Vol. 4, No. 13

THE BLAGK PANTHER 2° Black Community News Service MINISTRY OF INFORMATION BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 One Of Our Main Purposes ls To Unify Our Brothers And Sisters In The North With Our Brothers And Sisters In The South F = a so @ x Sees Yaa QBag es ‘ _ motions foranew trial, THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1970 PAGE 2 HUEYS APPEAL On Wednesday (2/1 /70)Charles Garry and Fay Stender presented A together appeal for the reversal of brother Huey P, Newton's con- viction of a year and a half ago, In order to refresh your memory of the events leading up to Huey’s conviction, I will give a brief his- tory of the account HISORY OF HUEY'S FRAME-UP Huey was taken into custody on October 28, 1967 in Oakland, Call- fornia, and he has been held cap- tive, without ball, ever since, He was indicted by the not so Grand Jury of Alameda County for the offing of Oakland pig John Frey, the assault with a deadly weapon upon Oakland pig Herbert Heanes, the kidnapping of Dell Ross and the commission of a prior felony (assault with a deadly weapon), Huey pleaded not guilty toall char- ges. The case went before the Ala- meda County Inferior Court, pre- sided over by Dishonorable Judge Monroe Friedman, On September 8, 1968, the jury returned three verdicts: 1) guilty of voluntary manslaughter of pig John Frey, 2) not guilty of assault witha dead- ly weapon upon pig Herbert Heanes and 3) guilty on the prior felonious assault charge. Huey was acquitted on.the kidnapping charge following his motion for judgment of ac- quittal On September 27, 1968, Huey was sentenced to serve from twoto fifteen years inprison. At this time probation or bail, pending appeal, were de- nied, If the reader is interested ina more thorough understanding of Huey's Appeal, | suggest you con- sult the case book: No. 1 Criminal, 7753 In the Court of Appeal of the State of California First Appellate District Division Four The State of California vs. P, Newton Huey THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK -against- LUMUMBA ABDUL SHAKUR, RICHARD MOORE a/k/a ANALYE DAHRUBA, WILLIAM KING, a/k/a KINSHASA, MICHAEL TABOR a/k/a/ CETEWAYO, THOMAS BERRY a/k/a MSHINA, NATHANIEL BURNS a/k/a NATHANIEL WILLIAMS a/k/a SEKOU ODINGA, DONALD WEEMS a/k/a SWESI BALAGOON, JOHN J. CASSON a/k/a ALI BEY HASSAN, ALEX McKIEVER a/k/a CATARRA, CLARK SQUIRES, AFENI SHAKUR, CURTIS POWELL ROBERT COLLIER, WALTER JOHNSON a/k/a BABA ODINGA, LEE ROPER a/k/a SHABA-UM, EDDIE JOSEPHS a/k/a JAMAL BATIMORE, RICHARD HARRIS, LEE BERRY a/k/a MKUBA, FRED RICHARDSON, LARRY MACK, JOAN BIRD, LONNIE EPPS, Defendants. The Grand Jury of the County of New York, by this indictment, accuse the defendants ofthe crime of CONSPIRACY IN THE FIRST DEGREE tn violation of Section 105,15 of the Penal Law, com- mitted as follows: The defendants, in the County of New York, from on or about August 1, 1968 continually to on or about April 2, 1969, with the intent to engage in conduct con- stituting the crime of Murder, a- BASIS FOR APPEAL The basis of the argument for appeal, presented by defense at- torneys Charles Garry and Fay Stender, is the errors made in the conduct of the trial and the nature of the jury selection. Fay Stender presented evidence of the preju- dicial jury selection in the fol- lowing manner: The master panel from which defendant's trial jury was selected was taken solely and exclusively from the voter registration rolls of Alameda County, No additional supplementation of names was made from any other source. Blacks in Alameda County were registered at the rate of 64.7%. The population of Alameda Coun- ty had a registration rate of 82%. Thus, the method of jury selection necessarily excludes Black people. Concerning misconduct of the trial, Garry argued that the Dis- trict Attorney, Lowell Jensen, sup- pressed evidence vital to the defendant's case, Orginally, Hen- ry Grier, an Alameda Contra Costa Transit bus operator, said that he DID get a good look at the defend- ant’s face The original court transcript of his statement read as follows: ‘'.,.1 couldn't--I did get a clear picture, clear view of his face but--because he had his head kind of down facing the head- lights of the coach (Grier was driving his bus at the time) and I couldn't get a good look,’' The court, after pressure from thede- fense, ordered that the transcript be corrected to read: ‘.,1 couldn’t--1 didn't get a clear view of his face..." Garry accused Jen- sen of the COR- RECTED transcript during the trial. INSIDE THE COURTROOM There were ut least one hun- dred people on hand to witness the appeal preceedings inside the courtroom, It still blows my mind how the pigs try to make peo- ple feel as though they are going before the throne of the Lord when they enter a courtroom, The courtroom where the Court of Appeals meets has blue chairs and floors, beige walls and high white ceilings, The judges’ (there were three present on Wednesday) seats are very large with high backs and are perched on a plat- form which ts raised about three or four feet above the rest of the courtroom. This is designed to have the effect of intimidating wit- nesses and defendants; but later for that, the people are begin- ning to see through all the mani- festations of pig control--psy- chological and physical--and they are moving, and will continue to move, against it Prior to the opening of the court doors there were two guards, a Black one and a White one, hold- ing forth at the door, Garry re- marked to them, ‘‘ This ts the first time I have ever seen integrated guards."’ Both pigs oinked ner- vously, an emotional state that they maintained throughout the proceedings The whole thing was a big joke, Garry and Stender had thelr stuff together in an air tight manner, it was clear to everyone present. When the State Attorney, Albert Harris, presented the ruling class’ position against Huey, he had to resort to the casting of calumniations against Huey’s character which he felt to be evi- dence enough as to why the ap- peal should be denied. We all left the courtroom know- ing full well that the pigs had no intention of allowing Huey to re- ceive anything close to another trial MEANWHILE, OUTSIDE WITH THE PEOPLE of the State Building, was a gathering of 500 to ho came in support people were in high Outsid there i } people 1.00 of Huey. The Spirits and they showed a clear understandingas to where it's at They marched and chanted ‘FREE HUEY’. It was too much for the Pigs to stand by idly and watch, AS a consequence of the spirit of the people, the pigs made 10 ar- rests, all supposedly, for PRO- FANITY, but you and I know that PROFUNDITY was the real reason for the arrests This was the first real confron- tation that Nedler, the new S,F, chief pig, and his piglets had with the Black Panther Party and its supporters and, of course, they felt the need to Mex their mus- cles. Perhaps Nedler was trying to maintain the reign of terror which had been established by former chief pig Cahill THE FUTURE APPEAL OF HUEYS It will probably be a couple of weeks before the judges’ disclose their judgment on Huey's appeal, Their decision, however, seems rather irrelevant since we know that the only way Huey will be set free is for the people to do it. It is historically true that only people will and can free people, left to the pigs we will always be slaves--SEIZE THE TIME! FREE HUEY FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISON. ERS Roland Young Community News Reporter NY 21-THE CHARGES greed among themselves and with oth@rs to engage in and cause the performance of conduct con- stituting the crime of Murder. During the course of the con- spiracy the defendants were mem- bers of the Black Panther Party which utilized a para-military structure and discipline Inthe pur- suit of its objectives in the City of New York, The members of this Party were required to wear uniforms and carry weapons, In the period of the conspiracy Lumumba Abdul Shakur was the Captain of the New York City area andamemberofthe Central Staff of the Black Panther Party. Wil- liam King was a Lieutenant for Security In the organization. Ri- chard Moore was a Field Marshal for the New York area anda mem- ber of the Central Staff. Michael Tabor was a Captain in the New York area and a member of the Central Staff, Curtis Powell was _a Captain for Security for New York State and Clark Squires was Lieutenant for Finance in New York City, Robert Collier was Dep, Min- ister of Education and Fred Ri- chardson was the Dep. Minister of Information. Also, Afeni Shakur and Larry Mack were the Section Leaders of the Black Panther Party. As part of an overall! plan to harass and destroy these elements of society which the defendants regarded as part of the ‘‘power structure’ the defendants agreed to assassinate police officers by means of bombs and guns. Ac- cordingly, the defendants planned a number of ‘strategic’ and ‘‘co- ordinated"’ acts of violence As part of the conspiracy the defendants agreed to bomb the twenty-fifth police precinct with dynamite in the fall of 1968, Also as part of the sald con- spiracy the defendants planned ‘‘coordinated’’ bombings of the twenty-fourth police precinct, the forty-fourth policé precinct, and Queens Branch of the Board of Education with dynamite. In rela- tion to the bombing of the forty- fourth precinct, the defendants planned further that Weems, Wil- liams and Bird would secret them- Selves in an isolated portion ofthe Harlem River Drive located directly across the Harlem River from the precinct and that they would fire a high powered rifle at thepoliceas they would rush from the police station after the explosion. Also it was agreed that Alex McKlever would be armed with a pistol and would maintain a ‘fire cover position’ near the police station, In addition as part of the said conspiracy it was the plan of the defendants to bomb the fourty- second police precinct with dyna-~ mite or some other explosive de- vice on or about April 3, 1969. With respect to this bombing, it was agreed that while the police were investigating the station house explosion, the defendants would detonate six bombs forpre- determined sites along the New Haven Rall Road's tracks, It was also the plan of the defendants that the attacks on the precinct ‘and the rail road line would be coordinated with the bombing of a number of department stores during the Easter shopping season OVERT ACTS In furtherance ofthis conspiracy the defendants committed and caused to be committed the fol- lowing overt acts; 1. On or about October 16, 1968 Donald Weems instructed others in making time bombs 2, On or about November 2, 1968 Lumumba Shakur brought dy- namite from California, 3. On or about November 14, 1968 Lumumba Shakur possessed dyna- mite 4. On or about December 4, 1968 Michale Tabor asked another member ofthe Black Panther Party for blasting caps. 5. On or about January 3, 1969 William King directed Richard Harris and Ali Bey Hassan tosur- vey the fourty-fourth police pre- cinct 6, On or about January 6, 1969, in the County of New York, Clark Squires possessed a 38 caliber Smith and Weston revolver and 308 automatic rifle, 7, On or about January 6, 1969, in the County of New York, Afenti Shakur made efforts to obtain dy- namite to blow up police stations, 8. On or about January 6, 1969, in the County of New York, Ri- chard Moore possessed three pis- tols, 9. On or about January 6, 1969, in the County of New York, Lee Roper possessed a Smith and Weston pistol, 10. On or about January 14, 1969, in the County of New York Thomas Berry possessed an automatic pis- tol 11 On or about January 15, 1969, in the County of New York, All Bey Hassan possessed a 38 call- ber pistol, 12, On or about January 15, 1969, in the County of New York, Ri- chard Harris possessed a 38 call- ber pistol, 13. On or about January 16, 1969 Clark Squires possessed a bomb. 14, On or about January 16, 1969, Robert Collier possessed a high powered rifle. 15. On or about January 16, 1969 Lumumba Shakur possessed blast- ing caps. 16, On or about January 16, 1969 Lumumba Shakur possessed 24 Sticks of dynamite. 18. On or about January 17, 1969, in the County of New York, Alex McKiever possessed an automatic pistol. 19 On or about January 17, 1969 Donald Weems shot at a police officer a number of times in New York County. 20. On or about January 17, 1969 Nathaniel Burn&$ stot at a police officer a number of timesin New York County, 21, On or about January 17, 1969 Joan Bird drove an automobile to a site on the Harlem River Drive located directly across the Harlem River from the fourty-fourth po- lice precinct in New York County. 22, On or about January 17, 1969 Donald Weems possessed a pistol in New York County, 23. On or about January 17, 1909, Nathaniel Burns possesseda in New York County. 24. On or about January 20, 1969 Richard Moore possessed a p in New York County, 25. On or about January 30, 1969) Curtis Powell told others that cer- tain persons should be killed in’ New York County. 26. On or about Fabruary 3, 1969 Willtam King formed a guerilla warfare team in New York County, 27, On or about April 2, 1969, inv the County of New York, Robdrt Collier possessed three fe bombs and an explosive powder. 28. On or abgut April 2, 1969 Ed-— die Josephs possessed time bomb COMpaREnS and an explosive pow-— or 29, On oF about April 2, 1969, in the County of New. Yo i mum Shakur Ee mbes feet of detonating fuse plosive powder, o AT MT. VERNON HIGH SCHOOL - On February 16, 1970, at ap- proximately 145 p.m., Alfred Butler and Keith Saunders were walking together down the corri- dors of Mt. Vernon High school when out of nowhere a plaii- elothes policeman (pig, siepped & in front of the brothers and snap- & ped their pictures. Allred and Keith are not mem- bers of the Black Panther Party, but they relate very heavily to the principles, ideology, and pro- grams of the Black Panther Party & as SO many brothers and sisters in the community do. Alfred and Keith are only two of our many community Workers who spend most of their free time working & for the Black Panther Party (the people’s party) because they be- eve in “serving the people’. & Mt. Vernon High Schoo] has borrowed two (2) pigs from the special] ‘“‘watch the Panther squad” to keep an eye on students who wish to bring about a change and make education relevant to the conditions in their community, These two pigs are walking school corridors and the grounds with pistols on their hips and walkie- talkies in their greasy hands, What can be more repressive than an occupying army inside of an al- ready oppressive institution that miseducates? They (the pigs) are not there to protect the students their job is to see to it that nothing gets out of order..., to see to it that nothing will change- thar the system of mis-education remains the same, They do not want the true nature of this de- cadent amerian soclety to posed for what it really is-- op- pressive and explotative, That is why point 4S of our Platocm and program states that *“*We Want an education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent amerian Society, We want an education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society,” be ex- ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE} POWER TO THE STUDENTS! EDDIE HULL MT, VERNON ALL POWER 10 THE PEOPLE “Whet the slgve of experusism whe tives ievide the Deogies of De whoke world. we tame thut the coy; of WHATS HAPPENING. AANA UVEQUOQAOLA)AOOOAEAY GL AOA AHALAO U4 OUEOTONEUESeOONEN ANU HPUeneveacaanencanaavaraeeesaaeneeonnecsevueveveaventaiaennanenett HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUEY Message from Eldridge Cleaver, . Menaster of Information B.PP. Under the cruel yoke of obpressionand exploitation in Babylon for four hundred years, our people have struggled for lib- eration and survived against the tidal wave and bloody and brutal opposition from the most savage oppressor the world has ever known. From the long heart-breaking days of Slavery and the heroic uprising led by Nat Turner, down to the cold blooded murder of brother Fred Hampton in his sleep, our peoples’ flesh and blood has been shed in an endless stream in a hopeless effort by our oppressor to drown our search for free- dom and liberation, But never have we ceased to struggle, no matter how hopeless a situation appeared we have forged on ahead. Hanging byathread and existing off thin air and Black soul. The soil is rich in Babylon because we have tilled it and our blood has watered it, Each generation has passed on a hope and a dream io the next. The hope of some miracle to happen, so that the dream of Freedom and liberation could become a liv- ing reality, [t is this hope and this dream which has boasted up the spirit of our people and given us the soul to survive against the genocidal policies and practices to which we have been subjected, Through the use of shrewd tactics of divide and rule the oppressor has kept us off balance and un- able to organize our people and prepare a striking force to put forth a decisive effort and make a final break for freedom and liberation. But now, in our day, times have changed. History is now running in our favor, The international system of oppression and ex- ploitation which is controlled by our open and direct enemy is under heavy attack by the people of the whole world. The bigsystem of our oppressor is falling apart at its seams under the blows inflicted upon it by i a & Idridge Cleaver Minister of Information lack Panther Party to destroy the system of oppression: capital- ism and imperialism, in order to be free in a new world, where human rights are not a joke and men can live as brothers and not as enemies. I went into detail to paint this picture because it is the context out of which Huey P. Newton sprang. Huey is the living em- bodiment of the historical experience of the Black people and their determined struggle for freedom and liberation. Huey is the per- sonification of the iron will of rebellious slaves moving to destroy the system of slavery, But most important, Huey is the articulator of the historical experiences of our people, interpreted with the scientific practical principles of revolutionary theory. In short, Huey P. Newton has been be- queathed to us in this critical moment in our history to give us the theory and prac- tice that we need in order to deal with the present stage of our struggle. The fearless example of Huey’s leadership, as he stood with his gun in his hand like the oppressed people who are determinedé a shield, between our people and the pigss ts the fulfillment of the dreams of our people = and an answer to their screams for their = warriors to step forward and put an end to = the torture and the pain that we have suf- fered for so long. And Huey, standing as a Shield, the Min- ister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, is a signal to our people that a new day has dawned and a new man has been born to usher in the new world that we have struggled and suffered for, for so long. As soon as& { realized who Huey P, Newton is, I lined up behind him, and I stand behind him now. And I know that the only way that Huey can have a Happy Birthday is for him to know that true, through the heroic history of our people, the struggle for the freedom and liberation of our beople is being pushed forward relentlessly and correctly and at any price. So Happy Birthday brother Huey. Let the red light flash and light the way to the graves for the oppressor and his vicious system, even as it lights the way to victory for our people. We shall forget nothing and we shall not forgive the enemy and we shall not yield on a single principle or demand. And our first demand is that our leader, the Minister of Defense, be Set Free, And we shall avenge that death inflicted upon us by the enemy, SEIZE THE TIME ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE ELDRIDGE CLEAVER MINISTER OF INFORMATION BLACK PANTHER PARTY _ THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1970 PAGE 4 _ GREETINGS TO HUEY P. NEWTON Brothers and Sisters, Comrades, and friends: I salute you. It Is a great pri- vilege to be here, Four short years ago the name Huey Newton would not have stirred a ripple beyond the threshold of his neighbor's door, Now as Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, this young freedom fighter commands one of the most polit- ically significant fronts of the Black Liberation conflict, That conflict is an inseparable part of the battle for people's democracy at home and a lasting peace a- broad. As he sits in his prison cell at San Luis Obispo, Call- fornia from the far corners ofthis globe, men, women and youth de- mand his freedom and send him greetings. It is a great privilege to be among that number, We have come to say Happy Birthday to one of our own, Yet I cannot Speak to Huey Newton as only to aheroicyoung Black man whom we should honor and praise, He is that but he is Infinitely more. Such an approach would be too nar- row to embrace all that this young man represents, Nor canlexpress my admiration and respect for Huey as for only an outstandingly courageous . American citizen for that would be to redlice in HAPPY “This is an interview with mem- bers of the Young Adults Organt- zation, in the Downey Alley Com- munity in the upper Haight Ash- bury.’ INTERVIEWER: Brother John, could you tell us a couple of things about the ‘Young Adults Organ- tzation''? JOHN: Yes, the Organization con- sists of young adults, youknow, young people in the community. Me and some other comrades, for- med this organization, (At first it was going to be a political or- ganization, but we felt that we could use that to see the people's needs in the community without being a political party, but moving with the people and letting them know what's happening in society today.) Serv- ing the people; we wanted to have a free breakfast but we're still in school so we can't have that. We have given so far, (for the activities) a Christmas dinner, and a dinner today for Huey’s birth- day; that's about all of the act- ivities we’ ve had so far, INTERVIEWER: Why did you de- cide to give a benefit today, on this day? JOHN: We discussed it and we felt that if publicity wasn’t in the community that Huey P, Newton would be dead today, And so we feel that If we don't keep up and be on our ‘'J’’ that all political prisoners and brothers that are in jail would be offed right now, and that's why we are giving things like this, Huey'’s the leader of the Black Panther Party and we feel that we must have a dinner on his birthday, INTERVIEWER: And what about the people here? There seems to have been a lot of propaganda done. Do the people always help and par- ticipate in the programs like the mothers and the little kids? JOHN: Right on, they all partici- pate to show that they know that the little children in the com- By Size the arena of struggle in which Huey operates--he is more than justan American, In my own rigfit and as a mem- ber of the National Committee of the Communist Party of the United States, I have come here to do honor to a Black man of heroic stature, an, American , who at an early age has brought honor to the land of his birth, a human being who has identified himself with freedom-loving mankind and who stands in the front ranks among the magnificent national Liberation fighters of Africa, Asia, Latin America and these United States. Inspired by Black revolu- tlonaries who have gone before, inspiring emerging new leaders, Huey Newton has unqualifiedly con- demned the oppressors of mankind and called for their removal from the political affairs of the world, I am proud that Huey Newton is Black, The reason is simple: where Ignorance, greed and lust for power have given support to the myths of White superiority, it is necessary to make such a statement, Here in this country where a cruel war Is belng waged against Black citizens, where four hundred years of racial misedu- William L. Patterson cation has dehumanized millions and brought them to an acceptance of the supreme hoax that anglo- saxon White when a Huey Newton emerges on the stage of history we must em- phasize his color, Huey Is not anti- White, We arefor Black-White unity in struggle because we firm- ly believe that that alone is the road to a people's victory, But we who are Black must be proud of Huey Newton's color for color has a specific value in a racist land, Every generation of ame- rican life has produced its Black heroes and heroines, As a matter of fact our claim as equals to the wealth of our country lies in the fact that we alone among its ethnic groupshave neverceased to fight for the advancement of democracy, Huey Newton, the fighter, is proof of the creative genius of the Black revolutionary, We live in an epoch of revolu- tlonary struggle; a racist war is being waged against us. We are a new people conceived in slavery but in the war we fight we are dedicated to the proposition thatall men, women and youth shall be free and equal, Our great Black hand BIRTHDAY HUEY FROM THE PEOPLE munity are brainwashed about the society. We went to the community with the people and asked the peo- ple to help us with this birth- day. They said that they would all help and they came down and cooked food, We had a treasury and we used some of our money; we had $50.00 and we fed al- most a hundred people and they are going to help in whatever we put down, they dig on it in this community, so we feel that what- ever we do, it's going to have to be constructive. The construc- tive move is the best way to move; that's the way we feel, and that means serving the people. The only reason we can make constructive moves is becausethe people know that the pigs are coming up here harassing us and kicking in peo- ple’s doors because they thought Someone was burglarizing. Ukay, it was ‘roving rebel bands think- ing’ up here but we did away with the roving rebel thinking; the little children and parents know this and I think that's why they want to help us in ANY way. LEONARD DONALD: My name ts Leonard Donald; I'm another mem- ber of the Young Adults, In this community there have been roving rebel bands up here ripping peo- ple off. The pigs come up here not knowing who did it and snatch people out of their houses. The: people know what's happening up here so we decided to organize the Young Adults and do some- thing about it, When the pigs came up here, they came just grabbing anybody, took anybody as suspects that they caught, The people that were really doing it is not the thing; the thing is they just came up nere and harassed people, When I told the people that the pigs were coming up here harassing people and vamping on them, they didn't belleve Me. Uut they saw {t for themselves. They be- lieved me. That's wny tne people organized themselves and helped organize a Free Dinner for the community, They saw what the pigs weredoing and they saw what Huey P Newton was doing both Huey P, Newton and the Young Adults are serving the people. INTERVIEWER: Brother Leonard. name some of the other con- ditions and events that have taken Place in the community that the people have been Involved In, or how the pigs have been harassing and brutalizing the people, Brother was telling me about some ofthem, but would you comment on that? LEONARD: Well, on Sundays the stores up here are closed and we have to go on Haight Street to go to the store the pigs are always patrolling the area down there, When we go down there, the pigs tell us to get off Haight Street, and if we don't, they start harass- ing us, Another thing fs this, they are out here working onthe streets andtheyhave some undercover pigs up thereworking on the streets too; they just stano around all day long, watching the people's actions trying to see what they are doing up here, LAVETTE TOOKAS: We cele- brated Huey P. Newton's birth- day because we felt it would be a@ great day to celebrate, We took money out of our treasury and we went around for donations. It's coming out really successfully and we hope that everyone is enjoy- ing it, Weare goingto be doing a lot of other things like this to help out people. We went to dif- ferent people's houses and we got donations; they donated their de- serts and we went to stores and the stores around the corner from us donated to us what we needed and we got our commit- tee together and we decided to get different people to cook things and different people to do certain things like organize our tables and the food and who was going to cook it. The dinner started at 3:00 and about 75 to 100 peo- ple came, There were parents here serving and young people here serving and a lot of Young Adults were here, I just want to say,‘'HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUEY AND ALL POWER TO THE PEO- PLE.” means greatness, 7 WILLIAM L, played a decisive part in ending the chattel slave system. It will play a vital role in the battles against ameriKKKan imperialism, its racist mayors, governors and president. That fight is the respon- sibility of every Black Ame- rican to all mankind. Attendance at the Chicago March 7 Conference to defend the rights of the Black Panthers {is a must for all pro- gressive. Americans. , There ts a philosophy of revolu- tion and Huey Newton ts a student of that philosophy, That is why the Black Panther Party has moved forward so rapidly on the national liberation front, That is why it Is historically necessary to find a Place in the forefront of those who PATTERSON defend the rights of the Black Pan- thers. Racism in the U.S A must be destroyed. The racist gangsters who rule ameriKKKa are the fore. most supporters of racism in South Africa, Rhodesia, Portuguese frica and the Latin ameriKKKas, Huey Newton--dauntless polit- teal prisoner, herole fighter for human rights and freedom, I salute you. The fight for your liberation will not end until we meet in the ranks of the liberation fight- ers of the world. Together with you we say ‘‘Down withracist terrorf For the unity of the oppressed! All Power to the People! We pledge to sharpen this fightin our defense of the Black Panther Party RIGHT ON! CHICANOS and BLACKS IN THE HIGH SCHOOLS I hope, very sincerely dial Chi- canos, Blacks, and high schoo] ad- ministraters haye learned some- thing since the incident that wok Place at Sacramento Senior High School on Thursday, January 27th, 1970. Especially I hope that those who intend to take part in the re- volutions.y struggle that high schoo] students face inSacramento learned something, I hope, maybe foolishly, that the ignorant old minds working for the rascist Sac- ramento City Unified Schood Dis- trict leaned something about Third World students. Though, sadly, | doubt it. Some people you have to kick in the head before they rea- lize what is happening and all that is involved, It seems that what high-school students should be do- ing is making sure that these fools see that when there Is violence on a high-school campus there are reasons, andcauses, and many oth- er things that bring a situation to that point. That there is more in- volved than kids on a rampage ina school cafeteria, Chicanos and Blacks fighting each other has to stop, and only Chicanos and Blacks themselves can stop it and no one else. It must Stop before we slip into the sui- cidal bag of forgetring who the Ene- my is in this country, If any Chi- canos and Blacks are talking about revolution, pigs, and helping their people they had better get hip to the fact thar there won't be a re- bellion, that today's pigs will not be tomorrow’sbacon, and thatwe're hurting our own people's liberation when Chicanos and Blacks start Stabbing each other in the back. If a Chicano is thinking abour jumping on another Chicano he Should do some deep thinking, some real serious thinking, We shouldbe careful of women who would let a couple of carnales fight each other to make her “feel good", Or a dude fighting because of what some Vato said that he didn't dig on, What ever happens, the gringo shouldn'r q Ste Bronze people throwing blows against Bronze people. We should keep differences that we have be- A tween our own people and settle ir within our own barrio. Not at any high school so that all the rascis¢ Students andteachers can laugh and quictly clap thelr hands behing our backs when they're, The same thing should go for Chicanos against Blacks too. Dis- unity among Chicanos and Blacks should never be known to thegrin- go I’m not talking aboutthe lack of unity between a Chicano revolu- tlonary and vendido, There can be no unity with a pig. Rather, I'm talking about the lack of unity that exists between oppressed people in this city, The lack of unity that exists because all of our people have been confused by the ameri- KKKan society, This society tells us to fight for what we want. AS long as we fight for the capital called, ‘‘money"’, a good '‘job”, and a good ‘education’, But, when we're fighting for Liberation, when we're fighting for the right to say what we want and do what we want, it’s a different story, When we Start talking about how and who is oppressing us over, we're squash- ed like ants by the fools of fascism, Such as the laws that bind us. The gringo has us in a cage and like the foolish animals he thinks we are we're taking out our frustra- tions and anger on our carnales, on our brothers, whether they ‘re Chi- canos or Blacks, I'm not saying that Chicanos and Blacks should start holding hands when they're walking down the halls for now on, What] amsaying isthat we start showing more respectfor each other's Movimiento. Toover= throw this fascist government it will take the unity of all oppress- ed people, The Blacks can’t do it alone, neither can the Chicanos, The counter-revolutionary fools think they can are destinedfor doom, We, the revolutionaries with in the United States can’t even do it alone, We/mustunite with the op- pressed people of, Latin Asia, Africa, andwherevere THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1970 PAGE 5 Lee Berry is one of the Panther band-aid, Then Lee was thrown inthe surgical Intensive Care Unit, with a 21,...and this is the story concer- ‘hole’ for 5 days. No medical per- 105 temperature, She was told that son was called in, The gash which his fever was 106 on the day that He is 24 years old, married with should have been stitched now leaves he was first moved to GLICU, (That one child, He is a veteran of Viet Nam where he contracted Malaria a permanent scar. From that incident onward, his must have been the day the tele- grams were sent out.) Thus the and became an epileptic as a result condition worsened, Lawyers con- enormously high 106 must have been of wounds received in combat. tinued pleading for Lee's transfer custained for 2 or 3days(which might A string of epileptic attacks inthe through a court order. No action, have done damage to his brain), = early part of ‘69 forced Lee intothe Veteran Administration Hospitalfor treatment on April lst of last year, Three days later, on April4, theFBI came to his bedside supposedly only for questioning, but took him away in handcuffs to the DA's office, charged him with an assortment of conspi- racies, placed him on $100,000 bail, and sent him to the Tombs. From the moment he was taken in, no medication was given to him al- though he was taken from a sick bed (It is also a known fact that epilep- tics need DAILY medication--phen- abarbital and dilantin.) During the first three months, medication was completely witheld, Thus during that time he underwent several seizures, including two grand mals. The first came a month after incarceration, After persistent pressure from the lawyers, medication was finally issued from the prison. Pleas for a transfer from the prison to the prison hospital ward were al- so submitted by the lawyers several times, but nothing transpired. In July, when Lee was quite ill and under sedation, a guard (John Die- sichurst, Badge 488)cametohiscell for a head count. He expected Lee to Stand to attention, Lee couldn't, un- der his weakened condition and seda- Lee Be 4, rry however, was taken unril the last week in November when Lee was finally moved to the Bellevue Hos- pital prison ward. Lee was ill and weak but able to walk on his own. (He has relayed to his wife that as bad as conditions for him were In the prison, his hospital experience was worse. He could cope with phy- sical punishment, but he said, inthe hospital, testings and drugs made him totally helpless.) Sometime during the first weekof December, after the standard opera- tional tests (Electro encephogram), Lee was given needles in the neck which brought on a stupor.or near- coma-like condition, For two weeks, thereafter, Lee was hardly able to urinate and could not even once move his bowels , bringing first discomfort and subsequently pain. In this un- functionable and helpless state, his physical and mental condition seem- ed to deteriorate. On December 26, Lee's wife was told that an appendectomy was per- formed the nite before (Christmas nite), On December 30 or therabout, two telegrams were sent to Lee's wife telling her tocome to the hospital immediately because Lee was in cri- tical condition, Lee’s wife never re- From January 3 to January 9, his temperature slowly came down and his condition seemed improving. However, he began feeling pain just below the abdomen, The pains in- creased and morphine shots were given to him, His condition was not critical. Then, on the nite of January 9, his wife was told that another emer- gency surgery was performed that morning because a blood clot was discovered in his groin. The fol- lowing nite, a doctor diagnosed a possible blood clot in his lungs. Each day, the question {s, what next for Lee, Lee's condition is now known to a large number of people, and be- cause of the growing public senti- ment and support for him, heis now receiving good care and is now in the Intensive Care Unit. But onrecovering, Lee MUST NOT be sent back to the hospiral’s pri- son ward nor to the prison itself. He MUST be completely released and be cared for in the Veteran Adminis- tration Hospital in which he is their regular patient. It is up to the PEOPLE to FREE him. If enough public pressure can be applied, WE CAN DO ITI Ahmed Evans life was saved because of PUBLIC SENTIMENT AND PRES SURE, Telegrams and letters, de- monstrations and picket lines forced Governor Rhodes of Ohio to declare a stay of execution of Ahmed. We must unite likewise for LEE BERRY, EVERY VOICE and ACTION in his SUPPORT is NECESSARY! Letters may be directed to Gov. Rockerfeller, Lindsay,Commission- er McGrath of the Correction Dept. 100 Center St.; to Borough Pres. Percy Sutton ,Congresswoman Chis- holm and Congressman Adam Pow- ell in D,C,; to Senator Dunn, As- sembly men Patterson, Gallagher and Wright; to Judge Constance B. Motley of the Federal Court.Letters must also reach ALL NEWS- PAPERS AND BULLETINS whether dailies, weeklies or monthlies ,,,All metropolitan, Negro, Black, left, student, and underground papers, tion. The guard then, unlocked the ceived the telegram, but on Friday LEE BERRY‘’s LIFE IS IN YOUR door, came in, and began beating Lee on the head and face, and gave Leea wassssssssssssssss:. ~~ RN NN a a aN jan, 2, she went to the hospital and found Lee, who was transferred to a HANDS!}!! ACT NOWII! AAAS ASA AS A A SELL ~ ON EDUCATION FROM JAMAL My first objective was to write an article on the school situation, how and why the students should move, and give a general rundown on the fascist oppression that exists in school, For some reason I found it pretty hard to get together, but it shouldn't have been because at one time we (the N.Y. 21) worked very hard on forming a B.S.U Then I dug the fact that I don't know the exact level of oppres- sion in schoo!) because I was kid- napped, detained for 10 months, released on ransom and as a re- Sult denied my right to an edu- cation, After i was granted Y.O. (Youth Offender) status, my ran- som was lowered from $25,000 to $5,000 at the same time, I was told that it would be in my better Anterest to go back to schoo) and/ or geta job. However, when I went down to school to re- register, I was told that I would have to contact the probation de- "partment so they could send a let- ‘ter stating whether | was eligible r re-enrollment in school. I told (N.Y. 21] them I was In the Board of Edu- cation Program in Prison, that it didn’t have a grading system, but did guarantee that one could get back in school after his re- lease--they just passed over that. I've been out on bail in this corrupt society for one and a half weeks now, and I still am being denied re-admission because of ‘protocol’, I feel like saying “later for these jive institutions of racism,"’ because I know that they are institutions of misedu- cation and propaganda organs of fascism, But I know this is what the pigs are laying for me to do, and because | know this I won't react in a manner that they want, Point No, 5 of the 10 Point Platform and Program of the Black Panther Party says ‘‘We want an education that teaches us the true nature of this decadent amerti- can society’. We know that before relevant subjects are in- stituted in schools, a revolutionary situation must exist In the schools as well as in the community; a revolutionary situation that would make it unprofitable for the pigs to exploit usand deny us our rights. This is why a revolutionary move- ment should exist in school, that is coordinated with moves being $ made in the street, Aside from the miseducation that goeson inside the schools, there exists the problem of brothers and f Sisters who have a right to edu- kept out of schools; theyare ostra- cized from school under the guise of being ‘‘trouble makers'’ (how many times have you heard those words) or because of lack of room. This is absurd, in a nation tech- nologically equipped to land men on the moon, there should be no problem In building enough schools and employing effective personne), Your ‘trouble makers'’ are the potential revolutionary youths who realize that the schoolsare geared to brainwash and decide to dis- rupt the ‘‘games’’ instead of being docile. Thus they have to be re- moved before they become aware of correct revolutionary methods and turn all those decadent in- stitutions out, They only way we can make cation but are being forced and tA - 4 4 4 February 13, 1970 On Feb. 1, 1970, two members of the Harlem Branch of our Party were working in the community in Harlem in the area between 1lith St. & 135th St, when they met with animosity from the peo- ple in this area. Investigating the situation to find the reasons or reason for the animosity, the Black Panther Party discovered operat- ing at 123rd St. and St, Nicholas Ave. a so-called ‘drug rehabilita- tion center’ with people working there calling themselves Black Panthers and calling the place the “Black Panther Party Drug Re- habilitation Center’’. The reasons for the people's animosity stem from the methods used In this ‘center’, Through Investigation and interviews with people who were victims of these evil people, we turned up the following infor- mation on this place: 1. Drug addicts were being kid- napped off the streets and taken to the so-called ‘‘rehabilita- tion center’ 2. Admission fee into the center cost each addict $5.00. 3. To insure that the kidnapped addicts remained in the center, brute force was used to keep the victim from leaving. We have re- ports of drug addicts having their arms and legs broken. This center is operated bya wo- man called Makia but Is run bya Doctor Matthew, Doctor Matthew is a leading salesman in the Black community for Richard Milhouse Nixon's ‘‘Black capitalism’ pro- gram. Dr, Matthew ts a neuro- surgeon who heads the National Economic Growth and Reconstruc- tion Organization, known as NEGRO, Matthew printed and dis- tributed wall posters that say, ‘‘the road to socialism is Black capital- ism,"’ and the posters tell the people to buy Lucky Bonds from ‘NEGRO’: controlled by Matthew, This is an example of the dema- gogy (lies) used by the Nixon ad- ministration and its bootlickers and lackeys. Matthew was recently pardoned from federal prison by Richard Nixon, Just yesterday, Dr. Matthew came out in support of Nixon's racist nominee tothe Supreme Court, Judge Carswell, Nixon's ‘number one lackey in Harlem's’ reasons for supporting Judge Carswell, who ts a bonafide racist, are very vague. ‘‘Papa Doc’’ Matthew Is simply doling the bid- ding of his master in the White House, Matthew's attack on mod- erate Black leaders by saying that their opposition to Nixon's hang- ing judge ‘‘precludes the concept of rehabilitation’' Is a trick to give credence to his own capital- ist schemes and has nothing to do with racist Carswell. None of the Institutions in fascist ameri— ca offer any type of real re- habilitation because they do not relate to the source of the pro- blem, which {s capitalism, itself, Matthew's inability to meet the medical needs of the people of the community can be directly associated with the views he main- tains in relationship to capital- ism. Medicine under capitalism is a commodity and big business. Doctors, under capitalism, do not + relate to preventative medicine and this ‘‘avaricious witch doctor’’ made money off of curing people The main thing that Black peo- ple, welfare recipients, junkies and convicts suffer from is capital- ist exploitation and fascist terror- ism, which Is not geared towards rehabilitation . SITS TT schools what they are really sup- posed to be is to have the people control the schools. The school curriculum and activities would be planned by the community, and those who work there would be employees of the people, In this way knowledge will not be an allen thing to the student but tn- formation that will let him under- stand his existence and what he must do In terms of the struggle for liberation, It's time to take control of what E BERRY ....DEAD OR ALIVE press RELEASE, N.Y. For example, the Interfaith Hos- pital which is also run by ‘‘Papa Doc’ Matthew, receives money from the government In the form of ‘*Medicaid’’. The only way that a drug addict can receive sub- sistance for a drug rehabilitation program Is to sign up for a gov- ernment sponsored program. The government programs do not re- late to curing the addict, because he can receive all the drugs he wants, such as is the case with Rockefeller’s ‘‘methadon'’ pro- gram. The greedy doctors supply all the drugs that junkies “want while continuing to get paid for the unlimited amount of drugs ho is dispensing, Then there ts the aforementioned example of Matthew's so-called ‘rehabilitation’ drug addict pro- gram located at 123rd St. and St. Nicholas Ave., where his ‘*Tom- tom machetes"’ use terror andco- ercion to keep the addicts strung out and suffering in his ‘‘Free- dom Village’, The Black Panther Party feels that the press conference held by Cariton Yearwood in Corona a few weeks ago announcing a war on dope and the Mafia was a very provocative action on his part and relates to this situation, It relates to this situation because ‘a war on dope and the Mafia’ sepa- rated the real problem of dope from the total system of oppres- sion that affects the lives of the Black community, The Black Pan- ther Party knows that in order to truly get rid of dope, we must get rid of this decadent, blood- sucking, racist system because those who control the dope are inseparable, are part and parcel of the power structure that we are Struggling against for decent hous- ing. full employment, food, cloth- ing and decent education--our total liberation. Carlton Yearwood is nota mem- ber of the Black Panther Party; he left the Black Panther Party in November, When he had the press conference, he was not recognized as a Panther but was working with the National Com- mittee to Combat Fascism in Co- rona. Since the people who control dope are the same people who launch genocidal attacks on our Party, from coast to coast, Carl- ton Yearwoodcreated a very dan- gerous situation for the Black Pan- ther Party- ‘The situation was created where the pigs could vamp on members of the Black Panther Party, OF vandalize our offices and generally run amuck and write off the blame by saying ‘that must have been done by the Mafia’, Here is an aspiring capitalist, Dr. Matthew, running a so-called ‘center for drug rehabilitation’ which is really a front to get money and keep people sick, people who are looking for help, by taking them off one drug and getting them hooked on another: Rockefeller’s methadon, After the press con- ference by Carlton Yearwood, we find these kidnappers, bandits and vultures using the confusion about the Black Panther Party's posi- tion on dope to further their dirty work... Richard Nixon is the mari- onette,’ Dr. Matthew js the puppet, and the Black community is the victim, BLACK PANTHER PARTY Harlem Branch 2026 Seventh Ave, New York City 864-8951 - 666-3603 {s supposed to be ours--to make schools function in a manner that will be beneficial to the collective interests of the people, This means to institute programs that are relevant to the community and will teach us correct methods of re- ~ Sistance against volunteer slavery, fascism and imperialism, SEIZE THE TIME, BEFORE THE PIGS SEIZE YOU! - Eddie Joseph (Jamal) N.Y. 21 “THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1970 PAGE 6 _ MURTAGH’S FOLLIES February 16, 1970 (Monday) be- gan the second act of the best Staged satire on american jus- tice in history. The starring character was a whimpering crea- ture who wore a black mask to hide his corrupt heart, His name is John Regan (pronounced Reagan). This strange little an- imal doesn’t seem to be clear on what his assignment or func- tion is in relation to other props. One thing he is sure of - he is a guinea pig.When asked what his Specific function was in re- lation to the kidnapping of Micheal Tabor (Cetowayo), he whispered “to visibly represent the police department as a uniformed officer,”" Question: Were all of the uniformed officers Black? Answer: Yes. Question: How many officers on your specific assignment were Black? Answer: Only myself, Question; Did you go to the door? Answer: | was the only one stan- ding at the door, Isn’t that wierd? Twenty- one raids and at each one of those raids, there was one Black pig to do the dirty work, His entire function was to be a bootlicker. As the play unfolded, we dis- covered that this was the only function of flunky Regan. After the door was broken in, the other Storm -troopers went storming into the crib like madmen, The whim- Pering pup, saidthe blood, Michael, was standing in the foyer with his hands holding up his. pants! Well the defense asked if his pants fell down when he moved his hands; Answer: **No’*, Man, listen there Is something wrong with that first of all, in a preceeding act, Pig Koffee testi- fied thar Mike ran when the pigs came in, Second, if the blood’s pants weren't in danger of fal- ling, why would he hold them up? That is inconsistent with that brother's thinking. I'm inclined to believe Mike when he says his hands were In front of him, Check out why. “I was third into the apartment when J got in. He (Cet) was against the kitchen wall covered by two armed officers."*(Can you dig it?) Scene Two -- This scene began when the *badguys’ (‘the strangers to justice’’) refused to enter the courtroom because they were not being fed anything but jelly sand- wiches, They are in court all day and all they are thrown to eat Is two pleces of bread with some Jelly slapped on it] Murtagh oinked something that as far as I could decipher meant that he — Sn i) Benath a" a ACT TWO about forty-five minutes. Murtagh asked if we wanted to waive our right to a public pre-trial hearing with the people and the press pre- sent. He made it clear that if we continued to demand the presence of the people and the press, we would have to assume responsibi- lity for our ‘‘chances at receiving a fair trial”. Do you think he was trying to tell us something? We figured he was, but we told the dude that we realized that. That court couldn't possibly give us a fair or legal trial, because no one except the spectators were mem- bers of our peer group, and not only do we want the people present but we demand the presence of the people, Dharuba then told Murtagh that he should apologize se ap — leap 5 m Afeni Shaku Tuesday (February 17,1970)defen- Pe! ~ AFENI SHAKUR - N.Y. 21 would call the commissioner of correction andhave him deal with ir. (This was said as a punch line to a joke, that | must have missed), The ‘‘strangers’’ came back into the courtroom after a period of to the defendents for suggesting that the Jawyers could control our conduct or our mouths: ‘*You are Saying that niggers can’t think for themselves and have to be led and oversede by White people’’. Murtagh really didn’c relate to that, so he denied the motion and informed us that we would be held responsible for our comments. (1 think that was supposed to make us start worrying about ‘contempt charges’). I really don’t see why we have to keep telling Murtagh this, but we feel as though his court Is ‘out of order’, and if he can’t put it in order, then the New York 21, will be only too glad to do it for him. Scene Three: The pig pup con- tinued his testimony, which turned out to be nothing more than periodic sounds: crying, whimpering and stuttering. | left the theatre hoping that Phillips wouldn't take the poor pup’sbone away, However the cur- tain began co fall on that scene with the cur still trying to regulate his barks. Scene Four was very short and mysterious. In act one, the New York 21, informed the court that February 17 was Huey P, Newton's, Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, Birthday, and we couldn’t come to court. Murtagh decided to give us the day off for motions. Well, Murtagh Hogan, Phillips, Nixon, Daley, Alfoto, Cahill, Rockefeller - all of you crazy fools, if I told you once, I told you a thousand times, get up against a nylon wall and fall out for dead] Roll over hog! We are seizing the time. Happy Birthday, Huey! dants did not appear in court nor were they required to do so, ) who are the real criminals? The people watch as the local army occupies their community and every day inflicts increasing terror, The hard working brothers and sisters that live in the projects struggling to survive, say, **Well, it’s only the drug addicts thathang out on the {Third Street that they * And the brothers and sisters that live in homes in the area say, ‘*Well, it’s only those people in the projects that they bother."’ And the people who have moved to the other end of town say, ‘Well, it's only those people over on West Third Street.”’ And yet the police come to your door without warrants, without reason, without excuse. We always say Someone else, but we mustrealize that ‘law and order’ does not mean ‘law and order’ for the corners ' } ° bother. COMMUNITY CONTROL OF POLICE COULD HAVE PREVENTED THE ORLANDO JONES MURDER The Baltimore police occupy the Black Community much the same way as the 10ist Airborne Divi- sion occupies Vietnam. The po- licé are not in our community to protect our property because we owl no property. They are not in our community to see that we receive due process of law because the police themselves do not re- ceive due process of law, The police are In our community to protect the property of the avari- clous businessmen - the chumps who come in from the suburbs and drain all the money and re- sources out of our community, The police come into our community to carry out the orders given to them by the demagogtc politicians, Those orders are to maintain the status quo; to keep the niggers in their place. To do this, the po- Mee come with their overkill equipment and terrorize, brutalize and murder the people. Those who send out these orders and those who carry out these atrocities are defined as pigs: low natured beasts that have no regard for law, justice or the rights of people; creatures that bite the hand which feeds them, foul depraved traducers, usually found masquerading as the victims of an unprovoked attack. The Baltimore pigs murdered Orlando Jones on Junuary 16,1970, at four o’clock in the morning, At the same time Richard Woodard was seriously wounded and Charles Demby was severly beaten by the fascist pigs. These three brothers were the victims of a search and destroy mission that started inthe Moravia Ave, area and ended inthe 2000 block of Washington St. The racist dog police, true to their form claimed that the three brothers were suspected of a burglary and that they were shot at when they chased the brothers attempting to apprehend them. Supposing thatthe brothers had committed the burglary (which they didn't) the Pigs still had no justification to commit murder, Whether or not the brothers shot at the pigs has never been cleared up. If they did they were within their rights to de- fend themselves from an attack in which over one hundred pigs parti- cipated, These tactics are used byracist pig police in every city in Babylon, The pigs ride shotgun through the colony because they don't know and don’t care how Black peo- ple think and react in the colony, AS S00n a5 they get the report of an incident (or as the pigs call it a trouble spot) they rush to the scene and shoot first and ask questions later, This is why decentralization of police forces is important ¢s pecially to the colony. Community control would prevent racist pigs from using gestapo tac- tics because the communities would comtro] their police forces, The cities would be broken down into districts, The people who live in that district would electa police commission which would select a police force, The police would be required to lve in the district where they worked, The com- mission would supervise all acti- vities of the police (thus elimina- ting police chiefs) and insure that the police served the people of the community. Any member of the commission who becomes derelict of duty or acts contrary to the interests of the people would be removed immediately, A police- man would think twice before he terrorized or brutalized anyone because he would realize that he had to go home that night in that same community and face the peo- ple he brutalized, With community control the pro- blems that arise in the community can be solved there, without out- Side interference; thus the people would be in control of a very im- portant aspect of their enviroment, With Community Control perhaps Orlando Jones would be alive, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE SHERRY L, BROWN people of our community.» Brothers and sisters, at least three or four brothers a picked up in your community released or are charged loitering. A recent ine’! involved a brother who Is aforr away from the poison that our community; others every involve brothers just minding cause they may have an record, or even have done the that the state asked for, does this give the so-called ‘‘guardians of the Jaw’ the right to use the power of the law for their own. satisfaction? These brothers and sisters are picked up, and nine times out of ten, no charges are lodged against them, or the charge of loitering is used! ‘ The loitering charge is used when no other justification or ex- cuse can be found for the arrest, Many of the brothers are Intim{- dated by the power that the pigs” exercise in the Black community, Therefore, the brothers plead guilty to the loitering charges ig avold further harassment aad ofjer trumped up charges, We all know that the drug pro- blem is a serious one, but we must examine the source of that problem....the pig department that So skillfully infiltrates the govern- ments of countries all over the world cannot stop the drug traffic into our cities, Why? Because these same ‘guardians of the law’ are the criminals in our society. They profit from the sale of drugs, and their racist intimidation and harassment of Black communities is made easier, They use phrases such as * law and order’ to keep the people confused, to keep us from identifying the issues and pointing out the enemy. Black people must not allow these criminals in official uniform to continue to break Into their homes, to make arbitrary arrests without warrants, and to contin- ually violate all of the protection offered by our so-called constitu- onal rights, - BLACK PEOPLE UNITE! WE MUST POLICE OUR COM- MUNITIES FOR OUR PRO- TECTIONI! COMMUNITY CONTROL OF ‘THE POLICE IS PART OF ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Janet Cyril Mount Vernon, N.Y. wa aA eS tse ney TTS | LETTER FROM A | LONIST PIG i | Hello Pagans, Some stupid Jews still would? Strive for you as I did Inthe past, % Yet, you are for the Arabs who sell you as slaves in Saudia- Arabia and kill you asinthe Sudan, 4 How can you be such ungrateful dogs and still live? Such scum as you ought to drop dead, ‘a You see, I am not afraid off you gangsters and hoodlums. Go¥ and kill a few more policemen, but leave Israel alone, If you will continue ‘your anti-# § Israel deeds, we will make theg streets of America most un- ; safe for you as we did to the British in Zion, : # This is a promise and we keep # such, You may ask the Bri who ought to Know. Yours in hate) SPSS SSS M, &, Ben-Amt Former rman, Friends of the Fighter Freedomvof Israel, (St SOLIDARITY WITH THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD For the past months, corre- Spondence has been flowing in from other revolutionaries through- out the world. We, the people of Babylon, have a common enemy and goal with our oppressed bro- thers and sisters throughout US imperialist infested countries, a goal which has an ultimate end of overthrowing oppressive governments! We, the revolutionaries of America, have found inspiration through communications with other oppressed people of the world, We are n0t alone In our struggle to combat fascist institutions em- bedded within the governmental system, Poor and oppressed people all Over the world are moving in le- gions to destroy and reconstruct the damage of an exploiting gov- ernment. Today in Babylon, the masses of people have taken no- tice of the relationship of our Struggle for liberation and that our brothers and sisters in other countries U.S. involvement in Vietnam has been merely for imperialist rea- sons, not in the interest of what the pigs refer to as ‘‘American security’’. The masses of people, worldwide, are now witnessingand being subjected to atrocities that they had previously only read about in the stories about Hitler and the Third Reich, The people have come to realize that the murders of defenseless people in Vietnam are no different from the murders committed against Black people here in America, The lable of “justifiable homicide’’ that the pigs use in attempting to justify the many murders o f{poor, op- pressed people, sweetens these atrocities in the eyesof the unedu- cated, but we must realize that the ends are the same in this special war of PIGS vs THE PEO- PLE! Those who refuse to submit to the brutal tactics of this fas- cist system and choose to defend themselves are subject to attack at anytime, Just as traitor Thieu Ky Khiem of Viet Nam allows the U.S, im- perialist to viciously murder and subject his people to attacks, we have Black lackeys here in Baby- lon who not only condone the mur- der of Black people, but alsoassist in the process of extermination by joining local ‘‘law enforcement agencies’’ with the idea that they will keep the PEACE The people are asking, ‘‘Where is this peace that everyone talks about so fre- quently?’ We say to the oppressed people of the world we join you in your Struggle for liberation with the understanding that any and every- one has the right to self- determination. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE SOLIDARITY WITH OPPRESSED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD BLACK PANTHER PARTY Kansas City Chapter Dep. Minister of Information, Philip Crayton Editor's note: The few questions put to Chairman Bobby Seale were asked by the Editor of this news- paper simply to give an opening to Bobby Seale and to enable him to speak. Unlike the majority of the press in America we live up to the standards of the tradition of the press, which is to print the truth, and print what Is submitted without distortion or lies, INTERVIEWER: This ts an Inter- view with the Chairman of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale. This interview is taken tn the San Francisco County Jail in San Fran- cisco, I'd like to ask Bobby what his impression or what are his thoughts and comments on the sen- tencing of the Defense Attorney as well as the conviction of the Chi- cago 7 by Judge Hoffman whom he's had some confrontations with? BOBBY: I'd like to say that what happened in that court trial, that fascist operation isnot inseparable from the bombing murder of three kids in Birmingham, from the kill- ing of Civil Rights workers, Black and White a long time ago, and numerous other atrocities that have occurred, The very trial it- self was related to atrocities through head bashing and skull cracking on the part of the police at the National Democratic Con- vention in 1968 With respect to sentencing of the people in Chicago--it's a form of Adolph Hitler Judge whose con- temporaries are Carswells and Coxes, Judge Cox down in Missis- sippi and others, their legal lynch- ing operations are related tothese contempt charges as they call them. When a person's constitu- tional rights are violated, whether it's on the streets or in a court- room that person at least has a right to speak out in behalf and argue for his constitutional rights. People know the issue. In my own case I'll advocate anybody anywhere aftor making requests, after putting {n motions, When your constitutional rights are denied then I say get up, stand up and Speak, keeparguingand keep put- ting in motions and if the judge hollers loud over your head, you holler back till he hears you. Be- cause at that point when he de- nies you your constitutional rights, he’s not a judge anymore. He's a fascist. He’s not a judge in any contemporary sense or any human sense, That's my initial reaction to how | see what happened in the sentencing of lawyers and de- fendants. Whether the jury had come out with guilty or not guilty they were in jail already. This shows the political nature of the trial as a fascist operation by the Nixon-Agnew-Mitchell regime, So, all they are doing is driving the masses of the people to see that this system is corrupt and the people have to see it because for Judge Hoffman to even sever me from the trial halfway through the trial--five or six weeks after the trial starts, when he could have severed me from the trial before the trial started. This shows that they meant to try to railroad me and still mean to do so as they railroaded the other defendants. The so-called intent to cross state lines--law is obsurd--to incite riots. To use inter-state com- merce to cross state lines ts the most flagrant fascist violation of peoples constitutional rights in this country, To Black people--it's not new to us. Brown people, poor and oppressed people and other people know that this has been going on a long time, I think this trial has brought out what has been go- ing on for a long time and also what the Nixon-Agnew-Mitchell regime intends on doing in the fu- ture. Crossing the state lines and then being found not guilty of said inciting a riot is absurd--it's ab- surd to be found not guilty of one thing and guilty of another thing, where it takes the other thing to prove both aspects. This Is ab- surd. If a human being or a per- son got on a plane at any one point and at the time that he got on the plane he thinks that I'm going to go to so and so etc,-- he was just thinking this and not saying it, At what point in cross- ing state lines is another argument, It might sound absurd but it's a very practical argument. He might have said while at the time of crossing state lines ‘Well, no, I shouldn't Incite no riot because that might get a lot of people hurt,’’ So, it's absurd to even talk about anybody thinking as such, because you are being charged with a thought crime, It's not a thought crime in terms of the individual who Isaccused, Buta thoughtcrime in terms of what Nixon-Agnew- Mitchell think they think you're thinking, That in itself is too much, In a courtroom when you get there, like somebody pointed out in an editorial, I think it was Nicholas Hoffman, that it was a political trial and that the jury didn’t even remember any evi- dence. It was a compromise ver- dict because they don’t even re- member any evidence, All the jury did was go in and come out with a compromise verdict, 1 think that that is basically what happened because it was some people onthat jury who seemingly were for gross acquittal and there were some peo- ple who didn’t understand and it kind of reflected the mind of some of the society, They say four peo- ple were for acquittal and eight people were for guilty. That shows we have four out of 12 people in this country who are basically a- gainst the establishment and such fascism, as a trial that occurred in front of their eyes. We have eight other people--the other eight out of twelve--are looking around and saying ‘‘I don't understand just find them guilty.'' They are con- fused and they refuse to look into things and see that the trial is a bunch of madness on the part of the prosecution and the judge, THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1970 PAGE 7 CHAIRMAN BOBBY SEALE TALKS ON CONSPIRACY 7 TRIAL AND THE ARRESTING OF THE PATRIOTS INTERVIEWER: As you just stated before that fascism is really onthe rise In America--I got a com- munique last night that the entire Central Committee of the Patriot Party with whom the Black Pan- ther Party relates to as revyolu- POLITICAL tionary comrades were arrested, So would you say that this is an escalation of fascism in the White community. BOBBY: It's an escalation, per se, on the part of the Nixon-Agnew- Mitchell regime, Yes it's an esca- lation of fascism inthe White com- munity against White people. The Patriots are young cats from the Appalacians who are concerned a- bout the poverty and oppression that their own poor and oppressed people are subjected too, They re concerned with educating their people to understand the need to change the system, and that it's the avaricious, demagogic, ruling class elite and the pig forces ofthe ruling class elite who oppress them, The power structure does not want them to come forth be- cause they would be an extension of what Black America is trying to do in terms of gaining some liberation and freedom and they would be highly outspoken against the power structure on the part of being one and one with the people's revolution, That's exactly where it is. I read In the paper myself that they had gotten arrested etc., and it's an operation to railroad them too, It's no dif- “BOBBY SEALE, CHAIRMAN, ferent from John Sinclair who's probably from the middle class Whites who worked with a group or organization called the White Panthers, A group that Is rather a friend of the Panthers, White cats, He Is serving 10 years on Berroa PRISONER an entrapment operation. Where an agent entraps him in terms of two marijuana cigarettes being transferred, This violation of the law to enforce the law by the U.S, Government is a direct violation of the U.S. Constitution, You can- not violate the law and enforce the law, this is In the US. Constitu- tion, but this is what the power Structure is doing. I suspect that there was some kind of violation of the law to so-call enforce the law in the arresting of the Patiots, All I can say ts ‘“‘Power’’ to the brothers in oppression We look at them that way because they are revolutionaries and they, are op- posed to the imperialistic fascist regime here in America, It's an escalation of fascism in the White community as Judge Hoffman's court reflects so well--asthe past bombing and killings of not only Black people who were Civil Rights workers but many White people who were Civil Rights workers. So, people can see that in inter- locking and inter- relating that we can and have to stop the system, This is what the Patriots see just like the Black Panther Party sees, Chairman Bobby Seale, BLACK PANTHER PARTY BUST OF THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE PATRIOT PARTY For a while now the Patriot Party has known that we have been raising th level of the struggle in New York City, at least in the Yorkville area, We didn't realize ~ at this point that we had disturbed the fascist pigs to the point that the level of the struggle has been raised to its present point here % in fascist America, But on Sunday 8 night, February 22, at 7:00, 12 members of the Patriot Party in- cluding the Central Committee were about to enjoy afriedchicken 3 dinner when fascist bootlicking, roof - stomping, storm - troop- ing pigs busted through our door, shaking and quivering lke pigs always do, they held revolvers on us and on the children and put guns to the heads of the children and demanded that we give up our ¢ right to protect ourselves, They - took us down to the station, to the pig station just on the out- skirts of Harlem and put the nine men into a chicken coop, width about 6 X 6 feet, with no benches, “100 cigarette butts, liquids and dirt *all over the floor and cans full { feces with no tollet paper, It's “like just saying we are animals that don't deserve humane treat- ment, The only animals we know are pigs with blue suits and hel- mets, and the pigs refused, of course, to grant us any rights, Are there no rights of oppressed people in a fascist country? My- self (Preacherman) and Larry More, a member of the Party, were taken handcuffed downstairs to supposedly watch the inspection of the people's cars. At that time a large crowd was gathering out- side the pig station (it had to be primarily a crowd of Black youth because of the location of the pig station), The Black youth sald, ‘‘release our brothers’’, and what this means to us {ts that soll- darity goes down to the basic level of the people, This was shown t Us In the jail, In the jails of this fascist pig town, When we rapped to the people In the jails, they knew where we were coming from--White and Black, because they were all being Ssubjécted to the same fascist rule, We know at this time that the level of struggle is getting higher and the basic charges with which we were charged have been enlarged upon, because the pigs want to Say that we had a hand in the bomb- ing of Judge Murtagh's house (he's the judge, the fascist pig judge, trying the Panther 21 case) and we also were {implicated in shooting and sniping at pigs in New York City and we were ques- tioned thoroughly about this. We heard not one word about it until we were in open court and the Assistant District Attorney named those charges against us, 50 We know that a concerted effort has been started to eliminate the Pa- tot Party and that in this raid, the Central Committee and area defense captains were arrested a- long with us, but we know the Party won't cease because ‘the spirit of the people {s greater than the man's technology’’ and he can't scare us by pointing guns or atom bombs in our face, The Party will carry on tin solidarity with all oppressed people, the Black Pan- ther Party, the Young Lords Or- ganization, Los Slete de la Raza and all other groups and organi- zations representing the masses of oppressed people. ‘ We would like to say to the students of America, progressive Students of America, rise up with us and smash this fascist ma- chine--rise up in firm bellefofthe people, To the people on the streets we would like to say: no longer allow yourselves to go to jail pas- Sively, there is a Party that re- presents the Interests of the peo- ple and our people are free totake part In the liberation army of the people, We say to the petty bour- geois that we know your under- standing and what I'm trying to Say is that you can take part in this revolution If you are will- ing to have your thinking remolded, We say to all these people--ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE andthat if you’ ve reached the level of strug- gle--the level of the struggle where you can see your Life’s value only in relationship to the people, to the Patriot ‘Party, to the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords Organization, we would liketo see you relate to reality, We'll be here--BECAUSE THE PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS BE HERE ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! PATRIOT PARTY Preacherman THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1970 PAGE 8 “NIGGERS, GET IT TOGETHER NOW!” Niggers get it together, the time has come for you to open your eyes and look all around you and see what the pigs are doing to you, your mothers, your fathers, your Sisters and your brothers and all oppressed people in the streets of the so-call ‘‘ghettos’’, It's time you realize that by Selling drugs to your brothers and Sisters you are killing them and helping them to escape from re- ality-~something we all must be- gin to understand and move on, is our common enemy, (THE PIGS THAT HELP PUT THE DRUGS IN OUR COMMUNITIES). The pigs know what they are doing and it appears to me that they are doing a good job of deceiving you, Yes, they are decelving you because if they weren't, you wouldn't be on the streets pushing their drugs and making that fast money, while at the same time the lying poll- tleian is olnking to the people that they are trying to get drugs out of our communities. Stop fighting and robbing each other and move on the real enemy, the pigs and the fascist system that occuples our communities like foreign troops, that exploit, oppress and perpetrate systematic genocide on Black people, These are the same racist dogs who have you niggers selling drugs, robbing your own people, selling your sisters’ beau- tiful Black bodies, and in other ways co-opted you to hurt each other, This is only another trick of the ‘divide and conquer me- thod’’ and when you have outlived your usefulness, he will move to eliminate you just like he has you doing to your own people I don't have to go into a lot of details, you know what I’ m talk- ing about and don't think for one moment I don't know because at one SAVE THE time in my life I was a jive old nigger, who sold drugs and robbed poor oppressed people, Staying clean in my slick pants and bad knits and that other jive that make up a ‘‘siick walking and talking’’ nigger. So I know what's happening out there, but I stopped and I know you can, too, Won't you stop and take a close look at yourself and what you are doing to our people and I know you will see that your kind of life ‘‘doesn’t balance out to two dead files.’ The masses of Black and op- pressed people are moving on the Slavemaster, the oppressor of our ILLINOIS SIXTEEN NATHANIEL JUNIOR Nathaniel Junior, Billy ‘Che’ Brooks, William O'Neal, and Ro- bert Bruce are members of the Illinois 16, a group of Panthers indicted June 10, 1969 for sup posedly kidnapping and torturing a woman, Because of this frau- dulent indictment and extreme re- pression, they had to appear in court on Monday, February 16. A pattern of unprecedented intimidation has been set in this case, which has not gone on trial yet. Deputy Chairman Fred Hamp- ton, himself of the Ill. 16, was murdered on December 4. Nathaniel Junior ts being held in the Cook County Jail in Lieu of $1,000,000--not a bond, but a ran- som. Billy ‘Che’ Brooks, who suf- fered head injuries caused by a pig beating him with the end of a shotgun during the third raid on the Party office is out on $10,000 bond, William O'Neal, who has been harassed by police on numerous occasions, its out on $10,000 bond. And Robert Bruce, who has been the victim of many house raids, {ts out on $18,000 bond. Forced to flee after the in- dictments because of extreme per- secution, he and Nathaniel Junior turned themselves in on January i4 Chicago police department and the FBI have focused their atten- tion on the four people named Since the inception of the Ilinols Chapter, BPP, Illinois 16 worked to in the hands of Because ofthis, police forces made them targets of persecution. Why targets? Because the 16 hit at targets of oppression: hunger, inadequate and expensive medical attention, miseducation, etc, Con- cretely what the ‘'16'' did mani- fest itself in is the Breakfast for Children Program, and the Peo- ple's Medical Care Center, and Liberation Schools; also in that they stoodin the face of engulf- ing fascism and said, ‘Il AM A REVOLUTIONARY," All people are being asked to Support the Illinois 16, to see that they be freed from these phony charges, The Black Panther Party says SEIZE THE TIME, which means in this case, SAVE THE '16"', BY FREEING THEM members establish the people, of the power ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE NOTES ON PANTHER 21 TRIAL Judge Murtagh gave his usual speech, though it was some what more lengthy. He said that all who responded to brothers and sisters as they walked in would be held in “summary contempt’ of court. At- torney Lefrtcourt explained thar de- fenders were advised not to speak out but insisted on doing so. At- torney Bloom said that council said that they would do their best to carry out the role of attorneys, and advocates of law, As brothers and sisters were brought into court the entire courtroom responded to them by saying ‘ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE" and *'Right On'’. The judge singled out one white mother country radical andorder- ed liim removed from court. The 21 curned around and walked out of court saying,’’See you later, Left- court’, Alvin Katz, the mother country radical was then brought before the judge and Murtagh found him in contempt of court and accus- ed him of raising his arm insalute of the 21. Alvin Katz stated thathe nad no respect for the courtand will s4) what he believes in. He willbe held tn the county jail for a period of 30 days. Attorney Katz (no relation) requested thatthe young man have a lawyer to represent him. Judge Murtagh denied the request, Mur- tagh then called for a recess so thar minutes could be transcribed into mandate, At least one half of the courtroom today was full of white mothercoun- try radicals that had come down af- ter having been at Hunter's College last night where Leftcourt spoke, The recess lasted for approximate ly 2 hours. After recess they brought inthe white mother country radical, Alvin Katz, (D.A, Saidthar delay was caused by Leftcourt, He asked Alvin's lawyer who had de- tained him, and the lawyer looked over at Leftcourt and said nobody). Court had records show that Left- court was responsible for delay. At- torney Katz rose to protest that In- sane assumption and wastoldtosit down. Alvin was then called in and was introduced to the lawyer that would be representing him, The lawyer was called by the Lawyers Guild. Then the judge ran down the charges on Alvin which included that he stood up and gave a raised fist salute, After being warned be- fore hand, Lawyer for Alvin asked for postponement for time to pre- pare for case and judge said that court is ready to proceed and would only be able to give him a 10 min- ute recess. The lawyer said that was not enough time; he went on to say that a raised arm Is noproof of contempt of court, and that his client only showed solldarity with the 21. The Judge said eventhough Alvin did not utter a sound he took part indisorderly conduct of court- room and he was arbitarily picked out. The lawyer's motion for bail and discussion of length of time sentence was denied by judge, The lawyer said that the man was entitled to council before being sentenced, The lawyer said that the judge had acted as judge and prosecutor; he then motioned that another judge be assigned to the case. The motion was denied. Alvin Katz was taken away to spend 30 days in jail. The judge then said that he recognized a lot of people in court were from Hunter's College where Left-court addressed an audience people, so that we can all be free, Don't think for one moment that be- cause the man is letting you earn a few quick dollars everyday that you can buy your freedom; you can't, not with blood money. You make a few hundred dollars op- pressing your people, while he’s making billions and (at the same time) offing niggers. Elther you begin to take a stand for your people or they, with the help of the junkies you haven't killed al- ready, will move on you, for they realize that you have gotten caught up in the man's capitalistic envir- onment and are helping to oppress them. The people know who their enemy is and anyone that helps him obtain his murderous goals is also considered an enemy. So niggers get it together, not In a month or in a year, we don't even have a day to wait for you, be- cause this fascist, racist system is constantly seizing the time, SO WHY CAN'T YOU? ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE FREE SONERS ALL POLITICAL PRI- Lee Roper (N.Y, Panther 21) A LETTER TO THE PEOPLE FROM BOB COLLIER OF THE N.Y. 21 We man fr wish to explain that the hu- hts and the constitutional rights we are struggling to main- tain is not just for ourselves What we are trying to do Is, pre- serve the livesof the people. We are struggling to give to the peo- ple their recognition as human be- ings. We will not let them frame us without speaking out. We will not allow the rich and wealthy owners and their puppets of this court to disrespect the people. We will serve the people and in serving the people our struggle in the courts Is to protect the rights of all the people |} ll | | ! | } BOB COLLIER - N.Y, 21 Through our voices, we hope we are speaking for the people and the horrible conditions they suffer each and everyday, Many people have raised their fists and voices to say we are respected by them and do respectthem.When racism and injustice are used in the courts, to try to turn people against each other, we will expose it. When the people are made slaves to the capitalist, landlords and cor- rupt officials we will help free the people from these illegal acts, The Black Panther Party ts the people and the people is the Party, We, the representatives of and and spoke of a trial In another city and of proceedings in this court. He also sald that Leftcourt spoke on station WNBC, Attorney Left- court said that the interview was orderly except for the presence of helmeted police and special ser- vice men who were present, Geralf Leftcourt said that he had as much right to speak as any citizen and he would not e¢ive up that right, The judge said that Leftcourt should “become more famfllar with professional code of conduct,"’ But Leftcourt countered that the court should read over the 15th amendment and that the court Should not ask him to disregard his constitutional rights. Leftcourt Sald that he refused to be silent and that unless N.Y, courts plan from the people are the Party, We are calling for an end to oppres- sion and misery leveled against the people, We of the Panther 21 clearly point out to the people that, they (the people) are made to wor- ship the things they themselves have created. You the people have been denied the basic necessities of food, clothing and shelter which are supposed to be given to you in order to help society and you the people as part of that society to survive. The people have been deprived of their humanity by being made to transfer their beautiful feelings into greed for pleces of paper and iron or other things. The people have been made lifeless forms of humanity because of the dog-eat-dog society, welive in. We must struggle to become revolutionary beings, We must get our heads together ty become full of beautiful friendships to each other, We must become humanists so that the man and woman are first In society and the things we use, such as products that serve us, are used to serve man and woman, We want the people to be society as a wholé and not the tools of a rich society that owns and runs the lives of the people. All Power to the People. Seize the time and the gun to gain justice, freedom and peace. We ask the brothers and sisters to stop copping out to this cor- rupt system, Fight them and make them know if they (by any chance) get it--they have a hard way to go. We ask the people to stick by their loved ones and help pro- tect them. Be the power that you are and destroy the shackles on the communities. Make the plgs move out of the community or else serve the people, We must selze the power to control the destiny of our community. FREE HUEY, BOBBY AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS to take up the precident set down by Chicago courts as far as deal- ing with the lawyers, The D,A, said that Leftcourt Invites those people down to court who disrupt courtroom order pruposely, Left- court argued heavily on that point. The fudge said that court will, be adjourned, (2 pm), due tofliness in D,A,'s family. Court will con- vene on Tuesday at 10 am, Bro- thers and sisters were never brought back Into court. Diahnone Jenkins iT P| _my people suffering, ~ gaaaerrewe In January, 1946 to February 1950, John M. Murtagh was Com- missioner of Investigation of the City of New York. Miles F. Mc Donald, who was district ar- torney of Kings county filed a complaint against commiss{oner John Murtagh, before the ‘Hon- orable’ Samuels Leibowitz, a Judge of the County Court of Kings (Brooklyn) County. In D.A, Mec Donald's complaint against Com- missioner Murtagh, in pursuant to Title Il of Part IV uf the code of criminal procedure ‘upon in- formation and belief, the respec- tivé sources and grounds for which are hereinafter set forth said de- fendant (John Murtagh) in and about and between the months of August 1946 and February 1950 in the County of Kings, committed the crimes of neglect of duty, as set forth in Section 1841 of the Penal Law, of omission of duty by public officer, (as set forth in Section 1857 of their penal law), and violation and evasion of a provision of law relating to his office and employment as set forth in Sec- tion 896 of the charter of the city of New York, in that said defendant (John Murtagh) will- fully and unlawfully failed, neg- lected and omitted to report to the Mayor of the city of New York the results of an investigation, of and into the police department of the City of New York. On or about the 26th day of August 1946, the Mayor of the City of New York ordered and directed the defendant as Commissioner of Investigation to institute and conduct an investigation into the police department in each bor- ough of the city of New York and particularly into the plain- clothes squads and superior and ranking officers who were charged by law with the duty of detecting and suppressing gambling andvice for the purpose of ascertaining and determining whether any squads or any members thereof or said officers had accepted or were accepting graft from gamblers and bookmakers and whether any of said squad members or officers thereof were corrupted, lax or grossly Inefficient in the discharge of their official duties, Commissioner Murtagh investi- gated the N.Y.C, police depart- ment from the Assistant Chief Inspector, to inspectors and other high ranking officers in charge of various squads in Police de- partments throughout the city of New York, in the latter part of September 1946, Commissioner Murtagh received reports fromhis own Investigators that gross cor- ruption in the police department existed, The reports said ar- Fangements were made between bookmakers and Police com- missioners, plainclothes Squads, the chief inspectors office, the borough plainclothes Squads and the local divison officers, Bookmakers generally will make nO attempt to operate unless they have assurances from all police units concerned that they willhave full coverage and that they will not be molested in connection with their bookmaking activities, After extensive Investigation commissioner Murtagh received vast information on the corruption within police divisions in Kings County, Innumerous instances, re- ports to Mr. Murtagh which in- dicated laxity, gross inefficlency and incompetence in discharge of their duties by high ranking offi- cers in charge of the various squads of the police department throughout the city of New York, As Commissioner of Investiga- tion, John Murtagh, commitrednu- merous crimes of neglect of duty, On the 4th day of April 195), Bandit Murtagh admitted his crime of not reporting to the Mayor the mass, morbid corruption within the police department, which was Commissioner John Murtagh’s lawful duty as Commissioner of Investigatons, John Murtagh is aclassic exam- ple of how pig technicalities and political ‘bossism!' function in fun eity (New York) as Commissioner of Investigations, John Murtagh was 4n important aspect of the corrupted political machinery of New York City. Brooklyn Dis- trict Attorney Miles McDonaldhad enough evidence on John Murtagh for 10 years in prison for cor- ruption of a public official, The Political bosses of N.Y.C, knew that Murtagh hadenough knowledge on other corrupted politicians to take more to Sing Sing with him, So the other politicians in N.Y.C, began conniving to stop prosecu- tion In court of John Murtagh, On June S, 1951, in Supreme Court, Special term, Kings County (Brooklyn) appelate Division Part I John Murtagh had a hearing on his criminal charges of neglect of public duty. The deofsion of the hearing was that John Murtagh committed his crimes in the county of New York (Manhattan) and that Kings County Courts (Brooklyn) did not have the jurisdiction to prosecute him because the crime was committed in Manhattan, The case was dis- missed against John Murtagh on those grounds. According to regular procedures in a case lke this, the Manhattan District At- torney, Frank Hogan, would imme- diately pursue a complaint against Frank Hogan, is one of LETTER T0 A PARENT FROM A SISTER IN THE WOMEN’S HOUSE OF DETENTION Its been quite some time since we've communicated. The lost child who has been lost for 23 miserable years, has found a new life, is being lead up a new road, Mother during these few months Tye been incarcerated, I've come in contact as well as having the honor and pleasure of meeting beautiful sisters. Sisters who have educated me, educated me enough to devote my life, to the people, to you, my sister, my brother, my family, my neighbors, to my Black people who have lost out and been cheated for so many years, and want to regain strength enough to fight for the purpose of Uberation. To be free of slavery, pain and sorrow in which we've all endured. Mother I'm no longer a child Wretching and crying on breast, | am a woman, a Black suffering woman who‘ ing at my neighbors, mn dying innocently at the mercy of the pigs. They've robbed, cheated and stolen everything, we have nothing. I'm tired Mother, I'm tired of the fascist, racist pigs, who have taken bread from our mouths, clothes from our backs and leaves us with no shelter to die, die they say ‘‘crawl nigger beg’ but I'm not going to beg and crawl no more, My god ts there ever gonna be an end? Yes, yes mother I'l! fight and fight and even kill for you, my people. I'm _ tired Mother of watching you and our people suffer, I'm tired of watching my poor Mother sick from hun- ger, sick from not being clothed, sick period with no place to rest her weary tired body and soul, which needs to lie down at ease constantly, moaning ‘‘God help me’, and constantly crying out all have Things are gonna change Mother, things are gonna be better, You are gonna eat Mother, youare gonna have clothing and shelter, I'll die for you, for our people, to see that we get what we want most ‘‘freedom"’. Well Mother, if we shall nevor meet again, I love you, I am on this battlefied fighting--and if 1 return I'll kiss you and if I don't return, I'll expect you to continue and fight until freedom rings, kill if you must, die if you must, but fight and continue to fight in the struggle, POWER TO THE PEOPLE Your Daughter, Carol Henderson Women's House of Detention & York eee pee eee THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1970 PAGE 9 - FROM NY 21 BLACK COMMUNITY the ‘old behind the scene’ bosses of Tammany Hall, which {is the Democratic machine of the N.Y.C, politicians, D,A, Frank Hogan knew how explosive ft would be if he tried to persecute John Murtagh. So the Manhattan D.A,’s office never placed charges on Murtagh for his crimes as Commissioner of Investigations, Mysteriously, Manhattan political bossism’ put John Murtagh in the position of Chief Magistrate Judge of Man- hattan, Murtagh’s judgeship made him deeply indebted to D,A, Frank Hogan, because Hogan knew of Murtagh’s criminal activities, Judge Murtagh became D,A, Frank Hogan's personal judge, so Hogan Te INFORMATION CENTER BRONX NY - is able to dictate to him on par- ticular cases, In June 1969, D,A, Frank Hogan selected Judge Murtaghn to pre- side over the Panther 21 case (eof conspiracy) withHogan’s boy, John Murtagh, oresiding over the Panther 21 case, D.A, Hogan (part of the Democratic machine of N.Y,) will be indirectly making all legal decisions in the courtroom, Gerald B, Lefcourt realizes thar Judge Murtagh was selected by D,A, Hogan to preside over the Panther 2] case. The tremendous influence of the D,A, is illustra- ted by the fact that any and all Statements Assistant D.A, Phillips makes in court are accepted by Judge Murtagh as fact. Some 30 motions before Judge Murtagh (in- cluding bail reduction motions) were arbitrarily denied. Gerry Lefcourt filed a petition in behalf of the Panther 2] in the appellate division of the Supreme court to have Judge Murtagh removed from the case because the judge was personally Selected by D.A. Hogan to preside over the case, And that Murtagh is biased, hostile and partial a- gainst the N.Y. Panther 21 and their Attorneys, D.A, Hogan has admitted he ‘suggested’ thar Judge Murtagh preside over the case, TheAppelate Division Court denied the petition, because ‘Judge Mur- tagh is a fair judge in court.’ The people must understand and re- member that Supreme Court ap- pellate division part 1 is the same court that on June 5, 195], dis- missed and invalidated John Mur- tagh’s criminal charges of neg- lect and unlawfully failing toreport corruption to the mayor when Murtagh was Commissioner of Investigations of N.Y.C, Bandit Judge Murtagh is truly educating the people about **JUST US"" in the courts for oppressed People, The fascist Bandit Murtagh is clearly illustrating to Black people, that the question Is not only trial by a jury of our peer group, But the Black Community must haye courthouses in our communities with judges selected from the Black community, who are responsible to the Black Com- munity, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! LUMUMBA ABDUL SHAKUR (N.Y. 21 ON TRIAL) THE PEOPLE MOAN FROM THE STIFLING JOLT OF OPPRESSION The racist society of america is constantly attacking the masses, bombarding them with unjust laws to keep then restricted, High eco- nomic standards keep us starving and living inrat-infested buildings. The massesare awakening. They know who the enemy is. Just from having that knowledge many People have been harrassed, interogated and convicted for their beliefs; Sometimes they are not charged, but that's only when they promise to stay in their place. The ones who refuse are convicted of crimes created by the racist courts , Tor- tured unmercifully by the under- dogs and thrown into prison la- beled ‘*POLITICAL PRGONER", and left to rot. The People moan; Some cry out from this stiffling jolt of oppression Ole oppression) while the plgs (the oppressors ) are satisfied with themselves as & human beings, The people have been Severely AAA AAA ME MEME AMT aaa ACK Ano believing that a rag. gedy piece of parchment called the constitution can and will protect them, as well as their rights as human beings, and as citizens of Babylon, It is plain to tthe people now that they've just been handed 4 piece of trash, What did the Con- Stitution do when Bobby Seale was Practicing the right, as Stated by theConstitution; to Speak inhis own defense? It got him bound and beat. en unmerctifully, What is the consti- tution getting people who are prac. ticing their right to be free? Noth- ing, but harrassment, arrests and brutal beatings when they try to defend themselves. Icurse the Con- Stitution! I hope you wake up anddo the same, For we must have our rights’ or die inthe strugglero gain them| : BLOOD TO THE HORSES BROW AND WOE TO THOSE, WHO CAN- ! ‘ ' 4 S THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1970 PAGE 10 SHERIFF WOODS EVICTS MOSS FAMILY Sheriff Joseph Woods and 150 of his pig lackeys put Mr. Joseph Moss and family, member of Con- tract Buyers League, out in the streets on Monday, January 29, The Moss’ . along with 101 other families that are in CBL, are fac- ing eviction notices because they are withholding mortgage pay- ments until their needs are met, | The Moss house is worth about 320,000, but the Moss’ have had to pay the extravagant price of $31,000 plus interest, They, along with other familles, were being exploited by the greedy landlords of Universal Builders Incor- porated At the time of the vamp, Mr. and Mrs. Moss were at work At home were Keith Moss, 17, is and his three little sisters. The fool racists entered the house breaking In the door with their guns drawn, and scaring the three little sisters half to death, They used the same tactics that Hammer Head Hanrahan’s murderous raid- ers used to enter the apartment of Dep. Chairman fred Hampton-- killing him and Mark Clark, When Keith tried to telephone his parents, the pigs snatched the phone from his hands, then cut the “wires, The greedy bandits pro- ceeded to throw furniture out in the snow, stealing what they could, and putting the children in the cold. By this time, a large crowd had gathered to stop the heartless raiders, who fired shots to dis- Perse them. But the people used to harassment, stood their ground determined to see the Moss fam- ily move back Into their home. Guarding the house was costing too much money, so the fascist forces left the house to go on their daily routine of brutalizing people. With one great massive effort, people moved the Moss fam- ily back where they rightfully be- longed - Point No. 4 of the Black Panther Party Program and Platform states: ‘‘We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings." By decent housing, we don't mean a house that rats won't even come to for fear they'll be killed when the roof falls in. But what we mean is housing that is adequate, live- CHICAGO GESTAPO PIGS STORM HOME AT 8539 PRAIRIE TO EVICT MOSS FAMILY able, comfortable, and hasn't an astronomical price tag The people in CBL were Ned to, tricked, and cheated by the landlords of Universal Builders, And if they don't make payments, Joseph Woods has orders to put those families on the streets to live, no matter how cold it Is, or regardless of how much snow is on the ground All concerned people must come forth to support the 101 families, just as the Ill. Chapter of the Black Panther Party does, We must not allow these work- ing people to be evicted from their homes after Uving in them for ten to fifteen years and paying $200 to $250 a month for mortgage. We have long advocated that peo- ple must be organized and armed to protect their families and homes against criminals who are dis- guised as law enforcement agents and who murder and serve evic- tion notices behind tin stars A LETTER TO MY BROTHERS FROM L.A. COUNTY JAIL 1 came to the sunny state of California three years ago, Since that day [ve seen nothing but grief, pain and agony. Not only in this pit of desolation, but on the streets as well, I am awe- stricken at the way the PIG con- stantly harasses people, but especially the ‘‘Black Panthers'’. T am located In the Los Angeles County Central Jail, in the same module with the bravest, most to- gether brothers I have ever met, I must say | am more than glad to have had the honor to meet them and listen to their goals, as why ‘The Party’ was developed. These brothers are truly the strongest men! have known, They've got to be, in order to stand up against the harassment and mental stress they're under while incarcerated here. The PIG in here has nothing better to do, so they harass the Panthers, They are located direct- ly below my cell so I hear and see the PIG harassing these brothers all the time, In the morning thelr breakfast is brought to thelr cell block, It'salready cold with may- be a few hairs or even a dead cockroach in the food, Usually the trays sit on the cart for about 10 or 15 minutes.This ts because the PIG is usually busy sitting on his behind or maybe he'd be reading the comic strip in the paper, It takes another 10 minutes to open each cell one at a time so the men can get their food, The PIG is afraid to let them all (8 ofthem) out at once even though steel bars are between the PIG and the Bro- thers, While they try to eat the PIG might stand at their doors and stare at them for a while or tell them their mothers are sissies. I personally heard one PIG, as he looked at some food that splattered on the floor off of a Brother's tray, he said, ‘is that your food?" The Brother sald, “Yeah!"’ The PIG said, ‘Your brains will look Ike that if you get too brave’ One PIG makes fun of the Brothers by minacing them and sneaking onto the top Wer and altering his voice to mislead the Brothers. He then makes fun of them and leads them into think- ing it's another inmate. This causes turmoil and misunder- standing. That's why the PIG does it In order to keep us from unit- ing against our enemy. I wish the people on the streets could see these things then maybe they'dknow why I want tobe a part of the Revolution, No, I dan't want to watch. I want to stand and fight at the side of my Brothers, ! should be out on the streets by March and when I do you beau- tiful people will see a ‘*White Panther’’. Lonly hope Ican live up to the name of one of the most closely united groups [have seen. The Black Panthers shall conquer the enemy and then we all will be free. I must give my thanks to one certain Brother and that ts Geronimo, He opened my eyes to what Wasall around meall the time; suppression, Mil never forget him as long as I live and I hope I live long enough to walk down “Freedom Road’, My best wishes and all my luck to all of the Black Panthers ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Richard (Doc) Parson CBL members have exhausted all legal means to get decent hous- ing and low mortgages. But the bed buddy of Judge J, Hoffman, Judge Hubert Williams will put the racist dog policemen on the people to get the money for the greedy landlords. If the people don’t pay these exorbitant prices, they will be put on the streets, We belleve the Moss family has done the right thing by remaining in their home, All others should follow this exam- ple. Furthemore, we believe that those who serve eviction notices on Poor working people are cri- mina's We say tha eviction notices are only paper and will burn RIGHT ON! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Hlinols Chapter 235) Madison Chicago, Illinois 738-0779 243-8276 D it a So “ | AN ih i Reactionary swines, throughout Babylon, are blatantly striking out, to maintain their power, and con- tro] over the people; through these wanton attacks, the people are being educated, and the revolu- tion is coming closer day-by-day. Philadelphia's swine have been in an upheaval, since the disposal of Pig Cione, and all their ac- tions, particularly of late, have been profoundly reactionary, re- tallatory on the Black community, On February 10th, Philly's fas- cists displayed their terroristic tactics to the Black community in an attempt to concoct a ‘‘con- spiracy’, One of seven brothers were arrested in South Philadel- phia for a so-called ‘gang kill- ing’. The mad maniac freaks were in such a hurry to run up as many Black youth that they became in- volved in a car crash, Slowing down thelr earnest efforts to seize the brothers without the people taking much notice, Members of the Black Panther Party were pre- sent, to observe the terroristic tactics of the pigs-- and as their actions were anassetto the lesson, they attempted to cover up, andde- lude the people, by threatening to A 17-year ald high school boy was shot to death Ina struggle with police yesterday after a stolen car chase in West Philadelphia. The youth, Harold Brown, Jr.,of Mohican St, near Mansfield, Mt. Airy, died of gunshot wounds of the chest and right leg. Asecond teen- ager, Livingston Lennon, 16, of Glen Echo Road near Emlen, was shot in the upper right arm and was re- ported infair condition at Philadel- phia General Hospital, A third youth escaped, The three, according to police, were first spotted in a car double- parked on Market St. at 19h St. a- bout 1 a.m, yesterday. The car sped off when the police approached and a short time later crashed Into a car at 19th and Sansom Sts. Stopped by the accident, the youths jumped out of the car and ran indif- ferent directions. Highway Patrol- men Brinley Evans,25 and Thomas Lyons, 27, who had been pursuing them, continued the chase on foot. Evans said later that Brown turned, threw aneight-inch knife at him and charged, Evans fired four shots but,hesaid Brown kept com- ing. A struggle followed with two more highway patrolmen, Lester Milby, 40, and Albert Rash, 42, joining. Lyons, meanwhile, caught up with Lennon after firing two shots when he refused to halt. Milby and Rash ran to Lyon’s aid and after Lennon was subdued, it was discov- ered he had been shot. Brown had no prior police record and last night his parents talked bitterly about the way in which they were informed of their son's death. The father, Harold Grown, 37, Said he learned of his son's death when a nurse at Misericordis Hos- pital called his home for informa- tion about the boy’s age. The nurse he said, apparently assumed the parents had already been notified. She then told Brown there had been an ‘accident’ and that his boy was dead, “Can you believe it?’’ Brown asked, ‘‘If she hadn't called us, | don't know when we would have arrest one of the sisters for ‘'in- tent to Incite a riot’’ Two brothers from the Party, went down to the pig station to further investigate the charges, At the station, it was clear that there were no reasons to delude the fact that if human rights were ignored, then there was definitely no acknowledgement of legal rights! The one phone call was denied, and the brothers were questioned without legal counsel, Questioning went on into the wee hours of the night, beatings and brutality simultaneously!! This ul- imately led to a confession-- forced--after many hourse of cor- rupt interrogation accompanied by viclous physical attacks , For the duration of the “Inter- rogation’’ over twenty-five bro- thers were brought In for further investigation--all relegated to being indiscriminately {nvesti- gated. Some of the brothers, were held to be witnesses to the crime, others held on‘ conspiracy" which means an undeterminable amount of jall sentences The pigs that brutalized the bro- thers are righttully classified as "Pigs of the Year'’, for their fas- FASCISM: PHILADELPHIA STYLE — found oat” Grown and his wife, Ruth bothof whom work as clerks at ¢ Post Office, 30th and MarkerS said their son never belonged to. gang. He was a student atGerma kitchen helper at the Holiday Ciry Ave. He worked there ever da; out Wednesday, wher he stu House, 6128 Germentowna Ave, der Sigmund Hering, a member the Philadelphia Orchestra. Harold was formerly firs trum pet'in the prize winsing Cardinal” Dougherty School Band, Nut trance ferred to Gemint:sown High last Semember, his parents said, : The elder Brown also has 9 Sart-time job, working Saturday ights in the ynatlers department of The Bulletin, The Browns also have two other sons. or me My son was just evecage,” Mrs. Brown sald. “‘He was on the — quiet side. We're just an average family trying to raise ourchildren I have always worried about agang shooting, Sut not a shooting by a po- liceman, They're meant to protect you.” Lerner, who was the driver of the Stolen car, according to police,does have a record. He was arre ted last April tn connection with what was described as a‘racial fight! Lennon was placed in the St. Gabriel's Catholic Protectory for Boys and was allowed home one weekend a month, The past weekend was his ‘'ar home’ weekend, The car Involved in the collisions in which they were riding hadbeen stolen at 9 p.m, Saturday from a parking lot at Washington Lane and StentonAve. It's owned by Michael © J. Sheridan of 772 leonis Ave... Ardsley. The car invol.ed in the collision with the siolen car was driven by Nathan Senjamin, 41. cf 5030. Springlield Ave. Boch he and bis — wife, Mary, 32, received rainor in-_ juries in the crash and were treat- ed at Philadelphia Gen. Hospital cist activities--they can wear their shisid proudly; they have displayed fascism better than Hitler's ge- stapo--we salute them, as ‘Pigs of the Year"’. The people and the Black Pan= ther Party are making an allow effort to control these punks. Only — via Community Control of Police, can the people harness this grow= ing phenomenon known as ‘‘powel of finance capttal''-~FASCISM! * SUPPORT COMMUNITY COl TROL OF POLICE!!! SEIZE THE TIME! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPI Philadelphia Branch of the BPP — 1928 Columbia Avenue 2 N. Phila,, 19121, Penna, CE6-3358 Huey P. Newton\Comm. Info, a 2935 Columbia Avenae N, Phila,, 99121 Penna, CES-8738/ |) \V 7 AN Black Comm, Info. © nr 47th & Walnut Va W Philadelphia, Penna, GR6-4575 —_ EDITORIAL The Role of the Black Panther Party - Reviewed I find it necessary to write this article, because of the trans- formation in the pig. press..,.. transformation In terms of their Uterary style and technique in degrading the Black Panther Party, lam writing this article due to the derogatory manner in which anti-revolutionary or counter- revolutionary propaganda Is being put out, And | am specifically referring to the February 23, 1970 issue of Newsweek on the cover of which is spread photos of members of the Black Panther Party. In this magazine the text has nothing to do with what the cover is all about The cover doesn't warrent the text of that article, I also want to refer to the February 26, 1970 Issue of the Jet magazine, on which the cover ts a portrait of the Commu- nication Secretary of the Black Panther Party, Kathleen Cleaver, I'd also like to bring Into this the February 18, 1970 issue of the San Francisco Chronicle in the movie advertising section where some critic by the name of John L. Wiserman has made Statements referring to the Black Panther Party in regards to how much the Black Panther Party and Black Peoples’ Libera- tion Army relates to a movie entitled ‘The Molly McQuirers’’. I willquote a few sentences from that article, Mr. Wiserman, said “‘of the non-Hollywood pictures, it is the most controversial (re- ferring to ‘‘The Molly Mc- quirers'’) it would be more effec- tive I think In black and white, There is a bit of cliche in the romance department and the sound tract often shamelessly announces what is about to take place. But it Is still a tremendously power- ful film and the first film to deal effectively with the phenomenon and nature of the Black Panther Party’’. (Although there is NARY a Black face to be seen.) It ts set in the Pennsylvania coal mines in 1876, but to see the ‘‘Molly McQuirers"’ as a simple histori- eal drama is to see only half the Picture, "The Molly MecQuirers” is also very precisely about the Panthers, so | would like to direct this article to the people in the community who are possibly being confused about this latest propa- ganda scheme by the pig press. I want to explain that Newsweek reporters contacted our Chief of Staff, David Hilliard, and asked for some photographs of some Black Panthers, some so-called leaders. They told the Chief of Staff that they had already been to see Bobby Seale and had an inter- three sisters, Ericka Peggy Hudgins, and Rose Smith, were in the basement recreational area of the building in which they been confined to the dungeon of In- justice, Rose called out to Frances “All Power to the People’’. The fused of them twisted her arm behind her her,” She was trembling withanger, fear and bunger--she hasn't eaten Since yesterday at noon, She said, ‘You just don't know what it's like to be constantly harassed by these Huggins, 2% ye fourth sister, Frances Carter had % wouldn't shut up, the guard grabbed her and said, ‘you're going backs to your room upstairs.’’ He took tee her upstairs to her room, She re- ¥ to enter the room when hess ordered her to several times andSxx she refused to enter the room ands resisted what he said, Then theres were suddenly five guards and four, of them were on top of Rose, One Ss back { them hit her in th of OS , One of them hit her tn thess y face, sho si'd they were ‘‘all over ss ie Seenoneeenne es perenne ™ we ve to live with them rections on the subject and has refused to do so. Her attorney will be seelng ber tomorrow, and look duy,’! view and they simply needed photographs, So I would like to Say to the people in the commun- ity, everyone who's involved in the liberation struggle inamerica, I would like to say to you that we, the Black Panther Party, consider this issue of Newsweek Magazine and probably all of their {ssues to be ‘venom spouted from the mouths of snakes’ or in this case ‘from the pen of a snake or serpent’, because they’ re charac- erizing our Party in a very un- materialisticand undialectic way They make statements that would lead one to believe that the Black Panther Party is something other than a liberation army, put together by the poor and oppressed oppressed people, Jet magazine, that most widely spread magazine, is read by many poor and oppressed Black people throughout the ghettos of america. We would like to point out to the people who read this magazine that when they read this article, they will find that the cover indicates a story on a member of the Black Panther Party becom ing an actress In the contents of this article, however, it says very litthe about the role of Kuthleen in the movie, and It's a movie that I can't pronounce the name of, But it's very obvious that they are more dedicated to giving a run-down of Kathleen's background by making references as to her father’s social status and his job and his function in society, and by making comparison between Kathleen, a member ofthe Black Panther Party, and Ertha Kitt they even state she looks like some other actress. I think that people should understand that the Black Panther Party is not composed of actors and actresses ..we prove that through our prac- tice, I think that this dates back to when Huey P Newton first began to implement the ideas and the programs that answered the problems of the poor and oppressed in america, specifically Black people I think that the people should understand that the mass media has always controlled the minds of controlled a great major- ity of the minds of the people when it comes to information con- cerning the people's struggle and the heroes of that struggle. I think that people should understand that Huey P Newton was not an actor; Huey P Newton was and is a genius in our time, he Is the man who went forth and imple- mented all of the things that Mal- colm X talked about and what Malcolm was teaching, I think REPORT FROM NEW HAVEN ROSE SMITH BEATEN BY PIGS IN THE REPORT WAS GIVEN BY SOMEONE THAT HAPPENED 10 BE AT THE SCENE eatete SMITH Se Ee a ms them in the face every eee guards threw ~ turned out of the threw. it at the = grabbed her and threw her agaist > the *e down on the floorwhereshe lay un- maaeee * conscious for sometime SRO trying to help her were also taken by the guards. One was held around onthe neck, the otherone taken and Oey thrown was held around the neck was Peggy eeet Hudgins and Ericka Huggins was rete thrown to the floor, sete? a < rections, Ellis McCable. Last night he told Rose that she could get six been asked to Boe DY THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1970 PAGE 11 people should remember that Huey is our prophet of the gun and that Huey understood that whenever a people are striving for thelr liberation, they must have the basic tools for their 1lb- eration. I think that people should remember the standard that Huey set when he placed himself in front of the community, in front to shield the community from the vicious service revolver ofa pig sent down by a lying, deceiving ruling class. Huey placed him- self between the people and the vicious pig who would do harm to the people, and when he placed himself there, there wasn'ta silent image, an image of an actor; Huey was not silent Huey was talking, Huey was speaking, Huey was communicating with the people and telling them that they had a right to bear arms in self-defense, And the press because of that, because of that stand that Huey P, Newton took, chose to aid and abet the cause of the ruling class and all the pigs of the power structure, They began by painting the Black Panther Party as the -hoodlurtis of the society, as the prophets of violence, as those people who would go out and kill all White people. They chose very care- fully to paint the BP P as being racist, as being the most venomous element of racist american society. Itis very obvious,or it should be very obvious, to the people who the real racist in our society is,andwho the real prophet of violence Is. Because long be- fore the Black Panther Party was thought about, or before there was any implementation of any form of resistance such as the BPP has portrayed, the prophet of vio- lence was the United States’ ruling class--the BP fF. is not responsi- ble for dropping bombs on the people of Hiroshima and Nagasakt, Black people were not responsible for the genocide perpetrated a gainst the people of Korea and the Black Panther Party and Black people are not responsible forthe massacre and day-to-day genocide rpetr 1 against the Viet- namese people, by the forces of U.S imperialism, capitalism, and racism I think that Black people should understand the technique of a transformation of the news media and its slanderization of the Black Panther Party When we talk about a trans- formation we talk about taking the picture of a hoodlum and turning him into a misunderstood angel or something divorced from the community as in the case of Sis- being pe ate JAIL 2/16/70 After she was beaten, one of the her on her bed and room She grabbed him and it hit him in back, He turned around and dresser and then threw her The twoother sisters that had been to the floor, The one who This Incident gave them a visit the Commissioner of Cor- 6) to seven (7) years for this, for assaulting an officer’, Rose has make a statement the Commissioner of Cor- ter Kathleen Cleaver they go into great detail of showirg the social status of her family and her back- & And this new cinema re- ¢ ground, ple into our Party thinking thatge our Party is something very glam- orous, It should be understood that they do this because they can no longer paint the Black Panther Party as being the criminal be- cause of objective reality and cer- tain indisputable facts such asthat Fred Hampton was murdered in his sleep by outlaws who mas- querade as lawmen, who invaded the man's home, his santuary, and attempted to massacre every~ ¢ one in his home Due to many, many indisputable : facts that have been exposed about the pigs, now they propagandize the people so that the people will look at us as being something separate, some movie stars, as people who areon television every- day, who are off making money and enjoying themselves This is somewhat the same old tech- nique on the most sophisticated level and a keener level than before But the people can check this out, all they have to do Is to read between all those lines, read between those lines that are printed by the scum of the mass media, The pig press chooses to minimize the essence or the Im- portance of a free breakfast for children program; they choose to minimize the people’s rights to self-defense and self-determina- tion they tend to minimize the relevence to Black people of Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale and Eldridge Cleaver; they lead the people instead to belleve that these are just figures out of touch with the people of the community. I would remind those who would be misled or misguided as to the role of the leaders of the Black Panther Party, I would remind the people that when Huey P, Newton took that revolutionary stand, he blew away the smoke screen that has divided the people from their liberation, asmoke screen placed in front of the people by the pigs in the form of those who talk but never take action, or those who spout rhetoric and never put it into practice. Huey P Newton blew that smoke screen away and when he blew that smoke screen away, there went up a loud cry, the cry of the Black Panther Party ~-there Is no other way. We have tried everything, this is he moment in history when Black people have had no choice but " Tea = - EDITOR THE BLACK PANTHER Community News Service BIG MAN to move and move rapidly to gain thelr freedom, justice and all the ingredients of ‘civilized living’ that have been denied to them or to us. And now Isthetime to ‘sieze the time’ and we, the Black Panther Party, say to these maga- zines, Newsweek inparticular, due to your devious, viporous manner of selling propaganda to the masses, that you’ve nowplacedthe Black Panther Party in the posi- tion that no one else from the mass media will get any more interviews from us. We would say that you have served your cause well and that you have done an ample job propagandizing for amerikKKa imperialist and a- meriKKKa fascist. You havejnade an exerted effort to minimize through your propaganda the rele- vence of the revolutionary struggle in ameriKKKa. In trying to deter the Interest of other liberation fighters around the world by your means, we say that you made very clear your position, that you have done your best in trying to por- tray the movement, the liberation struggle, of the Black Panther Party in Its effort to help to liberate Black people; we would’ say you've done the best that’ you could and from here forth you write what you choose, but don't come around the Black Panther Party, because we're revolutionary and you are the enemy, you are partofthe problem and we have nothing to say to you, except ‘‘WE WILL KILL ANY- ONE WHO STANDS IN THE WAY OF OUR FREEDOM’. BIG MAN Remember Brother Malcolm =| In the wake of the painstaking and micro- scopic investigation being conducted todiscover the ‘culprits’ who have been bombing the police stations in the Bay Area, a story appeared in the papers concerning an attempt to blow up the Vallejo Police Headquarters. This particular case, however, when the guilty party was dis- covered and arrested, received very little pub- licity.....the case was explained in an article which was very short and embarrassingly to the point--the party who rigged the ‘grenade booby trap’ was the same pig who was receiving credit for discovering and disarming the bomb, a policeman, Lately all the police talk abou is ‘changing their image’. Think carefully, what better wayts there to change your image from that of the aggressor than to point to those in your ranks who have been killed in ‘‘unprovoked at- tacks''? These deaths and/or _ injuries cast shadows of “terrorist activities’ upon those who opposed you previously. The pigs can only carry out their vicious tactics of fascist repression when hidded behind the the cloak of ‘law and order’, and by blinding the people with tears of sympathetic support they can again begin to move in their typical deadly repulsive manner. How far will pigs go? They are trying to play upon the pity of the people, getting or try- ing to get support by pointing to the deaths without attaching any meaning to the deaths of men, How much are they willing to sacrifice to enable their continued repressive imperialist control? The pigs have proven their lack of con- cern for human life. There can be little question as to what decision would be made by Nixon, Reagan, and Alioto if the choice was between continued ‘control’ and the lose of a ‘few lives’. The attacks, besides being used as ‘sympathy getters’, are also being used as an excuse to harass the people of San Francisco, inthe Mission district, the Mexican-American community,and the Haight-Ashbury district, which is inhabited by hippies and Black people. In a time when ‘Big Brother is watching everyone’, does it seen real that super-pigs can be the victims of sneak attacks? But then, the ‘‘spirit of the people IS greater than the man’s technology’’. These attacks are being used toharass and intimidate the people, innocent people. Is this justice? Is this righteous justice? We know the nature of the domestic occupying army. We have examples of how the pigs re- late to human life and to the people--we can judge them by their past actions, Who can say who did bomb these police station. We could view these bombings as the people moving against their oppressors: it has to happen and will, The deaths of little pigs are being used merci- lessly by the hogs to maintain their control by playing on the emottons of the public. The time has passed when the people, the masses of people who are daily harassed and intimidated, can be fooled easily into crying at the killing of one of the troops who has per- petuated the government's policy of mass slaughter. ALL POWER BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE TAKE THE BATTLE TO THE STREETS! THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1970 PAGE 14 CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION A STRONG HOLD OF RACISM LANDON WILLIAMS So now it is clear, At first Governor Love refused to do any- more than orally reprimand James Shuma‘e (tell him he is a bad boy) for his racist remarks to policemen that ‘it’s alright to use descriptive terms such as “nigger” when filling out confidential re- ports to describe Black people. After the non-bigoted people of Colorado began to raise a loud clamor over Love's inaction, and the Black community threatenedto ‘generate enough heatto melt the snow on the Rocky’ Mountiana’s Love finally removed Shuthate from his position as-head of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBl)-the state's equivalent to the national gestapo FBl-and put him in the No, 2 slot, The people, POLITICAL PRISONER, i A? rs ASD DENVER, COLORADO however, had called for Shumate’s complete oust but Love, falling back on a favorite trick of the bureaucrats who control our lives, Stated that he had ‘‘no power’’ to fire Shumate and that the de- cision as towhether Shumate would retain or lose his job was In the hands of the Colorado Civil Ser- vice Commission (sounds like the familiar run-around). Governor Love has learned his lesson well from his idol-Tricky Dick As Tricky Dick does with Agnew, Love has gotten out from under the ham mer and passed the hot potato and the people's anger onto the Civil Service Commission, a stronghold of racism and reaction, This is the same Civil Service Commission that regularly oinks * be attested to by } perverted, in the people's face and upholds all types of reaction Recently, this Civil Service Commission dis- missed as groundless the claim of a Black policeman that the Den- ver Police Department was racist- a fact that is well known to the members of the Red, Black and Brown communities who have come into contact with it. And further, this is the same comtnission that dismissed as ‘‘sheer fantasy’ the claims by an ex-employee of the Mountain View Girl's School at Morrison, that inhuman, Immoral and prejudicial treatment was a common occurence. Here again, the truth of these conditions can the girls who were kept there-the real cri- minals, the perpetrators of these inhuman racist acts, will never freely admit their guilt And so now, the Black community and the people are supposed to, once again, look for satisfaction and Shumates ouster from thisCi- vil Service Commission It ts time that the people be- come aware of thetricks that these * shady bureaucrats have beenusing for so long. If the elected officials are unable or unwilling to rid this governmental structure of this in- stitutional racism, fascism, com- placency and reaction, then the people should take matters into their own hands and throw off the skackes of that reactionary gov- ernment, and following the De- claration of Independence should, ‘‘institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them (the people) shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness" ALL POWER ULTIMATELY LIES IN THE PEOPLE Landon Willlams (Political Prisoner) Denver County Dungeon Four Brothers From Gary, Indiana - Attacked While Trying To Establish Community Information Center ‘Four brothers, Rock Dilosa, Ron Clark, Willie Lester, and Fred Walden, who are trying to es- tablish a community center in Gary, Indiana were attacked by police oriented night-riders onthe night of January 26th. They were advanced upon on US highway 12 and 20 where many Black people and other people who are concerned about the rights of all oppressed people have been at- tacked, by the same mob of vicious animals, Before the brothers could realize what was happening, shot- gun blasts were coming from all directions. After the firing stopped, Rock Dilosa was hit in the knee and couldn't walk, Ron Clark had shotgun pellets in his hand, and Willie Lester had shot- gun pellets in his ear and Hp; Fred Walden, by some stroke of luck, wasn’t hit at all. We are calling on the people of the entire Gary community to come forth to put an end to this type of action before the community of Gary becomes another Chicago westside. We are quite sure that the “Honorable Mayor”’ Richard Hat- cher who has so vehemently ex- pressed a desire to put an end to all corruption and crime in the city of Gary, Indiana ,should by all means step into this matter, We hope that our plea for help not only reaches our Honorable Mayor's ear, but the ears of all concerned citizens of Gary, In- diana, of people that occupy the high- ways of Gary, Indiana, These brothers are trying to This happened betweenthe hours of 6:30 and 10;00 when the average people of Gary are up and around doing their work, If we allow this type of action to continue, it may happen at 4:00 in the morning just as ir did in Chicago on Dec- ember 4th when Dep. Chairman Fred Hampton and Defense Cap- tain Mark Clark were viciously assassinated by the same breed open a community center to txr- pose fascism to the people in Gary and to educate people to the policies and programs of the Black Panther Party. Give these brothers your support and help them open this center, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FREE “NATE” JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE??? HE FACTS ABOUT THE T MURDER OF HAROLD BROWN Harold Brown was the victim of cold-blooded murder, by Rizzo's fascist pigs on February 1, 1970. There were noreporters present, therefore, itis impossible for them to present an accurate account of the killing--—- and by mere fact that there didn’t seem to be any~- one present, the pigs thought that they could pull another of their murder jobs, without anyone seeing them---enabling them to getaway clean---with the blood still fresh from the many murders of Black people on their paws!! The BLACK PANTHER PARTY and the enraged Black community carried out an investigation to un-cover the facts, as they stand, so that the people can be the true judges. The swine, fascist actions of these particularly in Phila- delphia, have again been shown to the people, in the stripped inhumanity and multitudes of mur- der! The which has 4 familiar the story, occurred three young Black seen sitting in a car in West Philadelphia. When they drove off, the pigs started chasing them, and they crashed into another car and jump- ed out to run. This is not an ab- normal action on the part of these brothers, for the police have never shown nor represented anything but violence to Black people, As they ran, the police followed with bullets, Harold Brown was shot in the right leg, and the chest, This action alone, the part of the **peace-officers’’ adds fact that the pigs had po intentions of subduing the temporarily, but rather per- shooting, sound to when youths, were on brothers eliminating manently. After them having sucessfully ap- prehending Harold, the swines moved in to complete their mission of ‘‘overkill” -- they kicked Harold in the head, until he was dead! In making their endeavors as murderistic as possible, the pigs did not inform the parents of Harold's death, Mr, and Mrs, Brown sat at home that same evening, with their two younger . sons waiting anxiously for Harold as he hadn't called in, and the hour was late, Mrs, Brown e¢x- plains how they. were informed, ‘1 was sitting up waiting for Harold to come home for he had gone to a party in Mt, Airy, The phone rang, and it was a nurse from Miscericordia Hospital, wanting information, about Harold's age, and name--- one could assume that this so-called nurse did not know that Harold was dead, but it is usually the duty of the nurse, to know all about the patient’s condition prior to making calls, Could this be a fault in our health facilities also?? As of Thursday, Febru- ary 5th, Harold’s parents had still not been notified by the pigs, of their son's death--------- --- JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDEIIIIIN The nature of the fascist pigs has indeed taken a new turn, and Black people, are now seeking the police, as they really are- —-pigsill To Black parents, in particular, and Black people in general, can we honestly condon this type of action, by the so-called ‘protectors of the people’ --- we should all feel a great deal of anger, explo- sive anger, and be resolute on controlling these swines, Let it not be a fact that they can fall, beat, and kill our children with- out action on our parts, The time for funerals, is over--it is be- coming profoundly understood, that the fascist pigs are not planning on lightening up on repression, so it is our duty, to MOVE TO CON- TROL THESE INAPT FOOLS--- We, the people must learn an- other costly lesson from this in- , cident, We can not, should not, and shall not have any more Harold Brown's! | | We must arm ourselves, for our lives are at stakes, and the stakes are slowly burning away-——- SEIZE THE TIME |! 1} Community Control] of Policel! Philadelphia Branch of the B,P,P, BEATINGS OF THREE MEMBERS OF THE N.C.C.F. CHAPTER IN DETROIT In Detroit, Michigan last week, three brothers, who work in the NCCF Chapter in Detroit, were ambushed by fascist pigs while selling papers at a rally given by some mother country radicals. Their names, injuries and charges are listed below; Larry Powell, 18, his face was beaten very badly, (he can't see) his head is swollen up. He's still in good spirits and says, “ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE,” His charges are interfering with ar- rest, assault to commit great bod- tly harm, and violation of parole, Norman McKee, 22, was beaten very badly and his face and head are swollen, He says, ‘‘WE’LL HEIGHTEN CONTRADICITIONS, WE'LL CARRY ON THE FIGHT IN HERE ** James Prta, 16, hasa brain con- cussion, his eyes are closed, his nose is fractured, lips cut, he was also hit in the groin, He has been charged with assault to commit murder PIGS INVADE N.C.C.F. IN PORTLAND -- ALBERT WILLIAMS WAS On February 18th, Wednesday, at 4:30 in the afternoon, a pie came up to the headquarters of the Portland, Oregon Chapter of the NCCF, knocked on the door, and asked for Albert Willlams (a brother functioning at that office) The sister who answered the door asked the pig to produce a war- rant. He went to his car and tele- phoned more pigs into the area, When the pigs arrived, they sur- rounded the bullding--a storefront apartment house, They came into the building with their guns up, Albert was on a balcony with his hands in the alr, one pig jumped up on a desk that made him even with Albert and pumped two rounds into the brother. There were about five pigs in the building at this SHOT time--they ran up and grabbed him, handcuffed him, and then hauled him to their pig car, (Because of the way the pigs treated Al--along with his wounds--the brother also has a 12-inch scar on his leg.) The pigs did not wait for the am- bulance that was on its way, and it took two hours for the Community Relations Department (another level of the Pie Department) to apg Ford, (a member of he NCCE) ‘whom asking for, Yous The brother is now in ¢ condition at the Multnomah Hospital in Portland, Oregon, Albert has been charged with at- tempted murder, The ‘pigs never produced a Warrant, and they also confiscated a plece illegally, 7 ical ty * 7: Feb. 10, 1970, the Black 'r Party interviewed Mrs, on on the events leading up Surrounding the tragic death M ter 19 year old son, Gary 1 Pearson, on Dec, 28, 1969, use of death--acute and Intravenous narcotism se Of narcotics-heroin), ough Mrs. Pearson suffered : Personal lost, she hopes this story will move the peo- to action against this plot of ide on Black and Puerto Rican wth in Brownsville and all op- ‘essed communities throughout ameriKKKa. Mrs. Pearson describes Mi- el as an above average high ‘ ol senior who was atrack star ‘and active in the community as President of the Young Adult Coun- cil of Brownsville Community ‘Council, During the summer of'69 ‘Mrs, Pearson began to notice that Michael had dropped his activities ‘and began to lay around the house a lot, In September, Mrs, Pearson “had the occasion to enter her son's room one night, and found him sit- ‘tng on his bed asleep witha needle in his arm. She woke her son and took him to Interfaith Hospital (a Black operated hospital in Queens) for detoxification, After a two day stay in the hospital, Michael re- turned home and continued to use drugs. In October, in desperation Mrs, Pearson decided to enroll Michael In one of *‘ Rockefeller’ s Programs’’, not because she had ; faith in such a program but be- cause she felt that getting him away from the drug scene would help him kick the drug habit. Mrs Pearson filed for a com- mitment at the center on Eastern Parkway and Nostrand Ave., and filed the papers in Supreme Court, In accordance with the NY. State Narcotic Addiction Control Com- mission, Michael was sent to Edge- combe © Reception Center for detoxification (which is a two or three day process), afterwards Mrs. Pearson and her son were accompanied by a state appointed lawyer, tothe judge who deter- mines whether or not commitment to the three year program will take place, No longer can the pa- rents, wives, or loved ones have the known addict committed, both parties mustagree before commit- ment goes through, Thus, when Mi- chael protested, saying he was not an addict, the judge agreed and no action was taken. Mrs Pearson looking back say,‘*When I went to 7 them to enforce their law, they refused and I blame the state. My son's hands were shaking before the panel, he was saying The attorney for one ol three Black Panthers serving a year in the House of Correc- tion will seek his release to vis- it a doctor outside the institu- tion, it was learned Tuesday. Atty. Patrick Grace said Booker Collins, a Vietnam vet- eran suffering from a reacti- vated war wound, was not get ting adequate medical atten- tion at the institution. Collins himself had charged neglect regarding the wound in his left arm in a newsletter published by Panther Party “Members on the outside. > Beating Charged When arrested in Septem: BY GUNS Death Of A Narcotic User he wasn't an addict and they be- Heved him, 1 even showed them the spot on his arms where f pulled the needle out when he was asleep and they still refused to commit him," Around the middle of Decem- ber, Michael told his mother that he wanted to kick the habit and he could do it In three days. Mrs. Pearson agreet! and stayed with her son for the three day period-- Friday to Sunday. The following Monday morning he went to stay with his grandmother who lives in another community, until he could recooperate. During this time Michael showed definite im- provement, Mrs, Pearson saw her son Christmas day, he was doing fine--this was the last day she Saw him alive, The following Sun- day a friend of Michael's, James White, came to the house and they went out together--previously this James had been calling,but Mi- chael's grandmother would tell him that he was not there--when Mrs, Pearson discovered he was miss- ing, she started looking for him, asking all his friends, even fill- ing a missing person report with the 73rd Precinct, When these ef- forts failed, Mrs. Pearson had some of Michael's friends bring James White to her home, as he was the last known person to see Michael. This coupled with the fact that he was no longer calling Mi- chael regularly as before his dis- appearance, James White was brought to the house, he stated that the last time he saw Michael was at Van Sceilen and Dumont, the night on 12/28/69. On January 14, 1970, the police came to Mrs. Pearson's home and informed her that Michael had died December 28, 1969, that he had been at a party in Harlem, where he passed out and was taken to Harlem Hospital accompanied bya friend, and four hours later died. His body was considered un- claimed. Mrs. Pearson was given ho explanation as to why there was such a delay in the notifica- tion of her son's death. When hos- pital records indicate his name and address; no autopsy record, no nothing except that Gary Michael Pearson, born 6/15/50 died 12/28/69 of an overdose of heroin--better defined as ‘‘germ warfare’ being inflicted on Black and oppressed people by the US Government under direction and order of the ruling class. If we can accept and understand the real teason for Michael's death then we can understand why the nar- cotic programs throughout this country and especially the Rocke- ber, Collins had charged that police beat him repeatedly on his injured left arm, causing pain to recur and the arm fo stiffen Collins, along with Earl W Leverette and Jesse L. White, was arrested for allegedly fir- ing a shotgun Wlast at a Mil waukee patrolman, They were tried and convicted on resist- ing arrest charges, Attempted murder charges are still pending Dr. Joseph J. Zimmer, 8410 W. Cleveland Ave, had exam ined Collins' arm two wetks ago. Zimmer said he needed or- thopedic evaluation. Collins, he pointed out, had undergone extensive physical therapy in Japan after his injury. —s ARMY 45 WILL STOP ALL JIVE } BUCKSHOTS WILL DOWN THE COPS}} P38 WILL OPEN PRISON GATES CARBINE WILL STOP THE WAR MACHINE .357 WILL WIN US HEAVEN AND IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE IN LEAD YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD HUEY P. NEWTON, MIN, OF DEFENSE, B.P.P, feller Commission Programs are not even designed to work. Their so-called ‘‘planofattack’’ deals mainly with treatment, which con- sists of addicts who volunteer for treatment and rehabilitation and so-call sists of telling potential users of drugs how harmful they are, This, of course, is typical of a capital- ist solution to a social evil--al- ways dealing ineffectively with the results and never dealing or talk- ing about the cause, but how can they when in reality they are the cause, A bulletin Issued by the NY State Narcotic Addiction Control Commission explains in meti- culous detail how heroin enters this country from the growers in the Middle East and gets In the hands of the pushers and our youth, With such knowledge at the dis- posal of the Commission it ts dif- ficult to understand why it is so difficult for the U.S, Government to cut off the source; only one con- clusion is possible, the US, Gov- ernment allows all types of nar- cotics to be transported Into this country and then further faci- lated its distribution in our com- munities by sanctioning the al- liance between the police and the pushers on all levels. Notice that users, but very seldom the pushers, are arrested for drug violations. The Black Panther Party states that one of the ways we can begin to cut off the source is to have Community Control of Police and at the same time move to educate and mobilize the people to deal with the problem It is a fact that large quanti- ties of all types of drugs es- pecially heroin are being made more and more readily available in the Black and oppressed commu- nities, not only to kill and make non-functional the young potential revolutionaries, having these same youth perpetrate crimes against their own people-- but alsoto make additional profit for the ruling class, The people will and must move to stop this murderous ac- tion being inflicted upon them Mrs, Pearson its the head of a Narcotic Prevention Program in Brownsville. She understands the cause of her son's death and wants to do something. She says to the people, ‘‘confront, then expose this evil'’ it, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Brooklyn Branch Brenda Hyson MEDICAL FASCISM IN THE JAILS REPRINTED FROM MILWAUKEE JOURNAL Specialist Obtained An orthopedic specialist has been obtained to examine Col- lins, but does not want his name released, according to Collins’ attorney Grace said that Collins would be taken to the doctor’s office or a hospital if permis- sion is granted by House of Correction officials. Lawrence A. Jozwiak, super: intendent of the House ol Correction, said Tuesday that he had not been approached re- garding the request, He denied that medical at- tention had been withheld from Collins and said he had been taken to the institution's orthopedic clinic regularly. ‘prevention’ whichcon- | and move with her to stop “THE THREE OF US WHO WERE FRAMED ON A JIVE CHARGE, ARE STILL AND ALWAYS WILL BE REVOLUTIONARIES. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1970 PAGE 15 Jesse White, Earl Leverette, Booker Collins POLITICAL PRISONERS The Milwaukee branch of the Black Panther Party is alive, well and living in the hese of Correction in Frank- n. It exists In the persons of “the Milwaukee 3" — three young Black Panthers serving one year sentences for resist- ing arrest after an alleged at- tempt to kill a Milwaukee pa- trolman, And it exists In several Black Panther Party members on the outside who are con- ducting a campaign to free them. The black revolutionary par- ty in Milwaukee was supposed- ly defunct. The party's former deputy defense minister, Dakin M. Gentry, had reported its de- mise. However, according to the three — Earl W. Leverette, 24, Booker T, Collins, 21, and Jesse L. White, 20 — Gentry “deserted the people." They have been communi- cating with the outside through letters which have been compiled by a few of the remaining Panthers Into ¢« newsletter. In the first edition of “Let. ters from Prison," they wrote: “Real revolutionaries can not be frightened from th revolution by pig terror tac es “Most of the ex-Panthers are for real and still are sery ing the people. The three of u: who were framed on a jiv charge of resisting arrest and é pending trumped up charge o! attempted murder of a Milwau kee policeman are still and al ways will be revolutionaries." Collins, Leverette and Whit were arrested Sept. 2 for alleg edly firing a shotgun at Patrol man Robert Schroder from their car, They were alsc charged with resisting arrest and convicted. The attemptec puree charges are still pend ng. The letter, entitled ar “Apology to the People,”! asked the black community to) accept the apology for the dis- solution of the party. They also wrote: “When the party gets back together, we will prove to you we are for real," The party will get back to- gether, according to Black Panther member Miss Lovetta Brown, when it has developed new leadership. Miss Brown, who calls her- self Lovetta X, said the party was disbanded after Gentry wrote a letter to the national headquarters in Oakland, Calif. She said she did not know the exact contents of the letter or the reply. She said Gentry reported that the party was being dissolved and that mem- bers should join the Committee to Combat Fascism. The com: mittee, formerly the People's Alliance, is a coalition of sey- eral area radical groups. "I don't know why we were purged except unless Milwau- kee (the party here) was not being responsive to the black community," she said. She blamed this on the group's leadership. The Black Panther Party is a party where all people are leaders,"' she said. "In Milwau- kee we weren't organized in that manner, that's why we have this problem now of no On Nov. 26 Gentry said the reasons for the demise of a for- mal party included misconcep- tions about the party among individuals and other organiza- tions in the community, inter- nal friction and the fact that Mao Tse-tung’s Red Book turned a lot of people off. Gentry, 30, and another for- mer Panther, Nate Ballamy, 22, had resigned from the par- ty in October. Both are now working at the Concentrated Employment Center, 2235 N. 3rd St. — Gentry as an intake and assessment co-ordinator and Bellamy as a vocational counselor, : Monday, Gentry said he did not feel personally attacked by Miss Brown's and the Milwau- kee 3's criticism. "What a lot of people don't know is when they make these charges is that they are mak- ing them about the central staff,"’ he said. Miss Brown, ac- cording to Gentry, was a part of this central staff in her ca- pacity as a field lieutenant. "When she talks about the leadership, she is talking about herself,"' he said. "In the letter (to the nation- al Panther headquarters) all 1 did was say that I did not think the party was functioning well under my leadership. I couldn't get it together." He said this was not only the fault of leadership but ail of the general membershi Miss Brown also criticized Gentry for statements he made a few weeks ago on Channel 18's "Confrontation," that guerrilla units were forming in Milwaukee and around the country, . "He's setting former mem- bers and other black people up as targets for further repres- Sion and brutality by these statements,"' Miss Brown said. Miss Brown is a junior in po- litical science at the University of Wisconsin -— Milwaukee. She wants to be a lawyer, Local members are now pub- lishing a community newslet- ter besides "Letters From Pris- on," and selling the national party paper. Buttons are being sold and funds solicited to raise $30,000 for bail for the "Milwaukee 3" and to obtain a doctor and bk services for. ho is a j _* THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1970 PAGE 16 hy, sisters, so that you and I will know the importance in 1965 of being in complete unity with each other and not letting the man maneuver us into fighting one another. There’s a situation where I have been man- euvered right now, between me and the Black Muslim Movement, something that I really regret, because I don’t think that anything tis more destructive than two groups of Black people fighting each other. But some- thing that can't be avoided because it goes deep down beneath the surface and these things will come up in the very near future. “I might say this before I sit down, if you recall, before I left the Black Muslim Movement, I stated clearly that it wasn’t my intention to even continue to be aware that they even existed, But that I was going to spend my time working in the non-Muslim community. But they were fearful that if they didn’t do something, that perhaps many of those who were in the mosque would leave it and follow a different direction. So they had to start doing a take-off on me, plus they had to try and silence me because of what they knew that I know. And I should think that they should know me well enough to know that they cer- tainly can’t frighten me. But when it does come to light--but there are some things involving the Black Muslim Movement which when they come to light, you will ... I point these things out, brothers and be shocked. “The thing that you have to understand, where those of us in the Black Muslim Move- ment were concerned, all of us believed LOO% in the divinity of Elijah Muhammed. We believed in him, we actually believed that God had taught Detroit, by the way, him and all of that, set,..”’ ... I say again that don’t believe in any form of segregation or anything like that. I'm for the brother- hood of everybody, but I don’t believe in enforcing brotherhood among people who don’t want it, As long as we among ourselves and to practice brotherhood with us, we practice it with them also, we're for that, But I don’t think that we should love somebody who doesn’t love us. Thank you.’? Malcolm X (Speech taken from the album, ‘‘The Last Message’’.) And I always thought that he believed in himself, and I was Shocked that he himself didn’t believe it, and when that shock reached me then I began to look everywhere else and try to get a better understanding of the things that confront all of us so that we can get together here some kind of way to off- him, right here in that God had taught I’m not a racist, I practice brotherhood then others who want run around trying to Alarmed by Israeli bombardment of Cairo To Dr. Goodlett: extension of Israeli raids with American Phantom planes in the heart of Arab terri- In consultation with our friend Khaled Mohie tories which threaten world peace. Request El Din we submit the text of the following you take urgent steps to procure immediate telegram to the Security Council for your cessation of bombardment of Arab countries, signature; please cablereply. We may publish withdrawal of Israel troops from the oc- this telegram in a few days with names and cupted territories, full implementation of titles of signatories. If you consider other Security Council resolution of Nov. 22, 1967, personalities your country may support, and insure justice and peace in Middle East,"’ please get them to sign also, Here is text of telegram; WORLDPAX ‘Security Council New York: 2/17/70 I WILL SIGN TELEGRAM, ALSO WILFRED T. USSERY, NATIONAL CHAIRMAN CON- Alarmed by Israeli bombardment of civilian GRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY. objectives at the gates of Cairo on Feb. 12 which caused death of more than 70 innocent civilians, Profoundly disturbed at continual GOODLETT LETTER 10 THE EDITOR February 5, 1970 Dear Editor The continuing war in Viet Nam, the assassination of Black leaders in Chicago, and the re- pression of anti-war organizers-- all demand that scholars, intellec- tuals, and others renew and inten- sify their commitments to those organizations attempting to over- come the oppression of Blacks, Browns, women, and workers at home, while ending American ag- gression overseas Since authors are now witness- ing an increasing interest in and market for thelr research in the area of race-relations, Black stu- dies, and radical history and so- clology, it seems fitting that we should contribute as much as pos- sible of our earnings and royal- tles towards the support of lib- eration and anti - imperialist movements. And should not others, such as publishers, who are pro- fitting from the publication of books in these fields also pledge some of thelr earnings toward rad- ical organizing efforts? As. a first step toward this end, I! am going to contribute the an- nual royalties from my forth- coming study of the Denmark Vesey Slave Conspiracy of 1822-- to be published by Prentice-Hall this coming September--to the Black Panther Party and the Southern Conference Education Fund, two organizations which have been fighting racism and ex- ploitation, and have met extraor- dinary repression in recent years, I call on other committed in+ tellectuals to do likewise Sincerely, Robert S, Starobin Assistant Professor of History Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison present address 207 Water St. Ithaca, New York 14850 Dr, Carlton Goodlet Haan nc cern ee en aa eastside teat asad DTI VIETNAMESE DENIED ADMISSION 10 WEST GERMANY APARTHEID AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS One of the South African Gov- apartheid policy, Everything pos- ernment’s main aims {s to see sible is done to prevent the intro- that international information is duction into the country of over- slanted so as to conform with its seas information deemed ‘‘un- general policy and particularly its desirable’ from this angle. Bonn, West Germany (LNS)--Re- presentatives of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Viet- nam) and of the Provisional Rev- olutionary Government of South Vietnam were denied entrance re- cently to West Germany. In com- menting on the visa denial, Un- sere Zeit (Our Time), the organ of the West German Government has no intention of altering that nation’s policy of full support for the U.S aggression in Vietnam The Vietnamese visitors were scheduled to meet with radical groups in West Germany, THE BOBBY SEALE COMMUNITY INFORMATION CENTER In meeting the basic needs and desires of the downtrodden masses it is very necessary to fee) what the people feel, suffer what the people suffer and live asthe people live. To be part of all these things, one would have to be amongst the masses of Oppressed peoples tn order to gain first hand knowledge of these critical situations. In working in the spirit of true self- lessness, one would truly have to be a servant of the people. To live amongst the people ts necessary because of the close re- ationship, cooperation,and under- that would develop be- People’s servants and those that they are serving. The Bobby Seale Community Infor- mation Center has been opened tin the true interest of the people and standing tween the The Center's primary function is to serve the people in the best interest, and see to their basic needs and desires. Seeing to the people’s basic needs and desires are manifested in such programs as the Huey P Newton Free Break- fast for School Children Program located at 10th and Peralta St 3 ami the Bobby Hutton Memorial Liberation School, located at the Center every Saturday from 10-1 p.m. Other programs that are being worked on are l, A free medical health cen- 2. Free legal help ‘. Free draft counseling Community Information Centers such as this one as only another way of working closer with the all mentioned reasons above, The people taking care of their basic Center Its located at 1690 10th St. in the heart of one of the most re- pressed communities tn the Bay Area, West Oakland. This is the community that many membersof of the Central Committee of the Black Panther Party organized in, including the Chairman Bobby Seale, and the Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton, needs and desires,exposing ameri- ca for being a racist fascist country that has neglected its peo- ple’s needs and Intensifying the struggle for our complete and total liberation PEOPLE Infor- ALL POWER Bobby Seale mation Center TO THE Community BROOKLYN BRANCH N.Y. 21 COMMUNITY INFORMATION CENTER The Brooklyn Branch has opend the New York 2! Community Health Center to meet one fo the most basic and urgent needs inthe Black community--Health Care The people of the community are Ware and know through their own Practice that the services in the Medical area are totally inadequate to meet even the most basic pro- blems, suchas iron deficiency ane- mia, malnutrition, etc, In capitalist america, medicine, like all facets of life operate on the basis Of profit. That means that doctors, hospitats, and pharmaceutical COmpanies's first interest Is Making money and the well being Of the people second or never, Thus, such things as preventive Medicine (medicine or information that prevents diseases) Is at a minimum since more sick people Means more money in the hands Of the medical institutions Thus, the Black Panther Party has gone forth to give medicine back to the people which means that medicine will serve the peo- ple instead of the greedy med- ical institutions SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE NEW YORK PANTHER ‘'21"' COM- MUNITY HEALTH CENTER: Complete physical examinations, including iron deficiency anemia tests and urinalysis, Treatment of specific illnesses and or re- ferral to other clinics, HELP STILL NEEDED Gynecologist Pediatrician Eye Doctor Dentist Nurses Lab Technicians Medical Equipment Money (tax deductable) PEOPLES HEALTH CLINIC The Fred Hampton Memorial People's Health Clinic, has opened atl09N Russell Street The People's Health Clinic is o- Pen from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m, ®ach weekday, Monday thru Friday. We are constantly working to Meet the needs of the people, and We have seen that one of those Reeds is proper medical care, that {s fast, efficient, and free Your clinic is open, use it, and anyone who desires, can volunteer for duty, by calling the clinic, rhe number is 288-7279 ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Portland Chapter, NCCI 3619 N, E, Union Ave. Portland, Oregon 97212 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1970 PAGE 17 RALLY TO KEEP MEDICAL CENTER OPEN A rally supporting the Spurgeon ‘Jake’ Winters People’s Medical Care Centerwasheld at the Civic Center, Dearborn and Washington, on Friday, ‘February 20, at 12:00 p.m In its second attempt to close the Center, the Chicago Board of Health served a summons on Mon- day, February 9, on Panther Ralph Bostick, a worker in the Center, Several times ithas been explained to the Board of Health that the Center is not a drug dispensary, but a medical care center , andthat all drugs are issued by each in- dividual licensed doctor. No drugs are issued In the name of the Cen- ter itself; thus, no license Is needed for it. About two weeks ago, the Board of Health served the first summons on Panther attorney, Jeff Haas, charging that the Center was dis- pensing drugs. Not only was the charge incorrect, but who the charge was directed against was incorrect, Jeff Haas has no af- HARLEM’ FOR CH Newton, Minister of Defense the Black Panther Party, has said that, **The party must engage in activities that will teach the people.” It is not enough to write about the hunger and the Starvation In america's S6lack communities because Black people are basically a non-reading people. The Black Panther Party has taken this Into account, and we have seen Huey P, of that it not enough to publish 2,000 page reports containing facts tistics on hunger in Babylor because we cannot fee report to a hungry child, Instead, the Party has put its theory of serving ¢ people into pratice and has insti- tuted free ast for children programs all accross the country. Here in Harlem, the Black Panther Party has three functional break- ast programs, We breakf iré currently serving breakfast at All Saints’ Church at 130th Sr, and Madison Avenue, Shambers Memorial filiation with the Medical Center, When he went to court on February 5 and explained this. the case was thrown out on this basis, On that same day, hundreds of people de- monstrated tn front of the Medical Center, protesting such har- assment, Under the guise of seeing that the Center is properly licensed, health officials are trying to close it in an effort to smash a service initiated by the Black Panther Party. But what they failto realize is that the People’s Medical Care Center Is not to serve Panthers, Specifically, but to serve the people. Nevertheless, a second summons was served on Panther Ralph Bostick. In reference to the Board of Health, a licensing bureau agent who came to the Center two weeks ago admitted ‘IT APPEARS TO BE HARASSMENT.’ Health of- ficlais choose to close the Center because it Is fulfilling its function: providing medical attention at no cost to patients, There are other clinics and med- ical offices in the city that operate similar to the Center, and yet HAVE NO LICENSE, Why hasn't the Board of Health placed a dagger in them? Primarily because these clinics and offices were imple- mented by Whites. Yes racism, a monster which rears its head to thwart the people’s liberation struggle. We see this intimidation and harassment as a violation of only of our civil rights, but of our human rights also. We call on all people to rally to the defense of the Medical Center, because it is YOURS It Is owned and controlled by you. We can’t and won't let it close. City of- ficals, beware, lest you become a victim of the traps that you set for the people. KEEP THE MEDICAL CENTER OPEN ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE S FREE BREAKFAST ILDREN PROGRAM Church at 123rd St. between 2nd and Srd Ave, and St. Joseph's Church at 126th St. and Morningside Ave, We presently serving 80 to 100 children per day, and we making all efforts to expand are are the programs, We plan to open a new program at the Harlem branch of the YWCA on 125th St. between Morningside Avenue and St, Nicholas, The Sister at the ‘’Y’’ have seen the need to serve the people of the Harlem community and so the beautiful people at the “Y" have welcomed the people's Free Breakfast Program, and we scheduled to February 24th. The have are Start Serving on people in the community to idea of meeting their own needs by feeding their own children, relying Solely their own efforts, This been taken heart the on has shown by the people of ‘Narco’, Narcotic Addiction Rehabilitation and Confrontation Organization, because they have instituted their own free breakfast program, They are serving breakfast at 360 West 123rd St., feeding close to 100 children every morning. This is a good example of how the people have accepted the Party’s’ program as their own, and the people have moved implement these programs themselves, This is a positive sign, showing that we are rapidly moving to the point where the people will no longer be sati- fied with Living op- pressive conditions because once the people know that it’s possible to feed themselves relying on their own resources and abilities, then they will never be content with feeling the pangs of hunger again. to under these ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE| ALL LOVE TO OUR CHILDREN! RONALD HARLEM BRANCH THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1970 PAGE 18 ATTACK ON BROWNSVILLE BREAKFAST PROGRAM During the week of 2/7/70, sometime on the weekend, there was an attack on the Brownsville Breakfast Program, which is lo- cated on Sutter and Hopkinson Avenues, at the Good Sheperd Mis- sion. Some low rated pers trying to sabotage the Bri Program by destroying thr food- and In so doing Is taking the food from the mouths of the children On the f the morning of 2/9/70, refrigerator was found turned off, the fo< s in there had to be thrown out, meats and | had spoiled, there wer: posters of Huey and Bobby o walls which had been torn d One of thepurposesof the Vang Party is to serve the basic ne and desires of the people--a Free Breakfast Programisoncof the ways we are able to fulfill the needs o the people. Not only is this system not supplying enought food but the government has the nerve to cut down the welfare checks so that the people not only star but also do not have enough money for clk thing, shelter, or healtt needs > say to to sabotage t programs had better beware because the peopl will move on them, Right on, we will continue getting d tions from theavaricious businessman, we'll take from the greedy and give to the needy! ALL POWER Té¢ THE PEOPLI ANOTHER BREAKFAST OPENS Always aware of the fact that children do not learn well on an empty stomach and that the capi- talistic pigs of the power struc- ture will refuse to solve the problem of hunger in the Black community, the L.A, Chapter of the Black Panther Party has ini- tiated a third breakfast program; the JOHN HUGGINS FREE BREAK- FAST FOR CHILDREN program. The location is the home of Mrs. Leona (Be-Be) Murphy at 1002 1/2 E, 4lst Pl. The condition of living in a nation that can send men to the moon, spend millions of dollars a year on Slaughtering freedom-seeking people around the world, and burn IN L.A. **excess’’ wheat at harvest time while small children suffer year round from malnutrition and sit through five hours a day of **mis- education’ on an empty stomach is too depressing to be allowed to continue without taking some positive action, So we have set up breakfast programs across the nation in order to deal with the problem. And just we will continue to struggle for the Li- beration of our people, we will continue to feed the hungry youth of our communities, because the youth are our future and will definitely make the revolution, as ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE]! ta ” The Children Of Mount Vernon Must No Longer Go Hungry! From coast to coast, Black com- munities under the leadership od the Black Panther Party have or- ganized to begin to meet some of their most basic needs. Black peo- ple have rallied to combat two of the most direct forms of genocide— starvation and poor health care. The free breakfast for children program and the free health clinics that have been organized in cities around the cowitry are correct ex- amples of how the people in our communities must unify and orga- nize to solve the problems that plague us all, The free breakfast for children program provides a free, hot, nu- tritionally balanced meal for our youth each morning before they go to school, Breakfast is a meal that children must have in order to be- gin to grasp the basic skills they must learn In school. AS Black people fight narcotics, salth carer against poisonous bad housi poor he ideremployme police brutality ploitative prices human jails, ex- nd all the other ills common to our communities, we fight not so much for ourselves but because we want our children and their children to live to see a society free from exploitation and oppression, It is our young Black children that will nurture the seeds of the new world we are planting, it is they will fertilize the ground we plow, Our children must have strong, healthy bodies, and minds that are alert, Alert and ready to think, to think about changing this society, not to passively accept the condi- tions we live in as inevitable. The Black community in Mount Vernon wants to organize abreak- fast program. Volunteers are a- vailable to run the program, the food is available to feed the chil- dren, and all that is lacking is a place to do it. Meetings were held with theUnitedNegro Clergy, head- ed by Rev. Alexander Briley, inan effort to secure the cooperation of yur local ministers sothat a church could be used, Space is needed only from 7am until 5:30am each morn- ing and four churches atleasthave who the necessary facilities-~Grace Baptist Church, 52 So. Sixth Ave,,- Greater Centennial and Zion Chur ch, 312 So. Eight Ave., Macedonia Baptist Church, 141 So, Ninth Ave and Unity Baptist Tabernacle, 101 So. Second Ave, These churches however didicated to meeting the religious needs of our people, do not see the need however of feed- ing the hungry children of our com- munity | The people of Mount Vernon are demanding that a breakfast pro- gram be established, Young Black children come by the Black Com munity Information Center at 45B East Third st. every day to ask when they can come to breakfast and the people of Mount Vernon will have a breakfast program, for the people are organizing to uti- ze the resources of the Black community to meet their needs, The children of Mount Vernon will no longer go hungry! ALL PEOPLE POWER TO THE MOUNT VERNON Kansas City Chapter, Opening Of Additional Breakfast Programs The Black Panther Party's main objective is to serve the masses of people. The people dictate what their needs and desires are, and we, the servants of the people implement programs to provice for these needs The Black Panther Party im- plemented programs to feed hun- gry children nationwide, after see- ing the oppressive conditions that breed hunger, The Kansas City Chapter implemented a Free Breakfast for School Children at the beginning of 1969, Approxi- mately 500 children were feddally at this time and children are still being fed today--hot nourish- ing breakfasts, We, the servants of the people, strive to meet the needs of ALL of the people. The Kansas City RS a a ee a ee ? BE STRONG! spate: Chapter has opened two additional breakfast programs at St. Marks Church, 11th and Euclid, and the Wayne Minor Center. The pigs who oppress us and are the direct and only cause for Starvation in this country and throughout the world, are investi- gating the activities of the Black Panther Party, including nation- wide programs to feed hungry children, These pigs can’t under- stand why working class people are now banding together and work- ing to take care of their own, They can’t understand why the masses of people are constantly purging themselves of individual- istic attitudes and feeding, cloth- ing, and administering medical attention to their own, The pe ee are not concerned ~ssss > ~~ SSL e See oS BE BEAUTIFUL’ wos soos esas ae set eats sh SSS a a with any Investigation the pigs may conduct concerning the Black Panther Party's programs because the masses of people have in fact, been conducting their own Inyesti- gation of the many atrocities, geno- cidal tactics, starvation, etc., per- petrated by the pigs, The people are saying, ‘(We are able to distinguish our friends from our enemies. All of those who op- press us, beware! For the wrath of the armed masses will cause you torment that you could never perceive!" ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE SEIZE THE TIME BLACK PANTHER PARTY Kansas City Chapter saecss. ey) THE YOUTH MAKE THE REVOLUTION, YOUTH WILL MAKE IT |AND KEEP IT. {THROUGHOUT AMERICA 1} AND THE WORLD he men have been charged with piracy, rioting and some 25 of conspiratorial assault, charges stem from a clash ween White and Black marines July 21 -- ten days after a ma- or marine uprising at Camp Le- Uy N.C, A fifth marine, who was to have gone on trial with them, died un- ‘der mysterious circumstances Oct- tober 31. The men all served in Vietnam, ‘All. were wounded, and one was ‘awarded the bronze star, They were brought here to recuperare, After stays in the hospital, they were transferred to the ‘‘casual company’’ to await transfers or in the case of twomen - discharges. The four marines are Perry Blackstrom, 21, Meridian, Miss.; Oscar Terry, 19, Paducah, Ky.: Arthur McCall, 20, Birmingham, Ala.; and Charles Nickson, 23, Memphis, Tenn.; Joe Talton, 22, of Sterlington La. died before coming | to rial, : Black marines here had estab- ~ 7 lished a tradition of getting together most evenings to drink, talk and listen to music. It is illegal to drink on the base but theyhadnever been ordered to stop--although it was done quite openly. On the evening of July 20, they drank till about 10 p.m. in 4 fleld behind the hospiral and then started back. About eight or 10 of the men ? headed reward their barracks, When eiey were about 20 yards from the door, they heard someone shout: “Here come them drunken niggers, now.”" As they entered the building, they encountered about 13-15 Whites, holding billy clubs. One man hit Backstrom, who was in front, on THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1970 PAGE 19 Reprinted from the Southern Patriot Fighting became general, and lasted for 10 to 15 minutes. Blows were struck on both sides, Then the Black marines went into a near- by bar, the Rathskeller, and fight- ing began there, too, Within 15 minutes it was allover, There were no serious injuries, Unknown to the Black marines, rumors of an impending Black riot had been circulating inthe company since 3 p.m. A White man, Sgr. Rogers, testified that he was told "the colored people were coming to take over the barracks.’ Rogers Said his informant was Cpl, Carthon a Black man who has since been promoted to Sergeant To deal with this threat, someone Sawed broom handles down into clubs. Rogers said these were de- livered to him during the afternoon, Thirty-eight men were assigned to Security duty--an unusually high number. When the Black marines came back to thelr barracks, part a; oe Atty. Bill Allison looks toward (left to right) Oscar Terry, Perry Who were the conspirators? The Black marines--who came back, admittedly drunk, to find a posse of club-wielding Whites waiting for them? Or the Whites--who had been preparing for a confrontation since 3 p.m., to the extent of sawing down broom handles? Why were Black men the only ones questioned and charged, even though there were fully as many Whites involved? Why conspiracy charges? If any charge fits the circumstances, surely drunk and disorderly comes closer. And why were they never told to stop drink- ing on base--even though it was clearly against regulations? Relations berween Blacks and Whites have been tense atthis base, The Blacks feel strongly that racial prejudice exists, “Lam Black,"" one of the four marines said, “*Iservedin Vietnam, in which | was wounded, | faced Casual Company barracks with Backstrom, and Arthur McCall. The three marines were under guard, of this force was waiting for them. The Black marines and their sup- death many times, fighting for my Supposed to be country, And I the head, Backstrom took the club porters are asking a number of come back to the States and I'm away and hit back. questions: FOUR Gls FACE JAIL FOR INITIATING | WAR CRIMES Ft, Gordon, Ga,, Feb. 2--The Army brass is attempting to rall- road and silence four Gis for their initiative in investigating ameri- can war crimes in Vietnam. The four issued a leaflet Jan. 12 announcing formation of a ‘‘GI _ War crimes commission’. Pyt, Larry Czaplysk! of New York, Pvt. Timothy Johnson of _ Minnesota, Pvt. Richard Horner of ‘Tennessee, and Pvt, Terry Kline of Maryland are charged with il- legal distribution by leaflet and ‘Over the airwaves and making dis- loyal statements, Kline {s confined to his company area, and the other ‘three are being held in the Ft, Gordon stockade. Their leaflets stated that the p of the commission would “to dispel the myth that the american soldier is more ‘Moral than his enemy counter- *“to show the american people : their sons are capable of, d by doing this to try to arouse them an anti-war and antimi- ‘istic response; ‘get across the facts that Song- Wasn't an isolated incident and the genocide against the Viet- People by the U.S, armed ts an everyday occurrence, get more Gls actively In- Dlved in the antiwar movement,’ @ leaflet also states that in- received by the com- would be screened and at- ‘ould by made to cross- reports, Information INVESTIGATION would then be sent to the War Crimes Tribunal in Paris. Ma- terial wouldalsobe sent to mem- bers of Congress for use In in- vestigations and well-documented reports would be released to the press, The three tmprisoned Gis had all applied for conscientious ob- Jector status long before the in- cident but received no response, However, they were heavily ha- rassed for applying for CO status Pyt, Kline told this reporter that unless news about the case gets through to the local Augusta, Ga., papers than it does to other news- papers around the country, Pvt, Kline said, however, ‘‘There isa deep feeling of resentment among many Gls at Ft. Gordon," A GIs United Against the War in Vietnam was established at Ft, Gordon in response to the ar- rests and this organization ‘plans to launch a defense campaign for the four among Gls at the base’’, according to Pvt. Dan Dukes, an organizer of the Gis United chap- ter, Publicity on the case has been handled by the Southern Conference Educational Fund of Loutsville, Ky. ‘ktine indicated that the leaflet had already received replies from Gls at other posts, giving’ evi- dence of american war crimes in Vietnam, The war crimes com- mission will continue to collect evidence of war crimes even though the four are not able to handle it themselves. Information and funds should be sent to P.O Box 2004, Hill Station, Augusta, Ga, 30904, treated like the same old Black MOVEME Four Marines Face 86 Years Joe Talton, 22, died October 31, before his case came to trial. nigger that | was supposed to be before I left. They don’t come right out and say, ‘You can’t go In this mess hall," But they do little, petry things. Black marines are in a small minority at this base and many of them find it more comfortable to Stay together, (No one appears to find it remarkable, or sinister, that Whites at the base stick together, too.) Ag “Whenever we get together, they go out of their way to break it up,” another of the men said, **Whenever four, five brothers get together, they'll come up to the group and say, ‘Break it up.” Anytime they see Black people together, they think must be trying to plot something, They're up tight," The trial was scheduled to begin we November 17. Support for the marines is building on the base, and in the Black and Whit munities of Memphis, in the nm me, NT FOR A DEMOCRATIC MILITARY On February 8, between 8:30 and 12:30 the San Diego Police and Shore Patrol occupled the block on ‘J'* Street between Fourth and Fifth Avenues, After four hours of arrests and constant survell- lance the San Diego Police Dept., without a search warrant or per- mission from those Inside broke down the locked front doors of the Movement for a Democratic Mili- tary’s office and violently arrested Milton Ira Green, a member of MDM. They charged him with be- ing on Unauthorized Absence, This is the second timo Milt has been falsely arrested for being U.A., and subsequen‘ly had the charges dropped, The Movement for a Democratic Milltary, an organization strug- gling to reclaim human and con- stitutional rights for servicemen, was having a meeting to discuss future plans for defending the Gls rights of freedom of speech and peaceable assembly The incident on Sunday night Is one more in a series of viola- tions of Gls civil rights. The San Diego Police Department and Shore Patrol have on two previous oc- casions broken into the MDM office without warrant of permission, ar- rested servicemen, searched the premises, and have taken names and phone numbers from private files. After the illegal search and Seizure of January 15, one civilian organizer was called on January 18, Phil Austin of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and of- fered twenty-five dollars for every deserter he turned in to the FBI MDM does not encourage deser- tlon and has never allowed de- Serters In the building, Since December 28, 1969, 23 members of the movement for a Democratic Military have been ar- rested on charges ranging from blocking a public sidewalk (which had previously been declared un- constitutional) to non-regulation haircut and improper civilian at- tire. All civil charges were dropped and military prisoners were released to base com- manders. When MDM Chapter from Camp Pendelton began to leave around 11:45 the Shore Patrol apprehended and arrested them without stating what the charges were or advising them of their rights. While the ar- rests were being made a photo- grapher for the San Diego Street Journal was taking pictures of the men being loaded into the trucks, when a Shore Patrolman grabbed two hundred dollars worth of ca- mera and equipment, smashed it to the ground and totally destroyed it. Several people attempted to make citizen's arrests, but the San Diego Police did not acknow- ledge them and the Shore Patrol- man was never apprehended. The Movement for a Democratic Military cannot allow these illegal acts on the part of San Diego law enforcement agencies to continue, We will defend our constitutional rights by any means necessary. FOR MORE INFORMATION CON- TACT: Movement for a Democratic Mill- tary 420 J" Street San Diego, California 239-1781 92101 MASSACRES, FROM INDIANS 10 VIETNAMESE I thought that perhaps some of your readers might find Interest- ing a glimpse into the ‘glorious traditions and history’? of the U_S Army. I think perhaps they might find as a result an interesting par- allel between this look into the past and some facts concerning the present U.S, involvement in Vietnam, If one turns his mind back just a few short years to the courses he took on 4merican history while inhigh school, he will remem- ber the era during which the U.S cavalryman with six-shooter and sabre was winning the west. In your american history you learned to love the brave caivary- man as he risked his life in mor- tal combat with a red-skinned foe who was savage and merciless in his destruction of Innocent men, women and children, What you didn't learn in your history classes was thatthere was another side to that story, It is the Indian's side, the true story, and is known to by a handful of americans. Being an american Indian of Cherokee and Shoshon! descent I feel qualified to tell a part of that story, Take asa typical exam- ple the Army's treatment of my tribe, the Cherokee, THE*PEACE’ TREATY In 1833 the Cherokee numbered about 12,000 residing In what is not North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. At this time rumors were spreading among the Whites that gold had been discovered in Georgia. The U.S. government brought into play one of its favorite weapons against the un- suspecting Red man--the treaty. Few Indians knew anything about it, but it took the Indians’ land away, Then the government demanded that they move, The Cherokees appealed thelr case to the White man’s courts, For once the courts decided in favor of the Indians, Supreme Court Justice John Mar- shall upheld the Cherokee Nation, The hopes of the Indians rested now in the hands of President Andrew Jackson. But Jackson scoffed at the na- tion's highest court, saying, ‘‘ Mar- Shall made his decision; now let him enforce it!" Jackson wasted no time in ful- filling his campaign promise to get the Indians out of the way for good. General Winfleld Scott and his army of U.S, soldiers were sent to the Cherokee country to enforce the treaty, Scott and his army rounded up the shocked and grieving Indians at bayonet point. There are numerous records to show that men were shot in cold blood, women were raped, and chil- dren beaten or killed by thelrarmy “‘protectors’’. In a short time all but a few hundred Cherokees hid- ing in the mountains were concen- trated in stockades where they were kept until their embark date, The stockades with their filth, overcrowded condition, disease and soldier guards were graves for many Cherokees, THE ‘TRAIL OF TEARS’ Finally the orders were given and the long trek known as the “Trail of Tears’’ was started. In October of 1838, 12,000 Chero- kees left their ancient homeland for the final time, The small number of wagons provided for the transportation of the sick soon were discarded as useless and (his meant that the Indians, many without any kind of footwear at all, were to walk to Oklahoma. Through the winter and into early spring of 1839 the long ranks of human suffering marched to the promised land the government had generously given them, The suf- fering endured by this once mighty tribe during that terrible winter is a record/of infamy that U.S. has long tried to erase. For those who did not succumb to ex. posure, disease, exhaust or CONT. ON PAGE 20 — THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1970 PAGE 20 HONEYWELL INVOLVED IN GENOCID Honeywell Inc,, one of the top 20 U.S prime defense contractors, with defense sales of 478 million dollars annually, is producer of anit-personne} the deadly frag- lagers, mostly women and child- ren, are being exterminated bythe use of this immoral weapon, Re- cently, GeorgeGrim reported in the Minneapolis Tribune about the Child killed by Honeywell fragmentation bomb mentation bombs which have been responsible for much of the ~ civillan casualties in the Viet Nam War, Reports from both North and South Viet Nam indicate that vil- ACCIDENTAL genocide being carried out against the Blafrans by the Nigerian State, He mentions the use of these same ant! - personnel fragmentation bombs. What makes the use of these bombs by US forces in DEATH AND JUSTIFIABLE Viet Nam any different than their use by the Nigerian State: Nothing! Genocide is the same wherever it occurs. Honeywell is directly involved in the genocide in Viet Nam because it produces these inhuman weapons, ANTI-PERSONNEL FRAGMEN- TATION BOMBS Ant! - personnel fragmentation bombs are about the size of a baseball and containabout 250 ball- bearing-like steel pellets imbed- ded in a metal casting, A tripping mechanism and explosive are placed inside a much larger cas- ing which is opened in mid-air to scatier the small bomblets over a large area, The bomblets are armed in descent and explode on impact sending a shower of deadly pellets In all directions, The pel- lets tear the flesh and smash the bones of all humans in the area, while leaving buildings intact. This weapon was specifically designed by Honeywell to be used against civilian populations, STOP THE MILITARY--INDUS- TRIAL COMPLEX ...When the working man Is pay- ing more taxes than many ‘of the HOMICIDE--DISGUISE FOR MURDER On Feb. 10, 1970, Mrs. Shirley Brown along with her four child- ren(Leonard Jr., 12, Lenora, 11, Joslyn, 10, and Dennis, 8) died of carbon monoxide because of a defective gas burner and broken chimney which blocked ventilation. The so-called ‘‘accidental'' deaths took place at 413 Bergan St. in Brooklyn, Mr, Leonard Brown, thefather, discovered the victims when he went to visit his wife and six children in the four room apartment. When he saw the five bodies and his two surviving chil- dren-- Dennis, 8, and Mary, 7,-- mumbling incoherently, he raced downstairs and hailed a policeman, Efforts to getadoctor to the scene proved futile as the hospital in the area told police that they were too busy, Finally an ambulance at- tendant removed the two semi- conscious children to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where the chil- dren are in serious condition. As usual, the piggish power Structure in an attempt to cover up their dirty work conducted an investigation to legitimatize the foul deed, First they said that there had not been any violations on the house reported to the Dept, of Buildings, thus they had no know- CONT, FROM PAGE 19 ledge and couldn't repair it. Know- ing that the people would not go for that sorry lie, the mass media by way of the radio and newspapers released the fact that the Brook- lyn Union Gas Go. had known of the Violation but had falled to move on correcting it, Now the pigs have come to the conclusion after their so-called ***extensive investigation’’ that the deaths were accidental. We find this very hard to understand when it was clearly pointed out in their own investigation that Brooklyn Union Gas along with the city gov- ernment are the causes of the (murders) since they failed to make any attempt to repair known seri- ous violations, Whenever Black or oppressed people die in such circumstances (like the nine who died in a Brook- lyn fire recently) it is termed accidental death, but it is clear to everyone who Is at fault. It is a known fact that there is an extreme housing shortage in the New York area and that the hous- ing in existence for Black and op- pressed people is unfit for the shel- ter of human beings. This unfit housing has violations a mile long. The City Government Building MASSACRES FROM INDIANS TO VIETNAMESE starvation there was alwaysa ben- evolent soldier to insure the fact that this for many would be a trall of death. The record stands and all the lies and covering up that the history books may provide can- not erase this huge shameful epi- sode. Finally, in March of 1839 the tat- tered remnants of the Cherokee Nation reached their new reser- vation, Only then did the terrible truth of the cost become known, 4,000 UNMARKED GRAVES Of the 12,000 Indians who started the Trai) of Tears, over 4,000 died. It had cost one quarter of the tribe's population to satisfy the gold hunger of the White man, (ironically, little gold was found in the Cherokee lands.) From Georgia and North Caro- lina, stretching over half a con- tinent, 4,000 unmarked graves dotted the trail--a bitter monu- ment to the perfidy of the U.S, government. Not a few of those graves contained the body of an ae) a Indian who was a victim of a sol- dier who was taught the code-‘‘ The only good Indian is a dead one." This is but one of countless atrocities committed by the U.S, Army during the winning of the west, It is enough to cast serious doubts on one’s opinion as to just who the ‘merciless savages’’ were, Now I have been drafted into the same army that did a good job of trying to wipe out my tribe and race in a 300-year war of genocide, I have been told by my supervisors toforgetthe past be- cause we're all one people now, Yes, the Army and the U.S, gov- ernment can well afford to forget-- after all they won, didn’t they? Anatonoka Kalanu (the Raven) Organizer and Keeper of Tradi- tions The Tecumseh Confederation (Pvt, Ronald L. Blevins) (REPRINTED FROM THE BOND) Department has refused tocorrect or have the landlord correct-- simply because the landlord and the city are one In the same in many cases. This partnership coupled with the fact that the city wants the areas these unit houses oc- cupy, to build high cost housing and new factories, The people are getting hip to ‘faccidental death’’ the same way they are hip to ‘‘justifiable homi- cide’’--another form of deception commonly used to disguise murder, as in the murder of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark and thou- sands others, We know that all of these cases fall into the cate- gory of cold calculated murder of Black people by this racist fascist power structure, The peo- ple are demanding that the power structure along with their lac- keys--the lying politician and the dog policemen--be brought totrial before rthepeople for murder of the Brown family and all the mil- lions of people who have been killed accidently and justifiably. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Brooklyn Branch Brenda Hyson Victims flood hospitals people in the upper income brac- kets because of unjust tax laws that favor the rich, something Is wrong with this democracy, While the working man pays for the Viet Nam War and excessive and un- reasonable military spending, the rich make substantial profits from the inflationary war economy. The rich make more money while in- inflation eats up what Increases in salary the working man gets, It Is unjust that the working man who is earning less has to pay more taxes than the rich. It Is likewise unjust to make Black men fight a war, supposedly for free- dom, in Viet Nam when they don’t even have freedom and equality back home, Honeywell fragmentation bomb WE MUST RELY ON OURSELVES It is the duty of the vanguard party to teach the people in the black community the correct met- hod of resistance, To do this we must first break down the word **Juche"’, It means basically rely- ing on yourself, andsupporting and supplying yourself. We cannot rely on foreign aid we willhaveto supply ourselves with the tools of libera- tion, As the Black people in america have done before, we will make something from what appear- ed to be nothing, The Vietnamese people have giv- en us a perfect example of ‘*juche’’, They took their own things and put it on sharp sticks and used Ir to deal with the enemy. We Black people infascist america have an unlimited variety of things we and arm ourselves with. We must use the ‘‘natural resources"’ of our black communities. We will rely on one of our most, abundant resources-garbage! When we have nothing else we can use filledgar- bage cans to drop from the roof- tops on the heads of our oppressors The same man who makes us pay to live Inrat infested, freezing cold homes, can be dealt with inabase- ment full of starving rats. Broken wine bottles and hypo- dermic needles are very effective. Pork chop and chicken bones can even be utilized for weapons, This is ‘*Juche’’ relying on what you have, to sustain your resistance, Not to mention the guns, knives, and gasoline, we have all this too, THE PEOPLE ARMED WITH THE “NATURAL RESOURCES" OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY WILL RE- MOVE THE OPPRESSOR, FREE THE NEW YORK 21 Jerome Reide HARLEM BRANCH BPP TO THE HEROES OF THE FREEDOM STRUGGLE Dear. Sisters and Brothers: The New York Times of Febru- ary 6th carried a_ sketch of Murtagh, the ugly american, sitting in judgment of 13 noble human beings. Reference was made to Murtagh’s arrest in 1950 on a charge of malfeasance in office while he was Commissioner of Investigations under to corrupt O'Dwyer administration. McCandish Philips, author of the article, reported that the action against Murtagh was ‘“‘un- animously"’ invalidated by the A- pellate Court in Albany, 99% of the readers would conclude from this phrase that Murtaugh was found innocent by a@ Unanimous decision of the court, This is an example of the Times’ ability to wrap a truth in a le, It is true that the indictment was invalidated, not after a re- view and hearing of the charges but on the technicality that the in- dictment was erroneously drawn up in Kings County instead of New York County where the mal- feasance occured, The next step to correct the de- feat was for the District Attorney of New York County to re-indict. Well 20 years have passed and the indictment still has not been re- drawn, And who was the District Attorney who refused to redraw the indictment? The very same racist Hogan who hand-picked the culprit to try the framed brothers and sisters, I remember vividly the specta- cle of Murtagh twisting and squirming as the Kefauver Com- mittee tried to extract from him the reasons why he neglected to give the Mayor written reports of crime and corruption his in- vestigators uncovered, as he was legally bound to do. This master Scofflaw, this breaker of laws who has the audacity to pillory victims of outrageous traffic regulations, to Say nothing of his scurvy conduct of this frame-up trial, this bur- Sar of gangdom was unable to re- Spond, and by his muteness ad- mitted to his own guilt of com- licity In the crime and corruption that pervaded the O'Dwyer admins- tration (and all administrations before and since.) It has always disturbed me that this cipher elevated to a chief justice has not been forced to account for his crimes. Several years before he died Carson De- Witt Baker, the Black judge ac- cused as a scofflaw and hounded off the bench, alluded to the Murtagh indictment in the pre- paration of his defense, but the system got to him and frightened him into dropping it, The Black Panthers have shown by their tnprecedented heroism they harbor no such fears, Not as a& mafor action - he is not worth it’ - butasan ancillary action of the defense 1 would like to see him confronred with his crime, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! A Black Supporter | October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program | What We Want What We Believe SSSI a REE HUEY Minister of Defense, Black Panther Party ¥ 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our % Black Community. We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter- mihe our destiny 2. We want full employ ment for our people, By We believe that the federal wovernment is responsible and obligated to % give every min employment or u guaranteed income. We believe that if the white American businessmen will not give full employment, then the f Means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in % the community so that the people of the community can organize and em- % ploy wll of its people and give a high standard of living a ee ee ee a THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1970 PAGE 21 3. We want an end to the robbery by the white man of our Black Com- munity. We believe that this racist government has robbéd us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The’ Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Ger- mans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make 4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community. with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people. 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowl- edge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people should not be forced to fight in the mili- tary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people. We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or- ganizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self-defense 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. We believe that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, en- vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man" of the black community 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis- cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness Pru- dence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and. accordingly, all experience hath shown. that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable. than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which the are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and unsurpations ea suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism, itis their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern- ment, and to provide new guards for their future security. _— — THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1970 PAGE 22 The Black Panther Party is now in the process of developing an international staff for the international section of the Black Panther Party. We are in need of enthusiastic workers. We need people with skills in filing systems, typing, printing, shipping and receiving. need of people with language skills, people who can speak French and Arabic. We need people who can function on a diplo- metic level in all languages, because at this stage in our struggle we see the need to develop diplomatic machinery for the American revolution. We have to deal with the same things UIAEHGVACOEGOAGNOCUEIOOOGUOEUGH1OUAEUENA0UAUOELAEOEENEAQUQE NESE ELELOQUOERENSUOAUOEOAUO OREM INNUUUALOENOUOEAA US EOOUSEGEUOCOS ENGL GTUNAA QUOT SUOOULUENEVOUOCSEAEOOTOOELOGUOTUENEDSOOGOOONENSOOOOPUELELSOAQOOUSTCOSENEANUOUOERSOO LY OUUUNOENETOOOUOEN ENMU ULNA LETTER 10 THE EDITOR Dear Editor: At 4:45 a.m. Thursday, Decem- ber 4, 1969, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark of the Black Panther Party, were brutally murdered in their Chicago Illinols apartment by State's Attorney Edward V Han- rahan's private police force. Four teenagers were also wounded in this g@stapo raid. Ronald Satchel and Biair Anderson, both 14, and Verlina Brewer, 17, were wounded in the legs and arms, The day following this massacre I drove through the west section of Rockford Illinois, a town of 140,000 situated about 680 miles north-east of Chicago. (Rockford’s West End is the local ghetto, a- bout 95°, of the population is Black, the rest are Jewish.) lwasamazed to find the people going about their affairs as always, seemingly un- aware of the significance of what had transpired only 80 milesaway. True, the local Black Panthers Were distributing papers and talk- ing to the people who would listen, but the majority of the community seemed unconcerned, The prefunctory attitude of so many of the people, brought to mind the startling similarity of this scene and what had happened to my people in Nazi Germany during Hitler's reign, Most of the Jews in the concentration camps, actu- ally on their way to the ovens, did not believe it possible that their country would kill them, My mother was a Jew and Ican vividly recall the anguish she felt during these years. The wage-slaves of America must be made to realize that this process of elimination is already in motion against the Black citizens of the country, The imperial US Government has decreed that only the Uncle Tom's of both races be allowed to remain alive or out of prison, The Black race ts leading the coun- try toward freedom, therefore, more Blacks than Whitesare being Killed at this time, In order for capitalism to func- tlon there must be discord among the wage-siaves, if the time comes when the slaves of America, both Black and White, realized that the capitalist owners have created the antagonism between the races, we would band together and take this country as our rightful heritage, Lam in complete agreement with the writings of THE BLACK PAN- THER and other literature that the local Panther Party tas given me to read, and will cuntinue to speak the truth as set forth thereof, as 1 travel among the working class Whites of the mid-west Respectfully yours, Robert Darnell, Jr. widening for the has only bee lation. amerikKKan never and the press. emphasis, Service present ple of Black people, Party realizes all Black to 2 MGLNANNL0NUNUUNT UA NEONEOGUTENSANELSUQOOQQ0000C00UOCONUAUOOUOEOUATUOUUOUOTOCOUUAUQLALONUQUOLOONGNOANOUONOON ANON OUO TOYOTA . that other diplomatic machinery have to deal with. The international section of the Black Panther Party is also in need of funds in which to be able to operate. All people wishing to send funds to sup- port the international section of the Black We are also in Panther Party can send it to: BLACK PANTHER PARTY Boite Postal 118 Grande Poste Alger, Algeria Telephone: 579-469 Alger, Algeria sé . ° <a , wee } ; P= 4 la Huey would say, “a newspaper as the voice of a party, the voice of the Panther must be heard throug/ he land.” AVEC LIVOUR I0UL The ana. The line dividing the progressive people from the machinery of oppression is ever as the people begin to realize that there can no longer be a middle of the road position with regards to freedom people of the world; however, it n within the past four ye iat the amerikKKKan people have hed their rose-colored glasses and patriotic blinders to face the reality of what their country was doing to the world’s popu- With the realization of the role came the closer ex- amination of all the things that had really been questioned before....the ‘ameriKKKan dream’, the foreign policy, the treatment of minority peoples within this society, the real role of the ‘police’ July 1967--Minister of Defense, Hiey P. Newton (right) and Chairman, Bobby Seale (left), reading an early edition of B. P,P. 2 ur Newspaper at the home of Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of In- We found we as citizens formation B.P.P, of this country were being kept duped by the govern- proved’ stories presented ment and kept misinformed in the mass media and the by the mass media, prusuct of an effort to In an effort to give the facts to the peo- present the facts not ple, the so-called ‘underground press’ stories as dictated by the developed with various groups setting up newspapers and magazines with differing oppressor, but as seen from the other end of agun, aon Ree Panther eee ALL POWER ack Oommun1 e pane ty TO THE PEOPLE! was created to factual, reliable SEIZE THE TIME! information tothe people. The Black Panther Party has been or- ganized to serve the needs of the peo- the Black community and to Enter my subscription tor (check box) . educate and politicize the masses of Subscriptions but the Black Panther 3 MONTHS: (13 ISSUES)............ that racism can only 6 MONTHS; (26 ISSUES)... , be eliminated by solidarity among op- ONE YEAR: (52 ISSUES) .........--. pressed people and the educating of (please print) the people. It Is the news and problems of Black and oppressed peo- NAME ple in ameriKKKa thar are dealth with in the Black Panther Party along with ADDRESS international news, CITY = etek : : ) “ The pe I anther eae aTAreie pe ON SOR OMAN: SNEWS PLEASE MAIL CHECK MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, BLACK PANTHER PARTY, Service is the alternative ORMONEYORDERTO: —- Box 2987, Custom Houne, San Francisco, CAS4126 the ‘government ap- 7 : THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, ‘FEBRUARY 28,1970 PAGE 23. -=— BLACK COMMUNITY NEWS SERVICE PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY EDITORIAL STAFF CENTRAL COMMITTEE } OF OF THE THE BLACK PANTHER BLACK PANTHER PARTY Political Prisoner Political Prisoner: 4 Minister of Defemse Minister of Defense : HUEY P. NEWTON HUEY P. NEWTON Political Prisoner: Political Prisoner, Choirmon Cheirman BOBBY SEALE BOBBY SEALE Editor Minister of Information Minister of Information ELORIDGE CLEAVER ELORIDGE CLEAVER Chief of Staff DAVID HILUARD Managing Editor Deputy Minister of Information BIG MAN Field Manhall DON COX RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA Evers member of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY throughout thi, Country of racikt America must abide by these rules as functional mem- ber af this party, CENTRAL COMMITTEE member, CENTRAL STAFES, and LOCAL STAFES, including ull captains subordinate to either national, state, and local leadership of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY will enforce these rules. Length of suspension or other dis- ciplinary action necessary for violation of these rules will depend on national decisions by national, state or state areu, and local committees and staffs where suid rule or cules of the BLACK PANTHER PARITY WERE VIOLATED. Every member of the purty must know these verhutum by heurt. and apply them daily. Fach member must re pert ans violation of these rules to their leadership of they ure counter-ry telutionars and are alse subjected to suspemion by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. Revolutionary Artist ond lay-out Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS Minister of Education RAY ‘MASAI HEWITT Minister of Finance Production Manager JOHN SEALE Minister of Foreign Affairs bal Co-Editors inister of Justice Prime Minister Communications Secretary KATHLEEN CLEAVER Distribution Manager ANDREW AUSTIN Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS Circulation SAM NAPIER The editorial and production cost of THE BLACK PANTHER News- paper have increased considerably. We would like to continue increasing weekly circulation and our national and interna- tional news coverage. To do this we need your aid. Please send Us news items, general information, and contributions. Help us distribute and get new subscriptions to The Black Panther newspaper. Submit te BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER 3106 SHATTUCK AVE. BERKELEY, CALIF. THE RULES ARE 1. No partys member can have narcotics of weed in his possession while doing party work. 2. An) party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from this parts. 3. No party member can be DRUNK while doing daily party work. 4. No party member will violate rules relating ti office work, general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANYWHERE, 5. No party member will USE. POINT, or FIRE & weapon of any = kind unnecessarily or accidentally ul anyone. 6. No party member can join any other army force other than the BLACK LIBERATION ARMY, 7. No party member can have o weapon in his possesion while DRUNK or loaded off narcotics or weed &. No party member will commit ans crimes against other parts members of BLACK peuple at all, and cannot steal or take from the people, not even a needle ora picce of thread. 9, When arested BLACK PANTHER MEMBERS will rive only name, address. and will sign aothing., Lepal first uid must be understood by all Party members. 10. The Ten Point Program and platform of the BLACK P ANTHER PARTY must be knowa and understood by cach Party member. Hl. Party Communications must be National and Local, 12. The 10-10-10-propram should be known by all members and alse understood by all members, 1S, All Finance officers will operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministes of Finance. 14. Fach person will submit a report of daily work, 15, Rach Sub-Section Leader Seetion Leader, Lieutenant, and Coptain nitist submit Daily coports of work Remember Brother Malcolin 16, All Panther must learn te operate und service Weapons correcth, 17, All Leadership personnel wi expel a member must submit this information to the Editor of the Newspaper, so that it will be published in the paper and will be hnowe by all chapters and branches. 1K. Political Education Clisses ure mandators for general member- ship. 19. Only office personnel assigned to respective offices cach day should be there. All others are to sell papers and do Political work out jn the community, including Captains, Section Leaders. ete 20, COMME SICA TIONS — all chupters must submit weekly re. ports in writing tothe National Headquarters, 21. AU Branches tst implement Piet Aid and/or Medical Cadres, 22. AH Chapters. Branches, and components of the BEACK PAN. THER PARES mest submit oo montht) Pinaneial Report tothe Minis tes of binges, and ale the Centeal Commiittes 24. beersene ina leadertip position nist read wo tess than twe hours peri te keep aliewast ot the change politico! situation 24, Ne chapter or branch shall accept grants, poverty funds. mone, May 19, 1925 - Assassinated Feb. 21, 1965 eran ether aid from ans coveriment apenes without cantuctiog the National Headquarters 2S. AN chapter must adlwre te the polices and the idewlows laid down ty the CE NERAL COMMIELEE of the ME NOCK PANTHER PARIS. 26. All Branches mst submit weckly reports in wedting te their re. spective Chapters