Vol. 3, No. 13

PUBLISHED WEEKLY LACK PANTHER Black Community News Service THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY -* * ‘eee ee eee eee JULY 19, 1969 MINISTRY OF INFORMATION BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE SAM FRANCISCO, CA 54126 . . . * . . . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . . . - . . . . . . - . . . . . . . * . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * . . . . THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 2 More than 2 years have passed since Huey P. Newton our Minis- ter of Defense said ‘The racist dog policemen must cease their wanton murder, brutality, andtor- ture of Black People, withdraw im- mediately from the Black com- munity, or face the wrath of the armed people’’. During that period of time, the attacks by the pigs have not ceased but instead have grown more frequent and more brutal, All across this cesspool called America the courts have failed to stop these murderous butchers but have given them a green light to continue their ram- page, InGreensboro,S,C,, three (3) unarmed students were shot in the back and murdered by greasy state troopers and nothing was done. In San Francisco, George Baskett was murdered in plain view of the black community and his murderer, a SF pig was acquitted in court, In Ber- keley the local pigs and the na- tional guard, ran amuck and opened fire on the people, killing at least one person and wounding many more. The reason? The people had built a people’s park, And just re- cently a Detroit pig who partici- pated in the cowardly butcher of three (3) unarmed youths tn the Algiers Motel was found not guilty and released to return and patrol the Black community, The Black and oppressed com- munities across this country have learned a lesson, Everyday the truth of Huey’s teachings become clearer and clearer, The Black and oppressed peoples have learned that social practice isthe criterion THE POWER OF THE America, the finance capital of the world will soon be on its knees to the poor and oppressed people of the world, The Black Panther Party has exposed and will con- “nue to expose fascist America for the shit that it has perpetrated against the people of America and the world. The murder, imprjson- ment, and exploitation of the people will no longer be tolerated be- cause the revolutionary forces in America have the fascist pig mon- ster by his ass. Hisassisours, and rough THE UNITED FRONT AGAINST FASCISM we will have us mama's ass and his papa’s 85 and the crumbling of his deca- lent system, The United Front Fascism will be and must be the most dynamite, revolutionary con- ‘erence this world has ever seen-- the birth and eruption of revolu- onary solidarity of the oppressed people of America, the exposure of fascist America, and organization of a revolutionary fever, from within ©. The solidarity ofall revo- FRONT lutionary forces of Babylon to thwart its extermination of the peo- ples movement. We have a unique situation in America because of the immense power that Uncle Sam maintains; his power of finance, demagogy, and his power of the gun, But in reality he ts not so powerful because once the people become hip to his game through a revolutionary education and THE UNITED FRONT AGAINST FASCISM, his assis grass because “'The spirit of the people {s greater than the man’s technology’, and the people are the ones who make revolution, and if the government cannot function for the people, then it will not function at all, The United Front Against Fascism will educate the people to a level of political awareness where they will Say ‘‘up against the wall’ and if you don’t stop your repression of the people’s movement, we will deal with you ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Gene Jones of the truth and have picked uparms and begun to defend themselves, In city after city the pigs are being forced to retreat. The blased lying news media in this country tries to suppress the facts, but the wrath of the armed people is being leveled at the forces of oppression, Since the beginning of June, many his- torle events have taken place. In Newark and Trenton, N.J., after acts of police brutality, the peo- ple, using hit and run tactics, put the torch to the oppressors pro- perty and temporarily forced the occupying pig force to withdraw. The city of Hartford, Conn. was ablaze for 3 days with the Names of peoples’ war following acts of police brutality, In Sacramento, California, 3 pigs were wounded by gunfire as peoples’ warriors put THE CASE OF LARRY POWELL LIAR AND TRAITOR In January 1969, a group of rene- gades were expelled from the Black Panther Party on the West coast. They had stolen guns from the Party and proceeded to rob a tavern where they were caught, The Party refused to put bond on these renegades, because they were not working in the interest of the masses and were promptly ex- pelled from the Party. After spending a few months in jail, one of these renegades, Larry Powell decided the Party was wrong when it wouldn't back his selfish and greedy motives. Mean- while, back at the plg pen, the Senate, had been trying to find out “who was who’’ in SDS, When the FBI reported that there was some mad fool in California propagating madness about the Black Panther Party, the Permanent Senate In- vestigating Sub-Committee had spasms. Powell was paid well to come to Washington, and he brought his sidekick, his wife, Jean (Tonto) Powell with him for the big show, They performed well, Both were THE PEOPLES WRATH fire to their ass in retaliation for more than 350 years of oppression and tyranny. Our Chairman Bobby Seale has often sald “‘A pig, isa pig, is a pig’’, and knowing that the ULS Army Is just an extension of the pigs, early one morning some peoples’ warriors in a light air- plane carried out a bombing raid on a missle base in Southern Cali- fornia. Two pigs in Ithaca, New York won't be returning to the Black community too soon due to the work of liberation fighters there, and the pigs tn Cairo, li- nols are riding very shaky after being fired upon and having holes shot all through their tin cars by armed liberation fighters moving for freedom. Let all the oppressors of the people beware, The wrath of the wearing all black, including black berets and dark sunglasses, They appeared before the mass media like ‘‘your everyday Black Mill- tant."’ Powell said the Party was not practicing what it preached. He testified that the Party was in- volved in crimes against the people and that the Party was ordering Panthers to rob and murder the the masses, The Black Panther Party fs not worrled by what Larry Powell told the Senate, Because Larry Powell led, The only thing that nigger missed was robbing blindmen and stealing wheels off of baby Strollers, The people must become aware of what the Party Is doing, The Breakfast for Children, Free Health Clinics, and the hundreds of boxes of food given away to the community is only a portion of what we are doing for the masses, The Party ts a disciplined poll-~ tieal body. There are 26 rulesthat are required to be observed by armed people stretches along way, As David Hilliard, our Chief o Staff, has said, “Adolph Eichmar should stand as an example for all the murders of mankind''. The oppressor must not and will notbe allowed any rest. Once the people — grasp more fully the teachings of Huey P. Newton and then put these teachings Into practice, the world” will truly belong to the people. As — Chairman Mao points out, “ : out some, some satisfaction, Wipe out more, more satisfaction, Wipe out the whole lot, complete satis- faction."' ae ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE They can jail revolutionaries, but they CANNOT jall the revolution Landon Wiillams € Political Prisoner all members. Rule 5 states, ‘No Party member will use, point, or fire a weapon of any kind un- — necessarily or accidentaly at any-_ one.’ Larry Powell violated this rule and he was expelled. Not drop-out but a kick-out, venturous fools that are t make a mockery out of the P + DOM FIGHTERS CHOOSE TO G ABOUT THEIR. LIBERATIO! THEN WE KNOW WE ARE MO ING IN THE DIRECTION LIBERATION "' j Black Panther Party) it rulers of this country day see their dreams of world ure crumbling into dust beneath very feet. Not only is America n the retreat all around the world internally America is falling All the lying tricks that the demogogical politicians and ay- to keep the people divided, confused and passified are no _ longer working. The forces of lib- eration have knocked the glittering outer shell away from the American nightmare tn all its hid- e0us oppressive forms, Unable to maintain their rule by tricks and Mes, the greedy capitalist rulers have turned to the last resort of all tyrants and madmen, brute force and terror, Around the world the forces of liberation are by the mercenaries of rmy, Air Force, and Navy. here in the confines of deca- dent America the forces of Liber- ation in the colony and oppressor country are presently being con- fronted by an equally vicious pack of parasites, The hired killers of the pig departments, the men in blue, America’s thin Blue Line. The Scum of Society Forced Into retreat, the ruling circles have scraped the bottom of the barrel to assemble this last desperate line of defense, The local state and federal pig forces who constitute this Thin Blue Line live by murdering, maiming and tor- turing the people. Last year a re- Port was issued that gave a rundown on the men who make up the pig de- partments, According to this re- Port, the pigs constitute all the fail- ures and derelicts of society. Un- able to find jobs inother Nlelds, and failing in all their other attempts, these derelicts turn to all the penerate sadistic Ku Klux Klans- Men, Minutemen, perverts, gang- Sters and alcoholics that this sick society produces. The idea of the friendly neighborhood policeman is nothing but another illusion of the American dream that vanishes ra- pidly on contact with reality. Historically the pig departments throughout this country have been nothing but hired killers for the power structure, Under the clothes of the policeman’ s star sadistically dressed In blue hecanmaim ,tor- lture, and kill at will with complete impunity, and for doing itwell, can receive medals and bonuses, It's a well known fact that the pig de- partments in the large cities reg- ularly recruit southern racists who are paid $800.00 or moreper month to patrol the Black communities, murdering and brutalizing Black people--all in the name of some so-called American law and order. Catholic Mayor Allioto of San Francisco,” who goes to church every Sunday, has his own special t I rs cl blue and paid by the people. This wing of the mafin known as the tactical squad ts used regularly to suppress the people of San Francisco at good Catholic Allloto’s command, even going so far as viciously clubbing and mac- ing peace demonstrators inside of Grace Cathedral. The tactics of Catholic Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago’ s gangster pig department is well known to the people who attended and had their heads busted open and bloodied at last years Democratic Convention. These Irish pigs of Daley's were acting like rabid dogs attacking every- thing that moved. Once they were turned loose no one who wasn’t in Blue was spared, Dangerous and Isolated Those weaklings and perverts look upon themselves as defenders of the American way of life, should- ering the ‘‘Whiteman’s Burdern’’ and holding back the barbaric hordes who would destroy clvili- zation, In many ways the pigs are far more dangerous than the mili- tary, for unlike the military, who are not allowed to bring their weapons home on leave, the pigs are never unarmed, There are many many examples of off-duty PIGS BEAT BLACK EPILEPTIC (Fred News Service, June 28) Southsider Percy Thomas, 40, is an epileptic who manages to lead a normal life except when Stress, strain and overwork cause his affliction to flare up, Today was such an occasion, He started fo become ill while riding the ‘El’ home from work, and got off at the Paulina stop to seck assistance, What he got instead was a vicious, unprovoked bearing by a black pig who happened to be standing near the cashier's cage. Thomas was _ hit on the head with a bill club, hit 2k the eye, pushed down a flight of stairs, Wheh he tried to pro- | tect himself, the pig knocked him d again, stomped him in the _ chest, and kicked him in the left side, (It was lacer determined that bas 2 broken ribs.) While he was onthe ground, Thomas heard a. t= the pig use his walkie-talkie to call for help, and within minutes ten more pigs were on the scene to take him to MoaroeStreet Station, where he was held without medical atten- tion or food until 8am Sunday mor- ning in the drunk tank, Although he had $30 In cash, he wasn’t allowed to bail himself out ($25). He was allowed to make a phone call, but only after paying the desk sergeant $2. On Sunday, he and other pri- Soners were taken to 4 court- room in the station where a judge read their names from a list andtold him he was free to go. A complaint has been filed with the U.S, at- torney’s office, Percy Thomas’ Story is one in a series being run by the Dally Defender In the “hope that an aroused community will cause police brutality to end," LANDON R. WILLIAMS POLITICAL PRISONER George Baskett was murdered bya drunken off-duty San Francisco Irish pig named O’Brien, Shortly before that another off-duty pig shot and rounded his nelghbor In the head one morning because he was mad af a cat on his back fence and last year the news of t c freeway dent filled the newspapers to disarm hree off duty pigs having a shoot vut and killing each other on the following a traffic acci- There have been repeated public outcrys off-duty pigs, but the pigs still have thelr guns. The pigs are not only dangerous but they are also isolated, Their actions are so repulsive to the other segments of society that no one, not even their bosses, Uke them or wants to be around them, No one associates with them but other pigs. As a re- sult of this the pigs have formed a caste consciousness which makes them doubly dangerous, This smal) armed body exercises power far beyond what thelr numbers should command. In New York last sum- mer, the head of the 26,000 mem- ber policeman's association went on television and publically olnked in the peoples faces and stated that they, the pigs, would nolonger take orders from the politicians and city council). As pigs, he oinked, they knew the law, they had the guns THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 3 and no one, no matter who, was going to tell them how to police the city, At that time the pigs had machine guns mounted onthe roofs of the schools, to keep the people in the poor communities, from opening the city schools to teach their own children since the racist teachers union was on etrike. There was very little pro‘est from Mayor Lindsay's office and no action was taken because he, like the other avaricious businessmen, rely on the pigs to maintain their slippery footing. Running Amuck Without Restraint The Thin Blue Line is com- pletely out of the people's con- trol and running amuck. The pigs break every law In the land, and if and when brought to court are aj- ways found ‘not guilty’ and are released, Last year following the railroading of our Minister of De- fense, Huey P, Newton, Mayor Red- ding of Oakland had 2,000 Oakland pigs, most of the Highway Patrol, Pigs from neighboring com- munities and several thousand Na- onal guard troops staked out in and around Oakland trying to spring a trap on the Panthers, Instead, following Huey's orders, the Pan- thers were coo] and the pigs blew thelr minds. They had just been issued new weapons by the federal Pigs and were raving mad with power, As a result the pigs turned to their bottled courage, got drunk and shot up the Panther office, The pigs were so drunk they even shot up thelr owr squad car, When the pigs were brought to court the case was thrown out due to ‘insufficient evidence’’, despite the fact that there were witnesses to the inct- dent and the pigs had shot up their own squad car. The pigs are outside the law and drunk with Power In Los Angeles, Leonard Dedwiler was murdered by o big highway patrolman whose .357 magnum ‘taccidently’* went off after he stopped Dedwiler for speeding. Dedwiler taking hi regnant i to the hospital. The coroners verdict: justifiable homocide, In Washington, D. Cc this filthy nation’s capital, last crazed pig murdered a black man in the streets for Jay walking and was never brought to court, The instances of pigs playing judge, Jury, and Executioner on ‘‘sus- pected’’ criminals are too num- erous to be listed here. In most cases if the person had been found guilty in court the sentence would have been less than 6 months, but the pigs see to it that they never get to court, Over the past year the pigs in their filthy blue uni- forms have attacked the people in every major city throughout Amer- ica. In order to try and silence some of the protest being raised by the people, the local politicians and avaricious businessmen have dangled the idea of community re- view boards in front of the people, But the people are beyond such tricks and they know, as David was FASCISTS MURDER PROFESSOR Dr. Phillip Caplan, a’ college professor here in the Bay Area on his vacation, was beaten by two fascist, perverted pigs while he was taking his daughter for a walk in an Oakland park, The professor left his Lttle girl to go to the men’s room, Because of a medical problem he had, he had to go a second time, Hanging around the tollet were two out of uniforin fascist pigs, They ap- proached Dr. Caplan and asked if he had any money, He said yes and they asked how much In the manner of hold-up men, When they asked him what he did, he said he was professor and they knocked him down and kicked und a beat him. He had to plead with his vicious kidnappers to take his little daughter with them to the Pig Pen, Dr, Caplan’s wife was given the run around when she tried to bail her husband out of jail, While this was being harassed by the fascist over- seer, They warned him not to try to get an attorney. Within 48 hours, the professor was dead, The murderous fascist pigs that killed him lurking toilet waiting to murder their next victim, The executioners were i- dentified C,. Thomas and A, Smith, are in some as happening, Dr. Caplan was | Hilliard, our Chief of Staff, has said, that such talk is nonsense: “We cannot waste time talking about community police review boards because a community re- view board will not act as a shield for a .357 magnum bullet, We know that the only way to stop these motherfuckers is by picking up guns and killing those mother- fuckers before they get a chance to kill us*’, Thin Out The Line Thelr speed and mobtlity make the pigs look far more numerous than they really are, There are only 200,000 pigs in the entire country and they are spread out mighty thin. There are 28,000 pigs in New York but there are about 2 million black people in Harlem. Although the pigs have cars that can reach 120 miles per hour on the freeways, a 30-06 bullet tra- vels at 33,000 feet per second and armor piercing bullets go through armor plate. The Thin Blue Line survives by using terror tactics like Hitler’s Gestapo. Whenever there’s a disturbance they amass a large number of pigs on the scene and by a show of force try to scare the people into submission, By taking advantage of the terrain and using the correct tactics the people can deal with any situation, When making a raid, the pigs try to use guerrilla tactics on the peo- ple. They sneak into the community in the dead of night, usually be- tween 3:00 - 4:00 In the morning, Like the cowards they are 10-25 of them vamp on one person or family, ransack thelr home and then hastily retreat back to the safety of the pig pen to return when the sun is up to oink in the faces of the people. By rigging a system of community alarms and establishing community defense teams, the people could quickly put a stop to this type of shit. All tt takes Ie courage and deter- mination. The days of the pigs are numbered. Every day the Thin Blue Line gets worn thinner and thinner, Last year 167 pigs were thinned out by liberation fighters and this year looks as though it will surpass last year, Like the Roman legions were smashed by the people who valued freedom above Roman values, so will the blue line be smashed, History shows that there never has been an oppressive society that the people could not topple--and so it will be with America, When the people rise like a mighty storm the Thin Blue Line will be trampled into the dust, As Huey P. Newton teaches us, ‘‘The oppressor must be allowed no peace by day or night, he must be harassed until his doom’’, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Landon Williams Political Prisonar FASCIST PIGS VAMP ON SAN DIEGO PANTHER OFFICE Last Monday night, July 14th the fascist storm troopers of San Diego broke into the headquarters of the Black Panther Party Branch inSan Diego. The office was empty and closed at the time. The pigs jus- tified their thievish acts with some bullshit they call a municipal war- rant. These fascist swine stole weapons, all of which were legal, They busted the lock on the door, Desks were overturned and the contents spread all over the floor. The fascists are stepping up their repressive action every day. They are less and less concerned with their own laws, Just a few short weeks ago they wer. unable to justify thelr attack onthe Sacra~- mento,Callfornia office nordid they attempt to. The food and personal property they destroyed was never paid for. However the property they destroyed belongs to the peo- ple and is used to serve the peo- ple. The people will tire of these fascist acts and will rise up and sweep all these evil gentry and corrupt politicians into ‘their graves, THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY. JULY 19.1969 PAGF 4 FROM A LOWER LEVEL This fascist and racist power structure here in Babylon (allas America) has moved its tactics of suppression of the B P P. from the lower level, of arresting brothers and sisters on the street, and il- legally searching them (and some- times planting illegal items on their persons), to stopping so- called Panther cars and conducting illegal searches and seizures, breaking into brothers and sisters homes like the pigley thieves that they are, and stealing articles ranging from money to defense weapons, Threatening sisters and bro- thers by pointing M-16 rifles and shotguns at them, cowardly driving by In tin cars shooting up B.P P. offices; they even went so far, (on this lower level) that 25 off-duty pigs slithered into a New York court building wearing ‘Wallace for Presideni’’ buttons and at- tacked 5 Panthers who were there to view a brother's trial. I could go on and on talking about this lower level of suppression by the buffoonpigs against brothers and sisters in the Party, but if you're Black or a mother country radical, you most likely have experienced these same forms of oppression by your local pig department. But now all of a sudden this fascist power structure here in Babylon has seen fit to move its suppression of the B.P.P from a lower to a higher level. Now before we dis- cuss this higher form of oppres- sion being implemented against the peoples’ vanguard, let's review the slimy pigs who are directing this lower form of oppression, We have pig mayors coast‘ to coast such as ‘*Al Capone’' Alfoto in San Fran- cisco, Pig Redding in Oakland, Pig Daley in Chicago, Pig Lind- say in New York and many other fascist, racist mayors who are masterminding these atrocious crimes against the people, The tools that they use tocarry out this lower form of oppression is made up of the slimy pigley drags of soc- fety. Minutemen, Birchites, Ku Klux Klansmen and members of Lb the Nazi party disguised as your friendly neighborhood police of- ficer, That is a slap in the peoples’ face and these pigs who run around oinking in the face of the people, committing these crimes are often found to be mas- querading around as the victims of unprovoked attacks, Example-- 10 A HIGHER LEVEL This higher form of oppression includes wild, cowardly attacks such as the murdering of 21 Pan- thers over the past year. The bombing of Panther offices in Des Moines, lowa and in San Francisco. The destruction of hundreds of dollars of food that was to be used for the Breakfast for Children pro- gram, the kidnapping, defamation of character and incarceration of Crass o Sravice ‘This ls a fast message the Panther 2] In New York and charging them with something so erroneous as ‘‘plotting to blow up department stores during rush hours!!'’ Jailing the acting Deputy Minister of Defense in New Jersey and charging him with allegedly kidnapping a Jewlsh rabbi's aide out of a Jewish synagogue, the in- carceration of the Deputy Chair- man of Illinois, Fred Hampton and unless its deferred char acter bs indicated by the proper symbol. sentencing him to 2 - 5 years in prison for allegedly being present when some hungry children moved to obtain ice cream from the avari- cious businessmen by any means necessary, The Party Deputy Chairman of lowa was framed and received a sentence of 25 years in prison for, inked the pigs ‘Being around firearms!'’ The Connecticut 8 being jailed and WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM “*Oink, he looked at me Like he was going to throw a pencil at me, Oink, I didn’t know what was in the pencil, Oink. He looked llke it, Oink, so I shot him with my .357 magnum, Oink’’. Riding around oinking in their tin cars, using gestapo tactics against the people should not and charged with a murder and kid- napping which in reality the pigs committed! I don't have enough room to tell you of the countless other Panthers framed and sen- tenced to jail. We’ ve also had at- tempts by the pigs to secretly de- stroy the Breakfast for Children Program, They wouldn’t dare at- tack it openly. And to give you an idea of the mentality of the pigs, brothers and sisters at the Denver office in Colorado, collected toys for children to be distributed dur- ing the Christmas time, but the punk, jive ass pig broke into the office and destroyed thein all? And the foul pigs are now mastermind- ing new attacks. For one we find Tricky Dicky Mill House Nixon heading the slimy plg sty, Right behind him we have that righteous, feeble-minded, decrepit punk J. ‘The filing time shown in the date line on domestic telegrams is LOCAL TIME at polot of orizin, Time of receipt is LOCAL TIME st point of destination 254A POT WL 9 69 LOOLO MATES M CB640 LO POF CHICAGO ILL 8 1005P COT THE BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAER 3106 SHATTUCK AVE OLY 75 BERKELEY CALIF THE NATIONAL SLACK LIBERATION ALLIANCE ENCOURAGES ALL SEGMENTS OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND BLACK ORGANIZATIONS TO ATTEND THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY REVOLUTIONARY CONFERENCE FOR A UNI TED FRONT AGAINST FASCISM JULY 18 THROUGH THE 21 IN OAKLAND CALIFORNIA WE MUST PRESENT A COLLECTIVE FIGHT AGAINST THE BRUTAL INTEMI DATION OF BLACK PEOPLE BY RACIST POLICEMENT FASCISM IS ANOTHER BY PRODUCT OF AMERICAN RACISM ROBERT L LUCAS NATIONAL CHAIRMAN BLACK LIBERATION ALLIANCE (1130) SYMBOLS UL=Daey Leer NL=Night Leer LT = [nternational Letter Telegram will not be tolerated our Minister of Defense ty ‘'The racist dog oppressorp men must cease their murder, brutality, and to Black people, withdraw mediately from the Black munity or face the wrath of armed people."’ ; ot Edgar Hoover and his band of Hoods, the FBI and many other super pigs groveling in the m and mire of these foul pigleyd being’ committed against ” Party. ‘ But why have these buffoon pig: moved things from a lower level a higher level? What fs the Blick Panther Party doing now that it wasn’t doing before? Well, we've exposed the American Dream and shown itas it reallyis--the Ameri- can Nightmare. We've Imfle- mented the Breakfast for Children Programs all across the decadent confines of America. We are moving now to open free medical clinics for all oppressed people; the starting of liberation schools. All these are socialistic pro which these capitalistic pigs h But we say Fuck'the Pigs becatis we have the interest of the p at heart and we will fulfill'the, ple’s needs and wants. = No matter how high a Tricky Dicky Nixon and punk J. Edgar Hoover thinks, the Bl Panther Party willbe st right there in defense of the peo going tit for tat until the inevitable doom; because to trouble, fail; make trouble, until their doom...ts the the imperialists, Try.fall,t fail.. until the final victo is the logic of people!) |) LONG LIVE THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE . Rory Hithe @ CHIEF OF STAFF DAVID HILLIARD AT HAYWARD JULY 4th On the way herewto the park, I was sort Of indecisive Whether or not it would»be more “useful to make my presence at the Bobby Hutton Memorial Purk, because we're also having a picnic there, the Women's Powtr group, which was giving © picnic’there, I was indecisive in terms of making that decision, based upon where the Black Panther Party or represen- tatives of the Party is most needed, Tt wasn't very difficult to make the decision once | arrived here, be- cause it became crystal clear that there's only one world and there's only on® revolution. So that, you mist go wherever you're needed, And in order to really bring that point to bear, andio make it crystal clear, to make people begin to understand that the revolution is Se split up betwuen the black com- Bi, and the white community, that the oppressor is manifested in the ruling class, that the op- Pressor is manifested in each and every individual that picks up any tools of destruction to move against the productive forces ofa given society. So we have to begin to make those distinctions, and we have to base those distinctions tn termsof associating ourselves with friends, and disassoclating ourselves with people, that we define as enemies. So when you make that basic dis- tinction, you have already trans- cended a very major step tnterms of self-transformation, intermsof reconstructing and getting your Own ideas together. So: that our initiative, our ideas for sol ving the problem is mentfested in sup- Porting the struggle that’s being waged in the mother country by the young people. It's manifested In Showing our support of solidarity with the struggle that’s being waged in. the brown community, by the Latino people. It's manifested in going wherever is necessary, and to take an active role, to take an active part, in trying to put an end to the oppression and the terror that’s manifested in fascist Ameri- ca. I know that a lot of people see that as being a historical phe- nomenon, that there’s a lot of peo- ple that even go to the extent to Say that fascism could never happen in America, because America ts truly a democratic sys- tem, Well, I think that we should sort of go back in history, I think that we should begin to dichotomize ideas, and reconstruct the history and from there we’ ll see just where we are, I take today as a prime example, in order totry and clarity some historical ideas To try and struggle and to try to reconstruct mistakes that's made from a meta- physical point of view. The 4th of July ts looked upon historically as being the day of independence, it’s looked upon historically and it's written that this is the day when the American People declared their indepen- dence. This is the day when the American people cut themselves away from the colonial rule by the British people, and they moved for- ward in the sense of self-determin- ation. But Pd like to see this 4th of July, and all coming 4ths of July henceforth, as being truly a day of solidarity, manifested truly ina democratic system, not just ver- batum, not just theoretically, but Practically Because if there’ s in- dependence, then there's one sided independence, because whether we realize it ornot, there’sa majority Of people right here in colonial, 1969, neo-fascist America, that haven't got any independence that's trying to get some self-deter- mination, We say tha! the only way that we will be able to solve that Problem is to move tn a direction, to move from a position of soli- darity, to move from a position of unity, in terms of trying to show by example. That the only way that we can irradicate rampant racism in America is through a close alliance with ali people of color. And the Black Panther Party has fallen victim to the most ne- farious types of demagogy, We’ ve been depicted as being criminals, we've teen convicted as being ter- roris., we've been convicted 1s being everything except a people that have a rightto self deter- mination. So that I wouldliketotry and clear up some of the primary points of misuse and misinfor- mation that's been channelled to- wurds the Black Panther Party. First of all the Party is not a racist Party, We're not racist be- cause we see that it would be a disadvantage to practice racism, because racism is the one tool, the one weapon that has this country in the position that it’s in now, So that we don't practice racism be- cause we learn through practical experience, that it’s just not bene- ficia] to practice racism, So that we say in order to put an end to racism, it’s not enough to go forth and condemn it verbally, but you have to put forth a practical example, and that example is mani- fested in solidarity, It's manifested in Black Panthers, SDS's, pro- gressive workers, and what have you, it's manifested in all these ethnic groups of people coming to- gether as one people working against a common enemy. And our common enemy is bourgeoisie democracy, and unless we move, unless we move as one unit against the forces of oppression, then we're in for fascism, fascism tantamount to Nazi Germany, And you have to accept that, you have to take it very seriously because whether you understand the mani- festations of fascism or not the black community has become victim to it. And that we know that it's evident, It's an apparent and very real situation, and we in- tend to deal with it. And that we're not going to sit around, we're not going to just shed our blood, without shedding the blood of our enemy, and we want to make that clear, And that we’ re not going toaccept the titles, we're not going to accept the misinformation that’s being spread massively on the Black Panther Party, trying to put us in a derogatory, or trying to put us in a bad light, in order to give validity to the oppression and the rampant terror that the racist, fascist power structure Is bringing down upon black people in par- ticular and all people that advocate the right to free speech in general. And that’s a conceivability, and everybody can relate to that, be- cause you have examples, the most recent example was the murder, of James Rector. The example ts manifested by James Rector, who was viciously murdered in Ber- keley, by one of the so-called up- holders of law and order. We say that we weren't suprised about that, and we were not glad about that, because we don’t advocate the taking of lives, as a matter of fact, we advocate world peace, We advocate disarmament, we advocate the whole thing about gun control, we advocate non-violence, But we know also that it’s not sensible, it’s not good rationaliza- tion to talk about non-violence, when you are on the other end of the violence. But we do relate to defending ourselves, and we do re- late to any people having the right to self-defense, So we have to make that very clear, and People have to begin to see us in that light. So that we're going to Stop trying to make people accept the Black Pan- ther Party, by going out of our way to respond to every attempt that is made by the vicious news media, in order to cause eclipse upon the good work that the Party has done, One of the most recent experiences is manifested in our Breakfast programs. Woe see that the fascist, we see that the capi- talistic power structure was very ashamed because we showed people that there Is a hunger problem in Amorica, and that Amcrica ts not moving to solve those problems, and that they're not moving to solve those problems because of the capitalistic nature of this society, So that we have to begin to explain things, we have to begin to judge things from a visionary point of view. We have to begin to look at things and judge for ourselves whether they're right THE BLAGK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE $ CHIEF OF STAFF DAVID HILLIARD or wrong. We can’t believe in the propagations of the mass media, we can't believe In lies and dema- gOgY perpetrated by the demagogic politicans, Because those are one of the main weapons of fascism, They use Mes, they use tricker- ation, they give you misinforma- tion, in order to keep you Moving in a direction that's beneficial to the exploitation of this system. So that we have to begin to figure out for ourselves, what's right and what's wrong. Now this is one area that's very important, because un- less you're able to do this then we say that you're under-educated, and that you're politically im- mature, And that the only education that’s relevant to any people Is the education that can teach the People to cope with their social environ- ment. So that the first thing that we will have to do is to begin to move to control the institutions of learning. We have to contro! the colleges, we have to control the high schools, we have to control all the literature that’s put out and disseminated to the masses, in order for the masses to get the correct understanding of how the system Is gearedto exploiting peo- ple, rather than how the system is moving totry to put forth some good concrete examples of solving the People’s problems, And we don’t relate to theories, we don’t ask people to take us at our words, We're socialists, and we say the most powerful weapon of socialism is that of example, And we know and we're very confident, because we'll keep putting forward examples, we’re not going to pidgeon hole, we're not going to lie, we're not going to hide, we’re not going to try to deal aside, to try to use the kind of words that you call correct expressions, or to use the kind of grammar that you call correct learning. We're going to Say, and we're going to say it very plain, and we're going to be confident tn Saying it, because it’s all based on practice, It's not going to be some second hand rhetoric that we got from one of the major establish- Ment orientated newspapers, it's hot going to be information, that was passed on from one individual to the next, But it's going to be information based on social practice, And that's what we're going to have to get into, and un- less we begin to become active, active in those areas, then it's just a sham revolution roing, All you're doing is wasting your time, all you're doing Is engaging in leisure, all your're doing ts endorsing the oppression that’s rampant, not only here in America, but all over the planet, all over the Planet earth, So that our struggle has to become one, with all people’s struggles throughout the world, be- cause our struggle is very, very beneficiary, Because our struggle enhances, in that it moves up the other people of color, it moves them up one notch when we begin to put forth a profound dissent in terms of free speech, and when we begin to demonstrate and show our dissatisfaction, this is only one means of going forth and showing that we no longer accept the given rules, and we no longer accept the policies laid down by our fore- parents, or we don’t accept the Policies manifested in the so called constitutionality of the United States, Because the consti- tution as it Is, is a véry powerful decree, because it does talk about the democracy that we're so used to propagating. But it’s irrelevant because the theory has yet to be put into practice. The theory has yet to begin to be put into practice even when we decide that we want to stand up and fight for our right to free speech, When we be- gin to move massively, against the authorities, or against the standard bearers of American social order, then we’re condemned, we’ re con- demned because we're told that we're breaking the laws, and that if we're continuous, if we do this with any degree of continuity, then no longer will they use rhetoric, no longer will they sit up and es- pouse rhetoric, but then they'll move, and they'll move with the only weapon that they have to make the people react to what they order, and that's violence, So that we say that one of the clearest mani- festations of a fascist state, is a wagon load of billy clubs, And everybody, recently, everybody here, everybody in 1969, everybody from the Democratic convention to the Berkeley situation, everybody from Chicago to Vietnam, reallzes that this is one world, and it's a world that’s geared to violence, and it's a world founded upon vio- lence, and it’s a world that will end with the most inhumane, atrocious, ugly form of violence, that history has ever recorded, un- less we move to try to find some situations for solving that, And that I hate to say this, and I feel that it's hopeless to say it, but I don't think that we're going to be able to get out of this without some blood shed. Because I don't see anybody moving to try to solve the problem, I don’t see anybody that's in control of any power trying to move, to try to solve the problem, 1 see the young whites, I see the young Mexican-Americans, I see the young Chinese, I see all the youth of America moving with a profound dissent sometimes even from a position of destruction, to show their dissent, I see these people as being the only safe- guard for preventing the holocaust of what we're talking about, So that it's just a matter of beginning to intensify the areas of work, that we're doing, It's just a matter of doing that and doing it endlessly, doing it with more vigor, doing it with more under- standing, doing it with more patience, it's these kinds of atti- tudes that require inorder to bring forth the kind of world that we would like to live In. So that we can re- late to history, only if history is relevant to our situation. We can relate to the ideas of Marxism- Leninism only if the ideas apply to our situation, and I say that Marxism-Leninism is an in- vincible weapon, that it’s the most powerful weapon for people that's struggling against imperialism, for people that are struggling against an oppressive, brutalizing, lying, demagogic system such as we're victims of today. So that we can take the ideas of Marx, the ideas of Lenin and we can put these ideas into practice, and we can come up with some concrete examples, and that the results would be victorious, Because the ideology is geared to the struggling people, it's geared to the people that’s moving against capitalism. So that it developed out of a situation such as this, and whether the people want to accept that or not, whether the older people like it or not, I don’t think that we give a damn, because we’ re going to use it, because we know that it’s the only thing that we have, And that we're going to use it in clear axiom, one quotation of Marxism- Leninism is stated such as ‘‘when all peaceful means have been ex- hausted, then we move from a position of peaceful co-existance, to a position of violence, because violence is the highest form of politics possible for solving any situation’’. And we're not going to be deterred from that, because we've fallen victims of violence too long. We've fallen victims of brutalizations, we've fallen vic- tims to the billy clubs, we’ ve fallen victims to the vicious service-re- volvers too long, tounderstand that it’s good for them and bad for us. But we say it’s good for us and bad for them, when we begin to step up our resistance, so that the things that’s happening tothe black people in the black communities, the degree that they're happening, are only happening because black people have moved from a position of unarmed struggle to armed ‘ struggle. That they ve moved from that position because they were forced to move to that position, And that you can’t blame the shitonthe Black Panther Party, because the Black Panther Party was manl- fested in every rebellious slave, that ever decided to stand up and Say that no longer will we accept this oppressive system, no longer will we have racist madmen driving Us night and day, telling us what to do, So that’s the position that we’ re taking, because we're not the predecessors, we’re the contin- uation of all the rebellious slaves, and we're a realization of the op- Pression that's manifested here tn America. So that you can call us racist, and we'll debate that if we have time, But we know that we're not racists, we know that we're just reacting to racism, We're reacting to the racism that’s manifested in America, And that the only way that we're going to solve this problem Is through many more tnyitations, by the courageous, young progressive whites, by extending many more in- vitations to members ofour Party, to members of the Chicano com. munity, to members of all the so called enemies of this establish- ment, We say that we cay begin to efface this Problem, when we begin to Invite these people with more rapidity and more continulty, So I'll just conclude this brief lecture, or this brief enjoyment with you, whatever you wantto call it, by saying that we're calling for a United Front Against Fascism, the 18th, 19th, and 20th, in Oakland, at the Oakland auditorium, and we want to see all you people there, All Power to the People, and seize the hour, the moment, the day, Power, People, THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 6 LECOMBERRI PRISONSOME OF THE PRISONERS MEXICO POLITICAL ACTIVITY-- PRISON STYLE Despite absolute knowledge of ,speak into the workshop to pilfer the truth, the US press has per- sisted in perpetrating the lle that political prisoners arrested during the events prior to and during the October 2 massacre in Mexico City were liberated by the Diaz Ordaz government. The Americana Annual for 1969, for example, docu- ments with only a few inaccuracies the chronology of the student move- ment, but gibly adds: ‘‘Gestavo Diaz Ordaz, Peident of Mexico, granted amnesty on December 24, 1968, to 12] persons still under ar- rest as a result of the violent student demonstrations of the sum- mer and fall."’ The implication of the words ‘still under arrest’’ Is, of course, that the jails were emptied of poll- tical prisoners. The material below comes from several sources; the prisoners themselves, the relative of a pris- oner, a Mexican magazine--all providing a clear picture of the all-too-real existence of Mexican political prisoners. Political Activity Prison Style (The following account Is based on information obtained from se- veral political prisoners in Mexi- co’s Lecumberr! Prison.) On April 6 a common prisoner escaped prison by drugging one of the visitors, taking his identi- fication tab and clothes, and walk- ing out as one of the Sunday vis- itors. Thus the guards were more or less alert on Monday night, at about 3:10 a.m., Tuesday morning, we suddenly awoke tothe sounds of rifle and pistol fire and the shouts of guards, It was per- fectly clear that the shots were close by--being fired either inour own ward or right next to it. We could hear the guards running over the roofs of our cells. We got out of the way of the entrance to the cell and glanced out toward the tower in the center of the ward, There were three guards firing away with .38 caliber pistols toward Ward A. At first we thought there might be an escape attempt by some of the political prisoners in thatward. There were shouts by the guards of ‘*Bajanse!’’ (‘Get down from there?) and then more gun shots, Not only the three guards in the tower were shooting, but many others, along the big walls dividing Wards A and E were also firing with Mausers. Before the shooting started, se- veral prisoners heard the guards shouting, ‘‘Son politicos!’ (‘They are politicals’’), then opening fire. In a short time the guards cor- nered the two common prisoners who were unarmed, They had not been trying to escape, but only to a few things. We could clearly hear the beating they were getting. There was one solid blow which was particularly audible, which was particularly audible. Later we learned that one of the two had been hit by a bullet in the leg. As the beating continued, one of the inmates in Ward A, watch- ing through a high cell window yelled out, “That's enough, let them go, you cowards?’ to the guards One of the officers ordered, “Count the windows! Figure out which cell that’s coming from so that we can give him a warming over, too," but they were unable to spot which window the voice came from, One of the two men was taken to an unknown place, The other was taken to the Polygono, which Is the central office, There he was sur- rounded by the mono (monkeys-- the prisoners’ name for the guards) who began beating him with their nighsticks. When he fell, they be- gan to kick him terribly. All of this was witnessed by the political prisoners In Ward C, since they can see the Polygono from their ward, The prisoners were not brought to the infirmary, for according to someone in the prison who knows, medical attention is never givento those caught trying to escape. Later we learned that the two men had been thrown in a damp, dark Isolation cell after they had been beaten The prisoners learned that night that whay they have always sus- pected is true, The firing did not begin until] someone yelled out that the two men were political prison- ers, Later, when they were beat- ing them, one of the guards, trying to get them to take ft a Ilttle easier, shouted, ‘‘No hombre, son ratas de la Aj’* (‘No they are rats from Ward Al’’), In other words, not political prisoners, as they had originally thought. Another revelation was that the guards in Ward N are armed, al- though as a rule, guards on duty at floor level carry only a night- stick, We are fully aware that the prison guards have been instructed that brutal beatings even of un- armed, captured prisoners are fully sanctioned by the authorities; and that under the right circum- stances, it Is not too undesirable to shoot a political prisoner On May 1, the political prisoners of wards M and N carried out a coordinated May Day celebration, prison style, Fora few weeks there had been no guards posted inside the wards, although they came inat times and stayed in the tower for brief periods. On this day the ward and roof were clear, so we climed to the roof of the control tower at the center of each of the wards and raised red fags. Revolutionary songs were sung, and we chanted slogans and cheered That same evening a second me- eting was held. While the red flag was lowered, the ‘‘Internationale’’ was sung. Then, at ground level, assemblies commemorating the date were held in both wards, with speakers from all of the political tendencies, The common prisoners in nearby wards heard the speeches and they cheered and applauded after each one During the week that followed, there were scattered repressive incidents, Adrian Campos Diaz was struck by a guard while he was at the infirmary, and others were also molested. We wrote an open letter of protest to General Mario Cedillo Granados, who runs the prison and managed to get It pub- lished in Sucesos. On Wednesday, May 7, several prisoners were outside Ward N, waiting to be taken to the in- firmary, Suddenly, as they looked through the second gate, also pad- locked with a chain, they saw guards chasing prisoners and striking them. Rusing past their guards, the prisonersfrom WardN ran to the second gate and swa that those being struck were com- paneros from Ward M, The guards at this second gate tried to hold back the prisoners from Ward N, but they resisted and yelled out to the guards inthe main circulation hall to stop hitting the companeros. While they stood there yelling, one of them ran back to the ward and called out, “They're beating our comrades from Ml’" Within a minute almost all of the prisoners in Ward N were smashing at the gate. Although the lock didn’t give, the latch did and they all ran out, past a group of five guards, to the second gate. Some ran back for empty coke bottles, sticks, etc, Others mana- ged to get the attention of one of the students being held at Ward M, Rafael Villalobos, nicknmaed El Jarocho, who had been badly beaten. He lifted his bloody face and told the prisoners from Ward N that Socrates Amado Campos Lemus, a student leader imprison- ed in Ward M, had suddenly been taken out of the cell block and they didn’t know where he was, Since in the past another student leader, Cabeza de Vaca, had been taken out of Ward H, the new- comers’ ward, and transported to Military Camp No, 1, where he had been beaten and where they had carried out a smiluated firing squad ritual to intimidate him, the companeros of Ward M had de- cided to act, While they were being taken to the steam baths, they had attempted to rush to the administration of- fices to conduct a lightning meeting to protest this action and to de- mand that Socrates be returned im- mediately to his ward. However, they were assaulted by some of the guards and all hell broke loose, The Ward N prisoners told them that it was foolish for them to risk getting hurt or killed for the measly 1,000 odd pesos they get paid (about US $80), Then the prisones threw bottles at the guards who were beating the com- paneros in the main hall, to dis- tract them from their task, Be- fore long the padlock on the second gate was smashed, The guards formed a human blockade to prevent the prisoners from getting through to their wounded comrades, But the prison- ers broke through and went to the rescue of the others, like El Jarocho, who were now surrounded and being beaten by a whole gang of guards. The guards were finally neutralized without any violence and the prisoners of wards M and N advanced toward Ward C, The companeros in Ward C had already been alerted to what was happening. They also smashed the lock on their gate and neutralized their guards, But when they tried to rush toward the administration office around the corner, the big gate that cuts traffic on the main corridor was shut and locked, They began to climb over this 20-foot- high gate at about the time the prisoners from wards N and M were arriving. By sheer luck, painters were working with a scaffold on the out- side wall of the small Sala de Defensores (Defense Counsels' Room) used for prisoners of wards M and N, One of the windows in this hall was within reach of the scaffolding, so the advancing prisoners climbed it, kicked in the wooden shutters and climbed down, thus avoiding having to climb the main gate. Now we all advanced en masse-- the great majority of the political prisoners in Lecumberri--toward the main administration office, the main Sala de Defensores, and... the main gate? When we reached the Sala de Defensores, a meeting was quickly Organized and the wounded com- paneros were lifted up so that all of the visitors to the prison (Ward C plus all the common pirsonet wards) could see them, Others pro- ceeded to wards I and H Florentino Jaimes Hernandez was spotted in the Sala de Defen- sores, He |s the prisoner who car- ried through a spectacular assault on an armored payroll truck, This companero, even though he de- clared (published in Excelsior) that the robbery was carried out for political reasons--to get funds to help fight against the system-- was sent to the common prisoners’ Ward D instead of to one of the wards for political prisoners, We called Jaimes to join us and he came forward, but the guard re- fused to unlock the gate. He was told to open it or the prisoners would smash it down, and it was opened, Jaimes rushed out to ap- plause and cheers. Meanwhile, the front contingent of prisoners had reached Ward I, where Socrates had been taken, One of the prisoners had brought a sledgehammer and we began smashing the lock on the gate to Ward | Jose Revueltas was there at the gate and he shook hands with some of the prisoners as they finished off the lock, The guards were all grouped around the main gate which led to the main entrance gate, but the prisoners did not go toward that gate, As totally spontaneous as the action was, it was surprising how a major confrontation with the guards was avoided, Two compan- eros addressed the guards, stopping them short when a lieu- tenant gave the order tocharge the prisoners and disperse them. With the lock on Ward! smashed, some prisoners went into the ward to convince Socrates to come out and join them, to watch he readily agreed, Now the mass turned to- ward Ward H, yelling ‘*Danzos! Danzos!,"’ calling to the peasant leader Ramon Danzos Palomino, recently jailed and being held ar- bitrarily In Ward H when he also should have been with the political prisoners, The prisoners formed a with locked arms so allow the guards to inte 3 they smashed into Ward H, One guard tried to stop Danzog leaving the ward, but was held back by another guard, At the same time, otherg broke into the office of the director, Major Bernardo P, Yanez, located between wards I ang H. Some of us held others tac from going in and smashing the place up, No damage wag done to the office. Nelther the general nor Palacios showed up during the entire action, Former deputy of the House of Representatives Estrada Villa was also rescued from Ward H, andthe prisoners began to voluntarily move back to thelr wards, tryingts keep together to avold being cutup into small groups, There were many clashes with the guards, by these were isolated incidents an the prisoners managed to af. fectively neutralize the guards verbally! Danzos Palomino and Villa went to Ward C; Socrates tas to his own ward, M; and Jaimeswas brought to Ward N, Later, Bs trada Villa voluntarily returned tp Ward H, Back in Ward N, the expected the guards to ¥ . attack at any time to get Jaimes back, They set up a twenty-four. hour watch schedule on the tower and near the entrance gate. The next day the guards came at 7 a.m, and said they wanted to coum Jaimes. The prisoners discussed the matter and decided to have Jaimes come to the Inside gate of Ward N, which they controlled, so that the guards could seehim from outside the gate. This done, the guards left without comment, Evidently the government has not yet decided what to do about this fait accompli. The prisoners haye decided to continue to resist, de pending upon what happens, Mean- while, prisoners who have left the ward to get their mail or go to the Sala de Defensores have not been bothered or provoked by the guards, and of course, the com- mon prisoners cheer them at every opportunity. Ir can be surmised that the com siderable publicity tn Mextco on € conditions and demands of the pol:. tical prisoners contributed heavily to the fact that an order must hay been given not to shoot at the poll- tical prisoners. On May 8 public meetings of pro- test were carried out at the Poly- technic Institute and at the Uni- versity of Mexico, An issue of El Dia contalneds news item that Silva Herzog, the historian, at a ceremony where be was being honored, said that in- stead of honoring him, the govern- ment ought to release the political prisoners. This issue of El Dia was not allowed into the prison, The successful actions have raised the morale of many of the political prisoners, Several, taken alone or together to court since then to sign papers, etc., have ripped up their files or defended themselves against Insults and blows. Pablo Alvarado Barrera was struck down by prison guards with clubs when he tried to rip up the court document on his sentence when the judge’s envoy began reading it to him in the admin- istration office, ROCKEFELLER ALL HEART (Fred News Service, July 3) During his recent forroy Imo Latin America, Nelson Rockefellet has received only 2 warm and friendly receptions -- from Pap Doc Duvalier, dictator of Haith and Gen, Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay, After watching his pet= formance in}tonduras, we can Se why. Ameritan-armed. Hondurat police shot and killed w student on May/ 14 who \was procesting Rocky's’ visit. Rocky proniptly of fered the University a $1,200schole arship to buy 4 new student (0 fe place the one he killed, FRED HAMPTON, DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, ILLINOIS CHAPTER, BLACK PANTHER PARTY ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE We got to talk first of all about the Main man, The mal) nan inthe Black Panther Party, the main man inthe strug- gle today--in the United States, inChicago, in Cuba and anywhere else--the main man in the liberation struggle is our Minister of Defense, and yours too, Huey P. Newton. He’s the main ‘man because the head of the imperialsit octopus lies right in this country and whoever is dealing with the head of the octopus in this country is the main man. He’s in jail now. We must tell the world that Huey P. Newton was tried by the pigs and they found him guilty. He was tried by the people, who found him not guilty, and we say let him go, let him free, because we find him not guilty This is our relentless demand, We will not let up one day, we will not give up the struggle to berate our Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton and we will continue to exert pressure on the power Structure and constantly bombard them with the people’s demand that Huey P Newton be set free. it was Huey P, Newton who taught Us how the people learn, You learn by participation. When Huey P. Newtou Started out what did he do? He gota gun and he got Bobby and Bobby got a gun, They had problems in the community because people was being run over--kids were being run over--at a certain inter- Section. What did the people do? The peo- ple went down tothe government to redress their grievances and the government told them to go to hell: “We are not going to put no stoplights down there UNTIL WE SEE FIT.” What did Huey P, Newton do? Did he go out and tell the people about the laws and write letters and try to prop- agandize em all the time? NO! Some of that's good, but the masses of the people don't read--that's what I heard Huey say-- they learn through observation and par- ticipation. Did he just say this? NO! So what did he do? He got him a shotgun, he got Bobby and he gothimahammer and went down to the corner, He gave Bobby the shotgun and told him if any pig motherfuckers come by blow his mother fuckin brains out, What did he do? He went to the corner and nailed up a stop sign, No more accidents, no more trou- ble, And then he went back--another sit- Uation like that, What'd the people do? They looked at it, they observed; they didn’t get a chance to participate in it, Next time what'd they do? Same kind of problem came up. The PEOPLE got THEIR shotguns, got THEIR nine mil- imeters, got THEIR hammers. How'd they learn? They learned by observation and participation. They learned one thing. Whew there is a fire you gather round the fire. Huey got a shotgun and everybody gathered round him and Bobby, They saw what was going on and they had a chance to participate in it. Asthe vanguardleader he taught the people about the power structure; he led the people down the correct road of revolution, What are we doing? BREAKFAST FOR CHILDREN Our Breakfast for Children program is feeding a lot of children and the people understand our Breakfast for Children program, We sayin’ something like this-- we saying that theory's cool, but theory with no practice ain't shit. You got to have both of them--the two go together. We have a theory about ° ‘eding kids free, What'd we do? We put it Into practice. That's how people learn, A lot of people don’t know how serious the thing is, They think the children we feed ain't really hungry. I don't know five year old kids than can act well, but know that if they not hungry we sure got some actors, We got five year old actors that could take the academy award, Last week they had a whole week dedicated to the hungry in Chicago. Talking ‘bout the starvation rate here that went up 15%. Over here where everybody should be eating. Why? Because of capitalism, What are we doing? The Breakfast for Children program. We are running it ina socialistic manner, People came and took our program, saw it in a socialistic fas- hion not even knowing it was socialism, People are gonna take our Program and tell us to go on to a higher level. They gonna take that program and work it in a socialistic manner, What'd the pig say? He say, “nigger--you like communism ?* “no sir, 'm scared of it,” “You like socialism?" “No Sir, I'm scared of it" “You like the breakfast for children program?* ‘Yes sir, I'd die for it". Pig said, “Nigger, that Program Is a socialistic program." ‘I don't give a fuck if it's Communism. You put your hands on that program motherfucker and Pll blow your motherfucking brains out,” And he knew it. We been educating him, not by reading matter, but through ob- servation and participation, By letting him come in and work our program, Not theory and theory alone, but theory and practice, The two go together. We noc only thought about the Marxist Leninist theory--we put it into practice, This is what the Black Panther Party {s about, SUBVERSIVES Some people talka lot about communism, THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 7 but the people can't understand and pro- gress to the stage of communism right away or because of abstract arguments, They say you got to crawl before you can walk, And the Black Panther Party as the vanguard party thought that the Breakfast for Children Program was the best tech- nique of crawling that any vanguard party could follow, And we got a whole lot of folks that's going to be walking. And then a whole Jot of folks that's gonna be running. And when you got that, what you got? You got a whole lot of PIGS thats gonna be running. That's what our pro- grams about, The Black Panther Party Is about the complete revolution, We not gonna go out there and half do a thing. And you can let the pigs know it. They come here and hide--they so uncomfortable they sitting on a taperecorder, they got they gun in their hair--they got to hide all this shit and they come here and do all this wierd action. All they got to do Is come up to 2350 West Madison any day of the week and anybody up there'll let them know, let the motherfucker know: Yes, we subversive, Yes, we subversive with the bullshit we are confronted with today. Just as subversive as anybody can be subversive. And we think them mother- fuckers is the criminals. They the ones always hiding, We the ones up In front. We’ re out in the open, these motherfuckers should stop wearing uniforms, They want to know if the Panthers are goin’ under- ground--these motherfuckers IS under- ground, You can’t find em, People calls the pigs but nobody knows where they at, They’ re out chasing us, They hiding--can’t nobody even see em, When people got a problem they come to the Black Panther Party for help and thats good, Because, like Mao says we are sup- posed to be ridden by the people and Huey says we're going to be ridden down the path of social revolution and that's for the people. The people ought to know that the Black Panther Party is one thousand percent for the People. They write a lot of articles, you know, niggers’ll run up to you in a minute--when I say niggers I mean white niggers and black niggers alike--niggers’ll run upto you and talk that shit about , Man, I read in the Tribune today. Well you say , Man, fuck it right there. If you din’t read it in the BLACK PANTHER er, if you didn’t read it in the MOVEMENT -3-then you ain’t read shit. MICKEY WHITE We in the Black Panther Party have another brother I want to take some time to rap about. This brother Is constantly on our mind, This brother's name is Michae] White--Mickey White. This bro- ther Is beautiful. He’s being held now in jal for one hundred thousand dollars bail. Some of you who listen to the radio might have heard about brothers In state chapter, our field secretary of Defense Captain brother Nathaniel Junior and brother Merril Harvery being laid up on some phony gun charge. We don’t say the Panthers don’t want guns, but we already got guns and we don’t have to go and try and steal or connive to buy any guns from anybody. What they are trying to do ts to squash out the Black Panther Party--they re trying to squash out the leadership, Trying to squash out Bobby pum, ‘Deputy Minister of De- fense, ying to squash out Ch Shey, Deputy Minister of Paice Mickey White was in that bullshit with Nathaniel Junior and Merrill Harvey. Last week when they went to court even the judge in court said, you all gonna get a fair trial whether you deserve it or not. These are the types of actions we are confronted with. Mickey White is in sol- itary confinement and doesn't get to come out of his cell for anything at any time, And he might be in that cell for the rest of his life. His bond Is $100,000. That's $10,000 cash. Mickey White is a proven revolutionary, He’s not nobody we THINK Is going to be & revolutionary, He’s not nobody we trying to make a revolutionary. He's a proven revolutionary. All of you have to under- stand that Micky White is a Panther in ideology, he’s a Panther tn word and he’s a Panther in deed. He’s a Panther that understands its a class struggle-- hot a race question, You have to under- Stand the pressures the Black Panther Party goes through saying this, You can see the pressures the Black Panther Party goes through by making a coalition with whites. You can see that we had a group in California who committed their first acts of violence on the Black Panther Party Ron Karenga and US never shot nothing but dope until they shot them brothers, They been an organization longer than the Black Panther Party. When the Black Panther Party stood up and said we not going to fight racism with racism Us said “NO, we can’t do that because it’s a race qUestion and {f you make it a class question then the revolution might come sooner, We in US ain't prepared for ho revolution because we thing that “power grows from the sleeve of a Dashiki,” They are armed with rhetoric and rhetoric alone, And we found that when you're med with rhetoric and rbetoric alone . lot of times you get yourself hurt. Eldridge Cleaver told them, even though you say you fight fire with fire best, we think you fight fire with water, You can do either one, but we choose to fight with water, He sald, we're not going to fight racism with racism, we're going to fight racism with solidarity, Even though you think you ought to fight capitalism with black capitalism, we're going to fight capitalism with socialism. We got a whole lot of people being busted and you don’t even know about all these people, There's one here you definitely have to know about and thats our Minister of Defense--Bobby Kush, Our Minister Bobby Rush was busted on some bullshit with a gun thing. He's got three gun charges, He’s been con- victed of one with a six month lead. He’s out on appeal now. I know a lot of you people say, well goddam, you got a Mickey White defense fund, an Eldridge Cleaver defense fund, a Merill Harvey defense fund, a Nathaniel Junior defense fund, a Hey Newton defense fund, a Fred Hampton, Jule, Shay and Chaka defense fund--and I just can't keep up with all these defense funds, But since we're the vanguard party we try to do things right, 50 we got one defense fund so you don’t get mixed up on what name to send it to. We'll decide who it goes to, You can just send it to Political Defense Fund, 2350 West Madison. If you want to send something to Breakfast for Children, you can send it to 2350 West Madison also, and you can earmark that money to go to the Breakfast for Children program, We got Mickey on our mind tonight-- and everybody knows we got Huey P. Newton on our mind tonight. We got every political prisoner in jail on our mind tonight. Let's talk about it. We understand that Mickey White, Huey P Newton and Dennis Mora; people like Bobby Hutton and Eldridge Cleaver-- all of these people either dead, or in exile or in jail. A lot of people under- standing this will lose real faith In the vanguard by not understanding what we’ re talking about. GO WITH THE PEOPLE A lot of these people will go up to you in a minute and say, “Why all these people being taken, why haven't they shot it out with some pigs.” Well, what do we say? Lf you kill a few, you get a little satisfaction. But when you can kill them ALL you get complete satisfaction, That's why we haven't moved, We have to organize the people. We have to educate the people. We have to arm the people. We have to teach them about revolutionary political power And when they understand al! that we won't be killing no few and getting no little satisfaction, we’ll be killing em all and getting complete satisfaction. So what should we do if we’re the vanguard? What is it right to do? Is it right for the leadership of that strug- gle to go faster than the followers of that struggle can go? NO! We're not going to be dealingno commandism, we’ re not going to be dealing in no tallism. We say that just as fast as the people can possibly go, that’s just as fast as we can take it, While we take it we must be sure that we are not missing the people in the valley. Ir the valley we know that we can learn to u ‘erstand the life of the people, We know tha. with all the bullshit out here you can come to consider yourself on the mountain top. I may even consider myself one day on the mountaintop, I I may have already. But I know that in the valley there are people Like Benny and there are people like me, people like Mic- key White and people Like Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. And that below the valley are people like Bobby Hutton, people like Eldridge Cleaver, We know that going into the valley is a dangerous thing, We know that when you go out to the valley you got to make a committment, A lot of people think the revolution Is bullshit, but it's not. A lot of us think that when you get in the revolution you can talk your way out of things, but thats not true, Ask Bobby Hutton, ask Huey Newton, ask Eldridge Cleaver, Mickey White and Dennis Mora. Ask these people whether its a game. If you get yourself involved in a revolutionary struggle then you've got to be serious. You got to know what you're doing. You got toalready have practiced some type of theory. That's the reason we ask people to follow the lead- ership of the vanguard party. Because we all theorizing and we all practicing. We make mistakes, but we're always correcting them and we're always getting better, We used to run around yellin ‘bout Panther Power--the Panthers run it. We admit we made mistakes, Our ten point program is in the midst of being changed right now, because we used the word white when we should have uged the word cap- italist, We're the first to admit out mis- takes, We no longer say Panther Power because we don't believe the Panthers should have all the power. We are not SEE NEXT PAGE THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 8 FROM LAST PAGE for the dictatorship of the Panthers, Weare not for the dictatorship of Black people, We are for the dictatorship of the people. The difference between the people and the vanguard is very important, You got to understand that the panther Party IS the vanguard, If you are about going to the People you got to understand that the vanguard leads the people, After the social revolution, the vanguard party, through our education- al programs--and that program Is over- whelming--the people are educatad to the point that they can run things themselves, That's what you call educating the peo- ple, organizing the people, arming the people and bringing them revolutionary political power. That means people’ s pow- er, That means the people's revolution. And if you're not about being involved in a people’s revolution then you got to do something, You got to support the people’s revolution, COMPLETE SATISFACTION The Black Panther Partyis the vanguard party. You better get on the Black Panther Party, If you can’t get on, goddamit you better get behind, If you can’t get behind goddamit, you better get behind somebody else so you'll at least be able to follow indirectly, motherfucker. We ain't asking you to go out and ask no pig to leave us alone, We know that the pig fucks with us cause they know we're doing something. Cause a lot of dudes walk around and write articles about it, I know some revolutionary groups say these niggers are runnin around saying these things-- the PL motherfuckers talking that bull- shit, couldn’t even find things to crit- icize, They was so far in the ground, What was they doing? Organizing ground- hogs, educating groundhogs, arming groundhogs and teaching groundhogs rev- olutionary political power, I say that we're the first group to come above ground where the people can fol- low you and see you, And If you make a mistake its better than not even being at all. When I made that mistake I made it for the people, and I correct it for the people. You don’t hear there was a raid on PL's office last night, You ain’t never heard that. When you hear of PL busted in New York, PL's leader in jall with no bars, Pl leader run out of the coun- try, PL leader shot 18 times while he was running with his back turned and hands tied up, PL leader gets breakfast for children for 1800 people a week. You ever hear it? Ya never heard it, I want to hear it. If you do hear it, it'll be be- cause of the Black Panther lead. I'm not putting all these things out and saying PL doesn’t know ‘em, But fm saying that when people write something like this, a lot of people don't understand it, And I wanted to take the time to explain it, There are some things that PL says that are valid, Don’t misunderstand me, e don’t get mad becausein some way or another PL is trying to better the Black Panther Party by trying to criticize it. But I just want to let you know, ain't nothing all right and ain't nothing all wrong, We're not all right--though we trying to get that way. We make mis- takes but we understand that we gonna make some more mistakes. And we gonna try and correct these mistakes and we gonna try and keep on moving. So what do we say? Don’t get the pigs offa us cause we can stand em, We jail Mickey White, we should let em murder Bobby Hutton, we should let em run Eldridge Cleaver out of the country. Why? Because you can jail a revolut- fonary, but you can’t jail the revolution, You can run a freedom fighter around the country but you can’t run freedom fighting around the country, You can murder a liberator, but you can’t mur- der liberation Kill a few and get a little satisfaction. Kill some more and you get some more satisfaction. Kill em all and you get complete satisfaction. We say All Power to the People--Black Power to Black People and Brown Power to Brown People, Red Power to Red People and Yellow Power to Yellow People. We say White Power to White People EVEN And we say Panther Power to the van- guard Party and we say don’t kill a few and don’t kill some more, As a matter of fact we rather you didn’t move until you see we ready to move, and when you see we ready to move you know we not dealing with a few, we not dealing with some more, You know that we we get ready to move we dealing from com- plete--that's what we're after--total, everything, everybody--complete satis- faction, POWER TO THE PEOPLE FREE LOS SIETE MAIL $1 10 Los Slete de la Raza c/o CHARLES R. GARRY Attorney at Law - 341 Market Street San Francisco, Calif. 94150 YOUTH AGAINST WAR & FASCISM Former political prisoner of Okla- homa Jalil denounces the treatment of N.Y. Panther 21 July 8, 1969 Anti-Fascist Youth leader de- mands Rockefeller order im- mediate release of black political prisoners In a telegram to Governor Rockefeller, Kay Martin, National Chairman of Youth Against War and Fascism, today demanded that the Black Panther Party Members held in ‘high security*’ detention in the New York City Tombs and Women's House of Detention be immediately and unconditionally reléased and that the frame-up in- dictments against them be with- drawn. “The conditions under which the Panthers are held’', sald Martin “are a form of torture, calculated to break them down, And the ex- horbitant and unconstitutional ball, still $100,000 for several pris- oners, assures that the police can continue this inhuman treatment for an intefinite period. Anyone who has been in an imperialist jail knows that the purpose of prison Is to brutalize the prison- ers and break their will to resist the oppression of this system, But the Panthers have been singled out for evén more Inhuman and bar- ba@rous handling, by District At- torney Hogan and the Orwellian De- partment of Correction’’. "Mr. Martin, the victim of many political arrests, was jailed for six months in Oklahoma in 1967 for his support of the American Ser- vicemen's Union organizing efforts at Fort Sill that summer, Framed- up on a ‘‘criminal trespass’’ charge, he served time in El Reno Federal ‘‘Correctional’’ Insti- tution and later in New York's West Street Jail when his appeal was denied. ‘(As attorneys for the Panther prisoners disclosed yesterday, continued Martin, ‘‘they were checked every half-hour by prison guards, they must sleep, if they can at all, with the lights on, they have almost no reading ma- terial or other diversion or ex- ercise, They have also been held in special detention amounting to solitary for three months. These conditions can only be calledthose of Hitlerite political detention, “All this occurs under the vicious watch of a prison bureau- acy exhorted by Correction De- partment Commissioner George McGrath to regard the Panther Prisoners as ‘recognized mill- tant’' and ‘‘security risks’’. Even the oppressive establishment law cannot be stretched to call ‘militancy’ Illegal, yet the prison authorities give this as the reason for the barbarous treat- ment of the Panthers, This Is one of the clearest current examples of naked oppression used against black people, and particularly those leaders who openly struggle to liberate their people. The anti- imperialist and anti-fascist move- ment will not tolerate such brutal treatment of political prisoners, any more than the movement will stand for the concentration camps being prepared for larger numbers of political prisoners by the Nixon- Rockefeller - Berger adminis- tration’ al, rl a at eT a OAKLAND G JULY 1 Black Pantlh United Fre ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE The Boston Chapter of the Black Panther Party is continuing to intensify the struggle through hard work and (.rduous struggle, 8,000 papers were ordered this week with 4,000 sold at the New- port Jazz Festival. Double could have been sold but because of the lack of manpower it was impos-. sible, We will be initiating a second Free Breakfast Program within the next week, A People’s Rally was held on Sunday, July 6, at Franklin Park in Roxbury to rename it Malcolm X Memorial Park and to speak on pig brutality, The turn out for the rally was about 300 people who were served Bar-b-Que chicken and potato salad and Mal- Ws f, MINISTER OF DEFENSE _——— — — Pleose Clip end Mell te) ee ee ee ee HUEY P. NEWTON DEFENSE FUND P.O. BOX 318 BERKELEY, CALIF. 94701 address city 1 Pledge $ ———___ | Enclosed You Will Find 3 PTER colm X, Panther buttons were distributed, The rally was the first given by the Party in Boston, It turned out a success, The people both in and outside the commun- ity were relating beautifully. Bro- thers from Springfield are now working with the Party full-time and we have established contacts in the Cambridge community, Military drill and fleld training has been established. The United Front Against Fas- cism has been established with mother country radicals, but in the black community there was little response from the so- called responsible organizations. A new meeting is being established, all power to the people Eugene W, Jones Lt. of Information j SS es SKIP MALONE AND CONNIE MATTHEWS, "BLACK PANTHER REPRESENTATIVES IN SCANDINAVIA DANISH LEFT WING SOCIALIST PARTY On the 4th of july the Danish Left Wing Socialist Party and the Danish Vietnam Committees ar- ranged two demonstrations In Den- mark against the American geno- cidal warfare against the Vietna- mese people, The demonstrations were also made as a sign of sol- idarity with the oppressed Amer- ican people and especially in soli- darity with the Black Panther Party. Connie Mtthews, a representative of the Black Panther Party in Den- mark spoke about the similarities between the situation that the Vietnamese people are in and the situation that the oppressed people in America are in. She said‘’the MORE May 31, 1969 Dear Freinds, The work in solidarity with the Vietnamese people in Sweden Is very intensive and we will con- tinue to inform the Swedish peo- ple of the just struggle of the Vietnamese people against US ag- gressors until the final victory is won andall imperialists are thrown out of Vietnam, For the sixth time since October 1966 the United NFL-groups or- ganized this spring between the 7-18 of April, a Vietnam Week in Sweden. The propaganda was con- Centrating on the questions of the @xpanding US aggression to other countries in South East Asia; Laos, Cambodia and’ Thailand, and of Swedish industries directly in- volved In the support of US-imper- falism and its dirty war in South East Asia. Lately the Swedish Mass-Media has consequently not Mentioned a word about the con- “nding war in Vietnam. pretending that tie Paris talks are successful struggle of the Vietnamese people is a support for the struggle of the American Negroes. Both are fighting against imperialism, Both are denied the right to self-determ- ination, and the American imperi- alists use the same methods to escalate the war against black peo- ple in the USA as they have used against the Vietnamese people. Where are the Danish people in this fight, Connie Matthews asked, “You are a part of imperialism, you are members of NATO and you are accomplices to the suppression of the peoples in Angola and Mo- zambique. You who are here have expressed your solidarity with Viet ON SWEDEN Cigar peace negotiations, and instead newspapers, radio and TV are em- phasizing Biafra and the events in Czechoslovakia. The Swedish government is trying - but cer- tainly not succeeding - to split and pacify the Swedish opposition against the US war in Vietnam, through its more ‘respectable’’ Swedish Committee for Vietnam, In spite of this our Vietnam Week was very successful. Me- etings, outdoor rallies and dif- ferent propaganda actions were held at 78 places, demonstration at 17 places, which is more than ever before. All together about 16,000 persons participated, 30,000 coples of the Vietnam Bul- letin were sold and 60,000 Swedish Crowns were collected tothe NFL, The Ist of May demonstrations were also encouraging, many of the slogans that we, the United NFL- groups, have been working for during years were now accepted by many people, like; US out of Viet- nam! Combat US-imperialism! Nam, But this is not enough. Power will come back to the people - where it should be - but where Is Denmark when imperi- alism is smashed, The demonstration in Copenhagen also included reading of the 33,000 American GI's who so far, have officially been killed in Vietnam. The other demonstration, in a city where Hubert Humphrey spoke was directed against the pigs com- plicity in the suppression of peoples all over the world, He could only finish his oinking speech because a very large number of Danish pigs were ordered to protect him. The goal of our spring- campaign to collect 2 million Swedish Crowns to the NFL will soon be reached, Our plans for the future are among other things, to have our congress in June, arrange acti- vities on the 4th of July, and have another Vietnam Week later this autumn, Besides that we continue an intensive grass-root work, by collecting money to the NFL , sel- ling our magazine, sprv vading leaf- lets etc. Our organization is -ex- panding, new groups are being formed all the time at different places, VICTORY TO THE VIETNAMESE PEOPLE! US OUT OF VIETNAM!!! COMBAT US IMPERIALISM! Marita Wikander International Secretary United NF L-groups The United NLF-groups of Sweden c/o Skold Peter Mattis Ragvaldsgatan 21 Stockholm, Sweden of the THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 9 SWEDISH GOVERNMENT SUPPORTS U.S. AGGRESSION The Swedish government has never advocated a righteous Viet- nam policy, Sometimes we are al- lowed to hear some beautiful government words, But inpractice the government has often supported the US. imperialism directly. Therefore we must increase our support to the NLF and cambat U.S. imperialism. In a speech January 16, 1965, the Swedish foreign minister Tor- sten Nilsson said: ‘We miss the suppositions to judge safely if the American tactics conduct the raised objectives."’ Which were the tactics? Con- tinued murdering and escalation of the aggression in Vietnam. The ob- jectives? The US. government talked about peace and lied about ‘‘agpression from the North'’. Why should ‘‘we’’ not be able to‘! judge’’ and condemn this? ‘In the Vietnam conflict it is hard to determine to what degree the participants have support for their activity in international treaties and folkjudical rules.’’ What does Torsten Nilsson mean by ‘‘activity’’? The U.S ‘factivity’’ was an aggressive war and the ‘*activity’’ of the Vietnamese was a defense struggle. Which interna- tional treaties and folkjudical rules support an aggressive war and con- demn resistance fight? ‘*The thing that has upset the Swedish public most during recent months are the Increasing number of testimonies about terror and massreprisals used by both sides in Vietnam, The government shares the Swedish people’s dis- gust for terror activities and re- prisal methods, however they are motivated."* Torsten Nilsson does not dis- tinguish between aggressor and victim. Did the ‘‘terror and massreprisals’* used by e.g. the Norwegian resistance fighters against the Nazi occupants and their Norwegian puppets during the Second World War also disgust the Swedish minister of foreign affairs? Victims of aggression al- ways have the rights to defend themselves with all possible means, This was only three short quo- tations from the minister of foreign affairs in 1965. But they show clearly the government's attitude in basic questions; it refuses con- sistently to take a stand against the US imperialists aggressive war and for the Vietnamese just re- sistance struggle. This implies no- thing else but a support to the United States, And those that have given their wholehearted support to the NLF- the Vietnam demonstrators - have been condemned in reactionary statements, About 200 have been sentenced to pay fines. Recently a NLF activist was sentenced to jail, December 20, 1967 in Stock- holm the police, blessed by the government attacked a demon- stration for support to the NLF, Many were mishandled, The government tried as longas possible to stop the Russel Tri- bunal from being held in Sweden - the same Tribunal that demasked many US war crimes In Vietnam. Primeminister Tage Erlander said that the Tribunal did not further peace in Vietnam, The government helps make the US imperialist policy possible by supporting the US dollar, which has been weakened by the same imperialist policy; military bases all over the world, military support to dozens of reactionary regimes, etc. The government even refuses to give a statement about SENTAB and other Swedish enterprises, that give direct support to the US war in South East Asia. The government refuses to give asylum to the Vietnam War Refusers seeking refuge in Sweden. In this way it ‘‘escapes’' taking a stand to the US war All these acts against the Viet- namese people’s struggle have been blended with halfhearted Statements supporting the NLF, The government have swayed to and fro in the Vietnam question since 1965. Its last ‘‘stand’’ was taken in the parliament foreign affairs debate recently, Torsten Nilsson then informed that the Swedish government will present the DRV with fertilizers worth 10 million Swedish Kronor, He ‘‘hoped’’ that South Vietnam would be included in the aid pro- gram, ‘‘but as long as the bombing goes in South Vietnam it is use- less to give any help’’. Also now Torsten Nilsson re- fuses to take any stand The bombs do not fall by themselves. For years they have been dropped at the command of the U.S. imper- lalists. But the government pre- tends knowing nothing about it. Thus we can see that the govern- ment now as before conducts a policy of support to the US im- perialists. Of course the govern- ment has taken some positive stands; the recognition of the DRV, permission for the NLF in- formation office in Stockholm. But these decisions were not taken by the government on its own Ini- tive; it has been forced by the firm public opinion. We cannot expect the government to act differently in the future, Therefore we must continue the work for solidarity with the Viet- hamese people and increase the support to the NLF, The United NLF- groups of Sweden horn May 19, 1925 - Assassinated Feb. 21, 1965 THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 10 IN HAITI BLACK G.I. § USED AS PAWNS BY U.S. For more than a month, the po- litical life in Haiti has been ex- tremely agitated, Incidents, explo- Sions, and unexplained shootings have been answered by arbitrary arrests and political murders, On Monday, the 14th of April, 1969 the official press announced that there was a military operation in Boutillier (located a few miles from Port-au-Prince) against a ‘‘com- munist citadelle’’. Since then sear- ches, arrests, and executions have continued to build up at an ever accelerating rate in anatmosphere of complete hysteria, What actually happened? Accor- ding to the government, a small group of ‘‘communists’* are trying to disturb the order of the coun- try. On March 10, 1969, in an inter- view with Georges Beebe, Director of the Miami! Herald and Jerry Fletcher, writer for the Kingston Daily Gleaner, Duvaller declared that “the only group that we will never accept on our territory are the communists, because they In- terfere with the United States in fulfilling its role of leadership in the free world, Haiti is the stron- gest bastion against communism In the Carribean’’. In announcing the events of April 19, the official press of the PEP (Party of Popular Accord), and of PUCH (Unified Par- ty of Haitian Communists) born through merger of the first two parties. The government authori- ties alloge that the general head- quarters of the communists was destroyed, thirty militants killed, others arrested; and their arms, records, printing facilities and propaganda were seized. At the same time, recent arrivals from Port-au-Prince report night and day time searches and arrests of persons suspected of leftist ideas, Furthermore Duvaller had the Chamber of Deputies enact a law condemning to death anyone who sympathizes with the communist movement. The present situation carrics a new element which Duyalier ts trying to hide from international opinion; the existence of an in- ternal organization which moti- vates and organizes popular re- sistance, PUCH has for some time sti- mulated and organized acts of po- pular armed resistance In Halt. Even before the creation of a u- nified party, there were numerous peasant demonstrations. Then In January 1969 began various acts of resistance against arrests. In February came attacks against “tonton macoutes’’(secrete police) for the purpose of taking their arms. On March 6 there was an armed revol! of peasants at Ca- zale, The government of Duvaller has reacted with extreme violence a- gainst the peasants of Cazale, burning their homes and massacre- ing a large portion of the popula- tion. The repression today isterri- ble. The prisons are full, and even the International Red Cross has been unable to obtain authorization to visit the political prisoners, And Haitians, especially the youths re- turning from Europe, are arrested without discrimination on their arrival at the Port-au-Prince alr- port. Duvalier will pay any price to prevent the organization of resis- tance to his regime. He wants to obtain goodwill and aid from Wash- ington. Certain facts of Duvaller- U.S, collaboration are already well known such as cordial meetings in the working office of Duvalier with the U.S.Ambassador; an invitation to the filming of Apollo VIII; a gen- erous letter from Ambassador Ross to the Editor of the Haitian government newspaper, Mr. Ge- rard de Catalogne. Less known its the presence in Haiti of a tech- nical mission composed ex- clusively of Black Americans who give courses on anti-communism and teach repressive methods to officers and selected soldiers {n- side the Casernes Dessalines, (the Haitian government fortress). Using Black Americans to train Duvallor’s hated secret police Is a U.S, devisive tactic which pits blacks in the U.S, against blacks in Haiti who are fighting Duyaller’s terror. (from Acaau) G.I. S UNITED LEADER ACQUITTED OF TWO CHARGES In his second court martial, Pyt. Tommie Woodfin of Brooklyn, an Afro-American leader of Gls United Against the War in Vietnam at Fort Jackson, won an acquittal on two counts and was convicted on a third. He was defended by attorney Peter Rindskopf of the Southern Legal Assistance Project in Atlanta, in association with the GI Civil Liberties Defense Com- mittee, In a three and a half hour Special court martial, presided over by Major Ralph E. Inman, Pyt. Woodfin pleaded guilty to being AWOL Memorial Day week- end on a visit to his girl friend in New York, who was in the hospital, Ife was convicted and given a sentence of one month at hard labor not in confinement; he was also busted to El, The ‘Light penalty was a result of the defense counsel's presentation of the fact that at the time he went AWOL he had not had a weekend pass since February plus he had been on restriction much of thar time. In addition, Woodfin testi- fied that when he hud explained to his commanding officer that his girl friend was in the hospital and that he wanted to see her, he was told, ‘*You"li get 4 pass when you're soldier enough." Pyt. Woodfin wus acquitted of the charges that he had used ‘provo- cative language’ to Acting Sgt. ames L, Brody in a dispute over ether Woodfin had**jumped"’ the Chowline, He was also acquitted of the charge thar he “‘unlawfully did sirike Acting Sut. James L. lrody the face with the contents of 2 cup of hot coffee and he did further strike him about the head with a chair.’ Although the pro- secution presented two witnesses, Acting Sgt. Brody and Pvt. John R. McGriff, the head checker on the chow line, their main line of prosecution was to destroy the defense’s contention that Brody was lying. Besides Woodfin, de- defense presented Pvt. Ken Cross and Pvt. Gregory Dorsey as wit- nesses, They both stated thar Brody had threatened Woodfin about jum- Ping the line, and in the ensuing scuffle, that ‘‘Brody was on top." After testimony by Second Lt. Hughes that Cross, Dorsey and Woodfin lived inthe same barracks and were friends, the prosecution inferred that they would Lie for each other, and therefore, Brody, who flatly denied having struck Woodfin, was telling the truth. The defense argued that since there was contradictory evidence, and since the onus of proving guilt was oa the Army, Pvt. Wood- fin should be acquitted, which he was. Woodfin, who was previously ac- quitted on a charge of having illegally distributed a “*flyer*’ (the Gls United pettion) is due for a field board hearing some time next week to determine his ‘‘fitness"’ or “unfitness” to remain in the Army, The Army will undoubtedly try to use this AWOL conviction as grounds for giving Woodfin an “undesirable’’ discharge. The re- sults of this most recent court martial are seen as a victory for the GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee, and for the continuing fight of the GIs United for their Constitutional rights. POON eal ORR AANA AS . es 2° 4 IE Tas DAVARI ND IN STRAIGHT LINE PARADE _REST_ y UM \ Wang one wa We VON PORK _ sea | ON OK GI PRISON NO BETTER THAN CIVILIAN AN APPEAL BY G.I.'S OF FORT DIX Dear Friend, We make this appeal to you on be- half of those 38 men accused of tak- ing part in the Ft, Dix rebellion (for details see attached story), These men are now being held in the stockade on various combinations of the following charges: conspir- acy to riot, inciting to riot, rioting, destruction of government prop- erty and aggravated assault. At least ten of these menface general courts marttq} Which could result in up to 46 years in prison per man, It is clear that they are being held as political prisoners because of thelr opposition to impertalist wars and the brass, Terry Klug, an ASU organizer who worked with RITA (Resisters Inside the Army, with anti-war soldiers in France and whois cur- rently serving a three vear sen- LETTER I noticed the lines in your re- print of the Guardian article about the fact that the press never men- tlons what the Party Is doling for the people in concrete, construc- tive terms which even the mind- less middle class could identi- fy with, like the clinics and Break- fast Program. A week before re- celving this June 21 Issue, I had sent in to the local pig paper the enclosed article, in response to an instructor in Anthropology at the University of Vermont, who had been scared by a Victor Rie- sel column on the Black Panthers, Victor Riesel is considered a mo- derat pro-labor writer by the local paper, and sald in a letter to the paper that while the Panthers were obviously not ‘‘treasonous’’, they were certainly subversive, and they should be destroyed. From this he went on to a half-assed analysis of the black man in Amer- ica as this country’s native pea- sant class, with the same grie- tence for ‘‘desertion’’ Is one of the key mencharged, He makes the fol- lowing appoal to the American Servicemen’'s Union and all pro- gressive forces. ‘*Sitting In my cell all day gives me much cpportunity to think out the things and try and organize things so that we will win!... ‘Needless to say, we want out! time. Yet, being confined, limits many or our actions, In fact the only thing we can do Is write out articles, make statements, and present our ideas on tactics and strategy.... **T think one of the biggest factors in this case and a thing which will descide whether we win or not is outside support. We need a great We want to beat this case. I think amount of publicity and support or 1 can speak for Bill Brakefield else we're as good as lost... (Bill Brakefield was jsust comple- “As [ve said, we want to know ting his sentence on an AWOL that we have played ourpart in charge when the Dix rebellion helping to destroy this obscene broke and he was charged along peast,'' with Terry as one of the leaders ). However, this case has given us, as we see it, the opportunity to fight back, expose the military marhine for what it is, hurt the military machine, and organize Yours in the Struggle, within our own ranks at the same Andy Stapp FROM PETER HARATY vances against the power structure as the Vietnamese Liberation Front, and therefore we needed more welfare programs and In- dustrial development in the ghet- toes. You see what I mean by half-assed. So in replying, I decided to ig- nore the second half of his letter, which would take too long to res- pond to, and would never be pub- lished, and hooked into the guts of the middle-class conscience, which just loves that old Constit- ution. Because I think the educated white middle-class ts potentially the most dangerous element in this fascist society - | mean the professors, the doctors, the ‘‘li- beral'’ newspaper editors, and o- thers who aren't up to their neck in Finance Capital, but are fed by It, and know it, and so can dis- card without a thought all their “deep committment to ACLU ideas."' The great failing of the middle-class intellectual Liberal is that he can be paralyzed by intellectual contradictions, If it is pointed out to him often enough that he is a hypocrite and a crypto fascist, he can at least be kept from doing anything positively harmful to the liberation move- ment, Since the liberal prides him- self on having no ideology, the obvious difference between what he says he believes in(Democracy) and what he acts as though he be- lieves in (fascism), can hang him up indefinitely in idiotic meta- physical self{-discussion, And this keeps him from dolng anything. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Peter Haraty f P.s, I hope you FBI readers in the post office have enjoyed this, but peo _t0 pass this on, pe you haven't left hoof prints on it, = LETTER FROM THE BIG FAMILY Today is revolution culture day. I Uke the Mberation school, and the Panthers. The Panthers are good to us. In liberation school I learned about Malcolm X, Li'l Bobby, John, Bunchy, these were some of the best brothers In the Party, but the racist pigs killed them. T learned about the big fat bus!- nessman, The big fat businessman is greedy. T learned about the Minister of Defense Hucy P. Newton. Huey P. Newton ts a nice man, but he ts in jail. Eldridge watermelon, Huey Newton, Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Bunchy Carter, John Huggins and Little Bobby Hutton are revolutionary changers, I learned about Malcolm X who was a changer and the pigs shot him and burned up his house. Liberation means freedom, Liberation ts a lot of things to me. Tam a changer. Cleaver is eating POWER TO THE PEOPLE POWER TO THE YOUTH THE BIG FAMILY Wanda Davis Angie Hilliard Nadine Judy Crider Debra Crider Danny Wynn Sonja Neely Ferlencia Hood Rochella Nedra Peace Tyrone Leon Ralph Angela Teddy Hill Carl Hallber TIL THE Hipp ~FASCIST PIGS ATTEMPT TO STOP BREAKFAST WORLD CONTROLS THEIR DESTINY Yeah, enslaved americans with your revolutionary potential unite rise up and unleash your revolu- tionary power your laten power to free yourself from bondage your revolutionary viclence in defense of your oppressed and suffering masses here and throughout the world. _ revolutionary power to destroy the racist and imperialistic violence and greed that Keeps us in fear and poverty and slavery intensify and organize unify and clean your M-l's and shot guns and stuff sharpen your knives and axes “Freedom for every or freedom for nobody"' ‘“}iberty or death’’ get organized for survival prepare seriously and tificall y for defense, self-defense the world awaits... for power in defense of freedom is greater than power in defense of oppression andterrorand murder/ it’s time now to strike for liberty and freedom... it?s 30 seconds to zero/ let our well planned and disciplined united actions scien- show the world we know what time it Is... do your revolutionary work bismillah march.59 q PROGRAM The fascist pigs of the power structure in their typical lying demagogic politician manner are oinking in the face of the people. The White Plains Branch of the Black Panther Party was due to start its Free Breakfast for School Children Program on June 16, 1969, at the Carver Community Center, 45 South Lexington Avenue, White Plains, (Fascist Westches- ter County) New York, These pigs have been continu- ingly putting thelr hog heads to- gether and are determined to stop the Breakfast Program here in White Plains, New York, They oinked a lot of fascist crap about no ‘political organization’’ using the facilities of their agency.. So right on! We went to the people of the community and formed a ‘‘Com- mittee For Free Breakfast for School Children Program'': Con- sisting of welfare mothers and other community-minded tindi- viduals in order to over-come this fascist political compliance, To this date, the pigs are still olnk- ing... And to relate to this situation: On Wednesday, July 2, 1969, de- signated members of the Party went around to the stores that had promised us donations of food (over 25) - only to find out that some of the merchants and gro- cers had been approached by the local pig department and told not to donate to the Free Breakfast for School Children Program, Most of the merchants and gro- cers told the fascist-racist pigs to go My a kite,.RIGHT ONI! White Plains Branch Black Panther Party ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE DEATH POWER TO THE PIGS "We stand for active ideological struggle because it is the weapon for ensuring unity within the Party and the revolutionary organizations in the interest of our fight. Every Communist and revolutionary should take up this weapon." "Combat Liberalism" MAO TSE-TUNG YENAN 2506 Haste Berkeley THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY. JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 11 LETTER TO THE Dear Editor: In the United Front Against Fas- cism on the Ideological Struggle Against Fascism we read “',.. Communists who suppose that all this has nothing to do with the cause of the working class, who do no- thing to enlighten the masses on the past of their own people is a historically correct fashion, in a genuinely Marxist, A Leninist- Marxist, a Lenin-Stalin spirit, who do nothing to link up their present struggle with its revolutionary tra- ditions and past ~ voluntarily re- linquish to fascist falsifiers all that is valuable in historical past of the nation, that the fascists may bamboozle the masses...'’ Or we read in the first page of State and Revolution: “During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes have visited relentless persecution on them and recelved their teaching with the most savage hostility, the most furlour hatred, the most ruthless campaign oflies and slanders, After their death, at- tempts are made to turn them into harmless icons, ‘‘consolation’’ of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping them, while at the same emasculating and vulgarizing the REAL ESSENCE of their rev- olutionary theories and blunting their revolutionary edge,.. They omit, obliterate, and distort the revolutionary side ofits teachings, its revolutionary soul, We here in America have per- mitted the fascists, reactionaries and conservatives to take over our revolutionary flag which the fas- cists have seized and wrapped it around themselves, claiming it for their own, and this revolutionary flag has been rejected and defiled by so-called revolutionists, Our slogan should be, ‘tour fag, made by REVOLUTION- ISTS, for which ONLY REVOL- UTIONISTS FOUGHT AND DIED FOR, AND WILL BE CARRIED FORWARD BY REVOLUTION- ISTS The anti-Marxist-Loninist ar- guments concerning the so-called limitations and shortcomings of the American Revolution its as fool- ish as enumerating the short- comings of the discovery of the first wheel, war, car, plane or fire, ano Newsree! FiileSe a DOWN” S.©. swans 1968-1969 SHORT plus... s.f. state legal defense committee BENEFIT july 17 8pm. “NO VIETNAMESE EVER CALLED ME NIGGER” “ON STRIKE, SHUT IT PREMIERE SHOWING! “ZuLU” REVOLUTIONARY SOUL AND ROCK BANDS OLD FILLMORE GARY @& FILLMORE EDITOR Everything, production, men, women, Marx, Lonin, Engles, Sta- lin, Ho, Mao or any Revolution, event or action MUST BE EVAL— UATED IN ITS OWN HISTORICAL TIME AND CONTENT, One cannot expect to see the shortcomings of a French, American or Russian Revolution in the light of the ad- vances of today, Now is the time to reaffirm that the traditions of this country were born tn revolution and revolution- aries were its midwife (as in all revolutions), And it was our revol- utionary fathers who told the Tories and reactionaries, ‘‘If you don’t want to live in a revolutionary country then leave it.’ Nor were the revolutionists gentle about it, Finally, any revolutionary who refuses to seize back this flag is not a Leninist, Utopia does not come with Revolution, either in production or in struggle. Revol- ution only opens the horizons to broader vistas and new worlds, Thus in a revolution wherein we achieved victory it was in the very victory that visas were open ex- posing other oppressions and tryannies to comquer. Thus from this victory the horizon showed the enslavement of the red, the black, the women with double chains, the children, the lack of education, the tryanny of property rights. As each tyranny is destroyed we see other forms of tryanny which we are not aware, Nature, production, man, freedom of man and struggle are ever-lasting and glorious, and as we achieve a victory it is only the spur, the inspiration, the faith that in our next struggle we will be able to emulate the heroism sacrifices and equal the courage of those who put their lives, fortunes and sacred honor on the line to advance mankind. This is our coal. ‘This ts our beritage, and the heri- tage which we hope to leave tothose in the near and far future - That we carried the banner of revolution FORWARD, For neither our fore- bearers, ourselves, our progeny or those of the far distant future will ever achieve the ultimate utopia, for to carry the banner FORWARD is the ultimate and everlasting goal, Comradely yours, Roy Savage | THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 12 THE ENEMY ON THE LAST Fascism is making its last stand The fascist pig police and FBI are using their strongest means of Oppression against the people, As 500n as capitalism begins to decay and the people use their democra- tic rights against capitalism as a weapon, the politicians lies become greater and more complex, the avy- aricious greedy businessmen pay them and the fascist FBI and cops more money to protect their in- terests (the exploitation of the people), The people have begun to use more and more the right to bear arms etc. These rights are written in the Constitution of the United States, but when the people use these rights as a weapon against exploitation, murder, ter- ror and brutality the legislature puts their decrepit brain together to make up new laws that take away all of the rights of the peo- ple. Capitalism, breeds fascism. And fascism is the power of finance capital, That capital (Safeway, Standard Oll, etc.) is owned by a few hogs of imperialism, These hogs in fact think that they own the people of this country, than those in possession of money are those in control of the Senate, the Congress, and even the Presi- dent. Being paid and supported by birchites (middle class and bour- gecisie racists), Tricky Dick Nixon protects this capital investment by pigs like Rockefeller and Kennedy who have spread their capitalistic ideals and law and order philosophy across the world, (Rockefeller owns Standard Ot] and steals from the working class around the world), Then when the people grow tired, (too exhausted to be passive) and use their human rights to defend themselves and try to get living conditions etc. improved; lies of new homes being built come out of the mouths of these dema- gogic lying deceiving politicians. These lies come only to protect the interests of the capitalistic, imperialistic businessmen. What has happened at this stage Is the people are tired of hearing Lies and are ready to move violently on these capitalists. So the poli- ticlan begins to oink about law and order must be enforced just like the 1920's when the Ku Klux Klan was rampant, And in comes the LEG terror, the fascist pig policeman These pigs are used to brutalize and torture the people Into a state of paranola, They are madmen let loose on the people to beat them into believing the lies of the dama- gogic politicians and to ‘protect’ the property of the avaricious, greedy, expoliting businessmen, They are trained to pick out the strong men and women that refuse to be submissive to these exploit- ing, misleading, and brutal pigs re- presentatives of this country, Their philosophy and American tradition is not apple pie and mo- ther, as they tell you, but “law and order’ which is practiced through evil gentry, corrupt offi- clals and tyrants of this power strucutre, Fascism has lost con- trol of itself. People cannot even Join together in, protest against evil, and fighters for freedom have become political prisoners while other Mberators on a death List composed by J. Edgar Hoover and his running dogs of terror The free will of the people has become such a fear to these Sadistic freaks until mother and child have been divided. Concen- tration camps are making reading not just for Panthers but for people of strength in general. Fascists are beating each other in their last futile attempts to corrupt, but the people are joining together and our youth are much too strong and too many in number to let it go much further. There is no such thing as destroying the vanguard party be- cause fascism cannot murder all of the strong, Our faith in the peo- ple and each other makes us know nothing negotiating and so we laugh in the faces of the pig, and Eldridge keeps right on eating watermelon, The enemy is reach- ing his doom and in the end the people can rejoice when all signs of fascism has been destroyed, I say this to the people and the workers for liberation, have faith in the people and your strength will not dissolve. Know your enemy but do not be weary of him. Do not fear death or confinement because the people are those who will divide and conquer and with the gun in the hands of the people the pig is forced to surrender, BE STRONG Marsha of FREE THE N.Y. 21 BAIL MONEY NEEDED SEND TO BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOX 1224 BROOKLYN 11202 NEW YORK THE RECTOR KILLING FROM OFFICER'S GUN Alameda County Sheriff Frank Madigan said today his investiga- tion thus far into the mortal wound- ing of James Rector inlast Thurs- ing of James Rector in the Peo- ple’s Park’’ riots indicated the buckshot came from a ‘‘peace officer’s’’ shotgun. He said the probe is continu- ing to determine how many shots were fired and by whom during the violence, At the same time, Madigan dis- counted the possibility that the fatal buckshot was fired by out- siders and other than members of the combined sheriffs deputies, Berkeley police and California Highway Patrolmen. LETTER FROM EVERGREEN Dear Sir, I just returned from the SDS National Conference where I had a chance to hear representatives of the Panthers speak. It was the best goddamn revolutionary appeal I have heard since I had the chance of listening to Eldridge Cleaver speak at Columbia. I think that the split In SDS was, while dif- ficult to face, unavoidable In light of PL’s counter revolutionary position on the Panthers and the NLF, I admire your courage. 1 think you are the most important and the most beautiful band of Freedom Fighters ever to appear in America, POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Sincerely, Dotson Rader Contributing Editory LETTER FROM A YOUNG COMRADE Dear Panthers, I like your newspaper very much, It is the best newspaper I have ever read, Whenever I read your articles, I get a pain in my chest from anger and sorrow, Any news- paper that does that is a great newspaper This letter is unsigned and no return address because a post- office pig might arrest me (even though I'm a kid) for liking you. An Admirer P.S. 1 hope to join you when | grow up, but I hope there will be no need for the Black Panthers by then. Madigan, as commander of the now combined law enforcement and National Guard forces In the Berkeley emergency declared by Governor Reagan, had authorized the Issuance of No. 8 and No.7 birdshot when the trouble began He pointed out, however, that buckshot is regulation Issue for officers and that they had the car- tridges in their possession Madigan again defended the use of shotguns In violent confronta- tlons such as occurred when the ‘street people’ -- University of California students and others -- were evicted from the park they created on university property on Haste Street, TO ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS AND THOSE IN EXILE You are the strong, the threats to fascism, the leaders and the teachers, Everything strong, the pig tries to destroy. But our love for you will nor allow that, You are our loved ones and workers for revolution. As we know and love you, no force can separate uS permanently. You are those not afraid of death, we know you brothers and sisters in this revolutionary collective. Things that we on the outside have shared with you are still here. Things that with you are still here, Our love for the people and faith in you cannot die no matter what position we are in, You will be back to Babylon to join us in arms to march to the last battlefield and Swim through the blood of the oppressor, We fight because we are strong and we fight because of a strong love for each other. We will not lag in attempts to gain liberation because we know that you want us to work our hardest, The thoughts you have are in our hearts and our revolutionary spirit and love for you becomes greater every day you are imprisoned, You sisters and brothers have been taken from families and comrades but in revolutionary spirit we are as close to you as ever. Have faith in the people and faith in the Par- ty. Be strong, andas long a5 you are Strong fear will not come near you, Comrade Marsha : as SHERIFF ADMITS AUTOPSY Rector, 25, died at Herrick Hospital after apparently making a good recovery from the wounds despite extensive surgery. At the time, it was believed he had been wounded with birdshot, A subsequent autopsy, however, disclosed that three slugs, inac- cessible before, apparently came from Double-O buckshot, which ls a third of an inch in diameter, No.8 and No.7 are smaller thar BBS and run about 585 pellets to an ounce, Double-O runs 13¢ Pellets to the pound, BOBBY RUSH SENTENCED TO 6 MOS., $500 FINE (Fred News Service, July 1) Bobby Rush, Illinois Black Pan- ther Defense Minister, was con- victed In a jury trial (one juror was black) in the Harvey branch of Circuit Court of carrying @ con- cealed and loaded automatic pis- tol into the Robbins police station on April 2. Magistrate James N, Sullivan sentenced him to serve 6 months ot the Vandalia State Prison Farm and levied a $500 fine. He also took the opportunity to raise the appeal bond to $15,000, Bobby had been free on $10,000 bond before the trial. PIGS CHASE BLACK YOUTH 11 MILES TO KILL HIM (Fred News Service, June 26) Robert Jackson, 17, graduated from Chicago Vocational High School June 24, Early this mor ning he was ‘dead -- shoe by pi Ronal Reinsma during a struggle after an U-mile, 100 MPH auto chase, which involved Il | other squad cars from Chicago and su- burbs, And what crime did! Jack= son commit to warrant the results? According to his companion, Jack= 5on was Stealing hub caps wheal he saw Reinsma and fled because he thought the pig had spotted him, Black Panther Repression Hit BY D. J. R. BRUCKNER Times Chicago Bureau Chief The Black Panthers have become a special class in the eyes of the law. Last week Vice President Spiro Agnew, who has the unfor- tunate gift of saying what his colleagues mean, called the Panthers a “completely ir- responsible, anarchistic group of criminals." National Panther leader Bobby Seale was in Chicago less than ‘one day during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. This year a federal grand jury charged him with conspiring to incite a riot during that famous fracas. Some people laughed when the Panthers said this was a sign of what was to come. On April 3, in New York, 21 Panthers wera indicted on charges of conspiring to blow up stores and public places. On April 28, San Francisco police, using tear gas, raided a Panther office and arrested 16, of whom four were booked and 12 freed. This raid was occasioned by an illegal use of sound equipment by Panthers, Police in New Haven, Conn., arrested eight Panthers in May and said they would be charged with the murder of a man who was to have testified in the New York trial. But New York prosecutors said the murder victim was not their witness, Last week a New Haven grand jury indicted the eight, and four others, not on charges of murder, but of kidnapping and of abetting murder. On June 3, FBI agents, toting submachine guns, raided the Chicago Panther office at 5:35 a.m. They sealed off streets; battered in the door; confiscated money, lists of members and contributors, and literature; and arrested eight. The FBI charged the eight with harboring a fugitive wanted in New Haven, but the fugitive was not in the Panther office, and the U.S. commissioner dismissed the charges. The next day Detroit police raided the Panther office in that city, photographed documents and arrested three Panthers who were later released by the county prosecutor without being charged. Denver police used tear gas on June 5ina raid on the Panther office there. They arrested 10, Two who were wanted in New Haven were held, the others released. The next night, in Salt Lake City, another Panther wanted by police in New Haven Was arrested. On June 7, during racial rioting, Indianap- olis police stormed the Panther office and LANDON & RORY arrested 30 persons inside, half of them Panther party members. * On June 10, a Cook County (Chicago) grand jury indicted 16 Panthers—six of them already in jail—on cha ran from conspiracy to kidnap, to illegal use of weapons, The night before, Chicago police had arrested 11 other Panthers, charging them with possession of marijuana. On June 15, during a racial disturbance, San Diego police shot their way into Pan- ther headquarters, where, they said, snipers had taken refuge. None was arrested. Besides all this, hundreds of individual Panthers have been arrested this year, most of them on minor charges. No one keeps a full list, but San Francisco lawyer Charles Garry says he has 200 Panther cases to de- fend “from this spring alone.” Once arrested and tried, some get special treatment: An Il- linois Panther convicted of a $71 robbery has been refused an appeal bond. Elaborate surveillance of Panthers is widely maintained, openly enough to be a form of intimidation. Now the federal government has asked the courts to validate wiretaps on them. To what purpose is all this obvious repres- sion? Are the Panthers supposed to be frightened by the prospect of prison or the possibility of death? Many of them are ac- quainted with the one, and some seek the other. To them such fright is a funny white middle-class hangup. In fact, many new chapters of the Panthers have sprung up across the country coincident with the ac- tions of the law; one wonders if there is not a connection. What should be remembered is that the Jaw quite clearly defines the rights and limi- tations of every citizen, even of an avowed revolutionary. But, in action, the method of the law becomes the definition of the law. Our only protection against tyranny, or chaos, is a strict equality in the method of the law, The treatment of any group, no matter who they are, as a special class, is a threat to every citizen; it is an attempt to buy quiet and comfort at the cost of justice and free- dom. Zos Angeles Times Chairman Mao states: The op- Pressed peoples and nations must not pin their hopes for liberation on the ‘‘sensibleness'’ of impertial- ism and its lackeys,’’ They will only triumph by strengthening their unity and perservering in their struggle, On the two previous pages the political imprisonment of Landon Williams and Rory Hithe was cited to be directly due to rampant fas- cism here in America, Brothers Landon and Rory have been Imprisoned in Denver County Jail since June 7, 1969, in iso- lation, Approximately one week later all of their ‘constitutional rights’' and priviledges had been revoked. They are not allowed to have attorney-client rights when whatever information is inter- changed regarding the client's case is confidential with no prying from Prison officials etc. The mail from their attorney, Leonard Davies, is Opened before they even have the opportunity to read tt, Remember how this is a right supposedly guaranteed by law. Also they are not allowed their constitutional rights, freedom of speech through writing, etc, They are not allowed any writing priviledges, meaning that they cannot write to anyone Other than their attorney, not even their wives or family. They are denied commissary priveledges so _ therefore they get no extra nutri- tion, because they are on a limi- ted diet of bread and water with one complete meal every three days, They have also been confined to a hole in the wall(an8 by 10 cell) with inadequate lighting. The light bulb itself is 100 watts but the gra- ting that covers the light is of a type that affords insufficient lighting for reading. Mf one hap- pens to have the top bunk, then there is a possibility that one can read if they strain; even this is only for a very short period of time. These two brothers are beginning to show signs of irreparable eye damage that will probably result in their having to wear glasses, Landon and Rory have been denied these rights simply becauxe they have refused to wash our Minister of Defense, Huey P? Newton's, es- says off the wall, They were written due to the fact that the pigs wouldn't let them have any reading mater- lals at first, (Pig Judge Kingsley, called it obscene matter.) Rory’s case was taken to court, The presiding judge was Robert T. Kingsley. Rory’s hearing was last Thursday, July 3, 1969. The above stated ‘‘allegations’’ were made before Kingsley, The defense called under-sherlff (warden) Tru- jillo and pig captain Snyder from the sheriffs department to testify as to the conditions under which the brothers are being held, A pig is a pig, Is a pig, is a pig, ISA PIG, and these two pigs did what is typical for animals of their low RORY B. HITHE nature: they vacillated back and forth. Pig Judge Kingsley stated that he had read the allegations of restrictions presented before him last week by Attorney Davies. He sald that the brothers’ Incar- ceration under such conditions was due to their refusal to sweep their cell, The maximum security cell was the general procedure followed under the conditions for the type of charges (supposedly for obser- vation) Trujillo sald thetr privi- ledges weren't revoked for several days afterward, The cases that were cited by Attorney Davies were read by Kingsley and Supposedly given due considera- tion, Kingsley stated that he felt he was without jurisdiction in tell- ing the warden how to run his jail, He also stated that certain regu- lations have to be complied with by all inmates or there would be no sense of orderliness of conduct that is demanded of the people (inmates), Although evidence did show that Davie’s allegations were true, Kingsley said the brothers’ Priviledges would not be restored until they complied with prison regulations as had been stated by THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 1g Chico Neblett a : BOSTON PURGE As of May 24, 1969 these rene- gade, cultural nationalist oppor- tunists are no longer members of the Black Panther Party. The Boston branch of the Black Panther Party has affirmed annew the discipline of the Party and has purged these fools from the Party ranks for the reasons stated be- low. 1. Failure to follow the teachings of Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton, 2, For complete disregard for the discipline of the Party. 3. Subjectivism 4, Opportunism against the peo- ple. 5, Propagating cultural nation- alist madness inside the Party instead of class struggle. 6, Racism 7. Individualism The following people have been purged: 1, Chico Neblett, Eield Marshall 2. T.D.Pawley, Asst to the Field Marshall 3. Delano Farrar, Area Captain 4. Frank Hughes, Lt. of Information 5. Karen Flippen, Lt, of Finance 6. Kay Glaspy, Communications Secretary 7. Rene Neblett, Lr. of Culture Warden Trujillo, Kinglsey said that one should look to the substance of the matter rather than the term- inology and that he was not going to interfere with the normal run- ning of the jail, He did not rule on the substance of the material presented, However he didnot rule on their right to mail letters either. His belief is that it is not within his jurisdiction, Great Omnipotent Pig Kingsley did suggest that the officials at Denver County Jail take a good hard look at the practice of reading the attorney's mail to the client, So in the final analysis he was without jurisdiction to make amo- tion, MOTION DENIED! From all investigation, Kingsley copped out in actuality because he is rather new to the bench and he enjoys the comforts of sitting on his greasy but-pigass doing nothing all day, and still collecting much much much capital, Who gives this pig a right to have another man’s life hanging on the balance of his oinking decision? He's olnking in the face of the people, Kingsley is just one of many types of pigs that finance capital employees. Heis no different than these fascist head-whipping gutter pigs that are employed by the sys- tem, The only tools against this overt genocidal war by means of Starvation and political incarcera- (lon against oppressed people is through 2 UNITED FRONT of op- pressed peoples against these fas- cist actions. A capitalist and bourgeoise sys- tem is not serving the people, so therefore anytime a system is not serving the people it should be destroyed, through revolutionary means, It Is up to the people to rise up like a mighty storm and overthrow this fascist government, Through these means and these means only can we put an end to this shit. We're tiréd of our peo- 8. Yazid Nzinga, section leader 9, Mike Claytor, sub-section lea- der. 10. Paula Firmin ll, Les Wood 12, Monica Millet 13, Mike Grattan 14, Roger Freeman 1S. Bernadette Mount 16, Pamela Hayes 17, Maurice Kalhman In May of this year a bunch of cultural nationalist fools lead by Chico Neblett attempted to un- dermine the people’s revolution. These pea-brained counter-revyo- lutionaries tried to go against the teachings of the Minister of De- fense and take over the Boston Branch of the Black Panther Par- ty. They failed In their attempr- and were purged from the party. Chico joined the party with the other boot-licker Stokely Carmi- chael, every since that time he has been steadily robbing the peo- ple, His 1969 Corvett, his fur coar, and his expensive camera equip- ment can prove that Chico was going around talking about some madness he called Pan-African- ism, All it really was, though, was a bunch of bullshit to hide the robbing of the people, he has been doing. By going against the teachings of Huey P, Newton, Chico has said “fuck the people," fuck the Party, and the complete and total liberation of blacks here in fascist America, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE THE REMAINING MEMBERS OF THE BOSTON BRANCH, BLACK PANTHER PARTY LANDON R. WILLIAMS ple being murdered, unjustly im- prisoned, and brutalized, If this system werea real democracy then why would they resort to thes means of destroying the people” The answer to this is that th wouldn't have to, They're afraid; they are afraid of the people, They fear the people because they are not serving the people, A capitai- tistic and exploitative system cannot survive. during a revolu- tion, because the people will not allow it. FREE ALL, POLITICAL PRISON- ERS ’ PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN- GUARD Wy ALL POWER TO ‘THE PEOPLE ABOLISH FASCISM NOW Ora . CONTENT AND FORMS OF THE UNITED FRONT PARTIES, REFORMIST TRADI NIONS AND { t RGANIZATIONS OF THE TOILE against the en es of th letariat, he chief in thi n Jevelopin ~“ RIED Ol What {s and ought to be the basic content of th ' ‘ the united front at the present stage? The de- hall 1 » Mut re of the immediate economic and political i ; of the working class, the defense of i working class ainst fascism, must form tr t to wreck RTING PC Tr and MAIN CONTENT of respective Cot attempts may pos- the united front in all capitalist countries. } wh nnealin not confine ou to bare ap- Communists of course cannot and must not for sibly be made- we shall reply by appealing peals to struggle for the proletarian dictator- a moment abandon their own INDEPENDENT i vile i ~ tringhy be WORK of Communist education, organtzarion and struggic the restoration of the broken unity ship, Limust alec find and advance those slogans and forms of struggle which arise out of the for, the Of action. Excerpt from UNITED FRONT AGAINST FAS mobilization of the masses. Howev purpose of ensuring that the workers find the tal needs of the masses, and are commensurate > stews r with ~ road to unlty of action, It is necessary to strive CISM by Georgt Dimicroff WL uhting capacity at the given stage of re 4 4 , . at the same time both for short-term and for long term agreements providing for JOINT EMOCRATIC ACTION WITH SOCIAL D iscist barbar h the widest united action by work 5 for thedefense * tolling masses, FIRST, joint struggle really toshift the burden consequences of the crisis on to the classes, the shouldersof apitalists, landlords - ina word, to the h, joint struggle against all formsofthe fascist offensive, in defense of the gains andthe { the rulin rights of the tiolers, against the liquidation of bourgeois-democrartic liberties THIRD, joint strugg against the ap proaching danger of imperalist war, a struggle that will impede the preparations for sucha war, We must indefatigably prepare the worki class for a SHANGE IN F AND METHODS OF STRUGGLE when there is achan in the situation, As the movement grows and Unity of the working class strenghtnes, we must go further, and prepare the transition FRON THE DEFENSIVE TO THE OFFENSIVE AGAINST CAPITAL, eeting towards the OR - GANIZATION OF A MASS POLITICAL STRIKE. It must be an absolute condition of sucha strike to draw into it the main trade unions of the THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 16 BREAKFAST PROGRAMS FREE BREAKFAST FOR CHILDREN ABOUT TO BE VAMPED ON On Wednesday, July 9, the Ill- inols Chapter of the Black Pan- ther Party opened a Free Break- fast for Children Center at the Jackson Christian Blvd. Church on Western and Jackson, 200 chil- dren were fed, and the number will increase daily. On Thursdaya pig showed up among the people and told us that our program was interfering with a government pro- gram called Operation Push-up, He said that the children needed push-ups more than they needed a hot breakfast, How many push-ups can a hungry child do? We told him that THE PEOPLE RUN IT, not the pigs The Black Panther Party is about Serving the needs of the people. Rather than having many bureau- cratic commissions divorced from the people studying the hunger pro- blem, the Party started breakfast programs all over the country. Hungry children are being fed be- cause they need to be, The capital- ist punks in power do nothing to stop the problem, They can’t make a profit off of feeding hungry chil- dren. A lying demagogic politician was sent over to negotiate with the Black Panther Party, but our cause is not negotiable, The children will be fed. We will see to it that whatever the people need, the peo- ple will get, We are ready to see that each and every hungry child is fed. No bootlicking politician is going to have anything to say about it, If you want the Breakfast for Children Program to continue through the summer--SUPPORT IT, Come on down, help us stop the pigs, ‘*We must stgp the capitalist cor- porate structure from killing us, teasing us, dividing us, and ruling us...The time has come to fall the system, It only uses us to perpetuate itself. To serve the sys- tem is treason. Smash the State. POWER TO THE PEOPLE” Eldridge Cleaver Minister of Information Black Panther Party Illinois Chapter Black Panther Party INDIANA BREAKFAST The Breakfast Program got under way in Indianapolis (Indiana) after many setbacks from lying preachers and merchants. We are now in the third week and the re- sponse from the community, has been great, many mothers have turned out to help us serve and prepare food, and the children are always reluctant to see us leave, This program got under way with the help of Bill Crawford (the Deputy Chairman's brother) who has really been a true worker and his concern for black people is genuine Brother Crawford (Bill) is a member of the Black Radical Action Project, one of four or- ganizations we contacted about the program, and the only organization continuing their support, It's quite obvious that poverty money has hung these other bull-jiving tricks of the power structure in a bag of continuous exploitation of the peo- ple, In addition to the Breakfast Pro- gram, a People’s Garden has been planted and we hope to plant many more in the future ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLI LONG LIVE THE MINISTER Of DEF ENS! indiana Chapter Black Panther Party Program community, Bandit and Brag- ALI Foodland, No-No INTENSIFY THE STRUG( Nepoo and the Frankfurt Freaks, FREE HUEY England Meat Swifto Swift, Roxbury Cine CHARLES BURSEY SERVING THE YOUTH BOSTON BREAKFAST Thes of the ma, and the Metropolitan is a continulay House of Roxbury VUpera busi- thank 6 the nesses are obvtously not working to name a few; profit-making, If th Williams and the cannot function tn the Monopoly, Arch- the Nelson of the and Beau'iful B & B (Black function at all Packing Com Boston Chapter Black Panther Party people, then they businessmen who re- in the interes: of the people, but children of the are op-cating in the interest of businesses POWER TO THE J interest of nest not EOPLI LI PHILADELPHIA, PA., BREAKFAST FREE BREAKFAST FOR CHIL- DREN PROGRAM ~ A PEOPLE'S PROGRAM! Monday, July 7th, 1969, met a Free Breakfast for Children Pro- gram at 8:00 a.m. despite attempts by big business and petty ple churches to stop or ignore it. The kids number, totalling approxt- mately 70 on this rainy beginning of a week, was welcomed by unl- formed Panthers, at their service. They ate heartily, a heaping helping Of grits, sausages, eges, milk, and orange juice. A partial listing of businesses not belping this peo ple’s program will be Included in the People's News Service, with mention of some very anti-com- Munity minded people «losing their doors to the communities needs. in other words, churches A partial listing of these avariclous businessmen are: SEAL TEST HARBISON'S (exception ist day) PENNBROOK ABBOTTS BOND BREAD We ask you not to buy at these places, and not to buy these pro- ducts, Show these arrogant busi- hessmen, that get their profit from you -- the people, WHAT THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE can do to their profits, On the other hand, Milk Maid, Tang, WDAS radio, Hand's Res- taurant, Jay's 6 10, Reo Dis- count Store, Seidler Shelly Sdop, Yo De Yo Produce, Jurman & Sons, Ur, A. Kein & Burley Clark, SOS Department Store, have aided the people io this humanistic, re- volutionary /endeavor PEOPLE'S POWER Philadelphia Chapter Black Panther Party FASCISTS UNLEASH REIGN OF TERROR IN PLAINFIELD, N.J. Plainfield, N.J, During the ‘hot summer’’ of 1967, 4 lack youth, Bobby Lee Williams, was wantonly shot by a fascis! policeman, John V. Gleason, Hundreds of people from the community who witnessed the sho-, struck back in anger at the officer, bringiay about his death. After unleashing «4 reign of ter- ror in the community, the police arrested twelve black people and charged them with murder. Of the twelve, two young black residents of Plainfield, Gail Madden, 24, mother of two, and George Merritt, Jr,, 25, 2 Marine Corps veteran, arenow serving life sentences for their alleged parti- cipation in the killing of patrolman John Gleason. The third black youth, Bobby Lee Williams, 24, shot and maimedfor life by Gleason, is himself facing trial under a three-count indict- ment, If convicted, Williams faces a possible sentence of death or life imprisonment, The facts of this tragic casede- serve the attention and intervention of every American concerned with the integrity of the judicial process and with the class relations throughout our land, Madden and Merritt have been punished and Williams ts yet to be punished, not for guilt in the mur- der, but because the State wants them as hostages to assure the “*good behavior’ of the black com- munity of Plainfield, New Jersey, The fascists unleashed a reignof terror in the Black community-- they rounded up twelve young blacks for sacrifice and pressured others into becoming State’s wit- nesses, To the deep-seated pro- blems that had caused the social unrest, the answer of the authori- tles was a mass trial that would continue the oppression of black community dwellers. Gall Madden, first of the twelve to be charged with the crime, was arrested almost two months after the assault on Gleason, The last was not arrested until early 1968. The trial began in September 1968, 14 months after the assault. Most of the defendants spent months in Jail before being released on bail. §ix prosecution witnesses, threatened and coerced by the State during the reign of terror in the community, recgnted in court be- fore the judge but, unfortunately, not in the presence of the jurors, The public through the press, saw the police in their true light, fran- cally and illegally extracting false statements from intimidated people--but these facts never the jury, Might not the jury verdicts have been different lf they had known? The chief prosecution witness, who !mplicated six of the twelve defendants, had 20/200 vision--in effect, was legally biind, The trial itself was conducted in an intimidating atmosphere of racial provocation. All partici- pants, including the court-ap- Pointed defense attorneys, were frisked daily for weapons, The pressure was deadlocked on the ninth, Two, Gail Madden, (a large woman weighing 250 potinds, al- legedly wearing a bright dress, was seen on the edge of the crowd, not at the center of it where the as- sault took place), and George Mer- ritt, Jr., (a Marine Corps vet- eran with a four-year service re- cord and an honorable discharge, & government worker highly praised by his superiors. Even though a prosecution witness claimed to have seen Merritt as- saulting Gleason with a meat cleaver, the State's pathologist ‘alled to testify that Gleason’ s body bore a wound made by a meat cleaver, This same witness, in open court, three times identified incorrectly a third person as one who wielded a baseball bat in the assault, yet the p-rson so identified had been in jail at the time of the assault, Six witnesses established that Mevritt was not present atthe scene of the assault. Another pro- secution witness refused to place Merritt at the scene when asked if he could do so), By conducting sessions on Saturdays, holidays, and evenings, the judge made good his promise to have the jury home for Christmas The conviction of Madden and Merritt was groundless, The State has gotten its pound of flesh; it has two black hostages and an in- dictment against Bobby Lee Wil- Hams, In March of 1969, the State an- nounced that it would not try the postponed case nor retry the dead- locked one, It is impossible to explain why Gail Madden and George Merritt, Jr, were singled out for conviction. The only rational explanation is that someone had to pay for the death of a white officer, The police are now harassing those who were acquitted. Two have been convicted of ‘‘the possession of marijuana’’; two others have been convicted on charges relating to the 1967 ghetto disturbances, It Is commonplace that vic- tims of police abuses are falsely charged with crimes. Such charges create a justification for the law- lessness of the police, Bobby Lee Williams, the victim of Gleason’s gun, is charged with the serious crime of inflicting ‘‘mumerous and diverse persons’’ (presumably black persons) to kill or injure Officer Gleason, This is an impossibility, since he had been wounded and removed to the hospital before the assault on Glea- Son took place, Williams is further charged with malicious assault on Gleason and with assault and bat- tery on him while in the perfor- mance of his duties, Lf convicted, Williams faces a death sentence or life imprisonment, These charges may seem dif- ficult to prove, but the State has shown itself resourceful In obtain- ing a conviction with no evidence. The stakes are high in the Wil- llams case, If the State can make its charges stick, it will have established judicially what it had failed to do at the murder trial; it will have created a valid reason for Gleason’s presence in the ghetto. And, short of that, a justi- fication for Gleason's use of his A conviction will remove from the scene a militant who, at great personal risk, is seeking to con- tribute to the leadership of Plain- field's black community, Though Williams had been removed from . the scene prior to the assault on Gleason, the police later threaten- ed him if he refused to serve as a@ prosecution witness in the mur- der trial. Williams steadfastly re- fused to join the conspiracy. On December 1967 a sealed indictment was handed down against Williams, As late as November 12, 1968, a last effort was made by the police to force Williams to testify, For his refusal, Williams has been threatened with indictment. Two days later, on November 14, 1968, the indictment was made public and Williams was arrested, A conviction of Williams will in- timidate and tighten the bonds of the ghetto on those trapped within it. But the State can achieve its goals only through a frame-up similar to that which produced the conviction of Gail Madden and George Merritt, Jr. Public concern can make the difference, Gall Madden and George Merritt, Jr. have obtained labor and civil Uberties attorney Frank Donner to handle their appeal, Bobby Lee Willlams will be represented at his trial by civil rights attorney William Kunstler, At the behest of the defendants and their families, community leaders have joined the Plainfield Joint Defense Committee for Bobby Lee Willlams, Gall Madden, and George Merritt, Jr, The Com- mittee's Co-Chairmen are Free- man Whetstone and Dr, David Frost and the Treasurer is Paul Polskin, The committee calls upon the public for all possible assistance, An informed and aroused public can help guarantee freedom for the three hostages, URGE YOUR RELATIVES, FRINDS AND NEIGHBORS TO DO THESE THREE THINGS NOW; 1, Bring the facts of these cases to your church, synagogue, trade union, school, youth organization, political club, civic organization, Invite the committee to send a speaker to your group. 2, WRITE TO: Governor Richard J, Hughes, State House, Trenton, N.J., asking him to quash the in- dictment against Bobby Lee Wil- liams and to free Gail Madden and George Merritt, Jr. 3, WRITE TO: Jacques E, Wilmore U.S, Commission on Civil Rights, 26 Fedoral Plaza, New York,NY., asking him to investigate the con- ditions in Plainfield and the conduct of the governmental authorities that led to the indictment of 12 young black people for the murder of Patrolman Gleason and to the indictment of Bobby Lee Williams, Contributions are needed for court costs for Bobby Lee Willlams’ trial and for the appeal of Gall Madden and George Merritt, Jr., and to carry on an extensive public campaign, Attorneys Frank Donner and Wjlliam Kunstler are serving without fee, Contributions should be sent in care of the Treasurer to the address given below, Please make checks payable to; Plainfield Joint Defense 218 Watchung Avenue Plainfield, N, J, 07061 information taken from Speak Out for the Release of Plainfield's Black Hostages THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 17 INDIANA PANTHERS GO BEFORE FASCIST JUDGE = 16 Indiana Panthers (Indiana- polis Chapter) went before the Kangeroo court, to face ridiculous charges of disorderly conduct when Panthers Headquarters was {l- legally busted Into by the fascist gestapo troops of pig Lugar. The pigs entered the Panther office after the door had been opened to influence people into the build- Ing, after an idiot fool gestapo member had shot into a crowd of black people, following an attempt to exercise brutality on a black brother, who in turn knocked the nut on his fascist ass. Eight of the Panther brothers went to trial July 2nd, sevencases were continued until Sept, 18th, one case was tried as a test case resulting in a conviction for Law- rence Roberts, the Deputy Minis- ter of Finance. The brother was convicted although the pig who sup- posedly made the arrest could not identify him. The pig made the statement that he chased Lawrence 3 PANTHERS Into the building, and arrested everyone for disorderly conduct, He admitted that he and the rest of the scum had no warrant and that they saw a chance to make a big bust and they took advantage of this. Still a conviction was obtained, Eight more brothers went to trial, the attorney asked for a con- tinuance and met opposition from the Judge who at first over-ruled the motion, but after some delib- eration, finally agreed to continue the cases until Sept. 18 at 2 p)m. The fascist judge in a fit of anger made the statement that ho was determined to try these cases and that this was the last délay that he would accept. The people have now seen the clear attempt to destroy the Pan- ther Party, nationwide, : ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Indiana Chapter : Black Panther Party BUSTED FOR CONDUCTING PROPAGANDA WORK AMONG THE MASSES On Friday, the 4th of July, 3 members of the Black Panther Party, while conducting educa- “tonal, and political work among the people, were busted and charged with soliciting papers without a permit. They were ar- Tested in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Arrested were, Milton McGriff, age 30, Elijah Graham, age 18, and Eugene Wells, age 23, with an initial fine of 30 dollars Later, after the news hit the hierarchy of the fascist pig set- up, the pigs changed their game to $100 a plece. Back in Philadelphia, the Party found little of nothing could be done in terms of legal help, because of the laws of licenses. In addition to this, the 3 brothers, not being residents of New Jersey, found that they would have to pay in cash, So--we were forced to get the only money avallable--paper money, The case is supposed to be floored on Monday morning, July 7th, 9:00, at Atlantic City. These bulls--t charges and fines show the inevitable necessity for a UNITED FRONT AGAINST FASCISM---- PEOPLE'S POWER! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Mumia X Lt. of Information Philadelphia Chapter Black Panther Party THE TRUTH ABOUT NEW HAVEN BUST Calling all Black People to unite and support those of the vanguard, the ‘‘Panthers’’ that are jailed on trumped-up charges, Help free the black sisters and brothers Whoare accused of murder and conspiracy to commit murder, Why hasn't any of the Black organizations investi- gated these allegations? The Black Panthers are accused of murder and no one has come forth to question the charges, Black people, look into what the “‘News-Media"’ has told you! Let's dig it for our- selves! What evidence have they shown us? They found a body tn the river, and immediately stormed the ‘‘ Black Panther Headquarters’* in New Haven and charged everyone present with murder and con- Spiracy tocommit murder. Huey P, Newton ts in jail. Eldridge Cleaver is in political exile. It must be evi- dent that the Pig Power Structure is attempting to break-up the Black Panther Party by arresting the leaders throughout the country, Indeed, if we are to give more than lip service to the concepts of freedom and justice, we must sup- port the Panthers that are in jail in New Haven! Let us dare to the death to question the gestapo tac- tles used by the Mad-dog fascist police, ‘‘We want an immediate end to Police Brutality and mur- der of Black people."’ Many of us have seen and experienced Police Brutality. We Uve in an occupled community, “‘We believe we can end Police Brutality in our Black community by organizing black self-defense groups that are dedi- cated to defending our black com- munity from racist police op- pression and brutality. The second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America gives the right to bear arms, We there- fore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self- defense."’ The Panthers are not guilty of murder, but many people are guflty of doing absolutely nothing to about a better society for the next generation. We have put the burden on the shoulder of our children and “they have told us that our children are guilty of murder and we do nothing, ‘Political Power grows out of the barrel of A\ gun.’’ Let all Black people State, ‘‘elther you re- move your oppressive forces from our community, or we will shooting’*. — ALL POWER TO THE er ae POWER TO BLACK PEO- PANTHER POWER TO THE V. GUARD ~~ er ihe Set” * —_—_ . THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 18 DOW STRIKE ‘The sign on the Union Hall door pany by driving their trucks to reads ''328 vs Billions ofDollars."’ transfer points a mile from the The 328 are members of Local plant, where managers take over 23 of the International Chemical and drive from there. Workers Union in Pittsburgh,Cali- The workers of Local 25 get fornia, They have been striking Dov’ help from brothers in other unions. Chemical since May 7th for their Members of other unions in the class interests -- and they knowit. area, particularly the Pittsburgh ‘The main issue is the right for Stee] workers andthe Richmond and this Local to go out in support of Martinez Oil Chemical and Atomic striking Locals at other Dow Plants. Workers have helped with moncy The Unfonwill accept the shitty and advice. Most of all they've had wages Dow offered, knowing it won't help from their ICWV brothers in keep them up with inflation. The Dow's Torrance Plant in L.A,, who right to support other strikes {s won't cross Local 23's informa- what they're fighting for hardest, tional picket and have shut down and what Dow will be damned if it the plant, This class solidarity accepts. A second important issue forced the government to take Its is Dow's plan for maintenance crew fat napalm contract from Dow and consolidation, where the company give the blood money from this wants to force men at a lower weapon of imperialism to Amer- wage level to do higher grade work can Electric Company in La Jolla, at the lower wage rate, This is Torrance is out for Pittsburgh now, part of Dow’s continuing plan to and Pittsburgh is striking for the eliminate the number of men in right to support them later. The the Union. Over the last 3 years Torrance Local's contract comes Local 23 has lost over 100 men up in November, from its life as a union, Conditions in the Union haven't Ir’s been a long, tough strike and made it any easier, Most of the it's going to get longer andtougher. workers are in their forties and Ten weeks is a long time to be out fifties and the more militant on strike with benefits of $25.00 younger men say there's a ‘'gen- a week, This week they received eration gap'’. There is, but there their Jast strike money from the is also an important bridge. Some International. The workers say that of the older menknow they're fight- Dow contacted the bank that holds ing for the next generation and for most of their mortgages and it class interest. The most class is starting to put pressure on, A- conscious men have made sure con- bout a third of the workers are tract votes are open and few men now on welfare, but the new State will openly vote against their class Senator from Contra Costa County, interests, There is a distance be- Former D.A, John Nejedly, has a tween the rank and file and elected bill pending in Sacramento to pro- leadership which shies away from hibit seriking workers from getting militancy. This is the first strike welfare benefits. Dow has enough for Local 23 in its 25 year his- —-~seabs to run the plant at Jow effi- tory and nobody is quite sure what ciency, using most of the manage- to do, The International doesn’t ment and research personnel from seem to be much help. Local 23 Dow’s Walnut Creek Research La- has gotten better advice from other boratory. The company also has unions In the area, and some student scabs and even triedrohire workers think the International has the sons of striking workers to kept the strike out of the news. scab on their fathers, Teamsters Local 23 needs help from its are formally honoring the pickets black, union, and student brothers but are actually serving the com- in the struggle against monopoly ACLU AND CONSPIRACY 8 FILE SUIT AGAINST BUGGING (Fred News Service, June 26) The ACLU has filed suit in ; OAKLAND — Once again at- ing the upside down jury sys- tem of Alameda County. In the trial of Black Panther Washington challenging the gov- Charles Bursey the overwhelm- ernment policy revealed in Chi- ing majority of prospective jur- cago on June 12 thar the govern- OF are from Hayward, Fremont ment has the power --free from nd other cities where few black judicial control -- to conduct elec- people live and white racism tronic surveillance of domestic ules angen pas organizations suspected of secking Bursey, ore e oF euteatk the United States, The Robert L. Bostick, is charged government asserted its position in response to a motion filed in Chicago some time ago by the 8 people indicted by the federal grand jupy after the police riots during the Democratic National Conven- tion. That motion asked that the government be required to divulge aby information obtained by wire- tapping that led to their indict- mont, U.S. District Court judge Julius Jj. Hoffman ts expected to rule on that motion July 8. In the stilt {iled in Washington, the com- pldint says, "By announcing a po- Uey of unfettered executive power 16-derermine possible danger pre- sented to the mation by dissenting persons or groups, the defendants have assumed judicial, penal, and otherwise regulatory authority over the protected activities of all dissenting Americans.” 5 two counts of attempted police officer and of assault with a deadly weapon. The charges stem from the April 6, 1968 police attack in West Oakland. These are the same charges on which Warren Wells has been tried twice by the Alame- da County District Attorney's office, with two hung juries. He is being held in jail for a third, In the Bursey trial the Dis- trict Attorney's office has assigned their most active and overt racist prosecutor, Frank Vukota, who tried to convict 20-year-old Wayne Greene, black student accused of throw- ing a fire bomb that injured two highway patrolmen on the University of California campus, SAME PATTERN g g a capitalism, Union people must talk about the issue of solidarity in this strike and use this as an ex- ample for discussions with all other union members, With the strike fund gone, Local 23 needs money now as never before. Other workers can report scabs to their unfons and prevent others from scabbing. Workers in San Jose can talk to drivers from Acme andGiocomazzl Brothers cruck Lines which go into the Pittsburgh Dow Plant all day, Dow wants to break this union and that’s another example of things to come. Five hundred of the world’s most important corporate pigs are getting together in San Francisco in September for the International Industrial Conference, sponsored by the Stanford Research Institute. These top hogs of the ruling class are fixing their plans to continueto exploit the workers of the Third World. They also want to find ‘‘al- ternatives to free collective bar- gaining’’. This means Union busting, another long step towards fascism. Students can provide what money they can spare from their own De- fense Funds and collections, and “let other students know that the workers are fighting the same enemy they are, Students can deal with the student scabs who turn out to be the same people who scab on them incampus struggles. Mem- bers of Stanford SDS and Berkeley RSU have been in Pittsburgh since July 8th helping the local wherever possible. But more people are needed, especially on the pickot lines at the Torrance Plant, If Dow tries to hire people from the ghettos, black people can keep the word going around that hiring scabs is a way that the ruling class tries to divide the working class against itself. In its fight for solidarity Loca] 23 Is fighting for all of us, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE juror on the panel as of Mon- day (July 7). The picking of the jury in the Bursey trial has reflected the pattern in the Huey Newton trial and the Wells and Greene trials. All day Monday, Vukota used his challenges to oust black peo- ple from the panel and when he finished with the black peo- ple he started on a white grad- uate student from the Univer- sity of California. The Deputy D. A. hasn't forgotten it was the lone white student on the Greene case jury that held out against conviction in the final 11-1 vote. Before he sent the last black panelist home Vukola paused a long time. It came as no surprise when he said, ‘The people excuse’ Mrs. Dellums."’ She is the mother of Berkeley City Councilman Ron Dellums. GARRY’S VIEW The prosecutor asked if Mrs. Dellums knew any Panthers personally, how much she had read about them, did she know PRIVATE PROPERTY CHALLENGED AND FASCISTS Berkeley's white, mother coun- try radicals, obviously still angry over the rape of their people's park annex, and the trick bag they were thrown into with the peo- ple’s pad, leveled a sneak attack on the Cyclone fence at the old people's park. Wire cutters were smuggled into the area in loaves of French bread which could be said to be appropriate since the day happened tobe "Bastille Day’’, a French holiday. As usual, it was all in fun and games until the fascists got word of what was happening. When the pigs hit the scene so did tear gas, night sticks and shotguns. The street people took up their usual arms -- rocks and bottles. From noon until darkness there was chemical warfare, cracked skulls and mass arrests. Ronald Reagan's elite fascist California Highway Patrol and mad dog Madi- gan's goon squad lent a hand and really had fun busting in skulls. A local newspaper photographer Vincent Maggiora was taking pic- BURSEY TRIAL ANOTHER STACKED JURY didn't know any Panthers per- sonally. She was not particular- ly interested in Garry's career, and knew nothing about the Black Panther Party. She was dismissed with the prosecutor's very next challenge. Garry, on the other hand, has the problem of trying to pick white people who have recog- nized their own white suprema- cist tendencies and are honest- ly combating them. More than once Garry has in- terviewed a panelist who doubted his ability to overcome racist tendencies in the render- ing of a verdict. In the Bursey trial it was a retired registered nurse. Garry had asked, “Have you formed any opinions one way or the other from what you have heard or read about the Black Panthers?” When the woman answered that “More or less all of us form opinions and hers was made in favor of the police.”’ “If Charles Bursey was your son would you want 12 people of the same state of mind as yours to try your son. Would you be satisfied?"’ Garry asked. CAPER 09 LiL Le ga RUN AMUCK tures of four of Madigan’s depu- ties beating a ‘“‘suspect’’ when one of them told him ‘‘get out of here before I shove thatcamera up your ass."* When the photo- grapher turned to leave, the fas- cist deputy clubbed him. Just be- fore dark the fascist pigs launched their attack against the Berkeley Free Health Clinic (a soctalist facility). Some people who were being treated at the Clinic ob- served the fascist pigs beating someone in the head and began shouting ‘‘fascist pig’’. The swine tossed gas grenades into theclinic without any regard for the sick people being treated there. In- formed sources say that the syndi- cate that runs the highly paid medical profession has given orders to off all free programs in the same manner as the fas- cists are trying to destroy the Black Panther Free Breakfast Program, Dynamite Judge Bostick let “challenged for cause’ said he was reluctant he was not at all wouldn't serve as a impartial juror. During the noon recess day Panthers marched sang at the plaza of the istration building. Speakers from Peace and Freedom, bares eek celts : : i ; i z zi sa i cba : i eo5ei ea eRSEE i é Be fy 4 PES ESS mila - yerp de, Me, oll ee Alt ae nage aa) M YA SIN Man 1 his. ve Ng THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 19 A\ VX} »/ /, A . ‘’ HT TRICKY DICK NIXON’S BLACK CAPITALISM While Tricky Dick Nixon was screaming ‘‘Black Capitalism’’ last fall for his election, his fas- cist pig-fellows were quietly plan- ning a take over of several “Negro radio stations, These chumps think they can control the black communities of Boston, Buf- falo, and Pittsburgh by buying up soul radio stations. But by ex- Posing their tactics to the masses, we will thwart this vicious plan for fascist indoctrination of the black community, In September 1969, the Cypress Broadcasting Corporation was formed. Three of vicious Nixon's law firm partners (Nixon's At- torney General Rogers ts also a member of this firm) and five other Swine are on the Boards of Trust- @es of the corporation or the parent corporation, Cypress Communica- tions Corporation. Six of the eight have holdings or are onthe Boards of electronicsand Cable Television “Companies (the two exceptions are Nixon’ s lawyers.) Cypress Communications Cor- poration itself owns or canacquire Cable Television Systems in parts Of six states, including Mississippi The Mississippi franchise includes the towns that SNCC did its most heaviest organizational work in, In October, they officially put - down their jive of buying Dynamic a Corporation which owns and controls WILD (Boston station), WAMO AM-FM ittsburgh soul station), WUFO soul station), and WLTO Spanish-speaking station), . Naturally no one heard much about it because the bullshit election campaign had attractedeveryone’s attention. But now that everybody is awaiting Tricky Dick's Black Capituism program, the masses will be amazed to find that this vicious, deceptive program has al- ready been put into practice Check it out: Nixon and his con- Spiracy intends to control a large bourgeois Cuban population by making WLTO in Miami a Spanish speaking station, WLTO was changed from a country western Station to a Spanish-speaking station (which will elevate the cultural level of the Spanish- Speaking people) on November 10, 1968, a week after pig Nixon got elected, Miami has the largest Population of Cuban exiles, most of whom are Cuban middle class, of any city in the USA. Since Nixon Plans to live near Miami! and has fo deal with Cuba through either in- vasion, negotiation or {tsolation, being able to manipulate the senti- ments of large numbers of bour- geois Cubans who dislike Castro, is greatly to Nixon's advantage, So Nixon, through hisconniving friends, intends to control and stife both the revolutionary pot- ential of the black community and to control and exploit the pork chop potential of the exiled Cubans, How did I find this out? I heard rumors about this shit so I went down to visit WILD, After I checked wut the License and ownership application, I bad a visit with the pig who locally controled WILD He gave me some jive about how much of a growing market we black people are, you know, crap that usually gets hung on pig capital- ists about expanding their potential exploitable market base. Soul music is some beautiful shit, But music can be used like the gun: to liberate or to oppross, Finance capitalists, such as Nixon and his fascist friends using soul music as bait, see soul statlonsas a market for exploiting the black community as well as a tool ofpa- cification and oppression, Soul stations provide a good ‘Black Front’’ for white capital- ists that elther don’t have com- pany niggers, or else want to get the most mileage possible off of their company niggers. The pigs sell their overpriced shoddy goods with a home friedaccent, And since these soul stations make bread by pushing capitalistte goods, they ain't about to be revolutionary, ‘*Your Black History lesson of the alr says, on this day in 1890 sumpin', Booker T, Washington re- ceived an honorary degree at Har- vard."’ This is the kind of garbage that Is passed off as ‘‘Black and Proud History’ over the treach- erous soldout airwaves of the boot- lickers of the white capitalists. No wonder the people are always hearing vicious lies about the Black Panther. Party and other ture revolutionaries, This is why you will rarely, if ever, hear about the rea] deeds and bravery and the con- stant sacrifices of the Panthers over the radio. Stations like WBOK (soul) on New Orleans say that they will work closely with the police department, publicizing their pro- gram ana supporting their many fine projects. It is possible that other jive talk- ing capitalists are quickly and quietly conspiring with Nixon to impose their own brand of black capitalism; fascist control of most of the major soul stations in the country, William F, (Faggot) Buck- ley, owner of Spanish Ot! Conces- sions and publisher of the fascist magazine National Review, has just bought soul stations: WBOK, New Orleans, KYOK, Houston, Texas, WLOK, Memphis, Tennessee, He also owns KOZN (soul), Omaha, Nebraska, Tricky Dick Nixon and his herd of swine may be buying or have already bought most of the soul stations in the United States, Ifyou don't know which capitalist con- trols your soul station (only 6 soul stations out of 120 in Amert- ca are even owned by black cap- {talists) You can check it out! Go to your local station and ask to see the broadcast license and any transfer if ownership appli- cations are on file. The public has a right to see Federal Communi- cations Commission Regulation 1.526 it is an utmost necessity to reveal to the people just who owns soul stations, We must find out the depth of this fascist penetra- tion of the black community, The first step to liberation 1s b= anh Knowledigy of the oppressor POWER TO THE WORKERS POWER TO THE PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN- GUARD Cappy Pinderhughes Supporter of the Black Panther Party More La Raza benefits set SAN FRANCISCO — The La Raza Breakfast for Children program is currently presenting a series of benefits in the Mis- sion District. Music is by the Circus and the Clover and satire by the Teatro de la Calle (Street Theatre); Latino Sods care om The events are slated for July 11, August 1, August 8, and Au- gust 29 at St. Peter's Hall on 1249 Alabama street (near 24th _ . : = R, - THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 20 HANDS OFF ILLINOIS 16 The sixteen indictments re- turned against the Black Panther Party were a concerted effort by the Federal Government to destroy the leadership of the peoples van- guard, But like their efforts in the past, these reactionaries have proven themselves to be paper tigers. The racist pigs have re- doubled their efforts to destroy the Party since their frame-up of Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton they failed to stop the Party and its programs, The pigs have shown us all that their only duty in the oppressed en NTE pe peoples communities is to repress the Vanguard and brutalize and murder the people. ‘‘WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO THE POLICE BRUTALITY AND MUR- DER OF BLACK PEOPLE,"’ The Vanguard has committed no crimes only fed the hungry, clothed the needy, provided medica) at- tention for the sick - while the federal government has sat back on its hind legs, allowing our chil- dren to starve to death, to freeze in the winter because of the lack of clothing, and to remain sickly because of the racist medical ser- TO: The People FROM: The Connecticut 10 This is to inform the people of racist, capitalist America that although the paranoic charges that have been thrown on us are part of a major plan to wipe out: the leadership in all areas of the nationwide movement to end op- pression and particularly to de- stroy the Vanguard of this move- ment - the Black Panther Party - they can't destroy the people! Notice the Congressional in- vestigations that have been started this is only to stir up public senti- ment against the Vanguard black student groups and $.D.S. We know that the fascist troops from the whitehouse down to the streets will use any methods to turn the masses head, WE WILL NOT ALLOW THIS - WE WILL FIGHT TO THE FINISH - though we understand that we may remain Incarcerated we know Uthat one day Huey will walk ~ OH HAPPY DAY - and he will be able to change things for the people of the world, Our spirits soar to know that there are people out there that sup- vice in this country, The Federal Government of this capitalist society is the real crim- inal, These capitalist fools are murdering, victimizing; and tax- ing the people to death, All part of this decadent (decaying) capli- talist soclety, If the government was really representative of the people then it would support the Black Panther Party's Breakfast for Children Program, help the Party to institute the nationwide Free Medical Centers, and force its pig agents to withdraw from the community. . : ” - 24 +" WTS we The Ku Klux Klan are racist murderers, why haven't they been indicted? The Minute-men are right-wing capitalist fascist, why haven't they been indicted? Black capitalism is a scheme to exploit the masses of the people, why haven't Nixon and his lackies been indicted? The Black Panther Party and the people have exposed these criminals and this is why we are being repressed, The Illinois 16 followed the political ideology of the Party. They are servants of the people; ‘‘oxen to be ridden by the people.’ They are tested re- FROM N. 10 port us, We are separated from the rest of the Inmate population and some of us are being moved from jail to jail - PIG PARANOIA!! Anyway while we're here - we will study and continue tohave political education classes and we intend to exercise everyday to keep our bodies in shape. We will not be broken by any of their tactics and we will not loose faith in the masses or the Party, We will fight racism with soli- darity; We will fight capitalism with socialism, We will fight im- perialism with proletarian inter- nationalism,"* ALL POWER TO ALL THE PEO. PLE LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S RE- VOLUTIONARY STRUGGLES AND ONE DAY THE PEOPLE WILL RISE LIKE A MIGHTY STORM AND WASH THE CRAZY, MAD FAS- CIST, BUREAUCRAT-CAPITAL- ISTS AWAY FREE HUEY, THE N.Y. 21 AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS (May the purge continue and through education and experience we can put an end to slimy pro- vocatuers and their foul set-ups) volutionaries, guides who, are helping the masses liberate them- selves from the hands of the op- pressor, They work from can’t see in the morning to can’t see at night es- tablishing socialistic programs. The fascist police agencies throughout the country are intensi- fying the terror, brutallzing, mur- dering and visciously repressing people; the 16 were helping the people to resist this genocidal (mass destruction of a people) activity by the government The Nlinois 16 believes that itis time for us as oppressed people to arm ourselves against this ter- rorism, ‘We must rise up as one man to halt the progression of a trend that leads inevitably to our total destructién’’, -- Huey P. Newton We must declare what Fred Hampton declared “Let all tests of revolution confront me, Those that I am not ready for, I will be- come ready for. PEOPLE UNITE” Illinois Chapter Black Panther Party POLITICAL PRISONERS You are the epitomy of revolution Strength bulges from your body and soul, Your posture so straight, so proud, so tall Your life and your love is your people This love that you have {fs hot at all small Great hope and faith you’ ve put in us all To work and live with you has been a pleasure To us and the people you're a most precious treasure You know of the rats the death and disease The projects the people are im- prisoned in to breed LETTER FROM ERICKA POLITICAL PRISONER PEOPLE'S POWER, We constantly hear news about the people's revolutionary camp, the news has been filled with state- ments that verLfy the fact the people are moving from Charleston, South Carolina to Rhodesia, South Africa, We have heard the statements made by the provocatuer agent Powell and we understand that within and without our ranks, there are elements that wish to destroy the peoples revolutionary struggle. We are aware that this can and will not happen. We heard Field Marshall, D.C, blow (on radio from New York) about the atrocities mounted against the N.Y. 21 and we are more aware that there is aspecter haunting America - the spe er of Fascism! You've felt mental oppression and are belng subjected to the most torturous ofall things, confinement But a revolutionary’ s physical body can only te confined, because we are fur away from you but we feel a wave of love and faith in the people within a radious of Infinity, We shall avenge your Imprisoo- ment and set your bodies free, Marsha Although we are separated from the physical struggle - we are always with you - spiritually, and we educate those we come in con- tact with here, We do not know yet when we'll return to court, but the trial may not start before September and we (brothers and sisters) are se- parated, in numerous ways! In the spirit of the ardent Struggles of the Ist International we Say: POWER TO THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'SRE- VOLUTIONARY STRUGGLES FREE HUEY, THE N.Y, 21 AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS Ericka Huggins P aoe fiddled with a ip of SOcaliber munition, “But you "t cven have is: beliehie sophisticated; there are a number of common household items that make fine pohons, Take ordinary [he example,” DePugh said, “which has an ethylene-glycol base. Ethylene glycol tas _# pleasant, sweetish taste and can casily he added to a soft drink or a slice of custard pie without your victim ever de- tecting it before it’s too late. One half to one ounce is a fatal dose, and there's no known antidote It does leave ob- servable lesions that can be detected in a medical examination, but the cru cial point to remember is that in most cases of sudden death, an autopsy is not performed and death is attributed to natural causes. There aren't enough doctors in the country to perform an autopsy on everybody who appears to have died of heart failure or shock or kidney disease or diabetic seizure or liv- er hemorrhage. Let's say you've slipped a dose of ethylene glycol into some- hody's food. The average doctor would examine the outward symptoms and in- variably diagnose the cause of death as heart failure—which it was, of course, but artificially induced. Even when you do have a post-mortem, unless the au- thorities have reason to suspect foul play, it's a pretty slipshod. pro forma affair. Believe me, if you select the right poison and go about it carefully, it’s the casiest thing in the world to kill a man. More coffee?" 1 looked down at the dregs in my cup for « long moment before shaking my oy head. “Personally,” he continued matterof- factly, “4 have a nicotine sulphate. a ‘ommon liquid alka- lel) that can be administered orally “intravenously or through direct absorp- tion by the skin. What's lovely about it is that it’s almost Jnstantancously fatal and leaves no traces except in the blood stream—and even in an autopsy, it's very rare to take a blood analysis, be- lieve it or not. Nicotine sulphate is ¢ readily available in a wide range of gardening solutions; all you'd have to lo is distill the mixture, slip some into your target's beer, or refill his altershaying lotion with it, It's absorbed quickly, par- ticularly if he’s nicked himself while shav- ing, and unless it's washed off with cold water within sixty seconds, it'll cause diz- ~~ diness, collapse, respiratory paralysis and death,” He then described another poison so easy to manufacture that | am unwilling to write about it for a wide-circulation magazine, After this I asked: “Do you have any other favorite poisons?” He thought a moment. “Well, the Rus- sian K.G. B, has done great things with a cyanide gas gan. You may remember that one of their assassins who defected to the West in Berlin a few years ago, a guy named Bogdan Stashinsky, confessed to having liquidated two prominent _ Ukrainian exiles with an ordinary water pistol filled with cyanide. All you have to do is wait on a stair well till your victim pases you, cover your nose and mouth with a damp handkerchief and spray him in the face, The first inhala- tion is fatal, and within sixty seconds all ene smell in the air will be dissipat- ed. Since the target has died climbing a ight of stairs, death is invariably diag ed as heart failure—as was the case “Have you actually stockpiled any of these poisons and viruses?” His face win expresionlos. “Tiove— hing to my side. “Come in here. wand show you somehing 1 haven't ei any other jouriilist.” followed DePugh from lis ofhce hw dusty soreroom heaped with jars labeled “Biola, Vitamin ementy” and into a lange reem with old newspapers and maga named a ee automotive Huid), for~ preference for... zines, There was no furniture other than eight steel file cabinets, cach drawer s«- curely padlocked. He stood in the middle of the room and gestured toward them. “We're in the process of dispersing all our subversive files,” he said. “What you" sce here is only our California records. The master files—containing over one hundred thousand names from all fifty stute—have been buried underground in several places across the country. and crossindexed lists broken down by state, county and city have gone out to local branches. In recent months we've totally decentralized our intelligence system that if something should happen to me > or this headquarters, our records will still be intuct.”"” UPt Telewhare ROBERT de PUGH Minuteman founder He took a opened the top drawer on the end cubi- net. It was packed with hundreds of three-by-five-inch white file cards, ar- ranged in alphabetical order. “Each of these file cards has a corre sponding dossier in California regional headquarters.” He selected a card at random, “Here's a Commic who lives in Sausalito, The card lists his name, ad- dress and phone number, and California headquarters has a comprehensive port: folio containing all the information we've gathered on his movements, fis job, his personal tastes—women, liquor, boys, drugs, etc. When and if the time comes to neutralize him, we'll have all the information down pat.” He returned the card and sismmed the drawer shut, locking it and carefully testing the handle, “We have cighteen thousand names in the California file alone. Now, needless to say, we've had to break these down accord ing to the importance of the individual in the overall scheme of thingy and. establish a set of priorities.” He tapped the firss drawer, “File A contains the names of the run-of-the-mill fellow travelers and parlor pinks, the types who join different Red fronts or show up on picket lines but aren't fulltime opera tives. They're essentially dilettantes and, although they have to be kept under surveillance and someday dealt with, they don't constitute a really serious threat.” He rapped his knuckles on the second drawer, “File B here contains the cards of those who are the next step up the subversive ladder—fulltime Party members, draftcard burners. civil rights agitatom Whenever we have the man power, we try to keep them under full- time surveillance, but they're will fairly small fish.” His eyes narrowed, and he reached down and unlocked the bottom drawer, which contained fewer cords key from lis pocket and “Now this is file C—the really danger ous types, the bigtime operator, the most dedicated cuemies of ou comntry in this particular state, These sony of bitches we give special attention “If you're convinced that these people are all traitors, what action do you pro pose to take against then” He siniled enignutically. “Effective oc: tion—when the time comes.” Would that incode vssassination?” I asked. THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 21 His voice was neutral, “Anyone listed in file © tis betrayed his country to the most ruthless enemies it hay ever Known, The penalty for treason is death, und if the execution of the sen- tence is left to us—well, we accept the responsibility.” He smiled. “Don't wor- as your name isn’t on the New York list, 1 checked before you came out here.” A spare, wiry man with a grizzled mustache whom | hadn't seen belore entered the room, “Seattle's on the line,” he said expressionlesily. “DH be right back,” DePugh mur- mured, his jaw tightening as he followed the other man out, Alone for a moment, I began copying down some of the names in the Minute- man © file. Each card in the file was a photostatic copy, the names and ad- dresses triple spaced. | had time to jot down [1 potential victims before De- Pogh returned. Most of the addreses were in the Stanford area and none of the names familiar, 1 heard DePugh’s footsteps and slipped my pad and pencil away seconds before he opened the door, He appeared preoccupied, no longer avid to display his intelligence records. “Let's go eat,” he saitl, returning the file to the drawer and locking it, “It's been a long day.” As we left the building, I asked De- Pugh how he could be certain that his information on more than 100,000 times across the country was accurate. “Suppose you were to give the oner to liquidate somebody in your C file,” 1 suggested, “and it turned out subse. quently that he wasn’t a subversive at all. How would you feel about sending an innocent man to his death?” He shrugged. “About as guilty ay Lyn- don Jolinson feels sending thousands of kids to die in Vietnam,” he replied in a bored tone. “And anyway, our files are constantly checked and double-checked for accuracy. If we put somebody on the C list, he belongs there.” “Are there any prominent names on the list?” 1 asked as we walked along Norborne’s streets toward his howe He chuckled. “There are names on that lim (hat anybody who reads a news paper would recognize” “Would you care to name a few of them?” “Why not? Secretary Robert Strange McNamara,” he replied, hissing the mid- de name sibilantly, “Hubert Humphrey William Fulbright, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King, [This was early March 1968—one month before King’s ussassination, three monthy before Ken- nedy's.] They're the most dangerous men in America, though God knows they're not alone.” His face suddenly hardened, and he halted and gripped me by the arm, “Remember what 1 told you earlier about the principle of deliberate delay?" he asked. “Well, that phase of the struggle is just about over. The Minutemen are now entering the revolutionary stage of our activities, and from now on no holds are barred.” He released my arm abruptly and pulled the wrapper off another lozenge. “No holds at all. We're through talking.” 1 asked him what had cused this sudden change of tactics, but hie just shook fis lead wordlessly and walked on in silence, Suddenly, his eyes bright ened, “Here's my place. You're going to Jove the wife's blueberry pie!” After DePugh dropped me off at my motel later that evening, | was unable to sleep, Throughout dinner and during the ride back from Norborne, he had elaborated messianically- on his hopes for the future, occasionally ranging off into such disparate topics as the respon- sibility of the existential philosophers (‘the cult of nawea,” as he character: ized them) for modern Weltschmerz, and the contradictions of Keynesian eco nomics, He was a civilized, (frequently witty coliversationalist, and only once did the mask slip—when | asked him how enduring he thought Martia Lu- ther King’s nonviolent — philosophy would prove in light of rising black militancy, “That phony bastard!" His knuckles on the steering wheel were white, “He's been a Red agitator for years. And they give the Nobel Peace Mrize to that Iraud, the Reverend Martin Luther King!” He spat out Reverend as il it were 4 diny word The next morning, DePuph failed to keep his appointment at my motel, and no one answered the phone at his home or office, Later that evening, 1 learned from a friend in the Associated Press that a Seattle grand jury had imued a warrant for his arrest on fons Sst conspiracy charges the da one sep ahead of the law, DePugh had gone into hiding. | suddenly realized the real reason for the beard and, more importantly, for DePugh's ordassetetie tic frankness with me: He san interview as his last public appearance, — : his swan song before entering what he | ; termed the “underground phase of the resistance." Jt may also have accounted for his statement, shortly after the phone call from Seattle, cha =e principle of deliberate oeiey ea la thing of the past and the winnas 1a: men were how entering a new phase of Fr. see terrorism and assisination. ce cot | In the months since our final end y —murked by the assassinations of ine King and Senator Kennedy and a new * spate of terror attacks on peace and civil i rights advocates—DePugh has successful: Wy eluded the police, issuing under ground news bulletins to the faithful with apparent impunity. (Unidergro Bulletin No. 2 ye from “so in the United States” after the elect charged that George Wallace's An an Inde 1 Party is Comm controlled, When the “enemy” failed gain control of his Patriotic Party, De Pugh wrote his followers, it wumed to the A.LP., which today “fy controlled a the top by the same hidden hand controls the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.”) Hiy FBI flees. circular cautions that “DePugh reportec ly carries a pistol and hits access to ott types of weapons, including hand gre nades. Consider extremely dangerous” * Even if DePugh is apprehended and imprisoned, there i is little doobt that the well before he went into hiding, We selected a “second string” of leaders run the organization in the event of death or incarceration, Hut the beyie question remains; Can DePagh and hi Minutemen really do what they sv The answer scems to be chat us ‘ not by themselves—but they a D alone. Other paramilitary yroups 4 burgeoning acrow the country under the stimulus of growing racial unrest. Some of these are leftist, and some bhick such >; as the Black Panthers, Burt there is little) doubt that the largest and most Senate ived groups Cluster around DePugt’ . end. ‘ of the political spectrum. He is on par, ticularly close terms with the Reverend, | Kenneth Goll of Englewood, Coloradoja: leader of the Soldiers of the Cross. aime! organization of between S000 and ro seitit™ " members, operating primarily jn Cale” fornia and the Southwest. Goff, who’ graduated from the Communist Party | "i to Gerald L. K. Smith's Christian Ante. Communist Crusade and went into the, witch-hunting business on his own several years ugo, blends Protestant funda mentalism and antiSemitism (his oft- repeated theme is that “Vhe United Nations is as Jewish as Coney Island”) with judo, karate, savefe, torture, muti- lation and such desert survival techniques as the eating of toads and grasshoppers. Another group on yood fniternal terms with the Minuremen—and with Golf's outht—is the California Rangers, commanded by Colonel William P. Gale, U.S. Army (Ret), who organized Philippine guerrilla forces aguinst the Japanese in Work! War Two as an aide to General Douglas MacArthur, Gale views the Commiuists as tools of “the: international Jewish conspiracy: Yor” got your nigger Jews, you gor your | — Asiatic Jews and you got your white. Jews. They're all Jews and they're all the ollspring of the Devil” The colo - nels favorite aphorism is, “Turn a nigger inside out and you've got a Jew": and’ he contends that Adolf Hitler's rep tution ay a war criminal is all a misunderstanding: “I can show you top- secret documents that prove the six. million Jews Hitler was supposed to have killed are right here in America. And if — we run them out of here, they'll so down to South America and start screaming soci about how we burned them in gas cham: bers. JTve got two ovens ready for thém _ how,” The Rangers are one component of an intricate network o| -religio paramili tary groups operating in California the Southwest. A report by the Califor» nia attorney ge reveals that. SEE NEXT PAGE THE BLA CK PAN ‘TH ER SATU R DAY, JUL y l9 ' 1969 PAG E 22 an ~ : t Uy aS tl ha GE States we Kn k * ml Ri u K ini chs ights P fk Kin, & Wri and t arty, tb lan connec Bercrte. 1 a Ch vewtstt Na tions Gc iti The 3 me 9 sivlen sei cas a Ep rah ao ( ats i ali ri ext j of at shris s Re iforni ing of in 10 Jesu he Mi - tock pi ( sere to Fl Beta es Chis paneer of salifo Dr ori it ay ble — is i ati we * ch aw ive ot cule tae Wesl la. It paris! sorted ries ve ae aed at ; witb reac ley S sf ves f Wg enti pall Th owhich » his hes o Swift ounde rom witl rellect ial for . but we NS hi ar w ver ol I r,t ro s consi vic row S.R.P i sith tfull eckl 1,001 an he but i ee nsidl rler ing Pj ae r His » y blen - Sata 000 fee an its lea Klan erable ice. 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HEADQUARTERS BLACK P AN- THER PARTY OFFICE, 3106 SHATTUCK AVE,, BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA, 845-0103 OR 845-0104, POWER TO THE PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE VANGUARD « ar _ REVOLUTIONARY POETRY Sane BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 24 Because We Love Life Because we love life we can fight to the death these ten words written on his fore- dreams) beside the well We know head, floating and those things which are soclose the humble stones of a nameless eyes closed in his pupils, shekered so much our own, undiluted street here no one Is blind We want it to be known to be well understood, so that no one is mistaken that these words circulate in our blood We want it to be known that here ho ove Is blind in the nests of his clenched fists here no one walks with is eyes in our blood, the jubilation limited to a certain name or a few family names the cultivated manners which are so mysteriously con- and course through our bodies and = closed gruent into our hearts nobody stumbles around in the with the pulse of our own hearts, where they are repeated day after darkness we can fight to the death day or calls Ulysses; there are no We want it to be known in voices muffled and profound sirens to be well understood, so that no here we all know the way and the price of the passage here we al] say Because we love life we can fight to the death We want it to be known because we love life we want everyone on earth to listen because we love to us carefully everything we have caressed and know that every person here that which has existed alchemy of one is mistaken that here we can all say Because we love life because we love the light of the patio, the sun on the eaves that twisted branch of the orange tree so distant that it seems to ener into the mythology of the soul, We can fight to the death to the beating of our hearts. directs We want it to be known and gives us our sentence We want everyone on earth to listen Here no one is blind Here we all know We know, yes we know that it is possible to snap the slender wire that Strings to- gether lie’s small moments--unknowing belonging to others--here in this solitary universe a nostalgic territory, All this, in a game both fateful and cruel, can be suddenly exposed and lost Because we love life because we love things that happy hands create and build without thinking that it is all made for those who have not yet been born To death we will fight our OWN. to defend life here we all have our ears tuned tn That is the voice that orders and carries for tthe eternities Even Beneath This Bitterness At the bottom of the night the footsteps descend and retreat, = Shadows surround them, Streets, drunks. Buildings, Someone running away from him- self. A broken bottle, bleeding. A widowed paper sailing around a corner, A freethinker pissing onthe grass, where tomorrow the well-dressed children will play beside the dew. Far away something screams, dark metal, genital, Asphalt and blind stones, sleeping air, darkness, cold, police, cold, more police. Streets, whores, drunks, buildings, Police again, soldiers, Again police. The statistics say:for every 80,000 SATISFACTION The most beautiful for those who have fought a whole life, is to come to the end and say: we believed in man and in life and life and man never let us down. And so they are wonfor the people. And so the infinite example is born, Not because they fought a part of their lives but because they fought all the days of their lives, Only this way do menbecome men: fighting day and night to be men. Then the people open their deepest rivers and they enter those waters for- ever. And so they are, distant fires, Living creating the heart of example. al Otto Rene Castillo Translated by Margaret Randell En Agenda officers of the law there Is one doctor in Guatemala, . Then understand the misery of my Un ited country, and my pain and everyone's pain, if when I say: Bread! for National Conference for a Front Against Fascism July 18, 19 and 20, 1969 Oakland, California they say shut up! and when I say: Liberty: they say Die! FIRST Sa don’t shut up and Idon't # 474 TIONAL CONFERENCE for a I live and fight, maddening those who rule my country. For if I live i fight, and if I fight 1 contribute to the dawn And so victory is born even in the bitterest hours. FRIDAY 7:00 pm-ll:30 pm TO THE WOMEN OF BABYLON You are not here as powder puff bitches The pig is oppressing you tool So don’t think youcan Georgia your way out The amount of suffering we have all been subjected to Does not separate we females The hog don’t care who he beats in the head so remove your false eyelashes So you can see that they will Suppress you too. If you cannot remove your disguise then young hoe you don’t belong here! cause a fat ass and silk stockings don’t create a bullet proof shield. And if « silk stud Daddy is your goal then you might as well watch a rat run in his hole cause apunk decorated in diamonds and gators will leave youon your fut ass. You betrer get real slick, hop into some big bens and become a worker for the people Become a revolutionary womanand have a revolutionary man, To be the other half, you must be strong and carry the love of your people instead of mascura, Because | know for u fact, mascara runs when you cry SATURDAY 10:00 am-l:00 pm 2:00 pm-5:00pm 7:30 pm-10:30 pm SUNDAY 10:00 am-l2:00 pm 12:30 pm-3:30 pm 3:30 pm-4:30 pm 6:30 pm-9:00 pm 9:00 pm-10;00 pm Marsha UNITED FRONT AGAINST FASCISM in America FORMAT OF U,F.A.F, CONFERENCE l) Introductory; keynote; Women versus Fascism . eagle Se eleete sees «(Oakland Auditovtum 2) Workers versus JaSCiSM. ...2eseceeeess seco dia ele eeiwlee delete siOakland Auditorium 3) Students and Education versus Fascism wee eee eee ee «Bobby Hutton Memorial Park 4) Political Prisoners and Political Freedom =a ees a ebal ares aceuelisiaueceveunaer OGRLQNA —AUGILOY SITE 5) People’s Health and Fascism sa eeeeeeeeees «Bobby Hutton Memorial Park 6) Religion versus Fascism wees ee eeees « Bobby Hutton Memorial Park 7) American Servicemen versus Fascism weeeeeee es. Bobby Hutton Memorial Park 8) Community Control (decentralization) of Police (mass workshop).Oakland AN 9) Final: the National Commitatloda bat Fascism in America ... Oakl hi Leo THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 25 _ 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. 2. We want full employment for our people. " LAW AND ORDER LAW AND ORDER AND. ORDER Caw BND. ER} + 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people. 3. We want an end to the robbery by the capital- ist of our Black Community. ‘CAME FOR) aR THE RENT ; AL $ i i= | 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, State, county and city prisons and jails. he ! WE FIND THE — ! BROTHER NOT ; \L-tew - fe. F . iY ' 2 pecan 2. ae oi wits, 2) 4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. UNCLE, TOM WAS A D NIGGER BE LIKE\\TOMDN <’p « AND ¥ SA 4 WSS Go roe ye 8 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 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, es —t \ justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebiscite to be held throu- ghout the black colony in which only black colonial sub~ : jects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of 5. We want = a ake Reuetlate: Gatereieaas the will of black people as to their nation- ~~ atu is . : Be ctacicten that teaches us our true history caper a Ad P : and our role in the present-day society. SACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1969 PAGE 26 3. We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community. We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are Black Panther Party Platform and Program Sencar ite cas promised 100 years agoves sesttttiOn for aavelNese and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency wee oS 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 an modest demand that we make te Wh at W B | e 4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. e e 1e ' e We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society, We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowl- e 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. ‘Ve believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution 30 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 eyents, 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 ~ evs . ‘LP , arty decent 1espect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare Minister of Defense. Black Panther Part the causes which impel them to the soaker: ; 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 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their ; be : : . just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people mine our destiny 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- 2, We want full employment for our people. dence. indeed, will dictate that governments long estal ..ed should not 7 be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience We believe that the federal government ts responsible and obligated to hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are give every man employment or a guaranteed income We believe that if sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they the white American businessmen will not give full employment, then the are accustomed Bul, when a long train of abuses and unsurpations, pur- means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab- the community so that the people of the community can organize and em- solute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern. ploy all of its people and give a high standard of living ment, and to provide new guards for their future security, eS ee (Pee SUBSCRIPTION FORM Sm Support Your Newspaper-- Subscribe Today! 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Please send us news items, genoral information, and contributions. Help us distribute and get new subscriptions to The Black Panther Di Vs Db een ees ERR Pe Eee R Eee andi 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 rales as functional mem- bers of this party. CENTRAL COMMITTEE member. CENTRAL STAFFS, and LOCAL STAFFS, including all captains subordinate to cither 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 verbutum by heart. And apply them daily, Each member must report any violation of these rules to theie leademhip or they are Counter-revolutionary and are also subjected to suspemion by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. THE RULES ARE: 1. No party member can have narcotics or weed in his possession while doing party work. 2. Any party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from this party. 3. No party member can be DRUNK while doing daily party work. 4. No party member will violate rules relating to office work, general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANYWHERE. 5. No party member will USE, POINT, or FIRE a weapon of any kind unnecessarily or accidentally at anyone. 6. No party member can join any other army force other than the BLACK LIBERATION ARMY.. 7. No party member can have a weapon in his powession while DRUNK or loaded off narcotics or weed. 8. No party member will commit any crimes against other party members or BLACK people af all, and cannot steal or take from the people, not even a needle 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 10-10-10-program should be known by all members and also understood by all members. 13. All Finance officers will operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance. 14, Each person will submit a report of daily work. 15, Each Sub-Section Lender Seetion Leader, Lieutenant, and Captain must submit Daily reports of work, 16. All Panthers must learn to operate and service weapons correctly, 17. All Leadership personnel who expel a member must submit this information to the Editor of the Newspaper, so that it will be published in the paper and will be known by all chapters and branches. 18, Political Education Classes are mandatory for general member- ship. 19. Only office personnel assigned to respective offices each day should be there. All others are to sell papers and do Political work out in the community, including Captains, Section Leaders, etc. 20, COMMUNICATIONS — all chapter must submit weekly re- ports in writing to the National Headquarters, 21. All Branches must implement First Aid andjor Medical Cadres, 22. All Chapters, Branches, and components of the BLACK PAN- THER PARTY must submit o monthly Financial Report to the Minik- try of Finance, and also the Ceniral Committee. 23. Everyone in a leadership position must read no tes than two hours per day to keep abreast of the changing political situation. 24. No chapter or branch shall accept grants, poverty funds, money or any other aid from any government agency without contacting the National Headquarters, 25. All chapters must adhere to the policy and the ideology baid down by the CENTRAL COMMITTEE ‘of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. 26. All Branches oust submit weekly reports in writing to their re- spective Chapters, 8S POINTS OF ATTENTION 1) Speak politely, 2) May fairly for what you buy. 3) Return everything you borrow, 4) Pay for anything you damage. 5) Do not hit or swear at people. 6) Do not damage property or craps of the poor, oppressed masses, 7) Do not take liberticos with women, 8) I weever have to take cuptives 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 masses 3) Turn in everything captured from the attacking enemy, CETUS Tey Sees ae oy Oe kai ea) ah r ryyery MERGES Ly t