Vol. 3, No. 20

| Preah! eae fusrasas _ — = oe Cleave —. meaner: | some bred. 25 meedenses jposeon ’ <3) \S) > = eB Y Y = Vv — om _ = -_ , med — c o —_ o r ed a v ~_ ~ PrHE BLACK PANTHER PARTY PUBLISHED WEPALY SHE BLACK -PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 671969 PAGE 2 ENEMIES “WITHIN” ENEMIES “WITHOUT” Cultural nationalism is a trick used by the black bourgeoisie and the children of the bourgeoisie, They tell brothers to love every- thing black and to have an undying love for blacks, while they jockey for positions, executive positions on Richard Nixon's black capi- talist program, It is our duty as revolutionaries, as members of the lumpen proletariat (ield niggers), We have to detour our brothers from the corner of re- actionary nationalsim. This means we have to out- talk the insanity that's propagated by the cultural nationalists, we have to out-organize them, even if it means returning to kicking their asses, knocking them inthe heador physically eliminating them. We used to do these things, we used to whip them at parties, we used to jump on them in the streets, we used to jump on them in the movie shows, we used to whip them at school, we used to fight them and we used to let themknow that we were dissatisfied with their class positions, because we were Somehow aware that the way that they existed was quite different from the way that we existed, in the sense that the communities thar they lived in were always classified as the ‘saditty’ commun- ity, that was an expression that we used to use. AS we grew up we sort of so- phisticated our minds, our way of talking and our ideas, and we grad- vated to the level of consciousness So that we can refer to those peo- ple as a member of a particular class and that class is the black bourgeoisie. But in those days those brothers were hard tofindin our communities, unless they were coming downtrying to find just what it was like really to be a nigger. They're not so very hard to find } now, they can easily be found at ‘the end of every deal thar guarantees the oppressive system of capitalism. But what they do, they sanctify capitalsim and they think that they legitimatize capitalism by using a detonator, ‘a very explosive detonator thatstill engenders and speeds up a plotfor genocide against members of our Party in particular and concen- tration camps for other organi- zations and individuals that demand an end to the exploitation of manby man. Whereas the system of Social- ism guarantees full employment for its people, it guarantees better housing conditions, it guarantees education, education that gives full play to the energies of indi- viduals so that they can cope with the scientific system of Socialism. Cultural nationalism which is just a euphemism for capitalism, insures and it con- tinues the exploitation of black people by black people who act as the ruling class dictates, They become the best insurance, or they become a hoop around the barre] of a dying system or a very rapidly decaying system. They be- come the best insurance for the system that’s on its way out and the only way that, that system can survive would be geared to creating a vulturistic, back-stab- bing program such as the program that Richard Nixon has put together and thrown out for black capi- talists to fight and to exterminate members of our Black Panther Party; that way they maintain high economic positions, exploiting blacks, whites, browns, yellows or whatever category or ethnic group people happen to fall Into, So here it should be made very clear that the murders of Black Panther Party members by the black tanton macoute, the US or- ganization, this is also a part of the plan of the continuation of Nixon's program referred to as black capitalism. The cultural na- tlonalists take the position that capitalism isn’t bad, it was only bad because blacks never had achance to excel or that they never had a chance to reap the benefit of their labor, which is only a euphemism, which are only very sharp words, words used to dissuade and to con- fuse people so that people like members of our Party people like Haiti, and that the oppressor is very shrewd In that manner be- cause racism, black racism, cul- tural nationalism, black capitalism all these things are just the In- gredients, just the kind of ingred- jents that's necessary to create a Haiti within the black communities of America, and this would not hinder the system as it is, this would not hinder the system of capitalism because capitalism would be allowed to exist and it would exist at the expense of con- DAVID HILLIARD CHIEF OF STAFF members of the oppressed class will latch on to the wings of this vulturistic foul program that Nixon has concocted and put to- gether. They would latch on to this and that this would continue the system; but it would only change faces, the oppressor would no longer be in our communities but rather he would control our com- munities from outside and this is referred to as neo-colonialism, the oppressor would in reality be just another black capitalist, the oppressor and the methods thar they would use in order to maintaln the system of exploitation would be much more horrifying, it would be much more repressive and that | think that one experience that we've study, in order to assure us fall into the perfidious, nefarious trap laid out by the plutocrats andthe capitalists of Babylon to focus our attention the struggle that’s now going on in Haiti under the foulest dictator of all, a man by the name of Duvalier ** Poppa Doc" So relating that and relating to our situation right here in Babylon we can begin to see thar the ultimacy of black capi- talism) could only peessors Like the oppressor in learned through not to would be towards to Situation create op} tinued black suffering. So these are things that we have to be concerned about, these are things that we have to talk about, and the only language the only systems that are able to withstand and implement a people's revolu- tion, are the systems and the people that relate to Marxism- Leninism, and the scientific system of Socialism whereas the people have the power, There's dictatorship of the people and they do not have a ruling class mani- fest In a high official sometimes referred to as Presidents, or as Chairmans or whatever categories they put them into, these people are not dictates but rather the masses dre dictates and these people are able to maintain a ays- tem that would benefit all the peo- ple in that particular country, So that the fascist power structure of America, thelr intentions are tc imprison, to murder, and silence the voice of the Party that speaks in the idiom of the exploitated masses, suffering and So the struggle on the ideol- ogica) level, it becomes very im- portant in order to immortalize the revolution and to prepare the peo- ple for the eventuality of the seizure of power, And Idon't mean education in the abstract sense of long rapping and standing on the corner and waving our hands and swaying and trying to style, I don't mean that kind of education, 1 mean the kind of education that has put America up against the wall the kind of education that was exemplified by the two courageous and the two most respected mem- bers of our Party, our Chairman Bobby Seale, and our Minister of Defense Huey P, Newton, Andtheir education was education by ex- ample, and we have to continue to educate by example, The work that we have cut out for us in our police petition, to control the pigs in our commun- ity we know that this is a very powerful weapon, This is a very powerful weapon because the con- trol of the police in our com- munities would definitely mean that we control the guns in our communities, and to control the guns in our communities wouldin- sure the Black Panther Party a voice in the political realm. When we get that kind of intelli- gence, when our minds have ex- panded and reached that level of consciousness, we're very sure that there can be no revolution unless there's some bloodshed be- cause the pigs are definitely going to resist the people trying to take their Jobs away from them. We wouldn't really be taking their jobs away from them; what we wouldbe doing Is civilizing the police, making the police responsible to the people, and making the police responsible for their actions, And their actions would not be the kind of actions that we're used to wit- nessing where we're always onthe dead end of that action, When I mentioned mind expan- sion I'm not talking about getting hung-up off of those barbituares that we call red devils (1 think the medical name for those pills is called seconal), I'm not talking about your mind becoming blocked and niggers stumbling and drunk and sJobbering at the mouth and fighting and killing one another, be- cause this {s very good for capi- talism, it’s become so evidentnow thar all we have in the black com- munity is red devils and poverty programs, And niggers that are trying to live atthe expense of peo- ple losing their minds other than gaining their minds, | think that they too should be classified as an enemy against the people.So we have to be very concerned about all those things in the process of trying to wage an educational program that would be beneficiary to the masses of the people. This brings to my mind George Sams.’ George Sams, | mean that this is the worst kind of enemy, a traitor, a paid informer and one way that you can focus in on the kind of people like George Sams is to read books like Harvey Ma- tuso, read about the Rosenbergs, about all these kinds of individ- uals that were used to Ile, to conspire against individuals, these people were working against poli- tical organizations, aad that these were people that represented poli- tical points of view that were on the behalf of the and that their ideas and thelr points of view were not in support of the system, So sec black traitors, people who live by treagon like rat catchecs would by poison, people when you you see, these are very treacher= ous people and these are people that have to be exposed and they could only be exposed if we're waging the right kind of educat- ional programs. So anybody that Supports this system can live with- in the framework of this system and they can engage in acts of illegitimacy such as selling those barbituates to the young people in our community, they can survive in this system by joining certain or- ganizations that come under the po- litical standards of the system like the US organization, the NA A.C,P,, the Black Muslims all of these organizations that’s not talking about destroying the pre- sent structure. So when they trump up charges and pull members of our Party off the street, when they kidnap us off the streets, lock us in thelr peni- tentisries and put astronomical balls on us which is really ransom, then it becomes very clear to us that its not the Black Panther Party at all that’s conspiring to commit criminal acts, it's all those individuals and organizations.who remain silent and don’t speak out and don’t have a unity of action with our Party, it’s those people who are the conspirators along with the master-minders of the plot for genocide, that they're all co-con- spirators of the United States go- vernment and they engage in crimes of agression against black people, Because they have tomake it clear, they have co let the world know what their position is because the world definitely knows that the Black Panther Party is for and in the interest of the peo- ple. And all those who support he ’ United Stares government, who: ‘ support Nixon's black capitalism program, a black capitalist pro- gram, and all those who befriend and harbor, all those who assoc— {ate themselves with the US or-— ganization then it’s a very clear line drawn between members of our Black Panther Party andthose individuals who fraternize andwho) ~—y associate with traitors andpuppers like the US organization, So thar the US organization and George “Sambo” Sams are people'senemy — number two. So that individuals and organ- izations that were created pur- posely to destroy or to create a counter-revolution, we cannot make any distinction betweenthem and the pigs that also maintain the exploitation agd the suffering of our communities, Because in reality they're all pigs, they're all enemies to the people and we have to develop the kind of con- sciousness that would give us the energy and thar would most cer-— tainly give us the courage to with- stand and to eliminate those kind of forces. Because our Chairman Bobby Seale ts a victim of a plot for genocide geared towards our Black Panther Party, Because that’s most certainly what it Is, they’re talking about charging the man with crimes of murder, with crimes of kidnap and torture and the press has animalizedthe Black Panther Party to the extent, with their vilification of our Party, they’ve animalized us to the extent that the public or the people would accept that shit because they would see us as a deadly threat to the communities, So that’s the intent of the press and they*ve put 4 blockade on our Party, they"ve lsolated our Party, and alter the plans came up in Berkeley andthe pigs admitted the plina were plans that they bad drawn up to attack our office and to inarder and wound (if there was any wounded left) anybody thar oc~ cupled our office. So this is avery clear iixdication that they plan genocide on our Party and they're going to start Setting that example with the people that they have ar rested in Connecticut and our SEE PAGE 5 ¥ i THE BLACK ’PARTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1069 PAGE 3 'CONTRADICTICTIONS BETWEEN THE OLD AND NEW We your gons and daughters rom the ages of 3 to 30 years { tr shoul! . r © 30 years in some fort er?) have been arked by of our parems and by trouble makers. This inly because we have not followed the red, white and blue pattern laid down by the system or because we do mot respond to or accept the things that our parents feel and that we should. A large j y of parents feel as though the youth don’: relate to suffering peacefully but when we make an honest effort to dosomething about the existing situation we arecalled “fools,” “‘crazy’’ and ‘trouble makers.” Parents mustunderstand that the youth aren’t going for what the System is putting down and alarge number of things that parents are taking the youth through, the youth doesn’t dig either. How could parents expect us to relate to things right now that were hip years ago? Those things play such a smal] role in our lives today because those aren't the things we want nor believe in. We want freedom; we want the power to de- termine the destiny of our Black community. Very sharp historical notes have been kept by us and our remem- brances are filled with cold- blooded events that have been forced on the people whom we love so much. The will todo some- thing abour it rips at our throats and the truth won’r let us turn our backs, knowing that we have to do something about what's going on here in Babylon today. So, historically analysing things and coming up with the sum total of our analyses and digging how out of proportion things are, we make fina] decisions, dedications and commitments to change this wicked sy$tem that these fascist pigs have forced on the people. In making these decisions we know, understand and accept the weight of our decisions. The youth understand the reason why there is need for complete change of this fascist system -- becausethesys- tem is not meeting the people’s basic needs. The people as a whole are suffering and we feel the many sufferings of the people, because we come from the people and we’re part of the people and whatever hurts the people hurts us. The youth accept the fact that ‘“where there is a struggle there is sacrifice and death is acommon occurrence.’* (Mao Tse Tung) We accept the responsibility of holding ourselves responsible to the people in every word andevery act and to serve them wholly, resolutely, completely and thoroughly. And WE means: the sons and daughters who are already Pan- hers serving and meeting the people’s needs, also the sons and daughters who want to become P hers and whom the totalls In rejecting what the yo what we wan narrowminded reject. th wants , parents become very ami subjectively against the corrupters and not re- late to the systematic way of life, Many parents have sons and laughters who ace dropping out of high school and.college the parents whose sons and daughters are quitting their jobs and the parents who have completely given up on themselves." And parents say all these things about us because we love the people and the Party. We know it blows the minds of our parents when they see us ck things that they never saw us do before -- such as getting Up at 5S or 6 o'clock in the morning, terests at heart. We who love it and we Panthers but our are already Panthers who want to become parents won't let us become Panthers love what the Party is doing and just as soon as we can, we are going to become Panthers, We know if the AL CARROLL OF HARLEM GIVES CORRECT INFO. TO PARENT IN COMMUNITY make an put their practice, analysis and begin to subjective analysis into instantly creating un- favorable conditions between the youth and themselves. These parents are failing to wage any kind of ideological struggle to see just where we are really coming from, failing to find out why we have these revolutionary feelings, why they @Xist in us, All of this is very upsetting for parents, especially when their only concerns are for themselves and theirs and not the overall interest of the masses. Many parents have struggled hard to bring us up in a corrupt society thinking and believing that what they are doing and the way they are doing it is right, only to be highly disap- pointed when we chose to move OPEN ‘LETTER PERSONN I've been told that many of you are indignant over my choice of words in a 5s ment that I made concerning my husband's in- carceration, This is by means a of apology. because I can never wits a clear conscience. retract anything that I've said, One sb yuld pot have to apologize for the truth, This ts. however, a5 attempt to explain, in your terminology, how { fee) about the penal system First of all, I would like to say that my statement was not an at- tack as but rather sys- no letter on individuals an attack on an entire you tern of which you are all a part It would serve no usef i] purpose for me to attack individuals, In- dividuals do not oppress us. They are merely here to carry out or- ders and perform duties, Theycan be inter-chanzed; they can be re- placed; and they will eventually pass on and be forgotten, But a System, such as the one we live under, does -- can and will exploit us forever, if we allow it to. It cannot and will not change on its own accord, It is up to us, the people, to change it, In the past five months, my daily visit to the Tombs has brought me into repeated personal con- tact with many of you. As a sult, | have been able to in two separate roles. As a group, re- see you you are merely the Wepartment of Corrections, a cruel and vital organ of this Fascist System. As individuals, are all separate and different, ranging fromscorn- ful to courteous fr you ym dim-witted to intelligent, from narrow j open-minded. Some o lescribed as truly passionate human ority of nostdetinitely are in the truest most subhuman of the word, It is primarily minded t 1 can be { com- Kind an } beings, but the a yo sense of this group that I spoke in my previous statement, They know ex- actly who they are, They are the personifications of this ugly sys- tom. They are the ones who take their sons and daughters because we take no interest in this pro- grammed society. The first thing we hear coming from our parents: "These kids must begoingcrazy. if we had the chances in our day that you all have now we wouldn't be in the situation that we’re in today. If we hadn*’t been working or have had to work the least we would have gotten would have been an education.”’ This isn’t good enough for the youth nowadays, because we want education for our people that ex- poses the true nature of this deca- dent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role inthis modern society. “These kids just ain’t gonna amount to nothing -- they ain’r gonna make a damn thing out of pleasure in harassing and bru- talizing our brothers. They are filled with hatred, bitterness, con- tempt and sheer disregard for human life. They are the ones who, as my husband says, have “traded their souls for a badge,"’ Little do they know, however, that their ugliness is a result of their oppression by that very system that they serve so faithfully. They have been so programmed, so in- doctrinated and have become s« mucha pert of the system that they must ultimately perish with it. Many of you feel personally of- fended by being referred to as Pigs, Well, | woo have been personally offended many, many times in the past months. [have been sneered at and ignored while trying to ob- tain information or leave for my husband; | have had articles of while clothing thrown back at me trying to for I have been ignored and had gates slammed I have been denied the see him leave them in my face; right to on going to the breakfast programs, serving the youth, going to libera- tion schools set up for the youth, selling Panther papers and passing out leaflets. To see it and know that we enjoy doing these things and doing them for the people (as selfish as some of us were), This is what it’s all about. The Black Panther Party is doing what we want to see done and that is to show the people the way out of this nonsense that we're in. Show the people that we have not been completely jammed yet and if we choose the revolution- ary path and resist this dog. we'll bring about just what the Party is teaching and showing by example and that is change. The task is a selfless task and not a selfish one because we have much more than just our own personal in- things are put intro practice that it takes to change this fascist society, then change will come. But as long as we sit around and create conditions to keep us from getting down to business, as long as we wait for Jesus to come on the set to square things up we’ll be in the same shape people have been in for centuries -- and we youth ain’t hardly going for it. This is why we have decided to become revolutionaries and ser- vants of the people, to break the old traditional things such as op- pression and exploitation andstan- dard things such as it being people of color who are oppressed andex- ploited. All Power to the People Al Carroll Harlem Branch, B.P.P. NCERNED HE TOMBS several occasions. I have been searched before entering a pub- lic courtroom. | could go on and on, but I won't -- because | can- not allow these personal harass- ments to take priority over the fact that 21 young men and women, my husband included, are faced with the possibility of having to sacrifice as much as 74 years of their lives for a Lie -- A Frame up -- A Hoax, created by a deca= Jent power structure in its dying efforts to suppress the rising fury if the people, Many of these young men, whose lives are in yourhands, could be your sons or brothers. ny come from backgrounds similar to yours, They, too, Were taught to believe and aspire to the “American Dream.” Gut they found out very carly that this dream was just a mirage, They are guil- ty of just one crime -- @ Sin- cere concern for the future of mankind. They have dedicated themselves to organizing, aiding, and enlightening the people. For this, they have been shown the ugliest reality of America ~~ the hot, overcrowded, rat infested, stinking prisons, where they are being kept under the worst possi- ble conditions and being denied privileges that would be given to animals. There is no need for me to describe these conditions to you, because you know them bet- ter than I do. You are there and you help to, create them. But af- ter elght hours, you're able to walk ot of the horrible rat hole and inhale the clean fresh air, go home to a clean comfortable house, a good meal, and a loving family. Our brothers in jail (and many on the streets) can't do this, Try imagining yours¢lves on the other side of the fence, and perhaps you'll realize that it’s bie thing to be called a Pig. no Marva Berry DIVISION = WAITING TO e QVESTION ° PRISONERS @ THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1969 PAGE 4 POST TO oo DIVERT TRAFFIC { TRAFFIC <—$ E ) WOOLSEY e er; POLICE CARS |; TO BLOCK SHATTUCK AT PRINCE y AND nmct ® & DETECTIVE TRAFFic POST RIOT TANK ON CALL TRAFFIC POST J . B SQUAD roor A SQUAD pean exit | PATROLMAN . SHOTGUN |} SERGEANT i AEISING tRADIC ASSAULT SQUAD IMEN with PANTHER THOMPSON $UB-MACHINE HQ GUNS E savap aMrFNn \ 37MM GAS GUN 2 PATROLMEN 1 SHOTGUN tRIFLE on REISiNG |RADIO ARTIST’S RENDERING FROM {The following is the complete, unaltered text of tne attack plan Pat 1 Assign covering officers to the front and rear of the building. (Left-hand marginal note says: “ABLE - Sgt & Pat, BAKER - | Pat, CHARLIE - Sgt & Pat"’) a. Two to cover the back (6) b. four to cover the front (2 south front, 2 north front) (Interline note says: “ABLE 1 shotgun | Reising Radio, BAKER 1 shotgun | Reising Radio, CHARLIE 1 shotgun 1 Relsing Radio.” After BAKER, the word “launcher” is crossed out. After CHARLIE, the word **.37mm" is crossed out.) 2. These six men would hold position to keep offenders sealed inside building 3. Evacuate wounded with covering officers laying down fire base 4. Notify Captain of Patrol and Chief of Police, Ranking Olficer of 4th 5. Notify ranking officer of Service Division to secure theH of J. (Hallof Justice) * (handwritten) Notily DD (Detective Division) to stand by for questioning of pnsoners & general investiga- tion. 6, Request that Wagon, Ambulances and Fire truck to stand by in parking lot of Safeway Stores, Russell and Shattuck * (handwritten) Notify ACSO (Alameda County Sheriff's Office) Request riot tank be sent 7. Assign tratiic posts to divert traffic around scene a. Not assigned to fourth platoon 8. Block Shattuck at Prince and at Woolsey with Police Cars a. Use no flares and no personne! left In street 6 Evacuate nearby homes as needed. (Handwritten note says: “Squad DOG (2)"") 10. Order offenders to come out of building with hands up and lay on sidewalk in front of building. (This item is circled) a. Use bull horn or telephone out) b. If this fails (This item is crossed out) * (handwritten) ABLE CEASE FIRE EXCEPT AT DEF- INITE TARGET it. Assign two man squad to front with shotgun (solid slugs) and armor piercing rifle to blast armour plate olf upper windows. (This item is either crossed out or parually undertined, Handwritten note says; “DOG (This item is crossed SCRIPT“ ASSAULT PLAN 1 shotfun | 37mm & launcher." The words “'1 rifle” are crossedout.) 12. Assign two man squad in front to launch gas through upper and lower windows. (Handwritten note says, “EASY") a. (Words crossed out say: “One grenade launcher.’ Handwritten note says: “1. shotgun & launcher) b.«Words crossed out say: “One 37MM gas gun.” Handwritten note says: “2. 37 MM Gas Gun") 12. (sic) Order upper window shields to be shot out, and use OO buck shot to shoot out all lower windows, Use rifle slugs to try and knock open main front door, Mey item is either crossed-out or partially under- ined.) 13. Notify HMH (Herrick Memorial Hospital) to stand by to receive wounded. a. Post shotgun guard at HMH, —Not fourth platoon 14. Launch in considerable amount of gas and tben again order offenders out by bull horn or telephone a. Walk out front with hands up and then lay on side- walk infront of building b. Li this tails (handwritten interline pote says, “A B C D E") 15. Front and buck guard lay down fire on second floor Assault squad (three men) armed with sub-machine guns upproach building (rom the south. As they ap- proach all firing cease. Squad enter building through front broken oul windows or doors uv. First man cover stairs and no liring unless target is presented b. Next two men enter and move to left and to right center of ground floor. Fire 30 rounds each up through second story lloor, and reload c. By now all shutters should be blown olf upper floor windows. The entire building should be flooded with tear gas, The entire upper floor should be covered with intense fire. This should have the necessary elfect 16. Order those able to walk down the inside stairs to the ground floor, covered by the assault squad. Then they will walk out to the sidewalk and lay face down a. This will be done by bull horn and/or phone 17. Front and rear covering squads remain in position until told to move 18. Leave one front Covering squad on roof and call the other one down to cover prisoners. Leave back squad in position 19. Assault squad will then proceed upstairs and bring down the wounded and or dead 20. Ambulance(s) will be called in from Russell and Shattuck to pick up wounded and/or dead 21. Call buck squad around to [romt to assist as needed REPRINTED FROM THE BERKELEY TRIBE feaaz assent SHATTUCK CSQUAD poor 2 PATROLMEN 1 SERGEANT | @HoT OUN *LAUNCHER 1RIFLE 1 REISING 1 RADIO PLANS ~ 4 RAFFIC POST HERRICK casera SHOTOUN GUARD ee | HALL OF JUSTICE Se | SECVREO D SQUAD TO EVACUATE HOMES 2 PATROLMEN 1+ SHOTGUN * LAUNCHER 137MM GAS CUN PADDY WAGON V ANBULANCES FIRE TRUCK | IN SAFEWAY PARKING LOT AT RUSSELL 4 % AND SHATTUCK PRINCE RAFFIC POST al 22. One front squad will stil] remain on roof to cover any attack frum the outside. 23. Call wagon down to pick up prisoners, 24. Fire truck calledinifneeded. : 25. Back squad go to H of J to book in and question pris- — oners 26. One front squad go to HMH to guard and question wounded. | 27. One front squad will remain on roof until we are clear of area. 28. Assault squad search and confiscate evidence from — building. a, Call in photographer. (Handwritten note says: “Dig up back yard") 29. After all others have gone, front squad pull out. This may take considerable time. 30. Assault squad go toH of J to package evidence, make notes, write reports. 31. Back squad at H of J write reports after booking and questioning 32. Front squad leave HMH and write re 33. Remaining front squad leave area come to H of J and writereports. HM. Fourth Platoon Lieutenant and Sergeants meet to make sure that all has been covered 35. Fourth Platoon Lieutenant and Sergeants brief staff (the remainder of the plan is handwritten) ABLE—COVER BACK (2) t-shotgun& launcher J | 1 Pat |-Reising 1 Sgr (The _ Radio words “L-rifle’ crossed out) BAKER — COVER S-FRONT 2Pat I shotgun i rifleor Reising Radio ‘(HARLIE — COVER N-ERONT (3) Lshot gun & launcher 2Pat irifle iSgt L Reising Radio DOG — COVER FRONT AFTER 2Pat | shot gun & launcher 137 mm gas gun ASSAULT — ENTER BUILDING 43 Thompsons 2 Pat or 2 LLa Ractio EVACUATION Thompsons & | shotgun .© This plan by the Berkeley pig department to attack the National Headquarters of the Black Panther Party Is authentic. It came recent- ly from the desk of a high ranking Berkeley pig. It was revealed to the Black Panther Party by the Berkeley Tribe. At ‘this stage the $5-step genocidal plan Is very de- tall. Berkeley pig chief Bruce Bak- er and Capt. Charles Plummer, when shown photo-copies by the press, replied, ‘‘This is probably the work of a couple of our ser- geants.’ They denied having ever seen the plans themselves. Pig chief Plummer saldhe had ordered the plans drafted, ‘‘a couple of months ago.’’ He referred to them as “contingency plans'’ and sald they were ‘‘good training.’’ When asked by newsmen the reason for the plan, he mumbled faintly about police departments throughout the nation ‘*having trouble with Pan- ther Headquarters Inthelr respec- tive cities.’ They said they have such attack plans for 40 local or- ganizations. Pig departments across the United States are fairly uniform in their attitudes towards minori- ties, the poor, and political dis- senters, It's no suprise to anyone nowadays when « Panther office is shot up, when Panthers are murdered or jafled for any wide variety of trumped up reasons. The Black Panther Party would agree with the Berkeley pig department’ s claim that they are truly a/‘ model light police department.’’ In the PLANNED GENOCIDE of the kidnapping of our Chair- man, Bobby Seale, the Kangaroo court trial of our leader and co- founder, Huey P. Newton, the at- tempt to murder our Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver, the murders of many Panthers and the false imprisonments of count- less Panthers, we would definitely say that Berkeley has a ‘‘model pig department.’ Although pig chief Plummer says that he requested but never saw the plans and that he had asked a ‘‘couple of sergeants’’ to draw up such plans, the plans contain at least four different types of handwriting. We wonder if a ser- geant can have the Berkeley Hall of Justice secured. We ask ‘‘can any old pig with three stripes ask the Alameda County Sheriffs of- fice to send a tank overfor a couple of hours? Can any three- stripe pig have ambulances and fire trucks on stand-by anytime he feels like it?*’ On second thought, later for questions; we know the an- swers. We know that ple J, Edgar Hoover considers us his number one target, (We saw that on TV) We know that the mis-named ‘* Justice’? Department has long ago created a task force to wipe out the Black Panther Party. We know that Tricky Dick Nixon, alleged President of the “land of the free’ has ordered the Black Pan- ther Party exterminated, We hav: had it shown to us in a thousand and one Ways, Reising - high powered rifie ASCO-~ Alameda County Sheriffs Office DD - Detective Division Tauncher - grenade Jauncher will fire any type grenade (gas, high explosive, inden- diary, fragmentation) Thompson - 45, caliber sub- machine gun 37mm gas gun - for firing tear fas on other types of gas Riot tank - tank (most pig depts. have models similar to ar- more personnel carriers now In use In Vietnam) HMH - Herrick Memorial Hosp. Berkeley H. of J. - Hall of Justice Pat, - Patrolman Sgt. - Sergeant Lt. - Lieutenant Armor plate window shields 1/8 inch steel plate shutters installed on upper windows of National Headquarters to guard against snipers andas- sasins (Black and white) in Babylon, ‘‘the land of the free."’ There exists enough proof of pig planned genocide Black Panther Party in particu- lar and Black people In general. All that is required of anyone ts the moral strength to investigat: an obviously ugly situation. In this society of fascist pig mur- der and brutality, sflence must bi Viewed as endorsement against the rHE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1969 PAGES Where is this man at a time like this ? 7 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 ENEMIES WITHIN ENEMIES WITHOUT Chairman Bobby Seale right nere in San Francisco, So having thar situation to deal with you can see the importance of waging the kind of educational program that we're talking about when circulating that petition, That petition is the only means for black people in America surviving geno- cide, because the pigs have been conditioned to kill black people, the don’t pick any bones about that, they don’t hesitate to do it, they do it every day, Everytime you pick up your papers, you see where some black murdered cold-bloodly on the streets of our community by some pigs, And the pigs are always white pigs, they're black pigs. In Los Angeles they have some 200 or betrer black cubans they're called Guazanos, it q youth has been not means these are patriots, olutionaries that have stowed away hijacked airplanes worms, these are counter-rev- and have and made their way here. But I'm not going to exert one atom of my energy trying to make distinctions berween a black pig and a white pig, because they're pigs. Because they're some stupid, idiotic, insane boot-licking motherfuckers. I don’t care if they're black or white, they're pigs and we're going tocall thm pigs until we have wrested the power of the gun from those people, and we control the actions and then maybe we can begin to call them brothers, But untilthat day comes George Sams, the USorganization and the local pigs that. patrol our com- munities by day and night are all a bunch of reporbateable, scum sucking enforcers for the op- pressive System of capitalism. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE AND LET’S SEIZE THE TIME! David Hilliard Chief of Staff Black Panther Party THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1969 PAGE 6 Pig O'Brien: goddamned bad | can "| want to kill a nigger so taste it!’ HE killed George Baskett. THE scene: San Francisco. Its climate is moderate; tempers do not flare; passions are not abraded by the heat. It is renowned Jor an easy-going, live-and-let-live attitude. It prides itself on its cultural diversity. ICHAEL O'BRIEN WAS RETURNING with some friends from a Sunday outing at Lake Berryessa. The double date had not gone well: O'Brien had been drinking and was in an unpleasant mood, At one point, he made his date get out of the car with him and told her to “bea little more affectionate” or walk home. She calmed him down a little, though, and they got back into the car. On the way across the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, he suddenly brandished a .38 revolver. After a minute he put the gun away, and a few minutes later they were at Brush Place. You'd have to be a pretty determined San Franciscan to know where Brush Place is. About two and a half blocks from the ugly new Hall of Justice, there's a little dead-end alley off Folsom Street called Hallam Street. Off that alley there's an even smaller alley, also a dead end. That's Brush Place. O'Brien kept his boat in one of the garages in Brush Place that are rented out for that purpose. Carl Hawkins, a mild-mannered black streetcar motorman, seems to have scraped O'Brien's boat trailer with his car. Hawkins immediately stopped and got out. This is how all the witnesses who were not police described what happened next: One thing quickly led to another. O'Brien yelled at Hawkins, “If you scrape my car, I'll shoot you!" People in the neighbor- hood, many of them black, came out or looked out their windows to see what was happening. Suddenly O'Brien pulled out his .38 and shouted, “Get your heads back in, niggers, or Til kill all of you. I'll blow your heads off." Hawkins’ wife went inside to phone the police; Mike’s companion, Willis Garriott, went out toward Folsom Street on the same errand. As Garriott returned with Special Patrol, Officer Ray- mond Adkins (a private policeman, but one with a uniform and a gun), there was the sound of a shot and confusion in the Street; O'Brien had three black men at gunpoint, their hands against the wall at the end of the alley. O'Brien was getting nastier by the minute; according to witnesses, he said, “I want to kill a nigger—I want to kill a nigger so goddamned bad I can taste it!" A black truck driver and neighbor of Hawkins, George Baskett—five inches shorter than O’Brien and 75 pounds lighter—picked up a slat out of a chair back, a thin piece of wood about 23 inches long and about an inch and a half wide, and tried to knock the gun away from O'Brien. Garriott and the special cop had their guns out by now and watched as O'Brien growled, “Drop the stick, drop it, goddammit.”" He counted in a rapid cadence, “One... two... three. .. ."" There was a sharp crack. The bullet ripped through Baskett’s chest, private counsel. The earliest moves in his case were han- a somewhat racist way of not being a bigot. severing a major artery. As Baskett lay moaning and dying in the street, O'Brien approached him. “Shut up, dammit,” he growled, “shut up.” He kicked at Baskett's side, turning his victim over on his back. Baskett's pregnant wife ran out toward her husband. “Get out of here, you black bitch," ended up trying the case). The father of the Dullea brothers that the police were guilty of any impropriety. irweal esta : O'Brien shouted, forcing her down the street. Then he looked up at the black faces peering down from the windows above him. “Get your heads back in niggers,” he shouted, “before 1 biow them off.” Within minutes, Baskett, twenty-cight years old and the father of five children, was dead. Michael O'Brien had killed his nigger. The police came, including San Francisco’s head-cracking Tactical Squad. They immediately began questioning “sus pects.”” They arrested Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hawkins, Mrs. Haw- kins’ son Richard Dickerson, and Otis Baskett, on charges of conspiracy, assault to commit murder, and assault with a deadly weapon. Then they helped the dazed O'Brien out of the alley and away from the angry crowd. "BRIEN OF COURSE WAS WuirTe. And although he had never said so to anybody in Brush Place, that night or at any other time, Michael O'Brien was a cop. “If he had only identified himself as a policeman,” recalled the soft-spoken Carl Hawkins, a man of fifty, “this whole business would never have happened.” And then—not apparently conscious himself of the ironic significance with which his words illuminated the growing chasm between law and people in the country as a whole—“People around here have a lot of respect for a police officer.” Within four hours of the shooting of George Baskett in Brush Place, the official police investigation of the incident had been conducted and concluded. The two officers who sub- mitted the report admitted in court that it had been rewritten three times on the orders of their superior, Lieutenant Daniel Mahoney, who had specifically ordered them not to mention any witnesses other than the policemen present. The report concluded that the killing of Baskett was “justifiable homicide.” It was only after reaching this conclusion that the police questioned the arrested blacks, who for three hours had been kept handcuffed in the paddy wagon outside the Hall of Justice. Early Monday morning, Chief Thomas Cahill told reporters that the whole aduir was a “sad situation,”’ but “4 man has a right to defend himself,’ He termed the shooting “accidental” and informed them that his own private inves: tigation was closed. But it was soon clear that sweeping the “accident” under the rug was not going to be quite so easy. Word had spread fast, and an aroused black community was soon denouncing Cahill’s expeditious review of the case as a police department “whitewash.” On top of this came some exceptional newspaper reporting by two local journalists, Birney Jarvis and Charles Raudebaugh. The police story stank. They knew it and they said so—on the front pages of the San Francisco Chronicle. GEORGE BASKETT, MURDERED By October 1, Cahill was forced to announce a reopening of the investigation, On October 9, Michael O'Brien was arrested and formally charged with murder. In these times of popular backlash against “coddling” of accused criminals, it is instructive to note_what kind of support is available to a rank-and-file policeman with no “connections” who has killed a black citizen. First, of course, there are his comrades-in-arms, who came through with two crucial commodities: money and testimony. The accused O'Brien had other help. He did not, for in- stance, have to resort to the public defender or to penny ante dled by prominent San Francisco attorney Edward Dullea. Dullea's brother is president of the prestigious Catholic Uni- versity of San Francisco, whose law school has given the city a large proportion of its judges (including Judge Karesh, who was a former San Francisco chief of police. But Dullea was soon replaced on the case by his even more prominent partner—through whom still other lines of influen- tial support became available to the humble cop—the fire- eating, legendary trial lawyer, Jake Ehrlich. [THE LEGEND OF SAM BENEDICT] AKE EHRLICH IS THE Best Criminal Lawyer in San Francisco. That doesn't mean that he is the best criminal lawyer in San Francisco; it means that that's his local title, though it rests mostly on past laurels—he doesn't have to work much any more. His reputation rests on the fact that, while he has occasionally compromised on conviction for manslaughter, he has never had a client convicted of murder—and he's handled over 50 murder cases, The reason he doesn't have to work is that he’s a member— possibly even a charter member—of the San Francisco Establishment. \ This has brought him into contact, and ultimately into friendship, with financier Louis Lurie, who juggles local hotels as a hobby. According to Ehrlich, Lurie is “the owner of more real estate than the Department of the Interior." For a couple of generations or so, Jake has been putting a buck wherever Lurie puts ten, and that’s been a painless way to amass a sizable bundle. Jake is a liberal. He took on Senator McClellan when he criticized use of the Fifth Amendment, He defended poets Allen Ginsberg and Lawrence Ferlinghetti against obscenity charges concerning “Howl.” He did a lot of other things that might have led someone to think that his life would make a great movie It never did, but it did make a tclevision series, starring Edmond O'Brien. They called it “Sam Benedict,”’ because the incipiently portly actor could hardly play tiny, skinny Jake; besides, Eddie would have had to play a lawyer who by now is over seventy, Ehrlich is also, now and for some time past, the attorney for the Police Officers’ Association—a voluntary organization which, when you become a cop, you join if you're stay away from if you aren't. One of the things that Ehrlich has going for him is th jury that could conceivably be put together in San F is going to be in awe just because it's the nearly lege da Ehrlich before the bench. He’s not only Sam Benedict; he's Perry Mason, Judd, and the Defenders, all at once. Another thing about Jake is that he will use whatever vill win; if racism will win, he'll use that, And so he did. He playec it like a fiddle. an Although almost everyone had assumed that murder js unbailable in California, a municipal judge released OF after he was booked. Black leaders were furious, noise was so loud for a day or so that a second judge overruled his colleague and ordered O'Brien back to jail Then Ehrlich moved in, going up to Superior Court whe he obtained a ruling granting $25,000 bail. “This man is not going to run,” the judge explained. Half the bail came from a bail bondsman, The other h was put up by Louis Lurie. “If this is a murder case,” Ehrlich’s friend told a reporter, “I'm the Pope of Rome.” ; He's not; and Michael O'Brien never was, and never be, tried for the murder of George Baskett. The Grand Jury members, as always, were prosperous — middle-class, predominantly white, and predominantly male. They meet in closed session and the district attorney tells them pretty much what le wants them to know. After hearing witnesses, the Grand Jury deliberated for 15 minutes and indicted Michael O'Brien—not for murder, but for manslaughter. The foreman said that, in the light of the testimony, there wasn't that much difference between murder and manslaughter in this case. (Huey Newton, who was ultimately convicted of manslaughter, was indicted for first degree murder by ‘the Alameda County Grand Jury across the bay, without benefit of eyewitness testimony or a murder weapon.) The city’s black leaders hit the roof. A blistering statement was issued charging that law enforcement agencies had 4 “connived and conspired to thwart justice.” Jake Ehrlich, on the other hand, had the grace to concede that manslaughter is a better rap than murder, though he still insisted it was justifiable homicide. “But this is those political footballs,” he went on. “Everyone wants to heard, and all they're doing is creating class feelings.” O'Brien's bail was reduced to $3125. é (tHe supGe] COURT JUDGE JOSEPH KARESH grew up in S Carolina, but that does not make him a bigot. is proud of the fact that his father, a rabbi, Hebrew to the local black ministers. Like Jake and Mayor Joseph Alioto, Karesh is a liberal. When a prob tion officer was fired for having a beard, Karesh ordered i rehired with back pay. He ruled that the city could have to joints and ordered the police to allow performances of Mi McClure’s play, ‘“The Beard.” He has, however, a couple of minor hang-ups, He ¢ like student dissidents, he loves: copes andliss anoaars tcl One local attorney recalls, “In many previous d had with Karesh, ha esacdl py batvcn esata perceiving that any policeman could be guilty of : conduct, One sure way to arouse his anger would be to sug; destroy his world if he thought O'Brien really called " people ‘niggers’ or shot to kill.” And a local reporter notes that, “. . . in his chambers he’ i - + 7 } MICHAEL O'BRIEN, THE MURDERER cul UP prosecution witnesses, sea talk about how the Macks are getting away with everything, how juries are afraid to convict them, how they are arrested one day and walk away free the next day.’ CONTINUED NEXT ISSUE ae we + PIGS TRY TO STOP BREAKFAST B.P.P. CALLS COMMUNITY MEETING MEETING AT TRINITY CHURCH, SATURDAY, 7 p.m., 4837 S. State AUGUST 3ikh. On August 25, Lt. Sam Lax of ine Illinois Chapter of the Black Pan- ther Party explained to the board of the Lutheran Religious Organiza- tion about the Free Breakfast for Children, Sam Lax said that over 1500 hungry children are being fed at Trinity Courch alone and over 3,000 through the city of Chicago, and that we are opening more places to feed hungry children and anyone ‘who is hungry. He explainedthar we ‘are opening a Free Medical Health Care Center on or about the first of September at 3850 W. 16th Street. The board saidthat we must leave the church, butthe PEOPLE wantus to Continue feeding the children and serving the community. The board wanted to teach the Lutheran Religion but didn’t have a preacher and never had one at Trinity Church. The board overlooked the fact thar believe that Black people should not | be forced to fight in the military ni service to defend a racist govern- ment that does not protect us, We > will not fight andkill other people of color in the world who like Black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of Ameri- the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military by whatever means necessary. 8. We want freedom for all Black people held inFederal, State, County and City prisons and jails, We be- lieve that all Black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have NOT re- ceived a fair and impartial trial, The Black Panther Party says to those who disagree with those two points or any point of the 10-Point Platform and Program have no understanding of this capitalistic system or don’t give adamn about BLACK PEOPLE, we feed hungry children andserve WE ARE CALLING FOR SUPPORT the oppressed people in the com- OF THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY anunity. The board couldn't relate to AND ALL CONCERNED PEOPLE, _mumbers 6 and 8 of our 10 Point rT and Program. _ 6. We want all Black men to be ex- _empt from military service, We CHARLES BURSEY-POLITICAL PRISO THERE S FREEDOM FROM HUN- GER IN THE BREAKFAST FOR CHILDREN ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE NER LETTER FROM CHARLES BURSEY POWER TO ALL THE PEOPLE To all my Revolutionary Com- rades throughout the world who are fighting the evils of capitalism, racism andreactionary nationalism whieh all in all leads to fascism: 1 want to tell you that J love all the people who are subjected to these evils. ‘There ils no power greater than that of the people, The fascist pigs of the ruling class will throw many stumbling blocks in our path to victory, these pigs know that there is waged against thetn, thelr corrupt officials, public servants, and boct- licking lackey», to end this hide and murderous Italism, racism, reactionary na- thona lism jast least imperialist, They also know that we will win, revolutionary war being sysien of cate and but not We are taught that those that have the ability will have to carry a heavy load, and those that have extreme ability will have to carry an extremly heavy load, Aad we are like oxen to be ridden by the peo- ple. I can see that we are putting these teachings into practice, Even though these fascist pigs have my body I can say as Huey P, Newton says, that the prison can never have a victory here for | cannot and will not parcicipate in KS cor rupting, exploiting system, whether | am in prison or in the fle lds working with the people or omrades, | would like to say more, on the other mand I of what Eldridge once uid, ‘"Wh its there to talk about? We're still not free,” We will be victorious! Charles Bursey Political Prisoner ny / think “ ca, We will protect ourselves from = THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1969 PAGE? ‘ iat A LETTER TO BOBBY Charlie W. Powell Imprisoned In Forsythe County Jail Dear Brother Seale, This is a letter that I got from my ten year old daughter. I have been in jail five months this year on two phony robbery charges. I have spent more than fifteen hundred doliars on bond and law- yer fees, and | do not have eny more money. While my six chil- dren and wife are starving, they have me sitting in jail. And the welfare says they can't give her anything because she is working. She has a job and she makes abour half enough, which is two hun- dred dollars a month, Sitting in jail does not bother me, Even though [| am here for nothing, I have been here before. I know and have known for a long time now, that the jails in America are made for the Black man. I am a poor man. But | know the difference between right and wrong. I work for what I get. I have even worked two jobs -- night and day to make ends meet. And now my family is starving be- cause they don’t have food to cat. And if the Welfare would give them what the police have taken from me in the last five years, that would be more than enough, They have robbed me with their phony court. The last judge that tried me looked own on me and said ‘I know all about you.” And that was the first time he ever saw me! He told me that I was some kind of leader for my peo- ple and that was a Black Pan- ther, which I am sure that you know that I am not, I do not mind being a leader for my people. I wish that I was, For | know that they need all the help they can get. And I wouldn't mind being a Panther cither, The point is lam neither one. But I want you to know that I believe in every- thing the say anc | am with you all the way, I don’t care who knows it, Even though I am in jail now, my home ts open to the Panther Party or any Black brother, I live at 2810 Patterson Ave, Right now, 1 don't know how long my ly will tast, but they now, I know the reason that I in jail | stood up and faced *yustice’’ undone man facing ""jus- tice” in America is lost, | re- member Malcolm \. | loved him when he was and LI love him since rone, but | will never { as long as that Panthers fami- are there am here he ree more hum I live! The police locked me in my cell all day Wednesday July 30, and did not give me any food. They made two more men sleep on the floor because they asked for sheets to sleep on, and I know this is wrong! [ have writ- ten to Raleigh but | know they didn’t mail them. Some people, in America do not know about some things in America. Some people talk about injustice and miscarriage of justice as if they were justice, But they don’t know. You don’t know what miscarriage is until you"ve had it done to you, You do not have to trouble your- selves with me, for I know that you all have enough trouble of your own. Gut I want you to know that even though I am not a mem- ber, | am with you all the way to death, And if you do print this letter my little girl wrote me I would be glad. I buy a paper whenever I can get one. I wish that | had some money to send you ‘cause I know that you need it. I have spent all my money in their phony courts, And it looks like they are trying to starve me now. I wish thar I could see a Jet Magazine reporter, But I don’t know how to get in touch with one! I know that a man is not supposed to be locked up without food, but there is nothing I can do about it right now. And I know there is no law against the law! There is much I did like to say but I Know you have trouble of your own. Charlic Powell Dear Daddy, | will be glad when you get out of jail. | miss you very much. I go to summer school June 30th and will be back August 8th, Some girls beat up Ann, and gave she a broken rib. She is okay now. | would have given you a Pather’s Day gift, but I didn's have any money. | still have the record player you gave me. J would come down there to see you but Mama said it was too far walk for me, Mama is having a very bad time. sometimes she cries because st fon’t have enough money to pay te ichold bills. | wish I knew some way [ could help her icky still has his paper route and tries to help Mama but that ts not enought money. | will slways love you, Your Loving Daughter, Cynthia Powell LETTER FROM SISTERS OF THE CONN. 14 August 20, 1969 To the people, We heard this morning that our Chairman has been arrested and charged with “‘unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.” We realize that the repressive tactics of the fascist gestapo troops of America are stepping up, but we cannot af- ford to let them totally destroy the Party or its leadership, We have to fight ‘‘tit for tat’’. When they sharpen their swords, we must doubly sharpen ours. It is needless to say that the people are confused at this point as to what the Party's policies are, They are not to threaten or harass the people. The blundering of the mass media and of the power structure must not be mis- interpreted. The Party is neither vicious nor dogmatic, but we are fighting for the liberation of op- pressed people and the people of the third world. We know that the fascists have no evidence with which to hold Chairman Bobby, so we demand his release, Wedemandthe release of all political prisoners. hk is clear that they (the reactionary power structure) are trying to re- move the head of the Party so that the body will die. They tried with Huey, Eldridge, and countless others, but it won't work. The Party will never die because the people will never allow that. We must continue with our programs and community work. We must continue to organize around the is- sues that affect us politically and economically so that one day the people will rise like a mighty storm they will smash all the trammels that bind them and rush forward along the road to Liberation, F-— THE PIG FASCIST DOGS They cannot break our spirits; we will win! Free All Political Prisoners! Long Live our Revolutionary Cen- ral Committee! (Our spirits are with you, Chair- than Bobby) Ericka Huggins Frances Carter Pegyy Hudgins Rose Smith THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1969 PAGE 8 HUEY’ APPEAL Pern www wwe ew wm wm ew ee EDITOR's NOTE: E aa 5 4 9 | Q the facts as y Huey P.Newton should be set free immediately, a By eee 3. THE WEST OAKLAND GHETTO CONSTITUTES A DISTINCT IDENTIFIABLE GROUP, WITH ASEPA RATE AND DISTINCT SUB-CULTURE, LANGUAGE, POLITICAL BEHAVIOR, AND RACIAL AND SOCIO ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS, During the proceedings had on defendant's motionto quash the venire, on grounds that black persons, poor persons, and persons culturally differing from the dominant majority culture were systematically ex- cluded and underrepresented, the trail court prohibited the defense from introducing testimony as to the separate and significantly identifiable characteristics _ of West Oakland as a community (R.T. 142-45, attempt » to offer the testimony of Dr. Floyd Hunter), The court did have before it Judge Spurgeon Ava- kian’s finding of the culturally distinct characteristics of West Oakland in his opinion in People v. Craig, Supra, at C.T, 140. In Craig, Judge Avakian quashed the master pane! of trial jurors in Alameda County _ because use ofan “‘intelligence” rest disproportionate- ly excluded racial minorities and lower income citi- ens, thus producing a master panel not represen- tative of the community at large. During the trial, Professor Herman Black gave expert (and uncontroyerted) testimony as to the meanings of the separate and distinct language, poli- tical ideology and thought, and cultural behavior and common understanding of the members of the West _ Oakland community (R.T, 336-75), Professor Blake's ‘testimony covered a diverse range of distinct atti- ‘tudes and beliefs (R.T. 339-41): . “, . -the concept of oppression and the objec- tive kinds of consequences and the objective kinds of situations which lead people to think in terms of oppression. *, . . théonly way the oppression is maintained at significantly high levels is through a group individuals who carry out the orders of the larger power structure and that the only way that this force can be counter-balanced is to show that the black community is ready and is * willing to defend itself. . . , and that therefore, those agents who recognize that the people are ready and willing to defend themselves when they sre attacked will no longer engage in those activities which before had been looked over as a consequence of their own legitimate access to violence."’ (on the meaning of **the ghetto" (R,T. 3357): ‘In its early formulation by Louis Worth and others, the term ghetto was implied to -~ was meant to apply to a particular geographical location occupied by a distinct ethnic or social group, and it was characterized by certain phenomena, particularly phenomena related to what we would today call ed eae characterized by phenomena of poor health, low education, high incidence of illness and disease. . . .the kind of general social problems are aggravated, heightened in a particular area oc- cupied by -- or rather in which a particular group reside, housing, health, education, generally low income. . ."’ FOOTNOTE 2. Professor Blake, a sociologist, teaches at the University of California at Santa Cruz, was a con- sultant to the federal Office of Economic Opportunity (Poverty) program throughout the Western Region, particularly in California; authored an analysis of the Berkeley poverty program; published numerous articles in professional journals on socio-economic conditions in the black cominunity; and has studied and written about the Oakland black ghetto (R,T, 3017-20), END FOOTNOTE (on identification of the black ghetto of Oakland (27) (R.T, 3357-59): FOOTNOTE 27. Even to the jury commissioner (Mr. Schnarr), the black ghetto was known as ‘West Oakland" (K,T, 59), END FOOTNOTE " . . Im Oakland the ghetto referred only to West Oakland, It did not refer to East Oakland generally. *) . . The black community in this area is, definitely does have o particular way of ap- proaching and dealing with the language, different from the general community. "| JI first noticed the term T.C.B. being used in this area in 1961, At that time I noted people were using the T.C.G, in the concept, take care of business with reference to eating. ‘The concept has been expanded and uti- lized in a wide variety of ways. And in the black community what gives the term meaning is not some specific term that you cansay equates with T.C.B., but it, the context in which it is uti- lized, the way in which it is utilized, the way in which it is verbalized. “) , , At a concert in Oakland in July of 1967, which | attended, it was atthe OaklandArens and (the blues singer, Aretha Franklin) sang two songs,. . . in which she used the term take care of busines . . .(with) a distinct sexual reference . » «+ [have heard it used with respect to com- munity organization. | have heard it used with respect to the utilization of the vote...” (on the term ‘oppression’ and its special meaning to West Oakinad (R,T. 3361-62)): "As to the term, oppression. it is usually defined in terms of first of all, very high levels of unemployment for black men as compared to white men; rather low levels of black family income as compared to white family income; the different problems which black people face with respect to welfare agencies, the fact that families have to depend on this kind of source for income, and the fact that welfare agents very, very frequently act in terms or in ways which are not in the best interests, they feel of the particular family, and in terms of the way the educational system relates to black people. “That is to say that the educational system is not seen ag acting in the best interests of the community. The education is not seen as relevant to the conditions and needs of the young people in the community and the teachers are not seen as responsive to the particular situ- ations of the young people.” HUEY IN THE COMMUNITY (on the community’ definition ofthe term ‘"bootlicker’ (RT, 3362-63)): **. . sthe term, bootlicker, is used to refer to a person who acts in a very demeaning fashion, even though he is in a position of influence with respect to the black community. : ‘With respect to the black community he has a lot of influence and power and sometimes control; with respect to the larger community, his behavior and posture js quite often, it Is in terms of abnegation and prostrating one’s self before the power structure ... it gen- erally arose out of the context in which many black youth in early point of thelr life served in that position as a shoe shine boy.... But, with respect to its generic -- its general application, it referred to a pergon who has in- fluence and power in the black community, but who, in relationship to the yeneral society does not manifest the integrity of the community,”” (on the concept of ‘‘signtfyn” (RT, 3364-65)): “The concept + Called signifyn .. . when black people are talking, using one language, they have completely different ideas in mind, so what they are doing is, they are signifyn, and it is a way of expressing one's self in one language about acompletely different phenomena “It a group of black youths are standing on a street corner and a young lady happens to come by and they would like to comment on her appearance without, of course, trying to be insulting in any way, they would not talk about her appearance, they would talk about the weather. It is a fine day today. Things tainly looking beautiful here today, and of this naire. "Or, if the young lady were sitting in a ch and they wanted to comment about Ker ph appearance, they would say, I see beautiful | Ot the chair.” ae (on the use of language in the community(R.T, ‘*Birst of all there is a great ¢ words, a great emphasis upon Py emphasis upon rhym, you see, and the entir piece then must be looked at in terms o ri rhythm, rhythmic patterns, in terms of rhyming patterns, and in terms of its / tive meaning with respect to the perce; ' people have of the community around them.’ (on the political concept of ‘‘accountability™ and on the irrelevance ofdominant majority political languag to the ghetto (R,T, 3346-48): A ‘* , ,accountability, that is to say, the ides being manifested in the black community tha black people must separate themselves major politica) parties, because they areun ponsive to the needs of the black commun and put in their place agents or politicians are responsive to the needs, conditions situations of the particular comm question. ‘|, Jamestown was essentially the cri of democracy in this country. But Jamest also was the place where twenty captu Africans were landed to begin the practice w ended up in human slavery which brought he vast majority of our ancestors here, “Now, this simple fact meant thatthe rheto of the democracy and the fact of black quality were locked in the American patte thinking right from the start and that since that time this rhetoric has beenirrelevant to black people, because Americans have been able to successfully encapsulate black peo in other areas of their minds as not bein cluded in this democratic rhetoric.” Professor Blake gave numerous other detailed amples of the distinct cultural differences of the Wi Oakland sub-culture. The residents of West Oaklar share certain characteristics with those of b poor of other areas of Oakland, and of the ami western, and even the southern United ‘ The categories of black poor and West Oakland re dents overlap somewhat, but this overlap is acade with respect to the entativeness of the herein, because the prosecution totally exclu members of both categories. As be * , 4, THE SELECTION PROCESSES UTILIZED § TEMATICALLY PRODUCED TOTAL EX FENDANT’S PEEKS, SUBSTANTIAL UNDER-REP TATION OF BLACK AND POOR PERSONS, JURY NOT REPRESENTATIVE OF THE COMMUN AND THESE PROCESSES AND RESULT DEPRIVED FENDANT OF AN IMPARTIAL JURY AND A FAIR TRL a, PROCESSES OCCURING PRIOR TO SEATING JURY BOX. ‘ : fe : The presence of 8 Negroes on the original oon ee cat ce eee ‘om usion tothat of systematically d mined substantial under-representation, The courts have long since recognized under-re tation aspresenting the same constitutional pro effecting the same denial of constitutionally nets as rity bernie ignificant @ group, roomy. Alaanss 200 eee 1050 (1961), revg per curiam 270 Ala, 575, 120 So 2d; 960), and Cassell v, Texas, 339 US, 282, 70 S.Ct. 950), In Anderson appellant alleged under-represe tion of Negroes on jury venires, and in Cassell, revers! on other grounds, the Court said that if the jury c sloners had limited Negroes to one on each (grand) such practice was unconstitutional, A large and unexplained disparity between the propor- tion of Negroes on venires and inthe population generally is unlikely to result from random selection. Whenthe dis- parity between Negroes in the adult population and those actually appearing on trial juriesbecomessolargethat the prosecution may exclude all or all but one or two s from the trial jury, in an area with a large Negro lation, the procedure by which this actualitycomes: must be re-examined whether or not they have previc been sarictioned by law or custom, ee The constitutional right to a representative jury, bat is, a jury representative of the community, does not mean tha every jury shall mirror the community, but only that system for selecting juries shall be specifically desi to produce juries which are a reasonable cros: its significant elements, See, Kuhn, ‘‘Jury Diserimt: The Next Phase,'' 41 So. Cal, L. Rev. 235, 245 (1s ’ this context, the word ‘selection’ denotes the cholceof, or the system for choosing which individuals are made ell- gible for jury duty, are called for jury service, and actu sit on juries. The word‘‘discrimination’’ denotesa proc which unreasonably includes members of one group unreasonably excludes members of another, ‘. A defendant is denied a hearing by an impartial tri if his jury is blased against him, whether from prejudice, (28) publicity surround the trial, f other reasons, When the blas Is ra the black de! runs a greater risk of conviction, of conviction of a higher degree of crime, andof se vere punishment than do members of the community's dominant white class. (See, e¢. Billingsley v. Clayton, 359 F.2d 13, 16-16 (Sth Cir, rac! H. Kalven and H, Zeisel rican Jury, 2 (1966); G, Myrdal, An Amer aay 580-54 2d Ed.); J, Greenberg, Race Relations and Am Law, 334-37 (1959); Broeder, “The N 1965 Duke LJ. 19, 23; Note, "The « Ray Beet nm 60 Harv, L, Rev, 613-14 (1947),) 4 Plainfield, NJ. ~ Bobby Lee Wil- lams, 24, who is scheduled to go on trial In Elizabeth on September 15 om charges of Inciting a crowd to murder a white policeman two years ago, charges he was eon- trapped into compromising his comstitutional rights. Williams Med a civil suit against the City of Plainfield after he was shot by Patrolman John V. Gleason, Jr., who was later killed by a crowd, Defense attorneys William M, Kunstler and George G, Mutnick filed today (August 26, 1969) a notice of a motion to dismiss the indictment against Bobby Lee Wil- Mams, The defense move notified Union County Prosecutor Leo Ka- plowitz that counsel for the de- fendant, Williams, will apply to Union County Criminal Court in Elizabeth on September 12 for dis- missal on the ground that the in- dictment is unconstitutional and prejedicial against the defendant, Williams was shot and serious- ly wounded on July 16, 1967, by Gleason, inside the Black com- munity of Plainfield. Subsequent to the unwarranted assault against ‘Williams, he was rushed to the hospital critically wounded, andan enraged crowd of persons killed Gleason more than a block away. In a relgn of terror, police rounded up twelve Black people ‘and charged them with the murder of Gleason. Bobby Lee Williams, himself the victim of the savage attack by the slain policeman, now faces charges of ‘‘inciting -Bumerous and diverse persons’ to kill Glesson, He also faces charges of assault with Intent to kill, and assault end battery against the Plainfield police officer. Two young Black people, Gall _ Madden, 24, a mother of two chil- _ @ren, and George Merritt, Jr., > - - . 25, were convicted in the death of Gleason. And on December 23, 1968, Madden and Merritt were sentenced to life imprisonment, An appeal of their conviction is being prepared by attorney Frank Donner. - if convicted, Bobby Lee Williams faces a 26 year jail sentence on Following his release from the hospital for injuries sustained from Gleason's gun, Williams ini- tiated a civil suit against the City of Plainfield, In an affidavit filed with today’s defense notice, Wil- liams said he made a deposition at that time concerning the events on the night that he was shot, “Had I known that I was then un- der indictment or about to be indicted,"’ stated Williams, ‘'! would not have agreed to testify in the deposition taken of me in connection with my civil suit. By reason of the deposition taken of me under such circumstances,’’ said Williams, "I was led into compromising my constitutional rights not to testify against myself THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1969 PAGE 9 NEWS FROM THE PLAINFIELD JOINT DEFENSE COMMITTEE action, and I am asking the court to suppress the use of any such testimony by the Prosecutor or any evidence which the Prosecu- tor was able to get by use or reference to such testimony."’ On Wednesday, November 14, 1968, while Gall Madden, George Merritt, and the other defendants were already on trial, two de- tectives came to Williams’ home at 936 West Fourth Street in Plain- field. They told him that they were investigating the death of Gleason and wanted Williams to sign a statement and furnish in- formation. “] never read this statement,’ Williams recalled, ‘'l asked what information they wanted.'’ want to know who you saw at the scene with Gleason."' Willlams replied that he was shot by Gleason and taken to the hospital before the time the po- liceman was reported to have been killed, Then they gave him a list and asked him to check the names, When Willlams sald he couldn't remember, the second detective, who was Black, asked his partner to leave and attempted to seduce Williams into making a statement on the basis of racial fraternity. When he refused to submit to their demand, Williams was told if he didn’t sign a statement, he would be in jail within 48 hours.’ Earlier, Robert D. Carroll, who was representing Williams in the civil sult against the City of Plain- field, informed Bobby's mother that the prosecutor wanted Wil- liams to testify as a state wit- ness against Madden, Merritt and other defendants, Carroll told Mrs. Leola Williams that the prosecutor wanted Bobby to point a finger at one or all of the people on trial for the death of Gleason by saying he remembered seeing them in the vicinity at the time he was wounded, Again, Bobby Lee Wil- liams refused, “T belleve that the sealed in- dictment was made known to me and used by the State only after I refused to furnish the information which the detectives wanted me to do,’* declared Williams, This in- dictment was not made known to Williams until one year after it was handed down by the Grand Jury. ‘*1 belleve that under these cir- cumstances,’ Williams declares in his affidavit, ‘the prosecution is brought in bad faith and should not be allowed by (the) court if my rights under the Constitution of the United States and of the State of New Jersey are to be protected.’’ On April 30, 1969, Williams spoke about his case at a meeting of the Plainfield Joint Defense Committee. The following day, he was informed by his brothers that the police came tohis home looking for him. On May lor 2, Mrs. Leola Wil- George Mutnick that police had come with a warrant for the arrest of Bobby, ‘*Since I was then also appearing on behalf of Bobby Lee Willlams in a matter in the Domestic Re- lations Court,"’ said Mutnick, ‘and knew of not other court where a subpoena would have been Issued for the defendant, I called the clerk of the court and learned that there was no record of such a subpoena or warrant for arrest,"* In his affidavit filed with the defense notice, attorney Mutnick said he had personally inquired of Detective Patrick McColgan of the Plainfield Police Department as to whether he could see the warrant for arrest. ‘‘He showed me the warrant which had been issued on October Il, 1968, on the order of Judge John L, McGuire,’’ he affirmed. ‘I learned of no satisfactory explanation for the issuance of this warrant or of the tardy attempt at execution of It,’’ Then Mutnick wrote Judge McGuire to request the warrant be recalled. The defense charges that ex- cess and prejudicial pre-trial pub- licity in the local and metropolli- tan press has created an atmos- phere in which Williams would not receive a fair trial, Attorneys Kunstler and Mutnick have asked to receive a list of prospective state witnesses and informants against Williams, And the Plain- field Joint Defense Committee charges in its brochure that the frame-up of Bobby Lee Williams is an attempt to ‘‘decapitate leadership in the ghetto,’’ A rally for the freedom of Bob- by Lee Williams, Gail Madden, and George Merritt will be held in Plainfield under the auspices of the Plainfield Joint Defense Com- mittee on September 5, 1969, The meeting will take place at the Park Hotel Annex, 7th and Arlington Avenue, Frank Donner, appeal law- yer for Madden and Merritt, and William Kunstler, one of Williams’ defonse lawyors, will be among the speakers. Plainfield Joint Defense Com- mittee 218 Watchung Ave. the three-count Indictment, with respect to this criminal One of the detectives said, “We Miams notified Plainfield attorney Plainfield, N.J. 07061 THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY UNDER ATTACK “Historically all reactionary forces on the verge of extinction invariable conduct alast desperate struggle against the revolutionary forces."" MAO TSE TUNG The Black Panther Party was founded by Huey P. Newton in 1966 and since then it has been continually under attack by the power structure of the United States. Today the pigs are stepping up their efforts to destroy the van- guard Party. Hoey P. Newton was thrown into the concentration camp for no other reason than that he organized a party that Is dedicated to the liberation of all the people and that b example he was educating the peo- ple to gain their liberation, Li'l Bobby Hutton was murdered by the racist cops of Oakland on April 6, 1968, just a few days before his 18th birthday. Eldridge Cleaver chose exile rather than @ return to prison. The Oakland pig dictatorship wanted to reimprison Eldridge be- cause he was forcefully exposing things to the people which aroused them {to take steps toward their liberation. The chairman of the Party,Bob- by Seale, has beenindictedonsome crazy charge of “conspiracy to incite a riot’’ at the fascist Demo- cratic Party National Convention, The fact is that Chairman Bobby was in Chicago for only one day and when he got there, the people were already rebelling. One hears daily reports of po- lice attacks on Panther head- quarters and arrests of Panther leaders on trumped-up charges, and frame ups. In cities such as San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Denver, Detroit, Chicago, Des Moines, New York, New Jer- sey, etc., etc., the pigs have used phony excuses’ to raid Panther headquarters, destroy and steal Panther equipment, especially guns. In New York, the pigs have charged 2) Panthers with con- spiracy to blow up a store and botanical gardens, This charge is > how Jownright crazy and shows ridiculous the U.S, ruling circies { , have become in trying to cover up their terroristic acts against the people. Why would the Panthers blow up a place full of people whose children they feed every morning (Breakfast for Children Program) and whom they are de- fending against pig attacks? The real reason for the attack against the Panther Party Is that the Panthers see the ‘‘military- industrial complex for what it is -- a fascist dictatorship -- and are exposing it to the people and opposing it, The fascist dictatorship iscom- posed of greedy businessmen (e.g. Rockefeller) who daily exploit the people both in America and a- brosd; demagogic politicians (e.g. Dic ‘the trick’ Nixon) who lie to the people daily to cover up their exploitation and oppression of the people; and the pig cops who car- ry out their wanton brutality against the people, thus helping the avaricious businessmen and the demagogic politicians to suck the blood of the people. As they see fascism for what It is so the Panthers are exposing ic to the people. Every morning in many cities throughout the Unied States, children who used to go to school hungry are being fed by the Panthers ‘Breakfast fcrChildren Program.”" So now the people are beginning to ask “How come the Panthers are feeding us when we are hungry and the govern- ment didn't?"* And the answers becoming ever more clear -~the government is not set up to meet the needs of the people, whereas the Black Panther Partyis. It is thus no accident that the pigs are sent out to attack Panther headquarters anddestroy food sip= plies for the “Breakfast for Chil- Jren Program." Another prime tacget of the police is The Slack Panther, Black Community News Service. Every week this paper exposes to the people the truth about the ruling class ofAmerice. Clreulation of this paper has increased by thousands in the last months and more people are seeing through the lies put out by the imperialist newspapers. So now the hogs are trying to put The Black Panther out of circulation. They are de- Stroying dispatches of the paper, intimidating the printers and so on. But the Black Panther goes on educating the people. The Black Panther Party real- izes that proletarian internation- alism can successfully destroy the U.S, fascist ruling circles; so it has called upon all pro- gressive groups to form a United Front Against Fascism. In this way the people can co-ordinate their activities to attack theircom- mon enemy, the monopoly capital- ist class of the United States, in- stead of each other. Now, the U,S, ruling class cannot stand anything that is United Against IT; in fact, IT sponsors groups to blow on racism and further divide the op- pressed and exploited people. So when the Black Panther Party comes along and calls for aUnited Front Against Fascism, the ruling class quickly tries to shut up the B.P.P,. This is the main reason for the intensified terror cam- paign being conducted by the im- Perialists ‘against the B.P.P, in the last few months. We of the Black Youth organ!- zation gee the attacks on the Black Panther Party as a sign of the inner weakness of the mono- poly capitalist class in the United States, We rejoice in the fact that the B.P.P, is not deterred by these attacks against it, but rather is carrying its revolution- ary practice to @ higher level and is proving the truth of what Huey P, Newton taught: “When the oppressor makes a viclous attack against freedom fighters because of the way that such freedom fighters choose to go about their liberation, then we know that we are moving in the direction of our Liberation,” POWER TO THE PEOPLE AVE ALL THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1969 PAGE 10 RON KARENGA (PIG Acouple of weeks ago another Panther was murdered by Ron Ka- renga’s US organization. The Pan- ther’s name was Sylvester Bell He worked with the San Diego Branch of the Black Panther Par- ty. Brother Bell was shot down in cold blood while handing out a B.P.P, newsletter. Just this past May 23rd, John A. Savage, ano- ther Panther was murdered on a San Diego street. These acts of murder are part and parce! of the high level govermented plot todes- troy the Black Panther Party. The number ofPanthers killed by US has run to four. All four have been in Southern California, the last two have been in San Diego, a known Karenga stronghold, It’s quite obvious that the US organ- ization is a special division of the fascist police establishment. Not one member of US has been con- victed of any crime against the Panthers, The pigs did not oven make an arrest in the case of Brother Savage, nor did they in- vestigate the murder. The pig establishment press has aided the fascist American govern- ment in keeping information about Karenga and US undercover away from the masses of the people. The press has labeled and de- fined every one of these acts of murder as “a struggle for power and contra! of the Black Com- munity,’’ They print that US and the Panthers are rivals. The peo- ple know that the only rivalry that exists between US and the Pan- thers is the rivalry that exists between the pigs and the Panthers. It is known and concded that Karenga’s men are always armed, and there is no record of his men ever being picked up on a -con- -cealed ‘weapons charge. An incident occurred in Newark, Now Jersey, while Karenga and a group of ten of his goons were ina motel there. The cleaning maid found guns in the mote! room and called the Newark pigs. A call from Newark to Chief (Thon) Pig Tom Reddin in Los Angeles pro- duced a statement by Reddin that he was aware that the group was armed and to leave them alone. Once during a meeting outside a L.A, county courtroom two mem- bers of the Black Panther Party were backed against a wall by four members of US and threatened. At the point that the Panthers be- gan to defend themselves, the Los Angeles Pig Department...which had been witnessing the whole si- tuation...stepped in and threatened to arrest the members of the Black Panther Party for disturbing the peace, Black Panther offices are shot _— up, broken into, and burned down on a nationwide scale. Legal wea- pons are stolen by the various pig agencies across the nation. To date, no weapons have been Sleged from the US organiation, though US is carrying weapons a- round daily. They are also kill- ing Panthers every chance they FASCIST PIGS RUN AMUCK IN DENVER Pigs create the conditions for revolution, this theory was put in- to practice and was proven cor- rect, Saturday, August 24, a bro- ther ran a red light and was pull- ther ran a red light and was palled over by “Elmer Hog"’ the lo- cal. neighborhood nigga watchers. The brother was snatched from his car and manhandled by the hog (the Black brothers and sisters here in Denver hate the pig and fear him not), The brother show- ing no fear of this B.C. cave- man or his club infurlated the beast who then turning even more re- actionary put the cuffs on the bro- ther, hit him 10 or 15 times till they reached a climax and think- ing that they reached thier holy fascist mission, Hog number one panting, olnking and grinning felt the wrath of a people’s brick which Struck close to his snoot. Neither Hog stopped to notice while they were brutalizing the brother that the people were checking the s--t out and with the help of the pro- Secutor named objective reality, found them guilty of barbarism and commenced to carry oft the sen- tence of death. Pigs were running amuck, bustin’ brothers, sisters, - any- body; but the s--t wasn't one- sided, The people realized that the streets belong to the people and that the pigs are foreign troops occupying the Black community with weapons of war, as they do in Vietnam. The mistake of mobs and unorganized groups are stead- ily leaving the American set, Black, Brown and Yellow people will let the pigs move on their emotions, run amuck, go crazy and die like the mangy rabid dogs they are. Let me quote Huey as my exit, “Black people must now move, from the grassroots up through the perfumed circlesofthe Black bourgeoisie, to seize by any means necessary a proportionate share of the power vested and collected in the structure of America. We must organize and unite to combat by long resis- tance the brutal force used against us daily. The power structure de- pends upon the use of force with- in retaliation. This is why they made it a felony to teach gquer- rila warfare. This ts why they want the poople unarmed, The racist dog oppressor fears the armed people. They fear most of all Black people armed with weapons and the idelogy of the Black Panther Party For Self- defense. An unarmed people are subject to moment’ The Black warriors rotting in these fscist Denver pig pens need aid, we must stand behind our fighters wholeheartedly, slavery at any given Send contributions to Free Denver Political Prisoners to: Black Panther Party, Denver Chapter 2859 Humboldt St. Denver Colorado FREE LANDON DIXON AND PRISONERS! ALL POWER RORY, GERALD LL POLITICAL TO THE PEOPLE! PS. The Denver pig dept. has just been alloted $58,000 by big bro- ther; Mscist fice Nixon, It's only paper, it’) burn., get Karenga maintains a total num- ber of five apartments and two of- fices which comes to an expense of approximately eight thousand, four hundred dollars per year.His Standard salary for the members (murderers) in his upper organi- zation on payroll is eighty dollars a week, of which there are at least twe've known to be on this payrol, which would be approxi- mately fifty thousand dollars a year. This does not include the organization expenses. Karenga feeds members of US into com- 4 “CULTURAL-NATIONALIST VIPER munity organizations. To do this he has abandoned the custom of having all of his men wear bald heads. They are not forced to wear bubas at all times now. The women in the organization are no longer forced to wear African wraps and in fact are now allowed to wear miniskirts and dress in the latest FROM From: Ali Bey Hassan Bronx House of Detention Branch To: The Black Panther Party, the People's Party All Power to the Oppressed People! f would like to inform the peo- ple about just one of the many, many cases concerning the defen- dant, Bobby Rogers, who is being kept in maximum security, 24 hours a day, unless he has a visit or has to appear in court. This article is concerning the Bobby Rogers Case: Over a prolonged period of time and on numerous occasions, the defendant has been subjected to threats on his life, assaults, and verbal abuse while being the su- perintendsant and a resident of the building at 678 East 138th Street, Bronx, New York. Bobby Rogers has attempted to maintain a premise of cleanliness and respec- tability in a neighborhood contin- vously plagued by disreputable people, perpetrating assaults, murders, muggings, and per- meated with narcotic users and Sellers. While acting in the func- tion of superintendant of said premises Bobby Rogers has been forced to eject various charac- ters because of their use of the building as a haven for the sale of and the use of narcotics as well as the evidence of attempted bur- glaries, etc, The defendant had been threatened with physical harm and even death by the descendants and the man assaulted outside the bar as well as many other indi- viduals because of defendant's op- Position to those types of people frequently being in his building, On July lth, 1968 at approx- fashion, Karenga now has an alliance with Newark, New Jersey They put together a pro- in Newark which was as- sisted by Motown through a bene- fit. They are promoting Black ca- Learol Joines of gram plialism and racism nationally Karenga himself has been hiding since he had John Huggins and Al- prentice “Bunchy'’ Carter assas- sinated at UCLA. The Grand Jury did not even bring the pig to the hearings. The official Los Angeles Police Department position on Ron Karenga is that his whereabouts are unknown. The lying pig press called the murder of John and Bunchya strug- gie for control of a Black stu- dies program. This is the way the press tries to smooth over acts committed against the Black was sharp enough to see what Karenga was doing on the college campuses Panther Party. “Bunchy"’ in terms of promoting Black capi- talism, racism and irreva.ent cul- tural nationa ism. Eldridge Cleav- er says, ‘that In order to control the body it is necessary to con- trol the mind.’’ Bunchy'’ knew that the concept of Black Power was in the minds of most “Biack’’ college students. He also knew that Ron Karenga was twisting, dis- torting, and creating a tool out of that concept that would be designed for use by the power structure against a people seeking self- determined education. The timing, the place and every- thing was right for the opportunist pork chops to shoot Bunchy and John in the back. Even with the conditions being the same on the streets as they were on the cam- pus, these pork chop punks would not live twenty four hours had they made their attack in the ghetto. John and Bunchy were from the streets. Enemies of the peoplecan- not live on the streets, they can only sit in high level rocks of granite and olk at the world, so the people will wait and they will have their day, imately 5:35 p.m,, the defendant called the pigs (code 911) and re- ported that two men had tried to break Into his apartment and had threatened his life, At approx- imately ten minutes to six of the same evening, defendant was standing on the front stoop of said building waiting for the arrival of the police. The two men who had previously tried to break into de- fendant’s apartment and threatened his life returned accompanied by two more men. At this time an assaulting action ensued upon the defendant with a positive indication of deadly physical forcebeing per- petrated. In self defense Bobby Rogers reacted and took the weapon away from one of the men. This resulted in the death of three of the men and the wounding of the assailant. The defendant’s lawyer entered a plea of ‘not guilty’ by telling the defendant he would be better off with a plea of ‘not guilty’ because of the 14 counts against him, So, defendant Bobby Rogers wants to demur all charges against him. He's being railroaded by his lawyer and the court, He's charged with first degree murder and thirteen other counts, The defendant's present lawyer was appointed by the court, after the first lawyer that he paid wag dismissed from the case, The present lawyer has not put in any motions to protect the defendant's rights. The defendant needs out- side help, | request that this be publicized inthe Black Panther Pa- per in the interest of the people, All Power to the People Ali Bey Hasson Center located ar $850 W. K6eh St sure the success of this prow Bend all contributions to Black Panther Party Ulinois Chapter 2350 W. Madison Editorial Statement It has become quite evident that most American publications and news agencles adhere to pub-— lication techniques common to newspapers and journals published in capitalist societies. Lies, distortions, intentional omissions, quoting - out - of - context, and incorrect para- phrasing are common techniq : in profit-orlented publications, The Black Panther Party has been the continued victim of jourtialis-— tic ‘pimping and pandering’? since its inception. As a political party — actively engaged In the gd fi liberation struggle of our ’ we know from direct experience the harm done by this type of ‘(news reporting’. Needles to say, after three years as victim of such backward tendencies the — Black Panther Party has no desire to become the perpetrator of the — i same madness. The publication and agencle: guilty of these ‘sins-against-the- people’? fit no single gory, many are ‘Black"', and many. re «*White’', some claim to bedipae litical’, a couple claim to be “re- ligious'’, but all are guilty of be- ing ‘people pimps’*. wot! Many events of world-wide im portance have been so mis- represented that Ifberation stru gles have been made to look like race riots, revolutionary move- ments have been made to look like religious movements, and freedom fighters have been made to look like ‘bandits’ or «fanatics.’? the interest of truth and co political perspective, Community News Service (pu lished by the Black Panther Party) — will attempt to give its readers the views and positions of the oppressed people, freedom fight-— ers, and revolutionaries of the — world intheir own words, = We know from our own ex- perience, that no one can dep a struggle better than those are actively engaged in that stru gle. We know that most people (Black or White) who would write — about a struggle (while avoiding and direct involvement) could ne- ver really understand that or struggle, readers, we will make every fort possible to share with sources of information that we — know to be representative of ac- — tual conditions. As they become — known to us we will make aval able to you, addresses, for ob- taining the official organs, ne letters, and other publicat publised by various revolution liberation movements around t world, Our motive is ‘duty’? our alm is ‘perspective’ and “solidarity’’. As for originality’? and/or ‘profit’, later for itl We have no desire to off “bits. and pleces’’ of the , as fa Bullshit is no barrier to fi genocide. Your criticism will be welcomed, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE v /* 7 an CHICAGO FREE MEDICAL CARE CENTER ‘The people's Free Medical G Open on or about Sept First, Donations are needed to tn * hicago, LLL 606k . - oh : picks A FRED HAMPTON-DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, ILLINOIS CHAPTER B, P. P. _ SERVING THE PEOPLE The Black Panther Party was es- tablished to serve the people - to meet the basic needs anddesires of the masses. WE ARE NOT A GANGI|! WE ARE AREVOLUTION- ARY ORGANIZATION, AN ARMED POLITICAL PARTY, A BLACK LIBERATION ARMY, We realize that the people of the Black Community are oppressed and that they are being murdered daily by this racist system of cap- iralism and exploitation, People die every day from starvation, from conditions which come from in- decent delapidared, roach infested rat holes called houses, from poor health conditions therein, Or people are shot down on the streets of our community by fascist pigs who call themselves policemen. The Black Panther Party is wying to show the people how they can gain their freedom - trying to arm the people, organize and educate them to what this decadent American 50- ciety is doing and to teach theim their true role inthis present day Society. To meerthe needs of the people we have opened up Free Breakfast for Children Programs and Liberation Schools all over the nation, The Breakfast is a program designed to feed the hungry kids of the com- munity every morning before schoo) for free, the liberation school fol- lows, an educational program signed to give the youth revolu- CONFORM TO THE tionary principles, This summer we have two locations in jackson Blvd, Christian Church, Western and Jackson Trinity Church, 4837 S, State. To meet the people's medical needs we are opening a PEOPLE'S a MEDICAL CARE CENTER on 3850 W. loth St. which will provide! comprehensive medical service FREE to the people of the com munity, We hold Political Education and Orientation Classes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights at 8:00 at: Church of the Epithany, 201 S. Ash- land Precious Blood Church on Con- gress and Western respectively. Our Minister of Information, El dridge Cleaver says ‘Information is the raw material for new Ideas and if you get mis-information, you get funny new ideas,"’ A lot of people get funny ideas about the Black Panther Party, and think that we are a bunch of **racist black ex tremists, To combat the lies told daily by the power structure's news media we print a weekly newspaper The Black Panther, Black Com- munity News Service. In spite of the vicious attacks that have been staged against the Party, the brothers and sisters who have given their lives to the people and all of those members who are hel as political prisoners, we continue wople wholeheartedly, rO HOLD OUR- to serve Wie f OUR DUTY & SELVES RESPONSIBLE TO THE PEOPLE, EVERY WORD, EVERY de- ACT AND EVERY POLICY MUST PEOPLE'S IN- TERESTS, Chairman Mao Tse Tung the city: ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE FREE ALL POLITICAL PRION- and Holy ERS PEOPLE OF THE WORLD UNITE Lilinois Chapter Black Panther Party ‘ THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1969 PAGE il FRED HAMPTON IS FREE! Fred Hampton, Deputy Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party was freed from Men- ard Penitentiary August 15S. He was held without bond or the constitu- tional right to an appeal, These il- legal acts followed his conviction of a $71 ice cream truck robbery by the racist court system and a bootlicking, nigger pig judge by the name of Sissy Sidney Jones. Fred exposed the true nature of this decadent capitalist anti-people society by helping to establish re- volutionary programs for colonized black and oppressed people, Free Breakfast for Children, Liberation School, Community News Service (The Black Panther Paper) and by donating food, money and medical services to the poor and oppressed masses here in Babylon. Fred found food when Daley said there was no food, He helped the children when nigger lackey, Denton Brooks said there wag no help. He exposed nickle-dime rinky- dink Hammerhead Hanrahan's scheme to imprison all potential revolutionaries (war on gangs), He stood up in the midst of fas- cist gestapo forces and declared, “lam a REVOLUTIONARY”. Fred put his faith in the peo- ple and the Party, the indestruc~ table forces that freed him from prison, which goes to show you that ‘*The spirit of the people is greater than the pigs technology’’. HAMMERHEAD HANRAHAN, THE PEOPLE ARE HIP TO YOUR GAME The people have questions that must be answered, The people want ro know what's to this raving maniac Hammerhead Hanrahan, What's to this fool that interrupts our T,V, and radio shows to murder-mouth our youth, Here,is a fool who Is trying Hitler tactics on a people who don’t intend to be as docile as the unorganized and nearly un- armed Jews, These fascist-com- mercials are even more ridiculous than the white-knight, andthey even took that non-sense off the air. And the articles that this clown writes in the papers, will go down in history as being some of the best fiction stories ever to be written, Although this murderous mouth parrots the same old Hitler line, the ears of the proletariat are deaf to this (D,A,-D.J,)District Attorney Disk-Jockey. The people demand that more important Information be placed before them ontheir T.V, sets like Jobawake Place, Garfield Goose, and most of all Howdy Doody. Gee out of the people's lives, Edward V.D, Hanrahan, you “kid’’-napper, you oppressor head- hunter you. And if you don’t get our of the people's lives, then the AN OPEN LET TER TO PARENTS It is a natural instinct for Parents o stand beside and defend their hildren, on the same hand it is mnatural for the system of CAPI- ALISM to defend and preserve heir lives. This evil system of SAPITALISM in virtually every as- pect uses the divide and conquer procedures. The capitalist trollers set up antagonistic contra- dictions between brothers and sisters (so-called gangs) and the brothers and sisters fall for this and they wipe out each other. The so-called gangs are used as method of social control, so the FASCIST PIGS’ work won't be so hard, Then this punk slimy, slither- brain hammer-head Hanrahan and garbage dump Daley have the nerve to declare a ‘‘war on gangs"’ farce. “THEY AREN'TDOING ANYTHING BUT DECLARING WAR ON THE YOUTH OF THE BLACK COMMUN} Iry!" Parents, where you? Don’t go for this Generation Gap bull- s--t that the pig news media is trying to push off on you, The pigs are trying to draw a wedge between you and your children, PARENTS, YOU HAVE NOT FAILEDII! Are you going to endorse some bull- a are S--t that you can’t relate to? YOU must not defends society that makes a murderer of our young brothers land sisters, Can't you hear the ries of your offspring? You let con YOUTH them call us gangs and when the gangs are wiped out you will have stood by and let the pigs wipe out the BLACK YOUTH! Let the Black Community deal with the gangs, NOT THE PIGSII| It is an insult to the Black Community that we should call our own black youth, "GANGS". MAKES THE REVOLU- TION! ‘*The young people are the most active and most vital force in society, They are the most eager to learn and the least conservative in their thinking...’’ Chairman Mao. As long as the So-Called Gangs killed each other and other Black People of the community and starved silently they were good, But when they said no more of this and became armed political organi- zations they became gangs. Where was the pig establishment when it was cold, when our children needed food, clothes? Now they come around defining our black youth as *'GANGS” and dividing the family, You must stand by the men and women that you have produced, We say mothers and fathers you have not failed but you have reached the very pennacle of success. All of us appreciated the sacrifices that you have made. RIGHT ONII/ LONG LIVE THE INTERNATIONAL PROLETARIAT REVOLUTION ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Mama Jewell and Babatunde people will make it miserable for you in our Lives. Shut your lying mouth Fast-Eddie because we're hip to the tactics of fascists, You may as well continue your frantic arresting of the people. You may as well do your thing, shout your asinine statements about so- called ‘gangs’ -- ‘"gangs"’ didn’t start that senseless Vietnam war. “Gangs” didn’t start ADC, Andit’s for sure ‘‘gangs”’ didn’t start sla- very and exploitation, So knowing all of this, your gig is up Hammerhead; the people are preparing to smash your fascists attempts smack-dab- in-the-middle, We intend to listen to no more of your stupid oinking. The Black Panther Party says tothe people, ‘*Turn this fool off instead of turning in your innocent children. Don’t lead the people to the GAS CHAMBERS, We won't sit back idly while all of the people are slaughtered by these pigs. DARE TO STRUGGLE AND YOU DARE TO WIN DARE NOT TO STRUGGLE AND YOU DON'T DESERVE TO WIN. Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton Illinois Chapter Black Panther P. Rent A Pig Strikes Again On Monday August 25, 1969, Heavyhead Hendricks (Rent-a-pig) who hangs out in the store on the corner of Damen and Jackson com- mitted another crime against the peoplel{! Rent-a-pig Heavyhead Hendricks brutalized Brother Rob- ert Cain and Brother Leroy Davis without cause or justification. They came by and told us they were only in the store shopping when this crazy made punk pig came up to them and started oinking. They were threatened, then brutalized for speaking up in their own defense. it's common sense for 4 man or a woman to defend themselves, we say these brothers did the right thing. Hendricks pulled out his big .357 magnum like a cowboy from the wild wild west. Then he pushed brother Robert up against the wall where he was cut badly on his arm - then both he and brother Leroy were arrested and spent the night in jail. Heavyhead Hendricks and his running mate pig Jones andthat other crazy gestapo fool pig Brown think they own the neighborhood and all the people in it} We say that a pig is apigis a pig, from pig Daley's piad Gestapo to these simple corner Store rent-a- pigs. If they come into our com- munities and have no respect for people's» rights, brutalize us and our families. and murder people, then we must deal with them, THE RACIST DOG POLICE MUST WITHDRAW THEIR OPPRESSIVE FORCES, CEASE THEIR WANTON MURDER AND TORTURE OF BLACK PEOPLE OR FACE THE WRATH OF THE ARMED PEOPLE, Minister of Defense, Huey P. New- ton ALL POWER TO THE OFF THE PIG Llinois Chapter Black Panther Party PEOPLE wu) wail THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1969 PAGE 12 CLEVELAND BROOKS, ANOTHER PANTHER FRAMED! In the attempt to destroy the Black Panther Party, the pigs of the power structure are rail- roading more and more revolution- ary brothers andsisters every day. The pigs of San Francisco have framed Brother Cleveland Brooks of the San Francisco Branch. Cleveland was framed on the trumped up charges of: 1, Firing arms within city limits. 2. Possession of explosives. On the date of January 19, 1969, Cleveland was Officer of the Day at the San Francisco Party's of- fice. Cleveland was in the office from 12:00 noon to 7:00 p.m. that evening. After the brother closed the office, one of his friends, Charles Lewis was waiting outside _ the door for him. The two broth- @rs arrived at Cleveland's apart- “ment around 7:15 p.m, When they arrived there were three sisters at the apartment who all were friends of Cleveland's. Cleveland like the revolutionary brother he is, was politically educating the brother and the sisters, answering their questions about the Black Panther Party. Cleveland then showed them the IS minute movie “Off the pigs’. Afterwards, a- round 1:00 p.m,, Cleveland and Charles Lewis went to the liquor store to get cigarettes. Three or four minutes after they returned from the store, with no warning, ho warrant for arrest, or search © warrant, the San Francisco fas- cist pigs kicked the door in and barged in with drawn guns, and one of the pigs said to Cleveland, “Don't move nigger, or Tl blow your goddamn brains out.” In- stantly, 20 to 25 pigs were in the apartment with drawn guns on the brothers and sisters. Without a warrant, or statement of why they were there, the pigs handcuffed Cleveland, the other brother, and the three sisters. ? been told by the pigs that they would get him, they immediately attacked him. He was hit in the side, stomach, and back with the butt of an“AR 15, Then one of the pigs told him, ‘Why don’t you run for your gun so I can kill you like they killed that nigger Bobby Hut- _ Since Cleveland is a knownPan- ~ ther (especially with the tactical squad) and has many times before o** ton/ These fascist pigs ripped off all of the revolutionary posters of Huey Newton, Eldridge, andothers. Then they took Cleveland, Charles Lewis, and the three sisters to the pig station. They framed Cleveland for the Al A CLEVE WITH THE YOUTH OF S. F. PANTHER possession of eight dynamite caps, which the pigs had putinhis apart- ment that night, and framed him on charges of firing firearms with- in city limits. The brother is not guilty of either charge. Cleveland's trial started Wednesday, August 27th and ended that same day, with the verdict of NOT GUILTY of firing firearms within city limits, and GUILTY of possession of explosives, The pigs who were oinking to the people on the witness stand were pigs Robert Rich, Steven Wolfe, nigger pig William Cunningham, Burt J. Bishop, and Pig Sgt. Dennis C, Campbell. Head of this herd of pigs was Pig Lt, John Shine (all from the San Fran- cisco Pig Department), These pigs and more have con- stantly harassed and. threatened Cleveland, and when asked incourt if they knew the defendant other that the night they arrested him, they oinked, ‘’No"’. Cleveland’s jury had only two Blacks, and they were olddecrepit toms, Cleveland's jury was not of his peer group or people from his community. The judge, Robert Drewes is obviously a red-neck ra- cist. The fat, flat-a--ed pig D.A, Harry Cliffort is an expert “lying motherf---er."’ Whenever the lies of his pig brothers on the witness stand were exposed by Timothy Stoen (Cleveland’s attor~ ney), Cliffort objected and the ra- cist judge would go along with every objection made. The lies that the fascist pigs told were that they knocked on the door and called Cleveland's name. The truth ofthe matter is that without a knock, or any warning, they kicked the door in. These pigs told the jury that the defendant was shooting on the balcony, and that the house was searched and they found eight dyna- mite caps, One of the three sisters, Denise Oliver, who was arrested at Cleveland's apartment, was im- mediately taken to Southern Cali- fornia’s Youth Center ( a pig pen By Charlayne Hunter New York Times Early one morning last week, as women in housecoats sat perched in windows trying to es- cape the heat, and men casually _gathered on stoops along a decaying Street in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn, the sound of voices came Noating out of a church, shattering the quiet, idle scene, “Power to the People,’’ man shouted. A chorus of young voices re- plied, “‘Power to the People." “What ts the main thing we want to get rid of?’ Shouted the young man, a young Pigs,’ answered a chorus of voices, HAVE LIBERATION SCHOOL On the second floor of the Good Shepherd Mission at the corner of Hopkinson and Sutter Avenues, two young men stood at the front of a small room, while seventeen boys and girls, ranging in age from four to fourteen years old, sat at wooden armchair desks. The two young men, Henry Mc- Intyre and Roscoe Lee, both teen- agers, are Black Panthers and the children made up the first class here of students in a new Panther program--the Liberation School Within the last six months, the Panthers have been concentrating on programs for slum children, The first of these was a break- fast program that Panthers say feed 10,000 youngsters in cities throughout the country, At the beginning of the summer, however, a directive went out to all chapters from Panther head- Quarters in Oakland, California, Stating that during the summer the breakfast program would be re- placed by the Liberation Schools except where both programs could be run without difficulty. The Brownsville chapter kept both programs and feeds more youngsters--50 to 60--than It tea- ches, All of the students receive breakfast and lunch, Panthers are basically Marxist- Leninist and see as their enemy the capitalistic system and its ex- ponents--known in Panther circles as ‘' Pigs," "We take them on field trips to point out the contradictions,’ a Panther guide, Henry Mitchell, ex- plained to a visitor "They see streets that are not clean and they see fire trucks speeding up the streets where they play but no fires, When there Is a fire, the Pig Department is sel- dom around in time to save the pro- perty or the lives of the people, ‘*We take them out on Prospect Avenue--to a block of delapidated houses--to check out the genocide, We show them exposed lead pipes where they can get lead poisoning and T5."' The children are shown the ‘contradictions’ and are taught about the ‘‘Pigs,'’ One portion of the three-hour class was devoted to a discussion of the “ Pigs." Teacher; ‘‘ What ts a pig?’ Student: ‘‘A pig is a low-down person who can be any color who beats us up and tells lies,"’ Teacher: ‘‘How many types of pigs are there?’ Student; ‘Four kinds.’’ Teacher: ‘‘Name them." Student: ‘‘The avaricious busi- ness man pig (‘‘who may bea land- lord or astore owner,” the teacher interjected), the police pig, the president pig and the National Guard pig."’ ALSO ‘FACELESS PIG’ The teacher then says thadthere is a fifth type of pig--the faceless pig. “You see him but you don’t know him,"' he said, ‘He's the one who comes into the street and tells people to be cool. He gets paid for snooping around,’’ There was mention of a demagogic politician pig,’* but no discussion, The curriculum could be de- scribed as free-wheeling, provided the teachers remain within the scope of the 10-potnt Panther pro- gram, The daughter of a female Panther captain Brenda Hyson, a pretty 6-year-old named Semele, was asked by her teacher to name one point of the program, Her eyes brightened and faultlessly she re- plied ‘*We want freedom and the power to determine our own destinies,’ Of the seventeen youngsters in the class, 15 are girls, When asked about the significance of that, the Panther guide replied ‘That's a good thing. We’ ve got to eliminate male chauvinism, We've oppressed our women more than any of the pigs and we've got to make the point now thattheyare our other half rather than our inferior half.’’ Other points that Panthers con- nected with the Liberation School make include teaching family unity and obedience to party leaders, The children aré taught chants like “Free Huey’ (Huey P, Newton, a Panther founder and Minister of Defense now in jail on a man- Slaughter conviction) and “Free All Political Prisoners,’’ as well as the one about the fugitive Pan- ther Mipister of Information, El- dridge Cleaver, ‘*Where’s Eldridge?’ cher shouts. He's free, eating watermelon and the pigs can't touch him,’ came the reply, loudly and in unison, The two teachers In the class dropped out of high school and do not plan to return, They say they ‘gave up on the pig's school/’ and now attend the “peoples school''--sessions tn political a. wareness--held at the Panther of fice a block away The tea- When asked if they would ene courage thelr young summer pu- pils to give up regular school, the Panther guide sald, “They"ll} be sent to school because there! are laws. But there'll be a vast | difference in their ability learn,"* to} | Niantic, Conn, ~ | shotguns. When we askedoneofthe | fool for our youth), Denise was taken from the Youth Center (0 testify. D.A, Pig Cliffort had told Denise what lies to tell, And being weak as she is, she backed up like a running lackey and repeated the Hes she was told to tell, Brother Cleveland is now facing one to ten years in the pig pen. He was ar- rested immediately after the ver- dict was given (Wednesday, Au- gust 27, 1969) to be held until his sentence September 17th. The courts of this country have no justice. Justice is locked up in the pig pen along with the op- pressed people. The people are — being ruled by the lowest grade of animals that exist. The people have been put in the pig pen, and the pigs are running the country, — stopping, and s--tting on human- ity in the people’s name, Pigs were meant to be ruled by man, and not man ruled by pigs. Pigs ofthe power structure, your oinking is getting very weak. The people realize that you pigs are in the house ahd that they, the people, — are in the pigs’ slop-yard. The people are subversive to the turned around situation, and the le will deal with it. The people will destroy your unjust courts, use= less constitutions, and power-mad Power structures and pat you in the pig pen where you belong. The people will have a world-widebar- becue (pig) party, Times are get- ting hard for the Black Panther | Party, but even harder for you, The people will not tolerate your placing revolutionary brothers and sisters inyourpig pens. Thearmed — wrath of the people will rise and destroy you: In order to take some, you'll have to bring some, Inorder to murder our brothers andsis- ters, be willing to be the bar- bends for the world’s largest pic~ nic Free CLEVELAND BROOKS All Power To The People Comrade Candi Robinson A LETTER FROM ONE OF THE CONN. 14° Rose Smith Political Prisoner (Panther — or Connecticut 8 Niantic Prison To the people, We as political prisoners have been subjected to the fascist tac= tics of the Niantic, Connecticut state prison and its mad dog reac= tionary paper pigs. Although we are denied the pri- vilege of talkingto the other women here face to face. We sometimes — converse through our barred and screen covered windows. But even this is soon interrupted by the oinking of the pigs here. We have seen the beaten two sisters here. There wasn’t much thar we could do except try to spread the word of this act of fascism around the prison grounds and report it to the head reactionaries thatworkhere.After — the besting, they were both thrown into a cold, damp cellar which the girls call the dungeon, They were left there without food until the head pigs felt it was time to let them out. DOWN WITH FASCISMI The guards have been seen with © reactionaries here why the sudden change in the system bere, we were told that they hadorders from the head pig D.A,. Marckle and the Commissioner to step up on thelr security, (77?) We will fight fascism by bulld- ing- © united Front, i"s one thing to be oppressed, bet it’s another to be Tepressed, All Power t& the United Front Against Fascism, lake the power. from the paper pigs ami give it back to the people? The people are rising up like a nighty storm RIGHT ON Rose Smith of the Connecticut 4 ATTENTION MELVIN JORNSON "JOMO KENYATTA" The Black Community News Ser- vice would like to correct a very serious mistake which appeared In our pablication last week, August 23, 1969 (Vol. IT, No. 18). Page 27 carried a story on | Renerades and Counter-revolutionaries.’’ Includ- ed on this page was Information and a photo of Melvin Johnson (‘Jomo Kenyatta’) which stated that he had been expelled from the Black Panther Party, Baltimore branch. The Black Panther Party re- tracts that statement, and wants the community to know that Melvin Johnson (‘Jomo Kenyatta’) Is a member tn functional standing with the Party. Right On D.C. re v > tg | On Thursday, July 3}, 1969, the Jersey City Pig Department once ‘again moved on the opportunity to brutalize and arrest a member of the Jersey City Black Panther or Party. THIS TIME LEO WILKERSON ” incident took place when [: the Jersey City Pig Department "7 tactics, moved on a Black youth on the suspicion of car theft. - The chase ended at Pacific Ave. full display of arrogance and racism. During thepursuit the pigs opened fire without any regards __ for the number of Black children were playing in the strects. sO While the pigs were perpetuating all this madness, Brother Leo Wil- ___ kerson left the Black Panther Party office to see what was taking plece. at the scene of the a Es arrest, Brother Leo was inquiring from the arrested Black youth what the youth’s name was, On asking - this, the pigs vamped on him and ____ arrested him for interferring with r the arrest (which is jive). Between the scene of Leo’s ar- i rest and the 4th Precinct on Com- Sune gee Ave., Brother Leo gothis 7. head punched in by the fascist, racist pigs, one of them being this : sick, racist cracker, buffoon, pig PEOPLE CRAZY PIG patrolman Flannigan. (Who inci- dently digs midnight integration), Also Brother Leo was handcuffed so tightly that bruises were developing around his wrist. Be- cause of pig Hes, Leo Wilkerson is being charged with a crime and a $1,000.00 ransom/bail has been set on him. We say that Leo Wilkerson was arrested because he is a member of the Black Panther Party, the people’s Party. And this was anoth- er move to destroy the Black Pan- ther Party because the pigs know that the B.P.P. is subversive to the exploitation and oppression of all people in general and Black people in particular, Under the conditions we are forced to live in, we say that, the racist dog oppressors have no rights which the oppressed are bound to respect. And so long as the fascist power structure inflicts pain and bru- tality eee people (whom we love so much) we have no other alter- native but to arm ourselves for self defense. We call upon the people to start understanding this and to move against pig oppression. The sole purpose of the Black Pan- ther Party is to stand firmly with the Black and oppressed people and to serve them wholeheartedly. Free All Political Prisoners All Power to the People HELP PAY ELDRIDGE S RANSOM SAN FRANCISCO (LNS) --In the months since Eldridge Cleaver left the shores of Babylon (his favorite name for the United States), hun- dreds of Americans have helped 1 pay his ransom. 5 About $26,000 of his $50,000 as forfeited ball came through contri- F butions, The rest was paid by several prominent citizens who signed Cleaver’s bond in the first place, Letters and donations are still arriving (and still welcome) at the office of Cleaver’s lawyer Charles Garry (341 Market St., San Francisco, Calif.), the San Francisco Chronicle reported re- cently, Most are smal) con- tributions of $1 to $10, and they come from all over. Many are in Canadian currency -- from other Americans who have been forced to leave Babylon, ‘One former Washington State National Guardsman sent in ten Canadian dollars and a poem; weeeSO man, I write this from Canada's Golden Shore Hope you don’t see those cops no more. Arthur Ashe, the tennis champion, was one of several celebrities to P contribute. He sent a note: . .Being black, we must keep pushing, though frequently along different roads, Yours in the struggle. . ."’ THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1969 PAGE 13 THE INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIALIST VS THE PEOPLE A three week wildcat of ILWU * 6 warehbousemen against J! just among farm workers but among all American workers try- Case Co, is over, Case had In- ing to hold their heads above sisted that non-union office water as prices, taxes and workers -- mostly women -- do profits rise, inventory work that was supposed to be done by union men at union scale, They forced women to scab on the men and they took court action to keep SDS students and Blacks from walking on the lines. The guys are bafk at work with two fired, two ‘laid off’, and the inventory issue Is still unsettled, Case is an old hand at union busting, It is owned by Kern Coun- ty Land Co, which owns nearly 2,000,000 acres in California and has led the fight to keep farm workers from organizing. Kern is in turn owned by Tenneco, the aa largest corporation in the ieS But while Tenneco and other international corporations are breaking worker's organizations they are organizing themselves, In September 500 leading indus- trialists, who control the world's largest corporations, will be meet- ing in San Francisco, To use thelr own words, they will be ‘‘develop- ing feasible alternatives to free collective bargaining and strikes."’ That means unlon busting -- not The chairman of the board of Tenneco is one of the planners of this International Industrialists Conference (iC), So are two former directors of Kern Land along with David Rockefeller, Rog- er Blough (President of U.S. Steel), Clark Belse (a big guy in Bank of America), and Edwin Carter (a U.C. Regent and director of Bell Telephone), These guys are after one thing -- higher profits at home and abroad. To make sure those profits keep coming they ll also be talking about ‘safeguarding international investments.’* In Latin America, for example, international investments means 1 1/2 billion in profits yearly for U.S, industrialists, They rake in this dough by paying low wages abroad and draining scarce for- eign resources while charging high prices at home. This robbery of Latin America's wealth creates poverty and misery for the people there. One third of the population is f{lliterate, 14% of the labor force in unemployed, one out of every 10 bables dies in infancy, That's what imperialism means for Latin Americans, These international investments are ‘‘safeguarded’’ throughout the world by military dictatorships. As people everywhere begin to rise up against their oppressive conditions, young American work- ing people are sent to fight to protect the bosses’ investments. And not only do American people pay with their blood, but they also pay the cost to keep people down through higher taxes and inflated prices, That's what imperialism means for us. These bosses are meeting Sep~ tember 15-20 at the Fairmont Ho- tel in San Francisco, Students, third world groups, and working people are planning demonstra- tions to protest imperialist ex- ploitation at home and abroad. The biggest demonstrations will be when President Nixon attends the conference, September 18. It's time that we all get together to begin to say no to all the corporations which run this country and exploit the rest of the world. POWER TO THE PEOPLE Alameda County Solidarity Com- mittee For more information, call 471- 2534 FASCIST PIGS VAMP AND ONCE AGAIN REVEAL THEIR RELATION 10 THE PEOPLE All over this decadent American society, pigs are constantly trying to convince the people that what is being said about them (the pigs) is untrue, and that they are the peoples’ servants and here to pro- tect and defend the people. Here in Fascist Philly, the pig Commissioner Rizzo appears in pictures with oppressed people to show he is a good guy. What he fails to realize is that the people have the ability to filter bullshit and jive thatdoesn't adhere to their welfare and well being. Mrs. Vivian Cooper learned through practice what the pigs’ true colors are. On the 18th of August at approximately3:00 p.m., Vivian called the pigs to inves- tigate a disturbance occurring at her front door. In her own words, she told sister Seale and myself that ‘‘she had heard bottles busting on her doorsteps.”’ She toldus that she called the pigs because she was afraid and the noise of the bottles breaking scared her chil- dren, Then the pigs arrived (Pig Strange; badge number 4117; Pig car number 4028; description, blond curly hair, freckles, height about 6"6"" blue eyes). She came out of the house and found out it was the people across the street with whom she had a previous dispute that were throw- ing the bottles, The pig did not attempt to stop the people from throwing bottles, nor did he at- tempt to protect her when the peo- ple attacked her. In defending her- self, she sent her daughter in the house to get a knife, since the oth- er people were armed with similar weapons. The pigs was just stand- ing there. Anyway, the pig watched sister Vivian fight two sisters and did not intervene until other pigs arrived on the scene, Then he took the knife from her. The other peo- ple did not stop fighting, they con- tinued to come at her. She, at this time, broke away from the pig, since he wasn’t going to protect her, and he busted her in the head A LETTER | TO OUR CHAIRMAN BOBBY Bobby, the pigs may have taken you away from us physically, but you're forever within the spirit of the people. And the spirit of the people is within you. So we are not separated, the pigs have not taken you from us. A revolutionary can never be separated from the people. And the rison bars can never hold down the spirit of a revolutionary, nor the people’s liberation struggle. We will harass the oppressor until his doom. The oppressor will have no peace by night or day, We will constantly study and put into prac- tice all that you, Huey, and El- dridge have taught us, and we will lead the people. We will constant- ly work with the people on the De- centralization of Police, for or- ganizing revolutionary action a- mong the people, We're moving in unity to raise the consciousness of the people, As you said at the United Front A- gainst Fascism Conference: “We're going to melt this son of a gun; we're going to put some new fire under the pot, and we're going to melt it into an Ameri- can Liberation Front inAmerica,"’ Chairman, the oppressor is hiting the Party harder every day, but THE BLACK PANTHER THE LOCAL Pig FORCES WERE with his (oppression) stick. Ir is worthy to note that there were 6 or 7 pigs on the set. After bust- ing her in the head, Pig Strange said, ‘this is the way we have to treat you people’’, and drug her into the pig wagon, She has acourt date coming up woon and has to answer to the charges of resisting arrest. Fascism is here, in Philly; it” in New York; It's all over this country. Matter of fact, it’s run- ning rampant. It shot Jimmy Con- ner last week, and busted Vivian Cooper in the head this week, It’s been time to intensify, and now is the time to intensify even more. As Papa says, ‘‘It is the duty of every man, woman, and id across the country to run them- selves to death to avert inevitable catastrophe." Do something nigger To all pigs - Keep you Fascist hoofs off Bobby Seale Rene Johnson (Field-nigger) Philadelphia Branch, B.P.P. we are fighting back, The armed wrath of the people will rise against this pig, and thoroughly and com- pletely destroy him. So we say f--k the pigs, The pigs have = you, but you belong to the } and the people will bring forth many, many more Bobby Seales and Huey Newtons. As long as there are oppressed people, there will be the Black Panther Party, All Power to the Powerful People Comrade Candi Robinson FIRST TO MOVE ON THE “ENEMY TODAY, THE SACRED GROUND iS A PARKING LOT—-— A SILENT HELD TERRITORY’ , TURNING THEIR GUNS Se OD TD TAAL STREET PEO th "s ARM iN er DEFENSE <A FASCIST FUNNIES a Seas sles ipl AND BATTALIONS f THE DISNEYLAND } GUARD GETHER -- THIS TME re LOST A HOME... BUT THE NEXT BATTLE May ce OS UVESH! ~ py BLOOD BROTHER — PRESS RELEASE FROM ELDRIDGE CLEAVER MINISTER OF INFORMATION BLACK PANTHER PARTY, ALGERIA The r Da t ( he flack Panther F ! rt ; ntensif 7 repre n - resi ns! the Black J A 2 repre t ’ 5 inst th r wt up f fine f . i t sour bes i 120" LU ‘ he order he j brome length r M att Par , raril r mpaign has Nizon administration , Muasiliné Alioto ; fm ty throwgh he ( marci Hlack Pan ther Noir a Federal Grand Jury moe info the Black Panther Party and ther nding the creation of an at mos pb f hysteria and confusion. Mayor Mus sili to after failing to obfaim a lo cal Grand Jury inoestigation info the Black Panther Party, It is in San Prancisco State that this faseciat pig is Mayor ond where Chair- man Dobby Seale is now being held, MINISTER OF INFORMATION ELDRIDGE CLEAVER AND CHIEF OF STAFF DAVID HILLIARD IN ALGIERS On the Notional level the McClelicn Com mitee lawiched a series of circus Ube hoar- ings the FAI is conducting another wave of arrests of Slack Panther Party members, Even a special task force made up af FAL Agents from different departments has been created to conduct a special investivation ft in clear from these arr ots that the tore continues fo be the top leadership and Cen tral Staff of the Black Panther Party, The arrest of Chofrman Bobby Se is the most Matant move to date by the force. scism in theiy current campaign of repression. Le ‘gal procedures and regards for the rights of the accused been thrown out af the window and the other tactics of the fascist repression being employed are reminiscen! of the foctics used by Hitler in Nazi Germany. Having tried and failed munerous times | frame Chairman Hobby Seale in the 5 citco Bay Area which they were decause of the overwhelming suppe by the people, the fascist ee ways fo arrest kim outside of the Hay Area They indicted him in Chicago on @ comepi racy charge to disrupt the Democratic rn vention along with members ¢ S, the Dermc erctic Youth National Party « other Peace Growps who organized the demonstr gainst the Democratic National Par vestion. Now these pigs Ac har man Bobby Seale with mw conspiracy fo commit muder, kidnap, comspir bidnap. An agent provocateur na was sent info the Son Pro from Detroit into the Black F Stokely Carmichael last suramer bwing used the FRI to justify the arrest of Chairman 5 Seale, This man George Sams was quickly dis- covered to be functioning in c hostile manner calculated to destroy the Black Panther Party and has been berred from ever entering any offices of the Party in the USA, The FHT has Yelaosed to the press a statement given to them by George Sams, This press statement places Bobby Seale in Connecticut at the same time os the killing, The flagrant safere of this aceusation agains! Chairman Hobby Seale be- comes even more vicious when f! ts stated in the press statement issued by the FAL agent George Sama that Bobby Seale ordered the filling and thot such a thing could not have an fo fabricate to commil | | | | happened h Central Commi f th & Panther Par During the Pan Asm Cult { ' f rmer r é r ereat he f y the py . Sams P he i ‘ z ve ma fr ot san F | ’ Sci é‘ he had not ¥ 15 * m tot lack Panther Part " at the J t fv uit mn At his , , - t Prime Mir of the I rT r f hiny f ' taking pla FA Agents wo ‘ retext ’ ' ' ir mires bf FOR THE J DESTRO} r CALI f MF ) Por int rit ir THE F Wr EX EMT t GANIZE “ST THE ST OF THE Cit AIRMAN OF THE BLA N THER PARTY IN PARTICULAR ANDAGAINST THE REPRE SSION OF THE ALACK PANTHE PARTY IN GENERAL THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD MUST THROW THEIR WEIGHT AGAINST THIS FASCISM AND HELP STEM THE TIDE AE- PORE iT ENVELOPS THE WHOLE WORLD AND DROWNS OUT EVERY SPARK OF &U- MANITY ON THE PLANET EARTH, THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1969 PAGE 4 From Tricontinental May - June 1969 by Amilcar Cabral Secretary-General PAIGC GUINEA AND CAPE VERDE were among the first colonies esta- blished by the Europeans in Africa, Guinea being the first. After the Berlin Conference, in which Africa was partitioned among the powers of that time, there was concern with the so-called effective oc- cupation of African territories. Portugal was already present in our land, in Cape Verde, as colo- nists who came mainly from Por- tugal and Guinea; and in the latter by creating commercial centers on the coast and attempting to pene- trate inland, After the Berlin Conference, Portugal decided to effectively oc- cupy Guinea, This provoked anim- mediate reaction on the part of the people. First those on the coast: the Manjakos, particularly the Pa. peis, In the zone that today ls made up by the island of Bissau; the Balantas, a little further Inland; the Fulahs; the Mandingas -- and practically all the peoples of our country resisted the Portuguese occupation, resistance the Portu- guese later called the ‘‘wars of pactfication,'’ and which lasted for a period of a half-century in which, according to Teixeira da Mota, almost so day Went by without a confrontation between our people ‘and the Potuguese, We all knowthe Portuguese used division in order to dominate the different tribes one by one. They made use of all the tribal con- tradictions, even practicing acts that we would consider irrational, and they alwe" . ‘md one or ano- ther inf’ ..a: African who would Serv... Cause, wut the truth has not only been recorded in our history but also engraved in the spirit of our peo- ple. Because of our great capacity for resistance the Portuguese were not able to end officially these s0-called wars of pacification un- til 1917, though actually it wasn’t until 1936 that they managed to deceive the last resisting Bijagos, who did not give up their weapons, but were betrayed by people who were close to them. This tradition of resistance marked our national liberation struggle. Beginning in the ‘30s, Portugal -- where fascism had al- ready been established -- began to .set up its administration in Guinea with greater ease, The fact that Portuguese policy {s carried out by a fascist dictatorship at a time when our people really be- gin to be administered by Portu- gal, characterizes the political si- tuation tn our country as it ex- isted before the national liberation struggle. Another important aspect of co- lonization in our country, and In other .Portuguese colonies as well, {s Portugal's underdevelopment; the economic, social, and cultural backwardness of Portugal, which also means a backwardness in the economic development of our coun- try, a backwardness in the cul- tural development of our people, and which creates specific con- ditions in the political develop- ment that afterwards took nlace tn our country. I am not going to mention the other aspects of Por- tuguese colonization, but I want to point out that if, on the one hand, the character of Portuguese un- derdevelopment permitted the Eu- ropean and the African to live to- gether (something that did not take place, for example, in the En- glish colonies), on the other hand, th Portuguese colonial, including the overseer, always showed -- through ignorance many times, through misinformation at other times, through his needto dominate almost always -- a great lack of respect, of consideration for the African personality, the African culture. It is enough to see, for example, how Europe (principally France, England, and Belgium) filled up with works of African art; it opened the way to the unl- versal knowledge of the abilities of the African; of African cul- ture in general; of their religions, of their philosophic conceptions. In other words, the way in which an African confronts the reality of the world with cosmic reality. In Portugal no such thing occurred. Either because generally the co- lonial who was sent to our terri- tories was ignorant, or because the intellectuals were never in- terested, the Portuguese did not know the African even though they came from the European coun- try with the most colonies tn Africa. - This fact also had to do with our struggle, because in our con- frontation with the Portuguese they THE POWER OF ARMS and in these {t didn't go beyond a certain petty bourgeoisie which had contacts with the world and which felt directly humiliated, daily hu- miliated by the presence of Portu- guese colonialism, But still -- and we say this consciously -- the pro- blem of nationalism wan't raised, Throughout the greater part of our country, especially In Guinea, we continued maintaining tribal char- acteristics; and thouch the trihes were being broken up economically by the Portuguese, at the same time the Portuguese rulers tried to maintain the tribal superstructure in order to better dominate our people. We can say that it Is In- side colonialism's atmosphere, In the addition of new relations and of new phenomena that colonial- ism brought to our lands (par- ticularly the circulation of money, a more tntensive trade, the re- settling of people), that a national envioronment began to be created in our land, It fs important to keep this in mind in order to have an idea of the difficulties of our strug- became convinced that we were gle, of the concrete conditions of not what they had supposed, and there they discovered a new African they had never imagined. This was, speaking in general terms of our struggle, another sur- prise the enemy received from us. In our country (in Cape Verde as well is In Guinea) there have always been attempts at resisting, politically, Portuguese colonial- ism, ever since the period that IT have mentioned. With this in mind, groups, trade unions, social or- ganizations, etc. were created which had nationalistic tendencies. But it is important that we have no illusions, that we be realistic, because {if there was something of a nationalistic character, it didn't go beyond the urbancenters, our country, An important moment in our struggle, or rather, inthe situation of our country before the armed struggle, was the ending of World War Il. That external fac- tor brought hope to the world, and our petty bourgeoisie were not exompt from this. During the same epoch a group of young persons came to Portugal from the various Portuguese colonies and became conscious of the need to unite In order to face the same oppressor. These youths obtained the means which enabled them to dedicate themselves to the study, in com- mon, of their lands and then be- gan to think together about a com- mon way in which to serve their BRITISH TREACHERY IN RHODESIA people, This was a very {mportant moment which characterizes the struggle against Portuguese co- lonialism -~- that is, the fight of each one of the peoples against Portuguese colonialism, Another important factor was that those people worked together and were able to return to thelr lands after having completed their studies. And in their owncolonial~_ si ized countries -- above all Tam speaking of my country -- there were groups of young people who were also becoming conscious of the need to change. Before initiating armed struggle we decided to create African or- ganizations. In 1954 we began to create recreational organizations, — because at that time it was impos. sible to give them a paiicel ea acter, This was important, not cause of the idea of creating an. organization, but because the eco lonialists would not permit 1 which showed our youth, who o 4 become enthusiastic with the idea, — that everything was prohibited &. wy the Africans under the P: That gave us more strength for new actions, to contrive new ideas, and to carry the struggle forward, was the most {mportant moment — before the struggle became fully developed ~~ that is, before it took | the armed form. s That year, during a visit to my family (I was In exile then), we a] decided to secretlycreateourPar- ty. That Is to say eel a ; matic moment before the ar Soe " struggle is when we arrived at the conviction that ft was not a = sible to work unless it was \ ground, ‘ CONTINUED NEXT WEEK The tragic approch to the Rhodesian situation has been the widely held belief that Britain is the arbiter bet, ween the Africans and the settlers in Rhodesia. Alongside this is the persistent hope in certain quarters that Britain only needs some con- stant persuasion for her to act in order to bring about the required settlement in Rhodesia. In her poli- tical game Britain has perfected her confidence tricks in order to nurse and allow this false belief to con- tinue. The fact of the matter that British policy has always been for a British- settler dominated Rhodesin and a direct suppression of African attempts to take control of power An enumeration of a few major historical events involving the sett- lers defines clearly the record and persistence of the dishonest conduct of British policy against the Africans of Zimbabwe. The fradulent Document In 1885 — Cecil John Rhodes sent a Mr, Rudd Pe retiag te ba Wns teem. ce agree: LATS Chikerema Vice President ZAPU are the war of tts ACA isthe ADh nme Lobengula (resident in Bulawayo) allowing British mining adventures in his Kingdom. The Promise: A provision in the document promi- sed large payments to the King In the form of rifles, gold and regular monthly tax payments of .” 100 Result — The document was a frame-up and a completely inaccurate reflection of the facilities the King had offered The British did not fulfil any of their own promises Instead: In 1890 — Britain stealthily, behind King Lo- bengula’s back and without the per- mission of any African ruler throug- hout Zimbabwe, infiltrated a columa of troops to pitch up a British flat at Harare — (Salisbury) The false peace Alarmed by the dishonesty and im- pudence of these British Intruders the African rulers all over Zimbabwe launched armies to rid the country of these offending strangers. These decade (1800- 1900) In 1896 — Fearing a military rout, Rhodes pleaded for peace with the military commanders of Lobengula’s army at Matopo mountains and once again: The Promise: Rhodes promised to honour the in- tegrity of the Zimbabwe people and their state. He and his people were going to carry out trade and mining for a maximum of forty years wit- hout interfering and then withdraw, Result — In the meanwhile the British Queen in England was granting a Charter to. “Rhodes ‘and his British South Africa Company to establish govern- ment on Zimbabwe soil. Unforgiv- able impertinence! Settler entrenchement In 1923 — Britain felt she had sent a sufficient number of settlers to warrant dee gating them more power under . , CONTD. ON NEXT PG. ani Giratina ti ~) LAST PAGE Ss Were cafried out in exclu- atthe te 4 Me. Coghlan a Mr. Coghclan, be Colonial office, then held by Were neither Invited nor Involved, even in the subsequent referendum te the controversy among the lers whether their rexime should of South or not. The 1923 ms Patent was then the new Settler Constitution. jaelemsting more ‘power to tts Britain under a provision nner in which it was brought into ‘was a denail and deprivation in rights and there was, nothing to protect under entrenched themselves; in land distribution and both rural and urban, (as if not enough pres- been applied), low wages to retain a continuous work on the part of the pee erences Ch Dee y herself decided with the impose the Federation of d Nyasaland in the face position from the Afrivans | Zambia, and Zimbabwe. 2 ms partnership and multi- n were hatched from White- nterpreted to mean an era of racial relations. Bodies ico Africa Society were aye Britain to blow propa- on these terms in order to the type of African sus- e to deception. yasaland, came out with et to the open. He discloséd he partnership between the ss and the Africans was meant one like between the ridér the horse. Further, the succec- niger Minister, Sir Roy We- j, began to demand indepen- tor a settler controlled Fede- He threatened a unilateral on of independenec of a n Tea Party fashion in 1962. The 1961 constitutional Fraud d a new constitution which ran directly counter to the African demand for a clear democratic one based on the one man one vote principle, The 1961 constitution was meant to reas- sert British settler control of the territory. The promise: Under the 1961 constitution fiften seats were offered supposediy for the Africans with the pseudo-gua- rantee that African seats would in- crease after some time underlined by British retention of ultimate powers, Result — The British started to use the 1961 constitution as a basis for granting Independence to the settlers, with the alternative strategy of encoura- ging the settlers to declare UDI should the Africans and internatio- nal opinion be impossible to per- suade towards recognising settler in- dependence under legalistic preten- sions. The fearless sell-out In 1968 On 15 October, the British Govern- ment published the so-called Fearless terms for a Rhodesian independence constitution. Under these terms the British sett- lers in Rhodesia are granted inde- pendence and absolute control of power. The Promise: For reserved clausses' and British retention of so-called ultimate po- wers, the new term used is “SAFE- GUARDS" of African rights. Result — Impressed by British unswerving stand for retention of power by the settlers in Rhodesia, Ian Smith, the British chief agent there, has devi- sed an open ‘Apartheid constitution’ by which he believes power will now remain permanently in hands of the settlers. Constant trickery What this brief historical reference to the conduct of the British over Rhodesia establishes is that there Was never any time when Whitehall policy ever stood for the realisation of African interests. Whether the terms used were ‘protection of Afri- can rights’, ‘reserved powers’, ‘part- nership’, ‘multiracialism’, ‘reserved seats’ or today’s ‘safeguards’ (from 1923 to 1969) they are all a variation of a constant deceptive device, — a coat of sugar round constitutional poison to the Africans. No credence whatever must be atta- ched to British pretensions that they are trying to protect African rights. It is as much of a lie today under the term ‘safeguards’ as it was in 1923 under the term ‘reserved powers’. Who can believe the kind of man who always says he is locking the stable ‘firmly’ to protect the horse when he has already driven it out of the stable? From "Zimbabwe Review' official organ of ZAPU THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1969 PAGE 17 BLACK GI’S FIGHT OFF FASCIST PORTUGUESE OFFICERS BEFORE (Reprinted from The Bond, July 22, 1969) LAJES FIELD, AZORES, PORTU- GAL -- Seven members of the Afro-American Culture Society were attacked here Friday, May 30 by 12 Portuguese military of- ficers and two white Americans who serve as their ‘‘advisors." The attack occurred after the Portuguese officers refused to leave a local bar that had been reserved by the Afro-Americans for a private party. The two white American ad- visors provoked the Portuguese officers into attacking; they told the officers that they did not have to leave, One Portuguese officersmashed a bottle over a table while others wielded chairs and pocket knives throughout the attack. Although the seven black airmen were out- numbered by the 12 Portuguese officers and their two advisors, the black Gls suffered only minor injuries while seven of the 12 officers required hospital care. Two hours after the attack a Portuguese colonel arrived at the bar demanding the airmen be re- funded the money paid for the res~ ervations and that they be banned from the premises. At the bar- racks the airmen were met by Colonel Glassburner, commander of the 1605 Air Base Group. He was accompanied by another officer from the Office of Poli- tical Relations, and shortly after their arrival four carloads of air police arrived. The two officers interrogated the men for an hour, and during this time whites (U.S. eprinted from hhe Bond, August 5, 1969) Last month the BOND reported how Black U,S, airmen tn the Azores (owned by fascist Portugal) successfully resisted an attack by Portuguese officers who, egged on by White U.S, advisors,’’ tried to invade a bar the GIs had reserved for a private meeting. The Black GIs, members of the Afro- American Culture Soclety, were then charged by U.S, brass-hats who ignored overt racism involved, The following is a report of the results of the courts-martial. BY A BLACK AIRMAN We've got the Brass scared, Here is the outcome of the Inci- dent that happened here In the Azores, A l/c Emmanuel Westbrook re- ceived a $100 fine, loss of 1 stripe, AFTER Navy personnel) in a nearby bar- racks loudly shouted = racist threats. But when Glassburner was asked about this, he said, “‘Ididn’t hear anything." The seven black airmen, AIC John Phillips, Sgt. James Bolden, AIC Willie Woodson, AIC Henry Rodgers, Amn, Cleveland Robin- son, and AIC Stephen Jordan are now being threatened with having to pay for the damage, being transferred back to the U.S, and other punitive actions, Portugal is a fascist-run coun- try; its present leaders are coun- terparts of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini. It ts also aracistcoun- try. It is now actively militarily suppressing the freedom struggles of African countries (Angola, Mozambique, Guinea), The govern- ment sponsored racism is ex- hibited flagrantly to the black Americans stationed there by U.S, authorities who are constantly buddy-buddying with their Portu- guese counterparts, The U.S, mili- tary base here is being nego- tiated for renewal, U.S. Brass frown upon and harass any organi- zations that might offend the dic- tator of Portugal -- especially the Afro-American Society, U,S, bases here are open sup- port by the U.S. government of Hitler-type fascism and South Af- rican type racism, Members of the Afro-American Society in the Azores ask that you write your Congressmen and demand an in- vestigation of this incident and the racial injustice here. 30 days in correctional custody, and a general discharge with hon- orable conditions. Sgt. James Bolden, a2ndtermer, received a $100 fine, loss of 1 stripe, 30 days, and an honorable discharge. Amn. Cleveland Robinson re- colved a $100 fine, loss of 1 stripe, 30 days, and re-assignment, John Phillips, Willie Woodson, Henry Rodgers, and Stephen Jordan each received $50 fines, 15 days, suspended busts and re-assign- ment. It is interesting to note that Westbrook and Bolden, the only two getting discharged, are the President and Vice-President, re- spectively, of the Afro-American Culture Socfety. Whether the Brass hopes to intimidate the Society by this action or whatever, they have failed because now they are the models of future action and by copying them, other airmen will hope to get out by thismeans. INT'L GLOSSARY bantustan ~- South Africanname for ‘treservation”’ reservation - American name for concentration camp O.A.U, - Organization for African Unity Sechaba -‘*The nation’ offictal or- gan ANC, ZAPU -Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (Rhodesia) PAIGE - African Party for the In- dependence of Guinea and Cape Verde Zimbabwe Review - Official organ ZAPU ‘*Where the choice is set between cowardice and violence I would advise violence. I praise and extol the serene courage of dying without killing, Yet I desire that those who have not this courage should rather cultivate the art of killing and being killed, than basely to avoid the danger, This is because he who runs away commits mental vio- lence; he has not the courage of facing death by killing. I would a thousand times prefer vio- lence than the emasculation of a whole race. I prefer to use arms in defence of honour rather than remain the vile witness of dishonour,’’ -Mahatma Gandhi; Declaration on question of the use of violence in defence of rights. (Published Guardian 16. 12,38) THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1969 PAGE 18 FASCIST JUDGE KIPNAPS PANTHERS & FRIEND OF BOBBY SEALE JYMBO SUDAN On Thursday, August 22, 1969, the Chairman of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Scale, went before fascist Judge O'Kane. O'Kane was busy carring out his usual job of committing fascist acts against the people. From the outstart Ihadob- served the process of his tacti- cal squad in (so-called) ‘‘pro- tecting” the people when they jab- bed our Ministerof Culture, Emory Douglas, and held him for assault on a police officer, After the hearing had started and had ended in a lengthy 10 minutes, the people stood and showed signs of their high spirit to Bobby, by raisi a clutched fist and saying, * Power to the People.”’ At this point that scum, the fascist Judge pig O’Kane who undoubtedly by his actions must have been scraped off the d--k of a Richard Milhouse Nixon, Jumped to his feet shout- ing, “Contempt of court, contempt of court, and | will not have it. Arrest those two.” (Jymbo and J@RGEN DRAGSDAHL Jorgen Dragsdahl), “I saw them raise their hand and ssy, ‘Power to the people,” he stated, Then he pointed us out and threw us in the pig pen. Two hours later he called us out and ran down the charges and then appointed us to ‘get some time attorneys’’ (pub- lic defenders). He then gave us all two minutes alone to admit guilt or innocent, We had no choice of chance of getting our owncoun- cil or hardly a chance to talk to the shyster pigs he appointed us, Upon entering, the Pig Punk Judge had the nerve to ask us to apologize. We refused; conse- quently, he gave us S days in the county jail anda $500,00fine. While we were in jail all privileges were taken away from wuS: no com- missary, no shower, notevena rag to wipe an a-s- with, But we have since been set free to be with the people once again, And we are working for the day when the jails and prisons will be taken over by the people, And | personally want to be the jailer, because I have a plan to convert all the jails into a hole to throw all the cor- rupt officials in, and pour pigs’ piss on their a---es so that they will drown in the scum of their own kind, All Power to the People Free Huey, Bobby, Charles, Lan- don and Rory and All Political Prisoners. Bring Eldridge home! Jymbo, Black Panther Party POLITICAL PRISONERS INCARCERATION AND MURDER Black, Brown, Red, Yellow and White are the colors of political prisoners -- the Connecticur$, the N.Y. 21, Chicago 16, Landon and Rory, Susan Parker, Charles, Bur- sey, Gerald Dixon, Los Siete de la Raza, Chairman Bobby Seale and Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton of the Black Panther Par- ty, ¢tc., etc., are all political prisoners because they stand in opposition to this fascist and sadis~- tle power structure here in Baby-~ lon (United States of America), They and all revolutionaries here in Babylon and all over the world stand in direct opposition to the demagogic politicians, like Elvin Caldwell of Denver and MayorAli- oto of San Francisco, lying and deceiving the people, making the big buck, sitting on their greedy, slimy oinking pig a--es. We stand in direct opposition to the avari- cious, capitalist businessmen, like the Kennedy’s the Duponts and, closer to home, the neighborhood grocer who charges fantastically outrageous prices for one of the basic necessities for survival -- food. The fascist pig cop won't let us forget him, not under any circumstances. Hebrutalizes us by clubbing us over our heads over traffic violations, for telling the truth about the three levels of fas- cism (demagogic politicians, ava~- ricious businessmen, fascist pig cops) and for nothing at all; for just being alive, The fascist sadistic pig cops have been murdering and butchering oppressed peoples for centuries, They are financed by the tax payers and those with the powe! of finance capita), those who con- trol through money. We call the pigs sadistic? You're Godd-—--ed right; because they enjoy murdering and butchering oppressed peoples. They derive a sense of perverted pleasure from sadism. All political prisoners must be set free from the clutches of the criminals of this present society, and these criminals must bewiped off the very face of the earth, Political prisoners not only face incarceration for long periods of time, They face cold-blooded pre- meditated murder, murder on trumped up charges such as con- spiracy to murder, conspiracy to kidnap, assault with a deadly weapon and So on. Recently it has been clearly shown that the demagogic, avari- clous businessmen and the fascist pigs cops are attempting to wipe out the leadership of the Black Panther Party, is the attempted railroading of Chief of Staff of the Black Panther Party, David Hilliard, on charges of assault with a deadly weapon (2 counts) and at- tempted murder (2 counts) stem- ming from the April 6th 1968 shoot- out in Oakland California in which Lil’ Bobby Hutton was murdered, and Warren Wells and Eldridge Cleaver were shot, Thecharges on David Hilliard were dropped but the D.A, has succeeded in getting him iridicted, Last week Chairman Bobby Seale was vamped on by super pigs (F.8.1 and the Berkeley pig de- partment.) They have charged him with murder, conspiracy to mur- der. kidnapping. conspiracy to kid- nap and binding (holding a person without his consent with the intent to do bodily harm). Bobby Seale, Landon Williams, Rory Hithe, and the Connecticut 8 are all charged with the torture murder of our comrade in arms Alex Rackley. The pigs will stop at no crime against the people to try to pre- serve this decadent establishment, even to the extent of killing Broth~ er Alex Rackley and blaming it on the leadership of different chapters and branches of the Black Panther Party. It is up to us, the abused, the exploited people to stop this geno- cidal war on oppressed peoples by the fascist pig power structure. We must do this by any means necessary. We must not pin our hopes for liberation on the sensibleness of the U,S, and her lackeys. We must not let the pigs pick our battleground; but we must wait until the time is favorable to destroy them on our own terms, at our own time, and our own bat- tlefield. We the people must choose. We are all political prisoners and we're all in prison here in Babylon, but Papa is FREE, and we too will be free when we defeat the U.S, running dogs and herlack- eys. PEOPLE OF DENVER -- UNITE! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FREE CHAIRMAN BOBBY! LAND AND RORY! FREE GERALD DIXON! FREE ALL POLITICAL ONERS! PRIS- Denver Chapter Black Panther Party BOBBY HUTTON MEMORIAL FREE HEALTH CLINIC The Kansas City Chapter of the Black Panther Party has waged the struggle to open the BOBBY HUT- TON MEMORIAL FREE HEALTH CLINIC, Last week, the Black Panther Party held an open hous¢ for the people in the community to inspect the work done by the vanguard of the fight for libera- tion against medical fascism, The move to open the FREE HEALTH CLINIC Has “wugt with some difficulties, The open house was not well attended by the people of the community, Many people do not really believe that the FREE HEALTH CLINIC Is really free, The solicitation for doctors, nurses and other medical tech- nicians {s getting a lack of re- sponse With the doctors and nurses that have already com- mitted themselves, we can keop the clinte open from 10;00a,m to 2:00 p.m, The clinic ts being equipped at a slow pace, However, if necessary emergency oper ations could be performed withthe equip- ment we have, RIGHT ON! We are steadily working to see that the clinic functions in th best interests of the people, U.S.FASCIST OPPRESSION OF PEOPLE The U.S, involvement in the fas- cist oppression of colonized peo~ ples around the world becomes more obvious everyday. Instead of trying to find out which act of banditry, rape, murderorgenocide the U.S, is involved in, it might be easier to approach the question from the other side and ask, ‘Which piece of the actionhave the imperialist pigs somehow over- looked?"" No matter how you sp- proach the question, the results will be enlightening as bits and pieces begin w fit into place. Repression of dissent, sup- pression of free speech, support of racism,.....bootlickers, toms, and traitors used against libera- tion Tighters.... Negrs Green Be- rets teaching the fine art of mayhem/murder/genocide in Hai- ti (see B.P, August 23, 1969, Page 20).....Black Airmen in Portugal subjected to fascist attacks by Por- tuguese and Americanofficers (see this issuc).....Army brass instiga~ ting race riots, troops instigating stockade rebellions..,..the disease G.1’S REFUSING — To oINK LIE The ‘credibility gap"’ hasn't shrunk under ‘Tricky Dick’’ Nix- on, but has grown tremendously. Luckily the light shed on the Viet nam fiasco grows brighter with the growth of newspapers published by the G,1,’s themselves. The pigs of the pentagon are making {t hard on those who dare speak out; but word “from the horse’s mouth” ig the only way for the American public to tell ‘‘combat news"? from bulls--t. If you care about “TRUTH, it can be had, One recommendation would be to buy and read THE BOND (l0cents), published by: The American Servicemen’s Union Rm. 538, 156 Fift Avenue N.Y., New York 10010 "HELP CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEFENSE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS WHEN YOU SHOP AT CO-OP, NO.34956 Dee e eee e nee teen ene ee eeeeeeen RTH TTT STAN SERLLCEST NNT HOUT HOENNSY EHD INO eeseeere USE “rickets” on the upsurge in the U.Sesoeetalk of welfare cute by politicians, enforced slave laborby parents of welfare children forthe right to remain on ‘‘welfare’’..... moon successes and earth failures seeesU,Se Police Department pigs murder more Blacks (law and order equal justifiable homicide’ .eeeeU,5, advisors with with Sou African and Portuguese fascists in Angola....Chase Manhattan Bank over 1,200 offices in Middle and Southern Africa ..... Over 10,000 political prisoners in South Africa, (see B.P. Ausust 30. 1969)..... 180 day preventive detentioniaw under South African Apartheld,,,,.90 day preventive detention lawunder U.S, democracy.....tanks in U,S,Black ghettos...., strategic hamlets in Agola,,...Bantustans in South Af- rica,.... napalm in Vietnam..... Green Beret ‘‘Negritude” in Haiti ++esLand? Bread? Housing? Educa- cation? Clothing? Justice? Peace? All Power to the People ‘The (ight for freedom ofspeech, racial justice, freedom of press, and freedom of political associa- tion can never be more urgent or necessary than in a life or death situation, With the exception of America’s Blackcolonial subjects, — the only people in America today — ia guch @ situation are the G.I.'s. The same troops ordered to © maim, murder, and obey orders blindly in Vietnam, have carried out similar orders in Harlem, Waus, Berkeley, Detroit, Chicago, Santo Domingo, and Washington D.C, Those who would be people and not olive-drab, government- — issue PIGS, need the support of ALL the people. All Power to the People waveneceeed it ain) vol hey afl mE HARLEM BREAKFAST o>: ,- FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN Reprinted from the Maily World Saturday, August 23 NEW YORK, Aug. 22 — Eight o'clock in the morn- ing... And as you enter the side door of All Saints Cath- olic Church at 130 Street and Madison Avenue, your nose leads you directly to the free-breakfast program for children of the Black Panther Party in Harlem. In the basement, sausage is {rying on the grill. A young wom- an mixes a great bowl of eggs to be scrambled with melted cheese A Panther is pouring orange juice into one line of paper cups and milk into the next row A small group of five-year-olds seated at one table emit the laugh- ter and cries which can only come from joyful children Gradually, this kindergarten at- mosphere changes as some of the older children arrive. But the predominant mood in this Harlem church basement remains one of a pleasant oasis within the raging BROOKLYN PANTHERS OVER PIG INSTITUTIONS Recently a mother named Aretha Carter came to the Free Break- fast Program belng held at Good Shepherd Mission at 564 Hopkin- son Ave in Brownsville, Brooklyn. She came requesting food for her family of tll people, who were home hungry. Without the usual rhetoric (talk) that you receive from the Pig's institutions when requesting help, the Panthers prepared meals and took them over to the Carter’s home, While at the Carter’shome, the Panthers noticed that more than food was needed there, so they asked that the situation be looked into further. Immediately a Pan- ther investigator was sent out and the following is a statement of what was found out from Mrs, Aretha Carter, The Carters had been waiting for the Pig Welfare Department to find them an apartment since De- cember, 1968, They wanted to move because most of the children are very young and the house was over- run with rats, mice, and roaches, And she was afraid that one of her children would be bitten by a rat, The pig landlord of this hellhole was only seen on dgys when the rent was due. He was asked by Mrs Carter to make some repairs, but none were ever made, After walting 7 months with no results from the Pig Welfare De- partment, they found an apartment on their own, The sew apartment is only 3 or 4 rats cleaner than the old apartment, and is still not M for the shelter of a human being . The rent for this rathole is $150.00 a month. They moved to the new apartment in July 2, 1969. The avaricious (greedy) Pig Gas Company was supposed to turn the gas on July 3, 1969, but has not done so yet, Pig Con Edi- son Electric Co. was supposed to turn the electricity on, but they haven't gotten there yet and probably will never get there. The Pig Welfare Department has shown no concern for the Carters although on Saturday there was a fire in their building, then the next day, another fire. Yet the Pig Wel- fare Department has not given them a return telephone call after the Carters reported the fires, The Pig Welfare also refuses to give Mrs. Carter money for a bed after seeing that her old bed was broken down, They also refuse to give her money for kitchen fur- niture ( she has none). The actions of the Pig Welfare Department show that It does not care about the people, If it did care, people would not Live In rat infested apartments, without kitchen furniture, beds, gas and electricity. These bloodsuckers are Living off the misery and suf- fering of others, They are holding a deaf ear to the agonizing cries of the poor people. A loud shotgun used on the heads connected to some of these DEAF EARS would clear up a lot of this deafness, Lt, of Information Sonny Evans Brooklyn Branch, Black Panther Party storm of the ghetto The children are seated accord- ing to their ages: five-year-olds together, eight- and nine-year-olds together, etc. Janet Cyril, who administers the Harlem breakfast program, explained that this seat- ing arrangement allowed for na- tural conversation among the young people “The children often help us in serving the tables,"’ she said, ‘‘and they are responsible for cleaning up after the meal also.” Breakfast plus learning A section leader at each table is delegated to supervise this Black August 25, 1969 The most recent racist pig ac- tion on the people of Richmond went down yesterday evening, August 25, 1969 at about 6:30, James Graves and two other brothers (Clarence Frazier and Geral Gallon) were riding near the vicinity of 7th and Virginia Streets when they noticed that there were ‘officers of the law’’ following them. Brother James pulled his car over on 7th and Virginia and let the other two brothers out. When he pulled away the racist pig followed him down the street, At no time had the pigs put their cherry flasher or air- raid sirens on, After about a block or so Brother James was told by the pig to pull over. As James stopped, the storm troopers jumped out of their mobile pig pens and ordered the brother to produce identification, Before the brother could reach the glove- compartment for his identification the pigs had jerked him out of the car and were literally choking him. With all the madness and man- ner in which the pigs were treating the brothers, Clarence Frazier’s mother heard it and had come out- side to investigate (the scene was in front of her house). When Broth- er Frazler’s mother saw what was golng on, she stepped up to verify what James was saying, The plgs told her to get the hell away from there ‘cause she ain't got a damned thing to do with it’ and ‘shut up’’ By this time, Brother Frazier and Brother Gallon had arrived from 7th and Virginia, The racist, fascist pig-cop had raised his ‘arm of justice’ in an attempt “4 = o > 3 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY clean-up exercise and maintain order Before the meal is served, a team of Panthers circulate through the rows of tables, greet- ing the children and spreading the Panther program Power to the People!” Panther shouts ‘Power to the People - children’s chorus responds What is point number six of the 10-point program of the Black Panther Party?” the young Pan- ther asked a six-year-old girl “What do we want?” “We want all black men to be exempt from military service.’ she replied. “And what is our point number seven?" the Panther said to the boy across from her “We want an immediate end to the the SEPTEMBER 6, 1969 PAGE 19 7 Teresa Patterson, age 9 5 was jailed by police in the Pan- police brutality and murder of ther 21 case black people,”’ snapped the little 4 boy Teresa Patterson is nine (‘I'm nine-and-a-half,"" she said. “I'll be ten on October 22."') and her step-father, Ali Bey Hassan, 28. —Datly World. Hillary Dandridge, age 11 Richmond Fascist Pigs Attack Family to hit James. Frazier grabbed the stick and Brother Graves split. Since it was obvious to the pigs that Graves knew Brother Fra- zier’s mother and her house was right there, they (the pigs) went to her door, Mrs, Frazier, knowing her ‘‘democratic rights’ tole the pig that they couldn't come in, The pigs kicked the door down, pushed Mrs, Frazier aside, and entered the house with guns drawn! (there were little children present at the time), The four storm- troopers that had gained illegal entrance drug Brother James out- side. The two brothers, Clarence Fra- zler and Gerald Gallon were still outside. When they realized what was going on (fascist pig brutality), they started to walk away. The fact that the pigs had one brother in custody wasn’t enough, The pigs jumped Brother Gerald from behind, (Four pigs had to jump one brother behind, Dig it?) They twisted his arm, choked him, handcuffed him and threw him inthe car, The four goons of the Rich- mond Pig Department sald to the brother left, ‘*Do you wanna fight?’ This ts just another reason why the Black Panther Party, together with other revolutionary organiza- tions are calling for decentraliza- tion of police (community control of police) in communities throughout the nation, The people of the Black communities tn particular and all other oppressed communities in general, can no longer be controlled by these trigger happy fascist dogs, POWER TO THE PEOPLE! OFF THE PIG} The reporter asked Teresa what she thought of the Black Panthers. “They're good for black people,” she beamed “Why?” “Because they're nice to child- ren...’' she paused. : “Do you know why the police are after the Panthers?” “Yes,"’ she answered quietly. “because the Panthers are chang- ers.” ‘Pigs hate black people,” said Hillary Dandridge, 11, when I moved over to his table. “They hate us because they don't want us to have power,”” he went on. ‘‘And the Panthers are helping the people,"’ he said. Someone had brought his plate of eggs. sausage. and grits. And I moved out of the way so that he could have his breakfast in peace. HARLEM BRANCH FREE CLOTHING PROGRAM TO THE BUSINESSMEN Dear Sirs: As you may already know, the lying politicians in Albany have voted to cut back mohey to wel- fare recipients, These demagogic politicians can allocate billions and billions of dollars to send monkeys and astronauts to the moon but when it comes to the basic needs of the people -- food, clothing and shelter -- all the lying politicians can come up with are empty words, And welfare mothers don't even have enough money to buy clothing a supplies to send their children to school. The Black Panther Party has proven with the Free Breakfast Program, the Liberation Schools and the Free Lunch Program that the racist U.S, Government Is not interested in meeting the needs of the Black community, and we are going to once against to meet the needs of the people by starting a FREE CLOTHING FOR CHIL- DREN PROGRAM We are demanding that all mer- chants who rob and exploit our community, return some of the profits that they take from our community by donating clothing and supplies so our children will be prepared to go to school. The oppressed communities welcome your cooperation. We would like to set upan appointment with you to discuss the details of your donation. Please call or write to us at your earliest convenience, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! For further Information Call: 864-8951 or 666-3603 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1959 PAGE 20 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 fullemplovoent for our people We believe that the federal vove mont t responsible and obligated t give every mun employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the Witte American tusinessmen will pot give full employment, then the mows of production should be taken from the businessmen and places the community so that the people on the minuhity can organize and em pilin all al tts parcple wid pve wu tigh atundare of 3. We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community We believé that this racist governmeént has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people, The Ger- mans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people: therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make 4. We want decent housing. fit for shelter of human beings. We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community. then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid. can build and make decent housing for its people 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowl- edge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the mili- tary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary. 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people. We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or- ganizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self-defense. 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails, We believe that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial. 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, en- vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black — defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man” of the black community 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis- cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and naturg’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 government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall scem most likely to effect thelr safety aud happiness, Pro- lenee, indeed, will dictate that governments long estal ved Should not he changed tor light and transient causes: and, acterdingly all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, While evils are ulforable, than lo right themselves by abolishing The (rms to which they eaceustomed: But when a long train of abuses and unsurpations, pur suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab. solute despotisnt itis their right, it is thelr duty, to throw off such govern. ment and to provide new guards for their (ture seeurity 7 PPS Fe Say Ise te — Waste Al SABADO 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE 1969 p.8 EDUCATIONAL TV AND LA RAZA This discussion between Marty and Archie of Los Siete and some members of Newsreel was taped befo.o and after watching the T.V, program ‘‘Cancfon de la Raza’’. The soap opera was filmed in L.A and was sponsored by the Ford Foundation, Marty: The first program was about a high school where a kid got beat up by the cops and so his friend gave him some reds, He went home and laid down on the floor, His sister tried to explain to his mother that he had gotten beaten up, but the mother wouldn't listen. She would just start praying and turning away. The father didn’t say anything. It presented the main problems--dope and school. Archie: But | don't think anyone watches the program. Their posters are around but I don’t think people look at them. - Marty: I never watch television because I don’t believe in it. Archie: It's an idiot box. Marty: Television destroys your mind, Those commer- cials are just too much, You know, you just stand there like an idiot--Duhhh, ,Atchie: For me TV is a waste of time, I have better things to do than watch TV. Marty: Have you ever watched someone watching TY? Wow! They're just like zombies. Like my Httle brother. There can be kids playing and yelling outside, but he doesn't hear anything but that TV. And if anything goes wrong he runs up and starts fixing it--turning the dials,~ It's too much! Mike: What do your parents think about you working for Los Siete? Archie: When I first started working with Los Siete in the community, my mother thought that all this was com- munisny-just iike a lot of other parents. She said that the people we were working with and who were trying to help us educate ourselves, would help at first and then would act like dictators and try to control our lives. My bro- ther and I rapped off to my mother what was really hap- pening. She ts all for it now. She understands what's going on, bot is too busy to get involved directly. Marty: My mother talks to all kinds of people and she’s like half for it and half against it. But she knows what T'm doing is good, Louise: Where do you think your parents get their ideas about communism? Marty; From television! (Laughter) Youknow, I tryto learn about communism. At school I asked 10 people, ‘‘What is communism?’ And they couldn’t give a straight defin- ition, because they didn't know what itis. They just say, Oh, its bad,’’ What's bad about it? I don't care whether it’s bad or good, I just want to know what it is, Like this class we have in Latin American History, our teacher isn't telling us the United States is bad. He's telling us the real story, the one you never hear, becuuse they don’t want you to hear It, We turned on the TV and watched the program, After- wards we talked some more.) Mike: What the show does {s to put the blame on one bad person, Chuy. (In the episode'we watched, Chuythe pusher had gotten David involved in an attempted robbery.) Is that real? Marty: No. When guys do things, they do it together, And there isn’t one guy pushing the dope in the community, What the show does is bad, because it’s not true, Mike: Do you know who is sponsoring the program? Marty: The Ford Foundation put up the money, What ls their thing? Are they like Safeway and the rest of them? Mike: Why would Ford Foundation sponsor it? Marty; I think they’ re playing a game, like Safeway, Safe- way has these TV commercials for Food Stamps, In the meantime they sell grapes. Safeway ts fighting the boycott through radio and TV, and they have the monoy to do it. Archie: When we were boycotting Safeway we saw the brother of the cat that owns Safeway. We all sald, ‘‘ Boy- cott Safeway’, and be gave us the finger and said,’ Fuck you’ just like that, That's how they really feel about the people, Marty: Those JV commercials where thoy tell the poor people they're really good guys because they take Food Stamps, is very important, Because people believe anything they hear on the radio and TY, It's always on, always there, easy to get to and easy to accept, Mike: To get back to the program, what's your general opinion of it? Marty: There's no feeling of love and the real things of life, It’s*bad that they’ re showing what the Chicano already knows--how he beats up on his brothers and how he Is lower than anyone else, Everyone else thinks that way too: they see a Chicano and say he’s dumb because he’s a Chicano, and that’s just not true. Mike: What's the difference between the way Roberto or Roger talk to you about school and the way the brother in Cancion talks to his younger brother? Marty: Berto and Roger say there’s got tobe a change and you're either against what's happening or for it, You either try and help all the. people or turn your back and look the other way-- Archie: Some Chicanos get knocked in the head by the man and they just won’t see what's going on, Roger has learned what's really happening,,and he’s trying to educate the people, He’s not pushing us. He’s just telling us that we have to educate others to what's happening, When every- body knows that, then you can change things. You can walk up to the principal in high school, with ALL your people and demand changes. Robert: To get back to the For Foundation, By sponsoring an ‘‘educational’’ program like Cancfon de la Raza, they make themselves look lke friends of the poor Chicanos, At last we have our own program, one that shows how kids shouldn't strike or quit school. Because you need the system's education in order to get a good job, Ford has a big stake {n education, They have billfons of dollars and whon they give this money to a-TV station or university to produce an experimental program, they're doing this be- cause they know that education is one of the most power- ful tools for gaining control of the minds of people, espec~ fally young people. Your textbooks are written by professors in the big private universities, They “epend on big foundations like Ford to finance research and experiments in new teaching mothods and materials. The universities must compete for Ford's money, So Ford can pick and choose among them and it always chooses those that support capitalism and are against communism and people thinking just for them- solves. They contro! education just through the power of their money. Archie: The Ford Foundation wants to keep everybody is- olated and just worrying about themselves. That's why they pay for a program lke Cancfon de la Raza, So the people won't unite with organizations with Los Sieteand La Raza, But in Ameriea, it's not going to work out like they say, because there are too many people who are poor and need help. And that's why these organizations are there to serve the pecple. “OF COURSE THE TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO IS IN THERE... GIVE ME THAT BOOK. HERE IT 1S, THIS SENTENCE TELLS THE WHOLE a STORY!” nn iB Now! rl PEEEE RI clic bibel Liberation Day a For La Raza Schools Why is it that a middle class school (schools in middle class areas) have such an outstanding ‘* 7 record while a practically Third bee World school (Black,Red, Yellow, Brown, and White, poor people of the world) have such a miserable one?--Such as Mission High---- Why is it that poor peoples’ schools the students don't have any say so in the running of the sch- ools and if they to try to they get kicked out? Is it because Third World peo- A ple are ignorant. NO! It ts on purpose! It is no accident; the rich in power want it that way, The rich need laborers to do their work, any they know that college graduates don’t pick uptrash, They want us to be kept ignorant of our situation, When their consclences hurt the rich can simply say, ‘we are too ‘ignorant’’’. The day must come when all can be taught to help themselves and their brothers, Ignorance must be overpowered by the people. The people learn to help themselves and help their brothers and not work for one man that does not help him but keeps him down. Students must learn to ask for what we want and help in getting things done, Stop falling into the trap of the tracking system, Forcethe rich to give us back what they so long have stolen from us! We must find out about ourselves, stop fighting with each other and fight the man z that has kept us apart and down. The 16th of September was the day of Mexican national liberation, Let the 16th of September be the liberation of the oppressive school system in the United States. Bro- thers and Sisters unite. Come or call Los Siete if you want to see things happen for your people. No matter who you are, if you want to help, we're at 2680 York &., oes er vvTt ae a et <r \eeees ry = . N.L.F, FREEDOM FIGHTERS would have voted for Ho Chi Minh—the supposedly terrible Communist leader in the North. So—no elections. Ho Chi Minh was the people's leader against the French. He helped train many boys and girls for the resistance fight. They were picked from strong, tough campesino families with stomachs and nerves and revolutionary ways as strong as steel. As Burchett tells us, they were all prepared to go and live with the tribal people, if necessary for the rest of their lives. They were called Vietnamese or “Viet Minh” cadres. There are many tribal people in Vietnam. They live somewhat in the way the Indian here lives. To name a few tribes: the Rhade, M’nong, and the Jarai. These people didn’t trust anybody, not even other tribes. One of the reasons was that they were always thought of as savages and mistreated. It was the same as here in the U.S., where the Indians were treated as savages and the culture and the land have been grabbed from the people to make money with now. in movies Indians are always called savages. The “Viet Minh" were trained to respect the people’s points of view, customs and ways of life. If the tribe would file their teeth down to their gums, the cadres had to do that also. If they worshipped stone idols or prayed at the table, the cadres did this too. The tribal people grew to like and trust the cadres as if they were all in the same family. It was because for the first time in all their lives they were treated as equals by outsiders. The Vietnamese cadres were disciplined never to criticize them in a bad way, but when the time was right they were to teach them and show them the wrong in their ways of life. The cadres were taught many good things too, such as the use of weapons and traps. Burchett gives examples of showing the tribes the wrong in their lives. In one of the villages after the growing season, everything was eaten after a feast and then the tax collector would come and collect for back rents, etc. The tribal people believed that the gods wanted them to be slaves and wanted them to be unhappy. They would say, “Ie is the will of God that we are this way."’ The cadres would explain to them that it wasn’t the will of God, but that it was the will first of the French, and then the U.S. Diemists. And that it was the French and the United States who made them pay all the results of their labor in taxes. _ At first it took a long time to convince the people of this. As time passed, the people came back and began to ask a lot of questions. Then they went back and taught about what the cadres said some more. Finally the day came when they went back to the cadres and said, “It’s true, it’s true, what you say is true.” They cried at first and then got angry and said: “Our forest is full of elephants, our land is good, our soil is rich, we wear old torn loincloths, we could live better.” Then they said, “Look how they cheat us for a month's work. The French give us an old shirt or worn out pair of pants. For a brass gong we must give them an elephant or buffalos. The U.S. Diemists give us a bottle of perfume or bar of soap for a hard d=y's work and they give our women a few bead. or bits cf clot’ in return for so many pigs and buffalo.” The tribes people are a very beautiful people (as the N.L.F. cadres said). Once they give their word they would rather die or suffer the worst tortures than break it. They are so straight and pure in their thinking, they are honest and generous, They would die before betraying a friend. Another example of the cadres was after the U.S. Diemists dropped napalm on villages from planes. Napalm is a jellied gas which is thrown from a plane (like spraying D.D.T.) and once it hits you it cannot be taken off. The more you scratch it the worse it gets. lt burns through the skin like acid and either kills people or leaves them permanently crippled. When napalm hits, the skin on your body melts like candle wax. The local agents would say that the planes HASTA YA! SABADO 0 DE SEPTIEMBRE 1969 p.7 were “Kim Phiar™ (the fire bird god Jand that chis god was punishing the tribes people for being so disobedient because they wouldn't sell their lands or crops. The tribes people believed this until the N. L. F (National Liberation Front) cadres shot a few fire birds (planes) and the people found U.S. or Diemist (Vietnamese vendidos) pilots inside of them. The majority of the tribes-people supported the “Vict Minh" and now the N.L.F. all the way. Their slogan is “Anti-Puppet, Anti-imperialist” and this the tribes support with all their hearts In the war against the French, quite a bit of land was taken away from the rich absentee landlords and given to che landless campesinos. When Diem got in power, he and the U.S. made many plans and schemes to get this land back. After they got it, they wanted the people who had been living on the land to pay them back rents. People refused to put their thumbprints on their land documents. When they refused to pay backrents and put their thumbprints on these documents, the police and army units went to the people’s houses to harass them. Finally the people got so tired of the debts and so discouraged that they ran away to the jungle in order to make new villages and a new life where they couldn't be bothered. Don't all these tactics sound: familiar to you? The way the U.S. Government robbed our ancestors of their land? The forests were ours once, too. And what are they doing with it now? Making billions of dollars with the wood and minerals and ski resorts from OUR forests. These tactics sound so familiar to me, especially how they would cheat our ancestors into signing an X (not a thumbprint) on their documents and make them believe they were signing for a crop of beans or credit in a store. It just makes me realize that these books are great and that they really have the facts. | realize chat if this government can cheat and deccive its own people, it makes sense that chey could do it in other countries too. We cannot exactly separate when the Vietnamese fought against the French and when they began fighting the U.S., since in so many ways tle war is the same except that the people fought against two different countries—but alway for the same reason. We can’t even say exactly how the U.S. got so deeply into the war. We do know that after the French (helped by the U.S.) were beaten, the U.S. was still sending in a few thousand. so-called “advisors.” who were really military and C.1.A. police agents. They helped the Vietnamese vendidos organize their army and police to wipe out the people working for a better government. But the Diem government was so bad that more and more people started protesting against it and fighting it. Meanwhile, up in the north, the society built by Ho Chi Minh was growing stronger and better all the time. The U.S. sent in troops, and more troops, to help the vendidos in the South, until today there are about half a million. We have to ask: Why do our boys go to fight in Vietnam? Why do they go into the armed forces at all? The people they are sent to fight are poor people, just like us. Why go to fight people who are in an even worse situation than we are? Is that what you want to become. a tool to kill and rob poor people? The rich have always used the Divide and Conquer method. They are using it now. They are using the poor people of this nation to go and fight with the poor in Vietnam and other countries. And it could get even worse. Someday you might be sent to kill people even more like yourself-people who speak Spanish and eat tortillas and love their families. Even if you don’t get sent to kill the Vietnamese, you may be sent to kill other poor people. EVEN THE OLD ARE MISTREATED BY THE YANQUI INVADERS BASTA YAI- SABADO 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE 1969 p.6 Hermanos: THESE por VALENTINA NF EL GRITO DEL NORTE ESPANOLA, NEW MEXICO I didn’t know anything about this war, People would say the “Vietnam War" and it was just another word; they would say “undeclared war'’ and | didn't even know what it meant, but I did know that all kinds of people I knew were going to fight this war. 1 didn't know anything about this war except what they told us about fighting Communism. Then I read a really interesting book called Vietnam: The Inside Story of the Guerilla War by Wilfred Burchett, and another, Vietnam, Vietnam: by Felix Greene. These two books gave me facts about the Vietnam War. Now when I hear that a boy of our Raza, a poor boy, a boy who doesn't know anything about the Vietnam War, has been drafted or enlists, it burns me, I jeel terrible. I say to myself: why, why are you going to fight in this war? Is it because that's the only way you can find to make a living? Or is it because you're tired of your little home town and parents and you want to “see the world’? Or maybe “because you want to impress the girls with your uniform? Or because you're afraid to have your buddies and girl friends call you chicken? And is it also because you don't know anything about the war? When writing his book Burchett spent 10 months with the N.L.F. guerrilla fighters, misnamed by the government and press here the “Viet Cong Vietnamese Communists.”’ His life was endangered many times but when a reporter wants the people to know the truth his life isn’t important. It’s like a person who gives his life to the Causa. He + doesn’t care whether he gets killed if this means in the end he will get justice and liberation and the truth to the people. How and why did we get involved in this unjust war? All of a sudden we wake up and here we are all involved in a war. They are sending our brothers and cousins to a war that we don’t know anything about. Let’s see what Burchett and Greene have to tell us. For a long time the Vietnamese have been fighting against oppression and imperialsim, (Imperialism is when a large country, like the United States, exploits the people and natural resources of a smaller country.) Before fighting this war against the U.S., they were fighting against the French imperialists and before that, the Japanese. The U.S. people's tax money paid 80% of the cost of France's war, Why did this country do that? Ina 1953 speech in Seattle, President Eisenhower said that 400 million dollars to help the French was not a giveaway program; it was just the cheapest way to prevent something terrible happening to the U.S. security, and its power and ability to get certain things (like tin and tungsten) from the riches of Southeast Asia. So this is the reason why we got into Vietnam in the first place. Then the Vietnamese defeated the French at Dien Bien Phu, and the French pulled out all their troops and agreed to have a peace conference in Geneva, Switzerland. All the big powers signed the Geneva Agreement in 1954—except the U.S. and the Vietnamese rulers who were vendidos to the French. But they did promise not to violate the agreement by force or threat of force. VIETNAMESE SISTER DEALING WITH IMPERIALISTS WHO vera cv Ae ARE PEOPLE? PEASANT WOMAN MOURNS THE DESTRUCTION OF HER VILLAGE BY YANQUI TROOPS : iy 207 Ot web These were the three main points of the agreement: 1) Everybody agreed that the separation of Vietnam into two parts—north and south—was not a final arrangement. (This division was supposedly to allow the French troops to regroup inthe South = and leave the country, and it was accepted in good faith by the” Vietnamese who had fought against the French.) ae 2) Elections would be held within 2 years to make sure thatthe = country would be re-unified. a 3) In the meantime, neither the North nor the South would make any international alliances or receive military help from the outside. Naturally the French wanted to try to keep some influence in Vietnam, and the U.S. wanted to make sure that the government stayed under control, So without any consultation with the Vietnamese people, the U.S. saw to it that a rich landowner, then living in the U.S., became President. His name was Ngo Dinh Diem. Diem soon proved himself to be the worst of dictators, savagely repressing any opposition. Just 12 days after the Geneva Agreement was signed, an event happened in Saigon. The people had a huge demonstration mainly to celebrate the signing of the agreement, with lots of cheering. They also presented demands for the release of political prisoners from the war against the French. Diem was against that, because he knew those prisoners wanted a better government than his. His reply to the people’s demands came in a volley of rifle fire. A pregnant woman was shot through the stomach and people were killed. That showed people the nature of the Diem regime. Diem's army forces would surround villages, then search, raid, arrest, torture and kill anyone at all who was against the rich people in power. Many people who had done absolutely nothing were also victimized. Diem wanted to erase any thought or experience of the first resistance against the French). At one point he wanted to make a list of the people who had taken part in the resistance, but it was impossible because almost every ablebodied man, woman and child took part trom an ol d man toa shild b CnovuUsgh [oO carr bes iy g ya ME SSaAge ora pe arce | Diem started a “Denounce Communists campaign.” If a wife had taken part in the resistance, the couple was forced to divorce and remarry in order to prove they were sincere, Some husbands went to jail without any hope of coming out again. Some people had their families taken to jail and these people were never heard from again. They weren't even given a trial. Thousands and thousands were killed this way 1956 came and went and there were no elections, as had been promised to the Vietnamese people, President Eisenhower said that if there would have been elections, possibly 80% of the population (Continued on mext page | ' of Tener +. TP TAR LAY ? BASTA YA! SABADO 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE 1969 p.5 Letter rom NELSON Nelson Rodriquez, one of the sever wrote this letter to one of the sisters in Los Siete, 8 de Agosto 1969 Mi hermana, Writing in a foreign language isa bring down, but when you want to express all the love and gratitude you hold for your people you just have to do with what you have. Which isn't much we have in here, but I know I have more than e- nough, the love and support of our people, which Is all we want and need to keep going. It is hard to say all the things I would like to say in 2 pieces of paper that we are allowed to write in, but I can say this, it comes from the bottom of my heart, as for our ninos they are getting lessons in life, thanks to hard working bro- thers and sisters like the people that have come forward to our de- fence, but our people must also learn that we are not the only Political Prisoners in this fail. All Third World Brothers here have committed the crime of “being hungry’. Sothe modernday Slave driver classifys them as &@ menace to society...they must be liberated, also our people must also come to their defense. They must not be forgotten, I have to close now that I have used up the two pages I'm al- lowed to write. Please thank all my Brothers and Sisters, Give them all my love and gratitude. Recibe el amor de tu Hermano Nelson Soccer WA “The End of the World,” an illustration by the,Mexicau engraver Jose, Guadalupe Posada The isters o As we said once before sisters We of Los Siete are working to defend seven brothers accused of defending themselves against an armed assalt by plainclothes po- licemen, Sisters don’t understand that they should struggle as well as men, because brothers treat them in an inferior way that makes them feel like their not capable of doing thinking jobs, We the sisters should play ane- qual role in the whole organization of Los Siete, because we are the mans other half, not better, not worse, but equal! 1 suggest the brothers and the aisters get along better so that they can get together and con- tribute ideas to help the third world people and Los Siete ajo soi should understand the struggle to help all the oppressed people of the community, In order to suc- ceed, we need all the sisters and brothers united! Los Siete is working together with the Breakfast for Children Program but so far only a few Sisters have shown up to help There are a lot of hungry child- ren to feed so we could use more sisters’ help, Los Siete needs the ideas and help of all the sisters and bro- thers in the community because united we will work to conquer all the problems of the community and the people FREE LOS SIETI BROTHERS AND SISTERS UNITED pe . - In July newspapers were filled with stories about the so-called ‘'soccer war’’ between E] Salvador and Honduras, The two countries went to war after rioting broke out durfng a soccer series betwee Hondurans and Salvadoreans, At least that's what the newspapers said. As with rioting in this coun- try there is always more behind the story than the newspapers print, Many people in the Mission are Salvadoreans, and some are Hon- durans, and they know better than anyone else that their people would not go to war because of a soccer game, They know that the people of both countries have all the frus- trations and problems of people who are kept poor and hungry by a handful of rich families who own all the land, and are kept from taking what should be theirs by a repressive dictatorship that serves only the rich, They also know that behind the rich families and the military dictatorships of their countries stands the U.S. gov- ernment and the giant corporations of this country. Here are a few facts about the the two countries--the kind of facts the Chronicle or the Examiner would never give. One(]) percentof El Salvador’s population owns 409% of the land. Most of the arable, coffee producing region is owned by a notorious elite of 14 families. Seeking employment and land over 300,000 Salvadoreans (out of a * population of 3.4 million) have left thelr country to settle in neigh- boring Honduras where most of them have become squatters, Meanwhile in Honduras, the sit- uation was not much better. Again a combination of rich families and repressive dictators have owned or controlled most of the land, When the poor Hondurans demanded land reform, the richlandowners blam- ed the Salvadorean immigrants for the shortage of land, claiming there would be enough for the Hondurans if the Salvadoreans would leave, In Et Salvador, the military- backed regime of Fidel Sanchez Hernandez -has been on shakj ground since last year when a R €-or- \_ANDLORDS’ WAR ¢ united front of reform-minded workers, students and priests tried to topple the government, The only result of their attempt was a pro- mise of land re-distribution, which of course never happened. Inorder to prevent another attempt by the people to over throw his regime, Hernandez used newspapers and the radio to spread stories of ‘‘a- trocities’’ against Salvadoreans in Honduras. By the time the soccer series got under way the landowners and the governments of both countries had used all the tricks they knew to set the poor people of both countries against each other. As long as the poor fight among them- selves, the rich will stay on top, owning all the land, controlling the government and the newspapers. It's easy to see the same thing here in this country. The poor whites are told every day in the hewspapers and by people In gov- ernment that things would be bet- ter for them If the blacks amd Latin people weren't around, High taxes are blamed on Welfare and hot on tax-exempt corporations and the high cost of killing In Vietnam. They even try to set the black and brown people against each o- ther, blaming one for the other's poverty. And all the people of this country are told that every- thing would be all right, there would be peace and plenty for all, if only it wasn't for the Chinese, or the Russians, or the Cubans, or the Vietnamese, or the Koreans, It is only a matter of time be- fore the Honduran and Salvadorean people realize who their real en- emies are and unite against them. The same is true for the rest of Latin America, and the same its true here in the United States. The people are beginning to see who's lying and who's telling the truth, and when the people over- throw the liars who rule here and in Latin America so that they can rule themselves there will be no rich and no poor, no bosses and no Slave wage laborers, no brutal police and no victims of repres- sion The guns spell money's ultimate reason In letters of lead on the Spring hillside But the boy lying dead under the olive trees Was too young and foo yilly To have been notable io their mmportant eye. He was a better target Jor a kiss {the Spanish Civil War) ” BASTA YA! SADADO 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE 1969 p.4 La Raza Feeps hee LwiLoren By JUAN LOPEZ SAN FRANCISCO — In the early morning haze of a warm day to come, the first children Raza Breakfast Program,” as they trickled into the Cabaret, @ movement restaurant on Va- lencia and 14th streets. Across the street Latino wom- : sat at the tables, their still sagging with sleep, older teenagers helped and servers, relatives children and community g in hen digege Ace ] Ai F a8 FE it ip ts TT l 4 i = F 5 ~2 ge if dl a8 gz #8 FE “2 8 Ee ao Baa er Baee 457 in zag> nee i eit ecaree; § a uu geese es : a ile J ga Fe : = _— is z EE ff B R 35 at cE i Hi Bg i Ee : g the program pro- greatest help for fa- welfare, many with- r at home, tad are tting together one Sa may already with money for rent,"’ EZEEFEE Bbeps? g a jin . Martinet added, “Reagan in bullshit. Token contributions." the future is going to put a Several of the food industries freeze on the welfare check, have cooperated with the pro- which means the people are gram, but not Safeway. It has really going to be hurt. More refused to donate the $1” a hurt than they have been."’ month asked by the breakfast The most common method program. Members of the pro- used to raise the funds and food gram continue to go back for for the program is donations {oor! and money, but as soon as from merchants and businesses they get more personnel they in the Mission district and intend to join in with the farm throughout the city. workers and the Panthers to “We go with community peo- form a larger base for the hoy- ple, mostly kids, and we go to cott of Safeway. the big manufacturers,"’ Marti- Marinet, 28, who never lost a net said. “The purpose is for chance to demonstrate his af- us to go and ask for contribu- fection for the children, talked tions from the man who's been impatiently, with an eye on the making money off our commun- breakfast scene. and ask him to put some of Now his arm being tugged by t money back. The response 4 young boy, Martinet explained typical. We get the liberal that by taking the kids along to Black Beeerdere Bustep Sal Candelaria, militant organizer of East San Jose's Black Berets, has been taken to the Vacaville Medical Facility for examination prior to his sentencing on char- ges stemming from an incident on February 16 at the University of Santa Clara, (See Observer, Feb. 26). On the night of Feb- ruary 16, Sal and two other Black Berets were on their way to a party at the Mexican- American Student Confederation Office at the University of Santa Clara. (See Observer. Feb. 26). As they walked by a men's dormitory, some students leaned out of the windows, threw garbage and water at them, and shouted insults. The Chicanos challenged the Gringo students to come down and fight. A large crowd poured out of the dormitory, For self-defense, one of the Chicanos got a ,22 from the trunk of his car. The police were called, and the students retreated to the safety of their dormitory. The police promptly arrested Sal and his companions, Sal was tried in mid-May by former corporation lawyer Judge John Longinotti, He was found innocent on a charge of burglary of a car, but guilty on charges of resisting arrest, possession of a loaded firearm on a public street in an incorporated city, and assault with a deadly weapon, The latter charge is a-felony. In the course of the trial, Longinotti refused to hear testi- get donations, the kids see the equally represented as to ethnic system at work. He added that group, staff members occasion-— the purpose of the program is to ally get an education in ethnic first feed the kids and in the culture in odd : process to raise the level of so- A Latino kid suddenly sprang cial consciousness in the com- {rom the table, darted munity, the path of a young Anglo n As soon as the children gob- reached across the counte: bled their food, they rushed snmething. When he didn't from their chairs to play on the what he was * stage or in the open space of turned towards the young ma the auditorium. Unlike the Pan- and said: . thers, La Raza program makes “Can IT have some chili?" no attempt to hold any formal “What?” educaiton at its breakfasts. “Chili!” “We're not organized to do “Oh! anything about it yet,"" Martinet sauce?” lained At the church, the staff is all c/o Linda Pérez, Horizons Un- Latinos. At the Cabaret where limited, 1249 Alabama. oid the staff is predominantly white Breakfast is served from 8:30 — and the children more or less through 10. mony on the racist insults that provoked the incident. Following his conviction, Sal was re- leased on bail pending sentencing. Then at the demonstration against the Fiesta de Jas Rosas on June 14, he was picked up again, this time on a charge of disturbing the peace. He was whisked out of his holding cell at the jail and taken to’ Agnews Hospital for observa- tion--on the pretext that he had been shout- ing incoherently in Spanish and English dur- ing the demonstration, Actually, he had been shouting to people to "cool it in order to prevent violence by the police. His re- moval to Agnews was simply a way of sepa- rating him from the rest of the demonstra- tors. The plan back-fired, however. A doctor talked to him the morning following his arrest, saw that he was obviously sane, and ordered his immediate release, Sal was then sent to Vacaville for ex- amination so that Judge Longinotti could Set the sentence in light of the entire social, political and psychological context of the case. Longinotti may conside® Sal's com- munity activities as a mitigating factor. Or he could consider them as a threat to the class that Longinotti represents, In any case, Sal will be out of the action for a while, and the Black Berets will have to develop new leadership, FROM THE MIDPENINSULA OBSERVER Sewer Seetrereereers ers " aves 5 d . _ She Cyronticle 2-4 LOS SIETE C: - The San Francisco Chronicle's eoverage of Los Siete actually be- gan the week before Joe Brod- nik’s death. On April 25 there ap- a front page article by Bir- ney Jarvis, with the subdued head- Mine, “*A Gang’s Terror In the Mis- sion’. Jarvis’ story began, ‘A pose knit gang of idlers and hood- are slowly closing a fist ol around the business life of a bustling Mission District borhood. pervasive has the fear be- , it is a virtual act of her- for merchants tocomplainto ce, Most storeowners in the ‘flatly refuse to talk to out- ; about the situation. would still be a skeleton In neighborhood closet--to be hispered about when no stran- are around--if it weren't for Jady with dark frightened rubbish set the style of ma, sensationalism, snide ted facts, and just plain In- that characterized Chronicle ge of the Mission for the two weeks, Jarvis wrote later e same article, ‘‘Busin- .complain of almost daily nent and intimidation.’’ He d which businessmen or er of businessmen. mitigating articles fol- “In the first, Jarvis quoted poverty workers who took ex- ption to the tone of his orig- article because it made all kids sound like hoodlums, He ferred to the poverty workers as ealistic young men andwomen e trying to help Mexican- ean youth in San Francisco." , his implication was that ‘were not only idealistic byt to try to help such worth- ‘second article, a group of merchants themselves denied ges and apologized to Nel- quez, as one of the kids been slandered, But, as the per, Basta Ya! (‘‘Enough!'’) akes no difference that the 2 The rulers u- the story to turn the rest of city against us, and Mayor to announced the formation of 160 man squad of police to with these ‘punks’. The police had a blank check for terror Then on May 2appeared the first of the Chronicle's articles on Los Siete de la Raza, that Is, the six boys presently in jail and charged with Brodnik’s murder, and the one wanted for murder, but still at large. Immediately their guilt was assumed, The banner head be- gan, ‘‘Ganhg escapes siege..." and and the story read, ‘‘One of San Francisco's most highly decorated police officers met sudden death at the hands of at least three young hoodlums...'’The italics are mine, It is needless to say that an equal- ly, if not more, objective account .of the killing would have been, “One of San Francisco's most dis- gusting pigs died during an en- counter (the details of which are unknown) with at least three young students who’ are well known and respected in their community.’’ The article quoted a police in- spector as saying there was “‘suf- ficient evidence to show that the gang Was responsible for numerous thefts during the past months,"’ and pursued the matter no further. It assumed from the start that the tv and stereo the boys were tak- ing from a car into the Rios house were stolen; and by implication, that this was one of a series of robberies committed by the “gang’'. Nowhere, in thisor future articles, were the theft charges corroborated. Not until the end of May 2 article did the reader learn that Mc Goran and Brodnik were not in uniform, but informal dress; they were not driving a police car but a battered old vehicle. The art- icle never suggested that the of- ficers might have threatened or bullied the boys. There was a scuf- fle and then Brodnik was dead-- killed, as it later turned out, with McGoran’s gun, Since the incident was obviously unpremeditated, itis at least as feasible that Brodnik was shot accidentally by his part- ner as by one of the ‘‘hoodlums’’. Not being in uniform, McGoran probably had his gun hidden. He must have produced it before it could have been taken from in, In a violent situation, it could have gone off while still in his hand. The May 2 Chronicle also car- ried a feature on Brodnik and Mc- Goran who were known as the Mis- sion Eleven.’’ They ‘‘were among the most respected law enforce- ment teams in San Francisco,’’ it says, though it does not say by whom they were respected, Clear- around RED BROTHERS ly, not by the community they were supposedly serving. The article described some of the accomplishments of the Mis- sion Eleven, They distributed leaf- lets to residents of the Twin Pe- aks area warning them of the times of gmgatest burglary threat to homes and requesting that they re- port suspicious people in the neigh- borhood,..As a team, the two of- ficers arrested a prominent Meth- odist minister ina Mission district steam room, where, they testified later, he made homosexual advan- ces to them."’ Birney Jarvis had his say again in the May 2 Chronicle. He wrote up a bedside interview with Mc- Goran and his words, as usual, were loaded: ‘*McGoran, speaking painfully thr- ovgh swaths of bandages, saldfrom his hospital bed yesterday that the gang that killed his partner turn- ed the smoking gun on him andem- ptied it at point blank range.,.In- credibly, the heavy slugs from the Al magnum revolver..missed the beaten, bloodied officer ashe tried to crawl to safety’ ( my italics). When the revolver was found, it reportedly had four slugs left init, Apparrently the police forgot that it was emptied at McGoran, This was only one of the many contradictions in the scanty ser- ving up of facts, At first, Mc- Gorn *‘positively identified'’ Nel-. son Rodriquez (along with Jose Rios) as being at the scene. But when the boys were caught, lt was Jose, Mario, and Gary who were arraigned first, It became increas- inly clear that Nelson, ‘positively identified'' by McGoran a few days earlier, wasn't even there. On May 3, that 150 man‘‘crime- busting *’ detail was the featured item, having just completed its first night in action, ‘Most of their job,’’ the Chronicle said, “ centers around stopping suspic- fous characters and making sure they are not inyolved in illegal activity.’"In other words stop a kid kid and see what you can bust him for. Underneath the article onthe new cop patrol was the headline, ‘(Huge Search for Killers of Pol- iceman’’, Again, guilt was ass- umed, Described in the early ed- ition as ‘‘Latin hippie types,’'the suspects were in the final edition simply ‘Latin types’’. The follow- ing Monday (Brodnik’ s funeral) was declared a day of mourning and Every Saturday night, midnight, they would arrive, Tw- enty five men and two paddy wagons. They would pull up in the alleys near the American Indian center, on 16th and Mission, and wait for their victims to come out from the Center and the near- by bars, Then they would move out, pushing, cursing, arresting all they could reach and beating those that resisted. Anyone who looked Indian, drunk or not, was swept up into the wagons, taken downtown and booked, This went on every weekend in the Mission. Young Indians from all over the Bay Area come to the Indian Cen- ter every weekend, to be with other Indians, to drink, to dance and re- Heve the tensions of the allen ci- ties and factories, Most were just off the reservations, where they were the poor but proud owners of the land, They came for the Job and school opportunities promised by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, They trusted in the BIA; and their trust got them menial low-paying jobs, roach infested high rent a- partments, lousy trade schools and the police, who in the words of a Mission Police Captalp consid- ered them “grown up children’, They were not prepared for the hypocrisy of American ‘‘Justice’’ They didn’t know that they didn’t have to talk; that they had a right to a lawyer; and that they didn’t even have to plead guilty. So they ended up in the jails, losing their jobs, money and self respect. Yet change {s coming. A few young Indians, some from S,F State, formed the Movement of Am- erican Native Youth. They forced the cops to end their weekly arrest sweeps by letting them know they were going to defend themselves, They saw clearly that the police and the courts were not there to serve the people, but were the op- pressive arm of the racist power structure. They saw how Indians were being forced off their reser- vations so that land speculators could move in, They are now beginning to put together a program to serve the Indian people, The first priority is Legal Defense, They wanttouse money from the Friday night dan- ces to set up a ball and lawyer fund for the brothers in the jails, Along with this they plan to start legal and political education so that their people ca deal with the true nature of this exploitative society. This is the beginning of aprogram that will include a future alcoh- olics’ clinic anda newspaper. They want the Indian people to start mov- ing to gain their right to self- determination. RIGHT ON! POWER TO THE PEOPLE! BASTA YAP SABADO 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE 1969 p-i Ghrovwiels =e flags were ordered flown at half mast, Acting Mayor Ron Pelost, in a eulogy to Brodnik, contributed to the already overflowing slop: ‘on a sunlit street not far from his home, (Brodnik) offered his life again. And lost it.’’ Once more generalizations were made without evidence, for there was nothing to indicate that Brodnik had offered his life, He simply lost It. The sickening spectacle went on and on, Chronicle of May 6, front page:‘*Rites for an Idealist Cop’’. “Officer Joe Brodnik, killed by Noe Valley thieves..,’" “Tt was Officer McGoran's gun tht th hoodlums grbbed to kill Officer Brodnik. No one blamed McGoran--but the deep lines on his badly bruised face as he limped up the church steps yesterday gave evidence that he was still wonder- fd ” on r chttetop i cGucken paused be- side the hearse to try, withwords, to dry daughter Colleen’s tears, It almost worked,”’ Chronicle of May 8, front page: ‘photos identified; Cop Killing E- vidence’’, The photos in question were not taken at the scene of the killing, as the headline im- plied... They were simply photos from which McGoran identified the boys. There was, incidently, no question that he knew all the boys before May 1, He sald In his bed- side interview with Jarvis that he that he knew them as‘‘ police char- acters’’,They already had clashed with McGoran and Brodnik in the rebellions at San Francisco State and Mission High. The only concrete plece of evi- dence, McGoran's gun, was, the Chronicle said on May 10, ‘found near murder site’’. An ‘‘anony- mous telephone tip’’ led police to the gun, hidden under a hedge on Jersey Street, about eight blocks oo from the shooting, The man who lives there ‘‘said he had no idea the gun was in the hedge beside his home.”’ Jose Rios, Mario and Tony Mar- tinez, Nelson Rodriquez, Danilo Melendez and Gary Lescallet are in jail, charged with murder and at- tempted murder, The Chronicle's two weeks of smear were suc- cesful, for the majority of San Franciscans consider at least one of them guilty, anddon’t much care which one, Yet real evidence is obviously lacking. The police have put the six in a cell together in hopes of overhearing incriminating chased numerous finks out oftheir cell and have ripped hidden micro- phones from the ceiling. They un- derstand the police are trying to scare them, Thus, Nelson Rod- riquez is charged with murder al- though Attorney Jack Berman said the police told him they know Nel- son wasn't there. Clearly, the cops, hope Nelson will fink out. Andthey also hope that the ‘‘real’’ killer will confess to get his innocent friends off the hook. 7 Meanwhile, the news media have become strangely silent about the case, A tiny article buried in the back of the Chronicle one day sal that Charlie Garry was taking the case. And occasionally an utter- ance of Brodnik’s widow is re- ported, as on June 30, when she »said at a Sons of Italy brunch, “‘We voted for capital punishment in California; please see that it's” carried out’, or on July 17, when she turned up in the state assem- bly, testifying in favor of a bill that would impose a mandatory death sentence for a pollceman’s murder. This article was reprinted from dock of the bay, and was written by Marjorie Heins. BASTA YA! SABADO 6 DE SEPTIEMBRE 1969 p.2 FROM THE JAILS AND PRISONS ther Paper is dedicated to the leaders in the Brown Movement, Our thanks to the Black Panther Party for making this publication possible, >a AS YES Hifiy OF AMERICA Hello, brothers and sisters. My name is Pancho Agila and lam a prisoner of the present U.S. regime, the greatest enemy of mankind. Let me run down to you why I believe this to be true. Whenever I look throughout this jail I see mostly dark-skinned bro- thers and the few white brothers that have rebelled against the soc- fal order, When we see beneath the surface, the obvious fact is that so called crime involves the theft of property or associated with pro- perty. This wave, this vangard of Hberation, is on the rise, needing to be controlled and fashioned asa spearhead of people’s revolution. Check these statistics out: San Francisco, 1968 Robbery 1184 Burglary 4150 Larceny 1269 San Francisco 1969 Robbery 1771 Burglary 4783 Larceny 1432 We are here because of our am- bition and need for wealth and the recognition and understanding of experience in acquiring this wealth. We believe in no more jive promises! No more lies are we going to believe! We are not going to take it! We know the power Structure is constructed tokeepus in poverty or servile subjugation @arning money solely to survive, Can you dig it! These brothers are out to get the wealth by any means necessary 50 we have expressed by our actions. We will not settle for the life of invisible men, lost among the thr- ongs of humanity, We are here, and See what is here and will have what is here to the maximum, There is one predominately felt thing running rampant through this world of ambition and need, that I must comment upon, We are too Quick to turn upon one another in our fight for survival. We must realize that we are all of the dis Possessed sector of society andcan never overcome our condition by remaining at each other's throats in our fight for the goods of the society. : We must begin to understand that we are kept in our condition be- cause of this capitalist pyramidal- economic structure where the pow- erful few at the top hoard the wealth at any, and all, cost of us at the bottom, This ruling class that strongly supports ‘Law and Order’’ has the awareness that the revolutionary masses are increas- ingly reaching realization and re- volutionary consciousness, that they are the ones guilty of crimes against humanity, We must no longer rob and steal from one another but unite toget- her in one fight against the great- est of all criminals, This being the ruling class hoarding such un- believable wealth they could never possibly use and their ‘‘Law and Order", in reality their mercen- ary army against the struggle of the oppressed people We must know our enemy! We, that are captured through out the jails and prisons of Amer- ica, are essentially colonial dark- skinned subjects living outside the capitalist-imperialist government by reason of racism or white bro- thers by reason of class exploit- ation by the ruling class and the white middle class that unknow- ingly or knowingly share the pro- fits of exploitation, We of the dark skin are in es- sence the colonial revolution within the heartland of this imperialistic empire. We find that we must In- creasingly ally ourselves with the oppressed light skinned peoples of the land in cur march for power, riches and freedom, We areacan- cer that has begun to grow in breadth and power. The jafls and prisons, that are, in fact, the con- centration camps, are overspilling and the agents of the revolt ex- caping to freedom and spreading the gospel of this unity, We must unite for the time is not far when the final solution to s0 called crime (in actuality the Uberation of goods or money pro- berty from the social order des- igned to exclude us) wil! be the ex- termination of us the exploited colonial peopie of dark skins or oppressed of light skins that have the courage to fight and take what is ours. We shall have justice to the people! Not only is our plight to be un- derstood by economic exploitation. but by political oppression also, We are sent under pain of prison to fight and suppress the colonial revolutionary movement of Africa, asia, and Latin America, which is one and the same with our own revolutionary movement, We are used to destroy their struggle to help the strangling and sucking gold of U.S. imperialists company in conspiracy with their national rul- ing Class that keeps them in hun- ger and poverty. We who fight these brothers are suckers twice. We are used to kill the colonial peo- ple in revolt and are killed on the battle Mne ourselves, yet it is the same enemy responsible for both our condition, We are chumps in a double cross played on us by this U.S. ruling class and the government that protects them. We must not fight our brothers in the colonial world but remain to fight at home for our life, liberty and the pursuit of happin- ess, These are our undeniable rights and not privileges, We will have one day a world where all the powers, riches, and freedom shall be equally shared and enjoy- ed by all. This is the world that's coming! The only world that must come! The watch word is unity now! VENC EREMOS! Pancho Agila PANCHO AGUILA WAS CONVICTED ; OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND § SENTENCED TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT, BASTA YA! is published by Los Siete de La Raza, It comes out four times a month---twice BASTA YA! --in English and Spa- nish--and twice with the Black Pan- as BASTA YA! is a newspaper deal- ing with La Raza all over Aztlan and the rest of the Americas. It freedom our seven brothers--Los Siete-- Liberation LOS SIETE DE LA RAZA Jose Rios of trom Danilo Melendez (Bebe) one of the seven wrote this letter to one of the sisters in Los Siete, August 5, 1969 1 guess you know as well as | do what went down in court to- day. I don’t feel down about it be- cause | know my people are be- hind us all the way, That is why I'm so proud I was born BROWN, Because La Raza always sticks to gether because she cannot lose one of her sons or daughters, In a way and all the way we need La Raza and La Raza needs us. Well, we have to wait another 2 months in the Bastille waiting to go to court, I can righteously say now how Brother Eldridge felt when he wrote ‘Soul on Iee’’. I am glad that we have sisters like yourself, you sister, Donna, Corrine and many others, because the female sex is the backbone of the struggle, a struggle that has to be victorious! Without the sis- ters to help the brothers, we would be weak. I'm so glad that you are that's what we are all doing, fight- ing for our rights. And we have such good looking sisters, So I'll close now saying keep the Brotherhood and the Sisterhood un- ited with faith! Love, Uno de Los Siete Bebe Danilo Melendez Danilo ‘BeBe’ Melendez Nelson Rodriguez SEND LETTERS LoS SIETE BROTHERS Jose Mario Martinez Rodolfo ‘Tony’ Martinez Gary Lescallet MnAIL To: Roo AULT: ES eoSy AEC ERYANT: Str Comments and Articles for prml may be sent to: BRASTA Yal P.O. Box (2217 SAN FRANCIS co, CALIFORNIA BOBBY SEALE! O FREE | OUR 7 ERS SEND DONATIONS TO: CHARLES GARRY 341 MARKET ST. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Subseviption Order + BASTA YA ., SX G)months for $1.56 Please mail my GASTA YA! Subse jplion to: hame —— Address ——________ sae City Sate Please mail check ot no To: LOS SIETE. c/o BASTA Val RO. BOX \2ZI7 ne ney Oder and Sulosevrption Form, SANFRAN CISCO, COU FORN IS SEPTIEMBRE 1969 PANTHER ISSUE NO.* Po. 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