Vol. 3, No. 8

THE BLACK PANTHER == Black Community News Service WEEKLY THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY , aad ane ; INEED FOR BRE KFA T FOR CHILDREN FEED FOR COMMUNITY anaes OF POLICE EAS FASCIST/ capitalist CONTRADICTIONS STARVING +e BLACK CHILDREN ANTHER SATURDAY, J L.A. PANTHERS BEGIN NE 4 14,1%9 Page 3 FREE BREAKFAST PROGRAM <j our program int I Huggins, Deputy Minister ation southern Chapter, Janu rograrn Several weeks before we sta the progr we sent letters to ap- proximately 250 to 30) retail and stores inthe community, commodities for the he response fr these mce the program r, we did an official of unty Human iggested that hecking the br it in term whether verait ersity ist Church (Budlong bara Avenues), A members fr thorough ] ing facilities about rams buttons and ask tat} laily THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1969 Page 4 THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS TAKEN FROM A WRIT OF HABEAS CORPUS FILED BY ATTORNIES ON BEHALF OF THE NEW YORK PANTHER 21 E, LEE BERRY (25 years old) is nowhere mentioned in the indictment, It is neither al- leged that he agreed with anyone to do any- thing nor that he committed any overt acts, He has been a resident of New York for approximately 15 years and has been living with his wife at 169 Jamaica Avenue, Brook- lyn, N.Y. for the past six months, His wife gave birth to his first child on March 25, 1969, He has never been arrested or convicted of any crime. He entered the United States Army on July 20, 1964, and received an hon- orable discharge therefrom on April 20, 1966, after serving 7-1/2 months in Vietnam, He is 70% permanently disabled, due service - connected epilepsy, and receives a Veterans’ Disability Pension of approximately $400 a month, He is unable to maintain a job be- caise of his generally poor health and the frequency and severity of his epileptic attacks as is stated in his V.A. pension, Sincehis dis- charge from the Armed Services, he has done photographic wor and, since the Fall of 1968, has been an actor in the Oppressed People’s Cheater of the Black Panther Party, Seizures in the last weeks of March, 1969, and was admitted to the Veterans Administra- tion Hospital at 24 Street and First Avenue, New York, N.Y., while suffering a seizure, He awoke the next morning covered with blood, He continued receiving intensive treatmen* and medication in the hospital, although he suf- fered more mild seizures thereafter, aforesaid arres was made by District Ponte 1969, which satd all news 1 dia, For examn!l Hs ; | Paz2 1 of the New Yor News and fea- tured as the key story of day on Page 3 thereof (Exhibit “‘C’’), The New York Post also ran an extensive story on | noon editions (Exhibit ‘‘D’’), All radio and television stations in the metropolitan area featured the story for a considerable time after Mr, Hogan’s press conference, which, among others, was attended by representatives of WCBS-TV, WNBC-TV, WNEW - TV, WABS-TV, WOR-TV and WPIX - TV, When petitioners’ attorneys learned of their avresis, they attempted to see their clients who were then being held at Mr. Hogan’s office, They were refused permission to do so (Counsel! requested only two minutes with their clients,), in violation of Escobedo v, state of Illinois, 378 U.S, 478, and related cases decided by the United States Court, When the 12 arrested petitio t , subsequently arraigned later that (All said petitioners pleaded as did petitioners Epps and Berry , the State of New York, County of New a similay request by said counsel was subsequent azraignments,), Supreme C by Justice Charles Marks who presided thers ———————— SSS tr= Petitioners are being deprived of their right to interview witnesses for their defense; they have been deprived of the right to see counsel together and to have contact with each other, hey have not been givenaccess to newspapers to interview witnesses for their defense; they have been deprived of the right to see counsel together and to have contact with each other, They have not been given access to newspapers to discuss with counsel the truth or falsity of a‘legations made continually therein, Visitors to all the prisoners have been harassed intermittently and racial slurs have been leveled at white wives of black prison- ers, name'y Mrs, Powell and Mrs, Collier, The following day, the News, in a leading article, related the fire-bombing of a Negro >hurch in Jamaica, Queens, The story indi- that ‘‘Police speculated that the incident was the work of black militants at odds with the nonviolent views of the church’s pastor, the Rev, Donald Ming, described as a mod- erate,’’ Ming was quoted as stating that the bombing ‘‘might have been the work of the Biack Panthers, possibly ....’’ The name2 ‘‘Panthers’’ appeared throughout the articlein 1 manner deliberaie!y calculated to create the impression that they were, insome mysterious fashion, responsible for the incident at the church, To add to the hardly subliminal at- tack, the paper carried a cartoon on its edi- toria] page showing a caricature of Premiere Fidel Castro with a black panther draped over his shoulders and bearing the legend, TRUE LOVE, Following the dismissal of the aforesaid writs of habeas corpus, additional petitions were again filed with the Supreme Court, These writs were brought on for a hearing John M, Murtagh in Part specially selecte.! by the ) case, The District At- York County has, for many i full control of the scheduling criminal cases, even to the extent of se- lecting particular justices for the trial of certain ones, It is well known tha* Justice Muriagh is one of the present incumbent justices especially favored by the District Attorney, On May 22, 1969, eight Black Panthers were taken into custody in New Haven, Connecti- cut and charge! with the brutal torture-mu~- ler of one Alex Rachley, In releasing thenews of the said ar Police Chief James F, Ahern said ‘‘There was a ‘direct link’ between the killing and the recent arrests in New York of 21 Black Panthers who were charged with conspiring to bomb several !arze department . raw ?? hic me ur > ne AP stores, [his was widely reported in metro- politan newspapers Hibit oN » aS can be seen fom Ex- lt is obvious from the above that it is ut- trial in this rights etitioners to have a fair I fundamental idiciary ther ilternative, if Continued on next page ME BLACK PANTHER | SATURDAY, JUNE 14,1969 ~ © Page § a Continued from last paqe OF HABEAS CORPUS law has any meaning at al ut for this Court to grant the relief 1 quested herein, Othe: wise, these petitioners are d >d to a legal | lynching without parallel in ecent times labeled nankind . against the rovide a rem . Now inthe form f remedy for the into the , free- endwe unlawfully incarcerated with their 1969 rently scheduled for June 10, BLACK PIG INSTRUMENTAL |_({tassnent my SS an \ugust Lau- § aid yes, Iv d thim for hed the 31 badge what is this, he ace Ln ab Tt ea the federal warrant and n hand. I asked him Ss this and what are you doing fe replied show up at this lace which was on the warrant then asked the pig what was this rant about. I then asked If this rnal Revenue Charge that he could any information. I then him what ki of game is issu solr ling that you alked out what was what to work then went tc library look and see what the charge was, 2not have be ystem: charge staff me Jefense Cap- went through and then cal- AB SWeT inesday Peek ipftain then t ? rhe trying to govern diculous range pig Ge Sahani Malik Peekskill. New York Branch Black Panther Party THE BLACK Xn eR SATURDAY YONE 14/1969 7"! age 6 21-LETTERS FROM JAI the York City’ spr Black and They fa sider that 9 f population Rican. If I cot the rest this prison ts sure that the | will do thet: but I an alloy t camps ion made lamper kidnappin noutl titutional I a1 n Stead of killin to keep us being, but tance with of the people wh ¢ looked with « being ut as ination of Black peopl You have a c of ou. If then you black mar worker, Then be revoltent 1 yreater thanth revolutior annot erick Douglas: less a pers than Fr stated quite son ‘lf there is no progr to favor fret recat t yet der ground, They hout thunder ant the mu em in the i of of cx Nunes, the and roductior people the C. SQUIRE FREE THE N.Y. 21 DHARUBA ir exploitation that have because nination, but upon stricken Blacks work and what of the millions of Povert Who like mo pressed pe lack even the ba of self-determination of hard millions like the j inhabitants ar vorldwide exploitation, lonialism. A ica the Black pe cist political f majority of yple fuse the time bomb that ha ticking way in their back and pro smen and politician n bay hat itation and ap- Liti invaluable. and Black they work ith and through of our Bootlicking Po aitors are exploltation the only way! They yal and refuse todraw cation line between and the enemy of our They fear struggle, the people attained an and determina- vould lose what elves armed power drop- fir must be nust not fall short of and devotions to the d people, The turn to for oro- cadre ppresse I ty adre the 1 until they e capitalist racists have en them. These punks are deg. and rightl) so. Because the 5 ofoppressed and downtrog. wlll deal with them, harshly than we wij] his master. There cag compromise, no granting of y good niggers. There olution for Black Peg. an revolution. Wedonot but it has been prover again, that fie Douglass stated over gq ears ago ‘Power nothing without demand", and oppressed people the world over have stated their demands for half a century, and now mé¢ to exert the con- ution! Utter and ore it becomes + can no longer oppressive racist { world ex. we allow our~ to oppress other us seek to deter- rate masse den people more even vith eing Frederick hundred concedes the ar sequence total change her that Black ith the upitalistic sys no entif can used like ywn destiny, This na- violence, sustained Perish of claiming violence’, world situation, Revolution n the people re- in the old way, cannot The so unsolvable urban crisis con- country is one aspect. that is striving to its army to wage wars and repression at home, is ina state of crisis, with no end to the war in sight, and no end to inflation. On top of this the people are sick of higher taxes, to get in return less Public and higher prices of goods, and it goes on and on Surely it must end somewhere, Where? Either in a Police state, which will bring on Revolution, or” in a redistribution of the wealth | Either will bring about revolution, © both are linked, both must come” before the people of this country — them to decide which its going to be, | Dharuba with and ructure function in the way. called ting this economy) abroad just services, for { will havea weakstrength, You must also, function to your fullest peak without rest most of the time, you have to give up your job to function , then do so. You are Revolution: Freedom Fighters, With the unity strength inthe cadre, you will have a better under- standing of one another, You will other to fron out his r differences. You must ¢ri- each other on positive things t behind each others back good, not bad, if you correct criticism, it brings understanding of on8 have to tighten elationship with one another going with each other, way to bring you closer an understnading of love unity. [If you have to have re- lationships it must be within the If you do not understand why, ) tighten the unity and love yu. If you go astray it will ak, and you will bede- st study hard, and the man, becaus® 1 received the uttonary letters s and they really s to a higher level, fully help each Criticism is use the better t is a together nd rd ’ lake you we ated. You n ays watch two letters one for the cadre rning an inmate nt could r news ees NeW YORK 2 21 FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS PREE THE | HARLEM N.Y. 2! BAILMONEY | pupers NEEDED. J SEND TO BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOX 1224 eae BROOKLYN 11202 | (2:20 NEW YORK Picucnce POLITICAL PRISONER ; FRED HAMPTON Ie : ay f 3 3 : % - : i ; $ . ’ } > : 4 : ’ ; : INTIMIDATION: AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE PANTHERS DENOUNCE SENTENCE OF FRED HAMPTON DEPUTY CHAIRMAN INDIANA CHAPTER ARRESTED ON ASSAULT AND BATTERY CHARGE ee ih } THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JUNE 14 CONT . FROM LAST ISSUE THE CIA AS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER Incorporated in 1960 as International Features Service, a press agency bringing the thoughts of Hubert Humphrey to the people of the Third World, Peace With Freedom we nonprofit and reorganized in 1962 under the direction of Murray Baron, vice president of New York’s Liberal Party To insure a credible operation, Baron brought in NAACP head Roy Wilkins, who in turn ed the United Auto Workers’ Walter Reuther to come aboard. The CIA, of course came up with the cash to help bring the combined forces of American civil rights and liberalism to Africa. PWF’s income for 1963 consisted of $27,826 from the International Develop ment Foundation, a conduit, and $130,799.78 from the dummy Price Fund. A mere $765.75 accrued from “other source Funding in the following years was the same story, all CIA sources—though the total had more than doubled by 1966 convin By 1965, the original press agency operation had grown by leaps and bounds; it maintained 24 representatives around the world and published in 22 languages. Among the m popular writers, along with Humphrey, were Tom M and Roy Wilkins Mboya had not been forgotten in the shift to PWF. The to the KFL tion of its weekly newspaper, Mfanyi Kasi (Worker Solidarity in English and Swahili. But this support now figured in a far broader context than it had in the past. PWF created and financed a whole string of East African organiz the East African Institute of Social and Cultural Affairs, the East African Publishing House (now reorganized as new organization contributed $40 00% for pul Press), the Jomo Kenyatta Educational Institute, the Kenneth Kuanda Foundation and the Milton Obote Foundation in Uganda It was an entire prefabricated cultural and intellectual infrastructure, reaching from the elite academic setting to the mass media of radio and pamphleteering. It aimed, in the favored phrase, at “nation building,”’ shaping a social infra- Structure, an elite and an ideological base. In Kenya, Peace With Freedom's operation was practically all-encompassing The principal exception was the Lumumba Institute, opened on December 13, 1964 (Independence Day). Although Ken yatta himself was the nominal patron, real co:trol lay in the hands of Vice President Odinga and the left, whose cadres it trained In the following year, Kenyr: a was encouraged to move against Odinga, cementing the deal he had negotiated with Attwood. The Constitution was revised to strip Odinga’s vice presidential office of its power; his post in Kenyatta’s political party was eliminated, his trade union base (competitive with the KFL) reorganized out of existence. When bh the vice presidency in protest, Odinga was succes fully shut And decree when it students objected to the government's forn::.'ation of “Af rivan Socialism.” While the left was kk ¢ PWF's cultural-political complex was operating to keep the resigned out of effective campaigning in the subsequent election the Lumumba Institute was dissolved by execut: destroyed nation on an even keel, providing stable mechanisms for what could be misinterpreted as constructive dissent and in effect defining the limits of legitimate social and political debate. One man working with PWF in Kenya, Heinz Berger, described the significance of his program to us, saying its ‘existence means there is no gap which some other country or ideology could fill.” When Ambassador Attwood departed from Kenya in 1966 he expressed satisfaction with what had been accomplished there: “White fears of blacks in power in Kenya had proved to be unfounded; a white Kenyan was still minister of agri culture and 1700 Englishmen still worked in various branches of the Kenyan government Odinga and the demagogues were out of office. The men moving up hardworking and practical minded. When they talked about Kenya's agricultural Walt Rostow; they spoke of available credit, fair prices, technical revolution they sounded like assistance and the cash purchase of tools and consumer goods,” U.S. exports had grown from $13.5 million in 1963 to $31.6 million three years later when Attwood left. It was quite a record for Attwood. But then, as he himself has modestly observed an Ambassador who treats his CIA chief as an integral member of his Country Team will generally find hima useful and cooperative associate. I know I did.” There have been setbacks since, however—four of PWF's top men were refused entry in February 1968 by pro-British Home Minister Daniel Moi who alleged they were connected with the CIA, after which PWF's New York office shut down and the organization disappeared. And the problem of Ken yatta’s successor may prove dangerous since discontent 1s widespread and growing and the economy is in trouble. But these difficulties notwithstanding, Attwood's enthusiastic recounting of how “Black Power in Kenya’ had avoided , 1969 were unemotional, Page 10 demagogues and had ceased to be something to be feared is impressive. It could almost serve as an expression of the current devout and determined wish for just such a development of Black Power in the United States. Certainly the lessons of Africa have not been lost on those who have consecrated their wishes with coins in the fountain of black capitalism and cultural nationalism. But the carry-over to the present case goes beyond mere tactical experience taken to heart by the The CIA may no longer be the vanguard agency, but the momentum in the ideology that was manipulators of black destiny set in motion continues strong, and there is continuity in the very personnel. People who provided the racial cover are still proving remarkably serviceable in that same role today [VI IN THE SHADOW OF MALCOLM x] DECIDEDLY “RESPONSIBLE” a black leader, Roy Wilkins’ involvement with such CIA operations as AMSAC and Peace With Freedom may His public orienta ECAUSE HE IS SO not seem an z ute incongruity tion toward established power has never marked him as a revolutionary enragé. He did, for example, call the nation’s ivil rights leaders together in 1964 to forge a consensus for a moratorium of mstrauions, sO aS nol to embarrass Johnson and aid Goldwater. The case of James ROY WILKINS Farmer, however (who alone, except for John Lewis of SNCC, He and CORE, which he headed from 1961 to 1966, have come down on the rejected Wilkins’ proposal), is quite different militant side of the “Movement,” from being in the forefront of the Freedom Rides—which Farmer led and for which he was jailed—to the adoption of the slogan “Black Power” long before it became a way to public acceptance. The most dis- s “direct action” ruptive civil ri campaigns in northern cities were sponsored by CORE, with Farmer's leadership and sup- port. Nevertheless, even at the height of these years of activist militancy, Farmer could be found serving as an effective, if unwitting, instrument of CLA operations Farmer's most significant service was done in the course of Africa, the first of which took place in 1958. Farmer had already passed into the Agency's two CIA-sponsored trips to orbit from *50 to "54, when he served as national secretary of the youth affiliate of the nominally socialist and fiercely (if Industrial De- The Student League (SLID) was an associate member of the CIA-financed International Union of Socialist not exclusively) anticommunist mocracy (LID) League for Youth. (SLID was not considered sufficiently socialist for full membership.) SLID itself received funds to maintain its international contacts from the Agency's prime conduit on the student front, the Foundation for Youth and Student Affairs. Here Farmer picked up the orientation and the contacts which made it inevitable that the CIA would cross his path again After leaving SLID, Farmer went to work for the New York based State, County and Municipal Employees Union, gaining the post of international representative. Farmer caught the Arnold Zander, who y involved in the CIA's Zander selected Farmer for the attention of the union's ex-president was himself deeply and knowledge: international labor program African tour; he was to represent their own public employees union on a hve-member delegation of the Public Services International, which as part of the International Confedera- tion of Free Trade Unions was earlier seen to be a mainstay of CIA operations in Kenya and Africa generally during this period. The 15-nation PSI tour was part of the overall “clean union” program being conducted by the Agency in Africa PSI President Zimmernuss, in reporting what had been learned from this journey, said that PSI guidance for African unions was sorely needed Their work is still n the kinder- garten stage,”’ he observed. He noted that the picture was brightest where white rule continued, particularly in the ‘There at least a trad Belgian Congo union 1s able to work The greatest danger uncovered was the ts who commu ce The "he explained, “They treat preyed on the Africans’ simpk African knows nothing of the communists,” him as an equal Fortunately this subversion was being countered by organizers of the Catholic umon movement who, he reported, employed such INARINALI Ve Lactics as getting offering at they could get Far more advanced forms of using the white Africans to join their union’s May Day parade by them “trousers, shirts and other Presents, th no other way.” verve African unionists from the indignities nan's gifts to pres = . sen described with reference of the communists have already be to PSI work in Kenya * The PSI report on the trip refers to Farmer as a “colored trade unionist—a fact which naturally proved of considerable advantage to the delegation in Its approach to the Africans.” This is a somewhat dry description of the outpouring of good, faith lavished on Farmer and thereby indirectly on the organi- zations and politics he had gone there to represent. Farmer himself describes it this way all over Africa black men made me feel as if hey were my family. When I left Nigeria, on that first visit, Nigerian trade-unionists gathered at the airport to see me off, and they threw their arms around me and kissed proved of considerable me.”’ By all means, then, the “fact advantage Farmer returned to the U.S. in December 1958. Not long afterwards, Roy Wilkins invited him to join the NAACP staff In 1961, he returned to CORE as national director, leading the Freedom Rides that year (two years later he was nearly lynched by state troopers in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana) By 1962, when AMSAC created a subsidiary called the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa (ANLC), James Farmer's was an indispensable name on the definitive roster, which included A. Philip Randolph, Whitney Young Jr., Roy Wilkins and Martin Luther King Jr. Farmer described WHITNEY YOUNG, JR. the purpose of the group: “As Americans of African descent, we felt we should take the lead in interpreting for America what was happening in Africa and also in explaining to Af- ricans what was happening in America. We felt too that our opinions should weigh in the formation of American foreign policy regarding Afri In particular need of interpretation at that time was the spectacle of dogs, cattle prods, clubs and bullwhips used against black Americans by officers of the law. The Amencan way of life was becoming increasingly hard to sell, and AMSAC’s offspring (ANLC’s one-man staff and chief traveling Ted Brown, was from AMSAC and worked out offices) representative of AMSAC government. Who could better reaffirm American legitimacy than the spokesmen of its victims? The very authority of black suffering could be turned to a national advantage could be of enormous benefit to the Ultimately, ANLC did not achieve the great overall impact which had been anticipated by the CIA, which was paying the bills through AMSAC by a secret meeting of a Council on Foreign Relations study 5. African policy. There was no disappointment in the politics of the protagonists (though today SNCC would probably not be invited) Alaynes Jr African “The move had been premature The results were assessed recently group on | Rather, as one discussant, Ulric a prominent black business consultant and former affairs observed, American Negroes at identify with their African heritage. An effort of this kind would be more effective today than it was then.” advisor to President Johnson, that time did not consciously VEN SO, ANLC WAS ABLE to prove its usefulness. Its biggest job came in 1964, when American credibility in Africa had plunged disastrously in light of the Kennedy assassination, the presence of a Southerner in the White House, and the wake of the “humanitarian mission” to the Congo. On top of everything else, Malcolm xX had chosen that moment to make his two triumphant tours of Africa Ambassador Attwood described the embarrassment of Malcolm's visit: “On Kenya television he identified himself as the leader of 22 million American Negroes and painted an exaggerated picture of their plight. After he left, I alerted other posts of his sting they enlighten theif African His caution was well arrival, sug ! Iriends in advance founded. One African newspapet An extremely important fact is that Malcolm X is the first Afro-American leader of national standing to make an independent trip to Africa since Dr. DuBois came © Ghana Let’s make sure we don’t give it less thought tham the State Department j Another Afri Our MOST signif alized S doubtless giving it right now.” an paper predicted: “Malcolm X is one of int and militant leaders. We are in battle made to malign and discredit him ” And ile Malcolm was still in Africa a grant Was being funneled through AMSAC to send—in the company of AMSAC’s James Baker—a representative of ANLC on a® extended African tour cover ng all the countries that Mak himself had visited Efforts will be sure enough, wi James Farmer was selected Farmer contends th it he did not know the CIA was behind the tip, and that in lt was not meant to COUNTET iny Case Malcolm's tour CONT, ON NEXT PAGE, He recalls that on the day his tip 4 ] 4 . CONT. FROM LAST PAGE formally announced, New York he was going abr wasn’t my intent at me up after those denied them, He before I left, brie for me to look for. He left amicably trip—while I was in Ghana th colm’s impending assassination. 7 I was one of the few pe all,” ople Whatever personal a, the CIA got its d-carpet Intentions noney Ww trey to meet with co visit Southern African | ” AMSAC report—' also talked t the countries untries he ne bassies there Writing African influc nce in ifter his return ir Farmer Africa his inesti Forum was [ s Pre « or all od hie } nable g will has not been well-projected in Afri X contributed to the of Johns yr tons with African generally by chars thine ponse to his own defer olm made a cx I but I felt this \ The CORE leader told had really been promot Afmecan safar wer logi other hand oul He younger Ez alternatives to that policy Africa, many of the U.S.] should get thought this nonsense. No major from so important a place as the Congo and undesirable the rebels were both “unacceptable,” and that ‘the hope for the Congo lies in a third force among the brilliant university ministrators and prof that CIA agent Harr to provi One does him to be as overseas adventures and expect him t m radio stations oad to answer Malcolm x SayS Parmer now announcements appe came over and spent fing me on his trip and rth with ovements to other AMSAC’ reoccupied On 4 ind | unfavorable t ‘Southern rac out of the Congo altogether power * Farmer’s view was that perhaps it ying Gor basi disclosed that “Of course, that “Malcolm « ared, and I of course tiled same a tals, an evening with me Suggesting people and in fact it was on this at someone told me of Mal b hat's why, who called for and suggested that the CIA w as involved ir remember inquiry he ce 1S murder.’ ge G path to Farmer w ind Ls nh 3 > a a ) ack P auger to we members re Of co CIA-fin 4 ournal Mak reported Farmer think he addition, ed with Im’ hac it nas In Malcolm \fric On the hew extreme was in East d me we [the I told them I withdraw simy tions of rac ites. Just as ushed would tis both implausible p Ishombe and the Mboyas mant the politicians militancy he helped pic enjoys * ACCEPTING A “Somehow our agend beyond the pale accept black yf nol Ul} icy 1.GOOD AND BAD BLACK POWER] POSITION AS THE RANKING between standing outside to help d not al >» MOt alone in ting ‘‘on the inside feeling come to terms with Bla cal gro governin get in on the ground floor As CORE’s nd bli new Nixon Adn inistration, James Farmer noted that uld choos« K THI > as WINnOWINE away wer Bad the from the ' Ms Deen Such an ling for the noting | white Americ: n Africa those fol ir lated a of respectab today th } ty rewarde hunted down CHAIRMAN BOBBY AT HOUSTON U. By JIM ST Bobby Black Pant Committee, afternoon Auditorum standing room key politic RONG man of the Central chair Party Seale, Thursday Arts Id a “Our Liberal and to audience in 1¢ dem enemy 5 6 iar th avari businessmar forces that occupy community And continued pig,”” Seale people go going today’s ul uy on be the and mise is to tomorrow’s bacon people about politi about self defe “Thos aggressors and wrong be stopped by the people Panther Party spokesman said struggie, not not racists We dont Black who attack the ‘It is a class race struggle. We we are not black racists dig black either are promotes bla emphasized urge what that J they a skin Seale might that program leader color theu ording 4 mace Seale Wl the k Panther » successful showed the t to AC what impnsonea Blac Huey P, Newton P. Newton f ol Huey people by go Gown so jological theory “The Man lied because H had it together exampk he didnt block jiving about Seale the said ucy P Seale Newton ntinued referring establishment the example gram for childre of actions with real He emphasized that it was time for solidarity to free the people from gave h pr Scale lunk school trex mn as an examptk relevance also oppression Don't give me about every Negro being a potential black man," Seak exhorted. “Every black man must be a revolutionary.’ this stuff Seale spoke of the oppression f black leaders such as Huey P Newton, Eldridge Cleaver and the Or approac ihe ind those [ 21 New York Panthers who were* recently conspiracy several New stores “The Man has to be crazy to think we'd put a bomb in a store yhere our own people are,”* Seale said Seale also spoke of a book mentality’’ that brainwashed American society “Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck never did try to make love to Minnie Mouse or Daisy, and } indicted on charges of to st off bombs in York department “comic had time I oneer. His record of criticism makes his sympathy for the reasonable exercise of American power all the more compelling: America has plenty of diplomats to make uncritical defenses But they do not have the ge that Farmer, with his militant creden- the What ha Bad Black owing the Frantz Fanons were ollowing ks who apitalism are heavily subsidized while those who BLACK PANTHER " ma SATURDAY, JUNE 14,1969 Pagel gives him more to lose than to gain by rioting and insurrec- tion.” This statement parallels one made by Thomas H. Bur- ress, an activist in Philadelphia's burgeoning black capitalist “If people the bu ss, wh approaches the place movement of in the neighborhood own a share a Molotov , windows will fly open and residents will say, ‘Don't you dare burn my dollar's worth.” " Reverend Leon Sullivan, organizer of the Philadel phi Industrialization Center, a black corporation complex oper 70 U well as Puerto Rico, Senegal, Nigeria and Kenya, adds, “I will never | en someone with cocktail based Opportunities ating in : satisfied until every black fnlt im Anne owr adult in America owns a piece of this country individually nutually, ev no more than two square feet of CK Capitalism, of course, s way. Many would differ rokers who ar hun 2 and litant rhetoric so Jalion itse Marxist of all inter from the off If under pretations of Me icial rhetoric of Richard ywnership of the means of production goes ecurity, the right to decide and to choose.” broker Department set up a project re 1000 ghetto ige Of power is merely ludicrous, as in Washington, $ to clean the streets and called andid, as when Ralph of Housing and Urban Develop ust be tied in to the ities program, said, not larger, ely retain control, though s when it suits their immedi- e CIA's African o their perations is § ren the reason nor the support Power 1966. But the or downhill Way Since nas come a long is Whether the journey has been ip gan has made any significant impression it his capped by the strange irony of being the black system which gave rise to James Farmer peculiar career nm most intimately involved with the official administration of Good Black Power, once put his finger on a problem which " he wrote “ys in the way it permitted white men has since only intensified. *“‘The evil of slavery in Freedom— When i tO handle Negroes—their bodies, their actions, their oppor- I To the depths of their h, ordered about, the ind I believe any tunities, their very minds souls Negroes feel t wit manipu- by white mer annot overemphasize tenacity tec tated of thi ling among Negroes ndering the history of the Negro’s world of white power would concede K now a . oe an 1th hb JCI What objections can the opponents of the united front have and how do they voice their objections? Some say: the united front is merely a maneuver.” if it is &@ Maneuver, we the “Communist manecuv est partic clare frankly ciam, the row shall not attack ' ront for tt i i we re W ra j ipation in a united front? agai omm we have repeatedly declared: We To the Communists thesk t you ex- nly, why ck * by your hon- We de- We want unity of action by. the © that the proletariat y grow truggle against the bourgeoisie, at while defending today its current st at oletaria king Capital, against may be in a position to- minary conditions final emancipatior nists attack us,"’ say others, anyone, neither persons nor arties that st for working class ninst “al t bours £ ind ot r I cor 1 dh ra i LeMOCT y, t i hip; theref w t at with the mmu of u lal - Democrari > Ww tfe you now a united { proclaiming the di roletariat? We make no such of Soviet demo- the most But in winist arti " a at bout by the Labor Party, the Labor lead if ( : an So Der 2 , . HE CHIEF ARGUMENTS OF THE OPPONENTS OF THE UNITED FRONT AMERICA'S GREATEST HEALTH PROBLEM FASCIST PIG BRUTALITY the amal!l Au trian Comer t bawn? lt was not Party headed what have event Oclal-Democr 1 ind Karl Ken he tiny Austriar tria and called upon the worke ven i N e thelr . i ‘ he ve 4 f t f ‘ f 4 fu f worke ‘ orter f arty are " ' 1 ’ 1 ‘ { wh ‘ wi ia 4 4 ”v { x { i f " k r f I I ay mn + 1 t l it front ¥ 1 t i ) t - y SQ em yes + ere ee Gg yg THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1969 Page 14 PIGS MAKING LAST DITCH STAND: MOVE TO FASCISM The fascist pigs of the power structure are striking Out ‘wildly andovertly as all reactionaries do when they are on the verge of destruction, The reactions of these pigs range from charging Black Panthers with everything from conspiracy to murder, The pigs have even com- mitted murder in order to frame and jail Panthers, They began their intensive effort to wipe out the Black Panther Party by arresting 21 members of the New York Chapter. They charged the National Chairman of the Black Panther Party with inciting the riot at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Their latest effort has been to murder a brother and arrest eight Panthers from the Connecticut chapter for murder and conspiracy to commit murder, The fascist FBI forced their way into the Chicago headquarters of the Black Panther Party under the pretext of wanting to capture was not there, They busted eight Panthers anyway, illegally took equipment and files that they had no right to and they stole $3,000 in cash, Just two days prior to these fascist acts, two members of the Black Panther Party were arrested on charges of unlawful flight to avoid persecution, Assistant Pig U.S, Attorney Gordon Abbot said that Landon Robert Williams and Rory Hithe had been charged in Connecticut with kidnapping, murder and ‘‘binding’’, With such serious charges lodged against them, why were they not under arrest in Connecticut? The press made no mention of a jail break, It is quite obvious that J, Edgar Hoover and the American Fascist regime is stepping up its efforts to kill off the Vanguard, Reports of fascist moves are coming in continuously, The Detroit Chapter of the Black Panther Party was vamped on and members were arrested, The Indianapolis Chapter was vamped on and members arrested because the Panthers were out in the streets during a rebellion telling the people to go home and get off the streets, Members of the New Jersey, ind California Chapters have been under constant attack from the fascist regime, Only weeks ago the Des Moines Chapter of the Black Panther Party had its headquarters bombed and homes destroyed, When the members of the Des Moines Chapter sponsored a rally to raise funds for their Break- fast for Children Program, the Fascist pigs of Des Moines moved on it and disrupted it, Various organizations who have alliances with the Black Panther Party are getting vamped on by the American fascists, Groups such as anti-war George Sams, George Sams Oregon groups, student groups and just plain people who are op- posed to some of America’s fascis are being beaten, gassed, arrested and killed for merely being in ’ st policies P, Newton is in the 7 opposition to the status concentration camp, quo, Huey mnvicted Dy a Kangaroo Court composed of fascists, Bobby Hutton is dead, murdered in cold blood by partment, Eldridge Cleaver is in exil fascist swine of the Oakland Police De- the fascist Cal- rce him back > because ifornia regime was going to f and the politically unconscious mas weren’t matured enough to act against the fascist system in defense of Eldridge, into prison of the people In San Francisco, the mayor has force within the Police Department, which Tac (Tactical) Squad, of 1939’s Gestapo teams, They have taken the lead in This squad 19 year old black guardian of the law at San murdering a youth, Alvert Linthcome, They have been the special Francisco State College, beating and jailing American Fascists have employed special ‘‘Black to do their bidding, ; college stu- dents, such as Ron Karenga’s Carter Nigger’’ forces US group who murdered Alprentice ‘‘Bunchy’’ Tohn Huggins and John needs not mention the hundreds of people who have been murdered freedom within the framework of Savage, One while trying to gain some American tradition, RORY HITHE, LEFT AND LANDON ROBER1 WILLIAMS BUSTED IN DENVER = - L FASCIST PIGS SET $200,000 BAITI Abroad, American Fascism is rampant, The Viet- namese people are being subjected to the most brutal oppression that the world has ever seen, The American economy is supported by the material used to murder Vietnamese people. America glories in the products that she produces to kill people with, All of America’s war products are not sent abroad, the colleges and universities of America are proving grounds and testing sites for new weapons to be used by the fascist police forces across the country against the discontented masses of people, The masses of the people don’t want to believe that America ts a fascist state, We, the Black Panther Party know that it is, If they choose to sleep and day dream, so be it. We relate to what can be summed up in an old familiar phrase ‘‘If America is going to play Germans, we are not going to play Jews, period, Fascism is the power of finance capital whichis mani- fested in FBI’s, CIA’s, Fascist Pigs, machine guns, rifles, shotguns, helicopters, %45 and bombs, Big Man FASCISM pen terrorist dictatorship of the most chauvinistic (racist) and most im- perialist elements of finance capital, It does not stand ibove both classes - the proletariat ar reactionar nd the bourgeoisie, nor is it super-class government, nor government of the etty -bourgeoisie or the lumpen proletariat over finance -apital, Fascism is the power of finance capital itself, ‘INANCE CAPITAL manifests itself not only as banks, rusts, and mon sou rogic pol polys, but also as the human property the avaricious businessman, itician, and the racist pig cop, terrorist vengence evolutionary section organization of against the working class, and the r of the peasantry and intelligentsia. CAPITALISM PLUS RACISM EQUALS FACISM THE BLACK PANTHER REBELLION IN ANGOLA SATURDAY, JUNE 4, 1969 Page Ib PORTUGUESE TYRANNY HAS LASTED 500 YEARS BY ALICE ROBERT AND DON BARNETT February 4th is a very significant date for the people and history of Angola. Over eight years ago on that day an armed struggle was initiated by the Movimento P ypular de Libertaca dle ingola (MPLA) which marked the beginning-of-the-end for the oldest and most rapacious colonial regime or the African continent. For Angolans, 500 Portuguese tyranny has meant the enslaver 1 export of over 9 million souls, a brutal system of forced labor from which few escape, the theft of vast areas for foreign concessions and a settler por ulation now numbering over 400,000, acute infant mortality (60%), a virtual lack of medical care, a illiteracy rate of 98%, political servitude, and tt break-up of traditiona cial and tural patterns MPLA's first manife 1956, summed up the in Portuguese ru follows: “The objective of Portuquese exploita and imperialist oppression of the people of Angola has been, is, and will remain, to obtain the hic 1 possible profit The entire colonial a inistrative apparatus is in the hands of the lonial state and is disorganized. The cultural values of Angola are crushed and annihilated. Our hist ry is distorted our slandered We are humiliated as individuals and as a people The way of life they have beer forcing us to follow is therefore y to ti supreme interests of the peopl f Angola, contrary to our subsistence, to our liberty, contrary to our rapid and full economic progress, to our happiness our bread, fand, peace and culture for al Portu guese colonialism will not be defeated without a revolutionary struggle! Thus there is only one way for the people of Angola to free themselves that of the revolutionary struggle.” On the 4th of February, 1961, after several years of clandestine preparation, the initial blow was struck. A series of attacks was launched in Luanda, capital of Angola, aimed primarily at freeing politic al prisoners being held in the tov and prison. The fighting soon spread to the nogafi 1s police stations where simultaneous attacks were launched by the rebels in the rural districts of Congo, Guanzy Norte and Malange. “ Although massive Portuguese repression followed these early rebel successes, a guerrilla’zone was firm ly established in northern Angola, less than 100 miles from Luanda. By mid-1964, despite numerous setbacks, the MPLA had opened 8 second front in the Cabinda district, an oil-rich enclave to the north bordering Congo-Brazzaville. Ther, in May 1966, a major break-through occurred when a third front was opened in the eastern district,aty™'Ox1co Now, three years later, MPLA querrillasiiive pushed 3 miles deep into Angola from the east and are fight ing along a 600-mile front. Two n@w fronts have recently been opened in Lunda district™o the north and Huila in the southwest, and querrilla*wwits rare operating in Bie near the center of the country The strategy of MPLA is to force a dispersal of Portugal's 80,000 troops while, at the same time, mobilizing as much of the population as possible Fighting is at present going on in nine of Angola's 15 districts and MPLA political organizers are at work in all the major cities and plantation areas Over a third of Angola’s half-million square miles has been semi-liberated in these semi-liberated regions pn rudimentary organs 0 MPLA, together t with the people, have set u popular power. Programs are being carried forward r AAilitias . to reorganize and expand the Popular Militias, in crease food production, broaden the educational program in the villages, Revolutionary Instruction ities of the Medical Assisté e . : s tion establish Peoples Stores to handle the distributio in addition, civil registration build guerrilla Centers for (CIR), enlarge the activ CAM ynce Services | »AM), and of scarce commodities centers, services respons sible for preparing primary $ %pool texts and programs of national cul newspaper have already been established MPLA and the African Relief Services Committee Wats of national liberation, such a5 that occur of the world revolution ture, and a C " “0 ring in Angols; aro part aaainst wlanaiun av! npe rialism Portugal ts not Gain cor sels ; alone if its BCG exploitation of A igola vw nm its CChrls ® SDR eS F United States, Britain, France, Belgium, Germany, Japan and South Africa have increasing Stakes in the vast mineral, fuel and agricultural wealth of this Portuguese colony. The U.S.-owned Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, for example, with a concession asew@t, over 10,000 square miles, expects %> pump 150,000 barrels of oil a day out of Angola by 1970 (making tat country one of the world's largest producers), ad. is algo engaged) in -fTuaniag phosphates and potassiunt Belgium conffols Pep rangol, the other large petroleum company in Angola; the British Diamang company exploits dia mond and owns the Benquela Railway; France and Germany exploit the rich iron deposits; Japan the copper deposits; the U.S. and France the manganese deposits; and so on It is understandable then that Portugal receives considerable military support from her NATO allies. The United States, as well as France, Italy, Ger many, and Britain, provide Portugal with modern military equipment such as helicopters, bombers, fighter planes, napalm grenades, automatic rifles, and transport vehicles. Last year, the counter frsiifgency headquarters of NATO were shifted to Lisboa. While all This is to be expected, given the nature of imperialism, a fact usually overlooked is the potential a%sistance which might be given to libera tion movemé@mts, such as the MPLA, by those of us in the metropOWifan centers who stand opposed to continued coloniaf and mpercialist exploitation. We in Canada and the United States, for example, have geat resources and facilities at our disposal which are badly needed Iby'the MPLA and other national liberation movements of Southeper"Atrica. Unfortut® ately, to this p@int, far too little practical as/Stancé has been provided to such liber@tion movements by those of us in Noerh Amé@tica and Europe who are both capable andjin theory, desirous of giving Such support The African Relief Services Committee Was est ablished with the alms of filling this gap Between eed and fulfilment, on the part of liberatiog move ments in southern Affica, and resolving the @ontra diction among ours@iyes between thegty and practice in this regard Fhough still a yéry young organization, the African Relief Seryiges Committee has already sent valuable SUppties of clothing and technical equipment to MPLA and the people in the semi-liberated areas of Angola. At present, we have over 25 members at SFU and a branch of ARSC is wellunderway at UBC. In the United States an MPLA Commander Spartacus Monimanbu embryo branch has been established in the Bay Area of California and individual members are attempting to set up other branches in Seattle, Eugene, Los Angeles and Pennsylvania Prior to the founding of ARSC in Vancouver in January 1969, Roy Harvey, Jacques Roy and Don Barnett had the opportunity to observe the revolutionary struggle at first hand visit Angola and They were invited to attend MPLA’s first Eastern Regional Conference in the Moxico district in August 1968 Roy Harvey, a photographer, worked on a docu mentary film and covered the Conference for the Guardian. Jacques Roy, an electronics engineer, p,worked for several months with MPLA technical ‘gadre, helping them assemble radio equipment. Don ~— walked 200 miles into the countryside with PLA unit, remaining for almost a month at the Zone"*kC” base camp, Hanoi II, in order to tape guerrill& life-histories for a book on the Angola Rev olution Sretife Future, ARSC intends to send add itional technical personnel into the semi-liberated regions of Angolg to lend their skills and energies to the anti-imperiafist struggle for national liberation The generaf membership of the African Relief Services Cagimittee, which meets once a month, is divided Ainto three subcommittees concerned, res pectively, with civilian aid and promotion, technical assistance, and revolutionary support research Evéry member of ARSC is expected to be active on one of these subcommittees, as it is here that most of The real work is done The technical subcommittee has been concerned, among other things, for Field clinics, assembling transceiver radios and with building water distillers degigning and manufacturing plastic tents. The res eafch subcommittee monitors various periodicals for MPLA use, prepares fact sheets, pamphlets and art icles to inform the public about the Angolan s forward in the near future to struggle, and | researching projects deemed important by MPLA The civilian aid subcommittee is engaged in raising such needed supplies as clothes, medicines, garden crop seeds and small tools, food concentrates, prim ary school supplies, salt, and soap. [t also organizes fund-raising activities such as the series of revolu tionary films to be shown by ARSC in early July Those who would like further information can contact Don Barnett at 291-4299 (office AQ 5052) me BROTHER MURDERED IN JAIL BY (iio 7 FASCIST PIGS Re PETITION STATEMENT FOR COMMUNITY CONTROL OF POLICE ee born May 19, 1925 - Assassinated Feb. 21, 1965 STUDENTS STRUGGLE AGAINST FASCISM YOUTH AGAINST WAR AND FASCISM ~ UNIVERSITIES : FASCIST TROOPS BELONG TO THE PEOPLE _ WAGE WAR ON CAMPUS FASCISM IN AMERICA THE LONG ARM OF FASCISM THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY FONE MBS P20 4g CONFERENCE FOR A UNITED FRONT AGAINST FASCISM OAKLAND CALIFORNIA JULY 18, 19, 20, and 21 st. veroeem EAU ples 75 BTN STAMPED (LA OMEDX POWEI PANTHER PO\ RAMPANT FASCISM IN AMERICA It is obvious even to those who usually prefer to be uncommitted that fascism is on the loose: un- leashed by finance capital and all that it implies; here inthe “landof the free home of the brave,’ What has been happening in Ber- keley, what is happening all over the country where people are bein attacked, imprisoned and mur dered; this is just rn just a hint of what Fascism does and is about. Ar we going to allow ourselves to be led to the Slaughterhouse as the Jews did in Germany? Are wetoclose our eyes and pretend that Fascism {Is going to ‘go away’, that it's just a bad dream, and that as long as we keey our es close Fascism doesn't exist Or r we instead, black, white, yellow, brown and red people going to unite dedicated to the same purpose - t« Wipe out Fascism. Until we do, no man car dra a safe breath in this coun try. After Germany, after World War Il, the peoples of the orld vowed that what happened there would never happen again. Well here it is, happening again, By not presenting a United Front, we are allowing Fascism to exist, and to permit is to aid and abet--to support th xistence of Fascism, Fascism exists because of finance capital, because of this country which is governed by the whims of finance capital; the people are sheep who are being led to the slaughterhouse to fatten the bellies of those who control through the system of finance capitalism. An- archy is not fighting Fascism; we must present a United Front against Fascism; revisionism such as getting rid of Storm Trooper pig Reagan and putting another Gestapo man in his place whotakes his orders from the same finance capital fascists is not getting ridof Fascism, Fascism means concentration camps, mass extermination and continuing oppression of the peo- ple. Even those who cannot relate to the term ‘‘Revolution’’ as such must relate to the opposition of Fascism; they must not however be against revolutionaries who are also opposed to Fascism, Fascism is the pig who killed James Rec- tor, an“‘innocent, law-abiding citi- zen’’: Fascism is the stick on the head of a young girl; the boot on the back of someone's young son Fascism is pigs busting into a man’s home, armed to the teeth, with no warrant and no cause Fascism is the National Guard dis- persed throughout Berkeley; de- spite the fact that the peoy le of Berkeley did not want their ‘‘pro- tection’’ and asked for their r moval. Fascism kills black or white, man, woman or child indis- criminately with little regard for their political beliefs, Chairman Mao says ‘‘It is good if we are attacked by the enen since it proves we have drawn a clear line of demarcation between the enemy and ourselves’. James Rector didn’t draw any line ind he was killed, For those of us who draw the ‘‘line of demar- cation’, we must put into pr ictice the goals--the reasons we had for drawing the line--wen ust prepare to defend these aim sand ourselves against the American' estapo, For those who have never drawna line believed that the enemy { the people ex! ted and suddenly just realized the mber who have never now have existence of the enemy; reime we are ALI yppressed by Fas To break the bonds of Fas cisu a F cist we must develop a UNITI FRONT Let us not then alloy another i rmar flour ist let u unite and stamp out the scourge of sscisn Carole H, THE BLACK PANTHER --SATURDAY,JUXE. 44,1909, Page J9... REGISTRATION FORM: FoR REPRESENTATIVES OR INDIVIDUALS FOR THE COMING SUMMER IN OAKLAND OF THE NATIONAL REVOLUTIONARY CONFERENCE FOR A UNITED FRONT AGAINST FASCISM 8 { OFFICIAL REGISTRATION FORM B.P.P. AND L.L.S. 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CONF ERENCE REGISTRATION NO zIP NAME CODE PLEAS PRINT STREET ADDRESS CITY STATE HOME NON PHONE ORGANI ZATION ORGANIZATION PLEASE rr | RESS CITY STATE MAIL THIS REG, FORM B.P.P. U.F.A.F. CONFERENCE HEDQS WITH REG, DONATION FEE T0 3106 SHATTUCK AVE. iis let i =—%. 2.2.2 - eo -_——— — ~~ THE BUACK PANTHER: | ‘SATURDAY, "TUNB [4 1060 «Resoues wus MEDICINE AND FASCISM LETTER TO THE MINISTER OF Mar f ourbrothersandsistere + Pm - . a re tc oe nS ahh ; . f er nd DEFENSE fascls { ‘ na : ‘Al f th alt , suf r 7" th —_ oe ; 4 Irate ( rline, Mountat wh feri { t be ir nd all the . of the vy ietr th th } THE PEOPLE’S PARK MARCH MINISTER OF DEFENSE HUEY P. NEWTON DEFENSE FUND BERKELEY, CALIF. 94701 ‘ j Re Ree 0h ae ee ee Nome address city | Pledge $ Enclosed You Will Find $ October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want What We Believe FREE HUEY Minister of Defense. 1. We want freedom Black Community We want Black Panther Party pow er to determine the destiny of our ae a 1E BACK PANTHEROMSATERDAY/IJUNB 141969 iage 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 overdue debt of. forty acres and two mules Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Ger- mans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make i. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. believe that if the white I: if not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid. can build and make decent housing for its people 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowl- edge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything ] 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- ary 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 nd 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 in our black community by or- black self ups tl dedicated to defending our black community from racist e oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear 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 iils 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 that black peo Will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the ». Constitutl give man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a lar economi cial, religious, geographical, en vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be f ed ti from the black community from which the black efendant e. We have been 1 are | tried by all-white juries t r lerst ir uw tt verage reasoning man” of the black 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 Wher n the rse of human events, it becomes necessary for one eople to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and jual statio » Whi > laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them, a lecent respect to the nions of mankind requires that they should declare the ¢ ‘ to the separation WW be self-evident, that all men are created equal; they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru lence. inde ll dictate that governments long estal ed should not e cl ved for ht and ti lent causes; and, accordingly, all experience hatl how th ! kind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are e ft themselves by abolishing the forms to which they But, when a long train of abuses and unsurpations, pur- suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern- ment, and to provide new guards for their future security -_—- = = SS at ee t THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1969 Page 22 Eldridge Cleaver .made the decision to politically exile himself November 27th, on the basis that the Adult Authority made an outlaw deci- sion, and that he has been denied his constitutional right to due process of law The revocation of Cleaver’s parole wes illegal, because no parole violation was committed, The Adult Authority parole board has tied to maintain that Cleaver violated his parole by having a rifle in his possession, and by associating with individuals of bad reputation. This contention, we will show, is false. The Adult Authority version contradicts the Superior Court order itself: “ _.. Cleaver’s only handling of a firearm (the rifle) was in obedience to a police command. He did not handle a hand gun at all. There was noth- ing one way or the other to show a conspiracy or a situation calling for the application of the doctrine of aiding and abetting. Hence, nothing support- ed either the possession of a firearm or the assault charge. - As to the charge of association with individuals of bad reputation, the report indicated that two or three of those named had “police records,” but nothing to show whether any had been convicted of anything, or whether Cleaver knew of their arrest record.” (Superior Court c.t. 137, 138, 140, 14] Parolee Cleaver was denied due process of law by being denied opportunity to present his case. Why was Cleaver returned to prison as a parole violator if document- ed evidence to the contrary had been presented in his defense? To answer that question, one must examine the Adult Authority. This board has the right to arbitrarily revoke or suspend parole on any ae 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 secrec y. (Petition for Hearing in the Supreme Court Yes, the Adult Authority acted unjustly and illegally. Its decision was an outlaw decision. Cleaver had no chance of obtaining “justice” from these Star Chainber proceedings. Why then wouldnt the U.S. Supreme Court hear Cleaver’s case? There are, we believe, three reasons why the case wasn't accepted, The first is that any fair minded court would obvious- lv have released Cleaver, thereby setting a precedent. The second is that thousands of cases of alleged parole violation from all over California and other states would be subject to reversal. Thirdly, the illegal functioning of the Adult Authority would come under attack, The U.S, Supreme Court just couldn't afford to consider the Cleaver case during this turbulent period. Eldridge Cleaver is a victim of naked, shamele political perse tion. As Judge Sherwin puts it The uncontradicted evidence presente d to this court indicated that the petitioner had been a model | wolee. The pt ril to"his pal ile status stermmed from no failure of personal rehabilitation, but from his undue elo- quence in pursuing political goals, goals which were offensive to many ol " SOUL ONICE? t “IT IS ONLY A MAT- TER OF TIME UNTIL ‘THE -QUESTION OF THE PRISONER'S DEBT TO SOCIETY VERSUS SOCIETY'S DEBT 210 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 JSSUE 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) his contemporaries. Not only was there absence of cause for the cancella- tion of parole, it was the product of a type of pressure unbecoming, to say the least, to the law enforcement paraphernalia of this state.” Cleaver is in political exile.because a man of his convictions cannot get justice here. Indeed, if we are to give more than lip service to the con- cepts of freedom and justice we must support him. The work to get him discharged from parole must continue. An intense publicity campaign is necessary now to bring to the public the legal defense and arguments which were carried to the courts with no satisfaction. We must all work together to focus attention of this case. This is not an issue of one man’s freedom, but a broad struggle which affirms the right of all of us to speak out politically in this country. If Cleaver is not allowed his freedom, it is just a- matter of time until all our freedoms are further reduced. His is not a personal struggle but a political one. PONSOkS fulian Mayfield LABOR Maria Jolas Parte Bi Emile Capouya Jim Lennor Denis Berger Basha ae lana de Game: Sidney Len Joby Fanon “peal : Muriel Rukeyser PROFESSORS Mrs. Betty Shabazz Mu aga Arthur Waskow Hans K oimgsberger Stokely Carmichael! . Ca Monsiva Ashley Montagu Carl Oglesby - ip . George Hitcheock Conor Cn O' Brier ATTORNEYS ‘ lillie ¢ 1 Douglas F. Doud Harr Nier Kay 8 ; Paul Sartr D.F. Fleming Len Hokt Oscar Lew Mrs. Richard Wright Mal Burnstein y Southern Christiane Rochefort C. Wade Savage Paul Halvortik Norman Mailer julia Wright Herve f Sherwin A. Shayne LeRoi Jor Dar Guerte cher Eugene Deikmar , wre I ng i Yves Love M. Lafue-Veor drew Kopk Gerard ( - eck M.R. 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