Vol. 3, No. 6

THE BLACK PANTHER 25 Black Community News Service TINSIDE THis Issue: BERKELEY: RONALD REAGAN CREATES THE FASCIST STATE CONNECTICUT PANTHER LEADERSHIP BUSTED — VIFE OF THE LATE JOHN JEROME HUGGING re EE od eh ede a www we ew et THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, MAY 41, 1069 REVOLUTIONARY CONFERENCE FOR A UNITED FRONT AGAINST FASCISM OAKLAND CALIFORNIA PAGE 2 JULY 18, 19, 20, and 21 st. wereem CLL posing 75 Oy SD ae OK FASCISM THE POWER OF FINANCE CAPITAL ITSELF THIS REVOLUTIONARY CONFERENCE FOR A UNITED FRONT AGAINST RACISM IS CALLED BY THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, THE FREEDOM OF ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS AND POLITICAL FREEDOM FOR ALL PROLETARIAN TYPE ORGANIZATIONS, THE FREEDOM AND POLITICAL WORK OF ALL STUDENTS, FARMER PEASANTS, WORKERS, AND THE LUMPEN MUST BE DEVELOPED INTO A NATIONAL FORCE; A FRONT WHICH HAS A COMMON REVOLUTIONARY IDEOLOGY AND POLITICAL PROGRAM WHICH ANSWERS THE BASIC DESIRES AND NEEDS OF ALL PEOPLE IN FASCIST, CAPITALISTIC, RACIST AMERICA, IN OAKLAND CALIFORNIA, JULY 18, 19, 20 & 2ist REPRESENTATIVES FROM AROUND THE COUN- rieS OF ALL ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE, SOME 5,000 OR MORE REPRESEN rATIVES WILL DEVELOP A UNITED FRONT AGAINST RACISM, HEADQUARTERS BLACK PAN- THER PARTY OFFICE, 3106 SHATTUCK AVE,, BERKELEY, CA ORNIA, 845-0103 OR 845-0104, POWER TO THI PANTHER POWER I POLITICAL PRISONERS The pigs of the New York Police Structure are ever pressing their persecution of the Twenty One brothers and sisters, The Pan- thers are unable to get bail because all the bail bondsmen are being intimidated by Pig D.A, Frank Hogan. As a result of this, no amount of money can get the brother out, The city pigs have shipped the brothers and sisters to different jails, they are denied the simple human rights of seeing their fami- lies and/or husbands, They are just off in jail, being held in communacado, Their so-called legal rights are being denied them, Every local move the Attorney makes in their behalf is denied, turned down or just ignored, FREE THE N.Y. 21 BAIL MONEY NEEDED SEND TO BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOX 1224 BROOKLYN 11202 NEW YORK (This interview \ lawyer Gerald | th the Panthers Sourt was con- jucted by LNS reporter, Mark Kram just after the unfairly early date of Jume 10) was set for the trial of the Panther accused of plotting to > department stores amd the Botanical Gardens.) LNS: The trial date for the Pap- ther 21, whom you are defending, has been set for June 10. Do you think this was dome to influence the Grand Juries which are about to start meeting on both coasts to investigate the Pant GERALD LEFCOUR s hard tc say. D.A Hogan, here in New York, has called this the most im- portant case im the country, and they want to get as much from it as they C@2. An early conviction might serve to suppress action over the summer, It might also in- fluence the Grand Jurios ifthey are still tn session, LNS: How unusual Is It for a case to be set for trial so soom after the arrests? GL; The indictment is now one month old. The average serious felony is tried four months, the earliest, eight months average, and frequently a year after the arrests, We did a survey of ‘(murder one’ indictments here tn the city, and this is what we found, They are pushing for a quick trial LNS: Who is? GL; Frank Hogan is. And, asI sald to the press the day ofthe arrests, this is coming straight from Wash- ington. LNS: from the ment? I think so, How seriously will thisearly date hamper the defense? GL; The DA's office has been pre- paring the case for several months, The indictment of 13 counts Is a heavy indictment, spanning over a \ Justice Depart- G et : (NIBZ. Panther 21 being h THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, MAY 31,1969 PAGES HUEY P. NEWTON NEW YORK PANTHER 21 CONNECTICUT LEADERSHIP year of time, So by its nature, it's a hard case to prepare for trial The bails are so high, the defens won't have time to prepare it as t might wish the 21 are being held alt seven different jafis spread all around the city, from Riker’s Island to the Bronx, It makes ithard to communicate, And in cc nspiracy cases, it behooves the defendants to ret together, NS; Can't you demand that they be brought together for a meeting? GL; In our writ of Habeas Corpus, we demanded that they be joined, but it was turned down, Everything we've ¢ has been turned down, If you read some of the tran- scripts of the bail hearings and writ hearings, they're just incred- ible. LNS: How good a case do you think the DA has? “T had access to Panther meetings, and here’s what went down,’’ that can be pretty convincing, can con- vince a jury no matter what the truth is, Also, the DA asnounces he is ready for trial, while there are still writs pending oa tail, In New York City the DA picks his judge. Asst. DA Joe Phillips said in court before his judge how our writs of Habeas Corpus were for the purpose of delay. But they're ready to try to get people out of jall, an action proper for a mars attorney. LNS: So you and Attorneys Kun- stler and Turco are under tremen- dows pressure now? GL: Yes we are, We are respond- ing to a multiple count indictment, in a multiple defendant case, a complex ome with the charge the harsh crime of conspiracy. LNS: How much time did you ask for? GL: We asked for 3 months to make time for motions, and an additional 2 months to prepare for trial, LNS: Can you give us some erded to New York Jails, examples of these motions? GL; One attacks the Grand Juryas unrepresentative of the com- munity, because it excludes the young, poor and Mack, Another protests wiretapping for evidence and another asks that the search warrants be suppressed, both be- cause they are not based on Probable cause, are fourthamend. * ment violations. Still another mo- tion would dismiss the indictment on the grounds of the bad faith of the prosecution, We contend that the DA operates with bad faith to destroy a political party, that he took to the TV to inspire fear in the hearts of all -- you remember that he called a press conference at 11 a.m. the morning of the ar- rests. And five or six other mo- tlons too. So this morning, the judge calls the trial conference, and sets the trial date for June 10, and gives us only until the end ofthe month of May to make all our mo- tions, LNS:; Do you have any other re- course for changing the tria) date? GL; We'll pursue every means to get more time, LNS: Doesa't all this rushed and blased procedure increase chances for a successful appeal? GL: Big deal, Yes, I mean, it does, tut a man could sit in jail for 2 years waiting for appeal. LNS; How has this indictment af- fected the Black Panther Party in general? GL: It’s clear that when they busted 21 people, they didn’t affect those joining the organization at all, Two days later, there was a large in- crease in people wanting to join the Panthers. For every one they arrest, they make lots more angry, Repression only breeds a more en- lightened, sophisticated and com- mitted movement, NATIONWIDE MOVE BY POWER STRUTURE TO SUPRESS BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER In recent moeths Branches and mapters of the Hlack Pa Party have failed to receive their Black Panthe Newspaper, The lack Panther s pub- lished weekly am malied out ac- iew spaper cross the nation, Subscribers out- Side the ot y have failed tc receive th papers, Dally Mace Panther Newspapers are returned to national distribution marked ad- dress unknow! Black Panther Party ships its distribution waepapers via United and TWA lines, These airline coept the comtract to shi; the papers then deny the fact that they were ever received, On morr than ope oceasion Branches and chapt. have reported that when, they receive thelr papersthe boxes have been opened, the papers soaked with water and the boxes resealed, Shipments are coming up short in number. Shipping con- tainers are often received crushed and mutilated, The Black Panther Newspaper is a Black Community News Service It has developed since its pub- lishing began, Its distribution sises weekly which us that the people are being edwcated and they are relating to it The paper is priated in San Fran- els by a company by the name of Howard Quinn, This company bas received bomb threats, It has been investigated by agents of the F BI amd some of its employees per- suaded into quitting rather than to work on any part of the Black Panther Newspaper. Reliatle sources report that bundles of the Hlack Panther Papers are being ripped off by the pie FEM agents. it has also been reported that the layout Mats are by the pigs before they are photographed by the printers, All of these things are part and parcel of the pigs attempt to destroy the Black Panther Party and suppress its organ for educat- ing the people, Dynamite rare SS PE SS ONE eee ee gr ey oe a mo + —— ee a THE BLACK PANTHER ATURDAY, MAY 31,1969 PAGE 4 CHICAGO PANTHERS SERVE THE PEOPLE CHICAGO..When the Black Pan ther Party for Self-Defense ma its debut in Oakland two yearsago, its military organization and mini- sterial tithes were taken by many loft intellectuals as a kind of pom- pous nationalism a la Marcus Garvey who used to march through Harlem with his uniformed nurse corps and air force (sans aircraft), pn after a series of violent shootouts with Bay Area cops, the Presidential campaign of Eldridge Cleaver and the extensive pabli- cation of Huey P, Newton, Bobby seale and Cleaver, intellectual radicals found it difficult to grasp that the Black Panthers were not just a passing phenomenon, but a permanent, serious attempt to organize a revolutionary party to serve and protect the black com- munity and im coalition with other groupings to overthrow capitalism by force if necessary. This failure to assess the true significance of the Panthers stems largely from the media's portrayal --including the radical press--of the Panthers as a series of shoot- outs, charismatic leaders and ral- lies with lots of shouting *‘right on!" Little or noattention has been given to the more significant mass work, ideological education and careful building of a revolutionary party structure, Only by studying the party at the local level can this be seen, ILLINOIS PANTHERS FOUNDED The Iilinols Chapter of the lack Panther Party was founded in June 1968 by four local black revolu- tlonaries - Jewel Cook, Bobby Rush, Fred Hampton and Billy Brooks, Hampton, who was to be- come the Deputy Chairman, had spent two summers leading mili- tant demonstrations in the Chicago suburb of Maywood, and had along list of prosecutions pending against him, Rush, who became the Deputy Minister of Defense, went toCallif- ornia to establish contact with the National Office. in October, the rapidly expanding [linois cadre was recognized by the Natfonal Headquarters, and a state Chapter Office was opened November | The Illincis Chapter set cut at once to implement the National Party's analysis and program; America is imperialist and racist; the black community is an internal colony; the revolutionary struggle of the black colony will be the van- guard of the class struggle; and struggle requires the leadership of an armed revolutionary party. Huey P. Newton's conception of the Party was two-fold. First that it was highly disciplined and prac- ticed democratic centralism, Second that the Party as a whole was to engage inexemplary action, The black community im general would learn by observing the actions of the Party in the com- munity, it was reasoned and every- thing the Party did was educational By leading and serving real needs of people, the community as a whole would become revolutionary. Such conceptions are hardly novel to revolutionary theory, What was strikingly sew in the American context was that the Party actually vegan to do it, Applying the doctrine of Chair- man Mao that every enemy of my enemy is my friend, the flinois Chapter sought to bulld working coalitions with a of bla jum be street gangs. But a number groups were more into Jown the community and Washingtoa’s © 4 Economic Opportunity than into 1 Eventually coaliti U with the Black Disciples and Congress Lords. Alarge number o Panthers were also recruited fr the Black Student Associations tn the Chicago high schools and junto colleges, The lilinois leadershi first to admit it mace a s the tion r these bein ve * cist’ At one rm tr af ut 1 A of ste and mulation of a class analysis they were assisted by two factors: first, the presence of Ray‘‘Masal’’ Hew- ftt from the National Staff, and second, their practical experience with the Young Patriots. The Pat- riots are a group of revolutionary young white Southerners in Chicago’ s uptown community, They wear berets with a ‘Free Huey’’ button on one side anda confederate flag on the cther, and many are veterans of the now-dissolved JOIN Community Union, It was the reports from-section leader Bob Lee on the Patriots that made real to many Panthers the idea of a Left to right: Chairman military and political organization with leaders holding both military and political ranks, Section leaders are sergeants subsection leaders are corporals, Bran are directed by captains and leutenants, The State Central Staff ~-deputy ministers and field sec- retaries--are majors, Some of- ficers are field (or line) officers; others are operations officers, The requirements of individual Party members are demanding Each member must (1)attend three two-hour political ortentation Classes a week, (2) read twohours a day to keep abreast of current Bobby Seale,{linois DeputyChairman ‘We move people at the level they an go, We don’t Intend to skipany stages,’’ Like the guerrilla who carefully sta his battles so as to win every ome so the Pan thers stage their political pro- grams, The policepatrol will begin ‘only when the community is armed and a gun sticks out of every window o y time the pigs stop someone | © community.’ The breakfast program, begun April 1, is now feeding well over 0 children a morning at three locations in Chicago, The program is directed by a 20-year-old woman named Barbara Sankey, who grew up on Chicago's West Side and was first attracted to the Panthers by i She and other Pan- Newton's trial thers have done a remarkable job of assembling the needed re- sources. Since there Is bo money, most food is donated, One meat company gives 50 pounds of sau- sages a week. The Joe Luis Milk Co, gives 500 cartons of milkeach week, A typical breakfast menu consists of milk, sausage or bacon, scrambled eggs and toast, There is cold cereal on Wedaes- day and pancakes and syrup on Friday. Fred Panther office is neat and cleap. Trash is emptied and floors are mopped. The walls are decorated with newspaper clippings and Chinese posters, The military program of the Party is disciplined and net adven- turistic, ‘We are pot reaction. aries. We dort react to situations, we create them,’ says Rush, Rush constantly speaks about the need to ignore police provocations and avold aimless street fighting and premature confrontation. “Any battle we enter we’ re going to win’, Rush also defends the very public posture of his avowedly revolu- onary organization. We are not a so-called underground organi- zation, organizing ground hogs, How can you be the vanguardofthe people if the people can’t even find you?" The internal ecucation program is directed by Billy "‘Che’’ Brooks, Born in Mississippi 20 years ago, he grew up on Chicago's West side and was a member of the Black Liberators before he jotned the Party, ‘' Education is the backbone of the Party’, says Che, At presem, he directs an educational of about 15, The cadres educate Hampton, D, C, Field Marshall Central Committee, Ray ‘‘Masia’’Hewitt Central Committee and Bob Rush, Deputy Minister of Defense Ilinois B.P.P.Chapter, Fred Hampton just received fromthe pig Ulinois court one to five years oyersome five trumped up charges about 20some dollars of ice-cream some childrenin the black community of Chicago tookwhile he attempted to protect the blackchildren, working coalition class whites, with working- Today, the Dlinots Chapter has formal coalitions with both the Young Lords Organization (Puertc can) and the Patriots, The Pan- thers stress the coalition with the Patriots is not just symbolic, ‘We don't engage in symbolic ac- tivity’. Rather, the Panthers be- lieve that groups like the Patricts can ‘‘by-pass” the racist hangup of white Americans and deliver the revolutionary to whites who would not listentoa black rev- olutionary The ssage h their multi- essively anth and you do fight ra 1 with class solidarity, The Panthers will stand behir thet r tion partners, “The next time the pigs kill some chicano brothers, they're going t ha kill some Panthers’’. synthe { the Cuban and C thine experience the anth« re neither a political party witha subordinate military arm por a partyless militar ree att thw nthe are nultaneously 4 developments, (3) sell at least 75 Panthers newspapers a week (many members sell 400 a week), (4)own and be proficient in the use of two guns, (5) obey all Party rules, and (6) do constant political work among the masses. Party mem- bers who do not fulfill these re- quirements are expelled. Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton is merci- less in his castigation of Party members who are good ‘rally’ Panthers but who dor’t altend political classes or do mass work, Members of the Party have also been expelled for speaking in the name of the Party witbowt autho- rizatlon, THE PANTHER PROGRA The principal pol wf the Illinois Chap eakfust prograr tlinkes, Liberation vumity police pat Party is careful tc programs | the unde com and grams which are fronmtational like ¢ are delayed until a Je velor t a So far, the Party has moved slowly om political work with children and parents, While it is clear to the children who ts feeding them, they have mot yet been ex- posed to Panther somgs or p->- paganda talks MILITARY TRAINING As Deputy Minister of I in Ulinois, Bobby Rush ts responsible for the military train- ing of the membership, the de- fense of the community and the security of the office, urity is After being heavy str pret linpressive, buzzed through the level door, the vis looks up « Darrow stair into two large blinding food lights, } way up the stairs isa heavy wire i te Uspicious per sons are searched beforw being admitted to the inner office, Out- side windows are covered with heavy wood, and two large dogs are ered on the roof of the balldin An ‘out an’ watches things out on the street, Daily irity is unde ae vision of an oft of the day (OD za a day loitering is pern in the office, one is ither or siness <¢ Tied ow Ami in contr A te ost ‘movement Mfices, the section leaders throughout the state, who in turn are responsible for the education of the member- ship. The basic reading lists consists of 12 books: ‘Quotations from Mao Tse-tung’’, ‘Essays from the Min- ister of Defense (Huey P, Newtony* “The Wretched of the Earth,’ “Selected Military Writings of Mao Tse-tung’', State and Revolution” ‘On Practice (Maoy’, ‘The Com- munist Manifesto’, ‘ Autoblogra- phy of Malcolm x’, “Malcolm % Speaks'’, ‘The Last Year of Mal- colm X (George Brietmany* “Long Live the Victory of People’s War (Lin Piaoy’, and “Red Star OVW chi Every Party member is re d to purchase some of the tional educ works, but only the cadre go through every one @ detail ussing the problem of ed- u , Minister said, “The 1 y of new members come i bere for one reasor to kill. Our job Is to educate them to whe correct methods of political stra ss education and pat in their place, ine classes are taught DF year 4 boy whom Little Mao’, Litthe y i © calls xt Pe. PIG CONSPIRACY AGAINST CONN. PANTHER’S WIFE OF MURDERED PANTHER BUSTED oe Ericka Huggins, acting Deputy Chairman and 7 other Party mem- bers of the New Haven, Connect!- cut Chapter of the Black Panther Party have been arrested and, charged with a so called con- spiracy to commit murder and/or murder it self, Most ofthe Party's ladership have boen busted In the same manner that the New York Panther Party 21 was busted, What manner is that? Simpie, it's the pig power structure's attempt to wipe out the Black Panther Party or- gapization, which has spread ac- cross the nation, The same as the brothers in New York, the con- necticut Chapter was just beginning to implement the Free Breakfast For School Children before they got busted, and had become a very Organized disciplined Chapter in Connecticut, The Party leadership bad just expelled a provocateur agent, Jose Gonzales Ericka Huggins as most people know was the wife of John Huggins, who was murdered by Karanga’s US organization nigger pigs, Al- Prentice ‘Bunchy’ Carter and John Huggins, Ericka’s husband was only part of the constant escalation that the pigs are waging against the Black Panther Party. It is clear if there was really someone who has been killed, then it's got to be the CIA, FBI and local pigs who killed this person, or it's just some one killed that the pigs want to blame on the Black Panther Party as a means to charge the Connecticut Panther leadership with a capita] crime, To try and keep the bro- thers in jail without ball so they Can't educate the public to the real program of our party. BLACK YOUTH MURDERED BY PIGS In Newark New Jersey black Aigeria Motel where pigs people took to the streets in anger down and rderec in cokib as the resuks of a pig murdering tiree black brothers. @ black youth for no reason. New- did it was turned loose a few ¢ ~ al | i ~ ‘ e pig shot lo ark is one of the east coast cities ago by the rascist courts of New that was taken over by federal, Jersey. state and local pigs who The entire city up and burned its black communi- ed om the bl community thes in 1%7. imposed curfew, treating Newark is also the site of the people like slaves. pig force v np and be THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, MAY 31,1969 PAGE 5 Cont, on last pe, CHICAGO form and Program andthe 26 rules faster than most people can read, He tells new recruits that they will learn the program by heart before they leave or he will] kick theirass is stressed from the word recruiting sergeant’ in the outer office. He gives them an application form to fill out, asks them if they now own a gun, and begins to tell them how each Party member must read for twohoursa cay. The Party ise't interested in people who are unwilling to learn, The Deputy Minister of Infor- mation is Rufus ‘Chaka’ Walls, Now 28, Chaka spent five years in the army and then CORE, He isa x community College (formerly the Crane Campus of the Chicago City College), where he is Chair- man of the Black Student As- sociation. Chaka, with a staff of about 20, handles the distribution of the Black Panther hewspaper, leaflets, press conferences and speaking engagements, The Party sells 6,000 papers a week in I- linols at 25¢ a copy and expects to boost that to 15,000 fn a few months 1 this requires a care- fully worked out distribution system Ronald ‘Doc’ Satchel is the Deputy Minister of Health, Doc, who is only 18 and a dropout from the University of Illinois, has full responsibility for a two part medical program. First he is training a médical cadre of about 10 in daily classes, The group in- cludes a nurse and ex-army med- ical corpsman, They are expected t handle all emergency medical needs of the Party. The second phase is the projected opening ofa free health clinic. According Doc, the only hangup is getting enough doctors to volunteer time to staff the clinic om a reasonable basis. Drugs and other supplies have already been donated. In the _ More news to next issue, KLANSMEN ACQUITTED wel MERIDIAN, Miss. (LNS) -- A white jury in Meridian, Mississippi, ac- : Ui quitted three Klan members in the SPRINGFILED, recruits line up PANTHERS SERVE THE PEOPLE interim {he medical cadre is pub- lishing a propaganda hewsletter on Problems of medical care, for use in the community, WOMEN’S LIBERATION Although one sister in California recently wrote in the Black Pan. ther newspaper that she and other women in the Party wore red of being “Pantherettes’’ or "'dosk Panthers’ in the office, women's liberation is not perceived as a Problem in the Iilinois Chapter, There are a number of women in responsible positions on the cen- tral staff, and there is a woman section leader, a woman fleld sec. retary anda woman on the security staff, About 15% of the Party membership in Dlinolsare women, Until recently Yvonne King was Deputy Minister of Labor, This position has been temporarily abolished and she is currently a field secretary, In her early 27's, Miss King caine to Chicago very recently amd jolned the Party, While the Labor Ministry was functioning {it attempted to aid several strike actions by giving technical assistance and advice, The Party hopes to reconstitute the Labor Ministry if and when re- sources become available to doa successful job, but right now the Party does not consider the organi- zation of black workers in the workplace as a priority program. The Illinois Chapter in the last six months have faced more than 60 criminal prosecutions with total ball in excess of $200,000. The Diimois Chapter continues to grow and its membership is now “well in excess of 1,000°'--thatis, well in excess of 2,000 guns, Ann Campbell] ts the Communi- cations Secretary. With a staff of three, she handles all communi- cations between the office and the sections, as well as reports to the Nattonal Office. Along with handl- ing the dally mail, she acts as kind of an office manager, free Fred Hampton MORE STUDENT KILLED nurder of Vernon Dahmer, a black leader, A mistrial was declared for 7 other white defendants in the case. The 10 men were being tried for couspiracy to ‘‘intimidate, coerce and threaten’’ Dahmer, Dahmer was killed when a group of white men firebombed his home north of Hattlesturg. Cc, Lobach, 21, Ls dead, A campus cop shot him on May 10, John hada girlfriend who Iived In a dorm- itory, and went to see ber when he wasn't supposed to, Somebody caught him climbing {nto the dorm. When he tried to escape, Chester Phillips, a campus policoman, shot “at his legs.’’ The ballet hit him in the back and killed him. PIGS OPEN WAR ON NORTH CAROLNA A AND T COLLEGE On May 20th 1969 the pig power structure of rascist Gree N.C, called in National Guard troops with tanks, planes andheli- copters. The pigs killed one stu- dem. They shot up the camp re, and sprayed ¢ a em all over the campus and surround- ing munities, Five pigs were woun in the gun battle. The brothers fended One National Guards- man w wounded also, Tt of this rascist town are » be on killing off black people that they used volunteers from the rascist ommunitics w ire probably too old to join any pig force. The studem who was killed was hot in the back, Ile was foundona street near the campus; ‘Not o the campas.”” Tt tt was erupted in Feb ruary of 190( Jents tried to buy coffee tore hunch cou cer, They simply walked into rw hed to be served, As a result the jail f Greensboro were packed with black people. . 4 . ob. eg a Eee eee THE BLACK PAN THER SATURDAY MAY 31,1969 PAGE 6 PRIEST VISITS HUEY (Father Taylor is a priest of the Hteubenville, Ohio, Diocese.) OAKLAND ~~ It was rather clear, that day in September when I ap- broached the white-faced Alameda County jail. [didn’t know quite what to expect of the sheriff, or of Huey (if I would get to see him) or of my own reaction, nd was hazy about the facts 8 case. A carfull of police (locally called ‘pigs’ )stoppeda car of Black Panthers. Words and shots ensued, One policeman was killed, another wounded, Two Black Pan- thers were wounded, one of whom was Hucy Newton (founc of the Panthers) who was accused of mur- der, One thing was true and will be true right on into eternity, The police hated the Panthers in gen eral and Huey in particular, The feeling was quite mutual, I happened to be a black priest visiting the Bay Area, Talk of Huey and his fate seomed to 11) Oakland, Berkeley, Frisco, the natton Strangly enough, I felt what hap- pened to him happens to Black Everyman, Visiting him, it was like visiting myself In jall How would Huey take me, a black Catholic priest, serving quite ob viously under a white power struc ture, pope and bishop and all? Had he read what we black priests ob- served in a Caucus ~~ that ‘‘the Catholic church inthe United Sates is primarily a white cist institu- tion, has addressed itself primar ily to white society and isdefinitely @ part of that society’? These were the thoughts that crossed my mind as | rode the ele- vator to the jatl on the 10th floor of the courthouse building. Then, too, would the sherif{fallow our meeting? Surprisingly, clergy credentials were sufficient for the sheriff to visit, So | waited in a Huey to grant the Small glassed-in room for be "de ‘rom’, | expected an angry ar itter young man, pr bably because 1 would have beet such in his case, [ expected a st piclous, mean, de ve alr little Initiative to sustain a conver- sation with me. In short, the case and all its details made me await a man uptight and in a state of siege. After a few minutes, a medium sized, year-old, reddish-brown skin. ad appeared, wearing white rm, As the deputy le him at the door, he smiled warmly and shook my hand like I an old buddy, He told me that he ex- pected the visitor to be his attorne) ince few individuals are allowed private sit-down sessions with jail (and especially with him, “guests I thought). Every greatonce-tn-a-while ina person's life, he meets someone who is CLEAR. It's hard to define a clear p wm. It's somewhat like that Se er day on visited As one ing led toanother in our conver satic several item erged mMering ape ” was fr at peace, with himsel e@ wasn’t smoldering beneath the skin, repressing b hatred a an, the ‘pig’, mankind ir If anything at all, be smoidered with a rare, al most unca understanding of the black mover , himself, and the racist society that put him there, “We're against the oppressor’, be said, ‘‘whether he be white or black’’, He spoke about his friendship with Stokely Carmichael and how the Panthers had" drafted’ Stokely away from SNCC to be their Prime Minister at large. He went on in detail about the shoot-out of the trial He explained to me the Program of black liberation, an ir i and about the injustices 10-point “We want mediate end or lity and m people’ is Pe . on thelr agenda for implemen- tatlon, There wasn't a bit of self-pity in Newton. Somehow his speech t led how he transcended all the things he had to endu times he must times he must have cri save cried f t let this load himself. Yet he didr get the im, One could tell that his was jailed, t his spirit was fi eyond all worry for st obvious that black movement the future of the was lis overriding concern. Black people must ome day be free must one day be free, mt come automatic- ally, it must come througha radical And the is one party with Program of Black Panth ey Newton revealed If to me fully a man, 2 man standing high amang men. He didn’t look backwards or dwell in the past, Instead, he continued dreams and see visions tion one day «-- and he shared t! with me, Somewhat clumatly, [ blurted how I empathize with him and how! see out of his eyes, and that, s« far as I was concerned, it mat- tered little whether or not he was actually guilty of killing -- be- cause | so well understood the sit uation, considering the backdrop of the whole black-white absurdity. (And besides, Huey was I andi was Huey and Hoey became Black Everyman in my eyes,) Huey laughed with me at my empathy. ‘] sure appreciate your feeling Like that.,.but a know Father, really I DI Jo it. I don’t know whose bullet did hit that cop’’, I believed him. Remote as I was from any direct evidence either way, | believed him. Blaise Pascal once observed how the heart of man has its reasons which rea- son itself doesn't grasp The name of Huey P, Newton will never let me forget Oakland where be was in jail, There was scarcely a block in the Bay Area where you didn’t see a‘F' ree Huey’ Sign, Or other signs, like “Pan ther Power’, or Free Huey or the Sky's the Limit’' -- all of which are geared to rouse black men from their state of stupor and brain- wash, and white men from their DOMESTIC LAW AND INTERNATIONAL ORDER The police department and the armed forces are the two arms of the power structure, the musclos of control and enforcement, Which laws get enforced depends on who isin power, Ifthe italists are in power, they enforce laws designed to protect their system, their way of life, They have a particular abhorrence for crimes against property, The police do om the domestic level what the armed forces do or the international level: protect the way of life of those in power. The police patrol the city cord off communities, blockade nelghbor- hoods, invade homes, search for that which is hidden. The armed forces patrol the world, Invade countries and continents, cordon off nations, blockade whole peopl hey wil run villages, neighborhoods, homes, hu! caves, searchir that which is hidden, The pe man amd the soldier will vi your person, smoke you out with various gases. Each will shoot you, beat your head and body with sticks and clubs, rifle butts, run you through with bayonets, s hes in your Mesh, kill you, mot rest until you surren killed. The police soldier will have the ba Both police andthe follow orders, Order from the toy nm orders t a i the payments on thi of providing tk the armed forces it is also a duty patriot Not ih oO Is treason, POLICE BRUTALITS end of the country ¢ the new war cry is raised In their rage against the police, against police brutality, people lose sight { the fundamental reality: that the police are only an instrument for the implementa tion of the policies of those who make the decisions, Police bru ta is only ome facet of the crystal of terror and oppressi Behind police brutality there is social brutality, and political bru tallty What Is true on the Internationa level ts true also at home, except mat the ac the ce ve is easier ational arena Who w aintain that American soldiers ¢ in Viet Nam on their own = moth y were con- seripte nto t armed forces taught the wisdom of obeying ora The soldi in Viet N only orders, carrying out a pol plan, He hardly knows what it is I) about...All he knows is that he has been assigned to carry outa talp 1 futios, He is well trained coe the best he can, He does a good jot Same for the policeman,,.He not there on his own, Thoy have all been assigned... The police are the ruard fans of the social or ool rod solely a matter of trigger-happy cons, of brutal ps who love crack heads ay numerous fringe it's a i Amd there are benefits, The real protle is a trigger happy social order xcerpts from ‘Soul On 1 , by jridge Cleaver, ister of formath lack Panthe art —— cool, clam non-<« hallenge of letting white ‘law and order’ do in Huey, Pardon me, Huey, The last thing I'd want to do is to stuff you un- willingly in the Christian tag. In Catholle cireles they talk about the ‘anonymous Christian.’ One who claims that he’s never really met Christ and yet acts as his disciple is am anonymous Christian. Again, pardon me, Huey, but I do think that = black thing Is deeply Christ- n. I showed Huey how we Catholics give the hand-and-shoulder em- brace at mass. [t's called the Kiss of Peace, I told him. We exchanged this sign of brotherhood. We told each other to “keep on pushing’*, I left. by Rev. Gus Talor, Jr. P&F 10 ARM AGAINST FASCISM The Peace and Freedom Partyof Alameda County in meeting as- sembled this 20thday of May, 1969, declares that fascism has become the policy of the existing govern- inent in California for smashing moverments of the people The people of California no longer may rely solely upon the electoral and judicial processes for redress of grievances, for the securing of their rights, for se- curing a more perfect union, for establishing justice, for emsuring domestic tranquility, for providing a common defense, for promoting the general welfare, or for se- curing the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity; rabter, The people should, in car opiaton consider arming themselves as @ people for self-defense against the murderous policies and forces of the existing government, which of Thursday, May 15, showed iselfto be completely the instrument of a oe saa. force and violence and murder & the interests of the wealthy cap- italists its gunning down of scores of the unarmed people of Berkeley and their guests; the re- sulting toll of maiming and deaths: is yet to be know, The Peace and Freedom Party of Alameda County urges all ofthe People as individuals and as civil Organizations to coasider the ne evssity of arming themselves with weapons so as to be able t as | semble peaceably in their own i- terests without being helpless tat pets for the murderces guns ofthe existing governr a California. We also realize t any attempt at armed confrontation under the — present Teum stances woukd be fT 1, The time ff ar ied COB 7 frontation is not here, bet sack Sam) frontat ts coming, The rulers k tt and are oparing for & w THE PEO LUST KNOW p IT AND PREPARE POR IT TF WE INTEND TO SURVIVE Alameda Peace and Freedom Party RONALD REAGAN CREATS THE FASCIST STATE BERKELEY -- Over two hundred people and seventy police were Injured Thursday, May 15, in the heaviest battle tn Berkeley yet, For the first time, cops used Shotguns and rifles against the people. Over a hundred people were ‘hit with birdshot, rock salt, lead Pellets from shotguns, and even with lareg-caliber rifle bullets, The people fought back victousiy, throwing rocks, bricks, bottles, and anything else they could got their hands on, but as yet, no Police have been shot. The four hour street battle was fought over a small, vacant plece of land owned by the University of California, The People decided to beautify it and make it into a ‘People’s Park’*. A year agothe almost one square block of land was the site of some of the most beautiful old homes in the campus area, The university bought the land for 1,3 million dollars and demolished the homes, For nine months the land was va- cant, used only as a parking lot by persons willing to risk having their cars stuck in the mud, Then the people in the com- munity, sick of the ugly deserted lot, got day abundred showed up - students, women, children, hippies, busi- nessmen, Everyone was so eager to work that there weren't enough tools to go around; as soon as someone stopped working someone else asked for the pick, shovel, or rake, Money was collected and sod was _ brought in, and a carpet of grass _ Was unrolled, Trees and Mowers planted, a sandbox and swings walkways were laid. were _ Were put in for the children, and Pride in the park they were build- they saw the park as an example of ‘‘socialism fn prac- tice...” Meanwhile, the university was and it couldn't let the People in- timidate it. So university chan- field (there are already four such fields in the south campus, and no On ‘ay 14 Heyns said he would put a fence around the park “to reestatiish the conveniently for- gotten fact that the field is tn- deed the university's and to ex- ¢lude unauthorized person from the site’’, Plans to defend the park were never formalized because the Peo- ple weren't sure exactly how the university would move. When 400 police moved in Thursday morn- ing at four a.m. to clear and bold the park and the adjacent area, there were only about 50 people in the park, Only 3 people refused to leave, and they were arrested, Thursday morning found the police lounging in the park, work- mon frantically erecting a steel wire fonce around the property, and residents and students angrily watching the whole tragedy. People drifted up Telegraph Avenue, which was blocked off from Dwight way to Channing, awaiting a noon rally on the near~ by UC campus. Around twelve thirty, over three thousand people assembled at the rally, while at least a thousand others had to move back Gown the avenue, It was the student body president speaking last atthe rally who had called for ose ee down and ‘take the park." At the corner of Haste and Tele- graph, half a block from the park, people were met by hundreds of law enforcement officers including Berkeley city police, California y Patrol, San Francisco taetical squad, and Alameda County shorifis, The inevitable tear gas bar began, But this was no Sean Berkeley street battle, There were at least three thousand People, in- cluding many honstudents, straight le, and even some fraternity guys who had belped build the park, and the intensity of the fighting was greater than over before, They be 2 fighting for more thana set of lemands, but for something they had created, The police could not disperse the demonstrators with tear gas can- nisters. People kept moving and eventually enlarged the battle scene into a 30 square block area, § Determined to route the demon- Strators, the cops began to es- calate their offensive. Alameda county sherriffs, equipped with twelve gauge shotguns filled with Dirdshot and lead pellets, fired re- Peatedly into the crowd, Many peo- ple in the streets were shot in the backs, others were shot standing on roofs overlooking the scene, The battle expanded into nearby streets, but the bulk of the police force remained to protect the park, The police spread tear gas from specially equipped cars and national guard jeeps. They sped through the streets at very high Speeds, Nevertheless, many of the cop cars were pelted with rocks, A crowd of over a hundred peo- “ple backed two policemen against a wall, showered them with bricks, and eventually chased them away, People then moved to their car, Smashing the window, turning {t over, and setting it on fire, Dem- onstrators Mberated the officers’ radio, uniforms, and other equip- ment from the burning vehicle, The usual ebb and flow of street battles was missing--the Mghting remained intensive until four o'clock, Even in adjacent rost- dential areas the fighting was heavy, as police shot tear gas§can- nisters into houses and shot people oa rooftops, Many rosidents, both young and old, aided people, offering first ald and the relative shelter of their homes, The day's casualty figure re- Nected the intensity of the battle, At least 66 people were treated at local hospitals, including five police, one of whom was stabbed tn the chest, Over one hundred peo- ple went to the first ald center at the Free Church, and over sixty officers were treated at the police first ald station. Two reporters were injured by shotgun pellets, and at least five people were wounded by thirty caliber bullets. At six p.m, Governor Reagan, at the request of the city of Berkeley called out the Natloaal Guard, and imposed a curfew from ten p.m, to six a.m, Membors of the forty- ninth infantry brigade, a select reserve force with experience In rict control, assembled tn undis- closed armories, ‘The governor's declaration also Prohibited any public assembly, rally or gathering anywhere in Berkeley. As people began to gather for a noon-time rally on Friday, the highway patrol moved in to clear the steps at Sproul Hall. Six thousand people then marched to the Shattuck Avenue commercial center of Berkeley. When the highway patrol sealed off that area, they came back to the campus, held a meeting, and de- cided to return to the streets, The National Guard stood watch over the marches, but was reluc- tant to act against the people, When ordered to seal off a street, they moved far more slowly than the cops, leaving people alone for the most part. A revealing inci- dent tock place when a good look-~ ing girl walked past a Guardsman, A cop yelled to him, ‘Why didn’t you get a little plece as she walkec by?’ The Guardsman gave the cop the finger, Despite the Guard and the Gov- ernor’s prohibitions, almost 4,000 people stayed in the streets. They eventually dispersed, but they pro- mised to return, THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, MAY31, 1969 PAGE? TEAR GAS Albany and Thousand Oaks area residents complained erday afternoon of suffering fg toms associated with tear gus. But Albany police and National Guard spokesmen could find noim- mediate reason for the outbreak of at least a score of cases of ir- ritated eyes, vorniting and respir- atory effects in children. (We know they can’t) Residents at Albany Village, University of California-owned married students housing in Albany, reported the effects of tear gas in the southern part af the pro- Ject at about 3:15 p.m, An ambailance from the Albany City Police Dept. arrived to attend to several children who were suf- fering from respiratory problems, Kaaren Pactwa, 1127 A 9th St., Albany, reported her six-year-old Gaughter Mary on her way home from Cornell School with several other children came running tober crying: ‘Mommie, I can’ tbreathe, I can’t breathe! My eyes are burn- ing’’. Her daughter had vomited, and Mrs, Pactwa took her indoors and washed off her face. The som of Mrs, Susan Wittig of 105] Monroe St, said he felt the effects of the gas on his eye for about two minutes, Another Person reported that the effects she experienced lasted about ten min- utes. Malaquias Montoya, N27 F oth St., was sawing wood when he lost his breath, His three year old son, IN ALBANY Malaquias, had vomited in Me wagon, and about ten minutes later his | year old son Andreas also ‘lost his lunch’, Montoya's wife reported that she had gagged. Claude Hardy of the Bay Area Polution Control District, was called to the Albany Village Child- ren's Center to investigate reports that gas was causing coughing tn children and smarting eyes, He said he knew of nothing in the area that would cause such a ting reports came into his office, One spoke of “acrid fumes” in the area, and the other called odor “sweet, ‘There was an ordor in the area at 3:45 p.m. when the reporter ar- rived, The gas was let off at the Na- “onal Guard encampment at the Marina. Support for this notion was that the bivowac area is directly downwind from Albany Village, A first Meutenant there said: “Several people have already come here asking about the gas, One spoke to the commanding officer, who said he had no knowledge of bow the cas had come to Albany Village’. (Of course he didn’t) The guardsman said there was no way gas released anywhere in the Marina could have gone to Albany Village in concentrated form due to the strong winds that afternoon. (Unless it was by helt- copter.) THE OPPRESSOR AND HIS FEAR The sudden reactionary move by the racist power structure isa very clear pleture of a man who has lost his head, running in circles tofind it, The slavemaster isndasdomi- mate as he once was, and the slave is tn fact becoming the determ ined source of his doom. The oppressed Black man, the tenant of the Black Colony can no longer be counted upon by the slavemaster to co-sign his racist exploltation and his pro- bosed genocide. Granted there are still a few puppets and Tom's and traitors of their people who token Appeasement continue to bettie 2 the racist power structure and the man’s determination of his foot on the neck polley. We must constantly be aware of the fear of the opprossor and his ¢ver full bag of tricks that he pos- sess to paint the picture of being the oppressed instead of the op- pressor, The courts of the land ts one of his main weapons, for when he loses control of the people be must jedi Nis lghtalng clary as his rod. In the Black Colony the man has & problem for the Blackman has analized Ais Bulls--t and refuses to be cannon fodder for his im- perialistic gain. Complete Freedom is the willof the people and shall be gained by any means necessary. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Donald Campbell Deputy Minister of Information Indiana Chapter Black Panther Party EO ER EST Fr Deere aS Bf We must nol our lives we only mist f THE BLACK PANTHER ATURDAY, MAY 31, 1969 PAGE 9 TCT DECTM Ee THE FASCIST REGIME eae PRN TET SAID THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS : sWERE WRECKING THE. CAMPU ie WHEN ar GAS WAS SPRAYED OVER Uc #9 THIS PICTURE SHOW. 5 THE £ ASCIST POWER STRUCTURE TO BE os DAM LIE ae THE LONG KHAKI LINE dictions between classes contra ving - - = : a 4) = ~ - = fa = “ highest form of struggle for resol “) ~ escal R eagan ‘ am 9 “ Not to have a correct political point of view is [ike having no soul THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY COMES FORTH WE MUST DEVELOP A UNITED FRONT AGAINST FASCISM - = hy ese of fasciam tn And here it must be said that under American for the white and black sharecroppers and for : 1 And what would the ai}? For the toiling conditiogs the creation of a mass party of their libe Mgfroen the buries of debe: ont r . : ! ; smdite “Phos “y ~— " lite the un- tollers, & ““Workers’ and Farmers’ Party,"’ if it works for the cancellation of tt Pr a ¥ ~ es . poses: Pi Hons Nt ett the regime ot migh serve 28 such a suitable form, Sach a indebeedness; { it fights for the equal 7 restrained strengthening eof the work- party would be @ specific form of the mz stanue ‘of tha Negroes; cols if tt fies ann exploitation and the destrecti people's froat in America that should be sct emsade ef the wer vereraah, ent tor ha te " - tng pe bactine pm a tasces, can the Amert up is opposition to the parties of the tru terests of the memt 4 ie ib ; “a tacit with the or- asd the banks, andi fkewisetogrowingfasctam, —fesstons, the small business men, t . aya comactoas van- SUCH & party, Of Course, will benetther Social And £0 08, ep rans S prepared to follow the rev ist nor Communist, Bur it MUST be an anti- lt goes without saying tha buttonary part No. fascist party and NOT be an anti- fight for the election on . t with the tet pertex chy obvious that che Interests Communist party, The program of this party bocal offices, to the . oe ties. t may become a ser of the Ameri protetartat demand that all must be directed against the banks, trusts House of Repre pens future ita forces dissociate themaeives from the and monopolies, againse the principal on ‘Dur comrades —~ arties without delay, [t must atthe nies of the people who are gambling on its mis- in taking de forme of 4 party will be equal to its ech 4 party, Bur ry ower the if it defends the urgem demands of sctive measures in order tw make the tollers, t working class, only if it fights for LAND ch a party the cause ofthe mass $ ways an! ealta m from winntn masses of * a national July 2 by Georg! Demirroty), — THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1969 PAGE 14 EN LETTER TO eK" > \ a a »~ os 0p . tse, of ae Panther Andrew Austin teaches national guardsmen about Red Book, Ronald Reagan you're a FOOL, the people fool. You've got three to five thous- and little fools around Berkeley with guns even calling you a fool. Now how are you going to deal with that? There were many people who didn't believe me (and you still don’t) when I said 1 held a Red- book class with your Narional Guards, They told me seeing was believing. Now they believe, what about you Reagan? Your own Little punks are being hauntedfor knowl- edge from Chairman Mao Tse Tung"’s Redbook. You see Reagan the Glack Pan- ther Party will not allow you to bluff us and hinder us from teach- ing the masses of people the cor- rect principles and ideologies of revolution, Even after receiving your arrogant and narrow mind- ed orders not to accept reading materia] from the people, well your troops still read our Black Panther Party Newspapers, anc a you're a says running other Little materials. When you owr puppets call on the Black Panther Party to teach them pass- ages from Chairman Mao Tse Tung’s Redbook such as Imper- falism will not last Jong, be- cause ft always does evil things. It persists in grooming and sup- porting reactionaries in all coun tries who are against the people, it has forcibly seized many col- onies and semi-colonies and ry military bases, and ie threar the peace with Atomic war, Thas, forced by Imper st do 50, more than 9) perce © world is rising up in struggle against it. Yet, Imperialism is still alive, still running amuck in Asia, Afri- ca and Latin America, In the West Imperialism is still oppressing the people at home. This situa- tion must change. k is the task of the people of the world to pur an end to the aggression and oppres- sion perpetuated by imperialism, and chiefly by the . Imperial- ism. And if the US. « ly capl- 4 in pushing of aggression and talist groups persist thefr policies war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the world, The same fate awaits the accomplices of the Uni- ted States, So Reagan my last Staternent is a warning, our Min- ister of Defense Huey P, Newton says THE SPIRIT OF THE PEO- PLE IS GREATER THAN MAN'S TECHNOLOGY, And the Black Panther Party is going to con- tinue to educate Black people in the black community, the Mexi- can Americans, Indian American, Chinese and the try radical, and even your own little fools running streets in Berkeley with guns, to Chairman Mao's Redbook, the Par- ty platform d program, and the PEOPLE LUTION, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE oppressor coun- around the A field nigger WHERE IS ELDRIDGE Sunday, May 25th the local mass media said that Eldridge Cleaver is now residing in Havana, Cuba, The San Francisco Examiner States that Eldridge has an apartment that is reported to be a frequent meeting place for the ‘‘Little Colony of Black Panthers in exile there, local The mass tnedia also stated what books were in the apartment, However, the only statement that the media could get out of Eldridge so they say, was about his beard, All this information was’printed and dis- tributed, then the same media came running to the Black Panther Party for confirmation, This leads this writer to believe that there is another move underway to set up con- spiracy charges against the Black Panther Party. -- Big Man WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR CITY Ir has been taken over by the National Guard Pigs, the Tac- tical Squad Pigs, the Alameda County Sheriff's Pigs, and the Berkeley Pigs. Why? Because some people liberated some land in which to have a people's park, Reagan made a starement the other day that 48 people had signed complaints against the park, What about the hundreds of people who built the park, and who found it a good place in which to bring their children, Who were these 48 people anyway, @ bunch of jive tlme Capitalists who felt that their people just wanted a place in which they could congregate. And what did U.C, want the area for? To build a punkish soccer field so a few people could kick a ball around, Not only did Reagan's lackey destroy the park, they tear gased and beat up a lot of innocent peo- ple ... yes, innocent people. A helicopter sprayed U,C, campus where the people weredisassembling after a rally, leaving peacefully, dig it? The chemical that they used, is the same kind of chem- ical that the U.S, Imperialists are using against the Vietnamese peo- ple, It wasn’t just students that were gassed, it seeped through the windows of U.C, campus and workers were caught up in it too, Willard Junior High School was sprayed, also, The elementary school children are being terri- fied seeing the National Guards riding sround In jeeps with their guns in the alr, and helicopters flying over their heads. What kind of Mayor or Governor for that matter, do we have that would ask for this kind of treat- ment to be inflicted on the peo- ple that they are supposed to be representing? The best thing the people of Berkeley coukt do, at this point, is for students, parents, teachers, and concerned people, is to refuse to let the schools oper- ate where young people have been the victims of attacks. They should demand that the Nationa] Guard and others who have no concern for the people's well-being, leave our community. And if you think they are not acting against the People, what greater atackcan you make than to brutalize and verrorize young people? ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE VAL DOUGLASS PIG IN HEAT “UP AGAINST THE WALL, MOTHER-COUNTRY- RADICAL” GRAPE BOYCOTT Safeway buys more California table grapes in the west than anyone else - except the US. Department of Defense, which is the largest purchaser in the world (they send them off to Vietnam) The Albuquerque Friends of Cesar Chavez Boycott Committee organized a caravan of 17 cars to demonstrate at 1] of 13 Safeway Stores in Albuquerque on May 10, the nationwide “International Boycott Day”, which was observed in over two dozen states, Canada, Europe, and Latin America You can help the grape strikers in Delano by going to your nearest Safeway store and asking to speak to the manager. Tell him that you refuse to shop at Safeway as long as they intend to carry grapes. If enough of us do difference that, it will begin to make a So S . ee Ry A ex 59 26, / SAFEWAY! May 1, 1969 Approximately 1,5! * verged on the Los Ang Bullding at 3 th Street atl . tod i t Huey be set Free, Chantsot Huey," : ev t t Come’, «4 N re Jail” ra ft Pig Power or nizat c < nm by th a t ack J Northert | t n Woa xolr J ° { unit t tion Minist he Unite mg, s ty ist~I inist, repr tatly i bs 5, th ck t ittee a Ne t Fascist |! MAY DAY IN L.A igs Against » GI in Viet Nam, Pe Welfar ist Work« j ist Alliance and rganiz Against the Norker ation, ace A tion ¢ rty others, in n 1 © tar x her hay ¢ the Bl National h t chief c A A yf tt S } rt ack rugs t i th b The PeopleP; nr Wa oune Council, Social " lal. ression Lr We ir thers ar emphas with fire rlune to have aspr ica Police St ate Angeles had the good incipal speak- National Field poke moving! repression of rev S in general, and Pan- in particular, He ve fight f zed that bat «at nr ACK PANTHER SATURDAY, THE MASSES WANT HUEY SET FREE —_ THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1969 PAGE 16 INTERVIEW WITH MASAI EVO: Not long ago, you and Chair- man Bobby Seale went on alecture tour in the Scandinavian countries what can you tell me about this? Masai: It was quite an educational trip. Wé found that most whites and blacks had an erroneous set of ideas about the Black Panther Party, Everyone was convinced that we were racists, They didn’t understand that we were a political party, They thought that at worst we were a gang, at best a self- defense group, For us the tripwas very educational and the reception we received was very good as far as the broad masses were con- cerned. The governments weren't quite as happy and therefore we had Pigs follow us wherever we went. Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland, Even though the govern- monts were pretty uptight about our visit, there weren't any overt ob- jections. The US Government did try to prevent the trip by delaying my passport. Even though in the beginning we were being con- sidered a racist bunch of lunatics and strictly a-political, it was worthwhile because people were so misinformed about the Black Pan- ther Party tn particular and the struggle of the black people tn America in general. They didn’t know if there was leadership and weren't aware of the masses having a say at all. The fact that Stokeley Carmichael had been there a month before us and confused things be- cause of his deviations from the Party line, blowing at rampant racism and cultural nationalism. This was especially confusing to the representatives of the various revolutionary groups represented in the Scandinavian countries, EVO: Isn’t Stokeley Carmichael the Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party? Masai; He is stil] the Prime Minister and no official steps against him have been taken as yet, The things we learned give some indication that his deviations might be quite serious, An inves- tigation of this is taking place, EVO: You are talking about the confusion abroad regarding the Black Panther Party's position. Surely you are aware that the same exists here. You are being lumped together with the various cultural nationalists - the Le Roy Joneses, the Karingas, the Muslims, It seems that all too few people are aware of your political stance - to quote Eldridge - “For a black man it is far more important to read Marx rather than learn Swahilli.’’ This ts not known to many and I think it is necessary to enlighten people as to exactly where the Black Panther Party stands, At what point did this evolvement occur? Since when was Mao's Red Book quoted as the Party's cuide- Mne and your non racist position put forth? Masai: What you said is correct, from the Party's inception these were our guidelines. We had our 10-point Platform and Program and Chairman Mao's Quotations. Our mottos were taken from the Red Book. We had both long be- fore we had any guns. Through practice we proved that we worked with every group that was willing to work for just causes for the broad masses of people, The in- herent contradictions built into the 80 called Black Liberation struggle weren't quite obvious then to many people, Without study tt would be impossible for them to understand it, But the Party studied the Ked Book since its inception, EVO: Would you mind going into the 10-point Program? Masai: Our’s ts not a sterile pro- cram, We see the need to keep tt a living creative thing because it comes from the people. The people's needs and knowledge are constantly progressing to a higher leve], Point | - we want freedom. We want the power to determine the destiny of our black com- munity. munity. Point 2we want full employment for our people. Point 2 we want an end to the robbery by the white man of our black community, About two months ago tricky Dick Nixon, the punk sissy coward that he ts, came up with a little cancerous scheme that he called Black cap- italism, Now we are hip to 7 ol for it either. We wee oat “J end to the robbery by the capitalists - no matter what his color. Black, white, pink, purple, striped or polka dot, They think they can change the con- ditions, They are crazy, We are not mechanical, one sided or superficial, Our program is based on realities, on dialectical materialism, the basic needs and desires of the people, We use it that way and apply it in the same manner. Whe® they try to change things around and stick Black cap- italism on us, it won’t work either, You see one of the places they specifically want to makea bastion of Black capitalism, just happens to be Oakland, Calif, We know this isn’t a coincidence either, * Potnt 4 we want decent housing fit for the shelter of human beings, hot underprivileged animals, Point 5 we want education for our People that exposes the true de- cadent nature of American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in present day society, This doesn’t mean that we are hung up in Black Studies elther, That's a new trick bag. We don’t mean to get hung up studying Swahilli for the next 16 semesters while we are being oppressed, suffer unemployment, low paying jobs, high taxes, high cost of living, war after war and police brutality, Just because they want to send us to school on a federal grant to get deep off into African studies, which has nothing to do with the hell we catch every Gay. On our trip we talked with many brothers from Africa, brothers who are actively involved in revolutionary struggles, These brothers are not bung up in Swahili or Arabic, por are they running around like 17th century Zulu war- riors, These brothers are trying as hard as they can to get deep into Marxism-Leninism and put it into practice, Very few of the African brothers that we met had what could be called a “Natural Head’, They just had hair. You couldn't call it one of those custom taflored natural heads. They never spoke Swahilli and every time we told them that there were brothers here studing Swahilli for the revolution, they burst out laughing, To them it was the funniest thing they over heard. We say we want education that teaches us our true history and our role in society. The only role for a slave is to revolt, The only role for the oppressed is rev- olution, Point 6 we want al] black men to be exempt from military service, It ts not that we only worry about black men, It fs just that every- body else is saying ‘Hell no we won't go’’. If there is one thing that the mother country radicals don’t need it is help to stay out of the draft. They have already spoken for themselves. Various ethnic revolutionary groups such as the Mexican-American Brown Berets, the Chinese-American Red guards, the Indian-American NARP and others have programs similar to ours because ours is a universal program, Our program was written specifically with the basic needs and desires of the black people in mind, but as I said it is really universal, Everybody who wants it can have it, It isn’t the program of the Black Pan- ther Party because we dreamed it up. It is so because it came from the people and as ! said this was before we had guns, ‘VO; Would you mind going into what became the central focal point in the current wave of re- bellions in the colleges - namely the demand for Black Studies pro- cram? Masai: The movement toward Black Studies in colleges and other Black cultural programs have be- come a fixation. At one point in the revolutionary development of our people it was a revolutionary step. Instead of taking it as a beginning step many ofthe cultural nationalist opportunist bootkicking cowards and freaks have latched on to it, Federally financed culture we don't need. There is hardly going to be a federally financed revolution. Most of the cats that propagate Black nationalism inthe streets practice Integration be- tween the sheets, They support the worst kind of idealism. They and their society will inevitably be- come more and more reactionary. The education will not be relevant unless the masses will have com- munity control over the institutions within that community, An outside teacher, no matter how well in- tentioned or how black orlented, cannot come in and teach the working class anything relevant to their own class struggle, That's what-the struggle is, a class strug- gle, not a race struggle. If a bourgeois grad, a Negro with all the credentials from Fisk and Howard comes in, he cannot tell the field niggers anything about solving their problems, He hardly knows them, let alone help them, Education has to be revolutionary or it isn’t relevant, Black Study programs, as approved by the dif- ferent State school beards is no- where near revolutionary. As a matter of fact it is a reactionary fixation trying to take the cultural throwback to 200 years ago. EVO: How do you feel about the psychedelic culture? Masai: 1 am opposed to any kind of idealism and metaptiysic moon- ism or spookism, I am opposed to getting caught up in wishes and dreams, I dot think that psychedelic trips kill pigs. One may get loaded every now and then but the Party relates to what the masses relate to. We know that the system propagates psychedelic bullshit like they propagate racism because it is a throwback, It hampers and hinders the masses in their struggle toward a truly revolutionary consciousness, The cats that have the conviction that if everybody gets loaded on acid things will be allright, couldn't be more off base. From practice we have reached the conclusion that things don’t necessarily get all- right. We don’t have the time for it. We experienced it, We got as high as we wanted to bet we still knew that we had the bloodsucking businessman, the demagogic politician and the racist pig cop on our backs, Changing our con- sciousness did not change objective reality, If anything it fucks up one’s shooflng eye. Therefore for us psychedelics are more of a hang up than help. I heard a lot of mother country radicals say that they got hip through psychedelics. I say they got hip through nightsticks up at the cemonstrations, through being busted for having long hair, through being jailed because of their beards They got hip through objective reality, through social practice and especially through the practice of class struggle, not psychedelics, EVO; Do you oppose a man’s right to get stoned whenever he wants to, irrelevant of his political ideology? Masai: No, we wouldn't dispute that right by any means, People’s right to get stoned, Just that the Black Panther Party is an organi- zation that demands and must have at all times compact organization and strict discipline. We know that this is impossible on trips, Those out there that want to kill pigs by throwing flowers at them ~ that's up to them. We have different means and tactics to make the pigs act in a desired manner, Point 7 we want an immediate end to police brutality and the murder of black people. The reason this is spelled out is that until last year many people throught that we were exaggerating, They said ‘‘sure pigs brutalize black people a little bit, bat it isn’t as bad as you say,."" But then what went Gown here in Chicago looked like the charging Light Brigade and this time got the white fellows, And then the shit hit the fan, The middle class was really shook up. There were their sons and daughters getting their heads caved in. It was Sooooo outrageous _ but it wasn’t news to us. We are hip to the educational process, What you are getting is a cram course, We went through the Process for 300 years. Now the white middle class and the intel- lectual radicals are getting their cram course in instant oppression. It manifests itself in its highest form in pig brutality. As I said before - ours is a universal pro- gram and the oppressed white will have to reach the same conclusions as we did ~- sooner or later, Polnt 8 we want freedom for all the Blacks held in Federal, State ci City and County prisons and jails, Once again we were accused of being one sided, which isn’t true. The thing we know is that none of us ever had a fair trial. It is impossible the way the court system is set up. We also know that pretty much of the same applies to the working class whites because this is a class society. Point 9 we want all black people brought to trial to be tried by a jury of their peers, members of their own black community, as defined in the constitution, It might be best to use the paper it Is written on as tollet paper so that the whole country can wipe its ass with it. As far as social practice is concerned, it ain't worth shit, Point 10 in summation ~ we want bread, tand, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace, Our main political objective is a UN supervised plebiscite in which only black colonial subjects will be al- lowed to participate for the pur- pose of determining their national destiny, If people aren't hip politically they question the word ‘colonial’. The ghettos are colonies and are occupled byaplgoccupying | force, They may call it city police or county sheriffs but tn reality they all are an occupying army. We don’t need such abstract notions as integration or sep- aration, It is Impossible to inte- ‘grate the slave with the slave master, Neither is it possible to + separate the oppressor from the oppressed without destroying the essence of each. If you really want to get rid of slaves - the greatest and easiest way ts to kill the slave master. EVO: Do you consider yourselves as equals with your fellow con- spirators? Masai: No we don’t, reality points to that, We take the score and see pigs and Panthers going down, We do see a lot of other people getting locked up but we don’t see anybody getting buried. The pig has it for us, Therefore we think that are more of a thorn tn his than anybody has been for a time, There has never been such concentrated effort to kill off leadership and the rank and file of an organization such as the one going on against us, Call us Red or Black or vice versa, We dig Chairman Mao, Ho Chi Minh, we have a profound love for Fidel Castro, I am not talking about their own individual ideological lines, We dig what they are doing, They resist and as long as they resist we have a chanceto survive, People really get hung up behind the communist thing. To that we say that there are no hard core rev- olutionaries here, We just hope one day to measure up to Chair- man Mao and Ho Chi Minh. As far as the others - the Progressive Labor Party, the Socialist Labor Party, the various breeds of Trot- skyites, the SDS, the Yipples, the Hippies, the Sitinners, the Sing- inners, the Dropouts, the Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers - we don’t see any of those on our lovel. Otherwise they would be going to the cemetary as we do, There is no vanity in me saying all this because we would like a whole lot of people to be on our level The Vanguard role is nota pleasant one, but we aren't going to back up a bit. While they try to kill us off, we shail hit back as fast and as hard as we can, We are going to do that because that is the people’s will. But we don’t fool ourselves either that there is anybody for us to really count on now when the shit gets really deep for us, EVO: A lot of people got uptight behind s0 called black antisemt- tism, Where the Black Panther Party stand on this score? Masai: Black people are not anti- semitic. Black people are anti- landlord, anti-pig, anti-demagogic lying polttictans. That's all thereis to it. There are some black so- called leaders who propagate this bullshit to get a lttle space In the papers and make some money by extorting local businessmen, but you will find that working class peaess people all over hate landlords, pigs — and politicians, Therefore we say ‘*POWER TO ALL THE PEOPLE,”’ submitted by Detroit Chapter, Black Panther Party eT aM ae, . THE BLACK PANTHED , MAY 31, 1969 PAGE 17 nti My over’ t — : ~ lve one of tl country they cal i s €-in-the-gr § in the ex- exist to a great ext 8 azor <back orkid in which poor a oppre 4. TY rarmento {T re the survival anther Paz . her ae y ppressed masses free breakfast for t rar eallty In Sacrament it f ai in tt This ; aimed at g i ent Ide he breakfast mw ple in refer ethin ALI TO THE- ent breakfast tt Vednesd ing » { ppre RACT, DISPOSSESSED PEOPLE PIGS WANT ANTHERS OUT BREAKFAST EVERY DAY I 2 a Inc ] bout the finar 1 t- ack anthe arty 1 is nm unde nt pres 1 to we t uti n uization that was built by set th th tuati Slack Paz Newt throt xample, ex i k t i k f ~ ” Th r ee ‘ rting t t ui € t i the uu i is serve the c ] ‘ { tt t ! le, ORE: f f ‘ in f ed by the er t » ORES, < Chi narkiful of but yl nigee rits and a . ~ “ urty se r t PE I u el mj i { how 1 with ar : ad t ! ue Rev. } and thé tof « omach expose these = ; nth nd the e of tt at suckers and sell-outs to the > " t ent tat ng wit c nity as way they weaken f ca < 1 k ° tyr ti l b Ms ! 1 the na is an example of ‘ t Hask ‘ ; ! I how to st the . . 1 mn on t i b ncing the at th t une , is ri ! ack nt t th { ng ¢ ; t I u ih bat ‘ ’ < ke tt t . oh f “ hw " pmunt ‘ 1 t i st t € » t : I ' . did « ¢ rt f " ‘ ruct and Aner ' : ' at gers tt t . ‘ { the dra t « " ‘ i t ‘ fight We . be t ! ‘ ‘ - ht t U . u evictior y , EI I i pe tr } b h f J , VAN x t ‘ oO ve ecasl ulked ¢ ’ : lejo Branet I . ee axdipi-<iabs ceasdlagnsilaptdiiea tect? > <P rare aeeg wee Wf EG 86 Rb ie ag nga ye Gee Say Se Se Se waren ae Sete ete eee ap tena iy ken ae ae ee aoe - - serene - — int re ee NN A ee NO ee 0 ee TRE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1969 PAGE 18 CAPITALISM oF ] . Capitalism, the enemy of the people We the citizens of the oppressed Communities here in America are forced to place their bopes on the Corrupt values and misleading Promises of the capitalist class. We who are oppressedare told that Ur impoverished state of affairs will improve as time oes on. We are appeased by the thought of exercising patience because our problem requires a great deal of time and study, We are inspired to believe that American style capitalism and freedom will eventually reward the entire working class. However, expe- Tience teaches us that the only Teward for the working class isan Wlvsionary dream world that will bever become a reality. The cap- italistic political flunkies have tricked the people into believing the lie and counter-lie about the two party system of democracy. One of their main Hes Is, “If the Demoracts do not help the People, vote for the Republicans,”’ In other words, if one dislikes the ‘Oppression of the Republicans, one Should vote for the oppression of the Democrats. Brothers of the working class you must ask your- self, why are the capitalists of the United States prepared with a shark’s appetite and a tiger’s methods, to conquer a lion's share of the worker's profits? We workers receive a small salary while the capitalists walk off with Il of the profits, There are many illusions in the capitalist system, We members of the Black Panther Party are pre- {pared to deal with the veils of (illusions which cover this evil system and prevent the people rom understanding why they are ‘oppressed. The Black Panther -Party holds no illusions for the _ People. The Panther Party com- prehends what should be done and how it should be done. * Ifthe ruling class wants tobring the pedple and the country out of decadence and om to the road | towards Gevelopment and progress, it must first andforemostturn the / means of production, distribution and exchange over to the people, This foremost first step will bring an ¢nd todomestic as well as inter- National imperialism and op- pression. This first step will hault domestic as well as international crimes against mankind, This first step will also bring life and hope to the many victims in the com- “munity of oppressed people who “suffer at the hands of capitalism Nullify the white capitalists and their henchmen the black cap- ftalists, if for no other reason than for their contemptuous attitude towards the masses of the people, A contemptuous attitude which manifests itself in the scandalous aspects of profit-making. Every- one understands that profit-making ig nothing more than a capitalistic Way to rob the people, Therefore othe working class takes away the ‘Profit for themselves... When we examine the questiono! profit and poverty, we can eastly see that every poverty program that comes out of Washington, Db. C, will never help the op- Pressed people to become self- supporting. Ask yourself, how can @ handful of dollars from Washing- tom, balance off the truck load of dollars that are taken from the workers every minute of the day How ean a fist full of dollars cor- rect the robbery we face every- time we walk into a store? How cap 4 meaningless gift from the class enemies really justify class expiottation? To cover their wretched behavior, the capitalists bring out the veils of contradictions such as, Black people are poor becatise they are black, or white workers catch bell because they did not attend college, Latin- Americans are accused of having under-developed economies, while Vietnamese are told that they have problems because of the com- munist elementg.ie their country We the people af Mie Black Paa- ther Party are @iggusted with the contradictions “Bd counter-con- tradictions, Hes and counter-lies THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE that are promoted by the capitalists The truth of the matter is, all oppressed people of the working class are forced to function in a bigoted, hard stubborn arrogant system of human exploitation. A system which makes little effort to meet the needs of the people, A government which can never over-come the class conflicts, The Black Panther Party has abandoned ajl hopes for the suc- cess of capitalism. We Panthers have abandoned the capitalist system which threatens the workers with police powers. We Panthers reject this government because of the atrocities com- mitted by the ruling class, We Panthers oppose American cap- italism because its leaders have killed more people than any government in the history of man- kind, The Black Panther Party is united with the working class. We are class brothers. As class bro- thers we must agree; 1, Cap- italism is an inferior system, 2, Capitalism never rose except to pillage, because it is control- led by a group of power freaks. 3, Capitalism ts the inferior mon- ster which has over-run every- thing the people, the nation, the reason and the science, 4, We class brothers must remain united against the injustice of oppression, Now we agree that we have an inferior form of government, it becomes easy to see that the national, the state and the local capitalists officials are also in- ferior, Did you ever ask yourself why the Black Panther Party calls for freedom and the power toallow the people to control their destiny? Why? Because we know that cap- italtism is an inferior form af government, The Black Panther Party ts aware of the fact that mational, state and local capitalists are not interested in the well being of the people. According to B.P.P. NATIONAL BAIL MONEY AND LEGAL DEFENSE MONEY NECESSARY NOW FOR BLACK PANTHER PARTY POLITICAL PRISONERS SEND MONEY 10 3106 SHATTUCK BERK. author Frantz Fanon in ‘The Wreched Of The Farth’, “The state which by its strength and dis- cretion ought to inspire confidence and lull everybody to sleep, on the contrary seeks to impose itself fn spectacular fashion. It makes a display, it jostles people and bullies them thus intimating to the citizen that he fs in continual danger,’’ Certainly Fanon is correct, The life of every man, womanand child is endangered by capitalism. There is the danger of world war, the danger of poverty, the danger of oppression apd many other dangers, We Panthers know that the inferior CAPITALIST SYSTEM CANNOT HALT THE PROGRESS of its own dangers am con- tradictions, Pick any capitalist country, be it America, England, France, Germany or Spain, the contradictions will be the same. Any man who has seen the ghettos of Paris, Franco, has seen one of the highest forms of mans in- humanity to man, Any man who has walked through the ghettos of London or Madrid should know that capitalism kills, Inevery capitalist country one will find a ruling class exercising abnormal and savage control over the birth, the life and the death rate of the working class, Thus do our brothers and sisters of the working class decay, driven to death in mills, in the mines and in the ghettos of the capitalists, We are driven, robded and despised in the factory; betrayed, and slaughtered on the tnttlefield; voiceless inthe control of industry, voiceless in the capitalist political conventions, voiceless in the judictary, voiceless in the state amd national executive councils, ridiculed by ‘high society’, scorned everywhere, We must defend our- selves. We must selze the power to control and defend our class everywhere Brothers, if you have minds exercise them for your own class; if you have pride, show it for your class; if you have loyality, prove it for your class; if you have power use it in defense of your class, If you can climb, unite with your class and together we will climb out of this hell of capitalism. Unite for Panther Power, Unite for Peace and Freedom, Unite for POWER TO ALL THE PEOPLE, Ed Williams Iilincis Chapter, Party SAN DIEGO PANTHER MURDERED BY PORK CHOP PIG’S FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1969 At about 3:30 p.m.,, Lt, John Savage was mur- dered on 30th and lmperial Avenue, The brother was accompanied by Lt, Jeffery Jennings, The brothers and myself were headed back to the office, after taking the Defense Captain and a sister to John’s house to get some rest, En- route to the office, I let the brothers off on the corner of 30th and Imperial, parked on the opposite side of Imperial in front of S & M Drug Store was a member of the US organiza- tion, The present situation here in San Diego was getting very touchy every day, Shortly after John and Bunchy were murdered members of » the US organization forcibly entered the office, 14 strong with guns drawn, and talked in terms of peace and unity, under those con- ditions in which we were confronted, And after- wards, there were a series of confrontations, from which nothing went down as a result of all this, | And on Malcolm's. birthday, at a wally a Mountain View Park, several members of the party were there, One of the sister’s of the party was asked to speak to the masses, When the sister was speaking, about birth- control pills and their purpose and the ef- fects of stumblers, which so many of the people are handling. While the sister was talking, the freaks of the US organization, not only did they pull their guns on the mass- es that were at the park paying tribute to Brother Malcolm, they also had their pices pointed at the brothers and the sister talking on the platform, they told the brothers to make it, Then followed up by telling the sister quae, ‘‘Get down and get on bitch,’’ unquote, All this time this was going on the pigs were digging on this from a distance with long range glasses, Early Friday morning four chops had jammed Lt, Jennings, while he was on his way to the pad, Friday evening, the brothers were passing this chop ‘‘Tambuzi"’ and they evidently wasn’t moving fast enough for the chop, The mother fucker got out of the car he was sitting in and told the brothers to get on, As they were walking away, the chop grabbed Lr, Savage by the shoulder and jammed a ,.38 auto- matic into the back of his neck and mur- dered him, At this moment, we don’t know if the pigs have caught the sissy, But we of the Black Panther Party will not accept the cold blooded murdering of not only our brothers here in San Diego, but we will not allow the murderers of all the warriors of the Vanguard to continuely be perpetuated against us, Black Panther HEADQUARTERS Panther Power Lt, Chairman Mo, Meran K PA l JUNE 7 TH ONE DAY ONLY SATURDAY S.F OAKLAND BAY AREA iowinwgs in America oe Sen ss THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAT, MAY 31, 1969 PAGE 20 REPRESSION AND HARASSMENT OF L.A. PANTHERS STEPPED UP The Los Angeles Structure, in accordance with na- tonal plans, has stepped up Its program of repression of the L.A Panthers, In a less than one month Pig Power Period (late April to mid May) 42 Panthers in L.A. were arrested 4 total of 56 times, So far, over $100,000 bail has been set for the 42 brothers. Through com nt lawyers and a lot of hassle over bail money, bails have been re- duced and most of the brothers are out of jail, Also, many have had thelr obviously phony char dropped. But, the Party funds are being drained and worthwhile pro- grams slowed down, In addition to arrests on phony charges, brothers and sisters homes have been raided by the pigs, apartments that Panthers had rented have been burned just prior to occupancy, The Ashgrove (a forum for radical and revolution- ary art) was mysteriously burned 2 days before the beginning da sing- ing engagement t e by our Com munications Secretary, and veral rooms of the First Unitarian Church were burned a week befor« our announced Conference withthe a0- Friends of the Panthers. The Watts office has been raided twice in the past month and burgl ed at night, Since that time, it Is no longer nex ry to open the door of the Watts office, you can climb through the completely broken 2 front w ws or walk hi the door, T Westside us been raided twice in that period, and burglarized. (It should also be noted that haras- sment by the pigs has in fact ex tended to the members of the newly organized Friends of the Panthers One female member was mysteri- ously pushed down a flight of stairs » her home; and one of the nenm’s car was recently bur- glarized and vazdalized,) This type of repression and harassment only serves todraw the ines more clearly to the People. With each Panther office raldedor arrest made, more people cc out to observe and protest. T! © people realize more Clearly thatthe pig {ts present to oppress amito serve the pig power structure ALL POWER Southern B TO THE PEOPLE alifornia Chapter k Panther Party A MESSAGE OF REALITY TO OPPRESSED PEOPLE The minority peoples of white America must rise whthin ¢ selves. Awake from the lon sleep they have been forced tolive with, Clear your minds and become aware of the situation plauging yourselves and your families, You're the vietir anation which has chosen many years ago toa hKilate you through years of op- pression, White America continues to spread her lethal forces or per- haps elements to harm oppressed peoples of America and abroad, America will see you starve cause you are starving throw you in her correcti tutions which is incorrect for poli- tical prisdmers of oppressed people of white America. Never the loss she deems this a necessity to pro- tect the affluem society, who in turn free wheelingly butchers you be- be Young Lord Who Was murdered by ( fore your vory cyes...s0 get the sleep out of your eyes fast, and support the vangu: k out against those whot or troy the truth. Give r heart and thoughts to the vanguard. W the Support of the oppre Black, Brown and éven those whites who have nothing. America has used her color of white to trick poor whites into be- lieving that they are Just poor. You really better wake-up and realize Red, Yellow she "ll kill you as fast a. nl murder blacks. I know white A- inerica has blinded your souls with prejudl feelings towar all minorit coups; especially lacks and Latin-American speaking peo- ple, So you too must awake from that dead sleep, and cry out against her ways of treachery, Support the vanguard, may ft be the Black Pan- ther Party, SDS, Young Lords, funeral of Mant irren ‘hicago Pigs all other e immediate Young Patriots Parties involved ir liberation of oppr You see America “ally stand for democracy she is a ser- peant who uses her fangs to poison your reals America belleves in the following Affluent Society Adultress, Min Murders, Ec- nomical Expansion For The Rich Who Control Political Wigs, In crimination And Distorting The Consciousness Of The Oppr Americans, in white Americ oples. ed . That speels Ameri ~ she has proven these conditl over and over again Carlo Henderson BLACK BROTHER Bronx, New York J igen * we {amos, Charles Cox Murdered BEAT TO DEATH The Black Panther Program was Goveloped by the people and point number seven states ‘We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people’. The following incident shows the ne- cessity for this polnt and de- struction of the plg police force, On May !, 20-year-old Charles Cox was murdered by the pigs. Brother Charles had beenarrested on a disorderly conduct charge and accused of threatening several people whit a knife in a neighbor- hood tavern, o complaints or charges were pressed by those who were supposed to haw been threat. ened. Charles Cox was arrested at 6 p.m, after waiting for the pigsto come and get him, his family was hot notified of his arrest and death until 7:45 a.m, Wednesday when Charles’ brutally beaten body lay in the pig morgue The pig head doctor in charge ® morgue had done an au- y on the head and chest of the body. Knowing they (the pigs) mur- dered poor Charles, the pigs then THE P OF RE Reform 1s, at best, a superficial Iteration of the American capi- talist system, It is nothing more than a token effort to dilute the revolutionary powers that now hold the ucture in a of crisis and to counter organized efforts owards ¢ plete iberation. Its advocates are capitalist politicians and profiteers, which, by their af- filiations, are counter-revolution- nents, constituency of reformation bh that it is, in fact, a profit- able business venture, Private en- terprise, which, of social factions that nvoly themselves he practice of reform, Is the j- ority, recelves government substi dies as a result of their efforts to Increase the Incomes of the lower class, The American gov- ernment itself allots financial a moually to non profit organi- zations and governs abroad in an effort to, in re y time The foreign recipients of these fin- ancial llocations ar obliged to import American arms ther y Products toassur: ipitalists that they will not lose noney. The condition wr which fit organiza ‘are tout- lize fe } fund 5 toda) Lib- eration, as @ result of this utili zation, impossible I feel obliged, now, to make It rystal clear that [| whx loheartily endorse the alleviation of se verely detremental economic conditions, sent out apig mortician who wanted charge of the body The family grew very suspicioes because of the pig mortician’s in- sistance on handling the body and the difficulty of picking up the clothes Charles had worn that night. When the family mortician was called in, he discovered bruises all over the body, The doc- tor employed by the family said, the cause of death was two blows on the head. THE PIGS BEAT HIM TO DEATH, So far this plg power structure has not taken any steps towards bringing the true nature of this crime to the peopie. The people have to understand that murder of innocent, oppressed People will comtinue as long as the pig power structure determines the will of the people ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN- GUARD Cheryl Calvin Peterson & Capt. Willie Black Panther Party LITICS FORM Bot, as a result of my love for the people, I cannot truly regard this 35 an end within itself It ts im- perative that reform be cited, as it truly and most assuredly is, a suppressive working of the cap- ttalist machinery, It is a tool of merican liberalism. itis inittally a gift. The people have not seized the results of reform with their own hands, In this, they are drained of the human incentive to com- pletely Liberate the mselves, Also, as if the previous is not enough, it is the Marxian concept and my belfef that man Lifes in his work. Human creativity tstheave- nue of self-expression, Life ishu- man ex si lan, while forced to sell human energies to sus- existance of himself and , has been drained ofhis ativity, his expression that creativity and, con. us life. As a result of througt sequen éform, the capitalist m achinery is nhewly-of and efficient in its hn- man alienation Man cannot completely liberate himself if not ¢ the opportunity to overcome his dominance by cap- ttal, Man cannot truly approach Mis atu tate of peace and Soy while he is a cog in the capitalist mach- iner eform cannot bring the re- oftotal revolution. Laberation inevitable, POWER TO THE PEOPLE Larry Jones October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want What We Believe ‘REE HUEY Minister of Defense, Black Panther Party 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter- mine our destiny 2. We want full employment for our people We believe that the feder i] povernment is responsible and obligated to ive every man employment or a gual nteed income. We believe that if the white American businessmen will not give full employment, then the means of production shou d be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and em ploy all of its people 4 | give a high standard of living CC THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, MAY 31,1969 PAGE 21 3. We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our Black Com munity We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the forty acres and two mules, Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency 1 will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Ger mans murdered six The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make werdue debt of million Jews 4, We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperauives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a know!l- edge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the mili tary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or- ganizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self-defense. 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. We believe that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, en- vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man” of the black community 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis- cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it ls the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness, Pru- dence. indeed, will dictate that governments long established-should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown. that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are ufferable. than to right then selve s by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. Bat, when a long train of abuses and unsurpations, pur suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab solute despotism, It is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern ment, and to provide new guards for their future security -_— ' ’ ’ ' ’ ; : ' ‘ er. ver om om gents Ya tiliians THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1969 PAGE 22 : 1% eee ww eee ‘ ‘ . ——=- a’ aitmuengteen oss * ae ewe we ~S re en a a ee ee re rites r 4 wear er ws ee ow we wm ee eee ee Se ee et NL eRe Ae eo SD ee pink aighishpibopabiiaelaae —— : ee | THE DEBT TO SOCIETY “a VERSUS SOCIETY’S SOUL ON ICE? 4 “IT IS ONLY A MAT- TER OF TIME UNTIL THE ‘QUESTION OF PRISONER’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- gions and that he has been denied his constitutional right to due process of iw. The revocation of Cleaver’s parole wes illegal. because no parole violation was committed. The Adult Authority parole bourd 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. re 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. - ° Astothe charge of association with individuals of bad reputation, the report indicated that two or three of those named had “police records,” but nothing to show whether any had been convicted of anything, or whether Cleaver knew of their arrest record.” (Superior Court ct. 137, 158, 140, lal.) Parolee Cleaver was denied due process of law by being denied opportunity to present bis case. Why was Cleaver returned to prison as a parole violator if document- ed evidence to the contrary had been presented in his defense? To answer that question, one must examine the Adult Authority. This board has the right to arbitrarily revoke or suspend parole on any individual. At the same time, the Adult Authority maintains—falsely—that Cleaver has the oppor- tunity to defend himself at a hearing. This is how it works: “A parolee is sérved with violation charges, is interviewed, is given a hearing (before the Adult Authority itself, the charging party) at which the parolee may ‘plead’ to the parole violation charges, and is afforded an op- portunity to present his defense.” “At the ‘hearing’ a parolee is denied the right to counsel, may not have an independent and impartial officer to conduct the hearing and make decision.” (Petition for Hearing in the Supreme Court, p! 17) Not only does the Adult Authority hold secret hearings, but it also refuses to notify persons under its jurisdiction of its procedures, or of its variable definitions of what constitutes a parole violation. This secrecy and vagueness is in direct violation of federal law which requires agencies to publish their procedures “for guidance of the public.” “Petitioner (Cleaver) is immediately and seriously prejudiced by the Adult Authority's unlawful refusal to publish its regulations, since he is to be imprisoned by virtue of an action which the Adult Authority still seeks to garb in this ‘veil of secrecy.’ (Petition for Hearing in the Supreme Court, p. 12) Yes, the Adult Authority acted unjustly and illegally. Its decision was an outlaw decision. Cleaver had no chance of obtaining “justice” from these Stur Cluunber proceedings. Why thea wouldn't the U.S. Supreme Court hear Cleaver’s case? There ure, we believe, three reasons why the case wasn't accepted. The first is that any fair minded court would obyious- lv have released Cleaver, thereby setting a precedent. The second is that thousands of cases of alleged parole violation from all over Califormiu und 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. his contemporaries. Not only was there absence of cause for the cancella- tion of parole, it was the product of a type of pressure ing, 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 than lip service to the con- cepts of freedom and justice we must support him, disc! from parole must continue. An intense p' necessary now to bring to the public the legal defe on, an which were carried to the courts with no satisfacti "We issu Lee. eT u hs Po together to focus attention of this case. This is not freedom, but a broad struggle which affirms the ri out politically in this country. If Cleaver is not owed of all his just a matter of time until all our freedoms are further reduced. His personal struggle but a political one. SPONSORS WRITERS | Bertrand Russell James Hakiwin Murray Kemptow Allen Geasherg Herbert Gold Kay Hoyle * Oscar Lewis Terry Southere Norman Mailer LeRoi Jones Lawrence Ferlingherts Andeew Kophind Dwight MacDonald Doeald Duncam WH. Ferry Jack Newfick Nat Henthotl Susan Sontag Rob Netw ¥. Mamitten fankey Kets Sunley Keufeman I enclose Address Please add my name to the to Defend Eldridge Cleaver, to assist the legal e campaign to publicize and promote Eldridge C Julian Mayfield Emile Caperuya Tana de Gamez Muriel Rukeyser Arthur Waskow ‘Carks Monsivais George Hiicheock Tike Olen Jean Paul Sartre * Mes. Richard Wright Christiane Rochefort Julia Wright Herve Dane! Guenn Yves Loyer Gerard Chahand M ad Hourboune David Welsh THEATRE PALMS ARTS Godtrey Cambwidge - Jetes Davis Malvina Reynodds Rudy Dee Sterley Clarke Sau! Lowduu Ed Bullins Gil Turner Open Theatre Elsa Knight Thompac sho Carpenter 1 would like to join the efforts of all those w dridge Cleaver trom political persecution. list of sponsors of the International Committee ses and the Committee's eaver's defense, NED een eee LABOR Jim Lennon Sediney Lens PROFESSORS Hans Kowngsherper Ashley Montage Conor Crave O'Brien Douglas F. Dood DF. Fleming C. Wake Savage Donald Kalish * Howard S. Thecker Maurice Zealin Sideey M. Peck Noam Choemhy Richard Lichuman J.B. Neilamds Montgom ry Furth William Lieder Stephen Smaie Donald B. McLeod Cyril Epsicia Koger Ditimann A.W. Herman O, Revault d Alloanes Madekine Rikerous Lourent Schwartz A. Sohoul Staughion Lynd ML Sis David Amram POL FTICS RKeies Loper Tigerina Jesse Ciray Vhoyd MoRissiek James Forman Juhan Hond Tom Hayden I can volunteer some time to help the Committee Maria Jolas Denis Berger d Fanon Mrs. Betty Staharz Stokely Carmochuet Carl Oghesby ATTORNEYS Harr Nier Les Hom Mal Burnsicin Paul Halvoeth Sherwin A. Shayne Fogene Deikmas M. Lafuc-V com MR. Phassoe Suite Givele Halim © scar Rambe. M.D. Phi Shapero, MD. Carlton Cexnilett, M.D. Robert E. Greenberg. M.D, eDirogs Angus Cameron Irvang Bourn Arthur Wang Aar om Asher Joe Fox Rikhard Hueat JR. Talbo Manilyam Meeker Leo Hoterm In Carey Mc Williages Robert Silvers Jobe J. Simon Theodore Soltaeult POLITICAL PRISONER HUEY NEWTON ee ec ce INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE TO DEFEND ELDRIDGE CLEAVER ho are working to defend El- Date —. ee creel | TS PE EB Ml Thad State me ls polit ne Eldridge Cleaver is a victiin of naked, shameless tion. As Judge Sherwin puts it ria POCO codec al Organization or Tite ——___ The uncontradicted evidence presented to this court lodicated that the petitioner had been a model parolee. The peril to his parole states stemmed from no failure of personal rehabilitation, but from his undue elo- quence in pursuing politic al goals, goals which were offensive to many ol ICDEC, 495 Beach Street, San Francisco, Calif. 4133 Robert Scheer, Director PN i ; A SR --——_— oe SUBSCRIPTION FORM mmm Support Your Newspaper-- subscribe Today! 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Submit tc BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER 3106 SHATTUCK AVE. BERKELEY, CALIF. RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, . Every member of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY throughout this country of racist America must abide by these rules as functional mem- bers of this party. CENTRAL COMMITTEE members, CENTRAL STAFFS, and LOCAL STAFPS, including all captains subordinate to either national, state, and local leadership of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY will enforce these rules. Length of suspension or other dis- ciplinary action necessary for violation of these rules will depend on national decisions by national, state or state area, and local committees and staffs where said rule or rules of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY WERE VIOLATED. Every member of the party must know these verbatum by heart. And apply them daily. Each member must report any violation of these rules to their leadership or they are counter-cevolutionary and are also subjected to suspension by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. THE RULES ARE: 1. No party member can have narcotics or weed in his possession while doing party work. 2. Any party member found shooting aarcotics will be expelled from this party. 3. No party member can be DRUNK while doing daily party work, 4. No party member will violate rules relating to office work, general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANYWHERE. 5. No party member will USE, POINT, or FIRE a weapon of any kind unnecessarily or accidentally at anyone. 6. No party member can join any other army force other than the BLACK LIBERATION ARMY. 7. No party member can have a weapon in his possession while DRUNK or loaded off narcotics or weed, 8. No party member will commit any crimes against ofher party members or BLACK people at all, and cannot steal or take from the people, not even a necdie or a piece of thread. : 9. When arrested BLACK PANTHER MEMBERS will give only name, address, and will sign nothing, Legal first aid must be understood by all Party members, 10. The Ten Point Program and platform of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must be known and understood by cach Party member. 11. Party Communications must be National and Local. 12. The 16-10-10-program should be known by all members and abso understood by all members. 13, All Finance officers will operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance. 14. Each person will submit a report of daily work. 15. Each Sub-Section Leader Section Leader, Lieutenant, uml Captain must submit Daily reports of werk, 16. All Panthers must learn to operate and service weapons correctly, 17. All Leadership personnel who expel a member must submit this information to the Editor of the Newspaper, so that it will be published in the paper and will be known by all chapters and branches. 18. Political Education Classes are mandatory for general member- ship. 19. Only office personnel assigned to respective offices cach day should be there. All others are to sell papers and do Political work out in the community, including Captains, Section Leaders, ete. 20. COMMUNICATIONS — all chapters must submit weekly re- ports in writing to the National Headquarters. 21, All Branches must implement Fiet Aid and/or Medical Cadres. 22. All Chapters, Branches, and components of the BLACK PAN. THER PARTY must sobmit a monthly Financial Report to the Minis- try of Finance, and abo the Central Committee. 23. Everyone ina leadership position mast read no bess than two hours per day to keep abreast of the changing political situation, 24. No chapter or branch shall ac COR Rrants, poverty funds, money or any other aid from aay goverament agency without contacting the National Headquarters 25. All chapters must adhere to the policy and the ideology laid down by the CENTRAL COMMITTEE ‘of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. 26, All Branches must submit weekly reports in writing to their re- spective Chapters. 8 POINTS OF ATTENTION 1) Speak politely. 2) Pay fairly for what you bay. 3) Returdé cserything you borrow, 4) Pay for anything you damage, 5) Do not hitor swear at people. 6) Do not damage property or crops of the poor, oppressed masses. 7) Do not take libertics with women, &) I we ever have to take captives do not iktreat them, 3 MAIN RULES OF DISCIPLINE 1) Obey orders in all your actions 2) Do not take a single needle or a piece of thread from the poor and oppressed ImEsses, ) Tore in everything captured from the attuching enemy THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1969 PAGE > wed al at el en _—~—<—-=-« _—=—<--- ~--- we seeweenwos i ee we te ae <a > | gee ¥ , nn Pete -_——=<* =~ Peas | BERKELEY, LAST WEEK, PEOPLE FACE GUARD - LATER, REAGAN’S FASCISM IN AMERICA THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE IS CREATER THAN THE MAN'S TECHNOLOG)