Vol. 4, No. 16

_ Black Community News Service "VOL. IV NO 1G ey THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY ener een ae SAN FRANCISCO, CA 341°" a a" IMPERIALISTS All this proves even more clearly that U.S, imperialism is the most barbarous and shameless aggressor of modern times, the main force of aggression and war, the chieftain of world reaction, the bulwark of modern colonialism, the strangler of the national liberation and independence, and the disturber of world peace. i \ THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 Brenda Harris CHICAGO The intended massacre of the seven other persons in the house on December 4th, at the time of the Fred Hampton -— Mark Clark murders was unsuccessful. Four were seriously wounded, Ronald *"Doc’ Satchell, Verlina Brewer, Brenda "China Doll’ Harris, and Blair Anderson. Two, Louis True- lock and Harold Bell, were badly beaten when they were taken to jail after the shoot-in, Eight and a half months pregnant at the time, Deborah Johnson was subjected to brutal and inhuman treatment when thrown in jail. Bur the ‘7’, although beaten/ wounded survived the physical massacre and now must survive the ‘legal’ massacre. The Iegal Harold Bell PAGE 2 Verlina Brewer Ronald Satchell “LEGAL MASSACRE” PLANNED FOR THE SURVIVING SEVEN massacre seeks to hide what hap- pened that dawn morning when Ill. Bell Telephone trucks (with occu- pants who donned themselves in blue, accentuated by macine guns, shotguns, rifles, .357 magnums, and night sticks) surrounded the bulld- ing at 2337 W. Monroe with no intentions of telephones or cables being repaired, Indeed, far from repair work, ‘destroy’ was the na- ture of their business. Thus, it happened that doors were blasted with gun-fire and sleeping victims awakened to the sounds of death: the rat- tat tat-tar of machine guns and the scornful jeers of ‘Nigger die’, In the end, a trail of blood was payed that morning with vic- tims lying in the puddles, Deborah's baby (yet inside of her at 8 1/2 months) must surely have vowed an unheard vengeance on that morning when its father was murdered and its mother was jailed. This horror spectacle must surely remind you of others who Struggled: the four little Black girls that died in Sunday school in Birmingham, the three civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi, the two Soto brothers murdered recently here in Chicago, and the innocent victims of the My Lai massacre, All were struck down by the depraved of humanity, the same kind of criminal element who after killing Fred and Mark are dissatisfied because the other Hanrahan and Jolovec found guil ry of murder by Peoples inquest, fourteen states attorneys agents also found in contempt of court The People's Inquest was held in the First Congregational Church over the weekend, The inquest called by the people to look into the murders of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark was the culmination of a two day conference called by the Emergency Committee to Defend the Right of the Brack Panther Party to Exist, The inquest was held to get the facts of the December 4th raid that killed Fred Hampton and Mark Clark and wounded Brenda Harris, 16, Verlina Brewer, 18, Debra Jonson, 19, Blair Anderson, 19, Harold Bell, 23, Ronald ‘Doc’ Satchel!l, 19, and Louis Trueluck, 39. The whitewash job done by the Coroner's jury and Inquest called by Edward Hanrahan, (Daley's fair-haired boy moving to- ward tue top as Daley's successor 4s mayor), came up with a just- ifiable homicide verdict, The cor- oner, Martin Gerber, hasa special interest in the justifiable homi- cide verdict since he is an appointee of Daley's political machine and not a representative of the people. The jury that came to the conclusion that the State's Attorney's special pig squad was justified in murdering Fred tn his sleep and Mark as he answered the door was made up of old Blacks from the Republican Party, retired businessmen, and old White doctors and lawyers,These people were selected for the sole reasons that they didn't have knowledge of the average reasoning man in the Black community or supported the issues In this congressional district that caused young people to rebel against the illegitimate. authority of this vile economic and political system. It was a jury not of the peer group of slain Fred and Mark, but ideo- logical servants, lackies, you know, flag wavers, people who strive to keep this system on Its decaying feet, It was whitewash Job, designed to cover up the murders and skillfully take the responsibility off the hired killers and place it on the shoulders of the surviving seven, The People’s Inquest was called by the people, the victims, and not by the authorities, the crim- inals. The people who served as the jurors, were from the com- munity and the same economic and political, racial and social strata as Fred and Mark; it was clear to everyone that the jury was constitutional, a jury of their peer group, The coroner was also from the community--Dr, Charles Hurst an administrator that has the same goals as the people of the com- munity, The jury and the coroner didn't come with prejudgements like the hired servants that con- clude the right of the States At- torney to murder Fred and Mark. Six of the seven survivors test- ified freely to the questions put to them bythe people's prosecutor, Jewel Cook, Fleld Secretary, and the Deputy Minister of Defense, Bobby Ruch of the Black Panther Party. The seven defendants test- ified to the prosecutor andthe jury that they didn’t have guns in their possession nor did they fire at the police, When asked If the police authorities showed a search war- rent or even mentioned that they had one, the defendants testified that they did not, One gathered from the testimony of the seven that the police knew Fred was there and that they simply broke down the door and came in with their guns blazing. Blair Ander- son testified that he heard two shots at the front entrance, one which killed Mark Clark and ano- ther which penetrated the wall be- hind the door. Ballistics tests verified that the shots came from the outside of the door and en- tered into the hall, .destroying | the police's testimony. Even very highly paid police ballastics people couldn't come up with evidence to support their claims, Deborah Johnson, Deputy Chairman Fred's revolutionary widow, mother of a two month old child, testified that the Deputy Chairman didn’t have a gun and that he was murdered in cold blood,..they all testified, except for Ronald Satchell, Deputy Min- ister of Health, who was hit five times with 45 caliber machine gun bullets, that all the fire was con- centrated in the back room where the Deputy Chairman slept; aclear indication that it was in facta pre- planned political execution, simt- lar to that of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and Medgar Evers With all the correct information and evidence before them, the jury found the government gullty of murder and also contempt of court since they failed to appear at the inquest at the demand of the people, The inquest was a clear Indica- tion of what politics is designed to produce for the people. It was a case in which the people took the law into thelr own hands, looked into the murder for themselves and then came upon a satisfactory conclusion, It was illustrative of how @ court operates in a social- ist country or a country that has @ a revolutionary government, Oniy a revolutionary government, The only thing that was missing, how- ever, is the power needed to exe- cute the real criminals...that will only come with the success of the revolution, The inquest ended with the peo< ple demanding that Hanrahan be indicted for murder and that the charges against the seven sur- vivors be dropped. INDICT HANRAHAN! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! COMMUNITY CONTROL OF POLICE! seven did not die, But these criminals await court where procedures may be rigged and legal assassination may be accomplished, Therefore Hanrahan and his cohorts work diligently to procure injustice for all. And Han- rahan will use the ancient game of ‘victims made into criminals and vice versa’, so that the losers will indeed be losers--they'll lose their lives. But if you shed tears for those four little Black girls, and the Soto brothers, and countless others, don't cry for the 7, scream, Be overwhelmed with a rage that vows that these people, too, shall not be taken away, because for too long too many have died in the Struggle; too many have languished — Deborah Johnson Blair Anderson in the prisons and jails. There has to be an end--we'll start with the 7, That is why all of us must go to court whenever the 7 go to trial, We must be there to support them and see that justice is done. \ We'll start with the 7 by saying: *Pigs, we the people refuse to let you convict the 7. We will not stand for a rigged jury and hand- picked judge--The 7 must be Ser free because OUR PATIENCE CRIES FOR CESSATION AND OUR ANGER CRIES FOR VEN- GEANCE--COLD AND DEADLY! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE SEIZE THE TIME HAROLD BELL POLITICAL VICTIM OF U.S. FASCISM Harold Bell, a revolutionary, 3 man, 4 Panther fighting for his life in the wilderness of America, On December 4, 1969, our Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton and Peoria Captain of Defense Mark Clark were assassinated intheir sleep by mem- bers of the Chicago police depart- ment, Also present at the time were seven other survivors among which was Harold Bell, Captain of Defense for the Rockford Branch Illinois Chapter, Black Panther Party. Harold Bell came to Rockford in the fall of 1968 after serving time in the Army as a Sargeant stationed in Vietnam, He came to Rockford seeking a job, and be- came attracted to the community work of the now defunct ‘*West- side Culture Club", As he became more Involved, the more he learned about the system. In the Winter of 68 and 69, members of the Black Panther Party, Chicago Chapter, gave us the necessary fundamental information to begin a branch. The Rockford Branch of the Black Panther Party Chicago Chapter kabel Sani a lircle know group into a strong Branch. The Illinois pigs lead by the fas- cist finest in Chicago recognized — the need to destroy the Black Pan- ther Party in order to keep the people under the laws and order of oppression and exploitation. The raid on December 4th was nothing but a ‘*Panther search and destroy mission executed by pigs.” The intent of the pigs was to destroy the entire Hlinois leadership. We say that the pigs failed because the Black Panther Party leadership is manifested in the people, and as long as there are Black peo- ple there will be a Black Panther Party. Harold Bell, Captain of Defense Yor the Rockford Branch of the Black Panther Party has shown the world that the end of this decadent society is near, and that the progressive people in Rockford are willing and ready to fight to the end for Lib- eration, SUPPORT THE STRUGGLE OF HAROLD BELL : FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISSON- ERS Al POINTS BULLETIN ON THE EXPULSION OF CLAUDE McKINNEY Be on the lookout for reactionary, counter-revolutionary punk, Claude McKinney, This fool ts considered ato be very dangerous, He is the vodka, scotch, and beer and dis- rupted a Party meeting, Before the night was over with, the dog had violated No, 1 ot the 3 wot most notorious that the servants of of Discipline, ‘and 3, 4, 5, the people known, to be an ex-Party member, A He is believed to be about 20 yrs. old, 160 Ibs, in weight, 5 feet 7 tn height, dark brown eyes, black hair, and is of dark complexion, He is very talkative and Is known to drink Thunderbird to the excess, On the night of the 7th of March, he got h off of T-Bird, in Omaha have ever 7 of the 26 Rules as wall as kinds of Mberalism. He also h propagated numerous les about party among the lumpens on th block. Claude McKinney ts a ary, counter-revolution should be dealt with! - ALL POWER TO THE PEOP! J ic eas ~ ¥. When a long train of abuses usurpations pursuing Invar- the same object evinces a lesign to reduce them under ab- olute despotism, it is their right, “Wheir duty to throw off such t and to provide new wards for their future security," uch ds the rhetoric of the Con- of the United Scares which supposed to be the highest law $n the land, Well, the “highest Jaw of the land” declared in 1954 that segragation in public schools _ was against the law. Sixteen years later finds schools still segra- gated and men in all levels of government guilty of breaking the law, but not being brought to jus- tice for it. The only way that they will ever be brought to justice *s by the people holding court, in the streets if need be, Just one week ago in Lamar, South Carolina, two bus loads of School children were attacked by a mob of White racists. How man more buses will Black people to- lerate before they begin to pay the racist oppressor in his own coin? How long will it take niggers to forget Fred Hampton and Mark Clark? Will it take as long as It took to forget the four little ctiil- dren who knelt to pray in Ala- bama one day? How about three yes Mississippi? Cold- blooded murderers are walking a- round oinking in the face of Black People, Aimerica is committing crimes 4gainstevery country inthe world where people are striving to develop their homeland, At the Same time crimes are being com- mitted against the American peo- ple themselves. But only the Amer- ican people can stop those crimes from being committed against then. The people have to under- Stand that they have a right, a human right to resist fascism. If America can tolerate fascist attacks on buses of schoolchildren, “169 America can tolerate some dead racists. At this point in his- for tory it’s either, o>, either Black people move for their ows sur- vival or share the same fate as the Jews during the Hitler urea, LE Black people are going to survive Ainerica we must begin to relate to our own self-relance and self-subsistance, because It Sa historical fact that White peo- ple are not going to free Black peopli--they never have and they never will, Every avenue has been provided for those White people whe claim they want to see an end fo the tising tide of fascism in America, The Black Panther Party has organized programs to try to put an end to fascism in America short of a bloodbath, Cominuniry Control of Police which is urgeut- ly needed, should have an over- whelming amount of peace-loving White people standing in line to work to see that it gets imple- mented. But what we get is lip service from White people who elther can’t stand to take direc- tions from Black people or they have a vested interest in seeing the pigs continue to run amuck. Whether White people move on it or not, we believe we can end po- lice brutality In our Black com- munity by organizing Black self- defense groups that are dedicated to defending the 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, The so-called American justice department is swiftly moving to commit an act of legal lynching by railroading the Chairman of the Black Panther Party, Bobby Seale, through the courts and into the electric chaic. This is ft is the paramount, insult to the Black ple. Black people know that Bobby Seale has committed no crime. The only thing Bobby Seale has a gross, conuTumity andto Black pto- N.Y. POST MAY 25, 1937 BAINBRIDGE, Ga., May 25-Be- cause police hadkilled Willie Reid, twenty -four, Negro, alleged mur- derer and rapist, a mob couldn't lynch him. But it broke into a mortuary, hauled his body off to and ball park and there burned ir, Woinen and some girls in their teens were among its mem ers. The informal incineration oc- curred last night and until dawn today the embers of the pine boards that had been and ball park fence glowed against the night sky, The incinerators acted openly, even invited photographers to make pic- tures of the blazing pyre in which the dead body could be discerned with difficulty, They looked upon it as an object lesson. The chain of events began last Friday when Mrs, Ruby Hurst, thirty, and Rita Mae Richards, _ sixteen, disappeared. Mrs. Hurst’s Body was found Saturday on the outskirts of town. She had been killed apparently by a hatenet and fee Pick. Sunday it became known that Miss Richards had been seen with her Friday and a renewed Search yielded Miss Richard's body, mutilated with the same type of wounds, 400 yards from where Mrs. Hurst's body was Miss Richards had been sub- to criminal assault; Mrs, afterward authorities went n, Ala,, and their, in the to Deputy Sheriffs H.C, and R,A, Stephens, Reid aa ‘ confessed, The deputies knew that news of the capture preceeded them and in order to stave off the possibility of mob violence they started with their prisoner toward a mob proof jail at Albany, Ga, Before they reached Albany Reid was killed. ‘Near the Georgia line,” Stephens said, ‘*the Negro suddenly leaped from the car, We opened fire instantly, He must have been struck by ten or twelve bullets. He was dead when we got him,” Stephens and Pollard brought the body to a mortuary. Soon after- ward a car loaded with White men appeared, then another and another and another, The leaders went in, carried out the body and dumped it into a car and the motorcade drove on, With every horn blowing contin- uously, the progression moved through town. Onlookers saw that some cars were driven by women, that women were their only pas- sengers., Others seemed tocarry family groups, a father, a mother and girls in their teens. More and more cars were joining and by the time it reached the ball park, it was estimated to number seventy- five cars. Men climbed out, the boards of the ball field fence were pulled off and poled up. The women as- sisted. Then the body was thrown on and in an instant a great fire was roaring, illuminating the in- tense emotion-choked faces of the incinerators, 00 YEARS OF FASCISM done Is to expose this decadent tacist country for what it is and along with Huey P, Newton put together an organization to deal with the problems facing Black people In this country, Hehas ded- icated his life to his people, the pigs persue thelr scheme to murder Bobby Seale there will be a reciprocal action, a counter- blow. Before Black people sit back and allow the pigs to murder Bobby in the electric chair, we will cut all the electricity and there won't be any lights for days. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BIG MAN Deputy Minister of Information, GLACK PANTHER PARTY N.Y. POST MAY 13, 1941 Florida Killers Dray Negro From Ambulance QUINCY, Fla,, May 13-The body of A.C, Wililams, 22, Negro charg- ed with assaulting a 12-year-old White girl, was found on a bridge five miles north of here today, Several hours after he had been abducted from authorities for the second time, He has been shot to death, Williams was taken from the Gadsden County jail last night by four White men, Later found in the home of another Negro with several bullet wounds in his body, and suffering from a beat- ing about the His assail- ants apparently thought he had been killed. Sheriff Lucen had Williams placed in an ambulance for transportation Tallahassee, Fla,, hospital, after a physician said he had a good chance to recover, The miulance left without guards after the sheriff said he did not ‘‘anticipate any more trouble,"’ and on the way was stopped by ‘a group of persons" Williams from the ve- he was head, to who took hicle, Will Webb, Negro driver of the ambulance, said the vehicle was halted by “‘four or five men,"' and the wounded man was pulled out and taken away, “One of them said they wanted the man I had in the ambulance and they didn't want any trouble,”’ he said. I told them they wouldn't get any trouble out of me, be- cause | didn't even have a pocket knife, He sald he did not recognize any of the men, THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 PAGE 3 _ MACON (GEORGIA) TELEGRAPH SEPTEMBER 19, Lynch Mob Decides Cause OSFORD, Miss., Sept. 18-Ell- wood Higginbotham, Negro ontrial here for the murder of a White man, was taxen from the Lafay- 1935 ette county jail Jast night and lynched by 4 mob, He was seized while a jury was out deliberate ing his case, HICKORY (NORTH CAROLINA) RECORD APRIL 28, 1936 Lynched Just Before Trial ROYSTON, ¢ Apr. 28-Lint Shaw, burly negro farmer once suved from lynching through the pleadings of an aged judge was death by 4 mob of forty men elght hours before he was to have yone to trial on a charge of attempted criminal assault to- nh, Shot to day His body was found at dawn, tied ‘to a pine tree in a creek bottom near Colbert, Ga., his home, Pierced by shotgun, pistol und rifle bullets, he died at the scene where cwo white girls reported he attempted to attack them after their motor car broke down April 10, The mop, climaxing a series of demonstrations against the 45- year-old negro which once re- quired the intervention of national guardsmen, broke into Royston’s one-story jail about midaighe, cornered Night Chief of Police W.A, Dickerson and smashed a lock on the prisoner's cell, “I couldn’t see exactly what happened,"’ Dickerson said, “They just told me they wanted the negro, He didn't say a word when they dragged him our,"’ Plowlines, cotton ropes used for guiding work animals in the fields, were cut up to tie the negro to the tree, The jail here was the third in which he had been held since he was identified by the girls as the man who pursued them with a knife and threw one into a gulley, rhe assailant was {frightened away by their screams. First he was taken to jail at Danielsville, Ga, A mob of 100 men formed there and battered some bricks fromthe jail In an attempt to reach him, Superior Judye Berry T. Mose- ley, 74, left a sickbed to warn the throng against a lynching, and deterred the leaders until a national guard unit, rushed to that city from tornado emergency duty at Gainesville, Ga., took the negro in custody, “Stop violating the law by break- fag into jail,"* warned the judge. At Judge Moseley's suggestion, Sheriff T. L, Henley deputized several members of the crowd to help keep order, Fron Danielsville, Shaw was taken Atlanta, to save him from further. mbb outbreaks, He was returned to Danlelsyville last night to await trial before judge Moseley, but 4 threatening crowd caused Sheriff Hanley to movehim to this city, Inflamed citizens learned of the transfer ind followed, Several hours after the lynching Shaw sull was bound to the tree as throngs assembled on the near- by highway, Terrified members of the negro's family refused to claimthe body, to THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1970 PAGE 4 TO MY BLACK BROTHERS IN VIET NAM Pm writing this on January 4, 1970, We either help our people or, by refus- We are starting out a new year. On ing to help them, make it easier for August 31, I’ll be 35 years old. I’m the enemy to destroy us. There are married, and I have one child with no two ways about it. another one on the way, I am in love While you are over therein Vietnam, with. my wife and I would like to enjoy the pigs are murdering our people, a happy life raising a family. But I oppressing them, and the jails and pri- am not free to live the type of life that sons of America are filling up with I would like. Pigs--the racist fascist political prisoners. These political pri- rulers of the United States--won't let soners are your own Black Brothers / me, and Sisters. We have a desperate, And I would like to ask youBrothers: life and death struggle on our hands, are you living the life that you want and if we a people are going to sur- to live? Are these same pigs cramping vive, then we must save ourselves. your style? I don’t believe that you We need your help, desperately, be- actually prefer to be way over there, fore itis too late. fighting against our Vietnamese Bro- This is the moment in history that thers and Sisters who are fighting for our people have been working, praying, their freedom. Because your own peo- fighting, and dying for. Now, while ple, whom you left behind in Babylon, the whole world is rising up with arms are also fighting for their freedom a- against our oppressors, we must make gainst the very same pigs who have a decisive move for our freedom, If you over there doing their dirty work we miss this chance, this golden op- for them, And your people need you-- portunity, who knows when we will get and your military skills--to help us another chance? We cannot afford to take our freedom and stop these racist -gamble with this chance by putting pigs from committing genocide upon things off. Now is the moment for us, as they have been doing forthepast decision. This very moment, right 400 years. where you are. You do not have to I am the Minister of Information wait until later, until after you are of the Black Panther Party, andIlam back home and out of the army, You speaking to you now for the Party, can make your move now, while you but I want to put a personal note into are still inside the army, because the this because I know that you niggers army is one of the key weapons which have your minds all messéd up about the pigs have up their sleeves to use Black organizations, or you wouldn’t against us when the time comes. And be the “flunkies for the White make no mistake about it, that time organization--the U,S.A,--for whom is coming and it is almost here. you have picked up the gun. The pigs are using G.I.’s from Viet- The Black Panther Party has picked nam on the police forces and National up the gun too, but not to fight against Guard units inside Babylon. Many of the heroic Vietnamese people, but our Black Brothers go to Vietnam and rather to wage a war of liberation learn how to kill human beings, then against the very same pigs whom you when they are released from the army are helping to run their vicious game they return home and end up on the on the entire world, includinguponyour police force. On the police forces, they own people, Dig it. I wonder, can you carry out the same dirty work against dig it? Can you dig niggers, brothers us, in the name of ‘‘Law and Order’’ and sisters off the block, who have that they carried out against the Viet- said later for the pigs and have picked namese people, up guns, in Babylon, to bring to fulfill- In 1968-69, the pigs murdered 28 ment the dreams of freedom that have members of the Black Panther Party kept our people alive for 400 years, and nobody even knows how many other under the racist yoke of the White of our Black Brothers and Sisters were man. From the said days of slavery shot down by the pigs. But it is a long in the cotton fields of the South, to list. Scores of our Party members the present bleeding years ofthe Demo- are being held as political prisoners crats, Republicans, Uncle Toms, because they took a stand for the free- Lyndon B. Johnson, and now, the foulist dom and liberation of our people, Huey racist pig ever to become president P. Newton, Minister of Defense of the of the United States, Richard Meally Black Panther Party, our leader, is Mouth Nixon-- your Commander in in prison in California, Our Chairman, Chief and the Numbey One Enemy of Bobby Seale, is in jail and the pigs our people, are trying to put him in the electric The struggle of our people for free- chair, in Connecticut, on trumped up dom has progressed to the form where charges. Pigs in Chicago murdered all of us must take a stand either Fred Hampton while he was sleep in for or against the freedom of our peo- his bed. Shot him in his head with a ple. You are either with your people shotgun, with 00 Buckshot, The pigs or against them, You are either part have been making mass arrests of our __of the solution or part of the problem, Party members, with 21 arrested in New York, 14 in New Haven, 18 in Los Angeles, and 16 in Chicago. We appeal to you Brothers to come to the aid of your people, Either quit the army, now, or start destroying it from the inside, Anything else is a compromise and a form of treason against your own people, Stop killing the Vietnamese people. You need to Start killing the racist pigs who are — over there with you giving you orders, Kill General Abrahms and his staff, all his officers. Sabotage supplies and equipment, or turn them over to the Vietnamese people. Talk to the other Brothers and wake them up. You should start now weeding out the traitors amongst you, It is better to do it now than to allow them to return home to help the pigs wipe us out. Especially the Uncle Tom officers should be dealt with now, because the pigs will use — them as effective tools against our peo- ple. When you can no longer take care of business inside the army, then turn yourself over to the Vietnamese people and tell them you want to jointhe Black Panther Party to fight for the freedom ~ and liberation of your own people. If you do cross over, you don’t have to worry about the Vietnamese people abusing you. They will be glad to see you drop out of the army because what — they want most in life is to stop the fighting in their land, You have a duty to humanity as well as to your own people not to be used as murderous — tools by racist pigs to oppress the people. Think about it, Brother, and act on it, because you don’t have much time. — Organize all the Brothers around you and move. Force the pigs to under- stand that you will no longer be their slave and hired killer, Let the pigs — know that, instead, you want the perse- cution of your Black Brothers and sisters to stop and that you intend tc help stop it, Demand that Huey P Newton and Bobby Seale be set free. Especially, help us force the pigs not to murder Bobby Seale in the electr chair, ‘ We have dedicated our lives,” CONT. ON PAGE 20 A moron, stupid nigger--all of these names fit. The man fs a pig, 4 stupid pig but dangerous, Here is a fool that Hves in the com- There Is something that you should remember; we have a human right to kill in defense of our lives, NEW YORK CITY PROJECTS In Brooklyn, especially in Brownsville, the New York City Projects are looked upon by the People as their salvation for de- cent housing. There are 13 pro- ject areas in Brooklyn, the lar- gest being Fortgreene, Red Hook, Kingsbourough, The most massive is Fortgreene Marcy. Glancing at this mass of 22 story buildings, lined up In no particular order, one is immediately reminded of & cement jungle, One can't help but think of these constructions as mod- ern day detention camps. The ca- pitalists are masters of deceit, which is one of the main reasons they are able to maintain their reign of terror, Most of the Pro- jects are 22 story buildings which house 122 families. In some square blocks such as in Fortgreene, there may be 20 such buildings, which means 2,440 families concentrated in one square block. Just how long would it take to barbwire and cut these areas off; the people could easily go to sleep one night and wake up fenced inthe morning, In addition to this hazzard, the ‘So-called better living conditions are not as glorious as they are made out to be, The rooms are small, and box-like, the sanitarion con- ditions in the hallways are poor a and personal and property safety are not inforced by the guards of the housing authority. Another likeness to concentra- ton camps are the rules and regu- lations that govern the tenants. The rules of the New York Housing Authority are like the other typ- ical oppressor laws, which are de- Signed to force conformity to the American way and harass the ten- ants. One such rule is that any tenant arrested, not convicted, is Subject to eviction. In other words, you are presumed guilty until pro- ven Innocent, Many tenants have been evicted before the trial ever took place, Another regulation is that known drug addicts and fami- lies are also subject to eviction, Two months ago Mrs, Pearson, whose 19 year old son died from an overdose of heroin, brought the regulation before the tenant review board which is composed of noresi- dent New York City Housing Au- thority Personnel, At that time she explained that the regulation was quite insensitive to the needs of the people in that she had no other half way decent housing availableto her at a price that she couldafford, She further explained that she as head of C.O,P.E,, a narcotic pre- vention program that is sincerely ple’s News Service, and with leaf- lets; drivers and help with the Breakfast Program; and volunteers Welton Armstead Community Cen, § with skills such as auto mechanics, 173 20th - Seattle, Washington electrical Spey etc,, to donate a few hours Political Education Center every , Lilith "GIVE YOUR TIME AND Friday and Saturday at 7:30 PM & carpentry, plumbing, TALENT TO THE BLACK LIB- ERATION MOVEMENT, attempting to deal with the problem in aconstructive way, had revealed to the Board of “concerned” peo- ple she had turned a list of known peddlers in the projects and to date this had not been moved on: and the board only confirmed this atti- tude by not asking for the lst again, Perhaps it was because of this information which the board didn’t want exposed that they granted her request to stay, Black people be aware of the restricted life in the N.Y,C, Hous- ing Projects because these rules are only the beginning, Today, evic- tion--tomorrow, £45 ovens, We say that the people who Live in the projects must make the laws which govern their lives and should be able to sit on these so-called tenant review boards, This type of system is a mirror image of the judicial System where laws and juries are made to serve oppres - Sion and not people, SEIZE THE TIME, BEFORE TIME SEIZES YOU! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Brooklyn Branch Brenda Hyson BLACK PANTHER PARTY RELATES TO SOCIALISM BY EXAMPLE ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! | THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 PAGE 4 WE HAVE TO FIGHT TO LIVE munity and talks lke Alioto, This snake, this viper should not be trusted, He is very destructive to Black people, and our struggle. He has learned how io exploit and intimidate from his master, He uses words to confuse, and the suffering of the people in Hunter's Point as the key to Alloto’s door, Black people know when a nigger is lying. Black people also bow the Black Panther Party, not by words alone but by its practice, Our wish to serve the people is why we moved to the Hunter's Point area, Nothing will move us out other than the masses of the people, If they want us to leave, we will. Later for Rogers. Let's mobilize to free Bobby and Huey, brothers who have proved through practice that they love their people. A love 80 Strong that they are willing to give all that they have, even life itself, to remove the oppressor from our community, We have suffered under the ex- ploitation of this system of govern- ment for four hundred years. Slaves--the victims of racism and unprovoked attacks, They kill us on the street, railroad us through courts with racist judges, impri- son us, then we are killed off by mentally deranged guards. All of these things have served to educate Black people. Now that we have been educated we must use what we have learned from our teach- er, (America) to change thehistory of suffering of our people, Not by Submitting to more brutality at the hands of these pigs, but by inflict- ing some suffering on them, There {s something that you should remember: we have a human right to kill in defense of our lives, so we say protect yourself, Our existence, our right to live as # people has been challenged by this fascist systems The U.S, govern- ment is guilty of conspiracy against the masses of people, They have conspired to keep us in poverty and to exploit us until we ore no longer needed to keep this economy going. Then they devise ways to murder and imprison us through their courts, Chairman Bobby Seale faces the Electric Chair for refusing to be a lackey, atool for this racist system, Bobby chose to expose America and the so-called system of justice, to the oppressed people of the world, So the plot continues, Huey, Li") Bobby, Bunchy, John, Fred, and many others, These murders and imprisonments were planned by the master criminal, America. So that we have to be prepared to inflict the maximum damage on these pigs at any given time. Down with this system, down with any and every- one who is working to keep this monster alive. From the housenig- ger to the president. We have a right, a human right to move over anything that is in opposition to our liberation, The Black Panther Party has taken this position, not because we are suicidal, as has been said, but from investigation and objective reality and condi- tions, We have to fight to live, we siiall live because we will con- tinue to fight. This 1s the undying spirit of Huey P, Newton and Bobby Seale, DARE TO STRUGGLE DARE TO WIN June NY PIGS FRAME-UP LEADERS OF INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY ACTIONS New York, March 9, 1970--Dem- onstrators from the International Women's Day action called by the Women's Caucus of Youth Against War & Fascism, packed night court March 7th, to support the three women and three men arrested during a militant confrontation with the cops in front of the Women's House of Detention, After the ar- rests, @ response demonstration was announced by the Women's Caucus and enthusiastically re- celved by the demonstrators, The arrests came after the wo- men tried to go into the prison to present a list of demands to the prison authorities. A handful of cops were taken by surprise and soon were backed up against the prison entrance and surrounded by an angry group of women chant- ing, ‘‘Free our Sisters, free our- selves,"’ The arrests were a deliberate political act, The three women, Sharon Martin, Rita Freedand Pam Meyers, are all long-time activists in Youth Against War & Fascism and well known to the secret pu- lice, In addition, Rita Freed is the head of the Committee to Support Middle East Liberation (CSMEL) Three men, Mike Freidman, Steve Kagan and Jamie Friar (from the High School Student Union), were also arrested, It took the cops two hours to de- cide to frame-up the demonstrators on very heavy charges, Sharon Martin, Pam Meyers and Steve Ka- gan were being charged with felonious assault on a cop in addi- tion to first degree riot, also a felony, The DA threatened that Rita Freed may be charged withassault, in addition to the riot charge, The defendants are also being charged with resisting arrest, harassment, obstruction of govern- ment administration and disorderly conduct The DA asked for $2,500 on all the women and Steve Kagan, claim- ing that the cops were so sick from their injuries that they could not appear in court. Bll Crane pointed out that the cops couldn't have been seriously hurt since they spent four hours in the precinct before reporting to the hospital for “‘treatment’’, It was expected that the judge would set the high bail because the charges were so stiff, But the strong show of solidarity by the many supporters in the courtroom was an obvious factor In convincing the judge that it would be better to release the defendants on their Own recognizance, The tense spec- tators burst into applause as all the defendants wore released with- out ball, Preparations have been made to Organize a response to let the Establishment know thit the Wo- men's Movement is dead serious about struggling for Uberation, ‘THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 PAGE 6 TAKE BLACK GENOCIDE ISSUE BEFORE U.N. Brothers and Sisters: We have a mandate from this Cofference, We are requested to present it with concrete pro- posals as to how the police and racist terror dally confronting the National liberation movement and the Black Panther Party in particular, can be brought before the General Assembly of the Unl- ted Nations. This Conference had not posed this matter as of paramount Im- portance to black citizenry alone. It has rightfully posed this mat- ter as one of vital concern to all Americans - to the nation at large and to the world peace forces. We in this pane}, must view its mandate as of special political significance. The United Nations as an In- ternational body, occupies aplace of great moment to all who are participants in the National Lib- eration struggles of Africa, Asia, Latin America and these United States. We who are here would be derelict to our responsibil- ities to those on the worldwide liberation front if we failed ex- haustively to examine the rela- tion of the U.N, to the grave issues under deliberation. Were the task assigned us impossible it would not have been delegated to this panel. Punish Genocide We must take cognizance of the fact that the United States alone among the great powers has fall- ed and refused to ratify any of the splendid Conventions of the U.N, which call for recog- nition of the human rights of all mankind. We, as a part of the American people, a segment of a great Uberation front, deal here with a matter that concerns all mankind precisely because all mankina will le affected by the results of this monumental conflict, The murders taking place around us are proof that racism is being escalated. We have come to a fateful moment in the history of our country, Many who are here, and I count myself among them, believe that the criminal deed which we have condemned and declare shall not go unpunished, strikes at every vestige of democracy here at home. Black and/or white - we cannot tolerate their being ig- nored by the progressive peo- ples of the world for their con- tinuance must Inevitably carry us down the road to a police state and an American brand of fascism. Most of us were impelled to come here out of a deep and abiding concern for the lives, civil rights and human dignity of leaders and members of the Black Panther Party. We see them as champions of human rights and a democracy embra- cing all of us. We have heard the savage cries of Nixon, Agnew and Mitchell, calling for the rigid application of a form of law and order that does not restrain the Ku Klux Klan, Minute Men, Birch- ites, the Devil's Angels or any of those white terrorists who make mockery of the constitu- tional rights of others. This ‘law and order’? means that members of the Black Panther Party are to be hunted down like wild beasts. Axe handle democracy has come to Wash- ington, D.C. and only black men protect it. Events in Courts like those of Judge Jullus J. Hoffman offer proof that for militant fighters against the trend toward a fas- cist state, the doctrine of in- nocent until proven guilty beyond the shadow had been turned into its opposite. Those slated for victimization under this new “law and order’? command are to be treated as guilty until they have proved themselves innocent. If the State has evidence of their innocence that evidence can be concealed, that conviction might be assured, We see attempts to pack the highest court in the land with men who have openly proclaimed their belief in white supremacy and who have lived their lives in a manner consis- tent with thelr vaunted youthful bellefs. We have seen men who were not revolutionaries but who had faith that the democracy preached ought to and could be practiced - shot down in cold blood and with others we wit- nessed the death through assas- sination of John and Robert Ken- nedy and that outstanding Amer- ican humanist, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. The indiscriminate murder and illegal persecution of black men, women and youth of which Fred Hampton and Mark Clark areclas- sical examples motivated the act- fon of those at whose behest we called this historic confer- ence; those who signed the call for this Conference but have found it impossible to get here, an- xlously watching from afar. It is a crucial hour in the his- tory of this country where mur- derous racist practices have be- come the policy of those who control the government and America’s way of life. Infamous Senators When infamous racists spokes- men like Senators Stennis and Eastland can gain the front pages of the dally press as advocates of desegreation nationally the ideological drive to pollute the minds of the people has undoubt- edly taken a great leap forward. This is not an issue which Is our exclusive property. In Af- rica, Asia, Latin America, Eur- ope, wherever on this globe pro- gressive human beings are to be found they note what is being done here. We are urged on by freedom-loving humanity. This cannot be just another conference. If it were, despite our numbers, it would beacrim- inal failure. I this conference records a beginning in words, no matter how lofty and inspiring and has a do-nothing ending, the violence of government that has caused the emergency we recog- nize, will engulf the Panthers in a sea of rabid reaction that cannot but imperil everyone of us. lIrrefutable proof of savage police activities based on a pro- gram of racist terror and in- citement to the organization of a nation-wide white backlash, has been submitted to this body. Through this body it must be submitted to the world, Our deliberations cannot end in words or the potentialities for thecrea- tion of a monumental united front for defense of civil and human rights will not have slipped from our hands; it will consciously have been rejected. What is happening to the Black Panther Party and its heroic leadership symbolizes the pro- cessing of far-reaching and pro- found changes in the democracy of the American racists. It not something new to we who are black, brown, red and yel- low, but it threatens now to destroy the fundamental rights of all regardless of color, Un- able to rule as formerly by reason of the scope and inten- sity of the struggle against de- humanizing social practices, de- mocracy in our country threat- ens the dignity, worth and hu- manism of all, Our Commit- ments to the charter of the Uni- ted Nations are being violated with impunity. That is why the mandate we have been given Is fundamentally correct. We must point the way to petition the U, N. The democracy practiced in our country has nothing In common with the democratic pre- cepts set forth in the charter of the U.N, or its universal dec- laration of human rights, Racist Terror It may seem to many both at home and abroad that being citizens of the United States, we would bring this record of racist terror to the attention of those who are responsible for enforcement of the Constitution with its lofty Bill of Rights. That has been done repeatedly and not by black Americans alone, Thomas Jefferson feared thatthe wrath of a ‘‘just God’’ would follow on the heels of slavery. Judge John Marshall Harlan of the U.S, Supreme Court In his scathing denunciation of the mon- strous ‘‘separate but equal’’ de- cision at the turn of the cen- tury in the Plessy against Fer- guson case, predicted that ra- cism from on high would destroy the foundations of the State. The records of the Civil Rights Com- missions of the Administrations of Presidents Truman, Eisen- hower, Kennedy and Johnson ex- posing the genocidal character of racism, have been mocked by those in power, The very Ini- tiation of these commissions was a gigantic hoax. There is lUttle need here to recount the magnificent Ubera- tion struggles led by the immortal slave revolutionary Frederick Douglass against the slave ole- garchy and Northern reaction or those of the great Willlam E.B, DuBois against the racists. Recourse had been had toevery institution of the existing demo- cracy and in vain, We face a conspiracy of government tc commit racism as a policy in its relations with black citizens. We here have charged planned guilt of a moral as well as legal character that is why we have been asked to search the highways and byways that lead to the Secretariat of the United Nations and from there to its General Assembly to the Eco- nomic and Social Council and to the Commission on Human Rights before which body matters deal- ing with the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide are enter- tained, That is our task. In setting forth its purposes and principles those who founded the United Nations declared that: I quote: ‘"The Organization is not to intervene in matters essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state.’’ It added: "This provision does not, how- ever, prejudice the application of enforcement action with re- spect to threats to the peace, breaches of the peace and ac- tons of aggression.’’ We shall cite only matters that are ‘threats to the peace, breaches of the peace and acts of aggres- sion."’ We are also aware that under Article 99 of the Charter it ts held that: Art. 99) ‘'The Secretary-Gen- eral may bring to the attention of the Security Council any mat- ter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of in- ternational peace and security,’’ We call this article to the at- tention of this gathering. Not Domestic Issue We cannot accept the argu ment that the racist practices of the American government which have robbed black, brown, red and yellow citizens of their WILLIAM L, PATTERSON blood-won birth right as mem- bers of a multi-national state, are to be regarded as ‘‘mat- ters essentially within the do- mestic jurisdiction.’’ Lest others have forgotten, we will repeat the words uttered by Mr. Justice Robert Jackson when speaking for the United States government at the opening of the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi war criminals. He said: I quote: ‘How a government treats its own inhabitants generally ts thought to be no concern of other governments or of international society. Certainly few oppres- sions or cruelties would war- rant the Intervention of foreign powers. But the German (I ask you to substitute the term American rulers) mistreatment of Germans (substitute black cit- izens) is now known to pass in magnitude and savagery any lim- its of what Is tolerable by mod- ern civilization, Other nations by silence would take a consent- ing part In such crimes. These Nazi (substitute racists) rerse- cutlons, moreover, takech ‘acter as international crimes bi ause of the purpose for which they were undertaken, If aggressive warfare in violation of treaty obligation Is a matter of inter- national cognizance, the prepar- ation for tt must also be af concern to the internationalcom- munity. Terrorism (racism) was the chief instrument for securing the cohesion of the German (Am- erican) people for war pur- poses,’’ War has been declared on black citizens. The verdict asked for in the Nuremberg trial was granted. We want nothing less. We believe that upon the ba- sis of what has been said con- cerning racist terror here, this body must conclude that; the mis- treatment of black citizens of the United States Is known now to pass in magnitude and sav- agery any Umits of what Is tol- erable by modern civilization That record of continuing racism should, we believe, be placed again before the United Nations. A racial crisis Is a reality in the United States. It is due I believe to the evasion by gov- ernment of the responsibilities imposed upon it by the Federal Constitution and of its violation of human rights despite its com- mitment under the Charter of the United Nations and many treaties upon which it had en- tered. This evasion of con- stitutional responsibility is de- manded by those who profit from it. While we advocate an appeal to the U.N, we hold out no L- lusions. The government of the United States has not ratified a single Convention of the U.N, calling for the enforcement of human rights or the punishment of those who have violated them. Although the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was pass- ed in 1949 it Is only now that President Nixon asked the Senate to ratify it. The task ahead if our resolution Is adopted, will be no ordinary one, Its suc- cess will depend upon the de- gree to which the American peo- ple, white as well as black, are mobilized to support it. We must go to the people, Their power is eternal. We represent differing ideo- logical trends, we come from po- litical parties* whose aims and purposes may differ. But it is my bellef that the differences do not cancel out our common desire to see that every Amer- ican enjoys his or her rights under the Constitution and that we as a people honor our com- mitment under the U.N, Charter, We are not concerned with ide- ological differences. There Its dire need of a national defense committee to come from here, The evidence that genocide Its being committed here should be gathered, It isavailable onevery side. It should be compiled in a petition to be presented to the Secretary-General with the request that it be referred by him to the appropriate U.N, body for consideration and action. The action we should recommend has been suggested by the Interna- tional Court at Nuremberg. ° fh is true that others have gone before us on & similar mission and they falled because of the strength of the racists from the U.S, in the United Na- tions. The last time was 1951, But conditions have changed drastically. The composition of the General Assembly of the U.N, (iffers today from 1951. I recommend that we resolve that his body petition the United Nations under the Convention for Prevention and Punishment of Genocide or the Universal Dec- laration of Human Rights to take such steps as will assure the safety of black Americans ingen- era) and the Black Panthers in particular, It is, [believe, our sacred duty to ald the U.N, lh the implementation of what It has declared to be its alms and purposes. The U.N, belongs to the people, In 1968, the International year for human rights, non-govern=- mental bodies all over the world sought to make their contribu- tion to a meaningful celebration that would provide a springboard it said, for future action in the U.N, Addressing that body U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations sald, among other things: “Governments cannot by them= selves face the great and shift- ing problems of our age. The people they represent must also give life and reality to the alms and ideals of the Charter and the Universal Declaration of Hu- man Rights.’’ We act for such a people. On this premise we should act, Qn this directive we should base our resolution, .R ts my firm bellet that we should request the plenary of this conference to act in cordance ‘with these words of the Secretary-General of the ted Nations, e demands something more from us than a Continuations Com= mittee, ~ CONT. ON PAGE 20 i THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 PAGE 7 Ww Wi a? b A\\\ Se wins, FREE FOOD RALLY FOR THE PEOPLE OF HUNTERS POINT Saturday, March 14, 1970, free food was given away to the people of Hunters Point. The people of the Point know without a doubt thar the founding of the Black Pan- ther Party was a historical event and to rap further about it one would have to say that it was a historical asset for the oppressed, We have found out through prac- tice thar the program of the Black Panther Party laid down by Huey P, Newton and Bobby Seale, In October 1966, relates more to the needs of the suffering masses of poor Black people than any other programs in operation today, When we Say we want land, bread, housing, education, cloth- ing, justice and peace for the peo- ple thar’s just what we mean, In fact, this is the main thing that makes the Black Panther Party such a threat to this sys- tematic way of living. Knowing and doing. We knowthat the people are suffering 50 we organize our programs to meet their needs, No we don't have stable resources but we would never have gotten where we are today sobbing and moping because of what we didn’t have or what we don’t have, What Huey and Bobby did was to take nothing and make something out of It. It’s hard for the people to be- eve that what the Party is doing is really happening and yet and still it's actually happening right before thelr very eyes, It’s like something too good to be true, The Food Rally was without a doubt a success. For those who had been forgotten for so long has finally seen that their is some one who cares. Yes, the world must thank Mrs. Newton for bring- ing a son like Huey into this world of turmoil in which we now suffer in, Here is a man that knows the people need food and he impro- DAM ROGE “The choice offered by the heirs of Malcolm to the en- dorsed spokesmen (bootlicker) is to repudiate the oppressor and to crawl back to their people and earn a speedy re- prieve or face a merciless, chosen for this job, In his set, which was very rebellious at the time,» he was the bully and he is/was very stupid, Rogers was put in the position of being in control of the little bit of money and the few jobs that were sent into the speedy andmosttimelyexe@cution area ro pacify the potentially rev- for treason and being too wrong for too long,” , HUEY P, NEWTON LS Adam Rogers is Mayor /lioto's nigger in the Hunters Point area in San Francisco, Since the re- bellions in this area broke in Sept. 1%6, Alicto has been sliding Rogers money to be his endorsed Spokesman in Hunters Point. It Was no accident thar Rogers was olutionary and rebellious niggers. Now in the last three years Rogers has used his job as Alioto’s parrot to establish himself as a little monarch (king) in the Hunters Point area, One of the first things he did was to move our of Hunters Point into an area where Black bourgle types live. He has used the few jobs that are under his control] to manipulate people. There is one sister who was fired vised 4 program to serve that puf’- pose, Here that we must put an end to police brutality and murder of Black peo- ple and he set the example for people to follow to put an end to this type of injustice. Here is a mannthat taught us and is still teaching us how to be men and women. How this? We must take care of our own, must use what we got to get what we want and need. There were well over 1500 peo- ple that were served free food, To the majority of them it was more than just free food, but free food and love, and seeing another way out, This is the depth of Huey P, Newton. This is the genius of Huey, this is what Huey has always been about telling us and showing us that we do have a different alternative, we do have a sound solid program to relate RS- ALIOT NTERS P from her job because she would not go to bed with this bootlickin’ punk, He has put his close friends and members of his family on the payroll even though they did no work. All you have to do is move around the area in Hunters Point and mention Rogers name and people time and time again will Start running down how this puppet and traitor has messed over the brothers and sisters in the area, just last week in the pool hall, on Third St., he brutally beat a young brother, Rogers took his hat and placed it on the floor and then told the brother to pick it up and put it on his (Rogers) head, The brother refused to be humiliated so Rogers proceeded to beat and is 4 man that knows can we play pass we will eliviate all of these There is a way to that foul conditions. out, The Black Panther Party with Huey P, Newton the throttle will continue to serve those that have been forgotten for what ever their needs are, To Say alid to do at is the criteria and that’s what the Black Panther Party Is all about, Constantly meeting and serving the peoples’ needs Knowing Hunters Point and see- ing the way the people responded to the Free Food Rally and to be a part of the machinery that dealt with serving the people on Saturday, March M4, let members of the Party know that we are definitely in cune with the people because there was complete union with the people and the Party. A harmonious climax was reached by the people and the Party so hov funky can it be. We know thar the pigs will create :S PARRO INT kick the brother savagely, The brother’s name is Terry Nichols. On Sat. March 7th, the Black Panther Party called for a com- munity meeting to discuss the re- cent murder of 4 brother Miles T. Beaver from Hunters Point. He was murdered by a member of Alloto's gestapo pigs the San Fran- cisco tactical squad. Members of the Black Panther Party were to explain the community control of Police petition, as a solution to Police brutality and murder of Black people. Rogers showed up talking like Alloto as he always has in the past, The meeting had not started yet so he sat down and started running off at the mouth sounding like Alioto's parrot. numbers of problems to try and destroy this type of machinery and this union thar the people and the Party are sliding off into, but we fear not, Because we know the people are strong in the Point and with each others help we can brave any storm, All I would have to say to the pigs is thata drastic blow was dealt to you and your mafioso friends in Hunters Point and that your days of starving the people are over, The people have seen new light andno matter how hard your tactical squad rides they will not be able to stop the spirit of the people to make the light they've seen shine brighter and bigger. FREE BOBBY NOW A.C, Hunters Point Community Information Center 1494 Gerold Sr. 285-5089 There were five brothers. sitting in the room from Marin City, a suburb of San Francisco, andthey did not know who this fool and provacatuer was and began to argue with him, In the course of the argument I walked in and heard him say how uptight he was that the Black Panther Party, had opened a com- munity center without consulting him and that if he felt like it he would burn our building down, At this point Land everyone else was ready to move on him, how- ever being aware of the role thar ever being aware of the role he Plays and in fact that he is a pig, CONT, ON PAGE 20 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 PAGE 8 FREE BREAKFAST PROGRAM Rockford, lil. All over America people are beginning to look into them- selves for solutions to their problems. The Black Panther Party, official representatives of the people recognizing the need for a Free Breakfast Pro- gram in the community, initiated just such a program. Since then numerous progressive people and Organizations have started Free Breakfast Programs, We say that this Is good, because it proves that people can relate to Programs which are doing some- thing instead of nothing. We have always maintained that the Breakfast Program was a peo- ple’s program, designed to meet the needs of the people. In Rock- ford ‘‘five (5) Breakfast sites are in the making. If you are a per- son who wants to do something, but is unsure of what you can do? Info. ON FREE BREAKFAST PROGRAM After knowing, studying and or- ganizing around the oppressive con- ditions that Black people are sub- jected to throughout America, members of the Black Community of Atlantic City realized that this oppression has to be resisted. We have been taught by Huey P. Newton Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, thar every man has a right to live; his basic need have to be met, The first basic need in order to live is food. Knowing this 4 survey was taken in the Black community for a Free Breakfast Program for Children, The results of this survey showed a positive need and desire for a Free Break- fast Program. With these facts certain mem- bers of this community formed a Black Community Information Cen- ter, a Branch of the National Com- mittee to Combat Fascism (N.C.C,F.) to meet the basic needs and desires of our people. On Mon- day, February 16, 1970, the Free Breakfast Program was imple- mented at Westminister Presby- terfan Church, Madison and Ver- FREE MEDICAL CENTER Rockford, Ill. As we look at the high prices on services of human needs, we must realize that some people will be forced to go without some of those needs. We are aware that in our community many people are suffering from various med- jeal problems, but because of the high cost of medical attention, they are forced to go without attention. This is very dangerous because in many many instances people have died of sickness which could have been cured had they seen a doctor in time, We say that no human be- ing should be put in a_ position which would cause them to go without medical attention, We in the Black Panther Party recognize the important and vital need for Free Medical attention for the people. Presently we have several Free Medical Centers throughout the country, and one is Support the nearest Free Break- fast Program by donating some of your time, and resources to solv- ing some of the many problems our people face, *New Breakfast Sites will be lo- cated near the following area's 1. Fairgounds project area, 2, Sabrooke Project area. 3. Selaware courts area 4. Preston & Plerpont area. 5. South Main & Wall Street area. If you live near one of these Sites and would like to partici- pate in the Breakfast for Chil- drens program? Call the follow- Ing number anytime: 964-5256 PEOPLE ARE ENTITLED THE HIGHEST LIFE WE PROVIDE, TO CAN mont Avenues, It starts at 7:30 a.m. and continues until 8:45 a.m, We stop serving breakfast at 8:15 a.m. in order to have the chil- dren to school on time and give them the responsibility of getting there on time. On Monday, the first day, 35 children showed up, Tuesday, 80 children came; Wednesday, 113 came; Thursday, 101, and Friday 100 came, Which proves even more that this program is needed, It has been successful and more and more children are coming and hungry.So we are looking for another sight. There are many things needed such as; volunteers, transportation, cash donations, food utensils, facilities and support from the people. We have given this to our children with a revolutionary love, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CALL: (609) 345-6361, SEIZE THE TIME! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! in the making right here in Rock- ford, These Medical Centers need the support of many progres- sive people, wewill need your sup- port, If you are interested in the Free Medical Center, and would like to donate some of your time, or some equipment, or money, call the fol- lowing number: 946 5256 NEEDED: Doctors, nurses, lab tech., equipment, community work- ers, We maintain that no human should be made to suffer so that a few can profit, All people are entitled to the highest life we as people can provide. Free medical atten- tion for the people is a must, BLACK PANTHER PARTY Rockford Branch A ee eee LLL LN ff | | N | N | ‘ S ELF s LL —.- a awe West Oakland Comm os: en ee ee COMMITTEES COMBAT FASC ev COMMUNITY, GENT rt BS FROATACH AND LVIRY PURSOM ACCORDING TO THOR ARTY TO LACH ACTORIINE TO MAG WEDS y liv LEGAL MD Sh OE * VOTTR vy © WORKED UNITY 108 TULL CHPLOVRENMT 108 ALL © FULL HEALTH CLINICS @ FREE CLOTIONS PROGRAMS FOR POOR > © SLM ATION SOMOCR 10 TEACH YOUTH WOT RACK BUT CLASS STRMEALE t + COUCAMON TULA CHLOYHENT (OR BLACK BRO Foor «© (© Tl UMABT WAR IN VIETNAM ARD OP PR FREE ALL POLITICAL PR Sr Oyenigle y bvraade -. of, fret Soy Solty STE fle Oe unity Information Center FOR A PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY Land, bread, housing, education, and peace,..tenth point of the ten point platform and program of the Black Panther Party. We are dally trying to implement them. In fur- ther meeting the needs and de- Sires of the people, (upon which our program is based), the Hun- ter’s Point (SF) and Bobby Seale Community Information Centers, along with the Richmond branch of the Black Panther Party began a Free Food Program for the peo- ple. Over 40 tons of food was dis- tributed last week through these Centers and Offices to the com- munity. At this first distribution we were able to give the people canned vegetables, dry mixes, frult juices, meat tenderizers (to deal with the low grade meats sold the PIGS When Wade Carson was put in the Fort Lewis Stockade, on Jan. 22, there were rumor all around about a race riot, Wade heard that some Blacks had beaten some Whites belleved to be dime drop- bers, He heard that Whites were fixing to get even, Whatever the truth of the stories, it was cer- tain that race tensions were bad at the end of January, In the midst of this Lt. Huseby and Sgt. Hayes, stockade officials, began whispering about Wade to the angriest of the white prisoners They sald that Wade had been talking to Black prisoners reveal- Ing the White plans to attack Blacks. Since Wade Carson is an ASU organizer he was of course speak- ing both to Black and White pri- soners. And the theme of his raps about race was the simple message, ‘Don't let them use us SOCIALISM people by the avaricious business- men), seasonings and bread,--to each family according to their size. Over 5,000 people were reached--a total of about 1,000 families, With this concrete example, we were able to show the people what the words ‘for a peoples’ com- munity socialism’ really means. In other words, from each ac- cording to his ability to each ac- cording to their needs, The people readily related to this example and didn’t show up just to get food or as much as they could carryaway, but to help distribute it also. They also took only what they could use or needed, As a result, more people are aware of their community centers and have a better understanding of USE RACISM against cach other, We've got to Organize together, Black and White, against the brass,'’ On Sunday, January 24, Wade was put on K.P. along with Sgt. Hayes. A group of Whites, very worked up, came over and started asking, ‘(What is this?’ Wade didn’t get much chance to answer before they jumped him, and worked him over kind of quickly. The next day they were back apologizing, Wade's words had Sunk in, They said they were really unsure about the rumors about Wade since they knew they were being spread by bigs. Finally they apologized totally and realized they Were belng used to do a pig's euny work against a union organi- xer, Wade seemed to think the beat- ing was a small price to pay for the deep way these -men came to understand things, the Party and its programs. Since the program has begun, their par- ticipation in the Breakfast Pro- gram, helping to initiate the Free Health Clinic and generallyamore socialistic attitude has been noticed, The road to socialism and the making of ‘All Power to the Peo- ple’ a reality is long and hard, But with a further and fuller un- derstanding of what these terms mean (as put into practice) will make them more determined than ever to make 1970 truly the year of the people, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Joan Kelly NCCF BOBBY SEALE COMMUNITY INFO, CENTER’ It would seem to make sense that stockade pigs want to avold riots, because they bring a lot of bad publicity, You'd think they just want to harass and beat the men in the peace and privacy of their own stockades, But over and over we hear about guards and com- manders who Know about ] attacks and either do nothing oF encourage them. Why? Why are é race riots part of the(r planaFirst q of all, the pdblicity on race isn't so bad. [t just’ shows the men are ignorant and more control. And that's pigs Like’peopie to think, It'S easy to handle a)rac It's not so easy to handle a which is united, Black. and determined to get free. Reprinted from FED UP | “BLUE” GETS TEN YEARS Wikkeorumineic rns being held prisoners of war FOR SERVING THE PEOPLE Roger Lee Lewis has been a member of the Southern Califor- nia Chapter of the Black Panther Party practically since its incep- tion in February 1968. ‘*Blue"’ he was given that name by Bun- chy Carter) was - is a nigger, a nigger off the block. A brot- her who ran these streets and knows the madness of life in Niggertown. Who Saw a man, men- Huey, Bunchy, Eldridge-picking up guns against theoppressors, the pigs. A nigger who dropped drop- ping reds and doing his thing to join the ranks of the vanguard of révolutionary struggle in this coun- try is & beautiful man who turned every energy he had used in the Struggle in the street toward the struggle for the liberation of Black people and all oppressed people in Babylon. And that is the reason Blue is in jail now; that is the reason he was constantly arrested, especi- ally since January 1969; and thar is the reason the pigs want to murder him or silence him with prison walls and bars-forever, In fact, it became a common thing for all of us never to wonder where Blue was when we couldn't Gad him--we'd just call 77th or New- ton Street and there he'd be on some phony charge. January 17, 1969, marked the | beginning of an intensified plan by the pigs to rip Blue off, It was on that dare that he surfaced to the attention of the pigs That was due to the other events of that day, the brutal assassination of our Deputy Minister of Defense, Bun- chy Carter, and our Deputy Minis- ter of Information, John Huggins; the vicious pig attack on the home of John Huggins right after he was murdered, Blue had simply come there to try and console John's wife, Ericka (this was about three hours after the assassination), He arrived at the house only to find the pigs had vamped, and that Eric- ka and other sisters and brothers were being taken to jail, to find Ericka and her three-week old baby standing in the cold, with the pigs searching the baby's blankets ‘‘for weapons”. He screamed for themto leave this sister alone, and turned to findhimself being handcuffed and charged with interfering with an arrest, The case went to court, but even a jury, not of his peers, could not find him guilty. Every month after, at least, he was arrested and*‘officially"’ char ged. But in between there were constant tickets given him for ab- stract traffic violations. There were Grrests for suspicion for everything from murder to sus- LETTER FROM PAUL REDD The Black Panther Party ts a dedicated group of oppressed Black people, organized and fighting the oppressive, fascist regime of America; that has enslaved the Black man and brutalized him all throughout his existence here in America, Inorder that we as slaves can indeed eliminate the slave master, so Black and oppressed people living here inside the heart of this country can- be free, we are engaged in a struggle fight- ing for justice and the rights of all oppressed people. Nixon's fascist gestapo storm troopers weren't successful in their murderous plan to stain the Streets of the Black communities with our blood, so the low lifed dogs Reape us and we.are now one of the hundreds of barbaric _ oncentration camps of Hitler Picion of spitting on the sidewalk. Those were the unrecorded times, the things the pigs did that they never Jeft any trace of. On February 12th he was charge with possession of a concealed weapon-(7}- he: was Iater acquit- ted of that charge. In early March BLUE AN. Blue went to see his old lady who had their child, Her father, like the pigs, hated Blue, because he was, is a Panther, totally dedi- cated to the construction of a so- ciety in which the people have the power to determine their desti- nies, and the destruction of all the forces that stand in the way of that, The sister's father, as he had previously done, refused Blue ‘‘permission’’ to see his child, A man refused to simply see his child. An argument arose and Blue ended up having charges filed against him. Assault with a deadly weapon, Further details are unimportant because the pigs wel- comed the opportunity to put Blue in jail again, regardless as to why. But, of course, again even a jury in fascist america couldn't fix themselves to find Blue guilty of any ‘‘crime"’. And he was ac- quitted of that charge. March also brought another interfering with arrest charge, that was also even- tually dropped. April starteda greater intensi- fication of the pig mobilization on Blue. He was charged on April 12 with possession of a bomb. They OF THE L.A. 18 PAUL REDD THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 PAGE 9 were really stretching out. May’ Sth, another wild case was thrown\ on him, He was charges with par- ticipatiin in the beating of a kid, Supposedly to get some kind of unknown information, Right away in June, on the 14th, Blue was pick- ed up on suspicion of murder. He BUNCHY . “‘Chip’’ - has been incarcerated Romaine Fitzgerald ‘Chip’ - Political Prisoner- L.A. County Dungeon Brother Romaine Fitzgerald - or ‘ stood trial on that charge and was acquitted, So why is Roger ‘'Blue’'Lewis sull in jail? He had been arrest- ed several years ago on an as- sault with a deadly weapon charge’ and had been given Probation oft three years, Two years and six months passed before he was ac- quitted on this last charge. It was at this time the pig probation de- partment suddenly decided that this man had ‘‘violated" his probation,\ just when the probation period N was almost over. He now facesN the original sentence of a maxi- mum of 10 years in a state peni- tentlary. There's one other thing thaty must be said, everytime Blue ¥ was arrested, {t costs the Black Panther Party a lot of money in bail, Since January 1969, his bail amounts have totaled. over $32,- 000, This was another way the pigs tried to hold him, thinking \ no one would pay those ridiculous \ ransoms month-in-and-month -out, But certainly no amount of money is worth the life of a revolution- ary, 4 man. in the L.A. County Jall since Sep- tember 26, 1969. He was arrested on a phony charge of attempted murder of a highway-patrol pig. While sitting in jail, Chip was in- formed that another charge had been brought against him - Murder, This ts ridiculous - a man sits in jail and suddenly the pigs find a scapegoat to complete their re- cords and files, Since Chip Is and was known to be a hard-working Panther and a ‘‘bad nigger’’, he was the logical choice - especially since he was conveniently held in their jail. So he was charged with the murder of a Black security pig. The pig was shot at a time when Chip was staying with some friends. Testimony of the trial at- tested to that. Two witnesses posi- tively stated he was with them at the time of the shooting, What did that matter? A friend of the pig - looking for someone on whom he could pin the death of his friend and with a need to realize some vindication for that death - claims that he saw a man with either a hat or a big natural shoot his friend. He refused to identify the ‘murderer’ without seeing him in person, therefore allowing himself and the pig courts an opportunity to see whoever it was the pigs hadcaptured for the sacrifice - namely, Chip, S The whole charade lasted trom \ Monday, March 2nd through Thurs- Nday, March Sth - the jury was picked, the prosecution's ‘case’ presented, the defense argument presented, the jury went out and the jury returned with a verdict of guilty ~- all that in four days. \lt has to be a record in the annals Not courtroom activity, Brother Chip \now faces the gas chamber or life imprisonment for a‘‘crime’’ he had The same type of fascist con-§t° read about when presented with centration camps Adolf Hitler usedg the formal charges in order tohave on the unarmed Jews, to murder §®2Y knowledge of it, them in cold blood, are being used§ It has been and will be a long here. These pigs have and are SStruggle to alleviate the sufferings still establishing these same type of concentration camps right here in the war monster fascist amer- fca, So Il say to the oppressed people of the world, these inhuman dogs with all their hideous war machines, we say to the people, you must rise like a mighty storm Nixon, FREE | and with all the power of the poor and oppressed people, whirl these bloodsucking pigs, back into the blood - stained history pages of fascist, capitalist, racist Ameri- ca, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Paul Redd L.A. 18 (CHIP) CONVICTED IN FOUR DAY FASCIST TRIAL LLL LIE ff ff LS Sf Sm f SL SDL S ES ff ff ET fff | LEE SO and agontes of Black people In Baby- lon, and to bring into reality the desires of one people to be free, to have the ability to determine for ourselves how our lives will be spent, to control our communi- ties, to live decently and with dig-\ nity, That struggle has been waged\ by courageous and selfless men for a long time now and progress In slow, But it has been the Nat Turner's, the Huey Newton's, the Toure’s, the Bobby Seale’'s - the Chip's who have provided the im-. petus, the thrust to push forwardN with speed the culmination of oury dreams for freedom and the turn- ing point in the historical cross- road toward liberation, And all these men here and those in the Struggles of all oppressed people throughout the entire world have\ suffered the most. N It is our right to secure that\ dream-reality for ourselves in whatever way we see fit, But it Is our duty - especially now with so many examples having been set - to understand that death isthe ticket to ride through Ilfe and courage and fearlessness are the tickets\ to ride to total liberation and itt is our duty to see to It that those brothers and sisters who fight in the forefront - the vanguard - who take the blows in our behalf not be continually victims of the pigs’ fascist tactics, and that they noy longer be alone in this fight that\ is all of ours, We alone can frees ourselves and those that the pigs snatch from us in the nameof some abstract Justice - and we alone will free our political prisoners, SEIZE THE TIME! NOTE; Chip has been sentenced todeath in the gas chamber, It's the responsibility of all of N us who remain on the streets to LET a PPE FREE ALL POLITICAL PRIS- N ONERS Sn ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 PAGE 10 UNIOR FREE NATE Deputy Chairman Fredhas aright hand man named Nathaniel Junior, together with a dozen other com- rades, including Deputy Ministers, Rush, Chaka, Che and Major Jewel. They established the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Major ‘Nate’ was responsible for organizing the Western suburbs. He performed his job extremely well - setting up Political Education classes for the community — lay- ing ground-work for Breakfast for Children programs, He had suc- ceeded in developing political and class consciousness among the peo- ple of the Western suburbs when the Grand jury indicted him and 16 other Panthers June 10, He was charged with unlawful use of wea- pons, kidnapping, conspiracy to kid- nap, and aggravated battery, An astronomical bond of $100,000 was levied on him. In lieu of the trumped-up charges, unconstitu- tional bond, and over-kill repres- sion, Nate and others were forced into exile, The brother, stayed un- derground until January 14, On January 14, the brother came back to the people. Due to the vast Support of the People’s Party, he was able to turn himself in. Even though the state didn't have any concrete evidence against him his bond was raised to $1,000,000 - that’s right, brothers and sisters, one million dollars, This is the kind of overt racism manifested in the courts in this country. But you and I have to understand that the courts are part and parcel of the ruling class’s machinery to oppress the people, The Black Panther Party claims that it is your obligation to defend a brother who has put his life on the line for you and me. Defense committees must be established to support the brother against this fascist ruling class, And if we can’t free him with funds, then let’s free him with force. ALL POWER TO THOSE WHO WILL ORGANIZE A BASTILLE DAY, BLACK PANTHER PARTY Illinois Chapter 2350 W, Madison 243-8276 LETTER TO THE EDITOR Editor, Magazine Section The New York Times 229 West 43rd Street New York, N Y. 10036 Dear Editor, One wonders why Mr, Stearn was invited to meet and questiontwo leaders ofthe Black Panther Party. IT found his article on ‘‘Rapping with the Panthers in White Sub- urbia'’ derisive, racist, and re- presenting an attempt to divide and weaken the movement for Black liberation led by the Panthers and their White allies. How else explain the mystical (and therefore sinister) quality he attributes to ‘'Panther grammar and articulation?’ He questions them about the ‘violence’ (not of the police) of SDS and the Weath- ermen as though the Panthers de- cided policy or were in some way responsible for the tactics of a middle class White student who are trying awfully hard to be revolutionary, The racism of the article canbe seen by the statement that the ‘‘Panthers are the first group of armed Black militants...in the his- tory of North America. Incidents created by Nat Turner and Den- mark Vasey and a few minor shirmishes before the Civil War constitute the sole organized armed revolutionary tradition of Black America," What agiveaway that sentence. Note that the ‘‘in- cidents’’ were ‘‘created'’ not by the exploitative and oppressive slave system but by their victims, Note also that genuine rebellion against tremendous odds (and a spur to further resistance) become “minor skirmishes'’. Asateacher minimum of historical research before making such a statement leading one to believe that Black resistance was practically unheard of until the Panthers came on the scene, In Herbert Aptheker's “Negro Slave Reyolts {nthe U.S.A,"', there are listed over 100 well documented revolts of Black people in the 18th and 19th cen- turies alone. Surely such an‘‘over- Sight’ by a historian cannot be explained except by not so sub- ‘tle racism, At a time when the Panthers are fighting for their right to exist (and ours) the author found nothing better to do than indulge in red-baiting; a tactic so suc- cessfully used in the 50's. The group Panther’s Program is open for everyone to see and read (it is printed in every issue of the Party's Newspaper, ‘The Black Panther,’ Why the compulsion to know what ‘‘variety’’ of Marxism- Leninism they advocate? While the article was replete with ques- tions about guns and violence not ¥ one word about the Panther’s daily ° Program designed to serve their communities, No, Mr, Stearn it is not their ‘confused definition’ of good and evil'’ that haunts you, It is their challenge to change (and tear down if necessary) the system of private enterprise which is racist to the core and deprives not just Black people of freedom and dignity (they bear a double oppression), but many Whites and the poor as well. FREE LANCE BELL Lance Bell, Santa Claus,a young black brother, who in the twenty years of his life tolled and la- bored for the poor and oppressed masses is currently being held in Cook County jail., He is being held a hostage, for a crime which only exists in the minds of a certain class (evil doers), LANCE BELL IS FACING THEELECTRIC CHAIR and this fearless seryant of all oppressed people is being held without bond (cansorm), To understand the Innocence of this true humanitarian and member of the Black Panther Party, we must review what happened on the night of Nov. 13, when he was kid- napped from the arms of black people, On Nov, 13th, States Ar- torney Hanrahan's S.A,S, (special assassination squad) invaded the Black Community in hopes of reap- ing havoc and terror in the minds of the poor and oppressed people. These hired mercennaries set out with evil minds and cold hearts to execute fiendish plans mas- terminded by the notorlous arch criminal, Edward V. Hanrahan, alias, ‘Simon Bar Sinister’. This was the daySpurgeon Jake winters, a dedicated servant of the peo- ple and members of the people's party intercepted these forces of fascism and destruction and de- livered 4 clear profound political consequence upon them! Our warrior —our young warrior, Jake Winter's discovered these in- truders in the wicinity of 58th and Calumet, stood face to face, with shotgun in hand with the ‘boys in blue’ as they were in the act of brutalizing and murdering In- nocent citizens as Lance Bell. Lance had viewed this blatant act of Fascism, Jake with his shot- gun had inflicted heavy casulties upon the invading stromtroopers 2 pigs dead, and 10 wounded, and several hundred recieyed minor cuts and abrasions due to their hasty retreat, ‘ . ‘ LANCE BELL Backing away from their defeat, the pigs began to shoot at inno- cent bystanders, seriously woun- ding Lance Bell. Being masters in the art of demagogy (lying), they decided to frame him on the char- ges of murder, aggravated battery, assualt, and a host of other char- ges, The only crime this brother ever committed is that he helped to feed over hundreds of children every day, The only crime he hag committed is tO work diligently and faithfully to help open the Free Medical Care Center, We must not allow the brother to go {to the gas chamber or the electric chair when he has committed so much to helping the poor and op~ pressed people of the Black Com- munity, The pigs know that Lance Bell tory for Hanrahan's vigilantes if we allowed them to kill Lance, It is time for the poor and op- prressed communities to rise up as one family wielding our wea pon of unity and say * piggy wiggy’ Lance Bell (Santa Claus) MUST 3E SET FREEIIII Hammerhead Haimhock Hanrahan, the PEOPLE are hip to your game, J. Boose WISCONSIN COMMITTEE TO COMBAT FASCISM Formation of the National Com- mittees to Combat Fascism The WCCF was formed last July. It is one of more than forty similar organizations formed throughout the country about the same time, It is part of a new national political organization (The National Committees to Combat Fascism) formed in Oakland, California last July 18 - 20, That weekend some 3000 represen- tatives of 300 organizations met, at the call of the Black Panther Party and International Liberation School, to analyze the historica} preconditions of state directed fascism; and to ascertain if those objective preconditions were now present in the United States. Having reflected upon the histor- ical - political lessons of their own experiences and the related ex- periences of others, and, also, upon a clear understanding of the past, the conferees collectively agreed that Federal and State police brutality and repression of nascent, ‘‘grass-roots,’’ political Organizations were identical with the earley patterns of fascism and that unless checked these localiz- ed and scattered attacks would soon result in a national state in which rampant, all-out, fascist repression would soon be a reality not just for the most out-spoken and vibrant but for all who would move to separate themselves through action from decayed, crusty Institutions and from the death-grip of racism, Fascism In Our Time And In Our Country Is Imminent The conferees’ assessment of the political situation inthe country came after analyzing a great many events and trends, some being: 1) The creation of an inter- national police force, i.e, the formation of Federal troops, state, and local police into one integrated military unit, shar- ing the Same weapons, tactical manuals, and communication facilities. Officials in the WhiteHouse and Pentagon have prepared contingency plans for its strategic deployment, It is directed from the 26 million dollar ‘Domestic War Room'' in the Pentagon. Construction of that center was completed last July, one week before the conference. Two Immediate Concerns Locally, the WCCF is develop- ing a response to this Ultra- Right offensive, We have begun to circulate petitions which seek to place the Milwaukee Common Council on record in favor of com- munity control of the police de- partment. This campaign aims not only to pressure the City Govern- ment, but to educate broad masses of people for the necessity of in- volving themselves in the affairs of running our community, of the campaign of repression and terror being conducted against minority peoples in Milwaukee. This-cam- paign ineludes the open and brutal use of force, including murder, frame-ups and contempt for the people. We know that tf this cam- paign is not halted it will quickly spread to the entire community, as the attack by police this summer on the Brewery workers would In- dicate, The WCCF also has undertaken to establish a bail fund which makes possible the provision of funds to those who have been singled out as victims of re- pression and who have no finan- cial ald. Beyond simply raising ball, however, we intend to con- duct active educational and agita- cooperation with them. Our unique role will be the mass mobilization and education of the community in behalf of these cases, As the W.C_C,.F. grows in size, prestige, and strength, we will take up other causes in a similar manner, including defense of the poor against victimization by real- tors, city agencies; community control of schools and courts; popularization of nationally known victims of repression; agitation for legislation which will improve the lot of the people; and many other essential components of this Struggle to improve the lives of the masses of working people in our state, Fight Fascism While You Can In order to make effective these intentions we need your help. You should join us in this effort by actively supporting these cam- paigns, inviting W.C C.F. speakers to address organizations to which you belong, coming to W.C C.F, planning meetings and taking part in leading this campaign, and assisting in the collection of the massive amount of money neces- Sary to conduct wide-spread ef- fective education in the mass tonal campaigns around these,cases! Media, on the streets, and through to expose to the citizens of our elty the gross Injustices being perpetrated, and to mobilize the community in defense of these victims. Such activity is now being conducted in behalf of the Mil- waukee Three, three Black Pan- thers who have been framed on an attempted murder charge of a policeman. It has become clear that a nationally directed cam- paign is underway to slander iso- late and destroy the Panther Party, and this local case Is only one of many such examples here in Milwaukee, The backbone ofthis campaign is racist terror against the Black community at large. We Must All Work Together, For There Is Much To Do- Other organizations exist today which undertake to defend civil Uberties and constitutional prin- ciples, and- we do not see our- selves in competition with these groups. Rather we see that the W.C.C,F. will complement and aid these organizations in their roles and we seek the broadest possible All peace loving people must move immediately and resolutely on lying and selfish politicians and on the brutal agents of their laws by countering demagogy with political education, and by count- ering police brutality with com- munity control, Contact us, If you won't come now and fight with us; let us come to see you, talk to you, convince you of the crucial importance of your participation — in this fight. ; Help us to raise the $3000.00. in cash and $30,000.00 in colla-— teral needed to get the Milwaukee Three out of ae You can help $200.00 or more, Cal) or us and we provide the n essary forms. AR. Help us to keep you ir of our activities by to our newsletter, (Send more to cover mailing WISCONSIN COMMITTEE TO COMBAT FASCISM Box 2339, Milw,, Wis,, 53212 00 i is innocent and it will be a Vic- i» d a « ieee” os ie dns 1 et * a, i an TWO ARRESTED AT HEARING OF PANTHERS Two young sympathizers who ap- peared in the Safety Building during the arraignment of three members of the Milwaukee Black Panther Party were arrested for carrying concealed weapons. Thearrests were made as de- puties and policemen inspected each spectator entering the court- room of Circult Judge Hugh R, O'Connell, About 180 persons, most of them young, showed up for the arraign- ment of the three—Jesse L_ White, 20, of 2367-A N &th St.; Earl W Leverette, 24, of 1529 N 7th St,, and Booker T. Collins Jr., 21, of 2417 N, Richards St. They are charged with attempt- ing to murder Patrolman Ribert Schroeder as he was walking his beat last Sept, 22, The spectators were not but were asked to open their coats. Women’s purses also were search- ed, So was at least one small sultcase, a Ae sie wT guilty pleas for the three, the Spectators laughed. They stopped when he announced: ‘‘Futhermore, there will be no more outbursts in court.’’ Defense Atty. Sander Karp told O'Connell he thought the trial would last a week. O'Connell adjourned it to Sept. 21. As the defendants left the court, the raised their fists in a salute and shouted, ‘‘Power to the Peo- ple’’ and ‘‘Seize the Time,"’ The spectators responded by raising their fists and applauding, Speech Made The sympathizers filed out of court, chanting, to the Civic Center Plaza. There they milled around and Karp made a speech, He told them that the defendants, whoare servinga year in the House of Correction on resisting arrest convictions, had been placed in solitary confinement, Karp said the three had been punished for circulating a petition o ; een es et ee ry PANTHER SUPPORTERS AT RALLY Robert J. Wymelenberg, 30, of 2728 N ‘Federick St., was arrested for carrying a long bladed hunt- ing knife In a bag, police sald, Gerald Mitchell, 20, of 1638 N. Arlington Pl,, was carrying a bundle of rolled up wire-a hand- made black jack, they said. They were charged withcarrying concealed weapons, Leverette, Collins and White re- fused to enter pleas to the at- tempted murder charge, Instead, each made a brief speach. “The three of us, we say that our pleas would make no dif- ference because the pig depart- ments across the country are vamping on the Black Panther Party in general,’ White told O'Connell. The spectators applauded, The other two defendants yelled‘ Right on!’ when Leverette said: ‘Black people have not received justice in America since this judic- fal system has existed. Would you want me to believe that we start receiving justice now’ When O'Connell entered not "Only by: the gun People been denied their freedom:’ asking that another prisoner be released to visit his critically i) wife. Officials at the House of Cor- rection said this was not the case, They said the three were among 56 signers of a petition demanding that 33 men in maximum security cells be placed in medium security housing. Lawrence Jozwiak, superinten- ent, said the 56 said they would not work if demands were not met, Jozwiak said as a result all 56 were transferred to maximum security cells. Jozwiak said disciplinary hear- ings for the 56 were being held and that some were being placed in solitary disciplinary cells as a result of the petition. Jozwiak sald, however, that the three Black Pan- thers had not been disciplined as of Friday House of Corrections officials also confirmed thal among the prisoners’ demands was a request that another prisoner be permitted to visit his.‘wife, who was ill. have the. Black For Immediate Release: Friday, March 12, 1970 Release Authority: Robert L, Lucas, Chairman, Black Libera- tion Alliance For Information: Contact: Black Liberation Alliance 75 East 35th Street Chicago, Mlinois Phone: (312) 842-9321 We charge the Federal Govern- ment with the crime of wantonly murdering our two brothers, Ralph Featherstone and (apparently) Wil- liam ‘‘Che"’ Paine, We suspect, although we may never be able to prove it, that a- gents of the Federal Government were directly involved, probably because they thought that Brother Rap was in the car, This is the way that the CIA has operated all over the Third World, from the Congo to Laos, from Ghana to Vietnam, If theyare in the way, people of color and their leaders are mysteriously blown to bits, with even less thought than if they were boulders blocking a road or trees blocking 4 view. But directly involved or not, the Federal Government is respon- sible for initiating the chain of events that has now resulted in this heinous crime against Black people. Just as the Mayor of Mem- phis Tenessee, created the politi- cal climate of violence and hys- teria which led to the wanton mur- der of Dr. King in the spring of 1968, the Federal Government to- day, with its repressive legislation against Movement activists, such as the ** Rap Hrown ** Anti Riot Act and the Anti-Conspiracy Act, and its bringing to trial of Movement activists on the basis of this repressive legislation, has now created the political climate of violence and hysteria which has led to the wanton murder of these wT THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 PAGE IL PRESS RELEASE FROM BLACK LIBERATION ALLIANCE two dedicated, hard-working un- sung fighters for human freedom, For the last many years itisthe Federal Government itself which hes been responsible for the grow- ing chaos and disorder In and a- round the courts. By its deliberate efforts to muddy-up the fundamen- tal distinction between political ac- tivity and crime, it has fostered disrespect for the judicial process, incited to riot and murder, andun- leashed the most reactionary forces in the nation. By sending in agent -provoca- teurs to Movement organizations, as in the notorious alleged plot by RAM to blow up the Statue of Lib- erty, it has deliberately instigated and sought to provoke freedom fighters to acts of terrorism which only end in thelr imprisonment or death. THE TIME HAS COME TO TAKE SOME SIGNIFICANT STEPS TO BRING A HALT TO THIS vio- LENCE AND UNENDING INCITE- MENT TO VIOLENCE BY THE GOVERNMENT. TO THIS END WE DEMAND: 1. That the Federal Government itself take the Initiative im- mediately to move the dismissal of all charges against H, Rap Brown as well as against all other politi- cal defendants, Black and White, who have been charged under the Anti-Riot , Anti-Conspiracy Acts and similar repressive legislation, 2. That steps be taken immed- fately to repeal the Anti-Riot and Anti-Conspiracy Acts. 3. That the FBI, the CIA and police departments the country Immediately destroy their dossiers on Movement activists and that the Permanent Subcom- mittee Investigations of the Committee on Government Oper- ations of the U.S, Senate, whose extensive and published hearings have revealed only a small part LYNCHIN across on of what is contained in these dos- siers, be immediately disbanded, 4, That whatever agent. -pro- vocateurs have been or are dis- closed to be Involved in acts of terrorism charged against Move- ment activists, the charges be brought instead against these a- gents and the official agencies em- ploying them, for conspiring to violate the civil rights of citizens, WE CALL UPON THE BLACK COMMUNITY AND ALL DECENT CITIZENS ACROSS THE NATION TO SUPPORT THESE DEMANDS WHICH ARE NECESSARY TO CLEAR UP THE CALCULATED CONFUSION BETWEEN POLITI- CAL OPPOSITION AND CRIME, WITH WHICH THE GOVERNMENT SS SEEKING TO DESTROY THE MOVEMENT, At the same time we call upon Black organizations to appoint their own investigative committee to determine the guilty parties to this murder and we demand that the Justice Department and all other officials on every level co- operate with this Committee, giving it the right to subpoena per- sons and documents and granting it access to all files and informa- tion related to this and similar crimes. In particular, we urge Move- ment people to reflect upon the need for new forms of organiza- tions which will minimize future opportunities for the enemy to waste our brothers and sisters. We cannot continue to lose our Medgars, our Malcolms, our Mar- iiss, our Freds, our Marks. our Ralohs and our Ches, Dan Aldridge James Boggs William Strickliat Rovert Lucas John Watson Mike Hamlin NORTHERN STYLE On September 30, 1969, Curliss Dismuke was found guilty of al- legedly raping a White woman on the near West side of Rockford This was supposed to be one ofthe three counts of rape held against Curliss, However, a sober study of this case makes us believe this statement: CURLISS DISMUKE IS AN INNOCENT MAN, This trial of Curliss Dismuke is another step in the rising trend of Fascism, Curliss’ trial was polit- teal, Curliss Dismuke isa political prisoner and a political victim and we must all understand that point, The trial of Curliss Dismuke proved in no way that he committed the crime. The only thing, in fact, that Walter and Shirley Kaszuba (alleged victims) could point out was that the supposed rapist was Black, Everything that led up to the arrest of Curliss Dismuke on through his conviction was the re- sult of a fascist plot on the part of the pig department of Rockford, the hog of a judge that heard the case, and the state’s attorney's office, and other members of Rockford's fascist government. Everyone must know just how Curliss Dis- muke was railroaded, On the night of May 31, about 3 a.m., Curliss Dismuke and his wife Mary were having an argu- ment. The Rockford pig depart- ment sent a car by to check out complaints about someone about the police, Curliss was going to his garage when he noticed the squad coming. He asked them, ‘Who are you looking for? Me? That was enough. He was im- mediately grabbed and handcuffed, Mary Dismuke, before her hus- band was hauled off, asked the arresting officers what they were doing, Their reply was ‘‘We don't have to answer any questions this early in the morning.."’ Like many others that get picked up by these fools every night, he was taking them down to the stationto be for disturbing the peace. As of May 10, approximately four rapes had been reported on the West side, and no suspects had been apprehended, The city officials from the mayor and Chief of Po- lice down, were under pressure to come up with someone. Curliss is Black (the only description they had to go on) and lived only a few blocks away from Shirley Kasbuza, one of the supposed rape victims. So the lynching machinery swung into action, The police dug up one of the sup- posed rape victimsand ranCurliss thru a line-up. Theyclaim that the supposed rape victim, Shirley Kasbuza, positively identified Cur- liss as here assailant, along with two other supposed rape victims, Curliss Dismuke was booked on three counts of rape, and detec- tive pig officers of the city and county pig forces stumbled all over each other to be first to claim that they knew and had had Curliss under surveillance all the time. The news media was printing gar- bage like ‘‘now Westside house- wives can sleep again in peace’’ or something like that,--'‘ A way of saying that the brother was guilty before he had had a trial, The pigs leaked information both before and after the line-up as tothe descrip- tion of the alleged assailant, prac- tically giving Curliss’ description to the supposed rape victim for the suspect that they had chosen to point out, and the whole machin- ery for the legal lynching of Cur- liss Dismuke was set up. After witnessing the trial of Curliss Dismuke, which was dic- tated by an old fascist hog of a judge, Albert O’ Sullivan, we have formulated the following opinion; someone on the inside who was supposed to be helping defend Cur- liss, appears to have been working, either willingly, or unwillingly with the lynchers, What happened to Curliss Dis-— muke, has been happening to Black and oppressed people since the day we came here. The state, the power Structure has been using us as scape-goats for their self-created problems, Curllss Dismuke’s name, his meaning as a man In this system Joins those of ‘John Willams Jr,, Al Hanserd, Hershal Sockwell, and many many other Black people who have been vic- timized by this system, We in the Black Panther Party say that: We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.’ We be- lieve that all Black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial; We want al} Black people when’ brought to trial to be: tried in court by a jury of thelr peer group or people from their Black: communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States."’ FREE CURLISSDISMUKE AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! Monk Teba . re ome + ee ee rm ot te Mal of me yest 2 San 5) on the 7th floor tating taltman Bethy Seale of the Slack Patther Party we has t- S clock tonight towel tow tl S ocho 4 yore pot that to grant yes 8 and Br fer tem This judge, Judge Ken- stated Gut be woels tar eemecticut pigs from tekisg way ledore 3 U clock tumigh, hd that they coukée' i take me teture | ocleck tonight A Garry's been te court all Gay today tryteq to deal with that, this morrong ©) Garry, Orietes and other peo- pe, Garry migt be to another trish atrede tows, I dest know Oft-Rand. tet they’ we heen ie and out of the courts with tm Ging The grounés, of course, fs that tre Bear say evideses, tat they're ttyieg © extradite me om end that Geurer Seme has tried to bepticste me, This so-called eri Genre is cely inptinstion Grvugh 4 form of hear any evidence, and thle te why oor of the g | i i this wan, Judge Raymond Peters, frum (he Calatersis Dupterse (cert (het stated thle, the thet jutgus tet ever teow whet | meen Ge we hove eome othe tedet malian etal ate, ted | Sou out some baicr motos Jeet from geeeral people, | won't 7 they tome w bere sad visti me ot visiting beers ond tary tell me (eat the wider ate (4) petgee tet Pteeeere pat cm them fram the or rrrewent, They mod eet 66 be why | edd Get tee ey protetay 1 tale sheet thie oe §: wer joige wear! siee im wet te te fret cmt by Get pressure Se lhed 4) Oe whee ee erates Gerry sat Gam tow toe fttmg te Giflerent cours te se the extradition end he came fore ‘I anc! cade Che statement as to insaffictest evidwnce, | read that lylag George why that statement Sama mate and looking at it, te a fore of heer may tread coe ptaletwenl someteady taid that Dotty exid”' something Ube this, | read this Ont of that statement ta mace, ie & complete railroading eger atet and George Sums is & foo! for the power strectare, the U5 government ant their faders! agents, Ge FRI ant the CA wridence. I here he saye RH What kad of specific charges ere Mey tryteg te pet against pou? DB) Well the specttic charges are ete) = opee. There are fuer (4) charges, There's a charge where Tm allegedly to have conagtred te Kicrayy, ailegetty ot) have Adtuagped, alleged jo have con- spiced to comma) murcer, aad aj- \eged tc have committe murder There are four (4) ¢harges al- egetaer, What kind of sextenes dose Ole carry im Connection Dy) Ws an electric chatr sentence, they try to pet you im the electete chair and U3) you, Fm aware of, we're all eware of bl, that that's wunetiy what they're trying to de He What E180 of strength would you way UM wowkd (abe irom the people fe Prevent thal] Or whal hind of showing could the people make? By The people, the masses of poo , | mean Afro-American, Diack Ametica, Bl progresstees, tib- orale snd Whites atc) other peupie will have to rise up, would aay that S07, of the sation le going to Rave te come cut att s large por- ew of thet S07), the poor oppreseed peuple whe in ene form or sacther are receiving sume tore of fasc- fet frpreesion os the part of the Bisem Agnes Milebell prqine sat ther state and city Officials (hrgeghest tr crumtry. All these Preehe ate pling We have ty come ot ond Senry sgalast tis, Se- ueree H Gemand, bet fe net sor Fibre fs gpd gambit fe come out cad eppoee re- oreesion, eopeee Ghia 0 peer lt form of semi: tasciom alreedy historically, Now that fasetam has lees Serv covert, White people have te Grader stand (tual as long os Blach peophe are treated cafairty and (here are evils in this society, there # explestation ant tnequalft im fect, they're quing tobe by that same syeter that ate Bappering, Tkst Ciécage 7 trial Clearty shows that net osly Black People can be raliroated, tet le 7Ers Uheaierl ves can be rat] resced §@ jalle aad prisons, you see wha 1 mean becple tn endersiand in the sense had (he people are going to have to cote out aad oppose it totally Black America ls ret gving \ co for My I don’t go for Hi, the Black Teather Party Goeawt go fer ti and eppunes the faseiat regres hal le meted oul on Mack people’ « beads The Black Panther Party Bas bees crgssising and usttying the people aroendhaste communt: 7 Pt CErams, fevolutiory pe action = petgrame tron Breakfast tor Children al} the way Gorn t Commiitiees that we ar trying to put logether tor more co Operative housing Se the chetion, Sore cooperiiive mari ta the ghettos, and tangs the thon and free health programs ead tat Programs that © griting ready 10 Det mgecher, we re cetting ready to give away tons of food in tae Manter's Petet area, ard sot onty the bhasters Detet ares, bet other Blae® communities toc. Dut these PrCgrams are whal the Party's been trying te duces revulutionry scale, tha « whal we've bees tr te Go, Because we are tired of this 409 year old eperession. Hierks will eee and they woot te the page stepping the Mack Tas ther Party lecesse the whale tectadyet Of the power structure been to try fe totally dis- it the Misek Panther Party, oer, ty lying Go the Merk « Party. Tide very charge im a tertabgee and he gevernmest, CLA and tinal agwets Se afi mal! be Patther Party, we eay 501 ur own Party mem sod crap and Cee ilee tte, BERET TIRE ay f [ir f«e E » do with the Chicago ts or some incident that’ s gose doen here in the Day Area? W haven't you teen given any tail Why haven"t you been let cut Why are you being held tn pall ti: The real resece that} haven't teen gives any tad] is becouse the gakt prutably put the bai! up to « milliios Gollarn, There are militons { people across this know what t trying to morry atl and would That's coing to deutle the coreer amd this man le 8 murderer, etc. The very taet that | ave been held of betransy evidesce, and the fart that they tnow fro te (ice arrested me 5 the very tee ents all over tte place ure televisics, A. on planes five charges cameup, « Sams killed Alex Hachiey What To syiee bs + because we in vestigated apd founc oot that George Sams defiettaly actually tr met the che who did citi Drcther Ales Flackiey, and Derteer Alex Rackiey wae mo agent. Ant ten I arrested August [ta this happened suppowedty the way they ve gol it down Is May 2nd er something Like (hat, | waset fying tO avoid 20 proseccting. Well, that's Ge first (hing tts! was © and tt pecete ant Priends of Ge Party posted $35,000 dolls tobd cach check. People ? they realized then that | could get ball jest [tke that becae pee ple will come forth because they waderstan¢ the political persecu ton that's ening on inst the Party by the governmeat, So witt: the Ccenectiont thing, they moved t© say no ball, oo ball. Vet | om stil] held on bearesy evidence RM: Wow stow! the charges of Chicago? You still have to staad trial Jor a so-called ‘conspiracy’ don't pow? 0, They sabt that | have to do that I dom t knew if they’ re going to move to try me there tn April like they maid I ve already Gemanéed a tam amd speedy trial om thet. if ta Gent try me they are vbolating another Constintional right there. I've siready Gemanted ¢ fast and speedy trial aad tf they don’t try fee, then DOOM! | think that they figure that they can raiiresd os, sh of 8 Party members in Con pectitut-- that s what they re ering to try te do. We ve got documented evidence we can document George SAW Activities aed exactly what Se id and bow be pot this etetf legether, Were provsbly geisg te Rave (be came trouble petiing «ka Of (Ale evidence te in court, a lt of the sasme (routte that the Chicags 7 bed Ihe US Atlersay-Oen- eral, Rimeey Clark. Methmas, the fGen, woulda’l let Clark teettty The proseceutica moved 10 Beep Rew Abernathy trom testifying toe (he Cldeage 7. These are tive kitets Of things ai are going to tagoen Fm net saying Qat Namsey Clark +8 geting to te say witness for x tat fom: saying the teetatges and Cartier that the jadges uses tm atc 70" fram entering evidemee that can DEOVe and show faeriet goverment operaties anda racist and tool line Coergy Sams dolisg what be oe By Where teGeorgs Gama now? An idee ” id hy I've teard that oes tack there somewhere. | beard (tat the gave hin a che he and Det Ries around jal and he sated os & couple cf princeers ruas 8 round suppdcedty bolle ¢oing to cet cut ef jal! pre o and all Gas kine of crap K Have you tees getting a ¢ eepport from a ket of cme i e)de/t expert support frow no. mally By You, We're getting « tx of sap Port trom a heck of & lot af pe it wae! normal!) ‘ Uooart Reagan Lo at teal pr talking now, We com ti i Dreakfast 5 2 indtisied tn fire first bill thet went in by thie ax semtiywomaa, Wong. in the p42 assembly district, f thiak, sbe pu the bill ts, for the tree breakfas tm the ectoois, the re a¢ with polliical masrarers ts to try set co-ep the Party's breakias jushiog aod demanding ages ag There mever shouted hare hunger im the first place, then what happened initially was tm (hie Ml cperation with the bill going is thizh (Rat some $ux initially allegaied, 1 tink so thing lhe thet, Meagan initially cut it beck, be cut ff back 41/2 million Gotlars, leaving 100 thes sand Gollars fer iteproegras. Then bere be comes election (une talhore Out allegatiag © million collars for free teach programa, mow ae trying te shift i free lanch, ae i's Gifferers trom free breabtas tut is tbe same (hing as tocd fe the Ads and we hocw i and they know It They 7 petities, play tities te t f= altempts to kil), empls bul kiting aed murdering Black Pasther Party members and then lying on us, and trempaine ep charges om us and tryteg © raiiroad es ts courts etc reading all termed a Bas changed the tran: wheat they sent Carry, Ue et. Aad G. to me, they maid they Somethings And I had to we kere what between one state he court made and thu on the , there were ations of tewtal! im the ira me calling ee igthewus We y culeg oo erige you can nsor OB det tits sald, you see © the poopie dea from that trazseript; i doesrt jock ite m, tet f was getting righteously brutalined at (hat time tause I had been strapped down tx a chair, lege to the logs of the chair, my arms to the arme of the chsir, | foolet areand and ‘rigghed ey beet tbe arvend and got my head clese tc my hands and i) was already strapped to ibe ares ef the chatr and fest by vigeting my bead | feally got my Rf I Ef ec s MICHA MAGURE C—O 133A PST MAR 12 70 LAQS4 BLACK PANTHER PARTY 3106 SHATTUCK AVE BERKELEY CALIF THE EXTRADITION OF COMRADE BOBBY SEALE IS THE LATESTS THE AMERICAN RULING CLASS TO- WARDS ALL OUT FASCISM, WE MUST VIEW THIS OVERT ATTEMPT AT PRR- MEDITATED MURDER AS BUT ANOTHER COLDBLOODED EXECUTION OF A TRUE HERO OF THE AMERICAN AS BUT ANOTHER AT: CIDE WAGED AGAINST BLACK PROPLES ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BOBBY MUST BE FREED REVOLUTION; TEMPT ATGENO- POLITICAL RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS EASE RR See ee | TEP BY StL TE ! 1 tt amma ttt Ramm tt tt ripped th Bit = y testes and that's terms I d called him s SOF tanch of frames, you incw, whe you're bit in the tmite ike the wre geisg te imen” That means te state % see ay that people ar prever ins you reas people rover guilty miniednese amt That's maccew narrow mintetene and rade te the teste for the & tanane, Bigete are ineane try to jestify them jes teing insane jing ve im ike low it one form or Mis another. Judge ‘arewell many of the on ihe enches man RR Mew 4id the trothers up Sere jail) relate te that These brothers bere are trytag © fied ost talormatics. | get se many totes sad stuff trom thes rothers. A dude sent me 5 note saying where going = Gows pewter. f really wail to get some Knowledge alcut myself, What's going om on the outside’ They keep me dated tm this coll Toe i a cell woere Pm iechaied from the other prisoners, some tm pase ty ia front of my colt, (Rit | Get measages anc notes anc | write brothers pctes trying © ralse (belr political education, bet H's 600 dudes in this pall, the jall La over crowded by 300 fo 300 peeche They've oot if man tasks *b 25 and 26 cats te a task, they've got cats sleep ing om the Moor. Every tank t thie jal) be over crowsed, eves the small ¢ mam lathes Rave got 10-13 men le thers, Nt) Are mest of the pecgte ts bere etther Third World ar poor Waites! BD Most of te people iz Bere are ch You we qu 60 Blacks this jal, atether 30% and the rest are White, Sometimes represents tee Maid gaa you may get upwards of 2 of 20% eeenity"* —_ White. I's Machs--flacks are ts ( jail. Polite forces Rave bese BD) Me's trying tm ai doubled, tripled and quedrwpieé to cceupy Ge Bisct community ike & foreign trooper occupies tarritery, We peed decentrailta- tiee of police it the comment: Decentralization of Maxtor t the peaple get a sew police de ceni they comtrel, where the Mafia feeding ell res chidtres ip the 1D in the ccenmumity Be patrols smd beard of the M. clething programa, 3 Ata sll the pewperty aad all the of the Mafia talking » taxes and al) the tax mosey att ea yes rhgte aha yu = to the people out OFF Tes ee. tee new Gocumt razed police de- bunch of criminals and that's © < ee policeman will be t be one a] cme with the preple Partments teat Will be duly elected ty IS mewber comeiis me eetghborhord <iviston of wack de Comtrulited pellew district in the CY. Aud the pecete will be voting in Geir control. They hawe « rigts to do (de This be another (Ping Why they want to bill the Dtack Farther Party, because thés is 6 very effective pagers dee’ at all. Th a # avaricions desagneues Gonr! want & because that's ¢ eal way w power, argarized OM power out o hands cf the svericiogs ruling class, the com. y cant deal ime they 0 seams tibia t munity. T jointly to ran the police 1s, espectatly © techstca) eqalpeeent and tke that Eves if the palice amd ethete ert the he lieupters Detone d are net pat te operation, The be ones whe caused there all srousd pecauee the cops are being avaricious besiness plotters, to bretalise them. All the Black reteltions (Rat ecered te the Wack com munits when it things Dertet in the last 5 years, from wail) afley Martin Lether King¥as assasinaied, of all these Mack re (toes that occered, #7] ef ther © caused by raciet cope Beat- tring sochetedy in the Dhack com- munity or shooting somebody un estiy te Hutter’s Poist or what have you, You have feels like Alieto reaming sroud here taik- some crap aioet the “drug cul- tere’ is the reasee for the vie ete, he knows better than that Relieve Aliote, the MaMeso Gog s the cow who puts te tuy Ge Sard core setcad M out inte the com munition es the only oné ©ho ai — whe aret to be remove Ges ihe ony way we are goiter dope. You know, hard corer coties tn hitting chitérem ag kids, that’s bad and pecete hare Sender stand that ite the fon dusinessman a KH Alieto made 6 ata ga tak sens with hie eng leer’ \ eer which be auved to the Waee iam sched ie Diack Panther fae Be said het the ‘Diack Fae Party ¢ocen’! represes( si te Chicase musity anymore tung Se Weack Panther Party is ae wee He's « Ue and be knows s trying te fecrectit (he jamie IGec) ther Party, that on he wails (gett aes pwd, sere ples bende im “aed eae | eae ye PS ee “ ee ~~ Allote La--te’s the one that leads thes. We can’! compare et with Ne knows he's & lie, heen A tase fat tasciet alice talking Ue ist te 2 aRck talker, ters sgoger sac he @. tle, We are getting ready te give tons of food to Uitack commaniti people are going te heer sheet Te talking abowt truck kates Materally the Mae doesn’t repre- sent the Raltas community tut the Klerk Panther Party doen repre oem the Slack comment; 2] knows it and be's trying to make pecol+ dina we don't * light of all the repressione vary that have come Gown an the t mers and the rf; that, bow bare au te thal as more Common hat ty l wis wordering if they would Jet tim defesd you there or something would go Gown the way it die im Chdeagn D, They con’) step tim fro tending me, Carry te my bs m de ft) Bet @ Chicago ey cot Me Welt Carry was im the bes pital asc were trying to fadroed ay, Set Garry ts Gey bewyer ant that’s all there wee Hes & 4 They'te jest ret © ‘i com stinatt me oo pig ¥ ulcer » te mr 1 any ate 8 vislalrs 4 persou's metiational rights is s rights i. genta try ce * reputs igen whe violate atitetionsl rights apd | ale’! ening ter amd I mean that, t advocat thal anytety & imtinesi rights Ges stand orsh out yes tar um (at ecu) um One ee a ewy - a ’ in, Niack Pae- ung for F oat | ’ ! | _ “Se — ~< ot THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 2), 1970 PAGE 14 ~ PROSPECTS ON COMMITTEES FOR PRISONER'S RIGHTS waatew yosora Recent exposes of prison distur- bancés and atrocities touch only the surface of a deeper social pro- blem presently being hidden from the public, Out of public sight, our penal system is functioning as a major organ of absolute repres- Sion against those who reflect the current struggle for social and po- Uitical equality in this country. Over the last decade we have witnessed widespread movements for social and individual freedom... demands for racial equality, for free creative self-expression as evidenced in the cultural revolu- tion of the '60’s, for self-direction and freedom of expression within social institutions such as our col- lege campuses. These movements have produced a general sympathy for the oppressed in the American society and have created a social consciousness which opposes au- thoritarian government action, as evidenced by the swelling anti-war movement, But these beration struggles have also produced a strong reaction, particularly in governmental, judicial, and law en- forcement agencies. These agen- cles are initiating and enforcing increasingly repressive structures against dissenting individuals and groups, in hopes of eradicating what they feel to be the source of the growing discontent. This confilct between the move- ment to revolutionize American so- ciety and the evergrowing reaction- ary repression extends behind the prison walls as well, but there takes on a distorted, inhuman form, The prison power structure is de- signed and controlled by the most reactionary, repressive elements of the society and works to quench every spark of personal creativity, individualized self-initiative, pro- test, self-respect and dignity which they see as a threat to prison discipline and ‘orderly’ manage- ment, The mechanisms toenforce passive comformity to authori- tarian rules are many and varied: from limiting hair length to actual physical violence, from indoctrina- tion sessions to rigid censorship of reading materials, from bribes of soft jobs or early releases to the threat of additional time under the infamous Indeterminate Sentence Law. Nevertheless, the insistent movement in society-at-large for individual and social rights has moved many prisoners to demand room for Individual expression *~ within the rigid structure, Also, there has been an influx of pri- soners who have been incar- cerated precisely because they en- gaged in the social struggles outside and of prisoners who see them- selves as victims of social discri- mination rather than as ‘‘cri- minais’’, The draft resister, civil rights worker, or “‘violent'’ Protester is not likely to forsake the ideals that brought him to pri- son or to internalize the penal system view of himself as social refuse. And in as much as the current emphasis by the federal regime is to institute repression and imprisonment on the local- State level rather than the federal one, political prisoners are being thrust Into the criminal popula- tion rather than isolated in special ‘political’ prisons as in the case in other countries. They have a resounding effect onthe prison pop- ulation as a whole, creatinga sense of social consciousness in those who for so long have born the brunt of this society's vindictive sense of justice, In response to the con- sequent pressures from prisoners for thelr rights, the prison au- thorities are introducing more and more subversive methods of re- pression, For example, within the prison population there is a growing awareness of racial pride among Black, Chicano, and Native Amer- ican peoples who recognize their right and need to struggle for Hb- eration collectively, The response to this racial consciousness on the part of the administration Is to use the historic racial divisions to pro- voke confrontations and outright race-wars between the prisoners, The prison system, then, (not un- like the reactionary forces in the American society as a whole) uses racism as its primary device to prevent united action. By doing so the prison administration hopes to prevent a struggle based on the class oppression of all prisoners, a struggle which could not be so easily explained or controlled. It is becoming increasingly clear that it Is impossible to talk about oppression in our society without talking about prisons, The govern- ment at all levels, in ‘‘cracking down’’ on dissent, turns the exer- cise of democratic rights into cri- minal acts and attempts to eliminate the Individual through the court system, felony conviction, and pri- son sentence. And if this fails to eliminate the problem, it is in- herent within the operation of the prison system to place people who become ‘‘trouble makers" or ‘‘agi- tators’’ in situations where the only outcome is mental and physical de- struction, The consequences ofthis systematic method of ‘‘eliminat- ing’’ dissent can no longer be viewed as that only affecting ‘‘criminal'’ types for this repression now la- bels such men as Father James Groppi, Eldridge Cleaver, Huey Newton, organizers of legitimate demonstrations, conscientious draft resisters, marijuana smok- ers, anti-war protesters and other citizens who are morally outraged at the American war against Viet- nam allas‘‘undesirable’’ elements. That is Criminals, Once incarcerated very few pri- soners have any protection at all from the dehumanizing treatment of the system or the arbitrary and totalitarian power of the prisonand parole administrations. A few pri- soners have a small measure of defense because they are wealthy or famous enough to obtain law- yers and publicity. But no such Protection is available to the ma- Response to a — ovum Lionist letter Dear Friends, I saw in your February 28 i. sue a letter from someone called —— M_E. Ben-Ami, whodescribeshim- self as the former chairman of the American friends of the Fighters for the Freedom of Israel (Stern Group). You should know what kind of ‘‘group’’ he ts talking about. Abraham Stern, the fanatic and reactionary wiw founded the ‘Stern Gang in Palestine in the late 1930's, was a devoted admirer of the late unJamented Italian fascist dictator, Benito Mussolini, Many e familiar with Stern's acti- vi are convinced that he would have handed over both the Jews and Arabs of Palestine to Italian fascist rule, According to the well- known British historian, Chris- topher Sykes, in his book Cross- roads to Israel, 1917-1948 (World Pub., NY, 1965), the fascist Stern “hated Jews who disagreed with um more than he did any Gentile, nd in consequence most of his lat- ter career of crime had been direct- ed against Jewish opponents,'' (p. 243), Stern was killed in Feb,, 1942, but unfortunately his little gang of fascists did not meet the same fate. Among their better- known victims was the Swedish Red Cross mediator in Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, who they assas- sinated on Sept. 17, 1948, How many Palestinian Jews and Arabs the Stern Gang murdered ts not known. In case Mr, Ben-Ami still reads your paper, I want to remind him that my Itallan anti-fascist com- rades dealt with Benito Mussolini in 1945 the way all fascists de- serve, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE| Tom Foley jority of prisoners who are from poor or working class conditions. Thus, society has created a destructive vicious circle which works against this class of people, For it is just those oppressive class conditions which have denied them any meaningful opportunities, in turn breeding the social frus- tration and allfenation which leads them to commit such ‘criminal’ acts. What is needed, then, is an organ- ization outside the prison system which will struggle to guarantee the prisoner's political rights, pub- licize repressive and inhuman pri- son conditions, and provide a mechanism by which the prisoner can communicate his grievances to those who can bring about relief, Our prospective calls for the fol- lowing: THE POLITICAL RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS COMMITTEE (PRP) 1) To establish a committee of at- torneys who will do research on the specific problems facing polit- ical prisoners and give those pri- soners council who suffer political persecution and deprivation of con- stitutiona] rights. These attorneys will institute legal actions on be- half of all prisoners as a class to insure total protection of their constitutional rights, For this purpose a legal defense fund will be established and oper- ated by PRP: 2) To organize and seek the social, political, and financial support of citizens and groups which see the need to struggle against the sys- tematic repression of dissent in America. 3) To establish and help provide programs for political and social education in prisons and to assist those so inclined, to find an effec- tive role within the revolutionary movement once released, 4) To establish Commissions of Inquiry into prison conditions and events arising from repressive tac- tics by prison officials. 5) To collate the penolgical re- search data necessary to form- ulate an accurate critical analy- Sis of prison systems and their role in society, past and present, and to develop a progressive per- Spective for the future. 6) To protect the rights of and guarantee due process for paro- lees; to institute a struggle to re- form the methods used by parole boards in determining the length of time served by an individual prisoner for 2 crime; specifically to end the inhuman administration of justice make possible by the Indeterminate Sentence Law, 7) To present to the public cas- es of penal abuse through newspaper coverage, articles in periodicals, via radio and T.T., and through special mailings, 8) To arrange speaking tours and public forums for ex-prisoners and others knowledgeable of prison con- ditions, Moreover, it seems desirable to form a committee to ald prison- ers on a more personal level, Since the prisoner Is often the most persecuted victim of socilety’s ills, he is potentially In a position to offer an important perspective on and criticism of its problems, He should be allowed his right to seek out his own answers to the social and political (as well as personal) problems facing him, his fellow citizens and prison- ers in this country, but the re- pressive censorship in prisons constantly denies his the oppor- tunity of self education. More- over, since his artistic and liter- ary expression is strictly sup- pressed, society-at-large is de- nied the benefit of his criticism, insight, and creative talents. Our prospective calls for a dual focus organization; PRISONER'S CULTURAL/COM- MUNITY PROJECT A, Cultural Committee aims to: 1) Insure prisoners’ rights to artistic freedom, as well as their right to uncensored education, 1.¢., specifically their right to read. 2) Act as a direct contact with pub- lishers of books, major period- icals, and little literary magazines, and art dealers for the purpose of facilitating the sale of prisoner's creative works and protecting their interests, 3) Gain the support of publishers and art dealers in the struggle to insure the right to artistic and in- tellectual freedom for all prison- ers 4) Improve the quality of all pri- son libraries in order to guaran- tee the opportunity for self- advancement and to prevent the ar- bitrary and repressive censorship of literature by prison administra- tors, B, The P c/e P Community Com- mittee alms to: i) Better insure the communication of the prisoner to the ‘outside world’ and to attempt to assist them with basic domestic pro- blems. 2) Better the understanding of the ‘outside world'’’ about prisons, crime, and prisoners as people, 3) Aid the relatives and friends of prisoners. For years Harlem Hospital has been offering inferic services to the Black community. It has often been referred to by Harlemites as the ‘*Butcher Shop’, and with good reason, Last Friday in the auditorium of - Harlem Hospital a meeting was held for the representatives of workers from the municipal hospitals of New York City. The men who addressed them were from the board of directors of the Newly Corporation Board of Municipal Hospitals, These pigs are proposing to turn all municipal hos- pitals into corporations, and shift power fromthe city representatives to a private board. Columbia Uni- versity is one Investor in the con- cern, andknowing their policy inex- perimentation on Black people in Harlem Hospital we can well ima- gine what will happen if they gain more control, The employees want better work- ing conditions, and safe, speedy treatment for the patients. Youhave a small cadre who are revolu- tionary and are educating their co- workers. The following is a list of defi- ciencies in the Emergency Unit requested by the Concerned Citi- cens For The Preservation of Harlem: 1, Inadequate Security Coverage, 2, Inadequate facility for trans- porting patients home, 3. Inadequate heating and venti- lation system, 4. Inadequate housekeeping faci- Uties. 5, A walk-in clinfe fully staffed during the day and the evening, 6. Social Service coveragedur- | ing the day and the evening, ? 7. Some attempt at developing facilities within or near the com- munity for both temporary shelters and long term custodial care, since much of our time in the Emergency Room is taken up by attempting to avoid this Issue, 8. Inadequate staffing (general) including record room, The majority of the workers could not see the sham, but the militant workers did and are con- Stantly educating them, They are setting up meetings, rallies, and anything else that canget the people together before July 1, the date when the pigs want to turn the hos- pital into a corporation, Let’s all unite to turn July 1 into a day when the hospital goes Into the hands of the people. RACIST ATTACK IN CORONA In 3 furils attempttohalt the work and down nothern Blvd, Their aim done in the Black community by the N.C.C.F, and Black Panther Party members an attack was made onthe Alprentice Bunchy Carter Black Community information center in Corona, New York. Friday evening, march 6, at ap- proximately 10:25 pm two dark haired white men, possibly tra- lians drove up in a late model] blue ford. They stopped behind a car that Was parked directly infront of the office, As thelight changed, the man on the passenger side fired six shots inrapid succession, from 4 large caliber automatic rifle at the office. However, the fools were 50 anxious to ger away, thar most of the shots passed through the parked car and only two hit the office, so no serious damage was done, and no one was hurt, These men, whoever they were, truly acted in the manner of ob- scene swine, for they came into the Black community firing their pellets of death indiscriminately, oblivious of the peopletravelingup Jowls still was just as warpedas their diseas- ed minds for they completely des- troyed the windows and interior of Piggy grins) asked, ‘Did you hear anything? We here in Corona réalize that the brothers car. He had the mis- fortune of parking his car between the peoples servants and the ra- cist dogs who consider all mem- bers of the Black community as fair game for their fascist tac- tics. After the incident, while thecri- minals had time to get away Safely, the pigs arrivedto check out what kind. of a job was done, Five pigs cars pulled up and thelr foul occupants got out oinking and wear- ing extremely large grins, They just walked around the damaged car looking up at the office and Steadi- ly grinning, The fascist fools thought thar the car belongedtous, they could not realize that we are more concerned with rights and property of the people in the Black community, than we are with our own, When the comrades went out to the car, the pigs with their contorted with hideous these mad reactions come framthe insane indoctrination put forth by the racist pig power structure of fascist ameriKKKa, Since we are Surrounded by White communities which are known Birchite andMin- utemen strongholds, this attack has come as no surprise to us, We know that itis the way of all reac- tlonaries to strike blindly andbru- tally at anyone that the ruling class. declares at its enemies, But weal- So know thar they are merely jifr- ing @ rock only to, drop it.on their own feet. All they can pos ido is to J spirits and move the arr to a higher ao So, we 1 Unually reactionary racist fools will neve: intimidate us or keep us) from meeting the basic needs and de— Sires of the community, a. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE a Fr AN INTERVIEW WITH WORKERS DEFENSE COMMITTEE OF SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL The worker's defense committee fs a group of hospital workers of all different job categories at San Francisco Genéral Hospital, permanent and temporary, Black and White, men and women. _-___- Q, Can you tellus when you formed the Worker's Defense Committee and how it came about? A, Like there was one man, his name was Fields. They wouldn’r let him work In the pharmacy for the one reason he was Black. He had a PhD. So we got together and got him in the pharmacy, A whole bunch of social workers, murses, and doctors and techni- ¢lans could be Black and Brown and could come from the com- munity, but they’re just not there. We saw that much clearer when just one man tried to get into the tight system of professional category. They didn’t want to ler him in, There was a struggle and the only reason he got in was that the people rallied behind him--the Panthers, Los Siete, NAACP, the local unions. But things really started to move when the interns tried to pull off aheal-in in January, The interns had some very progressive people there, and they were listening to the community; they were listen- ing really hard, because they knew the hospital was going down the tubes; they knew that fn five years nobody was going to come to this hospital unless they made some changes, So they Listened and they Put together a list of demands that the community had been talk- ing about for a long time : abour how terrible the emergency room was, and the lack of services after five o'clock; that everything shuts down at the doctor's convenience. So the interns asked for night facilities in the pharmacy and so- cial work, and they were just ask- ing for the community’s demands. And then they set forth a whole other set of demands for the im- provement of their own conditions. They decided the only way to get it is to go out for it alone, That meant to pack the hospital with Patients so that the mayor would be forced to give into the demands--increased salaries and improved conditions. So the work- ers in the defense committee looked around and said, what's going to happen to us. If they have this Heal-In, we're going to be working even harder. It just so happened HOW LONG ‘MUS T THIS PATIENT WAIT FOR CARE? that every day in the hospital had been a Heal-In, the hospital has been packed ‘all along, So we wrote # leaflet, attacking the Heal-In, Saying the interns were just going at it alone, and that wasn't right, That they should include improve- ments for all hospital workers. The beautiful thing was thar that's what the Interns are talking about right now, since the Heal-In was called off, After the hospital worker's bul- letin came out, the Interns decided to call another meeting and this time they decided to invite the workers, The workers came to this meeting and the workers pledged unity, to stand together, United we stand divided we fall, you know, and then the chairman of the meet- ing asked the workers to leave, So the workers said, what sort of mess is this, and someone got up and gave a rap: they pledged unity and wanted to work together and now you kick them out. So the interns got really upset and had an immediate vote, and two- thirds voted the workers to stay but it was too late--the workers had left, But because this hap- pened they kicked out their old leadership and elected a more mi- Iitant strike committee. This is how the struggle is going. Phil Craven, head of the intern’s strike committee, got on television and said that he was for improved working conditions for every work- er and for decent wages. Q, Is the Workers’ Defense Com- mittee allowed to have in the hospital? A, Our group is a Secret group. In order to survive we decided to be anyonymous. So we have a number of people who attend meet- ings, who were Involved in putting together the bulletin. We didn’t sign our names to it becaute we fear for our jobs, and because we know how the administrators have acted in the past, and we felt now wasn’t the time. They are conducting high-level investiga- tions right now--who's putting out this literature, Obviously the ad- ministration downtown is trying to find some reason for all this rad- ical activity--they’re trying to blame this whole strike on some outside agitators, Last week the administrators sent around a little pink notice, Saying that anyone who went to the stop work meeting was going to be docked pay, Fortunately, peo- ple were angered by that kind of repression, and there were more people at the meeting than there would have been otherwise, But that’s the kind of thing the admin- istration has done before. You see, they allow certain kinds of leaf- lets, certain kinds of discussions, certain kinds of meetings, They allowed the supervisors in the last campaign to come around and pass our political literature, and they allowed workers to take them around in tow, to get this or that vote. But other kinds of politics they won't allow, politics that theyre against, like the Panthers and Los Siete, and other community groups. Defense the Worker's Q, Does ae ‘ —\\ A \a\ t y\\ Kale “TO CLINICS THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 2}, 1970 PAGE 15 and the need for follow up that we have, because they're dumping all poor people our way, Even Medi-Cal patients only stay eight days, General is understaffed and under equipped, so really it's throwing poor people into a pit. Instead of trying to meet their problems you're actually making them worse, The building has been con- demned, Technically its been con- demned because the corridors are not wide enough, but it ought to be condemned because there are rats in the) basement, cockroaches / s ’ we = 3 = my wife went down there and saw that, and it made me so mad man, I wanted to do something. | wantéd to put of some white things and do something for them, If you would have gone down there yourself you would have sald wow, man, this is a slaughterhouse, or something. Cause the care the patients get ain't even cool, not cool at all. That's ‘because Alioto and all the rest of them, they’re so cheap they don’t want to pay us money to get any more doctors or nurses up here, The place where women have aX Ge, “ « Ca ‘@ on PREGNANT WOMEN WHO REQUIRE SURGERY ARE TAKEN DOWN AN ELEVATOR, THROUGH THIS HALLWAY, AND UP ANOTHER ELEVATOR, ON THEIR WAY TO THE OPERATING ROOM. Committee relate to patient care issues as well as to fighting for workers’ rights? A, We're not just interested in defending worker's rights, but pa- tients" rights as well. We're start- ing a series of grievance forms that we're distributing throughout the community, and we're hoping the patients will fill it out. We're going to get lawyers to investi- gate the complaints. We're trying to put legal pressure and political pressure on the hospital, For instance, the pharmacy has always been a place where the peo- ple can not be served humanely. Patients are always told that the pharmacy was doing them a favor, that they had no right to these drugs, and that they better take it right because it was worth twenty dollars, A lot of patients are just insulted daily by the peo- ple in the pharmacy, For three years, the pharmacy has been asked to give instructions in Spanish -- and refused, Now, they're almost out of drugs, and the city won't cough up the money for those drugs, They need $80,000 worth of drugs to go on to June, and the city’s run out, And how do you tell a man you don’t have the drugs to cure his pneumonia? They sent around a letter telling us to use the cheapest drugs and Stop prescribing certain others, Until the people who come from the community can have some con- trol over that pharmacy, they're not going to be treated right. 250 people come Into Mission Emergency every day, In other hospitals they have three of four staff people for one patient. In Mission they have two. Wealthy hospitals don’t have to deal with the problems of the poor people and all kinds of dangerous situa- tions, You have open wards, with fifty people three of four feet apart. There are people shouting in pain, People are being examined in the open. All they have is these cur- tains that can be drawn. There are beds all over the city in other hospitals that are vacant, But you know that beds are going to cost Plenty of money and the hospitals aren't going to give them away. In Mission Emergency people are kept waiting four or five hours while all the doctors take care of the more interesting cases. ! brought a friend down to Mission Emergency here, he'dcut his wrist up after putting his hand through a plate glass window. He was bleed- ing Like a sow pig and blood was all over his suit. All over his clothes, blood was just gushing out, you know, He sat up there for about two hours waiting to get in. I raised a little hell, and the doc- tors came out and the nursescame our and the doctor says ‘*Look at him!" and they rushed him right in, They had another case they had a dude with a knife in his back, He sat up there for about an hour until he fell over. Thenthey rushed him in. Then today | went through a trip that I mean, I couldn't even go through, I saw about twenty kids downstairs in pediatrics sitting there waiting to get seen. Twenty kids. Two of them were new-born babies, waiting to get seen. 1 couldn't take my child down there and sit there patiently and just wait, There's only two doctors down there, They ought to do Something about that too, you know, If you bring your child in there and it’s anew-born, itshould be seen, without a walt. Me and their babies is in a separate building from the main part of the hospital. And that’s cool if ir all happens naturally, bur if there are any complications, then she has to go down the elevator, through the underground passage into the other building, up the ele- vator, into the main operating room, One day a couple of weeks ago the elevator wasn't working. Because of that a baby probably won't live. They've been promis- ing for years to equip the operat- ing room up there, In most hospitals it takes five minutes from the time a decision is made to do surgery until the time it's done. In General it takes from thirty minutes to an hour, All that time the babies are in distress, They lose babies because of that, Women are forced to labor inone huge labor room with no privacy. Their husbands can’t be in there with them, They treat the women like they are cattle, they herd them in and they herd them out. If they are poor people, Black people, or non-English Speaking people, they’re in for especially incredible treatment. There is nobody to translate for them, They get hassled by the nurses because they don’t understand what the nurses want them to do One example, there was a Spanish speaking woman whocame in to the prenatal clinic pregnant with her fourth child) and the dn- tern said to ber, “What's the mat- ter with you, haven't you heard about birth control?" All the time we report police beating on patients in the emer- gency room. The fact is thar the CONT, ONPAGE 19 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1970 PAGE 16 INTERNATIONAL N — + 6: SUS etwas! 9 Seta eee wie = awe Stament by Mr. N guyen Mznh Vy, on behalf of the Delegation of the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam , at the 58th plenary sesszon of the Paris Conference on Viet Nam March 12, 1970 The Nixon Administration con- tinually says that it really wants to peacefully settle the Viet Nam problem. However, through its ac- tions during the recent period in Viet Nam, in Laos, and at the Paris Conference, everybody clearly realizes that It still advo- cates the prolongation of the war and that it talks peace for the only purpose of deceiving public opin- lon, 1. The Nixon Administration is still feverishly carrying out the so- called policy of‘ Vietnamization’’. we are not alone in saying, many people in U,S, political circles al- So do, that it is almed at prolonging and not at ending the war, as Mr. Nixon often claims. Of late, Senator E, Muskie said: "| believe tharthe President's pol- icy can be only a formula for the perpetuation of the war. It is basically a strategy for continua- tion of the fighting. It cannot bring pesce in Viet Nam and it cannot get us out of Viet Nam.”* In furtherance of the policy of “Vietnamization”, the United States and the Saigon Administra- tion have done all they could to carry out their “accelerated paci- fication programme"’, stepping up their bloody sweep operations, massive bombings and shellings, and chemical warfare In the coun- tryside, forest and mountain areas, and at the same time intensifying their terrorist campaign and fasc- ist repression in the cities of South Viet Nam. All this has been exposed by the Delegation of the Provisional Revolutionary Gov- ernment of the Republic of South Viet Nam at many successive pre- vious sessions, In the meantime, in North Viet Nam, the Nixon Administration continues its increasingly serious violations of the sovereignty and security of the Democratic Repub- lic of Viet Nam, In February alone, there were 850 reconnaissance missions by U.S. planes with 1,350 sorties, thus showing an increase of Omissions and 190 sorties as compared with 740 missions and 1,160 sorties in January 1970, The number of bombing raids by US, planes in North Viet Nam amounted to 130 raids in February, three times more than in January, What is particularly serious, there were 20 fierce bombings by B.52’s against a number of regions in Vinh Linh area and Quang Binh province. Moreover, U.S. South Vier Nam--based artillery guns shelled 43 times the communes lying within the Northern part of the demili- tarized zone, U.S, war ships every- day prowl in the high seas, men- acing the coastal areas of North Viet Nam, from Thanh Hoa to the 17th parallel, 2. Along with the above-mentioned actions in Viet Nam, the Nixon Administration has escalated the war in Laos, seriously jeopar- dizing peace in Indo-China and South-east Asia, INTENSIFICATION OF THE ARMED At the two previous sessions, I pointed out that the Nixon Ad- ministration’s escalation of the war in Laos was another proof of its policy of prolonging the war in Viet Nam, World public opinion, including that of the Unired States itself, has sternly condemned the Nixon Ad- ministration for having escalated the war and created “another Viet Nam" in Laos. In order to cope with this sit- uation, on March 6, 1970 Presi- dent Nixon issued a statement, attempting to justify the U.S, ac- tivities, particularly military ac- tivities, in Laos, The first remark that can be made on that statement is the pub- lic admission by the top leader of the United States himself thar for several years now the UnitedStates has been directly participating in the war in Laos, that {ft has been sending planes, including B, 52’s recently, to wage an air war a- gainst the patriotic forces of Laos. However, this is only part of the truth. Senator Albert Gore that Mr, Nixon's statement **had in fact revealed that we ‘the United States) had violated the Geneva Agreements,” The Nixon Administration is deeply sinking into ‘‘another Viet Nam" fn Laos while Mr, Nixon keeps stating that, under the ‘nixon doctrine’, there would be no more Viet Nam"’, This shows all the more clearly that he talks one way and acts another. Many per- sons in the U.S. political circles said STRUGGLE IN ZIMBABWE The month of January has been marked by the intensification of the armed struggle in Zimbabwe, Despite the attempt by the fas- cist regimes of Salisbury and Pre- toria to impose a total news black out and as well as minimising the heavy casualties inflicted on their troops, the January 5th at- tack of the patrol gun boat for- ced them to admit the growing guerrilla activities in Zimbabwe. As might have been expected, the lan Smith regime lost no time in reverting to its old and well known accusation of the Republic of Zim- bia having ‘‘Harboured the guer- villas and served as a spring- board” for attacks on Salisbury, They claim that the fascist patrol boat had been fired from the Zambian side of the river was Soon proved false by constant at- tacks taking place deep inside the country and as far South as Lu- pani 100 miles North of Bulawayo. The repeated threats by the Vorster and Smith regimes to attack independent African states like Zambia are in themselves an eloquent proof of the intensity of the armed struggle which is gaining momentum in Zimbabwe, On the 6th, of January, ZAPU headquarters issued a communi - que to the effect that in the Makuti area three enemy sholdiers were killed by the freedom fighters. The comminique also pointed out "that ‘“‘the Smith and Vorster forces manning the Makuti base have thrown road-blocks along Sin- Ola-Makuti road following heavy casaulties inflicted on them by ZAPU combattants in a series of ambushes and surprise attacks which have been described by the Salisbury fascist regime as ‘‘un- provoked attacks," The closing of the civilian air- ports of Wankie- and Victoria Falls following a singularly suc- cessful raid by our combartants plunged the entire racist popula- tion into utter panic, Thirteen enemy soldiers were killed and several other injured; two heli- copters and a light plane destroy- ed; buildings heavily damaged and communication disrupted, In the CONT, ON PAGE 20 point out that the Nixon Admin- istration is taking the same suc- cessive steps as in South Viet Nam, first supplying afd, then lo- gistic support, then participating with air force, and actually break- ing into the territory with troops. The second remark that can be made about that statement is thar, in the face of evident and unde- niable proofs of the U.S, inter- vention and aggression in Laos, the Nixon Administration hadtoad- mit part of the truth, but it re- Sorted to distortions and tried to Slander the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam so as to justify its aggression in Laos At the last session, I pointed out that the substance of the Lao- tian problem was the U.S, inter- vention and aggression, This is a truth that no U,S, distortion or fabrication can conceal, On March 6, 1970, the Central Committee of the Neo Lao Haksat issued a statement concerning the political settlement of the Laotian problem with a view to ending the U.S. war and restoring peace in Laos, The statement clearly says: “For many years now, the US. imperialists have been ceaselessly carrying out their intervention and aggression in Laos, trying to turn Laos into a U.S, neo-colony and military base in South-East Asia, It is the United States which, by a military coup, overthrew the Na- tional Union Government that had been invested by the King and 1962 Geneva recognized by the LAOS: The Latest Victim Of The Bloodsucker Malcolm X once said, ‘‘Capitalism is a blood sucker”, in order for capitalism to survive it must have Someone's blood to suck. Perhaps most people who are not victims of capitalism do not understand the magnitude of what Malcolm was Speaking about, However, it is so clear today that anyone, even a blind person can see ft. Richard Nixon Is the world’s chief blood- Sucker, Not only that, he is the world’s biggest liar and a homi- cidal maniac as well, All of these facts are spelled out by the man’s actions. The vicious slaughter of thousands of Vietnamese people and the murder of thousands of young men in the service of this country are no longer mentioned by Nixon or anyone else, This is = true indication that America and its people are willing and ready to except anything that thelr fuhrer decides to do including committing genocide upon Black people at home, Nixon's next target for a blood bath is the South East Asian country of Laos, He boasts that no Ameri- can has died in ground combar in Agreements on Laos, then it set up @ puppet administration under the signboard of sham ‘‘peace and neutrality”’ with Prince Souvanna Phouma at the head'’. “*Through that administration, the United States waged a ‘’spe- cial war"’ In Laos, bombed the territory of Laos, used the Lao- tlan puppet troops to launch con- tinuous nibbling attacks against the areas controlled by the patriotic forces of Laos,” ‘The Nixon Administration's escalation of the war of aggres- sion in Laos is the origin of the present tension in Laos, which is most seriously jeopardizing the peace and security of Indo-China and South-east Asia," On March 9, 1970, the Govern- ment of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam issued a statement concerning the problem of Laos, It pointed out: ‘‘As one of the sig- natorles to the 1962 Geneva Agree- ments on Laos, the Government of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam has always respectedandcor- |i! rectly implemented the agree- ments, it wishes to develop rela- tions of friendship and good neigh- bourhood with the Kingdom of Laos on the basis of the five princi- ples of peaceful co-existence,” **The Government of the Demo- cratic Republic of Viet Nam fully Supports the Laos people's right of legitimate self-defense and warmly hails the great victories CONT, ON PAGE 20 Laos and that there are no ground combat troops there, What he does not explain is that there are scores of former green berets who have been discharged from uniformed military service and are now in the active service of the CIA, These agents are super killers who felt that their hands were being tied in “Vietnam, meaning they were no longes allowed to massacre freely as they did at Song My and Mai Lal. What Nixon does admit is that B52 bomber aircraft have been dropping tons of bombs ia Laos, which destroys Jand, life andfron- descence, He also admits that the USA is supplying guns, equipment training and logistics to its Lao- tian puppet regime, The American people should un- derstand that al! madmen have their logic and reasoning behind their actions. It's just that Nixon’s logic Is so feeble that it should turn the stomach of the average reasoning man of America, Nixon states that\"‘our goal in Laos has been to réduce Ameri- can {nvolvement and not prolong the war,” Immediate withdrawal would mean an end to the war and the saving of many American sere vice men's Hves, No one has heard from the Laotian People, no one has even heardfrom the people who have had these bombs dropped on their land, Nixon and his run- CONT. ON PAGE 20 **All this proves ever more clearly that U.S. imperialism Is the most barbarous and shameless aggressor of modern times, the main force of aggression and war, the chieftain of world reaction, national liberation and independence, the bulwark of modern colonialism, the strangler of and the disturber of world peace,"’ GREAT BRITAIN; After losing World War I, Great Britain economically and in every way was in a complete mess, In the form of war loans the U.S, decided to aid Britain to help rebuild her economy. Britain has been unable to repay most of these loans as during this period the countries in the s0-called British Empire started and have since gained their independence, resulting in Britain's source of cheap raw material and exploitation being cut off, Result, U.S, controls or has shares in most British firms and Britain depends on U.S for defence, etc WEST GERMANY; After World War II, Germany was completely messed up, The so-called allies, Great Britain and U.S,, after Germany was divided into East and West, took over West Germany, U.S, started pouring capital into Germany and nearly all troops stationed in Germany are American and British, About 70% of the main German firms have American capital invested, FRANCE: Because of financial interests and the decline of the franc , France 1s ted to U.S, economically, Also, with Pompidou as President,the situation has worsened, Pompidou is connected with the Rothschilds the world’s largest gold and diamond dealers which are tied up with US. and South African capital JAPAN: Puppet force of U.S. imperialism in Asia; after last war the same situation as West Germany. ISRAEL; The Zionist puppet state of U.S, imperialism. SOUTH AFRICA; After Great Britain, U.S, has the most investment in South African gold and diamonds, U,S. supplies arms to South Africa and then arms ‘or her defense against the Black people, U.S, has refused to vote against South Africa in the United Nations. concerning her apartheld policy, RHODESIA; Closely linked with South Africa and together with Portugal hope to keep a block of imperialists in Africa to impede the struggle of Africans struggling for their liberation, Most of Rhodesia's aid comes from South Africa which in turn comes from the U.S, GREECE; The Communist Party became the strongest Party in Greece recently, The C.1,A, intervened and there was a coup, TheC.LA, then installed the Junta which ts being kept in power by American ald. BELGIUM: After Degaulle kicked out the NATO headquarters from France, Belgium housed it, Most so-called international firms, e.g. Shell, have their European headquartersin Belgium, These firms are of course all American under one name or another, PORTUGAL; Portugal is a dictatorship, She controls and has colonized Angola and Mozambique for a number of years, The people of Angola and Mozambique have been waging a heroic struggle against the fascist Portuguese powers for sometime for their National Liberation, Portugal is able to stabilize her own economy because of the diamonds, gold and other natural resources of her colonies in Mozambique and Angola. Africa’s pig police force is made up of the Secret Service pig coalition of South Africa, Rhodesia and Portugal, They have formed a coalition in order to preserve the le ' racist capitalist rule of the Europeans in Africa, _ NORWAY & DENMARK: = ‘Mem bers of NATO--the world pig police force, The first NATO feet ts stationed in Norwiy, ‘the chief C.I.A, operation for Northern Europe {s conducted in Denmark, 50% of Danish and firms are controlled by U.S, capital, THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 PAGE 17 Reactionary Sato clique of Japan immediately stop the schemes to fabricate fascist evil laws Stepping up the manoeuvres for re-aggression in South Korea un- der the active patronage of the U.S, imperialists, the Japanese milltarists have recently hatched a nefarious plot to suppress and persecute the Korean citizens In Japan all the more villainously, According to reports, the reac- tionary Sato government of Ja- pan is scheming to place again such fascist bills as ‘‘immigra- tion and emigration control bill’ and “partially revised school edu- cation bill'’ on the agenda of the Japanese Diet which opened on February 14 with a view of enact- ing them {nto laws, As was al- ready reported, these notorious fascist bills failed to get through the Diet owing to the strong pro- test and denunciation from broad public opinion last year The recent criminal moves of the Sato clique are an undisguised manifestation of an ever- intensified hostile policy of the reactionary government of Japan toward the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, and they are designed to launch the wholesale suppression against our 600,000 fellow countrymen in Japan and constitute an unpardonable chal- lenge to the entire Korean and Japanese people and progressive public opinion the world over, The entire Korean people reso- lutely protest against the’criminal manoeuvres of the Sato clique for cooking up the fascist draconic laws and denounce them with surging national indignation, As already known, the so-called ‘‘Immigration and emigration con- trol bill'' which the Japanese re- actionaries are now trying to le- galize in all haste Is the most ignominious fascist evil bill. It is designed to trample underfoot and stamp out the democratic, national rights of the Korean citi- zens in Japan who account for 90 per cent of foreigners in Japan, under the plea of “exercising strict control'’ over the ‘‘activi- tles of foreign residents,’' to bar the just activities of the Korean citizens in Japan for national uni- fication, to deny them even the right to administrative litigation and deport them at any time. Under this bill, the officials in charge of immigration and emi- gration control are to be granted the judicial power to conduct in- vestigations against will and vio- late the human rights at random, This evil bill aims to ruth- lessly restrain the Korean citi- zens in Japan oftheir fundamental human rights, their right to live and freedom in social activities and hand them over to the mur- derous Pak Jung Hi horde under the name of so-called ‘‘forced repatriation,"’ Also, it Is no secret that the “partially revised school educa- tion bill’’ is intended to enact into law the ‘foreigners’ school bill’ for suppressing and obli- terating the democratic, national education of the Korean citizens in Japan and impose the ‘‘Japa- nization of education,’ a type of the colonial enslavement educa- tion, upon their children, Under the criminal ‘‘foreigner registration law'' and ‘‘immigra- tion and emigration control ordi- nance’’ now In force, the succes- sive reactionary governments of Japan forcibly deported a large number of Korean nationals in Japan on preposterous charges of violating the ‘‘immigration and emigration control ordinance’ and handed them over to the Pak Jung Hi puppet horde and framed up all sorts of ‘‘cases’’ to sup- press and persecute CHONGRY- ON (General Association of Ko- rean Residents in Japan) and the Korean citizens in Japan, It is generally known to the world that these ruthless scound- rels wrecked the return home ope- ration for the Korean citizens in Japan half-way and are on the rampage to stamp out their demo- cratic, national rights including the right to the freedom of travel to and from their homeland and the freedom of democratic, national education, What kind of misfortunes and sufferings would be imposed on the entire Korean citizens in Ja- pan when the “Immigration and emigration control bill’’ and other criminal fascist evil bills of all hues rigged up by the reactionary Sato clique come into force- every one knows well its result. That the Japanese reactionaries are now trying to rush such evil bills through the Diet is no more than the most sinister, brazen- faced criminal moves to suppress the Korean citizens in Japan and stamp out their democratic, na- tional rights and thus to join the U.S. imperialists more exten- sively in their machinations to provoke another war, tostrength- eon military, political tle-up with the Pak Jung Hi puppet clique for expanding their re-aggression in South Korea and to further hasten militarization and fas- cistization of Japan. Comrade Kim Il Sung, the great Leader of the 40 million Korean people, taught: “The persecution and suppres- sion being intensified every day by the Japanese authorities a- gainst the Korean citizens In Ja- pan will only arouse still greater national indignation on the part of the entire Korean people, and this unjust act will be checked after all."' (Kim Il Sung, Selected Works, Vol, IV, p. 580.) The Sato clique must immedi- ately stop the scheme to legal- ize such fascist evil bills as the “Immigration and emigration control bill’ and ‘‘partially revised school education bill'’ to fabricate the ‘foreigners’ school law'’ and unconditionally and full guarantee various demo- cratic, national rights of the Ko- rean citizens in Japan, Should the reactionary Sato clique of Japan persist in the cook- Ing up of the fascist evil laws without paying heed to the just voice on the part of the Korean and Japanese peoples and world people, it will be held entirely responsible for the consequences arising therefrom. Chin Bang Hun (Reprinted from, ‘The Pyongyang pee Monday, February 23, TS * . THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 PAGE 18 FROM: BLACK PANTHER PARTY, INTERNATIONAL SECTION, ALGER MARCH 10, 1970 TO: BLACK PANTHER PARTY, NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA DEAR COMRADES: THE BELOW INDICATED PERSONS HAVE ALL BEEN EXPELLED FROM THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY BECAUSE OF ACTIVITY AND CONSISTENT BEHAVIOR THAT CAN NOT BE TOLERATED, TWO OF THESE NAPES, BYRON AND LOUISE, ARE WANTED BY THE INTERNATIONAL SECTION FOR ABSCOUNDING WITH PARTY FUNDS, UNAU- THORIZED ACTIVITY IN THE NAME’ OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, AND A SCORE OF LESSER ACTIONS. THESE TWO NAPES ARE BELIEVED TO BE IN NIGERIA AT THIS TIME, BUT HAVE NOT BEEN DEFINITELY TRACKED DOWN YET, ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THEIR WHEREABOUTS SHOULD BE FORWARDED TO INTERNATIONAL IMMEDIATELY. LOUISE SOLOMAN WIBECAN;: WANTED CLINTON RAHIM SMITH BYRON BOOTH: WANTED Mores: i JAMES AMIRI AKILI -SLAVENAME: PATTERSON- TANYA KATHLEEN AKILI -SLAVENAME - PATTERSON RETURNED FO BABYLON BECAUSE NAPE PARENTS COULDN’T TAKE CARE OF HER, GWEN AKILI -SLAVENAME- PATTERSON INFORMATION REQUESTED: AFRO-AMERICAN WHO CALLS HIMSELF VALLEJO, FROM SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, CLAIMS BLACK STUDENTS UNION BACKGROUND, SAYS HE KNOWS DEPUTY MINISTER OF INFORMATION, SWEET SISTER ELAINE BROWN, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE ELDRIDGE CLEAVER MINISTER OF INFORMATION BLACK PANTHER PARTY U.N./REPORT by: winston berry Britain and the United States are just about to serve up here a warmed over version of their periodical production-the Southern ‘Africa Follies, Lord Caradon, the British Ambassador to the UN has called for a Security Council meet- {ng to consider what to do about the Ian Smith racist rebels tn Southern Rhodesia whohave just proclaimed that British colony a ‘republic’ on March 3, The first showing of the South- ern Africa Follies here was in November, 1965, following the uni- lateral declaration of Independence by the white Rhodesian rebels. Pained and distraught, Lord Cara- don pleaded for the application of selective economic sanctions against the runaway white colon ists, If the United Nations would only invoke sanctions against trade in ofl, tobacco, asbestos and chrome, Lord Caradon promised, echoing what Prime Minister Harold Wilson hadtoanassembly cot Commonwealth Prime Minis- ters, the rebel regime would fall in a matter of weeks or, at most, montis Then there was the time when \ British naval picket had de- tected a tanker approaching a Por- tuguese port with ol! for Rhod- esia and Lord Caradon demanded and urgent meeting of the Security Council to meet this ‘‘crisis,’” Meantime, correspondents, travelers and reports by the special committee of the Security Council acknowledged that the sanctions had failed; that the Smith regime had been able to reorganize its commercial relations so that Portugal and South Africa became its outlets to the outside world. This was pointed out by African delegations who called for extend- ing sanctions to South Africa and Portugal with enforcement provis~ fons, This drew from Lord Cara- con a replay of a tearful plea for the British workers who would be unemployed if British trade with South Africa were suspended, Also, he appealed, there was the pos- sibility of provoking a war, When Smith and his rebels de- clared themselves beyond British law in November, 1965, British authorities, Including lord Cara- don called them ‘‘outlaws’’ and “trattors’’ and branded the rebel- lion and its regins iliegal,’’ But the Wilson Goveroment im- mediately went into a series of conferences with the ‘outlaws’ in which Smith and his followers told the British Government just where to go. Smith could do this because he had been assured by Britain from the beginning of his outlawry that Her Majesty's Gov- jj} ernment would not use force i] against British ‘‘kith and kin.’’ So i] while the crushing of rebellions by Britain in Asia, Africa andthe i] Caribbean area was fresh in the i} minds of many, Britain announced that nothing would be done against the 240,000 white rebels who had established themselves as the racist rulers of 4,500,000 black Africans, The U.S, role inthis shoddy plece i of international racism is to use i} human rights rhetoric and appeals for being ‘‘practical’’ to support its ally. Africans, who being forc- ibly removed from thelr ancestral homelands, forcedtocarrypasses, subjected to every indignity and degrading exploitation, are lectur- } ed by US representatives on the niceties of international behaviour, This was as true of the late Am- bassador Adlai Stevenson as it was of Ambassador Arthur Gold- } berg, and the current Ambassador Charles W. Yost. About Rhodesia, and for that } matter the whole of Southern Africa (South Africa and’ the Territories held by Portugal), there are only two possible solutions, There is no solution posstpl: through United } Nations resojutions They ha been tried for 25 years, now they have fafled. The key to so ern Africa ts South Africa, and key to South Africa ts ita four ] major trading partners--Britain the U.S , West Germanyand Japan, CONT, ON PAGE 20 a FROM PAGE 15 And prisoners, the doctors give them a shot to ease their pain, and {t also messes with their mind, the police come [n and interrogate them. There’s no lawyer, nobody “to protect them with their legal rights. Like this Chicano was beaten up the other night by a police of- ficer, They beat him to a pulp. They brought him to Mission Emergency and there he fs with i the -handcuffs behind him sitting in the waiting room, and he asks ‘thib ‘Woctor please take them off, and the doctor checks with the po- ; lice. And the police say, well, doc- tor, whatever you want--it’s up to you. They take off his handcuffs and instead of examining him or treating him, they just ask him whar’s wrong and he tells them he got beaten up and his arm is dislocated and it really hurts him but all the doctor did was just move the arm up. He had this huge bruise on his temple. Yes, and on his nose, and his eyes were red, On the slip, the doctor didn't write anything about this incident, nothing about the po- tice at all, just thar this man had “complained about an old shoulder dnjury. Thar everything is O.K. Disposition: home. He wasn't look- ing at this man in terms of his _ The Black Panther Party is an armed body for carrying out the political tasks of the revolution. We are in the educational phase of the People’s struggle for libera- tion. And we realize that unless the people know that the racist | power structure is waging an all ‘out war against Black people, and _ how serious they are and to what extent they will take it, We know they won’t be ready to make any changes . So the Black Panther Party has started another pro- gram designed to help the people and point out the contradictions. program is called the Ten- GrievaneeCommittee. We help people by showing them how to ‘on getting their house fixed o that they are fit for living. e point out the fact that govern- nt allows unfit housing to ex- fst in order to perpetuate one of dts many forms of genodide, The s forced our people to Hve In ons we live under. + lod $.F. GENERAL HOSPITAL problems, just in terms of what the police wanted, Where the prisoner {s lucky enough to get into the hospital in the middle of the night, the doctor says, “"we don't have any medicine to give you because the pharmacy ts closed,"' and, like they never getthe medicine, There were thirty deaths in the jail last year of people who didn’t even get our to see the doctor. Lord knows how many deaths there were be- cause there wasn’t enough medi- cine or social workers. A few days back a Mr. Foley was found lying in his cell uncon- scious. Apparently one of the guards at the prisongavehimsome insulin, Instead of giving him ten they must have given him fifty or more which put him into shock and he died. So that’s not uncom- mong, they don’t have doctors or any professional people at the jail, Since they basically think of these people as subhuman, they don’t have much concern, There's a guy got a broken jaw and they wouldn’r get him a doctor, People don’t get their medicine, There's justahost of things that are just criminal. They're supposed to be holding these people as criminals, but they’re really the criminals, there’s a different crime every day there, In the County Jail, they often put prisoners in the hole for asking for medical care, Q, What about the patients who aren't prisoners? Well, there’s no commitment to follow up, people just come in, and then they’re out--no feeling that we have a responsibility to them, The attitude is that they got themselves into this, andwe're not going to do anything more than patch them up. So you have a drunk, and you can't do anything medically for him, so you throw him out in the street, If a doctor feels someone is uncooperative, he calls the security guard and throws him out in the street. They have a very mechanical way of dealing with people, and 1 don’t think that all the time it is their fault. The working conditions are SO oppressive, people working at Such a fantastic pace, pressures on us all the time, that they can’t begin to even try to improve their attitudes and their behavior, That's how the patients become our enemies, when conditions be- come so bad that every parient’s need is a demanduponus, that we just can't fulfill, So the man who is controlling the purse string is really screwing the worker and PEOPLE DEMAND DECENT The tenants of 1411 Clinton Ave, are not able to accept the fact that because they are Black they have to liveunder these conditions, They tried to change them, by com- plaining to the landlord, the super, each other andeveryone else. When they had tried everything else, the people came to the Black Panther Party to get some action, We un- derstanding the people's problem called the landlord and told himto get on his job. The next day the con- tractors were there fixing up all the violations, The people finally realized that these landlords only care about making money, not about their living conditions, The tenants of 1411 Clinton Ave. realize that the only way to get any repairs done was to work together, andthe only way to getthem done swiftly was by coming to the ‘*Tenants Grievance Committee"’ of the black Panther Party. The landlord, Gayle using some psychological madness figured out if he did half the re- pairs the people would be so happy the patient together--he’s like put- ting us in a box together to fight it out, Q, If things are so bad, how come people haven't gotten together be- fore now, what's kept them apart? A. Theie jobs, mainly, there was no understanding, notogetherness, no unfty at all. They’re scared that the man got the power to kick them off their job. Every- one was an Island until lately, All it takes is a few people to get together and everyvody gets the courage, Q, Were people getting kicked off thei jobs? A, Yes, especially temporary em- ployees. One of theguys that got bumped had been a temporary em- ployee for five years. You're really only supposed to be tem- porary for ninety days, sothey can check you over and see if you fall in line, After ninety days your su- pervisor can certify you for ano- ther ninety, If you're given a test-- which doesn't often happen -then you can become permanent, If not, you're still temporary. And [think you know that temporary workers don’t have any retirement, any va- cation, any sick leave, or any bene- fits. A lot of women employees are temporary, and they just livefrom pay check to pay check. I got bumped around there by a permanent employee, but she just couldn't do the job, so I got my job back, But there are a lot of people who don’t, lt got a fif- teen minute notice, it was 4:30 and I get off at quarter to five and they told me not to come in the next day, A lot of tem- poraries are worried about that, they can't afford to lose their jobs, So civil service and the ad- ministrators have complete con- trol over that hospital as long ag they have complete control over people’s jobs. And that’s what the temporary staff exists for. And it wasn't until they got mad, mad at themselves and mad at the ad- ministration, that they spoke up and said something. The temporary category is something that may be more im- portant to people than the need for higher salaries, One thing that everybody faces every day is the fact that the hospital is under- supplied and understaffed, There just aren't enough of us to do the work we have to do. And in some cases we are doing two or three people's work. They milk you for everything they can get out of you. They pay you the least they possibly can, Andthey've beenget- ting away with that for years at the hospital. HOUSING thar they wouldn’t press him for the repairs. But the peoplerealize that they have the power to get the house completely fixed up, Purthis punk up against the wall and said, “fix this building up or else|'' He was scared and didn't move fast énough, so the people turned again to the party, who turned to two re- liable brothers who took their com- plaints one step higher, These brothers are two of the more pro- gressive forces on the Mayor's Task Force, who are really looking out for the people's best interest, Al Knowles and Mr. Rochelle took this matter into their own hands and are moving In a most progres- sive manner in the interest of the people of 1411 Clinton Ave, Weare looking forward to some immedi- ate action, POWER TO THE PEOPLE! OFF THE SLIME! Durie Bethea THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY) MARCH 21,1970 PAGE 19” Women face evenmore problems for their in the hospital, The male doctor can work with us for six months at a time and never bother to learn our names, just call us “Dear’’, and put thelr arm. around our shoulders, We're the ones who take care uf all the bodily func- tions, change the sheets, do all the things. that women are tra- ditionally supposed to do--and the things that keep the hospital going. Also, many women have to spend half thelr salaries on babysitting. It would be a very simple thing to get together a day care center in the hospital that the parents could run and staff. And all the support, and I hope that * > and support the workers against | downtown business and Alloto. Providing food for the strikers, — coming dows to the picket lines, — and showing downtown that the workers and the community are solidly behind changing the con- ditions at the hospital, Los Slete de la Raza and the Black Panther Party are supporting the move- ment at the hospital, und they have given it publicity. y Morday, the Board of Super- visors are going to make a deci- sion which way things are going to go. If they say no, we're not hospital would have to provide is going to give the workers their food and a place for the thing to be held, There are a lot of vacant wards where a thing like that could be done, Q. Are there any job-training pro- grams? A, Not too long ago, maybe a year ago they ran an attempt at atrain- ing program where they had thirty odd trainees for cast technician, I guess it was called, and out of that group they hired one at the end of the training program, and they hired him as an orderly, which is like lower pay and lower status, even though he was doing technician work. That's their one attempt, The hospital administration does not want to upser the hierarchy of authority, The people who are up on top and have good jobs aren't about to give them up to people who come up from the bottom with training programs. You have the Head Nurse, who controls the ward and all the other personnel. She relates to the orderly who comes on the ward as if he belongs to her--"'Clean this {1} up’’~-there's no respect, coming down from the top, The lass person on the hier- archy is the patient, but every- body is suffering, too, because the System doesn't allow patient care because that’s not what the goal is, The way General works, it keeps the patients only half alive--alive enough to do the dirty werk that keeps the system run- ning. Q. Who makes money off the hos- pital? A, A hospital may not take in a Jot of money, but it’s a place whece a lot of other companies take In a lot of money--the drug companies, suppliers, and of course the doctors themselves. But the people get nothing, In the last few years downtown businesses had their taxes reduced by 29 million dollars. That 29 million dollars could come right back into the hospital where it's needed, Everybody at the hospital could relate to thar. Q, lf the strike is won, if the workers get the 10% wage Increase, what would that mean for the hos- pital? A, If they can come up with a lot more salaries for us, then they can certainly come up with eighty thousand bucks for the pharmacy, too, They can come up with medi- cine, with more doctors, with just adequate medical care, Alioto will try everything in his power to break the strike. The workers need this ten percent, they can't survive without it, They also have the power to do more, to end the oppression of all the peo- ple. It’s important that the work- ers go to the community and ask ten percent, then the workers are going to go out on the picketline, Or they can try to divide us by giving some workers their demands, but not the others. Like 1 think thé most important thing is to develop unity at the hos- pirul, ‘That's what we're fighting for, because what the man really wants is to break us all dowa into different groups. I think the workers demonstrated at the union meeting a great mili- tancy, and their willingness to strugyle by any means necessary to win, They understand now that they have the power to shut thar place down, And this is important, to show the workers that it can be done, because its done by work- ers. Our victory will be in not letting ourselves be isolated, and the way we're not going to be iso- lated is by going out to the com- munity, relating to the needs of the people who use the hospital. People who must use the hos- pital have no control over it. The people who don’t come from the community, and don’t understand the problems are calling the shots, What we need isto have community control of the hospital just Like the Black PantherParty wants to have community control of the po- lice, All community groups haveto have control of al} their health in- stitutions, of all their social in- stitutions. At the Board of Super= visors meeting today, representa- tives from all over the city were screaming art the Board of Super- visors for community control of S.F, General Hospital. And more importantly, they were Screaming for community-werker control. The people who are really run- ning this hospital, keeping the laun= _ dry and the kitchen going, and are relating to the patients on a day to day basis, lke changing their wounds, changing their bed- pans, feeding them, are really con- cerned about theic basic needs. These are the poor people, the Black and Brown people, who aré in the so-called unprofessional jobs In the hospital. They come from the communities that the pa= tients come from, but they have nothing to say about how this hos- pital is run, It's controlled by the civil service and the Board of Supervisors, who represent the downtown merchants. It’s really a matter of colonization of both the people who have to use the hos- pital and the workers, because they have no seif-~determination, The movement developing at the hos- pital is really showing us that this _ doesn’t have to go on any longer, We are becoming more aware, We have realized that we have the power to shut down the hospital and through the strike we'll prove ft, The community Is becoming more aware, that they really need these changes, And bringing these groups together, we'll turn the hos- pital into an institution that truly -<'\CONT FROM P - arising from their acts of war.” THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1970 PAGE 20 ~ _ BLACK GENOCIDE There can be, | believe, little _Or no debate as to the exped-~ fence of condemning the govern- ment for the genocide it prac- tices and condones against 25, 000,000 or more black citizens, Many Investigations, studies and inquirles have spelled these crimes out in no uncertain lan- guage and while these have con- cealed those social forces for whom the government must have acted, the violence is exposed to the world. This existence of murderous racism is an historic fact, Killing members of the black group is almost daily prac- tice. Causing serious bodily or men- tal harm to members of the group is told in the storles of dope addiction and premature death statistics. Deliberately inflict- ing on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part are notorious. Through a petition attested to by tens of thousands, we must go to the U.N, In the Interests of harmony here among millions and peace abroad among hun- dreds of millions. We should submit a resolution to this effect to the plenary session of this Conference, CONT. FROM PAGE 18 U.N. REPORT as Professor Elliot Zupnick has pointed out in a paper prepared for a UN seminar last year, He cited figures showing that the above - mentioned countries plus Belgium, Franceand Italy account- ed for ‘‘no less than 75 per cent its (South Africa’ s) total exports’’ and that the four first-mentioned countries ‘accounted for 62 per cent of South Africa's total im- ports.'’ The first peaceful solution then is for the US, Britain, West Ger- many and Japan to put principles above profits. Lord Caradon has already given his reply to those who called for this solution with his teary concern for British un- employment. It ts safe to assume that he spoke also for his allies, The only other solution is the one being applied by the Africans themselves -- armed liberation Struggles in each occupied ter- ritory. There is no middle ground between slavery and freedom any- where in the world CONT, FROM PAGE 16 AGE 6 CONT, FROMPAGE 7 HUNTERS POINT this could possibly be used to come down with a conspiracy charge so we cleared the room. Monday morning March %h, Adam Rogers was shot, twice, It is unfortunate that the people's ex- ecutioneer did not have much prac- tice with a piece because the parrot still lives. On Tues., March 10, the San Francisco Examiner (racist rag) Said Rogers was shot in retali- ation for his efforts to head off a Black Panther Party demonstra- tion, The article said Rogers talked at a Black Panther Party rally Saturday. The article went on to say that the Black Panther Party Planned a demonstration to coin- cide with the funeral of the murd- ered brother. This is all a very good example of how the pigs always attempt to whitewash pro- blems. Rogers and the rest of the pigs are the only ones who know anything about some demonstration planned on the day of the funeral. Also the Black Panther Party had no rally Saturday and Rogers has never been and will never be in- vited to speak at any Black Panther Party rally. In fact, Rogers andhis fellow aids are trying to cover up the fact that Rogers effectiveness as an endorsed spokesman Is over, Not because of the Black Panther Party but because Adam Rogers is a fool and thought he could ride roughshod over the community for- ever, because he was backed up by Alioto’s office. Black people are not blind, The people of Hunters Point know what Adam Rogers is and they moved to eliminate the problem without any outside help. The people in the community actually expressed joy that he was shot and regretted that he wasn’ dead, So to Adam **parrot’Rogers and all other en= dorsed spokesmen you had better repudiate the slavemaster and crawl back home or face the peoples’ executioners for treason and being too wrong for too long. SEIZE THE TIME D.C, CONT, FROM PAGE 16 LAOS ning dog lackeys always refer to the 1962°Geneva accords when they choose to explain their treachery in South East Asia, In relation- ship to U,S, capitalism and the in- filtration of U.S, monopoly capi- talism into Laos there are 1040 Americans In the country, beside the new CIA agents. For the most part they are contractors or on contract to the U.S, government, In view of the free access to information that the Americans haye--We ask will you accept re- ality and deal with these madmen that are running this country amuck or will you fall with it? We, the Sane people, must put this country in order so that the people of the world can have some peace and freedom from the great U.S, war machine, We pose these questions to the people, whom we love, be- cause the fate of this country and possibly the world rest in their hands. The same vicious war has been unleashed upon the Black peo- ple of America because they are driving for total freedom in the heart of the Champion of Counter- -revolution, The words used to jus- tify the open genocide against Black Americans are the same words used to rationalize the U.S. fascists’ refusal to tell the truth to the American masses, Their refusals are rationalized on the grounds of ‘‘threats to national security,”” So if for no other reason than general information, the sleeping masses of American people should know that so-called U.S, advisors are running the Laotian army and U,S, aircraft are transporting Laotian puppet troops, U.S, bombers from Thailand and Okin- awa are bombing the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos everyday, There are over one hundred flyers listed as lost over Laos. The U,S, is pay- ing the salaries of thousands of mercenaries in Laos and the mercenaries are paying the price that all pigs have to pay. ALL POWER BELONGS TO TH "“SOPLE! SEIZE THE TIME! BIG MAN Editor STATEMENT BY MR. NGUYN MINH ZY they have scored in their just strug- gle to defend the liberated ares of Laos and to punish the nib- bling attacks of the United States and its agents,” “*The Government of the Demo- cratic Republic of Viet Nam warm- ly welcomes and unreservedly sup- ports the March 6, 1970 statement by the Central Committee of the _ Neo Lao Haksat concerning the po- “litical settlement of the Laotian problem.” “The Government of the Demo- "cratic Republic of Vier Nam reso- lutely demands that the U.S, Gov- ernment strictly respect and cor- rectly implement the 1962 Geneva " Agreements on Laos, stop its in- _ teryention and aggression in Laos, cease using the territory of Laos for the purpose of the US, war of aggression in Viet Nam, First of all, the United States must stop escalating the war In Laos, com- pletely and unconditionally put an end to its bombardments of the sponsibility for all consequences 3, Nurturing the LUlusion of win- ning military victory through the Policy of Vietnamizing the war in Mies Nam and escalating the war in Laos, the Nixon Administration continues to down-grade the im- portance of the Paris Conference in an attempt to Sabotage it. We have many times critized what the Nixon Administration calls its two courses for the res- toration of peace in Viet Nam, first by ‘‘Vietnamization’’, sec- ondly by negotiations, At the beginning, the U.S, au- thorities, including President Nixon, made explicit statements to the effect that they would give priority to the course of Viet- namization, Faced with the pro- test and condemnation from pub- Mic opinion in the world and in the United States, they have re- cently brought slightly amend- ments to their statements {n order to appear more flexible: ‘‘We pre- fer negotiations because it is the quicker way", but “until that (real- ly serious negotiation with Hanol) happens, we have to look towards what we call Vietnamization,”’ Nevertheless, no matter how the Statements are made, the sub- Stance of the Nixon Administra- tion's policy is still to give pri- ority to the furtherance of Viet- namization in -the hope of gain- ing @ position of strength, and to consider negotiation at the Paris Conference on Viet Nam as a sec- ondary course, , That is precisely the reason why the US, Delegation is perfunct- orily maintained atthe conference, Moreover, at recent sessions, the U.S, delegate sought to elude the fundamental questions we had raised, and advanced proposals on private meetings, restricted meet- ings, discussion of specific ques- tions, etc, The essence of all this is to restrict the significance and the importance of the conference. Ladies and Gentlemen, All the Nixon Administration has been doing shows that it does not really want to peacefully settle the Viet Nam problem, it has in- Stead intensified the war in South Viet Nam, stepped up its acts of War against the Democratic Re- public of Viet Nam, escalated the war in Laos, down-graded the Im- portance of the Paris Conference on Viet Nam so as subsequently to sabotage it, This is the cause of the pro- longation of the war in South Vier Nam and of the continued dead- lock of the Paris Conference on Viet Nam. The Nixon Administration ts en- trely responsible for such a situ- ation, CONT, FROM PAGE 4 TO MY BLACK BROTHERS IN VIETNAM blood, to the BS freedom and liberation of our people, and nothing, no force, can stop us from achieving our goal. If it is necessary to destroy the United States of America, then let us destroy it with a smile on our faces. A smile for the freedom and liberation of our people. The Black Panther Party calls for freedom and liberation in our life time, because we want to leave behind us a decent world for our children to grow up in, Let’s turn 1970 into a year in which our people make heroic drive for freedom and liberation. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! SEIZE THE TIME! Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information BLACK PANTHER PARTY CONT. FROM PAGE 16 Zimbabwe vain attempt to impose a black out on the operation the Smith repressive forces started hurass- ing, torturing, arresting and in- timidating the innocent and un- armed African masses found on the spot, including two journalists-Mr. Peter Seidlitz of West Germany reporter of ‘‘der Spiegel’’ and Mr. G.R, Naidoo, editor of “Drum” of South Africa, The public admission by the enemy of these operations ‘the most serious since U,D,.1."" is further proved by the arrival of 700 additional troops being flown in from South Africa as well as the frantic search for the freedom fighters in the bush in the affected area, : Meanwhile in Luska, the National Executive Committees of the Zim- babwe African People's Union and ~ the African National Congress met on the loth instant and issued the following communique: A joint meeting of the National Executive Committees of the Zim- babwe African Peoples Union (24pu) and the African National Congress of South Africa (ANC) was held in Lusaka on the l6th January, 1970, The discussions which took place in a cordial and friendly atmos- phere were preceeded by state- ments by James Chikerema, Vice President of ZAPU and Oliver Tambo, Acting President General of the ANC GA) both of whom underlined the historic importance of the revolutionary ZAPU-ANC alliance in the struggle against colonial oppression and race tyranny in Southern Africa, They emphazised that the significance of our common struggle against min- ority rule in Southern Africa ex- tends beyond our own borders; it is closely connected with our whole continent's struggle for true independence and social progress and is part of the world-wide struggle against imperialism, The two organizations exchanged information of the development of the struggles in their respective countries and appropriate de- cisions were taken. To intensify the struggle for national liberation on the basis of thelr programmes, A very close scrutiny of the machinery was made to ensure an effec- tive coordination of the polit- ical, military strategy of the alliance; To work out details of an ef- ficient and regular exchange of information art all levels of the two organizations and to work for a deeper commitment to the alliance by the peoples of Zimbabwe and South Africa. The participants from both or- ganizations were convinced that the above measures would further the consolidation and strengthening of the ZAPU/ANC alliance, The joint meeting reaffirmed the necessity for broadening friendly relations and fraternal co-operation with the authentic legitimate revolutionary move- ments in Guinea Bissau, Mozam- bique, Angola and 24mbia, To this end, efforts are to be made to bring about full co-operation on all matters of common intersts. The joint meeting placed on re- cord its decpest appreciation of the all-round assistance received by the two organizations from the OAU, the oun loving Asian cratic world, J Signed By: y Georges B. Nyandoro Secretary General (ZA Alfred Nzo Secretary General (ANC) ae ————— ~~ - i 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 need people who can function on a diplo- matic level in all languages, because at this stage in our struggle we see the ; who can speak French and Arabic. We a % need to develop diplomatic machinery for the American revolution, We have to deal with the same things FASCIST PIGS OF PA BEAT MOTHER & CHILD fascist pigs of p.a. beat mother and child On Friday night, February 27, the police were called to the home of Mrs, Mary Green. She was supposedly having a party and the stereo was playing too loud. When ~~ the pelice-arrived Mrs. Green an- ewered the door, She was itn ber pajamas and the only other oc- cupants were her 14 year old , daughter and her 4 year old son. The police questioned Mrs. Green and sald a few nasty things, - Angry words were passed between them and then the policeman struck G Mrs. Green In the mouth, She hit ‘ him back and they began to 4 Struggle. The second policeman came in and the two of them knocked her down, causing lamps ' and tables to overturn. While they were struggling Gail, j the daughter, got a broom and was a about to strike one of the police- men when he pushed her into the f wall By this time they were pract- ically on the porch and Gail not- iced a club lying there, She picked it up but the officer took it from her and said that {f she didn’t g0 back into the house she would get the same thing. The officers knocked Mrs. Green on the porch and hand-cuffed her. They proceeded to call the wagon and six additional squad cars, The policeman pushed Mrs Green when She started for the steps and again pushed her up against one of the cars which cause a large bruise on her upper arm, They then pro- ceeded to shove her into the wagon and take her to the police station, While at the station, she called her relatives and when they ar- rived, she told the desk sergeant what happened, She also told him that the “‘pig’’ hit her in the mouth, To this the sergeant re- Plied, ‘I know he hit you, he told me he socked you in the mouth. He should have,"" The next day at the hearing, officer Mehan, the one who struck Mrs, Green, denied everything, Mrs. Green had seven witnesses but still the judge believed the Officer. Mrs. Green was fined $200.00 and 90 days in county prison for ‘disturbance of the peace, and for ‘Striking an officer. Her penalty was later lessened to $100.00 and ey charges, The officer goaway ee, Alfonso Johnson and _ Karen Miller Phila. PA, party, the voice of the Panther must be THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1970 PAGE 21 Workers And Funds Needed 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 Huey would say, “a newspaper is the voice of a 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 thelr 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. ‘s the news and 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 8. 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 ofagun, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! SEIZE THE TIME! Enter my subscription for (check box): 3 MONTHS: (13 ISSUES). ........... 6 MONTHS: (26 ISSUES)... 2... 6600s ONE YEAR: (S2 ISSUES) ........-..55 = (please print) NAME ___ ADDRESS _ CITY STATE/ZIP @ _ ——__— COUNTRY PLEASE MAILCHECK ——-MIMISTRY OF INFORMATION, BLACK PANTHER PARTY OR MONEY ORDERTO: —_- Box 2967, Custom House, San Francisco, CA 94126. ~THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 PAGE 22 THE BLACK PANTHER "BLACK COMMUNITY NEWS SERVICE PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE BLACK PANTHER PA EDITORIAL STAFF CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF OF THE THE BLACK PANTHER BLACK PANTHER PARTY Political Prisoner: Political Prisoner: Minister of Defense Minister of Defense HUEY P. NEWTON HUEY P. NEWTON Political Prisoner: Political Prisoner: Cheirmon Chairmen BOBBY SEALE BOBBY SEALE Editer Minister of Information Minister of Information ELDRIDGE CLEAVER ELORIDGE CLEAVER Chief of Steff Managing Editor DAVID HILUARD Deputy Minister of Information RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY ai pelea Revolutionary Artist ond Loy-out Minister of Education NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS perma cent BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA ae intro mn Manager JOHN SEALE Mornrter of Fereign AHein ser) member of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY throwghout thi, Minister of Justice country of racist America mount abide by these rules a functional mem- Co-Stitors bers of this party. CENTRAL COMMITTEE member, CENTRAL Prime Minister STAFES, and LOCAL STAFFS, including all captains subordinate to cither national, state. and local leadership of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY will enforce these rules, Length of suspension of other dis- Distribution Monoger Communications Secretory ciplinary action necessary for violation of these rules will depend on ANDREW AUSTIN KATHLEEN CLEAVER national decisions by national, state or state area, und local committees and staffs where said rule or rules of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY WERE VIOLATED. Every member of the party must know these verbutum bs heurt, And apply them daily, Fach member must report any violation of these The editorial and production cost of THE BLACK PANTHER News- rules to their leadership or thes ure ata Sabena sapre and ure alye paper have increased considerably. We would like to continue Subjected to suspemion by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY increasing weekly circulation and our national and interna: tional news coverage. To do this we need your aid. Please send THE RULES ARE me us news items, general information, and contributions. Help us distribute and get new subscriptions to The Black Panther 1. No party member can have nurcotics of weed in his possession newspaper. Submit tc while doing party work. 2. Any party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from BLACK PANTH ER NEWSPAPER this party. 3..No party member can be DRUNK while doing daily party work. 3106 SHATTUCK AVE. 4. No parts member will siolate rules relating to office work, general BERKELEY, CALIF. meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. and mectings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANYWHERE. 5. No party member will USE, POINT, or FIRE a weapon of any kind unnecessarily or uccidentully at anyone. 6. No party member can join any other army force other than the BLACK LIBERATION ARMY. 7. No party member can have a weapon in his possession while DRUNK or loaded off narcotics or weed. 4. No party member will commit any crimes against other party members of BLACK people at all, and cannot steal or take from the people, not even a needle of a picce 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 Parts members, 10. The Ten Point Program und platform of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must be known and understood by cuch Party member, 11. Party Communications must be National und Local. 12. The 10-10-10-program should be known by all members and alse undertood by all members, 13. AU Finance officers will operate under the jurisdiction of the Minisirs of Finance. 14. Fach person will submit a report of daily work. IS. Boch Sub-Seetion Leader Seetion Lester, Lacutenant, ond Captain must subodt Dail ceports of work Circuletion Miniter of Culture SAM NAPIER EMORY DOUGLAS 16. All Panthers must learn to operate and sersice weapons correctly. 17. AU Leadership personne! who expel a member must submit this information to the Editer of the Newspaper. so that it will be published in the paper and will be howe bs oll chapters and branches. 1%. Political Education Classes ure mandatory for general member- ship. 1%. Only office personnel assigned to respective offices cach day should be there. AW others are to sell paper and de Political work out in the Community. tncloding Captains, Scction Leaders, ete. 20, COMME NIC A TIONS — all chapters mont submit weekly re. ports ta oweiting fo the National Headquarters 21. AU Branches must implement birt Vid and/or Medicul Cadres 22. AV Chapters, Beanehes. and components of the BLACK PAN. THER PARES cist subst o mentht: Pinanecial Report to the Minis ifs of Finance, and abo the Central Comunittes 24. Beersone tn headerstipe positinn mst cead ne tess than te hour por das te keep abroet of the changing political situation 24. Ne chapter ot branch shall accept prants, poverty funeds. mones \ or unt other aul foam ans povornment sven. without contacting the eel ate er aaRSe tale spates cue: she WACO tale born May 19, 1925 - Assassinated Feb. 21, 1965 dowa te the CENTRAL COMMILEED wt the BL VOR PANTITER VARI. 26. AU Branches nont submit weekly coports in writing to their re spective Chapters - October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program hat We Want hat We Believe Huey P. Newton 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 yive a high standard of living THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1970 PAGE 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 bluck people. We will accept the payment in curreney 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 thal 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 mifi- 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 Constittion of the United States gives a mght to bear arms. We thetefore 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 citys prisons and jails We believe that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S, Constitution gives a man). 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 dissulve 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 pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their Just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall scem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru- dence. indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not he changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly. all experience hath shown. that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sulferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pur- suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern- ment, and to provide new guards for their future security. LSS | CEE | fff STEEN ES fff Ph I PY If I SS ct CF LE EL ES LE LLL | ES ttf semanas 23 ELL OE Sf ff, ff | Ef ff | ff | LL ff Lf fT | fT ED ELF a SL Ff SEE ff ff a RG ff ff SEES I PS BI ff BEI SS EER ff ff LEI IS 1g S/S eae ee eee — _ 4th hee thee hee _ nee a Al Fath, does not intend to push the Jews into the sea THE SUFFERING and fru tion of the Palestinian people over the years gave rise to a new truly popular dynamic Palestinian Lib- fome his under- ont exp fef that there no resolution other than through their own concerted efforts. The Movement was started in 1956 by ung Palestinians during the tem- porary ation of the Gaza Strip by Israeli forces, The Movement is composed of two bodies - a political bureau known as ‘Al Fat'h’’, and ‘Al Assifa’', her military wing. ‘Al fT consists of all Pal estinian elements and politic interest groups, It strives tor bilize and synthe tials. All her mer able to face milit genuine faith int independence, no matter how long it may tak y must be willing to sacrifice their lives for thelr country’s cause pass through strict ining. They ee main protec sand pri- ir opinions, are guarante ‘ can only be rescined by a high military court olitical. The ovement tak personal care {3 Ss members and, should ne i vides court, 3. Economic of imprisonment Fat' h’’ take lies and financia its members The bulk come from while the re individuals ying ene news inique d on y Ist, , Since then, ne y 160 bulle- tins have been issued aids that cut Israeli communication li Sabo ed their Industries, ar Strategi ilitary in- Stallations (from paramilitary kib- butzim, railway, to electric power plants) have all been reported by these news communiques The purpose of ''Al Assifa’’ is to destroy the economic, military, social, and political structure of ‘Israel’, as Well as bring world attention to the right of the dis possessed, uprooted and displaced Palestinian people The basic strategy of the Move ment is I, There should be an awareness of the Palestinian Problem on the regional, national and international levels Il. There should be an adoption of the following credos in the con- text of a revolutionary framework a.) The commando as the nu- cleus of the Liberation Movement b,) The unification of efforts to- wards establishing a supporting front Ill, It should be understood that the fight against Israel is waged on the grounds that Israel is an ag- gressive, expanding foe and that Israel is a confirmed tool of im- perialism in the Middle East. “Al Fat'h’’ has and will always Insist that the military wing ‘Al Assifa"', 1s not operating against any particular faith, Palestine has consisted for centuries of Arabs belonging to the Moslem, Chris- tian, Jewish and other faiths. Har- mony has always prevailed be- Israel has so far nm the cause of persecution and aggression against over one and a half million refugees, It has left them to destitution and misery and until these refugees are back it should be understood that the Pal- estinians will sacrifice until victory.