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THE BLAGK PANTHER 22 Black Community News Service SURLSGEED THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY WEEKLY) A nv RY > wa Ss ws a a =. = = x Be@} ae” ~~ ut x srvthnad i334 SA FA As SCIs , er son THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 2 MESSAGE. FROM : CHAIRMAN BOBBY SEALE ‘*” BOBBY SEALE, CHAIRMAN, B.P.P. POLITICAL PRISONER of A witmess by the Frapolly got up, He was an agent- provocateur, He belonged to SDS, name Student Mobilization, Chicago Peace Conference and some other White radical groups. When he got through testifying, Kuntsler asked Weinglass if he wanted to question the did that, the Chairman interrupted and said, **l want to question him, I'm en- titled to question him. Because of witness, When he a law that was an old Black Re- construction Law. This law says that you can’t violate the consu- tutional rights of the Black man, He made a statement that he was FBI, and he said that in Lincoln Park, | said that Black People want to take over White people." Hoff- man told the Chairman to sit down, The Chairman said, ‘You violated my constitutional rights already to- day, when you refused my motion this morning.’ MOTION: “In the U.S, District Court, in the Northern District of Ulinols, East- ern Division where the U.S, Gov- ernment, NOT the people is Plaintiff and myself, Bobby Seale is a defendant of eight others, 469 CM, 180 - State Illinois. I, Bobby Seale, demand and move the court as follows: that I, Bobby Seale, have denied the services of my attorney, Charles the of who been R. Garry, and without money, es- pecially since the pig police forces of Chicago taking orders from the government officials of the city have unjustly raided and attacked the Chicago, Illinois Black Panther Party Chapter Office time andtime rethanten again and have stolen m thousand dollars in cash and checks donated to us. During this attack by the police recently they had taken close to five thousand dollars that for Free Breakfastfor Children Program, Free Health Clinic and Legal Defense of Party members, I demand my rights that this court see to it that | receive at the ex- of this court of the US, Government a recorded transcript of this trial of which | am a de- fendant, who has constantly con- and pointed that my rights to legal defense have been denied, and I need especially now this transcript of testimony against me, so as to be able to help prove my innocence the charges a- gainst me, since | am denied the pense tended out of services of legal counsel] of my choice and the right to defend my- self.”" A Black Man, Bobby G, Seale Chairman, Black Panther Purty (This is a violation of Section 19842 of Section’42, Federal Code.) him that The judge reminded under federal could be chained and gagged to his chair. The Chairman told Hoffman that he should, if anything, nor remind him of his (judge's) con- stitutional rights, but of his (Bobby’s) rights under the consri- tution (i.e, right to legal counsel), When it was time for the judge to leave and all the defendants to stand, the Chairman refused to stand, The judge ordered the lawyer, Kuntsler, to order the Chairman to stand, By this time defendants Rubin and Hayden had also sat down, Kuntsler said, ‘'It is against my conscience, Why don't you give me a directive, because these people are sitting down to protest being tried in this man- ner’*, ‘The judge gave him a direc- tive, and told the Federal Marshals make them stand up, By this time, all the defendants had sat down, and the Federal Marshals were standing up over them, And the judge was standing. And the judge said, ‘‘Let the record show that in this court, art the conclusion of these proceedings, the defendants are still not standing; and this court will be adjourned until tomorrow morning at 10:00%" Judge Hoffman finally declared that Chairman Bobby would, infact, be bound and gagged tomorrow to law the Chairman (October 2%h). TO ALL ANTI - FASCIST 4ND ANT! - IMPERIALIST JOURNALISTS, PRESSMEN OF THE WORLD. ‘REPRINT TH(S DEMAND,” AMBUSHED.. THE CONSPIRACY EIGHT LEFT TO RIGHT: LEONARD WEINGLASS, (ATT) RE JOHN FROINES, JERRY RUBIN, TOM HAYDEN, WILLIAM KUNTSLER @TT) It is becoming crystal clear that the eight defendants were the vic- tims of a political ambush. The circumstances of their indictments were belng created by the fas- cist ruling class of America, some two years before the Democratic National Convention The plans totrapand later smash the political movement here in Babylon were being made as far back as the fall of 1966, the same time plans were belng made forthe Democratic National Convention, This was a precautionary measure of the capitalist-fascist clique to ensure that the burew#ucratic- capitalist politics of the so-called American democracy were held In- tact and the frultiessness of po- litical conventions was not exposed to the American people, The Intelligence agencies of the capitalist-fascist clique were the tools used to lay this ambush The Secret Service, the not so secret CIA, FBI, ABC, NBC, CBs, I‘SPY, and others have come into the courtroom of Julius Adolph Eichman Hoffman to testify against the eight defendants on events that occured several months before the DNC. These local, state, and federal pigs and informers jobs were to disrupt the activities of the organizations leading to the ‘intent to riot’ charges of the Grand Jury indictments. Some of the defendants fell itito the trap laid by this bourgeols-capitalist government, not realizing that a year later they would be prose- cuted for ‘exercising’ their first and fourth amendment rights, It is interesting to note that the Black Panther Party was started in the fall of 1966, and that the reactionary forces of this bourgeois - capitalist state were trying desperately to stop the rev- olutionary Party and vanguard of the socialist revolution and the Black people's struggle for national liberation The orders to start the ball to rolling toattempt to destroy thepeo- ple’s army and the mass political movements were given by the fas- cist leader of the ‘Great Society’. LyndonB Johnson, However, even though he gave the order, the de- cision was made by the elements that make up the ruling class here in Babylon There is a force (the Bour- geols capltalist state) in Babylon that made the decisions to try to stifle the progress of the grow- ing political movement for pro- letarian democracy in Amorica, This force is made up of fi- nance capital (big banks and financial institutions), large cor- porations, lawyers--all those ele- ments that have a vested interest in the maintenance of this deca- dent capitalist state. It is their watchdogs -all the intelligence agencies -role to keep tabs on growing political dissent in Babylon and their job to execute any and all orders made by the ruling class The ruling class understands that their ‘ivory tower’ will be challenged and they make amends to see to it that the challenge is quashed and the political dissent is directed Into non-revolutionary activities This bureaucratic superstruc- ture of intelligence agencles now consider the domestic political dissent of prime concern, The gov- ernment is plowing moreand more funds into its domestic Intelligence NNIE DAVIS, ABSIE HOFFMAN, LEE WEINER, DAVE DELLINGER, network to infiltrate, maneuver, and destroy the progressive po- litical activities in general andthe Black Panther Party In particular. The Intelligence network has such control over the political activi- tles (excluding the BPP and RNA), that it can channel their energies Into reactionary activities or demonstrations. with apolitical objectives, The point that fm trying to get across Is thatthe stage of the Con- Spiracy to Riot trial was set by the ruling class with the Innocent par- ticipation of some of the defend- ants, Testimonies, documents, and tapes, show that the defendants didn’t conspire to riot, but were ambushed for the purpose of smashing all heretofore anti- CONT, ON PG, 3 —_" RACISM OF - HOFFMAN’S COURT ._ It ts evident to all people that the court system of this capitalist State Is riddled with racism and the Opportunity for a Black man to get a fair trial ts virtually impossible, Day after day, the hanging judge and the running dogs have ejected Black people from the courtroom and harassed the Panther members that were there...He claims some were noisy, that some were asleep, that ‘‘they came into my courtroom too late’, and “they seemed to be intimidating the jurors’’, The pig judge went as far tators audience ts justified, A Black pig Is still a pig and nothing more. He Intimidates the attorneys when they speak up for the Black spectators and orders them not to speak out about the racism in his court, The racism became evident when he refused to allow the Chairman to represent himself. The Chalir- man's attorney, Charles R, Garry, is sick In California and has been unable to come to the trial, This illegal and improper conduct of BOBBY SEALE, CHAIRMAN, B.P.P. POLITICAL PRISONER as to have the Chairman's family removed, and when the Chairman stood up to protest, the pig ordered him to sit down, Before the trial began, the gov- ernment and the hanging judge managed to dismiss eleven of the fourteen prospective jurors,..Out of a population of 750,000 Black citizens, only 14 were among the 400 prospective jurors. As a re- sult, the Chairman can't get a fair trial because of the absence of his peer group members on the jury. The pig judge thinks that because half of the marshals are Black (they were hand picked for his trial), the exclusion of Black people on the jury and in the spec- POLITICAL NATIONAL PROTEST NOVEMBER 17 - 9:00 AM FOLEY SQUARE , N.Y. CITY TO FREE THE PANTHER 21 AND ‘ALL DONATIONS FOR DEFENSE FUND the hanging judge is condoned by the attorneys for the government of the United States Racism ts a fundamental aspect of the fascist court system and helps to curtall democracy here in America, The same ruling class that promotes capitalism, pro- motes racism. We must unite to expose the racism and continue our struggle to smash the capital- ist ruling class, SEIZE THE TIME FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISON- ERS BLACK PANTHER PARTY Tilinois Chapter PRISONERS On Thursday October 23, 1969 the New Haven Panther 14 ap- peared in court for the first time since May 22, 1969, when they were dragged out of bed In the middle of the night by America’s answer to HITLER'S SECRET POLICE, THE F.B,I, The Panther Party members looked very well despite their 4 months stay in the racist, fascist prisons of Conn, Their spirit was very high; and they are refusing to let their forced isolation away from the people of New Haven, break their will and determination to fight for the freedom and lib- eration of all oppressed and ex- Ploited people here in New Haven and in Amerikkka.The message I bring from these beautiful and righteous revolutionaries to the people is to "BE STRONG" and “TO CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE FOR THE FREEDOM AND JUS- TICE THEY DESERVE IN THIS FOUL CAPITALIST COUNTRY WE LIVE IN,"* The hearing was SUpposed to Start at 10:00 a.m., but was de- layed as usual by the racist state's attorney until 3:30 late that af- ternoon, in an attempt to dis- courage the people from thecom- munity from attending the hearing. The people from the community FROM LAST PAGE AMBUSHED : capitalist political activity, The real conspirators, the capitalist- fascist clique, on the verge of extinction, are stepping up their ‘time-table’ to destroy the Party in particular and the mass polit- ical movements in general, If the trial is allowed to con- tinue, all the first and fourth “TOURE"’ WALTER POPE THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 3 NEW HAVEN PANTHERS HAVE HEARING turned out to show support for these brothers and sisters whoare being held on jive charges that the pigs created out of thin air in an attempt to destroy the Black Panther Party, and all other peo- ple in this country who are telling the truth about what's really hap- pening to Black people, Brown peo- ple, and poor White people here in Amerikkka, When the people from the community tried to get into the courtroom they were told to wait until the local pig de- partment could get its goons into the courtroom, There were about 15 pigs in the courtroom and they were belng led by their swollen headed leader, paste head Pastore, This was another clear cut at- tempt by the state attorney and local pigs to frighten the people away from the courtroom. The State attorney oinked in the face of the people when he denied them the right to enter a courtroom that the people are supposed to control, There were more pigs in the coutroom than there were people from the communities, If the New Haven Panthers are going to receive a fair trial, these kind of things have to be stopped, If the New Haven Panthers are to receive justice in these racist and fascist courts then the people must turn out at their trial and demand that we have the right to watch and make sure that Party members receive fair and im- partial trials, We must demand that these revolutionaries, these true ser- vants of the people be set free immediately, and that all political prisoners be set free immediately. We must also demand that points 8 and 9 of the Black Panther Party Platform and Program be im- plemented to insure that our brothers and sisters be set free] 8. WE WANT FREEDOM FORALL BLACK MEN HELD IN FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY AND CITY PRISONS AND JAILS, 9. WE WANT ALL BLACK PEO- PLE WHEN BROUGHT TO TRIAL TO BE TRIED IN A COURT BY A JURY OF THEIR PEER GROUP OR PEOPLE FROM THE BLACK COMMUNITY, AS DEFINED BY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, ALLPOWERTO THE PEOPLE!!! Area Captain Doug Miranda New Haven, Chapter Black Panther Party THE CONSPIRACY EIGHT amendment rights to free speech and assembly will be nullified; and the next move of the fascist will be on the people. The peo- ple of this country will then be- come the victims of an ambush by the fascist-capitalist ruling class of Amerikkka, Party at the 1969, mortal, achieved by LONG LIVE “TOURE”’ Toure’s commemaration mes- sage delivered by David Hilliard Chief of Staff of the Black Panther “Toure is not with us now. But the blood he shed will never be wasted, His name and the everlasting revolutionary exploits he performed will go down forever in the history of liberation of mankind and his lofty revolutionary There will appear thousands and tens of thousands of Toures on the Scene of decisive battle in the revo- lutionary struggle of Black people and the revolutionary cause whichhe left unaccomplished will surely be revolutionary peoples the worldover, SO, LONG LIVE TOURE.” STRUGGLE AGAINST FASCISM SEIZE THE TIME BLACK PANTHER PARTY lliinols Chapter Lt, of Information Eugene Charles graveside October 25th spirit will be im- Black people and the THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 4 ~NEW HAVEN COALITION 10 SUPPORT B.P-P. More and more people around New Haven are coming to demand the immediate release of the 15 Black Panther Party held illegally in jail ona number of charges, members, Even people who don't agree with the Panthers politically know that they Can't get a ‘'fair"’ trial now, after the bad publicity they’ve received, Two weeks ago the formation of The Coalition for the Defense of the Black Panthers was announced, Fourteen groups have joined so far; Some statements about why they Joined follow, The statements show PRE Pad how people of all back grounds and professions have joined to de- mand that the Panther Party mem- bers be freed, Joining together is only the first step. It is not enough just to Say the Panthers must be freed. Peo- ple must know why these men and women were arrested, The Panther program is a real threat to the rich businessmen crooked politicians who run this country -- that’s why the Black Panther Party is being persecuted, and e know AIM to let where it agrees with the Panthers, wants peo] Both groups feel that the big cor- porations thit in order to squeeze out a money as they can from the peo- ple. Both are fighting to give the country back to the regu- lar working people. AIM and the Panthers want the people to con- trol thelr own communities. The Black Panthers have set up Free Health Clinics and Breakfast Pro- grams for Children, These arethe kinds of things the powers-that- be will never freely give the peo- ple, That is why they want to destroy the Black Panther Party, run much groups AIM can't afford to see the Pan- thers in jail. Neither can you, The American Independent Movement Is eager to work with this Coalition, We join ir, first of all, because we believe the cur- rent persecution of the Panthers has violated every principle of justice, The Panthers were arrested illegally, denied theright to counsel, and the right to bail. indicted in selected grand jury of They secret by an Ulegally courthouse cronies. were We believe the police and pro- officials making a deliberate and unconstitutional at- tempt to violate the principle of “innocent until proven guilty’’ by planting prejudicial stories in the press, Secution are we join this the Panthers the efforts of On a broader lev coalition to Defend because we believe SS CONFERENCE: FROM LEFT TO RIGHT HE because the Panthers fight against the oppression of all people in America, Panthers serve the peo- ple: They must be set All Power to the People! New Haven Students for a Demo- cratic Society 6DS) The Architects’ Resistance finds it intolerable that the police and the press a& campaign group they have the right to wage of hate as wish to see The Coalition of Concerned Citizens is alarmed that a fair trial for the Black Panthers who have been arrested no longer ap- pears possible, The case for the police and the prosecution has been put before the public repeatedly by the news media, Because of this trial by publicity, a large part of the community feels the case is as good as closed, For all practical purposes, this makes the selection of an impartial jury virtually impossible. We feel the news media have the obligation to rectify the situation by reporting the case for the defense as well, CASI EISENMAN AND ROBERT WEBB the Black Panther Party are im- portant and positive steps toward securing economic and racial jus- tice In America, The Panthers believe, as does AIM, that this country must be controlled by working people, both Black and White, and not by che corporations and the big-shor poll ticians, For these reasons, we will fight this attempr t clit destroy * brothers in the Black Panther Party, discre and Independent Movement Americar {AIM) As acommunity legal rights edu- cation program, we at Dixwell Le- gal Rights Association believe it is essential to demand and work constructively for a legal system which protects the constitutional rights of all defendants, regard- of their political or social beliefs. Futhermore, every citizen and all community groups must bear this responsibility by active- ly seeking a fair trial for the ar- rested members of the Black Pan- ther Party. less Dixwell Legal Rights Association, Inc. New Haven SDS is a group of young people working to return the power of America to its peo- ple, We join the Coalition to De- fend the Panthers. The arrest of the Connecticut Panthers is part of a nation-wide attempt to destroy the Panthers, The Panthers have been the ob- Ject of just such a campaign and have been denied the right toa fair trial, Therefore, the Arch- itects’ Resistance joins with the Other members of the Coalition in demanding that the Panthers not be denied a fair trial because of the radical nature their politics, of Furthermore, we full support the Panther principle that all peo- ple should have the rightand power to control their own lives and be- lieve they should be allowed to continue their work free of haras- sment. ~The Architects’ Resistance NEW HAVEN PANTHER RALLY, This is essential if we are to perserve a fundamental ideal in our legal tradition: that Is, any: person charged with a crime is ‘Annocent until proven guilty in a court of law,"’ -Coalition of Concerned Citizens The history of the Black man in America has been one of intense oppression, exploitation, and terror. For 400 years we have been bred and slaughtered Like cattle at the slave masters’ dis- cretion, For 400 years we have been forced to endure any and every kind of injustice. For 400 years we have been victims of the most insidious system that has ever bees recorded in the annals of history, ‘We Black people will not let an other year, not another second pass without trying to rectify the situation, Indeed we Black people do see the lUght at the end of the tunnel, We support the Black Panther Party in its fight to erase exploitation, We support and act. ively engage in insuring a fairtriay for these courageous warriors of justice, We, the students of Southern Connecticut, pledge our full Support, both moral and physical NRY MITCHEL, CHRIS WILSON, DOUG MIRANDA, energies, to the Black Panther Party to do all within our power to safeguard the right to a fair and speedy trial. We at Southern admire and respect the unquench- able desire for total liberation of all oppressed people exemplified by the Black Panther Party. Lastly, the students at Southern as well 25 Black people generally, willnot tolerate random intimidation nor MAY 1, 1969 arbitrary terrorism from anybody but will unite under the banner of righteousness and deal with it, Organization of Afro-American Students (Southern Connecticut State Cok lege) 8 m hat has happened to youatU.C.L.A, be a victory for Black people the struggle and how do you re~ te this to what Is happening in communities, RSsas g ANGELA: One of therhings I have tried to constantly point out is that the brother who was in charge of think that the statement that Bobby ideas on this, the Regents’ attempt to fire me, according to a resolution which they haveon a standing order barring com- ‘munists, was in effect an attack not only on members of the Com- munist Party but potentially an attack on anyone who posed radical solutions to the problems in our society. If they can still keep that particular resolution on their stand- Ing orders they can also pass a re- solution barring members of the Black Panther Party from teaching on the campuses. They can pass a resolution barring members of Chicano organizations, white organ- izations which are pushing forth in a radical direction. Therefore, ! think that the decision the judge made which in effect implied that | no political test should be used Is | a major victory for Black people because it means that we can talk about our political views, We can use our political views in order to expose the kindsof atrocities that are going on in the society on the campuses, Onthe other hand it's a victory only in the sense that we continue to push forth in the streets. It's not a court victory, a legal victory. It's insignificant unless it's accompanied by a move of the masses of the people in order to push forward in the struggle. CONNIE: What do you Intend doing now? You have had quite a lot of Speaking engagements. How do you intend to carry on? You have the public interest focused on your act- tivities. How will you take all this one step further, and to the benefit of the struggle? ANGELA; Well one of the things I did, and not too long ago, was when I was asked to respond to the de- I stated that I didn't want to hold in the Black community. representative ther Party was supposed to be pre- sent at the press conference but an emergency came up that day and _ Elaine wasn’t able to make it. So Capitalism is a cancer which eats away all signs of humanity in people, Capitalism does not care who it exploits(cheats), Capitalism for a selfish few and not for the masses of the people, A capitalist 1s one who owns factories, stores, money (capital) etc., and h these things he takes the peo- money and makes more y. He doesn’t return any of money to the community, but bad takes the money to the bs and his split-level house. _ Let's break down the different things the capitalist owns and how we ng exploited (cheated) by 10 : The workers In | make things that are INTERVIEW WITH ANGELA DAVIS f truggle against NNIE: Angela, could you explain what I am trying to do is to show concerned in bringing together the in Vietnam with ours e the way ‘tn which you see the people how this, the action that tles for a world proletarian revo- capitalism the Regents attempted to take ag- ainst me, is only one minute in- stance of all the repressive acts which are taking place inthe society today,and really nothing compared to the way for instance that the Black Panther Party is being subjected to- a really calculated genocide, Like the distribution of the Black Panther Party Paper in Los Angeles and was shot down by the pigs a couple days ago. This is what I have been trying to put forth. Theloss THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 5 ON SEPTEMBER 19, 1969, THE BOARD-OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA VOTED TO DISMISS ANGELA DAVIS, A 25-YEAR-OLD BLACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, WHO HAD BEEN FIRED BY THE PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES SOLEY ON THE BASIS OF HER MEMBERSHIP IN THE COMMUNIST PARTY. SHORTLY THERE~ AFTER, DONALD KALISH, CHAIRMAN OF THE UCLA PHILOSOPHY DEPARTMENT, ANNOUNCED THAT MISS DAVIS WOULD BE AS- SIGNED TO TEACH A COURSE ON “RECURRING PHILOSOPHICAL THEMES IN BLACK LITERATURE,'’ TO BEGIN OCTOBER 6, THE REGENTS MET AGAIN ON OCT. 3, THIS TIME IN EMER~ GENCY SESSION, AND VOTED OVERWHELMINGLY THAT NO CRE— lution? ANGELA: I think that this is one of we, know that the U.S, government and racism in this country, CONNIE: Now, we look at it this way DIT WAS TO BE GRANTED TO STUDENTS ENROLLED IN MISS DAVIS' COURSE, A MASSIVE PROTEST MOVEMENT ENVELOPED ALL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CAMPUSES, AND MANY OTHER ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS IN CALIFORNIA, LIKEWISE, THE BLACK COMMUNITY HAS BITTERLY CONDEMNED THE REGENTS’ DECISION, CONNIE: We have come a long way from the beginning as far as the struggle is concerned, in the sense that Black people are now arming themselves with an {ideology which the best political ways in which we will not just release Huey Newton ¥85 missing before. How do you see can begin to establish a concrete and Bobby Seale just like that so the overall struggle at the moment? solidarity with our brothers and sis- ters who are fighting in the Third hands we will have to put it of the people and take into the We have been trying to educate our people to the Importance of inter- World for their liberation. And I onto the streets. Do you have anynationalism, To get them to under- because we know stand that we are in the belly of Seale made at the Montreal Con-Nixon is very indifferent to whatthe whale hereand that imperialism, ference last year-that if we are the people say. We feel the people manifested in the U.S, is amonster talking about fighting againstracism,should handle this, as there are With tentacles and the other oppres- fighting against oppression In this lots of American women who have sed peoples of the world are trying country, we have to look towards husbands or sons, or what haveto cut off the tentacles but that we here have to get the monster from inside, ANGELA; I ‘think: that it Is very . significant that over the last few CONNIE MATTHEWS INTERVIEWS ANGELA DAVIS of my job, really would mean no- Vietnam because they are really on you, thing to me and my fight for thisthe front lines of the battle fleld Vietnam What do you think? job {s significant, only in-so-farin the fight against oppression all that it is symbolic of the fight ofover the world-is very relevant, 1 ANGELA: Black people and oppressed people think if we can bring this intoeffect, have to bec in this country and all over theif we can get the masses involved mass involv forcing the U.S. government to be kept on accept this kind of an exchange, his will be a major victory, world to push forward towards Lib- {n cision the judge made, by the press~ eration, CONNIE; see this? What impact do you think this wherever I go and tel this will have on the struggle here that this {s something t in the US, this as You have heard recently that ¢ @ press conference up at U.C.L.A about the proposed exchange of pris- isolated from where the real oners: that the Vietnamese are will- struggle was, but rather right down ing to discuss the release of A- We had merican prisoners of war, in ex- Students from the change for the freedom of Huey P. Black high schools in the area who Newton are involved in struggling for abet- founder of the Black Panther Party, ter education for Black people. Aand Bobby Seale, Chairman of the representative from the Black Pan- Black Panther Party. How do you Minister of Defense and of what both in terms of who are prisoners of war in years a number of organizations, Chicanos, Black, White were afraid of the terms socialism and com- munism because of all the indoc- trination that has gone on, It {s sig- nificant that many of the organizat- fons are now beginning to turn to- wards Marxism-Leninism and are beginning to see that socialism has worked in many countries a]l over the world and is continuing to work, People are beginning to wake up to the fact that In order to talk about constructing a real humane society we have to destroy imperialism, and we have to destroy capitalism, One of the things which really impressed me during the trip | made to Cuba this summer is that the Cubans really look to us, Blacks, Browns, and White revolutionaries in this country, as being the crucial element _ in the struggle. They look towards us as fighting for their revolution and they really depend on us to continue to put internal pressure on the government, on capitalism, An- other thing which was very amusing throughout Cuba, Kendra Alex- ander and I were on a small’ tour this summer, and everywhere we went people knew about the revo- lutionary struggle here-They knew about the Black Panther Party, And when they noticed us with our naturals they immediatejy sald we I think It 1s going to must be from the Black Panther ome a major Issue Of Party. I also think the upcoming ement. It shouldn't only yenceremos Brigade is another wa a diplomatic level, One : of the reasons why the few Con- gressmen called forthe moratorium co nt our own struggle on Oct. 15, was because of all the task and alsoin terms of the solidarity Mass pressure that has been mount- which is so necessary for us to ing during the last couple of years establish with the people in theAnd I think that if we begin to pose of showing our solidarity, symbolic- ally showing our solidarity with ries which are carrying out the of building a real socialist revolution, But my perspective on the movement Is that we are moving constantly in a progressive di- Third World. Since I was informed this to the masses of the people; rection towards socialism and to- the North Vietnamese, andif we make this on I suppose the provisional govern- hat we willin the and how do you view have to get everybody involved a- the 4 far as internationalism 1s round because it tes in the struggle diplomacy, @ of the major Wards linking up with oppressed issues of the upcoming mobilization peoples all over the world, particul- ment of South Vietnam, had stated against the war then we can be vic- T have been continually talkingabout torious, But as you pointed out» it are also fighting against American arly linking up with those people who ling people {s going to have to become an issue Imperialism and see socialism as streets and not just with the only alternative way of creating overnment on a high level of &@ humane existence for all people over the world. THE PEOPLE VS. CAPITALISM needed for everyday survival, The people need these jobs to survive, and the capitalist uses the people to make more money here's how he does it: You work in a fac- tory making shoes, you make $50 worth of shoes a day, but you get $15 a day for making the shoes, which means you're paying the capitalist $35 a day to make his shoes: DIG IT] Stores: The capital- ists’ main bag of exploitation (cheating) is the stores from which we must buy our everyday needs, from food and clothing to roach killers, The capitalist knows he doesn’t pay us our correct sala- ries, he knows he underpays us; but the capitalist pigs don't want just a little of our money, he wants ALL, The community capitalist Is the grinning pig at the corner store who takes all the cash money we have with his high prices, and al) that we don't have through his bill system, When we don't have cash and our bills are high the grinning pig tells us no more food, clothing, etc. He’s sucking us dry with a porky pig grin op his face, The downtown capitalist is the big department stores where we got to get our ‘*good'’ things; a dress that cost the capitalist $8.50 to make sells for $35. The big and little capital- ist pigs are cheating us the same way but on a lower and higher level, One oinks in our faces from our communities; the other we have to go to for him to oink in our faces, The money (capital) that these capitalists have is not theirs: it belongs to the people and the peo- ple see what the pigs are doing to us, they see that the capitalist fs working in no ones Interest but his own, he's making us spend more money for less, Giving his money to other capitalists for their exploitive (cheating) ventures; to suck even more money from our already empty pockets, We the people of this decadent society are now beginning to real- {ze that we make things in the capitalists factories, and we’ re not being payed fairly for our work. When we go to the capitalists’ stores and buy the same things we make, we pay twice the amount of money, and sometimes more, than it costs for us to make them, We now realize that there must be an end to the robbery by the capitalist of our poorcommunities. Let all the poor peoples of Babylon shout together, “We're golng to to take It from the greedy, and give {t all back to the needy” BLACK PANTHER PARTY New Hayen Chapter Verna THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 6 INTERVIEW WITH D.C. == FIELD MARSHAL ACTIVIST: D. C., the Bliok Panther Party has been a tremendous inspira- tion to the liberation sovenent in Reneral the world ovet and the Uni- ted States in particular, especially the white movement, Could you brief iy outline for our readers some of jthe vrosrans the Alack Panther Party has initiated and some of the pro- krame they are carrying on now to paeet the needs of the people? -C.8A0 the present time we have go- nz the free breakfast prozrams, This was started last January. Our first program was in Oakland and the first day there were twenty children. Now we'ra feedine close to 30,000. We hooe before this semester in over we will be feeding uo to 200,000 child- refi breakfast every mornins.Nor this is a hot breakfast, meat (either han or tacon),ex=s, juice, arits, toast, and hot chocolate--- very zood meals, a Me also have free lunch procrams in) Some arens. primarily for children who aren't sohool aze,W¥e have liber- ation schools soine and some of the branches have liberation schools zo- Mine after the rerular school hours, ‘a. also have free medical clin- fos, We're instituting those in all the branches and chapters, This one was a little late in cettine off the eround, ‘Ye really just rot off into it this summer ,and I cuess now about eicht branches have these free medi- cal clinics, The problem we have with that prozran is the facility and, frankly, that's the bis-est problen, Ne have commitments from doctors, and supplies, tut the facility is the problen, we aiso have grans soins now, free clothing pro- de initiated that one in New York, we're proud to say, It started out in response to the welfare cuts in cutting off the clothine allowance, Ye always try to Telate to the people's needs ine concrete fashion, you ses, rather than just relate to some synbolic demonstration or something, We leave that for the people who aren‘t as politically advanced as we are, Thats the natural response,to demonstrate, but we try .to-relate to. things on «a higher level in a concrete fash- fon spenkin= to their needs so we launched that free clothine and school supply procram, The response from the businessmen, for whatever reason, has been fairly good. Natur- ally, it's not sdequate tut we're manacinc to clothe quite a few kidss We're cettinz new shoes, coats, the whole gamut.The thing is foinz quite well. ‘low we don't refuse anythine, see,ve =at mood response from clean- ers, I xuess the cleaners contribute more to ‘chat prorram than anyone, cClothin= that has never been cleined or never picked up, And these are the four tasic prozrans that are fo- ine on nationally.Zach branch where- ever it is works autonomously deal- ine with local issues, tut those are the national prozrams that we have zoine af this tims.Also we're natur- ally pushinz for community control of nolice, ACTIVIST: It‘s fairly easy to see, for anyone ‘ho studies the Anmerican novenent,that in recent months part- foularly the Slack Panther Party has been the victim of one of the most vicious ani brutal repressions from the covernzent in the history of the United States: Yucy FP. Newton, the Minister of Defense, is in jail: =£l- dridee Cleaver in exile; now the Chairman of the Party, Jobby Seals has been kidnapped and is in jail without bail; the New York Panther 21 and on and on around the country: and yet the Party work seems to have continued and seems to have expanded Vould you like to comment on this? D.C.: We reslly have «otten to the point in history where there are people who understand that in order to chance the conditions that we're in,we have to have a revolution, and \we'vye panaged to have these people in the Party, They're dedicated and ‘they're aware regardless of the re- pression that we have to otrugele--- we have to have that revolution. And _they're selfless people. ’ “They know even though we my aot be around personally to benefit from the revolution itself, it's a very necessary thins. I've heard the thers say you can indict a revo- rusk but you can't indict a revolution, It's the conditions the people are forced to live in that the Panther Party ae os (ret place, And I like to relate to wut r heard one of the brothers in New York say-"ae long as there's one ‘black person strugelins, there will always be @ Slack Panther Party, crea BLACK PANTHER PARTY /- We have @ progran,we nave prin- ciples, We're trying to become Marx- ists, Ye're working and studying to- gether,s0 we don't relate to person- alities, 50 it doesn't stop anythine when they do rip off one of the lea- ders, This is the traditional method that the ples have used thinking they could take off the leadership or the head and the body would die, But see, the sane principles that muide the central committee guide the Panthers in training. So resard- less of the numbers of us that they rip off, it‘s not zoinr to stop any- thine. By the repression that we're receiving, this really is beginning to further educate people,And theres nothing happening really that we personally didn’t expect and know what was szolnz to happen, But we have to use all the re- pression that's being rained upon us to point out to the people the con- tradiction within the society and try to make them understand that once people reach the point where they really begin to push for the true liberation that this is in, store for anyone, not just members of the Slack Panther Party, or the black community, but anyone who steps off the little ol’ red, white and blue path that the pigs lay out,any- body who dissents and says “no more” and who work for change to make this a meaningful society they're going to receive the same repression, This is the way fascism always comes into the picture. When a maintain ple have always society can no longer its control over the peo- employed, then the only avenue available at that time is just open terror. ACTIVISTS All over the country the role of prisons is becomine sore and more evident, It's becoming more and more evident to politically aware people that prisons are not correct- tional institutions, but rather a repressive tool of the ruling class, Now the ruling olass used to aay that of course it was only in the South where raciam was rampant and outmoded conditions prevail but we've come to see that it’s not only in the South, but it's in the West, the North, and it's all over, the country. Now recently in‘New York State itself, Martin Sostre has re- vealed that there are construction programs going on now to expand the prisons and turn them into concen- tration camps for the black and the poor, You've traveled all over the coilmtry, D.C., is there anything you would like to add? D.C.: That's normal, it's part of the state machinery that's used to repress and control the people--the prisons,the courts, the pigs--that’s all part of that state machinery that's applied to those people who do step off the little old red, white, and blue path. They send then pigs in there to crack your head, or to shoot Mace in your face, or to shoot you, or throw you in jail, run you through those courts and put you off in those prisons, We see, say in ma years tine, the huge increase in the number of political prisoners, They know that the thing is zoing to escalate, because they're not going to sive up anything, So they have to have more room to put these people, So they're just going to expand the present institutions that they have and build more, At one point we were talking about concentration camps on a theoretical level and people ex- pected to see the regular barbed wire stockade type of thing, but we weren't aware at that time that they already existed in the present pri- gons and jails, But people are now beginning to understand that, ACTIVIST: Also something else that's becoming more and more evident a- round the country is the the drucs in the oppressed conmuni- ties, Now this morning at the con- ference (Nat'l Conf, .on Pol, ers in Buffalo-24,) 2#yd said that the Panther Partyever sot enough gus they would take care of the Mafia, Now would you oare to talk a little bit about the role of drugs in the oppressed communities throughout the country? D.C.+ I would like to expand on what Zayd snid, We're aware that the peo- ple who control the drugs are the game people who we're strugeling a- gainst in the first place, When the people rise up and have their revo- lution, that's when we end the dope problen, through the bullshit that they role of, Prison- ft FIELD MARSHAL D.C. I'll) give an experience that I had personaliy in San Francisco, } This was in the summer of '67, There was a rebellior, « small rebellion, It didn't get too far out of hand, Sut quite a little bit of activity was soine on that night amongst the black youth in the streets,And know- ing the streets very well, being in the streets every day, I know about the flow of dope traffic you know, ani the thing on the West Soast--tho red devile - seconals, The shit broke out around 6 o*’clock and I hit the streets and I was checking the thine out, Then about 6:00,a11 of a sudden you see the cata just stumblin’ everywhere and someone from somewhere flooded the comminity with red devils. And there were so many red devils that were flooded into that community that night, that you could actually, walk down the street and step on them, You couldn't go a few feet - «- they were on the sidewalks, So that was an obvious tactic that was used at that time to suppress the rebell- fous feelings that the people had, to come in with those red devils, It made them readily available, Well, in New York City there's so much scag, speed talis as we call them, a mixture of heroin and co- caine, being used, that the build- ings are leanine, And naturally in the most oppressed community, you always find the heavy dope. This is one of the tools, along with the government OZO and other government funded _ pacification pro- grams, to keep the oppressed people silent, keep them passive, And we recomize it for what it is, iIt*s definitely a mistake if people de-~- cide to stop or spend their time demling with the dope problem be- cause the dope problem is the big problem.The same people who control the dope are the same people we're zoing to have to wace our strusgsle Againat to have our revolution. You can't really separate the Mafia fron the power structure any more, it’s all inteermted, it‘s all one in the same, ACTIVIST: D.C., in Buffalo, the case of Martin Sostre is coming into mone and more prominence and -«iving in- spiration, and political understand- ing -- especially to the white move- ment here in Yuffaio, Now Martin was framed up in July of ‘67 in this Olity on dope charges and put away for @ vicious 41 years, D.C. Yes, Martin Sostre truly was in the vanguard in '67, remenbering the level the movement was at, There weren't many black people talking a- bout Marxist-Leninist principles and actually tryinz to propazate these . _type_of ideas. So, naturally he to be eliminated. And the power structure framed his on those char= ses of inciting to riot and couldn't make that stick,or elee they thought they could put him away longer by. ._ turning that around and framing his and charginz him with possession of dope.I‘'d say he's one of our earlier political prisoners, When we demand the freedom of Susy Newton,the free- dom of BSobby Seale,we must also talk about the freedom of Martin Sostre, ACTIVIST: Also one question that's going throush the movement across” the country now that's inoresstnaly comins into prominenst is the ques — tion of women, And agnin, the Black ~ Panther Party has, by example, been ~ in the forefront on this all isport= © ant question, Erika Huggins, wife of John Huesxins, . jail; Kathleen Cleaver has played 4 very important role in organizing the black communities; and of course Martin Sostre's co-defendent, Ser aldine Robinson, is also in jail richt now, D.C.1 The women question is naturel- ly like all other oppressed people. i} It's something that we all hare to become tore aware of and conscious of, do more studying of and to get & little more theoretical foundation © to apply in our daily practice. I'a like to address myself to the men, because the primary problem that we're fighting was imposed upon us like everything else by this system. : te male chauvinisn, That's what we” have to combat, That's the problem and, the lesser half of the problem for you sisters is that of fareale auboiest vaness, - We can begin to work daily on what we call "” personal lives “ to 2a zin to eradicate these inequalities that we've put up with and accepted from this system and our so-called” personal lives = this is how the” party really began to deal with & as “eo beran to develop collectives you know, the need to cook, 3 dishes, etc, -- all of a sudden Sisters becoming aware that ; were doing certain things, And this helped us see clearer this whol thine of male chauvinism and begin to put it in the proper perspect? and put a olas# analysis to = whole question of the’woren, All © theory that we come up with won't-to us any good if we don't begin to sone of that stuff into) practice, still see a lot of the be aay /that are very eoreticn dat ohauviniss, s ‘ei somthin have to guamt against and) w to @ peasonres But women's Iibderati naturally, can not be separated _ the liberation of all op ) “” 4 } ‘ ; In collusion with the rest of this country’s fascistic pig power structure, the Southern California arm of Tricky Dick Nixon's judi- cial fascists are bringing consti- tutional fascism down hard on the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panther Party, Recog- nizing us for what we are--one of the strongest Chapters in the country--they are attempting to stop our Chapter and Its work through trumped-up charges with high ransoms or no ransoms at all: Six brothers in Southern California are currently facing death in the electric chair or life imprisonment. In four separate cases, all are charged with mur- der or attempted murder. SANTA ANA Arthur League, a strong servant of the people in Orange County (hotbed of racism and fascism) is charged with the murder of Santa Ana's rookie “‘plg of the year’’. The sole ‘‘evidence’’ against him ts of the demagogic Larry and Jean Powell variety. A 17 year old pathological liar who has been beaten and bribed by Santa Ana's racist pig cops is the alledged ‘‘witness"’ to this al- ledged murder. Meanwhile, Santa Ana's racist pig cops (whoare only little cogs in the Orange County fascist wheel) continue to run ram- pant in the streets striking fear and terror into the hearts of the people. LOS ANGELES Paul Cross and Roger Lewis (‘Blue’) are currently incar- cerated in old and new county jails respectively, also on the trumped up charges of murder, This time, it's supposed to have been a person neither of them know or have ever seen. The ‘‘evidence’’ in this case is even more ridiculous--‘‘witnesses’’ saw per- sons in black leather jackets at the scene of the ‘‘crime’’ The “pigs don’t know or they forgot that Panthers no longer wear such attire--instead we dress like the people. The star witness is a red- devil dropping counter rev- olutionary Karangatang b---h, This is what the judicial fascists are using to hold Blue and Paul without ransom (ball), Robert Williams and Luxey Ir- Win are also political prisoners here in Dodge City (LA). They are charged with 10 counts each on a wild assortment of charges: attempted murder, felonious as- sault, robbery and kidnapping BRUCE RICHARDS Their case reminds one of Emmitt Till. They are charged with the kidnapping of two White women and one little White girl, This {s the charge being blown up in the media in an attempt to Iin- Mame racial tensions and divi- sions, The case Is being held in a racist little suburb of LA county. The pigs are attempting to form a legal lynch mob through the use of a racist fascistic judge and jury. The same morning these two bro- thers were picked up, the pigs vamped on and raided our Watts Hot Breakfast Program. At gun point, little brothers and sisters were thrown out ofthe house where the breakfast is served and the staff Was arrested. Yetthrough the false arrests (legal kidnapping) of these brothers and cooperation from the media pigs, attempts are being made to send them to the chair while the real criminals go free. Romaine Fitzgerald (‘‘Chip’’) ts simultaneously charged in two sep- arate cases, The pigs are trying to link him up with Robert and Luxey’s case, claiming he ‘‘felon- fously assaulted’’ a California Highway Pig, Then, they claim he is wanted for the murder of a supermarket rent-a-pig, The bro- ther just happens to be a leader in his section who's been doing some very good work, His sec- tion was getting a breakfast pro- gram (to be LA's third) together ir, addition to signing up people to circulate petitions for Community (Decentralization) Control of Po- lice, The pigs don't want to be decentralized out of a job and into humanity, so they are incar- cerating strong community leaders like Chip. On the same night, October 18th, that Brother Toure (Walter Pope) was brutally murdered by Los An- geles fascist pigs of the Metro Squad, Brother Bruce Richards, 18 years old, was critically wounded, Brother Bruce, like Toure, was a hard-working and dedicated Panther who joined the Party right after getting out of Tracey (supposedly a pig sty for juveniles - really & maximum security prison), Bruce immediately related to being a 24 hour worker for the People, and for this, like Toure, was shot by the pigs. Because he Is a strong brother, he survived the pigs’ .357 bullets, although he was wounded in critical areas. He will live to fight other days for the liberation of his people, He is now being held in the jail facilities of the LA County Hospital on charges of as- sault with Intent to commit murder, But, because he is strong, just as bullets did not fell him, jail and bars will not stop his work for the masses of oppressed people, in all of these cases, the ju- dicial fascists of So, California's kangaroo courts are watching Chicago eagerly for new tech- niques of constitutional fascism to implement. In addition to these political prisoners, repression and harassment continue at an alltime high, In the month of September ‘D RATHER BE WITHOUT THE SHAME “ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE" A Panther is peaceful, but when he is backed Into a corner, he strikes out In self-defense against his enemy and wipes him out thoroughly, wholly, resolutely and completely. With this in mind, the fascist pigs are charging myself and Robert with robbery, kidnap- Ping, burglery, and some other ridiculous charges, They also had the idea of putting a pig in a cell with me, which was easy to detect because he oinked when he should have talked. This whole frame up is just a conspiracy and plot to keep us off the streets, and from Serving and educating the people about the unjust conditions hap- pening here in Babylon and throughout the world, This is hap- ‘pening constantly {n an attempt to destroy the revolutionary forces. It's not only happening to _ the Vanguard, but it is manifes- ting Itself in the lives of the people. _ Whenever a person or organization ‘ to correct one or many of the unjust conditions In Babylon, F &re subjected to the worst treatment possible; political im- prisonment, exile, ‘murder, or harassed daily on the streets, The Can see these examples all © this country. The conscious- is Of the people, Black, White, ow, Brown, kKed, striped, a dot, zigzag, colored people, rising to a much higher level day, 2s | can see through oes examples being set by the people of Chicago, Las Vegas,Conn,, N.Y. San Diego, Colleges, Unions, and high schools, all over the world. I am strong and my spirits are high because a revolutionary death or false imprisonment is inevitable. The pigs can jail a 4 LUXEY [RWIN revolutionary, but they can’t jail a revolution! They can’t break myself or Robert because for the pigs there is no victory In prison, Everytime I hear about the people moving on the pig power structure, it increases my faith in the poor oppressed masses, The oppressed will rise even higher on even higher levels using their bound less creative powers to destroy monsters of all kinds, It Is the job of the revolu- tlonary forces (the Vanguard) to continue the struggle on all levels and constantly show the people through examples, that the power of the people is greater than the pigs technology. Because the op- pressor has no laws that the op- Pressed are bound to respect, We can't stop, not for a day, re- gardiess ofdarkclouds, comrades being thrown in jail, or haras- sed, brutalized, offices being vam- bed on, pigs in the Party, lies in the newscoverage. Nothing can stop us, Ericka, John, Bobby, Huey Franco, Bunchy, Steve, Tommy, and Bursey—jt's not only happen- Ing to the Vanguard, who are willing to lay down our Lives to defend ourselves and the people who,when pushed Into corners,must attack our enemies and wipe them out, thoroughly, wholly, resolutely and completely. But {t is man- {festing itself in the lives of the People, who are also being pushed into corners, “I'd rather be without the shame, A bullet lodged within my brain, {f we were not to reach our goal, let bleeding cancer torment my soul,”’ Luxey THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 7 alone, the So. California Chapter suffered 49 arrests. In spite of this rampage, the Party and its programs continue. FASCISM ESCALATES... the people is becoming more effec- tive, Southern California's legal fas- cists don't seem to realize that ROBERT WILLIAMS San Diego and LA continue to operate their Breakfast Programs and Liberation Schools; both bran- ches get weekly newsletters out in- to the community, and work is continuing full speed on the planned free Clinics, Also the people are constantly being educated to the need for Community (Decentrali- zation) Control of Police, A chapter that is working hard invites full scale repression from this racist-capitalist-imperialist system. The fact that we are re- celving it, only lets us know that our service to and education of LETTER Greetings from the Brothers who are with the people, and will al- ways be united with the revolu- tionary struggle of the masses, Even though we are isolated from the masses and the Vanguard Party, we declare Solidarity with all oppressed people of the world and with Babylon in particular. We will continue to be strong in heart and soul and maintain an undying love for our revolutionary comrades. We will continue to function on this level of consclous- ness regardless of what degraded or dehumanized position the oppressor may put us in. ‘‘Our spirit is greater than the man’s concrete and steel’! For liberation” of the poor, oppressed People and everything productive and crea- (lve that humanity has to offer is worth the sacrifice, We must overcome our past capitalist indoctrination, which in- clude fear and petty-bourgeoisie ™ hang-ups. We must relare to prac- tice and keep our major political objective in mind, Whatever task we are asked to perform, we must do so, and do it whole-heartedly, We are not theorists, we're lumpen Proletariats and we relate to prac- tice, Brother Huey, Bobby and other members of the Central Com- mittee whom we highly love and respect have laid down the proper ideology, methods and Practice that If we follow, will take Us to total revolutionary victory! Dare to struggle and Dare to win if we do not Struggle we don’t de- Serve to wintt! Defeat the neo-colonial program of Black Capitalism}! My Dearest Joan,* I really don't know how to arti- culate my deep compassionate feel- in spirit the people’s warriors can never be taken from them, The people realize this and will not let their warriors fall. As these blatant attempts to crush the Vanguard Party continue, it becomes obvious that this Is the last ditch stand of a crumbling power structure and the day draws nearer when the people will rise, With this in mind, the Southern California Chapter--Black Pan- ther Party says: SEIZE THE TIME AND FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS FROM ROMAINE ing for all revolutionary sisters and you in particular, I really can't say I love you because there are various degrees of love. But the love I'm speaking of is between two halves, Woman and Man, It serves as a bridge which enables these two halves to cross the chasm of incom- pleteness, to resolve the contradic- tion of loneliness and become whole “CHIP” and full of life. The kind of life that two people tn love brings no matter what problems they face, Judg- ing from your practice you are the other halfthat répresents everything I want; I've made my decision, it rests with you, Love is like the revolution- It grows and grows. Chip (Romaine Fitzgerald) *Joan Kelly So, Calif, Chapter BP P; THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE & TO ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS AND OTHERS THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY IS NOW WORKING TO PRODUCE A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE PARTY, WE ARE GATHERING ALL PHOTOGRAPHS DEALING WITH THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY’S HISTORY; AND PHOTOS THAT ILLUSTRATE THE ECON- OMIC, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL INJUSTICES WHICH THE PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE IS FIGHTING TO ELIMINATE, THESE PHOTOS ARE GOING TO BE MADE INTO A BOOK ABOUT THE PARTY AND THE PEO- PLE’S FIGHT AGAINST EXPLOITATION (CAPITALISM) AND OPPRESSION (FASCISM) IN AMERICA TODAY, YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS WILL BE USED TO COMBAT THE LIES AND REPRESSION OF THE FASCIST MASS MEDIA MACHINERY THAT IS ATTEMPTING TO MISLEAD THE PEOPLE AND DISCREDIT THE PARTY AND THE PEOPLE’S STRUGGLE, WE WANT ALL PHOTOS CONCERNING THE PARTY'S ACTIVITIES; PROGRAMS IN ACTION, MEETINGS, CONFERENCES, ALLIANCES, RALLIES, DEMONSTRATIONS, PIG CONFRONTATIONS AND IT’SCOMMUNITY, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS ------ ETC, PHOTOS FROM THE PARTY’S VERY BEGINNING IN OAKLAND IN 1966 TO TODAY’S PANTHER PARTYAS A’28 BRANCH NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR LIBERATION THAT DEALS WITH LIBERATION AS A WORLD-WIDE INTERNATIONAL STRUGGLE OF ALL OPPRESSED PEOPLE, WE ALSO WANT PHOTOGRAPHS ABOUT THE REAL AMERICA, NOT TELEVISION AMERICA, THE CONTRA~ DICTIONS, LIES, INJUSTICES, OPPRESSION AND EXPLOITATION AS SEEN BY YOU, THE PEOPLE, PHOTOGRAPHERS; PROFESSIONAL AMATUER AND ANYONE WITH A CAMERA WHO HAS TAKEN PHOTOS OF THE PARTY AND THE INJUSTICES OF AMERICA ARE REQUESTED TOSEND INALL PRINTS OF PANTHERS AND OF FASCISM FROM YOUR AREA YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON, PHOTO CREDIT WILL BE GIVEN, ANONY- MOUS PHOTOS ARE WELCOME ALSO, THIS IS A NATIONAL PROJECT THAT WILL AND MUST REPRE- SENT ALL OF THE PEOPLE, IT iS FOR, BY AND OF THE PEOPLE TO FIGHT THE LIES AND REPRESSION OF THE FASCIST NEWS ME- DIA, IT WILL TAKE THE COLLECTIVE EFFORT AND ENERGY OF ALL THE PEOPLE, SO PLEASE CONTACT YOUR COMRADES, UNDER- GROUND NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER PHOTO SOURCES, THIS PRO- JECT IS HAPPENING NOW, SO MOVE ON IT NOW, PLEASE SEND YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS TO THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, 3106 SHATTUCK AVENUE, BERKELEY CALI- FORNIA, CONTACT YOUR LOCAL BLACK PANTHER PARTY BRANCH OR THE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION (415) 848-6705 FOR MORE INFORMATION, IT WILL BE YOUR EYES, THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE, THAT WILL TELL THE TRUTH ABOUT THE PEOPLE, THESTRUGGLE AND THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, TELL IT LIKE IT IS, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE SEIZE THE TIME _ REPRESSION MARTIN SOSTRE — WEEK--OCT. 26 On July lth, 1967, Martin Sostre ing class no choice but to launch a and Geraldine Robinson were sub- counter-attack against them, . Jected to the crushing brute force The men who run this city have of the oppressor for thelr heroic seen the name of Martin Sostre defiance of ‘him, They were jailed raised again and again, especiallyin ~ on phony dope charges, their friends the past year, as theexemplarymo- were arrested, beaten, and threat- del for revolutionary struggle. Black ened, and a massive campaign of youth raised the demand for his free- vilification was begun in the es- dom at a large rally in the heart tablishment media. The dope Of the city and shut down two Buf- charges were a conscious and falo high schools when it was an- planned attempt to discredit Martin nounced that Martin had been shipped and Geraldine in the community. into Buffalo for Geraldine Robin- son's trial, Now that Sostre has won a vic- tory in being released from soll- tary and when he is bringing ac- tion against Rockefeller and Co, for their cruel and unusual punish- ment in their barbaric prisons, the rulers are renewing thelr efforts. They are mobilizing their agents and their controlled mass media, They are desperately trying to dis- credit Sostre In the eyes of the peo- ple and the movement. The counter-attack is on! During strikes, the company always starts rumors, They say, ‘‘The strike is running out'’ or ‘‘The strike fund Is low!"’ To stem the support for Mar- tin, the rumor-mongers are saying that Martin really did it, When Huey was on trial in California, the police agents and the bourgeoise media stampeded over one another trying to convince everyone that Huey real- MARTIN SOS TRE y oe ite eve of Martin Sostre Week The lies and slander which the the week of October, 26, we m official and unofficial poHce agents beware of the whispered lies and Spread was inadequate to crush and Slander and redouble our efforts to demoralize the rising tide of sup- build the struggle in the streets port for Martin and Geraldine, which will bring the victory in the particularly among the students, Courts. On October 29 Martin Sostre This fall has witnessedanewcam- Will appear in Federal District Paign against Martin Sostre, The Court, Foley Square, New York City battle which was won against the to argue his case against Rockefel- _ Hes of Felicetta and Amicohas been ler and his prisons, To build Martin © reopened, The tremendous Inspira- Sostre Week, there will be mass ral- tion which the struggle has pro- Hes in Buffalo, New York and other vided for the student movement, Major cities. On October 29,a major and the potential thelr examples Mobilization will be launched in the offer for the revolutionary youth of Streets of New York outside the Fed- the Black community leave the rul- eral Court Bullding in Foley Square. FREE LOS SIETE WAYNE GREEN WAYNE GREENE FACES FASCIST FRAME - UP Wayne Greene, the 19 year-old brother who was allegedly accused of firebombing a California Pig Highway Patrolman last summer ‘will face fascist Hanging Pig, Judge Robert Dieden, prosecutor Vulcota and a host of racist jurors in the fascist courts for the second time around, Judge Robert Dieden Is synonymous to the bowel-breath stinch-ridden fascist judges a- cross the cesspool of Babylon (also known as Amerikkka) that are determined to railroad all Black people Into the pig pen. Judge Hog Dieden is clearly playing up to his rotten character of ‘‘Hanging Judge’ for he is the same plg that railroaded Panthers Charles Bursey and Warren Wellsinto Jail. He has even established a seemingly workable fascist pig tactic: Try-fall, try-again-fail, try-again until some hand picked racist Jury comes up with a con- viction. The fact that Greene's defense has the name of the man who was actually involved in the ffrebombing sheds new light on the case. But the fact that Pig Judge Dieden fs presiding over the case along with his gang of piglets, casts a shadow in the face of the people that know Wayne Greene should be set free, However, that shadow shall never be vast enough to overshadow the revolution that is belng intensifed by the examples set by political prison- ers, FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISON- ERS! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! It Is always expected that be- cause of the Party's resolute stand against developing fascism andthe forces of reaction, we are ready and alert to the repression of the Party by the agents of this racist system Within the coming weeks, we as members of the Party will be faced with new rounds of arrests and frameups. We must, there- fore, prepare ourselves for any eventuality brought on by agents and/or police using various facades to justify their repression of any form of Party work and policy Because of our recent experi- ence across the face of Babylon with naked fascism and police harassment and arrest of our Party members on all types of insidious charges, it is of the ut- most importance that we not be liable to such persecution again. Our people must be made doubly aware of our stand, for under no circumstances should we be kid- napped and hunted like dogs in our own community, We must be ready and in the position to defend our- selves as well as maintain our freedom and the peoples bellef in thelr Party. Every individual must, therefore, resolve them- selves In such a manner as to strengthen and facilitate this end on all levels. We know how the fascists move and the nature of their program and we should adapt our apparatus accordingly to nullify their thing It is obvious that the pigs are preparing to vamp. We must, therefore, be ready to deal with this but do nothing to provoke it. It will come of its own accord, But I repeat, we cannot compro- mise our positions and policy, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE A. Dharuba Richard Moore For the first time in over 31/2 months, the brothers of Los Siete de la Raza appeared incourt, They have been held without bail since May 5 and have been consistently dented all their supposed‘‘rights’’ On Oct, 20, they were brought before Judge Karesh for a taste of American “' justice’’. Oct. 20 was to have been the date for their trial, but Charles Garry, the lawyer for Tony and Mario Martinez and Jose Rios, ts still ill. It was postponed until Oct, 25, Friday. Judge Karesh Is no Judge Hoffman. He allowed the postponement, But just because he {s a liberal, he is no less dan- gerous a man, Karesh,in his liberal manner, denied all their rights. Motions were made for the brothers to be allowed reading matter-educat- tonal material, instead of ‘‘Buster Bear’ and ‘‘Reader’s Digest’. But the judge said that the sheriff has control of the library and of all reading material and that he would decide what Is suitable, Ef- forts were made to release the hold on the brother's mail, The liberal judge allowed Nelson Rod- riguex to read a letter in the courtroom, but would not take a stand on the continued censorship “of all their mail. All these things are designed to lower the brothers’ morale. But they cannot be broken by such pig- gish tricks. The Siete know the people are behindthem--the court- room was packed to overflowing, with a large picket line in front of the Hall of Injustice, They know that they are a symbol of the man's oppression of all Brown people, that where ever Brown peo- ple are at, there is support for Los Siete, In this way, they can withstand all the man's pettiness, all his fascist tricks. The trial was postponed until Oct, 25--when Garry is expected back to work. We plan to have another demonstration on ra at 2 p,m. in front of the : of Injustice. We do not e the pigs to be educated by the rally, but for the people to show their strength and their willingness to support our brothers. FREE LOS SIETE! > The Venceremos Brigade has been reorganized. Before the plan was for 300 people to cut cane in Cuba. Now the plan is for 600 to go. The people going will be working with the Centennial Youth Column—S0,000 young Cuban volunteers’ Those people who join the Brigade will be able to concretely show their solidarity with the Cuban people und the fact that not all Americans aim to destroy the Cub: revolution. The deadline for applications has been extended to October 31, 1969. The application itself has been simplified. Write immediately to: Brigade, PO Box 643, Cathedral Station, New York 10025, A By MICHAEL EISENSCHER WONSAN he two young seamen introduced themselves as Junior Captain Pak In Ho and Master Sergeant Ho Hyong Gun, They were the two men in charge of the seven-man boarding party of the patrol boat-that captured the USS Pueb- lo on January 23, 1968, outside the har- bor of Wonsan, The capture of the Pueblo had kicked off a furor in the United States. Jingo- ist accusations of “piracy” were thrown at the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Threats of retaliation were made, and the money-controlled mass communications media joined the John- son Administration in trying to whip up hysteria against socialist Korea. Upon their release from captivity, the Pueblo’s Captain Lloyd Bucher and oth- er members of the crew claimed the Pueblo was captured only because the Koreans mustered overwhelming force against it. We decided to investigate the Pueblo case during our visit to the DPRK. At our request, the two seamen answered questions during a three-hour interview We learned that the entire crew of the Korean patrol boat numbered only ten men, that all were very young and had lost kin during the Korean War of 1950- 1953. Junior Captain Pak was 29 at the time of the Pueblo’s capture, and was the oldest of the boarding party, Master Sergeant Ho was 24 Junior Captain Pak answered our questions first. QUESTION: Before sighting the Pueblo, were you on a routine patrol or did you suspect an encounter? ANSWER; Our patrol boat's mission is to make routine patrols in defense of our territorial waters. On January 23. last year, we were on our regular rou- tine patrol! mission. We had left base three days before, and on Jan. 23 at 11:00 a.m. we sighted a spot on the seas, 7.6 miles from HoDo Island, at a point in line with our coastline. We approached the spot and found it to be a big ship, but it had no signs to give its national identity. According to inter- national law, all ships must have iden- tification on their mast or hull, It had no identification marks. We demanded identification but it was refused . we continued signals demanding identification. We did not recognize it was an American ship Finally it hoisted-a flag showing it was a navigational survey ship. QUESTION: How far from the Pueblo were you at this point? ANSWER: Three miles away. We con- tinued signals demanding national iden- tity, this time very strongly. Only then did they hoist the U.S. flag QUESTION: Before taking action did you notify your headquarters and re- quest assistance? ANSWER: Yes. QUESTION: Were any other Korean ships or planes accompanying you? ANSWER: When we sighted that spot and started to approach, there was not a single ship of our country, not even a fishing boat, in the area because of bad weather. We dispatched a request for assistance, but the other ships came only after we had captured the Pueblo and were taking it into port. Air sup- port arrived also after the capture QUESTION: What was the highest rank- ing officer on your vessel and the total number of men in the crew? ANSWER: 1 was second in command and there was a captain of the same rank as mine. Including officers, ten men were on board. QUESTION; How was the patrol! boat armed? ANSWER: There were light arms . two to three guns and small arms. It would have been most difficult to de- . stroy the Pueblo singlehandedly. QUESTION: What action did you take? ANSWER: Our ship approached the Pueblo to the point from which we could see movement of men on board. _ Then the enemy ship started to run for international waters and opened fire THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER I, 1969 PAGE 9 The Pueblo affair — told by its captors A delegation of the Communist Party, USA, visited the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on invitation of the Workers’ Party of Korea from Aug. 19-Sept. 9. This was the first delegation of its kind and consisted of John Pittman, Mike Davidow and Michael Ejisenscher. A series of 11 other articles on their trip has appeared in the Daily World. —— ee Reprinted from PEOPLE’S WORLD to fire and four other shells hit the Pueblo. Then firing stopped After climbing aboard I found that four of our shells had hit the munition store of the Pueblo. Three of the shells had pierced the walls of that store, but one had exploded inside of it, One of the crewmen was killed. three wound- ed by the exploding shell. Another shell had hit the ship’s bridge. All the offi- cers had been frightened and run from the bridge to the deck Only Captain Bucher was lying in the bridge. I rushed there, and wanted to know who he was. because he had taken off his uniform and was in his underwear. Five of us had gone to the command post, but none of us could speak English We picked up Bucher who was only pretending to be hurt, and by sign language and drawing pic tures on paper we found out he was number one on the ship and that there were 8&3 men in the crew. Our boarding party numbered seven Using pictures and shoving a loud- speaker microphone at Bucher, I order- ed him to get all his men on deck Bucher was frightened and did what I indicated and said something in Eng- lish. I sent my men into different com- partments of the ship to search, and we tied up the crewmen and lined them up on the deck We found pistols, cartridge boxes and grenades in the command post, so I knew the ship was armed, and thought that we must occupy the munition store. We drew another picture, and Bucher took us to the arms store. When we opened the door, we saw many small arms, bullets, and four kinds of grenades. As soon as Captain Bucher saw the wounded men, he got frightened and pretended to faint, but when we pointed a rifle at him, he stood right up. We had agreed not to fire our guns on board the ship because our men in different parts of the ship would be confused. Alter seizing the munition store we had to take the engine room in order to pilot the ship to the base, so I took Bucher with me to the engine room I found three men there; one engineer and two crew men. I assigned one of my men in the engine room and ex- amined the room to make preparations to start the engines. We succeeded in starting the engines So, seven of us succeeded in cap- turing 83 men of the Pueblo, The whole thing took 13 minutes, and we started for our base. Only then did assist ships arrive. While taking the Pueblo to our base I searched every room of the ship with Bucher. While I had been in the command post, Master Sergeant Ho Hyong Gun entered below deck CONTINUED ON PG. 10 TO THE GOV. OF THE DPR OF KOREA The Government of the United States of America, Acknowledging the validity of the confessions of the crew of the USS “Pueblo” and of the docu- ments of evidence produced by the representative of the Government of the Democratic People’s Re- public of Korea to the effect that the ship, which was seized by the self-defense measures of the naval vessels of the Korean People’s Army In the territorial waters of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea on January 23, 1968, had illegally intruded into the terri- torial waters of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on many occasions and conducted esplonage activities of spying out important military and state secrets ofthe Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Shoulders full responsibility and solemnly apologizes forthe grave acts of espionage committed by the U.S, ship against the Demo- cratic People’s Republic of Korea after having intruded into the ter- ritorlal waters of the Democratic, People’s Republic of Korea, And gives firm assurance that no U.S. ships will intrude again in future intothe territorial waters of the Democratic People’s Re- public of Korea. Meanwhile, the Government of the United States of America earnestly requests the government of the Democratic People’s Re- public of Korea to deal lentently with the former crew members of the USS ''Pueblo’’ confiscated by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea side, taking into con- sideration the fact that these mem- bers have confessed honestly to their crimes and petitioned the Government of theDemocratic People’s Republic of Korea for leniency. On behalf of the Government of the United States of America Gilbert H. Woodward, Major General United States Army 23 Dec, 1968 This photo of the Pueblo cables for sending low frequency transmissions to submarines, The heavy pole near the center contains radar equipment and an antenna for monitoring aircratt communications. Near the rear are twin antennas for indicating - the direction of signals. against our ship with machine guns. We were forced to fire in counter-attack Our first shot hit the Pueblo and we ao smoke rising, We continued shows some of its spying gear, The three thin poles at the front, midship and rear support CONT, FROM PG. 9 (Next we talked to Master Sergeant Ho.) HO. I was ordered to search inside the rooms of the Pueblo and with a private first class of our search party, went below deck where I found rooms full of Yankee crewmen. As soon as they saw us, they all raised their hands Some of them had been hiding under desks and in corners of the room. They were all in civilian clothes, We ordered them to come out onto the deck. This way we captured 30 of the crew mem- bers After bringing them out on deck, I ordered the private to watch them, and again entered the rooms. I found military uniforms, helmets, etc. While searching the rooms, | heard signal sounds of a wireless set. So I entered the radio rooms, but two of them were empty. The signals continued from a third room, wmch was locked. | struck the door with my rifle butt and it Opened. But no one was there. The set was working automatically. I struck the equipment and wrecked the antennae and it stopped QUESTION: Did the Pueblo crew try to destroy any equipment or docu- ments? ANSWER: When we were searching we found many traces of their attempts to destroy the ship's equipment. There were some bullet holes on the equip- ment, some of the documents were burned A press conference in the DPRK, and Col. Zoo Nam Zoong tells press inJuly 1968 that the crew of the Pueblo will not be released until Washington apoligizes for the crime. at Panmunjon., Commander Lloyd Bucher addresses military attache © ofthe Democratic Peoples Jr. Captain Pak and Master Sergeant PF opyblic of Korea Embassy Ho then told us that the youngest mem- ; : . : ber of the patrol boat's crew was 21 ?7t Moscow. years old at the time of the capture Jr. Captain Pak, who had commanded the boarding party, had served in the navy for three years _ They explained, also, that they thought there was evidence of discrimi- nation among the crew of the Pueblo since the only three black crewmen had all been assigned as cooks. We asked them how it was possible for seven men to capture 83, for one srnall patrol boat to capture a 1,000 ton armed ship. Jr. Captain Pak said, he felt that the lack of resistance from the Pueblo crew could be attributed to the openly displayed fear of the officers, and the division between officers and men Master Sergeant Ho said, “I realized that since they were aggressors, they were cowards. Bul we were ready to fight, though we might have been killed in our just fight to defend our Father- land.” Several points stand out from the interview. First of all, Bucher and the Pueblo crew were hardly confronted by “A “overwhelming"’ force. Second, the Ko- rean soldiers never shot at any of the American crew, having agreed not to fire on board. The wounded and dead Americans were hit by shells fired in the boat-to-boat battle that preceded the boarding. Third, the Pueblo was clear- ly in the service of the CIA, and the fact that the crew were in civilian clothes and the ship had had all iden- tification marks removed was con- sistent with its mission as an armed spy vessel Fourth, the capture of the Pueblo in Korean waters was given wide publi- city by the U.S, press, yet the facts of this open provocation were concealed from the American people. We were told that, in 1967 there were over 140 amo | ER tae mee } _ - - : FROM THE SKYS OF THE D.P.R.K,., ONE DEAD C.LA. SPY- HE DIED THE DEATH OF A HOG violations of Korean coastal waters by the U.S., over 125,000 bullets and 1.270 shells fired on more than 540 occasions across the demilitarized zone. In that year these provocations surpassed all similar acts in the preceding 13 years The North Korean people firmly be- lieve that the U.S. is actively prepar- ing for a new war in Korea, and that these provocations are designed to create the excuse for a full scale attack. The similarity with the so- called Gulf of Tonkin incident needs no further comment While we were in the DPRK a U.S. helicopter was shot down 15 miles inside North Korean territory. Three armed saboteurs were captured by the Korean Peoples Army, carrying wea- pons, anesthetics. and poisons. Such acts of aggression are committed with increasing frequency and severity. Yet the American people are rarely told about these events, and when news does leak out, it is distorted and twisted It is time for the American people to demand that the U.S. get out of South Korea, and cease provocations against the North. It is time that the U.S. stop supporting dictators and pup pets like Pak Jung Hi (Chung Hee Park) in South Korea. How many more Ameri- can men must die in foreign wars of ag- gression against peoples who want no more than a decent life, freedom, and self{-determination? “WE HAVE FOUND IT HERE IN KOREA” ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party, U.S.A. oe Eldridge Cleaver, who had led a delegation Conference on the Tasks of US. Im Pyongyang rialism held (Title ee ne * The delegation from the Black Panther Party to the historic con- ference of journalists, composed of Deputy Minister of Defense Byron Booth and myself, have been here in the Democratic Peo- ple’s Republic of Korea since Sep- tember 11, 1969. From the bottom of our hearts, we wish to thank the heroic people of the DPRK for receiving us, making us feel so very welcome, and extending to us a dignified respect of a caliber which we have never experienced before outside of the homes of our mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers. For this we are deeply grateful to the Korean people, to your government and Workers’ Party, under the strong and wise leadership of the incomparable Marshal Kim Il Sung. Our Minds Have Been "Blown Away” We had to take a very long airplane ride to get here. Such oe are, by their wig nature, an ordeal. But*we would have been smiling every inch of the way had we known that when we set our feet down on the soil of Korea, in Pyongyang, we would be in- aide of a new world, Our people have a phrase to describe one's state of mind inspired by an overwhelming event, and we think that this is the only phrase that can describe how we feel about Korea and its beautiful, heroic people: our minds have been blown away! We did not know very much about your people and your coun- try before coming here. Of course we knew the general things that the whole world knows, principal- ly that your. people had waged a victorious resistance to the inva- sion of your soil by the mercen- ary troops under the command of ELDRIDGE CLEAVER, the U.S. imperialists and under the flag of the United Nations. And, of course, like all revolution: aries, we had fead some of the writings of Comrade Kim I] Sung, with which we were greatly we . But we read a lot o ines by many different people, and we read everything with a grain of salt, because, particular- ly in our era rh siggtatcel hypocrisy and false posturing, ' you met believe everything you read. ete are just too many around who do not prac- tice what they preach. So you can oP eee KK Keer es samen ses * of Journalists of the in Pyon Whole W imagine how surprised and de- lighted .wewere jo discover. that not only does Comrade Kim Ii Sung practice what he preaches, but what a ‘preachment and what a practice! We are truly amazed by the a- chievements uf the Korean peo- ple. And we are amazed by the Korean people themselves. No- where have we encountered such beautiful people, so vigorously Mobilized, so efficiently organized, moving with the harmony of one man, one will, and one dedica- tion. Ordinarily I would be embar rassed to speak in such glowing terms about people, but in this situation | can hardly find the words with which to congratulate how much» we love you. You have shown us around your country and given us a quick course in your herole shown us your struggle, humiliation, and mene under the staunch leadership of Comrade Kim I! Sung. Your truly = revolutionary socialist art has BYRON AN managed, as art should, to convey to us the deep truths of your ex- perience in a condensed form, so that we feel that we have seen into the essence of your fighting people, even though we koow that we could not possibly have fearn- ed, in such a brief period, all that there is to learn. But this little bit that we have learned is enough for us to say that we know you and we love you We have been most impressed with your struggle, with your children, with your socialist con- struction, and with your great Leader. The love that binds the Korean people together is of priceless beauty. love you have for your Leader and your children {sone cand the same. "Young Pioneers’ MIN, OF INFO,, B.P.P. I must say a few words about our children, particularly the ‘oung Pioneers. How wonderful and precious they arel How be- autifull Beyond the natural love which people have for their child- ren, | think that there is a liltle something extra added in the love the Korean people have for their children. 1 get the impression that this is because for so many years you were unable to give them the kind of life and protection that you wanted to, that the suffering of the Korean children has been so great, that the slaughter, the -------- | of the Black Panther Party, U.S.A., to the International | orld in Their ae against the Aggression ang recently, contributed the a (4 and sub-titles are ours.—Ed.) a8) nee history. @ your Ts triumph ween eens nee ee ess teteeceeereeseen: od following article our { mene 57 beastly slaughter of your children first by the vicious Japanese im- perialists and then, and most brutally, by the U.S. imperialist agyressors. We visited Sinchon, and there we saw the execution chambers employed by the U.S. imperialists to mass murder Korean children } = ? “ Nh n and their mothers. We went in- side these hotror chambers and experienced a sinking heart to realize that the barbaric U.S. im- perialist aggressors had herded the beautiful Korean children in- side these death chambers by the hundreds, poured gas on them, and burned them alive. There was one of these death chambers in parti- colar that I want to mention, It was all concrete, and was built, 1 think we were told, for an air raid shelter. It reminded me of the solitary confinement cells that 1 have myself been put inside in the prisons | have been in in the United States. From the inside, the death cells of Sinchon look exactly like the solitary confine- ment cells in the prisons of the United States. | remember how | felt each time | was thrown into one of these cells, how heavily it would weigh upon my heart and Spirits, and how difficult it was to endure. So judging from my own feelings, | um horrified at how 1 know those children must have felt, being so young, frightened, and innocent as children are. How they must have begged for mercy from the merciless Yankees! How they scratched the walls, gasping for breath, and. how they—munat have screamed when the savage imperialists poured in the gas and D ELDRIDGE VIEW DEFEAT DISPLAYED IN VICTORY MUSEUM. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE ll threw in the firel Even to think a- bout it, as I write this, eo tears to my eyes and a lump my throat. So that whenever I see the Young Pioneers, my heart goes out to them especially, to each and every one of them, to all the Korean children. On July 28, | became a father, our first child. The future of chil- dren in this world, under the threat of U.S. Fascism and Im- perialism, Is important, very personally important to me, be+ cause I love all children. "In Panmunjom’ In Panmunjom we saw and understood how your country Is divided, and saw the hated U.S. imperialist M.P.s stationed there, who have the criminal audacity to pretend that they have a right to be there. It was kind of a shock _~ SYMBOLS OF U.S. for us to see these Yankees there, because we know them so weil. We participated in a small dem- onstration against them, and gave them a plece of our mind, There were two black M.P.s among them and we singled them out and questioned them, challenging them for being here supporting the ELDRIDGE AND BYRON very system that is murdering our black people in the U.S.A, One of these blacks said, when we asked him, that he is from the state of Georgia in the United States. At- lanta, Georgia. That is disgusting, because any black man from the state of Georgia has been subject- ed to extreme oppression at the hands of white racists. The pres- ent governor of Gcorgia is notori- ous for a well known Incident. Some black children entered a re- staurant that he owns and tried to order some food This racist pig, Governor Lester Maddox of Georgia, set upon them with an ax handle in one hand and a pis- tol in the other hand and beat them unmercifully. So that when this black M.P, at Panmunjou said that he came from the state of Georgia, it seetned so absurd, and we told him sq. We could see how weakwilled and confus- ed he was. It wag disgusting. We hate especially ta see our black brothers function as mercenaries ‘for ‘the U.S, impertalists when they should be on our side and on the side of -the -Korean ple in opposition-to the U.S imperialist aggressors. We under- stand the need and deep desire of the Korean people for the unifica- tion of their country and we know that soon Korea will be unified. We welcome that day because that will mean more Young Pioneers, more socialist construction, and more of this beauty, and an end to the hateful life imposed upon ig brothers and si by the U.S, imperialists who occupy your country. Our people have n under the yery same boots of the US. fascist imperialists, for 400 years now, so nobody need tell us about how disagreeable it ist "What Is Most Important” 1 must speak now of what {s most important, We came to Ko- rea in seacch of something. We have ‘been searching all over the world for it. The whole of our lives has been piven to — this search, And all-of the oppressed people of the world are searchi for this thing. We have found here in Korea. Let me explain. We speak of internationalizing our struggle sgsinet imperialism, part- iculariy U.S. imperialism. In order . to succeed in this, we must have an international analysis and an international strategy based on this analysis, This strategy must be implemented through interna- tional tactics. | think that Comrade Kim |] Sung has provided these. I see the earth as one big piece of land with one big body of water. 1 see one territory. And I see Comrade Kim Il Seay be Snr ing to all the ree in terrl- tory and I see them listening to him and understanding him. What he is saying is soclearthatevena child should understand {t. He is telling us what is right before our eyes, what we are all prepared to see and understand, but which we could not see as clearly as he could because we did not have his perspective. Now that he has pointed it out to us, we can see “it clearly too, It would take a man like Comrade Kim Il Sung, with his long and deep experience of fight- ing against imperialism, inclu ing deep experience in guerilla-war- fare. He has taken what be knows and applied it to the inter- national situation. |} think that the result is’ beautiful. 1 think it ts what we've ajl been. seeking, and, waiting for, and working for. The Korean ople. the Derno cratic People’s Republic of Korea, and the great Leader of the 40 million Korean people, Comrade Kim ft Sung, have heightened our consciousness to a level that makes us equal to the task of dealing with our number one ene- my, the U.S. fascist imperialist ag- gressors. So we are very glad to have come to your country, to have seen and learned all these things, to have known. such beauty, The strength and revolutionary thrust of your entire society, your thea- tre, your industry, even your very trees and beautiful flowers, have made an indelible impression upon us, We would like to stay here In your glorious land forever, But, of course, we must return to our struggles, to our own people, to fulfill our duties and to take back with us and spread broadcast what we have learned here. If there is one single thing we have learned here, it is the wisdom and rewards of tenacity, of never giv- ing up the struggle, of fighting harder and harder the more the vicious enemy presses us, This is what the Korean people did, and this is why they are triumphant. Our dream will be to someday make a return visit to a unified Korea, with Young Pionegrs from the northern border to the tip of this country in the south. 7 ..We would like for the Korean people to know, that within the 30 million black people inside the United States, and among the other oppressed people there, there are ardent battalions of that ar- my of liberation which the heroic guerilla, Major Ernesto Che Gue- vara called forth. Che called for a continental wide army. We res- pond to Che's call, enlarging his any into a hemisphere wide army of liberation. And we go further, responding to the resoundin trumpet call of Marsha Kim Ii Sung, the great strategist and tactician of the international struggle agen imperialism head- ed by U.S. imperfalism. We will carry this sacred cause of our oint struggle through to \ the itter swee ta and win for our people the precious fruits of a great victory. Fby. Cl... ELDRIDGE CLEAVER ON POLITICAL PRISONERS BOBBY SE HUEY P, NEWTON, CHAIRMAN STER OF DEFENSE POLITICAL PRISONER | POLITICAL PRISONER = BY WILLIAM KLEIN IN SOLIDARITY AGAINST A COMMON ENE VIETNAM, AND THE BLACK PANTHE MY -- THE NLF OF SOUTH t PARTY FF BABYLON COMMUNIQUE All people interested In freedom fer all Americans sho are priseeers of war nt [Diack pemple in the United Santen Aad certainly the | Ameraren = soldiers whe sre beld captive ix wo Vietnam, are victime of the vicioes aggression | Gom't think that aay- one cas book won iis par posed €2- chasge of prisoners as of asa sham, Decasse w ways known that we are at earwtt® Coreramest. They saat to mabe 6 anewn that (Qer're interested tn Os Tuesday, October fist, Nes- stogoing the slaagtter of thelr peo- nle Davis and Deve Dellinger held ple, and they have so ieterwet in & press conference in regarts to ** Vietnam, the rigtt of petitical Gis- perpetuating theese hostilities if« the exchange of Americana where oo severa] grounds, Primarily, the system thal exists inthe Caticd «-PeLeal =o ymem fa me Lites Coby ne Untied States government prisceers of warts Vietzam forthe set, and freeder: for political t's Destified on the grounds of te States that bas been oppressing States, Which Grafts them against that hes an feteroet ta pe rpenmling freedom of Huey P. Newton, Min- priscoere should mabe thelr sup- termational predetartas soligarity, for 400 yearm And Huey? w tae tele will, and fecces Gem with the slaughter thats going of ie ister of Defense of the Diack Pam- port obvious snd meaningful te an Becaeer. om the one hand the and Bebby Seale are both political the shersstive of going to price Vietmam. ther Party and Bobty Seals, Ctair- apathetic apc callous government We have bees intermed by the da the Vietnamese and all ihe oversmestiswaxing prisoners, Huey Newton t» th yf rey don't ge wo Virenam tm fight man of ihe Deck Pasther Party The geversment can so mare ig- Bisck Panther Party of thenoesiPil- Third World people ff oppresees be held One such gesture would be the re- fenocidal war of agereesion agatast the Vietnamese gropte, ant leader of the [ack Panther | acd be was leading the struge whe are polities! priaceers fn (he Bore the well-teing ef Americas for the fesctet, and United Rates prisosers than they can ignore the irgerialstic ™ oner exchange serves to expese the | Udek Ghat (he porpemed pris- in Vietaars Will Oe released if the lease of the two foremost prisoners on the otherhandwagingawer, a ef Hlack people in Caklas Berereunent. United Staten cuvermment, because They asnounced thetrwitlinesess people ts the sirects clamouring releases Itvey DP. of war belé by the US inside cer similar type war wih different Califoreis against the oppress the goverament reapense tm Gis te reture le Hanel te Clecuss the for peace. x he Uabad ©) Seale from pris. Ownborders:itsey FP, Newton and eats, egainet Bla: ef the government in Oakland, Cal! Se | thine that ifs « very purpusal. is predictable~. that they shows pregosal : ane sndtfterence i pret We stant ready United States, So ¢ fornia, Acd be was framed andecst bealitty sign that we alée to get will prodally try to lenore tt. Bet The following day, the Chlef of pete Rady - oe ee toject ts what- Vietsamene pecpl to privce specifically because o¢ he ecogeratins of letramene Idoe?\ think that they witl be able Staff of the Black Panther Party, tee aoe pestnas Paty euinee ple in the Ustties at his petitical Vitles, So that ox people te (ds efforl, aad to ignore ft, beceuse t's « valid David Miliard, Mid » press ecm, They srepalitical prt presand by the ox emets with statere (he vughout the they lave ian ond lucnastarianiem through wort they're totally jestified ta co wrere teleseee of American We are comrinced that I ihe US operating om all levels, sot only aeriicemes, These cvleases have woult allew the retern of Huey ant to bring the war te an end in dere enilaverel good-will gretares Bebty to the tech community I~ Vietnam, byl also io relieve ihe te te American peuple who og side tals Country, cech a move oppression in beth areas, and to pose ihe war, ind we have teen sould well be recognised sac an- eo even tevued (dat to the tute) rare = ete ee ps soeeaprsalany by the Viet- elimination of the entities that are release. 7 er, * + are prepared t= eteg Dewevre, tas stiempted te estwert Sowards (hisend Taseodints prect and perpetuating (his ‘Sf prevent these relenaee because ty, under the puldance ot the Biack Gey show the crowing sotiderity af Panthes Party and tia Minister of the Americas and Viethatbese jeo- tatormation, Elériter Cleaver, fereace ts San Francisco,Califor- eece aad the freedom of Huey F ala to verity thal Eldridge Cleaver, Sewion asd botey Seale, Misister af 2tormation of ibe Black Pasther Party had bees in deed Evolved in discussions with the Vietnamese on the proposal very Coot that we are in postifon te work with them en this level, Te found the Vietmamear people aad Tve talked te (hem in many tountries, etr representatives: I've found them to be very warm and hemane people whose fprisiary concert ls te communicating wtih the American people, ever the head of beyond the bead of the American enemy, Ast che can question wheiber er oof purposes), and certainly we would (Ms te common, and i 4 polRical prisoner push it all the way; ustil they are furced to respood Ww it Became ltoey P Newton and Robby Seale are polllical prisoners, and they come under the valid proceteree thal have bees traditions] fs % of exchange of prisonera would Like te see & dose certainly 80 ene can qiestion wht cher or sot thubby Seabe ta a pol \eal prisoner. He wan very active otganizing derseestratioes 4 Protest againes the war in View aod wery active ta resistance to the IWER TO THE PEOPLE CK PANTHER PARTY organizing oppression occupy our communities like a foreign troop occupies territory). Replace the occupying army of the police with 2 pudlic forte of (Black) men who live im tie community fo maintain order jond tormony) alsa station U.N. obkervers in the Black colony to obsefue and halt the police geatcpo actiogs agginst Black poole. PREVENT GENOCIDE AND RACIST EXTERAGRATION; violating aot anly the U.N. Charter of Humana the lives and right to life and Peace Vietnamese the freeing of Americans, now held prisoners of war, in exchange for the dropping of all charges against our Min- ister of Defense and Founder Huey P, Newton and our Chairman Bobby Seale. This proposed Freedom of Political PRISONERSin exchange for Prisoners of War could only be ig- nored by a goverument that has to concer for tts poor, is peace- loving, its non-white, and its sold- even less concern for The genocidal imperialist war of aggression in Vietnam is not sep- orate and disconnected from thegen- IN ocidal fascist war of repression now going on ogatnst Black people within the confines of the United States. in Vietnam: The U.S. riding class is the numnbder lL. The immediate wi'rewal of In Babylon (America) one enemy of all oppressed peoples ull U.S, troops from Vietn™. L. That the U.S. government drop and {0 iMsure peace in Amurica th Py 7h ) immediate ©" to all the trenped-up “ Conspiracy’ char- ALL its people is to insurs U.S. imperialist interven!!™S in the ges against the ‘Conspiracy 8°’ and bch se the world for all the internal affairs of Vietnam that Rennie Davis and Dave Dellinger fascist sae Ai dist as long as 3. Restitution for the "Gterial be allowed io return to Hanct, where J Of repression and im US. imperil" has they would be mei by our Minister t the U.S, imperialist rul- with the blood-debt before for the util be no peace. r class pay a OF WORLD PEACE a revolutionary. Tribunal vicious, sadistic, cruel and inkuman of the Vietnamese people, THE NAME WE DEMAND; slaughter poace ’ ‘rs, an destruction jers, and berialist wars of aggression are in- flicted on any people anywhere thers criminally perpetrated alGinst the soverign people af Vietna™. af Information, Eldridge Cleaver 50 that the three of them could discuss PEACE, ? Withdraw the troops (who of Black people. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 14 The Revolt of “Portugese” GUIN@A ss cevsson Reprinted from TRICONTINENTAL The small jet bomber dived from around five thousand feet, its engine drilling like a big tropical fly. Two others came after it: TS of the type i pat in West Germany, I think. They were about five miles a aw: yey. e stood at the edge of the little clump of trees that concealed our base, a dozen huts, a smal] dump of 75-mm. shells: watching. It was otherwise a quiet Monday morning. October 9, 1967. Then a billowing wedge of black smoke fanned up from beyond the skyline fringe of coconut palms. “Napalm,” said Tran Hoai-Nam, who was standing beside me, a vis- itor like myself. His tone was of the bitter weariness that a doctor in a plague epidemic might use when identifying another victim: the kill- and-burn epidemic, the “Western” epidemic of our times. Tran is a veteran member of the Central Com- Mittee of the National Front for Liberation of South Viet-Nam: he has seen it all before, seen it many times. Personally, I am a middle-aged Eu- ropean who's seen no warfare since 1945, and in 1945 they hadn't yet discovered napalm. Now in my turn, if at a distance of five miles, I get to know about napalm. One of the napalm canisters dropped that day makes a chance hit on our guerrillas, killing one man and badly splashing another. Next day I visit the ca- sualty: a peasant volunteer called Tengbatu, aged 23, ethnic origin Balante, of the forest zone of “Por- tuguese” Guinea. He is bandaged from head to foot, “We'll save him, though,” says the guerrilla doctor, an African of Bissau, the colonial capital, who goes by the guerrilla name of Jacques. “He'll be all right.” Needless to say, Jacques was not trained as a doctor by the Portu- guese. The Portuguese in Guinea trained no African doctors, not a single one in all the years they've been claiming to “civilise the Afri- cans.” Jacques finished his medical training in 1966: in Moscow. The next day, too, I find another peopel canister dropped the day before that failed to explode. There’s no shame about the people who make these devilish things. I photo- raphed the canister. It is marked: ~1-55 NAPALM 300 KG- 350 L M/61. The particular NATO country which produced it and gave it to the Portuguese for the defence of civili- sation can ps Hone its own. The United States? West Germany? In any case, the Portuguese didn't make it — any more than they made the bomber that dropped it. All through last dry season — No- vember until May — the Portuguese were busy defending civilisation in “Portuguese” Guinea by daily bomb- ing and napalm-burning of villages in the forest, of clearings where the peasants grow rice, or of anti- aircraft posts established by the guerrillas. This bombing doesn't achieve much, but it’s #'! the Portu- guese have left to them. Although they se some che 000 xoope a2 this count pro onately to the puone of Portugal and the Unit. ed States, that would make an American army in dee Nees of about 600000), they are bottied up, badly frightened, deprived of the military initiative, and reduced to defending their fortified garrisons and “strategic hamlets,” their forts and their towns, against a guerrilla army which daily shows itself their superior. his guerrilla success in the wil- derness of distant West Africa rep- resents more than a defeat for the Salazarist dictatorship in Portugal, and its allies in NATO. It stands firmly in 1968 as a leading edge of the African revolution of our times, It speaks for one of the most sig- nificant developments in the whole of Africa. . ‘ 4 In physical terms, this territory is a very small one, less than one- third the size of Cuba and with fewer than one million inhabitants. It occupies a wedge of West African forest and grassland lying between the Republics of Guinea and Sene- gal. It has no great wealth of any kind (except the courage and hu- manity of its people), and the world had scarcely heard of it until a few years ago. $ ON GUARD AGAINST “NATO CIVILIZATION’ NAPALM life and government: all these were absent here. After eighty years of their “civilising mission” the Por- tuguese in Guinea had produced the magnificent result of training ex- actly ELEVEN African university graduates. ; . : common situation? Nothing new in that? No doubt. But what makes the situation in “Portuguese” Guinea today most uncommon, most decidedly new, and of an importance for African history out of all pro- portion to the country’s small size, is the way the people of this country have replied to their colonial sub- jection. Theirs is an epic which may deserve the admiration of the whole progressive world. For the Africans of this territory have not only undertaken a revolt. They have also undertaken a rev- olution. Like others whom they admire and feel close to — like the Cubans, like the Vietnamese — they do not think it worth fighting simply to get rid of imperialism. Thay think it worth fighting, above AND DZATH FROM THE SKIES The Portuguese sailors of long ago came to its coasts on missions of discovery and trade, just as they came to the coasts of Angola and Mozambique. Ninety years ago they set out to conquer it as part of the Western European imperialist “scramble for Africa.” They had a reat deal of difficulty in conquer- ing it, in spite of its small size, Anti- colonial resistance continued here for nearly fifty years. ut once the conquest was com- plete — more or less at the same time as the Portuguese generals were fastening their fascist dicta- torship on Portugal at the end of the 1920s — a dismal silence settled on the territory. It “passed out of history.” As elsewhere, the colonial conquest might mean profits for businessmen in Europe: for the col- onised peoples it meant more or less total deprivation. Here the on- ward movement of world history was allowed to find no echo, Mod- ern science, modern schools, modern health services, modern ways of all, in order to open the road to an entirely new life, a modern life, a decent life. They are for national liberation, but they believe that national liberation can mean very little unless it also means revolu- tion. Here is the bare record. In 1956 the movement of national liberation of “Portuguese” Guinea and the neighbouring Cape Verde Islands was founded in Bissau with a handful of members, and in deep secrecy from the Portuguese. For three years this little clan- destine group worked away dog- gedly at winning volunteers for the struggle. The movement gradually took shape as a revolutionary party, the PAIGC (Partido Africano ela Independencia da Guiné e Cabo Verde). In 1959 the spark was set to the fuel they had prepared by a brutal Portuguese repression of a strike of dock workers in Bissau harbour. Under the leadership of Amilcar Cabral, an African of the territory, the PAIGC met in secret and de- cided to prepare for armed revolt as the only possible means of ad- vancing the cause of national liber- ation. There followed three more years of political preparation. Members of the PAIGC went from village to village in the forest country, seeking peasant support and gradually win- ning it. They laid the ground for a guerrilla war that was to be waged in the forest and the grasslands. After 1962, a year of bitter Portu- guese repression by troops and police, volunteers flocked to the PAIGC. The armed struggle began. It began with small raids and ambushes, It continued with bigger raids. Peasant soldiers gained expe- rience, commanders learned their job. Commissars appointed by the PAIGC, itself an intimate and cen- tral part of the struggle, indistin- guishable from the guerrilla units now taking shape, saw to it that political and military activities should be two inseparable facets of the same organisation. The Portuguese, as you would expect, replied with still harsher repression. In 1961 they had about 1000 soldiers in the territory; by 1965 they had 20000; today they have more than 30000. But Portu- guese military tactics were static and old-fashioned, the fruit of ac- ademic lessons; Portuguese policies were quite unable to adjust to the new situation caused by the revolt; Portuguese morale could never achieve the fierce courage of the guerrillas who were fighting for their country, for their freedom, for their future. Gradually, the Portuguese were forced on the de- fensive, Little by Uttleye pests learning as they went along, the soldiers of liberation forced their enemy back into fixed positions and heavily fortified towns. Early in 1968 the position in “Por- tuguese” Guinea was as follows. The Portuguese held the towns and some forty or fifty besieged garrisons in the countryside. The PAIGC — now with a regular army of several thousand men who have gone over to mobile warfare while maintaining many local guerrilla units based on villages — possessed more or less complete control of more than half the whole rural area and were active in the other half. Their star was rising, their strength was growing with every new suc- cess. But the PAIGC, meanwhile, has not forgotten its revolutionary aims. It believes in building the as you fight and in building the army as you fight. In practical terms, this last objective has three immediate aspects in 1968: (1) to build in the liberated areas an entirely new po- litical and social structure based on democratically formed and operated village committees of the ‘AIGC; (2) to erect at the same time at least the beginnings of an indepen- dent economic system, ially in terms of raising productivi , im- proving farming techniques, and supplying an independent marketing stem; and (3) to start Schools, c es, and other social” whic e le have before. mS ses black panther newspaper S106 shattuck ave. berkeley, calif, Attention: Mrs. Kathleen Cleaver, Communications Secretary * . ¥ Dear Mrs, Cleaver: tam a white resident of the Brownsville area of the Borough - of Brooklyn, New York City, where, as you may know, Your organization has a Branch and sells your paper, “The Black Panther."’ T am writing you this letter because I have just finished read- ing the October ll, 1969 copy of “The Black Panther’, in which! Was astonished to find an article entitled ‘‘Fat’h Speaks to Africa'’ which gives the impression that the Jews of Israel have treated the Arabs who fled from Israel the way that the Nazis of Germany treated the Jews. I say “astonished"’ because your 10 Points on page 18 gives the im- pression that your Party is fight- ing for justice for the Black people in particular, and, ultimately, for justice for all human beings every- where. If you really stand for justice, how can you support and spread the ideas of the ‘‘Fat'h'’ and the “Fedayeen'’, who stand for react- fonary governments who have op- pressed their people, the Arabs of the nations surrounding Israel, Arab countries to which the Arab refugees fled do little or nothing to raise the standards of living, or the living conditions, of the people they claim to be fighting for. The refugees from Israel! are still living In bad surroundings, under bad conditions, and are of- fered no assistance to find new places to live inthe Arabcountries themselves. Israel is a very small country, surrounded by large Arab countries with plenty of land: yet the Arab countries do nothing to resettle the Arab refugees on Arab land among Arab neighbors, but rather arouse the refugees to think only of throwing the Jews out of Israel and taking over the land there. The real reason for the efforts of the ‘‘Fat'h’’ and the ‘‘Feday- een” is that thelr governments fear the example of Israel as a truly democratic country, whose efforts could Inspire the down- [trodden Arab people to overthrow their rotten governments which are $0 corrupt and inefficient that they spend huge sums on armaments against Israel while allowing their own people to live in misery. How could one small country like Is- rael stand up to and defeat so many large Arab enemy countries, if it were not for the fact that the governments of the Arab coun- tries are corrupt and unloved by their own people, in addition to fighting an unjust war against Is- rael? Stances which created the white regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa created the State of Zionism in Palestine.’’ (4) That the Israelis are rac- ists, (5) That Israel Is a ‘‘new face’’ for neo-colonialism in Africa, (6) That the story of the Arabs in Palestine is the same as the story of the Negroes in Africa One need only study the history of Palestine through the ages, and the Bible, as well as the history of Palestine and of Israel in the late 19th century and the present 20th century, to know finally that the ‘‘Fat'h’’ message is only propaganda for agents and puppets of reaction and oppression, In addition, your Editor and Min- ister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver, says in his interview on page I! and elsewhere that the Black Panther ‘.,.always did re- late to Marxism-Leninism,..'’, and this, together with the Paper’ suse of such phrases as ‘‘ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE" and the word, ‘‘revolution’’, and friendly refer- ences to the various Communist countries and quotations from Ho Chi Minh Indicate that your Party leans strongly toward Communism of the Marxist-Leninist variety. If the latter impression Is cor- rect, then it appears that the Black Panther Party Is in danger of being for a long time and, insome cases, for centuries? The ‘Fath and the *‘Fedayeen"’ claim to be fighting for the Arab people who fled from Israel, who, so they say, were robbed of their rights and their lands by the Jews and forced to Nee to their fellow Arabs over the foorders of Israel, But the same or becoming an agent or puppet of the Communist movement of the world, and thereby in danger of becoming an enemy of the Negro people and of all the people of the US A. This Is so because the Communist movement of the world has become an oppressive and ex- ploitative force enslaving the peo- ple of the world in the name of There are many lies in the "'Fat'h message: (1) «That they are ‘fighting for life and liberty."’ (2) That Herzl, Ben Gurion and Dayan in Palestine did there what Rhodes, Verwoerd and lan Smith did in Africa That ‘‘the same circum- (3) The Black Panther Party supports Fat’h and the Palestinian people in regaining their occupied territory on the principles that all people and that imperialism headed by U.S. imperialism along with im- perialism’s funkey’s and bootlick- - ers the Zionist state of Israel, the Pak Jung Hi regime of South Korea, » the Thu regime of South Vietnam, _ Ron Everett's (Karenga) US organ- ization etc., must be smashed wherever it (imperialism) and they » (flunkeys and bootlickers)are found, We not only say that what the Zionist state of Israel is doing to the Palestinian people can be equated to what the Nazis of Ger- many did to the Jews, we also equate this to what the American ‘‘ploneers’’ did to the Indians. Also the just struggle for self- determination of the Palestinian people can't be separated from the struggle against those Arab regimes that could be classified as reaction- ary examples, we support the recent uprising of the Arab people against the bootlickers In Lebanon. It's not a@ question of either or in this case. “SOUR ACTIONS ARE OF TWO TYPES: COMMANDOS ANP GUERRILLAS.” We relate to the ‘*juche’’ (self-reliance), as lald down by Comrade Kim I] Sung and the Workers Party of the Democratic &Stinian people want self-determina- tion.and an end to theusurpation of their territory by the Zionist state of Israel we support and encourage that, We would also support and encourage the people of Lebanon to deal with that situation, But we aren't fools. We know who and what the main enemy is, the struggle in the Arab world at this time is centered around the struggle of the Palestinian people and the Arab world against the Zionist state of Israe}, For the Black Panther Party to condemn that just struggle of the Palestinian people and attack only those Arab countries that are react- lonary would be like those white racist and booklicking niggers that say Black people in Babylon are better off for having been stolen from Africa and want to direct their attack against those misguided Africans that acted as agents for the slavemaster. We would loose our revolutionary status if we did not draw clear lines of demarcation principle of of What : Ten a THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 1§ freeing or saving them, One need only study the history of the Soviet Union's relations with Hungary, with Poland, with the other East- European countries of the area in question, and especially with Czechoslovakia, to see that the Soviet Union is for the Soviet Union, first, foremost and always, no matter who may be hurt in any doubtful efforts thus motivated, No, Mrs, Cleaver, anti-Zlonism and Marxist-Leninist Communism are not for the Black Panther Party, if the Black Panther Party wishes to be recognized and res- pected by the Negro people in particular and all of the people of America in general, The quest for justice will not be successful if those who seek justice tle them- selves to catch-all ideologies making imperialist and oppres- sive interests Finally, it is important to note that the anti-Zionism of the Soviet Union and various other Com- munist states Is based upon the fact that the Arabcountries control huge deposits of oll (oll still being the most important commodity necessary for waging mechanized warfare successfully) and upon the fact that the undemocratic regimes controlling the Arab countries that control so much ofl are anti- Zionist. There can be no other reason for Communist anti- Zionism, since Zionism itself is basically a belief staunchly fight- ing for the under-dog, the Jews having been the most oppressed under-dogs of the world for over 2,000 years, and Communism, in its beginnings over 100 years ago as the movement of ‘scientific socialism'’, having been a move- ment also fighting for the under- dog, and inspired by many things in the Bible, itself the work of the Jews, the People of The Book. LETTER between enemies. real friends and real When you say Fat'h fears the ex- ample of Israel asatruly democratic country, this either indicates the lack of your ability to be objective or It points out that you have con- sumed a considerable amount of mis-information in the form of Zionist propaganda. Not only Is Is- rael fascist, it is racist even against Jews in Israel that are non- European, I also should point out that Israel has won some battles but it has not defeated any countries The Zionist can't even supress the liberation struggle of the Pales- tintan people that live within the territory occupied by Zionist, fascist troops. For informationial purposes the ideology of the Black Panther Party is the historical experiences of nig- gers in Babylon interpreted through Marxisn-Leninism, Also turn to the rear of this paper and all other issues of the Black Community Newspapers and you will see our 10 Point Platform and Program We Want and What We Belleve, Panthers all across Babylon are being murdered, bru- talized and thrown Into jails and Peoples Republic of Korea lf thePal- prisons on trumped up charges as political prisoners defending our program. If the 10 point program were realized, it definitely would put an end to the decadant con- ditions Black people are subjected to. So whatever we are labeled on the basis of what we want and what we believe is what Black people need, We will continue to use Marxist- Leninist principles to guide us in our struggle against the decadant conditions we are subjected to here in Babylon, We will also continue to draw lines of demarcation between real friends and real enemies and will continue our struggle against harrow one-sided nationalism such as cultural ‘pork chop’! nationalism in our Black communities and Zionist ‘kosher nationalism" in Israel, You are correct in one thing the Arab world does have large de- posits of oll. The Persian gulf area produces 30% of the world's pet- roleum and has proved global re- serves of 60%, Imperialism con- OPEN LETTER TO THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY © The Communists of the world- that is, those whoare truly sincere seekers after truth and justice-- follow the same ideal of the Golden Rule as do the sincere seekers after truth and justice among the Capitalists or among any other political-economic-re- ligtous groupings. The sincere Communist, Capitalist, etc, seeks neither to exploit nor to be ex- ploited, And we must also bear in mind that the Golden Rule does not mean the rule of gold or money, but rather the rule of the highest and most precious ideals and virtues (love for truth and justice and loving kindness) bearing the same relationship to all the other virtues that gold was held to bear to all the other metals, Therefore, Mrs, Cleaver, toend this already over-long letter, let me make the following proposition of challenge: Covince me of the correctness of the ‘'Fat'h Speaks to Africa’’ message at least in the points I have listed on the top of page 2, and convince me of Mr. Eldridge Cleaver's correctness In relating the Black Panther Party to Marxism-Leninism, and! will sub- scribe to your paper, ‘‘ Black Pan- ther Newspaper’’ and do what I can to promote your ideas, Party, etc. everywhere. Should I convince you, however, of the correctness of my views as I have expressed them here in this letter on the ‘‘Fat/h, Marx- ism-Leninism, anti-Zionism and Communism, please send mea free subscription to your newspaper, and, do what you can to combat the errors I have pointed out In the issue I have Just read. Very truly yours, Samuel Bernstein REPLY TO SAMUEL BERNSTEIN’S trols 90% of the middle east oll. The U.S controls 60% while Britain controls 30%, With the exploitative wages paid and the low cost of production hugh profits are made for U.S. and British Imperialism, The profits on mid-east ol] have reached 85% there {ts no other in- vestment any where that offers U_S, and British imperialism such phenomenal returns as does middle east oll. Because of the ol] re- sources in the middle east {mper- perlalism headed by U.S, imperial- ism supports the Zionist state of Israel along with its fascist ex- pansionist edeology. As Fat'h and the Palestinian peo- ple deal a blow to U.S, imperialism in Israel so must all oppressed and exploited people of the world, And as the appendages (fingers, hands, arms, legs etc.) of imperial- ism are torn off by the just people's struggles of Africa, Asia and Litin America, the Black Panther Party and Black people in Babylon will be steadly chopping at the heart of imperialism right here in fascist Babylon, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! * THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 2 16 POWER TO THE PEOPLE -IN ART by John Weber The idea of doing a mural was conceived as part of the summer youth program at St. Dominic's Church, Locust and Sedgwick. It was also partof the effort to beaut- ify the yard, once filled with debris and weeds, to turn it into a pleas- ant, clean space for the use of the neighborhood. Early in the summer the lot was cleared, a cement playing court made and grass sod laid. We began thinking about the wall. There were also about a dozen boarded-up win- dows to be painted. The initial dis- cussions involved myself, Kenneth Webster (an art major at St. Mich- ael's High School), Cleo and Sheila Delk, and Phillip Savage. At first people were very slow about suggestions: "Anything is all right with me" was the refrain. But a5 soon asthe ice was broken, Black Power was immediately agreed up- on as the theme. After a good deal of discussion around the idea of a realistic portrayal of ghetto life, a more symbolic portrayal of the black liberation struggle was chosen. Juan Snowden suggested portraits of black heroes, This idea was accept~ ed right away. There was, curious- ly, no hesitation about the choice --Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass and Hucy P. Newton. Later, Erika Huggins was added. | presented a design proposal, which was modi- fied by Kenney. The content of the mural was entirely based on the i- deas of the young people at St. Dominic's. The teenagers and children of the neighborhood accepted the mur- al enthusiastically, following its progress day by day. As the work proceeded, more and more of them asked to participate in its execu- tion and they did. In the groups watching the painters, older chil- dren often would explain the sym- bols and the heroes to their young- er brothers and sisters- pointing out the police ( pigs), the black heroes, and reading the "All Power to the People" slogan. Huey Newton was recognized less often by name- us- ually just as aBlack Panther. Being a Panther was impressive enough. By Marc Kovacs Most Advertising Art majors that graduate from City Col- lege of San Francisco go into advertising. Emory Douglas is an excep- tion, He became a revolutibn- Emory Douglas and four of his drawings. ee ee The overall size of the mural is 5'8" by 37". Before painting we had to reface the old wall with new sand cement for a smoother surface and put fresh boards on the windows. We used vinyl acrylic latex paint with a weather proofing additive. Nevertheless, the mural is unlikely to last as long as five years in the highly acidic polluted air of Chi- cago, not to mention other wear and tear, The materials were sup- plied by the church and throughout the project we received support { and occasional criticism) from the church staff, Brother Joakim in 2 oft, EE THE PE OPLE ARE THE RE particular gave his enthusiastic support from the beginning and gave us several helpful suggestions, The project took all summer, working two days per week. The windows were painted by teams of younger children during the last week. Kenneth Webster and myself were the only ones who worked on the project from beginnning to end. The supervision of the younger painters mainly fell to me, while e - Dee AL ARTISTS from the constant change in the participants. On the contrary, as a result, many neighborhood chil- dren can point with pride to some section of the mural or to a window, saying, "I did that, it'sthe best_ part." Almost without exception the youngsters quickly learned to handle the brushes and paints well. They showed patience, diligence, and great pride in good workman- ship. Several, especially in work- the portraits are entirely by Kenney. ing on the windows, showed gen- Otherscame and went- some paint- _edfor only one or two days.! don't believe the project suffered at all uine talent for design and a flair for color composition, They are rarely given a chance to develop PEOPLE'S WAR--PEOPLE’S ART EMORY :ART & REVOLUTION INTERVIEW FROM SAN FRANCISCO GUARDSMAN ary. A Black Panther. artist. Douglas joined the Black Panther newspaper after leaving City College in 1963. His first drawing appeared in issue number three. 185 An eaitions later he is still at it. Last Friday, in an exclusive interview with The Guards- man, ‘‘Emory’’ — as he pre- fers to be called — rapped about his City College back- ground, his work, and to be sure, revolution. The artist's studio. “City College did not mold my ideals,’’ he revealed, ‘It only molded my technique."’ Had the technical training he received here been an as- set? Emory didn’t think so. “Commercial Art courses,” he said, ‘‘are part of the Capitalistic system.” Certain products, he be- lieves, appeal to a certain class of people. And Emory doesn't want to play that game. “IT want art that relates to the community,"’ he asserted, “art that becomes a living part of the people.”’ And in order to produce this kind of work the artist must go out to the streets—not stay in the classroom. Emory went into the streets. And today his work is recog- nized all over the planet: One exhibition is scheduled for Los Angeles later this month; last summer 50,000 prints of his work were distributed, free these talents in the public schools. I cannot remember all of the names of those who painted or help- ed prepare the surface. There were over 25 different participants, A- mong the cementers and window boarders were Phillip Savage, Carl Miller, Fred Barr, Kenney, Jeffrey and Ralph Childs, James Hammond and Percy Moss. Among the paint- ers were Skip James, Darryl Howell, Tony and Alberto Cruz, Dino Ed- wards, Wayman Childs and Patri- cia Ridge. I believe the project was sig- nificant beyond its obvious value in giving the residents of the neigh- borhood an artistic representation of their ‘own struggles andin giving a number of young people some en- joyable afternoons and their first chance to participate in making a real work of art. It showed that it is not only possible but easy to in- volve inexperienced teenagers and subteens in a large scale collective art project. Secondly, public art is rare in today's America and political artis even rarer. Collect- ive art also runs against the grain in our "every man for himself" so- clety. Every such project is signif- icant for this reason alone. Art with overt political or so- cial themes is suppressed by the white upper-middle class control of art patronage, by the dominance of commerical art in society as a whole, and by a2 conspiracy of si- lence. It has also been hurt among artists by the old,completely false idea that so-called "social realism" is the one style of art which iscom- patible with social revolutionary themes. But if the connoisseurs dis- dain "propaganda" art, the youth of the Cabrini Green area accepts this work, modermist, symbolic, and, I hope, fairly high quality, because it expresses their concerns, their own ideas. In conclusion, Kenney says, "It ig about the best thing I ever com- pleted and found myself liking." For me, it opened new perspectives, Art for the people and by the people. Right on. Reprinted from PEOPLE’S WORLD of charge, to visitors to the First Pan-African Festival in Algiers. His latest project is a larger- than-life size portrait of Eld- ridge Cleaver. Ironically, Emory is working on this in Cleaver’s Fillmore District House, using photographs of the exiled Minister of Infor- mation as a model. All of Douglas’ illustrations are controversial. His best- known innovation is the police- man with a pig’s head. Just as striking are Emory’s draw- ings of black men, women and children wielding rifles. Why is Emory Douglas a revolutionary? What does he want? Emory'’s answer, like his work, is amazingly clear: ‘We want to be able to determine the destiny of our own people. We want to contro! the police in our communities. We want art for the masses.” PRESS RELEASE 35 GI's were arrested while holding an American Servicemen's Union meeting at Fort Lewis. The men are now confined to their company areas. Some of the men are allowed to perform normal work. Some must report to .a superior every hour | and at least one has a personal guard who even goes to the bathroom with him. None of the men are allowed to go away from the limit- ed company area or to spend nor- mal off-duty hours off base. All of the men reported re- peated questioning. Most say they are subject to a combination of threats and ‘‘friendly persuasion’, Some have been asked to sign Statements or make statements haming right-leaders,etc, Though many of the menare being severely harassed none of them, as far as we know, have signed any state- ments, An attorney, James Vonasch, who was arrested with themen, says of the events, ‘‘The group was gathered to discuss enlisted men's grievances, the organization ofa servicemen’s union and the continued printing of their news- paper’‘Fed Up’ Nothing illegal was said or done in my opinion. The army ordered the meeting broken up for harassment purposes only, They had no specific charge in mind when the arrests were made and still don't as far as I can tell, The soldiers involved were de- tained behind bars from 3 to 6 hours without any advice of their rights and are still restricted to thelr company areas. They are still being harassed with questions in an attempt to find something to charge them with, The question here is whether the army has the right to tell G.I's they have no right to discuss their rights and grievances,”’ Some of the men are members of the American Servicemen’s Union, some are conscientious ob- jJectors to all war, some object specifically to the war In Viet- nam, and some came simply to listen, One of the members of the American Servicemen’s Union Bruce Frederick ,said, in a state- ment passed out in his company: “Wewere arrested becausethearmy doesn't like its prisoners speaking out against the war or against the army.....1 don't want our group called “‘the Fort Lewis 36," be- cause we are fighting for the Fort Lewis 40,000 and everyone else in the service,’’ After the men were arrested, they continued their meeting in jail cells, They discussed further issues of their paperired Up" and the possibilities of demon- Strations near army posts during the December moratorium days In jail they showed great spirit and solidarity. Now that they are deliberately isolated and harassed by the army, they continue to stick together and express the wish to keep up thelr activities, To our brothers and sisters of the Black Panther Party, the Shelter Half, a very non-profit G.I. coffee house, has been i{n- curring all the expenses for ral- lying defense for these guys. We have been asking other Papers to put in a plea for money but knowing of your problems in raising cash for the Party we leave It to your judgement, Checks for ald should be made out to: American Serviceman's Meeting Defense Fund Box 244, Tacoma, Wash. 98409 Union ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Katle Mitchell for The Shelter Half and ASU Meeting Defense Fund BLACK ASU MEMBER IN FORT FT. DIX STOCKADE Ft, Dix, N.J., Oct. 11--Charles Shannon, an Afro-American Gland an organizer for the American Ser- vicemen’s Union has been sent to the Ft. Dix stockade after being Questioned by military intelligence ‘Agents at that base, Shannon's im- ‘prisonment came directly fol- lowing a massive distribution of _ ASU and Black liberation literature the four hundred GI's in the Processing detachment re Shannon was stationed, 38, the vy swhotried for a riot fol- lowing & rebellion at the Ft, Dix Stockade on June Sth of this year, Shannon was acquitted at the trial on the charge that he was one of the leaders of the revolt, and was released from the stockade on September 19, Three other mem- bers of the American Servicemen’s Union, Terry Klug, Bill Brake- field, and Jeffrey Russell still will go to trial witha fourthGl, Thomas Catlow,on the riot charges, The men could get over fcrty years in jail. AGAINST FEDERAL Prosecution attorneys said that they were pleased with the pro- ' ceedings yesterday before Chief JudgeDonald Russell in theFederal .. Courthouse In Spartanburg, South * Carolina, Attorney David Rein of Washington, DC. argued for the plaintiffs, ten Ft. Jackson Gls, who filed their suit last April 1 against the Commanding General of Ft, Jackson, Gen, Hollingsworth, and Secretary of the Army Stanley Resor, The sult seeks a declara- tory judgment from the court that GIs, as citizens, have constitu- tional rights, Rein, along with attorneys Leonard Boudin of New York, Howard Moore of Atlanta, and Thomas Broadwater of Colom- bia, South Carolina, brought the sult to court in conjunction with the GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee. The court could rule on sev- eral technical points raised in the defendants’ motion to dismiss or it could rule on the merits of the case, that is, the constitutional rights of soldiers, Counsel for the defendants, the Secretary ofthe Army andthe Commanding General of Ft, Jackson, ralsed several technical points. They asked for dismissal on the grounds that all the plaintiffs have been discharged or transferred from Ft. Jackson, and that when people cannot be injured, they have no standing to sue, They argued that federal court does not have jurisdiction to rule over Army matters regarding discipline and morale; thirdly they argued that the Gis did not try to do all they could while at Ft, Jackson, such as going up the chain of command to request their de- mands, BUB REICKER, CENTER, | THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 17 SOLDIERS SUIT HEARD ARMY IN COURTS The main thrust of the defense, however, was that in the Army , therecan be no free Iinter- play of ideas or vigorous champi- oning of minority views,"’ “While the ordinary citizen can condemn (the war) (and refuse to support it), the soldier has no such op- tion."" Defense characterized the March 20 spontaneous meeting of Gis United, at which the war was discussed as ‘plain mutiny, not exercise of freedom of speech,'’ and also as seditious, Chief Judge Russell stated that he saw his problem as that given the requirements of morale and discipline in the Army how can the court find a formula for the exer- cise of free speech? In other words he apparently recognized the juris- diction of his court in dealing with the issue of constitutional rights in the Army. Prosecuting At- torney David Rein attacked the technical points raised by the gov- ernment attorneys and then made a plea for soldiers’ rights, On the question of there no longer being plaintiffs at Ft. Jackson, Rein ar- gued that the action against the government was a class actionand potentially affected all soldiers, He argued that Gls at Ft. Jackson had in fact gone up the chain of com- mand to request their rights and had been rebuffed and ridiculed by superior officers; he further argued on this point that this form of “administrative remedy ts ephemeral,” there being no set procedure available, Rein said that the standards of discipline and morale in the Army are not set, and that determination of those standards is part of a part of a whole new area of law now being POLITICAL PRISONER — NUMBER? % ONE OF THE FI. HOOD 43 Kileen, Tex. (LNS) -- Richard Chase is set to go on trial soon before a court martial at Fort Hood, Tex. A private in Head- quarters Company 1-66, 2nd Armored Division, he ts charged with refusing riot control duty, A year ago, during the Demo- cratic Convention, 43 Black Gis at Fort Hood refused riot duty in Chicago, Now, when most of them have completed their sentences, and the Fort Hood 43 have become a part of movement history, Pvt. Chase faces similar charges. The new defendant differs from the 43 in that he is White. But is seems doubtful that the Army will treat him more gently because of that. In fact, Chase, who had been given a desk job in lieu ofa co. because of his refusal to serve in Vietnam, was ordered to take part tn riot duty because the brass knew he would refuse, When threatened, the brass sud- denly loses its highly refined sense of color, Support for Gis who re- fuse to take part in racist repres- sion must be equally solid. explored, He said that you cannot leave determination of the stan- dards up to the Army because the characterization of the March 20 meeting as mutiny - when no one was arrested at that meeting and those arrested the next day all had their charges dropped - was proof that the Army could not be relied upon to judgereasonably on the question of discipline and morale, The main argument of the pro- secution was that recognizing the fact that there are some lmi- tations of constitutional rights in the Army, the court should rule that Gis do have the right of free speech, including the right tospeak out against the war at an open legal on-post meeting. Gls United Against the War in Vietnam peti- tioned the Commanding General at Ft, Jackson for such a meeting. Judgment in favor of the plain- tiffs will have an Army-wide effect on dissent. The court's decision will probably not be known for several weeks. A similar suit was filed by 18 members of Gls United Against the War in Vietnam at Ft, Bragg. That suit will be heard within the month before Chief Judge Butler in North Carolina federal court, GI CIVIL LIBERTIES DEFENSE COMMITTEE Box 355, Old Chelsea Station, New York, New York 10011 tel, (212) 243-4775 BROTHERS (7 SISTERS I am a political prisoner! I am not allowed to speak my thoughts. I am notallowedtodesire peace in a war torn, hate-filled world. I am a member of the ‘United States''(?) Army, I am stationed at Hunter Liggett Mil- itary Reservation and a “‘mem- ber’’ of CDCEC. Which stands for the Combat Development Command Experimentation Command better known as the Claymores for Christ Group. Here the government pigs test new devices inthe amihilation and extermination of ‘‘unwanted’’ populations, In places like this one napalm and M-I6's were first tested for use. Their newest bag {s computerized killing, Mindless machines that can wipe out count- less thousands at the press of a button, The facilities here make Viet Nam look like the Frisco Hilton, The prisoners are forced to live in 6 man hoockes withonly screens to keep out the cold, In order to remain clean one must walk about 75 meters to the shower which has cold-water most of the time, Here we are exposed to polsanous tarantulas of all sizes, extreme heat and severe cold and wet weather. The food tastes as if it died of natural causes, And in some areas I've seen out here the conditions are even worse, My reason for writing you this letter is to inform the outside world of how these fascist b--tards can really f--k over innocent people, There is supposed to be a peace demonstration today at Ft. Ord, Troops have been called into Monterey in an attempt to quell subversive disturbances’ (Mayor Daley would be truly proud), We were herded into ranks to be in- formed that Army regulations for- bid a “peace keeping’ force from demonstrating for peace or demon- Strating at all for that matter, regardless of reason. The penalty for freedom of expression, in a government ple sty is imprison- ment (hard labor at Leavenworth) an Article 15 (forfiture of pay and Slave labor) or a “bad conduct’’ discharge (Sams way of {---ing over you, after youre''set free’) And the world will be better for this??? I would like for this to be an open letter to the Afro American People informing them of this bulls--t/ ; ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE SEIZE THE Time » THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 18 ~ RIOT TRIALS AT FORT DIX General court martials growing out of the Fort Dix stockade riot are getting under way after al- most five months delay. The first trial, that of Jefirey Russell, is scheduled to begin either October 3ist or November 3rd. Jeftrey Russell faces charges of arson, riot, conspiracy and soli- citation stemming from a riot on June Sth in the post stockade; a riot in which no one was tn- jured and the participants sought to call attention to, and change the inhuman conditions under which stockade prisoners live. If con- victed he faces a possible sen- tence of 60 years in prison, It was learned today that a group from Columbia University is. planning to charter a bus for people interested in attending the trial and Supporting Jeffrey and his fellow prisoners, On October 1i4th, a pre-trial hearing was held in the case of U.S. vs. Russell. A number of mo- tions were presented for dismissal of charges and to bar Russell's upcoming trial, All the motions made were denied. Among the mo- tions presented wasa motiontobar the trial because of prior punish- ment inflicted on the accused in the stockade, On June 6th, Rus- sell was subjected to both harass- ment and solicitation by Army Cri- minal Investigation Agents to com- mit perjury by falsely informing on his fellow prisoners. From June 7th to June 9th, he was held in disciplinary segregation with- out charges, solely because of his reputation. Disciplinary segrega- tion, is the most severe form of solitary confinement. Since June 9th, Russell has been held in ad- ministrative segregation, which includes having his bed strippedof the mattress 16 hours a day, and being forced either to sit on the springs or floor, or stand, and with the denial of the right to attend religious movies or other privi- leges. Since June 5th, he has been at- tacked twice by guards, with the acquiescence of administrative of- ficers. One of these attacks oc- curred while Russell's hands were shackled behind his back, Con- trary to regulations, his outgoing mail has been read, and some of it has been improperly returned to him. Incoming mai! of a privi- leged nature (eg., attorney's com- munications) has been read, and for a period of time he had been denied the right to communicate with an attorney, Visiting rights of a friend of his have been taken away from him. His wife, Kathy, has been harassed and humiliated Tepeatedly, both on the post and at the stockade, and her visiting rights have been severely in- fringed. Russell has been denied the solace of his religion as a Buddhist and has been denied con- Sultation with a Buddhist priest or Lama, He was not even allowed to participate in the only religious —s: => services available in the stockade- those of the Protestant and Catholic faiths. The incidents described in this motion are not isolated incidents of brutality and Indifference oc- curring in one stockade or one post, but part of a pattern of mili- tary intimidation and repression, The significance of the trials of Jetitey Russell and others at Fort Dix Me in the extent to which these point out the oppressive nature of the military and the stockade system, On October 2ist, at the pre- trial hearing of Terry Klug the charge of conspiracy (carrying a ten year sentence) was dropped. This, on the basis of multiplicity, sets precedent for dropping the conspiracy charges against the rest of the defendents. Of the original 38 arrested In the after- math of the riot only five are still being held on more serious charges. Two of the prisoners, Wiliam Brakefield and Jeffery Russell are being defended by WDL attorney Rowland Watts and a WDL special legal military committee, Both men are conscientious ob- jectors, refusing to participate in an ‘illegal and unjust war.’’ In October, 1968, prior to being com- mitted to the stockade, Brakefleld sought sanctuary at City College, The remaining three (Carlos Rodriguez, Terry Klugand Thomas Catlow) are being defended by Henry DeSuvero of the Nattonal Emergency Civil Liberties Com- mittee and Fred Cohn of the Law Commune, The five prisoners fac- ing general court martials are felt by the army to be the most mil- itant in the struggle forG.! rights, Last week a variety of concerned organizations held a demonstration at Fort Dix to focus attention on the plight of these men and the other stockade prisoners. The 5,000 demonstrators were met with fixed bayonets and tear gas, They were driven off the post. Like the prisoners in the stockade, the demonstrators see the military machine as the oppressor rather than the individual G.I.’s, Many G.1,'s responded favorably to the demonstrators. UNION BUSTING AT FT. JACKSON FT. JACKSON, S.C., Sept, 10--To- and stronger for the unlon'’, Wade day American Servicemen's Union was Isolated from the other men by Maurice Wade orders of the Company commander, organizer Pvt, reported a shakedown inspection of his company’s barracks and har- assment of ASU members at Ft. Jackson, The inspection was carried out under armed guard, Lockers were ripped open, and literature was confiscated, including the ASU news- paper The BOND, Fellx Greene's book Vietnam, Vietnam, as well as other books on Southeast Asia, Wade, who is stationed in E Com- pany, 6th Battalion, 2nd Brigade at Ft, Jackson, said that ‘‘the inter- rogation of the men only made them angrier at the brass and the lifers, Bob Lemay, executive director of the American Servicemen's Union, said; ‘This attempt at harassment and intimidation is notuncommonto ASU locals, whom the brass recog- nize as the main threat tothelrcon- tinued privileges and the enlisted men recognize as the main hope to gain their rights, Justas the union- busting of FordandGM failed, sowill the unfon-busting attempts of the Army brass fall, We will provide or- ganizer Wade with all thenecessary material and legal assistance.’ a % ~ RY FOUR OF THE FORT DIX 38, LEFT RUSSELL TO RIGHT: TOM CA AND BILL BREAKFIED TLOW, TERR ‘ Y KLUG, JEFF = SUPPORT OUR BROS. IN THE POUND We, as American citizens, sol- diers, and human beings, find that our collective conscience will no longer allow. us to remain silent in the face of the atrocities that are not of our choice and doing, There- fore, as a group, a total body, a movement, we make the following demands on the United States Army, the government of the United States, and the citizens of the United States of America; 1. As to the Incident of the stock- ade revolt at Fort Dix on June 5th, 1969, which has led to the charging of some 38 Americans, we demand that ALL CHARGES ARISING FROM THE REVOLT BE DROPPED IM- MEDIATELY. We believe in the innocence of these 38 Americans because: ANDY STAPP, CHAI TO ADDRESS UN G His Excellency, U Thant Secretary-General United Nations New York, New York Dear Sir, On Thursday, September 18th, President of the United States of A- merica Richard Nixon Is scheduled to address the United Nations Gen- eral Assembly. It is known that the a, These 38 Americans have been impressed into an Army fighting an imperialist war in the Republic of Vietnam along with thousands of other Americans, a war which means the attempted takeover of one coun- try’s wealth, economy, and govern- ment by another country. b, These men have but revolted against this oppression and the in- humane conditions of the stockade created by this oppression, The crime is not theirs, but that of the oppressor. 2. We demand THE IMMEDIATE ABOLISHMENT OF THE STOCK- ADE SYSTEM WITHIN THE MILI- TARY! We find the stockade Is used to impose fear and imtimidation among all enlisted men, The stock- ade system preserves and serves only the illegitimate authority of the military, RMAN OF THE ASU ENERAL ASSEMBLY wall, North Carolina, and Vietnam itself. Another important revolt took place at the Ft, Dix stockade on June Sth, 1969, Many anti-war Gls face long prison terms arising out of these rebellions, just as many of the representatives of the oppres- sed Afro-American people are either facing jail or alreadyare im- prisoned. The U.S, is waging an Illegal war of imperialist aggression against Vietnam War, and particularly the Vietnam, Under the Constitution of State of US _ prisoners current- ly In the custody of the Democratic the U.S, this war Is illegal inabsence of a Congressional declaration of Republic of Vietnam, will betakenup W4r. All the GIs, airmen, marines, in President Nixon's speech. The American Servicemen’s U- Oion with chapters on over one hun- dred U.S. military reservations, re- presents the mass movement by rank and file enlisted men to the U.S. Ar- my who are opposed to United States aggression against Vietnam, Thou- sands of U S, servicemen have been jailed by the Nixon regime because these soldiers resisted this dirty war In one way or another. Many of these imprisoned men are members of the American Service- men's Union, Rebellions of Gls have shaken the imperialist U.S. Army again and again over the past year. Re- cently Black servicemen have re- volted at American bases in Ha- and sailors serving in Vietnam are there illegally. The American Ser- vicemen's Union demands animme- diate withdrawal of all U_S. aggres- sor troops from Southeast Asia and the freeing of all soldiers held in stockades for refusing to serve in this unjust war We earnestly entreat you to use. your power as a Delegate to help us find a way to answer President Nixon at the UN. Equal time should be given on such controversial matters, especially the Vietnam war, where life and death is involved. We would also request that you take note of this memorandum in your reply to President Nixon's speech, and that you circulate this among the other Delegates so that they may better un- derstand the position of our service- men. 3. We demand THE FREEING OF HUEY NEWTON, THE NEW YORK PANTHER "21", THE PRESIDIO “27"', AND ALL OTHER POLITI- CAL PRISONERS BEING HELD IN PENAL INSTITUTIONS BOTH CI- VILIAN AND MILITARY THROUGH. OUT THE COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS, We identify with and support the growing Strug- gle for social justice in this nation and the world. The people who con- trol this country do not represent the Interests of the people of this country, POWER TO ALL THE PEOPLE! We design, write and sign thispe- tition in accordance with our con- stitutionally granted rights as citi- zens of the United States of America, REPRINTED FROM ‘WE GOT THE BRASS PHILLY PIGS TRY T0 BLOCK BREAKFAST The Black Panther Party of Philadelphia, has been In the pro- cess of trying to start another Breakfast Program in the South Philly area, We are usually de- layed In our efforts to serve the people by lack of cooperation from the Negro churches and so called community organizations, but a new front has reared itsugly head, out right fascism We have been working with a group of brothers in and around the community of South Philly, There is acenter at 8th and Snyder streets, called Houston Community Center. The director and the workers of the center have expressed a great desire to have a Breakfast Program there, The center is a large three storyplace which Is not used to its full capacity, It is located In a neigh- borhood that used to be mostly Italian and a few Jews, Now that Black people have started moving in the area, the center isno longer used by the Italians and the director Wants more community involve- ment for the Blacks When the Black Panther Party and friends ofthe Party, approach- ed the director for starting the Breakfast Program, he was very excited about the idea and stated he would put it before the board of directors. Word got out that the Black Panther Party was going to be Involved with the center and some reactionary fool pigs took it upon themselves to try and stop it, They passed out cards to the businessmen’s association and to the community that we were N.Y. FREE On Sunday, Sept. 26,1969 a rally was held to distribute clothing to the Welfare Recipients. This was another endeavor made by the Black Panther Party to set forth in meeting the basic needs and desires of the people. It ts al- ready a fact that the government could care less about seeing that the people are properly clothed and fed and it is the will of the Black Panther Party, following the teach- ings of our Minister of Defense, Huey P Newton, to meet the basic needs and desires of the people. The rally was very much ac- cepted by the people, and an over- whelming amount of people accep- ted the Party as being the Vanguard Party in leading the people to lib- eration, The Free Clothing Rally, combined with the many other pro- grams initiated by the Black ‘PEOPLE RECEIVE ‘*ultra-~militants’’ and we would be teaching children to hate whitey and all sorts of madness. At- tempting to discredit the Party and to keep the people in the com- munity divided a little longer, the pig captain of the 4th district, Captain Cauker, took it a little further and wrote another letter to the people of the community, calling for them to rise up and stop these militant Blecks from taking over the center, The point to bring forth here, is that he and these other cow- ardly fools are appealing to the racist and frightened people in the community. We know already, that the center is not used by the Itallans and other ethnic groups excem Blacks or Puerto Ricans, So the fascist just don't want any- thing that is good for poor oppressed people. The attack upon the Black Panther Party Is nothing new and we can deal with that, but forthese fool buffoon pigs to attack indirect- ly the Free Breakfast Program for Children, which belongs to the people, this Is something we can’t permit. The community brothers and sisters have called for a meeting on October 23, 1969, to come forth and show support for the Breakfast Program and the director of the center, For the people and the people alone will be the decisive factor as to whether or not we will have a Breakfast Program ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Black Panther Party Philadelphia, Branch CLOTHES Panther Party, has set forth an example for the people of taking the basic needs and desires of the people and implementing a pro- gram to meet these basic needs and desires. Solidarity among the masses Is becoming an objective reality through bringing the masses to- gether so that they can see the contradiction of this capitalist soc- lety and weigh these findings with the ideology of Socialism ‘Serving the People.’ The reality of social- ism overthrowing capitalism is because through their practice this will be the will of the people. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Def, Captain, Carlton Yearwood Black Panther Party New York Chapter Corona Branch FREE CLOTHES THE BLACK PANTHER, SATU RDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 19 PHILLY BREAKFAST PROGRAM SOCIALISM . SERVING THE PEOPLE Meeting the needs an desires of the broad masses of people Is the main concern of the Black Panther Party, We say, ‘‘ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! , - But many say this merely as a phrase, not as a truth, but the truth is that ALL power does lle in the hands of the people- not in the hands of a selected few. The Black Panther Party is out to educate the masses of people to the power, this tremendous power, that lies In their hands, But in order to make use of this power the people must first be united and organized. This Is the task before us, to organize the people and educate them to the proper use of this power Once the people see what they can do in massive numbers, Instead of a single entity (individual ex- istence) then they will advance wave upon wave and completely destroy this greedy monster(cap- italism), putting it ona starvation diet! But in order to educate we must set examples for the masses to follow, and in setting any ex- amples we have to use the for- mula of integrating theory with practice, So the theory of soclal- ism (ownership and operation of the means of production and dis- tribution by society) has to be put into practice in order for the masses to become educated to the philosophy of socialism. The Black set Panther Party has proven to the people that the principles of social- ism do relate to the broad masses of people. Taking it down to a fundamentally lower level, many of us practiced the basics of socialism-without realizing it, this is how natural a practice it Is. Lumpen proletarians (street nig- gers, in other words) practiced socialism on a low level when your street gangs ripped off the corner supermarket so that you all could eat, Right On! Winoes practiced socialism on a low level when you got in your allyway or on your street corner and passed that bottle, Right On! You were distributing whatever you had with those who didn’t, Sisters, you prac- ticed socialism. If you needed a cup of sugar, all you had to do was go right next door and get one. That's what It's all about. All of these examples just go to show you that socialism, or the idea of socialism is no blg phe- nomenon Iithas existed since the early stages of man, but was never advanced from that lower level to a higher level In most coun- tries because of the emergence of capitalism. The Black Panther Party is bringing the idea, or the concept of socialism from a lower to a higher level, with the ini- tlation of the Liberation Schools, Free Breakfast Program, Free Lunch Program, Free Health Clinics, etc, These are all prac- . tices in socialism. Our latest endeavor to meet the needs and desires of the people, the Free Clothing Drive for Welfare Re- ciplents, has proven againto be a correct policy to be carried out along with the other Programs Started by the Party. The Free Clothing Drive was Initiated to help serve the Welfare Recipients in clothing their children for school and offering free clothing for them- selves, because we clearly see that the government does not care if we send our children to school properly dressed or not and Old Dingy Lindsay just dosen’t give a damn, so it is the responsibil- ity of the Black Panther Party and every revolutionary collective to see to it that our people are not neglected any longer. So the Black Panther Party will continue to develop these programs to serve the people and constantly raise the political level of the masses to the point where we, on a col- lective basis, will be organized and armed and we will face this racist, decadent, oppressive cap- italistic system and shout In unison ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE}! SEIZE THE TIME! Diahnne Jenkins Lt. of Health Black Panther Party Corona Branch, N.Y. Chapter NEW YORK CLOTHING PROGRAM THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 20 BREAKFAST FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN PROGRAMS Free Breakfast for School Children is being held by the Black Panther Party in conjunction with many churches to serve the needs of hungry children across the Fascist nation of Babylon, All children in grammar schools and growing young adults in junior high schools can receive free, full breakfasts in the mornings before they go to school. The fact that the Black Panther Party has implemented this program and fed over 20,000 children last year “tr aS . [tN . »eaeery ' qualifies the need for this program to continue, The schools and the racist-oriented fascist Boards of Education should have had this program instituted long ago. But these school boards and administrators being part and parcel of the U.S. fascist pig apparatus (tool) know that the continuation of hunger is their number I. weapon for carrying out genocide on the op- pressed peoples of Babylon. Understanding this, the Black Panther Party does not intend to stand by and let this continue. We know that healthy bodies and sound ™ minds are a necessity to gain an education, necessary to throw off the fascist chains of oppression that would lead to our total destruction. People in the Black com- munity, mothers, welfare recipients, grandmothers, guardians, and others who are trying to raise children in the communities where racists and fascists oppress us are asked to come forth to work and support this much needed program. Those who want to volunteer their services full or part-time in the mornings can do so by contacting one of the listed chapters or branches of the Black Panther Party. We strongly urge as many people as possible to unite with this Community-Black Panther Parity Program. We are also asking all businesses throughout the Black communities and other oppressed communities, to donate the necessary foods and utensils to prepare the meals ~ for our children. Items of value donated to Breakfast for Children are tax deductable. Items and funds may be sent to the Free Breakfast for School Children C/O Black Panther Party listed in asterisk. For further information contact: Randolph Albury National Free Breakfast for School Children Coordinator Black Panther Party, National Headquarters 3106 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, California 94705 * denotes Free Breakfast Programs now in operation ~Send donations to nearest Black Panther Party office Make checks to: BFSC-C/O Black Panther Party LIST OF CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 3106 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley, Calif, 94705 Off: 415 - 845-0103/4 * SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF, 94115 1336 Fillmore St. Off: 415 - 922-0095 VALLEJO, CALIF, 94590 801 & 805 Sonama Blvd, Off: 707 - 643-9466 * RICHMOND, CALIF. 94801 520 Bissell St, Off: 415 - 237-6305 + OAKLAND, CALIF, 94621 7304 East l4th St, Off: 415 - 568-3334 + LOS ANGELES, CALIF, 90011 4115 So. Central Ave, Off: 213 - 235-4127 LOS ANGELES, CALIF, 7th Ave, Off: 213 - 735-7598 * LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Watts Office Off: 213 - 564-7494 * SAN DIEGO, CALIF. 92102 2952 2 Imperial Off: 714 - 233-1470 * SEATTLE, WASH, 98122 27 2 34th St. Off: 206 - 323-6280 * EUGENE, OREGON 97401 1671 1/2 Pearl Off: 503 - 342-7276 * DENVER, COLORADO 80205 2834 Lafayette Off: 303 - 255-8486 * INDIANAPOLIS, IND, 46205 113 W. 30th St. Off: 317 - 924-5619 * KANSAS CITY, MO. 64128 2905 Prospect Off: 816 - 924-3206 * MILWAUKEE, WIS, 53212 2121 No. Ist St. Off; 414 - 372-8584 * CHICAGO, ILL, 60612 2350 W. Madison Off: 312 - 243-8276 DES MOINES, IOWA 50314 1210 University C/O Black Mobile Street Workers Off: 515 - 288-2216 ~ * BOSTON, MASS. 02119 375 Bluehill Ave. Off: 617 - 427-9693 617 - 442-0100 * NEW YORK, N.Y. 10027 2026 Seventh Ave, Off: 212 - 864-895l 212 - 666-3603 * QUEENS, N.Y. 11433 108-60 N.Y. Blvd. Off: 212 - 523-9717 STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. 10301 232 Jersey St. * PEEKSKILL, N.Y. 10566 22 Nelson Ave, Off: 914 - 737-9768 * WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. 10601 159 So. Lexington Off: 914 - 761-0594 BROOKLYN, N.Y. ll2l2 180 Sutter Ave. Off: 212 - 342-2791 JERSEY CITY, N.J. 07304 384 Pacific Ave, Off: 201 - 432-3725 * PHILADELPHIA, PA, 19121 1928 Columbia Off: 215 - 236-3353 Off: 215 - 236-3358 * BALTIMORE, MD, 21213 209 N. Eden St. Off: 301 - 685-6853 AL BANY, N.Y. 12210 P.O, BOX 1551 Off: 518 - 434-2374 NEW HAVEN, CONN, 35 Syldan Off: 203 - 562-7463 aw) fF eat wVeirae Q24f08 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 21 MOTHERS SUPPORT BREAKFAST PROGRAM WEL We the welfare Mom's of New Haven went into the homes of the people and other welfare Moms and asked them to relatetheirfecl- ings about the Free Breakfast Pro- gram that the Black Panther Party has started in New Haven, One Mom said that that she was pleased with the program, but she saidthe Black Panther Party should be serving lunch, because she felt the children should have a good lunch. We, the Moms of New Haven said that the purpose for the Breakfast Program is so that many of our children do not go to school with no food in their stomachs. Our children cannot study with- out the proper amount of breakfast in the morning. The Welfare De- partment, gives the welfare mothers about 68¢ ua day to eat off of which we know isn’t enough to feed our children. Our children are hungry when they go to school and the children cannot concentrate on their books because they see a picture with an apple on it and our chil- drens mouths are hanging open wish- ing to taste it, So that is the pur- pose of the Free Breakfast Pro- gram the Black Panther Party has started in New Haven so our children will not have to go to schoo] with their mouths hanging open that way, That's why it's a very good thing that the Black Panther Party ts LOS ANGELES AGENT EXPOSED FRED HOFFMAN The Friends of the Black Pan- thers have been having some problems in recent months with several police frameups, armed robberies, rape and other forms of the lawlessness which is the basis of American society. Ten days ago a paid LAPD informer surfaced and laid some heavy ac- cusations on the leadership, Professor Donald Freed was accused of possessing hand gre- nades given him by the police spy; Mrs, Shirley Southerland was charged with contributing money for the weapons. If any- one knowingly possessed the arms it was the agent, but there was no mention of throwing him in jail, Friday the Friends of the Pan- thers held a noon rally in front of the Federal Court Bidg., 312 N, Broadway, to show solidarity with the Chicago Conspiracy 8, demand freedom for all political prisoners and protest the frame- up arrests of Freed andSouther- land. Only a few dozen Panther sym- pathizers turned out for Friday's rally along with several dozen cops. The LAPD photographic squad was outin full force, shoot- ing everyone's picture and assur- ing them that photography is a police right. A few Movement and FREE PRESS photographers shot back but it was uneven con- test due to the large number of police, The Friends of the Panthers were astonished when the police informer himself, James Jarrett, had the effrontery to attend the demonstration of the group he once spled on, Surrounded by a gang of bodyguards, Jarrett Seemed to be looking for some- One who was not present at the It turned out that Jarrett was looking for Ron Warren, chair- man of the Friends of the Pan- thers, He had just come from arresting Susan Spivak at her San Fernando Valley residence on a warrant for harboring a fugitive and was looking to ar- rest Warren on the same charge, Miss Spivak was held in Sybil Brand Women's Detention Fa- cility in lieu of $12,500 bail, The police refused to tell Miss Spivak or her friends who she was accused of harboring, Friends of the Panthers were un- able to determine whether any other warrants had been issued, They later foundout that Warren had also been accused by the informer, Tuesday morning Susan Spivak was arraigned in Division 40. At the same time Ron Warren surrendered to the authorities and the defense attorney moved he be released on his own re- cognizance, The judge called both defendants into his chambers and released them on thelr own re- cognizance, SPYWORK Jarrett infiltrated Friends of the Panthers about 6 months ago. When he left the police informer made felony accusations against the chairman, the head of the finance committee and the wo- man in charge of distributing the BLACK PANTHER news- paper, While Jarrett was a member several other Friends of the Pan- thers suspected that he was a spy, but nothing could be done about him, There was no way to prove he was an agent until he blew his cover and the group had not machinery for dealing with finks anyway, Jarrett taught the other mem- bers a class in first aid and self defense, but he seemed more in- terested in showing off than he pe, doing for our children all over the nation, We the Welfare Mom's of New Haven, say: ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE, And we need the power of the Black Panther Party which has given full support to the Welfare Moms of New Haven, Connecticut in our vast struggle to survive. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE] RIGHT ON! Emma Simms, New Haven Conn, was in teaching. Friends of the Panthers does not engage in ille- gal activities so the members thought there was nothing to fear, A loner who did not relate to the other members, Jarrett car- ries a blackjack in his back pocket and rode a motorcycle, He always came to meetings alone, Jarrett managed to get friendly with Don Freed, the fi- nance chairman who has been pointed out by several right- wing investigators, The establishment has been trying to cut off sources of Black Panther finances and Freed's name has been read into the Con- gressional Record from FBI re- ports and elsewhere, His arrest on fake charges was probably inevitable with or without Jarrett in the organization, JAMES JARRETT RAPISTS Friends of the Panthers has other enemies beside police spies, A month ago a young woman member of the Friends of the Panthers was robbed and as- saulted at gunpoint in her own home, Two men, possibly Cu- ban refugees, forced their way into her apartment, One held the gun while the other one searched her effects and pocketed $20, The man who did the searching also called her a “traitor,” a “communist” and other names, Then, while the gunman held his pistol on her, the Cuban who was doing the talking decided to rape her, The men had been in the house about 15 minutes and the rapist had just finished when they were frightened off by a neigh- bor’s car coming in the drive- way. JOHN HUGGINS MEMORIAL BREAKFAST On September 23,1969 the John Huggins Memorial Free Break- fast for Children Program was given temporary permission to be held at the Newhallville Teen Lounge. Final approval was to be given on the basis of how much community support we could gather by October 14,1969, A concentrated effort to inform the community of both the Free Breakfast Program and the conditions we were faced with in using the building was started immediately, During this time the pigs of New Haven tried to stop the solicitation of dona- tionsfrom merchants in the com- munity by sending top fascist Ca- hill Ahern (Chief of police) before t.v., threatening the Black Panther Party with charges of extortion if we don’t ‘watchout’’! But in Spite of these efforts, on October 8, 1969, the first Free Breakfast for Children Program in the New Haven community began witha total of 14 children attendng. Inthe five day period up to October M, a total of 180 children were served free hot breakfast. Community participation in the Program is growing larger each morning, The meeting held October M, was the people’s from beginning to end, Over 100 adults and teen- agers from all over the city jammed the meeting place to decide whether or not the children can continue to be fed free break- fast in the morning, The people said ‘‘Feed the Children’, Power to the People is becoming a reality despite the rise of fascism in this dog Babylon PROGRAM (America), Huey P. Newton fore- saw, when he first started the idea of the Free Breakfast for Children Program that the people would take this program as thelr ownand use and develop it to serve their own problems, The Black Panther Party is the same as the Free Breakfast for Children Program, as it is the People’s tool to use for liberation against the racist- fascist dogs of Babylon, This Breakfast Program is a memorial to Brother John Huggins (Feb, ll, 1945-Jan 17, 1969) who was murdered by the black fascist Karengatangs of Ron Karenga in Los Angeles, California, John grew up here in New Haven, Evenbefore he joined the Black Panther Party, John Huggins was always active in bettering the conditions of the people. ‘By lifting thelr hands against John, they lifted their hands A HEALTHY BODY BREEDS A HEALTHY MIND against the best the humanity pos- sesses," His revolutionary love for the people must never die, Meals at the John Huggins Memorial Free Breakfast for Children Program are served be- tween 7;00-8:30 each school day morning. For transportation call Newhallville Teen Lounge, 179 Shelton Ave., Tel. 777-5341, be- tween 6:30 - 8:30 a.m. Mon. -Fri. Donations of food, utensils, time, and finances are needed, For in- formation call Black Panther Party offices (temporary) at 35 Sylvan Ave., tel. 562-7463. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!!! New Haven Chapter Black Panther Party BUFFALO'S GESTAPO MUST BE STOPPED At about 7:30 p.m., on Septem- ber 17, while changing a fiat tire on the car he was driving, Hershe} Wilson, a citizen of the Black com- munity in Buffalo, was approached by cops from precinct 6. They cursed him, struck him tn the face with a weapon -- either a night stick or black jack, -- and knocked his identification from his hand Saying, ‘‘No you don’t have to give it to us now,.’! Then they hand- cuffed him and beat him more be- fore they shoved him into their car and left, Witnesses at the gas sta- tion where Wilson was changing the tire sald he had no injuries when he arrived, but he did have a small cut over his left eye when he was taken away by the Pigs followed by another car from the Tactical Patrol Unit (TPU), Hershel Wilson was taken to the Scene of an apparent “hit and run" - a traffic violation involving a@ parked car, Handcuffed and accused of leaving the scene of an accident, he was then taken back to the gas station whereoneof the bigs searched the trunk of the car Wilson had been driving, Then taken to precinct 12, wit- nesses, Including Mr. Miles, the owner of the parked car involved in the accident, say Hershel Wilson was brought tn, questioned at the desk and the handcuffs removed. At about 8:45 he still had only that small cut over his eye. Shortly after 9 p.m., Hershel Wilson was dead! After his family was finally no- tified, hours later, and give the “*run-around’’ when attempting to locate his body, they found only some of the gory evidence sur- rounding their son's death, On the floor of the interrogation room was blood and something ‘“oat- mealish'' in appearance, The pigs said it came out of his mouth! Then at the Eric County Morgue they found the bloodied body of thelr son clad in a t-shirt and shorts, neither of which were his, The same material seen on the interrogation room floor was coming from his nose, mouth, and a hole in the back of his head, His hands and wrists bore deep marks, as if they'd been bound. His whole body was cut up, sup- posedlyan qutopsyhad already been performed, even before his family was aware of his death! None of his clothes nor his ring, nor his wallet containing $10 has been lo- cated. Such are the detafls surround- ing the ‘‘mysterious'’’ death of another victim of Buffalo's in- famously racist pig force. Whe- ther it Was an Intentional or “ac- cidently’’ intentional murder is of little consequence now, Hershel Wilson was a Black man killed by a racist pig force occupying his own community, This and allothe? actions of aggres- sion, oppression and harassment will not be tolerated by the Black community in Buffalo for much longer! . sata iT — THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 22 October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want What We Believe FREE HUEY Minister of Defense. Black Panther Party 1. We want freedom, We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter- mine our destiny 2. We want full employment for our people We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man emplovinent or a guaranteed income We believe that if the white American businessmen, will not give full employment. then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and em ploy all of its people and give 4 high standard of living 3. We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Ger- mans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people; therefore. we feel that this is a modest demand that we make 4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowl- edge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the mili- tary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary. 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people. We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or- ganizing black self-defense groups that are. dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self-defense 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. We believe that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial. 9, We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, en- vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man” of the black community 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis- cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. 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Submit to: BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER 3106 SHATTUCK AVE. BERKELEY, CALIF. RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CENTRAL HEADQUARTERS OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, . Every member of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY throughout this country of racist America must abide by these rules as functional mem- bers of this party. CENTRAL COMMITTEE member, CENTRAL STAFES, and LOCAL STAFES, 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 diy- 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 abso subjected to suspension by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. THE RULES ARE: 1. No party member can have narcotics or weed in his possession while doing party work, 2. Any party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from this party. 3. No party member can be DRUNK while doing daily party work. 4. No party member will violate rules relating to office work, general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANYWHERE. 5. No party member will USE, POINT, or FIRE o 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 purty 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 ncedle or a piece of thread, : 9. When arrested BLACK PANTHER MEMBERS will give only name, address, and will sign nothing. Legal first aid must be understood by all Party members. 10. The Ten Point Program aud platform of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must be known and understood by cach Party member. Hl. 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, Ench Sub-Section Leader Section Leader, Licutenant, and Cuptiin 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 te the Editor of the Newspaper, so that it will be published in the paper and will be known by all chapters und branches, IX. Political Education Classes are mandatory for general member- ship. 19. Only office personnel assigned to respective offices cach day should be there. All others ure 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 components of the BLACK PAN- THER PARTY must submit a monthly Financial Report to the Minis- try of Finance. and also the Central Committee. 23. Everyone in a leadership position must read no tess than two hours per day to keep abreast of the changing political situation. 24. Ne chapter or branch shall accept grants, poverty funds, money or uns other aid from any govermment agenes without contacting the National Headquarters. 25. All chapters must adhere to the policy and the ideology taid down by the CENTRAL COMMITTEE ‘of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, 26, All Branches must submit weekly reports in wating fo their re- spective Chapters. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1969 PAGE 23