Vol. 6, No. 11

THE BLACK PANTHER INTERGOMMUNAL NEWS SERVICE 25cents by Huev P Newton Copyright Ovi nun THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY ‘Sasa BLACK GENOCIDE SIGKLE CELL ANEMIA Segeare red blood collesttittmedzom a patient in a sickle Sener 's, Three iii eibed and the other Seeeeering away from pees ieepicture at richt\i opel sedans ie bh red Gapod cells, GENOCIQE: THE. SYSTEMATIC KILLING..OR EXTERMINATION SF A a HOES PEOPLE. it oe entyal Africa, will feed cells beca Mmcatedinto best PR RES COR SEATTET > PACH ES. 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NEWTON, MINISTER OF DEFENSE OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, SUPREME SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE AT THE CHICAGO, ILLINOIS COLISEUM, FEBRUARY 21, 1971 POWER TO THE PEOPLE! First of all, I would like to thank you for my very presence here, [fit were not / for you I would have been in the gas chamber long azo. I would still be in pri- son, But because of the power of the peo- ple and the fact that you realize your power, I’m here today. Sol would like to thank you, But I can’t because I can't | find words to express my gratitude, So withoul words, Thank You, Today I would liketoask you todo something else, another favor. Will you free Bobby Seale, the Chairman, and Ericka, Angela Davis, Ruchell Magee, and also Brad Green, I'm sorry that I kept you waiting; Iwilltry to make it worth while, But you will have to forgive me, because I'm not familiar with fancy phrases and clauses, I’mavery practi- cal man, we have a practical Party. We have a practical Party;the Party is ded- icated to the survival of the people. We were not founded upon eloquent words; we were founded upon a survival pro- gram, And, I feel quite oul of my realm here, because I’m not a speaker. I'm a ‘man of action. So as best I can, I will ow 10 9ou te Black Panther Porty's ~~ brogram.a Iso persuade youtojoinin _ Many people believe that in order to participate in the community programs that you must be in the Black Panther Party, Bulthisisnot so. Weask every- one to become involved in the communi- ty programs, the self-defense program, Self defense, you know, is a necessary thing today, because the people’s very existence is in danger, The violence of the aggressor comes in many forms. The vicious service-revolver of the police is only one manifestation of vio- lence. But it ts equally violent for the State and the small ruling circle tode- brive the people of housing, of medical care, of food, of clothing, those acts are acts of aggression, when we live in such an affluent society. The Black Panther Party views those acts as very violent ones, So therefore we must defend our- Selves by any means necessary, We will use those means that are necessary, ef- Sicient and sufficient; and, we would like to warn our aggressor that we will not rest until the people are free, Sonot only do I ask you to free all political prison- ers, but also to free the people, because that will be the final test. Some people have told us in order for us to be free, that we must have assimi- lation, But we know that isnot so. Some people have told us in order to be free, we must have integration, Bul we've tested that also; and we're still not free, Some people have also toldus, in order for us to be free, we must have separa- HUEY P. NEWTON tion, Bul we know that’s not so, because, when we look around the world, we see the African people are separated, we see the Chinese people and the Vietna- mese people are separated from the ag- gressor here in the Empire of North America, but yet they're not free. So the people do not want assimilation, in- tegration or separation, They want some freedom. We will not be free until we negate the power of the aggressor. We think il’s somewhat absurd to feel that here inthe United States, if we were to get a small plot, that United States Imperialism will let us exist side by side withit, when it won't even let people ten thousand miles away exist; will not let them exist until they submit-submit to the brutal tactics of the imperial ar- my. The imperial army wears many uniforms, but they all do the same thing. They’re all flunkeys for Daley; they're all flunkeys for Nixon and General Mo- tors. And we see that they might wear the uniform of a local policeman; they might wear the uniform of the National Guard; or they might wear the uniform that the men wore who slaughtered the Vietnamese people in My Lai and Son My or invaded the borders of Laos, or the people who are responsible for the siege of Africa, and for supplying the Portu- guese with the weapons to torture the people of Angola and Mozambique, We sae that the world is different than it used to be, some years ago inhistory, To be separated geographically, you could claim nationhood. But now we see that the aggressor has co-opted the whole world, And we see that just to be Separated by geographical location, whether its water, land or partition, does not necessarily mean freedom, In order for the people to be free we must nol separate from the slavemaster, but take the slavemaster’s power, expro- priate that power and distribute it to the people , so the people will have the pow- er, Those countries that used to be called nations now more resemble op- pressed communities, communities un- der siege . We see that the universal police are doing everything possible to either exploit or eliminate, But as far as we are concerned, we say thal we know that the power that we're fighting is great-bul we will not submit, A slave Should never die anatuyral death, A slave who dies analural death will not balance two dead flies on the scales of eternity, 1 spoke of the survival program, the Black Panther Party's program, And I would like to say that that survival pro- gram is not a revolutionary program. It’s a program instituted in the com- munity so that the people may survive pending revoluion. Inother words,peo- ble make revoluion, If we suffer geno- cide, then revoluion will not occur, be- cause we won’ serve the life childven through the Breakfast for Children Program, if we can preserve the health through distributing free shoes in the community (we've just opened a newshoe factory in Oakland, we hope to have themall over the count- ry), so that we can give shoes to the children of Buford County, who suffer from hookworms, simply because the grounds are infested with hookworms, The people must survive. But, asI said the survival program is not arevolu- tionary program, The survival program ts to guarantee the existence of man,so that he can make the necessary changes, so that the survival kit will not be neces- sary. Our program is like a first-aid kit or survival kit, used bya pilot who is shot down over a sea, He takes a first- aid kit with him, and also takes a few protein tablets, He might take some warm clothing, but he knows that he won't really be comfortable, until he reaches the shore. So we say that we’re doing the same thing; and we'll reach the shore when the people reach the level of consciousness to change the Society, and therefore change the world, Until that time, until that time, it is very necessary to Stop just talking about revolution, because you might not be able to participate; you might not be able to participate, if You are wiped out beforehand, So we see the world nowas one com- continued on next page feand the welfare of Ou — aah a>. ee STATEMENT BY HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER OF DEFENSE OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY SUPREME SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE IN CHICAGO continued from last page munity, because the oppressor has transformed it, and reduced the larger units to a smaller unit, We see that there’s only one State power and that's the State power of General Motors be- cause they’re administrating the whole world, And if you don’t believe me, just look around and you'llsee what hap- pened in the Dominican Republic a few years ago, whenJuan Bosch was ousted. You see what happened when Patrice Lumumba fought for the people in the Congo, the same people were there-the fascist American forces, So inorder for anything to come about, inorder for any kind of social system to be realized by the people, first things first. We must take away the power and ability of the aggressor to inflict harm upon the peo- ple. So this is the unity cry ofthe people. of the world. Itisacry thatis necessary in order for the people to survive. We view all of the people who are now fight- ing as simply instituting a survival pro- gram. We see that people are becoming more and more conscious of the need to create the wnily that is necessary, to overwhelm the power of the machine that is now in the hands of the agres- 4S According to Johnson’s report on civil disorders about 75 companies con- trol the economy of the United States, and subsequently control the economy of the whole world, So we see that the whole world’s economy has been inte- grated into Wall Street, and that inor- der for them to plan their future, they must first consider the forceand the atrocious actions of the American gov- ernment, We know that the people of America would like not tomorrow, but yesterday, to change things . But people are confused. People are confused be- cause of a low level of consciousness. And that’s the main theme ofthe Black Panther Party. Not only do we institute a survival program in the community, we also institute an educational pro- gram, alt around the survival pro- gram. Because if a man does not know how to get to that land, when he is cast out at sea, then he's lost and he will struggle forever. And he will be like the myth of Sisyphus pushing a rock up the hill, only for it to fall back at its own weight, So we must first realize exactly who the enemy is. We must stop fighting our potential friends. But we must de- Jend ourselves against anyone who threatens us, because we will not let in- sanity prevail, Sane men must prevail, in order that man will prevail, so that mankind will have a future. We know that for some years now the Black Panther Party has been under siege, Just a year ago Fred Hampton was murdered, Fred Hampton was mur- dered because of a conspiracy of Hanra- han and Daley and all of those other vi- cious tools of oppression, We know that this happened, And we must not forget this. Because Fred Hampton was cons- cious; he didn’t only say he was some- body, he said,‘‘Not onlyamI somebody I know wholam-lamarevolutionist "', Some people claim that the Black Pan- ther Party is a suicidal Party bul I would like to reject that here tonight, The Black Panther Party realizes one thing, that death comes to everyone, But it varies in its significance, To die for the reactionary and the racist is lighter than a feather; but to die for the Rev- olution and the people is heavier than a mountain and deeper than Lake Michi-; gan, Because of the changed phenomena in the world today, it is very necessary for the people of the world, all of the victims, to not only wnite, but also de- velop a common language. They also have to develop a culture that's essent- fally human, Because, whether we like it or not, we are thrown together. We're thrown together, and in order to avoid the mutual slaughter of man by man, we must develop acommon identity, auni- versal identity, because of the universal nature of technology. Today that tech- nology is being held away from the peo- ple. It’s held from us, Bul we will seize it in order to free the people from not only the natural forces, tut also free the man from the labor, sothat man then will be able to indulge in productive creativity and create the kind.of social system, create the kind of value system that will allow us to live together in peace, We know that our enemy, in fact, is only a small ruling circle. But we have many people who fight the victim, This person, who fights the victim much of the time, is also a victim; and that makes it even more confusing, Grad- ually as the climax comes, the people are seeing that it is not in our interest to fight each other, because there’s one common oppressor, and that oppressor now has,divided, Not only divided the world into nations, not only divided the world, and therefore divided the human spirit. So that men now see each other as something less than a man, We call each other species and pseudo-species or we say that we’re human or we're homosapiens, but the others are not, While the small ruling circle stays on the outside of all of this and acts as a so-called peacemaker, bul really en- joying the fight, because while we fight, he robs us both blind, nour communily in California, if you want to see the biggest fight you've ever seen, let the oppressor come down inthe communily with a poverty program and offer adol- lar-sixty-five an hour with ten positions open, that community then will divide into the Chicanos, into the Blacks, into poor Whites and stab each other to death Jor that dollar-sixty-five an hour, And fight for what they all deserve, What THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APL 10, 1971 PAGE 3 they rally should do is turnon the per- son that keeps away the abundance, be- cause there’s enough for everyone, But in order tounderstand this, we must be- come conscious, Today | would like to call your atten- tion to the trial that’s going on in Conn- eclicul of Bobby Seale, the Chairman, and Ericka, Their trial is another ag- gressive violent act. Some people wonder are Bobby Seale and Ericka guilly, or are they not guilty? AndI say that that’s not the question, even though they are obviously not guilly. The ques- tion really is - the question is, does the State have the right, does the State ad- ministration have the right to ask fora man's life? Once the State asks for a man's life, itnegates and invalidates its power; it becomes illegitimate, It be- comes illegitimate because a contract that any man makes with his adminis- tration -with the State Administrator,do wrong, oy an injustice towards the citi- zen, who is then to have a redress of grievance that's set up by the State, so that things will remain peaceful, But how could you have a redress of grie- vance, If the State takes your life, you cannot come back then, The State de- cided, because of your power, thatI was not guilty so they released me and now, the people ask foraredress of grie- vance, But whatif the state had had their way; what if you had not intervened? They would have taken my life, and then denied that they were ever w f Bobby Seale and Ericka’s mu : must stand witness against it, and do everything possible to free them,So I say Free Bobby and Free Erickaand all other political prisoners, There's been some misunderstanding about the Party at this point, Because the mass media is only an agency of con- trol by the reactionary forces, They’ ve spread the lie that the Party is deterior- ating, because some people have been suspended for various reasons. But this is not true at all, Remember that we base our success upon the programs we institute in the community and when these programs fail, the the Party will fail, Until that time we would like to call those who stand on the sidelines, just gesticulating and criticizing, we would like to call them a liar, because our work will speak for itself, It's notonlya great pleasure to be here, it will be even a greater pleasure whenI see youat our center at 4233 Indiana Street, where you sign up for our community program and involve yourself in the survival pro- gram , Because il’s been too long that we come, and we come to speaking en- gagements and rallies to be entertained, But now the day is so violent and the people’s very existence is so under threat, until if we do not involve our- selves more than talking, we haveavery short future, So I ask you'to show your enthusiasm ; show your enthusiasm for the Black Panther Party's program; continued on next page THE GLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL W, 197] PAGE 4 ILLINOIS CHAPTER, BLACK PANTHER PARTY SERVING THE PEOPLE BODY AND SOUL The purpore of the Glack Puether Party is to establish revolutionary political power within the masses of the People by setring examples and leading the People ina correct mamier to establish revolutionary § intercom- mimalism, The People are primary in making revolution and to make revolution & is pecessary for the peop exist so that they may bring about mansformati getiery. In order to exist until thet time of con change, we must turvive. To survive we seed what the Supreme Servant of the People, Hoey P, Newton, calls a “Survival Kir’, 20 that we can grow up healthy with « mind that can be functional and creative bh meeting the noeds of the people, the Black Panther Party has toplemerted what we call Survival Programs, ‘These programs insure the contiqued existence of the people throughout the communities of fabyloc by meeting their basic needs, sucti an food, clothing, medical care and revolutionary education. These programa are like a survival kit which helps We people combat and overcome the plots of genocide implemented by the oppressor. The following i to inform you about rhe Survival Programs FREE BREAKFAST FOR CHILDREN PROGRAM The Ulinols Chapter of the Blick Panther Party now operates 5 free breakfast for chiléren cemers in Chicago, their locations are: Sudele Black Panther Party Community Information Center Church dae Brotherhood of Boys Republic (BBR) 1510 South Hamlin Fairfax Howe ax 135 South Central Park Northside St. Dominic's Church 357 W. Locust Breakfast is servedto the children each school day morning from 7:30 until 8:45, Many children don’t get « nutritious meal each day, This is the reason why we have implemented the Pree fircakfant program to insure every child at least one full meal a day. We ask all parents who live in the area of one of our breakfast sites to send their children to receive a well prepared meal and, if possible, come yourself and help serve the children, Donations of food, money, or utensils are needed to move the program to # higher Jevel of efficiency. FREE MEDICAL CARE *jJaxo’ Winter Medical opened by the Bluck Panther F The Spergeo Peoples Free Care Center was Janery 4, (970 at S850 W. Mth Street. The Medical Center has served over 1,000 people In the abort rime tt has been in existence in the Bluck comumunlty. The stall cx at { Generel] Practitioners, Obstetrician, Gynecologist, Pediatricians and many other services, We also have Medical teains going door to door ir community taking simple tests to find out what sick- sea people have, so we can help with their medical problems, or really any community problems fe ip. We believe that all people are entitled to © medical care, oo matter what their financial Situation ts, Chat ray The time schedule for de Medical Center is; Monday 2:00 to 6:00 Gynecologist Tuesday 6:00 to 9:00 Pediatrician Wednestiay Closed, but from 6730 tere are community meetings heic Thursday 6:00 to 9:00 General Mexiicine Friday 6:00 9:00 General Medicine Saturday 12:00 to 3:00 General Medicine Sunday Closed + FREE CLOTHING PROGRAM AND ADC COMMITTEE Free Clothing tx distributed by the Black Panther Party ot Ks community information centers located at 4233 S. Indians and 2350 W. Madison. The clothes are in good condition and are given to those tn need of decent clothing. We understand that the fascist ameri- kkan government is trying to make it impossible for people to live, We know no one can survive for long without sufficient clothing, especially & your environ- ment is usually cold and windy. In the near future we Chicago Free Bussing to Prisons Program hoe Factory to combat chil- to open 4 Free 5 ave to walk &- alto plar dren getting round with bare foc The ADC Committee function® to assist peuple on Welfare, are having problems with the Public Ait Department. This program does not exclude peo- ple who are not on Welfare, but ts for all oppressed people who are having difficulties obtaining the basic necessities for survival - food, clothing, etc, ~ok-worms when dey who be Fe POLITICAL EDUCATION CLASSES These classes are held at the Black Panther Party Communky Information Centers located at: 4233 South Indiana on the south side and 2350 West Madison (738- 0778) on the Westside. Time: 4:00 every Saturday and the entire Black com- munity is invited to attend, i you are having any community problems or have information on what is happening in the community feel free to come to one of our centern and we will do all we can to help, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE SERVING THE PEOPLE BODY AND SOUL ILLINOS CHAPTER BLACK PANTHER PARTY STATEMENT BY HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER OF DEFENSE OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, SUPREME SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE IN CHICAGO show your enthusiasm for the communi- ty'’s welfare, by attaching yourself to Some program, And then we will know that the people avenotonly becoming conscious, but putting this conscious- ness into action, And, therefore we will be ensured of a victory. Otherwise we will sit around, we will sit around and look for feel good words, But we will not understand why we are becoming more and more in danger, dying off everyday like flies, but yet doing nothing about it, nothing but words. So we say, put your words into action, pul your put your words into action, pul your energy to work in the community, be- cause the communities themselves are really nothing but what used to be-could be called a natton, In other words, the nations of the world now are merely a dispersed collection of communities. A community is basically a collect- tion of institutions that are supposed to serve the people. So we have Black communities here in Chicago, we have Chinese communities here in Chicago, we have Chinese communities in San Francisco, Puerto Rican communities in New York, Black communities in New York, and really, it’s like a dispersed collection ofnations but the only thing is that the aggressor administrated all of these communities, just as he adminis- trates the wealth and the economy and the political institutions of all of the So-called countries of the world, The continued from last page. countries of the world now are merely a dispersed collection of communities, The reality of today is not internation- alism, but reactionary intercommunal- ism, We would like to transform that into Revolutionary Intercommunalism by turning the institutions over to the people, And that’s the brime motive of the Black Panther Party, POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FREE BOBBY, FREE ERICKA, FREE ANGELA, FREE THE SOLEDAD BROTHERS, FREE THEPBOPLE, AND FREE YOURSELVES, POWER TO THE PEOPLE, BROTHERS AND SISTERS! Window of Wills’ apartment, riddled by pig bullets, CHICAGO GESTAPO ATTACKS RESIDENTS OF ALTGELD GARDENS COMMUNITY Mrs, Wills and children APYUL 10, 1971 PAGE S Door of Wills apartment, shot into by pigs, On March 25th, at 11:30 P.M, the Chicago gestapo surrounded the home of Edward Wills and without warning began firing their weapons of war into the apart- ment, in an effort to kill the oc- cupants. One brother inside the Apartment, Andre ‘‘Bobo" Tho- mas was wounded by the pigs bul- Jets. The reason given for this un- warranted attack upon the com- munity by the reactionaries was that about a hour earlier, u Coleago Housing Authority rent - a-pig, panedSydney ** Troubles” Willon, had been pinned down by sniper fire and bad called for reinforcements. More C,H.A, guards arrived, along with the regular Chicago gesupo, and claimed to have exchanged gun- fire with several Individuals on the street, and then to have chased these individuals into Mr, Edward Wills’ hore, which wan then sur - rounded and attuckec, Running Gog Sydney Willon, or ‘Troubles as the people of Altgelc Gardens call him, bas a histery of bru- talizing and murdering the peo- ple of the community, and then lylog about it, This time **Trou- bies” could not le for there were numerous witnesses who saw everyting the pigs did. At the time of the atrack, whic! the pigs called a ‘shoot-out’, there were three young babies In- side, This, of course, made oo difference to the pigs, for even after they were told by Mr. Wills" neighbors that amall children were in the home, they still con- tinued to fire. After the pigs got into Mr. Wiis’ home, they brutal- ly bear allthe occupents. Ove ;thirteen year old brother, named Mark, had his hair set on fire by the fascists. Everyone inside the home required hospitilization af- ter they were tortured by these gestapo; but the only one to re- celve any medical attention was Andrew Thomas becaise the pigs had shot him in the leg. Witnesses from the community have valid and concrete evidence thar the raid on Mr. Wills" home was pre-planned by the pigs. The people of the community say thar the occupants inside Mr, Wills’ home are very well known tn the community, and that tie pigs are lying when they say snipers had run into the home, In fact, the people tn the home had been ing around the Altgeld Gardens area talking to the people, trying to start a ‘*'Pree Breakfast for Chlidren Program". As another matter of fact, most of the in- dividuals in the home at the time of the raid hed regularly been coming to the Black Panther Par- ty’s political education classes (at 4233 Indiana every Saturday afternoon). The pigs knew all this. And, the raid was planned designed to kill and jall these revolutionary brothers and sioters, The people of the community know thac Sydney ‘**Troubles’* Willen was never pinned down by any sniper fire, although there are those In the comumunity who have every right to take his dog-like life, k ia a known fact that Willen always carries an turomatic assault rifle with him and is known for threatening the lives of people be does not like. The Black Panther Party sa- bures the valiant revoluionary brothers and sisters who were in the homme of Mr, Wills at the time of the raid: Mr. Wills, his soas and Pau] and Mark, Patrick Ward, Frank Wright, Linda Flerage, Patricia Wills, Harold Lynch and Charles Adams, They are now being unjustly held In the County jall at the mercy of the fascists, falsely accused of attempeed murder and other *crimes”’, The Altgeld Gardens community stands in support of these broth- ers and sisters and demands thelr immediate release. We are all working for that glorious day when there will bea mass execution of all pigs, The “Troubles” of the world should know they haven't seen any trou- bles yet. ALL. POWER TO THE PROPLE! Illinois Chapter Black Panther Purty FOR THE LIFE OF MALCOLM SHEPHARD, THE PIGS OWE THE PEOPLE A DEBT, THAT CAN ONLY BE PAID WITH THEIR OWN LIVES On Sunday morning, April 4, 1971, at 12:30 am, Malcolm Shephard fell victim to Chicago’ s spectal repres- Stve forces, the Task Force, of the Chicago Pig Department. As usual, the gestapo has termed the death of this brother ‘justifiable’, To them the deaths of all Black men and wo- men are justified, The contradic- tions surrounding the death of Mal- colm are plenfiful. The following is what happened as reported to the Black Panther Party by Malcolm's mother, sister and friends in the Black com- munily where the murder occurred, Mrs, Shephard informed us that her son, Malcolm, had come home Satur- day evening around nine. He had asked her for a dollar, which she gave him, so that he could go to a party in the communily. He left home again and went to Scott's Pool Room on 66th and Wentworth Sts. where he mingled with his MALCOLM SHEPHERD friends until about 12:25 am, At that time, he left the pool yoom on his way to the party, Five minutes later Malcolm had been shot by the pigs, allegedly for robbery. He was shot in the small of his back and the bullet did not exit, The pigs said thal Mal- colm had pulled a gun on them and they fired in self defense. Why would Malcolm pull a gun on vicious dogs, not fire, and then turn his back? The gestapo also said that Malcolm had robbed a 64 year old man named Elmer Walker. Elmer said that he had been robbed of some change a- mounting to no more than cents, A dollar was taken off Malcolm's body. the same dollar his mother had given him before he left home, 4a Eye witnesses say that a pig car had been sitting on 66th street between Yale and Ross Sts. for over an hour, and that when Malcolm walked by, on his way lo the party, the pigs got out of theiy car and _ patrolman, Robert Minster calmly shot Malcolm in the back, The witnesses then say that five ‘‘warning"’ shots were fired after the brother was shot in the back, This continued on next page wre THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1971 PAGE © SELF-DEFENSE ON TRIAL : THE STORY R DAVIS The beutel arteed tach against Artiair Davis wes the cover stury eo the July Ii, 1970, Lesue of the Meck Pan- ther. To refresh everyone's memory, te, his wife amd 3- year old grendchikt were driving Dome on the night of Jere 2rd, 1970, Pig Robert Watters confronted them aten they reached thelr home (at 419 N, BiedSt,) and accused Mr. Davis of running throweh a red fight. As he had not gone through the light, he replies! te the pig to the effect thar he bade’ and went inside the ouse with his family Pig Walters raitioe! for istaunce, in his quest for thrills, and two of Philadelphia» ‘finest fascists ap- peared on the scene, Pigs Mulermo and Tuso. ‘Together, the tiree broke down the frong door to the Davis home In true gestape fayhion, They charged up- stairs and shot Mr, Devis in the arm, but they wene tumbling back down the steps, as be tet loose on ther in eelt—defense with his shotgun, Allduwee pigs were wound- ed and sent to the hospital, Shortly, 2000 300 pigs hear~ fy armed converged upon the scene and launched three bour, all owt attack on the house, The only way the Davis family escaped certain death was that Mra. Davis and ber grandson, Maurice, hid tiside a closet, and Mr. Davis |hid in 4 bole in the third floor ceiling. Eventually, the piga invaded the house, accompanied by Rizzo (who ts now running for mayor of Philadelptia), and tear-gatsed Mr. Davis out of his hiding place, They hand- cuffed him and tiedhis legs together. Then Rizzo, himself | personally bit his in the bead with a black) ack five or six time. Afterwards, Mr. Davis was dragged from his home, thrown into the back of a pig wagon, beaten again aod taken to Philadelpiiia General Hospital. For relating to his basic human rights to self-defense and survival, he was inititally held under $50,000 ransom which was later reduced to $10,000, Thirty-four days Lat- er, Mrs Davis managed to scrape together the $1,000 cash needed for the bond andget him released from the Deten- tion Center, From the time of his release to the present, Mr. Davis has been speaking to various groups and gatherings about his case, On February 1, 1971, he was scheduled to ap- pear before the fascist courts andthe Slack Panther Par- ty had put information out to the community in advance, to come to hear the case. When a large crowd showed up at Clty Hall to viewthe fascist spectacle, the pigs postponed it to March 22nd, Om March 22nd, the people appeared at City Hall by 9:00 @ Scheduled time), but the pigs didn't ger things pearly Pirst,alx bills of indictment Davis were read: assault and battery, ag- gravated assault and battery, assault with incent to kill, re- sisting arrest, polnting adeadly weapon and driving walle Intoxicated, (Note: be 1s not charged with running the red Tight which started allof this madness inthe first place.) In effect, he was charged with the very ertmes that the pigs committed against bim and his family, Mr. Davis, who has no so-called previous criminal record, pleaded “Not guilty" to every charge. 4 panel of prospective jurors way brought tn, and the Selection of the jury began, ‘The fact that this would be a typical rallroad, Amerikan atyle, was obvious whenever the Gefense questioned 4 prospective juror as to whether he considered his home his castle or if be would defend his home against intruders, Pig D.A, Jeffrey Brodkin would always object. Fascist Judge, Theodore 8. Smith a known alcoholic, would naturally sustain every objec- thon, By the time the ninth juror was chosen, the defense hed run oat of peremptory challenges, which gave the pro- Secution & free hand in selecting the last 3 jurors and the 2 akernates. The person who was questioned for the position of Ih juror was 4 White bank guard. The judge asked him is his position as a "law enforcement officer’’ would affect his judgement in the case since it involved the shooting of three pigs. The bank guard replied, Yes", Later, the DA, asked him the same question, and he sald, “‘No'’. Seeing thin obviowt contradiction, even through his al- from his home on a atretcher--an oumrageows le--(ee OF ARTHU te WA ’ picture), When asked by the defenue why wan Mr. Davie carried out on a stretcher, be replied that fizze ordered it and that Rizzo eaid that be dida’t want Mr, Davis hurt. The tuvtlicker also etuted that Grother Davis wasn’t wounded and that all he sew om him was 4 ormall sear on his right arc. Mr, Davis actually bad a ballet wound on hin beft arm! the monstrous fantasy continued when Pig Captain Giordano took the stand, He stuck to Pig Williasna’ le about Mr. Davis being carried out oo «stretcher, adding anew Ne that Mrs. Davis came outof the house, curaing obscenities at him and very drunk. Mrs, Davis was com=- pletely sober, never gets drunk and never curses, and didn’t that night (hough dhe pigs gave her every reasen to}, According to Glordaao, he smelled whiskey on her breath (from five feet away, which wouldrequire # sense of smell which is not found in human beings. Pig Dixon finished up the day, basing his lies en every~ one else's, notably committing the fact that he and Pig Williams beat Davis In the wagon. There were inconsistencies in the pigs’ testimony, such as whether a light was burning on the second floor when they invaded the Davis home. One ply had to read the names of the pigs who were supposedto be wich him off a olip of paper while on the stand, The only way that they managed to keep some of their Hes consistent was by one pig telling the others out in the hallway after he fininhed reatifying about what he sabd. Wednesday tnorning, 4 character witness, LynnSmith, and Mrs, Davis testified before the Judge about the pigs collaboration of their testimony, while out inthe hallway, Brother coholic stupor, Judge Smith asked lum tie question again. ‘The guard appeared confused and both Smlth andthe D,A, seized the opportunity to coach him in the “correct’’ aniwer by telling him ‘'what was expected of a juror’ and asking hin the question over and over, Finally, his dim mind caught on and he replied '‘no"’ to the question, When the prosecution stated that he was sccepeable as a juror, defense attorney, Tabbl, asked Smith for a*'show cause’’, which the judge denied, The next two persons questioned were both Black women whom the prosecution challenged for no other ob - vious reason then the desire to exclude as many Blacks from the jury as possible, The lth juror was a White man who had been an MP In the fascist military. The 12th juror chosen was also White, 25 werethetwo alternates, The final composition of the jury was seven Whites (in- Chading one" law enforcement officer’’~-the bank guard-- one ex-Milltary Policeman, two old men over 60, etc.) and five Blacks (of which only one was 4 man), Definite- ly this wasn't a jury of peers for a 48 year old Black man, Artiur Davis. Tuesday moraing (March 25rd), the jury was sworn in.A long parade of pigs got onthe witness stand and gave their versions (@ies)as to what happened the night of June 23rd, The wildness of the tales they told would be cormi- cal if Grother Davis® life wasn't hanging inthe balance, Por example, Pig Walters testified thathe, Pign Palermo and Collins were the ones who first eneered the Davis home; when tt actually was himself, Palermo and Tuso who broke down the door, Pig Collins dida'tcome on the scene until later, He ulso led that they knocked on the front door and it came open by itself because it was un- locked. One look at the door in the Davis home tells « much different story. Pig Tuso Wed that he tiad been in the hospital for a week, at first, to revover from shotgun wounds of the face and neck; yet be was actually seen at a hearing lens Mien & week after the Incident, Then be claimed that be went into the hospital a secoad time for an operation to remove shotgun pellets from under his eyes andfrom his noe and neck; however, there is not amark on his face! Pig Williams (@ Bleck lackey) took the stand and told his set of falsehoods. He claimed to have taken Mr. Davis MALCOLM SHEPHARD “oMinued from last page was done to justify the murder. One pig then came up to where Malcolm lay, took a gun out of his own jacket and placed it on the ground beside Malcolm, a then kicked the weapon under his By this time five squad cars had blocked off the street but about fif- teen people, viewing what had happened had already gathered, The people shouted murder, and the pigs said ifthe people did not like what they had done, then they would find themselves in the Same position as Malcolm, Twenty- five minutes after Malcolm was shot, @ police paddy wagon drove up to lake him to the hospital. The bigs threww Malcolm into the wagon and and the driver took off, traveling at a slow vate of speed with no siren sounding and no lights flashing, and going the long route to the hospital, These criminal acts are not new to the black community, they have been going on for over four-iundred years, Malcolm Shepard’s murder just And, the defense asked for a mistrial on that basts, Not surprisingly, Pig Judge Smith dented thar mocion. For the rest of the day, more prosecution witnesses ballt the pyramid of Mes againet Mr. Davis even higher, On Thurs- day, BrotherDavis, himself, testified. And Friday, Mrs. Davis testified. The DA, actually asked her the ridicu- Jous question of whether 3-year old Maurice had a gun the night of June 23rd! Larry Davis, their son, testified next. ‘Then, two other defense witnesses from the community, who had seen the attack. One of these witnesses also tes~ tified that Mr. Davis was dragged from the house, not carried out o1 4 stretcher, The pigs hit an all-new how, when they produced a picture of Mr, Davis lying on the floor, and had retouched tr to make it appear that some~ thing that could possibly be a stretcher was under him. ‘The defense was not allowed to enter the picture of Mr. Davis being dragged on his knees as evidence to the contrary. The railroad proceedings were adjourned until March 20th when character witnesses for the defense are expected to testify, More than the beautiful person of Arthur Davis is on trial in this case, Our very right to self-defense and sur- vival is being triad by those very fascists who want to effect our death as a People. Arthur Davis set a con- crete revolutionary example for every Hlack person in amerika, a5 we are subject to unprovoked attack by the unifortmed forces of “‘law’n’order’’. For, alzhough, he faces possible long term imprisonment, he emerged THE VICTOR from the Nari-style invasion on his home-= the VICTOR because he and his family survived! Please show your support for thls man who Gemoastrat- ed the highest level of love one can show for hts family through putting his life on the line to defend their lives, His legal defense is costing 4 fortune, se send your con- tribution to the : PEOPLE'S MEMORIAL DEFENSE FUND c/o BLACK PANTHER PARTY 3625 Wallace Street Philadelphia, Pa, 19104 DEATH TO THE Pics! Black Panther Party Pilladelphia Branch happens to be the latest to occur in Chicago, These acts of aggression will nol stop by themselves, The pigs will not lay down their weapons of war un- til the peopie lay the bigs down, Mal- colm Shepard was only 19. years old, cul down in his youth, We add genocide to the ong and growing list of crimes commited against the ‘people by the Babylonian ruling class; ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Illinois Chapter, Black Panther Party ANOTHER BLACK MAN MURDERED IN SEATTLE On March 21, 1971, at approxi- mately Sa.m. another blick bro- ther was murdered in cold blood by pigs in our community, Leslie Allen Black, 21 years ok! was shot and killed early Sunday morning on 23rd Ave and Spruce streets, here inSeattic, Washing - ton, Lealie was shot by “officers”, Peter Dornay, 24 years old and Robert Elmore, 27 years old, both of whom are just rookies on the police force; Dornay has only 15 months ex- perience and Elmore, han only PP months experience. According to pigs, Dornay and Elmore, Leslie ran a stop Ught on Meh Ave, Prom it) Ave up Jefferson street; southbound on 23rd Ave: then Northbound on Spruce streets, pigs Dornay and Elmore pursued the brother. Un Spruce St., Leslie jumped out of the car: fleeing for his We, be was chased by pigs up the stairs of 4 house, around the side of the house and into the backyard. While in the backyard, pigs, Der- nay and Elmore took it upon themselves to exncure angthes black brother, Leslie was exe- cuted by the so-called protectors of beman life, Leslie had just finished doing three years in the military service for Uncle Sam; only to come home ghe brother was oaly out bong enoogh to get @ job, he hadn't even started working) and have his Life snuf- fed out for running a red light. Why was Leslie Allen Black miardered? Why was Lesie Allen Hack murdered when the Seattle police regulations “allow of ficers to fire thelr guns oily to 1) hale persons committing berently dangerous felonies’ 2) to protect themselves or wher persons from death or serious injury, or 3) recapture an es- caped felon’. Numnning a red light ts definitely not an inherently dangerous felony, Allegedly, Leslie was suspected of auto theft, but at the time he was murdered, the ples still hadn’s determined whe- ther or not the car was stolen, In addition, auto theft was drop- ped from the Seattle code regu- lation an a justification for slieot- ing @ suspect last year. Leslie was shot In the back and in the leg so the pigs couldn’ have been protecting themselves from death ot serious Injury. Leslie's Geath was a blatantcase of murder by the Seattle pig department. Leslie was killed because he was black and no black person's rights have to be respected by the oppresso because the pigs valve pr more than human life, “'....) is golag to come when the m of people rite up and see } done,..."* ALL POWER TU THE PEOPLE N.C.C.F, Seattle, Washington Charlottesville District ney, J, T, Camblos ing he bas bought off white stu dent “troublemakers”? at U, Va, by not prosecuting the students arrested during Jast Spring's dis- turbance, is now de ing full atrention to crushing black rev- olutionaries in Charlottesville, At the top of his list is the | family, eastly the tnost politically active Sebold in the c n February 23, the day be- fore his brother was to speak at the University om repression in Charlottesville, Grandersan Johnson, 14 years old, was sei- Mber- » who is assur olnson zed from hts junior high school classroom on 4 warrant from Camblos and taken dowttown, where «a kangaroo wit quickly setup. Grande ents, who work at the | Hospital, were notified that Gran- Gerson Nad been arrested and that they should report to judge Zehler's juvenile Court irmedi- ately. Unable to Jleuve work, they quickly retained a lawyer who went to the courtroom where Camblos wan raving about some people belng cut to Kill off the police. “They should allbe locked up,”” said Camblos, who had no trouble convincing Zehler to re- voke Granderson"s suspended sentence from previous harass- meet convictions (ree VW, Feb. 8, 1971), and send him to the ju- venlle detention center in Staun- ton on & $1,000 ball, Granderaca was on his way to Staunton before Mr, and Mrs, Johnson even got off work It seems that Granderson is charged in connection with the theft of u car the previous night, even though he was hame in bed when the five youths with the stolen car were captured by eight carloads of shotgun-toting police. Camblos Is clalmning tsar Gran- derson was part of 4 ten-county- wide ring of armed robbers. The evidence’ ix based on state- ments from some of the first er Nie ALACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1971 PAGE 7 PROSECUTOR RIPS OFF JOHNSON BROTHERS five youths arrested, It 18 know that several of these youths were roughed up when they were ar- rested, akhough they offered no resistance, Cambios is notorious for ar- roaming deals with prisoners tiroegh which they will be teleased or given light sen- tences Hf they give testimony implicating people that Camnblos aml the police ure out to get ~ people like Granderson and his brother, Tommy, who has been comvicted on @ fratne-ugr rob bery charge through just such a deal Cambics got avother crack at Tommy on Pebruary 75 when he wai in Cole’s court appealing convictioas oo disorderly con- duct, curse arm! ibuse, and assault and battery, He had been semenced before to ninety days im jail, with « Mght fine, This time, the all white, all-male jury gave him) 4 your In jail with a $450 fine for the same offenses The charges grew out of afight in front of Reld’s Supermarket which involved one of Tommy's friends and an employee of the store, The white employee was mot prosecuted. Temmy’s friend was prosecuted but the charges against him were dismissed, However, because Tommy was involved, Cambles seized the op- portunity to try to get him aff the atreets, The testimony consisted of two conflicting versions of the tight - one from the two young whites who worked ut the store, and the other from Temmy and his friend. The two whites admit- ted that they had been enemies “4 Tommy for 4 long tlme, be- cause, according to one of them Tommy is ‘'for the black peo- ple and for them tu iny way they can‘’, Ike his ideas,’ one f the youths stated. Carmllos failed to get his description of Tommy's ‘militant attitude toward whites”* and ois «supposed ‘hatred of whites introduced directly as testimony, but be made these points pretty clear to the jury indireetly. Camblos admitted deat the whole affair was not very Serious, but he declared, “*rits whole bus= iness is exactly Tommy Johnsen," who, he said, was king for trouble’, Cambios tod the jury how all of the decent people” in Charlorreaville need .""protection from the peo- ple who go 4d trying to unyome they cause rrouble for nat is theeruth? & wilte supporters inthe m obviously didin’t think he hates whines, In fect, what Camblos is really so upset a- bout is chat, as the Daily Pro- gress announced the following day, Tornmy supports the ideo= logy of the Black Panther Party The Panther Party's ideology states tat the main conflict In society is not between black and white, but between rich andpeor, between the oppressor and the oppressed, Carmbloe ts out to get Tommy because what be is reaching peo- ple in Charlottesville is thatruce hatred is wrong and chat hatred must be directed inan ‘ manner against o rae oppressors: the capitalist bus- { inesainen and politicians and ’ their armed forces, the police. Camblos and the ruling circles in Charlottesville aren't about to let anyone get away with un- Gercutting the racism that they Gepend on to keep people di- vided aod confused and that’s sist what Tommy was up oo - giving all oppressed people the ideology and tools needed to win their human rights, Reprinted from ‘*The Virginia Weekly” PIGS HARASS SYMPATHIZER OF WINSTON-SALEM _N.C.C.F. For the past few months, the N,C.C\P, in Winston-Salem has been the focal point of all sorts of repression. The local police Gepartment working 1 conjuction with the F.G,L and other Ku Klux Klan -type repressive forces have sped up thelr campaign te curtail the activities of the N.C.C\P, These “‘counter-insurgert a- Rencies are uleu attempting to intimidate people of the Black community who sympathize wit! the N.C.C.P,, as Since | became en Sym thizer of the N.C.C.F, in Wing 1 my case, i kn Salem, police harassment has been o continuous thing, On Monday, F 8, i971, rented an apartmest from T,E. Jotuneon & 6 Realtors.Wednes- jay of the same week, | paid the deposit to have phone services i my tome, The phone stalied on Friday, Feb, 12th. T following Monday when | went pay rent, Mr. Johnson refuse sccem the money. Astonished, | asked wiy he would mot take the rent money, He just blatantly stated that he wanted possession of the property by Saturday. Nothing else was said and I Jef, Dy the time I got home from the rent office, the Southern Bell Telephoae Co. called to say my services would be discontinued When | questioned the validity of such action on their part, | wan in effect told thae ] did mot even exist. However the neat evening the true issue was made manifest, The evening news showed filma of my private apartment und pu- blictzed it an the new headquarters of the N.C,C.F, in Winston-Salem. On Thursday, Feb. Ih, | re- turned to the office of TE, John- son & Realtors, thie time with « personal witness and «4 attorney. | tried to pay rent and Sons again it was not sccepted nor wen | given 4 reason for re- fusal. Since then | have been te court and have been legally railroaded to leave my homie. 1 immedistely put tn an appeal, but it requires a year's rent 3476.00, in advance. On the &th of March at 9:00 a.m., about 7§ to 100 armed po- ‘ Hceemen came to the apartment ¢ thar I had rented to evict me. To ‘ thelr surprise, no one was In the house, because I decided to move out the Friday before, The pigs proved once again tothe com- ‘ munity iat they have no regards. for human Ufe, especially « flack man’s, They would have killed me as quickly as they would have killed « member of the N,C,- C.F, At this time, these past events have opened my eyes to see there is indeed a conspiracy to re- press the N.C.C.P,, and anyone in the Black community “ho may sympathize with the N.C.C.P, Though these events have opened my eyes, they have not intimidated me, In fact IT know tharithaa made coe that more devermined to take « bigger part in the struggle. Repression Breeds Realatunce ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Sister Lille R. Jones Black Community of Wingsdn-Salem, NOC PF, DH BLACK PANTER, SVTURDAY, APRIL 10, 1971 PAGH 4 OVERT OPPRESSION OF THE FEMALE INMATES OF PARISH PRISON, NEW ORLEANS, LA. Being amemberef theN.C.C.F, the organizing bureau af the [leck wether Party, presently heh in ooe of many fascist slaughter houses called jalls, bere in New Orleans, 1 offer you first hand factual events of avertoppression, continaing «=o in rapki secession sgalnet the female inmates of Par- ah Prison. Hetty Powell and 1 (Godthea ‘*Kyeti Cooper) have been kid- tapped off the streets along with oer of car brothers since Thanke- jiving (November 26, 1970), Since fe have been confined, we have eon maced three thes, The first ime was the night of December 4, 70 when Petty carne to the cell tom the hospital, Still full of wckihot Grom the pigs’ guns), jetty. had many open wounds and p was weak from Joss of blood, 7 On 4 later date, five sisters (Leah, Elaine, Kathy, Betty amd 1) were in one #xil' cell when the ~ pigs came on the ther, cloking and Spraying mace, Prior to this, sev- eral inmates in the surrounding cells were moved 00 the otler side | Goath). _ The pigs ordered the doors racked beck and after they hall emptied tires cans of mace dn our cell, they told us to come out, It was later that we found out they were trying to Separate into two cells right next to there ure four or five females, although these celis were madeto bald two, In the recreation room which is J6'xi6", there are eight females now occupying that small coped up place, In these cells, there ls very little walking epace And if there are four or mure ip 4 cell, you bave no extra space because you have usually two matreases on the floor plus the Clothes lines you put up to keep your things clean, Each Inmate is allowed one inat- tress (ho sheets) one paper tin blanket, a towel and one har af soap, We ace gives one grey uniform to sheep tn , eat in, and keep clean in « compact size bowl, and drink ing fountain with oo bot water, Godthea Cooper The food Is not fir for human consumption, Art 5:30 4.m., you are served cold = untweetened supposed to be coffee and hard bot milk served on 4 truy half filled with beans and one slice of day old bread, Four o'clock in the evening, lefr overn of beans and a variety of spaghet- ti, are served on rare occas- sions, On Sundays you are ex- pected to be pacified with the mesgre serving of ball done or burned chicken and bland dres- sing and rice, These conditions in which we, formate tnenates, exist are utterly deplorable and uaftt for the shel- ter of lumens, There ure rate and rosches crawling across our mugs ami var cells and our clothes are infested with bugs. ‘There are women corning In dally, kicking methadone, heroin and cocaine habies, Nothing what- seever iy done to ease their pain as they go through the stages of kicking **cold turkey". Wehave witnessed several addicts going through the phases of fever, cramps, @ continuous flow of waste materials, When kicking, these acidicts are out of their heads with fever and pain, When kicking “cold turkey"*, you are asking death which ts actually whatthese pigs want, That le why they put the dope inthe comnouwnity of op- Pressed peuples as 4 form of perpetrating genocide Then again, the Pigs have the Methadone Program within this concentration camp. Ir is another form of genocide, an undercover killer and legal at that. Methadone ip ocill in ten experimentul stages, yet they continue to experiment with these female inmates and all oppressed people. This concentration cainp gives feas room to breathe than the Audubon Park Zoo gives for tts animals alone to sleep in, Within these tomb walls of con- crete and steel, we are constantly resisting to exist. Everyday we must do away with the obstacles in our puth for the Liberazion of all oppressed people. Every- NE LESS PIG TO ANSWER in Washington, D.C, capital city for the Empire, there is ane less plg to answer tothe oppress sors’ call. Wednesday, March 10, 1971, brother Harold Lee Boggina was athome with his family, when a knock came atthe door, The brother asked who was at the door but no answer came, He asked again and this time someone on the outside of the door sturted beating and Kicking on the door, The brother, moving ina manner to deferd hie Lome frum the at- tacking intruders, achvancedto the door, As Harold approached the door, ir was suddenly knocked open by the attackers. Brother Harokd fell back . The attackers turned out to be pigs, making one of thelr usual rakcs or; people bn the Glack and oppressed commu- nities, There were six, heavily arined pigs, participating In this attack, One was kiljledandanother wounded, The other 4 pigs, who were not shot, owe this tothe fact that Harold did not expect to see so-called policemen acting inthe thanner of criminal intruders; for only some 6f the attuckers were wearing police uniforms, a% brother Harold discovered after his door was kicked in. The pigs took this opportunity to bear Brother Harold unmericfally and Cirestened to Kill the rest of the family ifthey interceded. Harold Boggine was charged with murder day we are combatting the constant for defending his bore andfaml- mace, gas, sour milk, bland food Gull of foreign matter) tactelesn coffee, the olnking of pigs and many forms of repression sgainst us, a8 political prisoners In parti- cular, and all prisoner ingeneral, SLL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Godthea Cooper Parish Prison New Orleans, Louisiana MAY DAY RALLY April $, 1971 San Francisco—The Solidarity Commitvee to Pree All Political ‘Prisoners today called for broad “Support toward 4 massive May let demonstration to support political Prisovers.The rally will start at noon at Dolores Park, " _ Theme of the May Dayeveat is _ twoefold: Free All Political Pri- ‘Soners; Keep Los Siete Free, i: Organizations represented in _ the Solidarity Committee are Low i de la Raza, Angela Davis De- Commnitw, Soledad froth- ers, Bleck Panther Party and the oes for Action and Democracy, Pe Coalition for Peace and mito theft, the charges, stem- from thelr arrest two years ) for the murder of aSan Pran- palicernan, Found innocent i murder in « lengthy rrial VE months tn jal, chey still face posible Ife imprison- ment, “Most of the public,”” the com- mittee said, “‘is unaware of the seriousness of the situation faced by Los Siete,"* Adraft statement of principles for the jolot defense committee May Day rally sets forth points of mutual agreement of the various sponsoring groups, The committee Listed these as follows: (1) Politcal prisoners do exist in the United States, (2) the existence of political pri- Soners can and will be understood by large sections of the population, @) the law does not treat all peo- Ple equally; the oppressed, in and out of prison are with almost no exceptions, Black, frown and poor White, (4) racism is used by the government to divide the people, ) racism is used by the govern- ment to confuse the people, ©: ractum is used by the government to prevent people from protecting thelr own interests, (7) balkding mass support for all political pri- soners is the purpose and obliga- tion of the joint defense cocnmittoe (@) our solidarity with the cause af freeing all political prisanern overrides whatever differences we may have, (9) all people must have decent food, housing, cloth- ing, education and Jobs, (10) end the war in Southeast Asia and the immediate withdrawal of U.S, troops, (il) free all political pri- soners. On the question of existence of political prisoners, the statement said, ‘The reason most people remain wnaware that there are political prisoners is the resultof conscious efforts onthe part of the government through its state- ments, the news and the schools, These and other powerful forms are used to maintain the words of demooecracy however contradic- tory the deed might be, There is nothing inherent in the people that prevents them from recognizing the wuth when wiey get tr." On racism, it stated, ‘What was done to Black and Grown people yesterday is being done to White people today. What is being done to Black and Brown communities today will be done to all people tormorrow,"* Mass support for political pri- tomers Is necessary, it said, be- cause “the strength necessary to free political prisoners will come ty from attackers who work for the oppressive government of Washington, D.C. ‘The pigs Lnmediately began to put oct misinformation con- cerning the attack, The reason for this Is that countless people witnessed parts of the attack, and ey know that Brother Harold Boggius was correct, because any “‘gane" person would have done the same. According to the pig news media, the pigs knocked on the door, identified themselves us Policemen, at which time the apartinent's occupant opened the door and began shooting. How- ever, through Investigation, It was prover that the door was forcibly entered. The pigs claimed that they. bad a search warrant for narcotics, but this warrant was never procucedto any of the people in the apartment and no narcotics were found, The pigs also claimed that they clidn’t use the “No-Knock"’ law, which allows them to kick people's doors down ut will, However, wit- messes report that the pigs at- tempted to use the No-Knotk law but as Boggins put Something on their minds, they wish they had knocked, We recognize that pigs’ laws, Such as the No-knock law, are from large numbers of people demonstrating their belief that such prisoners are being heldun- dustly. The strength necessary to Protect people from being re- turned to prison once they arere- leased will be their backing by large numbers of people. The strength necessary to prevent the arrest or more political prisoners will be the result of the aware- ness and actions of large numbers of people, “While keeping the right to en- designed to justify and serve the pigs, a they Lmpletnent further repressive fascist actions againnt the people. However, each act of fascist repression against the people breeds further resistance by the people, as shown Inthe righteous, coura— geous actions of Harold Boggins. We recognize this brother's act- fons as being revolutionary and his example ts the natural con- Seqaence to Increasing terror, The pigs are attempting to villify Harold Boggins’ actions and justify thetr own, They hope to isolate Harold from the mass- es of people in Washington,D.C, ant then eliminate him on the charge of murder, Thereby, they think they can set an example to other people who might choase to defend’ themselves from at- tackers kicking at thelr door, This is the same tactic the pigs are attempting to use on Chair- man Bobby Seale aad Ericks Hug- gins, as well as Huchell Magee amd Angela Davis. That is, to convict them on « phony qurder charge , and then eliminate them to Set a precedent to all other rey- olutionarles. However, this tactic is falling miserably for the pigs, because for each act of repres- sion, the people struggle even harder for freedom and lb- eration, We, in the Black Panther Party, recognize Harold Boggins an be- ing 4 political prisoner,the same as all others who have been im=- prisoned for fighting to defend their right to ve, ‘The people of Washington, D.C, are very fam{lar with the fascist actions of the pigs inthis commu- nity, and alloppressed people can understand and relate to the ac- tions of Harold Boggins to defend iis home and family. We say that the fight to free Harold Boggins js our fight, because he is one of the many Black and oppressed people held captive by the pigs across America, At this time, the fascists are busy creating more laws and measures to imprison and re- Press all people fighting for their freedom, Hut the people are say- ing clearly, in loud actions for everyone to see: "Each time you come to us with your fascist laws acting Mike a criminal, we willde- forxd ourselves , like Grother Harold Boggins, and there willbe one Jens pig to answer, until there are no more.” ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FREE HAROLD BOGGINS AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! Washington,D.C.Chapter Black Panther Party Bage in debate and positive cri- Uclsm of our work, we understand thar when weraise, or even appear to rulse, the differences among us to a higher order thunthe differ. saces between WH \and the power structure, we do a Uisgervice to our cause," ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Solidarity Committee to Pree Au Political Privenerg San Francisco, Caltfornta IE CLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, ATUL 10, 1971 PAGE 9 SOLEDAD BROTHERS ATTACKED IN COURTROOM Everyone who came up to the Hall of In-Justice in San Francisco on Tues- day, April 6th, in support of the Soledad Brothers at their pre-trial hearing ex- pectedto see fascist tactics, but those of Mafioso Judge Calcagno’s court were outrageous, The purpose of the ‘“‘hear- ing’’ was to hear motions from the de- fense attorneys to have the Soledad Brothers moved from San Quentin Pri- son to San Francisco County Jatl. This would make it easier for their attorneys (whose offices are in the area) to see them, Normally, even in a fascist railroad, some pretense of ‘‘justice ’’ is made, The judge usually listens to motions even when it is known that he is going to deny them, However, fascisti, Mafio- so Judge Walter F, Calcagno wasted no time with this pretense, He walked into the courtroom, said, ‘‘Motion de- nied, Your trial date(meaning the Sole- dad Brother’s trial date) is set for August 9th, 1971 in(fellow fascist) Judge Caperetti’s court, Courtis adjourned,” And he was on his way out the door with a deaf ear to the pleasof attorneys John Thorne and Floyd Silvermcn for him (Calcagno) to at least hear their argu- ments, At this point George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo and John Cluchette began to gather up their belongings for return to the holding tank, ComradeGeorge hada folder of papers he had received that day among his belongings. (James Purcell) told George he could not have the papers, and, attempted to snatch them from him, When George ad- vised the guard that those were his be- longings, and he did not haveto release them, the guard viciously grabbed his arm, George naturally defended himself from this racist pig's attack. Morepigs converged on George, in addition to Comrades Fleeta and John, This entire incident (kangeroo court session included ) happened in less than fifteen minutes, Spectators were still in the courtroom, bewildered and outraged A pig guard — and fascist by this speedy pre-trial *“*hearing’’, When they heard thenoises resulting from the vicious pig attack on these brothers, many of them rushed to the railing to see what was happening. (As the guards had waited until the Com- rades were out of sight of the people be- fore they attacked.) The pigs became so beserk that they began to attack specta- tors , in an arbritary fashion, calling on the immediate aid of the San Francisco Tactical Squad, They began to beat spectators and commit arbitrary arrests, Among the three persons arrested was John Turner of the West Berkeley Branchof The Black Panther Party, after they had brutally stomped and beaten him,(The West Berkeley Branch is that Branch which has been leading the campaignon Community Control of Police in Berkeley.) They also beat and arrested Jimmy Carr, a student atthe University of California at Santa Cruz; and David Lamm, a worker from Los Angeles. [wo of these innocent bystanders, after being beaten and then arrested, were in- sulted with the charges of assault ona pig, distrubing the peace, and resisting arrest, However they had left the courtroom prior to the spectators’ rush toward the railing and were attacked in the hallway. As part of this particular tactic of genocide of Black people, the pigs also hit George Jackson’s sister, Frances (who is seven months pregnant), with a billy club, When George's family later left the courthouse to take Frances to the hospital to check for abdominal pains, they were stopped by two pig cars, The pigs gave the weak excuse that the driver of the Jackson family car was making ‘‘illegal’’ turns, This fascist terrorist attack of the pigs shows how upset they are, that the brothers in the maximum security com- munity are becoming closer to the mini- mum security, street community, and the community to them, All the blatant brutality and harassment only served to further educate the people to the need to ‘‘wage a struggle inside the jails and prisons simultaneous with the struggle in the streets,’” United, we can and will: FREE THE SOLEDAD BROTHERS! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! SABOTAGE ATTEMPT ON LAWYER'S OFFICE On April 1, 1971, a bullet hole was found in the window of the law offices of Franck, Hill, Stender, Hendon, Kelley & Larson, in Berkeley, Cali- fornia, The hole also went through a poster about community control of the police in Berkeley. Peter Franck is one of the lawyers in the office and he was one of the people who aided in the drafting of the original petition for community control. He has been actively cam- paigning for the passage of said bill, In fact, the entire office has been in support of the action, We do not know exactly when the bullet was fired, but it was shor directly in line with where one of the legal workers has her desk, We feel this is a direct attack on us because we supported community control, lt is reminiscent of the day when Huey P, Newton was acquitted of murder, and two drunk policemen shot into the Black Panther office at pos- ters of Huey, Our office has been burglarized on two separate occasions and the police did nothing’ abour that; so we decided not to call them abour this either, since they Obviously are opposed to community control, and this is directly related to our involvement in that. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Red blood cells taken from a patient Normal, donut shaped, In Western and Central Africa, where there is a high in- cidence of Malaria - particularly the most severe type of Malaria, Plasmodium falciParum, a natural immunity against this dreaded disease was built up in some of the People, Since the Malaria germ attacks the red blood cells, some Western and Central Africans began to develop an immunity to the germ, The actual shape of the red blood cells in these people began to transform, Instead of being the normally round, donut shape, their blood cells became elongated into a sickle-like shape. When the Euro-american slave traders invaded the continent and forcibly removed the African people from their home- BLACK GENOCIDE SICKLE CELL ANEMIA in a sickle cel are sickled and the other stretching away from its normal, red blood GENOCIDE: THE SYSTEMATIC KILLING OR EXTERMINATION OF A WHOLE PEOPLE. Three lonul shape, l crisis. of the cells cells, land to the the people naturally began to be affec! by this new environment. That is, what was once an advanta in their homeland, bacame a disadvantage in this fore environment, Those who had the sickled red blood cells, longer needing them to fight off the Malaria germ, beg swfer terrible consequences of their transplantation ir one continent to another, For eventually, as these blood © are transferred from generation to generation (they hereditary), Black People in the U.S. began ta suffer anemia from these sickled red blood cells, This sickle anemia has, been peculiar, for these reasons, to B People, then, G@rorRne fillowing is. comp ie «RGF ator OF ISH isease: SICKLE CELL ANEMIA mn ciseases, Bi chle cell anentie PeeeereeeeeseGsaugue monster in ils See oneras immOk! d's Black peo- Pie eeeeeureemee tOriubes ifs victims Mee Pet ePtSte eM Crisis, cach (pometimes Jdsling for days. 1's ine Ocy, from oie ani foi. ots. +, (Sometimes crippling and; Sameer per manor! brain damage, Sickle ~. |! a- etic ehovitedly kills afer [years of fr yy A Case History: A Fae ene suffered from ea bland Ganoniae mee clinost every na Ueoscha es age of five, she wc Ei: pneu monia, associated wi@iens in her shoulders, elbows, aia ep. fer eyes were a lemon yellow, her arms and legs, long tapering and her belly concealed a big liver and spleen, Dur- ing the next fifteen years, she almost lived in the county hospital, being ad- mitted fifttiieith such complaints as: selmaen pain with a board Le HEY) Sharp: alonizing FORA. Nonicn crippled ier movements, shor: ‘ndss of Breath. with the coueiing rap. lor Blood, opius numerous furnoners, of Ridney and hau infections, Powll tie ope of 20 she vhad ihe first ah four stilt. lirths, Site suffered: a braukioume Gites thitniid wis- carriage, having 007 =e seven months, During her ert ki; she was either hospitalized or trea in the emergency room almost ever® two months for some infection or% painful crisis which usually left her in a tearful, berserk state, scream- ing for medicine to relieve pain, At the age of 30, she developed ulcers on her legs which refused to heal. Later sie became paralyzed on her left sidM@MMbortly after this J.S, died, durinfimmzure, at the age of 35, Tius Jc short, stormy, typical sig@emia life pattern, Sickle @ mes most exclu- sively a fate Pho f Blacks, which mi Zeid cells and lowe) ae neti yo - lein, hem GTi A Stoerede cer a: red blood WR RSOried inio Geiwiisten sickle shafi[ Seagate arias round donuA@phgpeeevecreasmim blood oxygen and ipReasene Didomsaotaiy collapse the GSGGS00 ei tio as tr zarre, elongata shape) These sickled or wrinkled cel@@Riip fopaeiar to obstruct blood (tS GGstnnor blocks the flow of = eaune tt reparable body tissue U@iGges even tually scar tissue, the sO=@aUii i farct, replaces living tissue. “Sl This sickling crisis torments 1s with racking pain which may any part of the iuman body joint, to beily, to chest, to head, agonizing pain may plague its vic- for days. These anemic people appear poorly developed, with thin arms and legs, yellow eyes, pale nails, They may suffer from oe tt fe i ¢ nm J ° Jg 5 e n 1 : 2] CFS APE i lity to any in- Footuon, Jrom laguna ter weers, boney Gesiietene, wiode in the urine, or Jrom various bain and lung<BOmhpli- cations, io a Aereasary complicaGon aijeoe WHE GENS; Parents trangia’ sien cell disease to their —h/ii=iiyoush genes, Genes seype ESSE oenirae power or ‘cell >, per ianen cell, These genes \@0R—ROD Dogsiae ture by arranging Ti? 17rOt@gaieeean proteins, the building blocks “ie human body. In sickle cell diseas® the genes transplant one molecule, glutamic acid, in hemoglobin (the blood profiiwith another molecule, valine, Thiiiielar transplant alters the broNiiieeeectrical charge and de- creo Semelity. This change in electra precipitation of an inso@ieemorts the shape of the eee o sickled monster, Qe eeeeow of oxygen (to (a meneinlc I monster (ies and increas; ii Each sickle |e for sickling, 07} eee eee If one of these 2 ioe the patient would AGRA eee ,anemia; however, iin barrier, the so-called S¥aae enna Mal: sickle cell anemia 70 Gee ved blood cells are dist mic tyail only 20% to 45% of (he Sumenod cells are distorted, Carriers meen) free of symptoms, unless em i an environment low in oxypait * Pee icrs marry, their child- ‘eee © chance of being born we Cake il anemia, a 50% chance of being carriers, and a 25% chance of having two normal genes: FATHERISA) X MOTHER(SA) A.Normal Gene S:Sickle Gene SS; SickleCell Anemia $s SA AA SA:Corrier 25% 50% 25% AA:Normal Since genes control the molecular structure of proteins, the building bloc@iiitieties body, any altered or mu- tant "eee survival pers: s SOE PDMS. aig BR fai Jation, S:1*@ Ont eles sere as @ prevent: “@gamse tie most tangy Gas strain of *TQMa@eageeneeie ualanae fem of central A/G een, eee Dieeure carriers on er Sickle trait (SA). mitimch the sickle cell carriers may feaa aeeeiatively normal life, iis mse; stekle cell anemia ofteT®ae before ie ake of 30. Although th® Giemio moners uewally survive preg- Maney, Wes maipese 0% chance of abort- ing thetr"baliasy The anemic parents (SS) have decreased fertility, No adequate treatment exists for this dreaded disease, even_with such ther- apies as oxygen, pa@inehiiey Sane ne use of sodium bic@#GOnGiE(>GRine soua) to decrease tha@iiggd Geri some hope exists wii i= 25permenanuse of urea, a breakdown product of pro- tein, to unlock the sickled protein to return the red blood cell to its nor- man shape, Siena ell anemia kilis as often as piussoraveiephy or cystic fibrosis; it also affeéts a Simelar. numbed cs the datter two. Yet af fas recenie little public dltention and none of the large scalf goverment fjmding to cons duct scientific research for arure, 4 have muscular dystrophy aad cysts fibrosis, both, of tial: asuslivaiiies if hite vnicGms Dy. Pert § > al EDITOR aa We know that we, Black People, par- ticularly, are faced with the violence, murder and brutality, of the fascist storm troopers in the streets; we are under-fed and die at disgracefully high rates from malnutrition and starvation; we suffer death, on a daily basis, from our very living. conditions - rat bites, frequent fires and numerous accidents ,caused by dilapidated, condemned hous- Mm (death traps). Our people, Black memele, are being eliminated in such Bee numbers that the only conclusion eeeean be draun by our growing Peamemoll, in doth obvious and subtle ways; : that a concentrated, malicious s, of various untried yi P@RO eliminate our nye b= “ites bom, bei —____—aae ext@iigee. This is Geng As part of tit #___e States - which iss @____e that it can sed’ =e other planets; (_—_—_—_ machines bo hyehh—h—>h————— hwnan beings once (ie ing the repro: | [7 that it can destroy c/a cen with ils existing weap that it can not only cure every disease once considered incur- able, and if not, has discovered a process of preserving the human body until such lime as a cure for aspecific fatal disease is discovered - as part of that plan, the United States has wmefused to research or disclose the cules a disease, a blood disease, Praceaaieeell of whose victims are BigcnePeotimeiens! likely that in the Dosw aeceges aeime, 20th Century no cure nus Geendiseuuemed for sickle eell.ansmia, It is wlikely, > As a people, we must begin to re- copnize, become conscious amibgwar: of this genocidal plan and. its any weotimn ‘faces so that’ we can fight tn @b.1 manner, by aiery and albmeans, Fb, to ne the hard, tong Struggle; we must sR aoe caenae becom, aware of CSG tie) Simaionens possible, we will ha fabled. ine wi be dubed into the 7 Peohie, SURVIVAL NDING REVOLUTION BEL POWEE BO THE PEOPL. = TLNCK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 19 SYLLOGGM: & argument with two premises and a coochision. A kgical scheme of 4 formal argument consisting of a major and miner premise and 4 con- rx clasiva which must logically be true if the premises are true. @roin Merriam-Webster) all questions center around “*how"’ will anewrevolutios- ary conncioumness be mobilized out of a different set of Process of the old bourgeoisie revolution and, tts reign of terror thes, at which level of social, political amd ec- nomic life will this aew attack begin. -jution and its vanguard parties have failed to deliver the promised changes in property relations or any of the institutions that support them, This must be con~ ceded without bitterness, same calling, or the intense § rancor that Is presently building. It must be conceded = by the older partisans of the socialist revolution, the & pew partisans and certainly the Black partisans and their vanguard party. There have been two depressions and two great wars, 4 dozen serious recessions, a Goren brush wars, crisis after economic crisis has come and panned, the mass psycho-social nations! cohesiveness has trembled on the brink of disruption and disinte- gration repeatedly over the Jase 50 years, threatening to fly apart from its own concentric imer dynamics. Bua at each crisis it was allowed to reform itself; with each reform, revolution became more remote. We cannot have « complete definition of fascism, t's a thing In constant motion, showing 4 new face to fit any particular set of problems that may occur to threaten the predominace of « traditionalist, capitalist ruling clase, But if one were forced for the sake of clarity to define it in a word simple enough for all to understand, that word would be “reform'’. If we then progress to & two word deflation, we could attach one other word- . "Economic reform’’ comes very close to definition of fascist motive forces. fh sock an oves'-sinplification may serve to clarify ‘bit, it Jeaves a great deal unexplained. Each reform that perpetuated ruling clans hegemony be disguised as « positive gain for Dinguise enters an a third con- : and development of the fascist je, altho the days of Thorstein Veblen’s ‘conspicuous ‘Consumption have not been positively frightened away by mass resentment, The modern Industrial fascist State has found it essential to Cleguise its ruling class ieisure existence by providing the lower classes with 4 mass consumer's flew market of its own, and then the economically expediem currency cootrol or minimum wage limit (ind minimum wage increase) to allow « sizable portion of the “new state’ to participate in this flea market, We cannot isolate any stage in the development of fascism and identify it as representative of the whole movement itnelf, Mf we inspect or allow our astention to lock irnelf on the spectacular period conjured up by Hollywood screen writers (a wing af the opinion-mokding institute) that Pictures German "SS agents’ or Italian ‘filack shirts" kicking tn doors or herding Jews and communist pur- tisans to death camps; or, to bring it closer to our ows problem, if we interpret fascism as the peri of Peg Leg White's “Black Legion” terror, or that of the “Guardians of the Republic’'and their offapring, (periods when itis yet insecure or in the process of crushing the Vanguard elements, and call thor one phase fascism, is to _ fail to see the essence of the process, After the killing and disbanding is done, the nucleus of the threat re- the ruling class goes on about the business of as usual, The significance of the “‘new arrangement” Hes in the fact that this business- _ Af-usuel is accompanied by concessions to the degener- ate segment of the working class, with the alm of crest- dng 4 bufler zone between the still potentialty revolution- ary Segments of the lower classes and Itself, Corporative ideals reached their logical conclusion in the US, The new corporate state has fought ttn way through crisis after crisis, established its ruling elites in every im- Portant institution, formed its partnership with Labor Qhrough ite elites), erected the most masnive network of protective agencies (replete with spies, technical und anintal) to be found in any police state in the world or _ the history of the world. The violence of the ruling class of tds country in the long process of itm trend toward authoritarianism and its last and highest state, fascia, cannot be measured for ics excenses against any other mation on earth today or in history. With each advancement in the authoritarian process and strengthening of the ruling class's control over the ‘system, there was of course 4 correnponding weakening a Class antagonisms, an advancement in the authoritarian us, We must concede first that the old worker's revo- 2&9 TPAGE D ae GEORGE JACKSON =| eca] oe> oc In theorizing on revolution, after revobstion has failed, 1S of the people’s and worker's movement, It follows patural- ly. Reform the cloved economy’) a sew direction for cap- italism to temporarily develop or recover Fascism] The dilemmatic question {n intellectual circles kt seems ts did f buppen in the US, too, The questioning of the obvious characterizes 4 long habit of the amerikan lefr of flight from reality, a flight from any truly extreme position, actually 4 part of the historical, authoritarian process seeping into its own psyche, It happened in the biggest way possible in the U.S, Questioning the existence of a fasctst arrungemeng, and the accompanying cen- tralization of power, and the largest part of the Gross National Prodoce into the hands of a minute portion of the population allows us alyo to continue to question whether ur not revolution bas failed, It relieves us of the respoamibility of admitting fellure, and quit. For reformism can only work against uv, if we allow kt, if we tnake concessions, If we compromise with the enemy state end ite miling class. A compromise was made in the pant, in the 40's, the 40's, the SU's, The old vanguard parties did make gross strategic and tac- tical errors. ‘This must be faced without emotionalism, petty squables; and must be re-riposted with clinical disregard today. Errors were made, opportunities al- lowed to slip past, and for various human reasons- Some honest, some distionest, In some canes the members of the old vanguard wore clearly forced Into the exis- tential moment, the last revelation avout oneself, Some did not want to risk their whole res, their lives, to alter the conditions that Hury ewton describes au "destructive of Lifo'*, Heformism was allowed, The basis of the campromise thar worked the destruction of the degenerate element of the working class was first, The natlonallstic fervor created by a capitalistic war adventure, supported even by most of the vanguard partics of the time (WWII), and then the mass consumers market that followed the Close of the war, the flea market that is, meeting some of the workers muted demands-siowly, We are today faced with a clearly different set of class antagoniams, the compleaities af « particularly refined fascist economic irrangement, where the con- trolling elites have extended down into and co-optively sucked up pertions of the lowly working class, When we ask ourselves today “‘where will we attack the enemy State7'': and we receive the answer ‘'at the productive potat’’, the next Jogical question must be “with whom and what?’ With whom will we attuck the fortified entrance of the productive and distributive system in 4 nation of short-sighted and contented, conservative workers? The fascism movement is counter-revolution at Ms center, A calculated response to the classic, selersific socialint approach to revolution through poni- tive mobilization of the working classes. The fascist arrangement is dated from ita very start as in attempt to create the Iflusion of 4 mass soclety In which the traditional capizalist ruling class would continue to play its leading role, A mass society that Is nota mass society; a mass society of authoritarian idiots who's opinionated consensus centering around their “short-term™ material interests would be conclusive to the perfect totalitarian state and centralized economy, Fascism, then, as closely a8 we cin define it in under- standable terms, is “aclertific capitalism", ‘controlled capitalism’, a sophisticated, totalitarian, ‘learned’ response to the challenge of egalitariari, scientific social - iam, After the fact of its successful establishinens, as in Spain, Portugal, Greece, South Africa, the United Stares of America, we are faced with the obvious question, "how to raise u new consciousness", We are faced with the task of rulsing a postrive mobl- lization of revolutionary consciousness In a mass that haw “‘gome through" a contra-ponitive, euthoritarian AL process, ‘The new vanguard elements seer to agree that with~ drawal from the enemy stute and its social, political and economic Ife ie the first step in its cestruction, The néw vanguard elements seem to agree that the new revolutionary consciousness will develop inthe struggles of withdrawal, However, after tis point, agreement grows vague, dims, and all but drowns itself out In # sea af contradictions Tue contention turns around one primary question - the scope and range of violence within the revolution- ary process. After the lengthy and clearly unnecessary Ideological battle that laid to rest a direct approach to revolution through the White or Black worker, there sow jooms large In the near future an equally unnecessary ideo- logical battle as to which of the various comrmunal (revolutionary cultural) approaches las the stronger revolutionary validity. There is the almost apolitical withdrawal af the grow- ing Weatherman faction, The withdrawal of their natural, but estranged allies on campay ot in their organic food gardens; aod the still slightly different withdrawal to the countryside communes, where the theme is 8¢x, music and droge. A sort of Nietzschean- Hegelian with- drawal, actually, and very typical of the European historical experience of the Last five generations. In our equation this must be considered the miner side of the syllogisin. Though revolutionary in a fashion, the realistic, cohesive synergism seeme as yet impossibly remute, On the other side of the equation, we have the Black Panther Party's central city communal ideal. And I repeut, the contention, if ir develops, will develop around the scope and range cf violence In the present state and total revolutionary process, liuey Newton's con= cept of a Black commume or communes set well within the buge population centers of the enemy state linply an acceptance of the minimum or maximum level of vie- lence necessary to enforce the demands that the people am! workers will be making on the system. The ulzimate demand and expresston of revolutionary consclousness ie that the dispropurtioned class of rulers and wealth holders disbind, This demand, throughout history, has always occasioned violence. The concept of Black central clty communes tied to one another by 4 national and international vanguard party, then further ted to the world's other revolutionary societies, meuts all the theoretical questions, problems, and promise of an amerikan revolution in as nach as that revolition must be carried by Black people prin- cipally. The questions I've aksed myself over the years run this way: Who haw done most of the dying? Most of the work? Most of the time In prison (Maximum)? Who ts the vinetss in every aspect of social, politicul end economic life? Who lias the least short-term Interest-or no tn- terest at all = in the survival of present stare? Can our condition await the arrival of anewgeneration of en- lightened fascists who will Gismantle the basis of their hetrarchy? Or will they too very logically begin to feel Somewhere in thetr educational process that they can, Just how many Amerikans are willing to accept the physical destruction of some parts of their fatherland So that the rest of the land and the world might survive in youd health? How can the Black industrial worker be induced to carry out 4 valid worker's revolutionary policy] What and who will guide him? The commune. ‘The central city-wide revolutionary culture, Butwho will build the commune that will guide the people into a significant challenging of property rights? Carving out 4 commune in the central city implies the claiming of certain rights as our own - out front. Rights thar have not been respected to now, Property rights. fr implies the building of 4 political, social and econvmic infrastructure, capable of filling the vacuum thar bes been left by the established ruling class, ‘‘and also" Pushing from our midst any occupying forces that re- Present this esemy culture, In other words the imple- mentation of new soctal, political and econamic pro- grams that will feed ant comfort all the People on at jeast 4 Subsistence level, while at the same time forcing land, tool and market “‘owners"* of the enemy bourgeoisie culture to either de thelr whole fortunes to that of the communes, the peuple, or leave the land, the tools, the market, The theme of such an undertaking will be the shotgun aint the antitank rocket launchert} Who will betild on an ideal thug begina with force tthe Varguard Party 18 now nation-wide. Bur vanguard Pactids. ¢ Ynnot Sulld revolutions alone, Nor cana ¢ Sc SNRNATC party expect full auteement before Lt mave® in thé directib the People. Revolution is (egal, idle the eh k's protibtted. i will not be allowed, ts clear that the revolutionary is © lawlesa man, ‘The oltlaw and the him continued on page 14 f Well once again San Quentin is blanketed with a tense violence and are absent here, because the indis- _,criminate, rampant forces of mur- “der and mayhem are the dominant elements visiting us with their un- welcome caress of destruction, The prisoners walk the tiers and the yard with an acute sense of awareness, "Bach step is very caculated, as if the ground will take flight at the very rol of their feet. The convicts’ un- written code of principles is the ma- jor priority of the day: never walk alone; keep out of isolated areas; and, for Blacks particularly, keep out of “areas where only pigs and white “convicts congregate. Everyone feels ‘the invisible presence of death flow- ing in the air, _ The prisoners are packing lethal veapons, their visual images project- g an incomprehensible reflection of derment and rage, Some are my- d as to why this rior is happen- iB and othersare in a rage because. ey are forced to contend with a situation, ‘‘dress for war’’ out of the ‘necessity for self protection. A por- tion will use this riot as a means to nourish their racist appetites, There will be more stabbings, and ‘possibly more killings. As mentioned the convict code is the basic law dur- | this period, That means _ the ‘assaults will be retroactive, Each side ‘Must retaliate for any member hit, ‘It’s a thing of principles or pride, or something. But one thing is sure, “no end is in sight, Whenever the war ends, Whenever the ‘Phantoms of destruction release their Vindictive strangle-hold on the prison, “Men will be dead, maimed, terrified beyond the realm of ever recovering to anormal state of functioning. There Will be those who will have new char- es of assault, with their lives being the prize for the state prosecutor. Still many will be made examples of, that weren’t even involved in the riot- the administrations scapegoats; there Must be scapegoats. The warden (the Political con-man) will issue his usual ‘One-sided press release, white washing, ing away the, situation, The ‘x rs will rush in to ‘get the “8coop’’, delivering the usual one-sided , of the warden’s to the peo- of the communities, And the pri- pner’s tension will gradually de- returning the slave camp to ual state of abnormalcy, 4- the return of the next riot, _ unstable atmosphere, For the present, (isolation), 'the usual sounds and familiar noises murder; There are ten blacks or more locked Quentin's chamber of horrors Four are charged with the remaining six or more are charged with felonious assault, and their lives are the only appease- ment that will satisfy the bloodthirsty appetite of Quentin's racist system. Long before the eruption of this particular riot, all of the Blacks arrested for pee! being partici- om 1 qn al Saar all l in ie wee . ! j | i | i 1 hy ; > ~ } pants in the racial chaos were des- tined to be victims of this particu- lar fate, Being charged with murder and assault, The reason for this principle there’s is a customary tacit policy of this racist administra- tion fo enact it’s periodical ‘‘nigga hunt’', to consistently intimidate, ha- rass and oppress any Blacks that, by their warped racist concepts, is la- beled a militant, revolutionary or just a "‘bad nigga’ in general, These bro- thers in particular, have been the con- stant objects of institutional abuses, locked in Quentin’s ‘'tiger cages" at any arbitrary whim some pig is nourishing, The brothers’ cells are the constant targets for, the “‘goon squad"’ (who symbolize the Nazi S,S, troopers), who tear the brothers’ cells up in the traditional piggish fashion, just on the flimsy pretext of what- ever reason strikes them at the time, There will be many, many more of these riots. However, at the initial manifestation of these incidents, the camp overseers, the cunning po- liticians, the fascist authoritarians who run the pen, will seep out of their cracks in the walls and submit the ole customary press release to the people, Usually it’s the same ole *'I don’t know why this riot happened, it’s just a few hothead individuals releasing their hostilities on the model prisoners’, And the riot is explained away, And all is well, This form of artificial hypocrisy THE GLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APHIL 10, 1971 PAGE PRISON RIOT - RACIAL OR RESISTANCE must be made impossible, There must be an end to blatant distorted con- cepts of actual situations in the pri- son riots, It shouldn’t be fashiona- ble for concerned people of the com- munities to continuously accept at face value the deceitful clarifications delivered by the same repetitious de- magogic opportunists, the legalized crooks of the prison administration, The concerned people of the various _communities must take action, action “in the form of organizing or sup- porting legal committees, functioning to investigate the unjust, inhumane poli- cies of California's slave camps. During the process of investiga- ting the racial conflicts you would unveil a keen, sagacious plot rela- ting the annual ‘‘cut the budget’ show of California, The riots are the out- growth of a prearranged con- spiracy, produced and directed by the prison officials, At the very mention of the ‘‘cut the budget show’, an ir- rational web of panic and insecurity encompasses the entire prison from the superpigs down to the flunky nazi pigs. When the budget is cut so are jobs and the excess pigs must be discarded, So in order for the administration to maintain its ra- cist, oppressive choke hold on the pri- soners, further rightening their grip in’ the racist political arenas of the State, the pigs must have a good ole riot, They can then oink for more pigs, supposedly to suppress the riots be- fore they happen, The riot of March 9th, was due to the instigation of a pig in cahoots with the Nazi prisoners, This particular riot had triple designs to it: One was to dissolve the Black and Brown unity. That is the reason two Chicanos were used as tools to start the riot, hoping the Blacks would direct their vengeance against the Chicanos for the stabbing of the Black prisoner: Two is to publicly justify their racist repression of the militant and ‘*bad niggas’’, That is why there’re no suspects arrested in the ‘‘chowhall shower stabbing’’ of three Black prisoners, The pigs are. the suspects; And the biggest and most important reason is to esta- blish the essential necessity of their (pigs) jobs. This ‘we're understaffed, we need more pigs”’ thing. | don’t believe it is necessary to expound on all the atrocities this racist prison system enacts againstprisoners, Black prisoners specifically, It is necessary to connect us with struggles continued on next page — _ THE ULACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1971 PAGE 4 STEVE LONG MUST BE SET FREE! On bebalf of the inmate pope lation, 1 wouk! Ike to address myself to the suit filed os behalf of Theodore Harris protesting the decadent conditions In the New Haven Comununtty Cor- reetinnal Center, bereer known 4s Whaley Ave, Jail. There ate 4 mamber of points 1 would like to address omysell to tha are flagrant violations of the Con- stitution of the United States: 1) Excessive bail - The majority of the Inmates tncarcersted bere have been here for Jong perbods of time awaiting trial because they cannot raise finds for their ball, The presect ball system is only the 2(th century version of medieval ransoms for capoured Angnts. 2.)The premise thats person is in- pocent antil proven pul ity-this ca be pet In the books ax atired, worn out cliche, ‘This pirase ts afarce by the very fact that one ts im- prisoned awaiting trial and sub- jected to countless restrictions. 3.) Restrictions of visitors and reading material-Under the pre- mise that one is Innocent until proven guilty, « person should have the right to have unrestricted visiting privileges and unre- stricted reading material, Our first amendment rights tofree- dom of speech, press, religion and right to assembly have gre saly been infringed upon, Visite are only grantedto immediate family and are limited to 5 minutes, This restricts people who can be help- ful tothe inmates cave, gir friends and aswociates. Materials of an “inflamatury” mature are con- sidered contraband and urecon fisceted and the Inmate Is pleced Ly punitive segregation, Outgoing mall is read before leaving so that ‘inflammatory aad prejodictal statements" may be censored he- fore being sent our. Incoming mail is ulso opened and read. Mail is centored so that the conditions of the jail and the practice of the guards will not be expofedto fami - ly and begal counsel, 4.) Punishment for violation of rules and regulutlois-for infract- ions of rules an inmate is taken to a mock trial presided over by the captain of the guards whose posi- thon is autorhagically prejudicial (Dlased). There are 3 or 4 guards and the jail medic present, If the inmate ts servile, humble and res- pectful to the guards, be will most likely be given a suspended sen- tence, Hut if be is strony, force- ful and peaks up for his rights ike aman, be ls sent to the} leor t punitive segregation. Note: In punitive segreagation, the innate is stripped of all personal possessions; he is not allowed to have cigarettes, matches or read- ing matertals of any Kind. |e may Steve Long - Political Prisoner receive mail but may sot send mail out. The meals are almost always cold and served dirough a bole tn the bars of the cell. The inmate is confined to the cell for 23 and3/4 hours a day. 15 minutes ts allowed for a shower, and for the Inmate to clean up and empty his bucket, usually filled with decayed feces and urine. The ventilation is very bad and the Inmage le very #s- ceptible to rashes, colds and other aliments. 5.) Improper and inadequate r ed- ical treatment-there is « called doctor who visits each wing in the morning for sick call, re- gardicss of the seriousness of the prisoner's condition, Ive ts usually dispensed 2 aspirins and wuter, The medical facitittes on the wig are inadequate tu treat emergency cases or cases of aserinus nature, There ts a brother bere whosuf- fers from 4m asthmatic condition and his medication plus the poor condition® of the jall keep him #ul- fering most of the time, The doctor and medics on duty are verytin- sympathetic to the medical needs ef the Inmates. They are reluct~- dnt to give out even simple cold tablets or cough syrup. 6.) The educational and recrea- tonal facilities are very bad. There is a so-called brary with some of the most uninteresting, old dilapidated books one can I- magine, Most don't have any cov~ ers and serve no beneficial par~ pose, Material for iegal defense and edycational material bas tobe Lrought in by the Inmates’ fandly or lawyer, 7.) The facility in the cells for urine and feces is simply # buck- et with « top.lf one defecates or urinates during the night, the waste will hove to sit anil morn- ing at which time the bucket is emptied. This is « totally unsani- tary condition considering the fect that the cellis alsothe living quar- tera, 1 belleve that the prison syt- tem aod the system of ‘‘justice”* are indicative of the malignance and strife of society. If allowed to go unchecked, the decadence and perversion of the judicial and prison systems will Jeak out and imprison the total popualagion of the world. Any investigation, should be made by the people and not the Department of Cor~ rections. On behalf of the inmate popula- tion, Steve Long Black Panther Party Political Prisoner A eiam We can analyze al struggle of Blacks and communities, Object- Lruge e, Rhodesia etc,, to throw off the racist Buropean net of imperialism that is passionately trying to suffo- cate any remnants of Black inde- “pendence and freedom, This imperi- ‘alism of course flourishes with the under-the-table support of the U,S, Check out any community that's struggling to liberate its people from European imperialism (economic and political slavery to the western Eu- ropean powers), i.e, Ethiopia, Rhodesia, Guinea; Africa period, Latin Ameri- ca, Vietnam, You will see that the white racist and lackey puppets have only expanded their bloodthirsty tenta- cles of conquest to a more physical and brutal degree, Where there is in- creased resistance to oppression, there is intensified murder and brutality. The very destructive forces that op press the Asian, African and Latin American communities are one and the same with those that oppress the convict, the political prisoners. Since the resistance to racist tyranny is less proportionate, the forms of oppres- sion are somewhat refined and more sophisticated, Political prisoners don't have napalm dropped on them, yet, but we have indefinite sentences, We don’t get shot down with machine guns every — 4 day, yet, but racist pencils do the shooting, For our acts of resistance there is no court martial but a racist tribunal, a replica of the Spanish In- quisition, with no one to represent us but us. All in all the nature of this op- pression is very repetitious, When the dust settles there will remain those who will resist racist oppression and injustice, even in state prisons, Lieutenant of Information San Quentin Branch Black Panther Party ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE COMRADE GEORGE JACKSON ON WITHDRAWAL CONTINUED fF KOM PAGE 12 pen will make the revolution. The people, the workers will adope it. This must be the new order of things, after the fact of the modern iedustrial fascist, state, In Blacks the authoritarian traits are mainly the effects of terrorism and lack of intellectual stimulation, The comrainal experience will redeem him. The Black work- er is simply choosing the less dangerous and compli- cmed strategy of survival, All classes amd all people are subject to the authoritarian syndrome, its an atavistic tirowback to the herd instincts. kt requires only the proper trauma, the proper eco-soclological set of ctr- cumetantial pressures to re-establish the opposite cun- schousness ig) from the berd again. Racism enters, on the psycho-social level, in the form of this morbid, traditional fear of Sluck, and revolutions in general, The resectmem of Blacks, and conscious or unconscious tendencies to mete out pain to Blacks, throughout the history of our contacts with Amerika’s Slave systerns, all came into focus when Blacks began the move from South to North, and from countryside to city to compete with Whiter In industrial sectors, and, in general, status competition, Resentinem, fear, _ Snsecurity, and the usual isolation that occurs with and » ot Patterned! into every modern, capitalist industrial _ mociety (he more complex the products, the greater the . division of labor; the higher the pyramid the broader its base and tne smaller the Individual brick tends to feel) is multiplied by ten, when racism, race antagonism is also a factor, There is certainly no leck of evidence to Prove the existence of 4n old and built-in character assassination of programmed racism (what clana controls the nation’s edocational facilities, prints the newspapers and magazines that carry the Lrtle cartoons; omits, or misrepresents us to death) han Always served to dis- tract and defuse feelings of status deprivation suffered by the huge-sectors just above the blick ome, Then also to account for the seemingly dual nature recognizable in the authoritarian personality (conformity, but also 4 strange latent destructiveness), raciam has always been employed a5 4 pressure release for the psychopathic destructiveness evinced by a people historically pro- cessed to fear, to feel the need for a decision maker, to hate freedom. The revulutiowary 1s outlawed, The Black revolutionary “is a doomed man’. All of the forces of counter- revolution stack up over his head, ife’s standing in the tank-trap be has dag, He lives in the cross-hatrs, No one can understand the feeling but himself. ‘From the beginning’’ of hin revolutionary consciousness he must use every device to stay alive. Violence ts a forced issue, It's Incumbent oa him, The very first political Programs have had to be defended with duels to the death, The Children's Greakfast programs haven't been spared. The next round of commune builkting could cause the third great war of the century. Unless ciis fundamental fact Is now taken into account by other revolutionary people -that Blacks must build with the fingers of onehand wrapped around a gun @n anti-personpe! weapon) and that we cannot leave the central city = there will be no logical conclusion reached, Only an argument. The war will be fought in the nerve certers of the nation: the cities, where Angela was. found hiciag (and still working) by the government; where Huey was found hiding and working by the governmen’s propaganda inetinaion. We cannot withdraw. tf the ex- ponesta of simple rejection or withdrawal are to reach revolutionary syllogism, validity, @arve inter- communalism with the forces of Ditech liberstion, a way taust be found to elther win more convinced fascists into withdrawal or discover a way to make withdrawal attract some of the gun fire away from the Alack com- Toume as it builds, A BLADE FOR THE THROAT OF PASCIEM George jackson 7 Black Panther Party THE HLACK PANTI \TURDAY, APRIL 10, 1971 PAGE B LETTER OF SOLIDARITY NATIONAL FRONT THE BLACK April 2, 1971 Mr, Bobby Seale Chairman, Black Panther Party U.S.A, Dear Friend, The South Vietnamese people and the National Front for Liberation of South Viet Nam wish to express to you their greetings of solidarity. Together with the freedom-loving and justice-minded people all over the world, including the progressive American people, South Vietnamese people, the South Viet Nam National Front for Liberation fully sup- port the courageous slruggle of Black FROM FOR BOBBY MUST BE SET FREE! immediately its oppression of the strug- gle of Black people and set free at once the detained leaders of the Black Panther DR. GEORGE HABASH ON PALESTINIAN AND REACTIONARY ARAB FORCES AND FIFTH COLUMNS ctionary forces ars The matter of defining these r fifth colurins as a part of the enemy cump that forms an ter that must be dealt with. Ar of this subject 1s declined ax attempt covers up areality atthe expense of gur peor clear vision, Not taking cls enemy andhis role int sideration as 4 partol the enemy campkecps the chances open for him to direct strikes against the rev con forces and stab them in the back whenever necessary Any judgement tx wards the Arat and Palestinian reac tlonary forces will result in the clas ification of these forces as a part of the enemy On the Arab level, the reactionary anc big bourgeols Classes, by virtme of their being tigh tly inked in interests the colonialists and imperialists, being ins wit J \rab area, sto of the imperialist presence | armed towards the coloniall enist plan to | Palestine, And furthermore, they took part ln the Ge thom and clesipati f allt tinkan revola heavals and endeavours against British Cole ewish Intiler atk A good the c lary Up- Jalist ex ple i iv at the harxh { the reactionary forces they : hee Select 5 peaple to “resort to peuce ai : , peas ov A +0 or r SS Apr f "stop the de- Dr. George Habash ak stop toe ff wine 4 = x tration actiyitic to pursue the matter the Liberation *", prowmist te | with “the friend, Great Hritein.”’ Popular Front for of Palestine SOUTH LIBERATION TO BOBBY SEALE, CHAIRMAN OF PANTHER PARTY people against imperialismand racism, Party, particularly il’s Chairman, for peace, equality and justice. We de- mand that the Nixon admintstration stop VIETNAM May we avail ourselves of this oppor- tunity to express our sincere gratitude to the Black Panther Party’s sympathy with and for support for our struggle against aggression and for national salvation, Black people and progressive Ameri- can people and Indo-Chinese people will surely triumph! May we wish you good health and an early velurn to Black people's fighting rank, Sincerely yours, Nguyen Van Tien, Central Committee Member, South Viet Nam National Front for Liberation Then came the 148 defeat as 4 sure result to the reac- tionary failures and its subservience to the imperialists and colontalists satinfied with that, killing Palestinia: acti tlonary Pale te is magural for the tionary governmental machinery, to be in collusion with the Imperialists onises, This attitude, because of irs nature, firs with the big bourgeolsle class mructure. Therefore, beceuse of its structure, Its alms are para~ lel with the alms of the colonialists and imperialists and its existence is co-dependent with the existence of colonialism in the area, Also these forces, because of their big bourgeols-feu~- dal structure originally never had or have the capacity to confront the colonialists and Zionists. So long as this confrontation dernands arming, mobilizing and organizing the people to wage a bitter and long range popular war This is what these forces refuse because of thelr inerest and 6 use they are more afraid of the masses than of the mialists. On the Pales vel: The Palestinian Big Bo e being In control tt Movement took a very ac These reactionary forces were notoaly continued tu exist for (werty years ties aimed at buliding arevolu- gh their governmental machinery. e forces, through thelr Arab reac- ne thr nature and urgools esting wiescent and feudal el National Liber stand with British colonialism. During the entire perio f the Britist) Mandate, the reactionary bourgeois farces andied tie governmental machiner Pr, but same time were in concert with the British, k © took a laissez-faire attitude towards all the Zionist plans t uwwurp Palestine in collusion with the fr In spite af the Balfour Declaration, whose lotentinn® and meaning were clear, these big bourgeois and feudal lesderships maintained the refusal of Kin-calting against Great Britain at the tine when it was persplcu that te fronting the Briti »coupation formed « baalc and real secesipity to disrupt the pland of the Zionist coh lists to Judaise lalestine. continued on page 17 Ss THE HLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1971 PAGE 4 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH A NEW MAN — A CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY Martin is 4 13 year old Dlack brother who has been chosen by the Revolution to study inthe Camilo Clenfue- gos Military School , He was born in Camaguey on Nov. Ui, 1957, when Fidel andhis guerrillas were battling the Bastista troops in the Sierra Maestra and revobution- aries tn the cities were organizing the workers and stu- Geres and carrying out sabotage. He was onlytwo years old when the revolution came to power, and all of his conscious life has been spent inside that socialist soc- fety the Cuban people gave thelr blood for the right t built. He and his family--bis parents, himself andfour sis- ters--live In comfortaile house in the City of Cama- guey, where he has spent his whole Life. Selected by the Jocal Committee to Defend the Revolution (CDR - revo- lutionary block committee) to become # Casnilito (he ic for the cadets), be now studies, works and bedhcncs along with other young revolutionaries been selected by their CDRs all over the ts- school teacher; his father a con- sister is inHavana, studying to.be A. Yes, What I like best is the studies and the military Preparatios. Q.Why? A. Well, I Uke it because of the way they teach you here the example of Cie Guevara and Camilo Clenfuegos. These two men were very brave and admired by the whole people. And it’s un honor forusto belong to this school, Q.e there anything you don’t Ike ubous the school? A. No, everything's good here. Q. What do you do im a typical day? A, We get up at 20 to A.M, Then we do the morning exercises, fifteen minutes of physical exercises, Then we have breakfanr, \2 6:45 we go to class, We have dil- ferent subjects; language (Russian or Englinh), math, Spanish, biology, physics, etc, Then at 12:45 wego to ear lunch. We reer unril 2, then we study or practice sports, Q, What do you do in your free time? A, Lusually study the subjects I'm weak In, or help the companeros who have problems in Some subjeces. Q, Do your friends from school visit you at home? A, Yes, [have some companeros who come to my house and | go to theirs, Q. Do you have confidence In your teachers? A, Yes, | have confidence tn all of them. Q. Are some teachers better thun others? A, No, to me, all the teachers are the same. Q, ts there ermilation in the school? (ote: ‘emulation’ is & form of socialist or revolutionary competition in which all are striving for 4 goal that the group or soc- fety 46 4 whole wants to reach, bt is differers from In- dividualist or capitalist competition in that the more who reach the gaol, the betrer, and it is the group, rather than one Individual, who comes our “winning” ) A, Yes, there are 3 emulutive periods each semester, 50 there are six periods inwhich you emulate In subjects and different things. Q. What does emulation mean to you? A. For us, emulation is the motor force of the youth's like--a thought of Comandante Ernesto Che Guevara-- that emulation begins where duty leaves aff. Q.Does this school also have Exemplary or Vanguard Students? (individuals selected for beat performance). A, Yes, tie companeros who don't do poorly in any sub- ject, who do well or excellent In everything, these are ‘outstanding’, And if they are ‘‘ourstanding"’ during 3 emalaive periods they are Vanguard Students. Q, When do you fee] better, when your barralion or school wins an erulation, or when you personally are selected a5 Vanguard? A, Bueno, I—everyone feels happy to know that the coim- pany or the battalloa or the squadron has come out “‘out- Standing'*. Q. And for you that’s more important than Mf you per- sonally come out in the Vanguard? A, it's better that thecompany, that everyone In general --because everyone participates in the emulation, and everyone raises the percentage, and that helps to win the emulation. One of the moral stimuli that can win is a@canon, Q, What subject do you like most? A, L Uke ancient history the best; and! also like math « Little, and Spanish, Q.Why do you like anciet history? A, Because they teach us how our ancestors Lived, and work they did, and all thas, Q,. What ancient countries do you like to study? A, Well, Rome, ano different countries of the old Orient and well everything that has to do with ancient history. Q, What do you want to do when you're grown? A, When ['m grown I'll be a revolutionary marine, Q. Why? A, Because thelr atm is to defend tie seu thar belongs to Cuban international waters, and they don't allow any enemy invasion to penetrate that tries to rob us of the freedom that we have, Q. M you were a teacher, what would you do thar your teachers don't do? A. Bueno, the tmachers here do everything that I could do if | were « teacher, Q,Before you came here, were you « Pionero? Giev- oluthonary children's organization). 4. Yeu. About 96 of the cfildren in my schoo! were Piunero, The others weren‘t t because they were leaving the country for the US, and other countries, and some that, well, they didn’t ke it, they weren't Ploneros,We always tried to get hose who weren “t Ploneros to par- tickpate. Some joined and others dida’t want to, (. In your house is everyone « revolutionary? A, Yes. Q,Do you like to watch television? A, Yes, U like lest the program Rebellion” that deals whh Phdel's struggle against the Hatiste tyranny Q, De you like to draw? A. Yes, | like to draw different things... the deficiencies that cadet, in order to combat them. And also the martyrs. Q, what Is your fuverite movie thir you've seen? A. "Dislocation in the Riviera,’ it was about how tn same countries there are robberies and other activities thut, vaya, don’t happen tn what we hayetoday, which is socialism, 0), What sperts do you play? A. Last term I practised boxing, and this time olympic wrestling, I Like wrestling best, what I'm doing now, Yes, Ido it pretty well. q. Arethere any sports you'd Uke to play that you don’t? A, Yes, 1 like basketball. Q. What national sports do you like best? A, Baseball and boxing and soccer. Q,What do you think of the Cuban baseball team thar went to Colombia for the Amareur World Series)? A, Ab, 1 think that it was avery strong team and that it was at the level of being one of the true world champ- fons. Q. Why do you think Cuba is world champion in baseball? A.Because they play very well and recelve very good training, better than any other country, and because bere sports are free, not like in other countries that are... that,,.well, where a spert, you could say, isn't very free, Q. You Uke boxing? A. Yes, last term Iwas partof the Internal Championship “Vietory of Giron’', ant I got an award for being subcarspeon (second place champ) of Battallon gl. Q, Do you like shooting? A. Yes. Q,Do you shoot well? A. Yes, In olympic shooting. During the term we were out Going agricultural work, I shot In sport shooting and I scored 26 points out of 30-point masdmum, Q.What do you think of all che aggreasive sports: boxing, wrentling, shooting? \,Bueno, these are sports of,,.,for the place that we are still in, sports of a defensive type, that we can use against any enemy, or rather, a political enemy or other adversury, Q.G0 you Uke to read? A.Yes, 1 liketo read different works, I Uke history, geograptiy and the magazine ‘Sea and Fish” the best. ‘The magazine is abour fist and different boats. Q. Have you read Che's Diary in Bolivia? A.Yes, Che's Diary was read cully 1 term, after political informugion, Sev sf bic Revolutionary Armed Forces, read Che's Diary, and when we were ical: tural work, before golng ore rate continued on next | ls te oe — ae ae - - THE BLACK PAN THEN, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 197) PAGE?» DR. GEORGE HABASH ON PALESTINIAN AND REACTIONARY ARAB FORCES AND FIFTH COLUMNS continued from page 15 When the 18% revolution arose, led by proletarian, ‘Poplar elements, the big bourgeuls and feudal classes “appeated from the rear and sped towards the cuntatiing of thit revolution, These leaderahips and thelr likes tn the Are workd pledged Great firitain, “the friend and ”" to uphold the Palestinian peoples rights and went ‘en Geeper into the bargainings that ended withthe abert- lng of the 199 revolution. ‘The role af the Palestine big bourgeois and feudal Jeaderships before 1548 did nat stop merely at thwarting _ themselves into the laps of colonialism and retreating defore the Zionist invasion to usurp Palestine, but alna Played an ugly aod traitorious role inthe Palestine etrug- shar sone of the Big bourgeois and feudal : practiced brokerage of Palestinian land to Jew- Ish companies, The question that must be answered now ts this - did the IME setback and the fifth of june debacle which fell Upon the Palestinian Arabs change the facts of these clanses? For 20 years after 145, agreat part of the Palestinian people were expulsed from their land and country and it appears that those who remained are now threatened with the same destiny - 45 what occurred after the defeat of 1967-. In spite of this, the Palestinian people's Condition had become definite class condition, Therefore, ir is in error to say that al] the Palestinians are without 4 home and thus are revolutionary, The Palestine bourgeols is net without imerests. He lias created pow definite Ln- terests which are the base for defining his stand and ar- trudes and his only method of contimsing these interests and insuring his distinct class position. The big Palestin- ian bourgeois is originally mercantile and financial whose interests are joined with the same interests of the lmper- falists, Because our battle against lareel is at the same time # battle against imperialiam, this class will stand tn the strategic dimension for the Impelalist against the evolution, A good example that the belaviour of these EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH A Q.Do you think you learned « lot from it? reenter eer rere ae etnce Wx Salle we About the work done by our Herole Guerilla, who left behind all comforts what be bad bere in Cubs, to go onto guerrilla, aaa the guerritia Feruggle was more difficult tian you had thought before ? A, Yes, 1 didn’t think that the guerrilla struggi¢ was so hard as in Bolivia, because there In Bolivia you do a lor of work not to be betrayed by sume peasant; and because of the sickness, the mosquitos, all of the lack of food and water, etc, -Q. Despite allof these problems, do you feel that you are Feady to fight like that, in a guerrilla war? A, Yes. Q. But that’s not because you think it's an easy thing, without problems 7 A, No, everyone knows that it in a hard thing. Q. Have you read the book about Tania? (the woman guerrilla fighter who died in Bolivia)? * A.No, because that book ran out of print, and there are only 4 few tn the Library, I've read some parts, but there are a lot of educational activities that you have to do, and I haven't been able to complete tt. I'm going to read the whole thing, though. Q. What qualities do you admire in Che? A, What I admire ts that Che was a combatent who did not think of his physical state, although be suffered from asthma: be didn’t consider his office, nor his position, nor rank that he had when he left the country; he had to leave bebind all comforts , tis ciildren and family, to BO to ceher lands,to free them, That's why we say that Che was ao Internationalist guerrilla. Q. What qualities do you admire in Tania? A. What 1 admire in her is the same ay in Qhe, but paying attention to the fact that she was # womay and... be that she was one of the most advanced ‘women In the world, since she wan one of the first to Join Che in the guerrilla struggle; and also, if I'm not mistaken, she also participated, protested against the October (Missile ) Crisis, and also she wanted to par~ ticipate in the struggle at Playa Giron (The Bay of Pigs Q, Do youthink Tanta was an abnoriialor special woman ‘or do you think that all Cuban wornencan be like Tank? classes did pot change after 1944 and alive after June, 1967 while Arab youth were exchanging bullets with the Zionist invaders is the reception of Sexson and Dayanby the tra- ditional big bourgee!s in the ccupied territories with In- tent upon discussing the matter of establishing a separate Palestinian state ia tie West Bank, This was Israel's plan to liquidate the Pulestine problem, This deformed class structure was not destroyed by the fedeyeen activities taking into accexing the Increase of tts operations. At chin time also the merchants were racing ip search of 4 means to Mose their {interests with the invading state, After all this, we cannot help but refuse the chanting of such phrases an “We ure all fadeyeon” and** The Palestinians with all their classes are waging the armed struggle” and “po rich and po poor af long as we are the expulsed of the country", The revolution is setentific and the ocioatific thought searches for the tangible and material facts, These facts are raised by the history of the Palestine and Arab Nat- denal Liberation Movement tn the same quantity by the manifestation of the Palestinian struggle and all ascertain the role of that same movement. The big Palestinian bourgeotste now living in the oc- cupled lund, aldhough it has not yet joined openly with Is rael, is pot 4 part of the revohition nor will ever be, tr will be objectively the social class through which the ene- my will infiltrate to crush the revoluion. but the big Palestialan bourgeoisic, living outside the occupied lands is not aversed to the actions of the fadayoea. Thelr sup- port however depends on whether the actions are within the sphere of a specific, ideological and political strug- gle that does sotencreach epenthe interests of thelr soc~ fal clann, If so, then this class will support the movement with « symbolic amount of surplus valve, Bue if the cir- cumstances wouk! present revolutionary development of the Palestine National Liberation Movemers, an increase of action in the direct of « popular struggle and to the level of clear confrontation with the Arab-Palestinian Nathoeal Liberation Movement and imperialiem, the bourgeatile will stand ageiset the fedayeen for thelr own interest, Certainly, we admit that some elements of this bourgeoisie clans will mot abide by this law, ir may also be because of the specific condition of the Palestinian case that this element of the bourgeciste class stands firmlywith the revolutionar at least willnotmove against it. Such pecullarities, however, shouldnot force us te di vert from the general Liw which governs the attitudes of this class, Finally, io light of this Himitation to the enemy camp, the clear and scientific outlook should be visualized wile any other naive outlook to the battle, its neture and place-time dimensions eliminated by the nature of the clear vision, L.The Palestine Liberation war is not 4 war which be~ Jorgs only to the Palestinians, israel is dangerous be- cause of its expaniionist ideas and continous work against the Arab National Liberation Movement, hence this states existence In general tt not for national consideration only. The Palestinian people all carrylag now the respon- sibility of facing the Israeli occupation, If this Pules- tinian confrontation with the enemy is not in reality ploneering 4 long struggle waged by the Araband Pules- tindan masses then victory will not be achleved, 2. The nature of the esemy camp shoulddetermine the nature and density of the revolutionary alliances which we must reeruit in confronting al] the methods and means utilized by the enemy to crush the revolution, 3. The evident and clear significance of revolutionary- political thought and ideology as 4 means by which the revolutionary forces can mobilize to face theenemy camp forces is not to be denied. The significance of a strong political party which can lead the revolutionary forces in its Increasing struggle towards extended welfare, NEW MAN == A CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY A, Well, there are many women who.. for example, in Cuba there are many women who fought together with Fidel in the July 26th Liberation Movement, like for example Haydee Santamaria and Cella Sanchez and Vil- ma Espin, etc, Q. Mf you hadtodo what Cheand ‘Tania did, would you do i? A, Yes. Q. Do you have any friends, or do you know anyone who isn't Cuban? A. Yes, some Hungarians and Bulgarians lave come to the school, and you, who I met here and a Comrade from the Venceremos Grigade— I think her name was Elsa, but I'm not sure. Q, Is Bulgaria a capitalist or socialist counery? A, it's socialist, ik was Uberated in 1% or 3S, Q, What country did the Comrade from the Venceremos Brigade come from? A, The US, It’s 4 capitalist country. Q, Is there a« liberation struggle in that country? A, Well, ig seems to me there isa Uberation movement that of the Black Panther Party, Andthere are different demonstrations against the government. Q, Do you know anything about the struggle in Vietnam? A, Vaya, it’s ... the struggle In Vietnam... more or less, we can’t say it's 4 war, but more like 4 massacre, in which the imperialists are just trying to takeover whut Vietnam produces and the products they canexplolt.And they commit many massacres, bombings and burning childfen with napalm and all that, Wehave a picture that was shown here about Ho Cl Minh, and one about Nguyen Van Trot, who was assassinated because of McNamara, Q, Do you know anything about the Lives ef Ho Cul Minh and Nguyen Van Trol? A, Nguyen Var Trol was 4 Vietnamese comabatert who, when he was very little, his mother died, He stayed in the care of his father and his father foughe againat the French colontalists, And thes when he was bigger the Northamericans invaded his country. ‘Troi was one of the first to devote himself to the struggle against them,And then he was taken prisoner because of Commander Robert McNamara, when lie tried to kill him on 4 bridge, He placed 4 bomb on the bridge McNamara was going to cross, to destroy it and so get rid of McNamara, continued from last page Then when he was a prisoner and was brought to prison be tried to escape and threw himself out of a second floor window and broke 4 leg. Andthey malbrrearedhim and be was assassinated in the same prison, And be shouted “Long live Ho Chi Minh" and ‘Long Live freedom,’’ Ho Chi Ia feaghe: 44, oeeh: nian Gees Vietnam. He fought In North Vietaam when Uberated, He left for the South and fought against tt Prat sais lala aad xa ous enee pera ruapereglipecinstienstienigroata Vietnamese people as 4 whole, He also fought against Q. Would you lke to visit other countries? A. Yes, I'd Uke to visit the Soviet Union and other soc- falist countries and some that, well , aren't soctalist, but belp Cubs against the economic blockade the U,S, government maintains against us. I'd Uke to see if they have the same qualities as this country, tosee thelr way of life, their form and style of governing. Q. Would you Like to go to the US, one day. A, & could be...yes, someday maybe I could go there... I'd Like to participate in some demonstrations and con~- tribute in some protests and different political currents together with the people, M1 were inthe US, I wouki work with the Black Panther Party, because it’s a party that struggles for liberation in the U5, , and also because ie’s made up of young people who fight against racism and differen poli- tical trends that exist there, Q, When the Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, Huey Newton, got out of prison lascyear, the firae thing he said and did was to offer Panther troops to struggle on the side of the NLP of South Vietnam. Whar do you think of thas? A, Well, I think that is reallytremendous, because here we have a people's struggle against the U.S, ---against that government, that is, because the Cuban people aren't against the American people, but against the government and there you see that even the American people them- selves are against the war in Vietnam and against the US, government, Q, Sume people criticized Huey because they sald that before fighting in Vietnam with the ¥: Pan- thers should help out thetr own people Black com- munity in the US, Do you think they lene, oF he right? A, Uuhlak that the head of the Bad! because ce nae al oe ee ould Rave, 400, XT | were tn Sie SERIES TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEKI TH LACK MNTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1971 PAGE 18 Livingston & Flatbush All Sol'# 55S Nostrand Ave, Arthur's Grocery store 163 Kingston Ave. Arthur's Newstan¢ & Kingston Ave. Black Fox 769 Nostrand Ave. Hoct Bleck 606 Nostrand Ave, C & M Nestaurant 276 Kingston Ave, Callensten Store 231 Kingston Ave. Candy & Luncheonette 576 Unica Candystore 331 Franklin Ave. Candystore SU Franklin Ave. Candystore 792 Franklin Candystore $29 Franklin Ave. Candystore 2554 Fulton St. Candystore 292 Nostrand Ave. Candystore 355 Nostrand Ave. Candystore & Newstand 6% Rockaway Candystore & Newstad 702 Rockaway Cutter’s Pharmacy 62] Nostrand Ave, Duros Jige (African Shop) 4 Nostrand Ave, Freedom Bookstore 526 Nostrand Ave. Eddie's Candystore 579 Nostrand Ave. Gail Stationary 11) Rutland Re, Harry's Candystore 2227 Atkin Ave. J & H Luncheonete 699 Nostrand Ave. Jenkins’ Candystore 924 Fulton St. Kingston Car Service 234 Kingston Ave, Larry's Candystore 849 St. John’s Place Lunch & Candy Store 100 Kingston Ave. New Shop 280 Urica Newstand Corner of 145th & Oth Ave. Newstand 2 Sutter Ave, Nicholsan’s Candy Store MS Ralph Ave. Omewale's Boutique 637 Thrvop Ave. Ottis 943 Sutter Ave. Ours lac. 1727 Pitkins Ave. Prince's Candystore 73S Nostrand Ave, Psychedelic Unlimited 521 Franklin Ave. R & DB Variety Shop 791 Saratoga Ave. Record Shop 556 Franklin Ave. Record Shop 668 Sumer Ave. Sound Town 81? 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LOOK FOWARD TO THE SERVICE OF THE TRUE PEOPLE'S CANDIDATES IN BERKELEY: D'ARMY BAILEY HLONA HANCOCK IRA SIMMONS INTERCOMMUNAL NEWS SERVICE | ‘The line dividing the progressive people from the machinery ot florrression is ever widening as the people begin to realize that there 1 an no looger be « middie of the road position with regards to freedom for the people of the workd; however, ithas only been within the past few years that the American people bave shed their rose-colored glasses 1 and patriotic blinders to face the reality of what their country is Going i © the world’s population. With the realization of the American role 1 comes the closer examination of all the things that had really never peen questioned before,..the ‘ameriKKKan dream’, the foreign policy, 1 the treatment of minority peoples within this society, the real role of | me *police’ and the press in this community. 1 We found that we as citizens of this COUNITY § were being kept duped by the government and 5 i misinformed by the mass media, i The Black Panther Party has been organized to serve the B the people of the Black community and to educate and politicize needs of well masses of Black people, but the Black Panther Party realizes that fj i racism can only be eliminated.by solidarity among oppressed people a and the education of all the people. Ir is the news and problems of! | Black and oppressed people tn America and the world that are dealt q with in the Black Panther, : The Black Panther Intercommunal News goervice was created to present factual, reliable ginformation to the people, 2 MONTE: (13 ISSURS) 6 MONTHS: (20 ISSUES) ONE TEAR, (52 ISSUFS) (please panth NAME STATE/ZIP @ PUEASE MAIL CHECK 9 5, Franklin St., Hempstead L O8 MONEY ORDER TO Enter my subscription for (check bax, Subscriptions Foreign O $400 oO 9200 COUNT WN es MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, BLACK PANTHER PARTY Box 2967, Custom Hoare, Sam francitce, CA94128 SS Se SS ee eee ce eo ee 1 £4 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1971 HAG I October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter mine our destiny 2. We want fall employ ment for our people We believe that the federal government is responsible and obliyated te give every man emplorment or a guarantecd income We believe that the white American businessmen will not give full employment then the means af production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of Ihe community can organize and em ploy all af its people and pive o high standard of living 3 We want an end te the robbers by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community We believe that th ist governoent has robbed us and demanding the overdue del of forty acres aud two mules Forty a and two miles was pronitsed 100 ears ae as restitution for slave Labor and mass murder of black people We will accept the payment in whieh will be distributed to our many commiumtu The Germans are now gitting the Jews in israel for the genocide of the Jewish people The ter mans murdered six million Jews The Amervan racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people. therefore, we feel that th is a modest demand that we make mow We ary irre nes 4 We want decent housing. fit for shelter of human beings We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made inte cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people 5. We want education for our people that exposes the (ruc nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a know!l- edge of self Ifa man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people. should not be forced to fight in the mili- tary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people What We Believe We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or- ganizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppressiun and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Const)*t.un of the United States gives a night to bear arms. We thetefore beneve that all black people should arm themselves for seliaiefense & We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and cily prisons and jails We believe that all plack people should be released from the many jails and prisons because thoy have not ceceived a fair and impartial trial 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a» jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States, We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution © that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the US. Constitution gives a man): right to be tried by his peer group A peer is a person from a similar economic, social. religious, geographical, en vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black*community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white jurres that have no understanding of the “average reasoning ran” of the black community 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nationssupervised plebis- cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. : When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, ' that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; thal among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of Kovernment becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall scem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru dence. indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not he changed for hght and transient causes, and, accordingly, all experience hath shown, thal mankind are more dispased to suffer, while evils are sulferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they arc accustomed But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pur- suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despatiom, itis their right, it is their duty. to throw off such govern- ment, and to provide mew guards for their future security SER VING THE PEOPLE BODY AND SOUL All Power to the People THANKS TO THE PEOPLE'S FREE STORE | CAN GO HOME AND MOP MY FLOORS AND FEED MY CHILOREN ALL POWEE TO THE PEOPLE