Vol. 5, No. 1

mamusee> ~~ THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY —mratvitroone SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 NEW YORK CITY Hoover PASSED NEW ABORTION LAW el EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1970 BLACK PEOPLE KNOW THAT PART OF OUR REVOLUTIONARY STRENGTH LIES IN THE FACT THAT WE OUT NUMBER THE PIGS——AND THE PIGS REALIZE THIS TOO. THIS IS WHY THEY ARE TRYING TO ELIMINATE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE BEFORE THEY REACH THEIR INEVITABLE DOOM! STORY PAGE 2. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 2 NEW YORK CITY PASSED NEW ABORTION LAW EFFECTIVE JULY 1, 1970 BLACK PEOPLE KNOW THAT PART OF OUR REVOLUTIONARY STRENGTH LIES IN THE FACT THAT WE OUT NUMBER THE PIGS — AND THE PIGS REALIZE THIS TOO. THIS IS WHY THEY ARE TRYING TO ELIMINATE AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE BEFORE THEY REACH THEIR INEVITABLE DOOM! In New York City as of July 1, 1970 it will be legal for women to receive an abortion up to 2-4 months pregnant, The decision will be based on feelings of the woman and her doctor, The strug- ‘‘women’s liberation’’ prerogative to eliminate an unwanted child(?) has won a victory? But a victory for whom? Perhaps it is a victory for the White middle class mother who wants to have a smaller family, thereby enabling her to have more material goods or more time to participate in whatever fancies her at But most of all it is a victory for the oppressive ruling class who will use this law to kill off Black and other oppressed people before they are born. To the Black woman, the it is an announce- ment of death before birth, Black wo- men love children, and now in order to | see to it that they do not starve, that they do not have to be ashamed of having to wear improper clothing, that gle for womans’ the moment, welfare mothers, via a they do not have to suffer all the de- gradation are born, children, of this racist, capitalist society, they will kill them before they Black women love large families and the only reason that they would want to eliminate them is to rid them of the pain and the agony of trying to survive, Why in a country where farmers like Eastland, who are given large sums of public funds to not grow food; where food is actually burned- must Black mothers kill their unborn So they won’t go hungry? Absurd! Eliminating ourselves is not the solution to the hunger problem in America, nor any other problem that could exist from a so-called unwanted pregnancy in the context of this cap- italistic society, The solution lies in overthrowing this system and returning the means of production back to the people---REVOLUTION, As long as the that, the WE WANT AN IMM. Td Me classic IMAL oppressor has food, the children of our communities will eat! We will see to The abortion law, hides behind the guise of helping women, when in reality it will attempt to destroy our people. How long do you think it will take for voluntary abortion to turn into involun- tary abortion into compulsory sterili- zation? Black people are aware that laws made supposedly to ensure our well -being are often put into practice in such a way that they ensure our deaths, The current welfare laws are one of Families, mothers and children are given just enough money to be hungry or starve; just enough money to live in death traps known as houses; just enough N.Y. Chapter examples, 4 END TO ROER OF BLACK P#OPLE for a definite money to survive or to die, And at this very moment a plan which calls sealing on the number of additional children a welfare mother can receive financial assistance for, has already been made into a law in some states and will soon existinN.Y.C, This will create a situation where a welfare mother is told that she will now receive additional financial assis- tance for the child she is expecting; and the solution provided by the govern- ment is a genocidal abortion, In order to solve the problem of no means to take care of her child, the law will allow a mother to ‘‘legally’’ mairder her unborn child, Black women will reject this ‘‘legalized murder’”’ just as they rejected the attempt to force family planning in the guise of pills and coils, And for those who say that it will prevent useless deaths and permanent injury to those women driven to self- inflicted abortion, based on capitalistic morality, or even for those who have legitimate physical and psychological reasons; we say that an abortion law doesn’t insure good hospital treatment have Brenda Hyson or facilities, Black people know that they receive the poorest services pos- sible at hospitals; correctly slaughter houses, people are not about to trust these slaughters houses to perform such‘ delicate operations, Black people know that part of our revolutionary strength lies in the fact that we out-number the pigs - and the pigs realize this too, This is why they are trying to eliminate as many peo- ple as possible before they reach their inevitable DOOM! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE this is why they labeled them as So we say Black Black Community Information Center WHEN THE PIGS STEP UP THEIR REPRESSIVE FORCES THE PEOPLE STEP UP THEIR RESISTANCE College Avenue is an area in South Bronx, where the people have proven themselves to be very pro- gressive to move to aneven higher level. When the pigs stepped up their repressive forces inthe com- munity, the people moved up their resistance. This is the same block where the people organized a rent strike, and forced the pig landlord to ger out since he wasn't doing anything. When they realized that they were giving a man money and not getting anything in return they moved against him, and moved the struggle for human rights to an even higher level. Therefore bringing more pigs into the com - munity by the doublefold, The pigs were double because two buildings of organized people moved against this system of exploitation. Andthe pigs are scared because they know that the people won't stop exploi- tation just in one area, they know that the people will move on all areas to stop exploitation. When you start moving against any of these institutions that are cheating you the pigs get scared because they know that it is only the first step and the next step is attacking the unwanted pig police in our community, And these broth- ers and sisters on College Avenue did it . Right On! You would think that after the above incident that the foul pigs would’nt try it again, but they came into the same community oinking the same madness. A man and his woman are arguing on the streets and a pig came over and told them that they can’t do this. The brother told the pig to mind his own business and go back to where he came from. A few words and oinks were exchangedfrom the brother and the pig. When this fool pig in his fascist manner attacked the brother with his night stick, the brother put up his arms to protect his head, and before he brought them down he brought some of the pigs teeth with him. The brother who was righteously uptight, tried to break the pigs arm but unfort- unately only sprained it, This brother was armed with Karate, which he had learned inthe pigs’ army, and was aware of how the pigs were invading our communi- . The brother had learned legal teak aid from the Black Panther Party newspaper and got away free, The pigs have again doubled their forces in this community, but | think that they realize now, that no matter how many pigs they put here and no matter how manyguns they can’t stop the people from moving the pigs out of the com- munity, These people used what they had to get what they needed, They need the pigs out of the community so they used their fists instead of guns not bombs but their physical strength and disabled one so that he won't be back for sometime and when he is able to come back, he'll think twice before running any madness in our Black community. The people should realize now that, ‘‘The spirit of the people is greater than the man’s technology. Pigs: the people of the College Avenue area have given two warn- ings about coming into this area but instead of staying put youdou- ble your forces. Use some common sense, It’s much easier to killpigs than disable pigs andit is more pro- fitable. Move your invading forces out of this and all Black communi- ties. Your second warning was a disabled pig. Your final warning will be the wrath of the people. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIG INVADERS! Durie Bethea ON WELFARE When we become revolutionaries or changers, we involve ourselves in a huge struggle to overthrow oppression. Oppression manifests itself in many ways. It is man- ifested in the attempts of the Fed- eral Government to harass the Black Panther Party (and Black people) out of existence, Itisman- ifested in the attempts of San Fran- cisco County to railroad Los Siete De La Raza to the gas chamber. And this very same oppression manifested itself in people on wel- fare, who are forced to beg for their basic needs. We suffer the degradation of never getting barely enough. We are treated as the lowest of scum, beneath the hooves of herded cat- tle. Our minds are driven past the point of insanity. Our souls are crushed, and many of us suc- cumb to the feeling that nothing can be done to throw this mon- ster off our backs. Welfare Rights Organizations were formed by people on welfare, for people on welfare. We saw the need for unity and realized thar from unity comes power. We had to condense our individual pro- blems of coping with welfare into a collective consciousness of struggle. The administrators of welfare (ain't nothing well or fair about it) willnever meet our needs, unless we develop the power to make them act in a desired man- ner, Welfare people are the poorest of the poor. We are ignored, and made to look ignorant. We are treated with contempt to try andmake - us ashamed, But now we are be- coming rich, in the recognition of our own humanity, We are break- ing the bonds of ignorance and joining the ranks of ‘Freedom Fighters’’. 4 Still, we have problems: we work hard at educating our people about their rights and mobilizing them behind direct action. But we con- stantly have to deal with defeatist attitudes, because people have been brainwashed (brain-dirtied real- ly) into thinking that the old ‘‘leg- alistic’’, ‘‘non-violent’’ methods are the best way to resist. All of us have not said to ourselves, “‘By any means necessary..." So we are young in the struggle, but we are getting it together, There are neighborhood welfare rights meetings all over San Fran- cisco, (To find out where your local WRO meets, call the Wel- fare Rights Council, (415) 392- 8076,) We meet to discuss and solve individual problems, We rap on methods of change...how to and when to move, We relate our common everyday (24 hours a day!) struggle to the entire liberation struggle. We have planned a Demonstration to celebrate the Na- tional Welfare Rights Organiza- tion’s Birthday,June 30, and'also will be agitating for a guaranteed ade - quate income, The demonstration will start around ten in front of the welfare office at 965 Mission St. Be There! All welfare recipients should become members of the Welfare Rights Organization. We must fight together, NOW, because time is running out...LETS FREE OUR- SELVES, Western Addition Welfare Rights T. Major, Sec. PIGS BEAT WELFARE MOTHERS On Tuesday June 23, 1970sisters from the community receiving in- sufficient welfare aid here in Washington, D.C, went to the Wel- faré Department demanding money for badly needed furniture, People are on the Welfare because they have no other means of support for survival. Conditions force some to rely on this aid, even though it is inadequate. As wel- fare recipients these mothers are entitled to extra money alloted for emergency cases. When these sisters asked for the SISTERS PLEAS FOR members told the mothers that they would try to do everything in their favor. Meanwhile the children of these mothers have to sleep on the floors .and eat on the floors while these lying, scheming, pig hearted City Council members claim that they have to go to con- gress to see if they can allow the sisters to have the money for what is rightfully theirs anyway. We know that everything that these fascist dogs do is in their best in- terest, so it is up to the people to determine whether we get what we must have, AID ANSWERED WITH RIOT STICKS AND MACE extra money that they needed, they were met with ferocious big bellied pigs who answered them with riot sticks and mace. These punk pigs stomped on every man,woman and child that crossed their furious path of destruction. One of these filthy rats knocked a baby out of its mother’s arms and sprayed mace on the children that were standing around, They even dragged pregnant sisters on the ground, As the result of these sisters being the victims of an unprovoked attack, 42 were are rested,— These sisters stayed inthe park across. the-street from.the Wel- fare Department until they were finally allowed to meet with the so- called officials of the City Coun- cil, These deceiving City Council Point No. 2 of our Platform and Program states that ; 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 Ameri- can Business will not givefullem- ployment then the means of pro- duction should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and em- Ploy all of its people and give a high standard of living. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE] Gwen Moore Black Panther Party Washington, D.C, Chapter ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 3 DO WE FEAR THE PIGS ? The reason we as Black people commit acts of violence against each other, is because we, deep within, fear our oppressor andhis fascist retaliation (kickback ) more than we fear anything one of us could possibly do to each other. Therefore it is easier to attack each other, instead of taking out our justifiable rage on our tor- mentor and oppressor, Recently in Harlem, the large sprawling ghetto exhibited this colonized state of mind, On Mlst and Edgecombe Ave. a typical in- cident occured; the effect of avery uptight position, A brother was gagged, bound and shot by another brother. The oppressor ruling class antagonizes the people everyday, filling us with rage, and we kill and hurt each other, The pig controllers of power have pacified us with the Mafia number rackets, and the inflow of dope into our Black communities and the avaricious pigs and fools who would set up liquor stores, ( four in a block ) because its best that niggers stay drunk kill- ing each other, is part and parcel of the colonizers’machinery. What happened on 14lst street on or about June 10th is one con- crete example of us fighting a- mongst ourselves, The fact of the matter is , that we have to fight together against the oppressor and state machinery of oppression. The brother who was shot and gagged, or considered not the conditions that caused his op- pressed state of mind and led to his being jammed up by another just like him, All of this shouldn’t have been, It looked like the doings of a sa- distic perverted pig. People what you should do is bind and gag those that oppress you, not those who are struggling just like yourself. The Black Panther Party does not condone genocide to Black people by Black people, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Cheryl Foster Harlem Branch Black Panther Party, JUDGE A. LINCOLN In the last week June 1S, through 19th, 1970, the people of Winston Salem have witnessed the most ridiculous form of injustice here in our city by the racist Judge A. Linclon Sherk. It is very obvious to see by the cases stated below that Judge Sherk is a racist, and is very prejudiced in his so called administering of Justice. On June 17, 1970, a brother Lee O. Kirby was sentenced to serve 30 days in the County Jail. Kir- by, an 18 year old student at North Forsyth High School (predo- minately white) was charged with simple assault, on May 29, he pleaded guilty. After ‘hearing the evidence against Kirby, Judge A. Lincoln Sherk began to enter a judgement by which the youth would serve his 30 days on weekends. Racist dog Sherk then changed his mind and sentenced Kirby to serve a straight 30-day sentence. He ac- cused Kirby of having given him a dirty look after hearing the ori- ginal judgement, To pig Sherk, the racist punk, all Black people have dirty looks. One June 19, 1970, a sister, Pa- mela S. Niven, 17, was charged with disorderly conduct in a pub- lic building. After a 90 minute Dis- trict court trial, racist dog judge Sherk found sister Niven guil- ty and gave her a suspended 60 day jail sentence, a $50.00 fine and put her on probation for three years. Miss Niven and other stu- dents were protesting the school board decision to purchase 27 SHERK trailer classrooms to various county schools to which Blacks will be transferred next year as part of the system's integration plan. Punk Sherk convicted Miss Ne- vins based on the grounds that elected spokesman have the right to have orderly, well conducted meetings, no matter how it affects the welfare of our people. On June 19, 1970, Judge A. Lin- coln Sherk threw a drug case out of district court. Defendant Wil- liamson, a White man in his early 20’s works at Forsyth Memorial Hospital. A pharmacist testified that Williamson presented a forged prescription for a barbituate-am- phetamine compound May 25 ata local drug store. The pharmacist said he had seen a rendition of the same prescription before. Judge A Lincoln Sherk felt that it was necessary to throw a case out of Court where a person is trying to obtain drugs through il- legal means, eyen though William- son had been proven guilty, It has been proven by Judge Sherk’s attitude towerds Black people, and the way he -has his Kangaroo court set up for Blacks that he is another racist pig Judge following the pig foot steps of Hoffman, As long as Judge Sherk remains here, our people will continue to be railroaded through the courts. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Slack Winston Salem N.C.C.F. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY,4, 1970 PAGE 4 LAW AND ORDER IN CAIRO MEANS THAT BLACKS GO TO JAIL WHILE In May, 1969, James Wilson, a Black male, age 30 with 7 child- ren went to Peyton Berbling, States Attorney of Alexander County to ask that a complaint be filed against Mr, Charles Sullivan, White male, Mr. Wilson was moving in next door to me. Mr. Berbling refused to file a complaint against Mr. Sullivan, February 26, 1970 Attorney Mar- tha Jenkins attempted to file a complaint against Mr, Charles Sul- livan’s truck which was deliberate- ly driven into the marchers while they were peacefully marching. State’s attorney Berbling refused to accept the complaint. Nocharg- es filed. Two days later Attorney Jenkins wrote to Attorney General Scott and has not yet received an an- swer. January 6, 1970 the casing and slugs to bullets from a sniper were turned into Black officer Mr. Wilbert Beard, The bullets had been fired into an apartment inthe Pyramid Court, all Black housing PIGS LOCK BROTHERS OGILVIE’S UNFULFILLED PROMISES July 22, 199 Springfield, Illinois., Gov. Rich- ard B. Ogilvie announced today ( Tuesday) he has named a per- sonal representative to deal with problems in Cairo, following a WHITES RAISE HELL project by White subjects. The ed/ casing and slugs were sent to the |} ti State crime laboratory by State Policeman Corporal Turner. A re- Port on or about February 3rd, Stated that Officer Turner’s cas- ings and slugs were missing. April 18, 1970, Lt. Hall, state po- lice, was supposed to do investi- gation of White men who were carrying guns as marchers, who were marching peacefully in a de- monstration in support of the ec- onomic boycott, walked past them, No report on this investigation was given and no arrests were. made, April 18, 1970 Mr. Jerry, Herrod 25, and Mr. Leslie Sumlin, 54, both Black were arrested while peacefully marching in a down- town demonstration, for peace dis- turbance. Mr. Sumlin, walking with the assistarice of a cane could not keep up with the march, The peace disturbance was dropped the next day in the case of Mr. Herrod. A State policeman assisted inthe ar- rest upon the order of local po- lice chief Roy Burke. This elderly man ¥ was sleeping when bullets tore into his home. He de- lares that he saw Whites \— running from the scene,On X levery occasion, many eye witnesses see Whites par- ticipating in the violence, To this day no Whites have been arrested, but instead constant harassment and intimidation of Blacks oc- icur as part of the violence, IN CELL WITH ATTACK DOGS On Wednesday, June 17, 1970, Sheriff hog William J. Kersey, a racist terrorist known for his fre- quent harassment of Black people in the Prince George County area saw it necessary to havea ‘'shake- down"’ of the cells in the prison there. The only reason that this mealy-mouthed pig Kersey gives for calling the search was that he had heard rumors that drugs had been smuggled inside of the prison walls, These misleading ru- mors were the only justification given for the savage and cruel acts inflicted upon William M. Hub- bard, known here in the colony as “‘Squeaky"’, and harassing the other brothers who are being held captive there, It took 20 of Kersey's prize winning pigs, armed with long riot sticks and blackjacks along with two teams of ferocious man-eat- ing pig dogs to go on a rampage through the ancient, overcrowded, delapidated facility in search of drugs in which none were found, As a result of this uncalled for search based on fallacies, Squeaky suffered wounds from being knocked on the floor, shoved against the wall, and a hole in his leg from being bitten by one of these vicious pig dogs. The only acceptable reason for these fascists calling this particular search was to keep these scum- sucking punks in practice for beat- ing and brutalizing niggers. The racist news media had the nerve to say that all the wounds resulted from Squeaky falling into the wall, falling into the pig, even falling into the dog’s mouth. All were acci- dental according to the lying press. His mother received a bill from the Prince George’s County Pri- son Hospital, which she feels right- ly that she shouldn’t have to pay because these foul pigs were the culprits that injured her son. Mrs. Hubbard was never informed of her son’s condition, When her daughter tried to call, she was told that the entire incident was unimportant. These savage no- hearted pigs refused to give Mrs, Hubbard any type of information concerning her son’s present phy- sical condition. As a result of Squeaky being the victim of an unprovoked at- tack, he was charged with as- saulting a pig officer. Panthers are being subjected to the same type of hostile treatment in pri- sons and jails all over the country for their profound love and con- cern for the people, Who are the true criminals? Power lies in the hands of the people. The people have the power to free the inno- cent and to jail the guilty. The real criminals are those low-lifed pigs such as William Kersey and his well-trained lackeys. These are the. true criminals and they are the ones who should be locked up. Point No. 8 of our Platform and Program states: WHAT WE WANT: “‘We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county, city prisons and jails." LET THE WHAT WE BELIEVE: ‘We believe that all Black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial tial.” “AND LET THE MADMEN OUT’ ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Washington, D.C, Chapter Gwen Moore ein FEATURING THE REV, CHARLES KOEN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DF THE UNITED FRONT us a strong indication that the housing plans can win approval, The Governor said planning for the housing program is being di- rected by a bi-racial Cairo Ci- tizens Advisory Group. United Front Of Cairo Cairo; 414-l4th street, Cairo IIL. OF CAIRO, AND THE UNITED FRONT CHOIR meéting last week with representa- tives of the community. Ogilvie said he has designated Paul, J. Wisner, an attorney and Associate Director of the office of Human Resources, to bring the full authority of the Governor's office to bear on state efforts in Cairo, Ogilvie also commented: “T urge all citizens of Cairo, White and Black, to set aside old differences and make a fresh start toward solution of the problems’’. Such progress can only be ac- hieved in an atmosphere where there is respect for the law and for the rights of every citizen. The Governor listed in a state- ment, a number of state actions to aid the community, but he de- clared: “I cannot emphasize too strong- ly that the proper place to achieve solution of the problems of Cairo is in Cairo itself. July 30, 199 Springfield, ll. , A 5 million dollar community sponsored hous- ing program is being planned for low income families in Cairo, Gov. Richard B. Ogilvie announced to- day (Wednesday) A state grant of $290,000 from the Illinois Housing Development Authority will provide immediate funds for the program the Gov- ernor said, Meetings in Cairo between the Gov- ernor's representative, Paul J. Wisner, and United Front Leaders were joined today by the Rev, Charles Koen, Father Gerald Mon- troy and others, Ogilvie said. He commented: “IT am extremely hopeful that a beginning has been made that will lead to real progress in Cairo. “This will require the whole- hearted participation of all seg- ments of Cairo in cooperative local efforts which can then re- ceive the full backing of state and federal agencies, Ogilvie said preliminary dis- cussions with officials of the De- partment of Housing and Urban Development in Washington give 618-7340376 ( day) 618-734-1250 (Night) Chicago: 1525 East 53rd street 312-493-1281 Springfield: 821 S. 2nd street 217- 525-1876 the history of state police activity in Cairo, Illinois from March, 1969 March, April, May, 1969 Refused to investigate shooting into Ripley Young’s car on March 31. Cooperated with Cairo City police in allowing white hats to conduct a reign of terror against Black residents beginning March 31 through shooting and arson. May, June With the removal of Cairo Chief of Police, Carl Clutts, superin- tendent of the state police, James McGuire with other state police restored order to the city. Al- legedly, some white hats were ar- rested and disarmed. Their names were never published, nor were they brought to trial. June 15 With the appointment of Cairo chief of police, Peterson, State police stated that they were help- less to control snipings and ar- son as they were placed under Peterson's jurisdiction, June, July Were called on several oc- casions when prolonged periods of sniping occured, refused to re- spond, July 22, 23 August | Arrested Blacks from Cairo ; Ministers, nuns and many young people from Springfield to give justice to the Blacks in Cairo. State police used storm troopers tactics in pushing, shoving and knocking to the concrete marble floors several of the nuns and other young persons, August Several times participated in arrests of Blacks picketing for equal oppotunity arrests were made under a bogus city ordinance allowing only six pickets in Cairo CONT, TO PG,5 CONT, FROM PG, 4 LAW AND ORDER THAT BLACKS IN CAIRO MEANS 60 10 JAIL WHILE WHITES RAISE HELL MR. RICE WHITFIELD INSPE CTS THE DAMAGE DONE TO HIS CAR, THE AUTOMOBILE WAS HIT IN ONE OF THE OVER ll0 NIGHTS THAT BULLETS HAVE BEEN FIRED INTO THE BLACK COMMUNITY at one time. Federal Judge Wise Danville, ruled the ordinance un- constitutional and the arrest il- legal and allcharges were dropped. State police stood by while mobs of Whites harassed picketing Blacks, sometimes allowing Whites to strike and spit at pi- ckets, When asked to either dis- perse or arrest those doing these illegal acts, refused to do so. Stood in front of VFW Club with city police when White vigil- antes there commenced firing into Pyramid Courts housing project. No arrest made, September 13 Attempted to enforce emergency ordinance enacted by city disal- lowing assembly of two or more people. Used storm trooper tac- tics again, rushed Blacks who were “attemptimg to exercise constitu- tional rights of marching and pa- rading, Restrained by Federal Judge Wise after making several arrests under illegal ordinance. Or- dered thereafter by Federal Judge to protect all United Front March- ers, February 3 Governor Ogilvie promises that State police will equally enforce the law as state police take over control of local law enforcement from racist Cairo police depart- ment, He announces that Cairo Police will be extensively trained, Rey. Charles Koen replies: ‘‘Take a rotten apple, shine it, polish it and make it look pretty on the outside, but when you bite into it it is still rotten’, Hope is ex- pressed by Front, but Governor is told that because of past prac- tices of State police, proof of equal protection will have to come from State police in action. February 4 Shaky hope on February 3, is shattered as state police walk Provocatively into Pyramid Courts. State police cars follow, chase, shine spotlights on individuals homes and cars,Children put tacks and glass on the streets. State police respond by bringing in dogs State police point rifles at cars as they drive by parked police cars near and around Pyramid Courts. State police cars park around Pyramid courts, car door opens with rifle pointing toward the 800 men, women and children in the housing project. State police men in uniform and on duty are seen anywhere in the community. February 5 Heavy patrolling and parking around Pyramid Court continues each night. No viable evidence that any patrolling takes place in White areas. Close to 100 state Police remain in Cairo, Blacks feel the cold, heavy hand of op- pression and intimidation as these heavily armed ‘“‘protectors’* continue their nightly harassing Patrols of the Black community. After 15 months of an econo- mic boycott, Black community has been fired on 102 nights; with eco- nomics of city falling by 50% in the midst of constant harassment of Black community; with detect- tives for St. Police in Cairo in- vestigating the Black community; the conspiracy and over all op- pression of United Front commu- nity is now on in full force, The Rev. Manker R. Harris, Public Relations director of the United Front was fired on Sunday night, he filed a complaint but no official warrant was issued against the person firing him. States Atty. Peyton Berbling, refused to let Rev, Harris file charges a- gainst the police. Policeman Ro- bert Simmons has now moved with the States Attorney to put Rey. Harris under arrest. The Rev. Harris is the first of many frame up felony charges, This is a con- tinuation of suppression in Cairo and attempts to stop the movement here, The Rev. Koen, executive di- rector of the United Front of Cairo commented: ‘‘God knows that the backs of the people, the Black community are up against the wall, The issue is not any more ‘if we must die’, rather simply because we are fighting for our own dignity; because we are God's children, the issue is now how will we die. I make a plea to Black and White citizens across the country to move po- litically, to move on whatever levels of peaceful protests that is available to them, to use whatever pressures they may have, to force local , state and federal authori- ties to break this conspiracy against the Black community of Cairo and demand immediately the stopping of the ridiculous arrests of United Front Officials and individuals in the Black com- munity. We shall continue to strug- gle here in Cairo. We shall fight as God's children until we are free’ DEFINITELY Brownsville, New York A lot has been written about the oppression suffered by the peo- ple of Brownsville, in the East N.Y. section of Brooklyn. Most ' of this ‘‘literature’’ and writing, however, in the past, has only recorded the people’s oppression, misery, and absolute poverty. So later for that, we do not need any more people to record for us and our children, our misery and oppression, What is needed now is thought, ideas and actions that will inspire those who are placed in § the social backyard of human ex- | Ploitation to struggle and rise up against their tormentor, with guns in their hands, The present situation in Browns- ville. is one where the people, those who live daily in an exist- ence that is a never ending fingerpopping nightmare to sur- vive, are confronted with the ul- timate contradiction: the fascist mongrel dog pig police. Who have the nerve to occupy the Black com- munity; with their racist arro- gance they are the watchdogs that guard rat infested burned out tene- ments, and garbage strewn vacant lots, where the playground for Black children are buildings filled with rubbish, For so long now, the pigs have performed the func- tion of armed mercenaries. Brownsville is a war zone, where the pigs travel in two’s and four’s nervously reaching for their guns at night whenever a child explodes a firecracker, or a brickis thrown their way in rage, anger or frus- . tration, and boils inside he who would match a brick with a .38 Police special. The occupying ar- my of jackals that call themselves Police, haye become the ultimate enemy of the people. For they condone by their fascist actions all of the things that the state runs on Black people here in Brownsville. The people must make clear their desire for a better life by moving on the highest level pos- sible; in a situation that exists here in Babylon in general, and here in Brownsville in particular, We must match the pigs armed forces with self-defense groups. The tactic the pigs use of in- timidation, must be countered with the wrath of the armed self-defense groups, whose duty is to do away with the mongrels who guard our people’s misery. Until the profit is taken out of Black people’s suf- fering, and the racist scavengers are driven from our communities, we will never have the ability to live a better life, We cannot condone the throwing of bricks, when the racists have guns and use armed force in re- THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4. 1970 PAGE 5 YES, BROWNSVILLE IS MOST IN A STATE OF WAR oe hi BROWNSVILLE: A NEVER ENDING FINGERPOPPING NIGHTMARE TO SURVIVE taliation. Nor can we fight the deplorable conditions we live under with the blinders of anti-poverty grants, Yes, Brownsville is most def- initely in a state of war, the pigs move in convoys at night when things get hot, and to all those who claim to be fighters, now is the time to step forward. Now is the time to protect Black people, by striking death blows to our oppressors armed troops who guard our misery. Now is thetime to cut off the arm of the greedy pigs in city hall, by killing his troops of repression. To do so can only be in self-defense, for it is these very troops who are killing us in so many different ways, and in so many different forms, If there is a program that will ensure us some power, true power, it is the destruction of this econ- omic system that is built on our misery, and the world’s misery. In this direction lies our only hope, as a people, as human beings. And only by this means (armed resistance) can we achieve our liberation and unity. The tene- ments, rats and roaches, and ya- cant buildings, can only be trans- formed through our own efforts, and we can do this ultimately, only with guns in our hands, and the pigs out of our community. To view those who stand watch over our oppression, and uptight conditions as ‘guardians of the law’’, or deserving of some sym- pathy, is a violation of one of the most basic and fundamental laws of nature, The law of sur- vival is kind of stupid as well as contrary to man’s nature to love one’s murderer, or an enemy, therefore any means the oppressed may’ use to remove the yoke of their oppression and the messed over position they find themselves in, is justified, in fact required by natural inclination, and instinct. If Brownsville is an accurate reflection of the American econ- omic system, this vulture style dog society, then Black people, accurately reflect the beauty of man’s spirit. That something that gives the ability and will to strug- gle daily against the oppressive system of racist exploitation, Even more, we should realize that the only method of making that some- thing a reality is the method of revolutionary war. For only through revolutionary war can our communities be transformed into what we need and desire as hu- man beings. It can be said that it is the duty of those who suffer to righteously strike blows against their tor- mentor, and that the situation that exists in Brownsville is one that calls for us to wage a righteous war on all levels against the ra- cist super monster that has its troops in our community. Pig Babylon, the mongrels who claim to be the leaders of this nation, and their state machinery; this legalized jive state machinery, must be smashed, utterly, tho- roughly and completely we must move in our own self interest, for the racists will not do so for us. If unity can only be gotten through struggle, then the ulti- mate struggle which is armed struggle, will bring forth the ul- timate unity. BLACK PANTHER PARTY Dharuba (N.Y, 21) LIAISON OFFICERS -- ANOTHER MEANS OF EXPLOTATION SYSTEMATIC Since 1965, Winston-Salem has had its Anit-Poverty programs on the scene to help keep the people of Winston-Salem pacified and con- fused. These different programs have maneuvered the people into believing that the government has some interest in the welfare of our Black people. One program that has been im- plemented under the Anti-Poverty program of the government herein Winston-Salem is the Liaison Po- lice Officer, Liaison meaning in- terrelationship, intercommunica- tion between parts of an armed force, and contact to ensure co- operation, in other words meaning nothingbut a bunch of Karanga- tangs for the pigs. The general description of duties of these niggers are; The lackey will assist the pigs in his public surveillance activities andalso act as a liaison agent among the police- men, youth groups and vocal groups in urban areas, In the general description the racist government made sure they said urban, be- cause they know that Black people cover the majority of the popula- tion in the urban areas, and the White folk live in the suburbs. The specific description of duties of the bootlicking niggers also in- clude: 1. Assisting the pigs with on-the- job clerical duties such as writing traffic tickets, 2. Assisting the pigs in the sur- veillance of business and industrial establishments during hours when not regularly occupied. 3. Maintains surveillance of down- town entertainment centers. 4, Answers requests for assist- ance in local neighborhoods to help beat Black people’s heads. (This is easily done because the trailers are located in the Black commu- nity.) 5. Participates in all activities of the pigs athietic league. 6. To signify at meetings of dif- ferent groups in the community, and inform the pigs, also to oink about career opportunities within the pig force. 7. Assist pigs to maintain torture and brutality against our people doing public demonstrations or marches, 8. Investigate reports of civil dis- obedience in urban ghetto areas and interprets. the behavior of groups involved\in public demon- strations to the \patrol officers. These nigger Liaisons. have joined” the fascist. pigs to help pacify, terrify, torture and mur- der our people by giving the pigs information concerning Black peo- ple, that will have the pigs al- most in complete control of our communities, So we the people of Babylon are saying to you Piglet Liaison that: When it’s time for the barbecue, you will roast too. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Winston-Salem, N.C,C.F, Slack THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 6 FIREMEN , AS FRONT LINE TROOPS FOR THE LOCAL FASCIST PIGS On the night of June 13, 1970, I was walking through the streets of the Black community in San Francisco, with a brother when I saw flashing red lights as we turned the corner, It was the flash- ing lights of the city fire truck, Be- cause of its bright red colors and flashing light it was easily the cen- ter attraction. As we approached the fire trucks that were stopped in the middle of the block, we noticed that not only were there no signs of a fire but no one, including the fire pigs act- ed like it. So I said to that broth- er that those fire pigs are on military maneuvers, with the local pigs as back ups. Almost daily, the Black community is being ob- served by these fire pigs to see and féé1 the response of the peo- ple to the flashing red lights and loud~sounds“of the big sirens. It is’Such a common thing in the Black community that most of the people never really give too much attention to the fire pigs and generally goon about their business. This is a serious mistake be- cause in not paying close attention to these community invaders, we are allowing our community to be peacefully observed, that of the DETERMI For the past month or so, the black Panther Party has been negotiating with the Orchard Park Day Care. Center for the use of their facilities to feed the Free Breakfast For Children Program. Day Care Center voted on the pro- gram being set up and approved of the Free Breakfast Program being set up for their use, The entire community as a whole has spoken out in approval of the Free Breakfast Program. Because the community support- ed and approved of the Breakfast Program, we went to the director of the Day Care Center, Sidney Holloway and told him that we would begin operation of the pro- gram on Monday, June 1,1970. But this bootlicking lackey of this racist, fascist oppressive system told us that the people in the community couldn't decide whether they would have a breakfast pro- gram ; that they were not allowed to decide what they want for them- selves. This punk pig told us that he would not allow the breakfast, program to be set up until the Boston Housing Authority WINSTON SALEM LIBERATION SCHOOL “‘We want education for our peo- | ple that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society.”’ As members of the Black Lib- eration Army, we are the Van- guard Party of the masses, There- fore, we should help our people and protect them by any means necessary. We realize that our people have been under oppression for over 400 years. Our peopleare hungry and without clothes, without decent housing and without knowledge of the nature of our struggle. When the people from the community come to us for help, this is good; we say right on, to that, because that is what we're here for, ‘‘to serve the people’’, We must remain humble servants of the people. As Huey says, ‘we are oxen, to be workings and movements of our community is being observed by the fascist pigs under the pretext that they’ve come to put out a fire. It has been stated in previous “Self defense groups'’ articles by the Field Marshall D,C, that the pigs C.M,I. , Communications, Mobilization and Information’’, must be taken into account before any military operation is launched by the revolutionary forces. For years and years the pigs have been testing the impulses of Black people as they relate to pig cars, fire trucks riding through their community at all times of day and night without any type of harass- ment from the people. Of course there was atime when children and adults alike would chase fire trucks to see where the fire was supposed to be, and just exactly what the pigs were doing in the community, But today we find that our people have become sluggish and dull-minded when it comes to checking these preten- ders ( fire pigs ) out very closely every time that they come out into the streets, We knowfrom past ex- perience that fire engines have been used as road blocks to seal NING OUR approved of it being set up. Dig that! This fool is telling us that the people in the community, who want the Free Breakfast are not going to be allowed to determine for themselves what they can or can’t have, but that in fact, the Boston Housing Authority is going to determine that for them. Point number one of the Black Panther Party Platform and Pro- grom states that; *‘We want free- dom. We want the power to de- termine the destiny of our our Black community, We believe that Black people will.not be free un- til we are able to determine our own destiny’’. The situation here in Orchard Tark concerning the Breakfast Program is a very clear example of whether the people of this com- munity are going to determine their own destiny (and have their Break- fast Program) or whether the Bos- ton Housing Authority is going to be allowed to determine it for them. The people of Orchard Park have the power to determine the destiny of their own community, if they take that power. They ~~ a going to be ridden down the path of a people's revolution. We say that our people and our youth in particular should be edu- cated, to the nature of our strug- gle. So what do we do? We imple- ment Liberation School from 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p,m. every day Mon- day through Friday; and political education classes for the com- munity on Tuesday night from 7:30 p.m, to 9:00 p.m. The lunch program is now func- tioning here in Winston-Salem. It started June 15, 1970, we had ap- proximately 40 kids and they re- sponded beautifully.The young war- viors are learning and taking the concept of the ‘Big Family’ (so- off a particular area in the Black Community. That the fire pigs and the local pigs work hand in hand when it comes to suppressing the people. Fire hoses were used in Alabama, Mississippi and many other Southern and Northern states against civil rights workers and demonstrators, At this stage inour struggle for liberation we can't afford to take any unnecessary chances when it comes to the de- tection of our sworn enemies and their every move. So we must in- tensify our vigilance and be on the alert at all times for the front line troops of the fascists: the local firemen, It is a cold and deadly situation that we Black people face in the colony here in Babylon. But cold and as deadly as the situation may be, if we can detect the enemy and pass on that information through- out the Black community quick enough we will surely have amore revolutionary reception for the foul depraved invaders of our com- munity. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE San Francisco Branch Black Panther Party DESTINY have the power to determine whether they are going to have a Breakfast Program ( or any other program) and later for that Boston Housing Authority and all it’s bootlicking nigger sissies. If the people of Orchard Park demand that this fool let the Free Breakfast Program be held in the Day Care Center, they have the power to force him to turn over the key. This punk has the key, all he has to do is hand it over, later for the Boston Housing Authority. This fool has suceeded indelay- ing the opening of the Free Break- fast For “School Children, the people have the power to determine when and how it will open. WE WANT FREEDOM, WE WANT THE POWER TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR BLACK COMMUNITY, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE | Diana Roberson Boston Chapter Black Panther Party cialism) as their own, and will spread these ideas in the commu- nity, We must continue to let this beautiful thing go on, We have to hold fast and educate the youth because the Youth Make the Rev- olution, Most of us will not live to see the end of the revolution, but our one comforting thought is that the youth will do as we have done in the name of the Revolution. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE ALL POWER TO THE YOUTH N.C,C.F,, Winston-Salem David Bowman Cynthia Criss SAFE BUS COMPANY, A VENTURE IN BLACK CAPITALISM Pig-hearted Nixon came torth with a jive scheme called ‘Black Capitalism’, Black capitalism is supposed to enable Black people to be fully absorbed into the main- stream (decadent cesspool) of American life. Blacks who are politically uneducated cannot see this maneuver as nothing more than an exchange of White ex- Ploiter for Black exploiter. They can’t see that Black capitalism will only benefit a few Black people, while the masses still sink lower and lower into the mire and rot of a corrupt, dehumanizing so- ciety that is doomed for destruc- tion, PEOPLE HAVE TO WAIT FOR HOURS FOR they are supposed to render to the people has decayed to such a point that people have to wait for hours for a bus that goes into their section of town. In an attempt to prove that niggers could run something, they have acted in a crazy manner, they hijacked - up the fares in order to run and extend the service to the White community. Black people are the ones that have beared the brunt of this additional capital to ex- tend this additional service to peo- ple that very rarely ride the bus. So we see that in this case Blacks are being exploited by Blacks. Safe Bus Co, is the only Black-owned A A BUS THAT GOES INTO THEIR SECTION OF TOWN In Winston-Salem, there usedto be two bus companies, one owned entirely by Black people and the other owned by the City. The bus company owned by the City phased out because Whites don’t ride buses like niggers do. After the City company folded, the entire City had to depend upon Safe Bus Co. for transporting people to andfrom different areas of the City. In the beginning Safe Bus Co. charged reasonable fares to ride their buses, Their service was never what it sould have been, but since niggers have taken over the ser- vice, they have gone crazy, The fares have gone up tre- mendously and the service that bus company in the country. It is exploiting the masses of Blacks for the benefit of a few. It be- comes crystal clear that in the final analysis a death dealing blow to one capitalist is just as ef- fective for any other. Safe Bus Co, is taking more money andren- dering less service. The bus com- pany doesn’t return any of this profit tothe community andthere- fore shouldn’t be allowed to con- tinue to exist. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE N,C.C.F,, Winston-Salem Nelson Malloy ANOTHER ATTEMPT 10 SABOTAGE BLACK COMMUNITY INFORMATION CENTER Looking on what brother Malcolm has taught us historically there has always been the jive shoe polish mouth who defile our peo- ple’s struggle for liberation by the lowly art of bootlicking. Shopping low in our halls of shame are the pictures of such unknown champs as the nigger who told of Nat Turner, the niggers who sabotaged Marcus Garvey’’, the niggers who assasinated Malcolm and an unholy host of others. 1970's lowest of the lowly, stoops Reverend Riley, high priests of the All American Cult, in vile, foul league with the murderers of the infamous Civil De- struction led by Philly’s finest faggot Fencl, On June 8th, 1970 at 3625 Wal- lace street.....Reverend...Riley staged a one-pig-picket,,with an: uptight. Black community watching it go down, Seething angry Black people in this *‘Burn baby burn’ weather, mixedwithUncle- Thomas Riley, licking the masters boots, providing a highly unstable, dange- rous brew, which was bound to get somebody hurt. And the Panthers had to cool it down, while the fool carried a sign saying ‘‘ Panthers take your military ‘elsewhere’’ and viciouSly attacked the Free Breakfast For School \ Children Program, Watch out, Rey. you beg the hungry people to craw), butthat time is long gone. Black people in gll their righteous indignance and fury, wish only to pound on pigs and destroy the oppressor. Watch out Rev, the Black masses are bearing their mighty claws! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Philadelphia Branch. Black Panther Party IN THE HELL DO THE PIGS SERVE AND PROTECT? THE WARMONGERING MERCENARIES ARE HERE TO PROTECT THE INVESTMENTS AND PROPERTY HOLDINGS OF THE FASCIST AMERICAN GOVT. Through historical materialism and observation of present situa- tions, one does not have to pro- fess a proficient knowledge of rev- olutionary concepts to see the va- rious ways in which fascism is manifested here in Babylon, Through observation one can see that everything is controlled by the greedy avaricious business- men such as Howard Hughes who owns acres and acres of land in California who is one of those pigs responsible for Nixon being in office (Hughes gave Nixon 100's of thousands of dollars for his campaign), These avaricious bus- inessmen are the master pup- peteers, pulling the strings on demagogic lying politicians such as, Nixon, Daley, Alioto, etc. who oink directions down to the fas- cist pig cops you see everyday riding around in their pig pens, blue suits with large deceitful em- blems, oinking the words, ‘‘We serve and protect”’. We question Nixon, who do you ‘serve and protect’? Certainly not the poor, oppressed Black com- munity with the vicious murders of Linda Anderson, Charles Cox, James Johnson, Larry Roberson, Jake Winters, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. The list could go on of murders committed by the fas- cist Nixon-Agnew-Mitchell re- gime. Certainly not the Brown com- munity with their continual ha- rassments, murders of youths, such as Manual Ramos. Certainly not the Red commu- nity with the heartless massacre of hundreds of Indians while strip- ping them of their land andthrow- ing them on what pigs liketoterm, ‘reservations’, The people say it is a concentration camp. Certainly not the Yellow com- munity with the soul-breaking, hearding of them off to outright concentration camps, robbing them also of their property and all hopes for survival. Pigs at- tempted to justify this by putting them all under suspicion of being capable of treasonous acts, The pigs certainly cannot pre- tend to protect the White com-' munity, although because of their racist nature they are often more ‘lenient’ with them. Still, fascist pigs busted heads of the White community, murdered deaf and dumb youths, shot, wounded and maimed them, Who in the hell do the pigs serve and protect? It is evident that these racist, fascist lackeys of the Nixon- Agnew-Mitchell regime, regard- less Of your race nationality, color or creed, although their fascist tactics are aimed at Black people in general and the Black Panther Party in particular, are not serv- ing or protecting you or me. These fascist, knot-brained lac- keys are here only to serve this decadent, racist, capitalistic, im- perialistic, fascist regime run by the avaricious businessmen who have investments in war stocks, stock market, Chase Manhattan Bank, Bank of America, World Bank and many other colonial and neo-colonial countries throughout the world, These warmongering mercen- aries are here only to protect these investments and property holdings of the fascist American govern- ment and the pigs who run and control it. We, as a whole, poor and op- pressed people, constitute the masses of people upon which the deceitful basis of this corrupt so- ciety was built. Wearethe people the preamble of the Constitution allegedly talks about when itsays, “We, the people of the United States..."’ Then what happened... why have we allowed ourselves to be deceived for so long by these slimy, slanderous, trea- cherous pigs. These pigs who al- ways say when the the stuff goes down, you (the people) voted for it, you make the decisions when you know, the fascist political machi- nery is running this country. These same pigs who oink lies of ‘constitutional rights’, trial by peers and then turn around and openly deny you of these so-called ‘constitutional rights’ of which you had to learn the basics of before you could get your ‘working pa- pers’ @iplomas) from your local institution. These are the same pigs who bound and gagged Chairman Bobby Seale during the Chicago Conspi- racy 8 Trial. The same pigs who denied him of his ‘constitutional rights’ have been denying op- pressed people of their rights for years, These audacious (bold) pig dogs will then turn around and attempt to justify their crimes against the people with their fast, sly oinking and if it appears to fail, they will pass an ex post facto law (a law making something a crime which was not one before andhold- ing the past doer of the ‘now’ ,criminal offense responsible) which is also unconstitutional. Sometimes, in an attempt to be slick and sly, these pigs pass a law inadvancein accordance with ther plans in case theyrun up on a beautiful lawyer like Charles R. Garry and then turn around and oink to the people. But, we, the Black Panther Party, revolutionaries, servants of the people, are telling you, we don’t speak no oink-oink. The oink- ings are meaningless because a pig oinks so loudly, we can’t hear a word he’s saying. So we prefer to judge pigs by their social prac- tice which has proven they are enemies of the people. We realize that laws are made to serve men, not men, laws. We are not foolish enough to respect laws their own creators violate in order to further oppress and exploit the masses of the people. We can see no justifcation for the kidnappings, tortures, harass- ments, exilings and murders. of the people and Panthers. How can one even attempt to justify the cold-blooded murder of 18 year old Linda Anderson shotgunned in the face by Pig Daley’s blue boys while answering her front door; the brutal murder of Charles Cox, beaten to death in Chicago’s fas- cist pig station; the torture- murder of Black Panther, Larry Roberson, who was shot three times in the stomach by the gestapo troops July 14th and tortured un- til he died September 4th; the bla- tant murders of Deputy Chairman Fred Hampton and Defense Cap- tain Mark Clark by the blue occu- pational gestapo forces of Pig Han- rahan on a ‘search and destroy mission’ December 4th in which Fred was murdered in bed. There is no justification, There is no way in which the fascist pigs can try to hide or cover up their heinous crimes against the people. The people and the Black Pan- ther Party will no longer tolerate the harassments, brutality and wanton murders perpetrated on the oppressed colony here in Baby- Jon by these ‘fancy’ fascist pig dogs. The people will no longer close e their eyes and wander about in the opium mist of naivety. The people have moved to a higher level of political consciousness, The repression from the pig- power structure against the Party, the people and anyone attempting to meet the needs of the people has helped to move them to this THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 7 PIGS PLAY IN DECEIT POLITICAL PRISONERS FOR PRISONERS OF WAR Some time ago the Black Panther Party initiated a drive that hadthe interest of the masses at heart, This drive or program concerned itself with the release of political prisoners (Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale) in exchange for Pri- soners of War (POW’s), The Black Panther Party and all other rev- olutionary organizations canread- ily see, without hesitation, because of their political awareness that all political prisoners and prison- ers of war are one in the same, and there is no difference between the two. The Black Panther Party has always said like Bobby Seale that “To be a revolutionary is to be an enemy of the State, and to be arrested for the struggle is to be a political prisoner, Political prisoners, people who have resisted the pig power struc- ture and have been arrested for their activity are nothing more and nothng less than prisoners of war. We state this condition emphat- ically because, Black people after having suffered such a long train of abuses have had no other al- ternative but to strike out at and resist this dehumanizing society. ] F : level of higher political conscious- © ness. One word for all the pigs read-. 1 ing this, we know you get to read ™ the paper before most of the peo- ple...keep up the goodwork. You're helping the people realize how ne- cessary it is to... SEIZE THE TIME Cheryl Peterson WHERE ARE ALL THE MURDERMOUTHERS ? When so many of the masses in Babylon are being harassed, brutalized and murdered daily,one wonders where are all the ‘‘mur- der-mouthers,’’Whereare you when your people need you? Where are you when women and children are being harassed and brutalized by the fascist, racist dogs (police) of the pig power structure? It’s happening right at your door step, yes it’s happening] It’s hap- pening while you sit back and watch your boob-tube and read thei: daily pig press and publications. It’s happening and all you can Say is, “It’s a shame or I'll be there when the it hits the fan. Well brothers and sisters, it has al- ready hit the fan, and if you don't move notit’s going to hit you right in your face. In a section of the South Bronx, the Lester Patterson Houses at 145th and 3rd Ave, to be exact, the city as well as the Housing Pigs have infilrrated the peoples communities. Their favorite game is called, ‘‘Brutalize the brothers and sisters off the block’’, At the end of the day they get to- gether to find out who got the highest score, It's a gametothem, but it’s a matter of survival to the lumpen in the projects, Yet the people jn the Patterson Houses sit back and let these things go down daily. So quick are they to rationalize by saying, ‘‘Oh they’re just junkies, they're just drunks, or they're just plain lazy.’’ You need to open your eyes brothers and sisters and take another real long look. Ask yourself some ques- tions, Ask yourself, in a country that can immediately, ifnot sooner, find and arrest a)political assas- sin, why is it so ‘‘difficult’’ for them to find and arrest a dope pusher—-one that you even know. In a country that can spend mil- lions and millions of dollars to buy guns to shoot and massacre people of color, why isn’t there enough money to build decent hous- ing and rehabilitation centers? If Cuba can supply enough jobs for its people, why does a country as large and powerful as America have unemployment and then feel that such madness js ‘‘healthy’’. In the Patterson House pigs are there ‘‘by any means necessary’’, They come on scooter bikes, on motor cycles, on foot and by car to brutalize and harass and mur- der the masses. They brutalize without discrimination, women, men and children.,.your children. This insanity is perpetrated throughout America in every city where Black and oppressed peo- ple’s are colonized, It’s time to put a stop to the madness that goes on in this insane, racist country. The time is now and the people are the ones who will and must stop this madness, You can’t stop it by sitting back watching the pig power structures mind con- ditioning machine (Television) or by reading his distorted pig press, and you definitely won't stop it by rhetoric, you have to get up out of that chair RIGHT NOW, be- fore it burns from under you, and move brothers and sisters... MOVE, BLACK PANTHER PARTY Paulette Frye, East Coast Ministry am NATIONAL The capitalistic, exploitative sys- tem which we live under deserves nothing and can be expected to produce nothing but resistance and ultimately revolution. To engage in revolutionary activity, that is, bringing about total change and destruction of a decadent society and constructing a new and more humanistic one is the job of a revolutionary. Huey P. Newton, Bobby Seale, the New Haven 9, the N.Y, Pan- ther 21, the L.A. 18 and Chicago 16 and hundreds of other revolu- tionaries are in prisons all across Babylon at this time. These rev- olutionaries were captured and jailed because they were actively engaged in the righteous struggle of liberation for Black people with- in Babylon, At the same time ra- cist mercenaries are being the aggressors on the people of Viet- nam, 4 people that are striving for self-determination, the same as Black people in the U.S.A, These mercenaries are being ripped off and captured by the Vietnamese for intruding on the soil of the Vietnamese people and destroying human lives and heaping destruc- tion on the land, The Black Panther Party andthe people want their freedom fighters released from jail. Therefore a drive was started to get the im- mediate release of the people's GUARD IN servants from jails. Contacts would be made with North Viet- nam to set up machinery to ex- change their captured POW's for the political prisoners held in jail in Babylon, The masses of people were to send the names of rela- tives believed to be POW’s to the Black Panther Party and the Party would in turn send these names to North Vietnam and things would be materialized from there, But due to the threat that our im- prisoned brothers and sisters posed to this vulturistic system, the drive never got rolling. Rennie Davis and Dave Dillenger were to go to North Vietnam with these names, but were refused Passports to travel abroad by this racist government because it didn’t want these lumpen niggers (Huey and Bobby), members of the Van- guard Party, armed with the ideo- logy (teachings of) the Black Pan- ther Party and able to put it into practice to bring the masses rey- olutionary political power, back on the streets and educating the masses to the correct strategic methods of resisting the pig power structure, N, CAROLINA HAVE STARTED A PROGRAM TO FOOL THE PEOPLE the people, started this drive, but it was stopped by the pigs. The Party knew the pigs would never let such a program go into effect but it would be an educational process for the masses. Now, at this present time when pig Nixon is expanding his im- perialistic war machine into other countries in Southeast Asia, the domestic imperialistic forces at home (National Guard) of North Carolina have started a program to fool the people and make the people think that they have the people’s interest in their pig hearts. These domestic storm - troopers are circulating petitions throughout North Carolina asking for the people.to ‘Show your con- cern for our Americans in POW camps in North Vietnam’’ andsign the petition. A) lot of people fail to see the hypocrisy of this sham attempt by the pigs, People of North Carolina and other states, do not be fooled by this deceitful act of these mad pigs. Your sons and husbands will remain prison= ers as long as Nixon continues his aggression in North Vietnam and occupation of the Black colony. POLITICAL PRISONERS ~ FOR POWS! ALL POWER TO TI PL son Malloy THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 8 INTERVIEW WITH GERONIMO DEPUTY MINISTER OF DEFENSE SO. CALIF. CHAPTER, BLACK PANTHER PARTY INTERVIEWER: The local L,A, pig press and other major national pig papers have recently concen- trated articles around you, point- ing out specifically that you are an ex-Vietnam ‘‘war hero’’ and currently the leader of our Party's chapter in Southern California, GERONIMO: First of all I'd like to make it clear that before Icame into the BPP, I was, in fact, mem- ber of the U.S, Imperialist Army and that was very mercenary in nature, And that at that time to go to Vietnam, was to go to make money, so 1 could send it home to my family in- Louisiana, So as far as being a war hero, or being a “thero’’, over there, that’s very much untrue. Because by and large Black troops in Vietnam are not interested in fighting the Vietcong; they're only interested in making money, But I see a change occur- ring everyday, in that they are tak- ing a lean toward the better in understanding that the war is an imperialistic war and that the Viet- cong are really our allies. So far as being the leader of this chapter--Our Party's run solely on a democratically cen- tralized basis, It’s not dictatorial. There’s no one individual who makes decisions. The decisons are coordinated and centralized through a body which makes ob- jective decisions. But I also recognize very clearly why these apologists, these lac- keys for the imperialistic, fas- cist regime of this country would put such an article on the front page of the racist L.A, Times about me, The primary reason for that was to try to villify me in particular and the Black Panther Party and this chapter in gen- eral; and to try and offset or throw a smokescreen over the real is- sues surrounding my cases, INTERVIEWER: Could you outline your cases which we understand are coming up very shortly before the L.A. pig courts? BY ad GERONIMO GERONIMO: Some two years ago when I received my first case. I was the inception of thelong train of atrocities that have per- petrated not only against myself, but against many comrades with whom I worked side by side. The pigs moved--in all four cases that I have--to railroad me, based on trumped-up charges, to try to get me off the picture, or out of the picture completely. And I think this is basically because of the know- ledge that I have on the necessity for an armed struggle, in par- ticular, and helping to create a socialistic base to serve the basic needs and desires of the masses of people in this country, I'd like to point out a very re- cent example of what I’m talking about. It’s a situation about a youne brother who recently re- turned fr etnam- iis name is Jerry Lee Amie Gee BPP Com- munity News Service, June 27, 1970) who was shot some 25 times and the pigs said it was a mistake, So what I'm trying to say is that these pigs will go to any extreme to eliminate brothers with exper- ience in warfare, Because they realize that these brothers in Viet- nam now use that experience as a testing table, a university. And Black men go to educate them- selves to that level of conscious- ness to make them understand the true nature of fascist repression. And make them understand just how vile and vicious this country is. INTERVIEWER: So would you say that the pigs are trying to use you in particular, because of your military training, to either frighten the people away from our Party or to deter other brothers with that training and knowledge from joining. the struggle here in Baby- lon? GERONIMO: That’s very correct. And it's very obvious that they’re trying to use me as a guinea pig for their plans to block the Black cannon fodder that they had in Vietnam from turning in the right direction and moving in the true direction--liberation of their peo- ple. And I'd also like to say later for all those irrelevant tactics that we had in Vietnam, because to think that a spotted ‘‘guerilla” uni- form makes one a guerilla is to fall into theold fallacy of the basic concepts which these capitalists try to put forth when trying to do battle with the peace-loving peo- ple, the true socialistic people in their ,own countries, So that the knowledge that people learn when they go to Vietnam or Santa Do- mingo or anywhere for that matter, as long as they are a part of the imperialistic machinery, then their thinking is not gearedtoward anything constructive. And their thinking is not geared toward the concept of making money, as I mentioned earlier, So you must understand that the tactics used in Vietnam aren’t anything com- pared to the true correct revolu- tionary tactics employed by the guerilla, And so to say that one would learn that much over in a war fighting on the wrong side, or fighting on the side of the ene- my is to think in the idiom of the Stupid Revolution, Because the military knowledge that one must gain in order to fight a successful revolutionay struggle is the ul- timate in the learning of the laws of wars. Because all real gueril- las must be capable of completely going through any war college that the U.S, has or that any imper- ialistic country has and, turning it inside out. Revolutionary wars are based on humanity; and their wars are based solely on capital. I'd also like to refer to the motto of our Party, which says that ‘‘We are the advocates of the abolition of war, we do not want war; but war can only be abolished through war, in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun,”” And I say that to say that the way in which I was pro- jected in the racist L.A, Times newspaper is contradictory to our philosophy and our ideology and that our aim is to eliminate war. And that I'm not a warmongerer; but it is they who are warmonger- ers, led by the Chieftain of World Imperialism, Richard M, Nixon, the Prime Jingoist of All War- mongerers. INTERVIEWER: Part of the propa- ganda that was put forward by the L.A, Times said that ‘‘Geronimo recognized the Panthers, instilled strict Party discipline and taught them guerilla warfare.’’ Would you BRUTALITY BY WHATEVER DEFINITION A couple of weeks ago, the 15th of June, 1970, to be exact, I was severely subjected to an assault and vicious police brutality which has resulted in my jaw being broken in three places, the loss of 2 or 3 molar teeth, a number of badly bruised ribs,anda possible cracked hip bone mainly because of the direct efforts of a bootlicking house nigger and an all-American negro rent-a-pig. my door and were at that time in and searching my hotel room. Because I couldn’t be sure what the foul, depraved creatures had in store for me and not armed and able to deal with the situa- tion, I went around the block and made my way to the back of the hotel next door and up on the roof since this would permit me to con- tact Ned, a White night clerk, who 1 could depend upon for correct RAYMOND LEWIS BEATEN BY S,F, PIGS But it also must be Stated here that prior to the foul incident that is about to unfold (my slum- lord), Mrs. Erma C, Hunter (who incidentally, relates heavily to all the demagogy of the capitalistic oppressor) had made several pre- vious unsuccessful attempts to evict me--primarily through petty lies and other sick assumptions related to my parole officer--be- cause she ‘just thought’’ I might be associated with the Black Panther Party since I had once asked her to buy an issue of THE BLACK PANTHER, then being completely unaware that Mrs. Erma C, Hunter was a pure, un- adulterated bootlicking house nig- ger. The information received, was in effect, that the so-called law- abiding and unoppressed Mrs. Er- ma C, Hunter had directed the fas- cist police not only to my room, but also to two young hippy-type’ Whites, Douglas and Steve, in their guided hunt for weapons inthe hotel building. At approximately 12:00 mid- night, the 15th of June 1970, I was approached and intercepted before arriving home (by another bro- ther named Cardova--who lived in the same hotel as I did--the Ham- lin, 387 Eddy Street, S.F,) who told me that uniformed pigs had either been let into or kickeddown comment on this? GERONIMO: Number one, I was brought into the Party generally by the objective oppressive con- ditions in this country, but par- ticularly by a brother named Bun- chy, Alprentice ‘‘Bunchy"’ Carter. And this man was one of the greatest men that I’ve ever known, And he had this chapter well- organized, and it still is well- organized based on the examples and principles that Bunchy taught us and on the ideology and prin- ciples of our Party and the teach- ings of our leader and Minister of Defense, Huey P, Newton, information, etc. The information 1 received was that the pigs were searching my room for weapons (although I'm told they took Black Panther newspapers and other miscellaneous material related to Party), After waiting in my hiding place for about four hours or so; left there and was on my way to the Fillmore District. Anyway, I passed an all-night coffee house on Turk Street where an all-Amer- ican, part-time rent-a-pig spotted me (he had been in my hotelearlier because his brother lived on ano- ther floor and knew that the pigs “might be’’ looking for me) and ran out onto the sidewalk with no warning, calling himself making a citizen’s arrest, spun me around, and struck me forcefully with a short nightstick or possibly brass knuckles, and broke my jaw-- leaving me in a somewhat dazed condition, But brother Cardova had ac- companied me at this time andtac- kled the Black rent-a-pig, giving me a chance to get away and make it back to my roof-top hiding spot, as before. Since Cardova already knew where I was, he arranged for a White woman to drive me to the hospital about 6:30 a.m. At that time, although I had looked around carefully for pigs and their vehicles, and saw none (recog- Bunchy and John Huggins are the real leaders here, in that they set the precedents and set the pace which we could follow. I didnothing more but to follow the principles of the Party and the principles of revolution in general, and to carry forth an unyielding strug- gle against these fascist dogs. INTERVIEWER: The fascist Times implies that the Party’ sent Walter ‘‘Toure’’ Pope out on a *‘mission’’ to kill some pigs and this is what cost his life? It would be necessary that you once again tell us the truth about that. nizable), the woman and | tried to make it to where the ride was-- about three quarters of a block. We had to use Leavenworth St. It was then that from a cata- corner Eddy Street position, that about 6 to 10 pigs and the Black rent-a-pig started yelling at us to stop. The woman used her body as a shield for me and told me to make it back to my hiding place and she’d do what she could to confuse and stall the pigs. I had about a half a minute, But I made it back onto the roof of the hotel next door, Although within min- utes, a force of other pigs were on other roofs nearby, pointing ri- fles, shotguns, and pistols at me, and ordering me off the roof. I came down the side of the build- ing’s fire escape, and while I had my hands up, one of the pigs said that I was resisting arrest. This led to a brutal beating of me, the pigs using the pretext to the 5 or 6 street-people witnessing the scene that I was fighting them about being put into the patrol wagon. After I was handcuffed, hands and feet, in the pig patrol wagon, other pigs came in and beat me again, saying that since I had togo to the hospital for my broken (and possibly rebroken by then ) jaw, they might as well do a good job. I was driven first to Central Police Station, in the S,F, Marina District, then later to theS,F, City Prison on Bryant Street and booked for ‘‘resisting arrest, kidnapping (the pigs claimed I was kidnapping the woman who was to take me to the hospital at gunpoint) assault with a deadly weapon, and con- cealed weapon, There was no wea= pon involved, but the pigs claim they found a pistol next door, in a White hippy’s room, and that they saw me with that pistol in my hand when they spotted and yelled at the White woman and my- self, : I stayed under arrest for about 10 days, until the police guard was removed from my hospital ward last night (June 26, 1970 at approximately 6:30 p.m.), and at that time I asked one of the nurse’s to call the O,D, at the San Fran- cisco office to let the Party know and also that I could have visi- tors. But this morning when the doctor made his rounds, I asked him to discharge me and he did, I don’t know what happened to the trumped-up charges made at the time or my status with my parole officer. 1 knew I wanted to get away from the hospital because of the possibility of the pigs mov- ing back in on me. This is the basic substance of what happened, although Iam going to write an article running down the swine who caused this inci- dent in the first place--mainly: my bootlicking landlady andthe all- American negro rent-a-pig, plus whatever I can come up with about racist Mafioso Alioto and his pig police force. Raymond Lewis 6-27-70 GERONIMO: Well, regarding Toure. He was an indefatigable fighter: for his people. He upped our circulation of our paper some 15,000, He did so many beauti- ful things that it would take all day for me to mention. He was a true revolutionary fighter and hig spirits will still be carried on through each and every one of us, To say that Toure was, sent out in a team, to listen to these pigs, propaganda is again to fall into their trap of deception, the main vehicle in which they travel. Because it’s clear that the brother CONT, TO PG. 10 PHILADELPHIA, PA. Pigs by the hundreds line Black city blocks. Denying us the life,the liberty, and the pursuit of happi- ness that we have yet to gain. Every 4 set of stoops hosts 2-3 pigs, per- forming a war like, bestialtask; to occupy. Both front and back steps provide seats for big, fat, funky,ra- cists honkies, accompanied by an award winning cast of traitorous Black lowly lackies. PIG MAYOR TATE AND the bright red carpet to your ul~ timate destruction, your inevitable execution. Black people have known you since your introduction to the pig force. We have known you then and we know you now. Your very ex- sistence tells the story of pain, torture and brutality, and murder of Black people, Having risen to the pig position of Commissioner FASCIST RIZZO Our pig Commissioner, ‘Cisco Kid’’ Rizzo, and his bootlapper, the Mayor Tate, looses no time in posting Pig Proclamations such as the sign shown in the picture, il- lustrating the audacity of public servants telling the people what to do, and when to do it. While White racists of the most sickening kind smile in gestapo glee at the soft side of the fatherly hand given to them by Franky Rizzo. Rizzo, National Cisco, ‘‘two gun kid” you are the terrorist. You are the murderer, You are the foul traducing element which has forced Black people to arm themselves, so as not toharmed Every inch of your bloodstained history has painted (nigger control) racism on’ the force has not increased. No! The shield of 4 centuries of lying and demagogy, has finally fallen, and the Black masses see their mu;derous oppressors for the ice- blooded assassinator that they are, We remember November the 17th 1967. Black students, our Black Youth was beaten unmerci- " fully by Justice, for demanding a relevant educational structure, On which teaches the true story of our people, one which exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. One which equips us with the information necessary to put an immediate end to police brutality, torture, and the wanton murder of Black people. We know that you are a product of perversion, and you have pro- duced perversion. From the len- iency shown to the murders on the Philly Pig Force, to your homo- sexual son, This trend of perver- sion has lead you to send the storm- troopers into the heart of the Black community, and conduct the coloni- zation process, along process, one which is born with the coming of occupation, This trend of the un- usual has lead you to institute the pig who does CIA-FBI work under This extension shall continue in effect until July 8, 1970 at 6 P.M. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 9 the guise of Lt. of the Civil Dis- obedience Squad. This misfit, the primal licker of your boots, Georgey boy faggot Fencl, is instrumental in this ex- Plosive situation which has de- veloped in the Tasker Homes Pro- jects, by completely overlooking the crimes committed by the White racist criminals and offering Black people basketballs. Beatings clubbings and assorted pig mad- ness while young sisters are being turned over for arrest for wishing to go to a neighborhood playground. While Black men are being busted PROCLAMATION WHEREAS, it appears, upon advice of the Police Commissioner and the Chairman of the Commission on Human Relations, that, although progress has been made and continues to be made in the resolution of the grave problems which have provoked serious public disorder and created an emergency requiring unusual measures to preserve the public peace in the hereinafter mentioned area and resulting in the issuance of the Proclamation of June 10, 1970, emergency measures continue to be required for a limited period of time. NOW, this 24th day of June, 1970, the Proclamation issued June 10, 1970 is hereby extended. This Proclamation applies to the following area of the City of Philadelphia: The area bounded by Federal Street, 28th Street, McKean Street and the Schuylkill Expressway, including both sides of the said streets, All persons are hereby prohibited from gathering or congregating in groups of twelve (12) or more, upon public highways or public sidewalks or in any other outdoor place, except persons who are awaiting transportation, engaging in recreational activities at a usual and customary place or peaceably entering or leaving buildings. All persons are prohibited from carrying or possessing on the public street or public sidewalks or in any public park or square, any weapons, including but not limited to, firearms, bows and arrows, air rifles, slingshots, knives, razors or missiles of any kind. Any person disobeying this Proclamation shall be subject to a fine of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100) or more than Three Hundred Dollars ($300) or imprisonment for a term not to exceed ninety days, or both. et Or me be * “te ait for being Black, and held on any pretense, Fencl is the mixer of this situation, this powder keg Situation, which can only end which must only end with Black people walking where they wanna walk seizing that ultimate power, the Power to remove the head of the Cisco Kid, Georgy Boy, J. Cof- fin Hoover, and the standard, Ri- chard, the pig hearted Nixon, RESIST TO EXIST! Mumia Black Panther Party Douok dt yp FRANK L. RIZZO Commissioner of Police TO SISTERS FRANCIS, ROSE AND PEGGY, IN PARTICULAR | AND ALL OF THE SISTERS IN THE NIANTIC BRANCH OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY. IN GENERAL (NIANTIC WOMEN’S HOUSE” OF DETENTION) All Power To The People Death to the fascist oppressor It has been a while since I have written you and I want to try to make up for that by including everything in this letter, The news has just reached us about the new charges against brother Lonnie, but this only goes to prove that the vanguard Party is setting the correct examples for the people and that the spirit of brother Lonnie and all of the prisoners of war being held by the enemy is unbreakable and higher than ever, One thing that is very important to recognize is the fact that the many political prisoners, all of our captured comrades are prisoners of war. In this era of American racism and fascism there is a state of war between the Nixon-Agnew-Mitchell regime and the masses of the people. The oppressor has suckedevery last drop of blood from the peo- ple, and now he is determined to launch a maniacal plot to exploit Black people andto enslave Whites in the bonds of fascist oppression. The Black Panther Party has com- mitted itself to the task of exposing the system for what it is and to showing the people the correct means of resistance, For thisrea- son the fascist dogs are moving to eliminate the people’s party. However, we have seen through social practice that the people have embraced the party as their party and are accepting the guidelines set down by Huey, our revolution- ary leader in the world wide strug- gle against U.S, Imperialsim. Everyday we see more and more people coming out to support the party and here in Boston, our bonds with the people are becoming stronger everyday. The communi- ty meetings that we hold every Wednesday and Saturday are growing in number of the people attending. Our paper sales are in- creasing every week, and it canbe seen that the bloods on the block and everyone else seek out the party and the party’s newspaper, the voice of the Panther, When the reactionary Teamsters went on strike and we could not get any newspapers for one week, the people were seeking Panthers out to try to buy the newspaper. Nation- wide our Breakfast Programs are growing in number and all of the People’s Programs are also ex- panding and taking shape.Mao Tse Tung says that all revolutionaries are like seeds and the people are like the soil. This is very beau- tiful and very correct because we have to take root among the people and deal on that level. Only in this way can we defeat the fascist. What is more important is that we are going to win the struggle no matter what. Many times we hear and read the writings of niggers who run down what is going to happen to if we don’t get our thing together, They say that the fascist have gas chambers and that we are going to “‘shing-a-ling’’ our way into the showers, because niggers are scared of revolution,The facts are that we have history on our sides and the fascistshave a dark future ahead of them because their doom is lurking in the wings. As ~ for the people we can see the light at the end of the tunnel, and if we catch the next bus, we will get their quicker. The bus to which I refer is the teachings of Huey P, Newton, and the driver is the spirit, the love, the faith, and the determination of allour comrades in the Black Panther Party. By going out into the community and conducting propaganda among the masses, we are not only making the people aware of the contradic- tions in this society but we are also bringing fascism closer and closer to its doom. And as for myself and all the revolutionary bloods , we say off with thefascists heads. Keep your spirits up and con- tinue to deal death blows to the enemy by educating the cadre in Niantic and remember that spirit of Deputy Chairman Fred, whenhe said that we are so revolutionary proletarian intoxicated that we can neyer be astronomically intimi- dated. Right On] SEIZE THE TIME! OFF THE SLIME! Yours In Revolutionary Struggle Ronald Tyson ‘THE MAIN FUNCTION OF THE PARTY IS TO AWAKEN THE PEOPLE AND TO TEACH THEM THE STRATEGIC METHOD OF RESISTING THE POWER STRUCTURE.” HUEY P, NEWTON THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 10 PIGS ALL OVER THIS FASCIST COUNTRY RESPONED IN THE SAME MANNER The more Black people resist their brutality, their murdering, their acts of fascism, the more the pigs use the peoples resist- ance as a means of retaliation to satisfy their depraved and foul acts. Once again the people of New Haven are witnessing such re- taliation, on Wednesday, June 24, 1970, in the area of Sylvan and Ward Sts, children were going about their play, They were chanting and singing songs which the pigs dis- approved of. When these children (the future resources of the strug- gle) refused to be intimidated by these pigs they were met with drawn guns and threats of arrest. The children along with other peo- ple of the community resisted. A scuffle occurred and the pig was knocked to the ground. He was then disarmed. Other pigs were called to the scene, After the in- cident was over the people went back to what they were doing ini- tially. The people have won a victory. The pigs can not stand such unity among the people, They will do, and use every means to crush the peoples victory. This led to re- taliation by the pigs against the people on Saturday morning, June 27, 1970, At 3:00 a.m. pigs moved in an attempt to crush the peo- ples warriors. The most likely target for any pig retaliation in fascist America is the Black Pan- ther Party, Ahern’s night riders, terrorists of the Black commu- nity witnessed Brother Doug Fauntleroy, a member of the Con- necticut Chapter of the Black Pan- ther Party. Doug and two other Panthers were walking up the steps of their home when the pigs struck. They oinked ‘‘Don’t move, we've got guns on you,”’ After searching the three Party members, they kid- napped Fauntleroy, He is nowbeing held for $75,000 ransom (bail), Later on at 4330 a.m. the pigs used another attempt to get re- venge. Two Panthers and a mem- ber of the Panther Defense Com- mittee were stopped at gunpoint and searched as they drove their truck, At this time the pigs pulled 12 gauge shotguns, MI car- bines and 357 magnums on the brothers. These weapons were then held at their heads. After Tim Thomp- Son and James Young of the Party and Larry McSpadden of the Pan- ther Defense Committee were ha- rassed and questioned, they were told that they pig department was looking for someone else who lived at 35 Sylvan Avenue, the address of the Party, The outright kid- napping of brother Doug Faunt- leroy is a further attempt to ha- rass and intimidate the Black Pan- ther Party, in New Haven in order to stop us from freeing the people and all of the Political Prisoners being held here. We say to all the people that as oppressed people struggling for our liberation against oppressive forces of America, it is to be expected that our resistance against brutality and murder will always be counter-acted by revengeful acts against us by the oppressor, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY New Haven Chapter JOE WESLEY JOHNSON GUILTY OF BEING BLACK The pigs have moved to rob the Black community of another rev- olutionary brother, They have vil- lified the man and branded him as a dangerous killer, in so doing, they havereleased mad-dog killers all over the country with shoot- to-kill orders. These fool pigs took this opportunity to run amuck through the Black communities of the Oakland and San Francisco area, trying to intimidate Black people with their over-kill weapons (such as Ml6’s and shotguns), A pig was shot from a passing car while writing a ticket (so said the establishment media) with NO witness, on 6-9-70, Three days later on 6-22-70, these pigs, these hired killers, put a bounty on Joe Wesley Johnson, a Black man. The man is hunted by professional as- sassins to be killed on sight. The racist San Francisco Examiner on June 25th, 1970 did a hatchet job on the family of Wesley Johnson and did a thorough and complete WEILL SEE TO IT WESLEY JOHNSON RECIEVES TUSTICE’ CAUSE THATS. WHAT WE BEWEVE 1M, LAW + ORDER ANd ‘Jus7 us!? job of convicting another Black man through the racist pig press. On June 30th, 1970, the es- tablishment press carried another story, but not so sensational, not front page and big bold type, this time on the third page, very small type. The ‘‘Zodiac’’ says he killed the officer. The racist pigs don't want to call off this Black man- hunt, so they use pig logic. Some buffoon they cal! Inspector stated: “Tf he’s hinti (pig) then he is lying we have al- ready issued a warrant in the case.’’ | say that the statement is an insult to the masses of Black people, it clearly shows that these pigs don’t have but one thing on their mind and that is to kill Brother Johnson to further carry out their plan of genocide against Blacks in Babylon! We have been the victims of unjust murder for too long, it's time to stop being the hunted and become the hunter, we must arm ourselves for the purpose of sur- vival, We must practice self de- fense against anyone that seeks to take our life by whatever means necessary. Here is a man, Wesley Johnson, who the pigs missed in their concentration camp. So they hunt him down to kill him on the streets of racist America, although someone has confessed to killing the pig that he is accused of kill- ing. The only reason for this is so that the pigs of S.F. won't have another unsolved murder by an insane White boy who is probably the son of one of the ruling class of San Francisco's finest. So the pigs’ “ontinue their search for a Black man whose only crime in this corrupt, racist society, of America, White America should know this:that Black people didnot create these inhumane conditions that they are subjected to. Also you should know that we have learned to deal with the problem of survival through the historical experience of Blacks in this coun- try...A history of being hunted like an animal and shot down in the same fashion, STOP THE MURDER OF WESLEY JOHNSON! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Asst. Chief of Staff he shot Radetich Roosevelt Hilliard PRESS RELEASE JULY 1, 1970 The Black Panther Party is call- ing this press conference to make the public aware of the vicious pattern of attacks - being meted out against the New Haven Chap- ter of the Black Panther Party. This pattern of attacks began on the morning of June 27th, at 3:00 a.m., when Chief Ahern’s gestapo troops kidnapped Doug Fauntleroy, a member of our Party atthe point of M16 carbines, and 357 mag- nums, Brother Fauntleroy was taken off to prison and is now being held for $15,000.00 ransom. Later that same morning at 4:30 a.m., Tim Thompson and James Young of the Black Panther Party and Larry McSpadden of the Panther Defense Committee were harassed and had guns pointed at them, They were told by the pigs that someone else was ‘wanted’ who lived at 35 Sylvan Avenue which is our Information Center here in New Haven, On Thursday, June 25th, two members of the Patither Defense Committee, Joey Barns and Mi- chael Kegan, who are White, were arrested.-following “a~small’rally on the green in front of the-court- houses~"'They were brutalized in jail and were told to ‘leave town or start carrying a gun’, The com- bination of this terrorism occurred Thursday night at approximately 9:00 p.m. The New Haven pigs kicked in the door at the home of Panther Community Workers at 3 Sylvan Avenue without due pro- cess of law, Arrested on framed- up charges were Elise Browne, Party member and Janet Best and Jim Wilson, community workers. We are well aware of the fact that the pigs are uptight about the release of Frances Carter from prison. We are aware of the fact that the pigs are uptight about the fact that we have a Panther De- fense Committee composed of White people. We are well aware of the fact that this terrorism breeds resistance and if the fas- cist pigs of New Haven continue their present reign of terror a- gainst the Black Panther Party we will not hesitate to move to defend ourselves and deliver a maximum retaliation against our oppressor. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY New Haven, Connecticut Chapter VIOLENCE ERUPTS | AT POLLS DURING RUN OFF BETWEEN M°MILLAND AND DR. CLAUDE L. STEPHENS IN THE SIXTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT Florence, South Carolina Anxiety set the stage for the run off between Sr. Congressman MeMilland and Dr, Stephens, prac- ticing physician at King Street, South Carolina. This was the first time in 32 years McMillan was seriously challenged, On June 23rd, the people in the 6th Congressional District, turned out in large numbers to casttheir ballots, but what started out to be a peaceful day, turned into a day of threats and beatings to Blacks in the district. Marked ballots were found by SCLC workers jn Horry County, the night before the run- off, Poll watchers were dis- couraged away from the polls. This is just an example of the many atrocities that Black opponents have to face in this. state, In Florence County, Gene Ham, a member of the NCCF was as- signed to the polls. Edward Parker, a counter-part of McMil- lan’s numerous Whites turned out to cast their ballots. Discussion pursued between Parker and Ham, Parker, under the influence of al- cohol, accosted Ham with the pre- tense that someone on the out- side wanted to see Ham, Gene Ham went outside to find that no one was there and retreated to the Polls, Ham proceeded and was struck by Parker. In the ensuing the other Whites conversed upon the scene and began hitting and kicking Ham. At this point Ham struggled with Parker to get con- trol of the gun, The gun accident- ly discharged, not striking anyone, When the pigs arrived, Ham was taken into custody and lodged into the Florence County Jail where he has remained since the fraction, deprived of his constitutional rights. He has been denied bond, the right to counsel, and a pre- liminary hearing. The pigs knew of other Whites at the polls with guns but did nothing to ensure the people's safety. A month ago this same brother was framed by the pig depart- ment for allegedly selling bar- bituates. He is still awaiting a trial, In other instances Black poll watchers were beaten up and run away from the polls. They were harassed and threatened, An appeal is being made locally and nationally for moral, physical, and financial support to see that justice prevails. All correspond- ence should be directed to Gene Ham, Friends of Justice, 909 Paw- ley, Florence, South Carolina, At- tention and all checks or money orders should be made payable to Gene Ham's Defense Fund andfor- warded to the same address. scuffle, Parker pulled a gun and ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE CONT, FROM PG, 8 was assassinated, And the brother had been stopped some threetimes that week before he got killed and his life had bee threatened num- erous times. He had also been shot at by members of the fascist Los Angeles Pig Department. So that it’s clear to everybody in L.A, how and why Toure was killed. It was definitely not a mission. He wasn’t killed on a mission to go and kill some pig; because if there had been such a mission, there is no INTERVIEW WITH GERONIMO doubt in my mind that Toure would have carried that mission out. INTERVIEWER: Would you explain how this kind of propaganda links up with what happened to you during the raids of Panther offices in L.A, last December 8th. GERONIMO: One of the most ne- farious plots that these pigs em- Ployed against our Party was to go to the extreme to kill mem- bers of our Party while they were in bed--Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, That even, didn’t prove ef- fective for these pigs, because no- thing they can do can stop our onward moyement--not even atthe point of killing us in our sleep, In my case they apparently weretry- ing the same thing on December 8th. While simultaneous raids were taking place at our Community Center on Exposition Blvd. andour office on Central Avenue, Los An- geles pigs (Metro Squad, in par- ticular) kicked in the door of our house, My wife and I were in bed at the time and were awakened by gun-shot. We believe the only reason we survived was due to the pitch blackness of the room in which were sleeping. This could be linked up with this pig pro- paganda in that such lies if ac- ‘cepted, could justify a more suc- cessful attempt of the kind just described, Finally--It must be stated and un- derstood unequivocally that the Black Panther Party prints and tells the truth and this can be proven through our practice. Let pigs prove in practice what they put forward in their press and in their deceitful propaganda. Pro- paganda which has, particularly lately, allowed and caused every little racist pig on the street to stop and look for a man called Geronimo. THE BLACK PANTHER, SAI 5 JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 11 —FROM SAN QUENTIN’S UNDERGROUND FREE PRESS ‘REPORT ON GROWING REPRESSION’ While the trial date nears for the SOLEDAD 3 imprisoned com- rades all over the state in vari- ous pig pens are doing everything possible to expose the Department of Corrections, Some of these com- rades have been shackled down in the ‘‘holes’’ and others have been transfered to Folsom, San Quen- tin, and C.M.C, East Facility. Threats have been made against some of the brothers lives at Soledad Central and North facility in order to silence them including the stopping of out going mail which contents might expose the officials of these prisons of Mur- derers and the conditions to be like the Nazi Concentration camps of the 30’s and 40’s, In some cases as in Soledad, the trumped up charges of con- spiracy to murder and Treason have been brought against at least three brothers in order to isolate them from the main line population, The conditions in B-section and the Adjustment Center at San Quen- tin where the administration or so called staff continue to run in the cells and ratpack the brothers and pull them into the open to be shot at by the inhumans on the GUN-RAILS, demand that an in- vestigation committee enter these ‘pits’? and inquire from the con- victs (behind the bars) about the terror they are daily subjected to, These vicious attacks are not en- tirely racist although they are carried out by racist White offi- cers, But the mere fact that Chi- canos and White prisoners are faced with the same terror when working to expose the authorities It is the duty of the urban guerilla to smash U.S.A, fascism at every opportunity and to rally massive active community support to the Side of the Party. The sviérfl= la must seek out and neutralize all the vile lackeys of U.S.A, fas- cism on the cost in suffering and in lives to our people will be im- measurable, The guerilla must daily expand the range of activi- ties until the whole of fascist America is one huge blazing pra- rie fire, In order to preserve our people all lackeys of U.S.A, fascism must be completely destroyed, The pre- “sent level of the struggle makes it imperative that these lackeys (traitors) be exposed and rooted out, our own community at the earliest date, the fascist ruling clique supports and condones the moral decay and genocide that dope dealers and pimps are spreading. These two particularly vile enemies of the people are trail-blazing in our community as surely as the URBAN GUERILLAS RANDY WILLIAMS POLITICAL PRISONER OAKLAND, CALIF. trontier traders blazed the trial in the Indian Community peddling booze and smallpox blankets, they are preparing the way for geno- cide of Black and third world people, They are setting our people up for U.S.A, fascism. The dollar hungry dope dealing la- ckeys offed their wares to anyone, with our disillusioned youth being their primary target, Enervating youth leadinx our youth to the danger of U.S.A, fascism and the fact that revolution is the only hope of the poor and oppressed. Between fixes and pills, foul dealers are draining the minds and bodies and have destroyed the lives of countless potential revolution- aries, The sight of young boys and girls enmeshed in the drug cult brings forth the wrath of the people on all those responsible. Many a brother has been downed by fascists pigs while under the influence of drugs. These losses also are traced back direct~ ly to the foul dealers. Deranged pimps, the very personification of the male chauvinist, openly brag that sisters are low lifed. That the mothers andainazons of our race are fit only to make pay- ments on their rides with dollars made by prostituting their bodies within the prison and the heads of the Department of Corrections is evidence that the repression of these convicts is a political one. It is still true that the pigs are able to turn the struggle from a political one into a radical one, It should not come as a surprise to see a sudden outburst of race and chick, vindettas spring up around the different pens in Calif- ornia, Just while the head racists of Soledad are being indicted for the triple murder at that facility and while the whole penal system is under investigation, They know how to create the conditions for a prison riot, Each year they set the stage for convicts to kill con- victs so convicts continue to walk the yard afraid and paranoid of one another for as long as thecon- victs enemy is another group of convicts the administration is safely out of the question, This underground newsletter has come into creation solely because too many convicts are too frightened of the repression they would be subject to, should they expose the Penal system as a political Economic Machine thatis protected by the courts and the State Troopers, and that both our lives and the tax payers money are at the mercy of the exploit- ers, and merciless establishment, They are repressing us with clubs and bullets, and by halting the comrades letters to families and layers, but there are some who will continue to resist! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Bro, K traitors, these enemies of our and souls to the oppressive de- praved pimps would have us believe that not only are our women in- ferior but that women must be kept in a subordinate position by the use of what pimps describe as “necessary force’’. Sisters are forced to even destroy future ge- nerations becuase pregnancies in- terefere with the depraved pimps quest of the paper god, The war crimes that dealers and pimps have committed against our people make up an endless list. Today our people are demanding that our communities be swept clean of these vile vipers that all enemies of the people be smashed, The urban guerilla has recognized the insidious allies of USA fascism and will deal with them in the same manner we treat allenemies. The work has begun and will con- tinue until the broom of the guerilla reaches into every nook, cranny, and into every toraer of our communities and these vile people, are swept into their graves The fine line of demarcation between revolutionary forces and U.S.A, fascism with all its foul allies, has been clearly defined by our great revolutionary party. Our warriors have and are laying down their lives to combat the number one enemy of our people. The revolutionary martyrs died fighting so that the perverted lackeys would not be free to ply their death dealing trades, Our youth , our women, all of our people are victims of these vile lackeys of U,S,A, fascism, The dope dealers and pimps boast that they receive their share of blood money right off the top. City, state and, federal fascists snicker behind, \ ‘‘White only doors’", and count their share of our people’s blood and toil. The position of our Party is crystal clear, The blood debt .owed Black people will be paid. We will make gure that the ruling fascist gangster clique and all their foul degenerate lackeys will have re- served places up against the wall. All enemies of our people have this coming right off the top. WE‘LL ALL BE TOGETHER ON THE DAY OF VICTORY\ SMASH USA FASCISM ON EVERY FRONT Randy He, Fa pl ae = The first thing I would like to relate to you is the necessity of a UNITED FRONT because everything has been united except the artist, The Black Panther Party, Black people and everybody are united in a sense and they know what direction they have to take to relieve them- selves of the oppression and hostil- ity by the disturbers of the peace--: the United States Government, But we find that many of the artists are hung up on trips, We find them not relating to the objective con- ditions that we are subjected to everyday, We find them drawing a lot of abstract pictures, You find them drawing first from the basis of ‘love. How can one first draw from the basis of love because in this society, there can only be class love, And to start from the basis of drawing from love of the people, would be to say that you love Mayor Daley, so that you would also love Hanrahan and Richard Nixon, And I know that I don’t love those peo- ple... hate them with a passion, So we don’t start from a basis of ~ Revolutionary Art:A Tool For Liberation { TAKEN FROM CONTEXT OF SPEECH DELIVERED AT MALCOLM X COLLEGE { CHIGACO ILL. ) AT THE FIRST REVOLUTIONARY ARTIST CONFERENCE, BY THE MINISTER OF CULTURE EMORY DOUGLAS, BLACK PANTHER PARTY, U.S.A. ON JUNE 8, 1970 AND REVISED FOR THE BLACK COMMUNITY NEWS SERVICE .) asing 5 ters in New Haven Chicago, L.A,, etc); then we have to draw pictures that say if you do that then there won’t beany light for days, We have to take revolutionary slogans like that and put them into pictorial form, so that we can show the masses what we are talking about, so that they can move in a correct fashion to liberation, You’re supposed to draw pictures that say that no more are we going to let our Black bro- thers and sisters go to the gas chambers while we stand on the side lines and look, but that we are going to contribute to the National Liber- ation Struggle of Black People in America, And that we are going to draw pictures that will inflame the masses to pick up guns against the pigs, against all of these corrupt pigs, and that every time they try to turn the switch on the bro- thers in New Haven, Chicago, L.A. or any where else that we will deal a death blow to the pigs,These are the types of pictures that we have to draw, This is what revolutionary art is all about; to educate the mass- a AG) shea AmArions ile ibawe tnaeta EMORY to use these examples so that we can begin to run the pigs out of the Community by any means necessary, If you don’t have a gun you can use some lye, if youdon’thave some lye, you can use some poison, if you don’t have some poison you can use some glass, use what ever you got to get rid of these pigs. We have to understand that our history in America has been one of continuous struggle from the first day that we set foot on this land, but we have to record our history and we have to take that which is relevant and disregard that which isn’t revelant, Nat Turner is relevant to us because he offed the slavemaster,,..£he took heads and lives in the name of all, the suf- fering people at that time, Denmark Vesey and all those people who were slaves and who roseup against the system, This is what we have to draw about and this is what we have to educate our children about. Now we come to the question for whom are we trying to drawfor? We must understand that there are Black people that think that they areapart of this racist decadent society. But we recognize that they are not and say that those people just have to stay in the pot and boil a little longer. And that we: have to'relate to those brothers and sisters that are hung up in the ghetto who are doubtful, who are hungry, who rob and steal; i) i=l) hth “Resmrratham Olean eniiizana At outside of the people themselves, Because the people are the ones that make the masterpiece, you only in- terpret what the masterpiece of the people is, And at this time the masterpiece is freedom, So thatyou have to interpret that in your work, in revolutionary art, Because what will happen if you don’t do that is that we will continue to be in the same situation..we will continue to let our people be controlled by the mass media of lies and deceit be- cause what you do when you begin to create revolutionary art, you begin to filter through the smoke- screen that these pigs have put forth in our communities and you begin to show the people that no longer will the pigs be able to sit back comfortably on television and say: ‘‘That’s the way it is, June 8, 1970’’ (CBS: Walter Cronkite; Mon-Fri.). And Black people say that it’s just like this and that it can’t be nothing else. The many Black people who have televisions, ‘and watch it continuously and believe all those lies, will begin to see throughout the Black community, examples put forth by the Black Panther Party of what:they have to do...i.e., examples of what is happening and how theyhave to deal with that situation, They will be seeing that continuously, day in and day out, That’s the only way we are going to teach them,..day in and day out, We must teach our people in the most simple and obvious forms. We have to start off by making things very popular with them so that when they look at it they see it and identify with it immediately, Too many times we find that people get hung up in abstractions; which confuse rather than describe a means to an end! But then what is that? It would be better if you had guns in the hands of Black people aiming at the heads of these murdering pigs and giving the suggestion to the people to kill the Stunid racieat nios Tharra haw von based on nothing free. When you be- gin to draw pictures like that then you begin to draw pictures that transcend the community..;You be- gin to draw pictures that become international, because everybody who is suffering and everybody who is oppressed, can relate to self defense and ways how to deal with their survival, Out of simple, clear,revolutionary art will come the machinery for a United Front that will hook up the artist with the revolution in a true sense, And to give you an example as to how that can come,,it’s a fact that when you begin to draw revolutionary art it is a re- flection of the suffering people’s desire for freedom, Because there is no art for arts’ sake, All art is stamped with the brand of a class, and _ that’s a matter of fact, So we say that when you begin to draw revolutionary art, you begin to relate to the politics of the lumpen (indecent housing, inferior education, forced service in the fascist military etc.) Without reservations, I say that the Black Panther Party is the van- guard party and I say this because of the examples by our practice and programs, If it weren’t for our programs we wouldn’t have anything going for us butrhetoric, like some other organizations, So when we put programs forth that the people can relate to,and implement them, so that’s what put.us in the ‘*Van’’, When you begin to. draw revolutionary art you have to begin to reflect the politics that we yan- guard party is talking about, Because art is subordinate to ‘politics since at this time we are fightin in a struggle for our national liber ation, Therefore politics must be) paramount thing to anything that ¥ have going, So when we Say that ve want decent housing, we must hale pictures that reflect how we’regoiht to get decent housing. We say thai 1: Jee. | ae | by Tialilaliallh AME INILMGLU INIA, ShkI I know that I don’t love those peo- ple... hate them with a passion, So we don’t start from a basis of love. You start from facts, And what are the facts at the present time? The facts of the present timeare that the Black community, Black people, are still colonized, We are still being exploited, brutalized and murdered, So that we have to start from there, We have to begin to start not from what we think is creative, but from looking at sit- uations and conditions, And when we look at these situations and condi- ions, we put them into pictorial form; a form that people can relate to, to show them how to struggle against all these corrupt conditions. We have to begin to “sawpictures that will make people pick up guns and kill pigs; pigs that murdered Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, We have to drawpictures about Jackson, Mississippi where our brothers and sisters were murdered, And Augusta, Georgia....this is what we have to begin to relate to, And the White people in the audience have to begin to draw pictures about Kent State and how those murders hap- pened there, andhow to prevent such brazen murders from happening in the future. Because if we don’t do that, we are becoming a part of the problem and not a part of the solu- tion, Because then we’re not de- fending the gains of the revolution; (eg., the very revolutionary stance of Huey P. Newton, based on the human right to self defense) A revolutionary artist is supposed to draw aboutthose things, They are supposed to draw about the brothers of Babylon who are _ facing the electric chair because they were trying to survive. We must defend the right that Lance Bell be set free because if Lance Bell is not set free and they try to turn the juice on him (like they are trying to do to our Chairman Bobby and other courageous brothers and sis- the types of pictures that we have to, draw, This is what revolutionary art is all about; to educate the mass- es of the people, We have to safe- guard and defend the gain that our brother Jake Winters gave his life for, defending the Black community, defending himself, Jake Winters offed two pigs and wounded ten, we say right on, We have to safeguard and advance the victory gained Dec. 8th in Los Angeles when 1] brothers and sisters fought valiantly for five hours against hundreds of racist murderers and survived the attempt to murder them in their sleep. And this is what you are supposed to draw about, you have to put it into pictures, so that you can educate the youth of today; how the brothers stood up to them, You have to educate the mothers and fathers through pictures just like you do through writing, poetry and every other form of revolutionary art, Because we say that the majority of the Black com- munity is not a reading community, but they learn through observation and participation, Because they are not a reading community, it is very easy for them to learn through pic- torial form, We have to attack these fascist pigs with every stroke of the brush, We just can’t attack them today and lay down our brushes tomorrow, but we haye to do this day in and day out, We have to understand what we’re up against, and once we under- stand what we’reup against, nolonger will we draw pictures that don’t have any relevancy to our liberation, Because these pigs are killing us, and for us to sit back and draw pic- tures that show beautiful faces, but the picture unarmed; to draw pic- tures of a dead brother on the ground but doesn’t show how Black people stop them from killing our brothers, then the pictures become irrelevant because weareinastrug- gle for our survival. We have to begin to. make sure that when we draw these pictures that people will begin brothers and sisters that are hung up in the ghetto who are doubtful, who are hungry, who rob and steal; i.e,, the lumpen (the millions of Black people down in the gutter reaching up for the curb), We have to begin to draw from this basis; objective reality, And we educate from there and move it.on up to a higher level; revolutionary art, Why should we start from the top, when we say that when you walk up stairs you start from the bottom? We don’t start from the top to walk up the stairs, So we say that when we begin to educate Black people to what revolutionary artis all about, ‘we don’t do it by words; we do it by example, We begin to use the whole com- munity as the gallery of revolution- ary art. We put revolutionary art on the telephone poles, we put rev- olutionary art on the buses, on the store fronts, windows, on passing cars,..we put it out there so that the people can see it...when they go to and from work or where ever they’re going everyday, Just like we say that people learn from ob- servation and participation and not only that, because (Black people can not afford to go to the galleries.,, because we have too many problems in our community to be going to any galleries) revolutionary art is sup- posed to be art for the people, so that it should be out there where the people can see it,..where it becomes real to them, That’s the only way that you can begin to serve the people, You have to become one with them, you put it out there and if they don’t like it, they’ll tell you about it, and then you can go back and analyze it and correct it. Everything is analyzed by the ex- ternal world out there. You can sit back and say that ‘‘I’ve created a masterpiece’’and the people might throw tomatoes at you,because there is no suchthing as a masterpiece of Black people aiming at the heads of these murdering pigs and giving the suggestion to the people to kill the Stupid racist pigs, That’s how you set examples, because you are com- ing near to the idea,,to what you’re trying to project to the people and what they have to do to gain their liberation, You not only have to draw pictures of the domestic scene here at home, we have to draw pictures that will make our brothers in Vietnam take up their guns against those Generals who are giving orders to them to kill other people of color who have never brutalized them, who have never come over here and called them nigger, We have to draw pic- tures for our brothers in Cambodia or wherever they might be and by drawing these kinds of pictures, they become international within them- selves, Hence, revolution and liber- ation is something that transcends communities, And this is something that is not owned by one ethnic group of people, So we say to make it very clear that our struggleis not dependent upon another people saving us, that our struggle depends upon ourselves, And that we give some- thing to the struggle of Brown, Red, Yellow and poor White people when we begin to draw pictures that give idiom to the revolution and the idiom of the struggle for our ultimate survival, We put the guns in the hands of Black people against these pigs and showed them killing the pigs, and when we put guns in the hands of the people showing them that because we have a Free Breakfast Program that we’re going to have to defend that program because the pigs don’t like that, then we’re set- ting examples,,, when we begin to draw pictures that relate to our health clinics and show them that we’re going to have to have guns to defend those Free Health Clinics, because this country wasn’t SVS SVE be VM WHS We Say Set Ne want decent housing, we must hat pictures that reflect how we’re goil to get decent housing. We say thal we want an immediate end to the murder ad brutality of Black peo- ple.. then we must show how we can deal with that, All the art must reflect the politics of the day as exposed by the vanguard party. You have to understand also that politics and art go hand-in-hand, Politics is the engine and the art is a part of that engine.,it may be a screw on that engine; but it is a screw that if it is lost, the struggle and the politics of the struggle will be weakened, because every revolution- ary movement that I’ve known of has some type of revolutionary art (Al Fateh, Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea, FNL - North Vietnam, Liberation Fronts in Africa, Asia and Latin America), In summary, I would like to say that when we begin to draw pictures that have slogans on them like ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE, we say right on to that, but we are in a new era in America where we have to say DEATH TO THE PIGS, because they have pigs around here that say ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE now. So we have to adapt a more militant slogan to project in our art, And when you begin to talk about DEATH TO THE PIGS, they will take you seriously and will begin to vamp on you and you wont’ be saying thatun- less you truly want to do something, Don’t talk anymore; put some theory into practice, DEATH TO THE.\FASCIST PIGS If we all have a common aim of serving the oppressed people, our front will become united, Because only through politics can the needs of the lumpen find expression in concentrated form, ( Bis. The favorite historical tactic used by the exploiter against the exploited, the master against the slave has been, and continues to be the age-old tactic of divide and conquer. Throughout history, we can see that this has been done to bring about, and insure the en- slavement of one group by another, one class byanother, one nation by another. We can see that this was done to us in Africa, The Slave traders played tribe against tribe, region against region andin so doing, brought about the sit- uation he desired. The coloniza- tion of Africa, and the slaves to serve as cheap, no-cost labor for plantation owners in the Southern Region of America, When we examine history, we see that during different struggles of people for their freedom, you have different occurrences of this tactic, of divide and conquer, We can see that in our Situation as Black people in racist Babylon the enemy has used class dif- ferences to divide us, and there- fore, keeps us enslaved. House nigger against the field nigger, Joe college nigger against the street nigger (lumpen), light- skinned niggers against the dark- skinned niggers and finally the ‘so-called goodniggers’ '(respon- sible leaders) against the ‘‘so- called bad niggers’’ (revolution- aries), They haye always used lackies and bootlickers against the people, as a buffer zone between them and the angry masses that threaten their greedy existence. The form that this genocidal tac- tic of divide and conquer is taking at this time is to divide the Van- guard Party, the people's Party- the Black Panther Party away from the masses of Black people. This is the political form; geograph- ically they are trying to keep our brothers and sisters in the North from uniting with our brothers and sisters in the South, They, the oppressors, are doing this, because they know if there is unity between the North and South this sham game will come to a deathly end, They are trying desperately to keep our brothers and sisters in the North herded together inthe urban cities, in centralized, highly explosive areas, from coming together with our brothers and sisters, who are living in wretched conditions, in the rural areas, and small cities of the South, In this final stage of revolution~ ary struggle, we find ourselves in a life or death situation. The pigs are planning to commit mass mur- der (genocide) against us. This Situation that we face, that threa- tens our survival, that threatens our very existence, has to be met with a political plan of action, that smashes the enemy's tactic of divide and conquer - that unites the whole people, and brings an end to the existence of the enemy. We see that our people are no longer confined to a certain geog- raphical area, (the South), We see that we are spread through the confines of racist America, We see that once we were confined to a certain area, exploited and oppressed in the foul clutches of slavery. We fought our way out of this lower form of slavery, we expanded and migrated to the North, believing the lying lips of theabolitionists that‘‘a better life”’ awaited us, We moved North, but became entrenched in a different, higher form of slavery based not on land, but in the factories, This is called capitalism. So now we see that we are struggling in all parts of the country, in all sec- tors of the economy, on all fronts in this society, If we understand that, then we can understand that nothing is isolated, the struggle isn’t just happening in the North, in the cities, in California, in the South, that the struggle isn’t just happening in the courts, in the schools, in the factories, that the struggle doesn’t just involve the Black “Panther Party, and Black people, that the struggle is happen- ing everywhere, Because the con- ditions and basis for a revolution exist everywhere in racist Baby- jon, We can see that it is necessary for the whole people to rise up against the oppressor, the enemy, and smash him into non-existence. We can see that we cannever allow the enemy to force us to think in terms of the part, and place pri- mary focus on the part, to loc- alize the struggle, to regionalize it, to confine it to a certain area, We should always think and act in terms of the whole. the whole country, the whole people, the whole problem, the whole solution. We must do it this way, simply’ because this is the only way to get total and complete liberation for our people. As we begin the final stage of this revolutionary thrust, we see it having its beginning inthe South, where ~he conditions and the people were the most backward. As this was happening, we can see the enemy trying shrewdly to confine the struggle to a certain area, to keep it from spreading to the rest of the oppressed masses, the maj- ority, the whole people. We see them trying to tell us thatthe peo- ple are fighting conditions that are Particular to their own town, their city, their region, We see them telling us that these conditions do not exist where we live. We see the enemy trying to stopthepeople from recognizing the conditions that exist among them in their area, They try to stop us from seeing the whole. The enemybides his time, tries to check the rey- olution, the struggle, in an effort to brainwash and condition the people. So that when they do re- act, they will move in the manner in which the oppressor pro- grammed them to move. The enemy defines the problem, the enemy passes out the information, creates opinion, says what is good, what is bad, what he will accept and what he will not tolerate. This has happened to us, while we watched; and when we did give assistance (CORE, Freedom Rid- ers, Liberals, SNCC, we didn’t come with new ideas, we did not come with revolutionary ideas, We went with the program and plan of action given to us by the enemy, The same program he was using to stymie the struggle, in an effort to push the movement along in a passive, and politically backward fashion. When the oppressor, ac- complished that, he shamed out the whole integration, civil rights trick bag on the people. Then there was a new develop- ment. We see Malcolm X, we see him speaking in the idiom of the People we see him saying that we cannot allow the enemy to define our struggle, to develop our pro- grams, to runour struggle. We see the enemy again becoming worried, we see the enemy more and more using his lackey ministers from the South and bringing them: into the North, yeu sce them WITH OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN passivity. We see Malcolm defeating this attempt by the enemy to use his lackies, to stop a Black man, who could and would unite the whole people around truly revolutionary princi- ples. The lackies couldnot silence Malcolm. The enemy had to silence Malcolm themselves, they placed guns in the hands of some boot- licking niggers and shot Malcolm down. Before Malcolm died, he predicted the rebellions that did occur in the urban areas of the country. He planted the seed of revolution in the hearts andminds of the people, He spoke of self- defense, instead of non-violence, self-determination, instead of de- pendency on the enemy and the gun as a basic tool of liberation. He also spoke of the need of a truly revolutionary organization that spoke and acted in the peo- The Cleveland N,C.C.F, has im- plemented another — liberation school as part of-our-social pro- grams to serye the needs of the people. This is where the children are taught their true history and their role in present day society. The new location is the Friend- ly Inn Recreation Center located at 2382 Unwin Rd., the same lo- cation where the community meetings are held every Thurs- day at 7:30 p.m, The class at Friendly Inn will pushing non-violen ce, civil rights, he held from 1-3 p.m. on Mon- THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAG ia ONE OF OUR MAIN PURPOSES IS TO UNIFY OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE NORTH THE SOUTH ple’s interest. At this point, em- phasis of the struggle switched to the North, as Malcolm had pre- dicted, nothing the enemy did could stop it. His old tactic was fail- ing, Black people were now truly moving for their freedom. Niggers rebelled in the streets, they were met by cries of *'be cool’', they were met by ‘‘the war on poverty’’, a tactic they used to keep the concept of self-defense from spreading, againto the whole. The civil rights movement ex- panded out of the South, into the North and failed - because they tried to organize the people around a program that wasn’t drawn up by the people. They were pushing the enemy's pro- gram, and you can’t organize the people around the enemy's pro- gram and expect to succeed, So ANOTHER CLEVELAND N.C.C.F. days and Tuesdays, The other lo- cation is the League Park Center located at 66th and Lexington Sts., from 3-6 p.m. on Mondays and Fridays, Free lunch is served at both locations, The children also learn about the conditions in the Black com- munities, such as the need for a stop sign at 79th and Rawlings St. where one little brother, Na- than Carter, was hit by a speed- ing motorist, The N,C.C.F,, along with people in the community has circulated a petition to city hall we can see that Maloclm planted the seed and the product of that seed is Huey P, Newton and the Black Panther Party. We see the Party developing on the West coast, the last geographical area that Black people migratedto, We see the Party grow, expand and develop throughout the West, Mid- west, throughout theEast Coast.We see the pigs trying, in the begin- ning to confine the Party on the West Coast, but failing. They failed because the Party was based on true revolutionary principles. We see them failing to divide the people from the Party, we see them trying to lie, to confuse the peo- ple but we see them failing. We see the Party working inthe cities, expanding its base, serving the people, setting examples for the people to follow, teaching self-de- fense to the people. If you make an analysis, you see the Party being successful in our attempts to spur the people to action, we see the pigs failing in their at- tempts to annihilate the Black Panther Party, So we find our- selves struggling as a Party, but recognizing that we are always concerned with the whole, we find ourselves at the crossroads, at the enemy’s last attempt to divide and conquer, his attempttokeep us from broadening our struggle to encompass the South. We must solve this problem. To solve this problem we have to analyze the situation. If we do, we see that if we do not move into the South to serve the peo- ple, to educate the people, and do the things there that we did in the North, then we are not think- ing and acting in terms of the whole people, the whole problem. We would then be allowing all of the bootlickers and lackies, and those who would seek to have the Party destroyed,,to have an un- contested base to rap down their lies and phony programs ona large segment of our people, We have to understand that this couldeasily happen. In the final analysis, it would prove disastrous to our complete and total liberation, Re- gionalism during the struggle for our liberation could develop: into an antagonistic contradiction among the people, and therefore lead to the defeat of our efforts to unite the people and make a socialist society. Our Minister of Defense Huey P. Newton has .said ‘‘The Black Panther Party is the People’s Party and we are primarily in- terested in freeing man’’. If we are after the complete and total liberation of our people, then we must go among them, wherever they are, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Doug Miranda Winston-Salem, N,C.C.F. LIBERATION SCHOOL to install four wey stop signs at the intersection due to numerous accidents. The children know that the pigs are tying to railroad Bobby to the Chair and they will he con- tinually learning about their role in the present day society, \LL POWER TO THE PEOPLI POW'S FOR PANTHERS Cleveland, N-CLC.F. 2783 Rawlings Ave. Phone: 881-5055 Cleveland, Ohio DR. CURTIS POWELL N.Y. PANTHER 21 POLITICAL PRISONER This is Doctor Curtis Powell, PhD of the Black Panther Party. I was born in a small room in New Jersey, South Orange New Jersey. There’s only two things in South Orange NewJersey, 95% rich population , and some maids and some butlers, My mother was a maid and she lived near the bot- tom. of this town, South Orange. I went to this school that was mostly White and we had the problem of Black-White confron- tations with kids, but the major problem that I had was when I was in the eighth grade. We had this LQ. test and they had a thing going, where the top three students, 1,Q, students, would go from the eighth grade, and grad- uated when they were seventeen. And I had the highest 1,Q, in the whole school system, They came around to the house and convinced my mother and a preacher that I wasn’t emotionally ready to go to the University of Chicago. So the White cats under me, they went to college and graduated when they were seventeen. - That so disil- lusioned me that I dropped out of high school, and then one of the preachers came back and tried to convince me to go back, I told him that what he was saying sound- ed good, you know, but what the hell was the use? I did finally go back and graduate. Then I went there a couple of years. While I was in the Marines, I read a book on chemistry, it sort of interested me , so when I came out, at that time , I'd hang out in bars and drank alot andtriedeverything I tried a little snorting, a little scag, a lot of drink and a lot of hanging out. But one day just for kicks, I went up to Seaton Hall University and they were giving out the entrance exam and I took it and I got the highest grade so they had to let me in. I went to Sea- ton Hall for 3 years and then I went out to California where Iwas drinking and snorting and hanging out. One day I went to the University of California Medical School and told the professor of Bio Chemis- try I wanted to do research there. The reason why I took Bio chemis- try was because while I was at Seaton Hall I had to work 3 jobs to go to school and one of the jobs was doing research. Iwas the only undergraduate doing cancer research at Seaton Hall. So it sort of stuck in my mind, so I de- cided that I wanted to do Bio che- mistry. I guess I must have took the cat by surprise, out at Ca- lifornia, because usually you have to fill out these papers and stuff but he sent for my records and said everything was cool, so I started going there and to get ex- tra money I started working in the post office. My professor didn’t dig that, so he got me a job teaching at San Francisco State College and a teaching as- sistant at Berkeley Campus. I was going along cool. Then my mother had a heart attack, so I had to quit and come back to the East Coast where I worked up at NYU Medical Center and. at Albert Einstein College of Med- cine. I went to school in the eve- ning. But then I saw that , like when I graduated from Seaton in 3 years I had to pay a fine be- cause the priestsgot together at the Catholic University and said that they didn’t want anybody with ideas like mine graduating from a Catholic University. And when I was taking courses in the eve- ning, I was at City College, tak- ing a couple of courses inthe even- ing. The Dean told me that | could never get a PhD with my attitude in this country, so I said “the hell with it’’ and saved up my money and went overseas. I was in Paris doing research and I met Malcolm there, coming back from Egypt and Mecca, and he turned me around quite a bit and I was going to come back and work with his organization.,But he got iced in the meantime, Everyone who met Malcolm and hung with him, at that time, got kicked out of Paris and I left and came back here and saw that nothing was still going on, There was still no or- ganization, nothing to really deal with the problem, nothing to deal with Black liberation, as Malcolm had defined it. So I saved up some more money and split to Africa for a while, finally ending up in Sweden, where I got my PhD. I was thinking about a lot of the Black patriots and how they had run out of the country because they couldn’t take the racism and I decided that the fight for Black people was back here in this coun- try. So as soon as I had finished with my degree I came back and started checking out the or- ganizations that were supposedly working for Black liberation in this country. The only one that seemed to follow the program of Malcolm which still influencedme quite a bit , was the Black Pan- ther Party. I had a gig doing cancer research at Columbia Col- ledge of Medicine, When I start- ed the gig they told me that I" could work my own hours and be- ing a PhD.I had my own latitude. So I was going up to the labora- tory doing research on cancer, and working in the community with the Black Panther Party doing a lot of work with high school stu- dents, the Welfare rights people and the hospital , organizing people. Then on April 2nd I was at my mothers house and I called up Lumumba’s brother and lasked him what was happening and he said the pigs were vamping, so I said ‘‘vamping for what?” and he said conspiracy to commit mur- der and arson. I said murder who and arson what? and he said I don’t know but the pigs are in your house, So I hung up and called up to my house and the pigs answered the telephone. I got righteously indignant about that. So I said ‘‘ I'm going to see what these pigs want in my house you know,', what the hell are they doing breaking down my door, sit- ting in my house?’’ I remember when, as I was leaving, my mother asked me what was happening, and I said well _ you know they probably want to take us down and hold us for a few days, but they ain’t got no - thing on us, we ain't done nothing. That was 14 months ago! I found out that it was a Hitchcock dra- ma, it got so ridiculous that, like a couple of weeks ago Murtagh kicked me out of court for laughing but sometimes you sit there and watch this farce and its so ri- diculous, that you either start screaming or laughing. And I still think that the Program of the Black Panther Party is the most valid and the only solution to get ourselves together and seize the time. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! “JESUS WEPT, PETER SLEPT, JOHN FELL OUT THE BACK DOOR STEP” AFENI SHAKUR N.Y, 21 Jesus took the seventh avenue one night at 125th Street And watched his so-called dis- ciples practice the game of de- ceit I saw him there shaking his head and looking all dumb So I went and sat next to him and showed him my gun He still didn’t dig where I was coming from so I decided to rap Before it was all over I had to draw the dude a map Cause he didn’t believe we under- stood where he was at And he thought a Panther was just another scheming alley cat When he heard about the Break- fast Program his eyes gave a hint That he knew what “I am a rey- olutionary’’ meant The dude started telling me about the fool that set him up I didn’t wana be rude but after a while I had to interrupt Cause the dude he was talking about sounded like Sams That crazy Tom nigger who put Bobby in the slam Our conversation continued to At- lantic Ave. Where Jesus got off and slapped a zionist jew He bopped on over to Sutter St. and Hopkinson "Cause he wanted to see what the straight shooters had done They gave him a gun and he offed twelve pigs right On JC, you’re a bad rey- olutionary--you dig? FIGHT ON ‘TIL VICTORY BLACK PANTHER PARTY Afeni Shakur (N.Y. 21) THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 15 A LETTER § 10 THE PEOPLE WHO DOES THE CONSTITUTION REPRESENT ? Before you vote, think about the following points regarding the re- presentatives who claim they want to represent our interests in the State and Federal systems. The candidates say the people have to answer many questions. Well here are a few that need answers: Basil Paterson, running for Lt. Governor of New York, Mr. Pa- terson out in favor of selling Jet fighters to Israel, the news media reports, Why? Why does Mr, Pa- terson make special efforts to arm Israel, but does not make special efforts to get Constitutional rights guaranteed for Black Panther Party members rotting in jail on trumped up charges? Are the con- ditions to be elected to office such that Mr. Paterson must aid inter- national contradictions before dealing with immediate problems at home pertaining to Black peo- ple and other minorities? Israeli people and Palestinian people have a right to exist, we believe, but more important is the right of survival of Black people and other poor and oppressed people here in America. Would Mr. Paterson make special efforts to arm the people of Chicago so they can de- fend themselves, or Orangeburg, S.C. or Jackson, Mississippi, so they can defend themselves ? What special effort can Mr. Paterson make to support the Black and poor peo- ple’s Constitutional Convention, September 7, 1970 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania? Nelson Rockefeller, running for | re-election of Governor of New York and his supposed represent- atives have been strangely silent about the Jackson State student murders and the repression of Black Panther Party members and programs. Here inNew York state, he is supposed to uphold the Con- stitution, but he allows rigged courts to railroad brothers and sisters to prison even though he knows the economy is notprovid- ing jobs like it should, Of course Rockefeller does not care because he owns oil companies, and oil companies run tanks and planes, and trucks, and helicopters and ships and sometimes equipment and there is lots of money he makes from the war. Why aren’t there more jobs for the people--some productive jobs? How much of $81.6 million are the Rockefellers spending in exploring for oil off the coast of Scotland, but cannot seem to negotiate a substantial portion of jobs for Harlem, Talk and promises continue, Rockefel- ler pigs still interfere with the Black Panther Party’s efforts to work with the people to develop meaningful programs to uplift the people’s lives in the ghetto. Arthur Goldberg, running for Governor of New York state, Mr. Goldberg was supposed to head an investigation team regarding the murders of Black Panther Party members, Mark Clark and Fred Hampton, Dig the meeting between the ‘'Goldberg commission’’ and the Atty. General's office, why is” nothing done about blatant murder? Charles Rangel, Assemblyman running for Congressman, Is Rangel really a puppet trying to dance the tune of the real ‘‘mas- ter’’ behind the scenes so he can be supported for the congressional running or at least be sure to get @ Sood appointed office? How does Rangel measure up to the voting on issues that pertain to Black residents that are in conflict with the profit interests of the wealthy? How does Rangel stand on the pre- ventive detention bill that will add more repression on Black and PuertoRican people? How will or does Rangel stand on home rule, the right of our people to control their own destiny? Get an answer and compare his voting record. He has supported the People’s Constitutional Convention in words, now we must watch his practice. Howard J, Samuels, running for Governor of New York state. Is Mr. Samuels a flaming liberal that will be like the rest? Use us and split to the ivory tower? Mr.Sam- uels is quite wealthy it is re- ported, Does he in any way wish to share some wealth with poor ey BOB COLLIER N.Y, 2 minorities? How would any of them go about placing many of the un- used good buildings, that are boarded up, into the people's con- trol? We have already seen what Rockefeller and Goldberg have done with police brutality in our communities. Would any one of the candidates running endorse co- operative use of sanitation equip- ment by community people? Would they encourage distribution of the surplus food that farmers burn up in order to keep prices high? Would they encourage a program to employ the people on each block to renovate the housing conditions and general block area and get the money back from the negligent landlords who have allowed the buildings»to run down? What con- crete plans can these people, run- ning for office explain to the peo- ple about economic expansion that will provide jobs for men and wo- men? We present this to you the voter because we try to protect and educate our people. We are trying to serve our people. These are the problems that need to be moved on| We do not needa middle- man, we need a WARRIOR! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Bob Collier (N.Y. 21) THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 16 REMEMBER THE PRISONERS On September 22, 1969, Booker Thomas Collins, Jesse Lee White, and Earl Walter L everette, were kidnapped, beaten and illegally charged with ‘attempted murder’ and ‘resisting arrest’. The ‘at- tempted murder’ case is aframe- up where rookie patrolman Ro- bert Schroeder says the following: BOOKER COLLINS POLITICAL PRISONER That a light-colored volkswagon pulled up beside him with the bar- rel of a shotgun sticking out the front passenger window, as he walked his beat at 23rd and West Font Du Lac. That he ducked and grabbed for his notebook and wrote down the li- cense no. B (boy)-6, as the pel- lets flew over his head (J) or that he anticipated the blast and ducked (1!) Schroeder was not injured and the pellets were sup- Posed to have hit a wall about SO ft. away and 30 ft. off the ground, EARL LEVERETIE POLITICAL PRISONER The police department is known for its use of the ‘resisting ar- rest’ law to legitimatize the beat- ing (I) or killing (I!) of innocent Black people. This was the case when ‘three’ known Black Panthers turned down a one-way street (22nd and West Lloyed) going in the wrong direction, September 22, 1969, a- round 12:40 a.m. The brothers were stopped and ordered to get out of their car at gun point, by Lt. Beste, 3436 S, 38th Street, (with a shotgun) and Sgt, Lelinski, 1614 S. 37th Street, (with a drawn revolver), The ‘three’ were searched, as more patrol cars and detectives gathered, Lelinski says that as he began to handcuff Jesse (with a revolver inhis back, Beste with his shotgun 10 ft. away plus more pigs) he began to re- sist, and that Booker and Earl grabbed his shoulders with one on each side. Beste says that was when he and the other law enfor- cers had to step in to subdue the ‘three’ by force. On November 3-4, 1969, the ‘three’ appeared before Christ T. Seraphim and an all White jury of 12 and were found guilty of ‘resisting arrest’, They were sentenced to one year (maximum) at the House of Correction, be- cause they are revolutionaries, freedom fighters, Black men. The Beat of the people, that is the spirit of the peoples’ struggle JESSE WHITE POLITICAL PRISONER for freedom, must be heard by the ‘three’ and all the other pri- soners, They are victims of the real criminals, Jowiak, Nixon, Wallace, Rockefeller, Hunt, etc. To demonstrate at the House of Correction is to bring the Beat of the people to the other prison- ers and support the ‘three’ in their efforts to educate the brothers, To demonstrate at the House puts pressure on the administration and tells them that we want the *3' freed because they have not been tried by a jury of their peer group, people of their com- munity. To demonstrate isto show the Sunday visitors that the pri- soners struggle is theirs too. That we are conscious and resolutely dedicated to the causes listed above. We are at the House to educate all people to the belief, that the power of a society lies in the spirit of the people, and that the people will win. N.C,C,F., Milwaukee | of Prisoners 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, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY re sheeb meh - me BER | To the Parents ee ees ATTEMPT TO RAILROAD PEOPLE'S SERVANTS The demagogic elements of the Cleveland power structure, work- ing in conjunction with the lower echelon Cleveland College system, are out to railroad two revolu- tionary brothers in the Cleveland N.C.C.F, who are students at the pigs’ indoctrination camps, some- times called colleges. One of the brothers, Al Hayes, is a student at Cuyahoga Community College. He has put in long hours helping with the liberation schools, free lunch programs as well as selling Panther papers at school. There exists at the school a make-believe security department, headed by a drop-out from thefag- got bureau of intimidation (FBI). This fat-bellied buffoon has at his disposal, nigger lackeys that ha- rassed Al and tried to keep him from boosting papers on campus, Failing inthis covert attempt, chief lackey bootlicker, Maurice Pres- ley, who is the most simple nigger lackey on this planet, threatened to kick Al and two more brothers out of school. Obviously this foot shuffling nigger doesn’t have that authority. Recently someone or some pig set afire one of the buildings and pig Maurice in true lying form, tried to place it on Al, He arrested him on an obvious trumped up charge of arson, This was a smokescreen to keep Al off campus and to keep the voice of the Panther from being heard on campus, and to keep the bro ther from educating the students to the Party’s Platform and so- cial Programs, Nigger Presley la- ter oinked in court that he really didn’t see anyone light a fire, but meanwhile Al’s case is being continued, As for the little fag- goted Presley, he gets an extra bowl of slop for his hoggish deed of the day. Billy Brock, also working with the liberation schools is a student at Cleveland State University, At the time, he was kidnapped for so-called malicious destruction of property, Billy had organized a ‘FREE BOBBY RALLY’ on cam-- pus, After the rally a few bro- thers and mother country radicals, broke some windows and turned over chairs, Without any evi- dence or witnesses, the fascist pigs and some hard core racists threatened Billy's life, yet none of these scum were arrested, The next day 22 pigs from the Cleve- land hog farm vamped on Billy in the student lounge, Although he was vividly unarmed, the pigs ap- proached him with the fascist over- kill weapons, 357’s, carbines, and 12 gauge shotguns, After kicking him in the ribs and handcuffing him, the pigs then breathed a lit- tle easier, One cowardly swine, badge #261, held a gun at Billy's head all the way to the Cleveland city dungeon, which like most stys in Babylon, has a 90% Black population, Badge #261 inked that ‘‘You’re a Panther huh?’’ ‘‘We pigs are going to have our fun when the mess jumps off too.’* This fool in pigs’ clothes also had a hand gre- nade which he tried to intimidate the brother with, After two days, Billy was returned to the people after posting $1,000 ransom, Both Al and Billy are back on the streets working in our liberation schools and free lunch program, The stupid pigs in Cleveland bet- ter realize that this is the year of the people. We’ve seen many of our comrades and offices across the nation ripped off by SAN FRANCISCO'S FILLMORE DISTRICT PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY FREE FESTIVAL Getting it together seemed to be the revolutionary theme last Sat- urday, the 27th of June, as San Francisco’s Fillmore District got together a beautiful .people’s com- munity’s free festival. Although a lot of praise should be bestowed upon sisters Carolyn Shelton and Joyce Wilkins along with the bro- thers from the Lakeview Black Panther Party cadre in particu- lar for their efforts in making the festival such a sucess, the whole community need also to be ap- plauded for their complete involve- ment in general. Pianist Bill Calhoun, who wrote a musical number entitled ‘‘Bobby must be set Free’’, and the sing- ing duet of Michael Torrance and Clark Daily , who so forcefully gave their swinging rendition of “Revolution is the only solution’’, related so strongly to the people until it was not long before the young brothers and sisters were joining in, dancing, singing, and making thier revolutionary slogans be heard blocks away, The people’s community Free )) Festival was held at 1125 Pierce street (in the project courtyard, between Eddy and Turk street), Be- sides having plenty of fried chicken potato salad, baked beans and soft drinks on hand for all, free cloth- ing and boxes of canned foods were given away to the needy. But the community had become involved before the festival helping Carolyn and Joyce wash and sort articles of clothing to be given away, collect- ing various donations of food stuff from the businessmen in the com- munity, and just talking to others in the community in order to get everyone involved, It was about 1:00 p.m. when the people’s community Free Festival began and it lasted until nightfall, around 8 or 9 that evening . The little children of the Pierce street Black Panther Party Free Break- fast For School Children Program stayed after it was over andcleaned up the entire area, Thanks again must be given to the people in the Fillmore District of San Fran- cisco, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE * blood thirsty animals masquerad- ing as protectors of the people. We will not relinquish our de- mand to free Chairman Bobby and all political prisoners. Nor will we quit feeding hungry children, And will not discontinue serving and educeting the masses. We're going to keep on exposing the duality in this jive judicial system and all the atrocious injustices that are being practiced locally, nationally, and internationally by the mad dogs that are in power. The Pentagon is the bastion of fascism and the incorporators of countless numbers of mad scien- tists running amuck and planning genocide for Black people and all progressive people over the world. So later for all of them, Later for this jive piece of toilet paper called the constitution, [t didn’t include Black people anyway, we're making our own. Meanwhile, the beat goes on so put your ear to the ground all you chumps that call yourselves ruling Babylon and you will hear the people marching on to liberation. And when you raise up you will see the vanguard party leading the people down that bloody path of revolution and after we’re through there will be no pigs for days, only people, be- cause we will fight from one gen- eration to the next. While you co- wards in the Pentagon plan to wipe us out, making plans twenty four hours a day (with the people’s taxes), we’re making counter plans for survival, The people are hip to you and the will of the people is stronger than your technology. COUNTER-ATTACK Cleveland, Ohio, N.C,.C.F. Curt PEOPLES COMMUNITY FREE FESTIVAL Reprinted from Maverick/ July 1970 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 17 Right side, the AK Assault Rille. THE AK — 47 — VS THE M —16 WHY THE CAPITALIST GUN IS INFERIOR | > Pe Sémm M16 Rifle —— By Will B. Outlaw We've talked about lots of the problems GI's have had with the M-16 rifle and about lots.of the profits a few giant corporations have made off this boondoggle. A number ‘of people have asked me to compare the M-16 with its counterpart the AK-47, the standard assault rifle carried by all armies of the socialist coun- tries and supplied by China and the Soviet Union to the liberation forces of Vietnam and Laos. _As most veterans of Nam will tell you, many GI's have dropped their issue M-16’s and picked up AK-47’s. | have heard tales of whole American units now armed with AK-47's. Why in the world would Gl’s prefer a weapon made in socialist and technologically “backward” countries like China to a fine pro- duct of the individual initiative free enterprise and competition of advanced capitalism? Colt Industries, which rakes in the profits from the M-16, uses Madison Avenue to convince us that the GI's must be jusi stupid or duped by communist propaganda. The ads point out all the M-16’s great advantages over the AK-47. It is lighter (6.5 Ibs. as compared to 8.8 Ibs.), has a rate of fire on full automatic 100 to 300 rounds per minute higher, and its extremely high muzzle velocity (3250 feet per second compared to 2330 fps for the AK-47) supposedly makes it deadly at short range and accurate at 500-600 yards. The M-16 is a kind of dream combination of a light submachine gun and an accurate long-range rifle. All this sounds great on paper, and makes it easy to write advertising blurbs to sell the M-16 to the Department of Defense. That's the catch, for this rifle, like every other product of this system, was primarily designed to do just one job: make profits for a big corporation. The AK-47, on the other hand, which was developed in the Soviet Union back in the late 1940's when that country was still socialist, was NOT designed to make money. It was built to make the people who carry it safe and effective. NO SUBMACHINE GUN First of all, the M-16 is useless as a submachine gun, because of the very features which look so great on paper. The extreme light weight produces ex- treme muzzle rise and excess recoil, even with that very light .223 cartridge. The 7.62 mm M43 cartridge produces 4% foot-pounds of recoil in a fully loaded AK-47, compared to 5 foot-pounds from the .223 in a fully loaded M-16. This relatively minor difference is greatly compounded by the much higher rate of fire of the M-16, which is also supposed to be such a good feature. In a burst of given time length, the M-16 delivers 16 to 50 percent more recoil impulses. This makes the muzzle almost uncontrollable. Capt. Henry Lum, facing a second tour in Vietnam, tested the M-16 on fully automatic at even very close ranges (12.5 and 25 meters) and with even very short bursts (2-round). His conclusion, as reported in ‘“‘The American Rifleman” (July 1969): “I plan to keep the selector switch on my M-16 at the semi- automatic position. Furthermore, it’s ridiculous to have a high rate of fire ina weapon with 20-round magazines (and which jam if you put in more than 18 cartridges). The high rate of fire merely empties the weapon fast. The M-16 is so ineffective as an automatic weapon that it would be better to eliminate the selector switch and automatic mechanism entirely.” The AK-47, on the other hand, with its 30-round magazines, IS an effective submachine gun, precisely because of its greater weight and slower rate of fire. SEMI—AUTOMATIC 0.K., so let's concede that to the AK-47 and now compare the two merely as semi-automatic field rifles. Here the big advantage of the AK-47 is its reliabitity in field conditions, whether in jungle heat and humidity, desert sand, salty air, or sub-zero temperatures. It is made to fire dirty, corroded, or even deformed ammunition when there is no time to clean the chamber and working parts. Again, what Madison Avenue makes into a disadvantage is really an advan- tage. The considerably greater weight of the AK’s recoiling parts (bolt, bolt carrier, gas piston) produces two effects. Extraction is less violent, thus making it less likely that the extractor will pull through a case rim, even if the ammo is corroded or deformed or if the chamber is dirty. More energy is available as the bolt closes, thus properly chambering even corroded or deformed ammo-—even in a sandy chamber. The fancy M-16 gas system, which was touted as a great invention, puts gases back into direct contact with the action, thus.producing fouling and corrosion. The conventional gas piston of the AK-47 isolates powder-bearing gases from the rotating and reciprocating surfaces of the bolt/carrier combination—which is precisely where fouling causes trouble in the M-16. These differences are not imaginary. And they have been know to the Army for four years. As Senator Charles Percy pointed out in “This Week” magazine, 24 March 1968: “U.S. Army Ordnance tests in 1966 revealed appalling figures. During one set of identical tests, there were 112 malfunctions of the enemy AK-47. But there were 2,476 malfunctions of the M-16.” ACCURATE & DEADLY? Well, what about the claims for the M-16 of ghastly wounds at short range and extreme accuracy at long range? More phony advertising. The M-16 pro- duces especially nasty wounds only when its tiny 55-grain bullet becomes unsta- ble. That's why its barrel was originally rifled with only one turn in 14 inches. But it was so inaccurate (as reported in the May 1962 “American Rifleman’’) that they had to increase the rifling to one turn in 12 inches. At relatively long range the bullet does become unstable and thus causes particularly bad wounds, ojirm, THE AK-47 WORKS EQUALLY WELL IN CUBAN HEAT AND RUSSIAN WINTER but this is precisely what makes it inaccurate at long range. At close range, the little bullet is going so fast that it often produces small clean wounds. So the opposite of the advertising claims is true: the M-16 is quite accurate at short range and produces bad wounds at long range—if it hits the target, which is unlikely because the bullet is tumbling. At close range, the AK-47 should be slightly more effective because of its greater knockdown (its muzzle energy of 1346 foot-pounds compares with 1287 for the M-16). Actual differences in wounding capacity are probably negligible. Former Medical Corps Captain Tom Bryan reports that in examining 1,000 combat wounds he simply could not distinguish between those caused by the -223 and 7.62mm M43 (’’Guns,” July 1968). At intermediate ranges, the two weapons should be about equal in accuracy. Neither is worth a damn at extremely long range (over 500 yards). But these - accuracy comparisons would be for bench-rest conditions. In actual combat, where most shooting is off-hand, the more stable AK-47 is undoubtedly more accurate. As the Gl’s know, the basic communist assault rifle beats the hell out of the basic capitalist one. But that’s not why the capitalist side is losing in Indochina. It’s because the “enemy” soldiers are fighting for liberation, while many Gl.s are fighting only because they were sent to defend the interests of the corporate bosses. They don’t want to be in Indochina and many are realizing it would rake more sense to turn their M-16’s (or AK-47’'s) in the opposite direction. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 18 REPRINTED FROM SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Editor’s Note: Wallace Terry Il spent more than two years in Vietnam as a corre- spondent for Time magazine. During that time he inter- viewed 833 black and white servicemen on their racial at- titudes as part of a private survey. Each was asked 109 auestions on a questionnaire. Terry's conclusions are bused on 2509 scieitifically com- prised tables derived from the servicemen's replies by the Harvard Computer Cen- ter. By Wallace Terry New York Times Cambridge, Mass. Racial harmony be- tween black and white American troops in Viet- nam~has. disintegrated to the most dangerous level of the war. The result has been num- erous racial incidents — even killings — and clear signs that black militancy and attitudes of separatism and black power thrive in southeast Asia. The first scientific servey to be made public of black and white troops in war dis- closes attitudes that are not only frightening put which could add significantly to the racial problem in the United States. For example: @ Black soldiers are fed up with fighting and dying in a war they consider to be white man’s folly. e@ Their anger is not di- rected toward Communism in Vietnam, but toward racism in America. @ They feel that they have no business fighting in south- east Asia — that their fight is in the United States, against repression and racism. e A frightening number —schooled in the violent art of guerrilla warfare — say they would join riots and take up arms if necessary, to get the rights and opportuni- ties they have been deprived of at home. @ The spirit of black mili- | taney has enveloped the GI ; on the battleground as much as it has the student on the — campus and many black soldiers say they will join the ranks of radical groups like the Black Panth- ers or Students For a Demo- cratic society when they re- turn home. This is in direct contrast to the black American fighting man of 1067 and 1968 who was anxious to prove himself in the most integrated war in U.S. history — and did so by accounting for up to 22 per cent of U.S. combat fa- talities while back home newspapers, magazines and television networks were her- alding the spirit of brother- hood between blacks and whites in the foxholes. Moreover, the black soldier of 1967 would roundly criti- eize Martin Luther King Jr. and Cassius Clay for publicly objecting to the war. But to- day, King, Clay and other outspoken critics of the war such as Eldridge Cleaver and Julian Bond stand highest in the black soldier’s esteem. “The immediate cause of racial problems in Vietnam is black people themselves,” explained Navy Lieutenant Owen Heggs, a black attor- ney from Washington, D.C. “White people haven’t changed. The same people in the military today were in the. military in 1930, 1940 and so on. What has changed is the black population. As the military represents in micro- cosm the society we live in. black peopie in the lower ranks represent the young black movement in our coun- try. “Today there is a different breed of young blacks, not Satisfied being in the Ma- rine Corps with their hair cut short. Either they say, ‘Hell no, we won’t go,’ or ‘Yeah, I got to go and I’m here, but I’m not going to take any pushing around.” In six months I personally interviewed 833 black and white men of all ranks and branches of service along the Vietnam landscape, asking each to answer 109 questions. The results of that survey, many of which are included here, were recently comput- ed with the assistance of members of the Harvard and Boston university faculties. A large majority of the black enlisted men agreed that black people should not fight in Vietnam because they have problems of dis-' crimination to deal with at home — a striking contrast with the typical attitude of the black soldiers I talked with in 1967. Of 392 black enlisted men surveyed, 63.8 per cent be- lieve that their fight is in the US. “TI think the black man in Vietnam is definitely fighting two enemies,” Ken Bantum, a black Air Force sergeant from Philadelphia told me. “And he should only be at home fighting one.” One- fourth of the black officers and senior non - commis- sioned officers agreed. More than half of the en- listed men objected to taking part in the war because they believe it is a race war pit- ting whites against nonwhites or because they flatly don’t want to fight against people of dark skin. Less than half agreed that they were fight- ing a common Communist enemy with their white bud- dies in arms — the prevail- ing: attitude among blacks three ‘years ago. “America is just fighting this war so that the white man can put boo-coo money in his pocket,” Private Bruce Jessup of Washington, D.C., said in Pleiku. ‘‘He just lets you_die so_he can send his little war materials over there. To hell with this war. We should say, come on in, Ho Chi Minh, this is yours.” Jessup drove a gas truck for the 815th Army Engineer Battalion. “T can’t see dying in Viet- nam to make someone else money,”’ said Marine Corpo- ral James E. Baker Jr. of Chicago. “The way whites treat the natives of this coun- try I know they don’t givea damn about their freedom.” Only 14 per cent of the black enlisted men said they would follow without reserva- tion orders to put down rebel- lious blacks at home and more than 45 per cent said they would refuse the order. “T'd put ’em right down,” said Jessup sarcastically. “And put myself right down in the heart of the riot, and riot right with them, Army clothes and all. As a matter of fact, I’d get out there and put down the police.” “When you come back to the States and the (white) man’s going to say, ‘Sorry, son, but I’m going to give you some of these rights, but you ain’t ready for the rest of them yet.’ after I put my life on the line. Uh-uh,.” said Ser- geant Randolph Doby, a black Marine from Milwau- kee stationed in Da Nang. “The man who says that, I’m going to try to kill him. If! can’t kill him, he’s going to wish he were dead.” Only one black enlisted man in three believed that the use of weapons would damage the black move for independence of choice and full opportunity and a signifi- cantly high percentage prom- ised to carry home the les- sons they learned in self- defense and black unity to radical groups like the Black Panthers. “The Black Panthers is what we need as an equaliz- er,” said seaman James Cannon of Gary, Ind.” The beast (white man) got his Ku Klux Klan. The Black Panth- ers gives the beast some- thing to fear like we feared from the Ku Klux Klan all our lives.” SAILOR Seaman Milton Banion of Maywood, Ill.. another sailor at Da Nang said. “The Hon- kies made the Panthers vio- Tent like they are. I’d join ‘em, and I'd help ’em kill all these Honkies, because do unto him before he do unto ‘ou.”” i} Albert Jackson of Chicago, a black Marine stationed at Chu Lai, promised, “If at all possible I plan to move as quickly as possible with a group that is ready to-move. The Panthers are definitely the readiest group in the world, because they move so awesomely.” The vast majority of the blacks believe that America is in for more race violence than has marred the Nation in the Just decade. and most of these believe that they would juin renewed riofing “There’s going to be more violence back in the world becatse we're goin’ back.” said Claude Bowen. “Hell, yes, I'd riot. If they're kick- ing crackers’ asses, I’m going to get in and kick a few BLACH Gls--BRINGING THE WAR HOME myself. I’m just doing what my grandfather wanted to do and couldn't.” MERCY Said another black Marine: “My ancestors said. please. Yeah, they said. please. Did they get any merey? Why should we turn around and say. please, may I have this? Hell. no. T say start an armed revolution.” What is_ frightening many black officers and a few knowledgeable white ones is not so much the course of the war as the tential of the -young lack to bring the lessons of violence he has learned in the war against the Viet Cong to America with him. “It’s a new breed of black over here,” said Army Cap- tain Robert Robbins, a black officer from Wilmington, N.C., serving in the 9th Divi- sion. “He has graduated from peaceful demonstrations up to the riots. He comes here to put his life on the line for some cause he probably doesn't believe in. When he goes home, he'll think the only way he can get what he wants is to take it.” PILOT Lieutenant Colonel Frank Petersen of Washington, D.C., a black Marine pilot who led a squadron of Phan- toms at Chu Lai, agreed. “You have some very angry blacks who are here who are going to go back and are going to be more angry once they return. There is a hell of a chance that many of the blacks who are being dis- charged, if they encounter the right set of conditions, will become urban guerril- las.” Indeed, only 37.8 per cent of the black enlisted men surveyed agreed that weap- ons have no place in the struggle for their rights in the U.S. Nearly 50 per cent said that they would use weapons, while 13 per cent said they would consider arming themselves if forced to. “Half the brothers over here can build their own weapons,” observed Was h- ington. “They are going back ready for-anything.” “T ain’t coming back play- ing, ‘Oh, say can you see,’’ said Marine Sergeant Paul Thomas of Chesapeake, Va. PROTEST Blacks are more tolerant; the right to protest means more to them. “I’d either join the Black Panthers or SDS (Students for a Demo- cratic Society), preferably SDS,” said Jessup, “‘because SDS is down on the whole thing, down on this war, down on society,.the Estab- lishment. The society and the Establishment are messed up. They need changin’, man, so that people can live, live equally. Get all this rac- ist stuff on out of here.” “Hell, yes, I’d riot,” said Corporal Toby Hoffler, a black Marine from Brooklyn. “The white man had his god- damn Boston Tea Party, so why can’t we have our riots, and the white students their marches? Is there any differ- ence? Check it. Is there any difference?” Despite the military’s con- tention that life for blacks is better in service than out, fewer than three black GIs in 10 believe they get along bet- ter with whites in Vietnam than they did back home. And nearly 65 per cent of them expect the racial strife there to grow. Racial Survey Following is an example of some of the findings of Wallace Terry’s survey of the racial attitudes of servicemen in Vietnam. Race Violence in America Black Black Enlisted Officers Race violence will increase in America 82.9% 78.3 Race violence will decrease 48 4.0 Race violence will remain about the same as it has been in recent years 77 10.3 Don’t know 4.6 74 Do you plan to join a militant black group like the Black Panthers when you return home? Black Black Black Black Combat Support Enlisted Officers Troops Troops Yes 30.6% 6.3 36.3 %.9 No 52.3 79.4 45.9 58.7 Maybe 17.1 14.3 17.8 144 - Would you join a ghetto riot or revolt in order to gain black demands? Black Enlisted Yes 446° No 40.6 Maybe 14.8 Black Black Would you use weapons to secute your rights back home? Black Enlisted Yes 49.2% No. Weapons have no place in the black revolution 37.8 Maybe Black Combat Support Officers Troops Troops 15.4 45,2 48.1 76.0 39.0 37.5 18.4 15.8 144 Black Black Black Combat Support Officers Troops Troops 31.4 43.8 $5,8 M2 42.5 35.6 143 13.7 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 19 Surely Drive Out the — U.S. Imperialist Aggressors and Unify Their Fatherland” Impressions of the Participants of the World Conference of Journalists against U.S. Imperialism i pest of journalists and press- men from various countries who at- tended the International Conference on the Tasks of Journalists of the Whole World in Their Fight against the Aggres- sion of U.S. Imperialism held in Septem- ber last year visited Panmunjom and con- demned scathingly the U.S. imperialist aggressors, the common enemy. They wrote their impressions in the guesi-book as follows: “Panmunjom has become a historical place which exposes the aggressive and criminal acts committed by the U.S. im- perialists. Forever it will remain a syste- matic and eternal monumental place where the Korean people won over the U.S. imperialist aggressors." (Eldridge Cleaver, head of the delegation of Black Panther Party, U.S.A.) “Panmunjom is a symbol! of indomitable will of all the anti-imperialist fighters and a symbol of heroism of the peace- loving people. “And Panmunjom is an historical place which shows the sealed doom of the U.S. imperialists who unleashed a war in Ko- rea in 1950 and are now engaged in the same kind of provocation in all parts of the world... “Panmunjom we see today teaches us that world peace can never be secured if a struggle against U.S. imperialism is not intensified to the utmost in all coun- tries.” (Ramdass Menon, Working Editor of the “People’s Democracy” of India) “U.S. imperialism is enemy No. 1 of the peoples of the whole world, who rubs out freedom and progress. “So the revolutionary people of the whole world should stand on the one and same front to cope with the common enemy and should beat and crush U.S. imperialism in all parts of the world. “The Korean people's struggle inspires and encourages the peoples all over the world in their fight to win freedom and gives them confidence that the people's struggle for freedom will surely triumph. “Due to U.S. imperialism the Korean na- tion has been divided into the North and the South and parents, brothers, sisters and relatives are separated from one another. An end must be put without fail to such misfortunes. AT — AT PANMUNJOM — = of ete TENDANTS OF THE WOR!.D CONFERENCE OF JOURNALISTS a ¥ -/ ia AGAINST U.S. IMPERIALISM ROUNDLY DENOUNCING THE U.S, IMPERIALIST AGGR#SSORS, THE INVETERATE ENEMY OF THE KOREAN PEOPLE AND THE COMMON ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE WHOLE WORLD “The South Korean people will surely live in the unified socialist fatherland under the leadership of Comrade Kim Il Sung," (Abdul Aziz Abdul Ra- hman, head of the delegation of the People's Liberation Front of the Occupi- ed Arabian Gulf and Editor of “Saut Alshab," organ of the People’s Liberation Front of the Occupied Arabian Gulf) “| saw clearly the U.S. imperialists per- petrating aggressive provocations every day along the Demarcation Line... The U.S. imperialist aggressors have no right whatsoever fo occupy Korea. That is why the Zimbabwe people condemn resolute- ly the U.S. imperialists for their aggres- sive machinations against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea." (Head of the delegation of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union) "U.S. imperialist aggressors, get out of South Korea at oncel’—this is a slogan of all persons who visit Panmunjom. The Korean Armistice Agreement is a victory for the Korean people and all the progres- sive people of the whole world as well. “| have formed the conviction that ifa nation unites firmly and fights valiantly, it can win over any enemy even if he has *millions of well-armed troops. “The history of the Korean people's struggle gives an excellent example to the peoples of the whole world. “The Korean people who are vigorously marching ahead holding aloft the leader- ship of Premier Kim Il Sung will always be victorious."’ (Pantelides P. Michael, Po- litical writer of the newspaper ‘‘Phulele- ptheros” of Cyprus) “Panmunjom testifies well to that the U.S. imperialists have never observed the agreement concluded befween the two sides and continuously have laid obstacles in the way of the unification of Korea. “What | felt most strongly through my visit to Panmunjom is that io fight against U.S. imperialism to the end we should increase our strength in all fields. “Korea will be unified and imperialism will perish without fail. Socialism will be realized in the whole territory of Korea. "Long live the anti-imperialist struggle of the world people! Long live the glo- rious Korean people!” (Delegate of the Spanish Democratic Journalists’ Society) THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 20 Our publication of Leninists who are the in the future, ical principles to the EDITORIAL STATEMENT Party - A Force Against U.S. Imperialism”’ by no means reflects the agreement, position or attitude of the Black Panther Party. Without any endorsement or recognition of the points alleged in this article we print it because as Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of In- formation of the Black Panther Party has said ‘‘,,..some people call themselves Marxist- Black people, Later for them, We want them to step boldly forward, as they will do--blinded by their own stupidity and racist arrogance--so that it will be easier for us to deal with them We make these criticisms inafraternal spirit of how some Marxist-Leninists apply the class- exists in the United States because we believe in the need for a unified revolutionary move- ment in the United States,’’* *FROM ON THE IDEOLOGY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY by Eldridge Cleaver “The Black Panther downright enemies of specific situation that THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY A Force Against U.S. Imperialism By William L. Patterson C.P., U.S.A. Emerging in the Fall of 1966 from the most depressed sections of the White police-ridded Black ghetto of Oakland, California, the Black Panther Party for Self- Defense, has inaremarkable short time been raised by its leadership to be an extremeiy significant force in the political battles against American reaction, Fren- zied-like imperialist top govern- mental agents have continuously sought the extermination of the Black Panther leadership and the destruction of its Party. What social phenomena brought the Black Panther Party into being? First: police brutality, unre- stricted, unrestrained and of- fically endorsed as constituting “law and order’’. Second: Deep emotional and political frustrations brought on by the failure of White labor leader- ship and liberals among the White masses to recognize not only the validity of the demands of Blacks for equality of rights and oppor- tunities NOW but as well the in- separable relation of those de- mands to the progressive Amer- ican political scene. More, exactly how support of those demands would revitalize national morality ind check the process of dehuman- zation initiated by racism, Third: The consequent political onclusion that Blacks seeking reedom had to go it alone. Plus : determination on the part of Black youth to fight racism in its own way, regardless of the price they might have to pay. This conclusion same from a failure to understand that to save Black, Brown, Red nd Yellow Americans from the de- tructive ravages of genocide the whole of the U,S, has to be saved from the menace of imperialism. Objective conditions were ripe for the emergence of the Black Panther Party. Its birth, its devel- opment, the desperateness of its ideological and political struggles are unique in the annals of the magnificent battles Black Liber- ation fighters have waged in the U.S.A, before the Civil War against slavery and after, It did not come onto the stage of history as didthe NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ple) piloted by the Black middle class and a White liberal bour- geoisie that dictated policy. Itcame from the very bowels of the ghetto’s deprived and harassed youth. These events testify to the fact that the Black communities, Black ghettoes, politically and other- wise warped and stunted in their growth by the foul plague racism has foisted upon them, are fight- ing fronts that contain unsurpass- able reserves for the mounting struggle against imperialism,USA, A,, the fight for peace, a demo- eracy of and for the people, and freedom, The Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was dedicated to the struggle to end murderous police violence. Police violence was rampant in Oakland’s Black ghetto, The ruling class had laun- ched a wave of terror against Black citizens. It was fearful of the high tension in the ghetto and sought to quell the democratic struggles for national liberation that seemed imminent. When this youthful Black leader- ship moved into the arena of or- ganized political struggle it be- lieved that police terror if sharply challenged, could readily be brought to an end, It was to find, however, through struggle, that the police were not an independent social force. The police, as the communist Party had declared, was a terrorist agency of govern- ment used to brutalize all who would not passivley accept vio- lation of their inalienable andcon- stitutional rights, which included the allies of the ‘‘colored’’ citizen- ry. Racism had been pushed to gen- ocidal proportions in Oakland. Large numbers of Blacks had mi- grated there during World War ll from Louisiana, Texas and other points South, The ship building in- dustry gave work to thousands, The end of the war saw thousands ruth- lessly thrust jobless into the streets, Peace time economy can make unlimited jobs. It made jobs but in the aircraft factories that opened up+Blackswere the last to be hired. They were discriminated against in the skilled jobs. Thou- sands ofBlacks found themselves among the unemployed and al- most utterly ignored by city, state and Federal governments when re- lief was considered. During the war imperialist ideo- logists had vocally proclaimed that American imperialism was out to destroy the murderous racial practices of the ruling class of the German Reich and smash its leadership. Nazi war criminals who had borrowed heavily from the bestial racist arsenal of Amer- ica’s ruling class were condemned, tried and punished, Justice Robert Jackson, the American prosecutor had made an outstanding condem- nation of bigotry and racism in his opening remarks at Nurem- berg’s trial, U.S. imperialists and racistshad signed the Charter of the United Nations. The Govern- ment again formally committed itself to end racism reaffirming constitutional and legislative pled- ges its leaders never meant to keep, Millions of Black Americans were once more deluded, Many believed that the American brand ofracism was also to be a victim of the war crimes trial. They did not realize that racism was inherent in capitalism. Nor did they ap- preciate how deeply racism had been dehumanized, They did not understand the nature or scope of the struggle against it nor didthey see it as a struggle for country and mankind as well as for them- selves, Blacks inOakland, as elsewhere, demanded work or adequate re- lief. They got neither, The terror that had been slackened during the hot war was now renewed as the cold war was intensified. It was revived with greater conscious- ness, The bourgeoisie felt the need to smash the natural trend toward unity that had begun to develop as Black and White worked side by side on the war jobs. America’s White ideologists began by paint- ing anew the picture of Blacks as a shiftless cowardly people with incurable criminal ten- dencies. Blacks were terrorists] The situation in Oakalnd was worse than in many other places because the war andthe depression before it brought an influx of politically backward White south- erners literally steeped in the myths of White superiority. The picture of Blacks painted by ruling class ideologists was acceptable to those Whites now that a new fight for jobs had been sharpened, Labor had done little or nothing to help its rank and file study the com- plexities of the question of racial persecution, The leadership of White labor had been brought off or duped by the ‘‘Establishment.” It ignored the democratic demands of Blacks even though these demands clearly reflected the needs of allof Amer- ican labor. The political demands advanced by Blacks should have been embraced by labor as it de- veloped as a class for itself. It was wise to sing ‘‘We ain’t goin study war no more” but wiser to stop studying..the class nature and consequences of racism. Communists on the West Coast had called for unity in struggle of Black and White. They spoke cas- ually of the menace of racism to labor but not to Whites generally. The call though clear was ineffec- tive in the ghetto save around ques- tions of Civil Rights, Reaction had launched a systematic and persis- tent anti-Communist crusade inthe ghetto. It had no little effect be- cause it was picked up by Black middle class leaders who felt their own organizations challenged by a scientific approach tothe struggle. The leading Black organizations on the liberation front, the NAACP, was anti-Communist. It was under the leadership of White philanthro- pists and their Black psychophants. It was not prepared or able to wage a militant class struggle for the rights of Blacks or for labor's unity with Blacks. The leadership of the Black Panther Party for Self- Defense stepped into what seemed to be a political vacuum, But a program of self-defense, no matter how militant in and of itself, gets an oppressed people nowhere, The police of an op- pressor uses force and violence under the direction of business and political leaders who label it ‘‘law and order". It is a method of pol- itical relationship of the admini- strative branch of the government with minority groups, It is to the great credit of the Black Panther leadership that it quickly recognized this structural set-up. The Party’s name was changed, ‘‘For Self-Defense’ was dropped. The organization be- eame THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, The Party's outlook was broadened, It was now a more ef- fective weapon for self-defense be- cause it sought a line of offensive activities that could, if consisten- tly pursued, put an end to police terror. It now began to see thehis- torical necessity to remove the racist from the seats of power in the economic and political life of the country, That Party had taken a leap forward in its theoretical outlook but by no means had it mastered the science it espoused, The Black Panther Party called itself a Marxist-guided organ- ization. It made the study of Marx- ism-Leninism compulsory among the leading cadre, This step was unprecedented in the history of the Black Liberation struggle. The Panthers did not lift the Black Liberation movement to an inter- national level, The Communist Party of the U.S.A, had already done that. That is why it was feared and all progressive steps were charged to it. Black and White Communist had stood in inter- national bodies to proclaim thatin- seperable relation of the struggle of Blacks in the U,S,A, to the world-wide freedom struggle. The Black Liberation struggle no less needs the guidance of a science than does every other liberation struggle. Social revolution is a science, as the Communists haye said many times, a science to be creatively used has tobe mastered and the science guiding revolution must of historical necessity be a universal science, That science is Marxism-Leninism. During the war against slavery, Karl Marx has said that labor in a White skin could not emanci- pate itself while labor in a Black skin was branded, That axiom still holds true, It reveals the insepar- able relationship of labor and national liberation. For the first time in the history of the Black Liberation struggle an exclusively Black-led political party had sought the aid of science in its leaders efforts to find asol- ution to a problem provoked by the avarice, lust and murderous greed of a system of society. Capitalism has divided a powerful segment of mankind along the color line and has dehumanized millions in the process. To adopt a social science as a guiding line in the struggle for liberation is a far-reaching for- ward step. Those who are able to take such a step at once become a menace insofar as the exploiter’s analysis goes. At the same time, such a group deserves the re- spect and the serious political at- tention of all who regard them- selves as revolutionists, For that reason the Black Panther Party deserves the closest constructive attention that can be given by all forces in the revolutionary ranks. The vocal espousal of a science and its political and ideological mastery in life are two different matters. It is not difficult to see that the police are not bosses but servants with a license to murder all who fight to put human rights on a plane above that occupied by property rights. After being ar- rested by the police and given the customary beating, Black Panthers were bailed before the court to get more than a birds-eye view of the capitalist machinery ofhomewar- fare before being imprisoned, Con- fronted by the terror of the Court, before a judge who was a legal despot with control even over the defense counsel who is considered an ‘“‘officer’’ of the Court, the Black Panthers did not know how, even with the science of Marxism- Leninism to effectively strike back. It had not yet learned from others or through experience of its own, the political power of mass action, There were among the Panthers those who immediately argued that “liberation comes out of the barrel of a gun.’’ Some who argued this were honest but had not serious appreciation of the relation of for- ces. They were moved by emotion- alism - not science, Others were agents whom the Department of Justice had inspired to join the Panthers in order to destroy it, if possible, from within. There is, of course, an element of Marxist-Leninist truth in the assertion that liberation can come out of the barrel of a gun but its value is determined by the objec- tive situation, the existing relation of forces and not by emotional fervor, A resort to arms does not mechanically apply to all situations simply because it may apply to one. To attempt implementation of the assertion that liberation comes from guns under today’s conditions in the U.S.A, is to commit a pro- vocation for which one will pay dearly. The Panthers have learned that neither Black nor White Amer- ica en masse is ready for the gun as a major instrument of freedom, or for guerrilla warfare, nor for that matter was all of the Black Panther leadership. Those who argued for the provocative step were voted down. But propagation of their anti-Marxist step had left its mark on the organization and its political program, It had been an aid to blood-thirsty Black- hating police and a detriment to Black Panther development and the National Liberation struggle. In- stead of clarity, it brought con- fusion. Keone There were among the Panthers those who believed that the use of vulgar andobscene language makes the words of a platform or street speaker more effictive, For arev- olutionary’swords are weapons that inspire, ennoble and galvanize into action, They are not something with which to tittilate or to arouse to an orgy of passion, Words can alienate, or educate and endear. They can sign people off or on, The Panther top leadership has come out against vulgarity when used for the purpose of securing a laugh or exciting an emotional spasm, But again an alien thesis had been introduced into their gen- erally progressive program of action, These lessons from life are of far-reaching value if seriously studied, They add to the arsenal of liberation struggles. The weaknesses of the Black Panther Party on the ideological and programatical fronts are now weaknesses of growth and not of deterioration, However, if not sys- tematically and persistently com- batted they can lead to deterior- ation, It has been asserted by some within the Black Panther Party that; ‘The world of Marxim-Len= inism has become a jungle of op- inion in which conflicting inter- pretation fromRight revisionism to Left dogmatism, foist off their reactionary and blind philosophies are revolutionary Marxism-Len- inism,Around \the world and in every nation, people, all who call themselves Marxist-Leninists are at each other’s throats,’"’ Amer- ican imperialism seeks to inject this line of thought into the heads of all who seek a scientifically developed program of struggle against its wars, its racism, its persecution of the working class, But one who wishes to be a rev- olutionary should make well \the centennary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin which so recently took CONT, TO PG, 22 TOO EE OE a ee i a EE Ee ae Oo o, Ko QO ‘ rererenereneene. 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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 peop!e will not be free until we are able to deter- mine our destiny. 2. We want full employment for our people. We-believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the white American businessmen will not give full employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and em- ploy all of its people and give a high standard of living. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 21 ET EET PL fF TDS FP SECS PE Ff $I IIGET I I SIRE SE ES SILLY SLI. OLE fff ff EIS fF YP OT ff ff (TEES fF ST 3. We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community. We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Ger- mans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make. 4. We want decent housing. fit for shelter of human beings. We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people. 1 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowl- edge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else. 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people, should not be forced to fight in the mifi- tary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary. 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people. We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or- ganizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We thetefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self-defense. 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. 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. 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, en- vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the ‘average reasoning rian” of the black community. 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis- cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them,-a -decent respect to the opinions‘of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights;. that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such prineiples, 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. re N) | N | N) | N | N | N | N | N) N | N | | N | N | N | N | N | N | N N) ALO 0 UEC EL LS KET FOI PL OO LOG L f PEO D LS fF I IRD S ff I CREATES f ne cee Pee, THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 22 CONT, FROM PG, 20 THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY A Force Against U.S. Imperialism place in Moscow to say nothing about studying the theoretical con- ferences on ‘‘Leninism and Con- temporaneity’’ which took place in Prague late in 1969, Representatives of Marxism- Leninism thought were present from most of the countries of the world, And to the dismay of world imperialism the voices of the rep- resentatives of Marxist-Leninist Parties of the world were almost as one, Gus Hall-General Secre- try of the Communist Party of the U.S.A., speaking in Moscow, said among other things; “'The revisionist opponents of Marxism-Leninism have adopted the typical capitalist tactic of div- ide and destroy...they are out to separate the national liberation struggles from their socialist source of strength... “‘The attempt is to destroy the teachings of Marx and Lenin, Then separate them and by so doing to destroy the science of Marxism- Leninism,..’’ Gus Hall concluded; “On this, the Centennial of Lenin's birth we can confidently, say to the vulgar revisionists: your attempts are coming too late in history; your efforts may cause distruption here and there. But the very processes of life and the class struggle have condemned you to failure, Marxism-Leninism is the process of truth. It is indis- pensable and indistructible.’’ The same can be Said to the Left sectarians of whom there are some among the Panthers, It cannot be denied that the re- lentless struggle for equality of rights and human dignity pursued by the Black Panthers has both awakened and inspired millions of White youth who, until the emer- gence of the Panthers, paid little heed to the dehumanizing effects of racism on them or of its effect on national morality. There are among the leaders of the Panthers those who believe that the United States is already in the throes of fascist terror; they generalize their own exper- iences, That is wrong. Despite the fascist-like nature of the terror from which Black nationals have suffered for a century and thefas- cist-like racist terror now ram- pant, the possibilities that remain openly to fight for the completion of the bourgeois revolution and its tranference into a Socialist rev- olution offers irrefutable proof that this position that fascism do- minates the American scene is not consistent with reality. The Courts reversal of the vicious decision that had sent Huey Newton, a founder of the Panther Party, to prison, is also proof that the trend toward fascism in the U.S.A, can successfully be fought. Propagation of the idea of ex- isting fascism can only weaken the struggle to destroy fascist trends, and the development of an anti- fascist coalition, As has been said in the introduction to the New Pro- gram of the Communist Party, ULS,A, **Wherever one looks, there is struggle in the UnitedStates today. People are on the march, More and more are engaged in strug- gles for peace, for Black and Brown liberation, for economic advance- ment. More and more are seeking fundamental solution, There is radicalization....’" We will fight increasingly for the constitutional rights of the Black Panther Party for we know that; “Through immediate struggle workers organize and learn the need to battle further. They learn who the enemy is and how to fight ultimately to the socialist revo- lution*** (Ibid, p. 89) “Class consciousness begins with recognition of the fundamen- tal community interests of Black and White workers. (ibid, p. 73). The Black Panther Party is in the process of growth and develop- ment at a moment when the anti- imperialist struggle sharpens and deepens, It is on 4 vital front of that struggle, History demands that all aid to overcome its weakness- es of growth shall be forthcoming. The position of the Communist Party U.S.A. is in support of his- tory. A wide diversity of views exists on the American Left. We are internationalist with an aware- ness that the Black Liberation struggle is of vital significance to the worldrevolutionary movement. More constructive aid must be given to the Black Panther Party. | ON THE IDEOLOGY OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY By Eldridge Cleaver Sar aan tage ON SALE NOW AT YOUR LOCAL B.P.P. OFFICE 25¢ RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 1048 PERALTA ST. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Every member of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY throughout this country of racist America must abide by th bers of this party. CE and LOCAL nal, state. STAFF: either nat RAL COMMIT AFFES rules as fun E members, C cluding all captains subordinate to nd local leadership of the BLACK PANTHER mem- PRAL PARTY will enforce these rules. Length of suspension or other dis- ciplinary action necessary for violation of these rules will depend on national dec ons by national, state or state area, and local committees and staffs where said rule or rules of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY WERE VIOLATED. E ery 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 leadership or they are counter-revolutionary nd are also subjected to suspension by the BLACK PAN'FHER PARTY. THE RULES ARE: 1. No party member can have narcotics or weed in his possession while doing party work. , 2. Any party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from this party. 3. No party member can be DRUNK while doing daily party work. 4. No party member will violate rules relating to office work, general meetings ANYWHERE. of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PA 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 na 8. No party member ics or weed. 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 pi 9. When arrested BLACK PAN f thread. THER MEMBERS will give only name, address, and will sign nothing. Legal first aid must be understood by all Party members. 10. The Ten Point Program and platform of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY mast be known and understood by cach Party member. 11. Party Communications must be National and Local. 12. The ol 0-10-10-program should be known by all members and also understood by all members. M 15. Captain must submit Daily reports of work. 13. All Finance officers will operate under the jurisdiction of the inistry of Finance. 14. Each person will submit a report of daily work. Each Sub-Section Leader Section Leader, Lieutenant, and 16. All Panthers must learn to operate and service weapons correctly. 17. All Leadership personnel who expel a member must submit this information to the Editor of the Newspaper, so that it will be published in the paper and will be known by all chapters and branches. 18. Political Education Classes are mandatory for general member- ship. 19, Only office personnel assigned to respective offi thers are to sell papers and do Px i n Leaders, etc. — all chapters must submit weekly re- should be ther in the commun 20. COMMU? Captains, $ “ATIONS ports in writing to the National Headquarters. 21, All Branches must implement First Aid and/or Medical Cadres. 22. All Chapters. Branches, and compon ) hours per day to keep abi 24. No chapter or br: or any other g nd also the Central na leadership pe rust of the cha me National Headquarters. 25. All chapters must adhere to the policy and the ideology laid down by the CENTRAL COMMITTEE ‘of the BLACK PANTHER PARITY. , each day 1 work out is of the BLACK PAN- 1 Report to the Minis- wt read no less than two political situatic ch shall accept grants. poverty funds. moneys } from any government agency without contacting the 26. All Branches must submit weekly reports in writing to their re- spective Chapters, June 20, 1970 marked the open- ing of the Black Community Infor- mation Center located at 616 26th Ave, East. The purpose of the Black Community Information Center is to acquaint people with members and workers of the Black Panther Party and to set up a link between the Party and the people so that they can both be as one in the battle against fascism and for national salvation. The opening day was a day of enjoyment and education for the masses. The rally was set on the OPENING OF NEW INFORMATION CENTER SEATTLE, WASHINGTON lawn of the new Center, in which salad, greens, corn on the cobb, punch was served free to the peo- ple in the socialist tradition while they listened to a local band, Soul Inspirations, and watched Off the Pig, May Day, and Bobby From Prison, which were shown con- tinuously throughout the rally. The people really dug the rally, es- pecially the films, and the food. The crows of over 1,000 was told the purpose of the Center and how it will function to serve the needs of the people inthe com- munity, along with the services the Center had to \offer. Péople came from all over the commu- nity to enjoy the open house, and many people have visited the Center since its open house, The people have shown through ther practice that they support and no doubt will defend the Black Community Information Center, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Washington State Chapter Anthony Ware ERNEST WATTS : PURGED CLEVELAND, GRNEST WATS Ernest B, Watts Il has been purged from the ranks of the Ohio Chapter of the N.C.C.F. Because of his lack of leader- ship and de-escalation ofthe strug - gle in Cleveland, he was demoted from leadership of the Ohio N,C.C.F. in May of this year and put in charge of Circulation and Distribution of the Black Panther newspaper. Either by design or carelessness, the number of pa- pers sold steadily declined from the time of his transfer. Our Circ- ulation and Distribution Section ceased to function properly and as a consequence our financial situa- tion worsened, Ernie also became increasingly alienated from the leadership of the Ohio N.C.C.F, and manifested strony evidence. of individualism. He started frequent arguments with members of the N.C.CF, and was a constant source of friction, He Stated that he couldn't dig our life- = OHIO style and was somehow different from everyone else, We understand that the People’s Revolution is not made by an in- dividual nor a select group of individuals, but depends rather upon the masses rising to destroy their oppressors. We also know that the people’s vanguard party must be unified and function as a group, Ernest made unauthorized con- tacts with ‘‘mother country rad- icals’’ and promises of assistance to local organizations and agencies ‘ without consulting the leadership of the N,C.C.F, His final act in his attempt to destroy the effec- tiveness and credibility of the Ohio N.C.C.F,, was to call National Dis- tribution on his own and relate that we did not want any papers for the week, The Ohio N,.C.C.F, cannot tol- erate agitators within its ranks who cannot adhere to or accept decisions reached collectively and group discipline, The struggle in Cleveland has moved to a higher level. If a blood hinders the lib- eration struggle, he has to move aside, Ernie Watts has been moved aside. Ernest Watts does not re- present the Black Panther Party or any of its components under any circumstances. COUNTER ATTACK! TAKE THE STRUGGLE TO THE -STREETS Ohio, N.C,C.F, 2783 East 79th Cleveland, Ohio EXPULSIONS SEATTLE, WASHINGTON LORATLA WILLIAMS The Washington State Chapter of the Black Panther Party wishes to state that Michael Dean and Lorretta Williams are no longer members of the Black Panther Party and National Committees to Combat Fascism respectively. When conditions in Seattle seem rapidly elevating to armed strug- gle, the two paper tigers con- sidered the stakes too high, and took it upon themselves--to split. This low-lifed attitude has been very prevelant in Seattle, but at long last there are a few brothers (and the numbers increase grad- ually every day) who are willing to lay down their lives for their people, because they realize like members of the Black Panther Party and their fellow workers; that until the oppressor ceases his wanton brutality and murder upon the Black and oppressed people, the pig will face the superlative wrath of the armed people. Cowardism has been one corro- sive element which has constantly kept sabotaging our 400 year strug- gle. We can only call Michael Dean and Lorretta Williams for what they are--Cowards, Through MICHAEL DEAN their rhetoric, they must not have known that ‘‘...in order to get rid of the gun, it is necessary to take up the gun,...’’ that in the face of said Statement they let that low- lifed jackle-pig-hearted Richard Nixon the greatest barbarian in man’s history, intimidate them into leaving the people's party. Ittakes a coward to murder or endorse the murder of an unay‘med people. But it takes even a lower form of a coward to bend towards the dictates of these fascist, per- verted animals, There is no excuse or justifica- tion for this traitorous action, because despite the number of cow- ards running from the enemy, the people will step forward and swell the ranks of the people’s army. Because of this traitorous ac- tion, Machae] Dean and Lorretta “‘Sunshine'’ Williams are to be considered enemies of the people. OFF ALL THE PIGS COUNTER ATTACK Ministry of Information, Washington State Chapter Black Panther Party It’s time to intensify the strug- gle. In these days and times when this United States government is moving into open fascism, when brothers and sisters are facing the electric chair, when brothers and sisters can be shot in their beds asleep. In these days and times when fascist repression is © coming down, it is a mere neces- sity for survival that we put our © heart and soul into the righteous Black Liberation Struggle. The pigs are plotting night and day to come up with some fascist plan “to deal with us niggers. So that we recognize that the only way that we can combat this ever in- creasing fascist repression is to also work night and day. We must simply run ourselves to death to educate the people and organize the people so that they will rise up like a mighty storm and deal with all of these buffoon pigs who are enslaving us, The decison was made by the organizers of the N.C,C.F, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina to reduce to community workers all those who worked part-time in the N.C.C,F, and as long as they kept their jobs they would stay com- munity workers, but with the understanding that through their social practice they could be rein- stated as members of the N,C.C.F, Some of the people who had been reduced to community workers couldn't accept this very neces- sary move to tighten-up and cleanse the N.C.C.F. of certain un- desirable elements, As a result they decided to get their walking PIGS OF VALLEJO CALIF. RENAMED "CLEE THOMPSON MEMORIAL PARK’ TO ‘BOOTLICKER COMMUNITY PARK’ Right on brother and sisters In order for Black people to gain true freedom, a cormnplete change must take place not oaly on the national state and city levels but on the community level whiich is the basic building block of tie other three, Wherever pizs or their puppets have a footholdin the Black community, Black peopl= must snatch the ground from under the pig's feet. Here in Vallejo, certai1 pe. pie of the Black community temporarily crippled one of the many clamps which: Vailejo’s monstrous hogs have on the Black community. Bootlicking nigger pig, Melvin Thompson along with the rest of Vallejo’s racist administrative pigs stole the right of self deter- mination from the people of Coun- try Club Crest by renaming Clee Thompson Memorial Park to Boot licker Community Park, All while the Park was named after Clee, the racist city pigs refused to complete construction of the park; They had been working on the park for at least 5 years, But to cool down the revolutionary. fervor of the people of Country Club Crest the pigs completed the park, in- cluding a community center, and named it &fter Melvin Thompson Memorial Park or there will be no park at all, Approximately 2 weeks ago someone went up to the park and dealt the center some very damaging blows (holes kicked into the walls, restrooms wrecked etc.) More White racist used the center than the residents of Coun- try Club Crest, who the center was supposedly built for. Black people seldom get to use the center, But pigs including bootlickers, are THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1970 PAGE 23 PURGE WINSTON-SALEM, N. CAROLINA — — JESSE STITT ROBERT GREER papers. It must be understood that these people were not kicked out of the N.C,C,F,, rather they quit on their own accord, So let it be heard the following people are no longer members of the Nation- al Committee to Combat Fascism in Winston-Salem, N.C.: nr of the Panther throughout the formation B,1’,P. MONTHS: (13 ISSUES) 6 MONTHS: (26 ISSUES) . ONE YEAR; (52 ISSUFS) (please print) NAME ADDRESS city STATE/ZIP # PLEASE MAIL CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO; KEKE EERE KKK EEE REE EERE EEE KEE E: there all through the week, What kind of community center is that? When the community can't use it at will. Right on to the brother and/or sisters who moved to correct this problem. Now you are showing the pigs that you stand by your first decision of having the park named Clee Thompson Memorial Park. 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