Vol. 3, No. 27

THE BLACK PANTHER Black Community News Service SATURDAY, OCTOBER MINISTRY OF INFORMATION mar? THE BLACK PANTHER PAB Dyes. tenuous “U.S. Imperialism is the most heinous common enemy of the Peoples of the world.and target No. | in their struggle.” KIM IL SUNG Peoples Democratic Republic of Korea THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER STATEMENT FROM CHAIRMAN BOBBY SEALE What is happening today in this court Is not the precedent being set, but this US, District court was violating citizens’ constitu- tional rights and rallroading them many years ago. Black and Brown Americans can testify to this his- torical fact and to the present day Situation that's now manifested in this courtroom run by a tyrant 25, 199, PAGE Judge known as Julius J. Hoffman, who I have now experienced to be a rotten racist. He not only hates Black people but he despises pro- testing Black people and also the White protesting people, As seen in every action on his part so far, many people have been able to get information through the regular news media about how he runs the court In an overt attempt to rall- road all 7 defendants and myself in particular, What happened at the National Democratic Convention last year was that of police bashing in the protesters’ heads and even bru- talizing and maiming the news- men who were recording the fas- cist activity of the pig cops. We also know that the fascist Mayor Daleyregime gave the orders to do so, The court hides this. Now over a year later, thereare elght defendants here on trial, who are not policemen who were at- tacking and brutalizing demonstra- tors who have a constitutional right to do so; at least that's what we read in the first amendment, What happened at the National Demo- cratic Convention? It's clear that the past, quiet fascism, or covered up fascist tactics used against Black people for so long became a reality to many thousands of young conscious White radicals and pro- testers, 7 of whom are defendants here with me, Bobby, This court, US. District Court of Illinois has set a precedent of not hiding its role--its role in the fascinization of America This court with the Judge and the U.S government are prosecuting people for using their right to free speech and to peacefully assemble to re- dress their grievances. The court is justifying head bashing that hap- pened at the Democratic Conven- tion last year, by thousands of cops, real pigs. This is what the court Is justifying---F ASCISM, Chairman Bobby Seale Black Panther Party October 13, 1969 CHECK IT OUT! it's been three years now that the Black Panther Party has been working to awaken the people, to meet the needs of the people and to teach the people the strategic method of resisting the pig power structure, It's been three years of constant harassment from the pigs; three years of brothers being mur- dered on the streets; three years of revolutionary brothers and sis- ters being kidnapped and rail- roaded off to prison, And it's all be- cause of the fact that for 3 years and more to come, the Black Pan- ther Party has been serving and meeting the needs of the people, The pigs of the power structure have labeled the Party as criml- nal and as a°major threat to the ‘American security’’. Daily, pigs patrol our community and brutalize and murder people. Yet, we are told to be ‘‘non-vio- lent’’. We are told not to protect ourselves from fascist pigs, It is criminal to teach a man not to de- fend himself when he {ts the con- stant victim of brutal attack, So, the criminal ls the US. government, (Check it out!), Huey P, Newton and Chairman Bobby Seale have taught us the true nature of the capitalist, fascist US. governinent and how itis oppress- ing us here in Babylon (America), We here Li Babylon are living in 20th Century slavery. People work daily to produce all products and goods of this country, but yet, we do not decide what Is to be done with the products and goods we pro- duce. We don't decide how much we should receive from what we ourselves have produced, After producing all this country has, we have to’ pay outrageous prices for what we've made, The pigs endorse harcotics, which they sell to make a profit, and they make another FASCISM CHICAGO Los Angeles isn't the only city that faces the ever-increasing ac- tions of a fascist police depart- ment, The city of Chicago, also witnesses daily, the murdering and brutality of its Black citizens, In a city where there are 26,000 pigs on active duty, the level of fascism far exceeds that of the LA Plg Department, One example of this is the just out-right murder of the youth in the Black communi- tles. Last week alone, the Illinols Chapter of the Black Panther Party, reported seven murders and one beating committed against young people, all under the age of 20 Sunday night, while 16 year old John Soto was walking down the street, he was shot in the back of the head (The Black Panther, Page 3, October 18, 1969), Later that same night, while police were In- volved in a supposed shoot-out with a sniper (which they never found), a 2 year old girl was shot in the leg On Monday, a 12 year old sister was shot In the face with a shot gun, which “accidentally’’ wentoff. This same excuse was used for the murder of two 13 year old boys that same night. The last incident to occur that night was whena young brother was badly beaten by the police, and then his body was stuffed under a truck The rest of the week was rela- tively quiet in the Black com- munities, as the pigs concentrated their efforts on cracking the heads of White radicals, Becase the National Guard had been called to ald the pigs in their rampage in the Black community, attention once again returned to that area, Friday night saw the murdering of two more young Black people 19 year old Michael Soto, who had just that day attended the funeral of his 16 year old brother John (who was shot by the pigs Sunday), was shot and killed by the police, This took place in the housing project where Michael lived, and the people that resided here, were so mad thatthey said, ‘‘Nomore!"’ A shoot-out took place involving the residents of the housing pro- ject and the police, and when this ended, the pigs added one more notch to their guns, as an 11 year old girl had been shot and killed. No, this level of wanton murder and brutality has not been reached in Los Angeles, but it ts not far away. However, we must not make the mistake that the Jews in Germany made in World War Il, They watched as their nelghbors and relatives were murdered and “mysteriously disappeared’, and said--‘'No, this isn't happening, and anway, It won't happen to me,"’ But it was happening, and it did eventually happen to them. Black people--all people, don't be caught off of your guard! Be prepared plan now to deal with the rising fascist activities of the police departments in your communities, One way we can deal with this problem is through decentrall- zation of the police department, and handing the power to direct and control the activities and poll. cles of this group to the respec- tive communities that they serve, This would make a police officer think twice before he'd shoot some- one, because that someone would be from his home nelghborhood And when he got home that night, he'd have to face the enraged family of the victim Decentralization of the Police Department is the last of the legal means that the Black Panther Party, and thepeople will em- ploy to end the murder and bru- tality that is perpetrated against certain segments of society. The time is now, to Join the National Committees to Combat Fascism, and become a functioning part in ending this present and ever- increasing situation. Don't wait un- til you, your relatives or nelgh- bors have been killed or beaten to become interested and Involved in controlling the police. Under- stand the true meaning of the phrase, “SEIZE THE TIME,’' and begin immediately to organize your community into a functioning committee to combat fascism, As was sald, this Is the last of the legal means that will be employed to convince this racist, fascist system that the people want to control the destiny of their own lives--and one way to begin this, is with the control of the police department, If the system doesn’t heed the cry of the National Com- mittees, then we, the people, can only relate to what the Black Pan- ther Party, Minister of Defense Huey P, Newton says, ‘‘The racist dog policemen must withdraw im- mediately from our communities, coase their wanton murder and brutality and torture of Black peo- ple, or face the wrath ofthe armed people,’ ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLI SEIZE THE TIME, and organize now Contact the Black Panther Party aboul working on a National Committee to Combat Fascism in your area today BLACK PANTHER PARTY Southern California Chapter entral Ave Callfornia 4115 South « Los Angeles profit from ball money after ar- resting people for possession of narcotics. If you don't want to go to jail for illegal possession of fire arms, you have to go to the same pies who've been murdering and brutalizing people so that they can register your guns which In return you have gotten for the purpose of protecting yourself from pigs. Then the government demands that we go to Vietnam to kill other oppressed people or go to prison, As far as the pigs arecon- cerned, we can't even decide whether we want to kill someone (check it out) The reason why Huey P, Newton, Chairman Bobby Seale, Charles Bursey, Cleveland Brooks, and so many revolutionaries have been kidnapped or murdered Is because they have exposed the capitalist, fascist United States government, How many more of our brothers and Sisters will be murdered or rall- roaded off to prison? How many of our children will go day by day hungry, without decent housing and clothes? How many more brothers and sisters will reach 'CloudNine’’ and drop reds while the pigs are plan- ning mass genocide on the people? How long will Black people suffer peacefully, without realizing that after 400 years that we stillaren’t free but are living in advanced slavery? How long will it take for Black people to protect them- selves from fascist pigs? How long will it take for Black people to real- ize that a revolution Is going on and it's their place to lead this revolu- tion because we have been the most oppressed in this fascist country? How long will it take before pig “Tricky Dick’’ Nixon puts his plan for mass genocide on the people into action?,,.Well, ‘*Tricky Dick’’ has already put his plan into action, but yet people refuse to be- lieve thata revolution ls goingon, A great deal more of those brothers and sisters on ‘‘Cloud Nine’’ will lay in the street with the roundsaf AR.15s"in the back of their heads, Deaths that can be prevented will occur all because ‘people are too high doing thelr own thing to real- ize that they are in the center ofa revolution,"* “LET'S SEIZE THE TIME” BEFORE TIME SEIZES US Comrade Candi Robinson HUEY AND LIL’ BOBBY (BACKGROUND) THE SKY’S THE LIMIT If Huey P Newton is not set free the sky is the limit, for we the people will go much farther to set Huey free Huey now ts like a carpenter without his tool, he with all his knowledge and intellectual abilities denied books to read, or pencil and paper, shut up in that con- centration camp. Huey’s life ts also Inconstant danger from those racist plg cops. Huey must be set free now, es pecially at this time, when [t has become apparent that the faseist ple power structure has declared an all out war against the Black Panther Party, and Huey’ smaster- ful leadership is what the Party needs rhe Low poor-oppressed masses of people in this doomed country who Huey P Newton has worked so hard for need him. Their unity is falling apart at the sean brother Huey has & cift for unifying people The racist pig power structure is aware of this phenomenal gift possessed by Huey, and this is why they're using their Nazi type tactics to keep Huey behind those bars away from the people, Those m----- {-----= pigs with all their technology and know bow are Afraid of Huey, and their fears are just. They are afraid because they are finally realizing the truth in what Hoey was saying when he sald, **THE SPIRIT OF THE PEO. PLE IS.CREATER THAN MAN'S TECHNOLOGY * SO we the people say that Hoey P. Newton must te set free, and that if he is not set free, Pigs will finally feel the true power of the people, or we, will feel the pain of death, and defeat Tt FRIEND OF White THE PANTHERS Plains Braach ALL. POWER TO THI PROPLE yo gr rns Pid, re ao Wy “denetiiiemetn iat teetiien | La _— _— ee — 6 g John Alfred Lee, a 19 year old ‘Black student enrolled at Santa -___- Rosa Junior College was murdered by White racist Earl Davis of 1537 _ Corby Ave. On Saturday night October 12, shied shortly after 11:00 p.m, Five _ youths approached some panions of Lee's and asked them to buy some beer. After _ buying the beer for them, Alfred ‘asked for a beer and the Lee's friends picked him up after he jumped or fell off the car and chased the white boys i to the pig station, Alfred threatened to turn the boys in for assault having an open container in ear. They then offered to pay and his friends not to say ng. They all left and con- tly ended up on Corby Ave. point one White youth ran house, pig Davis came a .38 and blew a hole Smithfield, N.C — Last spring superior Court judge sentenced d labor — for doing less than (00 worth of damage to a Klan building in the wake of the murder “of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. _ The harshness of the sentence “shocked White people as well as Blacks in this county southeast of Raleigh, generally considered a % stronghold, A bi-racial Com- mittee for Equal Justice, which in- cluded a number of substantial citizens, protested the case and raised legal expenses, They circulated petitions declaring that the sentences were ‘‘excessively harsh’’ and got hundreds of signa- tures — from Blacks and Whites. Many Kian members and sympathizers were horrified by the sentences. ‘‘I've got no use for _ them niggers —they broke the law,"' one old farmer said, ‘‘ But it just don't seem fair to send ‘em up for 12 years."’ A gas-station attendant who ad- mitted to ‘‘a little Kian activity every now and then’ said he thought ‘the young Blacks ‘‘got a rotten Even the judge had second thoughts, “I don’t mind admitting I may have made a bad judgment - a mistake,’’ he said, ‘But I'm not going to do anything about itunless the governor or parole commission requests it.’ Thomas Lassiter, the editor of the Smithfield Herald, campaigned against the sentences, “ This case represents such an obvious injustice thata lot of people’ s sense of fairness has come into play,’’ he said, Many of them have gotten involved in something for the first ‘time in their Mves, and I don't think they're going to let the mattor ALFRED LEE AND FAMILY F BLACK YOUTH SHOT DOWN IN _ SANTA ROSA STREETS through young Alfred Lee’s body, Alfred Lee was pronounced dead on arrival at Sonama County Hosp. Santa Rosa pigs have released the eer Davis andall thewhite ouths, while holding one of Al- tred's friends for kidnap and rob- bery, he was later released. Itis apparentthat the pigs are hot concerned with justice being carried out in the death of Alfred Lee, Alfred's sister stated that his wife was not allowed to see Alfred to identify him. In fact, she did not see him after his death until the day before the funeral. The only way that Black people are going to put a check on the action and murderings handed down by fascist and racist such as pig Earl Davis is to arm themselves, For this is the only positive method that they can relate too, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ; PROTEST FREE FIVE N. C. YOUTHS drop, That could make some dif- ference."" It did make some difference, In August Governor BobScott of North Carolina responded to public pres- sure and pardoned the five youths. All across America, Black peo- ple rose up in anger after Dr. King’s assassination. In Benson, a small town in Johnston County, the tension was heightened by car- loads of Whites who drove through the Black community with guns showing, Five young Blacks — Scotty Gathers, Percy Barfield, Donnell Lockamy, Jesse Jones, and Leo Stewart — decided to strike back, They lit gasoline-soaked rags near the door of a Klan hut -a battered cinder-block building lo- cated in the Black neighborhood. The fire was discovered before $100 worth of damage had been done; the young men were soon arrested, and they pleaded guilty to the charges, They asked for mercy on the ground of their youth, their previous good records, and the circumstances that provoked thelr action, Unfortunately for them, the sen- tencing came only a month after a scuffle between young Blacks and Whites in Smithfield, the county seat, which had resultedin several arrests and more than $100,000 property damage. Superior Court Judge William Y Bickett said; ‘‘The courts must stop people from damaging other people’s property. The way to do that is to punish them."' He gave the five Benson youths 12 years in prison ‘‘at hard labor,’ The sentence seemed even more unreasonable because, only one day earlier, Bickett had suspended the sentence of a Black girl who THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25, 1969, PAGE 3 BY LIFTING THEIR HANDS AGAINST “TORRE” THEY LIFTED THEIR HANDS AGAINST THE STATEMENT After four months of intensive attempted frame-ups, intimi- dations, and assaults the Los Angeles Pig Department (metro- squad) has finally succeeded in murdering another of the peoples servants. Walter ‘'Torre’’ Pope, a 20 year old brother who joined the Black Panther Party shortly after his release from California Youth Authority, TraceyPeniten- tiary, was killed by the same fas- cists pigs that have aes the Black community and the Black Panther Party for years. Walter Pope had been singled out by local and federal pigs asa prime target because of his ef- fectiveness as Distribution Man- ager for the Party's Paper in the pleaded guilty to setting a tobacco barn on fire, causing property damage estimated at $1,000. Members of the Committee for Equal Justice point out that, in 1965, four White boys who admitted bombing an all-Negro school — causing more than $700 in damages — received suspended sentences, One youth, older than the others and with a record of serious crime, was sentenced to 7 - 10 years. None of the Black youths involved in the present case has a record. The youngest Is now 17; the oldest, 21. They have a high educational average — two were In college, one In trade school, one in high school, and the fifth was working in a plant while waiting to be ad- mitted to a trade school, Johnston County's image is pro- jected by a huge billboard just outside Smithfield — a hooded, torch-bearing Klansman on a snorting stallion, ‘‘Smithfield is Klan Country,"’ the sign proclaims, There is no doubt that many lo- cal Whites either belong tothe Klan or sympathize .with it, But Leon Penny, deputy director of the com- munity-action program, says ‘'I really don't think they're as strong as most people think. They put on big shows, put up signs, do a lot of talking But as far as actually dolng anything — they've burned a few crosses and shot into some houses,"’ Penny thinks the real danger from the Klan is‘‘notthe intimida- tion they bring against private citizens — but against public offi- clals, 1 think just about all pub- lic officials have succumbed to it, "’ But in many ways Johnston County does not fit the stereo- type of a Klan-dominated rural area, The poverty program, now In its third year of operation, is inter- racial, About 40 per cent of the children in the head-start pro- gram, for example, are White - very unusual in the South, The staff is interracial. The NAACP started a county- wide branch five years ago; they have a substantial membership among the county's 14,000 Blacks The Republicans are gaining strength as the county becomes steadily more industrial — so the Black vote can sometimes decide whether the Democrats or Republicans win, For Black peo- ple, ‘it's a choice between the pot and the kettle’’ — but it is a source of potential strength, If, as Penny suggests, a not necessarily large group of vocal racists has been able to pull poll- ticlans and officials to the right — so that ‘‘the Kian point of view prevails at the public level'’ — the core of Iberal Whites and Blacks which developed around this case may help to shift the balance, Southern California area, In the past three months the Los Angeles circulation was raised from 1,500 a week to 7,000 a week under brother Torre's guidance, Brother Walter Pope had re- ceived numerous personalized threats from both the FBI and city pigs. Walter Pope was the victim of numerous false arrests for suspicion of robbery (3 times), or suspicion of attempted murder (twice), was stopped and arrested almost daily and received a mini- mum of two traffic tickets a week. Brother Walter Pope knew his life was in danger, but he continued to serve the people, ALL POWEK ''O THE PEOPLE! BEST THAT HUMANITY POSSESSES: CONTINUOUS REPRESSION AGAINST THE VANGUARD PARTY > Kepression is rapidly increasing everyday in fascist America a- gainst the Black Panther Party and genocide against the vietnamese people in Viet Nam is increasing everyday by fascist G.1.'swhodon't seem to realize what they are doing. Panthers are getting mur- dered everyday for the same rea- sons the Vietnamese people are dying for, that is, the liberation of our people. Pigs destroy our offices, shoot them up with shot- guns and magnus and arrest Panthers on ‘madé-up-on-the- spot-charges,’’ Our leaders are being railroaded into courts after they are tagged with some of the most trumped up charges of the century and then thelr con- stitutional rights are denied by fascist judges, such as in the case of our Chairman Bobby Seale by Julius‘ Adolph t Hoffman, Bobby Seale, our National Chairman is being held in jail on a so called charge of ‘‘conspiracy to incite a riot’, and out of all the so called conspiracy eight, he is the only one being held. | mentioned earlier that he was being denied his constitutional rights, It is not a violation of the rights of cit- izens of fascist America to be railroaded into court without legal defense of his choice present.so that he can recieve fair represen- tation, But fair representation for a Black man in America’s fascist, racist courts does not exist today and this is just one of the many reasons our Chairman, Bobby Seale is incarcerated now, because he ts fighting to get point number nine of our Ten Point Platform and Program implemented for the wel- fare of Black people, and it says: “We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in a court by a Jury of their peer groups or people from their Black communities as defined by the con- stitution of the United States.’’ The fascist judges and DA‘s of the courts are supposed to be going along with the program of the U S. Constitution but as you can see by their practiceit is something entirely different, Our leader Huey P. Newton, ts incarcerated for so called killing a police officer, Our Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver, exiled from this fascist country for educating the people to the truth...David Hilliard our Chief of Staff, is being railroaded into court now for charges that were previously dropped and brought up again by some of Nixon’s puppets on his orders to get all the leader- ship of the Black Panther Party, not just a few but all of them, This way they think the Party will fal] apart. And as you can very well see his chumps are hard at work. What about other members of the Party, the New York 21, the Conn, 8, Landon and Rory, Charles Bursey and a large number of others incarcerated fighting for the Uberation of poor and oppressed people all over the world? Now doesn't this seem like a well calculated plot to jail revolution- aries all over the U.S. These are just a few of the hundreds of con- Splracies planned by SISSY Nixon, Mickey Mouse Reagon, “Mussolini Alloto and racist judge Jullus H, ‘Adolph'* Hoffman against theBlack Panther Party and the repression will continue, But the people are going forth with their community control of police petition. And the People’s patience are not ever- lasting. This is what the people want and this is what the people will get and that is why we say ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! because the power is truly man- ifested in the people, SEIZE THE TIME! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISON- ERS Belinda THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25, 1969, PAGE 4 AMBUSH iG, PRESS KELEASE The Black Panther Party of Kan- Sas City understands that because of the repression and the barbaric tactics of the pig power structure which are being leveled onthe van- guard of the people's revolution. It clearly shows that there isadis- tinct line of demarcation between the enemies of the people and the servants of the people. The Black Panther Party's program Is based on going forth to ensure that the needs and desires of the people are met, Our fearless Minister of De- fense, Huey P, Newton, is a pre- sent victim of such repression be- cause of his dedication and de- nouncement of such acts perpe- trated against our people. If it was not for Huey P, New- ton, the Ten Point Platform and Program of the Black Panther Party would not be in the process of being implemented through socialistic programs around the nation, Another of these programs tis presently being implemented as of today with the opening of the Free Bobby Hutton Community Health Clinic. Because we have felt the needto meet the needs and desires of the people, the pig power structure has Intensified their vicious acts of wanton murder and brutality. Today, the confrontation with several oinking pigs against some of our revolutionary brothers and Sisters while selling papers and educating the unaware masses, was in truth, a pressured conspiracy to try and eliminate the effective methods of reaching the people. Today, since the people are re- sponding to these socialistic pro- grams that meet their desires and needs, it is evident that the pig power structure feeis that thisisa sure threat to their last desparate struggle for the survival of imperi- alism, capitalism, racism, and overt fascism, Two sisters and four brothers of this chapter were vamped on by the piglets of this racist police de- partment. They were out educating and relating to the people of the community on the fascism that Is so prominently displayed by these politically manipulated pigs, They oinked tn the face of one of our brothers and accused him of driving without proper state li- On the night of October 10, 1969, Deputy Chairman, Pete O' Neal of the Missour! Chapter was am- bushed in a parking lot at 3219 Troost by twoWhite, racist lackeys who shot him in the right arm in an attempt to kill (silence) him, The ambush is believed to be part of a plan to keep Pete and officers of the Missouri chapter from going to Washington D.C to present evidence to Senator Mc- Clellan's Permanent Investiga- tions Subcommitteewhichislooking into the scandal of the retired pro- vost marshall, General Carl Tur- her, receiving guns from the K.C Police Department and the Chi- cago Police Department, Deputy Chairman Pete and Pan- ther Johnny Jacobs were in the area of 33rd and Troost collect- ing evidence for the Impending trip to Washington when acarcar- rying at least twoWhite men drove up slowly. Then a volley of shots rang out, hitting Pete in the right arm as he and Johnny ducked tothe ground, On October 8, 1969, the Mis- sourl Chapter of the Black Pan- ther Party held apress conference accusing Pig Chief Clarence M, Kelly of not only allowing guns to be given to military pig Turner, but also giving guns to the Minute- censes, What the pigs did not know is that the people had their legal first-aid uptight and saw what was going on. They saw that this was just a farce to try and immobilize the vanguard Party and diminish the effect it has within the com- munity, In the process of subjugating the brothers and sisters to unneces- sary repression, the pigs tried to impose fictitious charges and un- founded reasons for inflicting some act of aggression, They were seen by a substantial number of the peo- ple who were witnesses, like Mrs. Ernestine Allen and her daliehter, Mrs. Delores Fisher, for instance, and several other indignant citi- zens that know that the action of the pigs was unfounded and fal- lacious, The pigs proceeded to search the car in which the brother was driving, imposed a search on the sisters, and looked into their hand- bags and actually took the license men, a super-fascist bull----, right-wing group, The Party be- lieves that the cowardly shooting of Pete O'Neal was a consequence of the possession of this dangerous evidence This has been the second Pan- ther shot by the fascists here re- cently, The first, Andy Rollins, was shot by the pigs In the right earas he left the Free Health Clinic to sell the Black Panther newspaper, The Black Panther Party is pre- pared to expose Chief Kelly and his actions to Kansas City, He has masqueraded as a ‘guardian of the law’ and he has repeatedly brutal- ized the Black community. He told usconcerning the gun issue to either ‘put up or shut up."’ On Monday, October 13, 1969, Pete, Bill Whitfield (Deputy Minis- ter ofInformation), and Keith Hinch (Deputy Minister of Education) “put up’’ evidence before the sub- committee. Hopefully the people of Kansas City will run Pig Kelly out of town, Andas for the shooting, we know who Is responsible. If that’s the way they want to play, we're ready! SEIZE THE TIME! Missour! Chapter Black Panther Party plates off the brothers’ car and put it in the back of the car; this was to make it look Ilke the brother did not have the proper license. All were taken to the pig sty and although they could not hold them on any so-called legal vio- lation, it was evident that the main purpose was to detain them from serving the people. The three witnesses and others who saw the racist pigs trying to intimidate the brothers and sisters responded with indignation and scorn, These witnesses came to the rescue ofthe Panthers because they can see that the vanguard is here to serve the people and to educate them with practical socialistic programs to meet the needs of the people. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Free All Political Prisoners! Educate to liberate! BOBBY HUTTON FREE HEALTH CLINIC The Kansas ( Black Panther fied the struggle ity Chapter of the Party has intensi- With the opening today of the Bobby Hutton Com- munity Free Health Clinic, The Clinic was opened to the people today for their inspection, and investigation. It ts important that the people relate to the pressing health needs that the clinic will fulfill. HEALTH, THE TRUE We are presently equipped with the basic medical equipment necessary to serve the people everyday, equipment is belng contributed dally, The ava ricious businessmen, the lying politician and the fascist pig cop cannot understand this progran and because of their basic nature will never be able to understand why this program will work, more WEALTH OF ALL MANKIND We are to struggle hard against the death and disease that exist in Babylon, And i we can under- stand free health, then we can understand, free housing, free transportation and free people POWER TO THE PEOPLI Kansas City Chapter DEPUTY CHAIRMAN, PETE O'NEAL SEAT OF FASCISM Pete O'Neal was shot because of the threat to put forth evidence that shows that Pig ChiefClarence M, Kelly (K. C, Police Dept.) has authorized the transfer of guns to the Minutemen, However, as Deputy Chairman Pete was shot, Keith Hinch and Bill Whitfield were preparing the trip to Washington, D.C. to testify before the Senate subcommittee that is investigating the gun transfer. On Monday October 13, 1969, at 5:00 am, we left for Washington, At approximately 9:30 -- 10:00am we arrived at the seat of fascism and proceeded directly to the hearing room of the Senate Per- manent Investigations Subcom- mittee, The hearing was in pro- gress when we arrived, About 30 minutes later we were allowed to go in after we were told by Phillip Manuel, subcom- mittee aide, that we could not testify because we had not sent the evidence of Pig Kelly's ac- tions through the pig's mail to them. We then made firm to our- selves that we would give testimony -- unsolicited {f neces- sary. The hearing itself which con- cerned at that time the investi- gation of former provost marshall of the Army, Carl Turner (Retired General) and his dealings with guns from the Chicago Police Depart- ment. Superintendent James Con- isk, was a circus as Turner repeatedly claimed that his mem- ory wasn't too sharp on certain occasions, As the McClellan com- mittee proceeded to tighten the vise on Turner's ass, we heard testimony that really made him look like a damn fool, Meanwhile Pig Chief Kelly of the Kansas City Pigs walked the Moor (withseveral @ rolls of toilet paper nearby hlooking two centuries older than he pro. bably is. Obviously he spotted ts as we came in, Senator Abraham Ribicoff, whe presided at the hearing, was about to recess the hearing when Pete stepped forward at the buck af the crowded room and commenced to run down the facts that we had concerning this case. Loi mediately KUards jumped and were about to throw us out but ihe information that we gave the committee stunont them (they didn't seem to be too cool, anyway, As we knew, the subcommittee refused to deal with the issue and- asked us to talk with their staff. Later on their staff wanted to see the information that we had but we insisted that they first com- mit themselves to giving us a for- mal hearing. They refused. At this time Pig Chief Kelly is shaking in his jockey strap at the thought of our having Iinfor- mation that could have him re- moved from his position. We are being extremely cautious because we feel he {s planning some street action which could have all three of us killed, Therefore, we are pre- paring to defend ourselves, the thresholds of our doors inaccord- ance with Huey P, Newton's Exec- utive Mandate #3 and we are pre- Pared to defend the interests of the Black community of Kansas City, to do the thing to this racist fool, this tool of the international IMPERIALIST conspiracy, if we can return to Washington to testify we shall. But regardless of that, the people will find out what Kelly's up to. Very sooni! WE HAVE THE GOODS ON KELLY! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Missouri Chapter, Central Staff Kelth Hinch, Deputy Minister of Education PIG JUSTICE RON KARENGA BLACK THING CO-OPTED Ron ‘'Malingering’’ Karenga, founder and misleading bourgeois priest of the US organization and cultural nationalism, must be de- scribed as being synonymous to the lying, murdering, demagogic pigs of the USA's organization;the CIA But perhaps he is one lower than the usual run of the mill pig, be- cause he has sold out and he Is still selling owt. He Is using his Black skin and the fou] knowledge embodied in his bald head to mes- tmerize Black people, to lead the people into believing a dashiki is more powerful than a pig’s speed- ing bullet. The reason that pork chop nationalists have been able to get people to support their ban- fer, which is manifested in a tea- spoon of apolitical rhetoric, ts be- cause Black people are looking for something, for anything func- tional to eliminate the oppressor country fascists that have gone crazy, misleading, denying, and murdering them. When rebellion sprang out in the colony, it was very beneficial for some greedy, articulate, nigger with a beard, bald head, and shades to take to the podium expounding on 2 Black-and-proud line, with slogans appealing (not necessari- ly helpful) to oppressed ears, This has been the basis for the coming together of the cultural nationalist. in the Black colony of Babylon, In the outstart, the pig power struc- ture saw thisasan advantage, They (the pigs) knew Black people were moving in a new direction, even though the direction in which they were moving was spontaneous, it WHAT'S THERE Jim Tate wants to hold a Bicen- tennial Celebration in Philudelphis in 1976. What's there to celebrate? Children are going to school hun- gry (The Glack Panther Party has started a Free Breakfast for children Program), people aren't getting adequate medical care (The Black Panther Party is going to open a Free Health Clinic), Black people are being brutalized by the pigs, that is, the so-called*"* Police” Department (The Black Panther Party is circulating a petition for Community Control of the Police Dept.). Frustrated young bloods are defending their corners when they should be defending the community (The Black Panther Party willedu- cate by example that the Black Com- munity is to be looked after and defended by those who live there), and jim Tate wants to spend fifty million dollars or more to hoki a godd---——d celebration. What's there to celebrutc? Frank Rizzo has sanctioned the murder of Joseph iif- teen year old epileptic, because the crime was committed by « of his goons. Arooks, visibly retarded, had « knife and the only Hrooxs, a re joe way Rizzo's Gestapo Goon could disarm him was by shooting hit in the face, Rizzo sanctioned the shooting of Joseph Slater because it was done by one of his Gestapo Goons, Joe Slater was in his home, unarmed, and stepped in front of his unarmed son to protect him. Rizzo sanctioned the beating of Tom Singleton, # Black businessinan who's going te have triple vision own LEROI JONES was expressing itself in more vio- lent terms, So the fascists put blood money into the colony and the pork chops slid into the melting pot. Now they are full-fledged pigs, out to corral and pacifya new wave called the ‘Black thing’. The aim is to turn it toward Black capitalism, So with the help of pig money, the cultural nationalists are sponsor- ing Black, When we have the oc- casion to check out various news media, Blackness is now in vogue. It has become as commercial as Coca Cola, an inroad to capi- talism. But the aim of double O agent Karenga and his elite core ts not to make Black capitalists out of Black people, but to keep them at the ‘‘buy Black"’ level, that is cus- tomers, So this is the purpose of their doctrine: to buildacharacter around Blackness deeply embodied with 16th century Africa and west- ern styled bubas with matching bell bottoms, hoping that they can build a brainwashing or charisma to make Black people believe being Black, living Black, buying Black, etc, is the essence of liberation. But we say to Karenga, and Jones, and all the rest of their mis- leading fools who oink at the peo- ple, that we are hip to you and will not allow you to erroneously lead the people down the road to capitalism, We have experienced Pig capitalism; and for what it's worth we can forget it! SEIZE THE TIME Jymbo TO CELEBRATE? in one eye for the rest of his life. Tom Singleton was trying to pre- vent an argument between out-of- town friends and some strangers. After having his eye smashed, he discovered that the ‘‘strangers’’ were Kizzo's Gestapo Goons. He sanctioned the shooting of Tyrone Wertes, who's going to be para- lyzed, probably for the rest of his life. The Gestapo Goon that shot Ty Wertes **rhought’’ that he was in- volved in a robbery, If they’re going to hold a Bicentennial, what's there to celebrate? A tenement at 2242 N, 16th Street is literally falling apart. Fire ex- tinguishers are brought in for in- spection and then moved, And that godd----d fool in Ciry Hall, James H. J, Tate by name, wants to spend millions of dollars on a Bicenten- nial Celebration, JUST WHAT IN THE HELL IS THERE TO CELE- BRATE? Organize your block, Or the bloods on the corner, Organize somebody quick, because power must be returned to the people! if need help when start to ymtact the Black Panther CE6-3358, Hurry, This deep trouble, Aad w much tine. Escpecially you you organize, Party at country is in don’t have for celebrations, POWEI THE ALI SEIZI tT MIME! THE PEOPLE! Milt MeGrif! Black Panther Party Candidate for City Council 7th Councilman District Philedelphis THE BLACK PANTI PRESS RELEASE MARTIN SOSTRE DEFENSE COMMITTEE Mrs, Geraldine Robinson, co- defendant of Black liberation fight- er, Martin Sostre, was sentenced today by County Court Judge Ernest Coluce!, marking the culmination of a vicious frame-up and racist trial. Mrs, Robinson was given a 7-16 yoar suspended sentonce at the Westfield State Farm Prison Division on a phony narcotics charge, and one year sentence at the Western Reformatory for Wo- men at Alblon, New York for the equally phony charge of ‘‘Inter- fering with an arrest.'' Mrs, Robinson was arrested along with Martin Sostre in July of 1967, on trumped up narcotics charges, following a rebellion in Buffalo's Black community for which she and Martin were singled out as scapegoats, MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE This sentence, like that of Sos- tre's incredible 41 years, 30 day term, is clearly a travesty and miscarriage of justice, Mrs. Robinson, a 25 year old Black mother of five children was tried by an all-white, middle-aged, mid- dle-class, suburban jury, a white Judge and a white racist prosecut- or, This flagrant violation of Mrs. Robinson's rights and the brutal attempts to intimidate her by inter- ring this heroic woman in one of Rockefeller’ s nazi-like concentra- tion camps can only be seen as a further attempt by the rulingclass to crush the Black Liberation Movement and must be fought, RULING CLASS TRIPLE TALK This one year sentence mustalso be seen as an attempt by the ruling class to discourage appeal. Itisa move to try and make the people forget about the astounding and vindictive ‘life sentence’ imposed on the 46 year old Sostre! Mrs, Robinson was represented at sen- tencing by Attorney Bill Myers who immediately filed notice of appeal after making a motion tohave Mrs, Robinson named as an indigent per- son for appeal purposes, The at- torney is also seeking a writ of habeas corpus so that Mrs Robin- son can be released from jall, IER, OCTOBER 25, 1969, PAGE 5 MRS. GERALDINE ROBINSON AND FAMILY COURT'S RACIST SENTENCEOR- PHANS FIVE BLACK CHILDREN Judge Colucci denied a motion by Myers to continue Mrs. Robinson in $10,000 ball pending an Appli- cation for Certificate of Reasona- ble Doubt. She was rushed from the courtroom surrounded by five guards--four men anda woman, As she was led through the door, she turned briefly to her family, friends, and supporters from the Martin Sostre Defense Committee who filled the courtroom. With her head held high, she gave a de- termined clinched fist to everyone- including two of her five children. |. H. WORKS SHUT DOWN The children, only moments be- fore frolicking, very much under- stood that the White racist court had torn them from their mother. Mrs, Robinson has three other children also. The children are being cared for by relatives, Be- fore she was whisked away to the Albion, New York prison (about 50 miles from Buffalo), she urged: ‘*Don’t waste any tears, and please take care of my children. Con- tinue the struggle!’’ FREE GERALDINE ROBINSON! PIGS BLOCK INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER WORKERS On October 9, the workers at the International Harvester Trac- tor Works in Chicago closed down their factory, They walked out because of the plans of the plg owners, the super-avaricious pig McCormicks, to tear the factory down and sell the landtothe county to build a new jail Thelr union contract (United Auto Workers) says that the work- ers will be transferred to another factory, with seniority guaranteed, In reality, the workers are all being transferred to the Hough Works, which Is 50 miles outside of Chicago, and a lily-White suburb, it is too far to commute, and it is impossible for Black workers (S0% or more of the employees) to live out there, Also, the union and the management made a sweet heart agreement about seniority at the Hough Works -- all workers transferring from the Tractor Works will have no seniority at all, The Black Panther Party has been relating to the workers at Tractor Works .for two months now, both Internally and externally There are Panthers working there, carrying on political education, and propagandizing. Also, there are Panthers permanently assigned to carrying on mass propagandizing at the gates during every shift change, After they had been out there for a couple of days, the workers became used to seeing them, and they began getting into regular rap sessions, The afternoon of the shutdown, we held a mass rally in the park that separates the jail from the factory, The avaricious pigs were so scared of the power of the work- ers that they brought In five bus- loads of pigs, plus they had squad cars, paddy wagons, and sheriff's Pigs posted all the way around the factory (from 26th to 3ist) and the jail, Basically, Our line is to form a united working class, and to educate the workers to the fact that the factories should belong to the workers. We say that the destiny of that factory should be determined by the people who work there, and we ure advocates of strikes and any other means heces- sary to turn the means of pro- duction over to the hands of the people. ALL POWER TO THE WORKERS FIGHT FOR A UNITED WORKING CLASS Lynn French Labor PHE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER NEW HAVEN PANTHER | People from all over the New Haven community have come to- gether to demand the release of the 14 jailed Black Panthersin Conn- ecticut. The New Haven 14, which how Includes Panther Party Chair- man Bobby Seale, are being held without ball on a variety of char- ges, including murder and conspir- acy to murder Alex Rackley, As it shapes up now, the defense effort outside the courtroom Inthe months before the trial will have two main goals: educational work in the New Haven community about the Panthers and the current per- Secution, and fund-raising for the defense, In order to carry out this work in as full a manner as pos- sible, two groups havebeenset up: &@ more Iberal and defense- oriented Coalition to Defend the Panthers, and a more radical and political People to Free the Pan- thers. The Coalition to Defend the Pan- thers was launched at a news con- ference on October Ist, which got extensive press coverage in the New Haven area, The Coalition has five organizations from the Black community (Black Coalition; Justice, Order and Equality; Dix- well Legal Rights Association, Hill Parents Association, and Freedom Now), five from the student com- munity (SDS, Student Health Or- ganization, Yale Divinity School Association, Architect's Resis- tance, and the Science Action Group), two Black student organ- {vations (Organization of Afro- American Students at Southern Connecticut State College, and the Yale Black Law Students), and three adult white groups (American Independent Movement, Coalition of Concerned Citizens, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom) This Coalition will be broad enough to include people who do not necessarily agree with the whole Panther program, but who do believe in any case that the Panthers are being persecuted for their political beliefs, The main line of the Coalition in its ed- ucational work will be that the Pan- ther case has received such pre- judicial coverage in the press that a ‘‘fair trial’ ts impossible, and that therefore the Panthers should be freed immediately. In its opening statement, the Coalition said, ‘The May 22 New Haven Register carried mug shots of arrested 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 dis- closure of evidence which, if it exists at all, should only be in- troduced at the trial, is an at- tempt to constitutionally - guaranteed pre- sumption of innocence and ensure conviction of the Panthers before the trial even begins. The Black Panther Party takes radical pol- itical postions, and members of the party, in violation of their constitutional rights, are on trial for those positions, The arrest of Bobby Seale, National Chairman of the Party, raises the possibility that this trial will become the Sacco and Vanzett! trial of the 1970's, It is this that the ‘*Co- alition seeks to avoid."’ Since the Coalition ts primarily middle-class, its main educating work will be almed at middle- class groups and people. Plans call for & campaign in the community in which Coalition speakers wil] appear before any forum they can get: church groups, PTAs, reform ’ organizations, neighborhood groups, and so on, Thetr first task will be to speak about the current persecution, and explain how the rights of the Panthers are being violated because of their radical political beliefs, They will then discuss and try to explain the Panther political program Finally, they will ask groups either to join the Coalition or act in their own wav to sbread the violate the Panthers’; 25, 1969, PAGE 6 DEFENSE OF THE word throughout the community about the Panthers. In each case, defense money will be asked for, It is hoped that whenever possible, Coalition spokesmen will be able to speak to groups they are most famillar with, For example, the Divinity students will be asked to speak to every church in New Haven, The work of the Coalition is quite limited and strictly defensive in nature. The People to Free the Panthers, on the other hand, will be much more radical anddirectly political in its actions. This group, which will function under the lead- ership of the Panthers, is com- prised of radicals who on the whole agree with the political pro- gram of the Panthers, and want to work not just to free the New Haven 14, but to advance the work of the Panthers and the move- ment in general. The makeup of this group is naturally quite dif- ferent from that of the Coalition. The People to Free the Panthers is made up of movement people in New Haven, primarily members of the Panthers, SDS and the Am- erican Independent Movement. While this group also plans to concentrate on education, it has chosen the white working class community and the student com- munity in which to do its work, It plans to issue a newspaper- leaflet every one or two weeks, which in the beginning will be the focus of its educational work. 20 or 30 thousand copies will be printed. Some people will use the leaflets in organizing work, that they are already doing. Others will simply fan out to canvas door- to-door in white working class areas of New ‘Haven. They will talk to people about the case and about the Panthers, and try to enlist their support. On campus, the People to Free the Panthers have already heldone teach-in and intend to carry on this work, Efforts will be made immediately todo educational work on the several community college campuses in the New Haven area as well as at Yale, Special con- centration will be put on gaining the support of Black student groups on each campus. While all this planning goes on, the Panther 14 remain in fall, being held without bail under mis- erable conditions. Worst of all, three of the sister Panthers being held are pregnant. Two of them are expecting their bables within two months, Onan immediate level, this means that these women, who naturally need all the rest they can get, are spending sleepless nights in a Connecticut jail because the prison authorities deem it “‘necessary’’ to shine lights in their cells all night to ward off ‘‘outside threats,’" What Is even more horrendous is what will happen if the women are forced to have their babies while in jail. First of all, they will give birth under armed guards. Then, unless they have been able to make what the state regards as ‘‘sultable arrangements’ for care of their children, their babies will be taken from them and put into foster homes, Naturally it is rather difficult for these womento make “sultable arrangements’' Since they are not allowed any non-family visitors in jail. Finally, when the women are released from jall, the burden will be on them to prove that they are ‘qualified’ to regain their own children The People to Free the Panthers are centering their first education- al campaign around this atrocious situation, In a confrontation with State prison authorities, the group and one of the Panther lawyers, Catherine lNorabach, asked if this Situation was not particularly a Violation of the women's rights tn view of the fact that they have hot yet been convicted of any crime, But the prison officials, when asked if they made any distinction be- tween accused persons and con- Victed criminals, simply sald “No'', Obviously, as far as these and other officials are concerned, CONNECTICUT PANTHERS ON MAY DAY CONNECTICUT PRISONERS It has become increasingly ap- parent in the past few months that a fair trial for the Panthers will be difficult if not impossible due to prejudicial pre-trial pub- licity and general public ignorance about the Panthers and thelr pro- gram, It has also become clear that the Panthers presently in jail are not being treated fairly even though they have not been tried and thus are presumed in- nocent, The latter treatment Is something directly under the con- trol of Commissioner of Correct- ions MacDougall. The five Panther women held at Niantic State Farm are Isolated from all other inmates with whom the Panthers are already con- sidered guilty! And they do not plan to wait for the formality of a kangaroo trial before treating them as such, Meanwhile, despite the fact that the busts last spring almost em- ptied the local Panther organizat- jon, the Party is now continuing its political activities, This means that although the Panthers are being forced to spend a great deal of time on defensive operations, they are determined not to let the current persecution keep them from thelr ongoing political work. At the time of the bust last May, the Panthers were about to start a New Haven Breakfast Program, When the police attacked Panther headquarters, they ‘‘con- fiscated"’ the money the Party had already collected for this purpose On October 8th, after having to bulld again from scratch, the Panthers launched their Breakfast Program, and expect to expand it rapidly in the future, In general, the Panthers are working in the several Black communities in Now Haven, getting the word out to the people. As part of their program, they are also working with a group of people fighting lead polsoning, and with a local welfare mothers group. More information on Party aclvity in New Haven will be covered in 4 future article, they are forbidden to eat, speak, or exercise. Thelr mall is cen- sored coming and going. Books they have requested have been denied, while others brought to them by visitors have been turned away by prison personnel, They may not read thelr Party's news- Paper - the only paper which carries continuing coverage of thelr case. They may be visited only by family, clergy, and law- yers who were with them at the first appearance, many of whom took the job on an emergency tem- porary basis. Nevertheless, the women may not interview other lawyers in order to have a choice of counsel, Nor can they have visits from friends of their own age for morale purposes. Shortly after their arrival, search-lights were installed which keep their cells lit all night. Patrols outside shine spotlights through their windows and at one point used walkie- talkies whose volume and feed- back squeal combined with the lights to make sleep extremely difficult, Three of the women are in their last months of pregnancy and obviously should not be held under these conditions, In addition one of the women ts withouta local family, and being in jail, cannot find a temporary home for her child, It ts likely that the State will place it in a home. If re. leased, she will have to go through a lengthy administrative process in order to have her baby fe. turned, none of which would have happened if she had not been kept in jail before trial The only real answer ts of course that the women and their code. |fendants should be set free before trial on a bail they can raise, But short of that, the conditions described above must be eliminat. ed by Commissioner MacDougall immediately, When asked about the noise from the walkie-talkies he did not say that this was regrut- table, but merely that we need not worry anymore because they were all broken. When asked why the women could not read what they liked he explained that he had to prevent whathe called inflammatory materials from getting into the prison population. It was pointed out to him that the women them- selves were already isolated, and that being isolated there was no reason to censor their reading material since it could not get to any other inmates. For this he had no answer, or at least de- clined to give one. Perhaps most disturbing was his admission that no distinction in treatment is made between prisoners who have been convicted of a crime, and those still awaiting trial and therefore presumed innocent. Commissioner Macdougall ts charged under the laws of Conn- ecticut with the power to make these policies. He is therefore under an obligation to the com- munity to defend or at least ex- Plain them. We hereby respect- fully ask Commissioner Mac- Dougall for a withdrawal or reasonable explanation for each of the above listed policies, We ask in particular for an explan- ation of the ‘freedom to read issue because it seems so clear to us that there can be no ex- planation for this. Either let the women out of isolation, or allow them to read what they like. To do otherwise is to punish them before trial, It strikes us that the only explanation for the harsh treatment that these prisoners have recelyed ts that Commis- Sooner MacDougall is politically motivated tO avold appearing ‘soft’ on Panthers. There is an increasing recogni fon amongcitiaens that certain is- sues are being dodged People watching this affair have become impationt with evasion, apd feel that the time has come to either put up or shut up: we must either live up fully to our constitutionsl sUarantees, or admit that we ate really not willing to do so. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ——e —— ley A at ee ¥ Z . DOUG MIRANDA (CENTER) _ ‘The arrest and frameup of eight _ ‘New Haven Black Panthers on int om % _trumped-up charges of murder Is another incident in a nationwide campaign by state, local, and Fed- eral police to destroy the Black Panther Party. Hours after the members of the Black Pan- ther Party were charged with’ murder, local newspapers had tried and literally convicted them without even the pretense of a trial. The New Haven Register had spread sensational headlines based totally on one-sided information 4 which was leaked from some mys- “ - terious chamber down in city hall, The completely unproven rumor Mr, Ellis MacDougall ‘Commissioner of Corrections State of Connecticut Dear Mr, DacDougall: The purpose of this letter fs to reiterate certain questions posed from the floor of the Coun- cil of Corrections meeting on Oct- ober 6th, Though feelings on both sides ran somewhat high in the course of discussion, the questions reflected a legitimate concern, and were asked in good faith We therefore believe they deserve sin- cere and straightforwardanswers. Those questions were: 1) Why are the Panther women in Niantic not permitted to read anything they like? Inasmuch as they are kept Isolated from other inmates, it certainly cannot be for the sole justification that was of- fered - to prevent ‘inflammatory materials’ from reaching the pri- son population. If the concern Is that they will themselves become ‘inflamed’, what could infurlate anyone more then censoring their reading? 2) Why are the women kept {isolated from other Inmates against their will? It would seem that the women should be let out of isolation, if in fact censor- 7 a OPEN LETTER STATEMENT FROM (NEW HAVEN AREA CAPTAIN DOUG MIRANDA of tapes of ‘‘the murder’’ is only a small part of the slanderous at- tack on the Black Panther Party in New Haven, By using such tac- tics, government officials have only displayed their corruption. Their unrestrained attempts to crush the Panther Party will edu- cate people totnderstand that these politicians constantly trick the people while serving thelr own selfish interests. The Black Panther Party is a political party which serves the basic needs and wants of the peo- ple, Alex Rackley was a member of the Black Panther Party in good standing. He was a member of ship of their reading prevents them . from distributing any “‘inflam- matory materials'’ to the prison community. 3) Why can they not be per- mitted visits from friends? 4) Why can they not interview other attorneys who have volun- teered to help them? 5) Finally, and this extends to all pre-trial prisoners, why Is + it, as you admitted, that no dis- tinction in treatment is made be- tween prisoners convicted of crimes and people awaiting trial who are presumed Innocent under our system? We regret having thus to place under pressure a person who ap- pears genuinely to have fought public and legislative indifference for a better funded prison system Perhaps it is precisely for this reason that we are so puzzled by policies which seem to us un- necessarily harsh, We look for- ward to thoughtful and direct an- swers to the questions above, Sincerely, Christopher Wilson on behalf of the People to Free the Panthers the Party which serves the people; therefore, he was a servant of the people, Lf any member of the Pan- ther Party acts ina manner against the people, such as a police in- former, he is not killed or tor- tured, he is thrown out of the Party and his name, picture, and the reason for expulsion appears in our national paper, If any mem- ber wishes to leave the Party he is shown to the door, The Black Panther Party does not force any- one to stay against their wishes, because all true members of our Party are unified behind educat- ing and serving the people In a manner which will best bring about freedom from social injustice, The Free Breakfast Progam Is one of the many programs started by the Party and given to the peo- ple as a service (and education) to the community, At present across the country we feed over 40,000 children of all colors, Hunger knows no color. Last week on Thursday, October 9, 1969, the Black Panther Party, along with the community, started the first free breakfast in New Haven, Conn, The first free breakfast, which started on a rainy day, had an attendance of fifteen children. The second day of the breakfast was attended by thirty-five children, The number will grow everydayas the people begin to truly see the Black Panther Party as a People’s Party, and the only way the people are going to begin to understand where the Party is coming from is through our social practice. The Free Breakfast Program Is presently being held at the New- hallville Teen Lounge, located at 179 Shelton Ave, New locationsare needed throughout the city, The Party work here in New Haven has been set back by the lies and terror tactics used by the government to destroy us. So the Party, along with other organiza- tions must move to educated the people to our program, and the repressive measures the govern- ment has taken against us. Our coalition with these individuals and organizations have two major goals: 1, To counteract the prejudicial publicity against the Panthers by educating New Haven citizens about the Panthers positive community programs andabout the legal rights which they must receive to have a fair trial, 2. To raise money for the legal defense of the Panthers and to carry on the work of the Coalition in the Panthers’ behalf, THE ALACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25, 1999, PAGE 7 Civil Servants, — Public Officials — Speak Out The Hon, Ellis C, MacDougall Commissioner of Corrections Room 412, State Office Building Hartford, Connecticut 06115 Dear Sir: Last Wednesday, while you were away, I spoke to Mr. Manson con- cerning a number of the condl!- tions under which clients of mine are being held at the State Farm for Women In Niantic. Many of these complaints relate, of course, to conditions imposed on all prisoners in State Institutions, Whether or not this is the case, however, I am writing this letter to you to protest the conditions im - posed upon my clients and to ask for their correction, In the event that some of the issues raised re- late to other prisoners and the overall operation of the ‘‘correc- tional’ system in Connecticut, I would appreciate it if you would consider this letter a request to review and revise all of your regu- lations. The clients of whom Iam speak- ing are firstly, Ericka Huggins, Margaret Hudgins and Frances Carter, all held without ball prior to trial on criminal charges brought by the State's Attorney of New Haven County and by a grand jury sitting in that county, and secondly Carmen Jefcoat, held prior to trial on federal charges who has been and will be unable to post the bail set in her case. As you can seethesefour women are not present at the Farm to serve sentences Imposed by the courts or to receive your ‘‘cor- rectional” services, Rather thelr detention is a pre-trial detention placing them in a radically dif- ferent category from the ordinary inmate. They have not as yet been proven guilty of any crime; they are still clothed with the ‘‘pre- sumption of innocence’’ to which they are entitled; they need in the pre-trial stages ready and free access to counsel, family, friends and all others who might aid inthe preparation of their defense; and they deserve to be able to live in the least restricted circum- stances possible until such time as they are indeed found guilty of criminal activity, at which time they would be within your juris- diction for ‘‘correctional’’ work. With these considerations in mind I would like to protest the following: 1. The isolation of my clients from all other prisoners and, inthe case of Carmen Jefcoat, her isolation from all other persons including ! my other clients, 2, The detention of my clients within the prison without any out- door exercise or recreation, 3. The confinement of my client Carmen Jefcoat to her cell, a room perhaps 6° x 8’, 4, The confinement of my clients Ericka Huggins, Margaret Hudgins and Frances Carter to a short corridor and the cells off of it, and on occasion thelr confinement to their individual cells, 5. The installation of exterior search lights flooding the walls and cells of my clients with light throughout the night, and the use of patrol cars whose lights are pur- posely beamed Into the cells of my » clients periodically throughout the <b night and night after night, 6. The use of walkie talkies by the guards patrolling the exterior of the building during the night, with the ensuing noise and {nter- ruption of the sleep of my clients, 7, The refusal of visiting rights +: to anyone other than relatives or : attorneys, a. Obviously the visits of close ‘friends are easily as important . : to the prisoner as those of rela- tives, b, Potential witnesses or per- : sons able to aid in the preparation > pee —. of the defense or in arrangements for counsel even though such per= sons may not be potential wit~ nesses, should be able to see and” confer with a prisoner facing trial,” c. Arrangements for represen=—~ tations b, counsel are made dif-) ficult if not Impossible since visits by attorneys are restricted to lawyers who have entered appear- ances for defendants, thereby re-— stricting possible exploratory con=— versations between the client and. attorney to determine whether representation should Indeed occur, d, A prisoner should be free to consult with, and be examined and treated by a doctor of her own choice, and not only with a doctor chosen by the institution. 8. The complaints made in para- graph (7) are aggravated by the apparent tradition of permitting the State’s Attorney to determine who may or may not visit prisoners in pre-trial detention and under what conditions such visits may be made, a tradition which does not seem to be called for by any of the statutes which I have read in connection with the operation of your institutions, These com- plaints are further aggravated by the easy access of police offi- clals and F BI agents tothe prison- ers, apparently at the behest of or at least with the consent of the State’s Attorney, whether or not such visits have been requested by the prisoners. 9, The right of the prisoners to communicate by letter should be without censorship and should be unlimited, 10, The right of the prisoners to have access to such books or news- papers as they may desire to read should be unlimitled, a. In this regard, I understand that my client Ericka Huggins was refused the right to have certain books which she had requested. b. | also understand that she was refused the right to have a newspaper which the authorities said would be ‘‘inflammatory’’. To hold my clients under these conditions when they are in a pre- trial status makes a mockery of the so-called ‘‘presumption of in- nocence’’ and negates all of those precious rights supposedly guar- anteed to them by our Federal and State Constitutions. It further makes the so-called ‘‘correctional system'’ a partner in the denial of these rights and indeed in the seeming attempt to break the morals and spirit of those unfor- tunate enough to have fallen within its grasp. On behalf of my clients, |demand immediate relief from these con- ditions, 1 trust as well it may be afforded to any other prisoners held under equally despicable cir- cumstances. I shall appreciate your imme- diate attention and response to these matters. Sincerely yours, (Miss) Catherine G, Roraback CC: Mrs. Janet S, York Superintendent and Warden State Prison for Women P.O. Box 456 Niantic, Connecticut 06357 Dr, Bernard ©, Glueck, Jr. Chairman, Council of Correction Hoom 412, State Capitol Hartford, Connecticut 06115 Senator Boce W. Barlow, Jr. Legislative Advisory Committee for the Department of Correction 750 Matin Street Hartford, Connecticut Donald R, Holtman, Chairman Connecticut Civil Liberties Union 750 Hopmeadow Simsbury, Connecticut THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25, 1969, PAGE 8 SAN FRANCISCO FREE BREAKFAST FEEDING HUNGRY CHILDREN MEN OF THE CLOTH In the San Francisco Branch of the Black Panther Party, we initiated our first Free Breakfast for School Children Program thi school semester, Wednesday, Sep- tember 3, 1969. Feeding hungry children along with Free Health Clinics and Clothing Drives is a definite necessity in the Black communities of Babylon. We have received information about chil- dren in school whose hunger has caused them to pass out In class and kept them from learning. This information was gained from teachers in the public schools in Babylon. It is a proven fact that children when not belng fed a pro- per diet get irritable, sleepy and cannot learn anything taught to them. Soby givingthem free break- fast this solves most of the pro- blem although some still get one meal a day. The government knows about the hunger and yet they con- tinue to take surveys on hunger. The school systems are hip to hungry kids so they have started a free lunch program, but seldom do children who need it get it, and mothers have hell trying to get their kids on this program, We have only one location for breakfast due to stubborn and hypocritic priests and preachers in the Black community who re- fuse to let the children eat in their buildings, In attempting to Secure a location for the Free Breakfast Program for Hungry Children we were treated like hoodlums, Uke gangsters, for feed- ing hungry kids FREE, by the pas- tors and priests of some of the churches we attended, The men of the cloth, tn fact the holy men of the community closed doors in our faces, called us trespassers, lied to us, denied that there ts such a thing as o hungry child and told us hat they plainly didn't want us or the ‘‘so-called'’' hun- gry kids on their premises. These holy men sanctified in the blood and money of the people,, sunk neck deep in hypocrisy andclosed their facilities to the hungry children of the community, In speaking to them it sounded as if they were tape recordings of Alloto and his Boy Wonder, Cahill, All we ask Is to let us use their holy property for three hours in the morning to feed hungry kids, A newsman asked one time, if we thought this was another form of harassment to the Black Panther Party? It's harassment to the thousands of hungry children in Amerikkka, those hard working mothers and fathers of the Black community who live for their children and yet support financially the sanctified plmps who run these churches. The many excuses and rhetoric received from these sanctified pimps whose con game (the latest) is starving children, kissing the top of Alioto’ s head, too many times sprinkled with the holy water of the Mafia, and stealing money from welfare recipients and making them believe it isan offering toGod when in fact it ls a deposit on next years hypocrisy. But their refusal to serve the community and lend a helping hand to hungry children will not be tolerated, just as Mafioso Alloto and his band of Irish Gangsters manifested in Boy Wonder Cahill, and Henry Williams, that nigger, a Sgt, for SFPD who with his dunce, that Irish Molly McGuire Big Red (Richard Youell) member of tac squad, attacked the Black Panther office in SF. last April 28, and poisoned the food for the Free Breakfast for Schoo] Children Pro- gram will not slide past the peoples judgement day. (May I add that the SF P.D., along with Alioto Owe the Black panther Party and the hungry children of the com- munity $300.00 in cash or a-s for the food they destroyed.) And l am certain that the children of the Black community will not tol- erate anymore of this type of harassment, For the men of the cloth who refused hungry children and en- dorsed the deceiving torture and thelving of this fascist colony, can only be termed as prostitutes of Alloto, waiting for more of their virginity to be swept away by cor- ruption. All of these lying mis- leading, and decelving prostitutes will be dealt with by those same hungry children they have refused They are In fact supposed to be servants of the people, but their actions prove to us that they are indeed run by the Mafia, and to the Mafla we say {--k Uw Mafia, and anyone else that doesn’t rec- ognize, the necessity of feeding hungry children: And { suggest to the Holy men of thecloththat they try to follow more of the people's examples and relate to concrete examples by the people, other than bap- tizing Alioto and his band of merry hoods THESE ARE SOME OF THE CHURCHES VISITED.AND ASKED FOR USE OF FACILITIES THAT NEED ESPECIALLY TO BE EX-~ POSED TO THE PEOPLE: St. Agnes Catholic Church---The priest of this church, says that he believes in slipping food to hungry children when they are brought to him, because it's best that his congregation wouldn't think of the children at the Free Breakfast as freeloaders. He says that most of the children who are hungry is due to laziness of mothers and that he doesn't know of any hungry kids in his area. His church {ts located on Masonic and Page, the Black community, where hungry children are walking past his very church on thelr way to school, and under no pretense, because there Is no- thing pretencious about hunger. This church obviously controlled by Alfoto is 3 quarters of a city block, Feeding hungry children by slipping food tothem sounds surely like slipping away from the issue entirely, and slipping away from reality to ones own chosen starry eyed shelfishness, 'm sure the children of the Black community hope you burn in hell, and that your congregation wakes up to the fact that you are disinterested in them and the community, and most of all hungry children, First Institutional Baptist Church Rey, Evans of this church told us he didn't want to talk to us, that he didn’t want us in his bulld- ing and not to set foot on his property, He was speaking not only to the Black Panther Party, but hungry kids of the community. Last year when asked for his facilities he said he didn’t want a bunch of kids messing up his paint job. We thought surely that by 1969, this buffoon would have realized the need of feeding hungry children. Friendship All Saint's Episcopal Church The Father there not only had a barking dog but told us we couldn't use his building everyday inthe week.Then! asked what days could we use it and he told me none because of past experience of others using his property who didn’t clean up behind themselves and that he didn't have the facilities. But I'm sure that a well equipped kitchen and a dining hall can feed at least 200 children every half an hour, and in 3 hours 600 kids could be fed in his church, His other excuse, one heard too many times is, ‘I know of no hungry children in this area.’’ Hisaddress is I350 Waller St., again in the Black community. May the men of the Cloth heed to this message: Matthew, Chapter 7 Ver, 9-10. ‘Or what is there of you, whom if his son asks bread, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks of fish will he give a serpent?’ We have initiated one program at 1642 Ellis Street despite all of these refusals. We know, and the people know that by looking at the conditions that Black people are forced to live in, that it Is neces- Sary that this program survives, We serve free hot breakfast to School children every morning from 7:00 a.m, to9:00a.m. Monday thru Friday every week, so a few men of the Cloth, Alfoto and his hooded band cannot stop us from serving the people. We will sit children on the curbs of San Fran- cisco and feed them right out of our office if necessary. We are Planning to set up 10 programs alone in San Francisco, and we hope that others we come to for help will not act an a-s, Liber- ation School has been initiated on Saturdays, from 10:00 a.m, tonoon along with free lunch at 1642 Ellis Street also, so send your children to Liberation School every Satur- day, and Free Breakfast every school morning. If you can help, please call, 922-0095 at the Black Panther Party office, San Fran- cisco Branch, We need community workers, more children, food and locations, POWER TO THI Marsha YOUTH BROWNSVILLE LIBERATION SCHOOL Full of vigor and vitality, the children of Brownsville come through the door of the Black Pan- ther office (after returning from the capitalist institutions), eager to learn, Their street games after schoo! seem less important tothem now. They are more concerned about the revolution and the total Brownsville conditions; the rat infested buildings, the ragged streets, the day to daygarbageon the sidewalks, All the conditions that make up the slums, or the so- called ghetto. While they are In the bloom of life, it's very important that we educate them to the total situation FREE BREAKFAST The Romona Gardens Housing pro- ject and the surrounding area (L,A,) are building unity and power, PEOPLE'S POWER, in the first Free Breakfast for Children Pro- gram, begun by Los Siete de la Raza, LA Chapter, on Monday, September 22, 1969. Breakfast is served from 6:00 to 9:00 am every school day, All the children take an active part in the breakfast. Some chil- dren help with the vitamins, some serve milk, some serve plates, and all the children learn love and re- spect for one another by seeing how working together for the good of all means a good breakfast and a better understanding of the peo- ple and things around us. We all share at the breakfast. This is how we learn to grow strong together, With strength comes power, for unity is power-- the unity of all the children, of all the people! Our children learn that the land and everything that grows on it and comes from it belongs to the people--to all the people, not just a few Individuals. Everything the People need to be happy and strong FREE FOOD YOUNG The Young FOR THE Patriots stand arm-in-arm with our of this decadent American society; to the oppression of the Nixons, the DuPonts, the Rockefeller and all the American reactionaries. We must help them understand that the total change of this society and theirvery survival depends onthem, for it is they, themselves that make the revolution. We must also help them to understand that the world belongs to them, and that the future of all the oppressed people be- longs to them. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE LET'S EDUCATE THE YOUTH Frankye Adams Brooklyn Branch Black Panther Party really belongs to us. Now we must unite and begin to take it back, For example; chickens that lay eges, cows that give milk, apple orange, and banana trees,these are a few of the things that belong to us. So we begin with the breakfast, by taking back what Is ours from the big owners and other rich peo- ple that have been cheating us too long. The first step is the breakfast, But not until all the oppressed peo- ple come together can we really take back all that isoursand never let the rich take it away again. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Los Siete de la Raza Los Angeles Chapter PEOPLE PATRIOTS revolutionary brothers in the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords. We relate to the struggle of serving the needs of the People and beliewe whole heartecly in putting that strugele Into practice, Our food program has politically of Uptown what the people themselves have tradiction The ALL. POWER TO THE PEOPLI and practically blown th inan's claim of serving the people people themselves have seen the contradiction botween big power structure claims todo and what tt really does, The acted on thelr own power to deal with that con. - KARENGA TRUTH ABOUT “US” Ronald Everett, a self-styled, up-dated, Southern California ver- sion of an aspiring Moishe Tshombe or Papa Doc Duvalier, sits as the head of a non-descript, so-called cultural organization known as U.S. or US Born in Maryland, Everett - who calls him- self Maulana Ron Karenga - mi- grated to Southern California and attended U.C.L.A. He graduated from the Political Science Gradu- ate School witha Magna Cum Laude status, And, in1965, after the Watts uprising and just about the time of the outbreak of Poverty Programs in Southern California, he formed this band of sheep Everett is a high-volced, short- statured, eunuch-tupe who tells you that ‘US’ exists to do three things for Black people's culture: ‘Creation, Recreation, and Circu- lation. He'd tell you that Maulana, his so-called title, is a Swahili word for Master Teacher, when, in fact, this word could be translated “Prophet’’, or ‘‘God,’’ The cult of Karenga through these types of doctrines (7) thus attempts to per- petuate madness and confusion in the minds of people, keeping those silly enough to follow him (which is what they do) mesmerized and unable to tackle the real Issues that confront Black people. He is aided in this madness by [> a network of various known and unknown government pig officials, lackies, and bootlickers: He has had private meetings with Ronald Reagan, pig Governor of Califor- nia: Tom Reddin, ex-Chief of the Los Angeles Pig Department; and, in close touch regularly with the red-faced, fascist Mayor of Los Angeles, Sam Yorty, His orcani- « THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25, 1969, PAGE 9 PAPA DOC AND THE TRUTH ABOUT HAITI TODAY Haiti is only about three hours from New York by alr, but it is debatable whether Haiti ts five hundred years behind any one of the West's democracies, or one thousand, And this once richest of all the New World colonies Is drift- ing ever backward under the maga- lomaniac misguidance of Francois Duvaller, a tyrant known as‘*Papa Doc’’, A physician by profession, Duvalier did work hand-in-glove with a team of American medical experts to rid his {sland of the crippling disease of yaws, Before he assumed Presidency, he did seem the very man his country had been needing for all too long a time, But Duvaller establisheddominion over Haiti as a very different sort of doctor--a witch doctor. Trading on the credulity of his people, Papa Doc - Father and Healer of his country's ills - has made himself President for life and virtually invulnerable. His reign ts aterrifying mixture of ‘‘voudou'’ legend and gangster- style brutality, The Golden Rule of his administration: A good Duvallerist stands ready to kill his children, or children to kill their parents, zation has received funds from Bell Telephone Company (the car used to get the assassins of John Huggins and Bunchy Carter away from U.C LA last January 17th was owned by Pacific Telephone Co.), He has received funds from Standard Oil Company (The ‘‘ US" organization operates about five (5) Standard Gas Stations in the South Central Los Angeles area), He works closely with a nigger, Wal- ter Bremond, former titular head of the now defunct Black Con- gress of Los Angeles: Bremond obtained the building that housed the Black Congress (72285. Broad- way) ~ which is now an ‘‘US" cultural center - through a gov- ernment-backed agency known as the Social Action Training Cen- ter, of which he was executive director. He (Bremond) took that position after exploiting the op- pressed people of Marin County, California, as the head of a Government Housing Project. Ka- renga is also a close friend and associate of Dr. Alfred Cannon, a professional Negro bootlicker, who is a member of and has offices at the Neuro-Psychiatric Institute atU_C.L A_, andwhoalong with another bootlicker, Dr, Hi- awatha Harris, heads the (L.A ) Central City Community Mental Health Clinic, a federal govern- ment-funded agency. He is the Chairman of the Board of the Ma- fund! Institute, another Govern- ment-funded poverty program, centered around ‘so-called culture, and which institute is sponsoring the coming opening of the Watts Cultural Center, located in the heart of the Watts ghetto. (Can- non, along with his ex-girlfriend, Mary Jane Hewitt - head of the The story of Papa Doc Is tragic but terrifying, Papa Doc sitsinhis bath wearing his top hat for medi- tating: the head of his enemy Philo- genes stands on his desk; the hearse carrying another enemy's body Is stolen by the Tanton Mar- coutes at the church door; the writer Alexis is stoned to death. Haiti is the scene of a classical tragedy. On the orders of the Presideny, Lt. Albert Jerome cut Philogenes’ head off and placed it in a pall of ice, Duvaller des- patched a special airforce fighter to fetch the head, Why did Duvaller want the head delivered to him at the palace? Weird stories circu- lated around Port-au-Prince (the capital) which told of Duvalier sit- ting alone with the head for hours, trying to communicate with it. Half the revenue of the country is spent on the personal security of Papa Doc, It seems as if the final stage of tyranny, the stage of magalomania marked politically by Papa Doc's ‘‘election’’ as President for Life, has been reached, But the end cannot long be delayed, Classical tragedy de~ mands that the pendulum shall swing when it has reached the furthest point of its arc. ND THE section of financial alds office of UCLA which handles poverty program funds for ‘‘under-privi- ledged’’ students - supported Ka- renga openly when he attacked the Black Students at UCLA just before Jan, 17th. The students had said they wanted to determine the destiny of their programs (i.e. Black Studies Program), and were told by Karenga (Cannon, et. al ) that they were students and couldn't make stich decisions, and that as a teacher he could.) Cannon also sits on the Executive Boards of at least six other government- backed poverty programs in the Southern California area. The purpose being confusion, di- version, and the stifling of the liberation struggle of Black and oppressed people here in Babylon, He is a highly-skilled architect for the Pig Power Structure, and were he allowed to run rampant (his only real opposition being the Black Panther Party) would insti- tute the dictatorship of Karenga Karengaism, madness, cultism, abstract-Americanized Voudou- ism, neo-colonialism and con- tinued oppression for Black Peo- ple. This is best expressed in his own words: ‘‘We can't give the power to the people, the peo- ple don’t know what power Is yet."" Karenga who demands his fol- lowers preface and end everything they say or do with ‘All praises due to Maulana’’ is an agent of the oppressor, ruling class. (At the time he attended UCLA there was open recruitment on that campus of C 1A. employees, or agents.) His so-called cultural or- ganization Is in fact the brain- child of the Pig Power Structure: THE NAMES AND THE FACES ARE DIFFERENT BUT THE MADNESS BEING PERPETRATED IS THE SAME —— THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25, 199, PAGE 10 BOBBY SPEAKS TO SCANDINAVIA This is Bobby Seale, the Chair- man of the Black Panther Party here in America, referred to as “Babylon’’ by Eldridge Cleaver and Party members, Since Ray ‘‘Masali'’ Hewitt, the Minister of Education now, and my- self left Scandinavia, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Finland last March, quite a bit of repression against the Party has come down, Quite a bit of repression against the overall movement. here tn America has come down on the heads of progressive groups and peoples and organizations who op- pose racism in America here, who oppose exploitative capitalism led by the ruling class circles in America, who oppose the numerous atrocities of police brutality and murder. Numerous forms of repression exist here In America, not because these progressive organizations are hoodlums, or thugs, or crimi- nals, but because the programs of these organizations here in America reflect the basic political desires and needs of the poor, oppressed masses and the laboring masses here in America, The de- sires and needs are manifested in the attitudes, or they are expressed in the attitudes of the people. They have been expressed in the atti- tudes of the masses of the people, especially Black Americans, when we look back in history, the last three or four years here, and ro- member the numerous amounts of rebellions in the Black communi- tiles where poor, oppressed Black people live. The fact that Martin Luther King was murdered bya racist cannot be isolated from the overall struggle. The fact that brother Malcolm X Was murdered by some Black rac- ists, and these Black racists were paid off by the ruling class to mur- der him is not separable from the overall revolutionary struggle here in America, The fact that James Rector was murdered near the campus by a fascist policeman, recently here, is not to be separ- ated from the movement. The fact that there exists, right now, some Brown brothers in this very same jail that I'm in--the Brown broth- ers known as Los Siete de la Raza (this is a Spanish term that I can't pronounce very well), But they are Latino peoples who are descend- ants of Latin Ameican peoples who live here intheir communities, The fact that they are sitting here in jail, some six of them, errone- ously charged with murdering a policeman, is not to be separated from the movement. I think that, though, for peopleto grasp a real understanding is that seemingly they're going to have to search harder, as Jorgen our friend from Denmark did, by com- ing here and living here with the Black Panther Party, around the Black Panther Party members, in our homes and in our offices, and also visiting other organizations such as the Red Guard of Chinese Americans in San Francisco and other progressive student organi- tations, The fact that he searched out and came here and saw for himself and was in fact arrested in the middle of a courtroom and placed in jail here for a few days and Was sentenced to Sdays, simply because upon leaving the court | had given the clinched fist salute (which means power to all the peo- ple) and he returned that salute when the sheriffs were taking me back into the jaf) out of the court- room, He was arrested along with another Panther Party member, brother Jymbo. And he was placed and confined In these jails for some five days and then returned to court He had been here for some three or four months. And iknow he hada chance to observe a lot, Ne hada chance to actually, infact, observe the repression that’s being placed against the Party. He had a chance to feel the need to denounce the atrocious actions of this fascist government and their running dogs, their pigs, And in turn, he's able to return to Denmark, after being de- ported, and report to the people there at his home and in other Scan- danavian countries (and hopefully in many other European countries) --report to them really, in fact, what was taking place in America, what he observed, what he had seen, and what and HOW In fact HE was affected by being here, The news media, the UPIand As- sociated Press, international news hook-ups or link-ups, block the truth about what's happening in America, Nixonand his regime (his federal agents, and the CIA, and the rest of their lying, tricking, misleading, slick politicians and dogs) make it a point not to allow the masses of other European peo- ples (Danish, or what have you) to become aware of what's really go- ing on here in America, They do not want people to become aware that racism is rampant in America They do not want people to become aware that Black people are suf- fering and Brown people are suf- fering. They do not want people to understand that now some 30 mil- lion Black people, some 16 or 17 million Chicanos (known as Mexi- can American people), some 5 1/2 or 6 million Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and other colored peo- ples--they do not want the people to be aware that the government itself (on the federal level, on the state level, and on the local city and county levels)perpetrates and maintains racism in America Many accuse the Black Panther Party of being Black racists, But I'm quite sure that the Scandana- vian peoples are much more aware and more intelligent than that, es- pecially when Ray ‘Masal’’ Hewitt and myself, representing the Par- ty, came and gave a number of Speaking engagements throughout Scandanavia; and some press re- ports were given. And we explained that the Black Panther Party isnot a racist organization, that we do not practice racism, that we oppose racism wholly, thoroughly, res- olutely, andcompletely, simply be- cause after 400 years of oppres- sion, the system of slavery, and then so-called being ‘‘emanci- pated’’ from that era, and 100 years later Black people have still suf- fered under racism, Black peo- ple suffer under racism inthe form of being oppressed and being poor, where 50% of the people are unem- ployed, where there is no free medicine in the Black communi- ties, where 70, 80, and 90% of the policemen have been doubled, tripled, and quadrupled in the last three or four years inevery major city wherever Black people live. These policemen actually occupy our communities in the same man- ner that American G.!'s are sent to occupy or attempt to occupy Vietnam, These forms of oppression that we oppose or have been opposing for years are being made clearer evoryday to the people, And MOST important, what's being made clear everyday to the people (and not only Hlack people, but even progress! ve white peoples and students, etc.) are being made clear to them in the manner that the Party has been going about to get rid of the rul- ing class circles, the demagogic politicians, the avaricious busl- nessman, and the running dogs (the fascist plg cops), the true enemies of all the people in Amert- ca who maintainand perpetuate racism Looking at the repression, and knowing it, and understanding it, and suffering from it, we become political prisoners when we teach the people the correct and strate- gic methods by which to combat the very oppression that we suf- fer under, When the Black Panther Party teaches Black people that we will not fight racism with any more racism, but we'll fight it with some solidarity, and Black people begin to see positive steps being made on the part of other peoples besides themselves to oppose the fascist ruling class in America, then the fascist ruling class, in turn, sends down the brutal cops armed with machine guns, .357 magnums, which isa very powerful weapon (one of those weapons could kill 10 people lined up together), armed with riot shotguns, magnum shotguns, mind you. They send them down to surround our bulld- ings and our offices, attack our offices and attack members of the Black Panther Party, arrest us, and make political prisoners. They send in agents amongst our ranks, who are Black, working for the fas- cists, to get up and Ile, to be bought out, and to tell gross falsities against the Party to try ultimately and wholly to suppress the idea of the Black Panther Party, the idea not of just the Black Panther Par- ty, but the idea of the people. And that idea is manifested in their baste desire to be free of ex- ploitation and oppression, Wherever a people move against one who has made a spear to fight- ing the people, and these people begin to move without fear because they’ ve developed a shield, then the able to work to live,’’ That made more sense to me than any slogan or form or statement that any demagogic, lying politiclan had made throughout the past years or words that I heard of or Ideas that I heard of throughout the per- tod of time when I went to school and read the books that spout off notions of what freedom ts all about--vague, wordy, verbose no- tions, But freedom means more than just some words that sound beauti- ful. Number 10 of the Ten Point Platform and Program ofthe Black Panther Party states basically that we want land, we want bread, we want housing, we want education, we want clothing, we want justice, and we want peace. It states that and the objective of the Black Panther Party is to teach the people the strategic methods of resisting the power structure so that we can make that a reality, make those basic desires and needs a reality. In the process of teaching the people, educating the people, we’ ve had to take a stand that we would defend ourselves, After Malcolm X had been murdered, after Medger BOBBY SEALE fascists will take those spears to knock out the leaders of the rank and file of the people, The fascists do not want an idea to become a reality, un idea of the people to be free from oppression, to becomea reality. Because that would be the end of the ruling class circles; that would be the end of the demagogic politicians and the avaricious busi- nessmen, In fact, in America, when colored peoples and other poor, oppressed peoples (white, blue, black, green, yellow, polkadot,or whathave you), when they become free, with dignity as human beings, with the idea of living ina societywhere mankindis developed to a level where explol- tation of man by man, where mur- der of man by man, where antag- onistic contradictions inanysocie- ty begin to cease, then we will know then that there exists what Is known as ‘‘proletarian power,'’ peoples’ power, workers’ power, a proletarian democracy, whereas long as the capitalistic ruling class are alle to maintain exploitative capitalistic democracy for asmall minority few, the ruling class, then we, the masses of the people who want government of the people, by the people, and for the people (and that simply means power to the people}--we the masses will con- tinue to struggle to make those ideas of freedom, fustice, and equality a real reality here in America Huey P, Newton, when he started the Black Panther Party, along with the Ten Point Platform and Pro- gram | remember him making a statement that, ‘Every human be- ing on the face of the earth has & right to live: therefore he has a right to work, because he must be Evers had been murdered by rac- ists, with Martin Luther King being murdered since the Black Panther Party's been organized, after all the atrocious formsof brutality, we realize from the past experience of atrocities against people in move- ments and organizations who've been literally beaten and brutalized and murdered by the racists and fascists in this country, we real- ized that it was necessary forusto defend ourselves. That experience was bables in Birmingham in a church, praying, being bombed That experience was young Black men and civil rights workers, Black and White, down South try- Ing to change the overt racism there who were actually murdered And pot only defend ourselves physically, but the concept was broader than just defense. The con- cept was the people, We the masses have to defend ourselves against the very oppression that we suffer the hunger, the lack ofdecent hous- ing fit for shelter of human belngs defending ourselves against the gross unemployment that we're Subjected to; defending ourselves against the miseducation that we received in the schools, the rac- ist education; defending ourselves against the injustices of the courts here in America; defending our. selves against ali of these things, And such an organization, — political organization as the Hlack Panther Party, went forth to teach the people the need to organize and amass in the communities and tO protest and use their basic democratic rights. We didn’t pick up guns illegally; we picked up guns legally, by the Constitution of the United States (the second amendment that states that every person has the right to bear arms) and no malitia or force can in- fringe. You're not allowed to in- fringe upon that right, And we do not attack anyone. We only picked the weapons up because there were so many cases of brutality and murder of Black people throughout the history of our existence here in America, If I had a book inhere at the time, I could sit down easily and do research and tally up all the murders in the last year. And I'd be willing to bet that those mur- ders in the last year on the part of racists against Black people in America would tally up wellovera thousand throughout the country In the Black communities, just of Black people, And that’s not to say that Mexican Americans or Chicano people don’t suffer. They do suffer in the same manner, The Black Panther Party's of- fices, since we’ ve come back from Scandinavia, of the 39 chapters that we now have, practically everylast one of them have been raided and/or attacked two, three, or four times by police forces in particular cities and communities wherevera Black Panther Party office ts. Black Panther Party members have somewhere In the area of be- tween 215 and 250 cases right now, ranging anywhere from the rightto sell a newspaper (being arrested from just selling a newspaper) to trumped up charges of murder, We’ ve been attacked and we’ ve done our best to defend. And we not only defend in the matter of fact that we have to use weapons some- times when we are attacked unjust- ly by fascist pigsand other racists, But we defend ourselves by educat- ing and giving the truth to the people, to the masses ofthe people, not only here in America but around the world. The press, UPI, and Nixon--- When. I was speaking and during the tour of Scandanavia and speak- ing there, I came back home and found out that every statement that we'd made representing the Party, representing the real situation here in America and the movement and the struggle here in America, that every bit of ithad been blocked by UPI (United Press International) and AP (Associated Press), andit did not reach the people back here. And only when I had returned here did they print the statement thatwe had constantly made that we had known for a fact was the situation, and that statement was, “Black capitalism breeds more Black racism,’* That was Nixon's pro- gram, and he did not want you, the people of Scandinavia, to be aware of the fact thathe, asa mem- ber of the ruling class circles of this country, was perpetuating a& capitalist system; and capitalism is intertwined with racism and that in fact is perpetuating racism even amongst Blacks. The Blacks, of course, have become aware that the Black Panther Party's newspaper ts being circulated throughout the country, They become aware that capitalism Black capitalism, isnot going to do us any good, that we're only maintaining an exploita- tive system with a very small few, less than I§ Black capitalists, con- tinuing the very exploitation that we've suffered from slavery to now Huey P, Newton, our Minister of Defense and founder of the Black Panther Party, ts still a political Prisomer, Charles Bursey apd Cleveland Brooks have just been recently made political prisomers within the last three or four weeks here in California’ The Connecti- cut Panther leadership are alsoon the same tromped up charges that t om of now. Thare are political Prisoners, Including Langon Wil- ams and Rory, whe are being bold In = Deaver, © Colorado now, CONT. ON PG ——— te — eet s < on at be - — a SES ieee =~ | + am CONNIE MATTHEWS AT SAN JOSE STATE POWER TO THE PEOPLE. I you are about repression in the ‘United States. wonder whether you people really do understand what's I have to ask myself cone Question because in 1967 there a World Tribunal which was in Roskilde in Denmark and the world condemned the ‘United States for the atrocities committed in Vietnam and found ar guilty of war crimes and the States said - Later for the roy World, because we rule the World. (At was” announced on the news that there would be demonstrations to- morrow against the war and Nixon said this morning that it makes no difference to his strategy in those millions of people in Asia, Africa and Latin America, because you are covertly condoning what the administration is doing. Because power must belong to the people. You are responsible for that ad- ministration being in power and just demonstrating and marching and saying - We don’t dig this - won't do any good to anyone. Now, you know the Black Pan- ther Party started off and we said that we understood that this thing was a class struggle. We under- stood that there are Black people who are pigs and we understood that there are white people who are pigs. What we are trying to say is that we want a United Front of all ethnic oppressed groups, regard- less of race, color, creed or what have you, because the ultimate aim is to overthrow this establishment, Sartre said that Europe the dying mother of capitalism gave birth to a monster, imperialism, and this is the United States of America. i CONNIE MATTHEWS ‘Now, I am not trying to negate or to diminish the efforts that you are making in holding these dem- onstrations. What I am trying to say to you is that the time has come when we have to move in another direction. We have to un- derstand that by peaceful demon- strations, by trying to negotiate, that we are not going to get any- where, We have to understand that the struggle at this moment Is a world struggle, it's a world pro- letarian struggie; two things - the oppressed versus the oppres- sor, You have to understand that we must stop talking in terms of countries, we have to talk about internationalism because the United States has now gone to the moon, they will go to Mars, they will go to Venus next, so that it is not just a question anymore of the planet earth, And you want to take a trip around the world and visit some of the countries | have visited to see what American im- perialism has done. Eldridge Cleaver, our Minister of Infor- mation, in his last article from exile, ‘which is in the last Issue of our newspaper (there are some coples ae) has stated that the oppression in the United States, and the way that people live in ghettos here is as \f you have been placed in silk sheets compared to what American imperialism has done in the other countries of the world, Now whenever the Vietnamese fight, and they are fighting, and they have won the war, they are fighting for you here, You have to under- stand this and I use Chairman ag Seale’s statement - We are the belly of the whale here - you have to do your thing be- aakas 900 & are helping to enslave You have to understand that what the Black Panther Party Is doing is for you and for the rest of the world, Now you have to rally be- hind the Black Panther Party andto support the Black Panther Party. It's o.k. when a bunch of niggers get out on the streets and say we hate all White people, Nixon an- dorses this, Nixon endorses Black capitalism, because he knows that what he is going to do Is to geta few .so-called elite Black. Pe0- ple and create yet another division and this is why lam gladlam talk- ing to a group of students and the thing that I notice is that there are over 400 Black students here at San Jose State and that none of these students thought that the war in Vietnam has anything to do with them or else they would be in this goddamned room. And they should understand that those Vietnamese are fighting and dying for them, Now, to get back to the point, Nixon believes that by brainwash- ing you students, because you are the ones who are going out to- morrow to continue what Nixon has brainwashed you into believing everything is o.k, You have got to get hip to this thing, because you are the ones who are going to be the leaders and the establishment tomorrow, you are going to be the bank managers, members of the administration and al! the rest of it and you have got to get hip to the fact that you cannot allow this thing to continue. You have got to get hip to the fact that what the Black Panther Party wants isto take the wealth from out of the hands of the few, and it ts only controlled by about 250 people who run the world, This seemsabsurd, but there are only about 250 to 300 big capitalists in this country, ON THE VIETNAM MORATORIU They are the ones who put who they want in power, they are the ones who control and rule the world and say what should be done in this country and for that matter the world. Now the future rests with you people who are here today. You can see what has been going on in Chicago and I can tell you that the so-called mother country radicals have been a disap- pointment. I was in Court there and they don’t take this thing seri- ously. They do not understand that the trial in Chicago, the outcome, will set the precedence in the United States as to whether the people have any freedom or not. They seem to think this Is all a big joke, with Abbie Hoffman doing sommersaults in Court and all that kind of bulls--t. Now, I am saying you have had what Is known as group freedom and you are trying to find individual freedom. We are all one people, this Is all one country, in fact in the whole world weareall one people, sountil everyone has known what group freedom is you are not going to be able to exist in your hipple and yipple societies with individual freedom, And I am saying that over the last six months Nixon has launched a massive repression against the Black Panther Party that Is unheard When I have spoken in other countries, like Scandinavia, France, Germany or even England, people find it hard to believe that America, and peo- ple like you can sit here and watch this sort thing happening and you do about it. Chairman Bobby Seale, at the beginning of his trial in Chicago was sick, and he wasn't allowed to haveadoctor, he has no lawyer, he has no rights he is unable to defend himself, because Charles Garry, his lawyer, is lying on his back in the hospital right here in Cali- fornia, and because he ts a Black Man it doesn’t matter. He shouldn't have anyone to defend him, I am now saying to you here, that I do not think you are trying hard enough, I don’t think you under- stand fully what's going on, I think you need to get out of your bag and your safe complacency in these colleges, I think you need to go and work in those communities, but before you go into the commun- ities and propagate the wrong ideology, arm yourselves with the right ideology, understand what the struggle is about, It is the op- pressed against the oppressor. You middle-class people, because I do not believe that any of you here are capitalists, there are only about 300, you are definitely in a vacuum and you are golngto have to take sides at some stage or other and make sure that you take the right side, because if you don’t you are not going to have any Place to go, because the people must win, The Vietnamese are a good ex- ample of the people being vic- torlous, Because with all of A- merica's technology and her greatness she has been unable to defeat the Vietnamese, Every man, woman and child has resisted, You want to see what Is going on in Vietnam, All the men have had to go to the front and you should see how those women and children safeguard their villages. It ispro- bably very difficult for you in the middle of all this to see itclearly, but this is why you have the greatest responsibility, The people who understand what is wrong, because it has to come from within as well as from outside. We have a petition for com- munity control of police, and those of you who are not familiar with it, get yourself familiar with it, because this Is one of the ways in which we are trying to get the power back Into the hands of the people. Here on your colleges you have these demonstrations and you go about saying that you don’t want THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25, 1969, PAGE I this and you don’t want that, and you want this and you want that, and then you sit down and you say you have won, You haven't won anything because you must realize that the people who control the col- leges are the same people who were put there because they have power in the communities, So your job Is in the communities, The two things are tied up together. Don’t try to put them In compartments. 1 think the time has come for all you young people here in the United States to take a look at yourselves, Look inside first, Try and grasp what the Black Panther Party Is trying to do, try and understand how many lives we have lost, be- cause we are trying to educate you, We are the Vanguard because of 400 years, of sweat, blood toll and tears. But we are not going to start the revolution, it's when you people are educated fully that this thing Is going to have to hap- pen, and I am trying to say that if you sit by In this complacency you know what will happen? - This so-called United States of Ameri- ca was built up at the expense of genocide of 50 million Indians and you people have romanticized It and called it ‘‘Cowboys and In- dians’’, Think about that s--t, Six million Jews were murdered and people sat by and didn't believe it was happening. You sit by now and understand that this is hap- pening right here, and that the power {ts in your hands, because you are the people so this country belongs to you, so you are the ones who are going to have to stop it and you are going to have to stop it not just by concentrating on one aspect but all facets of what's going on, What 1 am trying to say is, educate yourselves, in turn educate your people, the people in the communities. Whenever you go out you talk about it, You talk about the whole thing, the reason why they divided us up into eth- nic groups, into races, because as Fanon has said - capitalism and racism - one is cause and the other effect, They did not bring Black people over from Africa as slaves because we were Black, They brought Black people over s0 capitalism could thrive, When capitalism reached its highest form - imperialism - they had to define methods to keep the divisions. The United States is advancing so rapidly technologically, that most of you will become redun- dant, you will have no jobs and in fact nothing. The dollar at present is worth only about 75 cents, and all you people here who live on credit cards, watch It. They have you hoodwinked, If you have been watching the stock mar- ket and the world monetary fund system, they have told you that the German mark is floating. There are no changes, While the German mark is floating the dollar has de- creased and watch - over the next six months or so what will happen. You are the ones who are going to feel it most. Not the poor op- pressed people, because they have nothing anyway. But you in the mid- dle, who think you have some thing, who have those bills and those $20,000 houses, you are the ones who are going to find out that the mortgage or interest or whatever it is that you are going to have to pay back ts about twice what you thought originally. Get yourself hip to all this, do some research, you are the students, get with it and educate your peo- ple because the Black Pan- ther Party Is out there inthe front, but we can't stay out there in the front forever. We will stay until everyone of us is killed or im- prisoned by these racist pigs, but then someone will have to take over, So don't let us all die in vain, POWER TO THE PEOPLE CHAIRMAN BOBBY SPEAKS 10 SCANDINAVIA CONTINUED FROM — PG.10 This whole schemingoperation(with very skimpy Information now--and we're investigating now as hardas we can--of the recent bust and the recent attack of erroneously charging myself and other Party members with some so-called murder) ts part and parcel ofa plot by the U.S, government, along with local authorities and state-wide authorities In California and In Connecticut, to try and rid them- selves of the Black Panther Party, to try and rid themselves, really in fact, of the ideas that the peo- ple are taking hold of: the idea to have land, bread, housing, edu- cation, clothing, justice, and peace, That's an idea now; it’s not a reality with the masses of the peo- ple. Some 60 to 70 million people live below subsistence in America, They know it and we know it, And it's high time that the Scandinavian peoples and ,other Eurppean peo- ples become aware of it and know it. The American embassies sit in your countries giving you jive notions of their being some so-— called freedom" here in Ameri- ca. There has NEVER been any freedom in America for Black people, There has NEVER beenany _ freedom in America for Brown people, There has NEVER beenany freedom in America for American Indians, There has NEVER been any freedom in America even for poor, oppressed white people, liv- ing below subsistence, The ruling class Is exploitive. I’ ve heard about high taxes in your country, too. But there are taxes here that are used by the fascist, pig power structure that are taken up and put in the pockets ofavarictous businessmen who build war materials to create war around the country to get rid of that surplus, that surplus of raw materials. We could go on and on and on. But it’s high time thatthe peo- ple of. the | world unite. It's high time that the people of the world make a reality of what the Black Panther Party tried to put forth when we were there last March, when we in fact stated (and we have always practiced) the following: that we will not fight racism with more racism; we'll fight racism with solidarity. We'll fight capital- {sm and Black capitalism with some socialism; and we'll fight im- perialism, with some proletarian internationalism. And we'll fight imperialism, right here tn Ameri- ca, with the same. Domestic imperialism, meaning fascism, has made its appearance here In America, No, there aren't 6 million of us going to the gas chambers, YET, But there are mil- lions of us in prisons, But why should we wait ‘till 6 million go to the gas chamber or 20 million go to the gas chamber, or fifty million go to the gas chamber? Why should we walt? We say that we should end it now, because the police forces have been doubled, tripled, and quadrupled through- out America, The running dogs of the fascist pig power structure will tend. to commit genocide against the poor, oppressed mass- es of the people in America. And we can’t stand for it because our idea is to be free from oppression that we've been subjected to for hundreds of years by the fascist ruling class of America. We say, free Huey, free all po- litical prisoners, and free the people, POWER TO THE PEOPLE BOBBY SEALE o qs A@dress of the Black Panther Party, USA To the Internation Tasks of Journalists rid in Their Fight st Axc- September 32, 199 leaver reetings mrad We Seepiy tx sred to ha deen invited ¢ articipats thi Bistoric conference the of Journalists he Whole is their ight aca t I cferet be ‘ 4 the acr be be feild . greciatt , ant h am people for making us w« | aking our s be a me at a a . , ’ a i Work ‘ _ ate 4 ¥ ‘ ‘ e . t : . ei a n-« oe : 5 ” f. _ : - ¢ . : f erica ej “et - enter of o tutrhe w & cosses { oe _ a 7 a vara vation scais : 3 isa _ : : att ne : ; ' ‘ y, f , price ie atire f tie fing places ot (the ane ardling Jead-conter ye Che be ye, we find the Units fates af Americe tear aad imyperialleare ‘A te the enemy of a hermmaenity, the » *e ah o06 tatbar of evpiAtet amd Prenat and chief perveyor of dasth ant Geetirowrticnn s weer the plenet eurth We thine ther ( rade KI Gang. the hevatcor and Leader of the 40 million heroic Korean por Pie, Bee Oy CGeacrited tf fr periaiiam th Me ihigeing word of beeper F hater a the ter heroes thd wrt! shameoleatag greseor of motern times ant the fehefain of worl! imperial Ba place of earth id cheer of the tantaries of seafeericm at retehed an by U4 teperiaiion a cena dy ia trae from the mendoce ot US jenperiaiiet pegreadion, 8 teeperhaliaen orients its (atone Of seni eesicn & atl parte ard ati a countries of the world--Asia and i we, Africa and Latin America tég and small countries. he Ut fascist imperialists seek to justify their aggression with a smokescreen of spreading Democracy throughout the world and helping to defend democratic within various countries y being threat- ened by external mies. Behind the facade of lerding assistance democratic governments against the aggression and threat of ‘The mimunist Menace the U S im- pertalist aggressc in fact, ) and destruction all rvating, arming, pping up the most stic, anti-democratic ap ~& ar suppose spreading dea the world has ever he us fully hypocriti the American people themsecive nillior mized black people inside the United States have o tet and have been struggling ter the yoke for 4 years and ve © er known a shred of that a cht impertall xs | upor t bey f one = white p« i ar rekl ‘ . ar ard dhe e Unite is aft n hing at the arde ‘ , t ‘ huge rit ar st boots ! a ; ' he pec wee + se ar te ‘ " La et i wt ‘ t t wes t b ‘ 2 t rT rT is a ‘ be | ‘ te Py . pe piile Uw f . 2 t it f ared 4 t » s : + = e 4% fu fu apanese : ‘ f { I ‘ : he « ’ per. a re ‘ . P 4 th he aus *yv ate ; _ mph of world “ diet« for tar bel {ttle efit side the Unite: fates bot it ia a mistake for the revolutionary pec { the world to fall into his ame traj The truth is that ther Is & sound revolutionary ont Ineide the United Blales that has already tasted the blood f the hated clase enemy ahd ls Jolivering Geathblows to its syste snd ote locked irretrievaldy tn » teatile to the death against the fascist imperialiet regime he revolutionary forces inside the United Mates must be aut ported ty the revolutionary peoples whee world, because whereas the peoples outside of the United ates will alice off the ten tackle ft the hedicous octopus of omreselm, the revole timation ineide the United States vi wt ite wicked heart and give the detleive death tlow te t feaciom and imperiailer The revolutionary forces inaide the United Mates ardently desire the cloeeet poseitie working re jationatip vith wr comredoe srinaed (he world ao thet together we Can proEram the destruction of thee ehem y we folly saree wilh) thw theme of this sonlerenee, that the tack before us is the total annihilation f perialiam, particularly U.S rialism, because for us this will mean the victory of soclal- ism and the end to the fascist state under which we now suffer omrade Kim 1] Sung, in the great tradition of grand stra leg forefront of the struggle for the liberation of all humanity, has put forth the correct tactical line for the universal de- struction of fasciam andimpe ism tn our ime, particularly t imperialise We know also that our enemy cannot be fought only In the streets of Babylon, for be Is International by nature, We therefore join hands with the revolutionary peoples of the whole world in our joint In- ternal al struggle to defeat US imperialism The Black Panther Party op poses all groups, organizations, and governme that support or fail to condemn U.S imperialist aggression and support and re- stand with all growps, or- ganizations, and governments that condemn and oppose U_S. imperial- ist aggression cause US Imperialism ag- ses in the name of the silent nasses, murders in the name of ose who do not shout out In con- demnation, and stands before the world drunken with the blood of Its victims in the name of those who fall to makea clear and visible line of demarcation between them- : this dreadful en y through their invisible on instigate and abet [ T and imperialist ag- for the revolution to ertalist na- Se the im. tions themselves jown the borders « nations and des wf their mo' This by the stepping up of y activity inside ofthe nations--particularly United States of slaves of Imperialism side of the house of pick up guns against imperialists to make common aus ith the revolutionary peo s of the whole world, we know b that the days of the imperialists are numbered ince the { lmperialists are always 50 pleased to send United Nations troops into other people's land, we s ho reason why they should object to the Black Panther Party calling for United Nations troops and Observer Teams to be stationed inside the United States to halt the aggression of the troops of their ruling class against black people and other oppressed people and) fhalt the persecution and murder of the oppressed peoples and their leaders The U.S tmpertalists are fond of using oucl@ar weapons to threaten and intimidate the revolutionary peoples and the liberation movements, Butwe declare thal the nuclear weapons of the United tates are null and vold because if they use them at all they will have to drop them on their own cities of New York, Washington, D.C., Cileago, Detroit, San Fran- cleco, Los Angeles, and many other cities The American people them- selves are rising up to destroy the U.S fasciet imperialist sys- tem We stand for the evacuation of all Yankee tinperiallet troops from the many areas of the worldwhere they store thelr muderous weapons and machines of war with whieh they seek to dominate the peo. vies of the world in their nell. appointed role of Superman and Pollee Man of the world, The troops of UG lmpertaliam must be driven owt of Vietnam and the US linperialliete trust make restitution for the material de- struction they have criminally per- petrated against the sove reign peo- ple of Vietnam, And the US im- perialists must pay a blood-debt before a revolutionary tribunal for the vicious, sadistic, cruel, and In- human slaughter of the Vietnamese people The US Imperialist aggressors must withdraw their troops from the sacred soil of the Korean peo- ple or be driven into the sea by the fire and wrath of the people The Korean people must be left absolutely alone to unify their country on the basis which seems best sulled to them for their peace, prosperity, and happiness, The Korean people have clearly stated, through their heroic leader Kim ll Sung, that the unification of their Fatherland is the number one priority on their list, Therefore the U.S. impertalists must, get out of South Korea immediately so that this industrious people can get on with the more worthier task of socialist construction of their country The US Imperialist invaders must evacuate Guantanamo Bay and leave the revolutionary people of Cuba alone, The tyrannical and rapacious blockade mounted by the power-drunk and cowardly busi- hessmen of the United States, must be smashed, Cuba, the first out- post of freedom in the Western Hemisphere, whose heroic people have stood firm under the threat of U.S imperialist aggression; who have met U.S Imperialist pup- pet aggression of the shores of Playa Glron and defeated {t In 72 urs. Cuba, whose sons and daughters have lef their homes, their jobs and schools and have moved to the cane fields of Cuts to resolutely fight against the criminal economic blockade im- posed against the people of Cuta by U.S. Imperialism The U.S. imperialist aggressors must cease thelr role of merchants of death and destruction who ar cullty of financing and arming and protecting the arrogant, nazi-like, Zionist landgrabbers who have wu- Ssurped and plundered the Father- land of the Palestinian people The U.S, imperialistage rs must be routed and expropriated throughout the continents of Africa, , apd Latin America. Their support of the fascist government f Portugal in Its fascist op of overthrown, Their support of the racist settler regimes of Southern Rhodesia and South Africa must be stopped. And their support for the boot-licking puppet regimes that open up their countries for neo- colonial rape, must be defeated, The vamplre’s kiss of death which the US. imperialists have placed on the economies and governments and peoples of Latin America must be docistvely re- pudiated and the Latin American people must be left alone to follow the path to the future being blazed for them by Socialist Cuba, out of the swamps of stagnation, hu- millation, and suffering into the sunshine of prosperity and peace and true independence, The U.S. imperialist aggressors must be forced to abandon their hopeless and desperate schemes and maneuvers to control and dom- inate the people of Laos, Cam- bodia and every other Inch of earth thal Uwey have stolen. The degenerate and brazen polley of rearming and pushing forward the Japanese and Weat ee milltarists must be roughly exposed a aa talene nd confronted The 90-called President of the United States, Mehard PIG Nixon je the spokesman and frontman for U.8 faselam and the arch- enemy of oppressed tlack people, poor white people, Muatean. American people, Indians, Puerto ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Minister Of Information Black Panther Party U.S.A. ene . SOLIDARITY OF THE PEOPLES NTIL VICTORY OR DEATH! *s inside the curses visit their when he was Vice Pre fascisr and imperialtscr rican ruling ruling class can be changed smashed. You can fr cist s after the bou r from wu forces ' possible, imperialists Was believe in Peaceful wiistence, Peace to them ts only an Interlude during which to prepare for war Coming from tnside the United States Itself, we know with ab- solute certainty that the US im- perlalists are feverishly preparing for continued oppression and all- out war against the people of Asia, Africa and Latin America, but o«- pecially the peoples of Asia whom thay regard insanely as the Number One threat to their con- tinued control and domination of Te the peoples of Asia, Africa, aod Latin America, We cannot rejoice } over an impertalist impoeed stale- =" mate tn hurope and call it peace, while the revolution has yet to be *S made in many parts of Europe and my while Asta, Africa, and Latin A. awh merica are being dreached ip ' ¥ x , » diood "ee We declare cur beljef that just an the war in Vietoam, which the US impertaliets have criminally unleashed, saw the turning point revolutionary violence by Mack people amd other oppressed peo- pie within the United States the oatbreak of anew war ink either milemned or perticips by the murderous roops ofthe US imperialist aggressors, will beac- companied by an escalation of revolutionary class violence by the oppressed people withia the very ad And we, s would [ike a hat the ‘ 4 aa f _ - = a. . r ‘ ~4 ad the t ex sing ex f ‘ faactat f apita ry 2 a 2 r o and pertalist ag- ‘ defend th on tm . r ft © gal tr € tion and the wars of na Hor “ Ae and ¢ r give eaning be ‘ ¢ that the pen | ct b x Up » We nes . 2 s, and books = © make r K Uf a 5 . = . ’ ‘ + * ne * need ha ak he Her 2 . arines and t words that * . acuat uth al : peria ag © around the w $- we need ’ etur th 5 & \ f is abd muy s ecVese many ts of th bet us and } also our sacred duty to expose the guta of cootre = withis our own came Armchair revole- tlomaries +> teceive the peaple, soctalist countries al are joago® theory aad abort on practice, must also come under the ecaipels of cer pens, and we must never eQulvate in the face of this agored Guty bo matter what the price or conse- Qveaces Better to remain sifeet than to wtter halfitrwtte oF ftrrelevant generalities *hich leave loopholes for thowe to eoape who rightfully shoald te condemned for dere- liction WW duly ty awe who ate still wagtng life Or Geath struggics for the Tiberetion ant security of their peopte ALL. POWER TO THE PROPLE? LOS 10 MILLIONS VANI SOLIDARITY OF THE PROPLES UNTIL VICTORY OF DEATH AND A SPEEDY DEATH TOUS IMPERIALISM AND PASCISMI THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25, 1969, PAGE 4 Pyongyang Declaration of the Journalists of the Whole World in Their Fight against the Aggression of U.S. Imperialism The International Conference on the Tasks of Journalists of the Whole World in Their Fight a- Inst the Aggression of U.S, Im- lism was held in Pyongyang, capits! of the Democratic e's Republic of Korea, from the 18th to the 24th of Septem- ber 1960. The Conference has been at- tended .by the members of 114 tions from 90 countries of the continents of the world, and representatives of 13 inter- Mational democratic organizations, $21 In all. The holding of a meeting of om representatives of the if eh epee press to discuss r common tasks of @truggle against U.S. imperialist ~ 9a ats — moment aggression and war ma- @iinations of U.S. imperial the vicious enemy of mendind, as never. of anti-imperialist struggic of the journalists of the whole Conference, which was held der the militant banner of anti- .5. alism and was pervad- with the resolute anti-imperial- psig S. imperialist stand and militancy of the 1 be a bombshell Sopra occasion for fur- atren, ng thelr interna- tional solidarity. and co-operation end enhancing their revolutionary fole In the struggle for the cause of justice. We perticneasss {n the Confer- ence ly denounced with burning indignation the and war machinations resolutely fight to the end against lism and colonialism bead- ed by US. imperialism. We are also filled with the de- ala eee ed ee jalism, wi 5 gainst the latter. oer Qurs is an era of impetuous revolution in which the strong current of world revolution ex- pands Ifke a flood, an era of great s' le in which -al] the exploited les and ressed nations in the liberation struggle, an cra of pevoenicnssy tempest. sweeping away imperial- ism and colonialism from the sur- face of the world, A fierce struggle is toda ni on In the International ay Soe tween socialism and imperialism, between the revolutionary forces and the counter-revolutionary for- ces, between the forces of peace and the forces of war, and in the course of this struggle the anti- imperialist revolutionary forces of the world continue to grow in triumph while imperialism heads towards bankruptcy. Today the banner of socialism flutters over the vast continents of the globe. The emergence of the world's first socialist state—the Soviet Union—hias opened up the path fo the present might of the so- cialist countries, and the socialist countries are exerting an impor- tant influence on the struggle ol the people against U.S. imperial- ism. The socialist countries are ep military, economic and echnical co-operation to the coun: tries liberated from colonialism and imperialism in verious parts of the world. The peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America, who have for cent been oppressed and plundered by Western capitalism and imperialism, have resolutely risen and taken their place on the complete liberal * ence. stage of history, and are courage- ously fighting to liberate them- selves and consolidate the revolu- tionary gains already achieved. The national-liberation move- ment of hundreds of millions of people, together with the revolu- onary struggle of the interna- tional working class for socialism, constitutes a great revolutionary force of our t ; The struggle of the working people in capitalist countries for democracy and socialism is in high gear and deals continuous blows at imperialism, undermin- ing it from within. The socialist countries, the na- tional-liberation movements and the revolutionary struggle of the working class against the oppres- sion and exploitation of capital are united into one mighty stream that carries imperialism to its | grave. Imperialism has been consider- ably weakened as a result of the powerful advance of the anti-im- rialist, revolutionary forces and he collapse of the colonia] sys- tem. Contradictions within impe- rialism are becoming acute and antagonisms among the imperial- ist powers are intensified. Imperi- alism headed by U.S. imperialism is being hit and torn to pleces from all sides and driven ever deeper into blind impasse. No force can ever check the development . of the history of mankind in hich socialism Is En victorious and imperial. ism ‘oing down to defeat, in which all des of enslavement and oppression are being liquidat- les are achievin; n and ras rca ed and the aggressive and subversive ‘ma- noeuvres against the socialist countries. Above all, the U.S. imperialists are viciously manoeuvring to swallow one by one small cour tries, or those that are divided, such as Viet Nam, Korea and Cuba. The U.S. imperialists contimue their criminal aggressive war a- gainst the Vietnamese people. The U.S. imperialists who ignit- ed a criminal aggressive war in Korea 19 years ago, are recklessly trying to unleash another ag- gressive war Ye the Korean people. The U.S. imperialists are making frantic efforts to strangle the Republic of Cuba. The U.S. imperialists are brut- ally suppressing the national-lib- eration struggle of the Asian, African and Latin American peo- ples and have shown themselves to be ferocious stranglers of na- tional independence. The U.S. imperialists aré inten- sifying their armed intervention in Laos and stepping up their aggressive machinations every- where in Asia. The U.S. imperialists have in- cited the Israeli aggressors, their stooges, to carry on a war of ag- gression against the Arab les and are egging these gangsters on to perpetuate their unlawful of Arab territories and are maliciously scheming to stamp out the great cause of the Arab peoples for territorial in- tegrity, consolidation of inde- ——. and creation of a new The U.S. imperialists penetrate into the newly-born independent countries by using “aid” as a bait sia with the backing of U.S. Im- perialism, Japanese militarism in veal earnest is stretching out its claws for a reinvasion of South Korea; it is directly Larosa py in the Vietnalnese war; has pieced Japan at the disposal of «© U.S. imperialists for suppl and attack bases for U.S. imperi- alist aggression against Asia. In Europe, too, U.S. imperial- ism has not only revived West German militarism and rigged up the aggressive “NATO” alliance but also built numerous military bases and stepped up aggressive acts against the European peoples and the socialist countries. West German militarism, revived by U.S. imperialism, is feverishly striving to attain suprema in Europe and maintain it under its ee patronage and manipula- on. U.S. imperialism is indeed the most vicious,* cruel, outrageous and brutal imperialism as far as aggtessive design and the scale a methods of aggression are concerned. No place on earth is safe from the tentacles of if ession stret- ched out by the U.S. imperialists, and no country is free from the menace of U.S. imperialist ag- gression. - Without the struggle against imperialism, U.S. imperialism in particular, world peace cannot be safeguarded, nor can national fib- eration and-independence and the victory of democracy and social- ism be achieved. U.S. Imperialism is the most inveterate common enemy and target No. 1 of the struggle of mankind. Let us direct the main spear- head of attack against U.S, im- ANTI-IMPERIALIST JOURNALISTS But Imperialism will never quit the arena of history of its own accord. It viciously Coaneoges the cause of peace, national independ- ence and social progress, in an attempt to find a way out of its impending downfall in aggression and war. U.S, imperialism is its organizer and author. U.S. Imperialism is the ring- Jeader of world imperialism, main force of aggression and war, the International gendarme, the bulwark of rn eolonislism and the most ferocious ney, of the peoples of the whole world, The history of U.S. imperialism from the day of its birth up to this very day reeks of blood, It is a his of aggression stained by a record of bloody warfare, pitatical plunder and barbaric slaughter. U.S. imperialism has enslaved many countries through continu: ous aggressive wars, fattening on the exploitation of the pespies. Especially alter World War 1}, it took over as the chieftain of im- perialism, the ringleader of inter- national reaction. It has perpe- trated and is now perpetrating aggression and war more atroci- ously, frantically and viciously than ever. Of late, the U.S. imperialists have been engaging in reckless to meddle in their internal af- fairs, and indulge in nefarious schemes to engineer frequent mill- tary coups by bribing and ig 7 ing together reactionary cliques to ‘thence these countries in veer- ing to the Right. The U.S. imperialists are bent on still more ay | double dealing for “the purpose of achieving their aggressive design of world domi- nation, In their aggressive manoeuvres the U.S. imperialists combine nuclear blackmail with “peaceful penetration,” suppression — with appeasement and deception, wield- ing an olive branch jn one hand and an arrow In the other, It is a traditional practice of U.S. imperialism to enlist all reactionary forces against the so- cialist countries and national-lib- eration movements and use them as a fifth column in its aggres- sion The U.S. imperialists have reviv- ed and rearmed Japanese gnili- tarism to use it as “shock troops” for their Asian aggression, and are manoeuvring to knock in- fo shape an Asian “anti-commun- iat" mamiary alliance by lining up their puppets in Asia, with Japa- nese militarism as the core, In an absurd attempt to realize its old dream of domination over A- alism! This is the basic strategy at the resent time in the struggle of les for the vict of the catse at revolution sed peek Today, to fight resolutely a- gaimst U.S. imperialism is the most pressing dyty and pri- mast task for us journalists who, in the course of history in which progressive forces have smashed spate forces and the revolu- thonary forces have tr ever the couater-revolutionary forces, have always fought toge- ther with the people, firmly stand- ing on their side, for freedom, liberation and social progress. Whether or not we journalists pte turn out in the struggle against imperialism, U.S. impe- rialism in particular, is a measure showing whether or not we fight to thwart aggression and war and safeguard universal peace and security; whether or not we fight against enslavement and oppress sion and for freedom and inde- ndence, whether or not We ight for the progress and pros- perity of mankind. At this moment when the in- dependence and sovereignty of the peoples are being oppressed and threatened, peace is trampled underfoot and the disaster of san- uinary war ia forced upon them y US. imperialism; at this mo- ment when hundreds of millions of people all over the world are groaning under the yoke of ex- loitation and oppression, suffer- fe from inhuman contempt and maltreatment, and are dying of hunger, poverty, hard labour and disease, it behoves us journalists, fighters for freedom and libera- tion of the le, to hoist ever higher the banner of anti-U.S. struggle. ~— We journalists cannot remain inere bystanders, mere recorders of the realities of our times, All anti-imperialist journalists of the world must resolutely turn out in the fight against the U.S. alist ogg and must direct their sharp pens of attack against US. | alism. Progressive press and publish- Ing activities for the ideals and welts of mankind and for s0e- clal progress and civilization can find r real worth preciany In the struggle against 5. impe- rialism. We journalists must wield our militant pens, first of all, to ta bare the aggressive nature US. imperialism and its policy of war. Augreenin and plunder are in- al to the nature of imperial- Id lackeys of imperial- ism pra as if the nature of imperialism had changed and make a vain attempt to dress it up with the cloak of “péace,” thus oe its Bisa me 2 a essive nature impe- rialism rie and will not pangs till its downfall. U.S. imperialism is the most barbara ant aes sgares, sor a ca modern times. Harder The true colours of U.S. imperi- alism as a blood-stained aggres- sor and plunderer have been, and” are still being exposed to the light of the day in the Korean war, in the Vietnamese war <= the everywhere, every hour and every- day. We must indict, condemn ‘and judge before world public ty perpecsted. by the, US ai ra pertalists peeinet mankind, such as open aggression. interference in other’s internal affairs, subver- tion of aggressi establishment of wimare Woeas in the territories of other countries and provocation of aggressive war. We must not allow iMusions about U.S. | jalism to be pro- pe Tin about imperial- is a narcotic that weakens the anti-U.S. imperialist struggle and prepares the way for aggres- si ‘We most definitely smash the false imperiatist propaganda that imperialism can make a gilt of independence to the colonial peo- les and coexist in peace with ree and Independent Asta, Afri- ca and Latin America. We must actively propagate the truth that the colonial peoples can get rid of enslavement and on pression and achieve national li eration, and that the liberated peoples can safeguard independ- ene from the imperialist aegres- sion and bring prosperity to their countries and nations, only when they vi y is out an anti- imperialist, anti-U. imperialist struggle Peace must not be begged for but fought for, We must arm the masses with the idea that ending peace can be won only frou 5 struggle — im- aggression and war, a- gainst the wreckers of peace, and only by read a peace at ensiaves overthrow: rule of the “ape Lets teed the coples. more vigorously onto road of genaine peace. the road of the — anti-US. imperi- Let we encourage the oppressed peoples to carry out their strag- gle for quasine independence and CONT, ON PG. 15 PYONGYANG DECLARATION FROM PG. 4 prosperity, holding aloft the ban- per of revolution, until imperial- iom is finally defeated! We must energetically awaken ali the anti-imperialist forces to invariably adhere to the principl- ed stand of opposing U.S. imperi- alism: to check and frustrate its mechination of aggression and war through their actual struggle. The “peace” which U.S. im rialists clamour about is nothing dul a screen to cover their aggres- sion and war, and their “peace strategy” is a supplement to their military aggression and the con- tinuation of this aggression in a ised form le must mercilessly rip the hypocritic ret mask from the face of U.S. imperialism and fully lay bare before the peoples the blood-stained tentacles of ag- gression concealed behind that mask. we —_ thoroaay expose insidious, ~ b Us aie. 85 r) y U.S. imperialism. ‘e must divulge the hypocrisy of the so-called “in dence” which the imperialists grant after rigging up puppet governments; we must seek out te noose of 2 jon and enslavement con- cea in the sack of “aid” and awaken ever broader sections of the masses. While exposing the true colors of U.S. tmperialism, we must also strip to the bone the reactionary nature of neo-colonialist meth- ods such as the so-called “com- monwealth,” “community” and rotectorate” which _ British, rench and other imperialists are advocating. To foil the reactionary idrolo- gical offensive of U.S. imperial- is the militant task incumbent tet us journalists who sre in ideological front against U.S. imperialism. “Anti-communism,” the decad- ent “American way of life,” racial- ism and the like. disseminated by U.S. imperialism, are ail mean instruments for erting justice and progress, fanning up ag- mn and war and whipping up plunder and noatig they are a venom which ds the les to ideological and mora egeneration. ey are national consciousness of the les and, furthermore, of depriv- i@ them of the fruits of the rev- olution. nefarious means of paralysing the peo- We journalists must resolutely answer the reactionary ideological offensive faunched by U.S. im- perialism by a progressive re- volutionary ideological offensive, shatter ‘anti-communism,” “American way of life.” racism, camer ore, “fear of Ame- rica” and actively protect the - from that venom so that they safeguard the cause of revolution. ¢ must rebuke and stlernl condemn the degenerated seif- styled journalists who, bribed ~by dollars, assist U.S. imperialism in its ideological and cultural pene- tration and subversion. We must always fortify our press and publishing activities as a strong front of the anti-imperi- alist, anti-U.S. see ag strug- le, as a powerful ideological astion and militant fortress for crushing all reactionary U.S, im- perialist propaganda. An important task facing our revolutionary and progressive publications, news media, radio and TV Is to give leadership and dance to those people who have sen In the anti-imperialist, anti- U.S. imperialist struggle decisive- ly, so that they can defeat U.S. imperialism with a correct fight- ing strategy and line. Al present revolutionary sory le for smashing U.S. im- = ‘s global strategy is for revolutionary forces of the world jointly to deal blows at ‘S. imperialism everywhere. We must see to it that the broad anti- imperialist forces jointly deal blows and put pressure on US. imperialism in all areas and on all fronts, be it in Asia, Europe, Africa or Latin America, in big countries or small countries. Only by so doing. can we disperse and undermine the strength of U.S. imperialism to the maximum and successfully [rustrate its strategy of. smashing, one by one, the so- clalist countries and other interna- tional revolutionary forces. US. imperialism is by no means Invincible. When countries, even if mali, use their own brains and, relying on their own strength, unite their people and the Wage & courageous struggle to the bitter end regardless of sacri- fice, then they are fully able to de feat U.S. imperialism. This is the living truth of our age that has been substentiated by the Kore- an war, by the victory of the Cuban revolution and by the anti- US. national-salvation war of resistance in Viet Nam Let us all join forces and mu- tilate U.S. imperialism! We must determinedly rouse and lead the peoples so as to make them rise wherever U.S. im- perialism stretches out {ts tenta- cles of aggression and cut off its right and left arms, right and lelt legs and behead it. en we do so, U.S. imperialism will be ren- dered impotent and eventually go to ruin, and the te can then knock down the enemy with a de- cisively overwhelming force. In the anti-imperialist, anti- US, struggle, unity is strength and a reliable guarantee for vic- os ¢ U.S. imperialists are afraid. above ever ee else, of the unit- ed strength of the anti-imperinlist revolutionary forces, and manoeu- vre to break it down. We must energetically strive to unite the socialist forces, national- liberation movements, working- class movements, democratic movements and all the militant and revolutionary forces of the world pi imperialism under OMe an the same banner, the banner of joint anti-U.S. imperial- ist action and anti-U.S. imperial. ist united front. We must definitely counter the nefarious schemes of U.S. imperi- alism to undermine the socialist forces and try our utmost to de- Send their unity. We must smash every machina- tion of the imperialists to dis- rupt the anti-imperialist forces and fight to safeguard and cement the unity of the anti-imperialist, anti-US. imperialist forces, Today, all the countries arid all the forces, except the puppet re- gimes and flunkeys of the impe- rialists, can become anti-im trialist, anti-U.S. imperialist ces. There may be various kinds of people among those who come out against imperialism headed by U.S. imperialism. But, no mat- ter what their motives may be, all these forces opposed to imperialism and ‘fighting tor the SS shoula be enlisted in the joint anti-im- perialist st le. We journalfsts in the fields of the press, news agency, radio and TV must energetically strive to unite all the areas, all the coun- tries, all the groups, all the peo- or- % Se The Conference adopts “Pyongyang Declaration of the Journalists of the Whole World in Thetr Fi Imperialism” amid ananimous, enthuslasth applause forean revolutionaries and patriots and express our firm militant solidare ples and all ~the forces that oppose imperialism in order expand and strengthen the In- ternational antl-imperialist joint action and anti-Imperialist united front, while inducing those who shun the anti-[mperialist struggle to join in that struggle and en- courage those who are passive in the anti-imperialist struggle to become active, In order to oppose U.S. impe- rislism, defend world peace and achieve independence and social rogress, we must resolutel fight against the stooges of U.S. imperialism and its allies, above all, Japanose and West German militariem The struggle against Japanese and West German militarism ts 4 link in the chains of the strug gle against US imperialism and is a struggle for the defence of peace in Asia, Europe and the world We journalists must thoroughly lay bare the danger of = Japanese = militarism which serves U.S. imperialism as the “shock troops” for its Asian ag- gression, check and frustrate its aggressive ambitions and posi- tively fight to foil its vicious at tempts to disorganize the antl. imperialist front under the cloak of being a “Iriend” of the Asian, African and Latin American peo- ples At the same time, we must fight to foil the revanchist, expan- sionist ambitions of West German militarism that has been revived and rearmed under the patron ge of U.S. imperialism and is seek- ing to invade the socialist coun- tries in Europe including the GDR Regarding the anti-imperialist revolutionary cause of the peoples as our own lofty mission, we should extend positive support and militant encouragement to the just struggle of the peoples with firnr internationalist solidarity and fer- vent revolutionary zeal. Today, the Vietnamese people's war of resistance for national sal- vation against the U.S. imperial- ist aggressor troops has become the focal point of the anti-imperi- alist struggle, and the U.S. im- perialist aggressive forces and the anti-imperialist, peace-loving _for- ces of the world stand in sharp confrontation in the indomitable land of Viet Nam. It is a lofty duty devolving on the ive peoples aad Yours nalists of the whole world to sup- and encourage, by all means, heroic Vietnamese people, who are waging a bloody struggle a- gainst the aggréssion of -U.S. Im- perialism to defend the North, lib- erate the South and achieve the unification and in of the country, and to safeguard peace In Asia and the wor! We strongly condemn U.S. im- perialism for its piratical ag- gressive war and murderous atro- cities against the Vietnamese peo- ple and its crafty machinations for escalating the war. The progressive, revolutionary Journalists of the world should raise their voice against the U.S. imperialist aggression against Viet Nam and positively inspire the revolutionary peoples and peace- loving peoples of the whole world to pool their strength to assist the Vietnamese people and balk and frustrate the U.S. imperialist aggression through concerted ac- tion The master of Viet Nam Is the Vietnamese people, and the Viet- namese problem must be settled by the Vietnamese people them- selves. The U.S. imperialist ag- ressors must quit the land af jet Nam at once with their own aggressive forces, the troops of their satellites and puppets and all their lethal weapons. We fully support the four-point stand of the Government of the THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25, 1969, PAGE 15 Democratic Repubtic of Viet Nam, the ten-point proposition advanced by the delegation of the’ South Viet Nam National Front for Lib- eration at the Paris Conference and the programme of action of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Viet Nam which will lead the Vietnamese problem to the only right solution We express our firm militant solidarity with the struggle of the heroic Vietnamese people U.S. imperialist aggressors, take our blood-stained hands off Viet Nam_ immediately! Today the Korean people are waging a stubborn struggle a- gainst the nation-splitting policy of U.S. imperialism and Its ag- gression and war provocative ma- chinations, and for the indepen- dent peaceful unification of the country, for peace in Korea, the Far East and the world. U.S, imperialism is the a : sor that has turned South Korea into a colony and military. base and is imposing unprecedented na- tional calamity’ and sufferings upon the South Korean people and is the war provocateur that ob- structs Korea's unification, disturb- Ing peace and giving rise to the flames of another war in Korea. We strongly denounce U.S. im- rialism for ifs occupation of th Korea and its machinations for another war. The U.S. im have no pretext and ground. what- soever to hang on in South Ko- rea. The U.S. imperialists mst get out of South Korea at once and their colonial rule must be liquidated. The so-called “United Nations Commission for the Uni © cation and Rehabilitation of Ke 3& rea,” a tool of U.S. imperialists for ion, must be dissalyed Korea ongs to the Koreau le and to achieve the coum ‘s unification ey the Korean ~ lt os themselves their legitie mate right that nobody can imf ' fringe upon. . We support the consistent, faty and. just stand and endeavours of the Government of cratic enim Republic of Ki toward saving the unification independently — and peacefully on democratic under the Condition that the U alist aggressors out oo < all-out im South Ket cen re . support to the Korean struggle i a withdrawal of ti peria aggressors from South Koréa~and the complete unk fication and independence of the country. We condémn U.S. imperialism and the Pak Jung Hi puppet clique for their suppression and ous murder of the South ty with the South Korean alist aggressors | ‘ Py in defence ot the victory of the Cuban revolution The victory of the Cuban rev- olution, which has made the Urst breach in the system of U.S. tm rialists’ neo-colonialist rule over atin America, is a great event that affords one more positive proof of the inevitable “downfall of U.S. imperialism in our times, The machinations of U.S. impe rialism to strangle the Republic of Cuba by means of seyret r ssion and blockade mu id in check and the U.S. impe- rialist’ aggressor troops met withdraw from Guantanamo with- out delay. We extend our warm support and encouragement to the people of Cuba, whose entire people and nation are strenuously fighting in a single body for the defence of the revolutionary gains and the victory of the cause of. socialism in the face of the aggression of U.S. imperialism. We extend our warm support and encouragement to the le and journalists of the socialist tountries, who are fighting a- gainst the poll of aggression and war pursued by imperialism headed by U.S. imperiallsm and for the victory of the common cause of socialism and communism. ~ Today the fighting Arab front is our common battle front. We journalists extend our militant rf re for the armed struggle of the Palestinian to’ res- tore their homeland, to establish patriotic’ democratic Palestinian. state and to achieve national {n- . imperialism and its lackeys, the Israell ag- gressors, to liberate their. occu- eeressurs: We ‘fully wupport the caggressors. We ‘fully su stru of the Arab ples of Al ms the Xecaes Arab of national independence and building a new life - a We scathingly. denounce U.S. imperialism and-its stooges, the- Israeli aggressors, . for their criminal aggressive acts in the ‘Arab land and s ly demand the unconditional withdrawal of the Israeli from their Arab territory Hlegaily occu -and the return of Palestine to Its masters, the Palestinian poceie. The progressive journalists must strug ¢ resolutely against Zion- ist influence in capitalist press since this influence reflects the ‘ideology’ and policy of the im- perialist reactionaries. - ~~ ’ - The national-liberation stru of the Asian, Af rican. and ‘Latin ight against the Aggression of U.S, ‘American peoples is a sacred stru for building free, Inde- ndent and new Asia, Africa and tii America anda struggle to curb and thwart the aggression ple in their struggle against WS, and war machinations of imperi- imperialism and its underlings, alism headed by U.S. imperialism and for freedom, liberation and and to defend world peace. national unification. As long as the imperialists op- The just cause of the Korean press and plunder the colonial people will surely be crowned peoples. by force of arms and with victory. savagely suppress the revolution- We deem it our common duty to. fight _egalhst the aggressive and subversive machinations the U.S. imperialists against Republic of Cuba, and to of the figtt CONT. ON PG.16 THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25, 1969, PAGE 16 PYONGYANG DECLA- RATION 15 ary advance of the oppressed peo- ns it is inevitable for the ‘op- t “d peoples to fight with a, in their hands, Violence m be countered by violence, cot revolutionary armed forces mu: crushed by revolutionary arm wees, Th tainment of political in- depenacnce is mo more than the first step towards the ultimate victory of the national-liberation revolution. The people who have won inde pendence must actively strive to smash the colonial ruling machine of imperialism, wipe out its econ- omic foothold, strengthen the rev- olutionary forces, establish a pro- gressive socio-political system and build an independent national eco- nomy and national culture This is the right road along which one can advance towards freedom, happiness, national independence and prosperity without repeating the bitter history of the ills and distresses which capitalism inevi- tatty goes through, e journalists in the fields of the press, mews agency, radio and TV. must extend whole- hearted support and encourage: ment to the armed struggle of the oppressed peoples who have eat decisive struggle for freedom and liberation under the anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. im- perialist and anti-colonialist ban- ner and support all forms struggles for the overthrow of the rule of the oppressors. We must also express firm soli- darity with the just cause of the es fighting for the consolida- Fon of the independence’ and s0- vereignty already achieved and for the accomplishment of the nation- al-liberation revolution. Vic on each front against imperialism, ot US. auth al recisely means a commo oy of the world arash The anti-imperialist R escicg sts of the whole world 14 raise their voices of eT sop t ae Kon ragement st er, exp! a Internationsl soidanty we people of all areas, 0} # con- calla and of all countries in their struggle against fo erg We support the Cite ¢ of the Laotian people for nat ‘onal inde- dence. against the armed in- fervention i U.S. tmperialism. We support the struggle of the Cam an people for defence of the territorial integrity and na- tional sovereigns against the in- terference of U.S. imperialism and its stooges; we support the ~ ELDRIDGE AND BYRON struggle of the Japanese people against U.S. imperialism and the monopoly capital at home and for the complete independence and democracy of the country, the abrogation of the U.S.-Japan “Security Pact” and the return of Okinawa, We must definitely su port and encourage the sinivere of the Asian peoples for driving out the U.S. imperialist aggres- sors from the whole area of Asia We Support the struggle of the coples of the Near and Middle East and Africa who are forging ahead under the urfurled banner of national liberation and inde- ndence, The behind-the-scenes manipula- tor encouraging the colonialists in Africa to persist in their barbaric rule and policy of butchery is none other than U.S. imperialism We support the struggle of the peonies of Guinea, the Congo (B), anzania, Mouritania, Burundi, Somalia, Zambia and Sudan and other African countries who are endeavouring to safeguard na- tional independence and build a new life while opposing all sorts of intrigues of imperialism, col onialism and neo-colonialism led by U.S. imperialism We extend positive support and encouragement to the struggle of the African ples including the peoples of Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau, Namibia and the Congo (L) who are waging an armed struggle against imperial- ism atid colonialism for freedom and liberation. We scathingly condemn all forms of racialism and apartheid, and ac- tively support and encourage the struggle of the people of Zimbabwe against the “independence” of Southern Rhodesia which was un- lawfully and arbitrarily concocted By the Smith clique, and the struggle of the South African people against apartheid. We must fervently ag et and encourage the Latin erican ples in their fight against ‘S. imperialism and pro-Ameri- can -reactionary dictatorships and forcefully inspire their struggle. We support and encourage the revolutiona struggle the Latin American’ peoples includ- ing the jes of. Venezuela, Co- lombia, Guatemala and Bolivia who-are valiantly fighting, arms in hand, for freedom and genuine independence. We support the anti-imperialist position of the les of Peru and the Dominican Republic and, particularly, render support to the revolutionary measures recently taken by the Peruvian govern: ment against U.S. imperialism. We support’ the just straggle of the people of the German Democratic Republic against the BEYOND THE DEMARCATION LINE rearmament of West German mil jtarism and its expansionist am bitions and extend support to the peoples of the socialist countries who ‘are fighting against the US imperialists’ manoeyvres for ag. gression in Europe ‘and the world and for the immutability of the Oder-Neisse frontiers and for the safeguarding of European peace and security We extend our warm encourage ment to the peoples of Europe who are fighting /or security and peace in this area, demanding the dissolution of the “NATO,” a U.S. imperialist tool for military aggression, and the dismantling of the U.S. milltary bases in Europe We support the struggle of the working people and progressive youths and students in the cap- italist countries including France, Italy and Britein who are against imperialist war, oppression and arbitrariness of capital and for Semmoct sry and socialism, and ex- tend militant support and en- couragement to the democratic forces of Spain, Portugal and Greece fighting against fascism for democracy and social progress. We also condemn racialism pre- valent in the United States as ap- plied to the Afro-Americans, In- dians, Puerto-Ricans, Mexican- Americans and Esquimo Indians. We support the struggie of what are known ad the ‘poor whites’ In the U.S.A. and pro: test at the persecution of progres- sive peoples and students in the U.S.A. who struggle against U.S. imperialist aggression in Viet Nam. e protest against and in- dignantly condemn the fascist per- secution and repression it the Im- perialists against the activities of the progressive and revolutionary press and extend the warmest support and militant encourage- ment to the progressive journal- ists of the capitalist countries who under the imperialist yo of reaction are unyieldingly fight- ing for the freedom of press ac- tivities, The progressive journalists of the whole world who are’ fighting together on the common front a- ainst imperialism headed bY S. imperialism should hold still higher the banner of militant sol- idarity! . We must pool all our energies and ae at ; support, en: courage and ¢ co-operate with Packs other 1 our articles and writings which expose and oppose the a of imperialism, notably US, im- jalism, and arouse the le fo the anti-imperialist, anti-US. imperialist struggle, so that their powerful voice will fing oat in every nook and corner of the globe. Despite the difference in na- tionalities and party affiliations. a7” pm jon: olitical’ views and religious liefs, we afe comrades-in-arms and brothers and sisters fighting together against the commop ene- my and for the victory of the common cause, Though our spoken and written languages may be different, . all our militant and revolutionary re- ech and political articles must ecome arrows of hatred, political and ideological gunfire showered upon the U.S.. imperialists and all the other imperialists ‘and reac- tionaries, and become the kindlin sparks of struggle, the flames o indignation, The hearts of us journalists, who are concurrently anti-imperi- alist militant champions, must blaze as fiercely as the burning hearts of the resistance fighters battling in jungles and mountains, arms in hand, against imperialism and colonialism; our articles must become the clarion call; the ban- ner of struggle under which we advance to the decisive field of battle, together with the heroic front-line combatants, joining our words to their bullets in piercing the ‘hearts of the enemy. Our articles must powerfully resound in the militant ranks of those valiant fighters who have risen in resistance in the teeth of the fascist tyranny of U.S. im- perialism und its. lackeys and are pressing upon the enemy's strong- old, demanding freedom and democracy, a new life and new regime, and marching ahead in the van of the angry masses who have risen against the ag- gression of foreign imperialism and the oppressors. _ Our voices gust joln the fght- Ing ranks of the Negroes who have resolutely risen {to break down the chains of raciatism with their mighty fists raised high, and sound higher together with the shouts of the anti-war demonst- rators who are indignantly pro- testing against and condemning the aggressive war and murder- ous atrocities of imperialism. The course of struggle against imperialism, against U.S. imperi- alism, is by no means smooth and the road we- have to.travel in our Gest is still long and arduous. either trying ordeals nor rugged thorny paths, however, can ever stop the vigorous adv- ance of us journalists who are out to devote ourselves to the sacred cause of freedom and Iib- erty, progress and peace We, as fighters conscious of the historic mission we have assum ed in our times and before hu- manity, will unreservedly dedicate all our wisdom, zeal and energies to the world-wide struggle a gainst U.S. Imperialism, fighting on with redoubled.courage ful of conviction, militancy aod ; without the slightest hesitation and vacillation even in the seve- rest adversity. By so doing, we will truly contribute to the sacred rer of the er peer of man- ind, peace and social progress, and add to the honour, pride and happiness of being militant writ- ers of our times. U.S. imperialism. blusters and threatens at present, bat its days are numbered. The death knell, announcing the inevitable doom of U.S. imperial- ism, is already tolling over its head. U.S. imperialism, fncarna- tion of crimes against humanity and ‘the ringleader of guilty of so many ferocious crimes and outrages against mankind, Phas gperrneter for untold calamities and miseries for the human race, will firially go down to its énd. Nothing can save the U.S. im- pertaligte from being sucked into e very vortex. of whirlpool of defeat;, no force’ can halt the and forward march of mankind owards socialism and national in- dependence,. democracy and peace. Journalists of the whole: world, raise 7 the. banner of anti- imperialist; anti-US, struggle and resolutely smash the U.S. imperi- alist machinations for @ and war, the most f mon enemy of mankind! Fight on ‘stubbornly until. im- pate ism headed by U.S. imperial is buried for ever! ¥ Let us further Stohr the militant unity of the anti-imperial- ist journalists of the whole world! Death to the U.S. imperialist aggressors! Long live the the anti-imperialist, imperialist struggle! com- eat banner of The International Conference on the Tasks of Journalists of the Whole World in Their Fight against the Aggression of U.S. imperialism Pyongyang, September 24, 1969 FROM THE PYONGANG TIMES 9/26/69 ~ BYRON AND ELDRIDGE WITH REV. BROS. FROM ZIMBABWE VIEW SYMBOLS OF U.S. DEFEAT DISPLAYED IN VICTORY MUSEUM. Being here in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ts like catching glimpses of the future. It's seeing what unity and the cor- rect revolutionary program can create for those intent upon putting an end to oppression and the ex- ploitation of man by man, It isa dramatic reminder of what we must do within the borders of the fascist United States to create a responsible to the people, and not one forced upon them by pigs and rich capitalists whose money is backed in blood--in the blood of our brothers and sisters, the blood of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Tal- wan, Latin America, Palestiné and the people of South Korea Tam also reminded of the pears I spent in Soledad and Chino pri- sons and how on January 27, 1969 Clinton Smith and | broke our pri son chains and escaped to take up syston arms, and the heart break we felt because all our revolutionary bro- thers and sisters whoare presently being held captive could not, too, break their prison chains, and move from captivity to revolution Even while Clinton and I forced the National Airline pilots, the next day, to fly us to Havana, I found the pins of each mile separating me from you brothers and sisters in Babylon as something far worse than the five years I spent in pri- son The few months | stayed In Cuba were spent well and after leaving Cuba to join the international staff of our Party, as Deputy Minister of Defense, in even greater depth, the deep significance of the teachings of Brother Huey, He has, from the bastions of world tinperlalism, taught us to do what many nations have found I see impossible to do, and that ts, that stress follows the line of least resistence and when applying the law of stress we must use a lever -the lever being the gun and the line of least resistence being the pigs’ a--os. In the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea they have used that formula well , Brother Eldridge and I arrived here on September ll, our mission being threefold; First, a diplomatic mission; second, as delegates to the World Conference of anti-im- perialist Journalists; and thirdly, to witness the historical episodes of defeat for US lmpertalist, ple aggression Before and after the conference, which lasted 8 days and sometimes as long as 17 hours 4 day, we visited the museums, the industrial sites the schools and the co-operatives whore production exceeds the hideous dreams of the pig capi- talists, We visited Sinchon where U.S. imperialist, pig aggression rought wholesale genocide. We visited the tombs where women were mass murdered by the hun- dreds and tombs where hundreds of children were berded into, and Uke the macabre {ales of nazi Germany, gusoline was poured through vents. The walls still mark the scratches of terrified and hy- Sterical children, as they tried with their bDarw hands to tear down those cement Walls in their last frantic moments of life before being burned alive with pig gasc- line, ignited with a pig match, by a pig hand, Eldridge and I could only stand in silent understanding CONT. ON PG, I7 THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25, 1%9, PAGE 17 BEYOND THE where they licked their wounds and plotted new acts of pig aggression When they came in ships they were either blown out of the water or ripped off like the Pirate Pueblo, or the spies who came by air and found that also like Korean soll, it too Was unyeilding to U.S. Im perialist pigs FROM PG. 17 as we thought of you brothers and sisters in Babylon, History ts Warting us, and the present is telling us, that... but there, beneath the ground, in those tombs, we could not speak about it; not there where the screams of those children seemed to te silently and timelessly alive and their bodies twisted about our feet. We visited Victory Museum where many of the biological bombs dropped by the pig-motherfucka’s are being kept as a memorial of U S. imperialist, pigaggression The war relics there still echo the defeat of the pigs who left whoped and shotup as the lever of the gun was applied to theirasses, or those that didn’t leave, but in- stead oinked their last oink and joined the place where all pigs go when’ met with the might of the people. Even when they came in force, hidden in machines of death and encased in steel ~- they died or were Around Korea we have seen the machines marked ‘made inU S.A but they are by no means symbols of neo-colonlalism symbols where a--es kicked and learned a new vocabulary ‘Heart-break like Ridge,’ From the Democratic People’s Even now while Warden plans to use the pertenced pigs of Vietnam to open up a two-sided front, one in Korea and one against us, the Koreansare planning to kick some more pigs a--es and we, brothers and sis- ters, must do the same, Republic of Korea Byron Booth Deputy Minister of Defense International Staff but rather, the pig combat ex- $ got thelr Nixon hey ‘'THE SPIES WHO CAME BY AIR FOUND THAT IT, LIKE KOREAN SOIL, rere am . > driven behind the 38th parallel Black Panther Party WAS UNYIELDING TO U.S, IMPERIALIST PIGS.“ ALL THE FACTS GO TO PROVE CLEARLY THAT U.S. IMPERIALISM IS THE CHIE F- TAIN OF WORLD IMPERIALISM, THE MOST BARBAROUS AND SHAMELESS AG- GRESSOR AND WARMONGER, THE INTERNATIONAL GENDARME SUPPRES- SING THE PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE FOR NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE, DEMO- CRACY AND SOCIALISM, THE BUL WARK OF MODERN COLONIALISM, THE MOST HEINOUS COMMON ENEMY OF THE PEOPLES OF THE WHOLE WORLD AND TARGET NO,1LIN THEIR STRUGGLE. UPON OCCUP YING SOUTH KOREA THE U.S. IMPERIALISTS ENFORCED MILITARY ADMINISTRATION AND HAVE PERPE- TRATED ATROCITIES OF ARRESTING AND IMPRISONING IN- NUMERABLE PATRIOTIC PEOPLE AT RANDOM (Se a See ee =. ARMY 613094 NOW IN A KOREAN MUSEUM THE U.S, IMPERIALIST MURDEROUS DEVILS BESTIALLY KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE, LORDING IT OVER SOUTH KOREA WHICH IS NOT THEIR COUNTRY, NOT THEIR TERRITORY . wv . * —— —_ * . ——— PATRIOTS INCLUDING COMRADE CHOE YONG DO, WAGING STRUGGLE AT THE ‘‘COURT,"’ TRENCHANTL Y DENOUNCING U.S. IMPERIALISM AND THE PAK JUNG HI FASCIST CLIQUE FROM THE-SKYS OF THE D,P.R.K,, ONE DEAD C.1.A, SP¥- HE DIED THE DEATH OF A HOG THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25, 1969, PAGE 18 BROTHERS, WHY ARE YOU THERE ??? It is important that the G,1,"s have the correct-insight and views on Vietnam as far as the North Vietnamese are concerned in re- lation to the struggle here jn A- merica, They are directly linked together as the same type of war and with the correct Insight or ideology thé G.1,'s would know that this type of war, is a war of ag- gression and oppression, It dir- ectly shows that the North Viet- hamese are not our enemies, in fact, that they are our brothers and that they realize this fact dir- ectly towards Black G.1.’s, A prime example of that is that one night while we were down in a little village the airbase there Was attacked and I was staying at a house with a Vietnamese gir! (I had the wrong type of ideology because when I went over, a lot of racism was perpetrated to keep our thoughts diverted ), The North Vietnamese came through the village, and broke Into a few of the houses, They broke into the house where I was stay- ing. 1 had heard firing in the streets and I knew that they were coming close because a few shots went off by the door, I got up from the bed and climbed into a wall closet which protruded from the wall, into hiding. In the armed services over there only where it is very hostile do the bases allow air force personnel to carry weapons. Say for instance Da Nang is allowed to carry their own weapons, And where | was, we were not allowedto carry weapons, “so | was in the village, defense- less, with no weapons and of what might have hap- pened. I was in hiding in the closet when the door was broken into and a search of the house was made, The only thing that gave me away was that my clothes were still out and they knew that | was there. and they searched and finally I was found in the closet. The wo- man I was with started speaking a lot and she was rapping pretty heavy and said something to the effect that it was alright for me to be there and a few other things but she was talking so fast that I couldn't understand everything she was saying. Nevertheless the Viet Cong never harmed me, Weall sat down and we got high, you . know, She rappedto'em and rapped to ‘em and she was very intelligent. She spoke English Muently, she wrote it and she worked on one of the Army bases there. After the meeting that they had there she told mw not to reveal anything and that everything would be alright. But after that meeting, I thought that perhaps she belonged to the NLF, (The National Liberation Front). Various things happened. You go around and you see posters nailed up to the trees, and the buildings, and maybe around the villages, telling the Black GI's to go home, that It's not his fight here, that he has another fight back home. This is common for Ol's, and the Black GI's in partic- ular know this but the fact is that they re being misdirected and mis- guided, and told a whole bunch of rhetoric bulls--t. The GI's know that this Is not their fight, Another example is that I had a partner that drove a truck, he wasdeliver- ing C-rations and what not, and they used to open up fire on his truck, they usually fired on the truck if there was someone else with him, perhaps a White dude, then they would fire above his head above the truck, or on the ground just before the truck and never actually hit the truck, He would stop and throw a few cases of C-rations and they would have some C-rations, There were a lot of other tnci- dents which occurred, such as-- you can link this up directly with the propaganda that the armed forces uses over there There are two types of armies over there, one called the Viet Cong, and the other the North Vietnamese Army, The Viet Cong are the . type of soldiers with black pajamas, straw hats, and leather sandals, They use guerrilla warfare type tactics throughout the jungle, most of their recruitment comes from South Vietnam The North Vietnamese Army Is an Army that is clothed in reglar uniform, they have helmets, jungle boots and are very highly skilled, and very highly trained soldiers who are very dedicated to the struggle of their peaple, The Chu Ho Program of giving up is directed at the Viet Cong. So we can link this directly up to the struggle here in the States, ll say that the Chu Ho Program is implemented through pro- Ppaganda media that the armed forces uses over there which is leafleting, and they leaflet quite heavy over there. They fly these airplanes up and drop all of these leaflets into the villages and throUghout the jungles for people and the Viet Cong to give them- selves up. Another type of leaf- let is to terrorize the people, it shows a picture of a place des- troyed or shows a picture of peo- ple being killed and if you fight with the North Vietnamese this will happen to you or this could happen to your homes if you do this. The people are frightened of this, We relate this directly to the way the Panthers are out here circu- lating our news media, and selling our newspaper and getting picked up for this and going to jail for this- And in the same way the armed forces are leafleting the people over there with anti-communist literature and telling them that if they don't do this or if they don’t do what the leaflet tells them that things will happen to them, and to their homes and to their families. The Vietnamese people are simply fighting for a way of life for their people, theyare fighting for the right to determine their own destiny. And I feel that this is directly linked up with the Iib- eration of Black people in Baby- lon, We are fighting for sur- vival and all the things that the NorthVietnamesepeople are fight- ing for, So therefore, that does not make us any different, but only more alike and we consider the North Vietnamese, in fact, our brothers, You can look at statistics or the numbers shown by the stoc- kades in Vietnam which by the way is legal. According to the Geneva Convention they are not allowed to have a stockade in Vietnam but they still have one, It's not to say that the people here don’t know or that the people of this country’s government don't know, because at the time 1 was In the stockade the Assistant Secretary of Defense was there and he knew it was there and he knew the con- ditions that existed, The other peo- ple who are in the government know this also. As I was saying, the majority of the people that are in the stockade over there are broth- ers, And I would venture to say that it would be 99% or or so from 100%, There are very few White people in there, this is why brothers are so apt to be racist because it Is a known fact that everyone in the stockade are brothers just about. And the ma- jority of people are in there as far as offenses are concerned,for refusing to go to the fleld.'This is refusing to go out and fight, And this is because the ones who are there have come to the point wherethey have become aware of the fact of what they are fighting for, To come home to the same thing, the same conditions, these are the ones who refuse to go out and fight anymore and they say-- well now that I'm over here and I know it was wrong to come but I'm here and I'm not going to fight any further, or I'm not going to do anything for this imperialist government anymore. I'm going to Stay here, And they sentence them for a pretty long time, and then if they refuse to go again, they have another court martial which stems up to a general court mar- tial The majority of them that come in the first time are sentenced to six months and if they have 4 general court martial and are sentenced again, they give you anywhere from a year on up in the Federal Penttentiary at Ft, Leavenworth, Sothey are becoming more aware and more so a part of the struggle and we can't sepa- rate them from the struggle, be- calse they're coming back home to fight this oppression that Is being forced on us here and which we're no longer going to take, They in fact, seem to realize that the North Vietnamese are going through the same type of repres- sion in Vietnam. At one time when | first went over, | should say while Iwas over there and I didn't have the ideology or the correct thinking that I have now- in terms of why | was there and in terms of what Iwasactually doing and whether I was right in doing it or not. 1 felt as though I was wrong to be there and I was hot going to be there any longer, ‘So | had really planned to make contacts for myself to leave the country, Which for a Black man in Vietnam is not very hard to do, I met with some Viet Cong who took me from an area one night and we started on the route of my planned escape. I had gotten halfway on the escape trail when I started thinking that I was really running and where I was really going and how I could be perti- nent to the struggle, because | knew there was a struggle going 7 aa - > 7 . IN BLACK G.I. on back here, I always wanted to be a part of it but didn’t know how to actually go about it. And 1 felt as though if I had gone out and left perhaps I might not have ever come back. So rather than go,i turned around and went back-And in turn, now that I'm back here in the States in the Struggle and a part of it, GI's realize that there Is a struggle but there's pressure being put on them over there and that’s why we have to speak to them, and let them know that they should stop what theyare doing and concentrate more on what is happening here, We have to make them politically aware that its not the Vietnamese that are the oppressors but they are themselves, in being over there, an oppressor. That theyare themselves a tool of this imperial- ist government that is vamping on other countries Because If the war in Vietnam stopped tomorrow, there would be another war some- where else that would rise up be- cause of the greediness and im- perialist attitude of this country, So we know that another war would pop up tomorrow tf the war In Vietnam stops, But we want to say sgain that we just don’t want to end the war to bring the GI's home, We want to bring them home for a purpose. And that purpose is to fight for the Iberation of their people here, With the re- sult that if they can go over there and spill blood In the imperialist war and for imperialists that they should at least come back home and join in the struggle, to spill a little blood for their own peo- ple and for the fight of all op- pressed people in the battle The Black OF s in particular have to realize the fact also that not only is this an imperialist war that is being waged In Vietnam today, but I feel also that it Is a plan, It Is a plan for mass genocide for all Black soldiers that go to Vietnam because all the Black soldiers thatarethere-- 1 would say the majority of them-- have run into people trying to kill them and let {t be known that it's not the Vietnamese that have been doing this. More so,that its been these racists, Imperialist soldiers of this government over there that have been trying to kill them off, I've had partners come back and let me know, and I've seen things happen where First Sergeants have threatened to kill brothers and have told them that they were kill- ing them. And sending them out on two and three man patrols, when patrols are supposed to be in larger numbers than that. And try to send them off into death traps knowing that they would not be coming back if they were stupid enough to go out there. Things of this nature, shooting at them while they are out in the field, A brother might tell you, you can’t turn your back on some of them because they will shoot you in the back and feel no remorse whatso- ever, and you are supposed to be fighting side by side with them, But you are fighting against somo- one coming to your house and one who is fighting for their life, Because it can be related very simply as someone coming to your ur ted ; $ y 4 VIETNAM house and breaking your door down. And your only natural response as a human being would be to fight back, to fight this person, to keep them from coming in your house if you have no idea who he Is, And this ts exactly what is hap- pening in Vietnam: the United States Is there, kicking their door down, telling them this ts the way you will be, and we're going to take over, and we're going to force our Ideology on you, when it Isn't pertinent to the peoples struggle there in Vietnam. The people see this there and this is whythey rose us against this type of aggression And it's very simple to see -- we have to make the GI's see [ this way also- - So we know it ts a plan of mass genocide to kill off the male popu- lation of Black people because sta- tistics show that the majority that have have been killed in the Viet- nam war till today have been Black people, That is the plan. To kill us off and commit mass genocide, to kill off the male per- sonnel so that there would be a lack of men and the women would even- tually die out. This is one of the forms that they try to imple- ment, But we also have to remem- ber that what is being done by them to the Black Gl's is not only belng done to the Black GI's But it's being done to the oppressed, poor people who have gone over there, whose attitudes toward the war have changed, and to anyone whose attitude toward the war has changed, These mercenaries for the gov- ernment that are over there feel that it is thelr patriotic duty to do these things, And they would actually kill for the love of their country, and they would die for the love of their country, They are the ones that are doing this, It's also known that all of Vietnam or the southern part of Vietnam is run by the US im- perialists, It is a military sort of government that ts set up -a U_S, military government- because there are civillang that are over there working, and if they get out of line tn any way, form or fashion they will be quickly incarcerated in the military stockades that are over there. For example,there was a White man that was in the stockade when | was over there, that had already served a term of one year (he was brought over there by the government as a mercenary to kill someone and he carried out his job there.But his under- cover deal for doing this was that he was a contracter, a construc- tlon worker there. While he was doing this he was black market- ing, which is very big over there, He: was selling cranes and trucks and guns and everything else he could get his hands on to the North Vietnamese-- by the way he had made six million dollars during this time), He was incarcerated in the military stockade because they had caught him doing it, But by telling the government that-he would expose them as far as his being a mercenary -- 4 paid, hired killer for them. {f they did not release him, or ff they tried to take any of the money that he had, he would tell the people that hewas a mercenary and why he was over there and expose the government, So he was quickly removed, after doing a year’stime there ,by two guards,and he was being sent to the States for release. wouldn't swear that he was now because of the actions he toward the government when was there,and because of the fact they would not want to release that information. He might be dead now, They might have killed him as soon g5°8 The Viet Cong that are taken prisoners by the U S. forces are Vietnamese Army, They take the Viet Cong, the weak ones, change them over and use them against their own people. We can direct that to the fact that we haye the same thing here fn gle where we have Black pigs and E F 8 2 were brothers in there actually being murdered right within the stockade walls, and the brothers that they had maximum se- curity drilled all day long. One brother was falling out from the heat. He had been out or 6 hours, running anddrillingand doing exercises and he was about ready to fall out. And he got de- lirtous and started the 10 foot high fence with rolls of barbed wire on top and on the bottom. The brother slipped. He was not able to get to the fence and fell on the barbed wite- When he fell, he was shot to death laying on the barbed wire by one of the guards that was on the tower, he was shot with a shotgun and killed, The time I was over had bad kidney pains ney stones and I excuse from the : ef] shEGE £22 CONT. ON PG.19 GI DISCRIMINATION October 2, Black Panther Party National Headquarters Oakland, California USA. Although we're aware of what i you've been doing at ‘home’, we need your help here in Japan -- i as well as other places where Black men are In the white man's i army. ‘The outspoken acts of .discrim!- 1969 i nation havebeen increasing, Black men are ‘hounded to cut their ‘fros. We can’t get impartial jus- tice. Brothers, the list Is long. They were sent to the Secretary of the Army, Japan Army Garrison Headquarters and the Department of the Army, as well as to some of our Congressmen,, but we have Mot gotten any satisfaction yet. Any assistance you could give, ra! oa. in the form of suggestions, advice, long or short-range plan- fu ning advice, et cetera, would be greatly appreciated. Any pressure you could apply a to the proper ind! viduals or groups in the United States to ald us in Ppreciated, We're counting on you to help : fight the man, and we look forward to receiving your advice and suggestions as soon as pos- sible, - Examples of Actual Instances of _ Discrimination Against : eee GI’s in Japan r. Burly Dwight us man is permanently as- "signed to the 106th General Hos- pital, Kishine Barracks. While orking around hepatitis patients, “he contracted this disease, and was, himself, hospitalized, He was finally, released from the hospital after fifty-seven (57) days confine- ment. The doctor in charge rec- ommended he be given conyales- cent leave, to which he would have nevertheless been entitled. doctor’ s recommendation was red, and the man was assigned duty ‘three days after being re- | Mased from the hospital. Conva- lescent leave is generally for a of not less than two weeks, Mr, Louis Mayes _ While having a drink in a Jap- _ anese bar with friends, Mr. Mayes Was approached by a ‘rather ine- Japanese. Upon Mr. Mayes’ ae ie Indfeation to this individual that _ he did not wish to converse, the _ Japanese began bodily attacking ; _ Mr, Mayes. Sir. Mayes defended _ himself and was under the impres- fon he had subdued the inebriated Japanese, However, a few minutes Mr. Mayes was weaponless, but tried to keep the attacker at bay. The attacker lost his balance, and in falling was seriously injured by his own knife. demanded that they bring me back and they did. But the next day, | was taken across to the other side and confined to hard labor, I was still in the bunk and they came and removed me to maximum secu- rity, where | was put on bread and water for seven days, whichis the maximum, they take you off of bread and water for one day and give you a meal and put you back on bread and water again for seven more days, For health reasons | imagine they wouldn't want to do things this way so they kill you in other ways, So for 30 days I Stayed on bread and water for attempting to incite a riot, which was told to me because | was too sick to get out of my bed. There are broth®rswho are lit- @rally starved and beaten to death and this fascist storm tooper who was in charge of the stockade, a Lt. Colonel who led the military Or the national guard in the riots that took place in Detroit, he was in Mr, Mayes was arrested by the Japanese police and handcuffed. While unable to defend himself, an unknown Japanese began beating Mr. Mayes with his own shoe, The police looked on and did not try to stop the man, Mr. Mayes, as 4 result of this unwarranted attack, fell to the ground, where- upon the policeman ‘‘guarding’’ him, kicked him in the mouth and took him to a Japanese prison, Mr, Mayes requests for medical attention for his body and face were ignored, JAG personnel accused Mr. Mayes of lying, and offered noassistance, legal or of a general nature. Upon learning that he could be visited, his friends went to see him, After learning that no action had been taken either by Mr, Mayes’ C O,., JAG, or the Jap- anese police, tosecure medical aid for Mr. Mayes, his friends de- manded that the police take him to a doctor, His friends told the police that they would not leave until they had seen for themselves that medical treatment had been secured. After stating their demands, his friends proceeded to wait, Within twenty minutes, Mr. Mayes’ CO, Major Kolb; arrived at the police station. Shortly afterward, Mr. Mayes was taken to the Naval Base Clinic at Yokohama, followed by his friends in a taxi, and the C.O. ina military vehicle. The attending doctor prescribed medicine to relieve the muscle Spasms, which were the result of the beating and being made to sleep on a one-inch thich mat- tress laid on a concrete floor at the prison. The doctor futher pre- Scribedthat Mr, Mayes be given a hot bath or shower once a day and that at least a six-inch mat- tress be provided for him to sleep on. Attention could not be given to Mr. Mayes' mouth because the dentist was not on duty that morn- After leaving the clinic, a non- military friend of Mr, Mayes asked Major Kolb whether he would make sure that the doctor’s recommen- dations were followed by the police, or whetherthat would be the re- sponsibilityof his friends, Major Kolb’s reply was that it was up to his friends to make sure the doctor’s recommendations were followed by the police, It ts his friend's contention that this man’s C.O., Major Kolb, was in no way interested in seeing that Mr. Mayes received fair and just treatment and medical attention by either the Japanese police or the Military. It is their futher contention that had they not made demands upon the Japanese police, medical at- tention would not have been rendered. It Is futher contended by Mr. Mayes’ friends that their pressure and demands upon the Japanese police led to the earlier release of Mr. Mayes by the Jap- anese police. Major Kolb Is now on a tour of duty in Viet Nam. Mr. Michael Andrews Mr. Andrews has, time after charge of the stockade one night and he gave an order to shoot to kill if a riot broke out, He spoke to me and a number of others and sald that he would rather see us dead than have us in his stockade and that if we ever tried to start a riot there or if a riot broke out he wouldn't hesi- tate to kill us and take no prisoners at all, He had an In- fantry unit across the street that had been given orders to shoot to kill, the guards in the towers had also been given orders to shoot anyone that looked suspicious. He gave orders also that anything that flew overhead that he thought would be able to see him in fascist actions, he gave orders to shoot them down even ff they flew too low over the stockade, It is also important that the GI's know that Ky, President Ky or Vice President Ky from South Viet- nam Is not a Vietnamese but is a Korean--an imperialist Korean time, been addressed by Capt. Roberts as ‘*‘BOY"', Each time he has been addressed in this manner by Capt, Roberts, he has informed Capt. Roberts that he Is not Capt. Roberts’ ‘‘Boy'’, and has respect- fully requested the captain's apology Needless to say, the Captain has not apologized. As this flagrant disrespect by Capt. Roberts was insulting to Mr. Andrews, Mr. Andrews requested Col, Boysen to take action to see that Capt, Roberts acts towards Black men in a manner befitting an officer of the U.S, Army, Col. Boysen told Mr. Andrews he would "talk’’ to Capt. Roberts, Capt Roberts continues to call this in- dividual and other who are Black “Boy, Captain Roberts fails to render the proper salute, if he salutes at all, to Black men, Captain Roberts continually acts rudely and derogatorily to Black men, Cap- tain Roberts frequently uses pro- fanity in addressing Black men. Captain Roberts’ attitude and manner toward Caucasions is that of politeness. He does not fall to return salutes from Caucasionen- listed men. He does not speak to them derogatorily or rudely, and he does not address them with profanity. Mostly, it is felt that the racial tension that exists between Blacks and whites on military bases is the result of the psychological strain caused by the Black man’s inability to receive fair and equal treatment and justice from the majority of his White officers. As long as the Black enlisted man is humiliated (i.e., called “Boy'’ by officers), is cdiscrimi- nated against(l.e., products created for him specifically not being stocked in PX’s, et cetera), Is unable to receive fair and equal treatment from white officers, the racial tension will not abate. Then too, if the Caucasion man, who is concerned about the discrim~ {natory practices directed at the Black man, and who ts fair and just, continues to remain a silent onlooker, the situation can in no way change for the better. Being Black in the Army can be likened to being crucified daily, Either the Black man becomes a part of the system and acts ‘‘white’’ (i.e. ‘Uncle Tom's) or they are silenced, There are numerous ex- amples of outspoken Black enlisted men who have been subject to ob- scure laws and codes. There are numerous instances inwhich Black men have been prosecuted to the full letter of the law whereas the Caucasion has not, There have been numerous instances where superior, white officers have not taken action against other Cau- casians in disciplining them for their unfair actions toward and treatment of Black men. This Is the only country in the world which has had to pass laws to make human beings free--in spite of the fact that the Con- stitution, Bill of Rights and Amendments are supposed to in- sure their inherent freedom, who has left from over there to help take part in the imperialist actions of draining the country of Vietnam of its wealth, The Black GI's, the ones that ever goto Viet- ham should be abe to talk to other GI's when they come back to let them know, and the GI's that have been to Vietnam can verify the fact, all they have to do Is look around at some of the houses that Vietnamese people live in, the con- ditions that they Live in, and they know that Black people here In Babylon are living tn similar con- ditions throughout the south and throughout many places--the ghettos even the ghettos In the north Black people are living under these same type of condil- tions that the Vietnamese people are living in and it's oppression that Is making them live under these conditions, and it Is that same oppression thatis making Black people live under those con- ditions and that by his being there THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25, 1969, PAGE 19 sf ~~ ~ “S OTE | HISTORY mk bond = FROM IN 1917 DISORDER BROKE OUT IN HOUSTON, TEXAS, BETWEEN WHITES AND BLACK G,L’S, A NUMBER OF BLACK G,I,’S HAD BEEN ATTACKED AND BADLY BEATEN, WITH THE RESULT THAT ARMY BRASS_ HAD DIS- ARMED THE BLACK TROOPS, WHEN THE RIOTING HAD FINAL- LY CEASED, SEVENTEEN WHITES HAD BEEN KILLED AND SIXTY- FOUR MEMBERSOF THE ALL NE- GRO COURT-MARTIALED, THE 24TH INFANTRY WERE U.S. ARMY (CHAMPIONS OF FREEDOM AND. DEMOCRACY) PROCEEDED TO STAGE THE LARGEST MASS MURDER TRIAL IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, THE MILITARY COURT, PRESIDED OVER BY BRIG, GENERAL G,K, HUNTER, SENTE NCED THIRTEEN NEGRO SOLDIERS TO DEATH BY HANGING, FORTY-ONE TO LIFE IMP RISONMENT AND OTHERS TO BE HELD PENDING FURTHERIN- VESTIGATION, and his being a part of this fas-" cist country or this fascist goy- ernment, that his being a part of this imperialism that he Is only making the situation worse for Black people in America and worse for the people In Vietnam be- cause of the fact that by him being there fighting this!type of war it is not changing any conditions for Black people in the United States by him being there that we are not going to get any farther ahead and {t's not going to change for him once he comes back anymore than it Is if he doesn’t come back, if he comes back and doesn’t take Part in what't going on and take part in the struggle because the only way that these conditions will be changed Is for Black people to wake up and realize that we have been fooled all this time that we're not going to be made a fool of anymore and that we are going to Uberate our people, and we are going to give them freedom. So Black GI's must know that they must come home and take part in struggle, Take part in changing the objective conditions of our peo- ple here, take part in the rev- olution of oppressed people here in Babylon, An Ex Gl THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25,1969, PAGE 20 ZIMBABWE. WAR OF ATTRITION AGAINST THE COLONIALISTS REPRINTED FROM TRICONTINENTAL B. EXTRACTS OF THE MESSAGE OF COMRADE JAMES CHIKEREMA— VICE PRESIDENT OF ZAPU, ON THE [7th OF MARCHA? — ZIMBABWE DAY. Regarding the importance of the date, Comrade Chikerema started by pointing out that: “The significance of Zimbabwe-Day in our liberation struggle is that on this day, we re-affirm our dedication and determina- tion and firmness to continue the fight against the white settler minority regime in Zim- He further said: “Our generation has picked up the fight to free Zimbabwe from where it was left by our forefathers in OFFICIA 1897. We are now better equipped and more prepared than ever before io f our enomy and deal decisive blows ‘or the liberation of Zimbabwe. To this end, our activities from 1966 to 1968 speak for them. selves.” ace As regards the prospects of this year Chikerema said: “The year 1969, should go down in the history of our struggle as a year in which the war of attrition against tho white settlers registered a great I.ndmark in the struggle for a free Zim- babwe.” “ZAPU, through its People’s Lib eration Army has been preparing and train ing for a type of fight that the enemy wil! never forget.” Refering to last year’s 17th of March ho sad, “This day, last year, our gallant free- domfighters fought bravely throughout tho country and registered very significant vic- tories over the enemy. When the day of reckoning comes, I am absolutely certain that the fascist forces of Smith and their South African allies will reap a very sad share of the liberation battles. As regards the aid received from within Africa, he said, “I would also want ws to re- member very gratefully the sucrifices made by our free African brothers through the OAU.” He made special reference to these countries which are directly close to the front line such ag TANZANIA and ZAM. BIA, He pointed out that: “These two countries face the daily brandishments of fascist power because of their determina- tion to support the liberation movements in Southern Africa... We have witnessed assassinations, bombings and destruction of property made against Zambia and Tanzania by the unholy alliance of Smith, Vorster L GEKMANY and Cactano.., But beeause of their love for freedom and democracy in Southern Africa, these countries have stood firm and have thus inspired us to s'and fearlessly against this unholy alliance, hence, in the last three years we have achieved great victories.” Chikerema farther on said, “We are also not unmindful of those countries in the socialist world, Latin America, Asia and elsewhere which have sacrificed and will continue to sacrifice materially and finan- cially to lubricate the machinery of our liberation struggle.” He pointed out that, through their dedication to Africa's libera- tion, our struggle will gather great mo- mentum this year.” He stressed that, every Zimbabwean, old, young and able-bodied must be a spear head of the people's lib- eration forces. “ZAPU has reiterated again and again the card’nal point of our libera- tion s ruggle, and tha: is, that the main burden to sacrifice for the [freedom of Zimbabwe lies (squarely and unshakably) on the shoulders of every Zimbabwean.” Concluding he said: “This day, Mare 17, 1969, we call upon you all to rise in your millions against the white settler British regime in Salisbury. There should, and there will be sacrifices just as there have already been sacrifices by some gallant sons of the People's Liberation Army of Zimbabwe ...” “One hundred percent of the sacrifice for the freedom of Zimbabwo has to be made by Zimbabweans themselves. Any additional assistance by progressive forces ” - . — ie = * bear,” ho finalised, Tey § “Long live the People’s Liberation Army, and its supporters in Zimbabwe and nc where! “Long live ZAPU and its free Zimbabwe! ses of Zimbabwe under their brilliant revolutionary leadership of our leader, Joshua Nkomo”™, TERROR Saigon (LNS) -- The CIA’ s semi- secret terror campaign is now of- ficial ‘national policy’’ in South Vietnam, The proclaimed purpose of the campaign, dubbed ‘‘ Phoe- nix’, is to eliminate the ‘Viet Cong infrastructure’, te. the PRG's administration The CIA launched ‘Phoenix’ last year in an attempt to recoup the losses suffered during the Tet Offensive. Since then the program is supposed to hive eliminated more than 20,000 ‘‘Communists'’, “Phoentx"' was elevated to the status of ‘national policy’ by Tran Thien Khiem in one of his first acts since becoming puppet prime- minister, General Khiem has been In charge of the Vietnamese side of ‘‘Phoenix’’ since the program's Inception “Phoenix’’ has imposed on the South Vietnamese people a reign of terror unmatched since the days of Ngo Dinh Diem, The CIA's mer- cenaries have zealously filled South Vietnam's prisons and ceme- terles with thousands of suspected ‘ patriots, Although the 20,000 victima of “Phoenix” are supposed to be “Communists’’, the terror is 50 indiscriminate that even Saigon's rubber-stamp National Assembly has been moved to protest, In re- cent months several assemblymen have spoken out against the imprisonment and murder of tn- nocent peasants, The Assembly- men pointed out that the victims are not granted the formality of a trial nor are they confronted with evidence The Nattonal Assembly formally demanded an explanation from General Khiem, Khiem's response came ina pub Me ceremony in which he pro- claimed ‘‘ Phoenix’’ to be ‘national policy’. it is thus certain that terror will against the South Vietnamese civilian popu- lation. Khiem did not mention the fact that his ‘‘nationa)] policy'’ ts directed mf financed by the CIA increase ‘Phoenix’, of course, hus had little effect on the PRG's admin istration, The liberated territories are as sturdy as ever, and sha dow governments exist In ull the occupied Phoenix’ is a fulile, though attempt to whip thepeople into line, It is sure to suffer the saniw fate as “strategic hamlets’ and ‘‘provin clal reconnaisance Zones blood) Hamburg (LNS) -- A few years ago, when Kurt Kiesinger became chancellor of West Germany, a few die-hard grudge-bearers were disturbed by the fact that he had been a4 member of the National Socialist (Nazi) Party throughout the Hitler era, For some reason it bothered them to think that a man who had written propaganda for the fascist government had now become a leader of the free world, But now any remaining skeptics can safely lay their doubts to rest Or so it seems Der Splegel has revealed that during that period Kiesinger was actually serving as‘‘a secretagent of the Vatican.’* CUBA United Nations, N ¥ LNS) - Cuba refused to cooperate in any way with the Organization of Amer ican States to try to stop plane hijackings. Speaking at the UN on Oct, 8, chief delegate Ricardo Alarcon Quesada said that thers were ‘negative forces’ prevent- ing the OAS from serving Latin America, The OAS is a tool of US poll y rather than the cooperative al liance it purports to be, in 1962, the puppet regimes represented in it moved with the US. to kick Cubs out. They are scared &--tless of the real threat represented by Cuba's example of Latin American revolution MALAYSIA Kuala Lumpur (LNS) -- Fifteen hundred Jand-hungry Maylays have seized thousands of acres of un- used land in northern Selangor State. The action began after they chose a large area of untouched Jungle and applied for it under a govern- ment program, The application, a5 usual, was turned down, But the people moved in anway and started clearing it to provide them- selves with three acres each, A few days later they had reclaimed some 50 acres and had built tem~ porary huts. The police pulled the huts down, but the squatters moved back in and rebuilt them The government has threatennd to) 6sturve them out and the Mays lays are getting angry at the gov ernment Usually, the have been angry at and fighting with the sizeable minority of Chi- nese who live here, The politi- clans, playing on racial prejudice, huve used these conflicts to div- ide the people Maylays LATIN AMERICA — Hamilton, Bermuda 4 ‘Sending me on a fact- tour — was the most cussinaiine mal a portant concept arrived at by the President because {t would provide the raw, material for development — Of new policy."’ Thus spoke Rockefeller, The vacationing imperialist tola re- porters who parsued him beach recently that the US m mR og find a'* politically realistic’ strat. egy for Latin America. The prod lom seems to be that humerous Latin Americans are also begin- hing to to search for a“ realistic’ strategy for Latin A. mertca. Not long ago, the S s bassador to Bragil was the - ing guest of some Brazilians who are looking for a’*politically real. istic’ strategy for Latin Amertea, THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25, 1969, PAGE 21 FIAT (CAR) STRIKE IN TURIN Turin (collettivo CR) ~ Asa roar went up from the hundreds of stu- Gents who were massed In front of the gates, a worker appeared Over the wal] surrounding the huge Fiat Miraflor! plant besieged by riot police and posted a sign which said FIAT OCCUPATA (Flat occupied). It was late afternoon and the sign was golng to stay there through the night asa defiant expression of growing workers’ dissatisfaction and militancy in Europe's largest Industrial plant, At dawn, as new masses of workers poured In for the morning shift, the occupation had at all effects died out and scuffles were going on between nervous students who had spent the night at the gates and incensed union and Communist party officers and activists who had rushed to the scene to cool things down. it had been, at all effects, a tense and exhilarating day. In the afterncon a four hour work stoppage (sclopero interno) called by the unions had developed into a veritable uprising of assembly line workers who stormed through the factory, surrounded the office ballding and forced white collar employees to walk out of the place, At a door a worker was handing five Lira coins to well known ex- ecutives scuttling out, with a sar- castic “For you, Mister’', while his comrades were clashing with Fiat security guards tn the midst of clouds of tear gas launched by the police stationed In force outside the plant. The workers then moved to the mess hall to hold an assembly, not before having sent out a rescue party to deliver a student arrested by the police (he was taken into the plant, where they sawed his handcuffs), In the meantime turnioll was eurpting at a half dozen other Turin factories, notable at Lancia and Pininfarina, the world famous car designer and profiteer, Italy’s ‘hot labor fall'’ is in full swing, amid outbursts of social unrest all over the country, Ne- gotiations involving millions of workers are dragging on, and man- agement intransigence Is met by Strikers’ initiatives which go well beyond carefully laid unton plans. What happened in Turin ts but one example, Under the growing pressure of rank and file mil- itancy the unions have stopped cal- ling people to simply stay home (sclopero esterno)on days of strike or to attend rallies in town, and start staging a series of work stoppages in key metalwork in- dustries, And the workers prompt- ly seized the opportunity of showing thelr unwillingness to accept the passive role assigned to them by union plans, The management, pre- dictably, took it badly, with govern- ment and press following sult: The unions are asked to demonstrate their ability of keeping strikers under control, or else factory owners will have to consider the ‘necessity’ of closing down their plants (serrata), Which way the situation will move its unpredictable. The country is definitively moving through an eventful and decisive period of its history, The government is leading an ineffectual day per day ex- istence, with the socalled majority parties (Christian Democrats and Socialists) riddied by factions and struggles for bower. There are recurring, though visibly exag- gerated, rumors of a military coup detat, The Communist Party Is calling for a ‘‘new majority’, Le Communist participation in the government, in a clear attempt to cash In political benefits from the on going agitations, Dissent is spreading within the powerful Roman Catholic Church, at grass- roots level, defying even the thus far unchallenged papal authority, The decisive element remains the labor movement. Here, work- ers are clearly demonstrating that they don't exactly love the unions, but the unions are organized and the workers aren't, and the unlons are still cunning the show, Rey- olutionary groups, particularly the students, have vital contacts with workers on a significant scale but disunity, correctliness and lack of realistic political perspectives are curtailing their efforts, when not even delaying the take off of a truly authonomous, organised working classthrust. One thing is certain, The Herald Tribune (international edition, October Il-12) {s writing that ‘violence escalates in Italian strikes’’, What is taking place in fact is a definite, probably un- precedented escalation of class struggle. Turin, October 12, 1969 PEOPLE IN SCANDINAVIA GETTING HIP TO U.S. FASCISM DEMAND | RELEASE OF _\ BOBBY SEALE CONE SEE ABCU | ¥ = BOBBY — ASC GYMN.' t_IDAG KL.15.50 | Despite the rain and numerous other organizational meetings around town, nearly 300 people turned out to demonstrate and de- mand the release of Chairman Bobby Seale and all political pris- oners on Sept. 2ist. Directly after the demonstration a public meeting was held at which thee BP. PSC informed the people of the latest developments around the kidnap- ping of Chairman Bobby, Present at the meeting to condemn the fascist pig tactics of mankind fascist pig tactics against the peoples’ revolutionary Vanguard Party, were Le Phoung, SVRPRG (FNL's Info. Bureau) Brother Walter, American Deserter’s -ommittee, Bengt Heligren, Com- mittee for Latin American Liber- ation and the Swedish-Cuban Union, Revolutionary films and slides were shown and members of the Committee Informed the people about the Black Panther Party's history, organization and the peoples revolutionary programs The Committee would like to say RIGHT ON to the large and en- thustfastic reception and act of solidarity to all in attendance, a F ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! PEOPLE IN SCANDINAVIA GETTING HIP TO U.S, FASCISM Black Panther Party Solidarity Comm. Stockholm THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTORER 25, 1%9, PAGE 22 October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want What We Believe 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 destin 2, We want full employment for our people We believe that the federal govern responsible and obligated | give every min cimplovinent at toatl income, We beheve that il the white American busin ion wall ' ¢ full emplowment, the thee means of produ tion should te lake frvsrns thee luge men aud placed the community so thal the peop plo all ofits people and give al 7 4. We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Communits 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 a 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 filty million blac k people, therefore. we feel that this sa modest demand that we make 1. 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, ean build and make decent housing for its people a 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 f 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 Ame ica. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist pe y 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 o1 z 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 themsels 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 mar jails and prisons because they have not received a fairand impa ES | 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court b: a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities defined by the Constitution of the United States. We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitutior so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the US. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. Ap is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, en vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will t ~ 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 And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised ple cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black cole subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining th 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 natufe and naturg’s God entitle them,a decent réspect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare - the causes which impel them to the separation a We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created eq that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable nm that among these are life. liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, | 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 aenew government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its pewers in such form. as to them shall seem most likely to effeet their safety and happiness. 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NEWTON Chairman BOBBY SEALE Chairman BOBBY SEALE Editor Minister of Information ; Minister of Information ELDRIDGE CLEAVER ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Chief of Staff DAVID HILUARD Managing Editor Deputy Minister of Information biG MAN Field Marshals UNDERGROUND 4 lutionory Artist gor lay-out ; Minister of Education Minister of Culture Ray *Masai’ Hewitt EMORY DOUGLAS . Production Manoger JOHN SEALE Minister of Finance Minister of Foreign Affoin Minister of Justice Co-Editors Prime Minister Communications Secretary KATHLEEN CLEAVER Distribution Monoger ANDREW AUSTIN Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS Cirevlation SAM NAPIER The editorial and production cost of THE BLACK PANTHER News: paper have increased considerably. We would like to continue increasing weekly circulation and our national and interna. tional news coverage. To do this we need your aid. Please send us news items, general information, and contributions. Help us distribute and get new subscriptions to The Black Panther newspaper, Submit to: BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER 3106 SHATTUCK AVE. BERKELEY, CALIF. THE BLACK PANTHER, OCTOBER 25, 1969, PAGE 23 ,_ RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA... Every member of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY throughout this country of racist America must abide by these cules as functional mem- bers of this party. CENTRAL COMMITTEE member, CENTRAL STAFFS, and LOCAL STAFFS, including all captains subordinate to cither national, state, and local leadership of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY will enforce these rules. Length of suspension or other dis- ciplinary action necessary for violation of these rules will depend on national decisions by national, state or state area, and local committees and staffs where said rule or rules of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY WERE VIOLATED. Every member of the party must know these verbatum by heart. And apply them daily, Each member must report any violation of these rules to their leadership or they are counter-revolutionary and are also subjected to suspension by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. THE RULES ARE: » No party member can have narcotics of weed in his possession vie doing party work. ‘Any party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from mk palty. 3. No party member can be DRUNK while doing daily party work. 4. No party member will violate rules relating to office work, general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, aud) meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANYWHERE. 5. No party member will USE, POINT, or FIRE & weapon of any kind unnecessarily or accidentally at anyone. 6. No party member can join any other army force other than the BLACK LIBERATION ARMY. 7. No party member can have a weapon in his possession while DRUNK or loaded off narcotics or weed, 8. No party member will commit any crimes against other party members or BLACK people at all, and cannot steal or take from the people, not even a needle or a piece of thread. 9. When arcested BLACK PANTHER MEMBERS will give only name, address, and will sign nothing. Legal first aid must be understood by all Party members. 10, The Ten Point Program and platform of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must be known and understood by cach Party member. 11. Party Communications must be National and Local. 12. The 10-10-10-program should be known by all members and also understood by all members. 13. All Finance officers will operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance. 14. Each person will submit a report of daily work. 15. Each Sub-Section Lender Section Leader, Lieutenant, tnd Captain must submit Daily reports of work. 16. All Panthers must learn to operate and service weapons correctly. 17. All Leadership personnel who expel a member must submit this information to the Editor of the Newspaper, so that it will be published in the paper and will be known by all chapters and branches. 18. Political Education Classes are mandatory for general member- ship. 19. Only office personnel assigned to respective offices euch day should be there. All others are to sell papers and do Political work out in the community, including Captains, Section Leaders, ete. 20. COMMUNICATIONS — all chapters must submit weekly re- ports in writing to the National Headquarters, 21. All Branches must implement First Aid and/or Medical Cadres. 22. All Chapters. Branches, and componceats of the BLACK PAN- THER PARTY must submit a monthly Financial Report to the Minis try of Finance, and abe the Central Committee, 23. Everyone incu leadership position must road mo tess than two hours per day te keep abreast of the changing polition! situation, 24, No chapter or branch shall uccept grants, poverty funds. mane. or any other aid from any government agenes without contacting the National Headquarters, 25. All chapters must adhere to the policy and the ideology laid down by the CENTRAL COMMITTEE of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, 26, All Branches must submit weekly reports in writing to their re- spective Chapters, SEIZE THE TIME