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Ii oA, PANTHER Sa NEWS SERVICE 25cents CD) aol OD 2 CD Q THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH AND THE SURVIVAL pie XG RAM ‘THEN SHALL THE KING SAY UNTO THEM ¢ coed ON HIS RIGHT HAND. COME, YE BLESSED OF MY FATHER, INHERIT THE KINGDOM PRE oh) PARED FOR YOU FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD: FOR I WAS HUNGRY, AND COM YOU GAVE ME MEAT: I WAS THIRSTY, AND YOU GAVE ME DRINK: I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU TOOK ME IN: NAKED, AND YOU CLOTHED ME: I WAS SICK, AND YOU BD VISITED ME: I WAS IN PRISON, AND YOU . ow. CAME UNTO ME” — (StMatthew25:34-36 ) ‘ae THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1971 PAGE 2 THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANNOUNCES... THE Vfgn| OPENING OF eS THE Ne BOBBY SEALE PEOPLE'S FREE | HEALTH CLINIC 3236 Adeline Street Berkeley, California PHONE: 653=2534 For further Information contact Black Panther Party Berkeley Branch 2230 10th St. Berkeley Phone 848-7740 PEOPLES FREE ea HEALTH CENTER CPOE OREO E EEO HE OEE ORE E TEESE EEE EEE EEE EEE E SEER EE EEE EEEE EEE EES E EEE ESE ETEHEEEEEEEEEHEOE EEE EEHEE EEE HEE TEES EE EEEEEEEEEEDEEEE EEE EEE EE EEE EEEEEEOEEES The Berkeley Branch of the Black improper health care and inadequate hovering over our heads the people Panther Party announces theopeningof facilities can be used as a tool to per- must create institutions within our the Bobby Seale People's Free Health petrate genocide against a people. We communities that are controlled and Clinic. Because the Black Panther know that as long as the oppressor con maintained by the people in their res- Party serves as a political vehicle to trols the institutions within our op- pective oppressed communities. The meet the needs of the people in pressed communities, we will be sub- Black Panther Party has been in the the Black Communily, we have initialed jeeted to institutionalized penocidi process of bringing into being the insti- a Free Health Clinic to combat Un whether itcomes from inadequate hous I a a health problems which exist among ing, the barrel of a pbie's shotgun, o7 ee ee Recs pa (0 INSUrs nice pbeipic poor and oppresse a pe opl 5 We realize from inadequati medical atte ntion. al, pe ndini iie@ ver olution, We will de- that a person's health is his most val- velop our institutions according to the uable possession, We also realize that With this threat of complete genocide needs of the peuple, HOHE HEE T HEHE EEE HEHEHE HHH EEEHE TEER EE HEHEHE HEHEHE HEE HEHEHE HEHE EEEE EEE HEHEHE HEHEHE EE EE HEHEHE EEE EEEE EEE Eee tnunne OP eeceeesccscccccscesseees The Bobby Seale People’s Free Tuesday; UAM-10 Practical Nurse Friday:10AM-1 General Practitioner Health Clinic will be open on the fol- 5-10 PM Registered Nurs 1-2PM Pediatrician lowing days with the following schedul I0AM-1I Registered Nurse of doctors and nurses. (Within the near Julure more doctors will be added loour Wednesday; 2-5PM Licensed Vocation- Schedule,) Any individual willing todo pit sepedia : eahiaday:10AM-1 Licensed Vocational nate professtonal skills, equipment, 5-10PM Registered Nurse Nurse supplies or money, please contact our lOPM General Practi- ‘Tinie, tionw) “a : . Referral of Dodlors: daily basis- Mondavil-lOPM Practical Nurs« ViursdaylOAM-1 General Practitione, ‘ ve ‘ af ; ‘ 5.10 PM Repistered Nurse 1-2PM Pediatrician oy Haynes, Gynecdlogist 6-80-10 General Practitioner 5-10PM Rogistered Nurs: Leo Campence, Obstetrician SP SPH SH HESEOTOHSSSHOOPSSSSOESE SEO SESE SEEEESEEEEEOOOES +e eee eee TTPO Ree ee eee ee eee eee THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1771 PAGE 3 WE BELIEVE THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS RESPONSIBLE AND OBLIGATED TO GIVE EVERY MAN FULL EMPLOYMENT OR A GUARANTEED INCOME Ted Stantonwas previously employed as apainter by the David S. Brown Realty Company, During his employment he was continuounly harassed and weited in a racine fashion by his foreman, Mr. Syvio, Because Ted Stanton could not pet along with his foreman, Syvio, and also be- cause Syvio would not allow him te work part-time be- cause of their contradiction, Ted was referred to David Brown, tis employer, landlord, and owner of Brows Realty, Brown agrend to allow ‘Ted to work part-time on ppecial joe. Within three days of the agreement the ceiling in ‘Ted's house collapsed at which tine Ted filed a suit againnt Grown Realty, which evicted Ted shortly afterward, Ted wis then Jefe without any means of support, In October, 1970, when Ted went to Social Security to file for unemployment, he was told that he had only comn- piled $841.00 when what ts needed le $900.00 to recetve unemployment compensation. In January, 1971, Ted re- ceived his W-2 form which stated that he had actually amassed In excess of $900.00, and was therefore eli- gible for unemployment compensation, Hie was given his Compensation, jut only after a six week walt, Ted was forced to walt nearly four months all together to re- ceive any money with which to live, Because of his sincere concern to seeto it that others do not have to go through what he has gone through, Ted along with several other unemployed workers, formed the Boston Lnemployed Committee. This is « community based. organization, informing the people that if an application for compensation Is denied, It can be appealed immediately; thar there are exceptions in the Massachusetts laws concerning employees employed by public tnstitutions, and informution on special benefits, TLOVMEAT orict e | Let FOB LisT The Boston Lsemployment Committee (3,U,C_), inahorz, is « vehicle by stich unemployed people can struggia to see that theyreceive their just benefits during thelrun- employment period, Benefits of which very few people are aware of because of the government's attempts to keep we ignorant of our rights. The 6.U.C, hap distributed « petition inthe community listing five demunda: 1, That enough clerks to provide prompt courteous service in unemployment lines and eliminate the backlog in issuing checks, 2. Provide emergency advances where checks areheld up or lost, 3. Begin compensation from first day of joblessness, abolishing the penalty week, 4, Ralse the benefit rate and Increase provisions for dependents to 4 realistic level. i 5, Have the state's attorney general {lie suit againot the US, Government for fallure to enforce the fed- eral full-employment act, A good majority of Black people are presently unem- ployed, and have been unemployed for some time, A program such as the one devised by the 5.U,C, is an excellent example of « service for the people, For it is services guch a9 these that will help us to survive the miserable conditions that we are forced to live In, and also seek to lift our consciousness towirds a peo- ple’s transformation of society. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Mags. State Chapter Black Panther Party FREE BREAKFAST FOR CHILDREN PROGRAM IN BALTIMORE As the work of greedy capi- rulist businessmen Intensifies in the Black community, the oeed for Bleck People to survive their exploitation becomes greater. Every service that the oppressive These programas offer the ex- ploited people of the Black com- munity a defensive alternative to the forced sub-luinan treatment that is perpetrated upon black people. other program ia at the eS Street Church on Dolphin and Etting streets, Racist capitalists exploit Black people by peddiing low quality, high-priced food to therm, businessmen provide, from food For the people, we offer two wile the Black Panther Party atures to elurn houning, serve free breakfant programs that are gives Glack people free, hot, only them, because they present open every Monday throug? nourishing meals, Who serves to us the Jowest poseible quality Friday, Bach morning from 7:00 the people? for the highest possible prices, to 9,00 a.m. we serve the peo- SERVE THE PEOPLE in the Black cormunity of ple hot nourishing meals. BODY AND SOU! Baltimore, the Block Panther One program is located at St. Party has instituted Several sur- Siartin De Porres Church on BALTIMORE CHAPTER vival program for the people Valley aml Eoger Strcets. The HLACK PANTHER PARTY ‘ '_ = - the Cabrial-Creen tiousing jrrojcets of Ciicageo have ’ / a “2 ' spirit and thelr will ta resliet, for the cumeras are been the site af continned regittance te the oppressive ‘we iv clearly visable, The people are made to know that "Big yestape forces of the Chicage Mg Departwent, Lat year, ? / Brother’’ ts watching their every move, This is remi- nincent of dhe situation described in George Urwell’s '"1084"' a aclencefiction story which depicts 4 fascist stute where the people and thelr every move , including their thougtits, 48 monkored, Anyone who was caughtact- ing, looks or even thinking, in oppodtitios to the State, was viciously tortured and beaten into submisaion: if two pigs met the justice { the people in Cabrini tireen intensified repressive trom the Chicago ny Department hae been the cenult. Since that time there have been in- creased motile patroly anc foot patrols in the projects, ind now, Mayor Daley’ pprosaive farce ave ile- veloped mare sophisticated mischinery te water the peo- ple of Cubrini-Green projects, 4 bullet-proof televisio: they still refused te bend to the will of the State, they moritor has beet! placed at the single emrance exit of were killed. cach project tnillding, Mese cameras are m ; fut this is not 1984 =~ thin is America,l97] ~- and ig enntral r enter from ineide the praject in net 4 selence fietio) tale ofthe fiaure. bh is happen- qwerty «fut nur hay. ‘The purpose of these camera ing right bere i) an oppressed community ol America — ie nutonly ta weteh the residents, but anyone whe carte Cabrint-Green, vere Soe ofthe nigstexploited and op- into the tuikding. HM will care af | urprine Uf atten pressed peuple live. They Rive 4 Urge hans view of the ugencies of repression (pict the welfare department, victous nature 1 this) gytem wd ey fave the will to sas tloyment department, ete.) Wil al tilize hese fight, And we know Cems er dev joe or pectic be eullictent oven’ To guin informats the people why tive by te to stop the people’ @ ceneiatlesteg frviii Riki or the ey Aa Se iain ela trugyle from actvandiagy ay! SHAIP A THE OLE projects if they 4 Sa ie IS GREATER ‘THAN JHE BASS TECHNOLOGY. {i of this t purt 4f an exte ive plunt potential revelutionaric r yiueye to thee pe ke pe Lie ps eunits forthe pewer structure, ‘ 4 le | uito? in € hite aro Project , f « eT TY « ‘ y - tact ‘ | i i t ] Camera \ or ALL. POWER To Tit TRE | et oe — {we ~ 2-0 = - ~ & THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1971 PAGE 4 PIGS RIOT IN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK On Wednesday May 5, the New York Black Coalition, composed of varying Strata of Black people from student unions, Youth groups, Tenants Associa- tions, State workers and Welfare re- cipients, called for a protest rally and general strike to be held May 5, 1971 to protest the recent Rockefeller pro- posed State Budget cut in aid for Health, Education, drug Rehabilitation, and the 10%, cut back in Welfare allowances, The Black Coalition was very clear and explicit in their objectives and put out a call to the masses to recognize these actions by state and city legis- tators and officers as part and parcel of the increasing genocidal war against Black, poor and oppressed people, As stated by the Black Coalition '*We call for a strike within New York city to dramatize the fact that our city leaders, have deserted us to accomodate the powerful uniformed services and other groups able to blackmail the city."’ “We strike for a people budger,"', Mem- bers of the Black Coalition had been working very diligently, passing out SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION AND DALEY PIGS Throughout the Chicago Public racists amd Lackey 4 itypehe: Phat Also, schoo] system, racite and lackey Kolheiin, principal of lipde Park, An woual, the reictionaries adminietr ator have excalated verre Kollheiny be jiet another Hock totether, with the Woodlawr their harassment and repressio bichey put off intothe |ilackecot (irpanteation, our reactunary of students anending these incti- munity to be decepted ae right- wtionalist community organiza- Ditions, At Waller High School, cous, just for being lack. How- tion, taking tand to protect GO students were excluded ever, we realize thut she te jut Mra, Ana Kolseien leaflets and educating the masses to the real reason the cuts had been made, and the need to show Rocky and sweet John that they weren't to be fooled by some demogogic, misleading tactics, As stated by a Welfare mother, ‘‘Let them cut the military budget, All they do is drop bombs to kill, while we need the money to live in this old rotten country till we can change it."’ Inother words, survival pending revolution. The people acknowleged the call in Brownsville, East N.Y. section of Brooklyn, 500 to 1,000 strong, young and old, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, The pigs seeing this political awureness and activity among Blacks, young and old, men and women, got so frustrated and uptight that they had or- dered their lithe occupying army (policemen) to start intimidating, threatening and generally provoking the masses to be tempted to maneuver away from their immediate tacticsof a sulthe reac- WYVON'S = Latest and grestest editorial statement by backey Roy Woods.... que lard to Gyure our how In the work! the students cim have the gall to demand the removal af any teacher or principal af in- peaceful demonstration to elected public servants to meet their needs and desires, The pigs are the ones who — rioted, not the masses, They are the ones who violate the law of the people to freedom of speech, the right to as- semble, and other basic human rights, The pig media would like us to think otherwise, with gross distortions of “unprovoked teenage mobsters, run- ning the streets,looting and burning,” The media of reaction tried to picture Biack people as animalistic or asa pig stated, ‘‘uncivilized misfits”, But who is uncivilized - those who would fight to free themselves from wretched conditions, or those who would keep people in conditions such as these of East New York, Brownsville, There children have been found, starved overnight to death from malnutrition, babies dying from rat-bites, high plague of sickle cell anemia and other crip- pling diseases, lead poisoning that is, if the family is lucky enough to haye paint on their walls, rabid dogs, cap- italists selling the rottenest of meats, free drug traffic, five story tenaments, just one occupied apartment the rest boarded up, Police shooting through the community from roofs, making believe ‘Snipers'are endangering more children, as some have been found to be injured fatally, Who are the uncivilized, Hitler used similar tactics in his call to the so-called master race against the Jewish population, What followed is history, a well-laid plan for which Richie Nixon is getting all A’s, But we shall stop genocide and the second mad man, with survival through service to the people, body and soul, . ALL. POWER TO THE MASSES OF PROPLE! STRIKE AGAIN capitalists but notobjective/sub- jective in the interests of the "We tind is people Therefore, lackey Ko}beimre- quested the removal of Mrs.Siz- more, acting superintendant; and Mra, Sizmore was replaced by Parker, 400 students and teuct an detrimental to the cuinmunity — tionary press, Including tie fo- compertont’’. In other words, the Area °A*’ euperintendant, Dr, ers; dnd at Marshall High Sehoot ae any other lackey, regurdie called Aleck press” defendin news media and radio stathuns Curtis C, Melnick, alone, 200 were dropped ia one of color, Since Kollwin: hus been Kallieim, act 46 pacifiers, mediators, can- We, of the Srudert-Teacher day.Alsu , ineliients of brutality at Hyde Park, she has jit five The ¢ racy against the vincers and propagators of people Coalitiog are bucking Mrs. Siz- within the schools have increused teachers, Mra, Patterson, Mi pentile ty the white anise-called t being allowed to control the more, ws well as all the other with Daley's forces being called lake, Mr, Green, Mims Mekiroy = "i\twek prese’* ha Me Up wit? destiny of thelr communities, teachers who have been strugq In te help repress the enidents and and Mr. Varnude of the Student varie lies in order te create a giing 0 bring the snidents 2 re- teachers with beutings Teacher Coalition on the police gap between the students and par When Mee. farbera Stemore levant education; an education We understand that the variou list, en that they can be closed; enty, This, hwwever, | vt tie caine to tiyde Park High Schoo), that teaches us the true saturect principals af these high schocls watched by Gang Intelligence Linitt —imited to the “press” ahine, We ihe began apoaking on possible thie decadent Amerikkkan soc- are Puppets and move in the th- gents, deo 4 creation uf thin gap bein wiys in which we could use to betty; and education thatteaches terests af the Hoard of Education, Kolhelim’« pecatlent ** puctifi- endorsed try the “fitack" radia liberate ourselves, tn doing this, vur true history and role in the Therefore, we leo understand able reanons"’ are thattie teach- tations as well, he Covered three ideulogies: Mar (iwesent day soctety, the rebellious nature of the am- ere are incunipetent 4nd are mot VMricuniam; the idealuey of the The people sheukt have the dents withits these racist Herit- teucting the ehudents properly, No example of Os Le WVON, Now Keputilic of Africa; ail the power to determine the destiay tions will continue to exiet until therefore, she wants the feavher whitch will JURE AIWnID AMY THING kiealagy the Olack Panther Gh) \Eirm eocial, economical, we gain the power to ubolioh the relieved uf allteaching responel- foot’ re arte. dd pubic Rhrg $ an fer Aato Murty, te give un sone type yf potlid ambeducstional inetitu- present sehool system and the bilities ; eatge MAY'S Ariy WANS 0" Ob metivity (9 anilyeing for clr. Hog \ witkeli die «within their capitalist soclety which perpet tlowewer , the students, tea He joln you,...joln the army... if yon elves the best merttents of galling Tedpiee tive Communities. wates this sedoesn ere smal pares wang thie wont have Mity ftheane ¢ then liberation, The Atudenta, terchers, and ern to remain as A ey - ark WO over tn that Chi Uce-th ‘ind Kalvin, lackey peingipah” ATL PONE TO THE PROPLET parenite af Hyde Park ilighSchoot derail the Femoral o ahol= — partinent te eto gang ware’. We dive Pa iube"t Whe cts type WE WILE CoN: OUR COM have realized the tecennity for heit, eecing ay whe is tony this was oetially dome in would { edication, ti tive (rk, WiAENEOAND TTS ([DUCATION= commumity contro} of their edu lecornipetent t4 her pehceme Mt t ber an endurnemest of the pene- Chisel alas Ge pantie AL SSTITUINS cational tentitutions and have has aikled to, not paaik ton a coe of Hack anit uppreased pe choul syatem, education gan be t moved w rid the community of of the repressive cantits wpe Tt reacthmury ayotet student ~ Teacher Coalition ubjective inthe interests of the CONCE OFFICERS OF BALTIMORE CITY There are several concerned officers at Baltimore City Jail who are perfectly aware of the racist attitudes and practices of Wurden Schoonfield, his Deputy Wardens, his Captains andthe Jail Board, as demonstrated against the officers and inmates of City Jail, Approximately three weeks ago, Several officers concerned about their role at City Jail - and their rights - approached Warden Schoonfield with a reasonable request, Since the Jail has facilities for parking, the ‘*B’’ Shift officers (2:00 PM - 10:00 PM) asked the Warden if they could park their cars within these facilities to avoidvandalism, by parking in the streets, The Warden was shocked that his Black officers would join together as a cohesive force and approach him, So in his usual rac- ist manner, which we have witnessed in all situations dealing with Blackofficers’ andinmates’complaints, he responded by telling all the officers that ‘‘dared’’ ap- pear before his “‘holiness’’ that they ‘‘were now late for work, so go take the day off- without pay.”’ Those officers involved then decided to go directly to their union representa- tive - which further infuriated the War- den - who in his usual pattern, resorted to threats...‘'So help me, I'll get every of one yau,”’ GRAND JURY REFUSES 10 INDICT KLANSMEN FOR KILLING yn réciam can only be eliminated by the education QiSlack and i in the Dlack Panther. OF BLACK Oxford, N.C. (Le White men have been free grand jury ing the june, 1970 murder of Henry Lee nam veter “t ifficer in the f the Ualteu ni whieh w ‘ Marrow, 4 War fellow }lerdrmen w at iran ties ii t Americn, int, The . welt | ert (iakie at : rl their Vile lect ratunetl i f t et fier firat thre ve i ting. tclat trial ete i itral it { eur Virgt ito hear t THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1971 PAGES | JAIL given to the inmates that attempted to express their grievances In the rebel- lion that took place in February, 197], These six officers who represented the officers of ‘'B’’ Shift and attempted to peaceably approach the Warden with their reasonable request, have since een the victims of the Warden's threat, As of April 25, two of the six officers have been fired by the Warden on trumped-up charges that have been backed up by his personal staff of rac- ists, the Deputy Wardens, the Captains and the Jail Board, We, the concerned officers Baltimore City Jail, have now perienced the racism that prevails in the contro! and authority of the Jail, We have attempted to express our grievan- ces,the same as the inmates attempted to express theirs, and we both have ex- perienced the iron-clad repression of these officials who haven't the slightest understanding of Black people or their problems, The Black inmate represents ap- proximately 95% of the prison popula- tion and the Black officers represent ap- proximately 80%, of the prison officials, rhe prison elite - the Warden, Deputy Wardens and Captains, are all White. We, therefore, join with the inmates and of eX- trolled by the community it represents the Black community -- inorder that the Jail Officials have a clear understand- ing, knowledge and concern for the in- mates and officers of City Jail, We also ask for the immediate re- moval of Warden Schoonfield in that he represents a clear and present danger to the Jail population, and the officers of City Jail, We also ask that an in- dependent Jail Board that fairly re- presents the Black community replace the present racist Jail Board, We also join with the inmates and request that an independent grievance committee be appointed that fairly represents across section of the Black community to hear all complaints of the inmates at City Jail, On April 29, in his true racist manner , Warden Schoonfield ordered that all Black officers keep their hair short, We, the concerned officers of Baltimore City Jail, will oppose this move and are joined with several White officers who express solidarity and sup- port for our united actions against the racist Warden and his ruling clique, "WE DEMAND COMMUNITY CON- rROLI"” Concerned Officers of Baltimore City This same threat was request that Baltimore City Jailbecon- Jail, The f MAN rhe city pe an oe ee ee oe ee ee ee INTERCOMMUNAL jack Panther Party ha Bere people of the [ilack Service was created to present factual, reliable information to the people. tes Ot CES ee ee Enter my subscription for keMeck box IMORTHS 6 MONTHS Ont TEAR 2 ie iplease point) NAME OR SS nN STATLIZIP @ PUL ASL MAI CHECe th f OF MONT? 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OOO. _ THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1971 SOLEDAD Jesse Lee Phillips Since January, 1970, two guards have been killed at Soledad State prison, The first guard was found dead in Jan- uary, and since that time, three Black men, the Soledad Brothers (George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo and John Clu- chette) have been arbitrarily selected and charged with the murder, They are currently on trial in San Francisco and the State of California is trying to send them to the gas chamber, The second guard was found dead at Soledad Worth Facility, This time pig officials sought vengence in another arbitrary round up, isolating fifteen brothers this time, The brothers were kept in small cells with no personal property. They were allowed outside once a week fora ten minute shower, and were illegally interrogated, These men were held in- communicado (no communication with fellow inmates or anyone on the outside) for forty-nine days, As a result, inthe first week of September, 1970, the racist prison of- ficials filedcharges against seven of the brothers, for murder and conspiracy, These seven brothers were.Jesse Phil- lips, Roosevelt Williams, Jimmy James, Walter Watson, Alfred Dunn, James Wagner and O.C, Allen -- all from Los Angeles -- the Soledad 7, The seven have been defined by prison officials as Black militants; all seven PAGE 6 SEVEN TRIAL BEGIN “- “ » James Wagner 2? are serving indeterminate sentences, If found guilty of these charges, under penal code section 4500, they get auto- matic death sentences, Officials are so anxious to frame the brothers that they have posted signs promising automatic parole and $500.00 for any inmate that will testify against the brothers, On October 13, 1970, the seven were brought to court for a preliminary hear- ing. They were chained -- hands and feet -- whendelivered to the courthouse through an underground garage, Just before the hearing began, the sheriff's officers took pictures and fingerprints of all the immediate family mem- bers, claiming that this would insure that all family members got into the courtroom, Inside, family members were given seats in the back, In a pretrial hearing, the judge re- fused to appoint attorney Patrick Hall- inan as attorney for all the brothers. Instead, he appointed Hallinan attorney for James Wagner, and gave the other brothers six court-appointed attorneys, not of their choice, Hallinan and five other attorneys came to a subsequent arraignment, asking that they be ap- pointed in place of Judge Campbell's choices, since they were the attorneys that the brothers wanted to represent them, (It was necessary to have the law- yers appointed, because the brothers do { Roosevelt Williams not have the funds to pay for the lawyers and the State is required to pay for lawyers of their choice when defendants show financial inability to pay for legal representation.) The judge refused to appoint the legal counsel that the broth- ers wanted, saying thar he didn’t know ‘the ethical and professional compe- tence’’ of these men, When Hallinan pointed out that Judge Campbell did not know him either, Judge Campbell fired him, Hallinan has since been reinstated, In March of this year charges against four of the Soledad Seven were dis- missed in an attempt to smokescreen the intended railroad, In reality, the four who were acquitted still have the ‘death penalty’’ hanging over their heads, because the vicious and murder- ous guards may kill them in the yard at a moment's notice, (All the brothers in- volved were serving indeterminate sentences anyway). So now, Roosevelt Williams, James Wagner and Jesse Phillips remain to face this set of trumped up charges, The trial began Monday, May 10th, at Salinas County Courthouse in Salinas, California, The people are the only rightful judges of these brothers, COME TO THE HEARINGS IN SALINAS TO SHOW YOUR SUPPORTI!! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! YOUTH CONCENTRATION CAMP The Seate of Illincie sends tary confinement’’ (he hole) and young Hilack men, from ages 4 to 20 years, who have bewn placed in the custody of the State, to the ill- trois Industrial School for Hoyas, at Sheridan, Sheridan, ao itis te- millarly kuown, le @ Youth Can- centration Camp, in which pigs sibject our youth to deadly, gen- ocidal attemptn for the purpurea eliminating these potential revo- lutiouaries, before they become “dangerous,” Initiates and Geet parents fave been bitterly pro. testiig the genucital { iliches at Sher tsar. Ae punlaliment at Slieridan, for caanpie, youth are placed in**sall- Observers who usually forced to take tranquill- ters am! other dangerous drugs have visited the Pring say thatthe youth ure slug Gish and listless when under Ube "treatment’*, ae the pigs put it Pig Joseph 0, Coughlin, Aes{st- ant Director of Corrections, in | charge of the Juvenile Divisior (of Ilinols State Irinons), cald F that the politary continement is vat in the traditional senecs “'tn- mater who vielule the rule re comlined 1 af le The “roumn'’’ ie actually acell, six feet wide and nine feet long, fon * *roome’” bave etee! doors witha 8 mall window or slit as the only opening, which can only be opened with 4 key frotn the outside, In mates confined to these “room are only allowed to go outside two or three tines a week, for a shower It Le not the confinement itself iat ie mont feared by the broth - erp, What they fear most is the "shots", another part of the pri- son discipline. Often they are in. jected with Thorazine, which leaves them ‘Sore all ever'* ate arsed secpy mont of the time’, as one brosher put it, Thirty-nine young men have Deen ‘punished’ with Such shots tn the lavt nix week Dr. Marvin Setiwartz, cons uae in iatry, ys that so met the Uru 4ve Serious powngial tide effects. Neverttele s. ie Coughlin justifies there Na sptiiee eaperimen Lat ae mcessary: * wl clectivelyy wer medical superwinis oe te & [leoe for the we of medi cation to comrel behavior at the time of severe upset.”’ Dachav and Auschwitz (German coscen~ tration camps during WW Il) had “medical supervisian’’ too. Recently 4 sult was filed inthe Illinois Circuit Court's juvenile division against this typeof treat- tment /punishment. The sult seeks 4 permanent injunction that will prevent Sheridan officials from Placing any minor insolitary com- finement, and calls for restric- tion in the use of tranquilizing crip We suet not allow our youthto de exterminated by these nce- Nazie of the fascist prisons, The re aiid cnusual punishinent cor Youth “Ate wudjected to oust compe) UW netessary, we'll get 4 PeOpLO's La WRetion ageinst there LWe mbit protect our yuul og s3ary. WOUTH AMakKE THI REVOLUTION: ALL FIWEK TO THE PEOPLE! THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY IS, 1971 PAGE 7 TWO BLACK MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR CRIME THEY DID NOT COMMIT “‘Amerikkkan Justice’ -- Southern Style - is notorious for its blatant vio-| lation of Black people’s rights. How- ever, the latest case to come to the at- tention of the people is one of the most blatant attempts at legal lynching so far, This case has been buried by Fiorida pig officials for over seven years, In 1963, on July 3lst, two White ser- vice station attendants, in the town of Port Saint Joe, were kidnapped, robbed, and murdered, Two Black men, Freddie Pitts and Wiibert Lee were selected as the ‘'criminals’’, charged, tried, con- victed and sentenced within four weeks of the incident. Freddie Pitts was a 19 year old G.I, at thetime, Wilbert Lee was a 28 year old wood pulper, They were arrested on August 2, 1963, Pitts was held incommunicado for the next five days, during which time he was con- stantly interrogated and beaten by pig investigators, An Army sergeant, who saw him on August 8th, will attest to the fact that he had been severely beat- en, Under such brutal and extreme pres- sure, Pitts broke down and ‘‘confessed”’ to a crime neither he nor Lee hadcom- mitted, The next day he repudiated his statement, saying that he had been forced to make it, Pitts’ and Lee’s court ap- pointed attorney went ahead and made a deal, by which Pitts and Lee would plead guilty to the crime and let the jury sentence them, Two weeks later the jury returned with their sentences --the POLITICAL PRISONER APPEAL ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE: Within the last year, the vicious and oppressive nature of the American prison system has begun to be exposed, Due to the particular repression that the U.S. Government has directed against the Black Panther Party, we have ob- tained first hand knowlege of the pri- sons through our polilical prisoners, beginning with the incarceration of our Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton, over three years ago. Since that time, our Chairman, and co- founder of our Party, Bobby Seale, as well as over 130 other members of our Party have been incarcerated in prisons and jails across the country, Not only are they in jail on false charges stemming from their political beliefs, they ave subjected to some of the most inhuman treatment and repression of the penal system, However, they have also met the hun- dreds of thousands of other political prisoners, the forgotten people, the people no one knows, who have no vehi~ cle for putting thetr case before the death penalty, Their court-appointed at- torney was a brothers (Freddie and Wilbert) had been to the dent, But this is not the last of the long train of abuses, Three years later, a White man, Curtis Adams came intothe pig station and confessed to the mur- ders of the service station attendants, he (Adams) had been living substantiated his testi- mony. He volunteered to testify to thisif from prosecution, The pigs refused, However, they didnot arrest him nor make any attempts to The woman with whom granted immunity people, their only rightful judges. Be- cause of this situation, the Black Pan- ther Party has initialed a Free Busses to the prisons program, legal aid ser- vices to prisoners, and generally aiding the prisoners in whatever way that we can, We need your help, Inorder for these programs to function, we need busses, attorneys and funds, The cost of meet- ing the commissary needs of Party political prisoners alone is over $500 a month, Commissary is the amount of money that prisoners are allowed to keep in order lo buy personal necessi- ties such as combs, toothbrushes, stamps, stationery, etc. With this in mind, we have initiated a program through which interested individuals and organizations may pledge amonth- ly donation for six months or a year in order to help the prisoners meet their basic needs and see their families, through our bussing program. If you are inlerested in helping, please _fill out the form below and mail it in, ““We must wage a slrugzle in the pri- sons and jails simultaneous with the struggle in the streets" Robert Wi itival Prisoner _ made none of the motions that any lawyer would normally make in his client's defense, The state prosecutor's office withheld evidence favorable to the defendants, knowingly violating Florida State law, The only witness in the case racist White woman who made erratic and contradictory statements, The only thing established was that the service station earlier that evening and argued with the at- tendants over the use of the restroom, leaving, however, without further inci- re-open the case, In September, 1968, a higher court conducted a post con- viction hearing, because of the over- whelming evidence, As a result of the new testimony and the discovery of evi- dence suppressed ( hidden) by the State of Florida, Pitts’ and Lee’s conviction was overturned and a new trial was ordered, The original prosecutor appealed the decision for re-trial in a three-judge State appeals court, reversing that de- cision, reinstating the death penal- ty for the brothers . Southern *‘Justice”’ is so racist and dedicated to the geno- cide of Black people that its perpetra- tors are willing to let the real murder- er go in order to kill two Black men, A hearing has been granted in the Florida State Supreme Court, the highest level of judicial fascism in Florida, for May 14th, 1971. Mean- while, Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lee sit on Florida’s death row because they are two Black men, Until there is a to- tal change of this judicial system and the elimination of ‘‘Southern’’ and ‘‘North- ern'’ Justice, there will be many more — Freddie Pitts and Wilbert Lees, So we must move through any and every channel necessary to stop this andother genocidal railroads, FREE FREDDIE PITTS AND WILBERT LEE! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ae RE ee a eT ee eee ere Emenee = PSPS * fam interested in: Helping with the bussing program: (busses, car pools etc.) ‘ Helping with legal aid services (at- torneys) for the prisoners, Helping a prisoner meet his com- missary needs, Helping a prisoner’s family to visit him regularly through th bussing pro- gram, 1 PLEDGE; TR Reet erm eee $l-- $5-- $10-- $15-- $20-- $-- monthly For 6 months For a year TO; THE BUSSING PROGRAM LEGAL AID (DEFENSE FUNDS) : PRISONER'S NEEDS NAME; ADDRESS: CITY-STATE; PHONE: HOR H ORE E HHS ESOTEETESECE HEHE Sa teeeeeeneey eee eeeeee SEND ALL DONATIONS/To: Black Panther Party c/o Legal Defensé Fund 1048 Peralta St, Oakland, California 84706 Poe ee SCE CCCCCCCOCCT CTT Tera) eee hhh eee ee eee eee eee ee ee es Peewee renee oe 4 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 15, ! PAGE 6 rat THERE WILL NEVER BE JUSTICE IN THE AMERICAN COURTS UNTIL THE PEOPLE ARE THE JUDGES THE TRIAL OF HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER OF DEFENSE OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY BEGINS: MAY 26, 1971 ALAMEDA COUNTY COURTHOUSE 9:15 AM DEPARTMENT 5 SEVENTH FLOOR COURT OF JUDGE HOVE THE TRIAL OF DAVID HILLIARD, CHIEF OF STAFF OF° THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY BEGINS: JUNE 1, 1971 ALAMEDA COUNTY COURTHOUSE 9:15 AM DEPARTMENT 5 SEVENTH FLOO COURT OF JUDGE HOVE YOU CAN TO COMMIT BLACK GENOCIDE-FIGHT SICKLE CELL ANEMIA! SICKLE GELL ANEMIA Sickle Cell Anemia is a deadly blood disease that is peculiar to black people; that is, practically all of its victims are black people, The racist U.S. power structure has no intention of ceasing this form of genocide, since it is this racist power structure that perpetuates this disease, Therefore the Black Panther Party is initiating aprogram to help research really begin that can eventually discover the cure and prevention of Sickle Cell Anemia A tund has been established for this purpose, Your contri- bution, therefore, can be sent to: HELP DESTROY ONE OF THE ATTEMPTS : ee ”* OLA ae K PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1971 PAGE 9 f;',! cra) ULAR AAS eee hy THE BLAC Red blood cells taken from a patient in a sickle cell crisis. Three of the cells are _ sickled and the other Stretching away from its normal, donut shape, ~~ Normal, donut cells, shaped, red blood Dr, Bert Small, Chairman People’s Sickle Cell Anemia Fund c/o The Bobby Seale People's Free Health Clinic 3236 Adeline Sr. Berkeley, California or call (415) 653-2534 (415) 848-7740 ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Biack Panther Party SERVING THS PEOPLE BODY AND SOUL LETTER FROM SICKLE CELL VICTIM’S MOTHER I am interested in a sickle cell ane- mia foundation, if there is one, Myson was aviclimofthis tormenting disease. He graduated from Wilberforce Uni- versity , Aprill7, 1970, He died Novem- bey 23rd, My oldest son married last month, Due to our loss, have readall I could concerning sickle cell, Durinz his life time my son had a blood test, yes, but he had to ask for one to see if lu first had a trait of sickle cell, Sure enough he did, But how many know to ask for one? Foran example, my ltusband and 1 did not know and was nol aware of th disease until it was discovered that our Son had it, and lte was the third child, and he was not walking when he had the allack, and he when he passed, And during those years pulling the child to bed along with going into was 22 their room to break up a pillow fight was the cry in the night of a child in pain and nothing seemed to give ease. With all the pain he went through, his desive was some day he hoped it would he introduced to tte people, as well as other diseases, Sincerely, Elizabeth Short PARENTS, FRIENDS AND RELATIVES OF SAN QUENTIN INMATES! fhe Black Panther Party has noticed thar those peaple to travel from other places great difficulty getting Irom wrports and who have been able Area having t ure bus Phereiore, portation from When you arri to meet your needs, we etc, the airport, stations out to San Quentin Prison itself. are offering trans- to the prison and back, ve in the Bay Area - or you cane il] ahead your arrival time and information - CONTACT FOR T to the Bay (415) 465-5047 RANSPORTATION TO SAN QUENTIN: Black Panther Party Central Headquarters L048 Peralra Street Oakland, California ALL POWER TO THE PROPLE! of time and give us ha Ps oe please contact our Central Headquarters office and we will ‘4 transpor u. If possible, come by the send transportation for you, = = si Headquarters Office and we can take you from Black Panther Party cru ‘ \ > Gentral there. Serving The People Body And Soul fee 2 ie i. «ee i= CLOTHED ME: I CAME UNTO ME” SHALL THE KING SAY UNTO THEM HIS RIGHT HAND. COME, YE BLESSED OF { FATHER, INHERIT THE KINGDOM PRE- PARED FOR YOU FROM THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD: FOR I WAS HUNGRY, AND YOU GAVE ME MEAT: YOU GAVE ME DRINK: I WAS A STRANGER AND YOU TOOK ME IN: NAKED, AND YOU WAS SICK, AND YOU VISITED ME, | WAS IN PRISON, AND YOU (St Matthew25:34-36 ) | WAS THIRSTY, AND THE ROLE OF THE CHURCH AND THE SURVIVAL PROGRAM vv tee ian a fin this article | am speaking pri- murrily ubowl thy role of tine Mack Church. Howeoer, the specific steps mentioned later un in the article eppiy te while, drown, red end yellow chwrch- menus well) The Mack Church was torn ower TH peers ato, ewuced mm 4 survive! pro- from, The Bleck Church wis born owt of ox effort to dewl with the concrete oonditiors and needs of Black Poupte, ft wos torn im an attempt fo emote and umpower Mack Prople tv survie the racist ani explodiotive eyslem of thavery ix America, Its minsion ant Purpose foday ia the same as if wat 180 years ago, although at a higher bevel. That mission and purpose is te sew fe ile wtmoel that Alack People and other oppressed peoples surview, with dignity aut humanity, American ractam asd cupiieliem, Te wederstend the role of the Black Church im the survival program we mutt get an historical perapectinve of the Bizek Church, Historically, the period sros 1618, when thu frat sloves were drowghi fo America, to 1231 can be called “the period of Christianizing the slaws,’* Blocks who hod teen captured, kidnapped, drought te America, ond enslaves wre baplized and made Chrtstrans, Alihough some white, so-called Chrtstians genuinely believed that Christionity mos the re- ligion for all people, sos? Americans see Christiouty as o means to controt slaves and to beep thom obedient and docile. Some Christian slaves were obedient and docile. itd others, who hed learned hove to read, degen to read the Old Testement (the first 79 books af the Bible) and discovered that God wor agomat slavery and oppression m any form, Purthermore, they dis- Covered that God sspired men to de~ pelop survival programs for oppressed peopte--incheding wars of liberation. St. ADGUITINGS TrYicorAl Capate CaeLamD CAL ORNS Christian slaves tegan to have secred meetings tate af might, or i ihe hours just before dawn, Sneaking away from the slone gaurters, thoy would appemhle deep in the woods or swamps, ent listen to one of therr membership begin te preach abost justice, freedom, and liberation as being the will af God, These secret meetings, ¢taliel “hush-hurbor meetings’, cometated wut only of praising, preaching, end praying, ful plowing, plotiing, emt Practicing alare escapes and alawe rebeilions, Lilevaliy hundreds of slays cocaped = to the Northern slates, oF inte Comnda at a reeult of plans fuliated and carried ow at the secret meetings. Ales! salable of the many slave rebetituns plasned af the secret mwetings were those of The Rev, Catriel Pry 1 im 102 af Rich- mond, Virginia; The Kev, Denmarh Veeey pm 1822 af Charleston, South Curelina; and The Nee, Nat Turner ce TAI! at Sowth Hampton Cownty, Virgina, The secret meetings, ard their aub- sequent events, goo Sirti to the Black Church and to the aurvivel program for Hleckhs, Indeed, the Black Church and the survive! program were ome and the some, The Mack Church was the sur- wine! program, and the survdixit pregram--of heightening the level of awareness of the slaves, planniny, and carrying out slave escapes and re~ Setiions-~was the Black Church in operation, The vebvllion led by the Her, Nat Twrner in (40 began 4 second period in the vole of the Black Church/ survival program. The secoral period wus thal of the treet control of the Riack Church, i! cowered Ihe sears frem Ui to the end of the Cisil Wor. Alikowgh only 55-60 witites were willed in the Rev, Derner’s rebellion, #t wos enough fo strike fear iniy the hearts of while sieve owners, in te- sponse to the Nev, Turner*s redellion, wiles Dogon ta tuke more repressive measures agetusl the Hlack Charck because they knew thst Hack preockers and church members were inatre- mental in slave cecapes and rebellions, Aleatwres were taten wherem Macks were sof allowed fo worship unless @ while persos was present; a Mack Preacher wos sod allowed to lead a coe- gregetion i worship wiless he preached wnly abut “the hereafter’*, asl a white observer was present, Seme Mack congregations were sult allowed to worship wiless @ while minister fed them, Still other Mack congregutiogs were forced fo worst together with whites--not for the sabe of integration--tet sw that whites could kevp their eyes on them, Yet, despite thead reatrictions the Mack Cherch atill continued to engage in the survival program of mabing slawes aware af therr oppressive con- ditions and af Aviping sheows te escape. Jn attempting to lift the level ofaware-~ ness of Blacks, the Rev, Neary High- fond Garnet im 1808 sand in oc sermon for slaves, “Dvothren, tt is as wrow Jor your lordly oppressors te beep you in slavery os wus for the man- thief to steal our ancestors from the coast ef Africe, You should now there fove wae the same manner of resistence as would kezewe been fuat m our an cestors when the biaody foot-prints af the firet removecleas seul-thie! were Placed upon the shores of our ather- famd, The inembdlest peasant ie as sree in te sight of God ws the prowdest monmurcKh that coer swayed a scepire. Liberty is a apirit sent frum Gud ond, like tts greal Autor, (4 a0 reapecter af persuns, Irethres, the time sae Cotte when pow mest cet for yourselves, tt te an old and true saying Gul, ‘if hevedtiary borden woul be free, the wvest themactines atrite the blow’."* The flex, J. W. Lognes speaking fase im aponse to the Pugitewe Slave Liew said, “1 don’! reapect the Pugiiing Slawe Law-«/ don’t feer if--1 won't obey it/ Uf outhiwe ne, end f outlaw it and the met who aftempl to enforce it om me," While guck men were carrying vel the aspect of the survival program dexigued te set Alack minds straight, other aspects of the aurviral program were being carried owl by churches the Northers states, Slaves who hat escaped te the North estattished churches, These churches tecome waystations for the Underground Kail- oad. They decume places through which «escaped shaves could gel established in the North, or contrmer on fo Canada, or af posaitle, to Africa, Northern Hlach Churches frund homes, food, clothing, and jods for escaped slaves, Thea, the scope of the survival program expetded tt falfilling the daily, Sasic, human needs of Slacks wha had escaped fram the South, The pertod fallowsng tw Ctol Wer affected the role uf the Mack Church drastically, Ouro Recomalnn tion Bigcts «were veerdied from the Churches for potstical offices, Much effort, escnny, talent, anal interest Chat hat Mon iy the Mack Church wee siphoned aff ito the political arena. The role of the Blick Church was weakened, With the end of Reconstrection amd the emergence of Jim Crow, the Mack Church eraduilly Mecume @ means uf éacape, rather thin a means of pro~ fast. The oppressive federal, state and lowe! governments and the coupe. falvetic system said that Mocks were exploited, mantpulated, wad diserim- inated apainat by Jim Crow fows mad decanse they were Hack, int teceuse they were ignarant, immorul, and Lary, Macks were told thet they cowl! eoy freedom (f they look om iehile, cupi- talistic calwes, Su the passion Aur free~ dom und survived with dignity Sucame replaced by sermons agutnal drinking, danceng, smobing, and which ebeculion, wortiqg, owt trying en the cued side af the oppresser, The surcivel prugrum af the Mack Church toot on the nature af **jusi tryin® ie mabe if im ihe fuce of oe- Pression, rather then trying tv change the conditions af oppreasion, Ixjuations aad oppression of this life were wrer- lovin! in favor nf ‘a lond flewmy with milk wel Newey’! beyond this world, Mecwese the Mack Ceerok wnt longer the jeader of protest agaist m- justice ould oppression, crvil rights arvups developed te pict wp the fight, * ie civil rights groups mtich emerged ure, of comree, fhe Niagra Movement, which, after infiltration by liberals, bwoame the Nutionad Asspciation for the Advancement af Colored I'eople’ the Congrens nf Mactal fquality; the Urhen League; amt the Student Non-Violent Coordmating Committee, Tee Mack Choerch once goin affirmed ita rightful purpose m the peraun af The Hex, Dv, Aarts Leteer Arw, Jr, aml the arpestcatin of the Sauther= Covistion Losdership Conference, Tee orpenszainma formed in 1963 aed 1900 whick mond the Hberation straggle to « higher level, were the Deacens for Defense ont Justion, aud the Meck Pusther Party, Al lita puent if reust Se gots thal the Ateck Charch amt Bisck preachers are not to be universally condemend for their actions or Muctions durme this period, Many Black preachers and congregstions were wiry active = the fight for monan rights, Ateny churches were tomSod as a resull ef their muolwement m ihe Mack Lit- eration Monument, Many iock preech- ers were Gereatened, Seaten, jailed, umd seme murdered becouse of their tmnoloement, We con eves understand thore whe were tot imeoleed m ike moremest for human rights, te @ hostile white world wilboul an) power to make whtles recognite Mlacks ea persons, ihe Mhack Cherch aml Mack preachers de- ettoped @ means of eurvigal, That mesna woe fo affer topy and strength te weet and to Liew thervaaglt She Muted « lations and dehumomizetions shick Atack Pevpte eacountered daily. We con weterstund hte, Sut ender standing te not coimeh, Understontow doewn’! take Mack People ant other white C(t... thoes on the fuel; wuderatonding be we substitule for a decent Auuee uy apert~ ment; understanding dows sot diepenae fastice im the cowrts; widerttending does set change iniurean prison com- ditions, The Misck Church, Le. Mack Preschers, church members, onl fviewds must mows beyond mere wmder- standing af how aut why the Mock Church won neutrslised and compro- mtised m ite leadership role of Mack owrrinad, The Mack Church must once cooie veceptere the aptrit af freedom gad Petsion for serve! that goow of ity begiening, In se domy if will he por tigipating wtth the Mlach Pexther Party's survival pragram, As steps te de this | awepest the fallowey. 4. beck preachers Kare to pet ihe mands tfraight of (her comrregetion. (Congregelions mey tome fo do the seme thing te thetr preecter) Bisct Preachers haw got te slop preectmy herd ot kenedum in lhe Aevwafler wach ts “a band flowang with mili aed Avesy” (each a diet would only reonlt m diarvtes anyway) We sual deal with comcrvfe conditions aed cwrrvostl et thes lifel We haw to stop preschiny from fasengvs mm the Midle § whic “shaves, be obedient Le porwr wuaste J (Pphestans (4), ant, *... chem poe de right and anifer for of pou take of patiently, thie (2 occeptas wttt Gad”, (! Peter DY, We must drow our sermons from the words af the pro- phets who say, “Theat saps the Lord, etecule Juaticg @ the morning, ent dedivwr from the Bart of fhe oppressor him who has born robbed.” Jeremiok 2L1t,LY, and, “Hear thie word you whe oppress the poor, whe crush the nerdy, the Lond God kas sworm that the days ave coming when they shall tobe pow quay with hooks, even the hast of yew ith fishhoots,”* (Amos £:1,23, We ema? not let cur congregetoots think that the only reason fo ctiead chorch is te sing aed precy, Dorey yur worship services ww rewsl wee the ee times aa opportunities fo heighten the level of awareness af cur people. God, apraking throweh the propact, Ames, deals with this potnt when he sere, } hate, 1 despise your frasts, ond f take mo delight im your soleme assomblics,..Tabe awry from me the saise af your somge: lu the melaty of your herpes f will mot Listen, But tet festice roll dows Hite wuters, anf vigtteowmness like a overflow sream?”” (Amos &2t-20, As Blast Preachers we kere te constantly trey CONTINUED ON NEXT PACE , THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 55, 1971 DYNAMITE FOUND IN PYRAMID COURT-CAIRO, ILL. Cairo, [ll., April 27, 1971 ----‘‘The a | dynamite and other explosives found ina concrete block building near the Missi- ssippi River levee and about 100 yards from Pyramid Court was meant to kill the Black people living in this project,”’ was the statement and general feeling of many of the residents in the all-Black housing project, State police today discovered what one state policeman said was ‘‘enough ex- ° plosives to blow away the complete West ° end of Pyramid Court,'" Among items in- cluded in the find and as shown by state police to officials of the United Front were about 50 sticks of dynamite, three % pipe bombs loaded with Black powder and finishing nails, tear gas bombs, other home made bombs, detonators, 45 caliber and 30.06 caliber ammunition (Close to 1,000 rounds in all.) and other items, Speculation in the Black community is that white vigilantes, who have already fired into the housing project on 150 PAGE 2 United Front leader Rev. Charles Koen nights (and many of the shots fired have come into Pyramid Court from the di- yection of the building in which the ex- plosives were discovered.) meant touse these against Blacks living in the housing “THEN SHALL THE KING SAY UNTO THEM ON HIS RIGHT HAND, COME, YE BLESSED OF MY FATHER, INHERIT THE KINGDOM FROM PARED FOR YOU OF THE WORLD: FOR YOU GAVE ME MEAT: YOU GAVE ME DRINK: I PRE- THE FOUNDATION I WAS HUNGRY, AND I WAS THIRSTY, AND WAS A STRANGER AND YOU TOOK ME IN: NAKED, AND YOU CLOTHED ME: | VISITED ME: CAME UNTO ME.” continued from hiome the reality and concrete con- dition of our oppression as a peopl and thal this oppression ts agains! the will of God. And, as we all know, “God don’t like uly!’ We also know that oppression is as ugly as you can get, 2. Churches can participate with th survival program of the Black Panther Party by allowing the use of their buildings as places where the survival programs can be implemented, Chureh buildings can be sites for Free Break- fast Programs, Liberatton Schools, Health Clinics, depositories for food and clothing, and for meetings. St. Augustine’s has been used for the past three years by the Black Panther Parly for such programs, 3: Churches can sponsor or sponsor with the Black Panther Party the different specific survival pro- grams, In tine’s co-sponsored the first Fre Breakfast Program with the Black Pan- ther Party, Church congregations can sponsor or co-sponsor food, clothing, and health programs, Churches have a co- WAS I WAS IN PRISON, AND YOU (St. Matthew25.34-36 ) January, 1969, St, Augus- SICK, AND YOU last page tax exempt and non-profil status, This status should be used in order to serve the people. This status could definitely be used in establishing food, clothing, or housing cooperatives. i, Church vesources can be wilized needs of the people, would include money and skills of church members, A ‘talent bank’ listing the expertise talents, and skills of church members can be maintained, St, Augustine's has on The ‘‘talent bank’' would list who were teachers, carpenters, to Serve iT Such resources and it is used, thos: doctors, scaumstresses, lawyers, cooks, elc, Whenever imple- mentation of a specifie survival pro- gram required certain expertise, those listed in the ‘talent bank*’ with that expertise could be called upon for their Services, 5. Preachers and church members can visit inmates in the prisons, They can also help to arrange transportation for families of inmates so that they can visit with ltheiy relatives and loved ones who are imprisoned, These are just a few basic invalve- ments that can be carried out by project, They feel that since the explo- _sives were wired electrically, the bomb- ‘ers would have set off explosions at night, and then when people came oul of their homes would have set off the bombs filled with nails, so that others would have been wounded, Then, the Blacks feel, the whites would have used the ammunition to fire on other Blacks who might sill be on the scene, The Rev, Charles Koen, executive di- vector of the United Front of Cairo said that it is obvious that Black people, had they even possessed any explosives, would not have stashed them so close to the project in which close to 1,000 men and women and children live, He said that accusations of Blacks doing such things would be outrageous. The types of bombs seemed to be meant to be used against people and not buildings which gives credence tothe speculation by Blacks according to the Front leader. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE churches, In conclusion, the heritage of the Black Church has been inextricably bound logether with the survival of Black People and with bringing an end to oppression and exploitation, There- fore, to say that the church--and Black Church in particular--has a role to play in the survival program of the Black Panther Party is nothing new. The Black Panther Party from 1966 through the present has merely put into operation the survival program that the Church should have been doing anyway. The efforts of the Black Panther Party are consistent with what God wants, God is going tojudge preachers, church members, and everyone else not for their piety or lack of il, not for their decency or failure in it, bul by our relationship to each other which is established through the survival pro- gram of the Black Panther Party. In St. Matthew 25:34-36 this truth is verified, In this Bible passage we find the criteria that God is going to judge by, ‘Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom pre- pared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry, and you fave me meal; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink: I was a stranger and you took me in: Naked, and you clothed me: 1 was sick, and you visited me: 1 was in prison, and you came unto me,”" (St. Matthew 25:34-36), Isn't this what the survival program ofthe Black Pan- ther Party is all about ?!!! The Church, The Black Panther Party, and eye thos®who belong to neither eroup can wrk logether to successfully implament Hie survival Program, The only veguirement is that we all are Gomniitted fe Wedestruction of oppressian and exploitation, so that we = can Wehom UAL )=6POWER TO THE PEOPLE? DY! =e" CONTINUE! "State Polic: the explosives "We feel that afraid of the fi election of witi the city commis theiy atlempt | be total blood: According to s; Black people of Cx of what the newly city might attem community, The) of explosives ts on: to come in whic! will move with vi Cairo, A pistol ties clearly in view near bullet-shattere window within easy reach of the home's occu pants, a black family terrorized for many months Shot reportedly came from Cairo police station NEW HAVEN “© Bemomer, THE BLACK PAN TES DAY, MAY IS, 1971 PAGE I3 FOUND \ | COURT ‘bon "While oen, things to stop nts have tried all 2 year old economic are boycott of thet, ‘ores, The elections of nthe these whitehat cials was a major vic- -e Mm tory for the merchants. They have given irtof the orders to stop Blacks in whatever will ways are necessary. This find today will fes."" only slow them a bit. When the new of-- vont, Jicials take office, anything can happen,” nsive Said the Rev, Koen. He added that the inthe United Front will remain nonviolent, and Black will continue to rebuild the city through ery many areas of economic development, events (Black leaders from community, state itlantes and National organizations will partici- dlacksin pate in the 2nd Annual National Solidari- day in Cairo, Ill., June 19, 1971.) one ECTIGUT REVi ’AL FOR SURVIVAL Save Bobby and Ericka Save Black People sreepeesare” as ar Weel cores as “ . Che Black Vauther Party Announce’ 7 Revival for Survival Special Guest Speaker Rev. Charles Koen Hnited Front Cairo, Allinvis Sunday, May 16, 197] Beaver Pond Park 12 Noon to 8:00 PM Cay ” Ferre Subitny Awd Ericka a oe ~~ SHE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 1S, 1971 PAGE M4 PLE ¢ OF CAIRO HAVE CONDUCTEDA BOYCOTT AGAINST THE WHITE MERCHANTS AND BUSINESSMEN OF CAIRO, BY WAY OF THE BOYCOTT, BLACK PROPLE WERE DEMANDING THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS, SUCH AS, FULL EMPLOYMENT, DECENT HOUSING, ADEQUATE MEDICAL CARE AND EDUCATION, THR FAS- CIST WHITE MERCHANTS HAVE RE- TALIATED THROUGH VIOLENCE AND TRYING TO STARVE THE PEOPLE BY CUTTING OFF THE SUPPLY OF FOOD, Black people boycott White vacist merchants in downtown Catro. BECAUSE OF THIS RETALIATION, THE PEOPLE OF CAIRO ARE IN DES- PERATE NEED OF FOOD IN ORDER rO CONTINUE THEIR STRUGGLE, For further information please con- tact the following Black Panther Party office - Chicago, UWlinois:4233 5. In- diana Tel, 924-6575 SUPPORT THE PEOPLR’s STRUG- GILE OF CAIRO THEIR STRUGGLE IS OUR STRUGGLE! G.1.’S DEMAND FREEDOM OF BOBBY SEALE AND ANGELA DAVIS! The statement below was signed by over four hundred concerned soldiers of the U.S. Military, mostly i Stack, representing practically all $0 of the United States: TO: THE GOVERNORS OF THESOVEREIGNSTATES OF CALIFORNIA AND CONNECTICUTI! This petition le drawn againtt the sovereign stutcy of California and Masuuchusette: fn behalf of all political prisoners, the foremost being the persons AngelaDavis anil Bobby Seale. We, the concerned citizen soldiers of the military forces of America and our dependants, are hereby re- solved to be heard in this matter of continued murder and imprisonment of our revolutionary brothers ann isis- ters with little, or no jut cause. This petition 1s « legal and mor a} request, seeking the immediate release of all political prisoners, in the name of justice for all Hlack citizens and freedom loving peo- ple of the sovereign states of Califurnia and Massacho- etts. At no thne has there been a greater peed for revolu- tlenary thinkers on the part of the American Dlack man than the present, Therefore, it would be criminaland in- deed traitorous tw the cause of freedom to renuunce these thinkers. Furtherniore, the petitioners bere 5 gned fear that to remain silent is to endanger the Uven of all political prisoners restrained by the powers sof the ulorementioned sovereignties, Because there are high levels of political interest centered around these revolutionary thinkers, with Lrtle, or no conern given for the will of the Black masses, justice can only be served by thelr release, Confessed murderers and maimers of human beings are walking the streets of America as free men with no court willing to bring them totask, While at the same time many Glock» are imprisoned for their political views. To enhance faith inthe Constitution of the United Seates we urge the legal and binding recognition of this petition upon receipt by all parties concerned, WISCONSIN STATE ASSEMBLYMAN BARBEE SPEAKS OUT FOR THE A bill proposing & far reaching Consumer protectior coils has been Latroduced by Scate Representative Lloyd A. Barbee ()-Milwaukes-}), Among other things, the measure would slash interest rates, curb door-to-door selling, and create 4 consumer counsel inthe Governor” office whe would move against merchunts viclating the code, ‘This code can be the consumer's bill of rights In Wisconsis,”” Garbee sald. ‘Until now, te weight of our laws has been on the side of the creditors, an scvantage which jending institutions have not failed to wee when exploiting the unwary and the poar, *The code | wm proposing would ever things up, k would offer the debtor 4 wide range of protections so that he will no longer be treated ua a second-class citizen, The Barbee Will draws heavily upon the National Consumer Act, 4 legislative proposal drafted by the National Consumer Law Center at Boston College. As yet, no state has yet adopted the National Consumer Act in its entirety, An alternative measure, the Uniform Credit Consumer Code, i6 cansidered lees favorable towards consumers. The U.C,C,C,, promulgated by the Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, as been adopted by Oklahoma and Uta. Several other states are close to adopting it. The Barbee measure would revise old laws new ones regarding consumer credit transactions in Winconsin, At the momen, there le a flat and/or graduated interest rute structure for each Kind of joan available in Wisconsin, Por aute financing, the finance charges range from 1.7E to 26.00 4 year, The rate depend upon the age sndereate of the car set the amount bortuwed The saaimum rates for perma) tury, collater al, am! discount louns are 17%, 14% and [75 reepectively For Joanie up te $900, 4 graduated rate structure cy Ih for 30% a yeur onthe first 199, J47, 2 your the secoml $100, and 127 « year on the turd $100, And under present law, pawnironers ca charger up to WE a yeu slope inerent The Harbes Hill w wild eatablioh « Wniferm gracdieted interest rate suructare for all kines 1 all amounts. fhe sew rates would be DF 4 year balances of $200 or leas, OF 4 year on unpas between $300 and $1,000 amnio mm unpald balances more than $1,000, The measures call for these present law; tt would prohibit the uss wages. A consumer, to-door saleaman, would not with the transection unless within three duys, Al present, to Ko through with a transactior for buyers of food freezer plans, to cancel an agreement). fanke esti finance companies which m unpalt loan balances iyear other departures from ignment and garnishinent of entering info an ag reement with a toor- ye obligated to ¢ he » affine i the tras a2 consumer is obligated Qhe only exception is wi have three days Action purchase credit accoumse from merchants could be gued by censumers who are unhappy with their gous, A buyer claiming 2 breach of warranty or negligence regarding tis yoods could take action against the fecnurer. At the moment, he can move only agalnet the retailer from whem le purchased the gots, Creditors would be forbidden from claiming as col- juteral uny goods other thun the item Soli to a debtor Mt the moment, the creditor can afk hats commumer put collatersl against the bew washing mana- up 4 television pet 4 tuvchine the consumer Wanth te hy, if a consumer can't ovect furtier payments, he « sibel urrender bis gouds and have no further obligation, Thi wuld «ive the consumer an option in case he cefauit At the moment, only the creditor han the powe ation, whether he seek the oO take cullaters| ar a judgement w both, further, « ereditor would have to gu to Court to te poner collteral, Mt preaent, be cal try seize ollateral wiheut court appreval UW creditor mart debtor would have «4 15 day delay in which tre wo the right tw “cure” his default, that is, catch up en bis paynients, If fe did, the court would be obliged to dis legus action againny 4 critter, the Ld fiawe go through CONSUMER mise the creditor's action i a debtor hasn't cured his default, he still would have the right to demand a hearing on the issue of de- fault, For exan ple, he could claim that there was an error in bookkeeping. the oeltor saither cures lus Gefauk nor per- suades « court to give him a further delay, the dettor would stiJl have 30 days to redeem his back-pay- ments before creditor could seize collateral. As part af redemption, the debtor would also have to give a performance deposit to guarantee his paying off the rem of the debt. This deposit would be ag high as 17/3 of the total obligation remaining but no more than three inetaliments. if the debtor can do note of these things and If the creditor gets court approval to seize collateral andtakes potdession ef it, he cannot seek a judgment for the re- mainder of the debt unless the unpaid balance was §2,000 ot more at the time of the defauls, In other words, the creditor would have to make a choice between claiming collateral or going to court to collect the remaioder of relatively modest debts, He could net de both as he can under fresent law. This is intended to ease the plight of the consumer whose collateral soch as furniture de- preciates go quickly in value these days that he can’t hope to cover what remains of a debt with the proceeds from its sale The Garbee of stiff fine thy In Some causes, 4 co the transaction total The tyeasure would alte put teagh controls on crediz cumb) campile a min report on 2 Let Conettoet fran ted t permisaion propted pv wumer, ou abate would be created and logatad lip ing Gescenae’® office. tie would Uitect the cogiiiiier -Cogiael \S Het, and ecuiaister the « 1 eden PEARP ASA Bie counsel and tivins ‘ Stee es: stating re) Gaw under the com- trol of the Hep iin af Agebeultyes The courte), WEBER OF A Private citizen could Wirect te attorney Generel to Lingetigute and prosecute vidlations of the conaqiee oat iii would also set up a graduated rate for violations of Joan laws and sales tracne- suurtes couldpacnver OF of spencies. No agency canmumer unies inally, the CERPTS FROM AN INTERVIEW ———_—E THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY IS, 1971 PAGE WITH REVEREN JESSE JACKSON ON ELECTORAL POLITICS Q: Reverend Jackson what in your analyois of the re- cent mayoralty election in which Richard Daley won an unprecendented fifth term ae Mayor of Chicago? Az: My analysis would be thuthe te 2 dictator, Many of the white media which were forced w endorse Mayor Daley, in spite of some beteer politica} jodgetnent, found thempelves in # bind with « man who is now « dictator, A dletatar is nor just an attinde: » dicturor har something to do with the amount af power that you can setze and centralize and contro}, Issues, that would ordinarily shake populations « loose from a tnayor, in this city have apparently had little affect. For example, many of the white anulysts whe would want to under-~cut the confidence a lot of people have putin Operation Gread- basket, for example, would say, ‘You dida't get 4 large black vote, therefore it is indicative of the fact that Black folk are not listening to you.’ But, the fact is that the Mayor won by about three hundred votes to five in the ward where Fred Hampton was killed, murdered in the bed. Which meana it is Indicative of samething deeper than just not having confidence in Jesse, and not having confidence in Operation Breadbasker, The petition campaign that curried three or four hundred thousand votes for # Black man as president of the School Board - In any other city for the mayor to make a decision solely on race, as he did in that in- Stance, at the expense of Black chilitren in the City, where the school population is about 55% Gluck, that ordinarily would be enough to shake the reins of power loose from a mayor. But none of these Issues had an effect, basically because the dictator seizes, number one, the area of communication: Every majornewspaper in this city, black and white, all of them gave Daley embriements, major endorsements, except one or two very smal) papers, And they had to do it whether they believed in him or not, basically because of their tax Structure. For example, downtown Chicago, First Federal Savings and Loan is in the *Loop’, aod on Board of Education property, and yet that property is leased for twenty-five thousand dollars 4 year} Midway Airport is on Seard of Education property, 4 mile square, twenty-four thousand dollars 4 year; the Tribune Towers is on Board of Education property, and its lease ts for a minimum amount of money « year, When Cullerton, the tax man, Who Ia hand-picked by Daley, was caught In @ tax scandal, because of the power involved, it made him more popular, as opposed to undercutting the power of the Daley administration, basically because tax status, So this is « level of power the ability to tax. | know one Black businessman whe participated in the bullding of a certain project, and when they first got the property and projected their costs, the taxes were going to be about two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, Once they being in power the major bankers and major business people had to either endorse Cullerton or lose their privileged Reverend Jesse Jackson the Cook County Commission, who has punitive measures to arrest, Secause he appolots the Police Chief, who appoints the judges, therefore can dis-appoint them in a given election, if they don’t go a certain way, So you have the judicial, the legislative, the executive taxing powers and punitive powers. So the scapegoat inthe thing is, ‘Why don’t Black people vote a certain way, or why Won't Black people follow Black leadership, in a certain way." The assassination of Fred Hampton, the real bid of # Warren Bacon, sow, thut moral respect that people have engendered for me and our organization is enough to shake the clay of reality that lack people are trapped In. You vote a certain way, you get your head chopped off, You vote another certain way, you can survive a while longer. And then Bluck people are basically in a dilemma, where they have to deal with survival first, That is the dilemina; thut amounts to the power that Mayer Daley has. In addition, there ure more than seven-hundred thousand unregistered Black voters inthe City of Chicago, more than flve-bundred thousand of which are Black, That's more unregistered Glock voters than in the State of Alabama, or in the State of Missisnippl, it cosu forty-five cents to come downtown on the bus, and forty- five cents to get back, For 4 husband and wife to come downtown on the bus and go back, chut’s a dellar elghey cents, Plus, getting a bubynitter to keep thelr children, which meuns that a thee or four dollar ‘’color’’ tex, or polls tax, te even register to vote, on foreign terri- tory. So In the real dense, the voter registrativos of Blocks in the South, in Georgia, in Mizaissipp, in Ala- bama and in South Carolina, it's much easier and far more practical than in the City of Chicago. There should be nelghborhood voter registration, The only time they really applied neighboriiood voter registration is when Barry Goldwater had been running scared in 194, They thought white Republicans were going torise up, and they process. We should have one office, one standard th the North, though tt diminishes the power of your vote. { was put Jn # colirtroom presided over by Mayor Daley's former Jaw partner, Judge Lynch, And, whathas to be clear ia thet | nover fad any concern for running for mayor, but for breaking up the political procems, To that extent, that is, had we won the Slifreme Court case, then Warten Bacon or Dick Newhouse or Charlie Hurst or domebody of that callber, you keow, who's concerned about politics, could have run, What | was attempting to do was to break downthe palitical barriers, that lock guys like this our. Now even In the midst of all that, the Mayor got ninety percent Gf the Black vote in 1957; dis time be only got Seventy-eight percent of the Olack votes, I the last election the Black vote was two percent below the city norm, which means a ten percent growth in the political consciousness and sensitivity of Black folk. This time Freeman got twenty-two percent of the Black vote, more than any Republican has ever gotten, in epite of the fact that more than seventy-five percent of the folks who voted for Nixon also voted for Duley, Now this kind of analysis by people who are getting paid full timeto be analysts, just has not come out, And, in the final analysis,{ think that we, as a human rights organization, have an obligation sometime to choose between being popular, being political and being moral, tt could have been popular, you know, in this instance, to side with Mayor Daley, because certainly that’s where the majority of the votes were. Ir could have been politic to try to be cool enough and use a rationale not fo vote for elther guy. Hut to be moral, you have to take 4 position, in spite of the odds, They say it's where i is, So it means that the slave may not take the step to get free, But you cannot aay tharit hus not been put on his mind, Q: Reverend Jackson, de you feel that Black People in Chicago have not utilized the power that they possess in electoral politics, If not, why? Az 1 do not think that Black people have used an a whole our political pawer to ins maximum potential, And beyond that being just my opinion, that’s just objective fact. For example, the Irish in this city, have two percent of the population, and seventy-five percent of the political jobs; Black folk are forty-five percent of the population and less than five percent of the political Jobs. So that is an objective fact, You can be « minority numerically, but you can be # majority in military ant intellectual power and enulave 4 numerical majority. No other ethnic group tn this country can compare itself withus, because even though they escape to this country from another country's tyranny, they came here voluntarily, andnever lost their tradition, particularly the tradition of political and economic development. We came here and had the continuity of our history troken, and came involuntarily, a3 opposed to volumarily... The difference between a slave and a free man is essentially an attiqdinal difference, QE DT P4EDP OC @ BO O,.BOBPBDOBD’D 4B © OOGOEG e906 O.- O00 S-d OO ws Gk tte es de eee eee wanted to balance it off with Glack Democratic votes. So, they began to rush 4 lot of Blacks on the rolls by having neighbarhood yoter registration, We're dealing with a force of abeolize tyranny, and to shaw how psychologically seme people really enjoy being enslaved and enjoy the comforts of a dictator, everybody accepts the oxpedient way out. None of the significant Hlick leaders in thie community took public ponitionn aguinst Mayor Daley. And all of them used sotne practical reason why they didn't. But, in part got tt built, the texassessor assensed it ar three-tundred ami eighty-five thousand dollars a year. This Ia enough to throw the whole cout factor of the building off balance, and they would have had to lose that property, The man, who is not only Black, but who Is a Republican, who is pro-Fred Hampton, and pro~jJesse jackson, who did 4 whole Jot of things in our behalf, found himself having to go to Mayor Daley, who in two days was able te get back to iim and say your tax is now afsessed again ar two-lundred thousand dollars 4 year. Now for 4 man to have this kind of absolute authority and contro! on the thin is based upon the fear of the slave, The Limits assessment of taxes means he ties up a lot of people that & person, such as myself, gets trapped in is that {natitutionally, even though he doen sot te them up the slave fights « freedom fighter more aggressively personally, And so the dictator does not depend upon than the Gluvemanter, because he has to stay in good with loyalty which grows out of love, he depends upon them, he has to appeal to the slavemaster. So analyzis obedience which grows out of the ability tu cut off or at one level of Daley's big victory isthe absolute powers supply somebody's need, that he has, dictatorial powers, Hitler had a large ma- He had that same kind of power relutive to the major jority, and the people «tio didn’t go for him, he had the newspapers, who are downtown Institutions, In acidition power to urrest them or kill them, | got ready to run to thar, be controls the Board of Education, Ife controls to lirewk up the political prerogatives of this city, be- the City Council, based upon the ability with eleven cause actually in Chicago, you have one political party, thousand pald precinct workers an ‘he street, who are with two games, Democratic and Republican. & ils clear listed an ‘A's or Temporary Asstatants; that means that you have one party with two names, There are more eleven Uustand precinct Republicans appointed to key positions in Daley's ad- ministration than there are filack poople ~ in a city forty-tive percetit OHlackh, and from a conmimunity thet he was able to get 9OL of lis vote from in 1967, He hax to say publicly that in 1955 4 Black man, Congressman Dawnon. tiode him « Chicago puwer, In 10, the The slavemaster beleves in his mind that somebody else is born to be his servant; the slave believes in his : mind that he is barn to serve somebody else. And that is , why It is tmportant, more important than just attacking the #lavemaster, to develop the mind and the character of the slave, because once the slave ceases to be a slave, , then the slavemaster is the master of nothing, and is . in fact in conflict with a free man, Te that extent | would urge all of us to put far more emphasis upon sensitizing and making the slave mare conscious, because, by definition, « slavemaster re- lationship is affected if the slave's couscloumess de- velops, In the last election, the Mayor did not come to the Black cormminity one time. He didn't come to 2 comuiltteeman’s meeting; he didn’t come to amassrally: he made oo overtures to the Black commuutity: and toak the Black community for granted, And we were go sleep 48 4 people tie got AE of the vote, our vote. This time he had to run « Black man for Treasurer to use him as the bridge that he ran across to get into the Black bed community, and he came into this COnmumunity more than twerty times, and still only got 78% of the vote. Bur the fact ts there were a lot of Hlack precinct captains promoted, there wat 4 Black maprunning for Treasurer, there is 4 Eilack man who Le tow Head of the Senate... And Here Ut 4 certain amount of judgement as to whether you think you cas de more from the inside out or from . the outaide In. DT have made the decision that ny role i Hlack vote pulling through for him, which got Kennedy in the outside tn, Some overt have Hinde thetr decision same furty-ane thousand office, wae his national prestige vote. Sete got lite ees! EnBIdS | Os AND We CARARS es hha Wibdipgaching sede ind his preutige from Blact And yet of the 72 on the In, while thoveigg the th dtracithasesof us on the ly four are out, and allow the er TOR) tree. he fact ts as Temporary Assistants workers" jobs are ninety day jobs, Those jobs have to be renewed every ninety days, Andifin any given ninety day perfod, you do not produce, a duce, not at you feel you ought to produce, then you lose your job In additian to that, 28 Chairman af the Hoard, he ban thirty thousand mare workers. you ure told to pro- Cook Couty So on election day, paid workers, an uN there are : oe wtes, wniformead army, an the streets wha wo fia op appointed jobs in his wiminiatration, o . ‘ Heir Livelihood. Le ackiitien to mat, Cop-appot : . rt abn e segtesarataley pe 5 Piection Commission, Now we flack. And tliree of those ure rate-relited, yuu know, when I give Mayor Daley bell far ovr Prometins Black : Ss Vite 5 Hi ; t 4. not no . , a yecieg es ue t ide part within 4 Democracy, urban, colored kind af Joba policemen, oat promoting Plath Uiremes, DobiFespecting step back mi contr . hulance uf pawen betwren there ate rhore Republicans, whe are supposed to be Diack people who wellegk City Actsbnite > thon the only sat ark Sp AR POT EN hie loyal opposition, with key Jobe in tle administrator ing the Mayor cao Gteesheceai'e atreek wie, he has to ; juctict a} ord Jegiz lative, it becomes ¢ Jour executive, «ha contrals the thar Count), whe turthermore tennive the tyrairty e’e Chairmanof Mayor tine bt tile city call 4 meeting of Sie (Oe a te dnekte, They can'e CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE the executive, f in how tangled up anit how ex- thet Mayor Daley i> the legialator, whitch te the City vontrole the County legislator, ber aume | flack people, Thi vet the abeolate powers are (hit the Awl teried to break up that el THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1971 HOW CAN WE -REMEMBER MALCOLM X. HE WAS OUR SHINING PRINCE INDEED, OUR EXAMPLE. BUT THERE ARE GREAT LESSONS HE HAS TAUGHT THAT ARE YET 10 BE LEARNED. LET US REMEMBER THE LESSONS OF BROTHER MALCOLM: PAGE 6 “Most of the countries thal were © colonial powers were capitalist coun- tries, and the last bulwark of capital- ism today is America, ‘This ts the richest country on this earth and there’s poverty, there's bad housing, there's slums, there's inferior education. ‘‘People realize that it’s impossible for a chicken lo produce a duck egg - even though they both belong to the same family of fowl. A chicken just doesn’t have it within its system to produce a duck egg. It can't do it, It can only pro- duce according to what that particular system was constructed to produce, The system in this country cannol produce freedom for an Afro-American, [Lis im- possible for this.system, this economic system, this polilicalsystem, this soc- ial system, period, It’s impossible for this system, as il stands, to produc: freedom right now for the Black man in this country." FROM CONTINUED FROM LAST PAGE attuick him like { attack him, bot what they y te: Mayor ie the tran ie right, Se when he's trappedbetweeen the ¢ itt lave and the Neh! clave, he t tright. i’ I when the toute slave ul the ticl lave pett tracki each other and june ight of their « 1 _t ll { liverse ! O: Would you please expend ¢ iF TCS Btafernernt witt in regard to the 1972 presidential electi As "The fires thing we'll have to estahl thhat thee will be presidential electix i wnt that er to appoint bee tr the wage ‘ st t i appoint « Cabinet shoe t sid will go t low Afri ether al it t it eal people 4 t ert ; 1 ier thee whertlhaes ! yile i i phe at ' ' thot elect uM MALCOLM X Born: May 19, 1925 Assossinoted: Februcry AN INTERVIEW WITH REVEREND JESSE JACKSON é t j ' lent ' el ‘ ty elute to the 1 Lau } ir t it se ent ' e t vaee . ab “* t t wel iroiina, where t ave alreacy t t | ti ‘ i } t wit t hist force " . the tt ! I rt ' ' int t ¢ ined ' " that 4 k babarr t t it i i ct ki litical folk the, Nort et tf red i ! i (the Dei. erates ; ' ' alo tute wc ledty oi Ow@tforte™ Ayr tite, he extent 'o wha thet iwe ret a! ach pee} ke weil). civermee ofa\* tht figee, Doe tage eeu forer MA ere tak 1 heck sna, IN'TERCOMMUNAL NEWS aE I nh THE RAMSTEIN TWO On November 19th, of last year, four Black brothers were distributing Black Panther Party leaflets and materials in Frankfurt, Germany. They had been traveling in West Germany and were helping Panther supporters there, On that date they mistakenly entered a mili- tary base, Ramstein Air Base, Recog- nizing their mistake, having not been familiar with that area, they attempted to drive away, A German civilian guard, refusing to listen to reason, ordered the brothers out ofthe car while simul- taneously drawing his .38 revolver and firing, One of these four brothers re- turned the fire , wounding this pig. Two of these four brothers escaped the immediately subsequent attack by over 300 pigs, a mixture of German pigs, American soldiers and American MP’s, These pigs had brought along their dogs, The dogs attacked and one of the re- maining two brothers, William, was vic- iously bitten, Larry, the other brother, and William were arrested and charged with attempted murder, resisting ar- rest, being in West Germany illegally and possession of a gun, These brothers are citizens of the U.S.; and yet, they are facing serious charges in Wast Germany. We can see that the arm of the U.S, Empire is very long indeed, when it can see to it that its Black people have no rights to be respected even in West Gecmany,. In the words of the brothers from the Voice of the Lumpen(see below), **,.. The Americanisation of the community of West Germany is almost complete, The that manifests itself here in West Ger- many, The pigs believe that they cancon- vict the Ramstein Two of attempted murder, with no evidence, no facts and no justice! They think the West Germans will go for this, and that the 30,000 Black Gl’s and progressive Whites in West Germany will say nothing about it, The puppet pigs in Zweibrucken have their orders: Forget Justice; teach these niggers a lesson, the way wedoin Amerikkka - Lock them up, or kill them, but shut them up,"’ The people of the communities of the of the world, and only the people, can free the Ramstein Two, as all political prisoners and themselves from thevic- ious oppression of the U.S, Empire. FREE THE RAMSTEIN TWO! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! The Voice of the Lumpen is acollect- ive of Blacks, mostly GI's, who are at- tempting to serve the true interests of fore him, has sucessfully exported rac- ism, and other forms of injustices, to their willing puppets in West Germany. All that is needed to make the transfor- mation complete is a sensational trial using trumped-up charges tomurder or enslave brothers and sisters who care enough, who dare enough to speak out against the spread of this disease, The pigs think that now is the chance to use the trial of the Ramstein Two to silence dissent, To use the trial as a means to scare the brothers who are beginning to move against the forces of imperialism the over 30,000 Black GI’s in West Germany. Their Manifesto states: ‘‘Re- cognizing that the peoples of the world cannot obtain real freedom until the U.S, Imperialist - world enemy number one - has been stripped of his power, we de- clare that our goal is to destroy the evils of U.S, capitalism, imperialism and racism, which have been used to oppress the peoples of the world, Inthe spirit of Revolutionary Intercommunalism, we pledge ourselves to move against the evil and corrupt gentry by any means nec- essary and sufficient." Emperor Nixon, and the other pigs be- ft is well known that the black race is the most oppressed and most ex- ploited of the human family. [t is well known that the spread of capitalism and the discovery of the ‘‘'New World” has an immediate result to the rebirth of Slavery which was for centuries, a scourge for the Negroes and a bitter disgrace for mankind, What everyone does not perhaps know, is that after sixty-five years of so-called emanci- pation, American people still endure atrocious moral .« and. material sufferings, of whith the \mast cruel and horrible is the eustom ofiynehing. Among the collection of the crimes of American ‘civilization, Lynching has a place of hono¥ ; Ho Chi Minh, 1924 Ee SS IN MEMORY OF PRESIDENT HO CHI MINH BORN MAY 19, 1890 DIED SEPT. 2, 1969 -_- = JHE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1971 PAGE 18 TELEVISED DISCUSSION WITH HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER OF DEFENSE ‘(OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE The Minister of Defense will be speaking on the David Frost Television Program, The following is the list of stations on which the —_ program will be aired: Station Date Network Chonnel Time Station Date Network Channel Time Station Date Network Channel Time WAGA-TV ‘May Ith cas : 4:30-6:00pm | KCMO-TV May 2st CBS 5 9:00-10:00an PK PLR-TV May 28th IND il 7:30-9:000nmn Atlanta, Ga, Kansas City, Mo, St, Louis, Mo. WJZ-TV May Mt ric i 4:30-0:000m | WOAL-TV May l4t NAC 8 4:30-6:000r KSTP-TV May 23rd) ss NIC 4 3330-4:30pm Baultiinore, MD, Lancaster, Pa, St. Paul/Minneapolis, Mir, WLBZ-TV May 2ist NEC 9 4230-62000 | XTTV=TV May lath IND ul §:30-10:000m PT XPIX-TV May Mth CBS 5 4330-6:00fan Bangor, Maine Las Angeles, Calil San Fruncieco, Calif. KVOS-TV 2hth Cas ID 12N=1:30 pen WDORH-TV May 2let IND 4} #:30-10:00n ’ Bellingham, ' Louisville, Ky KOGO-TY May 2ist) NHC id 3300-4:30pm ’ San Diego, Calif, ’ WBRC-TV 3 May 28th VK 6 N10 NV TVJ-TY May liu CHS 4 00-10:30an Stier lord : * Birmingham, Ala, (Friday only) Miami, Florida KGSC-TY june ibth IND % 7240-9:00om ; san Jose, Calif, WCAX-TV May 2(ut crs 42:00-5-30nen | WETI-TY May 2Let VLC t 4:30-S:30pim Hurlington, Ve. aWrenee, = WTS] -TY May 2lst NHC is 9:00-10:3 0am pan Juan, PLR, KMST-T\ May lid Ct ( 4:30-6:00 WEZ-TV May lth NBC ‘ 4250-0: 000 Tate, cane Calif , ‘ Boston, Mass. : A. WKGB-TY Muy 2ist NHC 6 12:30-1:30pm arte’ : iEN ) NY. WSM-TYV NEM 4 1GA0pmaizny | SCHENECTADY, 8. ¥. WOR-TYV May wise whit 2 3230-52000 T Sautiville, Tenn @aturdays) 4 _— - ne 4 Buffalo, N.Y. WDAU =TV May 2ist C&S 22 5200-6: 30pm ‘ = ” Ses " ; WOT1-TY Atuy Dist anit i 9:20-1(e30am Scranton, Ma. ; WIicD ~ Muy 2h Nt 4:00-5:00 I stow Bern/Gree . vow BHeri/Greenville, N,t Champalgn/Urbana, Ut ’ tees = cared KINT-TY May let IND it 8330-10:00pm M 7 WNITL-TY viay l4e wre . 453-62 Seattle /Tacom Waal WMAQ-TY May l4eh NEC 1301-S:00 pal New Haven, ( Seat 1, Waah, Chicage, Uline WNDU-TYV May Lith NEC te 7200-1 30amn VAEW.~TV May 4th Ind ReMi bef Ipots ' oh tend. IND WRAC-TY May lan fic t f , en reNY yout end, INI Cincinnati, Obi WweTy oi ; fi j cw. TV May z ry ‘ Leger <1: 3 0an WICS-TY Muy Der wr) 1) (:00-5:00pm ay Puts Mods : ' Htaw mata t springfield, I Cleveland, Obi KYW-TY May itt NHK 45 AON WTYN-TY May bit VE =} brie Miiladelphta. § WWLPLTV Muy Mel Nora 09 +(e 1 efiharn hurntass, Ofte vriggtield, Mute ot int 1, MM KDTV-TY Muy 4 IND DOM Le ’ =. t sep Dalla/fr Worth, Tex. ng 705-2 Dalla/t rth, WNYS-TV May Mth He ; 4:50-5:30 WKER<TV Mf , KOKA<TY May l4tt 4:50-0:00) Syracuse, N ’ re hiady iathi { ? - rie it - ‘ te) tee Data WIVT-TV May 27h CHS iy 1:00-2;00pm ‘ i-TV Muay 2hut { i 130-61 Tanpea, Florid KBTV-TV May 280 Ne } 200-S200pur riland, Alaine Denver, Cok ue ee z : =o KT V<TV 4 tor INT) 12 82] ete WTUL-TY Muay 4th cr il Sek} 0earn WKAD-TVY May Lt IND 90 8230-10:00Pm Port tund, Ore Toledo, Ohio Detroit, Mich. wr WAVY-TY May 2b4 Nis . P20 Hie has CNCHATY May Idd IND i! 1O:00-11:00p0n CPRN-TY June 4tt cry f1: 35 pen fei et th, : to-tbarmiht One Edmonton, Albert jAR-T M bet ‘ t , WSITR-TV May 2la ; Mid? : Shee as y 4: ry Tovidene HY KVOA-TV May Dist Nhe ‘ :30-5:00em . nh, Arizen 4 I lune 4¢ ' ‘ wt “4 in i Grand Hapids, Mic! S i v=TV why t Nit 100. 2 00N KHBY-TV Muy lst “3 vt bres hens - tz ' ititroms N myers 4y : Ni b. a OLE , c 3 : VT I Stay 14t! IND ‘ 2 Oe , z VSi ! t t “ eth} 4 few me bioutton, Tex WHTN M Hsien Ls WOKR-T' \l i ‘ +e VKEIN Muyaith oN 3 4: Mids (tan Hluatington, | eote “, ¥ t wrtv-Ty tay <in r ’ hid wn ry M t , j 41K: KM ! arnouner wiX't . ler i \ KTAL Muy Ht in ‘ \ y ’ ’ ty ergy NIA > ji Min 1 Nt ———oae———— ee What We Want 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community We believe thal black people will not be free until we are able to deter mine our destiny =, We want full employ ment for our people We believe that the federal povernmunt is responsible and obligated to give every nun employment of a guaranteed mncome We believe that if the white American thminessmen wall hot vive tull vmplovment, then the means of production should be taken tratn the businessmen and placed uw the community so that the people of the community can organize and em give a high statitlared of living pow Sih Of its people ane t We wanton end te the robbers be the CAPITALIST of our Mlock Comenunits We believe th thy ‘ ! Wermmont hy telerit tis ae m WO ute demanding the were delt of forts aer Mid the Oniles Forty pere arid tua mules Was | tenet TOM) GObrs ape a wat Th i we Lale anedom miriier a hack pouple We wall accent the Pay tient in cure Wteth Wail tee dlistedtitest ia our man omanmurith The Germa ine’ thw midi the Jew t israel for the genous of the Jews pea The wr mans mordered ss million Jows The Amerean racist has token part in the slaughter of over Hfty million tlack people: therefore we feel that t ha modest demand that we make 4. We want decent housing. fit for shelter of human beings We believe that Wf the white landlords will mot vive decent hou my to our black community. then the housing and the land should be made unt Cooperatives so thal 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 vlse 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 tack people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America We will protect ourselves from the foree 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 October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program SERVE ‘THE PEOPLE ODY AND SOUL All Power to the 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 Constittt.un of the United States gives a right to bear arms We therefore bevweve that all black people should arm themselves ifalelense 8 We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails We believe that all black people should be released from the many Jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial ¥. 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 beieve that the courts should follow the United States Constitution s) that black people will receive fair tnals The 4th Amendment of the US. Constitution gives a mania right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is & person from 4 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. \nd as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis- cite lo 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 that 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 effeet their safety and happiness. Pru ilerics deel will dictate that governments long established should not he changed for light and transient causes: and, accordingly. all experience hath stunty. that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are hile thant itt themselves ty abolishing the forms to which they are a luted But, when a long train of abuses and usurpation, pur suing Hvarlabls the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab solute despotisnt if is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern. ment and te provide new guards for their future security THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 1S, 1971 PAGE 19 OPPRESSION | ‘Rays 37 & the a eae KS ss “eh basel res leery Be Sv a Sty RoR at eee Rare ee 2 Y red , aK. ’ ; Sie _ IX ye " 5 j <x “3 Tae Cf Pic sak teat Fk “y we Bs .. - SS AAS = — At L Kk Dy Fr) Hs Ee “wes ‘ ae xe “ ; ES I af — = — —— = = ed —S= “= oe Y os