Vol. 3, No. 3

THE BLACK PANTHER 22 Black Community News Service SUNDA i THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY _‘sozsvestnntnct SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 ~~~ ; THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11,1969 PAGE 2 PIGS BOMB DES MOINES PANTHER HEADQUARTERS Damage is inspected by Lt. Steve Green Automobile caught up in rumble of blast and deputy Min. of Ed. Charles Knox 11:47 p.m, the Des Moines Black quarters asking if anybody had been headquarters were badly damaged. tend that the pigs committed it be- do not evacuate because living con- Panther headquarters, 1207 11th St, hurt. They were foaming and slob- The pigs harassed communityand cause of their more than prompt ditions become miserable neither was unmercifully bombed by some bering all over with joy as they stood guard and.refused entrance to appearance, the manner in which shall we, faggoted ‘‘pigs’’ with intentions to maced brothers whowereattemptingthe Panthers members by holdingthey began to mace and arrest in- The telephone still works. We have kill all those present in the to recover valuable partyequipment shot guns on the headquarters under dividuals and in the mannerinwhich a mimeograph machine and type- headquarters--another attempt to to carry on political work, After the pretense of trying to save people they used the opportunity to loot and writer, so right on, We’ re not going wipe out leadership of the Panther being maced, three brothers who while holding guard (on private pro- pilfer. It’s more than a miracle anywhere. And if they want to come Party. Four Panthers and two Bro-~ were in the headquarters were ar- perty--without a search warrant)that the six people inside at the back and finish the job, they can thers ‘‘in training’? were doing pol- rested for disturbing the peace and the vicious pigs stole literature and time were not killed. From this acttry it. The Panther in the jungle {tical work and study at the time of quiet ahd resisting arrest. Another other Panther equipment. The pigs alone the black community can feel has been attacked by some arrogant the blast, Those present were brother was arrested when he held riot guns all night long,macing a need for unity. If it takes three pigs, therefore we’re just not going Charles Knox, Deputy Minister of inquired about the‘‘chargesonthose people who walked by on the headquarters to heighten theto sit around moping about it. We Education, Lt. Steve Greene, headof arrested,’’ sidewalk, They just oinked and people’s education then right on-- just don’t feel like insulting Huey Distribution, Lil Mike, private, Bill In addition, a warrant has been oinked shitting all over the ‘‘best We're all for it--The ones who did:P. Newton like that............. es Fowler, private, Clive DePatten, in issued for Charles Knox, Deputy and highest humanity’ (the Black this, obviously hag no regards for training, and Johnson Hughes, in Minister of Education for assault Panther Party) the lives of the people who were ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE training, Brothers inside of head- and battery with intent to do great The racist piggishm----- f----- 8 affected by this act. A lot of people BLACK POWER TO BLACK quarters were shaken-up very badly, bodily harm. that we’re up against, has made an- wonder why don’t we leave the head- PEOPLE and several cut with flying glass. 48 homes in the area were dam- other effort to destroy, cripple or quarters. The people can not relate PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN 20 to 30 seconds after the blast, aged in addition to three houses, kill off the Black liberation move- to it, This is war...... THIS IS REV- GUARD After bombing Pigs inspect their work -» Nearby home damaged by biast On Saturday, April 26, 1969, at the “pigs’” were inside of the head- a truck and a car sitting next to the ment in Des Moines, lowa. We con- OLUTION... The”Vietnamese people THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1969 PAGE 3 DES MOINES PIGS TRY 10 HALT FREE BREAKFAST PROGRAM THROUGH TERROR The Des Moines Black Panther Party's headquarters was bombed on Sunday, April 27, at midnight, Ex- tensive damage was done to the head- quarters as well as to surrounding homes, Soul Village, a recreation center in the black community was bombed one month ago. The Panthers were attacked in Goode Park two weeks ago while holding a rally to raise funds for the ‘‘Feed the School Children’ Program, The cops were around the house within 30 seconds after the bombing. One cop pulled a gun on unarmed Deputy Minister of Education, Charles Knox, and police terror, The ruling class (the people who own the banks, in- dustries and land) and the cops, who carry out the bosses’ laws toprotect his wealth, are afraid of the Panthers, They are afraid because the Panthers are beginning to build a movement in Des Moines and are gaining support in their community. The Panthers are educating Black people about their true history. They are filling the empty stomachs of school children, black and white. They work actively in the community to carry out their 10-point program which would benefit all people. When the Panthers tried to re- The Panthers are beginning to enter their headquarters to salvage stress class unity, in exposing the literature, typewriters and food for true nature of our economic and pol- the breakfast program, they were itical system which is based on the attacked and maced by the cops! exploitation of workers to increase The cops entered the headquarters the profits of the bosses, The ruling and stole literature. They ran- class makes large profits from the sacked the headquarters in Decém- exploitation of black workers by ber trying to find incriminatingevi- paying them an average of $3,000 dence to connect Panther members less per year than white workers with the Jewett Lumber Co. fire. and by charging them 10% more for Three Panthers were arrested for food, housing and clothing. ‘inciting a riot?’ and “unlawful The Panthers are building a move- assembly’, People from the community came to the defense of the Panthers and they were attgeked and maced by the cops. The Panthers have, in the last few ment to put a stop to this exploit- tation of all working class people, The Des Moines Peace & Freedom Club supports the just struggle of the Panther Party. We must reject the bosses’ tool of racism, We will months, faced constant harassment not be strong until we are united. Des Moines Panthers determined to No Panthers were killed in blast defend efend community THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1969 PAGE 4 REVOLUTIONARY « JOSE RIOS ONE PIG DEAD--- ONE WOUNDED BROWN BROTHERS BEAT THE HEAT Pigs in San Francisco have stepped up their repression of the Black and Brown Community, They are committing murder at will, they are busting in doors and ripping off the people’s property. Mayor Pig Alioto has cuosen-a top flight crew of murderous pigs to patrol and control the Brown and Black Communities of San Francisco, On May Ist, May Day, the day of the gigantic Free Huey rally, two of Alioto’s top executioners vamped on the brothers from the Brown Community who were attending to their own affairs, These brothers, who are endowed with the revolutionary spirit of the Black Panther Party defended them- selves from the racist pig gestapo. Pig Joseph Brodnik received his just reward with a big hole in the chest, Pig Paul McGoran got his in the mouth which was not quite enough to off him, ¢ The revolutionary brothers escaped the huge swarm of pigs with dogs, mace, tanks and helicopters, proving once again that “the spirit of the people is greater than the man’s technology.’’ To these brothers the revolutionary people of racist America want to say, by your revolutionary deed you are heroes, and that you are always welcome to our camp. NEW HIGH SCHOOL The Black Panther Party is being tamed up. The Panthers have been eaten, busted, murdered, and exiled ll over the country, The rulers of ‘ew York City cannot afford to let ae Panthers exist, Too many people elieve in and have worked with aem in their communities, Because ae Black Panther Party is working or the people, not the rulers of the ity, they are being framed, There 5s a plot by the rulers to put the ‘anthers in jail, (To isolate them rom the communities and people.) ‘nis plot is executed by the press nd police, Without the lies and mass eception of the mass media the fat ats could never have pulled it off, Vithout the cops they could never eep the Panthers isolated. We must ot let our brothers be taken. The people of New York City are red of the high taxed, lousy schools, eadly health services, delapidated ousing, shitty jobs and inhuman ‘elfare that the men who control this ity force on us, The Panthers are orking with the people to keep the ospitals open, to get better edu- ation for all students, They are et free breakfasts for school hildren. They are working for ommunity control of the schools and gainst drug addiction, they are orking with white high school tudents, The Panthers are fighting or the people--they would hardly low up department stores where lack and white working people and "MARIO. MARTINEZ YORK STUDENT UNION their families shop and work, “We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace’. (The Panther Program) Just as the city wants high school students to believe that the High School Student Union, High School Coalition and the Black Student Union are the cause of the trouble in the schools, they want the working people to believe that the Panthers are the cause of the trouble in the city. And they want the Panthers in jail. Just like they have to put cops in the schools and suspend kids who are demanding a decent edu- cation, they have to use force ag- ainst the people who are working for all of us. Because the bankers, big real estate owners and big cor- porations who control the Board of Educaton and the rest of the city don’t care about us, their only in- terest is to keep-things ‘‘running smoothly.”’ As high school students we know what it means to be treated like shit, Lonnie Ebb was organizing a Black Student Union chapter at Long Island City High School to try and change that. Now he’s in jail. As high school students we have to support him. The High School Student’ Union demon- strated to free the 21 Black Pan- thers at Long Island City High School on Thursday, April 10, and at the criminal court house on Friday, April 11, POWER TO THE PEOPLE! BROTHER WILBUR SPEAKS AT MAY DAY RALLY TO FREE HUEY For the first point, is FREE HUEY ' NEWTON, can I hear arightonto nat? Right on, I want to say right ere that as far as the Muni rail- tay is concerned, that we have a slack Caucus there to deal with the ‘roblems that are confronting the vorkers there. That we found that t was necessary to put a check, a check on the management, a check on he union, a check period. Right on. fou see we found that it was 1ecessary to adhere to the needs and he desires of the workers, We found hat this city has been negligent, iegligent in the fact that it does not idhere to the passengers. You see ull these accidents and all these mis- aaps that have come about, come ‘about because management and the anion of this particular city in re- zard to the transportation system, has not adhered to the people who transport on that motherfucking system, Right on. So we found by going to the workers, by relating to them, and they have told us to tell you, that we say fuck the man- agement, fuck the union, until they adhere to the needs and the desires of the workers. And we come here to say in full solidarity, with the Black Panther Party, with Huey P. Newton, that the needs and the desires of the people must be adhered to. All I want to finish up by saying is this, all of you people that came here to free Huey P. Newton, I want to hear you say one thing, I want to hear you say FREE Huey, I say, say it again, How you gonna do it? How you gonna do it? PANTHER POWER TO THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, Righton. a NELSON RODRIGUES RIGHT ON TA JOSEPH: BRODNIK, COUNTER REVOLUTIONARIES TWLF STATEMENT BROTHERS AND SISTERS: The Third World Liberation Front, an orga.ization of African, Asian, Latin American, and A- merican students of Third World background is committed toandact- ively supports the liberation struggles of oppressed peoples, We have seen as imperative that Princeton University divest from companies in South Africa. Such in- vestments are used to further exploit and degrade the people of South Africa, The apology given by the Administration that such invest- ments constitute a small percent of the business of these corporations and as such, do not play an exploit- ive role is ludicrous. If these in- vestments are economically insig- nificant then these firms are in a position to withdraw them all too easily, But they don’t. Nor does Princeton, Princeton would not even ask these firms to do so. Why? Because these investments are imperative for capitalist enter- prise and for the capitalist system, the essence of which is production for profit and the accumulation of capital irrespective of the human cost, We never thought that the Uni- versity would regard it as its task to write apologies for the oppression of South Africans on the ground that its investments play only a small role in this exploitation, But the Uni- versity is and its administration re- gards it as, an integral and con- tributing part of this system. That this is contrary to the human values to which a university should dedicate itself is all too clear. But the infamy does not stop here. Not only does P.U. engage in this economic exploitation but alsointhe support and maintenance of the military. establishment necessary for the perpetuation and extension of a neocolonial system abroad and a colonial domestic system. Officers are being trained on this campus for the forces in Vietnam. Thanks to the struggle of progressive students, ROTC no longer receives academic credit for the eventual discreditable task of fighting oppressed people and getting killed in the process. Now the system, in co-operation with the university, gives scholar- ships to students in ROTC, Abolish- ing academic credit for ROTC is an recruited into ROTC are assigned at a great cost to them- selves, to their life plans after grad- uation, and in fact, to their very lives, and to the struggle of the of the oppressed for freedom, Our brethren in ROTC are entitled to an education at P,U. through university scholarships, and should not be ex- pected or made to die for a cause as unjust and immoral as the Viet- Nam war, Joining ROTC is not simply an individual choice--no one is entitled to join in the oppression of any people, Investments in South Africa and training officers for neocolonial wars are not the end of the story either. The university of handling of IDA shows parallel tactics, Evasion, deception, and tokenism, IDA was not abolished, ROTC was not abolished. IDA continues its research, supposedly with severed connection with the university ROTC remains with no credit, In fact, IDA and ROTC remain parts of this campus and the university administration knowingly and conscientiously pro- vides them with a resevoir of personnel. Whenever such pernicious act- ivities are criticized, the adminis- tration forms committees to study and contemplate the question and the net result is invariably a report on the ‘infinite complexity’ of the issue, and the need for ‘“‘change’’. But the changes are no changes at all. The same institutions are main- tained, and apologies articulated on their behalf in the hope of making them more platable, But we refuse to be misled, Investment in South Africa goes on; IDA goes on; ROTC goes on, And a new monstrous activity re- cently raised its head on this campus and elsewhere: research on internal counter-insurgency or less euphem- istically: the so-called ‘‘riot- control’, We consider such re- search as another systemic mani- festation of a power structure which denies self-determination to the third world peoples, The TWLF denounces the criminal research on riot control at all in- stitutions and declares its full un- flinching support to the Black lib- eration struggle and to its leading vanguard, the Black Panther Party. We maintain that the university RGET es oi PAUL McGORAN THIS LITTLE PIG GOT AWAY THIS_TIME ization, and de-humanization of our brethren in the U/S., and in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, Furthermore, the university has social role in its ediate com- ‘munity. Princeton versity now © offers services especially designed for the privileged in the community and elsewhere; a fashionable inn; a theater with programs ofno direct relevance to the lives of the under- privileged; physical facilities closed to these whose social class or color does not win the condescending approval of the powers that be. We undoubtedly recall that a Black American youth from the Princeton ghetto was recently harassed and finally arrested from playing pool in the student center, The university’ s physical facilities and human re- sources must be used for improving the quality of life in the community regardless of class or color. TWLF shall endeavor to realize these goals. The evasive responses of the university administration are creating an explosive situation and necessitates that we redouble our efforts in co-operation with pro- gressive individuals and organi- zations on campus and in the com- munity. Nothing shall dissuade us from the pursuit’ of our legitimate demands. As the heroic Vietnamese people have shown, neither the power of the oppressors nor their arrogance can “succeed: in the words of brother Huey Newton, the spirit of the people is stronger than the man’s tech- nology. IDA, ROTC, war research and the investments may remain but the oppressed peoples shall con- tinue their struggle for freedom, As Third World people, it is our task to fight these’ institutions on their home ground, The South African people, and other oppressed peoples, shall arise, destroy their chains, nationalize the riches oftheir earth, and build a society free from human exploitation, And the chainers will have no profits to count. Sisters and Brothers; we in the TWLF call upon you to support our efforts for a restructured, free democratic, and progressive uni- versity and more importantly and fundamentally, for a truly humane society free from racial oppression and class exploitation. VICTORY TO THE STRUGGLES OF ALL OPPRESSED PEOPLES! Princeton Third World Liberation Front April 18, 1969 attempt by the university todupethe should actively support the struggle WE ARE NEW - BUT WE ARE students. The issue is not credit for freedom andhumanemancipation BUILDING but the role to which our brethern and not the oppression, the brutal- POWER TO THE PEOPLE POWER AT CORNELL OUT OF THE BARREL OF A GUN Ete aman Reo. ITHACA, N.Y,--Black students, armed in self-defense, forced the administration and faculty of Cor- nell University to back away from repressive policies. Thousands of white students, led by SDS, were mobilized to support the blacks in their showdown with the authori- ties on this bucolic hilly campus in upstate New York. The high point of the Cornell drama came on the afternoon of Sunday, April 20, when the black students-—-all bearing weapons-- marched out of the building they had seized and announced thatuni- versity officials had yielded to their demands. The faculty con- demned the administration’s ap- peasement, but when the blacks and white radicals showed that they were prepared for new militant action, the faculty too, reconsider- ed and gave in. The struggle had been building up intensively since last December, when black students, fighting for self-determination in the school’s curriculum, adopted various gue- rilla tactics, On one occasion, they walked into the office of University Presi- dent James A. Perkins, pointed a toy gun at him, and said ‘‘Bang!”* They also climbed on tabletops in the cafeteria and went through the library, pulling books down from the shelves. Six blacks were chosen by the authorities to go before a student- faculty judiciary board to be judged for these acts. They refused to go, and, in accordance with the rules, were immediately suspended, When their suspension was an- nounced, the 150 members of the Afro-American society went en masse to the judiciary board and presented their reasons why the six blacks didn't show up; 1) there could be no trial by peers, since there were no blacks on the disci- plinary panel; ard that 2) the t versity judiciary could not deal fairly with acts of an entially political nature directed at the university. SDS supported the blacks’ point of view and an educational cam- paign was carried out on the cam= pus. For the next few weeks, the administration tried to avoiddeal- ing with the issue, Finally, the judiciary board de- cided it could try the black students in absentia. The six still didn’t appear, and the board voted on April 17 to apply a “reprimand”. (The action applied only to three ofthe students, since two had dropped out and charges against another one had been dropped). Later that evening, a cross was burned outside the black women’s cooperative dormitory, and sev- eral black students received threa-~ tening phone calls. The immediate issues were clear: the illegitimacy of the ju- diciary action and the protection of the black community at Cornell against violence. Just before dawn on Sacurday, April 19, about 150 black students seized Willard Straight Hall, the Student Union Building. It was Parents’ Weekend at Cornell, and some parents staying in guest rooms inside the Student Union were rousted out of bed and led out of the building. The blacks, who had developeda good working relationship with SDS, notified them of the action in advance. At 6 a.m., SDS had a meeting and organized a defense line around the building. Later that morning, asquadronof jocks, many of them members of the football- oriented Delta Upsilon fraternity, tried to break into ‘‘the Straight,” as the Union is known, Only ahand- ful got through the SDS defense, and they were expelled by the blacks in the building. our people --three assailants and one black student--were hospitalized briefly as a result. But the jocks promised to return with 300 people. This threat, team- ed with more crank phon lls to the Straight, led the blacks to es= calate: they decided to bring guns into the building for self-defense. SDS‘s Cornell chapter, with 500 members, is one of the largest in the country. On both Saturday and Sunday (April 19-20), they organ- ized support rallies forthe blacks, and succeeded in defusing the threat of right-wing action by al- ternately coaxing and scaring the jocks into passivity. Some jocks did show up at the Straight, but when they made me- nacing gestures, a black student appeared, rifle in hand, at awindow quickly, and the administration moved to negotiate, Late Sunday, April 20, anagree- ment was reached: if the blacks left the building, the university would drop disciplinary actions resulting from the prior guerilla style actions, would grant amnesty for the current building occupation, would agree to provide protection for all black students, men and women, and would agree to inves- tigate the cross-burning. A massive security guard of 1500 white students was formed to protect the black students during their exit from the Straight. This guard wasn't really necessary, however, since the blacks marched out in military formation, more than a dozen men bearing rifles and shotguns, a few with bandoliers of ammunition, and each of the rest, including the women, armed with a homemade spear--a long stick with a knife fastened to the tip. The blacks marched to theblack women’s coop--a ten minute walk =--and set up an armed guard at the door, Outside on the lawn, two representatives from the Afro- American Society and two high- ranking university officials signed the accord. The Afro-American Society issued a formal statement thanking SDS for their part in de- fending the building, When the blacks walked out of the building, the great ‘*gun de- bate"’ began. The guns had been brought into the buidling during the previous night, and even SDS had no idea that there were so many arms. The university authorities were shaken, (Reliable sources reported that if the negotiations had been unsuccessful, the offi- cials were prepared to call in every campus cop, city cop, and more than 100 state troopers. There is no telling what would have happened in that case.) The white radicals immediately began discussing the gunissue, but except for the objections of a few pacifists, there was support for the use of guns for self-defense. Mean— while, the blacks ceased brandish- ing their weapons in public. The next day, Monday, April 21, Perkins declared the campus tobe in a “situation of emergency.” He took emergency powers and issued several declarations: any student carrying a gun on campus would be immediately suspended and any non-student carrying agunoncam- pus would be arrested immediate- ly; any individuals who engaged in coercive actions, such as sit-ins or building occupations, would be suspended or arrested; any organ- izations advocating ‘‘coercive actions would be disbanded, Eight thousand students filed into Barton Hall gymnasium in the military Science Building to attend a university-wide convoca= tion Monday afternoon, Perkins was the main speaker, but he ducked the real issues, A few hours later, anemergency faculty meeting was called, and the faculty voted about 700 to 200 to rescind the agreement worked out between the blacks and the admini- stration, The Afro-American Society, seeing the faculty stand as a be- trayal, and reacting to the presence of scores of cops on the campus and in the city of Ithaca, quickly began planning for new action. SDS called for a meeting that evening. More than 2,000 students attended and listened to speeches by the black students. The group decided that militant action was needed to support the black de- mands. Curiosity seekers and lib- erals joined the radicals inresolv- ing to meet again the next night to hear formal proposals, On Tuesday, April 22, there were 7,000 in Barton Hall. Clearly, many present did not support the blacks and still fewer wanted militant action to be taken right away. At that meeting, some of the blacks spoke about the need fortheblacks and whies to fight together. While the students were talking tough, there was rebellion inside the ranks of the teachers, THE BLACK PANTHER SU: NDAY, MAY 11,1969 PAGE 5 “OPEN LETTER TO THE DANISH FORIEGN MINISTRY Sir, With reference to the recent ar- rest in New York of 21 members of the Black Panther Party on con- spiracy charges and similar acts of oppression against members of the Black Panther Party: We, the Solidarity Committee for the Third World Peoples’ Revolutionary Struggles based in Stockholm, and the Solidarity Committee for Black Liberation, Copenhagen, wish to ad- vise your Government of the nature of this oppressive act against the Black Panther Party and its mem- bers and against freedom loving peoples everywhere, We are aware that such action on the part of the power structure is nothing more than a guise, used by the ruling capitalist elite, in order to annihilate any socialist movement based on the peoples’ needs, During the recent visit by Chair- man Bobby Seale of the Black Pan- ther Party to the Scandinavian coun- tries, he attempted to correct the felonious image ofthe Black Panther Party as created by the establish- ment press. Chairman Seale spe- cifically clarified the anti-racistic and purely socialist ideology of the Black Panther Party was received with enthusiasm by many of the Scandinavian peoples, many ofwhom pledged their solidarity and support to the Black Panther Party, One aspect of Scandinavian sup- port and solidarity would be to donate funds that could assist the Party in implementing various socialistic programmes now under- way in the black communities, How- ever, due to the excessive legal expenses that have been created by the power structure in its drive of legal persecution against the Black Panther Party, unprecedented in American history, the Govern- ment stands as a stubborn obstacle between the people and their basic needs, These programmes are: (1) The construction and operation of free health clinics in the black communities that would make avail- able free medical and hospital care for all people in need of medical treatment. (2) Breakfast for children pro- gramme: providing food for all poor children, white or black, who would otherwise goto school hungry. (3) A non-profit Publishing House that could serve the people in the black communities as well as pro- gressive whites, With a roll press they would be able to publish a daily paper that would enable them to counter the misinformation and lies of the established mass media, Funds that would normally go into these programmes will now have to be used to pay off the power struc- ture in the name of legal expenses. As soonas Chairman Seales’s tour of Scandinavia was concluded and upon his return to the U.S.A., he was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for conspiracy to incite a riot at the Chicago Democratic Conven- | tion last year. Moreover, the next week 21 Black Panthers in New York were victims of a massarrest and indicted on trumped up con- spiracy charges—one of many in~ stances that do not always come the attention of the press and . public, The total bail for these 21 Black Panthers has been set at $1,400,000. Today at least 150 Black Panthers are in jail as po- litical prisoners, Their crime: serving the peoples needs, We therefore petition you, in the name of justice and the spirit of equity, which we believe you stand for, to bring to bear whatever powers of influence and persuasion you have to convince the American Govern- ment of the unjustness of their course, and to persuade them to cease immediately the unwarranted harassment of the Black Panther Party and its members, Connie Matthews Solidarity Committee for Black Liberation Copenhagen, 25th April, 1969. FREE THE N.Y. 21 BAIL MONEY NEEDED SEND TO BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOX 1224 BROOKLYN 11202 THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11,1969 PAGE 6 160 PIGS PROVOKE RIOT PANTHERS KEEP COOLS It took 160 cops armed with machine guns and tear gas bombs to quiet a Black Panther loud- speaker in the Fillmore Monday. Sixteen Panthers were arrested and a number of guns illegally seized when the pigs raided the Panther’s Fillmore office. The po- tentially tragic police riot was based on an apparent police com- plaint that the Panthers didn’t have the proper permit for a mobile loudspeaker in the Fill- more streets. : Panther attorney Charles Garry charged at a press conference Tuesday that ‘‘this raidwas staged by the Mayor as a deliberate at- tempt to poison the atmosphere at the Huey Newton bail hearing Thursday, and to prevent the pro- pet administration of justice.’’ A truck was broadcasting in- formation about the rally Monday afternoon when a dozen armed cops approached the Panther head- quarters at Fillmore and Eddy. It was about four o’clock, Black Panther Belinda Booker was in- side, Panther Don Cox told the cops they weren't allowed -inside the building without a search war- rant. He closed’thé door. The pigs proceeded to act out their movie-- kicking the door down, match, The pigs leered through the busted door with drawn guns. Cox yelled for the people in the office to take cover, The pigs moves to reel 2; they fired eight tear gas cannisters into the building, and let loose a blast of submachine gun bullets over the heads of by- standers and neighbors. At no time were any shots fired by Panthers’ The pigs told the straight press they heard the “clicking of wea~- pons’’ inside, From a_ street crowded with hundreds of enraged and noisy citizens, the cops said they could hear a .22 calibre rifle cocking inside a building. Sure. Tear gas bombs exploded inside the office, The Panthers tried to leave by the back door. “Several sisters were choked up by the gas,” Belinda told BARB, “‘and the brothers were trying to help them, and the pigs fired several shots at Don, He was just trying to help a fainting sister, but he had to drop her on the floor.” Belinda' and the others were taken to the pig pen, Most were released within an hour and ahalf, Assault charges were filed against Don @Gex.. **We wame back to the street,” Belinda said, ‘‘and there were TELLING OFF ALIOTO, Attorney Charles Garry, Bobby Seale, Kathleen Cleav- er (left to right). Panthers on the street telling peo- ple to go home, Kathleen Cleaver was there, and so was Bobby Seale, and we joined them” The SF Chronicle observed Monday - that Seale and Kathleen Cleaver *‘were seen moving about, trying to calm the mob.” Mayor Alioto claimed in the straight press that ‘‘The young men who did react so quickly and so well were probably mistaken for Panthers.’* He went on to ac- cuse the Panthers of “thrusting rifles into the stomach's ofcops,” and said he was putting an addi- tional 150 pigs on the streetstart- ing next week, “Pig Alioto wasn’t there. He’s lying,”’ said Belinda in response to the Mayor’s allegation that the Panthers tried to incite the people to riot, rather than to disperse them. And indeed, the Chronicle re- ported that ‘‘Black Panthers were seen trying to persuade the angry blacks to calm down and in one or more incidents rescued whites who were being beaten,”” (What are you going to do, Joe, when your own newspapers start TTEMAA NNUAL ELL ‘to tell the truth?) In his charge that the raid was planned to prompt a negative de- cision at the Huey hearing Thurs- !day, attorney Garry calledthe tac- ‘tic “harrassment of the worst sort.” “It’s about time,’’ hetold BARB, “the police department recognize that there is such a thing as pre- sumption of innocence. The Black Panthers are entitled by law to have guns in their homes and places of business, for theprotec- tion of themselves and their child- ren, They do not carry weapons on the street and if they do, it is grounds for expulsion.” Referring to Panther efforts to prevent a riot Monday, as well as to long-range Panther social pro- grams, Garry complained that ‘‘the Mayor disregards the fact that the work the Panthers are doing today prevents the kind of violence he talks about.” Bobby Seale, Chairman of the Black Panthers, added that ‘‘in- stead of giving the Black Pan- thers credit for having cleaned. house - for we expelled at least 100 members in the last 45 days,’ A ATUANATTIR TD vane ra photo by Copeland he’s using us for his own political gain,”” Seale :denied police allegations that there were loudspeaker ap- peals' to ‘bring guns to the Free Huey rally: “Police officers have a_ habit of lying through their teeth,’*com- mented the 60 year old Garry, who has been fighting pigs in courtrooms for decades, ‘‘When they're on the witness stand, they move from cheek to cheek.” “I’m going to tell it like Eld- ridge now,”’ Seale cut in, “‘Ali- oto is a damn liar, a crock, a Mafioso. He's booklickin’ for the Irish and the Anglo-Saxons to ex- -ploit and to thieve - that’s Eld- iridge, I dig that. “When Alioto attacks the Black Panther Party,” Seale concluded, “the is attacking breakfast and children, Because the Panthers get up every morning to feed the hungry Black, Mexican, Chinese, and White children of the com- munity. The Black Panther Party asks Alioto when he is going to support breakfast in the morning soy school for hangry child- ren?” HEY BOSS — DEM PANTHERS HAVE STARTED SOlVING A ARE A BUNCH OF EX—_# CONS AND HOODLUMS J, SOOOEEEE WHA (ye tea] FY) diy > born May 19, 1925 - Assassinated Feb. 21, 1965 WELL, AT LEAST WE MANAGED TO GAS THE FOOD SUPFLY_. DAVID HILLIARD’S HEARING POSTPONED BERKELEY. — On Tuesday morning (April 22), David Hil- liard, Black Panther National Chief of Staff, was greeted by a Berkeley cop outside the mu- nicipal courtroom of Judge Mario Barsotti. “Have you heard that your attorney has collapsed?" the cop asked. Hilliard did an about face and returned to the lower floor of the stone cavern where his wife Patricia was in touch by phone with the office of attorney Charles R. Garry. She confirmed the news. Gar- ry had collapsed and had been taken to the hospital. A young man from Garry’s staff was on his way and arrived within a few minutes to face Judge Barsotti. Kerkeley’s prosecuting attor- ney was set to proceed with the “hearing to show probable cause” for the arrest of Hil- liard and Audrey Hudson on the night of Feb. 25, 1968, when the. Berkeley police broke into the home of Bobby and Artie Seale. Barsotti granted a postpone- ment until 2:00 p. m., when Faye Stender from Garry’s staff became the dominant fig- ure in the courtroom. She placed Hilliard, Garry’s client (not her client, she em- phasized) on the witness stand. Under oath, the Panther chief said: “My agreement is with Mr. Garry and I would be break- ing the law if I let anyone not of my choice defend me.” Lat- er he said that he would sub- mit to arrest and confinement rather than proceed witlout Garry. After the testimony by Dr. Carlton Goodlett that Garry was hospitalized, Mrs. Stender won a continuance of the case until June 24. She also obtained a two week postponement of the serving of a warrant for the arrest of Au- drey Hudson, who did not ap- pear. “Miss Hudson is a victim of tuberculosis and she could be in an institution, we don’t know.” ~~ BLACK PANTHER -. REVOLUTIONARY WEDDING Church is locatéd at’27th'atid West "wedditig Consisted mostly of Pahther On.May Day, Thursday, May Ist a revolutionary wedding took place, ‘The wedding Was to unite in revol- utionary matrimony, Black Panther ‘Brother, Charles Bursey and Panther Sister Shelly Sanders, _»(Phe* wedding was the first of its kind here in decadent, racist America. . The. ceremony was per- formed, at the Chureh ‘of the -Min- Streets in West Oakland, The Church is also the site of one of the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast for Children programs, The ceremony was officially carried out by the National Chairman of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale. In place of a Holy Bible, Chairman Bobby used the Red Book “Quotations from Chairman Mao members and children from_the community, who attended the break-~ fast program every morning. The marrying couple looked radi- antly revolutionary in their Panther uniforms of black and Panther blue. After “thé “cérémony, the united couple were serenaded by the child- THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11,1969 PAGE 7 GLOBAL VIEWS RESPONSE TO JULIUS LESTER April 25, 1969 Dear Brother Lester: Your most recent column (Guar- dian, April 19th) is one which gives sham support to the most advanced elements of the Black Liberation Movement to cover real betrayal. It is the latest of your continual championing of the inter- ests of the black bourgeoisie within the liberation movement now brought forth under the signboard of ‘‘revolutionary”’ and ‘‘national- ism”. It is dishonest and hypo- critically aimed at deceiving Black revolutionaries that you support them while at the same time you use a surrogate to yent your hatred of the most progressive and far- sighted elements in the struggle for national liberationofthe colony of Black America=-the Black Pan= thers, Your pretensions ofbeing critical of SDS for “intervening” ‘in the ~Black*struggle on the grounds of their being a ‘‘white 6tgimization’® must be placed in its proper per- spective of rank hypocrisy when it is viewed in context of your own role as hatchet-man for the Guar- dian, Is it not ‘‘white-controlled’’? But that really is not the issue, and you aS well as we, know it, aster .of ‘Religion, of the Black Pan- ther. Party, Father.Barl Neil, The -pse-tung’’, The crowd attending the IN Za CusteR 1s iT SARGE ? FROM: The Minister of State and approved, neither by the cabinet of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of RNA nor by the legislative assembly New Africa . and therefore held on official pos- TO: Brother Bobby Seale ition in RNA. In the Name of Peace and Power to Speaking in the position of the People: Minister of State and Foreign Affairs Dear Brother Seale, for RNA, I lave always felt that Ron There was convened in the Cityof Karenga represented a great deal Detroit on April 5, 1969,ameetingof jess than the best interests of the the legislative assembly of the Bjack Liberation struggle against Republic of New Africa. ‘ domestic colonialism, white racism A and world - wide imperialism, At this meeting, it was officially Therefore, on the platform during reported that Ron Karenga was dir- the May 9 week of the Political ected to explain the accusation and Prisoners, I would not hesitate to his responsibility, if any, in the state such a position (on my atti- action that ended in the death of tude) in the strongest possible lan- two Panther Brothers onthe campus guage, concerning Ron Karenga. at U.C.L.A, ” Karenga, having failedto respond, ~ while as representative of Rep- was removed from the position of yplic of New Africa the above is my Minister of Education of the RNA. cjear-cut position of Ron Karenga, Please bear in mind that Ron | am compelled to acknowledge some Karenga was appointed to this pos- apprehensions with regard to the ition but the appointment was never qirection the Panthers are taking Wn SARGE YOUR NAME ISN'T REALLY _. REPUBLIC OF NEW AFRICA DENOUNCES RON EVERETT (KARENGA) ren to the revolutionary song of «We want a pork chop, off the pig’’. ee | For a long time youhave pretended that the Black Liberation Move- ment was an amorphous and nebu- lous’ grouping which was somehow to be viewed “‘aboveclasses”’, This was basically because of your own petty bourgeoisie orientation which led you to support the ‘left’ inter- grationists (even in your latest column you counterpose the (cor- rect) Panther program to among o- thers, National Welfare Rights and SCLC neither of which have ever called for “revolution in the mo- ther country”’ or ‘liberation inthe Black colony.” Now, because of the political needs of U,S, imperialism, you are forced to come forward in the de- fense of cultural nationalism which again is the ideologyof the black bourgeoisie and label anyone who criticizes it a “‘racist'’. Perhaps we had better start with Chairman Mao, seeing as how that motley crowd of revisionists whom you work for (the Guardian) have to quibble about sino-soviet events; but it offers proof of class forces recognizing their friends and at- tacking their enemies. Because of the complexities of the Black Liberation Movement, it becomes difficult for you to come out in the open and carry out your coun- ter-revolutionary line. Therefore you must try and split the Libera- tion Movement indirectly, The gar= bage you are peddling inthis latest article is a rehash of the ‘ white politically. I refer specifically tof§ controlled” Panthers, which other the telephone call from Clevelandingj counter-revolutionaries have ped- which, as I have been told, you in-@ died before you took up the cudgel. dicated a willingness to cooperate This latest attack on the Black if the Republic of New Africa was@J Panther Party is unfortunate but excluded, or if the Republic of New@M it is a continuation of your snide Africa denounced Ron Karenga.™ criticisms ofthem in the past. Since I do not believe that there— Criticisms which it must be said can ever come a point in time whenfJ were not offered in a sincere or the political differences between{™ brotherly fashion, ¥. blacks will overshadow the four For one who has never taken a hundred years of inhuman treatment, @ position on the questionof National. stemming from whites, I do not be-@ Liberation in the past--beyond the lieve that we can presume tof™ ‘‘movement’’--your latest column cooperate with whites at the ex- fH is a curious mixture of reactionary clusion of blacks, nationalism ofthe type put forth If there are serious political dif- @ by the Wardens and Karengas mas- ferences between the Panthers and querading as progressive national- the Republic of New Africa, I doffism and even internationalism. not believe they are more serious For whatever the shortcomings of than the differences between the fj SDS--and any serious organization blacks and whites in America, I§ will certainly havesome--the atti- believe thereis room for discussion, Mj tude of “8 genuine revolutionary toward that organization is gen- Minister of State ren ents erally formed by the attitude that Yours for Power to the the subject organization takes to- ward its own mistakes, SDS ap- pears to take a serious srtitude x Wilbur Gratran REPLY TO RIESEL Recently there appeared anarticle millions of dollars. The Black Pan- in the racist Oakland Tribune, ob- ther Party would not waste pen nor viously written by a racist by the paper in repudiating such an absurd name of Victor Riesel. Inthistrash, bunch of garbage; what we do have called an ‘article’, Riesel states to say is to the people and that is that some months ago, two pigs that the Black Panther Party is (and black pigs at that) cate ta the receiving funds from the Office of National Headquarters of the Black Economic Opportunity, Panther Party. They stated that they were from Washington, D,C. They This pig of a writer states that stated that they were repre- this money is in the amount of sentatives of the power structure's OEO programs, They toldtheChair-.the Chairman stated that if they man of the Black Panther Party that wanted to give the Black Panther the organization could qualify to Party some money; right on; but receive federal funds, They stated the Party would not disarm itself! that these funds could reach into In fact, the money would be used to the area of 2 million dollars. The buy more guns and arm the Black Chairman said“ Right on, now what’s Community, the catch?’ These ‘agents’? stated that the Party was ane organ- The agents said this would not ization; the only stipulation that WOTk. The Chairman’s reply was, Washington aan eae the Pan- ‘‘Get the fuck out of our office and thers should put down their guns. §° back to your slave-masters’’. toward its previous line and is attempting to correct it. On the other hand, your own attitude of late has taken a narrow turn which does not promote INTERNATIONALISM but veers on the edge of racism. So you see, while we have patiently waited for you ‘‘to come home”’, endured your attacks on the van~ guard of the Black Revolution in the hope that you would unite with the Black working class and the broad masses of Black people;you have instead refused to criticize your past mistakes and are rushing head-long into the arms of the counter-revolutionaries. The touchstone of one’s attitude toward Black Revolution in Ameri- ca has to be one’s attitude toward the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. No amount of glib antecedents such as “those Blacks who erenotPan- thers, which is most” can cover over the clear and concise CLASS approach to the question of Black Liberation “i” the™tnterests"of'the -Black Working CLASS and the broad masses of Black people. The Panthers correctly understand the INTERNATIONALIST ASPECT of this question which Lester ob- viously doesn’t along with “those Blacks who have disagreements with the Panthers’ (Lester), As Black workers, we would have to ask, who are these ‘‘otherBlacks’? Black capitalists? Cultural -na- tionalists? ‘‘Left”’ Integrationists? Reactionary Nationalists? Uncle Wilkins and his National Associa- tion for the Advancement of CER- TAIN People to government jobs? Oh yes, Lester has yet to blow down ANY TOM! --What an acci- dent. Come on Lester, you raised the guestion, who are these “other Blacks’? If they are any of the above, Black America is indeed fortunate to have a BLACK PAN- THER PARTY and Julius Lester be. damned which he should be in any event from the hatchet job he has carried out ‘‘from his side of the tracks’’~-National Guardian & Co, Dig Lester--"’The Black Pan- thers .,. should have the support and aid of SDS (it) is indisputa- ble."*=-then, ‘‘No white organiza- tion has the right to support revo= lutionary nationalism because no whitecan be a revolutionary na- tionalist.’’ Evidently, Lester has never heard of ‘INTERNATION- ALISTS", which is certainly not the case at all which brings hi motives down front, He is doing a job for the bourgeoisie, which leads him not only to these self- contradictory positions, butto out- right hostility to the question of “revolution in the mother country and national liberation in the colo- ny. But Julius Lester has to be viewed in hi proper context--a petty bourgeois intellectual who hates the Black workers and masses and who serves as the Guardian’s alter ego. It is no ac- cident that Lester’s criminal ar- ticle happens to be the longest in recent Guardian history, takes o- ver one-full page and is neatly balanced by an ‘‘editorial’’ ‘‘Sup= ‘port the Panthers.” Politics have a way of being akin to a telegraph system, It is impossible to take a dual position of support to the do- mestic struggle againstoppression and hostility to the international class brothers of the oppressed, Sooner or later, the piper has to be paid. So it is with Julius Lester’s anti-Panther, anti-Black Revolution article.\We support the Black Panther Party \wholeheart- edly. GLOBAL VIEWS. W.H. Sherman One can only guess where Victor Riesel gets his information. It would seem to the Black Panther Partythat the agents sent out to co-op the Party and try to buy it off reported to their masters, ‘Mission accom- plished’’ and pocketed the money and kept it for themselves, ff Washington is missing some millions of dollars, Dynamite THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1969 PAGE 8 BREAKFAST FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN The Breakfast for School Children program was kicked off on Monday, April 14, at two churches in the Black Community of Kansas City, Missouri. Deputy Minister of Informa- tion Bill Whitfield and Deputy Minister of Labor Tommy Robinson have worked very hard in getting the plans together for the Program. The Missouri Chapter of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY has combed Kansas City’s Black Community and outlying business areas asking for food donations, money, equipment, churches and recreation centers in which to the breakfasts, and vol- unteers. The Black Panther Party has also hounded the avaricious busi- nessmen infesting the Black Com- munity, who rob, steal, and fuck over Black People. Some of them have come across with donations but other jive-time corner gro- cery stores charging space-age prices for stone-age quality food have refused to cooperate, There- fore we call on the masses of oppressed peoples to kill this worm of economic exploitation. The large businesses in the city such as Sealtest Dairies, Fore- most Dairies, and Country Club Dairies have had the audacity to say that the price of milk is too high for them to donate milk. Bullshit! Who sets the prices? The Kroger chain store refused to do- nate food or otherwise cooperate with the people’s revolutionary program because they claimed they already donate food to Soul Inc., another Black organization which is doing their thing to take care of the people’s needs, But that is still a cop-out. The People will also deal with this antagonistic contradiction, On Monday (April 14) about 30 children showed up for the break- fast at St. Stephen Baptist Church and Paseo Baptist Church, At the time of this writing about 450 children are being fed daily! Power to the People! This revolutionary program will be a good way to show the op- pressed masses of Black, Third World, and poor White peoples that they are the strength of the Revolution, Not only does this Breakfast program show them their innate strength and make them flex their muscles but the program takes care of animmedi- ate need -- feeding the children|!! Right now we are making an increased effort to get volunteers from the masses to run the pro- gram. This is the People’s thing]! However the Board of Education has different ideas, When the Breakfast program started the School Board immediately came up with $30,000! with which to attempt to co-opt the people's pro- gram. They have had this money for years but the people did not know anything about it until now, Where did the School Board get this money? Recently a school levy was defeated (2/3 majority required) and allegedly the school system needs the. money in order to function for the next year. Yet they can come up with $30,000 when the BLACK PANTHER PARTY starts arevolutionary pro- gram, Money won't buy this pro- gram because the people own it, the Dollar being a funky tool of racist Capitalism! The people can only guess what the pig structure intends to do with this money. Start a competing breakfast pro- gram?? If they do you can believe it will be with surplus commodity food -- powdered milk, powdered eggs, powdered pig! But the Black Community needs soul food -- FRESH eggs, FRESH milk, FRESH fruit, FRESH meat. THE PIG WILL FAIL!! RIGHT ON}! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Deputy Chairman PETE O'NEAL cit That’s just like Allan & Sons Meat Company, are some gully-snipers that has one of the largest meat operations in the City and the ordors that come from these racists dog’s company is enough to knock an elephant out, so when members of the Party con- tacts these beasts about the Break- fast for School Children Program for donations, the dog pig didn’t py) shit, give up a link, do you hear me? power to the people Not even a promise. People, it’s pjack power to black crystal clear these avaricious people businessmen don’t have the inter- powER TO THE PEOPLE est of the people in mind at all, BLACK POWER TO BLACK you know like there is plenty meat propLE at the bottom of the hill. Enough panTHER POWER TO THE meat to serve the people’s needs yaNGUARD WE WANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BY THE WHITE MAN OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY The Black community has been ripped off’ again Brother Alvert Joe Linthcome’s death by pigs. The same pigs who'refused to give a piece of bacon to the masses of Black people, who were not getting their basic needs and desires met by this pig power structure. The Black Panther Party has gone forth and met the people’s need with forces of the Hunters Point Community in serving the community hot breakfast every school day. The avaricious businessman can no longer exist in our Black communities and we mean all nickel slick jive monkey a -- businessmen. of a crowd of brothers and teli..- them they don’t supposed to want dig this. Here to engage in no screwing, how silly does that sound? How can these punks believe that everything is here on earth to meet the people’s needs and the people’s needs are not being filled or met. That’s his butt with his finger stuck init. The people’s needs must be met byany Means necessary and it ain’t no but the people are supposed to by play right on past that, It’s just John Brown like me screwing a sister in front Al Croll The 50 persons present tried to decide whether racism is a disease in itself or a symptom of a deeper disorder. White Southerners of working-class origin insisted that racial divi- sion is a means of social control, invented and used by the people who own and run the South and the nation. r The conference set up a continuations committee of three men and three women to try to form a national organi- zation to tie together the work of all the groups. The equal division by sex resulted from proposals by a caucus of the women present. The conference had opened with a statement by Frank Joyce, Detroit, national director of People Against Racism (PAR). He said: “We as whites must seek to make a revolution. We aspire to do this because we have no other option. This so- ciety hasn’t any idea how to distribute its wealth; it does know how not to distribute it. There is no courage, no humani- ty available to us within this society. It is only in struggle against this society that we find our courage and humanity. “It is a little presumptuous and pretentious for us to talk about revolution simply because we've been brought up to believe that revolutions only take place in'deodorants. We are not at a turning point; we are trying to thine about a turning point.” “Why white organizing in the US. in the Nixon regime?” Joyce asked. ““As we talk about revolution we must talk about counter- réyolution. It has the energy, spirit and dynamism of the nation. The country ‘is living under a covert, subtle blend of facism. Where is our (the movement’s) anti-police organi- zation to stop the police? One becomes a revolutionary when one believes that reform is im- practical. Stopping repression is réformist — to stop repression you have to take state power. Who here can think of that?” sJoyce called racism. the fatal flaw in the society. “Our major problem is to deal with the idea of race, even more than the idea of class,” he de- clared. “Even whites in the Movement are tired of the de- mands of blacks, and so is the general society. We must de- Velop a strategy to cope with this mood in the nation.” “The first reactors to Joyce’s statements agreed with him. Charles Bevel (Hauser Institute and SCLC staff member), who returned from Africa a year ago, said: “Racism has profound depths that most whites don’t understand.” He said he en- countered discrimination in Bra- zil, the USSR, and China, “three countries who supposedly have resolved their racism. People at the conference are not concerned with this.” A black man, Lou Gothard of IFCO, declared that “there is a vitality in the black community that is not going to be affected by white tiredness of black de- mands.” Carl Braden, executive direc- tor of SCEF, said, “I challenge practically everything Joyce said. Racism is not the fatal flaw; he has picked up the pro- paganda from the Kerner Com- mission, which is trying to convince us that racism is the cause instead of the effect of our problem. “The problem is the eco- nomic system under which we live. Racism, poverty, war are the symptoms of that sys- tem. Industrialists and big landowners have always used race in the South to divide people and make more profits; now they are using it nation- ally.” Braden insisted that any or- ganizing of white people must be done with the aim of forming coalitions with black people; otherwise, there is danger of forming groups which will bol- ster racism. He said that SCEF workers. keep this always in mind when working with white peoples ~§ “a1O ok Bevel said, “No matter how radical blacks get, they are not going to bring about a revolu- tion—we don’t have the num- bers, the economic power; whites must make the revolu- tion, they are the only ones with the strength.” But “white peo- ple are uptight about blacks. Where is the counterforce to Mayor Daley and his support? That is the reality of what is happening.” Dale Richardson, Center for Inner City Structure, Chicago, urged that white people be or- ganized along ethnic lines. She _ said: “The U.S. is made up of tribes—Anglo-Saxons, Germans, Irish, Jews, ete., and should be organized accordingly. “People’s primary identification,” she said, ‘Gs “not with their class, but with ethnic groups. Only by breaking down the white com- munity into more relevant groups—tribes—will we get a better conception of a com- munity.” Male Chauyinism When she finished, one man said, “Now we've heard from the graduate school.” He was immediately attacked by an- other woman, who said Miss Richardson’s ideas wouldn’t have been attacked were she not a woman. He responded by say- ing, “id attack that tribalism stuff even if she were a man.” “That’s a male-chauvinist re- mark,” she shot back. Bob Zellner, New Orleans, Director of the GROW project of SCEF, said, “I think a lot of people retreat into pessimism, adventurism, theorizing, aca- demics, because there is a real reluctance on the part of people to go out and confront real peo- ple and see what can be done with this problem. Ideological discussion—theorizing—has im- portance, but only in conjunction with real work that you are doing. “One thing. you need to talk about is how do you organize—how do you get to 2,000 people with your theo- ries? We've got to do some pruning; separate the wheat from the chaff; separate those people who want to talk and those who want to work. I’m not in anti-racist work; I’m trying to organize a move- ment.” Braden added, “You've got to have guts to free people. If you don’t have it and you want. to talk to yourself, then you should abandon your projects and quit kidding yourself.” Doug Youngblood, a white Alabamian from the Poor Peo- ple’s Embassy, asked, “What is white? There are millions of whites who ain’t got a blonde, blue-eyed wife and a convertible and eating Post Toasties for breakfast. I’m sick of hearing crap like that. I’m not that type of white, neither are millions of others. “T think it’s ridiculous to go into a community and say I'm fighting racism. I want to establish a socialist Ameri- ca. I want a just and a decent society and you can’t have that under capitalism. I’m sick of middle-class people de- fining the problems and tac- ties for me.” Charles Bevel, a native of Mississippi, added: “Black peo- ple are under the illusion that white people are free. Capital- ists will always use race to de- stroy any coalition-organizing work.” The debate on racism got hotter when a black consultant to the conference, Dr. Carl Fields of Princeton University, delivered a speech in which he stated that racism is the basic problem of the society. “The Founding Fathers work- ed out definitions for humanness and non-humanness,” he said. “.-. . if the color of your skin was white, you were human, if black, you -were non-human. Black feeling, expression, ideas are rated by white standards. This has been acted on over and over in the consciousness of peo- ple and it becomes rooted. “The systems that white people use in their everyday activities are rooted in racism, THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1969 PAGE 9 | -RACE-OR-CLASS DEBATE RAGES AMONG “WHITE ORGANIZERS” KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—Members of many groups work- ing among white people across the nation met at High- lander Center for three days in early March. The gather- ing had been stimulated by IFCO, the Interreligious- Foundation for Community Organizing. National Organizing Committee, told Fields, “You are missing the whole point when you over- look the economic reasons and class structure. In your speech you said police brutality is racism; how do you explain police brutality against whites? How do you explain Chicago? Until you attack the whole sys- tem and unless we organize around a class basis against the system, we are not getting any- where.” Whites Equally Exploited Youngblood agreed. “I’m from southern Alabama and my peo- ple are just as exploited as blacks. This man (Fields) is saying that his degradation is unique because he’s black — I say that’s bullshit. My people have been just as degraded. Black people ain’t going to get free by putting them into the belly of the monster that’s de- vouring us all!” An organizer from Durham’s ACT project, Lawrence Kelly, said, “I grew up in East Texas and I was aware of a prejudice against poor whites before I was aware of a_ prejudice against “Negroes.” Finally Bob Zellner asked Dr. Fields, “Do you believe in the capitalist system?” Fields laughed, said he had to catch a plane, and exited. Eventually people got around to actual work in which they were involved. Some of this dealt with research, some of it took the form of staff workers without a constituency making demands upon an_ institution, and too little work was actually . involved with organizing people at the grass roots. Baldwin Lloyd, of Blacksburg, Va., who is involved in a research project in Appalachia, wondered if any group could do anything in the region. He felt racism was very strongly entrenched. “The solution to Appalachia lies outside of Appalachia,” he said. “Appalachia is a colony exploited from the outside. . Change will come only with a national groundswell such as we've had on civil rights and the war in Vietnam.” Karen Mulloy, Prestonsburg,- Ky., of the Southern Mountain PARTICIPANTS at recent conference on organizing in the white community (photos by Karen Mulloy). and you can’t help yourself. Anything you do in your nor- mal lives, you are a partici- pant in a racist society,” He was not questioning the sincerity of the white organizer, he said, he merely wanted to im- press on them the immensity of racism in the country. He wanted white organizers “to be conscious that they are racist 24 hours a day—that’s where it’s at.” Fred James, Louisville, of the Project of SCEF, challenged the statement that racism is so en- trenched in the region. She said that, as an organizer, she has seen a lot of progress across racial lines. “The system has injected racism into the mountains in the last 10 years,” she de- clared. “The racism is a tactic, not a natural thing. The solu- tion to Appalachia is the solu- tion of the U.S. It isn’t going to come from outside, The spark must come from inside. The total solution, I believe, is the abolition of the capitalist system.” Frank Adams, coordinator of the Virginia Council on Human Relations, talked about his ef- forts to persuade St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Richmond to do something about slums. Adams said the chief slumlords in the city attend the church and the church itself owns $50 mil- lion worth of tax-exempt prop- erty. “The church is no better than any corporation in its pursuit of profits,” he said. Adams’ ac- tivities were the result of a staff organization and he said he had no constituency. He did point out that Vistas are work- ing on community organizing in conjunction with the program. Anibal Solivan, a Puerto Rican from New York, criti- cized the practice of working with Vistas. “These Vista mis- sionaries go into a neighbor- hood for a year and then leave, and they make my job more difficult when I try to convince people that organiz- ing projects take 20, 30 years,” he said. On the final morning of the conference, the whole question of freedom for women exploded in the midst of the gathering. The nine women present met separately in caucus, and later informed the men that they felt the conference had ignored them as people and had refused to deal with the question of how women are used as tools in racism and exploitation. They made three specific de- mands; (1) that, as representa- tives of 51 per cent of the human race, women be given 50 per cent of the places on the continuations committee of the conference and any other com- mittees; (2) that criteria for in- clusion of women’s groups in future conferences be deter- mined by the women’s caucus, and (8) that at the next confer- ence there be separate men’s and women’s caucuses and then a plenary session to discuss male chauvinism and racism. Much discussion—and tension —followed. But the demands of the women were actively sup- ported by several of the men present. Finally they were all approved. No_ “Leaders” - One interesting discussion de- veloped when the men wanted the women to name their three representatives to the continua- tions committee immediately. The women said their philoso- phy held that individuals should not be projected as “leaders” or spokesmen, that they were all leaders together—and that they would choose their representa- tives for any given meeting de- pending on geographic location and convenience; One man observed that this was a good philosophy that the men might do well to adopt themselves —\ and the women won this point ‘too. The three-day. ‘conference had a life of its own as most conferences do. People strug- gled with their . concepts, their goals. People agreed and disagreed about the tac- tics needed to deal with the enemy. Some sought to put a label on the enemy, some shied away from doing this. Frustration, hope, despair, optimism, pessimism were alter- nating moods. But if the High- lander conference had a theme, it was put well by the Center’s director, Myles Horton: “How do we transfer the power of the rulers to those that are ruled?” onda 0 THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1969 PAGE 10 K CLEAVER AT MAY DAY RALLY FREE HUEY, (_ ) This is the most beautiful demonstration and gathering of black and white and revolutionary people. The Black Panther Party has ever had the honor to preside at, All power to the people is becoming a reality, be- cause the people have come out here to stand for hours, to stand if necessary for days, in front of these pig court buildings to demand that Huey P, Newton be set free, right on, There’s no way that the pig can continue to lie and say that the Black Panther Party doesn't represent anything, that the people don’t support the Party, or that the people don’t want Huey I’, Newton set free, This is aconcrete proof that that’s a lie, this is a concrete proof that the people are demanding that Huey P. Newton be set free. Right on, It’s not only here in San Francisco, I'd like to call this pig central. We're on the steps of the federal pig building, across the street from the state of California pig building, and around the corner from city hall pig build- ing. We’re surrounded by pigs, they’re on the roof, they’re in the building, they’re in uniform style. Strolling around in city hall they got the F.B,1, the tactical squad, and anything else they canmuster, away from the Mission district up here right now. right on. Even so, they’re still dying, (right on). The people have gathered together not only here inSan Francisco, infront of this federal building, but in Chi- cago in front of their federal build- ing, in New York in front of their federal building, and in Los An= geles before their federal building, So I want to hear them say one more time that the Black Panther Party doesn’t represent the black community. Who represents the black community, it’s not these pigs. This delay that we’re being subjected to, today the pigs say they need more time. Well, whatdo the people say? They’ve had four hundred years to listen to the de- mands of black people forfreedom and théy haven't made up their minds yet. They’ve had two years to listen to the demands of the people for freeing I iey Newton, and they haven’t made up their minds yet. So we don’t have to wait for them to make up their minds, no more. We make up our own minds, (right on) and the people standing here, I hope your minds are made up. Let me see your signs. right on, right on, FREE HUEY ( ) FREE HUEY FREE. HUEY and all people right on. People have been working to free Huey ever since Huey ’. Newton was first shot. In October 1967, just as hard as Huey P. New- ton was working to free black peo- ple in ‘66 when he started the Black Panther Party. One of the people that worked the hardest, has spent time in jail, been shot at, and had to split from these pigs’ murderous gas cham- bers that they call penitentiaries was Eldridge Cleaver, and those pigs up in the court room, had the audacity to give a reason for not giving bail to Huey, well look what happened to Eldridge. 1 think they’re crazy, I think the pigs of the power structure have lost their minds. And these people, they‘re By RON RIDENOUR LOS ANGELES—What started a car make an illegal u-turn on 108rd_ street in Watts. terrified of people, and even more terrified of organized people. They cannot tolerate to see thousands and thousands of people standing for hours waiting to hear what they’re gonna do for Huey. P. Newton, right on. They can’t stand it, that means they can’t stand the people. That means they can’tstand justice. That means they can’t stand freedom. And if they can’t stand none of that, then we can’t stand them. right on. We have no use for them, they're fossils, they are vipers, they’re dogs, they’re snakes. They have all different kinds of names and uniforms, but like Bobby Seale said, ‘‘the pig, is a pig, is a pig’ right on. They say they need, they say they need, no, I don’t need no water, I need some rest, I have a little young Rage they call it that’s been prac- tising Karate all day (laughter). But anyway, they say they need two or three or four days to make up their minds about the laws that they’ve been learning for tour hun- dred years, about Huey P. Newton, They tan’t make up their minds in the face of the people, they can’t make up their minds now, you know why? ‘cause they scared of the peo- ple. They’re doing some the bro- thers in New York call oinking in the face of the people. right on. Those pigs up there are oinking in the face of the people. The people don’t know how to oink, but there are some other things that we know how to do in front ofthe pigs other than stand up and hold our signs. Other than shout power to the peo- ple, and other than raise the Red Book. These signs, and these books, and standing here are acts that are symbolic, they symholize what we feel. But not only do we feel that, we understand what it means. And not only do we under- stand it, we are moving to be ina position to apply it. The Black Pan- ther Party has been attempting to apply our Program ever since it began. And fools come up with their little tape recorders wanting to know what constructive programs have you done, what have you applied. And we tell them ifthe pigs would leave us alone, we'd apply all Ten Points, coming up with number one, We want power to the people. We want power to determine the destiny of our own black community. First we got to have the power to determine the destiny of one black man, Huey P. Newton, We have that power, we have that power. It’s the first thing that we have to know. That the power to free Huey is not only in our hands, it’s ONLY in our hands, Only in our hands. If we want to see Huey P. Newton on these steps, if we want to see Huey P. Newton on this street, if we want to see Huey P. Newton out of that freak show they have down at Los Padres, they call it the men’s colony or some shit like that, WE gone have to get him out ofthere. right on. We gone have to pull together what we started today, a people’s u- nited front against the pigs. There’s only one kind of person who wants to keep Huey P. Newton locked up, and that’s the pigs. If you know anybody that don’t want Huey set free he’s the enemy, he’s a pig, right on. Because Huey P. Newton, Huey doesn’t want to come out on these streets so he can get high, and talk crazy, and walk around in some dirty clothes, and act a fool. Like half these people are doing anyway. That’s not what Huey wants to be out here for. Huey wants to be out here so he can survive the lea=- dership to the people’s revolution, So he can take this country and change it, turn it upside down, and put the last first, and the first last. right on, And the people say, what shall we do, how do we move, when do we act, They’ve given Huey P. Newton two years to sit up and figure that shit out. They just making Huey P. Newton stronger and stronger and strong- er. And every day that he spends in the penitentiary, like every day he spends in the streets, he’s de- voting all his timeto thinking about how to free the people, in order to make this country fit to live in, Not only for black people, but for all people, we are black people, we start with black people. We relate to our own people first, but people are people, and you can’thave free= dom for one kind of person with- out having freedom for the other. You can't have justice for one kind of people, and not have justice for the others, And you can’t have any liberty for any kind of people if all the people don’t have liberty. Everybody knows that all the Everybody knows that all the peo- ple don’t have liberty, all the people don’t have freedom, all the people don’t have justice, and all the people don’t have power, so that means that none of us do, None of us do, And Huey P. New- ton recognizes that, and those pigs recognize that too, The fact that they keep Huey P, Newton locked up, the fact that they so terrified ‘to’ Jet him have the right to bail, is only a tribute to the power and strength of Huey P. Newton and the Black anther Party which he organized. Huey P, Newton has been in jail for the past two years, he’s been away from the bay area since Septem- ber of 1967, and what has that stopped, that stopped Huey ?. New- ton from working, but it didn’t stop anybody else who's got two legs that can stand on the ground and brains that they can think with, and two eyes that they can see what’s going on. And all these people out here, there’s enough people right here to do the right thing in the right way, in an or- ganizational manner to free Hu- ey, you dig it. right on, These pigs don’t know what to do, At- tempting to kill Huey was not enough, running Eldridge out was not enough. Killing Bunchi Car- ter, and John Huggins, aad Bobby Hutton, and Weldon Armstead and George Bassket, and Albert Lith- scomb, and aJl the other black people and Panthers that they ad- mit killed, that wasn’t enough. Locking up 21 Panthers in New York,. that wasn’t enough, they’re having a grand jury investigation in New York now to get more charges on more people. It’s the Harlem chapter that they’retrying to lock up. When I was in New York with the Harlem chapter, I was talking with the brothers and sis- ters in the Party there, Itoldthem that they can’t tolerate, they can’t deal with black people in Harlem organized. But they got 2,000,009,000 black people jacked up in two square blocks. Theycan’t even deal with them unorganized. And those 21 people, those 21 Black Panthers, men and women, that are in jail in New York, are there to give the others the freedom to organize and move. Huey P. Newton is in jail, not because of what he did or what he wanted. Because of what he tried to do for all the people, what he wanted for all the people. And all the people must unite and move to free him, so we can continue what we were doing without any interruption from these pigs. They're starting inSan Francisco, a federal grand jury in- FIVE L.A. PANTHERS BUSTED police say, was to smash the window of the storefront office. The Panther version is at cooption — like this ‘Friends of Watts’ breakfast program. vestigation, they’recrazy. The same day that Huey goes to court for hi bail hearing they gone start the last day ofthe grand jury in- vestigating the Black anther Par- ty. They got to have a whole new jury. Got to call the people back, and go through all these changes so they can come up and indict us on the Smith act, Which is some- thing about trying to overthrow the government through the use of force. I think these pigs should be indicted for the Smith Act, righton, ‘cause they trying to bring down the government through the use of force, right on, Who’s using vio- lence and organized force? (reply) the pigs. For what, to suppress the people. When those fascist troops moved down on Fillmore street, there was a thousand people watch- ing them, it was about 200o0fthem, and they wasn’t invited, nobody asked them to come. They came down there like they was in Viet- nam, they came with helicopters. They came with AR16, they came with M14, and submachine guns. That’s organized force and vio- lence, And they not coming down there to establish the government, they coming down there to murder Black Panthers -and destroy this rally. They coming down there to prevent the people ofthis area from knowing what’s happening to Huey Newton, and supporting the Black Panther Party. And if you Support the people, and the Black Panther Party, and Huey P, Newton's free= dom, you should stop them from doing this. And I don’t care all you pigs lined up there with your little shirts and ties, you can look and listen all you want it.ain’t gonstop nothing. right on, ain't gon stop nothing. They killed John Huggins, three weeks after his baby was born, he has a baby daughter. They murder= ed Bunchie Carter,and three days ago, he had a baby son, another Bunchie. They run off Eldridge, and in three months he'll have another one here. So do what you want to do right on, But the people are gonna have their freedom, the people are gonna see Huey P.New= ton on the street, I say, I havethis “feeling, it’s an intuition, I don’t know what, maybe ‘cause I'’mtired of waiting on Huey to come out. I have to go to the hospital ina few months and I don’t want. to see Huey in no hospital, Huey Newton is coming out in 1969, right on, right on, We don’t have no more time, these pigs are fixin to lock up this whole motherfucking sur- face with fascism. right on.. We can’t have no more rallies like this much longer. We turned this over to people’s square for one day, but they don’t even wantus to have that. They don’t even want the people to stand on their own federal govern- ment property, cause they don’tbe- long to us, they belong to the pigs. And as long as this shit belongs to the pigs, we not gon get nothing. We aren't gonna get nothing, and you ain’t gone get it by asking, you ain’t gone getby going to court, you ain't gone get by standing around looking crazy. Ain’t gone get it until we organize the power of the people, and put that into one coherent force. So that when our demands are not met, as Huey !’. Newton said, ‘‘there will be a po- litical consequence.” Huey P. Newton said, in 1966, whenhe first organized the Black Panther Party “that the racist dog, pig, police- See page 11, col, 3 ing labor, paying for every- thing.” out as a routine traffic citation has resulted in the arrest of five members of the Black Pan- ther party here on charges of conspiracy to commit murder. The arrests, similar in pattern to the San Francisco police at- tack this week on Black Panther headquarters there, appeared to confirm Panther charges that they are being subjected to an escalated national attack by po- lice forces. The five booked here on the conspiracy charge are John Ar- more,,20; John W. Washington, 23% Bartlett, 19; James Lee, 18; and Charles James; 19. ILLEGAL TURN Police claim the whole inci- dent began early on the morn- ing of Friday, April 25, when two cruising police officers saw Police say they pursued the car to Black Panther headquar- ters where they saw the two oc- cupants of the car run inside. Another police car saw this as- pect of the situation and drew up outside the Panther’s Watts branch at 1810 East 103rd street. The police version holds that one of the officers in the second car, Patrolman Bernard L. Loeb, entered the Panther head- quarters, and that one of the defendants, Washington, drew a pistol on him. At that point, the police say, ee eee came to Loeb’s rescue — creat- a diversion that enabled Loeb to wrestle the .45 caliber pistol from Washington. Drouin's act of diversion, the variance with the police story. PANTHER VERSION At a press conference after the incident Raymond Masai Huett, deputy minister of in- formation and Panther theoreti- cian, said, ‘‘The office was oper when the pigs arrived. They busted the windows without need. Once ‘inside the pigs ar- rested the brothers on a trumped up charge of ‘conspiracy to commit murder’. The brothers were not armed. The two Pan- thers .in. thesear stood outside with the traffic pigSjall the time and showed them their licenses. “What this is really all about is the pigs are out to ‘smash. the people’s vanguard. “On the one hand, they use total repression, on the other “The pig government brings in money, movie stars and food to try and take away the influ- ence of the Black Panther party.” Elaine Brown, deputy com- munications director, continued in this theme, “We started the breakfast program to meet the immediate needs of the people ... because the government has always refused... to strengthen the people and weaken the enemy. McCLAIN CASE ‘Now. -they think they can our , but, how cant they get the community's sup- port or cooperation? Ours is te- tally a community program with free, donated labor. The govern- ment is going to have to waste more of the people’s money hir- The single room Panther of- fice is pock-marked with bullet holes. The bullets, the Panthers tell you, have come from the guns of cops at various times over the last two months. In front of the office is a-small; hand-writ- ten sign memorializing Lynwood McClain, 15 year old black ju- nior high school student McClain was shot down by cops for allegedly stealing an automobile on April 14. He and a Sg or ch by a police car i- oan while a road block awaited ~*them. ~The = youths stopped their car and ‘began to run. irs Young McClain was told to halt. He did. As he turned around, he was shot in the face. He was unarmed. CHAIRMAN BOBBY SPEAKS AT MAY DAY RALLY TO FREE HUEY What’s happening people? (FREE HUEY) Good evening, Good mor- ning. | think it’s about 12:00 right now, it’s about 12:00 and if you look in the back of you, you will see Reagan’s state building, with his state pigs observing the people. And, of course, if you look infront of you you will see Nixon’s U.S, federal building, with the pigs in- side, observing the people, And if later on you decide to leave here and go on down Polk Street, you’ll walk in front of pig mayor Alioto’s office, and they’ll be observing the people. Now I know you've heard a lot lately about what pig Mafioso, Moussili, Alioto, has had to say, (right on I know you’ve heard this pig with his ignorant backwards, minded butt. sit up and say crazy things, like he wants to destroy the Black Panther Party. ButtheBlack Panther Party, and black people, and Mexican-American people, and all people are saying there will always be Huey P. Newton, and a Black Panther Party, as long as there are black people living here in this city, (right on), Pig mayor Alioto said that he wanted to de- stroy the Black Panther Party. Richard Nixon, from the United States White House, is saying that he wants to destroy the Black Pan- ther Party, Ronald Reagan and all the other lying demagogic politi- cians in this country are trying to destory the Black Panther Party, by lying to the people, (right on) and by not telling the truth; andthe reason they’re not telling the truth is ‘cause they always told lies, right on, They told lies about the people, trying to protect their own self-capitalist interests, In the papers this morning (and I want the Papers to get ahold of this) they’re saying, ortrying to imply that the Black Panther Party is ‘‘sub- versive’’. Well, this is all the Black Panther Party has to say to all those pigs in the power structure, The Black Panther Party, along with other members of the com- munity are feeding 2,000 young brothers and sisters every mor- ning (right on), if that’s subversive, then damn it we're subversive. (more right on’s), TheBlack Pan- ther Party is going forth to imple- ment Free Health Clinics in the black community, and we hope the Mexican-Americans, and the Chi- nese-Americans and all the other people do the same thing--and if Free Health Clinics are subversive then damnit, mayor Alioto, and pig Reagan and Nixon, damnit, we’re subversive. (right on) We’re saying that the Ten. Point Platform and Program. that our Minister of De- fense Huey P, Newton puttogether, is in the process of being imple- mented, That if it had not been for Huey P. Newton we would not have people with an understanding that they got a-right to use weapons to defend themselves. against any pigs who attack them. (right on) We’re saying that if it had not been for Huey P, Newton, there would not be any BREAKFAST FOR CHIL- DREN, (right on). If it hadnotbeen for Huey P, Newton COMMUNITY CONTROL OF POLICE would not be in the process of being imple- mented by the people. If it had not been for Huey P, Newton, FREE HEALTH CLINICS would not be in the process of being implemented in the black community, If ithad not been for Huey P. Newton, the TEN POINT PLATFORM AND PRO- GRAM of the Black Panther Party would not begin to be implemented by the people. And not only black people, because the Chinese-A- merican, the Red Guard, has copied the same Platform and Program, and they got a right to it, And the Indian-American organization named NARP has copied the same Ten Point Platform and Program of the Black Panther Party and they got a right to it. We're just waiting for this racism to break ‘down when we see the poor white Appalachians up in the mountains copy the same Ten Point Platform and Program and go forth to de- stroy the Nixons, the Reagans, and the pig Alioto’s (right on), When the Party says ‘Power to the People’, we ain't jiving a pound, We say Power To The People, And when the people say to Reagan, when the people say to Alioto, when the people say to pig Richard M, Nixon, that we want Huey P, Newton free, we’re saying you bald headed pig punks better get out of the way (right on) be- cause we’re tired. And we saying you better let Huey go. They let that pig O’Brien, who killed Bas- ket go, right on, You let him go on the very minute you allowed him in the street to murder our brothers. They let that other pig go who killed Brother Lindstrom out in Hunter’s Point (right on), Wait a minute, the Young Men of And this damn bald-headed Mafi- oso, Alioto jumped up talking a- bout (right on), wait a minute, the Young Men of Action are his boys. Aint he a ass-hole, shame, (right on), What we're saying is this. We’re saying this here. We heard the brothers say in a press conference the brothers in Young Men of Action, they said inapress conference that they denounce pig mayor Alioto, and mayor Alioto is saying that that’s hi boys. But we’re saying this here: the Panther Party aint mayor Alioto’s boys. (laughter) We are the people’s workers, and we’re going to keep serving the people, everybody. I mean everybody, The man don’t like it, but we gone show him. You got your Red Books, hold your Red Books up and tell thebrothers where we getting some new ideo- logy from. We’re saying like Huey P. Newton said, ‘‘that we’re going to follow the thoughts ofChairman Mao.” We’re saying that we going to read the ‘ESSAYS BY THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE’, We’re saying Power To All The People. We're saying that if pig mayor Alioto, that if Mickey Mouse Ro- nald Reagan, that if Tricky Dick Nixon gets in the people’s way, that the people are going to move them on over, and we’re going to free Huey, FREE HUEY (Repeat- ed). FREE HUEY ( ), FREE HUEY (_). Now look a here people. The only way we gone get some free- dom, and the only way we going to get Huey P, Newton free is to understand where we the people are, to understand what we the people are, in fact. And I’m going to say it just like I know brother Fred Hampton in Chicago with a demonstration just like this at the Federal building is saying. I want you to repeat after me. Say I am a revolutionary (audience repeats). Now you know what the pigs don’t like that. And the pigs can’t stand that, Ain’t no pigs in the street can stand 10,000 people standing around here saying, “Look a here, We tired of this stuff, We gone get rid of it. And we want Huey P, Newton free”’ so we gone say it one more time: say I am ( ) @ revolutionary ( ) They have never liked the Black Panther Party standing up and saying we’re revolutionaries, and practising revolutionary actions, They have never liked the Black Panther Party standing up andpro- ving through social practice, that we're not racist, but proving that they in fact are the real racists. They have never like the Black Panther Party and the people talk about “We want some community control of police.’’ They have never respected Huey P. Newton, But we respect Huey P. Newton, We love Huey P, Newton. (right on). I say: We love Huey P. New- ton (repeated), We love Eldridge Cleaver (repeate Cleaver (repeated), We love Kath- leen Cleaver (), We love all our people. ( ) We love our people so much that if the pigs attack us, we gone defend ourselves rightfully with guns and force. (right on) We love the people (audience re- peats) and we love the people so much that we gone say: I am ( ) a revolutionary ( ) and that’s our message to pig Alioto and Richard M. Nixon’s America. Thank you and FREE HUEY, (repeated), FREE HUEY ( ) FREE HUEY () Some Brothers are walking around with some buckets, some plastic buckets, they gone be asking for some donations for all the money that had to be put out, and we had to borrow it, to put this rally over, and so let’s get it together, there some more speakers coming, sister Kathleen Cleaver is here Eldridge Cleaver’s wife, the Chief of Staff David Hilliard is here, we gone donate to the bucket, because we are what, we say: I am ()a revolutionary ( ), (Audience re- peats each statement); FREE HUEY P, NEWTON ( ), and Power to the People ( ), Down with the pigs ( ), down with all the pigs ( ), Power to all the people ( ). The collection is going on. Power to the people and thank you brothers and sisters, right on, applause; Cont. from pg. 10, col. 1 K. CLEAVER SPEAKS AT MAY DAY RALLY men must withdraw fromthe Black community, cease their wanton murder, their brutality to black people or face the wrath of the armed people.’’ right on. Well, they haven’t stopped their wanton murder and brutality of blackpeo- ple. And we liked to say today that if the racist pig courts don’t withdraw their vicious hold over Huey P, Newton, Stop their de- liberations, their vacillations, and their bullshit about Huey P, New- ton’s freedom, Then they will face the wrath of the armed people. right on, Because they’ve been pushing, they demanding, they are forcing the people to fight for Huey, They are forcing us to do that. We would gladly have Huey P. Newton set free on bail, we would welcome Huey, But they don’t want to do that, they don’t want to act right. They want to act crazy, they want to act like pigs. And they’re going to force the people whether we like it or not, whether you ready or not, to become the force for freedom, to become fighters for freedom, to shoot down, kill for freedom, THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1969 PAGE il DR. CARLTON GOODLET SPEAKS AT MAY DAY RALLY Fellow citizens, we have gather- ed here today for the specific pur- pose of showing our concern for the freeing of Huey P. Newton, right on, The issue, I believe, trans- cends that of freeing Huey. The issue which we face today centers around the attempts of private citi- zens in this country to wardoff the invasion of fascism in-our land, right on, Huey Newton is asymbol, what has happened to him canhap- pen to each and everyone of us here assembled, We must guard against the continued erosion of liberties and freedoms that have been not safe to us since the founding days of the republic, The black people in this country for over 350 years have lived in the twilight zone of neo-fascism, and fascism. We're here to say that the safety ofblack people is in-a-strictably enter- people is in-a-strictably enter- twined with the safety of every American citizen, No man, noman is an island and freedom is a relative circumstance, It is nothow high the guage reads in New York city, or what the guage shos in San Francisco. But freedom is de- termined by the indices onthe scale of freedom, that exhibits itself in the foreign state of Mississippi, in the Belgian Congo, in South Africa. And thi has relevancy in this country primarily because of the fact, that since World War 2 the United States government and the military-industrial complex have become the most vicious, the most imperialist, colonial, and neo-co- lonial power in the history of the world, right on. And that those of us who will say, since foreign policy is the merit image of do- mestic policy. As long as there is racism in America on a domestic level, there must as necessarily level, there must as a necessity be racism and war and exploita- tion of the third world people throughout the good spaceship earth, There are those of us who are determined that America can be a better America, And in fight- ing for such an America let me say to you that the risk and the price that the individual cou- rageous crusaders for freedom must pay, in some instances will be serious and will involve the offering of one’s life itself. right on, In San Francisco, a city with a world wide reputation of a cosmo- politan seaport we find a vicious establishment that uses the police force as a means to control, to harrass the black ghettoes. right like peopie all over the world are doing. right on. The Vietnamese didn’t have any technology, they didn’t have any money. They have one thing, a united will to be free. And from that all other things stemmed, The people here, we have a lot of technology, we havea lotof skill, we have a lot of timing, and we have not yet got the united will to be free. If we get that, the show is on the road. If you can join behind Huey P. Newton, behind one man, on one principle, his freedom, for one day. May 1, May day, which the Russian pigs have stopped even celebrating, cause they too busy sending sympathy congratulations to Nixon and his war ships, over north Korea, and they shooting them down, They too busy to celebrate May day. If we can do that this one. day, then we can free Huey, and we can free all people, and, we can make this country truly a land ofthe free. Because. the land -belongs to the people, right on, the land belon; to those who guilt it, to those whc died for it, and those whose blood has fertilized the soil so thesepigs TO FREE HUEY on. For over 25 years some of us, particularly those of my generation have been attempting to ameliorate the conditions that make for pro- longed racial conflict. I confess to you, that my generation, the tough generation, has failed. We have been on the treadmill of cnversa- tion asking for justice, and talking to an insensitive establishment (right on) that refuses to make an appropriate response to non-vio- lent petitions. right on, The Black Panther Party is an evolvement of such chaotic conditions in the black ghetto. There is a place for the Black Panthers in racist A- merica, right on, applause. I’ve been notified that my time is up. But let me answer here and now, The black peple in America have met every demand placed upon them, in both peace and war. We want every right and every privi- lege guaranteed to white Ameri- cans. We demand no more, we will accept no less, right on, But to ,Mmake it very very clear as I visualized this struggle of the he- roic black youth in this country. This is what they’re saying to me. We want complete freedom, If we are forced in freedom’s name to fight for liberty. Let us fight and let us die at home, right on. If fight we must in freedom's name, let us die in the black ghettoes. right on. of America’s vicious cities. Let us conduct, if forced we are, guerilla warfare, inthesense- less, cruel, inhuman brick, steel and concrete canyons of Ameri- ca’s vicious cities, If we must die in freedom’s name, better to die at home, than to be buried in an un- marked grave in South Vietnam. right on. applause, The strugglefor | freedom is inseparable, Men ev- erywhere look to the courageous youth of America, And as I close let me quote for you the words of a man who long ago recognized the dangers ofsilence, Edmund Burke, in 1775, made this statement to the Parliament in Great Britain: ‘‘All that is necessary for evil to triumph in the world is for enough good men to say nothing.” As we leave this place today, let us take upon our- selves a covenant, That we will fight for individual liberty, andhu- man freedom, And when your day comes let it not be said for any- one ofus, that we have been guilty of humanities greatest crime, and that is the crime of silence. right on, applause, can sit up there and eat steaks and greens, while we got to be eating pork chops and bar-b-que, right on, We don’t know when they gonna come out with their decision. They say three days, two days, four days. I tell you this the way they gone do it is sneak it off in the corner of the paper, in a little thing thatsays what they decided. Well, it’s time for us right now, to decide what we're gonna doywhere-we gone do it, how we gone do it, and when we gone do it. If you ain’t decided whether if you gone do it, then go on home. righton, Because when we say free Huey, that’s only the first step to freeing all people. All people, all people of all color, and all kinds, they can relate to’ free=- dom, because all people are op- pressed, Whether they know it or not, And we recognize that) Huey recognized that, and we’re gonna get Huey P, Newton free. Huey’s beset free or nobody Zone right? Right on, If nce di i free, right on, FREE HUEY NOW (repeated by audience), ? vid 7 10,000 STRONG IN SUPPORT OF HUEY AT SAN FRANC So whut is there to talk about. Seems that everybody up here hus one thing in common, and thap’s 4 unity of understanding, Everybody has a common desire to free Iluey Newton, That’s the premis that we came here this morning for, But we notice that since we've been here thut there have becn all/kinds of provocutions to lrelp the pig power Structure kecp fluey locked up. .And that we're not so naive us to think that all you people out there ure here to support Huey. So that we judge the people here that are truly in support of Iluey, by their co- as ee eet nt ‘ CHIEF OF STAFF DAVID HILLIARD SPEAKS A operation in trying to muintain this peaceful demonstration here in order to keep these crazy pigs from hurting these young people. Because 1 wouldn't give a fuck about all you old stupid motherfuckers out there. It’s just the young kids that we're here to protect, (right on), So, the other day we noticed that the mayor of San Francisco, Mussolini \lioto, who works in the same fashion «ts snows the art; mussolini, \lioto fuscism, \lioto reluted to what is I think is referred to as which meuns he relates to good timi And he pickeda very known . “tempist good time, because he had those stupid muddle-headed, crazy insane Irishmen attack the Black Panther office, in order to try to poison the wtmosphere for Huey Newton’s bail, Bur we say that the stupid motherfuckers failed, and that 4 cleur indication of his failure is manifested in the people here to support our Minister of Defense, Huey PP. Newton, today. So, since we're talking about support of [uey P. Newton, if it tukes three days, if it takes three montis for them t decision, then we want to m the ver, same people to be licre three days, three months, tifee.hours, or what haw you, And) that’ we hope from some of the people in this crowd that are not very revol- utionary, and not thinkinz, that after they leave this rally, that they will be able to relate to organization, Leeause only through organization massive organization, can we free Huey, So that we have to relate and we lave to relate organizational. We don’t relate to spontaneity, !e- cause spontaneity is the ideology of the opportunis' And tat we're not opportunists, we're revolutionaries, We're guided by the theories of Marx the on ful in And politic ionall thousa doesn’ out th people and m insani art. .\ gonna gonna We're ‘“RANCISCO FEDERAL BUILDING MAY DAY The state of California says that Huey Newton is a danger to the comminity, What do you say? (No), Is Huey Newton a good force for the community or a badone, (good), We finished the case before Judge Zirpoli this morning, We’ve got an uphill fight friends, but we’re gonna win, right on, The people are gonna win, right on. We want and we need Huiey Newton out on the ‘streets, don’t we? right on, In about three or four days the Judge will decide whether he has the power to make the decision that’s 30 important to ‘ us, You know this is the first time that we’ve even had a hearing on this important question, You know the only way that we’ te goana make any headway is because of good a people like yourselves, There’s power in the * people. right on. Keep ud the great wor, We ed eact i A HERE CACM L CHARLES GARRY AKS AT MAY DAY RALLY TO FREE HUEY DALE Sue Sit HELE WHETE GU WIOSe no late-comers in revolution, mechanical motherfuckers across Theres. Tio. late-comeres soe thal the street with machine guns, as the time goes along, the longer cameras, chemical mace, and they put off their decision, themore say that if Alioto fucks with \the Black Panther Party, mot only will we deal with the Molly MeGuires, manifested in that fool Cahill, but Marx and Lenin. We know that’s the only way that we can be success- ful in our attempt is to organize. And when we do move, we move politically and we move organizat- ionally. So that just hecause you have thousands of people here today doesn’t mean that, we’re gonna go out throwing rocks, and bottles at people walking around with 357's and machine guns. We say that that’s insanity, We know that uprising i art. And if we’re g gonna work fro: gonna choose the e We’re not gonna be so naive as to nu work, we’re emis, We're ind place, everything else can rain down upon us, and just massacre us. We say that that’s the wrong tactics. So that when we move, we're gonna move politically, we're gonna move organizationall), and that we're gonna relute to some organization. And we mean to’ have these rallies. We’re gonna have the rallies and we’re gonna be here to show support for our Minister of Def itil they se there's morrow, the make a decision, Bec people we'll have to show support for our Minister of Defense, Huey P, Newton. Bobby Seale, our Chair- man, made a statement the other day. And he said that Aliotu hated the Breakfast for Children program. I say that Bobby is right. I’m in agreement with him, Not only does he hate the Breakfast for Children program, he hates socialism, he hates socialism because he’s a facist. He's «a fascist he’s a Machevaliun Mafioso fool, And we we'll deal with the Mafia. We: say fuck the Mafia, fuck anybody that’s trying to trample upon the rights of the people. Because we know that the power is manifested in the people. (right on) We say (right on) We say that it wouldn't make us one bit of difference if those mother- fuckers moved on Bobby and my- self this afternoon, because we know that the people will follow th ah with this shit. Fuck Alioto in his stupid ass. I think we were right. THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1969 PAGE 14 AN INTERVIEW WITH UAW’S BLACK PANTHER CAUCUS LEADER KENNY HORTSON Kenny Horston, Director of the labor leadership or the companies PW: Chairman Bobby Seale says that Black Panther Caucus at the oppresses labor, they are, in fact, if you're going to talk about Black Fremont UAW (United Auto oppressing the Black community- liberation, you have to talk about it Workers) plant agreed to give an or the community in general. in terms of the class struggle and interview to several movement BPP; What’s happening in the Bay if you don’t talk about in in termsof newspapers: PEOPLE‘S WORLD, Area in termsof revolutionary labor the class struggle, you're not talking ~ THE GUARDIAN, THE MOVEMENT organization? In the auto industry, about anything, Then, do you see the and THE BLACK PANTHER PAPER. for example? Black caucusses picking up the to discuss last week’s labor con- KEN; 7 months ago, I formed Brown workers, if there areanyand .ference at the Black Church, This a caucus in my plant, a Black Pan- eventually moving into a class Conference was called for the pur- ther Caucus, based on working con- position insofar as strength is con- pose of publicly discussing the ditions at that time. Since then, we’ ve cerned? working alliance formed betweenthe been under constant attack from the KEN: The Chairman’s analysis of Black Panther Party and the League company andthe union. For instance, that is very correct. We have a 10- of Revolutionary Black Workers of when we first formed, the union point program and our program Detroit, We are printing it now be- leaders spread rumors that wewere stipulates that the Panther Caucus cause we recognize - as Huey has going to get guns and overthrow the recognize Chicano friends and we always taught the enormous union, get everyone out of the union also support the Brown Beret importance of such an alliance, the hall, forcibly invade the corporation, organization, There are about 1,000 historic significance in this case - blow up its gasoline towers and this Chicanos at Fremont, So we see this and the necessity of building among type of thing, This served the pur- as a class struggle. Right on, we’re our cadre a strong working class pose of instilling fear in the white involved in an election coming up in consciousness. If our struggle is a workers which is what they wantedto June and we’ re going to run a unity class one, we must decide with which do, This was during the national slate, consisting of people from all class our allegiance lies, We must elections last year and the Wallace nationalities and our position is that working class and then, unceasingly quite a few - were gathering to make are, if you're the best man for the support its constant struggle against a mass assault upon our localjob, you will get the job and we will | Black people were on the defensive. was the victim of the same take- undoubtedly decide in favor of the supporters in ourlocal-andwehave no matter who you are or what you' A couple of days later, the Detroit over for being ‘reluctant’. The Free Press (that racist paper) and companies recognize that Reuther is the N.Y Times ranapicture showing losing power and they’re going to our common enemy, the white ruling meeting to demand that our local give support you wholeheartedly. We are a Black man being held by 2 pigs have somebody else to deal with, power structure, Kenny Horston, as money an active participant in that struggle, Through the efforts of our Caucus,to support a Chicano brother for can be of invaluable assistancetous although we were young, we were Chairman of the Shop Committee. you have to see that all the Black to Wallace’s campaing, now under attack from the white while he was being beaten bya white PW: Did you work inauto in Detroit? man, When you talk about violence, Tell us something about your own labor history. in sharing his knowledge of theory and tactics of the working class struggle. Kenny: We want to explore the possi- bilities of forming an alliance be- tween the community group, the Black Panther Party, anda workers’ group, the League of Black Revol- utionary Workers. Out of this, we hope to clarify a lot of doubts and fears the community has of workers and community being together, The League has been under vicious attack by the UAW International Executive Board, namely Walter Reuther, Emil Masey and Leonard Woodcock and we feel that if the UAW can come to the defense of the corporations being attacked by the workers, then the Black Panther Party and the League must form an alliance to defend themselves against the unions and the companies, BPP: I would like to know why the Panthers after having concentrated primarily on community affairs is turning in this direction - towards an alliance with labor, KEN: Huey P, Newton, the Minister of Defense recognized that the workers are the key in the rev- olution, In the past, we didn’t con- centrate on labor because it was nec- essary to concentrate on defending the Black community and meetingits immediate needs. I have a Black Panther Caucus established at General Motors, Fremont and Chairman Bobby Seale and Chief of Staff, David Hilliarddecided thatthis approach was correct, that we need to bring labor and the community closer together. It is vital that we understand how the union and the company work together to keep the workers oppressed, thereby opp- ressing the community and the fact that what affects the people in the factories and plants always affects the people directly or indirectly - in the communities. BPP; What kind of importance are you attributing toa Black community labor alliance? What positives are going to result from the alliance as far as workers and community are concerned? KEN: The Black community is labor able to head off this manuver, And We are supporting him not because people were trying to do was defend KEN: I didn’t work inauto in Detroit, they could have done this, because he’s Chicano, but because he’s well themselves - the same as we’re when I left Detroit to go to the ser- the union by-laws state that if we aware ofthe problems ofthe workers trying to do now by bandingtogether vice and left the service I went tothe donate money to one candidate, weoverall in his local. He’s the best and raising the political awareness only thing I knew, I was born and have to donate toany other candidate man for the job. of our workers. raised around the auto industry, My of the membership’s choice. BPP: You mentioned that you thought BPP;Reuther, has hadsomedealing father had to work 2 jobs, one at Guardian; Are you encouraging the workers in auto unions would be with the establishment, Would you Dodge and one at River Rouge plant workers in other industriestoattend the vanguard. Would you care to care to go into that? How has his for us to survive and there wee only this conference? amplify on that a little? connection with the power structure 5 of us. My father was a foundry KEN: Yes, particularly those who KEN; The number of Black people affected the union members? worker at Ford and an assembly want to know how to form caucuses in the auto industry is almost twice KEN: I remember Walter Reuther worker at Dodge, He had to quit about in their union or where they work, that of almost any other union inthe very well. When he was preaching 15 years ago because his lungs were It’s all based on the same thing, nation and the Black people are the the need for a revolution in the auto giving out due to the sand and gasses the working conditions, the opp- most downtrodden people not onlyin industry, He was advocating that he breathed in the foundry. When I ression of the workers. Now, there’s the community, butalsointhe unions workers come out with sticks and a newly formed caucus in S.F_, the and in industry. By beingthelargest chains and defend themselves Muni bus drivers that the Party is in numbers, by us banding together, against the goon squads of the com- helping to organize and we’rewe can possibly raise the political pany, Over the years, hehas become working to organize Black caucusses awareness of other Black peopleand increasingly conservative. He in Pittsburg, in the steel workérs develop their knowledge as to the makes trips to Washington todiscuss union there, One of the leaders of importance of unions, butthe rotten- with the president the position of the the Vallejo chapter isattemptingthis ness of the union leadership. Our auto workers, He has something like and it is my belief that no matter local union is the second one million or 500,000 votes in his where you work, the brothers have to union in the Bay Area, The™ power and he uses this as a bar- unite together and decide for them- workers in our local constitute 2,000 gaining power to get little things for selves what is best for them. members and this is larger thanthe the workers which are, in fact, just BPP: Why do you feel that the auto majority of other locals inthe Area. gestures, It took us damn near 6 industry is basic for the organization (I want to emphasize the percentage years to get a cost-of-living allow of workers everywhere? of Black people who work in auto.) ance, Last year when Walter Reuther KEN: The auto industry consists of The last real race riot in Detroitand General Motors got through something like 1,500,000 people and grew out of a picnic of autoworkers juggling the allowance what the almost one-third of those peopleare and they participated in the riot. workers got was non-existant, When was very youngand asked my mother where was my father. The answer was always, ‘‘he’s working’, I rem- ember I would always think, ‘‘Why if my Father worked 2 jobs 7 daysa week, how come we were so poor and living in Black Bottom’’? (the Detrotk Ainge pete bed days.) PW: How long have y bea at Fremont? = KEN: I’ve been at Fremont General Motors plant 6 years, BPP: A while ago you mentioned the “enemy from within’. I assume by this you mean the union establish- ment or the people within the union whose loyality is directed towardthe union leadership rather than toward Sarwar this is why I say that the Rumors started such as awhite man bargaining time comes, he picksthe the workers. By this you imply that auto {industry is where the vanguard threw a black baby into the river and weakest company todeal with, He has the workers in the plant have to get is going to be. It has to be the auto a black man threw a white baby intonever confronted General Motors together by themselves, they can no industry because this is the largest the river, etc. Atthistime, the union with the might of the workers, Heis longer rely on the union leadership. percentage of Black people and the was trying to get Black workers to concerned only withhisownpersonal KEN: This is basically what I’m working conditions in the auto in- come into the local, toparticipate in gain, Reuther’s strategy is simple; saying as far as the enemy from dustry of Black people is the worst strikes, etc. and the Black workers he has a key man in every local within, We've got 2 enemies; the of all. So the auto industry will didn’t want any part of it because throughout the industry and if any- union and the corporation, in that have to be the base. For example, they didn’t see where it was going thing goes down against the company order, and only when we recognize recently ’ ve learned that one of the to benefit them, After they partici- or if the membership forced the that the enemy is within can we eff- so-called, militant union organ- pated in the strike and it was union tostandupagainstthe company ectively combat the corporation, the ization, the ILWU has madea vicious successful, the union leadership all the company does is give the power structure. We can’t at this attack upon Black revolutionaries, I didn’t want them anymore. In the word to that key man and if he can’t time, combat the corporation be- see this as meaning that union spring of 1943, 20,000 white workers handle it, they go directly to Walter ‘cause the union leadership is like a leaders no matter where they are went on strike against the upgrading Reuther, Years ago, Reuther had brick wall between the workers and going to band together against all of Black workers, A few monthsonly to make a phone call to stop a the corporation and when we try to revolutionaries, black or white, and later, in June, 1943, this race riot strike or make a local buckleunder. climb this wall, then Reuther and it is a must that we band together broke out. The Negro leaders asked Now I see the Reuther dictatorship Harry Bridges and the other crooks to defend ourselves. the Mayor to call in federal troops disintegrating. Now he has to send are going to put a littlemore grease PW: What is the percentage of Black to stop the riot and he refused, At expeditions to the various locals to on the wall and make it harder for workers at Fremont? the same time, a group of Negromake them buckle under, I don’t us to get there, So we have to form KEN; At Fremont, there are some- soldiers at Fort Custer in Michigan think he’s as strong as he used to more caucusses and a revolutionary thing like 5,000 workers and of that were arrested for an attempttotake be, For example, on April 2, 1969, movement so that we can break down there are 1,700 Black workers, This guns and ammunition todefend their the Sterling Heights Stamping Plant this wall and then we can proceed doesn’t include our entire union community, Of the 34 people killed shut down half of Chrysler Corpor- to move against the corporation with which extends all the way backtothe during the riot, 23 were black; ofation over work assignments. On the might of the union behind us - itself, There are very fewtrainedor OAKland auto parts plant and there 800 injured, more than 500 were April 7, 1969, Reuther placed an and not in front of us. college educated people in the Black community, So in fact, this is what makes up the labor force - the Black community, So we feel that when the are 700 workers there, Of those, black, of 1800 arrested, over 1200administratorship over the local POWER TO THE PEOPLE 300 are Black, so, in fact, we con- were black, Yet from Monday ‘“‘to persuade the leaders toget back WORKERS CONTROL stitute one-third in the overall morning when the major violenceto work’’, On March 8, 1967, Local WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE structure of the union. began to the end of the rioting, the 549 in Mansfield, Ohio, a GM plant, BLACK G.1 REFUSES TO FIGHT IN RACIST WAR letter Dear Friends, Two weeks ago today I was re- leased from the stockade, I have been waiting at Special Processing Detachment for reassignment, I am expecting the worst: orders for Viet- nam - though I am still refusing to go. In future letters I would like to describe my experlences since I returned to military custody, In the meanwhile I hope you are doing well and I'd like to thank you for every- thing. Yours in JUSTICE Henry Milis friend’s story I first met Henry Mills at Fort Dix in February the morning I had my summary court-martial after going AWOL. We were standing ina cage called a ‘‘bullpen’’ with about forty other guys, We were all waiting for guards to take us to the court- room, They had us packed into the tiny cage and, in addition, from time to time the guard would have us stand at attention, We had been waiting since 7 a,m. and at the time I met Henry it was about nine, Henry Mills is a Black man, He told me that morning that he could no sooner kill the people of Viet- nam than he could kill his own Black brothers and sisters, When the guards came to take us to the court building they were all armed with 45 pistols and hadhand- court and screams ‘‘ATTENTION!’’ comes overand growls, ‘‘That racist cuffs, Some of them threatened that He makes us line upinthree files, M--~----==--|'' they would shoot any of us that tried It is hot as hell. There is no vent- Then the guards come for him and to escape, They took Henry away in ilation, We are standing at attention the others who have been tried, one of the first groups. I had towait cursing under our breath. The Henry and! shake handsandhe gives because I was in ‘‘segregation’’ and officer yells at Henry to come into the power sign arid goes to get into had to have my own personal guard-- the courtroom. Henry’s coat is un- the truck to be hauled back to the and handcuffs, buttoned and his tie is undone. He has pound. In the court building we were put to fix it. The officer yells at him to I pay a tribute to\Henry Mills, in another bullpen. Tension was high, hurry up, He goes in thecourtroom, a Black’ GI that refused to fight Then the summary court officer We cannot hear words clearlyin the racist war. against the arrives. He is a lifer Special Forces through the partition but we can hear oppressed country of Vietnam. officer with at least twenty medals voices and I can tell that Henry is Out of some twenty men court- stuck on his chest for murdering definately stating why he went AWOL martialed that day, only three were Vietnamese, He reads us the AR on and that he will not go to Vietnam, given confinement at hard labor in summary courts-martial, Then we So far the others have gotten off the stockade, wait In the bullpen asmenarecalled with restrictions. Henry is the first All three of them were in one by one. to receive confinement - 30 days - It is hot in the crowded room. We the maximum, But when he ‘comes by PFC John Lewis Black, are talking. The officer comesoutof out he is as strong as ever. He THe BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1969 PAGE 15. The struggle of the Black people in the United States is bound to merge with the American workers’ movement, and this will eventually end the criminal rule of the U.S. monopoly capitalist class. — MAO TSETUNG The Just Struggle of the Afro-Americans Is Sure to Win — Commemorating first anniversary of Chairman Mao’s Statement in Support of the Afro-American Struggle Against Violent Repression the progressive student movement, which echo and are interwoven with one another, have dealt the reactionary rule of the U.S. monopoly capitalist class a telling blow. Chairman Mao pointed out in his statement: “Ra- cial discrimination in the United States is a product of the colonialist and imperialist system. The contradiction beiween the Black masses in the United States and U.S. ruling circles is a class contradiction. Only by over- throwing the reactionary rule of the U.S. monopoly capitalist class and destroying the colonialist and im- perialist system can the Black people in the United States win complete emancipation.” With the daily sharpening of the class struggle and the development in depth of the Afro-American struggle in the United States, this truth has been understood by more and more Afro-American people. ~ Slates —is of great. international significance. Th The system of racial discrimination in the United States is one of the mainstays by which U.S. imperial- ism maintains its reactionary rule. The U.S. monopoly capitalist class uses racial discrimination as an important means to grab super-profits and divide the broad la- bouring masses. So long as the capitalist system exists in the United States, U.S. ruling circles will never for- sake their policy of racial discrimination; on the contra- ry, they will only intensify the racial oppression and class oppression 9f the broad Afro-American masses. Inheriting the mantle of previous U.S. governments, Richard Nixon has employed counter-revolutionary dual tactics against the Black Americans. On the one hand, he emphasizes “law” and “order” and has inten- sified the violent suppression of the Black people. What is especially pernicious in this respect is his policy of QO’ April 16 a year ago, our great leader Chairman Mao issued his Statement in Support of the Afro- American Struggle Against Violent Repression. This statement is another glorious Marxist-Leninist document on the Afro-American struggle following the “State- ment Supporting the Afro-Americans in Their Just Struggle Against Racial Discrimination by U.S. impe- rialism” made by Chairman Mao in 1963. Chairman Mao pointed out in his statement last year: “The Afro-American struggle is not only a struggle waged by the exploited and oppressed Black people for freedom and emancipation, it is also a new clarion call to all the exploited and oppressed people of the United States to fight against the barbarous rule of the monop- oly capitalist class.” The development in depth of the Afro-American struggle and the new upsurge of the revolutionary mass movement of all the American people in the past year have vividly borne-out this scientific thesis of Chairman. Mao’s. Following the Black people’s struggle against violent repression which swept more than 160 American cities on an unprecedented scale last spring, new waves of struggles against violent suppression raged one after another in Cleveland and dozens of other cities. Mean- while, the workers’ movement in the United States developed tremendously. There was a total of 4,950 strikes by American workers in 1968. Students in more than 100 American universities and colleges took part in strikes and demonstrations to strongly oppose the aggressive war against Vietnam, racial discrimination and the decadent bourgeois educational system. The Afro-American struggle, the workers’ movement and using Black people to fight the Black people by recruit- ing Black Americans into the police force. On the other hand, he is unscrupulously engaged in political decep- tion by advocating the “development of Black capital- ism,” pretending to be concerned over the Black people’s welfare. This trick of Nixon’s is most ridiculous. The root cause of the sufferings of the Afro-Americans lies precisely in capitalism. The so-called “development of Black capitalism” simply means fostering a handful of Black capitalists while subjugating the broad masses ,of Afro-Americans and making them eternal slaves of capital. How can such a clumsy trick deceive anybody? From the practice of their own struggle, the Afro- American masses have come to understand more and more clearly that to win complete emancipation, they must unite with the broad masses of the white working people, merge their struggle with the workers’ move- me nd use revol ry violence to over criminal rule .of the U throw the . monopoly capitalist class. In his statement. Chairman Mao*has made \a great call: “People of the whole world, unite still more closely and launch a sustained and vigorous offensive against eur common enemy, U.S. imperialism, and against its accomplices!” The tide of the great struggle now being waged by the proletariat 1 the broad masses of the throughout the v i 1 against US. imperialism and Sovi & vigorously. That the place in the very hear aary forces — the"United revisionism is r Afro-American struggle is taki ofthe world’s counter-revolution struggle is a component part of the great strugéle by all the people ef the world against U.S. #mperialism and Soviet revisionism, and a component part of the world Contd. from last pg. revolutionary. movement in our eva, The valiant strug- gle of the Black people-inthe United States is a power- ful support to the people of other countries. fighting st U.S.imr m, while the anti-U.S. struggles of the people of all count are a support to the rev- olutionary struggle of the Afro-Americans. All these revolutionary struggles which support one another have converged into a huge torrent of the world revolution- ary movement in the present era, and are pounding vigorously at the entire old world. It can be said with certainty that, with the support of the revolutionary people who comprise over 90 per cent of the world population, the Afro-American struggle and the revolu- tionary struggle of all the American people will inevi- tably sweep the whole country like a raging fire and reduce U.S. imperialism to ashes. ag (“Renmin Ribao” editorial, Spit rae Afro-American Struegle Developing in Depth leader Chairman Mao issued his State- of ‘the Afr Sir noon A iB eae great ment in Against Violent Repress iis incontrévertible truth, this ires the broad masscs of the A fement greatly in- o-Americaun people in r just str the pust ad ob erimi An ever fiercer ¢ struggle of the Afro-Americans is bound to comie. The Afre t troop in Har- its ‘hon Artie les) in 1965, G6 and! in Neve 1k and Delroit in 1967. The Afro-A 1er and il, in onls inst violent repression sp, ry than 160 citics and Washington, the ruling centre of the U.S. moropulv count THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1969 PAGE 16 groups, became a battlefield where the Afro-Ameri« ight tenaciou This powerful storm dealt the U.S , ruling circles a stunning blow. — Alarn they said that it-was the “most serious internal ¢ in the United States in the last 100 years, All this fully illustrates the rapid awakening of the Afro- Americans and, “if shows that an extremely powerful revoiutionar; ree is latent in the more than 20 mil- lion Americans.” fo. Biack Workers’ Increasingly Prominent Fighting Role Black work inent fighting 1 during the past ye showing that the’ st the stormy nationwide have played an increasingly prom- in the Afro-A ican str é This is a marke cteristie gle is develop h. In actions of the Afro- Americans against violent repression, the Black workers took the lead in starting spontaneous strikes everywhere, forcing many factories to stop production. Noteworthy is the fact that in many industrial cities, the Black workers have begun to form caucuses which by breaking the control of the scab union bosses have directly led the strikes, giving a powerful impetus to the strike struggle of the American workers as a whole. The strikes by the Memphis sanitation workers and Chicago's public transport workers and the whole series of strikes in many Detroit auto plants were all held by Black work- ers with the support of white workers by breaking through the obstruction and disruptive activities of the monopoly capitalist class and the scab unions. Apart from raising economic demands, the Afro- American workers have put forward clear-cut political demands in the struggle, directing the spearhead of their struggle at the monopoly capitalist groups and their agents. Although the monopoly capitalist class and the scab union bosses have racked their brains:and tried in every way possible to control, strangle and undermine the Afro-American workers’ struggle, the Black work- ers have steadily increased their activities to, get rid of the control of the scab unions and organize themselves in the fight since last year. Under the impact of the Afro-American’ struggle against violent repression and with the Black workers playing an influential role, the militancy of the broad masses of the workers in the United States has steadily increased. Their struggle against the control, by the bosses of the scab unions is further developing. .Last year, for instance, at least 25 spontaneous strikes took place in the iron and steel industry against the wishes of the scab union bosses, and there was a large number of rank and file committees organized by the masses of workers themselves. The militant role played by the Afro-American workers has. far-reaching significance for the Afro- American struggle and the American workers’ move- ment. More and more Black workers have gone into some U.S. basic industries in recent years, and their position in American society has become increasingly important. For instance, Black workers in the auto- mobile industry make up 35 to 50 per cent of all Ameri- can auto workers. In important industrial cities such as Chicago, Detroit and Newark, they make up 40-50 per cent of all the workers there. Suffering from all kinds of political discrimination and oppression’ and ruthless economic exploitation, the Afro-American workers are most resolute and courageous in the strug- gle. As the Black workers in the United States mount on the political. stage of the country: still further; ‘the Afro-American struggle is bound to merge’ further with the U.S. workers’ movement to hasten. the!end of the criminal rule of the U.S, monopoly capitalist class, Afro-American Struggle Directly Spurs Student Movement The Afro-American. struggle has also. directly spurred the student movement. in the United States. In the past year, the student movement has spread to nearly every university in the country and even large numbers of middle school students in many parts of the country have taken part in it. Standing in the forefront of this struggle are brave, unyielding and fearless Black students. Both the strike at. Columbia Univers which took place in spring last year and lasted for more than one month, and the four-month- old strike in San Francisco State College,.Califognia, which recently ended were set off by«Black students and actively joined by white students. Last February, Black students and progressive white students in. the University of California carried on a struggle against racial discrimination, in which several / thousand students fiercely battled the police for two days on end. The strike by the Black students as well/as the pro- gressive white students in the University of Wisconsin gave the reactionary U.S. ruling eitelés Such a bad fright that they sent 3,000 reactionary troops and police to the university to wildly suppress the students. Con- fronted by this vigorously rising student movement, Cont. on next pg. NS DE ST ES Se PE a EL EE ES REET COE EE] CHIEF OF STAFF DAVID HILLIARD SPEAKS AT LABOR CONFERENCE Since this is a conference of workers, I think it would be appropriate to use a greeting that the workers use, its All workers unite - All power to the people, Our Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton says that if a man is born, therefore he has a right to live, In main I think that we all recognize one point, that there is a need to try and solve the problems not only of the workers, but of the unemployed workers. And we recog- nize that the reason for the struggle at this point, and the reason for ideas suggested such as the ideas that the brothers just got through talking about, are necessary only because we live under the system of exploitation, And that, that system is capitalism. And that we feel that all the unions that we can muster together still would not serve the interest of the people unless they change this system, Because its the very system that put us in the pos- ition or the condition that we’re in today. And the methods for solving our problems the Black Panther Party feels is through a proletarian internationalism, that is, all the workers uniting to deliver a de- vestating blow to this imperialistic power structure, So we feel that this is no more than a union meeting you can call it a conference if you want to, but we know that its just a lot of workers regardless of the category you put us in; the Black Panther Party - we’reworkers, I’ve worked, I’ve had a job, Bobby’s THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11, 8 PAGE 17 we see the necessity for solving the} problem only because we’ re workers and only because we know that in” order to destroy this'.\oppressive system, we have to all uhite around some common desires, or some common goals. So that the one thing that we have in common, be we European, or Afro-American is that we are the exploited class, That we’ reworkers and that the factory owners are the bourgeoise class and that they en- slave us night and day. Day in day out, year in, year out. So that the whole concept about an independent Black workers union would not serve as the instrument to solve the pro- blems of capitalism or to solve the problems of exploitation, to solve the problems of a 36 or a 48 hour work week, And I don’t think that we have redress their grievances to the pigeonhole it: We say it and we say was mass unemployment before the to be verbose, or I don’t have the grievance committees; it’s not it without reserve, because weknow revolution, But we notice that after capacity to use long terms, I would looked upon in the same light as the that it is a matter of fact, that the revolution that there is a need like to speak in the ideom of the white workers, So that in itself is there has always been classes, that for more labor. And that they solved workers. I know that it is verya very concrete observation that there’s always been exploiters and their problems of unemployment, simple to solve the problems of un- we’re already in a separate union, exploited and that it was always they solved their problems of inde- employment, and I’m not a genius, But we want to go beyond that, and one of a class struggle. So that we pendent unions by becoming one that Pm not an economist. I just we want to solve the problems ofall don’t have to use any more analysis union, A union that represented all know that through some organization the workers, we want to solve the or try to bring forth any other the people. A union that’s not re- we can begin to solve the problems problems, as I said earlier, even of ideology, Because there’s only one ferred to as the ILWU, or the AFL- of unemployment, as well as we could the unemployed workers, And that we ideology for the workers, and that’s CIO, all those other initials and solve the problems of people pro- cannot do that regardless as to how the ideology that’s shared by 3/4ths brands, But a union that they called pagating the concept of independent many programs we have, regardless of the world. And that we relate to the dictatorship of the proletariat Black workers union, and that the as to how many proposals, how many that ideology, Even if the people in And whether you realize that that’s way we do that, is not by setting up debating sessions or grievance com- this room refuse to accept it, it necessary or not makes me no dif- unions independent of the rest of the mittees we attend, we cannot solve still puts us in a majority because ference, because I know that’s its workers, as a matter of fact I see those problems unless we talk about the ideology that I’m talking about necessary to solve the problems and that as being a reality right now, be- destroying this system. has already been exemplified in we’re going to tell the truth about cause Black people are an in- So that’s what's cut outforus, and some of the countries that probably solving them. And I have enough re- dependent workers union, but they do that’s the goal of the Black Panther most of you refer to as communist. spect to do that. worked, Masai has worked, So that not get the same respect when they Party, and we don’t hide it, wedon’t We take Cuba for an example, there Contd, from last pg. some sections of the U.S. bourgeois press sounded the alarm, saying that it was an “academic revolution that has transformed the role of the colleges in the country.” " Also inseparable from the development of the Afro-American struggle is the American people’s Struggle of the Afro-Americans Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought and summed up the experience and lessons in the Black people’s struggle. Through this summing up, many of them have further pointed out that what the Afro-Americans really need is an end to the system of exploitation of man by man, a revolution to destroy the capitalist system, that only the working class can lead the Afro-American .-movement for emancipation to achieve this purpose and struggle against the war of aggression in Vietnam. Not only have more and more young Black Americans op- posed the draft, but growing numbers of Black soldiers have actively plunged into the struggle against this war of aggression. The struggle by young Black Americans and Black soldiers against the draft and against the U.S, imperialist war of aggression in Vietnam has in- spired American people of different social strata to op- pose this war of aggression. Mammoth demonstrations against this war of aggression took place again on April 5 and 6 in dozens of big cities, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Washington, in which hundreds of thousands of people took part. Another characteristic of the development in depth of the Afro-American struggle is that more and more advanced Black Americans have begun a tit-for- tat struggle against the various fallacies spread by the monopoly capitalist class to sabotage the Black people’s struggle. To suppress the Afro-American struggle which is developing vigorously, the monopoly capitalist class, in addition to stepping up counter- revolutionary violence, has tried in every conceivable way to deceive and hoodwink the Black people. Be- fore and after coming to power, the new chieftain of U.S. imperialism Nixon energetically advocated “Black capitalism,” vainly trying to foster a Black bourgcoisie under the wing of U.S. monopoly capital so as to control the Afro-American struggle. The advanced Biuck Americans have risen courageously in countering the attack by the monopoly capitalist class. They “pointed out that the “Black capitalism” trumpeted bf Nixon and his like is nothing but a big plot to maintain the reactionary rule of monopoly capital and deceive and exploit the Black working class still further. They also repudiated the racialism the monopoly capitalist class spreads among the white working people as well as the “cultural nationalism” it spreads among the Black people. All this, they stressed, is a conspiracy of the monopoly capitalist class to split the unity be- tween the Black people and the white working people and to lead the struggle of the Black people astray. Studying and Disseminating Marxism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought Some advanced Black people in the struggle have conscientiously studied and propagated Marxism- that only by integrating the universal truth of Marx- ism-Leninism-Mao Tsetung Thought with the concrete conditions in the United States can the working class win victory. This struggle launched by the advanced Afro-Americans is helping the Black masses shake off still further all kinds of mental fetters imposed by the U.S. monopoly capitalist class, and advance rapidly along the road to emancipation. Torrential Tide of Afro-American Struggle Is Irresistible In the face of the daily rising current of the Afro-American struggle, U.S. ruling circles are franti- cally resorting to counter-revolutionary dual tactics in an attempt to liquidate the Black people’s revolution which has broken out in the heartland of U.S. im- perialism. But the upsurge of the Afro-American struggle is the inevitable product of the sharpening class contradic- tions in the United States and a striking manifestation of the entire political and economic crisis of U.S. im- perialism. However desperately U.S. monopoly capital may struggle, it cannot stem this upsurge. At the same time, as U.S. imperialism steps up its policies of war and aggression abroad, it inevitably intensifies its polit- ical and economic onslaught against the people at home. And this has further worsened the position of the Afro-Americans. As a result, class contradictions between the broad masses of Afro-Americans and U.S. ruling circles have become ever sharper, and the strug- gle between them has been increasingly aggravated. The great storm of the people's revolution in various countries of the world is now, swiftly develop- ing with the momentum ofa landslide, The) Afro- American struggle for freedom and emancipation is a component part of the revolutionary struggle of all the people of the world. It is a tremendous support for and encouragement to the struggle against\ U.S. im- perialism waged by the people of all countries, and at the same time it wins the resolute support of the pcople the world over. Our great leader Chairman Mao, has pointed out: “The evil system of colonialism and im- perialism arose and throve with the enslavement of Negroes and the trade in Negroes, and it will surely come to its end with the complete emancipation of the Black people.” There is no doubt that the develop- »t of history will confirm this brilliant prediction, THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1969 PAGE 18 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. ( os ne eee “FREE HUEY 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 trom history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowl 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. i 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. aera cl 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 Shopid arm themselve§ for self-defense. : tee ; hi 3 i 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. wy We believe that all black people should be releaséd 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/it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effeet their safety and, happiness. Pru- 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. 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Help us distribute and get new subscriptions to The Black Panther newspaper. Submit te: BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER 3106 SHATTUCK AVE. BERKELEY, CALIF. THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11,1969 PAGE 19 RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA... 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 COMMITTEE members, CENTRAL 5 'S, including all captains subordinate to either national, 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 alse subjected to suspension by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. THE RULES ARE: 1. No party member can have narcotics or weed in his possession while doing party work. 2. Any party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from this party. 3. No party member can be DRUNK while doing daily party work. 4. No party member will violate rules relating to office work, general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANYWHERE. 5. No party member will USE, POINT, or FIRE a weapon of any kind unnecessarily or accidentally at anyone. 6. No party member can join any other army force other than the BLACK LIBERATION ARMY. 7. No party member can have a weapon in his possession while DRUNK or loaded off narcotics or weed. 8. No party member will commit any crimes against other party. members or BLACK people at all, and cannot steal or take from ee people, not even a needle or a piece of thread. mont 9. When arrested BLACK PANTHER MEMBERS will give ones 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 at occ under the Gaviediction of 93 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. s 16. All Panthers must learn to operate and service weapons correctly. 17. All Leadership personnel who expel a member must submit this information to the Editor of the Newspaper, so that it will be published in the paper and will be known by all chapters and branches. 18. Political Education Classes are mandatory for general member- 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. 23. Everyone in a leadership position must read no less than two hours per day to keep abreast of the changing political situation. 24. No chapter or branch shall accepg grants, poverty funds, money or any other aid from any government agency without contacting the National Headquarters. 25. All chapters must adhere to the policy and the ideology laid down by the CENTRAL COMMITTEE he BLACK PANTHER PARTY. 26, All Branches must submit weekly reports in writing to their re- spective Chapters. 8 POINTS OF ATTENTION 1) Speak politely. 2) Pay fairly for what you buy. 3) Returfi 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 ilktreat them, 3 MAIN RULES OF DISCIPLINE 1) Obey orders in all your actions. 2) Do not take a single needle or a piece of thread from the poor and oppressed masses. 3) Turn in everything captured from the attacking enemy. THE BLACK P HER SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1969 PAGE 20 HELP NEEDED Give You: Sime And Talent To The Black Liberation Movement BLACK PANTHER PAPER NEED TYPISTS, WRITERS, Stop By National Office 3106 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley, Calif. Or Call 845-0103 or (4) Leave Name, Address & Telephone No. TYPESETTERS, STENOGRAPHERS, PHOTOGRAPHERS, AND OFFICE EQUIPMENT. BLACK PEOPLE: KEEP YOUR GUNS CALIFORNIA AND FEDERAL GUN LAWS This article is to serve as a guide for the members of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY and is not to be construed as a substitute for competent legal counsel. 12001 -- A concealable firearm is any firearm having a barrel less than 12 inches in length. 12025 -- Any person caught with a concealable firearm CONCEALED on their person or within any vehicle is guilty of a misdemeanor. 12026 -- No license is required for any citizen 18 years or over to keep a legal weapon in their home or plage of business, (Gome weapons require federal registration.) = 12027 -+ Persons exempt from Section 12025 includes members of any club or organization or- ganized for the purpose of practicing shooting at targets upon established target ranges, whether pub- lic or private, while such members are using firearms upon such target ranges, or while going to and from such ranges, 12031 -- Except as provided in subdivision (b), every person who carries a loaded firearm on his person or in a vehicle while in any public place or on any public street in any incorporated city or in any publie place or on any public street in a prohibited area of unincorporated territory is guilty of a misdemeanor. (&) Per$ons who are using target ranges for the purpose of practice shooting with a firearm, or who are members of shooting clubs while hunting on the premises for such clubs. (c) In order to determine whether or not a firearm is loaded, pigs are authorized to examine any firearm carried by anyone on his person or in a vehicle while in any public place. Refusal to allow a Pig to inspect a firearm constitutes probable cause for arrest. (h) Nothiag in this section is intended to preclude the carrying of any loaded firearm, under circumstances where it would be otherwise be lawful, by a person who reasonably believes that the person or property of himself or another is in immediate danger and that the carrying of such a weapon is necessary for the preservation of such person or property. (j) Nothing in this section shall prevent any person from having a loaded weapon, if it is other- wise lawful, at his place of residence, including any temporary residence or campsite. 12552 -- Every person who furnishes any firearm, air gun, or gas-operated gun, designed to fire a bullet, pellet or metal projectile, to any minor under the age of 18 years, without the expressed or im- permission of the parent or legal guardian of the manor, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 12560 -= Any felon who owns, has in his possession or under his custode or control any firearm is punishable by imprisonment in the State Prison not exceeding 15 years, or in a county jail not ex- ceeding one year and/or by a fine not exceeding $500, FEDERAL LAW (1) Title X of the Civil Rights Act provides that anyone who demonstrates, manufacturers, trans- ports, or teaches the use of firearms, explosives, or incendiary devices for use in riots or civil disorders may be imprisoned for up to 5 years and fined $10,000, (2) Title VII of the Crime Control Act states that felons, veterans discharged other than honorably, mental incompetent, aliens illegally in the United States, or former U,S, citizens who have renounced their citizenship, who possess, receive, or transport interstate any firearm may be punished by a fine of $10,000. (3) The National Firearm Act requires that a $200tax be paid on each transfer of any fully automatic firearm, rifles with barrels under 16 inches, shorguns with barrels under 18 inches, any rifle or shot- gun under 26 inches overall, or silencers. The Act also requires that the $200 tax be paid on the mak- ing of any firearm that meets the specifications listed above, THE FOLLOWING LAWS BECAME EFFECTIVE ON DECEMBER 16, 1968 (1) Only a licensed manufacturer or dealer may ship or transport interstate any firearm (other than a rifle or a shotgun) or any ammunition to anyone but a licensed dealer or manufacturer, (Lic- ensed importers may also ship and receive all firearms and ammunition interstate,) (2) No one but a licensed dealer, manufacturer, or importer may receive in his state of residence any firearm (other than a rifle or shotgun) that has been obtained by him outside his state of resi- dence, (3) Only a licensed dealer, manufacturer, or importer may give, trade, transfer, transport, or deliver any firearm (other than a rifle or shotgun to anyone living in another state.) (4) To receive or transport into any state a firearm that cannot be legally purchased in that state is a federal offense, @) Only a licensed dealer, importer, or manufacturer may ship or transport in interstate commerce any fully automatic weapon or any sawed-off shotgun or rifle This article is not intended as a substitute for competent legal counsel. a a a a a a a a a a ii} a i a i] a a B ub : a B ' | a a , i : i i a o a a a a 4 i a Q a Gi i a a a g a A a a a a a ofl POCKET LAWYER OF LEGAL FIRST AID This pocket lawyer is provided ds a means of keeping biack people up to date on their rights. We are always the first to be arrested and the racist police forces are constantly trying to pre- tend that rights are extended equally to all people. Cut this out, brothers and sisters, and carry it with you. Until we arm ourselves to righteously take care of our own, the pocket lawyer is what's BEePe Ns: . If you are stopped and/or arrested by the police, you may re- main silent; you do not have to answer any questions about al- leged crimes, you should provide your name and address only if requested (although it is not absolutely clear that you must do so.) - But then do so, and at all time remember the fifth amendment. 2. If a police officer is not in uniform, ask him to show his iden- tification. He has no authority over you unless he properly identi- fies himself. Beware of persons posing as police officers. Always ‘get his badge number and his name. 3. Police have no right to search your car or your home unless they have a search warrant, probable cause or your consent. They may conduct no exploratory search, that is, one for evidence of crime generally or for evidence of a crime unconnected with the one you are being questioned about. (Thus, a stop for an auto violation does not give the right to search the auto.) You are not required to consent to @ search;-therefore, you should not consent and should state clearly and unequivocally that you do not consent, in front of witnesses if possible. If you do not consent, the police will have the burden in court of showing probably cause. Arrest may be corrected later. 4. You may not resist arrest forcibly or by going limp, even if you are innocent. To do so is a separate crime of which you can be con- victed even if you are acquitted of the original charge. Do not re- sist arrest under any circumstances. 5. If you are stopped and/or arrested, the police may search you by patting you on the outside of your clothing. You can be stripped of your personal possessions. Do not carry anything that includes the name of your employer or friends. 7. Do not engage in “friendly” conversation with officers on the way to or at the station Once you are arrested, there is little like- lihood that anything you say will get you released. 8. As soon as you have been booked, you have the right to com- plete at least two phone calls—one to a relative, friend or attorney, the other to a bail bondsman. If you can, call the Black Panther Party, 845-0103 (845-0104), and the Party will post bail if possible 9. You must be allowed to hire and see an attorney immediately. 10. You do not have to give any statement to the police, do you have to sign any statement you might give them, and therefore you should not sign anything. Take the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments, because you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. 11. You must be allowed to post bail in micatl cases, but you must be able to pay the bail bondsmen’s fee. If you cannot pay the fee, you may ask the judge to release you from custody without bail or to lower your bail, but he does not have to do so. 12. The police must bring you into court or release you within 48 hours after your arrest (unless the time ends on a week-end or a holiday, and they must bring you befbre a judge the first day court is in session.) 13. If you do not have the money to hire an attorney, immedi- ately ask the police to get you an attorney without charge. 14. If you have the money to hire a private attorney, but do noi know of one, call the National Lawyers’ Guild or the Alameda County Bar Association (or the Bar Association of ydur county) and furnish you with the name of an attorney who practices criminal law. BLACK BOOKS PHONE: (415) 658-0236 5800 GROVE ST. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA —FREE PARKING WHILE SHOPPING — PRISONER IS INJECTED FORCEFULLY INTO THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1969 PAGE 21) SOUL ON ICE? “IT IS ONLY A MAT- TER OF TIME UNTIL {THE QUESTION OF {THE PRISONER’S I'DEBT TO SOCIETY VERSUS SOCIETY’S DEBT TO THE NATIONAL AND STATE POL- ITICS, INTO THE CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS STRUGGLE, AND INTO THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE BODY POLITIC. IT IS AN EXPLOSIVE ISSUE WHICH GOES TO THE VERY ROOT OF AMERICA’S SYSTEM OF JUSTICE, THE STRUCTURE OF CRIMINAL LAW, THE PREVAILING BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES TOWARD A CONVICTED FELON.” (SOUL ON ICE, P.59) Eldridge Cleaver .made the decision to politically exile himself November 27th, on the basis that the Adult Authority made an outlaw deci- : = and that he has been denied his constitutional right to due process of Ww” The revocation of Cleaver’s parole was illegal, because no parole violation was committed. The Adult Authority parole board has uied to maintain that Cleaver violated his parole by having a rifle in his possession, and by associating with individuals of bad reputation. This contention, we will show, is false. The Adult Authority version contradicts the Superior Court order itself: seco") Cleaver’s only handling of a firearm (the rifle) was in obedience. ~-to a police command. He did not handle a hand gun at all. There was noth- ing one way-or the other to show a conspiracy or a situation calling for the application of the doctrine of aiding and abetting. Hence, nothing support- ed either the possession of a firearm or the assault charge. =. . As to the charge of association with individuals of bad reputation, the ° report indicated that two or three of those named had “police records,” but nothing to show whether any had been convicted of anything, or whether Cleaver knew of their arrest record.” (Superior Court c.t. 137, 138, 140, 141) Parolee Cleaver was denied due process of law by being denied opportunity to present his case. Why was Cleaver returned to prison as a parole violator if document- ed evidence to the contrary had been presented in his defense? To answer that question, one must examine the Adult Authority. This board has the right to arbitrarily revoke or suspend parole on any individual. At the same time, the Adult Authority maintains—falsely—that Cleaver has the oppor- tunity to defend himself at a hearing. This is how it works: “A parolee is sérved with violation charges, is interviewed, is given a hearing (before the Adult Authority itself, the charging party) at which the parolee may “plead” to the parole violation charges, and is: afforded an op- portunity to present his defense.” “At the ‘hearing’ a parolee is denied the right to counsel, may not have an independent and impartial officer to conduct the hearing and make decision.” (Petition for Hearing in the Supreme Court, p: 17) Not only, does the Adult Authority hold secret hearings, but it also refuses to notify persons under its jurisdiction of its procedures, or of ‘its variable definitions of what constitutes a parole violation. This secrecy and vagueness is in direct violation of federal law which requires agencies to publish their procedures “for guidance of the public.” : “Petitioner (Cleaver) is immediately and seriously prejudiced by the Adult Authority’s unlawful refusal to publish its regulations, since he is to _be imprisoned by virtue of an action which the Adult Authority still seeks to garb in this ‘veil of secrecy.’ (Petition for Hearing in the Supreme Court, p. 12) Yes, the Adult Authority acted unjustly and illegally. Its decision was an outlaw decision. Cleaver had no chance of obtaining “justice” from these Star Chamber proceedings. Why then wouldn't the U.S. Supreme Court hear Cleaver’s case? There are, we believe, three reasons why the case wasn’t accepted. The first is that any fair minded court would obvious- ly have released Cleaver, thereby setting a precedent. The second is that thousands of cases of alleged parole violation from all over California and other states would be subject to reversal. Thirdly, the illegal functioning of the Adult Authority would come under attack. The U.S, Supreme Court just couldn’t afford to consider the Cleaver case during this turbulent period. Eldridge Cleaver is a victim of naked, shameless political persecu tion. As Judge Sherwin puts it: « “... The uncontradicted evidence presented to this court indicated that the petitioner had been a model parolee. The peril-to~his parole status stemmed from no failure of personal rehabilitation, but from his undue ‘elo- quence in pursuing political goals, goals which were offensive to many of SPONSORS (partial listing) WRITERS Bertrand Russell James Baldwin Murray Kempton Allen Ginsberg Herbert Gold Kay Boyle Oscar Lewis Terry Southern Norman Mailer LeRoi Jones Lawrence Ferlinghetti Andrew Kopkind Dwight MacDonald Donald Duncan Barbara Garson Maxwell Gei: John Gerassi John Gunther Paul Jacobs Jessica Mitfor d Richard Gilman Julius Lester Robert Crichton D.W. Dupee Edgar Friedenberg Marcus Raskin W.H. Ferry Jack Newfield Nat Henthoff Susan Sontag Robert Lowell Jane Jacobs Hortense Calisher Harvey O'Connor Truman Nelson Charles V. Hamilton his contemporaries. Not only was there absence of cause for the cancella- tion of parole, it was the product of a type of pressure unbecoming, to say the least, to the law enforcement paraphernalia of this state.” Cleaver is in political exile because a man of his convictions cannot get justice here. Indeed, if we are to sie Saves ee Be seevine to thewcote cepts of m and justice we must support him. The work to get him . discharged from parole must continue. An intense publicity campaign is necessary now to bring to the public the legal defense and arguments which were carried to the courts with no satisfaction. We must all work together to focus attention of this case. This is not an issue of one man’s freedom, but a broad struggle which affirms the right of all of us to speak out politically in this country. If Cleaver is not allowed his freedom, it is just a matter of time until all our freedoms are further reduced. His is not a personal struggle but a political one. Maria Jolas Denis Berger Joby Fanon Mrs. Betty Shabazz Stokely Carmichael Carl Oglesby ATTORNEYS Harr Nier Len Holt Mal Burnstein Paul Halvonik Sherwin A. Shayne Eugene Deikman M. Lafue-Veon M.R. Plasson Stibbe Gisele Halimi John Thorne PHYSICIANS O scar Rambo, M.D. Philip Shapiro, M.D. Carlton Goodlett, M.D. Robert E. Greenberg. M.D. EDITORS Angus Cameron Irving Beinin Arthur Wang Aar on Asher Joe Fox Richard Huett J.R. Talbo Marilynn Meeker Leo Huberm In Carey McWilliams Robert Silvers John J. Simon Theodore Solotaroff POLITICAL PRISONER HUEY NEWTON ‘Julian Mayfield Emile Capouya Tana de Gamez Muriel Rukeyser Arthur Waskow Carlos Monsivais George Hitchcock Tillie Olsen Jean Paul Sartre Mrs. Richard Wright Christiane Rochefort Julia Wright Herve Daniel Guerin Yves Loyer ‘ard Chaliand Mourad Bourboune J. Semprun Juliette Minces David Welsh THEATRE. FILMS. ARTS Godfrey Cambridge - Jules Feiffer Ossie Davis Malvina Reynolds Ruby Dee Shirley Clarke LABOR Jim Lennon Sidney Lens PROFESSORS Hans Koingsberger Ashley Montagu Conor Cruise O'Brien Douglas F. Doud D.F. Fleming C. Wade Savage Donald Kalish Howard S. Becker Maurice Zeitlin Sidney M. Peck Noam Chomsky Richard Lichtman J.B. Neilands Montgom ry Furth William Lindner Stephen Smale Donald B. McLeod Cyril Epstein Roger Dittmann A.K. Bierman O. Revault d'Allonnes Saul Landau Madeleine Riberioux Ed Bullins Laurent Schwartz Gil Turner A. Soboul Open Theatre Staughton L ynd Elsa Knight Thompson MUSIC David Amram POL ITICS Reies Lopez Tijerina Jesse Gray Floyd MeKissick James Forman Julian Bond Tom Hayden John Carpenter Robert Brustein Richard Schechner Saul Gottlieb Delphine Seyrig Roger Pic Dugald Stermer R.G. Davis Stanley Kunitz Stanley Kaufman INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO DEFEND ELDRIDGE CLEAVER I would like to join the efforts of all those who ar king to def El- dridge Cleaver from political persecution. ee eis : nee Please add my name to the list of sponsors of the International Ci ittes to Defend Eldridge Cleaver. nternational Commi I enclose __________ to assist the legal expenses and the Committee’s campaign to publicize and promote Eldridge Cleaver’s defense; I can volunteer some time to help the Committee Name Date Address City State Zip Profession —— Organization or Title ICDEC, 495 Beach Street, San Francisco, Calif. 94133 Robert Scheer, Director THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11,1969 PAGE 22 be 10 POINT PROGRAM AND PLATFORM OF THE BLACK STUDENT UNIONS “IMPORTANT” BLACK STUDENT UNIONS The BLACK STUDENTS UNIONS have formed a state wide Union of B.S.U.’s, and are in the process of organizing on a national level. We call upon all BLACK STUDENTS to unite. = If your BLACK STUDENTS UNION hasn’t become a member of this UNION of BLACK STUDENTS UNIONS send a letter or telegram giving information about your B.S.U. and the conditions that exist within your area. Become a part of a united movement of B.S.U.’s and stop moving on an individual bases. Together we will become the most effective organi- zation on this earth; divided we are weak. Send your letter to: We want an education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want an education that teaches us our true history. and role in the present day society. We believe in an educational system that will give our people a knowledge of self. If.a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else. 1. “WE WANT FREEDOM. WE WANT POWER TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR SCHOOL. BLACK STUDENTS UNION NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 3106 SHATTUCK ST. BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA We-believe that we will not be free within the schools to get a decent education unless we are able to have a say and determine the type of education that will affect and determine the destiny of our people. Pad 2. WE WANT FULL ENROLLMENT IN THE SCHOOLS FOR OUR PEOPLE. 5407 6; oS We believe that the city and federal government. is. responsible and obligated to give every man a decent education. Bd is 3. WE WANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BY THE WHITE MAN OF a be OUR BLACK COMMUNITY. : a an me We believe that this racist government has robbed us of an education. We Be ate believe that this racist capitalist government has robbed the Black Community By of its money by forcing us to pay higher taxes for less quality. x ci) 4. WE WANT DECENT EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES, FIT FOR THE USE OF STUDENTS. We believe that if these businessmen will not give decent facilities to our community schools, then the schools and their facilities should be taken out 0; a: = 2s ate of the hands of these few individual racists and placed into the hands of the at 1 community, with government aid, so the community can develop a decent and < 3 suitable educational system. 4 5. WE WANT AN EDUCATION FOR OUR PEOPLE THAT TEACHES US HOW TO SURVIVE IN THE PRESENT DAY SOCIETY. rave We believe that if the educational system does not teach us how to survive in society and the world it loses its meaning for existence. = .; 0: 6. WE WANT ALL RACIST TEACHERS TO BE EXCLUDED AND RESTRICTED FROM ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS. We believe that if the teacher in a school is acting in racist fashion then that teacher is not interested in the welfare or development of the students but only in their destruction. : 7. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE. WE WANT ALL POLICE AND SPECIAL ag AGENTS TO BE EXCLUDED AND RESTRICTED FROM SCHOOL 4 PREMISES. an We believe that there should be an end to harasment by the police department of Black people. We believe that if all of the police were pulled out of the schools, the schools would become more functional. 8. WE WANT ALL STUDENTS THAT HAVE BEEN EXEMPT, EXPELLED, OR SUSPENDED FROM SCHOOL TO BE REINSTATED, We believe all students should be reinstated because they haven’t received fair and impartial judgment or have been put out because of incidents or situations that have occured outside of the schools authority. —s §. WE WANT ALL STUDENTS WHEN BROUGHT TO TRIAL TO BE TRIED IN STUDENT COURT BY A JURY OF THEIR PEER GROUP OR STUDENTS OF THEIR SCHOOL. We believe that the student courts should follow the United States ie Constitution so that students can receive a fair trial. The 14th Amendment of ae the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by a jury of his peer Pe} group. A peer is a person from a similar economical, social, religious, geographical, environmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court would be forced to select a jury of students from the community from which the defendent came. We have been and are being tried by a white principal, vice-principal, and white students that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man” of the Black Community. 10. WE WANT POWER,- ENROLLMENT, EQUIPMENT, EDUCATION, TEACHERS, JUSTICE, AND PEACE. Editor: Surely poverty and hard times will follow me As our major political objective, an bly for the student body, wane or pe a ee oie Reagan is my shepherd, I am All the days of the Republican which only the students will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of the students as to the school’s destiny. We hold these truths as being self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, To secure these rights within the schools, governments are instituted among the students, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any form of student government becomes destructive to these ends, jt is the right of the students to alter or abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its power in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes, and accordingly all experiences have shown, that mankind are more liable 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 force, pursuing invariably the same object, reveals a design to reduce them to absolute destruction, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such a government and to provide new guards for their future security. in want. He maketh me to lie down on park beaches, He réstoreth my doubts in the Republican Party, He guideth me in the paths of unemployment for his party’s sake, Yea, though I walk through the alley of soup kitchens, I am hungry, I fear all--for thou art against me, Thou didst prepare a reduction in my wages in the presence of my creditors, Thou annointed my income with taxes, So my expenses overcome my income, administration, And I shall dwell in a rented house forever, * * * Five thotisand. years ago. Moses said, ‘““Take up thy, shovel, mount a camél or an ass,\and I'll lead you to the promised 1é + Five thousand years later Roosevelt said, ‘Lay down your shovel, sit on your ass, light up a Camel; this is the promised land.”* Can you dig it? But now if you don’t watcli out, Reagan will give you a shovel, steal your camel, kick you in the ass and take away your promised land, Chuck Strong Commissioner THE BLACK PANTHER SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1969 PAGE 23 (PEE GR) A PY Fe A A aL A sre ee PT ER NEEDED: TECHNICAL EQUIPMENT MINISTER OF DEFENSE, HUEY P. NEWTON SAYS: “THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE IS GREATER THAN THE MAN’S TECHNOLOGY.” ~~ *¢ —— i 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 EQUIPMEN FOR DEFENSE FOR FINANCING FOR OFFICE WORK FOR TRANSPORTATION FOR HEALTH AND FIRST AID MINISTER OF DEFENSE — = — = — Pleose Clip ond Mcil 0: — — — ae a HUEY P. NEWTON DEFENSE FUND P.O. BOX 318 BERKELEY, CALIF. 94701 Name INTERESTED PARTIES SHOULD ADDRESS CORRESPONDENCE, TO. address —___——— city MINISTRY OF INFORMATION 1 Pledge $ ———_____—_ — Enclosed You Will Find $ BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 HUEY POSTER *1.00 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 sehool children in the black community All children in grammar s nls 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 school 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 going to 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 black community where racists oppress us - are asked to come forth to work and support this needed program. Soul food: grits, eggs, bresd, 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 ocher morning can come to the BLACK PANTHER PARTY CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS at 3106 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley or contact Father Niel at these numbers: 534-6584, 893-1016. MINISTRY OF INFORMATION “We urge as many mothers and other black citizens as possible to BLACK PANTHER PARTY unite with this COMMUNITY-BLACK PANTHER PROGRAM, We are BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE also asking all businesses throughout the black community to donate SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 the necessary food and utensils toprepare 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. NOW AVAILABLE... Items or funds may be sent ¢/o St. Augustine Episcopal Caurch, Just let us know, both black aad white communities and citizens, what ESSAYS you can donate in money, time, etc, FROM THE Thank you MINISTER OF DEFENSE by HUEY P. NEWTON WITH FORCEFUL INTRODUCTION BY I WOULD LIKE TO DONATE GEORGE MURRAY SEND DONATIONS TO ST, AUGUSTINE'S BLACK PANTHER EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 2624 WEST ST,, OAKLAND MINISTER OF EDUCATION —---— ey BREAKFAST FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN --ONLY 75°-- 5 alae! Enclosed is $ OUT-OF-STATE ORDERS: $1.00 (Food or Utensils-State Kind and Quantity Below (includes postage & handling) If Business include for AVAILABLE AT ALL your tax exemption BLACK PANTHER PARTY OFFICES Name MAIL-ORDERS MAY BE SENT T (NOTE: PLEASE INCLUDE 10* FOR POSTAGE & HANDLING) Address MINISTRY OF INFORMATION el r BLACK PANTHER PARTY a BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 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 knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he ' has little chance to relate to anything else.