Vol. 6, No. 25

fos” THE SLICK PANTHER DIRTY SE => ys Sf NA Gr ga ee, ) VLG VAM ¢ ‘ARE YOU AFRAID- I LOVE YOU, BROTHER ag Mitietie OFC OMANEE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE DELL ROSS, PROSECUTOR WHYTE’S PERJURING WITNESS jy IN THE TRIAL AGAINST HUEY P. NEWTON. SN ey Ne NE oH : Ped Ha ar a, SN AD Mew Me, Pras [NEN “THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE 2 RONALD REAGAN MAY OWE YOU $1,000 The State guarded, led all other little local governments in America in champion- ing completely racist and reactionary attitudes and actions toward the Black and poor people who are subjected to the miserable life of being Welfare recipients. The U.S., generally, of course, has no concern for the lives of the majority, the masses of people, for Black and poor people; and the few pittances thar it generously ekes out under the auspices of aid programs only serve to maintain the poor con- dition of most people who receive these Welfare ‘‘benefits’’, But, in California, the lying and treachery that are involved in the State’s Welfare Program surpass even the usual criminal negligence America is‘ guilty of in connection with Black and poor people, Ronald Reagan (Cali- fornia’s infamous governor), like most other state heads, issues out ameager allowance to women on Welfare, But, it was recently discovered and brought to light that since 1969 the State of California has failed to obey a Federal Court order to raise the amount of money women and families who re- ceive benefits for families with young children (A.F.D.C, - Aid to Families with Dependent Children), Only on June Ist of this year did the State finally comply with the law, But, the State has yet to pay these MRS. BARBARA of California has van- HENRY thousands of mothers the back money that has been owed since 1969, Thatis, women should be receiving checks for amounts equal to the difference be- tween the old and new sums, retro- actively to 1969, The State had been getting this money all the time and keeping it. In other words, Ronald Reagan must return some of that money he obviously pocketed, If you are a woman receiving Wel- fare payments and have one child, your present payment should be $88,, as of June Ist, Prior to June Ist you re- ceived $74, every two weeks, The dif- ference is $14, Multiply that by the number of payments you’ve received since 1969 and we figure theState owes you $804, Any mother can easily cal- culate her own differences that the State owes, The California Welfare Rights Or- ganization, along with all the other local Welfare Rights organizations, has been working hard to see to it that Reagan is made to pay this money he has literally stolen, We recently spoke with Mrs, Barbara Henry, President of the Richmond, California Welfare Rights Organization, Below is that in- terview in which Mrs, Henry clearly points up the contradictions existent between Ronald Reagan and the People: Q. Mrs, Henry, could you tell us how do the present Welfare cuts affect Black families in the community that are on assistance? A. The cuts are really designed, the vegulations are really designed to put more people on Welfare, rather than take them off Welfare, And to show you one example, on the Ist of July, working mothers, over three thousand working mothers were supposed to be cut off of aid. And we found out about this, I guess about a week before they were going to put it into regulation, We got together with about five or six hundred Black mothers here in Rich- mond, And we were able to save most of those mothers from being put off of Welfare, (NOTE: Part of the Reagan cutback was to figure a working mother’s expenses on her gross monthly income, His point was that if the State calculates what the average person needs to live on and your gross income is move than that, you don’t need Welfare supplements, He says that these working mothers are ‘‘using” Welfare to make ‘‘extra’’ money, He Jeels that taking off an amount for a person’s personal wants and desires - $30.00 and a third - is allowing women too much money for “unknown use’’, Example; $400 gross income - without tax deductions - would have, until Reagan’s brilliant suggestion, meant that this amount will cover wants and desires, in this case $30. and $123., or $153. The State then calculated your fundamental needs - rent, babysitting, etc. - on this difference, in this case $247. If your basic needs - also as they calculate them - are, for @x- ample, $300., you could get a sup- plementary check from the Welfare of $53. Reagan feels you don’t need this, because since you get $400, a month and if your basic needs equal $300., you have the large sum of $100, to ‘‘fool around with’’,) But the point is that the way that the budgets are being computed now they take thirty dollars off the top and then a third of whatever is left, and that’s the amount of money that you get to keep before other expenses and deductions are taken away, After that’s narrowed down, they will take - say if you pay one hundred dollars for baby sitting, which is reasonable - they will take that off; and they take the mileage back and forth to work; if you pay the social security, the necessary deductions, #°” will take this out, And, in most cases, a mother will still remain on some type of aid, on Welfare, whether it be fifty dollars, CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 RANDY TRIAL BECAUSE HE SURVIVED The trial of Randy Williams, a deli- cated member of the Black Panther Party, who was the victim of an at- tempted ambush by the Oakland Police Department, in April of 1970, began last week, Randy is on trial because he survived this vicious attack, Randy has been incarcerated in Ala- meda County Jail for over a year now, He has been held for an astronomically high bail (a ransom of $150,000.), which was generously reduced to $75,000, in October of 1970. When the People raised the money, the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department refused to accept the money in exchange for Randy, Randy’s trial finally began last week, on July 6th, The old shell game of the ‘‘jury selection’ process began, In the case of any young, Black or working- class potential juror (someone who would have been a peer of Randy’s), it was ‘‘now you see him, now you don’t,”’ That is, at one time, on one day six Black people sat on the full potential jury. In a short time, those six Blacks were dismissed, and no Blacks have been seen since, The jury is still allegedly, however, in the process of being selected, In addition to dismissing all Blacks, infamous prosecutor Frank Vakota(who was chiefly responsible for the false conviction of our Chief of Staff David Hilliard) dismissed every potential juror from the panel that even looked like he could make a fair and objective decision, Vakota and the Alameda County Judicial District would like no- thing more than the same type of jury that railroaded to prison the Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party, David Hilliard, But, Randy remains unworried by this judicial farce, He spends his time helping to organize and educate the bro- thers at Alameda County Jail, as well as studying and developing his beauti- ful revolutionary consciousness to an even higher level. Belowisa profound statement by our Comrade regarding the correct di- rection our Party has recently under- taken, In isolation for over a year from the community of the streets he loves so dearly, he proves here that his love for the People has become even stronger , for the prison could have no victory over him: Many of our allies and potential allies of the near and far left are puzzled, and some, who designate themselves as guardians of the purity of Marxism, are attacking our Party’s new direction. Some revolutionary cul- THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE © training; we do not have all the ans- sare ie this time, nor do we pretent to. What we are seeking to accomplisi is to elevate our people’s level a consciousness by means of concret responsive community action pro- grams, By engaging in the activities u our communities, we become one witi the people and thus become an effectim tool in tune with their needs by func- tioning in harmony with the people’s interests, We will and are able & mitigate the reactionary qualities of, for instance, Black religious institutions (which we recognize as being qualita tively different from white protestan RANDY WILLIAMS tists have risen to the surface and have publicly stated their opposition to the tactics our Party is engaging in to in- sure our people’s survival pending revolution, Others have adopted a “‘low profile’ and are conducting their criticism out of hearing of our Party, As a result, vile and out-right slan- derous charges are being circulated by so-called revolutionaries which ad- versely affect and hinder the formation of a united front of left-oriented or- ganizations with our Party, Our Ministey has eloquently presented our Party’s position on various phenomena which are peculiar to our Black com- munities. As far removed from con- ditions on the streets as I am, the objective content and profundity of our Minister’s guidance illuminates both my mind and heart, Social practice being the sole determinative factor (whether oy not a specific program or tactic yaises the political awareness of our people and motivates them to actively engage in transforming the old reality into the new) by which revolutionary Marxists evaluate programs and actions of individuals and ovganizations, For us to regyess in order to explain step by step to the perplexed Marxist our positions is clearly unnecessary, be- cause all they need do is analyse our Party positions as outlined in its Voice. We are dialectical materialists in and catholic church institutions) am Black capitalism (which we also recog- nize as being qualitatively differen from white monopoly or national capi- talism ) and develop their positive aspects until such time as these in- Stitutions have been compromised tc their limit, until they become encum- brances to our people’s progressiu development, At this stage we shall be able to accomplish our prestated goals with the full support of an aroused, politically conscious people, who will act as one with us to negate the re- maining reactionary shells of once poli- tically powerful bourgeois institutions and complete their transformation into new institutions in the service of the people, Our Ministery has consistantly pointed out that social transformation is a dia- lectical process and not simply a con- clusion; and, furthermore without the active support of the people, nothing can be accomplished, Huey says thai for us to make the qualitative leap from A to Z would be disastrous ané accomplish nothing constructive, be- cause the people would not understand the necessity of Z, Our people musi be taken by the hand and mind and patiently shown what A is, what B is, etc,, etc, until they progress to the TO BE CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE 4 Pee i a The cornerstone and foundation for the system of Americancorporate capi- talism has been in the relationship of the individual to property. All laws seem to derive their meaning based on that relationship, From the very be- Maurice Gordon owns 14,000 such apartment buildings, MAURICE GORDON'S | MINI-EMPIRE WITHIN THE EMPIRE “ 7 peer ¥ ee oat «: discarded as defined by the property laws at that time. While time has passed, this country moving from an agrarian (agricultural) economy, toa highly mechanized industrial economy, this cornerstone, which supports the Maurice Gordon is responsible for 13 known deaths. ginnings of this country, it was the ownership or non-ownership of prop- erty which stood as the dividing line for all rights and privileges. Black people, as slaves, were considered, first and foremost, not as humans, but as yroperty, to be bought, sold, used or total structure, has remained, for the most part, intact, The expansion west- ward, the conquering of land together with the genocide of the Indian peo- ples were justified and rationalized by reference to various ‘‘deeds of trust’’ made up in the minds of the large land This apartment is for rent from Gordon and Sons. owners of that period, Even the expans- ion across the seas, the colonization and neo-colonization of foreign lands, the system of imperialism which eventual- ly transformed America the Nation into America the Empire, was achieved not only with guns and munitions, but justi- fied by modern-day property laws, And within the city of Boston, such an ex- pansion by one man has taken place, although obviously on a smaller scale, Back during the days of the depression, Maurice Gordon put down his machine guns and went ‘“‘legit’’, and in the pro- cess, together with his sons, Maurice Gordon has formed a powerful menacing inner-city Empire whose costin blood, pain and misery rivals the world-wide U.S, Empire it imitates, For a start , it is estimated that ‘through the control of partial control of 62 different real-estate corporations, Maurice Gordon and Sons own 14,000 apartment units in Boston(most of whose occupants are Black and Puerto Rican), which contain close to 40,000 persons, or 1/15 of the entire city, Property in Boston owned by Gordon is assessed at over $28 million, yielding a gross annual income of about $93 million, And added to the above figures should! be included $15 million worth of pro- perty in Florida, while the total assets of the 62 corporations owned or con= trolled by Gordon is $44 million, TO BE CONTINUED ON PAGE 7 THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE 5 ONE DAY RAILROAD OF THE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA FIVE BROTHER CHARLES BRUNSON In early April of this year, three brothers, Junius Underwood, Albert Moore and Howard Moore were ar- rested by the F,B,I, in Richmond, Vir- ginia on Federal charges of conspira- cy to transport stolen weapons across inter-state lines, On April 15th Charles Brunson and Jacob Bethea were ar- rested on Federal warrants by F.B.I, agents in Berkeley, California and Washington, D.C,, respectively, on the same charges in order to complete the round-up for the intended railroad ofa group of brothers that has become known as the Richmond, Virginia Five, BROTHER HOWARD MOORE On Monday, July Sth, 1971, the Fed- eral District Court of Richmond, Vir- ginia began trial proceedings against the Richmond Five: Charles Brunson and Jacob Bethea of the Washington, D.C, Chapter of the Black Panther Party; Junius Underwood of the Winston - Salem Branch of the Black Panther Party; and Albert and Howard Moore, two progressive brothers from the Richmond, Virginia Black com - munity, who were trying to open a Black Community Information Center there, On that day, Junius Underwood was severed from the case, because he had additional charges, On the same day, ‘a jury was selected, arguments pre- sented and the jury was given its in- structions to begin deliberation the next day. The ‘‘jury” was selected en masse, Because of a federal law allowing for ee) BROTHER JUNIUS UNDERWOOD this type of ‘‘collective selection’’ of a jury, federal railroads can run more efficiently, A panel of sixty people was brought into the courtroom, The judge proceeded to question them as a group, He asked them: (1) If they had any pre- judices toward any race; (2) If they had any prejudices against the Black Pan- * ther Party; (3) Did they believe that Black Panther Party members were violent trouble-makers; and (4) Whe- ther or not any of them were members of the John Birch Society, the Ku Klux Klan or the Black Panther Party, The prospective jurors were expected to answer this barrage of questions in unison, If any of their answers to these questions was yes (which would dis- qualify them from the jury panel} that potential juror was expected to stand up and say so then, Out of the sixty people, all of whom had been exposed to vicious pre-trial publicity andpro- paganda about the Richmond Five, liv- BROTHER JACOB BETHEA ing in a town which is a_ stronghold of right-wing, para-military groups, only three people stood up to admit to prejudice on their parts, From the remaining fifty-seven non-peers in this select group, a jury of twelve persons plus one alternate was ran- domly selected, A rapid Succession of State’s wit- nesses took the stand and presented a tangled web of lies and misinformation, The star witness was a Richmond re- sident, dope addict, known F.B,I, re- cruited Black ghetto informant, and BROTHER ALBERT MOORE former member of the Richmond Po- lice Department, Waverly Allen. The pigs used their puppet, Allen, to cl. n that the Richmond Five participates in TO BE CONTINUED ON PAGE 1é HE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE 6 RONALD REAGAN MAY OWE YOU $1,000 CONTINUED FROM 2 a hundred dollars, or what. But, in most cases that $50, or $100. was mough to keep ‘that family, not idequately, but at least half-way jeeping their own, But, see what will iappen is that, in the new way that hey are computing it now, well were tomputing it (we won the hearing), hey wouldn't allow vou that thirty and t third, They would take all your ex- venses off, And everybody on Welfare tas what they call a quoted “‘need’’, ind after they have taken your ex- tenses out, then if you still have enough live off of, what they call your quoted seed, you're off of aid, Well let’s say a working mother is making $400. a month. By the time she pays babysitting, her rent, car wote and this type of thing, she might mly have $25, left to live off of, and which in any case this would force his mother to stop working and go ‘tally on Welfare, Whereas making the 3400. she’d still be eligible to draw say fifty or sixty dollars, or maybe men a hundred, the average amount s $100. So this $100. would enable ier (to pay, where really she was Svine with the roaches and the rats taying $90., she could move out with %:< yoaches and rats and live by her- self, and pay $110, or $150,, which is high for rent, but let’s face it that’s what’s happening, In any case this mo- ther would have to end up having to stop work, Because she wouldn’t have enough money to pay for the baby sitter, to pay for her rent and the necessary things that it takes to maintain ahouse in a month, So what the end results would be that she would have to go back on Welfare, And all these mothers that I talked to, only maybe five.or six would not have to actually stop working and be put on Welfare, And this is the general pattern all over, You know Reagan keeps talking about the cut-backs and all these people mak- ing this extraordinary amount ofmoney on Welfare, but you know this is only the white man that’s making all this money. We get clients making anywhere From $1000. to $1,500. a month and they’re still on Welfare, But grant you all this is not the case in all people, We van a survey; there were only 1g people in this whole County receiving that kind of money and on Welfare (in white communities). But, just those 18 people are being used to destroy all people on Welfare, and that’s a bad scene, Another thing is that we had a hearing on July 7th regarding all kinds of re- pressive regulations, After we won the court decision with the thirty and a third, he came down with saying that he’s only going to allow you $100, for work-related expenses, And this in- cludes baby-sitting, child care, the whole works, And you know that no- body’s going to be able to live off that, I don’t know how crazy the man thinks we are, but what is going to happen is that it’s going to put more people on Welfare, because they’renot going to be able to work, And jobs are really scarce, so there’s no such thing as forcing people to work, You know another thing is this work-incen- tive progyam, Well, this is where he’s going to have us sweeping shit off the floor, and this stuff, to work for our gvants, that we already got, Not ad- ditional pay, but just for the grant that you're already receiving, And I don’t know what’s wrong with people in this State or this Country, but you know everybody just seems to feel like it’s not going to get through, it’s nol going to happen, But it’s happening. Q. Could you give us some informa- tion concerning back pay for families on Welfare Assistance? A. This all goes back to 1969, Welfare Rights Organization took the State to Court. And we filed the suit in 1969, So what it means is that our grants were supposed to be increased in1954, And the grants have not been increased since then, But we can’t claim for that money, because we didn’t file for it, file a suit until 1969. But we won the suit. So what it means is from 1969, which they did increase the checks on June Ist, 1971, and from 1969 to June I, 1971 they owe us retroactive money. And the only way we’re going to get this money right now - we’re inthe process of taking it back to court, The money is there. And it’s ours, duly ours, be- cause the Federal Government paid it to the State to increase grants, They say that they shifted, the State’s reason as to why we haven’t got the money, they’re saying that they shifted it from one category to the other. But youcan’t do that. The money's there for A.F.D.C., and A, F.D.C. is supposed to see that you get it, So that this money ts just like money in the bank; but we are going to have to go to court to get this money, It’s no doubt about it, But, like, right now we don’t know if it’s going to be 3 months or 6 months or what, But, we will get the retro- active money. Say, for instance a mother and three kids - up until June Ist they were getting $221. (per month); she should have been getting $261., four or five years ago, They’re just not doing that. So like I say since we didn’t file until 1969, this is as far back as we can go, That means a $40, increase. And when that mother gets that money CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 MAURICE GORDON’S MINI -EMPIRE WITHIN THE EMPIRE Maurice Gordon’s children don’t have to play on these steps. CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 But before these figures begin to boggle the mind, before any more is said, it becomes necessary to balance the assets with the liabilities to weigh the effect Maurice Gordon has made upon the people of Boston, And what we find is that this money, these millions upon millions of dollars are blood- Biltmore Hotel, owned by Maurice Gor- don, burned to the ground, leaving 4 dead and 27 injured, More recently, a fire in the 40 unit, 5-story Park Cham- bers at.50 Petersboro Street, owned by Gordon’s son, Robert Gordon, also burned, leaving 8 people dead, (The 13th known death occurred in March, 1970, when a small child fell through a faulty Does Maurice Gordon live like this? soaked and tainted, Maurice Gordonis the most vicious, barbaric slumlord in Boston, who is responsible for at least 13 known deaths and countless hundreds of injuries, To prove this point, in 1963, the Sherry door in an illegal open-shaft elevator, again in the apartment building at 50 Petersboro Street.) A closer look at the tragedy on Petersboro Street will re- veal much more into the nature of Mau- rice Gordon, his mini-empire and its interconnection with the corrupt city of- tHE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE 7 ficials of Boston, 50 Petersboro Street has a long history of being an unfit place to house human beings, Records show this as far back as December, 1965, when the build- ing was condemned as “‘unsafe anddan- gerous’’, Not only did the house tilt, but the foundation was sinking, the boiler was not safely situated in relationship to the rest of the building and the total structure was therefore considered a fire hazard, These blatant housing code violations were not moved on for 3 years and it wasn’t until 1968 that repairs were accomplished, Also on record are registered letters of a tenant. John Gresham, which had been sent out in 1967, to complain to supposedly re- sponsible housing officials of major housing code violations in that dwelling. Prior to the fire which consumed the building and caused 8 deaths in March of that year, 5 fires within 2 years were recorded for50 Petersboro Street. After the disaster which caused 8 deaths, a group which called themselves the 50 Petersboro Street Survivors, hired both lawyers and investigators to determine culpability (for the blaze, and if nec- essary seek court action), What the in- vestigators found were as follows: 1) manual fire doors which wouldn’tclose; 2) overhead sprinkler heads which had been painted over so as to make them non-functional; 3) alack of safety exists (most of the dead were found in the left rear corner of the building where no fire escapes were located); 4)plywood panelling, suspected of not being coated with fire-resistant materials which were considered responsible for the quick spread of the fire, ( It should be noted that it was this same reason, neglect of proper coating of plywood panelling with fire-resistant materials, which was held responsible for the 1963 Sherry Biltmore. fire which killed 4 people.) It was out of this investiga- tion that the city officials in Boston began to show their true interests, Following a court injunction which stopped Gordon from razing the build- ing in order to prevent a more thorough investigation, a meeting took place between building commissioner Thuma, Deputy building commissioner Leo Martin and Robert Gordon, the owner, The highly suspicious result of the meeting of heads was that Leo Martin reported to the State Supreme ~Court that the building was a ‘‘hazard”’ and it was torn down, This , however, was only the beginning of a total white- wash by the city officials which culmi- nated in the fiasco when the Boston City Council met to investigate the situation, Not only did 3 city councilors plus CONTINUED ON PAGE 16 THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE 6 WE MUST NOT Daily, Black men and women are convicted for the commitment of any one of the innumerable small acts ne- cessary for their survival in this ra- cist, exploitative, decadent society. This society condemns and punishes them for the crime of survival, for surmounting the daily injustices in this country and continuing to live and struggle in spite of these conditions. This society’s imprisonment of themis an effort to crush them, for they are a great part of the strength, the future and the backbone of our community, James‘‘ Jimmy" Carr ts one such in- dividual, He too encountered the yacism, the dehumanizing treatment that every Black youth in America does, just growing up in the Black community, By 1959, he was convicted of armed robbery and serving time (five years to life) in the California prisons, (He is 27 years old now.) There he met George Jackson, another young Black convicted on charges stemming from a $70, gas station rob- bery for which he (George) has spent eleven years in the State penitentiary. ORGET THE JIMMY CARRS George Jackson hadaprofound affect on Jimmy, Of his meeting George, he said, ‘‘,..And I ran into a fellow by the name of George Jackson-oh, back in 1959 - and avery different type of Black man, because he never carried himself like other Black men, (That’s what I want to talk about )... George was a dif- ferent type of fellow, you know, like in those days, you had no Panthers, you had no nationalists, that we knew ofany- way, you know, Like people never, we never knew anything about DuBois, or Garvey or nothing like this, because it wasn’t taught to us in school, so there- fore we never knew... At the time, I couldn’t vead or write, or anything like this, you know, Let me see. I was to find out later that George was a very selfless person, selfless inthat George would go out of his way to help anyone, Like George started me to reading, started me to writing, He taughtmemy basic grammay, basic mathematics, and all this stuff. He took time with me.,, in things that I really needed help in, and he started bringing me up to a stature that I could respect,” And later, Jimmy met Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, when he (Jimmy) transferred to California Men’s colony (CMC), at San Luis Obispo, a State prison, He gained more education and consciousness and a greater love and understanding of the people, the Black Panther Party and the need for unity in order to survive. He said, in July, 1970 (when he was finally released), of Huey and George, “‘... It’s jusi a shame that a man like George Jack- son or Huey P, Newton, two leaders like this that contribute so much tothe cause of the people, you know, the struggle of people, not just the struggle for Black people, but the struggle, you know, of just people in general, should be incarcerated in California PenalIn- stitutions. And that people would allow this to go on, people wouldn’t somehow, somehow rally to their thing, and see just what is taking place. And it would be a very grievous atrocity if the peo- ple were allowed to go onand keep these people locked up like this, like it’s a thing like leaders that I know in prison that should be liberated, you know; and like George Jackson and Huey P, Newton are those people.”’ Jimmy Cary had gone back and forth to jail until 1963, when he was sent to i prison to stay for seven long years, He was released from jail in July of 1970, on parole, He was able to enroll at the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he also became a teacher's as- sistant. But he didn’t forget the George Jacksons, the Fleeta Drumgos and the John Clutchettes and all his comrades still in the prisons, whose desperate sttuation he was too familiar with, He worked actively in student affairs andin the community as well, educating peo- ple to the viciousness of the prison sys- tem, Last April, he was arrested at the San Francisco County Courthouse during a struggle which had taken place there, George Jackson, Fleeta Dyrumgo and John Clutchette, the Soledad Brothers, had been in court to present some motions for their defense. Upon leaving the courtroom, George was attacked by Sheriffs deputies, Because of this at- tack upon George , many courtroom spectators were harassed and some ar- yested by the over-zealous deputies, who had even called the infamous San Francisco Tactical Squad into ‘‘help’’. One of those arrested and beaten was Jimmy, who not only had a right to be there, but was there to fulfill a class assignment from U,.C, Santa Cruz, He had been specifically told by his instructor to gather information about this specific trial, for a requiredterm paper. Brother Jimmy is said to have assaulted the pigs there in their court- house, combination courtroom -jail- room, A man out on parole, knowing that the slightest infraction of the parole agreement means return to prison is supposed to have done this. The real reason for Jimmy's arrest is his heightened consciousness, his love for the Black Panther Party and the people. A love that grew from the knowledge and inspiration that he gained from Huey P, Newton and George Jackson while in prison, But this false arrest and trumped- up charge is just the beginning of the fascist operation to either incarcerate for life Jimmy Carr or to murder him, TO BE CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 ee ie fo F “ARE YOU AFRAID- | I LOVE YOU, THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE 9 °* me (o—_, BROTHER ” The selection of jurors was com- pleted on Friday, July 9th, in the trial of Huey P, Newton, Minister of De- fense of the Black Panther Party, The jury consists of nine whites, two Mexi- can Americans and one Black. There are ten women and two men, On July 9th, the alternate jurors were chosen- all three of them are Black, The indictment was read to the jury and the prosecutor’s (NOTE: The pro- secutor in this trial is Donald Whyte. In error in last week's issue, we gave the name of the prosecutor as Lowell Jenson, Jenson was the prosecutor in the original trial.) opening statement which was supposed to outline the evi- dence was given, He pointed out that on October 28, 1967, when Huey was Shot by Oakland police and then ar- rested, that was the day that Huey’s three-year probation (from another case) was ended, He went on to give his account of that night, on which he says that two policemen, Herbert Heanes and John Frey, were supposedly attacked and shot at, leaving Frey dead and Heanes wounded, Two 9 millimeter cartridges were found, however, no weapon has appeared, The prosecution claims that Huey used Frey’s own gun to kill Frey, Whyte added that he knew this because the Minister of Defense was the only one with access to the gun, By the way he described the whole incident it was very clear that the entire Black Panther Party was on trial. The prosecutor constantly alluded to the fact that Huey was a member of the Black Panther Party. As with all the trials Black Pan- they Party members have faced since Huey’s first trial in 1968, the prosecu- tion concentrated on putting the Party on trial vather than making a real statement about possible factual infor- mation on a so-called crime, Huey P. Newton was then and is now portrayed as a vicious murderer, Charles Garry began his opening statement by relating Huey’s back- ground and the development of the Party from its beginning in 1966, He made the point that Huey P, Newton along with Bobby Seale realized that a Black man in America should have the yight to defend himself from attack, It is interesting to note that -when Frey stopped the car and looked into the driver’s seat, he said, “Well, well who have we here; the great Huey P, Newton,’’ As Garry continued, the Jact that Heanes stopped the car before he knew whether or not there was a traffic violation even involved became very clear, The manner in which the car was stopped proved to be nothing ; Ni THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE [ E ——— | more than harassment of Huey P, Newton, because of the Black Panther Party, by the Oakland Police Depart- ment, All of the things that occur after the car was stopped show that Huey and his traveling companion, Gene McKinney, were sitting patiently CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE “ARE YOU AFRAID-I LOVE YOU, BROTHER” CONTINUED FROM LAST PAGE waiting for the police to decide whether they would arrest them or not. After the usual information was taken from the driver’s license and registration, Huey P. Newton ond Gene McKinney were eventually spread-eagled across the car and searched, Then Huey was ordered to walk in front of Frey, at which point he began reading from his law book, In Frey's mind, of course, law books and ‘niggers’ with the know- ledge of what they contain represented a new threat to his continued behavior of violating the law by harassing and brutalizing Black people, And it was for this recson that he drew his gun and shot Huey in the stomach, From that point on Huey was incapable of remembering anything, except winding up tn Kaiser hospital with bullet wounds from -Ockland policeman John Frey. dn the next court session, testimony began with the D.A,'s witness, a police vadio dispatcher, a man named Lord, who received the request for a check on the car that Huey P, Newton was driving, It was a Volkswagon registered under a woman's name, It was pointed out by Garry's insistance that this car was part of a list of ‘known Panther vehicles’, Heanes and Lord claim there was no mention made of this cor being a known Panther vehicle, Here again the ability of the agents of the law even to lie correctly is very low, For it was also pointed out that Frey had even mentioned to Lord that he “thought he (Huey) caught on’? (mean- ing that Huey P, Newton understood this foul trickery). Heanes, who was next on the stand, gave his sworn-on-a-Bible detailed account of his questioning of the Minis- tery of Defense. Yet he can't tall us who shot whom that night, We ave sure of one thing, it could not have deen Huey P, Newton, he had NO gun, He Trials have been trumped-up before against men, But nowhere in History have human beings structured their ectimpati to perform such sanctimun- only been reading from a law book when he was shot and wowrded by these most sub-human transgressors of Iu- maonity, that law book had been “LOST” by the State, If insult could ever exist, here it was, The State of California, which had carefully worked out for over three years its network of lies to ‘‘legally’’ murder in its gas chamber Huey P, Newton, had somehow lost a crucial piece of muterial evidence, To even bother wasting the tima and effort to continue the trial was almost ri- diculous, We know, we have born wil- ness to how David Hilliard, Chief of Staff of the Black Punther Party, could be falsely convicted of an assault with a deadly weapon withoul ever having any weapon, because of a racist jury. But when a judge, a district attorney, @ governor, a President, an entire State, an entire country's government, when the Empire is so afraid of one man - because he is the truth - when they are so afraid, as to do this - to Steal what they demand one present fo prove “‘innocence’’, when they do this - no man could be so blind as to realize that justice is not dying or going away, justice in the U.S, has been dead, since the first boat-ioad of Exvropeans cama to this continent and began the attempt at the destruction of hwmanity. Even more insanity, to daze even the sanest of minds, however, occurred on Wednesday, July Iéth, For after Heanes stepped down from the witness Stand, tired of spewing out so many lies, Prosecutor Whyte said he wished to recess for lunch before bringing on his next witness, He had not said the name of that witness the day before, and he refused to nome that witness again, After lunch Whyte suddenly produced @ Black man, A small, obviously shaken Black man who was to present a set of confused, muddled statements of mis-information and lies about Huey P, Newton that was indicative ofhow much intim'dation he had suffered to enact Such a traitorous deed, What could Whyte and Hove and the California- U.S. hierarchy have offered this trembling Black man, what could they have denied him to sit there in front of the People and We ona man, Huey P. Newton, who would ina short time call him his Brother, But Dell Ross went ahead, obviously reluctantly, as he said, ‘I was afraid of the Judge, the public, I don't have no business answering no questions, Who am I helping; I'm not getting rich, I'm easting my time," “| STOOD BETWEEN THE VIOLENCE OF THE POLICE AND THE IGNORANCE OF MY OWN PEOPLE, WITH A LAWBOOK IN MY HAND AND NOW YOU’VE STOLEN IT.” HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER OF DEFENSE, BLACK PANTHER PARTY, SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE Previously, back in 1968, Ross had allegediy signed a statement for the Police that indicated that Huey P. Newton and another man had forced their way into his car, as he sat in his car near the scene of the Oakland Police attack upon Huey. He said he had heard shots and later these two men had approached him and at gut- point forced him to drive them to a designated location, He then began rambling on about what was supposed to have occurred inside his car, saying that Huey had a gw, and was making statements to the other man about not getting enowgh shots off, Since the gun jammed. Not when or since the Minister of Defense wos originally captured from the People, back in October of 1967, have the police or court been able to substantiate the lie that Huey had a gun, After three years of over-aealous efforts, they produced Dell Ross to say it; not pro- duce it, but say it, Ross knew that if he said that he was not kidnapped, the State could construe that he wos helping, aiding and abetting, He could, himself go to jail, Ross had stated in the original trial that the so-called signed statement ke made, which said essentially what he was saying there, was a hoox, He said, under oath on the stand in the last trial, that the ‘‘signed statement’’ could not be his, for firstly he never said those things, and secondly, he could neither read nor write, But, he, himself, voluntarily, prior to the first trial, but after he lied out of fear to the Grand Jury about the entire evening, having told them another similar mixed-up story, Deil Ross voluntarily went to Charles Garry’s office, as he admitted this time, and with relief told the truth. He told the truth into a tape recorder, that he had never seen Huey with a gun and that he had lied to the Grand Jury, Ross’ whole testimony this timewas a confusing, but indicting collection of guilt/fear-ridden contradictions in contradiction to his statements of fact, as he told them, during the original Court session, from the tape: Garry asked, ‘‘Now did the man in the back, _the light-skinned man, did he have a gun at any time that you saw him?’, Ross replied, ‘‘No, i didn’t see him with no gun,..(and) he didn't say any- thing at all,,."’ When Ross was finished this time, Charles Garry begged the Court to allow him (Garry) time, to the next day only, to at least prepare to cross- examine him and to bring in evidence (the above-mentioned tape) to prove the lies in the present testimony, No time was given. The Court demanded Garry begin cross-examination im- mediately, This was the most outrageous act this or any court had yet committed to try and conceal facts, le and fix- up information for the purpose of at- tempting false imprisonment or out- right murder of one man, Huey P. Newton, No lwman being should have to continue to bear this kind of insult, Cross-burning and lynching would be more to the point, and certainly more honest, And the Minister of Defense refused to allow this insulting behavior to con- tinue, He stood up then and there, @s a man, and chastised the court for its criminal activities, “I STOOD BETWEEN THE VIOLENCE OF THE POLICE AND THE IGNORANCE OF MY OWN PEOPLE, WITHA LAWBOOK IN MY HAND AND NOW YOU'VE STOLEN IT," And told the court that he knew there was no point in continuing, that the theft of the law book was enough, dut to bring on a witness who overtly perjured himself, who lied unabashedly in the face of the Court, and certainly in tha face of the People, this had to be taken as a sign that the proceedings were purposeless, He calied for them to arrest him, lock him up, do what they had wanted all along, without con- tinuing to disgrace the very words justice and fairness, The filled courtroom of people rose also, They were angry, not only over the criminal activity of the court in Stealing the law book, not only over the excused, openly-perjured testi- mony of Ross, but because they knew what the Minister of Defense was saying was true, and in that case, that would mean that he, as a guiding force for tha liberation struggle of Black people, Huey P, Newton would again be snatched away from the people, whom he loves more than life. Having no understanding of Black people, no concern for any of the Peo- ple, the fascists called in their forces, demanding the people leave tis ‘*Peo- ple’s Court’, ready to use reactionary violence and force to implement their demands, Still no one moved. The Minister of Defense then walked over to the people, of whom he is a party, and reminded them of the nature of the pig, the constant intent they have to brutalize the people or in- carcerate us or Rill us. Then he, Huey P, Newton, the Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, out of con- cern told the people to leave. And the people laft. But they did not leave before they heard the Minister of Defense when he calmly walked up to Dell Ross, who had lied to save himself and convict Huey, and speak to kim, possibly for the first tima in Ross’ life with words and meaning that only the humane, the lovers of hwnankind, the New Men speak, He said, ‘‘Why do you sit there, Brother, are you afraid?’ A detective harshly interrupts, ‘‘Don’t listen to him,"’ Dell Ross was listening, as Huey P, Newton went on: “Why do you obey him, when he telis you not to speak... I don't hate you, I love you Brother,"’ They had to remove Ross, then, Even Swine can hold their heads up for a moment to see and to hear that truth and love are near, This is not what they wanted. They didn’t want Ross to be reminded. To be reminded of the degradation, the oppression that Black people suffer under, To be ve- minded that no one hated him, even now, That the love that exists among @ people, the bond of love cannot de destroyed by tricks and lies, That together we can survive all forms of oppression, treachery, indignity, They did not want this, So they whisked Ross off the stand, before another word could be spoken, But everyone heard, And everyone Saw them take a man, Huey P. Newton, who had rejected ali the insults and injuries they could deliver, to their little cells, Charles Garry rushed back to his office to get the tape. Everyone left, in a few hours he returned io tell the People and the Court that in a robbery of his office over a month ago, the tape and the transcript of ‘ ‘THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE 12 Below is an analysis of the many facets the loss or theft of the blood- stained law book in the so-called court trial of Huey P, Newton, Minister of Defense of the Black Panther, implies about the alleged system of justice operating inside the U.S,: LS > To ask the defense to accept a photograph of the missing book as a true representation, and to argue that the rights of the accused are thereby safe-guarded is to say that the trans- cript of the tape recording in the first trial in 1968 (a transcript which con- tained a mis-statement which went to the very possibility of the death penalty itself, and which the appeals court has since said was an untrue facsimile of a tape recording) to say that the photograph represents the book is to say that the transcript represen- ted the tape, That mistake and that false abstraction was fatal to the first case in 1968; this loss of the law book is equally fatal to the second, instant case, The trial cannot go on and should not go on; there should be an ad- journment and a recess should be asked, and the defense should go into the federal court if necessary (for the con- Stitutional violation is not different to the defendant than if the law book had been stolen rather than ‘‘only lost’’,) We must call in as friends of the court the A,C.L.U,, the National Lawyers Guild, etc, This is cruel and unusual to ask the defense now for the third time (re- ferring to the loss of the law book the first time; its seemingly criminal dis- appearance this time; and the cynical and heartless use of atranscript in sub- stitution for a tape of the first trial wnen the D,A, had marked in the mar- gin that he knew his own copy revealed that he knew that the tape said something different), The whole thesis of the prosecution is based on the portrayal of the ‘‘mad- dog Panther’’ and the ‘peacekeeping police officer’’, The antithesis to that whole concept is the fact of Huey’s __ life and the life of the Party symbolized by the law book, and the life of Huey and the Party is predicated upon the attempt at law and order with justice, The Panthers stood between the people and the violence of the police, And to educate not only the people, but to edu- cate ignorant police officers (the guardi- ans of the law) those who are sup- posed to be operating under the law, WHY HAS THE LAW BEEN “LOST “”? > Huey P, Newton with Attorney, Garry Now in order to substantiate the ‘‘mad dog’’ theory that the D.A, has is to get rid of the physical evidence, And it would seem that without this witmess, this ‘‘silent witness’’ that has been done away with through no fault of the defense, it should be impossible for this case to go on, It is felt that if this case were re- cessed until the ‘‘silent witness’ ’ywere found, that the district attorney would probably become very diligent in his search for the silent witness, We have reason to believe that the silent wit- ness would have a better chance of reappearing if the judge took some action to assist us in presenting the case, because it is the position of the judge to be impartial, A way to clear this up would be to adjourn until the book is found, or unless the book is found, That gives a hard line and a compromise, Failing the dismissal of charges, we’re suggest ing that an adjournment be urged, For the disappearance of the book, the cancelling out of the book repre~ sents the attempt to deny Justice. We would say that if you took from the early Christians (who were 4 hated and hunted and persecuted and maligned group), if you took away the cross that they used, which were ‘‘true crosses’’ and fragments of the true cross which represented the proof, in those days, of the ‘‘good news’’ or the Resurrection, our equivalent of the law and our faith in Justice, a Roman judge could hardly say, ‘‘Well, it’s only two pieces of wood in acruciformed fashion, therefore let’s just nail two pieces of wood up and we’ll let that stand for it,’’ One should search for other ex- amples, One should use the book burning of Nazi Germany as an example; one should use the early Cristian ex- amples; one should use simple examples like the difference between a menu and a meal, or the painting of a book and a real book and so forth, If the other evidence had disapperared (we can think of other famous Cases where there was particular evidence), there would be no question about charges being dismissed, no question whatso- ever, The fact that this is asym>ol would be to repeat, the Court would here be repeating what first the police officer did that night in October of 1968 and what now the state has done, and that would be compounding and repeating that fatal error of denying the reality that that law book was an extension of Mr, Newton, This would be like cutting off an arm, and in fact Mr, Newton could function without his arm, but he could not function without his brain. The court must not do what first the police officer did and now the D,A, claims was done by accident, The court must not do purposely what, by the most charitable analysis, wecan say was done accidentally, We would like to point out at least five reasons as to why a stipulation and a facsimile is a total denial of the rights of defense, First of all, as the judge stated, this is not a game and this is certainly not a drama or a” theatrical event, where a prop could be used, and this is not a road show or a national company of a play thatplayed in 1968, This is the first and only time for this jury, And at least five reasons could be shown as to why this personally un- dermines the pertinent defense of Huey CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE CONTINUED FROM LAST PAGE P, Newton and also why it generally in- _ flames a racist attitude which we know was told at one time that he was not “college material’, and this refers to the whole world of abstracting, of learn- ing, of time-binding, of information, of the ability to manipulate symbols, to function at the level of modern society, to be trained as a manager for that majority society, Not being ‘‘college material’’ is a denial that the mind, or the cortex, or the capacity to use a book and find that information exists, The next thing, on the abstract level, part of the same category as a book, is the Black Panther Party 10-point pro- gram which has been ‘‘systematically lost’’ in courts and rendered invisible by the mass media, by the courts and by all of the institutions in this country, The 10-point program of the Panthers does not exist for white America, The Panthers are not defined by their 10- point program, but instead by certain drawings, by certain fantasies on the part of the prevailing majority system, 7 The third, is the Black Panther Par- ty newspaper which is abstract, which is a literary device. Parts of the news- paper have been used to damn and to make animalistic the movement for _ Black liberation and the Black Panther Party and Mr, Newton, The newspaper itself we believe was used in the first case in 1968 against Mr, Newton (certain things were taken Out of context, certain symbols were taken out of their sociological and linguistic context), The next, is that we have heard po- lice officers testify that they were told at their line -up that they should be _ ‘*cautious of the Panthers’’, We are not told why they should be cautious of the Panthers and it’s our supposition that the enormous police forces with their enormous armaments were not at _ that time afraid of what they knew to be a legal device of openly carrying weapons, They were afraid of the know- ledge that it was a legal device, and _ that Panthers were aware of their rights, that the Panthers, acting as observers, were capable of exposing and ventila- ting all manner of police brutality and police malfeasance, The police were told to be “‘cautious’’ in their own self in- terest and for the good image of the police force, and the knowledge of law ‘was what lay behind the real police ‘hatred and animosity for the Black J _ lies behind this case in the first place: _ First of all, we know that Mr, Newton | Sf NS ACZ VLE THERE WILL NEVER BE JUSTICE IN. THE AMERICAN COURTS UNTIL THE PEOPLE ARE THE JUDGES THE TRIAL OF HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER OF DEFENSE fF OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, HAS BEGUN: : COME EVERYDAY TO: ALAMEDA COUNTY COURTHOUSE TWELFTH AND FALLON STREETS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 10:00 AM DEPARTMENT 6 THIRD FLOOR COURT OF JUDGE HOVE Finally the phrase ‘‘exhausting all legal means’’, This has been the watch- word and the leading slogan for the Black Panther Party, defense, which began with this case and a phrase that was made famous around this case, Now, therefore, these things go to the personal capacity and motivation and reality of the defendant in this case, He is defined by a law book, He was well known in the Black community both for the physical law book itself, which is missing, and for the information and the approach and the problem-solving techniques that that law book implies, Now the State would have Mr, Newton defined by a gun rather than a law book, Because the gun does not exist, the state hopes to set the scales right by making the law book invisible too, They cannot produce the gun that they say Mr, Newton used and. so they want to deny him the right to prove to the jury what he did use --the law book, Thus, they have disarmed him, they have taken a- way his proof, The reason that a photograph will not answer that, is it is part and parcel of the racism in this country that Black people are not only not ‘‘college material’’, but that they are not material for any of our institutions for decision- making roles, To show aphotograph and say that Mr, Newton’s signature was in it is to ask a jury, that is all white ex- cept one person, to overthrow endemic A NS PENS AST) THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE 13 WHY HAS THE LAW BOOK “LOST” ? racism at one stroke and totake ar the ‘‘proof’’ of a photograph the humanity of the defendant, If a photograph were to be sufficient, then the data of the Kerner report, millions of pictures of and writings a- bout slavery and all manner of op- pression would have been sufficient for the American public toovercome racism and to change their basic attitudes. But this has not been sufficient, Therefore we know that to convince people who have a racial bias, that comes to them virtually with their mother’s milk in this society, you have to not just say that a person is capable of knowing the law and acting legally and even functioning in an extraordinary manner, you have to exhaust every means of proof available to youtoprove it, To be able to show the jury that the law book with that signature covered | with blood, the very symbol of the vio- | lence that was done to the law in this fq case, and the violence that was done to ° Mr, Newton and the violence that was done to the attempt to use the law, this is crucial to the defendant, In October of 1967, the police officer assumed, and we would stress this, that that law book belonged to another police officer is because he had to believe that that book could not belong to Mr, Newton, He had to believe that it belonged to the policemen because only the policemen can carry the law, can know the lawand never Mr, Newton, He took that evi- dence away in 1967, and only later through a stroke of luck was the law book returned, Only now to be taken away again, ‘If a policeman could not open a book that was before him and realize what he had done, how can we expect a jury to accept, simply on the word of the man who says that it was his law book, that it indeed represents and defines his beliefs, his approach and his mo- tives on that night, Thus, to argue that a photograph could take the place of a law book, is to argue that a menu takes the place of a meal, is to argue that a descrip- tion of a sunset takes the place of the sunset, is to argue that any abstraction, like a photograph or a fake theatrical - prop, could | take the place of the authentic, in this case, flesh and blood law book, This is disingenuous, itis dishonest, it is cynical and it flies in the face of everything we know about human nature, about the institution of American racism, and about this all- important book, that goes to the heart of the defendant’s civil rights, and his very life in this case, a THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE 14 PR ses eee eee ee f —-. —s PETITION FOR CROSS SECTION OF COMMUNITY ON JURIES AND FOR PROBATION OR APPEAL BAIL BOND FOR BROTHER DAVID HILLIARD: WE, THE UNDERSIGNED COMMUNITY PEOPLE, DO HEREBY PETITION THAT BROTHER DAVID HILLIARD, CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, PRESENTLY HELD BY ALAMEDA COUNTY AS A POLITICAL PRISONER, BE GRANTED HIS CON- STITUTIONAL RIGHT OF AN APPEAL BAILBOND OR PROBATION, PENDING APPEAL OF HIS CASE TO A HIGHER COURT, THE U.S. CONSTITUTION STATES THAT JURIES SHALL REFLECT A CROSS-SECTION OF A COMMUNITY, OR APEERGROUP, THERE WERE NO BLACK PEOPLE ON THE JURY IN THE CASE OF BROTHER DAVID HILLIARD, ALTHOUGH 38% OF THE OAKLAND COM- MUNITY IS BLACK. FIVE BLACK PEOPLE SAT ON THE JURY IN THE RECENTLY DIS- MISSED CASE OF BOBBY SEALE AND ERICKA HUGGINS, EVEN THOUGH ONLY 9% OF THE NEW HAVEN COMMUNITY IS BLACK, THEREFORE, THE CASE OF DAVID HIL- LIARD, PARTICULARLY, CLEARLY POINTS OUT THE NEED TO HAVE PROPER RE- PRESENTATION ON JURIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, IN THE LIGHT OF THESE FACTS, WE THEREFORE PETITION THAT DAVID HIL- LIARD BE GRANTED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT OF AN APPEAL BAILBOND OR PROBATION, PENDING APPEAL OF HIS CASE TO A HIGHER COURT, AND THAT THE RE-TRIAL JURY REPRESENT A TRUE CROSS-SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY. REG. WAME ADDRESS CITY | VOTER ne OOO NS |S) mi wlp | — = — — o . * ad a ee ee ee | a ee ee ee) . e . . . . —_— | “2; oo 20. ee ee es ee es ee ee ee es (48 PERALTA STREET RETURN ALL PETITIONS TO BLACK PANTHER PARTY CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS CUT HERE ec oe oe oe ce oe OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 947063 = = = Se see se co coe co oe es CONTINUED FROM PAGE 5 a ridiculous robbery to secure wea- on November 2, 1970, In fact, many people knew thatthe brothers had been in Richmond then for a Black Soli- darity Day, sponsored by the Richmond Black Community Information Center, The day was spent educating the peo- ple to the purpose of the survival pro- grams and the need to unite in the struggle to liberate our people. 5 . ILROAD OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 5 After this was discovered and exposed, she was quietly dismissed and re- placed by the alternate juror, After being programmed with in- structions, the jury went out for deli- berations, quickly returning with aver- dict, All the defendants were found not guilty on the conspiracy charge, Charles Brunson, Jacob Bethea and Al- bert Moore were found guilty of trans- porting stolen weapons across inter- THE RICHMOND, VIRGINIA FIVE Just before the jury went out for deliberation, it was discovered that one of the members of this ‘‘fair and im- ~— partial’’ jury was the cousinof Waver- ‘ly Allen, the chief State’s witness, state lines, Howard Mcore will haveto go through the whole ordeal again, be- cause a hung jury was the result inhis case, Charles, Jacob and Albert are to report for sentencing on September THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE 15 10th, Junius Underwood will be tried on July 22nd , and Howard Moore, on July 29th, The maximum sentence on this false charge is five years, However, because of prior felony convictions, the maximum sentence for Jacob and Al- bert is ten years, Thus ended the one-day trial and two- day railroad of the Richmond, Virginia Five, But it comes as no surprise since the rash of pre-trial propa- ganda and vicious publicity directed against the Richmond Five and the bla- tant attempt to dis-bar (take the li- cense of) their Black attorney, Ge- royd Greene, had already set the stage for the railroad, The real Conspiracy, that of the pigs to railroad these broth- ers, was even more evident with the ‘‘shot-gun’’ trial and rapid selection of a jury of non-peers, This case was fabricated by the F,B.I. in order to counter-act the rising consciousness of the people of Rich- mond, Virginia, Because of the work being done by brothers like Charles Brunson, Jacob Bethea, Albert Moore, Howard Moore and Junius Underwood, the Black community of Richmond was beginning to feel that sense of com- munity, the oneness, the unity whichis the key to our survival, And it is with this unity that we, the Black Panther Party, and the Black people of Rich- mond, Virginia will fight to free our brothers and advance our struggle. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! RANDY IS ON TRIAL BECAUSE HE SURVIVED CONTINUED FROM PAGE 3 level where they can wequivocally see that Z is the next logical, natural Stage through which we musi traverse in our drive to obtain freedom from the f reactionary forces of U.S. intercom- munalism, The Party's new direction, _ as our Minister has previously pointed , out, is a return to the Party’s original vision, Utilizing revolutionary tactics we are moving in the correct manner and are laying foundations (A) upon which all subsequent action can be launched (Z). Our base areas will be secure be- _ Cause we are forging iron links of unity with our communities through sur- vival programs. The bonds we are building can neither be smashed by counter revolutionary forces outside of our communities nor eroded by re- actionary individuals or reactionary in- stitutions whithering away in our midst. Revolutionary cultists, as Huey an- alysed, isolate themselves from the prele, by attempting to make the ople (because of a lack of basic re- avant community work, which cultists scorn), are left unprepared and far behind, too far behind to even begin to relate to Z as being a sane step, Any action which hampers or in anyway alienates our people and whereby im- pedes our struggle is not a revolu- tionary move. The people, not cul- tist groups, are the invincible force which will transform society, We are dialectical materialists, of this there should be no mistake, Class enemies recognize this by our social practice, Our method of analysing “‘what it is’? and the manner in which we im- plement constructive dialectical solu- tions gives evidence to our content, What programs and actions we under- take informs all that we ave geared toward insuring that our people survive each letter of the Alphabet from ABC to and beyond XYZ, We are preparing for the inevitable transformation of society, however long as_ it takes, whether objective reality dictates rev- olution in our life time or a hundred years from now, Our survival programs and how we come to grips with indi- genous community institutions will in- sure that our people survive to reap the harvest on the ‘‘day of victorvy’’. Our Party moves dialectically from the internal to the external, within the framework of existing institutions as well as establishing and operating new institutions, All progressive phe- nomenon must be co-ordinated so as to complement one another and active- ly assist in propelling this old repres- sive social system toward and into its own negation. We are prepared and are able to cope with baseless attacks upon our survival programs, present direc- tions, and even charges that we are revisionist, Weare able to easily re- fute misguided Marxists and others in the light of our people’s overwhelming Support of our organization’s social practice, With People and Party as one, we can steamroll all cultists and counter-revolutionary opposition to the implementation of all phases of our People’s survival programs. Under the profound leadership of our Minister and our Central Committee we have returned to ‘‘the correct handling of arevolution’’ and are paving the way, to victory, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE, LONG LIVE THE TEACHINGS OF OUR MINISTER OF DEFENSE THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE 16 MAURICE GORDON’S MINI-EMPIRE WITHIN THE EMPIRE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 Robert Gordon refuse to attend the meet- ing, but Mayor White prevented the city housing and building inspectors from showing up, claiming the meeting demanded by the people was ‘‘an im- permissible attempt to participate in the conduct of the executive business of the city.’’What in fact is ‘‘impermissible’’ is the hook-up between Mayor White and Maurice Gordon, which reportedly includes $175,000 in campaign funds for Mayor White. (Again in a parallel sit- uation. a recommendation that Gordon be prosecuted for manslaughter following the Sherry Biltmore fire, was not followed up in 1963,) Just as ‘blood money”’ can buy off elected city officials, so too can that same money buy off judges. In 1970, out of the 700 cases of housing code violations, the Department of Housing Inspection chose to prosecute a mere 20. Out of that number, 10 fines were removed upon appeal, For Maurice Gor- don has found his personal judicial “‘savior’’ in Judge Julius Adlow, no- torious in Boston for his many blatant- ly racist rulings, The deal that Adlow and Gordon have hooked up is simple in its treachery. law if a slumlord is convicted he can ~ be fined up to $500.00 a day until he repairs the violation, Adlow simply con- tinues the cases, sometimes from 10-14 times until the repair is fixed and then the case is closed, In one particularly outrageous case in which the viola- tions were first spotted November 16, 1966, the case didn’t go to court until June 22, 1967, and then it was continued 10 times until Adlow dismissed it, 20 months after it was first reported, on Although according to June 16, 1968, In another case presided over by Ad- low , Gordon never appeared and as a result, a bench warrant was issued, but was never served, Consequently, the case was dismissed one year later, In fact, in at least 12 cases which have come up in Adlow’s court alone, Mau- rice or Robert Gordon have escaped with no conviction, If you wanted to, you could go on and on, listing the ‘‘crimes’’ which Mau- rice Gordon has committed against the people of Boston, Inone apartment build- ing in the South End, 130 Brookline Street ( which has been on a 2-3 year rent strike), 250 housing code viola- tions were recorded in 2 years, After the Petersboro Street fire, representa- tives of Maurice Gordon visited the sur- vivors with forms they were to sign which supposedly was the only way they could have their security deposit re- turned; but upon examination by law- yers,these forms released Gordon from any damages resulting from the fire, This is just an example of the cold- blooded inhumanity Maazrice Gordon is capable of , An inhumanity which will continue unchecked until people realize the truly monstrous nature of the Mau- rice Gordon Mini- empire, It has recently been learned that Mau- rice Gordon is now attempting to dis- solve all of his non-commercial hold- ings within the next 5 years, which is assessed at over $28 million or 12,000 housing units, More than 500 units in Boston’s Back Bay have already been sold to realtor Ronald Simon for $6 million, and another 500 units have been offered to Interfaith Housing Inc,, Bos~- ton’s largest ‘‘nonprofit’’ development corporation, None of these sales wil] affect any of Gordon’s Florida hold- ings. It is suspected that Gordon is selling his holdings because of the great amount of heat which is beginning to come down on him, Some of the heat will possibly come in the form of the mayoral can- didates linking him up with the present mayor Kevin White. An entire system of capitalism with its inherent favoritism for property owners aa. ) 1 : This is what Maurice Gordon did when he put down his machine guns and went ‘‘legit?’, has raised the criminal slumlord above justice, With his millions as a means of buying off those who have been elected as the people’s administrators, Maurice Gordon has negated the elected function of these officials, has implicated these officials in his web and conspiracy of murder by neglect, and extortion through exorbirant ‘‘rents’’. As the facts come to light, they only further prove the intimate interconnections between high finance, corporate capitalists and their ability to manipulate in their own in- terests the elected administrators on the city, state and federal levels, With these facts at hand, and remind- ful of the total scope of ‘‘legitimate crime’’, we can fully understand the. irony and utter contempt for the peo- ple’s welfare and their survival, when men like city assessor Theodore Anzalone say, ‘‘a’ Maurice Gordon is valuable to any city,” ALL POWER TO (CH? PEOPLE! Massachusetts State ter Black Panther Party CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 The pigs are now accusing Jimmy of having participated in the murder of one of our most faithful and dedicated members,. Fred Bennett, The F.B.1. is attempting to use Jimmy as the Scapegoat for their oun foul and bizarre deed, Jimmy has not even been formally indicted; rather, the pigs have been using the media to present their Jabrications, viciously slandering Jimmy in the press, He has not been indicted in a court of law, where these allegations would have to be proven, Through the use of their propaganda parrots (particularly Ed Montgomery of the San Francisco Examiner- Chronicle Syndicate), the pigs have actually accused Jimmy of being a henchman for the Black Panther Party, having participated in the vicious murder of one of our own beloved and trusted comrades, - ‘ ’ And now Jimmy Cary sits in San Francisco County Jail, awaiting trial on the trumped-up charge of assauit, the Adult Authority (Parole Board) JIMMY CARR having placed a ‘thold’’ on him, That is, his parole agreement is being questioned for violation, and while this case is pending he must remain in custody, without so much as the ability to pay bail, although a man is supposed to be considered innocent un- til proven guilty, He is not there because ofany crime; he is not there because heisamember of the Black Panther Party; heis there because a young and strong Black man who was slated by all their predictions to be another statistic whose life they had stolen got turned around, and turned on to the people, to loving the people and the People’s Advocates, became aware of the trick and had the strength still of his Black manhood to deal with exposing the lies, He is there because he refused to be their man or their pawn, Jimmy Carr is another strong Black man who had survived all they could do and was coming back to collect some dues. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! no one else has, In fact, it’s even hard to get the community organizations to help us, not just politicians. But we’ve 7, REAGAN MAY OWE ‘ CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 ‘retroactively it would be $920, It’s a Q. Do you know of any local politicians that have taken any type of position on A, Like one politician here, there’s really been two, But one we don’t know what his purpose is, and his name is Bargus, He's a white politician, with Of that, but he has taken a stand, And the other, booker Anderson, he’s bed withus 100%. And other than that been really struggling on our own, about three or four people, We've had a lot of conflict, Q. Could you tell us of some of your future plans in dealing with the Wel- fare cuts and other related things? A, No, I can’t really say. We take it; you know this stuff hits us so hard and so fast that we can't really from one day or the other, we don’t know what really our plans are. I really can’t say, because I don’t know. Q. Would that also include the Con- vention that’s coming up? A, Yes, That will also include the Convention, But there is one more thing that I would like to include, Right now the Free Lunch Program is just in the ‘‘target’” areas, Which is good, I can dig this. But we have Blacks that are out of the target areas. Say for instance my own self. I don’t live in a target area, But I’m struggling too. A lot of times my kids don’t go to school because I don’t have money to get them lunch, So rather than see them go to school starving, I just keep them home, They figure that each free YOU $1,000 THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE 17 FREE SICKLE CELL ANEMIA TESTS THE PEOPLE’S FREE HEALTH CENTER 27 DIXWELL AVE NEW HAVEN, CONN PHONE 865-9824 Tests Given: Monday through Saturday 11:00am to 9:00 pm lunch is about 35, And this 35¢ is going to be subtracted from the Wel- fare grants, The same thing with food stamps; when you pay $2l. for food stamps you get $53, (worth of stamps). That’d be about $30, In other words, they would subtract the $30, from your grant, vather than hold $53,, they just subtract what you don’t pay from your grant, (*This is occurring now with food stamps, People who do not get food stamps get no more actual cash than those who do.) But the food stamps and the free lunches, they've going to do that regardless of whether you get them or not, This is all available to all people on Welfare, so therefore (they argue) they're going to deduct it, And the School Board, if they are going to deduct this money from the people that are not receiving the free lunches, then they’re going to just have hell, (These figures are based on “‘target’’ avea needs, whether or not you live in such an area.) And the white man figures that they can keep us down one way or the other way. They get us all together (we would all have to live in a “‘target*' area to really benefit) and they can kill us all off at one time,,.And this is the way I feel that things are. And I don’t buy il, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE — THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE 18 INTERCOMMUNAL NEWS PAK JUNG HI CALLS YOU “NIGGER” BLACK G.I.’S COME HOME Wherever the U.S, military has gone, ithas taken its inherent racism and racist practices, After bringing ‘*American Democracy’’, racism and exploitation to South Korea, the U,S, military tried to acculturate as many of the South Korean people as possible with its exploitative system of values, This has only proved successful with those who would oppress or participate in the oppression of their own people; in South Korea particularly this means those reactionary elements who would fight against the peaceful re-unification of the Korean Fatherland, the natural unity of the North and the South, These are the traitors to the Korean people, One such traitor is the head of theU,S, backed puppet South Korean govern- ment, the President, Pak Jung.Hi, who readily accepts American aid and the ‘‘American way’’,(He even lets the U.S, call him Chung Hee Park, becauseheis told by his American bosses that his real name is too difficult for the Ameri- can mind to comprehend, its tones are unfamiliar to Americans.) The racism that BlackG,I,’s encoun- ter on the U,S, military bases and in- stallations (not only under the South Korean lackey government, but where- ever the U.S, military can be found) is often extended to the off-base clubs and recreational facilities, allegedly operated by the people of the community which the U.S. occupies, Facilities and clubs are often segregated, or ‘‘for whites only’’ ( in another people’s com- munity), with Black G,I,’s being dis- criminated against, forced to use poorer-equipped clubs if they want to go off the base for recreation or enter- tainment, Black soldiers are discriminated against by military officials as well as reactionary lackies of the South Korean puppet government, who own such South Korean businesses, Tensions have been high, therefore, because Black G.I,’s have been protesting these rac- ist policies, to no avil, On July 10th, CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE AGNEW VISITS HIS COUNTRY ESTATE - ETHIOPIA © S. AGNEW In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this week, Ethiopean overseer Haile Selassie sat down to lunch with Spiro Agnew, the reactionary intercommunal public velations man for the U.S. Empire, Agnew is on a three nation visit to Africa in an attempt to shore up the American Empire’s weakening hand on the African continent, In E- thiopia, Haile Selassie is known to bea man who expects god-like worship from the people. In the American Empire, Agnew expects the same; Ethiopia is part of the American Empire, During the luncheon Selassie made a toast calling for U.S. ‘‘Support of total liberation of Africa,.’’ Both men feel that if they can successfully make the people feel that they are for free- dom for the peoples of the world, that their shakey power bases will be able to withstand the people’s drive for real freedom and true liberation, The elaborate Euyopean style luncheon was held in the plush ‘‘Ju- bilee Palace’, which was built with the blood and sweat of Ethiopta’s op- pressed citizens, Agnew stated that he and his overseer, Selassie, shared and represented similar goals, in other words, oppression of black and white. He emphasized that the long friendship between the American Empire and its Ethiopian estate is based in lasting values that seek the ‘‘good and well- being of humanity.’’ From their prac- tice, we know that what is meant by that is that the American Empire and the Ethiopian community estate are well acquainted with oppression and imperialist exploitation, for that is what they both subject their people to, But the people recognize the true nature of these two reactionary inter- HAILE SELASSIE communalists and they are not and will not be fooled by the lies and the far- fetched promises for ‘‘the alleviation of illness and the elimination of poverty’’ by these reactionary regimes. We will only continue our struggle to free all people from the bonds of oppression, ALL P@WER TO THE PEOPLE CONTINUED FROM LAST PAGE siday evening, in Pyongtaek, South Korea, word spread that a white G.I, had attacked a Black G,I, for attempt- ing to use one of the ‘‘for whites only”’ clubs. Knowing that the filing of com- plaints or any attempt at requesting in- vestigations into this, as well as allthe other racist policies of the U,S, mili- “tary and its South Korean lackies, would ‘only be futile, the Black soldiers yented their frustrations on all the Korean Support Command (Overseer for the lackies), promised that “‘those soldiers responsible for the distur- bance would be arrested and punished and due compensation would be made for property damage,’’ The only way this criminal could arrest and punish the ‘soldiers responsible’’ would be to turn himself and the rest of the U.S military high command, who invaded and divided the beautiful Korean Fatherland in the first place, over to the THE BLACK PANTHER, MONDAY JULY 19, 1971 PAGE 19 PAK JUNG HI CALLS YOU “NIGGER” aid in U.S, criminal activities around the world, We know where, the interests of the U.S, government and the white rac- ist forces lie, But, our Black brothers do not have such racist, exploitative interests, and therefore do not have to be subject to racism in another com- munity of the world, while helping their very oppressor gain ground by keeping another people under foot, A people who are our friends and comrades, a peo- ple whose enemy is our enemy, The Northern half of Korea, under the bril- ~ -_ ; fee reactionary symbols ofcapitalismand ¢nlre Korean people and the Black jjant leadership of Marshall Kim 1 racist exploitation in the town, G,I,"s for true justice, Due compensa- Sung, has become a stronghold for ate can only be realized ween the liberation, and wishes to unite all their At this point, U.S, Military Police M°rcenaty US, EEE completely people for the benefit of their common and South Korean Puppet Army Police, moves out of, leaves South Korea, andit interests, North and South, This isour along with racist, white G.I,’s attacked can never be fully realized because the goal too, unity inour community, Black the Black G.l.’s, The morning after millions of Black ye Korean lives/ G 1,’5 can help not only the Korean this attack, South Korean lackies Pee ee ee oe des- beople, but more importantly our own paraded aroun¢ the military base like y SYS Spree Black people by leaving the Korean a cheap imitation of the U.S, Ku Klux i ra soil and returning to unite with Black Klan with signs reading “Niggers go The U.S. wishes to fully realize its brothers and sisters right here in back to thecotton fields’’, and ‘‘Blacks, reactionary intercommunalistic polic- America in all our common struggle get out,” ies everywhere in the world, Its ggainst U.S, racism, fascism and im- domination over the lives of the South perialism, Major General Joseph W, Pezdirts, Korean people could not be maintained U.S. Army Commander ot the (South) if U.S, troops would refuse to work, to Aj,.L POWER TO THE PEOPLE! & U SULA it inl IS! tte WY UL aioly vrs)» = Heer pews yu omit” cl atlg en gigi em (rena, ] o Portier Meiehegr it aritat ale eae li lao ail sila Ml Ee OST ee AVE es CH San cts An ot el k 0 9 le od a Boh oA TO SUBSCRIBE MEANS THAT EVERY WEEK YOU CAN READ THE NEWS ABOUT THE SURVIVAL PROGRAMS Mik FOR THE PEOPLE AND BECOME A PARTICIPANT IN WORKING OUT THE BEST MEANS AND WAYS OF Ho SOLVING THE PROBLEMS OF OUR PEOPLE, OF BLACK PEOPLE AND POOR PEOPLE. a int ity dr BLACK i WS SERVICE ,; Subscription F iu ubscription Form Hh h | t g ENTER MY SUBSCRIPTION FOR (CHECK BOX) Domestic Subscriptions Foreign Subscriptions i | ( IF 3 MONTHS: (13 ISSUES) PU RP U RUE CUO COCO SERCO SER ERE REESE SESE Cc $2.50 FCCC CHR eee eee eee Cl $9.00 re ain 6 MONTHS: (26 1SSUES) ......e.seeecees Tee Sepeaavase (7), $3.00... 23.4,-cteseee cecaenune . 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