Vol. 2, No. 30

THE BLACK PANTHER =? Black Community News Service VOL. II, NO. 30 SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1969 MINISTRY OF INFORMATION THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOK 267, CUSTOM HOUSE “We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the — earth will be leveled THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1969 PAGE 2 COME SEE ABOUT HUEY | FEDERAL COURT BUILDING 450 GOLDEN GATE AVE SAN FRANCISCO 10:00AM. ~ EXHAUSTING ALL LEGAL MEANS” Federal Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli has set May Ist for a hearing to make the Reagan-Alioto power structure show why it will not release the Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton on bail which Huey has aright to, while pending his appeal. DEMONSTRATION TO FREE HUEY 10:00 A.M. MAY Ist FEDERAL COURT BUILDING 450 GOLDEN GATE AVE. SAN FRANCISCO AIT Ree Lee aa i a el THE BLACK PANTHER’ “SUNDAY, APRIL 20,1969 "PAGE "3"” IN DEFENSE OF SELF DEFENSE THE CORRECT HANDLING OF A REVOLUTION By Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense Most human behavior is learned behavior. Most things the human being learns are gained through an indirect relationship to the object. Humans do not act from instinct as lower animals do. Those things learned indirectly many times stimulate very effective responses to what might be later a direct experience. At this time the black masses are handling the resistance incorrectly. The brothers in East Oakland learned from Watts a means of resistance fighting by amassing the people in the streets, throwing bricks and molotov cocktails to destroy property and create disruption, The brothers and sisters in the streets were herded into a small area by the gestapo police and immediately contained by the brutal violence of the oppressor’s storm troops. This manner of resistance is sporadic, short-lived, and costly in violence against the people. This method has been transmitted to all the ghettos of the black nation across the country. The first man who threw a molotov cocktail is not personally known by the masses, but yet the action was respected and followed by the people. The Vanguard Party must provide leadership for the people. It must teach the correct strategic methods of prolonged resistance through literature and activities. If the activities of the party are respected by the people, the people will follow the example. This is the primary job of the party. This knowledge will probably be gained secondhand by the masses just as the above mentioned was gained indirectly. When the people learn that it is no longer advantageous for them to resist by going into the streets in large numbers, and when they see the advantage in the activities of the guerrilla war- fare method, they will quickly follow this example. But first, they must respect the party which is transmitting this message, When the Vanguard group destroys the machinery of the oppressor by dealing with him in small groups of three and four, and then escapes the might of the oppressor, the masses will ‘be overjoyed and will adhere to this correct strategy. When the masses hear that a gestapo policeman has been executed while sip- ping coffee at a counter, and the revolutionary executioners fled without being traced, the masses will see the validity of this type of approach to resistance. It is not necessary to organize thirty million Black people in primary groups of two's and three’s but it is important for the party to show the people how to go about revolution. During slavery, in which no vanguard party existed and forms of communication were severely restricted and insufficient, many slave revolts occurred, There are basically three ways one can learn; through study, through observation, and through actual experience, The black com- munity is basically composed of activists. The community learns through activity, either through observation of or participation in the activity. To study and learn is good but the actual experience is the best means of learning. The party must engage in activities that will teach the people. The black community is basically not a reading community. Therefore it is very significant that the vanguard group first be activists. Without this knowledge of the black community one could not gain the fundamental knowledge of the black revolution in racist America, The main function of the party is to awaken the people and to teach them the strategic method of resisting the power structure, which is prepared not only to combat the resistance of the people with massive brutality, but to totally annihilate the black community. the black population, If it is learned by the power structure that black people have ‘‘x’’ amount of guns in their possession, this will not stimulate the power structure to prepare itself with guns, because it is already more than prepared. The result of this education will be positive for Black people in their resistance and negative for the power structure in its op- pression, because the party always exemplifies revolutionary de- fiance. If the party is not goingtomake the people aware of the tools of liberation and the strategic method that is to be used, there will be no means by which the people will be mobilized properly. The relationship between the vanguard party and the masses is a secondary relationship. The relationship between the members of the vanguard party is a primary relationship. It is important that the members of the vanguard group maintain a face-to-face relation- ship with each other. This is important if the party machinery is to be effective. It is impossible to put together functional party ma- -hinery or programs without this direct relationship. The members of the vanguard group should be tested revolutionaries. This will ninimize the danger of Uncle Tom informers and opportunists. The main purpose of vanguard group should be to raise the con- sciousness of the masses through educational programs and certain physical activities the party will participate in, The sleeping masses must be bombarded with the correct approach to struggle through the activities of the vanguard party. Therefore, the masses must know that the party exists, The party must use all means available to get this information across to the masses. If the masses do not haye knowledge of the party, it will be impossible for the masses to follow the program of the party. The vanguard party is never underground in the beginning of its existence, because this would limit its effectiveness and educational processes. How can you teach people if the people do not know and respect you? The party must exist above ground as long as the dog power structure will allow, and hopefully when the party is forced to go underground the message of the party will already have been put across to the people, The vanguard party’s activities on the suerace will necessarily be shortlived, This is why it is so important that the party make a tremendou! impact upon the people before it is driven into secrecy. At this time, the people know the party exists, and they will seek out further information on the activities of this underground party. Many would-be revolutionaries work under the fallacious illusion that the vanguard party is to be a secret organization that the power structure knows nothing about, and the masses know nothing about, except for occasional letters that come to their homes by night. Underground parties cannot distribute leaflets announcing an under- ground meeting. These are contradictions and inconsistencies of the so-called revolutionaries. The so-called revolutionaries are in fact afraid of the very danger that they are advocating for the people. These so-called revolutionaries want the people to say what they themselves are afraid to say, and the people to do what they them- selves are afraid to do, This makes the so-called revolutionary a coward and a hypocrite. If these imposters would investigate the history of revolution, they would see that the vanguard group always starts out above ground and is later driven underground by the aggressor. The Cuban Revol- ution exemplifies this fact; when Fidel Castro started to resist the butcher Batista and the American running dogs, he started by speak- ing on the campus of the University of Havana in public. He was later driven to the hills. His impact upon the dispossessed people of Cuba was very great and received with much respect. When he went into secrecy, Cuban people searched him out. People went to the hills to find him and his band of twelve, Castro handled the revoli- tionary struggle correctly. If the Chinese Revolution is investigated; it will be seen that the Communist Party was quiet on the surface so that they would be able tomuster support from the masses. There are many areas one can read about to learn the correct approach, such as the revolution in Kenya, the Algerian Revolution, Fanon’s THE WRETCHED OF THE EARTH, the Russian Revolution, the works of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, and a host of others, A revolutionary must realize that if he is sincere, death is im- minent due to the fact that the things he is saying and doing are extremely dangerous. Without this realization, it is impossible to proceed as a revolutionary. The masses are constantly looking for a guide, a Messiah, to liberatethem from the hands of the oppressor. The vanguard party must exemplify the characteristics of worthy leadership. Millions and millions of oppressed people might not know members of the vanguard party personally or directly, but they will gain through an indirect acquaintance the proper strategy for liber- ation via the mass media and the physical activities of the party. It is of prime importance that the vanguard party develop a political organ, such as a newspaper produced by the party, as well as employ strategically revolutionary art and destruction of the oppressor’s machinery. For example, Watts. The economy and property of the oppressor was destroyed to such an extent that no matter how the oppressor tried to whitewash the activities of the black brothers, the real nature and the real cause of the activity was communicated to every, black community. For further example, no matter how the oppressor tries to distort and confuse the message of Brother Stokely Carmichael, Black people all over the country understand it per- fectly and welcome it. The Black Panther Party for Self Defense teaches that in the final analysis, the amount of guns and defense weapons, such as hand grenades, bazookas, and other necessary equipment, will be supplied by taking these weapons from the power structure, as exemplified by the Viet Cong. Therefore, the greater the military preparation on the part of the oppressor, the greater is the availability of weapons for the black community. It is believed by some hypocrites that when the people are taught by the vanguard group to prepare for resistance, this only brings the man down on them with increasing violence and brutality; but the fact of the matter is that when the mau becomes more oppressive, this only heightens the revolutionary fervor. The people never make revolution. The oppressors by their brutal actions cause the resistance by the people, The vanguard party only teaches the correct methods of resistanée. So, if things can get worse for oppressed people, then they will feel no need for revolution or resistance. The complaint of the hypocrites that the Black Panther Party for Self Defense is exposing the people to deeper suffering is an incorrect observation. People have proved that they will not tolerate any more oppression by the racist dog police through their rebellions in the black communities across the country. The people are looking now for guidance to extend and strengthen their resistance struggle. AAT TOE, THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1969 Coming, vAT PAGE 4 THE MURDER OF ALVERT LINTHCOME Last night at approximately 9:30 pm, a brother was shot and killed in cold blood by a racist dog. The brother’s name was Alvert: Joe Linthcome age 19, It all went like: It was suppose to be a sus- pect in a murder which happened at approximately 12:00 yesterday, Sunday afternoon. Last night, the police were chasing this vehicle, which was supposed to be one of the Suspects car, used in the robbery. A security guard fired upon the car, and the car hit a pole and wrecked in the middle of Third Street between Shafter and Thomas, There were two people inside the car. They both got out and started to run. One of them ran into Paulette’s Record Shop and a policeman came in behind him, Joe raised his hands in the air and the policeman shot him in the heart, The thing a lot of people want to know is why wasn’t the policeman’s name in the newspaper (the policeman who shot the brother). The story was in the newspaper this morning. Now, this is a holdback because if they are not trying to hide him, his name should have been in that paper, MURDERED BY S.F. Dolores Linthcome, Joe’s sis- ter, 5147 Third Street, 822-5548. It was. like this: The police got out of the car. I mean they sat in the car, and they made a per- fect aim. He might have been trying to kill him - I don’t know what he was trying to do. But anyway, I stood there and said: ‘Oh please, please don’t shoot him. Please, for the first time, take him to jail or anything.” And they shot and I fell right there on the ground. And Jeannie thought I had been shot. So I got up and she said; ‘‘Run, run, run anywhere.”’ So I took off my shoes and ran, First I ran home, then I came back. Then I ran up to one of my friend’s house and I called my mother from there. When I camé’back, they told me I couldn’t see my brother. He didn’t give any warning fire, he didn’t say ‘‘Halt’’ he didn’t say ‘‘wait a minute’’ or anything. One of them ran after Michael and one of them ran in there, and I guess he made the second shot. But, I was standing up there screaming and hollering. So, I ran off because I couldn’t take any more. I ran home and called my mother, My friend’s father, was going to come with me, but I didn’t have time to wait, so 1 came and asked to see my brother and they told me I couldn’t get in. Unidentified Witness; I was on the roof, See that roof right up there, I was up there. It started down there (towards Palou Street). They were chasing them down there and the cops started shooting and evi- dently somebody else was shooting back at the cops, You know, one of the brothers was shooting back Michael Perry: At 12:30 pm, me and Joe left his house and then went over to Jimmy Braden’s house, And from Jimmy Braden’s house we came back and went to a gas station. After we left the gas station, I came back home - Joe and I. Then, he and I left - we got a ride, We went out to Sierra Bowl to get the car, We got the car-and came back. When I was being pursued down Third Street, all of a sudden, for no reason and not being out of control of the car, the car slammed into a pole and ran up on the dividing strip. I tried to tell the dude notto run, but before I could say anything he was gone. Then I tried to get out on my side, but I couldn’t get out. Then I slid over to the seat that he was in and then I got out. I ran, Just as I got to the corner, I looked back. I heard a gunshot, I saw the dude falling. I PIG at the cops. So they stopped down by the record shop, So the dude that got killed jumped out the car, and held up his hands and the sis- ter asked them not to shoot him, So, he ran in the record shop and the cops shot him anyway. They shot him with a shotgun, They got out of the car and shot him, He was in the record shop and they ) could see that he couldn’t go any- where. So they fired, and I think that they shot him three times with a shotgun, They (pigs) stayed outside the record shop and shot him from outside. I think they shot through the doorway (1 think the door was open). After they shot him, he was lying on the floor. The girl ran up the street and got her mother and father, She was begging them not to shoot him, but the cop did it anyway. He (pig) saw that he could have gotten him (brother) then, but he shot him any- way. I knew him, He use to work at the record shop and down at the wash house right next door. He used to walk up and down the streets all the time. My brother and I UNIDENTIFIED WITNESS I had just gotten off the bus - three other dudes and I. We heard some popping. We turned around and it. was a car and it turned the corner, There were two dudes in it. The cops were behind them, There was a cop coming up third and a cop coming down Third and AND When Moses set out to free the Jewish people from the domination of Pharoah. Pharoah in his lust for power and in a vain attempt to maintain his control tried to destroy all the first born of the gJeWish people. However his plan packfired and the children of Egypt died instead, This is an object lesson that the genocidal leaders of the Western nations should bear . in mind in their dealings with the coldéfed peoples of the world. The genocidal leaders of the im- perialist countries are fast trying to stymie the rising tides of peoples revolution and maintain their power and domination. Alltypes of means are being tried. The bourgeoise, lackies of the imperialist, are being sent in to try to confuse the people with slogans ‘‘buy black’”’ promises of a piece of the pie ‘lack capitalism’’ andat the same time they commit murder for their bosses while ‘‘just trying to be black.”’ The criminal leaders they were shooting at the dudes. The dudes crashed and we ran down there and one dude got away. They got the other dude and the other dude ran in the record shop and he was hurt and he turned around with his hands up. The girl who was working in there said, ‘‘Don’t HAROAH who run the capitalist world are very learned in trickery and while keeping the peoples minds focused on court actions and armed at- tacks they silently go about what they consider the final solution to the, 3rd world crisis--and bombard our communities throughout the world with a silent killer dis- guised as a blessing and a relief from worry, They call this bless- ing the ‘*pill’’, In their mad scheme totake over the world these mad men are trying to kill off all the future generations of 3rd world people so that after we wage our victorious world revolution there will be no heirs to inherit this earth but theirs. Chairman Mao teaches us however that all the evil plans of imperialism and reactionaries are pound to fail. Third world people all over this world realize that it is not for themselves but for their children and their childrens’ children that they fight. We have shoot him’’ but they just blew him away. They shot him for no- thing. The boy had given up. He didn’t have anyplace to go. He was inside the record shop. He couldn’t go over the counter or anything, AID... no unwanted children in our com- munities, The idea of unwanted children is a manifestation of bour- geoise and petty bourgeoise ideol- ogy. Our children are our wealth, Just as the plans of Pharoah failed so will the modern day Pharoahs. Witness the steadily increasing 8rd world birth rate while the birth rate of the oppressor is declining, The 3rd world will be free, In the words of Huey P, Newton, our Minister of Defence, ‘‘The spirit of ‘the people is greater than the man’s technology.’”’ ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Long live the Minister of Defense Landon Williams kept running. I ran. Just before I jumped over the fence, I was hit in the arm, I ran up the street, I fell I climbed over another fence, I laid there, for how long, I don’t know, I got up and walked back into the house, and I fell to the floor, Then I was brought to the hospital where I was then arrested and made to sleep on the floor all night. After I came out of the fingerprint room, they gave me a card, There was an officer reading the paper. I asked him, ‘‘what do I do with this?’’ He looked at me and said, ‘‘get,over there until I call you.”’ Then I was placed in a cell. On the way out, after I was bailed, he said, ‘‘what hap- pened to your arm?’’ I said, ‘‘1 got shot.” He said, ‘‘what do you want to steal a car for?’’ Then he said, ‘‘If it had been me, I would have shot you in the head.” used to say to him, ‘what’s hap- pening brother’, we knew him pretty well. That's how that went. They said the car was stolen, and that they had robbed something. Some of the people in the car got away, but he (brother who was killed) didn’t get away. He tried to, but they shot him before he got away. Something else happened up there, but I don’t know what happened, But, there was blood all over the streets -- all around the corner, He wasn’t the only one who got shot - it was more than him ‘who got shot. They arrested some brothers for nothing. A brother was trying to tell them what happened and they threw him in the car and told him to shut up. My brother came down there and was cursing and was mad and said ‘‘who in the fuck shot Joe?’ And he saidthings like, ‘*You white pig’’ andthey just kept on passing by. There were about six or seyen of them chasing him, they wrecked the car some= where around here. After that I went and got my mother and came back down here and tried to get some more information, I sawthat he was dead and there was some money around the floor, - NO WARRANT Alice Perry (sister to Michael): When we came from the hospital, taking Michael to see about his arm, the man from upstairs - a Caucasian man - and two other couples who live upstairs were out in the front, They came run- ning to the car and saidthere were three policemen and one man tak- ing blood samples. They took my brother’s sweater and a leg from a pair of his pants. I asked them “what are you doing in here?’ They said, ‘‘we’re here to in- vestigate,” I said ‘‘how did youget 1 broke in, We got in, the doors are not broken in or anything.’’ I said, ‘‘what were you going to do, pig, if you found him in here? - Shoot him down like you did the other boy?’ He said, ‘‘Lady, don’t get upset. I just got on at 11:30, I don’t know anything about this. When I got to the force, they told me to come up here, So I came up here,’’ My other brother, Alonzo, was there, He said, ‘‘what do you guys want?’’ They said, ‘we are just taking ygamples.’’ And this other pig was in, there and he was getting all smart. He said, ‘‘WE DON’T HAVE TOHAVE A WARRANT, BECAUSE THIS IS A FELONY, WE CAN COME IN YOUR HOUSE ANY SIME WE WANT TO.” And they had”opened the whole house up - my brother’s apartment, my father’s room and my sister’s room and went through the whole house, My brother told them to get their stuff ahd get out. So they started picking up the rags and stuff, and took them, They were taking pictures all in front of the house, ‘inside the house (all of the rooms.) THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20,1969 PAGE 5 PIG HEARING I HAP TO SHOOT HAT BOY YER HONOR HE COULD NAVE HAD A GUN OR SOMTHIN: REMEMBER MALCOLM J’A tooth for a tooth, an eye, for an eye, a head for a head, and a life for a life . . . If you have to give it up make it even steven.” The people want San Francisco police officer, Gerald Roberts, dead for the cold blooded murder of Alvert Linthcome. OF MURSE! NICE WORK ) PATROL HOS RORERTS... YOU CAN GO NOW. NIMS | | / Fa MESS MINISTER OF CULTURE EMORY SPEAKS AT HUNTERS POINT RALLY There’s not too much that can be said after the Chairman Bobby Seale has .spoken, but I would like to say that we didn’t endorse and we: didn’t go along with our brother being shot in the back. They shot our brother Mathew Johnson back in 1966 and we did nothing. } They shot George Baskett and we watched it go through the courts, TO THE MOTHER OF ALVERT LINTHCOME and we watched what they did, they cut the pig loose. Now they f é - shot our brother Linthcome and what are we going to do? Are we The Black Panther Party would like to dedicate this poem, gonna sit back and watch this shit go on? Well, if we are, you written by another of her sons, though not by birth, Alprentice’ ‘Bunchy’ Carter was her son, beca"se Bunchy loved Black Mothers better sit over in the corner and be called sissies and punks be- so much the = -" eanther Party would cause there’s brothers out here who are going to move. Brothers take aU out here are gonna move organizationally, and when they begin to recognize there’s sissies and punks and they get the correct revolutionary ideology down, they not gonna call you sissies and punks no more, they gonna call you traitors and they will kill traitors (That’s Right). So you better get yourselves together, you better get yourselves together and begin to relate; because we say that, that pig, that West Coast leader of the Mafia, Alioto is just as guilty as Cahill, Cahill who is the international - is the president of the international police organization. We say that Alioto is guilty because, did he stand up and condem the pig? No, he went along with it. He gave them the green light. He must have given them the green light. So what are we gonna do? Are we just gonna sit around and talk crazy or are we gonna get to- gether and do something? What they say is that they can puta million dollar billboard sign out there in the baseball park, Candle- stick and shoot us in the back, What they could tell us is that by 1975 they gonna give us some new projects, by 1975 if we’re not organized, we'll all be dead, That’s what they're doing; they’re killing us, shooting us down and we accept it. We accept it. We don’t have to go along with this. All we have to do is pick up the gun. Read the 10-point Program of the Black Panther Party. Number 7 says We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black people. Read the 10-point Program of the Black Panther Party. Read it, because it says we want decent housing, we want education, but we won’t get those things non-violently. We need guns. We need guns and organization. And we Say that these pigs that killed Lithcome, the pigs that killed Baskett, the pigs that killed Mathew Johnson (you got it brother) that all of them, that all of them, that the people, that the people are after them and the people will kill them, And we gonna kill every motherfucker who went along with that shit. We gonna_kill that motherfucker, bald-headed gangster down there in City Hall (that’s right). We gonna kill him. When I say ‘‘we’’ I mean the people. Because the people are hip, Because every time-they kill ‘one of our brothers, it makes us more aware, that it’s time to get rid of them, that we can’t relate to them; because all they’re) doing is patting us on the back while they kill us, All they're doing is giving us $45,000 worth of poverty money, while they kill us. And $45,000 is what one of them punk’s salary is for one year. So how do they expect all of us to take $45,000 and live off of it? So we say that we don’t want $45,000. We say that we want all of it. We want all of it for all the people, We say that if we can’t, if everybody can’t have it, ain’t nobody gonna have it. So there’s not too much more that I can say except that if we kill a few of them, we'll have a little satisfaction, but if we kill Some more, we'll have some more satisfaction, but if we kill all of them, we'll have complete satisfaction. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLEIII THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20,1969 PAGE 6 CHAIRMAN BOBBY’S PRESS STATEMENT AT ALVERT LINTHCOME’S FUNERAL Federal and State authorities across the nation are trying to destroy the entire structure and leadership of the Black Panther Party. Chairman Bobby Seale also said yesterday that the Party has had to expel members discovered to be agent provocateurs for the puw- er structure, At least three expelled Party members who are now renegades are known agent provacateurs, in- cluding Tommy Jones and others. “These pigs have lied on the Party, informed on the Party and planned five robberies todiscredit the Party which the Black Panther Party had no knowledge nor part of’ said the Chairman. Jones was expelled from the Party in January, said the Panther Chairman, after it was discovered he had planned a tavern robbery in Oakland last December which brought on the arrests of seven Panthers. The Chairman said that he had been provoked into holding a news conference outside Providence Baptist Church, 1601 McKinnon Avenue, before the funeral yes- terday of Alvert Joe Linthcome. ««] wanted to inform the people that black renegade pig Jones lied yesterday on television’’, said the Chairman, by Stew Tommy Jones and his friends, are jiving and they know it. This crap only helps the pigs. It's pure bullshit for them to say that if Eldridge were here they would not be kicked out of the Party. When BillBrentwas busted for a dumb and dangerous holdup he was busted out of the Party and attacked by Eldridge. In one of the last talks I had with him Cleaver rapped that the «Stupid revolution’? was over. The stupid revolution included Panther Party members who would not ac- cept revolutionary discipline. A lot of the early Party mem- bers felt they had a privileged position, refusing to go to political classes or carry ott any assign- ments, Eldridge told me that these dudes must cither reform or get kicked out. He felt that a purge was necessary to save the party from pig destruction. Jones thinks Huey is onhis side, But when Hucy was on the streets he once expelled everyone in the party except Bobby Seale. He let them back only when they agreed to aecept Party discipline, IS JONES JIVING? Jones said at a television news conference Sunday that the Pan- thers had ordered the ‘execution’ of Ronald Black, 31, who was shot to death Saturday afternoon in an exchange of gunfire with another man only two doors from Panther National Headquarters in Ber- keley. Jones said he was Black’s cou- sin and that both had quit the Panthers in January because the Party had become too militant. The Chairman denied that the Panthers had anything to do with the killing of Black: ‘it was just the case of one brother firing on another, something we’ve been doing for hundreds of years,’’ And Black was nota Party mem- ber, the Chairman said later ‘*He was the kind who came around and hung around Party Headquar- ters but nothing more.’’ Jones claimed that his cousin was shot to death because he tried to get out of the Panthers, ‘‘aper- son can’t get out of the Black Pan- ther Party.’’ The Chairman said witha sneer, «that sounds just like something FBI pig J. Edgar Hoover would say. Not only can a person get out of the Party if they want to, the Party will kick them out if they are found to be irresponsible to the people, if they are foundcreat- PIG AGENTS, BEWARE! LLY, Albert One falsehood that has to be nailed is the claim that Bobby Seale spent the people's money in Europe. The truth is that the bread was put up by Swedish rad- icals and didn’t cost the Panthers two bits. Our street revolution should check out Eldridge’s rap on the ««stupid revolution’’. The time for hoping the revolution will happen by itself is over, We need a pro- gram and a strategy and tactics to bring it off. I am sick of the pigs laughing up their asses at our dumbness and lack of skill. We must learn to fight and think. In this struggle we may even have to read a book, The renegades boast about the fact that they refuse to read books. Eldridge Cleaver read Das Kapital in San Quentin and about every- thing else in the library. Huey knows Fanon by heart and read Deustcher's biography of Trotsky in Vacaville. To hope for a defense of political illiteracy from Huey and Eldridge is to expect alibrary to turn into a television set. ing erroneous situations,’”’ Jones had first come under sus- Ppicion, said the Chairman, ‘¢when he questioned me intently on El- dridge’s whereabouts, I could smell him then,’” Eldridge Cleaver, Panther Min- ister of Information and best-sell- ing author disappeared just before he was to be returned to prison last November 27 for parole viola- tion. The Chairman scoffed at recent New York police statements that they foiled a Panther plot to set off bombs in five large Manhattan stores, «If we were going to bomb some- thing, we wouldn’t do it where we would kill our own people. Now’m not going to say anything about bombing a police station’’. He returned to Jones again, add- ing archly, ‘¢You know he planned other robberies you haven’t even heard about. “In that tavern holdup he planned, he used the people’s guns, enough of them to rob several banks. If we committed a robbery you can bet it wouldn’t be for peanuts like Jones got. ‘*Besides’’, said the Chairman, «ewe don’t need that kind of money. We can get $1,500 for a speaking engagement.’”? SOLIPARITY WITH THE PEOPLE PIS AGENTS AND PROVOCATEUR: WILL BE DEALT WITH AS ENEMmtE: OF THE PEOPLE. The Indiana Panther Part effort to pur; opportunistic, ary, reactione ments, uncov: have all of qualifications. Bob O’Banno: were exposec counter-revoli of mis-repres based on the and groveling two niggers h and-_unapprove ranks of whit« and there wou teachings of tt quoting memb Committee in palatibleto tt ences, The tongued Joe N on tape’ sayir CHICKEN AT ING OF THE PASSIONA’ FEELS EVER THE STAR-SF STATEMENT ON RENEGADE PROVOCATEUR AGENT TOMMY JONES As the Black Panther Party goes forth to wage the struggle for black liberation, the pig power structure is escalating its attempts to destroy the organization and leadership of the Black Panther Party across the Country. Fed- eral and State indictments on trumped up charges against the Party and infiltrating agents with- in the Party are the pig tools of destruction. Black Renegade Pig Agents like Tommy Jones who is duping other renegades to follow his plots are being used increas- ingly to destroy the people's lib- eration movement, At least 3 ex- pelled Party members who are now renegades are known agent provacateurs, including Tommy Jones and_otherss These pigs ation to destroy our support in the community. Tommy Jones lied to the people concerning the shoot- ing near our office April 5th of Ron Black in which one black man was killedby another. We have no information concerning that in- cident, that it was in any way connected to the Black Panther Party. We not only denounce pig lacky Tommy Jones and other ex- members of the Party who do not follow the revolutionary principles and rules to serye the people, but we call upon the people of the black community to recognize these rotten ‘FBI pig agents as their dedicated ENEMIES and to go forth and get rid of all the. pigs and enemies of the people, black or white, who are attempt- .ato._stop black people’s just jations such t out of the sounds just z J. Edgar only can a e Party if y will kick found to be people, if g erroneous on by the d these two | renegades 1e treacher- icious plot- curr Bob 1is partner » had been n which they White, Coal- eakable sons to insure a * their white illies. They 1eir families any extreme formist, in- Martin was ‘fe, whom he ae party, as ») visitor that spacifist dog, ght ‘WASN'T . By her own wn to be the traitor. And slobbering xt page Cont. from last page INDIANA CHAPTER PURGES mouthed, whining Bob O’Bannon who has been observed sporting these same counter-revolutionary elements around in their cars. Bob O'Bannon when questioned as to the whereabouts of Joe Martin by Deputy Chairman Fred Craw- ford during a telephone conver- sation, lied, saying ‘*I AIN’ T SEEN HIM’’. Although security had just confirmed that they had been to a ““MEETING”’ with their perverted allies all evening. When informed of their expul- sion from the Black Panther Par- ty these two ass-kissing opportun- ists stood naked and exposed and unusually without comment. These two fools who refuse to stop suck- ing the tits of the pig power struc- ture will find that “FOR EVERY PORKCHOP THERE IS A FRYING PAN’’. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK POWER TO THE BLACK PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN- GUARD STILL A PIG. TRICKS BY THE PIGS In a recent article in the San Francisco Examiner there was an article that supposedly detailed a plot by several revolutionary groups to overthrow the imperial- ist U.S. Government. According to the article, the revolutionaries are based in Palo Alto and hold secret meetings. The article re- sorted to the usual pig trickery and claims to have an infiltrator who sneaked in among the revolu- tionaries, and finks on them to the pigs. The article further claimedto have gotten hold of a secret death list and information about secret training camps. Attacks on B.P.P. Named as villains in this article were S.D,S. and the Black Panther Party, and the target date for the take over has been conveniently set for 1973, Chairman Mao Tse Tung of the Peoples Republic of China teaches us that ‘‘It is a good thing if we are attackedby the enemy, because it shows that we have drawn a clear line of de- marcation between the enemy and ourselyes.”” These attacks on our party by the press and the jive indictment of our Chairman Bobby Seale and $.D.S. founder Tom Hay- den by a gangster court in Cook County Chicago all represent at- tempts to stop the people’s move for liberation by the capitalist ruling circles. Doomed to Defeat These and all other attempts on the part of U.S. imperialism and it’s accomplices are bound to fail. We can see in the example of Pak- istan, that when the people move and rise like a mighty storm they need no death lists, the names of the enemies of the people are burned into the people’s minds, As for the myth of training camps, where ever the people are is the peoples training camps. The brothers and sisters in the ghettoes through-out this racist capitalist country are training every day. Witness Watts, Detroit, andCleve- land. As Chairman says, ‘‘We learn warfare through warfare’’, and for the insanity of setting a target date of 1973. Only a av- aricious fool would try to meet a deadline for completing the revolu- tion. The Chinese revolution took over 20 years, Revolution is not something that is limited by time. The Black Panther Party here in the bowels of this imperialistic monster raises high the battle cry of the valiant Vietnamese people who crushed the French at Dien Dien Phu, ‘‘Resolved to fight, De- termined to win’’ and the libera- tion fighters of the N.L.F. ‘‘We will fight from this generation to the next.”” All Power to the People Long live the Minister of Defense] Landon Williams. THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20,1969 PAGE 7 BEING HONEST WITH THE PEOPLE CONCERNING BILL BRENT The Black Panther Party made a gross mistake concerning an ex-member of the Black Panther Party, Bill Brent, and our Party will come forth in the communities and tell the people if we make a mistake. Things that were slightly misunderstood by many Party members and the Central Committee before has been cleared up simply because Bill Brent has the intelligence to come forth and clear up our misunderstanding by relating to the organization as a person who we find really believes in the people’s revolution. Brother Bill Brent is NOT in collaboration with any of the foolish pack of renegades, some 10 or 12, ex-Party members led by Tommy Jones running around lying on the Black Pan- ther Party. — BOBBY SEALE Chairman, Black Panther Party ANTI-BLACK HYSTERIA IN DETROIT DETROIT (LNS) -- Nearly 150 black people were arrested and then freed after two cops were shot in Detroit Mar. 30. The shoot- ing and arrests grew out of a meeting of the New. Republic of Africa, a militant black separ- atist organization, at the New Behel Baptist Church in the heart of the black ghetto. Two men are still being held in connection with the incident. Police were harassing partici- pants throughout the weekend. On midnight Saturday night they began to stop cars, order the occupants up against the wall, and call them ‘nigger’? and ‘black bastard,’’ Somebody shot at the cops, wounding one and killing another, No shots had been fired fromthe church itself, but twenty cops in- vaded the church, shooting wildly, Ten people were wounded. The police then proceeded to arrest the one hundred and fifty people in the church, These people were refused per- mission to see a lawyer and held seven hours. without charge, At their arraignment the next morn- ing, the judge on duty was George Crockett, a black man, When the judge asked the prosecuting at- torney for evidence, the attorney responded by saying that he hadn’t had time to get any. When it be- came clear that the bust was un- justified and spurious, Judge Croc- kett dismissed charges and or- dered everyone released The prosecuting attorney was held in contempt of court. The city is in an uproar. The mass media are engdging in an hysterical campaign against all placks in general and Judge Crockett in particular, Both the mayor and the governor are de- manding his impeachment. More than 1500 students from Wayne State University and six inner city high schools held a demonstration on April 3 against police brutality and in support of Judge Crockett. The demonstra- tion turned into a militant march on the city-county building, but the march was dispersed when police warned the leaders they were go- ing to fire into the crowd. IMPERIALISM, WHITE CHAUVINISM AND PL The farcial trial in Memphis, Tennessee, proved that 1) any Black man, regardless of class or fame, canbe murdered by agents of the ruling 60 families, and 2) that there was a conspiracy to murder Rev. King. Immediately prior to Rev. King’s murder President Johnson publicly supported the white-supremacist, Klan-ridden Memphis police force. Large numbers of FBI men were working with the Memphis police; Rey. King was surrounded by Mem- phis police and FBI men when shot. James Reston, then NEW YORK TIMES Washington editor, played a leading role in hushing up John- son’s and J. Edgar Hoover's role in the murder of Rey. King. Now the New York Times ‘‘regrets’’ the farcial court action in Memphis while still covering up the role of Johnson and Hoover. The Times wants those who urged attacks on Rev. King to determine if there was a conspiracy. This is the “free’’ press in action, In our newsletter of May, 1968, we reported the lynching of a Black man in South Boston. Three white men were arrested, The “prosecution” first reduced the charge to second-degree murder, Then an all-white jury could not agree - mistrial, The next step will be, if the usual system of white supremacy prevails, either a suspended sentence or complete freedom for the lynchers, With the above events in mind, consider Progressive Labor’s at- tack on Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther leader, The PL magazine page 33 of the February, 1%9 edition, says, ‘‘Some of the rea~ sons he (Cleaver) gave for not re- turning to jail were that prison would be too rough for him, be- cause he is an intellectual or be- cause he can’t take it any more. We state that every Black manhas the right and duty to stay out of imperialist jails. This, like all other questions, is a political ques- tion, But to see jail only in per- sonal terms without any relation- ship to the entire movement and to run to save one’s own skin, is giving no political leadership.” PL, with Mao’s support, has done everything possible to slan- der, expose and jail every Black nationalist leader. PL used the prestige of Chinese support and urged Malcolm X_to work openly. PL attacked Rey. King’s ‘support to Black garbage workers in Mem- phis, thus covering up the con- spirators against King, Note that PL claims it opposes the jailing of Black men in general, But Black leg@ders should surrender}! If PL leaders fee] it is so wrong for a Black leader such as Robert Williams or Cleaver to avoid jail, “to run away’’ then what is their practice? To keep them from run- ning away, to help the FBI find them, is the only conclusion that can be drawn from PL’s position. DEALING WITH PIG INFORMERS The Ministry of Defense of the Indiana Chapter working under De- fense Captain Will Sharrief, and underground security forces up- rooted two pig informers. The first o? these lackeys, Barron Howard, had been rapping to the F,B,I, for 15 weeks. During this period he revealed all he knew of our visible security and weaponry. He also delivered to the enemy his knowl- edge of staff members and their families as well as giving advance of speaking engagements. The F.B.I. pig, according to Howard wanted to know where we stored guns, ammo, and ex- plosives, none of which he knew. F.B.I, pigs as well as local pigs are scared to death of Panthers especially if they have automatic weapons. The pigs wanted Howard to inform them of Panthers coming from other states or cities. The reason for this was thatthey might trap them with an inter-state traf- fic of weapons offense. This fat, funky, bootlicking, tom-traitor was going to wear a recording device taped to his rotten carcass to trap Panthers for conspiracy. Howard also said the F,B,I, had the phone Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This is a question of the first importance for the revolution... Mao About four or five years ago the rise of national black con- sciousness spread anepidemic that has now become a strong phe- nomenon throughout the country. With it appeared the avaricious kook profiteer, the cultural nigger nationalist draped in a dashika, sandals and other cultural para- phenalia, and speaking ooga booga, This is not to say that this event didn’t in fact beautify Black Amer= ica but certain practitioners of this movement have brought ugli- ness to its very existence. (U.C. tapped so that any long distance phone calls in or out would auto- matically be taped through the dowrttown switchboard. Howard also told us that the bank balance of our account was sent to the F.B,I, by bank officials, Howard said, the F,B,I, wanted to arrest the Panthers on charges ranging from inciting riot, bombing schools, and carrying concealed weapons. Howard also stated that Hoover’s gestapo was hung-up be- cause we (INDIANA CHAPTER) didn’t show up when anticipated (IN PUBLIC) and showed when we were not anticipated, Two F,B.I. agents that collab- orated with Howard were named as Larry Gosenburg and Anthony Wil- liams. Gosenburg also was the pig that was partly responsible for the raid that occurred on our Head- quarters, December 18, 1968. Howard also revealed that Joe Martin and Bob O’ Bannon hadcar- ried on conversations with F.B.L agents. Martin on his job, and both Martin and O’Bannon in a local mostly-white patroned cock- tail lounge. 4 Under questioning Howard re- vealed extensive preparations by the F,B.I. to murder and arrest members of staff as well as rank and file of the Indiana Chapter. Howard stated he had talked, with the owner of the row of store- rooms in which the Indiana of The Black Panther Party is located, The purpose of the talk was to *econvince”’ the owner not to rent anymore vacancies, according to Howard, The owner Howard further stated, was told to ‘*coax’’ all present tenants to move. Howard said, the F.B,I, wanted the Pan- thers alone in the building, so that when they fire-bombed our head- quarters only Panthers would be trapped, Howard himself was to bring a fire-bomb either in or about the Headquarters. To sup- port this information the following statements are true: 1. Four businesses were oc- upying the storerooms when we moved in this location. 2. Only one business is left in the storerooms, which is an up- holsterer, who says he plans to move soon because they refuse to make any repairs. 3. The area in which Head- quarters is located has been a gathering place for brothers and sisters for a number of years. Formally when the pig came through he ordered the brothers to scatter and they complied, now when he comes into the neighbor- hood he is told to keep moving. 4, The pig can no longer move as freely as he used to in this area. The pig sees a source of leadership for the black community in the Black Panther Party. The threat posed by a probable attack on our Headquarters left us no choice but to seize the sec- ond informer, and to find out what he knew. This stooge alsohadbeen known to us and had been isolated from all but visible security or daily goings on. Lucian Grant Rid- ley alias ‘*BIG JIM FERGERSON”’ had informed to the F.B,L for 3 weeks prior to being confronted by The Indiana Chapter security. The major revelation by Ridley was more information pertaining tothe murder plot by the F,B,I, against Indiana Chapter. Ridley informed CULTURAL NATIONALISM L.A, - January 17, 1969.) From the outstart of this movement to this date while capitalist and other factions have used these oppor- tunistic cultural practitioners as front men for two main reasons: 1. Further exploitation ofthe Black Community and; 2. As an obstacle to the further growth of the re- volutionary struggle. The ‘mis- leaders’? of this movement main- tain that black people can achieve their liberation through a black art, black awareness type of cul- ture, ‘These nigger pseudo-intel- lectual fools in many cases misled black people, because they base plack legitimacy around appear- ance and heavy lip-service, (Paper Tiger) Many of these culturalist have even read Mao, Marx, Malcolm, Fanon and others but apparently without much understanding, since they (culturalist) failed to put any of the principles into construc- tive practice. Intellectualist, Ron **Kooky Duke’’ Karenga for ex- ample announces such nonsenseas, cultural art, initiates supports and promotes change.’’ Our people must not be fooled by such slo- ganisms, Never in life will full and complete liberation for our people be achieved by sloganisms or paintings or dancing - we al- ready beat the man dancing, We must see these kooks for what they really are and expose them to the people. They are black lackey poot-butt nigger mercen- aries, They, like other anglo- saxon negro b.dther toms of Ba- bylon America, have joined the rank and file of pig provocatuers for the one purpose of strangling the Black Panther Party which is the strongest moving and most powerful organ of the Revolutionary movement in the United States, Only a lifeless, stupid, crazy fool would try to stun the Black Li- beration struggle, and all these fools, kooks, and black mercen- aries will and must be dealt the death blow to wipe them out reso- lutely, thoroughly, wholly andcom- THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1969 PAGE 8 us that the F.B.L against Indiana Chapter. Ridley informed us that the F.B.L intended to rig bombs in staff members cars as well as kill them if they were caught alone, This bootlicking fool also was to bring a recording device into the Headquarters as well as an ex- plosive charge, if possible. Two pig agents that collaborated with Lucian Ridley were Tom Kernsey and another pig named only as White. Both traitors couldn’t understand how they had been found out. They still can’t! This: we tell the F,B,I, pigs ‘‘THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE IS GREATER THAN THE MAN’S TECHNOLOGY, The Black Panther Party will not be wiped out by the Full-Blown-Idots of pig Hoo- ver’s gestapo. As quickly as they plant informers, so shall we root them out, but at our own dis- cretion. PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN- GUARD Ministry of Defense Indiana Chapter of the Black Panther Party pletely. In the final analysis the one point we must address our- selves to is_this; unless the so- called leaders of the cultural na- tional movement can systhesize a type of culture to fit well into revolutionary machine as a com- ponent part, to become a power- ful weapon for uniting and edu- caping our people for attacking and destroying the enemy, then TO HELL WITH CULTURAL, NA- TIONALISM, Panther Power Brother Jymbo Black Panther Party (Vallejo) "BLACK PIG” BRUTALIZES BERKELEY YOUTH Apparently a black pig in Ber- keley took April Fool's day to be some special commemorative day to himself, For, he showed his. true color on that day by enacting yet another brutalization, as dohis criminal pig cohorts, upon a black youth, 15-year old Michael Woodard was en route on April Ist from a neighborhood market to his home (having purchased some grocery items at the market; namely, some cottage cheese, peaches, and spa- ghetti.), He was approached by a nigger pig (R. U., CHARLES - Badge #31) - that is, grabbed from behind by this bootlicker. The pig asked him what he had in the bag. This aware young man asked the pig what legal right he had to either stop him as he did, or inquire as to what he had in his package, The pig without even implying any reason for his first attack, nor informing Michael of his legal rights proceeded to grab him again, twisting his arm. At this point, a white pig ap- proached them, And, in true boot- licker style, the black pig pro- ceeded to intensify his attack on the young brother. The black pig began banging Michael’s head against a concrete wall, while choking him, In the midst of this, this pig was shouting, ‘*You’re not so bad, now, are you?’’, The white pig, seeing that as there was no danger to his life were he to join his crime partner (Michael being an un-armed 15-year old), then jumped in and also twisted the brother’s arm. Finally, seeing that Michael was sufficiently beaten, the black pig, Charles, searched for his hand cuffs, As he couldn’t find them, he politely asked his white pig upTospm RLU NIGHTS AFTER 6PM. WITH STAMPED CLAM CHECK 259A EAM MRR LCR What do you learn about the court system after sitting through _ an eleven week conspiracy trial? The same thing you learn listening to a judge in a municipal court run through his morning schedule -- that the courts don’t exist to serve or help the people. The function of the courts and the legal system is to maintain order and respect for the laws -- the order and laws of an evil and racist social system. ‘The exploitive social relations and government policy of that system are not to be changed in the courts -- political power controls the law, the law does not control political power. When things are going well for the class in power these laws that they have made are normally suf- ficient to maintain their class safely in power and to keep the people down, When people gain a consciousness of their own ex- Ploitation and organize to gain po- litical power, then an oppressive ruling class may find its own laws to be inadequate. New laws are made, more repressive than the old ones, (For example the civil rights act making it a crime to cross state lines to make a speech which Bobby Seale and the organizers of the Chicago demon- stration have been indicted under.) and laws which are supposed to guarantee democratic rights, like the first amendment are broken and set aside, This is a move away from bourgeois democracy, (the capitalist class governing under ‘the guise of democratic forms) towards fascism. This cannot hap- pen without setting off a reaction among the masses of the people, and one effect will be a willing- ness of many to defend the forces of revolution against the forces of reaction, When the ruthlessness of those in power is thoroughly ex- posed these middle forces will be willing to follow the lead of revolu- tionary forces, finding there and not among their own ranks the political understanding and discip- line to fight the struggle against repression, We carry forward a revolutionary political program while the ruling class exposes its own sham bourgeois legality and reactionary purposes. Comrade Mao-Tse Tung said, ‘‘It is good if we are attacked by the enemy, since it shows that we have drawnaclear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves.”’ This is to say that although attacks may be very costly, in the long run if we face attack for defending the in- terests of the people, everyone will know that the state only represents the reactionary and selfish inter- ests of the wealthy few. Huey comrade to lend him his cuffs - which was done, Michael Woodard was then arrested for disturbing the peace, Just before Michael was thrown into the pig car, his 12-year old sister, Autheren, approached the scene, She asked the pigs what they were doing to her brother and was told to just go and get her ‘‘motherfucking mother’’, When Autheren reached her home, she told her mother of the in- cident. Mrs. Woodardimmediately contacted the pig station to find out the nature of her son’s arrest. She was told to just come and get him. When she arrived at the station to pick up Michael, she found that she did not have to sign a release for him, as there was no charge. NOTE: This is another example of the pigs’ apparent intensification of attacks upon our black youth. If we look back upon the recent Past, we can relate this to the in- cident at Carver Jr, High School in Los Angeles, in which pigs brutally beat 12-13- and 14 year old brothers and sisters (one 14- year old sister was beaten across the pelvic area by a pig so severely that her appendix burst). we canrelate to the shot-gun shoot- ing of 15-year old Larry Kimmons (also L.A.) by a rent-a-pig (so- called security guard); the shooting death by pigs of 17-year oldGreg- ory Clark in L.A, on February 17, 1968 (Huey Newton’s birthday) - who was, like Michael Woodard, also leaving a grocery store when he was stopped; and, to, evenmore recently, the pigs’ killing in the Hunters Point area of San Fran- cisco of 19-year old Alvert Linth- come, : CAPITALIST PIG WINS DIVORCE Miscellaneous -- CAPITALIST PIG WINS DIVORCE, Actress Irish McCall was granted a divorce today in a Hollywood court from her actor husband John Patrick Morgan. Miss McCall said that when she refused to vote for Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver for president her husband blew up and said ‘the couldn’t be married to anyone so stupid.’’ She added, “He called my whole family cap- italist pigs.”’ Sympathizing with her condition, Superior Court Judge A, A, Scott said, ‘*The sooner you get rid of him the better,”’ THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20,1969 PAGE 9 Newton and the political defense of Huey’s case conducted by the Black Panther Party showed us this, The acquital of the OaklandSeven should be understood in this con- text. We were prosecuted for or- ganizing a massive militant dem- onstration against the Vietnam War and against the draft, District Attorney Coakley, since he is an embecile, wouldn’t have knownhow to do that without assigning his cleverest pig, Lowell Jensen, to the case. Jensen figured the con- spiracy law might do the trick. The judge himself felt that the con- spiracy law was rather unconsti- tutional, particularly it’s applica- tion in political cases, and when the jury reached their verdict he told them that they had ‘‘saved the first amendment.’’ Of course the judge had plenty of opportunity throughout the trial to throw the case out of court and if we had been convicted he would have been obliged to give us some jail time. The judge has the most solemnre- spect for the law but when the law goes up against the power of the ruling class, the law is quickly ignored. The ‘defense’ in a political case has to be much more than a defense, In order to defend revolutionary Politics the enemy must be put on trial, Charley Garry, inhis closing Statement, argued that the real conspiracy was on the part of the government and the rulers of the country and that it was to wage criminal wars against people of color in order to maintain its domination of the world, Our law- .yers also argued that there was a conspiracy among the powerful of Alameda County to smash rad- ical organization and protest. We put forty-five witnesses on the stand to testify to the criminal be- havior of the Oakland Pigs during the demonstration, What about dealing with.the law? Most laws are wide open for in- terpretation and good radical law- yers, like Charles Garry and his cohorts in the Oakland Sevencase, can defend their clients’ politics without giving in to the enemy’s definitions. We can play up any contradic- tion between. illegal application of the law and constitutional rights or so called ‘‘international law’’ concerning war crimes that the U.S, government claims to recog- nize, It’s difficult to say to what ex- tent the jurors themselves were convinced by our political argu- ments, I think they would not have reached the verdict of not guilty if they had not been won over politically to at least some ex- Remember Brother Malcolm PIGS FOUND GUILTY tent. The jury was convinced, how- ever, that we had been selectively chosen for prosecution by theD,A, (racist dog Coakley) who didn’t dare indict the hundreds of people who actually planned the demon- Stration and the thousands who participated in it. The jury de- cided that Jensen's ‘‘proof’’ of conspiracy rested entirely on ac- tivities like speech-making, at- tending meetings and other things that are supposed to be protected by the First Amendment to this jive Constitution, The jury realized that we had organized the demon- stration but they also realized that the prosecution was willing to bury the first amendment in order to put us away, And, most importantly, the jurors were well aware that the Oakland Seven were part of a movement across the country that is making serious de- mands on the government and its capitalist masters, The jury chose to side with this increasingly seri- ous, anti-imperialist movement (even though the jurors may not have agreed with the full content of the politics of this movement) rather than with a state machinery, run by a handful of exploiters, which was shown by the trial to be more and more repressive --in its use of gestapo police and un- constitutional ‘‘legal’’ prosecu- tion, While the first amendment was probably the excuse that the jury found to let us off, I do not believe they would have done so unless they were strongly influ- enced by the anti-war, anti-im- perialist politics that were the foundation of our demonstration and our defense, For all the reasons that the Oakland Seven trial was important, the trials of Bobby Seale and the ‘others indicted for exposing the Democratic Party shuck conven- tion and the police State of Chi- cagowhere it was held, are even ‘more important. The same polit- ical issues are involved and this time on a national scale: the de- fense will directly attack the entire American government and the rul- ing class of gangster ‘‘business- men” it serves and protects. There is reason to hope that the Oakland Seven verdict is an indication that even the more privileged work- ing people andmembers of the mid- dle classes who are allowed onto the juries are willing to side with the proletariat and the anti-im- perialist movement against the legal and political maneuvers of the imperialist ruling class, by Steve Hamilton One of the ‘‘Oakland 7”’ THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20,1969 PAGE 10 AT THE COURT’S DOOR: Banner held by demonstrators obscured entrance to the Criminal Co! i urts Building, 100 Centre Street. Protesters were demanding the release of suspects in alleged plot to terrorize city with besabinige: PIG CONSPIRACY AGAINST N.Y. FROM: Area Captain of New York State TO: National Headquarters VIA: Ministry of Information Subj: Pig Conspiracy against 21 New York Panthers At approximately, 5:00 a.m., I was awaken by the sound of pigs breaking down my door, As I looked up at the flashlight and a »38 that was rammed into my face, a pig oinked, ‘‘Don’t move, Don’t move,’’ I froze momentarily, only to have another pig oink, ‘‘Get up, Get up. The first pig was still oinking ‘*Don’t move, Don’t move’’. When I finally found my voice, I asked the pigs if they had a search warrant. The warrant was produced, stating that the bearer - representing the local gestapo were authorized by the City of New York, to legally search and ram- shack my crib for guns and ex- plosives. The pig in charged pro- duced a manila folder bearing my name and the said pigs ‘‘legally’’ went about ramshacking my crib. There were six pigs involved in the search, four cracker detectives and two nigger pigs. One of the nigger pigs split immediately. The remaining nigger pig (badge #25913) was orderedto stand guard over me while the cracker pigs conducted the search, The nigger pigs were apparently from the TPF (Tactical Police Force). Both had ‘‘naturals’’ and are typical of the type of pork chop agent pro- vocateurs who infiltrate the Pan- ther Party and other black groups. Precinct numbers and other iden- tification were missing from these nigger pigs uniforms, After totally ramshacking my crib and steal- ing my money, the pigs left. At approximately 6:00 a.m. the pigs left my crib andI called Chair- man Brothers, tolet him know what was happening. Chairman Brothers immediately got on the case and began to apprize other Panthers as to what was going down, By 6:30, I had been informed that at least six Panthers hadbeen busted with as many as four Pan- thers known to be missing. Pan- thers were notified to be down at 100 Centre Street, at 10:00 a.m, When I arrived at the court house, Chairman Brothers and other Panthers were already there, none of the pigs seemed to know anything about the bust. When our attorneys arrived, they began to investigate the situation and found out that the Panthers arrested had already been indicted, therefore the trumped case was already in the Grand jury. The lawyers found out that at least seven Panthers were busted and that they were going to theD.A."s office to demand that they see the brothers and sisters who were incarcerated, At this time Chairman Brothers went to call National Headquarters and I followed the lawyers totheD,A,’s office. In front of the D.A.’s office, I saw a large crowd of people and the news media, and I remained outside of the building. Myself and PANTHER TWENT Y-ONE other Panthers investigated and found that pig face D,A, Hogan had ALREADY called a press confer- ence. Not only did he, pig Hogan, have the arrogance to indict 21 Panthers on such absurd charges as attempting to blow up depart- ment stores and public facilities that are filled with our people, psychodelic Hogan was also using the news media to send the gen- eral public on a bad acid trip. Pig Hogan alleges that we were going to blow up the Bronx Bo- tanical Garden, I mean, what would the Party gain by blowing up flow- ers? Flower Power! Chairman Brothers arrived and he, Brother Rashid and myself waited for the arrested Panthers to arrive. After about a half hour, Chairman Brothers had to leave and I returned to the court room to see if any Panthers had come before the pig judge. When I ar- rived back at the court room the pig judge called a recess until 2:00 Pem. and I went to check out what type of lies pig Hogan was running down to the media. When I returned to the front of the D.A,’s office, the press con- ference was over and I rapped to the lawyers. The lawyers saidthat the Panthers busted would be in court at 2:00 p.m, As I was walk- ing away from the lawyers, a nigger pig grabbed me, flashed his badge and said ‘‘Come with me’’. Iasked the pig if I was under arrest, the pig said yes and proceeded to take me to the D,A,’s office. Panthers present dug what was going down and called the lawyers. The at- torney, Arthur Turco identified himself to the pigs as my lawyer. The pig told Turco that he still couldn’t talk to me. The pigs took me to the D,A.’s office where I was searched and fingerprinted. After I was finger- printed by an automated pig, T was taken to a washroom to wash my hands. When Iwas brought back to the D.A.’s office, this pot- bellied pig says ‘let him go’’, ‘she’s the wrong one’? ... Yeah, all niggers look alike, When I returned to the streets, attorneys Turco and Lefeourt were blowing to the news media, running it down how the bust of the 21 in New York was absurd and bi- zarre and that the plot had been ordered by the white house. Upon seeing me, the lawyers told the media how I had been harassed and busted by the pigs. I briefly related to the harassment and a reporter asked ‘‘was there really a conspiracy?’ I told him to ask Pig Hogan, and if anything, the bust was part of a national conspiracy by the pig power structure to an- nihilate the Black Panther Party and that pig Hogan was totally ‘*out- side’’ (crazy) and I split. The following reports are by Panthers who were at the court house. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN- GUARD Zayd-Malik Shakur NEW YORK PIGS MOVE TO DESTROY PANTHERS April 3, 1969 To: National Headquarters Via: Section Leader for Harlem Subj: Pig Conspiracy against 21 New York Panthers On April 3, 1969, at 100 Cen- tre Street, Criminal Court build- ing in New York City. A so-called hearing was called by the Pig pow- er structure regarding the indict- ment of 21 Black Panther Party members. The courtroom was packed with people. The pig judge Justice Charles Marx entered and demanded that there be only one person to a seat. The people had bunched up 3 and 4 to a seat, to witness the 3 ring circus put on by the pig District Attorney, Frank Hogan and other pigs. The people raised hell at first andthen eased out, but first of all the white mother country radicals gave their seats to all black people in the courtroom. Brother Lonnie Epps. was brought into the courtroom. His face was swollen, he had obviously been beaten by the pigs. The pig judge Marx launched into a bullshit story about how many people could have been killed if the alleged plot had come off. Part of which was to supposedly blow up the Bronx Botanical Garden, Who in hell wants to waste dynamite blow- ing up flowers?. Our Attorney, William Kunstler compared the kidnapping of the Black Panther Party members to the Reichstag Fire in Germany in 1934, He said the Nazis used this as an excuse to wipe out all op- Position, and in turn the pigs in this racist decadent society were using this indictment to wipe out the Black Panther Party in New York City. Pig Marx told the Attorney to stop trying to be a poet can you dig it? Brother Lonnie Epps, a high school student from Queens, New York pleaded not guilty in a loud and clear voice. The people in the courtroom cheered, Another Attorney for the Black Panther Party stated that they were going to subpoena pig D.A, Hogan and all other pigs involved in this kidnapping of members of the Black Panther Party. The pig judge Marx then stated that he could care less about who was subpoenaed but he was not going to lower the bail on this day. Attorney Kunstler then said that the pigs had picked up peo- plenwhoa, were notion tha inate FREE THE N.Y. 21 BAIL MONEY NEEDED SEND TO BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOX 1224 BROOKLYN 11202 ment list and we knew this for they could not be found. The Asst. D, A, denied this of course, Kunst- ler then said we have not been al- lowed to speak to our clients since they have been in jail. Kunstler then requested a evidentiary hear- ing which would give him time to talk to his clients and get in- formation as to background, etc. The pig judge Marx said he would go for this, and set April 9th as the date for the Black Panther Party lawyers to present the sworn statements of the members of the Party lawyers topresent the sworn statements of the members of the Party held in the pig pen. Pig Marx set April 11, as the date of the next hearing when all Black Panther party members being held for a ransom of $1,600,000 would appear in court, Attorney Kunstler then com- pared this kidnapping to that ofthe Harlem Five, a group of black brothers accused of conspiring to rob Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx in New York City and steal guns to shoot a pig a week. He also referred to honkie Alice Crim- mins, convicted of murder and only 25 hail THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20,1969 PAGE 11 For some strange reason pig judge Marx said it was valid be- cause it was after the conviction, Dig that Crap. The pig judge Marx, then asked the people in the courtroom whether or not the Black Panther Party was a political party. The people hissed and booed for the 20th time, Rashid Al Fatal ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN- GUARD 10:00 Panthers started arriving at the court house. Those present were: Chairman Brothers, Zayd, Rashid, Cheryl, Mr. and Mrs. Byrd, Marie, Charles Powell, all from Manhattan, Olaywah, and An- thony from Brooklyn, Nickey from Queens, 11:30 Zayd, Lefcourt and Turco went to the D.A, office, Chair- man Brothers left. The rest of us went up to the 11th floor into the court room. 1:00 Court recessed without any Panthers being called. We all pro- ceeded out of the courtroom into the streets where the press was out ‘ten force’, 1:18 Zayd got arrested by anig- ger pork chop, He was taken up= stairs fingerprinted, and then re- leased, Only the lawyers were al- lowed to go upstairs and they came down before Zayd did. 1:25 - 1:35 Lefcourt and Turco spoke to the Press. Before they finished Zayd was released and he too spoke to the press. Arraignment of the Conspiracy ««8’? of which Bobby Seale, Chair- man of the Black Panther Party, is one of the eight people in- dicted by the United States pig government, Charles R. Garry, the chief attorney for the conspiracy 8 and the national chief attorney for the Black Panther Party arrived in Chicago April 8th at 1:30 p.m, along with Bobby Seale and Ray «“Masai’? Hewitt. Ray is one of the top theortician of the Black Panther Party and is a member of our Party’s National Central Committee. He is based in Los Angeles where the Southern Cali- fornia Chapter ofthe Black Panther Party is located. The arraignment took 1-1/2 hours and the judge, Hoffman would not let any motions on the part of the defendant’s lawyers get through. Some one thousand people were there demonstrating, cussing the pigs out, jamming the hall- 2:00 Mr. and Mrs. Byrd and uM Mi Las ways rightously standing in support Olaywah went back into the court- room where Afeni and Joan were sitting by themselves in the front of the courtroom. 2:33 Turco and Lefcourt came into the courtroom, by that time the courtroom was filled with about 50 pigs in uniform and 20 pigs out of uniform and3 husky maintenance men. Up until this time L & Tweren’t allowed to speak to any of the de- fendents, (LEFCOURT & TURCO) they hadn’t seen the indictment and they didn’t know how many people were arrested or their names. Olaywah had gotten the list of names from a rightgeous (a Bro- ther) newsman which she gave to Attorneys. 3:08 The Judge came in, 3:10 The judge started calling the defendents in this order; Lu- mumba, Dharuba, Cetawayo, Bob Collier, Walter Johnson, Richard Harris, Afeni, Ali Bay Houson, Katora, Curtis (who was brought in from the street) C. Squire, Joan Bird, Bail was immediately set at $100,000 a piece, tionary black brother shouted out «twhy don’t you charge every- body in America for conspiracy to get some freedom from racism and capitalism, because we’re all guilty of that.’’ Raised clinched fists (a ‘power to the people’ symbol) was consistantly a part of the people’s protest against the U.S. pig government. Charles R. Garry and the other lawyers refused to be searched at the court room door and flatly stated that the court knows better than to try to degrade the in- tegrity of **we revolutionary law- yers’’. So the court let the con- spiracy 8 lawyers in the rear door so that the U.S, pig government would not themselves look like fools trying to search the law- yers for guns. The Chairman, Bob- by Seale, was pat searched along with the rest of the 8. Brothers in Chicago who were hip to what happened at Huey’s trial when the Pigs searched everybody, were al- so searched but norevolutionary’s guns were found. The judge, Hoffman, acting like a ah Sra ae teestNire Magoo?) -aaidiverry Rubin of the conspiracy 8, One revolu- U.S. GOVERNMENT PIGS CONSPIRACY was mad at the people, and tried to make some protest against a couple of the defendants way of saying that they were obviously «not guilty,’? by raising aclinched fist when they stated ‘*NOT GUILTY’. This trial led by trickyDick Nix- on, that is, the attorneys for the capitalist-racist U.S, government and the judge, Hoffman, both are taking orders from President Richard M. Nixon. All the defendants, protesters and freedom fighters of the con- spiracy 8 are Bobby Seale, National Chairman of the Black Panther Party, Abbie Hoffman, Dave Dill- inger, Ronnie Davis, Jerry Rubin, Lee Weimer, John Froimes, and Tom Hayden, the original founder of S.D.S. The revolutionary lawyers are Charles R. Garry, William Kunst- ler, who is also defending the New York Black Panther Party 21, who were recently busted and charged with some shit plotted by Rocke- feller and the U.S, government, Michael J. Kennedy of San Fran- cisco, Gerald B. Lefcourt of New York, Leonard I. Weinglass of Newark, New Jersey and Stanley A. Bass and Irving Birnbaum of Chicago, Illinois. This case will be one of the biggest political trials by the U.S, Government against freedom fighters, that has existed in a long time, Naturally our Party and black people are overly concerned about Bobby Seale, as we are still con- cerned about the freedom of thes Minister of Defense, Huey P. New- ton. The New York Panther 21, Eldridge Cleaver, the Conspiracy 8 and Huey P. Newton are the top political cases and trials that is beginning to lead the people to a correct understanding that free- dom of political expression and freedom of political prisoners is an integral part of the people’s just revolutionary struggle. More news next week on the Chicago conspiracy 8, Eldridge Cleaver, Huey P. Newton’s motion for bail in May and the freedom of the New York Panther 21, TRUE REVOL DN i= oO < Z. L 5 tb THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20, 1969 PAGE 14 Gommunity Imperialism by Eldridge Cleaver Minister of Information IN OUR STRUGGLE FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION, we are now in the phase of community liberation, to free our black communities from the imperialistic control exercised over them by the racist exploiting cliques within white communities, to free our people, locked up as they are in Urban Dungeons, from the imperialism of the white Suburbs, Our’s is a struggle against Community Imperialism. Our black communities are colonized and controlled from outside, and it is this contro] that has to be smashed, broken, shattered, by what- ever means necessary. The politics in our communities are controlled from outside, the economics of our communities are controlled from outside, and we ourselves are controlled by the racist police who come into our communities from outside and occupy them, patrolling, terrorizing, and brutalizing our people like a foreign army ina conquered land. THE POLITICS In the first place, our communities have been gerrymandered. When it comes to drawing the political boundaries of electoral districts, on the municipal, county, state, and national levels, the lines are drawn in an unfair way that deliberately dilutes the poli- tical power that our numbers entitle us to. We are over 20,000,000 or 30,000,000 strong. Yet we ure political beggers. In districts where we are concentrated in sufficient numbers to elect a re- presentative, we are still robbed because the racists SELECT the candidates for us and then we are called upon to certify that selection by going through the dumb ritual of an election, elect- ing those who have been selected for us by our enemies. These bootlickers and uncletoms who are trotted out, grinning, for our approval, know exactly what they are doing. They are traitors to their own people. In addition, this all takes place within a rigged system that pre- tends to be democratic but is actually controlled by money, Big Money, A look at the Presidential Candidates this year shows that it is nothing but a Millionaire’s Derby. The truth about this rotten, corrupt, racist, undemocratic system is so clear that one wonders how the political racketeers in the [emocratic and Republican parties get away with it, or how do they have the audacity to come out into the public talking that talk. A look at the public lapping it up, however, reveals just how unaware the people are. And black people, who have been victimized by this system every moment since they were first dragged over here as slaves, are still, t0 a large degree, hung up in it. We say that we are working for our National Liberation, and that in order to achieve that we must have universal national consciousness within our people, But hefore We can really tackle that monumental job, an essential step is to achieve Community Liberation, To achieve Community Liberation, we must have a solid Community Consciousness. A community that year in and year out allows itself to be raped politically is not conscious. It is dead, locked in a deep slumber, There is power in our communities, but it is not in the hands of our communities, It is in the hands of other communities; or in the hands of traitors who are the flunkies for the Big Wheels in other communities. THE ECONOMICS Economically. we are at the mercy of the exploiters, business- men, storeowners, merchants. who have turned our communities into market places out of which, they make huge profits. through high prices and high rent, draining off all the prosperity, taking it home with them, making their neat, clean Suburban communities into showplaces of prosperity. and leaving our communities to de- teriorate into desolate. poverty-stricken, dirty slums. We have been “organized” into this poverty. We must “organize” ourselves out of it, We are cut oft. blocked from the sources of wealth. We have no contro] over the land that contains the natural resources out of which goods and products are manufactured, We have no control over the machines and factories that take the na- tural resources und make them into goods and products, We have no contro] over the wholesale and retail establishments that take these goods and products and offer them for sale ata profit. From beginning to end, we have no control over the economic process. Gathering the natural resources from the land, processing these natural resources into goods and products, marketing these goods and products at a profit, all. is controlled by others. We are out of it. There used to be a time when we could get jobs, at low pay, in one of these phases of the economic process, but now even those jive jobs are gone or quickly disappearing, and we are being re- placed by muchines - and these machines are owned and controlled by others. And those who own and control everything, have hired themselves a crew of strong-arm men to see to it that nobody a etlers with’ their good thing, their pot of gold, their horn of plenty. THE POLICE These strong-arm men, the police, are there to see to it that we don’t budge, The law and order they are hired to enforce is de- signed to insure that the political control and the economic ex~ ploitation continues undisturbed. They are there to stop black peo- ple from organizing themselves to move against these conditions and improve their lives, and when we move anyway, in spite of the efforts of the police, we are labelled by the lying propaganda men, who are also on the payrol] of those who own and control everything, as rioters, looters. and criminal troublemakers. Must Move Anyway We must move anyway. We have no choice. The survival of our people depends upon our moving, demands that we move, By strug- gling against these conditions, we are doing nothing more nor less than continuing the struggle of our ancestors, of the generations of black people who have struggled up from slavery. And we are reaching the end of our people's long. hard struggle, because the end is in sight. We know what we want and need and must have? the power to determine the destiny of our own black communities. And we know what we must do in order to possess that power: organize ourselves into an organization that we ourselves control, that is not controlled either by outsiders or their lackies. It was for this purpose, and this purpose alone, that Hyey P, Newton and Bobby Seale got together and organized the Bla€k Panther Party. It belongs to you. black people. Join it and employ it as a tool to liberate our communities, to link our liberated communities to- gether, to unite our liberated and linked-together communities into a nation-wide force, and in the process of doing that we will have won many victories along the way, we will have become a powerful and uptight people, and as cuol as We are, as jive as we are, as beautiful us we are, we will be out of sight! And you won't find nobody on the face of the planet earth crazy. enough, tool enough, to be messing with us. gy During the first week of our Breakfast Program, myself and my assistant, Wilbert Powe went to Luchetti’s Meat Company located at 1100 Army Street, San Fran- cisco, to see about some donations for the Breakfast for Children program. After talking to the head pig, Mr. Olson, he stated that he would donate two cases of bacon and one case of sausage per week, but he also added an escape route for himself by saying ‘*check with me at the beginning of the week so I can let you know how my business was.’’ The second week of our program I called Pig Ol- son and he told me that he could not help us because he had a bad business week. At this time we were in desperate need of meat products and I attempted to ex- plain this to him, but he stood firm on his decision about that bad week. The third week is when the crap really got funky. I went to Luchetti’s along with two other brothers who were on their way to sell papers but gave me a ride before they did. Upon our arrival Olson was not present (he would not be in for the rest of the day ment), and I was directed to Miss Taylor who was the next person under Olson, I explained the situation to her but she still had doubts in her mind about giving up the donation because she did not know of the program. I showed her a receipt which had both my handwriting and pig Olson’s handwriting on it. The reason for this is because pig Olson told me to fill out how much and what product and sign my name and he filled out the rest. At this time she picked up the phone and called for one of the employees from the dock which was the same cat that brought the meat out the first time and he remembered me, While she was trying to get him on the phone’ she asked me ‘who are you serv- ing breakfast to?” and I replied “school children’. At. the same time, she took one of the latest editions of the Black Panther paper from one of the brothers who was selling them, I opened the paper to the article pertaining to the breakfast and she saw pcitures and headlines pertaining to Breakfast for Children, Then she asked me *tcan I keep this’* grabbing the ¢ paper in one hand, and I said «« well this is our newspaper and it is on sale for 25¢’. She im- mediately got reactionary and stated that she would not give me 25¢ for a ‘*cheap” magazine when she was giving me all this meat, I explained that she was not giving this meat to me nor the Black Panther Party but tohungry school children. Right after the cat came out of the back with the meat (all this time she still had poses- sion of the receipt which we had gotten from the first donation) she came out of the office and said “Tm sorry, I don't have the authority to approve this; there is other handwriting on this receipt other than Mr. Olson’s.’’ I stated “I know, Mr. Olson told me to fill it out.’’ Then she said ‘well, you can come back this afternoon at about 4:00 p.m. Mr. Olson should be in then’’ and she told the cat to take the meat into the back - forget it. I tried like a m to keep from cussing that fool out and I succeeded in doing so. I was very calm, I didn’t raise my voice, I made no derogatory statements toward her. I merely pointed out oon fennne THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20,1969 PAGE 15 CAPITALISM ATTACKS BREAKFAST FOR CHILDREN that if a person is going to make a commitment, they should in fact adhere to that commitment, and I left, Later that evening at about 4:15 P.m. I called Luchetti’s Meat Com- pany and was told that he was tak- ing inventory and to call back at about 5:30 p.m. WhenIcalled back, at approximately 5:25 p.m., pigOl- son had left for his pigpen in the suburbs. The following morning, Father Kennedy came down during the breakfast and told me that he had talked with pig Olson andOlson told him that he was not going to donate to the program anymore because members of the Black Panther Party had harassed his employees and raised hell with the girls in the office. Immediately after the breakfast I went directly to the office and called pig Olson. I asked him why he wasn’t going to donate to the program any more and he told me that he would not tolerate people coming down to his company and raising hell with the girls in the office and harass- ing his employees. I tried to ex- plain to him exactly waat went down, but he refused to listen. His last statements were «I don’t want to talk about it any more and Tam not going to donate tothe pro- gram any more,’’ and he hung up in my face, Pig Olson is a capitalist and his business is dealing in capitalism. Capitalism is what put black peo- ple in slavery, Capitalism is why black people can’t get decent hous- ing and capitalism is why there are so many hungry children inthe black communities of America today. Capitalism has no regard whatsoever for the masses of black people. It is the present economic system in which all of the means of production and distribution, as land, factories, railroads, air- planes, etc. are privately owned and operated for profit. Capital- ism was originally under fully competitive conditions, It has beer generally characterized by a ten- dency toward the concentration of wealth and by the growth of great corporations has increased gov- ernment control. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK POWER TO BLACK PEO- PLE PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN- GUARD Lucky because he had a doctor’s appoint- SS OS IN RESPONSE TO OAKLAND SCHOOL BREAK- FAST PROGRAM Dig on how the decadant Oak- land Public School Board, is try- ing to move on setting up a free breakfast for school children, As usual, the Oakland Tribune has played up something that this messed-up society should have employed long ago. No matter how much they play this up, it’s still a watered down version of the Black Panther Party’s break- fast for school children, This measure is being spearheaded by assemblywoman, March K, Fong (who must have been a member of the Kuomintang) Dem, Oak. She also proposed a bill that MAY give children two glasses of milk a day. We must say ‘Thanks a lot, lady”’, for giving the Black Pan- ther Party such an appraisal for “*prodding’’ the schools to act on this. It's a wonder that the Oak- land ‘‘Racist’’ Tribune even put something good about the Black Panther Party in print, so we say FORGET YOU KNOWLAND, and all of your avaricious busi- nessmen, that think you are pull- ing a game on the people. We can see right through your game, because when September comes, we will see how many children come to your thing. We see where one of Mickey Mouse’s flunkys told March Fong of Oakland to get something start- ed before the Black Panther Party could get too much credit for do- ing something for the people, but keep it up, your making a bigger fool of yourself, for not being on your gaming toes. It’s something for the repre- sentatives of the schools to pick Oakland first. We see right through that game also; of all places, OAKLAND, You fools, think that because you claim to be federally backed, that the people just think its money you are referring to, but the truth is that you punks want to get rid of all excess surplus food, pow— dered eggs, powdered milk, etc... People know that the stuff you want to serve to the people has no vitamins or nourishment whatso- ever. All it does is fills the sto- mache and in time, it will kill ~ you. It’s just a new trick to com- mit genocide. We know you want to destroy a whole race of people, but.you fools got=problems doing it, because we see what you're doing. In your article you contradict yourself so many times. What I’m referring to is, the statement “Every poor student, MAY be offered a breakfast. Then you have to be below a certain income level, and at the end, you say if the bills go through. You ain’t doing nothing and you shaky fools can take your peek-a-boo games and shove it up your butts, BREAKFAST COORDINATOR THE DOLPH CHAPTER 13 THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDA Y, APRIL 20,1969 PAGE 16 SPEECH BY FIELD MARSHALL D.C. AT FILLMORE AUDITORIUM, S.F. ALL PO TO THE PEOPLE All Power To The Peoplell|! All Power To The People||! Can you dig on that? If you can’t dig on All Power to the People, you can’t dig on what Bobby Seale, Eldridge Cleaver, David Hilliard and George Murray are all about. If you can’t dig on All Power to the People you can’t dig on what the Black Panther Party is all about. Because that’s what Huey P, Newton put together, a revolutionary black political par- ty, to hold up the light and show the way, to put all the power back in the hands of the people. And we dig on all the people that held up the light before; Marx, Lenin, Sta- in, Mao, Fidel, Che, Lumumba, | and Malcolm, And we dig on all the people who are holding up the light now, Ho Chi Minh, those brothers and sisters in Al Fatah, those ‘bad Palestinian Guerrilla’s, those comrades in arms in Asia and Latin America, and flesh of our flesh and blood of our blood those brothers and sister that are doing it in Africa, We must check these people out and see what they did and see what they are doing, We must learn from these people, that is, those of us who are serious about putting all the power back in the hands of the people. We must take all the formulas andprinciples that came from and are coming from the People’s struggle for power and those that are applicable we must apply in our struggle to give- All Power To The People!{! I will address myself to one principal we have learned from Chairman Mao-Tse Tung, which is, ‘*We must combat liberalism’’. Liberal- ism is like an acid, it eats away or destroys unity, creates a don’t give a damn attitude and creates dissension, It is an extremely bad tendency, An example of lib- eralism is, when youknowa person or a group of people have clearly done something or are doing some- thing wrong and you don’t say or do anything about it and shine it on for the sake of unity, for the sake of keeping things peaceful and quite, for the sake of friendship or to keep on good terms, or you just touch on the matter lightly instead of going into it deeply and thoroughly, The Black Panther party does not relate to liberal- ism. You better check yourself, you better watch out because the Black Panther Party is going to expose all the pigs of the power Structure, the avaricious busi- nessmen, the demogogic poli- ticians and those racist pig cops. The Black Panther Party is going to expose all the pork chops of the pigs, the cultural nationalist, the black capitalist, the black power ; pimps, all the bootlickers, toms,.; and lackeys, all those who are part of the problem, all reactionarys. And I'm here to tell you, that they come in all colors, Se In 1963, brother Malcolm X <u ve eseus => WER said, ‘‘when black people have differences, they should iron them out behind closed doors, not in the open, At that time, Malcolm was trying to get black people to- gether to work out a solution to our problem, by any means neces- sary, for the first time and this was a necessary step in bringing about a solution, However, things have moved from a lower level in 1963, to a higher level in 1969 and that concept has outlived its usefulness, In 1963 and 1964 when brother Malcolm was blowing and assassinated, the people did not engage in rebellious activity, therefore, I've concluded they did not necessarily view his deathas a bad thing. In 1968, and 1969, when Martin Luther King was assassi- nated, the people took to the streets and cities burned all across Babylon, when if they don’t free Huey, the sky’s the limit and last but not least, two righteous Pan- thers, ‘‘Bunchy” and*‘John’’, were assassinated by some low down, scurvy, chittlin brained, pork chop, cultural nationalist, from that or- ganization call US, led by that bald headed sissy and ‘‘king’’ pork chop named Mamalana Ron Karenga, NO!!! No more liberalism. It’s a new era, Its a new day, Its time to call a spade 2 spade, It is now time to see through the trick bag and smoke screen of racism that has beenused to divide and conquer the people of the world, It is time to see that racism is a tool, used by the pigs of the power structure to oppress and exploit the black people and the white people of Babylon in par- ticular and the world in general. When the pigs go to a country that has only one race of people, they introduce tribalism as in Biafra and Nigeria. In 1903 W.E.B, Du Bois said, ‘'The problem of the 20th century is the problem of the color line.’’ In 1953 he said, “*] still think today as yesterday that the color line is a great prob- lem of this century, But today 1 see more clearly than yesterday, that back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and im- plements it, and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if ‘the price of this is poverty, | ig- norance and disease of the majority of their fellow men, that to main- tain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to be- come universal and continuous and the excuse for this war continues largely to be color and race}! It is also time to see through the game being run by the cul- tural nationalist, the black cap- italist, the black power pimps and all that think black and buy black crowd, To say thatrace andracism is’ the primary contradiction be- tween the slave and the slave master, the oppressed and the op- pressor, the colonized and the colonizer, is to be one sided and subjective in your analysis. The logical extension of this one sided analysis would be, that if racism was eliminated, all the oppression and exploitation of man by man would immediately cease. An ob- jective analysis of history will not support tis one sided analysis. -In every and all things there are many contradictions. When you set out to solve a problem or change a thing in order to be successful, you must correctly examine and analyze the contradictions and put them in the proper order, After such a process, it is plain to see that capitalism is the primary con- tradiction, capitalism and im- perialism are the exploiter and the oppressor and the colonizer of the world, Capitalism is the disease of mankind that allows five percent of the people to control 95 percent of the wealth. Imperial- ism is the cancer of capitalism that spreads and destroys whole countries and whole nations of peo- ple. Greed is the purpose. Racism is the excuse, Those Black people that adhere to the assumption that race is primary are classified as cultural nationalist or reactionary nationalist or pork chop nation- alist, They are enemys of the ‘people. They prevent the people from seeing who and what their enemy is, The basis of reaction- ary pork chop nationalism, is op- portunism, Huey P. Newton, in an interview with the Movement, said, “Papa Doc in Haiti is an excellent example of reactionary na- tionalism. He oppresses the people but he does promote the African culture. He’s against anything other than Black, which onthe sur- face seems very good, but for him it is only to mislead the people. He merely kicked out the racists and replaced them with himself as the oppressor.”” In this country cultural nation- alism throws around, like, just trying to be black, think black etc. etc., you always or consistently hear buy black. There is nothing revolutionary about cultural na- tionalism at all. It is simply op- portunist and reformist, Cultural ‘nationalism seeks only to be al-+ lowed to be part of the problem. It seeks only to be allowed to en- slave, oppress and exploit without regard to race, creed or religion, In other words cultural national- ism wants a piece of the action, It is no threat to the status quo and in the final analysis actually works with the oppressor against the interest of the people. Lets examine the leading salesman of cultural nationalism in Babylon, that bald headed punk in L.A, Ron Everett, The Wall Street Journal ran a story on him, to inform the ruling class that, here’s a nigger that talks bad in the open, but he’s our nigger behind closed doors. Here are a couple of examples of that punks double dealing, boot licking ways. The Wall Street Jour- nal says, ‘‘He’s a shrewd politi- cian who works behind the scenes as a lobbyist for black nationalism among both white officials and moderate ‘‘Negro’’ leaders, A few weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King, for example, ‘Mr. Karenga slipped into Sacra- mento for a private chat with Gov. Ronald Reagan, at the governor’s request. The black nationalist also met secretly with the Los Angeles police chief Thomas Reddin after Mr. King was killed.”” Further on in the article they mention that, “Hours after Martin Luther King’s death the black congress, that’s Karenga’s front group, formed a steering committee. The com- mittee’s purpose was to prevent Negro rioting in L.A, A source who sat in on several committee meetings says Mr. Karenga’s role was crucial,"” Check how they call him Mr. Karenga. When Mu- hammed Ali dropped his slave name they still insisted on calling him Cassius Clay, because he presented a threat to the cap- italist system by setting a bad example as far as the pigs were concerned, by refusing to go into the racist military, the tool used to spread the cancer of imperial- ism, ‘‘For the first time, the mili- tant US leader was able to meet on an even footing with several moderate Negro leaders.’’ Now when you hear moderate Negro leader, that means uncle tom, pup- pet, lackey. ‘‘At the sametime Mr. Karenga was holding his secret meetings with police chief Reddin as well as with other city of- ficials|"’ This was in April 1968, nine months later, in January 1969, this mother was so pregnant, with visions of power, given to him by all the shoe polish he’s eatenfrom boot licking that he went so far as to haye some of his bacon strip lackeys, assassinating two Panthers from the L,A, area, the Deputy Minister of Information, John Jerome Huggins and the Deputy Minister of Defense, Al- prentice ‘‘Bunchy” Carter. I’m taking this opportunity to inform you and the world, that Bunchy and John will be avenged. Be informed by these words, War has been declared on all reaction- arys white, black, brown, yellow and red, We are going to expose the enemies of the people to the peo- ple. And when the people find out that their enemy is not just any white person or not just any black person, but those people, that are willing to live in comfort even at the expense of the majority of mankind, the people will rise up like a mighty storm and clean the Augean stables, All Power to the People!!! D.C, 4 i 2) SEL pesd es re HELL NO OH YEAH NEW YORK (LNS) -- Two black GIs recently attempted to refuse orders to Vietnam. Only one got away with it. Pvt. Issac Barr refused orders at Ft. Lewis, Wash., March 18, * but six sergeants dragged him aboard a plane to Vietnam. Tt is expected that upon his arrival there, he’ll be put directly into ; the stockade. Another GI had better luck, Af- ter Pvt, James Ghent refused or- ders to Vietnam at New Jersey’s Ft. Dix, he was taken to a nearby Air Force base by two guards who attempted to put him onto a plane, 7 Ghent broke away from the guards and ran, diving through a plate glass window in his attempt to escape, Though severely wounded, he was refused medical aidfor two hours. He was finally taken to an Army hospital, but escaped from his hospital bed. According to the American Serviceman’s Union, Ghent is now AWOL, The ASU also reported that Ghent was told by a Sergeant, ‘Ghent, you should be deported back to Africa,’? Open Letter You have attacked an absolutely necessary program instituted by the Black Panther Party to meet the needs and desires of the peo- ple. You have refused starving school children a hot breakfast which they need every day. Youhave refused to feed them, therefore, ‘you are ‘starving them, By starv- ing young Black, Third World and poor White working class children you have, in fact, made yourself an enemy of the people, The Black Panther Party will not be held responsible for ANY action that the people might take against you for such an attack, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BREAKFAST FOR CHILDREN Once again the Black Panther Party has managed, through the muck and mire of this decadent racist society, to move along with the people as their vanguard par- ty in accomplishing the basic needs of the hard core hungry, it is evident in our newly initiated Breakfast for Children Program. The Black Panther Party has moved forward, in that it has looked the problem squarely inthe eye and dealt with it (with the peo- ple’s support) on the level which children understand best, a full belly, We realize that the system will not and cannot meet the desires and needs of the people, We also are aware that the Breakfast for Chil- dren Program does not feed all the downtrodden, exploited masses, the Black Panther Party will work diligently to overcome all obstacles, soevery man, woman and child will have their basic needs, As our Honorable Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton, so elo- quently stated in point #10 of our Ten Point Platform and Program, ‘We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace, And as our major political objective a-United Nations super- vised plebiscite to be heldthrough- out the black colony in which only. black colonial subjects will be al- lowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny, —~ ALL POWER TOTHE PEOPLE BLACK POWER TO BLACK PEOPLE PANTHER “POWER TO THE VAN- GUARD Henry Howard What is capitalism? or better yet: what does capitalism mean to Black, Third World, and others of the oppressed working class? The dictionary defines it as ‘‘the economic system in which the means of production and dis- tribution are privately owned and operated; originally under fully competitive conditions,’’ When we ourselves begin to define or break capitalism’ down, we see that it affords us nothing but contradic- tions upon contradictions. Historically, capitalism and the Industrial Revolution never in- tended to involve the masses ex- cept in the role of the exploited. When the institution of capitalism was supposedly under ‘*fully com- petitive conditions’’, men like John Rockefeller, J. P. Morgan, and Andrew Carnegie exploited, intim- idated, brutalized their way to the apex in their respective fields (cil, railroads, and steel) until they were three of the only pigs in control. Their lives were set up as examples for the poor work- ing class to follow. These men, according to the jive history books, rose from poverty to riches through hard, honest work, em- ploying the virtues of thrift and perseverence. Their murderous actions were even sanctified in the churches, to which they gave Subject: BREAKIN Yat: ts eee large donations. Their positions as oppressors were justified as the implimenta- tion of nature’s law: survival of the fittest. Certain reactionary as- sumptions were propagated at this time concerning the capitalistic economic system: 1) The economic system should be controlled by the natural aris- tocracy, those who through com- petition proved to be the strongest and funkiest pigs and therefore, the most capable of controlling the system for the BENEFIT OF ALL. In reality, these were the men, who by their very nature, were the most ruthless and avaricious and who had NOBENEVOLENT PLANS IN MIND FOR ANY OF THE PEO- PLE, Financing of charities, churches, etc., grew out of guilt complexes and patriarchal feelings these pigs had for the masses, 2) The government should con- fine its military and policing ac- tivities to protecting the property of the businessmen and to main- taining law and order so that it would benefit the existing economic structure: capitalism. The cele- brated foundations of the American government are being audaciously ignored, Governments are insti- tuted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, In other words, CAPITALISM the sole purpose of any govern- - [xs ment is to organize its powers in such a way that will most likely effect the safety and happiness of the people. The laws are estab- lished by the government in order to promote the general welfare of society. Black people, especially, know that America’s racist pigs ide behind this ideal. They have instead chosen the counter-rev- olutionary premis that the laws sshould be enforced primarily to protect property rather than people. 3) The poor and the slum con- ditions under which they are forced to live are inevitable in a com- ‘petitive, capitalistic system, Since ‘these wretched creatures fell under the heavy hoof of piggish fate, any state intervention to ter- minate their poverty was mis- guided. After all, wasn’t fate de- termined by the hand of God? For the most part, the United States government has adhered faithfully to this line of thought. Besides vacillating anti-poverty programs that divide our people, distributing a few stale crumbs among them, the government re- mains beneficial to only a few while millions die in poverty. The last assumption is perhaps the most contradictory: 4) The task of ameliorating PREVENTIVE DETENTION ll. FBLINTIMIDATION ll. “CONSPIRACY” Ls The idea of preventive detention that President Nixon and Attorney General John Mitchell of the op- pressive class are trying to put into law, is only another in the long bag of tricks to harass and intimidate poor and black people in the name of law and order. We know well who will be the victims of such a law. Already in America there are preventive detention laws in the forin of high bail and in some cases, no bail at all. It is Black People, Chicano’s Puerto Ricans, and Indians who suffer from these laws most, along with progressive whites who are now beginning to take a stand against Colonialism and Imperialism. We know also that a preventive de- tention law will be a political tool of the ‘tricky Dick Nixon’’ ad- ministration or any Imperialist - Capitalist - Racist administration to be used against. the broad masses, The history of such laws in the United States clearly shows that the real ‘‘danger to society’’ has always been national minor- ities, working people, political dis- senters, and those who disagree. It is not enough to say that a pre- ventive detention law is unconsti- tutional. We have to say that such a law is the first step to legalized fascism in this country. It must be seen that way and fought in a revolutionary manner. This law is an exact duplicate of many of the laws in Capitalist - Racist - Fascist South Africa. I. At the same time that we strike at the obvious attempts to crush the vitality of movements for change in America, we cannot let pass attempts by the Federal Pig Bureau’ of Investigation run by *‘QUEEN” Hoover along with var- ious Congressional investigating committees to harass and frighten organizations and individuals inthe movement. The role of the FBI has long been known. The reality of the FBI past and present is reflected in their criminal and cowardly inability to protect the masses of Black people and white civil rights workers in Missis- sippi, Alabama, and other parts of the United States, compare this to their a keen sense of dedication, alertness, and initiative in their phony cases against H. Rap Brown, Bobby Seale, Tom Hayden, and many others - and their role as the repressive arm of the power structure becomes quite clear. Il, The March 7th vicious attack upon innocent black children at Carver Junior High School by Red- din’s Raiders has caused District Attorney Younger to bring charges of conspiracy and’ felony in- dictments against many people - whose only ‘‘crime’’ was that of seeking redress of grievance. Where is the real ‘‘conspiracy”’? The Capitalists, Imperialists, and Racists, who form America’s gov- ernment, and who exploit and op- press the majority of Mankind - these are the real conspirators and criminals. We call upon inayoral candidate “Uncle Tom Bradley’’ - head scratching, shuffling, strangely, silent traitor to black people to speak out against conspiracy in- dictments; speak out against THE POLICE STATE! THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20,1969 PAGE 17 DOWN social injustice was left in the hands of the rich. How can a bour- geois capitalistic class who obtain their wealth and power from the blood and sweat of the masses be expected to alleviate their condi- tion? It has been stated time and again that class contradictions will be resolved in the highest form of struggle: through revolutionary war waged onthe part of the lumpen proletariat. “Mao says that every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with the brand of a class. The capitalistic class stresses competition among individuals for their own personal gain, If he succeeds, then it is good, no mat- ter what his methods. If he fails then it is due to his own laziness and ignorance, The system, how- ever, is rigged to let only a few succeed”. At present the capitalists are very powerful; they are real tigers, because they have the military might of the U.S. pig army, but in the end they will prove to be nothing -- merely paper tigers. For instance, Rockefeller can de- fine the oil that comes out of the “ground as his. The people of the ‘world are forced to buy from him, ‘to work for him, because THEY HAVE TO LIVE. Rockefeller can- not realistically ‘‘own’’ one of the earth’s natural resources, It be- longs to the people of the world who came naked from the womb like he did. Another example is the racist, colonialist, capitalist family of De Beers in South Africa. Every- one has heard this well-known advertisement: ‘ta diamond is for- ever’, De Beers has the power to define the diamond as a symbol of eternal love, Even black sisters act in his desired manner: they all desire the beautiful, glittering stones that were raped from the mines of Africa. Regardless of the bloody sacrifice suffered by South Africa’s black humanity, the avaricious De Beers just wipes away the blood, revealing the dazzling diamond and the enduring myth! If anything the diamond is defamed and symbolic of nothing more than oppressive capitalism. Capitalism manifests itself in many detrimental ways to im- poverished humanity. It must be destroyed -- not reformed. Black, brown, red, and yellow capitalism is fignting fire with fire, which is ridiculous. Fire is put out with water, as capitalism must be *‘put out”’ with socialism]! All power to the people! All pig power to the slaughter- Sacramento Branch Black Panther Party THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20,1969 PAGE 18 AD INTERVIEW WITH THE CHIEF OF STAFF DAVID HILLIARD Few people recognize that many of the revolutionary leaders and members of the Black Panther Party have families. Above is the family of the National Chief of Staff, David Hilliard, For a time Hilliard worked as a longshoreman onthe B list. ‘I got very turned off,’ he said. **Being exposed to all the black people in the union, who are ina majority, and seeing how they were completely transfixed with the idea that this is the best job to have. And with a job working as a long- shoreman you somewhat escape the whole thing of oppression. “This is one of the things that dichotomizes and puts up a par- tition between the longshore workers and organizations that are moving to try and put together a prolitarian revolution, Because these workers have been granted certain concessions they are somewhat plugged into the sys- tem,”” It is also the Panther Chief’s contention that the longshoremen play a very significant part in the overall struggle. They are very well organized and have a very strong union, andare recognized in terms of numbers. But it is very necessary to organize the whole working class. Q. You speak of the strength and organization of the Longshore- men but do you think they will be able to fight off the ill effects of contanerization without the help of the community? A. I doubt it. They will not need the community to retain their right to work, in terms of loading and unloading the vans. I think that it will probably be solved in the next two weeks. We have seen in the past that they have’ come up with threats of walking out or striking, but we know that the waterfronts are a major means of export and importation here in North America, I don’t think they (employers) could stand the economic effect of having the long- shoremen go out, Because they need the longshoremen for more reasons than containers. Q. So they will give them an- PANTHERS BANNED FROM SPEAKING On March 21, 1969, Thomas Sheldon, city school superin- tendent, issued a memo to all city principals banning members ofthe Black Panther Party from speak- ing in the city schools. Shortly afterwards, the Baltimore and Anne Arundel County school boards followed suit. This is one of the most illegal directives ever given -- specif- ically excluding members of the Black Panther Party from being invited to rap at PUBLICALLY owned schools. The reason offered by pig Sheldon is even more ridic- ulous as he says the Panthers ‘tused the type of language that shouldn’t be used in public schools.’” At Woodlawn Senior High School- there have been speeches given by the Black Panther Party and Na- tional States Rights Party. The Panthers gave an . xcellent rap, relating to the history of the party and the Black man in general, and calling for UNITY of the oppressed to overthrow the oppressors. Nc‘ ONE foul word was uttered by a Black Panther. On the other hand, three racists from the States Rights Party gave a speech in which every other word was ‘nigger’. Their literature pro- claims ‘*Smash Nigger Power!’ When these racists were here, neither the principal nor any pigs were present. When the Panthers spoke, all the high pigs from the Board of Education were present, with other pigs surrounding the school. It’s obvious that ‘foul language was not the issue involved, but one of ‘‘ideology.’’ The power structure encourages racists like the States Rights Party, and pork chop nationalists like Karenga to come preach their venom of divid- ing oppressed masses. These peo- other one of the concessions out of the bag? A. That’s right. So, they will gladly concede to those demands in order to further their imperial- istic means. To further exploita- tion and prolong their war on the Vietnamese people. The long- shoremen play an important part in that because they work at the military bases. Q. What is the reason for the purge that is going on within the Black Panther Party? A. We relate to what Lenin said, «that a party that purges itself grows to become stronger.’’ The purging is very good, You recog- nize that there is a diffusion with- in the rank and file of the party, within the internal structure of the party. So the very fact that you purge strengthens the party. You get rid of all the opportunist ele- ments, the criminal elements, and work with the people left, You will become stronger, more of a fortress. Quoting from Stalin, I think he said something like ‘*the party used to be hospitable, it would yield to the opinions of all the sympathizers. ‘*But, now the party has become likea fortress.”’ And that the party is only inter- ested in the very best and the most revolutionary sections of society. We try now to attract the very best. And our doors are not open to anyone that decides that they want to join the party. Now the people that become a part of the rank and file of the Black Panther Party will definitely have to be somebody who wants to carry out the desires and aspirations of the appressed people.’’ Q. What of the alliance with DRUM” ‘*FRUM’?? Ae That was an alliance that was put together by Kenny Horston. He is the leader of the Black Panther Caucas out at General Motors in Fremont. Kenny: had went back east to do some investi- gation because he became in- terested in trying to organize the workers, the black workers in particular. He went back and had discussions with members of DRUM and members of the Ford revolutionary movement that they have back there. He found out that the majority of the members within the two organizations were Panther Party members. That was a very gladening experience to know, that the brothers back there had begun to organize the workers. Andreally moving to try and put up a work- ing class force in order to deliver a very mighty and telling blow to the imperialistic system, I think the credit should be attributed to Kenny Horston the brother that came up with the idea of trying to make some coalition with the Black Caucas here in Fremont, and the brothers in De- troit. We see the necessity of making some alliances with the working class, black, white, Latin Amer- ican, Orientals, and or what have you. We see that as being a very grave necessity that the revolution as a whole is dependent upon mak- ing a coalition with the other working class people. Panthers themselves are workers, it is just that we consider ourselves the most a:lvanced detachment of the working class. Because of theoret- ical analysis and because we have applied theoretically the ideas and works of Marx and Lenin and we have tested them in the external world, which proves that thereisa need for the masses of the people, and a need for solidarity of the working class. Our whole thing about discovering the triumvirate consisting of Lenin, Trosky, and Stalin, It is just a matter of try- ing to give a very complete pic- iure of history. It’s like con- sidering the part without the whole to talk about Lenin and Marx, to talk about Mao Tse Tung and his deeds without really bringing Sta- lin in on the overall historicall scene. Stalin played a very im- portant part in the Russian revolu- tion and he played an important part in the first Socialist State manifested in Russia, It is not a thing that we are Maoist or Stalinist, Leninist. We say that there is no such animal as a Stalinist, no such thing as a Maoist - that thereis just Marxist, Leninist, and that Stalia was truly a Marxist Leninist. He always praised Lenia and carried out the ideas of Lenin. Its just a matter of people and history ia it’s totality and telling the true story of what took place. The reason that they fear Joseph Stalin is because of the distorted facts that they have gainedthrough the Western press. The one thing that we respect about Stalin, is that Stalin was able to capture the will of the peo- ple. He was able to put forth the will of the people more so than anyone else. By saying that, I mean he was able to ... (take like Huey) the very basic im- mediate ideas of the people and really put them into some action. So that, he was not just atheoretician he was apractitionerof thattheory. Q, Is there anything else that you would like to say? A. Just that, it seems very clear that uprising has to be in order as Lenin said, that it is not just something that you strike out to do when the masses of people are not ready to really go out and move in an armed fashion ... that they are not ready to take up an armed struggle. So, daily we’re faced with problems of young black people being killed, like the little brother in San Francisco, the other day. The people are daily turning that shit off and making some moves to show that ney don’t endorse it. But I wonder how much longer will this shit happen? I think that this is the last go-round, This is def- initely a show down, And if we make it througit this summer it would be something only be- cause the system has changed, that’s all, that’s the only thing that will I think save a very violent conflict in just a few more months. The pigs have moved with maximum harassment at this point the people won’t stand for it. We feel that the arrest of the 21 brothers in New York was just another attempt to behead the rey~ olution, It has been proven in practice that the Black Panther Party exemplifies the Vanguard role in the revolution. We believe that the move to charge the 21 people with con- spiracy, that is conspiring to mur- der ‘*pigs’? and dynamite certain capitalistic businesses in New York City, is just another heavy- handed move to wipe out the lead- ership of the Black Panther Party. In the first place it is very ab- surd to think of an organization with the magnitude of the Black Panther Party, with some 40 chap- ters at this point, to risk the dis- truction of one of our most revolu- tionary chapters, one of our better organized chapters, by going around talking about ‘‘owing up department stores, Iti something that our Central Committee does not endorse, It is just another lie. And I think that it will be proven that it is just another setup and that the brothers are not guilty of any conspiracy relevant to that kind of action. So, that is what I would like to say in conclusion. NEW PIG PATROL IN KANSAS CITY ple play right into the hands of the © = power structure. The Black Panther Party calls for UNITY among all oppressed people to fight and destroy the op- pressors. When the exploited classes are unified pigs like Shel- don won’t be ruining public schools any more. Sheldon was right when he said, “they (the Panthers) said some things that were anti-societal in general.’’ The Panthers and all revolutionaries are against this racist and oppressive society and will overthrow it by any means necessary. Action must be taken by stu- dents to insure that students can _determine for themselves if they would like members from the Black Panther Party to address their schools, POWER TO PEOPLENOT TO PIGS STUDENT POWER TO STUDENTS PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN- GUARD Venceremos, Rodney Knight Woodlawn Senior High School Baltimore, Maryland The Kansas City Chapter of the Black Panther Party has begun Patrols of the Pigs. We immedi- ately ran into a confrontation with the shit of the earth. On Saturday night, March 22, six (6) Panthers ,were arrested while they were making their rounds near 3lst and Woodland, near the heart of the Black Community. As Deputy Chairman Pete O'Neal went into a drug story to phone headquarters, a Pig, sergeant Pete Nino, walked in behind him, Finding out that he had no change to make a call, Pete went to the counter to get a dollar’s change. The Pig Nino went over to the phone booth and Picked up a glove and car keys that Pete had laid down. Pete im- mediately demanded his keys back but the Pig said, ‘‘I didn’t see your name onthem,’’ andhe started laughing. The Pig started to walk out of the store but Pete grabbed him and pulled him back in. They started arguing. Two nigger pigs walked up and grabbed Pete, The Nino Pig punched Pete and, of course, Pete returned the blow. Then the shit really came down, Several more Pigs jumped on the other 5 Panthers and the brothers really returned tit for tat. One big, strong Panther who is only 15 years old was fighting and struggling with 5 Pigs at onetime. As one Pig drewhis gun, Brother Peter re-enacted the encounter between the Oakland Pig and Brother Huey Newton, Pete said, “Go for-it, Pig! Draw your gun! I got witnesses|’’ (About 25 wit- nesses) ‘‘You better NOT touch that gun, Swinel’’ The Pig got | extremely nervous and said, **Don’t cause a disturbance]”' This is the insult of insults, It is the Pig who disturbs the community, It is the white reactionary businessmen who disturb the community, The lousy schools disturb the com- munity, After the brothers were finally OUTNUMBERED they were taken downtown to the Pigpen and re- leased on $500 bond each. Their court date has been continued. The Pig Patrol has weathered its first attack \by the Pigs and shall continue to watch for any incidents of Pig brutality and.im- proper procedure, The amount of static that we get is a good measure of our effectiveness. The more the BLACK PANTHER PAR- Ty is confronted and attacked and the more we fight back, then we can well assume that we are mak- ing the position of the Pig Estab- lishment Jess secure and more vulnerable to attack. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE K.C, Chapter-B.P.P, Pete O'Neal Deputy Chairman U.S. BAN ON TWO CUBAN ENVOYS New York Tao Cuban diplomats have been denied re-entry visas to the United States on charges of conducting intelligence activities and giving “financial and direc- tional” aid to militant Ne- gro groups. Government sources said yesterday. Five more Cuban diplo- mats, the sources said. also face possible action by the State Department on the same ground. The diplomats are or were attached to the Cuban Mission to the United Nations. They added that they did not expect the State Depart- ment to declare any of the five suspected diplomats per- sona non grata but that their re-entry visas might not be issued the next time they leave the country. RADICALS The Cuban delegates have made no secret of the fact that they maintained con- tacts with student and black radical movements in the United States — but the suggestion that Cubans have provided financial aid to these groups is a new one. The government sources, who asked that they not be identified. said that the two Cubans denied re-entry were Chafik Saker Zenni. a former administrative officer in the mission with the rank of first secretary. and Jesus Jime- nez Escobar. one of two Havana and elsewhere: and passing out Communist liter- Writings of Mao Tse- Tung in People’s War... 5 cis. dikes Siaicsteiele os 6 ee eta counselors listed tor the 17-man mission Saker Zenni was vetused re-entry in January. 1968. ac- cording to this information, and Jimenez Escobar, who told fellow diplomats three months ago that he was going home to Havana on va- cation, was told he would be denied re-entry before he left. COMPLICATED It is significant. govern- ment and diplomatic sources said, that the Cubans who have been denied re-entry were not declared persona non grata. Action such as that usually requires what one govern- ment source discribed as a complicated process of devel- oping evidence of espionage followed by careful diplomat- ic maneuvering. Refusing re-entry visas. on the other hand. does not nec- essarily require such hard evidence. government sources said. A government source close to the investigation said that a few reasons for taking ac- tion against the, diplomats are “matters of public record.” These include overt elforts on the part of the Cuban Mis- sion to get black militants and white radicals to visit Cuba — and in many cases paying for their trips: en- couraging these visitors to broadcast and write “anti- American propaganda” in ature to those groups in the United States who ask-for it. _ Quotations: [he Little Red Handbook- Guide to Action of the Red Guards and The People’s Liberation Army of China... . 6@* - 406 Selected Readings ........ Le eee Ss tee Selected Military Writings Pocket Size..... 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The conference has been OWn enrichment, not to swell the called by the UAW Black Panther profits of the rich, but to enrich Caucus, Fremont, to explore the the minds and bodies of them- Possibilities and negotiate for an Selves and their children, alliance between the Black Panther BE A PART OF THIS Party and the League of Revolu- HISTORIC MEETING tionary Black Workers ofDetroit’s HEAR -- BOBBY SEALE, Na- vast industrial complex of exploi- tional Chairman, Black Panther rist of the Black Panther Party Introducing to the Bay .Area, John Watson, member of the Cen- tral Staff League of Revolutionary Black Workers, editor of Wayne State U’s controversial paper, THE SOUTH END, which has succeeded in arousing the violent wrath of Detroit’s anti-union element to the tune of threats and anti-wWatson rallies, Tying it all together will be Kenny Horston, Director of The Panther Caucus, UAW, Fremont. AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION tation. The Revolutionary Union Party REQUESTED Movement began with a successful HEAR -; DAVID ‘HILLIARD, Donation: $2.00 at the door strike at the Detroit Dodge plant Chief af Staff, Black Panther Party Labor Donated last summer and spread rapidly HEAR -- MASAI, Political Theo- POINT MADE PANTHERS and PIG ACTIONS BRANCH MUST SEND IN NEWS AGAINST MEMBERS OF THE ABOUT THE LATEST THAT HAS COMMUNITY, HAPPENED IN THE COMMUNITY, ee That is, news on anything con- cerning Black people, Mexican “American people, Indian Amer- icans, about progressive white ‘radicals when pigs are beating their heads, about unfair court trials, murders, jailings, brutal- ities, harassments, demonstra- ions that occur and what they are about, and, of course, information about what’s happening to the Black Panther Party chapters and branches, members and all, OUR PEOPLE CAN'T SUPPORT THEIR STRUGGLE IF THEY DON’T KNOW WHAT THE REAL ISSUES ARE, WE ARE THE VANGUARD, 3 AND SO WE MUST INFORM THEM, RALLY THEM, LEAD THEM, FOR THEY ARE DEPENDING ON THE VANGUARD ORGANIZATION, THEIR BLACK PANTHER PARTY, THEY MUST BE INFORMED SO THEY CAN BE ORGANIZED TO DEFEND IT, SO THE PARTY CAN LEAD THEM AND TEACH THEM THE STRATEGIC METHODS OF RESISTING THE POWER STRUC- TURE, I remember seeing a docu- mentary on T.V. quite a while ago about some Vietnamese of the NLF in a boat with a 20mm machine gun at the front of the boat and a memeograph machine and a short wave radio in the rear, They were running off information on the memeograph machine after re- ceiving information on a functional short wave radio, They later prop- agandized some of their people in some villages, informed them. We don’t need boats to function from, but we have offices in the com- munity. Let’s do it! Make a list of racist atrocities ‘since January 1, 1969, Every chap- ter and branch must send in a list of pig harassments and brutalities and murders that have occurred from the beginning of this year. THIS IS AN O RDER FROM NA- TIONAL HQ, The lists are to be of atrocities commited not only against Panther members, but also against members of the com- munity, Information should relate to what you know to have happened, whether printed in the establish- ment press or not. Pictures should be sent if available, about anyone who was brutalized, harassed, or murdered since the beginning of this year, Categorize the informa- tion and accompanying pictures, if any, into PIG ACTIONS AGAINST NECESSARY EQUIPMENT $80,000.00 to pay 10% of prem- ium after it’s lowered from ORDER FROM OUR MINISTER OF DEFENSE, HUEY P. NEWTON: EVERY CHAPTER AND POWER TO ALL THE PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN- GUARD SPECIAL: NECESSARY EQUIP- MENT for each chapter and LIST (TELEPHONE NUMBERS AND ADDRESSES) OF ALL branch everywhere in capital- ist-racist America SPECIFIC: 1) TAPE RECORDER OF SOME KIND WITH MICRO- PHONE READY ATALL TIMES, in every office. Why? So that special press releases that con- cern the National organization of the Black Panther Party, such as what recently happened in New York with the 21 brothers and sisters who were arrested, those releases from National Headquarters can be taped over the phone then transcribed and reprinted at local chapters and branches. SPECIFIC: 2) TYPE WRITERS AND MEMEOGRAPH MACHINE in every office. After being re- printed, they must be distributed to all the left wing press, the so-called Black press, and to other political organs that might be revolutionary among Black people and, of course, Puerto Rican and Mexican American peoples’ press organs. If National Headquarters war- rents it, then apress conference should be called, or if a chap- ter’s leadership sees the neces- sity for it in that area, then they should call a conference of all news papers, radio stations, T.V, stations, and the under- ground press, There must be a LOCAL MEDIA in offices of each chapter and branch, THIS IS SPECIFIC (3). Then if every chapter does this and keeps tape recording equipment ready, then it can be easily seen that our organization across this nation is working as a whole unit, as members of the Black Panther Party Liberation Army, a real Black Liberation Army, brothers and sisters who are revolutionaries. Now it is ob- vious that all chapters and branches have to work as a unit of this kind, With respect to the New York bust of 21 Panther members, for example, with bail set at over $1,400,000.00; READ IT CARE- FULLY ... ONE MILLION, FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, CRAZY ASS PIGS DON’T KNOW THAT WE ARE DEDICATED REVOLUTION- ARIES, The lawyers will prob- ably get the bail lowered, but it will probably still be over a half million dollars. Now, with the news out to the whole com- munity from the Party’s point of view, real quick, more people in the thousands upon thousands will support us faster when we ask for donations to raise bail money such as this, Probably all we have to raise is 70 or $1,400,000, This way, with the news to the communities across the nation, this is where it’s at. This is the best way to start the support of any chapter or branch which might in the future suffer mass arrest, and thereby getting community support ina matter of hours, SPECIFIC: 4) OPERATIVE TELE- PHONES. THIS IS AN ORDER: WE MUST KEEP THE PHONE BILLS PAID, COMMUNICATIONS IS VERY IMPORTANT BETWEEN CHAPTERS, BRANCHES, AND NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS, (OME NIGGERS DON'T UNDER- STAND THAT WE’RE AN ORGAN- IZATION). FOR INSTANCE, A FEW OF, THE CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES YESTERDAY WERE CALLED \ FROM NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS ABOUT THE NEWS TO BE TOLD TO.GET IT OUT, WHAT HAPPENED? THEIR PHONE WAS DISCONNECTED, THIS IS. WHAT WE WHO ARE ON OUR JOB WITH THE BLACK LIBERATION ARMY SHOULD CALL SHEER LAGGING, WHEN NIGGERS CAN’T KEEP ASIMPLE PHONE IN THE OFFICE. SPECIFIC: 5) UP THE CIRCULA- TION OF THE BLACK PAN- THER NEWSPAPER. Bobby Seale Chairman, Black Panther Party THE NATURE OF GUERRILLA WARFARE Guerrilla war is thé form of fighting by the masses of a weak and badly equipped country against an aggressive army with better equipment and techniques, This is the way of fighting toward a successful revolution. Guerrillas rely on heroic spirit to triumph over modern weapons, avoiding the enemy when he is the stronger and attacking him when he is the weak- er, They are determined to fight anywhere, so that wherever the enemy goes he is submerged in a sea of armed people who hit back at him. Thus undermining his spirit and exhausting his forces, When we speak of the guerrilla fighter, we are speaking of the political partisan, an armed civil- ian whose principle weapon is not his rifle or his machete, but his relationship to the community, the nation, in and for which he fights. The guerrilla fighter is pri- marily a propagandist, an agitator, a disseminator of the revolution- ary idea, who uses the struggle itself, as an instrument of agita- tion. His primary goal is to raise the revolutionary level of antici- pation, to crisis, the point at which the revolution becomes general throughout the country. And the people in their masses carry out their final task -- THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF THE EXISTING ORDER AND (often but not always) THE ARMY THAT DEFENDS IT. Guerrilla war is the extension of politics by means of armed con- flict, i.e., guerrilla war equals Revolutionary War. Can guerrilla tactics be used against guerrillas? The answer is negative. To suppose otherwise is to fall into the methods of fallacy. (i.e., a spotted jungle suit does not make a united states marine a guerrilla.) The revolutionary political or- ganization will have two branches (1) Underground (subterranean) and illegal, (2) visible and quasi- legitimate (seems legal/legiti- mate). On one hand, there will be the activist-saboteurs, terror- ists, arms runners, fabrilators of explosive devices, operators of a clandestine press, distributors of political pamphlets, and couriers to carry messages from one guerrilla sector to another, using the towns, etc., as communi- cations centers. On the other hand, there will be sympathizers and fellow travelers, those not really of the underground, operating for the most part within the frame- work of the enemy’s law, sustain- ing the efforts of the activists, and of themselves, accomplishing far more important tasks, The visible organization will, of course, have invisible links with the revolutionary underground, and through it, with the guerrillas in the hills. The real work of the sympathizers pill be to serve asa respectable facade (front) for the revolution, a civilian front. They will consist of intellectuals, tradesmen, clerks, students, pro- fessionals, and the like. Included also, are the women who are cap- able of promoting funds, circulat- ing petitions, organizing boycotts, raising popular demonstrations, informing friendly journalists, spreading rumors, and in every way conceivable, waging a massive propaganda campaign aimed attwo objectives; the strengthening and brightening of the Rebel ‘¢image’’ and discrediting and exposing the regime, The guerrilla does not seek to kill his enemy at-a-blow, but to feed off of him to bleed him, to plague and bedevil him, to keep him from resting, to destroy his nerve and morale, All of this re- quires time, Still more time is required to breed more guerrillas, What starts as a local infestation WHY WE SUPPORT CHINA It seems highly unlikely that the intentional involvement of the United States Airforce plans, in the intrusion into and the exer- cising of territorial domain over parts of Laos called the Ho Chi Minh trail, is a random move. This involvement is designed to coincide with the United States undercover Pig the Soviet Union of Russia, Trends in this country to form closer ties to the Soviet Union and the experts of the Soviet Union to reciprocate are further indications of the revisionism, which has led the people of Russia and the people under her control, i.e. Hungary, Poland, Czechoslo- vakia, Romania, East Germany and Yugoslavia closer into the gaping jaws of colonialism and the sear- ing teeth of capitalism andhas pro- duced the aggressive movements of Russian troops and cut out move- ments of Russian troops and dip- lomatic barks thrown at our brothers in China, This move then must be taken as an endorsement of the war in Viet Nam, otherwise how could-it be possible for the campaigns to proceed simultaneously. Is it so diametrically unopposed to one another over night. Or could’ the avaricious fools who dictate*for- “friends eign policy have for both coun- tries decided that even though they differ somewhat when they are dealing with a ‘‘Civilized Coun- try’’, means anything that has a white or a white thinking puppet when it comes to dealing with a non-oppressive or a non-white country, their differences cease to exist. Marx-lenninist theory indicates that we must unite with real in order to distinguish real enemies, and we all know that capitalism is our real enemy. Marxist-Lenninist practice be- cause it is nice to never be- come divorced from practice, proves out the theory that any- thing that our enemy attacks must not be all bad for us, and anything that our enemy does not attack can- not be all good for us and in most cases will be more good than bad, We know capitalism is our enemy, Capitalism is the United States Government and the U.S. govern- ment is capitalism. The U.S. is preparing for directly and is at- tacking indirectly the peoples Re- -public of China, it is not yet at- tacking the Soviet Union. Unite with real friends in order to de- feat real enemies. There is too much co-existing with the oppressor. There is one common denominator that is very glaring in the previous sentence in each case there are two dom- inant classes, the haves and the have nots, the oppressor and the oppressed, China stands as a beacon to all revolutionaries around the world: the guiding light showing the path to freedom to all of our brothers in Africa and Asia, For this and only this reason has she been singled out for attack. The im- perialists in Russia and the U.S. realize in their cunning thatif they can stop the revolutionary and dy- namic thrust, of China, them and their lackeys, with no China to face can continue to subjugate and exploit Africa, Asia, Latin Amer- ica, Harlem, Watts, Oakland and your neighborhood wherever you may happen to be, but what they don’t realize is that you and I will not let them, FREE HUEY PANTHER POWER PANTHER POWER TO THE VANGUARD BLACK POWER TO BLACK PEO- PLE - FREE HUEY Raymond Jennings, East Oak. branch, B.P.P, must become an epidemic, as one by one the areas of resistance link up, like spreading ink spots on an ink blotter. It is clear that the guerrilla objectives cannot be ac- complished overnight, or even within any predictable period. It is a basic premise of Mao’s theory that the phases of the campaign will overlap, that on many oc- casions setbacks will occur, mobile units may have to be dis- persed, again to become guerrilla bands, and may change hands, many times before it can finally be con- solidated as part of the spreading guerrilla territory. The experience of the war of Algeria, of Cuba and China and of other successful revolutions in- dicate that in most circumstances, guerrillas require the active sup- port of various political organiza- tions outside their own ranks but dedicated to their cause, If people are to accept the Risks and re- sponsibilities of organized vio- lence, they must understand first, that there is no alternative; sec- ond, that the cause is compelling; third that they have reasonable expectation of success. The latter being the most powerful of mo- tives, A guerrilla, given their inferior- | ity of resources, can only survive by avoiding direct confrontation * with a superior enemy: That is, battle on the enemy’s terms. Guer- rilla strategy is dictated from the start by this consideration. The result - if the guerrillas are to _ be successful and to avoid ex- termination - is a protracted war, The conflict must continue until the movement has recruited and trained enough men, and come into possession of enough arms, to build a revolutionary Army, to sustain open battles, POLITICAL MOBILIZATION - Raising the level of political con- sciousness of the people and in- volving them actively in the rev- olutionary struggle -- is the first task of the guerrilla, And it is the nature of this effort, which necessarily takes time, but ac- counts for the PROTRACTED character of revolutionary war. Battles are not prolonged. Onthe contrary, it is ‘‘Mao who has in- vented the most effective ‘five minute Attack’’; it consists of a sudden onslaught, a brief and furi- ous interval of fighting andthenthe assault is broken off as suddenly as it began and the guerrillas rapidly retreat, having inflicted as many casualities and taken as many arms as possible during the stated time but not lingering for even a minute more. A prin- ciple can be observed through this process: The more the enemy holds, the more he has to defend, and the broader the guerrillas target area. Yet on the other hand, the more the guerrilla fights and wins, the more he has with which to fight and to win -- in arms -- in manpower -- in material re- sources, The enemy seeks to end the war as quickly as possible: In order to minimize its losses, the guerrilla seeks to prolong it, since he has everything to gain by it. On one hand, progress, prosperity, and security; on the other, certain disaster, There is only one outcome to guerrilla war, and that is revolution, and there is only one remedy, and that is PEACE, Some will call it surrender of force to reason, based on the un- derstanding that no people can be subdued or kept in subjugation who do not accept defeat. In order to achieve final victory, we must re- sist the over-powering forces of this facist, decadent power struc- ture. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN~ GUARD GUERRILLA POWER TO THE ELITE MreRAST WA CHAS VARs NT MANO Ato THT THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20,1969 PAGE 21 October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want 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 deter- mine our destiny. ae ae “ie FREE HUE Minister of Defense, Black Panther Party 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 em- ploy 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 Com- munity. 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 restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept 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 Ger- mans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make. 4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and *make decent housing for its people. 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a know!- edge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else. * 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the mili- tary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary. 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people. We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or- ganizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the 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 black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. 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, en- vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black ‘defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man” of the black community. 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis- cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them, a decent 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, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, itis the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru- dence, 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 unsurpations, pur- suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern- ment, and to provide new guards for their future security. THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20,1969 PAGE 22 Bt SUBSCRIPTION FORM Sy RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA... Support Your Newspaper-- subscribe Today! Every member of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY throughout this country of racist America must abide by these rules as functional mem- bers of this party. CENTRAL COMMITT CENTRAL STAFFS, and LOCAL STAFFS, including all captains subordinate to either onal, state, and local leadership of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY will enforce these rules. Length of suspension or other dis- ciplinary action necessary for violation of these rules will depend on national decisions by national, state or state area, and local committees and staffs where said rule or rules of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY WERE VIOLATED. Every member of the party must know these verbatum by heart. And apply them daily. Each member must report any violation of these rules to their leadership or they are counter-revolutionary and are also subjected to suspension by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. inti 7 National Foreign 4 A 4 = Enter my subscription for (check box) Subscdptions Subseterions THE RULES ARE: 3 MONTHS: (13 ISSUES).............[ J] $2.50 C1 $3.00 1, No party member can have narcotics or weed in his possession 6 MONTHS: (26 ISSUES) ............ O $5.00 O $6.00 while doing party work. ONE YEAR: (52 ISSUES)............ QO $7.50 OO $9.00 2. Any party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from (please print) ue Pak ‘ 3. 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When arrested BLACK PANTHER MEMBERS will give only name, address, and will sign nothing. Legal first aid must be understood by all Party members. 10. The Ten Point Program and platform of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must be known and understood by each Party member. 11. Party Communications must be National and Local. 12. The 10-10-10-program should be known by all members and also understood by all members. 13. All Finance officers will operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance. 14. Each person will submit a report of daily work. 15. Each Sub-Section Leader Section Leader, Lieutenant, and Captain must submit Daily reports of work. 16. All Panthers must learn to operate and service weapons correctly, 17. All Leadership personnel who expel a member must submit this THE BLACK PANTHER yr BLACK COMMUNITY NEWS SERVICE a . PUBLISHED WEEKLY B BY THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY information to the Editor of the Newspaper, so that it will be published EDITORIAL STAFF CENTRAL COMMITTEE in the paper and will be known by all chapters and branches. OF OF THE 18. Political Education Classes are mandatory for general member- THE BLACK PANTHER BLACK PANTHER PARTY ship. 19. Only office personnel assigned to respective offices each day should be there. All others are to sell papers and do Political work out in the community, including Captains, Section Leaders, etc. 20. COMMUNICATIONS — all chapters must submit weekly re- ports in writing to the National Headquarters. 21. All Branches must implement First Aid and/or Medical Cadres. 22. All Chapters, Branches, and components of the BLACK PAN- THER PARTY must submit a monthly Financial Report to the Minis- try of Finance, and also the Central Committee. Political Prisoner: Minister of Defense HUEY NEWTON Minister of Defense HUEY P. NEWTON Chairman BOBBY SEALE Chairman BOBBY SEALE ‘i rains . Seis eet lnteernatice 23. Everyone in a leadership position must read no less than two inister of Information hours per day to keep abreast changi itical situati ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Ours pe y to keep abreast of the changing political situation. 24. No chapter or branch shall accept grants, poverty funds, money or any other aid from any government agency without contacting the Nationaf Headquarters. 25. All chapters must adhere to the policy and the ideology laid down by the CENTRAL COMMITTEE ‘of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. Chief of Staff DAVID HILLIARD Managing Editor Deputy Minister of Information BIG MAN Field Marshals UNDERGROUND Revolutionary Artist and Lay-out Minister of Education 26. All Branches must submit weekly reports in writing to their re- Ee ae GECRSEMURRAY spective Chapters. EMORY Minister of Finance MELVIN NEWTON Layout Assistant JOHN SEALE ‘Minister of Foreign Affairs 8 POINTS OF ATTENTION 1) Speak politely. 2) Pay fairly for what you buy. 3) Return everything you borrow. 4) Pay for anything you damage. 5) Do not hit or swear at people. 6) Do not damage property or crops of the poor, oppressed masses. 7) Do not take liberties with women, 8) If we ever have to take captives do not ilFtreat them. “Minister of Justice Co-Editors FRANK JONES Prime Minister STOKELY CARMICHAEL Communications Secretary KATHLEEN CLEAVER Distribution Manager ANDREW AUSTIN Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS Circulation SAM NAPIER The editorial and production cost of THE BLACK PANTHER News- paper have increased considerably. We would like to continue increasing weekly circulation and our national and interna- tional news coverage. To do this we need your aid. Please send -us news items, general information, and contrihutions. Help us distribute and get new subscriptions to The Black Panther - pewspaper. Submit to: BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER 3106 SHATTUCK AVE. BERKELEY, CALIF. 3 MAIN RULES OF DISCIPLINE ~- 1) Obey orders in all your actions. 2) Do not take a single needle or a picce of thread from the poor and oppressed masses. 3) Turn in everything captured from the attacking enemy. NEEDED: TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT MINISTER OF DEFENSE, HUEY P. NEWTON SAYS: “THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE IS GREATER THAN THE MAN’S TECHNOLOGY.” BUT TO MOST EFFECTIVELY COMBAT THE INJUS- 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) BROTHERS, SISTERS, AND ALLIES IN THE REVOLUTION — WE NEED ALL TYPES OF TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT: FOR DEFENSE FOR FINANCING FOR OFFICE WORK FOR TRANSPORTATION FOR HEALTH AND FIRST AID INTERESTED PARTIES SHOULD ADDRESS CORRESPONDENCE, TO: MINISTRY OF INFORMATION BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 HUEY POSTER *1.00 MINISTRY OF INFORMATION BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 NOW AVAILABLE .. . ESSAYS FROM THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE by HUEY P. NEWTON WITH FORCEFUL INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE MURRAY BLACK PANTHER MINISTER OF EDUCATION --ONLY 75<-- OUT-OF-STATE ORDERS: $1.00 (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 BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, APRIL 20,1969 PAGE 23 2 ee A so SIS MINISTER OF DEFENSE — —— — — Please Clip ond Mail to: —= — — HUEY P. NEWTON DEFENSE FUND P.O. BOX 318 BERKELEY, CALIF. 94701 address 1 Pledge $ Enclosed You Will Find $ city HERB Se ae SSeS wees ‘52 (A Pe Pe eee BREAKFAST FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN OAKLAND, California -- The National Advisory Cabinet to the Black Panther Party is working with and for St.Augustine Episcopal Chureh’s program: breakfast in the morning for Oakland's school children in the black community. All children in grammar hools and growing young adults in Junior High Schools can receive free, FULL BREAKFASTS in the mornings before they go to school. The first of there breakfasts will exist one hour before.s¢chool hours at St. Augustine’s Church, 27th and West, and the Black Community Center, at 42nd and Grove Streets, EVERY SCHOOL MORNING, The National Advisory Cabinet and church members are calling on all mothers and others who want to work with this revolutionary program of making sure that our young have full stomachs before goingto school. The schools and the Board of Education should have had this program instituted a loag time ago, How can our children learn anything when most of their stomachs are empty? Black people in the Black Community-mothers, welfare recipients, grand- mothers, guardians, and others who are trying to raise children in the biack community where racists oppress us - are asked to come forth to work and support this needed program. Soul food: grits, eggs, bre:id, and meat for the stomachs is where it’s at when it comes to properly preparing our children for education. LET’S DO IT NOW. Support this community program, Those who want to volunteer their work every morning or every other morning can come to the BLACK PANTHER PARTY CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS at 3106 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley or contact Father Niel at these numbers: 534-6684, 893-1016. Interested persoas may also contact’ Ruth Beckford Smith at 893-8211 or sign up with other community peoples and citizens for full stomachs and better educa- tion of black children. We urge as many mothers and other black citizens as possible to unite with this COMMUNTTY-BLACK PANTHER PROGRAM, We are also asking all businesses throughout the black community to donate the necessary food and utensils to prepare the foods for our children. Call the Black Panther Office at 845-0103 or 845-0104. Everything of value donated to BREAKFAST FOR CHILDREN is tax deductable. Items or funds may be sent ¢/o St. Augustine Episcopal Church. Just Yet us know, both black aad white communities and citizens, what you can donate in money, time, etc. Thank you (SOR AGS SS BREAKFAST FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN I WOULD LIKE TO DONATE SEND DONATIONS TO ST, AUGUSTINE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 2624 WEST ST,, OAKLAND O Money Enclosed is $ OTime (Food or Utensils-State Kind and Quantity Below your tax exemption Name. Address City, State Zip | | | ! I | ! | I ! \ ; | If Business include for ] | | | | I | ! | ! : MAKE CHECKS TO: BFSC—ST. AUGUSTINES CHURCH SU ig che ee | a| a , PN » » ye yr y Wy, io, 4 Za Y VY) re aN ad ‘In Revolution one wins, or one dies.” -: