wanted to know if we were atheletes there to train for the olympics and George had answered no we weren't there for the olympics, but we were in training. When questioned about dis- crimination in Mexico, the driver said there was absolutely no discrimination in Mexico, however later on he admitted that there were some hotels where Blacks were not allowed to register. When David told George to ask him whether or not that was discrimination the driver simply shrugged his shoulders and laughed, That’s the way it went all the way into town and to the hotel. Every now and then George would point out certain places to us but for most of the ride I sat back, watched the long rows of white brick walls roll by and wondered about the people and country of Mexico, When we left the hotel around 9:00 Saturday morning, 1 remember the weather was hot, the sky was smoggy and the streets were filled with taxi cabs and people rushing by in all directions at once, At first it seemed like utter chaos and confusion, all noise and flash- ing colors. Then things began to take on a shape and a rhythm. There were women selling flowers on the streets, flags flying from buildings and in the background we could hear music being played in the square, Later, in a cab on our way to the Cuban Embassy we were to find out that this square, only a week before, had been part of the scene of bloody students’ rebellions that had rocked Mexico City for nearly two weeks. There seemed to be new construction going on everywhere. In almost every block new buildings were going up and old ones were coming down. The more I saw of Mexico City the more it began to amaze me. Modern buildings here, up to date advertising equip- ment there and modern gas stations, Then slowly out of the back of my mind, images of Racist America began to drift through my head, but why here in Mexico and why now? At first I began to wonder if maybe I was tripping. Then the images began to match, the picture became clear and WHAM it hit me right in the face. I could have been riding in downtown Oakland, the only differences were that instead of seeing black and brown men slaving their lives away, in muddy holes, shoveling dirt, there were Mexican brothers working their lives away in holes inthe streets, Instead of the sidewalks being filled with a sea of warm black faces and voices downtown shopping and being robbed by the vicious white merchant class, there was a multitude of friendly laughing brown faces and above them all like a menacing monster, loomed the overbearing presence of U.S. imperialism, The new buildings and stores had American names. The cars that were advertised on billboards were American. In fact the cigarettes, wine, whiskey, clothing and even the soap that was advertised was American, not to mention the thousand and one beauty aids, all the way from lady clairol to Avon calling. American owner- ship and control was plainly visable in everything. And the people? The ones working in the ditches were Mexican, the ones pumping gas were Mexican, the taxi drivers were Mexican, and the boys shining shoes were Mexican, It was just as though nothing had changed except the color of the people, Instead of arriving in an area of relative safety, as some people are apt to imagine Mexico to be, we had merely crossed from the Black colony of Afro Amer- ica into the Brown colony of Mexico. All of the hum and rhythm of life that we saw in Mexico city was just another of the working parts of U.S, imperialism. There must have been a thousand cabs in the Streets that day and believe me riding through traffic in Mexico City is like nothing else in the world. There are only about 3 or 4 red lights in the whole city and no stop signs at all, At most inter- sections it is first come first served. The trip to the Cuban Em- bassy was much like the trip from the airport, The cab driver talked to George in Spanish and George pointed out various land marks to us. One of the things we saw that stuck in my mind was the housing development that was built by funds received under the jive alliance for progress that the Kennedy’s backed so strongly. There they were like a sore thumb about 12 square blocks of drab looking four story housing projects like those of west Oakland or any black ghetto area in the U.S, These we were told were occupied by PAGE 12 THE BLACK PANTHER SAT., OCT. 5, 1968 the Mexican bourgeoisie, who were the only ones who could afford them, And what of the rest of the Mexican people, the lower in- come people, the unemployed, the old andhelpless, to this our driver pointed to the rows and rows of plain white-washed brick walls and said that on the other side, hidden from view were the pasteboard houses of the Mexican peasants, The Mexican Toms who had sold out to U.S, imperialism have found the U,S, remedy for handling problems very convenient, It is sometimes easier to cover up or camouflage the problem than it is to correct it and sometimes much cheaper too, Just as Mayor Daley of Chicago saw fit to put up red- wood fences to hide the sight of the horrid and decrepid slums, and living conditions of black people from the eyes of the delegates to the Democratic convention, the Mexican authorities have row after row of eight foot high brick walls to hide the wretched living con- ditions and delapidated shacks, into which most of the Mexican Population are crowded. The olympic visitors will see only the glittering outer shell of the monster that is the brown colony of Mexico, Soon we arrived at the Cuban Embassy and once inside, it was like breathing fresh air after running through clouds of dust holding your breath; or finding a calm friendly island in a violent sea filled with whirlpools and sharks. The Cuban consulate re- ceived us warmly and made us feel like we were truly at home. He then went busily about preparing our visa and letters of introduction. © On the wall in the background was a large red picture of Che, Just as the Chinese have a name for the year so do the Cubans and in bold letters at the top of the official Cuban Stationary was written “The Year of the Courageous Guerilla.’’ After finishing our papers the consulate explained the rest of our trip to us and said that by 2:00 that afternoon we would be in Cuba and that-a reception was waiting for us at the airport. With this he wished us well and sped us on our way. When we left the Embassy, I remember feeling a sense of urgency, The atmosphere had changed. There were three uniformed Mexican policemen standing on the corner and for the first time we saw Mexican soldiers riding in jeeps and trucks. Unlike the other times it took a long time to hail a cab. It was as though they all had something else to do or somewhere else to go. We finally caught a cab and started on our way to the airport for the final leg of our trip. This time the cab driver was not as friendly and talkative as the others had been and so we rode to the airport in almost complete silence, We got out of the cab, paid the driver, picked up our bags and headed for the Air Cubana ticket agency and then it happened. We were surrounded by 12 men of various nationalities, dressed in plain clothes and looking like Elliot Ness and the Untouchables, In typical Elliot Ness style, one grabbed my right arm. Another my left arm, one stood in front of me with his hand inside his coat; told me not to move and that I was under arrest and another one searched me from behind. The same thing was done to George and David and then we were all hand- cuffed and manicled together. When we asked them what they were doing and for some identification all they showed us were 38’s and 14 shot 9 M/M’s. In righteous gangland fashion we were kidnapped from the airport at gunpoint, loaded into the back of a dirty white station wagon with 8 armed men; driven to a secluded portion of Mexico City, and robbed of our money, papers, cameras, tape recorders and books, In the station wagon while we were being ripped off at the airport I had thought about how there were plenty of people around us who could have helped, but like some of our misguided brothers and sisters in racist america, refused to get involved and even go so far as to completely turn their backs so as to purposely not see anything. We told the pigs who had kidnapped us and robbed us we wanted to see the American Ambassador and they said that was where they were taking us. When the car stopped they ordered us to get out. When I looked out the window all I could see was rows of those white brick walls, I told one of the pigs that it didn’t look like the U.S, Embassy to me and asked him just what was going on. All he said was that he had his orders, for me to stop asking questions and to get out of the car. That may seem like a simple thing, to get out of the car but due to the manner in which we were manacled together, it was a difficult test. George was on my left side and my right hand had been handcuffed across my body to George's right hand and David was in the same awkward Position on George’s left. When we got out of the car we were taken and lined against a wall and questioned about why we were in Mexico. We told the pigs we were students there to study and they told us yes, they knew, we were red students, members of the Black Panthers, When we wouldn’t tell them anything other than we were students they Photographed us and told us that if we ever returned to Mexico we would be jailed for the next five years, Refusing to answer our questions they then proceded to escort us back to the airport and up the runway of a nonstop jet to New York. Our passports were placed in our pockets, our unwelcome guides said Adios and we were airborne on our way to New York. International U, S. imperialism had made itself more clear to us. The reasons for what happened to us were crystal clear. We were stopped from going to Cuba because this racist U. S. government doesn’t want any genuine ties of friendship established between 7 Gb wee ‘cass aged wei the revolutionary Peoples threatening and stifling the Se Pts tenes ip of the peoples vanguard, The Black Panther Party however refuses to allow itself to be bullied and intimidated by the racist pigs who control this country or their international goons and lackeys who protect their right to Plunder the world, We believe in the teachings of our Minister of Arges Huey P, Newton, that “the spirit of the people is greater man’s technology’’ and that ‘if there is to be revolution there must be a revolutionary party, a vanguard party.’’ And in keeping with these teachings during “the week of Solidarity of the Asian, African, and Latin American People with the Afro Americans in their struggle against violent repression," August 18 thru 24th George Murray, Minister of Education, of the Black Panther Party, and Captain Joudon Ford, of the New. York chapter, carried to the entire peoples of the world, over radio Havana, the true story of Brother Huey P, Newton, the Black Panther Party, and the growing Black liberation Sturggle here in racist, de i » decadent America people will be free, rags Power to the People, Black Power to Black People Panther Power to the Vanguard Landon R, Williams BOLIVIAN GOVT. QUESTIONED IN DISAPPEARANCE OF LEFTIST LEADER Events in Bolivia have become a focus of world attention since the death of Che Guevara in that country, At the present time, La- tin union members and leftists are deeply concerned about the arrest and strange disappearance of Isaac Camacho, a leader in the miners’ unions in the Boliv- ian tin mines of Siglo XX and Catavi. According to these sources, Ca- macho was taken prisoner by the military forces of the Bolivian government after the ‘‘Massacre of San Juan,’’ June 24, 1967, Since that date, the fate of the union leader has been unknown. The government, after repeated questioning by the opposition in Parliament, declared, by way of a government ministry, that this leader had been expelled to the Republic of Argentina. University students made an investigation of this statement, however, and their evidence indicates that the miner Camacho was and is not to be found in Argentina, This, they say, has also been affirmed by the Federal Police of Argentina and by the Bolivian embassy in Argentina, Camacho, a leader of the unions in the mines, is also a militant of the Partido Obrero Revolucionario (Workers Revolutionary Party -- the Trotskyite party of Bolivia) and he was well known in Bolivia as an intransigent opponent of the present government there. In Bolivia, especially inthe Uni- versity and in the workers’ sector, there is great fear that Camacho has been assassinated -- the reasons are numerous, Along with being a staunch enemy of the military regime of General Barrientos, Camacho is the only witness to the political assassination of Cesar Lora, pol- itical leader of the mi: 2s, Lora was assassinated, Latin sources state, on direct orders from General Barrientos on July 29, 1965. Hang-ups?...not us! The Black Panther Party doesn’t care if you have a process, nig or baldheaded, also if you dig ditches, sell cars, eat pork, go surfing, talk nine languages, sell dope or dip snuff, if you are un~ employed,, hustling, running or just here, We, ‘‘The Black Panther Party,"’ say--Welcome Home Brothers and Sisters and Lets do It Together. Come On Home - - -- ~ Tommy (the-Dip) Justice of Injustice The threat of penalties, of long terms of incarceration, and imminent death, will not deter black men from following a course they believe is right. History clearly points out that penalties do not deter men when their conscience is aroused. This is a basic axiom that White America is going to have to come to grips with in 1968 and in the coming years - and get herself uptight on what is really happening in this country. Black people in great numbers - and certain advanced segments of the white community - have moved to a level of consciousness where they can clearly see both the subtle and flagrant examples of the INJUSTICE OF THE WHITE MAN’S JUSTICE. The masses of black people - colonized into crowded, decaying black communities across this country - have always, consciously and unconsciously, moved from the position that law and order meant something quite different for him than it did for the white man -- the colonizer and oppressor. The black man inthe black community receives daily, harsh examples of the injustice of the white man’s justice, As the black reyolutionary theorist Frantz Fanon stated about Algeria, a Situation which is basically different only in kind and not in degree from the situation in thiscountry: ‘‘the policeman and the soldier are the official, instituted go-betweens ... the agents of govern- ment speak the language of pure force.’’ In the black communities of America, the policeman is also the agent of the government, the visible example of law and order, of justice and fairness. His dis- gusting and disdainful actions are only the most overt symptoms of the pervasive character of the sickness of this country. It has been the black man who has been paroled from the degraded, decaying black communities - which are prisons of Afro-America - who has been deluded into the conviction that law and order is to apply equally for the black and white man. This black man, who has been shaped by institutions which are most times outside the grasp of his control, by the educational system, the clergy, the mass media, and aesthetic expressions of respect for the established order, this black man has been tricked into accepting faulty premises, and thereby drawing the faulty conclusion that he is equal before the law. He goes around parroting the meaningless law and order edicts of an unfair and racist system, During the years from the 1965 Watts’ revolt until the present, and particularly in 1967 and 1968, the black resistance to white racism and oppression has heightened and this has causeda marked and total breakdown in the American system of justice. The pressure which has been brought to bear upon the American system of justice has made it crumble before the attentive eyes of the world; THERE’ HAVB!* BEEN COUNTLESS PUBLICALLY PROMINENT INCIDENTS WHICH HAVE BEEN PIVOTAL IN SHARPENING THE CONTRADICTION OF HOW WHITE AMERICA DEFINES JUSTICE, AND-HOW THE CON- CEPT OF JUSTICE IS PRACTICALLY APPLIED TO BLACK PEO- PLE WITHIN AMERICA, In 1967 one of the most flagrant examples of the forces of occupa= tion and oppression flaunting the concept of law and order to attain their own devious ends happened in the Plainsfield (New Jersey) revolt, Plainsfield followed in the wake of the Newark revolt, in July of that year, White authorities, with the example of Newark vivid in their memories, were terrified when Plainsfield broke loose. They were determined to use any means to suppress the black people’s struggle. It was reported that forty-six (46) automatic weapons were stolen from a nearby munitions plant. It was ordered by the New Jersey executive that the occupation forces, the National Guard and the gestapo police, should search every black home for the missing firearms. The occupation forces proceeded to recklessly search the homes of the black people in the Plainsfield community. Even by the White America’s standards of justice, this search was illegal and unconstitutional. During the period which White America historically calls the American Revolution, the homes of the ancestors of White America were searchedby the colonizers, the British, for guns, The thrust of this search was to recover all firearms in the possession of the colonized people, and render them defenseless and thereby powerless. The colonized people were outraged, Now, their ancestors of 1967 vintage, conducted the same type of search in Plainsfield, The thrust of the illegal search was to recover ANY GUN a black family had, not just the forty-six (46) which were reportedly stolen, By capturing the firearms of the black people of Plainsfield, they would render them defenseless and powerless to protect their own lives and interests, But what made this act particularly despicable was that it was done under the guise of law and order. In the name of justice. The white man’s justice. Cont’d. on Next Page Mass School Integration For Berkeley By PATRICIA BAKER The Berkeley Unified School District has instigated a program of major significance in the field of education: TOTAL integration (not ‘‘desegregation’’) of public schools. Beginning last week, over howls and squeals of protest from right-wing conservative pigs and many so-called ‘‘liberals’’, and under the direction of Superintend- ent Neil V. Sullivan, the city spear- headed the kind of radical change that may or may not mark the be- ginning of many such successful attempts in school districts throughout the country, but which is almost unbelievably way ahead of its time in reference to race relations in this decadent society. To do this, approximately 3,500 Black and white children are bussed from the hills down to the flats and from the flats up to the hills, daily. Moreover, aides are em- ployed to ride the busses and pre- vent the kind of confusion and/or incidents that could spell disaster for this excellently oriented pro- gram. Much to the consternation of all the racist dog bigoted pigs’ who make upa part of the Berkeley com- munity, all goes well so far. The city schools are calm and peace- ful.The children LOVE riding the buses. There have been no major incidents to provoke unduecri- ticism and those beautiful little Black Brothers and Sisters’ are making it just fine’ with all the beautiful little Brothers and Sis- ters of other races, The children are fine! proving what Black peo- ple have tried to say for centuries: that color is no hindrance to human understanding and communication. That it is just the bigoted white racist adults that keep hatred and racism alive and make violence not only possible but necessary, On the second day after the open- ing of school, Dr. Sullivan an- nounced his intentions of leaving Berkeley now, and going onto Bos- ton where he hopes to win still another fight for dignity and love and for humanity, He came here four years ago from Prince Ed- wards County, Virginia, where he served in the same administra- tive capacity and resigned whenhe had effected the re-opening of the schools on an integrated basis after the irate community had closed them in order to prevent integration. Just a reminder beautiful Black Brothers and Sisters, that there ARE those who DO act in their own spheres to.make the revolu- tion of this decadentracist ameri- can society possible, It is up to us, the VANGUARD PARTY to see that these efforts are rec- ognized and furthered, The power of the bullet prevents interference, and makes the ballot a reality, PANTHER POWER! PAGE 13 THE BLACK PANTHER SAT,., OCT. 5, 1968 Reflections on the thought of our Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton, (The quotes in this article are from the pamphlet ‘‘Essays from the Minister of Defense, by Huey P, Newton) WE HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED TO BELIEVE THAT WE ARE POWERLESS AND THAT THERE IS NOTHING WE CAN DO FOR OURSELVES TO BRING ABOUT A SPEEDY LIBERATION FOR OUR PEOPLE, Brothers and sisters the pig departments across the land are at the counter revolutionary stage wherein they are trying to intimi- date black resistance fighters, The attack in Brooklyn by 200 pigs against 12 brothers, the brutal slaying of our brothers in Watts after the festival, the attack on the Panther office in Oakland last night, these examples and many, many more including the Chicago head bash-in are but clear proof for us that there’s a national pig conspiracy aimed at crushing the will of black freedom fighters and their black community support. If we see this pattern developing from east to west we can better prepare our personal reactions to the pig force. Seeing as how there never has been any justice for the black manin America itis our human right to defend our homes with as much technical, equipment as we can organize. When the pigs kick your door in welcome them with massive fire power. This action will teach the black community how not to be intimidated. Meet pig vio- lence with gun fire, Destroy all elements of white racism that invade upon your sanctuaries. Defend your wife and children with a new will to be free, Brother and sisters the brainwash of the past 400 years has to be reversed. Now we do the brainwashing of the pigs. We meet him at our door with loaded weapons and we shoot to kill him. A shotgun blast in the head is a strong brainwash technique. When we catch a pig off by himself we get him from the rear and SPLIT, Always prepare your exit in advance brothers and get the pig from the rear, We are not trying to create Hollywood heroes, We want revolutionary heroes. A revolutionary hero is one who des- troys his objective and leaves the scene only to return somewhere else the next day. THE PEOPLE MUST OPPOSE EVERYTHING THE OPPRESSOR SUPPORTS AND SUPPORT EVERYTHING THAT HE OPPOSES, + + +... . WHEN THE OPPRESSOR MAKES A VICIOUS ATTACK AGAINST FREEDOM FIGHTERS BECAUSE OF THE WAY THATSUCH FREEDOM FIGHTERS CHOOSE TO GO ABOUT THEIR LIBER- ATION, THEN WE KNOW WE ARE MOVING IN THE DIRECTION OF OUR LIBERATION, Brother Huey is really beautiful here for he points out the correct way to determine whether or not a groupis revolutionary or not. The national attack on the Black Panther Party is proof that we must be doing something right. The thing is though these attacks will have to be paid back in a revolutionary manner. We must find out where these pigs live and destroy their homes and families. We must execute these pigs and behead their families. Only by this terroristic tactic will the pigs leave our party members alone (or every party member killed by the pigs, we must destroy at least one entire family or every Pan- ther office moved on by the pigs, we must destroy at least one pig pen when the pen is full)with explosives (or every day of pig brutality, we must have a night of black revenge) (or every black child who dies before their time, because of poor housing, poor food, poor medical attention, there must be a pig child who dies because his father works to oppress black people: Brothers and sisters we must resist oppression at every corner of our lives, We must make a solemn oath to free Brother Huey P, Newton and not rest or ‘‘Party’’ until our brother is with us again, Even then we must find new strength to resist again for our roadis a long lonely one. There is no such thing as a part-time revolutionary, Once you have joinedthe Panthers your only goal is total freedom, total freedom, The only way to obtain this total freedom is by being totally armed with righteous weapons and the 10 point program. ; NOTE: In subsequent issues of this paper we :will discuss other thoughts of our imprisoned Minister of Defense, Huey P, Newton. NOW AVAILABLE... ESSAYS FROM THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE by HUEY P. NEWTON WITH FORCEFUL INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE MURRAY BLACK PANTHER MINISTER OF EDUCATION --ONLY 50°-- OUT OF STATE ORDERS ~ $1.00 (includes postage & handling) AVAILABLE AT ALL BLACK PANTHER PARTY OFFICES MAIL-ORDERS MAY BE SENT TO: (NOTE: PLEASE INCLUDE 10* FOR POSTAGE & HANDLING) BLACK PANTHER PARTY CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS P.O. BOX 8641 EMERYVILLE BRANCH OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 94608 PAGE 14 THE BLACK PANTHER SAT,, OCT. 5, 1968 id or e » P3 Message 7» The 3%” : We cennet endure late sfrvcture ane Justice of Injustice From Page 13, Col 1 The will of the people is the basis of the authority of the govern- ment, This is the basic foundation of freedom and justice, This axiom is universal, Where it breaks down when applied to this particular situation - in this particular epoch in history - in America, is that the will of the majority of the people -- white people -- is directly opposed to the will of the minority of the people --black people. What you have is a dialectical position where the people are defined by American standards as ALL PEOPLE (white and black, etc.) who are within these continental boundaries, whereas in reality the people are divided into two separate nations: the White nations and the Afro- American nation. The boundaries of these two nations are not as much physical, as they are ideological. Different values, different reactions to certain basic things, different manners of behavior which haye been shaped by experience and, finally, a pattern of handling political and social differences between the two nations, American justice, although categorizing its actions in this dichot- omized way of looking at things, parrots a philosphy which lumps all the people, white and black, together before the law. However, the black man in this country is waking up on the game. There is no equality before the lawfor black people in this country. A black man charged with a crime in a court of law has the same rights and privileges in the conduct of the trial as a white man. The same rules of evidence and procedure apply for black and white, However, the black man, by and large, is excluded from the process {i.e., Igislative, etc.) by which the law is made, The black man, as a rule, is not part of the administration of justice (i.e., judges, etc.). Therefore, it is incorrect and misleading to say that the black man has equality before the law, The arrests, arising out of political differences with the estab- lished system, of Black Panther Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton; Black Panther Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver; Black Panther Chairman, Bobby Seale; Black Panther Minister of Justice; H. Rap Brown; SNCC organizer, Cleveland Sellers; black playwright and poet, LeRoi Jones, the seventeen (17) brothers from the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) have seriously opened the question to public debate as to WHETHER A BLACK MAN IS MORALLY OR LEGALLY OBLIGATED TO OBEY THE LAWS MADE BY A COUNTRY IN WHICH HE REALISTICALLY HAS NO PO- TEXT OF TELEGRAM FROM McGRAW HILL TO UC REGENTS: Sept. 19, 1968 De Witt Higgs, Chairman Board of Regents University of California, Los Angeles, Calif. As Eldridge Cleaver’s publisher, we strongly urge that his appointment at the Uni- versity be upheld. There is no question that this most articulate, national best-selling author of SOUL ON ICE is a voice that students should hear, no matter how one feels about his point of view. His book has been acclaimed throughout the nation as an important contribution to the dramatic dialogue on racial issues. Frank E. Taylor Editor-in-Chief ae = orld : s Shen fs ve years. LITICAL VOICE BY WHICH TO EXPRESS HIS DISAGREEMENT WITH THE LOT TO WHICH HE IS SUBJECTED, As black men have begun to stand up and challenge in the political arena the manner and type of political decisions that are being made concerning their lives, the white system has tried to kill them phys- ically, or legally lynch them. Because of the amount of public exposure and support for a Huey Newton, a Eldridge Cleaver, an H. Rap Brown, it becomes more difficult to kill them in the streets, therefore the system must resort to more sophisticated ways, It tries to exter- minate them in the courts. In all of the cases mentioned above, the trials will be political trials. The important thrust in these political trials is not whether the verdict is guilty, for a black person will always be guilty, unless the political climate is such that it would be expedient for him to be not guilty, but whether the white system has a right to try black people, These trials will involve the clash of aspirations of the black people of America and the white people of America. The political climate of this country will not allow --as it has not allowed -- the majority of white people to be impartial, In these cases, they are interested parties, It is against a basic principle of justice to entrust interested parties with cases. They naturally will protect their interest, The application of justice in this country is controlled by whites, the same white system which has imposed racism and exploitation upon blacks, The judiciary is controlled by whites, The laws are passed by whites. The law enforcement is white controlled, They are all, by and large, the crime partners against the best interests of black people. Keeping in mind this almost total domination by the white man, and that the above issues are basically political con- flicts between white and black aspirations, nobody can seriously suggest that the scales of justice are evenly balanced, Considering all the facts, the conclusion is obvious, Black people are not morally or legally obligated to obey the laws that serve the purpose of denying them their human rights, What Attorney Nelson Mandella, the black political prisoner of South Africa, said of that country is applicable to this country: ‘‘THE COURTS OF THIS COUNTRY ARE INSTRUMENTS USED BY THE WHITE MAN TO PUNISH THOSE AMONG US WHO CLAMOR FOR DELIVERANCE FROM THIS FIERY FURNACE OF WHITE RULE,‘ FIOAT From Page 11, Col. 5 Who act according to this idea do so “in the name of certain values t© him alone, but which is common which (they) Icel are common to 8tound where all men, even the (titemselvesy und to all ingn. ‘These Man who insults and oppresses him, values whic uphold the Black’s -have a natural community.” struggle to inject quality into our It works both ways. Even though society scem therefore to be in- @ffluent whites do not feel the foot hereni in uil men, biack and White. at the throats of all Blacks, and When the black tan holiers *Allor Ven if it is they who indirectly Nothing!” the white man must re- OPPress the poor and unpowerful, join wit “Everyone or No One? they all must realize that simply to We aie saying that because the be alive grants the same set of rules only permanent thing within man is forall. ew his kinship with other men “it is for Anyone who seeks justice speaks the suke of everyone in tne world O7 behalf. of his entire Species. that the slave asserts hinscif.he Anyone who denies the seeker his comes to the conclusion that a quest forfeits justice for himself. You’re either for us or against us. Quotes from The Rebel Albert Camus. command has infringed on some- thing in him which does not belong NA =n =a" Common titres Blood & Money For Kathleen Sister Kathleen received a tele- phone threat from a woman iden- tifying herself as Mrs. Pig following her appearance at the Richmond Panther-Peace and Freedom Press Conference announcing the initia- tion of a pig-control petition. At the press conference, on the steps of the Richmond Pig Headquarters Com- munications Secretary Kathleen Cleaver had stated in answer to the question, “What will you do if the City Council refuses to place the matter on the ballot and the petition fails to get enough signatures?” that “If the pigs do not stop their escala- tion of terror and murder against the people of richmond, that the people will find it necessary to arm themselves in self-defense and that the pigs would pay for their criminal activity against the people in blood.” Mrs. Pig called Mrs. Cleaver and stated “If the blood begins to flow in Richmond, the second pint of blood is going to be yours and that I pledge you as a personal promise!” she shouted as she hung up the phone. The following day a woman caller with an almost identical vicious snarl to her voice called Sister Kathleen to announce to her that she has of- fered a $5,000 reward for Kathleen’s heart. The pigs certainly value the Panthers dearly. The Panthers will accept a pig’s heart for free. REVOLUTION strong black flesh squeezed through channels of hate hope ugly red wrinkled snout of racist perversion soft bre*m round smoothness of birth our warriors, our enemy, our hope life here has taken all and return only our inner strength strength to make us fight to the finish we have. guts and truth revolution, revolution, revolution we must grasp now the words and steel that will bury the red, white and blue stripes which oppresses us people of the world unite Ericka PAGE 15 THE BLACK PANTHER POCKET LAWYER OF LEGAL FIRST AID SAT., OCT. 5, 1968 This pocket lawyer is provided as a means of keeping black people up to date on their rights. We are always the first to be arrested and the racist police forces are constantly trying to pre- tend that rights are extended equally to all people. Cut this out, brothers and sisters, and carry it with you. Until we arm ourselves to righteously take care of our own, the pocket lawyer is what's happening. 1. If you are stopped and/or arrested by the police, you may re- main silent; you do not have to answer any questions about al- leged crimes, you should provide your name and address only if requested (although it is not absolutely clear that you must do so.) But then do so, and at all time remember the fifth amendment. 2. If a police officer is not in uniform, ask him to show his iden- tification. He has no authority over you unless he properly identi- fies himself. Beware of persons posing as police officers. Always get his badge number and his name. 3. Police have no right to search your car or your home unless they have a search warrant, probable cause or your consent. They may conduct no exploratory search, that is, one for evidence of crime generally or for evidence of a crime unconnected with the one you are being questioned about. (Thus, a stop for an auto violation does not give the right to search the auto.) You are not required to consent to a search; therefore, you should not consent and should state clearly and unequivocally that you do not consent, in front of witnesses if possible. If you do not consent, the police will have the burden in court of showing probably cause. Arrest may be corrected later. 4. You may not resist arrest forcibly or by going limp, even if you are innocent. To do so is a separate crime of which you can be con- victed even if you are acquitted of the original charge. Do not re- sist arrest under any circumstances. 5. If you are stopped and/or arrested, the police may search you by patting you on the outside of your clothing. You can be stripped of your personal possessions. Do not carry anything that includes the name of your employer or friends. 7. Do not engage in “friendly” conversation with officers on the way to or at the station. Once you are arrested, there is little like- lihood that anything you say will get you released. 8. As soon as you have been booked, you have the right to com- plete at least two phone calls—one to a relative, friend or attorney, the other to a bail bondsman. If you can, call the Black Panther Party, 654-2003, and the Party will post bail if possible. 9. You must be allowed to hire and see an attorney immediately. 10. You do not have to give any statement to the police, nor do you have to sign any statement you might give them, and therefore you should not sign anything. Take the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, because you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. 11. You must be allowed to post bail in most cases, but you must be able to pay the bail bondsmen’s fee. If you cannot pay the fee, you may ask the judge to release you from custody without bail or to lower your bail, but he does not have to do so. 12. The police must bring you into court or release you within 48 hours after your arrest (unless the time e?ds on a week-end or a holiday, and they must bring you before a judge the first day court is in session.) 13. If you do no’ have the money to hire an attorney, immedi- ately ask the police to get you an attorney without charge. 14. If you have the money to hire-a private attorney, but do not know of one, call the National Lawyers’ Guild or the Alameda County Bar Association (or the Bar Association of your county) and furnish you with the name of an attorney who practices criminal law. SUBSCRIBE 10 The BLACK PANTHER Newspaper Black Community News Service NOW — PUBLISHED WEEKLY Clip out and mail to: BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER P.0. 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September 29, 1968 To the Editors: Item 8 (of the Pocket Lawyer of Legal First Aid) should read: Sec. 851.5 California Penal Code (a) Any person arrested has, immediatedly after he is booked, and except where physically impossible, no la~ ter than 3 hours after his ar- rest, the right to make, at his own expense, in the pre- sense of a public officer or employee, at least two tele- phone calls from the police station or other place at which he is booked, one com- pleted to the person called who may be his attorney, employer, or a relative, the other completed to a bail bondsman. Note: Since booking may occur more than 3 hours after an arrest where it is physically possible (whatever ‘‘physically possible”’ refers to - 7), the literal right in Sec. 851.5 may and usually does occur before booking. The definition of ‘‘booking’’ and the ‘‘rights and duties’’ there are still undefined. Sec. 851.5 (b) *‘any public officer or em- ployee who deprives an ar- rested person of the rights granted by this section is guilty of B misdemeanor.” Always ask: ‘‘Am I under ar- rest?” If told yes -- SHUT UPI If no, say ‘‘Byel’” Yours sincerely, Gabriel Werner Attorney at Law Dear Editor: Recently in Detroit, a confer- ence of BLACK people was con- vened, Out of this experience in Black Unity, a Declaration of Black Independence was drafted, Bro- ther Robert Williams was elec- ted Prime Minister of the ‘‘Re- OSSSOSSOOOOSSOOOSE public of New Africa.’’ I would like to know what official policy the BLACK PANTHER PARTY has established on this very impor- tant move. If it is possible, can the B,P.P, ratify this new Dec- laration, or at least support the brothers’ efforts -- if these ef- forts appeal truly revolutionary? Power to the Vanguard Abdul Rauf San Francisco, Calif. (Editor’s Note: A statement will be issued in a future edition con- cerning the Black Panther Party position in relation to the Republic of New Africa.) Black Panther Editorial Staff POLITICAL PRISONERS Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton (Oakland County Jail) CHAIRMAN Bobby Seale EDITOR Minister of Information Eldridge Cleayer MANAGING EDITOR Deputy Minister of Information Raymond Lewis REVOLUTIONARY ARTIST AND LAY-OUT Minister of Culture Emory Douglas CONTRIBUTORS Many dedicated Black Revolution- | } aries from across the nation, 1.000.000 Signatures for Eldridge DO YOUR THING... HAVE THIS PETITION SIGNED BY 25 BLACK PANTHER PARTY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS i P.O. BOX 8641, EMERYVILLE BRANCH PEOPLE AND MAIL IMMEDIATELY TO: OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO KEEP ELDRIDGE CLEAVER OUT OF PRISON ) PETITION: KEEP ELDRIDGE mi CLEAVER OUT OF PRISON “EVERYONE IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY” ONLY THE PEOPLE IN MASS CAN DESTROY RACISM IN THE UNITED STATES OF fs o we the ersigne: jo are citizens o rica ai peoples around the world, DEMAND, that ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party; Candidate for President of the United States of America on the Peace and Freedom Party ticket; author of the book, SOUL ON ICE; and managing editor for Ramparts Magazine, we say and demand that he, Eldridge Cleaver, should not be sent back to prison after being released from prison by Judge Sherwin of Solano County in California. Released because the Judge stated that Eldridge then was being held as a "political prisoner." ELDRIDGE CLEAVER is now out of prison on legal bail. We the undersigned say that the California Gover- nor with his "Adult Authority," the courts of California and the federal courts of the U.S.A. had better recognize that everyone is innocent un- til proven guilty with the right to bail before trial, that this is every human beings right by the United States Constitution, including Eldridge Cleaver. NAME PETITION NO. ¥ ADDRESS CITY STATE COUNT 2 (TEAR OFF THIS PAGE) fo} ele Pie “ WM Ee pw ced F fw nm | wm IV IN Ie - ad Pie ie le Oe