Vol. 3, No. 26

THE BLACK PANTHER 22 Black Community News Service cites: THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 18, 1969 PAGE 2 THE TEN POINT PLATFORM AND PROGRAM OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY “WE WANT LAND, BREAD HOUSING, EDUCATION, CLOTH- ING, JUSTICE, AND PEACE Today, that's only part of num- ber 10 of the Black Panther Par- ty’'s Ten Pobnt Platform and Pro- gram of ‘What We Want,."’ The exploited, laboring masses and poor, oppressed peoples through- out the world want and need these demands for basic human survival, The Black Panther Party began when Huey and [ outlined the basic political desires and needs andput them into the form of a platform and program with ten points of ‘*What We Want’’ and ten of What We Belleve,’’ Huey and I sat there in the Poverty Office where we worked, one night in October 1966, and began a revolutionary political party, knowing that the program was not just something we had thought up, The program was an Outline of the basic political de- sires and needs that went back into the history of Black people, suffering under the exploitative op- pression by the greedy, vicious, capitalistic ruling class of Ameri- ca. The Platform and Program is nothing more than the 400-year old crying demands of us Black Ameri- cans. They are basic demands of ‘What We Want’ and ‘What We Be- eve’. Naturally these demands have a very international proletarian likeness to those of any people who are struggling against the three levels of oppression: the greedy, exploitating, rich, avaricious busi- nessmen; the misleading, lying, tricky, demagogic politician, and the atrocious, murdering, brutal- izing, Intimidating, : cops, These three levels of op- pression exist in virtually every country where there Is overt capitalistic exploitation and the minority, but oppressive ruling class circles of America are in the head of it all, They lead it with their imperialistic, fascist, aggressive, colontalistic war mon- gering, not only abroad, but right here athome in America (Babylon), where hundreds of years of suttle and maniacal racism has been organized and developed by the greedy rich, organized and devel- oped into domestic imperialism - fascism. Community imperialism itis manifested or ts readily seen with respect to the domestic colonializ- ation of Black, Chicano, Indian, and other non-White peoples being cooped up in wretched ghettos and/or on Southern plantations and BOBBY SEALE AND LI’L BOBBY HUTTON reservations with the murdering, fascist, brutalizing pig, occupying the communities and areas just like a foreign troop occupiesterritory, Domestic imperialism of this sort is not limited to Black, Brown, and Red peoples, especially nowadays when the massesof Americans take time to remember fascist suppres- sion by thousands of cops and National Guardsmen at the Demo- cratic Convention last November. Also, in the last few years, on every major college campus, murderous, brutal] fascism in America made its appearance against White, Black, and Brown students and other students who attempted to use thelr basic “democratic rights’’ to change racist administrations and protest the war in Vietnam and brutality and poverty in the ghettos in America Fascism in America has existed for so many more years before the recent forms of repression came about. And every American (and Black people in particular) CAN identify it for exactly what It ts. Racism plug capitalism breeds fascism when the avaricious busi- nessmen refuse to give control to the unemployed workers and their unions, And history has testified to this from the years of repres- sion and unemployment in the thirties to the present day, when the union people will work and strike and peoples will demand right before our eyes that they be allowed to work too. And brutal cops will come about and tricky politicians will come about totrick and mislead the people, tooppress the people and repress their actions, to take over the very factories where they have to pro- duce goods and wealth that they never receive back, Fascism breeds when the lazy, tricking, demagogic politicians lie and mislead people about the suf- foring that Black people are sub- jected to, that Brown peoples are subjected to, thatany color peoples or minority group peoples, or any poor White peoples are subjected to. When the people move todemon- Strate or protest and these human tights workers and civil rights workers are murdered and killed; when babies are bombed in the church as back in 1963 in Burming- ham, thousands of demonstrators are clubbed and brutalized suchas in Burmingham, Alabama back in 1963. This in itself begins to prove the demagogic politicians for what they are--with promises of ending poverty, with promises ofa‘'‘Great Soclety'’, the promises of ‘looking into the matter,’’ etc,, ete., etc, Because of the basic Ten Point Platform and Program that was put together that deals with the need for full employment for our people, that spells it out; that deals with a need for decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings; that deals with a decent education that teaches us our history and our place in the world and In society; that deals with the need to have fair trials by our peer groups or people from our Black communities or thedis- tricts where we live-- because ofa program that talks about land, bread, housing, education, cloth- ing, justice, and peace; because of by Chairman Bolly Seale CHARLES BURSEY AND BORBY SEALE & program that talked about a United Nations supervised plebi- scite to be held throughout the Black colony where the colonial Subjects would participate and de- termine our will and our destiny; because of a program that stated in it that we wanted Black men to be exempt from military services because of all the injustices we have suffered after fighting in wars in the past for the fascist ruling class (and we refuse to continue dying for them); because our Ten Point Platform and Program had in it point number seven that says, ‘“‘We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people''; because Huey P, Newton put this program together and founded this organization with this Ten Point Platform and Program that outlined the basic political desires and needs of the people; because of that; because we began to implement It; because we went to the streets to begin to teach the people and educate the people to the strategic methods to have these political desires and needs answered; because of that, Bobby Hutton wa mur- dered by fascist Oakland pigs. be- cause of that, we had Alprentice **Bunchy’’ Carter and brother John Huggins also murdered at UCLA by jealous, egotistical, piggish dogs who worked for the pigs of the ruling class. Because of that and because of this Ten Point Platform and Program that’s there for the basic political desires and needs of Black people here in America and any other people and anyother proletarian struggles going on throughout the world--because of that we've had two more brothers murdered by these Black na- tlonalist, cultural nationalist pigs. Because of this program, we have political prisoners, We have dead members. We have a war going on, The war started 400 years ago, and the war must be ended, And only by us continually going forth to implement the Ten Point Platform and Program; by us hanging to the fact that we will receive, through all the struggle, some kind of freedom and dignity and justice, will point number ten be realized. We say innumberten, we want some land, some bread, some housing, some education, some clothing, some justice, and some peace, Because of that, it seems that we'll die; it seems that we'll be in exile, and it seems we'll have political prisoners. So let's free all the political prisoners, because of the Ten Point Platform and Program, Because that’s the Idea; that’s the idea that can never be stopped. And as our Minister of Defense so eloquently explained to usin“ Prison-- Where Is Thy Victory?’ an idea belongs to the people. POWER TO THE PEOPLE Chairman, Bobby Seale Black Panther Party PANTHERS PIGS AND FOOLS Last Saturday afternoon a fool, who is either on the pig payroll or just gifted with a pig's men- tality, had occasion to pose as a member of the Black Panther Party. This Is not a rare thing, As a matter of fact, all kinds of pigs, fools, and ewnuchs find it Increas- ingly ‘desirable to pass them- Selves off as member of the Black Panther Party. Although ‘‘ Paper Panthers’’ seem to be springing up everywhere and all the time, there are some points that make this particular ‘Paper Panther an outstanding example of what happens when you mix pigs and fools. Robert (fool) Williams had been having transmission problems and knew Pete to be a pood mechanic with falr prices, and a friendly outgoing personality, This is com- mon knowledge throughout the community. Robert had asked Pete to do a job on his transmission and Pete had done the job at a fair price, Saturday, Robert Williams of 956 43rd Street, Oakland, and a henchman/lackey went to pick up his 1959 MGA from Pete’s gas station on Fairview and Shattuck. They took a rifle with them. When they arrived attho station, they Inquired about the car and it was ready, Robert Williams then asked about his ‘‘tune-up’', When Pete reminded this pig/fool that a tune-up had not been part of the deal the fool began to rant and rave about how he had to have a tune- up. After much cursingand threat- ening he went to his friend's veh- icle and came back brandishing a Magazine fed rifle. After putting Pete and all of his employees up against the wall, pig/fool began to lobby for his free tune-up. Under these circum- stances, Pete did what anyone would have done and readily agreed, When Pete's employee tried to ease into the office to reach the phone pig/foo! threatened blow him away. Pig's fool's ego got the best of him after awhile and Pete man- aged to escape and call the pigs When the Oakland and Berkeley ples arrived pig/foo) had unloaded the gun and began lecturing the fasciat pigs on his *'constitutional The fasctat naturally t¢ rights PANTHER _ INTERVIEWS PETE nored the ‘‘constitutional rights snatched the gun from his hands and almost poked.out one of his eyes sticking some ‘‘.357 consti- tution’’ in his face In the investigation that followed it came out that pig/fool's honch. man (who's name is unknown) had warned Pete '' You'd better do what he tells you to do, he Panther 4 Diack This dido’t fool Pete for a num- ber of reasons. 1, Some of Pete's best customers are Panthers and Pete knows Pan- thers don't act like pigs and fools, 2. Pete's gas station is only one block from National Headquarters and Pete recognized ‘‘Henchman’* as being one of the hang-arounds from the early days of the Party that had been kicked out long ago. This didn’t deter the Oakland/ Berkeley Pig Departments from holding what appeared to be pig conventions in front of Party Head- quarters for the last four days, After the local pigs could find no justification for their long awaited, pre-planned raid on our National Office, they seemed up-tight, To people not in the know, this may seem to have been true be- cause when he was arrested his friend made a telephone call and reported his arrest and within ten minutes there were 8-10 carloads of militant looking young Black people staked-out andpatrolling the area of the station Williams is rumored to be a process-wearing student of Cal Berkeley and may- be it was some of his student henchmen from Cal or Merrit Maybe he belongs to a GORILLA BAND (GORILLA not Guerilla) At any rate none of these fools were members of the Black Party. Pig/fool Panther Kobert Williams made a second trip by the office to assure us that he had not been impersonating a Party member. This was just minutes after pig/ fool stopped in ait. Pete’s station and told Pete that he was a‘‘ Black Panther’’ and that it would be healthier for Pete not to press charges. Pete had told him that “tf you are a Panther you'd better co by the office and get it straight, because they are about to put an aritcle about you in their newspaper,’ Without disclosing the visit to Pete's, pig/fool Williams came in and denied everything and revealed that since he had been out on bail the FBI had been harassing him and trying to make him say he was a Party member so that they could work on some charges to justify a raid, and some trumped- up charges. That's the way things stand now, The Oakland and Berkeley pigs are still frustrated freaks (with & plan). The repression, frame- Ups, and murders are still coming down on the Black Pamher Party; the F BI is still plotting; and pie. foo! Robert Willtams of 953 43ré Street, Oakland, is In a Jam te- tween the pigs and the people PLS. We sUll say Pete's & good mechanic LOOD TO THE HORSE'S BROW, AND WOE TO THOSE WHO CAN NOT SWIM JOHN SOTO: ANOTHER VICTIM OF PIG GUNS CHICAGO PIGS © KILL PEOPLE John Soto, 16, a Crane High School student of 2111 W, Lake St., was murdered at 10 p.m. Sunday night, October 5. Anna Singleton, 21, of 3220 W, Lexing- ton was murdered while shopping in a racist Chicago suburb, Cicero, on Monday morning, October 6, Rosina Marbley, a 2 year-old, was wounded as she attempted to re- enter an apartment with her grand- mother, on Sunday night, October 5, What connects these three in- cidents? Firstly, tho nature of what they are (crimes) and secondly, the similarity of the criminals ). On Sunday night, John Soto and two friends were walking and had reached the corner of Western and Maypole when they noticed a car ‘with two pigs from the Task Force following them, Harassing them fromthe car and finally halting it, these fascists, without any pro- vocation, shot and killed John Soto, There was no questioning, no yell to ‘*halt’’, no warning shot fired into the air, just open, brutal, and unprovoked murder. Pig John Nolan who murdered this brother is now saying that the gun went off accidentally and that he did not kill him. But John Soto’s friends and people on the street at that time, and people, such as the Black Panther Party, who know about the gestapo tactics of the pigs, know that this pig Mes. We know that for the fascist ‘‘pro- tectors’’, the word “‘accident’’ and the word, “murder”, have bocomo synonymous, In Cicero, a Chicago suburban seat of White racism, a sister, Anna Singleton, was shopping in Community Store with four friends, Black people in Cicero are re- garded as sub-human rarities and are often told to never return to that area, It somehow became suspected by store clerks that one of Anna's friends had a gun. If so, the Black Panther Party says, “Right On'’, because this sister must have realized that an ‘‘un- armed people are subject to slavery at any given moment.’ The FFPC (Fascist Forces of Cl- cero) were summoned tothe store, Arriving on the scene with visions of viciousness, the pigs accosted the sisters and were about to search them, Yes, these two White male ples were about to pat down these sisters! This once again proves that the oppressor respects pone of the rights of the oppressed. While rightfully protesting, Anna was snatched by the collar andtold that she had better submit. Pointing out that this was a violation of her rights, the fascists became insanely angered, went mad, and shot and killed her in the store, No warrants of any kind were ever produced, Later, her friends were hauled to jail and charged with possession of a concealed weapon. On Sunday night, a 2 year-old child, Rosina Marbley was entering the Cabrini-Greenhomesarea with her grandmother, when she was shot in the leg by pigs who were supposedly ‘shooting at snipersin that area,’’ Yes, a 2year-oldchild mistaken for a sniper, She is now in the hospital receiving treatment for the wound. The degrees registering on the thermometer of fascism are at an all time high. Each wanton act committed by these sadists Is an indication of the oppressive at- mosphere In which we live, The poor and oppressed people are victims of this terror that knows no time, no age, and no limit, It is evident that these insane terrorists have vowed to outdo the fascism of the Nazi era. Those of us who now lve and see this ever mounting fascism must act and act now, We must put an end to it, because those deaths and that Injury were con- trollable because public servants are supposed to be responsible to us. And if we don't see that they are, then, the same fate that be- fell them might befall us. Point No. 7 of the Black Pan- ther Party’s Ten Point Program says: ‘We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people.’’ And this can be implemented through our program for Community Decentralization of Police, A program that, if ef- fected, would enable the people to decide who ‘‘protects’’ them, All working together, we must stop this rising tide of fascism, It is no longer a question of non- violence or violence; it is a ques- tlon of resistance or nonexistence, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE OPPOSE THE F ASCIST PIGS WITH A UNITED FRONT NOW! BLACK PANTHER PARTY lilinois Chapter SDS: A NEED FOR REVOLUTIONARY LINE The past four days (Oct, 8-11) in Chicago Illustrates the non- revolutionary, sectarian tenden- cles of petty-bourgeois students, SDS sponsored four days of spon- taneous actions in the heart of the New Reichstag, Chicago. Before the start of the disrup- tive activities, Mark Rudd, National Secretary for the Wea- therman faction of SDS, had a talk with the Deputy Chairman of the Ilinois Chapter, BPP Deputy Chairman Fred told him that the type of activity planned was bord- ering the lines of anarchy and would hurt the progress of the rev- olution, He was then told by Mark Rudd that he(SDS) was the vanguard of the White community, That is a racist (White-skin chau- vinism) statement, There |s only one vanguard for all communities, The Black Panther Party, The one ruling class oppresses both com- munities, as a result, there can only be one vanguard to lead the assault on that ruling class. When Deputy Chairman, Fred Hampton, told him that the pigs would attack them, Mark Rudd ex- claimed that the ‘pigs aren't at the stage of attacking White peo- ple’’. That ‘narodnik’ left and went to lead those demonstrations... The demonstrations, turned into riots between the ‘Weathermen’ and the pigs. As a result, two weather- men were seriously wounded and dozens were injured. The Deputy Chairman had analyzed the plan before it was put Into practice and had predicted correctly what happened, If the ‘Weathermen’ had any rev- olutionary theory, they wouldn’t have embarked on that bloody voyage. However , the ‘Weathermen’ did fight back when they were attacked and wounded a few pigs. The ‘Weathermen’ should have Spent their time organizing the White working and lumpen class instead of ‘prematurely’ engaging in combat with the trigger-happy pigs whom were armed with over- kill weapons, The ‘Weathermen’ had no political objective, they were only seeking ‘revenge’ for what happened last year at the Democratic National Convention, The move against the pigs was a result of their sectarian policy that they (SDS)' can carry the Socialist revolution through alone without the support of the White working class. This quest for indi- vidual freedom is one of the corner stones of anarchism. The fact that they don’t believe the pigs will attack them shows they don't understand or use the dialectical mothod to analyze this fascist society, Not to believe that the pigs will move on them Mllus- trates their disbelief that America is moving into a fascist police state, The Black Panther Party will not endorse OF tolerate sponta- neity or the retarding offects of anarchism, We understand that we will have to move on the pigs, But now Is not the time, We will move on them when the balance between the reactionary and rev- olutionary forces have been dipped by our efforts in our behalf, To spontaneously go up against thou- sands of armed pigs showsnot only a lack of revolutionary theory, but it shows a lack of common sense , Anarchism and spontanelty can tip that delicate balance in favor of the fascist reactionary forces of this decaying capitalist state, SEIZE THE TIME BLACK PANTHER PARTY Ilinois Chapter Lt, Eugene Charles THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 18, 1969 PAGE 3 ILLINOIS CHAPTER FREE MEDICAL CLINIC The Black Panther Party under- standing the needs of Black people and other oppressed people is opening a People’s Medical Center. We are opening this center; to answer the basic needs of Black people, to educate the people tothe fundamentals of socialism, and to heighten contradictions within this racist, facist, capitalistic society, This program like our breakfast for children program was formu- lated by our Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton, When we say answer the basic needs and desires that's what we mean, This is done by giving people food and medical care which are essentials for survival. Understanding that Injustice and oppression does exist in America anda revolution or change in this society must occur, we must educate the people to the reasons for such a change. Therefore these programs are geared toward being educational, They are educational in that they show people by ex- ample the way socialism works. These programs heighten the contradiction by showing the people that the Black Panther Party, an organization that has only been in existence since 1966; the Black Panther Party, anorganization that has been labelled a gang, the Black Panther Party, a so called subversive group, is infact making an attempt to meet the needs ofthe people. The federal government however, with all of its wealth and resources are not doing anything to meet the needs of the people, The people will then say any form of government whichis not meeting their needs should be altered or changed and a different form of BOB RUSH, BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND government should be instituted - based on the principle of serving the people. Anyone here in America can take an objective look at the medical profession and will come up with a con- clusion that will say: The medical profession is not responsive tothe medical needs of the people and the medical profession within this capitalistic society is composed generally of people working for their own benefit and advancement rather than the humane aspects of medical care, We say this because there is no reason, no excuse, no justified cause that the medical profession with its present level of technalogy and advancement is not responsive to all of the needs of the people, To remedy the problem of people suffering from malnu- trition, infant mortality, sickle cell anemia, and other health problems found in most oppressed communi- ties, we must socialize the medical profession. We must socialize it because then, it will be in the hands of the people, In opening the people’s medical care center, we will be setting an example by instituting a program which will be serving the people but at the same time will be con- trolled by the people. it will eliminate the age long problem of medical personnel allenating themselves from the people they are in fact suppose to be serving. The cefiter will-open. within the next two weeks at 3850 W. 16th st, Chicago. Ronald Satchel Dep. Min, of Health Ill, Chapter B_P_P_ Es CHA CHA JIMINEZ, YOUNG LORDS Young Lords Organization Pigs Block Cha Cha Jiminez Chicago (LNS) -- Cha Cha Jiminez is the driving force te- hind the Young Lords Organiza- tion, As Chairman, he led its con. version from a street gang to a political organization and spear- headed the Free Breakfast and Free Clothing Program, Now, with Chicago becoming a major center of confrontation, Daley's pigs are moving to keep Cha Cha off the streets and away from the people, On Thursday, Sept. 25, Cha Cha . was thrown, in jall for $10,000 ransonm.on charges of mob action in demonstrations at the Con. spiracy 8 trial. The Negro judge at his bail hearing already knew Cha Cha from a prior encounter where Cita Cha had told him he was both a pig and a running dog. At the beginning of the hearing, the judge had set ball at only 31,000, but after Cha Cha told him again that he was a pig, be raised it to $10,000, THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 18, 1969 PAGE 4 NEW HAVEN DEFENSE PACT ESTABLISHED Fourteen New Haven community and student groups, including the New Haven Black Coalition, an- nounced today the formation of the Coalition for Defense of the Black Panthers, The Coalition's first public Statement was released this morn- ing at a press conference at the Dixwell Community House, The group also announced that it will hold its first public meeting next Wednesday, October 8, at 8 p.m. at the Frist Methodist Church College & Elm Sts. New Haven. Besides the Black Coalition, groups forming the coalition for Defense of the Panthers include the American Independent Movement (AIM), Black Law Students Associa- tion at Yale, Freedom Now, Ar- chitect’s Resistance, Coalition of Concerned Citizens(CCC), Dixwell Legal Rights Association (DLRA), Hill Parents Association (HPA), Citizens for Justice, Order and Equality (JOE), New Haven Stu- dents for a Democratic Society (SDS—separate from Yale SDS), Organization of Afro-American Students at Southern Connecticut State College, Science Action Group, Yale Divinity School As- sociation, and the Yale Student Health Organization, Statements by some of these groups outlining their reasons for joining the Co- alition are attached, Today's Statement said in full: “The Coalition for Defense of the Panthers calls for support bused on the following statement: ‘The Coalition for Defense of the Panthers comprises organizations and individuals who are working for a fair trial of the Black Panthers, Fourteen Panthers are now in jail awaiting tria} on con- spiracy to murder and other cap- ital charges. Conspiracy is the hardest charge to defend and the easiest to prosecute: it isthe most unfair to any defendant. All are being held without bail. They have been denied apreliminaryhearing, and many other basic constitutional rights, The Coalition fears that a fair trial of the Panthers ts virtually impossible unless concerned cit- izens try to counteract the cam- paign of public hysteria against the Panthers that was launched only a few hours after their arrest, The May 22 New Haven Register, for example, carried mug shots ofar- rested Panthers all across the front page, as accompaniment to a highly inflammatory article, in which several ‘‘leaks’’ from police sources were cited to describe al- leged evidence against the Pan- thers. “The tone of this article and others, coupled with the disclosure of evidence, which, Uf it exists at all, should only be introduced at the trial, is an attemptto violate the Panthers’ constitutlonally- guaranteed presumption of inno- cence and ensure conviction of the Panthers before the trial even begins “The Black Panther Party takes radical political positions, and members of the Party, in violat- jon of thelr constitutional rights, are on trial for thease positions, ‘The arrest of Bobby Seale, national Chairman of the Party, raises the possibility that this trial will become the Sacco and Vanzetti trial of the 1970's. it is this that the Coalition seeks to avoid, ‘The coalition has two major goals: (1) to counteract the pr judicial publicity against the Pan- thers by educating Haven citizens about the Panthers’ pos- itive community programa and about the legal rights which they must receive to have a falr trial, and (2) to raise money for th legal defenscforthe Panther earry on the work of the Coalition in the Panthers’ behalf ‘The trial and other steps in the défense of the Panthora will New and t« be very expensive, particularly since such a large number of people have been arrested, The Coalition calis upon all citizens who are concerned to see justice done to contribute to the Panther defense,"’ f STATEMENTS TO THE PRESS Science Action Group of New Haven The Selence Action Group of New Haven ts an organization of young scientists trying to relate their knowledge to New Haven com- munity problems, not as a group of experts, but as co-workers in that community. The arrest and ‘‘pretrial’’ of the Now Haven Black Panthers by* the local press has created fear and mistrust in the minds of the peoplo of New Haven. We have joined the Coalition to Defond the Panthers to help counteract the biased news accounts both of the Panther’s activities and of the alleged crime. Also we must notpermitour courts to treat people or groups unfairly on the basis of political beliefs unpopular in those courts. THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT MOVENENT The American Independent Movement supports the Goalitionto Defend the Panthers. We jotn, first of all, because we believe the current persecution has violated every vrinelple of justice. The Pauthers were arrested illegally, dented the right to counsel, and the right to bail. They wore indicted in Secret by an illegally selected grand jury of courthouse cronies. We believe the police and prosec- ution officials are making a de- liberate and unconstitutional at- tempt to violate the principle of “innocent until proven gullty’’ by planting prejudicial newspaper stories in the press. On a broader level, we join this Coalition to Free the Panthers because we believe the efforts and goals of the Black Panther Party are important and positive steps toward securing economic and racial justice in Ameriga, The Panthers believe, as does AIM, that America must be controlled by the working people, both black and white, and not by the cor- porations and their big shot pol- iticlans, For these reasons we will fight this attempt to discredit and destroy the Black Panther Party. DIXWELL LEGAL RIGHTS ASSO- CIATION INC As & community legal rights education program, we at Dixwell Legal Hights Assoc. believe it is essential to demand and work con- structively for a legal system which protects the constitutional right of all defendants, regardless of their political or social beliefs, Furthermore, every citizenandall community groups must bear this responsibility by actively seeking a fair trial for the arrested mem- bers of the Black Panther Party THE YALE ASSOCIATION DIVINITY SCHOO! In recognition of the cructal and Symbolic importance of the cas¢ of the New Haven Panthers, the Executive Counct) of the Yale Div- inity School Assoc, voted by a wavy majority on Thursday, Sep- tember 25, to join the Coalition to Defend the Black Panther Party Many of us are sympathetic with nuch of the Work of the Panthers and are willing to work to se¢ that justice for them is brought about rapidly We want to make clear our deep oneern that the Panthers not be Jonied oqual process under lay cause they a both radical and Hack We therefore pledge our full support to all efforia to insure that they go into the ithout the verdict and sentencls court room having been already rendered, and we deplore the prejudicial cover- age of their case by the news media which has assumed that their guilt is obvious. THE ARCHITECTS RESISTANCE The Architects’ Resistance finds § it Intolerablethat the Police and | the press have the right to wage a campaign of hate against any group they wish to see destroyed. The Panthers have been the object of just such a campaign and have been denied the right to a fair trial, Therefore The Architects’ Resistance joins with the other members of the Coalition in dem- anding that the Panthers not be denied a fair trial because ofthe radical nature of their politics. Futhermore we fully supportthe Panther principle, that all people should have the right and power to control thelr own lives, and believe they should be allowed to continue their work free of har- assment, NEW HAVEN STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY (SDS) New Haven SDS is a group of young people working to return the power of Americatoits people. We join the Coalition to Defend the Panthers, The arrest of the Conn. Panthers is part of a nation wide attempt to destroy the Panthers, because the Panthers’ fight against the op- pression of all people in America, Panthers serve the people: They must be set free! All Power to the People! THE STUDENT HEALTH ORGANI- ZATION (OF YALE MEDICAL CENTER) The Student Health Organization a group of health science students and working professionals in med- fcine, nursing, public health and related fields, joins in the Coalit- fon to Defond the Black Panthers. Our work and training In health has brought home the desperate need for fundamental changes in our country’s system of programs and priorities, We belleve that the Black Panther Party Is working wholeheartedly forsuch changes, by demanding that all the institutions of society serve its people, and by working to achieve the real power of the people. We believe it is a clear sign of the strength of the ideas of the Black Panthers that, here ih Connecticut and elsewhere, the political power structure Is making such a blatant attempt to des- troy the Panthers. We intend to work with the malition te Defend the Panther to undo the trial by nowspaper, the obvious, rutal persecution, an the public fear and hatred ealed aguinat them, We must tall the community what the Panthers a eal dolng, of i a NEW HAVEN PANTHER RALLY, MAY 1, 1969 their efforts to bring health to the people through such programs as the Free Breakfasts for Children, and Free Community Clinics, And we must make clear our anger, before the public repeatedly by the news media, Because of this trial by publicity, a large part of the community feels the case is as good as closed, For all practical purposes, this makes the selection of an impartial jury virtually im- possible, We feel the news media have theobligation to rectify the situation by reporting the case for the defense as well, This ts es- sential if we are to preserve a fundamental ideal in our legal trad- ition: that Is, any person charged with a crime ts ‘‘innocent until proven guilty in a court of law,’’ as future nurses, phy- Siclans, and health scientists, about the conditions in which the Panthers are being incarcerated, In particular, we cannot abide the lack of decent prenatal care for three of the Panther women pris- oners who are now pregnant, and the inhumane way in which the State will take these women's babies from them, The real story of the Black Panthers has yet to be told, ORGANIZATION OF AFRO- AMERICAN STUDENTS (SOUTH- ERN CONN STATE COLLEGE) The history of the black man in America has been one of intense oppression, exploitation, andter- ror. For 400 years we have been | bred and slaughtered like cattle at the slave masters’ discretion, For 400 years we have been forced to endure any and every kind of @ injustice. For 400 years we have | been victims of the most insidious | System that has ever been recorded in the annals of history. We Black people will not let another year, not another second pass without trying to rectify the situation, In- deed we Black people do see the light at the end of the tunnel, J We support the Black Panther & Party th its fight to erase ex- politation, We support and actively fe engage in ensuring a fair trial fl for these courageous warriors of © justice, : Ee We the students of Southern 9 Connecticut pledge our full support both moral and physical energies to the Black Panther Party to do § all within our power to safeguard the right to a fair and speedy trial We at Southern admire and respect the unquenchable desire for total liberation of all oppressed people exemplified by the Black Panther | Party, Lastly, the student at South. ern as well as Black people gen- erally will not tolerate random in timidation nor arbitrary terrorism from anybody but will unite under the banner of deal with i righteousness and COALITION CONCERNE! CITIZENS The Coalition of Oncerned Cit. leet ‘8 alaruwd that a fair trial for the Black amthers who have been arrested no lonee appears “sit ) sible ‘ e for uv ' : ce and the | ithoe 7 . he - ee -" MOTHER - COUNTRY RISING UP : ANGRY Tn the most recent attack on young people in this dying society, Members of the White Panther Trites of the Detroit/Ann Arbor area have been indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for conspiring to bomb the CIA office in Ann Arbor on September 29, 1968, Brother John Sinclair (political/ cultural Prisoner and Minister of Informa- tion now serving a 10-year sen- tenee in Marquette Prison for pos- Session of two joints of marijuana without appeal bond), brother Pun Plamondon (Minister of Defense), and Jack Forrest (cadre) were named as defendants in the con- Spiracy charge with Pun also being charged with the actual bombing, Also named in the Indictment, but only a5 a co-conspirator and not as a defendant, was David Valler. President Dave, as he was known inthe Detroit hip com- munity last year, is now serving a 7-10 yoar sentence for a dope bust in Ionia Prison for the “criminally insane’’, He, along with 12 other young people (in- eluding Jack Forrest) was arrest- ed last yearfor conspiracy to place explosives at a number of police stations, draft boards, and police cars, It was common knowledge on the streets that he had been tn- volved. The conspiracy ruse was Used by the pigs to intimidate the suspected bombers and their friends into finking on each other. ‘The pig plan worked; David Valler has become a fanatic lunatic and has turned State’s witness while in fall. He now writes anti-youth : Ss PUN PLAMONDON and ‘hippie life’ for insane lies to save his own skin in some kind of weird deal with the pigs. Jack Forrest was arrested by the FBI at gunpoint tn his bed (he is bedridden with a broken leg), Gragged down to the Detroit pig headquarters, and released on 2 $2500.00 bond, John Sinclair will be brought to Detroit for a public “sof America, 'means left to exhaust, JOHN SINCLAIR, WHITE PANTHER PART TY arraignment this week, and will once again have the opportunity to te close to the high energy free spirits of hundreds of his friends and family while the courte once again expose thelr fascist disre- gard for justice and their law,"’ Brother Pun has split and underground and will con- to intensify the struggle on yet another level, It has become Clear that the FSI are a bunch of boobs in that Pun learned of his Indictment over the radio a day before J, Edgar Hoover's sis- sies even came looking for him- Sg let him scape! It seems that t secret police and the shadow sarewent (CIA, FBI, Defense Department Intelligence, etc.) are $0 overwhelmed with information concerning opposition to Nixon's regime, general subversion, and an ever expanding CONSPIRACY to be free that they can’t stay on top of it: there is just too much s--t going down on all levels for the power structure to deal with it, even according to their own laws, So we have 1984 right now... the brain police will get the spokes- men on bogus conspiracy charges (thought crimes), wil] incarcerate millions of street people and free spirits with the marijuana ruse, and will murder and jail poor Black people In their racist courts. Just as Nixon and the monied Interests he represents aretrying to commit genocide in Vietnam and continue to play with the fate of the planet in thelr perverse arms race, they will pursue a policy of legal over- kill in the courts against young people, own gone tinue The pigs align themselves with traitors and liars and maniacs like David Valler, and then come up with some official indictment which ends with the statement: ‘‘This is a true bill." Theydon't fool anyone with their legalized robbery and gangsterism, It is clear to all young people who KNOW, that John Sinclair, Pun Plamondon, and Jack Forrest are victims of a dying order... an order that stands ex- posed when someone speaks the truth and stands proudly asaliving example of a new way of life. We talk about freedom, and they talk about chaos and violence,,,they are Sick because they are afraid of freedoin. So they react crazily: John was set up by the perverted marcotics agents; sentenced to 10 years because of his beliefs and his attempts to live free of self- hate and racism and exploitation; denied appeal bond slandered by the prison officials while in quarantine; transferred to the Siberia of the Michigan prisons (charging him with trying to ‘‘organize a resistance movement inside Jackson Prison '', probably making him Ineligible for parole), and now indicted on some phony conspiracy charge (making it highly unlikely for the Federal courts to set an appeal bond on his marijuana case). Pun had four other phony cases. pending and now has been forced togo underground, Overkill.,.they will do whatever is necessary to try and keep John Sinclair, Pun, and all other free Spirits in prison and off the streets There are no legal All Power to the People! John Sinclair must be set free.,.Pun Plamondon Is free, we want him home with his tribe,..Seize the time brothersand Sisters! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Skip Taube Minister of Education White Panther Party On May 12, black man leveland, Ohio was sen- in the electric chair for a crime THE JUDGE ADMIT- TED THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE HE HAD COMMITTED, There Is a temporary stay of execution tn effect which may be revoked at any time, and the execution could take place upon a moment's no- tice, Why has Ahmed Evans been condemned On July 23, 1958 the Cleveland pigs descended upon Glenville, the Black ghetto, They invaded the Lakeview Tavern, sexually mo- lesting two of the women patrons, then drove them all into the base - ment where the brothers and sis- ters were trapped while the police teargassed them. When they were finally permitted out of the base- ment at least one of the patrons was shot by the police. This sparked a general shoot-out be- tween the pigs and Black national- ist brothers, At the end of an hour there were seven known dead (three pigs and four Black men) and about 20 wounded, There are rumors In the Black community, however, that TWELVE pigs died in the bat- tle but the power structure Isn't ad- mitting this. In a typical pig re- versal of the true facts, the in- cident was depicted as an am- bush of the pigs by the brothers, very reminiscent of the pig ver- sion of the shootout in Oakland in which Bobby Hutton was killed, After an initial flurry of excite- ment on the part of the media, all was quiet until the death sen- tence was pronounced on Ahmed Evans, Four other defendants have been or are being tried, the sec- ond having been committed to a mental institution, the third, Lathan Non-du Donald, recelvinga 100-YEAR SENTENCE, Remember that the judge who sentenced Ahmed stated that there was no evidence that Ahmed had even fired a gun, But Ahmed and his friends were men who engaged in educating their people to respect themselves as Black men and defend themselves against attack, On the day of the gun battle, Ahmed’ s house had been staked out and he was grabbed by the pigs the minute the shooting 1969 a fron tenced to dle PROGRAM PEOPLES PLEASE CALIFORNIA INFORMATION, WITH LIES OTHER TELL STRUGGLE IN ACTION, ORGANIZATIONS THE TRUTH ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE SEIZE THE TIME THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 18, 1969 PAGE 5 Ahmed Evans’ Story AHMED had stopped, It seems obvious he had been sot up, The case has been buried by the press, and were it not for the ef- forts of two Cleveland groups, the July 23 Defense Committee and the United Front for Political Defense, it's Likely that Ahmed would have been forgotten. The Committee to Save Ahmed Evans was formed in New York City a few weeks ago to attempt to bring the case to the attention of radicals as well asthe general public More and more in- dividuals and groups, both radical! and liberal, are joining the fight but there {ts still much to be done. The work of the Committee has included leafletting, petitions, a demonstration, and a public meet- ing at which Mae Mallory and Ted TO ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS AND OTHERS THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY IS NOW WORKING TO PRODUCE A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE PARTY, WE ARE COLLECT- ING ALL PHOTOGRAPHS DEALING WITH THE PARTY'S PICTOR— IAL HISTORY, THESE PHOTOS WILL BE USED IN THE VERY NEAR FUTURE TO COMBAT THE LIES AND REPRESSIONOF THE FASCIST MASS MEDIA MACHINERY WE WANT ALL PHOTOS CONCERNING THE PARTY'S ACTIVITIES; MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, RALLIES, DEMONSTRATIONS, PIG CONFRONTATIONS, ETC PHOTO'S FROM THE PARTY'S VERY BEGINNING IN OAKLAND IN 1966 TO TODAY’S BLACK PANTHER PARTY, AS A 32 BRANCH NATIONAL ORGAN IZATION FOR LIBERATION THAT DEALS WITH LIBERATION AS A WORLD-WIDE INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE OF ALL OPPRESSED SEND YOUR PHOTOS TO THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, 3106 SHATTUCK AVE , BERKELEY, CALL YOUR LOCAL BRANCH OR THE MINISTRY OF (415)848-6705 FOR MORE PHOTOGRAPHERS, PROFESSIONAL , AMATUER AND ANYBODY A CAMERA WHO HAS TAKEN PHOTOS OF THE PARTY ARE REQUESTED TO SEND IN ALL PRINTS OF THE PANTHER PARTY THEY CAN GET THEIR HANDS ON, THIS PROJECT IS FOR AND OF THE PEOPLE TO FIGHT THE AND REPRESSION OF THE FASCIST NEWS TACT YOUR COMRADES, UNDERGRAOUND NEWSPAPERS AND PHOTO SOURCES, THIS PROJECT WILL BE THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE AND WILL PEOPLE AND THE PARTY. WHO HAVE AROUT THE IN ADDITION PLEASE SUBMIT ALL OTHER PHOTOS ILLUSTRAT-I ING THE ‘‘PROBLEMS AND THE SOLUTIONS’ OF THE PEOPLES INFORMATION MEDIA, SO CON— EVANS Dostal of Cleveland spoke on Ahmed, as well as Black Panther Deputy Minister of Information for New York State, Zayd Shakur on the Panther 21. The Committee urges interested people to work through their own organizations or create new ones to publicize the case and obtain Ahmed's freedom, or if you live in New York or Cleveland, to join the already existing organi- zations, If Ahmed’s death sentence is commuted, it will then be neces- sary to fight for his immediate re- lease and that of the other de- fendants, A sult to indict the pigs for their actions on the night of July 23, 1969 tn Glenville is under con- sideration b the Cleveland groups. Cover and Center (ages 6y William Klein THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 18, 1969 PAGE 8 RUDE AWAKENING Upon being released from the County Jail in December of 1968, | was placed In contact with part of the military arm of the Party of which Julio Butler was supposed to be a part, After the assassinations of Bunchy and John, on January 17th, I moved Into Julio's residence, This when we had closer contact with his squad (some of my crime partners from the days of old), all of which were working on big time jobs (city and county jobs) that they were half-way satisfied with, (One had just bought his wife a sports car, an M.G., and was planning on buying a house. Another one recently bought a brand new car, after ho moved into a differ- Because of Julio's knowledge of the pigs’ tactics (he’s an ex-deputy sheriff of L.A.), 1 was inclined to believe that his training was cor- rect, After trying to put some of his theory of revolutionary princi- ples into practice, I had. quite FREE 6 The Philadelphia Branch of the Black Panther Party has moved to answer another one of the fore- most needs of the people--cloth- ing. In our work on the Free Break- fast Program, the need of the chil- JULIO BUTLER a difficult time relating the theories that he professed to be so down with to the actual situa- tlons here in Babylon's Black colo- nies, Upon coming into conflict with his method of thinking (he still has the mentality of a pig), I started checking out his background, faml- ly, friends, etc, He owns o beauty salon (Colffures Les Dames at 4520 W, Adams Blvd,), he has a line of beauty products for which he has the formula copyrights; he pub- shes a small community news- paper--something on the order of SOUL, or SCOOP magazines; he supposedly refused a job in Washington D.C, for $1,200.00 a month, presumably because he was a dedicated freedom fighter and specifically to be on security for « Eldridge Cleaver at Trade Tech, College in November, 1968, The investigation concluded the fact that he Is a highly paid pig that — J. Edgar Hoover has trained for the purpose of infiltrating organi- zations that are or seem to be help- OTHES IN dren for warm and adequate cloth- ing became very evident. Under- standing that the corrupt pig power structure does not pay welfare recipients in thiscity(or anywhere else for that matter) enough to (2 See eet SUBSCRIPTION FORM SSS eee , ht Enter my sut nptlon tor (che 3 MONTHS; (1S ISSUES) 6 MONTHS, (20 ISSUPS) ONE YEAR please print (52 ISSUES) NAME ADDRESS CITY STATEZIP @ PLEASE MAIL CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, BLACK PANTHER PARTY, Box 2967, Custom Howse, San Francisco, CA 94126 Newspaper-- Subscribe Today! «) National Foreign Subscription Subscriptions $2.50 $3.00 $5.00 $6.00 $7.50 $9.00 OUNTRY ing the people to recognize their enemy. These bootlicking, ‘‘come- drunk’’ homosextials run around propagating that mass media mad- ness about the Black Panther Party trying to dissuade young Blacks from functionally relating to the people to accept the vanguard role in this revolution, These boot- lickers actively organize the people for armed struggle against this fascist, decadent and piggish power structure, distorting. the Party’s principles, rules, and poll- cles that are meant to educate the people to the oppression here and around the world, They mislead the people in the community by trying to make them think that the Black Panther Par- ty is a gang of little punka--ed Sissies as his own little group that he’s managed fairly well to keep relating to his aspiring petty Yankee doctrine of the Black pet- ty bourgeoisie. All of them are potential pigs since Jullo has trained them to the present poll- cy of reactionarycultural national- ism, all of whom are being sup- ported by the USA, all of which are products of the bourgeoisie. Julio has been through various Black oriented organizations, such as CORE, NAACP, SNCC, etc,, be- for coming into the Black Panther Party, These organizations have either been folded up or they have lost contact with the people when the Party presented the Ten Point Platform and Program for the peo- ple, Julio would always manage to get out ofthem BEFORE they \ ould close shop. But we, the Black Panther Party, in the final analysis, will never fold up or lose contact with the people, simply because we are the people's army, and the people know that we're of the people, by the people, and for the people, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Long John Southern California: Chapter, Black Panther Party PHILLY begin to clothe our children warmly, Sister Barbara Cox in- itiated the Free Clothing Program. The whole cadre has participated in the necessary tasks to get this Program off the ground, These tasks included going to the mer- chants of Fascist Philly for do- nations, preparing circulars, and distributing them among the bus- inessmen and the people. Clothing is being gathered and prepared for distribution to the people. The response trom the large department stores, such as John Wanamakers, Gimbles, etc, has been nil, The usual reply from these greedy avaricious hogs has been, ‘We already donate to charities and you (the Black Panther Party) are not a recog- nized charity."’ To this, we say, {--k you, hog! New York and Jersey City al- ready. have successfu] Clothing Programs going on and we are sure that our programs will be as successful Instead of sitting around and talking about the fact that kids need clothes, we're going out and clothing them, While the pigs are shooting billions of our dollars up to the moon and meanwhile ignoring the cries of the hungry and naked, we are dealing with the real situation, We hope to see this program implemented around the country, everywhere that there is a need for it, And to the pigs whoare sh---ing on humanity, we say that the people will deal with them. And the people are tired of waiting on the pigs to get up off thelr funky a--es to give them what is theirs, The people will TAKE what Is theirs. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Philadelphia Branch Black Panther Party 1928 W_ Columbia Ave, Phila., Pa, 1912! Lynn Smith The term released album, They the American Revolution, “SEIZE THE TIME” NOTES FOR THE ALBUM: In all societies, the way of life of the people, their culture, mores, customs, etc. evolved from the economic basis of that society. The United States Is a capitalistic society, the system of capitalism being one of exploita- tion of man by man, withproducts such as racism, religious chau- vinism, sexual chauvinism, and unnatural divisions among the people, In other words, it's adog eat dog society, But it’s notadog eat dog world Men are not innately greedy nor are they innately uncooperative with each other, Therefore, it is our goal, it is the goal of the Black Panther Party, and must be the goal of all men to create condi- tlons in which men can start being human, can begin to cooperate with each other, can live with each other In fact in peace, Men cannot do this without an arena in which to do so. In other words in an exploitative system men are forced to exploit. In an unkind system, men are forced to be un- kind, In a world of inhumanity, men will be inhuman. Ina society that is war mongering, men will war, These are theaspects orthe way of life of a people who are part of a capitalist system, And songs are part of theculture of society. Art, in general, is that, Songs, like all art forms are an oxpression of the feelings and thoughts, of the desires and hopes, and so forth of a people. They are no more that, A song cannot change a situation, be- ELAINE BROWN REVOLUTIONARY VIEW ON MUSIC OTE: Elaine Brown, Deputy Minister of Infor- mation for the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party is first and foremost a revolutionary, She is also a talented singer, plugged in on what’s happening to her people, “Revolutionary Music” : loosely thrown around by a lot of imposters nd opportunists with either no connections to the people’s revolution or no talent, or a com= bination of both, This statement of political cultural position by Elaine Brown will give you some hint of what is to come in a soon to be has been 1. are the first songs of cause & song does not live and breathe, People do, And so the songs In this album are a statement--by, of, and for the people, All the people, A statement to say that we, the masses of people have had a game rup on us; a game that made us think that it was necessary for our survival to grab from each other, to take what we wanted as in- dividuals from other individuals or groups, or to exploit each other. And so the statement is that some of us have understood that it is absolutely ESSENTIAL forour survival to do just the opposite, And that in fact we have always had the power to do It. The power to determineour destinies as hu- man beings and not allow them to be determined by the few men who bow determine them. That we were always human and always had this power, But that we never recognized that, for we were deluged, bombarded, mesmer- ized by the trinkets of the ruling class. And this means al! of us: Black, Mexican, White, Indian, Oriental, Gypsy, all who are members of the working class, of the non-working class, (that is, those who don’t have jovs), all who are oppressed, This means ali of us have this power, But the power only belongs to all of us, not just some or one, but all And that was the trick, That was the thing we never un- derstood, And that ts what state- Ment these songs make, ELAINE BROWN ALL POWER TO by Kiaus Pedersen of ‘Land and Folk” (Communist Organ) Panthers’ most important weapons: Marxism, Food and Medicine US: C on E connie, just some back- how the BPP started were the reasons for directions they have now il 44 ie Very briefly: In 1966 . Newton our leader and Seale our Chairman, gotto- and decided that the exist- organizations at that time had ideoldgy and were not taking account the needs of the the people. Having read the works of Mao they to see the problem as ruggie. The first con- they did was to draw t platform and pro- on the needs of the Black communities, states ‘We want an end to police brutality r of Black people’! And ided that every Black per- community could relate e time or another into contact with the pigs- And so No. 7 was implemented first. then started to communities according constitutional rights and ob- officers of the law carry- their duty. This way they able educate the people what their rights were when pigs manhandled them. This ; essence was the beginning of ; BPP. At this time it was only i! \'h tregional basis, But soon after at Sacramento when ' 30 Panthers went there to observe | "law makers introducing Dew laws, they received national coverage, andthe BPP became ‘known across the nation, They then commenced to realize other points of the 10 point platform and pro- ‘gram by introducing social pro- jects into the communities. At pre- , they are feeding thousands children each morning going to school. They have able to set up Free Health Clinics and Revolutionary Schools. erty ff ervTnSay ATE mibeati gut ee g f great deal of community work Is being done when Panthers go Into the communities and educate the people as to the true nature of this racist decadent society and who their true oppressor is. The peo- ple are taught that Black capital- ism is only a guise and the only Solution is socialism. At this point 1 would like to clarify one point, and that is that we do not dis- regard racism, We understand that Capitalism breeds racism: one is the cause and the other ts effect- and that in order to rid the world of oppression and racial tensions capitalism and imperialism must be destroyed. KLAUS: There has been a great Seal of confusion not only in Den- Mark but other places about what Teally is the goal of the BPP. But maybe we should just concen- trate on the European public. Would you explain the effects of the con- fusion and why it has taken place and clarify some of the points that you think the Scandinavians have been misinformed on? CONNIE: First of all I explained that the goals of the BPP are set Out clearly in our 10 point plat- form and program and this has now been translated into «Swedish, Danish, French and German, One of the problems | believe, is that the BPP concentrates-on doling its community work In the Black com- munities«And that Europeans find this hard to understand as they do not grasp fully the extent of racial lines In the United States, The BPP tells other ethnic groups who have the same ideology that they should work In their communities and edu- cate their people to a level of understanding , whereby the true oppressor can be recognized and the ultimate aim is then a United Front. This point was not clarified to Europeans and with the aid of the establishment press people were willing to label the BPP as being a racist organization. It is necessary, and!lam only too willing time and time again to repeat to European audiences, that the BPP eee — {s speaking about a world prole- tarian revolution and recognize themselves as part of this. It is a question of the oppressor against the oppressed regardless of race, color or creed, One of our major drawbacks has been, of course, the frequent visits of our former Prime Minister Stokely Car- michael to Europe and he has been instrumental In misleading people as to our class stand. KLAUS: One of the problems you have had to face Is that the spokes- men you have sent abroad have been very few and they have not really assisted in clarifying your stand. CONNIE: Yes. And I return to the problem of Stokely and the pro- blem of not having been able to send spokesmen abroad, You have to understand that ever since we have started our leaders have either been in or out of jail on trumped-up charges or are con- tinually being harrassed by the authorities, We realized the im- portance of international contacts very clearly and that was one of the main reasons why Stokely was appointed to do what | am now doing-and that was to enlighten other people as to the true nature of our struggle. Stokely has, of course, turned out to be a run- ning dog and a lackey, He not only betrayed the trust of the BPP but of the Black community as a whole, which we represent. The people had a lot of confidence in him and because of the madness he has perpetrated Black capital- ism was able to get a hold in the Black communities, He was not the only Black leader responsible for this but we are now talking about him, KLAUS: Where is Stokely now? CONNIE; I believe he ts in Guinea, in hiding, KLAUS: Of course the struggle that Malcolm X initiated was a very harsh one and the price was life. Do you think that this fight be- tween the Blacks is over and that the BPP with its Ideology is ac- cepted in the Black communities? Wak CONNIE MATTHEWS CONNIE: Well practice {isthe cri- terla of the truth. The BPP is achieving what it started out to do and the price has been very high, Many Panthers have been murdered and many are in jail. The most recent, which I dealt with at length at the demonstra- tion 2 days ago is the kidnap- ping and railroading of our Chair- man Bobby Seale on trumped-up charges. We are, however, edu- cating the people day by day and we understood why Malcolm lost his life and why many of us will lose ours. After his return from Africa he was able to take his thinking from a lower to a higher level and recognize that this was a class struggle. Where Matcolm left off we took over, The whole point is that for every life taken we have to make sure that it Is not in vain, but that it-has served to raise the level of the people's consciousness, We understand that victory Is not just waiting for us but that we will have to fight from one generation to the next, You can jail and exile a revolutionary but you cannot rg or exile the spirit of the people which is man- ifested in revolution. And once the people are aware, the more the establishment will attack and the more they attack the more the peo- ple will rally to support the Party, THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 18, 1969 PAGE 9 INTERVIEW WITH SCANDINAVIAN REP. OF BLACK PANTHER PARTY: CONNIE MATTHEWS We must have faith in the people- They are the ones we are fighting for, The final decision will ulti- mately be in the hands of the peo- ple. KLAUS: You spoke about Marxist- Leninism and Mao, Can one re- gard the BPP asa so-called Maoist Party? CONNIE: We take the basic ideology of Marxist-Leninism. Mao writes in a more con- temporary style which is easier to grasp. However, we are unable to be dogmatic in putting things into practice because as true Marxist-Leninist, we understand that the conditions we are sub- jected to govern our tactics, KLAUS: The impression given in the establishment press has been one that the Panthers are a mili- tant, armed people causing dis- order and it seems that the esStab- lisment has been successful in leading people to believe. this. CONNIE; I think you have to under- stand that ‘‘violence’’ is a wayof living with Americans, America was built on violence- the geno- eide of 50 million Indians, They have romanticized this and called it ‘Cowboys and Indians'’. It Is obvious that the only way to com- bat this violence that the establish- ment uses against the oppressed people is to use violence, The only way to get rid of the gun is to take up the gun, For most Europeans it ts difficult to under- stand 438 the pigs do not resort to guns. Fora long time Black Americans remained non-violent but Martin Luther King was murd- ered. We want peace and if there was any way of reaching a solution to the problem peacefully we would do it that way, but this is Impos- sible. Look at Vietnam, It will be quite easy to send 30 million Blacks to the gas chamber or what- ever other advanced form of tech- nology they have of murdering peo- DUE 10 THE OPEN ATTEMPT 10 SABOTAGE THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FINANCE BY THE FASCIST RICHARD NIXON REGIME, WE HAVE FOUND IT NECESSARY TO SHORTEN THE LENGTH OF THE BLACK PANTHER NEWS SERVICE THIS WEEK. THIS IS CLEARLY AN ATTEMPT 10 SUPP- RESS THE INFORMATION AND THE POLITICS OF 1 NEED TO CARRY ON THE STRUGGLE. WE HOPE F plé and you had better believe it can and will happen unless we resist now, KLAUS: As soon as Malcolm X understood the meaning of the word internationalism and classes, he became a threat and was dan- gerous, What about you ’ You per- sonally, do you think you are lead- ing a very dangerous life? CONNIE: The American establish- ment is very clever, They know that as long as they have a bunch of niggers running around talking about they want to kill all Whites and that they hate al] Whites, they are no threat, When you get some- one Uke Malcolm or a group like the BPP who say — Let's get together and get to the root of the problem There are White peo- ple and other people of color who are just as oppressed as Weare, There Is no point tm just hating people. because of ‘the color of their skins — then, of course, we are dangerous, Black people were not brought from Africa towork on cotton plantations and sugar plan- tations because they were Black, but because they were free labor and were used to advance capitalism. The establishment then realizes that those dumb niggers are not so dumb anymore, In find- ingwhere the problem is youareon the road to finding the solution. Black capitalism and federal grants, which we reject, have been created as a smoke screen, For me personally I understand what I have to do and like anyone else I do not want to die but if that is the only way this oppression can stop by my helping to en- lighten the people outside of the United States as to the true nature of that decadent society then I say tight On! Many lives that were more valuable than mine have been lost. KLAUS: In conclusion tell us some- thing about your experience in Den- mark and what we can do to con- tinue what you have started here. CONNIE: Most Danes are inclined to view the struggle of oppressed peoples in a romantic way, They fee] detached, That it is happening somewhere else, I have repeatedly told the Danes that they are covertly endorsing America’s ac- tions by belonging to Nato, the world pig force, by allowing American investments to take a stronghold in Denmark and they are on the verge of being a neo- colonialist state, The best care package you can send to us Is to resist imperialism in your country, get out of Nato, get back your autonomy and force your government into taking a stand a- gainst US imperialism. Donot con- tinue to tell me you only have 4 1/2 million people, We have to stop thinking in terms of countries, U.S.imperialism has now gone to the moon and where next? My parting message is thattherearea few conscious Danes who realize the urgency of the situation, Con- Unue to educate your people to the true nature of what is happening and let them understand the full meaning of All) Power to the People, HE PARTY THAT THE PEOPLE SO DESPERATELY OR A CONSISTENT 20 PAGE PAPER IN THE FUTURE THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 18, 1969 PAGE 10 From a Black Seaman: ; i Pad at D i C K them from reading “under- ground” literature which August 27, 1969 Dear Mr. President: During the past two weeks I have considered writing you many times, but I hesitated fearing I would be accused of not contacting other subordin- ate officials first. Because I have written letters to my Congressman, Sena- tors, and many other in- fluential people and have received no significant response, I now write to _ you as a last resort. I am a reservist in the US Navy aeeving in the (3th month of a 24 month tnlistment. | was stationed at Air Anti-Submarine Squadron 41 on North Is- land, San Diego until Au- gust 20, 1969, when I was transferred to Midway Is- land, Presently on leave, I am to report to my new duty station by September 7, 1969. It is my contention that my transfer is unjust, be- cause it is punitive and based on discrimination, both ideological and racial. Because | have no tangible evidence, this charge is extremely difficult to prove. Also, being an en- listed man with a rate of Seaman, it is almost im- possible to fight this type of injustice especially when it FORT DIX SUICIDE WASHINGTON — Pvt. David L. Swanson 21, was found dead in beu at home in New Britain, Conn. last Sunday after taking an overdose of sleeping pills. His father Arvid, a tool and die maker, said in a telephone inter- view Wednesday, ‘‘Somebody’s got to answer for this... we begged everybody for help, the Red Cross, his company commander, Congress- man Meskill .. all we were looking for was someone to take care of this is perpetrated by high ranking officers as it is in my case, Because of the difficulty of my position, I can only say that if the in- formation in this letter proves to he_ incorrect, after a thorough study is conducted, I will gladly go to Midway Island, Being as brief as poss- ible, the facts involving my transfer are as follows: 1) My tour of completion date or the date when/I am supposed toleave North Island, entered in my ser- vice recordis July 22,1970. 2) Of the 5 reservists that entered the squadron in August of 1968, | am the only one to be transferred, and I am the only black reservist. 3) Indirectly, I have been the object .of several racial slurs. Two yeomen in our Squadron referred to two white friends of mine as “nigger-lovers” because of their association with me and other black people. 4) Because I was outspoken In my criticism of the in- tolerable living conditions that existed in our barracks, | was regarded with suspicion. Also, after many discussions withoffi- cers about the racial prob- lem in America, I was , regarded as a radical and I lost favor in the squadron, This is under- sStandable since the officers’ viewpoints were that the racial problem would have solved itself if it had been left alone and that black people are in- herently lazy. 5) In a meeting with the executive officer of VS-41 and several enlisted men, 1 very candidly described incidents in the squardon dealing with racial preju- dice and threats directed enlisted men to keep was apearing in the bar- racks, 6) A friend of mine named Thomas I. Csekey of the same squadron was recently court-martialed for passing out literature on base against the orders of his commanding officer. Despite a warning from my division officer to stay out of the trial, thinking it my duty, I testified at the court-martial as a witness for the defense. Just3 days after the trial, I received notification that I would be transferred. In my 13 months in the Navy, | have never seen nor heard about a transfer filled with as many irregu- larities as mine, They are as follows: 1) Usually in the Navy a man with less than a year to serve is not transferred. I have ll months left before I am discharged. 2) Originally, I was notified of my transfer on a Thurs- day and I was supposed to leave the next day, but my division officer inter- vened and obtained a de- lay. 3) Usually when a man transfers from one duty station to another he re- ceives time to visit home and take care of his per- sonal business, but my or- ders included no leave time. In fact, when I re- quested leave from the per- Sonnel officer of the Squardon, he refused to grant it to me with the excuse that I had notcalled him soon enough. Only after { submitting a@ letter to the © Chief of Naval Personnel in Washington through the chain of command was leave extended to me, 4) The most outrageous and insulting aspect of my transfer was when the squadron provided me with a combination escort and chauffeur to accompany me and drive me tothe dif- ferent check out points on base. I was humiliated when after checking out of the barracks I attempted to make a telephone call, but was told by my escort that he was given instructions to not allow me “to do anything like that .” Only after explaining to him that even acriminal uponarrest can make a telephone call before being put in jail did he allow me to use a tele- phone and then for only about one minute before de- manding that I end mycon- versation. Even after I brought the above facts and more to the attention of the officials in the Navy, they still say my transfer is a normal transfer. Mr. President, f appeal to your sense of justice as a lawyer and to your conscience asa human being and the leader of this great nation to not only prevent my transfer but the transfer and punishment of others like me who are “guilty” of one crime: be- lieving that the Constitu- tion is the supreme law of the land, believing that we have rights of expression as guaranteed in the Bill of Rights, and believing that as citizens we should be protected when our rights are violated, Respectfully, Robert G, Mahoney —— op - The day after Pvt. Swanson’s first suicide attempt he wrote from Fort Dix, ‘The day after I cut my wrists and had stitches put in, they made me do push-ups and other exercises... the other day I couldn't move my fingers at all. They told me to stop bluffing or they'll put an electrode on my arm and give me a good shock to wake it and me up... I know I'll try to kill myself again if this keeps up."’ Anti-War Gl A few days later, Swanson slashed his wrists again and wrote that he had been given an Article 15, punishment by the company command- Recieves At Fort Dix, Major George E. Chase, said the command was satis- fied that Swanson’s case had been correctly handled and that no inquiry Honorable | will be made. In the Danan area, a group of black deserters formed a black power platoon and held regulardrill parades near a village. Those who do defect are ex- Top secret operations are be- ing launched in Vietnam to kill or capture American deserters fighting for the NLF, according to a London Express story re- Discharge ie ee ee oe srinted June 24 In the New treamly helpful to the NLP. They thes Post. The operations have take with them detailed knowledge On September 27, after months |been ordered as the problem of of how to work American equipment of harassment and discrimination |troops going AWOL In the war and how American units operate, because of his anti-war and so-|zones becomes increasingly ser- In the Mekong Delta there have clalist ideas, Pvt. Steve Dash of |lous, been reports of deserters using stolen radios to cut in om Army wavelengths to mis-direct artillery and helicopter fire. These men are considered sucha menace that Green Beret troops are used to trp to track them down, The Green Berets are ordered to kill them &f i is impossible to capture them alive. So far there have been no reports of a court martial of any Amer- ican. who joined the NLF Ft, Jackson, 5.C., was given less than a day's notice that he was discharged from the Army; hewas told that his discharge, an honor- able one, would be mailed to him, According to attorneys, this case marks the first time that a self- proclaimed member of an organ- ization classified as‘‘ subversive’ by the US Attorney General has been Many of them are black sol- diers, who let it be known they are deserting as agesture in sup- port of the black liberation move- ment in the US At American headquarters in Saigon a spokes- man confirmed that latest figures showed desertions in Vietnam are running at the rate of nearly ten a day, He was unable to reveal the -_——— granted an honorable dis- |total number of deserters, nor Is ; charge from the Army after a /it known how many join the enemy” NEW \YORKMLNS) ; security board hearing. As such LWW _ rr ie eerie it is of crucial importance as Charged that because of his mam- Charge isstied Ik to be determined a legal precedent in the fight for bership in the Young Socialist Al~ soley by\A Servicoman's milftary : GI rights Liance and “ Socialist Workers fvcord, Bowman jomed the GI rhe discharge notice cameonly Party, his retention in the Army Civil Libertios Defense Comaittee a week after Dash was restricted Was not in the ‘national interest?’ ia considering tke honorable dis. ' to post on a weckend he wassched- Attorney Dortan Bowman, Bs- Chitge & slenificant precedent, : uled to speak atananti-warmeeting sociate of Leonard Boudin of New Three other memuers af GI « at the University afSouthCarolina, York, who defended Dash at his United Against the War in Vietnam / He was told he was being restricted hearing, said of the honorable received Undesirahte discharges ; ‘for his own g@oud,"* discharge, “Since he had a per- following “unfituess board’ hear- i Dash was active inG.l's United fect military record, the Army ines last spring The Gt Civ Against the War in Vietnam last apparently felt that they did not Liberties Defense Committee, ; spring at Ft. Jackson, On May have a chance to haw a less than association with attorneys Leonard 27, he was given a security board honorable discharge stand up in Boudin of New York and Dawe hearing to determine his‘ fitness ourt,”* The Army regulations Rein of Washington, are appealing to remain in the Army. The Army clearly state that the type of dis. those discharges = October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program hat We Want -~ a mm > tet? 2 led ais) ~~ eo * re 2 - E 7 t Bt “se EY vine REE HUEY Minister of Defense, Black Panther Party 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter- mine our destiny 2. We want full employment for our people We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to gre every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if » the white American businessmen will not give full employment, then the _ Means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and em ‘Ploy all of its people and give a high standard of living hat We Believe THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 18, 1969 PAGE 11 3. We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 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 prineiples, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru- dence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and unsurpations, pur- suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism, itis their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern- ment, and to provide new guards for their future security. / ERS “alll Hittin it, I) pppoe ty 4 / ) 4; j ) yf!) j A