Vol. 6, No. 12

JALIGK Jeli . IN TERCOMMO? UNAL NEWS SERVICE 25cents Bib woo THE BLACK PAN NTHER PA RTY © SUPPLEMENT INSIDE ON THE DEPECTION OF ELDRIDGE CLEAVER FROM THE BLACK. PANTHER PARTY AND THE DEFECTION OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FROM THE BLACK COMMUNITY be a | For a_ time the Black Panther Party lost its viston and defected from the Community. With the defection of Eldridge Cleaver, however, we can move again to a full-scale development of our original vision... THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1971 LEAD POISONING CAUSES MENTAL RETARDATION Many children, mostlyBlack, who are forced to live in wretched slum areas, suffer from lead poisoning because they like the taste of the paint thatis usual- ly peeling off the walls of their living quarters, Littledo they realize that this sweet-tasting stuff could harm them, make them suffer, for its probable lead base is poisonous, Tests show that hundreds of St. Louis, Missouri children suffer from lead poisoning. Lead poisoning usually occurs in child- ren from ages | to 6 years, Its most serious effect is mental-retardation, The Metropolitan Tenants Organiza- tion is concerned, however, This group, through the efforts of Ivory Perry, Housing Coordinator of Union - Sarah District Community Corporation, has challenged health and political leaders in St, Louis to wage all - out war on lead poisoning. They want building codes enforced, They want children taught not to eat the paint, They want all children tested for lead poisoning, So, each Saturday, lead poisoning tests are given free to children brought by their parents, The upstairs quarters of the Union-Sarah District Community Corporation office on Delmar Street are used as the test center, Volunteers PAGE 4 People waiting to receive lead poisoning tests, enrolled at the medical schools of St, Louis and Washington Universities draw the samples of blood needed, Un- ion -Sarah sees that those children suffering from lead poisoning get the proper medical attention, Ivory Perry in M,T.O. Office One Saturday, more than 125 child- ren and their parents came to take these tests, A program of transporting parents and ehildren to and from their residences is available to assure them of being there, Donations of medical supplies are needed such as band-aids, alcohol, cotton, syringes, etc. In addition, money is needed to provide trans- portation, Tests are given from 9 a.m, to 5 p.m. each Saturday, Those in- terested in obtaining more informa- tion may call the Metropolitan Tenants Organization at 361-4770 (St, Louis, Missouri), Metropolitan Tenants Organization St, Louis, Missouri REAGAN-NIXON CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY TO DISOBEY LAW State irgo The Callffornia Welfare Rights a Organization, in “wnother step in its continuing battle to compel Governor Keaganto conform to the mandate of Federal Jaw whic to comply. west but one conformity, it clear that he wae In: The meeting with the President {the several actior to Indiana, denies to the reci- pients their rights to equal pre- nization California Welfare Rights 0 Mra, jermany, n “ ee n iW’ « ow ” and mad security Act andHEW's ownreg- ernor of California, can place are two sets of laws In this 0 hurry tlations, that the delay granted himself above the law,’ said country - one that can be bro- to Governor Reagan, but denied Peter E. Sitkin, attorney for the ken by the rich and powerful, the other that can suppress the peor anid the weak. We will con- rEa- presi- requires increases in AFDC (Ald taken by the Governor to cir- tection under the law and thas dere of CWHO stated: "We have, tinue to persists, for we are to Families with Dependant Chitd- umvent Federal law and the their rights under the due pro - for the pant two years, utilized right. Thin Jawsuit is neces- Constitutions] rights af fre- cess clause of the fourteenth al] legitimate means to compel sary to expose the Governor and ren), grants, brought suit in Ped cipients, in january, by-pasaing Armendment have been violated the Governor to conform to Fed- to demonstrate that his notion of eral courtagainst Governor Kea the procedures established under h is further dlleged that the eral law, We have litigated ir welfare reform is but « euphe- gan, other atate officials, the Federal law for resolving leeue Federal and State officials named Federal courts, in State courts mism for violating the rights of President and high runkime Fed- { conformity, the wernor in the <« nluint agreed to avoid and before HEW. On every oc- poor people to the detriment of eral officials alleging 4 conspi- directly ippealed to the Vice the requirements of Federal low asion we were successful inde- hundreds of thousands of needy racy to obstruct justice and vin- President to delay the Issuance nd the Constitution and place nonstrating that California has chllidren’’, late the rights of recipients M4 decision by HEW which would political ideration® and violated the law. Yet the Gov- : ~ ‘ der Federal jaw and under the here resulted in the terminati power over the rule of low, ernor peralsts indenying what we hee: only is the Governor's per- Constinitie M Federa) funda, At thut time The sult filed only are legally entitled to receive.tHe bs stent failure to conform to the the Jecint a withdrawn, Feet al ieee tet Social Security Act 4 violation of The suit comes in the after- even ihow the HEW official saat Kesart alter ; ‘ federal jaw, but it (lies in the magh of « summit meeting be- concerned had no authorit ie eal to HEW w ' t r ligation to adhere to low, while face of the public policy of Cal- twe 0 4 Nixon and other co. Whe iintlar requeat f So t oft ‘lifornia We wilizing our children as the fornia, a8 expressed by the Cal- high ranking Federal and Scute jelay w ' ve yy thie ite ofl : sh Paty 3 egoats for wn illegal tlornia Supreme Court just two officials on California's welfure Clana, the ver e Wew off atl week problems. At that meeting Callf- chal denied the request and ornia was give ore time itted tree ecaul de be f i ‘ went Aa the Welfare come into compliance with cision conclusive} UTES shile Calttorn itical os il Capit) Reported, falluce by Federal statute, which should that he hed + suthoriry t thw Federal tiffers y She Ga oceaesta. contply with u)- have been complied with by July uch acti efits Wo need + ' eupe . £80, Pudtely tapalt In the jose of 1, 1969, Calffornia has already it in alleged the welt ite merwhe : i. in ex that £700 wiililoe Gollare in Federal been found to be in violation of rights « aint that the re ceue dinate ith t Law t ie tyneiodid thet Shifting of the wel- the Federal statute Federal sont a Fs feral | inimoral t j ther egintati or t sh fare puree td the county tax- District Court in San Francisco, to grant increates ha + direct i ite batt © tow. Tht ; Payers of Cayitirnta the California Supreme Court, Promise f © ve { ti { wed bane Ing und the Department of Health, the withdrew apa t t 4 c evaile , Education and Welfare, but as de bay the HEW deci rt l t . : * ret ; ‘ yet the Governor persisted | son Fermi natl Federal ‘ : aoa os . tere “an Francisca Neighborhoad Le- raking ction to tring the ty Calllorn jolutes t ress e poor Mat there gal Astistance Foundatios DECENT HOUSING SHOULD BE A HUMAN RIGHT, NOT WELFARE CUTBACKS A CLASS PRIVILEGE WE WANT DECENT HOUSING FIT FoR SHELTER OF HUMAN BEINGS. Black people and all poor and oppressed people herein Amerika have suffered and are continulig to suffer the degradation of {tiade- quate houing conditions. These Intolerable conditions range from no heut in below zero weather to Tat Infested bufldings replete with falling plaster, At 3738S W, Douglas Park these conditions exist very vividly. Over twelve familles reside In this death trap building, and the ma- jority of the twelve resident fami- Hes are receiving public aid from the government, As any welfare mother will tell you, the money received from the government is always less than enough to Survive. Welfare families are for- ced tw live in inferior housing because this is all that js pro- vivded for them by the reaction- ary ruling class of Babylon, Many avaricious businessmen who rea- lize this, have set up indecent housing for welfare families in order to obtain those families, meager monthly checks, knowing all along that there will be no re- prisais from the government for thelr actions against the people. The welfare families who oc- cupy this slinn building ac 5735 W. Douglas Park, realized that thelr problems stemmed from the U.S, government itself, so In- stead of appealing to the snakes who were responsible for their housing conditions, the families came to the Black Panther Party for aid and assistance. Mrs. Lawson Is a resident of the building and has to care for ten children wiile expecting another. She ts afflicted with asth- ma and the cold in her apartment only aids to her already deteriora- ting condition. She has made con- stant visits to hospitals because of her condition, and yet, her dog of @ landlord still refuses to improve the bullding’s heating oyster. There have also been cases of small children being bitten by rats that run freely throughout the building, Mrs. Durr, the mother of one of the children bitten by rate, has large rats in her apartment, Another sister in the building complains of falling plaster. She watches her small children constantly so thar they will not eat the planter. Ala throughout the building sparks fly from light switches, water and steam shoot from radiators that cannot be turned off, and whole walls fal] apart. Members of the Hlack Panther Party tajked to the landlord of che truliding, 4 pig, named Thomas, He had the nerve to accuse Ihe residents of the building for cau- sing ite unsafe condition, and be used thie position to justly his ancéomern for the bullding’s con- 3735 W, Doug las Park Chicago, Illinois live under dition, We know that the people are sot responsible for rate run- ning rampant, lack of adequate heating, and falling plaster, The garbage piling up (mn the back ef the bullding, which hax become a breedint ground for rate, ts there because there iu to bage collection service for the gar- buliding, of 4 regular jenitor t remove it. Pig landlord, Thomas has done nothing but endanger the One of the families forced to such conditons lives of the resident. pants of the bullding are deman Ging that the building be turned The occu- over to ther so tat they may im- prove it theriselves, The ilack Panther Party stands solldiy wit the resitients of the bulking. ALL, POWER TO Ulinut THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1971 PAGE 3 CALIFORNIA TRYING TO TAKE LEAD IN In the fancists’ attempts to commit, genocide on people of color, inferior medical care plays 4 large part, In Reagan's recent cutbacks in State funds and Nixon's cutbacks in Federal funds gotng to the States, the amount of medical coverage people who receive so- called county ‘taid’* haw become alinoat all (nothing), Some ‘of the chunges made In Lod Angeles County were: 1) No special medical work can be done without first ger- ting permission from the Wel- fare Department, no matter how urgent it may he, (This ‘okay’ usually takes at least « month or more, und te often Genied,) 2) Only 4 few medicines can now be gotten on the Medical card, These are usually quite inferior medicines to what is usually used to treat an illness, For Instance, very few, if any, antibiotics (drugs such as penicillin, ampi- cillin, tetracycline) can be gotten on the Med-i-Cal card, These drugs are used generally to fight bacterial, fungus Infections, such as pneumonia, ear and throat fections that might be gotren from an open wound (such as cut or burn) vaginal infections in wo- men, and venereal diseases, These drugs are denied right off the bat. The only way they can be gotten is for your doctor to call a special agency, which will in turn call 4 soclal worker, who takes it upon himself to de- cide whether or not « person will die from the infection, or if he will okay the prescription. @f course, birth contro} pills remain on the Mor of available drugs); 3) No more eye glasses can be made without the eye doctor's first filling out request formes and sending them to the worker. The worker looks over the forms and decides, after a month or so, whether or not @ person canhave his vision corrected by glasses. Quite afew denials are received here also; 4) The only dental work that can be done in extractions Get- ting teeth pulled), Here too forme must be filled out and sent to the worker; 5) People supposedly receiving medica] “‘insurance’’ can sow only go to the doctor twice per month, ho matter how many times tiey get sick or how alck they are. Hospital admittance of Med- {-Cal patients without consent from the social worker In al- most impossible, You have to be nearly dead before you can be adinitted. Recently, for example, Los Angeles, little Osceola Carter, two yeurs old, nearly died before he was finally ad- mitted Into the hospital. Since his birth, he has hed continuous respiratory disorders. He han suffered from pneutnenia twice. The first time he was admitted only after he was allowed to be- come very ill, He has adenoid and sinus trouble. Only a month or so ago, he tad pneumonias again, and hed to dee 4 doctor twice 4 week, The fascists would not admit him inte the hospital, so after the second visit to the Goctor, his mother had to pay for the other visits, About two weeks after the peak of his Poeumonta, Osceola developed tonsilitis, The pig doctor, know~- ing fis history of respiratory problems, still wuuld not admit him into the hospital. ‘Two days after his mother found out that he hud tonsilitis, he had to be rushed to the hospital, He woke up in the morning with blood in his mouth. His tonsils had be- come so inflamed with infection that they had bursted, They finally admitred him, Hadhebeen admitted sconer, 4 lot of pain and misery could have been a- voided. Even though one might have a Med-i-Cal card, he Is usually treated coldly by medical person- nel. ‘The card holder is treared as one of those good-for-nothing people, who in lecching off of the working people, In addition, since Med-i-cal has come into existence, avaricious doctors have gotten rich from this easy source of money, We say, however, that we will fight to better conditions In this fascint Empire. And we will win, Ve will continue to run our free clinics and free medical pro- grams for the survival of our peo- ple. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE southern California Chapter HLACK PANTHER PARTY INTERCOMMUNAL NEWS SERVICE Enter my sutacription for icheck bos Domestic fersign Subecciptions Subscription: 3 MONTHS, (19 INSU S) $3.50 $7.00 @ MONTHS (20 ISSUES $3.00 $12.00 ONE YEAR. (G52 ISSUPS) -“/, $73@ 525.00 (please pant) NAME eS ADDRESS fa city Li, STATEIZIP 0 enn, COUNTRY ~ — MINISTRY OF INFORMATION. SLACK PANINER PARTY. Bot 2967, Cuttom Nowe, San Franciice CASSIE PULASE MAIL CHECE O8 MONET ONDE TO THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1971 ELEVEN EXPERIENCED ORKERS “LAID OFF” NOTE: The following is a letter sent to the Twelfth Naval Dis- trict Civil Service Camnmission in San Francisco protesting the elimination of the Tool Room Attendants job at Hunters Point Naval Yard in San Francisco. We = fully support these Tool Room Arterxianta® demands for the continuation of their employ- ment, March 3, 1971 Hunters Point Naval Shipyard San Francisco, California Twelfth Naval District Federa) Civil Service Commission 450 Golden Gate Avenue San Francisco, California Gentlemen: We, the undersigned eleven too] room attendants at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard were on February $6, 197], given layoff notices from our jobs, These terminations are to become ef- fective on April 19, 1971. We feel that this action wan unfair and illegal, and that tt constitutes favoritiam towardthe already more privileged cate- gories of workers on the ship- yard. We have learned that, despite possible protestations of in- nocence, the decision of which and bow many people were to be sacrificed was made, not In Washington, but at some level on Hunters Point Naval Ship- yard, in 1966, tool room personnel were successful in having insti- tuted a procedure for attaining the Tool Room Attendant rating. By that time many of us hadsome twenty years’ experience in this work, in order to get these ratings we were required, after comple- tion of & written qualifying ¢x- atnination end the subsequent oral examination, to sign statements BLACK G.I.’ REVOLT AT FORT DAVIS PANAMA CANAL ZONE PAGE 4 to forego any advancement above the position of Tool Room Ar- tendant, These tests serm to have been uned, in conjunction with the petk-no-higher-position pro- mises, to ‘‘freeze’’ us into our low retention priority status, You should also be aware that these tests were barred to anyone who had fess than ninety (90) days already on the job. Our vacated positions are to be filled by Limited Machinists who will be, ineffect, bumping” from one shop to another. To ful- fi" bumping’ requirements they should be fully qualified; that is they should previously have per- formed the duties required of them in their new positions, or ut Jeast should be able to perform their new duties with no additional training, Thin is rather Iike an alr- craft PILOT “'burnping’’ an air- line STEWARDESS because he has higher retention rights (in other words, JOB DSCRIMINA- TION PRIVILEGES) Three employees who lied tool Room Mechanic (Limited) rates — positions higher than ours -- in our shop and with our skills were laid off because, apparent- ly, they had pe ‘bumping’ rights within our shop. However, we are told that machinists from AN- OTHER shop DO HAVE ‘bum- ping’ rights into our positions. We feel that our combined, LAY -OFF extensive experience in our {eld has provided the Navy with 4ser- vice which will be costly to re- place with new trainees. After belng respectfully re- celved and our cases attentively heard by the office staffs of Sen- ators Tumiey and Cranston and Congressman Burton, we were shocked at Mr, Keith Jones’ evident coldness toward us, Mr, Jones, acting as a representa- tive of the Twelfth Noval Dis- wiect Federal Civil Service Com- mission, Jefe us with the im- pression that he had been care- fully and negatively briefed on our case prior to our conference with him, in stim, we feel that our livell- hoods are jeopardized by care- fully planned manipulations of the powers in this facility, whose motives are legally and morally questionable, Please consider this jeter as an individual as well as 4 col- lective appeal from the decision to terminate us on April 19, 1971. Sincerely, Blanche M. Proctor Albert J. Law Ebella Mauton Lillian E, Geach Mamie A, Flowers Roy Spencer /liopaon MeDantel Hopson Edna j, Bartels Billy J. Rhinehart Harold E. Geikey A state of ‘‘red alert’’ has been de- clared in the PanamaCanal Zone due at Fort Davis, On March 21, to an armed revolt led by Black G,I,’s The brothers on this base are part of an organization known as ‘Black Power” 1971, Black G,I,’s command of their platoon at Fort Davis, declaring that they wanted to begin to determine their own destinies, took Black people from the surrounding communi- ing, ty of Rio Abajo, where the brothers had been doing a lotof community organiz- came to the aid of these G,I,’s in their struggle, Subsequently, the broth- ers took command of the entire Fort and stayed off at least twelve to fif- teen units that had been sent into quell the ‘‘disturbance”’ The authorities the Fort to the Black G,I.’s, instructions to the other military bases in the area to be on’ in combat positions ready to move at at Fort Davisclosed leaving ‘red alert’’ and any given moment, POWER TO THE PEOPLE! "A HAPPY EMPLO} IS A EMPLOYEE ” A few weeks ago, Mr. Greer di- rector of Newcomb Hall Food Services, Univeraity of Virginia, called a meeting of all Kitchen employees. The purpose of this meeting was to ],) announce 4 now slogan to replace ‘10 minutes to shine" and 2) pose & question to the workers. The new slogan, ‘A happy im- ployee ts & good employee” te exactly like the last one, "10 minutes to ghine'? —- absurd, As one Newcomb Hall worker told us, “*That is ridiculous, How could anybody be « ‘Happy Em- ployee’ under the working condi- tions in the Food Services?” Of course that does not mean it is any more nonsensical or kinder garten-like than the gold star one receives for perfect attendance at work during the week, Nor is it any more stupid than a number of other things that are done by Mr. Greer and other Univeristy administration officials, Why ure these officials (like Greer) playing what appear tobe games for imbeciles? The ans- wer js thatthey are trying to keep University employees in 4 powerlesa position while in- creasing thelr own authority, By using slogans Uke Greer's (or even more open ones Iike “Amazing” Grace Ordell’s, "If you can't follow the rules and regulations, then take the door,"*), the management creates an at- mosphere of fear, The ob- vious intent of the slogan is to say to the worker — ft am all powerful and am allowed to do al- most no work while you must do pearly all the work and do asl say or get out, It would be fortunate for the workers Uf the management con- fined inelf w slogans only but they don't, At the same mect- ing that Greer Introduced his new Slogan, °"A good employec.."’ he ilio asked the plercing question, "What do you think of me?" Quite obviously none Intheir right mind would tell their boss what they thought of him, especially right after you've been warned that 4 ‘good employee”’ hes nothing to be unhappy about. Thus te ques- tlan can only be seen an another Power tactic, Since no one ans- wered him, be can say: 1) to himself that oo one has the nerve to. question him, and 2)to others that everyane kes him, Thin ar- ticle testifies to the falachood of how of those premises, The fol- lowing are only « fewof the gric- vances of the Newcomb Hall workers: 1. Ractom, Since Blumerich came in as head of the Bakery, sever- 4i popular Black workers have been fired for nm reaten, apparent good At leant three fleck man with tnote than ten years ofeRA vice each, were Lred Lor nothing mare than the color oftheigabind One of them workdé there (ar nixfech years, cudting out 200 dozen donuts per day, Bhimesion fired him and the replace! him with a machine tut cateodtenly i) doxe NiS Der Cavey engtt! of service or familar ay wit the job Geer to make nc Uifference in qualifying Blacks far promotion in either the bak er r titepen, AllQuoks, ame sy exheusting job, are 6I with rare exception, all their su- pervisors are White, Another example of the r practices of Food Services may be seen in the difference In pay between Whites and Blacks do- ing equal amounts of the same” work. This pay difference exists _ even when Black workers have worked for « longer Ume than the Whites. Still more evidence of racism is found in the raining programs, In one particular program Jase” fall, there were 14 people In the. class. Of the nine who finished, — only two were White and they” finiuhed in the middle of their cluss, Oddly enough, however, only these two White women re- ceived the promotions that the course was intended to give, 2, Wages. Blumerich, headofthe — Bakery, has made up his own rules to oppress the workers. Among them is one that says if you miss one day unexcused, then you MUST miss the nextday that you come tn, In other words you may lose a day's pay fora day that you are either too sickor too poor ta see a doctor and get a written excuse for your orl-— ginal absence. 3, General Grievances, Onthe 4th floor treatment of workers Isto- tally without humun respect. For example, they have to ask their supervisor, the assistant to the Business Manager of Food Ser- vices, for permission to go tothe bathroom, Fourth floor people are re- quired to take their breaks''ip the office, Inthe kitchen, they are required to sit down andeatthere during ‘‘meal time."’ These workers want to know wiiy, if *'Rreaka'’ und ''mealtimes” are “free times” , they can't use them an they sec fit. Not infrequently the pay roll clerk has failed to turn in wack er's time sheets, This meansthat — when it's time to be paid, work- ers checks are not there, Pay hus been delayed as long aa uiree weeks, which is an Incredible | hardship when your lowsalaryis all you have to live on, In another recent mecting, Greer dictated that radios no lon~ ger will be allowed inthe kitches and that all kitchen workers be required to "stay neat andc and to use more deodorant. As part of his cleanliness campalgh, ’ Greer ordered that cooks wet clean, white shoes at work. means that workers «ill have te buy « pair of shoes with Limited outside work ase, Moreover; keeping « pair af white #00 clean (or a white uniform clean) when you spend the entire day working with grease, ort OE tomatoes is hardly These are onlyatewg ; @5 M€ntioned by Newcomb i amployres. Clearly pone oft wete spoken of when Greer 4® to Leto! how much he wert Dat the fear which people MBG” Greet sod Blumerich coant 08 Ker) workers silent aad is diminishing, Reprawed from The Werk ly THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1971 PAGE S OPEN LETTER TO MUHAMMAD ALI 1048 Peralta Street Oakland, California 94607 March 23, 1971 crown and tried to destroy you, but sull you did not compromise, They immobilized you (as a boxer) for three years, but they did not immobilize your mind nor your spirit, We can only salute this kind of courage, When you fought Joe Frazier you were fighting the whole reactionary system, The , system had immobilized you, per- | secuted you, hounded you and yet you came back strong, Yes, you out-boxed Frazier, you won the fight, you only lost the ‘‘decision’’, But whether or not you win in the ring is not our major concern --- our concern is that you win in the universe, Dear Muhammad, We want you to know that you're still our champ, not because you are the master boxer (and you are, of course), but because you are the heavy weight champ who has refused to com- promise Black manhood, We respect the dignity and integrity with which you have worn the heavy weight crown, Even though your recent fight with Joe Frazier will stand in the archives of history as the greatest fight inhistory, it is really only an incident when we consider the fight you have waged against U.S, imperialism, You dared say ‘‘no’’ to fascism, they took your ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Huey P, Newton y Minister of Defense WISCONSIN AS FOR POOR Wisconsin Assemblyman Licyd A. Barbee has recent- ly introduced a variety of bills into the Wisconsin State Logisiature to protect the rights of poor, black and other people suffering under the oppresion of the ractat, fascist. US, power structure. I have now introduced a bill that would prohibit clubs like the Eagles and the ‘White’ Elka from receiving specia) tax exemptions when they discriminate on the basis of race or religion. **This proposal will not only remove the special tax privilege given to all bigoted clubs tn this Srate, but it will also not allow {ndividuals who contribute to these so-called ‘Fraternal Organizations’ to claim their con- tribution as a tax deduction, “The problems that we have in Milwaukee, relating .to Judges and other public officials who are members of clearly bigoted groups, such as the Eagles, ln order to get votes from thelr bigoted members, ls something | hope to correct through provisions ina Codeof Ethics for public officials, **Arbitrary educational requirements that have been established for professions such as barbers, bewuti- clans, plumbers and other similar trades are really tot necessary. The high school education required for these professions has little relationship tothe skilis required, because persons seeking to become licensed in any of these trades must pass examination given by a U- censing board made up of practitioners in that field. i a person can pass that examination he should be al- lowed to enter into that profession, “for this reason | introduceds billwhich wolld pro- hibir any Hcensing agency from considering the degree of EMBLYMAN INTRODUCING BILLS AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE a license upon successful completion of the required examination, "There ts no point tn forcing people to stay in hot houses such as schools and apprenticeships once they have the batic skills, “Education is becoming less and less relevant to a number of people, A qumber of rrade professions are utilizing means that will never allow people to maxi- mize thelr potential. “For example, many people drop out of school be- cause it is boring to them, or for other reasons: but these people are quite capable of entering even the highest of professions, **l am most concerned that arbltrary educational re- quirements keep many poor people out of the profes- sional fields, “Some of the reasons for setting certain educational standards for profess ike plumnbing or electrical work are supposed to be related to the health, safety and welfare of the State; but in reality organized labor or the profeasions set up standards to comral the la- bor market, und thus keep the number of blacks and Spanish-speaking people in these professions dispro- partionately low through an apprenticeship program, school or through tests that are umecessarily difficult **For this reason | am Jooking Into all inapections of both homes and commercial buildings where It is re- quired that this work be done by someone who is li- censed or bonded, when sx Ucensing or bonding Is deniined to keep nonwhites out of this area, “*| testified this (week of March 2 fore the Assembly Committee In ch a “+ week Judiciary behalf 1971) be- qualify for welfare benefits and then permit unscrupu- lous merchants to garnishee these erstwhile assets, "All poor people should knowthat while their govern- ment gives them meager funds to live on, this same governmen stands by while private merchants and loan sharks take these funds from them,” Also State Assemblyman Harbee has introduced a bill to repeal the Madison, Wisconsin Statutes concerning voluntary sexual activities between single and / or married persons, some of which voluntary act# are punishable ‘‘crimes*’, **My DILL would take government out of the becroom,"" Barbee said, “it would keep sexual matters where they should be -- in the private realm of personal choice between Individuals." Specifically, the Barbee bill would remove criminal penalties for adultery, fornication, cohabitation, inde- cent exposure and the possession of ‘indecent matter”’, it would permit individual prostitotes to operate on the basis that they and thelr clients are consenting adults, bur if would bar houses of prostirution on the grounds that they are controlled by organized crime, Barbee said that one of the effects of erasing the no- called sexual morality crimes would be to rechice police entrapment of prostitutes, male homosewials, etc., and cut down on the harassment and blackmail of homosex- uals, Prostitutes and homosexuals are humans, They should be respected and accorded fair treatment.Mak- ing thein criminals is neither falr nor just, The Milwaukee legislator’s measure would also repeal the current statute barring abortions, *'Abor- tiont are a private matter between 4 woman and her business making them f physictan and the State has no education in trades and semi-skilled professions my bill prohibiting anyone from garisheeing a welfare *“'t am going further by planning to Introduce « bill reciplent acrime,”” Barbee said chat would allow Individuals who independently master “*ht is bad public policy for state and federal govern- ; professions such as law or architecture, to be granted ments (0 give grants to people who are in need ani \LL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FASCISTS RUN AMUCK IN THE COMMUNITY OF LAS VEGAS ire trying to provoke once the the pig mem to Macness, On Sunday night, March 25, 1971 were four of Mrs. Owens’ child- children that if they opened thelr and home by thelr fascist pig amd BAS EF en home, Mra, Owens herself moutha wed, that the brother oA =. Saag hese re not at home, The pigs ane wihuki be shot down The fascist pigs of Lae Vey peopie Desa, triad, there is no ue 1 Aot0: Pad, sn ple of to the front door and were ket ls Ma we t cow have stood up blatantly before the Stee gu! VS Raat Car can halt wre PD sacint th efarmily y the Owens children, After they 4 gun, but the piga di t take it community showed onge Gr pepe 8S they pia Sia , Mrs 1 ante Owens of 121 were ineide , they kicked the hact ae: ine it. They then i again that the oppressed people Woualy fo tue quest foc freedom rs ee om Ave, These pig door down, miade al) the children wd sald they were looking for have rights which the fasctl® cod Hoeratia age y Rie shed or, tare out the 4 utiide, And ran througout the : Sapte Ppaseds ; ite ’ . des 2 sddrese-aish'e hee es ere? streroo, threw clothes housthok? throwlimg everythin Hee trough the back ' S li er tor the peopie t ° ve rom f - ‘fa the pretext round, Once the childres were ext Cay, Uwee | vrai vice in the ctle f ALL POWRRK2 THE PROPLE! from dresuer ce a) miumide, the pigs Uned them ua lucke ctowy-* } givet lice, we eed Cot rs of looking for 4 gut Je ee wd placed I2-4 ‘heel alb emit Ar wens forthe! an ace trol ul the police, ‘The people iny ter Tene capt (et Coy a ; —— ial heads, The plies told the tl perpen’ aed upon her family are also aware of the fact that Las Vegas, Nevada everyone & » CK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL J7, 1971 PAGE 6 CHARLES BURSEY IS SILENCED AT SUSANVILLE, CALIFORNIA CAMP CONCENTRATION Charles Bursey is a member of the Black Panther Party, a political prisoner within the California penal system, He was convicted in one of the series of trials stemming from the April 6th, 1968 assassination of Li’) Bobby Hutton by the Oakland Pig De- partment, and sentenced to a term of two to fifteen years, He was sent to San Quentin Prison where he began serving his term, In an effort to isolate him from the Party and the large prison population at Quentin, he was transferred to a prison camp in Susanville, California in May of 1970, Susanville is a Conservation Camp, which supposedly houses prisoners for the purpose of doing forestry work, The ‘‘camp”’ is located in a remote section of Northern Cali- fornia, accessible only through narrow mountain roads, Recently, Charles was asked to speak to La Raza Unida, a Chicano organi- zation at the camp, Charles is a member of the Afro-American Cultural Group there and was asked to speak to La Raza Unida as the Afro-Ameri- can Cultural Group’s representative, He did speak there on April 4th, 1971; and four days later, he was drugged (when he went to the clinic for his regular prescription for his sinuses, another medication was substituted), He was then told to go to ‘‘classi- fication”, a routine evaluation of work, When he arrived at the designated area for classification, he discovered that he was at a disciplinary board hearing, charged with “‘racial agitation’’, He was then put on a bus (prisoners’ bus) to San Quentin that same afternoon (Thursday, April Sth, On that same night, the prison pigs at Susanville in- stigated a terrible disturbance,) He be- came ill on the bus (from the medi- cation he was given), and began to vomit, When he arrived atSan Quentin, he was immediately thrown inthe hole, into a strip cell, with no bedding, toilet, etc. He became dizzy and passed our, He was then taken to the hospital, after the pigs had let him lie there (in his cell), unconscious for over a half an hour, (No one, including his wife, had even been informed of this secret transfer,) The following is the report filed by racist pig Vernon Smith, of Susanville Concentration Camp, which sparked the (California disciplinary hearing and the subsequent kidnapping and secret removal of Charles Bursey from the ‘‘camp’’. (Note that this pig audaciously signed his name as the Coordinator of the Mexican-American Group, which position was never given him, of course,): JR, Kitchell, P,A.C.S, Group Coordinator Date; April 4, 1971 Subject: Mexican-American Group From: California Conservation Center, Susanville @140 On this date | attended the Mexican-American Group meeting. No sponsor was in attendance, The Group seemed to be orderly, although many things were in Spanish which J could not understand, One part | do wish to bring to your attention, There Wat 4 guest speaker ~ inmate Charles Bursey 6-224 bed 602 4 Black inmate. The gist of Gursey'’s speech was to get the Mexican- Americans to unite with tlie Blacks and overthrow the institution and the Departinent of Corrections, Hedidnot speak of the outside, He was very specific In advocating vivlence and killing personnel. He specifically mentioned Mr. Mattocks and Mr, Prickey. The only people mentioned other than Institution personnel were Mr, Procunier, } ad President Nixon, He claimed to ©) that he personally would start example for the other inmates individuals speak about Governor Leagas have a ist of perio with t use us an | certainly belHeve in fetting change in their culture and alse their ideas tn carrying out tie change, but my question ts: Can we tolerate or can we afford to jet an lndtivictial attempt to organiz ther irunatesn with 4 specific purpose in min persoteel that he hae specilically named? Thls is for your informution und dispesition Vernon D, Smith, CPS Lil Coordinator, Mexican-Amertcaun Group ce: Townsend Mattocks File INMATES OF SUSANVILLE EXPOSE TRUTH We have all seen what happens when a member of the staff here at CCC Conservation Center, Su- sanville) fails to understand our idiom and cultural tendencies, Charles Bursey, a Black Brother, was transferred to San Quentin after a speech he gave at a'‘La Raza Unida’’ meeting last Sunday night, (April 4th, 1971) In his speech, Brother Bursey, m it clear to all of usthat Mr. Fri Mattocks, Reagan, etc,, had to be: with. CPS 111 V, Smith, being incapabl of comprehending what Brother Bur was talking about, assumed 1 Brother Bursey was talking of ki these people. Still not satisfied with kidnapping an do sending Bursey to San Quentin, the staff reverted, on the night of April 8th, to tactics known to all of us, Staff personnel instigated a disturbance on the Cascade section, After a few windows were broken, staff started picking inmates at random and took them to the hole, Most were released but 1 Chicano and 2 Black Brothers face disciplinary action, We are ex- pecting further repercussions from the — staff, The staff was, and is, obviously — trying to instigate racial tension between the inmates, : The root of the problem lies with the Administration, They have tried to force people like CPS 111 V, Smith upon our Groups, The Administration failed to consult with the different Groups about actions they had taken behind our backs, If the Administration had consulted us before they made their unwise de- cision, we would have told them that these persons are not qualified to ad- minister any kind of assistance tO US, — They cannot assist us individually, and this has been proven, much less col- lectively as a Group. These people don’t understand our background, mis- construe our way of talking and ridicule our cultures, Mow can these people, lacking all this vital knowledge, help us? If anything, they will hinder the progress of the Group, That is what the Administration is trying to dol If the Administration denies this, let them remove the obstacles that they have placed before us and prove to us thar we are wrong!!! We cannot etd Qwill not, sit idle while the ¢Admijisttation constantly makes dUg@isiong bal perpetuate in- justices :@ the péeephs, We call for the’ stppert and power of the peoples VENCEREMOSI POWER TO THE PEOPLE! La Raza Unida Afro-American Group This is a personal call to you to forget, or put aside, your personal egos and join all of us in a STRIKE}! This strike is to be effective Monday, April 12th, '7l, starting at work-call (7:45A.M.). This Strike is to protest and demand immediate changes in the following: 1, Bring down the canteen prices to one compatible to our means, And call for an investigation of the can- teen, 2. Better food at the mess-hall, Better prepared, and seconds avail- able to everybody, 3. Racial discrimination and har- assment by staff to stop immediately, THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1971 PAGE 7 CONVICTS OF SUSANVILLE, UNITE! STATEMENT TO ALL SUSANVILLE INMATES 4. Higher pay and more pay numbers, Pay to be compatible with the cost of living, 5. immediate release of inmates being held unjustly in the hole, after the in- cident that took place the night of April 8th, ’71. 6, We want to determine what is going to be spent from the Inmate Welfare Fund, And call for an investigation of the Inmate Welfare Fund, 7. We want the Administration to re- move the coordinators which were forced upon La Raza Unida and the Afro-American Culture Group, 8. Stop the Disciplinary Courts from punishing inmates by taking money from them in the form of ‘‘fines’’. And call for an investigation as to the whereabouts of that money. 9, We demand that a convict union be established to secure the full pay- ment of the money paid to the Depart- ment of Corrections by Forestry for convict labor, 10, We demand that Article 5 of the Directors Rules for correctional in- stitutions regarding the Education and Training Policy for California Prisons be adhered to, which states, in part, ‘A Major percentage of the inmates in correctional institutions need voca- tional or general educational care fully adapted to the need of each individual to aid him in developing an efficient and well ordered life, It is the Policy of the Department to provide each in- mate with as much practical education as his capacities will permir,”’ Ll, We demand a stop to the forcing of convicts out to camps, who are il- literates and semi-illiterates, to work for slave wages, 12, We demand that those who don’t have a trade be granted an opportunity to learn one, THIS AFFECTS ALL OF US, STOP BEING A SATISFIEDSLAVE AND JOIN US INASTRIKE!!! THERE WILL BE NO BYSTANDERS! EITHER YOU ARE WITH US OR AGAINST US! CONVICTS OF SUSANVILLE, UNITE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE! NOTE: On April 12th, inmates of Su- sanville did, in fact, bring into effect a general work strike in protest of the above demands, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE RACISM IMPRISONS BLACKS IN E. ST. LOUIS We, an black “Brothers and Sisters’*, of the city, of East St. Louls, MiMnols and the County of St. Clair feel as though it is our duty to write you and express our feeling on the Injustice, har- asament and sarcattic actions brought upon us by the inade- quite, selfish and ambitious in- dividuals in our jurtedictional comtmirted, We are being picked up on one charge and indicted on several others; we are being put Inte courts that are prejutiice agains ridiculoun bonds gifty thousand dollars) are being set, knowing 70 percent of the blacks come from low income families; blacks; young blacks who are eligible for district whose only purpole probation are going to the peni- seems to be to send as many tentlary; whites are being giver blacks to prison 4s possible, probation or county Jail time. Fer Our police force charges tro- instance, severa] brothers wit- thers and misuses every consti- nessed a white ex-con go before tutional right available to them ludve Hareld D. Farmer «! (the brothers) in order to clean requested to place him on pro- up the books, Instead of seeking bation. Gut dis wann't good justice and righteousness, We enough for the ex-con sa, he re- are forced to go on line ups with- out proper counseling and some are even being bribed Into ad- mitting crimes they haven'teven fused to accept probation, Ne was then asked the number of days he had served in the county jal! which was seventy seven days and REPRESSION 5 7 : > . 4 studen led t in Monday, March 1S, 1971, school, White students led by white students led by members nember# of f.A.'T,S. took stra- ‘ of an organization called tegie pogltlon: at fire exits, R.A.T.S, (acter ga armed with sticky, knives, t in wncert with the amdDos ws ; roc ape : tee fk school administration cookec \ och deneree.1 " a plot to inflier more : ing fr And brutality upon the blast ferntz ¢ Frenport fit j hint it i ? lot cnt a rT ' follows ywer tow ‘ was hick FREEPORT, releused with time served, We'd like your support wat “OPEN PRESS" ln rewponse fo the Injustices, of the Se. LETTER TO ‘THE we, the black inmates Clair county Jal] are receiving, we are protesting the following: l, Bonds: Bonds should be set within a maii’s reach, Bonds are being set { our families’ inceme therefore, a tun in held nonths, Then beyond the react here five of six he is sent up or releaned and his family has suffered those monthe without his support or help, 2. Inadequucy of the court ap- pointed lawyers: A man (defendant) is appointed BREEDS LONG intide the school only to find that the gates Jeading from the lovby to the hallways had been pulled jown, “Thi enti t if t ifes, King | bie for tie ‘ t flict ture a lawyer by the court at the time of hin arralgnment, However, he usually does not meet with that attorney until the trial is about to come up which does not allow enough time for # thorough In- vestigation. Therefore, due to those circumstances, we are not being properly represented and Go not recelve fair and inipartial trials. 3, Heceiving trumped—up charges: \ tan can bé arrested on one charge but the police procedures are tt unsolved cases on that man, a8 possible (in other words trying to clean up the books). Someone can come to ball you on your original charge only to find you've been Riven two or Giree more charges without gone before a put a8 many having magistrate or judge and without recelying any charge slips or even being notified of those charges. 4. Biased court: We are being wled by a 9 percent white Judicial system in the city of Bellyille which is 09 percent white. And we are not being tried by members of our owl peer group and the conati- Culilon «States, plainly, a man should be tried by members of peer group, We don’t going to court because justice is néceseury, All wo want is te receive fair and impartial trials, Representative: Richinomd Hussell Richard Witherspoon Lamont Ivory Henry W. Thomas hls own mind RESISTANCE ISLAND f the Preeport pig ied by pig chief, Blar. Blar’s fascist bench ( inigger lackles Roosevelt Mimirick und Julla (tered, with Richard Gordeqeaage cathy ¢ Glack * 'S tia ‘nat viens other re- pre outside the ‘wUciagS Many Blick parents who Wat S66 alerted about what war Rappe ag to their chijdrencame wt joined forces $0 ets Mid Bae «rcerpterdire pro- SHEE thes TA were mee with the game 1th: pression, The OOte Perper aie y Cees cucists antl pigs bh ve ft the alewad t si Pe i ' vt ; hl 1 SOLEDAD TEAR-GASSED PRESS RELEASE April 12, 1971 The week of April Sth clearly points out the rising lev~ 1 of repression unleashed upon the poor and oppressed when they are forced to appeal for Justice within the courts and prisons of this country. We as poor people and as people of color are victims of 4 national conspl- racy, 4 national conspiracy initiated and implemented by thore who profit from our oppression and their agents on the government levels, On April Sth the three remaining members of the Sole- dad 7 UYeasie Phillips, James Wagner, and Roosevelt Willams) on trial for their lives, forthe alleged murder of 4 prison guard, were tear-gassed unconscious and brutally attacked in thelr cells. These brothers, who go to trial on May 3 in Salinas, are on trial for the same reasons as the Soledad G) Brothers, thelr political acti- vity within the penal system. They were tear-gassed be- cause they refused tosubmitto another blood test with- out the permission of their lawyers, They clearly stated that they would take the rests if thelr lawyers gave their approval, The prison guards immediately proceeded to empty two tear gas canisters into their sector, dis- regarding the objections of 4 Third World prison guard who thought the treatment excessive. They then wentin and forcibly took the blood samples. The people and only the people can insure that such attacks do not occur. We must build mass support for the Soledad 7 ( now 3) at PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1971 PAGE 8 SEVEN | On April 6, one day after the attack on the Soledad 7, the Soledad frothers appeared at the so-called Hall of Justice. Mk was their first court appearance since September, They were in court coget a determination on their trial date and the presiding judge. The defense put forth two motions: one requesting the transfer of the Soledad Brothers from San Quentin to San Francisco County Jail in order to facilizare visitation by the fami- lies and the bullding of 4 proper, effective defense.The other motion was merely a request for the brothers to be retained for two hours after the hearing to confer with thelr lawyers, Both motions were abruptly denied, the tial date set and the judge assigned in less then five minutes. It was a blatant deniulofrights of the brothers and any consideration of justice. As Jotin, George, and Fleeta were leaving the court- room, 4 guard grabbed George's folder which included his legal papers and a Slack Panther Paper. George refused to give him his legal papers, but left the Panther paper, The guards, wisting to further provoke the brothers, continued to push and poke George with their clubs. George defended himself and was then attackedby 6 to & guards in the courtroom. John and Pleeta, who were almost out of the courtroom, artemptedto come to the aid of George, They were also attacked. The people were enraged and atrempted to come to the defense of the brothers. Two units of the Tactical Squad were called. They cleared the courtroom and the building af- ter attacking many of the spectators, Frances J uckson, Sister of George and Jonathan Jackson, who in seven + a AS ee Sees - —_ months pregnant was jabbed inthe stomach with guard's baton, "| This was one of the most brutal manifestations of = Police state experienced In the courts, Atthistime, the Bay Area ts the prime focus of political repression in the nation, with the trials of Angela Davis, Ruchell Mogec, Los Siete de la Raza, the Soledad 7, members. of the Black Panther Party, and the Soledad Brothers, a The people can no longer afford to ignore the rise to- wards fascism in this country. We must bulld a united front to free all political prisoners and in doing so we must make the link between the selective repressionof political prisoners and the general repression of the masses of the people, We are calling for a Day of Soll- darity to Free All Political Prisoners, A day of soli- darity which, we hope, will signal the beginning of the building of a truly mass movernent to defeat the esca- lating forces of reaction. Join with us May lat at Dolores Park, San Francisco H:00 A.M, If we do not movetogether we will not move at all. Political Prisoners Solidarity Commitee “The world is a pluce for human beings, We must go forth united understanding that our struggle is not separated from the rest of the world,” thelr trial in Salinas, May 3, Hobby Seale " ARIZONA SENDS YOUNG BLACKS TO DEATH ROW ON TESTIMONY OF HALF-BLIND WITNESS Tuscon, Arizona (LNS)- Robert Lee Skinner is a 20 year old Black man who has lived In 'Tuc- son, Arizona all his life, He has been active in organizing and educating his people to their op- pression although he is not « member of any established group, In the course of time, local police have told Bobby and others close to him, ‘We're going to get you." What follown is the story of how they did. On October 3, 1969, Mason Branch, 4 liquor store clerk (and reputedly one of Tucson's big heroin pushers) died tn a hold-up at Crown Liquors on Grant Road in Tucson. After an ‘investigation’ (during which 4 prime suspect in the case was murdered), four men were ar- rested and charged with murder, armed robbery, aod conspiracy. The four were David Williams, Donnell Thomas, Paul Wright, and Bobby Skinner, A Preliminary Hearing was held, and ended with Skinner and Wright reloased for lack of evi- dence. The other two were held on mere threads, About one month later, the police re-ar- rested Bobby and Paul and ano- ther hearing war scheduled for the sole purpose of hearing testi- mony from # prosecution witness named George McDonald, Prosecutor Horton Welse In- troduced a statement that Mc- Donald supposedly made to the police. But when George took the witness stand, be called the Statement 4 complete fabrica- tion which had been spoon-fedto him by detectives in the Sheriff's office at the Piru County Jall- house. He faced eight robbery charges at the time, MecDonaki told the court that detectives offered to drop seven of the eight charges and give his aunt 4 thousand dollars if he'd sign thelr prepured statement. His aunt bad been present at the Sheriff's office and was willing to back up McDonald's story but the court wanted po more of it, The prosecutor then brought its stur witness to the stand: Lucius Sorrell, Sorrell ts blind in one eye and admits to being under the Influence of heroin and LSD on the night tn question, State peychiatrists conveniently declared Sorrel! incompetent to testify so the prosecutor Inro- duced 2 statement Sorrell supposedly made to him while Sorrell was interned at the Ari- zona State Menta) Hospital, Ac- cording to the statement (written $n advance by Walse and signed by Sorrell In the hoapital) Sar- rel] saw and recogalzed all four then hough he never knew Skin- ner und Wright) running across an unlit park, on 4 mooniess night about 100 yarde away, with only one good eye, while under the in- fluence of two powerful drugs, The defense could not cross- examine Sorrell because of hin **incompetence,”” And fo, on the basis of two highly questionable Statements, Skinner and Wright were bound over for trial, The first to go to trial was Donnell Thomas. His first trial ended in a hung jury, but the second time uround the prose- cutor took no chances, Donnell ia another politically aware Black man that the police said they would **get,”* The day before his case went to the jury, Tucson was treated to sensational headlines -- MURDER SUSPECT CHARGED WITH SODOMY IN PIMA COUN- TY JAIL. The stories did not mertion that the "'scdomy'’ was supposed to have taken place Inaide a locked: one man cell in the maximum-securiry tank with the guard-witness situated atthe other end of & hundred foot cat- walk. The charge was laughed out of court but the damage was done, Donnell was found guilry of mur- der as charged and sentenced to death in the gas chamber, The unbeHevable verdict hada great effect on Donnell’s cousin and co-defendint, David Will- jams, Through his lawyer, David made a deal with the court. He would plead guilty and make a confession if in return he would mot get the Geath penalty, The dea] was made, and in his con. fession David stated that ai though the other three men had been with bith earlier the day of the murder, they did not £0 along with him and they hed no know- ledge of his action, In spite of the agreement, David Willlams is sow on Death Row with Donnell Thotias in the Arizona Strate Prison, Both were semenced by the same judge, Paul Wright's trial came next, Paul took the stand and adimitted being with Williams during the day but said be and the others left David before the hold-up oc- curred, Paul has never been con- sidered an activist andthe police had no special reason for wanting him, For being ‘'cooperative,"’ he received five years probation for manslaughter. Hobby came to trial last, He and Paul Wright had been out on $15,000 bond apiece, This is a high bond by Arizona standards one week earlier a stockbroker who shot and killed a longhair who had trampled on his lawn was released on a $5,000 bond, The judge sald that she wan sec- ting the high bond for Bobby be- cause she was “afraid that Robert Skinner might become a- nother Jonathan Jackson,’ While Bobby was in jail, the prosecutor offered tiim a*‘deal"’ too: they would drop all three charges against him Uf he would sign 4 Statement acmitting thas he was & member of the Black Panther Party (there’s no BHAGk Panther Party or affilateda c= son). The police otilp Publick: insist that Hobby and Gonnelliare Black Panthers --theyinuathowe been indoctrinated froth the cube side, right? But, cornider hig sive weakness of the prosceution’s case, am! rememberin® ithe “deal’’ that David Williams got, Bobby went to trial, Prosecutor Horton Weise anked for 4 mistrial 12 times, hits case was $0 weak, Prosecu +" =e + i) tion witness George McDonald denied, a9 he had at the pre- — liminary hearing, that hin state= — ment was his own doing: ‘Mr, Welse, | told you when you came up to see me last week at Flor- ence ( the state prison) that that statement was a complete lie. Why are you hasuling mev* — Lucius Sorrell, the one-cyed — witness, next took the stand and said he didn’t know what anyone was talking about, The prosecu= tlon whisked him away and brought him back a week later and he seemed to remember everything that Weise wanted him to. ‘ Unfortunately for Welse’s case Sorrell did not know when to. stop talking, Under cross €x-"— amination, he admitted that pro= Secutor Weise had told him to — say “certain things * and he” would be « free man the day alter Skinner‘s conviction, Eves the testimony of a detective was discarded by the judge amid ob= vious Mes. It looked like the case sgeainst Bobby Skinner had fallen Mat on tts face und we WEntico bear the verdict with ny Apprenension then usual, ut 7 ferics in Arizona, Like ‘“ vies ‘everywhere, are very Garefully picked — the verdict: Rui al tir et-degree murder =~ the Bewence: Ife imprisonment, Hobby Skinner ia 4 20 year okt Black man with « wife and two: sons, one just three weeks old Black Panther tntercommunal News Service, April 17, 1971 A. B. Black Panther Intercommunal News Service, April 17, 1971 Menister of Defense of The Black Panther Party and Servant of The People The Black Panther Party bases its ideology and philosophy on a concrete analysis of concrete conditions, using dialectical materialism as our analytical method, As dialectical ma- terialists we recognize that contra- dictions can lead to development, The internal struggle of opposites based upon their unity causes matter to have motion as a part of the process of de- velopment. We recognize that nothing in nalure stands outside of dialectics, even the Black Panther Party, But we welcome these contradictions, because they clarify and advance our struggle, We had a contradiction with our former Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver. But we understand this as necessary to our growth, Out of this contradiction has come new growth and a new return to the original vision of the Party. Early in the development of the Black Panther Party I wrote an essay tilled “‘The Correct Handling of a Revolu- tion’’. This was in response to another contvadiclion - the criticisms raised against the Party by the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM), At that time RAM criticized us for our above- ground action -- openly displaying weapons and talking abow the necessity for the communily to arm itself for its own self-defense, RAM said that they were underground, and saw this as the correct way lo handle a revolution. I responded to them by pointing out that you must establish your organization above ground so that the people will relate to it in a way that will be positive and progressive to them, When yougo underground with- oul doing this, you bury yourself so deeply thal the people can neither re- late to nor contact you, Then the terrorism of the underground organt- zation will be just that--striking fear into the hearts of the very people whose interest the organization claims to be defending--because the people cannot relate to them and there is no- body there to interpret theiy actions. You have lo set up a program of practical action and be a model for the community to follow and apprec iale, By Huey P. Newton, Hug PP Newte, The oviginal vision of the Party was to develop a lifeline to the people, by serving their needs and defending them against their oppressors who come to the community in many forms--from armed police to capitalist exploiters, We knew thal this strategy would raise the consciousness of the people and also give us their support, Then, if we were driven underground by the oppressors, the people would support us and defend us, They would know thal, in spite of the oppressor’s inter- pretations, that our only desire was to serve their true interests; and they would defend us, In this manner we might be forced wuiderground, but there would be a lifeline to the community which would always sustainus, because the people would identify with us and nol with our common enemy, For a lime the Black Panther Party lost its vision and defected from the community, With the defection of El- dridge Cleaver, however, we can move again to a full scale development of our original vision and come oul oa/ the twilight zone which the Party has been in during the recent past, The only reason that the Party is still in existence at this time, and the only veason thal we have been able to survive the repression of the Parly Black Panther Intercommunal News Service, April 17, 1971 Cc ON THE DEFECTION OF ELDRIDGE CLEAVER ° : FROM THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND THE DEFECTION OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FROM THE BLACK COMMUNITY and murders of some of our most ad- vanced comrades is because of the Ten- Point Program -- our survival pro- gram. Our programs would be mean- ingless and insignificant if they were not community programs. This is wity it is my opinion that as long as the Black community and oppressed people are found in North America the Black Panther Party will last, The Party will survive as a structured vehicle, because it serves the true interests of oppressed people and administers to theiy needs -- this was the original vision of the Party, The original vision was not structured by rhetoric nor by ideology. It was structured by the practical needs of the people, and its dreamers were armed with anideology which provided a systematic method of analysis of how best to meet those needs, When Bobby Seale and 1 came to- gether to launch the Black Panther Party, we had been through many groups. Most ofthem were so dedicated to rhetoric and artistic rituals that they had withdrawn from living in Ue Twentieth Century. Sometimes their analyses were beautiful, but they had no practical programs which would deliver their understandings to the people. When they did try to develop practical programs, they often failed, because they lacked a systematic ideology which would help them do concrete analyses of concrete con- ditions to gain a full understanding of the communily and its needs. Whenl was in Donald Warden’s Afro-Ameri- can Association, I watched him try to make a reality of community control through Black Capitalism, Bult Warden did not have a systematic ideology, and his attempts to initiate his program continually frustrated him and the com- munily too. They did not know why capitalism would not work for them, even thouzh it hadeworked for other ethnic groups, . When we Jovmed (he Pavty, we did so because we wodted io” pul theory and practice togeth@rpama Systematic continued Gn NeXt page D. Black Panther Intercommunal News Service, April 17, 1971 ON THE.DEFECTION OF ELDRIDGE CLEAVER FROM THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND THE DEFECTION OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FROM THE BLACK COMMUNITY continued from last page manner, We did this through our basic Ten Point Program. In actuality it was a 20-Point Program, with the practice expressed in ‘‘What We Want’’ and the theory expressed in ‘‘Whal We Believe"’. This program was designed to serve as a basis for a structured political vehicle, The actions we engaged in al that time were strictly strategic actions, for political purposes. They were de- signed to mobilize the community, Any action which does not mobilize the community toward the goal is nol a revolutionary action, The action might be a marvelous statement of courage, bul if it does not mobilize the people toward the goal of a higher mani- festation of freedom, it is not making a political statement and could even be counter-revolutionary. We realized at a very early point in our development, that revolution is a process, It is not aparticular action, nor is it a conclusion. /t is a process. This is why when feudalism wiped out Slavery, feudalism was revolutionary. This is why when capitalism wiped ou feudalism, capitalism was revolu- tionary. The concrete analysis of con- crete conditions will reveal the true nature of the situation and increase our understanding, This process moves in a dialectical manner and we under- Stand the struggle of the opposites based upon their unity. Many times people say that our Ten-Point Program is reformist; bul they ignore the fact that revolution is a process, We left the program open- ended, so that it could develop and people could identify with it. We did not offer it to them as a conclusion; we offered it as a vehicle lo move them to a higher level. In their quest for freedom, and in their atlempts to prevent the oppressor from stripping them of all the things they need to exist, the people see things as moving from A to B to C; they do not see things as moving from A to Z, in other words they have to see first some basic accomplishments, in order to realize that major successes are possible, Much of the time the revolutionary will have to guide them into this under- Standing. Bul he can never take them from A lo Z in one jump, because it is too far ahead, Therefore, when the revolutionary begins to indulge in Z, or final conclusions, the people do not relate to him, Therefore he is no longer a revolutionary, if re- volution is a process, This makes any action or function witich does not promote the process - non-revolu- tionary, When the Party went to Sacramento, when the Party faced down the police- men in front of the office of Ramparts magazine, and when the Party patrolled the police with arms, we were acting (in 1966) at a lime when the people had given up the philosophy of non-violent direct action and were beginning to deal with sterner stuff. We wanted them to see the virtues of disciplined and or- ganized armed self-defense, rather than spontaneous and disorganized out- breaks and riots, There were Police Alert Patrols all over the country, but we were the first armed police patrol. We called ourselves the Black Panther Party for Self Defense. In all of this we had political and revolution- ary objectives in mind, but we knew that we could not succeed without the support of the people, Our strategy was based on a con- sistent ideology, which helped us to understand the conditions around us. We knew that the law was not pre- pared for what we were doing and policemen were so shocked that they didn’t know what to do. We saw that the people felt a newpride and strength because of the example we set for them; and they began to look toward the vehicle we were building for answers. Later we dropped the term ‘'Self- Defense"’ from our name and just be- came the Black Panther Party, We discouraged actions like Sacramento and police observations because we recognized that these were not the things to do in every situation or on every occasion, We never called these revolutionary actions, The only time an action is revolutionary is when the people relate to it in a revolutionary way, If they will not use the example you set, then no matter how many guns you have, your action is not rve- volutionary, The gun itself is not necessarily vevolulionary, because the fascists carry guns--in fact they have more guns, A lot ofso-called revolutionaries simply do not understand the statement by Chairman Mao that Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun,” They thought Chairman Mao said poli- tical power is the gun, bul the emphasis iS oon grows. The culmination of political power is the ownership and control of the land and the institutions thereon, so that you can then get rid of the gun, That is why Chairman Mao makes the statement that, “We are advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun, it is necessary to take up the gun.’' He is always Speaking of setting wid of it, If he did not look at if in those terms, then he surely woul not se revolutionary. In other words, the pit by all re- volutionary principles is a tool to be used in our Strategy; i 1s not an end continued on next pas continued from last page in itself, This was a part of the original vision of the Black Panther Party. I had asked Eldridge Cleaver to join the Party a number of times. But he did not join until after the con- Jrontation with the police in front of the office of Ramparts Magazine, where the police were afraid to go for their guns, Without my knowledyze, he took this as the Revolution and the Party, But in our basic program it was nol until Point 7 that we mentioned the gun, and this was intentional. We were trying to build a political vehicle through which the people could ex- press their revolutionary desires, We recognized that no party or organiza- tion can make the revolution, only the people can, All we could do was act as a guide to the people, Because revolution is a process, and because the process moves in a dialectical manner, At one point one thing might be proper, but the same action could be improper at another point, We al- ways emphasized a concrete analysts of concrete conditions, and then an appropriate response to these con- ditions as a way of mobilizing tie people and leading them to higher levels of consciousness. ' People constantly thowght that we were security guards and community police or something like this. This ts why we dropped the term “Self De- fense’’ from our name and directed the attention of the people to the fact that the only way they would get sal- vation is through their control of the institutions which serve the com- munity, This would requre that they organize apolitical vehicle which would keep their support and endorsement through its survival programs of service. They would look to t# for answers and guidance, It would not be an organization which runs candidates for political office, but it would serve as a watchman over the administrators whom the people have placed in office. Because the Black Panther Parly grows oul of the conditions and needs of oppressed people, we are interest ; in everything the people are interest in, even though we may not see these particular concerns as the final answers to our problems. We will never run for political office, but we will endorse and support those candidates who are acting in the true interests of the people, We may even provide campaign workers for them and do voter registration and basic precinct work, This would not be out of a commitment to electoral politics, however, It would be our way of bringing the will of the people to bear on situations in which they are interested, We will also hold such candidates responsible to the com- munity, no matter how far removed their offices may be from the com- munity, So we lead the people by following their interests, with a view toward raising their consciousness to see beyond particular goals, When Eldridge joined the Party it was after the police confrontation, which left him fixated with the “either-or"”’ attitude, This was that either the com- munity picked up the gun with the Party or else they were cowards and there was no place for them, He did not vealize that if the people did not re- late to the Party, then there was no way that the Black Panther Party could make any vevolution, because the record shows that the people are the makers of the revolution and of world history. Sometimes there are those who ex- press personal problems in political terms, and if they are eloquent, then these personal problems can sownd very political, We charge Eldridge Cleaver with this, Much of it is pro- bably beyond his control, because il is so personal, Bul we did not know that when he joined the Party, he was doing so only because of that act in front of Ramparts. We weren't trying to prove anything to ourselves, all we were trying to do, at thal particular point, was defend Betty Shabazz, Bul we were praised by the people. Under the influence of Eldridge Cleaver the Party gave the community no alternative for dealing with us, ex- cept by picking up the gun, This move was reactionary simply because the community was not at that point, In- Stead of being a cultural cult group, we became, by that act, a revolution- ary cult group. But this is a basic contradiction, because revolution is a process, and if the acts you commitdo not fall within the scope of the process then they are non-revolutionary, What the revolutionary movement and the Black community needs is a very strong structure, This structure can only exist with the support of the people and it can only get its support through serving them, This is why we have the service to the people program - the most important thing in the Party. We will serve their needs, so that they can survive through this oppression, Then when they are ready to pick up the gun, serious business will happen, Eldridge Cleaver influenced us to isolate ourselves from the Black community, so that it was war heltween the oppressor and the Black Panther Partly, not war between the oppressor and the oppressed com- munily, The Black Panther Party defected from the community long before Et- dridge defected from the Party, Our hook-up with white yvadicals did nol give us access to the white com- munity, because they do not gudde the white community, The Black com- munity does not relate to them, so we were left in a twiligit zone, where we could not enter the community with any real political education programs; yet we were not doing anything to mobilize whites, We had no influence in vaising the consciousness of the Black community and that is the point where we defected, We went through a free speech movement in the Party, which was not necessary, and only further isolated us from the Black communily. We had all sorts of profanity in our paper and every other woxd which dropped from our lips w@S profane, This did not happen before I wasjatled) because ! would not stand for at, ‘Bit Bldridge’s continu@d’On Next page \. . ee continued from last page influence brought this about, I do not blame him altogether; I blame the Party because the Party accepted it. Eldridge was never fully in the leadership of the Party. Even after Bobby was snatched away from us, | did not place Eldridge in a position of leadership, because he was not in- terested in that, I made David Hilliard administrator of programs, lknew that Eldridge would not do anything to lift the consciousness of the comrades in the Party. But I knew that he could make a contribution; and I pressed him to do so. I pressed him to write and edit the paper, but ke wouldn't do it. The paper did not even come out every week until after Eldridge went to jail, But Eldridge Cleaver did make great contribulions to the Black Panther Party with his writing and speaking. We want lo keep this in mind, because there is a positive and negative side to everylhing, The correct handling of a revolution és nol lo offer the people an ''either- ov’ ultimatum. We must instead gain the support of the people through serving their needs, Then when the police or any other repression tries to destroy the pro- gram, the people will move to ahigher level of consciousness and action, Then the organized structure canguide the people to the point where they are pre- payed to deal in many ways. This was the strategy we used in 1966 when we were related to in a posilive way. So the Black Panther Party has reached a contradiction with Eldridze Cleaver and he has defected from the Party, because we would nol order everyone into the streets lomorrow to make a revolution. We recognize that this is impossible dialectics or ideology, our concrete analysis of concrete conditions say that because our it is a fantasy, because the people ar not at that point now, This contradiction and conflicl may seem unfortunate to some, tut it is a part of the dialectical process, The resolution of this contra- diction has freed us from incorrecl agency of analyses and emphases. We are now free to move toward the building of a communily structure which will become a true voice of the people, promoting their interests in many ways, We can continue to push our basic survival program.,We can continue to serve the people as ad- vocales of their true interests. We can truely become a political revolutionary vehicle which will lead the people to a higher level of consciousness, so that they will know what they must really do in their quest for freedom and they will have the courage to adopt any means necessary to seize the time and obtain that freedom, HUEY PP, NEWTON MINISTER OF DEFENSE BLACK PANPHER PARTY, SERVANT OF THBP EOPRL F mx A ed et Pad ead 229; Poet EE I ee POSES LE Black Panther Intercommunal News Service, April 17, 1971 G. ai - me | & H. Black Panther Intercommunal News Service, Aprtl 17, 1971 a ¢ THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1971 PAGE 9 POSITION PAPER NO. 1 ON ART OF SURVIVAL FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY By Emory Douglas If we, the Black artists, are truely to call ourselves artists that are ser- ving the Black community through our art, we must begin to project those conditions that Black people are af- fected by everyday, transforming them into images of awareness. These images of awareness must stimulate Black people to move progressively forward as one people for freedom. Black people are faced with the crisis of how best to survive the oppressive conditions that we are subjected to, day in, and day out, We are forced to live without adequate clothing, food, medical care, shelter etc. All these inconveniences being the product of the American Empire, Babylon, We must begin as artists to project, in our art of survival, that survival involves more than just the zun alone, Oppression comes in many forms, all of which Black people are so familiar with, In the past we have spoken for the Black community through our art, without listening to their grievances or their expressions of pleasure (whatever makes them sad or whatever makes them happy). By so doing, we have become artists with anabundance of artistic works having little or no Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture, Black Panther Party real meaning to the immediate needs of the Black community as a whole, Therefore, some forms of art of sur- vival which may have been pro- kressive yesterday, may be re- actionary today, in a given set of con- ditions, Everything is in a constant State of transformation, the new into the old, the old into the new. At this time it is my belief that Black people demand gas _ and electricity on cold and dark days; doctors and medicine in times of sick- ness; breakfast, lunch and dinner in times of hunger, It is our duty as servants of the people to advocate the needs and desires of the oppressed community through our images of awareness with much enthusiasm, Putting life on a much purer plane than everyday life, but nearer to what we believe life should be, free of ex- ploitation of man by man - based on cooperation, transforming the whole world society into a state of Revolu- tionary Intercommunalism, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Emory Douglas Minister of Culture Black Panther Party CLEVELAND BREAKFAST FOR CHILDREN PROGRAM TO EXPAND 4 The Cleveland National Com- mittee to Combat Fasciam, 2512 E, 79th St) is seeking toestablish anott ersurvival program forthe people of Cleveland, Ohio. All children in grammar schools and growing youngudults in Junior high can receive free, full Breakfasts in the mornings before they go to rt from focal businesses inthe form of facilities and supplies, The fact that the Gluck Panther Party has tmplemented this program and fed over 150,000 children last year shows the necessity for such a program, ind high schools school, We are asking sup; The schools and the racist- —_——— —— oriented fascist Boards of Edu- cation should have had this pro- gram institured these school boards and adminis- trators, being part and parcel of the US, fascist plg apperatu know that the continuation of hunger is thelr number ene wea- pon for carrying out genocide o the poor and oppressed peoples of the U.S. . Understanding this, the National Committee to Com- bat Fascism does not imend t stared by ard lec dils form of gen- ocide continue. We know that healthy bodies and sound minds are necessary if # people are go- ing to contimie to exist, In order to exist, the people must survive. Therefore we offer a survival kit. long ago. But CHICAGO, SUNDAY APRIL 28th A BUS WILL BE GOING 10 JOLIET AND STATESVILLE PRISON (ILLINOIS STATE PENITENTIARIES } Included in it is a Free Breakfast Program #o that the people will be around when the time comes to throw off the fascist chains of oppression. People in the Black ss ILLINOIS oppressed community of Cleve- mothers, welfare recip- ients, grandmothers, guardians, and others who are trying to raise ind, children where raciam and fasclam are running rampant are asked to come forth to work and support this much nesded f r Those who want fo vx their full or part-time services in the marnings can do fo by contacting the Cleveland National Commitree to Combat Pasciam, 7312 BE. 7Ah Se. We strongly urge 45 inany peo- ple as possible to unite with this community program. We are also asking ali businesses throughout the Slack community and other oppressed communities to Gonate the necessary foods and utensils to prepare te meals for our children. All donations may be sent to the Free Breakfast Program for Children, National Committee to Combat Fascism, 2312 E, 7%h, FEED THE CHILDREN] ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! N.C,C,P, in the communities Cleveland, Onis BUS LEAVES: WESTSIDE: AT 10:00 AM FROM 2350 WEST MADISON ST. SOUTHSIDE: AT 9:30 AM FROM 4233 SO. INDIANA ST. All who plan to visit inmates should have prior visiting) Arfangements made (necessary yisiting papers). This is not necessary for those who just wish co see the prisor(s). For further if6rmation on the bus- sing program Or schedule to other pri- 738-0778 sons, call: 924-0575 ar z ‘BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL:I?, 1971 PAGE 10 SURVIVAL AT THE BALTIMORE CITY Conditions art the Galtimore City Jall arebarbaric. Beginning again on February 17th, 1971, the jall officials have really shown thelr true nature through their animalistic attitudes to their genocida| counter-attacks, Ever since the savage attack by pig guards upon Panther, brother, comrade an! Friend Marshall (Eddie) Conway, the guards have been out to get blood on thelr hands, by ever murdering or seriously injuring someone. In these past weeks | have been a victim and a witness to the out- right savage brutality being com- mitted behind these jail walls. wil) relate here to the most bru- tal of the attacks. February I7th, Marshall Conway was attacked by one guard, defended himself, was later attacked by 7 guards, hand- cuffed, beaten and maced, John Tate, struck in left eye with handeuffs, beaten and maced, Larry Wallace, beaten, gassed, maced and kicked but managed to escape, only to be nearly killed one week later, February 24, 1971, James Statton was attacked by 6 guards. One of the pigs used « blunt and heavy object to strike Statton. Statton’s head was busted open in three places. To justify the attacks upon Statton, the pigs charged him with as- saul with Intent to murder a jail guard. Mark Herbert was taken from the shower, naked, and beaten, ther dragged off the section. Vernon Collins was handcuffed and repeatedly kicked, When he (Collins) pro- tested, he was beater and maced, Conrad Field was also beaten, kicked and maced, After the beating all four were placed in {solation cella (meaning the hole). Somme hours later | wae taken from my cell on the L-eection of the jail (which is the maxd- mum security section), hand- cuffed and beaten skillfully by « band of pig guards @lack and white) who were really ready to commit murder. Shalaco jackson who sew my beating and pro- tested it, was taken from lil cell and giventhe same treatment as | had received. Except Jack- son wes more unfortunate then, he came out with 2 fractured or possibly broken nose, both eyes swollen shut, and very Ukely rib injuries. Larry Wall shoe caped the pig ttecky the w tefore, wos tis time boate very tratly. tle w be ke around, beaten and knocked out again, then brought back around again and thrown Into the hole. Shortly after, my cellmate and comrade Phillip *'Billy’* Costes was brought Into the isolated Solitary confinement areca, after being besten and maced. One pig guard who enjoyed beating Billy So much, showed his sadistic, animalistic, genocidal nature by leaping out to best Gilly again, When Billy pleaded thathe was hurt and to stop the beating, the pig stated: “When I see more blood ther I'll know you're hurt’’. The beatings didn’t forecast the end of the torture. Costes, Jackson, Statton, Wal- lace and | were lodged in a5 X 5 size cell, added to the fact thar the five of us were herded into that tiny dungeon, were stripped naked and had no tollet or sink, We were forced to urinate In « small bole In the middle of the floor, We were served sand- wiches for six days, And for six days nobody ate, realizing that powell movements would make living conditions worse. There were cight of us al] together being held In solitary confine- ment on trumped-up charges of assault with intent to murder jail guards, Before I go any further, let's examine the nature and reasons for the charges placed on each mun. Let's begin on February i7th with Marshall E. Conway. Conway and 4 pig guard Get Gilhart) were engaged in a heated visit argument about Conway’ (which I'll later explain), The guard (aod there are over 10 witnesses who saw It) attacked Conway first, by striking him with a ring of keys. When Con- way defended himself but was quickly suldtued by more guards, he (Conway) was charged with assault with intent to murier pig guard Sgt. Ollhart, During the confrontation of Conway andGl- hart, pig guard Robert "Wesley" Cex attacked John Tate and Larry Wallace @he same I0 witnease saw thie also). Later the nex week Tate and Wallace both were charged with acsault with intent to murder pig Robert W. Cox Bur on February 24m tie pig reall tacked the deck. Now st this, thot L-secti ' guards work on the section: and showers are given by one cell at a time, or two Inmates at a time. On February 24th those saint rules were active. Gut on that same day, the pigs clalm that six inmates beat Sgt. Joe Greene. How could six tnmates beat Sgt. Greene, when L-section rules only allow two inmates our at any me, And the twoinmates who were out were In the shower. How could the trmates get out of theircells without the keys to open them, How could six Inmates have possibly beaten a guard, whentwo of the six inmates were bathing; the second palr were cellmates in the last cell in the back of the ther (which means they would have been the last two to take showers on the bottom tier. Meaning that there was only the from two cells open, and the guard had af least eleven more cells to open before he'd reach the last two cella, So it's im- possible for the other two In- mates to have been outkand how couk! the last pair of inmates bear Sgt, Greene when thelr cells wore on the top tiers, and the showering hedn"t even gotten to the top tlers, which means that the cells were all locked. But, nevertheless, the pige pushed aside the facts, anid presented the inmates with new indictments with intent to murder plg guard Joseph Greene, charging anseult Whywerethese 9 brothers and only these 9 brothers charged. Here are the reasons why! Jail wur- den Hiram Schoonfield, Deputy Warden Howard Parks and other high ranking jail officials fully blame for the February I7th jal) riots and hold responsible Marshall Conway, Arthur Tia:co, Charles Duttun, Larry Wallace, Phillip Contes, Vernon Collins, james Statton, John Tate, Mark Herbert and Conrad Whitfield, These trumped-up charges stem from the vengence of enfield, On February “onway received About Warden Sci i7th, Marshall his weckly visi at of The pig Sgt. Gilhart didn’t let Conway out of his cell until (0:15 ayn. The visits are only 20 minutes long and visiting Mea. @Jn. 733 a.m, hours are over «af \Joni wit! Conway vere miber vestigate, The pig, being aware of this, atracked Conway, More pigs arrived and Conway was beaten and dragged away, The people began to loudly protest the action. The Deputy Warden rushed to the section and, without asking what the trouble was and without warning, threw 4 tear gas can- nister Into the section, The dis- turbance should be fully blamed on the Deputy Warden of the jail, pecause the only disturbance before the gas was thrown were mere shouts of protest.Several brothers were trapped In cells, overcome by gas, and be- gan to cough up blood, The people who'd withstood the gas started breaking out windows for air, With the gas still effective, and before tie people could regain their senses and willingly stop the protesting and go Into their cells, the resctionary jail of- ficialn sent another gas cannis- ter onto the section, Realizing to go into the cells now would be suicide, reality wan faced by all the people, black and white, of L-section, that we were being attacked; not punished, but at- tacked, The people began to pre- pare to defend themselves, when another gas bomb was dropped or the tiers, The people took to: thimg thut could be used weapon (rails, poles, sticks, pipes, buckets, brooms) amd trove the pigs away from the section, But the pigs dropped two tnore gas canisters before they retreated, Thin brings irto a total of S gas cannisters used on an area where air circulation ts very poor, That is attempted genocide, However, the people ecured and held the section for 6 hours under plg slege. When the press was acknitred inside the jall, the people pre- sented to them thelr demands, grievances and the actual con- ditions of the jail, Among the de- mania were; i. Complete amnesty for Mar- shall f People being brought to trial within 90 days after thelr arrest; 3, The tm- mediste halt ilies and crvel ands hment in the court and prison Conway; 2, of excessive hig of America, The grievances desit whh: L The lock of medk te tention and having po jaild = t t it ’ " , 2 ‘ \ , ; ny ‘ ' crowded, poorly heated sections and cells and unsanitary Lving conditions. The people then de- cided that if no reprisals were made, we'd give up the section, The pig warden gave his word, no retaliation would come on the jail’s part, so the section was surrendered to him, But things became even worse, More brutality, no visits, no commissarys, more gassings, no showers, food and water were cut off for nearly three days, and incoming and otitgoing mall was Stopped (which is a federal of- fense), and 24 hour day “'lock- tn's"’, and no medical attention at all, The brothers of L-section knew that pig warden Schoonfleld was lying and also knew the after- math of the riot would be Inhuman and barbaric. But we also knew the real task war to alert the people outside che jail walls, to make the people aware of what's golng on Inside the jail, to expose the jail and im of- ficlals to the people. Letting the power of the people decide what should be done abour the conditions at the jail, For In the flcal analysis ir will be the people, and the people only, who will pats judgement upen the favcist regimes in America, The people at Baltimore City jailare going through what thousanis of people are going through across the country, The racist, fascist oppression of the prison systems of Amerikkka, Warden Schoon- ffeld and his pig army are due for a rude awakening if they think the revolutionary spirit o¢ Balti- more Clty jail can be broken: by their savage brutality and genocidal attacks. Comrade Marshall Conway was first kid- mapped, then Liter railroaded Into prison to a term of Ife plus 30 years (with [5 more years still pending). But Conway left behind, on L-section, 4 family of revohi- tionary brothers, whom he taught and educated, und brought to poli- tical and revolutionary eware- ness. So we hall Revolutionary love to Marshall Conway and all people in the maximum security Cain Gigatrylon, Hold high the Damier of Heyoluwtionary inter- Conym lig, vod tay strong, for) wera Seinths 41) over the wordt REH BAMMAL SPREE FREE-ANG? A FREE RUCK}. BOSBY, ALL POWEF '1\) THE PROPLE “haries ** f tton i : u Prom NE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1771 PAGE U APRIL 15, BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO COMRADE KIM IL SUNG, COURAGEOUS AND BELOVED LEADER OF 40 MILLION KOREAN PEOPLE The Black Panther Party wishes to use this occasion to not only express our best wishes on the anniversary of the birth of Comrade Kim Il Sung, but also to again confirm the militant soli- darity between our Party and the strug- gling oppressed people of the U.S, and the heroic Korean people, It is our firm belief that under the continued wise leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung, the entire Korean Father- land will most assuredly be soon re- united, The unnatural division of a whole people that the U.S. imperialists have perpetrated - separating mothers from children, husbands from wives, entire families - will be as much a part of History as the inglorious defeat the U.S. suffered when they invaded the sovereign Korean soil in 1951. ——_ Zi Fe oe oe The example of the struggle of the Korean people, like the very brilliant thoughts of Comrade Kim II Sung, have inspired us tn our struggle here inside the U.S, Monster. We have seen, through your fine example, that this U.S. monster that is our common ene- my and oppressor is nol almighty, He can be defeated, And so it ts in this fraternal spirit that we commemorate the birthdate of Comrade KimI1 Sung by intensifying our own struggle, here inside the U.S., against U.S, imperialism, fascism and racism, LONG LIVE COMRADE KIM IL SUNG ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Central Committee Black Panther Party — THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1971 PAGE 12 INTERVIEW WITH A NEW MAN= A CUBAN REVOLUTIONARY “*aee And each and everyone of us will pay on demand tus part of sacrifice...knowing that we are getting ever closer to the new man, whose figure In beginning to appear.” Ernesto Che Guevara CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK Q, Do you know who Lenin was? A. Yes, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was the one who put in- to practice the first mocialist revolution in the world, which was thought out by Karl Marx and Frederict Engels, but tt was he who put it into practice in 1917, This began with the great Socialist Revolution of Oct- ober, 1917, and culminated in November. Q. Do you know anything about the conditions or the sit- uation of the leaders of the Black Panther Party? A, Well, the leaders of the Black Panther Party find themselves, well, in 4 state where al] the time they are harassed and persecuted by the police, by the National Guard, and at any moment they atrack the local head- quarters of the Panthers and they are forced Into exile and imprisoned all the time, especially the leaders, Q. Do you know anything about the U.S, student move- ment? A, 1 know that the U.S, student movement participates in many demonstrations against the war in Vietnam and for example, that the National Guard attacked Kent University last year and kited 4 students. Q. What do you think Is the difference between the Northamerican people and thelr government? A, think that they are two very different things, since they are against each other, becatse the US, people struggle against the government and it keeps them in conditions --for example, racial discrimination — in which the Black children are undernolirished and we ourselves hear this inthe politicel information sessions, chat the cost of a hospital bed there can even be $75, and thatthe people are always against the war in Vietnam and many men have been sent to Vietnam to fight against thelr own Interests. Q, Can you tell me who Antonio Maceo was und what he did? A, Antonio Maceo wan born in Santiago de Cuba, June 14, 1845, and was the son of Mariana Grajales and Marco Moeceo, His parents had a little land andhe helped them some. And he grew up andfirsthe was a muleteer -- ne first he was 4 coal vendor, and then a muleteer, Then after the outbreak of the war of 1865, a few days later he joined up, together with his father and his two brothers, A lrtle Later his father died, Because of his efforts in his work he reached the grade of Major General, and he car- ried out the tnost resounding assaults in the whole world, and he led the Invasion from Orlente tothe West, crossing the trails of Mariel to Majana, and that of Jucaro to Moron, He was also one of the representatives in the protest of Baragua, protesting strongly against the Pact of Zanjon (by which the leadership of the rebellion against Spain agreed to call # halt to hostilities for Several compromises and promises of reform), And later he fell. He had more than 25 wounds in his body, He fell during a small skirmish in San Pedro de Punta Brava, December 7. He fell there in San Pedro de Pun- ta Brave and died in Havana, Panchito Gomez Toro, who was the son of General Maximo Gomez (note: also Bleck) fell at the same time, They were buried together, Q. What kind of man was Maceo? A, Maceo was 4 very audecious man, and very -—well we could say -- he had 4 very clear vision, and he was also a man with many political qualities, For example, we have the Protest of Baragua, of which he was one af the chief initiators (hose who opposed the Peace Pact Wanted to continue fighting for complete independence from Spain), one of those wha protested fiercely agains: the Pact of Zanjon, Q, Did Maceo have another name? What was be called? “A. They called him the Bronze Titan QO, Why? A. Because of the wounds that he had received all over his body. He bad 25 wounds in tii boy. They alay called him The Chlef — he was the highest political of- ficer of the rebel forces tn the country. ©. What was he Ike? Was he blond A, No, he was mulatto Q, Who was Marti? A, Marti was our Apostle. He was born on January 25, 1853 on Paula Street in Havana. His father was a second Sergeant of the Spanish Army. His father was named Mariano Marti and his mother was named Leonor Perez. His father had « farm in Matanzas province, Once Marti Saw @ Slave who had been hanged, with his back flogged, and thurt day he vowed to wash away this crime with his blood, and he kept this promise when he fell in Dos Rios in Oriente, fighting for the freedom of Cuba, He has written lots of books, and these books are very good, and the majority of them are political books, some are verses, He was alaoa teacher and apoct, and he died in Dos Kios in 18S, Q, What was he like? A, He was & man whe always opposed Spain with his political activities. He was imprisoned in Spain andde- ported, and imprisoned In other countries because of his political activities in different places, Q, Was he # big man or 4 little man? A, Well, they say that, in physical size, he was a small man, but for his thoughts and other things he was a very big man, Q. Who wan Joan Alneida 7? A. Juan Almeida Bosque is 4 man who participated in the {iret action against the Hatinta tyranny, the attack on the Moncada and the 26th of July Movement, He was also one of Fidel's closest confidante, He landed in the Gran- ma and currently he is a Comandante and « member of the Polit Gureau of the Party. Q. Do you know anything about him personally? 4, Well, hls color too Is lack Q. What are his other charecteriaticn? A. He's very brave, and on more than one occasion he was 4 prisoner, for exanijile when they attacked the Mon- cada, and he never betrayed any of hie comrades, Q. What tas impressed you most in your life A, The thing tiat impressed memoat?,..Well, let's ce there are muny things, but...Whar kind af thing? What has been the moet tinportant t is your Ife? a Host npartant thing inmy iifehas been my par- ticipation in thd c ol, the Camil Clenfuegos Milltary Q, What was Cuba Ike before the Revolution? A, Before the revolution Guba was very corrupt; there wan « lotof robbery, gambling, and there was poverty among the peasants because in Cuba there was latifund- ism (ownership of large estates of land by a small ab- Sertee oligarchy or foreign corporations), which was, you could say, exploitation of the peasants. They were exploited by the latifundists, who didn't work, they just had the Jand which was cultivated by the campesinos (Peasants) and they took advantage of the work of the peasants, Q, What is @ gusano? (note; The literal cranslation of gusano is ‘'worm'') A, Gusenos are the Cubans who leave the country, be- cause they're not communists, they don't ke com- munisin and they Like, well, to be able to profit from {m- periallem, Q. What ts your opinion of a gusano? A. The guianos are, we could say, expatriated men. They don’t have a country because they abandon their country for convenience of politics. They'drather bela an imperialist setting than a communist one. Q. Have you ever known or spoken with any gusanos? A, Lknew some gusanos tn school when I was a civilian, They were people who thought that they were very im- portant, they wouldn't have anything to do with the com- munists, They could hardly wait to meet up with other gusanos to gossip and te}l stories -- counter- revolu- tlonary Stories, Q. What do you think is the difference between a capita- list country and @ socialist country? A, The difference is that an imperialist country tries to expand its empire to take control of more countries, It’s the politics of ambition, Like the example we have of the US, And 4 socialist country Ian's, well, it ton’t an ambitious country except in the sense that it tries to help society, direct it on 4 good path and not on the path to exploitation, Q. you were In a capitalist country, like the U.S, what do you tmugine life would be lke? A, Well, it would be... well, it would be a boring life. @ wouldn't like to live in a country Like that}) Q.For you, personally, what would be the difference between Living here and tere? A, Well, the differences would be inthe kind of politics, the kind of ... Uke there, there is racial discrimination, and they mistreat students when they participate in any demonstrations, and then they're expelled from their own educational centers because of their protest against the government, Q, What does raciam mean to you? A, Racism is trends practiced sgainst a race. For example, in the U.S, there is ractal discrimination against Blacks, and that isn’t good because race doesn’t matter. All we have in a differeot color, bur this doesn't imply anything, because we're all people, and we all have the same basic qualities. And there in the U.S. Blacks sre treated like... dogs, lke animals. There they belleve the Blacks are « lower class than the Whites. Q. And bere In Cubs, before the revolution, was there racism? A. Before the revolution there was social discrimina- tion and also there was « Little discrimination. Before there were prejudices, but not that much, What per- haps existed was that Blacks had different beaches, tha they had everything spart from the Whites, different caburets, different everything — everything apart. Q, Do you think that the Black Panther Party bs the van- guard of the revolutiogary movement In the US.? A, Well, It lo nay Gndberetantingeaher tr ts Q, What do you think boo Viefactth at the vanguard pf the whole QoUctry? + Black Party i \. Well, | Gini that they are the principle loaders of that movennett eemie they are Wiest rost exploited in the ++ Primertl¥ the Blacks, because in cener ileveryone in explotiod there SRROmONT exploited are the Blacks, S others that eml- ‘ — even more thin the Puerto Hicana 4 grate there from other countries, TO BE CONTINUED NEXT WEEK Gerald W, Kirk ie ore of the American Power Structure's fascibt gimmicks —— pir “SUPER PIG’, THE soO'T- LICKING PUPPET GUARAN-} TEED TO “INFILTRATE” ‘THE REVOLUTIONARY MOVE MENT, BUT HARDLY ‘TO STOP ITI Ever since the enslavement of Black people bere inthis Empire, the slavemanter has always had his handpicked ‘houseniggers’* to use Iinditcriminately, to pull the coarse rope of oppression tighter around the necks of the suffering Black masses, whose only crime has been to seek to be free, The slavemaster used hin puppet quite frequently; and whenever he needs ua fool to try and quell the gubversity that’s running rampant throughout the slave quirters, he can always Gepend on the good ol’ relivble “Sambo” to do the job. For just Uke ‘'Sambe"’ was the one who fled into the town to warn all of those white, racist Ku Klux Klanere of the Invasion of Nat Turner, be Ls again running to warn those counter-revolu- tionary elements in America of the ultimate insurrection of the people. On March Ith, 4 small racist band of bigots, who compose the **TRUTH ABOUT CIVIL TUR- MOIL’’ (TACT) organization, which is a component of the John Birch Society — a4 blatant and well-known association which has a reputation for its vicious demin- cletiong and inhuman brutality against Black people, parti- cularly, and all peoples of color - this organization sought to bring iis insane bootlicking, Gerald W. Kirk, to the oppressed com- munity of Winston-Salem (North Carolina) to continue to propa- gate his madness, bent on stag- hating the process of the revo- lution, Kirk’s record, with 4 long line of assaults against the U- beration of his people and his attacks against the humanity of the world, has proven that he has, indeed, been faithful to his master, and has ‘“‘served his country well'’, This fascist fool has been suc- cesefulin allegedly = tnflitrating the SDS, the DuBois Club, and was supposed to have been a Liason of the pign tothe communist Party in the Chicago area, He proudly pro- claims that for nearly four years he ope: ated inside the ‘‘peace’’ movements, student progressive forces, and movements by black militants and revolutionaries as an undercover agent of the F.5.1 He boldly emiles when he tells af his activities with these groups. He even claims to have ar- ranged for ‘Wor on Poverty” grants for ‘black militants’’ to “build thetr arsenals’’, And now this Super-Fancist tells of the “Communist -led againit A- mericans, and how to stop it.”’ Kirk was brought to Winston- Salem to speak at the auditorium of & local Jr. High, about a week after the same racist school administration, who gratefully granted him and his master Klan- smen the use of the public in- stitutions, flatly refused the same privileges to the National Com- mittee to Combat Fascism here, when we were planning to hold our Revolutionary intercom- munal Day of Solidarity at an- other one of the local High Schools, The people, the sup- porters of Bobby Seale and of real justice were forced to stand outside in the cold (during the Revolutionary Intercommunal Day of Solidarity meeting) wile the racist power structure of Winston-5S + housed this in- tule to the Black community and more than 200 known Supporters THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, THE SUPER PIG Hear Former FBI Undercover Operative GERALD W. KIRK INSIDE THE SPIDER’S WEB The Communists, black militants and revolutionaries will never succeed in overthrowing the government of the United States. But, unless they are stopped, they will scare the American people into accepting socialism from Washington. This is what it is really all about!” Brunson School N. Hawthorne Rd. Winston-Salem, N. C. Thursday, March 18 — 7:30 P.M. Donation: $1.00 Advance SPONSORED BY Winston-Salem TACT Committee of the Ku Klux Klan, The Bluck Communities of Winston-Salem have no daub in their minds a8 to wholsreally working in the best Interest of the people, If “*hlack’’ men.talk the same rhetoric 4s George Wallace und Richard Nixon and are welcomed with by the wilte racists open arms of the school board and the racist po- wer structure, then it is clear hat these are the forces against and which we must come to- gether as 4 mighty {ler to de- stroy. The Slack Comununities and oppressed communities all over the world are not so eanily fooled, And we understand that it will be necessary to kij] ANY- ONE who stants In the way af our freedom, We, the people, are the jury ani owe) lconvict SUPER PIG GERALD W, KIRK of the Telo- nious charges of working hand- in-glove in conspiracy with the Nixou-Hoover-Mitehell regime to eventually attempt to bring about the complete genocide of all poor ant enslaved people, particularly Black people. Your name is one that & on * long Ust of counter-revolu- tionary tralfors who ure stri- ving to commit genocide on our $1.50 at the Door people and electrocute our Chair- man Bobby and Comrade Ericka in New Haven, Comecticut, Eve: deathblow that you have struck against us will be avenged, when the people seize control of their destinies; and their wrath will take the heads of all of those of you who have so foolishly taken sides against us. A PIG, G A PIG, S A Pi,,, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRI- SONERS N.C,C,FP, Winston-Salem, North Carolina BROOKLYN: African Shop Livingston & Flatbush All Sol’s 555 Nostrand Ave. Arthur's Grocery Store 163 Kingston Ave. Arthur's Newstand § Kingston Ave. Black Fox 769 Nostrand Ave. Boot Black 60 Nostrand Ave. C4 M Restaurant 276 Kingston Ave. Callensten Store 231 Kingston Ave. Candy & Launcheonette 376 Wtica Canulystore 351 Franklin Ave {2 SS SF SSS SS SF SSS SS Se eee Candystore SU Franklin Ave Candystore 792 Prenklin Candystare A429 Pranklin Ave Candystore 2154 Fulton St. Candystore 292 Nostrand Ave, Candystore 15S Nostrand Ave. Candystore & Newstan! OA Hockeway OPPORTUNITY NEW YORK: THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY THANKS THE FOLLOWING PARTIAL LIST OF STORES FOR GIVING THE PEOPLE OF NEW YORK THE TO OBTAIN THE BLACK PANTHER INTERCOMMUNAL NEWS SERVICE Candystore £ Newstand 702 Rockaway Cutter’s Pharmacy 021 Nostrand Ave. Duroa Jive (Mrican Shop) 402 Nostrand Ave, Freedom Bookstore 226 Nostrand Ave Eddie's 79 8 Candystore ywtrand Ave, Gail SMationary Lt) Rutland Aa, liatry'é Cancystore 2227 Atiin Ave, J) & HM Luncheonette O99 Nostrand Ave, Jenkins’ Candystore 924 Fulton St, Kingston Car Service 254 Kingston Ave, Larry’s Candystore 849 St. Jotn’s Place Luneti & Candy Store 100 Kingston Ave. New Shop 280 Urica Newstand Corner af Sth & Ot: Ave. Newstand 4l4 Rockaway Ave. Neowstand 2 Sutter Ave. Nicholson's Candy Store 305 Ralph Ave. Omawale’s Boutique 637 Thruop Ave. (ttis 943 Suter Ave, Ours ine, 1727 Pitking Ave, Prince's Candystore 735 Nostrand Ave, Payohede lic Unlimited SiN Prafiktin Ave, HAG Variety Shop . WL S.catoga Ave. Record Shop 356 Frankiin Ave, Contintied on next page Fred Bennett has been a trusted member of the Black Panther Party for over three years now. Most re- cently he was assigned to the task of coordinating. our Party's Branch in East Oakland (California), As such he directed and coordinated all our work in that area, building up fine and close relationships between the c@mrades in the Party and the East Oakland community, and developing the people’s survival programs, In this past threeyears, Fred has very often gone off to himself, with- out notifying anyone as to where he would be going or how long he in- tended to stay away, That is, due to a restless nature, he would tempor- arily interrupt his day-to-day activities for a time, And then Fred would come back, Because we understand our com- rades’ need to attend to their per- sonal needs (Fred has a wife and large family), and because Fred always worked especially hard, hardly ever stopping for a moment of rest, we never really questioned this behavior, He would usually not stay gone for aa ee 5 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1971 PAGE 14 more than a couple of weeks and would return and explain his absence, However, Fred Bennett went away the last time over two months ago, Not finding this unusual, we looked for his return in a couple of weeks, BENNETT? But to this day, he still has not even — so much as called, As a dedicated Panther, Fred Bennett would not do this, Even were he actually leaving the Party, we are certain he would tell us, and explain the reasons why. This is how Fred Bennett is, What we fear is that the pigs, knowing well how serious and dedi- cated a worker Fred Bennett has al- ways been, used one of his usual ab- sences to commit some act of foul play, That is, we believe, in fact, that Qakland Pigs, in conjunction with Federal pigs, have done some serious, treacherous deed to Fred Bennett, We will find out; they can be sure, We will not rest until we do, Therefore, if anyone has information on Fred Bennett's whereabouts, please contact our Central Headquarters, ar 1048 Peralta Street in Oakland; or call (415) 465-5047, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! TO THE PARENTS OF PRISONERS The Black Panther Party in meeting the needs of the people, is trying to implement a Free Bussing Program so that you may be able to visit your loved ones being held in prisons throughout racist Babylon, If you would like to visit your loved ones, send your names and address in to the Chapter or Branch of our Party nearest you, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY VOTE APRIL 20, 1971 FOR OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL: REV. FRANK PINKARD PAUL COBB = = on os Ga WR oS ee ee ee ee sss NEW YORK STORES continued from Caniy Store 2224 Oth Ave. last page Candy Store Record Shop 2194 Sth Ave, 668 Sutrer Ave, Sound Town 812 Franklin Ave. Stone's 650 Nostrand Ave, Unique Hi Fi 691 Nostrand Ave, Vann's $89 Franklin Ave. Washington Candy Store 36S Chassoh Ave, Wright's L & M Store 1507 Fulton Se. Yardboro Store 1263 Bedford Ave. Yocs Cab Service S88 Sutter Ave. HARLEM: Al Mosley’s Variety Store 130 Lenox Ave. Continental Bazaar 317 145th Se, Dainiey’s Candy Store 1785 Amsterdam Ave, Glenn's Candy 3619 Broadway Heritage Afro Media 16 W, 125th St. Hoyd's Candy 2055 St. Nickolas Ave. J & J Candy Store 2084 7th Ave. Jessie's Sweet Shop 3659 Broadway Joe's Newstand 750 St. Nickolas Ave, Kingston Car Service 284 Kingston Lisyd’s Candystore 1724 Amsterdam Ave, Afro Mart Gam Barnes) M & M Lunchesnette 103-W. 125 th St. 276 Kingston ; . Afro Sound Macfish Candy Store 1708 Amsterdam Ave. 205-280 Ave. Hen Davis Hookstore News Stand 135th St. & § Ave. 13Rh Se. & Teh Ave Hen Franklin Newsstand News stand 135, Corner of Lenox Ave, With St. (Corner Lenox A¥e)) Blackstop News Stand 7th Ave, ber. Sth & DNA St. 145 Broadway Subway Candy Store 2104 Amsterdam Ave, Ricecardeo's Candy 1069 Amoterdam Ave. 5 & L Candy Store 125th & Madison Ave, Sam's News stand 125th & Lenox Ave, Sam's Soul Newstand 125th & Park Ave. Scote’s Newstand I5Sth & St, Nickolas Avo, Serritta’s 497 Albany Sight & Sound Record Shop 52 W, 125th St. L. Smith News stand 145th & St. Nicholas Ave, Stan's News stand 753 St. Nicholas Ave. Sugar Hill Candy Store 958 St. Nickolas Ave. Tobacco Shop 1916~-7th Ave, Yruno African Shop 1976 Amsterdam Ave. LONG ISLAND: Al's Stationary Store 317 Prospect Ave, Westbury Billy's Barber Shop 75S, Franklin Se,, Hempate Boot City 206 AultanSs, Hempstead Ee ¢ Supermarket WY Onlon Sireer, Hers tead re herons 200 Fulton $3), Wernpstead Fish & Chipe FS Tranklin Se en Bi . : 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 full employ ment for our people We believe that the federal governiient ts responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income We believe that if the white American businessmen will not give fall employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the comminity so that the people of the community can organize und em plow all of its people and give a high standard of living 3 We want an end to the rebbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community : We believe that this racial government has robbed us and now we are Homanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules Forty acres and tuo mules wos promaed 100 vears apo as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people We will aceupt the payment in currency whieh will be distributed fo our many communities The Germans are now aiding the Jows in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Ger mans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people, therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make 4, We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid. can build and make decent housing for its people 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a know! edge of self If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything vise 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service We believe that Black people. should not be forced to fight in the mifi- tary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people 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 oppression and brutality, The Second Amendment to the Constittwun of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore beveve that all black people should arm themselves for selb-defense 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and cit) prisons and jails We believe that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities. as defined by the Constitution of the United States. We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution a0 that black people will receive fair trials The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a mani right to be tried by his peer group. A peer iS & person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, en- vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black “community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man” of the black community 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-superyised plebis- cite (o 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 naturg’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires thal they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru. fence. indeed. will dictate that governments long established should not he changed for light and transient causes: and, accordingly. all experience hath shows, that mankind are more disposed to suffer. while evils are utferahle. than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they dre acetptamed But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pur- sting invariably the same object. evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism, itis their right. itis their duty, to throw off such govern ment and ty provide new guards for their future security SER VING ‘THE PEOPLE BODY AND SOU All Power to the People THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 19771 PAGE 15 1S MY BELIEF THAT WE BLACK PEOPLE NEED GAS AND ELECTRICITY ON COLD AND DARK DAYS; DOCTORS AND LUNCH AND DINNER IN TIMES OF HUNGER. — —— “>A Grit * PPL wy SEE cote eat , Be Fe ; shin oe Tea Bae rd oes Pad NE ER DNT nla ¢ 4a Yat . =A : ye 254 ~ a: ~ Sa > aie: SSIS ae oywly S BEST ON Bore CANTON . as GLAS, USED CEM Ed Hua taiyeas 7h of ES Pe “3 .) fe on YR oy! 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