Vol. 4, No. 14

THE BLACK PANTHER 25 Black Community News Service VOL, IV NO. 14 WEEKLY THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY HUNTERS Editorial The pigs in heightening the repressive actions against the people have used an unfortunate incident in Hunter’s Point as an excuse to run amuck in the Black com- munity, Years ago the last place pigs went to investigate was Black people killing Black people,..Jt was very minor, as are the kill- ings of oppressed people considered, by the troops of the ruling class. Now due to the yaised level of resistance that the people “have reached, the pigs look for, actively search for, reasons to come into the com- munity with guns drawn, The pigs van through the community of Hunter’s Point on February 23rd with rifles and drawn weapons, not being concerned with the lives and safety of the children playing in the community or respecting the people. This is not an isolated incident eH us SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 MINISTRY OF INFORMATION BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 POINT 1970 and cannot be passed off as such since there is a history of similar incidents in this same community. On the 23rd of February, the pigs went into the Hunter’s Point avea to arrest Butch Mabrey, one mun, but they came as if preparing for a major confrontation, The pigs disrespected the whole community... Only in the Black community are over- Rill tactics used. Only when dealing with oppressed people are the pigs’ tails shak- ing in glee and their eyes lit up with the anticipation of killing another one of the “misfits of this society’’. Only oppressed people are accorded the ‘fist of repres- sion’ in place of the ‘hand of protection’. There are too many examples--perfect examples--that have occurred all over this country to be able to mention in any one CONT. ON PAGE 2 a INSIDE: PRESS RELEASE FROM ELDRIDGE CLEAVER THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 2 HUNTERS POINT 1967 ioe Ula ade CONT Fron acrIW ALT EB? POINT 1 970 Editorial article or book. The transgressions against the people perpetrated by the pigs are too numerous to accept the further extension of their doggish policies. The pigs in the streets have been carry- ing on like the mad dogs they are, but this must cease. Huey P. Newton said ‘‘The racist dog police must withdraw immediate- ly from our communities, cease their wan- ton murder and brutality and torture of SHOOTING INCIDENT IN Saturday afternoon at approximately 2:00 p.m., the 21st of February, 1970, a shooting incident took place at Joseph Lee Gym on Mendell and Oakdale, In- jured was Charles Gillis, 1435 Innis, 17 yrs, old, and Jerry Thomas, Quesada St., 16 yrs old, Charles Gillis was shot in his head and died Monday from the wound; Jerry Thomas was shot in his leg, he is now in San Francisco Hos- pital in satisfactory condition, Arrested for the shooting incident was Butch Mabrey of 855 Gottingen St., San Francisco, It was disclosed that Butch entered the gymnasium pulled a piece (gun) and fired a melee of wild shots and in the process these two brothers, Charles and Jerry, were struck by bul- lets, It was told to us that there wasn’t any antagonism between the brothers and that their relationship with each other was good, Black people or face the armed wrath of the people.’’ No longer must we allow the pigs to run rampant in the streets of our community--we must make the occupying army retreat. The time of these fascist moves against the people must be elimin- ated--the pigs are inthe streets now but THE STREETS BELONG TO THE PEOPLE. Judi Douglas Deputy Communications Secretary BLACK PANTHER PARTY HUNTERS POINT Butch was arrested Monday, the 23rd of February at 855 Gottingen at appro- ximately 2:30 or 3:00 p.m. While the pigs were setting up to invade the com- munity, there were people in the com- munity calling the Center that’s located at 1494 Jerrold to let us know that the pigs were running amuck in the com- munity: they were on their regular jobs and up to their same trick, intimidating the people, Running through the com- munity with rifles and drawn weapons, not concerned with the lives, and safety of the children that were playing in the community, not respecting the people at all, just killing another nigger was the only objective in mind, The Black P anther Party is not saying that Butch is guilty or that what went down was cool, but what we do say is that Butch lives and his family should not have to have their con- stitutional rights violated by pigs block- This court represents the mostruth- less system in the world, caring noth- ing for the wholesale misery that it brings, while at the same time, your pa- pers are full of verbiage of your *‘nobi- lity,” ‘‘righteousness,” ‘‘justice,"’ “fairness,” and the ‘'good”’ that you do, We are very, very sick and tired of the BIG LIE, We cannot stand passive to the big lie any longer. We cannot accept it any longer. It is time to state thetruth, for Black people, for poor Puerto Rican, Mexican American, Chinese American, Indian and poor White people. The ‘‘Ameri- KKKan system of justice’’ is a hideous sham and a revolting farce. We must look at the situation objec- tively. As has been explicitly implied in the preceding, we realize that we are not 2nd Class sitizens at all. We are a colonized people. (Read your own commission Reports), We see that we are still considered chattel. We see how the Fugitive Slave Act has been modified in worfs, but is still being used how the Dred Scott decision was never really reversed, That the 13, 14, anf 15 Amendments of the Constitution didnot liberate us--that in fact, in social re- ality, they only legalized slavery and expanded the Dred Scott decision to in- clude Indians, Spanish-speaking and poor White people, We see that things have not gotten better, but only progressively worse, and that includes tyranny, We con- pletely oppose racism and tyranny and will continue to do so. You wish us to act according to a Decorum set down by an organization, the ‘American Bar Association’’, which is not only racist but is also not against genocide, (Per- haps they realized the truth, and see that the American ruling class is de- finitely liable, for its treatment of Black people?) In court you asks us to submit to a code of laws...yourlaws, notour laws (Black and poor people) but your laws your laws because we were never ask- ed (Black people) if we consented to having them as our laws, nor are these laws relevant to our ghetto reality, They are your laws, and we find them racist and oppressive, They, these law perpeturate our plantation continuation, Right now, in 1970, 90% of the inmates of your prisons are non-White. 907%: And we (Black people, etc.) have never had the right to decide if we wanted to be governed by laws which we had no part in making. Yet, the primary concern of the men who drafted the “Declaration of Independence’’ was the consent of the governed by laws which they had a part in forming and which was relevant to them, We are in your prison, but these are not our laws, They are your laws, and in dealing with Black and poor people, you don‘t even adhere to your own laws. In fact, a leading criminologist, Dr. R.R. Korn of | Stanford University, had noted that 80% of the people now in prison were put there illegally accor- ding to your own law. (Strange that the overwhelming population is Black and non- White?) Mr. Murtagh--your record speaks for itself. You are known in the ghet- to as a ‘‘Hanging Judge’’. (How many Black and White poor men did you convict without their even having coun- cil just in 1969 alone, in your clever slick way?) Frank Hogan and his aides are well known--very well known in the Ghetto--known for what they are-- racist and unethical, (We have know- ledge of cases, since our incarcera- tion of .Assistant District Attorneys, or D,A,’s men posing as legal aides to get conviction), But in our case you and Mr. Hogan have gotten to- gether and have out done yourselves in denying us all, everyone of our ‘‘al- leged”’ state, federal andhumanrights. The record clearly shows this, when not clouded with the mist of racism. A) Letus clear up one basic miscon- ception. You constantly refer to this case as a ‘‘criminal’’ trial, while all of the time we know, you know, Frank Ho- gan knows, the people know, the other prisoners and eyen the guards know that this in not a criminal trial. Everyone knows that this is a politica] trial, for if we were not members of the Black Panther Party, a lot of things wouldnev- er have beendone to us inthe first place, Why are we not allowed to be with other prisoners? Why are we not al- lowed to even talk to the other prison- ers? Why are we isolated? Gomething we might say ordo that can open their eyes, perhaps?) Allegedmurderers and rapists are not treated in this manner, even ‘‘convicted murderers and rapists are not treated in the manner in which we were treated, Why do you persist in the big lie? It is one of many clear contradictions. B) On April 2, 1969, hordes of **po- lice’ broke down our doors, or other- wise forced entry into our homes, and ran amuck. Rampaging and rummaging through our homes, they seized articles from us with wild abandon while having no search warrants. The ‘‘police’’ put us and our families in grave danger, nervously aiming shotgums, rifles and Pistols at us andour families--even our children, “A Brace Man Hes No Riehts Ther A Ware THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 3 FROM: DEFENDANTS --N.Y. 21 TO: “JUSTICE MURTAGH termination of the Black Panther Party and justify anything that might be done to us. This unethical behavior gave, aided, and abetted further prejudicial pre- trial publicity, in direct contradiction to your law as outlined in the 14th A- mendment of your constitution of the United States. Due to this be- havior . alone, we are positive that we could not get a fair trial any- where in this country....We still said nothing, D) When our attorneys learned of our arrest, they attempted to see us, as we were being held in your Dis- trict Attorneys’ office. They were re- fused permission to do so, At the ‘‘ar- raignment’’ a similar request by our counsel was again refused by mr. Charles Marks who presided thereat. these refusals were in blatant viola- tion of your law as outlined in the 6th and 14th Amendments of your Consti- tution of the United States....We con- tinued to be silent. E) At this ‘‘arraignment” this Mr. Charles Marks who was presiding, re- fused to read, explain or give us a copy of this ‘‘indictment”’ against us. This is another violation of your lawas outlined in the 6th and 14 Amendments of your Constitution of the UnitedStates Man |s Bound To Reseecr” Surse Mueractt- 1970 We were then kidnapped as were some of our families, We state ‘‘kidnap”’ be- cause many of us were never shown any arrest warrant, evento this day, This is illegal. This is a blatant contradiction of your own constitution....We said noth- ing. C) Upon the arrest of some of the defendants and before the appearance of any of the defendants, New York City District Attorney Frank Hogan appear- ed on national radio and national tele- vision (Channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, snd 11) in a press conference, during which time he gave out iaformation from an “‘indictment”’ against us in an inflam- matory and proyocative manner, delib- erately designed to incite the peopela- gainst us and to deny us even the sem- blance of a ‘‘fair trial’, Mr. Hogan implied a lie--that we had been seized on the way to commit these alleged acts with bombs in our hands--rather than the truth--that we had no bombs and that most of us were taken out of our beds, Subsequent to that press conference, ‘unidentified police sources’’and‘‘per- sons close to the investigation”’ stated falsely to the press that we, as members of the Black Panther Party were being aided and abetted by foreign gobern- ments considered hostile to your gov- ernment (i.e. Cuba and China) -- that we, as Black Panther Party members were stealing money from federal and/ or state agencies and many other false wild charges, designed to heighten the public alarm against us and our Party, rather than diminish it, soastocreate an atmoshpere conductive to the ex- «eeyet, we remained silent, F) Bail (¢ansom) was set at $100,- 000, which is ridiculous andtantamount to no bail at all. This is another vio- lation of your own law as outlined in the 8th and 14th Amendments of your Constitution of the United States. We state that this bail is not only contra- dictory to your own law, but that it is also racist. When White ‘radical’ groups are arrested, their bails do not usually exceed $10,000. When three Yemenites were charged with ‘‘con- spiracy’’ to murder your President Nixon, and with the equipment to do such, their bail was $25,000; when Minutemen in New York were arres- ted and charged with a conspiracy to commit murder, the murder of 155 persons and were arrested with bombs and guns more than enough to do this. Bail was set at $25,000, We had no bombs. Our bail was $100,000....We remained silent. G) At this arraigmment, this Mr. Charles Marks, the same ‘‘Judge’’ who is alleged to have signed the “Arrest Warrants’, stated in words or substance that he was accepting all of the allegations in the ‘‘indictment’’ against us to be true, On subsequent hearings during April and May 1969, concerning reduction of ransom (bail) at which this same Mr. Marks still presided, he stated that we were “‘un- American’’ and that the law ‘did not apply to us’’ (sounds of history?), This does not quite show impartiality....Yet we Said nothing. H) Our counsel] have been in front of atleast 35 ‘*Judges’’ con- cerning our bail, andthis attitude permeates the ‘‘great American system of justice’. All motionson this were denied, either without commemt or because of ithe seri- ousness’” ofthe ‘charge’, butnev- er dealing with the Constitutional issues involved, anditis your Con- stitution, All of this seems to un- derlie ‘‘judge’’ Marks’ remarks.,. Yet, we said nothing, 1) We have been treated like ani- mals-~-- in fact, like less than animals, On January 17, 1969, Miss Joan Bird was kidnapped» beaten, and tortured. She was punched and beaten, given the **Thumb Torture’’, hung upside down by the ankle from out of a third-story window of a ‘‘Police Precinct’’. On April 2-3, 1969, all of us were placed under constant abuse and harassment, which included 24-hour lock-in, com- plete isolation, no library or recrea- tion, lights kept on in our cells for 24 hours, physical assaults, depriva- tions of seeing our families, at times denied mattresses, medication, sheets showers, pillow-cases, towels, soap, toothpaste, and toilet paper. Our families have suffered abuse in visiting us, and mental anguish, One of us suffered the loss of a child be- cause of this. Some of our families hadto goon welfare because of our outrageous incarceration and ransom, We were denied mail, even from our attorneys--denied access to consult all together with our attorneys, We have been subjected to the most one- rous and barbaric of jail conditions, The objective of all this was our psy- chological and physical destruction du- ring our pre-trial detention, As Newsweek Magazine even states, ‘*,,the handling of the suspects between their arrest and their trial was some- thing less than a model of American criminal justice,’’ and ‘‘none of it was very becoming to the state..."". (How well we know.) All this is a blatant violation of your own law as outlined in the 8th and 14th Amendments of your own Federal Constitution... Yet, we still remained silent, J) You -- Murtagh. You came into the case in May 1969. You were inform- ed of these conditions. You could have righted these blatant violations of your own law, the laws you have ‘‘sworn’' to uphold, But you did not. You refused to do this... andremained silent. You tried to rush us pell-mell to trial, knowing full well that we were not, could not, be prepared,...We remained silent, We filed motions that are guaranteed to ‘‘citizens’” by the 14th Amendment of your Federal Constitution, You de- nied them all, You denied us the rights as guaranteed in your laws in the 6th and 14th Amendments of your own Constitu- tion, to conduct a voir dire of the Grand Jury in these proceedings, knowing full well that they did not comprise mem- bers of our peer group...We remained silent, You denied us a hearing with which to be confronted with the witnesses a- gainst us, as is guaranteed by your law in the 6th Amendment of your Constitu- tion,..We remained silent. You denied us a Bill of Particulars which is guaranteed by your laws in the 6th and 14th Amendments of yourCon- stitution,..,We remained,silent. Two ‘‘suspécts"’ were kidnapped un- der the ,modification vf the Fugi-ive Slave Act in November 1969, You gaye then no bail. (No sense pretendiig any- more, it seems)...,Weremainedsilent. You denied us every state and federal constitutiona} right, and remained si- lent. You substantiated Mr. Marks’ *‘the law does not apply’’ tous.... Yet) we re- mained islent, K) Lee Berry, Lee Berry isaclas- sical example of how you and your co- horts conduct the “*American System of Justice’’ when dealing with Black CONT, ON PAGE 4 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 4 CONT, FROM PAGE 3 FROM: Defendants - N.Y. 21 TO: “Justice” Murtagh people, On April 3, 1969 Lee Berry was a patient inthe Veterans’ Adminis- tration Hospital where he was receiving treatment as an epileptic, subject to Grand Mal seizures, which canbe fatal, Lee Berry is not mentioned particular- ly in the “‘indictment’’. Yet, on April 3, 1969, your ‘*police’’ dragged him out of the hospital, These ‘‘police’’ stood him up before your cohort, ‘*Judge Marks, Lee was “arraigned” without counsel, Bail $100,000, He was thrown into an isolation cell in the Tombs with- enough--more than enough, We had been treated with contempt, in an at- mosphere of intimidation for too long. We must reiterate--we are looking at the situation objectivity. Objective Re- ality. At the pre-trial hearings we are con- fronted with a ‘‘Judge’’ who had admit- ted, in fact, been indicted and arrested for ignoring ‘‘police”’ graft andcorrup- tion,..a ‘‘Judge’’ who by his record shows an unblemished career of ‘‘po- lice favoritism and All-American ra- out even a mattress, In July 1969, he physically attacked without provocation and wichout warning, while he was in a drugged stupor. You were aware of his condition--you were quite aware, Numerous motions were in your ‘*Great Court System’’. It took four months to even get him medi- cation, and only in November when he had become ill, so progressively worse that it was frightening. He finally got consent to be transferred to Bellevue Hospital. Because of the courts’ deci- sions under your ‘‘AmericanSysrem of Jusrice’’, Lee Berry has had four ser- ious operations within the last two months. Because of the courts’ decisions under the great American System of Justice at this precise :noment Lee Berry is ly- ing in the shadow of Death with a possi- ble fatal case of pneumonia. At the very least, your Great Court System is guil- tyofattempted murder, and D.A, Hogan should be named as a co-defendant. Lee Berry is our Brother, and what is done to him, has been done to us all... and we remained silent. L) In November 1969, four White persons were arrested for allegedly “*bombing” various sites in New York City. They were arrested allegdly with “‘bombs in their possession’’, but they were White. For three of them, bail was reduced 80% in two days, because ‘‘the presumption of innocence is basic a- mong both the statutory and constitu- tioanl principlesaffecting bail’’...if you are White. (The political climate is such today, even this hardlymatters anymore if one is dissident.) Two days after that decision, we were brought in front of you and given a su- perceding ‘‘indictment’’. We could be silent no longer. We had been insulted cism. In your previous dealings with Black people, you have shown your- self to be totally unjust, bloodthirsty, pityless, and inhuman, Weare confron- ted with a District Attorney machine which has shown itself to be vigilant andunswervVinginits racist policies. 90%, of the inmates convicted are non- White and poor. This machine has shown it- self to be unethical in its techniques and practices--even in front of our eyes--tactics which include going up and whispering to the witnesses on the stand, signalling and coaching them. We know as Look Magazine stated in June 1969 “‘how the police corrupt the truth,.. Prosecutors and Judged be- come their accomplices’’, To cite a small example: A man, a Black man seeeewas beaten to death in the Tombs in front of forty witnesses in May 1969 and the police swore that he died of a “theart attack’’, Yes, we know to what the police will swear to. All Black people, poor people, know to what the police will swear to. With all this, to- gether with the hostility inculcated in the dominant Whiteculture towards any- thing Black, is shown by you and your cohorts very well indeed, Under these conditions, and considering your stand against American racism, this in not only a challenge to us and Black peo- ple, but the whole people. To relate in terms you can understand, even Racist Woodrow Wilson stated (con- cerning fascism)'’...This is a challenge to all mankind; there is one choice we cannot make, we areincapableof mak- ing, we will not choose the path of submission...we will be, we must be as harsh as the Truth and as uncompro- mising as Justice--true Justice is on our side”’,,.To that we say, Right On! VICTORY OF THE PHILADELPHIA TRASHMEN Fascism has become as much of a historical fact here in Phila- delphia as the so-called ‘‘Liberty’’ Bell. It has always been here, as all across America, but since the offing of a foul pig in January by persons unknown, the pigs have completely dropped thetr guise of ‘‘Jaw and order’’ and unleashed open terror upon the people. In recent weeks, the ‘‘BLACK PANTHER - BLACK COMMUNITY NEWS SER- VICE’ has carried articles from this branch describing the most blatant of these piggish crimes, so there is no need to again go into detail of them at the present time. While his subordinate pigs got their rocks off of drawing Black People’s blood the Chief Pig, “Commissioner” Rizzo, worked behind the scenes and had his lac- key Mayor Tate appoint a pig, an ex-policeman, as Commissioner of the Streets Department. As you well know, brothers and sisters, the Department of Streets has under plastic trash bags, telling Phila- delphians to bag their own trash and haul it tothe city’ sincinerators. The union, led by its courageous Business Manager, Earl Scott, re- mained firm in its stand. Pig Tate tried the all too familiar tactic of pacification, by offering to ap- point Black deputies in the Streets Department. But the union refused to compromise and Earl Scott re- Plied vigorously that it wasn’t a race struggle (even though the Sani- tation Union including Stout is most- ly Black Halfery is White), Right On!! They just didn’t want to work for a pig. Halferty finally abandoned his stand that he wouldn’t resign un- less Mayor Tate asked him to and resigned, The workers were vic- torious in this small aspect of the overall struggle for self-deter- mination. Yet, the struggle against fas- cism and a police state here in ‘Philly has only begun, The true its jurisdiction the Sanitation Work- mayor of this city is Pig Com- ers (trash collectors), As you know missioner Rizzo, who at the same even better, the trashcollectorsin time he moved Halferty into his major cities are mostly Black. So, here’s the scene--an ex-policeman as Streets Commissioner, plus short-lived position as Streets Commissioner, placed another pig in charge of the Licenses and In- qualified engineers within the spections Department. While he Streets Department who should fill eondones his lackeys constantly the job, plus trash collectors who don’t want to work for a pig, Total these things and the result isa city- wide slowdown in trash collections. Day by day, the trash piled up in Philly's streets, to the point where a health menace was de- clared in the city. Yet, Mayor Tate refused to back down on his an- nounced appointment of Halferty (the pig who was to be Streets Commissioner). In fact, he called the city Business Manager back from a stay in Florida where he was recuperating from an illness for him to deal with the situation and went to Florida himself. On February 16th, Halferty was | sworn in as Streets Commissioner, in spite of the people’s will, The Sanitation Workers Union continued to refuse to work overtime as they always had to do before the Hal- ferty mess, The fascist courts, a tool of the ruling class, passed an injunction stating that the Sanita- tion Workers must work overtime, Since the injunction didn’t say how long they had to work, the trash collectors would only work 15 min- utes to an hour of overtime to comply with the injunction. Bynow, the streets were gorged withtrash, being that collections were a week behind; but, the people, especially the Black community, was strong- ly supporting the trash workers, Pig Mayor Tate oinked that he would not cancel the appointment in the future, In accordance with their contract, the Sanitation Workers began refusing to drive garbage trucks that were defective in any way (which eliminated a very large portion of the trucks taken onto the streets) and taking off on sick leave, administrative leave and va- cations.This drastically reduced the work force, Now desperate, the city’s op- pressive machinery spent at least $30,000 to buy and distribute large escalating murder and brutality of the people, his own blood-stained hooves are forming his future ad- ministration which will be on hand by the time he runs for the title of Mayor (he already fills that office in practice), Thisis the same low-lifed creature who said, in re+ ply to a lawsuit now in court against him on behalf ofall Blacks in Philly for his endorsement of pig bru- tality and murder, that it was part of ‘‘an insidious plot to gain com- munity control of police’’! The struggle here in Philly is escalating by leaps and bounds, Pigs have been offed or wounded-- RIGHT ON!! Meanwhile, the fas- cist nature of the government is daily becoming more apparent by its mounting demagogy and phy- sical terrorizing of the people, Philly, as is the restof Americais the world’s new Reichstag, every pig station as Auchsweitz oven, every street of the Black community a shooting gallery for American SS troopers, every pig chief an "adolf Eichmann and the poor and oppressed masses must not be- come the new Jews! Fascism will not disappear of its own accord, even though it is the manifestation of a dying in- stitution--capitalism. It can only be defeated by the militant action of the masses, led by a revolu- tionary party striking the death- blows again and again at the pro- per time, The trash collectors of Philly wouldn’t stand for a pig as their Commissioner and struck a blow at fascism, Itis up tothe poor and oppressed American masses to drive fascism to its timely grave by ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Philadelphia Branch FRIEND OF PANTHERS TRUCK BOMBED Joan Siaz, a friend of the Black Panther Party was recently a vic- tim of a racist attack from this-- society, Her camper truck which she generously lends to the East Oakland Branch for the Breakfast for School Children Program and to work on the Black Panther paper was demolished by a fire bomb around 3:00 a,m, on February 22nd. Joan was in the back of her house at 3938 Brookhaulter Avenue recording music when she heard a noise. ‘I started to go out but I didn’t’, she said, ‘About ten minutes later I heard hollering, I decided to run out and see what was wrong. When I opened the door the flames were shooting up about ten feet high off my truck. I put out the fire with my ‘water hose. I then noticed the front win- dow had been broken and on the front seat was a gasoline can on top of what were my Panther Pa- pers. The whole cab and camper burned out, It's a total loss of about a thousand dollars,’’ FRED: What is the general feel- ing of your neighbors toward you? JOAN: Well I don’t know, I have quite a few friends here; they dis- agree with things I say but they never condemn me or anything. They figure I have the right to my own opinion. FRED: Then your feelings are that people wouldn't do anything like that, or would they? JOAN: I don’t know, Lately I’ve noticed someone’s been following the truck probably to check on my association with the Party, Joan does a lot of work in and about her neighborhood, She not only propagandizes in her com- munity but also her job. Her home is situated on Brookhaulter Ave, in East Oakland at the edge of the hills where a lot of pigs, racist and anglo-niggers stay. So it is easy to say that the traducer, the depraved individual, is in league with the reactionary elements of the lampoons of never-neyer land ch consists of the myopic fas- cist Labor Force in this infested contaminated deplorable land. Sowe recognize that there is right and wrong, left and right, just and un- just, people and pigs, and revolu- tionary and reactionary, and wherever theres oppression, there has to be struggle. BLACK PANTHER PARTY East Oakland Branch NEW HAVEN PANTHER CASE: N.H., Conn, (LNS) -- Months be- fore the New Haven Panther mur- der trial is to begin, the prose- cution and police officials are in- creasing theiz coercion and inti- midation of the Panther defendants, Unwilling to wait until the trial starts, the officials are attempting, through the use of various cruel and illegal methods, to pressure the defendants into trying to save their own skins at the cost of betraying their brothers and sisters in the Black Panther Party. The government brandishes the threat of the electric chair to frigh- ten defendants into copping a plea- pleading guilty to a lesser charge, escaping trial on the capital charge, and in the process, help- ing the government case against the stalwart defendants who are not so easily frightened.If a prisoner can be scared enough, cut offfrom any support from friends and steadily threatened, convinced that no jury will rule anything but guilty, plea-copping can be made to look like a good deal--even to a prisoner who knows that he or she is in- nocent, To this date, nine of the defend- ants, although subjected to eight months of pressure and brainwash- ing, have valiantly withstood this pressure. Two others, Loretta Luckes and Warren Kimbro, have given in to the pressureand have pleaded guilty to lesser charges. The Panther defendants, includ- ing National Party Chairman Bobby Seale, are charged with the kidnap- torture-murder of Alex Rackley. If convicted, all face the death penalty, The Party maintains that Rackley. was a member in good standing of the Panthers, and was murdered by police agents, includ- ing George Sams. The police charge that Rackley was an informer in the New York 24 case, and was tried and execu- ted by the Panthers, The fact that Bobby Seale, who was not even in New Haven at the time of the murder, has been charged in the case, is indicative of the fact that this trial, like the other Panther trithé around the country, is abla- tant attempt by the authorities to silence the Panthers by any means necessary. The best way to comprehend what is currently going on in the case is to look at the individual treat- ment some of the Party members have received, and how they have reacted to it. Francis Carter, age 22, is charged with being an accessory to murder, kidnapping, conspiracy, and binding. She was pregnant at the time of her arrest, and was forced to give birth under armed guard, Her lawyer, Catherine Roraback, moved last month that bail be granted Francis Carter because there was no substantial evidence against her, The court was forced to agree that this was FRED SMITH On $50,000. bond BOBBY SEALE Chairman, B.P.P. Political Prisoner so, and in a landmark decision, bail was granted for the first time ever in a Connecticut capital case. Francis Carter was bailed out Jan, 19, after her parents, who are not rich, scraped up a $750 bond to secure $10,000 bail. But less than two days later, the State called Francis Carter to the stand, granted her a ra- ther vague immunity (which de- prives a defendant of the right to keep silent under the protection of the Fifth Amendment), and told her she must testify. Her lawyer protested the Constitutionality of this move, but she was overruled. Facing a bitter choice, Francis Carter nonetheless refused totes- tify, she explained, ‘‘not because I feared that anything I said would result in any harm to me by my brothers and sisters, but-because I love and respect them and the masses of the people and would never turn on them.”’ Francis was immediately held in contempt of court. Her bail was revoked ($750 down the drain), and she was sentenced to six months in jail. The State was ap- parently afraid to have one of the defendants out of jail to tell the truth about this case, and hoped by freeing and then jailing her to force her to testify. But even this kind of harass- ment, including being separated from her two-month-old child, did not break Francis Carter’s spirit. In a statement written just after the bail was revoked, she said, “I'd rather rot in jail than give State’s Attorney Markle a chance to trytogainsome manhood (which he lacks) or inflate his ego any more than what it is. I have the people with me, As long as they continue to have faith in me, [ll remain strong...Markle and his lackeys cannot jail my spirit and they definitely can’t jail the revolu- tion. SEIZE THE TIME. ALL POWER TO TH= PEOPLE!”’ When Francis Carter was taken back to jail, she was isolatedfrom the other Panther prisoners and placed in with the convicted cri- minals, people she had never met THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 5 ERICKA HUGGINS Political Prisoner WARREN KIMBRO beZore, But the word of her coura- geous stand was already out. The prisoners presented her with the best gift they could produce while in jail: a box of lotions, candies and the like. Later, when she walked into the prison theater to see a movie, the other prisoners rose (in clear view of the warden, who watched helplessly), cheered, and saluted her with clenched fists. For Warren Kimbro, age 32, things did not work out even as well as this. Kimbro is charged with first-degree murder, kidnap- ping, conspiracy, and binding. He was a provisional member of the Panther Party at the time of his arrests last spring. He has been held, like the other prisoners, without bail and has been denied access to any literature or encour- agement from the Panther Party. Last month, the prosecution and police moved to crack Kimbro by putting special pressure on him: his brother, it turns out, is a police detective, and was brought to the jail to convince him that his only hope was to plead guilty toa lesser charge. His brother’s words about Kimbro are not surprising for a policeman discussing a Panther: **He was not innocent...He'’s always been hot-headed. He was having domestic troubles, too, And then he met that girl Ericka Huggins.” As if this were not enough, a New Haven detective spent several hours the next day questioning Kimbro, without the knowledge of his lawyer, which is strictly il- legal. The pressure on Kimbro by the police brother and the detec- FRANCIS CARTER Political Prisoner JEANNE WILSON tive was too much: later that week, he pleaded guilty to second degree murder, a non-capital offense, Al- though Kimbro thus saved his own skin, it is not yet known that what story he will tell at the trial, es- pecially on the key issue of Bobby Seale’s alleged involvement in the case: According to Panther Party _ Captain Doug Miranda, ‘‘We know Warren is innocent and he knows he’s innocent.’’ But the system of plea bargaining took Kimbro as its victim. jeanne Wilson, age 16, is le- gally a juvenile, so her case was “tadjudicated’” in juvenile court last summer. Although she was placed on probation, she was then jailed immediately as a ‘'material witness.” Later she was forced to testify for the prosecution at the bail hearing for five of the Panther prisoners. Last month, however, when the defense tried to call her to testify at a hear- ing concerning illegal search and arrest in the case, the authori- ties could not ‘‘find’’ her. Since she was supposedly being held in jail, there was quite a bit of embarrassment among the court officials, It turned out that Judge Palmer had secretly let her out of custody after she had testi- fied for the prosecution, and she had been taken immediately to New Jersey. So while the pros- cution had been able to question her extensively, the defense is to be prevented from doing so be- cause it is impossible to sub- poena an out-of-state person in this type of case. PRESSURE ON DEFENDANTS ALEX RACKLEY Murdered by pigs GEORGE SAMS Lonnie McLucas, age 24, is charged with first degree murder, kidnapping, conspiracy, and bind- ing. He was arrested in Salt Lake City and brought to New Haven. He is charged by George Sams (the leading witness for the police) with having shot Rackley, Now that both Sams and Kimbro have ‘‘confess- ed,’ the pressure on McLucas is tremendous, But McLucas, who the Panthers described in a recent bulletin as *ta truly revolutionary servant of the people,’’ has not folded, and so the pressure upon him is be- ing stepped up. He is now being held in isolation in a tiny cell, with visits and communication, especi- ally those of a political nature, se- verely limited. In what the State’s Attorney hoped would be the crow- ing blow, it was announced that Mc- Lucas’s case would be separated from the others and brought to tri- al immediately. It is considered unlikely that this would happen, but the pressure upon Mcluicas is nonetheless increased. However, this trick has not worked, McLucas, andthe remain- ing eight defendants, have held out. They know that they are being jail- ed as part of a systematic attempt to silence the Panther Party, and, like Francis Carter, they are able to maintain their faith inthe people and in the Black Panther Party. UNDERCOVER PIG SHOT DEAD IN NEW HAVEN COMMUNITY The pig's name wasFrank Haw- ley. He was anundercover pig and only one or two people in the com- munity knew he was a pig. This pig Hawley was put into the insurance business by the city withtax money in order to se entrapment on the brothers from the the block. Pig Hawley ran a numbers joint, he was a fence, and he brought in scag (heroin) and bought and sold scag in our community, He would -have brothers stealing for him and pay them off in scag and get them busted; he would take the money that the people put down on the numbers alright, but whenit came to paying off when the people hit, this pig couldn't be found (that’s how he got killed), This lowdown dog had young bloods selling scag for him and if they came up short they got busted. And if a brother bought scag off Hawley there wasa nine out of ten chance he would get busted for possession of scag. This pig Hawley was shot to death after refusing to pay brother Fred Smith who had hit the num- bers for $3200. Not only did he re- fuse to pay the brother but pro- ceeded to draw his pistol and shoot twice at Fred Smith. Fred fell back and drew a piece and blew Hawley away with 4 shots to the pigs chest and stomach, then he (Fred) split. This happened Satruday after- noon and from Saturday night to Monday night, pig chief Ahern and the pig news media waged a cam- paign of mis-information about how Hawley had been fighting drug traffic, and how he was viciously shot down in the line of duty- oink, oink,oink. Then Saturday night the pigs took out 42 bench warrants for arrest of some brothers for conspiracy to murder Sunday 100 more warrants were issued. The pigs moved in like Adolph Hitler’s fascists. They hit the most popular, pool room and busted everyone in the place in- cluding the owner and 27 others Then they went to bars and after hours places and just herded the people into the trucks like animals They busted more than what they had warrants to, so the pigs charged them with possession of scag, loitering, etc. By Monday night the raids had stopped, and a coalition had been formed for the Defense of Fred Smith. Now the pig department is trying desperately to, justify. the fact that they have put pig agents in communities to consistantly break the law with the people's tax money, and to trap people, This was in an editorial in the New Haven Register - although they also supported*the pigs in their other activities, At this time Fred Smith and some of the other brothers arrested in the “‘conspiracy’ are on $50,000; bond . ALL POWER’ TO THE PEOPLE New Haven Chapter Black Panther Party THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 6 Racist Pigs of New Haven—Continue in their Efforts to Control and Oppress Revolutionary Letter Black The racist pig cops of New Haven have struck again, In their efforts to control and oppress Black peo- ple, they have gone to many ex- tremes, They have brutalized the people by ignoring crime, when it is committed by the greedy bus- inessmen, and by the lying polit- icians, They have helped todamage Black children with lead poisoning by refusing to enforce adequate housing codes on landlords, They have killed Black youths by ignor- ing the sale of dope on all lévels, until it reaches its user in the Black community. They have killed Panthers and have tried to frame the People’s Party - the Black Panther Party for it. And now they have attacked a whole section of the New Haven Black community for the deserved death of one of their own, Frank Hawley, an undercover pig, instigated crime-willfully in- volved Black people in the Hill section in numbers games, and the receiving and selling of stolen goods, and he especially bought and sold dope, on the assumption that a dope addict can't be a revo- lutionary, Pig Hawley’s task was to keep track of the Hill area Black youths, to involve them in crime, but es- pecially in scag (heroin) whenever possible. This nigger pig spy for the rich pig power structure made good his job of entrapment, for the Pigs’ vengeance on the Hill area for the righteous and justified death of this agentprovocateurwas the ar- rest of at least 23 brothers, and the issuance of perhapsas manyas Open Letter to the People THE YEAR OF THE PEOPLE’S ‘ ARMED STRUGGLE “197072. Here in the hell of L.A, fascism, you dig, I am a-revolutionary and a political prisoner of war (POW) 1 speak out loud and clear to all oppressed peoples throughout the world, I recognize that we must consolidate ourself so we can at- tain freedom for all mankind, As you may know in the history of man their desire is to be free. But in this day and time all op- ressed people are slaves, because of this US imperialist aggressor . Because I amarevolutionary that is fighting here in Babylon I realize that Black and all op- pressed people struggle here in fascist America and the struggle abroad is one and the same. So we all must join in the fight for freedom, But here in Babylon the people are used as a tool, The U,S, fascist government is committing genocide on all the young men here for their own capitalistic reasons, just so they can profit, They are making the people in Vietnam (soldiers) kill the poor and oppressed people there, and occupying their community just like the pigs are occupying the Black community, They are committing murder and brutality on Black people and all poor oppressed people in general, The pigs’ duty here in this capi- 100 warrants in New Haven and New York, HOW and WHY did this pigagent die? Hawley attacked Fred Smith, shooting at him at least twice be- fore Fred shot back in self de- fense after someone threw hima .32 revolver. The piggish nature of our courts actually presumes a Black man guilty until proven innocent,beyond the shadow of a doubt. (The op- pressed have no rights that the oppressor feels bound to respect.) For this, Fred Smith has been jailed on a first-degree murder charge without bond, If the pigs would have killed Fred, the courts would rule it justifiable homocide, The pig courts did this in Chicago when Deputy Chairman Fred Hamp- ton and Mark Clark were assass- inated in their sleep by Chicago’s finest mobsters. So we see these tactics of the New Haven blue bandits as blatant repression of the Black community from start to finish, What kind of foul minds can set up a store- front pig agent to start and con- tinue crime in the Black com- munity, and to insure the distri- bution of heroin to young brothers and sisters,and when the punk,a boot-licker, gets shot by amember of the community acting in self- defense, Ahern, Guida and their lackeys have the nerve to call him an honorable man, How many more undercover pigs, boot-licking toms and agent provocateurs are running loose in the New Haven Black community? In Black communities all over the Comrades R. Palmer and Zip. All power to the people. Incarcerated here in this L,A, pig house, it’s kind of hard for the feelings I have for the people and my comrades to be expressed. But I love you all because of the beau- tiful work, all the work that is being done out there for the people’s struggle. But here in Dodge City time is right for us to show the pigs what the spirit of the people really is!! We are trying to educate all of the inmates here, The brothers here with me say all power to the people! Have faith in the people and the party and be strong. Our spirits are very high. We love you all. I want you guys 7) s2a].in2 Marx Lenin, and Stalin, We need this very badly. When we get out in talistic Babylon is to protect and serve the property owned by the capitalist class, The pigs are not here for poor people, but only for the ruling class, This class of people keep the pigs off in the oppressed people’s community, to make sure that the poor people will not get what is rightfully theirs, So now the B,P.P. said that it is time for all this mess to stop because all people want to be free; and the party is made up by the people, for the people, and of the people, We are for peace and that is the ultimacy of our goal, Huey P. Newton says, ‘*The racist dog policemen must with- draw immediately from our com- munities, -cease their wanton mur- “THE HEIRS OF MALCOLM X HAVE PICKED UP THE GUN AND ARE MOVING FOR THEIR TOTAL FREEDOM”’ HUEY P, NEWTON MINISTER OF DEFENSE BLACK PANTHER country? The people will surely find out sooner or later and will! deal with these hogs who are try- ing to repress and to destroy the Black community at every turn, So we must realize the trea- cherous activities of pig Hawley, especially his deliberate involve- ment in pushing scag (heroin), are nothing more than ‘domestic counter-insurgency programs" the Afro-American equivalent of the pig power structure's Vietnam ‘pacification programs.’’ Further the blatant fascist reaction of the New Haven pigs in arresting 23 brothers and searching for many more on the entrapment and frame charges of their agent provocateur amongst the people, can only be equated with the first wholesale round-ups for concentration camps in fascist Germany. Thus, it must be understood that every Black man put in prison now is a political prisoner. We, the people, must understand that the pigs are a grave threat to our continued existence, and that to insure the end of pigs running amuck in thecommunity, we must implement community control of police through the ballot or the bullet - through the petitions for decentralization and community control of the police, or the guns of the armed people, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Black Panther Party New Haven Chapter Lt. of Information Cappy Pinderhughes the streets of Dodge City there is going to be changes- made, I pro- mised if I ever fall by the hands of & the oppressor, I will take alot of them, you dig. But only through my practice will you know because practice is the criterion of the truth + Tell Elaine to go on and have the people's baby because I will be out soon you know, you dig. All I got is just life, But who is R. Palmer, you dig, Tell Zip to be strong and right on, Let ‘G’ know we all love him and miss him too, Free the POW’S Seize the Time Right on The Duck der and brutality and torture of Black people, or face the wrath of the armed people, Right On!!! Let’s Free Ourselves! L.A, 18 (POW) The Duck and Blue Racist dog policemen must stop the torture and brutality of Brothers and Sisters held in Federal , State County, and City prisons and jails. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!! Blue SEIZE THE TIME PARTY Title Il: From The Community Panthers: Up until last month I was the most passive, ignorant Black wo- man you could ever run across. I knew there was-a problem, but would not admit that it is as critical as I now know it to be. Now I know that there are many Black people throughout this country who are as ignorant of the problems we face as I was, And this is just a small effort on my part to try to help them AWAKEN, I’m not a Panther, but I’m Black, and in being that I can’t just lay back and say, “I know there’s a problem, bur what can I do about it, or it will work itself out. That’s a whole lot HUAC’s Intern of bull. It won't work itself out. Not today or tomorrow or ever, WE have to do it ourselves. I can do plenty, and I’m going to start NOW, I am enclosing a copy of the McCarran Act, which you may have already read; may have already printed before. I don’t know but, I’m going to ask you to print it again, and maybe again if neces- sary, I have had 20 years of white braiiwashing, and that’s really a stiame. As a matter of fact it’s a damn shame ittook me tweaty years to find out that my life and my child’s life ain't worth a damn. So you could never print some articles too many times, The McCarran Act to me, could be vital in helping some of my Brothers and Sisters see just exactly where the pigs are coming from. And if that don’t move them then I'll find some- thing else. I won’t give up be- cause [can’t. [know what’s going on. I am AWARE. I am being liberated and I will be a revolutionary, So I have to ask you to please print this in your paper so that hopefully some of the brothers and sisters can find out just what the pig has in mind for them. It may not do what it should to all of them, but every time one Black person finally realizes then they tell another brother and it goes on and on, You may think it’s a damn slow process. But right now, today for me it’s one wayamong many, I won’t stop there, And I’m gonna get me a gun, and I won’t hesitate to use it. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE} SHARON BENSON al Security Act McCarran Act . Title Il Concentration Metention) Camps Public Law 831-8Ilst Congress; Sec. 102: 103: & 104 (HUAC’s original Internal Security Act (McCarran)’* ““EMERGENCY DETENTION: In the event of .,....insurrection,,.the President is authorized to make public proclamation,..of an Internal Security Emergency...and,,.acting through the Attorney General is... authorized to apprehend and detain +.@ach person as to whom there is reasonable ground to believe ««ePROBABLY WILL....CONSPIRE with others to engage in acts .. of sabatoge.,.Persons apprehended «seShall be confined in....places of detention.,.prescribed by the At- torney General, 50 CHAPTER X CONCLUSION Once the ghetto is sealed off, and depending upon the violence being perpetrated by the guerrillas, the following actions could be taken by the authorities: (1)A curfew would be imposed in the enclosed isolated area, No one would be allowed out of or into the area after sundown, (2) During the night the authori- ties would notonly patrol the boun:- dary lines but would also atrempt to control the streets and if neces- sary, send out foot patrols through- out the entire area, If the guer- rillas attempted to either break out of the area or to engage the au- thorities in open combat they would be readily suppressed, (8) During a guerrilla uprising most civil liberties would have to be suspended, search and seizure operations would be instituted during the daylight hours, and any- one found armed or without proper identification would immediately be arrested, Most of the people of the ghetto would not be involved in the guerilla operation and under con- ditions of police and military con- trol, some would help in ferreting out the guerrillas, ‘Their help would be invaluable, (4) If the guerrillas were able to hold out for a period of time thea the population of the ghetto would be classified through an officer for the ‘‘control and organization of* the inhabitants.”’ This office would distribute census cards which would bear a photograph of the individual, the letter of the district in which he lives, his house and street num- ber, and a letter designating his home city. This classification would aid the authorities in knowing the exact location of any suspect, and CONT. ON PAGE 16 In his news conference of Friday, January 30, President Richard Nixon stated what he would do to gain confidence ‘‘among Black people,”’ The task, as posed, was re- latively simple. Black America, as the President saw it, was suf- fering from a ‘‘performance gap - big promises and little action, and as a result immense frustra- tion which flared into violence,” The President made no mention of the nature of the big promises or the little action. They concern the century-old violated constitu- tional rights of Black citizens the contempt shown by those in power for the dignity of Black people and the denial of job, educational and other social op- HUEY P, NEWTON MINISTER OF DEFENSE B.P.P. POLITICAL PRISONER HUEY P. NEWTON B-17121 A-E San Luis Obispo, 93401 February 24, 1970 children, They concern the wel- fare and the unity of the nation. The matter is simple. Black America is frustrated. But its frustration stems from the violence which inevitably must and does accompany a violation of rights and dignity. End the cen- tury-old racist war against Black America and the frustration ends. RECEIVED MARCH 2, 1970 Garry, Drefus, McTernan & Brotsky He said; ‘‘Now 1 know all the words. I know all the gimmicks and the phrases that would win the applause of Black audiences and professional civil rights leaders, I’m not going to use them, I'm interested in deeds. I’m in- terested in closing the performance gap and IF we can get our wel- fare reform. IF we can stop the rise of crime which terrorizes those who live in our central cities. IF we can move on the programs that I mention with regard to rual areas--where 52 percent of the Black people live, IF we pro- vide the job opportunity and the opportunity for business enterprise for Black people and other minority for, then, when I finish office, I would rather be measured by my deeds than all the fancy speeches I may have made, And | think then Gentlemen: Please place this letter in my permanent personal parole file, I hereby request that my Attorneys be present at the hearing when the Adult Authority considers my parole this April, and that my Attorneys have access to review and reproduction of the documents which the Adult Authority will consider and base their decision upon, prior to the hearing, I hereby request a written statement of all reasons why I am on Lock-Up, in- cluding a separate specification of each reason and a statement of whether the said reason is that I refuse, on grounds of constitutional principle, to work for less than the minimum wage, and until all inmates receive the minimum wage, As you know, and as I previously stated in writing, I have requested permission to use the Educational facilities offered by the State of California to all prison- ers, including correspondence courses, all of which has been denied, MALCOLM X “The death of Malcolm X left Elijah Muhammed in unchallenged control of the largest Black or- ganization in this country.’’ C, Eric Lincoln Malcolm X--The Man and His Times I further request that my reply and my Attorneys’ reply in writing to the state- ment of reasons be placed in the file and considered by the Adult Authority, 0? Unsfen / Newton The unprovoked attack by the Black Muslims against the people attending a Malcolm X Fund Raising Memorial Program was uncalled for, Black students at- tending the Philadelphia Commun- ity College were sponsoring this activity so that the people could once again share the thoughts, Huey CC: ideas and philosophy of brother Charles Garry Malcolm, slain leader of our peo- Fay Stender ple. The evening of Saturday, Senator Mervin Dymally February 2lst, again witnessed the antagonistic responses of reac- tionary elements within the strug- portunities to them, and to their abject failure of City, State and } Federal governments to end the 3 Nixon didn’t entertain that idea. } THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 7 the Black people may opprove of what we (Republicans) did, 1 don’t think I’m going to win them with the words” (imp. W.L,P.) The iffy speech was over. No mention was made of the racist policy of government that violates the nation’s commitment to the Charter of the United Nations as well as the Constitution of the U,S.A, To close the performance gap pro- found changes in the economic, political and social structure of the U.S, are needed, Such changes are needed even for reforms for to be waged, A promise of deeds based upon an iffy program which does not condemn the racist policy of government can only be a monstrous hoax. The performance gap stems from a hundred years failure to enforce the Constitution. Nixon seeks now to pack the top court with racist THE PERFORMANCE GAP AND THE RACIST POLICY reactionaries, With racist spokes- men at this strategic point of government, progressive laborites will find the fight to better their conditions imperiled, the peace advocates will be menaced, the Nixon-Agnew Mitchell axis masses for an intensification of its war against Black Americans and all semblance of democracy and peace “tendangered’’, The evil deeds of Nixon are not aimed alone at Black America, The call for black-white unity in strug- gle is not a call predicated on the needs of Black citizens alone, Deeds are necessary, They must result from the unity of action of the peace forces, the National Liberation front fighters of America and those from the ranks of labor who understand its historic role as a leader in the fight to save the U.S.A, and bring world peace, WILLIAM L, PATTERSON BLACK MUSLIMS ASSAULT THE PEOPLE AT MALCOLM X FESTIVAL HELD AT PHILADELPHIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE gle for the libertion of our people. On Saturday, because certain Muslims disliked the idea of peo- ple honoring Malcolm, they de- cided to disrupt the program, They did this in the form of throwing chairs at women and children, direct attacks on brothers and total disregard for the human rights of the people. They re- vealed themselves to the people as an enemy, thus lowering them- selves to the level of Pigs. On Saturday, February 21,1970, it was truly seen by the people, that the Black Muslims have fallen victims to their ownpredictions of doom for the White devil; they in turn react as Black devils. At this stage and time, one would hope that the Black Muslims would reevaluate their concept of who and what the oppressor really is, therefore, eliminating their op- pressive tactics against their own brothers and all people. After the incident occured at the college, the Black Panther Party was asked by the brothers and Sisters to come to the school. The Party responded by sending Panthers to investigate the sit- uation. Interviews were held with individuals who had witnessed the attack, The Black Student League spon- sored the affair, their primary ob- jective as stated before, was asa- lute to Malcolm, The income from the benefit was to be, used as a scholarship fund for Black stu- dents entering and attending the college. At the onset of the program, the Muslims rose from their seats, and began to condemn. When they were asked to leave, they began to attack the people. One child was injured in the chair throwing melee, One brother was badly beaten, kickedein, the,eye, and the result of his injury may impair his eyesight, The Black Student League is re- questing an official apology from Muslim leader Jeremiah X and from Muslim leader Elijah Mu- hammed. Feelings of the groupare that they did nothing to provoke such an attack, The feelings expressed by several of those interviewed re- lated that the attack upon the pro- gram and the people was planned, There isalsosome speculation that the Muslims were also armed, It is at this point, that the Black Panther Partywishestostress to CONT. ON PAGE 16 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 8 Bobby Seale Raps on the Conspiracy Trial, the New Haven Panther Trial and the New York Panther 21 Trial LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE (Editor’s Note: The following in- terview with Bobby Seale, Chair- man of the Black Panther Party, was conducted in his San Francis- co jail cell where he is awaiting extradition proceedings to extradite him to Connecticut He and 14 other New Haven Panthers are charged witn conspiracy to murder Alex Rack- ley. The Panthers claim that Rack- ley was a Panther in good stand- ing, murdered by a police agent.) INTERVIEWER: Can you tell us what it was like going back to Chicago to testify in the conspiracy trial? SEALE: I was simply testifying for the other seven defendants, based on the fact that I was there in Chicago . They demanded that I be allowed to come as a witness, The testimony in essence brought out g@ that the speech I gave was about our right to defend ourselves and that we won’t compromise that right, Of course Dick Schultz tried to trick me with trick questions but I swore to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and in the process of telling the truth I speak my own mind, in my own tone, I literally told Dick Schultz at one point that he was asking trick questions and he knew he was, the questions that he was throwing at me were basically un- intelligible. I said, ‘‘I don’t un- derstand what it is, and I'm sure the jury doesn’t even understand what it is’’, Dick Schultz had to admit that, well yeah, maybe the question was unintelligible. And he proceeded to ask the question in a more intelligible light which I answered more readily. Under testimony, I always an- swer questions with qualifications so that people will understand what my answer is. A witness has the right to answer a question anyway he wants, he can’t be forced to answer yes or forced to answer no. He has to answer a question if he can answer it. It was a trick operation that Schultz was trying to pull, We had a tape recording and a tran- scription of my Lincoln Park speech in the courtroom, so peo- ple were able to see exactly what I said. Previously, Pierson, who was a witness for the government, had testified that I had said, ‘Kill the pigs, off the pigs.’ But of course, those were not my words, I never even used those words in that form or fashion. Pierson also said in that testi- mony that I had said that we should assassinate Mayor Daley, I had never even mentioned Daley's Name in my speech, or ever men- tioned assassinating anyone. The words, the terms, the reference weren’t even implied in the speech in Lincoln Park. The tape record- ing cleared that up, the actual tran- scription being given to the jury members while they listened to the tape of exactly what I said, So Schultz moved to the other speech that I gave, in Grant Park, and tried to say that I said that we should ‘‘Kill all the pigs and sendthem to the morgue on a slab,’’ I never even used the term “morgue on a slab’’, I don't even relate to defining statements that way, and I never said that. Garry said that I shouldn’t even answer the question because if there was no transcription of the speech at Grant Park the second day, after the Lincoln Park speech, then Schultz would stick someone on the stand in the future to lie on me and try to send me to jail for perjury. Claiming that I did say tnat wnen in fact I didn’t, So Garry instructed me that I shouldn’t even answer that ques- tion on the grounds that it might tend to incriminate me, but he was speaking futuristically of how Schultz might try to manipulate or operate in such a way as to get me in jail. But that’s generally what hap- pened atthe trial; Itestifiedall day thatday. Direct examination and cross examination, and I ex- plained the language of the ghetto and what we say and what we mean by those things. A couple of the jurors even smiled at me, it seemed that they were glad to see me again, for some reason or another. INTERVIEWER: Did you get a ‘chance to see the other defend- ants at all? SEALE: They wouldn’t let me see the defendants at all. I saw them as I came into the courtroom but there were two or three marshals between me and the defendants. And everybody in the courtroom stood up and said, ‘‘Bobby, how ya ‘‘doin’’? and all that. The judge didn’t like that, At one point in the testimony, I was trying to qualify my answer to a question, but they didn’t want me to qualify it. They had asked me some kind of question about whether I meant “picking up a piece’ as a gun, I said yes, and also, I was getting ready to say, Picking up a piece could be any- thing, a mechanism to defend your- self with because we’re a broad political Party. And the true wea- pon, as I referred to it in the speech, is all the people united against fascism, pig brutality and oppression, That’s why I was going to qualify myself in saying what a piece was because a piece could be very broad, it’s not limited to a gun. So this guy says, ‘‘No, no he’s already answered the question, I don’t want him to answer any- more,’’ I said, ‘‘What do you mean, I'm going to answer the question my own say.’’ ‘‘Mr, Seale, you’ ve already answered.’ I said, “I strike ‘the question, I’m not going to let you use that question to try to incriminate me.’’ The judge got mad, ‘‘I’ll do the striking from the record.’ I said, “You can do the striking from the record, but that question there is not answered right. So I don’t ac- cept it, it’s not answered the way I wanted to answer it.’’ They didn’t dig that. Then they went on with the cross examination. INTERVIEWER: Do you have any general feelings now about the con- spiracy trial? SEALE: It's a complete railroad operation, and anyone knows that Hoffman takes the side of the gov- ernment, Every once in a while you read in the papers about how some slick lawyer for the power structure is going to try to clean up for Hoffman, They say Hoff- man knows how to use the law -- Hoffman don’t know how to use no law. Hoffman knows some law ver- batim and can take them out of pi- geonholes and use them against People to cover up his fascist BOBBY SEALE, CHAIRMAN, B.P.P. operation, but everybody can see that the man is completely biased and prejudiced toward the defend- ants, myself or anybody else who protests or dissents. INTERVIEWER: How about the jury, is it possible that they haven’t been taken in or have been moved enough by the defense that they won't come in with a guilty ver- dict? SEALE: I feel that the jury has been taken in, I really do, But there are a couple of jurors who are seemingly, just from watching their actions, more open-minded. I just don’t know anything about the rest of the jurors, I’ve been looking at them, I remember that one of them actually cried croco- dile tears when the judge sat up there like a fool and gagged me. Overall, we can’t separate the trial from the Nixon-Agnew- Mitchell team, everybody knows that. If they don’t know that they have to understand it. I under- stand another thing about the trial, about the way Hoffman has made all those deliberate legal mistakes and biases with the prosecution. When the case goes to higher courts for appeals, obviously the Nixon - Agnew - Mitchell admin- istration would prefer the case be thrown out on a mistrial basis or violation of the defendants’ con- stitutional rights. They don’t want it thrown out on the constitution- ality of the said law that we were all charged with. Because under- standing how the regime builds itself into a more overt fascist state than it is already, they need this law as a means, they need this law on the books for the next ten, fifteen, twenty-five yearsto scare people away and to trump- up charges on the people just from going to a speaking engage- ment. That’s very important for people to see and understand in an overall way, My general attitude toward the overall trial, you know what that is. And it’s not only because I’m a defendant, because I know what it’s doing to the constitutional rights of the American peole as a whole, Black people's rights have been violated for so many years, and now even White people’s rights are violated in the country overtly like this, then Black people will never get any freedom. And if Black people’s rights are contin- ually being violated, then it’s ob- vious that White people’s rights are being violated. My overall attitude toward the trial is a com- plete rejection of a fascist opera- tion. INTERVIEWER: Right now you're waiting tobesent to New Haven | it, from Florida. for trial there, do you have any comment abou that trial? SEALE: This is going to be ano- ther fascist operation, it’s not anything else but that. We have a lot of information that I think we're going to have trouble get- ting in. We have a lot of facts, we can prove George Sams to be an agent--and I think the court is going to do everything they can to stop us from being able to pre- sent these things in court to prove that this is part and parcel of a government operation behind the scenes with fascist agents and a Black racist. George Sams isthe key one, the main person who has done all this to try to discredit the Black Panther Party. I think most people aren’t going to want to understand it, we have a hard fight against us in this trial, and we have a lot of things we have to bring out, Sergeant DeRosa of the New Haven police departmentis one of the main ones working on the local level in conjunction with the fed- eral fascist pigs to get this thing against us, And one of the re- , cent things they did concerning Warren Kimbro was that Sgt. De- Rosa got a hold of Warren Kim- bro’s brother who is a police- man, a pig in my definition of He came to town under an assumed name. Warren Kimbro’s sister,who is not in jail,didn’t even know that her policeman brother was in town, He and Sgt. DeRosa went be- hind the lawyers’ backs and be- gan to question Warren and scare him and threaten him, They scared him with the electric chair, they scared him about his kids and everything, who are already being oppressed in the community. Warren Kimbro, seemingly from all the informationI got now ,is a new member to the Party, He was scared and copped out to a second degree murder charge. His brother ,Sgt, DeRosa scared the hell out of him, and he jumped up and hollered he would plead guilty to this thing which he’s not guilty of, he was just trying to get off, I guess, with some short time or something they supposedly promised him Now the lawyer for Warren Kimbro has filed a mo- tion on the basis that it Was in- voluntary, and one of the most direct violations of constitutional rights for the police to make War- ren Kimbro talk by scaring him. The police had told Warren Kim- bro after_he talked that he was going to have to fire his lawyer. Well, he hadn’t fired his lawyer and the lawyers filed a motion on an involuntary plea. So we'll see what happens. Warren Kimbro may retract his guilty pleas. But anyway, this is the behind the scenes operation that has been con- sistently going on. Another thing we heard is this so-called Sams is up there in the jail and they've given him a club to walk around the jail with,He’s beating and brutalizing pri- soners up there, saying that he’s going to get out of jail pretty soon andhe’llrun the jail. He's just a righteous pig brutalizing the other inmates in the jail. INTERVIEWER: Do you have any information about what happened to Frances Carter? SEALE: They gave her six months for what they call contempt of court, Because at one point she took the fifth amendment on one question or something like this, so she got six months in jail. INTERVIEWER: Do you think they were trying to bribe her or some- thing? SEALE: They were trying to set her up to get her to probably lie on me, to get her probably to lie on Erica Huggins, the lead- ers of the Party--use onetosmash ten, something like that. But it didn’t work, It's another one of the operations I think that people should look into to show that the case against us is a bunch of flimsy bull, and that they’ re work- ing behind the scenes and trying to getpeople to come up scared of the electric chair and offer im- munity to one or two or three people, or something like this. If they testify they won't be prosecuted, But they probably want to make her say on the witness stand that somebody did this, somebody did this, make her lie on the witness stand against other members, She didn’t go for it, which is very good. I don’t know how long she’d been in the Party at the time, but it’s good that she understood that this is the way the pig power structure works, to use one against another. I think that it’s very progressive and I would hope she doesn’t get scared at any point, We're not guilty ofthis, and we'll just gorighton down to the end with it, and let peopie know what’s going on, becuase we've got in- formation to expose Sams for what he is, INTERVIEWER: To your know- ledge was Alex Rackley a Panther in good standing or a_ police agent? SEALE: I never knew Rackley, but what’s been reported to me so far; Alex Rackley was a brother in good standing, a brother who was jammed seemingly by this agent George Sams. Everything seemingly was done by George Sams from all the information we got, And then it’s all turned around and the federal government and the establishment press has used all this to try to animalize the Black Panther Party, to try to smash the Black Panther Party and blame it on Party members, Alex Rackley was a brother in the Black Panther Party and he was murdered and this is what the situation is. We’re just as mad about that as about Bobby Hutton or ‘another, Although I never knew him at all, it’s another murderous operation that went down. In the when this first started hitting us in the face we had to figure out what was going on, But through our investigations we’ve come up with enough information to know what’s going on. We suspected in the first place, because we knew we weren’t guilty, and now with the other information we've got that we know we can present in court, we’ll start announcing the fact that we’re gonna deal with it. INTERVIEWER: In New York, a similar case where Panthers have been charged with blowing up the Botannical Gardens and Depart- ment Stores, where they're still in jail on enormously high bail-- ts there anything you can say about the progress of this case? SEALE: One sister on $100,000 finally got out . Some organization paid the whole $100,000 bail They still won't let the others out. This is the latest progress in the whole thing We just don’t have enough money to bail all the brothers out because they keep it at $100,000 each which is over $1,000,000 altogether. And the bail bondsmen as usual are scared to bail them out, This fear doesn’t come from whether or not we can pay the money, bail bondsmen know we can put up the money because ultimately we will keep working until we reaise all the funds, But it’s the power struture behind the scene which threatens the bail bondsman with licenses and stuff not to touch the rest of the mem- bers. Dahruba, one of the leaders of the New York Chapter, is the one they definitely don’t want to get out, We need Dahruba out because he has a lot of information--we think they might want to try to kill Dahruba because he has in- formation on the | proyacateur agents directly related to lying on the Panthers and putting this together. Blowing up buildings, one thing I'll say and I’ve said before and everybody knows is that we don’t blow up buildings with our People it it, we don’t blow up buildings where our people go be- cause you don't organize people Get off your ‘do nothing’ stool and do something , like supporting the Black youth. Remember the days when Mama would bring Miss Ann's left over dinners home for her family; and Black Johnny wear- ing white Johnny's clothes, And the days of the ‘zoot suit’ and the ‘reet pleat’, and you couldn’t have one? I could be talking about 40 years ago or I could be talking about today because the same things are happening, You are told to support the ‘blue feather’, you support it; you are told to support the ‘green cross’ you sup- Port it, now I’m asking you to support the Black youth. Because our fore~parents left us no heri- tage, is this what you are going to leave our Black youth? You pay for men to go to the moon, and all the pay our children are asking is for a little support. dusty faces......and all of them are saying help. Think of all the free breakfasts that could be initiated if you would get up off you ‘rusty dusty’. Do you love your children? You say you love your children -- “Il am my brother’s keeper’. How can you say you love me whom you have never seen and hate the Black Panthers. Trust them. I really want to thank my little Black brothers and sisters for the pri- vilege of knowing them and enjoying them, And to you big brothers and sisters, let’s span the ‘generation gap’ by remembering: the things that happened to ‘World War I babies’ are still happening to ‘World War If babies’. The word is help, help each other and we can get out of this mess. You have been brainwashed all these years, the only way to remedy this is to think black, @ = My generation has failed, the youth of today are trying-we did not try- there’s nothing that beats a tryer but a failure; don’t put § them down and they will not fail. Look in the mirror. Look in one of my little Black brother's faces, © look at the resemblance, (help). One of the Black’s man’s faults is the lack of togetherness, With your knowledge and their youth the time is now, Time isn’t as long as it has been so’ let’s get to- gether. Remember that if some- thing isn’t done there will be no future Black generation, The Black youth needs you to keep the ball rolling; if you don’t know how, listen to them, ‘* out of the mouths of babies’’....my grandmother used to tell me about how the streets would be paved of gold , like ir says in the Bible, and the youth are looking for those streets of gold, now; help them . As for violence remember , {CAL ‘Billie “Holiday's song’ ‘Strange Lae USA mg Fruit’’ about the smell of burnt = Bead flesh? That ain't violence? It’s You know I have walked the got to be lynchings. I really didn’t streets and looked at little hear about our Black youth lynching children some of them with Black anybody lately; the word is self pris 0 FASCISM School Situation In Roosevelt, Long Island THIS RACIST SYSTEM OF AMERICA HAS SHOWN HOW OP- PRESSIVE IT CAN BE IN THE SMALL BLACK COMMUNITY OF ROOSEVELT, LONG ISLAND. Since the beginning of 1970, three sisters and two brothers have been jumped on by racist teachers and one nigger assistant principal, Joan Marshall was hit twice by a white guidance counselor, once in the back and then in the chest. This is supposed to be one of the ‘liberal’ pigs in the school, But we know what that liberal stands for ‘‘a liberal amount of racism’. One week later to the day, another sister, Gail Mitchell, was offed by a white substitute teacher ;a third sister was beaten by a white female gym teacher. Noaction was taken against any of these teachers, Besides this, two brothers have beer beaten, one by a nigger assistant principal, Another teacher, came ‘out again * the Black Panther Party, He s 1 the Black Panther Party wo * affiliated with the Catholic € , that it was ‘a fraternal € ization’’, and that it waspaid ot Sy the government and various go ernment officials to spy on other Black groups. When he was confronted by a group of students as to the real function ofthe Party, he claimed that he was just trying to start a discussion between the students, The problem in Roosevelt goes much deeper than teacher bru- tality and bigoted ignorance. A prime example of this is the pig « on the school board who is a KKK member, The mass corruption not only exists in the school but extends into the community. An abortion right exists in the community to take care of any girl who becomes pregnant by two administrators. These pigs blackmail sisters who have gotten into ‘‘minor trouble’’ into doing anything and every- thing they want them to do. Another thing is that the Roose- velt School District is supposed to be on ‘Austerity Budget’? which means that money can’t be spent on new books, hot lunches (which in Roosevelt means that almost 30 of the students in the district are not getting the one hot meal a day they would have gotten be- cause they are on welfare), or a sports program. In other words, every thing that is really essen- tial to learning. In Roosevelt, Black children are starving and the power structure has set upa sports program, but no books, nor food, All this man wants Black people to do is play ball, be a good nigger and never learntodo some- thing constructive. In spite of all the problems the students are facing, we are de- termined to keep on fighting until that school relates to our needs and Black - people control that school district,turning it into an institution of learning instead of the prison it is now, STUDENTS OF THE ROOSEVELT SCHOOL DISTRICT defense. Remember Emmit Till? Today a Black youth cannot stand on the corner without the threat of being picked up for loitering, etc. Wake up Mr. or Mrs. ‘World War I Baby’. This Black child is mine, Panther or not. What about your child, is yours so different? They are for real with the same Physical characteristics as any other child. You and I have been known as ‘animals from the zoo’ but Black youth won’t stand it any more, Think, what would have happened if we had their guts? I’ve known Panthers personally for a couple of years and I haven't been bitten or scratched. ‘World War I Black Babies’ please help Black youth, if not for their sake, for yours. Lois Nichols HE AND GET HIS BUSINESS STRAIGHT, BECAUSE IF HE DOES NOT DO IT NOW, IF HE FAILS TO GRASP SECURELY THE REINS OF THIS HISTORIC OPPORTU- ELDRIDGE Min, of Information, BLACK MAN AN’T AFFORD TO TAKE A CHANCE, HE AN’T AFFORD TO S OFF, HE CLEAVER THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 9 KEITH BARNES — SHOT To The World War | Babies...... 10 DEATH BY PIGS It Happened People of St. Paul! You have heard of people being shot by pigs for no reason in Chicago, New York, or Los Angeles. Many of you said that doesn’t relate to me, and it can’t happen here, Well, Keith Barnes is dead. He was shot by a pig for no reason. AND IT HAPPENED IN ST. PAUL! On the evening of February 7, at the Factory Lounge, somewhere between 11;30-11:45, Charles, Ma- rion, and Keith Barnes entered the two doors of the factory, After Keith had passed a pig ID check without being challenged, Charles was tugged and asked to produce, An argument started with what Charles thought was an ordinary racist; the pig hadn’t identified himself. Charles then followed the pig outside because the pig had suggested that he wanted to fight, After they had gone out the door a bouncer told Marion what was happening. Marion, upon hearing this, ran out the door to tell Charles not to hit the pig. But, even as he ran out, a second pig sprayed mace on the back of his neck. Charles had already started to defend himself. Keith, seeing that both his bro- thers were under attack, moved in their defense by pushing and knocking down the second pig into a snowbank, The pig got up draw- ing his gun, Marion who was in the line of fire, got out of the In St. Paul way warning Keith. The pig fired, just missing Marion, but hitting Keith as he was trying to get back into the building. In the end, Keith was dead, Charles was arrested for assault, and Marion was set free to be arrested later at the pig sty when he went to see about his brother. The pig was allowed to walk the streets to kill more oppressed peo- ple. He was never put in jail. The killing of Keith Barnes was, to the smelly pigs, ‘justifiable homicide’. Until we are able to take care of our own, until we decentra- lize the fascist police forces, un- til we have an end to police bru- tality and murder of Black peo- ple which is Point No. 7 of the Black Panther Party's Plat- form and Program, until we can make ALL POWER TO THE PEO- PLE a reality, there is only one thing we can do to protect our- selves--that is simply ARM YOURSELVES OR HARM YOUR- SELVES--for oppressed people of St. Paul, it may be you next, MARTIN LUTHER KING-HUEY P, NEWTON COMMUNITY CENTER 613 Selby Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55104 612-226-1976 Gary Hogan LETTER TO THE EDITOR LSCCRC violently opposes the actions of Judge Hoffman in his treatment of the Conspiracy 10. The workings of this trial high- light the tone and climate of to- day’s political world- one of heightened oppression which no longer escapes the label of fascism. This trial is onlya micro- cosm of the entire political cli- mate and the social and moral malaise which inflicts our society, and graphically portrays this coun- try’s manifest evils of racism and imperialism. It is important to realize that other trials in pro- gress now are faced with the same alarming obstacles; the Panther 21 case in New York, the Panther 14 in New Haven, to name but two. Political repression has taken on new dimensions in Chicago, where Dep. Chairman Fred Hamp- ton of the Black Panther Party, has been summarily executed in bed for his political beliefs through the efforts of a conspiracy of pu- blic officials, It must be remem- bered that the alleged offense upon which these public officials *tacted’’ was illegal possession of weapons, the same offense which recently caused a White Mafia suspended sentence of two years, Furthermore, the trial of the sur- vivors will soon commence in Chi- cago; another political trial which will leave the notions of justice relegated to the historical junk heap. Each poor man, each Black man and those who dare dissent ace this multifaceted guillotine whichis misnomered as‘‘jus- ice’’. To organize, clothe, or give medical aid to the poor, to de- end oneself against police bru- tality, to demonstrate at welfare offices, and to propose low income housing become political crimes when the disenfranchised and the poor themselves attempt tounder- take these tasks - LSCRRC, human beings firstand only secondas law- yers, refuses to condone these out- rageous injustices. We refuse to become ‘‘good Germans’’ and only ask that others fight to retain their human dignity by fighting for the human dignity of others. LSCRRC gives total support to the Conspiracy 10 and condemns: member in Chicago to receive a 1) the jailing for contempt of Bob- by Seale, Chairman of the Black Panther Party. We not only con- demn his deniai of counsel and deprivation of the right to defend himself but also contend, as he did, that a Black man, especially a Black man who fights for dig- nity for the Black race, cannot receive a fair trial in America; 2) the jailing of the others of the Conspiracy 8 for contempt. We feel that it is not only the right but the duty of both defendants and lawyers to protest and ridi- cule a system which has become illegitimate, Only through confron- tation, both in and out ofthe court- room, may the system, which has become illegitimate, be moved and changed; 3) the contempt citations against William Kunstler and Leonard Weinglass. As human beings, these lawyers followed the dictates of their consciences and have helped to open up an avenue of respect for lawyers. Only when the law- yers raise their voices and refuse to be co-opted by the ‘rules of the game’’ may they gain respect and hope to establish any modi- cum of equality and justice within the legal system; 4) Judge Hoffman, js an alumnus of this school, and is inhuman. However, we must realize that Hoffman is only one small cog in the system of injustice which has created the social, political, and economic climate which allows and promotes such atrocities. LSCRRC, therefore )asks every- one to join in the fight against oppression, racism, and imperial - ism, Not only on behalf of lawyers or the Conspiracy 8, but, most importantly, on behalf\of all the people of the world who live under oppression, whether they be Black, White, Red,» Yellow or Brown. LSCRRC COORDINATING COM- MITTEE (LAW STUDENTS CIVIL RIGHTS RESEARCH COUNCIL) Northwestern University of Law 357 East Chicago Avenue Chicago, Illinois INTERNATIONAL SECTION, B.P.P. Alger, Algeria SUBJECT: Press Release DATE: March 2, 1970 CONCERNING: The pre-planned po- litical murder of Bobby Seale, Chairman of the Black Panther Party, in the electric chair in the state of Connecticut, The Primary Task of the American Revolution, at this point in our history, is to defeat the Number One maneouver of the fascist power structure, whichis to make an example of Bobby Seale by putting him to death in the Electric Chair in the state of Connecticut, The fascists have already decided in advance to murder Chairman Bobby Seale in their all-out effort to destroy the leadership of the Black Panther Party and to intimidate our member- ship in particular and all other pro- gressive people and organizations, This should be crystal clear even to a blind man, The vicious political persecution of Chairman Bobby Seale ranges in time over a four year period--from the very beginning of the Black Panther Party-- and, geographically, it follows atwisted trail of trumped-up charges from Oak- land, Sacramento, Berkeley, San Fran- cisco, Chicago, and nowto Connecticut, The plot against Bobby Seale inpartic- ular is so outrageously obvious that even these shameless pigs should not have the gall to try to pull it off, But the fact that they are going full speed ahead with their disgraceful con- Spiracy should make it clear to the American people, once and for all, that a desperate hour is uponus and we have no time to loose if we areto salvage the situation, Because one thing must be made absolutely clear to America; no matter what the White people of America are prepared to accept, Black people do not accept this ultimate at- tempt to bind and. gag Bobby Seale with al death because of the fearless leadership that he has given to our people, Black people will never accept this premeditated decision of the fascist power structure to murder Chairman Bobby Seale in the Electric Chair, So that the question is nowposed, pure and simple: Is America going to have a Class War or a Race War? The fascists have already declared war uponthe peo- ple, Will the people as a whole rise up to meet this challenge with a righteous People’s War againstthese fascist pigs, or will Black people have to goit alone, thus transforming a dream of inter- racial solidarity into the nightmare of a Race War? Our brothers are being murdered in their sleep by the shock troopers of the power structure; our offices are being subjected to all-out military attack; our lawyers are being sentenced to prison along with us; and the fascist Nixon Administration has unleashed the polit- ical police of the F.B.I, and thrown away all pretenses of justice and e- quality under the law, Lip-service to the Constitution of the United States of America has been replaced by out- right fascist terror and naked repres- sion, Hundreds of our Party members have been jacked-up on highly political charges, Scores of our Party members languish in jails and prisons, subjected to scandalously high bails that are tantamount to RANSOM. Throughout the length and breath of this depraved land, the situation is the same, It is nothing but an attempt to sabotage the 400 year struggle of our people for free- dom and liberation. Our Minister of Defense, Huey P, Newton, teaches us that in order to have security from the unceasing ag- gressions of the enemy, we must always be in a position to inflict a political con- sequence upon the aggressor for each act of aggression. This attempt to mur- der Chairman Bobby Seale cold- bloodedly in the Electric Chair is an open provocation and the ultimate ag- gression against Black people, {It is a calculated step.taken by fascist pigs in the unfolding of their vicious blueprint of genocide against Black people. We, Black people,-if.we are forced to go it alone, must be prepared to, unleash the ultimate political:cconsequenceupon this racist nation, The ultimate political con- sequence which Black people ‘have in their power to unleash is RACE WAR. Indeed, we. have been and at this very moment are the victims of a systematic racist repression, The Black Panther Party, as everybody knows, hastakena leading role intrying to avoid precisely this Gisasterous RACE WAR which the fascist Oppressors have been woxking night and day to bring about, But we cavinot and will not continue this policy to the point of racial suicide, We will not. sacrifice Chairman Bobby Seale on the alter of interracial harmony if White people continue to sit back and allow this ghastly plot to-go forward, So if the so-called fréedom loving White peo- ple of America do not standup now, while there are still afew momesis of time left, and put an end to the perse- cution.of Chairman Bobby Seale, then Black people-wili have to.go it alone and step forward atone. This will mean the end of our dreams for the#Class War which America needs and the be- ginniag of the Race War which America cannot’ endure, This is the politicai con- sequence which America faces because of this unspeakablly evil attempt to murder Chairman Bobby Seate in» the Electric Chair, BLACK PANTHER PARTY Min, of Information Eldridge Cleaver THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 12 IN DEFENSE OF SELF DEFENSE July 3, 1967 Historically, the power structure has demanded that Black leaders cater to their desires and to the ends of the im- perialistic racism of the oppressor. The power structure has endorsed those Black leaders who have reduced them- selves to nothing more than apologizing parrots. They have divided the so-called Black leaders within the political arena, The oppresssors sponsor radio programs, give space in their racist newspapers, and have shown them the luxury enjoyed only by the oppressor, The Black leadersservethe oppressor by purposely keeping the people submissive and passive - non-violent. Historically, there have been a few Black men who have rejected the handouts of the oppressor and who have re- fused to spread the oppressor’s treacherous principles of deceit, gradual indoctrination and brainwashing, and who have refused to indulge in the criminal activity of teaching submission, fear, and love for an enemy who hates the very color Black and is determined to commit genocide on an international scale, There has always existed in the Black colony of Afro- America a fundamental difference over which tactics from the broad spectrum of alternatives Black people should em- ploy in their struggle for national liberation, One side of this difference contends that Black people are§ in the peculiar position where, in order to gain acceptance into the ‘‘mainstream’’ of American life, they must employ no tactic that will anger the oppressor Whites. This view holds the Black people constitute a hopeless minority and that salvation for Black people lies in developing brotherly relations, There are certain tactics that are taboo. Violence against the oppressor must be avoided at all costs, because the oppressor will retaliate with superior violence. So Black people may protest, but no protect. They can complain, but not cut and shoot, In short, Black people must at all costs remain non-violent. On the other side of the difference, we find that the point of departure is the principle that the oppressor has no rights that the oppressed is bound to respect. Kill the slave- master, destroy him utterly, move against him with im- Placable fortitude, Break his oppressive power by any means necessary, Men who have stood before the Black masses and recommended this response to the oppression have been held in fear by the oppressor, The Blacks in the colony who were wed to the non-violent alternative could not relate to the advocated of implacable opppsition to the oppressor, Because the oppressor always prefers to deal with the less radical, i.e., less dangerous, spokesmen for his subjects. He would prefer that his subjects had no spokesmen at all, or better yet, he wishes to speak for them himself, Unable to do this practically, he does the next best thing, and en- dorses spokesmen who will allow him to speak through them to the masses, Paramount amongst his imperatives is to see to it that implacable spokesmen are never allowed to communicate their message to the masses. They are never allowed to communicate their message to the masses. The: oppressor will resort to any means necessary to silence the implacables, The oppressor, the endorsed spokesmen, and the implac- ables form the three points of a triangle of death. The op- pressor looks upon the endorsed spokesmen as a tool to use against the implacables to keep the masses passive withing the acceptable limits of the tactics he is capable of containing. The endorsed spokesmen look upon the op- pressor as a guardian angel who can always be depended upon to protect them from the wrath of the implacables, while he looks upon the implacables as dangerous and ir responsible madmen who, by angering the oppressor, will : certainly provoke a blood bath in which they themselves might get washed away.,The implacables view both theop- = pressors and the endorsed leaders as his deadly enemies, If anything, he has a more profound hatred for the endorse¢ leaders than he has for the oppressor himslef, because the implacables know that they can deal with the oppressor only after they have driven the endorsed spokesmen off the scene. Historically, the endorsed spokesmen have always held the upper hand on the implacables. In Afro-American history, — there are shining breif moments when the implacables have outmaneuvered the oppressor and the endorsed spokes- men and gained the attention of the Black masses. The Black masses, recognizing the implacables in the depths of their dispair, respond magnetically to the implacables and bestow a devotion and loyalty to them that frightens the oppressor and endorsed spokesmen into a panic-stricken frenzy, and they leap into a rash act -- murder, imprisonment, or exile- HUEY P, NEWTON MINISTER OF DEFENSE 8.P.P. HUEY P, NEWTON MINISTER OF DEFENSE BLACK PANTHER PARTY by Huey P. Newton to silence the implacables and to get their show back on the road, The masses of Black people have always been deeply en- trenched and involved in the basic necessities of life. They have not had time to abstract their situation. Abstractions icome only with leisure. The people have not had the luxury of leisure. Therefore, the people have been very aware of the true definition of politics: politics are merely the desire of individuals and groups to satisfy first, their basic needs -- food, shelter and clothing, and security for them- selves and their loved ones, The Black leaders endorsed by the power structure have attempted to sell the people the simple-minded theory that politics is holding a political office; being able to move into a $40,000 home; being able to sit near White people ina restaurant (while in fact the @#Black masses have not been able to pay the rent of a $40,00 rat~infested hovel), The Black leaders have led the community to believe that brutality and force could be ended by subjecting the people to this very force of self-sacrificing demonstrations, The @Black people realize brutality and force can only be in- flicted if there is submission, The community has not re- ponded in the past or in the presen. to the absurd and er- rroneous, decitful tactics of so-called legitimate Black leaders, ‘The community realizes that force and brutality can only be eliminated by counter force through self defense. Leaders who have recommended these tactics have never had the support gand following of the downtrodded Black masses who comprise bulk of the community, Grassroots -- the downtrodden f the Black community, even though they rejected the hand- icked handkerchief heads endorsed by the power struc- re, the people have not had the academic or administra- ve knowledge to form themselves in long resistance’ to e brutality. Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X were he two Black men of the twentieth cen- vy who posed an implacable challenge o both: the oppressor and the endorsed bokesmen that could be dealt with inany ther way than precisely the foul. manner ecorded by history. Malcolm, in our ime, stood on the threshhold with the op- ressor and the endorsed spokesmen ina ag that they couldn’t get out of. Malcolm, mplacable tothe ultimate degree, held out o the Black masses the historical, stu- pendous victory of Black collective sal- vation and liberation from the'chains of the oppressor and the treacherous em- brace of the endorsed spokesmen. Only tth the gun were the Black masses enied this victory. But they learned from Malcolm that with the gun, they can re- apture their dreams and bring them into eality. The heirs of Malcolm now stand mil- ions strong on their corner of the tri- _angle, facing the racist dog oppressor and the soulless endorsed spokesmen. The hires of Malcolm have picked up the gun and, taking first things first, are moving to expose the endorsed spokesmen for the Black masses to see them for what they are and always have been. The choice offered by the hires of Malcolm to the -edorsed spokesmen is to repudiate the oppressor and to crawl back to their people and earn a speedy reprieve or face a merciless, speedy and most timely execution for treason and being too wrong for too long. THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF DEFENSE BELIEVES THAT THE TIME HAS COME FOR BLACK PEOPLE TO.ARM THEM- i SELVES AGAINST THIS TERROR BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. A PEO- i PLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED SO MUCH FOR SO LONG AT THE HANDS OF A RACIST SOCIETY, MUST DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE, WE BELIEVE THAT THE BLACK COMMUNITIES OF AMERICA + MUST RISE UP. AS ONE MAN TO HALT. THE: PROGRESSION OF A TREND THAT LEADS INEVITABLY TO THEIR TOTAL DESTRUCTION, When a person wants you to believe his or her lies, the best thing for them to do is to keep tricking you. Right On? Well, that’s exactly what the pigs of the power structure are doing. The pigs viciously attacked with intent to destroy the Black Pan- ther Chapters in Los Angeles and Chicago and many other places where the people have a functional organ of the Black Panther Party serving as their (the peoples’) eyes by “pointing out’’ the con- tradictions of this decadent ra- cist society, So when the people started em- bracing as their own (and they have) the many socialistic pro- grams-such as the free breakfast, free clothing, and free health clinics the pigs have no choice other than to disgise themselves as ‘victims of an unprovoked at- tack.’ The pigs have quit overtly trying to kick down our doors but they have started ripping off the brothers and sisters in the streets and in the fascist court rooms, They kidnapped the Chair- man, Bobby Seale, off the streets and dealt with him in the halls of injustice.’ You can also see what happengswhen you, the peo- ple, become indignant to this in- Sane madness - you get ripped off. The pigs constantly oink about the My Lai Massacre, and we know it is wrong, but we also know that the overall aggression by the U.S, cut-throat bandits in Viet Nam is wrong. We can objectively equate the My Lai Massacure in particular with the attempted genocide of the Black Panther Party in particular and the overall attempt of genocide of the Vietnamese People with the overall attempt of genocide of Black people here in Babylon. So the news media, as apologists for the ruling class, comes forth to try to divert the American Peoples’ attention elsewhere while war is being waged here. With in the past few weeks the Pigs of Richmond have stepped up their harassment tactics again. For a short period after the courageous battle in L.A, where ll Panthers defended the peoples office against at least 350 gestapo storm troopers, the Richmond Pigs seemed tobe leary of messing with Panthers. However the ‘‘lull’’ didn’t last for long. And so on January 7, 1970, the pigs started their harassment program of the Panthers in Richmond, Ray Edmerson was downtown selling papers when two pigs came by. One pig said out of the clear blue sky ‘‘what did you say?” Ray did not reply to this and kept on conducting propaganda, The pigs then proceeded to go down the block looked around, and then came back down the block where he was selling papers, One pigasked, ‘‘What’s your name?”’ and Ray told him his name. He then said ‘‘let's go’, Ray asked him was he under arrest and the pig said ‘‘yes'’; then Ray asked ‘what for’ and was told for fail- ia ASSMENT ing to produce proper identifica- tion, smoking in the streets and littering, He began looking for his comrades, Gloria and Eugene, but they were nowhere in sight. As they were going around the cor- ner onto 6th St., another brother, Joe, who was coming from the tleaners saw Ray being taken off by these pigs; he asked the pigs what the charges were and the Pigs said ‘littering’, When they got to the pig station and were going through the first jail door, one of the pigs grabbed Ray by the arm and threw him to the floor, while the other pig said, “‘what’s the matter, boy, can’t you walk?’ They also asked him was his nick name Daoud or Joe Cuba. He kept on saying his name was Ray Edmerson and that he lived at 520 Bissell St. They then said “You punks think you’re smart and if you keep on repeating your- self, we’re going to put you in a cell and throw the key away.” After they told him this, they took him into another room where they took his fingerprints for the Richmond F,B,I, When they finally let him go they said, You can go back and tell all your other friends now”. So Ray Edmerson, a member of the Black Panther Party was down- town selling the Peoples’ News Service when “* out of the gutters” two slimy pigs slinked onto the set and busted Ray for illegal pos- sesion of tobacco, a cigarette. Within a week the same slimy ilk arrestéd the brother for smoking a pipe downtown, On Feb. 9, 1970, Joe Veale and Eugene Balthazar had been selling the Peoples’ paper (Black Community News Service), Daoud Bey went to pick them up and Pick up breakfast food for the Free Breakfast for Children Pro- gram, The circumstances of their arrest were given as follows: (told by Daoud) I was with Eugene Balthazar and Joe Veale, who had been selling the peoples’ News Service at Mayfair Market, I, Daoud, went to pick them up and pick up breakfast for the Free Breakfast for School Children Program. We left Mayfair Market and headed straight down Cutting Blvd, to 6th St. Just as we approached 6th St. and Cutting, we noticed a police car, with 2 police of- ficers in it, turning onto Cutting from 6th St, They (the 2 officers) looked at us and we returned looks. We then proceeded to make the right hand turn off Cutting onto 7th St, heading for the office which is on 6th and Bissell Ave, I commented ‘‘watch ‘em mess with us,’’ Sure enough the police car turned left off Cutting onto 7th St. heading in the same di- rection as we were. They were cruising parallel with us until we reached Florida on 6th St. As we reached halfway between 6th and Florida Ave, and 6th and Ohio, the police turned on their ‘cherry top flasher’ and I Stopped the car at the stop sign of 6th and Ohio. As the car stop- ped, the motor died and we just Sat there, The police officer said ““Get out of the car.” So I got out and stood at the side of the car looking at the two policemen. They (the policemen) approached me, they asked for my driver’s license and registration. I immediately produced the license, but because I had just purchased the 1970 sticker and bought the car on the 3rd, of Feb., 1 hadn't received the registration yet. While the police officer had pos- Session of my driver’s license, he ordered me to get into the car, start it up, and drive it around the corner to park it. I refused telling him that I wouldn’t drive the car without a license because he would arrest me for driving without a driver’s license. He got angry behind this and told ‘me to push it then. Eugene, Joe and I pushed the car around the corner and I parked it next to the curb, We then walked back to the corner of 6th and Ohio where the street lights were shining. One officer was talking to me and the next thing I knew, they had Joe Veale up against their car searching him and had placed him under arrest, I asked the pigs why were they arresting Joe and one replied, ‘*Don’t you worry about it, you’re not under arrest yet.’ So I asked Joe why he was under arrest and he said, ‘'I don’t Know, they didn’t tell me yet.” While I was talking to Joe, I looked around and the pigs had Placed Eugene under arrest. I asked them why Eugene was under arrest and they said, ‘‘Lt’s none of your business, you’re not under arrest yet,'' I then asked the pigs why did they Stop us and one pig said, ‘‘We were going to give you a citation for going 40 m.p.h, in a 25 m.p.h. zone, but you’re so smart, we’ll make it 60.’ The pig then began to question me about my job, phone no., what I do, etc. I gave them my name, address, and place of birth and was then placed under arrest, At the time the pig was writing out the citation for speeding. He then told me to sign the ticket and I refused to do so, The pig told me to get against the wall, I complied and was then searched, handcuffed (tightly).and put in the pig mobile with Eugene. I told the pigs that we had some food in the back seat that was for the purpose of serving hungry children and asked if I could roll the windows up and lock the doors until I could notify someone to pick the food up. He said that he would do that. They had al- ready searched the car and when I told him that he had no right to do that, he just looked at me, and laughed and said ‘‘I just love potatoes’”’ there were potatoes in the car, There were 2 pig cars and 4 pigs. They drove us down to the Richmond Police Dept. We were told to get out of the car when we arrived at the station, marched into a waiting room to be viewed by all the rest of the pigs that THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7,'1970 PAGE 13 were there at the station at the time. We were then taken up- stairs in an elevator, and placed in a ‘‘holding’’ cell for a while. Eugene was taken first, then me, then Joe, We gave name, address and place of birth. The jailer got uptight, the pigs got uptight and said ‘‘to the devil with it, come with me.’’ They placed Joe and Eugene in a cell together and took me downon the far end by the windows. I asked to make a phone call, and was denied. However, a brother in the cell with me was allowed phone prive- leges, so I asked him to notify the party for us. He did it. We were held until about 1:30 p.m. The charges were dropped on Joe Veale and Eugene Balthazar, but the pigs prefer to prosecute the traffic charges, Then, on February 13, 1970, Eugene and Gloria were putting posters up about 6:30p.m. between 6th and Sth on Bissell on an apartment building with no com- Plaints from the people, While standing on the corner of Sth and Bissell, one pig car with only a driver went by; he looked but didn’t stop. Eugene and Gloria moved between 5th and 4th on Bissell, where Gloria started to put a poster up on a_ vacated Store window, but a man who said he owned it told them ‘no’ (de- facing private property). Less than ten minutes later they were being busted, One pig, probably the same one who went by the first time, stopped and told Eugene to come over to the car. He asked him his name and address and age. Eu- gene told Gloria to go back to the office and tell what was happening but she decided to stay since she didn’t know what could happen to Eugene, The pig had by then stopped his car and walked over to where they were, He asked how many were out and Eugene said ‘Just me and her.”’ Eugene asked the pig if he wanted them to take the posters down and the pig said ‘yeah’, All this time Gloria hadn’t said anything but name and address, so the pig said, ‘So you won’t talk, you’re under arrest’’; she walked over to the car which was in the middle of the street and got in. By now the corner was blocked off by 3 pig cars with about 4 to 5 pigs altogether on the scene, They put Eugene in another car handcuffing him because he was yelling at them. The whole arrest took ap- proximately three to five minutes. Gloria got to the pig station first where a matron was waiting out- side and was told to sit on a waiting room bench, When Eugene came in a few minutes later, they told the two of them to give them some information so they won’t have to book or jail them as it was just a misdemeanor violation. They didn’t comply so they were taken upstairs and half the booking process was completed, then they put them in a separate cell. About 10:00 p.m. they brought Gloria out to complete booking and let her make a phone call, She was told that someone had called 3 or 4 times and that a lawyer was trying to get them out on their own recognizance instead of $315.00 bail. They finally let them out about mid- night. The pigs tried to be overly nice even paternalistic, like they were trying to make everything easy. They informed them of the right to remain sileat. Since all that madness happened, the pigs came to the corner of 6th and Bissell Ave. pulled out their pocket knives (concealed weapons) and began to tear down the posters relating to a Birthday Benefit for our Minister of De- fense, Huev P, Newton. The pigs fail to realize that they can’t stop the people from recog- nizing Huey P, Newton and all the principles he stands for by tearing down some posters, In a message from the Minister of Information of the Black Panther Party, Eldridge Cleaver, ‘‘Rage‘* said, ‘“‘The fearless example of Huey’s leadership, as he stood with his gun in his hand like a shield between our people and the pigs is 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 tor- ture and the pain that we havs suffered for so tong.”” By the pigs teariag down the posters, causing such an over dramatized scene (as if the posters had a gun?), showing theim rue nature of a low natured beast, very positive results were seen in the faces of the people that were present. Brothers and sisters were shouting ‘*Pig, you have no right to do that’’ and ‘‘get out of our community’’ and ‘*Pig, your day is coming soon,’’ Right on to that! The pigs of Richmond finally got up enough nerve to slink up to the back door of the church on 6th and Bissell on Feb. 17, 1970 Ray Edmerson and Joe Cuba were outside hanging up posters when they noticed the pigs coming down the street, The pigs swooped up on the brothers just as Ray headed toward the office. Three pigs fol- lowed Ray and as Joe attempted to come to the office to warn Panthers inside of all the pig activity, he was placed under arrest for resis- ting arrest. About that time Ray had reached the office and informed the comrades that the pigs had Joe outside and were arresting him, Just as Doaud went out to investi- gate, two young racist punk pigs were approaching the steps, Seeing that the pigs were extremely ner- vous, he immediately asked them what did they want. One of the two pigs oinked about wanting some one that was wearing a red shirt and had just ran inside. Doaud told the pig that unless he had a search warrant and produced it he was trespassing on the people’s property because he knew no one had invited them. The pig stepped CONT. ON PAGE 16 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 14 BLACK BRIGADE NORTH CAROLINA In Fauatteville, North-Carolina a Black organization | hasbeen formed which consists--of: Black GI's who have radical ideas about the structure. of: the military, It-: is a political organization : that is: othe apnea tres am that ‘every: ‘Black: manis: the--demoralizing treatment’ that he has and is being subjected to; © we also understand that. bee: because of tear of the-repercussions. a } by in soaenred there not very Black man’s heart” fight d-to Stand en l’air’’). tition of p soldier in an istered, to now in solita vaux, Herve, and expressing the op thousands of Freneh (Devaux speaks:) I want gin by saying that I assume the entire responsibility for the con- tents of these leaflets and for their distribution, We have written them to ex- press our refusal to put up with 16 months of joblessness, 16 months of brain-washing, 16 months of harassment. We are being judged by a so- called neutral army, supposedly at the service of the entire nation, We do not call ‘‘neutral’’ an army where officers openly dis- for his country?” Is tare noe tous in’ the Black man's heart. when he..issent to. Vietnam: to ‘die for “a country which does: not “accept him? Yet we-die so that this coun try can stay rich anduse its ric for the minority.,,When 1 speak o ho are oagitl not the ec hungry. ‘and so. many. Black. men and wvornen: dead who have Spoken out, violent- Blacks Sagas e ‘Gay, why, ey that they can be used tode- fend the bourgeois class present- ly in power We are in prison for having decided that it is not enough to complain about an unjust state of affairs, but that you have to act to change it. We have observed that the whole system is set up against us, its values, its hierarchy, its police and its prisons. We have also observed that in facing this machine alone, the thousands of miles to fight an op- pressed people, when. all we have to-do: is takea look around us and see oppressed people within a racist society in our own land. Af/we are fighting oppression then the battle is. right here, not in ~some,-Jand beth we-haye no claim upon, How. ‘Jong ao we have to endure : being used as machines. and ‘not being looked: upon-for/what we are; ‘are: we: not’ human‘! ings? Don't we~haye:the same organs, as: the Man who telis:us to die fo 54 ‘coun= try that-believes in the-pr eserva-; tion of bier erty more. pan Bresen< tion;.. Only lisse: capitalist pigs: wha-are-considered “leaders of the. government! are. at fault; If and lack brothers have. to true freedom bate P<REFUSE TO. think to themselves, is so these soldiers do not become ts who leave their capacity riticize outside, along with their personalities. © also wanted to help them ganize to act collectively. is the only guarantee youth against military brain- against being used by the sin power as a repressive oe help the colonels to de- mocracy--like they de- t in Algeria and Greece, ve been told that a sol- a citizen with certain du- towards his nation, But we who that there are no duties thout rights. What woulda worker y if he found himself tried for going on strike by a jury of bosses and foremen? This is exactly what is happening today, however, when we are being judged by repre- sentatives of the military hier- archy. The only thing that matters to us now is that we are sure of being understood by the youth, sure of being understood by the draf- tees who have not been able to express their revolt and, finally, of being understood by the workers who do not want their sons to be- tray the struggle and the flag that belong to us all. RIGHT ON TO THE FRENCH RE- SISTERS! VIETNAM AND ITS RELATION TO THE BLACK COLONY The reported massacres of Viet- namese people have a direct bear- ing on the people in the Black colony here in Babylon. It has taken over a year for the atroci- ties committed in Vietnam to reach the general public. In that same period of time the massacres of Black people have been stepped up. Using a large percentage of Black combat troops has served two pur- poses: 1) killing off young Viet- namese and 2) killing young Blacks from the colony in Babylon in other words killing two birds with one stone. To separate the two is to deny that an apple comes from an apple tree. Babylon is the tree while Vietnam is the fruit. The tree is rotten, therefore the fruitis rotten, No incident is an isolated happen- ing, all things are related, In 1954 the Supreme Court out- lawed segregation, and Vietnam won its ‘‘independence’’, In both cases freedom was promised but denied. The right of self-deter- mination by the Vietnamese people was stifled by U.S. aggression; the right of self-determination in the Black colony was also stifled by U.S aggression, The build-up of troops in Vietnam went right along with the build-up of troops (pigs) in Babylon, The Black colony isan occupied territory with hostile troops (pigs) as in Vietnam. Pigs have been killing Black people for years under the guise of being a ‘protective force’ they are killing the Vietnamese under the same pretense. Like the Vietnamese we are meeting aggression with re- sistance, but if we are to survive as a people free to determine our harder to drive the oppressor from our community, We must stop once and for all the systematic geno- cide against Black people. As the Vietnamese have shown, only those willing to fight and die deserve to be free, and ‘freedom comes out of the barrel of a gun."’ ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE From a prisoner Denver County Jail Denver, Colorado ing for myself T shail : ASU MEMBER SHAG HAIED TO VIETNAM PROTEST PLANNED AT FT. LEWIS New York, N.Y., Feb 26 - On Feb. 19 at 4:00 a.m., in the dark of night, American Servicemen’s Union organizer Pvt. Bruce Mac- Lean was forced onto a plane by the--Army and sent to Vietnam against his will. Pvt. MacLean arrived ‘at.Cam Ranh Bay the fol- lowing morning. Following the shang-hai the ASU. promtly initi- ated légal action to have him brought back. ‘This: Saturday, Feb, 28,ademon- stration will be held with:a march on Ft, Lewis, Wasitington to protest the Vietam war andthe repression at the Jan, 21 People’s Trial of the Army, held before 1500 people at the University of Washington. At this «ial, MacLean, then AWOL, declared his support for the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam, He was defended while testifying by a guard of 25 ASU members, This Saturday’s demonstration was initiated by the Seattle Libera- tion Front and is being supported by the Shelter-Half Coffee House, the Ft. Lewis ASU, and other local groups. Bob Lemay, ASU Executive against active members of the Ft. Director, said, ‘We give fall sup- Lewis. American” Servicemen’s port to this demonstration against Unions, : ‘Pvt. MacLean was one of the “of the ASU at theCascadian Service _ Club at. Ft. Lewis at which he and 34 other.-ASU members were arrested; the increasing repression of ASU organizers, The People’s Trial ganizers of the Oct. 20 meeting sentenced the Army to death. We intend to carry this sentence out, even in the face of such union busting actions as the brass’shang- he was alSo one of the key witnesses haing of Brother MacLean, jlic on the occasion of the Tnational Day against Racism (February 14) issued a statement which found wide response in our country. We take the liberty of informing you of our attitude taken in this statement; On the occasion of International Day against Racism the Peace Council of the German Democratic Republic conveys fraternal and solidarity greetings to all peoples fighting for full equal rights. The people of our peaceable, socialist German state follow with great respect and sympathy the struggle of the American Negro citizens and other racial minorities against exploitation and suppres- sion, against discrimination and racism. With satisfaction we witness the fact that the American Negro citizens in alliance with all opponents to racial discrimi- nation wage an . ever more deter- mined fight to achieve the eradi- cation of these evils and that an increasing number of democratic- minded U.S. citizens render them full support. Your courage, your vigour and willingness to make Sacrifices will contribute towards the end that racism will be extir- pated all over the world and man- kind will live in happiness and se- curity. We may assure you that the people of the German Democratic Republic firmly stand on the side of all those suppressed and per- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ive CIVIL RIGHTS secuted for racial reasons andcon- sider it our task to fight racism wherever practised, We, therefore, expressly condemn the suppressive measures exerted on the Black Panther Party and the numerous murders of members of this move+ ment. From our people’s history we know that racism as a root of war and exploitation is one of the most terrible crimes, And we are today especially proud that in our socialist Republic racism in all its forms has been eradicated, The people of the GDR have nevertheless to fight discriminatory measures also instigated by the United States government and West German im- perialist circles who refuse to recognize the GDR on the basis of international law and try:to re- vent our people from cooperating as an equal member of the faily of nations. We may express our gratefulness to all those U.S. citizens who have given us their support. We may assure all democratic- minded U.S, people of our firm solidarity and friendship and urge to put an immediate stop to all forms of discrimination and to respect all those discriminated as equal citizens of the United States of America,”’ Sending you our best wishes, Yours sincerely, Werner Rumpel Secretary General " iareespeaeameencemomgy = Saul “Only by the gun People been denied their freedom” Huey ee eT have the Black F March 17 is the day for inter- national solidarity with the Zim- babwe people. Greeting the day, the Korean peo- ple extend their warm militant soli- darity to the Zimbabwe people who are fighting against colonialism and racism, and for national liberation and genuine independence. The Smith clique backed by the U.S.-British imperialist are ruth- lessly suppressing the Zimbabwe patriots and people who have risen in the struggle for freedom and independence, The existence of the racis! Smith puppet regime as well as its bar- barous massacre of the Zimbabwe patriots are the products of ins vicious crimes schemes of the U.S.-British imperialists for keep- ing the Zimbabwe people in the shack':s ofeternal slavery andtucn- ing; Southern Rhodesia into a base of agyression against the nationally independent countries in Africa. In order to build a colonial but- wark, that is, a ‘“‘detached force’, in*the southern part of the African INAL VICT s i 3 ORY THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 15 sak r BELONGS O THE FIGHTING ZIMBABWE PEOPLE continent against the African peo- patched ‘‘guerilla specialist’ to the ples, the U,S,-British imperialists Smith clique of Southern Rhodesia, rigged up the racist Smith puppet All these facts vividly show that regime, and have ever sinceactive- the U.S.-British imperialists who ly encouraged its tyrannical rule. haye been instigating the racist The crafty U.S,-Britishimperial- Smith clique are, indeed, the chief ists ostensibly pretend to have no culprits and the most vicious ene- relationship with the racist Smith my of the entire African peoples, clique, though they, infact,arestep- Today the Zimbabwe people are ping up in every way their mili- fighting stubbornly, taking arms in tary and economic assistance to their hands, to overthrow the Smith them, This is clearly seen in the clique and win national liberation fact that the U.S. imperialists’ oil and independence, and other goods and various lethal Launching a large-scale armed weapons are being shipped to Sou- struggle, the Zimbabwe African thern Rhodesia unrestrictedly People’s Union issued a statement through the hands of the South in which it pointed out that the time African racists, has come when the racists should In particular, the U.S, imperial- settle accounts with all the crimes ists are letting even the Pak Jung they had committed in the land of Hi puppet clique of South Korea Africa, and appealed the entire Zim- and the Japanese militarists have babwe people to rise in the nation- a hand in their criminal acts, Upon wide armed struggle against the the directives of their master, U.S. Smith clique. imperialism, the Pak Jung Hipup- The Zimbabwe guerillas have al- pet clique not only sent tens of ready expanded their armed strug- thousands of South Korean youth as gle to wide areas of the country. cannon fodder to the aggressivewar At present they are administering in South Viet Nam, but also dis- heavy blows to the enemy in every part while strengthening their forces cluding the African peoples. furthermore and enlisting actively African countries and numerous the broad segments of the people countries of the world have taken into the national liberation struggle. decisive measures for joint sanc- Mention must be made of the fact tion by breaking off their diplomatic that the -Zimbabwe and South Afri- and trade relations with the Smith can guerillas are carrying on con- clique; they are resolutely frustrat- certed operation. ing the schemes of the U,S,-British Their joint struggle has a far- imperialists to maintain the rule reaching plan for liberating, with of the White racists in a deceptive combined forces, above all Southern manner. Rhodesia, which is favourable to Comrade Kim 1l Sung said: ‘Our them strategically but a weak link people,..extend support tothe strug- to the colonialists militarily, and gle of the Zimbabwe people against then freeing South Africa usingSou- the ‘independence’ of Southern thern Rhodesia as a base, In this Rhodesia unlawfully and arbitrarily struggle are joining the underground CONncocted by the Smith clique and fighters who are acting in various to the struggle of the South African towns and rural areas of Zimbabwe. people against racial discrimina- The sacred struggle of the Zim- tion."’ babwe people to achieve national The Korean people are con- liberation and independence is an vinced that the Zimbabwe people will important link in the chain of the win final victory in their just strug- struggles for liquidating colonial- gle to wipe out the Smith racists ism and racism in Africa once and who are aided and abetted by the for all. That is why their struggle U.S.-British imperialists. is enjoying unanimous support and encouragement from the revolution- (Reprinted from, ‘‘Korea Today’, ary peoples of the whole world in- Pyongyang, No. 153, 1969) FREE BOLIVIAN PRISONERS Many members ofthe most mili- tant anti-imperialist organizations are still in prison or forced into hiding. The principal victims of the repression have been the Ejericto de Liberacion Nacional (ELN-- Army of National Liberation), ini- tiated by Che Guevara; and the Partido Obrero Revolucionario (POR -- Revolutionary Workers Party), the Bolivian section of the Fourth International, The General Secretary of the POR, Hugo Gonzalez Moscoso is being hunted by the police and his family has been subjected to harassment. The Bolivian Trotskyists are trying to expose the demagogic nature of the Ovando regime and at the same time compel it to grant more concessions to the peo- ple. The following is our transla- tion of a printed leaflet now being distributed by the POR, * * * * * Greetings From The Palestine Solidarity Campaign To The Black Panther Party The intensification of amer- struggle that Comrade Eldridge An Unconditional General Am- nesty and Freedom for the Rev- olutionists Accused of Being Guer- rillas, Despite the repeal of the State Security Law imposed by the im- perialist couhter-revolution, the freedom of more than thirty Bo- livian patriots accused of being guerrillas is being denied and im- peded, Paradoxically, now when imper- ialsim is threatening us with the Hickenlooper Amendment,* the real anti-imperialist fighters are imprisoned and being hunted while the counter-revolutionary lackeys are free to engage in their in- trigues. The PORdemands the immediate release of all the prisoners tried as guerrillas, Carry out the am- nesty implied in the repeal of the State Security Law! Freedom for the Trotskyists Jose Moreno V,, Felipe Vasquez, Victor A. Cordova, and Thomas Chambi! Freedom for the ELN leader Enrique Ortega! Freedom for Jurgens Schut, Gonzalo Oroza, Dr. Walter Pa- reja, and all the imprisoned pa- triots! Freedom for Loyola Guzman, Tertu Tuliikki, and Geraldine de Coronado, Stop the manhunt. Civil rights for the General Secretary of the POR Hugo Gonzalez Moscoso. Bolivia, November 1969. Partido Obrero Revolucionario Freedom for Debray and Bustos! *The Hickenlooper Amendment requires the U.S. government to cut off aid to any country nationalizing the property of american citi- zens if ‘‘just compensation’ has not been made within six months-- IP ican imperialist activity in the Middle East, in support of the Zionist- racist state of Israel and the increasing repression of the revolutionary vanguard of the Black Panther Party in the United States are both part of the same process: the development of revo- lutionary forces throughout the world areforcing american im- perialism up against the wall, and in its dying throes it lashes out with increased violence. Those of us in Britian who are working on the issue of solidarity with the Palestinian revolution are well aware of the identity of strug- gle between the Black Panther Party and the Palestinian Revo- lution. It is not merely a coinci- dence that Panther representatives attended the recent congress of Palestine Support Committees in Algiers, nor that representatives from the Palestine Support Cam- paign are here today to bring greet- ings to the Panther visitors. It is not irrelevant to the Palestinian Cleaver has said ‘‘We have the same attitude towards the Zionists in the States as brother Yassir Arafat has to the one eyed bandit in Tel Aviv’. The forces which the Panthers are fighting in the States are strongly reinforced by the same people,and groups who are giving financialand other forms of material support to the Zionist regime oppressing the Pal- estinian people. The pig judges who sentenced Bobby and Huey were also Zionists. We in the PSC recognize an iden- tity of interest between all revo- lutionary and liberation move- ments throughout the world in their fight against imperialism and its allies, We believe, however, that there is a specially close link be- tween the Black Panther Party and the Palestinian Revolution in their fights against american imper-~- jalism and its offshoot, Zionism. We offer our fraternal greetings to the Black Panther Party in their fight. VENCEREMOS! THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 16 CONT, FROM PAGE 7 Muslims Assault People af Malcolm X Festival the people the importance of know- ing who our enemies are, and who our allies are, As related in this article, one can conclude, that the Black Muslims of Philadelphia acted in a reactionary, racist de- humanizing way, One sister re- marked in the interview: ‘‘Ilalways thought that Muslim and Islam meant Peace and the brothers just came with their stuff together. They did not care what women and children they harmed, they didn’t eare at all, not at all. They’re not BROTHERS AT ALL, I'M SORRY ”’ The sister was correct, as stated in the rules of the Black Panther Party, ‘‘No Party member will commit any crimes against the other Party members or BLACK PEOPLE at all, and cannot steal or take from the people, not even a needle ora piece of thread."’ Perhaps the Black Muslims need to deal with the teachings of Huey P. Newton. It is important for people to see, that any group that preaches racism, their actions will be cor- rupt in content. As Huey P. Newton said, ‘People have to be educated that there are forces which control us. The external forces have be- come translated into internal forces throughthe indoctrination of the ruing class, Thus, we have internalized certain behavior pat- terns which we feel are instinctual or a basic part of man, but they are not.”” The Muslims who attacked the people are victims of internal forces of hate against Malcolm as perpetuated by the indoctrination of the leader, Elijah Muhammed. Eli- jah Muhammed is the leader of a cult which has accepted certain be- havior patterns, when challenged especially by the teachings of former follower, eats at that in- ternal contradiction of their teach- ings. The Muslim followers cannot strike out at their leader, they therfore perpetuate aggressive tactics against the people and all true Revolutionary Organizations. People, beware of groups suchas the Muslims, they are one of the many tools of oppression found in our community. CONT, FROM PAGE 6 CONCENTRATION C DETENTION ) CAMPS who is in control of any given dis- trict. Under such a system, move- ment would be prescribed and the ability of the guerrilla to move freely from place to place seriously curtailed. ©) The population within the ghetto would be exhorted to work with the authorities and to report both on guerrrillas and any sus- Picious activity they might note. The police agencies would be in a position to make immediate ar- rests, without warrants, under sus- Pension of guarantees usually pro- vided by :he Cons: kution, (©) Acts of over: violence by the guerrillas would mean that they had declared a ‘‘state of war"’ within the country and, therefore, would forfeit their rights as ia wartime. The McCarran Act pro- vides for various detention centers to be operated throughout the country and these might well be utilized for the temporary im- prisonment of warring guerillas, (7) The very nature of the guer- villa operation as presently envi- sioned by certain Communists and Black nationalists would be impos- sible to sustain. Accordiag to the most knowledgeable guerrilla war experts in this country the revolu- tionaries could be isolated and de- Stroyed in a siiort period of time. CONT. FROM PAGE 2 Shooting Incident In Hunter’s Point ing off streets, climbing fences and tres- passing on the people’s property on their (pig’s) own free will. It was a scene at theMabrey’s home yesterday, Pigs everywhere just like they had Cole Younger, ‘‘Legs’’ Diamond, Al Capone, Alioto or dangerous Dan Mur- tagh cornered, Can you dig it? Some real cold-blooded criminai, The pigs used their star lackey Palmer (buddy-buddy) Jackson to set things up, He went to the front door and knocked for Butch just like the role and part he plays in the com- munity and that’s nothing and knowing all the time that the Tac Squad was lay- ing in the cut waiting to draw blood, Mr. Mabrey, Butch’s father, was sweared at terribly because of the fact that he told the pigs to get off his property and that they weren’t coming in, Right there the 4th Amendment of the Constitution was violated. Black people’s constitutional rights are continuously denied as though there were two sets of rights(which there are, let’s face it), The pigs ripped the brother off without a warrant, Point No, 9 of the Party’s 10 Point Platform and Program states very clearly: ‘‘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 community, as defined by the Con- stitution of the United States,’’ If found guilty by the people in the community, it is no more than right for Butch to be disciplined for the incorrect handling and firing of a weapon around the people, but it should be the people of Hunter’s Point that decide what should be done and how it should be done, It should be the people from the Point who knew the brothers, knew their inner community relations and their social standings in the community, It should be the people that know the inner pressures of the com- munity and understand them to know what would make a brother just openly fire a weapon in public and around the peo- CONT. FROM PAGE 13 PIG HARASSMENT OF RICHMOND ple. The 14th Amendment of the Con- stitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group, This will be the only way that Butch will be able to receive a fair and impartial trial. To the people of Hunter’s Point it is high time to start determining their own destiny, Will the people continue to let these jive courts and funnified juries railroad people from the community off to prison or will the people stand together and make a joint effort to put an immediate end to the vio- lations of our constitutional rights, Charles is gone and there is nothing none of us can do to bring him back, We hurt right along with his family and his many loved ones, A brother is gone and another one jailed--we are concerned about all of our people. Everytime the oppressor takes a brother or sister into custody we hurt, everytime a brother rips off another brother we hurt, because now is the time more so than ever that we must stick closely together and work side by side to rid ourselves of the major enemy--domestic imperialism, We all can see what kind of picture the news- media has painted of this incident so you’ can imagine what the racist, fascist courts will do. We must all take this incident into consideration and do everything possible to see to it that this brother is judged by his peer group or brothers and sisters from the Black community as defined by the Constitution of the United States... Anything short of this will be totally in- correct and crucial to the welfare of Butch Mabrey, ALL OF THI POWERLIES IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE, BLACK PANTHER PARTY Hunter’s Point Community Center 1494 Jerrold St, San Francisco, California REPORT— ON RALLY FOR HUEY’S BIRTHDAY On February Sth, pig Nixon bilized the masses and took the PANTHERS back and oinked that they (pigs) had reason to believe that a crime had been committed so they didn’t need any warrant, By that time Ray came to the doorway and, was answering the pigs’ crazy questions, The pigs knew that Ray was 17 years old so they used that as a reason to put him in what they call de- tention custody while they called his father to see if Ray was arun- away. Sure enough, the pigs oinked that they were arresting Ray be- cause he was a runaway from Oak- land, Out of all the pigs that were there ( cars) only one pig (the sergeant) knew what to’ do, All the young fool hearted pigs could do was ask the “*sarge’’ what they were to do, There were quite a few people out looking and giving the pigs the righteous guidance: ‘‘withdraw from the Black Community or suffer the Wrath of the Armed People.’’ Let's move on that! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE]! SEIZE THE TIME!! RICHMOND BRANCH BLACK PANTHER PARTY visited Indianapolis and oidked to the people, We took the opportun- ity to hold a rally for Huey on that day..,our subject was the ex- change of P,O,W.’s for the ex- change of Huey and Bobby who arz being held political prisoners in fascist Babylon. The rally was held in Military Park, Later every- one present moved to the site of Nixon’s farce. The reactionary Power structure went through many changes tying to hide the oppressed people and give the fool (Nixon, a chance to lie to the more affluent people, but it failed, The people were shouting ‘ALL POWER TU THe PEOPLE’’ and “FREE HUEY AND BOBGY'’. ‘Ve ‘moved back to Military Park, mo- rally to Broadway Christian Center, Again the focus was on the P.O,W. exchange for Huey ané¢Bobby. Many people from around the stat present and we took the opportunity to explain the importance. of United Froat to Combat\ Fascism \Organ- izations around the state, Duriag the month of February we traveled around the state holding Many rallies wherever we spoke to the people, Huey’s birthday was observed. were HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUEY ),W,’S FOR PANTHERS Doaald Campbell, Defense Captain Indianapolis , Indiana Black Panther Party October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want What We Believe “FREE HUEY Minister of Defense. Black Panther Party 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter- mine our destiny 2. We want full employment for our people. We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the white American businessmen will not give full employment. then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen-.and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and em- ploy all of its people and give a high standard of living. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970, PAGE 17 3. We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community. We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 vears 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 ail black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial. 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, en- vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning man” of the black community. 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis- cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. When. in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and naturg’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal: that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life. liberty. and the plarsuit 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 rightof the people to aller 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. Piu- 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 torms to which they are accustomed. But. when a tong train of abuses and usurpations, pur- suing invariably the same object. evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism. it is (heir right. itis their duty, to throw off such goyvern- ment. and to provide new guards for their future security. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 18 SUNN AULA Utne Workers And Funds Needed 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. We are also in need of people with language skills, people who can speak French and Arabic. We need people who can function on a diplo- matic 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 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 Panther Party can send it to: BLACK PANTHER PARTY Boite Postal 118 Grande Poste Alger, Algeria Telephone: 579-469 Alger, Algeria Pigs’ Harassment Educates Gi's We had made up a leaflet forthe Panther benefit especially related to GI's and had leafleted and rapped with GI's around San Francisto, On the night of the benefit, we picked up four cats downtown to bring them over toit. We were rap- ping about the Panthers and the struggle when a pig pulled us over on the road. This pig called a- nother pig to come and search the side of the road because he said he saw us throw something out of the window, The other pig came a few min- utes later and told the first pig he found a match box of grass ‘fon the side of the freeway’’ this dumb pig tried to say it was ours, While one watched us, the other searched each of the brothers and made us stand on the side of the road, while they searched the truck, All this was just a normal way for pigs to act. However, after they found out that the four cats were in the service and saw the leaflets in the truck, they freak- ed out and tried to isolate the four eats from the two of us, but the brothers were hip to the game they were trying to run. The pigs were vacillating about what to do about all this because two of the brothers were going to Nam the next day. They didn’t want to mess with patriotic Americans so they kept threatening them with the shore patrol then changing their minds, All the while they waated to at least get John who they kept in the pig car, finally taking him away, The rest of us went over to the benefit to get it together for getting John out. The four GI's had a very intensive education that night talk- ing with revolutionary people and seeing more pigs later oppressing the people and manifesting their fascist nature. GI’s weren't born in the army and can see what’s going on around them and what they are being used for, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE {HNN (| | | Hit Hi Huey would say, “a newspaper as the voice of a party, the voice of the Panther must be heard throughout the land.” The line dividing the progressive people from the machinery of oppression is ever widening as the people begin to realize that there can no longer be a middle of the road position with regards to freedom for the people of the world; however, it has only been within the past four years that the ameriKKKan people have shed their rose-colored glasses and patriotic blinders to face the reality of what their country was doing to the world’s popu- lation. With the realization of the ameriKKKan role came the closer ex- amination of all the things that had really never been questioned before....the ‘ameriKKKan dream’, the foreign policy, the treatment of minority peoples within this society, the real role of the ‘police’ and the press, We found we as citizens of this country were being kept duped by the govern- ment and kept misinformed by the mass media, In an effort to give the facts to the peo- ple, the so-called ‘underground press’ developed with various groups setting up newspapers and magazines with differing emphasis, The Black Panther Party Black Community News Service was created to present factual, reliable information to the people, The Black Panther Party has been or- ganized to serve the needs of the peo- ple of the Black community and to educate and politicize the masses of Black people, but the Black Panther Party realizes that racism can only be eliminated by solidarity among op- pressed people and the educating of all the people. It is the news a problems of Black and oppressed peo- ple in ameriKKKa that are dealth with in the Black Panther Party along with international news. The Black Panther Party Black Community News Service is the alternative to the ‘government ap- July 1967--Minister of Defense, Huey P, Newton (right) and Chairman, Bobby Seale (left), reading an early edition of B,P.P. Newspaper at the home of Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of In- formation B,.P.P. proved’ stories presented in the mass media and the product of an effort to present the facts not stories as dictated by the oppressor, but as seen from the other end ofa gun, ALL POWER TO. THE PEOPLE! SEIZE THE TIME! inti: . National Foreign Enter my subscription for (check box): 5 ietions Subsesipaoagl 3 MONTHS: (13 ISSUES)............. $2.50 © $9.00 6 MONTHS: (26 ISSUES) ............ ¥ $12.00 ONE YEAR: (52 ISSUES)...........- (please print) NAME ADDRESS CITY cat £ STATEZIF- 6:2 COUNTRY PLEASE MAIL CHECK MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, BLACK PANTHER PARTY, OR MONEY ORDER TO: + Box 2967, Custom House, San Francisco, CA 94126 RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA Every member of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY throughout this country of racist America must abide by these rules as functional mem- bers of this party. CENTRAL COMMITTEE members, CENTRAL STAFFS, and LOCAL STAFFS, including all 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 ions by national, state or state area, and local committees and staffs where said rule or rules of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY WERE VIOLATED. Every member of the party must know these verbatum by heurt. and apply them daily. Each member must report any violation of these rules to their leadership or they are counter-revolutionary and are also subjected to suspension by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. THE RULES ARE: 1. No party member can have narcotics or weed in his Possession while doing party work. 2. Any party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from this party. 3..No party member can be DRUNK while doing daily party work. 4. No party member will violate rules relating to office work, general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, .and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANYWHERE. 5. No party member will U PO! . or FIRE a weapon of any kind unnecessarily or ac at anyone. 6. No party member can j any other army force other than the BLACK LIBERATION ARMY. 7. No party member can have a weapon in his possession while DRUNK or loaded off narcoties or weed. 8. No party member will commit any crimes against other party members or BLACK people at all, and cannot steal or take from the people, not even a needle or a piece of thread. 9. When arrested BLACK PANTHER MEMBERS will give only name, address, and will sign nothing. Legal first aid must be understood by all Party members 10. The Ten Point Panga and platform of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must be known and understood by each Party member. 11. Party Co tions must be pnal and Local, The 10-10-10-program should be known by all: members and also understood by all members, All Finance officers will operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance. 14. Each person will submit a report of daily work. 15. Each Sub-Section Leu sect cuder, Lieutenant, and nust submit Daily reports of work. 16. All Panthers must learn to operate and service weapons correctly. 17, All Leadership personnel who expel a member must submit this information to the Editor of the Newspaper. so that it will be published in the paper and will be known by all chapters and branches. 18. Political Education Classes are mandatory for general member- ship. 19. Only office personnel assigned to respective offices cach day Should be there. All others are to sell papers and do Political work out in the commu including Cap on Leaders, ete. 20, COMMUNICATIONS — all ‘cl pters must submit weekly re- ports in writing to the onal Head quarte rs. 21. All Branche imple t Aid and/or Medical Cadres. 22. All Chapters, Branches, 3 rnts of the BLACK PAN THER PARTY must submi " neil Report to the Mini try of Finance, and also the € ral Commi 23. Everyone in a leadership: positic hours per day to heep 24. No chapter or bi or any other aid from Nationaf Headquarters. - All ters must adhere to the policy and the ideology laid down by the CENTRAL COMMIPPLEE ‘of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. 26, ALL Branches must submit weekly reports in writing’ to their re- spective Chapters. Ss. poverty funds, money cy without contacting the THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 19 THE BLACK PANTHER 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: Minister of Defense HUEY P. NEWTON Minister of Defense HUEY P. NEWTON Political Prisoner: Chairman BOBBY SEALE Political Prisoner: Chairman BOBBY SEALE Editor Minister of Information ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Minister of information ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Chief of Staff DAVID HILLARD Managing Editor Deputy Minister of Information BIG MAN Field Marshall DON COx Revolutionary Artist and lay-out Minister of Culture EMORY DOUGLAS Minister of Education RAY ‘MASAI’ HEWITT Minister of Finance Production Manager JOHN SEALE Minister of Foreign Affairs Minister of Justice Co-Editors Prime Minister Distribution Manager ANDREW AUSTIN Communications Secretary KATHLEEN CLEAVER 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. Remember Brother Malcolin horn May 19, 1925 - Assassinated Feb. 21, 1965