Vol. 5, No. 7

te THE BLACK PANTHER 22 Black Community News Service MIMISTRY OF INFORMATION BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE SAN | RANCISCO, CA 94126 ruse? THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY : > ‘ . . *“ “ p| 4 * See ; 7 > aLy . . ~ beget e ' . ; ' My | + aidt 3 ee - , — " ‘ Pad LA? S . > a) - ‘ : 1 « Sa (2 ta iy ee ‘ 0 " Thy) Ee tt ‘ ! rf ¢ , i : a * t > £ . 2 “ 7 7 > . ' ‘ ; ; : “REVOLUTIONARY SUICIDE’’-- “THAT'S SUICIDE MOTIVATED BY THE DESIRE TO CHANGE THE SYSTEM, OR ELSE DIE TRYING. 16 CHANGE THE REACTIONARY CONDITIONS.” we = MINISTER OF DEFENSE, HUEY P. NEWTON, BACK ON THE STREETS WITH THE PEOPLE PHOTO SUPPLEMENT INSIDE THE BLACK PANTHER, S\TURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 2 “FOR THE SALVATION, LIBERATION AND FREEDOM OF OUR PEOPLE, WE WILL NOT HESITATE TO EITHER KILL OR DIE! -_ § “ 9 fee $ § 3 OD i a - q JONATHAN JACKSON 17 JAMES McCLAIN 37 WILLIAM CHRISTMAS 27 RUCHELL McGEE 31 Murdered by pigs Murdered by pigs Murdered by pigs Wounded by pigs FOUR BLACK REVOLUTIONARY BROTHERS TAKE THE CHOICE OF “REVOLUTIONARY SUICIDE”, AND SET ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY EXAMPLE FOR BLACK PEOPLE On the date of August 7th in the Marin County's Hall of Justice in San Rafael, Calif- ornia, four revolutionary Black brothers setan examble for all other imprisoned brothers and sisters in the many federal, state, coun- ty city prisons and jails, as well as the brothers and sisters of the Black communt- ty who are imprisoned by the racist U.S. gov- ernment, James David McClain (age 37) was on trial for the fifth day, charged with stabbing aguard at San Quentin where he was sentenced last year for shooting and wounding an Oakland pig. William Christmas (age 27) who had been imprisoned in San Quentin since 1964, brother Ruchell Magee (age 3l) imprisoned in Sam Quentin since 1965,and I7 year old Jo- nathan Jackson ( brother of George Jackson of the Soledad brothers). These four brothers dared to stand up against this corrupt sys- tem and say; ‘‘Freedom or death?’ During the trial of brother McClain, Jo- nathan entered the court roon with a satchel when a guard approached him to search the satchel, he pulled out a gun and told every- one in the courtroom to freeze. He then continued on next page Jonathan Jackson disarming pig. ‘ yim eas from last page FOUR BLACK REVOLUTIONARY BROTHERS TAKE THE CHOICE OF “REVOLUTIONARY SUICIDE”, AND SET ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY EXAMPLE FOR BLACK PEOPLE gave guns to McClain and McGee (who was a witness in the trial) and also Christmas, They took Judge Harold Haley, the prose- culoy, and three women jurors as hostages. A sawed off shotgun was taped around the Juiz2s throat and then the brothers went oulside of the court to the parking lot and put the Judge, prosecutor and jurors in a van and attempted to drive away. The news media says that they now know that the pigs shot first at the van and the brothers shot back. Knowing how fascist the pigs are and knowing their sadistic meatali- ties, they have no regard for human life, even the lives of their own fascist pigs, they were only concerned in killing these brothers who dared to not only want freedom, but to move in a yvevolutionary manner to obtain it, There were shots fired back and forth, After the shooting stopped three of the brothers were dead, and also the racist judge, Ruchelle was wounded, and the racist prosecutor is now paralized due to the bullet wound in his spinal cord. In this capitalistic system in which Black people and all oppressed people are physi- cally as well as physocologically imprisoned, there exist the materialized prison, The sys- tem itself has imprisoned the freedom of the people, and the minds of many, It is an in- human act to enslave a human and take away their human rights, and physically m2ss over theiy minds,but to heightened such an inhu-- man act by going even farther with sadis- tic measures and physically locking a man behind iron bars,because he refuses lo do what the system wants him to do, Minister of Defense; Huey P. Newton states ‘‘In the case of the human we are not dealing only with the single individual we are also deal- ing with the ideas and beliefs which have mo- tivated him and which sustain him, even when his body is confined. We don’t only question the establishment order, but we question the very system,’”’ To stand and say ‘I choose death yather continued on page 9 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 3 THE BLACK P \NTHER, S \TURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 4 “I DON’T WANT TO RAISE ANY MORE BLACK SLAVES. BUT WE HAVE A DETERMINED ENEMY WHO WILL ACCEPT US ONLY ON A MASTER- SLAVE BASIS; 1 REVOLT, SLAVERY DIES WITHIN ME, | REFUSE TO PASS If! DOWN AGAIN. THE TERMS OF MY EXISTENCE ARE FOUNDED ON THAT.” WHERE _EVER DEATH MAY SURPRISE US IT WILL BE WELCOME PROVIDED THAT THIS OUR BATTLE CRY, REACH SOME RECEPTIVE EAR THAT ANOTHER HAND STRETCH OUT TO TAKE UP WEAPONS AND THAT OTHER MEN COME FORWARD TO INTONE OUR FUNERAL DIRGE WITH THE STACCATO OF MACHINE GUNS AND NEW CRIES OF BATTLE AND VICTORY"' 7. ye ‘~~ ~ AN OPEN LETTER TO THE FAMILIES OF JONATHAN JACKSON, WILLIAM CHRISTMAS AND JAMES McCLAIN Yesterday your. sons, and brothers, Jonathan, James, and B1'l paid the highest price thai in» can pay for their freedom, Intheir quest, they soughtnotonly freedom as individuals, but for all poor op- pressed people, This revolutionary act, this gesture has resounded a- round the world and lifted the con- ciousness and spirit of the free- dom loving people of the world, Mrs, Jackson, Mrs, McClain, Mrs, Christmas, your sons died, with a different kind of ‘‘rose in hand’’,(the tool of liberation) as men, bringing us all a bit closer to freedom, Mrs, Jackson your other son, George said that he will raise no slaves, neither did you, Mrs, McClain you brought men, imbued with a natural love for the people into the world, Death is a common occurance and where ever there is struy- gle there is sacrifice, And the sacrifice is in order to make the dignity of man, and the words jus- tice and peace a reality for us all, Jonathan, James, and Bill were meteors in the galaxy of revo- lutionaries, burning witha love and a passion for the liberation of op- pressed people everywhere, And to youGeorge, that courage- ous young brother whom you love more than yourself met his in- evitable fate as a revolutionary. But not before he set a shining example in the sands of struggle and time; time seized for the sal- vation of their people, ‘Bach and everyone of us will pay on demand his part of the sacrifice, knowing that all togeth- er we are getting ever closer to the new man, whose figure is be- ginning to appear!’’--Che ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Richmond Branch, Joan Kelley Comrade Mine: A few minutes ago I heard over the news the colosal:event played out by a group of my revolutionary brothers at the courthouse in Marin County. These were not ugly men, not bad men, not callous or insensi- tive men; they were tired men, Men exhausted with While America’s cruelty, the shame of legal due pro- cess, the dualily of justice which nods understandingly at White citizens and marches with iron boots on the neck of Black and Brown citizens; tired to a point of insanity with the awful Frankenstein of the Department of Corrections. Multiply their sentiments by the thousands and it will not be difficult to understand what I meant in one of my letters when I stated ‘‘the mon- sters made in California’s racist, op- pressive and sadistic prisons will be loose on you tomorrow.’’ Tomor- row is NOW! The brother Christmas has served WRITTEN BY A BLACK BROTHER IN FOLSOM PRISON eight years in this prison system, each one harder to swallow than the one before it. He saw his Black bro- thers beaten, driven mad, murdered; the brother McLain was a living mys- tery having served in so many admin- istratively promoted race riots and survived; he too knew many a fellow brother who died quietly for nothing! Feeling what Blacks in this nation are increasingly growing to feel; ‘‘if they must die then let the world know what it endeavors so hard not to see.”’ If the courts will not give Black Americans justice, then Black Amer- icans will give justice to the courts. What happened today in that court- yoom was exclusively manufactured by every judge in the state of Cali- fornia, every racist prosecutor, every lying public defender, every dog who commits horrow on the Black and Brown brothers under the color of law, with the impunity of justice to back him up. No man, whether he be a judge, THE BL ACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 5 STATEMENT FROM THE SOLEDAD DEFENSE COMMITTEE lawyer, prosecutor or policeman is exempt from the law of cause and effect. What California witnessed today by these four tired brothers was not the ending of anything, but the beginning of self sought justice, lib- erty and dignity. The courts, with its myopic judges, are more to blame for what hap- pened in that courtroom than anyone else individually, For it is the courts which allow the cruelty of the Department of Corrections to exist, the court which permits a nigger and Chicano hating Adult Authority to con- tinue its existence, creating mountains and mountains of hate with each month it meets, the courts which say “‘no knock, no warrant, no evidence, no trial by adversary system but empty ritual played out by a stupid or indif- ferent public defender’’... When the courts change the people’s respect for the law too will change. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! LOVE AND COURAGE TO THE VANGUARD! continued from page 3 FOUR BLACK REVOLUTIONARY BROTHERS TAKE THE CHOICE OF “REVOLUTIONARY SUICIDE”’, REVOLUTIONARY SERVICE For two of the slain Freedom Fighters, AND SET ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY JONATHAN AND SET ANOTHER REVOLUTIONARY JACKSON EXAMPLE FOR BLACK PEOPLE than slavery, and I choose to fight for what is mine than humbly submit to the oppres- sion, exploitation and death of myself as well and WILLIAM CHRISTMAS as self respect and self dignity to stand up SATURDA to this decadent society in which we live. Y And to choose death rather than enslavement, AUGUST 15, 1970 | it takes great love for humanity as a whole 1:30 PM to do this. This is why these brothers have " moved our struggle to a higher level, be- ST. AUGUSTINES | ©@¥5¢ their love for humanity was hate with the greatest of all passion for the oppressive EPISCOPAL aystam: CHURCH The news media made an all out attempt 27TH and WEST ST to make these brothers appear as savage criminals and murderers, but they are ly- ing! These brothers were not criminals Due to the fact that this system is so decrepit and deceitful the pigs of the power struc- ture have inslaved us and our exploitation and oppression is their road to wealth and power. So they endorse all the evils and corruptness that devours the very life of Black people and humanity as a whole, We must keep in mind that a slave that dies a natural death doesn’t balance out the weight of two dead flies, and as Huey says; “It would be a reactionary death to com}ro- mise with the system, Reactionary suicide means that the conditions, the reactionary conditions, would be the cause of our sui- cide, If we stand and do nothing it would be self murder, I would rather use the re- verse, if it becomes necessary, and that is revolutionary suicide, That’s suicide motiva- ted by the desire to change the system, or else die trying to change the reactionary condition.”’ EULOGY WILL BE GIVEN BY HUEY P. NEWTON, MINISTER OF DEFENSE, BLACK PANTHER PARTY THE SERVICE FOR THE THIRD FREEDOM FIGH: TER, JAMES McCLAIN WILL BE HELD: THURSDAY AUGUST 13, 1970 10:00 am ASHLEY GRIEGSLY MORTUARY & CENTRAL STS. |LOS ANGELES CALIF. We know that many others will take this in- cident to an even higher level, Revolution- ary death is far greater than submitting to the oppression exploitation, and racism that the system tries to force on us. Jonathan Jackson, William Christmas, James McClain and Ruchell had been im- prisoned within the materialized jails for many years, They were men enslaved strug- gling for freedom, Confined within the pri- son system and confined within the material- ized prison, within the system, They as all Black people were slaves with an ultimate quest for freedom, These four beautiful brothers refused to compromise with this system. They took are- volutionary stand against this corrupt system, They waited their freedom by any means ne- cessary and moved on that level to obtain it, Even the thought of death did not stop them from moving to gain freedom, Life is a slow torturing process of death if you live the life of a slave, It doesn’t make sense to move in the manner to wipe it out through- ly and completely, . We say that these brothers, have given the struggle for liberation a great contri - bution. Ruchell McGee who was only wound- ed will face the death penalty, The example that these brothers have set will be followed by many and many will vise to choose revolutionary suicide rather than reactionary suicide, Black people will unleash in great numbers the Black kamakazi who’s quest for liberation of Black people and all oppressed people is the same as these four brothers and that is the choice of re- volutionary suicide, Determined to fight for freedom and die fighting for freedom rather than submit to oppression and genocide. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! DEATH TO THE FASCIST SYSTEM! Candi Robinson | Ministry of Information Oakland, Calif, SS EES ES OE THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST IS, 1970 PAGE 6 LETTER TO JOAN KELLEY FROM “CHIP” POLITICAL PRISONER SAN QUENTIN DEATH ROW “POWER SISTER LOVE August 5, 1970 Wednesday, 9:00 a.m. I hope you and "Li'l G" re- celve this letter in the same rey- olutionary spirit in which I send it, And because of this revolu- tlonary spirit one has the ability to transcend all geographical dis- tance and be united with his loved ones, Joan, you see, love and intellect of the revolutionary’s responsive motivation toeconomic exploira- tion and racist oppression, Once we begin to identify our inherent, repressed humanity, only then can we respond intelligently, basing our practice on objective condi- tions designed to retain the de- sired results. Time, space, consequence is of no significance in retaliation to the hindrance of our just struggle for national tLiberstion, One must never accept compromise of prin- ciple for a slice of luxury. The Struggle is for freedom from op- pressive conditions to insure a flourishing productive society. Until freedom is reached (and the yoke of Babylonian insanity is overthrown, one must continue to sacrifice. 1 was lying here dialectically evaluating our Minister of De- fense, Huey P, Newtoa's profound truth; ‘*Power Is the ability to define phenomena and make it act In a desired manner.” In re- lation to our present day situation, the issues in the Black commu- nity 1,e. police brutality, indecent housing, unemployment, human rights, racism, exploitation etc., are the results of antagonistic contradictions inevitably created in the status quo, The revolts and upheavals in the Black com- munities are observable events moving to alleviate these contra- dictions, Thus is social phenome- na, We are capable of defining these objective conditions and taterpre- tate them as the problem. We use these phenomenal events to serve as the stimuli to organize the masses and mobilize them in the direction of socialist reyolution-- the solution to the problem. In the final analysis, the fascist reactionary forces of the mother country Imperialist will continue to make the same inevitable mis- takes, The ideological supremacy of the Party will define and rede- fine the perpetual changing events and these definitions will turn into material force driving the op- pressed people to progress and liberation! Il was scanning over the L.A, Times this morning, there was an article on Brother Huey saying he would be returned to Alameda county for 4 bail hearing--before his retrial. Right On! Maybe niggas will tighten up on their discipline and work. I can only describe his possible release as the Party's renais- sance. I can feel the vibes of anticipation, Well, so much for rhetoric--maybe niggas talk too much] REVOLUTION IN OUR LIFETIME] Revolutionarily Yours...Forever “Chip"’ THURSDAY AUGUST 13, 1970 10:00 am PRESS CONFERENCE 600 SOUTH BULLIS ROAD At the home of Mrs, Bessie Phillips, in Compton, California; by the relatives of 15 brothers who are presently confined in the hole at Soledad State Prison while the most recent death of a prison guard is under inves- tigation. Information of the pigs attempt to frame more brothers on trumped-up charges will be released at this time, For further information call--213/636-1763 or 635-2586, RACISM AND PRISON The city, county, state and fe- deral jails of America are the most racist institutions in this country. It is in these institutions that a Black man, more so than on the outside of the prison walls, comes to grips with power and racism at its highest level. He finds him- self totally powerless, more so than on the outside of the walls, because he can'teven make simple decisions, such as what time he goes to bed; what time he eats and/or what type of work he does. All his thinking is done for him and he, if he allows him- self, becomes programmed. Some Black mensellthemselves in jail; they become toms, lackies and punks, They think of one thing and one thing only, and this {s getting out on the streets and be- ing so-called free. Not realizing that once they are released they go from one prison to another; they go from a maximum to a mi- nimum prison. The pigs who contro] these in- stitutions have one concern andone concern only and this is how to remain in control of their Jails. They use racism to the utmost; they play the White inmates against the Black inmates thus promoting racism in order to remain in po- wer, A Black man who becomes what Huey P. Newton calls, a political prisoner, places himself in a ra- ther dangerous position. He finds himself totally aware of the sys- tem and how the system is, in fact destroying him and his peo- ple. Once this is discovered, he wants to destroy what is destroy- ing him. He begins to study the problems and he begins to reject the authority that he faces every- day. The danger comes into being once the pigs realize that they can't make him think the way they want him to think. Once they realize this, they begin to harass the brother by locking him up continually and taking away whar ever little privileges they might have given him. Even worse than this, they go about turning the other prisoners against him; tell- ing the Black prisoners that if they want to make a parole they betrer not hang around with him for he's a bad nigger and means them no good, And Uicy <I the White inmates that he hates White people and thar he is trying to take their jobs and whatnot, In prison the White Inmates have a much better relationship with the prison guards than the Black pri- soners do, for in most cases the guards come from the same com- INSTITUTION OF R In 1964 when I was ten years old I was placed in Echo Gelen concentration camp for boys and girls. This was the first time. The charge that lhad been brought under was “'Incorrigible'’, Upon my arrival | was met by a fas- cist looking seourity guard who greeted me by threating me, say- ing that I had better straighten up or get used to solitiary, | was placed in a cottage and I soon caught on to the programs which were implemented to maintain con- trol and to brainwash the inmates, Some would conform and others wouldn't, | was one that wouldn't and aS a result | ended up in the pokey quite frequently. The pokey was approximately 5 ft, by 5 fr. There were four walls, a door, a collec and a bright lighting sus- tem, which was kept on twenty four hours a day, It wasn’t very pleasant and it served their pur- pose, I had a reputation of go- ing against the staff and some of the lackeys who made it their jobs to start fights or arguments with me. | was always locked In the pokey, but | could never find it within myself to give In to the jive programs which were so ob- viously designed to form me into a ‘'respectable’’ American citizen, The staff would ry to talk to me and an argument always persued, which ended up with mein the po- key. The men security guards were supposed to be the big fascist paper heroes, the terror of the cottages. Whenever the sissy ma- trons couldn’: handle a ten year old they would call in the men se- cutlty guards who used vary bru- tal tactics from Judo to hand cuff bearings. wasn’t the only one sub- jected to this type of treatment,for there were plenty others who re- belled and made escapes, | was one of those who ran away but was brought back. It even got to the point where 1 couldn’t eat with the rest of the girls o> even be allowed to continue going to their racist oriented school, The time came for my parole in 1967, The situation around my release couldn't be anything but a race issue because my mother is Whire and my father is Black and they were seperated, When I was munity as the White inmates do and/or are from the same back- ground, They relate to one another on a first name basis; they al- ways get the best jobs and the best food. When clothing is given out, the White inmates always re- ceive the better clothes. The very few Black guards that they have in prison don’t try and In most cases, don’t want to re- late to the Black inmates, because they’re too busy trying to make it by working within the system, A convict who Is determined to carry on the struggle against cap- jralism and against racism be- comes too much of adangereven inside the walls of prison. Once the prison official sees this in 4 man, they try and keep bir locked up inside of the walls. We must support to the utmost, all political prisoners because they are very important to our strug= gle. Ir is the will of the people that shall free all political pri- soners from the fascist dungeons of racist Babylon, FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! Johnny Viera, Boston Chapter Black Panther Party CISM called before the head advisor he began talking to me about h.a dis- like for integrated marriages. He also mentioned the fact that I had Black skin and my mothers was White and thar he was going to relieve custody of me to my mother. 1 protested and wanted to fo to court, During the hearing I was handcuffed and was not allowed to testify or even speak, Eventual- ly | wa released to my father who really didn’t have time to look after me (which was thelr basis for a plan to have me soon returned to another institu- tion). These type of conditions have existed for-years and continue to go on, Why are youth subjected to such subhuman forms of life? Is it to crush a desire for change from the old stuffy way of life, obedience to the law and govern ment? Or is it fo properly bring up children? We are not. fools and will continue to struggle and be vic~ torious because the youth makes the revolution] ALL POWER TO THE PEOPL DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! - ALABAMA BLACK LIBERATION FRONT INVESTIGATES CASES OF PIG BRUTALITY ALSO STARTS DRIVE FOR DEFENSE FUNDS After 30 days of intensive in- vestigation In the Black commu- nity of Alabama the A,B,1.F, has investigated over 24 cases of po- lice brutality, 16 in Birmingham and surrounding area,2 in Mont- gomery, 2 in Mobile and other parts of Alabama, to-date, only 9 have been successfully docu- meated, Fascist federal plan of geno- cide is definitely being used by the fascist capitalist, In Jef- ferson County the murders re- ported by the people are shock- _ ing. We, ABLF, and ABCNS, are stirring to investigate and con- firm these atrocities we have verified the following: 1 brother lynched Bessemer, Ala- bama Jail 1 brother shot in his grandmo- thers apartment 1 brother shot 12 times on May 10, 1970, between 2-5 a.m. 1 brother beaten to death on or about the 12th of June 1970 1 brother beaten so bad he lost one eye 1 brother (a free bleeder) beaten to a pulp on critical list at hospital THESE LAST FIVE BROTHERS WERE VICTIMIZED IN BIRM- INGHAM, ALABAMA, One Black brother killed in Mo- bile, Alabama and 2 Black bro- thers beaten in Montgomery, Ala- bama. These nine cases have been verified andatpresent,we still at work on the other 15. Only 2 deaths have been printed in the systems paper. Al Formby and Frank Brown. The others which are confirmed are Cornelies Joaes, Lincoln Mason, Phillip Streeter, Larry Smith, beaten were Reginald Martin and Her- man Hammin. The Alabama Black Liberation Front has established a Black Defense Fund for the purpose of assisting them to dig our the truth and provide ald for our warriors, Bobby Seale has sald ‘‘only on the blood of the oppressor can the people's freedom be founded— only the blood of the oppressor can fertilize the soil for the peo- ple's self-rule"’. Lincoln Mason Jr. 510 1/2 16th Street, North 328-8637 He was shot in his grandmother's home on April 3, 1970, murdered by o White officer @larry M, Jones), Officers got the call that he was demented (crazy), He started having a seizure at about 4 or 5 p.m. that afternoon, his grand- mother called the police to carry him to the hospital to get a shot to calm him, the officer andthe parents were standing about 10 ft. away when the officer drew his gun and shot him one time, he was bleeding already from where he had cut himself on a mirror in the bathroom and was very weak from loss of blood. After shooting the boy one time, the officer made the parents and bro- ther of this young man go out- side and sit in the police car and shot him again, because when the death certificate came out it stated he had been shot twice, in the abdomen and In the chest, the parents stated that they (pigs) shot him once in the chest in their presence, After putting the pa- rents out, they locked both doors, back and front and stayed in the house about an hour before call- ing the ambulance. This young man was 21 years old, and under the care of Rehabilitation, with his medical card and medicine In his pocket, We went to the County courthouse to investigate. Lt. Low told us to take it to the Grand Jury. We went to Legal Aid and talked to a lawyer there, Mr, Steve Merriweather (Black bro.) to Investigate this. They compiled thelr findings, gave them to the District Attor- ney (Earl Morgan), he’s supposed to have presented this case to the Grand Jury in July. (7) PHILLIP STREETER Phillip Streeter (Hessemer) ‘The police stated that he hung himself in Bessemer Jail, on the 2%h of April, Phillip was 23 years old. Det, Pace stated he received a call at about 2:00 p.m, that evening stating that a young man was trying to buy drugs with a forged prescription, The police stared that he found a oottle of dedemod and rubotussin in his pocket--they carried him to jail. Later they said thar Phillip com- plained of headaches and stomach pains, when a pig asked him what could he do for him, Phillip asked did he have any morphine or he- roine that he could give him, apig saidhe would call a doc- tor, but the doctor was never called, We talked to the druggist and he stated that it was between 11:00 and 11:30 when he put in the call, He didn’t know if there was anyone with Phillip or not, all he knows was that he came in by himself, When the police came and searched Phillip they found drugs in his pocket, and he was trying to get more, ‘The next day we talked with rw chief, he stated thaton the records which he showed us that they recelyed the call at about 11:00 a.m, and we asked him to see the cell, apig showed ittous: and it was a padded cell, no way to put a belt in order to do anythimeg of this sort. When they did let us see the cell, thy had puc a steel door there. The screws were new, this is how we know that the door had been put there, recently. When he showed us how he thought Phillip tung himself tt was impossible because the belt A wouldn't even fit into the crack, We asked who found him, they(the fpigs) say one of the key persons his name was supposed to de Eugene Cones, 1006 12th St. No. Bessemer, but, this was a false posed to be Lonnie andOraCons, when we asked to talk to Eugene they stated that he had gotten out, he was just in for a drunk charge, LARRY SMITH Larry Smith 2827 10th Ave. No. 425-9717 (Bessemer) Larry was shot by Lt, Pace and Lr, Godwin on May 10, 1970, be- tween 2-5 p.m. The police stated he was robbing a discount tire store, the small window thar the police stated the young man en- tered was too small for any grown man to enter, This young man was 19 years old, Police stated thac he was shot three imes. His parents had his body moved to Chambliss funeral home and they stared he was shot 12 times. The mother stated that the only witness that they had, had left town, He had said that he put Larry out of his two blocks from home at about 2:30 a.m. Tne police stated that he had to get the management to open the door to get in after shooting Larry. This is allthe information we have on this because the N.A,A,C.P, (Bess. Branch) was supposed to do something about his case and told the parents not to talk to anyone else concerning this case, because they would take care of it, Until last Thursday, nothing has been done, CORNELIUS JONES - Cornelius Jones 2516 North 24th Street 841-4150 (No. B'ham.) This young man was 30 years old. He had been to Korea and was shell shocked, his mind was very bad, and had been to Bryce Hospital (a mental institution), a couple of times, Ills neighbor called the police and stated that the young man had threatened him with a gun, Tails young man was in his home when the officers came THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 7 The mother and sister stared that the policeman started shoot- ing through the screen door, shot him 6 times, went into the house and searched and found his rifle, which was old and without any shells, and a pistol out of the drawer and carried these with them saying the young man drew his rifle on them, The mother and sister stated that they knew that the brother was a demented per- gon, because they had records on him, Herman Haminan Herman was beaten unmerifully for, the police say, running 4 red light. This young man stated that he and his friend and his friend’s wife, Tony Browder had been to Atlantic Mills and also Liberty's to cash a check. They came down Graymont Avenue to Peyton Place, a policeman pulled up behind him, asked him tocome over to his car and sit down so that he could write him a craf- fic ticket for running the red light. The young man stated that he did not run the light and was sitting there discussing this when the owners wife of '' Peyton Place™ sent a young man out and told the policeman he could not give him a ticket on private property. The policeman got angry and told Herman to shut the door and get in because he couldn't give him a ticket there. He knew where he could give him one, He carried him about a block and a half from ‘*Peytoa Place" in the back of Zac Smith's stationery and called more cars, When 2 more cars pulled up the policeman had Herman handcuffed and told him to get out of the car, threw him on the ground and began to beat him. One of the cops in car 49 got out and preceeded to beat Herman with his club until be began to bleed. The policeman put his foot on his headandkicked him 3 or 4 times, threw him in the*'paddy wagon"’, then rode him around an hour or two to try to see if he would die. Herman was still bleeding during this. They then took him over to the hospital, the nurse asked him to sign himself in, He stated he couldn’r sign himself in with his hands tied, The police wouldn't unlock the handcuffs, and they took Each of us must be a match for a hundred. him to jail bleeding. His sister went over to he jail androldthem to do something for him because he was a free bleeder and wouldn't stop unless given doctors care. He was so weak they had to carry him in at the hospital. This was 1:00 a.m. the next morning when they did carry him back to the hospital, This Incident happened at 7:00 p.m. the day before. He got a lawyer, Mr. Hood, of Bes- semer to take this case because the Birmingham lawyers were a- fraid to go against the system here. The case is supposed to come up on the Ist of July. Al Formby 1259 12th Street, No. Formby was 16 years old, he was picked up on June 12, 1970, at 10;00 p.m., the police stated thar be was begging & ™4n for 18 cents. They carried him tothe city jail, The police stated that Formby started to have pains in his head and stomach. They car- ried him and pumped his stomach out, He stated that he felt al- right. The next morning at about 4:00 a.m. he was found dead in his cell (this is the police state- ment).His mother stated thar one of the inmates in the jail called her and told her that at about 8:00 p.m, Saturday night this young man took sick and asked for med- ical help, they did not call a doc- tor, but poured water on him to bring him to, then when he didn’t come to, they carried him to Car- raway Methodist hospital, he was dead then, They made an autop- sy on him, then came out at about 5:00 a,m. and told his mo- ther he was dead, she preceeded to call and ask to see her son bur they told her not to come over to the hospital because she and no one else would be able to see him until they were fin- ished with the autopsy, She wants tohave 4nother autopsy made but does not have the money and nei- ther the N,A,A,C_P, nor the Ala-- bama Christian Movement will agree to have one made for her. The young man should have been put in juvenile instead of city jall in the first place. She would like to find out wiat really hap- pened, was he given an over dose of dope or beaten to death, WN a (ae ¥ = RN ‘‘We as apeople united must move now to achieve our goals of complete and total free- dom to determine our | own destinies. / and knocked on his door, address. We could! not find his The young man came to the door, 4 parents, whose names were Sup- THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 8 CHICAGO ILLINOIS THE PEOPLE CALL COOK COUNTY HOSPITAL THE BUTCHER SHOP In the police occupied, oppressed community of Chicago, County of Cook, there looms in defiance of humanity a large ‘*Roman Ortha- wound infections. The fact alone thar People's bodies are aniputated and butchered up because of gun shor wounds Is an indication of the poor WILLIE APPLETON WITH NO LEGS. dox"’ looking building called Cook County Hospital, Cook County Hos- pital is an open-book-lesson to the people, indicating with itstreat- inent and medical care the true type of service one can expect from a capitalistic controlled gov- ernment. To visit this hospital (as I did), you must erase all former knowledge on what you thought hospitals were like, be- cause, Cook County Hospital is a true reflection of every'‘Franken- stein’ movie I have ever seen, It is horror, an experience that is hard to describe, The reality of the situation is so ghastly that my body trembles with a desire to bring death to those pigs who are responsible for what I saw. We visited with a brother named Willie Appleton, who had both his legs amputated at the pelvic bone because of an infection which ser in, resulting from a gun shor wound in the back, The state is responsible for Willie Appleton’s condition, and right now they are trying to shun ‘‘allresponsibility’’ by refusing to provide a body hold device which will support his upper body and keep the weight off of TLAwr: medical treatment patients re- celve. Ronald ‘‘Doc’’ Satchell pointed out that he had to dress and clean his own wounds to pre- LEROY YOUNG WAS SHOT BY ARENTAPIG LAST YEAR IN THE BACK STOMACH AND CHEST, WHICH PARALIZED BOTH OF HIS LEGS, vent infection from getting in, Doc, who is Deputy Minister of Health for the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party was also a - HENRY JONES RIGHT LEG his intestines and other organs, which now form the base of his body. Willie Appleton's case is a manifestation of why people call Cook County Hospital ‘the butcher shop’’, This brother was shot in the back, received poor medical care, the wounds Improperly ar- tended, resulted in infection ser- ting in, which cost him the loss of two legs. I talked with several other brothers on the ward which was grossly overcrowded andcoy- ered with dry stench of humans rotting in deprivation, These bro- thers also had parts of their bo- dies amputated, all from gun shot AMPUTATED. victim of gun shot wounds, and we can ateribute his body staying in tact to his own personal medical knowledge, and of a knowledge of Cook County Hospital, Larry Ro- berson, 4 member of our Party who was shot by Chicago Pig Police, died ar Cook County Hospital from improper medical care, Many bro- thers who are victims of police attacks are bound and shackled to the operating table, beds, etc., all without due respect to any kind of medical diagnosis, The nurses and doctors are so unattentive that 4 patient's ‘‘uneaten"’ food remains on the carrying tray for three and four hours at a time. The hospital ward I visited lacked alr condi- tioning, one can only imagine the agony experienced by these pa- tlents during the recent heat spells, For those who are nalve andblind, and would put a high standard Stereotype on all hospitals, we must point out to you how a hos- pital like Cook County, is allowed to exist as a symbol of dehumani- zation controlled by a nation that has sent humans to the moon, Cook County Hospital is just ano- ther of the active parts of geno- cide, in our community being per- petrated against our people by a government of an for profit makers. Because there Is no pro- fit in prolonging the lives of poor people, the state through ‘‘benign neglect" provides situations where Survival of the fittest, and denial and death to the sickly is the rule, We must listen closely tothe words of the administrators of this System when they talk of ‘over Population’’, and remedies for it. We must not be fooled Into think- ing that they have no solution, or that it is embodied In simple birth control pills. Our community has been forced into a cancerous situation, which is actively destroying the body of our com- munity, We must recognize thar when pigs purrol hospitals like Cook County Hospital, or close their doors claiming a lack of room, it is merely an act which allows would be patients to die and Suffer in the streets, the same as they would in the hospital, We must site the fact thar as long as hospital care is based on profit, the worth as human is secondary, and if you're poor your worth as 4 human is nill, The Black community {s an oppressed community, our worth as humans to these pigs who control our lives is reflected in the streets; in the pigs who use dogs, cattle prods and guns to control our lives like enslayed deprived animals wait- ing to die in the streets; inforeign lands for a foreign cause; in pri- Son for reaction to 4 stimulus which seeks to destroy our lives; or die in the hospital for being oppressed and poor, We the people must move in a revolutionary manner to seize the time and our lives from the clutches of these pigs. We must move to make a life of the best for all people, and we must re- move “practitioners of genocide” fromour hospitals, MEDICAL ATTENTION FOR HEALTH, NOT WEALTHI BLACK PANTHER PARTY Chicago Chapter Monk Teba PIGS OF WINSTON SALEM ARREST. TWO N.C.C.F MEMBERS AND A MENTALLY RETARDED BROTHER We have said many times be- fore and checking out the situa- tion today as we observe the Na- tional and international scope and deal with the objective reality of the situation, we find the pigs oc- cupy still the communities of the world reeking murder and brutal- ity and Intimidation as they go forth, The Minister of Defense, Huey P, Newton stated clearly that an unarmed people are slaves or subject to slavery at any given moment, The people of Babylon and people in the Black communi- ty in particular must take heed to what the Minister of Defense has said and move accordingly. We must begin to arm ourselves and move to the level of Self-Defense Groups. On July 27, 1970, brothers from the National Committee to Combat Fascism were putting up revolu- tionary art posters inthe commu- nity around our headquarters. They were pasting posters on Store fronts and telephone poles. It was around 11:30 p.m, when a pig oinked that it was against a city stature to put anything on telephone poles. As the pigs tore the posters down, people began to come out to see what they were doing, The brothers from the N.C,C.F, began to conduct agitation and propagan- da, The pigs, not wanting the peo- ple to become educated, calledfor more pigs. Before it was over, 7 carloads of pigs were in the community around our headquar- ters with M-l carbines and rior 4 THE LUMPEN WILL RISB. TO DEAL WITH THE OP- RESSOR, pump shotguns drawn, and tear- j ing down posters, The brothers continued to educate the geben! and the people began to shout, “‘off the pig’. At this time the pigs left but within the next 3 minutes there were 19 pig cars invading the community. The cars came to a halt andthe pigs jumped outbrandishing wea- pons. They rushed in the crowd of people and arrested Larry Lit- tle, William Gary (members of the N.C,C_F,) and a mentally re- tarded brother, Terry Joe Young, who was just sitting on his bi As the pigs moved on the broth- — ers, it was apparent that they were armed to the gills, They jacked off rounds Into the riot shotguns as they made their kid- nappings. As we were on our way to the pig pen to get the brothers out, the pigs kidnapped a brother, Sam- my Lee Byrd, anda sister, Pa- triciaAnn McNeal on charges of disorderly conduct. All the brothers and sisters were gotten out that same night after con- tinous threats by the pigs to lock us up, Larry, Gary, and Terry went to trial on the 27th of July and had their cases continue to August 2th, The other cases of the brothers and sister come off in August some time, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! Winston-Salem DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS WHO KILLED COLUMBUS WORSHEY On Wednesday, August 5, 1970, 17 year old Columbus Worshey was on his way home from his job as usual when he was told by one of his bosses to go up to the factory on the 4th floor to pick up a package, He went upstairs to do this pig a favor, as he was off for the day. This is when he met his brutal and un- timely death, as many Black peo- pel who fall victim to racist pigs, mafia and other disreputable or- ganizations. The Black Panther Party was told of the incident in which the pigs came to the “‘conclusion’’ that the brother was unstable so he stopped his dally oppression by jumping from the ledge and kill- ing himself. The mass news me- dia, on orders from Mafia King- pin Frank Rizzo did a complete blackout on the incident as the Black Panther Party knows they can do. The White press wouldn't even tell the story because it had too many holes and unan- swered questions, burt the local nigger newsery chose to parrot the line handed down by local Mafia Chief Rizzo. Well, not being handcuffed or controlled by piggery in Babylon, the Black Panther Party started its own Investigation. We went directly to the people involved or who knew Chris as he was known by the community. If re- porters don't know how to report a story, then they can use this as a guide--go to the people who are involved and not to Idiots who make a practice of justify- ing all murders of non-White peo- ple. From information obtained from the family, we know thar Chris Worshey was murdered by forces of the Philadelphia Matia, No one of the job believes he would commit suicide. Thar he was thrown from the 4th floor ledge oof the factory (autopsy showed no drugs or alcohol in his body) was the conclusion of the doctors who judged this fact from the broken bones in his body. The undertaker refuses to let his familysee the body, The coroner told his mother that it looks like murder, Rizzo threatened the news media into submission, ‘We are not lackeys nor are we detectives, but we do exercise the right to determine for our- selves whar's right and what's = ng. The black, Community News Service is the voice of the Party } and we won't be silenced Here's what we found out from uur investigation, Upon talking to brother, we learned that was always afraid of , so that repudiates the story that he sat on the ledge smoking a cigarette as told to us by some White woman, Any- way, he was off for the day, so why would he sit on the factory ledge smoking? We also went to the site of the murder and not being detectives, but having com- mon sense and a desire for the truth, we checked out the ledge he was supposed to have jumped from and judging from the spot where he **jumped"’ from to where the body landed, it would be im- possible to leap and land where he did without flying out. This only supported the doctors’ and the the coroner's reports and con- tradicted the pig commissioner's les. We also learned from inside sources that drugs are being dealt there, There is a hefty White racist who likes to intimidate Black people and who certainly has the strength to toss Chris from the ledge. His mother said that Chris had told her that he was having trouble with three White racists on his job, There are many more facts about the whole affair, but this clearly shows that when Rizzo isn't defending the murders of Black people commit- ted by his fascist cowards, then he's defending the mafia cowards, The only way we can halt the wan- ton murders of Black people is to arm for self-defense against those who would destroy us, We say that Black people must move to avenge Harold Brown, joe Brooks, and Columbus Wor- shey. The mafia must be stopped both politically and milfrarily from the hefty factory brute to the armed fascist cop dog, DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! P.S. Rizzo--You are directly re- sponsible for the murders of Joseph Grooks, Bernard Sisco, james Parker, James Hamiliton, Harold Brown, Columbus Worshey and we know you boast more than that. You are responsible for the brutality inflicted upon hundreds of thousands of Black people, We can no longer deal with your arro- gant, hostile manner and atti- tude in dealing with our people, Just as you guaranteed the fas- cist ruling circle that you would deal with the Black people, we offer our people and the people of the world that same promise. You, nor your lackeys will es- cape the people's justice, DEATH TO THE COWARDLY PIGS! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Pailadelphia Branch New Haven's Redevelopment Authority has just completed the building of a four hundred family unit project, which is scheduled to be opened September '70 to four hundred low Income Black, White, and Puerto Rican families. This project was saldto be built for the purpose of moving Black people out of the run down Black community and tearing it down to remode! it. But this is another Me by the racist government. The reason the project was built was to isolate the Black people from the other Slack communities, thereby placing them in a posi- don where they will be vulner- able to open fascism, The pro- ject is located on Church Street South and Columbus Avenue, which will be suicidal for any child or adult in that area, These are dis- guises tactics that the pigs are using as a tool to destroy our people. 1, Beside the project the pigs have secretly renovated a new pig sta- tion In which six hundred more pigs will be brought into the area, 2. Behind the project is the Penn Central Train Station in which its tracks are freely opened to the people--a death trap for sure. 3. In the front of the project is the Church Street South Inter- THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 9 PIGS BUILD GENOCIDAL PROJECTS IN NEW HAVEN section which has one stop light and has an open speed limit, which leaves the drivers free to drive at any speed they wish, 4. The inside of the project which contains four hundred fam- ilies, and each familes children, ranging from three totwelve chil- dren per family. 5, The center of the project has one recreation area for the chil- dren. 6. In order to move in you have to have $450.00, then pay rent no less than $125.00 a month, 7. People will be living next door and on top of each other, Fam- ilies have already moved into these projects and 375 more to move in. Two hundred will be Black, This is what we are against and we are implementing point No. 4 of our ten point Plat- form and Program In the com- munity so that it can be fully understood by the peoplebefore they move in. Church Street South must be closed down and once the people begin to see this it will be done. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE; DECENT HOUSING OR ELSE! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Connecticut State Chapter Edie BLACK PEOPLE HAVE NO RIGHTS THAT THE RACIST WHITE CAPITALIST ARE BOUND TO RESPECT Historically the courts and the avaricious capitalists (business- men) have conspired together in many railroadings which have caused many brothers and sisters to pay fines, unreasonable and / or serve long years in confine- ment. If we look ar the functions of the courts and the capitalist businessmen, you see that they work hand in hand, One steals, the other justifies. This is espec- jally true in so-called ‘'shoplift- ing cases." People who are ‘caught’ taking a SO¢ article of goods, might be fined as much as $75.00. In other words the person has to not only pay for the 50¢ article but also an extra $74,50 This is the rea] robbery. (One may ask who is the real criminal?) The avaricious businessmen and the courts have another game they run on the people, They both cover for each others negligence, which is quite often, This is re- flected when companies fall in serving the peoples needs, result- ing in suits against the individual companys failure to serve the cus- tomers needs and for this negli- gence on the companys part, However for the common mas- ses sults are long and costly or- deals which many times leave the plantiff(the victim, or the per- son sulting) themselves penniless from legal aid court fees, This is because courts as the avari- clous businessmen do not serve the peoples needs. September 17th 1968 at around 7:00 p.m. Mrs Velma Hardy a Black woman struck down by a Farwest cab a6 she was walking in a crosswalk while returning home from work that evening. So stuned was Mrs. Hardy from the cab she didn’t know she was struck by a cab until she was in the hos- pital, So badly was she injured that she had a stroke resulting from her head injuries, Three months later Mrs. Hardy filed suit against the Farwest Cab Company appealled the case and the case was dropped for two years after Mrs.Hardy persuaded to drop the amount of damages from $75,000 to $50,000 .00, Three weeks ago the court up- held the decision, however, Mrs. Hardy getting one-third about $17,000.00 for ‘legal and defense fees, Farwest Cab Company can no doubt afford a few pennies from the capitalist firm.But the in- convience and suffering of the two years following her accident, the fact that she cannot work again is nothing but a pitance for two years of cortizone treatments and forced unemployment, Farwest cab Company along with the courts proved through their practice that Mrs. Hardy in particular and Black people in general have no rights that the White racist: capitalists are bound to respect. Farwest Cab has shown through its history a blarant disrespect and arrogance towards Black people and their needs, It wasn't for example until two years that they decided to hire a couple of Black cab dri- vers, in their company which is lo- cated in the Black community, This racist arrogance is intolerable and has already almost cost the life of a hard working member of the Black community, Racist arro- gance by capitalist Farwest Cab Company and racist arrogance in the courts is being used against Black brothers and sisters daily and if we regard such incidents as the one in which Mrs, Hardy experienced, it could mean death} CAPITALISM PLUS RACISM EQUALS FASCISM] ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE} Anthony Ware Black Panther Party Washington State chapter On Friday night, July 24th, abour 1:00 a,m,, the Dudley station area looked like the aftermath of a riot scene, Approximately 20-25 fire trucks and the same amount of pig cars filled the streets; cars were detoured away from the area, and spectators were arrogantly told to ‘*move back.’’ The cause of this scene was unbelievable at first thought; two stationary stores were on fire. Why would the burning of two small, run-down, delapi- dated stationary stores cause so much confusion? Pigs were every- where; pigs in red, pigs in blue, pigs with axes, pigs with guns; all behind a couple of stationary Stores? Not truel Take a look across the street from the scene of the fires, and the real reasons behind these pigs presence becomes strikingly clear; the Dudley street Concen- tration camp. And the purpose of the Dudley street concentration camp has to be understood as the E.O.N.--that is the ‘extermination of niggers.’ It was the pig sta- tion that was being protected, for nothing moves a pig so much as to have his pig sty threatened, Un- doubtedly, Pig mayor White was awakened, and the National Guard, Boston’s answer to Germany's blitz was alerted. It was simply too close for comfort. Unless moved upon before too long, unless construction is stopped by any means necessary the history of Black people in the city of Boston, is going to be in- timately interwoven with the Dud- ley street concemration camp. In fact, history will record the tak- ing of the fortress as the major accomplishment of the revolution in the city. It will also record thar the “fortress” was captured from the enemy, after an extremely bloody battle, in which the victors the Black people of Boston, lost many lives. And in one of those footnotes, we always see in our history books, we'll be able to find a telling story, which will read something like; ‘During the summer of 1970, the Black resi- dents of Roxbury, Mass., watched the construction of the Dudley street concentration camp and did nothing to stop it. Seemingly awed by the massiveness of the struc- ture, the residents of Roxbury, just before their revolutionary consciousness reached a higher le- vel, watched the man build their graves. We canfindno adequate ex- Plaination for their passivity. _ Nothing can stop these madmen from implementing the structure of our doom exceptthe people, Black people. We are the only ones who can change this history I’ve des- cribed; the only ones who can avert a disaster. We are the earth movers, the writers of the his- tory of the rise and fall of Ba- bylon, Upon our back, our labor, Babylon rose up to menace and reek havoc upon the people of the world, and it will be through our efforts that Babylon will violent- ly fall} Ic is within our power to stop the course of a small bit of his- tory, which if left unchecked, will become the tombsotme for our graves here in Boston, We must use up anddestroy, or at the very best, stop the construction of the, Dudley street concentration camp. Not only is it our right to destroy it, totally for the soverignty and security of our Black community it ig our duty which history lays before us, COUNTER ATTACK! j SEIZE THE TIME,SEIZE THE LAND] \ Michael Fultz a” Boston Chapter Black Panther Party THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 10 BLACK WOMAN MURDERED BY RACIST PIG On August 5, 1970, Lima Ohio pigs perpetrated their most foul deed to date. At 3:50 p.m. on Wednesday the Maniac Lima Pig Department answered a complaint at 737 S, Union St. Two young bro- thers were having an argument, one that could have been easily Settled by themselves, had the racist dogs let them alone, But, true to the nature of all racist pigs, they saw an opportunity to practice their ill-fated pig bru- tality. After arresting the bro- thers, the jacknapes proceeded to murder-mouth the crowd that had gathered. While doing this the pigs also exercised unduepressure on the handcuffed brothers, A righteous sister, Mrs. Christine Ricks, intervened by saying that the pigs had no right to treat them in that manner. An alterca- tion then developed between the sister and the dog policemen, The sister and one of the clown pigs got into a scuffle and the sister took the pig's gun, The other pig then began to fire upon sister Ricks and when they finished, the Sister lay dead, face down In the dirty, with her body riddled with bullet holes. These cowardly dogs then fled in their pig-mobile with- out calling an ambulance or any other type of help for the ee + hurled into the building, After the building had been emptied the fed- eral pigs hadthe building declared off limits for all people, The pigs used as apretext for closing the bullding, a Me that bombs had been placed in and around the building. To cover this Le up, the pigs staged a false search of the premises, and even managed to Produce a bomb. One they had planted. we all know that the def- inition of a pig is "A low na- tured beast that has no regard for law, justice, or the rights of people; 4 creature that bites the hand that feeds it. A foul de- praved traducer, usually found masquerading as the victim of an unprovoked attack."’ The local and federal pigs have thus far lived up to their name. Some righteous brothers are waging war onthese racists, snivelling, bootlicking tools of U.S, fascism. These avaricious dogs have been asked by the "Lima--Allen County Community Action Com- mission’’ to cease their occupa- tion of Lima’s south side (Black community), Lima's gestapo pig mayor, Christion P, Morris, re- fused to withdraw his mercen- aries. Thus, proving by his racist oppressive actions, that he nor Where Mrs. Ricks was murdered, Like all true revolutionaries, Mrs, Ricks adhered to the con- cept of self-defense. Sister Ricks knew that self preservation is the first law of nature, so in pro- tecting herself she was merely trying to stay alive. Sister Ricks efforts were in vain but like a true revolutionary she came pre- pared to do battle with a hundred. The Lima Pig Department stated that “‘Mrs. Ricks died of one (1) bullet wound in the chest’’ but this is a White racist lie. A dozen witnesses saw or heard the gun shots and reported that the sis- ter was shot at least seventimes, if not more. The pigs continued to shoot Mrs. Ricks even after she had fallen to the ground. No autopsy was taken of Mrs. Ricks’ body which is contrary to every case of homicide in the country, Her body was ‘released with a “picture” taken of one bullethole in her chest for evidence and apparent cause of death, A con- cerned citizen called an ambu- lance for the lifeless body of Mrs. Ricks but it conveniently had an accident with a pig wagon the way to the scene of the murder. A aight of consequence followed for the Lima Killer Department. Fire bombs were thrown off the veil of oppression, Six pigs were dealt on and wounded, Three of these snakes are reported in “serious” or ‘'guarded”’ condi- tion, The headquarters of a local group of ‘‘right on brothers’’ located on 4th Street in Lima, were attacked by federal troops, local pigs, and White vigilante groups. Nine cear gas bombs were of the foul deeds performed by his circus clowns, The people’s struggle against fascism, racism, pig brutality and oppression is one in which few that start will see the end, ‘'To be a revolutionary is to be a doomed man,” To dare to stand up against the repressive forces of evil is to place one's life in dan- ger. But we in the Black com- munity have been in danger all of our lives, so the struggle thar we have chosen to become part of is welcome relief after years of being messed over and ignored, We now demand that the racist dog policeman withdraw from our communities--cease thelr wanton brutality and murder of our peo- ple and let us determine our own destiny, or suffer all of the hatred, pent up frustrations and wrath of the armed people. The city of Lima Ohio is aclas- sie example of what U,S, fascism and imperialism is all abour, and the people of Lima are truly clas- sic examples of what revolution- ary people every where are doing to put an end to the robbery and rape of our people and commu- nities. We will no longer tolerate any form of oppression from this maniac, capitalist system, and we will do any thing necessary to OFF ALL FASCST PIGS, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! DARE TO STRUGGLE--DARE TO WN! N.C.C.F,, Toledo Ohio 1334 Dorr St. Bob Watson THE DEATH OF AN CONSTITUTION OF THE U.S.A. ‘The Constitution is the Ideo- logical foundation of the Amer- ican way of life. In simple terms it is supposed to stand for life, liberty and the pursuit of happi- ness. But somewhere through the pages of history and the passing of time, the ideals the perspec- tives and goals of these words so beautifully written have be- come a symbol of political op- pression, economic exploitation and social degradation of a peo- ple who have suffered 400 years of humility. Let us analyze the phrase ‘all men are created e- qual’’, We are all supposed to be guaranteed all the rights that are allegedly manifested within the basic framework of the supposedly protector and securer of all mens rights, the Consti- tution. If this theoretical phrase was actually applied to the 30 million or so Black inmates of Babylon, you wouldn't have Black people suffering from basic human indignities, such as hunger, in- decent housing, improper med- ica] attention and jack of decent clothing, when this country under the banners of freedom andequal- lity claim to be the most tech- nically advanced and the most productive nation in the history of the planet earth, What will it take for people to realize that they are here and now part of that awesome American night- mare that science fiction writers once thought were tales of fan- tasy, We are all part of the Amer- ican dream, not to say that we will stop struggling against Nixon-Agnew-Mitchell trio, but that we must create and put to- gether some functional machinery thar will guarantee and safe- guard all the rights and privi- leges of the people who make up the backbone of this country, In other words we must aler and change what is wrong with this country and make it right, for those that Live within the boundaries of it, by any means available to us. When Huey and Bobby drew up the Ten Point Platform and Program of the Black Panther Party, they included in it passages from the Constitution and the Declaration OF THE of Independence to let the people know thar these rights and pri- vileges were supposed to be pro- tected and ligitimized by the doc- uments that were drawn up by the forefathers of this country who at that dime might have been sincere in thelr beliefs. But as time passed on and money and property sur- passed the principles of demo- cracy and freedom, we find the whole ideological foundation of this country being altered, to suit the needs and desires of a fas- cist ruling clique that thrives off the blood, sweat, and tears of the suffering masses, ‘The death of the ideals of this country started way back with the Martin Luther King era, when peo- ple were denied the basic free- dom of expression when they demonstrated ‘'peacefully’’ that they wanted their rights guaran- teed and safeguarded as defined by the Constitution of the U.S.A, Even when White people who have been and still are dissolutioned and confused began to exercise their so-called guaranteed rights and found themselves in situa- tions like people’s park and the Chicago Convention scene where the American nightmare that Black people have been caught up in for 400 years, became crystal clear to those progressive factions that were leading and participating in these demonstrations. Whereas the supreme court of the U,S,A, the highest court in the land, officially legalized the right of the fascist court system to bind and gag anyone they please who is speaking up for his or her ba- sic human rights, Earlier: inthis article I asked, what would irtake for people to realize they are caught up in the American night- mare? Now | ask you how much more proof do you need? The an- nihilation of the Black Panther Party, the destruction of all pro- gressive revolutionary forces or genocide committed against Black people in particular and all op- pressed people in general? Like ripening fruit that is ready to be picked now is the time for the humane and freedom loving peo- ples of this nation to move in such an awesome way that it will IDEOLOGY WE WILL REMOVE, DESTROY the spreading tenticles of f national exploitation and imperialism, We must first n that move that will present declaration of war to the fascist ruling clique who have for th past three years have been ing an undeclared war 4 the people, the peoples vanguard, the Black Panther Party, We're going to make known to the rest of the people of this nation the world, about the nar treatment the oppressed class of people are subjected to at che hands of these mad-dog fascist swine, We as a people united, must move now to achieve our — goals of complete and total free- “ dom to determine our own des~ dnies, We must draw up a new constitution, one that will apply — to the needs, aspirations and de- sires of all oppressed people in * America, We now see this aneces- Sary move on the part of the people, because our oppressors, — have no rights which we, the — oppressed people are bound to — respect, We will erase the laws and all documents of so-called guaranteed human rights, that have been misconscrewed and made non-functional for the people, including the present con- stitution of the U.S,A, from the pages of the history of the world, The ideals contained in all these documents are eternal, yet and still these ideals have not and ~ will not be put into actual prac- tice as long as we have a coun- try that is being maintained by the people, but being run andcon- trolled by «4 handful of greedy pigs. We're saying something else has to be done in order to live and let live and enjoy the frult- ility of life. AND KILL ANYTHING OR ANY- ONE THATSTANDS AS A THREAT TO OUR FREEDOM AND SE-} CURITY AS A PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Black Community Information Center, W. Oakland, California James Mott THE COLOR CHANGES THE FACTS REMAIN THE SAME: People often ask, ‘‘Why do you call Black men on the police force pigs too?" To understand the term pigs when applied to these so called law enforcers, in general, of our Black communities, we must re- cognize that Black people are a colonized people in this country, This Means that the economics and politics deciding our destiny are not controlled by the masses of Black people because this power lies in the hands of racist, oppres- sive administratiors of the mother country, Babylon. The laws drawn up are not to serve and protect our interests but act as legal wea- pon for genocidal exploitation, constitutional fascism. The police force, in actuality, acts as an armed guard for the power structure to protect its pro- perty rights. Black people, having no property, receive no protection but are subjected to the terror- istic attacks of this mercenary army. Like sadistic animals, these racists unleash brutal beatings, senselessmurder and torture upon Black people, The American fas- cists are reincarnations of Hitler's gestapo troops. As has been historically true, some Black men feel that whatever the slave master does is right A PIG, IS A PIG whatever the niggers do is wrong. House niggers in the past believed that the master’s house had to be protected from those crazy field niggers.Anytime he heard the field niggers planning to move on the master he would betray their plans. There are still some nig- gers who believe that Black people are shiftiess, lazy, and stupid and ‘need to be kept in their place, which is Mving under filthy, inhu- man conditions.They have been duped into believing thar the only thing thar niggers understand Is a knock upside their head. These Black pigs do not identify with their people, Because of this self-hatred thelr frustration are released with the same fascism of White, racist pigs. On Saturday, July 18th, a nigger pig beat up a seven year old broth- er named Michael, Michael was in- side of the Washington Park Shop - ping Mall in Roxbury, walking out- side to meethis friends. This boot- licking pig who guards the Mall, shouted for Michael to stop.’ Ap- parently, Michael was unaware that this shout was directed to him for he continued outside, Once again the pig shouted and Michael Stopped, For no rational reason, this lackey fool, walked over and IS A PIG attacked this seven year old child. J The pig told Michael to get going, Michael said he was waiting ' for someone in the store, The pig ; replied by saying, “‘Idon’t givea hell, get going’ ‘There were ten or twelve other young sisters and brothers outside whom he alsotold to get going. When the mothers came outside looking for their children, this pig slid away, Earlier, this same pig was talk- ing to the pig for assistance, point- ing out the thief, this pig showed — his concern by walking after him. — Of course, the thief got away, The woman confronted him about walk- ing after the thief and this pig, who feels he is not responsible tothe people, just walked away. The only way Black people can insure that their children, rs, brothers, mothers, fathers, etc., will not be at any time the vic= tim of fascist attacks, is to arm ourselves, We no these criminals, these fools, to any SSS OF OE ALL POWER 10. PNA DEATH ha PIGS! | Donna Boston Chapter Black Panther Py ‘*There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free-— ‘we must fight] Gentlemen may cry peace! Peace! Butthere is no peace! The war has already be- gun. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idly? What is ir that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it Almighty God! I know not what course may take, but as for me-- Give me Liberty, or give me Death! __Parrick Henry-—- I remember that in the racist schools of America, I was taught to respect those words as brave and courageous. I never had any about the words, I know thar I feel that way today, I feel as frustrated as Patrick Henry must have felt, because people are still sitting around debating whether to end the fascist regime ‘of United States Murder INC., or to wait in hope of some re- lief. There is no relief] There can be no let up. Our people are given death sen- tences for allegedly stealing thir- ty dollars, our homes are fit for cattle, our children have to be shielded from rats and roaches that seek to substitute them for food. Our schools are teaching racism and subjugation and when we protest, we are maced and jailed. By and large, our people are unemployed, and those who are employed are exploited and given slayes pay. Our old, are neglec- ted and carted away to ‘“‘homes" to die. How can they speak of peace at home, when in every corner of the globe, they are murdering men, women, andchil- dren in our names. Lies are being perpetrated in our names. We must be as firm In our desire to have our liberation as the American colonialsists, Our commitment to life must be such thar we choose death rather than slavery, exploitation, and mass murder. We must begin to think seri- ously about a Constitution that will take the place of the outdated document of two centuries ago. We suffer the same oppression and exploitation of those thirteen colonies, except that ours is com- pounded by racism and poverty. Our commitment must be as strong as their's and even stronger. We cannot afford not to re- write this document] We must attempt this last straw at Nation- al Salvation under this present system, for we must exhaust all legal means, We know thatthere can be no peace untill there is Jand, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and blessed lib- erty! We will not rest until we have fulfilled the tasks that history has laid down for us, Let us fight on with the unbeatable spirit of a winning people! Let our commit- ment be such that we will elther sit down and write the Constitu- tion as CIVILIZED people, or-- we will write it as MADMEN-- struggling for sanity! FIGHT ON UNTIL COMPLETE VICTORY! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Afeni Shakur CIVILIAN NIGGER PIG PULLS SHOTGUN ON FRIENDS OF THE In the oppressed Black commu- nity of Rockford, ll. , a pig named Charles Lathan called “Mir’’, operates a restaurant called “Mitts Bar-b-que."" Mitts or Charles Lathan is also employed by the Rockford Pig Dept., he func- tions in some type of civilian capa- city, bootlicker, and informer. Mitt is responsible for giving the pigs information which has caused the arrest of countless brothers and several mass ‘‘Dragnet type ar- rests of brothers standing on the streets."’ According to sources Mitt is very figurative in the “South Main Businessmens Organi- zation’ which is working hand and hand with the pigs to remove the street niggers (Lumpen Pro- Jetriats) off of South Main, We know that the pigs want those brothers off the street because historically it has been proven that they are the most revolutionary, and that the pigs find it hard to control them. These brothers, true to what our Minister of Information Eldridge Cleayer pointed out, would rather punch the employers in the mouth than punch a time clock. It is attitudes of this type which makes these street niggers or ‘‘lumpens”’ the revolutionary class in Babylon, because we un- derstand very clearly thar the working class (those who make their bodies available for wage labor) has been bought out and sold out. So the lumpens or street niggers besides being the most re- 2 J MONTHS (12 ISSUPS).. @ MONTHS (26 ISSUNS) OME TEAR, (52 IS5U).5) (please print) NAME ADORESS cry STATUUP @ PULASE mAs CHECH Of MONET O#DEE TO. "THE BLACK PANTHER” SUBSCRIPTION FORM Enter my subscription for (check boa MOMISTEY OF POMMATION BLACK PANTHER f ‘Bax 2967, Costom Mowve, San francisce, CA 54126 PARTY volutionary class, is also the most attacked class in Babylon by the pigs. The lumpens are the inter- nal scapegoats of America, Because they have no connections with the means of producing, they don’t sell their labor to the capitalist therefore the pigs vamp on the lumpen class everytime acrime is committed, The pigs sitting the lumpens relationship to the system recognize that it is easy and de- sirable to arrest and remove the lumpen street niggers from the streets. We understand thar this type of action on the pigs part, is the elements of genocide, part of the systematic elimination of our pewpk:. Bootlicking niggers iixe Mitr participate in this genocide, by as- sisting the pigs intheir oppressive war against the people. The pigs claim that they are warring against crime. Law and order campaigns supported by bootlicking niggers like Charles Lathan throw! out 4 few crumbs, A restau- rant, etc. Gut as we indicated, whenever a crime is committed the street niggers are the first to be attacked and arrested so we can easily see that a so called war against crime is in reality a war of genocide against street niggers, Black people. The Black Panther Party con- sists of organized street niggers, revolutionaries, and we represent an occupational threat to the pigs because they work fulltime for the COUNTRY Paaty, oppressor, brutalizing and mur-_ dering our people, and we In the Party work fulltime for the op- pressed organizing and fighting to overthrow the oppressor. We are the direct threat to the pigs and and all their boorlicking friends. Charles Lathan or Mitt, is a bootlicking friend of the pigs, re- cently he seized the opportunity to mimick his idolaters (the fas- cist pigs)» and came outside of his shop pointing a shotgun at a Panther and some friends of the Party. Mitt expected to use his bootlicking status to kill some brothers whose ‘‘attitudes he didn't like.’’ However it backfired on him, the brothers posing more courage fighting spirit than a pig ever will, manuever pig Mitr in- to a situation where as they took the shotgun from him and threw the pig on the ground . The brothers were forced to leave, be- cause pigs were coming from everywhere. One brother Scott Moore (sometimes called Uhruhu) was cornered by the pigs, Scott being wise to the pigs ways, knew that they would use the opportu- nity to shoot him, and claim that they thought he had a gun, So Scott removed his shirt and held up his arms showing the pigs that he had no weapon, the pigs secing this attacked the brother. Nigger bootlicker Mitt, signed a complaint which resulted in Scott being arrested and charged with disorderly conduct. Scott subse- quently filed to have Mitt charged with assault with a dangerous wea- pon, because Scott and the other brothers were standing on a side- walk in front of the poolhall ( next door to Mitts) when this bootlicker accused them, The States attorney refused fo let ;Scott press charges, even though we have countless witnesses testifying that Mitt came out of his bar-b-que shack and threw the shotgun on the brothers Black Panther Party know that the pigs will never like the manner of people who are moving in a re- volutionary manner, We knowthat the purpose of pigs like bootlick- ing Mitt is to assist in the war of genocide to remove the street niggers, those who are part of the class which is most revolution- ary. However these brothers showed Mitt that working for the pigs and trying to play super- man, can get him killed, DEATH TO THE PIGS! Monk Teba THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE Ul WE WILL HAVE A NEW CONSTITUTION AND LIBERTY NEW BEDFORD OR REVOLUTIONARY SUICIDE AND LIBERATION GESTAPO PIG FORCE RAIDS N.C.C.F 21 N.C.C.F MEMBERS KIDNAPPED On July 31,1970, the criminal New Bedford Police Department along with other fascist pig forces from surrounding areas, launched an early morning assault on the New Bedford Chapter of the National Committee to Combat Fascism, supposedly ‘‘searching for illegal weapons”’ although on the day be- fore, (July 30th) at a press con- ference the N,C,C,F, stated that if the police come into our homes in an orderly manner with our law- yers present, we would submit to a search because we have no il- legal weapons. The raid was con- ducted under the cover of a cur- few set because the Puerto Ri- can community in New Bedford's South End had been rioting for se- veral days. As a pig force of about 100 sur- rounded the N,C,C,F, office, se- veral community people walked over to check out what these fas- cist fools were doing. The pigs grabbed these bloods and used them as shields as they demanded that N,C.C,F, members come out In five minutes, The pigs had come well equipped with bullet proof vests, gasmasks, 12 guage shotguns 30-30 rifles, and tear gas grenade launchers, as well as a helicop- ter hovering overhead, After the N,C.C,F, members walked out both the N,C,.C,F, organizers and the community people from outside were arrested and held for seve-- ral hours before the pigs decided to book them on charges of con- Spiracy to commit anarchy, in- citing to riot, unlawful assembly and other trumped up charges. These pigs were foul enough to in- clude one young brother in these charges even though his only crime was being in the detention cell when the N,C.C.F, people were brought in. He was on his way to his aunt's house from Boston and was arrested for ‘‘curfew violation’® a few doors from his house after taking a cab who re- fused to drive him closer than within 3 blocks of his home, The pigs also threw in charges of un- lawful carrying of fire arms (rifle), receiving stolen property, and possession of marijuana, Al- together 22 block brothers and sis- ters were kidnapped by the blue bandits of New Bedford. The pigs used Saturday and Sunday night curfews to try and complete their fascist sweep through the Dlack community, with its aim of im- prisoning all of the strongest brothers in the New Bedford Black community. On the evening of August J, 1970, Kenneth Re- biero’s home was Invaded by no less than 20 pigs and was ar- rested for allegedly attempting to murder 2 New Bedford pigs. Two juveniles a brother and Sister were released on personal recognizance because they are mi- nors, but the charges aginst them are the same, Four of the brothers Wayne Thomas, “Big Bob" Heard, Orlando Vaughn and John Viera are being held under 100,000 dol- lars ransom and now the pigs have come up with something that they call double surety which means that the ransom Is really 100,000 Gollars a piece, These brothers were separated from the rest be- cause they are members of the Black Panther Party, which in the eyes of the pigs makes them doub- ly dangerous. Dickie Duarte is be- ing held on $75,000 double surely bail (ransom), The rest of the brothers are being held on $50, 000 double surety ransom. Brother Wayne is being held at the Charles St. jail; Orlando, John and “Big Bob" are at the Lawrence House of Correction. The other brothers are spread out among the Essex County, Billerica, Dedham and Plymouth House of Correction. And Katherine Perry, a dedica- ted community worker, and the other sisters are at the Plymouth County House of Correction. This move by plg mayor Rog- ers and his partner in crime chief pig Belletier is an obvious con- spiracy to discredit the work of the N.C,C.F, and an attempt to either murder imprison or exile our freedom loving brothers and sister, But this plot is in no way contained to the Rogers-Belletier clique, It was masterminded by the Nixon-Agnew-Mitchell-Hoover regime, the masters of terror, murder and deception the worl! over. The 21 sisters andbrothers have committed nocrime and inthe eyes of the people are heroes and heroines of Black Liberation. The sum of $2,350,000 which is needed in property or cash can- not be considered bail. It is ran- som. A baltant violation of our human rights according tothe con- stitution, which states thar no un- reasonable amount of bail shall be imposed upon people charged with acrime. Since the kidnapping there have been numerous invasions of people’s homes by the criminal New Bedford Pig department un- der the guise of searching for “{llegal weapons", These tactics are reminiscent of the fascist Hit- ler Mussolini regimes of Nazi Germany and Italy and they, by no means, hold a monopoly on fascism (open terror). The city of New Sedford is oc- cupled terrotory just as every other Black community in Baby- lon. Fascist pigs on every street cormec armed with 30-30's and shotguns, Huey P, Newton says ‘‘An unarmed people are slaves, or are aubject to slavery at any given moment.""If we are to put an end to this slave situation and an end to the railroading of our sisters and brothers of the New Bedford 21, we must pick up the Proper tools and develop the pro- per strategy for our total salva- tion. FREE THE NEW BEDFORD 21 LONG LIVE THE PEOPLE'S VICTORY! DEATH TO THE FASCIST Picst New Bedford Chapter National Committe to Combat _ Fascism : Please send all bail money S Committe to Defend the Panthers 61 River street > Cambridge, Massachs's-" 4 although the word slave was not “used by the Virginian assembly to "designate an already existing class Black people trave been slaves _ every Since they frat stepped off that Dutchman's siij in 1619. They “were called bomled servants use of a prearrajed deal thar who-so-ever Sponsored their pas- Sage over to Americ., they would work for them until tie sponsor thought that they had worked a reasonable umount of time to pay off their debt. In 1862 when Lincoln, the so- called great emancipator, the fa- ther of Black freedom, proclaimed _ the emancipation proclamation to be in effect supposedly setting free all “slaves held in bondage {n the southern states, every salve was to receive forty acres andtwo mules. But even then, the system had ‘enough foresight to look into the fu- ture to see that land would herald their downfall. Carrying this over the centuries into the twentieth century we re- member Malcolm X's words that a revolution is based on land and that on land is based a man’s free- dom, There cannot be a bloodless revolution and there never willbe. - Black people are not afraid to BLACK | PANTHER, SareeDay, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 12 THE NECESSITY FOR REWRITING THE CONSTITUTION fight. They never have been, They fought the French, the fritish, Germans, Japanese and and Chi- nese/ But for what? We have fought for the great mother country in vain, We are nothing but a colony surrounded by an imperialist country. All our efforts to strike back for our freedom have been fu- tile but not in vain, For euch time we fail, we have learned a little bit more of the repressive forces that we have to engage in battle. And from our mistakes we have learned to profit. Huey P. Newton, the Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party, took some of the teachings of Malcolm X, MaoTse Tung, Marx, Lenin, and the experience of our peoples’ past history and from these gave us the correct methodology to gain our liberation, Today we are not bound by chains but psychologically, by the mendacious speeches of the U.S. capitalists and thelr puppet hand- led endorsed spokesmen for the system, psuedo representatives of their people. We must rise and fight this racist, capitalistic system that we are under. Not as individuals, for the state repres- sive forces that we are up 4gainst are much too strong to fight in this manner ar this parcicular time. But as a unified mass, we shall surely suceed, Until we fave solidarity, there {s no use in all out warfare, We can only educate the unaware oppressed masses and relare to wuerrilla warfare. It is a fictrools dream that any Black person has if he or she thinks that they are free, Capitalism, dope oppression, brutality, and geno- cide are all rolls ofthe system thar we must learn to combat if we are free, The constitution of the United States of America does not have anything in it whatsoever that per- tains or relates to [!lack people It looks and sounds beautiful on paper but the swine wito apply those laws are corrupt and should be put to death by the people. We are not interested in reforms or co-existence within this decadent society but we are bent onthetotal destruction of all that relates to slavery, We are going to rewrite the present constitution of the Uni- ted States to make ir fic our bas- ic needs, desires andhunwinrights, Henry Lee Baltimore Chapter Black Panther Party THREE BROTHERS HARASSED AND BEATEN BY FASCIST PIGS WHILE SITTING IN THEIR CAR Larry Nelson, Phillip Nelson and David Nelson: three brothers of 2 W, 120th street, became subjected to the beastly nature of the pigs on Tuesday night, July 21,1970, “The brothers were sitting in their car in front of their house, and; remininscing, when two alleged “servants of the people" (pigs) drove up in their pig mobiles. They jumped out and demanded Larry’s license and registration. VGive me your license and regis- tration", Larcy asked "*Whar for’? The pig became very indignant and insulted because Larry dared to question this pig's right to im- ‘pose upon his privacy, Larry then Said to the pig ‘’1 want your badge number!" The pig then began to show his true nature, *‘Don't put your hands on me you scum. Don’t touch my badge! A verbal confrontation in- sued at the end of which Larry said “‘You are supposed to be a Servant of the people and if you can’t talk to me likeyou ain'r getting nothing from me, so take me downtown!" The pig then pro- ceeded to handcuff Larry and Da- vid Nelson, Just about that cime a car of plainclothes or undercover pigs arrived on the Scene. On secing that reinforcement iad arrivedthe cowardly pigs became Superpigs and began to bear Larry aad his gider brother David. At first it was just the two gestupo pigs and car of undercover pigs beating these brothers, \ call wus made for reinforcement and at lightening Speed about a dozen cars from various precincts: arrived on the scene at 32nd-28th, 3tkh and 25th. The Pigs jumped out of their pigmobiles and rushed over to the scene banishing nigger sticks and 38s and started right in on beat- ing the two brothecs who were al- ready down on the ground, At one time there were so maay piss try- ing to get their hit in that they were hearing and kicking each other, Phillip the middle brother had just stood by unbelieving ly wateh- ing wille the pigs beat his tw» brothers. Says Puillip, ‘‘1 stood there dumbfounded unable to be- lieve what I saw. I saw the po- lice pull their guns and [ knew it was ull over for us. | screamed Larry, David) With this the ar- tention of the police reveted from my brothers and they holstered their guns!” The pigs then showed Larry and David into pigmobiles and took them to the pig station on trumped up charges. Toe pigs had beaten Larry un- conscious so he had to le taken to Harlem !lospital, David ws takento the precienct and wat to be ar- Talgned the following miornim: in criminal court- 100 Centre street. Larry was taken fromiiarlem|ios- pital down tows the following day and both of them were arraigned the ext morning, The charg- eS were as following: Larry Nel- Son: Assaulting an officer of the law, resisting arrest, inciting to riot, failure to produce license, no registration , Charges against Davis Nelson: Resisting arrest, inciting to riot, assaulting an of- ficer of the law, and possession of a dangero.s weapon, “We're guilty of", says Larry, “being Black and living in racist fatryylon.”” Both of the brothers are out on $500.00 cash bail, What happened to the Nelson brothers was just another one of the feelers that the pies are put- ting into the Alack commoity to test their awareness and state of consciousness, Malcolm \ toldthe people to learn the language of the man and if the man’s lancuage is the yun, pick up the gun, lluey BP. Newton, Mintater of De- fease of the Hlack Paumher Par- ty told the people that an unarined people is a slave or subject to slavery at any yiven moment, Huey P, Newton and the Black Panther Party has clearly shows through its practice thar if the pigs know you have guns by which co defend yourself against the pigs of the power structure and their armed tenticles, then they'll think twice abowt bruralizing you. As loa as Black people fall to realize that if they are not willing to pick up a gun to defend themselves against racism exemplified by this fascist enforcement agencies, The pigs will continue to retaliate by deal- ing political consequences the pigs will indeed cease thelr wanton murder aad torture of lack peo- ple or die the oppressors Jeuth by way of the bullet. POLITICAL POWER COMES OLT OF THE BARREL OF A GUNI SEIZE THE TIME DEATH TO THE FASCST PIGS! LITTLE BROTHER BEATEN AND TIED UP BY PIG BUSINESSMAN August 4th, 1970. Earlier this week Martin Love, ayoung brother owas beaten and tied up by Mana- \ gers of a store formally called “Quick Pick ', now called La- Cubanna and ran by some boor- Ticking bloodsucking Cubans. This ds the second incident within a month concerning this particular : na and its managers bruraliz- and abusing the children in the area, (see copy Vol, 4 No.3 Ls the Black Panther community news service) Previously 4 White manager had tried to make 4 young sister eat some black pepper. ie Je in the community convery Mies store last month, and tem- “porurily put it out of business, Rpicivven cow they realize thar ay 2 saad won't get it, so they are moving inarevolitionary inan- ner to completely control the Iminagement and operations of the Store, The store will have to either serve the community or get out. During this situation a major contradiction was brought our, Mrs, Merline Love, Martins’ mother tried to have charges brought against the store manager for brutalizing her son. Witnesses re- port that the pig manager struck the youth in the mouth, causing it to bleed, dragged him across the store ( losing his shoes struck the youth several more times and tied iim up and waited for the pig police to arcive, The youth was allegedly trying to steal some lg candy, This points out the ex- tremes pigs will go to in order t protect property, Despite all this, when Mrs. Loverried to press charges, the states attorney fave her 4 run around and as of this date she hasn't been able to press charges against the manager even though she has countless wit- ness’s. We vnderstand that we can't expect the state to charge and try these pips, because the state functions for the penefit of the avaricious businessman, So we simply exhaust this means in order t© educate the people that the only way to rid our communi- ties of these pigs is with wuns and force, Revolution is the only sulu- tion, Monk Teba Rockford Branch Black Panther Party 10 THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND THE PEOPLE culous charges; or The hopeful battle cry “PREE HUEY today became a reality-— Huey Is back on the streets with the people--after 33 montis im- prisonment, The key to this glorious reality is found in the fact that in the (inal accounting power does, indeed He with the people. Tals victory of the people for the people aad by the people should serve to dis- pell any doubts that'*ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!” is muchmore than a groovy catchword with no substance, but that it is a real- ity that we are moving toward with the continsous tireless efforts of the Party and increasing aware- ness and thrust of the inasses The collective efforts of Party member and cising numbers amom, tie oppcessed masses have caused the fascist pits to buckle his knees under the weight of the of the people] As the strugle in- rensifies and is moved to higher levels, the beast will fall. And Huey, aloaz with all of us, will truly be free: for today we ie all slaves and property of this cruel and inh mane internacional fascist machix that asserts its rule over most of the world’s population tursit) sheer brute force, and peofanes the words “democracy” and freedom.” The : signs of the times are that the people will assert their power in a@ very real and absolute fash- jon over their Uves and select leaders aad heroes intheir ows lest interest. These siins are being read and to some extent, reluct- antl) heeded by the fascist robber barons of the American government mental gangster establishment on the one haod while they busily pre- pare Co open up new fronts of sup- pression In a last stand tw sur- vive the wrath of a0 aroused aad determined people. Witness the threats by certain police fraterna- ties to exercise in the streets the pigs powee to snaff out human life without fear of legal retribution. Wille they claim they area’t recel(ving the support of the courts and the public, we have but to count the numerous bodies riddled with police bullets during recent months for that matter, all aur history without one of these mur- derers being the subject of real justice; or count the political pris- oners that crowd jails across the laad on some of the most ridi- OO Om ere TO ALL PROGRESSIVE MUSICIANS IN FASCIST AMERICA «We must teach forms,’’ with ‘The Lumpen’. a drummer, and a player. (415) 882-3988, | | | the most simple and obvious Minister of Culture Emory Douglas In response to the Minister of Culture, a revolutionary vocal group has been formed in the Bay Area. The Peoples singers are called, ‘The Lumpen’. i There is an urgent need for of musicians to perform and record The necessities are; one Fender bass player, a lead guitar player, Contact Bill Calhoun, 135 Kiska Rd, #304, San Francisco, Calif. by heavy gestapo a skulls cracked; or rly Jated to see that this Is) but a mirage In the t drive to keep the people in fear and thas render the sterile and immobile politk response to this threat the wil of the people must be a tec back this obviously ge threat, which places us all pected. And the power of ple can and must do thin | other things. a It has been said that re a correction of abuses, but pias: revolution is a transfer of p And that’s what we must addre ourselves to take the illegal from the pigs. : Until the people exercise ab lute power our victories are fi shallow. We must move rap toward this end. If sobrothert may be spared the necessity of ing subjected to another fase circus shamming 45 a process justice. Instead we couldsay:"*No guilty, but abused!" “ Even thatrac {st political opport= unist "Ole Abe Lincoln Of- nized what ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE” means and admitted it” in his {napural speech of 1861, wien he declared, for reasons of his own: ‘This country, with its Institutions, belongs to the people who Inhabit ic, Whenever they shall ment they can exercise theconsti- tutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right todis- member or overthrow it.” Bither we're weary of the exist- ing government or we're sick in- sane! Huey has called for the power of the people to bring about Justice for Chairman Bobby andthe Soledad Brothers, Right ont kt can and must be done, This power must also be em- ployed to keep the Chief of Sraff David Iilliard our of the hands of — Nixon's goons, to bring the Minis- — ter of Information Eldridce Clea- ver and his family home and In- Stitute revolutionary prograins ona massive seale, And we know that it can be done if the proper ma= chinery is developed. iluey's onthe Strects, isn't he? ALL POWER TO THE Byron PEOPLE! our people in rythmn guitar All Power To The 1Ht ULACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST IS, 1970 PAGE 15 LETTERS TO HUEY FROM THE CHILDREN AT THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY LIBERATION SCHOOL IN SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA AUGUST 6, 1970 BROTHER HUEY I LOVE YOU BROTHER HUEY, THE SPIRIT OF THE PEOPLE IS GREATER THAN THE MAN'S TECHNOLOGY. WE WERE CEL- EBRATING FOR YOU BECAUSE WE WERE GLAD YOU WERE OUT OF JAIL. I AM ONE OF THE STUDENTS FROM THE LIBERA- TION SCHOOL. AND IN LIBERA- TION SCHOOL WE LEARNED A- BOUT YOU AND BOBBY AND ELDRIDGE, RIGHT ON! POWER TO THE PEOPLE! SAMANTHA CEPHAS BROTHER HUEY I’M GLAD YOU OUT OF JAIL BUT THE PIGS ARE MAD BECAUSE YOU ARE OUT OF JAIL, HUEY YOU'RE THE LEADER OF THE PAN- THERS. HUEY YOU’RE FREE BUT WE DON’T HAVE FREE- DOM, AUGUST 6, 1970 BROTHER HUEY IT IS GOOD TO HAVE YOU OUR LEADER BACK HOME, THE BADDEST NIGGA WHOSTARTED THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND BOBBY SEALE. WE TALK ABOUT YOU, WE READ SEIZE THE TIME, JIM IS MY FATHER AND MY SISTERS MADE UP A SONG OF HUEY & BOBBY. BROTHER HUEY I LIKE YOU, I AM HAPPY TO SEE YOU OUT OF JAIL, WHERE IS YOU AT, RAH RAH HUEY YOU'RE MY BROTHER BROTHER DINO BUSS THE PIGS ARE FUNKY [| WENT TO FREE YOU YESTERDAY. POWER TO THE PEOPLE! pe APRIL I LOVE YOU AND MY PEOPLE FREE ALL SISTERS AND BRO- THERS ERICKA Kum WELCOME HOME HUEY I LOVE YOU BROTHER HUEY. I WAS CELEBRATING BECAUSE I WAS GLAD YOU WERE OUTOF JAIL, AND MY MOTHER WERE CALLING HER FRIENDS, —eeeeSeSeSssSsesesFSsSaseFs DEAR BROTHER HUEY I LOVE YOU, WE KNOW you ARE THE BADDEST NIGGA, I AM A PANTHER TOO, FREE ERICKA FREE BOBBY FREE RORY FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISON- ERS ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE LOVE, TRACY CEPHAS DEAR BROTHER HUEY WELCOME HOME HUEY, I AM GLAD THAT YOU OUT OF JAIL, I LOVE YOU BECAUSE YOUARE OUT OF JAIL, I LOVE HUEY BECAUSE YOUARE APANTHER, HUEY I AM GLAD YOU ARE OUT OF JAIL, HUEY I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL I SEE YOU, FREE POLITICAL PRISONERS, FREE ERICKA, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE, HUEY. FREE LANDON, FREE RORY, FREE BOBBY, RIGHT ON! DEATH TO THE PIGS! DERRECK DEAR HUEY, I LOVE YOU/HUEY ILOVE HUEY BECAUSE YOU ARE BEAUTI- FUL, I AM GLAD OUR LEADER IS HOME, SAUNDRA WHITE <a et DEAR HUEY I LOVE YOU, HUEY RIGHT ON! I KNOW IT’S HARD TO BE IN JAIL AND FIGHTING THE PIGS BACK. POWER TO THE PEOPLE WE WANT FREEDOM CHRIS eS ee as PS a ae DEAR HUEY I LOVE YOU! HUEY, I LOVE YOU HUEY BECAUSE YOU IS LOVE, HUEY COME FREE BOBBY FREE SISTER ERICKA FREE LANDON FREE RORY STEVEN WHITE ey ay "| DEAR HUEY,’ I LOVE You! TROY te et og ea ee Ve Ve, ee ep ap ap eee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee ee eee eee eee eee ee ee kd he. he he be be he he ho he hh. PAP AP POD OLD LP OLD OLD OLD OL Oh POP OP OP OL OL OL Alen rer n dire dre tirade dred rede dredridr tll lh PhP DAP AP AP ADO ‘THE PEOPLE CAME OUT TO REJOICE THEIR REUNION WITH aS ey pee DEK. HUEY P. NEWTON Y THE PEOPLE WiRA IUST AS OVERJOYED TO SEE HUEY AND BE WITH HIM AS MICH AS#* ee) eT O'SER THEM. THE REVOLUTIONARY LOVE THAT HULY HAS FOR THE PEOPLE HAS BROUGHT ABOUT THE GREAT LOVE THAT THE PEOPLE HAVE FOR HIM. = a 73 > § HUEY AND THE PE OPLE EXCHA NGE GREE TINGS MINUTES Ss § AFTER HIS RELEASE ON $50,000.00 DOL:.AR BAIL, \) AFTER A PERIOD OF 3 YEARS BEHINDS BARS, HUEY’S SPIRIT IS AS STRONG AS$ THAT FORCE THAT MOTIVATES IT. . » J -_ . : a y r " a 2 < ue N : THE SPiRIT AND GENIUS OF HUEY P, NEWTON IS MOTIVATED BY THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE \4 § AND OUR STRUGGLE FOR TOTAL LIBERATION! AND THE TOTAL DESTRUCTION OF ALL OPPRESSION! } ORO OOD OI LI OT LO LOL Rae rir ra ra rat parade te pe ee tt Doerner edlT TMT Od AP AD OLD AP AP OLD OAD OAD OAD AP AP OLD OLD OLD OLD OLD AP VAD AP OLD LP OAD AP OAD AP AD LP CLP MP OLD OLD OLD AP VAP 0h OL POP LP OLD ener arnderntorndirntirndrairedtedtil G*O a ee ee PID OLD OLD AP OL POPOL AP AP AP OLPALP OL ORIOL LP LID OL Lae, k AND ACTIONS AMONG THEM Ort PLP WAP WLP AP OAD VAL OAD OA OEP AP AD OAD AD OAD OLD CLP OLD OLD OLD OLD OAFLA POMP OP OIA PA OT Al OP Oh AP OLD LP AP MOD AP OAT OAD AP OAD OAD VAP AP VAP APO) HUEY TALKS TO AND EDUCATES THE YOUTH OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY be : : Huey with the children in East Oakland = Si. . Huey with Panthers and pzople in San Francisco at National Distrubution office, s ; i & a" ‘ r 3 She \ —_ ‘44 . ; si ie a, ae x Za { Bret 4 A SS es rr HUEY REALIZES THAT “YOUTH MAKES THE REVOLUTION” AND THAT THE YOUTH IS THE MOST VITAL FORCE, SO H# TALKS AND EDUCATES THE YOUTH TO ENCOURAGE MORE REVOLUTIONARY THOUGHTS ee ie Se Pe LOL AT OLD OD AD AD OAD AD OAD AP LP OLD OLD OD POP AD AP AP OLD AP CAP CAP CLP CLP CLI LP OLD CLP OL PLP OLD OLD LF LI La ann toontovntirn torent Lreeoaeialirllaride OLLI LP OLD OD THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 16 TELEGRAMS TO HUEY _1107A PDT AUG 6 70 LD129 PA 212 P LLQ207 (XPT0628) BM PD TDP CAMDEN NJER 6 1215 EDT — HUEY P. NEWTON, DLY. 75 PD 1048 PERALTA WEST OAKLAND CALIF CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR RE- LEASE FROM PRISON BPUM Ex- PRESSES SOLIDARITY WITH YOUR REVOLUTIONARY COURAGE ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE CHARLES POPPY SHARP. (135) 333P PDT AUG 5 70 LA253 KC398 k 114220 AG PDF KANSAS CITY MO 551P CDT, BLACK PANTHER PARTY 3106 SHATTUCK AVE BERKELEY CALIF OVERJOYED TO HEAR BROTHER HUEY ISFREE LONGLIVE THE SPIRIT OF THE MINISTER OF DEFENSE POWER TO THE PEOPLE ERROL BROWN. (528) 127A PDT AUG 6 70 LD 148 DECI83 LS DE ARA069 OH PDF ANN ARBOR MICH 6 1212P EST HUEY P NEWTON MINISTER OF DEFENSE BLACK PANTHER PARTY NATIONAL CHAP- TER 1048 PERALTA ST OAKLAND CALIF BROTHER HUEY; BLACK PEOPLE NEED A LEADER. THE BLACK STUDENTS AND BLACK COMMUNITY OF ANN ARBOR MICH WELCOME YOU AS ‘‘THE LEADER’”’, FOR TOTAL BLACK LIBERATION IN FASCIST IMPERIALISTIC AMERICA WITH YOUR RELEASE WITH YOUR RELEASE, A NEW TIME IS CREATED, AND THATIS RE VOLU- TIONARY TIME. WE ARE EXPRESSING A SINCERE INTEREST IN FORMULATING PLANS FOR A DEFENSE FUND RALLY FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS, THIS FALL ON. THE CAMPUS OF THE UNIV OF MICH WE ARE PREPARED TO COME TO OAKLAND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO DISCUSS THIS MATTER WITH CEN- TRAL COMMITTEE ALONG WITH A REPRESENTATIVE FROM DETROIT N,CLC.F. MINISTER HUEY; WE WAIT FOR YOUR INSTRUCTIONS ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK POWER TO BLACK PEOPLE FREE BOBBY ODELL LEWIS DAVID W ALLEN BLACK STUDENT UNION 2527 SAB UNIV OF MICH ANN ARBOR MICH 313-761-4934, 1230A PDT AUG 6 70 LB041 CTAOI7 CT LLH12 KS PD XENIA OHIO 6 305A EDT ~ BLACK PANTHER PARTY DLY 75 1048 PERALTA ST OAKLAND CALIF ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE. HUEY’S FREEDOM IS NOT ONLY A VICTORY FOR THE: BPP AND THE BLACK LIBERATION STRUGGLE, BUT FOR ALL POOR AND OP- PRESSED PEOPLE WHOARE STRUG- GLING TO DRIVE THE IMPERIALIST BEAST FROM THE PAGE OF HIS- TORY, THE HEROIC SACRIFICES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE BPP WHO DIED OR WENT TO PRISON IN THE SERVICE OF THE PEOPLE, WILL LIVE ON IN THE PEOPLES VICTORY, FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS COMMITTEE TO DEFEND THE BPP ANTIOCH COLLEGE (320) 946P PDT AUG 6 70 LB322 SA265 S LLK419 LDX2310 XNT25832 BA NL PDF SLDX NEW YOK NY AUG6 HUEY NEWTON, DLY .75 CARE BLACK PANTHER PARTY 1048 PERALTA OAKLAND CALIF RIGHT ON COMRADE, YOUR FREE- DOM SHOWS THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE AND IS A GREAT VICTORY FOR THE FREEDOM OF THE PEO- PLE. I WISH I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE WHEN YOU WERE LIB- ERATED AFTER ALL THIS TIME. BUT I AM DOING REVOLUTIONARY WORK HELPING TO ORGANIZE THE PEOPLE’S CONSTITUTIONAL CON- VENTION, THE WARMEST COM- RADELY GREETINGS UNTIL I CAN GREET YOU IN PERSON, POWER TO THE PEOPLE, FREE ALL POLIT- ICAL PRISONERS. 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POWER TO THE PEOPLE ARMY COUNCIL. 431P PDT AUG 9 70 LA379 OL L CDU295 KR PSXS19 20 PD INTL CD AIX EN PROVENCE VIA WUI AUG 8 11 05 HUEY P NEWTON HEADQUARTERS BLACK NO POWER TO THE PEOPL ouce OUT THE WORLD AN LES CAMARADES FRANCAIS. -BOBBY'S APPEAL PART V 2, The Court Wronsfully Denied Seale The Right to Represent Him- self Resardless of whether Seale had 4 right tobe represented by Garry, or some other lawyer of his chuice, he at least had a right to repre- Sent himself, This richt is guaran- teed by statute, (37) and has long teen recognized In che courts, (35) : Ih Adams vv. United States, 317 Uh. 269, 279 (1942), the Court spoke of **(Qhe right to assistance of counsel and the correlative right tw dispense with a lawyer's help,..°°; and in Price v. Johnston, 334 US. 266, 285 (1948), it noted the défendant’s “recognized pri- vileze of conducting his own de- ; fense at the trial,"’ stating that } this right was unqualified, (39) (37) 28 US.C. 1654 provides: In all courts of the United States the parties may plead and con- duct their own cases personally or by counsel... And FE. R. Crim. P44 provides — thar the court shall odvise a de- fendant of his right to counsel and ASs8ign counsel “unless he elects 40 proceed without counsel..,"" 5) While the rule would appear 1 have a constitutional foundation, me y. United States, 317 1S, 269, 279 (1942 Mayless v. Uni- P Sates, 381 F.2d 67 (rh Cir, OF Joelich vy. | nited States, F.2d 29, 32 Gu Cir. 1965); ied Stures v. Plattner, 340 F 2d @ad Cir, 194); United P68 ¥, Denno, 239 F, Supp, @.D, N.Y, 1965), aff'd, 348 12 Q@nd Cir. 1965), cert. i, $84 0,5, L007, (L966); some S have found it statutory In €, Johnson v, United States, PES F.2d 855 (801 Clr. 1963); rown We United States, 264 F.2d 363 { Cir, 1959), See venerally Md compare authorities cited in fed States v. Davis. 260 F.Supp. E.D, Tenn.), aff'd, 365 F.2d bth Cir. 1966); and in Dear- er v. United States, 344 F.2d SU, 9,2 (%h Cir, 1965). If ‘iy constitutionally based, ® record should show affir- that the right to repre- Self has been waived, Supra, Whereas if it is the defendant might sd to request the right ent himself if he is later i the right was denied, Pa, Also, if the right is coastitutional there is no need to show prejudice, Dearinger, pra; Plattner, supra; Denno supra. Since Seale clearly re- quested that right as soon as he could, and since there is no ques- tion that Seale was prejudiced Since he was jn fact not repre- sented, there is no needto resolve here the issue of whedier the rile is constitutionally based, (GY) See yenerally Annor., Right of Defendant in Criminal Case to Conduct Defense in Person, or to Participate with Counsel, 77 A,L. R.2d 1238 (1961), See also Sanchez Vv. United States, 31] F.2d $32 (Yth Cir, 1962); Butler v. Uni- ted States, 317 F.2d 249, 258 (8th Cir, 1963); United Stures v. Pri- vate Tirands, Inc., 250 F.2d 554, 557 2nd Cir, 1957), (END OF FOOTNOTES) Siul- 327 Like the rightto counsel of one’s choice, 4 defendant's right to re- present himself can of course be waived either expressly, (40) or implicitly by, for example, atree- ing to representation hy counsel and failing to request the right to self-representution. (41) Thus if a defendant elects to proceed with counsel at trial, he may be the right at Stage of proceedings to discharge counsel and defend himself where delay would result and is the ap- parent purpose, (42) Dut the mere fact that @ defendant has at some agreed to be represented iy counsel docs not defear his claim to represent himescif, He has a right to fire his attorneys and take over Rey- nolds v. United 2d 235 (Mth Cir, 1959). denied an advanced point his own defense. Sates, 267 F. (40) Duke vy. United States, 255 F.2d 721 (Ab Cir. 1958) (41) See, e.g,, United States v. Private Hrands, Inc., supra n.39 (defendant fad been represented for two weeks prior to trial with- out objection despite two court appearances and continuances); United States vy. Gutterman, 147 F.2d S40 (nd Cir, 1945) (after jury sworn defendant asks dismis- sal of appointed attorney without giving any good reason, and with- out asking to represent self or to be represented by any other par- ticular lawyer). (42) See Annot., supra n.39, pp. 1238-39. See e.g., United States y. Birrell, 286 F.Supp. $85. 894- 98 (.D, N.Y. 1968). ; (END OF FOO TNOTES) Even where the defendant docs not waive his right to self-repre- sentation, there may be circum Stances where the interests of jus- tice require he be represented by an attorney, Thus acourt might tind that a particular defendant is Incompetent to represent him- self, (43), Or, 4 court mijhe find in a joint trial, that the interests of the other defendants would be jeopardized by «4 purticular de- fendant being allowed to represent himself, and that severance is not practicable, (43) See Annot., supra n.39; United States v. Uirrell, supra no. 42; United States y. Davis, 260 F, Supp. 1009 (ED, Tenn. 1966), aff'd, 365 F.2d 251 (6th Cir, 1966), (END OF FOOTNOTE) But the circumstances must be extreme in order to justify deny- ing a defendant's right to repre- sent himself, (44), Moreover, the court has an obligation to explore alternatives which might accom- modate the defendant’s wish to represent himself with the legir- imate needs of society. (45) (44) Thus, in United States vy. Da- vis, supra n. 43, the court denied the defendant’s request to dis- charge his lawyer made on the morning of trial, where the defend- ant never made a clear request to defend himself, was of question- able mental competence and in- capable of representing himself, and would have disrupted the trial; and where defendant suffered no prejudice because he was in fact represented, (45) In those cuses where courts have found it necessary to deny a defendant's right to pro se re- presentation, 4 variety of compro- mises have been worked out in an effort to accommodate the interests of society without doin unnecessary violence to defend- rights. See, ¢.g., Joelich v nited States, 342 F.2d @rh Cir, 1965) (defends t allowed to act 48 co-counsel with lawyer): il- to mnake state- ments on his own behalfy; United States v. Cantor, 217 F.2d 536 @nd Cir, 1954) @efendant allowed to conduct his own defense, sup- plemented by appointed attorney); People v. Burson, 11 Ul, 2d 360, 143 N,E,2d 239 (1957) (noting court’s broad power to appoint for advisory or other limited purposes; Bayless v, Uni- ted States, 381 F.2d 67 (9th Cir, 1967) (defendant allowed to repre- sent self and appointed counsel allowed to participate only to ex- tent defendant desired); United States v. Maroney, 220 F, Supp. S01 (W.D. Pa, 1963) (where de- fendant asked to represent him- self, court appointed attorney to stand by to assist him if neces- saryjy: Grown vv, United States, 264 F.2d 365, 367, 369 (D.C; Cir. 1959) (urger, J., concurring) (Where defendant seeks to repre- sent self it might be appropriate in Some circumstances to appoint amicus curlae assist him,) Similar compromises have been found in cases where courts found it necessary to deny a int’s right to a particular of his re, United State: F.2d 57, 62 (7th Cir, 1966) (defendant allowed {0 Jct 4S co-counsel with lawyer) United States v. Mesarosh, 116 F. Supp. 345 (W,D, Pa, 1953) @ defendants allowed to close to jury und to explain purpose of Commu- nist Party), {END OF FOOTNOTES) ints” 1) 9 Davis lowed throughout supra n. 43 (defendant counsel] to defend- lawyer chuice, v. Cole, 305 Tie court below made no find- ing that Seale had effectively waived his right to representhim- self, Nor did it make or allow any inquiry which could haye re- sulted in such a finding. Thus al- though it was made absolutely clear before any witmess was called that Seale wished to repre- sent liimself if he could not be represented by Garry, (46) the court never inquired into the rea- THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST IS, 1970 PAGE IF sons for this request or allowed Seale to speak to the issue, (47) Instead the court rejected Seale’s request solely because it was not made until after trial had commenced, (48) refusing to consider any other factual circum stance, The court below thus ruled. in effect, that once trial begins a defendant's right to represent himself expires, and that there- after the issue is entirely within the discretion of the court which is under no obligation to Inquire into whether (1) the defendant has Walved his right; (2) the interests of justice require that he be re- presented; or (3) even the reasons why arequest for self-representa- tion may not have been made pre- viously. This ruling is unsound and contrary to applicable au- thority, (46) This was clear from Seale's September 26 motion firing his attorney and from his attempt that same day to present his own open- ing Statement, There can be no question that these actions by a lay defendant cuojstituted an ade- qately clear request for the right to represent himself, particularly in light of the court's refusal co let him speak at all, In United States y. court's refusal to let him speak at all. In United States ¥. Plattner, 330 F.2d 271,276 @nd Cir, 1964), the court pointed our that howéver the defendant migtt plirase nls request regarding de- fense representation, it was the court’s obligation to expiain to the defendant that he had a choice be- tween defense by a lawyer andde- fense pro se. In United States v. \bbamonte, 348 F.2d 700 (2nd Cir, 1965S), the court noted that where defendant tried to fire his attorney the day of trial, the court should have asked if he wanted to proceed pro se. (47) When the court deniedSeale’s September 26 motion firing his lawyers, it specifically refused to iliow him to speak, His attempt that s in) tarement wa on sme day to present an open- denied and his protests silenced without inquiry, \t the September 30 in-chambers conference the issue of Seale's right to represent himself in subse- when arose, the court resolved it Seale’s absence, Seale's quent attempts to represent himself were quashed with similar lack of Only with the filing of Seale’s pro se motion October 20 did the court allow any argument it all and it then refused Seale's specific request for an inquiry into the relevant facts, (pp 22- 29, supra) (48) This was the only reason the court indicated during the In- chambers September 30 discus- Sion for its initial refusal, and Subsequently during trial (Pp 24, 25, 26 0.21, supra), Octo- ber 20 the court denied Seale’s pro se motion to represent him- self, on the sole ground that trial had oegun and to ‘permit self- representation at that point would be disruptive, pp. 27-29, supra.) (END OF FOOTNO TES) ceremony, the Where a defendant wishes to re- present himself the court must inquire into the factual circum- tances of that request before it can be denied, (49) The trial court at least had an oblivation to in- quire into whether Seale had ever elected to be represented by a lawyer other than Garry or whe- ther he hud walved that right and opted for self-defense in the event of Garry's absence prior to trial, since a defendant has a clear right initially to elect whe- ther to be represented by counsel or to represent Himself, G0) (49) See generally United Stares ¥. Plattner, 330 F.2d at 276; pra n.40; Brown v. United States, 264 F.2d 363, 367 (D.C, Cir, 1959) (Burger J., concurring); United States y, Uirrell, 286 F, Supp. 885, 890-94, 6.D. NY, 1968) (describing the elaborate factual inquiries made by the trial court into the issue of defendant's right to represent himself), 60; See Dearinger v- United States, 344 F.2d 309, 311 (Kh Cir, 1965) (issue is whether 4 voluntary and intelligent election to be represented by counsel can be revoked) see also Plattner and Abbamonte, supra, n.46, (END OF FOOTNOTES) it is similarly clear diat if the defendant has 4 right to represent himself, thar right does not cease ro exist and becoaje Instead apri- vilege subject to the whim and caprice of the trial court solely because itis not voiced itil short- ly after trial proceedings haye formally commenced. Some courts have, it is true, described the right oneself as ‘‘absolute’’ if voiced prior to trial and “‘quali- fied’’ if voiced mid-trial, G1) But there is oo rational for any such rigid distinction, and the facts and reasoning of these cases and other relevant authorities make clear that the timing of a request is simply one circumstance relevant to a determination whether the defendant has effectively waived his right to represent himself and the interests of justice dictate that he be represented; (62) and that Inqtiry is essential so that the various Interests can be weighed, @3) Thus while the court below had a right to consider the fact thar trial had bewun in determin- ing whether to allow Seale to represent himself, it had no right to deny Seale’s request without any further inquiry. G1) See Dearinger v, United States v. Bentvena, 319 F.2d 916, 937-38 (Qod Cir.), cert. denied, 375 U.S, 940 (1963); United Srates ¥. Dennis, 183 F.2d 201 Qad Cir. 1950), aff'd on other prounds, 341 U\S, 494; Butler v, United States, 317 F.2d 249, 257-58 (8th Cur.), cert. denied, 375 US, 838 (1993). (62) See Note, The Right of an Accused to Proceed without Coun- sel, 49 MINN, L. REV, 1133 (1965), Thus, Sanchez v. United States, 311 F.2d 327, 333 (th Cir, 1962), held that 4 defendant's request to represent himself could be denied if made mid-trial, after a strong prosecution case had been made, where the trial court found it “‘morivated by a desire to disrupt the orderly conduct of the trial,” In Bentvena, supra n.51, the court upheld denial to defendant of right to cross-examine witness where defendant liad been ably repre- sented, without objection, throupt- out prior trial proceedings, In Dennis, supra 0.51, the court up- held conviction when defendant's request to sum up to jury was denied after nine months of trial during witel he hud allowed law- yers to represent him and had been disruptive. And in Butler, supra n.51, the court upheld de- nyliy a defendant's request to re- present himself when it was first voiced in the third week of trial, defense counsel was willing to and did continue effective representa- don, and defendant's request was found not to be in good faith, @3) See United States ¥, Dunno, 348 F.2d 12 @nd Cir. 1965) @ic- tum), affirmint, 239 F, Supp. 851 6.D, N.Y, 1965), cert, denied, 384 U.S, LOO? (1966); Unired States v. Mitchell, 138 F.2d 831 (nd Cir. 1943) (noting that when de- fendant tried to dismiss attorney after first prosecution witness sworn, the trial court should have inquired into the reasons for want- ing to proceed pro se: conviction upheld on grounts of no preju- dice); United States v, Birrell, described supra n.49; see also Plattner and Brown, supra n.49. (END OF FOOTNOTES) Moreover, the record reveals that Seale had aright to repre- sent himself under de cireum- Stances of this; case, First Séale indicared his desire to represent himself ar the eurliest possible moment, The fact that this w on the third day of trial proceed~ ings, after the jury had been selec continued on next page THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 18 THAT’S WHY "LL DIE I was born September 7, 1942-- a baby--a boy--a slave, I died some- time in August, 1970--an ex-slave-- a revolutionary. My name is Michael D, and as much as I dig life, as much as I want to be with my family, my three children; Eric, Damon and Oneke and everyone I love, my mother--just everyone, but I think that the time has come when the price for struggling against this murderous, fascist government and all its repressive forces and lackey running dogs, has to be paid. The eminence of deathhas beenwith me since I joined the Black Panther Party in September 1968, but it has never been as strong as it is now. It seems as though all that my mind is turned to now is how to die like a man, My sons and my daughter and my people deserve nothing less, My only regret is thatI wish I would have worked harder and been able to see with my own eyes, the people rising like a mighty storm--with guns--with guns for self-defense in their hands, I have already tasted the fruits of socialism within the ranks ofthe Party. It is a good taste. I have seen niggas from off the street become educated and given a socialist consciousness. Those who once stole and lied and cheated and robbed, and pimped and sold dope to Black people now sharing and doing without to make sure his or her comrade had some. Niggas excepting someone elses childas their own, Niggas who like myself, lived only for themselves, now ready to give their most precious jewels to the peo- ple--their lives. Today is August 2, 1970. I am in the city of Detroit, working with the N.C.C.F. here. A lot of us will be dead soon--very soon, The Chief of Pigs in this city--Murphy has con- spired with the head of the F.B.1.jJ. Edgar Hoover (Pig) to attack and des- troy the members of the N.C.C.F. here, At this very moment the 10th precinct is and has been for two weeks stock piling weapons, and when I say weapons, I mean tanks and half tracks and all the conventional weapons of pate ro i =< re. THESE ARE THE SAME TANKS THAT OCCUPIED THE BLACK COMMUNITY IN DETROIT IN uapexme » ee Las aa t—=_"" 1967 AND THEY ARE THE SAME TANKS THAT WILL ATTEMPT TO OCCUPY THE COMMUNITY In 1970! modern warfare to attact what they call the ‘‘Panther Complex’’--not office but complex. They (the pigs) have been trying hard to create an incident, First the news media comes out with a lie that we have over 200 weapons and over 100,000 rounds of ammuntion at this office alone, This statement was made a week after a minor rebellion went down in an area known as High Land Park where the mayor stated after occupying the com- munity, shooting and beating Black people--‘‘I don’t know why the Black Panthers want to pick on my little city.’’ When in actuality it was the people responding to the racist mur- ders of people at the Rose Bar. The brother was shot after an argument ensued because the brother didn’t have the money for a drink. The brother was Black--the murderer was White-- the brother was unarmed, The people’s response was; the bar was imme- diately burnt down and niggas hit the streets, The Panthers were the scape- goat, When we went into the area to educate the people to the pigs tac- tics we were immediately arrested, About four days ago the people a- round the office here on Indiandale hung posters and when the pigs at- tempted to tear them down they were run away, Then the people got really uptight and began saying that this is theiy community, and they havearight to do what they want to do. So they changed the street from Indiandale & 14th to Panther Ave. and Free Red, They sang revolutionary songs and rapped about how they would like things to be for everybody. The follow- ing morning a pig was shot at, try- ing to sneak up and pull down the sign, The N.C.C.F. was blamed im- mediately, a few hours later a chan- nel 50 news car was fired on in the same neighborhood, again the N.C.C.F, was blamed -- immediately the area was surrounded by pigs of the 10th precinct. They did this without per- mission from Pig Chief Murphy. They were about to attack when orders cam2 and they were instructed not to make a move because they were not equipped to handle the situation. That they were in reality about to be barbequed be- cause it just so happens that the peo- ple here relate to the Black Panther Party and it would be impossible to move on us without moving on the whole West Side, That’s why the 10th Pre- cinct right now has tanks and half tracks and 50 cal, machine guns-- to kill niggas, That’s why today Aug- ust 2nd, pigs have been going door to door telling people where to lay in their house when the attack comes, They also stated that if they were to come out on the street that they would be killed. So this is no joke, this is war in the truest sense of the word. This is the highest form of politics. We want freedom--they want blood. I say they can have mine, but they have to pay for it, because it’s not free, just as Iam not free. I guess I won't see my mother or “‘Li’l Bra’’ any more ory Maria, or Kathy or Ora--the women most close to my heart. Or drink no more wine with Fred; or get cursed out by Lan- don and Big Rob, the two niggas I learned the most from, All because they have people that have no respect for the needs and desires of the rest of the masses of people. Because they would rather kill and oppress rather than share in the vast wealth that this planet possesses, Because they oppose all that is pro- gressive, we must die, Eldridge is in exile--but he’s coming home, Huey was in jail--but he’s home, Bobby is in jail facing the electric chair but he’s coming home, Landon and Rory and countless other prisoners of war will be back--right here on the streets--niggas will be free and that is a fact that the reactionary pig forces don’t want to relate too. Niggas will have the power to deter- mine their own destiny and that’s what I’m fighting for and that’s why Pll die, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! N.C,.C.F., Detroit Michigan Michael D, BOBBY’S APPEAL continued from last page ted, was in no way Seale’s fault and thus provides no evidence of waiver, since Seale had been denied opportunity to speak regarding Garry's absence on the first day of trial and since he had not discovered until after the close of the second day’s proceedings that Garry would definitely not be & .© to attend the trial, G4) Se- cond, the prosecution presented no reason for denying this claim. Indeed the prosecution did not even object initially--rather it was the court that suggested Seale's re- quest ought be denied because it was made after commencement of trial (p, 24, supra), Third, there was no apparent reason to deny Seale's claim to represent himself, if such aclaim ever ought be granted, It was initially raised not in the midst of trial butbefore opening statements had been made or the first witness sworn, 65) Since Seale never consulted with any lawyer other than Garry re- garding his defense, allowing him to present his own defense would not have caused additional delay for purposes of preparing a defense. Seale's co-defendants had ho objection to his presenting his own defense but, rather, supported it throughout; therefore no pro- blem was presented regarding prejudice of their rights. Finally, the record reveals beyond any doube thar disruption was caused-- rather than prevented--by denying Seale any opportunity to represent himself. (4) The record reveals thatSeale was out of touch with counsel while transferred to Chicago, (. 21, supra) It is therefore understand- able that he would not have known until trial started tharGarry. yould definitely not be able to repre- sent him, Weinglass told the court on the first day of proceedings, September 24, that Seale was with- out representation, Seale was de- nied any opportunity to speak re- garding his objections to Garry's absence thar day, (pp, 21-22, supra) @5) Compare * United States \y, Denno, supra’n.S3, finding an ab- solute right to represent self where request yolced after case called, 7 (END OF FOOTNOTES) | » \ \ ) » » \ g A, PATO OL { people, Zz, HUEY Power to the people brothers and sisters! This is Huey P, Newton, I'm very sorry I’m not with you today because of certain pressing problems, but you can be sure that I’m with you in spirit, In a very short time, we will be united not only in spirit, but in the flesh, Until that time, keep the revolu- tionary strength in order to achieve the goals that will create a society in which man can live,.One step in this direction is to rewrite the Con- stitution. We perceive that the Con- Stitution has failed in every area when it concerns the national ethnic minori- ties, Black people in particular and all minorities in general, Also it has failed poor people, universally White Red people, Brown people, Black people and also Asian people-- Yellow people as we sometimes call them, But we are planning this Rev- olutionary People’s Convention, and § we’ve run into difficulties. If we hadn’t PRP OLD CLP CMP OLD OL Or OnOro PRP EDD OD OD OLD OD LF LF OF OLD AT OLD VAP OAD OAT OLD OM Ore PLPC LI OLD ODOM OD OP AP OLD VAP OP he THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 19 : run into these difficulties, we would’ve - thought we were doing something wrong, but we expected them, The first hurdle that we must get over, is to find a place for our Plenary Session that was to be held in Phila- delphia but the reactionary racist, fascist Rizzo, the police commission, undermined the People’s Convention, Our Convention is concerned with man, We want to create a society where man will no longer live by exploiting other man, This is the axe, the maximum and the base that the Constitution should swivel upon, This session, as you know, is a Plan- ning Session in order for us to meet together the next session, which is the Plenary Session, which is yet to find a location because of certain reactionaries underminding the peo- ple’s best interest, the people’s best cause, So we won’t be dismayed, we will defy all difficulty and advance wave upon wave, We are still look- ing for a location, either we will pin down a place today, or in the very near future,* Until that time we must go on with advancing the central aims of the Convention, To do this we have to have the people there. So we’re asking all of the organizations who ave willing to participate--the Anti- Wary Movement, the various Peace Movements, all progressive groups or parties toopenup Registration Depart- ments and sections in their organi- zations, so the people in the various communities can come to their organ- izations and register for the Conven- tion, We must do some door to door campaigning also for registration, We must use our creativity, and think of new ways in order to mobilize the beople, Because the duty of all revo- lutionaries is to make revolution, and this leaves a very broad area of OOOO PEP OPD DOLD LPL OPO OL OLD OLN raL B August 8th and %b, 1970 ; Lee Faye Mack is ahotmomma ) from Winston-Salem, North Caro- ) Hina, She ain't got no money, she’s Over 33 and she's a crazy nigger. Lee Faye is also the Southern altohiael of the Revolu- — onary People’s Constitutional Convention. At the Planning Session, (this | spmapgened of the Revolutionary ple’s Constitutional Conven- & tion, Lee Faye told us ‘‘what do ie racists think we'll be doing they're beating and killing ur children,”* There were high hool students from Richmond, nia, gay people from East SCLC presidents, urban ers, there were ‘'greasers” Chicago who said later for cist Daley, All came to map ‘Strategy for the Plenary Ses- an of the New Constitution, h area picked a Regional of their work areas. Each reached 24 hours a day, eglonal Representatives are the community, all believe olutionary People’s Con- on is the most Pa PL, SPS me a a Gul important task of the day, The following is a list of all of those representatives and their area of work. Please coordinate all fund raising, propaganda, and other machinery through them, FINANCE Contact these people for infor- mation regarding donations, bene- fits or other fund raising activity for the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention. Patricia Hilliard 415/465-5047 Oakland, California Audrea Jones 617/442-0100 Roxbury, Mass. Beverlina Carlowell John Boot Lesle Cagen : 312/738-0778 414/372-3778 Women's Center Lee Faye Mack Chicago, Ulinois Milwaukee 212/691-1860 412 N.E, 27th St. Northeast Region Winston Salem, N.C, Don Cambell Rickie Hooper N.Y,, N.Y, Southern Rep, seine Indi eth pose Arthur Ki ann . anna y + uy ‘ ur no In apo Winston-Salem, North Carolina iagece Cre bealgiol Angela Douglas or Morris Kaighe | Gwen Goodlow 201/621-1766 213/484-1094 213/635-2586 cig ge Neti Los Angeles, California . 301/342-8536 ortheast Region Los Angeles, California New York . Evon Carter COMMUNICATIONS Bob Avaklan or Jane Franklin § 203/562-7463 Barbara Fitzgerald Angela Douglas 415/826-8021 : New Haven, Connection People's Housing Coalition Free Press San Pranctecs; Californta” PLP DLP OP he Brenda Hyson 212/453-8483 and 364-4238 MESSAGE FROM HUEY TO THE PLANNING SESSION ction, That’s why every revolutionary § should be a creative person, I’m sure that using that principle we'll have thousands and thousands of people at & the ‘‘Revolutionary People’s Consti- tutional Convention’’, where I plan to lay eyes upon you and embrace you } because I’m out of prison, not because } of the justice of the court, but be- cause of the power of the people! § We must also penetrate the South, '§ brothers and sisters. We still have 51% of the Black people in the South, We’re not planning for them to leave the South, The North is no different than the South--it’s just that we must unite the North and the South, We can do this by sending delegates to the South to register people for the Convention, We can also communi- cate with the various liberal, progres- sive and radical organizations in the South, and see that the South is always thought of because this is all Black people’s home in a sense. So we must think of those terms and have the people included all over the country, Whenever we plan anything the South will be represented, because we see that we cannot do anything without that unity. I know that we will get very much done today, I'll be clear- ing things up on this end to prepare to see you on that day of the Conven- tion, which will be a delight to my heart, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE, BROTHERS AND SISTERS HUEY P, NEWTON MINISTER OF DEFENSE BLACK PANTHER PARTY ROR MI HO 2 PROVO elF PREP DOD OD OD OD LOD OP OF OL OP OF OP OP OP Pa MTA *Plenary Session will be held at Tem- z ple University Gymnasium inPhila- delphia, SUS: PROD OOOH PPAF OI OF OL OL REPORT FROM THE PLANNING SESSION — 213/484-1904 212/328-9911 Northeast Region Western Region Bronx, N.Y. Bronx, N.Y, Los Angeles, California Doug Miranda Hank Ferari 215/BA2-088S Third World Gay Liberation Front INFORMATION COMMITTEES Philadelphia, Pa, Northeast Region New York Russ Trunzo Maxine Scoop 412/683-3725 202/265-4418 Mike James Pittsburgh, Pa, Washington, D.C, Rising Up Angry . Midwest Region Pablo “Yoruba” Guzman pone T cas 212/887-1222 cee Oty NJ Lee Fay Mack Northeast Rep. NJ. Mothers of Black Liberators New York 412 E, 27th Se. Malik McClure Southern Region Kitty Broady 313/868-9836 Detroit, Michigan Winston Salem, N.C, P02 301/947-1245 Baltimore, Maryland DOr Ord PRO OWO IL \ ‘\ \ ) » ) » \) ) THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 20 ‘Freedom of Speech”’ is denied to the point of murder? When attempts at ‘‘Freedom of the Press”’ brings bombings and lynchings? Where is Freedom when the right to ‘‘peacefully assemble’’ brings on massacres? Where is our right to ‘‘keep and bear arms’’ when Black People are attacked by the Racist Gestapo of America? Where is ‘‘religious freedom’’ when places of worship become the scene of shoot-ins and bomb-ins? Where is the right to vote ‘“‘regardless of race or color’’ when murder takes place at the voting polls? Are we free when we are not even secure from being savagely murdered in our sleep by police- men who stand blatantly before the world but yet go unpunished? Is that “‘,,,equal protection of the laws’’? The empty promise of the Constitution to ‘‘establish Justice’ lies exposed to the world by the reality of Black Peoples’ existence. For 400 years now, Black People have suffered an unbroken chain of abuse at the hands of White America, For 400 years we have been treated as America’s foot-stool, This fact is so clear that it requires no argumentation, REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIO PLENARY SESSION TEMPLE UNIVERSITY GYMNASIUM SEPTEMBER 5—7 PHILADELPHIA,P.A. On May Ist, 1960, thousands of Finally under cross-examination people massed In front of the Fed- eral Building in San Francisco to demand the freedom of Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense anda founder of the Black Panther Party. Huey Newton had been ac- cused of killing a White police- man, although the cop had been shot with his partner’s gun. Twenty blocks away, in the city's pre- dominantly Latin American Mis- sion Disericr, several young Brown men were moving a T.V, froma car parked at the curb into the - home of the Rios family. Suddenly a battered "58 Dodge pulled up, and two men In plainclothes got out. They were undercover cops. They ordered the young men to line up for an LD, check. Minutes later scuffling broke out. Shots were fired and one of the cops, Joe Brodnik, fell dead on the side- walk with a bullet from his part- ner’s gun. The other cop, Paul McGoran, was knocked down and . the young men splir. WHAT HAPPENED IN THE KILL- ING OF JOE BRODNIK? Seven men have been charged with the killing of Joe Brodnik, They are known as Los Siete de la Raza, The police claim that seven “men were approached by McGroan and Brodnik. They say that the men jumped McGoran, took his gun and shot Brodnik. The seven were ‘Wdentified as Tony and Mario , Gary Lescallet, Jose R os, BeBe Melendez, Nelson Rod- Piguez and Gio Lopez (all between eventeen and twenty-one years A week after the shooting, of the men were arrested charged with murder. Gio Lo- ds still free, The six have nin San Francisco City Jail, ed bail, for over one year faiting trial. All the. details of what happened are not yet clear, What is certain | that the police story does not together and that the chief cution witness, Paul Mc- , has contradicted himself © after time in the witness This much is known: ® McGoran first said that three were involved, Then the police } changed to say six; finally sald seven, When questioned ¢ the Grand Jury, McGoran rst he didn’t knowhow many men were on the street t of the Rios house, Then d there were seven. Remin- his earlier testimony he d said there were five, he said again he didn’t know how many there were, When the actual tial began McGoran changed again, saying first there were five and after prompting from the pro- secutor that all six of the de- fendants were there, @ Two of the accused, Tony Martinez and Nelson Rodriguez, were not even in the City at the time the Incident took place. Nel- gon was in San Mateo and Tony was in class at the College of San Mateo. ® Gio Lopez was Lnked to the shooting because somebody claims to have seen him enter the Rios home earlier in the day. No one has said he was around atthe time of the incident, @ When the cops Lined the men up for the LD, check, Jose Rios said his 1.D, was Inside the house. McGoran sent him in to get Ir. On the stand during the trial, Mc- Groan changed his mind and said that Jose just walked off into the house. By McGoran’s own testi- mony, Jose wasn’t on the scene. @ While Rios was inside, Mc- Goran ordered the men to line up, Gary Lescallet asked’ What's this all about?" “I'll ask the ques- tions around here, punk,"’ answer- ed McGoran, ‘'We're investigating a burglary,” “Well, are we under arrest?’ Lescallet asked. “Why don't you make like a rabbit and see?’ said McGoran, “Well what are you going to do, shoot me?" (McGoran admits to this conversation between himself and Lescallet. ) More words were exchanged and McGoran advanced on Les- callet and attempted to hit him, Lescallet tried to move away from him and the cop struck at him again, Lescallet blocked the blow, but McGoran threw another punch, The other two men jumped to aid their brother. McGoran pulled his gun from where it had been con- cealed. Brodnik moved toward them, while one of the men grabbed at McGoran's hand to keep him from firing the weapon, While they struggled the gun went off in Mc- Goran's hand. Brodnik fell dead, @ in theconfusion, McGoran was knocked down and the young men split. e@ Inthe days after the incident, McGoran told the police and press that the men had grabbed his gun and emptied four or five shots at him from point blank range, All the shots, he sald, missed, But when McGoran’s gun was found, only two shells were missing from the chamber, By the time of the trial McGoran had changed his Story again, He said Lescallet took his gun, got into the car and fired at him once, WHY DID THE YOUNG MEN RUN? For many people it is very dif- ficult to understand what it is like being a person of color in a city ghetto. We are told that the ghetto Streets are filled with hoodlums and = punks, The newspapers hammer this Mne home day after day, For example, the week before this incident the S,F, Chronicle headlined a front page story, ‘'A Gang's Terror in the Mission." “A loose-knit gang of idlers and hoodlums are slowly closing a fist of fear around the business life of a once bustling Mission District neighborhood.’” Mer- chants called a press conference and denounced the story as a Lie, But the Chronicle had already got its message across with the false headline story. When the press found out that Brown people were involved in the shooting, they took up their theme with a vengeance: The S,F, Chronicle headlined thar it was a murder and said "Huge search on for killers of Police- man.’* The basic principle of American justice again did not apply: ‘ innocent until proven guilty."’ *‘Hoodlums’’ and ‘‘Latin Hippie types"’ the Chronicle called Los Siete. ‘A bunch of punks," the mayor said, Another quote from the S.F, Chronicle of May 2nd adds tothe picture. When other police arrived on the scene, they surrounded the Rios home and opened fire. ‘' Vol- leys of automatic fire were pump- ed into the second floor and the attic of the suspected building where at least two of the youths were said to be hiding,"’ After the police stopped shooting they dis- covered that a l4-year old Rios child was inside. She was shot in the head by 4 police bullet. It's lucky Jose Rios split, if he hadn't he might be dead, Why did Los Siete run? They were fleeing a scene of mortal danger, a danger that had nothing to do with the facts of the in- cident. They were Brown, and a White cop had been killed. They knew a massive police force was comingand that these cops have been known to shoot first and ask questions after, especially when Brown and Black people are in- volved. From the long experience of their people they might have in- stinctively known what the press would do with the story. They were right. McGoran and Brodnik (and the two-foot rubber hose Brodnik car- ried with him) were notorious in the Mission community for their harassment of young people on the streets and at Mission High School. Mission District people have a lot of cops to know. After the S, F, Chronicle set it up with a story of ‘Terror in the Mission,”’ the mayor sent in over one hundred cops to patrol the streets andcon- trol the people. Any Mission youth can tell stories of being thrown up against a wall, frisked and ques- tioned for no reason, Many re- sidents tell of cops busting into their homes waving guns, without search warrants. The 1D, check and suspicion of burglary routine are normal patterns of harass- ment used against Mission resi- dents. As the Chronicle explained, "The job of the police in the Mis- sion is stopping suspicious char- acters and making sure they are’ not involved in illegal activity."’ And as Officer McGoran said, ‘'l would stop any suspicious-looking person, Latino, Black or Chinese." Police harassment and news- paper smears are not unplanned or accidental in the Mission Dis- trict. They fit in with other City projects like Urban Redevelop- ‘THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 21 ment and the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) to form a pattern of repression and pressure, All this has one purpose. To get the present residents of the Mission out of the city. WHAT 1S HAPPENING IN THE MISSION DISTRICT? WHO ARE LOS SIETE? San Francisco is the WallStreet of the West, the second most im- portant capitalist financial center in the country. The business in- terests in the city need room to expand. The plan is to turn San Francisco into a major convention center and financial capital. Dozens of new office buildings and corporation headquarters are being built to house companies whose interests extend from Viet- nam and Thailand to Bolivia and Peru, The present residents of the Mission, Chinatown and the South of Market area do not fit into these plans, There are no jobs for them and they lack the education for skilled or business jobs. But education in the Mis- sion district schools is geared to yocational training and most peo- ple of color in the city are not prepared for college, Over twenty per cent of the Spanish speaking men in the Mission District are unemployed, Almost forty per cent of Mission teenagers who want jobs can’t get them, In 1967 three out of every four Spanish sur- name families in the Mission had incomes of less than $3000 ayear. The City ts not interested in solv- ing these problems, only in getting rid of these problem people: The job of the Redevelopment Agency and the police is to keep up the pressure and move these people out to make room for bus- iness. What these two may have trouble doing, BART will try to accomplish, For the residents of the Mission BART means higher taxes and rents. Taxes and rents which they cannot afford. The new Subway is not meant to service the present residents of the Mis- sion, but to transport the people from the suburbs who will work in the expanding financial center that is replacing peoples’ homes and small businesses, People who have had their homes replaced by BART construction and Bay View Federal Savings know concretely what this means, When they have to sell because of high taxes or move because of high rents busi- ness is right there to rezone and buy up the property, Redevelop- ment means bulldozing the com- munity’s homes and small busi- nesses. BART will help transport them out of the city. And no one much cares where they go. The young men of Los Siete are kids off the block, All but one was born in Central America and came here with his parents for ‘ta better way of life.’’ What they found was that American business operares the same way inthe Mis- sion as it does in El Salvador: for profit and not for the people. Los Siete were known to the police not because they had been hassled on the streets, but because they had begun to organize their bro- thers and sisters to deal with the problems and attacks they faced. the young men who theS.F. Chron- icle and mayor called bums and hoodlums were fighting to Improve their community. Marlo Martinez had enrolled in the College of San Mateo and was working in the college readiness program, He re- crufted Nelson Rodriguez and his brother Tony, who wanted to be a doctor, Together they recruited more than thirty Brown brothers and sisters off the block for the college readiness program. Los Siete spent a lot of time on the streets talking about the bad con- ditions in the houses, the schools, factories and hospitals, and in the streets. They talked about how they had to get together and learn the skills that their community needs and has been deprived of for so long. Then they were busted for killing Brodnik. It’s obvious that most of them were not even on the scene when the incident oc- curred, They were singled out because they are an effective or- ganizing force in the Mission, attempting to serve the needs of the people. The real message here is that whenever working people start to move, to organize, they can ex- pect trouble from the police, the courts and the press and from the businessmen who control these agencies. Workers who were bust- ed on the picket lines at the Stan- dard Oil refineries in Richmond last year know how this works, Many older residents of San Fran- cisco who fought and struggled in the S.F, General Strike of 1934, beaten by cops and called every name in the book by the press, can see the same pattern at work today, The same is true of G.L's and students who are trying to organize and combat repression and the War in Southeast Asia. For Los Siete the organizing has not stopped, A support group has formed around them in the Mission that Is continuing what they started: serving the people, Los Siete de la Raza has a break- fast for children program every morning at St. Peter’s Church at 24th St. and Alabama and ar St. John's Church, So. Van Ness and Julian Sts, A Mission Health Clinic has opened at 2990 22nd St. with volunteer doctors and nurses, A La Raza Legal De- fense Committee has been started at 3176 24th St. And a community newspaper, the Basta Ya, has been reporting what is really going on in the Mission. All these services are for the residents of the Mis- sion, The most important thing is thar people realize their strength is in their unity, White, Brown, Black, Yellow and Red, Only this unity will stop the repression that is brought against the poor and working people when they begin to organize and move, to take back the country thar they built with their labor, energy and taxes. For more information, call Los Siete - 626-9090. FREE LOS SIETE FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISON- ERS Come to the trial 850 Bryant Street 10 to 4 weekdays - Dept. 23 NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION & MASS RALLY TO FREE LOS SIETE, THE SOLEDAD BROS. & ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS AUGUST 19, 1970 Civic Center, S.F. SPEAKERS: CHARLES GARRY GARY PEREZ DAVID HILLIARD RAPHEAL VIERRA ANGELA DAVIS DARWIN LEE MR. MARTINEZ Father of 2 of Los Siete Rothers - THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 22 EXPOSING FASCIST METHODS OF INTERROGATION CONCLUSION OF A FOUR PART ARTICLE = 4 9. Physiological Symptoms Careful observatiin of the phy- sical state of the suliject as in- fluenced by his emotion will often give a clue to guilty knowledge or deception. The various symp- toms observable in the subject are sometimes consistent with a state of nervousness as well as guilt, Physical manifestations can be pointed out to the suspect as evidence that his guilt is obvious. The following observations are generalities which may sometimes be useful, but which must always be modified in relation to the tem- perament of the individual. a, Sweating, If the face is flushed anger is indicated, Embarrass- ment or extreme nervousness may also be the case, A pale face In- dicates fear or shock, Sweating hands indicate tension, b. Color Changes. A flushedface indicates anger, shame, or em- barrassment but not necessarily guilt. A pale face is a more re- liable sign of guilt. c. Dry Mouth, Great nervous tension is present. This is con- sidered a reliable symptom of deception. Swallowing, wetting, of the lips, and thirst are Indications of dryness of the mouth, d. Pulse. An increase in the rate of heart beat is indicative of deception. The pulse beat is ob- Servable at times in the veins of the neck. ¢. Breathing. Deception is in- dicated by an effort to control breathing during critical ques- tions. 10, Perseverance. In the preceding paragraphs em- phasis has been placed on kind- ness and strategems. The inves- tigator will, however, encounter many Situations where the sheer weight of his personality will be the deciding factor. Where emotional appeals and tricks are employed to no avail, he must rely on an oppressive atmosphere of dogged persistence, He must interrogate steadily and without re- Jent, leaving the subject no pro- Spect of surcease. He must dom- inate nis subject and overwhelm him with his inexorable will to obtain the truth. He smuld inter- rogate for a spell of several hours pausing only for the subject's nec- essities in acknowledzement of the need to avoid a charge of duress that can be technically sub- stantiated, In a serious case, the interrogation may continue for days, with the required intervals for food and sleep, bur with no resplte from the atmosphere of domination, it is possible in this way to induce the subject to talk without resorting to duress or coercion, The method should be used only when the guilt of the subject appears highly probable. LL, Special Groups. Two groups of offenders de- serve special mention here be- cause of the relative ease with which they may be induced to make confessions if they are interro- gated with 4 moderate amount of skill. a, The Juvenile. Two classes must be distinguished: the indig- nant offender with bad character and disreputable background and the person who comes from 4 **good"’ family: The expressions criminal’ and *‘non-criminal" type will be employed. 1) Non-Griminal Type, The boy (or girl) has been ralsedcto believe in moral principles and to re- spect authority, but is a little wild and has yielded to temptation; he is rarely Intelligent and his in- experience makes him gullible. He is suceptible to emotional ap- peal by reason of his training and “tbelieves"’ in So many things that the Investigator has a wide choice of methods by which to motivate him, ‘'Mother’’ is a magic word for inducing a state of repentance and a desire for confession, Since the boy is usually frightened at the outset, the Investigator can rely on 4 friendly approach andan emotional appeal. With a headstrong boy, an in- vestigator should carefully avoid humiliating him by compromising his courage or pride. Lacking common sense and being careless of the consequences, he may rebel art an affront andremain obdurante. A friendly appeal to his manhood is effective. 2) The Criminal Type. Where poverty and bad environment have wrought their scars on the boy’s character, the investigator's greatest problem is prevarication. The lie is dn integal part of the mode of the subject's thinking. Another difficulty is a reluctance to become a ‘‘stool pigeon,"" at- tended by a heroic silence. An aggravated form of this attitude is an excessive dislike of ‘*cops.” The police officer is his natural enemy. Although emotional appeals are far less effective with this type of subject, they should be given a trial at the outset. The friendly approach should be used through- out. The utmost care must be exercised to avoid permitting the boy to assume the role of a martyr. Wf the investigator is harsh, fan- cied martyrdom is simple to con- jure up. On the other hand, where the. investigator is persistently friendly, even to the point of fat- ulty, the boy will feel foolish in majntaining an air of arebel with- out a cause, The stern approach should be used as a last resort, The investigator must rely heavily on the tactic of trapping the subject in ridiculous lies, The boy has no desire to lose face in such an ignominiouS way as being repeatedly caught In contra- dictions and inconsistencies, The appeal to his pride in being **smurt’’ should be used again by pretending that his friends or accomplies have ‘‘talked"' androld everything, With the aid the in- vestigator, this is a relatively simple matter, After all, the in- yestigator has no desire to sec hisfriend,the subject, shouldering all the blame, b. ‘White Collar’’ First Of- fenders, This category includes persons who are traditionally known to subscribe to orthodox ethical principles and conventional moral standards. It is not difficult to obtain a confession, The char- acter of a person in this cate- gory is weak, and this defect must be exploited fully. In conclusion it is very ob- vious that silence is the most ef- fective weapon to deal with an interrogation, It also is evident that it is very foolish to try to “He out or “play smart” when being interrogated or questioned about any crime no matter how innocent it may appear. Smart answers and lies can be used to form 4 logical build-up of events and/or be used to incriminate you. And also it is important to re- member your “Legal First Aid." SEIZE THE TIME Bennie Harris San Francisco [ranch Black Panther Party THE BLACK PANTHER NEWS PAPER IS DESIGNED T0 EDUCATE US TO THE CORRECT MEANS OF GETTING OUR FREEDOM Huey P, Newton says that the pa- per is the voice of the Party, and should be heard throughout the land, The Black Panther Party news- paper is, the voice of the party. But it is even more so the yoice of the people. ‘The people are the motivating force in the making of history (they are the real heroes) The news contained within the Black newspaper is actual ac- counting of the acts of everyday wanton murder and brutality in- flicted upon our people that we would not be made aware of other- wise, It is also the knowledge and wisdom gained by our people throughout our four hundred years of oppression and a basis for un- derstanding the nature of our op- pression and the correct methods and proceedures for resisting and dealing with our oppressor. Raw material is the basis for new ideas. The ideology of the Black Panther Party is the inter- pretation of this oppression by our Minister of Defense, Huey P. New- ton, who aloag with our Chairman Bobby Seale, founded the Black Panther Party, We have learned through this ideology that the edu- cation we have received since childhood as well as the everyday brainwashing we receive through the combined efforts of the T.V, radio and dally pig newspaper is nothing more than a farce, The news contained within them fails to tell us any type of news or in- formation that would be useful to us in helping to deal with the op- pressed state we live under here in America, The Black Panther newspaper is designed to educate us to the cor- rect means of going about getting our freedom, It also enlightens the community to correct moves thar were made by the community as well as incorrect moves made by the community, and offers Ideas and ways to avoid them infuture confrontations with the pig power structure, Information of this nature is vi- tal to the very welfare of ourselves family and community, The need for Self Defense Groups in our is becoming ever more important because of the in- creasing show of outright fascist repression by the racist pig police forces patrolling our communities the fact that the to the need for another source of information thar gives & true ac- counting of whar is really going on bere in fascist America. We recognize that our people are getting hip to the ball being run to them on 4 wholesale scale by the pig news media, We recognize that the time of reckoning is getting closer for these foul purveyers of misery and misinformation upon the people, It is time to put the knowledge gained from the Black ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Winston-Salem, N.C, PIG HARRASMENT OF BROTHER SELLING THE BLACK PANTHER COMMUNITY NEWS SERVICE PAPER WINSTON SALEM N.C. On Friday, July 17, 1970, abro- ther and | were sent out to ashop- ping center to sell papers, This place is known as North Side Shop- ping Center, which is located on the north side of Winston, We had been there for about an hour or more, when 4 couple of avari- cious businessmen approached us and told us that we could not sell papers on their property, but that we could sell them if we would go to the Journal and Sentinel (the local pig press) and purchase a paper rack with a coin slot on it. We in turn told the two avaricious pigs that we weren't interested in purchasing a paper rack for our papers and since they allowed the young Whites to sell papers there, we should have that same right, One of the pig businessmen told us that they had a friend (a pig cop) and that we could call him and find out if it was all right for us to sell papers out there. Think- ing that we were fools, not know- ing if we called this pig; he would have had the whole pig force out there. We told these mudfools that we didn’t deal with pigs, so they oinked a couple of times and left. A little while later as we moved along the canopy of the stores, we noticed a pig car, and the plg inside was watching us through the front view mirror as we moved amongst the people, About twenty or thirty mninutes later as we turned right under the canopy, we noticed about two cars of pigs parked at the back of the store, we stopped for 4 while to analyze the situa- tion, and the only solution that we came up with, was that the pig sitting in his car had called in for his gestapo troops. We started moving out and had gotten about two hundred yards away next to 4 bowling alley when two more cars arrived, one had a nigger pig inside, Just as we star- ted up the expressway the pigs Spotted us and pointed toward us, about that time a sister who stays right across from the headquarters came along and stopped for us, The pigs immediately got into their cars and started following us. We arrived on Liberty St. about fif- teen minutes before they arrived, When the pigs saw us surrounded by lumpens buying papers they split the scene. But knowing these mad dogs, they were not to stop at this. About 11:00 a.m. the next day we were sent downtown to off some papers, when two of these same mad pigs spotted os. \bout this dme 4 blood was coming up the street towards us, since we didnot make any irrational move, I guess they decided to vamp onthis blood, The blood seemed to be sick and weak, and had been to the drug Store to get some prescriptions filled. So these mad dog pigs grabbed this blood and pushed him up against the wall after pushing the brother, they asked him for his identification, which he in turn showed them, They then told the blood thar he was drunk. Every- body around knew this blood was not drunk, but the pigs thought they could intimidate us into doing something crazy, Knowing these crazy pigs, we held our cool, So they kidnapped the blood off to jail. “We will not hesitate to kill or die for our freedom.” Like Huey would say, “A news- paper is the voice of a Party, the voice of the Panther must be beard throughout the land."* Therefore we mation is the raw material for new ideas. SEIZE THE TIME N,C.C.F,, Winston-Salem, N.C. | PIGS UNIT | BLACK The annual picnic of the Pitts- ‘burgh Fraternal Order of Pigs ¢ again proved that Black peo- as their lackeys for ; July 23rd the White Pirts- ‘burgh pigs and their lackeys were cavorting In West View Park, lo- | cared in the Pittsburgh suburb of West View, In the eine of picnic was a pavillion where i oe was being served and a ‘band was playing. The band had just finished playing sone pol- kas, and the Waite pigs were oink- ing and laughing about how joor- ly the Black pigs did the polka. “They lack pigs) replied thar if the band were playing soul mu- sic the White pigs wouldn't be do- ing so well. Just then the band ‘started to play a soul tune, and one of the Black pigs, James Moore, began dancing with a White woman. A White pig named Coll couldn’r stand this, and attacked | Moore. When this happened the Black people in and around the pavillion ceased to be lackey dozs and sought to dealrighteously with thele oppressors--even though they were helplessly outnum- bered. (There were only 20 Black people there, and more than 200 White pigs attacked them.) A sister, Mrs. Williams, tried to go to the aid of James Moore, who was being held by two White pigs while others punched him--but she was set upon by these racists, knocked to the floor, and kicked until she was uncoasclous. Her hus- band, Troy Williams, came into the pavillion, and before he could make & move to rescue his wife he was grabbed by the racist storin ~ | troopers, had his gun stolen, and was deaten. These madmen went So wild with beating on Black People that when the local West val DURING THE FOP PICNIC, JULY 23, 1970 The Guardians of Pitts- burgh, with the full support of the black community and na- tional black police organiza- tions condemn the acts of the racist FOP. Racism whether it‘is coy- ered by civilian garb or the blue uniform of the police is abhorrent and the Black Guardians of Pittssburgh hav- ing been subjected to the racism of the FOP are resign- ing en-masse. We will no longer tolerate any association with the FOP or with any other racist group. We will not bear silent wit- ness to the brutalization of black people by white police or white civilians and we hereby serve notice that we will take any action necessary to protect our lives and the lives of black people. If those duly elected officials or those appointed fail to pro- tect the lives entrusted to their care then we, the Black Guard- jans, feel that they have abdi- cated any authority and trust and we will no longer deal with them! We demand immediate, vig- Orous and unbiased investiga. . tion of the attack on our broth- ers and their families ot the FOP picnic. _ We demand the arrest and Prosecution of those who wan- tonly and without provocation Injured our brothers and their families, yes women and chil- dren at West View Park, July 23. We demand an official con- ion of the actions of white officers who, n to uphold law and order, E AGAINST PEOPLE View pigs arrived with mace tw break up the beating, the low-lifed Pittsburgh fascists set uponthem, beat them, aad sent them away, Other White Pittsburgh pigs who tried to break up this KKK mas- sacre were also beaten by these kill-crazy Idiots. The White fascists have main- tained thelr solid front--the West View pigs refuse to bring char- ges against the Pittsburgh pigs; the head of the Fraternal Order of Pigs has said thar this could have happened at anypicnic where } beer was being served; and the so-called Director of Public Safety, James Bungler, has re- fused to say anything, pending an P “ investigation’, But the solid front of racist oppression has begun to break, Led by Sergeant Harvey Adams of the Black Guardians, most of the Black members of FOP have resigned, condemning the racism that was visited upon them and p “that permeates the Pittsburgh Police force, and from which our Black communities and our Black brothers and sisters have long suffered." No longer will the Guardians be the willing lackeys of these nazi hyenas, they have pledged to ‘‘take any action neces- sary to protect our lives and the lives of Black people.”* Point No. 7 of the Black Pan- ther Party’s Platform states that “we can end police brutality in our Black community by organ- izing self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our Black community from racist po- lice oppression and brutality." If the Black Guardians are gen- ulnely dedicated to defending the Black people of Pittsburgh, can the fascist racist pigs and their few bootlicking lackeys long sur- vive? RSC Pittsburgh, Pa. Russ Trunzo TEXT OF STATEMENT BY BLACK OFFICERS The following is the text of a statement issued by the Guard- jans of Greater Pittsburgh after the mass resignation of most of its members from the Fraternal Order of Police: Showed by their acts their total disregard for it. At West View Park on July 23, 1970, Brother Officers. Ro- land Lucas, James Moore, Chester Walls, George Chris- topher and female members of some of their families were the victims of a violent vicious attack by white police officers. The attacks caused exten- sive hospitalization and possi- ble hospital treatment of Offi- cer Moore's wife who was kicked In the head and chest by white policemen’ until she became unconscious, This attack by more than 200 while police officers ion the black officers and their famijes was a resuit of the racism that permeates the Pittsburgh police force, and from which our black com- munities and our black broth- ers and sisters have long suf- fered. The incident was triggered by an interracial couple danc- ing. The same racists while poiice who will permit and condone white “after hour in- tegrationisis” to frequent the Hill Districts, Manchesters, Homewood - Brushtons, throughout this nation: The same while racist police who will permit the raping of black women and will condone mob attacks upon blacks by white police and while civilians cringe at the sight of a white girl dancing with a black man! The Guardians are police- men too, but we are men first and we are black men, We shall not permit this attack to go unanswered, FASCIST THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 23 JUDGE SHERWIN CONVICTS PANTHER LEONARD COLAR OF MURDER Oe searer teh", S © + rae .t 0 are eters”, SOK OSI SES Pe ms Ox 5%. ? 6S Superior Judge, Raymond Sher- win, handed down a decision ordering Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver, released from prison because Eldridge was being held captive not because he violated his parole ‘but from his undue eloquence in pursuing polit- ical goals, goals which were of- fensive to many of his con- temporaries"’. Sherwin said El- dridge’s revocation of parole was “a type of pressure unbecoming, to say the least, to the law enforcement paraphernalia of this State’. Shortly after his decision on Eldridge, Sherwin learned more about ‘the unbecoming pres- sure of the State’’--he also found out that his interpreting the law as it is written was ‘offensive to his contemporaries'’, Sherwin recelved a severe re- primand from his fascist col- leagues for his ‘liberal’ stand on Eldridge, a Black Paather Min- ister, a true enemy of the State. This reprimand plunged Sherwin into the greatest dilemma of his life, *‘How do I regain the graces of my fellow pigs 7" In February 1970, Sherwin up- held the death penalty of two White men who were charged with wan- tonly killing two White men and wounding two others in a night of insane shooting. To even the score, in April 1970, Pig Sher- win upheld the death penalty of a Black man accused of killing a racist pig who was attempring to kill the brother. Now Shor- win’s pig colleagues could not call him a “nigger-loving judge"’ because he had just sent a nig- ger to be executed, (In 1966Sher- win broke down from Ist degree murder to 2nd degree murder for MOVE ON THE IDEOLOGY OF Our ideology: ideology is a way a brother charged with killing two pigs), But charlatan judge, Sher- win, still had not evened up the matter of releasing Eldridge, an enemy of the State. On July 31, 1970, racist, pig, charlatan ‘‘Judge’’ Raymond “ Sherwin evenedup the entire score and firmly entered league with his fascist colleagues, such as Fried- ~ man, Hoffman, Murtagh, and Mul- vey. On this day, fascist, Pig Sherwin ‘‘found’’ Black Panther, Leonard Colar, guilty of MUR- DERING HIS OWN FATHER, The two malin pleces of ‘‘evi- dence’’ were presented by racist, redneck, E, Glynn Stanley, the D.A, Stanley questioned pig in- vestigator, Paul Avery, first. Avery testified that he had “‘in- terviewed"’ Henry Williams on two Separate occasions. During the first session, Willlams described the person who ran past hishouse the night of the shooting as 5'5"" tall, 170-180 pounds, and 30-40 years old. But later, the bootlicker sald Leonard ('l'’, 235 pounds, 16 years old) was the one he saw; this statement was also tran- scribed, Avery testified that Wil- Hams also told him that he (bootlicker) had seen Leonard on two other occasions after the shooting, but this statement was not recorded; the pig wasn't even sure if he reported Williams’ se- cond statement to the head Inves- tigator, Stanley's second witness was Patrick Buckman, Vice President of the pig investigator firm. Buck- man testified that Robbie Wil- Hams, a sister with mental pro- blems, told him that Leonard did the shooting, When Robbie was first interviewed, her statements were taped--but on her second - interview, when key evidence is supposedly given, it is not taped, she doesn’t sign any statements-- Buckman doesn't even enter her Statement in his pig report, which is supposed to be a summary of all of his findings. (In Robbie's first interview, she identified three different people at once, none of them Leonard,) Later Leonard was called to the stand, Stanley asked Leonard who did he buy his gun from and who did he sell it to. (Leonard owned a .45 revolver; his fa- ther was shot with a 9mm semli- auto.), Leonard sald he could not remember the names. At this Point, pig Judge Sherwin arrogant- ly interjected, in effect, ‘'Leon- colonies across this country, who to liberation, aninstrumentofclari-jave decided within themselves fication of our position, aneduca- tion to the situation, information to the nation for mobization,. So from the word go, we are hip to what the Lumpenproletariat {s doing in the Black colonies Like his oppressed condition in rela- Uonship to the means of produc- tion, It’s very important to know and have in our minds we are Marxist-Leninists and a part of the world revolutionary upsurge which is challenging all forms of capitalism everywhere, But atthis time in history we are (Black peo- ple) using Malcolmism, For he (Malcolm X) was a lumpen and as the Lumpens in the party and the that there is something much more important than getting high, and pimping women and just general- ly doing their own thing. Yes Malcolmism, the appli- cation of Malcolmism with Huey P, Newton deals with develop- ments Fanon didn't come home with tt, Fanon didn’t deal with (that's applying the Marxist-Le- ninist analysis to our problems) he was not hip to that he didn't dig on Malcolmism and where it was coming from. But Malcolm and Huey did get into that, look at it, lived with it and focused on us Black brothers and sisters in this decadent, fascist, racist so- ard, if you want any mercy from this court, I'd better not think you are concealing any informa- tlon,”" Leonard testified that at the time of the shooting he was ar a sister's house, The sister had told him that the pigs were threa- tening to take her children from her and also kick her out of her apartment; she also told him that she needed money very badly, But when the sister, Bonnie Wil- liams, testified at a pre-trial hearing (she didn't testify at the final railroading), she said that Leonard arrived after the shoor- ing. Evidently, the pigs got to her--she was the only witness to receive two subpoenas the week before the trial, and the pigs threatened to arrest her for some bad checks thar didn’t even have her name on them, three days before Leonard's trial, During the final arguments, Pig Stanley argued that Leonard was guilty because two people saidthey saw him, He further stated that since Leonard had a gun for self- defense which was kept in his room, Leonard must have been protecting himself against arela- tive--pig logic. So therefore, ac- cording to Stanley the pig, Leon- ard was guilty beyond a reason- able doubr, Loenard's attorney, Francis McTernan, argued that the whole thing was ridiculously contradic- tory. The two star witnesses (who didn't testify), Robbie and Henry Williams, described someone who is definitely not Leonard when the testimony is taped, but on Subsequent occasions Leonard is allegedly identified and allegedly seen on two other occasions but there Is no record of the state- ments. McTernan also pointed out the gross contradicitions between Leonard's story and Bonnie Wil- liams’s story, centering in on the pig harassment of Bonnie, Finally McTernan pointed out that just because Leonard kept a gun inthe house, not even the same gun as the murder weapon, it doesn’t mean that Leonard was going to shoot his father, Fascist Judge Sherwin said in Piggish fashion, “Mr. McTernan, you are wrong. There is no rea- Sonable doubt. I find thar Leonard killed his father and 1 sentence him to the California Youth Authority.” Leonard will receive at least a four-year sen- tence from CYA, After he be- comes 21 he could receive ano- ther four-year sentence, or the pigs could re-try him as an adult and possibly send Leonard to the gas chamber, So tt is clear to see that Judge Sherwin, Stanley, the D,A,, the Vallejo Pig Department, and the other pigs of California, rail- roaded another Panther, Leonard Colar, to prison. It is up to the people to free all of the political prisoners, and take the real cri- minals, the misrepresentatives of justice, to trial and execute them. SEIZE THE TIME FREE ALL POLITICAL PRI- SONERS DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS BLACK MEN clety, They had andhavea clear picture, a clear view, a clear view of the facts. Brothers and sister, Lumpens, no man or wo- man comes into this life a cri- minal element, This Society has put our people in a position where we have no choice but to relate to changing these social conditions that are being forced on us, So it is a move against these fascist Pigs who come {nto our commu- nites endorsing explolration of man by man, : ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! MB, THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 24 PIGS IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS. KIDNAPPED BO STAFF OFF THE STREETS WHILE HE WAS SELLING “THE BLACK PANTHER’ NEWSPAPER American pigs know how to kill more people than any other pigs in the world, the United States war machine can go anywhere in- side and outside this country to murder and torture people strug- gling for freedom and self-deter- mination with methods of slaugh- ter that make Hitler look like a bungling idiot. o- =. BO STAFF When the United Stares govern- ment trains G.1."s to employ their methods of overkill, they know how. And when those G.1,'s begin to see through the lies and schemes of the U.S, military and begin to turn around and threaten to use all thar skill and know- ledge on them, they (the pigs) get very, very uptight. Bo is a servant of the people. Bo was taught by the U.S, Ma- rines how to massacre the Viet- namese people and when he dis- covered that the Vietnamese were poor and oppressed people strug- gling to be free of U.S, imperial- ism just the way his own Black People in the United Srates are Struggling to be free of U.S, fas- cism he came home to join the vanguard of the people's strug- gle in Babylon. Bo joined the N.C,.C,F, in Catn- bridge in May, and in spite of the fact thar he knew the pigs were looking for him, he went out to serve the people. He wis on the streets every day telling people the truth about US. racism and fascism, selling the Black Panther Party newspaper and setting dynamite examples for the people to follow, The pigs began to get nervous because they knew that Bo aot on- ly had his politics together, but that he knew how to deal with pigs as well. So in their usual, cowardly fashion they planned a sneak attack, an amlush, to catch Bo offguard and unable to defend himself, they kidnapped Bo while he was selling papers on the street and spirited him away to the pig pen, Since then, Gaturday, July 18, 1970) no one has been allowed to see him. He is being held in the Marine barracks in Charlestown and he is still setting that exam- ple for the people to follow, Ho has refused to do any work or co- operate in any way with the fas- cist gestapo military pigs. As 4 result,they are refusing him all privileges such as visitors and they haven't given him any food for cver 24 hours, But all the pig harassment tn the world will not break Bo's spiric because he is truly 4 re- volutionary, FREE BOBBY! FREE ALL POLITICAL SONERS!} LONG LIVE THE VICTORY OF THE PEOPLE'S WAR! PRI- N.C.C,F. Cambridge, Mass. THE STREETS BELONG TO THE LUMPEN AND ITS IN THE STREETS THAT THE LUMPEN WILL MAKE THEIR RESELLION] STATEMENT OF THE TASK FORCE ON LAW AND JUSTICE OF THE GREATER NEW HAVEN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES CONCERNING TRIALS OF MEMBERS OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY IN NEW HAVEN july 27, 1970 Man: individuals have ex- pressed considerable concern over the trial in New Haven of mem- bers of the Black Panther Party. Some have felt the lack of ade- quate informatioa in city media, as well in the other papers which come into our communi- ty. Others have indicated that they would like to help but simply do not know what to do. Christians f all persuasions have fele an as oO. inability to make an informed Christian response to this trial, which has so greatly affected New Haven and the surrounding com- munities, To meet these needs, the Great- ec New Haven Council of Chur- ches has established a Task Force on Law and Justice. Its immediate goals are to provide accurate information and a means for dia- logue; to help ensure a just and fair trial for the defendants; and to make their pre-trial and is- trial detention as ‘‘humane*’’ as detention can ever be, The Task Force believes this trial demands a thoughtful Christian response, It hopes thar its activities will help coacerned people to respond more adequately. The activities of the Task Force to date have included the follow- ing: --Helping to establish a court- watching program in which volun- teer clergy and laymen atrend the trial and report thelr impressions to the Council of Churches. --Helping to distribute the “Panther Trial News", a val- PIG HARASSMENT OF PAPER DISTRIBUTION On Satruday July 25, another act of pig harassment occured at the Northside Shopping Center here in Winston Salem, Myself andother brother Gary were getting the peo- ple’s paper (The Slack Panther Newspaper) to the people when we were approached by 4 uniformed pig accompanied by another pig claiming to be the manager of the shopping center. These fool pigs olnked to us that the property we were distributing the news- papers on was private property and that we could no longer dis- tribute the peoples papers on the grounds, The reason being thatno merchandise could be sold on the grounds, Bur this was clearly pro- ven to be nothing but bull because of the fact thar theré was concession set up in front of the First National Bank (which was closed) which was selling home made cakes and pastries and was being operated by six White girls After telling the pigs that the property we were on was the peo- ple’s property, and that we were not leaving we proceeded to getting the papers to the people, This was at approximately 12:00a,m, At ap- proximately 1:00 p.m. three car- loads of pigs rolled on myself and brother Gary. I was forced up against the pig car, searched, then taken to the downtown pig pen, A warrant had been taken out for me with another name other than my own, Belng thar the pigs hadtaken all my ID, as well as other papers, uable supplement to information available elsewhere, ‘‘ Panther Trial News" Is available at 532 Stare Street or at the Bread and Roses Coffeetouse, ~-Promoting discussion of issues connected with the trial by means of speaking engagements, panels, forums, and literature distribu- tion organized in cooperation with the Coalition for Defense of the Panthers at 425 College Street, ~-Encouraging and assisting pas- tors to visit and minister to the defendants, im- peisoned for over a year althoigh convicted of no crime --Soliciting contributions to alle- viate the desperate situation caused by the high cost of legal defense. --Publishing and distributing to member churches 4 ‘p2cialhand- book concerning the trials. --Discussing the on the New Haven Council of Churches” television program “The Eighth Day" Sunday, August 2, 12:30p.m, on Channel 8. In the course of these activi- tles, the Task Force on Law and justice has been especially trou- bled by conditions of pre-trial detention, limited public access to the trial, and the nature of press and other media coverage of the case. Therefore, the Task Force on Law and Justice calls on Gov- ernor Dempsey and Commis- sioner of Corrections MacDougal to stop the treatment of pretrial detainees, whohave not beeen con- victed of any crime, as if they were convicted criminals. In par- who have been issues This photograph identifies Barron Howard, FGI informer kicked out of the Party in March of 1969, for the precise reason of being a paid informer for the FBI, As we have repeatedly stated BARRON HOWARD this fool was In the Party less than. three moaths before, being discovered for what he was and properly dismissed, his only job was Party driver and the usual functions of all Panthers selling papers, and daily party work, he never was, aware of any security functions. This coward was the prime wit- ness for the Congressional Inves- tigation in Washington, D.C, ear- they were able to get my correct name and corrected the name on the warrant, This was all done at the downtown pig pen where I had been taken, Brother Gary related to me upon my release from the pig pen (which cost $50 ransom) that the pigs had given him five minutes to get off of the proper- ty or he would also be arrested for trespassing. ticular, we call upon the Gov- ernor and the Commissioner to allow pretrial detainees gener- ous access to persons whom the detainees deem important tothelr well-betog, including friends and physiclans of their choice. Numbers of people who wish to atrend this trial have been un- able to do so because of the small size of the courtroom, This limi- tations offends the spirit of the constitutional right to a truly pub- lic trial. We, therefore, call upon Judge Mulvey to move the trial immediately to the largest avail- able courtroom. Wé have joined with the New Haven Civil Lib- erties Union In petitioniyy for a larver courtroom, Much of the coveraxe of this case in the New Haven press and media has been prejudicial to she defendants. We, therefore, call upon the New Haven press and media to set a precedent for the nation by» preceding any story a- bout arrests or trials with a stace- ment analogous to the warnim found on cigarette packayes. We suggest the following statement for such stories: “All persons are presumed Innocem until pro- ven guilty in a court of law. No- thing in this story should be con- sidered as evidence against any person,” FOR FURTHER INFO, CONTACT: ‘Task Force Spokesman, Mr. Merold Westphal, Local Bap- tist Layman 436-3556 --office 855-4219--home TO ALL CHAPTERS AND BRANCHES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY AND ALL N.C.C.F.’S ly in July, The well rehearsed lies and report given by this fool was absurd at the least. We are cautioning all N.C,.C.F,'s In the Ohio area to be on the look out for this fool, he is a chro- nic lier and should always be re- garded as a pig. He is reported to be living in the Cincinatti regioa at this time (@hio). This Is the fool who re- portedly had seen information con- cerning the Ulinols, Chapter. This is the George Sams type tool used by the system to lay their traps. Anyone having any contact with this fool is cautioned to seware of him and to refuse him to any office, pigs do not change and this is a pig. He is not a mem- ber of this chapter, and if he is seen or poses as a member contact Black Panther Party In- formation, Indianapolis, 4t once. In case members of the vanguard party do not recall this fools picture in the 1969 issue of the Black Panther newspsper, we are sending this picture for you files. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! DEATH TO THE FASCST PIGS! YOURS IN THE STRUGGLE! Donald Campbell, Defense Captain Black Panther Party, Indianapolis This attempt by these fool pigs to sabatoge the distribution of the people’s jews papers will not be victorious because the spirit of the people is greater than the man, the pigs and all their technology. 7 ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE} July 19, 1970, Mrs. M. Al- of 9 W. {082d street came ro < ye aay Party office in an incident with hee 17 ddaughter Anette, On April Mrs. Alston had gone to Hospital to be with her had just undergone an op- Upoa returning home to ‘room apartment, she found th ~ daughter missing, As she she found 4 note § with aneighbor, Miss daughter saying thar home when she heard messing with the door, were four men outside try- get in, Annette immediate- and shot at them when they to force their way into the house even after she told them to ‘The four men dressed in Ca- le Vision uniforms, ran out and browtht back the pigs to deal with “the sister, About four or five po- “Meemen came to arrest Annette. “One of the officers by the name of L. Christopher, pushed and hit Annette in the moth when she tried to defend herself, Aasette Alston {8 now In the House of Detention for Women, 10 Green- _ wich street. Mrs Alston came to the [lack Panther Party and we are getting her a lawyer and intend to let the people know vat is happening, Unfortunately this is nor some-- thing new; for this story has re- i ee ene times through- out NO Hiack oppressed Commu= On the so-called race riot ar urg Prison, Being here Philadelphia Geveral Hos- pital I've had many contacts with ‘people from Holmesburg. AL tell Sane story of police brutality terrorism. The Incidents tich sparked the rebellion were # tong time sii vering inthe over crowded concentration camp, The “One particular incident concerned the attack and bearing of a over, who Struck a guard. If for other prisoners this one prisoner wo.tld have been brutally ten, This is the one incident t provoked the peison guards on their riot gear and indis- tely attacked any and all Black isoners, for they were the ortes Protected the bragher involved ting, The first guard men- was Witte. Those who at- ed the brothers were Black eys, eager to crack u niguas he following must be explained nesses clearly, in order ‘the contradiction of the d race riot. First of all he s that moved against he yi ‘ds moved after the Black the brother. The thar followed was pri- S against the guards, \ few cists amongst the bru- ANNETTE ALSTON WAS _ ARRESTED FOR DEFENDING 2 HOME AGAINST PIG INTRUDER nity. The only differences is that it ts involving different people and different pigs. This sister will have a pig for a judge with another set of pigs for a jury, but her case will turn out the same as all other Black people who have picked up the gun to defend them- selves against these Intruders of our neighborhood, Whar Annette Alston did In trying to defend ner- self was right onl She has set 4 right on example for all Black people to follow: every Black per- son should have a shot gun for the protection of their home 12 guage preferably, When ever some pig or any Intruder steps across your threshold to harm you or aay member of your family, pick up thar 12 guaye shonun, point it towards the intruder aad pull the trigszer, Following the above steps on self-defense and you will find that intruders or pigs will definetly he - come 4 thing of the past, Everyone Should read the articles on Oryaai- zim self- defense vroups: you can find them in past issues of the “anther paper. Black people, you must realize that theoaly way we will be able to end police brutality aad mir- der of Black people is hy pick- ing up @ gun or any other wea- Pon we lave on hand andlearning to defend our right to live, Anoe- tte Alston did ir , the L.A. Pan- thers did too. I would sather die a revolutionary death by defend- ing what | koow is right, than die a reactionary death. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Lauryo Willlams A LETTER FROM BROTHER REESE (PHILA. GENERAL HOSPITAL PRISON WARD) ON THE HOLMSBURG REBELLION-- . JULY 4, 1970 the unprovoked attacks by the Black racists would only divert the prisoners from the real is- sues, being overcrowdness, poor food, harassment ete. This happened wien they sought to stop the attacks on the White prison- ers. This was what prompted Rizzo to unjustifiably lable this a race riot, As of now this day July 7, 1970 the casualties are still mounting. The guards are coa- ducting shake downs looking for weapons and revenge, Those found with weapons, unauthorized art- icles, and those suspected of par- ticlpating in the rebellion, are being beaten. They are made to run the block between lines of guards, and beaten with sticks, table legs, blackjacks etc. Even minutes after the revolt wis quelled, prisoners were shot lying oa the ground and up against the wall, One brother was told to strip, after doling so 4 dog from the K9 corps just happened to get loose, the brother's testicles were chewed up. The riot by far is not over yet, (the police riot), Rizzo’s orders when he arrived on the scence, *Go in and get them." ‘The police assaulted with weapons firing, looking for ce- venue, because Rizzo said it’s 4 race riot, Detention Ward, Philadelphia Genecal Hospital Brother Reese Whenever an event directly test- ifying that pigs across the count- Ty do not oct In an ‘ton the pa- per interpretation of the law,"’ you will find that the media will make it seem as if an entirely different incident occured, (pigs.../usuallyfound masquerad- ing as the victim of an unprovoked artack,**) History will show yo. chatstand- ard newspapers have a habit of twisting the cruth in such a fash- fon that the muin part of a sir- vation may turn out to be nothing but minor points. You recall thar wien Martin Lather King, Jr. was assassinated, the newspapers all over the coustry only printed whut they wanted yotl to see, For in- Stance, the way they wrote itup, you would think that just one rac- ist was respoasible for his death, but in reality it was a carefully calculated plot by a bunch of inuch tore sopaisticated parties, In Hoston, Massachusetts, there is a so-called flack community newspaper called the Hay Srate Banner. Under the guise of report- ing, all the correct news, on Black people, they most recently made of the most misleading and false statements that you see in any vewspaper. In their July 16th edition they-had 4 statement in there that went like this:'*Milton Bite of Walple street, is betig: held for $5,000 bail in the scis- sors stabbim: of a Quincy father and son”? It weet o1 to say that the father ant sua were laying down carpet aod that Blue and his friends were walking by and one PREACHER one For months the slogan ‘Stop killing your [Jack brothers*’’ has been flowing throughout the [lack community, This slogan was direc- ted towards the members of the various youth gangs because they have had a history of gangbanging and killing each other, fut now the brothers are beginning: to wake up and focus their frustration on Hicir real enemies, the racist ges- tapo pigs, states Attorney Edward V, D, Hanrahan Seeing that most of the youth gangs were moving In this direction started a war on the Black youth, Nixon, Mitchell and Daley knew that if these brothers in the youth gangs were given proper po- Utical direction they would be a motive force in making revolu- tion, The fascists had to come up with a master plan to wipe out these brothers. Everyday the mass media would tell you gangs are bad, gangs killbrothers. Every ime soinebody died the T.V,'s, radios and newspupers would say it was gang related, Even if it was an old lady who had a heart attack on the street and died, you wquid hear “Stones did it, D's did it or, Lord's did it’’, The second part of this seno- cidal plot is to get Black people to exterminate their own children and belleve that they are doing it for the betterment of them- selves, So the power structure semt in their tip top flunkey and sest boot-licker Jessie Jassabell Jackson to do the job, \ few weeks ago there was 4 dance held on the Northside of Chicazo where the two largest fangs on that side of town vot together and decided that they were going to stop fighting amongst each other because they realized that by doing what they did in the pasr they made the pigs’ job much ea- sier, After the people o. the North- side got together andoffedtwo pigs, Jessie Jackson ran, dragging his tall and lapping his tongue, to the Northside crying and apologizing about the deaths of two walk and oink pigs whu were actually ‘spy- TUE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 2S ‘BAY BANNER’ A PUPPET NEWSPAPER USED BY THE SYSTEM TO MISLEAD THE PEOPLE of them tripped over the curpet, Blue and his friends became angry and attacked the father and son, Thils was reported to the pauper by detective Edward Twoliig, a pig. In reulity, you find thar this In- cident never went down like this. What really went down was this: Blue wes passing out leaflets per- taining to this dance that he was throwing, Blue has « Utele shoe shine shop, down on Mass, Ave, and Tremont street, which ts the agea he was concentrating on. This father and son Combo, that he was supposed to stab, came along with three buddies. They trabbed the leaflets from Blue and proceeded to beat on him. He in- mediately recovered and went to vet some of his friends. When the odds wore evened, Blue andhis associates began to mop up the Streets with the aguressors. Later oa, Mayor White's finest pigs, Snatched Hlie from his shoe shine store and proceeded to whip him, while his hands were cuffed beltind his back, While sinashing his head against the wall while at the station, one of the pigs said “we ought to killyou."* Before pas- sim out, Blue said, “you might ax well, because all of this action you are giving, me now, isn’t even phasing me’ He blacked out and has since then been released andis awiiting tial, But this docs sot negate from the fact that the story presented in the Banncr, was no where oearc what actually went down. There Is something else that we must know about brother Blue. OR PIMP ing’ on the Black community be- cause all they would talk about was who is doing this and who is doing that, Jessie “Jacknape’ Jackson is what Huey calls an “endorsed spokesman”. ‘These endorsed spokesmen yo around propagating mudness to keep the people passive until the pigs In the power struc- ture can get their laws and armed forces in 4 position so they can justify the wiping out of the Black community, Whenever Jessie ‘*jacknape"’ Jackson sees people moving in a progressive manner, he tries to put an obstacle in their way to get them hung up, His latest obstacle is a group cailed, “Black Men Moving’, who are-so -_—se— brainwashed that they feel the youth , gangs are more of a threat to the existence of Black people than the Ku Klux Klan, Mayor Daley, Ri- chardChicken Heart Nixon and the racist dog policeman whohas killed more flack people than ‘Raid’ killed bugs. Another endorsed spokesman for the pigs is Reverend Burr head Burell. Who knows thar he and Jackson had promised the bro- thers in the youth gangs, jobs and money to start community pro- jects if they supported them a- gainst the construction trade unions, When the thne came for Rev, Burell und his Kenwood-Oak- land organization (better known as Ko-Co) fo get some grants the US, government told him to get rid of the members of the Black i P Stone Nation working for him or no money. Rey. Hurell knew that the government was trying to cause a conflict so they could jus- tify wiping out the Stones and if he was 4 true Alack leader he would've spoke out ayainst these actions and supported the Stones as they supported him. But being the money hungry pig Phe choice Biteclah vy he is, he sold the brothers out, fof Malcolm 5 man is to” Looking for a way to justify his sell out, Baffling Burell joined jacknape Jackson's mission im- possible, To Jessie Jackson and Rev, 1 { Hive is a community worker, work- ing band in hand with the [Moston Hiranch of the Alack Panther Par- ty to edvcate people’ to implement programs" to meet people's basic needs, For this, Rlue was artacked by some racist, kidhasped andbeat- en by some pigs, and mis-repre- sented by a so-called Black news- paper, which through it’s practice has proven to be no different than the Hoston Globe, Herald Traveler, or the Record Americaa, ‘They all are part of the long Ust of pix news media which do not do any- thing bur distort the truth by way of making the guilty look like the innocent (racist pigs) and the in- nocent look like the guilty, (ue) Gut people's, particularly Black people's consciousness his risen due to the fact, that we mostly have been te victim of all types of pigs, whether it be the police or the news, and cun read through the lying lines. Lhave only one thing elsetosay, to tie Hay State Banner writers: either you change your tactics and write information as to wharreally happens in the Black community and truly become a Black comme} niry newspaper, or continue your misleading, and false fact writing and stay what you are a ply ele- ment of racist American news- papers. ALL POWER TO DIE PEOPLE! DEATH TO THE PIGS! Roland Chamber Boston Chapter Black Panther Party Burell we say you are somebody, and your bodies are not the same as those of the people, infact you have a very close resemblance to those of the foul pigs. The people are hip to your game and we are the heirs of Malcolm X. Huey P. Newton says, ‘The choice offered by the heirs of Malcolm to the endorsed spokesmen Is to repu+ diate the oppressor and to crawl back to thelr people and earn a speedy reprieve or face a mer~ ciless. speedy and most timely exectution for treason and for being too wrong for too long,” YOUTH MAKES THE REVOLU- TION ALACK PANTHER PARTY [linois Chapter Dave Smith ®...0r ‘face Ox- > ecution for reason, \ >. MF POMEL ff) I ff ff Ff fT ff I I Pf PS TT I PS EY | PL Sf TM 700 am ft tt SEE DE EY FELT OS tt tf imme | tL EE tt ES OS fF ff ccm + ttf sms | tt Fiamma | 4s ¢ mamma ttt 0 acme tt tL 95 eercieeeereneee 5 S SSN 2 O % 0% ae "4 2 > %, . THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 26 October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want What We Believe Black Panther Party 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter- mine our destiny 2. We want full employ ment for our people. We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or 4 guaranteed income We believe that if the white American businessmen will not give full emplovment, then the means of produehon should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the communi So that the people of the community ean organize and em ploy all of its pone an! jive a high stindard of living : - 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 inte cooperatives so thal our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowl- edge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance_to relate to anything else. 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people. should not be forced to fight in the mifi- tary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary. 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people. We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or- ganizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality, The Second Amendment to the 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 plack people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have nol 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 nian” of the black community 10, We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis- cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and naturg's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions’of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; \hat they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; thal 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 aller or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. 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, iN | : | N | N | 5 N | S | ‘ | N | | : | ‘ | : | S | N | N | S | N N _— THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1970 PAGE 27 NAME POSTERS ADDRESS CIry STATE CASH MONEY ORDER CHECK PLUS POSTAGE “You can jallarevolu- tionary but you can't jail the revolution, You can run a freedom fighter around § the country, but you can't run freedom fighting around the country You can murder a lib- érator but you can't murder liberation,"’-- Fred Hampton, Deputy Chairman, 0] Chapter of the Black Panther Party -- Born: August Huey P. 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