Vol. 3, No. 30
1969-11-15
19 pages
✓ Indexed
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THE BLACK PANTHER 2°
Black Commuhity News Service
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THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15, i9e9 PAGE 2
FREEDOM CANNOT BE GAGGED!
By Tem Hayden
What ts mow taking place im the
federal courtroom where we of
The Comaptracy are being tried is
& repeat cf what cecurred i the
streets of Chicago at the Demo
erailc convention last year
New as then, police and gow
eramect officials are creating a
virtual riot, One has only to look
Stross at ¢o-Cefendam Bobty
Seale, bound and gagged by order
of jeder Julius Hoffmas, to rea-
Mae who is manufacturing tbe dis-
order.
As @uring. the convention when
thousands of Gemonstrators sowght
to Fegister their protest to the
War and GeDemocratic party in
power, the governmest Is Senying
ts famdamental constitutions)
rights, In Seale’s case it was the
(0 defend Dimself afer Hott-
Man refused to delay the trial a
few weeks unti] stiorney Charles
Garry, Seale’s cbiet attorney, re-
covered from an operation. When
Seale and the seven other Com
splracy defendants tesist upon ex-
ereising this right, they are ac-
cused of disrupting the judicial
process,
Again, as during the convention,
& Dear police state cttains. Chicago
police aed U.S. marstals have
takes over the entire federal basis.
ing “to preserve order,’ as though
the forces of diseréer were to te
toued is frost of the judicial bench,
fet behind it, M has become a
trader: whenever threats, denial
Of basic rights and police state
machinery fail to break the revolu-
themary spirit, & police riot takes
Place-«in this coertroom as in Ch.
EH. CH
Anyone who has closely bern
following the trial in Chicago now
Must realine that Fascism is rus- t
sing fampant in courts where pe
ileal prisosers are bedne tried,
{ have been following the trtal
Chewely and the proceedings of that
of “Jedge Magoo has hardened
my stand behind the Diack Panther
Party and J am quite certain it
has also wom the wangsurd party «
increased support al) charges ard
tor
wader the ccesitution, that being
cago during our coefroatation in
late August
The eigh of us are being charged
with ptr > riet”" during
the convertion, Mf convicted, we
@ach tace $20,000 fines and 10
years G jafl, in addition to Nobby
Seale, the defendants are Dave Det
linger, Abtée Hoffman, Jerry Ru-
bin, Rensie Davis, Joba Froines,
Lee Weiner and myself.
Here's bow Hodiman
Roddy Seabe
Botty came teto the coert Cet
20 abead of the juice and jery.
He sabvied Panthers and others
in the gallery and cave a stort
speech. Me said be would stand on
comstitwional righ to defend
self in the court, Several times
Botey told his isteners to “coo!
i" 8 matior what happesed le
then sat down and waited for the
pallet
trial to begin,
The Panther leader--ihe caly
one of us who is Black--berks
back to & law passed curing Recon.
struction to subwtantiate Ns de-
mand that he te allowed to defend
Disself. Hoffman insists thet our
lawyer, William Kumatler, ts
Seale's lawyer, too, but Lobby in-
sists-.without amagenism to Kus-
siler--that his choice ts Garry,
Failing that, he prefers to defeed
Lu
bimeel!. His Gefen:
Was meetioned by 4 witness
or when the other attorneys had
finished cross examination,
The government position is that
Seale made his point for the appel
late record during the fret days
only what he ts entities to
he righ to cross examine
witeesses, the right to represent
himself or bare a lawyer of his
oun choice
sented
RaDgaroo cowrt under thedireciicn a
AIL these have teen
Judge Motimam is truly
“bintant racist", fer be has
dented em to lobby,
dodge lieftman, merely Tricky
Seck's Ouaky'", ie trying to have
be trial labeted « mi
Chairman Bothy, has made evi- evitable, an agpeal to the higher
Gent by Ge treatmem he tas re-
ceived, \o the whele of Americs
courts, They realize that Uf this
alled rist comspiracy law was
what bas been known by many ever ested for constitetionallty
Black brothers who have come im Ut would not survive, it is an ob
Contact with justice in a racist views deslal of the free speech
@ortety, & tir impartial trial is amendment
. bmpossitde, Chairman Hotey ashe
The purpose of the trial as
of the trial and be shoeds sit
rally from sow on TMs fost-
to ounts to having lotey re
fern to the statusof legalized slav-
ery in the absurd expectation that
in three or fear years an
imeekf, Dotty
stressed that be was not disrupting
Sanded the right to crossexamine
the witeres on the stand after cur
lawyere--Kuastier and Leonard
Wetnelass--had Maished.
Seale and Hoffman were having
an angry Selerctange whee US
Attorney Richard Schulte bounded
to the lecturn, waved his Geger
at Seale and told the jodee that
before court hed tegue that more.
ing Seale had told his followers
im the courtroom to be ready to
attack, Seale slammed Als haad ce
the tate and showted: “You know
1 told them te cool it You're a
Nar.”'
At this polnt the judge ordered
Sarshals (0 seat Seale. They threw
him down isto bis chair twisting
his arm, Court soon recesued and
the jutge warsed Seale he would
be dealt with appropriately
After the recess, early all
Blacks, Mpples and usde
pressmes found that their places in
the courtroce: had been filled by
a gallery of middle-aged pecote
who seemed to resembbe moat the
Political hacks who filled the com.
vestion with ‘We love Mayor Da~
everyone knows, ts to make it
appear that the violence of last
year’ sGemonstration was planed
by the eigM sow om trial, this is
wtrerly ridiculous and completely
untounded. The denial of the eight,
Dobby Seale in particular, the right
to cross exaite witcesses is an
ObviONS allemgt to Cover up some-
thing. Whateve rying to be
hidcen must be vital to the court
becawse they are denying those
os trial tf COnatitetional rights,
A conspiracy does exist how.
a Cover nm ental conspd racy of
sappression of political activists
Wack and White are bel! bent
a kicking ts As, the capt
tallets who would at
@raat ination to people,
ul <4 places of power, The eves
bey” placards last year,
Then came the gagging Nomat-
epared we were for It,
even fost Rew smen-
able and emotion-
ally tntole Int the gaging
alec demecestrated once again hat
the spirit of the people was greater
tham the man's technology: Dotty
wasn't stlenced,
When court resumed two Black
marabals carried Bobby into the
courtroce:, his ankles and wrists
manecied to a metal chair and
& singte piece of cloth like a
handkerchief! pulled across
Cpen mouth and tied bedied »
bead.
When the judge brought i the
jury Hw chear several of the
jurors were emotionally @aker
Even the government representa-
tives seemed desperately uncom-
fortae
Hetty abmeat im metiately began
to speak, coce again demanding
Ms constitutional rights to Gefend
Mimself. The tree of his voice
was motes: that caly added to
the drama, The fader instructed
marshals to improve the gagging.
From Wednesday afertoce un-
«0 Friday sorsing marshals (and
ome supposes warious specialists
ané schentists) attessgted to con-
wiruct a perfect gag and cootinually
failed.
Seale was next brow
courtroom th a wooden chair with
beather straps around Bis ankles
aad wrists, presumabiy to stop the
sound of the clanking chains, bot
% only made Bobty appear to be
ie am electrio chair. Over the
ortginal cloth gag, the marstals
began to add more cloth, ome inch
wise strips of adhesive tape and
gauze Areteh bandages,
bowsd over the top « ba
Ms bead and ted ender his
breathing made difficelt and he
was renming & fever tecagee the
caceteg ee irrituting a tonsil oom.
dition he had Conspiracy attorneys
made & motion that the trial te
recessed) so they and two de.
feetaats--Hutts and myself..
could fly to Sam Franctaco to con~
salt with Garry atewt Ge sem
stepa ts dealing with the orisia,
With creat refectance, (he gov~
ernment and the judee allowed the
recess. Hoffman warted es sgainat
making press statements because
be did not want to be in bed wateh-
ing television and see Mimeelf or
the government vilified. | sald that
the purpose of the trip was te see
what could be dom sext is re-
solving the crisis bet that | would
sot tw cages,
tT meeting in San Francisco
i members of the Panther
1} comm ities ané represeata.
thwes of the firm of Charles Garry,
Attorney Arthur Kisoy was also
there from New York,
Garry tesumed practice ona
part time taste Oct, 20, tet eves
this present level of activity rane
against the wishes of his doctors,
There is 50 ponelbdiity of Garry
entering a rough and teste trial
on a @afly tesis enttl mid.
November or tate
Eves Garry re well, how~
ever, we feet that this case las
been so hopelessly prejudiced that
Ais coming would caly be a tran-
quillaer for the jwige--aot a step
toward a fair trial,’
Garry's postion ts that the trial
abculd be dismiased or that at
the very beast, Seale should te
allowed to defesd himself anc that
the guve rtenest ts entirety tobame
for what has happened. The Panther
Party position is that the case is
a clear demonstration of the lack
of justioe for Black peopte,
Cur meeting on te coast ex-
hausts at this potes acy fatst hope
ihe @Overamert might have Rad
for using Garry to get itself off
the book The government mest
teow escalate the gagging of Betty,
remove Mm from the case, move
for & mistrtal of what Is perhaps
to keep Ms mouth closed, ‘Sill get the blame,
Ca Oct. 30 Bobby attergted to In the meantime Garryand many
loosen Sts lof arm and scrithles other lawyers are im a seat
a sole that Bis cirostation was ie a court to dis-
bwing cet off. The note was given misy everyone or
to Weinclass told the court bet Seale self, The suit
that Seale had peek ope . 4. It dented,
culation In Rie igs
j
leosects¢ the
strap on his left arm, Betty mut-
tered and shook Me bead viclertly
to indicate Ms pain,
Then, the police riot begua. The
marshals streck him in the groin,
in the chest aad te the face with
short pynches oF elbow News,
Jerry Kal was hit in the face
by a marshal’s elbow as Jerry
tried to polat out the violence that
was taking place,
Seale was then removed again,
The jury which had gone out just
as (he violence began, d4 not see
the beating,
Whee the jury came tack ta,
Reanle Davis stood and tel¢ them
Seale was beaten and tortered ot
of thetr presence, Hoffman agin
sent the jury out.
Dy Friday Oct, 21 it was clear
the (rial was headirg toward an
explosive climax, Sead soribthes
a pote saying be wan
subjected te crvelLand
ctahment because his
lation was betag
of the workd are on Mie court
thanks to Chairman Botty's us-
daunted ry for justioe, credit must
also te given to Juige Magoo,
for MMs ieability to cope with
Bot®y's ery, be has shed mech
Light on the suppressive policy of
Tricky Dick and bis runting dog
fluakion, People are not going for
all the bel ~t A=erica preaches,
the lacomsistanctes are becoming
arer amt the people of the
(oppressed peoples) are
forming a proletartan tater.
mationaltetic force that will rise
aad crush the pig power structure,
ALL POWER TO Ti PLOPLy
Jobn Coleman
wi
y Foreabe Davis and Dave Delitsger
ca the two coasts amd & march on
the Justice Department Now, 15
te stop the trial and free Bobby.
On the East Coast i is really
peoessary to tie the Nov. 1S demon
stration to the trial, There should
be actions on the 13th and 14th
At federal tulltungs throughout the
Country to stop the trial,
We think the entire trial is such
a travesty--from the nature of the
law, to the way we were indicted,
to the proceedings taside the cowrt-
Toom--that Sis comptetety ille-
citimate, To say ‘Stop the trial’
or to say ‘Free Huey” ts really
fo say that there ts so such thing
as 4 fair trial possibte for polit-
ical Gisserters sad ideulogical
crimes,
Reprinted from
GUARDIAN
STATEMENT - THE
SANYA LIBERATION
COMMITTEE
We 2,000 Sanya workers firmly
‘apport the struggle of the Mack
Panther Party, The people of Japan
api =the US. will win over the
slabe powers in their strugeie a-
faiest US. impertatiem Wedemand
the immediate release of Mr, Bobby
Seale, the Chairman of the Black
Panther Party who is being w-
Justly detained by the U.S, author-
ities. We tuliewe that the struggle
of the Black Pasther Party ts also
the Mrucgle of cur Sanya workers,
We aiscerely hope we will struggle
hand be hard ents} vietory.
Sanya Liberation Comseittes
SAlaj! Tamura, Chairmas
siso @Apress cor warmest
We
solidarity with all members ef the
Diack Dacther Party
‘,
®
}
fi
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F LACK PANTH DAY NOVEMBES
JUDICIAL TERROR POSES = ats
AS LAW AND ORDER eee German
AGH
STATEMENT
wtal terroris ven
r Ge
& Pon
arters, ao mur-
the sen working there
the iregertalist state starts with epee
erreris
inst * t n trea beeal justification 4
. vie oocupat f the 1
ot ther Party
White Amer
trace of humartcrm ty a class (
or the othe sptracy 6 te to chet Hows owt a conspir fcity ‘ ,
Ave bees educated by German
y that the fascist murderous
began its work when the
a3 cow a conaptra tensive letions = within
qoetl the o * « ch mibita ened and the
nd . war ‘ athe system was ne
. , e vigh were in- ty of clbing thee
ticle t re clas at 4 a jalism totay is facing
ar st to che defeat by the erate Vieteamese
ecaart
people's Nght and the revolutionary
sige Julius J. Hottman wasas- 4 od Gat be te careed and @ eft is spreading all ever
ed as his A*I®, Latin Aerica and Africa
{ Ais choosing T Imperialist rivals preét trom
demanded an (2 Vietnamese here is ne
Wied to defeed MOTE meney Kx up the faeade
55-0x © Oe ¢v welt the whete
eente power structure ls depending on the
Naz ‘ sue tel atvemge to Gestroy rev
mitrov, 3 com athecury movemests is the U §
*, as Dimi. from their very beginning, The Stack
that tedy con | continue its rev
simelity before > even Wf the whote
D the ow je challenges the t leaSerstip is put te jail
are A iminal racist pot that those rty 18 coe with the masses,
ry wha ist “ho America have made a expresses their needs amd
perative ix the way of Life ateoud as well as st formebsteos these a9 4 clear pro
- * this a“ be ™ ause the Party ls servieg
ort ie « cee al example of The : » eet racism Laevery ‘he people, It bas Inexhaustibée scer-
what Cit : t life of cur count es for tighting within the
' Ks cltirens Cot munity, Th
Law y © o sancthertascome. The Mmow that their
beale ca wing Perialisa: ts
@ fightforanAmerica felt or to starve as members of
ment that is
cated to justice ¥ mee of peace ant the intustrial reserve army (is-
ts American fasctsen in tts ru tranquility, The case of @mployed
form as M develops oa the jut annot be isolated from the To the contrary: The peraecutios
Ctal treat American iste leat i recurtomer- of the lileck Pasther Party comrades
he eight defendants let by row e conduct ur courts IS Convincing the other copresmed
Bebty Seale Mave sot been decile must be determined by the needs people in the U.S. to organize them-
observers to 4 judicial trampling of the creat masses, that thetr Selves and to Might within a Untied
on constiteticnal rights, Theyhave interests te sealcusly and jea- Fr gainst Fascism,
F “ not seen thetr ows aed this usly protected, that the nation We, German SDS, will Go our best
mea mockery of at a5 ee isolated te usified and its security fo make these facts clear to the
the chalieng aitemypt of thow- phenomenon. For them the trial made secure. German people, Some has been dose
courtroom of Judge Julius tic js of citizess of Oe USA has tecome « vite) pease In the The Hoffman: must co The in West Germany by convincing
man, Me is pewaiding i the case and White alike to secure fight od 1 for which Haysesworths must not emerge. Black people not te die in Vietan
Sow sniversally known as the case from the Platfor ittee af the stand. They came to The iedictmests is Chicago must We shall invite the comrades of
Of the "Chicago Eig." Thereare the Der # Chicago Chicago to fight, to protest, (0 be dismissed, the constitutional the Black Pasther Party te West
eight Celendarts. One of ther is Presidential Campaler Com vent: cry aloud. Seale hoges 6 ker tights and human Cignity of men Germany this winter and we aball
a Bleck man, a Black Americas, of 1968 a platform reflecting the , ¢ ertean people. He Sas ma and omen Jetandtedoreacourt organize Gemenst rations to mapport
® Mack beman teing ina cowry vital interests t
ere ecourtroom a baltlegr of must be relentlessly defemiedelse them. Wo sball sharpen cur ews
where racism is 4 poiiey of gov- cartie as the Black liberation struggle. be their legal rights inevitalty te fight against imperialism which wif!
eramem, Bothy Seale is the co posed te nterests of me has emerce the lighticg {reat coated. The valve of Black-White be the test belp we can offer to
founder of the Black Paatbers for oly capital, The pecple were de- of democracy us © mat: figure. unity in struggle has teen de the atrogeiing people
Selt-Getease now kacwn as the manding a feace slack, They He bas lished tis battle agsinst strated ia the Chien ) courtrre
Black Panther med BD end to the racket pre racis that of Ms people, that of where a Black A lean takes Whe
The trial has worldwide signifi
we that characterize America’s progressives with ihe fight Sor lead in a def
2 of our ch
shed AL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!
cance for as goes the mat parties convesiions, they world peace and the liberation Of rights and the Mebt fortheuatfica- Christian Semler, German SD6
of the ruliee class of warted adequate schools as all peop joe of all progressive forces isthe
States #0 MAY G0 the tale of man- dowsing, efficient hospital lnatior Hie bas shown hew lo mourt an iateresi of mations) security
Mind. The case thus becomes 4 asd shove all--seccrity, job se tensive strocrie
BENEFIT
FOR
NAT’L. COMMITTEES
COMBAT FASCISM
AND 10 FREE
DOUBLE EXPOSURE
‘The repression amd tasciat ta
ties perpetrated against Chalrmar
Betty Seale © BO CaMPighe and
contempt fowr year jall semtence, ant ale
& murder trail in awadting Rim ie
bretal the most vile curse Ar
y IANGUAEY Canmot de Urban Leagec -
treat moet our staff in one vs
obey was not permilied the offices saw an u
righ to Ris choice of counsel and owt with a sta :
thes whet be asked the court the treaiment “
unter the fascia, racist Gictates the iMack Pant 1 the H
of Judge Hodtman) | 4 hde caer director J at e fore
cise Bis constitutional right of agencies ect together and precen 7 fet spea
Gefending himsiet--be was
to the executiv * ot
BOBBY SEALE
Sse ees eee eect Sess we (THE FOURTH WAY == 99
ier haan fsa Sooke Sonclee "TK WANE and the KWAN-DITOS
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THE BLACK PANT
TRIBUTE TO
BOBBY SEALE °
There siis 2 man In a cold empty
cell
Me ts tslenced, isolated from the
other inmates
He ts denied proper
dices
His bealth crows worse and worse
He [3 MADE to attesd that Munky
seasloe
That session here be must listes
and smetl the farts
sa cin
OF PRG FASCIST JUDGE
HOPPE MAN
Brothers and sisters his name is
Botty Seale
He is Chairman of the pecpte’s
army
He bas significances to all op-
Pieesed people
ie is an in the fullest sense
He bas dome and is still Going
all he can
Brothers and siste
Brother Betey ic
the people
He believes in complete treedom,
Justice, eqeality, eration and
peace for all oppressed pecgte
Ne bs a revetationary
Ne stands i solidarity with
Mexicans, Poerto Ricans, Black
people, intians and peor
exploited Whates
: Ne stands «Mh everybody who is
& seed of freedom
Ne ts laying bis lige on the line
tor the people
What greater cif cam a man give
Malcom X (EI Hajj El Malik ©)
js Shabazz) beams through bin
He is one of Malcolm's betoveth
sone
ye Farell! Beep on dotng ter the peopte
i, “ 7 giving themght of bieset!
é "Bo faithful, bold, strong and tree
% Ths is the spirit of Comrade
Bobty G. Seale
The people cortinne
‘The Oppression continues
there
ave total
Victory
They will remember ard love that
Srave Black man
) CUAINMAN BOBBY SEALS
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE
BLACK PANTHER Parry
White Plates Branet WY 10601
James Willie Worth Jr
R. SATORDAY NOVESER 15
MARTIN SOSTRE LAUNCHES HIS
ATTACK ON THE RULING CLASS
1909 PAGE 4
Mew York (1.55
right bas’,
court, Martin &
fist, took the
ca,
f an oppressed man rising up
against bis sepposedty usreachante
Nelsen Hocke c is weed t
petting Black » anl, but
he's not used t emt
tria} by one of cis
common that the wardens, Like
Harcld Folleie of Greew Maver
Prise, who order the tortures and
haraasmert of prisoners, are ex
powed 20d browgtt to trial. Sostre’s
Grier
fow
faation brought Mim chrowgh
Years of sclltary ceafineme
from 19€0 te He was p
there ater be had successful!
taken action againat the
Alti¢a State Prison bo al!
buthen of Mack Muslim literature
ané practice of Islex L
he was thrown b
pw i solftary fer
mons cm & phony
charee. (Hie was re
because be was
organizer dering «
Black = retellion,)
PUMishmenls were destenedto keep
him from circulating among the
Prisewers and advising them of
their rights
Sostre Os the stand alt cry
on the opening of the trial, efving
evidence about Ms mistreatment
and the mistreatment of other
prisooers by che warden, He and
MMs attorney, Victor Rattscwttz,
Produced Searly tweety letiors that
had bees tamperet with ty the
prises offictals, letvers writes by
Sesire that were never sent, and
censored letters that were de-
livered to him. Seetre was calm
and coemotional as be de: bed
Ds experiences at Grees
Prisca,
AS soon as be arrived at Crees
Haven, be pat in solitary con
finement, Putishment thet
tedicates that they knew who he
was and they had special plans
for him. But “‘erwel and unasual’
Punishment is not so wrusual in
prison, and Sostre related the story
of a man in the neat cell,
Sostre had been com munte:
with bb tar
brokes) by a
Scwtre counselied him to
register a complaint with the wa
Gen, One aight soon after, Sostre
beard guards enier the man’s cell
ant beat hie The eat worming
Roan»
HUEY yewtos”
a
LAE”
oO
MARTIN. SOSTRE
AHMED EVANS
‘
THE PEOPLE DEM. IN SUPPORT OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
Soetre was told that the mas had
“committed autcide,
in solllary confinement 4 man ts
confined te a amall cell ith only
& bare electric bulb that stays om
all the time, Me is allowed cut
Only ome hour « day for everest
Geprived of any work program or
reading material, allowed to bathe
and shave coly once week, and
4 Curd awakens him every alt
bowr at aig, =
The defense actorney, Walsh,
tried te object to as much of the
evidence 44 possitie, For example,
be sald that i wasifl clear that
letters which had teen partially
Macked cet or cut ant scotch.
taped had teen ceasored, and he
Sasisted that the identity of prisce
euards (Who don't wear badges)
be given before they are quoted,
Kk was clear Bowever, that his
objections could not stop the prose.
cution. He booked more and more
uxcomfortable as the evideace ac
tmulated 454 as the judge over-
ruled his o&pections,
Dering the cross examination,
Walsh (ried to prove that Sostr
had sot recetved wvesual punish
ment. Me Sut ceeded: and
doit £0, proved concbestvel
bruta} and enjest penishment te
widespread and that Sost
teen mistreated by New Ye
Prisces ever since he emernd ee
in 1952
Walsh has the « port Of (he state
coverament tetand him, tet be cer
Can Capitalism Exist Wi
NOt" The evil systerr of colonial.
tem and impertaliss arose and
throve with the enslavement of
Negroes and the trade fs Negroes,
and it ill surely come to ea end
with ihe complete emancipation of
the Black peogie Mao Tse Tune
The terms cagetalian plus rac
be fasciom has a very deep
Significant meaning spon ihe marsen
who sullier under sech evils
First, amatyeirg the
‘raciam" fied i was actually
used 45 & deceptive piece is the
form of demagogy to deceive the
asses as to the real motive of
the ruling ¢lass. In order to use
Mack people, is the oppressed con
dithees in which they lived in and
are still Uvieg ts, the ruling class
had be Justify the reasces why they
hep Mack people bowed and shack
led to he Land on which they were
esslaved. Racism, being manifested
teru
in wach cumple Mack peogte
were lazy whittle; inferior
' mentally and teing ture with a
* Manifest destiny of slavery, was an
“y¥ outlet to their (oppressor) that were
al motive the cepression of serve
Black people, Black people were a exploltation of the people asa wbele
source of free labor! ‘© know that a capitalist, by hi
pblectively at capitals very sature ts at
racism was réer to be a Mod
in the mints of conditions must be such as t
& justification of at dispomal of the bi
PPrwasive Pigs began someone’ s Mood to suck
area of exploitation The conditions tor expottation and
croups an M- Oppression of the p an only
inditions wherrin come about by means of demagugy
¢ social and (lytre) and/or terror erica was
om the part of teil botitiew] §hyporracy and
as & whole. t tence! lea word: Fascism
The Pag power structere perpete he reling class dissiminates al
ates racism as a tool to divece and types af Ihes krowgh the mass
conquer. By mt only decetvizg op- mitin (newspapers, TV. radio ees
p weple asa whole, the ruling by word of mouth in the church *,
Class also Creates racism amengst ete, with the ond twing that
various ethade groups by granting it keeps the manses Peeple con
4 few more dollars, in the form of fased, thes divided bas Conque rid
poverty Programs, to one ethal When these Liew couse » be funct
sroup in order tw palat the picture ional, and they are, the only course
of “tavortlam, The result ts that the ple oppressor is ty
aitituses of aMagoniam and discon- en} 4 relen of terror, in the
tent is bred is one ethatc group form of the police sorce and
aeainst atother,
These conditions stamiing armies
PCR the people
p bs the
ing the
(alely dide’t ave the coertroom
tetiad . The seats in beck were
filled with Sostre’s supporters,
Whee Sostre came tr, he saluted
(hem with his fist and talked with
some of them over the barrier
between the spectator benches and
came in, be frowned on the scene
Bearty a hundred peogte, stout
at son
writes maken from his cetl
asked Bim if they were lodeod his
Writings, Sestre replied that they
were except for the last seatence
which, Be said, was obviously a
well known quote, Sostre was asked
te read the sentence, Heread,
“Political pewer grows cet of
the barrel of a gun", Walst was
puraied,
“Who said that"? He asked
“Mao Tae-tene’”, replied
Sostre, and the courtroee broke
vat laughing
Judge Constance Baker Motte
4 Black woman, seems to have
some sympathy for the case: she
aranied the origieal pretiminary
injection releasing Sostre from
sctitary in September, Judge
Motley wrote af te time: “A pres
limanary injemetion is an extrace-
Qinary remedy which should be
kewerd unly upon a clear showing
of protetde success and possitée
irreparable Gamage to the
party’, But che is still a fetered
iudge, and federal jatges are
the center of the court, When Walsh
(rial, The pickets, organtzed
Youth Against War and Fascism,
saying “Free Huey’,
by", “Free the Conspiracy #*
aed just about every other major
Political prisomer,
in the arena of poditiess trial
Startis Sostre’s stands out because
he Is on the offensive, te is prose-
Cuting the mee and the class that
are trying to put him and bis bre-
thers away. © tay eves be pes-
‘ible for him to win some cea-
Cesskeas on Procedures for placing
Prisceers tm setitary, But mere
importantly, Sostre’s case will
serve a5 an examete of de
tance. where coe man has iso-
lated the enemy and commenced
be attack
out Racism?
Becaese the Hlagk Panther p.
Vanes
sMruge
the correct ma
for
ade % pMain &
att
Mitchell, a
mam at the
to destroy the Black Panther Parts
CPe® tasciom bas Matantly entered
the ¢oertrooma in wise of
law and order”
The Chairean of the Mack han
ther Party, Betty Seale has been
rallroaded
4 Organtestion lead-
defense.
ee in Dabytic be. of his own
Cause the Uteck Panther Party has white
the masses that Black
Dick he mak
Grn
pa Hott
spiracy f--.ed
by Getciets Practising Rickme
Maram racism, The fect that Hotes Party
y Seale was qcotieeoms}y denied hs
“comstitutiocal — right
ot
wort tt of
seburtus tes,
ak
Ride,
eooders, there
(hem around
, ing starts:
}OGHT ON DOBBY:
SHEE THE Time
legal
ahd tried By a jury, not
uly.
Tigh wingers,
Fackion and cayétalists Watch
oes Prpetetes by these
int mo placeto
Protte will not forget who
whew the shoot
=
sett reling CS Gees the clearly shows that tio ubiressed
Pretest of Geferding the Galional in- peorhe WAVE BO rictts that the op-
ferests to carry ovt ihe CRRSBONEy pressor fe betnd to respect.
Of Oppressing and exploiting ie en Combined win the fact that’ Adolpar*
peop as well as rotbing and es Hoffman has direct Interest im the
slaving amd murdering other pecpte. Viet am war and be is a ttarant
Vietna Latie Amertes, Asta Facist, be Knows that Dobiy Seale
Africa etc., the Seciot is a langrrots th t to hime aed
ct WO Gewtroy the American peo. the reat of the wuting class power,
nization is t0 New that the people are hip te
od Brasch, Mark Panther
_
~~
— Page 5 —
‘The following is = list of ewots
which have occurred within the
last tree weeks challenging Oe
staid and comfortatie social demo~
eracy cf Sweden and Denmark
Stockholm, 10 Septemter, The
Swedish ferwige attster, Torsten
Nilsson, anscenced at the Social
Democratic pany congress in
Stockholm, that the Swedish go-
vernmest would give North
Vietras 200 million Swedish
erowna, over a three year period,
25 an ald t& the rebuilding of the
country, Futhermore, he stated ts
Bs speech that the Swedish covers-
ment would shortly make yet an-
oer Miempt to get Greece ex-
¢luded from the European Council
THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15, 1909 FACE
FROM THE B.P.P. SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE
COPENHAGEN, DENMARK
large a8 well as small political
parties an equal voice and the
patie and prees tere cot in full
ecassion The
t's political spokes.
man, ieseearé, in Ris com-
tributton to the opening Gebate tn
partiament October 9th, hada great
eal to say abowt Deemark’s re-
lationship with Ge USA ie mee
toned that abthowgh so Dane is tn
it that Poland ant Crechoslo-
vakia are Geeply dependent on the
Soviet Unica is more difficult ter
them to realize that Denmark is
also jest as deeply depeoivet om
its super power, the USA, tet
that ish pediticians, bootlieking
Toms, or Daath meaba ,
ve learned literally how te mold
themselves im order to escape
American wrath
= ~~
be, eight months ago, took part
J iris Americas repre-
Peotailve says thal the comtractwas
actually made betwee a Canadian
subsidiary of the Swedish firm and
‘a0 American firm,
October It, Olaf Palme was
elected as Tage Erlander's poll
tical successor at the Soctal Deme-
eratie congress ant shortly ater~
‘Wards be assumed duties as Prime
| Mistster, Otat Palme ts the maa
October Tth, the Danish parita-
Mem cpened its yearly seasion
With a= opening stalement by the
Prime Minister. Aco to the
Dan constitution the Danish
PLM, Bas toopen they y seenion
of parilamest with a statement
comcerting the gemeral state of
affairs in the country, sccnething
lke the American President's
State of the Unioe message. How.
ever, the P.M.‘s statement is then
debated te an opening detate whieh
begins two days after parllameat
Bas officially opened,
The political spokesman from
each political party speak,
after which any member of parlla-
mem who Wishes to sprak may do
. This ts then followed by
sperches from the ministers and
thee the potitical spokesmen and
individeal members can spwak
again, This speaking arrange
ment is importam because M cives
Sigageare then goes on to say,
"The dependence grows each day
proporticealty wit!
‘firms As they get Ereater ecomemie
power in Dvemark, It is therefore
Teasonabte to be interested in that
Seeets hugpenig i toe URA",
He thea goes on to describe the
Cireumstarces around the trail of
the CBtcago Eight, lists the per-
secution of the Panther Party with
examples of the April events and
Sames the arrest of Bothy Sea!
Ke continues: ‘In sptie of the
fact that the persecution of the
leh wing forces 1s very open it
is Ridden nevertheless in the
Desish press i does mot only
taclude the Panther Party
Politically active studests have
bees thrown cut of their ualver
sites throwghoet the entire land,
Many are serving loee prison sen-
teases. A ban can be expected a-
G inst SOS atc the BPP, The
black population om the whete is
Dersecuted. The labor unions have
aiso begun to be subjected to
terror. Lately, the pickets s five
large cities Rave been attacked
by police forces called upem, as
at is called, to protect the facto-
Fries fusclicn, Many teachers, who
hac plated themselves on the side
of the studeets ts the conflict have
American
been fired, Sas Francisco State
ollege lost all their ttack te
chers this semmer, They Gectared
that they had felt themselves forced
te leave because ractem and other
lon made thetr stay im
After
Amertean sol
who have fed
Bovation of
camps which were used during the
Second World War to inters the
mentioning the amount of
anada, the ren~
the concentration
croup, and the
Act trom 1950,
Japanese minorit
Internal Security
Sigseaard sa ring this forth
heceuse there mech evidence
that the USA ts co the way to
teroming a potice , and the
ett wing forces have fourd it nee
essary lo establish a frowt against
what they call fascism im the USA
“Because of Dene
dence on the USA tt
relevent and meceasary that #uch
things are browgt forward also te
such an important debate as this
ome which is being conducted to-
day. American pellce forces and
soldiers have not onty been put
fe Lacs, Vietsam,Panama, ete,,
bet also in Berkely, Chicage.
Greenstero, The known
Muteat leader, Tom Hayden, says
it (is way; the poor people's
war is Vietsam has new been
carried to within Amortes’s on
borders, And what can we in Den.
So? We can in the least
infor the public of the
development, We can protest and we
can Gaally lessen the depenteace
on the USA But cur silence gives
consent and we then become ace
Comptices.”*
Abd to test the case of Denmark's
Gepemtence on America there ar-
Tived Sumday morning, October 12,
om the 7:55 Sight from Paris, two
deserters seeking political asylum
in Denmark, 20 year old Ted Price
and 22 year old Reginald Alderten
ere led bythe lawyer, Mark Lane,
‘The two Geserters request of
political = asylum will be a trial
case, The Minister of Justice say
that each case is evaluated in-
depensertly and that principally
al = political refugees obtain
asylem in Ownmark, The Chairman
from the Leserter Committee,
Xnud Jensen, is implicit that the
deserters oot be ret rned to
France if they are denied aaytem
here because their status in France
fs so Gowttfd. There they are
treated differestly, at the whims
Of different police and in some
instances have Leen expetied from
the country, As evidence of the
Whcertain fate whick might await
Price aad Aldertoe the Chairmas
for the Deserter Committee ts
Parts, who happees to be on
Austrian, has Bow for the second
me been thrown owt of the coun-
uy, Already em October 15th, the
press were carrying stories of
yet a third deserter who had asked
for politica) asylum. However,
Slike Alderton aad Price, Robert
THIRD WORLD COMMITTEE
FOR SOLIDARITY WITH VIETNAM
The Thiré World Committee ter
Solidarity wih Vietsam, an anti-
war coalition of Black and Thtrd
World groups and individuals,
jeots President Ninoe’s Never!
2 speech as a step gap action
Sgainat anti-war motélination and
encourages all African Americans
to join the tal) offensive deman-
wtrations scheduled tn Washington
DC, November 13, 14 os 15
The federation, which inchudes
the Black Liberation Alliasce, the
Riltects chapter of the Black Pan-
ther Party, the Youse Lords Or-
ganization, a Puerto Nican youth
croup, the Young Socialist Alttance
aad the Arab Students Againet the
+ le currently visiting Mack
Campuses and high schools
te organize delegations to the
paticna) anti-war action in Wash-
Iingter,
Robert L. Lecas, national chalr-
man of the Bleck Liberation
Alllacce and spokesman for the
Coalition states, “The peopte of
North Vietnam are engaged is 3
fatloral lheration struggle
apainst colonialist oppression and
lavasion «by Americas and
Percpean Serressors just as
African Americans tm this comtiry
are fighting racist oppression at
the hands of American capt-
taliets,”*
“Presidant Nixon's phony de-
claration of troops withdrawals in
& TOCOM ala week period are ample
proof of the administratice’s we.
sincerity, tt would take 297 years
te withdraw all troops at the rate
the U5. ts going new, The con.
Corted wuppert ef the African
American Community (x needed at
this time to intensify the Gemand
to Dring all the troops home sow
A March Agaitst Death ts
scheduled to begic November 19
at Artington National cemetery,
Oe Novemter }5, thousands of
Gemonsiritors will file past the
White House,
The Third World Comeaéttee
asks persons interested in parti-
ChpAting tn the Washington demon.
otra * to comtact; Third World
Ommittee for Solidarity wir
Vietnam, 75 Kast Sich Street,
Chicago
Sweecey jumped ship witle on
NATO maneuvera and according
to an agreement Denmark has with
the USA Be must be delivered to
the Atterican Authorities, How-
ever, before the Americans could
ott thelr hands om him asd be.
cause Ms
bere in Deamart,
aged to eseape to !
for asytum there,
The Danish preas, October 25c>,
carried a story & which it »
reported that the foreign police
have recommended to the Minister
Of Justice that the two deserters be
denied either asylum or granted
bermiasion to stay asd work in
Denmark, Their reasces, which
are cely an attempt to Siscredit
these Leo young mes aot only in
‘But Bow the case of the Swedish
the eyes of the Danish puttic as a
bole, bet alno to the goversment
who will have the final Seciston
Tegarding their case, are that
Alderton had been implicated ts an
aseull case while be was tm the
CHAIRMAN BOBBY
214 to North Viecnam shows that the
Americans aleohaveasalarmingty
large eccmoesic inueece in a west
Puropean land which ts seither a
member of the Common Market
tb 2 $10
army is West Germany, that he o op the
had served a sentence of 4 months
for a vietatéon of the narcotics law
in France, that be had i the fall
some Permission to stay in
Swedes and had been refserd and
that selther of ihe two Geserters
were i the imaiewet Carger of
being sent to Vietnam. When the
asked Uf they Dad re-
© laformation from the
authorities they said
Anrritan
they could pot anewer that ques-
oe, and In respemee to the ques-
tom of whether they had received
effective political methed, by play
ing Swedish bestness against the
lagormation from Aldertoa’s Swedish government...
yer in Fraace regarding the sar-
cotics Case, they replied, no
The Danish pigs’ reports seem to
be tullt eetirety upon information
to the USA chrough membership in
NATO we have sot boon atte to
sharpening its threats to stop a
milee Gellar loan from the
American Export Import Dank to
SAS because of the Swedish
Vietnam polley, Throwgh SAS the
American - Swedish strife will haw
direct conseyewaces tor Denmark,
The threat was presented by the
official spekesman for the Foreign
Ministry t Washington, Cart Part-
ch. The Meal decision has not yet
bees mace and Sweden has teen
informed that there te stil) time
to tecome more wise, THES IS
IMPERIALISTIC BLACKMAIL:
Amt it becomes Mackmall nee
Only directed te Sweden tut also:
to Denmark and Norway becastee:
Swedes represents coly tires.
sevenths of SAS while Denmark and
Norway represent two-sewenths
each, An editorial writtem ie “in~
formacton’' states, Cetober 15:
which we affiiisted curselves with
when we signed the Atlantic pact.""
Denmark aad Swedes most show
the USA that they are free and in~
COpeRcincommiries and will not be
Dlackmatiod into Becoming yet an-
other poppet Of ie string = of
American imperialiam = USA dot-
lar dominated colonies,
ALL POWER \TO THE PROPLE
“e
TRIAL OF N.Y. 21
STARTS NOV. 17
The trial of the N.Y, 22 starts to reapect.’"
ce Nev. 1. ‘Thirtecn kidnapped
brothers Att sistershave beembeldin the same type of fascist jesticn
“preventive detention” te leu of when they appear before pig
$100,000.00 rammcm. Now the fasclat Mi rt
big power strecture is moving to at Foley Square, oo Nov, 17,
We are asking all
railroad these Freedom Fighters
to prisom cn trumped up charges are concerned abost constitutional
that carry as mech as 243 years, justice to come out in support of
When racist Judge Hoffman or. these political priscsers
dered Chairman Boney Seale gagged
i
:
and chained, it became very clear FREE ALL. POLITICAL PARSON
that “a Black man Gowsn't have any ERS
rights that a White man is bound
— Page 6 —
THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15
US. PILOTS CAPTURED IN VIETNAM
THEIR MESSAGES
TO WASHINGTON
REPRINTED FROM
VIETNAM COURIER
Edfiver's Neve)
Dan flrs tre at
Published @ howe
pilots captured and » “
North Viet Nam TAs fotlewing is
met of the Sime tars of this stey
Subheads «
: WwW bave been duped
” Mr “a t bes
eatoerage are big hare
Sach i the butter resentment fel ve e
by most of the Amer strong 4, with
men” who bave been captured aly whee
and brought to thes detent rp “$
‘Of those sad realities have wt hed te
upen them, one after t n I
other, T a? tea they inds
erred $0 twech in the past in theer “ he
thinking .
bn t the Vietsame
ormeauniate very creel? I
tree that the Veetne .
.
living a very wretchet 1)
totalitarian fegime amd are werbe . nd to law, t
7 surrosadengs
ee tand e
very rethless ts Wt true bt
canaot ox torture aad feclarat
ence is it t
that Asians, th Viet t
im partiowlat
I igoseant . °
come and i red aw na
4 prosperity raise ¢ to ak mercy
P P This fright’el e
thooght we were ne
THEY SHOULD KNOW DETTER from this life is stidl §
i THEIR ADVEKSAK mind. 1") ee
t ERE. is & pewage from an
| by Captain LP. >» AR
~ Mr. Jobason, what sand Sore
y bot fit im with tacts. Kither yo
7 , . youreel are deceived « s have
| Gthiterately deceived us. Ie North
i Viet Nam. people are goére to the
tw polls very regula Thele govern:
, went it an elected owe, a thing very
few of e* im the States know. Their
ecomeaiy is ondeed stil
& low level
8 while
then spo
Dat it is developing very promisenmely saree Oerath as if he hed bee
BR The Vietnamese: are “imbord with keg be
il] Yety ardent patrictiom, They strongly Johnsom bas pone beck
BA] bate the agerenn: They are a ¥
Very cWwilered, beeen aed tolerant
prone. They have ery A veey
be
ied treatroent mot of ar
ft kind
fomg tradi tic
bat out of th » vase
me
nity
have
opem:
twee
aly
tow
surr
Tae Be bey
ated enemies
The
ave
a hi
met show
ulture
heart
and espe
rom his camp
telly made
Navy Lientenant
Stra captured
foreign }
ask mer what cee
te the autheritic
than's this
fatty
We have showr
eo
REVOLUTIONARY
to answer
etioas pre
to ewdare
to excape
because
to ge away
p sleece
aformatic also & weapon (')
an in t was thie t#o-week
am of vival tt was om
pletely useless | We have east together
n ampacd all of us agreed
appowed
iDie leaves
ted with vari
plants, frui
the fubag
knives
He paused for 4 while, took a few
ore 4 { hot tea, and went on
with a po df nemoar: “ et what
sa ironical is that the Amer.
“as who played the Vietcong im
the ‘survival’ schools the United
ates gave os a goed beating, yes,
& geod ting. although it was =
shass beating. Heer, there is nothing
of the & The only torture bat
tery I've seen is precisely the
ome at the ‘survival” school. [
want Re SLAP Im tbe Pentagon to
all, shew for mothi
Air Pe-cs) toeutenant Vik. also
had @ Cotcern ol bis own, and it
WAS agsin the fear of punish ment
Beck is the States, He made this
Femar which souné>{ gather phil>
saphical: "We thine t the Ad
seelstcation will test wy Quite
Dratally! Those we tail to achieve
thet aim Before
An Adverse
tually hawe the tenc io take
ey © take
Veagrance om @& third afwersary
Who knows their amgerat their fail.
ures will not descend Epos us? We
ate very anxious about +++ treat
Tara? that is Awaiting there. in the
‘tet, Bat we dde"t wind. we have
wale every prey on. They may
all us traitors i, they may
o partial uy you keow
those wher I'l] to cosfrant
wil be al white haired ay
rmande There will te gecerabs
an misals. They will stare at us
ke this Me ¢ ep. pat his
arms akimbo, am slightly beat
tat I'D stand erect and
¥ comiuct which I beliews
. i)
— Page 7 —
CONT. FROM PAGE
6
U.S. PILOTS
HUMOUR AND LESSONS
inom, they are
ERE, in
H aBowed to bisten to
the radio, read news
aed books, draw pic
teres and write wall papers.
Ampoag the scores of cartoons
i sam, 1 remember some
which bore & marked Amer-
ean mode of thtebing and
wtyle. Navy Lieutenant Com
manier CX. drew a pace
ture, featuring a US plane
ia flames ne 2
the groend, and « US
ball 4 eat while cir dabnee
Datte: were im full ao
thee. Am official of a US
Insurance Company with
a bowler bat on his
bead aed 6 travel bug
is bis band burried to
the scene and complained:
“What a pity, I come a bit
too late! In an inside page,
the paper featared Westmo-
Feland with « fell four-star
ich, and a suitcase is his
boarding a big plane
marked “Washington Ex-
teas." The caption read:
‘Well, how can my sacces-
‘sor unravel the mess I have
made all through the past
four years?"
Neo bess humorocs were the
drawings by Air Force Liew
tenant Colomel PLL. He por-
trayed a Johnson flat on the
‘quad palling at Westmore-
Fes Sleeve ani pointing
ahead: “Hey Westy, I think
Tsee that same Hight at the
end of the tunnel that you
saw last year,” Hut this light.
as seen im the picture, tern
ed ost to be the glowing
fine of the Liberation Arm
artillery indiag at the U
base in Tan Son Niet
inereane”',“crime“devalas
ten", “Black vislence,
The biggest patch bore the
word © Viet Nam war.” An
American shook hands with
Uncle Sam, saying: “ Why
do you look so depressed
We are in the new year, you
must cet some better clothes,
hey?"
Another artist, Navy Liew
tenant K lows gifted,
He drew bare breasted
Abrams shouting orders to
aa American female secre
tary bho was dusting the
drawers io bls escritotre
Ths drawers bore the
ee pt. “Search aad
Destroy *First Dry-Seaton
Coanter-Olfensive™, “Se
coed Dry-Seasom Counter
Olfensive, ** Tor, Seores™,
be barat alter read-
“ Another craving
oes artist: Banker fost
ae American senator on an
inspection tour in Saigon to
a military cemetery of the
US strewn with graves of
US soldiers. He asd: “ Yes,
Seaator, this is the laa we
intead to hold to the end
against) sabversion and
And there are many,
maay more eech cartoons.
A captered US pilot told
me: "Look, these are oer
cartoons. We hope they can
be peblished in the United
States. They ave act works
made in this Hiltoa Hotel
We want to send them all
back to Wi a8
Lit to the geatheaes in the
ite House."
From the diaries and
memoirs of the * striped
james writers” we can
iw something very useful
for the present = Nixon
company.
Under the headline: "On
the Viet Nam War”
Captain
stories
Chi yn have captivated
=, only ass I sympe-
thetic to the brave fighters
defemding their country, but
also in my iamermost, I've
begua to ¢ncourage tem. ~
Farther down, be wrote:
“ The losses which American
es caused to the pope.
ates of Ca Chi and of
which I've just learnt were
inflicted on real bums
beings. on my frieads in the
Mories I've just read and
Still remember... These
are no longer a
of figures They
offence against my feelings
record
are an
Premuer Pham Van Dong’s
Message To The American People
Dear American Friends,
‘The progressive people of the
Usited States have so far strug-
ghed agatest the war of agereasion
in Vietnam. This fall, the broad
masses of the American people,
encouraged and sepported by many
peace - and - justice ~ loving
American personalities have
again started a broad and power-
ful drive in the whote country to
demand that the Ninon admintstra-
ton stop the war of sgrression in
Vietram, and immediately bring
home all US. troepe
Your drive eloquently reflects
the legitimate anc pressing demand
of pour people to save the Bosoer
of the Untied States and to avoid
for their boys useless death tn
Vietnam. This is also a very
fitting and timely answer to the
US, sethorities who stubbornly
persist im intensifying and pro-
booging the war of aggression &
Vietram, in deflance of the pro-
tests of American afd world pe-
bic optasan,
The Vieteamese people and the
worlds peoptes fully approve and
warmly ball your jest srwcgte
‘The Vietnamese people demand
that the U.S government cos-
pletely and uncoediticnally pal! cut
of Vietsam all U.S. troops aad
thowe of foretgn countries belong-
ing to His camp, and let the Viet-
Ramese peupte decide themselves
their own destiny,
The Vietnamese people deeply
cherish pwace, tut a peace in In-
dependence and freedom, So kong
as the US government bac not
Mopped Ms agerension in Vietram,
the Vietnamese people will ten-
aciously fight om to Gefend their
fercdamental sational rights. The
Patriotic figm of our people is alse
& fight for the objectiv of peace
stice you are pursuing
a firmly confident that
with the solidarity and courage of
Our two peoples, WIth the sympathy
and supfort of the peace Joving
people In the words, the struggle
of the Vietnamese people and of
the progressive people te the
United States agaiest US ac-
eression Will exd be total vietory
ordal greeting
PUAM VAN DONG
Prime Miateter of the Democratic
Pepubtic of Vietnam
They anger me.” Another
passage depicted his feelings
when be read in « Vietnam
hat's «that, Only the
Gefenders of their comntry
iW
chs have elevated feelings
We cannot have such feel.
ings, We can ost it
sly when we i
something to Tight for, re:
CeeOes againet
Goose for «example. Bet
ia Viet Nam we are not is
are not yet many
sack meaniogtal drawings
an4 impressions. This is
understandable. Not that all
US air pirates have qeickly
come to see the tret®. Not
® few of thers still have the
frame of mond of aggressors.
Nevertheless, the setbacks of
the US os the battlefield,
aad the resounding successes
of the Vietsaciese people
have echoed te these prison
walls and gradsally aed
their eyes to reality. teven
chieftains of aaive circe
lee Like ara and
Gitford Rave had to admit
the impasse and failure of
the US, there is reasos to
U.S, PIRATE SHOT DGWN BY VIETNAMESE
THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15, 169 PAGE 7
believe that these birelings
of theirs will oot have lost
their senses to the point of
nying the evidest failure
the US amd the obvious
tery of the Vietnamese
people.
Que day in early Augast
tp 1 showed Captain HP
¢ of news. It was about
mentty US Deleme
Seeretary Melvin Laied that
the US-governmest was
Geeply concerned with the
fate of the Asericam mibite
tymes detained is Nocth Viet
Nam. The US pilot's reaction
was quick : “Let these gentle
men meed sot about
as here. The best thing they
should doisto ead quick!
this wr war and bring all
the American boys home.”
Many Amerikan pilots
detained bere did mot mince
their words: it — not that
these bigwigs in Washington
had any a for "howe
wey; -P s pilots They
pa a (a pel
AmWwican 1» ehpecially
the families amd relatives of
the pilots detained bere,
were insisting with increasing
Srmmess t the Nixa
ad mialote an oe =)" ir
ageression in Viet Nam
aod pall ost all American
troops so that these pilots
may be socom rejoim their
Jammalies.
Though ba’ =e pity for
the pelots, the Mince"
istration camsot bet be alarm-
ed their capture since
they belong to the elite of
the US Air Fecce which in
is the traowep-card of
toa’s be othk”
A US Navy captain
“As tor I knew,
there are ia the
Seates Armed Forces .
lot of pilote of transport,
fecompainsance, training, ft-
lief and tanker planes and
Delicopters. Bat there are
caly a few thousand pilots
of fighter-bombers. The
fighter pilots can look dows
upon a US soldier of any
other acmed service. I would
Like to add that the mumsber
of these qualified fighter.
Pilots oo wed ‘okt Bande’
ameag US can be counted
cooly by the headreds. Vet
in this camp, os far as I com
oer, most of ws are fighter-
Pilots. *
Not «few the elite
of the US armed forces, whe
held their beads high in the
US, bave had to bow them
to the Vietnamese people
and are detained in this ca
This is indeed a slap in the
face of the American brass-
hate and the eles in
Washingtog. Bat that is not
all. There are other reasons
for their alarm Veteran
fitee Raiener said: ‘It is ao
wonder that they telt such
* comers over cer captere,
As yom can see for yourselves,
we are Bolders of a wide
range of secrets of the US
Geteace fabric, What a dan-
ect now that we are in the
bands of the adversary / How
cam they remain quiet ?**
In fact, the striped.
pyjamas pilots ised bere
many have quite substantial
knowledge ed the qetetions of
Mrategy, tactice, tec - |
aad) oweapoary of the US
armed forces,
Some have gradeated from
military imetitetes and know
quite well the strategic poli-
cies of the Re meg Oe >
sica blecs under age
imperialism. Others
had worked Loe many *
in ta-
ne, isan know a lot about
jae US bases scattered all ¥
over the world. Some are
electromic mi
litary airceaft constructors
on techmical experts in
important Draaches of the
Air Force and Navy. Just
think that ¢ ‘would some
day divulge
those prescribed in the **
of Condect " sattices to make
the hair of Peatagon and
CIA officials rise on end.
‘Yet, these unique captures
are piled 4 in the prisons
ef the DRVN, How can
Nixow, Laird and their like
face this hard fact with
peace in their minds?
__THANH TIN
TO THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY:
the Jews can oever come throwgh tn israel and there is wo freedom
I could title my reply to Mr
Goldstet= “Israel, the Shame of
the Jews’, ‘Jews Without
Hoece’". How, 1 ask myself, in
One abort generation, could the Jews
have changed from a or victim
of fascism to & people who com
mit faneist crimes against others?
millions of murdered Jews of
Europe must be turning ower fn
their raves when crimes against
the Arabe are Gusecrating their
memorte
The amawer, Mr. Goldstein, ts
imperialism * capétallat Inrael
exlets only a toot of a capi-
Calist United States, and merely
even you Mr. Gebdvteln must rea-
Mee that (his capitalist United
States ts the greatest fascist dan
fer ln the world today, Butter te
the sight of formerly soctatiet
Minded Jews supporting imgertallat
moves agitest the Arabs bere
is the fotten fruit of nathonaliam
whee It becomes reactionary aad
©pPOseS to internationalism
as 6 Jew and a
met want lo see
the Jews of Israet perish, jest as
the people of Vietmam do not tke
to see the American soldiers
perish Gut thowe who support im
Perialion will perish Satvatios for
in Vietmam
ety
capitalist
israel as well
changes bs the Arab lai
coed
trmmigration
concept
In this way the U.S gained
able
cvster of the Arab countries
they doe't
Arade Lill each other,
No capitalist country ts a demo-
cracy, and oh, how troe this is of
tarael. When the Communist israeli
leader opposed the war against the
Arabs be was KNIFED RIGHT ON
OF THE ISRAKLI
special
“military hawe'” are stil) in eftect
THE FLOOR
PARLIAMENT The
© cam come 0G Israel guly
Om AD astl-impertalist, Betl-recisy
basis of Arab-Jewisn working class
This reqetres changing the
racist goverement of
as revolutionary
*, The very
t of Israel as 4 state de-
dicated to maintaining a Jewish
Sapority by expeiston of Arats and
of Jews is a racist
The United States capt-
talists keew exactly what they were
Going when they closed their doors
fo the Jewish retegees of Exrope
and lastead set up the state of Lsrael,
= galnat the Arabs and jeopardizing the
Seepertalist outpost ie the
<= Of an imperialist war, t would Mie
are at all Uf Jews and
ine other peoples. Black as for the brave Jewish antl -leseria-
“Rite sodtiers will be Killed
ILate WRO OppoSe Ehe government.
freedom tor
and for many years Coubcn’t even
jets the Histadreth endons. Uf any-
one thinks the Jews cam maintais
thelr cecupation ty methods cvstier
thas those Used by the Nazi oc-
cuplers, Gey are very much mis-
taken, Is not indore; it
se i
1 love the Jews, my people, and as
prowd o¢ their many coetritutions te
ehvilization, expecially to seclaliam,
Recause { love the Jews | hate the
Covernment of larael for being a tool
of the US, committing crimes a-
Lives Of the Jews by launching them
to see) 6am oath =~ leepertalion
organization of Jews aad Arabs in
this coumtry to make availalle
tree pleture of the situation im the
Mideast. My thanks to the Ulack
Pamher Pager for the fine part it
is playtag Om this @eestion.
— Page 8 —
os
wee
THE BLACK PANTHER, SaTURE
AY MOVEMBER 15, POO PAGE
THE UNITED STATES STILL HAS
NEO-COLONIALIST VIEWS UPON
SOUTH VIET NAM
— September 2!
N September 16 aed eh
US President
ameoerced the
irawal of 13.000 US tro
from Soath Viet Nar
December 15. 0960, and
repeated US socilied “ee
spect for the Soath Viet
namese people's right to well
clet minal
.
As is well:knowr, for
many years mow the United
States bas bees carrying ot
intervention apd aggression
in Viet Nam t bee
committed ower half a million
US and satellite troops to
the most atrocious colemia!
war in history om South Viet
Nem. As it has been com
mitting aggressdon agairet
Soeth Viet Nam, it mast
tring it to an end. and
withdraw all ite troops from
South Viet Nam oat
laying down any coodition
whatsoever, Yet. it obdu-
rately sticks to ite * mateal
withdrawal ™ claias Setting
lerses to the withdrawal of
US troops ix tantamour
Gemarding a ra
paid for its aggre
is completely at
with justice and
morality
variance
homan
The 35000 mee ubow
repatriathee bas bora am:
nowsned by the United States
represents am insignificant
part of the half million add
US troop in South Viet
Nam. Thee trick of troop
withdrawals by driblets
cannct conceal the fact that
the United States is still
maintaicing searty half «
million U3 troops of o-cupa
tion ia South Viet Nam, and
dragging cut the war of
aggression, That explains the
condemetice by public
opinion ia the Umited States
and te the world of this new
canning Nixom trick
The US Presstent bas olee
Stated that ‘the only item
which 1s mot megetiabie ts the
right of the people of South
oe Ubeir
ows futece tree of oatnde
intorference.“" We behaved
as if the Usited States bad
Fespected thi right. In fact,
Viet Nam to deter
every boly wre that the
US has trampled it waderfoot,
created the on puppet
@iministration as a tool of
ite aggressive policy, asd
sent US and satellite expe
ditienary troops to South
Viet Nam for an aggressive
war, Thowgh now forced ¢
poy lip seevice to “respect
for
‘eth Vietnamese
right to selfdeter-
tatement of the
on US President Nixon's Statement
Baton 1 an atterept to
still pete its face againat t
State teen intensifyes
the war ie Seath Viet Nags, it
has very effort te
ate the puppet
PRESIDENT
TON DUC THANG
eral election
the Saigon puppet adminis
tration be allowed to crgan-
ize taked general elections
while US troops are occupy
ing South Viet Nam.
It is therefore vbvious that.
in the mame of “respect for
the right to selicetermima
thea, '* US Presidest Nixea
it preventing the acteal exer
{ this right by the South
Vietnamese prog
In bis appeal isvwed on the
xcasion of July 22, ty59
President Ho Chi Mink made
it clear that
“The Vietnamese poopie
fiemby deeaand the
al of all US
troops, mot the
d ly 2§.400, of 130,000
oo $00).000 men, but a total
complete, wscoadstional with
drawal
* Se loog as US troops and
the puppet admimistrat
emAin im existemce bs South
Viet Naw, really free and
democrati elections
will be ateobstely impos.
sidbe
It showld also be pointed
wt that since US President
the United
managed a farce of * cabinet
reshatiie," replaced Tras
Van Huowg by Tras Thien
Khiem, & Seilicose militarst
a former henchman of Ngo
Dinh Diem. It bast been
carrying O78 atts pespardising
the sovereignty ate secarity
of the Democratic Kepublee
of Viet Nam smd wir attack
the area
and the
ing saany plac
between the
roth paraibels
Chearby en
eb. the United
States has mot yet gives
Up its aggressive desig:
is still hatching schemes te
aeo-colonialism im
Viet ™ pro
long the partition of Viet
ham.
Wet the longer the United
States pursues the war of
Agerewsicn, the mace it ex
powers iteel! te bamiliatiag
wetbacks and to condemns
tion by justice: and peace
lowirg public opinion in the
world by prog ve
American public opinion
The Vietsamese people
coply cherish peace, ‘
qruine peace tue inde
pendesce and freedom
th sth Viet Name Na
REPRINTED FROM
VIETNAM COURIER
DRVN Government
Frent for Liberation
and the Provisional Revol
iotary Goverament © e
tepablic of Sowth
re put
vint overal
approval and sup
sort from the peopics of the
t Nam war, 8
setly in terme of men and
raoney
The Government of the
Democratic Kepublic of Viet
Nam unreservedty supports
the position of the Provisional
Revolationary Goversment
ef the Hepubl of Sowth
Viet Nam expos in its
Septe 20, ryp state
ment
The Government of the
Democtatic Kepedtic of Viet
* and its representative
Viet Nam hay <jased time
s the Unite
enres
sion. it mest tring its ag
grreeuoa ote an. end, and
withdra©al all ite troops from
South Viet Nam without any
conditeon whatsoever, Such a
coarse i the key to
settlement of the Viet Nam
inne,
As long as the
States parwees its age
in Viet Nam, refuses to pall
oat its treops from South
totally
att cling
Khiem
administration, the Vietmam
ese people, carrying out the
sacred testament of Presi-
dent Mo Chi Mink, are
resolved to unite as ont
tan. to twave all sacrifices
and hardships, asd to fight
om till they achieve their
fetdamestal national rights
As recognized Dy the i044
Geneva Conference on Viet
Nam.
The Vietnamess! peophe
ond the wernmest of the
Democtatic Repabite of Viet
finaly confident
that the fratetmal socialise
antries, the juntioe: and
peace boving COMMETIER, om
the peoples (hteughout the
world will extendiia
wot ines to the
Vietramese peopte’s patriotic
stroggle « US Sagres
Nam are
support ar
OR 1s part, he Prowinonad
Kevolettenery = Geneve
ment af the Mepublec af
South Viet Nom toed on
oe adrmaation of
the ohdurate poution amd far
fodiens attitude of the Niven
jvation as vegans the
¢ the Sout Vert
Nam question, The statement
the
eat of
«od more,
a piece of
t appraaing
. cowering up
seme te profomg the war
$ military occepation of
‘ Sance the
1 os deployed over balla
arty (1007s
in an aggression agaiast Sowth
Viet Nam, and bas bees
atringing the independence
aed sovertignty of the Viet-
million expedith
nasese «people, it mm
end its sion, withdeaw
quickly
aggressor army from South
Viet Mam. The arrogent
jemand by the US govern
ment that the Vietnamese
people respond to its *troep
* trek
shows all the more clearly
US persistence im its claim
for + rv
withdrawal in dribte
procity ', and insist.
conditions fer ending
ite aggression. US President
Sixom anserts that he respects
the South Vietnamese people's
fight to seif-determination,
while in fact be is echeming
to maintain the puppet ad-
epinisteaticn,
opponng,
wight to self-ceterssina’l
of the South Vi ‘ce
prople, and urging
werrender accept the |
rale of of traitors,
“lf the US really wants
a peaceful settlement to the
Soath Viet Nam question and
an benourable end to the
war, it mast seriously respond
to the ten-point overall sola-
tie of the Soath Viet Nam
al Front for Liberation
and the Provisional Hevola-
tiomary Gowernment af the
Repebdlic of Sowth Viet Nai
promptly and escenditicaally
withdraw all US troops aad
treops of the other foreign
counttes of the US camp
fr South Viet Nam. It
most give up its scheme to
mamtain the stooge adkenumis-
tration and let Ube Vietnamese
prople settle theanselves their
ore Ailaics without foreige
inte rteremee
‘\The South Vietnamese
people andenthy ebrrish peace
Dott \wust be a) peace ia
indeprafence and fiberty. i¢
the = Nixb> admimistration
continue: Strive after the
alvesory posite of atrength
om the batticticld apd at the
Cenferente table apd otdu.
tately prilerks the war of
“agrees in Seok Viet
Nam, it canmer chepe wall
Deavier failutcs
Nat
ATTENTION! |
In ‘ast weeks Black Panther Paper the
quotation on the front cover by our
Chairman Bobby Seale was not complete due
to technical error. tt should have read: ‘If
I am continuously denied this constitutional
right of legal defense couns.) of my choice
who effective by the judge of this court,
then [can only see Judge Hoffman as a
blatant racist of this U, S, court with gross 4
>rejudictal error toward all defendants and
myself in particular,
— Page 9 —
THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY MOVEMBER 16, 1909 FACE &
bapagyayyaat =f ne et Be E i 2 #
s 4 bela He if: aar2u4 ie aitys bi
& co) Reet Fa ie Farr “at sal hr
=. Peary Hts Sate We z
eee i Hi in ca sie ih
ad g2eqz
rT) 7H, HEME FREE Tie Hp ct RS BE ie EERE EGE
SS ae . En ig ik tee ae
—— = it pA ait aa? be rales clelag i we 52x Le ele 5 a F : | By } ee faza;!
5 reer & se ~ 33 § 883 ‘ Ps as i ia L F i sale 3ea>S
= ui (ing Rigel stein ig3i ni a Bat Fat ales Ne etiehs digts
= = § A gt z tf i ee Hl i re i % i ai t Via i enlad pat
a = Sit mall a 2idiatl + Haul Hall ane F be cae Hl, i “ee ‘yee
"SS aati Bg 38 Ape a
= Si: ap ri . | si rt " rat bis Hy a
Sf ve Ui Mey fa ee
So ca = bie: cH3i6 | i if 3 i ALE Th i ba3s
om @ IE jpevtal ft : 5 ef Hy | a it i In ; wal
ie eee > li i siti pagel bl, Waid
= ee ig E 7 B ail ais i ili afi flsasis
= S : ‘f dt if Beal LA
etal att: aien Rae ae Hib he
— Page 10 —
| MESSAGE
| TO
ALL
GRESSIVE
ORCES
By CHAIRMAN BOBBY SEALE
This te De
Cownty t ree
Sooember
be wadersiocd that
ee,
= cena
reese:
Bw its got if there is
imperiaiiam obvoed, if there fa a war going
mt im the pert of the fescist ruling chess circles
thet are imfested inside the US. gowermment
Uf there is @ war going on thot they perpetrate
ead pul fogether there, it mms! be understood
that they're not) waging that war those
peoples right fo self determinstion, thot
they're weagVns thot “ww f som in
equality and unger! against the
Aal ifs © ot tis > wee us
eaten on the rt because af the eat
there is m0 ¢ ad there's no justice of
here t= America tihe
or who've suffered under
n @ Srvtality and murder for £00 )eors
ight here ts America, It's evident and it's
clear that if there is getocide &
os in Germany during World War I
thing that ruling class
omafas te alec wnt and is ale
and is alse cut to deny ond murder ote bit!
people
What we have 6
at home i
Periclism, alto, Thot
pericliem, the octs
withoad enter star tig
dmperialism here of Ble
faacts rrment does
tand is thet right here
fo oppose tm-
Amer
Red people and even te
i protest
progressive pe
Domeal mperichism a is im fact
essence iy it? J think
© v the con
Cee om mre ageinet ws ue cam waderstan
endeily what if is--to be corrailed in wretched
Grete te Americ ond leuk wp on
He umes policemen wpying our com
momity, *, Billing brother Lm
et 60 mck
that aff t
Matton
ieee
q >
OME Milled, Rieck broin. hee
Rowe experienc: 2 le us
md bnow thee fos
27)
ee
ention
= the TLV,
nothing move then pgs, Cops MAning ram
rym
ple and
utelizing,
aor
racts
any people.
as EVERYBODY imovws
wwurd
ity, i
The dem
Hock people live potice forces
1, tripled end quadrupled.
‘ ! cmarts of Americ
fring the police brutality and murder
rats
aud Yead im the popers was
ving and bashing
ple loolad on
. : hing Ade
o ’ f
a = «fend
nol '
uel nats “om BP
ee lack peop ; peop mevicas
le, kere that to don th
nat vights, their right 1 fend themaetees,
heir wight wit, oF any constitu
right is nothing mor ast
actics, murdermms fascist tactics of the police
ning rampant im th wmmunities ef America
im perficwler the Block communities of
To the Peoce Forces, the progresstee forces
« ke p rs, those who know
the vr in Vietnam is wajust, & oho ave
k fo the streets and demonstrating, thase
toy Usted Oe really, reaily domng some Using
mt they*re ne im trying fo ond the wor in
Vietnam, fs not meaningful I, yet. i's wot
” t olf ond will net become muecning tad
at you really went fo step the war in
Vieteam, wnitil yor tobe some ection here im
Americcs <gaiust the fascist bretal forces againat
Bleck people here in America. The very fact
that the Norte Vietnamese gowerament hos an-
nounced thet they ore willing te release prisoners
of wur, for the retecse end dropping ofall charges
d-up charges against the Minister of
if, this pond
tw demanded alec, Thet ix directly redatang (>
the very fact thit we here to ent police brw-
tality and mrerder of Block people right here af
home. Because the Muck Pasther Party Mvelf
has moved in this direction from its very it~
ception to get rid of these fascial forces at
i P. Newtsa, and mys
orvral us.
This is the hind of action that hos fo be takes
oe the port of the Peace Forces in America
wad the vessive orces in America. And
watil they begin fo do thot they will eof begin
ef all fo step impertaliee,; they
et all to stop domesti
at home, Fou must move ic im
eriglism, growing rampant, Fascism Vige
re i= Ametica, before you con ond tee wa?
al jorme
an other
fact tbat Biack, Brown,
ms America and p
people, ave corn
those pe ie
in the fsbo
No, we can't
duped with the notion
ontanae
wz good unltl we fears
at home, Be
sade dite el ing:
Justo sencek ed Vielistyrct! here of Rome
1. te emma fe dy {tet ABN Sms hung tm
Pericliam mei: ot yC GehiOR, Berane “ho!
thowe prison: > af eT ¢4 allowed come home
Whee you +) “Brew 0 GPs Rare’. Orie
the Gs be Amd ee C08 Bring ERO prisoners
of wer ho. by demons (Set the OS.
Ment rel | epob ) alpn teh ERETER Amerie
Bega. ath tatpand es. >) Game ime
we wil ict a precedence. ySoning Gos
abre athowns, (fthatis «41 Re Fico
peome wont, fo release the pw! 6
wal people Bere im America, ‘\~ | *
* progressive forces hawe to i—°
Vt direction; ond thep wilh + ciotene fre
aug immpertatigenat oe 6 ae re NE eRe
j brothers and sisters,
— Page 11 —
;
THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18, 1909 PAGE 12
FORT LEWIS 35
Os Moeday Cetoter 20,
American Sereicemen's Union beld
& Meeting at (he Cascadian tervice
Club oa Port Lewis, There were
3 Gis and three civilians at the
Meeting, which had been usder.
way for aboet 20 mii
Platooa of MI*s
the service club. a6 Bostick, the
Sergeant in charee cf the MP's,
Arrested five people be considered
to be the leaders of the meeting
aPd took them outside to walting
squad cars, The meeting conticurd
without these “leaders”. It was
ected by the rest of the mea
that tRe best action would be to
return to their differen units and
start spreading the word ateut the
Cestapo tactics of the military po-
lite. As they began to leave the
men were tols thal they too were
soder arrest, A 2 1/2 toe treck
onto it
for & ride tothe Provost Marshal's
Office, The men im the truck sang
s00g8 and Ereeted people with ¥
signs and raised tists during the
ride
‘The pext five hours was a really
fantastic show of selidarity, We
were all pt te an & by 10 foot
coll #bere we continued the ~ert~
‘ing thal the MP's hadtriedtotewak
up. We discussed the ASU-mspur-
pose and goals; we made plans for
‘the sent issue of the loral's news-
Paper, FED UP; and we discussed
Plats for am action at Fort Lewis
ie Noversber ie contection with the
nathonwice moratorion, One ada.
thonal matier was Drowgtt op. We
decided to have another meeting
08 post ie two weeks, the regular
Meeting day, Aer the meeting
was over we began cheering and
shouting amd singing and pust ceo-
erally making @ bet of noise. Be-
Calise of all this noise, the MPs
coulda’t make phone calls or con-
uct any sormal besiness, They
Just coulde’t understand why our
A NEW
Opposeats of the Vietram War
have worked toendit in manyways,
some through cceventionl pel-
itics, some by supporting éran
Tesistance oF attacking university
complicity in militarism, Cebers
Rave carried resistance further,
draft files anddewlop-
(BE Opposition within te arsed
forces,
We believe that resistance to
Sany forms cf Uegitimate autho.
rity is necessary to Dring health
to Gis country and make it 2
constructive force instead ef »
lerror in the politics of mations,
‘Therefore, we support those who
Fesist by
- refusing to register for the
drat or subenit to Indsetion
impeding the operations of
‘Graft boards and iedection centers
expressing anti-war views
‘While in the armed forces, or re-
fusing to obey Mlegal or immoral
Orders, oF absenticg themselves
without leave
. Conducting rent and workers*
Mrikes, beycotis, asd similar
Girect actions aimed at ending
expbctiation in the fields, te ta)
Orles, In housing
Organining against tarass-
Meat by police, by the Fill. by
the cowrts, and by Congress
- Ofganizing sit-ins, strikes,
ant any principled sctilons at
schools anc universiiles, to «nd
racist practices and direct com-
Paicity with militarism +
The Vietnam war has rem teded
ws that major decisions can be
made in Ge United States incynical
disregard of the clearly expressed
will of the people and with little
concers for those most affected,
at home and abroad. The war has
also iustrated the readiness of
theU 5. G80 Vielence to impose
the soctal arrangements of its
choice aad w destrey those who
atlempt to achieve popular contro!
over their affaira, Clomety linked
te the government, providing its
top perecenel ant = shaping its
policies, are the centers of private
the morale was so high
I mean we
Were suposed to te seared and
worried beeau re te jar
about three
Clvillana were released, They were
escorted of! pest and ver
not to reterm
two minetes be woul!
pick anetherman forquestioning a
Westloning about 15 of the
all be had was if nares
service wembers, andy
Article 21. No ene was
ANY Questions, S30 Bostick talked
with Major Mi the officer t
charge, and they decided thht since
they coulde’t break cur solidarity
and they 3 ho reasoe to charge
Ss with anything, they would have
to release us. As groups of mes
were released to their eniis, the
rest would cheer, We knew tul we
bed nothing to be afraid of be-
cause we had dote nothiag wrong
The fret thing all 25 men found
the nest
manifestations of a gkebul strategy
aimed al building ax
“orld system dominated by the U 5
Thus seen, Vietnam is one of «
lomg series of interventions in the
atiairs of many nathons: Greece,
the Dominican epubiic,
la. fran, Laos, Thailand,
Congo, the PRilipgines, and
others, Motivated by a mixture of
Private inter and misplaced
convictions, the Pax Americans
i the rest of the week was spect on
Pa post visiting the men and acting
to inter ~ Li J
the mare thing would harpen. After,
The neat day the leaflet salt
over the fort and a press con
ference had been set up. The staff
Mt the coffee house bad a list
Of the games of ihe 35 mee and
being brought
obeying orders
halrewt or having
thetr be The
we abeurd char-
om taleo, ts be-
caret prandah a
acataat the
oF
a ru
ty
e
cause the
San tor om
speaking |
the Army, ix
Mar being sted
be dide’t get a
me real reason will
patented a meeting
tam Servicemen’s
the re
will be
. real WEEVs of wirkers,
after Inflation and splrating taxes
have diminished, The soe
usher! ned and (he uzemcloyed are,
obviosly, the w
becin with, Rave beer cut back or
left languishing, more am insult
than an aid. iteal welfare pro-
erame have been reserved for the
wealthy: tax locptotes, the of]
Gepletion allowance, airline sub.
tlon oF extra duty so that It's
impossitde to go anywhere
Sisce Monday nigh the Army
has been steadily backing down,
The first official press release
sald that we ~ affested for
‘meeting of a political
* om post. The mast recent
vieage says that MPs were
abled to the service cle because
‘boisterous activities" were re
ported and that men have r
had the right te hold meetings on
pom. By forcing the Army to say
it we have thie right, we have
but these meetings are not
Mine the pockets
rich mem. Plans
ace tor local tewspape:
Men can gel together and as
actions agadeet @ totalitartan army
where the ratk and fle enlisted
Mat is nothing Sore than an sab
mal. & replaceable cog te clean
tHe Geath machine,
This incident is tot over, Mee
are sll ccefined to quarters and
charges can still be brought against
Ss. You can belp ws be contacting
the public tsformation oitice at
Fort Lewis with inquiries about the
meeting and asking them why the
mee are still restricted. The Army
Cowsn't like publicity, so you can
Delp ue by spreading the word
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Shelter Halt
5437 Seath Tacoma Way
Tacoma
GRS- 907s
Bruce F recerick
ONE OF THE 35
Sidies, farm subsidies, Mehway
Projects, erban renewal, subsidies
to elite universities ard so oa.
Im the past government policy has
characteristically preserved or
increased the distance becween
Fic and poor, The policy of per-
manest preparation for war is no
exception.
4. Like wealth, control over
institutions Ras been unequally dis-
used.
example, Schools have fatied to
edwcate the chidtren of poor and
working <¢lass families, thus
Cuaranteeing their impotetes tno
Sechmological soctety: .
faner cities, fewer
Mudents who enter
crecuate, in New To
haltce’s largest
the automibte. In-
, 8 leakages, and
ace TOD citizens of
¢ stress and, woth the
fouling of the atmosphere, Hteralty
tAreaten the costimaation of life,
In short, most People Rave Little
control over the conditions of their
work, their education, thetr Pro-
lectiow, their means o€ transport -
indeed, | air they Dreathe and
the water they drink
ITIMATE AUTHORITY
OUT OF
VIETNAM
INTO
KOREA
During the past few months the
cumber of men sent from Fort
Levis to Korea has teen ine
creasing. As many as 500 mena
Gay om some cocasions have left
McCord for Korea. These mee
have, for
Of Skills ‘needed for construction
work, What's being constrected tm
Korea?
According to General Weate
morelasd the setting is right for
snother Koreas conflict, Al anews
This all adds up to ome thing:
the Army is, with malice afore.
Reprinted from
GI Paper, FED UP
S. The meat powerless have
bees people of color. US Mstory
has Included the systematic con-
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though the words may
Seem stale, they deserite the exer-
cise of illegitimate authority in
the United States today, Again, we
call spon all *o join us in the strug.
cle against Mlegitimate authority,
NOW 1S THE TIME TO REStsT
Reprinted from RESIST
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THE SLACK PANTHER. SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15, 1900 PAGE 13 °
UNITED STATES: ARMED CONFRONTATION
rebellion which peek place ie
(Caltermis) ghee om August If ace ‘aaatr . tary tale as tages anew Te Amerisen people tn torte cwuggle gue
jj te.) meniis mained ue 2 oe eumters Gnie cline stetery
eerted forever their resetve te destrey whe The ferrrenmer of the Afre American
wadet seciel, politieal cad ccomemic aye eegele wee Maleole X, whe corpectly The US imperialiot, bent on motutnie
lng the Afro-American meatme oppressed
in Alries, Asia mt Latin America, The
peoples of the three continents will contionr
faftict mew defeats emtit they eran the
very toendations of US lmeperislion, In thie
cudecaver they =i are sheegide Orr
Ale Americas beowhers
ame het eppersers them marked the be
ie ew med important
by ered confrontations with the
pewer arectere, At thet time hh was
lly verified thas the Afro Americans, like
thelr Bewthers of Alien, Avie sod Latin
Amecien, have me wey owt other than
eteeed weregale te ererrt the righ denied
viewed the reed of crmed stregale os the
waly one beading te the devtrection of the
US recit and impo
Ihe called upon hie | hewehers ye fight
for the dewtrertion of rection nd the libew
ation of the AlreAmericee mana, His
ame, slong with the memes of ether come
hestonts whe fell Lighting fer the same ae
pitstions, in a banmer of the stewasle and
an everlasting exsmple
The AfreAmericam people reject the
porifiet pevachings finamord, im many eases,
by imperislict fwundetions lhe Ford and
Recketelier; they condemn comillistion
beenuse it only festens mere fiemby the
choles of cocia eppermion, cod de met
fergive the weisers whe desert the barke
fol
power strectere
The Exscutive Serretartet of OSFAAAL,
on ot the EV amine
nol the Weise block
wary of
theite, demewnens tthe plane for the physical
“a since then the reediness te fight
"amd the fermideble combat sbiliny of the
MreAmerican mmers
where: they reeliond th.
‘cat may wet only be shakew te ine
feumlation but leo destreyed by
wielding the weapons, by incessantly strik,
tng at the cormy, by havessing hime ot all
everywhere eatil be ie defesied
committed agsinut the Afro
during four centuries of oppees
will callepee im the Unined Seoten,
="
4
eieimetion of the Alre American leoders
ond combstents, cuberts oll the progressive
forces be the Unived States and the world
to mevbilice amd demand the prlesse of ofl
the Afro American fighters and calle epen ¢
ite mereber erpenizstions ond the revele
emery feores of the world, particularly
the progressive forces of the Unived States,
The firm cessive of the Alre Americas
ve beck eresleachy the strequie for libere
ee ctpgange na frrepsp ae den of war AlroAmerican brothers by :
fie wiBhes ie Afrien, Asie an eal
Lallin: Aanevien,, Toguiher ‘whi tha‘ panies ae sone bal
of the three continents, the Afro American We call wpen the Alre American mares
peaple will merch Forwned surrensinably to strenghten their wnity of sctlon, We are
Their determined fight will mei be checked fully aware of the impectemee of their
by tanks or army troops or the evcolied = struggle, fer they ore sirthing ot US lem
Notional Geerd. The level of conscientions perisiiem free inwile while we ore die ‘
eccogneted every
he rocket power
- qemplete Moreton. youth, the Mexicons end Peart Ricess.
Seleos, Harlem, Dewroit, Newsrk amd ether
ghettos have followed the example of
Watts, ond many more will joie the Alre
Americum rebellion Their wregaie will be
The memes of many cities ate Baked
—— teday te thee of Warts, for ite example set
in mation these who have been oppremed
fer ever O09 pears, these whe, free their
Re ghettos, vhost their war cry, “Hlech — creesingly mremgihen and extend, foot Dike — ene aad segemisotion reached by the Are wembering it from the utnlde
; ‘
CONDITIONS QUESTIONED--
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY i:
ARMY Office of the Surgece General ;
Washington, DC 20315 ‘
, Miss Doreshy V, Welte }
Brothers | canpet accept the death of Pvt. 464 Clinten Avenue ‘
Pransom as suicide, He was billed Brooklyn, New York 11238 .
Aner readicg of the suiciie Of by hig sp. callececumtry, PROCES Near wics Woits 4
Pvt. David Lb. Swansos, 23, Of aiase = defender of imperialiam %
New lritage, Commecticut, whowas 425 isternational murder of him~ President Niece Mas asked Gat +f
stationed at Fort Dix, New Jersey, oven at the cost of his own jife-. |_ePly to your rece letter re- 7
y the strategic presence
of vocal civilians pre
weeted from being wowillingly
— alpped overseas.
Gilbert refused orders to report
Korea bast spring and wert
. from Ft. Keon tastead,
speeding bs me travetling aroend
country tetiding the Ci move-
wer ihe returned to the Army
_ warty ts October ‘because that's
where cur fight te tow,” Two
ours after be turned himself in
wo milMary authorities at }t, Koon
(where the Army had promised
‘they would court-martial him) be
‘was shipped to Ft Lewis Wash.
ington, and placed In the mor bade.
Os Cet 24 be was told he was
+ geting t© Korea, and was put co
the passenger list for the 1 00 am
Might, He maaaged a phone call to
A MMs Lawjer, who thee protested
farough the proper chanmels and
Was Sseured Gat Gilbert would act
be abipged Neverthetess
‘Oitert’s name was mt withdrawn
from the passenger list.
‘That night, Giltert was taken
?
fore his schedeled departure. The
Army triet w process him sepe
Tately and sit him onto the plane
Meeretly, Det the Army Jost the
GAY, A croup of etvilians from the
Metter Hal! Cotter Howse spotted
Ciltert and raised an ear-splitting
Petes, screaming ant yelling for
the Gl to be set free, (The cotive
erganiters had bern tipped
Of by Citterte’s lawyer Gat be
Wowld te boarding the plane.) The
Army bested Gilbert, flat raises,
‘Mato & vam, The captive soldier was
‘Widshed away tyhis Army atetecto
aed thal particatar plane bem for
| Keres without tim
Githerts refusal to Might in
Korea stems trom a recognition
Of what US. presence there is
AB athent, 1 woe't allow myself
M0 be weed by cient corporations,
Re says, “which wart to make &
of
meery in war tors
The ever crowing war
Koren involves the same U 5
WhECh browedt half a init
Iden troops to Vietsam, Gilbert an-
Geretamds this, and stan ‘we
Steet Hime this country was ren
by the people aad not jest by a
few big abots."*
Cllbert ds sti) im the Ft. Lewis
Motkade, and ts liable to be kid-
fapped again at anytime. Nis tew-
yer acc other civilians are for
bidden to see him. The Army
would love to cet Reve Gilbert
alone in Korea, ay from Me
civilian lawyer and the American
press, I's much easier to court-
Sartial Mm there, and the Kerean
stockade 1s ¢¥9n more brutal than
Most
these here te
important, it ©
from @e fh
ment here.
OP's all over the country are be
Cinnieg to realise that Americas
Jestice ts & myth, that Americas
‘treedom’” means 1
The crowing Of movement is
tive ~~ mo effective that (he up
tight Army ts trying desperately to
terminate it and its leaders
with extreme prejudice,
the states.
+ sep
t crowing Gl
In Vietnam The
Vietnamese People Say
“It The
Enemy Refuses
To Get Out
Annihilate Him"
WE
1am sending the euclosed material
tor publication
i am ¢olme so, because [ am
convinced that the U S. Armed Yor-
cos is rampant wth ea@istic eri-
mirale who have unrestricted
power over the Lives of the tretm-
ers who dom the uniform of this
decaying society, The suicide of
Pvt. Swanson ts a classic example
of the p & theee bealn-wasded
brates wield over the enlisted men
From ose ead of America to the
neat, the military reeks of tar~
barism and tasciom, siace tt ts
ao keeger an Institution Geaigned
to protect the people ant the po-
litics of the United States, bot has
become a brazen and grotesque
abomination acroms the entire tace
of the world, existing only to teed
the Geek of copressed people into
the bowels of the earth under the
Iron Book of Impertaliom, Whee
a country becomes so greedy and
#0 tyraanical as be destroy heman
life te such @ waaton aad callous
way, that cowntry forfeits the right
We expect loyalty and sepport from
the people, for it cannet and dows
not have the interest of the people
aw heart.
CT PARTICIPATION
stalosdde.-in ® s0-called place and
time of peace.
the case of PFC Jennings,
which first came te my stteetion
be the New York Post in the cobsmn
of James Werhster, the samme cal-
fous disreeard for lige is dis
played by the military, k is a
vittous man-eating Machine which
must be tamed by the people, by
whatever Geane necessary, is
order to aswere that the tortere
and merder of persoes im the mill
tary silos acroas the country and
the world emied
ft hope the tate of PPC Jennings
was bot as hopeless as that of
PV. Swansoe and others of the
Fort Dix complex If it was, how-
ever, it is the doty of the people
to ab a direct Civilian Com-
oh W& jedgement of the
Compaty Commanders and other
military elites who are he pro-
table cacee of the Geaths of sol-
diers whe in some form or ano-
ther, protest conditions of servi-
tude fn the Armed Forces.
POWER TO THE PEOPLE
ALL
SEIZE THE Time
D Welte
carding the physical condition of
Privete First Clase Joseph J. Jeo-
nings, and bis medical qualifica-
tions for comtinesd military ser-
vice ané duty to Viet Nas.
Privete Jennings 1s currently at
home on leave, He is scheduled
to report ime Fort Dix, New Jer-
ey the latler part of tie moet,
Dee to earlier lemyut ries ibad ale
Teady telepQeowrdihe Post ,
Fort Dix, New Jersey, ee
overall medical sepervison for
personne] assigned to that tnatal~
lation, He assured me that Pri-
wate Jeanings’ coeditien will be
horoughly evaluated, After this
mation has beet completed and
carefully reviewed by the consul~
tant staft of this office, a ceciston
ill be made wit! respect to Pri-
vate Jennisgy assigumect limi-
tations,
| Crest that [ have bees of assit~
ante. Please rest assured that
Private Jensings wil) receive pro-
Per medical care according to Mis
Deets, Private Jennings will sot
be assigned to Cuthes ceutside the
realm of Bis p&ysica) cagetiities.
Lereard 2. Heatee
Lewvienaat General
organizing efforts of the Cot.
fechowse being Mandrets of Gis
eVeTY Wek 10 THPTK. Listee to me.
cle ané talk shoot fighting im-
berialiem, and they patled off the
first demonstration where thoe-
Sands of civilians invaded an Army
tase last Cet, 12,
These seccenses, however, have
resulted in am eviction Botiee for
Nev, 26, The sight of 10,000pecple
marching wp thelr main street,
amd the spectre of rebellions Gis
at) feture demonstratices, bed the
Desineasaenn of the town to Coerce
the landlord to evict the Coffee.
house people,
The Coffeehouse is Mghting the
eviction te court their case is
eine «taken by the Emergrecy
ivi) Litertios atom,
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THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY NOVEMBEN 15, 1969 PAGE [4
GI COFFEE HOUSE
INQUIRY
Drandesbarg, Ky, -+ Nine young
Prope have teem jailed bere be
cause of thetr levolvement with a
controversial Gl codfee hoewe near
Fort Kmex, Ky.
tive of Gem were arrested
October 39 for maintaining 2
“common public
falbure to comply with
Tegulations, Their tond was set
at $1,000 fer the nuisance charge,
and $500 for the sanitary violation
The mest Gay four others were
cited for contempt, becacee Gey
refused to answer Questions abel
the cetive house pul to them by
the Meade Cowsty Grand Jury, Cir-
cult Court Jodge Murray Beard
ordered them kept i jail cntil
they perge themselves of cortempt
by enewering the questions,
A series of court actions have
haraneed the organizers of the cof-
fee Bouse ewer since they cpened
it ip Sepeember it has also teen
firebombed twiee, and there have
teen other threats of violence.
The coffee howse is sponsored
by the same groee of peopie eho
puttish FTA at Fert Knoa--one
of the first two usdergroend Gl
newspapers,
actions was to call for 4 satice-
Wide sick call for Gls, to cotn-
cide with the November 1) Mora
tortum actions, Both Gls from the
base and civilian supporters from
Louisville are involved in the cot
fee house,
The owner of the betiding tock
them bo court in September anc
wom an eviction, The cefiee house
sponsors Bad to fost s $10,000
bend in order to stay tn the cod
fee house pending their appeal of
the eviction.
Thee 14 people were summoned
te testify ledere Be Grand Jury
be warty October, to Getermine ‘it
the coffee house tas broken any
state laws". All of them refuses
to anwwer questions aboet the cof.
fee house, on the basis of fection
12 Of the Kentucky Constitution.
oo againet sett inerims-
at of town, were arrested
saad hat the enly bail
woehd be accepted we
cash or Meade Coumy property
They are charged vith “mam
taining a common public culsance
by witifully, knowingly and uatew
fully sutfer, procure and permit
diverse idle am dLaposed per-
sons 10 habitually and freqeeat’
the coffee house, ‘to the comnen
Pablic nuisan anpoyance of
all the good citizens of the Com-
menwealth of Kentucky,.in the
seightertood,"'
The next day, the Grand Jury
d Jedge Beart to cite others
for contempt, Reve Goldamith of
Losisville was the only ope given
the epportunty to make a state-
ment
He sald be would pot ansver
it the coffee howne
five people indicted
tecause of thetr
involvement” with I, amd be was
ine to lncrimisate himself,
Goldemicy the court about
® firebeomb that had bees thrown
at the cotiee house the night betore
“Tl thaek it's territte.3 think that
shoehd be investigated”, he said,
we ct life, That's why we
oppose the Vietnam war and «hy
we opened the coffee house’. The
jodge cut him off
s LA. Larry Sapiro tried
to exptais why he would ct anewer,
the commonwealti's attorney te
terrepted: “Now, the purpose of
this hearing is met to permit Str,
Shapiro to make & potitica!, prop
agaadiatic speech. He should te
thrown Sm jail". Jett tthen, a Ge,
and Kathy Jackson (whose husband,
Tom, hat been indicted the day
betore) were also jalled, The Jack-
S08 s 18-momth-cdd child was teing
eared for by friends
In the chosing moments of the
Season, the Grand Jury indicted
Jackson and Shapiro for drinking
an intosScating beverage in a poltic
place “sometime im September.”
‘The jeder changed Ris ralisg on
bond, uxder pressure from the
stale Court of Appeals, to permit
the five peopte indicted to use
as cul-et-cousty bondsman. How-
ever, throe of them said they would
wtay be jal] in protest against ex-
cesalve toad, until the bet! is re-
deced.
here yesterday
Rallies outside the court house
Over the weekend have ¢raws sup-
Porters from the base and from
Loulsville.
STATEMENT
OF THE
BEAVER ‘55’
The Gestrvction e¢ the records
Of the Indlanapotis Gram boards is
an attempt © call to the atren-
lion of the American peopte the
extent to which the povernment
is betraying the Seals of justice
and freedom embadtied in the doce.
Metts on which this coustry was
fended.
‘be United Stales Army has be-
come the instrament by which the
IMerests of corporations are pro-
tected, the efforts of the national
thwarted and reac
re kept power
‘The Ateeican war in Viettam is
only ene example of military power
being axed to support 4 recime
which opposes the struggic of a
people tor social justice and inde.
pttrivece, Nixon's promise to end
the war b Viemma is merely a
tactical move. I is aimed at pact-
fying the American people. How-
ever, M falls to pet in question
the recurrent use of military power
by the Undies States Goveramest
to pretect financial inter ant
reactionary regimes abroad. The
sone
here at home, While cittes decay,
Ue an¢ water resources are
irrewocabty polluted asd the work:
ing class is most heavily pena-
lined by taxes, the government
siveds extravagantly on weapoes
and continues te protect the
wealthy with tox metions, de
Pietion allowances, and political
favoritiam
We call wpon the American peo
to take charge agate of their
ite ty petting 45 end to the
dictatorabip of the military and
the ich, This is mot the first
time that a draft toard ts de.
roped by Americans concerned
atowt the future of the sation
We hope that this action will em
courage many ethers to take afl
the necessary steps to make this
Ration & repubite ef, by, and for
the people.
in dee time we will reveal our
ideatities, We are pot criminals
ashamed of oer nation We trent
that the American people will vin-
icate us.
BEAVER 55
ENTRANCE TO FT, DIX *‘FREEDOM” STOCKADE
WHO ARE THE
CONSPIRATORS?
Term. ~- Four Black
marines are facing 8€ years in
the brig, is a conspiracy case
unfolding at a naval alr station
north of here,
‘The men have been charged with
conepiracy, ricting and some 25
counts of conspiratorial aseauit
The charges stem from a clash
between White and Black marines
om July 2t-.tem days after amajr
Marine uprising at Camp Lejune,
x
abs are sthedeled to
Mart November 17. Afi) marine,
WhO was to have goee on trial
‘Sith them, died under mysterious
cireum stances October 31,
The mee al) served if Vietnam.
All were wounded, ant one was
awarded the bronue star, They
were Drought here to recuperate,
After stays in the hospital, Oey
were trassferred to the “casual
company” to await trassfers or--
in the case ef two mem--dis-
charges,
The four Marines are: Perry
Backstrom, 21, Meridian, Miss
Oscar Terry, 1 ‘aducah, Ky.
Arthar Mt irmingham,
Ala, and Charles Nicksce, 23
Memphis, Tens. Joe Taltos, 22,
of Singleiom, La, dint tedore
coming to trial,
Mack marines here had ¢;
lished & traditson
cether mest evenings to drink
talk aed listen to music. M is
iilegal to drink om the tase bet
they had Sever teen ordered to
stop--although it was done quite
pealy
On the evening cf July 20, they
@rank (il) aleut 10 p.m. ina Meld
behind the hospital and then started
tack, Aloet eight or ten of the
men headed toward their barracks,
Whee the) were about 20 yards
ab.
Of getting to.
from the door, they heard somecee
shout: “Here come them érunken
niggers, now,”
As they entered the building,
they encountered abeet 13-15
Whites, Bolding Billy clubs, One
man bit Becksirom, who wae is
front, On the bead, Backstrom took
the cle® away and bet beck
Fighting became geoeral, and
lasted for 10 to 15 minutes. Mews
were struck on both sides. Thea,
the Black marines west late &
Searby bar, the RathekelMr, and
fighting began there, tom, Within
15 minutes it was all over. There
were 00 serious injerion.
Uskeown to the Diack marines,
rumers of an imp _ Black rice
had teen cdrowlating: compary
since J p.m, A White man, Set
Rogers, testifies that he was tola
“the colored people were Coming
to Lake over the tarracks”. Bocers
sald Ms informant was (pl. Car-
thon, a Black mas who has siece
been promoted to Sergeant,
To Geral with chs threat, some.
one sawed broom handbes Gown fate
clubs. Rogers said these were dex
liwered to Sim during the aftersoon,
Thirty-clgit men were assigned
0 secerily duty--an unuwsally high
number, Wheo the Black marines
came buck to their barracks, part
Of this force wax waiting for them,
The Bisck marioes and their
supporters are askise many ques~
tions
Who were the conspirators? The
Black marines--sho came back,
admittedly drank, to finé « posse
of Club whebting Whites waiting for
them? Or the Whites-. who had teen
Preparing for a confrontation since
2 Pm, to the extent of saving
down room handles?
Why were Black men the only
Ones questioned ant charged, even
thowgh there were fully as many
Whites imvetvwet? Why conspiracy
charges? Wf amy charge fits the
cireumstances, surely Grenk and
Gisorderly comes closer. And why
were they newer todd to stop drink~
ing Of tase--even though il was
clearly against regulations?
Helations between Blacks aad
whit Rave been tense at this
base. The Macks feel strongly that
fF ictal prejudice exists,
“V) \emm Black", coe of the four
Martees sald“) served in Viet~
Fam, lp which | was wounded,
1 Geed Geath many times, Sup.
posed to be for my coun.
bp the States
im treated te same old
Black Sicees oo,
tcome rigm cet and
*Yoe can't €0 ip this mess
har. Bat ey do Bitte, petty
Mmariaes are i a emall
minority at tis tase asd many
at
of them find BM more comfortatte
to togett:. (No one appears
Ty i remarkatle, or
Sinister, that Whites at the tase
Mek together, too.)
‘Whenever we Ett together, they
Co out of their way bo break it up,"
another of the men sald. ° Whee.
ever fowr, five brothers would
ert topether, they'll come ep to
the group and say, ‘Break & wy.
Aay time ey see Black peogie
togetRer, they think we must be
trying to Plot something They're
we tigne*
The trial is scheduled to begin
November 17, Support for the
marines ts tuilding on the base,
ond tm the Ulack and White com.
muaéiles of Semphis, im the meas.
time
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| Ghat the youth makes the revodstion, lying politicians that x
«Bid Chat the youth of today bas te- this society?
| Come educated to the contitions of Don't these demented idiots ral -
Os WNovemter 6, 196) at (ihe fe) did oot say
1245 a.m, & Black man, Charles stopped ant took delibera
“Bruetiets, 24, was murcered inthe betore be shot. He was ate
Rusdreas of nce-Jockers
8 the corner of Geary and Kearny
Bye witresves 02 the scene stated
‘thet Brumfield was maticscusty
red, when shot in the beck
bead for reascos still a
Afler the investigation it
Tewaled that Dremteld was
of passing & bes check
of America on Market
Tr
el
gt
i
z
took the Geary Street
the Bank of America ant
Over to the ether sige of
Street approachirg a (police
) Pe whe was stationed in
froat of American Savings lask
the corners of Market. ang
ny Streets.
He was then followed by an off
Oaty pig t plain clothes, Willian
D, Taylor, 33, Ctded of Inspectors,
Lee, stated that Ta
sceatty and umlerstangitty’
Meved a robbery had taken place
Eves though the eyes of the so- or 15 feet a
law terms this as*(neces- Another witness
a
i
Hi
sf
aware of this as murder in the (honing
streets of San Francise
Eye withess, Frank Mendes, 64, see tha’
of Zi Double Hock Road, stated *'he bes
approximately 11100 p,
firearms. It is bows to the (Mack Rally, and be
Paraher Party chat our Iield Mar- bette det.
“shal was pee armed and thot chds ct
is just seoter
this rotten soctety to efim
leadership of the lack
Party is particular aad Black peo- commit
ple a= general. Don Cox was un- (lack
atmed when he was titrapped and and Bla
chargee with is) ridiculous
Charge. He bs being held because DLACK PANT
of Ms activities in serving ami 2026 Ted Ave.
Meeting the basic needs ant de- Has bem, N.Y
sires of the people, Dor Cox is 64-8951
& political peisorer, Ile is being
belt on crumped-up charpes that SEIZI THE TIME
miher Party in particu’
he in general
R PARTY
Turned off terrorist remnants ited yoke of oper
of the third reich, now patrol the When it becomes necessary for
Balla of East High School here in the so-called servants of the peogd
Deaver. to invade the halls of an “lest
Tro eetes of pig fascism tution of edecation”, also there for
S060 Carrying cums and serving the people, with weapons of
Walkle-talkiog in the halls of & war, It then becocres secessary tor
Ruliding of “ miseducation™ These all concerned peopte (studer s,
#2 = called plain clothes pies pareets, etc.,)toretaliate accord
Drowght into the schools tor alleged ingly
Protection of certats Genie at Why Go these pork pigtets storm
Kast, is ancther example of te SUF halle like foreign troops d
Oppression of all people of « whee upying territory? Why
by this capitalistic society called these wretched dogs (rot arom
Babylon or Amertkkks plain clothes when they are sty
The pigs are finally getting % Posed 10 be servants of the people
rough their hard tog beads, that Why dott they wear the uniform
The people will net stand atiil for that aymboltines thetr true job; that
Tene wmder this oppression. They of a lackey fool for the avaricioes
(Pigs) are also vaguely realtsing Wusinessmes, and the demagugic
Allute
this capitalistic society andarede- ine thet even without chetr eniforma
termined to irow off their inher and beter that they stil] inti tdate
ANOTHER BLACK MAN
USED FOR TARGET PRACTICE |
¢. eto prove
aim t
10 streets withow a ©
As tor having « gw
Nhe)s had sone as
firing bis beaded px
his shirt on if
rthon Pa
t thomgh this
t officers we want t
eer happy fanatics?
was the fact that ¢
€ etflcers wore
corners of Geary
American viege anc
© Bushs aod there was
triasglo Drum.
war in, This murder of Stack
5 and insare with ec
ne escape tro
" CHARLES BRUMFIEL D poorte tx ree
2 wile accept this an
aid Brumfield George Daskette
Bobty Hotton asd
afd festifiakie’’ we are well could have beem stopped for ques- Joe Lithecc
Also by these statements you can sa
ple has no regard for Btack Student
man lives, be has the authority Price Cumty
D.C., VICTIM OF
FASCIST FRAME-UP
Field Marshal Dom Cox, kid- were teoptred by Pig J. Edger
“Rapped cn November 7, 1959 at Hoower, Don Cox has gone forth
Fieid and helped thebranches of the Party
Marshal Dos Cox wes kidsappedolf in New York eatablish mech chings
«Be Mtrects of New York City and as the Pree [Rreaktas: Program and
__—s Sharged with possession of deadly just rececely, our Free Clocking
eo of this he is
ed and bed on a fas-
frame-op, We are calling on
cist frame-up of the aid and papport of the people
sate the te help the Aleck Pasther Party
cher end these strockies Mat are beieg
d on the leaders ef the
FIELD MARSHAL
GESTAPO PIGS PATROL
HALLS OF EAST HIGH
town? Whee are they
culog to realize that as borg as the
atk Panther Party
taues to educate the
they realize al
sieally 204 evident?
MAN DOBBY
Manual ifigh School
THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18, 1969 PAGE 16
ee noel
FASCIST PIG |
RIPS OFF
REVOLUTIONARY
¢ by the Deputy disclosure of this man was bewitch-
of Education of the Hack tng, Sweh, Os feet that he was ele.
ther Party 0 prepare & trams« vated to a position endergrousd in
ript reea « the life and Geath the organisational structure f the
of the late brother Welton “ButeW* Party, :
A. stead, |boweve 1 do mct act- Se Welton Armetead was only oe
wally teliewe my account will Be veetees years of ace. ie was Ge
totally adequate, sor my knowledee father of coe and whs recognized
of (is fallee warrior caly goes back by Bis revolsticrary counterparts
a few mostha before Ris savage Mar as a “young warrior” and & man
rT at the bands of the racist dog Verhaps my evalustion bares pre-
policeman. TB would be more ap-judice however, | find it to be
propriate that brother Lewis Jack 9 _ cmmen
sce. would prepare this transcrase” CVerPRaiming ae
be and Armstead were the chosest On a dreary, rainy aferacen in
comrades, However Lewis Jack-Cetober 1968, word reached my
son has since then been ralircaces ears thet Dutch Armstead was
0 prisce and at preseet ts a federal dead..shct tn the back in the t
prisoner in the King Coumy Jail, ditton of other freedom fighters who
wt ditfeets to determine what chose to oppose the estabiished
would laspire 4 seventeen year old order tn (his decadent land, Buchs
Mack man te rise ep againgt a sea lite comid have eaxity been spared.
ot troubles imposed upon him anditm quite sure that meat peogte,
his gwople slece Bis eatré co this Black, Brown and White are hip to
decadent American soll. Freedom, the details surrounding the vigour-
decent bowsing, education, a© eft O8s unwarranted taking of bis lie,
to the robbery by the capitalists Betch was shot down right before
and the gemochty and total explei- the eyes of his mother and sister,
tation ef a race of pecple are surely They stood and pleaded helplessly
some Of the Sottvating factors. as the racist Mg Erling Duttetatl
Detch Armstead came tothe Black took the lite of their beother and
Paather Party full of seal and hope son. Dutch was taken to the in~
and life, Be was & beavtiful pourg Srmary (amt robbed of sixty éol-
other, call, thin, sifmiy built. tars by pig vultures om the way)
ie walked with tt teb and while Mrs, Mapps (his mother) amd
weave typitying many trot in Bis sister were taken to jail for
the ghetto. istertering with merder, The cop
This brother was eager to learn was tried and after four hours of
also, and I found him to te Mghly detiteraticg, was (in the usual
intetligest for Ms age, im fact, it tradition),, acquitted 11
shocked me when | found he was only
sevestece Me performed ant ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE
feascerd with the experience of a PREE BOBBY
thirty year O14 man. The estatic FREE THE SEATTLE FOUR
ow
STOP THE
FLOW OF
SUGAR-COATED
FANTASY
The problem of ¢ruga acd hard 4 free turn-ce, then the lunch mosey
Sope Is a very real and mounting goes, thee trothers and sisteragrop
protiem, tm not only the meter out so they can keep the meeey to
count ry or White communttion, butts stay high,
also oO an esormeous increase inthe The Bisch Paather Party realises
Mack oMony. Orginited crime ts the im meds ate danger ans forure cut.
playing on (he ipsortsce and IneiGme 68 lceur community acd es-
quisttiveress (curtousity) of oar pestally our yok: Uf teas Bac rs).
Fouth=.the very lifeblood ofthe Ore were to rWm Pamguat
Mack community, The people who Feu ask why dee’! the pigs do some-
well these drugs to the purgbretk- (Mag? tor the stoe reason they
ers and sisters know very well Gom'l cet those afsters off l4thane
ti ning of the “TheVouth @th aed Pike, ‘They Leow who the lo-
Make the Fevolution'’. They kaow Gal
very weld that if a bh
ares, and herots, his mind, much PCVes bo show Gows tho process of
lens tis bety, can not tunetion fe Tevolution,
a revolutiomary manner, Black brothers and aisers, the
‘Dig! All bard drugs are used te Party realises the life in this
SUPHTeSS Aft divice the revolution. COMNtFY, in this day Is of very poor
ary spirit in cur commentty, and in QUalMy, The Correct way Uf dealing
Perticular cer youth” Many rob- ¥ MR URaE Ep Bot tp Doce pourself tn
bert aOliegs, anc plain ted at- Ome FOper-eosted fastasy of the
Uiudes secs from addiction to hard Mind, tut in a very real way by
drugs and the need to get the money Moving against the pig power strece
te buy them, A person who ie real- ire who perpetuates that decadent
ty strane cut on hard drugs is com~ life-style ina revebetionary manner,
ing from a very individualtting. The | ram dows why the local pig
beed to get the drugs is very per. Gepartment wor't do anything, so if
sonal and is focused oo self, This People have information abeut these
brother or sister is thinkSsg aad beasts pushing (Retr wares to cer
acting against the revoletionary Young, contact the Black Panther
spirit which bs based ce serving the Party at 1:27 1/234 Ave, With the
ods of the people, the masses of Support of the people we'll deal with
people it, Later tor all pgs, pork chops,
If yow check cut the school and Black or Waite,
playgreends where cer children High Gm.
gather, you will find that the pag
ee Mructure peddles the mind- ALL POWER TO THE PROPLEY
WIsRING speeds and dupe righ before Nafust, Washington State Chapter
F somes, First (hey elie students Hiack Panther Party
5
HN
oe
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THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15, 1969 PAGE 16
BREAKTHROUGH
PLAINFIELD, NJ, Oct. 27 been unconstitutienally apphed
The defense scored a major break ml that ¢ ia! pre-trial pub
week when Union ticity had made it tenpossible fer
Leo Willams to get a fair trial iq
af the NewJ
Freeman Whetstone and Dr
“i Frost. co-chairmen of the
eM Joint Defense Com.
toe for Botty Lee Williams
Gail Madden. and George Merritt,
4 agreed that Kaplowitz om
ped the ‘inciting’ charge because
be feared losing the law as an
anthrit’” weapon by Raving it
dail Madden, 24. a mother of declared unconstitutional
two chikiren, and George Merritt Kunstler told 2 defense rally
r. 35, & marine corps veter bere last mont that Willams was
are servirg life sen indected to perish him for refus-
New Jersey State per ng to be a prosecution wittess in
the death of Gleasce the trial of the 1! defendants that
victhons are ender resulted in the convictions of Mad-
eet ” Charge against ne other den and Merritt
pe le black fendants were not sus Willkams told the Daily World
ained during the 1968 trial that he had been entrapped inte com
was characterized by an atm promésing his constitutional rights
f racism and repression when be filed a civil suit against
Prosecution dropped the the city of Plainfield after be was
.
first charge against Williams, of shot and seriously wounded by
Mctling sumerout and diverse Gleason
to kill of enjure” officer Following the unproveked at
Gleason tack on Wilkums, an enraged
i ]
Kapiowite ey
three coun
MRS, PAT AUCH BEING
TO HOSPITA \FTER SHE
is MACED
nd, KATHI
onree
Des Motees, lowa (November, Anker White Mother, Mrs. “justice ser poor and pres
1909) The Mothers For Dignity Patricia was severely sed pecele in Des Modees (i's
& Justice, beaded by vw ther ated, thes handcuffed ancttrown real ¥ 4 dally o rence.) Mt cer
ine Bryson, staged a Walk-Ly’ fat om her face, forced te taf Y appears to te apsinst the
of the lows Welfire Associative lay Gere for more thas &
Conference (IWA), A 3-day Con- bedor the «
ference that was hosted by the take her t
tes law © even ask for “Pood” &
balance arrived 10 Adeqeat <
hospital, She re- Lee's supy.
fashionable downtow= Savory ceived treatme for jury causes INJUSTICE by nding
Hotel. by mace. The cops harassed Pa- telegrams of protest to
Mrs. Brysom requested (from tricia and buried lowing
the delegains of the Conference) at ber to and fror
sepport; both morally and fnane a rema: as Des Moines Hurtan Rights
Sally (the mothers were trying to lover,” As one can OmMmssion, Armory ast
etpress the creent see ¢ ade this was certainly « st 4 Dee Molnes Streets
quate = “Food,” = *'Clothdng”’, & the cope to divide the
iret Housing fer their chil- using that old time favorite <f 2 Mayor Thomas Urtea. City
res.) This request tock place at the Power Structur actarr Hall, East ist & Locust Street
& 94.00 & plate banquet dinner tot thelr mesg
where 15 mothers 4 one father ¢f mendousty, The 4 James N. Bethel, Vice
the crow te let racdem divide and conquer President wa Welfare Asso.
Mnile the mothers positionné their strong strugeie tor Digzit ation, 328 Kast Sth Street
then selve te peak--a wa J & Pear Aer ber release
Pushed dirs. lirysce--tryine to from the bos
Keep her from speaking-. however aced
whe spake anyway. In Ge mean erie Dryas b3 . jlack
time the cops were called in (6 Aamce
the scene ready to charges are as follows Arraignment (for trial date) is
some 30 police cars et between cow and November 19
¥ WagCes--and a total Katherise Uryson: Res: in M ipal Court-~ ast lei &
of 30 cops, Including FBI and ing arrest ert
Military Ingelligetce-.to arrest) the duties
Perscas,) The head waiter pointed d set a Hemember: As Brother ibeey }
om thee w te be ar 2 at © has said: “Laws andrules
Tested--Mrs Katherine Bryson battery, resistin ‘ Mave always boon made to serve
was first on the list terfering with the dat: a. ‘a pe ales
The € cops surrounded Mrs, officer people ac y Ww
Brysos @ she tried to ex. fond set at $60¢ ube te function in BOBBY LEE WILLIAMS
pla . the sitwatice, and also de Charles Keo Assasit & way, In other words Two charges left crowd killed the white policeman
mand the arrest of the wat Battery resisting trrest, disrugt- promote the general 1 i8 fact Beca
Whe pushed and scratched he ing & public assembly, and in ciety, rules and laws are es. _,tlliams ee pane - BY row “a ae oe cn
to pO avall..the alled terfering with an officer, tablished by mee. Rules should masxious ss eh was taker of me in the civ
Servants held true to & fond Sei al $800.6 serve men, abd fot mer sum policeman asd seswelt and suit.” declared Wilkams. “I was
hemes mature, and began to rules. a ¢ the time. th battery” on a policeman in fact entrapped inte Comercens
e mashandie Mra.
Yiciowsly macing her a:
On the count of “unciting,” ete WE My Constizetional right not to
the black young man would have testify against myself
Upee Pex
ber wxier arrest. When Chartes People are Gom-functicaal in re- received a severyear prison Frost and Whetstone pron.
Koos, (Defense Cape -Des tation to the status of the Poor oat}
; itm. Williams faces 19 years in ised that the J int
Motees, lowa Chagter-- Mack Pan. to tils soctety, These officials Sire “primes aces Patni mliiee wrenad = peepee
ther Party) approached Sgt are DBiled to the fact that peopte PF i . 7 ° mcrease its offer
Harlan (Officer of * injeatice’* who should net respect rules that ‘are CMF Bes that remain to have all charges drepped
was in charge ¢ Cruetty and injustice, The lows sot sa ving them it is the duty na memorandum filed Sept against Willkaens and to hive Mer
Oppressive treats Welfare Assoctationmembersvet- of the Poor to » te ant cos 6. defense attorneys William Pt and Madden freed
te stay cot of | jemand the wdlate re tr rw ind laws that are te Kunstler and ( Mutnick Financia! WALTibwLORS may be
monte from bet the 7 a aed that ce tere On argued that the first cout seat to the Plainfield Jom De
mae pushed harges be dropped againstahe ( rie ASIC t of Ube 4nent Was enconatit fomue Coen U for Frabb
handeetied apd placed under ar + victims, People at € aier. OF A MEN onal “Because it is vague r Willian eae ‘M ide : a
Feat. At this potet the protest of ence really got their cram course certain, and overbreed sad t C . Se ee
tne cher Mothers ranged out te oppressica, injustice ant just IN COX TANT UGOLE dis not narrente Gee = George Merritt. Je. 218 Wateb-
Jowder--Gemanding an im plain old police brutality (as it | K MOt EET WORK ause if is not narrowly drawn to ung Aveswe, PO Box 45. Plain
end to the inhumane action uf the bapsens in the “'Coloaized Areas’ LIS ASSO mest legitimate governmental field. New Jersey 0706)
cops; tat were aij overcome ty of Des Moines) today. Some couds- 1210 versity emds:" 2) that all three statutes
mace, Wt Bebleve their eyes, tan such is Des Moines, jews iy \avelved in the imdecument had By CHARLES MGMTOWRE
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_ BREAKFAST
_ SABOTAGE ....
The Rickmced Branch of the Paack
Panther Party, ts serving the com-
munity by baving Free breakfast
before schoct fer the children, &
order to Itt some of the burden
that has bees placed on the tacks
of the mothers asd fathers of North
Kichawed, and other Diack com-
fmuniites around the nation,
In another attempt to stop the
Black Panther Party from showing
coneera for the masses, the pigs
are ot to put 4 halt to the Bereak-
fast Program.
(Gne of the brothers that we foed
telling the people pet to bet thetr
children attend the Dreakfast Pro:
cram because the Black Paather
Party was teaching ractem, and
twacking the childres to rict af
schoo!, This brother distiscty totd
‘es that the ples came to bis bouse
and told his parvets that the Diack
Panther Party was teaching racism
amd ecdorsing ricts, His parents
stmply told the ples thal thelr sce
wass't getting into any treutte, ard
for therm (the pigs) to leave,
SAN FRANCISCO
LIBERATION SCHOOL
‘The children tat come
Literation School which is
at 1642 Ellis Street in San Fran
¢iseo, come from the Mumers
Potet area, Double Hock, the Mis-
sion District, aad fe Fillmore
to
ated
District
‘The Gret thang | teach the kids
and what
is about the bee faensly
it ts all aboot the be family
we do mot hit or swear at the
brothers and sisters, We are all
brothers and sisters leceuer we
all are not free, We are all equal
hecacer we ate sot free,
‘The ages range from two to
fiftees pears at this time tn school
do not have separate classes
becasee [ have found that wr can
1909 PAGE 17
THE BLACK PANTHER,
SEATTLE BREAKFAST
SERVES YOUTH
ATUNDAY NOVEMBER 15,
Mack Panther Party
social within t
Ome way of serv
KEE BREAKFAST
wety fusdamental
ihe oppressed
Baby opr
kids have » to sehoot ar
pr se--t tosepposedly
histicated, cor
: * the
type tty bourgeotste
= the muait pot 8
the nee :
< start I
kids. cur
the ever crowing
rs the churches te r
ot us wee f, tacilities
breaks down is that &
urgeuisie & releencin ——
burch to rape the peogie and the FEEDING HUNGRY CHILDREN
inisters the pe
metaphysical ideal! hungry bkts of Colman Elementary Minor area here lies the Mt, Zion
seripeere.) The very ree seh Black and White, are being Baptist Clverch andthe Good Shepard
b committees ar awking fed good, bot nutritious meals every Lathern Cherch with larger bour-
aioct remodeling thelr oF Morning bedore they attend classes, Crolaletongrecaiicns:they have alas
atest some other insane t Having looked around the general retemed the youth A few other ao-
while kids ask the PARTY «hen are Community amd thromgh some in- called Mack churches suck
th ing to tw atde to eat, The vestigation study, we have found Methodist ant Cherry >
je the
te
eed to open many other Free
akfast Programs, ike Madrona
have also refused the youth, Peogte,
wake wp, be pecgle, Seize the Time,
of the rex
pimping and the rapérg
by the ministers throweh God
end, We call the petty ™ area, where kids COme for the sake of fife as¢ humanity
bourerolsie to miss a cadillac pay- Sy the office amd ask when “Do Something Nigger tf You Only
ment and delay the remodeling of are we going to start mervingtreak~ Spiti’*
Mow we can tell from the atten. Beir chruckes so that hungry, op- fast :
dance mM the Breakfast, that some-Preswed may eat Here Mes the Ma¢rena Preaby- ALL
Elme
Brean)
Seattle Branch, Black Panther Party
Ger first Free Breakfast Program terian Cherch jomded dows with a
ing served at the Atlantic St. petty boergectete congregation; they
F-20903 So, Atlaatic St, Here the have refused ¢ oth. ia the TT,
LIST OF CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES
WITH BREAKFAST PROGRAMS
where the baffoca a-- pees gutover.
The Breakfast attendasce has talien
from children a week, to p00 OF
to 190.
The children that do s*teed are
very responsive; we can a)
this by hew much food
away. We know, howe
parents can, aad will, stop more
chBéren from coming as loeg as
re allowed te spree
ropeganda.
We are pow ip the process of
= ost to the various
that will « an the
truth to the peopte about the Black
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get cur Breaktast Program 3106 Shaibech Ave 180 Setter Ave.
running strong coce again, We will eiey, Calif Off: 212 ~ 342-2791 bby
show the pecple their REAL on ast’ gas ce: ‘i
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Wet them conquer yours. | relate 4
to children only through thelr minds ; .
sith them relate to them ‘
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chdidrem learn easily Lf youksow CHICAGO. ILL eoerz :
how to relate to thew 2% W. Madison .
They have two wersls 4 day, Gtr; 312 - 243-4276 ‘The Peoptes Frer Health Clinic” of the poor people of car com .
& brumed and a lunch. If the child is open to the pecele of Brownsville cunitios , {
ren live a long distunce away BOSTON. ata. nie and Alyn every Thresday aight The people need health services
pick them up aed take them hoe, 275 Louebél) Ave. frem 7/30 to 9:20 p.m, at 180 Setter NOW, The Free Ilealth Clinic wilt
Transportation bs the saime an the Off; 617 « 427-0009 Awe, This is another prow that serve the prepie 1
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THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY NOVEMRER 15,
HUEY’S
SOITOR'S MOTE
The Scilowing article ts taken from the agpeal pre
pared by the attorneys detending Huey I. Newico, ¥
ister of Defense of the Hiack Paather P . oes
atiormeys have mowed te Rave the come flewed ty
the Court of Appeals of the State of California, The
Slack Pasther Mews Paper will print the agoeal in
Part--every week to give the people all the farts as
to why Huey P Newton should te set free immediately.
CONDAX
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AN
CLEA
PELONY
Tc
ON DEFENI
THAT THE F
UTIONALLY INP
HEARING
RIAL ALLEGATIONS
TION WAS CONST
was total error for the trial court to refuse to comoect
evidentiary Searing won defewiam’s clear pre-tria
allegations that the price felony, charged ant argued by
the prosecution in the present trial, was ccestitotionally
infires
Defendaat moved, prior to commencement of the trial
berets. to strike, set aside, expunge, and exclude the prior
felony conviction, for Geclaratory relief, for writ of habeas
an
corpus, for a bearing to decermise the constitutional
validity of Ge price conviction and, in the altersative, for
a comMimmnce of Un osecull, All elie? coms te
ottalsed from appellate courts prior to commencement of
the trial (C.T, 176-182, 19
All motions were denied 6 mo bearing s bed (CT
185, 198), te denying dedemdaat’s requests for a hearing and
for other relief, the trial court relied solely os the affirm
ance of the prior comviction by the District Cc
CRT SBM, et 09.)
‘The Supreme Court
cent years declared that
of Appeal
¢ California Mas now thric
the use of a comstituts
in re-
Valid prior comviction to impeach testimenta
te improper, and. .to allow sack impeacter
04 federal comatitutional dimension.” People ¥. Coffey
Cal, 36 34, 218 (1967) People v. Cur 0A pre
272-733 (1969) in re Catey, 68 Cal, 76D (18).
In Curtin, the latest of these cases, decided in February
1968, the Supreme Court reiterates the necessity of follow
ing the “ proper procedure for pretrial consideration of the
constitutiowality af a prior ction, by means ofa hearing
Gut of the presence of the jury," (POAC, at 373 Court
extended ita prior retires to require that a hearing be hele
out of the preaeece of the jury where there La any * clear
allegation’ of the invalidity of the prior convictien at pre.
Guting the trial, and the Court extended the area
llegation”’ requiring the bearing to a claim of trade.
quate representation of counsel as well as te a claim of
lack of represestation of counsel at the petor trial
Ih Curtis, the Geterdant did not allege inadequate repre-
sertasion wrtil following his admission of the prier com.
victlos during MMs direct testimony a: the second trta!
Nevertheless, the court stated that om retrial (comvictice
Teversed on other grousds), 2 bearing outside the presence
Of the fury as ostlined in Cofley would be the appropriate
means of Getermiring ihe validity of the prior conviction,
The court stated
“That the issue arises dering and ot before trial, so
Jone as the objection is asserted before the case is sub-
Mitted to the Jory, appears fo be without significance.”
(a)
te Catfey, a balwas corpes proceeding, the Supreme
Court cranted the writ with directions to provide ac evi-
Gettiary hearing 2s to claimed constitutional intirmit or
two prior coavictions and to redetermine sentence, The
toert pated, im foctnote 10, 72 A C, at 372. in Curtis, that
& delendam is pevjuticed beth by imprackment and by in
tteased senteaced tases won use of the prior conviction,
Caley involved invees of presence of and token repre
Seatation by counsel, raisieg the question of whether! ‘The
Gealal of cppertmity for appotatied cour te ec , bo
Consult with the accused ant to prepare hi defense, could
Convert the appointment of counsel Imo a sham aad rothing
more thas a formal Compl, “ve Constinaion’s re
‘Geirement that an accused te clventhe assistance of coun
sel” (Avery ¥ Alabama (1940) 308 US 464, 446 (n4 L bi
377, 379, 40 S.Ct. 321), see Powell ¥ Alabarta (1992) 287
US 45,53,71 1 WG. 158, 162-63, 878-872, 59 5. Cr, 5
4 ALR. S27) le re Newtern (1960) 63 Cal, 24 786, 0
(3 Cal. Rptr, 364. D F.2d 116) Von Modihe ¥, Gillies
(1948) 992 US 708. 722-723 (92L. Ed. 209, 320-32), 68 5 C
316), Jones v. Cunningham (4th Chr. 162) 297 ¥,38 851
O95,)" 68 Cal. Od at 771.7
Lest therebe any dout< atout the nature of the bearing
the California Supreme Court, is People ¥. Cottey. 67 Cal. dd
at 217-18, laid down & very spweific an4 mandatory five
sep bearing procedure for the trial courts to follow
The bearing must consist of the following
when 4 detettant, whether by motion to strike
* convietio® or convictions om constitutional
or by denial o¢ such prior
Vielioes ce constiteticgad gr
tee bis to (he sasne, om the
mination, the court shall, prior to trta!
outside the presence of the jury in «
the consiltetional val of the chareed price or
Priors in issue, Second,
the proseewtor shall f1
mise
t have the Durder
aring
evidence of the prior conviction sufitete stify a
finding that detentant fed seach previous
vietion” (Pen, Code, Third, *hen this prima
facie showing bas teen mace, the defendant shall
Gereapen have the burden of protecing ev .
that Bis constituional right to coutse! was tatringed
in the prior proceeding at issue. Fourth, if defendant
bears this burden, the prosecution shall have the ¢ ‘etn
10 Produce evidence in retertal | ish, the court shall
make 4 Unting ut the basis of the evidesed thus pro.
Gered aad shal! strike from ithe accusatory pleading
—
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any f nvtetion fi te be comatituttona lly te
valet
We trial court coat
the specific remedy ma
curt atfey amd !
esties amd feet
opin tthe Destrict
the rally prete
ant-.to counsel, and ¢
eriminate himself
decision, “The quests
atrotied fecheral Le
4, 0 1 47
he trial court t ts own lowwaticn
then and to apply federal constitetional standards to #
teELS entadlished at the evidentiary hearing. The formta
Supreme Court opin eMiring sch a hearing make &
exception for cases where there may tea remete (or ©
appeliate of ant hese decisions expibeitly recognize that
the use of a pe jony conviction, Hf Ik is constitutionally
antl ner standards prevailing at the time of the tria
at which the prosecetion seeks Lo use it, presents # feders:
Constitutional question. People ¥, Cotfey, supra, 67 Cal 4
detentant been accorded the evidentiary hearing
d by law petor reset trial, be would have
nableds sett evidence as lo his state of mind
at the he court invited Mr to testify, amd Ms lack of
understandirg of the procedural cosseq *
ertalnty the complicated issues of walver (wt
avestigation ef the defendant s wrierstanding »
Of the alleged watv { what Ms
eonsequentes WhIER would Mow fr
of these fing
ich in-vot ve
the time
rights
awalver, and
againat the factual
ok be comeloded against defend
nest
pee upoe a District Court of Appeal deciaica
Preceding Glaser aad Bowle, without even an investiganion
into the circumstances of the alleged watver of counsel and
the fllure to warn o€ the right againat selt-secrimination
Mt is the antounced purpose of the Cetiey and Certis
stone te ke that investigation into the circumstances
the prior trial, pricr to commencing the secoed trial. The
allfornia Sepreme Court did mt merely reverse the
cavictions in these we tut devised Ihe specific and
andatory remedy of the bearing
pening and closing his Savestigation of the constitu
Slomal validity of the prior felony by reliance upon the
three-year 684 opinion of the District Court of Appeal, the
trial court Geprtved defeedant the right to have the
@eestion of comestitetional tafirmity Gecided 1) on the basis
of Califerata and federal decisions faswed in the last three
years (29) and 2) on a record estattiched by counsel
FOOTNOTE
39, The case chteMy relied on in the Dtstriet Court of
Appeal opinion in People v. Mattson, 51 Cal.2d 777, 795
1959), Mself hotds that
‘(Section 13 of article | of the Califorsta Con.
wives accords to California defeadants ‘the cam
actorded to federa) defendants by the
iment of the Undied States Constitution
Laninga® (1943), 22 Cal. 24 169, 575.7"
Matson aleo held that (at page 799, note 5)
“Both federal due process and California
quire that waiver of th right to counsel, to be effec
tive, must be with an intelligent appreciation of tts
Consequences, (Numerous citatloas omitted.)
‘Whecher there is a proper waiver should be « warty
Getermised by the trial court, and it wuld te fm.
ling ard appropriate for that Getermination to appear
upon the record.’ * (Empasis omitted
Matison, pre-Gideon on ¥, Walmwrigm, 392 U 5, 395,
#2 S.Ct. 292 (1963), relied upon Betts ¥. Brady. 316 US
+55, +. 1252, (1942) (specifically overruled by Gideos),
niting that the differenes netweet the righ to aid
| Ot Gefeedant’s choice and the right Lohawe counsel
provided by
the state Is sot a Genial
In Matisce, — the
be appoint beeal assistance
© ¥AMed to represent Mmself did discriminate against
sor, because thowe ale to employ an attorsey for
advice ttust be allowed consultation with #ech am attorney
varsuant 10 Pent Cade section $25. The result was percis
sible before Gideon, but wo loager
1h the overrwing of Betis v
of due procens oF
court comeeded — that
fo AD indigent Ge femdant
dy, the entire Mattson
tikmale meant tear additions! ation. Matisoa con
cheded with the court's statement that the deciske har-
monlzes’ with federal law on the sebject. Now that the
ral law on the subject has charged, forther restricting
Eavidiows Ciscrimisation which will be permitted between
and poor at cricsinal trials, beth Mattsce and defen
ams prior appeal wowld decided differently, Beth the
Cideon right to counsel and the right to be warned of the
ret
be
Privilege against self-incrimination bave been held to be
retreactive, People v. Cotfey, supra, and Bowle v. Witsoe
supra
END FOOTNOTE
Had the questions of whether detendant intelligentty
walved Cognsel of whether be ulred to Raw toon
warned of his right ' Setermined of #
esis of recent law a factual bearing at
which defenéart, represerte ted evidence
a5 (© Ms etderstanding at the time iy walved
counsel, the may would cle declared
constitutions with respect b pre
criminal g
tus. the Distr wart of Appeal coe hat the
defendant wa aneel, which the opie eats us
entantished he colloquy between detentast and th
al court, set forth, supe
tatlere to advise the deter
against Anse at the question of whether dete
int mily and effeetiwty © hin right to counsel at
the former trial must be considered in the light of all the
reemstiters and Presently prevailing federa
siluitena) decisions om waiver, Had the defendut
ried the evidentiary hearing mandated by the California
tts, he would have presented evidence as to the efre
mnatances, incluting a) his leck of understanding as to
“lure! comeequesces lack of knowledge that he had
sult withecunse] 45 (to the chobee offered
for trial court; c) jack of knowledge that be
the amsist 4 ccenseltopresem & motion
to the prio trial Court showite spectal circumstances and
UUesting POOMIssiOn fer Limited self. representation iaad-
by counsel
Ver today requires that
“Before there cam be a waiver of counsel, the ac-
cused must have an understating of the charge,
apd the allowable range ef punishments under the
ule be is charged with having viclated.|” Undied
States v, Washisgion, 34) F.2¢ 277, 2805 (ld Cir,
5), 9 ALK 34 448, cert den 382 US 850, 86
56, teh Gem 382 US 093, 86 S.Ct. 317, See
oid, 6 Criminal Procedure Under the Fed-
eral Rules, section 44:18, page 77 (1967),
Cetemtan Newlon clearly did net encerstasd the com.
sequences of the price charge or of the cooviction. He
thought he had born toavicted of a misdeceanor (RT,
The federal law also provices that the question of wi
there was @ valid waiver may te determined im habeas
corpus proceedings on procts outside the record. Vor
Molike ¥. Gillies, 332 US Te, 723-44, C4 5.0. 316
(P48) (49)
FOOTNOTE
40. Te an optabon squarely applicatie here, Justice Mack
said
“Fourth We have gaia) ("The constitutional right of an
acctsed to by represenbed by counsel invokes, of self, the
Pretecticn of a trial court, in which the accused--whose
lie of literty is af stake--ts without counsel. This pre-
fecting duty imposes the sericas and weighty reaporst bility
upos the trial judge of determining whether there ts am
intelligest and competent waiver by the accused.’ Te dis-
charge this duty property im light of the strong prewempaioe
agains, waiver of the constitutional right to counsel, &
Sedge must investigate as long and as thoroughly as the
Circumstances of the case before Me Gemand. The tact
that ab accused may tet) him that be is informed of Mis
tight to counsel and Gesires to walve this rig does set
aulomatically 84 the jedge’s reapoesibility. To be walld
such walver mast be made withan appretensiomof the mat
of the charges, the statutory offenses included within them,
the range Of altowatte punishments thereumter, possible
Getenses to the charges and circumstances in mitigation
thereof, and all other facts essential toa broad usderstanding
of the whole matter, A judge can make certain that an
accusrd's professed walver of counsel is understandingly
and wisely made cely from @ penetrating and comprehensive
examtaation of all the cftcumstances under which seckha plea
is toadered,
“This case graphically (iegiraiie that a mere roullee
inqury--the askieg of m=
by
Pu! SRABBERS questions followed
the signing of @ standard written Waiver of counsel--
jeave & Jedge eali-~ly unaware of the flacis essential to
a0 inturmed decision that an accused has @kecuted a valld
waiver of Bis right ty Conse) Amd this Cape shows that
Suc touting inquiries may be inadeqeate althowed the Con-
SUUtCO ‘does met require that uocer tircumstances
coandel be foreed upos a defendant, Carter *. Peopte of
State ef iMineds, 329 Us 173, 174 895, OP Scr. 26
2:4, Per the record demonstrates that {Re Petitioner wel.
come’ Degal aid trom all peasitte MarR: there would
have Powe te cecusalty for forcing ccowesel upen her.*
osc. We,
EXD FOOTNOFE
CONT, NEXT WEEK
"Free Huey!
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NTHER, SATURDAY SOVEMINGH 38, 1969 PAC
October 1966
Black Panther Party
Platform and Program
What We Want
What We Believe
REE HUEY
Minister of Defense, Black Panther Party
1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of oar
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 belie hat the federal government esponsible an ligated t
a heey B Kusranieee me. We believe t if
the whit ae Tee ~ amills ae
means of skew from the busi nem amd ti
ile of thee inmunity can o ad 1
5. We want an end to the robbery by the € APTTALIST of owr Black
ommenity
We believe th acist governr t has robbed us and now we are
lemandir r € t xeres and two mule Forty acres
n mules was promised 10% ago as restitution foe slave labor
nd marder of black people will accept the payment in currency
whieh be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now
1iding the Jows in israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Ger
ns murdered six million Jev he America st has taken part in
bee slaughter ywer fifty mai black therefore. we feel that this
is a modest demand that we make
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4. We want decent heasing, Mt for shelter of human beings.
We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent ng to
ir black comnvanity, then the housing and the land should be made int
| , wr community, with government aid, can build and
ecent housing mooplt
5. We want education for oar people that exposes the true nature of this
decadent American society. We want edacation that teaches us our true
history and our rele in the present-day society
We bx ¢ in an educational system that will give to our people a know!
If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position
n society and the world, then be has Little chance to relate to anything
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 pot protect us. We
will not fight and kill oth world who, like black
people, are victimized America
We will protect solves from the force and violence of the cist police
and the racist military, by whatever means necessary
>. We want an immediate end te POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER
of black people
We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or
self-defense groaps that are dedicated t defending our
from racist police oppression and brutal «¢ Second
t 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
§ We want freedom for all black men beld in federal, state, county
and city prisons and jails
ld be released from the many
that all black people she
eived a fair and impartial trial
because they have not re
We believe
jails and prisons
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.
t the courts should follow the United States Constitutbon
eive fair trials The 14th Amendment of the
U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer
nm from a similar ecomomic, social, religious, geographical, en-
tal, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be
select a jury from the black community from which the black
jefendant came. We have been, and eing tried by all-white juries
that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man” of the black
mumunity
We believe t
so that black people will re
10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.
Awd as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebls-
cite to be beld throughout the black colony in whith only black colonial
subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the
will of black people as to their national destimy,
When, in the course of human events, it Becomes pcoessary for, one
people to dissolve the political bands which have comnected them with
another, and to assume, among the powers of the carth, the separate and
equal station to which the laws of nature and maturg'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 Creatpr With Certain unalienable, rights
that among these are life, Liberty, and the pairedit of happiness. That, to
sccure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of
covernment becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people
to alter er to abolish it, and to institute a new govermment, laying its
foundation om such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as
to Uvens shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru-
governments long established should pot
it causes, and, accordingly, all experience
more disposed to suffer, while evils are
Terable, than to right th Ives by abolishing the forms to which they
But. whee a long train of abuses and usurpathons, Pur
suing invariably the same ebject, evinces a design to reduce them under ab-
solute despotism, it ts Uhebr right, it bs their duty, to threw off such govern:
ment, aad te provide mew guards for their fulure security
CUM ON
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