Vol. 6, No. 18

THE BLACK PANTHER INTERCOMMUNAL NEWS SERVICE 25cents wun. LHE BLACK PANTHER PARTY ‘giniszinonst Tea y.! Edd. e, Ang ee aY HUEY ANTHER PARTY. TO THE BLACK THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1971 — PAGE 2 INDECENT HOUSING PRODUCES RENT STRIKE Residents of Carson Apartments Ihe residents of the Caraon Apartments at 7509 South Cen- wal Avenue (los Angeles, Call- fornia) have impleméited a rent Strike Lyainst avaricious slutn- lord Willie E, Carson, who has heen violating the people's right two decent housing by his lack of concern or interest In the re- sidents there. Conditions have ideal, but since the earthquakes which occurred in Southern Call- fornia in january of this year, PRESS STATE CALIFORNIA never bect A housing Jaw study released this week hy State Senator Mervyn M. Dymally, Senate Ma- jority Caucus Chairman, warns that California's landlord-tenant laws so heavily favor the land- lord that they pose a problem “fraught with grave soclalcon- sequences.”" The study was prepared for the Senate Majority Caucus at Dymally’s request. The Los An- geles Democrat ts Chairman of the Majority Caucus. ‘The analysis calls for major changes in current laws that es- tablishwhat rights centers have residents has been injured by falling sections iparunent@cetiing: “The ceiling ge of the amount one of the of her collapsed becau of water that had berwren the ceiling of accumulated her a- partment and the flooring of the partment above hers ume of the other grievances of the Carson Apartment resi- dents are: large holes in the ceilings and walls, heaters in most of the apartments don’t work, Sinks and toilets stopped Toilet facilities at Carson beck ip getting ml roaches up, defecativ all over (floors, rats Tit -resnpant throug? the ull hot water or little ing, ne yery afecr 6; O00 aym, in the n ing cue to ken windows and cal wiring, The slumlord if seen once a month, when tf poor e rent is due. He ignores tle need for as wella the requests for repairs, The health department has visited the premises several times, but Holes in ceiling in slum housing no action has been taker Carson although bis property Lain cteur vielation of existiag-Lealth and #afety codes, The condirions are not only below living stan- dards for any being, but a detriment tu the bealtl of all live there, particularly the Tenants complain that ire constantly ill, with virus ete. sanitary condi- igainst human wha childrer the children or infected the es, because of tions, For these reasons the resi- dents at 7509 South Central Avenue, Carson Apartments are refusing to pay any further rent, They will not pay their rent until the conditions and housing ate made decent and fit for the shel- ter of human beings, Wecallupon the residents of the surrounding area to support the strike andthe Carson Apartment residents in thelr fight for decent housing, ALL POWER To THE PEOPLE Southern California Chapter, Black Panther Party RELEASE FROM THE OFFICE OF SENATOR MERVYN DYMALLY: | STATE SENATOR when confronted with eviction notices, unsafe Living quarters and court actions involving thelr romed quarters. The study was made by Dantel N, Loeb, housing specialist and attorney with the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation Copies have been distributed by Dymally to all members of the Legislature, to newa tnedia and to consumer and civil rights groups throughout the state. “This study pinpoints only too well, howthe laws of our state are DYMALLY PROPOSES F too often stacked againat the low income residents, the ghetto dweller, the average citizen,"' Dymally stated, He said he hoped that the study would help get same of the 20 bille paseed that have been Introdoced t correct the cur- rent prolandlor slunt to the Jandlord-tenant aaa! Caples of the stuily, **Land- lord-Tenant Law: The Continu- ing Need for an Overhaul,” are available free in Dymally’s dis- trict office, at 2622 S, Western Avenue in Los Angeles HOUSING LAWS The study warn that the im- balance in favor of the landlord “poses « derious danger Intimes of an increasing polarization of our soclety,”’ The study urges that tenants be given more protection ogainst retaliatory eviction by landlords, especially when eviction is at- tetnpted because & tenanthas re- ported violations of housing and bullding codes to city officials, ke urges that tenants be given 30 days to defend themselves in court in eviction cases, rather than the three days allowed by the a tenant to une upisoumionth'a cedk for urgent repatrn, tf the land- lord won't make them, A tenant who seeks to use this provision of the law today, usually ends up being evicted, Dymally said, The study also urges that @ state law be passed that would prohibit fandiords from re- quiring @ tenant to give up any of his tenant rights as u condi- tion for renting him an apart- ment or dwelling, FEDERAL EMPLOYEE FILES CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST RACIST | U.S. GOVERNMENT The WU, S, Government prac cane carne the attentl { churge of seruimination, she dered to report for a paychia- tices tokeniam in employment, the people went through every procedure tic examination. The Federal giving 4 few Black people jobs Por over dixyears, Mra. ticles unt agency set up to Geal with judge finally told her lawyer that within the system In an attempt lower in been seching re employee complaints, Including he wan instructed to rule against to silence the Increasing demand from the eatreine act f re- the Civil Service Cammission, her. from the rest of the oppressed peiva) taken against her for tilt nil for more than five years her communities for full employ- 4s contplaint of racial discrimin- x vgs oat an © finally then February 22, the ment. [Mut it usually expotes tt ution agalnet the Naval Air Sta- fled charges agalint the Fecer ale Aitiesection supervisor | raciam anyway in attempting to ties (SAS), Alameds, California Government in ft Dlusrict Arockmany » a pag keep even those fow filucks ‘in The cane war firet filed in 194 aut. Curing tt 1c, Se wes Bowers with « metal file, ripped their place’, Mra. Helen Lower azyad att co legal work was done prevented trom speaking Ai hep the piper that she wig is @ lving example of this: A sho wan met with Iner wn defense, document ame (pig a) \ rhe Bpeariter Bp tr nes ort : ; 7, tent flack woman, mother of four, hues ent elas pertaliing oer het thne card, and dered who tas suffered liurasamont, in- In lyos, Mr Hower tartou cane were altered and withhelis Ot of me sl Sie. timidation, threata from the work at t Naval Aur Statt a orb mi re war hardited, wes appr Sap : by the atmine. Federal Governmenm, because wit GS-3 Fatt {ter eee ; * . iven Inferli® dateative sect Since shee hal or years she has been carrying being pained by for promot da ing! nl eve Wee « F 5 {ter 5 {take aehtnas thes : ; e a. i . the very day that her hearing in be ut of work, she has £@= ist policies of the f over! erved { 4 al suother Helen Bowers wie Libsteict wt A iets. Recently, Mra. Gowers’ Naval indtallution, whe filed cheruled to begin, she wwe r= Continued an next page THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, Q4AY 29, 1971 PAGE 9 RACIST TELEPHONE COMPANY FIRES BLACK OPERATOR On Monday, May 10th, about thirty operators of the Pacific Telephone Company’s office in Palo Alto California) called « press conference to inform the People of the unjust treatment and firing of Paulerta Portilla, # black operator. Paulette hud worked for the telephone compuny for two and 4 half years, These are the demands that the operators made at the press conference: 1, That Paulette be reinstated with full beck pay, 2. An end to the racist promotion and transfer pro- cedures of the telephone cotipany. 3, Workers freedom to criticize practices without harassment, 4, Equal monitoring, observations, and ticket counts for all operators, b. Involuntary transfers must allow operators to keep the hours of her choice for a set period of time. ¢, We munt be allowed to pass out and post Literature as long a it doesn’t Interfere with our work, 4. We must have the right to grievance procedures befare any disciplinary actions are taken, And we mut have the choice of our representatives equal to the number of management representatives, 5. We must have sanitary working equipment. Following ls an excerpt from an interview with Paul- etta; Q: Were there any problems with your work? A: No, the only thing that kept my record from being perfect wan that my attendance record looked had be- cause | had to be off work twice because the pressure at work made me So nervous that it had physical ef- fects, Besiderall this I have three children and | had to be out to deal with their different problems, Since we have no excused sick days with pay it was a problem when 1 had to stay home with them or was {ll myself, Other than dit cere were no complaints about my work, in fact my boss often said “If we could just get your attendance straight you'd be the best girl in the office.” just last week before they threw me out 1 rated among the highest in the office in service at- tirude evaluation. They didn’: tell me that, of course, 4 ssympathetic supervisor did, Q: So what has been happening recently? Az For at Jeast the last sever months t have been pre- é I would be fired although | wasn't sure what 4 they'd give, I sure didn’t expect the one they gave one day } was an outstanding operator and then suddenly I was put on warning. That day my thumb was hurt and obviously swollen up and they said 1 wasn't working fast enough, | knew I coulda’e work well at the board diat day but not until hada written statement from my docter could | force therm to let me do any other work in the office where | could use my other land. So that wan the day they decided what they were gonna use to get me on, Q: What had you been doing that made them want to get rid of you? Az: Well, about 7 months ego | started working with the telephone caucus and voicing my opinions at work, They didn't Like the change that came over me--suddenly | war no Jonger weak and nervous and sick all the time, I was making objections to things that | knew weren't right but that 1 had cried to close my eyes to before management Paulelta Fontilla “Power to the People’ and held my feelings within. This mademe stronger and they were unable to break me again, Q: What fires got you Involved In trying to change whut you saw? A: I first got involved in the caucus when | saw that people were tuking action when Carmelinds'’s, (another operator’) ear was infected because of the filthy headsers, | knew the conditions were unsanitary because I have been bitten by fleas for a long time. Everyone was excited by the action, Everyone wos for it, even though some were afraid. Hut | knew! dhin't have much to lose. Q: What happened when you joined the caucus? 4: I started telling gicls about caucus meetings becaute I felt everyone should come out and state their views. 1 just knew that united we could dosomething to change the situation, Later, with women th the community, I was active In trying to Start 4 cooperative child care center, Even though this wasn't an attack on the phone company, the caucus later made a demand for « Child Care Center provided ty the company and I'm sure they got the connection. Also my husband andl started working on the East Malo Alto Food Co-op, which wan Bet up to get food at prices our community FEDERAL EMPLOYEE FILES CRIMINAL AGAINST RACIST U.S. ean afford, This doesn't seem soevil, butt was stopped in the hall at work and accused of handing our Ilegal Jeaflets (the food arder forms). The chief demanded that Tshoew her the papers, Bur Itold her that { wouldn't, Shortly after that | was suspended and soon after that, fired, Q: What came down when they fired you? A: On May 4, 1 worked the whole day and ag 4:15, | wae called off the board and told that the chief wanted to see me. | was led out into the conference room. Of course 1 knew they would have a steward of thelr choosing there, It was all prepared. My check was ready, in- cluding my vacation time and time I had taken off because they had prepared the check, Of course | wan represented by my supervisor (steward) who claimed that she took thirty calls an hour, even though she hardly ever sits at the board, The union is a rat-fink organization, The purpose of the union ie to collect dues and to keep peace with management, no matter what it takes, They specialize in helping’ management clean houtte--offing operators who talk too much, The unlon stewurd who was representing me gia ha) was Supposed to escort me out of the building, J wold her | wasn't realy to yo just then and | went and sat down in the locker rvom), So she said she would wait but of course she junt ran back andtold them 1 wouldn't leave, The first boss came out when} wat in the lounge trying to call Leo, my husband, She came tushing up saying "You have to leave the building,*’ After she burried me to clean our my locker | went to alt back down, The boss just kepr saying. You have to leavel!"’ | just kepe saying, Mf you feel thaz you did right in firing me what is it that you are so afrald of? Why do you want me to leave right now?" They sent two men that work in the building up, by this time they had me locked up and guarded in the inner lounge, Tracey (# co-worker) kept trying to get the men to take hold of me and get me out the back of the bulking. *"You can call all of your little friends Up tommorrow amd tell them what happened, there's no sense in getting them all upset tonight’, she said. 1 don’t think ic was three minutes then before the cope were there, Three of them, They said, "! under- Stund that you are not an employee of this company and were told that you have to leave the building.” To make # long story short, the black pig looked down at me and said, "Does it have to be this way?" One of the other pigs said, "Pick up the chair and fet’s go." Which they didn’: actually do - they just grabbed me, The white pig was twinting my arm the whole way bat when | called him « pig be really twisted it harder - herder than I've ever had it owisted before. That's wheo | screamed, The climax | don’t remember - they just disposed of me on the sidewalk and { started walking off. Q: What do you plan to do now? A: Now that I'm an the outside Ican really help operators understand how important it is to fight to- gether for our rights, [ft we don’t stand together they'll rip us off ene by une the way they did me, ALL POWER TO THE OPERATORS! CHARGES GOVERNMENT continued from last page ceived 4 letters from NAS, signed by various administrators, sus- pending her (eventhough she isn't working) and threatening her, These acts of intimidation and brutality are common af NAS and are used to make the workers feartul of rebelling against their oppressive working cormlitions, even by using the so-called’ up- proved mesans’’, Mra. fhowers was «4 perma- nent civil service employee with ® years of service. During the past 6 yearn, overwhelming evi- tence hen been gathered provisy the Pederal Government (ine cluding the courts) is guilty of raciet activity ani contpirecy to oppress federal etiployees, wit! ne regard tor hunin dignity, u the power structure hed lees than tt of the evidence the has, agaliet any poor person, tat peree would le in fall. Peecten exiete ate Diet? working ¥ man who legally attempts to fight on-the-job racial dincrimination finds herself threatened and unable to return to work, with 4 children to support. The administrative processing of grievances and complaints at the NAS ts « futile and frau- dulent procedure and is, in fact, designed two confuse, aidetrack and destroy the people's struggle for justice. There have been ap- proximately 5,000 complaints filed threogh the achnialstrative channels at NAS, but this le the firet tline & federal employer hast actually taken it te court and te suing the government and filing criminal charges againet it. Mra. Dewers declied to take tie offensive position, to farce the porerament (0) either admit its own guilt er publically defend We racist activitic iter the ruling egainet her try the first fanciet jucye, Me towers be- gan to tabe ter ne tu ie Pe tie ie ta “* yeaking ft various groups around the Bay area and jeafletting the other employees at the NAS, Realizing the power of the people, the courts have granted her another hearing, However, diay only agreed to hear one charge which is te original charge of de- roting her without proper noti- fication or ulficient reanon, This ts an obvious attempt to buy her off by settling one small charge in her favor fo that she wil] furget the other, more serious charge - altering tram cripts, aacault, etc, Realizing thet this Ls not just ati individual case, Mrs, flowers will continue te Night for arullog all of Ker charges and cw slign hereell with the struggles of ther verument workers ag ainct (he came ofpreisive con- shine, This fight is an tnpertane wm beceuse It can serve « a wilfying force around “hict nent wurber teri f “take gover er the Ta ean rally in order to set the pre- les cedent needed to begin to fight ractom within the government courts, but it's neceasury that the courts and the government be made aware that the people are begiining to know their power, that we are beginning to get to- gether, compare notes and take proper action, The first step hi this strategy will be to attend Mry. Howers' next hearing, The date will be published ap soon as it is set, Mro. Gowers says, “I Nave telegraphed the president, cun- CTeeemen, senators ecking re~ lief fearn Senator Alan Cranstorp for over twe years and fet on€ , the Tribene, Chrenicley crimination have meds,” answer e Suagior f gomns come when txaminer, and all have codelil ite fasten of <wople rise up um turned me awuy. Where 4rethet@) iter juatioe dot te-calied champions of the peo- pet re de they daly Uisten to SSO+OS9 o¢ BIS=2079. criuin peuple? lt ie « ead etate { alfaire when «voiceless, fece- ALL POWER TO THE PROPLE S, black woman cannot bring attention to the lawlessness that has victimized her for seven Structure. Mrs, Howers has been years. | have exhausted all the carrying her fight through the jegal and administrative pro- cedures open to me and have found them to be idle, tutile, and essentially fraudulent, Over five thousand ceases of racial dis- against the Naval Air Station, yet I de not know of une single suc- cesnful appeal of 4 minority em- ployee ever conilig out ¢ administration channels at Ala- wait fUusL support Mrs. fowers Her Halierge of the US, oN Wey crust not ve Mea) Garece sti! up ale > Chatrinin Bobiy has Pom Por further tafoc varies eatt (415) THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1971 PAGE 4 FASCIST INVASION OF CHATTANOOGA — 3 BLACK COMMUNITY On Friday, May 2lst, Wilson Pickett was to have appeared at blems, the people were set upon by that he lost one of his eyes, Tennessee Highway Patrol called by Agile A “elected” Chattanooga, Tennessee's Memorial Auditorium, He had requested and had been promised advance payment for his performance, bul as he did not receive this, he refused to perform, The au- dience, mostly black, naturally de- manded to be returned their ticket money, since there would be no show. The money was not fairly re-distributed, Oul of the frustration and long-suffering thal Black people everywhere have known for too long, many of those people in at- tendance at the concert vented this pent-up frustration on the streets of Chattanooga that night. There was some damage done to stores, and much needed items were simply taken in this mo- ment of demonstrated outrage over all the vacist conditions of the life of Black People in Chattanooga, The racist police force there, seeing the potential power of the people that could eventually be used to redress grievances, used this opportunity to ini- tiate an intensification of vicious and brutal acts upon the Black people there. They arbitrarily beat and harassed any black person on the streets thal Friday night. The following Saturday, the people, along with members of the local chap- ter of the Southern Christian Leader- ship Conference (SCLC) attempted to hold a meeting to discuss this crists in the community, Instead of being able to MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE May 25, 1971 To All Our Black Brothers and Sis- ters of Chattanooga, The vicious and murdering army of occupation now menacing the Black Community of Chattanooga is not un- defeatable. The power of the People can withstand and defeat these racist aggressors, There are no words we can offer that will express our support of your struggle, for it is ours, We are one People, separated only by boun- daries, not of our own choosing; and HUNTSVILLE STRIKE GOES ON-- GARBAGE FIRES BLAZE HUNTSVILLE, hit-and-run police community and several major marked the third week of the ville sanitation workers strike, have been locked-our of thelr trying to organize 0 union ince Ala, (LNS)-- Arrests, raids into the black fires Hunts- The men jobs for April black singer peacefully discuss community pro- forces, ‘ive and | eli es Police Chief, Gene Roberts, to keep the people from exercising their right to assembly, The Highway Patrol forces imme- dialely began indiscriminate beating and clubbing and arresting of Black people, Withoul regard for any age or sex, they attacked unarmed people, as though en- gaged in a major battle. For example, the only two Black news reporters in Chattanooga were arrested for no rea- son; a local Black disc jockey, Melvin “Soul’’, and his wife were beaten and arrested; and, a Black Vietnam veteran was beaten so brutally while in a rest- so our fight is one, We know that our freedom ts de- pendent on all of us, not some or many, but all, And every blow you deliver brings us all closer to free- dom and freedom is around the cor- ner, It may be some time coming, but it is without a doubt there, In particular, the struggle of you, the Black Community of Chattanooga, and the struggle of the Black Community of Cairo, Ulinols against the racist, fascist machinery of the U.S. Govern- ment is encouragement to all of us to have not fear, but the determination to . e the city has in the black community, wun to burn garbage rather than allowing it to lie around and bre disease, At first garbage fires were the only fires bur after the mayor had Becaus lect garbarge peaple have be set, the entire police forée encircle the black refused to col- community With orders tAmake arrests the next nightethere Were larger blazes. “<1 One of the targeers “wre auvant trying to purchase a sandwi By Sunday, a State of Martial Lay was introduced by the oneubaliaes ») over 2,000 National Guardsmen in thi small Tennessee city (population ay 120,000 - about 40,000 of black). With the presence of local | lice, Highway Patrol units and Na- tional Guardsmen and the infliction of a 7:00 pm to 5: 00 am curfew, the Black beonte of Chattanooga became naturally tense and fearful for their very lives, And, that night, Sunday May 23rd, the first fatality occurred, A Young Bla man, 22 - year old Leon Anderson, was shot and killed by Guardsme Leon had been stopped on the street by armed National Guardsmen, When he stopped, he vested his arm ona close-by fence to talk, The people in the community said that one ‘of the Guardsmen lowered his rifle, even while some women and others stand- ing there shouted to them not to shoot, for the brother was warmed. Without warning, this pig shot and killed Leon Anderson, firing even into his dead body, saying, ‘“Black son-of-a-bitch’’, No people can continue to tolerate such treatment, The Black community of Chattanooga has therefore warned theee mad raciststhat it is armed and will n pul down its arms until the @ occupying army has withdrawn, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! struggle and to win, | can only say, on behalf of all the comrades in the Black Panther Party, that we express here and militantly affirm our solidarity with all the Black and other oppressed people Chattanooga and hope to meet with you” ob all on the Day of Victory for the” People, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER OF DEFENSE, BLACK PANTHER PARTY afurniture ware half-million dollars wo ch of mere ti indise went up in smoke, house n THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1971 PACE 5 RIZZO’S REIGN OF TERROR __ Frank “ Bozo" Rizzo Police i you liked Rizzo's reign an Pulladelphia’s Commissioner, you'll love his repressive rule as Mayor. Earlier thin year, this News Service published an arti- cle titled "Rizzo Runs For Mayor’, which gave 4 long, but incomplete list of crimes committed by the police department under hin leadership, His campaign for the primary elections was stained with blood, as to be expected. In the primary clection held on May J8th, he won the ‘Democratic Party nomination, and all past events along with the April ikh incident about to be described can give you an idea of the bloody siege we can expect if he wins the mayoralty election in November. On April Itth, 1971, « Rizzo rally was held at 4 Rizzo campaign office near From and Lehigh in Kensington, «4 largely white-working class commumity of Piiledelphia, A number of members of the October 4th Organization attended, not to stir up any trouble, tut to merely hold political conversations with people in the crowd about Rizzo's candidacy, Before we describe there the gruetone events that curred there, we will give you brie! sccount of in- cidenty that led up to the brutality of April 1ith, that it will be clear that thie wan not « usual spur-of-the thoment type case of brutality, but the cold execution of 4a coniplracy previously conceived in the rank t the Pilladelptiis Police Department. The October 4) Organization is ty ation of evolutionary whites who live in the Kensington area, They had been active tn organizing at 1 Vario ' ity @ ¢ r the Bicentennial, One of their projects was tte t to orgunize 4 feod-co-op in Kentington, whic ul be- came the target of ivi} Disobedience Squad member" verbal tireats axl «4 raid by Narcotic gente wh planted heroin in the biikting, They had alto partici pated in demonstrations against Pilwumer rowing Co. =< which wants to bulld 4 trucking terminal tard thee the community wants for housing. One of their members is JoAnn Frankenhauser, wife of Pau) Fran- kentiauser who was murdered by police on Sept, |. 1970 in Rizzo’s presence. JoAnn, since her husband's brutal deuth, has been the target of constant police harasementiand April 10th was no exception. \ week and 4 half before the Rizzo rully, October ith received word that Lt, George Fencl, head of the CD squad had pramised to ''Get those Kensington peo- ple gow!"® ut the neat opportunity, A few days before the rally, Marry Comer, Democratic Committeeman and State Senitor, who jet Rizzo use his office as a campaign office, told the mother of ane afthe October 4th members that he wan getting some people to ‘'tuke care of" her gon afd his friends “if they cause any trouble." How- ever, the members of Oct, 4th took the threats to mean that Wf they caused «4 disturbance there would be trouble They hed no idea thet there would be a vicious un- provoked attack on ther, Therefore, they went t the rally, only intending to talk to the People there, not to demonstrate or carry Signs, etc, (After all common sente told them not to try to stir up @ pro-Rizzo crowd.) They arrived when Rizzo finishing his speech and inviting people to come inaide the office. The Rizzo supporters talked with them, divagreeing, but not being hostile JoAnn, who was 9 months pregnant and carrying her two year old son in hier arms, tried to join a line of people waiting to meet Rizzo, She wanted to talk to him about the murder of her husband 7 months earlier and him the sen of the whom he killed, Rizvo stalf members, on orders from the CD) squad blocked her emrance ta the door and told her she couldn't come in. Then they began polking her In the stomach and sho- ving her off the steps. The group decided to leave, wanting to avold trou- ble in 4 pro-Rizzo crowd from which they could ex- pect Uttk support, ami started across the strerct. ir was obvious to everone there, police, CD and the crowd, that they were leaving; however, Curtis and ‘Iirner of the CD squad followed them across the street and continued poking JoAnn in the stomach and insulting her. When her brother, Jolin Foster, Ir,, tried to stop them, Turner grabdved him aod threw him against the wall. Thit seemed te be «4 prearranged signal to amack, Sud- denly 20 or 30 police charged across the street with gun drawn, and nightaticks begun cracking on heads. The ground wap covered with blood and some af them he- came unrecognizable as blood yushed down their faces, Even the pro-Hizzo crowd was appalled at the utter brutality and began screaming ‘They're killing them! They're killing them". \pparently, the pigs though that (hey were becaute they stopped, threw them inte 4 cotner 460 moved the patrol wagon se wus abow man it a0 few pe ple at possible could see the bloody spectacle Seven people in all were arrested, four of whom were taken to Episcopal ijvspital, including JoAnn’s father, John Foster who suffered a fractured wrist, Reger Tu aed Jotimn Foster, Jr. suffered fractured skulls. All of the gashen required « total of S* stitches to close Une of those arrested hed tried to take pictures of the beating amd ted hin camer fiscated and wat charged along with the rest ef thet The horror continued at the bospite]. Koger ind Joly ; ‘ < moe tor i t ke t rs, tut were released ta the eck with. in rat Henry Lach r rreen, wen the 72 r rder ire ined firm ugeinst policepre a to release that wever willte resident released then the neat morning. They were kopt at Police Headquarter ‘th amiftece,for at jeast vue it cell without food and wate While they were awalting arraignment, their lawyer, Jack Levine, told Judge Ann Clark that two people were down in the cell block with fractured skulls and asked her to give the police an order to have them brought up for arralgntient immediately, ‘This was exceptional in view of the fact that persone who had arrived on the cellhiock after Roger and Johti, were arraigned before them, Judge Clirk’s reply was that Levine's request was Unreasonable and to shut up. However, she fele that din- her was more kinportunt and refused to order Roger and Jolin brought up from the cellroom for arraignment. im- mediately after the total bail of $8500 was set, Jolin and Koger were whisked off toflolmesburg Prison, On Thursday, May Ith, a People’s Tribunal wan bekd to examine the facts of the case, Vietine und witnedses alike sestified, including Dr, Frederick Clinione, chiet neurosurgeon at the Dniversity of Pa, Hospital, who treated Roger Tauss approximately a week after the incident. Dr, Cimione’s testimony brought out that Roger's skull was fractured so severely in ane spot that 4 plastic plute had to be inserted In his tead becaise the bone had aplintered too badly to knit. Roger hiidreceivedno specific treatment except diagnostic X-rays, until te saw Dr. Cimione “ho had to operate . The feurvsurgeoy also brought out in his testimony that police beatings are not rare cases brought into bis hospital and that a man was brought in with multiple police-inflicted gunshot wounds just last week, It was Gecided by the panel at the Tribunal which coo- sisted of two ministers, « lawyer and 4 doctor that the information would be passed on to theD.A, the state ar- forney general and the state governor, The police version of the April l0th Incident was full of lies and contradictions, They presented the Incident as 4 flight between pro-Rizzo and anti-Rizzo people from the community, Yet, all the injuries received were from po- lice billy clubs, At the preliminary hearing, they texti- fied that the defendants shouted obscenities at Rizzo- ~another outright He. To bolster their ridiculous case, the police said that the defendants were rioting, (would JoAnn Frankentauser, 9 months pregnant at the time and carrying « baby in her arms, go to a Rizzo rally to riot.) Kizzo also claims that his back was turnedin the office when the bloodbath was going an, whieh is an astounding feat with all the screaming and skull-cracking in pro- gress outside, Even at feast a half dozen of his sup- porters have already come forward with testimony con- firming the cruel actions of the Police Departrnent on April 1h, Rizzo and the Pulice are the Problem, Community Control of Police is the Solution. If you went to help make Community Contre! of Police « reality in Phila- delphia, contect: The flack Panther Party O25 Wallace Street Phile,, Pa, 19104 Uy « P¢ Contributions to ald the defense of the victiins af April (ith may be mdiled to: Kensington Defense Fu lox 1474S Richinond Station Piitle., i9i untributior to ali the victims of police brutality rut theis families in general may be sent to: The People’s Memorial Defense Fund c/o flack Panther Party 4625 Wallace Street Pilladeiphia, Pa, 19i4 PIGS LIE TO FURTHER VILIFY THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH B.P.P. On May 18, 1971, the Pulls invetitigation gave great publicity care | November, 1969, l- vine program of siete | the representatives of the media ap- ‘ ae rtrent, “lon to tus te in stories printed jeged oct with which | flack People ts operating survival pro- peared at a press conference we delphia Police Department, 4 th flanther Past ‘i octh grams, such a the Free freak- called on May I7eh, regarding the with elements of the news a4 * A ' melliru — the flack 1 inither Party ha faust Program, Free Clothing trial of Hobby Seale and Ericka TET TGETRTIGAGURIG GeAcN GE, Gucganed woe’ wee Cluied -Aiedbatedy.e0 kavul tye of the al Program, Free Medical Clinic, Hhggtns, but lost po time in pub- credit the Pullaceipnia ERIE Any at eas ig if eal | thd les j tte mor at the Holl ete. Hobbing the Holiday Inn, as Uctzing the outrageous false the tilecr hs mnttinr , arty. ae : ¥ . At ) vie ho tay | ao View tlils Links these four have been accused of hoods atated above, iat wiring, two ries arty " ” 7 : hat i ish adveednels ‘ neuer » Whe tiad been expelled f ural Ww, wWeacearry! frag { our of beetion with? . h ci ye ; rn : ine machen =e from cur ranks earlier this year, edad Fenate similar tthe rer SEAR I Aga ¥ : e , { People ant therefore Werwit}, continue to serve the Michael Hyrd av ‘ : ; {incut Ster the ki image in the eye s ve pot ASAIO People Be stl Soul through our were accuued of robbing the ¢ (ork Guard sft, \ ibe eee vem a Lentve phen sy "f Pragrams cd Wi oot tet the Holiday tan along with two other t 29h, it vi v i Rayer ” : Viclode frame-Up attempts of the individual’ complete! havo an Shey, ave ying te ‘ Ted { s : Perey ee cued Pelicw and hws wieille Ueter us ; nériberahip,. Det, Cape rt ith ¢ Geath with whit tiyrs wer ajeilew tt i The fact that € pews me “, frvait thik goal, soohet nde ORL Nery ‘ , as had mecit Purthes rank ‘ ¢ of their acer cl wit! very few exceptioné, are Willlam Metoongh cline mM ; : i ce, the 6 Hetin slay printed reeard of Party principle The ietermined to hraiqwesh the Peo- «ll four are members of 0 . Retr . “ - us me nape wh stan were not bervares of the Deuple iy presenting « totally false and SCY ROWER TO THE PROPLET rca secs ieeasctg nae | nbn th at thls Ase aie te inher while in our cab require- hegative picture of our Party is Philledelphia Hranch inttely are uot, The. Wulletin ss s en one ahs to destroy police ment Mf all Party members evicient in the fact that only two Black Panther Party Dally News, without making any © THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1971 PAGE 6 CASE AGAINST CHAIRMAN BOBBY AND ERICKA DISMISSED MIS-TRIAL DECLARED MAY 24, 1971 The following is a report by Don Freed in New Haven, given just after Judge Harold Mulvey declared a mis- trial in the case by the State of Con- necticut against Chairman Bobby Seale and Comrade Ericka Huggins: The agony in New Haven ended as it began, It was impossible to choose a jury (1,550 people - the size of asmall American town - and four months were expended); and it was impossible loget a verdict, A handful of middle-aged white jurors, perhaps no more than three, bargained with wnparalled cruelty with the lives of Chairman Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins, It was clear, six days ago, that Bobby Seale would be acquitted because it had been recognized, even among the most conservative press and legal circles, that the State's case was a sham, The suspense centered on the fight over whether or not Ericka Huggins would be convicted, thanks to the small town malice, venom and sexual repression of the New Haven community. What seems to have happened is this: There was a quick, informal agreement of acquittal for the Chairman, and then a fierce fight over Ericka began (screeching voices could be heard in the jury room), But when a stalemate on Ericka was wnavoid- able, then, it seems, the minority “‘ye-opened” the case of Bobby Seale in order to bargain one against the other, in hopes of breaking the spine of the Black majority. But, the Black majority stood firm, And they hung the jury. And one Black woman stood up and said, ‘'That's not right", when the Foreman told the judge that there had been no agreement, The Chairman and Ericka, true re- volutionaries, turned at once to cheer up and console the crowd, Snapping the fist of struggle, as only Bobby Seale can do it, he waited with her at the counsel table, his blueprints for People’s Housing him that he had hoped to bring home in just a few hours, Again in the streat, as the State Troopers’ cars wheeled through the red lights to make their get-a-way, the prisoners waived their next to Ericka Huggins manacled hands over the heads of the police to the People, some of whom, like Mrs. Huggins, Sr., have not missed a day of trial these seven long months. The lawyers were scheduled to meet with the judge in his chambers the following day; but nothing was clear. Some observers here feel it is the biggest defeat since the conviction of the Rosenbergs in 1952; It does not matter that there was no verdict, It is not the word “Guilty” that is de- finitive; it is the reality of years spent in prison with no end in sight, Charles R. Garry, pale and drawn with feeling, stood, ‘‘l demand an immediate re- trial for my client, Bobby George Seale’’, But this was apart ofAmerican history too, since Garry was being driven from courtroom to courtroom, as the State had done to Clarence Darrow, hoping that Clarence Darrow would collapse before he could defend the biggest political prisoner of the time, Big Bill Heywood, There is a judgement here, more lasting and more profound on the antt- war Movement than there ever can be on these defendants, And the silence, the bad faith, the dereliction, that is sometimes mistakenly called apathy, weakens the hand of the attorneys: There are no huge crowds of protest that they can invoke against further persecution of the Chairman and Ericka; Yale does not exist except as the ghost of the German Untuersity; and the liberals and the toughs of the tender Left have gone to do thetr own thing, and the name of that thing ts complicity with evil, Now a start will have to be made at ground level, The sixties and their cosmetic coalitions are as dead asa doornail: A new dialectic will emerg oul of the terrtbl defeat of this trial, or this trial is a prophecy of what is fo come, But it is not too late for those whos made them complicit to silence has Chairman Bobby Seale investigate and act now, Finally, it is time to tell the truth about the real reason of why Yale University and the vast anti-war Move- ment could never come to terms with this case: 1) It involved all Black Peo- ple; 2) There was violence - a dead body. The anti-war Movement in 10 years has yet to grasp the daily vio- lence perpetrated against Black and poor people, and although there have been arrests and trials in the anti- war Movement for symbolic acts, there has not been and there is no under- standing of the remorseless chain of crimes of violence against Black people (and thus the Black Panthers) and the desparate attempt of vanguard menand women lo survive, lo escape both homo- cide and suicide. Therefore, it is the veflection of this violence of the State which surfaces in these Black Panther trials, with their crazy government witnesses and tattoo of the hysterical liberal press, that tells the students and pactfists (who are not non-violent, but only passive) that a revolution for those outside of History is not made by a demonstration of peace. This con- trolling reality of violence against the oppressor tn the State makes those who think they have clean hands and who shrink from the defense of Bobby Seale and Ericka Huggins and the others, fools and cowards, What happened in New Haven can only happens when the ‘‘good people” are silent, There isnodepressionhere in New Haven around the courthouse. There's only the unspoken pledge, as people's eyes meet, to conduct an un- remitting struggle jor the Chairman, Ericka, the Ministery of Defense, the Chief of Staff, the Soledad Brothers, Ruchell Magee, Angela Davis, the Ber- rigans, yeS and @ven those students and good people wip sat dowm to stop the government and may one Way stand up. \LL POWER TO THE PEOPLE , a = 4 | THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 29,1971 PAGE 7 western union Telegram MESSAGES REGARDING THE DISMISSAL OF THE CASE AGAINST BOBBY AND ERICKA May 25, 1971 - Compton, California Chairman Bobby Seale and Comrade pLricka Huggins, Central Headquarters Black Panther Party, 1048 Peralta Street, Oakland California With revolutionary love and the spirit intercommunal _ solidarity, the of pSouthern California Chapter of the § Black Panther Parly expresses deep feelings of joy uponhearing of the court dismissal of the case against our be- loved comrades, Ericka Huggins and g Chairman Bobby Seale. Despite the pigs' attempt to write S this off as alandmarkexample of A- Bicss haydship suffered by the people and ? ee f FX if Bb ls - r merican Justice, we know that the self- aA av, 1971 - z= =) < London, Black Panther Party Headquarters Oakland, California England theiy servants, Bobby and Ericka, who serve the People body and soul; the monstrous economic cost to the poorest of poor; the hard work of progressive and revolutionary people the world over - these are the real reasons for this viclory, These people have won this battle, but the final victory will be when the Bobby Seales, Ericka Hugginses, Mais and Slagalees of the world have Slain the Dragon of Reactionary In- terycommunalism and ushered in the dawn of Revolutionary Intercommuna- lism, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA CHAPTER BLACK PANTHER PARTY - All Power To The People - Stop - We have nol forgotten those who still remain in prison - Stop - LOVE Just heard the news about Bobbyand BERNADETTE DEVLIN Ericka - Stop - Congratulations - Stop a bh ee ee ee ee weweweuedd people, their only rightful judges. Be- Sy + ie? PAP Se r. . > Fa a= ' ’ ™ . »*4 x y ' ‘ ‘ ‘ y f f 4 ‘ | f i i i é f ee f 1g, LTT PRT RRR eee Ree eee Hee eee eee eee . POLITICAL PRISONER APPEAL cause of this situation, the Black Pan- : [am interested in: : ther Party has initiated a Free Busses Helping with the bussing program: ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE: to the prisons program, legal aid ser- (busses, car pools etc.) : Within the last year, the vicious vices lo prisoners, and generally aiding _ Helping with legal aid services (at-: 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 political prisoners, beginning with the incarceration of our Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton, over three years ago. 5 ‘ , For 6 months For a year Since that time, our Chairman, and co- ties such as combs, toothbrushes, —— under of our Party Bobby Seale, as stamps, stationery, etc, With this in; 70: THE BUSSING PROGRAM founde : se , mind, we have initialed a program: [EGAL AID (DEFENSE FUNDS) __ well as over 130 other members of our Party have been inca ycevated in prisons at -yoss the country, Not only NZ oh and - wekegs . at a false charges ly donation for six months or a year pen on - 5 fy ah ols politic al beliefs, %” order tohelp the prisoners meet thetr CITY ST ‘ TE: stemming J? »of the most asic needs and see their families, :‘ eee he 2 they are subjected lo sonmie of . PHONE; injuoman. treatment and represston of the penal system, y. they have alsome tthe lam- However, dreds oj thousands of other political ' ; ; prisoners, the forgotten pt ople, the people no one knows, who have no wu hi- < Jos “4 thy ele for pulling theiy case befor j the prisoners in whatever way thal 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 to buy personal necesst- through which interested individuals and organizations may pledge a month- through our bussing program. if you are interested in helping, please fill out the form below and mail it in, We must wage a struggle in the pri- and simultaneous with sons jails th le in the _ Robert Williams. Political Prisoner 2 paces "” slrurg streets 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, I PLEDGE: $I-- $5-- $l0-- $15-- $20--$-- monthly PRISONER’S NEEDS SEND ALL DONATIONS TO; Black Panther Party c/o Legal Di fanse Fund 1048 Peralta St. Oakland, Californta 94706 Tee POe UU OU eee SECT OPC eee eae SEER REE EEE EEE EERE TR EERE EEE EEE EE EE HEHEHE EERE EEE EEE EEE E HEHE ewan anne ow SERRE REET EEE TETHER EHH EEE HEHEHE HOO EEE ee aee ooo——EEEEEEE—E—E——=E=EEE o) lee THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1971 PAGE # MALCOLM X DAY AT SAN QUENTIN H ! "hi age 538 4 i Brathers of San Quentin On May 22, 1971, the Black inmates al San Quenlin commemorated te biythday of Malcolm X, wider the Sponsorship of the SATE (Self-Ad- vancement Through Education) organi- zation, SATE ts an organization of Biack immates at San Quentin, origzt- naily sponsored by prison officials. Since that time, however, the organi- zation lias fallen into some amowil of disfavor because it ts moving away jrom Ute meaningless prison prozvams to truly educate themselves and their fellow inmates, Malcolm X commem- oration is an annual event, altiiouzh in the past this day had been set aside as “Soul Day". The pies’ purpose in allowing such an event, of course lo. present a liberal, benevolent front fo the People and also to altempt to ay aaae and (o pacify Black inmates. Such programs as “Sow Days" haw nines been dominated by lackies wiio are willing to push etlnocentricily and meaningless so-called ‘Black Cul- ture’’ programs, advanced by Officials, in an effort to issues and to divert the brothers fram thinking about the strugele for a meaningful chanze. This year, the brothers, take educational level, renamed the event “Malcolm X Day'' and inviled the Lumpen ( arevolutionary singing group of the Black Panther Party) to appear along with the other community choirs and entertainers, The brothers from the San Quentin Branch of the Black Panther Party also wanted an opportunity to see some of their comrade sisters from other Branches of the Party in the Bay Area (Northern California) with whom they have been corresponding. And because the requirement to get into San Quentin on Malcolm X Day was to be on the program, the sisters formed a dance troupe that could participate in the activities, And, as of May lith, the Lumpen, the Freadom Messengers (the Lumpen’s band) and the dance troupe ,is brison hid real or moving hoping to “Soul Day" to a higher and more Sisters performing at S.Q. were all prepared and authorized tozo fo San Quentin, the invitations having been officially extended and accepted, On May 2lst, Brother Paul Morgan, Program Director of SATE, stated that he had spoken to Sam Skinner, a Black disc jockey on Radio Station KDIA (a local Bay Area ‘‘Soul Station"’) and the general coordinator of Malcolm X Day. Skinner, at this late date, in- Jorvmed SATE that the Lumpen, the Freedom Messengers and the dance troupe would not be able to come to San Quentin, veason was that other bands scheduled lo play and the Musicians Union would not allow them to play along withanon- wiion group, Bul this Musicians Union rule is nol applicable in the case of a Benefit, which is how such an eventis classified, Then Skinner had to re- tract this lie, From otherinformation ii wes learned that in factthe veal rea- son no one from the Black Panther Party could appear was fital the Warden's office specifically stated that the Warden did nol want the Lionbent perform inside San Quentin becays the highty educational it was, ver, can the dance troupe nol the Lumpen ov the sengers, Somehow, the Lumpen Freedom Messengers, as dance troupe did get into the prison that Saturday, After being permitted gate clearance, Sam Skinner was asked when the Lumpen could appear, Al- though the Lumpen were clearly listed on the printed program, Skinner re- fused to acknowledge their existence, saying thal there was no room left on the prozvam, Later, when it was ap- parent that all the groups listed would not be coming, he was again asked about an appearance of the Lumpen, This time Skinner reluctantly agreed that they could have twenty-two minules, The Freedom Messengers played a song and then the sisters danced, Skinner ts re- ported to have been numning arownd ask- value of their that could come in, bul Fre: Mes- songs, hows eded dom and the well as the Skinner said that the gotten,"" Muhammad Ali with Brothers ing what the Lumpen were going to do, Stating that if anything went “ he would stop the show. While the sisters were dancing, he woefully sat the side of the stage, in full view of. everyone, with his ‘head in his hands.- As soon as the sisters were finished, the Freedom Messengers began playing the introductory music for the Lumpen, Al this point, Skinner rushed forware to another microphone, cut them of with a ‘Thank you’, and hurriedly tt troduced the artists scheduled to ap pear next, When asked why ety. this, he lied and said that the and indicated that they were finishe When told that the Timbs wanted to appear, he said thathew ve-schedule them for later in the pra gvam. He conveniently scheduled tt Lumpen to appear just after 2:00 pm, the time the program was sched led to close. Since there was naturally a very strict lime schedule, the Lumpen did not appear at all, When asked afterward aboul his sabolaze of the program, Ski if vacillated, saying that there musthaveé been a ‘‘mistake"', that he hadnever promised anything. But because of. ais sabotage, the brothers of San Que in were unable to hear the Lumpene nd were obviously disappointed, 4 In spite of Skinner’s dirty work cohoots with the pigs of San @ they were unable to keep the com: ' rades from maximum from talking to their fellow comrades who had ¢o to be with them on this occasion, Ang the love and unity between the Party. members and the other brothers in-) side San Quentin,and the Party bers andscommunity,people from oul- side were strengthened that day, As a comrade from thé Quentin Branc stated, “The comrades just loved y all and itydally gave them the feelin of being wanted, needed and not fe : ALL PQWER TO THE PEOPLE! Br FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1971 PAGE 9 STATEMENT BY HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER OF DEFENSE BLACK PANTHER PARTY SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE TO THE BLACK ODYSSEY FESTIVAL The Center for Urban-Black Studies Graduate Theological Union Berkeley, California May 19, 1971 Since 1966, the Black Panther Party has gone through many changes; it's been transformed. I would like to talk to you about that and about con- tradictions, I would also like to talk about the Black Panther Payty's re- lationship with the community as a whole and with the church in particular, Sometime ago when the Party Started, Bobby and I were interested in strengthening the Black community, that is, a comprehensive set of in- Stitutions, because there is one thing we lack and thal is community, We do have one institution that has been around for some lime and that is the church, After a short harmonious re- lationship with the church, in fact a very good /yelationship, we were divorced from the church, and shortly after that we found ourselves oul of § the good favor of the whole Black com- 2 munily. We found ourselves in somewhat of a void where we were alienated from the whole community; and we had no way of being effective, as far as de- veloping the community is concerned, The only way we could aid in that process of vevolution--and revolution is a process, it’s nol a conclusion, or a set of principles, or any particular action--was by raising the consctous- ness of the community, Any conclusion or any particular action that we think is revolution really is reaction be- cause revolution is a developmental process, lt has a forward thrust which gets higher and higher as man becomes freer and freer, As man become s freer he knows more about the universe, he tends to control more and he therefore gains more conty olover himself, that’s what freedom is all about. So I'll talk about Ute mistakes that were made. Sometimes I hate to call them mistakes because maybe they were necessary things to bring about the necessary change in the Party, the necessary transformation, or bring about the new, I amsure that we will have other kinds of contradictions in the future, that we don't know about now because they are im rather low-key. 1 am sure they will build up to hurl us into a new thing, We see the church its lf as goimeg through phases of deve lopment, Some- jimes t has found ust lf somewhat some isolated from the community, Today the church ts striving to come back into the favor of the community; so with the church the Black Panther Party will attempt this also, A short lime ago there was an article that appeared in the Black Panther Paper, if you read that poli- tical organ, I hope that you do, It’s called ‘‘The Defection of Eldridge Cleaver from the Black Panther Party and the Defection of the Black Panther Parly from the Black Commumity,’’ (Editor's note: In that article, the Minister of Defense stated: ‘We were trying to build a political vehicle through which the people could express their vevolutionary desires. We re- cognized that no party or organization can make the revolution, only the people can, All we could do was actasa guide to the people. Because revolution is a process and because tie process moves in a dialectical manner, At one point one thing might be proper, but the same action could be improper at another point, We always emphasized a con- crete analysis of concrele conditions, and then an appropriate response to these conditions as a way of mobilizing the people and leading them to higher levels of Consciousness."’) I would like to concentrate loday upon the defection of the Party. I think thal’s a larger unit, for sure, and I hate to place blame upon individuals in our Party in particular, because they're always governed by a collective called the Central Committee, When I disagree with the Central Committee (and I did much disasrreeing and arguing whenl hut I was outvoted) when meeting, | support was in prison, we come out of the . dignity, the position of the Party until the next meeling. I think at first that we have to have some organized apparatus in order to bring about the change necessary, The only time we leave our political machine or our institution altogether is when we feel that we cannot bring about the change. As amatter of fact the very posture of the organization or the in- Stitution will strip us of our individual That would leave no room for us to change anything, because we'll be stripped of that basic quality that’s necessary for us to go on struggling to make the new, So I feel that this was the case with the Party and that can be argued one way or another, but individually I thought that the Party still should be held together, 1 knew if l left we would have to form a new Party, a new institution in order to be that spur or that guiding light in the com- munity, Also I would have to contend with new contradictions. We always say that contradictions are the ruling principle of the universe, I'll mention this word time and time again because I think that it’s re- sponsible for much suffering. When things collide it hurts; but the collision is also responsible for development, Without contradictions everything would be stagnant, because contra- diction is that principle where opposing forces struggle against each other in order to gain dominance based upon their wniity. So everything has an in- ternal contradiction, and, as I pointed oul, the church also has that, Contradiction, or the strain that tries to make the inferior superior to the thing that ts in control, gives motion to matler, We see this throughout the universe, in the physical world as well as in the biological world. We also see it in cultures. We see that de- velopment comes when the phenomenon occurs that we call acculturation, That is, two societies meet, when cultures meet they collide hecause they have a contradiction, and both are modified. They say that the stronger shows less change and the weaker more change. All the time the weaker is attempting to gain dominance over that other part. But something happens, they both will never be the same again because you have a kind of synthesis, where you have the thesis, antithesis, and the syn- thesis. In other words that it’s all working toward the truth of the trinity. This principle of contradiction, this striving for harmony, seems to operate in all of our disciplines and we can see how it operates. So the Black Panther Party was formed because weswanted to oppose the evils in ou Corvaiiy, Some of the membersén the Party were nat so refined--we were xrasping for organi - zation, ft wasn'ta college campus or- ganization; tt was: sicall)) an organi- zation of the gvass Yovts, and CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE ; in / a STATEMENT BY HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER OF DEFENSE BLACK PANTHER PARTY SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE TO THE BLACK ODYSSEY FESTIVAL CONTINUED FROM LAST PAGE anytime we organize the most vic- timized of the victims, we rm intoa problem. To have a Party or a church or any kind of institution, whether we like it oy not, we have to have adminis- trators, The institution, the organi- zation, or the Party in this case--how it functions, how effective it is--will depend upon how knowledgeable, how advanced in thinking the administrators will be. We attempt to apply the ad- ministrative skills--ifyouare agrass- roots organization-- to the problems that are most heard in the communi- ty. When we do this, it is somewhat abstract in a way. History shows that it’s there, and because most of the parties that have led people out of their difficulties to change the situation have administra- tors that have what we sometimes call the traits of the bourgeoisie or else de-classed intellectuals, In other words they are the people who have gone through the established institu- tions, rejected them, and then applied their skills to the community. They gave it to the community, therefore making their skill not a bourgeoisie skill, but a people's skill, It was tvans- formed through the contradiction of applying what's usually bourgeoiste to the person who is oppressed; and that itself is a kind of transformation, With our Party we're not so blessed with this. History does nol repeat itsel/; it goes on also transforming itself through its dialectical process. We see that our Party, while we have ad- ministrators (we need them in the Party), the victims have not received that bourgeoisie training. So I will not apologize for our mistakes, our lack of a scientific approach that we tried to use and put into practice. If was a matter of not knowing, of learning, but also starting oul with a loss, a loss that history has never seen, That is, that a group attempting to influence and change the society so much and at the same time have its administrators as much in the dark much of the time as the people that they are trying to change, In our Party we have now what we call the Ideological Institute where we are teaching these skills, And we also invite ‘those people who have received a bourgeois education to come and help us, letting them know that they will, by theiy contribution, make thetr need to exist--as they exist--null and void, In other words, afler we learn the skills they will not be bourgeots anymore, because that will evaporate with its application, 1 explain this to show some of th mistakes, I won't go into particulars bul J will show you genervally what happens, because it's also happened to the church, I say that everything seems to negate itself through contradiction, Remember it is transformed by the contradiction, so therefore its old quality, its old composition is trans- formed so much until it has a new composition, We call it a thing negating itself; sometimes we call it the ne- gation of the negation, because just as it is formed, it is also being negated by something else, and we see thal this goes on in the process of de- velopment, As far as the church is concerned, the Black Panther Party, and other community groups who call themselves concerned with the political and not the spiritual, criticize the spiritual. We say that it’s only a ritual; it’s irrelevant, and therefore we have nothing to do with it. We say this in the context of the whole community having something to do with the church, usually on one level or another. That is one way of defecting from the com- munity, and that is exactly what we did, Once we stepped outside of the church with that criticism we stepped outside of the thing that the community was in- volved in and said tothem, ‘' Youfollow our example; your veality is not true and you don’t need it,’’ I think that people do the thing thal they think they need and they probably do it on that level, one way or another, Now without judging whether the church ts operating in a total reality, I'll venture to say that if we judge whether the church operates ina situation of relevance to the total com- munity, we would all agree that it does not, That is why you develop new pro- grams and become more relevant so your pews will be filled on Sunday. So we will say that the church is in its developmental process, then; first it needs to exist, We feel that with our new direction, which is an old direction as far as I am concerned, but we'll call it new, because there has been a reversal in the dominance in the Central Committee of our Party because of reasons that you probably know about. So we go to church and we are involved inthe church and we're not doing il in any hypocritical way, I think that it is a thing that man needs at this time, and he needs it because of what? Because we scientists cannot answer all of the questions, As far as i am concerned when all of the questions are when the odd ts not answered, when the unknown ts not answered, then there is room for God because that unknown ts God, God is a thing thal we know nothing about really, and that is why as soon as the scientist develops or points out a new way of controlling the wiiverse or part of u, answered, suddenly that thing is not God. In other words, at one point whenthunder — clashed it was God's clap, putting his hands together, As soonas we found out that it was not God, then we say that God has other attributes but not that one, So in that way we took on what was His before, you see? Bul you still haven't answered all of the questions, so He exists, And those scientists that say they can answer them are dis= honest, So we go intoMhayelnrch realizing that we cannot answer the questions at this time thal the answers will be delivered at Some tinre, and we feel that wherthey aré detivered they will be explainedana way that we can under- stand and “(hat we gan control, We noliced--1 wen! toe°thurch for years, my father is a minister and I spent 4 | i 15 years in the church, this was my life as a child--we saw one thing. That is as we approach the unknown, we see that somelimes a group of people will find something out or feel that they have discovered something they can control and sey this ts nol God, while the other group will say that we have to approach my God dif- ferently for the simple reason that they attribute other characteristics to God. So we get many denominations, you see, all struggling to understand, When I was going (0 church [usea to heay much of th Say that God ts therefore God ts And God is that part oJ W pery mystical, in the sense don’t widerstand it, Bul as man de véelops and understands mor and moré time, they would within us and so part of ws, that’s that we some then he will approach God, and finally he will reach heaven and therefore he will merge with the universe. I’ve never heard one preacher say thal there is a need for the church in heaven, the church would negate itself, As man approaches his de- velopment and becomes larger and larger, the church therefore becomes smaller and smaller because it is not needed any longer. Then if we really get ministers who will deal with the social realities that cause the misery, so that we can solve them, so that man will become larger and larger, then thetr God within will come out, we can see it and merge with it, Then we will be one with the universe, So I think tt was rather arrogant of my Party to criticize the communily Jor indulging in a practice to deliver this answer. The only thing we will criticize in the future is when the church does not act upon these evils that we feel cause man to go on his knees, The man goes on his knees and humbles himself under the awe, that large force that he canhot control. Bul as man becomes stronger and Stronger, his understanding grealer and greater, he will have a closer walk with thee. You note they say walk and not crawl. So with the church we will all start again to control our lives and control our communities, Even with the Black church we have to really create acom- munity sptrit, We say that the church is an institution, but in itself it is nol a community according to sociology. The sociological definition of a community is that a community is a comprehensive collection of in- Stitutions that will deliver our whole life, provided that we can reach most of our goals within it. It serves us and we create it in order to carry oul our desires, In the Black com- munity we have the church as an in- Stitudion that we created, they let us create, They warred against us, bul Finally we got that compromise and we worship as aunit, as a people concerned with satisfying their needs, Al the time the white church was not satisfying our needs, because the actual questions could not be answered in hwman terms because they felt we were not Jrman beings, So therefore the white church does not answer our cause or our problem at all, so we formed our own, They let us form it because they felt if we're not human beings then why lo church? So trough a positive thing started to ad- should we go that negative thing came oul again, We minister fraternities, anti-lynching groups and so forth, but they still would not let oxy commuiaity extst, We came here in chains and I guess they thought we meant to stay in chains. Bul this wasn’t Ute case were and the way we started to move ou and have tat forward thrust was to yweanize a political machine or trying to develop acommunity so thal we coud have the apparatus in order to fight _ What back, You cannot fight an organized machine back individually, so we would work with the church in order to establish a community to satisfy most of our needs so that we can live and operate as a community group, The Black Panther Party, with its survival programs, plans to develop the institutions in the community. We have a clothing factory we are just erecting on Third Street, where we will soon give away about 300-400 new clothes a month, And we can do this by robbing Peter to pay Paul, we will do is start to make golfing bags under contract to a com- pany and with the surplus we will buy material to make free clothes, Our members will do this. We will have no overhead because our collective--we'll exploit our collective by making them work free, We'll do this not just to Salisfy ourselves--like the philanthro- pist, or to serve--to save someone from going without shoes, even though this is a part of the cause of our problem, People make the revolution; we will give the process a forward thrust. If we suffer genocide we won't be around to change things. So in this way our survival program is very practical, ; What we are concerned with is the larger problem, so we will be honest and say that we will do like the churches, we will negate ournecessily for existing, In other words, after we accomplish our goals then the Black Panther Party will not need to exist because we have already created our heaven right here on earth, What we're going to do is administer to the com- munity the things they need in order to get their attention, in order to or- ganize them into a political machine, in ather words the community will then look to the Party and look to those people who are serving their needs in order to give them guidance and direction, whether it is political, whether it is judicial, or whether it is economic, So our real thing is to organize across this country, We have 38 chap- ters and branches and I would like to inform you that the so-called split is only a myth, that it does not exist, We lost 2 chapters in that so-called split and I will tell you that the burden is off my shoulders, I wes glad to lose them because it was like a yoke, I was frozen, Even though I couldn't make a move I already told you that 1 wouldn't get out of the whole thing then, because certain people had such an influence over the Party. For me to have taken that stand it would have been an individual stand, So now we're about three years hehind in our five year plan, but we willnow move to start lo organize the.communily around the survival programs, like ad- ministering shoes, CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE <a THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1971 PAGE 1? STATEMENT BY HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER OF DEFENSE BLACK PANTHER PARTY SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE TO THE BLACK ODYSSEY FESTIVAL CONTINUED FROM LAST PAGE they isolate themselves from realily because they’re so miserable and reality is so hard to take. We know that by us operating within the reality does not mean that we accept it; we're operating within it, so that we can change it, because whal we do as re- volutionists we're somewhat abstract in our approach, The people are always real, They think they are real, but we know that reality is changing all the time, bul what we want to dois harness those forces that are causing the change in order to direct them in a desirable direction, In other words the develop- ment will go an, bul we have no guarantee that il will develop so man can live. We have no guarantee that the bomb won't be dropped, but we know that there are certain ways that we can plan for the new reality, and in order to do this, we have to take some control over the now, So the people who withdraw, like I mentioned the religious cultist group, do the same thing as the cultural cultist group. These are new words that we have 3 coined, The Panthers are ah ays 3 coining words, because we have tokeep $ defining the new reality, the new phenomena, The old words confuse us sometimes, because things have changed so much, So we try to stay abreast, by developing or stipulating definitions, the old lexical definitions We have a shoe factory that we’re opening up on l4th and Jefferson, We have the machines and everything else donated. We'll use it to get inmates out of prison because most of us know how to make shoes through making Shoes in the prison, So it will serve two purposes. We can give them a position in the shoe factory and there- fore get somebody out on parole; secondly they'll come out with the idea of giving a certain amount of shoes away each week, and we'll have a right to wear shoes program, We'll point out thal everyone in the society should have shoes and we should nol have a situation like in Beaufort County, South Carolina where the children-- many of them--70% of the children suffer brain damage because of mal- nutrition. They have malnutrition be- cause of the combination of nol enough food and parasites in the stomach, The worm eats up half the food that they take in. Why? Because the ground is infested with the eggs of the worms and they don’t have shoes to wear. So as soon as we send a doctor there to cure them they get the parasites point, the point is how do we get them again, So we think that a shoe pro- to do all they will do, until they gram ts a very relevant thing, first eventually get to the point they will to make them live, to create those have to be doing all they can do be- conditions so that they will grow up cause they will be satisfied with and be able to work out aplan everything else? This is the kind of to change things, If they have brain program we have. we were arrogant to say dump the “church, Let's give it a chance, let's work with it in order to twist as many contribulions and compromises oul of all the institutions as possible and then criticize after the fact, We'll know wien that time comes, when the people tell us So, We have a program attempting to gel the people to do all they will do. It's too much to ask the people to do all they can do, because we know we can do everything. Bul thal is not the damage, they will never be a revolu- tiontst because they cannot plan be- cause they have already been killed, That is genocide in itself, So we will do this and we will point oul to this government, to this social order, that they must administer toils people because they say that they're supposed to be a_ representative government, representing the needs of the people, Then serve them. If they don’t do this then they have a right lo be criticized. What we will not do in the future is jump too far ahead, We can jump too far ahead and say that the system absolutely cannol give us anything which is not true, the sys- tem can correct itself to a certain extent, What we are interested inis for it to correct itself as much as tl can do and after that if it doesn't do everything that the people think is necessary then we'll think about re- organizing things. ‘ To be very honest again | think there’s wreat doubt whether the particular arrangements can do this, But until the peaple feel the same way i feel then I'U be rather arrogant to say dump the whole thing just as When the Party started we started because we recognized that what was frowing oul of the movement was what we called a cultural cult group. We defined a cultural cult group as an organization that disguised itself as @ political organization, but really it was more interested in the cultural rituals of Africa in the H00's before the contact with the European, Instead of administering to the communily and organizing il, they would rather wear bubas and get African names and use this and demand that the community do the same and do nothing about the survival of the communily. Sometimes they say that “well if we get our cul- ture back then all things will be Solved,’’ this is like saying to be regenerated and born again is to solve everylhing, We know that it is not solved, We went into a thing just as closed in as the cullural cultist group. You might know many churches that are very reactionary and you might cail them a religious cull, They go Urrough many rituals bul they're divorced from reality, Even though we have many things in common with them we say become so ouldated = after talking about now, The new word that we are talking aboul now is what I was guilty of, I was guilty of tis when I offered the won’ t lalk about whether tt was morally right Black troops to Viet Nam--I or wrong--I will say that anything that you say or do as a revolutionist that does not spur or give the forward thrust to the process (of revolution), is wrong. Remember that the people are the makers of history, the people make everything in their society, They are the architects of the society and if you don’t spur them on then I don’t care what phrases you use, whether they are political or religious, you can- not be classified as being relevant to that process. Yowmightbe reactionary because if youRnow you"'re@wrong and do these things then you're reactionary because you QF very very Builly, You deserve many (stripes) Some of us didn't know. Pameprobably more guilty than anyone, keep searching myself CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE the qualitative leap (the transformation) that it doesn’t match at all what we're STATEMENT BY THE BLACK grrr SATURDAY, mare, mn HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER OF DEFENSE BLACK PANTHER PARTY SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE TO THE BLACK ODYSSEY FESTIVAL CONTINUED FROM LAST PAGE to see whether I knew we were going wrong. I couldn’t influence them (the Central Committee) and maybe I should have been charged with an individual violation and gotten out that they didn’t know, I think most of them didn’t know, so they're not as guilty as Iam, Bul anyway, the new word that we call what we went into for a short length of time--a couple of years--is revolu- tionary cullist, The revolutionary cultist uses the words social change, they use words for being interested in the development of society, he uses that terminology, you see. But his actions are so fay divorced from the process, and organi- zing the community until he is living in a fantasy world, So we talk to each other on the campuses, or we talk to each other in the conspiracy of the night, with concentration upon the weapons thinking that these things will produce change, without the people themselves changing it, Of course peo- ple will do courageous things and call themselves the vanguard, But the people who do things like that are @ either heroes or criminals, They are ‘ tad ned vanguard because the vanguard Em _ Spearhead, and the spearhead ids Mo spearhead something, if nothing ae behind it, ten you are divorced from all the masses, and, not the van- guard, Iam going to be very criticized now by the revolutionary cullists and probably even more in the future be- cause I view lhe process as goiny m stages. I feel that we can't jump from A to Z, we have to go through all that development, So even though I could see a thing is nol the answer, I don't think it’s dishonest to mvolve myself in it for the simple reason that the people tend to take not even one step higher, they take a half a step higher. Then hang on to the reality or what they view as the reailty, because they can’t see that it is constantly changing and when it finally changes (quali- tatively) they don’t know’ why, Remember that part of the reason it changes around them is because they are there, so they participate whether they like it or not, So what we will do now is involve ourselves in anything or any stage of development in the community, support that and try to introduce some insight into it. Then we will work very hard with the people in the community and with this institution so that it can negate itself, We will be honest about thig and we hope they are honest, They will be honest if they accept this thing, that is the reality that everything is negated and this is how we go on to higher levels, I would like to say this to notify you that in the future there will be many articles that come out, Most of them will be re-analysis, I am doing an article now called ‘To Re-analyze Black Capitalism", but I’m not going to go into that because it’s a long rap. But I think this is the kind of thing we're involved in and we'll judge how successful we are by whether we can take the community with us. 1 was warned when I got up here that it would be more appropriate for a question-and-answer period so I guess that we'll start now because I’m subject to go on and on. QUESTION; I would like to know in your Re-Evaluation of your former stance in relationship to the com- munity, in what ways do you expect to merge or bring together the com- munily of the Catholic Church into the Black Panther Party? MINISTER OF DEFENSE: First that 1 say that we can't change the reality, or direct it, or harness the forces until we know them. We have to gather information about it, We cangather in- formation about the church by ex- periencing the church, As a matter of fact that is how we gain facts, through empirical evidence, observation and experience, So in order to do this we have to go there. You see the only laboratory t society we have is the community itself, and we view our- Selves as not only scientists but also activists, Now we say we try lo merge theory with practice. So we're going to churches now, I went to church last week for the first time in 10 years, Il guess, We took our children with us. We have a youth institute, the Samuel Napier Youth Institute, We have about 30 children now and we took them to church and involved ourselves, We plan to involve ourselves in many com- munily activities, going through the be- havior the church goes through in order to contribute to the community, We also hope to influence the church, as I’m sure the church will influence us, Re- member that we said that even when whole socielies and cultures meet they are both modified by each other, And f am saying that the very fact that we're there is the new ingredient in the church and we know that we will be affected, and we hope that they will be affected. But I warn you that we hope that we will have more effect than you, Just briefly I mentioned our Youwh Institute, We have children from 3 to 14, most of them have already | kicked out of schools and we hav shortage of facilities because the hi core Black co or what to be the community now is jus aggregate, People who happen to b Black, We are teaching them first eat fi mentioned before, bourgeois skills, { This is a necessary thing for us to learn, in order for us to understand § the phenomena around us, the society, : On the second hand, we don’t like the ¢ way the skills have beenused, so we're § going to use them a different way. 2 Thirdly, our children are not going to withdraw, As far as I'm concerned $ 1! don’t like parochial schools, I don't? like separate schools, but I think that sometimes you have to use a strategy, just ds the Black Panther Party is a}® Black organization, We know that we @ live in a world of many cultures and ethnic groups and we all interconnect in one way or another, We say that we are the contradiction to the react- ionary westem values, bul we cannot separate because we're here. Tech- nology is too far advanced for us to isolate ourselves in any geographical location--the jet can get there too fast and so can the early-bird TV set -- so what we have:to do ts share the con- trol of these devices. So far as our children are con- cerned the only reason they are at this separate school is the public schools were not giving them the correct edu- 3° cation, They can hardly learn to read — and write. I don’t want them to end} up as I did, I only learned how to? read after | was 17 and this will not happen to them, I've only been reading for about 10 years or so, and that's nol very good--I don't read very good, Anyway our children, just as we're going back to the church, our whole plan is for our childven notto graduate from our school and live in a fantasy that everyone has the understanding that they do. Our effort is tokeep them in there just as long as it will take for them to go back into the schoal in order to organize it and make the school relevant, In other words we're going to send them back into the wilderness, but we're going to send them with their purse and their scribes with them this time, QUESTION: When David Hilliard spoke to the National Committee of Black Churchmen that met in Berkeley, he called the preachers who were gathered there a bunch of pimps and mother- fuckers, and bootlicking pimps and motherfuckers, which ts information that never should have reap made public anyway. And y preachers did) Panthers ; preachers, Im able to influ much as you the Panther’ # ~ x . | THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 197] PAGE 14 TELEVISED DISCUSSION WITH .3 ~¥ : ' 7 = ia i HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER BLACK PANTHER PARTY, > 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 Dote Network Channel Time Station Dote Network Channel Time Station Date Network Channel Time KBTV-TV May 28th ABC 9 4:00-5:00pm KTEW-TV May 28th NaC 5 11:00-12:00N | WSLS-T'V May 28th = Noc 10 9:00-10: 00am Denver, Colo, Tulsa, Oklahoma Roanoke, Va. WBHRC-T¥Y May 28th ABC t) 12N-1:30pm KVOS-TY May 28th cas 2 QN-1:30 pm| WOOD-TVY May 28h) NHC a 9;00-10:00am Birmingham, Ala, (Friday only) Bellingham, Wash, Grand Rapids, Mich. ; WTVO-TV May 28th NBC 7 4:00,5:309m CFAN-TV June 4th CTV 3 U:35pm-k:00am| KGSC-TY , june t6th IND % 7:30-9:00 Rockford, Ill. Edmonton, Alberta San Jose, Callf. WDSU-TV May 28th NBC 6 10:30pm-12 M | WXEX-TV June 4th ARC s 4:00-5:30pm £PLR-TV May 28th IND tt 730-9:00pen New Orleans, La. Richmond, Ya, St. Louls, Mo, in the Party to make the mistake to ] STATEMENT BY HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER OF DEFENSE BLACK PANTHER PARTY SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE TO THE BLACK ODYSSEY FESTIVAL The Center for Urban-Black Studies Graduate Theologecal Union Berkeley, Calzfornta May 19, 1971 CONTINUED FROM LAST PAGE ! . p MINISTER OF DEFENSE: If youunder- 40 to get themselves liberation. e nek ill not be arr t and we wouldn't stood hed noe oe penal sie Riis tease the moat GAEL NGaASEOV: ic waledue tality marge Aone of the if we didn’t know that we cannot bring ; , about the change, It was very wrong community because we're interested in OCs : ~ : ; ; me people what the community twill do and wilt 94 almost criminal for some people THE PHILADELPHIA BRANCH ANNOUNCES THE OPENING OF SUMMER SWIMMING PROGRAM FOR LIBERATION SCHOOL The Black Panther Party be- eves in constructive criticiam and solutions to the problems of Black people, That means that if we See 4 problem, we point it out and try to find a way to better the situation, In thin way we can better serve the People In fine with this, the Black Panther Party ts trying tw help educate the People, We tee thut Black people are given half an education, an irrejevant « . tion by AmerikKKa’s tems, sa various tnesns to People. tical education ings with fart adults a bnowledge of w pening anc ef politi minity, We fave our newepeper The : butercom- unal New ervice”’, whic chool sy we have evtallished educste tie nunity poll ert- We have com: clager rr members to a) tu the cov jlack Panther poses problems and oppressior around the world and indifferent communities. it also expLiins the Party's plillesophy and ideology. For the children, we have the Liberation School in the Liberation School children fearn, on a level that be umierstoad by chikiren, { Black peuple, and taty, yur car the fhietery day oC our role io present The children aloo play and are fou light meal tilach servis ifterward: Mec auee Party Od¢lieve in Poopite t inutinuted in mo © Liberation useful, There aren't too many public swimming facilities in Philadel- phia, and this is a betrer way fo have our children spending some of thelr time, than playing in glages strewn lots and hot streets full of ‘care, The pooltis n the campus of the Liniversity ivaniaahich has givens on for Us ube, » would like your childre come, u cane offices at either 47) Wa Sereet (Uv7-2567 ul sue4 elpua wit snectt pees ntact i) would liket think that the Black Panther Party could overthrow even the police force, It ended up with the war between the police and the Panthers, and if there isa way, it needs to be between the community and the reactionary establishment or else we’re isolating ourselves, As fay as what David Hilliard said, what it did was alienate you, and that’s what you're talking about, So there- fore it alienated us also, it put usin — one end of this country to the other, . our blood, while the community watched, Our help watched on, yousee? But it was more our fault than theirs, because we were out there saying that we were going to lead them into a change. But we can not lead them into a change if they will not go. As a mat- ter of fact, we cannot exist individually if we don't band together to resist the genocide against all of us: So just as ! criticize David Hilliard, I criticize myself, because I knew that stuff was going on and I argued against it, I didn’t leave the Party and finally the change came about, And so what I say about it ts that Il understand, and the reason that 1 didn't leave was that it wasn't an outrage to my humanity even though I cringed everytime, Because I wider- stood that he did it not out of hatred but because of love. He did it because he was outraged by the church's in- activity, as you're outraged (not you, but you in the Plural), outraged at this situation, and\ he was outraged, of course, Legause oy your isolation, So we're all nthe’ sain boat; so when we ond up ithe samm@pbnuk that means we're unifiod Vight there, THANK YOU VERY MUG} i a void where blood was spilled from : ,- SOLEDAD California's Soledad State Peniten- tiary has certainly been a focal point of the expression of dissatisfaction of pri- soners throughout the California and U.S. prison systems. Brothers at Sole- dad prison have suffered under the semi-sohisticated, covert racism and brutality of this so-called correctional institution for so long that within the past year, particularly, they have be- gun to challenge their slave existence in many ways, Anyone who is at all familiar with ¥ the kinds of pattems used by most maximum security camps, knows that few attempts are made to help peo- ple, but inmates are disciplined for petty “‘offenses"’ with no food, locked in isolation, beaten, drugged, and even murdered withoul the Slightest attention to or alleviation of their misery, To further intensify the intolerable Situation al Soledad, Pig Warden James Fitzharris in a last bizarre move as the head of this camp (He is being pro- moted to Deputy Director of Califor- nia’s Correctional Inslitutions as of June Ist, to be replaced by Walter T, Stone, presently the Superintendant of California’s Prison at Chino.) has now imposed a complete lock-up u- pon all Soledad inmates, That ts, in- mates may not go out of their cells for any reason, as the cells are locked 24-hours a day, Supposedly, these harshly drastic measures were necessary to control the prison population due to the death by stabbing of a pacification Program Administrator, Kenneth Conant, May 19th. Then Fitzharris began frantically transferring and dispersing certain THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1971 PAGE INMATES LOC whom threats, out of Soledad to various other men, California prisons, hustled oul 72 men, 42 from ‘‘O” wing (the hole or solitary confine- ment) and 30 from the main popula- tion, instead of controlling the situation, Fitzharris has created a tight concen- tration camp atmosphere, certainly not the conditions to ‘‘rehabilitate’’ any- one, On Saturday May 22nd, another guard, Yashinobu Teruya, was stabbed, and Fitzharris finally went completely beserk, ordering the solitary confine- ment wing be tear-gassed, having al- ready charged one man, a Richard Clemence, with the stabbing. At this point it is obvious that the idea that a frantic Fitzharris be promoted to handle all the California prison camps should be ridiculous, It should also be ridiculous to think that this type of repression u- pon human beings will bring about any more than their resistance, Neverthe- less, recently a suggested program to he deemed potential So far he has little man like KED DOWN solve Soledad’s “problems” was dis- cussed. Supposedly the California State Employees Association brought out the Jollowing ideas for keeping these human beings in control: l. Anew procedure for watching T.V. Prisoners should vote one week in ad- vance for the programs they wish to watch; and, if approved, they will see them, 2. Tighter controls on visitors and visiting privileges, 3, Additional coverage by guards, § that is, more guards for sick-call and more restrictions on who goes to sick- call, (An inmate should be heavily guarded when going to get treatment for an illness.) 4, The closing down of the inmates’ canteen, until new procedures on con- trol of the lines can be established. (The canteen is the only place from which inmates can obtain cigarettes, personal items, confections, etc, This has already been done.) 5. Ban inmates from moving within the prison without a pass, 6. Improved training of guards, particularly regarding enforcement and issuance of discipline, (One sugges- ted method for immediate “improve- ment’’ was to put disciplined inmates on a list to be circulated to all guards, who can then watch them more closely.) 7. Stricter control of tool and metal shops ( to prevent the making of knives.). *'We must wage a struggle in the pri- sons and jails simultaneous with the Struggle in the streets."’ ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! PEOPLE’S LAW SCHOOL A people’s law school will be starting in San Francisco in the beginning of July, It will be a ‘law school”’ with no tuition, no grades, and no degrees, Classes will be for community people who want to learn some basic ‘‘legal defense and survival’’ information in areas of the law vhat affect their daily lives; and smal! group training ses- sions for legal workers (people with legal skills who d yn’r have bar cards and aren't in regular law schools) who want to learn more specialized legal skills so they can work to mee! the legal needs of their communities. A tentative list of classes includes: landlord/ tenants, search and seizure (particularly gun and drug laws), cri- minal court procedures, prison law, rt =p} military law, jJuvenile/ 8" ae rights and laws, lfare/ unemp sh ment, labor law, Woge garnishment / consumer rights, divorce, women and r renenr *h the law, lewal reseate aya and history and analysis of the legal ind writing, system, Other classes and training sessions can be set up depending on peoples’ needs, Classes will be communities In San sion, Potrero Hill, Chinatown, Fill- more, Haight Ashbury, Northof Market and Hunters Point, Which classes will be taught in each community will depend on expressed interests of peo- ple and organizations in those com- munities, held in different Each class will be taught by people experienced in that area of law and/ or involved in organizing projects re- lated to it. Teachers will be legal work- ers, law students, lawyers or people working in community legal projects. The information in the classes will be practical and specific: not what the law says should happen, but what act- ually happens and how it affects you, eachers will gear their raps to the concerns of people in their classes, Francisco: Mis- In order to make the People’s law school happen, we need to know what kinds of classes people want and in what community they'd like the class to be held, Please call any of the follow- ing organizations and let us know what classes you'd be interested in: National Lawyers Guild (863-5193) Connections (North of Market) (673-0298) la Raza Legal Defense (Mission) (647-8884) Asian Legal Services (Chinatown) (781-0978) *™ Haight Ashbury Legal Project (864-2240) Potrero Hill Le@gabDefense (285-9950) = Aid to Criminal Defense) (Hunters Point) (285-4750) Associated Students == SF State (586-7218) Downtown Peace Conlition (989-7290) THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1971 PAGE \6 PALO ALTO RACISTS HARASS BLACK LIBERATION FRONT Since the fascist attucks by police st the April &h peace- ful demonstration at Stanford University Hospital, because of which 3] people have now been arrested, tie police are focusing thelr attention on the most capable and progressive ele- ments of the East Palo Altocom- munity of California, Their most recent target js Ciristopher Laury, @ member of the Black Liberation Front, who had actively participated in the hos- pital workers struggle since is beginning and was elected by the hespita] workers to represent them at the negotiation table Chris Laury was arrested ot May 7th, 1971, for the alleged beating and torture of Mary Jane Schmidt, 4 senior clerk at Stan- ford Hospital.(Mary Jane Schmid claims she was attacked in her home in East Palo Alto t black men and that they knocked Daylight pig raid on B.L.F, office her down and kicked her, breaking her ribs, andburned her y two face with a cigarette lighter, community college), Cirls Laury a them and they (the pigs) another brother awey on some claim marijuanaand anopen wine because she refused to support a was arrested infront of Eust Pale scurried about their business, trumped up charges because of bottle were found in the car, The work stoppage at the hospital. Alto Black Liberation Front cause they knew they should not his political activities, brothers pleaded not guilty She described her assailants as Headquarters, where he resides, have been there, One week later, on May 16, being 6°2°° and heavily built, and Police had made several unsuc- Chris Laury is charged with 1971, Samuel Aridges, 4 black ex- jlack Liberation Pronl De- 5'6" and 140 pounds, Chris is cessful attempts to enter the two felonies, capable of sending Stanford hospital worker (whose fense Committee has been 6)" and a skinney 162 pounds.) house, but had been warned that the brother away for quite some firing led to the April &h and formed to brixg «a halt to the Also arrested was Leo Hazzile, the 5,L.F, members inside were time. There is concrete evidence Rh sit-in and who is also one racist movetnent to send these foriner 8.S.U, Chairman at Stan- ready to defend themselves, if 45 to the brother's whereabouts of the Stanford 31), and Chris brothers to jall and crush the ford. pecessury, Hall was set at the night this was supposed to Laury were enroute to visit a movement of Third World Peo- $12,500 and later reduced to : friend in Ukiah, After belng under pls in the Mid-Peninguls area, $6,250, When the money wag intensive observation during the Your support is needed; money ts finally raised and presented in ride, they were pulled over by needed for lawyers and for the form of 4 cashier's check, they the California Highway Patrol: production of more informatianal refused to take it, though they and because of a .45 automatic Uterature. Keep these brothers always accepted them tefore. (used for target praciice by the (ree he following Monday, May Ll, B.LLF.),which was on the floor 1971, the fascist police force con- of the car and in full view of Free the B.1.F,2 ducted a daylight raid on the the police, they then threw the BL, headquarters, supporedly brothers on the ground and beat Frev tie Stanford 3) in search of « butene lighter, and tried to intimidate them, The which {8 said te have been used racitc California Highway Pa- in the case of Mary Schmidt. trolmen called the brothers, FREE ALL POLITICAL * v ; : PRGONCRS Six paerrol cars participated i oddamn nigver bastarvs ou the raid, Close to 200 community Hlack santards weren't going to people gathered outside the house Ook anybady. ware you?" Both are! witnessed the gestapo police brothera Sustained injuries to the Send contributions to: steal the residents’ weapons, N ribs anc head, The pigs then drew butane Lighter was found, Police thelr revolvers, att ting to Black Liberation Fron Defense : i ; were heavily armed andbedsur- frighten the brothers Into telling Committee Sam Bridges rounded the hioute using dogs and of Helr most recent political in- 735 El Camion Real hotguns to intiimidurethe peoples, yolveinents. The fascist. claim Redwood City ilifocaia \ political science teacher at and the community was right- huve happened. We cannot allow gree gun wae juoaded and in the or call: Vesceremos College (@ nearby eounty ungry. People threw rock tie fascist nachinery to put hand. { Chris Laury; they als (al 2 ‘ ACK PANTHER INTERCOMMUNAL NEWS SERVICE The line diviiting the progressive people from the machinery of The Black Panther Intercommunal News ot aston ie ever widen a8 the people begin to realize Gist there : APR tae - . . prre ‘ "ox bee a tnidle of the road ponition with regards to freedom SeTvice was created to present factual, reliable , can m™ onger be & miad : roa it} ih regard 20n 2 for the people of the wor id, however, it har ty been within the past few inform ation to the people, years ttt the American people have shed their rose lored glasses (72 me Oe oe ee ee ee ee ee ee and patriotic blinders to fice the re tit t : : \ Enler my dubsenption tor check box 0 the world’s populati With the realizati {the American role ' ‘ames the cloner examination of all the things that had really ever Domestic Foreign com ee as fore...the ‘amerikkkan dream’, the foretgn policy Subscriptions Subscriptions the treatment of minority peoples within this society, the real role of 3 MONTHS ¥ $2.40 $4.00 the ‘police’ and the press tn this comrnunity © MONTHS . $5.00 312.00 ONE YEA® (“2 47.50 $25.00 We found that we as citizens of this country were being kept duped by the government and iplease print) NAME cA misinformed by the mass media, ADORESS } ~ 1 ther tart et t edt e the teext ‘ the people of the tlack I cate ithctew te EEE ell ca of peragete t une ' er farty realize sgrend ban Res Neti “4 onrfi esped pooph STATE?'P ¢ —_—— COUNTRY ane: She Ganesthon OF AU "the Desple, 48 the ee onyrta ; PULASE MAIL CHECE MINISTRY OF INF OR MAT . ilact we ci) i« H t lthe w i 4 are deal e 0 ATION. BLACK PANIMER PaatY i | O8 MONLY OLDE TO Bor 296) Carter Hoare, San lrancince CA BIE with in the Bleck Purther Bh cs exe can cam one oxo cus cs oun cans sun ann Onn Une eam Sum eam wa eon THE HLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1971 PAGE 17 TRAVIS AIR ly, aE FORCE BASE ie ; ERUPTS The Military, which fs the backbone of this fascist American Empire, has also always been the stronghold of racist practices and attempts at geno- cide on Black and other oppressed peo- ple, Black G.I. s have long complained abr the double standards of justice ant discipline when it comes to Blacks 35 and Whites in the military. Travis Air . es Force Base erupted Sunday, May 23, Re, as a result of these racist tactics and Pras Me 2 Ss a Sunday, three Black G.Ls were put Brothers al Travis Air Force Base - Area 1300" (Northern California) into the stockade after allegedly get- ting into a fight with White G.l.s. rounded by Air Force Riot Police. muck all over the base, the bachelor Actually there was no fight; the racist The brothers began to walk back to officers quarters were gutted by fire, officials at Travis saw this as anex- area °“1300'' where most of their one fireman who came to fight the cuse to lock up three of the more harracks are located, On their way blaze dying of a heart attack, active and politically aware brothers back they were acracked by white Over one hundred and twenty G.1s on the base, G.l.s, The brothers naurally began to were arrested and put in the stockade, Brothers on the base decided to defend themselves, ninety-seven of them Black. This is protest this move and demanded the At this point, City pigs from typical of the longtrainof racial abuses release of the three brothers. About Fairfield came into assist Air Force perpetrated against the brothers by two hundred brothers marched onthe Pigs in their attempts to ‘‘contain’’ the racist military officials at Travis, base stockade demanding that their the brothers, The base fire depart- Another example is the discipline for comrades be freed, saying that they ment drove up and down the barrack being late to a baste a'ert(drill period), were determined to see them released streets, spraying people with a water Black G,l.s are fined $15; white G.l.s by any means necessary, When they cannon, usually get off with a warning, Racist reached the stockade, it was sur- As a result of the pigs running a- CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE POU ACAN “HELP” DESTROY ONE OF THE ATIEMPIS TO COMMIT BLACK GENOCIDE-FIGHT SICKLE CELL ANEMIA’ SIG KL E C ELL Red blood cells taken from a patient in a sickle cell crisis. Three of the AN EM lA cells are sickled and the other stretching away from its normal, donul shape. Normal, donut red blood cells. shaped, Sickle Cell Anemia is 4 deadly blood disease that is Dr. Bert Small, Chairman . peculiar to black people; that ts, pr actically all of its People’s Sickle Cell Anemia Fund = victims ate black people, The racist U.S, power structure c/o The Bobby Seale People’s Free Health Ctinic has no intention of ceasing this form of gern wide, sinte it 323%) Adeline Sr is this racist power structure that perpetuates this lisease, Berkeley, California or call Therefore the Black Panther Party is initiating aprogram (415) 653-2534 to help resear h really begin that Cc in GV ntually discover (415) 848-7740 ha : the cure and prevention of Sickle Gell Anemia ALL POWER TO THE PEGERB A rund ha been established for this purpose Your contrl- Black Panther Party | - bution, therefore, ean by nt CO; SERVING TH? PBOPLE BODY AND SOO! THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1971 PAGE 18 Ellis White The fascist conspiracy to still the voice of the people, the Black Panther Intercommunal News Service, was stepped up this week with the arrest of Andrew Austin, circulation manager, and Ellis White, another comrade work- ing in our East Coast Distribution of- fice, The greatest fear of the American Empire's ruling circle is that they will be exposed to the people, their true nature and inner-workings revealed; for one of the primary tools for edu- cating the people has been and is through our paper, The pigs’ efforts to destroy the paper have been numerous, When we first began shipping our paper throughout the country and the world, airline com- panies saw this as an opportunity to destroy, mutilate or ‘‘lose’’ our paper, in addition to charging exhorbitant rates for its shipment, Then in 1970, a warehouse in San Francisco that was being used to store back editions and issues of our paper(some of them dating back to the earliest issues) was totally destroyed in a mysterious fire, In March of this year, our Central News- paper [Distribution office, also in San Francisco, was dynamited by the pigs. And in April of this year, the most vicious blow was dealt, Samuel Napier, circulation manager, was brutally mur- dered by these fascists, and our East Coast Distribution office totally destroyed by fire, All of these treacherous acts were designed to stop the circulation and distribution of our paper, one of the most vital lifelines to the community. And now, recently, on May 24th, Andrew Austin and Ellis White were ar- rested, They were on their way to the TRAVIS AIR General William G. Moore actually had the gall to tell the press that he knew that there were racial problems at Travis, but that ‘‘my door is always open” to airmen ‘regardless of race, creed or color,’' His open door must be manned by the Air Force riot squad because that was his response to the problems anddemands presented by Black G,\.s last Sunday, The brothers are stil! fighting fo the following demands; PIGS INTENSIFY ATTEMPT 10 _ STIFLE THE VOICE Ss OF THE PEOPLE © Goss Printing Company to discuss ob- taining a new printing press for our Party, when they were arrested, As they approached the elevator of the building they were surrounded by New York City Pigs who had drawn their weapons, The pigs claim that when they approached, Andrew and Ellis put their hands in their coat pockets to reach for wea- pons, If anything like this hadoccurred, Andrew and Ellis would have been met with a barrage of gunfire, Instead, they were arrested, After being shuttled around various precincts and jails, they were finally booked and charged with possession of a concealed weapon, But not before they were taken to a line-up, in the pigs’ attempt to charge them with the murder of two Harlem pigs, who had been killed the previous weekend, The Empire’s media immediately put the information on their wire services, However, their primary focus was not on the actual arrest of Andrew and Ellis on their trumped up charge, which is usually the procedure, but on the fact that the Black Panther Party was trying to obtain a printing press, That is, the news media concentrated on the fact that Andrew and Ellis had gone to Goss Printing Company to ‘negotiate’, as they put it, for a printing press, They made ‘careful note of the fact that the Goss Printing Company’s cheapest press costs $50,000, burt that the press under dis- cussion cost in the neighborhood of $100,000, to $200,000. This seemed to worry them more than the reasons the police gave for the arrests of these two brothers, which was for possession of a concealed weapon, Usually it is this type of information that receives FORCE BASE CONTINUED FROM LAST PAGE l, The immediate release of the three brothers who were falsely arrested and imprisoned on Sunday, 2, That Black and White WAFs (Wo- mens Air Force personnel who workon base) not be transferred to other bar- racks across the base, 3, That every Black man on base be given an honorable discharge until pre- opped, vis | from which hundre Viernam daily, as well asare juciice ts st ause Tr 3 @ transport centez ~tsofG Lsaresentto turncen- Andrew Austin the attention of the Empire’s press, because it is good propaganda in their campaign to vilify the Black Panther Party to the people, But this time, the government is more upset by the fact that the Black Panther Inter-communal News Service, far from being silenced, is in fact becoming more widely heard, With this press, our paper can be even more efficiently produced and distributed, in an effort to give greater numbers of people the correct information and strategies for survival, And, their lles "(the media’s) will be more effectively rebutted by an even wider distribution and dissemination of the truth, While the media was exclaiming over the press and its cost, they failed to mention that the bail for Andrew and Ellis on this trumped-up gun charge (normally $2,500) is $100,000, each, Interestingly enough, this is ap- proximately the price of the new print=— ing press, We wonder if the pigs actually believe that they can hold up progress or shortstop the purchase of — our press by placing this exhorbitant bail on Andrew and Ellis, This latest attempt to destroy the Party’s effectiveness throughthesa- botage of the Black Panther Inter- communal News Service will be as un- successful as the others. Neither physical damage to our property, nor assaults, nor murders of dedicated comrades. can stop the voice of the people. For as Comrade Sam Napier, the beloved circulation manager of our paper who was murdered by fas- cists on April 17, 1971, said, we must ‘circulate to educate to liberate’, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE FREE ANDREW AND ELLIS ERUPTS ter for G.I,s who are completing their tour of duty, and they also house part of the Stategic Air..Command (the Em- pire’s Top defénse apparatus), the pigs are very upset thar the people are a- ware of the Situaciom und that the bro- thers are becoming: more aware of the repressive military and the need to struggle inside the military as well as ourside, ALL POWER TO FREE Atl THE POLTTICAI PEOPLE PRISONERS October 1966 THE HLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1971 Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want 1. We want freedom We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter mine our destiny 2 We want full employment for our people We believe that the federal governinent is cespatisthle and obligated te give every man emplovownt or a gedranteed incom We believe that af the white Anerioan titsinessmen will bol pave full emplovment then the means of production shoul be taken from tie tiaaiessnien and placed in the commits so that the people ot the community can organize and em plos all ofits powple arid pave a hagh stundaed of living 3. We want au end te the robbers by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community We belive that thas roctst government tas robbed us and aow We are demanding the overdue debt of forty weres and twe mulés Forty acres Ore twee otal wile paneer TOO Vea a as testitutoon for slave labor anit tives muedter ot lack people We will aeeept the pasnient in eurrenes Which will be totiibuted fo our mans The Gormaus are now in terael for the penmcde of the Jewish people The (rer nats Murdered six million dews The Atierican racist has taken part in the slaughter of aver fifty million black people: therefore. we feel that this isa modest demuatil that we make CUT riit ies widing the ow 4. We want decent housing. fit for shelter of human beings We believe thatcif the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community. then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community. with povernment oid, 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 black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whalever means necessary 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people ERVE THE PEOPLE What We Believe We believe we cin end police brutality in our black community by or hanizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second \mendment to the Const' tion of the United States gives a right to bear arms We thetefore beneve that all black people should arm themselves for sellatefense § We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state. county and cit) prisons and jails We believe that all biack people should be released from the many jails ant prisons because thoy have wot received a fair and impartial trial 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of thete peer group or people from their black communities as defined by the Constitution of the United States We boueve that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the US. Constitution gives a man’s right to be tried by his peer group, A peer is 4 person from a similar economic, social, religious geographical, en- vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man” of the black community 10, We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis- cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respeet 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 Hovernment 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 fo them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru eoee. uideed. will dictate that governments long established should not tw changed for light and transient causes, and, accordingly, all experience hath shown. that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferahle. than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed) But, when a long train of abuses and usurpation,s, Pur: suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism, itis their right, it is their duty. to throw off such govern- ment and te provide new guards for their future security BODY AND SOU All Power to the People PAGE 19 HALLELUJAH ! THE MIGHT AND THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE IS BEGINNING TO SHOW,