Vol. 4, No. 28

THE BLACK PANTHER 2 Black Community News Service PEOPLE'S FREE HEALTH CENTE CSTs ES LS SS ED SSS EY LE LS SSL TS LL LS LS ES ES LL LS ES LL IY LL LL TREN LE LL LLL LS 8 LE ALAT FF LL LLL SF LL LLL DLE, II LL SOE DIS IE ET ET LL ST THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE LF f EEE bP 6 bP SEEEBDOT ff BL SEELEY BOS PS SEIS IL SF (SE ACOEL IE PS Lb LEAT FE 7 The Black Panther Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, has said that the Party must engage in activities that will teach the people, This very important statement refers to the fact that everything the Black Panther Party engages in should serve to educate people to the conditions and how to change those conditions, Black people’s history in this country has been a long, endless struggle against abuses, murders and the systematic denial of our human rights, This government has refused Black people the basic freedoms and rights that all human beings are entitled to: nourish- ing food, decent housing, adequate clothing, and most of all the right to the best that human knowledge and technology are able to produce, That is to say, since America can put a man on the moon, America can certainly feed all of its people, Doctors can transplant hearts, kidneys and other vital organs; however, there are people dying in the Black community from tetanus and other simple, curable diseases, “pRNING ' | " i Hi * Panther Wayn helping Mrs. Mack, mother of Frank Lynch, down the stairs of the trailer. If we examine the medical facilities in any Black community, it is plain to see that these facilities leave much to be desired, Under- staffed hospitals, undertrained staffs, over- crowded wards, and underequipped medical teams are found throughout the Black com- munity, All of the medical abuses perpetrated against Black people are done under the guise of ‘‘serving the people.’’ In reality, the racist doctors and medical personnel could care less about the lives of the Black people. In response to the growing need for medical attention in the Black community, the Boston Chapter of the Black Panther Party has opened the People’s Free Health Center, The Health Center is located at Ruggles and Tremont, on part of the land to be used for the new super highway. As part of Operation Stop, sponsored by the Boston Black United Front, to prevent the building of the highway, the Free mm" Peoples’ Free Health Center «& Mrs. Mack, presenting picture of her son, Frank Lynch, shot down by a racist pig while a patient at Boston City Hospital at opening of Peoples Free Health Center, Health Center shows that this land truly be- longs to the people; therefore, it should be used in the interests of the people, A highway cutting through the Black community will mean air pollution, increased accidents, housing shortages, and excessive noise, The Free Health Center occupies this land illegally according to the law, but..we-feel that the people’s authorization is the only authorization necessary, The Free Health Center will open, initially, only four times a week, As more people be- come involved, the Center will open twenty- four hours a day, Presently, opening hours are on Saturday and Sunday from 2-6 pm and Tuesdays and Thrusdays from 7-ll pm. Community volunteers are needed to act as people’s advocates, drivers, security to assist . doctors and nurses, and to help implement health campaigns, Classes are available for people to learn first aid and to train as lab technicians, Black doctors and other medically skilled people are needed in particular, Services provided will be similar to those of a family doctor, including immunization, tests for diseases, emergency first aid, but most important of all, health education, High morality rates from common illnesses and diseases in Black communities and other poor communities are completely preventable and curable if people are educated to their dangers, INSIDE OF PEOPLES FREE HEALTH CENTER The present health care system is not aimed at alleviating the health problems of the peo- ple. Priorityis given to making money rather than to serving the needs of the people, The People’s Free Health Center is an alternative to show the power of the people in dealing with a specific problem, The success of the Free Health Center depends on the People’s Support, ’ For Information call 442-0100 SEIZE THE TIME BLACK PANTHER PARTY PLM f ES LS Lf LES fo LS I FSS TS SE SS LE Sf SSL LFS SS SS ff LP LL LOS LE LF LS LL FS LL! ED LL SL LET LL LL LE 8 LL LS LL SL pi hasta ms sear nen naetresen aman se ST Gs he ce IME | s PEOPLE INDECENT Monday, May 18, the people of Sobel’s pig pens (houses that sobel built ) got it together as far as their homes and their child- rens lives are concerned, They are determined to see to it that they get decent housing that is fit for shelter of human beings. The people realize that this is the place where they are to raise their children to try and live out our lives. But pig Sobel and all the other pigs in Babylon will not let MOVE ON HOUSING the people of Atlantic city or any where else live in peace. So we the people and the people realize that we have to educate, to or- ganize, to liberate, the people of Sobel’s pig pens, They are pig pens because the people have re- Strictions like; no washing ma- chines, only one color of paint in homes, no air conditioners, one lock on the doors, and many others that are just as simple. Especially when one considers that the pigs HOUSEHOLD SURVIVAL IN AM The trillion dollar food industry has played a major role in caus- ing malnutition, because the qual- ity and quantity of nutrition infood has beensacrificed for larger pro- fits in the pockets of a few. In- dustry has the means, but refus- es to end hunger in America and sends its politicians ( lobisyist ) to block programs designed to end this suffering, Hunger and malnutrition cannot be separated from dope anddrugs, pollution of the earth and air, rats and roaches, indecent fire prone housing, and repression of those waging the struggle against such genocidal oppression. We should like to present a series dealing with suggestions and information relating to house- hold survival in America; it will also expose the practices of “Big Food Inc.’’which reveals them as self-declared enemies of the people, Seceseccccscecesccs coe ERICA In fear of competition or loss of precious profits, avaricious “Big Food Pigs, Inc."’, have gone to incredible lengths to keep the majority of Americans either un- der nourished or hungry at ahigh- er cost to them than ever before. It is a fact that nutrition is the glamour product, being pushed by the Food Industry, is almost non- existant; nutrition has also been taken out of foods that we’ve al- ways trusted as being ‘‘good for us’’, Hand in hand the government and the Big Food Business has neglected another vital need of the people they are supposed to serve, Not only have they neglectedit, but they've added to it. Their basic attitude is declared beautifully by Mr. Arthur Odell in a question and answer taken from thebook‘‘Let Them Eat Prom-* ises'’, ‘‘Why can’t low cost, high protein products be marketed to the general public,including the poor?” a reporter asked, The reply: “‘Hell, think that the people will fold to these demands. These restrictions are coupled with the problem of the people’s homes being built on the dumps, Cheap ply wood construc- tion, cinder block foundation , and hollow walls that are coming apart at the joints, The facts mentioned above didn’t exist when the people first moved into these pig pens, plus the people had a one year lease,- Now the pens are falling apart and zionist pig Sobel, the punk, will not give the people a lease and at the same time raised the rent ten dollars. The people, seeing this deterior- ating andoppressive condition, are now gathering together to form a United Front Against Zionist Pig Sobel, and educate the people of Atlantic City to people power, mani- fested in the people when the people form a cohesive unity witha common goal in mind. By seeing that people in unity bring people power, the people are now uniting to inflict a political consequence upon Sobel and get their demands of a lease with no increase, better maintenance, and correction of all structual problems corrected, or the people are going to hold back that money (the only thing thathe’s interested in) and go on a rent strike. The people have contacted a lawyer, formed a committee and are dealing with their problem H (which is all Black people’s pro- blem) to fight back, The rent is due tne first of June, but with all the people sticking together and remaining determined to get what is due to them, they surmont every difficulty and fear no sa- crifice to win victory from all the pigs. The members of the Black Panther Party, and the National Committees To Combat Fascism, will appear every time a member of Sobel’s pig pens goes to court or gets harassed by any pig. We say if one person. suffers, all the people should respond with swift retaliatory action and support the people in their just struggle for a lease, no rent increase and decent living conditions. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE DEATH TO THE ZIONIST PIGS Community Information Center N.C.C.F, Atlantic City, New Jersy Phone; 344-4484 all the people want is coke and potato chips’’, Odell is an execu- tive of all familiar General Mills Inc. He also adds, ‘‘You can’t sell nutvition,’” ‘n the following I'd like to pass on to you, a few specific practices I've been made aware of through reading'‘Let Them Eat Promises'’ by Nick Kotz, Keep in mind that the Food Industry represents a trillion dollar business that could and should end hunger and malnutrition in this country at least, inthe next two years, with government aid. I say ‘should’ because the govern- ment and industry of a nation is supposed to exist for the sole pur- pose of answering and continuous- ly supplying the needs of the peo- ple they serve: 1) The Food Industry spends on- ly 12 million onbasic foodresearch but 130 million on advertising. The research program in many cases is a front because the heads of these programs who are food experts and analysts, have little influence over policies that conflict with the profit motive; (.g. Dr. Anderson, re- search analyst for Heinz, had been warning his company to remove monosodium glutamate from baby food and advocated making a more nutritious product ), Heinz object- ed to ‘‘selling nutrition in fear of competition from Gerber. 2) Baby foods contain more cheap fillers and additives. Starch and Sugars and salthavebeen increased with a steady decline in nourish- THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 3 INDECENT HOUSING ‘We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings,’ Be- cause the people of Babylon have a right to the best, Anytime that a pig stands in the way and blocks this right, they must be dealt with in the only manner that they can understand, On or about June 2nd, at 9am, pig Sheriff John Burgarella of W. New Haven came to the home of the Hunter family of 15 Barbara St. and demanded that they leave their home with no where to go. He said that there will be a truck there the next day to move their furniture to an unknown storage area, PIG slumlord, Pauline Walrick, knew that the people were unable to keep up with the rent. They have five children and Mrs, Hun- ter, being pregnant is unable to work. The PIG slumlordhad agreed to wait until they got back on their feet. Understanding that the pigs have been coming up square for 400 years is why we are in this set up and want an end to this corrupt and capitalistic sys- tem that oppresses us and liter- ally has forced us against the wall to deal with these baffoons, This is a clear example of the way the pigs work hand in hand with the greedy slumlords in Babylon a- gainst the people, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY New Haven, Connecticut Chapter Timothy Thompson . DELP REIL ELLE EE ILLEGAL EEE ment. These products appeal to “mother’s taste. For that reason, monosodium glutamate (scientists are questioning the safe- ty of itjed, note: (through the me- dia I learned that MSG has caused growth in lab animals to slow down) is added to baby food and many other products on the market, check the labels. 3.) To cut cost, tin cans have been replaced by cardboard to store orange juice, at the risk of Vitamin C content, The containers are too porous to retain vitamin C adequately. 4) Fat in frankfurthers in many cases has risen to be 1/3 of the meat content, with a decline in protein content. Meat manufactu- ers oink ‘‘We add or increase fat content to fit consumers taste pre- ferences. 5) Government programs reach 5 out of 29 million poor. ed. note (yet huge quantities of nutrition grain is stored by the govern- the law to add vitamin D or A to dried milk being sent to the poor of this and other nations. The milk industry sent their lobbyist. A highly nutritions, low cost fish concentrate was restrict- ed by the government when the milking industry and milk opposed, 7) A one time lobbyist for Proc- terand Gamble, Mr. Bryce Har- low, is now assistant to presi- dent Nixon for congressional re- lations. He once said; ‘‘If we par- ticipate won't the government try to throw the entire hunger issue to the food industry'’? Grocery manufactuers of America with $100 billion represent the country's biggest business- and is located just three blocks from the white house. The connection speaks for itself. The pig laws and big business- men are doing nothing but educa- ting the people to the fact that capitalism with the democracy, as it exists in the United States of OUR CHILDREN ARE. THE VICTIMS OF THE GREEDY BUSINESSMEN’S PURSUIT OF PROFIT & PROSPERITY ment at a cost of millions daily, to keep from interferring with business profits). 6) To further help business, the government has passed many in- teresting restrictions when con- fronted by powerful lobbyist (demogogic politicians of the food industry) whose profits were at stake: Before 1968 it was against K.K.K.7is not a people’s system, Those made rich off the people's suffering will soon have no place or disguise for this system tohide them behind. The people will snatch off the mask of these beast without taking time to untie their heads. Their existence is a threat to our survival. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 4 THE PIG SISSY SQUAD RUNS AMUCK IN ATLANTIC CITY Once again these foul and de- praved racist dog pigs, have im- plemented their open acts of bru- tality on Black people of Atlantic City. On the night of May 13, 1970, brothers Donald Nixon and Charles Brooks were sitting on some steps near North Carolina and Baltic Avenues, which are in the Black colony, when they noticed a pigcar circling the block, The third time around, this same pig stopped his car and a White racist pig jumped out and grabbed a brother and started pulling and throwing the brother up against the pig car for seemingly no reason at all. Natu- rally, the people from the com- munity came out and started asking the pigs why were they treating the brother like that when they al- ready had him handcuffed. The pigs told the people to move on and that it was none of their business, It was at this time that Donald Nixon and Charles Brooks were checking the harassment out, when Pigs Dooley and James Barber told them to move on. Brother Donald said that he was a taxpayer and didn't feel that he had to leave, and brother Charles felt the same way. That’s when the big fat funky racist pig, James Barber, kicked brother Charles and hancuffed the both of them very tightly. Brother Donald asked the pig to loosen the handcuffs and the pig just oinked and said, ‘‘Come on, boy."’ The brothers were taken to the Hall of Pig Justice, and found out what their local pigs really were about, how piggish they really are and how they have no respect for Black people and their rights. And to alsoseehow sadistic Pig Bar- ber is. The brothers said that they watched this pig beat another brother who was already there when they arrived, and how Pig Barber hit the brother while he was hand- cuffed to the chair and knocked him over almost causing the bro- ther to hit his head, Then the pig came over to brother Nixon and said{Well, Mr. Taxpayer, it's time for you to get yours,” and then he hit the brother in the face while he was handcuffed to the chair, and then hit him in the mouth and busted his lip while Pigs Dooley and Mc- Donald waited their turn. But Pig Barber wasn’t finished yet, because he then removed a cigar from his nasty, foul smelling mouth and spit in brother Nixon’s face and said, ‘(Boy I’m tired of you niggers act- ing up around here,'’ These three pigs of the sissy squad, Barber, McDonald and Dooley have been responsible for many other cases of brutality against Black people ‘in the Black Community. THE ATTEMPTED MURDER In the early morning hours of Saturday, May 23, 1970, a mad racist dog policeman entered the Black community of South Balti- | more with one purpose in mind, to kill and destroy anything with Black skin. Donald Powell was on the corner of Hamburger andSharp Streets at approximately 5:45 AM. when this scurvy pig rolled onto the corner, He immediately pulled his pig .38 without asking any ques- tions, Knowing the ‘‘shoot to kill’ nature of the pig, the brother tried to get out of the pig’s way. The racist policeman began chasing this brother as though he was a con- victed criminal. At times the pig was within five feet or closer to Donald, But arresting the brother was not the intention of this ‘low- lifed dog; his intention was to kill or maim! The pig stopped within five feet, took careful aim and fired two shots, hitting Donald once near the base of the spine and once in the leg. The pig claimed Donald was being chased because of an early morning burglary. Is this the way to justify at- tempted murder? And even so, no ones’ life was in danger not even the pig's! This is clear because eye- witnesses were on the scene at the time of the shooting and saw Donald running from the pig. It should also be clear to the people of Baltimore that this is the same type of deal that went down in Augusta, Georgia, the same also as Miami, the same cold-blooded racist murders and attempted mur- ders that our people have been sub- jected to for 400 years. Donald is not the first Black youth to be shot in cold-blood by the vicious racist pigs of the Southern Police District. But he can be the last if the people of South Baltimore started to repay the pigs inthe very same coin that he has used on us... the gun! The racist dog policeman must withdraw immediately from our Black communities; cease their wanton murder and brutality and Before they were released on bail of $500.00 for so-called re- sisting arrest and not minding their own business, Donald asked Pig Dooley, would he be harassed by Pig Barber everytime he walked the streets? The piggish goon, Dooley said no, because all Donald had to do is tosay,‘‘Yes, Sir and No, Sir’’if he was ever stopped by his piggish friends. But we say, PIGS, that your game has come to an end, you can no longer masquerade in your mod- bell-bottoms, and your hippy-dippy clothes because the people have come to know you for just what you are, PIGS, from the tip of your fat fascist hoofs, to.the tip of your piggish nose and that you better be careful that the people froarthe Black community don’t OF DONALD POWEL PURPOSE: TO KILL OR MAIM ANYONE on! WITH BLACK SKIN torture of Black people; or face ‘the wrath of the armed people! COUNTER-ATTACK BLACK PANTHER PARTY Community Information Center Baltimore Chapter 1248 N, Gay Street 342-8536 WITNESS REPORT TO THE DONALD POWELL SHOOTING The cold - blooded attempted murder of Donald Powell in the early morning hours of Saturday, May 23, 1970, is documented below. These statements and incidents directly following the shooting. crawl up your back, spit in your face and stick a .357 Magnum to your piggish head and blow you away to the Pig Sty in the sky. We must start to organize self- defense groups to deal with these low-natured beasts in. the same manner that they come into the communities to deal with Black peo- ple. You might have another Georgia 6 right here in Atlantic City if we continue to let these fools run amuck in our communities. All people in- terested in Community Control of Police, please contact the Black Panther Party, N.C,C.F., at 1131/2 Mediterranean or call 344-4484, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE AND DEATH TO ALL PIGS Montae RACISTS AND THIEVES IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY Whenever there are foul ra- cists within the communities of Black people and whenever these racists are not concerned with the interests and the desiresand needs of our people then the Black Pan- ther Party and the misused and neglected peoples of these com- munities then join together to ex- pose and remove the exploiters and thieves that have infiltrated our Black communities. In West Baltimore, in the 1400 block of Madison Avenue, there is a small and backwards self service store that is being operated by a threesome of outright racistsand robbers who do not care anything whatsoever about’ the wretched conditions that Black people in that neighborhood are forced to survive in, The racist White store owners in this neighborhood, are nothing but the selfish, vicious off spring of fascist America, They maintain this store in our Black community, cheat and malicious- ly use the youth of the neighbor- hood by closing the store to child- ren whoare ontheir way toschoolin the mornings, This so calledstore run by Whites, could care less about Black children and Black people who patronage their illegal store, There is no need for any fools and sadists in our commu- nity if they cannot maintain a face to face relation with the Black people who are providing a live- lihood for these racist thieves. The attitude that the owner of this store has towards Black people is that when they come in, they get what they want and then get out...quick! Any so called businessmen that's been in the Black community for 10 years and has become deaf to our needs and still continues to cheat us, has been in that com- munity 10 years too long! If the people in the 1400 block of W. Madison Avenue want that jive pig store and its owners out of their community, then that store will just have to be removed, along with its owners too! If the people righteously demand and organize so that they can throw that filthy raggedy shop out into the White racist suburbs where they came from, then the Black Panther Party says ‘‘Right on!’’ SEIZE THE TIME! A BROTHER FROM THE COM- MUNITY: The pig didn’t say halt or fire any warning shots. He just started chasing Donald. He shot Donald once and Donald was helpless on the ground; he shot him again, Some sisters went to help Donald be- cause he was hurt. When they did this the pig started cussing them out. A BROTHER FROM THE, COM- MUNITY: We waited about 15 or 20 min- utes for the ambulance, The place where it comes from is only one ‘block away. While he waited the pigs wanted to throw him in the back of the paddy wagon. When the ambulance came it was daylight but still they brought flashlights instead of stretchers. A SISTER FROM THE COMMU- NITY: The pig could have grabbed Donald when he fell, but the pig fired two shots, and he looked like he was smiling. A SISTER FROM THE COMMU- NITY: The pig jumped out of the cai with his gun out, I was in between Donald and him. I shouted at him not to shoot and don’t kill him. I tried to stop him, but he pushed me aside and kept chasing. I ran and followed them. He was close enough to grab Donald, but he shot him twice. Many people went to aid Donald; some were crying; the pig told them to shut up and not to help him! The people should learn from this attempted assassination of our Black youth. If this same-incident went down. in-Randallstown, the pig who did it would be in jail right quick! But because this went down in South Baltimore the racist dog will be allowed to roam freely once more in our communities to mur- der, brutalize and rob our people. The people, in order to protect our loved ones and ourselves from these flagrant attacks of the pig must organize self-defense groups. The Black Panther Party believes that the time has come for Black people to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late. A people who have suffered so much for so long at the hands ofa raeist society must draw the line some- where. We believe that the Black communities of America must rise up as one man to halt the pro- gression of a trend inevitably to their destruction, OUR PATIENCE CRIED FOR CES- SATION, OUR ANGER CRIED FOR VENGEANCE,,. COLD AND DEADLY! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Community Information Center Baltimore Chapter 1248 N, Gay Street 342-8536 PIGS ATTACK WOMEN AND CHILDREN T00 On June 1, 1970, between 8:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., the ra- cist fascist pigs of the San Diego Police Department viciously and savagely attacked Mrs. Price and her family at 38rd& L Sts. Mrs. Price said that everything hap- pened so fast, Mrs. Price and her daughter, Debra, were sitting on the couch watching TV when a young man, who is a friend of the family, came into the house, When Mrs. Price got up to close the door, two pigs busted into the house. and knocked Mrs, Price down to the floor. One policeman pulled his gun and pointed it at Mrs. Price’s head, The children began to shout, ‘‘Oh Mama, he’s going to shoot you. Please, don’t shoot my Mama.’’ These maniacs then picked Mrs, Price up and threw her into a corner and toldher that if she moved, they were going to shoot her. At this time, a whole gang of these hoodlums in brown rushed into the house. One police maniac jumped up onto the coffee table and jumped directly on Debra who was still sitting on the couch. (mad effects of too many John Wayne movies) Little three year-old, Dwayne, was knocked by a pig’s fist into the {TV. Mrs. Price's youngest daughter, Rosalyn, was jumpedon by four pigs. Rodrick, her youngest son, was taken outside/ into a field and beaten savagely by four of San Diego’s Hitlerites. After four pigs beat this young 15 year-old brother, one of them pulled his gun and told Debra to get on her knees and beg for “this nigger's life’’. After the pigs ran out of Black people to beat, they began to break up the furniture. These vicious pigs beat everybody down onto the floor and handcuffed everybody. Mrs, Price was taken downtown and her children all beaten up and bloody were taken to juvenile hall. All were charged with resisting arrest and interfering with police. Members of the community who witnessed this blatant brutality were harassed and beaten, The young man whom the police said they were chasing was charged with running a red light on 30th St. and Imperial Avenue, The Black community here in San Diego is terrorized nightly by these night raiders who claim to be ours**protettors’’. It is so bad that people ere afraid to walk the streets at night because our ‘protectors’ might kill us. How long must we suffer these brutal and fascist attacks by these goons who stomp through our ‘homes and beat upon our mothers, * brothers, sisters and our little children. These wicked traducers must be stopped by dny means necessary. ARM YOURSELF OR HARM YOURSELF ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE THE BOOTLICKER- Tool of the Power Structure I just want to touch on the subject of the bootlicker in re- lation to the struggle of Black people. Looking at the bootlicker from a historical standpoint, we see a confused, deadly and dangerous baffoon. We understand the historical experience of Black people, and we understand deplor- able conditions that Black people are forced to live in--trying to survive. We say that the capital- ists are craved, deranged, rapa- cious, reprobates--the negative compliment of scum from the apex of the cesspool of history, Because of their nature they are cannibalistic. These bootlicking jackanapes have to be put in the , Same category, because they live or survive off the lives of their ‘own Black brothers and sisters. So now you have seen one as- pect of the bootlicker, now let’s view another side of this crea- ture based on the dialects of a point in time. He takes money from and he breaks away from the colony for a period of time just to acquire some skills in which he can motivate Black peo- ple for his own personal gains, This type of bootlicker brings to mind the lying, misleading, punk, demagogic politician with his diseased tongue. So when we look at the role of the lunatic individual we see the devasta- tion of this malicious nape. On May 27, 1970, at 98th Ave. and Edes Ave. in front of two wash houses, a craved, de- ranged, inflamed punk (a nigger) who goes by the name of Daniels Sr., (who also runs the wash house for some petty capitalist who owns the wach house and adjoining liquor store) with blood in his eyes in an outrage that someone had harmed the property of his slavemaster, ran into the wash house armed with a .38 pis- tol and confronted a 22 year old Black brother by the name of SCENE OF A So if anyone knows the where- abouts of this freak, reward him the same way he left A.J. Walker; laying face down on the streets of the Black colony. This goes for any other bootlicking jacka- napes, Any revolutionary brother who wants to serve the people, J. WALKER’S MURDER BY BOOTLICKING LACKEY OF U.S, FASCISM A. J. Walker, all because a 14 year old brother accidently broke the plate glass door. As the con- versation ensued, young A, J. Walker fell, a victim at the blood dripping hands of this bootlicker, a tool of the power structure. This bootlicker committed one of the foulest acts a so-called brother can do against the strug- gle of Black people here in East Oakland and throughout this cess- pool called Babylon. By that act we can only look at this disease called Daniels, a treacherous traitor, as an enemy of Black people, can do that by putting a halt to the killing of Black people. Iknow that there are a lot of revolu- tionary Black brothers out there in the community who will say, “*L don’t like this madness per- petrated by the Pigs,’4nd ask what they can do to helpWell I say to get together with other brothers who feel the way you do and deal with all the boolickers here in East Oakland and throughout Babylon. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY East Oakland Com. Center THE MURDER OF HENRY ‘DICKIE’ MARROW OXFORD, N.C. Henry Marrow was murdered by two racist White people on May 11, 1970, It was a case of murder in the lst degree. Henry and some brothers were rapping. This ra- cist White woman began going mad, thinking they had said something to her. She, running wild, went into the store owned by John Teel and said, ‘‘some niggers were insulting me.’’ Teel and his son, Larry came running out of the store verbally abusing and threatening the brothers. The Teels had an ax handle as they approached the brothers andby this time everyone had moved back ex- cept Henry, Henry had pulled out his knife to defend himself, and at the same time, tried to ex- plain to the two fools that they had said nothing to this White lady, But, the Teels refusedto lis- ten and seeing that Henry was go- ing to defend himself, they ran back into the store and came out with a shotgun and a rifle? The brothers began torunandthe Teels fired into the crowd of brothers, striking Henry in the back of his thigh. Henry fell and the Teels converged on him and began beat- ing him with the ax handle as Hen- ry lay helpless on the ground. As Larry Teel beat Henry, he turned and asked his daddy what should he do then. John Teel handed his son the rifle and told him ‘‘kill the nigger bastard.'’ Doing some- thing he wanted to do all along and carrying out the command of his daddy, Larry Teel shot Henry in the forehead from point-blank range. Also injured in the incident was THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 5 PIGS HARASS On May 24, 1970, Tony Jarret and Mrs, Bernice Edwards came by the N,C,C,F, They were seek- ing help because the pigs, two of them in particular, had been haras- sing and physically assaulting Tony and herself. These two pigs are named pig GENTRY (WHITE RA- CIST) and pig D.R, WILLIAMS (NIGGER LACKEY), Tony and Mrs, Edwards have had three encounters with these pigs. All of them are concerned with supposedly traffic violations. But viewing the situation closely, we see that Gentry and Williams are no different than any other foul, depraved traducers that oc- cupy the Black colony across Ba- bylon, For it was pig Williams that shot James Beasley in the back last year, claiming the bro- ther was trying to escape, after he had been arrested for public drunkness, Witnesses who saw the attempted murder know that Bro- ther Beasley was much too drunk to walk, let alone make an at- tempt to escape from two armed Pigs. So, it was in the same fashion that pigs, Gentry and Williams started their campaign of harass- ment and brutality against Tony and Mrs, Edwards, First Tony was given a ticket for making an il- legal turn at an intersection. Next, he was issued a capias (bench warrant) for not paying the fine for the ticket. (The money was used to pay his rent and buy food for his family.) After this they "kopped Tony and said he was speeding. This was impossible because the motor in his car was shot, and couldn’t do more than 25 m.p.h, These pigs thought that Tony was a Black Panther, because of the bumper sticker he displayed Gupport Your Local Black Panther Party) and the first thing they said as they grabbed him from his car was, ‘‘we gonna teach you Black Panthers a lesson.’ They took his license (which was not returned) and gave him a speeding ticket and took him to jail. About three days later, the pigs came to Tony's house late at night (KKK fashion) as he and his wife and child were in bed, The pigs came to the door (Gentry and Wil- liams) to serve some sort of capias on him, After gaining entrance to the house, these pigs began to run rampant through the brother’s - house, these pigs began to brutalize his wife, pushing her and hitting’ her for no reason other than a show of force. Tony cussed the pigs out and they slinked off into the night. The final act came when Gentry and Williams came to issue a war- rant for Tony charging him with abusive language and assault on a pig. There were seven car loads of pigs. Every one of them ra- cists, but all of them stood back and let the nape-nigger pig per- form ( Williams hit Mrs, Edwards in the breast with his elbow and twisted Tony's arm up behind his back, while holding the back of Tony’s belt and forc- ibly took him to the pig car. (A pig is a pig, is a pig is a pig.) They took Tony to jail andplaced him under $1,000 bond. Tony got out on bail and at the trial (le- gal lynching) Tony was given 65 days in jail. Tony appealed this sentence and came to the National Committee to Combat Fascism for help, and we are assisting the bro- ther and Mrs, Edwards in every way we can, We are exposing these mas- querading victims of unprovoked attacks (Gentry and Willaims) to the people and the people will deal with them in a rightéous manner, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE N.C.C,F,, Winston-Salem Nelson Malloy PN a BN EB EOS SEY EE IE AE LIBS LEN IL LE LE, William Chavious, William was walking up as the Teels started shooting and was wounded in the shoulder and face by shotgun pel- lets. When William was hit, he fell to the ground and witnessed the whole thing. There were some sisters who also witnessed the en= tire event, Also, James Chavious was hidden out of sight and heard «the elder Teel tell the younger Teel to ‘‘kill the nigger bastard.”’ Upon hearing of the shooting of her husband, Mrs. Willie Mae Mar- - Tow went to the hospital to see her husband, When she got there, they refused (doctors) to let her see him. The doctors told her that they had to take him to the Duke Hospital and said she couldn't go because the ambulance was too crowded after she requested to ride with her husband in the ambulance. At this time the Teels were still running around free and Mrs, Mar- row saw Assist. (Hiet of Pigs Na- thaniel White.) She askedhim whe- ther she could take out a warrant for the Teels arrest. Pig White oinked that he couldn't issue a warrant (A nigger has no rights which a White man is bound to respect.) because there is somuch confusion that he didn’t know who had shot Henry Marrow, It wasn’t until the next day that the Teels were apprehended, Henry Marrow lived at 105 King St., Oxford, N.C, with Willie Mae Marrow and their two children, Tammy Threall-age 2, and Denise- age 14 months. They had beenma- ried 19 months. Henry was 23 yrs. old, and a veteran from Vietnam. When Black people can be shot down for no reason at all, it is time for them to re-evaluate their situation and see that it is time for them to begin to arm them- selves, Our fight for survival and liberation must be urged here in Babylon and we\must refuse to be a mercenary fora government that doesn’t grant you your con- stitutional rights or profit you and your family from masquerading, racist, KKK dogs. N.C.C,F,, Winston-Salem Field Lf Nelson Malloy THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 6 STUDENTS BRUTALIZED A HOOVER JUNIOR - At Hoover Junior High School lo- cated in West Oakland, eight stu- dents were the victims of fascist attacks ministered by the Vice Principals; Lucille P. Martin, No- lan Jackson, as well as teachers, Steven Samon, and Jessee W. Da- vis, A suit was filed inthe federal District Court Monday June 8th, The suit was filed by the Legal Aid society of Alameda County, due to the fact that the students were subjected to ‘‘Corporal Punishment’’ during the last three months, Also named inthe suit was the school principal Spencer Ben- bow and the seven members of the Board of Education, Basically an education is passing on the heritage, learning, the wis- dom and the technology of human history, to enable and to help man- kind to continue to survive and to cope with our environments, But due to the structure of the entire U.S, Government, racism and fas- cism (fascism: terrorism and bru- tality ) this makes everything that is a part of it also racist and fas- cist, And so the same wich the educational system. If our youth are.-being sent to schools insti- tuted by the U.S, Government then they are subject to be programmed to a fascist foul corrupt system, that teaches them nothing to enable and to help mankind continue to survive, How can a person educate another person to the means of survival while at the same time brutalize that person he or she is supposedly teaching to cope with our everyday enviornment? What kind of educational system in- flicts brutality upon the youth and then turns around and has the au- dacity to tell us that they are edu- cating us so that we may survive, These:so-called teachers of Hoover Junior High School are no more and no less than the uniformed and plainclothes pigs that brutalize and terrorize our people everyday, These so calledteachers area part of. the harm and endangerment of our survival, What kinds of sadists who beat youtt with their fists, wood- en sticks, and metal chains could possibly teach our youth anything regarding changing a foul system of brutality? The Youth are the most vital and active force in the community, and they are the future leaders of the struggle for our survival, We must educate and lead them in the correct manner because the youth makes the revolution, and the struggle of Black people and all oppressed people is dependent upon them. We must set examplesof self defense, so that they may follow those examples, and protect them- selves as well as their community. The miseducators within the ‘schools of the Black community must leave, Miseducation andbru- talization of our youth can not be tolerated, because our future hope and struggle for National Salya- tion is placed on them, So if crazy sadists insist upon brutalizing our youth, regardless of the fact that they may be Black sadists ( as the sadists at Hoover Jr. High school, except one teacher who was White) then we intend to stop them by any means necessary. And if necessary to deal with them in the same manner as a common pig. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE MORE STRENGTH TO THE YOUTHI Candi Note; Due to the fact that we re- ceived this story regarding Hoover Jr. High school just before the pa- per went to the press, we willnave a more informative story in next weeks issue. ENEMIES OF THE POLITICS OF THE PEOPLE GANG BANGERS There exists on the lower North side in the Cabrini Green Pro- jects a group of gang bangers who call themselyés Cobra Stoners. These reactionary orienated ghet- to pigs have been terrorizing this highly concentrated Black area for the last year and a half. Their control, which does not control, is centered on the southside under the name of the Black ‘‘P” Stone Nation, Those who are mem- bers of the Cobar Stones aver- age ages, 14-20 years old. They have no older brothers to look up to because the older brothers are either in the war, married, dead, or have been sacked out of position for narcotics. So they have formed themselves into gangs and groups, such as Cobar Stones, the Black Assassins, Duces Wild, Corp, and Black Pipers, Of these gangs and groups the Cobar Stones have proved to be the fools, The rest are formed as defense units which is com- mon to an area as Cabrini Green. Protection of the community against outside forces such as the Cobar Stones has been recorded history. But now the situation, as we in the community see it, has moved to another level of insanity because the communnity is now de- manding a stop the indiscrim- inate shootings, rapes, robber- ies, and extortion practices by these same Cobar Stones, The criterion for such just de- mands may be _ explained by analyzing some of the vicious acts against the community, primarily by the Cobar Stones who are a branch of the Chicago Police De- partment, Most recent is the June 8th shotgunning of five sisters who were standing on West Division Street in front of a store located centrally on the northside of that street. At 9:20 pm the so-called mighty Cobar Stones shot at these pre-teen sisters from across the ject. Four Cobar Stones were in- volved, and names for the mo- ment are unknown. They shotfrom this building with a shotgun, and then came downstairs to a play- ground still on the opposite side of the street, to shoot once more. The injuries inflicted on these small sisters may cause one her DHARUBA In the New York 21 frameup, the clear line and purpose of the city administration is to remove any opposition to the present lo- cal regime under pig ‘‘liberal’’ Mayor Lindsey. The tools and instruments of legal fascism; the courts embodi- ed in the racist Judge John Mur- tagh.and the leag] machinery ofthe fascist repressive body repre- sented by the State prosecution under D.A, Hogan, have sought in the 17 hearing to. alienate any far reaching and vocal sup- port for the Black Panther Party and the issue of the New York 21 in New York by lying, and paint- ing as_ evil as possible the N.Y 21 and the aims and goals of Black people manifested in their Party. The fascist state has gone to all lengths in New York as elsewhere to institute American fascism. But the pigs of New York would desire to do it un- der the guise of Liberal reform. behind which Lindsey fronts off liberalism while the fascists run amuck, and practice fascism, In the recent pretrial hearings of the 21, the state attempted to do this by accusing the Black Panther Party in New York of planning to murder anadministra- SET THE NEW YORK 21 FREE vision in one eye. The others were hit also about the face and throat by the pellets unleashed by these uninformed pig lackeys. All this went down with no Chicago pig intervention. In fact, some of the Cobar Stones are known pig in- formers. After, this gangsteristic madness went down these fools ran into the building. The same building in which these young sisters live and the same building that is slowly or should I say rapidly becoming a ghost project because of intimi- dation perpetrated by this gang, This community has now formed many coalitions geared com- mittees to help collectively op- pose this group of egotistic mongrels whose mentality is re- inforced and degenerated by the use of such chemicals as__Robitussan AC, Bops (Downars, Trangs, Pills), and in unjust harmony with each other. These proven and sworn enemies of the people will stop only when members of the community begin to recognize that the pigs and these mercenary megalomanics are one inthe same. That the gangs received and re- ceive government grants based on how much violence they can do in the project against the brothers and sisters, With that we see how the pigs along with members of the Penta- gon do in fact operate, We see that they will employ those whom Malcolm called house niggers to do the job of those fascists, who are like the head of the Costra Nostra regime--they give the or- ders and are not there when it comes down. But later come into the community after they have un- leashed their highly trained mad dog gang bangers upon the people and cry ‘‘We can’t get a lead on who did it.’ The community is now saying that the pigs and their lackeys will soon know what a communal manifestation of power is really all about. DEATH TO THE PIGS BLACK PANTHER PARTY Chicago Chapter Gary “* a’”’ Donnigan tion ‘*negro’’? Ted Gross, and of conspiring with the iocal Com- munity Board in Ocean Hill Brownsville to murder the per- petrator of the long reactionary teachers strike, Albert Shanker. Anyone who is familiar with the typical pig tactics could see that the scheme the pigs accused the Black Panther Party of, is in fact aimed towards alienating the so called responsible ‘‘Negro’’ sup- port of the New York 21 case, by implying that no niggers are safe who enjoy any relationship to the Black Panther Party. On the other hand, Albert Shanker who is the head of the racist reactionary U.F.T. in New York (United Fed- eration of Teachers) has been in direct opposition to the desires and needs ofthe Black community. His actions during the teachers strike proves that his main in- terest is that of the Zionists who pawn themselves off as American fascist. It could be said that the pur- pose of the Shanker Hoax was to place in the same bag all pro- gressive elements in the Black community. (Who have in the past” opposed the reactionary unions, or City Hall) inspiring some sort of reactionary response by those who have been confused an un- informed. The pigs efforts to do so, how- ever were the total failure. For a number of reasons, the least of which being their total inca- pability of dealing with their own informer who is alledged to have 1 would like to come into your home, just for a few hours and run down some things that you should be up on. At this late date I'm quite sure most of the peo- ple are acutely aware of the fact that the racist dog pig police- men are occupying our commu- nities in the same preventive way that they did during the slavery revolts of our forefathers. But knowing this fact is not enough, we've got to understand that they are also organizing counter- revolutionary groups whose main objective is to get a grant from some jive crazy country preacher. If our communities are going to be breeding grounds for increas- ing the livelihood of our youth then we are going to have to create an atmosphere conducive for just that purpose. You dig it! That means that we’ve got to really check our position as far as understanding .who the enemy is and-how we MUST deal with him, We've got to stop just deal- ing with the racist dog pig alone and dig in on the groups they have organized so well to murder and maim Black people. The pigs are organizing groups all over thecity and giving them the freedom to kill Black people so that their jobs will be that much easier. But this won’t work because the Black Pan- ther Party is hipped to it and we're going to run it down to the people, and let the people make the move to rid ourselves; of this genocidal plot to halt the revolu- tionary fervor in the Black colony. The Black Panther Party says, “Death to the pig oppressor and all of their lackeys.’’ Can you dig itl BLACK PANTHER PARTY Chicago Chapter Billy ‘‘Che’”’ Brooks gave them this information in the first place, He (Sean Dubonnet) refuted all truth to the pigs smear and fear campaign, This he did on the stand while a patient in Central Mental Hospital after being placed there by the pigs in Brooklyn, The case of the New York 21 has more and fundamental con- tradictions surrounding it. It is now a question of will there be a continuation of the legal fascism or will those who re- cognize the law to be the will of the racist ruling class made into a law for all move against those who implement this op- pressive will upon the people, The issue before Black peo- Ple today within Babylon as well as abroad is one of survival. Black people here in Babylon are faced with the most racist and ruthless system of exploi- tation one can imagine. So the crucial contradiction, the main point that stands out in the rela - tionship to the national survival of not only Black people, but all people who seek their liberation, is the contradiction of Prisoners of war To free all political prisoners free the N.Y. 21, Bobby Seale. New Haven 9, is to make 4 statement in direct opposition to the fascist capitallist state. To move around this contradiction and create certain conditions that will free the N.Y. 21 and all poli- tical prisoners in Babylon, is to move on the immediate situation confronting us; for the freeing of political prisoners, war is the freeing of ourselves. The N.Y. 21 must be set free or the pigs oink will become the language of mankind, and there will. be no warriors who will stand between the people and the pigs to insure our liberation. The guns of the oppressed are the tools that insure their sur- vival, and those who came to see about our survival deserve more than just words, They deserve the insurance of the people. Because only the people are possible to free the NY. 21 and all poli- tical prisoners, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE FREE THE NY, 21 Dharuba Harlem Branch Black Panther Party “Each and every one of us will pay on demand his part of the Sacréfece knowing that all together we are getting ever closer to the New Mate whose figure ts beginning to appear. Revolution means death, the death of the old and the birth of the new. And those who make revolution live with death grieving out of their dreams, But inspired by noble ideas they shoot past death to the dark insurgent stars of revolution, The revolutionist surrenders his claim he® E~ Melvin X was a member of a non- student revolutionary organization the Black Students Alliance - that is working daily in the interests of Black and all oppressed people. He was a nigger who loved his people and proved that with his life. He was MELVIN X to old age in the name of humanity, The revolutionist | found shot to death by an unknown — omens understands the mathematics of populations, He is but |****°si"S Pullet on June 6, 1970. eat one man, given a brief shot in history, within which to |Melvin x was a revolutionary inthe JUNE 6, 1970 finest sense. Melvin X is the un- known soldier of the New World - one of thousands who have died and will die unknown - bringing forth thousands more to make that world. perform a gigantic task of redemption, His hands dripping with blood, his forehead with sweat and his heart sounding with love, There are no areas of grey, it is victory or death--a revolutionist cannot fail, He wins or he dies, He shoots past death, In dying he gives his all and inspires those who love him to greater effort and greater deeds, Brother Melvin X is dead, Melvin is--we refuse to speak as was--a revolutionist IS, And will always BE, Brother Melvin IS a very bright young man, He could have chosen and of the paths open to an educated so-called ‘‘negro”’ who chooses to chase the glitter of bourgeoisie niggerism, Instead he chose to take the path upon which his footsteps beat out the pulse of history, He became a man of the ages. Melvin dedicated himself to the liberation of his people, His body has been destroyed by those who stand opposed to the things that Melvin X stands for, For there are no bullets that can destroy the soul of revolution; no guns to still the cry of soldiers like Melvin, We see him smiling at freedom from the tops of mountains, in the morning sunrise, on the toxic notes of the birds that sing of freedom’s flight, Melvin is a revolutionist, an eternal being in our hearts, We love him and the cause for which he fought, We shall conquer, Melvin sought to bring the principles of brotherhood and communal living into reality before the revolution, so that those around him would have a constant, concrete reminder of the beauty that their lives were dedicated to. They could see clearly that t6ey were fighting for a new order, Melvin led the way. Melvin said, ‘‘With the inception of the commune, we will be better able to serve the people, We will no longer have to ask or survey to determine problem areas. We will live with the people and their problems will be our own,”’ To set an example for the people, Melvin believes we should not tell, we should show, This brother has said, ‘“‘We must promise a living example of the principles which we are attempting to instill in the people of the world,’”’ The murderers of Brother Meivin must stand warned of our determination to continue to struggle for what we and Brother Melvin believe in, Melvin is a complete product of the Black experience, He loved his people, And fought for them, He resisted on the high school level as a teenager. He resisted in the streets and on the college campuses, He could talk with the brothers on the street corners and in the pool halls, Melvin couldsmile his way into the hearts of preachers and laugh his way across troubled seas, He was and is a beautiful brother, We hate to mar his memory with what some would call profanity, Melvin knew no profanity; he made all language beautiful, He once wrote a poem called ‘‘Motha F---a Ain’t No Bad Word’’, It was beautiful. We know what he meant because his was a living philosophy. Pigs, racists, capitalists, murdered Melvin, Who pulled the trigger? Was it niggers who refused to listen or just stupid pigs or pork chop nationalists who saw the awesome threat that this brother’s determination posed, We promise the world we will not rest until the death of Brother Melvin is avenged, Melvin is not dead, Those fools could not kill him, We still hear his view of the death of a revolutionist: ‘‘We often say, ‘I will give my life for the revolution,’, when what we mean is, ‘I will give my death to the revolution,’ This statement is bold, awe-inspiring and brave, But... it is an incorrect attitude, It is not our death which gives our existence value, NO! It is our LIFE, When we give our total daily existence to the revolution, when we give all our energy and fervor to our belief, THEN and ONLY then can we consider ourselves as revolutionaries, NOT with our last dying breath, but with every breath we take,”’ Right on Melvin, What you believe in shall be reality or we shall join you, Brother Melvin never stood before the microphones of the world or had his picture taken by crowds of newsmen, He struggled quietly and asked for no crown to be placed upon his head, He asked for no eternal flame to burn at the base of his tombstone, no marker to point out his grave, Melvin is one of the millions who have died for humanity, seeking not glory but the fulfillment of a sacred purpose, One question should be in our hearts, “What would Brother Melvin bid us do if he could speak at his own funeral?’’, Black Students Alliance Los Angeles, California January 7, 1970 OPEN LETTER TO THE LEGITIMATE WORLD Icome before you not as a peer, but as one whose interest diametrically op- ‘poses that of the State. In opposing the State I must oppose all remnants of bour - geois morality, ethics, standards and codes. In essence, I oppose all vestiges of your legitimate existence. You thrive upon the suffering of the masses while proclaiming yourself a revolutionary. You advocate things for the people to do that you, yourself, would not dare to do. You advance the arguments that we- should do away with the privileged class while you, yourself, enjoy all these priv- ileges; from your 2-S Deferrment to your Educational Opportunity Car that poverty paid for. I speak of you, Bourgeois Patrician, who not only are hypocrites, but are cow- ards as well. You cling to the old world because you are not quite sure you should accept the new. You adhere to all of the old conventions set by your Master from marriages to museums. How do you justify your contempt for the people? Every discreet stateuses all sorts of means to preserve exploitation by the State. In your particular circum- stances you are the tool. Knowledge is power. Ignorance is the; cause of social impotence. The situation would not be so badifallsankto the same From Melvin X level of ignorance. If that was the case intelligence would not be the stronger. But in view of the advancing education of the dominant classes, the natural vigor of the peoples mind loses its significance. *‘Our educational policy must enable everyone who receives an education to develop morally, intellectually and physically and become a worker with both socialist consciousness and culture.” -Ma0 What is mental labor ifnot mental capital- the sum of the mental\ labor of all past generations, just as im the State the people are doomed to ignorance so the ruling classes are bound, by their position in the State to advance the cause of the State civil- ization, Because of your ties with the legitimate world you are boundinexorably to advance that class position. You are the neo-colonialist administratior of the present and future, serving your interest with loyalty of purpose, Everytime there is a strike your position is jeopardized. Vacillating like the liberals of the periods of abolition, Opposing not class society but just certain conditions that seem to be prevalent within it. CONT, ON PAGE 23 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 8 CONSPIRACY TO MURDER.. A TOOL OF REPRESSION Reprinted From Counter Attack One year after the arrests of 14 men and women, including Chair- man Bobby Seale, Black Panther Party, alleged to have been in- volved in a conspiracy to murder Alex Rackley, many people are still uncertain about how to deal with the ‘‘Facts’’ in the case. Because the body of Alex Rackley was found, how can it be considered a polit- ical trial, an example of political repression, they ask? But the facts of the case, specifically the vio- lation of every constitutional and human right the defendants are supposed to have, not only demon- strate the trial of what is now the New Haven Nine asa political trial, but also strongly indicate, even from a legal point of view, that the charges should be dropped. This is why we must keep build- ing support in all communities for this goal. No business as usual until the New Haven Nine are freed! The facts of the case of the New Haven Panthers can be woven to- gether under six or seven headings: (1) arrests and arraignments (2) indictments (3) prejudicial pub- licity (4) conditions of detention and the pressures on Warren Kim- bro and Lonnie McLucas (5) bail hearings and the case of Frances Carter (6) contempt sentences of Hilliard and Douglas and (7) con- clusions, LONNIE MCLUCAS POLITICAL PRISONER They shduld be seen against a background of events which include a series of FBl-inspired raids on Panther headquarters in all parts of the country and murders of Black Panther Party members by police or police agents. ()) Arrests and Arraignments, In the early hours of the morning of May 22, 1969, eight people were arrested without warrants at Pan- ther headquarters in New Haven, A heavily armed squad of police ran- sacked the office and seized per- sonal items as well as money collected for the breakfast pro- gram. The police also claimed to have seized from the office tape recordings of a ‘‘kangaroo’’ trial of Alex ‘Rackley by Black Panther Party members. Warren Kimbro, Ericka Hug- gins, Francis Carter, George Ed- wards, Margaret Hudgins, Rose Smith and two juveniles Maude Francis and Jeanne Wilson were extensively questioned without their attorneys present, a clear violation of their constitutional rights. They were arraigned inCir- cuit Court the next morning and their case was continued at the request of the prosecution ‘‘so that bench warrants could issue from the State Attorney's office,’ Bail was denied since the police charged that the arrests were made in connection with a murder, On May 28 Loretta Luckes was arrested in Bridgeport. She had been associated with the New Haven Panther Chapter for only a week and was not well known by the other defendants. The next day she and the six adults originally ar- rested were again ‘‘arrested’’ on a Superior Court bench warrant taking them out of Circuit Court custody. The findings of the Sup- erior Court on the issue of pro- bable cause for a bench warrant were based solely on an affidavit concerning an informer’s state- ment by Sgt. Nick Pastore of the Intelligence Division of the New Haven Police Department. They were again arraigned (told of the charges against them) and re-com- mitted without bail. Superior Court bench warrants were issued for four other people who had not yet been found, The two juveniles were held as material witnesses under $10,000 bond each. (After one testi- fied for the state in pre-trial hear- ings, the material witnesses were miraculously spirited from jail and sent out of the state, without noti- fying the defense attorneys. During the months of June and July the FBI and/or local police made at least seven raids on Pan- ther headquarters around the coun- try, twice raiding the Chicago office. Some of the raids were **justified on the grounds that the police were hunting for fugitives for whom warrants had been issued from the Superior Court in New Haven.’’ Ostensibly looking for George Sams, wanted for murder, the FBI cordoned off the street in front of the Illinois Chapter headquarters in Chicago, raided the office, and arrested the Pan- thers for ‘harboring a fugitive.’’ They also confiscated money, lists of donors, and literature, none of which was returned. Since no fugitive was found the charges against the Panthers were dropped. On June 5, police raided Black Panther Party headquarters in Denver and arrested ten people, Landon Williams and Rory Hithe were held on federal warrants charging flight to avoid prosecution in New Haven. The other eight were released eventually with no charges filed, Subsequently Wil- liams and Hithe were charged by the New Haven Grand Jury as were the others originally arrested in New Haven. They are still in Denver fighting extradition to New Haven. Lonnie McLucas wasarrestedin June in conjunction with the New Haven case after a raid on the Salc Lake City Panther headquar- ters, He waived extradition pro- ceedings and was transferred to prison in Connecticut. On June 4, the police raided the Detroit headquarters, arresting members of the Black Panther Party and later dropping the charg- es. On June 6 in Sacramento the police used tear gas to raid the Black Panther Party headquarters in ‘‘search for an alleged sniper."’ No sniper was found but in the process the office and its con- tents were destroyed. On July 31, the police again raided the Black Panther Party headquarters in Chicago destroying medical sup- plies and food for the breakfast program, finally setting fire to the contents of the office. Three Panthers were arrested ‘‘for at- tempted murder, aggravated as- sault, and resisting arrest,’’ After a summer of raids, false arrests, trumped-up charges, il- legal detention excessive bail, and barbaric treatment all directed against the Black Panther Party, the Justice Department righteously declared that there wasno national conspiracy to destroy the Black Panther Party. But the facts are there and they speak for them- selves. RORY HITHE POLITICAL PRISONER In August the ‘‘fugitive’’ George Sams was finally apprehended in Toronto, He immediately swore out an affadavit implicating Bobby Seale in the murder of Alex Rack- ley, and subsequently pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of second degree murder (which gen- erally means murder without pre- meditation), George Sams isa pol- ice agent, according to the Black LANDON WILLIAMS POLITICAL PRISONER Panther Party and all the avail- able evidence, who engineered the murder of Alex Rackley as part of a conspiracy to destroy the Black Panther Party andits leader- ship, George Sams has a record of mental instability. Judge Mul- vey recently granted the defense’s motion that Sams be subjected to a psychiatric examination, It is primarily on this man’s testimony that the state is basing its case. Bobby Seale was then arrested in Berkeley and charged with un- lawful flight to avoid prosecution, although he had been working openly as usual in Oakland through- out the summer, He was clearly not in flight at the time of his arrest, Later a warrant for mur- der was issued from the New Haven Superior Court for Bobby Seale on the basis of Sams’ statement that Seale ordered the murder of Alex Rackley while he was in New Haven for a few hours fulfilling a speak- ing engagement at Yale University, (2) Indictments: No preliminary hearing was ever held inthis case. The state chose to indict by means of a grand jury instead. Grand juries meet in secret, can compel testimony from a witness in the absence of his attorney and deny cross-examination and discovery of state’s evidence available at a preliminary hearing. Using all these grounds the defense moved to dismiss the indictments but the motions have been denied. In ad- dition Connecticut Iaw does not require that Grand Jury tran- scripts be made so there is no record of those hearings, Grand juries are not selected randomly but are chosen from the upper strata of society. In most Places, judges recommend the names of grand jurors: in New Haven County the Sheriff selects the grand juries, This is an in- credible situation since the Sheriff is also the same man who is re- sponsible for the custody of prison- ers, During the bail hearing held for Bobby Seale in April, attorney Charles Garry questioned Sheriff Slavin on his selection of the Grand Jury which indicted the New Haven Panthers, The Sheriff revealed that he picked the Grand Jury from his friends and neighbors, some of whom have served repeatedly on the Sherriff's Grand Juries, He testified that he selected his bar- ber and his barber’s landlord. He also testified that he pickeda friend he saw in the hall outside the Grand Jury room when it was discovered that there weren't enough Grand Jurors. To top it all, the sheriff had not even checked to see if his selections were all registered voters, the one requirement for Grand Jury service. When asked why he hadn’t checked, he said that he just assumed they were registered since he knew most of them, The average age of the Grand Jurors was well over sixty. The attorneys have filed motions for dismissal of charges against the defendants on grounds that the Grand Jury was illegally con- stituted and was not a jury of the defendants’s peers, This group of old racist men brought down the indictments on the young members of the Black Panther Party on June 23, 1969: (a) George Sams, Warren Kimbro Lonnie MeLucas, and Bobby Seale POLITICAL PRISONER Were charged with murder, kidnap- Ping, conspiracy, and binding with criminal intent. Murder and kid- napping are crimes punishable by death in the electric chair in Conn- ecticut. (b) Ericka Huggins, Frances Carter, George Edwards Margaret Hudgins, Rose Smith, Landon Wil- liams, Rory Hithe, and Loretta Luckes were charged with acces-~ sory to murder kidnapping, cong gt BLACK PANTHER PARTY spiracy and binding with criminal! intent. Accessory to murder is also a capital offense. Not long after Loretta Luckes was arrested, it b€came clear that she would plead guilty to a lesser offense, which she subsequently did, This was no surprise, as she had not worked. closely with the other defendants who were members of the chapter. POLITICAL PRISONER OF U.S.A, FASCISM A tool which police and prosecut- ors use against the Black Panther Party as an organization is the conspiracy charge. This charge GEORGE EDWARDS POLITICAL PRISONER allows prosecutors tonamea large number of defendants, implicated almost solely by their member- ship in the group. Defendants can be convicted even though no actual crime was committed, For ex- ample, 21 Black Panther Party members in New York were ar- rested and charged with plotting to blow up the Penn Central Station, downtown department sores, andthe Bronx Botanical Gardens, None of the crimes which the 21 are charged wth conspiring to commit was ever committed, The evidence presented in such cases is usually exclusively the statements of in- formers or undercover agents as to what was allegedly said by the defendants. This was the nature of ERICKA HUGGINS the ‘‘evidence’’ presented by the government in the recent Chicago Conspiracy trial. Conspiracy charges also fit nicely with another tool commonly = used by prosecutors called ‘‘over- charging’, where every con- ceivable charge is slapped.on the defendants in hopes that at least a few will stick. A prominent New Haven criminal lawyer recently told a college audience that he re- gretted the overcharging in this case, but that “‘it happens all the time’’, and he knew the state’s attorney ‘‘didn’t want a death pen- alty for the girls,’’ He added that it was the prosecutor's way of insuring that he got a conviction of some of the defendants for some of the counts in the indictment If the defense attorneys won't re- spond to overcharging and make **deals’’, then the prosecutor re- lies on the jury coming up with a ‘*compromise’’ verdict, (Here the prosecutor relies on a juror thinking: ‘‘The state wouldn’t have charged all those people with all those horrible crimes if somebody hadn’t been guilty of something ’’ Justice and the ‘‘rule of law’’ have little to do with the American judi- cial system in reality: mostly it’s Prosecutors, criminal lawyers (specifically not the ones who are representing the New Haven 9 in this political trial), and judges bartering back and forth with years of people’ s lives. (3) Prejudicial publicity. Local publicity concerning the murder charges and the Black Panther Party has been so biased, sen- sational, and simply untruthful that it would be impossible to find jurors who have not been hope- lessly prejudiced against the de- fendants. On May 22, 1969, the New Haven Register announced the first arrests with a large banner head- line and eight police mug shots of men and women charged. This and subsequent stories contained re- peated descriptions of the ‘body of a man, burned and mutilated’’ and detailed accounts of a torture which is said by the police to have taken place. These allegations have been treated by the newspaper as established facts, although no body has yet been produced by police and no coroner’s onquest has been held. In addition) stories in the Register contained many referen- ces to evidence the police claim to have ,Seized-particularly to a tape recording of what the papers insisted on calling a ‘‘kangaroo’’ trial of Rackley. Such public dis- cussion of alleged evidence by police and prosecutors is not only unprincipled, it is illegal: it amounts to a newspaper trial of the accused with testimony only from thé prosecution. Recently in New Haven, Superior Court Judge Mulvey, who is the judge in the Panther trial, agreed to drop criminal charges against a defen- dant because of one prejudicial art- icle in the Register. CONT, ON PAGE 9 MESSAGE T0 THE BLACK COMMUNITY After 400 years of oppression, lynchings (legal, through the racist courts, and illegal), social degradations, economic exploita- tion and police brutality, the ra~ cist Gestapo forces still occupy our community like a foreign troop occupies territory. At approximately 12:30 a,m., Saturday morning, May 30th, the fascist pigs of the Cleveland Pig Department intensified their fas- cist practices by a massive show of harassment against the padoc- ‘cupied by members of the Ohio Chapter of the National Com- mittee to Combat Fascism OCNCCF which is a political and social organizing bureau of the Black Panther Party. Two brothers who are members of the Ohio NCCF had gotten out of a station wagon on the corner of East 79th and Rawlings when pig car #413, in true fascist prac- tice, stopped the driver andthrew him against the car, When the pigs focused their spotlight inside the NCCF apartment, the brothers in the NCCF moved on upstairs to the pad, Within a few minutes, three more carloads of fascist storm troopers from the Cleve- land Pig Department moved on the scene armed to the teeth with all of the tools of oppression--shot- guns, carbines, 357’s, tear gas, etc.--and lined the street facing the NCCF pad. NOTE: Point #7 of the Black Panther Party Platform and Pro- gram states: “We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MUR- DER of Black people.”’ The bumbling pigs were obvi- ously victims of their own stupid errors, First of all they had no warrant whatsoever, The Fourth Amendment to the jive Constitu- tion guards against unreasonable searches without the issuance of a warrant, so the pigs had to let the driver of the car go, However, they continued to menace the NCCF pad, trying to provoke the incident. Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, teaches us that ‘‘The spirit of the people is greater than the man’s technologyl’’ One of the brothers in the NCCF, remem- bering the lessons learned during the attacks on the Black Panther Party in L.A, and Chicago, mobi- lized the lumpens on the block. Going into the bars, the brother moved the people into the streets. The people responded to the pigs’ open intimidation of the NCCF pad VICTIM OF THE FASCIST On or about the day of Dg¢cem- ber, 3, 1969, in the fair city of Vallejo, state of repression, racism and fascism, a Black man by the name of Milton Earl came face to face with a .38 Service Revolver in the hands of pig Bert Gartér backed by several jeering angry racists. Milton was collared by this pig and accused of shoplifting. As a result of a scuffle, pig Carter was slung to the asphalt and Mil- ton Earl found himself faced with Carter’s Service Revolver. As the result of that moment of despera- tion a pig lay bleeding profusely with three slugs lodged in his brain. But all was not over for Milton by demanding that the pigs ‘‘get out of the Black community.” One fat pig slobbered that he would shoot one of the bystanders if he didn’t move on; however, after about a hundred angry bro- thers and sisters came out of the bars, houses and cars onto the Streets, the pigs nad to act ina desired manner, The PEOPLE in the East 79th and Rawlings area made some racist pigs act in a desired manner, Fearing the wrath. of the people, these low- lifed cowards split the scene, The Pigs left because they knew that the NCCF had been organizing the people in the community and polit- ically educating the community to the lying politicians and their run- ning dogs, the faggoted, cowardly swines that patrol our commu- nities 24 hours a day. The pigs were so enraged at this victory by the PEOPLE that after withdrawing to side streets in the area, they sent a lone car to harass the brothers and sisters who were still standing on the street corners, These trigger happy, hired murderers wanted to provoke an incident so they could return with guns blazing. To prevent this massacre of the people, the brothers hipped the people that fifteen pig cars were laying back on the side streets, waiting to swoop downonthe area, The fascist pigs are out to destroy the Black Panther Party first and Black people in general NEXT, ‘‘An attack against one is an attack against all.’’ Huey P. Newton says, ‘‘The racist, dog policeman must withdraw imme- digtely from our communities, ce their wanton brutality, murder and torture of Black peo- ple, or face the wrath of the armed people.’’ The Second Amendment to the Constitution gives us the right to bear arms (i.e. own guns), We have been lynched, beaten, murdered and dragged from our homes for over 400 years. It is time for Black people to put an end to this mad- ness! Huey P, Newton says, ‘‘Fas- cism ends at the threshhold of your doorstep,’’ so get your pieces--shotguns and handguns are weapons you can have legally in your homes--and protect what is yours, The lives and safety of our families and the privacy of our homes are all Black peo- ple really haye, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Ohio NCCF CONT, FROM PAGE 8 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 9 CONSPIRACY TO MURDER: A TOOL OF REPRESSION identify this alleged crime as the political crime of a hated political group. They alsoreport this case’s ‘‘direct relation’ to the New York 21 case (according to the police story, Rackley is one of the in- formers in the New York case) and statements about ERICKA Hug- gins’ ‘‘high ranking’’ in the party are also ways in which the paper encourages belief that this alleged murder is part of a wide-ranging political conspiracy. (4) Conditions of detention, The New Haven Nine have filed a motion relief as to the conditions of their pre-trial detention, because ‘‘the conditions of their confinement make it impossible for them pro- perly to prepare and present their defense to the charges for which they are held to answer, and are thus inconsistent with and violate their rights to a fair trial, to due process of law, to the assistance of counsel, to equal protection of the law, among others.’’ To tran- slate the cold, dry legal termin- ology: The conditions of detention are abominable. The defendants are denied reading material of their choice, their letters are cen- sored, the number of visitors they can have is severely restricted, The authorities are also refusing to allow the press into the prison where Bobby Seale is incarcerated. The state and the FBI have been allowed to visit freely, without the defendants or their attorney's con- sent. In almost one year of im- prisonment, the defendants have only met together twice, for each meeting the defense attorneys have had to present a separate/argu- ment to the judge. Lonnie McLucas has been kept isolated from all other prisoners at Litchfield, and has been under continual pressure to plead guilty. His cell is a small box and the only visits he receives are from the authorities and his attorney. But he has not broken or capitu- lated or made any deals that would reduce the burden he must carry before the trial begins. Now the state is threatening to try him separately, before it brings the other defendants to trial, The de- fense will oppose this. This threat is designed to exert additional pressure on him, A month after the arrests War- ren Kimbro pleaded not guilty to the charges in the indictment. Six months later he changed his plea to guilty of second degree murder, This was after he was visited in his cell by his brother, a police sergeant from Florida anda mem- ber of the New Haven Police De- partment. The state’s attorney paid the travel expenses of Kimbro’s brother to come up here and per- suade him to change his plea. Kim- bor’s lawyer did not know about this visit until after it had oc- curred, ‘ The state does not need to have a case if it can terrify each of the men charged with murder into pleading guilty to a lesser offense; its technique is to keep the pri- soners separated and tell them that some are turning against the others. Our sisters, Frances Carter, Ericka Huggins, Rose Smith, and Peggy Hudgins, are subjected to continual harassment and degrad- ation in prison. Their personal diaries have been seized by the MILTON EARL: Earl, as he was attacked by an angry mob of White racists with hatchets,-bats, and meat cleavers. After escaping certain death at the hands of these mad dog clan- destine killers, he was abducted by the “‘serve and protect’’ pigs of the Vallejo Pig Department, As a consequence Earl was to face yet another ‘‘nigger killer’, ‘the racist fascistic American ju- ‘dicial, the number one weapon ‘for dealing out of legal genocide upon Black and oppressed people in Babylon. . It comes as no surprise that the nearly all White jury (11 and 1) found Milton Earl guilty as charged, for defending his life, stemming from the shooting and killing of a White man and that this man was a pig cop com- pounded the guilt in the eyes of eleven White racists and the crazy nigger jury. Well, two weeks ago, Milton was sentenced to death by the gas chamber after a five day rail- roading (trial) with Superior Court Judge Raymond J. Sherwin upholding the death verdict handed down by the pig picked jury. Along with this, Earl was also slapped with two first degree burglary counts and one of kidnapping as the pig D.A, attempted and suc- cessfully ‘‘threw in everything but the kitchen sink’’, Yes, this is legalized murder by a contemptuous mad dog prison authorities. Two of them were pregnant when arrested and were forced to give birth to their babies without their families pre- sent, Frances Carter was preven- ted from keeping her baby with her in prison for the first weeks as is customary in the Connecti- FRANCES CARTER POLITICAL PRISONER cut penal system. The only con-° ceivable reason she was treated differently from other prisoners is that she is a member of the Black Panther Party. (5) Bail Hearings and Frances Carter. Some attorneys for the defendants insisted on bail hear- ings for their clients. The state was required to show it had enough evidence of guilt to indicate that the defendants should be kept in prison without bail. The judge ruled that the state’s evidence against Frances Carter was in- sufficient, so she was granted bail. Once out of jail Frances spent 24 hours with her child be- fore she was subpoenaed by state’s attorney Arnold Markle to testify in the hearings against her bro- thers and sisters. He granted her immunity, but when she refused she was sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of court. It was only on April 17, that the charges were nulled (dropped) by the prosecutor. Now the U.S. Dis- trict Court is finally consider- ing granting appeal bond to Frances for the contempt sentence, but she has already served five of the six months. That is the kind of justice meted out to Black people. The- oretically Markle can call her back again and again, grant her im- munity from prosecution, and ask her to testify. When she refuses, the court will find her in contempt. PEGGY HUDGINS POLITICAL PRISONER (6) The contempt sentences of David Hilliard and Emory Douglas. The blatant repressive power of the. court was most clearly de- monstrated when David Hilliard, Chief of Staff, Black Panther Party, and Emory Douglas, Minister of Culture were ripped off in the courtroom and sentenced to six months for contempt. Hilliard’s ‘crime’ was to read a letter that JUDICIAL cowardly pack of racists upon a Black man who was forced to de- fend his life. But 19 year-old Milton Earl knew that for him justice started and ended that day he was faced with defending his life. That from then on his chances of continued existence, of even getting rudi- mentary justice from pig courts backed by his shag nasty, lying, turn coat public, ‘‘get sometime”’ defender, was out of the question. He understood clearly as he stood before the court, the judge, the jury and the prosecution, shackled in nickel plated slave chains, that for us, justice can’t be dealt out through negotiation or deliberation with pigs, That the had been handed to him by Charles Garry. Douglas’ ‘‘crime’’ was to rise up and come to Hilliard’s aid, when he was grabbed by State Police, After this happened even Kingman Brewster, Yale’s presi- dent, said he was ‘‘sceptical’’ about the chance of a fair trial in Amer- ica for Black revolutionaires. Hilliard and Douglas spent six days in jail before the court agreed to accept their ‘‘apologies.’’ Why did the court reverse itself like this? Not because of any alleged apologies, but because powerful forces in this community realized, when they saw the groundswell of protest around those contempt sentences, that the court had gone too far. It had revealed itself to be a political institution just like other institutions in our society, with one set of laws for a few people, but a repressive fist for most people. By reversing itself, the court even more clearly de- monstrated that it is responsiveto political pressures, For all of these reasons-the ar- rests, the illegally chosen Grand Jury, the prejudicial publicity which has attempted to convict these defendants before they are brought to trial, the conditions of ROSE SMITH POLITICAL PRISONER detention, but especially the fact that this trial is clearly part of a nationwide campaign to destroy the Black Panther Party by ‘‘legal’’ and extralegal methods-remember Fred Hampton and Mark Clark- one can only conclude that this trial is an attempt to railroad eight New Haven Panthers and Bobby Seale to the electric chair or to prison for the rest of their young revo- lutionary lives. ; ‘ April 30, 1970, on the eve of the Mayday rally, the FBland local police began to pick up ‘‘suspects’’ in the Baltimore chapter of the Black Panther Party for a year- old murder. The victim was said to be a member of the Black Panther Party and/or an informer, After one year without a lead in this case, the FBI began planning the ‘secret raids’’ which were made on peoples’ homes and even on the Children’s Breakfast Pro- gram. These attacks on the Black Panther Party fit into a pattern: when the chapter begins to relate to the community, then the power structure busts up the Chapter. Political trials can only be stop- ped by an intensive political strug- gle, by developing a strong move- ment of total opposition to this blatant repression. Mayday was the beginning of this struggle, but we peve only begun to fight. New Haven Panther Defense Com- jmittee fjury’s pew, the judge, the whole American way\has always illus- trated to us ‘‘them that got shall .get, them that’s not"Shall lose.”’ And in the final analysis, jus- ‘tice depends solely upon the level of our resistance and that the less we resist the less justice we shall have. Therefore, we must understand, them thatresist shall get, them that don’t shall lose, Mileon Earl is a shining exam- ple of resistance, and his life now depends upon the example -that he has set for his people, FREE MILTON EARL ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Jymbo THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 10 Introduction LO.. “WE CHARGE GENO- CLD E, ATE CRIME. GR GOVERNMENT AGAINST BEL NEGKO-PEOP ig This historic Petition was first presented to the world in 1951. Addressed to the United Nations, it was submitted to that body by me in Paris, France, atthe Palais Chaillott where the Fifth Session of the General Assembly had ga- thered, Simultaneously, a delega- tion led by Paul Robeson pre- by Willia sented copies to the office of the Secretary General of the U.N, in New York, We had two aims; First, to expose the nature and depth of racism in the U,S.A., and second, to arouse the moral conscience of progressive man- kind against it. The Petition called upon the U.N, to take notice of the fact that a savage racist policy, rooted in a competitive economic system, determined the attitude and reac- tion of all branches of the City, State and Federal Governments in the United States in their rela- tions with Black nationals, and to propose remedial measures. The Petition declared that ra- cism in the U.S.A, constituted a flagrant violation of the U.N, Charter, its Universal Declara- tion of Human Rights and, most specifically, its Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, The racist crimes against Black citizenry were in violation of the most vital canons of International Law. If permitted to continue through the inaction of_ other nations, those crimes would reduce the Charter to a bad joke to be mocked by every bigot and racist in this land, Ra- cism was a threat to the nation’s morality, its integrity, its very life and to world peace. The indictment against these crimes having been drafted, it was necessary with scrupulous care to adduce concrete evidence of the vicious and intolerable ra- cist practices on which the Peti- tion was based. That was thoroughly done. A Summary aud Prayer for Relief outlining speci- fic remedial steps followed. Profound changes have taken place in the world since 1951. But the racist attitude of City, State and Federal government grows consistently more vicious. Racism is now a phase of the drive toward a fascist state in the U.S.A, The U.N, Human Rights Com- mission has debated the matter of numerous Conventions and Resolutions condemning this de- basement of human dignity. Its conclusions affirm the correct- ness of the indictment against.the racist crimes committed in this citadel of the ‘‘Free World’’, m L. Patterson twenty years after the submission of this Petition to the U.N., the charges then made can materially be enlarged. A char- Now, acteristic feature of life in the U.S.A, today is the murderous brutality. of its cities’ political policy toward ‘‘colored’’ citizens in and out of the ghettos in which they are forced to live, the use of state troopers to suppress their democratic demonstrations seek- ing enjoyment of inalienable and constitutional rights and the use of Black nationals as armed gen- darme to force America’s mur- derous brand of democracy upon a foreign people, Civil Rights Commissions cre- ated and mandated successively by Presidents Eisenhower, Ken- nedy and Johnson to examine into and report on the economic, po- litical and cultural situation con- fronting Blacks, have recorded massive violation of their rights and dignity, A vast array of sta- tistical material culled by gov- ernment agents and private inves- Jean Genet courts and media, P.O. Box 628 New York, New York 10025 tigators exists, revealing that discriminatory conditions have greatly shortened the life span of Blacks as compared to Whites. Miseducation in ghetto schools is psychologically more disturb= ing than in ‘‘educational'’ insti- tutions generally. The misery and squalor of the Black ghetto slums beggars description. A brand of criminality is constantly stamped on the brow of Black youth false- ly arrested and hauled into the courts. It remains there through life, creating the fiction that Blacks are a criminally-minded people. Unemployment and under- employment are infinitely higher among Blacks due to discrimina- tion in hiring policies and the low technical development afforded the youth. The ghetto has been made a cesspool for those who traffic in narcotics. White ideologists proclaim that such conditions are as Blacks want them to be, White ideologists skillfully and cunningly twist facts that would expose the evils of racism in such a manner as sup- ports their lies of the inherent inferiority of Blacks, and thus give credence to the myths of White superiority. Thus, armed force and violence, system- atically and consistently em- ployed against Blacks is justi- fied, We have an economy that dehumanizes those who support it and its foremost victims. In our introduction to the earlier editions of ‘‘We Charge Genocide...’’, we wrote: Life gives proof of the cor- rectness of this statement. It is now historically necessary and incredibly easy to submit proof that racism U,S,A, in an export commodi:y breeding aggressive wars and threatening the peace of the world, Life produces that evi- dence. We submit it. The wantonly murderous and predatory racist attacks on Korea, Vietnam and Cambodia are the proof. These criminal wars are inseparably related to the equally criminal murders of re- bellious Black youth in Chicago, Illinois, New Haven, Connecticut, Augusta, Georgia and Jackson, Mississippi. The crime of these Black youth was their color, plus their determination not to accept racism or be intimidated by its force and violence. The crimes of the racists are the crimes of a desperate class and those whom it has dehumanized. There are men with political power who believe that aggres- sive wars will force acceptance of their moral bankruptcy, their ideological corruption and the grievous and incurable economic ills their system sows through almost inconceivable misman- agement, They are wrong. Racism and predatory wars have already brought major moral defeats at home and abroad. In both instan- ces, the end will inevitably be against the racists, Developing national liberation struggles along the line of the U.N, exposes the hypocrisy of the colonial powers who are mem- COMMITTEE TO DEF ‘‘We must save Bobby Seale because we must save the Black Panther Party because we must save the revolutionary spirit in America,’’ The Committee to Defend the Panthers* has been formed to raise funds for legal expenses and to inform the people of the Black Panther Party and their treatment by the government, Funds, volunteers, requests send to: -|Committee to Defend the Panthers bers of that body. It is now ob- vious that not all who signed that historic Charter in San Francisco in 1945 were determined to build an international institution geared to peace, freedom andthe equality of large and small nations, It might be well to remind the reader who takes this Petition up that the American Delegation to the U.N, was headed by a noted imperialist, Edward R. Stettinius, who was at the time the U,S,A, Secretary of State, and Tom Con- nally, a U.S. Senator from Texas who was an infamous ra- cist. To regard either of these men as representative of the na- tion as such is to ignore their racism and their contempt for the Poor. Neither they nor those for whom they signed the Charter had any love for peace or freedom, Pre- sident Roosevelt called them “*economic royalists’. Theirs was the divine rights of ‘‘robber barons’’. These were men of the breed of those responsible for the “Cold War’. They were men steeped in bigotry and racialism. Not a ‘‘colored”’ man was among the U.S.A, delegates who signed the Charter. Not a member of the working class was there. But the delegation of the U.N, could not have signed the Charter without aim or purpose, It was to be for those they represented, an institution through which, with the aid of their quizzlings in Asia and Latin America, they would further their ‘‘Cold War’’ pro- gram and their racist policies. Three events intervened: the un- precedented growth and develop- ment of the Socialist bloc of states fighting for peace; the National Liberation struggles of Africa, Asia, Latin America, fighting for freedom; and or the UnitedStates; and the democratic struggles of organized labor of the ‘‘free world’. The U.N, is today not the same organization that in 1945, sired by a ‘free world’’ wanting war and mothered by a New World desirous of peace, Through the moral, economic, political and ideological strength of the new emerging world of socialism, and the national liberation move- ments, the composition of the UN, and its character are changing. To further expose the hypocrisy of the U.S.A, rulers, it is his- torically necessary that the Black nationals and freedom - loving Whites return again to the U.N, with the charge of genocide against Black, Brown, Red and Yellow, and a Prayer for Relief, Amer- ican racism can be brought to the dock in the Councils of the U.N, through mass action. It is politically infantile to argue that another appeal to the U.N. can or will force the U.S.A, to becéme an adherent of the aims, principles and purposes of that international body, Such an appeal can, however, mobilize positive and active world-wide action against genocide. We must not forget the words uttered by Jus- tice Robert H. Jackson in the trial of the Nazi war criminals in Nuremberg, Germany. We quote; “How a government treats its own inhabitants generally is thought to be no concern of other gov- ernments or of international so- ciety. Certainly few oppressions or cruelties would warrant the intervention of foreign powers. But the German mistreatment of Germans is now known to sur- pass in magnitude and savagery any limits of what is tolerable by modern civilization. Other na- tions by silence would take a consenting part in such crimes, These Nazi persecutions, more- over, take on character as inter- national crimes because of the purpose for which they were un- dertaken..."’ We say that this applies to ra- cism and the racists in the U.S.A, The mistreatment of Black na- tionals by this White ruling class surpasses in savagry the limits of their ‘‘free economy’’. There is no question but that the treatment of Blacks in the U.S.A, violates all provisions of the Uni- versal Declaration of Human Rights. But, that it violates the Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, that ra- cism U,S,A, is genocidal by na- ture, is sometimes questioned by liberals and intellectuals. An examination of the question re- veals that: 1) Killing of members of the group is notoriously true. 2) The psychological impact of those murders and of jim-crow - and segregation in their subtle and covert forms does extreme mental harm to the group. 3) America’s racism is bringing about in part the physical destruc- tion of the group and its span of life reveals that fact. 4) Measures to prevent birth within the group are practiced in several states, The reports of the Presidential Commission on Civil Rights re- veal the genocidal character of racism U,S,A, Their rejection verifies the content of the indict- ment, It has recently been alleged that racism has split the nation along the color line. We, the people, can mend that split. A nation divided against itself is at the mercy of demagogues, and theenemies of freedom and a democracy of the people, for the people and/or by them. History dictates the cure: apeo- ple united in struggle for the peace of the world and their own security, This is written with the hope that it will help effect this unity. Our country has a multi-national population, It is up to the people to give it a multi-national demo- cracy with a working base. In our unity in struggle lies the fate of our country, In our country’s future lies the peace and freedom of millions. History calls for an end to genocidal relations athome and abroad, END THE PANTHERS Bail - send to: Emergency Panther Bail Fund P.O, Box 628 New York, New York 10025 Local Branches: New York - 111 East 16th St, New Haven - 1084 Chapel Street Chicago - to be announced Los Angeles - to be announced *The Committee to Defend the Panthers is the only Defense Committee authorized by the Black Panther Par POLITICAL PRISONERS OF THE U.S. GOV'T. BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND N.C.C.F. HUEY PERCY NEWTON --- California Men’s Colony, Los Padres, San Louis Obispo, Calif, BOBBY SEALE -------- Montville State Correction Center, Montville Conn, LOUIS RANDOLPH WILLIAMS —-~----- 1225 Fallon St. Oakland, Calif. CHARLES BURSEY ----=----- B22804 P.O, Box 2210 Susanville, Calif, 96130 CLEVELAND BROOKS -------- P.O, Box B23220 Tamal, Calif. an Quentin) LANCE BELL -------------No, D3 6918443 Cook County Jail, 2600 South Calif. St. Chicago, I11. RANDALL ROLLINS ----=--- Tier E-3 6911697 Cook County Jail, 2600 South Calif, St, Chicago, Ill. ROBERT WHITE -~-—----—- No, 123999 4000 Cooper St. Jackson, Mich. RORY HITHE ---------- Denver County Jail Box 1108 Denver, Colorado LANDON WILLIAMS -----Denver County Jail Box 108 Denver, Colorado VICTOR PEREZ --------- Hudson County Jail Povonia Ave. Jersey City CHARLES HICKS ------— Hudson County Jail, Povonia Ave., Jersey City RONALD FREEMAN -------- Book No. 321-930 P.O, Box 54320 Terminal Annex, L.A, 90054 ROGER LEWIS ----—--~--- Book No, 195-636 P.O, Box 54320 Terminal Annex, L.A, 90054 - Book No. 236-352 P,O, Box 54320 Terminal Annex, L.A, 90054 BRUCE RICHARDS ROBERT WILLIAMS ----=----- Book No. 899-386 P.O, Box 54320 Terminal Annex, L,A, 90054 GEORGE YOUNG ----------- Book No, 271-898 P.O. Box 54320 Terminal Annex, L.A, 90054 LEMUEL JAMES ----~---—- Book No, 435-529 P.O. Box 54320 Terminal Annex, L.A, 90054 LUXEY IRWIN ------—--- Calif, Institute for Men P.O. Box 128 Chino, Calif. 91710 LONNIE McLUCAS ------- Litchfield State Jail, Litchfield, Conn. GEORGE EDWARDS ------ Bridgeport State Jail, Bridgeport, Coan. ERICKA HUGGINS ------~ Niantic State Farm for Women, Niantic, Conn, ROSE SMITH ----——-~-- Niantic State Farm for Women, Niantic, Conn. FRANCES CARTER ------ Niantic State Farm for Women, Niantic, Conn. PEGGY HUDGINS ~------ Niantic State Farm for Women, Niantic, Conn. ALIBEY HASSAN ------- 1 Court Square, Long Island City, Queens N.Y. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE ll. We, the undersigned citizens of the United States, grevely con- cemed with the continued racist persecution, conscious and uncon~ scious, and centuries-old denial of Constitutional rights and respect for human dignity to men, women and children of red, brown, yellow and particularly black Americans, assert that: The sevage police activities, based upon official policies of Federal, State and City governments, has resulted in innumerable beatings, freme- ups, arrests and murders of black Americans, the classical example of which is the Black Panther Party, The murderous attacks on Black youth in Chicago Illinois, Orangeburg South Carolina, Augusta Georgia, Jack- son, Mississippi, and the innumerable beatings, legal fremeups of Brown, Red, Yellow and Black youths are not only in violation of their legal rights, but as well of this government's commitment under the Charter of the United Nations. The Genocide Convention adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on December 9, 1948, defines as genocide "killing members of the group and any intent to destroy in whole or in part a national racial or ethnic or religious group". And further, according to the Convention, "Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group" is Genocide. We assert that the Genocide Convention has been flagrantly viola- ted by the Government of the United States, We further assert that the United Nations has jurisdiction in this matter, to hold otherwise is to repudiate its position regarding apartheid in South Africa and as well its universal Declaration of Human Rights, and its Convention for the Pre- ventim and Punishment of Genocide. . The racist planned and unplanned terror suffered by more than 40 millions of black, brown, red and yellow citizens of the United States cannot be regarded solely as a domestic issue. The continuance of these practices threatens the struggle of mankind throughout the world to achieve peace, security and dignity. On the basis of simple justice, it is time for the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations to call for universal action, including political and economic sanctions against the United States. We further demand that the United States government make reparations to those who have suffered the damages of racist and genocidal practices. Name Ghana City, State, Zip / LUMUMBA SHAKUR -----1 Court Square, Long Island City, Queens, N.Y. LEE ROPER -------~--- 1 Court Square, Long Island City, Queens, N.Y. WILLIAM KING ---—---- 1 Court Square, Long Island City, Queens, N.Y, vALEX McKIEVER --=-~- 1 Court Square, Long Island City, Queens, N.Y, WALTER JOHNSON —-- 1 Court Square, Long Island City, Queens, N.Y. MICHAEL TABOR -=--- 1 Court Square, Long Island City, Queens, N.Y, CLARK SQUIRE -=----=- 1 Court Square, Long Island City, Queens, N.Y. ROBERT COLLIER -----1 Court Square, Long Island City, Queens, N.Y. DR. CURTIS POWELL -- 1 Court Square, Long Island City, Queens, N.Y. JOAN BIRD ---------—- 10 Greenwich Ave. 6th Floor, N.Y. City, N.Y, ROMAINE FITZGERALD «- Box 27527 San Quentin Prison, Tamal, Calif. (death roll) UNDER THE AUSPICES OF: The Committee to Petition The United Nations of the Conference Committee, 33 Union Square W., New York, N.Y., 10003, Room 907 The Black Panther Party in meeting the needs of the people, is trying to implement a Free Bussing Program so that you may be able to visit your loved ones being held in prisons throughout racist Babylon, If you would like to visit your loved ones, send your names and address in to the Chapter or Branch of our Party nearest you, - To the CARLTON RAY EDWARDS - Y,A, Boys Camp 150th Ave., San Leandro, dd *” California WILLIE BRAZIER ----MeNiel Island, Federal PenetentarySeattle,Wash, Parents of BUDDY YATES --+------ Walla Walla State Prison, Walla Walla, Wash. Prisoners LOUIS JACKSON --------Lompoc Federal Correction Insitution, Lompoc, Caltt. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE AUTHUR LEAGUE ------ 590 North Flower Street, Santa Ana, Calif. BLACK PANTHER PARTY LARRY WALLACE —---- 401 Bas: Eager Street, Baltimore Maryland === SSS "The dignity and beauty of man rests in the human spirit which makes him more than simply a physical being, This spirit must never be suppressed for ex- ploitation by others, As long as the people recognize the beauty of their human spirits and move against sup- pression and exploitation, they will be carrying out one of the most beautiful ideas of all time, Because the human whole is much greater than the sum of its parts, the ideas will always be among the people, The prison cannot be victorious because walls, bars and guards cannot conquer or hold down an idea,” IRVING YOUNG -------- 401 East Eager Street, Baltimore, Maryland MARSHALL CONWAY --- 401 East Eager Street, Baltimore, Maryland JESSIE WHITE -----—--- 8885 South 68th St., Franklin, Wisconsin BOOKER COLLINS -------- 8885 South 68th St,, Franklin, Wisconsin EARL LEVERETTE -~------- 8885 South 68th St,, Franklin, Wisconsin JOHN WALLS -----------Wisconsin School for Boys, Wales, Wisconsin Huey P, Newton eee ce TOWARDS A NEW/CONS SED U TION Hug y A Constitutional Convention is extremely important at this time because we must redefine and clarify our actions and our future plans as well as make known to the people and to the world the justification of our struggle against bureaucratic capitalism and American Imperialsim, The Civil Rights Struggle is no more than an extension of the American Revolution of 1776, Everyone should real- ize this, and with that realization we will comieto the/Con- clusion that those things that were gained by the White population of 1776 by separating itself and forming a nation - in other words of de-colonizing from England - By Huey P. Newton Minister, Of Defense Black Panther Party U.S.A. of the chief points argued in Congress by Thadeus Stevens, that Blacks be allotted forty acres and a mule, Because without the land it was /realized that there would be no freedom, But this did not occur, I would like to emphasize this to show that America has compromised our freedom again and again, The Hayes Compromise of 1877.devastatéd the whole Reconstruction period and the few crumbs that we’d gained during that period, So I refer to a time when we*ve been forced out of the society, we’ve been forced out of equal protection of the law, and human respect, And it leaves us with nothing to lose, really, and everything to gain, because we’ve lost everything, And,/of coufse, when one has lost everything, nothing is open to him but Total Rebellion, Rebellion against that for¢e and those conditions which have stripped him of his very dignity as a humaa being, What are the alternatives? We’ve concluded that there’s no room for usin the capitalistic system, because of the overdeveloped/ nature of the country. We see that as far as autonomy /of ‘our community in any respect, as far as self-governing our institutions; this cannot exist under cap- italism gither because capitalism, the capitalistic system, is dictated by the small ruling class, approximately 76 companies that control the whole industry and the whole wealth of this country, That’s General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, General Dynamics, Lockheed, Standard Oil, DuPont, Chase Manhattan Bank, Bank of America, and so on/down the line, The only way that we can now get freedom is to change that system that led us into slavery. We were brought into slavery because of profit for the slave driver and the capitalist, So we question the very system, We don’t only question the established order, but we question the very system, We feel that the only way that we can get freedom at this time, after observing and experiencing the conditions of the country, is to have a Proportional Representation in a socialist framework, This means that the industries that now are held by a small ruling circle should be nationalized, and all ethnic groups, including all minority groups, will be guaranteed a place in proportion to their number in the country. at one assortment of péople, will receive the bénefits*and the wealth of the country, Black people in this country, after sti¢éh along period of suffering because of capitalism and‘raeism, havea right to exclusively control the institutions ofthe Black com- munity, All other ethnic groups witaiso control their com- munity in a co-operative fashi6n, And the national enter- prises = what I call natiopal enterprises are those big monopolies -, will be nationalized so that each ethnig¢g group- will have a représentative on the various boards, But those other ethnic“grotips, members of ethnic groups, who live in our communities; will be able to participate in a.democratic fashion, because racism will be dead/ But also we will: maintain the right to have this Propogtional Representation because the trust has been lost begause of Tracism,. Black people have lost faith--faith in thisountry, And fora’ safeguard, at least we’ll have to have/éxclusive control over our local,communities, If we can’t bring these things about, then, of/course, we Will be accepting Reactionary Suicide, or suicide caused by the reactionary conditions, I stand againgt it, if I have a choice, which [ do; and if it comes to fhe point where there’s only one chdice - either to acggpt Reactionary Suicide or Revolutionary Suicide, them/I would accept Revolutionary Suicide, I think it goes without saying that Blacks are perfectly justified in declaring a Republic or a Viberated Territory, if we find that we cannot, through some mutual coalition, bring about this type of Pluralistic/Society that is desired, The only other alternative is to declare a Republic, and, as 1 Said, face the cowardly imperialistic army, and thereby either defeat them or suffer Revolutionary Suicide, which is glorious simply because it Mvould be our choice, and we won’t stand by and let us be/killed one by one, Killed in $0 many ways, killed spiritually, killed through lack of basic needs - medicine, fogd for the kids, all these things that are so basic we don’t evenhaveto argue whether we’re due them, As revolutionaries, I fwould like to point out, to clarify our catechism, that we/have been completely crushed as members of this so+€alled civilization. And when I say mamnietely criuched As revolutionaries. we have not onlyv ize this, and with that realization we will cometo the/con- clusion that those things that were gained by the White population of 1776 by separating itself and forming a nation - in other words of de-colonizing from England - gained them autonomy and also the Human Rights /that they were seeking’at that time, I emphasize that this was 1776 when White people of America gained Human Rights, This was truly afevolution- ary struggle, Unfortunately, Blacks, because of racism in the country and the’ fact of Slavery were not included in these rights, So, after this, we had the Civil/Rights Move-~ ment, in order to gain those rights that Whites gained in 1776, Some two hundred years have passed and we haven’t gained those basic rights, Of course, the country wasn’t revolutignized even though there was a revolutionary movement) It was not revo- lutionized simply because production/wasn’t at the stage where a socialist development was en¢ouraged by the other forces, In other words, after the separation from England, democratic capitalism came into being, There was much land to be had and farmed, It was basically an agricultural country and very litte industry. /So people could compete with each other in somewhat of/a democratic fashion, A man could have the wealth that he earned through planting the soil, And there was much/available soil, Of course; I emphasize again that Blacks//were not included in this, As the years passed and’ as the country’s industry became mature, the agricultural lands became centralized in the hands of a few, This presented new problems, es= pecially when Blacks weré not included in the first stage of development - the democratic capitalistic era/ In our time ~ around 1970 - the Country is not only fully developed, but it is overdeveloped, The economy is overdeyeloped, the industry is overdgéveloped, The ruling class of the country no longer invests its surplus capital in the country, This brings us to the/imperialistic era, where the capital= ist is now investing /his surplus in the developing countries of the Third World, in order to gain a profit, because there is no room for expansion inside of this mature economy, While all of this is happening, Blacks are Still struggling for basic hum@n rights: the right to yote, the right for economic well-being etc. We cannot# gain our political liberties without the economic freedom,*We Gannot be integrated into the capitalistic’ system, because even if we had the//wealth or the surplus Capita) to invest, there would be /not market, There is no fertile market in @hich to invest,Not inside of this country, * I would like to backtrack a little to the period of 1863, 1865, after the Emancipation Proclamation and then the So-= called//Reconstruction. The Freedman’s Bureau was es- tablished during the Reconstruction in order to allot one This means that the industries that now are held by a small ruling cirele should be nationalized, and all ethnic groups, including all minority groups, will be guaranteed a place in proportion to their number in the country, at the administfative level and at the worker’s level, Any- thing short/of this would be compromising our freedom again, and we will not stand for it; Matter of fact, any compromise would be suicidal, It would be (what I call reactionary suicide, To accepta compromise, Reactionary Suicide means that the conditions, the reactionary conditions, would be the cause of our suicide, If we stand and do nothing, it would be self-murder, I would xather choose the reverse, ifit becomes necessary, and that is Revolutionary Suicide, That’s suicide motivated by the desire to change the system, or else die trying, To change the reactionary conditions, But this is a freedom of choiee, And I would choose this for the generationto come and T would choose it for my own integrity, for the simple reason that | refuse, our generation refuses, to live as slaves, 50, we are demanding a Constitution that reflects the ethnic and the pluralistic nature of the society, We demand a Constitution that would guarantee us the right to live, We demand a Constitution that has respect for the people, and a Constitution that serves the people instead of a Constitution that serves the ruling class, We know that in this country there are certain public institutions, that are supposedly set up by the people, but im reality are set up by the ruling circle, to pretend to Serve the people’s basic needs, This is the Social Security, Employment Insurance, |Welfare Subsidies etc, The ruling Class sets up these public agencies to buy off the people With a small example of Socialism, But we see that the ruling class even uses the public facilities to their own advantage, The ruling class really uses public funds on a gigantic scale to further its own interests, An example of this is the big railway barons who receive subsidies, In other words, they receive welfare aid, The big farmers, such as Senator Eastland, receive subsidies from the public institutions in the country, while the people, when they need subsidies, when they need welfare aid, are harassed, hounded, even to the extent that/in order to get the aid they must reveal who they sleep with at night, while Eastland and all of the others receive millions of dollars each year, yet they don’t have/to reveal the last woman of man they slept with, | think that this is a good example of a dictatorship by the bourgeoisie, What we advocate is a dictatorship by the people, What L‘mean by that ‘is not that the people will abuse what used to be bour- geoisie, but, it is simply that the people’s needs will be taken jinder conSideration and they will be the prime focus at all timés in consideration given. And no one class, no RAM eet stig As revolutionaries, I fwould like to point out, to clarify our catechism, that w¢@/have been completely crushed as members of this so+€alled civilization, And when I say completely crushed, As revolutionaries, we have not only rejected a seat by the oppressor - those seats that he offers are merely crumbs - we also reject the ordinary ~ I say ordinary for lack of a better word - kind of family ar- rangements that//are offered us, because that too isa compromise, /What I’m saying is that we have to compromise eyen to have a wife and kids and a house and any kind of jb or work, It’s a compromise for Southern Blacks, It’s/a compromise for them to just live as every man has a/right to live with a family and his loved ones, because the bourgeois state lays down the conditions under which you can have a family, In other words; if I were to accept @ family, then I would accept this family under conditigns that have been prescribed by the capitalists, I would have to accept the conditions of poverty, if I live in thé South, of worms in my kids stomaches, a lack of food, a lack of clothing, If I have to live in the urban areas of/Harlem, I have to accept, in order to have a family, a/compromise and have the kind of family that they have prescribed, the kind of family that is bitten by rats, that Sleeps in housing that is unfit for human beings, So as revolutionaries we not only reject these seats by the oppressor, we’ve also rejected the normal - when I say ‘normal’ it’s again for lack of a better word - we don’t accept even the primary relationship of that nucleus family. And we’re very angry because we can’t accept these things, Because eveny,.man is due it, We’re very angry, so therefore we*fe left Olit in the twilight zone with hatred for those@onditions and thos@speople who cause the conditions, Matter of fact, we have Such strong feel- ings until we won’t rest and we won’tfeel that we have done our job until we’ve lashed:out and crilshed those people and those conditions that won't allow Us’ to have even the basic things that/every man on the face of the earth has a right to have, That is @ home,’a family, and kids, 7¢ have a family we have to,.accept kids that are infecred with racism, the conditions of racism, from the very moment he becomes cofiscious, So this is why we’re strictly,.as the Ministerof Information has said, we’re outldws, we’re outside even the law of humanity because We think that we’ve been dehumanized, Bub because w¢’¥é-been de- humanized we’ve become very dangerous péoplé} dangerous to those who-won’t let us be human. I would add that it must always be sémembered, under- stood, and realized, that our one goal isto ¢rush American Capitalism and» American Imperialism, Because without this, we can do nothing, ALL POWER. TO“EHE PEOPLE! THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 14 CONSTYTTUT At this time the struggle of our people has reached classic proportions and we are going to have to deal with this in classic terms, Our struggle has deepened until the issues that control the society are the everyday issues of Black people. We’ve finally launched the spearhead of our attack into the. very system of oppression itself, We challenge the entire system of oppression in Babylon and we’ve got it on a level now where it can be dealt with. There is no more hide-an go-seek. The Black Panther Party has put the struggle of our people on a for-real level where there ain't no place for the oppressor to hide, because we confront the oppressor with Revolution. We confront the oppressor with the negation of everything about him, his entire system. Our freedom can only be based upon the negation of the system of oppression. And since our struggle is now on that level, we must deal with it in those terms, What we need, at this time, is an over-all framework and structure to our struggle so that everybody can see how we can move. The Black Panther Party has totally and unequivocally indicted the system of oppression in Babylon, and we’ve proposed a method for dealing with the system; and we must also begin to articulate a rational and positive al- ternative to the system. It is not enough just to say that we're going to have Socialism, or that we're going to change this decadent Capitalist system. We must also point out that we want Socialism and how we go about getting it, And we must be able to deal with the structure of society and the instruments that hold that structure together. And at the bottom of the structure of oppression in Babylon is the American Constitution, The U.S, Constitution is the battlefield on which the struggle of our people for their liberation is taking place. The Supreme Court interprets the law of the land according to the Constitution, The Constitution is the ultimate source of authority, the ultimate repository of the collective sover- eignty of the people, It is the place where the collective sovereignty of the people has been gathered together. And the Constitution is supposed to represent a just and equitable organization of our collective sovereignty in a form that will guarantee us a good life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And we have not received this. So our challenge is a constitutional challenge. We chal- lenge the Constitution of the United States of America, And we’re saying that there's something wrong in Babylon, and the form of its organization is based upon the U.S, Constitution, and we must change this form of the system, and we must change the Constitution. I anticipate the same type of reaction from a lot of napes that we got from our call for a United Front Against Fascism. But by the backsliding that these people do, By Eldridge Cleaver Minister Of Information Black Panther Party U.S.A. Party right once again--they guarantee that the United Front Against Fascism will be erected in the streets, by the people, with arms in their hands, Because they made it impossible for any other form of United Front Against Fascism to come about. And they will always do this, and they will do this with our call for a REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, to be con- vened by the people, and pigs have no say. I think that we can do a little research on American history and check out the Constitutional Conventions that have been held in the past, after the liberation of the colony from British Imperialism, And the way that power has been apportioned in Babylon, I’ve been thinking, we can attack. We can make a valid attack with which to educate the people. We can attack the Great Compromise, which Structured the American Congress and created the Senate and the House, This was supposed to balance off those states with large populations against those states that had small populations so that each state was given two senators and all the other power was apportioned out on a numerical basis, according to the population. So many people meriting one representative in Congress. Tifis is one of those so-called checks and balances that they talk So much about that keep Black people in check while White people balance off their power against us, and exploit us, murder us, and deny us our life and our humanity. This is one of those checks and balances, And this is really the trick bag in American history. They like to call it the genius of the American System because it provides them with an instrument of rule. This is why they say that democracy in America has been. perfected under the American form of electoral system. And if you notice, the historic nature of the U.S, Senate, this is the instrument through which the ruling class guarantees its power and guarantees its control of the American government. Our oppressors have been Senators. Senator Johnson, Senator Kennedy, Senator Eastland, Senator Strom Thurmond, Senator Talmage, Senator Stinnis, Senator Humphrey, Senator Knowland, Senator Goldwater, Senator Brooks. These are the higher echelon of the Dema- gogic Politicians. These are the Watchdogs of Babylon, the Guarddogs of Babylon. These pigs. And they’re a dif- ferent form of target than the more numerously populated House of Representatives. The House of Representatives is more representative than the Senate, and it doesn't represent us. I say that we challenge the structure of the U.S, Gov- ernment and we propose to change the structure of this government by holding another Constitutional Convention so that we can all be represented, Black people can pick their own representatives. Where young people, who are the majority in Babylon, can have some form of repre- they only guarantee and they only prove the Black Panther sentation guaranteed, instead of all these old decrepit witches deciding our destiny. And we know that these pigs will not giveus a Constitutional Convention, So that the strug- gle for the Constitutional Convention becomes part andparcel of our struggle for liberation. In fact; it becomes synony- mous with our struggle for liberation because you can't have one without the other. We have aright to a Constitutional Con- vention when the people call for one, The people of Babylon have become alienated from the atrocious, oppressive government that’s in the hands of a vicious, exploitative ruling class, The ruling class will not allow it, but we have a right to a Constitutional Convention and we will fight for our rights, So we call for a REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S CON- STITUTIONAL CONVENTION, This is actually the implementation of Point No. 10 of the Black Panther Party’s Platform and Program. In Point No. 10 we state that we call for a U.N, Super- vised Plebiscite to be held amongst Black People so that we can go on record determining our own destiny. And we stated that this is our major political goal. Now it’s very clear that we have a position on the *CC, on @ *RPCC, and what we’re saying is that we are either going to have our full freedom and liberation within the Structure that succeeds Babylon, or we want out of it. We're not going to accept less than our full freedom and liberation and remain inside of it peacefully. So either we’re going to change Babylon, restructure it along hu- manistic lines, or we implement that portion of Point No. 10 that relates to moving on the international level-- The Black Plebiscite. We're speaking about the form that our struggle must take and the direction that we move in, like a target to aim at. Because we have to liberate ourselves from this offensive power structure, We have \to wage a People’s We. against the oppressive system and its mercenaries, ant we will do this, and we will be victorious, and we will have a *CC, a *RPCC, But we don’t wait until after the victory takes place before we start thinking and talking about how we move, what we will do. Because it is all part of the process of getting there--knowing where you're going. We're opening up the hidden history, opening up Babylon to a full examination. We'Ve already diagnosed it as a fatal cancer called Capitalism, Fascism, and Imperialism. It will all become much clearer. when we start talking about changing the documents and the structure of the mechanism and the documents that control, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE *CC equals Constitutional Convention *RPCC equals Revoltuionary People’s Convention Constitutional Like four big tires on a monster truck, the Big Four rubber com- panies -- Goodrich, Uniroyal, Fitestone and Goodyear -- roll right over the men who work for them, Right now many rubber workers are on strike, demand- ing higher wages, improved working conditions and better treatment from the companies, Rather than grant their workers’ demands, the Big Four work to- gether to keep the workers under the wheels. The Big Four have a strikebreaking agreement a- mong themselves that firms not struck will share their profits with struck firms. But rubber workers, working together, can puncture all four tires and stop the whole truck. The rubber companies reap fantastic profits year after year. Worker productivity has in- creased tremendously over the last ten years, but workers’ pay- checks have hardly grown at all. If wages had risen as much as company profits did during 1960- 67, every worker wouldhave made $1.51 more per hour in 1968. Instead, inflation--which makes money for the companies--cuts deeply into worker paychecks. Strikers are demanding an esca- lator clause in their contract so that wages will keep up with the rising cost of living. But money isn't the only issue. Factory conditions endanger workers’ lives every day. Hun- dreds of rubber workers are stricken every year with disabling or fatal skin, lung and liver di- seases that doctors say are cauised by poisonous fumes in the factories. Asbestos, for example, has been linked to cancer of the bladder. But the rubber compa- niés have not even investigated-- much less prevented--these dan- gerous fumes. Several hundred workers are killed or disabled each year because of poorly main- tained machines, And then there is the day to day harassment of anyone who doesn’t act ac- cording to company-imposed dis- cipline. Though the Big Four don’t care about the workers’ needs, they care about each other. The men who run Goodyear, Goodrich, Uni- royal and Firestone are bound together by more than a strike- breaking agreement. What binds them is their hunger for profits. Making money is what these peo- ple care about and what they spend their time at, They have no spe- cial concern for rubber products. Thirty-four directors of the Big Four companies are also direc- tors for 180 other companies. These men met in the directors’ rooms of the rubber companies and fixed the low wages they pay workers for putting up with the lousy and dangerous working con- ditions in the tire plants, And then these same men meet in the directors’ rooms of their other companies and plan how to get back the rubber workers’ wages. When you walk into a bank for a loan, you have to pay sky-high interest. This high interest rate is set by the board of directors of the bank. Some of the same men who are rubber company directors are also bank directors. For example, Joseph Martino of the Goodyear board is also a director of the Chase Manhattan Bank, second largest bank in the world, famous for its financial support of the racist government of South Africa, When you buy a car, the high price you pay was decided on by the board of directors of the car manufacturer. Paul Cabot, THE BLACK PANTHER. SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 15 THE RUBBER EMPIRE Taking on the Rubber Barons a director of Goodrich, is also a director of Ford. General Mo- tors is controlled by the DuPont family, who also control Uniroyal. Even when you buy food, the same men are deciding how much it's going to cost you. Five direc- tors of Goodrich are also direc- tors of Kraft Foods, the second largest food processing company in the U.S. Deane W. Mallott of Goodrich helps direct General Mills, and G, Arnold Hart of Uni- royal directs Corn Products, a large conglomerate, Ward Keener, chairman of Goodrich, is a director of Campbell Soups. And if the food is canned, chances are it was packaged by Continental Can which has direc- tors from both Goodyear and Goodrich. This all sounds confusing, but the men on all these boards aren't confused. For them this criss- crossing web of directorships has a single clearcut aim: to make them and their friends richer and more powerful. This is what they really care about. This is how they spend most of their time. Besides meeting in company directors’ rooms and at exclusive country clubs, they meet on the boards of trustees of elite universities like Princeton and M.I,T. Here they charge thousands of dollars in tuition and -exclude working people's children. Here they con- trol the faculty and cirriculum to turn out brainwashed company- loving engineers, technicians, and managers in every graduating class. They also meet in organiza- tions like the National Industrial Conference Board, the Business Advisory Council, the National Export Expansion Council. These organizations manipulate the Uni- ted States’ economy and foreign policy in ways that protect and expand the wealth and power of these men, For example, since the middle of 1969 the Business Advisory Council has been urging the Nixon administration to cre- ate an economic slowdown, and now they are getting their way. Unemployment mounts and work- ers get laid off by the thousands, The Big Four Rubber compa- nies are growing richer andmore powerful every year. In the Uni- ted States they control 78% of the rubber market, and of the 117 rubber companies in the rest of the world, the Big Four con- trol 71. And the number is grow- ing. The same day that the rub- ber workers’ strike began, Good- year offered to pay cash for a big Dutch firm with five factories. The tire companies have branch Plants and plantations on every continent, Yet despite their world-wide power, their staggering wealth (the DuPont family wealth exceeds 7.5 billion dollars) and their ties to all the others who run this country, the rubber barons are in trouble, Their exploitation has earned them enemies around the world, In Liberia on the west coast Firestone to keep on its payroll! Other workers have revolted a- gainst exploitation by the rubber barons, In 1965, Indonesian work- ers seized a $5 million Good- year tire plant. They prevented the Goodyear managers from en- tering the plant and elected a workers’ council to supervise production. The Indonesian gov- ernment at that time was also considering taking over planta- tions owned by Goodyear and Firestone so that their huge pro- fits. would go to Indonesia instead of the corporations. However, a right wing military takeover, sup- ported by the U.S,, changed all that Hundreds of thousands of mili- tant workers and farmers were murdered. The rebellious work- ers were arrested as political criminals and forced to labor on Goodyear’s plantation as prison- ers. Instead of low wages they now get none at all, In Cambodia, Thailand, Ma- laysia and Vietnam, rubber plan- tations cover much of the coun- tryside, the Big Four buy a ma- jor share of the rubber produced here. These plantations are owned by men who have kickedthefarm- ers off their land, planted rub- ber trees, and then forced the now landless people to return as plantation hands. The plantation workers make almost no money while the owners pocket huge pro- fits. This pattern of foreigners and Plantation owners getting rich while the people become poorer happens in every money-making business in Southeast Asia, not just rubber cultivation. Tired of this exploitation, workers and farmers have moved to kick out the foreigners and regain control of their land and its resources. The Vietnam war is the U.S, gov- ernment testing its ability to de- fend European and American econ- omic investments, like rub- ber plantations, from being taken back by the people. Goodyear and Firestone have taken further ad- vantage of the Vietnam war to build factories in Thailand where they are protected by 40,000 U.S, of Africa, Firestonehas30,000 plan. Military ‘‘advisors’’ who main- tation workers whoeach receive about$183 a year.In 1955 Firestone paid about $9.3 million into Li- beria for rent, wages and taxes. In that same year they took out of Liberia over $33 million worth of rubber. Recently, 10,000 work- ers on the Firestone plantation tried to strike. These men are . forced to leave their families and homes to work on the plantation ~ where they earn 64 cents a day. After four days of strike activity the President of Liberia called in the army to massacre the strikers--he’s a useful man for tain that country’s unpopular military dictatorship with guns and bombs. Of course all the big businessmen, from Harvey Fire- Stone to Richard Nixon, insist that Vietnam is a war to save de- mocracy rather than a war to defend the interests of a few rich businessmen and plantation owners, This way they con the mass of Americans to support the war with their money and their lives, And while we pay and die, the rubber companies get richer by producing weapons for the war effort. Goodyear and Uniroyal make deadly devices for spread- ing chemical and biological war- fare agents on civilian popula- tions. Each of the Big Four rakes off a chunk of the $70 billion defense budget--which amounts to over 60% of the federal taxes we all pay. The rubber compa- nies made over $350 million in 1969 selling military hardware in- cluding munitions for Vietnam. For the rubber companies, war means more money, For rubber workers, it meaas inflation and sons and brothers killed in Viet- nam and Cambodia. Liberia, Indonesia, Vietnam and the rest of Southeast Asia are only some examples of the foreign operations of the rubber monster, which has extended its tentacles to every corner of the globe, Goodyear, Firestone, Uniroyal, and Goodrich produce tires in over thirty-five countries. Most of these countries are poor, and the rubber barons take advantage of this condition by paying rock- bottom wages. In 1961, rubber workers in India averaged only 70 cents per day. In many of the countries where American tire plants are located, brutal dictatorships are set up to maintain order among oppressed and angry workers. And the US, government supports these dic- tatorships for the good of Amer- ican businessmen, The rubber companies are part of a world-wide system of ex- ploitation that makes American businessmen hated throughout the world, But oppressed workers are rising up angry. When Nelson Roc- kefeller, the symbol of U.S, big business, went into Latin Amer- ica, he was stoned in every city he visited. And it won't be too long before workers in Guate- mala, Brazil, Thailand, and a do- zen other countries kick out the Harvey Firestones and Ward Keeners and take over their fac- tories and plantations, and run them for themselves. The search for profit has earned the rubber barons enemies at home too, During the 1960's many groups of people in the United States began to struggle against the crushing power of the corpora- tions, Students at universities have fought against corporate and military recruiting, rejecting pre-programmed lives as well- paid servants of the bosses, They have also prevented the recruit- ment of scabs on campus, as in the GE strike. Women are fighting against em- ployment discrimination and the practice of kicking them off their jobs as soon as men are avail- able. For example, the rubber company directors have reduced the percentage of women em- ployed from 27% in 1942 to 12% in 1965, Women are also fighting for the creation of free day care centers so that the high cost of child care will not prevent them from working. In the last year, women have filed more than half the complaints against discrim- inatory practices in the rubber industry. The bosses claim that wages can be lower for women because the money is used for frills and extras, This is wrong, Women work to support them- selves and their families, espe- cially in these times of infla- tion when many families cannot live on one paycheck, Meanwhile, inflation is also a direct result of policies made by the com- panies, Black people and Brown people know that there is company racism at home~as well as a- broad. First, the rubber compa- nies systematically discriminate in hiring to exclude Third World people. Those who do manage to get hired usually get the dirtiest and lowest paying jobs, Then the owners try to convince White workers that their true enemies are the Blacks, Chicanos and Puerto Ricans, when their real enemies are the boards of direc- tors. It is the businessmen them- selves who are responsible for the scarcity of jobs and the lousy conditions in the jobs that exist. Besides the workers, thousands of other people have learned to hate the rubber companies for many different reasons. Take pollution. In Akron, the air pollu- tion, caused largely by the rub- ber companies, costs every citi- zen $200 a year just in corro- sion and cleaning. That doesn't include the losses in human life from diseases that are linked to pollution. How do the rubber com- panies respond? Goodyear and Uniroyal are making money sell- ing pollution control devices while their smokestacks still belch poi- son into the air. The small group of men who run the rubber companies for their own profit can be defeated, The Indonesian workers who kicked out the bosses and set up a workers’ council to run the factory set an example for rub- ber workers around the world. While they controlled the plant, when something needed changing, they could do a lot more than file a complaint. Workers had taken power into their own hands, In this country in the 1930's rub- ber workers engaged in labor struggles, including sit-down strikes in Akron. They won a strong union, but they didn’t win lasting dignity, security and pros- perity for workers. Both in In- donesia and the United States rub- ber workers have been defeated before, but the next time can be different if rubber workers here and around the world struggle to- gether against the men at the top -- Blacks, Chicanos, women, students, teamsters, postal work- ers--the rubber workers canhave a country where they aren't con- tinually fighting just to stay in the same place, Together we can overthrow the men and the in- Stitutions that exploit us all, Reprinted from California Rubber Band-A Student Research Collec- tive, 98 Valencia St., S.F, Calif. 94110 ALL POWER 10 THE PEOPLE THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 16 BLACK G.I.’S Part of American ‘Big Stick’ at this time in the liberation struggle of our people, it has been long established by the pig power Structure ( by way of arrest and attacks) that the Black Panther Party is the vanguard force in the struggle. So what we are doing today at this time is providing our brothers in the military with the “leadership knowledge’, which can be grasped as a directive with one general purpose in mind, and that is the true and total lib- eration of our people. We recognize that our people are slaves, referredto in desperation as citizens and G,I,’s are playing the historical role of most slaves. That role is determined in part by the slavemaster, who holds an op- tion over the slaves head, That op- tion is immediate imprisonment, © or immediate temporary freedom to perform life giving task for the slave masters. In this situation that life giving task includes go- ing to war to protect the slave system. A system that ishidden at times by a continuation of pro- grammed confusion, designed to make one believe that he is really free and that only the badelements ° 4.4 A am Ie . BLACK G.I. are enslaved, imprisoned, or pun- ished, However clarity has come to the state of confusion, Clarity in the forms of blatant acts which separate the truth from the lies, the oppressed from the oppressor and points out the vivid actions the tools of oppression which are used to maintain the lines of dis- tinction between the slave masters and the slaves. Black men in the military wear- ing uniforms, and identified as such were usually provided with certain falsely given privileges which were designed to develop the Black G,I,'s attitudes of difference between them nd the rest of the enslaved people. Secondly Black G.1,"s were encouraged that ‘'e- quality” which could only be pre- served by giving sanction to all the brutal, barbarous acts of the capitalist system and those acts were being committed on two stages, at home and abroad, A- broad the acts could be justified or hidden by lies and misinfor- mation which villified the victims, making them appear as hostile people in a foreign land threat- ening the freedom of Americans abroad, Despite the fact that free- dom for Americans abroad was enterprise, an oppressive exploi- tative entity which was controlled and defined for the benefit of Americans, The Black G,Ls of the American Big Stick (mil- itary power ) which was used to make weak willed lackies come running to hear the soft spoken words of imperialism. Meanwhile ‘ie Black mai is 19w were a part, faced with a in the state, the same vicious brutal acts are being committed against Black people, people who were separated from you only by the uniform, The acts against Black people were witfully and tact- fully handled byapologizers for the system, These apologizers at- temptedto have G.I.s believe that the acts committed against Black people were the results of in- dividual racism, and that the government was _ not responsible for this. The apologizers even tried to make you believe that by being a responsible citizen anda good soldier you could defeat these problems and that catoring to the flames of choas and unreason would only make things harder, In other words, ‘‘if you don’t dig the way we do things ( whether they are right or wrong) you by opposing them will only make things go down on you harder. As people began to strive harder to rid themselves of oppression, by getting out from under, the op- pressor stepped up his campaign to keep them oppressed, As this Situation developed, the many practical and ideological support- ers benefiting from capitalist created ideology of racism for pro- fit and ego began to react against Black people. The system sited the fact that it could no longer employ openly the tactics necessary to stop Black people from winning freedom without the support and help of Black G,L.s, The liberation struggle of Black people intensi- fied and the racist profiteers over niggers, The terror tactics mani- fested in the acts of open aggres- sion against Black people by the low-lifted pigs in all their forms increased, And once again the op- pressor resorted to the military in desperation, Two tactics were being used to get the Black youth off the streets. Black youth be- ing inducted over proportionally into the service, and the police action in the community was as much as ten fold which resulted in more Black youth being rail- roaded into prison and/ or being murdered, The war economy ofthis country being war economy, that is a economy which thrives on war. Black men were shipped abroad into the war zones. There was a world wide effort going on to get rid of the oppressors of mankind and the most conscious fact was that the number one culprit and warmonger and preventer of world peace is the United States. Black men are being sent in large numbers to fight the oppressed people of the world, and on the homefront the police activelysought more Black men to assist it, to fight oppressed people here at home. As we investigated the sit- uation we saw certain factors which had to be dealt with, The need for Black people ( like rabbits _ in Austrailia) was diminishing and that means of birth control must be instituted or a certain disaster to the capitalist system was inevit- able — “‘revolution’’ . Birth control pills are now flow- ing heavily through the Black com- munity, however history indicates that the best form of birth control and population reduction, is war, Black people, the scape goats of America have been cited by the racist oppressor, ‘'to be removed from America in large numbers to avert the disaster of revolution, But the Black man by virtue of being a slave in this country at war against the world, is in a very strategic position. So great is the need for Black participation inthis survival struggle. in the military is in a key position to ups2t this total genocide plan. preplanned act of genocide that his every action and reaction brings the systems apologizers running with endless apologies and funds to halt the freedom idea. as it takes on the dimensions of revolution.Dimensionswhich are of international level in scope, Dimensions which by a strategic and time seizing posititon makes the liberation acts of the people across the world a benefit to us in the form of resistance against a common enemy, The Black G.I, serves two pur- poses to this country, First it helps to fight imperialistic wars to acquire new colonies and more people to control and enslave, Se- cond it greatly reduces the pop- ualtion of Black fighting men through controlled war casualties, This supported by the number of Blacksinvolved in the war. At least20 percent of the soldiers are Black, where as the Population of Black people in this country composes only 10% And on the front where the fighting is, some of those units have as much as 30%-50% of fighting Black men, The racist oppressor having al- ready instituted a national and in- ternational campaign to control birth of people within the oppressed class, has also proclaimed that the country is in fact over populated. So now they are trying to proport- jonally stagnate birth of Black children by putting the men on the * slaughtering line of these wars, and duping the women with birth control pills. They are even dis- couraging child birth by using money, While the Black G,I. s are being shipped into the war of aggression based on the principal of genocide, the Black community has become a virtual domestic war ground. The system is using whatever military might necessary to prevent the people from instituting programs of change, The toll of Black vic- tims of racist fascist terrorism has increased to an astronomical number, The Black man is now faced with a survival struggle. The Black man in the military is in a key position to upset this total genocide plan, The Black G.I, is needed vital- ly if this planned genocide is to be sucessful, because Black people are the ones the system is try- ing to kill at home and use to kill or get killed abroad. We use the Monk Teba, with Dep. Min. of Info., Big Man death of John Soto, and then his brother Michael, who was a sar- geant in the army, as an example of observed education indicating the true nature of this system, and the true role Black people play in it. SEIZE THE TIME Monk Teba ne The Black ma EXPOSURE PIG OFA ~ OFFICER JOE P, MURRAY The following information is being threatened if anything should hap- disseminated in order to expose undercover agent JOHN PAUL MUR- RAY, JR., thereby rendering him ineffective. Murray, who was posing as Jay King, a civilian organizer for the San Diego Movement for a Demo- cratic Military, was discovered six months after infiltrating the organization. Murray’s identity was dis- covered by a hospital orderly when he registered his wife un- der his real name and stated his occupation as a special agent as- signed to the San Diego Police Dept. The orderly was later ac- costed at his job by plainclothes Police officers andhis life was PIG BRU pen to Murray, children, Itis definitely believed that there are further plans for him concerning either grand jury testimony or undercover work. A simple investigation following Murray’s exposure revealed that preliminary inquiries would have prevented his infiltration of any Politically radical organization. it is suggested that preliminary investigations should be made on an individual's background, work Status, residence, and vehicle registration. his wife, or his Reprinted from Movement for a Democratic Military TALITY AT FT. LEWIS, WASHINGTON To Whom it may Concern: June 2, 1970 Ft. Lewis Washington Post Stockade I am writing on behalf of the brothers, who are in this racist stockade. And on behalf of the brothers who are locked in con- centration camps (stockades) in this racist fascist government. The reason I say concentration camps is because, it’s no dif- ferent than the ones Hitler used in exterminating the Jews. Al- though there are no ovens we the Black people in these stoc- kades are treated with the worst kind of respect, that some feel the Jews were better off than we are now. All of us that have been sen- terlced, were tried in a Kangaroo Court. As you know the trial and sentencing were done, before you even entered the courtroom. Be- sides that the lifers and the rest of the brainwashed crew were the ones that judged us. There was no way that we could have a fair trial. Of course there are the few bro- thers that the pigs instilled fear into. Making a deal like “‘If you tell me what's going on, I'll let you out two months ahead of time.” These people we calldime droppers. But we as a whole are being discriminated against, be- cause we don’t want to take this anymore, There are certain individuals here who are very prejudiced and don’t care who knows it. He takes brothers in the block one by one, with at least three other guards with him, Ties his hands up with a strap behind his back, Hand- cuffs his hands to his feet, Then Puts a football helmet onhis head, and commences to hitting him all over his body. Not with their hands } but with clubs wrapped up with paper. There are a lot of us that ] have suffered this kind of treat- ment, Yet the outside worldnever knows about it. The brothers that receive thiskindof treatment, are put in cells called the block, Here for breakfast you get dry pan- cakes and water, For afternoon dinner you get cabbage and let- tuce with a glass of water, Even while some of us are in these cells, the guards and the people that run this camp, constantly come in and beat you and then leave. This here is an everyday thing. And we're tired of this kind of treatment. All the White people here are treated like they are superior people. Because we are living in this fascist system, the racist government tends to try and destroy us. If people only knew what was really going on behind these doors, then and only then will we receive any kind of fair treatment. Although we cannot do it ourselves, we need the support of every Black sister and brother in the U,S, to lib- erate us. Although they read our mail here, I’m not scaredtomen- tion my name in this letter. It is Kenneth R. Wilson, Pvt. -046- 44-0454- Bldg. #1450, Ft. Lewis Stockade, I myself have been sen- tenced to six months here on a 29 day AWOL charge. And they refuse to give me a discharge. I hope this letter will be printed cause I want everyone to know how hostile Nixon and his racist, fascist government is to brothers who fight for dignity and respect, and the most important, our free- dom from the racist oppressor. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Ed RIGHT ON WITH THE MOVE- MENT Kenneth Wilson All your help will be greatly ap- preciated, Because this is what we really need, help, We can’t do it by ourselves, THE KOR 9 EAN PEOPLE THE U.S. IMPERIALISTS INVASION AGAINST CAMBOD THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 17 STERNLY DENOUNCE ~ BRIGANDISH ARMED IAN PEOPLE Pyongyang City Mass Meeting Held to Support the Anfi-U.S. Imperialist, National-Salvation Struggle of the Indo-Chinese Peoples and Denounce the Armed Invasion of U.S. Imperialism against Cambodia A Pyongyang city mass meeting supporting the anti-U,S. imperia- list, National salvation of the Indo- Chinese people and condemning the armed invasion of the U.S, imperi- alism against Cambodia was held at the Pyongyang Grand Theatre in May. Present at the meeting were Comrades So Chol, Choe Yong Jin, Kim Jung Rin and Chong Jun Taek; Kang Ryang Uk, Chairman of the Central Committee of the North Korean Democratic Party and Vice President of the Supreme People’s assembly; Pak Sin Dok, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Religious Chongu Party; and other responsible cadres of the Party and Government organs and social organizations. Invited there were Tran Van Thanh, Charge d’Affaires and Interim of the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of -Vietnam, made Nguyen Luong, Charge d’ Affaires ad Interim of the Embassy of the Republic of South Vietnam, in Pyongyang, Comrade Choe Yong Jin, Vice Premier of the Cabinet and are- port at the meeting. The reporter said: By launching a large scale armed invasion against Cambodia, U.S, im- perialism has taken one step fur- ther on the road of expanding the war of aggression in Vietnam to the whole area of Indo-China and is extremly aggravating the sit- uation in this region and Asia as a whole. The piratic armed invasion of the U.S, imperialism against Cam- bodia is one more intolerable, wan- ton challenge to the people of this country and the rest of the Indo- Chinese people and a extremely grave provocation jeopardizing peace and security in Asia and the world. The government of the Democra- tic People’s Republic of Korea and the entire Korean people scathing- ly denounce the U.S.imperialists aggressors brigandish armed in- vasion against the Cambodian peo- ple and their desperate manoeu- vresto expand the war to plunge the world area of Indo-China into the holocaust of aggressive war. Comrade Kim Il Sung, the res- pected and beloved leader of the 40 million Korean people said: “The U,S, imperialist are now running amuck to spread the war flames to vast areas of Asia’’. Today it is-none other than the U.S, imperialist who have plunged the Indo-Chinese people into the holocaust of the war and it is also the U.S, imperialist who are disturbing peace inSouth- east Asia and in all parts of the world, the Vice Premier noted. And he vehemently condemned U.S, imperialism as the most heinous criminal of aggression against China and the most barbarous human butcher, He denounced U.S, imperialism for not only spreading the flames of the war to Indo-China but run- ning wild in themanoeuvresto ig- nite a new war in Korea,too, and actively dragging even the revived Japanese militarist into this manoeuvring. He continued, Comrade Kim Il Sung, the res- pected and beloved leader of the 40 million Korean people, said: The Government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea andthe Korean people will strive to ce- ment solidarity with the people of all countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America who are fight- ing for freedom and national in- dependence, and will positively support their liberation struggle. Particularly our people will fight in firm unity with the Asian peo- ple to chase the aggressive forces of U.S. imperialism out of all parts of Asia, The U.S, imperialists must stop at once the armed invasion against Cambodia and the aggressive war against the Indo-Chinese people and withdraw, forthwith from the whole area of Indo-China and all parts of Asia taking their aggres- sive troops and lethal weapons a- long. The people of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam who enjoy the power- ful support and encouragement of the entire progressive people of the world will surely win final victory in the sacred cause of freedom and independence against the ag- gression of U.S. imperialism and the U.S, imperialist aggres- sors are bound to suffer an ig- nominous defeat and be driven out of Indo-China and the rest of Asia the reporter said with emphasis, Following the report the floor was taken by Chon Chang Chol, Chair- BRIEFS SOUTH STUDENTS KOREAN STRIKE DEMAND THE REMOVAL OF AMERICAN HEAD OF F ' KWANDONG COLLEGE Kangrung, South Korea (LNS) The students of Kwandong col- lege in Kangrung are on strike. The primary demand of the strik- ers is that the president of the college, an American, be removed, from his post. The students have accused him of turning the college into a place for disseminating ‘‘worship America’’ideas and making the students into docile colonial slaves, according to a dispatch from the Korean Central News Agency. THE TRIAL OF CHONG HUN SANG TOKYO (LNS)-- Chong Hun Sng deserted recently from the South Korean puppet army and made his way to Japan. It was Chong’s hope that he could obtain a new home for himself inthe Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), where his parents live, but the Japanese authorities dug up an immigration control law and put Chong on trial for violating one of its clauses, The Japanese want to send him back to South Korea, where he will meet an almost certain ex- ecution. Korean and Japanese demon- strators have regularly gathered outside the courtroom to show support for Chong,according to a Korean Central News Agency re- port. man of the Central Committee of the General Foundation of Trade Unions; Li Rum Su,Chairman. of the Central Committee of the Union of Agricultural Working People; O Gi Chon, Chariman of the Cen- tral Committee of the league of Socialist Working youth; and Ryang Chang Suk , Vice President of the Central Committe of the Democra- tic Women’s Union. Then Tran Van Thanh, Charged’ | Affaires ad Interim of the embassy of the Democratic Republic of the Vietnam in Pyongyang, made a speech, He said that the Vietna- mese people who bear deep in their hearts the will of President Ho Chi Minh will carry on their fight shoulder to shoulder with the Laotian and Cambodian people a- gainst the U.S, imperialism andits Stooges until they fully discharge their national and international du- ties, Saying that the Korean people under the leadership of the workers Party of Korea respected and be- loved Comrade Premier Kim Il Sung always extend resoltite sup- port, powerful encouragement and precious aid to the Vietnamese people who are waging the strug- gle against the U.S, imperialism for national salvation, he referred to the fact that in his telegram of greetings sent to the Summit Conference of the Indo-Chinese people, Premier Kim I] Sung stressed that the Government of the Democractic Peoples Republic of Korea and the Korean people will in the future, too, assist FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A strongly worded petition signed by irate staff and students at the University of Zambia was to- day presented to the American Em- bassy in Lusaka for transmittal to Washington. Addressed to the government of the United States of America the document declares that: We students and staff of the University of Zambia, utterly re- ject: --the continuing slaughter of op- pression of the people of South- East Asia as_ manifested in Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, the Phillipines, and Korea. --the subjection of the people of Latin America through puppet oligarchies and CIA subversion. --the building of wealth for a few through the unending exploitation of the American poor, Blacks, Latinos, and Indians, --the brutal repression of mili- tants, students , Black Panthers, anti war demonstrators, political dissidents, and rank and file la- bour. a --the massive financial and mili- tary support of fascist South Af- rica, colonialist Portugal , rebel Rhodesia, and occupied Nambia. It concludes with six demands: --immediate and unlateral with- drawal of all American and allied troops from Asia . --an end to the American presence in Latin America, and abolition of the CIA, =-social and economic justice for all Americans. : --the unconditional release of po- - litical prisoners. --a halt to colonialism, neo-colo- nialism, and imperialism in Asia, \Africa, and elsewhere be it through naked force or economic or political manipulation, i--payment of full reparations to all the victims of Americanracism and aggression, Among the signers whose nation- alities range from Zambian, In- dian and British to Nigerian, Ameican, Canadian and Congolese are; B,V, Mtshali, author of Rho- desia: background to conflict; Dr. Harry Langworthy, specialist in vernacular history, whose broad- cast series, ‘‘Zambia before 1890" is shortly to appear in book form, Dr, V. Subramaniam, Prof. of Pub- lic Administration; Dr. Ezekiel with might and main the people of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia in their sacred struggle firmly stand- ing on their side. The Vietnamese people and the governement of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, he empha- sized, fully the support the stand of the government of the Democra- tic people’s Republic of Korea to unify the Fatherland in an indepen- dent way without outside interfe- rence, Nguyen Luong, Charge d’ Af- faires and Interim of the Embas- sy of the Republic of South Viet- nam in Pyongyang, spoke next. Retiring to the Summit Con- ference of the Indo-Chinese peo- ple he stressed: The South Viet- namese people who warmly hail the brilliant success of this con- “ference will strengthen militant friendship andsolidarity with the fraternal Khmer people and the Laos people and do everything in their power to win final victory in their war of resistance for national salvation, Exposing that the U.S, imperi- alist are spreading the flames of the war to the whole area of the Indo-China, he emphasized that the Indo-Chinese people who have a correct line, iron resolution and united mighty forces and enjoy Powerful sympathy and support from the world will surely drive the U.S. imperialists out of their territory. Reprinted From POYNGYANG TIMES Mphahlele, noted South African writer and teacher; M. Dore, Staff development fellow in economics and winner of top honors among this year’s UNZA graduates; Dr. C. Gertzel, head of political science and author of the forth coming politics of Independent "Kenya; Dr, Andrew Horn, Radio Zambia broadcaster and authority on Afro- American writing; Ian Henderson, historian , co-editor of the institute of social research bulletin; Victor Mo Kamanga, Assistant and interpreter of French African literature; Dr. J. Tull, Prof. of Mathematics; V.G, Nyirenda, Lecturer in Social Service; Dr. .H,J. Simons, author of African women: Their legal status in South Africa andthe new- South Africa, 1850-1950;.Dr. J. van, Velsen, Prof. of sociology and co-editor of the times of Zambia’s ‘Varsity Corner’’; L. Oladeji, Lectuer in Sociology, re- cently active with the Durham International Socialist; Dr. Andrew Roberts, editor of Tanzania be- fore 1900, who is now preparing for publication a short history of Zambia; and 60% of the library staff. S. Berman, Secretary University Committee Against Imperialism P.O, Box 2379 Lusaka, Zambia THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 18 PANTHERS BUSTED FOR SERVING THE PEOPLE On May 25, 1970, the pigs showed one of their true functions under this system (guarding the property of the avaricious businessman) by vamping on two of the people's warrior’s, Nicky La Borde & Robert Webb. The building where we have our pads is truly indecent housing, un- fit for the shelter of human beings. Rats and roaches, no heat or hot water, at times, falling plaster and just generally decrepit conditions, To deal with this we started organ- izing around point number four of the 10 Point Platform and Program: WE WANT DECENT HOUSING FIT FOR SHELTER OF HUMAN BE- INGS, We believe that if the White landlords will not give decent hous- ing to our Black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with Government aid, can build and make decent hous- ing for its people. While we were organizing we stopped paying rent. The people who were sick andtired of the conditions in the building and sick and tired of paying rent to the bald headed pig who refused to make the basic repairs, re- sponded in a righteous manner. Tenant meetings were held andthe people decided to follow our ex- ample and they stopped -pay- ing rent. The landlord pig Hoffman who never comes to the building, came rushing around to see why his ten- ants who were usually so cooper- ative with him had stopped pay- ing rent. One of his lackeys who livesin the building, told him all about the united moves that the people were making. This blew Hoffman's mind, so he started oinking to the people in the build- ing that he would make this repair and that repair if the people would just pay the rent, The people who were hip tohis bull, saidnorepairs no rent. REBUTTAL 10 CBS EDITORIA On May 23, 1970, WCBS-TV, broadcasted an editorial support- ing the racist decision of a Fed- eral Grand Jury’s investigation into the political assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark by Chicago. pigs in December, 1969. The editorial was in har- ‘ mony with the views held by the rest of the pig media and tried to make the people believe that the Black Panther Party refused to participate in the investigation. This is a lie. The Black Panther Party made it very clear that we would testi- fy in the investigation if the Fed- eral government stood by the Con- stitution and not deny Black peo- ple their Constitutional rights. In fact, from its very inception, it was obvious that this ‘‘mock trial’’, would be a brazen denial of our 14th Amendment Rights. From the get go, the Panthers said that we would participate if the courts related to the ninth point of our Ten Point Program, which states,...‘*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 de- fined by the Constitution of the United States.'’ A peer, is a per- son from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, environmental, historical and ra- cial background. And those ra- cist pig jurors in Chicago are def- titely not members of our peer Hoffman then had the gall to come running to us. He oinked that if we would just quietly leave , that he wouldn’t call the Marshalls on us, he would give us back our security and he would even pay the moving expenses! Recognizing that pigs come in other ways besides blue uniforms, we told him that we didn’t make deals with pigs. Hoffman the fool, oinked that he knew that we were Party mem- bers, that he supported the Party .and that he had made a large monetary donation to the Party. We told the lying Jackanape that since he was such a staunch supporter of the Party, then he should be willing to go along with us trying to implement point num- ber four, Caught in his bold lie he just turned red in the face and fled. Sunday night, May 24th, some peo- ple in the building told us that Hoffman being the coward that he is,had stuck a note intended for us under another tenant’s door hoping that the tenant would give it to us, The note said that the Marshall would be there to evict us Mon- day morning. Early Monday morn- ing the Marshall came to the pads. He had a moving van ready to move our furniture away in. Some pigs and some brothers off the block to move our furniture to the vans, We rapped to the brothers off the block giving them a P,E, class on how they were being used. The brothers dug where we were coming from, slapped us five and said later for the pigs. The cowardly pigs not daring to try to move us themselves, slipped downstairs to our other pad to see if they could get some action down there. Meanwhile Nicky and Robert were downstairs rapping to the people who had come out to see what was happening. The pigs who had been upstairs came running down with their guns drawn. At VWiICELES, MEGERS, COLES N/SGERS, E6CERS, WEGERS, USE WHAT YOU GOT, TO GET WHAT YOU NEED. the same time more pigs came rushing into the building from out- side. The pigs pushed Nicky and Robert so that they (the pigs) could tack an eviction notice on our door. A scuffle ensued with seven pigs vamping on Nicky and Robert. They got handcuffs on the brothers and then commenced to do what they NO SHOOT DUT; ONLY A SHOOT IN group. They were maggot infested fascist pigs and we wouldn't even sit in the same room with them, The Federal Grand Jury’s cop out,(which CBSsaid ‘Right On’ to), was that the Panthers are... ‘‘more interested in the issue of’ police persecution than they are in obtaining justice’’. This is a clear example of ‘‘gangster lo- gic’’. When the Black commu- nity made its investigation, all the facts showed that Fred Hamp- ton and Mark Clark had been mur- dered in cold blood, There was no ‘tshoot out’, only a ‘*shoot in’’. The pigs got off more than a hundred rounds of ammunition, while there was little or no evi- dence of return fire from the Pan- ther Pad, There was further proof that the Chicago pigs were armed for ‘‘over kill’’, and had no in- tentions of taking any prisoners. The fact that these brothers were murdered in cold blood, should be clear even to a blind man, and it was not necessary for the Panthers to collaborate these in order for Black people to come to this conclusion, We wouldn't trust afederal body of the fascist United States gov- ernment to investigate anything concerning our people. It must be pointed out that it was infor- most enjoy doing, -beat onniggers. The first pig that started beating on the brothers was a nigger pig. (A pig is a pig is a pig) The pigs then threw the brothers into the waiting pig car and carted them off to jail. The brothers were charged with felonious assault, obstructing gov- - mation coming from the FBI, the * government's political police that has pre-empted the many attacks on our offices and homes, all across the country. In some in- : stances, the FBI has actually par- ticipated in these gestapo raids. * Only fools and co-conspirators in the genocide that is being com- mitted against Black people would expect us to have any faith in ; that Grand Jury of pigs. It would be like hiring Jessie James to investigate his brother, Frank, on charges of bank robbery. All the empty words and the impression of ‘‘due process of law’’ was simply a smoke screen that the pigs used to confuse the people. The fact of the matter : is that the barbaric murderers of our fallen comrades are still free to terrorize the Black com- munity, But we are hip to how the courts use ‘‘constitutionalized fascism’’ against Black people. We have many examples. The Dred Scott case in 1857, which we can directly relate to the trial of our Chairman Bobby Seale, in Chicago, in 1969, The trial of the N.Y. Panther 21 in New York and the New Haven 9 in Connecticut, Our Minister of De- fense, Huey P. Newton, has lang- uished in prison for more than ernment administration, and dis- orderly conduct, Their bails were set at $1,000 (Nicky) and $500 (Robert). ALL POWER TO ‘THE PEOPLE THE OPPRESSOR HAS NO RIGHTS WHICH THE OPPRESSED ARE BOUND TO RESPECT. L two and a half years, before he could receive even a ‘‘sem- blance’’ of justice. It has been going on for a long time, and the same old refrain rings very clearly in our ears, ‘‘A Black man has no rights that a White man is bound to respect.”’ The so-called investigation into the murders of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, and the recent Cali- fornia Supreme Court Decision which showed that our leader and Minister of Defense, Huey P, Newton, was illegally incar- cerated is further proof to our belief in the need for a new con- stitutional convention, There is definitely a need for Black people to draw up a new constitution that will be relevant to Black peo- ple. The Black Panther Party is calling for a\ mass rally and a national press \conference to an- nounce the date and place of a Revolutionary People’s Constitu- tional Convention to be held in Washington, D,C,, June 19, 1970 at the Lincoln Memorial. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE 4 BLACK PANTHER PARTY New York, Ministry Zayd THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 19 WHO ARE THE REAL CONSPIRATORS YOUNG BLACK MAN SHANGHIED BY U.S. COLONIZERS Comrades: Since the beginning of tur his- tory as Black people here in racist America, we have known suffering, hardship and misery -- all the days of our life. Our people have been degraded in the cruelestform that has ever existed on the face of this earth, We have been looked upon by White racists in America as only 3/S human, that is to say, that Black people are part human and part animal and because of this feeling, countless Black people; men, women and children have been ple are around and in these places. Secondly, because we would never sink to the level of reactionary fas- cist pigs, who are totally against the peoples cause for freedom. The New York 21 conspiracy case was supposed to have put an end to the revolutionary struggle in New York, but it didn’t, what did happen was that the masses of people, inflamed by the teach- ings of the Black Panther Party as to what ‘‘All Power to the People’’ means, came out by the thousands, raising high the banner of revolution in support of the Pan- kidnapped, terrorized, torturedand ther 21. murdered in cold-blood by White racists. And because of the madness that is being perpetrated against ~ Black people by pleasure seeking fascist sadists, something had to be done, The Black Panther Party has come forward under the leader- ship of Huey P. Newton, our great and courageous leader, to eradi- cate the many problems facing our people in this land of no liberty for Black and oppressed people. Our Party has been in existence for only three years, and within those three years twenty eight members of our Party have been murdered by fascist gestapo pigs or agents of the pigs, These twenty eight brothers were dedicated rev- olutionaries, who understood the importance of a revolutioninracist America, for they had given careful study of the historical experiences of Black’ people here and the wis- dom gained by Black people in our 400 years of long struggle against a system of racist oppression and ecorfomic exploitation in Babylon. The power structure of Babylon The conspiracy against the New recognizes the Black Panther Party York 21 has riggereda chainreac- as the greatest internal threat to tion in the oppressors attempt to bourgeois security, because weare Stop the revolution, that is inde- educating the broad masses as to Pendent of man’s will, New Haven, how the demagogic bourgeoisie Connecticut. Once again the fas- sucks the blood of oppressed peo- cists cooked up.another conspiracy ple year in, year out. case against our Party members. Because of our political educa- The conspiracy frame-up was put tion program, the fascists have set together right after the New York out, to destroy our organization at 21 bust, the pigs murdered and any cost, This educationrepresents tortured one of our Party members total emancipation from the shac- that was in good standing with the kels of slavery here in racist Party. The fascists, after killing America, Alex Rackley, arrested 8 Panthers The fascists believe that mur- and charged them with conspiracy dering and jailing Panthers, will to kidnap, torture and murder, soon put an end to our just strug- On the 19th of August 1969, our gle for national salvation. How Chairman, Bobby Seale was kid- wrong, how foolish they are. The napped by the fascist gestapo pigs pigs railroaded our Minister of and was also charged with thesame Defense, Huey P. Newton onaman- charges that the other 8 Panthers slaughter charge andsentencedhim in New Haven were charged with, from 2 to 15 years in a California thus bringing the number of kid- Concentration Camp in an attempt mapped victims to 9. Chairman to crush the Party. Thishas served Bobby is facing the electric chair, as a lesson to educate the masses for a crime that the fascist pigs and brings them closer to our rev- committed themselves, We cannot olutionary Party, and will not sit back and allow The timehascomeforthemasses the filthy pigs to take Chairman of Black people to open their eyes Bobby’s life. The masses of op- and see what is taking place all pressed people have proven every- across this sick and decadent na- day, that they support the vanguard tion, in’ reference to the Nixon- of the revolution and are making Agnew-Mitchell Regime, the most it clear to all the fascists in Baby- brutal criminals, reactionary bar- lon, that if they try to put Chair- barians to ever walk this earth, man Bobby in the electric chair, These three diehard butchers have there won't be no lights for days. cooked up conspiracy cases ontop’ These conspiracy cases against of conspiracy cases in an effort members of our Party is opening to destroy us. On April 2, 1969, the eyes of the oppressed masses New York City, the doors of 21 all across this nation. They are members of our Party were seeing with their own eyes just kicked down by fascist pigs with how fascist America really is, es- guns drawn, ready to kill the peo- pecially, when one takes a look ples servants, It was a nightmare at the conspiracy charges brought the way they terrorized, tortured against members of our Party here and then kidnapped the brothers in Baltimore, Maryland. whereas, and sisters. the pigs working as always, incon- The charges that were brought) junction with Nixon, Agnew and Mit- against the 21 Panthers were the| chell, dug up a case one year old, most outrageous charges, that only that many people had never heard fascist criminals like Nixon, Agnew of and are charging 18 people with and Mitchell could put together. conspiracy to kidnap, torture, Conspiracy to blow up department murder and mayhem. stores, a pig precinct, railroad The fascists started their raid right of ways and of all things, around 7:00 AM, They kicked down the Bronx Botannical Gardens. doors for hours, kidnapping Pan- In the first place we would never thers, Panther Sympathizers, sup- do anything like that simply be- porters and ex-Panthers. They cause Black and oppressed peo- raided our Breakfast Program, where we feed children before school. These criminals terrorized the children, waving pistols, shot- guns and all sorts of other over- kill equipment in the childrens‘ faces. It is interesting to know what brought this conspiracy about. On April 24, 1970, two White ra- cist pigs were shot and one died and because of the death of a filthy pig, the fascists are using the Party to get revenge, But just like else where, the broad masses can see straight through this frame-up of kidnap, torture and murder. The people of Baltimore, Maryland will long remember April 30, 1970, the day the pigs unmasked and exposed their fascist nature for all to see. We as Black oppressed people must never forget that we are living in a period in history, where the whole world is a flame with revolu- tion, America, the chieftain of oppression is being attacked by the whole third world and other op- pressed people to free themselves and their countries from the cri- minal hands of U.S, imperialism and neo-colonialism. We must not allow ourselves, here in Babylon, to fear the coming of violent revolution, To fail now could be very disasterous. There- fore, it is a must that all pro- gressive people unite and wage a tireless struggle against all counter - revolutionaries, All op- pressed people have experienced historically the exploitation and degradation of this capitalist sys- tem, which is responsible for hav- ing millions of people living in a constant state of misery. RAISE THE BATTLE CRY ! The primary concern of Black people here in Baltimore must now become those issues and methods of liberation that will and must insure the salvation of our people as a whole. Looking back through the mirror of brutality, torture, injustice and murder that the armed racist power structure, the crooked tongued courts andthe foul-mouthed politicians have comiitted against Black people in this city, it be- comes a necessity that we take steps to safeguard our survival. What the masses shouldunderstand at this stage of our struggle is that, through our efforts to attain justice and peace, our just consti- tutional and human rights, we have been met with the trickery and vi- ciousness that is endorsed by lazy politicians. Through our long history of suf- fering and miseries we have still been denied full employment for He was the type of brother who, when he told you his age, you’d want ‘cause you would swear he was lying. He was the kind of brother who, dedicated his youth, his life to the age-old principal that all men should be free. Mojo would say he was as serious ‘‘as a heart- attack."’ This is an understatement in application to my brother, a revolutionary known as Leonard Colar, 16 yrs. old, from Vallejo, California, When you saw him work, you had to work, because the reality of his Sweat made others feel shame. We called him Big Man, Big Nigger-- that is, before the subterranean swine of the Vallejo Pig Depart- ment stole him, kidnapped him on a jive humbug while he attended court for another jive humbug. Knowing Leonard, we have little to say other than, he didn’t do it. The pigs, the city-level swine of the state-level fascists, have him handcuffed and imprisoned for the alleged murder of his father. Ori- ginally, the killing of the father of Leonard was pinpointed to the Zo- diac killer, But, as the lowly in- vestigators got wind of Mr. Colar’s son, Leonard, very functional member of the Black Panther Party, dedicated servant of our people, young Black man, ‘‘serious as a heart-attack’’, they saw their chance io put a hurting on our people's struggle. To the big pigs who manipulated this vicious shanghai, this criminal to jump down his throat, : LEONARD COLAR POLITICAL PRISONER abduction of Leonard, (and to the pigs that puppeted the first bust-- a frame for marijauna) we have -little or nothing to say. Nothing that you have not heard already from your past crimes against our people. Except that the oppressor has no rights that the oppressed are bound to respect. And that there is not one hole deep enough, not one mountain high enough, not one, single river wide enough, to keep us from finding you, skinning you, and making you pay more than the ultimate for 400 years of inhumanity at your hands, BLACK PEOPLE, FREE LEONARDI! mumia/bpp But how do we bring about a change if we don’t stand up and be men and fight for what we be- lieve in, we cannot in the least depend on the oppressor to free us and make life better for us, this we must do ourselves, we must act now and begin to counter- attack before it is too late. I feel assured that you can see as well as I, what is happening around the world, where as the U.S, imper- ialists are preparing for worldcon- quest, in order to fulfill the Amer- ican Dream. The socialist road is open and this is the road we must travel, however, again that in order to gothe social- ist way, one will have to struggle. In other words, we will have to ‘our people, and the right to deter- mine the destiny of our Black com- munities, We’ve been victimized by White racist capitalist business- . men, and have been forced to live in dungeons and death-traps that have been most incorrectly called homes. Our children have been lied to in schools, and fed the scurvy history of America through what has been labeled as education. Black people are forced to fight the yankee wars of aggression in Vietnam and now in Cambodia, and are thensent back home and told to respect the lies of law and order. There has been no resemblance of justice in the courts for our people and as a result, we have been and still are being jacked up on high bails that are tantamount to ransom, and then we are railroaded offto prison because our survival forced us to use any means necessary to deal with the stupidity of this racist system. Still again, Black people are being tortured and murdered in their homes and in the streets by White racist pig policemen mas- querading as guardians of the peo- ple! The foul scurvy nature of the criminals who are endorsing this type of existence for Black I must point out once’ fight all the way, to be free from this racist U.S. ‘‘dog eat dog”’ capitalist system of death, Beware of the conspiracy char-' ges that are being cooked up a- gainst members of our Party today, it may very well be you tomorrow. The fascists are marching and there is no time to be wasted. Therefore, prepare yourself for the attack and be ready to counter- attack, dealing a swift blow of death to the fascist oppressors and their flunkies. SEIZE THE TIME - BLACK PANTHER PARTY Baltimore Chapter John L, Clark same pirates and thieves who are responsible for the acts of aggres- sion in Vietnam and Cambodia, Black people must rise up now against the crippling chains of fas- cism and imperialism and resist those people and forces that would seek to destroy not only us but the rest of humanity as well. We must put together revolutionary ma- chinery to deal with the repres- sive machinery that has tied the death clamps of genocide around our necks. Black people have no other recourse for survival other than to destroy the machinery that is enslaving the world, The racist oppressor must be harassed until his doom. He must have no peace by day or by night. Either this racist city and country meet the immediate demands of Black peo- ple or we will righteously turn both Baltimore and America up- side down because of the unspeak- able crimes committed against us for over 400 years...We will wait with empty hands no longer, In our attempts to gain what is by constitutional andhumanright ours, we will fight or we will die...But Black people will be paid in full! OUR ANGER CRIES FOR people here in Baltimore, are the VENGEANCE,.,COLD AND DEADLY THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 20 RONNIE MORRIS: RETURNED TO THE PEOPLE On Monday, May 24, 1970, I was released from one of the many dungeons of Babylon (Rikers Island Reformatory) on bail. Some of you know the facts and details concerning my case so there is no need to elaborate, The impor- tant issue that must be realized is that the brothers and sisters who were with me that night were the victims of the common occurrence in the Black commu- nity--brutality, harassment, and false arrest. I am addressing this letter to the people who worked hard and came out to support my release from the fascist jail of Babylon, so that I could continue to serve the people. While I was in jail I had the opportunity to do a lot of think- ing and talking with the other brothers, Most of our conver- sations centered around the Struggle to survive on a day to day basis and the struggle against oppression in Babylon, One thing that stands out in my mind is the spirit that these bro- thers in jail and our people in gen- eral have displayed in their at- tempts to free themselves. Black people have anindemenablespirit to be free, And it is this spirit that has enabled Black people to sustain themselves for so long under this ruthless system of op- pression and exploitation, It was a good feeling to see that this spirit existed in brothers who were off into the jails--the dungeon, Many incidents of injustice oc- curred during my stay in jail, but this particular one stands out in my mind, One day when we were going to the mess hall one of the bootlicking nigger pig’s snatched one of the brothers out of line for no reason, The bro- ther was then taken to the block where he slept. The bloods who were in the same block didn’t dig what was going down, about 400 of them got together and grabbed the brother the pigs had and placed him at the rear of the crowd, The pigs oinked, de- manding that the brothers come out, The other brothers told the pigs that if they wanted him they would have to come and get him, The brothers didn't have any wea- pons, they just had each other and whatever else was around them that could be used against these pigs. The pigs saw that these brothers were not jiving and started oinking about how wrong it was for them to do such a thing. Pigs can always be foun _ masquerading as a victim of ‘‘in- justice’ when in reality, they are the criminals. The pigs are the ones that unjustly removed this brother from the line and then lied to the other brothers by tell- ing them to go back to their block and nothing would happen to them, This incident may seem unim- portant to some of you, but it was a beautiful move that was made by the bloods. It was important because it kept one brother from a merciless beating and 5 days or more in the Bing (hole) for something he didn’t do, The action taken by Black peo- ple for my release was very sig- nificant. For it put the pigs up against the wall, it showed the pigs that Black people are no longer willing to accept the in- justice that the pigs are running down on us. The pigs got up- tight when they heard your bat- tle cry ‘‘Let him out or we'll take it to the streets.’’ They re- cognized the power that existed with the people, Although the peo- ple had no guns visible, etc. Pigs responded to your cry freedom, They saw our numbers, knew that we're capable of tearing down the jive court buildings and totally destroying this oppressive sys- tem that is oppressing us. That is known as the spirit of the people. So I am saying that the spirit of the people is greater than the pigs technology, because I am out on bail. Our victory is not complete because I still have to go back to court for sentenc- ing. Although no date has been set, the fool mercenary pigs are still running amuck in dur Black com- munity murdering and oppressing our people. As evident by such recent incidents as; the Super Guards of the Kent four massa- cre, the Lester Maddox back - shooters of Augusta Georgia, who murdered six persons, and last, but not least,the non-hooded boys of Jackson Mississippi, who killed two students, And as we look a- round in our own communities we see that we are confronted with the same fascist dogs, bet- ter known as, Dingy Lindsay's Blue Knights, who will raid com- munity centers under the pre- text of Law and Order, such as May 19, 1970 incident in Corona. So I say to the people that our struggle is far from ending, it is really the beginning of destroy- ing this oppressive racist Amer- ican system and the fact still remains that our brothers and sisters are still off in the Dun-. geons of Babylon because they are the victims of the same in- justice that all Black people are victims of. So Black people rise up in your splendid millions, only justice is going to come when the people rise up to see justice done. FREE CHAIRMAN BOBBY! FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISON- ERS! CHILDREN DEMAND THAT PIGS WITHDRAW FROM THIER COMMUNITY On May 23, 1970, a fire was tarted on Ripely Road in a child- ens playground, One of the people from the community saw the fire ind called the Fire Department. \rriving with the Fire Department vere two criminals of Black peo- le, two fascist pigs from pen No. who are patrolling our streets, illing niggers under the disguise f upholding law and order in the 3lack Community. Understanding the nature of these pigs, knowing the criminal and animal-like treatment that we receive from them daily in the Black Community the young brothers from the neighborhood aging from ten to thirteen started throwing rocks and bricks at this pig car, making the pigs very up- tight. Seeing how the bloods that were actually throwing these bricks were a distance from the pigs they got away leaving these two pigs rigid and showing the people what real madmen we have patrolling the community supposed- ly for our interest. The first thing that one of the pigs did was pull out his gun and aim it at an eleven year old brother named Roy Hall who lives at 16 Shaffter Street and yelled out, ‘‘nigger you in the white sweatshirt get over here’, Roy being very scared wanted to run, but he knew that even at the age of eleven that that was what the pigs wanted him to do. Roy then walked over in their direction and was grabbed around the neck by the pig who then pulled his gun back out and put it to the head of this young brother who was picked out of the crowd and had nothing to do with the bricks that had been thrown. . The pig told him; “Nigger I’m not going to shoot you one time, but if anymore bricks are thrown I’m going to shoot you three times. People in the neighborhood gathered quickly to witness the criminal act of Nixon’s gunmen and began yelling out that they could see why they were called pigs. After letting the brother loose and getting back into their car the pig whose badge number is 11S7 began yelling ‘‘Shut the hell up!’’ “And then they drove off. vciminal acts such 4S this have been brought against Black people by this racist government all through the history of Black people in this country. The courts don’t serve us, so we’ll serve our- selves, we'll serve ourselves by defending ourselves against all of Nixon’s gunmen, And only by picking up the gun will we find the key to our liberation. DEATH TO ALL THE PIGS ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Robert Duffin ANOTHER PIG PLOT To Frame Panther ‘Big Bob’ For four hundred years Black Americans have waged an unceas- ing struggle against racial oppres- sion, After these many years of suf- fering, heartache and bloodshed, today we have solved the problem of the necessity of revolutionary organization and action. The de- velopment has not only inspired other oppressed segments of Baby- lonian society, but has given new heart to the disinherited of the world, the ‘‘wretched of the earth”’. At a time when the revolution- ary forces of the world are fol- lowing the train of pig hearted Nixon down the road to fascism, Black Americans are playing ade- cisive role in the drawing of a clear line of demarcation between the reactionary pigs and the revolutionary peoples’ of the world. The oppressor, true to his nature has employed every tac- tic at his disposal to crush this struggle, to deny Black people the necessities to gaining a decent life, to splinter the revolutionary organizations, to thwart the revo- lutionary action, Along with the al- ledged carrot, poverty programs, Black capitalism, overt pig re- | pression, the more subtle anddia- bolical tactics of the criminal frameups has been one of the ma- © jor tactics, This tactic is espe- cially employed because it creates false illusions amongst the people about both the oppressed and the . oppressor, Such is the case of Robert Big Bob'’ Heard, a member of the Black Panther Party and revolu- tionary servant of the people, In his case we get a vivid view of the diabolical nature of the op- pressor and the complexity of our struggle. In this attempted ‘‘cri- minal frame up’’there was a comp- licity of two bootlicking niggers; a Marilyn Taart and atraitorous detective pig known as ‘‘Scotty the cop’’, On October 23, 1969, Big Bob was arrested on Roxbury street by “* Scotty the cop’’, and one of his White partners. No reason was gi- ven Bob about the bust. Bob was then taken to station 10 where he was held for approximately an hour and safter which time two pigs brought in this fool Taart. The pigs with agent Taart, stated that she had identified Bob as one of the two men who had at gun point ta- ken her pocketbook on the night of October 21, at approximately 9:30 Big Bob was then jailed and the absurd ransom of $20,000 was set. Friends and people of the commu- nity were able to raise the money for this bail but when it was dis- covered that the Grand Jury has passed a secret indictment and that the money for another $20,000 ransom was necessary to free Bob, This second bail was not easy to raise and this resulted in Bob having to remain in the Charles Street Concentration Camp for another seven days, Because of the very obvious lies of Pig agent Taart, Bob’s first trial ended in a hung jury. Instead of setting Bob free, the lackey Judge declared a mistrial in order to give the pigs more time to get together an even more fiendish Plot. At the second trial of May, 1970, the pigs fiendish plot fell apart in such a manner that the lies were so evident that the ju- ry had no alternative but to free Big Bob. The following is the trial high- lights: A.) Big Bob's activities were covered by witnesses from 9:00 when he left WBUR radio station after being on live radio from 8:00 when he left he walked to Massachusetts Avenue to catch public transportation to Dudley Station, We all knowthat the time this takes is at least 40 minutes. B.) Detective Pig Scotty and his partner testified that pig agent Taart was in the car at the time of Bob’s arrest and that she had recognized Bob on the street, when in fact she was brought to the sta- tion some one hour after the bust. C,) At the first trial agent Taart said she was 2] years old, at the second she said she was seventeen years old. D,) Agent Taart said that she was married and that her name was Thomas but she had given her name as Taart and was being re- presented as Taart. ewe “‘BIG BOB’? HEARD E,) The police blotter signed by Taart stated that her pocketbook had been snatched and that she said that she could not identify the pursesnatcher, in court she said she had been held up at gun Point by two men. F,) Agent Taart testified that she was returning home from work at Jordan Marsh, She had left Jordans at 8:30 (the store closed at 5:00 that night), arrived at Dud- ley at 9:30 Gummer Street to Dudley Station is no more than a 15 minute ride) to be robbed of her $75.00 check from Jordans and $10.00 in cash, A 25 year employee of Jordans who has spent the last 18 years in the personnel depart- ment, testified with records to prove that this bootlicker had on- ly worked at Jordans for two weeks in 1968, Agent Taart was supposed to have been robbed in 1969, G,) At the close of the trial, no one in the courtroom knew whether this agents name was Taart or Thomas. The Summary: Brothers, and sisters, comrades inarms, we Black people -have reached a point in our National Liberation str gle at which we must judge people by their actions. Actigns are the only reasonable basis upon which we can base our judgement. A pig is a pig is a pig. Up against the wall bootlickers, traitors, and lackeys. LONG LIVE THE CHAIRMAN! Floyd Boston Chapter Black Panther Party age THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CALLS FOR A MASS RALLY AND NATIONAL PRESS CONFERENCE TO ANNOUNCE DATE AND PLACE OF REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLES CONSTITUTIONAL For Further Information Contact NCCF Washington, D.C, 20009 (202) 265-4418 ~ 4419 Lincoln Memorial Washington, D.C. June 19,1970 The Shackling like a Slave of Black Panther Party Chairman Bobby Seale is like the Reincarnation of Dred Scott 1857. This Brazen Violation of Bobby Seales Constitutional Rights Exposes Without 2 Dowbt that Black People have No Riohts That The Racist Oppressor Is Bound To Respect. & THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 22 a OPI F PF IIT PT eT TT TTI III I Pe III Pen IA I IIIT 3. We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community. October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want What We Believe o, We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of. forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Ger- mans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people; therefore. we feel that this is a modest demand that we make. 4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made inte cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people : 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true atatetetetatatacatacaroceneneeeeen history and our role in the present-day society. SRR NS eeatetctetatatetcteteer o 5 x ae oS 525 e, 2 o +, o, SSS oretetes SS KG SS SOS SRR ves °, 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. 5 Sojete! S55 KR rates Soe < ates 52585 SO2KS "es x S Nes oS SS res Meas ees oS , KS 2 S SS Xe nes ves 55 Mes oS e535 SoS SK vecetes < x S S25 °, Q KX 22 ., o <M Sos xe CS 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. SRK <5 “ rates <5 oS xX ©, rates rates ren 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. rates Mates <x ox x <6 ee < & <S SS <> XxX 2505 vtates SKS vats % % <6 5 KS “ Mo ves SS < < <5 nes $25 % S % x ves $3 <3 ves res <6 <x) 5 Mates XK S <> Xe 55 ves < <8 SxS <6 S, SSNS <> o, <> <2 < “ sees < < < o, ves ie es rates <> <6 <S ves 0 O 8 cx se SS “ oO 52 52 ras 0 X25 i ERS rates $0505 <> x5 S255 SoS SS 0.0, OX? C2 2 C, o, , 2 s S 2% & SO <> O55 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people. 2 SOS Meares necege vas Nc erates 5 SOS eee saceees eX ‘es "es < S36 es SKK raseees oS oS Mone, eres 5 rene S25 neteess LL renen S > S050 We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or- ganizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We thetefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self-defense. < So o, °, °, \\ OX SK nes OSES Mes ye Mes Mates ox ox ves Mes ores es “ o, S, 52 °, St races SKS cx% KS <5 ?, <2 e, SKK RK < SRS eet o, S255 SX x “es <5 CO OOOO, 2 QORS2 OSOR25.2" SBS SOS raterarerareratete ararasararacarate: eats tatatctatetats SERRE 2 ? KS <2 SRR KKK RRND SOK KR KKK Y socee 5 <2 °, ox S “ © o, E5255 S526 25 ores SKS 0, OO 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. 0, 2 "ee, < < < ves re és és ° “ o, 2 o o, XS 2 o, < < ee oO <5 aces XS Mes 5 res 4 <8 ves Mes < <3 We believe that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because thy have not received a fair and impartial trial. 0, x2 x XS x vates Sx oS ix SX! XS Me o, ee we S “ee < oS oS x res as SoS res So Mes Mes "ee < res <S S Mes SxS Mes <3 ves x es S S ren \7 “es ves 6 ves S 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. me - re SS SKS 552585 Matata® 0 7 8 S 525 $3 re aes ees eS i So oS oS <x% oS x < 5 55 > 5 SKS KX 5 SSS S805 vereces etek en, SOS0505 cx XK race vs oS SoS Se vageees , 2 - x "ee KK ores oS 2 °, < oon <x 2 o $5 ates SxS i<S x S50 xX Me <7 ox <> 2 -o. <2 We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, en- vironmental, hiStorical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. 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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... 535 <2 x Ss Mates ves ven ves me oe SxS S <S SS SOOOQOOO? xe x BSS 0%, OOO?” OO x eesteeeeatet x 0 o, S, OO o, SS KS ms < o, ws ee xX 552 52 <> ates sx xAZ SS Soe S25255 Netes 55050 XS Se ees 535 O05 Xe vanes rates 38 ace ex XS Sxs x race ee S225 oS ese SxS SxS cxS Sx rae ves xs res ves Neves 25 x oS OSS oo KS <0 OS oe “ $35 ee me ee CK SLR See votes S255 Nes ex 55 <6 oS i SS Yes nes SS x SS ves ve Nes ox <2 .° XL OO ves es "es <6 S250 \7 SNS QO OY ‘es es. SK ores Sx ree < < ees <> °, eM x O S555 SSO50K5 RRS 5 S eres S25 SOS NS a. SSD raceges es <n oe SSC ves "ee KS es oeeeee soos oS 5 rates ates as “XS ox When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and naturg’s God entitle them,:a -decent respect to the opinions‘of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru- dence. indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable. than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which 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. ” A iS SKS Ms oS estes SS S rae. SxS ox ees oS S09 < <2 ae < nes ieee % ves oe Mes SS re oS <x ra SOS eS rae xs xs S ©, <8 es Ms <6 Mes % eS x ote KRG KS OOO S255 SxXS se! Ms < O ee ras % <3 us % <5 < S SS S a Paw SxS SL LS SOK XS SxS Ss & 5 vases x < X & res se $5 << ras ves "es “es 52 < x 8 % S255 SKS S55 25 saceee sees x oe SX oS Se Mes Se , < S ~ <3 SSSR SOOO SKK KROL <> OO OS ee ee canes ne S “ +, << <6 < o, SS “ ess < eo 55 oO e, $25 OO Maes Yon o, oO eee ORS eieoeceanrorcees SKS o, <3 6, °, o, ron es o, < % <2 o Oe < <2 o, 0, oO “es oo <6 es ves S 525 res Nes vee SxS aces 20. “ es S28 SOS Mates “eeae “es SOS S25 KO S5 x Mes Nes “es So 5 £5 ees S res ves < <2 eo, o, O o, +, < , < x 2 , o, 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 a the community so that the people of the community can organize and em- sia ploy all of its people and give a high standard of living. ‘ | N | N | N | N | | N | N | aN | . | N | N | N | N | N | N | N ‘ EE LETS ES SE EE LES SS LL ES LE LES ES TE OT SSS ET FFT ES | TTS fF FAR Py a age aa es eee AO EGS |= SRLS eee MR Ree hee a ee ee THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1970 PAGE 23 CONT, FROM PAGE 7 Services will b2 held Saturday Jun2 13, 1970 10:09 A.M. Harvison & Ross 1839 Firestone Open Letter to the Legitimate World Los Angeles Until now, there was no other Fortunately, we have neither an deeds. cof the? trie’ ‘beration civilization in history apart from uninterrupted forward march by fishters, a ruling-class civilization. The real people, the drudge people, the masses of the people were only tools and victims of that civi- lization. If class education and class privilege kept on progress- ing while the peoples minds re- mained in the same state, the sla- very of the people would become the ruling class, nor absolute in- ertia on the part of the people. This inevitable fact will eventually lead to the total collapse of the legitimate world. It should be understood that we who are illegitimate, as defined by you, will not try to justify nor rationalize our clandestine If all people cannot reap the benefits of education and class position or inheritance (back- ground) then we cannot justify any - one reaping these benefits. Our position is defined. We have an enemy and that enemy is you and the one who you are a lackey for. lives, but rather take pride in them and let history record the more intensifed with each new gen- eration. Melvin X RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 1048 PERALTA ST. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Every member of the BLACK P. THER PARTY throughout this country racist America must abide by these rules as func bers of this party. CENTRAL COMMITTEE members, CENTRAL STAFFS, and LOCAL STAFES, including all captains subordinate to either national, state, and local leadership of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY will enforce these rules. Length of suspension or other dis- ciplinary action necessary for violation of these rules will depend on national decisions by national, state or state area, and local committees and staffs where said rule or rules of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY WERE VIOLATED. Every member of the party must know these verbatum by heart. And apply them daily. Each member must report any violation of these rules to their leaders or they are counter-revolutionary and are also ‘* Only with the power of the gun can the Black masses halt the terror and brutality perpetrated against them by the armed, racist, power structure,’’ Huey P, Newton Subjected to suspension by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. the voice of a party, the vose of the Panther must be heard throughout the land.” 1. No party member can have narcotics or weed in his possession while doing party work, 2. Any party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from this party. 3. No party member can be DRUNK while doing daily party work. 4. No party member will violate rules relating to office work, general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANYWHERE. 5. No party member will USE, POINT, or FIRE a weapon of any kind unnecessarily or accidentally at anyone. 6. No party member can join any other army force other than the BLACK LIBERATION ARMY. 7. No party member can have a weapon in his possession while DRUNK or loaded off narcotics or weed. 8. No party member will commit any crimes against other party members or BLACK people at all, and cannot steal or take from the people, not even a needle or a piece of thread. . 9. When arrested BLACK PANTHER MEMBERS will give only name, address, and will sign nothing. Legal first aid must be understood by all Party members. ¢ Ten Point Program and platform of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must be known and understood by each Party member. 11. Party Communications must be National and Local. 12. The 10-10-10-program should be known by all members and also understood by all members. 13. All ice officers will operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of F ce 14. Each person will submit a report of daily work. The Black Panther Parry 15. Each Sub-Section Leader Section Leader, Black Community News Captain must submit Dail) J tports of work. 16. All Panthers must learn to operate and service weapons correctly. July 1967--Minister of Defense, [Ley P, Newton (right) and Chairman, Bobby Seule (left), reading an early edition of 8.P.l, Newspaper at the home of Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of In- formation B.V.P. Lieutenant, and Service was created to ape present factual, reliable 17. All Leadership personne! who expel a member must submit this r ‘ 4 inform: n to the Editor of the Newspaper, so that it will be published information to the people, in the ill be known by all chapters and branches, ALL POWER 18. Political Education Classes are mandatory for general member- re : ship. TO THE PEOPLE! 19, Only office personnel assigned to respective offices each day oe 3] should be there. All others are to sell papers and do Political work out SEIZE x TIME! in the community, including Captains, Section Leaders, ete. 20. COMMUNICATIONS — all ¢ ports in w to the Nai 21. All Branches musi pters must submit weekly re- nal Headquarters. plement First Aid and/or Medical Cadres, Se LU cee A GL oe scmsergsiens sitegelone 22. AN Chapters, Branch ! 3 MONTHS: (13 ISSUES) O $2.50 $9.00 THER PARTY must subn icial Report to the M MONTHS: (26 ISSUES) . . -O $5.00 $12.00 inance, and also the ¢ tee, ONE YEAR: (52 ISSUES) . .O $7.50 315,00. 23. Everyone in a leadership posit must read no fess than two (please print) hours per day to keep abreast of the ch: political situation. NAME S 24. No chapter or branch shall accept grants, poverty Is, money raid from any government agency without cor ting the quarters, All chapters must adhere to the policy and the ideology laid down by the CENTRAL COMMIEPEEER ‘of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. 26. AU Branches must submit weekly reports in writing to their re- spective Chapters. 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