Vol. 3, No. 14

THE BLACK PANTHER 23 Black Community News Service VOL, Ul No 14 Saturday, July 26, 1969 ane THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY marae rcene SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 2 @PEDITOR’s NOTE: | The following article is taken ‘from the appeal prepared by the attorneys defending Huey P Newton, Minister of Defense of jthe Black Panther Party, Huey’s attorneys have moved to have the case reviewed by the Court of sAppeals of the State of California, qaThe Black Panther News Paper will print the appeal in part-- every week to give the people all plaintiff and respondent, vs. Huey p. néwton, defendant and appelant, Appellant's Opening Brief 1, STATEMENT OF THE CASE Defendant ‘énd appellant Huey P, Newton (hereinafter ‘‘defendant’’) was taken into custody in Oakland, California, on or about October 28, 1967, and has been held in custody without bail since that date (Clerk's Transcript on Appeal. hereinafter “C,.T.’’, 54), Onor about November 13, 1967, defendant was indicted by the Grand Jury of Alameda Coun- ty for the murder of Oakland Po- lice Officer John Frey, assault with a deadly weapon upon a peace officer (Oakland Police Officer Herbert Heanes), kidnapping of one Dell Ross, anddefendant was char- ged with commission of a prior felony, assault with a deadly wea- pon (C,T, 1-2). Defendant pleaded not guilty and denied the prior felony conviction pleaded in the indictment (C.T. 53), Jury trial commenced on said charges on or about July 15, 1968, before the Alameda County Su- perior Court, Hon, Monroe Fried- BOX BROOKLYN 11202 NEW YORK oe FREE THE N.Y. 21 BAIL MONEY NEEDED SEND TO BLACK PANTHER PARTY 1224 man presiding. On or about Sep- tember 8, 1968, the jury returned three verdicts: guilty of voluntary manslaughter of John Frey; not guilty of assault witha deadly wea- pon upon Herbert Heans; and the jury found that the charge of a previous conviction set forth in the indictment was true (C,T. 252- 255), The trial court granted defen- dant’s motion for judgment of ac- quittal on the kidnapping charge, on the ground that there was no evidence to support it (Reporter's Transcript on Appeal, hereinafter “R.T."", 2730). Judgment of conviction of volun- tary manslaughter was entered by the Superior Court on September 27, 1968 (C T. 308). Motions for new trial, probation, and bail pending appeal were denied (CT. 309). ll, POINTS ON APPEAL Denial of pre-trial motions and the errors listed, infra, denied defendant due process of law, equal protection of the laws, consti- tutional and statutory rights, and a fair trial, Trial commenced over the objections of the defendant to denial of the following pre-trial motions: A, To quash the indictment be- cause the Grand Jury which re- turned it was illegally constituted because of the systematic exclu- sion of black persons, poor per- sons, and other members of mi- nority groups, and because pro- ceeding by indictment herein arbi- trarily denied defendant's consti- tutional rights of confrontation of witness and discovery (C.T, 15). B. To quash the venire of petit jurors because methods of initial selection of prospective trial jur- ors from the voters’ registration lists, without supplementation from any other source, systema- tically excluded black persons and other minority races from the master panel; and the selection and excuse procedures employed by the Jury Commisioner and his staff, for trivial causes and the convenience of employers of said persons, further systematically excluded such persons and created an unconstitutional panel (C.T 124), C. For continuance because of the prevalence of white racism in the general community andthe im- possibility of impaneling a white jury from which said white ra- cism and bias might be uncovered (and thus be eliminated through challenge for cause) through voir dire techniques; and because of prejudicial publicity disseminated by the authorities of the City of Qakland and County of Alameda, poisoning the atmosphere and pre- judicing potential jurors against defendant (C,T. 101, 107 - 121), D. For discovery of thenames of all prosecution witness and their statements, however recorded or reproduced, E. For a hearing to determine whether defendant had intelligently waived counsel or was advised of his right not to testify at the prior trial at which defendant re- presented himself. This trial re- sulted in defendant’ s conviction of assault with a deadly weapon. The motion for a pre-trial hearing and other relief was to ascertain ifthe felony conviction was consti- tutionally infirm and whether it should, therefore, be excluded from use in the present proceed- ing. Subsequent to denial of the motion for a hearing, defen- dant moved for continuance so that he could pursue his request for relief to higher courts prior to commencement of trial (C.T, 176- 182, 193-196) F, For an order prohibiting ap- plication fo Penal Code section 1074 (8) in such a manner as to exclude prospective jurors, able and qualified to render a fair de- dision as to guilt, because of said jurors’ scruples and conscientious opposition to capital punishment (C.T. 188). The trial court erred in deny- ing the defendant's motions for mistrial because of: A. Prejudicial and improper o- pening statement of the prosecu- tion (R T. 1720) B, Continuing dissemination of Prejudicial publicity by govern- mental authorities during the course of the trial (R.T. 2342; CT, 223), C. Sequestration fo the witness Henry Grier by the prosecution so that he was unayailable to defense examination until the conclusion of his testimony (R.T. 2089), D, Prejudicial conduct of the trial court (R.T. 2289-90, 2292, 2294, 2315), E, The atmosphere engendered by death and torture threats to defense counsel, and the armed, patrolled, police state atmosphere of the courthouse and courtroom itself (R T, 2092). The trial court erred when, at the conclusion of the prose- cution’s case and again at the con- clusion of the defendant’s case, the trial court denied defendant's motion for judgment of acquittal of first and second degree murder pursuant to Penal Code section 1118,1 (R.T, 2668, 2698, 2730, 3505), The trial court fatally erred in failing to reopen trial proceed- ings, upon defendant's motion, when defendant first discovered, during the jury's deliberations, that the prosecution had sup- pressed evidence critically favor- able to the defendant. The trial court compounded this error when, without calling the jury into open court, the trial court, instead, caused the suppressed evidence to be transmitted to the room where the jury was deliberating, without comment, explanation or disclo- sure to the jury of the nature of the evidence or of the fact that it had been suppressed by the pro- secution. The trial court further erred in refusing to admit certain evidence. offered by defendant (R.T. 2906, 2973, 2996-7, 3022-32), and in the giving of certain of the prosecu- tion’s proposed instructions (Nos. 6, 7, 19, 20 at C T, 236), and re- fusing certain of the defendant's proposed instructions (C.T, 290- 92). In addition, the cumulative ef- fect of the foregoing was to deny the defendant a fair trial, The judgment should be reversed be- cause the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict of convic- tion. That verdict must fall as in- consistent with the verdict of ac- quittal, The Black people do not under- stand what the power structure means when it says Law and Order, It means,unspoken, but understood, the releasing of anunadulterated terrorism upon the Black race, and all other races of color; by throwing into the trash can the little democracy that exists in the country. an institution in its place, a po- lice state, for the purpose of bru- talizing and humiliating all people without a reason. All over this country, now, no person of color and is safe from false arrest, being placed under heavy bond, given an outrageous fine, or a long sentence in jail. It is, now, impossible to get a fair decision from a judge or jury. The reason being, only individuals with ‘‘un- questionable character’ are se- lected for those positions. To expect justice to roll down like water in a mighty stream, is to hope that the pope will get high with Jerry Rubin. The power struc- ture should come from behind the iron curtain, take the police out of blue uniforms, and put them in the Ku Klux Klan robes, Because the spirit of the Klans, now, permeates the land. Its spirit has taken the wings of the morning, soared throughout the United States, quenched every spectrum of hope and added fuel to the flame of hatred, White back lash means the spirit of the Ku Klux Klan is exerting ftself, and law and order means, keep the nigger in his place, Where is his place? In the belly of revolution. George W, Strother THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 3 OMAHA, CITY OF FASCISM This is to give a beief Sreak down of events in Omaha over the last few days, The culmination was the arrest of Dan Goodwin and me on a charge of car ng a con- cealed weapoo, The charge is based on the fact that we eavh had a pistol (registered) in his car while on our way home from the barber shop, As in practically every city, nothing is crimina? about a bust nessman carrying 2 pistol ba and forth to his place of business. But the aim here is to get us off the streets and out of the way, I am their real target. Regrettably, Dan Was along when they decided to make a move. A felony charge has been filed and the penalty can be $1,000 fine and two years in the penitentiary, Ordinarily, if a per- son with no real justification for having one, is caught witha pis- tol on his person, he is charged with a misdemeanor and assessed a small fine. non se, they have a number of things in mind, If they can make a felony charge stick. that will bar me from any law school, from taking any bar examination to pra tice law, from running for public office, The rea! fascists behind the move are the Mayor, county At- torney and Police Chief because of some pretty stringent charges I’ ve leveled against them in their han- dling of the case of the cop who shot and killed a young black girl on June 24, 1969. (A State Senator tamed Terry Carpenter may also be implicated, based on reports I've received). Here is how things happened: TUESDAY, JUNE 24th: Without Provocation and in cold blood, a cop shot and killed 14 year old Vivian Strong in the public. housing pro- jects where she lived, The cop's name is James Loder and com- plaints have been ignored. After the cop had been convoyed out of the area by other cops, some Windows ia capitalist establish- ments were broken, but no fires were set, and there was not much of anything taken, Dan and I stood outsid> a liquor store called k-Z7 Drive Thru (which was sub- sequently totally demolished by fire) and prevented kids from en- tering because the cops would like to catch them inside a place and gun them down with shotguns. Soon, on the scene came some cops led bya Lieutnant named Ruberti. They parked inthe middle of the street and stood out there with riot guns and machine guns, I approached Ruberti, explained that there was no disorder, that this show of force was provoca- tive and that those combat-type weapons were totally out of place, One of the patrolmen levelled a submachine gun at me, and others began forming a circle around me. Dan and another young guy cameto my aid and were given some bad talk, We went and stood onthe cor- ner to watch them, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25th: The fol- lowing morning, a group of sve + down to City Hall to talk with the Mayor. Prior to seeing him. I met the County Attorney going into the building and handed him a list of twelve eye-witnesses whichI'd ga- thered the night before at the scene of the shooting. He thanked me and promised they would not be intimi- dated in any way. (I had stressed the fact that police have a way of frightening off witnesses against themselves, ) The Mayor finally met with us in the City Council Chambers, andI gave him a list of ten demands growing out of the killing. The demands were (in brief): 1, Charge the cop with murder; 2. Immediately relieve him of duty; 3. Get a federal indictment a- gainst him for violation of the slain child's civil rights; 4, The city or state give the mother of the child $100,000 compensation; 5. That the Mayor condemn the unnecessary murder; 6, That complete statements be taken from all witnesses in- cluding the Black officer on the scene; That witnesses not be intimi- dated; 8. That white police be kept out of this area altogether 9, That shows of force by police be stopped; and That disciplinary action be taken against Lt. Ruberti for losing control of his men at the scene of window breaking Qwhich had ceased by the time he and his underlings arrived), The Mayor promised to meet with us the following Monday at Malcolm X Memorial Park so that all the community could hear his answers to the demands as well as other charges made during the meeting. (One thing of note: A 10. GOOD AMOUNT OF TIME WAS SPENT © INING THE DIs- PLAY OF St ACHINE GUNS AND OTHER GUNs, The Mayor denied all knowledge of their use or display, The Chief, who was present, stated that a Cap- tain gave the order for their use, and that he personally had had no- thing to do with it. At a news con- ference the following Monday when the question of these weapons was raised by a reporter, the Mayor stated that that was the first infor- mation he'd had that such weapons Wore ever out of the Station and that he knew absolutely nothing a- bout them. Had the reporter not asked this question,the Mayor said, he would not have been aware that there were any complaints about such weapons. (He probably had a copy of my complaint about the weapons in his coat pocket while he sat there and lied.) That afternoon, Loder was charged with manslaughter and re- leased on $500 bond by a judge who, from the bench, expressed his personal friendship for the cop: lauded his ‘‘fine record'’; praised his ‘‘stability*’; and wanted to re- lease him on his signature, In setting the trifling bond, the judge went lower than the suggestion of the cop's own defense attorney. In the evening. we had a huge turnout in a ghetto park to discuss, the killing and other related occur- rances, I spoke and emphasized that the case had not been properly handled, The charge of manslaugh- ter when it should have been mur- der, and the low bond demonstrated that, Ialso stressed the fact that the County Attorney (whose respon- sibility it is to file all felony charges), talked to not one wit- ness prior to filing his charge of manslaughter---even though I had given him that list of twelve. So the only version he had of the killing was that given by the killer), Before we had left the park ground, the burning started. Andit was with a vengeance. Every capi- talist establishment with a record and history of bad treatment and attitude toward Black people was burned to below-level, One pawn shop (where a cop lay inambushand murdered a Black youth as he passed during the George Wallace visit last year) was totally gutted; even Black ‘‘Christians’’ cheered THAT move, These were things we pointed out because the press and TY and radio refused to do so. That was the night of very ex- tensive burning. Some _ people called it “‘A Time for Burning’’. AUTOMATIC LONG JUNE 26th: In the early morning, 1 took pictures of the devastation and a number of police officers. That night, there was more burn- ing. Again, only greedy racist es- tablishments were fired. Numer- ous clusters of cruisers flooded the area and passed the barber shop spaced a quarter of a block apart. The cops haressed the peo- ple, taunted them, made obscene gestures with their hands and fin- gers, stopped and searched cars, felt all over young Black women and made themselves the PIGS that they are now called, Three nights in a row, they shot into the Panther office next door to the ba~ber shop and cut down their black flag. Many arrests were made on trumped up charges, Threats were common and fre- quent. It was usual for a cop to come up to an auto, place a shot- gun to the head of the driver and order him ott, saying: ‘This gun is my search warrant’, After humiliating the occupants through handling and “searching’’ they might or might not have them arrested and charged with ‘“‘abusing an officer'’. Everything went, and the cops had the green light from the Mayor and Police Chief to do **whatever they thought necessary’ to suppress the Black community, But just as there are still, dull orange smouldering embers in burned out buildings, the community is still smoulder- ing. A breeze will cause both of them to burst into fresh flames. FRIDAY, JUNE 27th: I called the Mayor in the late morning with some recomniendations, He asked me to put them in writing and have them delivered to him downtown at City Hall (he was to be tied up in meetings), I did so, and he promised to answer me before the night fell. Among the reccommen- dations were; that the judge who sat at the arraignment be disqualified from the bench, He had,during the arraignment, ex- pressed personal sentiments which would make it impossible for him to be impartial. I suggested that a quick date be set for a prelimi- nary hearing because we believe the city officials would have helped Loder escape the city and . - ; have no intent of bringing him to any sort of trial. lalso recommen- ded that the preliminary hearing be used to reassess all evidence so that the charge against the killer ean be raised to murder where it belonged in the beginning. I charged the County Attorney with negligence in filing the low charge of manslaughter without waiting to get all the evidence available, The Mayor called me and an- swered orally. He wanted me to keep my statement ‘‘ confidential’, I released the statement to certain members of the press. I know they approached him about it, but I don’t know what he told them, My views were very clearly stated. Before hanging up, Itoldthe Mayor I had been invited to Council Bluffs, Iowa, across the river, to appear on Radio Station KRCB to speak about the shooting and its after- math and give our side of the events since the Omaha mass media were not doing a proper job. The station is carried in Omaha, so that what I said was heard over here, We left that place around 12: a.m, (very early in the morning). SATURDAY, JUNE 28th: We went to the barber shop to pick up the day's receipts and my electric typewriter and our pistols (which were taken to and from the shop each day, Last year, our window was blasted out by a shotgun, and the police investigated without re- sult. One man stated that a dark police cruiser’s occupant did it), Leaving the shop, we went west up Ninney Street to 30th and the cruisers fell in behind us. As we proceeded, one of the cars passed us, slowed and drove along- asked me who i was, and I told them. (But they already knew be- cause people who monitored their side while the officers looked in our car; the cruiser then dropped back and joined the group fol!ow- ing us. Being aware that they were following us, we continued on 30th to Taylor Street where we turned east and headed back to 24th St. (Binney is 3000 north, Taylor is 4400, so they followed us 14 blocks before we turned off 30th). When we reached 24th Street and turned south (heading back toward the car) a cruiser cut in front of the car and stopped us. Two others swooped up in the rear. Then a large number of others began swiftly to arrive. Dan and I were ordered from the car with shotguns pointed atus. He was hustled toward the front of the car where the cruiser had angled in our path; I was taken to angled in our path; I was taken to- ward the two cruisers at our rear_ I was then bent over the hood of a cruiser and handcuffed, After being handcuffed, a shotgun was pointed at me and cocked, They earlier conversations on their radios heard them say they had seen me and were fol!owing). One cop, named Gibillisco, stated: ‘*We were told to get the big fish, and we got him.’’ When one of them reached on the back seat and picked up my pistol (which is registered), he began whistling and whooping. Others danced around him chanting ‘‘Oooh! Look what we found, Mr. Chambers is carrying a gun!’’ One of them walked over to me and said, ‘This is beau- tiful, Baby’’. Dan was being pushed to where I was being held. When he arrived, I could see the cop tightening the handcuffs, jerking and twisting the chain between the bracelets, Dan told him ‘e was in pain, The cop laughed and said, You’ ve got diarrhea of the mouth; we'll just have *» do something about that’’, I heard a call come over their radio saying that we were to be taken downtown in the paddy wagon. (My typewriter, in its case, had been placed on the street, and the cops didn’t know how to open it, One of them raised his pistol like he was going to break the catch, I told the cop who was standing near me I would open it. He went to the other one and told him, ‘‘Don’t break it’’.) The paddy wagon came and we were put inside; Dan being pushed roughly by the cop who had twisted the cuffs and jerked them, His wrists were cut and bleeding. While being loaded into the wagon, I told a bystander to call the Mayor and tell him what was happening--- because I had been talking with him earlier. Gibillisco said: **Call City Hall? City Hall ordered the arrest.’’ The driver, knowing how the cuffs had been placed on Dan's wrists found the roughest roads he could and whipped around the corners; he made sudden starts and stops---all designed to cause pain and suffering. We were booked on ‘suspicion of possession of 1 concealed weapon and pied under $599. bond, the same as the kin’ (who, by the way, has re- sted that the City Personnel rd orefastate him to the De- partment ithout penalty), Later in the day, ! «as interviewed on the rato and mentioned what Gibilliseo :::id about catching the big fish anc City Hall ordering the arrest. Monday, felony charges were filed. They hope to stick us with «a! least 2 years in the penitentiary and $1,000. fine. Their aim is pretty patent. A noteworthy development in Loier's case: The Police Union has started a defense fui) for him with $1,000 contribution, and businessmen fron the white community have pledged $2,200 more. Any si rplus in a similar situation’. So we se that they don't even intend to try to bring about a more decat and professional standa -d of police performances, To -_ cop who shoots them, 4 shoots a Black young girl to death is behaving the way an Omaha Cop is supposed to behave: there has been no official or unofficial con- demnation of their atiitude, Dan and I will probsbly have to appeal all the way to the U.S, Supreme Court to get anything like fairness. Money is what we need, in trying to improve our condition in this city. Since they know I'm not doing anything illegal, this is the only way to hush meupforatime, One of the Mayor's assistant’s of- fered me ajobas*‘‘liaison’’ between the Black community and City Hall, I refused and lectured him on how insulting his offor was and asked did they have a Jewish “‘liaison’’ and Indian ‘‘liaison’’? At any rate, Iam greatly disliked by the local officials, and this move demonstrates to me that they won’t stop at anything to get me, Even at the risk of appearing patently unjust and vindictive in ‘ie utilization of the judicial process to accomplish \ political ends, they are moving, agaiast us in an unheard of fashion. In the mean- timey we are continuing our ef- forts to obtain justice for the family of the slain child and tc insure that the killer cop is properly handled---then see what we can do about gathering Black and White support for some policy changes at the Police Department to pre- vent more killing of Black youth by the police, THIS IS THE lI TH ONE IN FOUR YEARS. NO PIG HAS EVER BEEN PUNISHED IN ANY OF THE CASES. Sincerely, Ernie Chambers 3219 N. . 27th Avenue,, Omaha, Nebraska 68111 THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 4 PEOPLES STRUGGLE IN SOUTH AFRICA South Africa has a very highly developed economy and has been under anon-stop boom period since 1960, As a result of increased British, American, German, French and Japanese investments, and South Africa’s ownaccelerated capitalist growth, a new factor is fast emerging. South Africa’ s giant combines have begun the export of capital into black - ruled Africa - and therefore to a large measure South Africa has become an Im- perialist country. For example, traitor-Tom President Banda of Lalawi opened a.$3,000,000 Sugar Mill in April of last year. The entire capital was provided by the South African Industrial Cor- poration, The same Traitor-Tom Banda awarded the country of plan- ning his new prestige capital called Lilongwe to a South African firm, The cost is known to be pheno- menal. NBanda’s Malawi alone. South African companies such as the mult-million dollar monopoly Anglo American Corporation (incorporating Anglo- Vaal) of H. Oppenheimer, have extended their tentacles to Zambia, the Congo, Botswana, Swaziland and other neighbouring territories. It is important to understand South Africa’s economic power, to fully understand the present transitory Phase of white South Africa’s security, and present failure of both the Pan Africanist Congress and the African National Congress to pose a serious threat to the ‘stability’? of the country, South Africa is surrounded by economi- cally backward countries - Botswana Lesotho, Swaziland, Mo- zambique and Rhodesia. (Lesotho is an enclave of South Africa), From the point of view of turning a blind eye to the South African guerrillas, Rhodesia and Mozam- bique can be ruled out, since these two countries have a common primary aim with South Africa - which is the preservation of white supremacy and domination, From the other countries, which are under black ‘rule’, the black South African and Rhodesian guer- rilla expects assistance - or in- terested indifference to his ac- tivities. The western capitalist influence, which is still very a- live in all Africa today, accounts for the present eclipse in the wars of national’ liberation, Banda, Khama of Botswana, Jonathan Le- bua Molapo and Sobhuza allow themselves to be held to ransom by bowing down to capitalist threats. It is argued that they should forbid black freedom fighters to use their territories as bases or infiltration routes into South Africa or Rhodesia, These territories - Malawi, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland export hundreds of workers annually into South Africa. Almost all of them are contracted into the level of sub-humans, a fact which any foreign visitor into the country is quick to observe, The tragedy in Africa is that it is perhaps the only other continent on earth - the other one being Europe, which is without a rey- olutionary government. Asia has Vietnam and China and Latin American guerrillas can look to Cuba for material and moral sup- port, During the second half of August and early September 1968, 33 guerrillas who had entered Botswana from the north were taken into custody and prosecuted, The guerrillas were on their way to South Africa where they would impart their knowledge on guerrilla tactics to their com- rades, Traitor - Tom Khama claimed that the 33 freedom fighters were arrested for enter- ing Botswana illegally. He also claimed ‘‘It is in our own interests to detain such illegal immigrants", Khama is perhaps right to contend that it is in his own interest tode- tain ‘‘such illegal immigrants’, The very minute petty bourgeois clique, of which he is the head is only in power because of South African economic aid and the back- wardness of Botswana‘ s peasantry, A, victorious revolution under a is not: marxist leadership in South Africa would quickly spread into neigh- bouring territorizs, The new workers’ states. Itis inconceivable that the new workers’ state of South Africa would wish to co- exist with neo-colonial states with- in its own frontiers, I have said that both the Pan Africanist Congress and _ the African National Congress have made very little headway in their guerrilla activities against South Africa so far. In addition tolack of revolutionary countries within South Africa’s frontiers (or indeed in Africa as a whole), a large number of black police informers has infiltrated the liberation move- ments, South Africa has increased its budget on state security and this year’s figure stands at R4,500,000, witha large proportion earmarked for informers. The other obstacle or obstruction is the continued cleavage between the Pan Africanist Congress and the African National Congress, which the enemies of the revolution can only continue to exploit and ex- acerbate, The ANC-ZAPU disas- trous action in the Wankie Re- serve of Rhodesia, about a year ago, was due partly to lack of any dialogue between the ANC and PAC, THOUGH SALUTING THOSE AN( rades who fell in battle, pointed out one grave error committed by ANC tacticians. The PAC cor- rectly argued that it was wrong to have taken on the might of the advanced Rhodesian and South Af- rican armies on conventional war- fare, and secondly that the peasants within the area where the fighting took place had not been politicized to understand what the real ob- jectives of the guerrillas were, So far, all the appeals for unity emanating from the PAC marxists have fallen on deaf ears, This tragic state of affairs is due to the almost total domination of the ANC leadership by the Moscow oriented Communist Party of South Africa, There is very little doubt that at grass roots level, the two organizations would like to see some sort of a UNTIED FRONT, even if this was in the field of guerrilla combat only. The elimi- nation of police spies, black collab- orators is of vital interest to both organizations, The only time armed guerrillas managed to reach South Africa was in June 1968. eight members of the PAC in trying to establish an infiltration route - The ‘‘Sobukwe Trail’’, and had clashed with Portugeuse colonial forces, killing four, were reported to be present in the Sabi River area of the Northern Trans- vaal. A combined (Portugtiese and South African Security forces) large scale search for the guer- rillas was thrown into the area, The population of South Africa is 19,500,000. The black population numbers 16,000,000, 8,000,000 of which is in the cities and to a large extent detribalized, South Africa's black proletariat comes from this 8 million. The other f.- 8,000,000 is in the reserves and Boer Farms, and still shows some vague loyalty to their Tribal chiefs, South Africa has an advanced white working class - in a tech- nological sense and a backward black proletariat, The blacks can- not rise beyond certain forms of labour. A special law, known as the Job Reservation Act was passed by the racist South African Govern- ment to ensure that the whites should never be kept out of em- ployment by blacks, Racist min- ister of Labour Viljoen said in Cape Town last year ‘*18 job reser- vation Determinations were in op- eration, reserving occupations and trades on a racial basis, Among the industries affected were foot- wear, clothing, motor assembly, building and transport.’’ During the five year period ended December 31, 1966, apprenticeship contracts were registered in re- spect of 40,935 youths, Of this number, none were black, White racist trade unionist Van der Berg said in supoort of this law “Africans should be allocated the jobs that whites refused to do, but at the lower African rates of pay, so that no Africans will be allowed to work above the reservation line’’. I cite these statements from South Africa’s racist authorities to show you some of the methods used to keep the blackmun ina per- manent state of backwardness, Let us now consider South Africa’s Electrical Industry. Of Africa’s electrical power, South Africa a- lone accounts for 65%, Although blacks are employed in this in- dustry, they only do the menial jobs, There are no black electri- cians or engineers, The blacks are only hewers of the heavy bundles of conducting wires and drawers of electric pylons, There is also a law barring blacks from receiving any training that may lead to them qualifying as electrical technicians or engi- neers, This brief description of the electrical trade industry can be extended to a dozen other in- dustries and the same conclusions will be arrived at. The technologically advanced white proletariat has vested in- terest in the preservation of the status quo, they have a high wage, a high standard of living and their jobs are preserved for them by their racist government which is dominated by the Boer bourgeoisie, which in turn acts as the policeman for the British, American, French, German and Japanese mcnopo capitalists, It seems highly un- likely therefore, that this privi- leged white working class would wish to join forces with the worst exploited section of the population for a long time to come, Now--can this technologically backward black proletariat bring about the triumph of a socialist revolution in South Africa? Al- though an advanced working class would be of immense importance in the embryonic stages of any socialist society, the absence of technologically’ advanced workers would merely postpone total ef- ficiency in the people’s industries or factories, rather than make it impossible for a socialist revolu- tion to take place. The existence of a broad national movement isof great importance and is highly de- sirable for a successful insur- rection to take place in South Africa, The Pan Africanist Con- gress has shown this potentiality, despite several setbacks since 1964, The PAC cannot hope to achieve a proletarian revolution unless it is led by marxists-cap- able of grasping marxist theory and correctly applying these theories to their own situation in South Africa, There is evidence that the new body called the Revolu- tionary Command within the PAC consists largely of marxist oriented revolutionaries, Led by nationalists alone, of a petty bourgeois type, the PAC cannot hope to create a workers’ state in South Africa, but some sort of a national bourgeois democratic republic or even a backward mili- tary dictatorship as in Algeria. The Algerian Revolution failed be- cause it lacked a marxist leader- ship. Because of the wide com- plexities of the South African sit- uation, the PAC is preparing it- self for a protracted revolutionary war, drawing lessons from all the revolutions that have taker place so far and working out its own programme in accordance with the prevailing conditions in South Africa, Given the present state of affairs, whereby Africans are not allowed to own immovable pro- perty, i.e., land, houses, etc., a marxist oriented leadership can take the nation from national lib- eration direct into the socialist phase under the dictatorship of the proletariat without necessarily passing through the extravagant and costly national bourgeois dem- ocratic phase, A successful revo- lution in its wake trains engineers, doctors, architects, etc, This oc- aN curs during the protracted phase of the revolutionary war - as in Vietnam today, making it absurd to draw a line between the mili- tary and the civilian personnel within the population. Another reason why socialist measures may not meet hostile opposition amongst the black population is that we do not need to go far back in our historical research to ex- plain. The African tribes had no immovable property traditions be- fore the white man came in 1652, Land was owned communally by the tribe and not a single individ- ual owning a distinctive part of the country, The farming method was pastoral - though each tribe owned a distinctive part of South Africa long before the Boers came, Today the government of South Africa has allocated 13% of the country for the ‘‘settling’’ of Af- ricans in their ‘*home lands’, The 13% is made up of the worst parts of South Africa, Even in these so-called home lands, this racist government reserves the right to remove the blacks if this is in the interests of the whites. Hense the PAC’s slogan of ‘‘Izwe Lethu’’ (our country or our lands)arouses full throated cries of Izwe, Izwe amongst the black proletariat anc peasantry all over South Africa. Implicit in this.slogan is that the precious lands which were once communally owned) must be»got back from the usurpers by what- ever means necessary. A marxist would be correct to argue that though the communalism of these peoples was the backward form, i.e, based on tribalism with no forms of scientific experimenta- tion with regard to land develop- ment, they would be far more amenable to socialist land measures such as collective farm ing. CONT ON BOTTOM OF PG. 17 Third World Liberation Front... ROGER ALVARADO SPEAKS TO INTELLECTUALS I would like to speak today most- ly about what the function of not just ,schools, but the function of students and teachers in relation- ship to the community and how that function is the direct con- tradiction with the purposes of fas- cism, the purposes of the capital- ist dogs who are dictating the po- licies and the economies of this country, and the purpose of the im- perialist dogs who are taking away the resources and the power and the money from the people, the Third World throughout the world, We must understand from the be- ginning that any instituion must serve primarily the needs of the people. There can be nothing short of 2 change within an institution when it refuses to serve the needs of the people. We must under- tand, as students andasteachers, hat our purpose in life and our purpose as revolutionaries is to take up the struggle of the people in the street against the common oppressor, the fascist dog who rides around in his pig car or the capitalist who is giving him his instructions sitting at the top of the Bank of America building. All of them must be eliminated. All of them must be eliminated by the people, The students’ purpose is to work among the people in the streets, The teachers’ purpose is to work among the people in the streets, to exchange the skills and the knowledge that the so-called ‘*intellectuals’’ have so that they can be employed by the people, provide for the people and protect the people. What's happening around the world 1s that the oppressed Third World people of this world are tak- ing up arms to do away with the imperialist dogs who are running rampant and they have been run- ning rampant for the last five or six hundred years throughout the Third World. What that means in this country is that the fascist dogs are going to come down harder and harder on the people andthat there is nobody here to protect the people except the people them- selves, Education as wellas power is going to have to come through the barrel of the gun, If they don’t understand, they are going to have to be ripped off. You have to under- stand that the man's mathematics is done in terms of dollars, Our mathemactics is done intermsof lives that we cannot negotiate. We cannot discuss with those who are not willing to understand the prin- ciples of power, the principles of self-determination. The people in the street understand the prin- ciples of power and they relate to it. The students who goto class- rooms and lock themselves up be- PIGS ON THE MOON hind chalk boards, do not under- stand, They need to he brought out to the streets. If they are not go- ing to be brought out to the streets, the schools need to be torn down so that they are the streets (ap- plause), Education is not a privi- ledge, It is a basic necessity. For among the people we cannot allow education to be dictated by the priviledge minority ruling c 2S of this country. Because they been killing us for far too lon; it is started protecting ourselves, bullshit, our brothers ripping other off in the streets. It's got to stop and the fools in the streets who are not willing to relate to it have to be educated to that fact. And if it is necessary, they have to be ripped off bec e they are either going to stand with the peo- ple or they are going to go down under the wave of the people moving for their own self-determination, We have to understand that when we talk about a United Front, we do not talk about loose unity. We talk about work. We do not talk about bullshit, about waiting on somebody to do something else. We are talking about getting down to it, getting on with it, and carrying on the struggle until we are not only victorious, but are able to insure the fact that all children get to eat in the morning, that all people have a job, that every- body has a place to live. We don't have to answer to nobody who comes out with some dictatorial bullshit just because they got a little more change in their poc- kets (applause). We must understand, as stu- dents, that the masses are our teachers and that the final test that we have to face is that of a revolutionary death in the strug- gle against the fascist dogs who have been dicatating our lives for centuries, We must understand that the only way we are going to main- tain our lives and to insure and protect the lives of our children is to act upon the works and deeds of the revolutionaries that have come before us, We must under- stand that we are involved in the struggle--not just on a local level, not just on a state level, not on a national level, but--on an inter- national level. We must under- stand that we are talking about raking all the resources of the world and putting them back in the hands of the people to protect them- selves. And when some people, like PL, try to come along and fuck up the vanguard which is lead- ing the movement, then it is the peoples’ responsibility to deal with the fools (applause). At all times and ai all places--not just he about time we got up and It's The just completed ‘‘walk onthe moon’’ is a culmination of a po- licy dictated by the U S, ruling cir- cles which is designed to turn the attention of the broad masses of people from their problems on earth. From the very conception of this scheme, under the Ken- nedy regime, the chief benefi- ciaries have been certain sections of industry which comprise the military-industrial complex. At a time when the American people are being taxed at ever higher rates to support an unjust racist war in Vietnam, an ever increas- ing military budget (ABM, etc.); at a time when social conditions for broad sections of black people are deteriorating (hunger, housing, etc,), the ‘man on the moon"’ pro- ject Can only be viewed within the context of the Roman ‘‘circus'’ events designed to ‘‘entertain’’ the suffering masses, In addition to this, the ruling circles are actively using this event to fan national-chauvinist feelings among the white people, at a meeting, not just someplace else where there is a crowd, but-- when a_ fool is walking down the streets talking this madness to a brother, you got to rip him off, You can't stand that. You can't let it go on in the streets when you are not taking care of business, He ain’t here tu stand on one side of the fence or the other because the fence doesn't exist anymore. The fence is gone, The dog does not understand it. He put it up there to -onfuse the people and he called it liberalism, Well, he has no more use for liberalism. He‘s pulling it out all over the place, He puts in Hayakawa, Hayakawa is supposed to be a Third World individual who under- stands the needs of the people, and all he is is a lackey, He seems to like peoples’ blood getting spread allover the lawns, You must understand that people like Hayakawa need to be dealt with and need to be dealt with directly. We cannot survive and spend our time talking with the man trying to bringing to the fore once again, the ‘‘Superman’’ and ‘‘master race’ attitudes once championed by the Hitler fascists. There can be little doubt that this inflates the arrogance of the most reactionary, most chauvinistic sections of the ruling circles thereby strength- ening their drive toward fascism, Let no one be deceive'l, under the capitalist system, scientific re- search is tied to the political and economic base, In the U.S political power is held by the big monopoly capitalist class which dominates the economic base. Sci- ence like other spheres, (educa- tion, culture), is subordinated to this class’ interests. Thust $34 billion has been spent by the state to further the eco- nomic interests (both present and future) of such monopoly interests as Pan American Airways (opera- tors of the launch facilities who are contemplating profit-making ex- cursions ($21,000) to the moon, North American-Rockwell, Hew- ett-Packard Corp. (Packard: De- THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 work our way through itis game. Because it’s his game, and he’s got all the pieces and it’s his own board. We must understand that if we believe in the masses of the peop", if we believe in the peopies’ right to self-determination and to have the power over their own destiny, we must be prepared to take up the gun, totake up the bouk, to take up whatever material things we need. In order to insure the fact that the people will and can have self- determination and that we will be actively a part of that struggle for the peoples’ self-determination. Los Siete de la Raza, the seven brothers who have been ripped off in San Francisco, are prime exam- ples, are a symbol of the kind of revolutionary work that needs to be done in the streets. The brothers spent years working in the streets among the people--all the people-- black brown, yellow and white peo- ple They worked to provide for the needs of the people, And as a consequence, the fascist dog iso- iputy Secretary of Defense), Such \**scientific’’ research serves the purpose of and strengthens these interests while subjecting millions of poor and oppressed people to further hardships. Some people are actively plan- ting the false notion that since the current stage of the man on the moon project has ben accom- plished, the ruling class will now be ‘‘willing to deal with the prob- lems of the poor’’ (Abernathy and Co.) This is a pipedream, Agnew, Vice-President, has already called for preparations to be started for ‘‘man on mars’’, We must poli- tically discredit and defeat the monopolists before they will be willing to deal with the problems of the people All Power to the People. W.H, Sherman PAGH 5 lates them and rips them off. We must understand that it is our re- sponsibility as the people, not only to protect those seven brothers, not only to protect all the poli- tical prisoners in this country, but we also must all be in the streets (applause), We must all come out of the institutions. We must leave the classroom and create a classroom in the streets, in the street corners, inthe houses, in the bars (applause), Wherever the people are, we must go. And we must respond to the needs of the people and we must respond to the fact that the people need to be protected, need to be educated to this fascist, and how it canbe dealt with, We must take up the gun in order to protect the people and ourselves against those who are not ready and never will be ready for us to have the power that we need in order to be a self-determ- ing and all powerful people, POWER TO THE PEOPLE! APOLLO 11- ‘69 The moon is here, now - tin pan alley's aid at last within the eagle’s claws Billions and Billions of our dollars made this their great Idiodyssee possible If living beings are there they need not fear (they won't be long) soon they will be saved! Just think, from an earth satellite, to Western Syphilization -- the lie of green cheese, replaced by the truth of white Supremacy THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 6 FROM Within my batallion an incident occured where a _ brother was practically beaten todeath by some of the racist pigs in the batallion and during this struggle shots were fired at the remainder of us bro- thers in protest of this and the batallion did nothing to apprehend the one who fired the shots RQt did they make any arrests the next day. If it had been a brother, that fired the shots he would have been court marshalled, busted to the lowest pay grade and then put in confinement for a lengthy time. The brothers over here are being made to cut their natural hair style in combat where hair is not the major issue, when the pigs are wearing extremely long hair as if they were the *«Beattles’’ or some ing, Next they are riding around with con- federate flags raised which is a court-martial offense and nothing is being done about these things. When the pigs violate the laws of the military there is little or nothing done about it. In the incident that happened the brother was left outside in the mud to die. Two companions found him just lying there, and carried him to the aid station for treatment. During this time the station was full of brass which A Gl began to ask questions which seems to lead to the indictment of bro- thers being the said cause of the incident. When the questioning began half the brothers were told that they would not be needed, where as they could haye provided vital infor- mation to this case. This all occured about 9:00p.m, one night. The few brothers that were questioned were told to re- port to the batallion commander the next morning to submit their story, this group was once again split in half, saying that even part of them wouldn’t be needed. Those remaining never got a chance to express themselves be- cause of rude interuptions by the commander, This I tell you is no lie because I’m one of the many who were refused their con- stitutional rights from the beginning. I was not allowed to exercise my freedom of speech. I'm sure there are many other incidents of this nature happening to our brothers over here, I have sacrificed my time writing home to seek help, I know I speak for all the brothers in the war. I would like very much for this letter itself to be presented to the public, so feel free to reprint it. Please, we need help. LETTER TO EDITOR ASTRO PIGS Dear Editor; Those who hail Colonel Borman and the American astronauts as heroes must be exposed. Colonel Borman and all the American astronauts were con- ceived and came forth from the womb of American militarism and imperialism and they were conceived in a diseased womb and nurtured and brought to manhood filled with the virulent poison of the imperialist and the Pentagon. as the elite of the military ma- chine, like Von Braun they were _ Selected to participate in a space program who has its roots, nourishmentand purpose in an im- perialist nation moving towards fascism, Like Von Bruan who par- ticipated in the destruction of Korea and/ or the napalming of Viet Nam. Typical of the boasting of their exploits is the following from the L.A. Times of 2/13. ‘*., Astronaut Frank Borman returned to West Berlin Wednesday after 20 years, His last visit was during the Berlin Airlift. ‘I came in amid many bags of coal, in the Berlin airlift, Col. Borman told newsmen at Temple- hof Airport,..’ ‘‘ This is the Colonel who was hailed and greeted and toasted in the Soviet Union, Little research would be needed to un- cover the same boasting of the astronauts while they were filling their quotas of missions against the peoples of Asia. The space program is filling outer space with transmission units which are used by the Pen- tagon for direct communications to the field units in Viet Nam, despite all treaties that outer space was not to be used for war, Outer space is used to spy and transmit weather information for bombing raids in Viet Nam. The liberals, progressives and so-called Marxists who are hailing the achievements of the United States and its ruling class is in the same vein as hailing the achievements of the Nazi rocket experts or the Nazi scientists who begain to solve the problem of atomic energy. Science is not divorced from politics. It is a weapon of the oppressor, be it in biology, in the gas chambers, ovens, operating rooms, in space or in the battle field, Tell me why the acievements of the American space race led by ‘*Ich bin a Berliner - Kennedy, a LBJ, a Von’ Braun, a Colonel Borman should be hailed as a glorious achievement? If so, we must do honor to Goering with the first rockets and jet planes, or a Victorio Mussolini whose bombings in Ethiopia were insigni- ficant compared to the ferocity, volume, duration and numbers murdered. The space program is a war program filled with Nazis, fascists, racists and anti every- thing down to _ liberal. No- body, but nobody with an honored history of fighting Nazis of fighting for a better world can enter its portals. Dialectically yours, Arthur Sava Investigations, courts, new Laws All Used Against The House of Representatives changed the name of the House Committee on Un-American Acti- vities (HUAC) to the House Com- mittee on Internal Security, The committee’s mandate was dras- tically expanded to give it a crack at the black, student and anti-im- perialist movements, Ichord (Chairman of HUAC) said it was hard to get anyone excited about the Communist threat any more, so he decided ona new stra- tegy. “‘Communism is kind of old hat today,’’ Ichord says, He warns, the People however, that ‘‘subversion is as old as the history of organized so- ciety. And the threat may be one form of ism today and a different form tomorrow."’ Ichordpromised that the new HUAC’s first target will be SDS March5, 1969. Columbus Ohio. The Ohio Supreme Court ruled that the court's chief justice be given extraordinary power to sus- pend the operations of any state or local courts during a riot or* civil disturbance. To Parents of Revolutionaries We, the young revolutionaries of today, are, as Mao states, ‘‘The young people are the most active and vital force in society. They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking’, It is all too often in our arduous struggle to write the masses and spread revolutionary propaganda, we find ourselves hin- dered by those most close to us, particularly those of our im- mediate families, I am a victim of a most un- controlled and unthinkable love, and in an effort to control my line of thought, my own Mother, who by her actions has proven herself a petty bourgeois and counter-re- volutionary, has had me incarcer- ated. The particular form of in- carceration is most ‘‘mind’’ de~ teriorating and depressing, asitis within the confinement of a psy- chiatric ward, Upon my introduction to the Pan- thers my Mother was extremely concerned about the time involved in being a member, and when I became seriously involved in a recent student strike (I am also a member of the BSU) she repri- manded me harshly, for endan- gering my education and jeo- pardizing my ‘‘good girl’’ repu- tation with my teachers. She im- mediately ordered that I withdraw from my position as spokesman for the students or leave ‘‘her’’ home, I left. home and resided with fel- low Panthers, Soon after we ob- tained all 15 of the demands which had been presented to the prin- cipal, I later participated, along with several other Panthers in a demonstration in our community (Corona, Queens) to obtain much needed traffic lights. In an effort to obtain these lights I was beaten by a pig (the article is in the ‘21° issue of the Black Panther Paper) and arrested, When I was taken to court all she could say was ‘‘what about your reputation?’ And she continually asked me ‘*why do you sacrifice so much?’ I answer her simply by saying ‘‘wherever there is struggle, there is sacrifice, and death is acommonoccurrence, But we have the interests of the people and the sufferings of the great ma- jority at heart and when we die for the people it is a worthy death’. My mother told the psychia- tric ward personnel, that I was (1) a member of a disreputable or- ganization (2) I reasoned irrationally, (3) I disobeyed her orders, Finally, after accusing me and fellow Panthers of indulging in drug taking, which she cannot prove, she took me to Elmhurst Hospital, (where she once worked) and had me admitted, She has not come to visit me, and for a week now I’ve been in the same clothing. On Monday, July 7th, I will bedis- charged and sent to Los Angeles, California, our home, for she dis- likes my connection with the N.Y, Panthers, and Panthers in general. She also hopes to seperate me from my revolutionary husband, how- ever she is badly mistaken for no matter where she sends me I will have our revolutionary child and_ revolutionary spirit (and my re- volutionary husband will fight on.) My .Mother has completely for- gotten that I’m a Panther, andI can never be destroyed spiritually. Parents, must understand, we the young revolutionaries will no longer accept the demagogic svs- tem and its fascist way of life, If they feel they can suppress us they are sadly mistaken for with each new and upcoming generation the determination and motivation becomes stronger and stronger-- thus Revolution is inevitable! You, the parents of revolu- tionaries must understand that we will not stand by and watch another generation robbed by this capital- istic society. We know we have an arduous task--you parents must help, not hinder, for you, are as classified, the parents of revolu- tionaries, “‘A warrior that is not afraid of death by a thousand cuts cannot be broken’’, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE VAN- GUARD J. Coleman PIGS AMUCK IN SAN DIEGO The brothers and sisters of the black community for many years have always gathered at Mountain View Park every Sunday, On Sun- day the 13th of July, four pigs were in the parks area, leaving the other pigs cars in the parking lot, they would rotate patrolling the park, harassing everyone, When the peo- ple would come to the park, they would park their cars in a par- ticular area which is on a hill. The pigs decided the people couldn’t park their cars in a par- ticular spot so they soaked the grass down with water and na- turally the car brakes | wouldn’t hold, Then they stopped Steve Har- ris for some jive traffic violation, while taking the brother through those routine changes, they started harassing the brother to the ex- tent, where they started beating the brother. After putting handcuffs on the brother the pigs pulled their guns and starting shooting at the people while they were getting on, they called for reinforcements and about two hundred pigs moved on the park. They formed into a skirmish line and started moving toward the people firing tear gas grenades. A thrown tear gas cannister Tanded in front of a little sister about 8 years old and exploded in her face, Bruce Lewis, an ex- party member was shot three times once in the shoulder, in his chest, and in his stomach. The pigs had three brothers put the brother up- side the pig car. The brother fell to the ground and the pigs started kicking him, they arrested the brothers car- rying the brother and he died later. Also, one of the sisters, Grace Miller was carrying a young bro- ther who was only 10 years old that was shot trying to reach the Party office. The little brother died at the hospital. Brother Willard Bryant was shot and killed by one shot at point black range with a 16 gauge shotgun by the owner of “«Caps’’ grocery store, The owner “Caps” then closed his door and stood with shotgun in hand and watched the brother bleed to death. The people began to understand how Pigs have to be dealt with after seeing these things happening. Some pigs were standing around looking for some peopte to terror- ize or murder,about ten or twelve of them, A brother came up behind them and burnt all of them. An- other pig was shot six times. During the night the pigs had roadblocks throughout the com- munity; they were riding four pigs deep wearing combat helments and packing carbines and sub-machine guns, Sporadic fires were burning in various areas of the community, but there was more shotgun fire than looting, dig it. The pigs were ATTACK ON A GHETTO: Cops fire into San Diego's heavily black pepilaied southeast area S Shooting continued throughout the night. so wired up, one incident reported the sargeant pig had to tell pig- lets to pull their guns, On Monday the 14, about 9:45 in the evening, the pigs had the entire block around the office blocked off, and they broke into the San Diego Branch of the Black Panther Party head- quarters looking for a machine gun which they never found. They de- stroyed and stole our literature, equipment; they stole medical sup- Plies, the Party’s film ‘Off the Pig’’, tore up cameras and ex- posed undeveloped film and gen- erally checked ‘the office. About fifty pigs had the office surrounded with guns people have never seen before, The owner of the building lives behind the office and he was watch- ing from start to finish. He said one of the pigs suggested shooting this office up anyway. This morning, the 15th, one of our sisters was onher way to the church, ‘‘Christ the King’? -where we implement the Breakfast Program, She was ar- rested for not telling the pigs what year she was born. The pigs of San Diego are being exposed, They have felt the wrath of the people. The people have felt the power they possess, feeling that power, has moved the liberation struggle closer to victory. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE PANTHER POWER TO THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY United Press International THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 7 We Palestinian women are resolved to fight to the end for the recovery of our homeland! THE HEROIC The militant Palestinian women have made important contributions to the struggle against U.S, Is- raeli agression and for national liberation, Since the war of aggression launched by Israel with U.S, sup- port against the Arab countries in June, 1967, the Palestinian women living in the Israeli-occupied areas have, in defiance of the fascist suppression by the Israeli occu- pation forces, staged many large- scale demonstrations in various cities and towns against Israel's military occupation and bloody sup- pression, Many Palestinian women have been doing their best to sup- port the Palestinian guerrillas, Some encouraged their husbands or sons to join the guerrillas while others collected information on Israel’s military movements and brought it to the guerrillas at the risk of their own lives; some Provided cover for and looked after guerrillas, especially those who were wounded in fighting, while others took up mending and wash- ing for the guerrillas, taking up arms to fight shoulder to shoulder with the men. The following are a few widely circulated anecdotes about the heroic deeds of the Palestinian women, WOMEN’S BASE At a Palestinian guerrilla base in the mountainous region called by the people ‘the women’s base’, a number of Palestinian women receive military training. They have quickly learned the use of various kinds of weapons and the tactics of guerrilla warfare. The base is entrusted with the task of turning over the weapons and ammunition it received to the guerrilla combat units. The women guerrillas have fulfilled their duties well and have defended their base, Sometimes they were sent in small groups to perform recon- naissance and patrol duties. When they encountered small groups of the enemy, they often followed them and attacked the enemy by taking advantage of favourable terrain. Their work has won warm praises from the Palestinian guerrillas and people, When asked why they are so brave in fighting, they would reply with a Song they composed themselves: In the occupied motherland, our compatriots are living in tears and blood, The enemy may drive us out of our hearth and home, but they ean never make us submit. Hatred spurs us on to combat, heedless of sacrifices, We are determined to fight for the recovery of our home- land through battles and our indomitable will, EDITORIAL STATEMENT BY BIG MAN PALELESTINIAN WOMEN reconnaissance group, and the women guerrillas led by her, hid themselves in a mountain cave on the west bank of the Jordan River and found out with binoculars the rule of enemy tank movements in the nearby area. Onthe same night, Um Ahmed and her group laid a mine on the route the enemy tanks usually took and then returned to their base, The following morn- ing, an Israeli tank plunged headlong into the trap and the enemy soldiers in it were all killed in the explosion. HEROIC MOTHERS The Palestinian women who have been tempered in the bitter struggle have come to understand from their own experience the brilliant truth that ‘‘the oppressed peoples and nations must not pin their hopes for liberation on the‘sensibleness’ of imperialism and its lackeys. They will only triumph by strength- ening their unity and preserving in their struggle’. More and more Palestinian women have come to realize that the only road for them is to carry out armed struggle. Upon hearing the sad news of the death of their husbands or sons, many Palestinian women turned their grief into strength, took up the arms left behind by their dear ones and fought in their place. A heroic Palestinian woman un- hesitatingly sent her five sons to join the guerrillas after her hus- band was killed by the Israeli aggressors during the June war of 1967, Later, her youngest son died in battle and three others were captured by the enemy. The bloody crimes of the enemy filled her with hatred, Soon afterwards, sh resolutely joined the guerrilas herself, ‘‘In all circumstances, I will fight together with the guer- rillas til our country is liberated,” four thousand people from all parts of Ameri- in ideological debate, but rather to come forth another place. In these circum- broad spectrum of program which provided as she was approaching the village, rillas, . The Black Panther Party along with the been cut off by the enemy. She patrols approached, For sixdays Way that America can be salvaged, is for was very tired. But with an in- cognize each other as human beings and work in-arms, Through strenuous ef- own unit and successfully fulfilled At the end of the conference,the people WOMEN : ij 7 ism, the pi lice, Information was provided During a demonstration against 2 % h Die Po Pp the Jordan River, a large number of Ghazala and shouted at the Israeli : : a few months, Meanwhile, there is community Palestinian women are proudofher , . Mean- Fven an enemy vehicle parked in i7 ation of) police to be put into practice as and her comrades who carried out across America, military authorities arrested her she decleared , the enemy with greater hatred and The United Front Against Fascism Conference held on July 18-20 brought together some ca, Those four thousand people attended the conference, no to be entertained or to engage comrades-in-arms had moved to and make a stand against the rising tide of stances, Fadel had to go toanear- fascism in America, The people exposed to by village according to plan, But she found that itwassurroundedby SOME Concrete examples of fascism in the enemy troops searching for guer- _ United States, Fadel immediately , turned back d 5 been cut off by the enemy she other organizers of the Conference made every had to climb through bushes and effort to make the people realize that the only rocks, and hid herself when enemy Sei he phir eg 5: ani those who understand that the entire world ; is sitting on a death row, be willing to re- domitable will, she was determined to bring the foood to her comrade- é Ca on Wirt madre oP in common efforts on practical, concrete forts and with a heavy ol sgt on her back, she finally found her PYOgrams to combat fascism, her task, : * had a clear understanding of how to begin to NIAN PRIDE, OF.-THE,.PALFSUNI deal with one of the main weapons of fas- Israeli atrocities last Novemberin ON defending political prisoners, which is to Habis city on the west bank of he done through the establishment of National Palestinian women carried the Committees to Combat Fascism in America, Chaeale et nected tte treci There will be another national conference in occuparion authorities: ‘‘We are all Shadias! We are all Shadias!’’ , - * Shadia was aglorious Palestinian CONtrOl ( decentralization) of police to be put woman guerrilla figher and the into practice as well as organizingN.C.C.F. exploits. Last year, explosions re- in the cities as well as organizing peatedly occurred in Nablus city. while, there is Community Control (decentral- front of the Israeli officers’ quar- aac, . soe ters was blown up, It was Shadia Well as ourganizing of N.C.C.F. in cities these explosions, Having failed to capture Shadia herself, the Israeli relatives. The enemy’s fascist per- secution mand Shadia fight against N.Y. 21 stronger determination. She lived among the people and organized several demonstrations against Is- raeli occupation, She also blew up Several enemy military targets with time-bombs. Another Palestinian woman sent her only son to the guerrillas when she learned that her husband had died a heroic death on the battle- field. Having discovered that sheis the relative of a guerilla fighter the enemy threatened to destroy her house, Later, she bravely joined the guerrillas together with her daughters. Now 52, she has become an outstanding guerrilla fighter. She has successfully ful- filled the reconnaissance tasks assigned her by the guerrilla unit and has killed several enemy soilders with the mines she laid, AN OUTSTANDING WOMAN FIGHTER Everyone praises OmaFadelas an outstanding woman guerrilla fighter for her courage in battle and her A WOMEN RECONNAISSANCE>oundless loyalty to the revolution. GROUP Boom! The explosion of a mine Shook the earth and in the heavy smoke, an Israeli tank was blown up. It was another successful op- eration, This mine was exploded by a Palestinian women reconnaissance group. One day in January this year. Um Ahmed. leader of this Once, Fadel was assigned to pur- chase food for the guerrillas inthe mountainous areas in occupied Palestine, In civilian dress, she went down from the temporary base on the mountains to the villagees, But when Fadel brought the food back to the base, she found nobody there, She arrived at the conclusion that something ur- gent must have happened and her Shadia was a 19-year old young Palestinian woman. Many years ago, she was forced toleave her home town and _ reside in Nablus city as a refugee. The national catastrophe of the Pal- estinian people had sown the seed of hatred deeply in the heart of young Shadia, During the June war of 1967, her second home town was occupied by the Israeli aggressors. This made it im- possible for her to continue her study in peace. She left Ain sShams University in Cairo and joined ‘*Al-Fatah’’ (the Palestine Nat- ional Liberation Movement,), She took part in several military op- erations in the occupied areas and successfully fulfilled the tasks as- signed her by ‘Al-Fatah’’?. Un- fortunately she fell in battle last November, Although Shadia was dead, more and more Palestiniam dead, more and more Palestinian women are now fighting like Shadia on the battlefield. Holding high the banner of armed struggle, the heroic Palestinian women are forging ahead along the bright path BAIL MONEY NEEDED SEND TO BLACK PANTHER PARTY BOX 1224 BROOKLYN 11202 NEW YORK THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 8 YOUNG PATRIOTS AT UFAF CONFERENCE Preacher Man, Young Patrio's Saturday, July 19 Field Secretary, Listen here, I’m gonna say it, Turn off your tape recorders, Lis- ten here, out there motherfucker, FREE HUEY, We have. nessage from the peo- ple and the m-ssage from the peo- ple reads: ‘‘To you astro-pigs: ‘The moon belongs to the people’’. We have another message to PL and that message reads, ‘*PL, and Oakland City Council, Chicago City Council and the government of the United States, are all paper pigs’. Now, we have come from Chi town and we come froma monster. And the jaws of the monster in Chicago are grinding up the flesh and spitting out the blood of the poor and oppressed people, the blacks in the Southside, the West- side; the browns in the Northside; and the reds and the yellows; and yes, the whites - white oppressed people, You talk about have any white people before ever known what oppression is? Come to up- town Chicago. Five pig cars ona square block. White pigs mur- dering, brutalizing white brothers. Is it? Is it? Is it? We say, we talk to people a lot, and they say, ‘¢You hillbillies ain't planning on picking up a gun or anything, are ya? I mean, that one you brought down from Kentucky, or North Carolina.’’ And we say to ’em, ‘Listen here, why, youknow, a gun ain't nothing’, you know, A gun on the side of a pig means twothings: it means racism and it means cap- italism. And the gun on the side of a revolutionary, on the side of the people, means solidarity and socialism, Right on? Now who in here and who out there is gonna let the motherfucker with the gun shootin’ capitalism and racism outshoot the people? Who’s gonna do it? Who is the racist dog? Let him walk up here and let me bite his head off. Let me get a hold of that son-of-a-bitch and you can beep it out if you want to, And beep out Johnny Cash, you know, cause he tells the truth. When I get in front of McClellan, on behalfof the Southern people, on behalf of all people, I’m gonna bite his head off, and spit it in Nixon’s face, Understand where we're comin’ from when we talk about freein’ Preacherman, Field Secretary of the Young Patriots political prisoners, Because when we talk about that, we talking about concentration camps like Folsom Prison, San Quentin, Cook County Jail in Chicago and Statesville and we’ re talking about the Chairmanof the Black Panther Party in Il- linois, my brother, who was sent down the river for 2 to 5 yearsfor supposedly stealing $71 worth ofice cream. Now, listen here, and Isay this, see, because I think we have to deal straight, see and the judge who sent that brother is a nigger. Free all political prisoners. We said to the city of Chicago, “This is what we said to ‘em. Mayor Daley declared a war on gangs, you know, so we said, ‘‘We didn’t know anygangsfed 4,000 hun- gry children a_week.’’ And Mayor Daley's talking about ‘feeding the hungry if he can find them,’’ And the people know they're there be- cause that’s the people. We stood up to lame-brained Daley, and we said, ‘Look here, man, you sent Chairman Fred off on 2 to 5 years and we got together, the Young Lords, the Young Patriots and the Black Panther Party in Illinois, we said, ‘Now, what are we gonnado?”’ We said, ‘We’ re gonna intensify the struggle, motherfucker,’ We also said, ‘“‘If Chairman Fred don’t get sent down the river, if I get blowed away, or if I don’t get blowed away, we still gonna intensify the struggle’. So, what did Mayor Daley do after shakin’ in his boots and oinkin’ right on, right on. "Now ya talk about fascism, I'll tell you that since we all been in the Patriots the pigs don’t like it, You know that people being fed in uptown Chicago were the southern whites cause they don’t want tosee any riot in a southern white ghetto. They don’t want to see that. You know, that’d wipe that moon shot off the front page, you know. For- get about that moon, It’s here. Since we been in this thing, and really, we’ve been in it all our WOMEN FOR PEACE Crass oF Service This is a fast message unless its deferred char- acter is indicated by the proper symbol. WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM The filing time shown in the date line on domestic telegrams is LOCAL TIME at point of origin. Time of receipt is LOCAL TIME at point of destination SYMBOLS DL=Day Letter NL=Night Letter International LT =Letter Telegram 924A PDT JUL 17 69 LADSS L SFBO39 IV MIN NL PDF SAN FRANCISCO CALIF 16 UFAF CONFERENCE HEADQUARTERS 3106 SHATTUCK AVE BERKELEY CALIF BLACK PANTHER PARTY CONGRATULATIONS TO THE BPP AND ASSOCIATES IN THIS FIRST COLLECTIVE STEP TO EXPOSE AND HOPEFULLY TO CHANGE THE FASCIST POLICIES IN THIS COUNTRY. WE JOIN IN COMPLETE SUPPORT OF THIS URGENT ENDEAVOR DRAFT RESISTANCE COMMITTEE, SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN FOR PEACE, SF1201(R2-65) lives, coming from the South and comin’ from the damn coal mines, mill towns, and some of them down there ain’t even up to capitalism yet. They're still back, way back to feudalism or something, you know. But, a Chicago pig, he has a loud oink, but let me tell you, you know, the people from the south, the white brothers and the black borthers, we’ve been to a lot of hog kill- ings in our lives and I don’t know, but a lot of experience there and I think about ol’ Hammerhead Super- pig Hoover. You know, he’s old, He’s an old pig, man, He’s so old, I don’t even want to eat them chitterlings out of that mother- fucker. Fuck it. Our struggle is beyond compre- hension to me sometimes and! felt for a long time and otherbrothers, in uptown felt that poor whites was (and maybe we felt wrongly, but we felt it) was forgotten, and that cer- tain places we walked there were certain organizations that nobody saw us until we met the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and they met us. And we said, «‘Let’s put that theory into prac- tice about riddin’ ourselves ofthat racism,’’ You see, otherwise, otherwise to us, freeing politi- cal prisoners would be hypocrisy. That’s what it'd be. We want to stand by our brothers, dig? And, I don’t know. I'd even like to say something to church people, I think one of the brothers last night said, “Jesus Christ was a bad mother- fucker.’’ Man, we all don’t want to go that route, understand, He laid back and he said, ‘Put that fuckin’ nail right there man, That's the People’s nail. I’m takin’ it.’’ But we’ ve gone beyond it, and all we’ ve got to say from the Young Patriots, where we come from, wherewe’ re goin’ is to all of you, and thousands of others here and all over the world, All we got to say is ‘*All Power Belongs To The People,’ Red Power to Sittin’ Bull, to Ger- onimo, .Kathy Riteger in Uptown. And yellow power to Ho Chi Minh and Mao and the National Lib- eration Front, And Brown Power to Fidel and Che and the Young Lords and La Raza and Tijerina. And Black Power tothe Black Pan- ther Party. And white power tothe Young Lords and all other white revolutionaries, Whether the pigs or the pig power structure likes it or not, fuck it. P.F.P. Asks for Arrest of Officer The Alameda County Peace) and Freedom Party this weekend asked for the arrest of a Berkeley policeman on a charge of murder. They also asked for the arrest of the Berkeley mayor, vice mayor, city manager and chief of police as “‘accomplices” and of the arrest of two other policemen for ‘‘attempted murder” and ‘accessory to murder.”” A statement circulated by the PFP county co-ordinating com- mittee referred to the slaying by Berkeley police July 10 of a 16-year-old youth accused of armed robbery following a police stakeout\and..an armed robbery in south Berkeley. | The PFP statement considers jthe shooting of Oswald Sanders “murder” and claims Police- man Ralph Weule: who shot San- ders, should be charged with “murdering” the presumed felon, that Police Officer Dave Byron, who shot twice at, him, should be charged with ‘‘at- tempted murder,” and that Police Lt, Joseph Hill be ar- rested as an “accessory.” | The PFP statement that Berkeley police and Cits | Hall are involved in “a con- claims \spiracy to murder black peo- ple.” Free all political prisoners, (ap- plause). It’s the feeling of SDS that the repression that the student move- ment is facing obviously is not nearly as severe as the repression that’ the Vietnamese people are facing, that the repression and the fascism that the black people, and the brown people, and all the people colonized within this im- perialist country who are fighting for their liberation are facing, And we feel, and this is the most important thing that we can say, that what’s happening on the cam- puses is only integrally tied with what’s happening to the people who are oppressed within the United States and throughout the world by the system of imperialism and its fascist, terroristic repression. The fight that’s being waged onthe campuses, when it’s waged solely on the campuses, is a fight that can end up only on the cam- puses, That’s not where we're at at all. That’s not where we, as ay organization of young revolu- tionaries, are trying to move the student movement. We are trying to link it up with the working class movement, with support for the right of self-determination of black and brown people in this coun- try and all people oppressed and colonized by U.S. imperialism throughout the world as the pri- mary key upon which we're trying to build our movement, Now, there’s this McClellan Committee, There’s these other committees in Washington, there’s local committees all around the country that are keeping their eye on us almost to the extent, the Same as they’re keeping it on organizations like the Black Pan- ther Party, or the other inter- national proletarian revolutionary organizations in this country, The repression that we have faced so far has been slight. Even if the laws that the McClellan Committee and the other fascist congressional committees are trying to put for- ward are passed, the repression that we are facing will still be nothing compared to the repression that the colonized people have been facing for centuries. Our fight against those committees must be won of ever increased struggle, ever increased militancy, ever in- creased alliances with the working class, with the colonized people, the people oppressed by U.S. im- perialism and its fascism, That’s our strategy. That's our strategy for dealing with McClellan, We don’t care that he’s got a big board. Some of you may have seen a picture of it. It’s got the names of all the SDS people on the cam- puses in the regions, in the na- ional structure, just like the ‘Battle of Algiers’’ where they iad that board set up. We don’t care that he and that committee are proposing new laws, Our re- sponse to those new laws in going 70 be to come back this fall on the campuses after a summer of building, organizing projects with revolutionary working-class youth throughout this country. Our pro- gram is going to be to come back on the campuses this fall and hit them harder than they've ever been hit before. We’re starting off on October ll in Chicago, Last year, our most militant confrontation with the pig power structure around the war THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 9 JEFF JONES AT THE CONFERENCE Jeff Jones of SDS was at the time of the Democra- tic Convention, Now there’s eight revolutionaries on trial for or- ganizing that demonstration, They're trying to slow us down, That's the time for us to go back even harder, stronger than we were last summer, October eleventh, Give everybody a chance who's doing organizing this summer, try- ing to reach working class young People to get them to come to Chicago and fight in the interna- tional struggle; to get them to pull students off of the campuses the second and third week of the semester around demands like: Free all political prisoners, U.S. occupation troops out of Vietnam, the black and brown communities and off the schools. (applause) It's around those kinds of poli- ties: revolutionary, anti-imper- ialist, anti-fascist politics that the student movement must build; de- mands that are going to definitely be raised this fall for the open admissions to these schools for the colonized people who have been denied access to even those in- stitutions under capitalism, We must wage those demands, conti- nue to wage those demands in the tradition of the San Francisco State struggle. Now, let me just digress for a second because there’s been an undercurrent running through this meeting about our internal strug- gles with the Progressive Labor Party. From time to time we have had to leave the floor to try to take care of some business out- side. Progressive Labor Party, after we expelled them from SDS, 6 weeks ago, (applause) passed a resolution which is called “Fight Racism.’’ It has three parts to it. The first part is okay. We agree with it. Everyone agrees with it. Fight pig institutes on the campuses, That's something con- crete that students can do. That's something we've been doing all along. Brothers and Sisters at Kent State shut down the Oak- land pig recruiters when they came there last year - one of the most militant campuses. The second part of their program is to fight expansion into the black, brown and working class communities. That's right on. We’ve all been doing that. The third part of their program is to demand special hiring of black and brown people in the service institutions within the universities. That’s like in the cafeterias, janitorial work, custodial work, etc. There’s not a single demand in their program for open admissions to the uni- versities for students. Their posi- tion is that if colonized students are admitted into these universi- ties, it’s not going to change the class nature of those universities, Those students are going to be bought off. We say that’s bullshit, We say that’s bullshit (applause), We say that the people who haye been oppressed and colonized by imperialism and fascism have the right to get into those institutions and by doing that are going to change the class nature of those institutions and are eventually going to lead to shutting down those institutions until we’ve de- stroyed capitalism (applause), That’s why we threw PL out of SDS and that’s why you should support us for doing it (applause), Now, we have to be honest. We have to be honest in our criti- cism, The struggle that is going to ultimately defeat the United States imperialism - the imper- ialism that is affecting the people of the entire world - is going to be an international struggle, it’s going to be an armed strug- gle. It's a struggle that’s going to have to take place in the Third World against U.S, imperialism, and in the mother country against U.S. imperialism (applause), We have some criticisms of the politics of the Communist Party. We think that internation- ally, revisionism ultimately is not going to help defeat imperialism (applause), We know all revolu- tionaries, especially the Black Panther Party, agree with our position, And we also agree that every revolutionary in this coun- try who supports the Black Pan- ther Party as the vanguard party at a time when they’re coming under the most intense fascist repression that any revolutionary organization in this country is coming under, must be supported by any and everyone. And every- body should support that. But we must be clear on how the final struggle will be waged and we must be a part of that struggle. Students must be opening up the campuses to the working class, must be going into the working class communities, becoming part of the proletariat and must be getting ready for armed struggle (applause), Now, I just want to end with one story about a particular bit of repression that an SDS person is facing because I think that there’s an incredibly important lesson for all of us, If we don’t hate capitalism enough by now, all these kinds of atrocities must make us hate it more and must make us fight harder to destroy it, We have a sister. Her name is Susan Parker, She was a member and still is a member of the SDS Chapter in Fort Collins, Colorado. There were some _ explosions around Colorado early this year ; some power plants were hit, The FBI came around and picked up Susan Parker on some jive-ass grounds of some tire tracks that belonged to someone she knew and were found near the side of one of the explosions. She was called before the Grand Jury and she was asked to pig. She was asked to pig on her brothers and sisters in the struggle in Colorado. She refused to testify before theGran. Jury (applause), She refused to testify before theGrand Jury inthe state of Colorado and she has been in a Colorado jail since April and she’s not getting out until she does testify or until we can find some way to get her out. It’s not just rhetoric, There’s reality to it. Living ~in America, living under imperialism and fascism, is like living in a prison, To an extent, everybody except the bourgeoisie is a political prisoner and our program has got to be one big jail break (applause), Free all political prisoners, Free Huey, Power to the people. THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 10 ATTY BILL KUNTSLER SPEAKS © AT UFAF CONFERENCE Tonight, I was asked to talk about the right to self defense froma legal point of view. And because I'm not wholly a lawyer inthe non- political sense, I want to talk a- bout it from two points of view - legal and political. The law is sim- ple. The law is that every man has the right in every state to defend his home, his life, person, and the lives and persons of those he loves or has the duty to pro- tect from any molestation by any person - whether he’s wearing a uniform or not, That’s the law. It’s a simple law, It’s in existence in the state of California, in the state of New York and all of the states in between and out to Ha- waii and up to Alaska. Now from the political point of view, the black communities around the United States have learned and hopefully many more will learn that this is a political weapon as well as a legal wea- pon, It does no good to hear a lawyer tell you that you have the right to self defense, and to not understand politically what self de- fense is. One community in the United States learned this lesson well, To talk about it, is to talk about Oakland, Harlem, Bedford -Stuyvesant, Watts and so on, That community is Plainfield, N.J If you will remember, during the Newark Rebellions, in Plainfield N.J , some 40 garrand M-] rifles were found missing from the ar- mory. The governor of N.J., Ri- chard Hughes, ordered the police to search every home inthe central wards of Plainfield, the black ghetto of Plainfield, to find those _ Missing rifles. Three hundred state police and city police broke into every black home in the cen- tral wards to try to find those guns. I'm happy to say that not a single gun was found. What happened after that was, with the exception of one more episode, which I'll tell you about in a mo- ment, the police structure in Plain- field has not molested the black community. There has not been a white policemen in _ the central wards of Plainfield since July of 1967, Now, the other episode in Plainfield which made it certain that this would be so, occured some weeks after the theft of the guns. One white policeman by the name of John Gleason moved into the central wards of Plainfield on a Saturday afternoon. He marched down a street leading under a railroad underpass and then he shot a black man by the name of Bobby Lee Williams through the stomach. Bobby Lee Williams fell to the ground at this intersection near the railroad underpass, Glea- son began to retreat out of the ghetto. He was followed by acrowd of black men and women. And a block and a half past the inter- section, he was stomped to death, In my opinion, he deserved that death. Now, these are words which I might never have said several years ago, urtil I lived a little longer and spent a little more time watching what happens in the black ghettos of the metropo- litan areas of this country. Glea- son signed his death warrant when he shot Bobby Lee Williams, an unarmed black man, through the stomach. The crowd, justifiably, without the necessity of a trialand in the most dramatic way poss- ible, stomped him to death, The reason was one that comes from 400 years, from the pillaging and marauding of black communities throughout the United States and the world by white power struc- tures that have preyed upon the ghetto the way vultures prey on meat. This is the sad story of the control of the black community, The right to self-defense legally is tied up intimately with the right of self-protection of the black ghetto. Withcut that self-protec- tion, the black ghetto is at the mercy of whatever power structure which happens to sit in the city halls throughout this country, The policeman, with the modern ar- mory which he possesses with his immunity, essentially, from pro- secution for whatever he does can only be stopped in one way - if he knows that he might fall like Gleason if he violates the rights of black men, women and chil- dren in the ghetto areas of the United States. There’s one way to let him know that and that is to be in a position to retaliate if the community is invaded, You have a perfect right legally to possess certain weapons, I won't go into the nature of each one, You know it as well as I do. But, in most states, a weapon that cannot be hidden on the per- son, with the exception of certain automatic rifles, can be legally maintained by you. That goes for semi-automatic rifles, Lacan matie carbines, ordinary les of whatever caliber, If the power structure knows that you are de- termined to use that piece if your community is invaded, if people you love or respect, or who are merely your sisters and brothers are being unjustly persecuted, vic- timized and destroyed by police, you have the right to use whatever forces necessary to prevent that depredation of human rights. It's hard for lawyers sometimes - like myself - who come out of the middle class, who come out of an environment which is one in which language such as I am using tonight, was not what we learned. But life teaches many lessons as most of you know, and after you’ ve lived a while and after you’ ve seen what happens in ghetto after ghetto, then you begin to understand some- times that fear of retaliation is possible (until we reach the millenium), the only fear that pre- yents those who prey on the op- pressed from going too far. It won’t stop them entirely - that would be asking to much - but it will slow them down, and in Plainfield it did stop them, It cost a grievious bullet wound in Bobby Lee Williams’ stomach, it cost the conviction for murder of a man and a woman who were convicted for the murder of John Gleason and who's appeal is pen- ding, Bobby Lee Williams, because he refused to testify for the state at those trials has just been in- dicted for an attempt to murder John Gleason, although it's hard to realize how you can attempt to murder somebody when you're lying on the ground with a .38 caliber bullet in your gut, which is exactly what the position of Bobby Lee Williams was, That case goes to trial this September. I would just like to adda few words before I quit on this subject of self- defense, The Black Panther Party, as you all know, was named the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, One of the cardinal principles which I have learned to regard as one of the most important because it is most important to secure your community, ( sometimes it's diffi- cult to march ahead when you have a fear-ridden community that whinces every time a siren goes down the street. Sometimes it's difficult to operate as human beings when every knock on the door might bring the pig inside.) Often it's almost impossible to live knowing that you are almost an outlaw in the old English sense where every man could take your life without penalty or fear. It’s difficult to live that way. And yet, as most of you know much better than I, that is the way life in the ghetto runs in this day and age in America, 1969, If you have the power to defend yourselves by weapons that are legal, then you have the power to start to rid the ghetto of the overriding fear of invasion that paralizes much action. You have the power to put an end to one of the chief draw- backs of all black communitites - the control of the black community by white policemen, So, I say to you, and I’m speaking both as a lawyer and as a human being that what I’m advocating here is per- fectly legal, it's perfectly in the American tradition, it's in the tradition of all men who respect themselves and their families and their friends, and those who share their common needs and desires, that you must stand ready until a better age arrives to protect yourself, your community, your friends, your lives, your property and the very things that give life meaning. You must be able to stand aS a man, as a woman and if you have to, it is better where it’s necessary to retaliate than to bend the head or bare the back for one more minute, One more minute of backbending, one more minute of seraping to the voice of white authority is one minute too much. You cannot afford to spend that minute. You must stand ready to defend yourselves. And if you are ready - I hope that you won't have to - but don’t shrink if you have to, it is almost worse to be ready and able to defend yourself and to freeze on the trigger when the time comes, because then you will have told the power structure that they need not fear you, and you open up the whole sad trail of misery and depredation that has characterized life on this con- tinent for so many years, POWER TO.THE PEOPLE! Solidaridad al UFAF de Mexico 20 Julio, 1969 La Ciudad de Mexico El movimiento estudiantil mex- icano saluda la conferencia anti- fascista manifestando complace- ncia por la confianza depositada en el pueblo trabajador, Nuestros movimientos estan unidos en la misma lucha, El proximo dia vein- ticinco celebraremos nuestro pri- mer aniversario. Con saludos re- volucionarios, Venceremos Comites coordinadores UNAM | Jose Luis Nava Greetings to UFAF from Mexico from the coordinating committees of the Mexican Student Movement July 20, 1969 Mexico City The Mexican Student Movement greets the anti-fascist conference, We agree with the confidence you have placed in the working people. Our movements are united in the same struggle. On July 25 we will celebrate our first anniversary. Revolutionary greetings. We shall win, Coordinating Committees Jose Luis Nava Message to UFAF CONFERENCE from Japan From: Tokyo Communist League Date: July 19, 1969, 10:20 a.m, The Communist League sends strong solidarity on behalf of Ja- panese militants, revolutionary workers and students, Today mo- dern imperialism is rapidly re- vealing its fascistic nature all over the world. We must together es- tablish our proletarian dic- tatorship to combat and destroy fascism, imperialism and all of their exploitative forms, Our struggle should be a violent one to resist and destroy the violence of establishment power, We proletar- iat of the brown nations must form a practical link with the struggles for liberation in the Third World, eventually to win in the struggle for world revolution) We will’stage an armed strtiggle to topple the re- gime ofthe Japanese imperialists this October, This struggle will be an attempt to establish a founda- tion for a common struggle against Japanese and American imperial- ists, Next month we will hold an international anti-imperialist con- ference to discuss, debate and co- ordinate an alliance for the future struggle against imperialism in- side of the developed of the de- veloped countries. POWER TO THE PEOPLE Communist League Tokyo Japan Field Marshall D.C. Ray Masai" Hewitt Ora Williams ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! You can do better than that, All Power to the people! Right on! Huey P. Newton says, ‘‘ Any un- armed people are slaves, or are subject to slavery at any given mo- ment, If the guns are taken out of the hands of the people and only the pigs have guns, then it’s off to the concentration camps, the gas chambers, or whatever the fascists in America come up with, One of the democratic rights of the United States, the Second Amendment to the Constitution, gives the people the right to bear arms, However, there is a greater right; the right of human dignity that gives all men the right to defend them- selves, As the black liberation struggle in the United States developed from a lower to a higher level, from a lunch counter sit-in in Alabama to guerrilla type actions all across the United States, we saw and we see the demagogues beginning their campaign against ‘crime in the streets’, We see the demagogues mobilizing supporters, the forces of fascism under the philosophy of ‘law and order’, the guise under which fascism is growing in America. Backing up the rhetoric of the demagogue is the “beefing up’’ of the gestapo pig police forces THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 11 FIELD MARSHALL DON COX at the CONFERENCE all across America, In addition, more and more gun control le- gislation, the guise under which the people are being unarmed, is being passed every day to take away the democratic right to bear arms, which in turn dehumanizes you by preventing you from exercising your human right to self-defense. Eldridge Cleaver said, ‘* The op- pressor has no rights that the op- pressed are bound to respect.’’ Because those people that own and control the institutions of finance capital, the Rockefellers, the Ken- nedys, the Hunts, etc., want to maintain their control because they want to maintain the oppression and exploitation of mankind, They do not have the right to, dispatch their fascist troops throughout the cities of America to brutalize and murder to maintain their terror over the people. The only way they can ex- ercise their right to oppress and exploit you is if you give up your right to human dignity, and do not defend yourself, We, the members of the Black Panther Party, say there is an al- ternative to fighting racism, other than with more racism. We say the way to fight racism is with soli- darity. We also say the only al- ternative to the violence per- petrated against the people by the fascist troops of finance capital, or slavery, is revolution, Many people throughout Americ: have not decided or even dealt with how they’re gonna deal with the power of finance capital as mani fested in those fascist pig policc forces. But, black people, unorgan ized,have shown through the man rebellions that they ain't goin’ fo it. Huey P, Newton didn’t go for it. The Black Panther Party ain’! goin’ for it. Los Siete de la Razz didn’t go for it. You'd better make up your minds quick. Because we don’t see much time left. Blaci people in general, may not relat« to the word, or the definitions oi fascism as articulated Dimitroff, but black people sure relate to the social practice of 400 years of brutality and murder perpetrated on us by the fathers of fascism. Huey P. Newton says, ‘The racist dog police must withdray from the black community, or face the wrath of the armed people.”’ The Black Panther Party has a motto, It is a quote by Chairman Mao Tse Tung of the Chinese Communist Party, “(We are the advocates of the abolition of war We do not want war, but war car only be abolished through war In order to get rid of the gun, it is necessary to pick up the gun’’ POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Patriots and Panthers Stand United Against Fascism The hour is getting late. Iwantto be able to talk to youabout some of the things that we lawyers have to do, I’m not going to analyze with you the political prisoners and Problems that the political pris- oners are confronted with be- cause you have heard in detail, and beautifully, from the various brothers and sisters who are con- nected directly with the problem, First of all, may I say to you. I want to make a correction, On the program where it refers tothe ‘frevolutionary National Lawyers’ Guild’’. Don’t kid yourself. Ihappen to be a member of that organi- zation, They are fine, outstanding fighting lawyers, but they are not a revulutionary bunch of lawyers, They are just as much a part of the bourgeoisie, middle class, as all of the rest of the professional middle class are, and they are not revolutionary! I want to correct that, That doesn’t mean that the National Lawyers’ Guild are a bunch of finks, They are out- standing, courageous fighters for freedom. They fight against fascism, They fight against cor- ruption in the courtrooms and they fight right down to the line. I just want to make that correction, I did not want to have the or- ganization flying under false colors, and have you under a false impression, that there are throughout the United States revo- lutionary lawyers in the length and breadth and the strength of the National Lawyers’ Guild, I want to also say to you that no revo- lution was ever carried on, no radical change was ever carried on in any country by lawyers. (applause) By the way, in that re- spect, I am no different than the other lawyers. You're going to have to depend upon your own strength and your own contribu- tion to the class struggle and the fight against fascism yourself, (applause) The lawyers will help. I want to say another thing be- fore I go into what I have to say to you. There have been a great number of lawyers who have come to this conference from various parts of the United States. We don’t even know just who they are, That’s why Peter Frank and Robert Truehaft and others have issued an invitation to alllawyers, legal secretaries, law students, NTEND TO PRACTICE LAW TLER' TO THE JUDGE.’ > R. GARRY, RISONERS AND HUMAN RIGHTS and those who are closely identified in the defense of these political and oppressing matters to meet with us tomorrow morning, eleven o'clock, at Robert Truehaft’s home, We hope to be able to work out a program that I want to talk to you about, and things to be done, Two weeks ago, I read in the paper, and probably some of you read in the paper that a justice of the high court of Greece was expelled from the bench because he would not go along with the Heil Hitler form of judiciary in Greece, And he was expelled from his bench, Of course, that cannot happen in America!It cannot happen in America. Or, can it? When the governor of this state and the assemblyman representing this particular part of Alameda County, and the executive secre- tary of the governor of this state has the nerve and the audacity to call into the state capitol at Sac- ramento a cross-section of judges, (both municipal court and the su- perior court), at a meeting and told those judges that unless they hardened up and became a part of the ‘‘law and order’? and in- flicted serious and multiple pun- ishment upon the so-called dis- sidents, that these judges would find well-financed opposition the next time they ran for public of- fice as a judge. The ‘‘San Fran- cisco Chronicle’ wrote an edi- torial about that. I’m sorry to say that the bar associations through- out the state of California did not see fit to bring the governor and the legislative body to task. I want to refresh your memories, in case some of you who heard Dr, Aptheker talking last night, did not hear him very clearly when he pointed out that fascism and nazism in Germany came a- bout because the independence of the judiciary was taken away by the legislative branch and the executive branch of Germany, The independence of the bar was taken away by the threats of intimidation against members of the bar. If we are going to have a United Front Against Fascism, then we have to get these judges, who were once liberals, and once were prac- ticing attorneys and had some guts, to display that same force of in- dependency on the bench. Other- wise, I for one, do not intend to practice law and say ‘‘Heil Hitler” to the judge (applause), I recently told a court in one of the many trials that I have found myself in in this particular county that I cannot in good faith represent a client when the pro- secution intentionally, willfully, malignantly and maliciously elimi- nates all Black people from the jury (applause), I'm still trying that case with an all white jury. I heard Councilman Dellums say that he is disgusted and he wants to quit. In’ the words of Huey Newton, when I say him some six weeks ago and I told him that the Black Panther Party had issued a call for everybody who's in- ’ terested in fighting fascistu, and they wanted his guidance on that, he said to me, ‘Be sure you tell the leadership that we hope that this is not just rhetoric and jiving, that a program will be worked out so that fascism will indeed be de- gtroyed before it gets any fur- ther than it isatthe present tins,” He said particularly that, ‘‘Field niggers like Dellums, and other field niggers,’’ and he said, ‘You, too, Garry. You are a field nigger, must stay in there and fight,’’ And that’s exactly what we’ve got to do. We’ ve got to have more Dellums so that this fight can be carriedon in a United Front Against Fascism and a United Front in the court- rooms (applause), I was discussing Huey Newton's appeal with a member of the judi- ciary the other day and I pointed out all of the flagrant errors that appeared in his case, in his trial. I said, ‘His case is going to be reversed.’’ The judge said to me, "are you kidding? Do you realize the times that we are living in? Do you think,’’ he said, ‘the ap- pellate courts will have enough guts to reverse Huey Newton's con- viction?”’ Now, that isn’t Garry talking. That isn’t Bobby Seale talking, That isn’t Kunstler talking. That’s a member of the judiciary saying that to me. By the way, while I’m on the sub- ject matter, I happen to know and I say at least four people that I know in this audience, beards and all, who happen to be agents (ap- plause), And I hope, when you're reporting the census of the things that we have discussed here to- day, you will at least have the temerity to tell the truth to your superiors (applause), The time is short, Let me get down to what we hope to be able to do as lawyers. We are hoping that the two or three hundred op- pressing test cases that are com- ing about; with the president of the U.S. coming out with the reco- mmendation that bail be eliminated for the people who they consider to be undesirable; with the tremen- dous stress that’s going on inwire tapping and all the invasion of your personal rights, your politi- cal rights, and your social rights; with the steps going forward with the state, judges are setting bails that are prohibitive like they are in N.Y, where you need $2,100,000 in bail, which is impossible--It’s not even ransom; where the law- yers throughout the country are limited to experience to be able to handle these cases of repression. We hope to be able to in the next 60 days to be able to have semi- nars throughout the Unted States, to have lecturers and study courses for lawyers and law students so that they can better represent you, so that you’re not limited to three or four lawyers throughout the United States, so that we'll have 1,000 lawyers to fight this fight against fascism (applause), I want to tell you that I’ve been speaking throughout the coun- try in the various law schools. The hope is great. These young law students are full of the same kind of vim and vigour that you are. They don’t like the system the way it’s run in a haphazard, one- sided, lopsided way any more than you do, And when those men and women become lawyers and be- come fighters in the same cause that we are fighting, some changes are going to take place. But in the meantime, we can’t wait for that to happen because we’ ve got to move and move now. That is the affirmative step that the lawyers are taking in this regard. I hope that the rest of the conference will have some affirmative steps to fight and combat fascism in the same spirit, Thank you very much, (Applause), THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 14 RON DELLUMS AT UFAF CONFERENCE Ive been asked to speak to you for a few brief moments this evening on the question of fas- cism, But while this conference is going on there is also another earth-shattering event taking place that I would like to speak a couple of minutes on, at least make a couple of comments, As you know, in a few short hours American astronauts will be landing on the moon, and they will take with them a plaque that is engraved with the words ‘‘We come in peace’’. Now that’s groovey if the moon men speak English, but wouldn't it be wonderful, wouldn’t it be beautiful, wouldn't it be groovey if the American space module landed in Vietnam and every ghetto in this country and they say loudly, ‘‘We come in peace’. We'll find ut tomorrow night. Several months back the Kerner report said that America’s basic problem is white racism. Iwenton record then and I'm on record now opposing that position because it leads youdowna trick path, Ameri- ca’s basic problem is not white racism, America’s basic problem is the hypocrisy and the contra- diction inherent to this system. Brother Seale said I only have 1€ or 15 minutes, so let me get my thing out. And that racism, you have to understand, is the mechanism by which we perpetuate and maintain the system, The beauty of this conference is that the Panthers have clearly identi- fied a very dangerous fact, This country is prepared to move toward a fascist position inorder to main- tain that hypocrisy and those con- tradictions. Racism becomes ‘he convenient vehizle by which fas- cism may become an accomplish- ed fact in this country, If you don’t believe me, let me take you back to the history books for a moment. Let us look at Nazi Germany as a country that moved swiftly and rapidly toward a fas- cist position, It chose a scape- goat and it attributed unto that scape-goat all of the ills of that society, It said ‘‘We wouldn't have educational problems or any political problems ifit wasn't for the Jews,"' ‘‘We wouldn't have economic problems if it weren't for the Jews.’ ‘‘We wouldn't have educational problems or anyother social problems ifit weren't for the Jews’’. Listen to the rhetoric in 1969, It is dentically the same. Our cities wouldn't be burning if it weren’t for black people. We wouldn't have high tax rates if it weren't for black people. We wouldn’t have to finance welfare programs, poverty programs, mode! cities programs, or all of the other factors if it weren't for black people, young white mil- itants, chicanos, third world peo- ple. We wouldn’t have to do all these things if it weren't for them. the rhetoric is identically the same. The situation is clear, Rac- ism is used to divide and con- quer. Racism is used to divide people into conquerable groups. Black people have been niggers government and we said, ‘Busi- ness as usual.’’ You tried inCam- bodia, you tried in South America, you tried in Africa, you tried any- where in the world. You must deal with America, so that we must stop America from assuming police officer to the world pre- paring to cram democracy down people’s throats when we have not made the American dream a real- ity in this country. It is you and I that must make America a hu- manitarian nation. So I don’t see separatism as a viable alternative to solving our problems, and that in 1969, we have a new nigger. He’s white with long hair and he wears sandals. But let us not fall in that trick bag. So that ina move toward fascism, racism is used to unite millions and millions of people who ordi- narily may not be in bed together, If the majority of white America is moving toward solidifying its support of brutality, its support of force, its support of the use of police, military troops, sheriff departments and highway patrolas a method of solving problems, believe me, we are moving a thou- sand miles an hour towards fas- cism and we have to stop it to- night. If you begin to look at the nature of this society and the problems inherent in this society, you find that we have been allowed to get into the ‘‘honky-nigger”’ bag, we’ ve been allowed to get hung up in the rhetoric of racism so that it does not allow us to deal with the basic problems inherent to this country. I say to you that black problems, brown problems, red and yellow problems are only a dramatic microcosm ofthe prob- lems that plague this nation. And that if this country is not pre- pared to deal with the problems of third world people and poor white people in this country, it’s clear that the historians will write great novels about the rise and fall of America, We have to understand that. Let’s look for a moment at some of the basic insitutions that I'm talking about. Reform pro- grams first of all will not solve our problems, That's like putting mercurichrome on a cancer. Se- paratism will not solve our prob- lems, Some of us think that we can go to five states in the US. and have a groovey thing. There’s a leads me with a third alternative contradiction built into that posi- and that means fundamental, basic tion because if you define America creative, radical, revolutionary, as a hostile nation, and you take (whatever term you want to use) five states, brother, I'm gonna change in the basic institutions ask you, “What are you gonnado in this country. We’ re talking about when there’s a border dispute?’ the economics, we’re talking about You see, but on the serious side the politics, the education and the of that, where is there for us to judicial system. run? If we as people who are Let’s look for a moment at talking about freedom and dig- economics. We have a country nity and pride and justice. Where that has become wealthy on the can we run? Anywhere we go backs of poor, on the backs of in this country, we’re gonna have cheap labor, and slave labor, both to deal with the FBI, the CIA, in this country and out of this the AID, the ABC, the XYZ and country, I'm not an economist and all those other alphabets thatfunc- I don't propose to stand before you tion as counter-insurgency forces to pose some kind of concrete in this country. There’s no place alternative, but I see my role as to run. We’ve-got to stand here. saying to you that the economics If other countries, if other people of this country must change. It throughout the world are to have does not work for millions of their necessary revolutions, if people in this country. It has there are other people intheworld worked for the few on the backs who must stand up and throw off of the many. In order to combat the yoke of oppression, then it's fascism with respect to the whole people like you and I who must question of economics in this coun- try, we must become hip enought make America ahumanitarianna- to say to white America that rides tion, We must get that monkey off around with bumper stickers that of the rest of the world’s back, say, ‘Support your local police’ America has assumed the position and ‘I fight poverty by having a of the most powerful counter-revo- job'’, by saying to them that you lutionary nation in the world, are in a trick bag, Let us stand America says, ‘‘You in another in the front of an audience of country decide that you will seek thousands, of millions of white your freedom,’ and the people Americans that believe the status did this in Vietnam and webombed quo is wonderful and say to them, them, burned them, tried to kill “If I take all your credit cards earn an income for 90 to 30 days, where would you be, white boy? You would be in a poverty line with me, Understand that,’’ And then he says, “Well, fm overworked, un- derpaid and overtaxed.’’ And I say,‘‘Right on! I can say the same thing about my people.’’ And then he turns around and says,‘‘The reason why I’m overtaxed is be- cause you people are creating all that hell onthe college campuses.”’ And I say, ‘Uh-huh, That's a trick bag. You are paying taxes because some 500 corporations in this country gross over a billion Berkeley City Councilman, Ron Dellums dollars a year and pay not one dime in taxes, That’s why you pay taxes."’ I don’t know what the economics ought to be, but let me say this, that as long as there’s a black child in the black belts in Miss- isssippi who can starve to death because of a lack of food, and there’ someone else that can travel around the world leisurely, there’s something slick and hypocritical about the economics in this coun- try. Since most of the people in the audience are young people, I don’t have to dwell on the question of education, You already understand the absurdity of the educational system in this country. And that struggle must continue; the struggle must continue to make that education relevant. We must also stand for white America that has been duped and brainwashed and says that when the Third World Liberation Front moves ona college campus or BSU’s move on a college campus back East, we must say to them when they free the campus to open the doors for anyone, ‘*When they make the cur- riculum relevant for us, it is also freeing it for you. Understand that, white boy. ’’ That’s the way we have to fight fascism, We cannot allow demagogues to play with us. They talk about “Jaw and order.’’ They only raise a black youth is throwing a brick through a supermarket window in a ghetto moving for his freedom and for justice, or when a young student throws a brick through a college window on a campus, But why don’t they talk about law and order about the crimes that take place on the 65th floors of Madi- son Avenues all over this coun- try. What about the price fixing? What about the phoney advertising, what about the false interest rates, insurance rates? What about the crimes that rape and brutalize human beings every single day in this country. If you really want to talk about law and order, I will join you if you talk about law and order that moves away from corporate crime, white collar crime, and organized crime thatis taking over this country. I think my time is about running out, so let me throw out a few things to you, I want to say some- thing personal to you this evening. I'm very seriously considering; I’m thinking very very seriously of walking away from electoral poli- tics. Let me give you a couple of reasons why. I'm tired of every Tuesday nights being Berkeley's nigger. I'm tired of being the scape goat for right wing bigots in this community and this state. And Pm tired of being the person that allows liberals to cop out, And I'm tired of being the person, when all hell breaks loose in the community, that they call around and say,‘Ol Nigger Ron, I know you can go out there and whale,”’ And he sets home and listens to it on the radio. Just like last night in this very auditorium, a gentleman said to me,‘‘I sent you a letter on a very important sub- ject. I hope you raised it before the council,"’ If we are talking about participatory democracy, then participate. Understand that, _ Don't call me on the phone and say, '> - “Go fight my battles’’. And if my role, being on that council has stopped other people from fighting for their freedom and justice, then I walk away, I just wanted to say that to you because I went in two years ag0, not because I wanted to be a politician, but because some people sat down and said, «Brother, we think your head is screwed on right. Go on out there and do it.’’ For 2 1/2 years I've tried, But people often get confused in their priorities. People often get confused about what the struggle for freedom is. The people start to get confused about what politics is, I will be no one’s scape goat. Let me close with these notes, Let us be clear in walking away from this room that there will be no freedom for black people until that red man on that reservation is free, until that brown man is off his knees in the grape field, until the Puerto Rican brother is off his knees, until every human being is off his knees. in this society for 400 years and ee es ~ = : a ey are and res e = to _the ese of law and order when FROM UP FRONT, MICKEY WAS THE .AND GAVE TO THE RICH PIG PROF- ROBIN HOOD OF THE RULING CLASS; a ieenes in RETURN FOR. SMALL HE ROBBED FROM THE POOR AND || FavoRs, SUCH AS CAMPAIGN CON- | OPPRESSED PEOPLE.-- | TRIBUTIONS AND A NEW MANSION THE BLACK PANTHER | IN 1966, MICKEY MOUSE, IDOL OF THE ~~ BYLLSHIT FLICK FANS, EMERGED FROM THE HOLLYWoopD SEWERS JO CAPTURE THE FASCIST VOTE AND TAKE OVER AS THE NEW | DICTATOR OF CALIFORNIA | BLOOD BROTH. ..-TO BE CONTINUED +--TO BE CONTINUED SAN DIE MOVES AHEAD Despite Continued Harassment The local chapter of the Black Panther Party, as with Panther chapters in nearly every major city inthecoun- try, is now feeding break- fast to about 100 school kids, The John Savage Memorial Breakfast (named after a local Party member who was recently assassinated) has undergone numerous — ob- structions, but is now under way--much to the delight of many San Diego ghettochild- rep he breakfastis being held in the dining room of Christ the King Church which is located at 32nd St. and Im- perial Avenue. Originally scheduled to be held at the Bethel A,M,E, Church, the breakfast had to be moved at the last minute. Some “unidentified” vandals broke into the church and virtually destroyed the files and equipment in at least one office. This act was enough to intimidate enough of the church’s directors into asking the Panthers to hold the free breakfast else- where, despite the protes- tations of the church’s pas- tor, Rev. Oxley. Eventually, the Panthers obtained permission to use the kitchen and dining facili- ties at the Christ the King Catholic Church, Even then, the police decided to getinto the act, According to one of the priests at the church, he was approached by a plainclothes policeman two days before the breakfast was to start and asked to “put the thing off.” The priests were not intimidated by this question- able act on the part of our “protectors”. At first the breakfast drew about 25 kids; by the 4th day the number had jumped to over 60 kids each morning. Panther sisters do the cook- ing and the brothers serve the kids and act as crossing guards at the busy intersec- tion of 32nd and Imperial. Another incident arose from our local constables on the 4th day of the break- fast. Right at the time when the most kids are trying tocross over Imperial to the break- fast, 4 patrol cars and 2 undercover cars pulled over the Panthers at the inter- section and _ interrogated them for half an hour, Eventually, one of the priests came out and asked the police why they were bo- thering the brothers, The cops said that neighbors had informed them of “sus- picious looking” people on the corner. The priest explained that the brothers had been there for 4 days helping the kids across the street and asked why the neighbors would wait for so long before calling the police, The head cop just shrugged his shoulders and said he was just doing (his) job.” Which is true! Hassling! But that job will be in- finitely compounded now-- with 100 vanguard ele- mentary school kids who know who their friends are! And the number is growing. THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 15 GO BREAKFAST ac NE \ The free breakfast for school children has now overed the country, This program was created be- ause the Black Panther Party understands that child- en need a nourishing breakfast every morning. The thing needed now for the program is donations: -=- r 2 ' i \ : § TIME ANDACAR \ 71, to transport donated food) \ l \ \ MONEY to help keep the program going ' FOOD — ) i of all kinds from perishable \ to canned goods b For further information about the program or cos § tributions, call the Black Panther Party at 233-1470 or call Coline at 286-6574. 3 <P LO AEP OT OF OT LE I EF IE LP LEY EF I THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 16 POWER TO THE PEOPLE OF VIET NAM ! America’s military expertise and the essence of her foreign policy have been thoroughly chal- lenged in the jungles of Vietnam; she has lost both struggles, The strategy of Vietnamese officers, comparable to that of Major Che himself, has left the imperialist machinery in a haze of defense- lessness, and, has given the Amer- ican negotiating position a sense- lessness beyond reason. Now, the capitalists are left to the arith- metic of war deficits , But the realistic texture of Viet- nam ismuch more than mere arith- metic, Its importance cannot be adequately measured in imperia- list troops and American dollars, Its significance can only be eval- uated in the regard that, for the starving peasants of Vietnam, it is a struggle for libe ition; revo- lutionary war opposite the largest and most repressive monopoly system in the world-the United States of America. In this respect, the National Liberation Front, armed with little more than acon- crete ideology and genuine love equal to the heroic character of the masses, has continually waged successful guerrilla warfare against the extreme military su- periority or American forces, For the people of Vietnam, it is at once a struggle for their home- land, for political power beyond repression, for their destinies, What is of relative importance here is Vietnam’s example to the remainder of Asia’s oppressed peoples---as Cuba has been to Latin America, The U.S, can not contain the Vietnamese revolution, in its fervor of geografically. The revolution shall be exported throughout non - communist Asia without a single Viet Cong going beyond the boundaries of his own soils, The war in Vietnam and all contemporary socialist revolutions are marked with in- ternationalism, treating national boundaries with the contempt that does the capitalist beneath the sophisticated ‘crack’ of the im- pertalist whip. have evidenced, ab- solutely, that united armed struggle and a political ideology relative to the consequences ofthe masses makes liberation inevitable. Regarding the example of Viet- nam, the American need to ‘ex- port’ exploitation will suffer great- ly; this heroic struggle revealed the true consciousness of U.S foreign policy, Capitalist interven- tion, by its very nature, can not possibly render freedom, in the revolutionary sense, to the peo- ples of Vietnam, or for that, any nation, This realization, of late, has brought the destortive rhetoric of ‘committments abroad’ to a position of subordinance, And what of American committment? Does it direct its concern toward the welfare of the Asian eople? Its alliance with the corrupt admin- PIGS BREAK INTO HOME & ATTACK SIX PEOPLE Chicago, July 3 (Fred News Ser- vice) -- Mr. and Mrs, Charles Petty a black family, moved into their new home in the all-white block of 7900 S, Pauline last June t, On the evening of July 2, while Mr. and Mrs, Calvin Worwick and PFC, Demetrius Murphy and his pregnant wife were visiting, 6 white pigs forced their way into the Petty home, 8th District pig Wayne Hei- man failed to produce a search warrant, replying that he didn’t need one, and proceeded to throw Mrs, Murphy, who was expecting a baby any moment, against the wall. Heiman also beat PFC.Mur- phy. Calvin Worwick was attacked by four pigs, and his wife was thrown to the ground when she at- tempted to intervene. The 3 men were taken to the Gresham pigpen and charged with disorderly con- duct and resisting arrest, A court appearance is set for July 21. isttalion of South Vietnam makes its vulnerabilitv to the will of the people improbable. The Theiu regime is well known for its moral a: spiritual weak- ness conce:ning the people. The formation of the National Liber- ation Front was, in fact, aided by these weaknesses. More than this, the guerrilla forces are constant- ly honored with new recruits, de- fecting from battallions of the South, Doulitess, any free elec- tions ia South Vietnam, if they are lint sabotaged by the -imper- ialist, will substantiate the comm- unist victory With this stably in mind, on- can only reckon at justi‘jcation of the American military +ffort. Perhaps initially,it was the ‘domino theory’, which has, to some extent, been validated by the unrest following the vanguard revolitions. But America has learned that the force of a united people is far greater than military bombardment, which leads one to question U.S. esca- lation, On this, it is my opinion that capital is the driving force beneath the American venture, though the U.S. has suffered fin- ancia) losses and has sacrificed her sons, it is probable that these came beneath the priority of con- trol of an Eastern market, In this respect, Vietnam would be strategic. But, even this venture has lost potential under the strength of a united people. Yet,America lingers on, Knowing that here victory is not feasible militarily or polit- NATIONAL COMMITTEES TO” COMBAT FASCISM In America I WANT TO WORK WITH THE N.C.C.F. AND/OR HELP ORGANIZE A COMMITT Hx TO COMBAT FASCISM IN MY CITY OR COMMUNITY. NAME: ADDRESS: CITY> ($$, TIME, OFF. | WILL DONATE? ically and her business venture improbable, the U.S. sees the in- evitablility of withdrawal; which is in fact the most difficult manue- vor, What is of importanc= here is how the imperialists would with- draw and disquise defeat, If profiteering imperialism will con- tinue, itis imperative that America evidences its worth, militarily, to dependent non-communists--es- pecially in Asia. Though the Russian reyisionists would at- tempt, perhaps, containment of future Asian rebellions in wake of the US. failure in Vietnam, the Moscow line holds no rele- vence for the Asian masses, and moreover, this move will awaken the entire world to the Russian- American fascist partnership, Thus, imperialist withdrawal ef- forts will contain many complex operations, Also, Paris negotia- tions make these operations more complex, America, plagued with its faltering military worth to the non-communists and its inability to adequately explain the purposes of the Vietnam adventure, tricky Dick has seen an alternative in systematic troop withdrawal, These developments, coupled with formation of the Provisional Revolutionary Government, surely evidences imperialist defeat. POWER TO THE PEOPLE OF VIETNAM! POWER TO ALL PEOPLE! Larry Jones NON-ORGANIZATION (_] ORGANIZATION, CHURCH, UNION “fC. EQUIP., ETC.) Davee wm om SL oe Ota Serense of AL: STATE: politic al prisoners Cleaver, Panthers Cheered in Algeria Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party was given the welcome of of a revolutionary at the Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algeria, Eldridge and members of the Black Panther Party were given heroes’ welcomes by hun- dreds of Arabs and Algerians who filled the streets chanting ‘‘ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!” and “AL-FATAH WILL WIN’’. The Panthers were accompanied by the officials of Al Fatah and other African officials as Eldridge addressed the people at Al-Fatah headquarters, In his address Eldridge related how the United States was the Zionist regime sthat usurped the land of the Pal- estinian people as a puppet and, a@ pawn. He said ‘We recognize> that the Jewish people have suf- fered, but this suffering should not be used to justify suffering by. Arab people now. The Afro-American Information Center at the festival is stocked with reading material and art of the Black Panther Party. ‘‘Right On"’, Eldridge, DEFENSE OVERRULED FOR CONSPIRACY 8 Chicago, July 9, (Fred News Ser- vice) Hoffman said he would later rule. The US District Attorney objected to the plea because it would reveal the identities of its undercover agents, It would also reveal the locations of the listening devices. An FBI agent said there is nothing irregular about concealing evi- PHONE: ADDRESS OF ORG, . LOS ANGELES, NEW YORK, NAT'L. COMMITTEES TO COMBAT FASCISM EXIST IN S.F., OAK. BAY AREA, CHICAGO in America. dence obtained illegally. defense attorneys sought unsuc- cessfully to force the prosecution to reveal the identities of their wit- nesses, Judge Julius Hoffman overruled the motion, He was also opposed to making public the evi- dence that FBI obtained through il- legal electronic eavesdropping, a plea made by the defense on which ZIP: Ce = ee ee ae ree See RITISH POLICE BRUTALITY Mr. Calvin B St. Louis, 42 year old Caribbean Worker from Bogles Village, Caricou Island, grenada; Now lies critically ill in Whittington Hospital, Archway, London.N19, He is suffering from multipleinjuries including ‘6 bro- ken ribs, concussion and internal bleeding’, the result of a brutal fascist assault by British police- men in a police van and in the police cells of Holmes Road Po- lice Station, Kentish Town, NW5, London, on Thursday, July 3, 1969 between the hours of 3:30-6:30 p.m. He was then charged with misbehaviour or disorderly be- behaviour.’’’’ These are facts learnt from Mr. St. Louis himself and from other sources by our Political Reporters. how did this-happen?? Mr. St. Louis who is a family man with 3 children booked tickets some weeks ago with travel agents---Toypetika, Kentish Town Road, London N7.--for atriphome to Grenada, for his wife Elvira, his children and himself, deposi- ting $33.16.0 cash, On Thursday July 3, 1969 around 3;00 p.m. he went in to the travel agents to confirm the booking and/or to pay the balance and collect the tickets. He was then told, contrary to the previous arrangements, that he must pay a full fare for his 1 year old child. Mr. St. Louis felt that this was not what was agreed pre- ‘viously and therefore rightly asked for his money to be refunded. After some discussion he was of- fered a crossed cheque for the refund of his deposit, He informed the travel agent that he had no bank account and would like cash. A heated argument resulted with the usual racist insults being hurled at Mr, St. Louis and the travel agents calling in the police. When three (3) policemen with a policevan arrived, the argument was still going on and eventually Mr. St, Louis was told that he FROM PAGE 4 South Africa does not have a peasantry in the same sense as pre-Bolshevik Russia, pre and post 1949 China. With the infamous Bantustan policy of South Africa. only 13% of the country has been alloted to the blacks, 87% of fer- tile South Africa is in the hands of the whites, who number only 3 1/2 millions. I have already said that the government can re- move Africans from where ever they may be. In 1955-1956 an en- tire peasant population was forcibly removed from lands it hac occupied for over 400 years. The Mamathola tribe, numbering some 500 families had occupied the fer- tile valleys of the Drakensberg Mountains, 30 miles from Tzaneer in the Northern Transvaal, There is however nothing unique about this particular case of the Mama- thola peasants, since forced evic- tion is almost a daily event in sc far as the blacks are concerned I merely cite this case to show how these peasants had become ¢ threat to the neighbouring white farmers, Each family worked the morgens left to it byits ancestors. This had a double edged effect or the white farmers, (a) It meant that the peasani produce (produced at a low eco- nomic cost since only members of the family were involved,) would have a low selling price in the market compared with that of the white farmers’. Retailers in the Tzaneen, Pietersburg, Pretoria and other areas came to show a would get his deposit refunded in cash but he would have to come back, Among the policemen was a certain P.C. 202 andall the police- men showed clear indications of siding, as they usually do, WITH BIG BUSINESS AND PROPERTY OWNERS, They spoke roughly to Mr. St. Louis and handled him roughly pusing him out of the travel agency onto the streets, when he objected to being treated in this manner, he was immediately pushed towards the police van, being told at the same time that ‘WE'LL HAVE YOU FOR DIS— ORDERLY CONDUCT ”’ In the van on the way to the police station he was called a Black bastard and assaulted but the main beating up took place in the police cell at Holmes Road Police Station, Kentish Town, NW5. It is alleged that Mr, St. Louis was pushed into the cell hitting his head against the wall, he was cuffed about the body and fell tothe ground. While on the ground one constable held his two feet while another (it is alleged PC 202) dealt him several vicious kicks in the ribs, He was unconscious fora while and when he regained con- sciousness was groaning loudly and complaining about pains all over his body and head. The police surgeion was called in andonsight of Mr. St. Louis without examining him, immediately advised that he be sent to the hospital. It was at this stage that he was charged for *‘misbehavious or disorderly be- havior’ to appear at Clerkenwell Magistrate Court, E.C. lon Friday 4/7/69 and was rushed to Whitting- ton Hospital at 7 p.m, 3/7/69 ac- companied by the same P.C, 202 one of his alleged principal attack- ers, At the hospital this constable had words with the doctor, Mr, St. Louis was examined as an emergency case and the doctor de- clared ‘tenderness over the 5th rib’ and discharged him at 9:45 3/7/69. preference for the Mamathola pro- duce, and naturally the farmers began to show their resentment, (b) Because of strongly en- trenched tribal traditions, each family was closely bound together. As capitalism began to be felt amongst these peasants, each pea- sant family hung on to the mor- gens left to it by the previous generation, With everyone work- ing on the same lands, for the bene- fit of everyone in the family, no one could be released to go and look for employment amongst the exploiting white farmers. This created a shortage of labour - since these whip in hand Boer farmers depend almost exclusive- ly on cheap black labour, As a result of their eviction, these peasants have joined their black brothers and sisters in the so-called tribal homelands, where they can only survive through sub- sistence farming, although the men from time to time are forced to sell their labour to the farmers. A black farm worker receives a slave wage of $6.00 per month, It becomes necessary for him to work at least for six months inthe year in order to pay the com- pulsory poll and tribal taxes amounting to $15.00 per annum, Every black male over the age of sixteen is compelled at the pain of a prison sentence to pay these taxes whether he is employed or not, Blacks from the reserves cannot seek jobs of their own choice in any of the urban areas of South Africa, they can only be contracted into certain lowly paid jobs. A small proportion of peasant Africans actually lives on the THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 17 PEOPLES NEWS SERVICE From Philadelphia, Penn, LETTER Recently, the Philadelphia Pig Dept. Pig Comm, Rizzo made a statement to the following effect: «.,.we agree a man has 2’ right to bail - once. First offenders should get a bail of $100,000." Any mentality to this effect is Since July, 1966, when the racist insane. The racism inherent inthe] majority on the bench of the inter- Pig Dept. is shown and illustrated] national Court of ‘‘Justice’’ at the in the following ways: Hague, passed a pro-South Afri- (1) Black people have neither the] can verdict in the case brought by ways or means to pay unusually| Ethiopia and Liberia, it became high bails. clear to the people of Namibia, (2) Due to the racistrecruitsinthe} South West Africa, that all the Pig Dept., Black people findthem-| dreams and hopes of acieving in- selves guilty for standing on their] dependence by peaceful means and rights’. They then realize the real] through the action of the United crime of being a human being and] Nations and its concomitant bodies, black in this society, in this city.] such as the International Court (3) Black people must never for-| and the like, had vanished. On get the jail house beatings, the in-| August 26, of the same year, dignities, the hypscrisies, and the} patriotic forces of SWAPO, ‘chargs~’ (disturbing the peace,| launched an armed struggle which assault and battery on a pig, con-| bears the brunt of effective re- spiracy, etc.,) and other assorted| sistance against any oppressive rhetorical nothings. political system, August 26, has In Philadelphia, the ‘first of-| ever since, been designated as A fense’ is being Black and walking] DAY OF SOLIDARITY with the down the streets. BLACK PEO-| Namibia, and iscommemoratedall PLE MUST BE CONCERNED] Over the world, WITH THE BASICS OF SELF This office is therefore plan- DETERMINATION, THE BASICS] ning to commemorate, for the OF SELF-PRESERVATION, THE} first time, in this country, August BASICS OF LIFE, LIBERTY, AND] 26, in the following ways: THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS!| 1. Demonstration: It is in this interest that On AUGUST 26, starting around the Black Panther Party will con- ll o'clock, there shall be a duct a community control of police demonstration originating from Petition, to be circulated the United Nations and culmi- throughout the black communities, nating in front of the racist all black communities, to control South African Mission at 300 the fascist pigs ofthe black colony, East 42nd Street, for we say PEOPLE‘S POWER| 2. Fund-Raising Event: OVER THAT OF THE FASCIST In the evening on that same PIGS! Rizzo wants all black, young, known, gang-members to be busted and held for $100,000 bail. If Rizzo was as smart as he claims to be, ser be silent instead of stu- | — pid, ‘The people know tha this whole: deal is a farce. For, recently, the pig press told of Angelo Bruno, known head of La Costa Nostra, organized crime, the MAFIA, who boldly strolled into the Police Ad- ministration Building, and just south west africa people’s organization June 25th 1969. Dear Friends: A fascist, pig punk in Columbus, Ohio shot and killed a black man, because he slapped his son. This fascist’s nameis DavidE Chesnut. FROM SOUTH WEST AFRICA day, a fund-raising event where more prominent-Namibians and African Ambassadors at the United Nations, and others will participate. This event is ten- tatively scheduled for 60’ clock at Fordham University, (Lincoln Center), In order to make this day a com- plete success, we humbly request you to do the following: Z (a) To invite your friends and organizations to join both the demostration and the rally; (b) To send letters of solidarity to SWAPO and letters of pro- test to White South African Mission to U.N., protesting South African illegal occupa- tion of the international ter- ritory of Namibia. (c) To send letters of dis-apoint- ment tothe Secretary-General of the United Nations,express- ing your dis-appointment with the United Nations in its fail- from the territory the U.N claimed nearly three years ago, to be its ‘direct respon- sibility’. Finally, there is no doubt that such moral support will contribute greatly to our struggle of national independence and_ self-deter- mination. We will, therefore, not only be grateful for such moral support, but will consider it as an indispensible contribution to our just struggle for justice, human equality and free Namibia. Yours sincerely, G, Hage Geingob, SWAPO Representative. Fascist Murders Black Man, Causes a Rebellion practice and to avenge the mur- der of another unarmed black man. The theory was acceptable but the practice was suicidal. strolled out. With a smiling Frank L, Rizzo, standing in the door, fresh from 4 meeting, old pig. Bruno is widely known, not like some unknown, a street brother trying to make a rep. We, as black people must make our own value systems! We say PEOPLE’S POWER! (Let Riz’ arrest his own murderous, treacherous, bro- thers instead of pampering them.!) Boer farms. To all intents and purposes the Boer has become the tribal head of these peasants, A system almost bordering on feud- alism exists between the Boer and these peasants. These peasants (or farm hands as they are called) do own small numbers of cattle, goats and sheep and are given the worst portions of the farm for their subsistence crops, For three quarters of the year, these African peasants have to work for almost nothing in return for the right to subsistence farming and He shot his neighbor Roy Beasley This rebellion resulted in the at least three times. Pig Chesnut mass arrest of 133, the injury had a grudge because Beasley's of 36 and the death of a hero who children played in his yard. This thought that he could direct traffi¢ K.K K minded punk broke bottles in the middle of a rebellion. H? and left glass in the yard to keep was George M. Stuly a patriotif the children out. Following the fool, The Mayor called in 1,20! murder hundreds of people took National Guardsmen, The cit to the streets in anger. The peo- burned, curfew was instituted and ple went out to seek some instant the fascist took over. the grazing of their live-stock urban proletariat numbers ap- from which they make a living, proximately 8 1/2 millions, es- In general, these farm-hands suf- pecially if we take into account fer the worst treatment from the the large number of Africans who white farmer and are subjected to remain and work in the urban daily insults and human degre- areas ‘‘illegally’’. So, in the sum- dation. Although they may leave ming up, the proportions of the peasants in pre-Bolshevik Russia and pre and post 1949 China re- duce that of South Africa to pigmy proportions. Another salient point to observe is that both the black proletariat and the peasants have no property right in South Africa, They can be moved from one place to another at the stroke of a pen, which is followed by tanks and other instruments of warfare. The black peasantry suffer economic exploi- tation more than the urban black proletariat, for they (the peasants) can only be contracted to certai types of jobs, such as mining. A the end of their contract they must return to the tribal reserves from whence they came. The urbanized and detribalized African works in industries which offer a higher wage.- although even his wage is still below the bread-line, a fact which is confirmed by.a survey conducted by the South African In- stitute of Race Relations. It is therefore not inconceivable that aroused to a high level of political consciousness by a party led by Marxists, both the urban black pro- letariat and the peasants could acquit themselves heroicallyin the their master, they may not move to the tribal reserves, they can only change one whip-in-hand farmer for another, Altogether, the ‘‘peasant’’ popu- lation numbers about 71/2 millions. In the cities, the black population - which constitutes the struggle against capitalist ex- ploitation. In this way, the first revolutionary socialist republic could be ushered into the African scene, by Sam Mhlongo THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 18 Solidarity with Mexican Students TO: Comite Coordinador de Com- ites de Lucha FROM The Black Panther Party RE: Solidarity with the commemo- ration of July 26th and the struggles of the Mexican students July 20, 1969 The Black Panther Party is in solidarity with the Mexican stu- dents in their struggles for self- defense and self determination for themselves and their community. We support their demands for the removal of racist, decadent school administrators and their policies, and for the immediate removal of the fascist, tactical pig forces in Mexico which storm their com- munities and college campuses with their show of force and reign of terror, We strongly support the demands for the release of their comrades who were made political prisoners as a result of their work to liberate themselves and their people from the clutches of their oppressors. Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther Party Minister of Information, makes clear our only recourse when he says: ‘ A connection needs to be made between the college campus and the community so that the the repression and the tactics of the ruling class would be de- feated by the total community being involved.’”’ This is because only when the students realize that their struggle on the college campuses is one with that of their com- munities, unite with the communi- ties, and together move to exercise their democratic rights in opposing the manifestations of capitalism by struggling against the forces of op- pression perpetrated upon them by the avaricious (greedy, exploiting) businessmen and landlords, the de- magogic (lying, deceiving) politi- cians, and the fascist, gestapo pig forces which occupy the com- munities and the college campuses, that a UNITED FRONT can be formed with the students and the community, ‘*We have to realize above all else, is that our enemy and that which we in fact are struggling against is not an in- dividual college president or high school principal or a Board of Regents or the Board of Education, but it’s the entire social structure we’re struggling against, the capi- talist system which organized it- self in such a way that purchases our lives, that exploits us, and forces us into position where we have to wage a struggle against the social organization inorderto survive’, (Eldridge Cleaver, in exile) The Mexican students have on many occasions exemplified their revolutionary ferver and proletar- ian class consciousness by working to put into practice this belief, The student participation in the struggles with the wo.kers and peasants and other members of the Mexican communities has won them the support of many thousands of Mexican people, The struggles of the Mexican students along with their people against their common enemies should serve as an example to all students involved in the fight for liberation now being waged on the college campuses the world over. These struggles to revolutionize the educational institutions not only in the United States and in Mex- ico, but in countries all over the world, clearly indicates the one- ness of our goal and marks the ap- proaching death of our oppressors, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Bobby Seale, Chairman Black Panther Party FT. DIX REPRESSION Fort Dix-The special courts-mar- tial of two members of the American Servicemen’s Union Henry Mills and John Lewis, will begin Thursday, July 17, at 1:00. Mills, a black GI, is being charged with missing formation and Lewis with assaulting an MP when he preotested the arrest of Mills. Both mencould recieve a maximum sentence of six months each, At the request of the American Ser- vicemen’s Union, Mr. Henry DiSuyero, Director of the National Emergency Civil LibertiesCom- mittee, will be legal representation for both men, Mills previously had served six weeks in the stockade after being AWOL since November when he refused to go to Vietnam. Mills has stated, ‘‘The black liberation army is the only army I’m in- terested in.’’ Lewis, an ASU or- ganizer, has written articles for the BOND, newspaper of the ASU. At an indoctrination class, he said to an officer, ‘You are my enemy, You talk about how free this country was after the Revolution in 1776. You tell this to the 50 or 75 black men in this room and knowing that their forefathers and mothers were slaves in 1776,’ Lewis was put in segreation following this incident. Bill Smith, ASU organizer, said, ‘‘The arrest of Lewis and Mills is nothing but a union-bust frame-up. The Brass has no more right to jail these men than General Motors has to arrest the workers on the assembly line when they go on strike. GI’s are citizens and have a right to organize. There will be ASU staff members and individual support for the men at the trial, The ASU will show that it supports its organizers and calls upon other progressive organ- izations and unions to do like- wise,’’ Avaricious Grape Grower Joes Cress Fascist Calif. Grape Growers Use Mass Media To Combat A Living Wage Every since the farm workers, who are composed of mostly Mexi- can-Americans, became hip to the importance of uniting and organi- zing in their effort to attain at least a living wage, they have been subjected to everything, from beatings to name calling by the governor of California. The latest maneuver has been to use one of the most fascist newspapers in the country to run an ad, The Oak- land Tribune ran a half page ad in bold letters for these modern day slave owners. These Birchite grape growers are now usirfg the mass media to lie to the people. This ad is so absurd, that, were , it not for the sake of relating in- formation to the masses, it would not embrace one inch of space in the Black Panther Newspaper. One line of the ad reads: ‘‘Boycotts and politics have no place in America’s food distribution sys- tem.’’ Of course they don’t. The growers are only represented by lobbies in state and federal govern- ments, In California they are sup- ported by fascist pig Punk Ronald Reagan. Another line in the ad reads: ‘‘Demonstrate your belief in justice, fair Play and the basic Case of the Presidio 27 Ft. Ord, California rights of the free enterprise sys- tem by supporting the markets that let you be the judge on whether or not to buy grapes.’’ This is an old fascist tactic, They resort to trying to turn the masses against the oppressed, They do this by trying to make the masses think that their (the masses’) rights or liberties are being threatened, which in turn will cause them to respondin a re- actionary manner, What’s more, the growers have filed an antitrust suit against the United Farm- workers, charging that all the de- fendants have conspired to illegally force and coerce the growers to recognize the UFWOC as the bar- gaining agent for farm workers. The fascist growers hope to shake the chain stores that honor the strike into stocking grapes by making threats of incorporating them in the suit. The Black Panther Party urges all consumers to support the farm workers’ boycott and to do every- thing possible to bring victory to them in their struggle for survival here ir. -ascist America. Bigman of grievances and singing ‘“‘We Shall Overcome,’’ They asked for an end to shotgun work details, for psychological testing of guards, for improved sanitation, for an end to racial discrimination, There were 10 demands in all, The press called it a nonviolent sid-down strike: The Army called it mutiny. The 27 GIs, prisoners in the Presidio stockade, held a sit- down strike to protest conditions in the stockade and the murder of inmate Richard Bunch by a stockade guard last October, The sentences that were delivered came as a surprise. Terms ranged from three to fifteen months, Char- ged with mutiny, punishable by death, most of the 14 Gls on trial got one year. Three of eight sentences handed down in earlier Presidio 27 trials have been reviewed, and were re- duced from 14, 15 and 16 years to two years. The conditions in the stockade that the Presidio 27 were pro- testing are horrendous, Clogged toilets and short rations are com- mon. Documented suicide attempts -- ‘*Gestures,’’ said the Army -- were even more common. Pri- soners drank shampoo and chrome polish, One slashed his wrists, then tried to hang himself in the bandages, Three days before the sit-down demonstration, Richard Bunchwas shot in the back while running (wit- nesses say he was skipping) away from a work detail. Everyone in the stockade knew Bunch was in- sane and should never have been in the Army, let alone in jail. Fear and outrage over what the prisoners saw as_ cold-blooded murder, built up over three days, Finally, they sat down and re- | G.1. Sentenced for Distribution of Anti-War Leaflets Columbia, §.C. Private Kenneth C. Cross. 17, of Ronkonkoma. N.Y., Was sentenced by a special court martial to three months at hard labor in the stockade on conviction Monday of dis- tributing anti-Vietnam war material at nearby Ft. Jack- son without permission. He also Was sentenced tu three months of hard labor not in confinement, reduction in rank one grade. and a fine two-thirds of his pay — $73 a month out of his pay — for six months Regulations at tie Army post require permission tu distribute flyers or other lit- erature. Cross was convicted of handing out copies of “Short ‘Times,’ identified at the trial as the publication of an anti-Vietnam war group of young people in Columbia Tool of fascism in America In the pre-revolutionary period, the reactionary ruling class tries to hold back the hightide ‘of re- volution through several ofits sys- tem. Ituses its court system, under a false face of legality, to per- secute the people and the leaders of the growing revolutionary struggle. The courts, staffed with racist judges (ones who have been ruthless with the people), an illegal jury (capitalist businessmen, Birchers, ex-cops, etc.,) and laws written by the capitalists--laws of which the people have no under- standing; these are all tools the fascist pigs use to consolidate their spoils and hold the astrono- mical majority of the people in economic bondage. The racist courts on all levels--from the Su- preme Court tothe county courts-- are all parts of the state machinery of oppression. Their sole purpose is tostifle any cry for liberation that can’t be put down by any other means: hence the recent indictments of the Conspir- acy 8, the New York 21, the Il- linois 16, Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton and Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton, etc. The courts are an instrument of the owners of capital, the owners of the land, the owners ofthe mill and factories in this decadent American capitalist society. They were used.in early America to justify and legalize slavery, the persecution of our Indian brothers, and the exploitation of the workers, They are being used today to sup- port the racism and right wing hysteria of this country. Their job is to stifle revolution and promote reformism, It attempts to cover- up the decaying foundation of American capitalism while it tries to destroy the efforts of the peo- ple to alter and abolish that same foundation. The courts help to cover up the contradictions in this form of government with ‘to- kenism’’, “law and order’’ slo- gans, and bureaucratic red tape, What is very important to under- stand is that the courts are also the last means the pig capitalists have to hide the contradictions be- tween their interests and that of the oppressed masses. The pigs have their backs against the wall andnot even court decisions and indict- ments can saye them, After the court has lost its use as a tool to disguise the real nature of this society, the capitalist pigs will haye to throw away their veil of lies and trickery and push this decadent state towards fascism, The courts are their last ace-in- the-hole; there is no other. That road towards fascism is not far off. Look around you--bro- thers, sisters, class masses fil- ling the walls of jails and prisons, pigs running rampant in our com- munities, heavier taxation, legis- lation without representation, starving children, and the masses of unemployment. It- is not the nature of. the op- pressor to give justice to the op- pressed through any of the ele- ments of the state machinery ofop- pression. In order to abolish the injustice of an element of the state machinery (in this case the courts), it is necessary to abolish the entire state (CAPITALISM), If the masses of people are to get justice in America, then there must be re- volution in Babylon, Eugene Charles Lt. of Information ALL POWER TO THE FF ALL POLITICAL EF Eugene Charles Lt. of Information Chicago Chapter Black Panther Dariu PEOPLE PRISON- President Nixon welcomes Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie at the White House today to begin a conference. to twelve months under charges of leading these demonstrations. Five students, one teacher and two other young Ethiopians have received prison terms of five years for alleged criminal acts against the state, Eleven high school students are presently appearing in courts in Addis, Ababa for similar charges. Primary and high school students, and university students teaching in a one-year national educational service are being held in provincial prisons, A large number of students who have al- ready been permanently expelled In this year of Haile Selassie’s from colleges and schools are visit to the United States, all) awaiting trial. Hundreds are in schools and colleges, throughout hospitals for injuries suffered un- Ethiopia have been closed. Inthe der police and military brutality. course of this same year, more Still more students, young people than two thousand students have and other progressive elements been imprisoned in labour camps, are being constantly arrested un- At least thirteen students are der a FASCIST DETENTION ACT known to have been killed by po- issued this same year whereby any citizen can be imprisoned for six months without trial. Political pri- soners are left in ice and stag- nant water for days on end, dragged by cars over pebble roads, lashed Ethiopian Student Association in ~ North America, July 7, 1969 lice and military forces during peaceful demonstrations. Scores: of students have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from six Crass or SERVICE This is a fast message unless its deferred char- acter is indicated by the proper symbol, Chicago, June 8 (Fred News Ser- vice) -- 17 year old Wayne Black was walking home with a group of friends last Saturday night when he made the mistake of walking on off-duty Patrolman Marion Nash’s lawn at 400 E. 86th Street, Black was shot and killed by Pig Nash. The Daily Defender, the only Chicago paper that carried the full story of the murder, reports that Black was with a group of 4 boys and 4 girls returning from a date, Black, two other boys, and a girl trailed behind the rest ofthe group when they walked across Nash's lawn while crossing the street. Nash yelled from his. porch, threatening to shoot them or put them in jail, if they did not get off his grass. Black yelled back at Nash, and the group continued walking down 86th St. Nash then pulled up in his car and got out, swearing and brandishing a gun. The girl fled, Telling 3 of the boys to lean against a garage door, Nash produced a police badge, saying ‘*You must don’t know whol am. Can’t you read?’ Nash pro- ceeded to search each youth, and told Black to walk east. Melvin Snyder, also 17, one of the other boys, was also told to leave the area, Walking away from Nash, Black and Synder decided to go to THE STRUGLE OF THE ETH while hanging by their feet, and subjected to torture by electric ‘shock, While Haile Selassie is visit- ing the United States, his armed forces continue to atack dis- possessed peasants that are re- volt:ng against feudal exploitation in Balle, Eritrea, Sidamo, Gojjam, Arussi and Harar, Whole villages have been wiped out and their inhabitants massacred by air bombardments, Peasants are ar- bitrarily shot or hanged, Workers on strike for wage increments and rights of labour organization have been arbitrarily dismissed, im- prisoned or physically eliminated. The exploitation perpertrated on the people of Ethiopia by Haile Selassie’s feudal regime has led to a national uprising. The student movement which is a vital element in this nation wide struggle of workers and peasant masses con- fronted Haile Selassie’s regime with a set of popular demands early in March, These demands include an end to the waste of public funds through lavish entertainment of WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM The filing time shown in the date line on domestic telegrams is LOCAL TIME at point of origin. Time of receipt is LOCAL TIME at point of destination THE BLACK PANTHER SATUKDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 1y BLACK YOUTH MURDERED By off duty pig the police station to file a com- plaint. Nash got into his car again, pulled up to the boys, jumped out and said: ‘‘So you're going to the police station? You’re under ar- rest!’ Grabbing Snyder by the right arm, Nash began pulling him toward the car, Suddenly Nash spun around, shouted ‘‘Get back!’’ to Black, and shot him once in the chest. Police arrived and Black was taken to St. George Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on ar- rival. Snyder was also treated for his wounds at the hospital, and later charged with aggravated battery, resisting arrest, and disorderly condutt, he was released on $1,000 bond. Wayne Black’s family has filed a complaint with the IID, Nash is claiming he went outside to in- vestigate noises of a ‘‘dis- turbance,’’ when Black rushed at him with an 18’ knife, forcing him to draw his service revolver, Commander Francis Flanagan of the homocide unit said that the witnesses bore out Nash’s story, According to Flanagan, the shooting was justifiable homicide and Nash acted appropriately. NOTE: It’s been over 2 months since pig Lamb shot Manuel Ra- mos with similar results.) foregin guests and visits abroad by the Ethiopain court and its officials including such extravagant esca- pades overseas as Haile Selassie’s visit here now. The students are opposed to prohibitive school and examination fees in a country with a per capita income of $35 anda literacy rate of under 5%. They further insist that officials respon- sible for the present condition of - Ethiopian education be im- mediately removed from office. The movement has also demanded public trial of all officials respon- sible for arbitrary killing and in- jury of students and citizens, The struggle of the Ethiopian students against Haile Selassie’s regime has been waged under the banner of LAND TO THE TILLER Therefore, the student movement fully supports the peasant revolts raging in several provinces, The revolts are against the intolerable conditions imposed on the vast peasant population of Ethiopia. The peasant is, by law, required to sur- render 75% of his produce to the feudal landlord. In addition to the SYMBOLS DL =Day Letter NL=Night Letter _ International UT =Lerter Telegram 939A PDT JUL 17 69 LAOS5 MB316 URNX HL SWSM 046 STOCKHOLM 46 17 i619 LT BERK ELEYCALI FORNI A8 45-6103 WIN WORLDWIDE UNION OF ETHIOPIAN STUDENTS M CDH710 VIA RCA ZCZC WUG3116 SWN5083 030605 BLACK PANTHER PARTY 30106 SHATTUCKAVE FULLY SUPPORT YOUR REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE AND YOUR CORRECT UNITED FRONT PROGRAM AGAINST USA FASCISM STOP OPPRESSED PEOPLES STRUGGLE WILL OVERCOME DIFFICULTIES FOR FINAL VICTORY OVER IMPERIALISM STOP DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM PEOPLES STRUGGLE WILL IOPIAN PEOPLE. CHA CHA BUSTED - CHARGED WITH BURGLARY Chicago, July 12, (Fred News Service) -- July 10 was a bad night for Cha Cha Jimenez, Chairmanof the Young Lords Organization, . Hours after he and friends rushed his ailing wife Marylou to the hos- pital, he was busted for allegedly stealing lumber from a construc- tion site in the Lincoln Park area, His ‘‘accomplice’’ was Carlton Draper, a 40 year old black man, Bail was set the following morning at $5,000 for Cha Cha and $2,000 for Carlton. Cha Cha’s higher bail was due to the fact that he hasa “heavy criminal background,’’ The arrest is particularly serious be- cause the charge, rather than the expected petty theft, was burglary, for which Cha Cha could get life imprisonment if convicted. He is now out on bond until an August 4 hearing. obligations imposed on it by the feudal system over which Haile Selassie presides, the peasant pop ulation has become victim of rising] taxes levied by force and coercion. The intensified and widespread up risings this year are in protest a gainst a new tax increment impose by the regime-to survive its mos severe economic crises in recent hisotry. Q Haile Selassie’ s present sojourn in the United States does not come; as a surprise, This has been his established practice since his in- famous escape to Europe during the popular resistance again fascist Italy. At the end of the Italian occupation, he was rein- stated by British imperialist forces who subdued the popula’ revolts against his return. In 1960 there was an uprising to over-| throw Haile Selassie’s regime during one of his frequent trips overseas. At that time, the United States was instrumental engineering his reinstallment, Haile Selassie’s present mission is yet another attempt to secure United States’ help to salvage the defunct regime. The United States| is fulfilling its bargain to suppress all opposition to Haile Selassie’s reactionary regime in return for maintaining its most important military base in Africa on Ethiopian soil. The Ethiopian student movement is resolved to struggle until all its just demands are fulfilled, The fight will continue until all political prisoners are set free, and all responsible for their brutal acts against students are brought before public trial. No amount of re- pression will stop our struggle against Haile Selassie’s feudal re- gime and its foreign patrons, Wherever Haile Selassie and his supporters are present shall be the battle front for the Ethiopian student movement, and each vic- tory,a step towards the liberation of the Ethiopian people. Our struggle will continue until feudal oppression is crushed. Should our generation die in the course, another generation shall rise to take up the historic task of building a new Ethiopia free from internal exploitation and foreign domination. We urge all men of goodwill and progressive organi- zations everywhere to support our just cause, Ethiopian Student Association in North America July 7, 1969 THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAGE 20 WHITE PLAINS PANTHERS WORK FOR BREAKFAST Reprint from a White Plains Daily Paper By MIKE GERSHOWITZ The Black Panther party plans -ta apen its first “Liheration School” in the met- ropolitan area on J.ong Island. The schoo) will teach politics, black history and physical fitness. It will be open to black and white. Plans for the school were announced at a Panther press conference vesterday in Fast Elmhurst. The conference 1s he lieved to be the first held by Panthers in the long Island area. Carlton Yearwood, field director of the Corona Fast Elmhurst Section of the Rlack Panther party, said the course is intended to teach people “how to react and deal with demagogic politicians who don't do anything for the community.” Liberation Schools are in operation on the West Coast and in other cities across the country, Yearwood said He also announced that the party will begin a free reakfast and lunch program for children of Corona and Fast Film- hurst. The meals will be financed through contributions hy local merchants, he said. oe THE. CONFERENCE, was held at a “Panther Pad" on the second floor of a two-tamily home at 98 1? Slst Ave. ina middle-class neighhorhand. As \earwood spoke, a record plaved a political speech by Fldrige Cleaver, who tan for president last year on the radical Peace and Free- dom party. Posters of Cleaver and of Huey P. New. ton, Panther defense minister who is in Rewer os eng jail in California on murder charges, hung from the walls. On the tables in the “pad” was a spread of revolutionary literature, including works by Marx, Lenin and “Quo- tations From Chairman Mao.” Yearwood said the Liberation School was necessitated by the performances of Assemblyman Joseph F. Lisa, Police Cap- tain William J. Eberhardt of the Elmhurst Precinct and New York City Traffic Com missioner Theodore Karagheuzoff. He said Lisa promised the Corona-Fast Elmhurst community “everything” but de- liyered “nothing.” Eberhard was charged with interfering with Panther activities as hest he could, and Karagheuzoff was accused of callousness toward the com munity’s need for traffic lights. * * * IN ADDITION, the Bayside High School administration was charged with running the school “like a prison camp insofar 45 black students are concerned.” Neither Lisa, Eberhardt. Karagheuzoff nor officials of the high school could he reached for comment. Yearwood said the school and the free meals will be offered at the Malcolm X Cultural Center, a storefront at 107-10 Northern Blvd., Corona. The instructors, he said, will be Panther “brothers and sis ters.” He introduced Doris Bush, staff sec- retary, and Charles Scott, who is in charge of literature distribution, as two of them. w Yearwood noted that the Panthers al- ready have had experience in politics when Cleaver ran for president. (He is currently believed living in Cuba as a fir gitive from an arrest warrnt.) He said Newton is really being jailed as a political prisoner rather than a murderer, The Pan thers al yesterday's press conference wore buttons reading “Free Huev.” Enrollment in the Liberation School will be open to whites as well as blacks, Year- wood said. He explained, “We're not ra- cists and this is not a race conflict. This is a class conflict. the people against the politicians.” * * «© YEARWOOD SAID the chief object of Panther anger against politicians is Lisa, a freshman lawmaker who was first. elected+ last November to represent the Corona area. Yearwood said the Panthers had vis ited Lisa in Albany during the recent legis- lative session and asked his help in getting funds appropriated for anti-poverty pro- grams in the community and for the Lang- ston Hughes Library which the Panthers helped to bring into existence. According to Yearwood, Lisa guaran- teed results but, instead, did nothing Yearwood said three anti-poverty pro grams have since gone out of business and the librarv may close, tov. He said the difficulty with Eberhardt and Karagheuzoff stems from the Pan thers’ efforts to have traffic lights installed at four intersections along Northern Boulevard, a chief artery. He said the party's lines of communication with the Traffic Department became entangled in all sorts of red tape when contradictory letters, all over Karagheuzoff's signature. were sent to the Panthers. * * J MEANWHILE, Eberhardt allegedly kept interfering in the party's efforts to get signatures on a petition to Karagheuzoff. Fherhardt granted a permit to use a sonnd truck in the community but then denied permission to use it on Northern Boule- vard, where most of the pedestrian traffic Is. While the Panthers may run candidates for district leadership and other offices in the future, the party does not plan to contest any offices this year, Yearwood said Yearwood said the party's Queens head quarters is at 108-60 New York Blvd. South Jamaica. * ° . HE SAID the program of free meals is heing initiated because “in this rich counuy there is no need for children to go hunerv.” Panther members visited merchants tn the community to ask for contributions, he said. “We tell them,” he said, “look how many thousands of dollars you've made out of this community. There are children who are hungry because their families don’t have money for food. Give us a contribution so we can feed them.” He praised the merchants for responding to this appeal. Yearwood charged that the adminis trators of Bayside High School treaied black students worse than white stu dents lle said that white vigilants had harassed black students and when this th was brought to the attention of ministrators, nething was done. He said the outward appearances peace at the high school du spring's high schoo! disorders tained only hecause the school was “lke a prison camp.” Students ave bused t the sch Corona and East Elmhurst > meet PANTHERS’ SUMMER PROGRAM Chicago, July 10, (Fred News- Service) -- The Mlinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party places the people's needs first. As a spokes- man noted, their response to each arrest of a leader has been to initiate another program for the community. Four new programs reply to the recent destruction of their office and weekly arrests of their leaders, Children are hungry in the sum- mertime, too, and the Panthers’ summer program keeps the needs of the people in focus, Their Break- fast for Children Program is re- instituted in one location--at Jack- son Blvd, Church (Western and Jackson)--and other locations are being sought where breakfast and Liberation School classes can be combined, The Panthers are con- cerned with more than the chil- dren's hunger and have begun ed- ucational programs designed to the needs of youth, The classes will first teach the chil- dren about the Black Panther Party and its program, including their spirit of commitment to the peo- ple and opposition to repression, LETTER Then the regular academic de- ficiences fostered by the public schools will be approached, The Black Panther Party’ sthird program is a Community Political Education program--classes for adults are presently held at 201 S. Ashland (Church of the Epifany) at 7:15 on Mon., Wed., and Friday, The free medical center which the Black Panther Party has planned for some time is ready, The only obstacle is $2,100 for a downpay- ment on a site for the center. It will have comprehensive medical service (non-operative pediatrics, non-operative obstetrics, and dentistry). Cash donations are ac- cepted at 2530 W, Madison. Fred was invited to visit the Breakfast for Children program on its second day and was moved by the family spirit which the Pan- thers shared with the children, Perhaps more than the plentiful eggs, bacon, bread and jam, etc., and more than the songs and laughter of thé Liberation School, the childrenthrivedon the presence of revolutionary black men and wo- men whose spirit and love re- presented a better future, TO THE PANTHERS July 19, 1969 To the Panthers, only hold full knowledge of the social and political reasons behind their actions, Only when the people are educated, are they able to recog- nize the signs of oppression andare able to counteract that oppression no matter what its source, Whether it comes from the reactionary bourgeois or from those who come the guise of the people’s friend seeking self profit at our expense, Only then does the revolution take on true meaning. And that is why the revolutionary vanguard andthe people must be one, They must be synonymous. The true revolutionary must hold, he must have a deep love for the people above all else, for if he does not, the place he holds in the revolution is meaningless, the work he thought he accomplished, was not @ven begun, A revolution- — ary who has no concept of the principals and reasoning behind revolution is nothing more than a blood-thirsty adventurer, nothing more than a blind warrior, not wishing to gain his sight, only wishing to gain a position or some comfort, fighting only for his own gain, The people must not be brought to this plane. For the plane of the bind wa y is the plane upon which this decaying society sits, slowly spreading its poisons, for it has an ample amount. I believe that the Black Panther Party speaks for the people. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ALL POWER TO THE VANGUARD Roy Wilson BROOKLYN PANTHERS FEED HUNGRY CHILDREN On June 30, 1969, the Brook- lyn branch of the Black Panther Party started a Free Breakfast for Children Program. The Break- fast Program is in Brownsville because this area is the worst section in Brooklyn. The housing looks like BOMBS have been drop- ped there and the people’s gen- eral conditions are the worst known to me, as compared to anywhere, The area smells like garbage from one end to the other, the side- walks and streets ar- filled with garbage. Whole blocks are torn up and it looks like a major war was fought there. The usual conditions found in an oppressed people's community are found here, but only in Brownsville there is a lot more of this bull, This program and all programs started by the Black Panther Party are started to met the needs of the people, All over this Fascist un-America people wake up in the morning hungry, the pig power structure says that there are 39 million poor people, so that must mean there are 40-50 million, and a large majority of these people probably get up in the morning hungry, But now the Black Panther Party has a nation wide Free Breakfast Program, whichis going towdeal with theshunger problem. This*program is to set an ex- ample for all oppressed people, to show people that it can be done, The Free Breakfast Program isto show the pig power structure that the Black Panther Party is not jiving. The Free Breakfast Pro- gram is to showthe mealy mouthed vacillating coward pig, dogs that the Black Panther Party is going to move anyway. The demagogic (lying) politicians, themselves admit that the Black Panther Party is feeding more hungry people than the pig Federal Government, the people should now question where these hard earned taxes are going, HAT WE WANT 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine THE BLACK PANTHER SALURUDAT, JULY 20, 1909 PAGE 2h the destiny of our Black Community. | LAW AND ORDER LAW AND ORDER LAW AND. ORDER 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. 8. We want freedom for all black State, county and city prisons and jails. men held in federal, WE FIND THE BROTHER NOT }., "oar ANT nay ( oN Ys, , tk . Ue NY wo — ————S _—————— es UNCLE\ TOM WAS A D NIGGER BE LIKE\\tom 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, = | = justice and peace. And as our major political objective, heey SERA 2 | a United Nations-supervised plebiscite to be held throu- “a 4 ghout the black colony in which only black colonial sub- jects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their nation- al destiny. 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. October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want What We Believe FREE HUEY Minister of Defense. Black Panther Party 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter- mine our destiny 2. We want full employment for our people. We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income, We believe that it the white American businessmen will not give full employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and em- ploy all of its people and give a high standard of living THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1969 PAG 22 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 demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 vears ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities, The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Ger- mans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people: therefore. we feel that this is a Modest demand that we make 4. We want decent housing. fit for shelter of human beings. We believe that if the white landlords will net give decent housing to our black community. then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community. with government aid. can build and make decent housing for its people 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowl- edge of self. Ifa 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 blaek 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 bearr 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. 1 black people should be released from the many ause they have not received a fair and impartial trial We believe that jails and prisons be 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities. as defined by the Constitution of the United States. We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic. social. religious. geographical. en- vironmental. historical and racial background, To do this the court will be foreed to select a jury from the black community from which the black detendant came. We have been. and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man” of the black community 10. We want land. bread. housing. education. clothing. justice and peace, And as our major political objective. a United Nations-supervised plebis- cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate. for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. When. in the course of human events. it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another) and to assume. among the powers of the earth. the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature’s God entitle them. a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation, We hold these truths to be self-evident. that all men are created equal: that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights: that among these are life. liberty. and the pursuit of happiness. That. to secure these rights. governments are instituted among men. deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed: that. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends. it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it. and to institute a new goyernment, Jaying its foundation on such principles. and organizing its powers in such form. as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru- dence. indeed. will dictate that governments long estal, \\.ed should not be changed for light and transient causes: and. accordingly. all experience hath shown. that mankind are more disposed to suffer. while evils are sufferable. than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to\\which they are accustomed. But. when a long train of abuses and unsurpations, pur- suing invariably the same object. evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism, it is their right. it is their duty, to throw off such govern- ment. and to provide new guards for their future security. 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Submit to: BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER 3106 SHATTUCK AVE. BERKELEY, CALIF. RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. . Every member of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY throughout this country of racist America must abide by these rules as functional mem- of this party. CENTRAL COMMITTEE members, CENTRAL STAFFS, and LOCAL STAFFS, including all captains subordinate to either national, state, and local leadership of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY will enforce these rules. Length of suspension or other dis- ciplinary on necessary for violation of these rules will depend on national decisions by national, state or state areayand local committees and staffs where said rule or rules of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY WERE VIOLATED. Every member of the party must know these verbatum by heart. And apply them daily. Each member must report any violation of these rules to their leadership or they are counter-revolutionary and are also subjected to suspension by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. THE RULES ARE: 1. No party member can have narcotics or weed in his possession while doing party work. 2. Any party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from this party. 3. No party member can be DRUNK while doing daily party work. 4. No party member wii late rules relating to office work, general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANYWHERE. S.No party member will USE, POINT, or FIRE a weapon of any kind unnecessarily or accidentally at anyone. 6. No party member can join any other army force other than the BLACK LIBERATION ARMY. 7. No party member can have a weapon in his possession while DRUNK or loaded off narcotics or weed. 8. No party member will commit any crimes against other party members or BLACK people at all, and cannot steal or take from 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 each Party member. 11. Party Communications must be National and Local, 12. The 10-10-10-program should be known by all members and also understood by all members. 13, All Finance officers will operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Fina 14. Each person will submit a report of daily work. 15. Each Sub-Section Leader Section Leader, Lieutenant, and Captain must submit Daily reports of work. 16. All Panthers must learn to operate and service weapons correctly. 17. All Leadership personnel who expel a member must submit this information to the Editor of the Newspaper, so that it will be published in the paper and will be known by all chapters and branches. 18. Political Education Classes are mandatory for general member- ship. 19. Only office personnel assigned to respective offices each day should be there. All others are to sell papers and do Political work out in the community, including Captains, Section Leaders, etc. 20. COMMUNICATIONS — all chapters must submit weekly re- ports in writing to the I nal Headquarters. 21. All Branches must implement First Aid and/or Medical Cadres. 22. All Chapters, Branches, and components of the BLACK PAN- THER PARTY must submit a monthly Financial Report to the Minis- try of Finance, and also the Central Committee. 23. Everyone in a leadership position must read no less than two hours per day to keep abreast of the changing political situation. 24. No chapter or branch shall 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 laid down by the CENTRAL COMMITTEE ‘of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. 26. All Branches must submit weekly reports in writing to their re- spective Chapters. 8 POINTS OF ATTENTION 1) Speak politely. 2) Pay fairly for what you buy. 3) Returh everything you borrow. 4) Pay for anything you damage. 5) Do not hit or swear at people. 6) Do not damage property or crops of the poor, oppressed masses. 7) Do not take liberties with women, 8) I we ever have to take captives do not il-treat 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. Pay) i + aca SEMA SS ad a ee a "WHATEVER IS GOOD FOR THE OPPRESSOR HAS GOT 10 BE BAD FOR US