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70 THE AVARICIOUS SOSIMESSIGEN 2 2 PEMA GOGGLE POLITIC TANS «+ « THE BLAGK PANTHER Black Community News Service VoL. 2NO. THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2.1908 wmaut? THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY 29 cents MINISTRY OF INFORMATION BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 P°1G COPS HOOVER FEB 1 9 1993 INSTITUTION EDITORIAL: By RAYMOND LEWIS Deputy Minister of Information San Francisco’s pig Mayor, bald-headed Alioto, has been getting publicity for his racist regime at city hall at the ex- pense of Eldridge Cleaver, George Murray, and the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. According to the fascist dog Alioto: Black Panther Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver instigated the recent bombing and sniping incidents throughout San Francisco. “Black Panther Minister of Education George Murray was attacked because he advised the students of San Francisco State College to defend themselves with guns. The Black Panther Party of San Francisco is responsible for influencing younger members of the Black com- munity to commit violent crimes. Earlier this week, Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information held a press conference and demanded an apology for the slan- derous accusations made by this slobbering hog, Alioto. But instead of an apology, slick-headed, sneaky-eyed, smart= assed Alioto replied with more false and scandalous charges against Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Education George Murray, and the San Francisco BLACK PANTHER PARTY; adding, in fact, that he did not intend to oink out an apology. The BLACK PANTHER PARTY demands again that a public apology, covered by the city hall-controlled racistypress, be made in short order. THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY IS GOING TO GET AN APOLOGY FROM PIG ALIOTO OR THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO WON'T BE HERE TO KNOW IT DID NOT! PAGE 2 THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 Viet Nam-U.S. “Paris Talks” Enter “Delicate Stage”’ PARIS -- The Viet Nam-U.S, ‘‘Paris talks’’ started officially on May 13. By now Viet Nam and the United States have held 26 of- ficial meetings. According to recent reports Pig Lyndon Johnson, the U, S. Imper- ialist Chieftain, is preparing to dish outa big plot and fraud of ‘‘halting all bombings’’ of North Viet Nam. U. P. I. reported from Paris that the Paris talks have ‘‘entered a delicate stage’, There are ‘‘growing indications’’ that there might be “fa breakthrough in the deadlocked Paris talks’. ‘‘Such a break- through could come in the form of a total U, S, bombing halt’’. A reuter report from Paris said that ‘‘the emphasis (f the Paris talks) was shifting from the big bombing of its territory -- to the political arena,” 5 A, P, correspondent John Hightower in a dispatch from Washington reported that the United States has pushed a ‘‘package plan”’ in the “Paris talks’’. According to this ‘package plan’’ the United States urged North Viet Nam to exercise ‘‘some restraint’’ on military actions. U,P.1, correspondent Stewart Hensley reported that the United States has put forward ‘‘secretly’’ in Paris a ‘‘three-point formula for a ‘‘complete halt in bombing'’. The ‘*formula’’ involved ‘*with- drawal of North Vietnamese forces from the Demilitarized Zone”’ and an ‘‘end’’ to all ‘‘terrorism and attacks on South Vietnamese cities"’ and agreement ‘‘to admit the Saigon government to expanded peace talks’’. An A.P, report from Saigon dated October 16 said that on that day Burker, U, S. ‘‘Ambassador’’ to South Viet Nam, and Nguyen Van Thieu, the chieftain of the South Viet Nam puppet clique, ‘‘held three hurried meetings’. The report said; ‘‘A government source told reporters to be on the alert for a possible simultaneous statement issued in Washington and Saigon on the bombing question.”’ An A, F, report from Saigon said: ‘‘Reports that the United States is prepared to call a complete halt to bombings of North Viet Nam spread like wildfire through Saigon following a visit by Bunker to Nguyen Van Thieu. AFRICANS SAY THEY SHARE FOES, GOALS WITH CHINA DAR ES SALAAM -- As former enslaved and colonized peoples see the Euro-American nationals hardening in their exploitative and oppressive habits, they are establishing closer friendships with China. CHINESE REVOLUTIONARIES took power only 19 years ago. With _ colonial and racist domination still fresh in their memories, they have tended so far to support efforts of currently oppressed peoples to free themselves politically and economically. In evidence of this growing alliance among peoples who have a common foe - a foe who has steadily threatened to crush the whole world in his coils of greed - and a common goal of real independence, two southern-Africa revolutionary groups recently declared their ad- miration for the Chinese people’s revolution. Meeting in Tanzania's capitol, Dar es Salaam, the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania (‘‘Azania’’ is the real name of the exploiter- labelled ‘South Africa’’) and the Zimbabwe (real name of ‘‘Rhodesia’’) African National Union recently congratulated the Chinese people on Chinese National Day, AZANIA-PAC is the government-in-exile of ‘‘South Africa.'’ Its acting president, P, K, Leballo told the Chinese that their revolu- tionary struggle ‘‘always encourages PAC and the Azanian people in their life-and-death struggle against apartheid and fascism.” In his messages of greetings, Chihota, chief representative of ‘Zimbabwe-ZANU said the Chinese people have won ‘ ‘immense achieve- ments’’ under Chairman Mao Tse-Tung in a short period of time. He added that these achievements are ‘‘outstanding and valuable contri- butions to the struggle of all the peoples of the world.” Chihota wished, too, that the ‘‘militant friendship between the peo- ples of Zimbabwe and China will grow stronger with each passing day so as to deal telling blows constantly to the forces of imperialism headed by the United States and Britain and to Soviet revisionism." KHARTOUM -- The Sudenese Chinese Friendship Association re- cently held a mass meeting here to celebrate the 19th anniversary of Chinese independence. PRESIDENT of the association, Ahdel Wahab Zein al-Abdein, ex- tended said that China has achieved great success in industry, agricul- ture and other fields during the Great Cultural Revolution. He said that the Great Cultural Revolution has strengthened enormously China’s support for liberation movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America, CHILEAN PEASANTS FIGHT FOR LAND Alarmed by the just demand SANTIAGO -- Dozens of peas- ants on a farming estate in Chil- ean City of Nuble Province, Chile, occupied the houses of the land- lord on October 16 to demand the distribution of the estate’s 402 hecteres of land to the poor peas- ants tilling the land, This revolutionary action of the peasants immediately «’on the ac- tive support of more than 300peas- ants in the neighboring area who also demanded the distribution of the land of eight other farming es- tates in the neighborhood. of the peasant masses, the Chilean city authorities hurriedly sent 600 pig troops armed with light ma- chine guns and light tanks to the area for suppression. But the un- daunted revolutionary peasants broke through the cordon of the troops and got into contact with the revolutionary students in the city. They also issued a statement demanding the expropriation of the farming estate within 24 hours. Otherwise, the statement said, they would take ‘‘new actions of strug- gle.” BRAZILIAN STRUGGLE WILL CONTINUE RIO DE JANEIRO (Third-World Press) -- ‘‘A Classe Operaria’’, organ of the Central Committee of the communist party of Brazil, pointed out in a recent fact-supported commentary entitled ‘‘The Sutuggle will go on’’ that the brutal repression of the people’s move- ment by the pro-U.S, Brazilian dictatorial authorities will arouse stronger opposition and the Brazilian people will certainly win final victory. It said that the recent arrests of students, the arbitrary invasion of universities, the brutal repression of the striking workers in Sao Paulo and the murder of peasants in Minas Gerais by the Brazilian reactionary authorities show that the dictatorial regime will pursue a more ruthless police against the people. It pointed out that in the face of the rising people's struggle, the reactionaries decided to use every means to check all street demon- strations and to mobilize the armed forces to do police duty. This is by no means an indication of the strength of those in power, It shows that the reactionaries, under the pressure of the people's strug- gle, are at the end of their rope. This makes the people see all the more clearly that the Brazilian reactionary armed forces are the main prop of the dictatorial regime and an instrument of U.S, Im- perialism to suppress the patriots. This also makes the people understand more quickly that without the defeat of these reactionary swine forces, it is impossible to acquire genuine freedom and to free Brutal Repression Will Bring About Stronger Opposztion From the People, Says Braxalian Paper Brazil from the foreign yoke. The commentary pointed out that no matter how frantically it may try, the dictatorial regime will not be able to check the people’s struggle, nor to paralyze the fighting will of the masses of people, nor will it be able to preyent the upsurge of the people’s revolutionary movement, As long as the country is under the heel of the Hoggish U. S. imperialists and ruled by a moribund regime, there is no force to hold back the growing rebellion of the students, the workers in the towns and countryside, the honest intellectuals and allthe Brazilians who refuse to live as slaves of the dollar under the iron heel of the reactionary generals. The commentary added that the vigorous student demonstrations which are spreading in various Brazilian states, the strike of the saltfield workers in Mossoro, the struggle of the Cachoeiro peasants against the land grabbers, and so on -- all this proves that the Struggle of the people will continue to develop steadily to higher levels. wg The commentary concluded that the intensification of the suppres- sion against the people by the reactionaries will be answered by the intensification of the people’s action. If the dictatorial regime. mobilizes more and more of its instruments of repression, the people will resort to higher forms of struggle. In the course of these clashes which steadily become more violent, the people will steel themselves and will win the final victory. SUBSCRIBE TO THE BLACK PANTHER See Page 18 Thai Radio Supports Mexican Students The radio of the ‘‘Voice of the People of Thailand’’ broadcast an article recently, ardently praising and firmly supporting the just struggle of the Mexican youth and students against persecution and massacre. The article pointed out that this struggle has dealt a telling blow at U.S, imperialism and the Mexi- can reactionaries, filling them with fright. In the past two months or more, they kept sending out armed troops to suppress and massacre the students barbarous- ly, but the bullets and bayonets of the reactionaries could never put down the just struggle of the students, The article said that just as the great leader Chairman Mao has pointed out: ‘‘all reactionaries try to stamp out revolution by mass murder, thinking that the greater their massacre, the weaker the revolution, But contrary to this reactionary wishful thinking, the fact is that the more the reaction- aries resort to massacre, —the greater the strength of the revolu- tion and the nearer the reaction- aries approach their doom. Thisis an inexorable law.'’ The article said the more cruel the suppres- sion by the reactionaries, the more vigorous the resistance of the masses of the people. Japanese Youth Shake Up Defense Agency TOKYO (Third World Press) -- A group of patriotic Japanese youth and students carrying sticks brave- ly broke into a building of the “Defense Agency’’ of the re- actionary Japanese government recently, They damaged the office of the switchboard service of the **Central Base Communications,’’ making the reactionary Sato goy- ernment terror-stricken. Singing the Internationale, the militant patriotic youth and stu- dents set up barriers with desks, chairs and file boxes. They also wrote on the walls; ‘*‘Smash Japan - U.S, ‘Secretary Treaty!’ "’ ‘We struggle for the people|’’ and other slogans. This brave action of the patrio- tic youth and students brought the telephone communication of the ‘Defense Agency”’ into confusion. Staff members of the ‘‘Defense Agency"’ on the scene were great- ly frightened and confused by this surprise attack, They tried to tele- phone Kaneshichi Masuda, ring- jeader of the “‘Defense Agency,"’ but failed, Armed pigs were sent by the reactionary Sato government to carry out fascist suppression of the patriotic youth and students, who valiantly threw desks and chairs at the attacking pigs. Meeting newsmen after the event, Yutaka Shimada, Secretary- General of the ‘‘Defense Agency’’ admitted with fear that the event “has a great effect on the so- ciety.”” 1968: BALLOT OR THE BULLET KATHLEEN CLEA VER COMMUNICATION SECT., BLACK PANTHER PARTY 18th ASSEMBLY DISTRICT S.F. PEACE & FREEDOM PARTY SHOOT YOUR SHOT PAGE 4 THE BLACK PANTHER *SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 VOTE I$ LEGAL ‘AND PRIVATE VOTE FOR son ES on Rome Gregory Doilars Confiscated WASHINGTON — The U.S. Treasury Department ordered the confiscation of all Dick Gregory campaign “dollar bills.” Although the design of Gregory’s bills closely conform to the Treasury De- partment’s Printing Office specifications, the government objected to two changes in the design: instead of the traditional U.S. bald eagle, there is a peace dove, and in place of the bill’s usual picture of George Washington, there is a picture of Gregory himself, making him the first black man ever venerated by having his picture on U.S. currency. Gregory has not passively acquiesced to the seizure of his campaign “dollar bills.” He threatens to file suit in Federal Court to biock the presidnential elections on the grounds that while Nixon, Humphrey and Wallace money has flowed freely, the government has infringed upon his campaign rights by confiscating his campaign money. A demand for a full investigation into the murder of Welton Armstead Murdered by the Seattle Pigs STATEMENT BY MILFORD SUTHERLAND Candidate for Lt. Governor State of Washington The attempt by the Supreme Court this week to pressure me to re- nounce my revolutionary political beliefs in return for an offer to place me on the November ballot can have only one answer: I will do exactly the opposite. I reject the offer. More than ever I will fight to speak out on the issues that most directly affect the lives of workers and oppressed peoples. There is no issue more important than racism. There is no political fight more important than the fight to stamp out racism. As the George Wallace campaign proves, there is no threat to the country greater than the further spread of racism. The murder on October 5 of 17 year old Welton Armstead by mem- bers of the Seattle Police Department is the most recent event exposing the ugly face of racism in the City of Seattle. The free ballot party demands a full public investigation of this mur- der. We demand that the investigation be carried out in a manner which will not protect the murderers, but bring them to justice. We especially call upon the white workers to give moral, political and financial sup- port to the Black Panthers in their campaign to see that justice is done. Castonsville Nine & Milwaukee Fourteen Events The courageous stand of the CATONSVILLE NINE and the force of their example provide a sharp focus for events this fall. The equally courageous act of the MILWAUKEE FOURTEEN provides a continuing focus for activities, probably for the next twoor three months at least. We strongly urge you to publicize their examples. All of these people believe strongly that their acts are made more meaningful in proportion to the degree of public debate they inspire. Indeed, it is largely for this purpose that they have sacrificed any opportunity to escape harsh punishment. By openly confronting the courts and the Selective Service System, they encourage debate on the most basic issue -- every man’s obligation to take action to stop the conscription of men for the war, The debate can be staged at teach-ins, public rallies or neighbor- hood meetings, The statements of the CATONSVILLE NINE (which you should have received in various recent mailings) are a provoca- tive theme for these events, The debate can also be a part of other anti-draft actions such as sacntuaries and induction refusals, Two important dates for activities coordinated nationally -- November 8 (just three days after the election), The Sentencing of the CATONSVILLE NINE, November 14 Nation- wide day for draft-card turn-ins. Watch the papers for date of the indictment of the Milwaukee 14. GRAPE SALES DOWN 20% The Delano Grape Strike and the United Farm Workers Organiz- ing Committee (UFWOC) have an- nounced that the boycott on Cali- fornia grapes has cut drastically into grape sales, especially in the North, Grape markets in many northern cities are completely closed; in reaction, growers are routing most of their grapes to the South. The grape boycott is beginning to work, and every market which refuses to sell California grapes brings more pressure on the big corporate growers. Pressure can be put on market managers in subtle and not-so-subtle ways: 1) You can request that the man- ager of your local store not stock table grapes this season 2) Tell him that there are many in the neighborhood who will stop shopping at the stores that carry grapes : 3) If he doesn’t cooperate, you can picket -- IT’S LEGAL! Sec- ondary boycott legislation applies only to unions, and local actions can be brought by private citi- zens who picket on behalf of the grape strike. There are people all over the country helping to make the strike work, U.S. STRIKE DEVELOPS WASHINGTON, D. C. (Third World Press) -- The strike moye- ment in the United States has continued to develop vigorously since the beginning of this year. It has pushed forward the high tide of strike actions in the past few years, especially last year, and has dealt heavier blows to the U.S. monopoly capitalist class. In the bitter struggle, working people and awakening at an accelerated pace, Under the blows of the strike Movement during the past few years, and especially last year, the U.S. power structure hysteri- cally demanded at the beginning of this year that no strike be al- lowed during the next two years, However, strike movements con- tinued to surge forward. A series of strikes have taken place since the beginning of the year, including the strikes of 30,000 taxi-drivers and 10,000 sanitation workers in 23 states, the strike of 90,000 coal miners, the nationwide strike of more than 200,000 tele-com- munications workers and the strikes of more than 50,000 sea- men and 75,000 dockers. The upsurge of the strike move- ment is only natural when the pig infested ruling clique is pursuing its policies of war and aggression more energetically abroad and when it is cruelly exploiting and oppressing the workers and black people at home. The upsurge is a direct reflection of the sharpening social contradictions in the coun- try. The upsurge of the strike moye- ment also shows that workers are awakening rapidly. This is felt first of all in their fighting unity and militant spirit which have be- come greatly strengthened, A num- ber of big strikes of long duration took place last year and this year. An outstanding case is the strike of 60,000 copper miners and cop- per fabricating workers which lasted from July last year to April this year, DIRECTION ON WARD The role of the policeman has traditionally been one of a protec- tor of life, the most prised of man’s possession. But as colonialism, exploitation and racism grew and metured throughout the world, the role of “the policeman has begun to take on very ‘serious side effects. As a result of all the various can- cers afflicting him. And to this thé Black Panther Party says this, that in order to cut out this cancer, it will re- quire a painful operation, That this operation is necessary in order for the well-being person in- volved to survive, no matter how pa’~ful, By tice same token, or order for Black people to overthrow the cancerous clutches of racism, it will be necessary, a painful ordeal. But for the survival and well-being of Black people, this ordeal must and will take place. $100,000 OFFERED OLYMPIC BOYCOTT ORGANIZERS HAMILTON, New York (LNS) — Bill Russel, coach of the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association, said that Harry Ed- wards had been offered $100,000 to call off the Black boycott of the summer Olympics that he was instrumental in organizing. Russel would not say who offered Edwards the money, but did say that Edwards vehemently declined the offer. He would not explain what “vehement” was supposed to imply, but Edwards is 6 feet 8 inches and a former basketball player. Mexican Manifesto To World Public Opinion The XIX Olympic Games, an event of peace, are taking place in Mexico in an atmosphere of violence, in the menacing presence of the army and police forces. This struggle is part of the battle for democracy waged throughout the world. Students and teachers in Mexico have based their fight, a movement supported by the people and one which makes its demands onthe government, on six points: 1) The abolition of the articles added to the Constitution which refer to the so-called crime of social dissolution, created during World War Il to protect the country from fascism and now used to stifle anyone Opposing official policies. 2) The release of all political prisoners, now more than 300 persons. 3) The removal of Mexico City’s chief and sub-chief of pigs who, since July 23, have undertaken the brutal repression against students, teachers and citizens in general. 4) A clear and exhaustive analysis of those officials responsible for ordering this repression (e.g. the deeretary of State and the Mayor of Mexico City, keeping in mind the fact that these men could be presiden- tial candidates.) 5) The dissolution of the Riot Squad, whose only function is to break up any free and public demonstration. 6) Indemnization of all families of victims of the repression: at least 68 dead and thousands wounded and maimed by pig bullets, bayonets, grenades, billy clubs or run over by tanks and armored trucks. To all this, the National Strike Council add its demand for a public debate, to be transmitted by radio and t.v., discuss its petitions, since the so-called people’s representatives such as the Chamber of Deputies -and other bodies cater exclusively to the government. It also battles. official stubborness, which insists on a nonexistant political stability and hides gross political and economical injustices. ALL THIS HAS LED TO DECIDEDLY POPULAR SUPPORT AS EVIDENCED BY MARCHES OF OVER 400,000 PARTICIPANTS. TO ALL THIS, THE GOVERNMENT'S ONLY ANSWER HAS BEEN: a) Practical anulement of University autonomy and curtailment of the freedom to teach and learn, brought about by the army’s occupation of the University and the incarceration of so many students, teachers ‘and citizens from all walks of life; b) What practically amounts to a state of siege throughout the country; and c) The abrogation of all individual rights. Students Jailed in Cleaver Demonstration BERKELEY -- The students were demonstrating to insist that the university give them credit for Black Panther Minister of Infor- mation Eldridge Cleaver’s special lecture course -- Social Analysis About 40 Alameda\ County deputy pigs were on hand to do their thing. The mood was angry, and peo= ple broke bus windows and poked -holes in the pig bus with ice 139X. The sit-in began-just past noon, last week, but the confrontation took on a clear focus at 7 p.m., when the building was ‘‘closed’’ and students refused to leave. By 9 p.m., with the administra- tion still begging people to leave, the pigs brought two buses to car- ry the student protestors to jail. picks, There was a huge bonfire at the intersection of Bancroft and Telegraph, near the main en- trance to the campus. ‘The paddy wagons cannonbaHed through the crowd at 40-miles an hour, pro- tected by a pig wedge, and when new tires were installed, they re- turned to take the arrested students off to jail, CHAINED TO THE WALL The black man is chained against the wall. The wall of white racist fascist oppressors point of view is necessary. Inorder to understand and deal with this situation we must understand its root and direction. When the white Europeans began their hideous process of coloni- zation they had to have a basis or reason for their actions. In 1400 the racist reprobate Po of the Catholic church opened Africa to colonization by papal’ decree. This is very important because the white Europeans now had a religious basis for colonization and slavery, They began to move with religious zeal to enslave “nd tor- ture black people for the sole purpose of christianizing them. These sick Europeans set out the christianizing in a most inhumane manner. The Europeans got together all of their destriictive power and began the systematic destruction of African cultire. They burned the villages filled with beautiful black children. They shot and tortured black people in the towns of Africa and as a final show of force they razed to the ground great cities like Timbuktu and Benin, These white Europeans then very self-righteously carried off the victims of christianity. The oppressor has found it necessary to chain the black man. At the outset of the oppressors madnesshe wasnaive enough to believe that by chaining the beautiful black bodies of the African slaves that he could subdue them. The over 300 major slave revolts taught him that this was not the case. The oppressor was perplexed he wondered how he could feed his racist capitalistic machinery if he could not subdue the bodies of an integral part of that machinery: the slave, He was not long infinding the answer. The oppressor sought to subdué-the slave’s mind. His feindish plan was to destroy all vestiges of humanity which existed within the slave. He began by first deforming the slaves skin color. He told the slave that black was ugly and a disgusting color. He further said that everything bad, evil, disgusting etc., was black. This had the affect of forming doubt in the mind of the slave as to whether or not he was part of common humanity, the oppressor then lied about the slave’s hair, he called it the strangest most inferior hair known to man. This again made the slave want to deny his body. The master oppressor then said that black people were by definition mentally deficient. This had the great effect making the slave doubt his own ability so that he increasingly looked to his oppressor for salvation. The master oppressor then in a stroke of brilliancelanded the final and deciding psychological blow: he said black people could not be trusted, nor could they trust one another. This is very important because it had the effect of creating fear and doubt among the black masses, The racist oppressor by ‘carefully used psychological conditioning had succeeded in chaining black people to the wall: mentally. The institution of capitalism maintains the physical chains. Al- though the black man is breaking away from the wall culturally he is not moving in the correct direction, He has seen the contradictions inherent in having the white man be the mind for his body, He has become a cultural nationalist. He strongly denies that the white man is in any way superior to him. He knows that black is beautiful and that it is beautiful to be black. But black people are becoming the victim of the white man’s last psychological trick. Instead of attempt- ing to maintain the mental chains on black people the oppressor has chosen to maintain his physical chains; racism, fascism and capital- ism. In other words he says, ‘‘O.K, Blackman you found out about my lying game, you know I'm a fraud and you want your blackness. Well, that’s just fine you may have allthe blackness you can use, but let me control it.’’ The oppressor accepts the black man's new culture and in some cases enjoys it as can be seen by how many whites en- joy soul music. The oppressor has co-opted black culture, he has taken control of the cultural revolution in colonized Afro-America, This is wrong. George Murray, Minister of Education for the Black Panther Party says that a revolutionary black culture should be re- pugnant to the oppressor, It should make himenvision his own doom. The black man is chained to the wall physically now by the guns and force of the oppressor. Understand that not the mind of the oppressor, but his guns and force. This is the type of oppression black people must move to deal with now; the oppressors indiscrim- inate use of force against black people. There must be a revolution- ary change to destroy racism, fascism and capitalism. Because black people are seeking liberation from these three evils the op- pressor seeks to re-enslaye us and again chain us to the wall. Black people must move to the revolution, a correct revolution, They must follow the vanguard in the revolution the Black Panther Party. The people are throwing off their chains and soon the oppressor will feel the coldness of a wall. The people will rise and say to the oppressor up against the wall, up against the wall, up against the wall, mother- fucker ----------| é Facet (@eputy Minister of Information’, Melvin Whitaker, saciameito) ' NIGERIAN PIGS hold back Lagos demonstrators who resent French efforts to get in on the plunder of Nigeria’s oil fields in Biafra, French President Charles de Gaulle had made tentative agreements with secessionist leader Odumegwu Ojukwu for exploitation of the oil should Biafra prove success- ful in its bid for separation, THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 PAGE 5 RAP TO YOUNG SAN FRANCI CO -- Juanita Johnson, a black teacher, invited rep- resentatives of the Black Panther Party to speak to the students in her 5th grade class at John Swete Elementary School last week. Panther members alternated handling the Speaking engagement. They opened it by allowing the young students full participation. It was related to them who founded the Black Panther Party, when it was founded and why: Huey P, Newton and Bobby Seale, Founders. The rules of the party andthe 10 Point Program were also discussed. The students, who were all third-world, were full of questions but still knowledgeable about the Black Panther Party and its community functions. During a 5u-minute ‘‘question and answer"’ session, stu- dents asked: Student Question; What do you think of the politicians Wallace, Humphrey, and Nixon? Panther Answer: If Brother Edlridge Cleaver, our Minister of Information, doesn’t get in it doesn’t make any difference which of those three candidates get in because they are all the same -- pigs who want oppression of all black people! Student Question: Was the Black Panther Party founded with the same ideas that Frederick Douglas, Narriet Tubman, and Marcus Garvey had. | Panther Answer: Yes and no. Douglas, Tubman, Garvey, and Huey P. Newton all had the desire to be free, But the Panther Party was mainly founded to decrease and eventually end the police brutality in the black community. Student Question: I sawa picture witha lady and her baby in it and the baby was carrying a gun, What was that for? Panther Answer: The name of that picture is ‘‘Hope’’. The mother represents one generation of freedom fighters. When this genera- tion has either died or is killed, then this mother’s child and all the other represented in that child’s generation will be educated politically and militarily to pick up the gun; freeing the oppressed people of the world, Student Question; Do Panthers carry guns? Where do they get their guns from? Do Jr. Panthers learn to shoot guns, too? Panther Answer: Wait. The gun is a tool. A gun has never killed anyone, It is the person behind the gun that does the killing. The gun is merely a political tool for defense and the liberation of the black people. We can never let the gun rule us, We must rule the gun. No, Panthers do not carry their guns allthe time and Jr. Panthers get the same training as every other Panther. We buy our guns. Principal asked; Do you believe what the news media has said pertaining to the Black Panther Party? Panther Answer: No, The white racist press has distorted all factual news about the Panthers ever since the Panthers organized, They have attempted to present the public with the image of Panthers as a bunch of leather-wearing, gun carrying hoodlums that are out to kill all the pig force and white people within urban areas. Question: Are Panthers proud of what they are doing. Answer: Right On, Politically Black and Proud! The Black Panther members received an enthusiastic response from. the young black students. Representing the Black Panther Party were sisters Valerie Bowan and Eunice Wallace, along with Panther Brother George Black - all of the San Francisco Chapter. Chicago B.S.U. Closed Schools CHICAGO (Third World Press) -- Black high sthool students in Chicago have closed down a num- ber of schools in mass protest for courses in Afro-American history and for more black teachers, coun- selors and schoo] administrators. At Harrison High a group of black teachers sided with the stu- dent rebels after the pigs attacked and beat students in the school lunch room. Tactics used by the students have included mass walkouts, ral- lies and sit-ins, as well as dem- onstrations at the board of educa- tion in downtown Chicago. One of the marches on the board of edu- cation was made by 500 black stu- dents from Austin High who were * protesting the fact that there are only two Afro-American teackers at the school out of a total faculty of 135. Radicals Move Into Wallace Territory CHICAGO -- While Eldridge Cleaver draws crowds on both coasts, his running mate, Peggy Terry of the National Organizing Committee (NOC) is taking on the Midwest with its large pockets of Wallace support. Peggy’s campaign got under- way in September when the NOC accepted Cleaver’s invitation to join the Peace and Freedom Par- ty campaign as the vice-presiden- tial candidate in the Midwest and California, The NOC, until recently called the National Community Union, is made up of about 40 movement or- ganizers and ‘‘neighborhood peo- ple.’’ Its constituency is as young white working class kids, primari- ly those in the Midwestern and Southern states, Most of the movement people Cleaver asked to run’ with him were reluctant to spend the time and energy on electoral activity, but Peggy and the NOC sawitas an opportunity to get around the Mid- west to reach some of the white working class people in cities where the NOC has organizers. Hamish Sinclair, a member of the NOC collective, said that they make it clear to their audiences that Peggy is not out to get votes. She’s there to rap with people and to gain visibility for the NOC as the working class alternative to fraudulant right-wing moyements. Dear Editor: It will be interesting to see how many of the black communities in Hunters Point, Watts, Harlem, etc., will get off their behinds and VOTE on election day -- vote for Cleaver, Gregory, Nixon, Hum- phrey -- ANYBODY, but VOTE. Vote to defeat an open enemy of your people like Rafferty -- vote to support black candidates, Your Black panther leadershave _ done a lot of screaming and shout- ing and posing in their childish “‘uniforms’’ of berets, dark glass- es and leather jackets -- but even in those areas where there is no obstacle to voting, as compared to the South, the Black vote will be pathetically low in relation to the Black population. Why? Because it takes a lot less energy and intelligence to yell “*Fuck Reagan’’ than to help vote him out of office when the time comes, The Black people need fewer Black Panthers and more Black VOTERS, THAT is where power lies. ~- Vincent Doyle Subscribe to the Black Panther PAGE 6 THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 WANTED DEAD FOR MURDER SF. PIG MICHAEL O'BRIEN 4785 - 18th. STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. A Lesson Never to Forget (In remembrance of George Basskett) George Basskett was just another Black brother. He wasn’t what the white man calls a responsible Negro leader, He wasn't likely to be named the most popular person around town. In fact, until George Basskett was deprived of his life by a white racist, murdering pig, he was only known by his friends and close associates, But now his name is familiar to every Black person around the Bay Area. He was one more victim marked out for the bullet of a racist pig. His death should be an unforgettable lesson for all of us. For George, and the other sisters and brothers on his block knew that the gun was — the only thing a pig can relate to. This San Francisco pig tried that night to murder George Basskett, but on the first try he was confronted with a group of together brothers and sisters, Unfortunately for our brother, him and his friends let down their guard too early. This whole scene, murder and all, were just the result of a brain- less, white, racist pig. George accidentally scraped the fender of a trailor which was connected to this stupid pig’s car. The pig gets out of his car and makes a big scene over this incident. 1 might add that the pig was at fault, because his trailor was parked in a position which made people driving by it have to take a little detour, Also the pig was drunk and all he could think of, or say, was I’m going to kill me a Nigger. The pig gets out of his car with his gun drawn, Mrs. Basskett goes and gets her gun because George is defenseless. George somehow gets the gun from the pig and beats him down, the pig then hides under a car, We now arrive at the main lesson of this story. This is also the part in which Brother Basskett is murdered, After having taken the gun away from the pig and running him under the car, George and his friends begin to relax, At about this point, another uniformed pig arrives on the scene, The pig we have been talking about and who mur- dered George Basskett, was not in uniform. George and his friends thinking that this other pig would handle things fairly, began to leave the scene. As they were walking with their backs turned to the pigs, the® murdering pig of whom I've mentioned all through the article, called to Basskett that he was going tokill him. Basskett turns around and after the pigs’ gun goes off without firing, he attempts to approach the pig and disarm him, When Basskett , just in seconds away from knocking the gun out of this low-down pigs hand, it goes off and kills Basskett, / I hope no one else will make the same mistake, When these Bro- thers and Sisters put down their guns and walked away to forget the whole matter, our brother was murdered. We black people have a habit of trusting too much. When it comes to the white racist pig, whatever trust we might want to place in him, will always be mis- placed, I respect the brothers and sisters for arming themselves for self-defense, I have sympathy and love for the Basskett family for as they have lost something, so have I, and all black people. We have Jost another black brother, and warrior. I cannot however, condone their trusting a racist pig. A pig will never make a fair decision when dealing with another pig and a black man, Please take a lesson from brother Basskett’s death, Beware of the pig. Beware and never let your guard down first. Black people, arm yourselves and be ready for the extermination of your race, May our Black brother, George Basskett, be free of the life. And now let us stand up and revenge this brother and all the other bro- thers and sisters who went before him. -- Linda Boston 2G Suu Joy YmUG OF sa LARVA, AE NEW ONSLAUGHT IN THE MAKING (Third World Press) Of late, the racist controlled news media has been giving conspicuous attention to the spokesmen of the reactionary U.S. ruling authorities and their racist utterings against the Black Panther Party. These re- actionaries are going to greater and greater lengths in a vain attempt to drive a wedge between black people and their vanguard party. They are wildly attacking the Black Panther Party and its correct tactics and leadership, accusing it of all sorts of racist nonsense and seeking to lay the blame on it for the latest series of struggles by black people, especial- ly the black students. They are concoting all sorts of wild tales that the Black Panthers are “promoting rage,” “advocating murder (of the dog leaders of racist America), vilely slandering us as “racists” and so on and so forth. All this is an effort to confuse Black people and keep them from see- ing the difference between right and wrong, truth and falsehood, free- dom and slavery. They are like the thief who yells “stop thief.” These are not isolated instances nor are they accidental. Hoffer. a white racist so-called “philosopher” and a member of John- son’s ‘“Committee on Violence,” a reactionary “study” com- mittee appointed for the purpose of finding ways and means to put a damper on the upsurge of the liberation movement: in an outburst which is seldom seen in public proceedings even for the racists, blurted out all sorts of reactionary utterings attacking Black people, the black community and the Black Panther Party. He contended that black people are shiftless and lazy and that “the Panthers were preach- ing rage” and “fouling the atmosphere” in the black community. Alioto, the mafia big gangster and Mayor of San Francisco, got into the act saying that the actions of the B.P.P, “was not doing the black community a service.” He too threw out the charge that the Panthers “were contributing to an atmosphere of violence,” and so on and so forth. Notice, how in these instances, these racists seem to shed crocodile tears for the black community. In actuality, they all are like rabid wolves foaming at the mouth in expectation of a feast. They would like nothing better than the removal of the Black Panther Party from all black communities which would leave black people completely de- fenseless and at their mercy. Brother Huey P. Newton teaches us, that to seize political power it is first necessary to win public opinion. He has also said, to be attacked by the enemy is a good thing and not a bad thing. The former is Just as true for the reactionaries as it is for the revolutionaries, thus, the racist ruling class is actually conspiring to wage another onslaught against the Black Panther Party and its national leaders, and are active- ly seeking to manipulate public opinion in the black community they intend to once again seek to destroy our Party only shows their weakness and not their strength. It is an indication of the groundswell of support for the Party which has arisen in almost every black com- munity across racist America as a result of the correct political tactics of the Black Panther Party, Consequently this is a good thing, the racists Humphrey, Nixon and to Wallace all have a common interest in seeking to isolate our Party from black people in the hope of destroy- ing it. But the racists always can see only their own strength,and they never take account of the strength of the people, thus it is they who are isolated and not our Party because we are united as one with all black people of our many communities who are struggling for their liberation. Therefore, we must expose the big conspiracy to destroy the correct leadership of our Party and leave black people defenseless. We must unite still more closely with the black masses and be prepared to meet any surprise attack by the racist power structure in any sphere. The spirit of the people is stronger than the pig’s technology. ; (Third World Press) BLACKS FIGHT REPRESSION BUFFALO, New York -- A new black struggle against violent re- pression broke out in Buffalo, New York, last week. Large numbers of black youth attended the funeral of a teen- aged black who was savagely kill- ed by the U,S, white racists earlier this month, The reactionary pig power structure called out a large hog force to suppress the youth, Pelting rocks and bottles at the pig and pig cars, the black youth fought back valiantly and threw the swine into a panic. Earlier, young blacks struggle against police violence flared up in the nation’s Capital of Washing- ‘ton, D.C, Despite the strict en- forcement of a law prohibiting youths from taking to the streets at night ordered by the Negro Mayor of Washington, mass ar- rests, and suppression of young Black brothers and sisters fir- ing tear gas at them, a great many black youths turned up inthe streets for three consecutive nights endinglast week and fought with the pigs who interfered with their movement. More than 5,000 Black high school students continued to strike in Chicago against racial discrim- ination. Many Black students also demonstrated at the downtown building of the Board of Educa- tion and fought heroically with the riot squads called out to sup- press them, NOTHING LIKE PIG HONESTY NEW YORK -- The sick dis- honesty with which racist Ameri- cans deal with each other is clear- ly revealedw@ach daysin Abigail van Buren’s newspaper column. Typical is a recent Dear Abby. letter: “I am the mother of four healthy, normal daughters, whose ages range from 13 to 22, andI would NEVER offer my daughters birth “control pills because it would be the same as saying, ‘Go ahead’, But if: there were some kindof tasteless powder that accomplish- ed the same thing, I would be the ‘first to buy it and slip it into their breakfast food every morn- ing. (signed) REALIST.” lai “THE MIGHT OF THE PEOPLE” | By Virtual Morrell The revolution can only be CONCEPTED by mobilizing and having faith in the masses of the people. lask you, **What is the, and who is the true strength?’’ Black people are, Within all the black communities there lies the real protectors who CONSIDERS support to revolution. This is our strength that makes .us go forth to drive out the racist gestapo pigs and the racist, imperialistic governments that colonialize our black people. There is no doubt in the Black Panther Party that our main source of power lies in the hands of the people, because without the people there would be no power. One of the primary rea- sons why the racist states fuck with us is because we, at this point, have not achieved a true revolutionary perspective to drive the racist pig out of our community, Once our people realize our revolutionary potential, the mere sound of our voices will frighten them. The Black Panther Party is powerful, simply and only because we are a people’s party, standing tall on our principles and everyday practice of total liberation for all black people and oppressed people through- out this racist, decadent, imperialistic system in which we are sub- jected to. We are NOT the heroes of the revolution; we are only the vanguard of the revolution, The real heroes are the people. The people are the heroes of the revolution. The Democratic Party: BERKELEY cg VOLUNTEERS | Mae NEEDED “a TO HELP PREPARE AND SERVE.. BREAKFAST FOR ‘SCHOOL CHILDREN 7:30 am till 9:30 am Monday thru Friday at the CONCORD BAPTIST CHURCH 8th & Genter Streets Berkeley, California for information call SISTER BETTY CARTER 845-0103 Or inquire at..... BLACK PANTHER PARTY national headquarters 3106 Shattuck Street Berkeley, California OPPRESSOR OF THE PEOPLE by Bob Avakian Most people in this country -- including many black people, Chi- canos, students, and others who are victims of racism and other forms of exploitation -- still believe that the Democratic Party is the “‘party of the people,’’ or at least that it is not as bad as the Republican Party (or Wallace's American Pig Party); that a little good can be got out of the Democratic Party by black people, working people, students and right-thinking people generally. This is a funda- mentally dangerous misunderstanding of the role of the Democratic Party in serving the Power Structure; and, because the Democratic Party does still serve to confuse so many downtrodden people, it is very important to show clearly the racist, decadent nature of the Democratic Party, as part and parcel of the racist and imperialist capitalist power structure that oppresses and exploits literally bil- lions of people in this country and throughout the world. To do this, we have to expose the lies about the Democratic Party that are spread among the people to trick them. First, we are told that the Republican Party is the party of big business, that the bankers, oilmen, defense contractors, corporation chiefs, land speculators, etc. all bankroll the Republican Party; while the Democratic gets its contributions, in nickels and dimes, from hard-working, struggling people. THIS IS A GROSS LIE, Both the Democratic Party and the Republican Party get the vast majority of their moneys from the same class of racist big businessmen, who -run the country through their flunkeys in both the Democratic and the Republican parties. In fact, in both 1964 and 1966 the DEM- OCRATIC PARTY GOT MORE MONEY IN LARGE CONTRIBUTIONS FROM THE BIG BUSINESS EXPLOITERS THAN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, And even this year, Hubert Humphrey has just proudly announced that he expects to get 10 MILLION DOLLARS in campaign funds from big businessmen, over the past fewweeks of his campaign. And Humphrey himself admitted that many of these big financial backers were also kicking in to Nixon’s campaign, just to make sure they had their bets covered, y Politics in this country is like a big crap game, played by the big business exploiters with money they squeeze out of us through schemes like price-fixing, phony tax-exempt foundations, and wage-ceilings. These international gangsters know that the Democratic Party is no different than the Republican Party -- SO WHY SHOULDN'T THE PEOPLE KNOW IT! This brings up the second lie we are told about the Democratic Party: that it actually puts: through programs to help out black people, Chicanos, working people and the people at the bottom as a whole, But, just look at the record of the Democrats, Over the past four years they have: _ “Sent over 100,000 troops into the black communities to put down the legitimate rebellions of the people and protect the property of the racist big businessmen who own the Democratic Party. The result has been hundreds of black people killed; thousands more wounded; and tens of thousands falsely arrested and sent to jail. *Escalated the genocidal war of aggression against the Vietnamese people, using atrocious weapons like napalm, anti-personnel frag- mentation bombs, white phosphorous and other chemicals to destroy people’s homes, crops and very lives. The result has been over 30,000 AMERICAN BOYS AND MORE THANHALF A MILLION VIET- NAMESE, KILLED, *Handed out so many favors to banks and other credit institutions that the total consumer debt in the country -- the amount of money ordinary hard-working people owe to furniture salesmen, banks, car dealers, sayings and loan associations, mortgage holders, etc. -- has gone up from $230 BILLION to $385 BILLION, over the past 8 years. *Created a general economic situation where prices go up much faster than wages,, so that many people can no longer afford to buy the basic things that any human being needs to live decently and se- curely, *Raised our taxes; then raised them another ten percent, to pay for the criminal war in Vietnam, while cutting back 6 BILLION DOLLARS in programs that were supposed to create jobs and welfare. The Democratic Party is as vicious anenemy of the people as either the Repbulican Party or Wallace's Pig Party. In fact, one of the big financial backers of Humphrey, a man named Jimmy Ling, head of a giant financial corporation called Ling-Temco-Vaught (a multi- billion outfit, eleventh largest company in the U.S,), says he switched over from the Republicans to the Democrats because he believes Humphrey has a better program for dealing with black people and other ‘‘troublemakers,’’ What is this program, according to multi- millionaire Ling? It is ‘THE OLD HITLER SOLUTION: YOU SHOW THEM BY FORCE." (ff you don't believe that the racist capitalist businessmen who control Humphrey think like that, check out the article on Jimmy Ling in the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, magazine sec- tion, Sunday, Oct. 20, 1968.) And it makes sense for murderers like Ling to support Humphrey because: it was Hubert Humphrey who sponsored a law in 1954 that called for the creation of CONCENTRATION CAMBS in time of “national emergency.”’ And this brings up the most important lie of all about the Dem- ocratic Party. This is the lie that bootlickers of the Power Structure tell to try to explain away their involvement in the Democratic Party. They say that even though there may be corrupt politicians in the Democratic Party, they, the honest bootlickers, can still work within it, to help the people get afew crumbs. Any one who makes this argument is like a Jew who would get a job in a German concentra- tion camp as the man who turned on the gas ovens to fry the 6 million Jews. What would we think of this man, if he told us he took the job, so that he could reduce the temperature of the gas ovens so that the Jews’ death would be less painfull! Malcolm X pointed out that ‘A Democrat is nothing but a Dixiecrat in disguise.’’ By this he meant that the political strength of the ‘Democratic Party has come from the south, where bald-headed racists could get elected to Congress, until they drank themselves to death, because black people are still denied the right to vote, And it is these same racists who sit as heads of the key committees in both the Senate and the House of Representatives -- the committees that decided that even chicken-shit bills, like a weak ‘‘Open Occupancy”’ housing law, will not get to the floor of Congress, unless all the guts are taken out of the bills first. And we can clearly see today that Malcolm was right, because, now that the white south has deserted ‘the Democrats in favor of Wallace’s Pig Party, the Democrats are in real trouble: Humphrey can’t even buy the election! From all this, it should be perfectly clear to everyone but the die- ' hard enemies of freedom, justice and peace, that the Democratic Party is no more the party of the people, than the Republican Party, the Pig Party, or any other party of the racist gangster business- men who run the country. The only party of the people is one that is built by people from the community who have no interest other than joining with their brothers and sisters --black, white, brown, yellow red -- who have a basic desire and need to end the madness that has been imposed on them by ‘the present Pig parties and the decadent, racist system of capitalist exploitation behif these parties. The only candidates worthy of the people’s support are those who fight to defend the true interests of the people and to build political machin- ery for the people to control their destiny and serve their own interests, This means the candidates of the Black Panter Party: Eldridge Cleaver for President; Bobby Seale, for Assembly (17thA.D,) Kath- leen Cleaver, Assembly (18thA,D.); and, most of all, HUEY NEWTON FOR CONGRESS (7thC.D,), And it also means the candidates of the Peace and Freedom Party, the only white political party that has joined in the demand that Huey Newton be’ set free; that has opposed the oppression of black people in this country and colored people, and others, throughout the world; and has fought against the ex- ploitation and manipulation of the majority of people in this country: Mario Savio, State Senate (11thS,D.); Paul Jacobs, U.S, Senate; Dave Rynin, Assembly (16thA,.D,) and Bob Machado, Assembly (13thA.D.). All of these candidates --including Bobby Seale, Huey Newton, and Eldridge Cleaver’s running mate, Peggy Terry --willbe on the ballot this Tuesday, November 5 as official candidates on the Peace and Freedom ticket. By voting for them the people can repudiate the op- pression and hypocrisy of the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, the Pig Party, and the whole decadent system they stand for. And, by voting for the Peace and Freedom ticket, the people can give support to the movement in their communities -- the Black Panther Party and the Peace and Freedom Movement -- that is truly seeking to serve them and represent their true political needs, desires and rights. Bob Avakian THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 19668 PAGE 7 In the photo, workers of the Peking General Knitwear Mill are shown reporting to Chairman Mao their outstanding achievement of fulfilling the year’s production plan 77 days ahead of schedule. (Hsinhua Radiophoto) “Why Destroy The System and Lose Your Gig?” By Dynamite Many brothers and sisters are asking the question, ‘‘Why should I buck the system and lose my gig?’’ They already know that the racist system is not right and should be changed, They know that the basis of this system is founded on exploitation. But, what they don’t realize is that the very job they work on is a form of exploitation. For the sake of a good job, a NIGGER will strap on a gun and go into the streets and kill Black people. The justi- fication he utters in excuse for his action is, “I was only doing my job.’’ He will throw his own grandmother’s belongings into the gutters because she may not have the money to pay rent to a slum landlord who lives in the-suburbs. The wage-earner, especially the Black wage earner, has no access to the very means of production in a society of generalized com- midity production. He, the wage- earner, is forced to under-sell labor power. In exchange for his labor, he receives a WAGE, This wage the worker receives is in no way regulated to fit the extent of the worker’s needs or the level of his consumation. The wage, be it high or low, never does enable the worker to free himself of selling. his labor powers. : One prime example. Ifthe work- er needs a new car, he is forcedto give up part of his earnings for a number of years; while at the same” time, he has no hope of becoming a maker of cars. The manufacturer is allowed to set down the value of the worker’s car, The manufac- turer can also dictate when the car can be made available to the work- er. And due to the position of the manufacturer, he can even deter- mine the resale value of the car, This type of system is only aform of legal robbery. The American system has so taught its people that they have certain rights and values, Huey. P, Newton teaches that every man born has, a right to live, i.e., a man must work, If conditions are such that a man cannot work, then he is still entitled to the highest standard of living that specific technology can provide. It is very clear to see that the American capitalistic system has to be changed because this standard of living is not provided, This change is going to be at the expense of a few personal comforts such as a gig. A GIG AIN’T SHIT! Huey P. Newton and the Black Panthers have even laid their lives on the line to bring about this change. PAGE 8 THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 BLACK PSALM Frank.B, Jones The Lord is my shepard; shall not want. My child, I shall provide for all of your worldly needs. So long as I survive, you have no reason to fear for lack of necessities. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, Our home is the pasture of our family. We must keep it secure, so you may rest there with a serene state of mind. He leadeth me beside the still waters, I will always lead you to the place of least turmoil. Not because 1 feel the need to protect you, but because 1 want you to grow strong in a calm environment, and then use your strength to combat the in- evitable turbulence of life. He restoreth my soul, Yes, I will give you knowledge of the heritage you are certain to be denied in establishment oriented institutions. You must realize that years of suffering both mental and physical bondage have created for you a kinship with millions of oppressed people. The common denominator of your relationship to them is soul. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. I will give you the mores and philosophies that have cost me a large portion of my life. I will give them to you, not to squander, but to guide you to greater awareness. You must elaborate upon them and relay the improved version to those who are to carry our seeds of biological immortality into eternity. Yea, though I walk through the valley and shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me. No matter how far into the valley of oppressive shadows we go or how strong our opposition, you have no reason to fear. For just as I am with you, we are with the people; and the people have the power to conquer all evil. Thy rod and thy staff, thy comfort me. Yes, my child, you can take comfort in our relationship with the people. You can rest well with the knowledge that we are protected by the steel rod of our self-determination and the unbreakable staff of protective reciprocity that we have with the people, Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine’enemies. My child, your enemies are mine, and | will not let their presence deter me from my worldly duties. In return I ask that you make the enemies of our people your enemies, and let not their presence deter you from your reyolutionary duties. Thou anointest my head with oil. The oil of knowledge is anecessary lubricant in this world of class friction. I give you this knowledge, not to make life easier, but to make you more efficient in our battle to obtain a classless society. My cup runneth over, Your ability to retain all that I say may now appear to be over- taxed, but experience will expand your cup of intellectual receptivity, and in time you will seek more than I have to offer, You must use all that I give you and all that you gain to serve our people, , Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life. You must live your life in such a manner that goodness is an in- trinsic part of all of your actions and thoughts. If you are good and just with the people, there will never be any need to ask for mer- cy. And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Our house must always be one that seeks justice for the people, and whenever justice is not being dealt tothe people, our house must become revolutionary. Our house is our home, and you are always assured of a place to dwell in the name of justice. This | promise to you because as a revolutionary father, 1 AM THE LORD, White Community Support Members of the San Francisco Peace and Freedom Party have formed a campaign committee to bring Kathleen Cleaver’s Campaign to the wtite community. In the 18th Assembly District where Kath- leen is running, well over 50% of the people are white. We view our job as reaching white people and beginning to show them that it is necessary to work together with the black community to defeat our common enemy the racist power structure. The man wants to divide us to conquer us... for the past 400 years he has instilled fear and hatred into the minds of the people of this country. If we are to build a true revolution to meet the needs of all the people . . . to give ‘‘Power to the People’’ -- we must unite to build towards the common goal; To regain our self-respect. The emphasis of the Cleaver campaign is to educate the people by bringing the Panther 10 Point Program into the white community and show the relationship between these demands and the needs of all the people, To show that in supporting the Black Liberation Move- ment one is supporting the movement of all the oppressed peoples of the world and therefore supporting oneself -- unless you are a mem- ber of the oppressor class -- you are oppressed] Besides explaining the 10 Point Program, the campaign will place heavy emphasis on the e::posing of the brutality of the pigs. Prepara- tion for pig control initiative will be completed around the first of October. This campaign will focus on two points, the S.F. Tactical Squad and the Army ordecs which give early discharges to soldiers who agree to become coris. By doing this we hope to take advantage of the widespread disgust with the Tactical Squad and bring the war issue into the campaign as the racist ruling class is bringing the war home by turning soldiers into cops. We must build our base in order to survive, The next 5 years are going to be very crucial years, A man named Wallace and his lackies are not to be taken litely. He is the image of brute force, (and bears a great resemblance to a man called Adolf Hitler) the logical end of the capitalist system. The system is almost dead, It is a matter of who will pick up the dieces, the reactionaries or the people. Inorder for us to win we must organize and unite, THE PEOPLE WILL WIN -- POWER TO THE PEOPLE! P & F Campaign Comm, for K, Cleaver. L. Wren Uniting Art and Politics UNITING ART and polities -- in’ keeping with African cultural tradi- tions -- poet-playwright-novelist -essayist LeRoi Jones announced that goal of the Newark (N.J.) United Brothers is to bring Afro- Americans political control of the city. Chief aim of Blacks is to de- feat racist Mayor Hugh Addonizio. Sk) aS PIGS BOMB: BLACK BLAMES BLACK OAKLAND (Third-World Press) --At 5:00 A.M, Wednesday morn- ing, October 30, Negro attorney Donald Warden’s law office was bombed. Investigating pigs focused their investigation in and through- out the Black communities of Oak- land -- giving the impression that the blame lied within. The Black people within these communities, however, strongly believe ‘*the police’? committed this foul act. THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE IS GREATER TH. _ THE MAN'S TECHNOLOGY Oakland pigs are known tobe hoof- ing it out as~sneaky night-riders who shoot up Black people’s prop- erty, as they did in the case of the Black Panther Party National Headquarter building two months ago. Oakland pigs are notorious for always trying:to place the blame on their victims, but informed sources have presented strong evidence, in the bombing of Warden, that cements our convictions as.stated. U.S. IMPERIALIST MUST BE REMOVED FROM THE GHETTO, FROM AFRICA, ASIA, LATIN AMERICA, BY WAY OF THE. U.N. RESOLUTION TO SANCTION Oct. 29, United Nations; New York " The lines that link the *‘white Christian’’ countries of the west with the barbaric war of repression being waged against the native black population by the illegal white racist regime of Ian Smith in Rhodesia were brought clearer into focus by our black and yellow brothers in the U,N, today. A resolution was placed before the U.N, General Assembly by forty-one (41) African and Asians nations. The resolution demanded that the U.N. sanctions against Rhodesia be strengthened and extended to include Portugal and South Africa because they have not abided by the U.N. resolutions and sanctions against Rhodesia, and called on all nations to aid in starting and sus- taining a war of national liberation in Rhodesia. And now for some comments and observations of my own. It hav been general knowledge for some time now that some of the mur- derous white S. African scum who hired themselves out to fight in the Congo, under archtraitor Tshombe as mercenaries, are now fighting in Rhodesia for Ian Smith. It is also common knowledge that Portugal, one of the oldest colonial powers in Europe and instigator of the savage slave trade on which the power and wealth of U.S. Imperialism and capitalism was built, is presently bogged down and suffering severe defeats at the hands of courageous black liberation fighters. Also Portugal, S. Africa, and Rhodesia have mutual defense of Southern Africa which is white dominated, These three nations have other things in common (1) they are all ruled by ‘‘white Christians’ (2) they all gained their wealth off the murder and robbery of black people (3) they are all engaged in a bitter struggle with black freedom fighters, and (4) they all play into the strategic and tactical plans of racist U. S, imperialism and capitalism. The first three points will meet with little argument but perhaps the fourth may need a little discussion. Portugal has a sagging economy that is doomed to collapse without the lifegiving raw resources that she steals and plunders from Angola and Mozambique; therefore, Portugal has common ties with Rhodesian and §, African interests in Africa. Portugal is also a member of U, S, dominated N,A,T.O. (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and as a member receives the latest in U. S. weapons and armaments. Now Portugal-is no fool and so she uses these weapons to try and hold on to her stolen goods and so N.A.T.O, napalm is dropped on our brothers and sisters in Africa. Due to the fierce fight being waged by black freedom fighters, Portugal is forced to spend more that 75% of her gross national product to finance the war in Angola and Mozambique. The. drain on the economy is steadily increasing and so these packages from N.A.T.O. are vital, The Prime Minister of Nazi S. Africa, where hearts are snatched from black people to be transplanted into cancer ridden white chests, has said on many occasions that Rhodesia is vital to de- fense of S. Africa from an invasion of black freedom fighters from the liberated areas of Africa. What however is not so publicized is the amount of U.S, capital, that is money, invested in S. African gold and diamond mines. The amount of U, S, capital invested in S, Africa is énormous, The vast majority of the gold that backs up the U.S, dollar comes from S. Africa; and there fore, the ‘‘almighty dollar’s’’ existence and hence the existence of the entire capitalist and imperialist world hinges on the defense of S. Africa, It’s not surprising that S, Africa gets the latest in arms and technical assist- ance from the U, S, military industrial complex which is in turn channeled to Rhodesia for mutual defense of Southern Africa. THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 PAGE 9 The U.N, sanctions against the racist illegal Rhodesian regime won the overwhelming support of the peoples of the whole world. Be- cause of the need to maintain a ‘‘good public image’’ U,S, im- peeialism and capitalism was forced to go along with the sanction. The entire world with the exception of Portugal and S. Africa have condemned the pirate regime of lan Smith in Rhodesia and fierce guerilla warriors are fighting to free the black population from the brutal racist ruling white minority. The Ian Smith regime is fast crumbling and with it the gate for the total liberation of the Southern part of Africa and the gold mines of Johannesburg will be opened. Ian Smith knows it, Volster of S. Africa knows it, and you. can be sure that U.S. imperialism and capitalism knows it. Portugal, S. Africa, and Rhodesia exchange military hardware and technical assistance and behind the scenes the U, S, military industrial com- plex backs it all up. - Portugal, Rhodesia and S. Africa all enjoy the graces of the U.S. because they are important to the U, S, capitalism and imperialist plans for containment of communism in Europe and wars of national liberation in Africa and Asia. U, S, racist imperialism and cap+ italism uses the threat of an invasion by Red Chinese soldiers and communist guerillas as a weapon to intimidate the world and as a guise for further U, S. aggressive country and is always threaten- ing the world peace. On investigation however Red China does not have any military bases on foreign soil. While the U, S, on the other hand has. the entire communist block surrounded by missile and Air Force bases, The U. S, also maintains large. armies all over the “, globe and constantly threatens the peace by intruding with spy and military aircraft, warships and armed units all over the world into other peoples territories and lands, and at the same time is involved in over three. (36) undeclared wars in Asia, Africa and Latin America. - These countries are important to U.S, strategic planning for blocking wars of national liberation and maintaining the rape and plunder of the. colored peoples of the world by racist US.” imperialism and capitalism. They are important tactically be- cause the Portugese, Rhodesian and white S. Africans are fighting to maintain U, S, business interests; therefore, the U;S, does not have to send in troops to fight and suppress the native population like she had to do in Viet Nam, the Dominican Republic and Newark, -New Jersey. The racist U, S, imperialist and capitalist use the “same tactics while dealing in the U, S. as it uses in Viet Nam, Southern Africa, and the ghettoes here in the heart of Babylon Toms, Bootlickers, bribes and force. However as evidenced by our brothers in: the- U, N., Viet Nam, Southern Africa and in the con- fines of this racist decadent system by uniting closer together - the people of the whole world will assuredly overcome all dif- ficulties, defy all enemies and advance wave upon wave and defeat the U, S. aggressors and their running dogs. POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK POWER TO BLACK PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE VANGUARD Landon R, Williams - 1,000 BRAZILIAN STUDENTS ARRESTED RIO DE JANERIO (Third World Press) -- Brazilian students in various parts of the country have held demonstrations and rallies one after another in strong protest against the Pro-U,S, dictatorship’s thass arrest of the student delegates to the recent Brazilian national student congress in Sao Paulo. The report said that the Brazilian Pro-U,S. dictatorial regime ar- rested about 1,000 student delegates from various parts of Brazil when they were méeting at a place near Sao Paulo of last week, The Pro-U.S, dictatorship committed this fascist atrocity in an attempt to put out the flames of the mounting mass struggle against U,S. imperialism and the military dictatorship at home. It took place at a time when the Brazilian reactionaries are finding their going tougher and tougher. For more than a week after the mass arrest, fierce protests of the masses of the people were voiced in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia, Recife, Salvador, Fortaleza and other important cities. Uni- versity students in Rio de Janeiro have declared a general strike in protest against the authorities’ brutality. They held a street demon- stration on a later part of this week, students in Rio shouting “down with the dictatorial rule’’ and other slogans, held inprotest demon- stration in the city center in defiance of police persecution. Students in Sao Paulo also held a street demonstration last week to protest against the government atrocity. In Salvador, capital of Bahai, more than 5,000 university and middle school students took part in a protest demonstration strongly demanding the immediate release of the arrested students. In Brasilia, capital of the country, several hundred women have recently joined the student demonstration, Nearly One Million “No Pass” Arrests JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- More than 841,695 Black Afri- cans were prosecuted in a single year here for failure to produce compulsory. identity passes they are forced to carry in their own stolen nation. = WE Foreign observers said the figure- showed an’ increase which they felt resulted from a white supremacy hysteria brought on by guerilla forays which are undet- mining the fear which Nazi-white leaders have built into the real owners of the land. : Witwatersrand University’s an-: nual ‘Survey of South African Law”’ said the figure of prosécu- -~ tions under the law represented an increase of 66,628 over the previous available figure for one year. Support for - Palestine = - Commandos DAMASCUS (Third World Press) -- A number of Palestine people’s organizations and trade unions, after a meeting held here last week, sent a cable to"the Pales-" tine commando organizations ex- pressing support for their joint ' statement issued in Amman last year, denouncing the so-called ‘political solution’’ for the Mid- dle East question and rejecting the “resolution” of the U.N, Se- curity Council on the Middle East question, according to the Arab Syrian News Agency. The cable said that the Pales- tine people’s organizations and trade unions meeting in Damascus opposed all ‘‘peaceful solutions’’ aimed at liquidating the Pales- tinian cause and the sacred right of the Palestinian people to all of - their lands, and pledged to con- tinue the struggle until the com- plete liberation of Palestine, ré- gardless of how long it willtake or how great the sacrifices niay be. The cable requested the Pales- tine commando organizations to overcome all obstacles at this cri- - tical moment and persever-: in their struggle until victory. Several Palestine commando or- ganizations and Palestine people's organizations held a meeting in Amman last week. In their joint statement issued the next day they strongly denounced the scheme of the so-called ‘‘political solution’’ for the Middle East question that is béing pushed forward in the U.N. General Assembly. Modern Coal Mine in China Starts URUMCHI (Third World Press) -- A modern vertical coal miné with an annual capacity of several hundred thousand tons has heen sunk and started production in the Sinkiang Uighur Autonomus) re- gion, Northwest China. The Sinkiang number one yver- tical mine has been designed and constructed entirely by China, Its construction inyolved a fierce struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, between so- cialism and capitalism and be- tween Chairman Mao’s revolution- ary line and the bourgeois re- actionary line of China’s Khrush- chev, Appeal for Panther Power by CAPT, CRUTCH Most brothers and sisters know by now, that brother Huey P, Newton has been moved from California Medical Facility, at Vaca- ville, the guidance center pig pen, to California Men’s Colony at Los Padres, California - supposedly, a resort-type pig pen. Brother Eldridge Cleaver has approximately twenty-five days until he is supposed to return toprison. Racists are trying to put the SOUL back on ICE, The brother stands to do forty years in the ice-boxed pig pen or be killed by pigs while there, We cannot allow the brother to be returned; therefore we have our work cut for us, Brother Bobby Seale has to go to court on the 18th of November; where the racist dog pigs have deinitely committed themselves to sending the brother to jail, and by any means necessary. Here again we have our work cut out. Brother David Hilliard also has a case. That fat pig Alioto is going to try and move on Brother George Murray and other members in leadership position of the Black Panther Party. What they are trying to do is systematically eliminate the leader- ship of the Black Panther Party, particularly its Center Committee. The pig power structure is moving against Panthers all over this decadent and decaying nation. They want to contain or kill the lead- ership. They prefer to kill them. They have intensified their genocide against black people. So ~ brothers and sisters, we have approximately twenty-five days left. During this time we must, (I repeat, we must!) exhaust all pol- itical and legal means to stop this shit and educate the people. A lot of people got the wrong impression about the slogan ‘*The sky is the limit’? after our Minister of Defense Huey P, Newton was sentenced, They believe that we had been paying just a lot of lip service. Now, I will attempt to correct this contradiction. In the first place the sky is still the limit if Huey is not set free. But we have not yet exhausted all political means which is necessary in order to make the masses of black people aware of the contradic- tions between the pig power structure andthe masses of black people, Some black people do not know that they are still slaves, that it doesn’t make any difference whether you earn five dollars a year or fifty thousand dollars a year, Whether you own a Cadillac or a T Model Ford, If you are black, you are still a dehumanized slave and subjected to containment, slavery, intimidation, brutality, harassment, murder. We suffer from gross unemployment, starvation, economic intimi- dation and an endless array of other lowdown dirty shit. And a lot of us don’t know this because we’re chumps. We’ve been taught to play fair with those who don’t play fair with us. We’re tired of that shit, and we’re not going to have it anymore. So we, as Panthers, are going to pound the pavement and do our homework; talk to the people, the man in the street, our co-workers on the job, on the: bus, in the bars, the school and etc. We’re going to tell everyone, including the Toms and Negro lackeys of the power structure that they are part of the solution or part of the problem - also the pimps, the whores, the gangsters, the preachers, the teach- ers, the lawyers, the doctors. There ain’t no middle ground. Be- cause if you are in the middle you are going to get shot at from Doth ends: the pigs and the power structure on one side, and the Black liberation army, shaggy-haired allies, revolutionaries, and the masses of the people on the other side, The people will no longer allow a handfull of pigs and evil gentry to dictate to them. The people must have a people’s dictatorship; Where the people have the say so and their demands are met. ‘‘Gov- ernments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government be- comes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall scem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.’? This excerpt from the Declaration of Independence isa joke as far as Black people are concerned, The Constitution is a joke and all other laws of this racist pig-sty (called the United States of America) is a joke, And we’ve been going for it because we’ve been chumps, But this shit is reaching a new level, and its getting heavy. We ain't taking no more shit off the pigs, the power structure, or anybody else, The time is running out, and we ain’t got much time before the shooting starts. WE ARE NOT GOING TO LET BROTHER ELDRIDGE CLEAVER GO BACK TO PRISON! BUT WE ARE GOING TO BRING HUEY HOME SOON! OR we will all be dead, because ..... the sky is still the limit, and this is just the LULL before the STORM, t PANTHER POWER CRUTCH PAGE 10 THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 The Necessity of Unification By Fred Beaumont As black people we only have to look back at history to see the systematic genocide, eradication, and the extermination of black peo- ple in this racist hypocritical country. Ever since 1526, black people have been revolting and fighting for their very survival. Why? Because it is necessary. This capitalistic, imperialistic, ra- cist country has enslaved us, hanged us, castrated us, murdered us, exploited us in the course of the imperialist pursuit. We Black people were aroundto do their fighting in the revolutionary war of 1775, the war of 1812, the civil war of 1861, the Spanish American War of 1898, World I, World II, the Korean War, and today in the war in Vietnam. In all these wars Black men have died. We labored, planted, picked, cultivated, and harvested, and was the back bone of this country, used as just like pawns on a gigantic chess board, I ask you, is there any reason why we shouldn’t get together? Now we in the revolutionary Black Panther Party see the necessity of unification, because we recognize that power lies in the masses of black people. We have learned from various revolutions - the Cuban revolution, the Chinese revolution, the Russian revolution, and all revolutions that have taken place in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. So take a good look at history, for history is the best teacher, andwe know that history is best qualified to reward all research. “Then we see and compare eyent and circumstances and apply that with the situation that is facing black people in this decadent society. We then analyze it, discuss it and come to the inevitable conclusion: We must pick up the gun! We should learn from the deaths of all freedom fighters, men like Gabrial Prosser, Denmark Vesey, Nat Turner, Marcus Garvey, Nkrumah, and Malcohm X. We, the Panthers, recognize the fact that guerrilla warfare is the only way in which the total liberation and unity of black people can be achieved. And if we don’t unite and fight together, we willfall one-by-one unaided by the collective blows of the imperialists. So we must see that this racist, capitalistic, doggish, imperialistic country is not calculated or designed too change - no more than a chicken is calculated or designed to lay a duck egg. By Fred Bennett Revolutionary Letter #3 store water; make a point of filling your bathtub at the first news of trouble: they turned off the water in the 4th ward for a whole day during the Newark riots; or better yet make a habit of keeping the tub clean and full when not in use change this once a day, it should be good enough for washing, flushing toilets with when necessary and cooking, in a pinch, but it’s a good idea to keep some bottled water handy too get a couple of five gallon jugs and keep them full xfor cooking: store food -- dry stuff like rice and beans stores best goes farthest. SALT VERY IMPORTANT: it’s health and energy healing too. keep a couple pounds sea salt around, and, because we're spoiled, some tins tuna, etc, to keep up morale -- keep up the sense of ‘‘balanced diet”’ ‘‘protein intake’’ remember the stores may be closed for quite some time, the trucks may not enter your section of the city for weeks, you can cool it indefinitely with 20 lb. brown rice 20 lb. whole wheat flour 10 Ib. cornmeal 10 ib, good beans -~ kidney or soy 5 Ib. sea salt 2 qts. good oil dried fruit and nuts add nutrients and sense of luxury to this diet, a squash or coconut in a cool place in your pad will keep six months remember we are all used to eating less than the ‘‘average American” and take it easy before we ever notice we're hungry the rest of the folk will be starving used as they are to meat and fresh milk daily and help will arrive, until thé day’no help arrives and then you’re on your owh. hoard matches, we aren’t good at rubbing sticks together anymore a tinder box is useful, if you can work it don’t count on gas stove, gas heater electric light keep hibachi and charcoal, CHARCOAL STARTER a help kerosene lamp and candles, learn to keep warm with breathing remember the blessed American habit of bundling. diane de prima Letter to the Editor Why must our leaders go un- protected? The pigs have their secret service, and pig forces and what do we have? Graves for Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Medger Evers, Bobby Hutton, and who will be next. I hope it will not be any of our candidates run- ning on the Peace and Freedom ticket. We have no one else to vote for, No one else to identify with. I'll say it again, something must be done to protect our leaders! Now! Dear Editor: This is my first letter to any newspaper so | hope it will be printed and printable, I have something to say that I want all of my Black brothers and sisters to read and think about. It’s the protection of our Black leaders, We have lost too many great leaders and potential leaders through the plot and success of the plots against our people. You, and I, and all of us know that the pigs are behind these plots. -- Sister Anna L, Vigay Can You Dig 1t?? Brothers and sisters inthe Black Panther Party must activate their mental capacity in order to make their anticipations a reality. In- ternational murder-mouthin’ is a thing of the past. The skies the limit over all Oakland, San Fran- cisco, California, and the world must be a thing come true, the real thing. I’m speaking of its totality; the ideels and values we would lay down our lives for don’t mean a motherfuckin’ thing if we brothers and sisters, expect to build a new kingdom when we haven’t accomplished the ruins. Later. for how you feel, how you look and how you fuck. You know as well as I that through investi- gating past revolutions and vari- ous forms of struggle weren't based on anyone’s personal feel- ings. Cause your life, your body, your mind belongs to the people; a corrupt people which we have to inspire to come around to bring this motherfucker down. Don't ex- pect this thing to be agrooye; check out the regions of your deranged mind which has been in a frenzy for 400 years, chained and bound to the mystigue of Black suffer- ing. Yeah and we know this, all and all and the supreme truth stands tall . . . It is you, first as an individual to erase your tragically prolonged record of pure madness. Once you've done this and dug your history which made you what you are, then you understand the nature of your peo- ple and the forces of evil, which govern them, Teach them, feed them, love them, lie for them and die for them, only if we do it for each other. If the sky is truly our limit, let us define it through our activities and burn a streak of light in the pages. of history so our children, the young warriors will be free to escape the rule‘f our common oppressor. Brothers and sisters, the uni- verse is ours and the Vanguard has the power to regain our Claim. “Git yo gun and let's use it.’ “Political Power Grows Through the Barrel of a Gun.” — Mao TO EDUCATE THE PEOPLE In Sacramento, the revolution 1s taking a definite step forward. People are now becoming aware as to how this jive system has been treating them. We, of the Sacramento Black Panther Party branch, are politically educating the people as to how the power Structure has been keeping them politically deprived of any power whatsoever, and economically de- pressed. They are beginning to act by arming themselves, The entire atmosphere has changed in this mickey mouse. capital of racist California, ‘The racist pigs of this city actually believed we were a bunch of jokes! But the racist dogs wiped those silly grins off their faces when they realized that the cries of the revolution had reached our ears, and that we had» acted: accordingly as to mak- ing the liberation struggle, our struggle. So I'm saying to all you good brothers and sisters every- where, freedom or death, (Lieutenant of Information: james E, Mott, Sacramento B.P.P.) Ssapeececepees 5 Frateuteteuteut ToT aT SRS HORN BRR RE BPR KOK SA A RA RS Setar tact _ THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 PAGE 11 Black Revolutionary Poetry AWAKEN AND WALK TALL, BROTHERS! Listen Black People And you will hear - Beware of the pig \ And do not fear AN ALL PERFECT WORLD his. Wybe Ts Awaken, my brothers! Listen to my plea. Awaken, my brothers! Let your eyes see, Our sisters have been raped, it still is done today. Awaken, my brothers! Let us make them pay. A man, a flower, a bird, mountains, grass, a wood. God listened and he heard. ““ah,"’ He said, ‘tit is good.’” They are racious dogs And they know it’s true So pick up your guns And do what you do Sa ae bot oosDoxT OTS Os Move a little, brothers! It can’t do any harm. Move a little, brothers! And wipe out Uncle Tom. They’ve taken away our pride, and kept us on our back, Move a little, brothers! It’s our turn to attack. An all perfect world, for the all perfect being. A new race unfurled, for living, hearing, seeing. It’s Black people they want to be down on the ground But it’s their blood we want to get them down zg Ds eS KKK OK kK 8 Choose your weapons, brothers! Learn to use them well. Choose your weapons, brothers! Send them all to Hell. For too long we've Sat idle, getting our heads beat in. Choose your weapons, brothers! Undo that disgraceful sin. Years, decades, centuries pass, God looks again, but it’s too late. The dirty mountains and brownish grass, a world filled with inhumanity, suffering, hate. On our feet we live And on our feet we’ll die And when the pigs try to Swoop We will meet them with a vic- torious cry. Walk tall, all my brothers! You've finally seen the light. Walk tall, all my brothers! We've got the pigs uptight. They almost know the awesomness of our full PANTHER POWER. Walk tall, all my brothers! For, the bells toll their last hour. -- V.g. SoH R RA R OK Now no flower, no man, no bird, a sight not worth seeing. all perfect world, for my perfect being.” be I want this understood THEIR TIME HAS COME! loud and clear : . We want the pigs to know = A shout, a shot, a molotov, Yes, Ww ‘= Their pale ashen faces we shall carve. We've heard people, white, and, unfortunately, black e have no fear, yes ay am Upon their knees they will beg for mercy, Say -- Charlotte Reed ““Oh, how I wish this mess would settle down. It’s got me so edgy and nervous If they would just be nice, get their education, And stay out of trouble with the police -- Well, For it was they who claimed racism was hearsay. FAITH When we were asking for compassion, he calls you now, Their frenzied whips were busy lashing. Stee , you have a Our backs grew calloused, and bore it all, I just don’t know, anymore. It’s just a mess!’ a cicice But the time has come for them to fall. Now. Sue If we were to be ‘‘nice,"’ ‘‘good,"” ‘‘sweet,’’ we would men See 2 = No longer shall we weep and sob, Fade out of sight, unheard, as we were before. just the fesii aa Before being lynched by a sheriff-led mob. And this is how the white man wants it. HATE To turn the other cheek, and pray to God, Do we want it this way? between-all-nations Has become, at last, much much too hard. No! Hell, no! . : BUT, 3 K : Black has been announced, he calls yeoman ig It now is time for the other half of this nation Black is in the foreground now, not in the background, rts you *i* To chew and digest the agony that comes with humiliation. And this is a step, a small step, but a step we ll aoe ; 4 Yes, they taught their lessons very well, Agree. Where?° = And now they’ll burn in their self-made Hell! Now. to fi Vernon Gomes, Jr. (V. G.) Black must take this country, lift it, and turn it ie Mit the ugliness of war? 3M Completely over -----—-- ee yourself and others? Be . REVOLUTIONARY CHILD SO BLACK BROTHERS AND SIS- _ Black must Revolutionize! that is the very sad truth, Born with no stigma of wretched- ness} simply black and elite. created with bliss. A potential warrior to our strug- gle for ultimate liberation. He will be trained by a complacent mother with a gun in one hand, and the red book in the other. -- Malaika PANTHER POWER For in the Black masses Aware a new cry, the ‘ery of Black Power. That burned in Watts, -that burned in West Oakland and that burns in Blackmen’s souls, Our fight is for Freedom and for Liberation. By any means necessary. B.B.B. -- Ronald McFadden WHITE Trees, Breeze, little rosie faces bicycles, tricycles, windfilled kites smiles, laughs, arms that speak of love angels, Gods, blessing from above mothers, fathers, happy and gay watching children fast at play BLACK Winebottles, beercans, little black faces police, riots, ugly ghetto places gangfights, darknights, piercing screens outerys, violence, walls of woe | devils, demons, laugh at the show — mamas, daddys, ain't together no more brother’s a pimp, sister’s a whore Beata fireflies, firesides, beautiful country places roadsides, seasides, and boy scouts likes alleyways, gangways and dirty street scenes TERS Like I said before, We are going to get those White dogs out of the stores, Not only the stores, But the shops, and Gas stations too, cause We the BLACK people are going To show the world What we can do! -- Sharon Mott REVOLUTION There once was a BROTHER Who was Black and cool - But this one BROTHER DIDN’T Know what was going on. Dig it! Until I met this BLACK BROTHER and told him the news, now this BROTHER is in withthe revolution So find a BLACK BROTHER or SISTER, and tell them the news. So they can help you and me tell the BLACK PEOPLE to get with the groove. only lay down but pick up our guns, and show the world What has to be done, -- Sharon Mott TO HUEY, WITH LOVE You opened my eyes to what I did not want to see, That this decadent country was not for you and me. -- C. Eddins discrimination, segregation, the white man’s scheme integration, miscegenation, uncle toms dream tomstones, graves, uncle toms are dying fast = young blacks, cool blacks, from abroad new class placards, slogans, screams of black power Br % ae ¢ saying you got yours, now we want ours more power -- MORE POWER BROTHERS Listen BLACK PEOPLE let’s not WITCH DOCTOR Rum tum tum went the beat of the As the witch doctor hopped from two feet to one. To the man on the floor, a get well prayer, But he just gave back a cold dead stare. Then, Then Black will at last see equality. Not until Then. But Black will keep itself distinct. Black will be remembered; hopefully loved; but it will be Clear that white love is not needed, Black will be Independent. This is what we want. However, this is in the future. Now is the present. AFTERWARDS -- and there will be an afterwards tt because the white man will not kill US off s or put US out of the U,S., our home, though it is dirty and unfit -- afterwards we will Sit back easily, relaxing, our guns dormant but ready in our laps. Now. but when it’s over - Peace someday The world will overcome war, hate, and make way to peace... istill believe -- Iris Wyse Mother Africa reach out to me and you will find my hand Baby, now, in the present we WILL fight. We = pore Will, we MUST, Revolutionize! pee rs nee: ‘ we 5 rgotten -~ all was Believe me... nar bee It is the only way... The Prince and Prophets of the Church carry on your ancient healing arts. The mothers of the Church who gave honor to man are in re- turn honored, Your principalities and royal families live on in this distant kingdom. The King is dead, The streets run red, All heads bow down There are tears to shed. The Prince of life is rife with strife, ~~ Charmaine Eddins OFF THE PIGS When the pigs pick up ‘heir guns, Don’t lay yours down, Cause we’re gonna spread the Pigs’ blood all over the ground. SO BLACK BROTHERS AND SIS- TERS Listen to me, Cause we'll all know Soon that the pigs will Be decreased. Like I say, we’re BLACK And we're proud, So Black Brothers and Sisters 1 HATE YOU NO LESS dene Gea You robbed me from my jungle rest -- Sharon Mott and cast me into this hellishness This atrosity, this jest PANTHERS for this my country, I hate you no less. I fought to be your favorite son yet you made me the bastard one I bravely died to defend your name on foreign soil to stake your claime for this my country I reek with shame For this I hate thee just the same, My country tears of thee... Sweet land of misery... All of this I see... Land where my father dies... land where my brothers fight land where my mother cries... Yelling out from every slum: DENOUNCE RACISTS’ LAW! -- Jazzie You left my mother raped in the filth of gutters You slew my son with his brother’s gun You hung my father from a hungry oak tree for this my country I do hate thee. ‘vis Wyse: I know you as slave knows master I watched your hands shape disaster now to rebel is my only quest You poisoned me with bitterness for this my country I hate thee Oh, I hate thee no less 9597007930970"60z45697 95 0V7E 7602058020 007050 taser Beale Bo utath obese am, Sue . PAGE 12 THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 In this brief treatise it is not my objective to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U,S, government. This is not meant to be a blueprint for revolution, but is meant to inject sobering thought into the minds of thosejingoists who so arrogantly extol the myth of American invincibility. I want to explore America’s weakness and to advance the study of the potential of a minority revolution... The capitalist system was predicated on the abuse and dehumanization of black people. It was partially designed and fashioned to glorify white supremacy and to liberate the European from feudalism at the expense of colored people... Yes, poor whites are exploited, too, but the supreme white authority has been careful, even from the beginning, to afford them escape hatches built into the system... American racism is inherent in its economic and social system. This in- herent social evil cannot be drastically rejected without completely altering the political, economic and social structure of the nation... Revolutioa is a final spark of hope that flares in the ashes of despair and the devastated faith in the institution of parliamentary buffoonery and demogoguery. Reyolt is a natural human response to brutally sustained tyranny. The adamant colonial attitude of the racist, imperialist American power structure leaves the Afro- American but one of two choices; he must either meekly submit to tyranny and risk ultimate extermination or invoke the natural law of survival and resort to revolutionary resistance, It is not beyond the realm of possibility that he will turn to revolution and be determined to obtain victory at any price. Theoretically, if the black man in America should elect to pursue the final course, what would he have to do in order to overturn tyranny? America’s strength and weakness should be carefully analyzed, ‘Strategically speaking America is a mighty giant with an exposed Achilles heel. They key to America’s strength is its almost unlimited industrial capacity. Its staggering production is its life blood, From a military point of view it is also its greatest weakness. The American society is the most automated society in the world, It has become THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 PAGE 13 addicted to machinery. It has become enslaved by it... The Afro-American is in range of the American giant’s Achilles heel. Amer- ican production, communications and the normal function of the affluent society are exposed to the Afro-American’s natural revolutionary reaction to tyranny ; and oppression, A united, well-organized, armed and trained Black America is a potential force to be reckoned with in its own right. The American case is a unique case, Any Afro-American revolt would consequently constitute a unique 4 form of urban guerrilla warfare. The match and gasoline would be his most ef- fective weapon. Four hundred Years of violent deprivation can be transformed into an indomitable fighting spirit that may burst forth on the American scene with an intensity more fierce thana hundred hydrogen bombs. The black man will have nothing- to lose but his chains, while America has its very existence at stake... As the power structure applies ever more brutal_repressive measures in response to the black man’s just petition for social justice, a precision-type T WILLIAMS | OF TWO PARTS urban guerilla warfare is the prerequisite for the black man’s survival and liberation in racist America, There must be a vast network of communications and central planning, No matter how primitive, black freedom fighters must establish their own coded and clandestine communications system. There must be central planing and a national supreme command, Afro-American revolutionary forces must create a top-notch security agency. This agency must be responsible for the establishment of an efficient and extensive intelligence network, It must infiltrate the armed forces, the National Guard, the police, the FBI, the CIA, the public utility services and all political groups, right, center, and left. The power structure’s facilities must be utilized to advance the cause of Afro- American liberation, Such a revolutionary organization would require many facets. Armed defense guards would have to be organized within the confines of the law. They would function only as defense units to safeguard life, limb and property in the ghetto communities, A tightly organized and highly mobile underground guerrilla force would have to be clandestinely organized. This well disciplined force would play a more aggressive role, It would be well versed in handling explosives and deadly accurate when deployed as snipers, Its mission would be retaliation, to visit attrition upon the enemy and to pin down and bring about a dispersal of his concentrated forces, This guerrilla force must operate in small bands and know every inch of that part of the city where it is to operate, It must control its fire and use its ammunition sparingly. It must have a perfect understanding of its mission at alltimes, When operating in full view of great throngs of people, its members should cover or mask their faces to prevent revealing their identity. It should handle its weapons with gloves, especially the captured ones, So as not to leave incriminating finger prints on weapons that may leter fall into the hands of repressive authority. These groups, while sniping and performing other missions of sabotage, should be extremely careful in avoiding death and injury to the friendly black population, Friendly property should be diligently protected and safeguarded. The guerrilla forces must be So organized; co- ordinated and equipped as to prevent the power structure from rushing rein- forcements to encircle and crush other defense groups engaged in battle with repressive forces by ambushing, sniping, bombing and sabotaging roads. Thse people’s warfare tactics must be executedina fashion that will wreak frustration and exhaustion on the oppressive enemy forces. A welfare corps would have to be formed, Persons with medical knowledge should be recruited and mobilized to care for the wounded during uprisings when many white hospitals and medical centers refuse or halfheartedly treat wounded black casualties. It should distribute food, aid victims of fire and look after the general welfare of the people, Such a corps should serve to build morale, encourage and educate the people to support the resistance fighters of the up- rising and to maintain tight security about what takes place in the ghetto and as to what roles are played by certain individuals, It should raise funds in prepara- tion for legal defense for those who fall into the vicious clutches of the kangaroo white supremacy law, (TO BE CONT.) PAGE 14 THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 : ‘Quotati ons from Kwane Nkrumah’ } _. . By THE DIP | DO NOT KNOW HOW ANYONE CAN REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE RIGHT OF MEN 10 BE FREE No man is born a criminal; society makes him so, and the only way to change things is to change the social conditioas, Whereever there is the possibility of conflict arising out of discrimina- tions and the refusal of human rights, the peace of the world is threatened, Mass movements are well and good but they cannot act with purpose unless they are led and guided by a vanguard political party. The Black Panther Party is as strong as the integrity and the sense of discipline and dedication which the membership displays, the example shown in the leadership is reflected in the discipline demonstrated by the rank and file. Without discipline true freedom cannot survive No section of this country should be left unorganized no individual person should be without membership. in some organization ,..We must organize as never before, for organization decides everything. The right of a people to govern themselves is a fundamental principal and to compro- mise on this principal is to betray it. It is far better to be free to govern, or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else, History will never forgive any nation which, for its own ends, has gambled with the life of mankind, If armed militia are not organized the masses i cannot manifest;; their power in the struggle against the enemy. ff In a revolutionary situation it is a crime against the people to forgive those who have betrayed them. Our war is not a war of conquest, it is a war of revolutionary liberation, We fight not only in self-defense but to free, unite and reconstruct, Capitalism; is but the gentleman’s methodof slavery. Capitalism at home is domestic colonialism, Colonialism: The policy by which a foreign power binds territories to herself by political ties with the primary objective of promoting her own economic advantage. The Black Panther Party has always been the party for black people whose welfare has ever been our overiding care, We have always been close to the people, for we have come from the people. Se ee is a \ ow THE SECRET: OF LIFE 1:70: HAVE NO FEAR "LAW AND ORDER” I, Pattern of Oppression Since the very beginning of this country the American mind has been constantly plagued with the queston of maintaining “‘law and order.”’ The British Colonial government was very much worried about the maintenance of law and order when faced with ‘‘the Boston Tea Party,"’ Patrick Henry, and the growth of the sons of liberty. The slave holding and capitalist classes in the North, as well as in the South, were deeply concerned with ‘‘law and order’’ following Nat Turner’s slave revolt and when the abolitionists started to agitate strongly for the abolition of slavery. The land speculators and opportunists during the expansionists era of this country (Man- ifest Destiny) were up in arms over the Indians complete disregard for law and order and the humiliating defeat of Custard’s last stand. Now once again the cry for strict enforcement of law and order is being raised by concerned Americans (Johnson, Reagan, Nixon, Wallace, and Kennedy) in the face of the growing Black liberation Struggle and Black people's just cry for self-determination and free- dom. In order to get a better grip on the situation and analyze the direction in whichthis country has been moving to insure law and order and how it relates to Black people one needs first of all to establish just what is ‘‘law and order.’’ Webster's New World Dictionary defines law as ‘‘all the rules of conduct established by the authority or-custom of a nation,"’ and order is defined as ‘'a definite plafif system."’ With these basic definitions in mind we will now pro- ceed to analyze ‘‘law and order’’ as applicable to the American ex- perience, In 1775 the order was colonialization and the americans were coldnized by the British, Under the order the American colonies * had no righttoregulatetheir taxes, governthemselyes or raise their own armies. To maintain the order the law was used, In this in- stance the law was, the colonial administrators, who governed the colonies and the colonial legislation which came down from the mother country (England) which the people of the colonies had no say so. whatsoever, in making. Nowinorder for the mother country (England) to maintain its law and thus insure its order in the American colonies, the British found it necessary to employ the services of a Law En- forcer (GUNS AND FORCE) in the person of the British Colonial Army. Later on for the Law The American colonies faced with this problem hadtwo choices (1) submit to the Law and Order and bow down to King George, or (2) change the system and establish a government that would answer the needs of the people. Although they knew they would be called thieves and hoodlums, the colonies decided to change the system and found that it was necessary to violate and say ‘‘later on for the law’’ and deal with the law enforcers with guns and force of their own -- and thus was born the violent and bloody American Revolution. Although in the eyes of America the British were murderers, plunderers and enemies of the people, the actions of the British soldiers was well within the confines of law and order as defined by the British and the actions of the Americans was outside the law and they were branded law breakers. In the end the Americans, breakers, were victorious, the old order was" a new order, a capitalist Democracy, was founded. In 1619, the first African slaves were raped from Africa and brought to this country in chains for the purpose of performing slave labor and kept in physical bondage for 246 years. During that period in this country's history the overall order was capitalism but more specifically where the black man was concernedthe order was slavery and the ‘law was white supremacy. The black man had little or no rights at all.The ships of the Northern capitalists were used to the fullest in the slave trade to bring human cargo from Africa and many a northern capitalist got rich on what has been termed the worse crime in history and which resulted in the deaths of over 50 million black people. Once they reached this country the cotton that the slaves picked built the textile mills along this country’s eastern seaboard, not to mention the mills in Liverpool and Birmingham, England. The pockets of many a ‘'Southern gentlemen’’ was made fat with the blood and sweat of slave labor. The slaves were faced with two choices (1) submit to the law and order and remain as slaves (2) resist and be branded as law breakers and suffer the punishment of the law if caught. Many a slave resisted. Nat Turner resisted and is credited with killing over sixty slave holding whites. He was caught and hanged for his disregard for law and order. Other slaves alsoresisted, many of them by running away to the North, When large numbers of slaves started to run away and the order began to become threatened the Law of the land was brought into play and the congress passed the fugitive slave laws which made running away from your master a federal crime and branded all freedom loving slaves who ran away as law breakers, Again here as with the British the services of law en- forcers (white mobs, and bounty hunters) was employed to maintain the law and ensure the order, and black men were hunted down by dogs and.armed posses. Many of our forefathers were summarily shot and hanged. When the abolitionist began to hold large rallies, LONDON (Third World Press) -- more than 2,000 workers held a mass rally here to support the people’s struggle for democratic rights in Northern Ireland and to protest against the brutality of the reactionary pigs against the people. The demonstrators marched from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square shouting slogans. Speakers at the rally strongly condemned the reactionary rule of the Northern Ireland authorities and their sav- age suppression of the people, They also protested angrily against the support given by the Wilson gov- r so-called law % RTHROWN and» and actively agitate for the ending of slavery white racists called them Nigger lovers and they were stoned, tarred and feathered, and sometimes lynched. In all these instances the actions of the majority of white citizens of this country, although ruthless, racist and in every way counter to the laws of nature, were well within the realm of Law and Order as defined by the ruling capitalist and slave holding classes in this country. In 1861 the civil war broke out, mainly over economic reasons, and in 1865 it ended and the period of the physical enslavement of the black man was over and slavery was abolished. With the abolition of slavery the order changed slightly from one of capitalism based on overt slavery to capitalism based on exploitation. ‘i With the ending of the civil war the money hungry dogs of the North now turned their attention to expanding their order to the western portion of this country. Only one obstacle stood in their way, the Redman. To eliminate this obstacle, the law was brought into play and the congress passed legislation that opened the west to settlement, Thru the use of parisidic Indian agents and Uncle Tom traitors the Indians were tricked into signing ridiculous treaties and robbed of their lands. With the discovery of gold the exploitation of the Indian became rampant. Indian villages were raided in the night, smallpox infected blankets were sold to them and their leaders were shot down in broad daylight. The Indians were faced with two choices: (1) submit to the law and order and die or (2) resist and defend themselves. When the Indians in defense of their homes, and families, united under Sitting Bull and wiped out that dog Custard and those other racist pigs and Indian scout traitors of the U, S,Seventh Calvary, at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, to the man. The rulers of this country seeing their order threatened once again responded in their usualfashion, brand- ing the Redman as lawbreakers and themselves as saviours. The services of law enforcers (white mobs) was again brought into action and cries such as ‘“‘the only good Indian is a dead Indian,’ were sounded across the land. Entire Indian tribes were wiped out and the land was taken away from the Indians. Of the 20 million or so Indians that first inhabited this land it is doubtful if you can find 1 million redmen in this country today andeven the majority of these few red men are not assimilated into the mainstream of American life but are kept on reservations in remote and desolate areas. Thru the use of brute force the order was once again restored to the American way of life and has remained basically unchanged until today. Today the blackman in America is subjected to racism and ex- ploitation. A documentation of this racism and exploitation is not necessary because of the many examples every day of Blackmen being wantonly murdered by racist pigs who's job it is to defend ‘eTaw and Order’ and the many instances of Black people being cheated and robbed by everyone from racist dog Johnson on down to the corner merchant. In 1964, black people fed up with the conditions they were being subjected to in Watts, Calif. erupted and the result ing fires burned away once and for all the myth of the ‘‘melting »-pot" theory that the slave descendants had been peacefully assim- “ {lated into American society, These cries for justice rising from the “black ghettoes of. Los Angeles were met by white America as all “Other cries for justice from oppressed peoples to their oppressors are met, by guns and force. The National Guard was called in and blackmen and women were slaughtered in the streets. During 1965, 66, 67 and in 1968 black people first increased their pleas for justice and have now began to demand justice andhuman rights. White Amer- ica feeling its ‘‘Order’’ threatened has once again called upon the ‘Taw’ and the congress has inacted legislation after legislation aimed at not only containing the threattotheir order but at eliminat- ing it once and for all. Stoner guns, tanks, sound guns, dart guns, mace, dogs, increased police forces and detention (CONCENTRA- TION) camps are the answer that this decadent law abiding white society has for this ‘‘threat to its order’’. The freedom loving Black peoples are being branded law breakers while the racist dog police and racist pig National Guard are being called heroes and given medals and citations for their murdering of Black people. Everyone from racist dog Johnson in Washington to Chief of Pigs, Gains in Oakland have praised the racist murderers and plunderers they call law enforcers, The true meaning of law and order in white America should be very clear to every Black, Yellow, and Red man. . The order (the defined plan: system) is capitalism based on ex- ploitation and the law, (all the rules of conduct established by the authority or custom of a nation) is white racism, All the bombings, lynchings, shootings, and other racist acts committed during the bloody 192 year history of this country have all been within the law and all the cheating and thieving that has gone on is well within the order. Now its lawlessness versus law and order, freeman or slave, liberty or death, freedom for everybody or freedom for no- body. The time is now the choice is ours. LASIME TUSHINDE MBILASHAKAI! “WE SHALL CONQUER WITHOUT A DOUBT” Landon R. Williams North Ireland Protest Against Pig Brutality ernment to the Northern Ireland authorities. Northern Ireland is the poorest place in the British Isles. The na- tional and religious oppression practiced there for a long time by the reactionary British pig struc- ture, has aroused stronger and stronger feeling among the people. Last week, the people in London- derry, the second biggest city in Northern Ireland, rose up to strug- gle for democratic rights. They fought valiantly against the re- actionary pigs. Early this week, some 3,000 people staged another demonstration in that city. Indian Govt. Employees Struggle NEW DELHI -- Indian govern- ment employees throughout the country have persisted in their struggle, indignantly protesting against the reactionary Indian au- thorities’ use of counter-reyolu- tionary violence to suppress their strike on September 19 and fran- tic persecution of the employees afterwards, In New Delhi, about 10,000 cen- tral government employees dem- onstrated last week in front of Indian Home Minister Y,B, Cha- van's office to protest against the reactionary government's atroci- ties, Recently, 200,000 govern- ment employees held a protest rally near Prime Minister Indira Ghandi’s home, The reactionary Indian government hurriedly ais- patched large members of armed pigs to closely guard her resi- dence and prevent the government employees from coming near, The masses taking part in the protest rally persisted in their struggle They sent representatives to lodge a strong protest with Indira Ghandi herself. They pointed out that the so-called ‘‘disciplinary actions," including discharges and suspen- sion of work, taken against the employees who participated in the September 19th general strike were entirely unreasonable. They demanded that the reactionary gov- ernment immediately rescinded these outrageous measures. PORTUGUESE REVOLUTIONARIES GO ON TRIAL LISBON, Portugal -- The trial of seven young men charges with subversion opened here on Oct. 24, revealing for the first time the efforts of a revolutionary organi- zation to incite members of the Portuguese military to desert. The seven are also charged with membership in the underground organization known as the Popu- lar Action Front. The Front has had some suc= cess in persuading a number of Portuguese soldiers to desert, flee the country and give their arms and equipment to the revo- lutionary organization, according to the London Times. The Front is described by the London Times as a pro-Peking splinter group of the Portuguese Communist Party. It concentrates on organizing young intellectuals as well as the military. The defendants range in age from 21 to 0, One of them, Jorge Galamba Marques, a 28 year-old student of the Lisbon Law faculty, is accused of aiding an unrevealed number of army deserters to cross the frontier into Spain. Fernando Rodrigues Dos Santos, 27 year-old Lisbon journalist, is charged with solicitation and ac- ceptance of arms and munitions. PAGE 16 THE BLACK PANTHER Black Students Union’s Statewide Convention by IRIS WYSE STUDENT EDITOR (BS.U., Berkeley H.S.) The convention started at10:30 and rana half hour behind schedule. The convention lasted until 7:30 p.m Brother Bobby Seale spoke, and ‘told us be we gt be doing for the rest of the day. Next we went into group discussions.- Theré were about 5 groups. Each group went into a different room. They discussed subjects like:- What each-school was doing individually, should all B.S.U.’s unite, ‘should we have Similar demands: so that when it is time to -strike we can go down together. Thesediscussions lasted for an hour. Coffee Break - half hour;. Everyone got to meet each other. We reconvened at twelve and discussed matters. Inmy group there were students from Poly: Tech, Washington, Sacramento, Fremont, and Berkeley High. We-discussed what each school was doing. A brother from Poly-Tech said they are going down to the board of education Monday and that they want other San Francisco schools to come and show their support. They have an experimental Black history course at 8:00 am, and that their black literature teacher was white. They are ooking. s for hack teachers. Poly-had a demon- - stration Friday. George Washington. There was a sister from that school in our group. She said that Washingtom was 20% ‘black andthat they only had one-black teacher who is a tom. Roosevelt Thomas is president, Judy Hayes, secretary. The Sister from Sacramento said that herand7 other sisters came to the convention because they had formed a black students union but didn’t know what it was. We then’ discussed the ten point program and how it affected each school. Lunch = hour and a half. 1:45 ta 2°30, about. = We all assembled.in the auditorium and saw a movie entitled Huey! Brother Gregroy Harrison talked with us about the nominating of a representative from each school, and told us-the rest of the agenda. Break - The time now 3:30 to 4: 20. Everyone came to the auditorium to see the soca movie, ‘‘The Black Panthers.’’ After the movie the chairman from each high school attending spoke and told us what their school was doing, and planning to do. The first school was Fremont, Fremont: A brother was assaulted by a devil (who calls himself a teacher.) When the brother defended himself with judo, the teacher immediately contacted the-principle, and had the student (Gregory Pitts) put in juvenile hall for three days and had him kicked out of ‘school. When it came time for the trial the judge had one eye open ‘and one eye closed. He had reached his verdict before the brother even entered the» courtroom.-He was found guilty. They went before the board Monday (October 28). ‘The devil who pressed the charges after, wanted to drop the charges.’ They are going to hold a demon- stration in about 3 weeks, and they want all black students to come "= and. show ‘their support. Poly Technical: Friday morning ten repiesentatives met with the ’ board of education, The board didn’t want to do a thing. Now when ever the students want to meet with the head man he says he’s busy. Friday when they came back from the board meeting they held a school rally 240 students were suspended. The studentsat Poly were said to be pimping and prostituting for their lunch money. Redwood: They presented their demands to.the Board of Educa- tion, 1.) counselors (black) 2.) black tutors 3.) african dancing” 4.) swahili courses ~ : 5.) black history + 6.) busing (the big hang up) a‘brother and a sister were arrested. They were brutalized. The board told them that busing was a district ~ problem. They are pretty well organized. . David Hilliard: he spoke on the education of black students. And stressing the point for the circulating of petitions for,Gregory Pitts. He said that we shouldtryto unify all Black Students from all schools. He said that brother Gregory Pitts is out of jail but that we should try to get him back into school. 3 Richmond (South Campus); They are in a big uproar over natural combs. They (the board) think that the cake cutters (natural combs) are lethal weapons and can not be permitted on campus. There was a meeting Monday. (more information on a following page) McClymonds: This year their demands are 1.) more black counselors 2.) Black literature 3.) newspapers in their library (the Black Panther and Mohammed Speaks, poets) 4.) African art 5.) African dance Black culture courses, with Black teachers and credits for each course. Curriculum consisting of Black parents and teachers, Sacramento: Their school is only 1% black. They form a black students union, but didn’t know how to function. The reason they came to the convention wasto see what a black student union does. They wish there could be another so that they could learn more about _the functions of a Black Students Union. Washington: They’ve been wanting the mural down for2-1/2 years and if it’s not down by this semester they’re going to take it down by any means necessary. In its place they want a mural of minority groups in America. Such as inventors, leaders, etc. Wednesday the board had a meeting with three representatives. The head pig told them that they would need time to think about it. Now when- ever the students try to get an answer the devil says he’s busy. They held a meeting that was invitation only. To discuss who would pay to take the racist mural down and put up the just one. The sc- called secretary mailed the invitations to all the white people, and none to the black artists (who are willing to paint a mural free). The Central Committee of the B,S.U. found this out and told the whole black community to come, At the meeting the devils said they had to discuss the matter with the board. The B.S.U. walked out. Either the whole thing stays up, or the whole thing comes down, and if it stays up, the B.S.U. is going to paint the mural with permanent SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 black paint. There are 600 black students which is 20% of the school. _ One day last week a brother painted the mural black, when he came back the paint had been stripped.. Student’s comment: You should stop all that meeting because all they are doing is shucking -and jiving. If they don’t hurry up and make up their minds, make it up for them. Oakland Technical: Tech had thirty courses relisted. They are way ~ahead of any high school in the bay area. The only problem is that Brother Gregory Harrison writes articles in the school paper. They said he would have to go through all kinds of channels before he could print anything that had to do withpolitics in the paper. Brother Gregory is head of the B.S.U.’s in California. He’s to try to start_ newspapers for each school, ’ Berkeley High: Ronnie Stevenson spoke in our behalf. He is second “head of the statewide B.S.U. He rapped down about how big pig Sulli- van had gotten every thing, but the madatory courses. They. haven’t put down money for the courses. Brother Ronnie appeared on the tube (tv) yesterday) (October 29). Each school in attendance picked a opresentaliens The represent- ative will support them when there is a statewide B.S,U. meeting. The names are on a following page. ; George Murray: Brother George Murray gave a beautiful speech, on how we are born in jail when we are born in America. And that we are still twentieth century slaves. We can not be proud because if you would just take a look around you, you would see that there was nothing to be proud of, The reason that black young men aren’t getting into college is because they tell him to take football. And they have all these courses that mean nothing to black people. So he flunks all his courses (except in sports), They ship him off to Vietnam, and if he’s still alive they’ll make hima sports nut. He went on to say that the Black Panthers support any of our demands that deal with Black America, He answered yuestions that students asked. The time now 7:30 p.m, The convention is now ended, Black Student Union Representatives Edmond Harris - Menlo-Atherton Roger Johnson - McClymonds Brenda Loyd - Fremont Bailey Grant - Fremont Darnella Gipson - McClather (co- Sharon Dottes) Sheila Wilson - Mission Jessie Shelton - Poly Tech - 621-9628 Jan-Gates - Lowell Chase Adams Jr. - Berkeley Leroy Larry - Sequoia Richard Harris - Washington Darrell Logan - Richmond (South cam.) HIGH SCHOOL B,S,U. CONVENTION REGISTRATION Inspirational Address ... Bobby Seale, Chairman, B.P,P. DIREC- TIONS, Instructions, etc. Group Session #1 B.S.U, Platform Discussion, Coffee Break Session #2 - Implementation of B.S.U, Platform in the School LUNCH BREAK Inspirational Address . . . David Hilliard, Chief of Staff, B Session #3 - Implementation on B.S.U, Platform in the School Refreshment Break Session #3 - Implementation on B.S.U, Platform in the School Verbal reports from each group's Recorder Election of offices Summation of the day, Evalua- tion sheets and MOVIE. 9:30- 10:00 10:00 - 10:15 10:15 - 11:00 11:30 - 12:00 © 11:15 - 12:00 12:00- 1:00- 1:00 1:15 1:15- 2:00 2:00- 2:15 2:15- 3:00 3:00- 4:00 4:00- 5:00 5:00- 6:00 REVOLUTIONARY ART DOES NOT DEMAND ANYMORE SACRIFICE FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY ARTIST THAN WHAT IS DEMANDED FROM A TRAITOR (NEGRO) WHO DRAWS FOR THE OPPRESSOR. THEREFORE, THE CREATION OF REVOLUTIONARY ART IS NOT A TRAGEDY BUT AN HONOR AND DUTY THAT WILL NEVER BE REFUSED. EMORY Search For Better Teachers NEW YORK -- Whitney M, Young Jr., executive director of ~ the National Urban League,- de- - clared that Black parents and - children in the stormy OceanHill- ~ . Brownsville « school district were reacting against teachers ‘‘who didn’t care.” He said that ‘if you’re going to try and experiment like Ocean Hill-Brownsville honesty, you must remember that it’s an ex- periment and we’re going-to have to waive old rules andregulations. The rationale is that some of the old regulations have failed. Less than S per cent of these Black pupils go on to college, whereas some 60 per-cent iehi pup IICES do.”’ Meanwhile, Livingston L. Win- gate, head of the N.Y, Urban Lea- gue, told a conference of police- men and community leadérs~in upstate Rifton. N.Y. that Har- lem needs its own school sys~ tem, police force and other in- stitutions. ‘It cannot be denied that through the principle of decentralization we have officially abondoned inte- gration. If this be so, we must hon- estly embrace separation,’ he said. Wingate, the former top exe- cutive of HARYOU-ACT, Har - lem’s poverty program, noted that he was breaking a long silence with his speech and would seek to get the Urban League’s execu- “tive board to accept his ideas. ‘*We must yedefine the relation- ships of residents of separated areas ‘with all of their institu- tions,”” he continued, ‘including a city-wide Board of Education, unions, political institutions, etc.”’ 5800 GROVE ST. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA — FREE PARKING WHILE SHOPPING — Black Students Alliance THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 PAGE 17 CONCESSIONS AT | NORTHWESTERN UNIV. @ RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY EVANSTON, ILL. -- After years of struggle andprotests that fell on deaf ears, Black students of Northwestern University have forced of- Every member of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY throughout this country of racist America must abide by these rules as functional members of this party. CENTRAL piciis Loerant:several concessions» COMMITTEE members, CENTRAL STAFFS, and LOCAL STAFFS, including all JAMES TURNER, spokesman for the BlackStudent Alliance, labeled captains subordinate to either national, state and local leadership of the BLACK the agreement which now is being implemented: ‘The beginning of the PANTHER PARTY will enforce these rules, Length of suspension or other disciplinary most significant, development for Black people andtheir students and action necessary for violation of these rules will depend upon decisions by national, the most constructive recent innovation for American institutions of state or state area, and local committees and staffs where said rules or rules of the higher education.” BUA PARTE ES BARS were lola. i Ef Ran ce te ea x . 2 7 ‘very member ot e party must know these verbatum by heart. And apply them ‘ The 2S covers = ee Wee ee daily. Each member must report any violation of these rules to their leadership or CS OE gee ete Ua COURS CEE a a ecunclos s 08 aaecesetuc eit Or they are counter-revolutionary and are also subjected to suspension by the BLACK ganizations, PANTHER PARTY, Roland J. Hinz, vice president for student affairs and dean of stu- dents said new courses in Afro-American studies are being added to THE FOLLOWING RULES ARE: the curriculum this year and that visiting professors will teach some : a No exe member can have narcotics or weed in his possession while doing of them. arty works é Lerone Bennett Jr., senior editor of Ebony magazine and author of a rege eS eR pe ae ae from this party. four books on Black history, and Prof. Margaret Walker Alexander 4. No party member will violate rules relating te office work, and general meetings of Jackson State College, will join the faculty as visiting professors. of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, In addition, Black students will be permitted to live together -- away Neer ae from whites -- and a Black student counselor will be appointed, The . No party member will point or fire a weapon unnecessarily or accidentally at Black Student Alliance and other Black organizations have been grant- anyone other than the enemy. ed sole use of special university space and facilities, and the financial foe member can join any other army or force other than the BLACK LIBER- aid requests of Black youths will get special attention. Ds ij 7. No party member can have a weapon in his possession while drunk or loaded off Hinz said that last spring the university's 14 Black students ‘per=. “a narcotics or weed. formed above the student average, attaining a 2.75 average. 8. No party member will commit any crimes against other members of BLACK During the spring quarter, almost allofthe university’s Black stu- people at all, and cannot steal or take from the people; not even a needle and a piece dents took over the university business office for 38 hours to protest of thread, conditions Black students faced at the school, The protest led to the 9. When arrested BLACK PANTHER PARTY members will give only name and ; address and will sign nothing, Legal first aid must be understood by all Party members. new agreement. 10. The Ten Point Program and platform of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must be known and understood by each Party member, including all other material of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. NEEDED: TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT MINISTER OF DEFENSE, HUEY P. NEWTON SAYS: “THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE IS GREATER THAN | THE MAN’S TECHNOLOGY.” EDITORIAL STAFF CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF OF THE BUT TO MOST EFFECTIVELY COMBAT THE INJUS- THE BLACK PANTHER BLACK PANTHER PARTY TICES OF THE PIG-STRUCTURE, THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE SHOULD LEAD THEM TO DEVELOP TECH- NOLOGY GREATER THAN THE “MAN’‘S!” THEN WE WILL MINIMIZE OUR LOSSES WHILE WE WAGE THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE Political Prisoner: Minister of Defense HUEY NEWTON (CMF — Vacaville Prison) Minister of Defense HUEY P. NEWTON Chairman BOBBY SEALE BROTHERS, SISTERS, AND ALLIES IN THE REVOLUTION — WE NEED ALL TYPES OF TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT: Chairman BOBBY SEALE Minister of Information ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Editor Ministor of Information eae National Hdq. Captain FOR DEFENSE poser tanesing Ete DAVID HILLARD FOR FINANCING MO ee FOR OFFICE WORK FOR TRANSPORTATION UNDERGROUND Revolutionary Artist and Lay-out Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS FOR HEALTH AND FIRST AID Minister of Education GEORGE MURRAY INTERESTED PARTIES SHOULD ADDRESS CORRESPONDENCE TO: MINISTRY OF INFORMATION BLACK PANTHER PARTY Ass't Revolutionary Artist MATILABA Minister of Finance MELVIN NEWTON Political Editor JAY WHITE “Minister of Justice Etro Annonces H. RAPBROWN BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE TO HUEY Piles Meier SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 Student Editor aoe 2 ain A N D O U R (BSU, Berkeley H.S,) IRIS WYSE PEOPLE. IN THE PIG’S PEN It is the undue fate of every rev- olutionary to be captured by the oppressor and cast away into one of her pig pens. But even then those whose bodies are bound but their spirit and souls are free and exist in the hearts of our people, which we have to inspire with extensive revolutionary dogma. Those of us who have that vital courage will survive, sustain and victor, When you have joined us Communications Secretary KATHLEEN CLEAVER Staff Writers BILL SHERMAN FRANK JONES HOSEA MILLS NOW AVAILABLE... . ESSAYS FROM THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE by HUEY P. NEWTON WITH FORCEFUL INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE MURRAY BLACK PANTHER MINISTER OF EDUCATION Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS MINISTRY OF INFORMATION BLACK PANTHER PARTY ON LY 75 c once again the time, you have spent BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE — oa concentrating, studying, andteach- SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 OUT-OF-STATE ORDERS: $1.00 ingyWi27 be Deneficial nok only:to yourself, but our people who need your minds, your skills and your presence, Not too many. of our brothers and sisters have the initi- ative to, build our strength to rid our / Weakhesses, If I'm ri ight the clfaiges we make will erase \any doubts away completely, and that vill take time and effort. strength of the Black nation the power {9 penetrate the (includes postage & handling) AVAILABLE AT ALL BLACK PANTHER PARTY OFFICES’ MAIL-ORDERS MAY BE SENT TO: (NOTE: PLEASE INCLUDE 10% FOR POSTAGE & HANDLING) MINISTRY OF INFORMATION Effective...Monday, November 4, 1968 BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOX zal , CUSTOM HOUSE wR... 24>, HOUR. yome..... NEWS LINE ?*™ oer, custo str all of us. llectivating PAGE 18 THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 198 FROM ME --10 YOU --MATILABA **Be Cool’’, the last audible words of our leader the Minister of De- fense Huey P, Newton. Be cool at what you do. You have to or get caught or die instantly at the hands of the pig. Myself, I know my days onthe outside are almost gone. Those you love andare close to you, you should share your realities, your hopes, dreams and plans. But even those you put your trust in may cost you your life and may disintegrate any hopes of accomp- lishment. And when they fail you in one way or another, you lose that spark, that thing that helps keep you going and you suddenly are con- vinced that whatever you do you have to make it by yourself, alone with no help. Of course people may dig youand to some extent depend on you todo your thing. But if their thing was for real, I mean that love for real, the struggle would move along and your home life and love life would be right on. Right now the leary feeling which keeps throbbing in my soul be- comes stronger. The ones that say they love you but you don’t know what is really going on inside them. I only wish Allah wouldallow meto Possess the gift of mind reading, But he has given me signs not only in the skies above but right down here. Not until I see another sign will I move on whatever comes to my mind, To die a martyr, you’re just an- other nigger gone or maybe the next generation will read about youin their history books, Whatever you stood for, whatever you did andall your accomplishments, Sometimes I feel like saying fuck it and I don’t care if I die, but brothers and sisters remember this; loosing your revolutionary life will only let our people down. Matilaba POCKET LAWYER OF LEGAL FIRST AID This pocket lawyer is provided as a means of keeping black people up to date on their rights. We are always the first to be arrested and the racist police forces are constantly trying to pre- _tend that rights are extended equally to all people. Cut this out, brothers and sisters, and carry it with you. Until we arm ourselves to righteously take care of our own, the pocket lawyer is what's happening. 1. If you are stopped and/or arrested by the police, you may re- main silent; you do not have to answer any questions about al- leged crimes, you should provide your name and address only if requested (although it is not absolutely clear that you must do so.) But then do so, and at all time remember the fifth amendment. 2. If a police officer is not in uniform, ask him to show his iden- tification. He has no authority over you unless he properly identi- fies himself. Beware of persons posing as police officers. Always get his badge number and his name. 3. Police have no right to search your car or your home unless they have a search warrant, probable cause or your consent. They may conduct no exploratory search, that is, one for evidence of crime generally or for evidence of a crime unconnected with the one’you are being questioned about. (Thus, a stop for an auto violation does not give the right to search the auto.) You are not required to consent to a search; therefore, you should not consent and should state clearly and unequivocally that you do not consent, .in front of witnesses if possible. If you do not consent, the police will have the burden in court of showing probably cause. Arrest may be corrected later. 4. You may not resist arrest forcibly or by going limp, even if you are innocent. To do so is a separate crime of which you can be con- victed even if you are acquitted of the original charge. Do not re- sist arrest under any circumstances. 5. If you are stopped and/or arrested, the police may search you by patting you on the outside of your clothing. You can be stripped of your personal possessions. Do not carry anything that includes the name of your employer or friends. 7. Do not engage in “friendly” conversation with officers on the way to or at the station. Once you are arrested, there is little like- lihood that anything you say will get you released. 8. As soon as you have been booked, you have the right.to com- plete at least two phone calls—one to a relative, friend or attorney, the other to a bail bondsman. If you can, call the Black Panther Party, 654-2003, and the Party will post bail if possible. 9. You must be allowed to hire and see an attorney immediately. 10. You do not have to give any statement to the police, nor do you have fo sign any statement you might give them, and therefore you should not sign anything. Take the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, because you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. 11. You must be allowed to post bail in most cases, but you must be able to pay the bail bondsmen’s fee. If you cannot pay the fee, you may ask the judge to release you from custody without bail or to lower your bail, but he does not have to do so. 12. The police must bring you into court or release you within 48 hours after your arrest (unless the time e?ds on a week-end or a holiday, and they must bring you before a judge the first day court is in session.) 13, If you do no’ have the money to hire an attorney, immedi- ately ask the police to get you an attorney without charge. 14, If you have the money to hire a private attorney, but do not know of one, call the National Lawyers’ Guild or the Alameda County Bar Association (or the Bar Association of your county) and furnish you with the name of an attorney who practices criminal law. SUBSCRIBE 10 The BLACK PANTHER Newspaper Black Community News Service NOW — PUBLISHED WEEKLY Clip out and mail to: MINISTRY OF INFORMATION BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 (please print) Name ee Ses a ADDRESS - ZIP = CITY = = STATE Support your newspaper - subscribe now! Enter my subscription for the “Black Panther Newspaper” for (check box). O 3 months: 13 Issues $2.50 6 months: 26 Issues $5.00 O One year: 52 Issues $7.50 HU EY POSTERS "x 35” - $1.00 each Send One Dollar, Name & Address. eps oer : —— — Huey P. Newton Detense Fund BLACK PANTHER PARTY Box 2967, Custom House, S.F. CA, 94126 Name address city 1 Pledge $ Enclosed You Will Find a MALCOLM X FANON, FRANTZ NKRUMAH, KWAME DAVIDSON, BASIL APTHEKER, HERBERT Aptheker, Herbert Bennett, Lerone Jr. Bontemps, Arna W. Cronin, E.D. Before the Mayflower American Negro Poetry--Story of the Ne- gro Black Moses (The story of Garvey and the DuBois, W.E.B. of Black Folk The World and Africa Black Mother, the Years of the African Slave Trade The Autobiography of Malcolm X Wretched of the Earth I Speak of Freedom The Lost Cities of Africa i The Nat Turner Slave Revolt American Negro Slave Revolts A Documentary History of the Negro People UNIA) Studies in a Dying Colonialism Davidson, Basil in the U.S. Black Reconstruction in America--Souls Fanon, Frantz Franklin, John Hope From Slavery to Freedom--Negro in the United States Black Bourgeoisie The Other America Garvey & Garvyeyism--The Philosophy & Opinions of Garveyism The Myth of the’Negro Past A History of Negro Revolts MUNTU: The New African Gulture Frazier, C.F. Harrington, Michael Garvey, Marcus Herskovitts, Melville J. James, C.L.R. Janheinz, John Jones, LeRoi Blues People Lincoln, C.E. Black Muslims in America Malcolm X Malcaim X Speaks The Colonizer and the Colonized Ghana We Charge Genocide Africa’s Giftto-America World’s Great Men of Color; 3,000 ‘B.C. to 1946 A.D. The Negro in Our History Mwmmi, Albert Nkrumah, Kwame Patterson, William L. Rogers, J.A. Wesley, Charles H. & Woodson, Carter G Woodward, C, Van Wright, Richard The Strange Career of Jim Crow Native Son THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 PAGE 19 ELDRIDGE CLEAVER FOR PRESIDENT BLACK PANTHER CANDIDATE ON THE. PEACE AND FREEDOM TICKET CR eee re a EE EE RE I WE ER PAGE 20 THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 HUEY NEWTON a FOR US CONGRESSMAN “TH CONGRESSIONA DISTRICT ALAMEDA COUNTY BLACK PANTHER CANDIDATE ON THE PEACE AND FREEDOM TICKET CC SA'TURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 THE BLACK PANTHER PAGE 21 BOBBY SEALE FOR STATE ASSEMBLYMAN 17TH ASSEMBLY DIST ALAMEDA COUNTY BLACK PANTHER CANDIDATE ON THE PEACE AND FREEDOM TICKET | ‘THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 ABERNATHY ENDORSES HUMPTY DUMPTY ALONG WITH. . . THE REAL HUBERT ABERNATHY aa ON HIS KNEES.......... % other racist candidate for SCLC’s Rev. Abernathy, not U.S. President. Because of relating to his true blackness, his lackey choices, he is pic- has made public declaration tured on this page as he should of his support for one or an- be — praying! semen RIL OR OD ORL NDS OL TIO IO DOI DLO LDN LLL OSORNO, vs OO OGIO IOC OUI ION LION LION, OOO OG OL areanroranretenieen RRR RR RR RRR RR RR RRR RR RRR ERR RR ROR RR RRR ROR RAR OR ROR A SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1968 THE BLACK PANTHER PAGE 23 GAL, OCTOBER 1966 BLACK PANTHER PARTY PLATFORM AND PROGRAM The program is usually divided into one section of ten points entitled ‘‘What We Want’’ and then ten paragraphs explaining these points in a section entitled ‘‘What We Believe.’’ For the sake of clarity, we have put each one of the ten points in **What We Want’? immediately above its corresponding paragraph in WHAT WE WANT WHAT WE BELIEVE ‘‘What We Believe.’ 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 determine our destiny. 2. We want full employment for our people. We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the white American businessmen will not give full employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living. 3. We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our Black Community. We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules-was promised 100 years ago as resti- tution for slave"labor and mass murder of black people. We will aceept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Germans mur- dered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make. 4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people. 5. We want education for our Ha that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want e lucation tha 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 knowledge 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 else. €. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary. 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people. ————————— We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by organizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self defense. 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. We believe that, all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial. 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their lac’ Communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. ee ee We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, environmental, his- torical 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 plebiscite to be _ held throughout the black colony in Which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to articipate for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. When, in the course of human évents, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have con- nected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, derivin eir just owers from the consent 0 e governed; that, enever an ‘orm of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute organizin, most likely to effect their safety and ha ess. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw olf suc government, and to provide new guards for their future security. FREE HUEY NOW GUNS BABY GUNS Born May 19, 1925 SP Aire ae) née Py A =] we. | na “i> dee : at Weeks oF ks - v St, | i; rh) Re ASSASSINATED FEBRUARY 21, 1965