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ANTHER 2° 4News Service PUBLISHED WEEKLY = THER PARTY "SOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE FRANCISCO, CA 94126 por may 19,1925 REMEMBER BROTHER MALCOLM 4st re». 21.1965 THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, MAY 19, 1969 PAGE 2 u \ AGAIN -A SMITH ACT FRAME-UP The nightmare is here again. In 1951 dozens of Communist Parcy members in the U.S, were indicted for violating the Smith Act, during the infamous ‘*McCarthy Period.”” With the support of labor, and many other the Supreme Court handed down a decision affirming the right of advocacy by anyone and thereby overturning a number of Smith Act convictions. The Smith Act was used against the Communists. It was really a weapon of big business aimed at the unfons, the anti-war and civil rights movement, the students. It was the imperialist reaction to the spread of socialism throughout the world, NOW THE PANTHERS Once again the ruling class is fearful. They fear the rising wave of strikes and economic action of the workers and their unions, the growing unity of black and white. It has no answer to people being thrown out of jobs because of aut mation. It is shaken by the opposi- tion of a majority of people in our land to the imperialist-racist war in Vietnam, Above all, they fear the effective militant black liberation movement, which is speaking out more and more for the need of working class unity, for peace, for the need to change the system. The charge that Panthers are calling upon people to take up guns and ‘‘make a revolution” is bunk, They do advocate their “ten points’’, among which is armed SELF-DEFENSE. Atty. Charles R. Garry has told the Panthers they have a legal right to have loaded weapons in their homes andplaces of business, : THE CRIME OF “ADVOCACY” Just as with the Communists in the 50s, the attempt is being made to prevent the Panthers andevery- ica’s precious heritage.”’’ The IL WU International Executive Board of October 29-30, 1951 said: “We have long warned that this Act contains within it the seeds of Fascism, We have seen reaction- ary forces in Germany, Italy and Japan destroy unionism under the smokescreen of fighting cominu- nism,"" In the 1951 trials against the Communists the Government in- troduced a parade of spies and stool pigeons who would sell out their mother for money out of fear. They lied and said just what was required of them. So now too newspapers report that ‘friendly witnesses”? (meaning rats) and ex- pelled agents are appearing before the Grand Jury to testify against the Panthers. THE. CONSPIRACY TO “GET” THE PANTHERS It is no accident that just before the secret Graad Jury hearinzs and the hearing for bail for Huey Newton a provocation took place in San Francisco. The police engi- neered a ‘‘riot’’ involving the Pan- ther headquarters and was clearly part of the conspiracy to try to smash the Panthers. All of Mayo. Alioio’s sanctimonious taik about “Jaw and ocds:?? will aot hide the role of the Tactical Squadas racist tools of the right wing. Nor will it hide the lack of ‘*justice’* when po- lice killers of blacks go free while Huey Newton is even denied bai! on appeal. DEFEND THE RIGHT TO ADVO- CATE -FREE HUEY NEWTON Don’t let it happen again. The Panthers or anyone else have a right to advocate -- to put out what they stand for and to organize to accomplish that purpose. Every union mernver. every right think- iag person should demand that the + . are FEV Pag on2 else from advocating anything Government stop persecuting the the ruling class does not like, If Panthers. Health authorities cautionallper- fire against a crowd of Black people matic weapon, to cow a crowd (ina they s..ceed it won't be just the Ask your union or any organi- sons in the Bay Area about an Epi- in a minor matter involving a lack matter which is less than a mis- Panthers who suffer but the entire zation of which you are a member demic of Pig Fever. The Pigs.are of.a permit for a loudspeaker at the demeanor) is a serious escalation labor movement, the peace move- to protest! Het, .and have produced a Major Black Panther Party San Francisco of Pig Fever. ment, the student’movement, the _ We further urge the unequivocal Escalation ef open lac® Violence Office,’ WATCH OUT FOR PIG FEVER, black, “brown and all liberation freedom for Huey Newtott.who is a neypeic seni Te be, 3 mpciine gun, an auto- (Yeu-dontt sake ticeletes OU!) “baie ‘CIVILIAN CONTROL OF POLICE More and more in the United States today, the policeforce is the institution of government’ used ‘to oppress and degrade the poor, the dtssénter, and particularly the'Black Communtiy, “Phe brutality. and ‘hor- rendous treatment of citizens by police is not just the result of some untrained, unfit or brutal officers, but. is rather the result of the func- tions assigned to the police as an institution,..We call for a restrucs., turing of the police that would pro- vide services, not sadism, for the community, We call for community control of’ atl’police personnel, ex- penditures .and law enforcement priorities. Only in this way can the function of police be changed. end the activities of the character committees which deny attorneys Political freedom Once lawyers stray from the orthodox political framework ofthis nation, and participate actively in the quest for change of a grossly unjust society, the full power of the establishment Bar is brought to bear through the vehicle of the where power.is rewarded and justice -Character and Fitness Committees. is denied.to the powerless poor..if ‘the. early ‘505 srecog- nized the danger to the unions and spoke out. Phe ClO‘s 13th Conven- tion deplored the Smith Act's use against Communist leaders and said “it was. a gravehlow to’Amer- ” We deplote-the activities of these rich and: poor abike®are to respect’: >< Se kas - policing committees, composed in the law, then it must be changed to the main of the’ most reactionary~grant fairness to the oppressed of members ‘of the Bar. Their iHegit-' our country, however unpopular ‘their imate use of the power to deny views, however empty their pockets. admission to-and to remove from the legal profession those they deem “politically undesirable’ violates the rights.guaranteed to all citizens dy. the ‘First Amendment. The su- preme Courr-held it unconstitutional to threaten with disbarment those attorneys who exercise their con- titutional rights. In this spirit we call for an end of the Character and » Fitness Committees, and an end to the oppression of those attorneys who advocate unpopular causes, end legal exploitation of the poor Teachers strike and the poor get arrested, Living costs rise and legislature cuts welfare, Evictions occur in days and repairs never do, Sellers act unconscionably and the poor still pay more, Examples abound of the duality of our system, DONALD DUCK MAX RAFFERTY SPIES ON SCHOOLS SAN FRANCISCO -- Max Rafferty, California State Superintendent of Schools, has conceived astatewide plan for spying on high school militants with the help of local officials. Rafferty has asked for names of activists from local superinten- dents. and reports of any contacts with the Black Panthers, Black Student Union, and Students for a Democratic Society, Rafferty’s attempt to ‘deal with the militant threat” is opposed by - the San Francisco American led- eration of Teachers, AFL-CIO. They have called on local superin- tendent Robert Jenkings not to comply with Rafferty’s request. In other actions, the teachers called for an investigation of the police shootings of black students Alvert Linthcome, and Lannie Ross Linthcome, 19, was an auto theft suspect, and Ross, 18, was wanted in connection with a holdup. staunch fighter for his people and whose leadership is nSeded not only. for the black people but in the people’s movement, issued by Cominunist Party of Northern California, 942 Market St., #410, San Francisvo) ch Thousands of people around the world rallied on May Day it support of Huey P, Newton, Minister of Defense for the Black Panther Party. Despite the people’s demand to free Huey, Judge Alphonso J. Zirpoli sat on the bench in his federal court and bullshitted his way out of making any decision on setting bail for Huey. After the District Attorney protested about the “unprecedented” nature of this kind of decision by a federal judge, Zirpoli decided not to decide whether or not the state had cause for denying bail. Huey Newton has been in jail now for more than a year since he allegedly offed an Oakland pig in defense of the black community. A racist jury in Oakland refused to convict Huey on the rame-up charge of murder, but sentenced him to 2-15 years in jail on a manslaughter charge in an act of compromise with the racists who run the court system in America, In hope of applying some heat on Judge Zirpoli, more than 10,900 people gathered. in San Francisco to hear speeches -by Panther leaders Kathleen Cleaver, Bobby Seale and David Hilliard and representatives from the rest of the movement in the Bay area, including Tom Hayden, who was introduced as “the founder of SDS,” Speakers from the TWLF, Brown Berets and women’s liberation groups also spoke at the rally, A large group of children from the Panthers’ “Breakfast for Children” program attended, chanting and singing in support of Huey. In Chicago, 2.990 people snobbed the area surrounding the Federal Courthouse around banners that read “Free Huey!” Speakers included Panthers Bobby Rush, Choka and Bob Lee, Mike Klonsky, SDS National Secretary, and Eileen Klare from Chicago Circle Campus SDS gave solidarity speeches, as did Cha Cha Jiminez, leader of the Young Lords, Preacher Man from the Young Patriots and Obed Lopez fromthe Latin American Defense Organization (LADO), Free Huey rally in Chicago NO MORE PIGS IN OUR COMMUNITY OFF THE PIG NO MORE BROTHERS IN JAIL OFF THE PIG FREE HUEY THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, MAY 19, 1969 HUEY STILL NOT FREE Besides demanding Huey’s release, the crowd demanded that all political prisoners in Chicago be released and that the real criminals, the pig ruling class, be jailed. At present, there are dozens of Panthers in jail or facing long sentences following a wave of repression against the black and brown movements in Chicago. Panther Mickey White is - still in prison for supposedly conspiring to purchase explosives and guns from a local pig. At Mickey’s bail reduction hearing Judge Abraham Lincoln Marovitz (B’nai Brith Man of the Year) raised his bail from $75,000 to $100,000 in order to keep him off the streets. As NLN goes to press, reports are coming in of rallies in New York, Detroit, East Lansing, Denver and Los Angeles, as well as in Europe, where students stormed U.S. embassies, demanding that Huey be set free. FREE HUEY! POWER TO THE PEOPLE! PAGE 3 THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, MAY 19, 1969 PAGE 4 MALCOLM In 1964 China exploded her bomb which was a scientific breakthrough for the oppressed people in China, who suffered for a long time, I for one was very happy to hear that the great people of China were able to display their scientific advance- ment, advance knowledge of science to the point where a country that is ‘*so backwards’’ as this country keeps saying and so, you know, be- hind everybody and so poor could come up with an atomic bomb. Why, I had to marvel at that, It made me realize that poor people can do it) as well as rich people. So all of these little advancements were made by oppressed people in other parts of the world during 1964, These were tangible gains. And the reasons that they were able tomake these gains was they realized that power was the magic word, Power against power. Power in the defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, Because power, real power comes from conviction, And this produces action, uncompromising action, It also produces insurrection against oppression, This is the only way you end oppression, with power. Power doesn’t back up in the face of a smile or in the face ofa prayer, or in the face of some kind of non- violent action, It’s not the nature of power to back up in the face of any- thing but some more power, And this is what the people have realized in Southeast Asia, in the Congo, in Cuba, in other parts of the world, that power only recognizes power, And all of them who realized this have made gains. Now -here in America it’s dif- ferent when you compare our strides in 1964 with strides that have been made forward by people elsewhere all over the world. Only then can you appreciate the great double- cross experienced by Black people here in America in 1964. The power structure found the new year out the same way they found it out in Washington the other day. Only now they call it (what's that they call it?) ‘‘The Great Society’. Last year, the year of 1964, was supposed to be| the year of promise, They opened up the new year in Washington, D, C,, and in City Halland in Albany talking about the year 0 of promise, promise that Black peopie > would make advancements in education, we’d get better schools, better school facilities, better teachers, that jobs would open up, there would be less Black people in the unemployment line, And in areas in the South that had not formerly been able to vote, you would be able to register and vote, And we would become socially acceptable, But by the end of 1964, we had to agree that instead of the year of promises, instead of those promises materializing, they sub- stituted devices to create the illusion of progress. And 1964 was the year of illusions and delusions, We re- ceived nothing but a promise. We received nothing that would actually solve the problems that we were con- fronted by in January of 1964. In1963_ they had used the trick, One oftheir devices to let off steam of frustration was the march on Washington. They used that to make us think that we were making progress, Imagine marching to Washington and getting nothing for it whatsoever. But it shows you how shrewd the power structure is, how it is able to ma- nipulate the people through the leaders, as long as the people believe in the leaders. In ’63 it was the March on Washington. In’ 64 what was it? The Civil Rights Bill, Right after they passed the Civil Rights Bill, they murdered a Negro in Georgia and did nothing about it, Murdered two whites and a Negro in Mississippi and did nothing about it. So that the Civil Rights Bill has produced nothing where we’re concerned, It was only a valve, a vent, that was designed to enable us to let off our frustrations, But the bill itself was not designed to solve our problems, (applause) Since we see what they did in 1963 and we saw what they did in 1964, what will they do now in 1965? If the March on Washington was supposed to lessen the explosion and the Civil Rights Bill was designed to lessen the explosion, that’s all it was designed to do, It wasn’t designed to solve the problems; it was designed to lessen the explosion, because everyone in his right mind knows there should have been an explosion. You can’t have-all those ingredients those explosive ingredients that exist in Harlem and elsewhere, where our people suffer and not have an explosion, So these are devices to lessen the danger of the ex- thn, lft Pe " ah VOQUUATUAAAUOERAEOAAANAAAAAUTAEAN AEE EAE REMEMBER BROTHER MALCOLM Editorial Statement by Bigman, Editor May 19th is the birthday of Malcolm, but his birthday is not why we must remember Malcolm. Why then do we remember Malcolm? Malcolm is best remembered as being the one force that opened the eyes of more than 22 million Black people in America to the political tricks and games played onthem by their so-called goverment. It was Malcolm who gave a new definition of politics to Black people. Malcolm exposed so-called leaders of the Black Liberation struggle for the opportunists and bootlickers they were. It was Malcolm who traveled the African continent spreading the truth and destroying the myths about the plight of Black people in America. It was Malcolm who examined American tradition and told it like it is. It was Malcolm who challenged the manhood of Black Americans by telling them that they had better “stop singing and start swinging!’’ It is the wisdom, the strength, and the love of humanity that was Malcolm, that was the motivating force in the founding of the Black Panther Party. Malcolm is manifested in Huey P. Newton, | Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver. There was Malcolm in Bobby. Hutton, ‘‘Bunchy’’, and John Huggins. The Black Panther Party does not commemorate the death date of a revolution- ary, but the birth date of a revolutionary. But be it his birthdate or not, Malcolm.is ever present in the thoughts and actions of Black revolutionaries who are putting something into practice. TMM plosion, but not designed to remove (aughter) They gonna take one of the material that’s going to explode, their boys, Black boys, and put him What will they give us in 1965? in the Cabinet so he can walk I just read where they plan to make around Washington with a cigar, fire 2 Black Cabinet member. Yeah, on one end and fool on the other, they have anew gimmick every year. (laughter) And because his im- mediate personal problem would have been solved, he would be the one to tell us, ‘Look how much pro- gress we’re making. I’m in Washington, D, C. I can have tea in the White House, I’m your spokes- man. I’m your, you know, your leader,’ While our people are still living in Harlem, in the slums, still receiving the worst forms of edu- cation and the worst facilities in which to try to educate our children, this is the device that they will use. They’ll make a Black cabinet mem- ber, I read that’s one of the gim- mick that they got going. But will it work? Can that one whom they are going to put down there step into the fire and put it out, when the flames begin to leap up, when People take to the streets in their explosive mood? Will that one that they're going to put in the cabinet be able to go among the people? Why, they'll burn him faster than they’1l burn the ones who sent him, (applause) At the int»rnationa? level 1964, what device did they use? They sent a well chosen Black repre- sentative to the African continent whose mission it was to make the people on that continent think that all of our problems had been solved, They went over there as apologists. I saw some of them, trailed some of them, saw the results that some of them had left there. But their prime mission was to go into Africa which is a most vital country to the United States’ interests, So these toms (you not supposed to call them toms now a days or they’ll ste you), so these uncles went there. (laugh- ter) Don’t bother the man, he’s doing his job, He don’tput you on T. V. (laughter) so you can get investigated. and. so these toms don’t go to Africa actually because they want to explore or learn some- thing for themse]ves, broaden their scope or communicate between their people and our people over there, But they go primarily to represent the United States government, And when they go, they gloss things over, they tell how well we’re doing here, how the Civil’ Rights Bill has set- tled everything and how the Nobel Peace Prize was handed down, Oh yes, that’s how they tell it laughter) Actually they succeed in widening the gap betweeu the Afro-Americans and the Africans. The image that they leave there of the Afro-Americanis so obnoxious that the African ends up not wanting to identify with us or be related to us, And itis only y when the nationalistic minded or r Black minded Afro-Americans go abroad to the African continent and establishes direct lines of commu- nications and lets the African brother over there know what is happening over here and know that our people are not so dumb that we are blind to our true conditions that exist in this structure, then the Africans begin to understand us and identify with us and sympathize with our problem to the point where they are willing to make whatever sac- rifice necessary to see that their long lost brothers get a better break than we’ve been getting up to now. On the national scale in 1964, as I just mentioned, politically the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party had its face slapped in At- lantic City at a convention over which Lyndon B, Johnson was the boss and Hubert Humphrey was the next boss and mayor Wagner had a lot of influence himself, Still, none of that influence was shown in any way whatsoever when the hopes and aspirations of the people, the Black people of Mississippi were at stake, So at the beginning of 1964, we were told that our political rights would be broadened, It was in 1964 that the two white civil rights workers, working with the Black civil rights workers was murdered. The only thing they were doing was trying to help the Black people of Mis- sissippi learn how to register. This is all, This is their crime. They were trying to show our people in Mississippi how to become regis- tered voters, This was their crime, this was the reason for which they were murdered, The awful part about them being murdered was#the civilMrights or- ganization themselves being so chicken when it comes to reacting in a way that they should have re- acted to the murders of these three civil rights workers, (applause) The civil rights group sold those three brothers out, sold them out, sold themPright down the river, because they died and what has been done about it. And what voice hasbeen raised every day today in regards to the murder of those three civil rights. workers, It has been for- gotten, You hear nothing else about it. And that the only time it comes up is when J, Edgar Hoover called one of the Negro leaders a liar ana then another argument: starts in eel as ask, ‘What Place that it was going to take aoe ce geese d who got Place. We had gotten the word that murdered?’ But when it comes to there were elements in the paver murder itself, it’s forgotten, gone Structure that were going fears e by, glossed over. And nothing has 2 riot, something in Harlem ey been done about it. So this is why could call a riot, in order that they I say, if we get involved in the could step in and be justified ir civil rights movements and go to using whatever methods sod caearetl Mississippi or any place else to to crush the militant groups whic! help our people to get registeredwere still considered in the embry- to vote, we intend to go prepared. onic state and in realizing that there (applause) We don’t intend to break Was 4 plan afoot to instigate some- the law because when you registerthing in Harlem so that they could to vote, you uphold the law. Itsstep in and crush it, there were the ones who try to prevent you elements in Harlem who were pre- right, you got a right to protect retaliate in situations like that who, yourself by any means necessary, purposely did not get involved. And (applause) the real miracle of 1964, I tell it to Concerning the Harlem incident you straight, was the restraint ex- that took place during the summer, ercised by the people of Harlem who when the citizens of Harlem were are qualified and equipped and what- attacked in a ‘‘pogrom’’. How do ever else there is to protect them- 2 2 f you say that word? Pogrom? That's selves when they are being illegally this is not right. And my suggestion would be that as long as the Police Department doesn’t use those methods in white neighborhoods, they shouldn’t come to Harlem and use it in our neighborhood, I wasn’t here, I’m glad I wasn’t here, ’cause I'd be dead. They’d have to kill me. Td rather be dead then to let some- one walk around my house or in my neighborhood shooting it up where my children are in the line of fire, either they die or I die. And it all started when a little boy was shot by a policeman, And he was turned loose, the same as the sheriffs were turned loose in Mis- sissippi when they killed three civil rights workers. (I’m almost ending. Pm just taking my time tonight because I'm overworked, And I’m taking my time. I’m taking mytime, not hurrying up, I mean.) I hope that you don’t mis- understand me when I say that, (And Pm not advocating anything illegal against the police) I know good what it was. I was reading about it I don’t know how to pronounce that and immorally and unjustly attacked, police, and I know bad police. I word, I can’t pronounce it because And an illegal attack, and unjust know policemen that bend over back- it’s not my word, (laughter) But attack, and an immoral attack can wards to be human and to protect when the people of Harlem were be made against you by anyone. Just other humans and to treat people as victims of that pogrom (that’s your because a person has on a uniform if they are human beings. Then I word) (laughter) duringthe summer, . we had heard long before it took THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, MAY 19, 1969 PAGES morally, even mentally, some of them not even psychologically to be on the force. Well those kind I don’t go for. But those who can pass the test, they’re allright. We don’t in- clude them with the rest. While millions of our people are starving in this country, this government is spending billions of dollars abroad to feed other people. They’ re sending wheat over to Russia and Poland, some of those other places, and dumping a lot of it in the ocean to keep the market down. This is some- thing that doesf’t add up. How you gonna have peace in 1965 and you’re hungry, no job, welfare workers won’t even work, and you read where they’re dumping wheat in the ocean while you go on the rampage. You think they’re out of their minds, In 1964 we have still with us the slum- lord, people who own the houses but don’t live there themselves, Usually they live up around the Grand Con- course or somewhere. They con- tribute to the NAACP and CORE and all the civil rights organizations, Give you money to go out and picket and they own the house that you’re picketing, And this bad housing con- ditions that continue to exist up does not give him the right to come 1... ‘others who shouldn’t be onithere, they keep our people the and shoot up your neighborhood. No, 16 sore ‘They're not qualified ‘victims of health problems, high infant and adult mortality rate and higher in Harlem than in any other part of the country or part of the city. They promised us jobs and gave us welfare checks instead. We’re still jobless, we’ re still unemployed, The welfare is taking care of us, making us beggers, robbing us of our dignity, of our manhood. So that I point out that in 1964, it was not a pie-in-the-sky year of promises as was promised in January of that year. Blood did flow in the streets of Harlem, Philadelphia, Rochester, some places over here in Jersey, and elsewhere. In 1965 even more blood will flow, more than you ever dreamed. It'll flow downtownas well as uptown, Why? Why will it flow. have the causes that made it flow ’64 been removed? Have the causes that made it flow in ’63 been removed? The causes are still there, How can you sit around and naively, in such a naive way and make yourself think that things are getting better when the causes that created the bad conditions still re- main? The only one whose problem is solved is the leaders, They get the Peace Prize while the people have no peace, or as he, himself says, while he’s up on the mountain, the people are in the valley. THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, MAY19, 1969 PAGE 6 Negroes should arm themselves for self - defense As aman, Malcolm X had the physical bearing and the inner self- confidence of a born aristocrat. And he was potentially dangerous. No man in our time aroused fear and hatred in the white man as did Malcolm, because in him the white man sensed an implacable foe who could not be had for any price - a man unreservedly com- mitted to the cause of liberating the black man in American society rather than integrating the black Standing in front of house built by man into society, Malcolm states: ‘‘This country Malcolm’s father are his brothers (America) and this society has mastered the art of very de- Wesley, and sisters Yvonne and Reginald, — ceitfully painting people whom they don’t like in a image that they know you won’t like, So you end up hating your friends and loving your enemies, iow “Everyday, I would gamble all of my tips Why Black Nationalism? How can there on the numbers, and dream of what I would be white-black solidarity before there is first do when [ hit.”’ some Black solidarity, THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, MAY 19, 1969 PAGE 7 With Rev, M. Galamison and Adam C, Powell Malcolm shakes hands with actors | You cant operate 3 capitalietic cystem unless you Guaie Davie ead funy Gee are vulturistic, you have to have someone else's bad | to Suck to be a capitalist. You show me acapitalist” | IIl-show you abloodsucker He cannot be anything but @ bloodsucker if hés going to be a capitalist MALCOLM X DECEMBER 20 1964 Malcolm talks with Long Island U, Students (tet ‘ ‘ Re. TRAY Bake m4 Just returned home from trip abroad Speaking to the Harvard Law School Forum THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, MaAy 19, 1969 MALCOLM WITH PRINCE FAISAL DURING HIS TRIP TO MECCA : How can white America atone for enslaving millions of human beings On his tour through Africa he met Mrs W.E,B, DuBois There has never been a non-violent revolution THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, MAY 19, 1969 PAGE 9 HE ROSE FROM HOODLUM, THIEF, DOPE PEDELER, PIMP TO BECOME THE MOST DYNAMIC LEADER OF THE BLACK REVOLUTION a America ‘ SY) POWER IS THE MAGIC WORD POWER AGAINST POWER “I remember the police were always drop- ping by our house, just checking, for a gun’’ Lets learn his language, If his language is a shotgun, get a shotgun, THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, MAY 19, 1969 PAGE 10 > i ~ Malcom’s widow Mrs, Betty Shabazz stands at the head of his grave as coffin is lowered, Racists attempted to murder Malcolm and his family by bombing his home Malcolm X being carried to the hospital by his co-murderers Immediately after the shooting at the Audu- bon Ballroom in Harlem a Malcolm’s widow leaving coroner’s office with his sister Mrs, Ella Collins, QUOTATIONS FROM. MALCOLM Revolution is bloody, revolution is hostile, rev- America’s conscience is bankrupt. She lost all olution knows no compromise, revolution over- conscience long time ago. turns and destroys everything that gets in its Was Whenever they speak of a population explosion : is, they are referring to the people in Asia or in It is criminal to teach a man not to defend Africa - the black, brown, red and yellow people. himself when he is’ the constant victim of brutal attack. This country smashes anything that gets in its way. It crushes anything that gets in its way. We have a common oppressor, a common ex- And since we’re Americans, they tell usy well, ploiter, and a common discriminator. Once we we’ll do it the American way. We’ll-Smash any- all realize that we have a common enemy, we thing that gets in our way. can unite. You can’t operate a capitalistic system unless We are anti-exploitation, anti-degradation, anti- you are vulturistic you have to have someone Oppression if the white man doesn’t want us to else’s blood to suck to be a capitalist. be anti-him then let him stop Oppressing, de- grading and exploiting us. Anytime Uncle Sam, with all his machinery 2 i. = for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice- It is impossible for a white person to believe eaters, he’s lost the battle. in capitalism and not believe in racism. Born May 19, 1890; Ho Chi Minh is the undisputed leader of the people of Viet Nam, At the age of 79 he is looked upon as one of the greatest Marxist-Len- inists of all times. Ho Chi Minh’s grat leadership is manifested in the gallant, and heroic people of Viet Nam who are waging such an unyielding fight against the American imperialists. Not only LONG LIVE HO have they resisted U,S, Coloniza- tion, they refused to yield to the imperial forces of the Japanese or the French, There /struggles have spanned some 20 years. In the past ten years the south Vietnamese have overcome hare ships, made every sacrifice aid struggled valiantly against US #- gressors. Starting with their jare THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, Chl MINH the enemy to fight against the enemy. They arerecording victory after victory and are launching a, continual attack, inflicting upon the U.S, aggressors and their pup- pets ever greater defeats and caus- ing them to be bogged down more and more deeply. The Black Panther Party andthe revolutionary peoples of racist America wish Ho Chi Minh a very happy birthday and many returns of the day. Having faced the same enemy for four hundred years, we the Black Panther Party want him to know that we stand in complete solidarity with the rey- olutionary. people of Vietnam. We will fight imperialism with pro- leterian internationalism, All Power belongs to All the Pen- ple. MAY 19, 1969 PAGE 11 hands, they have seized gunsfrom Writings of Mao Tse- Tung Quotations: Jhe Little Red Handbook- Guide to Action of the Red Guards and The People’s Liberation Army of China. . . . 6@* On People’s War Selected Readings Selected Military Writings Pocket Size Full ' Size Selected Works in 4 Volumes Statement on the Afro-American Struggle _Please send payment with your order. Write for discounts available on quantity orders. Our catalog listing 500 titles is mailed free on request. PRESIDENT HO CHI MINH CHINA BOOKS & PERIODICALS 2929 - 24th Street San Francisco, Calif. 94110 BORN MAY 19, 1890 Certainly the U.S. aggressors will meet with complete failure. Our armed forces and people throughout the country wil surely win complete victory. weressyy = everson rane Soe eee penises 2. 5 oT ESS a ‘| BELIEVE IN ANYTHING THAT IS NECESSARY TO CORR UNJUST CONDITIONS POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, SOCIAL, P ANYTHING THAT’S NECESSARY. 1 BELIEVE IN IT AS LON IT’S INTELLIGENTLY DIRECTED AND DESIGNED TO GET RESULTS.” . Malcolm January 7, 1965 Fi ~ a < mr we Set f RECT PHYSICAL, NG AS - se = —ae, * ——— = a = EE ee °PAZZ: BBB& ———* ———— ——= | S = if 9 Fak al THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, MAY 19, 1969 PAGE 14 YOUNG LORD MURDERED BY OFF DUTY PIG On May 4, 1969 an off-duty pig who works twenty-four hours a day murdering oppressed people, took the life of one revolutionary brother (Manuel Ramos) and left another lying there seriously wounded. Both of these brothers . were shot in the head, Both Bro- thers were members of the Cen- tral Staff of the revolutionary par- ty. These brothers and the Young Lord organization have continued to “practice” revolutionary ideo- logy. They pattern themselves af- ter the Black Panther Party, they identify with the class struggle and that makes us class brothers. S.F. PIGS When the news was out about this premeditated murder, the commu- nity was up in arms but it was Cha Cha (Chairman) and the Lords that said let’s educate, let’s organize and let’s arm ourselves. Let's in- form the community of the pigs’ attempt to wipe out the Young Lords. The Young Lords will be open- ing a free Breakfast program to meet the needs of the people, Power to the People Panther Power to Black Panther Party Young Lord Power to the Young ATTEMPT _ TO ARREST ENTIRE BROWN COMMUNITY Was that pig Broderik shot by the many thousands of Brown people who live in San Francisco’ s Mission Dis- trict? Or for that matter, was he shot by all six of those Brown bro- thers that were busted for the action? Looking at the situation objectively one cannot even come to a qualified conclusion that one of those brothers offed that pig. Nevertheless, pig Alioto’s Gestaposhave broken and entered more than 150 homes, with- out warrants. The pigs have been spotted pointing guns at the heads of young girls inthe Brown community. The home of one of the young bro- thers that was arrested for shooting that fascist pig was busted into. The brother’s little sister told them that no one was home at which point the Pigs began shooting. They wrecked the house and shot the sister in the hip. The Black Panther Party would like for the people of the Brown community to read and implement Executive Mandate #3 which state: Because of the St. Valentine’s Da, massacre of February 14, 1929,/in which outlaws donned the unifornis of policemen, posed as such, and there- by gained entrance to locked doors controlled by rival outlaws with whom they were contending for control of the bootlegging industry in Chicago and becatise these gang- sters, gaining entry through their disguise as policemen proceded to exterminate their rivals with machinegun fire, we believe that prudence would dictate that one should be alert when opening one’s door to strangers late at night in the’ wee hours of'the morning, even when these strangers wear the uni- forms of police. History teaches us that the man in the uniform may or may not be a policeman authorized to enter the homes of the people. AND Taking notice of the fact that (ljon’ January 46, 1968, at 3:30 am, mem- bers of the San Francisco Police Department kicked down the door and made an illegal entry, and searchof the home of Eldridge Cleaver, Min- ister of Information, Those pigs had no search warrant, no arrest war- rant, and were therefore not autho- rized to enter, They were not in- vited in. Permission for them to enter was explicitly denied by the Minister’ of Information. Present weresister Kathleen Cleaver, our Communications Secretary and wife to our Minister of Information, and brother Emory Douglas, our Rev- olutionary Artist, Taking further notice that (2) on February 25, 1968, several uni- formed gestapos of the Berkeley pig department, accompanied by several other white men in plainclothes, bearing an assortment of shotguns, rifles, and service revolvers, made a forceful, unlawful entry and search of the home of Bobby Seale, Chair- man of our Party and his wife Artie Seale. These pigs had no warrant either to search or to arrest. When asked by Chairman Bobby to produce a warrant,” they -arrogantly stated that they did wot need one, They had no authority’to enter...what they did have was the power of the gun, Thus we are confronted with a critical situation. Our organization has re- ceived serious threats from certain racist elements of white America, in¢luding the Oakland, Berkeley, and :,8an Francisco Pig Departments, Threats. to take~our lives, to ex- terminate us. We cannot determine when any of these elements, or a combination of them may move to implement these threats, We must be alert to the danger at all times. We will not fall victim to a St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. There- fore, those who approach our doors in the manner of outlaws, who seek to enter our homes illegally, unlaw- fully and in a rowdy fashion, those who kick our doors down with no authority and seek to ramsack our homes in violation of our HUMAN RIGHTS, will henceforth be treated as outlaws, as gangsters, as evil- doers, We have no way of deter- mining that a man in a uniform involved in a forced outlaw entry into our home is in fact a Guardian of the Law. He is acting like a law breaker and we must make an.ap- propriate response, We draw the line at the-threshold of our doors. It «is therefore mandated as ageneral order to all members of the Black Panther Party that all members must acquire the technical equipment to defend their homes arid their dependents and shall do so, Mandate by Huey P. Newton Minister of Defense Black Panther Party Dynamite PERSECUTION OF THE YOUNG LORDS In this country where illegality is systematic and injustice deliberate, not only Black people but Brown people as well, suffer the brunt of repression, The American eagle, with its predatory instincts, vamps and Miss Liberty, with her deliberate ruthlessnes, tramples on those people they find it profitable to attack and crush, America com- presses its oppressed between an atmosphere of vileness anda ground of hostile instability and dares them to challenge the mediums, The Young Lords Organization, a Latin- American revolutionary group who are working in Chicago, have dared to dispel the mediums; they are demanding an end to the injustices heaved upon Latin- American people, Latin-American people in this country face some of the same pro- blems that we, Black people face, i, e,, inadequate food, indecent housing, irrelevant education, police brutality, and unemployment, And what are the Young Lords doing? They are working for adequate food, decent housing, relevant education, police brutality cessation, and employment for their people. The power structure would have these problems continue, as people who have little power to solve these problems are easy to exploit, The Young Lords, however, cannot be placed into this category because they are showing their people the strategic method to resist the op- pressive forces of the power struc- ture. This has made them the ‘fenemy’’ to the power structure and the ‘friend’? to all who desire an end to imperialism. The power rested on similar conspired structure's perception of them has charges.’ The news media and the resulted in them being harassed, pigs would have us believe that the arrested, beaten, and shot by the Young Lords are a menacing gang, pigs who ‘‘protect and serve’ (yes, but we know otherwise, Their con- protect capitalistic enterprises and tinuous community efforts have serve. us with arrest warrants, proven this. But the massive in- search warrants, subponeas, sum- timidations and negative propaganda mons, and the like), have not made the Young Lords On Sunday, April 4, one of the cease their struggle for the lib- Young Lords, Manuel Ramos, Min- eration of their people - quite to ister of Defense was killed and the contrary. More determined than Ralph Rivera, Minister of Educa- ever, they are now intensifying their tion was critically wounded. Yes, efforts to see that the needs of these two were dedicating their their people are met. lives to the revolutionary struggle. They were shot by pigs who made We ask the people to witness the it their goal to deal with them as Young Lords as they attempt to all protesting poor and exploited improve their community and place people are dealt with; elimination, its control in the hands of the Latin- These brothers who sought to American people, to witness the pig overtake those who have unjustly persecution of those who believe taken over, whose love was lib- that power should be vested in the eration and hate was oppression, people and not in minority enter- whose bodies lie stiff andcontorted, prises. We call on the people tc whose blood overflows the State of judge whether the struggle fo) Illinois and surges into those justice now being waged by the adjacent states, whose words (Jodo Young Lords is invalid; whether the eo poder a la gante - All power to murder of one and the intende the people) can be heard rever- murder of the other is right. Wi berating in response to the scream call on the people to judge whethe: of the oppressed - these brotherswe the Young Lords deserve such per- hold sacred; these brothers we hold secution. t; these brothers we hold uaa Regarding you, the Young Lords Presently facing many trumped 2S Our true revolutionary brothers up charges (such as mob action, as our comrades, and as our allies disorderly conduct, inciting to riot, the Black Panther Party is workin; and everything else that is false) jointly with you to see that ag Chairman of the Young Lords, Cha gression is thwarted and suppres Cha Jimenez is picked up at least ion is ended, once a week by the pigs. Manyother Illinois Chapter Reporter Young Lords as well have been ar- Carletta Fields PIG SHOOTS INDIANAPOLIS PANTHER The ever present harassment of Black Panther members and black people throughout the black community is an ever-present is- sue of racist and never-ending murder and brutality at the hand ofthe racist pig department and the kangaroo courts ona local as well as a national level. On December 29th, 1968 Abram Sharrief, our circulation manager, and another Brother were adver- tising a rally we were having. The Brothers were speaking to the peo- ple over a loud speaker aad distri= buting literature, when they were stopped by racist patrolman Ste- ven Schatke and charged with being disorderly persons. A frame-up charge of violation ofthe 1935 fire- arms act was tacked on for good neasure, On January Sth thesame -acist son of a snake shot a black Brother and charged him with stealing an automobile and viola- tion of the 1935 Beverage Act. Both of these charges were drop- ped. The slime of the land was exonerated of the charge of shoot- ing the Brother as was to be ex- pected, After careful investigation by the Ind. Chapter it was dis- covered that this pig had shot an- other black Brother the previous year. Feb. 14, 5 Panthers were ex- pelled from school and charged with passing inflammatory litera- ture, Feb, 17, Panthers Bruce Coun- cil, Dan Ginns andeRichard@eMc- Reynolds werestharged) with dis= orderly persons and trespassing on school property when they were passing out Panther information. In March 1969 a Black Brotiier was arrested downtown fordrivinz too sloW. Jerry G@mninghanva Blackmeni>\, ber of the Safety Board was fired, \ for speaking out against racial in= justice. Free ‘Huey P. Newton" By Any Mé@ans’ Necessary Donaid Campbell Deputy Minister. of Infor— mation, Indiana Chapter THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, MAY 19, 1969 PAGE 15 DES MOINE PANTHER The recent bombing of the Des Moines Headquarters of the Black Panther Party has been blamed by the police on dissident elements within the Party, Panthers, on the other hand, feel the police may have known more about the incident before it took place than they are admitting, ‘Fifteen seconds after the ex- plosion, a pig was sitting on the front porch,’’ one of them explained. ‘It usually takes them about an hour to get here,” The bomb, revealed by a Panther investigation (police have made no move to find out about the facts) to be CDT, a plastic explosive sup- posedly available only to military, police, and other guardians of Lib- erty, completely destroyed half of the house at 1207 llth Street which the Panthers had been using as their headquarters, The bathroom, kitch- en, distribution. and conference rooms were totally obliterated, Only four rooms are still in tact, and they are far from sturdy. If any- one had been in the back part of the house during the explosion, he would have been killed, Fortunately, the six people in the house were all at the front, Damage also occurred to 48 other houses in a three-block area as a result of the explosion, but police were too busy roping off the area around the Panther headquarters, ‘investigating’? the inside of the house, and confiscating literature, to be concerned with trying to find out if anyone in the neighborhood had been injured. The only thing police seem to haye been able to uncover inthe course of their investigation was that the in- cident actually did occur. Deputy Minister of Defense, Charles Smith explained that it shouldn’t haye been hard for police to discern that something was going on in the house on llth Street, An empty lot in back of the house pro- vides an excellent view from the fire station on the corner of 10th Street, where pigs on night duty often congregate. The explosion oc- curred at ten minutes to midnight on Saturday, April 22, at the same time a group of pigs were inside the fire station, The Pigs did not seem sensitive to any movements in the rear area of the house before which partially covered the noise of the explosion, Smith felt that the action was probably related to the bombing of Soul Village, a Black recreation center which was de- stroyed under the same conditions, The bombing followed telephone threats that individual Panthers would be shot or napalmed, and one call by a man who claimed he was a demolitions expert. Asked about dissent within the Party, which had been alluded to by the police as a possible motive for the action, Smith commented, “‘There’s no dissent in the Party, That's a racist dog lie to try and cover up some hog actions.’’ The general feeling is that either the pigs did the shit or are trying to cover it up because they can’t or don’t want to do anything about it, There is no back wall to the four rooms which remain standing, no kitchen and bathroom facilities, and what remains of the house is now under constant pig surveillance, But Smith explained that the Panthers plan to stay at the present site, ‘When conditions become uncom- fortable, that doesn’t stop our political work---we still have our mimeograph machine, our tele- phone, and our typewriters. The breakfast program is in full swing,’’ Donations for the breakfast program, which provides a free meal for school children every morning, come in from Panthers and sympa- thizers as well as local stores. Two programs are running now, one at the Forest Avenue Baptist Church which is in full time operation, and one at Our Lady of Guadalupe on the south side of Des Moines, which runs three mornings a week, and will go into’ full swing as more children begin coming, From 75 to 100 children get fed every morning at the Forest Avenue project. Sisters from the community do the cooking; brothers set up the tables andserve the children, When school ends for the summer, the program will be altered to meet summer needs. Asked about static within the Black community, Smith responded that it was slight, and comes mostly from individuals who don’t understand what the Panthers are about. ‘A lot of negative reaction is due to person- ality clashes, people who don’t Ses the explosion-- yet the bomb-setters understand our ways. They think we harass and murder Black people aren't hip to that-- could only have gained access tothe should ‘respect police officers’ and every day. We haven’t got time to educate them--that’ area by way of 10th Street, be ‘more conservative’, They can’t check out which ones are doing it. about.’”’ we’re trying to program; for others, though, its the s what we’re all product of more direct experience, Standing in the rubble-choked back- some, education comes yard of the headquarters, Clive Lots of people through projects like the breakfast DePatten explained that during a = recent rally for the Des Moines 14, eg ‘he happened to be walking down a nearby sidestreet when he saw two pigs beating a girl up, He tried to help her and was severly beaten himself, taken to the station, and finally, after half an hour, was driven to the hospital where he received ma treatment for lacerations of the s head, It was DePatten’s second con- y frontation with the pigsandit swung whim to the Panthers. ‘When my it happens to you’’, he explained, ’?you begin to realize some things... when your head gets beaten, It doesn’t seem possible the pigs could really do this. They help educate the Black community by their Piggish & actions.’ Exactly how big is the Black Pan- myther Party? Charles Smith gets impatient with the question. “Since all Blacks are involved in exploi- Utation, oppression, murder, and m brutality by the power structure, age is immaterial. Lots of people mm get hung up on membership, Don’t s ask me that--anyone who adheres to the Ten Point Program is a Black ee Panther, If you're white and youcan adhere to it, that makes you a far White Panther, If you ask me local =——+q membership 14,000. Nationalthree million, : PANTHER POWER Because the bombing occurred in relate to the profanity in the parks. The pigs are a tentacle of the For the middle of the night duringa storm The pigs and the power structure power structure, ~~. ) Gaiokwe “ DES MOINES PANTHER, CLIVE DePATTEN IN RUBBLES OF BOMBED PANTHER HEADQUARTERS THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, MAY 19, 1969 PAGE 16 REVOLUTION AND LABOR The sword of oppression reaches out with its sharp blade of deceit and racist attitudes in all direc- tions. The Brothers in the Field ofLa- bor, the backbone of the nation’s economy, stand tall and speak loud and clear in declaring a Revolu- tionary change in the Bullshit they haye to contend with' The Indiana chapter tintroduces the Revolutionary Black caucus of Indianapolis. The ruling of labor has been acon- Stant enemy of black progress and the black brain, but this era of the black demands and will receive this just due, Pictured are the representatives of the Indianapolis Black caucus. Left to right....., Nathan Wimberly, co-Chairman Marvin McCurty, Chairman Lewis Jones Edward Winters and Denis Web- ster Ministry of Information FB. PIG HARASSMENT About 11 am, Tuesday, April 29, 1969, a F.B.I. pig came to my job (I work at a candle place in Buchaanis, New York), He saw my boss and asked if Laurence Newkirk worked there, My boss said yes, I will go and get him for you. He called me to see this certain person. I approached the man he pointed out to me and he showed me the F.BI badge and card. I said ‘‘what is this?’’ He pulled out the federal warrant and put it in my hand, I asked him again, ‘‘what is this, and The Peekskill Library did not have the information I wanted. Ithen went to the Internal Revenue because it is the federal pig system, they did not know what the charge was, I went to the Officers Staff meeting and showed the Defense Captain the warrant, We went through serious conversation and then called several lawyers. The answer came the next day, Wednesday, April 30. Bashir Aghasi (Peekskill's Defense Cap- tain) then related the charge to me, The charge was anarchy. In other what are you doing here?’’ He words trying to overthrow the U.S, replied, ‘“‘show up at this place’, pig government. I said ‘‘What! How (which was indicated on the war- rant), Then I asked the pig what was this warrant about? I then asked him if it was an Internal Revenue Charge. He then said, that he could not give out any infor- mation. I later found out that the pigs wanted me to testify on a ridiculous”, But the pigs will do anything, I then made arrangements to handle the U.S. pig department. This is one of the many tactics used by the pig system to eliminate the Black Panther Party and stop it’s efforts to liberate Black people, National basis against the mem- POWER TO THE PEOPLE bers of the Black Panther Party, I then said to him, ‘‘what kind of game is this? You issue something that you do not know about?’ He then walked out after my boss asked me what was going on. I did not know what to make of this. I got off from work at 5 pm, and I then went to the library to BLACK PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN— GUARD OFF THE PIG.,,.. Brother Sahani Malik Lt. of Education Black Panther Party 22 Nelson Avenue POWER TO BLACK Indianapolis Indiana Chapter look and see what the charge was. Peekskill, New York Black Panther Party All Power to the People UP FROM CAPITALISM Capitalism is, by humanexperi- ence, the most backward and inhu- man mode of civilization on his- torical record, It is, by definition, a system of profiteers, Capitalism, by its very definition, is a Foster of the classed society. Competition, in this country, was initially the dominant produc- tive force, It was understood, how- ever, by the ‘founding fathers’, that competition for capital, in relation to a social system, was detrimental unless all social fac- tors were equally powerful. Today, this is the primary evil. The masses ar poor, and con- sequently, powerless. Without the Panther Party and its peoples’ ar- my, the masses have nothing. Their grievances of hunger, deprivation, and dispossession are virtually unredressed. The capitalists, amid enormous articulation of these so- cial evils, are unaffected, The American system, essen- tially, breeds a citizenry of dehu- manized commodities, evaluated and affected only by material as- sets. Money is the dominant force. Countless human lives are fully committed to the acquisition of wealth, The American lives, works and produces not as an avenue of social contribution, nor for the sake of self-expression, but for money, If, in fact, a system is judged by the men it produces, then, history will inevitably bear out the shame that is white Amer- ica, Though capitalism condones all profitable suppression and exploi- tation, itis best repudiated because of its class initiation. The functions of capitalist machinery are de- pendent upon the working class; the lower class; the class that is oppressed resulting from perpetu- ated exploitation, which, consti- tutes the vast majority of the citi- zenry. They have not yet begun to feel themselves part of humanity, Due to prejudices of white Ameri- ca, which, like all else is product of the status quo, and perpetuates the feeling of dispossession, class is dominated by color. Destruction of class in society. is the only workable solution (save miscege- nation in relation to lines ofcolor) and the ultimate aim ofthe revolu- tionary forces. The American system, at best, is nothing if not protector ofover- whelming private enterprise. It is lost if it can not find avenues, per- haps through these enterprises, to practice imperialistic aggression, And, because of these heaped-on social evils, it is clearly the duty of the Party and the peoples’ army to initiate untiring efforts toward the complete upheaval ofthe racist American society; to replaceclass with solidarity, suppression with liberation, and subsistence with flowering, productive life. ~- Larry Jones *UP FROM CAPITALISM (the ti- tle) can be attributed to UP FROM LIBERALISM (book title) (Buckley) which, is attributed to UP FROM SLAVERY (Washington). Washing- ton’s book elaborated on the ‘goo= dies’ that Black freedmen could acquire in post-Civil War Ameri- ca. Buckley, contrarily, told of the boundless evils of Jiberalism. My work is in Buckley’s critical vein, REVOLUTION IN LABO The Kansas City Chapter of the Black Panther Party is forming a coalition with groups of oppressed proletariats in this racist, capital- istic part of the nation, Here is just some of the shit we are going through and have been dealing with here, Larry Johnson, a brother, was terminated at Gustin-Bacon Corp, on allegations that he threatened a foreman inFebruary. Brother Larry said that these two swines, Albert Surrett and Dizzy Wittmeyer came up to him in the plant and told him we don’t want you sitting around on your black ass, or we will give you five days off. after these piglet m -s started cursing, Brother retaliated with, ‘‘you better stop f----- g with me or I'll kick your asses!’’ Surrett then went to the office and got a stinking hog named Tony Paluta, He oinked, ‘‘Go home! We will call you later.’”’ After five days Brother Larry phoned a pig Union Steward named Dick Savener. Savener oinked to the brother, ‘‘ You have beenterm- inated.’’ Brother Larry had a witness, James W, Jones with him, James said the pigs told him’ that or whites, unless he did lie in their favor he would be terminated too. Larry went to Clay Ward, head pig over Teamsters Local 41. was doing his oinking Brother Larry could see the conspiracy that was going on against him, James saidhe wasn’t going for that bullshit. So now he is on their shit list too. James was not called to the office investigation, Brother James is not a Panther. Gustin- Bacon (Today's pig is tomorrows bacon) was aware that Brother Larry was a Panther, Last week a suit was filed against the corporation and the Teamsters Local 4] in Kansas City, Kansas by the U.S. Government. This was for discrimination against non- Don’t get uptight on this Government s--t action, because this is just something to make Blacks and people of color think they are trying to help us, B---S-- to the Senator Everet M, (M- ) Dirksen has proven this by telling Clifford Alexander of O,E,O. tostop harassing (meaning bugging racist capitalist) or he would go to the Chief hog Nixon and get somebody's job (meaning Alexander’s), Alexan- When Ward der resigned his office, playing right into their (pigs) hands, He should have said kiss my a--! And stayed until 1971, Gustin-Bacon and the Teamsters were ordered by the U.S. Pigs to clean-up their pigpens. Unions across this nationare helping to oppress us, A.F.L., C.1O should be A.F.L of CIA! IW, Able and all the restare going to hear us say, ‘‘Stick your pig contracts up your m-----f----g a---s!’’ The revolution in Labor is here! So all you Hogs, Pigs and porkchops bootlicking niggers, get the H--- out of the way or wait to be sent there. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK FOWER TO BLACK PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN- GUARD Thomas Robinson Deputy Minister of Labor Kansas City (Mo.) Chapter Black Panther Party TO WHITE BROTHERS AT MAHWAH Some of you may not know what’s been happening and what this strike is all about. Last week the United Black Bro- thers began a walk out after anewly hired worker was fired, He had walked into the body shop office to find out where he would work that night. Ray Eskew, the supervisor, told him he had no business in the office and used abusive lan- guage. Eskew ended up by saying, “Get out of here, you're fired, YOU BLACK MOTHERFUCKER.” Local 906 was nowhere to be found, On Thursday, the United Black Brothers walked out and demanded that Eskew be removed and; 1. The dismissal or transfer of supervisors with acts of repeated discrimination and abuse, 2, The reinstatement of workers who were provoked into violation of company rules by supervisors and were subsequently fired, 3. In view of the number of Black workers employed with related pro- blems, we demand more Black re- presentation in the labor relations and hourly personnel departments, 4, Establishment of the United Black Brothers as the spokesman of Black workers in Mahwah, 5. If management has not met the above demands by April 29, 1969, we shall begin the second phase of direct action and will not be held responsible for any actions taken against the oppressive and racial policies of the Ford Motor Company. 6. We demand no reprisals against any workers for acts taken in this fight for our human rights and dignity. 7. No loss of pay or privileges by any worker as a result of actions taken to win the above demands, 8. We as workers will defend our human rights at any cost, They have asked all workers to support the strike, What does this strike have to do with white workers? We know that this isn’t the first time a worker has been insulted and fired arbitrarily. It happens all the time. How many times have you heard a supervisor or foreman call FRIENDS 0 a worker ‘Dirty Guinea Bastard’ “Black son-of-a -bitch’’, and “Stinking Spick’? to name a few, Yet the company wants white workers to think that a strike led by black workers against these con- ditions is directed against them, (Already, rumors have been spread that white workers were thrown out of a United Black Brothers meeting) The company wants to use racial fears to divide the workers. They would be happy if they could get whites to think that since they’re a little better off than most black workers, it is not worth making a fuss. but what’s so great about Ford Mahwah when all workers are treated without respect, All workers, for the first 90 days have no protection and are forcedto do any job assigned to them, Then, many are fired after 85 days, a sneaky system of planned lay-offs, While workers are being fired, all workers throughout the line are overworked, All workers have to work in in- tolerable heat during the summer months (in a ‘*modern’’ plant that was supposed to be air-conditioned), The United Black Brothers are demanding that workers be treated with basic human dignity. The company wants us to think that this isn't our fight. But when black workers are not treated with dignity and respect due to all men, this hurts us all, It opens the way for all of us to be stepped on. If we don’t support their fight, we are playing into hands of the company which wants to divide us and, there- by keep us weak. SUPPORT THE DEMANDS RESPECT THE STRIKE DON’T GO TO WORK (The plant will be shut down any- way. You can call in sick to pro- tect your job.) DON’ TBELIEVE RUMORS, COME DOWN TO THE UNION HALL AND TALK WITH THE BROTHERS FIND OUDe \WHAT’S REALLY HAPPBNING, PEACE AND POWER F PANTHERS CONFERENCE The Black Panther Party and Friends of the Black Panthers have called for a day long political-or- ganizing conference on Saturday, May 17, at the First Unitarian Church at 8th and Vermont at 10:00 A.M. sharp. Raymond Massai Hewett and leading Panther ‘cadres: will lead the Workshops and planning, ses- sions. An important policy state- ment is expected. Donald Freed PO. Box 3314 Beverly Hills, Ca. 90212 Telephone: (office) 387-3371 (home) 473-9635 THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, UNITE All oppressed people must under- stand that a big part of the ruth- less economic exploitation and political oppression of the pro- letariat and peasant came from these three categories of oppression. 1,) The Avaricious businessmen 2.) Demagogic politicians and 3.) Racist pig cops. We are fighting a class struggle. In a class society everyone lives as a member of a particular class, and every kind of thinking, without exception, is stamped with a brand of a class, And if you think that I am lying just go out into the different communities inthe townor cities you live in and you can see it as clear as day and night, We the people, the proletariat, and peasant must face objective reality, and deal with the three categories of oppression in a revolutionary manner, This means we must study our Marxist- Leninism the works of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Huey P, Newton, and Eldridge Cleaver, The most important thing is to put these powerful ideological wea- pons into practice. Another thing wc have to understand is that changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the contradictionsin society which is very true. The contradiction between the old and new is the development of these contradictions that pushes the masses of people forward and gives them impetus for the supersession of the old society by the new. Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history, such is the history of civilization for thousands of years. This is very important to interpret history from this viewpoint which is historical materialism, which is facts and reality, Standing in opposition to this viewpoint is historical idealism, As Huey P, Newton, Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party says ‘the spirit of the people is greater than the man’s technology.’’ ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE REV- OLUTIONARY VANGUARD FREE HUEY Charles Bursey MAY 19, 1969 PAGE 17 It was May 5, 1969, 9:00 in the morning, as several members of the Black Panther Party in Des Moines sat in the chamber of Pig Judge Gibson Holiday, It was a parole violation hearing. Itlasted 10 min- utes. Michael Harris was accused of parole violations on the grounds of: 1, Traveling out of Polk County ~ ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE The Panther Party has madeexercise their constitutional right 2. Operating a motor vehicle public statements over the past year and arm themselves, has led to city 3. Owning a firearm to the effect that we know there are hall systematic extermination Michael stood before the Pig Judge agents in the Party, and to plot attempts by their goon squads, and explained that he had found it such a hairbrain scheme such as Black people have been organized necessary to leave the county to per- Hogie would have’ the people believe and programmed into their op- form in revolutionary culture shows is utter madness, The enemy of our pression, with the all to willingand to sell Black Panther news- people is not the multitudes of ex- racist press and bootlicking Neg- papers. He explained how the money ploited whites, or oppressed blacks; toes. and it is the duty of the went to the Free Breakfast Program the true enemy of all people are Black Panther Party to organize our to feed hungry children, He explained the pigs in City Hall, who sit in people, by our actions and with our how he had received threatening the stone and Ivory Towers, and bodies and souls, out of this op- calls tohimselfand his blind mother, ignore the anguished cries of Black pression and seize political and He told how the gun was solely for and Puerto Ricans peoples for total economical power for all op- self-defense purposes. He explained control of their own destiny. Be- pressed and exploited people. We all of this. He read from ‘‘Soul on cause this would mean an end to will not desist from this, and the Ice’’ and quoted Elijah Muhammed, the buckets of money the avaricious attempts by the racist, decadent Prior to the hearing Micheal Harris businessmen, and racist politicians, take out of our community daily. The Black Panther Party because of our involvement in our com- munity towards stopping this ex- ploitation and our correct method of resistence to pig oppression, namely in hospitals, schools, our Breakfast program, decentral- ization of the police department, etc, have won the support of the people, and our belief that Black people and all people should defend themselves from the racist pig police, and that our people should power structure. To repress the people, by locking them up, murdering them, will be met with more and more resistance, Until all oppressed people of this country and the world have had written these words: ‘My hearing is concerning the following; Leaving the county, pos- session of a firearm, and driving without consent of the Chief of Parole Officers, The charges are eradicated the real criminals who true and I admit it because I have kill, and exploit people for the pro- nothing to hide and have justifiable fit of few while the masses of reasons to back them up. I left the people suffer. This we will do. Power To The People Anaye Dharuba Acting Field Secretary New York State ARAB PEOPLE DETERMINED TO FIGHT ~ UNTIL VICTORY OR DEATH Beirut 29/4/69 Dear Friends, The Popular Front for the Lib- eration of Palestine sends you its greetings. The P.F L,P is a National Lib- eration movement that is waging an armed struggle against impe- rialism, The imperialist forces in our area, the middle East, is re- presented by the NAZI-LIKE Israel backed by the U.S A and its allies. Our conflict started when the imperialist powers tried to plant a foreign body in our area, This foreign body (Israel) has the role of protecting the imperialists’ in- terests in the area, The technically advanced USA _ supplies Israel by the modern tools of destruction to be used against us. The Palestinian people resorted to arms, It is the **people’s war’’ that will subdue the technically advanced imperialist forces, The P.F L.P has carried on a guerrilla warfare for the past two years. We will continue this guerrilla fight until victory. This is a small introduction about the P.F,L P , and we hope that the following letters will make clear to you all other details, The P.FLP., after getting to know what you aim for and fight for, announces that it supports you morally, It is the liberation that we fight for, We are all in the same boat, facing the same ENEMY LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION AG— AINST IMPERIALISM P.Fil.2. Information Department county twice without permission be- cause my people come first and the Party comes first, it was very ne- cessary I go. I went to Ames, Iowa to sell papers, the money to be used for the Free Breakfast Pro- gram. I went to Fairfield, Iowa to put on some Revolutionary plays which I had to direct for the money to go to the Breakfast Program. I drove because I couldn’t afford in- surance, my father is old and can’t see well and must go to work to survive, and my mother is totally blind, andall errands must be ran for her. 7:00 a.m., I would pick up little brothers and sisters to come to the Breakfast Program, The firearm? I had received nu- merous threatening phone calls and had to have something to protect my- self and family with, the end re- sults of those threatening calls can be plainly seen by coming to take a look at the Panther Headquarters, It is a miracle that the brothers survived, therefore I feel that our cause must be right. My pig pro- bation officer searched my room and found that piece, a 32 revolver and searched my father’s car under the pretense that it was a probation officer’ s right and in his own words, “I could have searched the whole damn house,’’ He also uttered numerous lies and oinked frequent inconsistencies, I didn’t violate my probation through arrogance or snobbishness,. I respect it in a sense, because after all I can’t help my people by sitting behind bars for 25 years, (Iwas con- victed of robbery with aggravation last fall), But I violated it to help my people and the Party and if prison is the end result of that, then Right on...I’1l do life, All of this above is to prove the fact that this motherfucking oppressive government is in all actuality subversive, this govern- ment to its people. Any time pigs mace people who have damn near been killed, that government isn’t acting in the interest of the people. Any time a constitution gives the right to bear arms and a man is refused permission to protect him- self and his family, this government is subversive. Any time people can- not speak their minds, join the political party that they think is most effective, have a peaceful dem- onstration, that government is sub- versive, Andas the Brother Eldridge says in ‘Soul on Ice’’: “It?s only a matter of time until the question of the prisoners debt to society versus society's debt to the prisoners is injected forcefully into national and state politics, into civil and human rights struggle, and into the consciousness of the body of politics.’’ Therefore I say that since this society produces someone who is capable of committing a crime, it is the society itself thatis criminal, therefore this government, this society and nation and all its people are subversive, subversive to man- kind, love and humanity. The people, the people who are the real heroes have promised to avenge the Vanguard Party and the Black community, those brothers and sisters out there on the streets, trying to survive from day to day, those people that the system looks down upon as savage, ignorant and inhuman have promised to avenge us, the Black Panther Party for the piggish attacks. Therefore this is why I dedicate my life to the people.”’ He did and said all these things. And as his blind mother sat there erying the pig judge revoked the parole of the Deputy Chairman, Michael H, Harris. Michael turned and looked at his parole officer and said, ‘Mr, Albert, may I talk toyou for a minute?’ When the pig was steps away Michael spit in his eye and the last thing the brother said on the way out of the door was: ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK POWER TO BLACK PEOPLE ~ PANTHER POWER~TO THE VAN- GUARD He paused for a minute in the doorway and said ‘*HUEY P NEW- TON MUST, BE, SET, FREE RIGHT FREE MICHAEL H. HARRIS Now!” CASE of Clarence Cavil In accordance with the pig effort to wipe out the Des Moines Chapter of the Black Panther Party, the pigs have taken Captain C.C. to jail. He is being charged with arson of Jewett Lumber Co. The only evidence is that Captain C C.’s car was seen in the vicinity of the lum- ber yard, The arrest was racist and an insult to the black com- munity. It seems that there is a plot to continuously harass Party members. These trumped up charges against Captain C. C. ob- viously will not stand up in court. We want him out of jail. The case of Michael Harris is very much the same as the case confronting Eldridge Cleaver andall other brothers that are faced with this situation all across the country, Even now as Michael Harris sits in County Jail waiting to be taken to the State Reformatory, the pigs are escalating and intensfying efforts to wipe out the Black Panther Party. NOW BROTHERS AND SISTERS, WE GOT TO GET TOGETHER AND STOP THIS, The Black Panther Party is de- manding an investigation into the revocation. We are demanding that Michael H, Harris be set free, forth with and immediately. Because as long as the lives of brothers like Mike are in the hands of such ar- rogant pigs, the struggle for lib- eration of thirty million Black people in this country is in danger, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK POWER TO BLACK PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN— GUARD FREE HUEY P, NEWTON FREE MICHEAL HARRIS FREE BOBBY SEALE FREE ELDRIDGE CLEAVER FREE THE DES MOINES 14 FREE THE NEW YORK 21 FREE \THE LOS ANGELES 1 - BOB SMITH FREE.GUARENCE CAVIL FREE ALL BLACK PEOPLE Denver, Golo. -- Black students at East High School refused to waver on fourteen demands pre- sented to the school adminis- tration, ‘The Black students led by Black Panthers Judy Benton, Kelvin Booker and Susan Alexander in- formed the principal at East that unless he implemented their de- mand that racist pig forces be removed from the school area that they would be forced to deal with that problem in a revolutionary manner, THE BLAC THER MONDAY, MAY 19, 1969 PAGE 18 ILLINOIS BLACK PANTHER PARTY Weekly, wt (5-5-69) - Dep. Min. of FH Ronald ‘‘Doc’’ Satchel at ins This weeX Weave been mainly working on 9 lizing afreehealth center for thé@black community. The work is’ in starting one in one of the mos®medically deprived areas in the eity. I‘ve been work- ing with another organizationcall- ed LASH (Lawndale Association for Social Health), along with a few doctors, I’ve-made contact with a large medical’g@rporation, who a- greed to domg@mepthe necessary e- quipment. Ti al work however is finding d who would do- nate their segiimmms during the day. IST FULL A fist framggeBobby Lee at the Illinois Black*Panther party ‘‘Free Huey Newton rally outside the Federal Building to show their sup- port for thi prisoned Panther leader. Four, ice tactical teams, consisting of 116 men, stood around the fringe of the crowd of 500 atthe rally, e There was atrowd of 1500-2000, The Black Panther Party andthe ngerchate All Power® always stated that: longs to the people to Black People Ge to White People me to Brown People sto Yellow People my of the work being g Patriots, who ite revolutionary organizationemne Black Panther Party realizés_that the struggle is no longer gme:to overcome race prejudice. W@ Black Panther Par- ty is now €ngaging in the Class struggle, even, though race preju- dice is an impertant factor. Weare also aware tha®America has many. nationalities. and ethnic groups who are oppressed.and who know that the American dream is in reality a nightmare, The ead Party does not speak 0: In color and race differences when working with the southern whites or Puerto Ricans. The Black Panther Party deals with all underelass brothers on the ‘‘Conce poverty,”’ that in this society people may becon- sidered equal ‘before the law, but there remains inequality of income and wealth, of prestige and esteem done with @ HISTOR It then arises that we may at first start the center on a evening time basis. Forming a medical Cadre that will be effective in every respect of first aid has also been part of my work this week. The Black Panther Party in the State of Mlinois has reached a higher level in its attitude toward ‘paper Panthers’ and renegades. We realize the importance of pur- ging members who won't function @ when given every opportunity todo so. All Power to the People Doc OF SUPPORT of power and authority. The Black Panther Party deals with our un- derclass brothers on the concepts of class status, that prestige gen- erally depends upon the way in which a man’s behavior is evalu- ated by the members of his own community. They form status groups, they treat each other as social equals, encouraging the in- termarriage of their children (Rocky's marries Percy’s) joins the same clubs, churches, and par- ticipates in such informal pig pens as dances, dinners and receptions, in short, these people only main- tain intimate social relations with people in similar economic posi- tion, The status group is character- ized by aspecific behavior pattern, a definite ‘“‘style of life’’ which must be adhered to by those who wish to belong to it. Therefore, hillbillys from the mountains, ex- slaves from Africa, Puerto Ricans from black towhite in color, In- dians of the reservation and little slant-eyed orientals are not ac- cepted, It is upto the Black Panther Par- ty to organize the People to over~ throw the ruling class. It is up to the Black Panther Party to teach the people who are their enemies and why all other Black Movements failed because they. were not able to unite with their real friends. The unity of our People and the unity of our various nationalities - These are the basic guarantees to the sure revolution in America which will lead to a sure victory. POWERBELONGS TO ALL PEO- PLE, BOB LEE, FIELD SECRE- TARY, STATE OF ILLINOIS f LLY, ALL REACTIONARY FORCES ON THE ‘VERGE OF EXTINCTION INVARIABLY CONDUCT A LAST DESPERATE STRUGGLE AGAINSPTHE REVOLUTIONARY FORCES FREE THE N.Y. 21 BAIL MONEY NEEDED SEND TO BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOX 1224 BROOKLYN 11202 NEWYORK N.Y. LAW DAY ON CENTRE ST. NEW YORK, May 1--Between 200 and 300 Black Panthers stood sto- lidly back to backbefore the Crim- inal Courts Building at about one p.m. as I left the nearby tenant- landlord court. I learned that the show of strength was in support of six Panthers about to undergo a hear- ing inside the building. They had all been arrested last April 2 and accused of planning to bomb vari- ous sites throughout the city. As I approached the 11th floor -court- room where the hearing was to take place, I saw forty Panthers waiting to be searched before they would be allowed to enter; men first, then women, I too was searched before I entered. Once inside, Black Panthers fill- ed all the seats on the left side of the courtroom, soIsatontheright, no more than five rows from the front--annoyed as I sat there at having been needlessly subjected to a search, | wrned to the Spanish man seated behind me and asked him if he knew whether sucha pro- cedure was unconstitutional -- a violation of my rights, Since every- body, whites as well as blacks had been searched, he said, there seemed to be little we could do about it. It was then I told him about an incident thathadoccurred earlier inthe tenant-landlordcourt where I had gone to helprepresent a tenant, The judge had made abig speech when court begn about the importance of law and the signifi- cance of May 1 as ‘‘Law day.” Later I watched that same judge administer this awesome “‘law’’ by adjourning my tenant’s case with- out questioning the word ofaslum- lord’s attorney that his client was ill! This same slumlord hadclaimed to be sick several times before when I and tenants had appeared in court. To heighten the absurdity of his claim, he had been seen in the tenant’s building the night before, obviously well and healthy! I had been unable to restrain myself, and had spoken with the judge at- tacking his decision andhis concept of the “‘law."” When I had finished telling the incident to the Spanish man who sat behind me, he told me about one of his own experiences with ‘‘justice”’ and the “‘law.’’ He said he worked for a lawyer who had once repre- sented a Puerto Ricanclient before a judge in the Bronx named Marks, Accidentally, he explained, he had found out about a demonstration some six or seven years before held by blacks against this judge for his discriminatory attitude to- ward both Blacks and Puerto Ric- ans. Subsequently, he said, he had gotten clippings from the Spanish paper La Prisa, and the New York Times, describing the demonstra~ tion. He said he then showed the clippings to people he thought might lend their support in case he too should decide that ademonstration against this judge was needed, The judge, however, ruled in the client’s favor in the case, he said, and he had not had to proceed with the demonstration, No more than ten minutes after he finished tell- ing me about the case, the judge who was, scheduled to preside over the hearing for the six Panthers enter- ed the courtroom. Guess What. He was Marks == the same judge my Spanish friend had just described! The attorneys for the Panthers stood, explaining that they were seeking a reversal of an earlier decision made by Marks against their clients. They asked him to disqualify himself since he was the very judge who had handed down the decision. Marks denied the re- quest, and.also rejected the re- quest for a writ of habeus corpus. The lawyers for the Panthers ar- gued that the defendants were pre- sent and could speak for them- selves. But, the judge said he had already ruled in the case, that he didn’t want to hear anymore about it, and that the crowd demonstra- ting outside couldn’t ‘‘intimidate”’ him into anything. Judge Marks left the courtroom shouting that the defendants be remanded into custody. The Black Panthers in the courtroom and those other Blacks among us who had some awareness gave the Brothers the power for the Black people sign. T left the courtroom and as Ien- tered the hallway, I again met my Spanish friend who suggested I mention to the Panthers’ lawyer the fact that the judge had once been picketed for discrimination, I agreed, As one of the attorneys made his way toward the elevator, I approached him, introduced my- self and brought the matter to his attention. After he had assured me he would check the New York Times to find out more about it, I took the elevator to the ground floor. I found the police andbarri- cades around the Panthers outside still as strong as ever. 1 stood around until the Panthers who had been in the courtroom came downstairs. While I was standing there, a white guy came up to me and asked me who Huey Newton was. I told him to ask one of the Panthers because I had ng comment to make, I walked over to the little park area in front of the building and was about to sit down When I saw my Spanish friend. While we talked, sirens scream- ed, but we couldn’t tell where the sound was coming from. Finally, I saw flashing patrol] lights near the Supreme Court building. [hur- ried over to see what was happen- ing and found the subway entrance directly in front of the Supreme Court building blocked by white and Negro sadistic spectators. When the crowd hadcleared, about fifteen policemen, some with helmets on, others wearing their regular gear, came up outof the subway entrance, Two of them were dragging aBro- ther who was bleeding from the head, face and chest -- his shirt was filled with blood and partially ripped off. They took him off to a police car to be taken away to who knows where?? I turned to.a young black sister as she came up the stairs of the subway. She was badly shaken by what had happened, [ asked her what had happened and she said, “What happened?? Do you have to ask what happened? A Brother was just beatenby the police, and you're asking what happened? ‘‘ She said there were three Bro- thers and a Sister downstairs talk- ing when a group of policemencame over to them and after exchanging a few words with them, pulled a gun on the Sister. At that point, she said, things started happening fast. She said she saw the police attack this Brother with their billy clubs. The Sister, still shaking, turned away from me, and from the midst of the.crowd, I could hear another Brother yell- ing. His cries seem to come outof frustration at having witnessed the malicious beating of a fellow Black, I hurried over to helptwobrothers who by then were trying to gethim to cool it. As I approached them, I heard him yell, ‘‘God Damn White cops, I’m going to get meagunand kill you fuckin’ bastards!" Lyelled to him, ‘Whatever you're going to do, do it! But don’t tell these whi- teys what you’re going to do. How can you do it if you give them time to get prepared?”’ I was finally close enought to him to touch him, It was a real job trying to restrain him from attack- ing a policeman, The police were all around us. There was a chief with a group of policemen directly behind me, and as I looked to my left, I saw one of the helmeted cops with his phallic symbol clinched tightly, moving rapidly towards.the Brother. | yelled out, “Be cool Brother, there’s a pig in heat waiting to bust yourhead!” After I made that remark, I heard the chief tell the approaching cop to take it easy. As if the cops weren’t enough, suddenly three white men appeared from out of what seemed like no- where, hurling insults at the Bro- thers -- insults nasty enough to provoke a fight. One of them had on a light blue suit with a white shirt, black tie and sunglasses. He had sandy brown hair, looked as though he weighed about 205 pounds and was about 34 years old, Another had on dark casual slacks, anda light blue zip up windbreaker. He was partially bald infront with thin brown hair on the back of his head. He looked to be ‘about 5°11”, 40 years old and weigh about 200 pounds. The third white man could only be seen slightly since he stay- ed well behind the first two. All three of them followed us, continuing to hurl insults at us un- til we arrived in front ofthe Crim- inal Courts Building. There the three Brothers I was with joined the group of more than 200 Black Panthers, Once in the group, the brother who had been yelling quiet- ed and listened to the advice ofthe other Brothers, I ‘stood around for awhile, Then two of my friends happened along and we talked about the urgency of doing something about the police massacreing problem. We started walking back to the subway en-. trance in front of the Supreme Court Building, When we gotthere, there were some Panthers lined up in perfect formation. Then they filed into the subway. I talked a little more with my friends and while we were talking, the same three white guys we had seen before showed up again. This time, they just stood there talking to each other until all the Panthers had gone down into the subway. Then they went down. Atthis point, I said goodbye to my friends and went slowly down behind the three white men, They went over to the turnstyles and stood there talking to each other andwatching the Pan- thers. Then I sawone of them get a wave from two\policemen. He turned and talked with bis twocom- panions,<Then one wentthroughithe turnstyle apparently, to, take the sametrain that a groupot the Pan= thers were taking, The otier two disappeared while [ watched the first. tt obvious thattiethreamen wer@ police plants, sent to \start some Kind of confrontationinorder to diseredit the beauty with which the Panthers conducted them-+ selves, Another attempt by white power to provoke and destroy the image of thé true crusaders for black dignity, pridé-and self-re- spect and self-determination. More Power to More Black People Leroy Johnson, Jr. BREAKFAST FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN We of the Black Panther Party are calling onall mothers andothers who want to work with our revol- utionary 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 long ago. Sowe ofthe Black Panther Party are moving to see that the true needs and desires of the Black people are met, How can we ex- pect to develope strong, brave, in- telligent Black leaders if they have to concentrate on their empty stomach instead of their books? Black people in the Black Com- munity, Mothers, Welfare recipi other Black citizens as possible to SAFEWAY STORE OAKLAND DONATES FOOD FOR BREAKFAST FOR CHILDREN After months of hassling, Safe- way, which is one of the largest and richest chain stores in this country finally came through for the people. On Saturday, April 26, 1969, Safeway began a policy which I’m sure will spread throughout the country once the people get word of it. The policy I am speaking of is donations for the Breakfast for School Children program, Safeway obviously recognizes the need of poor black children to have at least one good meal a day. After years and years of reaping profits from the people, they (Safeway) finally gave the people food free of cost. Now let’s take this into consideration. The average black family of five spends approximately thirty dollars a week on food. This amounts to %1,560 a year spent on food alone, With the cost of living going up at a phenomenal rate, this figure is most assuredly going to rise also. It is also a known fact that Safe- way is making grand theft money off black people. In practically every city where there is a large black community, there are seve- ral Safeway stores. It’s also a known fact that the Black Panther Party is spreading rapidly across the nation, and that means more Breakfast for Children programs will be started. Since-Safeway has taken the initial step in showing a socialistic attitude towards the needs and desires of the people, perhaps this action will prompt other nationwide chain stores (Gi- ant Foods, A & P, etc.) to donate food for hungry children in cities where the Black Panther Party has Breakfast programs. The Black Panther Party feels that the donations should be on a weekly basis, with $100 a week as a min- imum donation. Since Safeway is a multi-million dollar corporation, we feel that this is a very modest demand, The Black Panther Party thanks Safeway for taking this Revolutionary step towards the people, All Power to the People Panther Power to the Vanguard Sumante Chara Black B,.P.P National Headquarters ents, grandmothers, guardians and others who are trying to raise child- ren in the Black Community under the constant oppression of this racist society, are asked to come forth and work and support this pro- gram. Soulfood: grits, eggs, bread and meat for the stomach is what's happening when it comes to proper- ly preparing our children for edu- cation! LET’S DO IT NOW! SUP-— PORT THIS PROGRAM, Those who want to volunteer their work can come to the Black Panther Head- 8417 12th Street or unite with this COMMUNITY-PAN-— THER PROGRAM, We are alsoask- ing all businesses throughout the Black Community to donate the ne- cessary food and utensils to pre- pare the food for our children. ALL POWER BLACK POWER PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN-— GUARD HAVE FAITH IN THE PEOPLE HAVE FAITH IN THE PARTY PEACE AND FREEDOM TO THE TO THE PEOPLE TO BLACK THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, ILLINOIS BLACK The following is a partially com- plete table of the criminal prose- cutions which have been brought against the Illinois Panthers ina determined effort to smash the party both financially and organ- izationally. Space does not permit an explanation of the actual cir- cumstances surrounding each ar- rest and prosecution: the table shows only the charges, bail, and next court date (UUW - Unlawful Use of Weapons): In January three Panthers were busted outside the Afro Arts Thea- tre: Nathaniel Junion - UUW - $1,000 Bobby Rush - UUW & possession= $1,000 William O’Neal - UUW - $1,000 Last december twelve Panthers were busted on the South Side and charged with a number of misdea- meanors and weapons charges. Bails were set at from $7,000 to $14,000 each. The charges were all dismissed in court May 2. In March a carload of Panthers was stopped and searched: Alvino Shinn - UUW - $1,500 Iris Shinn - UUW) - 500 Chuckles May - UUW 500 Michael Harrison - UUW - 1,500 Jerry Dunigan - UUW - 1,500 May 9, branch 40 Also in March a second car was stopped and searched: Ronald Satchel - UUW - $500 Bobby Tyler - UUW (two counts) - 500 Sam Latson - UUW & unsafe ve- hicle = 500 Robert Campbell - UUW;- 500 May 21, branch 43 Last month three Panthers were quarters at: call 897-3610. We urge as many Mothers and Detroit Branch 2. oo eee ee ———— — WORLD Black Panther Party BREAKFAST FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN 1 WOULD LIKE TO DONATE SEND/ DONATIONS TO ST, AUGUSTINE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 2624 WEST ST,, OAKLAND Omonaey OTime Enclosed is $ (Food or Utensils-State Kind and Quantity Below If Business include for your tax exemption ee Name, Adiress City, State . Zip MAKE CHECKS TO: BFSC—ST. AUGUSTINES CHURCH Happiness 1 s serving the People arrested in a trap for allegedly trying to buy machine guns: Nathaniel Junior - conspiracy to purchase automatic weapons - recognizance Merrill Harvey - same - recogni- zance Mickey White - same - $100,000 trial June 23, Judge Sam Perry Last week seven Panthers were accused of torturing a woman (see this issue, p. 14): James White - conspiracy tocom- mit murder, armed robbery, UUW - $10,000 David Valentine - same - 5,000 William O’Neal - same - 10,000 Richard Powell - same - 10,000 “May 7, Oaklawn Nathaniel Junior - wanted & at large Merrill Harvey - wanted & atlarge MAY 19, PANTHER PARTY Fred Hampton= aggravated battery - 1,000 june 4, Oaklawn In February elever®Manthers were arrested in Champaign for sleeping in a room rented for four. They pleaded guilty to defrauding aninn- keeper and were fined $25 each. Several Panthers were arrested last month in Robbins following a local incident: Syn. Alvino Shinn - aggrayated battery . - $10,000 Jimmy Veals - aggravated battery - 10,000 Bobby Rush - UUW - 10,000 In February two Panthers were ar- rested on the University of Illinois campus: + Che Brooks - disor ing . William Dunn = found guilty Apr: 2 get them into a Mickey White - al UUW, aggrav: Lester Brown - “ge Richard Mister - aiding & abetting Sr 1,000 May; branch 44 In addition a number of Panthers have individual charges pending against them from widely scatter- ed incidents and busts: Fred Hampton = mob action - ac- quitted Fred Hampton - aggravated battery - $12,000 - May 22, branch 46 Fred Hampton -.disorderly, mob action ~ recognizance - May 22, branch 46 : Fred Hampton - aggravated battery -$2,500 - June 16, Minor Wilson Fred Hampton - mob action - $2,500 - May 22, branch 46 Fred Hampton - robbery -convic=- ted April 7, sentencing May 13 . Fred Hampton - mob action (Wic- ker Park) $2,000 - ?, branch 46 Gerry Tyler - Jeafletting - ? - ?, branch 42 + Bobby Rush - UUW, no firearm owners identification card - $2,000 - convicted March 21, sentenced to 6 mo., $3,000 ap- peal bond Hank Gaddis - posting hand bills - ? - May 14, branch 43 Sam Latson - posting hand bills - ? - May 14, branch 43 Chaka Walls - aggravated battery - $2,000 - June 2, branch 44 SOLIDARITY AND VICTORY THROUGH THE STRUGGLE I'm sorry it has taken me so long to write but I am only allowed one letter a day and I’ve been trying to correspond with the brothers and sisters in the cadre. I wasinformed of the reactionaries vamp on the San Francisco Chapter and their attempt to ice D.C, Originally, laws were made to serve man, but we have seen how the reverse has been true, We make laws and institutions because we cannot live in society without them, but when those laws fail us and threaten our existence, then new laws must be set in their stead, We cannot make perfect laws or institutions, because, we, our- selves are not perfect, Therefore we must bear in mind that con- ditions change. As conditions change around us, so must our laws and institutions, for if the laws and in- stitutions are not compatible with these changes we can and must expect instability. In recent years we find that every- where, the masses are asking for a redistribution of the wealth of the land which we all love. We have worked this land, we have and will die for this land, and we want an equal share of this land for every- one who will work or who is physically unable to work. We real- ize the importance of labor, (we have always labored) in the scheme of production. We do not believe some people are privileged to live decently, we believe it is a basic right of every man to live decently. We were all born and thus we all have a right to live. Some people think they were born to rule poor people, but that is rubbish! (Man will only be ruled if he chooses to be ruled), They glorify themselves and hide their misdeeds, We say let the people\judge your meritsas well as your mistakes, ALL POWER TO THE _PBOPRLE WHOM I HAVE UN— DYING FAITH IN Afeni Shakur TELEGRAM T0 THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Black Panther Party 4115 South Central Avenue Los Angeles The French Federation of Black Afriqan Students upholds firmly the anti racist and anti imperialistic struggle of our Black American Bro- thers. stop. Your-contribution is an important part of the world lib- eration struggle for Black People... Fight on Black Panthers and Huey P,* Newton, French Federation of Black African Students 96 Rue Broca Paris, France PAGE 19 “# THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, MAY 19, 1969 PAGE 20 on LEN: I‘m Newton's bro- ther. My is Lee Edwacd Newton, MLN:-Th thing I wanted to juld run over some $ of the Black Pan- it was formed, are, really knowbe- about this, my on, and they » and when ounger is Huey will take” after their older bro- thers, Did you feel that you had . My brother who eles now, he is a gunger than me, r less took up nore like him. the Party, the lives in, couple fine. He’s about “can be in jail. the trial. '@) days, if I’m not mistaken. I\was there everyday. MLN: Whatuwere your impres- sions? Did you have any impres- sions of the trial? LEN: They railroaded him to pri- son, He didn’t. have a chance be- cause they wouldn't even listen to his side of the story. They even sent the jury out when his witness came for him, They wouldn’t even let him listen. So it wasn’t a fair trial, period, MLN: How do you think the Oak- land establishment views the ef- forts of the Black Panther Party? What do they think the Black Pan- + ther Party is trying to do? LEN: They’re trying to get the rights of black people, that's all. MLN: What do you think of the Oak- land Police. LEN: Well, I don’t think nothing of the Oakland police. As a matter of fact, they don’t have any police in Oakland, and I don’t think they have very many police inSan Francisco. They have a thousand pigs in each city, but not policemen. They have a few policemen in San Mateo coun- ty, but Oakland and San Francisco, they don’t have policemen there. They have pigs. That’s what they have, MLN: Do you have any things that stands out in your memory of your younger brother? such as little in- cidents that he did as a kid while growing up? LEN: He was a good boy. He was very kind. As a matter of fact, he was about the kindest of us all. He would go out of his way for somebody else. He wouldn’t even -- I remember when he was seven or eight up until he got to be a teenager -- he wouldn’t even fight back at school. He’d come home crying all the time, MLN: How many brothers -- how INTERVIEW WITH LEE EDWARD NEWTON big is the family? LEN: Seven. Three’ sisters and four brothers. MLN: Was Huey the...? LEN: The baby? MLN: The baby. Was he born here in California, LEN: Yes, MLN: You moved up from the south, didn’t you?,. LEN: New:Orleans...That’s where we’re- froi -It was in the paper anyway. “x MLN: Do yow have any idea how big the Black, Panther Party is? LEN: Well,-I really don’t. I just know some people, you know. But how big it ig I.don’t know. MLN: Howjsepresentational do you think it is ofthe black community? Do you most of the black community feels that the Black Panther P& represents them? LEN: Yes, now they do. At first they didn’t. They thought itwas just like most-Caucasian people thought: iA sole justa hoodlum deal. But mainly @Verything thathappens now, they say the Black Panthers did it. Lots of times, people dress like the Black Panthers dress and they’ll say whatever happens it was a Black Panther, A real Black Pan- ther doesn’t go out and rob and steal, MLN: What would you conceive a Black Panther doing? LEN: The same thing Huey P. Newton was doing, my brother. Trying to help black people, not trying to hurt people, not trying to steal. MLN: Do you know how Huey met people like Bobby Seale? How they got together? How did he meet El- dridge Cleaver? LEN: Well, I don’t know how he met Eldridge, but from my know- ledge he met Bobby Seale inschool, I think, They might have finished. I don’t know. But from my under- standing they knew each other in high school, I think, I’m not sure, but I think that’s the way it was, MLN: You know George Murray from San Francisco? ~ LEN: Why casually, not personal- ly. But I do know him. I do know him, but that’s about it, MLN: Do you have any ideas on what’s going on at San Francisco State, the strike? LEN: No, I don’t have any ideas. But I believe that if they moved the pigs out, the thing would settle down, MLN: Your brother was harassed then by the police. LEN: Everyday. Every time he walked out the house, the pigs’d wait until he’d come by or ride by. If he was in a car, they'd stop the car because of the license number, If he was walking, they'd arrest him for no reason, And each time he went to jail, he went on account of someone else. THE PIG! WOULD BE harrassing someone and he, the pigs would say, inter- fered with the arrest. Buthe would be talking to the person, whoever he was, black or white, tellinghim his rights. And he was standing his distance away from him cause he kept his law book with him. And they still would find some way to put him in jail. MLN: Where did Huey gethis phil- osophy? What was he reading? LEN: He had some books, you know. But where he got them (his ideas) from...a.lot of them, I guess...you see I don’t know ex- actly when he started, but I know he had some. But like I first told you, when I first knew he was the founder of the Black Panthér Party was when I saw it on T.V, I didn’t even know about it. I saw him and Bobby Seale together. I was sur- prised, you know. MLN: Having a brother who's kind of famous, a leader, how does it make you feel? LEN: I like it. At first Iwas afraid that something would happen, The way the thing was going, the way the pigs was after him all thetime, I was afraid forhim. Mepersonally I’d rather for someone else to be the leader, since it happened. But I couldn’t undo something that happened, But now I haye to accept it ‘cause all I can do is hope it will be the best when he gets out of jail. I guess he will continue doing the right thing. MLN: How long has he been in jail now LEN: I wouldsay almost two years. MLN: You told me something be- fore about your mother, And you're still receiving phone calls? LEN: Oh, yeah. After they started the trial, we gotlots of phonecalls, threatening calls. MLN; Is that still going on? LEN: No. MLN: How do you feel about most Caucasians? LEN: I feel about the same about Caucasian people as I do about black people, In this way di want to explain this): If a person’s nice and treats me right, I like him and he could be black, green, Pues, any color. If they’re not right, I don’t like them. If they don’t treat me right, I don’t have anything to do with them, It doesn’t make any difference if a person... I don’t warit"@ lot of black people around me. ‘FE don’t like all what they do and the same about white people. Some of them I don’t like, like the pigs. If he’s (a cop) any color, if he’s, right -- like I said in San Mateo there are a couple of po- lice that are nice, I knew this. They are policemen, The snakes are pigs when they’re not right, because when Isee a woman friend, it doesn’t make any difference if she’s white, it doesn’t make any difference, if I like her. I like her and I’d stand up for her the same as I would a black woman. But a coloréd Woman doesn’t make any difference to me. I don’t see the color, That’s where that is. MLN; You’ve had contact with the cops. Do you have any personal incidents or anecdotes? LEN; Yes, I do. About 1949 I was arrested, a misdemeanor, which I had a fight. I had a fight witha guy and the pigs came. Someone called the pigs and they came up and put me under arrest. And while I was sitting in the squad car, there was a young pig. I would say at that time, 1949, he looked to be about twenty-three and his partner who was with him, I would say about forty-five. And he asked me, the pig, the twenty-three year old pig, asked my my name, I told him my name, but he wrote Lee Edward a a a E i a | a al a a a H MINISTER OF DEFENSE a ——— — — Please Clip and Mail to: — — — — — — — ; HUEY P. NEWTON DEFENSE FUND a BERKELEY, CALIF. 94701 H ‘ , a Name address — city — z ce __y r] Enclosed You Will Find $ —s a a Hy Newton, But this was his remark: “What’s your name? Nigger?”* And he pretended he was writing it down, but he was writing my real name, I could see that. ‘What color are you? Black?”’ lam black, But my complexion,...you’re look- ing at me, I’m not black. he true color would be brown.. But that’s what he did, and he also (he did this to harass me)...youfigurethis 7 one out. I wouldn’t say nothing. And he told his partner, this older man (at that particular time they used to have, at the fire station in West Oakland, they would take black people down when they ar= rested them, most of the time, and whip them down there). So he told his partner, he said, ‘‘Let’s take him down to the fire station.’’ His partner said, ‘‘For what?’’ “Beat hell out of him,’’ he said. Then I spoke, ‘fYou gonna kill me down there. That’s what you're gonna do, ‘cause I ain’t standing up and let you beat me.”’ And so theolder man said, ‘‘No he hasn't done anything, so we’ll take himto jail.”” That was one experience. Yousee, I know about pigs. MLN: Was your brother around at thi time? LEN: No, he was too small then. He was later. You see, I know how the pigs are and for another thing, the pigs do this: In San Mateo, I have been in my car driving a~ round, It doesn’t make. any dif- ference, driving around with a black woman, The cops, pigs see me -- nothing. I rode around with thiswoman in San Mateo, She was Caucasian. Pigs see me, Nothing happens. Well, I would say, he was a policeman. | went to Oakland the same day. I drive a new car, The pigs stop me, want to check my brakes because I had this Cau- casian woman in my car. After he stopped me and I asked him for what, he said he wanted to check my brakes. O.K, I let him. Then when he got out of the car, he asked me who was that woman, I said, ‘‘None of your damn busi- ness.”’ That’s it. That’s a pig. That’s just a few things telling you how they react. That’s the reason I don’t like them. MLN: Well, how was your brother being treated in jail? LEN: He was treated terribly in jail. MLN: He's since beentransferred. LEN: He’s treated better. They don’t bother him now. When I say don’t bother him, the pigs, when he was in Oakland, they tried to stab him to death, didn’t want to feed him, and kept him in solitary and no clothes on him half of the time. And they kept us upset all the time. Now it’s much better. He’s in jail, but it’s better, MLN: They were trying to... LEN: They were trying to kill him, that’s all I can say. MLN: You were saying he orien- ted his ideas himself. LEN: He oriented them himself, far as I know. FREE HUEY LETTER TO HUEY April 24, 1969 Dear Huey, Your are my fourth son, Eldridge is my third. I imagine you could have been before Eldridge, if Thad read about you first, I wrote Eldridge last year, after I read his stupendous collosal of a book, SOUL ON ICE. Huey I never turn my back on my sons, but I feel Eldridge could have answered my letter, If you happen to run across him, please scold him for me, in his negligence of his other “‘Mother"’. (smiles), Huey I purchased ‘Essays from THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE -- Huey Newton’’, After reading the essays, prompted me to write you this letter, YOU ARE A GENIUS JINN! You are also beautiful, and above all, a very courageous MAN. You are a born leader, and I_ stand side by side with you in our hour of liberation for all oppressed peo- ple. The BLACK PANTHER PARTY has been criticized severely, from people that have been too lazy, or ignorant to get off their ‘‘asses’’to obtain concrete information that will benefit them. The best infor- mation anyone can get is from the “thorse’s mouth.”’ The “‘Horse’s Mouth”’ is your Essays. I am buying several copies of your Essays to distribute among my friends, to read, so when we communicate, there will be an en- lightenment of the subject we will be discussing. Bless you son for being born AGAIN. With ‘‘Mother’s ‘* Love Margaret E, Luke 709~1/2 W. 48th St. Los Angeles, Calif, yf THE BLACK PANTHER MONDAY, MAY 19, 1969 PAGE 23 ~ SOUL ON ICE? “IT IS ONLY A MAT- | TER OF TIME UNTIL THE QUESTION OF |THE PRISONER’S DEBT TO SOCIETY ‘VERSUS SOCIETY’S DEBT TO THE PRISONER IS INJECTED FORCEFULLY INTO 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- _sion, and that he has been denied his constitutional right to due process of law. The revocation of Cleaver’s parole was illegal, because no parole violation was committed. The Adult Authority parole board has Lied 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: “|, . 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 1 .” but “ghw “whether any had been convicted of anything, or whether, } ‘eat Wot their arrest récord.” (Stiperior Court <t..137, 138, 140, . Parolee Cleaver.was denied due process of law by being denied Wh; Cleaver retumed to prison as a le violator if document- : setudenes. ped the pratt had fee ay piesented in | his defense? To answer "right to arbitrarily revoke or suspend parole on any individual. At the same time, ‘the Adult Authority: amaintains—falsely—that Cleaver has the oppor- tunity. to defend himself at a hearing. Thisis how it works: ... wa lee is sérved with violation charges, is interviewed, is given a hearing 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.” : i “At the hearing’ a pariilee is denied the right to counsel, miay aot 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 p lures, or of ‘its. variable definitions of what constitutes a le 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 ff ger 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 obyious- 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 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 give more lip service to the con- cepts of freedom 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. 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