Vol. 5, No. 10

“VOL, V NO, 10 PUBLISHED WEEKLY LONNIE McLUCAS On Thursday, August 27th, during the vigil at the courthouse where Lonnie McLucas is being railroaded, confusion broke out on the outside of New Haven’s fascist Superior Courthouse, Court was adjourned when about 20 Black people left the court and rushed oul the side exit hoping to get a glimpse of Lonnie leaving for Litchfield prison. Instead, the people found them- selves surrounded by city pigs and state troopers. The troopers were in back of the crowd leaving the courthouse while the local pigs were keeping the people back who were coming from the Green (park across the street from the courthouse - where the vigil is being held). When the people saw this show of gestapo force, they began to sing. Then a navy blue ’69Fordcame2 out of the lot with Lonnie and 3 pigs in it, Everyone Shouted: ‘‘All Power to the People, Lonnie’®. The car lejt at full speed. By then, 200 or more people were outside the court and the city pigs moved with the troopers. This action caused the 2 groups of people to meet, they continued to sing revolutionary songs. The pigs moved toward the people with riot sticks in both hands. The people shouted even louder; flags with Free Lonnie! were all over the streets, City pigs waited on the side with riot outfits as the people moved to the front of the courthouse away from the pigs. News reporters swarmed like flies. A brother from D.C., Jeff Griffith, was harassed by a state trooper. The brother was moving to the Green when he was hit by a pig; he turned arond to defend himself when one of his comrades pulled him back, But the pigs grabbed the brother away pushing his comrade back. Seeing the brother arrested for E BLAGK PANTHER 23 Black Community News Service x SATU THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY RDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 MINISTRY OF INFORMATION BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 \ | Stare \ i* LONNIE McLUCAS CONVICTED OF CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER nothing, the anger of the people rose, Two sisters were pushed by the pigs, (sisters T.C. from D.C. and Edie from New Haven) Edie was jabbed in the stomach with a riot stick, Three people arrested during this in- cident: a newsman, a 17 year old brother and another. brother from D.C, things quieted-doum but the pigs were still laying. ai The people demand that Lonnie, Bobby and ail political prisoners be released from maximum security by the pigs, or ‘‘THERE WON’T BE NO LIGHT FOR DAYS’’, thor nore vine? vere After an hour, SEIZE THE TIME FREE LONNIE! New Haven Chapter Black Panther Party ANOTHER FASEIST ATTEMPT TO DESTROY THE PARTY '* a. > se. bb * ¥ * FACSIST PIGS ORDER BROTHERS TO STRIP AFTER RAID ON PHILADELPHIA BRANCH, B.P.P. stand that brother Lonnie McLucas is an unfortunate victim ofacrazy, patho- logical criminal - minded person, George Sams is being used by the fascist pigs in the power structure, the D.A, Markle and the others all the way up to the Federal pig power Structure, In fact, the power struc- ture, the pigs, all know that Lonnie is not guilly, that Lonnie is an inno- cent victim of a madman, I think that to look at this trial very objectively, we first have to understand that 8 witnesses in Lonnie’s defense, 8 peo- ple who could have been witnesses, were not allowed to testify and it is not separable from the fact that only our families are allowed to visit us. Other people should be able to visit us who can help us out in obtain- ing wiinesses. The Sixth Amendment States that in all criminal prosecu- tion cases in any court in this land an accused person should enjoy the right to have compulsory process to ob- tain and have witnesses in his favor at these court trials. These 8 wilness- es could have testified in behalf of brother Lonnie to show and prove that George Sams is a crazy madman who’s being used and the man has been given lies stuck in his mouth from many factions of the pig police department and other Black racist factions. They could have testified and exposed George Sams more so for what he is. It is very obvious that he was a madman. The fact that these witnesses were excluded from the courtroom shows that it is not a trial; it is a railroad. It is not a fair trial at all and this is only one major reason, What the courtroom excluded by not allowing these wilnesses to come forth to tes- tify was that George Sams in the past would run around different branches of the Party and different places in the country and falsely say that he was an important person in the Party with guns and in fact, threaten and intimi- date peop’ He would sadistically beat THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5.1970 PAGE 2 BROTHER LONNIE McLUCAS IS AN INNOCENT VICTIM OF A MADMAN and jump on people. In fact, he raped a couple of sisters. These are the things that would show George Sams to be a sadistic pathological person that he is. Further, it would have ex- bosed how the pig power structure is using George Sams putting lies in his mouth and exaggerating and hiding the fact that the pig power structure and Markle are hiding real informa- tion and the real facts, Lonnie made an original statement when he was arrested, If anyone had a chance to read the original statement and hear the recording, the jury was supposed to have heard, there were som2 por- tions that were spliced and cut off. The D.A, just hollered: “Oh, these were just off the record discussions,” which we would have exposed more. But the main point is that there were other interrogative tactics used on Lon- nie McLucas by the police while he was being isolated and harassed injail. Statements were made that could have been helpful to his defense but were not presented to the courtroom. Only what the pig fascist police were inter- ested in, did they delete and try to misconstrue, A lesson has been learned by the Black Panther Party and as our Min- ister of Defense said a couple of days ago, w2 were negligent and we are reminding the people that we won't let it happen again. We were negli- gent to things that we didn’t realize were going on in a large organization on a nationwide scale: that a fool like George Sams was able to at one time jump on and beat another brothernamed Tanaka. Jerry Tanaka was to have been one of the witnesses to testify showing that George Sams was a sa- distic murderer. They excluded Tanaka because he would have testified that he at one time had been ordered killed by George Sams, George Sams was ordering other people to do this, The only reason that Tanaka wasn’t killed was because a reasonable Party mem- ber whohappened tobe handy, came in, convened and stopped this. Of course, we have been negligent and looking back over the history of the situation from over a year and a half ago when we first stopped an influx of Party members, we had thousands uponthou- sands coming in till now, We realize that we didn’t expel all of them. In fact, the pig power struc- ture has been able to make use of this as a fulure means to try to kill the leadership of the Black Panther Party, to try to rip off Party members and to try to destroy the Party in Kanga- roo Court Trials but those 8 witnesses were not allowed to come forth and testify in behalf of brother Lonnie Mc- Lucas, Lonnie is a very warm-hearted person who is very concerned about his people and in fact is an innocent victim CHAIRMAN BOBBY’S MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE a } of a crazy madman, George Sams 5 | also a victim of the Federal pig powe 4 | Structure’s erroneous use; in fact, | George Sams himself was a henchman | of Stokely Carmichael who we had all argued against, about his Black ra-| cist methods and ideas that the fascist big power structure did entail trying to disrupt Party functions. These things | and many more were excluded Srom| the trial. I know that the beople say that brother Lonnie McLucas is going to have to be set free, that we want | him free and that we want him here with us. 4 knows quite well how the court becomes t a legal lynching system, how the court has been in the history of America] with respect to Black people, Puerto Rican people and other poor, oppressed | people, It has been a lynching system, | We, as revolutionaries, know that it is impossible for us to get a fair trial, There is no such thing, I don’t care if the jury decided to come out with a not guilty as it’s supposed too, Still, it is and has not been a fair trial just by the fact that the witnesses were excluded, It doesn’t make any difference how it goes, the overall system, the ruling class system is a fascist pig operation from Nixon, Ag new, Mitchell to flat-footed hog Hoover on down to any local pig who is in the community to occupy the commu- nities and murder and kill people, | This operation that I describe in- | cludes the hunger, the delapidated hous- | ing, the wretched conditions, the colon- | talized situation thatBlack people exist | in the Black community and other peo- ples exist in their communities and areas. Nearly 50 million people are living on or below sustenance, Fifteen, | sixteen or seventeen million people are starving in this country, This is the debasement that the people have been set into and we have to come} oul of. This is all connected with the } revolutionary struggle and the revolu- tionary love that Lonnie McLucas has for his people. There’s a revoliona love. As Huey P, Newton says, we'll | have to commit revolutionary suicide | to gain that freedom, like a mother or Jather who dies to save a child. To ; save a beautiful child ard a loved one | is the way revolutionaries function when they move to educate the masses of } people. Yet we know that they will kill and murder us. We are going | to stand, we’re going to fight, we're | going to defend and teach and educate the people, the masses to move and defend and ultimately through a people’s | revolutionary __ relentless struggle, | overthrow and smash the fascist ‘ma- | chine that perpetrates and mai fains a wretched and murderous, atrociou $ brutality and oppression, } \\a t a f MS continued on next p A revolutionary here in America - / } ' i -~ =- _ » aimick, This time in never mind driving in a car yigh a playground, yelled out these pigs, ''We are not moving because you have no business in this court or community"’, Like a _ pig he oinked and drove on. ‘This incident relates tothe same thing that happened in Columiia Point Housing project, where acar of pigs drove up on the sidewalk, almost runningover 4 group of children. This happens in all the Black communities across Baby- lon, This is very clear that these dogs don’t care about the welfare of the people at all. This shows thar they don’t even disguise their dis- concernment for the people. The People ure aware of this and are ready to move on it. Death to the pigstit! Another tacident took place in Jamaica Plain Projects with a group of young bloods. These brothers were visiting their friends In the viher side of the pro- jects, and began to go up stairs when the pigs asked them if they So, less of what the exist, that the continued from last page CHAIRMAN BOBBY SEALE MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE Lonnie McLucas with all the revolutionaries in the streets, with all other people, has to be set free regard- the people see it. will see it and we have to oppose the fascist machinery. We ‘seize the time’’ and we move to a higher level of con- Sciousness and exhaust all means in the courtroom to show the people that thereis no justice in this country, that constitutional human rights do not have been usurped and taken away. that the masses of the beople especially us the colored peoples _ are politically disenfranchised, We must maintain a revolutionary _ Spirit and a revolutionary fervor and _ See the need for freeing brother Lonnie, be jor freeing all political prisoners, the _ New York 21, etc. our Minister of Defense, Newton, the Supreme Commander of the tionary struggle forward, relentlessly, All Power to the People! Right On! Right On. does not mean Carry On, Right On means we want freedom and vation. Power to the People and ivered by Big Manat the NewHaven to Free Lonnie, August 25, 1970.) “PIGS: TERRORIZE AAICA PLAIN. HOUSING lived In this building. The young bloods sald no, so the pigs or- dered them out of the building and shoved one brother out of the hall- way, Then ask why it is necessary for all of us to arm ourselves against these dogs, and prepare ourselves in self-defense. There is a pig station in the projects in Jamacia Plain and another one in the process of be- ing built, in the other projects, This was definitely without the consent of the people. The people had no say whatsoever about these pigs coming into their buildings while they haven't enough living space for themselves, never mind making a pigpen out of one of them. In Jamaica Plain projects, they are building these playhouses all over, They are for the children to play in. These houses are put in the projects as pacifiers. They find it cheaper to build these instead of repairing the houses for the peo- ple. This is a pacifier, but ir will not work anymore, because the people are fed up with pacifiers. We are now demanding the right to decent housing and most impor- tant the right to live, and to drive these racist pigs out of our com- munities. DEATH TO THE PIGS! Denise Woeks Boston Chapter Black Panther Party jury says. I hope I know the people We must see that Huey P, Last May, the uniformed gestapo of Boston unleashed an attack on a square block of mother-country radicals and liberals. This inci- dent on Hemingway Street nat- urally attracted a lot of attention; up here, it was a front page bold- print story, because Boston's sti- dent population is fairly large. This past Thursday, July 30th, the newspapers carried another front page story, that the pigs “over-reacted’” that although their sons and daughters had ‘‘pro- voked"’ them, they had lost their cool. These media words describe an act by Boston's boys in blue, in which they ran into apartments to beat people, and their ‘‘over- reaction” includes bearing ablind- man half uncoascious. Contrast this to another incident which happened last May, A bro- ther, 4 Black man, Frank Lynch, snapped a towel at a pig on duty guarding a prisoner in Boston City Hospital. His left shoulder is broken and his arm is in a sling. Franklin Lynch was shot four times, 3 times in the chest and once in the head, by Walter Dug- gan, an oinklet on the pig force. Judge Adlow lay down his corrupt, racist decision, that this blatant murder was justifiable homicide, What does justifiable shomi- cide’ mean to a Black man in Babylon? And how does it differ from ‘‘over-reaction'’? The an- swer is as simple as the dif- ference is; life and death, ‘‘Jus- tifiable homicide’ is . phenomenon which occurs exclusively within the confines of the Black colony, When ic occurs, there are only two peo- ple involved, an unarmed Black man or wormas and an armed White racist, In other words, justifiable homicide occurs when a racist cold-bloodedly murders 4 brother and the unconstitutional court sys- WAKEUP 10 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTHMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 3. PIG BRUTALITY ...... COLONY VS. THE MOTHER COUNTRY tem lets the racist off the hook. It justifies hie murder of a bro- ther, Examples of this are ever posed in Babylon, Including the Franklin Lynch case in Boston, examples of justifiable homicide are to be found from Warts to Harlem, in Orangeburg, S,C,, and recently in Augusta, Georgia and Jackson State in Mississippi, For a Black man colonized In Baby- lon, the black robe of so-called justice and white hooded sheets mean the same thing. DEATH, Now, let's get into ‘‘over-reac- tion’’, The press world never says that Bull Conner ‘‘over-reacted”’ to Martin Luther King in Birming- ham; that the state troopers at Jackson State ‘‘over-reacted"’ when they shot 150-200 rounds into girl's dormitory; that Walter Dug- gan ‘‘over-reacted’’ when he shot an unarmed Black man in the hos- pital with a broken shoulder, To today’s society, it is impossible for a White man to ‘‘over-react"’ to niggers, Killing a Black man isn't over-reacting, it's justifiable homicide, The term over-reacting, is only applied when White pigs beat, kill their children, the mo- ther-country radicals, Pigs *‘over- react” to longhair andreefer; they "justifiably murder’ niggers. Even at Kent State, the National Guardsmen “‘over-reacted" to a group of students, to beat a White man in Babylon is totally unjus- tifiable, front page news; killing niggers is justifiable, page 17 news, All people move towards free- dom; this is an undeniable fact of life. The will to freedom, which drives men to confront their op~ pressor, to pick up the gun against their enemy, is in fact, thehistory of the world, And Black people are moving every moment closer to THE PLAGUE AND REALIZE THAT YOU ARE VICTIMS OF GREEDY CAPITALIST The pigs of the power structure have in mind for our people a dia- bolical scheme by whch they in- tend to totally erase Black peo- ple from the colonies of the U.S, This same genocidal plan is a fascist tactic used by the power Structure and motivated by their racist attitudes and greedy, ego- tistic drive for power. The pigs have set up conditions whereby they have pigs killing Black people, Black people kill- ing each other, starvation killing Black people, rars killing Black people and dope killing Black peo- ple. Each of these murderous acts are endorsed by the high level Pigs (Nixon - Agnew) and are guaranteed execution by the lower level pigs. Upon orders from the higher level pigs, the pig offi- cers go into the Black commu- nities and habitually commit mass murders, This open act of terror can easily be seen by the people, however other acts of murder are camouflaged by the pigs with hope of shifting the blame, once agaln fooling the people. One of these undercover methods of murder, which is dope, is be- coining & powerful weipon in the pigs’ frenzied attempt to barba- riously murder all of our people, The racist pigs first set up be- wailing deplorable conditions {in the Black colonies. Blick people were always looking for way to scape from their subhumaa lives aS slaves. The pigs know that the number of deaths from an OD, the number of diseases, (hepati- tis), the number of people going to jail, and the number of Blacks killing Blacks because of no pay- ment for dope, will increase un- til, those not killed by pigs, rats, Starvation or street fights will certainly die from the Influences of the dope that they are feeding us. The heartless pigs get sensual Pleasures when they hear about Larry dying from an OD or Sonny getting shot by a store owner while he was trying to get shot money, or Leon forcibly making his wife Stand on the corner to sell her body for his shot money, Because of the plague, the pene- tentiaries are loaded with Black faces, who were either kid- napped for possession, use, or 4 charge directly related to trying to get shot money together. Wake up tothe plague andrealize that you are victims of a greedy capitalist who in the jong run is taking all your money and is work- ing on taking your manhood by enslaving you to the PLAGUE", Realize that, you don't need his type, his poison drug, or his steal- ing, cheating, sadistic ways, We don't need polson to solve our problems, we need to remove the pig from our presence, Once again, 4 plea is made to bust the pig by any means necessary, DEATH TO THE PLAGUE DEATH TO THE PIGS FREE THE PANTHERS OF BALTIMORE Doug their Liberation from the ruling class in Babylon, In the course of our struggle, niggers justifiably over-react and take the head of the oppressor. We combine the two phrases and come up with an alto~ gether new term--Self Defense. When you over-react to the denial of your human rights and confroat the racist with his own negation. When you justifiably kill, the past, for the present, and more im- portantly for the future. COUNTER-ATTACK POWER TO THE SHARP - SHOOTERS] BLACK PANTHER PARTY Boston Chapter Michael Fultz SOUTH BOSTON RESIDENT OF "D” STREET PROJECT VICTIMIZED BY FASCIST PIGS On August 10, 1970, Bruce Cul- len, age 22, was fatally stabbed 8 times in South Boston after what appeared to be a fight. George Cooper, age 23, and father ofthree children was the victim of fascist storm troopers, who enforced their vicious no knock law on him, fright- ening and brutalizing his children and wife, Denise, who hashadopen heare surgery this past year, On the night of the crime, George, was at home trying to enjoy some fun with friends and relatives and has witnesses to that. This did not stop these swine from invad- ing his property, and charging him with the murder, They say he's guilty and all of this Is based on the statement of a 45 year old woman who is the enemy of the people in ''D"’ street project. She has been seen talking and laughing with the pigs. This poor excusefor 4 woman moved yesterday (August 12th) undec heavy police guard, Now Geocge was forced into Signing & statement at the pig Station because he did not knowhis constitutional rights. George, his wife, Denise and 4 small criminal element in the community, have an idea who did it, but George Is afraid to say for fear that these persons might bother his wife, De- nise, People of South Boston, what has gone down In your community is not new to us in the Black community, We know the exact nature of these pigs and are ready to deal with them. We are organizing self- defense groups to stop acts lke this. You see, the pig has no re- gard for the rights of poor andop- pressed people, Black people in particular, all poor and oppressed People of the country andthe world, We suggest you organize your com- munlty as we are here, and not allow yourselves to be victimized by these swine. We say, death to the pigs who cross our thres- told acting in the nature of a cri- minal, You see, they are the real criminals- not the poor and oppressed people, We showour so- lidarity to you in your struggle and know that you will See that Jus- tice ts done for George, ALL POWER TO/THE PEOPLE DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS 7 7 Lydia / Boston Chapt. Black Panther Party >» : ' THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMSE% 5. 1970 PAGE 4 OTIS PEW ESCAPES MODERN DAY SLAVERY IN SOUTH CAROLINA REPRINTED FROM “‘GEORGIA FREE PRESS” EDITOR'S NOTE; Otis Pew is a slight built black man of 54. His home is Daytona Beach, Fla. The competition proved too fierce, so his small landscaping business folded. Because of his inability to find a job in Daytona, he left there in search of one. When he left Florida, he never dreamed that the job he would find would be nothing but modern day slavery, It is difficult to believe that such conditions could exist in 1970, but what makes Mr. Pew’'s story more incredible is that the main offenders were black. A white man, Mr. C.L. Clark, a Trenton, S.C., fruit-packer, owns the land, and while there is some doubt as to whether he realized the conditions existing, it is difficult to belicve that he Was not aware of what was going on. But, as we stated earlier, this is mainly a story about oppression by blacks. This story is in Pew’s own words. Nothing has been added, and only a bit of the preamble has been taken away. The quict simplicity that he uses to relate his experience is more telling and effective than anyone who has not experienced a similar circumstance could do, As we stated earlier, Pew had left Daytona to find a job. He is basically a truck driver. After some traveling, he ended up in Cordele, Georgia. There he met “Big Joc”, He did not know Big Joe's last name. “Big Joe” was a recruiter for George Mullens, a black contractor who supplied labor for the peach growers, Big Joe promised Pew a job driving a truck in South Carolina, near Edgefield. He told Pew that he could make $35 or $40 a day by hauling As Pew was unemployed and looking for a job, the man’s offer seemed to be heaven sent, so he agreed to accompany Big Joe to Edgefield. The following is quoted directly from Mr. Pew: I arrived at the camp about ten after one in the morning, and went to work the next morning about 6 a.m, I got out in the peach orchard, looking to drive a truck, he said, ‘you'll have to pick peaches today, till I can get everything lined up, I'm going to tell George that you're going to drive. (George Mullens the contractor). George is also from Florida. he goes about from place to place and gets contracts to supply workers on these OTIS PEW places to pick peaches and watermelons and such. I would say the white owner is aware of what is going on to a great extent. Mr. C.L. Clark, owns the camp, and owns the orchards where all of these things were happening. Well, it finally came down that I would not be driving a truck; but picking peaches. And at what made me aware of what I was getting into, was that all day long there was a lot of violent talk from “Big Joc.” Such as a lot of cussing, like m-—— this, and nigger that, and he was a black man. And all day long, it was “black nigger, son of a so and so, end so forth. He talked to the workers like that all day. Now these foremen all carried .38 Magnums, and there was nothing the workers could do but take it. They carried these guns in their back pockets. There was three that carried them, “Big Joe”, George Mullens, and one of the other henchmen that they called “Pal”. Now there was two other henchinens out there, one of them they called “Big Man", and one of them they called “Mule”, who handles a buggy whip teal good. | never saw him use that whip on people, but everyone out there said that he had, P But even so | worked until two days ago (June 26), that morning, one of the boys couldn't go to work, he was tired and sleepy, but they made him go anyway. They load you up on moon shine, and beer, you have to pay for it, but you get it on time, they take it out of your pay. They didn’t give you a salary as such, but paid you by the number of peaches you picked. They give you 15 cents a bushel. The average man can pick about 50 bushels a day. Which turns into about $7 dav. Some of the people can't pick that much. A lot of people are sick and shouldn't be working, but they make you work anyway. They barely get over two dollars a day, and they charge you three dollars 4 day for food. A lot of the workers are on welfare, they come out because they can make a little money and the government not know it. They tell them (the workers) the welfare can't find out that they are working, cause no social security is being taken out. They tell them that they can make a lot of money, cause they are getting a check and the money that they make working too. They are just interested in getting workers out there. And there is no question of them working once the crew gets them out there. And there is no talk about leaving, that is out.. You couldn't go to town alone, the only time you could go to town is- if you go with them, the bosses watch over you while you are there, and they bring you back. If you are caught on the highway walking, state troopers or the county sheriffs department will pick you up and bring you back, (EDITOR'S NOTE: THE FREE PRESS, NOT BEING ABLE TO BELIEVE THIS ASKED MR. PEW, IF HE HAD SEEN THIS WITH HIS OWN EYES, AND HE RESPONDED THAT HE HAD.) This is Edgefield County, I saw it with my own eyes. They even gave a boy a ticket last week, for standing or walking on the wrong side of the highway, and he was standing there waiting to cross. When ever they bring someone back, they drive up to the camp, blow their horn, and say “Here's one of your Now I can’t verify this, but allegedly Mr. Clark has a warrent out to pick up anyone caught leaving the camp and bring them back. Of course that could have been just a rumor. They have prostitutes out there, and they have women not able to work. They have to go to work anyway. Why yesterday morning, they had a girl out there who was sick and didn’t feel that she could go to work. They beat her with a stick. I saw this with my own cyes, it was George Mullens who did it. The girl was possibly 18 years old, and he beat her until she got on the truck to po to work. My lite was threatened, Big Joc and George Mullens threatened me because | didn't like the issue that was going on and | spoke about going to try and get something done about it. I said this to one of the other workers after Big Joe beat up one of the workers in the field. He beat this boy in the face and on the head. And then he knocked him into a peach tree. When the boy fell down, Big Joe kicked him several times in the chest. Evidently the boy saw where he wasn’t going to be able to defend himself, so he just gave way. When Big Joe wilked away from him, I helped him up, and helped him put his peach sack on his back. When Big Joe got out of sight, he put the peach sack down and took off. When Big Joe came back, he asked me where the boy was, and I said I didn’t know. He said, “You do know you, black ——-, you are a -—~ lie,” To which I replied that I should know if I knew where he was or not, and | didn't know. And then he pointed his finger at me and said, “Nigger you are going to get killed right here. Just like | told you the other night. And I am going to be the nigger who kills you. You got too bright of ideas”. We never saw the boy who was beaten again. We hope he got away. They load you up on moonshine out there, and that morning the boy was hung over, and couldn't work the way that Joe wanted him to work. And Joe just dived in on him, no warning at all. He told him, “Black nigger, I should kill you,” and that was when he began to beat him, And this I hope to get a chance to say in court. Actually all that place is just a free world concentration camp.. I decided to get away when he threatened to kill me for the last time. He said “Nigger | am going to kill you now, right now.” When he turned away to talk to a fellow they called “Little Joe", to find out exactly what I faid about the NAACP and the FBI, | ran, ‘‘AN UNARMED I stayed in the woods all day, and thén I stayed offthe | highway. 1 didn’t know where | 1 was, so I didn’t know where 1 was going. But finally 1 4 came to a little town, where | got some aid from some of my Masonic Brothers. When I was running away, I saw Mullens car running up and down the road several times. | found out later, that they took all of my clothes and distributed them out to the other workers. And I don’t know who has my television set. I lost more than $700 worth of clothes and merchandise. When {| got away from there | went to the FBI in Aiken. They told me that they would check into it. I then came to Augusta, and have talked to several people since then. lamgoing | to fight this thing if it cost me my life. Soch conditions as these shouldn't exist, and I hope the government will do something about it. | am willing to testify in court. EDITOR'S NOTE: Several newsmen went to Trenton to check out Mr. Pew’s story. On the way there, a white mn was noticed walking down the road. Mr. Pew ~ recognized the man as one who worked at the camp. His name was Alex Broodky, the story he told was essentially the same as the one told by Pew. When the newsmen contacted Mr. Clark, they were told not ‘o play this thing up. He also refused them permission to enter the property to verify what Mr. Pew had said. He told them, “Well, I want to check out what they said, and you fellows come back one day next week.” While Mr. Pew's English wasn't always the way it is taught in school, what he had to say far outweighed the way he said it. This was Mr. Pew’s story. { i | 4 PEOPLE ARE SUBJECT TO fF SLAVERY AT ANY GIVEN TIME” that this racist coun- h its public assistance sand gencies, has never concern for the pos people in this capitalist coun- try, Yet, whenever another act on the part of these racists goes “4 which clearly points out the blatant lack of concern these pigs oo og angle $0 many of us set all hung up in shock and dis- believe. This should not be, At this “stage of the game, nothing these pigs do, should come as a surprise ‘Take for example, the case of “a young blood (16 years old) who visiting some friends in the ‘Columbia Point Housing projects, pee residents of this project have receatly been ‘*provided with a pig- ‘fb-stition, located in the housing project itself.) This blood was playing a game of basketball with his friends, when he suddenly col- lapsed from the eat due to some 885 Sort of heart failure, An emerc- gency medical clinic ts also lo- cated within the confines of the project, and they were Immediate- ly summoned for help, Bur of course, help never came, This young brother lay on the ground in the hot sun, dying, and these racist pigs just sat in their cool, clean, alr-conditioned ‘*medical clinic’ and refused to help saye his life, because as we know, the pigs don’t care about any niggers dying. In order to try to justify this murderous act to the people, the dogs started spouting some mad- ness about the medical clinic only Serving the residents of the hous- ing projects. These low-ijatured beasts, who sat by and let this brother die, actually tried to jus- tify this to the people. The people aren't accepting any of their lies. There can oe no ex- cuse or justification for this bro- ther to be dead, when these ra- PIGS OF COLUMBIA POINT HOUSING PROJECTS ALLOW 16 YEAR OLD BROTHER TO DIE cist pigs, were there with thepro- per facilities, and the knowledge to save his life, The only thing we can see frum this Incident is more proof thar the pigs of this country, don'tcare about the people, we can also see that since these pigs aren't in our community to serve the interests of the people, then we don't need or want them here. What we nave to understand is that these pigs are not about to pack up and Jeave. Thar if we want them out, then we must force them out, by any means necessary, And these pigs have shown us the only language they understand is the language of the gun. POWER TO THE ALL PEOPLE DEATH TO THE PIGS! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Boston Chapter Diana PIGS BRUTALIZE MEMBERS OF BLACK FAMILY IN MANTUA On Tuesday I, 1970, at approx- imately 7:00 p.m, 6 members of Rizzo's fascist force forced their way into a sister's home (Jean Thomas of 38SS Mr. Vernon st.) in search of Mrs, Thomas. The motive of this outright attack was geared to the exchange of un- friendly words between Mrs, Tho- mas and pig Donnely Gadge No. 1344) over a fire hydrant that was on in the community. This foul pig made racist slurs at Mrs, Thomas as she passed by and she counter acted with a display of unfriendly words. Pig Donnely called for as- sistance immediately after Mrs. Thomas left the scene enroute for home. WE ARE UNAFRAID TO EITHER FIGHT OR DIE FOR OUR FREEDOM! Shortly after Donnely phoned for assistance, pig Fierka (badge no,, 1200) came onthe scene demanding to know what was going on, Don- nely told Fierka told that he wanted to arrest Mrs, Thomas because she cursed at him and called him names but he didn’t have a war- rant to enter her home. Mrs, Tho- mas had left home shortly after she had entered. So Fierka told his low lifed counterpart Donnely to kick the door in or else he would, It ended up with Fierka and his reactionary companion ( Donnely, Jahocchi, and three other pigs) kicking in Mrs. Tho- mas‘’s door. These foul pigs en- tered the Thomas home with guns drawn, They started to silence the family dog but one of her children put the dog in the backyard while the pigs ran amuck through Mrs. Thomas's home with guns drawn and no search warrant. Inspite of Mrs. Thomas not being home the pigs beat her children with their nightstick and threw three of her children in the back of a wagon, They were taken to l6th Dis- trict, 3%h and Lancaster Ave., where the children were booked on various charges ranging from dis- orderly conduct to assault of an of- ficer, The Thomas children were released the next morning ar 3:00 a.m. Black people must rise up and inflict the ultimate political con- sequence on the fascist pigs. This wanton brutality of Black people will only be haulted when the mo- tivated forces of armed people move to counterattack and force al) the fascists to withdraw from the Black communities. THE RACIST DOG POLICEMAN MUST WITHDRAW IMMEDIATE- LY FROM OUR COMMUNIILIES, CEASE THEIR WANTON MUR- DERAND BRUTALITY AND TOR- TURE OF BLACK PEOPLE, OR FACE THE WRATH OF THE ARMED PEOPLE, ~---Huey P. Newton. Doc-Community Worker Black Panther Party Community Information Center 3625 Wallace street Philadelphia, Pa, 18 YEAR OLD YOUTH MURDERED BY PIG JACK SOMMERS IN CINCINNATI Richard Smith, an eighteen year old Black youth, was shot in the back, on August 16th, by a vicious Cincinnat! pig. Richard Smith and a companion, Jimmy Martin ag 17 were on the premises of the Day and Zimmer Construction Company when Mar- tin ran and hid under a truck. By this time the construction com- pany was surrounded because 4 burglar alarm had been tipped. Smith reached the top of the lad- _ der before he realized that his @Scape attempt was futile. There was a pig running towards the lad- der and another pig was on top of the roof of the building. Smith _ then pleaded for his Life at least times, but foarn mouthed man- fac Jack Sommers, who was aLout 25 feet away. almed and shot. Smith fell from the ladder to the still pleading for the plg to spare his Ife. Martin then came from underneath the truck and was immediately told to keep his mouth shut. One pig then told Martin that he was lucky that he didn’t shoot him Pig Dan Esslinger then put two pairs of handcuffs on Marcin, who at this time was scared for his own lfe. Martin was taken to District 7 Pig Department and beaten by Dan Esslinger, who Its known throughout the Black colony as a barbarous, sadistic -natured psy- cho. Martin was then shuffled back and forth between pig stys, so that no one would be able to get in couch) with him, Once Martin was contacted, he told of the brutal slaying, Martin along with another witness John W, Ranklin, carmdidate for Stare Leg. in the 69h District, stated thar there was only one shot fired, which is contradictory to whar pig Sommers had stared. The buffers were unhesirantly sent in the Black colony to silence any move the people might make against the existing power struc- ture, Myron Bush, a Black lackey councilman, listened to demands made by the people, at a com- munity mecting, but at this time no action has been taken against racist swine Jack Sommers. The people will not let the mur- der of Richard Smith go by un- answered, pig Sommers {5 a mur- derer and must be treated as a criminal against the people, DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE N,.C.C F,, Cincinnan, Ohio Michael Williams THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 5 REVEREND WEEKS A FIENDISH SLUMLORD LIES BEHIND THE ROBES OF A MINISTER It automatically goes without saying that the people have the right to the best that is possible under the objective conditions. In America, with the high level of scientific knowledge and techno- logy and the enormous wealth of the country, there is absolutely no excuse for people to be forced to live In sub-standard housing. If the rich businessmei can live in luxurious mansions with 15 bath- rooms and such, there is no reason why all of the people cannot live in similar comfort. Only a cri- minal, a low natured beast would rent out rat -infested housing to the people. Such a low Iifed beast is Reverend Thomas Weeks, who deals his dirt right here in the Black communities of Boston. Barbara Blocker, one of the peo- ple who rents fromWeexs, lives at 97A Elm Hill Avenue, I visited the sister on July 2%h, and [found the most deplorable housing con-i- tions possible. She lives in a four room flat which is marked with peeling plaster and cracked and peeling paint. Due to the fact that her apartment is situated in the sub-basement of the building, she also has a problem withrats. Any- time of the day or night, one can hear rats running through the walls, actually eating thelr way through the floor and walls of the apartment. Barbara has three small children, the youngest of which was bitten on the finger by a rat who had tunneled its way through the wall and Into the room where the little girl lay asleep. Mrs. Blocker has approached her landlord, Reverend Weeks, many times in reference to the rats and his only reply is ‘'take care of it yourself’, The only other time that Mrs. Blocker sees Rev- erend Weeks is when he comes to collect the rent, which is aridicu- lous $100.00 per month, Whar is even more fiendish is that-Rev- erend Weeks happens to be Bar- bara’s minister at the church where she goes to pray, My only question is if Reverend Weeks can justify his attitude towards Mrs. BENEFIT FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS EVERY Blocker’s situation by pulling out his Bible or by delivering a ser- mon on Sunday morning, then this so-called ‘*man of God"’ is nothing more than a pig; a fiendish money hungry hog hiding behind the Bible and the robes of a minister, and the people will deal with him as such, Preseutly, sister Barbara is pressing charges against Rev- erend Weeks, but we recognize the fact that the courts only serve the interests of these greedy businessmen and slumlords. so asking a “‘court of law’ to deal with this plg is only asking one pig to judge another pig. Later for the pig courts and later for the slumlords. We refuse to pay rent for the housing in which we are forced to live. The fact is thar living in an apartment or having shelter for ourselves and our fam- ilies is a right, our human right; it is not 4 privilege that we should have to pay for. So if the slum- lords refuse to give decent housing to us, we respond with the only course left open to us; seizure of the land and property for the purpose of developing it ourselves so that we will have decent homes in which to raise our fam- ilies, And if the pig slumlord comes around with the beasts in blue, trying to force their way into OUR homes, we will unl*ash total hell and fury upon these swine. Our shotguns, our rifles, .38"s and .357 magnums will be the only rent that we will pay to these pigs. A blast from our 12 gauge shor- guns will be enough payment to rent the slumiord and his hench- ‘men plots in the local cemetery, where they deserve to be for dar- ing to violate our right to life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and security of the home. SEIZE THE LAND, HOLD THE LAND, DEVELOP, THE LAND! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Boston Chapter SUNDAY 5:00PM-9:30PM CONTINENTAL CLUB 1658 12th STREET OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA 1.50 AT THE DOOR PROCEEDS GO FOR LEGAL DEFENSE OF POLITICAL PRISONERS | POPULAR NTERTAINMENT WEEKLY fone cs e THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 6 4 ROOSEVELT HILL Jr, Early Wednesday morning Roo- sevelt Hill, 33, the Director of the Black students program az the Un- versity of Colorado Deaver Cen- ter, his wife, Mrs. Myrtes HiIU and five Black studenrs were re- turning from Canon City State Pri- s0n approximately 200 miles from Denver, in a state owned vehicle. They had been working with Black inmates trying to set up a work Study program for Black brothers on parole to attend various so- called institutions of higher learn- ing throughout Colorado. Mr, Hill stopped at a Mobil gas station in Colorado Springs, Co- lorado to purchase some gas. He presented @ State credit card to pay for the gas to a White Station attendant, Ellis Leon Lir- tle, 21, a Ft. Carso mercenary Soldier who had recently returned from Vietnam where he murdered people of color who are only fight- ing for thelr liberation. After Lir- tle received the credit card from Mr. Hill he stayed in the station office with two other White com- panions approximately 1S minutes before Mr. Hill even walked into the office to find out what was tak- ing Little so long. Mrs. Hill later entered the gas Station while her husband was talking to Little and she held her husband around the waist as they began to leave, during which time mercenary maniac Little turned around and took a .38 caliber re- volver from a desk drawer and without additional warning, fired one shot which struck broth- er Roosevelt Hill in his heart, which was the exact bullseyé This time Reggie Mines, one ot the Black students, wan in the doorway, The brother weut into the station after the shot was fired and mad dog murderer, Little, then Polnted the revolver at Reggie, This letter is to the people of a country which oaly has one wey left in order to recelye our constitu- tional rights and justice, We as a people united must ARM OURSELVES AND DESTROY THE POWER STRUCTURE which has been keeping us oppressed by the propaganda, force and gestapo tactics which is hidden by a name used by the pigs (LAW & ORDER). IT is the right of the people to destroy any form of government which no longer has the rights of all the people in mind and make 4 new government which will pro- tect all people, We must as a UNITED PEOPLE bring back justice, So that we as free men and women can lve in a free society. This can only come MERCENARY RACIST MURDERS ---- A BLACK MAN whea Mrs. Hill who was cradi- ing her husband on the floor pleaded to Little not to shoot Mines. At this time Mines saidhe managed to scramble tohide feet and move back out of the pig's line of fire while Little being very pa- ranoid became distracted. Another studeat Thaddeus By- nam entered the station and the mercenary plg polnted the gun in his direction in hopes of killing another nigger. However, Little's peer, the local yocal pig police arclved oa the scene at this time and the killing of nigger no.2 was delayed, When the local pig killer coos arrived, mad dog Lir- tle still had the gun In his bloody hands while slobbering from the mouth sadistically, but the pig cops didn't take the weapon from him, After witnessing this opea neglect to unarm a racist mur- derer by so-called law enforce- ment officers, brother Thaddeus Bynum tried to take the gun from Little, during which time the pig police pulled brother Bynum away from Little, handcuffed Bynum, maced the brother In the eyes and mouth, and knocked him on top of Mr. Hill and the fouldecrepit pigs ‘Continued to mace Mr, Hilleven after he was already severely wounded and also brother Bynum. The ambulance arrived and Mr. Hill was finally placedin the am- bulance although he died while en - route to the hospital. Mrs. Hill was not questioned at all aboutthe cacist shooting of her husband be- cause the pigs were too busy act- ing as the protectors of Whitera- cist killer, Little, instead of the people, Brother Thaddeus Bynum was placed under arrest and booked ar the Colorado Springs Ci- ty Pig Pen for interferring with law enforcement officers The racist pig policemen acted in the true manner of a vital part of existing American gestapo forces by treating brother Roosevelr HII, his wife and the Black students with them more like criminals than the true criminal and racist vigilanties whogui.ned down Roose- velt Hill, The racistpig policemen lying demagogic politicians and greedy avaricious businessmen across Babylon are working hand inhand with racist patriotic right wing terrorist, such as racist mercenary Ellis Leon Little, the Ku Klux Klan, American Nazi Par- ty, and the Minutemen, The na- tion’s ruling class including Mo- bil of] company, encourages and cheers on all racist genocidal deeds inflicted against Black peo- ple. Therefore as Black people, colonized across Babylon, we charge the capitalistic pigs and all thier racist lackies, guilty of the mass murder of Black people, red people, Brown people, Yellow peo- ple and all oppressed people wiio are considered as inferior slaves in racist imperialistic America, We, a5 Black people cannot re- ly on the courts and judges of the racist oppressor nor any fascist law enforcement agency of bru- tality and murder, from the whips of the fascist overseers, the long line of lynchings of Black people today by racist pig policemen and fascist lackies and agents across America, Justice will only be woa in the streets and oppressedcom- munities where the people are. To combat this increasing geno- cide of Black people we have but one alternative left at this time in history and that is totake up arms for our survival and to inflict deadly oolitical consequences against the blood thirsty oppres- Sor. Only with the gun can the Black masses, standing 30 mil- lion strong, halt the oppressor’s terror and brutality that {Is being perpetuated against them by the armed racist power structure, NUMBER 7 OF THE BLACK PAN- THER PARTY PLATFORM AND PROGRAM STATES: WE ‘WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE SRUTALITY ANDMUR- DER OF BLACK PEOPLE, WE a BELIEVE WE CAN END POLICE r BRUTALITY AND MURDER IN OUR BLACK COMMUNITY BY ORGANIZING SELF-DEFENSE ! GROUPS THAT ARE DEDICATED TO DEFENDING OUR AMEND- MENT OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES GIVE A RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS, WE 5 THEREFORE BELIEVE THAT | ALL BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD ARM THEMSELVES FOR SELF- DEFENSE! ARM YOURSELF OR HARM YOURSELF! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! N.C.C.F,, Denver Colorado Alando Pipkin CREATING CORRECT EXAMPLES The Black liberation struggle is reaching a cricfcal stage. We ace at the point where an armed strug- gle for our freedom, freedomwhere self-defeuse, counler-aicack must become a mass activity. We as a people need more examples of re- volutionary actions which deal these pigs running amuck In our communities committing wanton brutality, torture and murder of Black people which deals these pigs painful blows; death blows. Yet now. not enoug) of our people are prepared to defend theinselves Witmess the daily piy harassment that we face In our own homes Arthur Davis, of Philadelphia, Pa,, is one brave brother, who set an example for us all by defending himself and his wife and child alive, while tn the process he weunded 3 pigs as they busted down his door. This cighteous ex- ample of self-defense will be re- peated across this country. In every city, and in Philadelphia, many times over, But we need more examples of COUNTER-ATTACK, of retalita- tlon and revenge, or aggressive self-defease, So that as a vanguard Party, we must, as Huey says, ‘provide leadership for the people.....must teach the correct strategic methods of prolonged existence through literature and activities,"’ In many areas there have been too few or no righteous examples of the correct method of aggressive resistance (Counter-Attack), This must be understood to de the re- sponsibiltty of the Party: To con- duct propaganda and to give ex- amptes. So that as the Party as a whole we must openly self- cri- ticize ourselves and strive to WE WILL DEFEND OUR COM- MUNITY BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY} te BROWN BEARS COMING ALIVE about through REVOLUTION inor- der to return the POWER TO THE PEOPLE. Many of the people are lost and fee! helpless, because they have the idea that a5 one person they are Powerless against these pigs who are our oppressors working for the establishment and not the people. YOU CAN HELP! All you need is to find out whch way you can UNITE is the key work. 1 as 4 CHICANO, appeal to LA RAZA to UNITE for true FREE- DOM for our PEOPLE, Let us ENJOY our RIGHTS, witch oaly the rich have been re- celving. INSURE JUSTICE for our PEOPLE, This can come about BY UNITING, HOW CAN WE UNITE? This is the first and hardest thing thar has to be done, We all must do our part and in awsy that will enable us to help and inform oiers. The answer is In WHAT tS NEEDED TO UNITE, FOR THE BROWN GEARS TOBE- COME UNITED WE NEED: 1, OFFICERS, with telephone for the people to have a place to re- celve Information and HELP, which we have had to do without in the pant, 2. NEWSPAPER, for us to tell the people the cruth about what is hap- pening to our PEOPLE and keep people informed as to (a) what has to be done, () how, and (c) wie 3. ATTORNEYS, TO STOP ABUSE which many people have been re- ceiving from the courts and pigs. because we have not had anyone to fight for our rights, for In the past only the rich could afford lawyers. 4. MONEY, is needed for ATTOR- NEY, OFFICE, NEWSPAPERS, and to help people In need. 5. PEOPLE, to help the rest of the people by working in the of- fices and to run the paper. WHAT CAN YOU Do? Please write BROWN BEAR PARTY P.O. Box 205 change our practice to include the setting of correct examples for the people. For the masses of the peo- ple learn their ways of resisting from the activities of the Party, The people must have correct examples in order to move cor- rectly; do the necessary job. Yer everyone is trying toget prepared. So we must ask how much cm ration do we need? We must Use — what we have to get what we need, Too many people are waiting to buy weapons, We will not always be able to have more force power than the enemy; sometimes we must cély completely on the ele- meni of surprise to combat the pig’s communications/ mooility and mobility and information. We must do sas the courageous Urtle sisters at the Ruggles Street projects did. These little revolu- tionaries counter -attackedthe pigs who were In the projects harass- ing a brother, The sisters saw .S5ome people in one of the pig cars and Lit it with a match, The pig car was taken, as 4 result, without the benefit of arms at all, So we say, holdthe future of these — dynamite little sisters high by re- lating to thelr righteous example — with one of our own As 4 peo- ple we must understand that to wate is to walt for death, and thar to constantly wage a liberation struggle for our people, holding up high examples of truly revo- lutionary acts, is the only path for any vevoluriosary comoutredre the freedom of iis people. DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! Boston Chapter Black Panther Party SO Ge ee Bellflower, Calif, BROWN BEAR PARTY Minister of Information, Huero Austin < -UBERATION FOR ck people by giving us ere ec tye sinacer’s ow off the shackles and chains a our. 5 Whenever we try to mold these few crumbs into ‘a strong tool for the liberation of our people, the pigs will attempt to take back or destroy, by any possible means,these tokens; these pleces of “chump change." The fascist pigs will always toy and dis- mantle (ake apart) evecy weapon which the pigs have used on us and which we haveremolded and turned on them. “Say brothec’’, a weekly tele- ‘vision show for the Black people of the Eastern Mansachusetts ares, Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, and New Sedford, became such a tool of liberation, Like nearly all of the “Black TV’* shows across the country, ‘Say Brother"’was the television ladusmry’s(the Pig-me- dia’s) response tothe crisis crear- ed by the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Pig institutions of government (lying politicians), the yreedy businessmen, pig found- ations and all kinds of private or- ganizations began to develop plans designed to co-opt and soothe the angec of the Black community without attacking the source of the problems of Black people: The rac- ist, fascist system of capitalisin which daily cominits genocide against Black people. During the summer of 1968, Black people were hired at WGGH TV, channel 2 In Boston, to create a Black runpro- gram which was supposed to serve the needs of the Black com- munity. ‘Say Brother®’ was atfirst what the pigs wanted it to be; a program of entertainment, with casual discussions on community issues by th endorsed spokesmen the so-called “‘comimunity lead- era’ as defined by the pig power structure of the Boston area Black coinmunity, Since all of the broth- ers and sisters who star.ed werk on “Say Brother"’ had almost no ex- perience with TV, a great deal of thelr actention and energy wis Spent on learning television tech- nology and technique. As the series continued Into its second year, it Slowly became stronger, relying less on endorsed spokesmen and more on the people in the street for Interviews The narrators, hosts, and commentors, became more militant also, The community problems thar were examined were more basic; ‘Say Brother’ began to expose the true causesof op- pressioa and brutalization of Black people on the TV screen, Since January 1970, free-lance reporter, William Worthy was a regular comme ator for the show, and he constantly exposed the wir In Viet- nim a8 @ genocidal attack on the Vietnamese people. Although ‘Say Brother’ has produced many shows and seg- ments of shows which expose the blaataar racist oppression that our people endure every day, 3 pro- grams stand out as among the most the most important of the gecies and they are the examples f Of why the pigs had to remove the "Say Brother’ from the air or ce total exposure. One show on “The Black Soldier’, detailed the openracis that has always existed military and the new forms racism in the “‘plg service” war, Tae pigs of WGBH 4 to let this prograin be BLACK PEOPLE {$ STOLEN FROM THE PEOPLE dowa, The final 2 shows, oa the situation in New Bedford right af- ter the cebellion, and on the role of the media and how they mislead Black people, un- covered too much for the pigs of WGBH to stand any longer, The Continual exposure of the torture and the oppression of the Black community finally forced these Pigs to take ‘'Say Brothec”’ off the alr, The ou the street inter- views, in the language of «a peo- ple, brutalized and murdered for 400 years, and the exposure of the wretched conditions of housing, the highest unemployment rate in this country, mis-educatioa, and pig brutality against the people of New Bedford made this one of the best programs, “Say Brother” ever did, The last program done was an analysis of Biack TV programs, White middle class imitations such as Julla and the Bill Cosby show, aS well as the pig programs Mod Squad, | Spy, Mission Impossible, elec, were exposed to the people for whattheyare - attempts by the pig media to brainwash Black peo- ple into accepting the constant fas- cism perpetrated upon us dally. The program also examined the huge limitations that the pig media places on the few Black shows which are actively trying to ex- plore the courses und effects of the pigs continuous violence against us, The pigs that contro] WGBH, have molded the station Into a sterile, middle class horror show which telecasts among others, CIA, Ini- tiated programs such as Crisis: Congo, for high school classrooms and “Wf! You Were President" for adults, So these pigs have no in- tention of permitting any oppressed People to use the air waves to educate themselves toward a Strugyle for their own Liberation. Racist Excuses In dropping ‘'Say Brother’’, WGBH (Specifically racist lackey, Michael Rice) charged that there was a lack of professionalism, too much obscenity, failure to pre- sent opposing views and Mis- represenmation of the Black cotn- mucity! These racist pigs have shownjhelr madness by trying to . even claim that they know any- thing about the Black community, and the idea that Chief Stafford Caldecwvod general manager) and his lackeys can claim to judge what Black people think, is especially ridiculous. In fact, in a meeting of the Black community with Cald- erwood und Rice, ar the National Center for Afro-American Artists, the people nearly took their heads for the blatvat racism which they displayed. Another racist lame excuse was that “Say Brother’ had a lack of professionalism. The pigs that run WOGH made no provisioa for the detafled, extensive main- ing necessary to be 4 good direc- tor or producer, other than a few hours of observalon of some di- rectors and a short time working on the studio crew (cameramen, sound boom, floor manager, etc.) o— 6— O-— O-— 0 -— 0 -—— 9 8 8 — OO To the Central Committee of the Black Panther Party: As one of the attorneys for George L. Jackson, brother of Jonathan P, Jackson, I want to thank the Black Panther Party for the services conducted for Brother Jovathan jackson yesterday, George Jackson has asked me to convey his appreciation as well, Because of the thousands of people who came to share the desire yet, “Say Brother"? was one of the best produced and directed shows at WGBH. These pigs also wolfed about the So-Called “‘fairness doctrine" laid dows by the Federal Commurica- tions Commission, which states that & Station must provide ample time for opposing points of view, The fools of the WGBH maragement claim that ‘Say Brother” never provided opportunity to reply to. the slumlords who were mentioned etc, This amounts to ademand that teh only locally produced show for Black people on channel 2, spend half of its time telecasting the replies and starements of racists who are fools enough to publical- ly try and justify their crimes, These pigs understand just as the Black community does, that "Say Brother's’ 2 hours weekly ( a one hour show repeated) hardly balances out the seven and one half hours daily of racist pro- gramming which WGBH puts out. So if the ‘fairness doctrine” is applied objectively, the Black com- munity should have almost a whole day of programs every week. Finally. WGBH has saidthatRay Richardson, the producer, had caused the major ‘‘problems"’ of the show, If this is true then all that has to happen is the firing of Richardson, But the pigs know that then the rest of the staff would contimie to bring the Black commiuiilty revolutionary pro- gramming. So that the pigs had no altecnative; the orders were; des- troy ‘‘Say Brother’’ by any means with any excuse, but destroy it. Nearly all of the local, and all of the national TV programs are crumbs from the master’s cabls. They are still caught up in get- ting Black people to imitate wiltes, to suppress us our own identity in trying to channel Black people's desires for liberation into the ac- ceptable forms pushed by the en- dorsed spokesmen, and into power- less concepts of *‘cultural libera- tlons"* the old cultural nationalists line which serves as an excuse to explolt and oppress their own peo- ple, As brother Doug Miranda has laid it down, ‘Shall we lick the master’s boots or take the master’s head?’ Only "Say Broth- er’’ has even begun to try the se- coad cholcel The Black Panther Parcy under- stands that it is impossible to open- ly attack the pig power structure soon within one of its own Insti- tutions, Thar ‘‘Say Brother’ was driven off the air was a bad thing but the attack by the pigs was a good thing for It is when our ene- mies attack us and attack 1s force- fully that we know that we have done cur job correctly. A Line of demarcation has been drawn bet- ween the pigs and the people by “Say Brother’. By dropping the show, they have only made this line more clear to the people, As 4 people moving toward liberation, Black people will move on all the racist pigs who block our path; this includes the whole of the pig media, and especially WGBH, We will kill anyone who gets inthe way of our freedom! DEATH ‘TO ALL FASCIST PIGS! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Cappy Pinderhughes Boston Chapter, Black Panther Party for freedom aad justice for which the Brothers gave their lives, 1 was not able to enter the church; so I can state truly that the services as heard outside were also received with solema re- dedication. Power to the People, Fay Stender, Esq. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 7 JAMES CATO OF WINSTON SALEM SUBJECTED TO FASCIST FRAME - James Cato, 26, year oldresi- dent of Winston-Salem has oow been added to the many attempts by the pigs of the power structure to be framed, This case is justone of many where trumped up caarges have been placed on brothers wae tn some kind of way are striving for freedom and Liberation in Babylon and Winston-Salem, Brother Cato wasarrested athis home in the darkness of the night (Fred Hampton Hour 5;00 a.m.)on the trumped up charges of rob- bery, Thursday morning 8/20/70, brothee Cato was asleep: in bed when 10 carloads of pigs armedto tre gill and looking like Nazi storm troopers (foaming at the mouth) approached his house. His parents not knowing what was coming down were really astounded to find so many pigs at their house that ear- ly in the morning, Cato, himself not knowing what was happening was not the least bit surprised to see so many fascist at his house because of the situation at hand here in recent days in Winston. Earlier today when he was first arrested he was «charged with robbery; of what, no one knows, Later on in the evening he was charged with storebreaking 114 larceny, The fascist dogs Del.ag the sconiving: artists they are oecame stumped when it comes to deter- mining which trumped up charges are best sulted ar this particular time. But when ic somes to tactics employed by titern, they don’t need much decision making ability be- cause a fascist doesn't need much of a mind, They know they don't need much of a case, which is not their main concern anyway. They are more concerned with harass- ing and intimidating him about his political work than anything else, It is very important to mention the fact that the brother justcame out of the fascist and racist army of the U.S, He cameto the N,C.C.F, headquarters shortly after his ar- rival home from the army. He was very inquisitive and sought know- ledge concerning the N,C,C,F, and the Black Panther Party. Af- ter enlightening him to some of the principles and guides gov- cerning our party and the posi- tion we took on the present sys- tem, he began to question our an- alysis of the power structure and how it operates In a round about way, We pointed out to him time after time; that if we couldn't organize him and some of the other people with the same re- luctancy around revolutionary principles, that the pigs would, organize him around pig princi- ples. I hope that this incident has made the fascist pigs position very clear when it comes to Black people in Winstoa as well as allof that repression breeds resistance and we hope thar the brother un- derstands this also and will move on a higher level to deal with the oppressor in a righteous manner, We are in the process of rai- sing money for his bond, if the people of Winston -Salem would like to make donations please send checks or money orders to: Rickie Hooper.1502 East Mth st. Winstoa, Sale:n, North Carolina, ALL POWER TO Hib PEDPLE! DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! N.C.C_F, Winston-Salem, N,C, REVOLUTIONARY BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE NEW Congratulations on your bailre- ductions and the release of four more stroag brothers. We have alreadybackecthe pigs up andforced them to make more subtle their fascist actioas of kidnapping you and cansoming you, Within a week of theic vamp against you in the office and outside the office of the New wedford, N.C.C F,, the pigs of the racist court system have been driven to the defense, and badly lost much of their ability to contain you and prevent you all from organizing, We have seen thestrength and faith in us demonstrated by many brothers and sisters of the New Bedford community as they have overflowed the courthouse each time the pigs have brought you there, Their anger, too, is 4 good sign that the city of New Bedford is so full of revolutioaaries, thar these pigs can’t jall the revolu- tlon here, by jailing you, The pigs have only e:dorsed what the N,C.C.F, and the Party have to Say to the people. So we must organize the people BEDFORD 20 around your imprisonment and a- rouad their oppression so thar all of us realize that your fate must be ours too. and our fate, yours; that as revolutionaries from New Bedford and as the true leaders and fighters for the Liberation of Black people here and all over ra- cist Babylon, you mustbe liberated by any means necessary: We will mobilize the people and struggle in the courts, for we Intend to exnaust all legal means. If that is not enough the people will staad in judgment of these pig admin- istrators, and you will all befreed by any means necessary, The people will have their jus- tice. To deny us thar, the pigs must first deny us life, for we refuse to let these pigs brutalize and attack our community any longer. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! LET THE MADMEN OUTI DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Boston Chapter THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 8 NATIONAL COMMITTEE TO COMBAT FASCISM OPENS IN DENVER, COLORADO The National Committee to Combat Fascism is announcing the opening of the Colorado Chapter National Committee to Combat Fascism at 2311 Clarkson Street, Denver, Colorado 80205, The new N,C.C.F, is taking up the respon- Sibility of serving the people that formerly belonged to the Colorado Chapter of the Black Panther Party which has been DISBANDED, The N.C.C.F, is the organizing bureau of the Black Panther Party and is run by and for the people of our Black communities. We are asking you to come out and help institute and/or support such oaationally supported pro- grams as: 1. Free Breakfast for Children Program 2, Free Lunch for Children Program 3. Liberation School 4. Free Bussing for Family and Feiends of Prisoners Program 3. Free Clothing Program 5. Free Health Clinic Program 7. Rallies for Political Prisoners Community Political Education Classes for the Black community are currently being held every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday evenings from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. to educate our brothers and sis- ters to the functions and policies of the National Commitices to Combat Fascism andto the oppres- sive conditions under which we are presently ving in this society. Legal First Aid Services are free to the community to ald In legal matters, particularly mat- ters concerning pig police harass- msnt, brutality and murder of Black people. N,C.C.F,, Denver Chapter 2311 Clarkson Street Deaver, Colorado 80205 For Further Information Phone; (303) 893-1334 SEIZE THE TIME ALL POWER BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE! RORY HITHE AND LANDON WILLIAMS LANDON STILL Political Prisoners Denver, Colorado TO CONNECTICUT FROM DENVER, COLO. AND RORY FIGHTING Whites, Oriental, Indians and what have you. CONCERNING THE NEW BEDFORD N.C.C.F. It is general knowledge, that yeople of color live in the worst »0ssible conditioas, Although you will find that poor Whites are forced to live in the most inhuman conditions also. people of color nave always received the worst of everything. Black, Brown, Red and Yellow people have also been subjected to many other forms of ‘‘disre- spectof human rights’’, such as brutality, murder, starvation. etc. clonary'’ mission on July 31. Unemployment must be recognized In addition cto five Panihers, and pointed out as another aspect ‘here were 17 bloods from New of “disrespect of human rights’, Sedford in the headquarters of Roughly. 8% of New Bedford's the N.C.C,F, at the time of the wpulation is without employment, aid, Three have since been re- The most important thing here is leased on personal recognizance thar of thar 8%, about 7% iscom- 48nd three have had the charges posed solely of people of color, dropped. The rest are still being Add to this the evec present pig incarcerated. Also, 1 would like A political prisoner challenges these very foundations of re state itself and that is why he is ar- rested. He Is arrested Decalise his {fdeas and actions challenge its power to repress, exploit and murder. ‘America is a capitalist cous- try, that Is to say it Is built on the ideas of a handful of indivi- duals exploiting the people for pro- fir, owning the properties, the foods, the resources, which belong to the people themselves and whom they were stolen from,To stripy against capitalist explolration aod its racism and class oppression is to be a revolutionary. “To be a revolutionary {is to be an enemy of the Stare. “To be arrested for this strug- gle is to be apolitical prisoner...” ~ Chairman Bobby Seale, BPP So In essence, to be a political prisoncr is to be framed oy the State for crimes which you did not commit in order to exterminate you. TO BE FRAMEDIIIII If you understand the above then you know wi.y you must be present at the Federal Bldg, on the 4th of September ar 10:00 a.m, If you don’t understand the above, then you must come to enable your- Landon Williams and Rory Hithe were kidnapped from the Black community at approximately 1:30 a.m,, Thursday, June 6, 1969, The fasclst gestapo police of Denver, Colorado along wih Fed- cra] agents, used the pretext of looking for two fugitives for fe- lonious flight to avoid prosecu- tion to justify a coaspiritorial plan to incarcerate and/or murder so unjustly denied them. Contra- members of the Black Panther diction upon contradiction (State Party. vs. Slaves) was brought out, The Landon aad Rocy werekidnapped yovernor of the state of Colorado, but there were no warrants of John Love, was shown tn error search nor arrest presented atthe by the defense and couldhave given time of arrest, The warrant of these brothers their freedom back, arcest followed from the state of No concrete evidence to show proof Connecticut approximately two of a murder they did notcommit-- weeks later, yet the powers of this overtly fas- These two brothers have been cist country, state, clty andcounty, in Denver County jail fighting ex- saw fit to endorse extradition, This tradition for the past 14 months. decision was appealed in the un- They have been tortured by being just State Supreme Court and was kept in isolation during this entire again endorsed in favor of extra- period and last year for 40 days diting to Connecticut, had only bread and water (involun- On Friday, September 4, 1970, tarily) with the exception ofameal ar 10:00 a.m. at the Federal Bidg,, every third day, This was asclose in Denver, Colorado, Landon Wil- as the ‘“‘turkeys’’ could get to Lams and Rory Hithe will again complete starvation and still try ask for justice to be meted out to justify ir. Even four-leggedpigs to them by the corrupt federal are fed inore and ear better than court of injustice in the City and people, and other peoples ofcolor, they dedicated their lives to ridding our people of this degenerate so- ciety’s plan to destroy their al- most non-functional wage slaves, On November 17, 1969, Landon Williams and Rory Hithe made their last court appearance before two fascist, senile judges, in an attempt to cegain their freedom to help the brothers and sisters Thus, came the birth of the New Bedford Chapter of the Nationaal Committee to Combat Fascism (N.C.C.F,), an organizing bureau of the Black Panther Party. The People really began to relate, The New dedford pig deparrment, sens- ing @ correct resistance being formed against their sadistic tac- tics, organized and carried out a “search and jail every revolu- La brutality and murder and the most recent murder of 17 year old Les- ter Lima ivy a group of White racists, you'll find a people ready to do anything for freedom. 400 years of ‘‘illegal'’ no-knock action has only intensified resistance. We can see thingsare getting worse, as all over Babylon, “illegal no- xnock"’ is quickly belng impte- mented as law--"'legal no-knock’’, Forced ro live in this setting, the Black and Brow people of New Bedford have given up their for- mer role of spectators for a role of survival; the role of an actor engaged in the act of freeing them- selves in particular, and all poor people, who deserve it regardless of color in general, When Lester Lima was shot down py these cacists, this was the crushing blow of a long List of blows against our people. The beautiful people of New Bedford immediately began taking the ac- tion to the Streets. The pigs reac- ted and because the people wece in large groups as a whole, the pigs could pick the time in which to artack,After bearing a few of the people and locking up a few, the pig mayor imposed a curfew, Seeing from social practice, thar a-massing in large numbers in front on the pigs’ guns was not the solution, the beautiful people of New edford wanted guidance so they sought help from tie Black Panher Party's Boston Chapter, ‘The Party sent a few bloods down to point out that they are cona- Stantly being moved around by these sadistic, depraved, degen- erate, de-numanized dog pigs; ob- viously an attempt to destroy their Spirit. Thelr mail is coastantly tampered with (especially incom- ing), There is nothing too low for these dogs to do. They will fall in their never ending attempts to desmoy their spirits. 1 don’t know everyone In- carcerated but those that Ido know and those I have worked with, | will give you a description and Show you what I am talking about, First let's begin with big Bob Heard. When I first met the bro- ther, he ran into the office (in Boston) in a mohair suit and said he wanted to join the Party. He has internalized all the teach- ings of Huey and has showa nothing but a determined effort to serve the people, This doesn't suy lie is asupernigger, just an avecage nig- gec off the block who digs wine as much as the next blood, Nex Yl) talk about Orlando Vaughn This brother joined the Party along with myself, as we were {riends for azout a year, prior to our joining. As a matter of fact, it was he wi first got me interested In serving the people. You never for vne solid minute caught Or- lando not doing anything or never caught him not display! iy selfless- ness or comradeship, He too, was just a nigger off the block ww decided it wastime to end the bad thar, Landon and Rory have had nu- merous court appearances where fascist judges, Don D, Bowman and Robert T, Kingsley have led to railroad them from Colorado to New Haven, Connecticut. The pigs say Landon and Rory are a part of a conspiratorial plot to murder a fellow Comrade-in- arms, Alex Rackley, when actually they alom: with sevea other Pan- thers, incliding Chairman Bobby Seals, are victims of a vicious plot headed by Richard Nixon, to destroy the Black Panther Party, Upon seeing the atrocities com- initced upon their people, Black conditions. Johnay Viera was the newest recent servant of the peo- ple. Howe er, throuy') his praccce. you would think he was arourd when Bobby and Huey first vegan to organize, Always with a smile on his face, he displayed a goodrela- tionship with the people and with his comrades, Kathy Perry ts oae of the most vibrant revolution- aries, Her organizing abilities are such that the pigs had to take her off the screets, ask the Progressive Labour Party She was instru- menial in running them out of Ja- maica Plain Project, Kathy has a beautiful youag revolutionary dagger, 4 year old Marilyn Percy. She wae in New Gedford ar the time of the bust, She was seit elsewhere immediately fol- lowing. The Boston pig depart- County of Denver, Landon Williams Hithe are POLITIDAL PRISON- ERS, “Generally, the political prison- er’s ideas relate to the need for freedom of the people at large and demand an end to their oppres- sion and exploitation, A political prisoner's ideas challenge the very premises of the state itself; In this case the function and purposes of capitalistic America, The State—all its institutions and Structure, is the instrument whereby the ruling class maintains its economic power to oppress the people, Blacks, Latinos, poor ment began to look for her. They stopped off at a place where Kathy aud Marilyn used to stay andbegan questioning a sister who Myed up- Stairs, Knowing the true uature of the pigs, the sister Jidn'r say any- thing. They left her apartment and then her son came incrying, ‘These pigs after leavin: her apartmest, had cornered ter four year old son, Kevin and began to interro- gate him to such a degree thar they frightened him. The sister (whose name ts Jackle) thea came out and scraightened our these dogs of scum, The last brother | am going to tell you about is Wayae Thomas, “Sluggo"’ as we callhim, Joined the Party, after comiag arouad 4 few times, Digging whar he saw, he began to relate full time. Never ance asking for any~ and Rory self to betier understand, How do you know? You may be che next victim--a POLITICAL PRISONER, FREE LANDON! FREE RORY FREE THE CONN. 8 FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS COURT APPEARANCE & RALLY Friday, September 4, 1970 at 10:00 a.m, Federal Bliy Deover, Colorado ALL POWER TO THE OPPRESSED ! PEOPLE! DEATH [9 THE FASCST PIGS N.C,C.F,, Denver Coaprer thiag for himself except when he waated to go see his family-—-hls wife and three kids and one on the way, The spirit of these comrades cannot o¢ broken, just as the spirit of the best of the kidnapped can- not be broken because cevolution= aries are made out of spirit-brokea conditions. We are a result of 400 years of mis-educetioa, under or — un-employment, bad housing, bru- tality, murder, ete, You name tt, if it's sub-humaa, fts been. forced — on Black aad Brown people, 45. well as all people of color, FREE THE ASDRORD 20 FREE ALL POLITICAL PRI- SONERS CAN BLACK PANTHER PARTY | Boston Chapter \\) Roland Chamiers people away from the Black Pan- on built by the pigs for ort of thelr conspiracy to re- move Black faces from fascist Babylon. From the outside of the jail, it is plain to see their hired killers perched up in towers with an aray of guns at their dis- posal. These killers are ordered to murder anybody they see ar- tempting to free themselves from the bars and shackles, that te pigs have forced on them, Built around “these vulnerable tower pig pens {5 a barbed wire fence thar is Supposed to be the boundaries of the pig pen, Once you have passed through the prison gates, and by the killer pig in the tower. you wal down 4 loag walk which secves as a line of demarcation berween the people that the pigs have locked up within the confines of the Black communities andthe people thatthe pigs have locked up within the con- fines of the cement walls. There is a desk pig who has a book that is filled with the names of the people they have captured from the street, and are forcibly holding in their dungeons. Among the List of captives in this book are members of the Black Pan- ther Party, separated from the rest of the prisoners, these ser- vants of the people were hunted and captured because of their dedication to the people's just Struggle for freedom. These Pan- thers of Baltimore, just like Pan- thers throughout racist Babylon, because of ther political beliefs are victims of freedom snatching pigs. Marshall Conway, Larry Wal- lace, James Powell, and Irving Young face death at the hands of FOR PIG the Baltimore pig courts. The ra- cist dogs working In the pig courts show signs of fatigueness, result- ing frum the long tollag days and many sleepless nights that they have spent thinking of new methods to justify the murdec3 of these foar freedom scekers, These pigs wit! die before this happens, be- cause there is no justification for cold blooded savage killings of the Panthers of Baltimore. Realizing the importance of the people's struggle for freedom; Larry Wallace, Irving Young, Mar- snall Conway and James Powell have not let che conditions of con- finement break thelr spirits. By solizary confining these brothers the oppressive forces think that they can stop them from striking out aganst the enemy: the same enemy who for so long has kept us in Solid bondage. These four hostages, every- day are showlag vic pigs that once the need for revolution is gained it can’t be destroyed. The Pau- thers that are locked up in jails accoss this country will not let the pigs stop them from edu- cating the masses of people as to the dogmatic position of the pigs. DEATH FASCIST PIGS THE SLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 9 THE NEW BEDFORD 20 NO JUSTIFICATION MURDERS IN BALTIMORE The other fifteen hundred hos- tages being held In the City Jail are continually witnessing the bro- ther’s rejectionof the systematic programming that the pigs call rehabilitation. These brothers don’t need the help of the fascist, evil minded pigs. What they need is to be sct free from the dun- yeons of Baltimore City Jail. Irving Young, Larry Wallace, James Powell and Marshall Con- way must be set free, Every min- ute that they are confined behind the cement walls of Baltimore City jafl is a minute lost in the peo- ple’s just cause for liberation. People of Baltimore, of Babylon, follow your human inclinations and demand that these freedom fighters be released NOW. FREE THE PANTHERS OF BALTIMORE! DEATH ‘TD THE FASCST PIGS! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Baltimore Chapter Black Community Information Cen, 933 Sharp Street $39-2039 TO THE On July 31, 1970, the criminal New Bedford Pig Department along with state pigs, the F,B,1, and pigs from the outlying areas, launched an early morning raid on the office of the New Bedford National Committee to Combat Fascism (NCCF) arresting twenty people, including Panthers and community people, for rumped-up charges of conspiracy to commit anarchy, inciting to riot and un- lawful assembly. Since that time, the 20 have been Incarcerated in 8 different jails throughout the state of Massachusetts. Presently there are 5 people remaining in jail--Robert Heard (Big Bob), Pedro Almeida, Shelia Roach, Cathrine Perry and John Vierra. All are peing held on ridiculous ransoms of $25,000 and $50,000. Wayne Thomas ($15,000), Or- lando Vaughn ($15,000), Frank Grace ($12,000) and Andrew Men- doza ($10,000) are presently out on bail, while charges against others have been dropped and a few have been released on per- sonal recognizance. This division of all the brothers and sisters involved in the case is a planned conspiracy on the partof the F.B8.L aad their running dog lackey Dis- trict Attorney. Edmond Dennis, and pig Mayor Rogers, to confuse the defendants, cause dissension, and to hinder the people's defense In hopes of discrediting the N.C.C.F, and the Black Panther Party. John Vierra and Dickie Duarte, who were on parole at the time of the bust, had been incarcerated at Walpolie for supposed parole LETTER FROM THE BALTIMORE CITY To the masses of oppressed peo- ple here in fascist Babylon and primarily the so-called free state (Maryland and Baltimore) as well. “lf we worry about what's going to happen to us, we couldn't ac- complish anything. Justice is gonna come when the masses of the people rise up and see justice done, the more the pigs try to come down on us, the more we'll expose them for what they are-- PIGS! - Bodby Seale, Chairman, BLACK PANTHER PARTY I was arrested andframed April 30, 1970, on a trumped up charge of murder, the fascist gestapo for- ces here in Baltimore, say that over seventeen former members, sympathizers and members of the Black Panther Party murdered or conspired to murder a brother named Eugene Anderson In the month of July, 1969, in Leakin Park. The pigs go as far as to claim that the deceased victim was also a inember of the Black Pan- ther Party, this is a lie. The charges are Lies, lies the pigs have told are all part of a national conspiratory framework designed to turn the masses of oppressed ther Parry and co destroy the Party without anything being said or one by the people. Before the pigs coaducted their fascist arrest on myself, and , they utilized the pig mass aecls “(the newspaper, radio sta- ns and T,V,) to state that the ty was Se tics een. They colony and pull thelr fascist con- splracy on the Black Panther Party. The treatment we've received since we've been confined is hor- rible. From the day of our ar- rest (April 20, 1970) we have been unjustly place on lock-up (soli- tary confinement), Ou May 3, 1970, the fascist pig inkeeper (guard) had the nerve to feed us three prunes, 1 slice of toast, and in return, he smiled and said, that’s it. We then threw our mays and food out of our cells and onto the tler and started yelling for decent food. but in return we got gassed, We were locked-up In Separate cells 5’ by 8’ andgassed, There was no where to run and escape the gas, so we had to stay there locked up tight tn ourcells suffering, until the gas disap- peared hours later. After this a pig, Captain Wyatt came on the section and told us that our visit- ing and commissary privileges were suspended for the week and he would give them hack if we would get better and to this day, right now I still can prove chat the food has gotten worse. We've had talks with pigs who have a high rank and we've told them that we are being held on solitary confinement illegally and all of our rights are denied, our physical and recreation activities have been denied and that our rights to see the warden have been denied, The response from Pig Captain Wyatt was “‘It is all in the game"’. Charles Wyche, one of our bro- thers who was arrested onthe 3th of April, wrote the warden asking for permission to have a radio so that he could keep up with the current events, the pig warden gave him permission, After Charles received the radio, the pig warden sent one of his lackeys around to Charles's cell to take it from if he dida‘’r turn it off, the other inmates radios stay blasting 24 hours a day, I am suffering from a bronical infection and swollen tonsils, 1 have not seen a doctor or a nurse, only aspirin. Black and White inmates over here in the fascist insitution are suffering from all types of ill- nesses but instead of cures they only receive improper medical care. When the grand jury comes over to Inspect the jail they only ask the pig guards and then perhaps two or three inmates who are young and are afraid to say what the situation really is. During the month of May there was @ riot over in the jail which started from the food and jail con- ditions and the pig warden imme- diately told the mass news media that we wore demonstrating over the war in Cambodia which was to camouflage the conditions here and to keep the people unaware of what's really happening in the jail. Thé pigs have even set up posi- dons for the avaricious business- men here in Balrimore City Jail to rob the inmates of their money, This avaricious businessman takes home thousands of dollars on the weekends. He takes in at least twice as much as some avaricious businessmen In the Black colony. We asked many guards why we were on lock-up and they all stated the same thing, “‘ You're all Black Panthers and you're on lock-up for the security and sake of the institution.’ This only tells us and the inmates that we're being held because of our political beliefs, The Maryland State Declaration of Rights, Article No. 25, provides that cruel and unusual punishment shall not be inflicted by the courts of law A brother Alvesta Jones, Jr. wrote an article and placed ir in Baltimore's Afro-American newspaper, June 27, 1970, issue and be stated: Dear Afro, The human beings housed in the annex building of the Baltimore City Jail are Living in a death trap. Everyday we're forced to remain in this chamber of death our lives are in danger. We're being housed inthe build- ing once used to house the female prisoners, once condemned to be destroyed during their stay here, In fact, if my memories serves me correctly, the building was condemned seven or more years ago. The reasoa for this condemna- tion manifested itself tonight, In one of the larger units of our sleeping quarters the ceiling col- lapsed, It was just lucky that no one was injured. Had there been any activities or persons present they surely would have been in- jured or killed, The area in which the disaster took place is one where prisoners are constantly active during the day, writing letters, playing cards, or just sitting about conversing violation, The week of the 16th Dickie Duarte was released from Walpole and Johnny Vierra is pre- sently confined! at Norfolk, The treatment that these sisters and brothers have received (isola- tion, Limited visits, no reading ma- terials, censorship or confiscation of matl, armed guards in court- room. etc.) shows very clearly that the defendants have already been judged guilty which is indirect contradiction to the due process of law that a man {s Innocent until proven guilty beyond a rea- sonable doubt. These actions on the part of these inhumane pigs show clear- ly that totally they disregarded our constitutional rights and have ab- solutely no intention of reinstating our rights promised to us under the present constitution, This all leaves us in an either or situation. Either we accept the present constitution, which gives the pigs legal groundwork to mur- der, torture and brutalize us, or we seek to change that constitution so that it functions for the broad masses of the American people, Any compcomise or attempt to work within the present framework of the constitution, is a sell-out and a step backward, because we have never, in our 400 year long history received justice and due process of 1aW under the consti- tution of the United States. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Boston Chapter JAIL with one another. Need I say whar could have happened had it been another time? Who knows what caused the first incident of collapse, and who knows what shall cause another one? It is however, a known fact, the struc- ture of this building ts decadent aad the disaster is emanent, This is a Ufe or death matter, and I can't emphasize enough the danger of the situation in which we are living something must be done to free us from this death sentence hanging over our heads, Stop this inhumanity in the name of humanity, We can now clearly see thar the jails are denying our human rights, and if the jailer refuses to hear our calls, then we know for a fact that we will have the same problem In the racist courts of Baltimore. The brothers over here In Bal- timore City Jail are dally begin- ning to see the true nature of these pigs, and if the pigs continue to practice this madness, which ft seems they will, there is nothing, not even the national guard or the army that will be able to stop these cold lumpens from knock- ing down these prison walls. “JUSTICE IS_GONNA COME WHEN TH= MASSES OF PEOPLE RISE UP AND, DONE,"" ALL POWER TO.THE PEOPLE FREE THE BALTIMORE 10 _ FREE BOBBY Baltimore Chapter Larry Wallack ; (Baltimore 10) THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 1 ARIGK KEK ON x ™ KOON ST PRIVOR LO Where is Freedom when a peoples right to ‘‘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 CONVENTION PLENARY SESSION IN SESSION NOW TEMPLE UNIVERSITY GYMNASIUM SEPTEMBER 9-7 PHILADELPHIA,P.A. | | = the structure for a people instead of of its people in a exploitation of man by man, The location, agenda and particu- lars of the Revolutionary People’s Con- stitutional Convention will be decided at tl the te Plenary Session. o—- eo— o— o — 0 — 0 —- 0 — o — on —. e— e—e—o The purpose of the Revolutionary People’s Plenary Session is to bring all progressive forces together for the Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention, lay the bases and organize Revolutionary Peo- ple’s Constitutional convention, which will convene on November 4, 1970. The Plenary Session will be the first step towards a constitution that will guarantee us the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; a consti- tution that has the respect for the people, a constitution that serves the a constitution that serves the ruling class. The Plenary Session will lay the groundwork for a true people’s con- stitution. A constitution that lakes into account the ethnic and pluralistic na- ture of this society, and that guaran- tees proportional representation to all society free of the PIGS TRY TO DESTROY THE PEOPLE’S INTEREST IN THE R.P.C.C. The pigs of Trenton should rake nutice that we will fight kill or die for our right to a new aod humane Constitution. Since June 19, 1970, when the first call for a new Constitutional Convention was sent out, people all across the country have been working deligently to make this hecessary step towards liberty, a reality, The enemy roo has been busy in his efforts to stop these actions, Noz only have offices of the Black Panther Party been at- tacked but the registration centers that are set up tn comin nity peo- ples’ homes are also being at- tacked. Those people who are working to register the community for the convention, are beiny beaten kidnapped and harassed. __In Trenton, New jersey, Linda Stokes (22), Linda Dixon (22), and David Clark (23), were planning a Picnic to further inform the people —_ R.P. ay C. Logically they ask- _ €d the focal thieves to give some of the Peoples food, (thar they been stealing for centuries) beck to the people, so they could __ have a successful picnic. Tie man- of the local AkP went Into and began jushing the work- : ree neck when they retaliated te store d its doors to the occupying » All three were carted off Jail. and given bails ranging om $150. to $100.00 Black colony of Trenton y mobilized to free their ors and they were balled our, n Linda Stokes said she wished ress charges of assault against AGP bandit, she was repri- 4 for being uppity. One pig hsm Dixon's mother’s Pigs began dragging people into the dungeons of their combination jail/courthouse. When it was over the original three workers were locked up again this time they were joined by Robert Wright (17), Joce- lyn. Francis (19), Carli Nelson (9), Paul Smith (9), Bail ranged from $3,000to $1,009, These neighbors of New Jersey's capital began to sing songs about their faith in the people and their disgust of inhumane conditions. The pigs attacked the brothers and sisters in their cells just as if they were mad dogs in a cage. Linda David Clark has a broken nose. were mad dogs In a cage. Linda Stokes had her arm ‘roken and Devid Clark has a broken nose, While these murderers were at- tacking those in the cage, the Black community of Trenton war outside demanding their release, They too were attacked. The mothers of the kidnapped were kicked and dragged, The people of Trenton have not forgotten their original intent, If we must fight, kill or die to be able to write a Constitution that is beneficial to all mankind, then we will do so with no regrets, We will be In Philadelphia on Sep- tember Sth to plan for a New Constitution. We will either sit down as civilized people and write it, oc we will dip our pens in the blood of the foreign croops and write it as mad men! Our determinaiion is compar- able to that of Jonathan Jackson for we are the advancers of that exanple, and ous fight agatasc the International Federation of Thieves will not stop until the last signs of sayagery have been eli- minated, Afent Wer er THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 11 IN PREPARATION FOR A REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTIONAL SEPT. Plenary Session to be held in Philadelphia at Temple Unity, gym- nasium, Hroad & Moatromery Sts, FRIDAY, Sept. 4th: Check In all day starting 9:00 A.M. AFTERNOON: FILMS EVENING: Seminars on the pre- ® sent constitution SATURDAY, Sept. Sth: 9:00 A.M, Keynote speakers: Third World Sister, Huey P. Newton, Minister of Defense, Black Paather Party. NOON: Luneh 2:00 P.M. Discussion workshops - ® break down by social groupings | 6:00 P.M. Dinter I I I I i . | 8:00 P.M. Plenary Session --re- pr from afternoon discunsion MONDAY, Sept. 7th: 10:00 A.M, Discussion --hreak down by soctal @ sroupir: to discuss orzaatzing; to i select reyional delegates to acon - tinuations committee i 2:00) pom, Luaneh 3:30 pon. Continuations committee mectins, Press Conference ! HOUSING ANDCIITLD CARE WILL GE AVAILABLE, Information on i food and on exuct location of things @ will be provided at « later date, SATURDAY, Sept. 5: 2 - 6 PM Sec sial Crrouplogs ceak own: Mont is identify our particular op~ ges ssion with a specific group-— Third World, Women, ete. Inorder for us to come together aroudd a commen vision. we first have to understand other’s orie- venees in relation to yitem wiich produces them, We cre- eo ize that the systein toy divided ue fe mner by race, class aul sex, Because of this we need to start from the objective ceality of where we are now in the society and discuss our common yrie- vences, what we want changed and how we will go about changing it, Social groupings are general: whe- Social groupings are general; whee ver desired specific group- euch the Ot eter? CONVENTION SCHEDULE FOR PLENARY SESSION 4-7, 1970 ings can form, 1. Third World Peoples 2. Women 3. G.1,’s 4. College students 5. High School Students 6. Workers 7. Female Homosexuals 8, Male Homosexuals 9, Welfare people 10, Street People ll, Head workers--(people’s tech- niclans...doctors; law, ers, scien- dsts, clergy) SATURDAY, Sept. 5: 8:00 P.M,-- Plenary Session Each afternoon social grouping discussions should produce a brief paper describing their grievences aad their vision of the new society. Euch groups papec will be dis- cussed at the plenary session In order to (ace about and under- Stand each obers prievences: and also, to discover the similarities among each grouping’s vision and pull that together isto mon vision, a cOne- SUNDAY, Sept 6th; 12-6P.M,-- TOPICAL WORKSHOPS The workshops are a way to Ssyntyasize tae positiogs of dif- ferent social frouplags aroun! a tke pecific vision -orientet tion paper should emerge, All eka hop position papers will be mimeographed Sunday night and made avallable py Monday.to social groupings for discussion, ani to pariic sel issue. Out of each wer fii a take back with them for more de- velopmcat in preparation for the upcoming constitutional conven- tion. 1. SeW-determination for aatios mbjoriries 2, Sell-determination for womer 3. Self-determination for street people 4, Rights of children 5. Sexual self-determination 6. The family 7, Control and use of the mili- tary and the police 8. Control and use of the means of production 9. Control and use of the ed- ucatonal system 10, Control and use of the Leyal System 11. Control amd nse of the land 12, Distribution of political power 13, Internationalism -- relations with Liberation struggles around the world 14. Religious oppression and the new humanism 15, Drugs Submitted by the Agenda Com- mittee informaton centers set up for revolutionary constitutional con- vention SET UP BY: Sally & Rickard Garvel - 777 Hunrington Ave. Boston, Mass. (437-5956 CENTERS: Mass. Boston - Cambridge Museum School Artists Collective Panther Defense Old Moie Free Press Ecology Action Ecology Food Store Nortieastern University Juche - Northeastern aod Juche and two Collectives are mobile Centers NCCF SPRINGFIELD Collective NORTHAMPTON Collective CONNECTICUT New ifaven Liberation School Four Mobile Cotlectives NCCF STORRS SDS BRIDGEPORT Collective NCCF VERMONT furlington Fram Collective PUTNEY Peoples Collective aod Newspaper RHODE ISLAND Newport Potemkin Book Store & Collective NEW HAMPSHIRE University of New Hampshire NEWS MEDIA DOING ARTICLES: OK Mole Phoenix = Boston Northeastern News Free Vermont - Vermont REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE’S PLENARY SESSION (SEPT. 5-7, 1970). AS most people are aware, the Black Panther Party has called for 4 Revolutionary Peoples Constin- tional Convention for the purpose of writing a constitution whichre- lates to the oppressed masses of Babylon; a constitution which will embody the practical ideology for the elimination of oppression. It is a fact that theoretically there are many peoples and groups who stand against the ex- Ploitation and degradation ex- perlenced by a large mass of the people in this country. Many of those people and groups have went forward and through social practice attempted to halt the con- tinuation of these evils tohuman- ity, However at this time they have either failed, or must take the peoples’ struggle for Uberation and freedom to a higher level. One of the main issues stiffling much of the lberation struggle Lies basic- ally in the tactics of the various peoples and groups. We are aware that in most cases these people who are struggling for the libera- tion of their people, or mankind, are sincere people whose goals must be reached, but because of their fighting approach (the me- thods used to accomplish their goals.) they can only give a certain amount of support to other groups who are struggling, However most of these groups have related to the constitution, by appealing cases and issues which they site as some of the causes of oppression and suffer- ing by the people. Many lessons have been learned in the court- rooms of this country, and les- Son number | is that the constitu- tion, the sacred agreement drawn up among menfrom many different backgrounds and social ways, has been violated, The constitution is no longer the back-bone of lawand humanity, protecting the people from the many evils which can destroy a society, 4 people. Some people and organizations have got- ten caught up through their me- thods of action, which leaves them in a position whereas the only way they can attack the oppressive con- ditions faced by the people, is to take it to the interpreters of the constitution. These interpreting people, such as the Supreme Court (which is part of thejudicial arm of the government have disa- ppointed and failed the people miserably, We in the Black Pan- ther Party have maintained, and Pointed out that the constitution has become irrelevant to the de- cision making body of this coun- try. This is evident by the fact that protesting people have gone from the judicial arm of the government all the way to the leg- islative and executive arm only to be frustrated, Cases have been presented by the people showing clearly the causes of oppression, Jegislation has been introducedby the people to their representatives in the government, only to find themselves in an excursion of fu- tility. The SCLC “* poor peoples campaign’ ‘was very dramatic and the issues were clear, poor people wanted a change, and many of them marched to the Capitol of this country to demostrate that fact, However no meaningful mea- sures were introduced by the gov- ernment which would end oppres- sion, This is evident by the new phases the poor peoples campaign is taking up, and the call for more radical action tomake the de- cision makers of this country ad- here to the needs of the people. — In all practical reality, it is the People who posess the power over the decision makers and in he final analysis the people ac- — tually make the decision indirect- ly, But the only decision that has been made by member of the government, isthe decision by certain shrewd administrators to “listen” to the people, makepro- _ mises which they claim can't be — rapid because of the many sig. in the government, To we say as Malcolm said, we it continued on next page 4 ee A THE Bi_ACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 12 LIST OF DEMANDS OF PRISONERS HELD IN SAN QUENTIN IN REGARD TO THIS MANI- FESTO, WE SHOULD ALi. THINK OF IT AS A COMBINED SALUTE TO OUR LAST THREE FALLED COMRADES, JONATHAN, WIL- LIAM, AND JAMES: The Black Panther Party will be present at the front gate of San Quentin, The Party willbe here to support our combined demands on the In- Side of San Quentin, From the ranks of the general population, you have been selected to co-ordinate the order of our manifesto. The areas you are to concen- trate on are as follows: 1, Freeing of all political prison- ers. 2, Freeing of Soladad Three, 3. A Black Warden. 4, A Black Associate Warden of Custody, 5. A Black Associate Warden of Care, and Treatment. 6. A Mexican Warden. 7. A Mexican Associate Warden of Custody. 8. A Mexican Associate Warden of Care and Treatment. 9. Tat an equal number of all Adininistrative, Industrial, and Vocational positions, immediately be augmented, to run paralle] with the present standard of Whites, 10, That B-section and A-sec- tion housing units, immediately be closed down until adequate meas- ures have been thoroughly imple - mented to provide a model of living conditions, (sanitary en- viroamental provisions) cum- patible to the attitude andrequire- ments expressed in the California Health and Safety Code Maruel, ll, That all men confined in B- section, A-section, and the Ad- justment Center, be allowed to exercise one full hour, seven days a week on the exercise yard de- signated to their respective areas, That all men, confined in B-sec- tion, A-Section, and the Adjusr- ment Center, be given the same amount of visiting time os the general population, the same amount of cantee, the same amount of library materials, three hot meals seven days a wenk, thar the men segregated and con- fined within the Adjustment Cen- ter be fed in the Adjustment Cen- ter mess hall and that the third floor uf the Adjustment Center be made available for men of Adjustment Ceuter status, and not housed with men of Condemned Row Status! Which our public has not been exposed to. Being inthe sense that che public was originally taxed to pay for a San Quentin Adjust- ment Center and not a second San Quentin Condemned Row! 12. That all men presently com- mitted to Condemned Row awaiting State Execution, immediately be granted prisoner asylum or polit- ical asylum in those countries under the flag of Africa, Asia, Russia, North Korea, Cuba and to other points of the world, where the American Revolutionaries haye established the free world soll- daricy pact for all oppressed peo- Ie. e 13, That all forms of Capital punishment and mass genocide on the people by the brural handy of the American bureaucracies, im- mediately cease by order of the free world solidarity revolution- ary army - for the people! Let this order further read; That until our comrades here and abroadhave neutralized all present attempts to successfully negotiate with the American Government, the total release or exchange of all polit- ical prisoners and avowed rev- olutionaries, be treated with the Same regards as established and set forth in the final provision of the Geneva Conferences of the year, 1954. 14, That all prisoners within the structure of San Quentin State Prison, who have been selected by the Marin County Superior Courts, to have their preliminary hear- ing, or any othersegment of trial proceedings inside the structure or walls of San Quentin, located in Tamal, California, be deemed the right to select a Judicial Cri- terion Congruous to that of 4 Peer dalance of Assemblage. 15. That che California Adult Author lty, immediately be render- ed defunct, or classified as ob- solete and a criminal standard to judge the correct latitude of pirson confinement for those men of the so-called civic offenders. And that by order of the people, the Department of Corrections throughout these United States of America, immediately be com- pletely abolished and redesigned by the people to accurately serve the overal needs of the people - The So-Called Civic Offenters] comrads,...write your *'Peo- ples Mauifesto” to fully exemplify these fifteen points. Type four copies, give one to Warden Nelson, one to Associate Warden Jacavs of Custody, one to Associate War- den Parks of Care and Treat- ment, and keep the fourth copy for yourself to give to the news media when the Black Panther Party drives on the news media to interview you. Throughout the entire general population of San Quentin, you are to get as many Blacks, Whites and Mexicans as you canto march on custody just a8 Soon as you re- celve word thar the Black Pawtner Party is out at the front gate, For those of us on the inside of San Quentin who are men enough to come fort aad declare our stand, the Black Panther Party and our people on che outside, will see that fair play is given to all if us. If we continually refuse to ake our stand here on the inside, by means of fear and retaliation at the hands of our oppressor, we are defeating ourselves and sinothering the dedicated efforts of our own people thar are atrempr- ing to liberate us from behind the walls of endless imprisonment and certain death! PRESS RELEASE LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY Press conference was held, Tuesday, September 1, 1970, 9:30 am, San Francisco, Calif, In a suit filed today inSan Fran- cisco’s United States District Coire by the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County and a private attorney it is alleged thatthe med- ical system of Santa Rita Rehabili- tatlon Center, as presently oper- ated, automatically guarantees that the overwhelming majority of Santa Rita prisoners are denied access to essential medical care, and sub- jects the prisoners to cruel and unusual punishmeut. By way of example, the sult lists fifteen separate instances in which prisoners were allegedly deiled essential medical care, In three of the examples, itis alleged that the failure to prov!de medical care directly contributed to the death of the prisoners, These in- clude, a man who was incoiierent, unable to eat, and suffering from a broken arm wihiat was uv) seen by the pirson detor for nine days; a man who screamed in his max- imum security cell almost contin- ually for 24 sours before committ- ing suicide and was sever visited by the prison doctor; and a man who was suffercing from delirium tcemens and who was never seen by the prison doctor and who was TO THE PEOPLE FROM Dear America, I've been called ahoodlum, tuin, wino, tramp, vandal, renegade, bad guy and a lowrider, I've been called 4 nigga, negro, coon, colored boy, blackle, shine, chocolate. boot, jungle bunzy. anda voy Now tt me tell you fools some- thing to get the records straight, I'm a yrass root nigga, That's right a grass root nigga. A mad one,....Now if you like, you can keep on calling me what you want, because I'm going to kill you any- way. My tnotco is either you're with me or you're against me Now the way you beat my brothers and sisters, take them to jails “for nothing’’, feel on my beau- tiful sister with your filthy pig hoofs, rob my people In the Black REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION cont. .from last page the opponents of freedom and l- beration are officials of the government, then we must hold the government completely re- sponsible for the existing condi- tions. What can we the freedom fight- ers for liberation do? We can com- vene and write a new constitution which will ensure us the Life liberty and pursuit of happiness mentioned in the old constitution but violated in the most blantant manner, We the masses of op- pressed people secking freedom, can direct our creative energies towards this step, because we haye agreed that we want freedom and liberation, and there can be no higher expression of that desire than to use the tools necessary co obtain our freedom SUPPORT THE REVOLUTION ARY PEOPLES CONSTITUTION= AL CONVENTION] In The Spirit Of Liberation} Moak Teba Il, Chapter Black Panther Parry found dead in his cell. Other ex- amples include a woman who had breast cancer who was dented ac- cess to a doctor; a woman who became delirious from two In- flamed abscessed teeth and was not allowed to see a dentist or doctor for the nine days of her in- carceration; a woman who had an epeliptic seizure in the presence of a guard and who was offered no help; an epeliptic who was not given his medicine as needed, de- spite a judge's order; an epeliptic who was sent to solitary confine- ment without his medictne because he refused to accept punishment given to him for complaining about the refusal of the Santa Rita of- ficials to treat a prisoner who was beaten by the guards; a man with a broken jaw who was placed on a near starvation diet because of the failure of the officials to pro- vide him with a Hquid diet as or- dered by a county doctor; and a man with an injured knee who was tortured and then had his crutches taken away from him. In -tn affidavit filed with the sult, Doctor Rather, a professor of Pathology at Stanford Medical School alleged thar he was im- prisoned in Santa Rita as a re- Sule of arrests at the Oakland Induction Center. He states thathe NEW COUNTY JAIL, community by capitalization, and give us these rat and roach in- fested homes, I have noalternative but to kill you. I'm hurt! I've been in pain for more than 400 years. I would feel less than a man if I didn’t keep my promise to you @eath to all pigs). Can you dig that? 1 hope So cause I'm hure and killing you is my cure, Death to all pigs... Bedford K.Mitchell (Kenny) New County Jail, Los Angeles To my comrades: What is love ?---Love is warmth kindness, happiness, and under- Standing within the Black com- munity. Love is aa end to capltalist, imperialistic, racist, fascist and avaricious politicians. DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! Japan and Korea for the Surg General's Office and that if | inspections were used to. Santa Rita “everyone co with the prison would be to court martial for in petence.”” a The class action, filed by torneys Dick Doane, Richard Be Roger Cox, and Cliff Sweet of the Legal Aid Society, and by pri- vate attorney David Nawi, was fi oa behalf of San Francisco Kay Boyle, the Bay Area of the Medical Committee f man Rights, draftresistance ec Vincent O'Connor, Frank S| sky, Richard Mantineo, and Jo anne Siegman, Each of the indivi- duals were former prisoners wha were sentenced to Santa Rita. 9 Tne Defendants are Ai County Sheriff Madigan, Alan a County Health Officer, James Mal- colm, and the Alameda , Board of Supervisiors, andfo pirson doctor James Terry. suit claims that the inadequ medical treatment at Saxe subjects the prisoners to a and unusual treatment, to su mary punishment, andto other stitutional deprivations and the court for declaratory injunctive relief, and Ss : 4 dam L.A. Love is the Liberation of all pe oppressed people within the Black community. Love is socialism-- to say, *‘Here, brother, here sis- ter, what I have you also dave’. Love [8 not harming your broth — er or sister, Love is socialism Love is not exploiting your broth- er or sister, Love is socialism. Love is an end to our drug prob- lem. Love ts an end to: Our rab and roach infested homes. Love is an e:id to police bru- tality and murder of Black people, Love Is full employment for all — unemployed Black people, Love is — to say, “Il am a revolutionary, and | won't stop revolutionizing until I have this for my people. That’s what love is, , Keany OPEN LETTER 10 ANGELA DAVIS FROM ERICKA ROSE AND PEGGY (CONN. )8 TO: Angela Davis 1 don’t know what to say, so the best I can do is just hope that you are safe and the people are protecting you. | remember how you Stood In the rain and waited for me to get out of that fanky prison “Sybil Brand” In Los Angeles after Jolin and Bunchy * were killed, and how sincere you were In trying to make sure we were all freed. Now I sit in jail and watch the news and boom...all the big bad pigs are after you--I feel use- less whenever they do this to any- one but to someone whom I know the anger and hurt triples. Rose, Pegyy and I worry about you and we mourn for the peo- ple who are still slaves, and honor our Revolutionary Brothers who are free (speaking of Jona- than, McClain, May2e, and Christ- mas)-—free in the most beauriful sense of the word, SAN QUENTIN PRISON WARNING 10 PIGS : ANGELA DAVIS If you never read this or if we never tect again, know thar wherever you are we are with you. The truth is with you... The spirit of the people's struggle is with you, LOVE, POWER, FKOM ALL OF US, STRENG TH Ericka, Rose, Peggy VENCEREMOS! D0 NOT LAY ONE HAND ON OUR SISTER ANGELA DAVIS The pigs once again begin to wallow out of thelr mud filled, foul smelling shacks, searching out the fairness of a Black woman's * in and charged three Black men body. Swine obsessed with their with the execution when their only racist notion of supremacy, are Striking out to seize one of our fairest for their own perverted gratifications, A Black sister trips across Cali- fornia’s desert of ignorance try- ing to enlighten the minds of sup- posedly free thinking individuals. She joined the faculty at U.C.L.A, so thar the offspring of America would have tools necessary to ex- pose @ Society bent on exploita- bund government, Following the usual gestapo pattern passed down from father to son, the pigs ran action was to speak out against 4 corrupt brutal system of servi- tude, Angela Davis protested with allher energies and raised funds in behalf of the ‘'Soledad Three’’. August 7, 1970, there was an aborted but brave and justified at- tempe to try and free revolution - ary brothers because of the im- possibility of them every receiv- ing justice from a neo-nazi court, tion, birilt on racism and decaying It is said that all Runs used, were in imperialistic fascism. Eyes began to open and students hun- gry for knowledge clamored tore- celve her gifts of wisdom. Other eyes were focused on this young lady too, for they could see in her education an empire Slipping from thelr greedy grasps. Hollywood Reagan called to- gether his hierarchy of misfits, the regents, and in true lynch mob fashion they plotted out a scheme to stop the flow of knowledge thar would eventually bring this ram- pant exploitation to an end, Strings were pulled, careers threatened and the result, Miss Angela Davis fired, purchased by Miss Angela Davis. The pigs have filed charges on you In another attempt at trying to silence your beauriful mouth and smother your courageous actioa, They feel justified in rip- Ping off another Black woman like their predecessors did on plaa- tations throughout the South, Things have changed and the Black maa is different, Our women will no longer be dragged away like cattle without a fight from us, and used to gatisfy animalistic lust of modern day slavemasters. Black men stand up and fight until death if necessary, for we will be feared if we have to take In another place somewhere In the heads of every pig in Baby- Monterey County California, ano- lon, A warning pigs; do not lay ‘ther form of repression was in one hand on our sister. Sae has Progress. Soledad concentration felt the slimy touch of your sa- camp,notorious for its clandestine distic overseers too long and must _ and blatant racism and torture; be left alone or the streets will ‘three Black men shot down like be slippery with your putrid red cattle In a slaughterhouse pen, blood. D0C—( Black revolutionary sister do not of right-wing Birchite madmen be frightened. Although we have the murders justifiable ho- been sleeping in cowardice for so . No justice for the Black long, we have awakened and death racist America, will befall those who dare in- nknown persons rightfully took courage our wrath. ce in their own hands and a body was found lifeless, PEACE TO THE BROTHERS WE MUST THROW OFF OUR SHACKLES AND GAIN NEW COURAGE TO DEAL WITH OUR SLAVEMASTER Thursday, August 2(th, I was walking down 103rd St, passing out leaflets. I passed this Mquor store which was across the street from the Health Clinic and sawtwoteen- agers fighting, There was acrowd of Black people around them, laughing and loaded, urging the two brothers to keep on fighting. I walked into the store andpickedup the L.A, Sentinel newspaper and the front page was filled with several articles about brothers killing brothers, These numerous incidents of Black men killing one another ( fratricidal killing) are daily occurrences in our communi- ties, They are detrimental to our struggle for salvation and lbera- tion and they are part and parcel of this fascist power structure's plan for genocide against Black people, Fratricidal killing stems from oppression and exploitation, Black people are colonized and when faced with the harsh realities of life we often find the target of our harbored resentment andfrustra- tion to be another Black man. We sabmerge ourselves in red devils whites, heroin, etc,, and become so oblivious to our surroundings that we sit back in a stupor asthe conditions of our oppression wor- sens. We sit back and laugh while 4 brother fights or kills another brother or becomes so reaction- ary that we will kill the first nigger that messes with us, These racist capitalistic beasts oink in ectasy when they see us fighting our own Instead of fighting the enemy Because the capitalist system works solely in the interest of the ruling class (owners of big cor- Porations), Black people from the working class do sot reap any be- nefits nor even adequate wages fo sustain ourselves, Due to the fact that we are Black, we are ajso victims of racism and we are on the lowest rung of the economic ladder, We have been deprived of land, bread, housing, and inorder to obtain any of these bare neces- sities, we need money. Because we THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 13 A BROTHER RIPPED-OFF ABROTHER AND LEFT ~ A PIG__JAUGHING have been denied all these easeu- tials and we don't have any financ- jal power, we will pimp, sellout, and often times kill one another over 4 few dollars or less, The fancist power structure and its lackeys have, in addition, Played a psychological game of trepidation on our people. Since the time of slavery we have com- peted and fought against each other but we've always restrained from dealing with the pigs because they have made us believe that we aren't powerful. We will form gangs and fight each other, we'll kill one another, but we'll hesi- tate to off a pig because we nave been held in fear of our oppres- sor for over 400 years by his TO THE PEOPLE OF BALTIMORE CONCERNIG THE EVENTS OF OPEN TERROR BY PIG POMALEAU The people's aggressiveness to- wards freedom has forced the de- cision making pigs of the US, power structure iio intensifying the open acts of terror that they have been making against the Black Panther Party. Throughout Babylon the pigs have reaction- arily attempted to murder or rail- road to prison, all members of the People's Party, The high level pigs have res- zed that the Party is success- fully carrying out its function as the vanguard or forerunners of the people's struggle for freedom. The Purty stands to politically edu- cate the people, organize them to defeat their enemy, and help them establish revolutionary political power, The decision making pigs also realize that the people are waking up from their 400 year dormancy and are vigorously moving toward destruction of the forces which have kept them enslaved for so long, With the endorsement of the higher level pigs, the gun toting or lower level pigs are currently involved in a mass conspiracy to wipe out the people's Party pri- marily, and oppressed people in general, The peoples eyes don't have to focus themselves on Viet Nam, Laos, or Cambodia to eyewitness kidnapping, murders or any other Hitler like tactic being executed by the gestapo forces of Hitler Nixon, The people can keep their eyes focused here in the Glack colon- fes of the United Stares. In Cali- fornia they have seen the rail- roading of our Minister of Defense, Huey P, Newton, to jail, They have seen our Chairman Bobby Seale abducted (kidnapped) from his peo- ple and thrown in prison in New Hayen, and the forced exile of our Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver, When the decision mak- ing pigs gave the order to the execution department of the power Structure, they not oaly chose California, New Haven, and Chi- cago for their open acts of terror, but any place in the U.S, where Panthers and other oppressed peo~- ple live; anyplace, including Balti- more. Here Party members who are helping the people to get food, clothing, and shelter, stand vic- tims of the executioners who re- celve direct orders to kidnap or kill from the Pomaleaus of the U,S, ‘The eyes of the people can now look to Baltimore for further examples that doubtlessly prove that Nixoa, the Pomaleaus and their main tool of submission, the gun. Black people in Los Angeles, as in all oppressed communities, must come to grips with reality. We all know how tt Is to be op- pressed, and we have to realize who our oppressors are, We must throw off our shackles and gain new courage to deal with our Slavemaster because we're fight- ing for national salvation, the sur- vival of our people. ‘The guns we used to use againsteach other, we must now use against the oppressor," ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE}! DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! Southern California Chapter hired executioners are working hand in hand to complete their fool conspiracy designed to steal from the people, those who have vowed thelr life to freeing the peo- ple from the chains of the fascist power structure and its accom- Plices. Those eyes who have followed the events of open terror by Poma- leau and his executioners here in Baltimore, know that Baltimore City Jail is holding members of the Baltimore Chapter of the Black Panther Party until the pigs de- cide they are ready to condemn these freedom fighters to death, The people should realize thar the pigs are stealing the most cherished things in the world from them, human ves, and a move should be made to stop these thieves by any means neces- sary, FREE THE BALTIMORE] PANTHERS OF DEATH TO. THE FASCIST Pics! BLACK PANTHER PARTY Bakimore Chapter Black Community Information Cen. 933 Sharp Street 539-2639 Doug 5 ; THE ATTACKS ON THE PHILADELPHIA OFFICES BROUGHT FORTH THE STACCATO OF REVOLUTIONARY GUNS AND NEW CRIES OF DEATH 10 THE FASCIST PIGS! tn the midet of the most jo chap openly genocidal regimeon the face sg this beast, the Black Panther Party once more has had to defend tts thres~ hold. against the hordes of murderers and racists who have stood unpunished before the people of this country and the world and declared Itself the “‘de- fenders of justice.”’ This foul and de- praved bastion of White supremacy and political reaction, America, and the s0~ called city of ‘Brotherly Love’’, Phil- adelphia, have conspired once again to murder members of the Black Panther Party and sabotage the desperate and trrevocable fight forliberation of Black people, Because of the death of one scurvy pig and the wounding of three other racist dog policemen, pig Com- missioner Frank Rizzo saw fit to in- stigate and direct 3 simultaneous dawn raids against the Philadelphia Branch of the Black Panther Party. Withour provocation, without the due process law, and without the consent of 2u- people the fascist pig mercenaries of Philadelphia conducted a series of mili- tary assaults against the North Phila- deiphia, West Philadelphia and Sermaon- town all under the farce of law and order and the revolting sham of jus- tice, Av 6:00 a.m, Monday August 3, 1970 the Killer police teams of the Phila- delphia taccica’ squids, s*ate police aud F.B.1. moved into positions within the Black communities and set up the ag- gressive, murderous machinery that was responsible for the unjustified and unspeakable ‘‘search and destroy’’ mission of the vanguard in Philadel- phial More than 200 pigs surrounded the 3Infarmation Centers on this rainy morning and called their "‘marksmen’’ in to train the brunt of theirraciast re- taliation on the offices of those broth- ers and sisters wo had vowed to face down this barbaric system of oppres- sion and titoned to the people of Phil- adelphia, we will fight to befreeardie! Using the backward court system aod thelr guarddog judges to issue war- Tanta, the homicidal ageats of Mafioso Commissioner Rizzo crashed through our offices with weapons of destruction and met in return, the staccato of revolutionary gunu and new cries of Deathto the Fascist Pigs! Armed with thompeon sub-machine guns, an array of shotguns, semi-automaitte rifles, tear gas, helicoptess and standa-d Vietnam battle gear, the sick and de- generate brigands of Rizzo's shock trooper regime hid behind the long dead laws of the Constitution and the comstose state of the Declaration of Independence in order to justify the murderous act of aggression against the Black community, and this Branch of the Black Panther Party. ‘The racist dog policemen approached our doors supposedly with ‘'search and seizure’’ warrants with probable cause of looking for suspects in a so-called murder case, These warrants and the #0-Called allegations against our Party fre nothing but a hoax and a ridicu- lous sham and the modt hideous per- tigen As ae Wop ‘eae Philadelphia silty taformetion Center located Wallace St., Rizzo's butchering ar squad and gestapo state pigs PHILADELPHIS, PA, CHAPTER OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, DESTROYED BY RIZZO'S FASCIST PIG PUPPETS. ALL RIGHTS SUPPOSEDLY GUARANTED BY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES JUST BLATANTLY VIOLATED, surrounded our office and began axing down the door and then opened fire on the brothers Inside, Knowing full well that those ples were attempting to murder everyone Inside the office, our comrades righteously defended themselves against the kind of mur- derous attempt that remind us all of the June, 1969 raid in Chicago and the December 1969 attack on our Los Angeles office, The four brothers there were abletowoundthree fascist pigs and avoid being wounded themselves, Trey refused to lay down their lives at the hands of the mercenary killer police, they refusod to be intimidated by the pretentious fame of law and order’, and they refused co be shack- led by the cruel yoke of chattle slavery, Holding off thelow-lifed murderers for nearly half an hour the brothers were able to educate the people in the com- munity as to the correct methods of resisting the power structure, Only after the bullding had been filled with tear gas, and because there was on unprotected pregnant «ister living up- Stairs, did the brothere surrender, The brothers had defended themselves and the people of the Black community and by their deeds have carried the struggle for freedom and Mberation to a newer and loftier level, At the Black Community Informarton Center at 2935 Columbia Ave, in North Philadelphia, a cordon of pigs had blocked the area from 27th St. and Columbia to Sist St. and Columbta and were attacking the office from rooftops, alleys and the Streets, With. our presenting or saying anything WERE The pig press calle tt ‘war police’, We say that (et pressed people of Babylon strik against the protectors International tlon, part of the global struggle agal Number One Enemy of the Worl impertallam, uninterrupted until the last throughout the world ts silenc life of Sgr. Von Collin, a Fat Park pig, was stamped our wi talked on search of the revolutionary exe aries Were met with more gu wounding both, Pig Frank Rizzo, Com i'sst spiring to become director F.B,L,, in an effort to stop the F Session of the ‘Revolutionary P Coastitutional Convention", simultaneous raids on three and homes of the Philadelphia knows that Panthers won't sit while homes and offices with inten™ ¢ der us), When those intruders irtv ade tho s of war, the brothers and responded in self-defense, shooting ended, three pigs were ed; and a victory wos people! Sixteen brothers and tent to kill, with a each, Whatsoever about any warrant. The filthy repobatable heachmen police and their F.B.1, body-guards launched the heaviest attack against the Philadelphia Branch, Using helicopters for added over-kill insurance as they had in Weat Philadelphia, the pigs attempted to murder the brothers and sisters in the Information Center, and those peo- ple of the community who were shouting for the pigs to stop shooting at the office, Four brothers, including the Defense Captain, Reggie Schell and three sisters stood up in the midst of the fascist gestapo forces and defended themselves against the hail of bullets that the pigs were using hoping to snuff out the Party in this city and thereby torpedo the Plenary Session of the “Revolutionary Peoples’ Constitutional Convention’, For nearly an hour the scurvy legions of pig commissioner Rizzo fired upon the office and tossed tear gas (nto the building. The revolutionary brothers and sisters inside faced down the cow- ardly pigs unti) the office had become saturated with tear gos, Our com- rodes then stepped victoriously from the besieged building after having set another revolutionary example for our people and all the oppressed people of the world, The pigs then IMned the brothers and sisters up against the wall and with brazen contempt for our ded- icated heroes, began shooting at them even though they Were unarmed and detenseless! Seeing that these heathens were trying to kill their warriors, the people once again began to shout and to tell the pigs to stop, Only because the pigs dicin't want the people THE PEOPLE HAVE MADE QUITE CLEAR THAT NOTHING WILL STOP THE PLENARY SESSION OF THE “REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLES’ CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION” on the is the op- ing out and tools of oppression and exploita- And that it is but an inter-woven nat the id: US. Saturday, August 29 began a chain of events in Philadelphia that will continue “oink” ed, The riwwin* hile he the telephone, Another pig park guard came to his aid, and he, too, was met with gun fire, On Sunday, August 30, two highway pstrolmen, fn cution— n fire; sneer of the Philadelphia pig department, in- of the *lenary eople’s staged offices Branch of the Black Panther Party. (Everyone by Idly storm troopers bust info our IO mir rie! to Philadelphia Centers with sisters When the wound= won for the sisters were charged with 1) Conspiracy to commit murder, 2) Possession of {l- legal weapons and S)Assault with in- “an samof $100,000 Monday morning's rald was followed by open terror on the part of Rizzo's storm troopers against the people of Philadelphia, Homes were broken Into afl the people were intimidated and brutalized, All rights supposedly guar- anteed by the Constitution of theUntted States were just blatantly violated, But Monday night a response was given to these acts of fascist terror----an- other pig, enemy of the people, was shot five times in the chest, ALI POWER TO THE PEOPLE! ‘The people of Philadelphia have made it quite clear that nothing will stop the Plenary Session of the ‘‘Revolutionary People’s Constitutional Convention’. These acts of sabotage only serve as an inspiration to create a new const- icution that will serve as an over-all framework and structure to our struggle so that everyone can see how we can move, Philadelphia is the testing ground for all freedom loving people of Babylon. The Plenary Session will go on as acheduled! And the people who attend will ensure its success, Philadelphia Pa, te but an example of the continuing elevation of the strug- gle of people of color to realize our aim of creating a humane soctety, And the people of Philadelphia have Joined the people's of Vietnam, Laos, Brazil, Angola, Mozam- bique, Portuguese Guinea, etc. to re- gain our humanity and right th live In peace, Cambaila, LONG LIVE THE VICTORY OF THS REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S CON- STITUTIONAL CONVENTION ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Audrea Jones Black Panther Party to see them murder our comrades did they then stop shooting, By the time thar the brothers and sisters were kidnapped off the streets and held in jail on $100,000 ransorn the fascist rouge Rizzo had called Gemolition squads from Fr, Dix and Valley Forge to inspect the offices and confiscate (steal) anything left in- tact, The walls and doors of the West Philly and North Philly offices were smashed down so that the pigs could take all of the money, machines and clothes inside the offices, Altogether the fascists have kidnapped 16 of our brothers and sisters, simply for de- fending their homes and offices, They are being held in violation of their constitutional rights and the people demand that they be set free, In their desperate and savage attempt to des- troy the Black Panther Party, the pigs again have falled, They fail to realize that we are manifested in the people, they fail to understand that wherever there {s oppression and murder of a People, there will in return be righte- ous revolutionary resistance. And so we gay to Frank Rizzo, Mayor Tate and Gov. Shaefer, that all your guns, bombs, tanks, courts, Jails, gas chambers and electric chairs can never silence the voices of Ither- ation, Let [t be known and understood here and now that we are aware of our situation, WE ARE ARMED AND UN- AFRAID, AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO FIGHT TO BE FREE OR TO DIE TRYING TO GAIN QUR LIBERATION! DEATH TO THES FASCIST PIGS Lil Magat | THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 16 DAVID: The press conference was called in response to the allegations that the Black Panther Party had a delegation of Panther members led by Stokely Carmichael, in Jordan, The _. Minister of Defense of the Black Pan- ~ — ther Party, Huey P, Newton, is here to repudiate those statements, because we do not have any Panthers in Jordan; but we do have an international section in Algeria headed by the Minister of Information, Eldridge Cleaver, andour Field Marshal, Donald Cox, They are representatives ofour Party in contact with the Palestinian Liberation organ- ization daily, and they’re the only authorized Panthers outside of the United States of America, HUEY: We further charge that Stokely Carmichael is operating as an agent of the CIA, we have no proof of this but we have some evidence. His actions are speaking for themselves, We notice that when the House of Un-American ctivities (HUAC) investigated the Black Panther Party, that Stokely Car- michael shortly afterwards, or during the investigation, came out with a state- ment that the Party was dishonest, He also made other charges that were not based upon fact, When he was ap- proached about this he said that per- haps he was untimely in his charge; and that he was sorry about this, We further charge that he’s in cahoots with his wife Miriam Makeba, who is also an agent. And as | said before we have no proof but Stokely Car- michael’s behavior infers that he is an agent. Now we hear through the wire, and through our embassy in Algiers that Stokely Carmichael is leading a delegation of 18 Party members in Jordan against the Jewish people for purposes of promoting the Palestin- ians, and also the interest of the Black Power movement, As a matter of fact, “Black Power’? movement was men- tioned on this wire, As you very well Know the Black Panther Party does not subscribe to ‘‘Black Power’’ as such, Not the ‘‘Black Power’’ that has been defined by Stokely Carmichael and Nixon, They seem to agree upon the stipulated definition of ‘‘Black Power’’, which is no more than Black capitalism, which is reactionary and certainly not a philosophy that would meet the interest of the people, It would only support the interest of a small group of people, Stokely Car- michael has further stated that Pan- Africanism is the highest expression of “‘Black Power’’, We say that Pan- Africanism is the highest expression of cultural nationalism, The Black Panther Party is internationalist, We realize that most of the African goy- ~ernments who adhere to the philosophy of Pan-Africanism, are also aligned with United States imperialism, Inother words, these governments are saying ——_ T that if the United States will let us exist as a class to oppress our African people then we will cooperate; in other words, Black oppressing Black, The reason that | mentioned this is because this is Stokely Carmichael’s philo- sophy. It is also the philosophy of some of the reactionary governments in Africa, We would like to emphasize that we support the people of Africa in their just struggle against imper- ialism, and that our statements do not affect this comradely love that we have for all people in the world who are Struggling against United States im- perialism, We know that without the Support of United States imperialism no reactionary government can exist, SO we are very careful when we start Supporting a government that has re- lationships in support of the United States, And now with this very strange incident of Stokely Carmichael’s al- legedly leading a delegation of Black Panthers, when Stokely Carmichael de- nounced the Party a short time ago, He said that socialism is not the ques- tion, economics is not the question, but it’s entirely a question of racism, We take issue with this; we realize that the United States is a racist country, but we also realize the roots of the racism, and the roots of the racism is based upon the profit motive and capitalism, So we would like to Start with the cause and then later on handle the effects of it, We believe that while socialism will not wipe out racism completely, we believe that a foundation will be laid, When we change the structure of bourgeoisie society; when wetransform the structure into a socialist society then we’re one step toward changing attitudes, The people then will have control of the mass media, radio, television, newspapers, these are part of the mechanisms that shape attitudes, We know that the con- cept of cultural lag will probably run true to form; while the structure changes the attitudes will lag behind, because values take some time to change, But we say that the only way to start changing the racist nature of the society is to revolutionize the institutions, or transform the institu- tions, So we would like to reiterate our support for the Palestinian people, We would like to make it very clear tha: the Black Panther Party is not anti-Semitic, We’ve been charged with being anti-Semitic, As a matter of fact, some statements could be cited where some member of the Party has made some statements in anger in order to hurt some of our White radical friends because we believed that they did not live up to the friendship agreement, But these were internal fights, They should have been kept internal, but they were exposed and used by the reaction- aries, and this was partially our fault because we indulged in that. But as far reecit bagreriena? HUEY P, NEWTON MINISTER OF DE FENSE as our official position, we are not anti-Semitic, As far as the Israeli oeople are concerned we are not against the Jewish people, We are against that gov- ernment that will persecute the Pales- tinian people. We have to admit that there’s something wrong inthe Middle- East, The Palestinian people are living in hovels, they don’t havea land, they’ve been stripped and murdered; and we cannot support this for any reason, We also realize some of the short- comings of the United Arab Republic, And our views on this is that we think that the people led by the Palestinian people should be led into a struggle, a revolutionary struggle in order to transform the Middle-East into truly a peoples’ republic, And at the same time we support a small group of peuple who are in Israel who are rev- olutionary and who are working to see that the Zionist government of Israel is transformed into a secular peoples’ State instead of a religious state, We Say that the way the country is operat- ing at this time is the height of chau- vinism and ethnocentrism, I say this because any state that requires its members to adhere to a ceriain re- ligion is a reactionary state, We must realize that our ma‘n concern is to transform the world into a place where people can live, We’rechiefly interest- ed in the survival of our people, but not at the expense of other people, Black people in America have been persecuted; therefore it’s easy for us to identify with other people who are suffering. We have a long history of being enslaved and murdered, We have wrestled with the question of national- ism and we have concluded that we have a moral right to embrace nationalism, We have a moral right to choose srp- aratism, to move into a separate state just as the Jewish people have that moral right, But we realize that United States imperialism will noz allow us to Separate and live side-by-side with United States imperialism. It’s obvious that we could not become self-deter- mined because the United States will not let countries exist 15,000,000 miles away in freedom, They’ will not let these countries exist in freedom continued on next page =? ed from last page PRESS CONFERENCE _ State in North America in freedom, So the question can be put into the future, The first task is to transform society central task is to overthrow the ruling circle, who will not permit self-deter- mination to exist in the world, After we achieve this goal the question of nationalism can be handled, Black nat- ionalists could then go to the U.N, and ask for a plebiscite in order to ask the people what way they want to go, After transformation into a socialist society there may be no need for sep- . aration, This transformation can only take place by wiping out United States imperialism and establishing a new earth, a new society, and a new world, So politically and strategically the correct action to takeis not separation, but world revolution in order to wipe out imperialism, and then pevple will be fcee to decide their destiny, Self- _ determination and national indepen- ___ dence cannot really exist while United States imperialism is alive, That’s why we don’t support nationalism as our THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 7 goal, In some instances we might support nationalism as a strategy; we call this revolutionary nationalism, The motives are internationalist, because the revolutionaries are attempting to secure liberated territory in order to choke imperialism by cutting them off from the countryside, When the motive for national liberation is solely to create a capitalist state so that the ruling circle of that capitalist state can align itself with United States im- perialism, then it’s reactionary na*- ionalism and cannot be supported by revolutionaries, Israel was created by Western imperialism and maintained by Western fire power, The Jewish peo- ple have a right to exist as long as they solely exist to down the reaction- ary expansionist Israeli government, Our situation is similar in so many ways; we say that morally pechapsthe Jewish people can make a case for separatism and a Zionist state based upon their religion for self-def2nse, We say that morally maybe we could accept this, but politically and strateg- ically we know that it’s incorrect, In the first place what it is doing is perpetuating nationalism; perpetuating reaction, if nationalism is reaction, and I think that the United States has proved that it is becaise it used nationalism to rape the world and do- minate everyone else, In other words it went from nationalism to the natural conclusion, and that is empire or im- perialism, So the Jewish people must be very careful not to be aa agent of imperialism, We're asking the pro- gressive forces, the revolutionary for- ces inside of Israel to transform that society so that the peuple of the Mos- lem ~eligion, the people of the Jewish religion, the people who live in the Middle-East will be able to come to- gether as one man and truly build a new world, As a matter of fact, we’re looking forward to this time, we see that thistime will exist; because we see the contradiction that’s developing between the Palestinian people and the UAR, We also see a growing group insideof [srael that’s organizing against the racist tactics of the Israeli gov- ernment, I say that if we go over the record we can see where the Jewish students demeastrated against their Minister of Defense, against the war tactics of Israel; and we encourage this activity, we struggle with this group of the Jewish people, So we reject any charges of being anti-Semitic, We realize that some people who happen to be Jewish, and who support Israel will use the Black Panther Party’s position that is against imperiatism and against the agents of the imper- ialist as an attack of anti-Semitism, We think that this is a back-biting, racist, underhanded tactic; and we will treat it as such, We have respect for all people, and we have respect for the right for any people to exist, So we want the Jewish people and the Palestinian people to live in harmony together. We support the Palestinian’s just struggle for liberation one hun- dred per cent, We will go oa doing this, and we would like for all of the progressive people of the world to join in our ranks in order to make a world in which all people can live, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! JOHN CLARK : Reviewing the 400 years of Black people lives in slavery, our gain- ed knowledge shows us that our toiling and durdgery is being en- dorsed by racist courts through out Babylon, The shameful rooms of the courts are filled with toxic rules and laws chat because of their in- terpretation and implementation, do not favorably represent the e existence of Black people. Here in Baltimore we see the facist judicial system stepping vigour- ously forward once again to in- sure the slavery of Black people The law enforcement pigs in Baltimore took to the streets (on ; orders from police Commission- A er Pomeleau) starting early in 1970 and took captives to be given to the justice obstructing racist courts, ‘ ‘These people who were panther, _ @x-panthers, or sympathizers got Fipped off, not because of a sin- ful act but because of a merri- tious one" participation in the peo- _ ple’s just struggle for liberation. Also being helf captive by the racist of Babylon is John Lenard Born in one of Babylon’s most ‘Facist states, New Orleans, John had the heartly experience of com - ing face to face, with discontent, olation and slavery. These are conditions that John as all people are confronted with ring their struggle for survi- {in Black colonies of racis oppressor. Somehow John wasn't satisfied For some reason although he had money he still didn't feel free. Looking back at his primary Slave experiences he cemembers bald head white men In Black cloaks screaming. 90 days, 100 years, hang the nigger. He re- called the hungry days in his mind in which the only alternative to Satisfy thar hunger was to steal Some froin tie closet store which was always owned by another of those pigs. Even when he got to the store all the meat was rotten and the bread was stale. A fur- ther review reminded Jonn of the pig invented lies he was told by tie pig school teachers, All these facts plus many more helped John to give his pig orientated Ife back to the pigs, aad start on his ar- duous struggle to regain his men- isood, Jolin now knew the true cause of people being hungry, and clothe- less, he «sew the reason for sar- doale pig tortures and killing. The taformation compiled by the ex- periences of Join Clark told him the people responsible for unfair laws, unfair trials and unfair treatment of Black people by the racist American judicial systen, John Clark now knew who his real enemy was. But just knowing the enemy was not enough; that atill didn’t stop slavery of human beings. Pushed by his incentive to destroy sla- very Jolin directed his attention to the Black Panther Party, Johnsaw that the party, guided by the reach- ings of Huey P, Newton, had also recognized the enemy and second- ly had progressively moyed for- ward to anilate the enemy for the DEFENSE CAPTAIN, BALTIMORE CHAPTER, B.P.P. POLITICAL PRISONER IN L.A., CALIF. Purpose to total liberation of all oppressed people, On April 30th 1970 the enemy again made his mark in the life of John Leonard Clark, Armed and dangerous the enemy took captive, Jolin. Coates and Will; all delicated servants of the peo- ple. By the time these freedom fighters had reached the halls of the racist courts, theri destinies were already decermined. Allthree were cursed by the savage pig judges, with foolish untrue, rrump- ed up charges, John was charged with having a i, dangerous and deadly weapon concealed on and about his person, with being a 2, rogue and vagabond and some wild pig charge which says 3. in tent purpose of unlawfully injuries «a certain pecson as of yer unknown, it is clear to see that all three of these charges are the same kind of charges the pig courts have used to railroad to fall and legally murder Black people for the last four hundred years. This facist act of tercor dids't stop John from ser- ving the people that he loves and has dedicated his life to Insuring thelr total liberation, Ag soon as he was again amongst his peupis the facist began plotting to destroy him, hoping to take his work, ded- cation and accomplishments with him. By working even harder ro- wards the peoples freedom John showed pig commissioner Pomer- Jeau and his hired killers that guns threars, jails or racist courts can't stop 4 revolutionay from ardously doing all he can to move forward the peoples just struggle for lib- eration, On the morning of July 30th, Join L, Clark was again kidnapped from the people . This time tiie pigs contracted a filty pig by the name of Valdez to do the dirty work, Join had just stepped outside of the ra- cist courts of Baltimore, when Val- dez and the Baltimore city pigs handcuffed him. Valdez, who is merely a pig bailbonds, then pro- ceeded to take John to a destina- tion unknown by everyone but his Baltimore accomplices Ag it wis discovered later, Val- dee nad hid John away for two days before he moved to hijack John from the streets of Baltimore to Mit oyistified ace of suice catching is a direct contradiction t2 «he laws of Maryland and fur- thermore poses as itself as anoth- er acc 0 set back the siris te which will one day insure, food, clothes and justice for all. Within the confines of the L A. dungeons there lies arevolutionary There lies aman who wherever he goes carries with him a life- time spirit, the spirit of revolu- tion. Armed with this spirit andthe teachings of Huey P. Newton, Jobn Leonard Clark along with countless others will see to it thar Babylon, its racist courts and its ralist pigs meet total and Imptuous destruc- tion, FREE JOHN CLARK FREE THE BALTIMORE PANTH- ERS DEATH TO THE PIGS THE Youth Make the Revolution & THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 18 WE HAVE NO HANGUPS ABOUT REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE Recently, in what appears to be 4 very carefully developed plan, numerous members of the Black P. Stone Nation were first vili- fled by the news media and by certain pig-appolated boo.licking preachers, namely Curtis Burrell and Company, When we Look at the atrack against the Stones, we must be very analystic, and we must keep In mind the historic actions whith have taken place within the Publicity of the Stones, According to our information, Rev. Burrell, who is head of a group called K)CO, or Kenwood Oakland Comawnity Organization, had been instructed several yours ago {after the deatn of Dr. King) by the government pigs why fund KOCO to hire members of the Black Stone Rangers, presumably be- cause they, along with soine other groups on the Southside, had kept the people inthe co:nmiunity “‘cool"’ Qhey didn’t spontaneously re- tallate) when Dr. Martin L uther King wao assassinated, After this, all kinds of opportunists looking to obiain pig-money for developing more structures by which the Black youth could be organized and cou- trolled, Oscar Brown Jr, came along with his Opportunity Kaock thing, and a lot of the young and soft people in the comsnunity (nor necessarily Stones) were involved in musical expressions and ap- peared on TLV, etc., and who knows where they are now, However, des- pite both of these programs, the majority of the youth In the com- amity dico’t benefit from them be- cause the programs were only de- signed to separate the weak from the stroag, and buy off the lead- ership. Other groups or move- ments such as the Urited Front, influenced by Jessie Jackson and CT. Vivian, were in coalitions with the now Black P, Stone Na- tion. Tiey moved ayainst the con- Struction Duilding unions, which are racist unions. From oir infor- mation, the Stones didn’t really bevefir from the coalition, as evi- dent by the fact that right now when they need support, the coalitioners sit quiet and afraid to speak out against the injustices perpetrated against the Woodlaws youths, Some people remark thar they are glad the Stones are belm attacked by the pigs; however, tis is a nalve way of thinking, The pigs are not atcacking the Stones in reality. they are using the Scones aS 4 stepping stone Into the Black community so that they cin deal with all the Black youths. The ceal tale was shown during the Cabrini Greene situation, whereas people in the Black comn- munity resorted to revolutionary violence and killed two spy pigs. Prior to this a lot of news ap- peared blaming the gangs for every internal murder, robbery, and rape within the coxfines of the Alin eennet yy The pigs seized the opportunity at Cabrini Greene pro- jects, to arrest Black gang leaders, because the pigs’ vilification inthe news media was designed to Iso- late them from the community, and this is just what happened. The pigs arrested four people, among them wis 4 leader of the Cobra Scones, Wheu this happened, Rev. Burrell .- intensified his efforts to fighr the Stores and prove to the govern- ment that he in no way associated with them, All this was dove for more funds from the government to Burcell’s group. Jessie Jackson aod Burrell started a so-called male yroup, called Black Men Mov- ing, Rev, Burrell was of course leader and spokesman, He vowed that he would ger the Stones, and declared a war against them, The pig news media went over-board § to support Burrell because as Nixon or Hoover would probably Say, Burrell is their kind of nigger. Whey pig Alfano was offed over in the Woodlawn District it was easy for the pigs to charge the stones, because they hadthe people turned against the Stones, and so they could really have a field day on the Black youth under the pre text of them being Stones. As one Gang Intelligence Pig “All of them (youth) must be Stones, because they (gangs) kill anyone who doesn't join or go a- long.’” So with this pretext the pigs attacked all the Black people on the street without respect for age or Sex. The pigs took advao- tage of the situation to of the Stones" top leader- because they *olnked” arrest S07 ship, of these bruthers wer Saw that mass OTL violent in 4 revolutionary manner We. In the Black Paather Party Say Right On, Right On, to revolu- tlonary because ic is directed ar the oppressor, a: violence is about annihilating the oppr c We «now that the pigs are oppres- Sors who carry guns and use force to protect the other oppressors who exploic us for profit, To the Black P, Stone Nationa we say this; the pigs of the power Structure along with all their nigger lackeys, have shown: you vecy clearly that the oppressor of all mankind, in the profit seeking businessman, the apologetic profit worshipping demayogic politician and the low-lifed m irdering fas - cist pig cop who protects all the other opprese;cs in our com- munity. These pigs who are atotal threat to mankind and survival on this planet, will not hesirate to kill and eliminate any person, They intend to destroy the majority of our people. It is very clear that we are an oppressed people and thar the only thing we can do to free ourselves, is to taxe ourguns and Degin to shoot the oppressor. We endorse and support this type of actioa in the spirit of liberation. because in order for us to wit, we must fight If you dareto stciz~ gle. you dare to win. If you don’t dare to struggle then you doa't deserve to win, Take up your guns and let us as a nation of oppressed people gain our freedom and Lib- eration who {s munifested avaricious ALL POWER ID THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY Chicago Chanter Moak Teba TO OUR SISTERS IN ARMS FROM JOAN BIRD AND AFENI SHAKUR In a few days, the legal lynch- ing of the N.Y, 21 will resume Since the first night of our cap- ture (April 2, 1959), we have watched your patient struggle to rid yourselves of old, decrepit ide. We have drawn strength from the umytelding feel of your faith. We know that without your Support, we could never have made £ to this point. There were always times wien we doubted our ability, as women, to do certain extraordinary things; and through ft all, you have vig- orously criticized our passive atti- tudes. You have shown us that we can stand up against any artack the fascists wige., We need not fight simply tit for tat, but we can also act as machine guns to wear the enemy thin, Throwh their example, and the examples of Jane Alpert and Ber- nadine Dohim, we along with the entire Central committee of the Black Panther Party, recognized the legitimacy of the struggle In the imother country for Women's Liberation, While atthe same time, we recognized our duty as Black colonia! subjects, to struggle courageously against «avery and genocide of all our people. Within our ranks, we were able to recogaize the old ideas of chau- vaiism, as destructive symptoms of a decaying system, Our bro- thers-In-arms jofned us in these revoynitioas, while all the cme they ompliatically criticized any passive ideas we might have envelope], Daily we found that evil ideas were foreign to soclal- We suffered for every inch of pro- gress. Our hearts were in con- stant pain and yee we continu! when Li'l Bobby was murdered, we could not separate ourselves Into gender to classify our emo- tions, Woen Huncty and John were shot down by the very cliamplons of chauvanism, we watched Ericka transform her hurt into determina- tion as she adapted her husband's valor. We have always lookedupon Joan and Ericka as oxampies of the new man and the new woinan. Since that time, other brothers and sisters have advanced that example. In December, 1969, when the enemy troops attacked the Los An- geles office, they did not find chau- vanistic men or passive wome1-- they found instead, a unified force JOAN BIRD, JOAN KELLEY, MASAI, AFENI AND EVON We have heli constant struggles with our comrades in arms. why wece a olt slow to understand our fidelity tothe struggle for complete Uberation, We warched the weinea of the mother country, steuggie for equal status in a capitalistic sys- tem, knowing all the while thar guerilla women wane equal status in a system that does not exploit or murder other penple. We detest Golda Meir wit the same venom that we feel for Richard Nixon, Hoover and Mitchell. We cannot look upon revolutionaries as ex- plolters, because we have 4ecn them fight. die and kill for an en t exploitation At the heizht of our annoyance at this reactionary element of Wo- mec’s Liberation, 4 small group of yo atyt White women for the Wo- men's Center, came to us and acked if they could help to get one of their contemporaries out of the clutches of the enemy, The Joan Bird Committee recognized thar our gtruggle was against a racist capitalist Sysiem that oppresses all minority peoples. They immediately movedto con- vince other woines that our Na- tional Salvation is directly related to all strugyles for liberty, In the process, they raised $25,000.00 to contribute to the ransom the courts had imposed on 45. When the ransom was met and both of us were back inthe colony, they moved to educate thelr friends and neighbors about the preplanned murder attempt on our comrade Lonnie McLucas, They didnot limit their love of women! They showed us, through their practice that rev- olutionary love is not abstract, istic living. It became necessary for us to move as one force to eliminate those, just as inthe past, we tnoved against liberal or dog matic ideas within our ranks. Ik has never been easy for any of us! We had ,use gone through a cultura! strugle with factions of our comma.intties, who oad cast us in ‘roles’. Our history of bru- talization Islong and painful. We nad always turned an accusing fin- ger on our men because of the atrocities imposed on all ofus, We plamed them for the crimes of the eaciste capitalists. When w ourselves failed to attack the real enemy of humanity, we sought to punish ourselves by saying our role was io “stand behind our men’. Arothers found this a flat- tering position and quickly adapted it, These were the ideas we bought into the Black Panther Party Once we became familiar with the hon- oravle principles of our Party, we found we had to question those incorrect ideas, Brothers knew that Ericka Hug- gins deserved nothing less than equal status as a warrior. They knew that the sisters who sold papers with them also watched their backs. They endured torture that only a dedicated servant of humanity could endure, and still they fought. Whenever we found ourselves falling fo> the mistaken ideas, we criticized ourselves! We discipline ourselves] We trained ourselves! Today we look at the four years that knew the dawning of the Black Panther Party, and our reaction is the same--Ir’s a miracle! Deep dowa inside, we know that it was not a miracle, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE of uncompruinise! resistance, None of us were surprised to hear thar those eleven people had held off hundreds of mercenary troops for many hours, We did not for &@ minute doubt the ability of any of our comrades to deal a siriking blow against this fascist reginx We are objective in our trear- meat of subversive thinking. We do not tolerate opportunism of any form, We do not separate the op- portunistic traits of chauvanism aod pacivity from the other destructive elements of an exploi- tative society, Our enemy, American imperialism and all Sumptoms of its evil path will be vigorously opposed, We ave been so moved by your efforts, comrades, that at leas; one of us, will follow the revolu- Gonary example of our Chairman Bobby Seale, We have recogaized the illegitimacy of America’s institutions and our response to that is constant attack, In further- ance of that determinatioa, we wish to stand before the racist courts of Babylon, aad intone your spirit, your goals and your thirst for Wb- erty. We wish to be represuuta- tives of all that you are! So thar today we dedicate our lives to the unified struggle of our people. We shall fight eternally in the spirir of Bobby Seale, knowing thar you will advance the spirit of Jona- than jacksoa, William Christmas, James McClain, and Ruchell Mc- Gee. With the warmth and fidélity of true comnrades-in-arms, Joan Hird and Afent Shakur @ of the N.Y, 21) ‘THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 19 RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS 1048 PERALTA STREET OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Every member of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY throughout this country of racist America must abide by these rules as functional members of this Party. CENTRAL COMMITTEE mem- bers, CENTRAL STAFFS, and LOCAL STAFES, ireluding all captains subordinate to either national, state, wad local leader- ship of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY will enforce these rules. Length of suspension or other disciplinary action necessary for violation of these rules will depend on national, state or state area, and local commitrees and staffs where said rule or rules of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY WERE VIOLATED, Every member of the Party must know these verbatum by heart. And apply them daily, Each member must report any violation of these rules to their leadership or they are counter- revolutionary and are also subjected to suspension by the BLACK PANTHER PARTY. THE RULES ARE: 1, No Party member can have narcotics or weed in his pos- session while doing Party work. 2. Any Party member found shooting narcotics will be ex- pelled from this Party. 3. No Party member can be DRUNK while doing daily Party work, 4. No Party member will violate rules relating to office work, general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANYWHERE, 5. No Party member will USE, POINT, or FIRE 4 weapon 1uey would say, “a newspaper is the voice of 4 party, the vowe of the Panther must be heard throughout the land.” We found we as citizens of this country were being kept duped by the govern- ment and kept misinformed E Black Community News Service was created to present factual, reliable information to the people, July 1967--Minister of Defense, Huey P, Newton (right) and The Black Panther Party Chairman, Bobby Seale (left), reading an early edition of B.P.P, ‘Black Community News Newspaper at the home of Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of In- formation B,P,P, Service is the alternative to the ‘government ap- proved’ stories presented in the mass media and the product of an effort to present the facts, not stories as dictated by the Oppressor, but as seen from the other end ofagun, orergn Subscriptions 3 MONTHS; (13 ISSUES) pelclarets.) $250 $9.00 6 MONTHS, (26 ISSUES) . . . veleew olds SDD $12.00 ONE YEAR: (52 ISSUFS)... 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No Party member can have a weapon in his possession Marshall Edward] Conway (a Pan- treated like the jews that were in found guilty, while DRUNK or loaded off narcotics or weed, _ ther) put an article intoyourpaper Ger:nany, during Hitlers time. The Inmates over in the peni- 8. No Party member wi!!! commit any crime against other titled ‘Bad Trearment’’, and what The Assistant Warden stated in tentiaryare yetting better treatment Party members or Black people at all, and cannot steal or he said wae absolutely true, the Afro saying that there are than we are and they aren’t take from the people, not even a needle or a piece of thread, 9. When arrested BLACK PANTHER MEMBERS will give only name, address, and will sign nothing. Legal first ald must be understood by all Party members, 10. The Ten Point Platform and Program of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must be known and understood by each Party member. 11, Party Communications must be National and Local. 12, The 10-10-10-program should be known by all members and also understood by all members. 13, All Finance officers will operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance. 14. Each person will submit a report of daily work. 1S, Each Sub-Section Leader, Section Leader, Lieutenant, and Cujxain must submit Daily reports of work. 16, All Panthers must learn to operate and service weapons correctly. 17, All Leadership personne] who expel a member must submit this information to the Editor of the Newspaper, so that it will be published in the paper and will be known by all Chapters and Branches, 18, Political Education Classes are mandatory for general membership, 19. Only office personnel assigned to respective offices each day should be there, All others are to sell papers and do Political work out in the community, including Captains, Section Leaders, etc. 20, COMMUNICATIONS--all Chapters must submit weekly reports In writing to the National Headquarters, 21. All Branches must implement First Aid and/or Medical Cadres. 22, All Chapters, Branches, and components of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must submit a monthly Financial Report to the Ministry of Finance, and also the Central Committee. 23, Everyone in 4 leaderslip position must read no less than two hours per day to keep abreast of the changing political situation, 24, No Chapter or Branch shall accept grants, poverty funds, money or any other ald from any government agency without contacting the National Headquarters, 25. All Chapters must adhere to the policy and the ideology laid down by the CENTRAL COMMITTEE of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY, 26, All Branches must submit weekly reports in writing to thelr respective Chapters, We have tried everything, from 90 men held on lock-up Golitary awaiting trial. banging on the bars to rioting but confinement). That was alie, There July 28, 1970, Warden Schoon- still, in return the jail administra- are three solitary confinement field stated in the Afro that, all tion refuses to hex our cries. Tie sections and there are 120 menon of the sections are the same and _ treatment over here is inhuman, each section. Warden Harper said he is not denying any Panther We have triedaumerous times that the reason why these people Or inmate of ats rights, to expose this jall for whatitreal- are on lock-up Is because of thelr You ask every inmate over here ly is, we've tried theNewsAmeri- political, religious influence on they'll tell you a different story, can, we've written articles tothe others, and becauseoftheir charg- © and it will be the same as Mar- Afro and also the Panther paper, es such as murder, rape, assault, shall Conway's story. but when thepeoplecomeoverher= and eic, Our recreation, movie, ALI. POWER TO THE PEOPLE! to Investigate the Warden's distort- LUbrary and other activities arede- FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISON- ed a lot of lies justtokeepthe peo- led just because of our political ERS! ple unaware. Yes, the question is, whac are we left to do? The food and living conditions are truthfully unfit for 4 human be- ing. We're being fed meals that don’t have any nutrition whatso- ever and to top It off, the adminis- ‘tration is beginning to cut down on the food supply, for example: @ Slice of Iunchmeat, bow! of pow- dered milk along wim cereal for breakfast, a slice of cheese, a Fe of bread and a bow) of watery Soup for lunch, and solid meal for dinner in which all of the different foods are. mixed rogether-(slop), We are forced to share a 5x8 sell in which the sink, bed androl- Tet is installed, we are forced to ear under these same environmexts. ly a chosen few go to the din- w hall. Eating in our cells is eating in an out house or bath- inmates over here have to and pretend that they have just to get to see the nurse t treated for their illness. inmates are very sick andthe uly gives them an aspirin ¥, just to get then oat of her USE WHAT YoU GoT TO GET WHAT YOU NEED! inmates that haye been trial for a period of es THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 20 BOBBY’S Ml, IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THIS CASE APPELLANT WAS EN- TITLED TO HAVE HIS CON- TEMPT CHARGES HEARD BY A JUDGE OTHER THAN THE JUDGE WHO PRESIDED OVER THE TRIAL OUT OF WHICH SAID CHARGES AROSE, Virtually all the contempt charges In this case arose our of a continuing, personal confrontation between appellant and the crial Judge over appellant's constiru- tional and statutory rights, involy- ing incidents In witich appellant's conduct took the form of in- creasingly hostile and derogatory comments about the trial judge. The judge, far from remaining an impartial arbiter, above the rur- moll of the trial over which he presided, (95) actively embroiled himself in continual controversy with appellant and his co-defend- ants and their attorneys, Finally, the judge took no action either to cite, convict or sentence appellant for the sixteen incidents of alleged- ly contemptuous conduct which oc- curred during the course of six weeks of trial, until the time that he declared a mistrial in appel- lant’s case, and severed it from that of his co-defendants, Appel- Jant submits that under these cir- cumstances lt was in error forthe trial judge to adjudge andsentence sppellant on the contempt charges rather than referring the case to another judge. (99) (98) Cf. Illinois v, Allen, US. , 38 U.S.L. Wk. 4247, 4250 (March 31, 1970), where the Supreme Court noted in upholding the trial judge's action in removing defendant from his trial, that the judge had, des- pire severe provocation, ‘at all times conducted himself with that dignity, decorum, and patience thar befits a judge." (99) For 4 collection of authorities relevant to this issue see gen- erally Anno,, Disqualification of Judge in Proceedings to Punish Contempt, 64 A.L.R, 2d600 (1959); Anno., Construction of Provision in Federal Criminal Procedure Rule 42 (6) That if Contempt Char- ges Involve Disrespect toor Criti- cism of Judge, He Is Disqualified from Presiding at Trial or Hear- ing Except with Defendant's Con- sem, 3 A.L.R. Fed, 420 (1970), (END OF FOOTNOTES) Applicable authority makes It clear that where che tr jal judge in fact becomes embroiled in con- troversy with the contemnor, heis obligated to refer contempt char- ges to another judge. Gee Ill B, infra pp. 91-9) But we believe that the test for disqualification should be whether the record re- veals significant poteatial for em- broilment and therefore bias. Gee Ill A, infra pp. 79-91) Recent Su- preme Court cases appear to call for such a rule, (100) and itsee:ns preferaple to a test depending upon actual embroilment for a number of reasons, First it is simply im- practicable to ask 4 trial judge who may in fact have become in- volved to the point that he can no longer act 4s an unbiased arbiter to make that determination lim- self, (101) Such a test 1s therefore likely to be both Ineffective and Inefficient, since it would be pri- marily limited to use as grounds for reversal by appellate. courts. Second, the usefulness of such a test is further limited by the fact that appellate judges are not likely to find congenial the task of determining that a particular judge became so embroiled as to jose his judicial impartiality Third, at a time when the Integ- rity of the judicial system 1s being seriously questioned because of cases such as the instant wind, it is particularly important! to esiab- APPEAL lish rules which will ensure to the extent possible that courts not only provide, but appear to provide justice, (100) See, e.g., In re Murchison, 349 U.S, 133 (1955); Ungar v, Sara- fite, 376 U.S. 575, 584 (1%4), (101) Thus it has been said that that part of F,R, Crim, P, 42 (©) providing for disqualification “it the contempt charged involves disrespect to or criticisin of a judge"’ was "prompted by the com- mon experience that uncominonly prejudiced individuals almost In- variably consider thetnselves im- partial..." Anno., supra n, 99, 3 A.L.R, Fed, at 422, (END OF FOOTNOTES) Appellant contends he Is entitled to reversal either on the ground of the potential for bias in the instant case (Ill A, infra) or be- cause of the actual involvement shown vy the trial judge (Il 8, infra) But there can be no ques- tion that in combination the cir- cumstances of this case mandate reversal. A, WHERE CONTEMPT CHARGES ARISE OUT OF A PERSONAL CONFRONTATION WITH ‘THE TRIAL JUDGE AND INVOLVE PERSONAL, CRITICAL AND DEROGATURY COMMENTS A- BOUT THAT JUDGE, AND WHERE THAT JUDGE FINDS NO NECES-~ ‘SITY FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION, THEN THE CONTEMNOR IS EN- TITLED TO A HEARING BEFORE ANOTHER JUDGE, During the course of his abortive trial appellant was increasingly vexed by the denial of his claims to be represented by Garry or to represent himself, and frustrated by the court’s refusal evento allow him to present his objections, and its persistent comment thathe was in fact represented by Kunstler, Thus, while for the most partSeale wis polite and restrained in his requests and his attempts to pre- sent a defense, (102) he became increasingly insistent on his right to present some defense, and in- creasiigly acrimonious In his con- detnnation of the court's denial of that right. Virtually all the con- tempt charges are grounded at least in part on his condemnation of the judge in the most personal terms for refusal co allow Scale to conduct his own defense, (103) (102) See, ¢.g., TR 1409, 1486- 87, 1488, 1665-06, 1994, 3121 3252, 3368-89, (103) For example, the Contemp Certificate (Record oa Appeal, Itein No. 57) charges appellant with saying, inter alia, the follow- ing: Incident 1: MR, SEALE: if I am consistently denied this right of legal defense Counsel of my cliotce who Is effec- tive by the judge of this court, then I can only see the judge as 4 blatant racist of the United States (w)tth gross prejudical error toward all defendants and my- self.... then the tenor is the actofracism, and me, 4 Black man, there seems to be a form of prejudice against me, even to the other defendants, on the part of the judge, (TR 5416) Incident 2: THE COURS, + to remain quizt MR, SEALE: And just roaded? (TR 5417-18) lirect you, sir, be rail- Incident 4: MR. SEALE: ...You know, the Black man cries to get a fair trial in this country. The Unired States Government, huh. Nixon and the rest of them, Go ahead and continue, I'l] wateh and yet rail- roaded, (TR 5422) (Following a dispute with the court over Seale’s rizht to speak) Incident 5: MR, SEALE: I still want my right to defend myself. Arailroad opera- tion, and you know (tt, from Nixos on down. They got you running around here violating my coasti- tutloaal rights. (TR 5426) Incident 6: (tere the court noted thar “the, apparently appellant, “is not addressing me with au- thority."") (TR 3429) (Following a dispute over Seale's right to represent himself) Incident 7: MR, SEALE: They don't take or- ders from racist judges, but I can coavey the orders for them and they will follow them, (TR 5430) (Following Seale's attempt to quiet the spectators, TR 3538-42) Incident 8: MR, SEALE: ,,. You have been de- nying (my constitutional cights), Every other word you say Is de- nied, denied, dealed, denied, and you begin to olak In the faces of the masses of the people of this country, That is what you begin to represent, the corruptoess of this rotten government for four hundred years.... I still deznand the right to de- fend myself. You are not fooled? After you have walked over peo- ple’s constitutional rights?,.. After you done walked over peo- ple's constitutional rights, the Sixth Ameudment, the Fifth Amendment, and the phoniness and the corruptness of this very trial, for people to have a right to speak our, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and et cetera, You have did everything you could with those jive lying witnesses up there presented by these pig agents of the Government to lie and say and condone some rotten racist, fascist crap by racist cops and pigs that beat people's heads--and Idemand my constitutional rights--demand --demand-- (TR 5434-35, 5437) Incident 9; MR, SEALE: ,,,Black people ain't supposed to have a mind? That's what you think, We got a body and a mind, I wonder, did you lose yours in the Superman sya- drome comic book stories? You must haye to deny us our constl- tutional rights..., «That jury hasn't heard all of the motions you denied behind the scenes. How you tricked that juror out of that stand there by threar- ening her with that jive letter that you know darned well [didn’t send, which is a He....(TR 5440-41) (Following the court’s denial of Seale’s objection to a witness's testifying aginst him) Incident 10; MR, SEALE: Let the record show you violated that and a Black man eannot be discriminated against in relation to his legal defense and that is exactly what you have done, You know you have.... «You are the one in contempt of people's constitutional rights. I am not in contempt of nothing. You are the one who is in contempt. The people of America need to admonish you and the whole Nixon administration,... (TR 5444-45) (Following a dispute over Seale's right to cross-cxamine witness) Incident 11; MR, SEALE: ,.,.1 have a constitu- tional right to speak, and if you try to suppress my constitutional right to speak out in behalf of my constitutional rights, then I can only see you as a bigot, a racist, and a fascist.... (TR 3451) Incident 12: MR, SEALE: You have George Washington and Benjamin Frank- lin sitting in a picture behind you, and they were slave owners. That's what they were. They owned slaves, You are acting In the same man- ner, denying me my constitutional rights being able to cross-cxamine this witiess. (TR 5452) (In midst of lengthy dispute over denial of Seale’s request to cross- examine witness and to represent himself generally, TR 4719-27) Incident 13: MR, SEALE; You just got through Saying you observed the laws, That law protects my right not to be dis- criminated against In my legal defense. Why don’t you recognize that? Let me defend myself... it's a form of racism, racisin aS what stopped my argument. (TR 5461) Incident 15: MR, SEALE; ,., You cannot sit up here and continie to deny me my consthutional rights to cross- examine the witness, my consti- tutional right to defend myself... (TR $470) Incident 15: MR, SEALE: Me, myself, my own person have no right to defend myself? This is erroneous. It is a complete, complete overt, fascist attempt, fascist operation--... How about that? You are talking about insulting you. You are the one that is insulting me, insulting the people of the world, insulting the people of America, and you know. (t, (TR 5473-74) (The transcript references above are to where the trial court read contempt charges to appellant). Additionally, the record is re- plete with other confrontations be- tween the judge and Mr, Seale resulting in comments, remarks or outbursts by Mr. Seale of a peculiarly personal nature, See, €.g., TR 392, 4766, 4798-99, 4846, 4%8-59, 5356-69. (END OF FOOTNOTES) It is perhaps inevitable that such comments by the defendant would be perceived by the trial judge as 4 personal attack, particularly in a trial where from the deginning he was engaged with all the defend- ants and with the defense attorneys in a series of personal disputes and confrontations and where he concluded, in punishing appellant and later his co-defendants and their attorneys, that all had been guilty of an attempt to sabotage the administration of justice. In- deed, the record reveals that the judge was in fact enormously af- fected, hurt and personally af- fronted by appellant’s comments, The judge repeatedly made refer- ence to the fact that Seals had called him names and otherwise insulted him, (104) (104) See, e.g., TR 4759-60, 4837, 4940, 4954, 4961, 5005-09, 5346, 5402. Even after Seale's case was severed and he was punished for contempt, the trial judge continued to refer throughout the other de- fendants’ trial toSeale’s prior con- duct revealing the obsessive outrage and bitterness that con- duct had aroused. Thus at the con- clusion of the entire trial in sen- tencing Kunstler for contempt, the court spoke as follows: -.even if I were wrong, if 1 were wrong, even if the many times he called me the vile names thar he called me--! don’t know tow it could be proven that a men of my faith was a pig; thar would be very difficulr--but there Is a man who never saw me, I believe, be- fore he came into this courtroom, but to have described me as he described me, and for you, and you represent yourself to be a leader at the Bar, and you have practiced in all of these courts that you have mentioned, you have never, never made an atrempt to Say Something like this to him, “Bobby, hush. Coel it, Sit down now.’" You let him go on. « comeday, someday, Iaope thar his conduct, or the reason for his conduct will be demoastrared clearly, and you can’t disassociate yourself from him. He was your client. I know you dispute the fact that he is now, but he was, Even ix the way you describe it, he was your client at one time, and you made no effort, no effort, to have him keep from calling a Judge of the United States District Court a pig, a fascist pig, a racist pig.... (END OF HOO TNOTE) Similarly, he revealed extraordi- nary sensitivity to any word or deed by Seale's co-defendants and particularly by their attorneys that could conceivably be taken as an insult or an attack upon his au- thority, He stated coastantly— often with little or no apparent provocation — that he felt per- sonally threatened and insulted by the defense and concerned that his authority was being undermined, (105) (105) See, e.g., TR *87-88; TR 31- 32, 395-9, 670, 753, 848-49, 1031- 82, 1242, 1741, 1964, 2208, 2702- 03, 4244, 4499-4500, 4758, 4760, 4830-31, 4837, 4943-44. And see infra. p. 161, n, 227 for specific examples, / \ (END OF FOOTNOTE) The potential for bias ¢ DENMARK ‘NOTE: we will be running complete novel (written by Robert Searobin) {1 a series beginning next week, When I began to compose this article, a White federal judge had just gagged and shackled a Black “man to prevent him from cross- examining witnesses in the rial of eight radicals accused of con- spiring to incite riots ut the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. The judge then sentenced the Black mm to four years in prison for contempt of court. Now as | coa- clude, Chicago police have assas- sinated two more Black organizers while they slept in bed--another demonstration of the depths of ra- celal oppression in the United States. Against such racism Blacks have struggled throughout American history, and the most spectacular forms of Black resistance are the conspiracies and rebellions which have surfaced from one generation to another. Major slave unrest occurced in New York in 1712, in South Carolina in 1739 and 1740, in Virginia in 1800 and 1831, and In Louisiana in 1811 and 1812. But one of the most extensive plots of all was uncovered in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1822—the Den- mark Vesey Conspiracy. Vesey and his followers planned simply to seize the city of Charleston, kill most of the Whites, and, if neces- Sary, escape to the Caribbean or Africa. Whites ruthlessly sup- Pressed the rebels, but they are still revered today for their courage, daring, and determina- tion. South Carolina society seemed Peaceful enough in the spring of 1822, yet beneath the serene sur- face it seethed with discontent. The 260,000 slaves who worked in the cotton fields and malarial Swimps, a majority of the popula- ton, had long protested their en- Slavement. Major rebellions had occurred in 1739 and 1740, 25,000 Slaves had escaped to the British Hines during the American Revolu- tion, and a conspiracy in Camden, 5.C., had been broken up as re- cently as 1816, Many smaller plots and uprisings had alsotaken place. Exploitation had increased after the War of 1812, as prices of Staples tended to decline and as new lands were opened up in the West. Yet masters had neither en- trely dehumanized their slaves for completely crushed their innate longing for freedom. For Obvious reasons, slave dissutis- faction and discontent remained Profound enough to inspire thoughts of rebellion. For such a slave society, where _ 12,652 bondsmen outnumbered 10, 653 Whites in Charleston alone, the SLAVE CON VESSEY: THE SPIRACY OF 1822 presence of an active free-Black community was both paradoxical and dangerous. Concentrated in Charleston County, the number of freedmen had rapidly increased from 1,161 in 1800 to 3,615 In 1820, Free Blacks worked ata va- riety of occupations that ranged from artisanry to longshoring, from shopkeeping to house- servantry, with the vast bulk earning only very modest livings. A handful had managed to accumu- late considerable wealth and to organize fraternal groups, such as the Brown Fellowship Society, an elite educational and welfare organization begun In 1790, How- ever, Whites despised the free Blacks and regarded them as bad examples and potential leaders for those still in bondage. Beginning in 1815, free Blacks and slaves had joined together in an unprecedented act of religious self - determination. When the White Methodist Church canceled certain privileges for Blacks with- in its congregations, the Blacks commnicated with the newly organized African Methodist Epis- copal Church in Philadelphia. They Sent two representatives to be or- dained as ministers, and finally estaolished their own separate church, Most of the ‘‘class leaders'’, or deacons, resigned from the White-dominared Metho- dist Church, and almost 5,000 Blacks, three-quarters of the Black membership, transferred their allegiance to the new African Church. This blow for independence out- raged White officials, and they be- gan to harass the Black religious community. In 1817, 469 Black Me- thodists were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct. The follow- ing year, 140 more were appre- hended for violating the laws against educating slaves withour Whites being present, Thirteen of these were either fined or sentenced to imprisonment, ban- ishment, and whipping. In 1820, a group of freedmen petitioned the State legislature for permissionto conduct separate religious ser- vices. Upon the recomimendition of the White Charlestoa assembly- men, the plea was rejected, The next year, the City Marshal again warned the Black clergymen that instructing slaves was illegal; yet, despite such threats and intimida- tion, the African Church remained a seedbed of subversion. To preserve the ‘domestic tran- quility”’ of the state, Whites moved against the Black community again in 1820, An act passed that year of a continuing personal confron- tation between the trial judge and contemnor is obvious, The Judge who feels himself subject to per- Sonal attack by a contemnor can- not, consistent with due process, preside over the resulting con- tempt proceedings at least where there Is nonecessity for immediate adjudication, Here there was clearly no such justifying neces- sity since the trial judge in fact took no action either to cite, con- vict or sentence appellant for con- tempt until he declared a mis- trial in appellant's case and severed his trial from that of the remaining seven defendants, At this point his action could not be justified as a necessury means of keeping order and enabling the trial to proceed. Such a rule would not deprive a trial judge of the power to ad- judicate or punish ordinary in- court confempts. (106) Nor would it deprive him of the power to deal with disruptive court miscon- duct where artacks of a personal nature were involved, by citing the contemnor at whatever point in the trial it appeared necessary in order to ensure its orderly con- tinuance, Nor does appellant con- tend that where immediate action is necessitated during trial the judge ts prohibited from coasider- ing previous acts of contempt nor adjudicated ar the time. The trial judge is not required to act Imine- diately on every contemptof aper- sonal nature if he is to penalize such acts at all. But appellant does contend that a trial judge cannot defer action on such con- tempts until after it is no longer necessary to ensure an orderly trial and then refuse to refer the case to a jude whose Impartiality can be presumed, (106) In Sacher y. United States, 343 US. 1 (1952), and Ungar v. ;| Sarafite, 376 U.S. 575 (1964), the Supreme Court upheld the power of a trial judge to rule on contempt charges which are not inthe nature of a personal attack, (END OF FOOTNOTE) A rule disqualifying the judge who has been subject to personal criticisin where there is no neces- sity for instant adjudication {s sup- Ported by a series of Supreme Court decisions. The rule's origin lies in the Court’s statement in Cooke y. United States, 267 U.S, 517, 539 (1925), that: where the contempt charged has In it the element of personal criticism or attack upon the judge then another Judge should be called upon to adjudicate the coatempt ‘where conditions do not make it imprac- ticable, or where the delay may not Injure public or private righr.’ (107) (107) The Court cited Cornish v, United States, 299 F, 283 (6th Cir. 1924), which held that in a case of contempt involving Libel of a judge, another judge ought to hear it in the absence of some compelling forbade any more free Blacks from entering the state; if freedmen left the state, they were forbidden to return, Considerin: the African Methodists’ journey to Pennsylva- nia, the new law was a direct attack on the religious Integrity of all Blacks. To discourage fur- ther entry of free Blacks into the state, those not born in South Caro- lina or residents of less than five years were subject to 3 stiff, fifty- do!lar-a-year tax, Manumission of slaves was also severely pro- scribed, and licenses were nowre- quired of Blacks for certain occu- pations to reduce competition with Whites. Altogether, Charleston Blacks--both free and slave-- found themselves under con- siderable pressure. The Black population was in- spired by other events as well, THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5,1970 PAGE 24 BOBBYS APPEAL continued from last page necessity or urgency, (END OF FOOTNOTE) In Sacher v, United Seates, 343 U.S, 1 (1952), the Court upheld a trial judge's delayed adjudication of iIn-courte contempt, but on grounds that plainly distinguish the case irom appellant's, Gee pp, 108-11, infra) To the extent that Sacher can be read as specifically approving a rule that would give the trial judge power to punish personal contempes where no im- mediate necessity appears, it has been either refined or overruled by subsequent Supreme Court de- cisions holding that there is a class of contempt, involving per- sonal criticism of the trial judge, where that judge is so disquali- fied, at least in the absence of 3ome impelling necessity. Thus in Offutt y. United States, 348 U.S, 11 (1954), the Court re- versed a case in which the rial judge summarily found defense counsel in contempt at the close of trial for conduct during the course of trial, holding that where the contempt involved a clash be- tween the trial court and contem- nors, it should have been heard by some other judge. (103) In Inre Murchison,, 349 U5, 133 (1955), the Court made it clear that actual involvement by the Judge need not be shown to require his disquali- fication--the fact he played a role creating the potential for bias war sufficient. The court held chat a judge acting as a one-man grand jury could not subsequently judge contempt charges arising out of the grand jury proceeding. The decision was based on the theory that playing the role of grand jury created a potential for bias incon- sistent with the requirement of an impartial arbiter, (109) It is clear that there is asimilar potential for bias where, a3 here, the judge has been the subject of personal criti- cism by the contemnor. and per- ceives himself as the victim of personal attack, Finally, in Ungar v. Sarafite, 376 US. 575, 584 (1964), the Court specifically dis- tinguished between contempt In- volving oo more than ‘'disobe- dience to court orders and criti- cism of ts rulings during the course of atcial’’, and *‘criticisms of judicial conduct which are so Pecsonal and so probably produc- tive of bias that the judge must disqualify himself to avoid being the judge in his own case’; and reled in upholding the conviction on the fact thar the contempts did not involve ‘‘an insulting at- tack upon the integrity of the judge carrying such potenrial for bias as to require disqualification,’ (103) The opinion was written by Mr, Justice Frankfurter, who dis- sented In Sacher, supra and while the opinion specifically refused to “retrace the ground so recently covered in the Sacher case" G43 U.S, at 13), andrelied on the judge's personal embroilment with coa- They undoubtedly had heard of the successful slave revolt in Saint- Domingue, since South Carolinians had long traded with the Carib- bean islanders and since some Hai- tian emigres had settled in the state with thelr slaves, Blacks also Seemed aware of the significance of the debates in Congress during 1819-21 over the admissionof Mis- Sour as a slave state, Perhaps they also knew of the Gabriel con~ Spiracy near Richmond in 1800, and of the plans devised in Wash- ington in 1816-1817 to colonize Blacks in Africa, Certainly, they were conscious of the suppression of the Camden Revolt {n 1816, In short, Black Charlestonians had many grievances, sufficient know- ledge of the tradition of {nsurrec- tion, aad adequate understanding of antislavery thinking to begin to temnors (see Ill B, pp. 91-% tn- fra), it has been interpreted as indicative of a shift in position by the Court. See, e.g., Union Pro- ducing Co, v. Federal Power Comm'n,, 127 F, Supp, 88 (1954); Anno.,99 L.Ed,19 (1955S); Anno..3_L. Ed, 2d 1855 1959\; Note, Procedures for Trying Conremptsin the Federal Courts, 73 HARV.L, REV, 353, 362- 63 oh 9), (LO9) “*A fair trial {n a fair cri- bunal is a basic requirement of due process. Falrness of course requires an absence of actual bias in the trial of cases, But our sys- tem of law has always endeavored to preventeven the probability of unfairness. To this end no man can be a judge in his own case and no man {is permitted to try cases where he has an Interest in outcome, That interest cannot be defined with precision.,..But to perform its high function in the best way ‘justice must satisfy the appearance of justice.’ Offutt vy. United States, 348 US 11, 14." (349 US, at 136) See generally Note, Contempt Pro- ceedings: Disqualification of Judge for Bias, 44 CALIF, L, REV. 425 (1956). (END OF FOOTNOTES) Simultaneously the Court has made it increasingly clear thar deviation from traditional proced- ural safequards--among which the guarantee of an impartial arbiter is fundamental--can be justified in criminal contempt proceedings, if at all, only by the necessity of ensuring the orderly continuance on trial proceedings, E.g., Harris v. United States, 382 US, 162 (1965S); see United States v, Pace, 371 F.2d 810, 811 (2nd Cir, 1967), These cases, and their interpre- taton by the courts of appeals, mandate reversal where, as here, contempts are in the nature of highly personal criticism of the trial court, and where instant ad- judication is not necessary to eu- sure the orderly continuance of tial proceedings, (110) (110) See United States y. Bradt, 294 F.2d 879, 885 (6th Cir. 1961): +++(W)e find no pressing need that the contempt proceeding be heard and disposed of immediately. We think that the controversy between the Judge and the appellants,..in- volving allegations in the affida- vit of disqualification, which the Judge considered as being untruth- ful statements about him, with un- justified andimproper implication, included matters of a personal nature to the Judge which, under the particular circumstances make it advisable that the rule in the Cooke and Offutt cases, rather than the cule in the Sacher case, be applied, and that the contempt Proceedings be heard be another judge. See also United States v. Coombs, 390 F.2d 426 (th Cir. 1968); Uni- ted States v. Temple, 349 F.2d 115 (4th Cir. 1965); cf. Kasson vy, Hughes, 390 F.2d 133 (Grd Cir. 1968). (END OF FOOTNOTE) plan a revolt of their own, Only leadership seemed to be lacking; Denmark Vesey changed that, Studying the Vesey Conspiracy raises Interesting questions about its participants, leadership, and ideology; unswering these quies= tons sheds new light on the his- tory of Black protest. First, it is clear that rebel recruits came mostly from the slave workers of Charleston and its environs, The conspirators were, accord- ing to the Official Report of the Trials, “Negroes. hired or work- ing out, such as Carters, Dray- men, Sawyers, Porters, ‘La- bourers, Stevidores, Méchanics, (end) those ‘employed. tn yards.”’ Others joined from water- front rice mills, while slaves from rice and cotton plantations sur- rounding the city were involved, ; — qe THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 22 URUGUAY THE COMMON ENEMY MUST BE CRUSHED TUPAMAROS! The Tupamaros had their begin.. ning tn rural areas where Raul Sendic, who ts now considered the leader of the Tupas, was organizing Sugar workers, After successfully helping to start a union of sugar workers and leading several mar- ches icom these areas to Monte- video to make known their de- mands for better conditions and higher pay, Sendic left with some companeros in the Socialist Party and seemed to disappear. This was in early '63; later that year a pile of guns were stolen from a fancy rifle club--the Tupamaros hadbe- gun, Twenty people had gone under- ground with the intention of pre- paring an army; one and a half years later posters throughout the country proclaimed the birth of the MLN (Movimiento de Liberacioa Nactional--"'Tupamaros"’ ), Their first actions, in 1964, were called “hunger commansioes’’-— rip offs of food from large firms waich were later distributed to the people, The most famous was the Christmas dinner in December of 194, In 1965, understanding that the subjective conditions neces- sary for making the revolution could be created, they began the creation of focos In Montevideo This same year a bomb exploded at the main Bayer (of aspirinfame) Plant in Uruguay,the arrached note saying: “Death to the Vietnam s Yankee assassins, The assassins’ interven- tion in Vietnam must be answered by the union of all oppressed peo- ple. The common enemy must be crushed, Bayer, 4 Nati enterprise provides gas for the gringos inter- vention, Viva Vietnam. Viva la Revolucion. TUPAMAR®S,"" The year 1966 was a bad year for them--still In a preparatory stage, they suffered several un- planned encounters with the police, Los Angeles... and a few of their bases were dis- covered resulting in the loss of arms and medicine and the capture of several cadre. In 1967 President Gestide died und Jorge Pacheco succeeded him. Pacheco imme- diately banned all leftist groups including some newspapers, {nau- gurared the Emergency Laws (fas- cist repressive measures) and ini- tiated censorship of those papers which remained, It is at this time that the Tupamaros began operat- ing the most efficiently inresponse to this repression. Offensive actions were begun, an under- Ground having been established, In July of that year, minutes before Pacheco was to have addressed the nation, the Tupas invaded the Radio Station Ariel, owned by Jorge Batlle--head of the right wing Colorado Party. Dressed as mounted police, they overpowered the guards, placed bombs in strategic places and left all within five minutes, The trans- mission had been cut off. No one was hurt and only pamphlets ex- plaining the actions were found at the scene, The following month they piz- aapped Pereira Reverbel, presi- dent of the Uruguay utilities and telephone company, UTE. Aside from occupying this position, he was also one of Pacheco's closest friends and confidante, He war freed after several days detention, still stoned onthe sodium pentethol (truth serum) he'dbeen given, Last year he was voted the most hated man In Uruguay, ln October of 1968, the Tupas launched a triple assauk against the Minister of Industry and Com- merce Jorge Peirano Faclo, A bomh was thrown at his house, another at the stock exchange where he works and another ar the Banco Mercantil which he owns. New Years Day 1969 was cele- GESTAPO INCARCERATE ANOTHER POLITICAL WORKER Sharon Williams is the Jares: Panther in Southern Calif. to face the backlash of the fascistmacaine attempting to railroad, by any means necessary, members of the people's vanguard. Sharon has per- soaally experienced numerous as- sales while functioning for the peuple and the Purty. She started héc political work in the New York Chapter, where she was busted during the time of the New York 21 raid (April 2, 1969), She was charged with possession of illegal guns and dangerous drugs. Later the grand jury Indicted her for these same charges. Her trial will probably be held after the 21 trial because the pigs don’t want to exspone any ‘pig informers" until they feel they are in a straregic position, Sharon spent almost three months in the New York Women's House of Detention, The pigs finally agreed on 4 ransom and Sharon wor feeed on $10,000 bail. At this time she was transferred to the Wert Coast, where dhe functioned for some time at our Nacional Headquarters, Her practice proved her an ex- ceptional werker for the people and when it was found tecessary, she came to Lor Asgeles to wrk with the brothers and sisters mak- ing the revolution here in this center of fascism and overt pig brutality, Sharon was again busted, along with seventeen “otier Patahers, popularly called the L.A, 18. She was in the house on Ex- position which was raided on De- cember 8th along with two other Panther locations by the LAPD, under the direction of SWAT Gpeclal Weapons and Tactical Squad) and the C.C.S. (Criminal Conspiracy Section), Sharoa was charged along with the other Pan- thers of conspiracy to commit murder, possession of pipebom>s, and numerous other offenses, She underwent inhumane treatment in the wernen's pigpen, known as Sybil Brand Institute was denied med- icine and necessary medical trear- ment, until we wove agin able to raise with the help and support of the people, the necessary ransom for what bas proved to be a period of short-lived freedom. in May, the pigs, working over- time to pile case after case on her, served lr vith Joral warrant for alledegly purcuasing firearms while under federal in- dictment (charge stemining from ter N.Y. arrest), We had to put up ransom of $2500.00 for this latest railroad, a fo brated with the recovery from the Police Court of all the arms which had been taken from them in the past two years--this included 36 revolvers and pistols, 5 subma- chine guns and carbines, They left nothing but memos denouncing the government. In February they ripped off the Casino at Punta del Este (big upper class and im- perlalist resort spot) taking $220,000, some of which they an- nounced belonged to the workers there and would be given to them, Within the next month they invaded 4 radio station once to broadcast a tape they had made, and another time interrupted a broadcast by using stronger wavelengths out- side. To welcome the imperialist pig Rockefeller they set fire to GM causing over $1 million damage; they then invaded the radio station to broadcast a message calling Rocky the emissary of imperial- ism and accusing president Pa- checo ofacting inbehalfof the IMF (international Monetary Fund), The police were forced to cut off elec- tricity In that part of the city to stop It. In July of 1969 abomb destroye] the new electronic computer and records of the Banco Commercial. The computer had centralized the accounting for all bank agencies, It had cost half a million dollars, In September, 294 persons were arrested in raids as a consequence of Tupamaro actions, Inretaliation for this the Tupas called the pigs with a ‘‘tip’® on where they could find the Tupamaros. As the cope arrived at the house the whole thing exploded leaving parnphlets Strewo around saying that thelr most action would be much more drastic. The last action of ‘69 was the takeover of the town of Pando, The MLN attacked the police and five aS departments, seized all the money in four banks and cut communica- tions. During this action 15 Tupas were either killed or captured. This year the level of strugyle has continued to rise, Inanincred- ible action this spring they attacked a naval base and armory getting away with over 700 weapons. The action was perfect. They arrived dressed in police uniforms, and clearly and good inside Informa- tion, It is most probably this arms bulldup which bas allowed them to reach the stage they referred to in the letter, Oue was cap- tured in this action, In celebration of International Women’s Day the Tupas managed to liberate 13 of their sisters who had been jailed and at the time of the action were at a church ser- vice. Several sisters started clap- ping during the ceremony and inthe confusion wich ensued the sisters and brothecs were able to over- power the guards and all escaped unharmed, It is actions like these--oaly the most spectacular have been des- eribed -- which have made the Tupamaros internationally known, The battle which they are waging in Uruguay is, however, aconstant one, Almost everyday something happens--within the past few years they have expropriated over a mil- Moa dollars from banks, they have ripped off hundreds if not thou- sands of arms from the military and the police, and an action which they are renowaed for has been the appropriation government, corporate and personal documents waich have revealed the extent of corruption in the Pacheco gov- ernment, These documents have consequently been deliveced to the media and widely publicized-—-this is an important part of every bank robbery when possible. Theory and Practice ‘The structure of the Tupamaros is a classic cell structure. Each cell consists of 4 or 5 people and is Independent from every other by their war names only-- as 4 Security measure. The cells are coordinated by leaders--all of whom meet only once a year, Ac- tions to be taken are voted on by the whole cell before approved. ‘The cells are composed of both men and women, Each new re- crult must have a sponsor who then writes a long report on the per~ son as the first step to ad- mittance. Euch cell is under tight dis- cipline--there 14 no drinking allowed and those who smoke are anked to cut down, Each member must know how to operate allkinds of weapons and explosives, how to start a car without a key and how to sabotage a police car, k seems at least to an extent that members of the group do not live “‘underground™ lives oaly but ra- ther operate normally within the society while concealing the fact that they are Tupamaros. Of the members whe have been caught, besides peasaata and workers, some have been actors and writers, some Students, some doctors, some gov- ecnment workers (Including an official of the Ministry of Foreign Relations). Tne Tupamaro bases wich have been discovered have been found to contain medicines and medical instrumesis, weapons, labs for making bombs, ammunition - cense plates, false 1.D,’s (as well as the equipment needed to make the papers--photography shops, paper, machines, etc., all stolen from police headquarters), and uniforms of every kind. Tuey have at all times tried to avoid the death or injury of anyone not directly involved in the pig establishment. Arthe same time they have always tried to make clear exactly who the real enemy is. One of the most ‘important aspecis of their actions has been the way in which they have re- lated to mass struggles which are taking place at the same time, In this war they heve geteen 4 tre- meéndous amount of sympathy from a large portion of the population. Kidnapping usually ties in with a strike, the money from bank rip offs go to the most oppressed sec- tors and their communiques are written in a way that everyone can relate to, They have no dis- dains for the people but are ra- ther part of them and see them- selves as working withthem. held in the fascist’s camps. Following is a letter she sent out to her fellow comrades and to the people..... ALL POWER TU THE PEOPLE I just finished reading the news- papers and dug on some of wnat is going on and it is good and I intend to be with you when it is necessary but right now people that I know understand whar it is and what is necessary for therotal and complete liberation of Black people here In racist Babyloa. We are no loager playing games. And if there Is war let there ceally be war, We ougit to accept it Strongly 45 a tears necessity. Because the object of warfare is murder; the means employed In warfare-spyi xy, treachery, the en- couragement of it, the ruin of a country, the plundering of the op- pressor, trickery, lying-all part and parcel of miliary strategy, Those of you who question your Strength or who are unsure, you esuaot be revolutionaries--inove aside, because you will only wet SHARON WILLIAMS L.A, POLITICAL PRISONER in the way. However, 1 will re- On the 10th of this month, fas- cist judge David Williams, attempting to outde even the gall of the Criminal Conspiracy Sec- tion, declared her in contempt of court for refusing to incriminate herself by submitting sumples of her signature to be used by the fascist courts to ‘nsure her con- viction, He ordered her into court to sign and when she again refused, the Judge reminded her to juil, Wiere she's now being held without bail at the whim of a fascist, bigosed pig. Sharon goes for trial oa the 22nd of Septemiie-. She fully understands the moves of the pigs and therefore objectively re- lates her similiar situation to any one of many revolutionaries at- tempting to create change in this decadent Society, Efforts are vow being made to insure propec legalrepresentation in order for Suaron co fight these latest truinped ip charges and ar the Same UUme continue to serve the people, Sharon's spirits are cootinously oa the rise as news of the peo- ple’s efforts to gain thetr freedam reach hee and the many sisters mind you that because of the hare thar the oppressor has you will still find thar one day you'll he staring into the barrell of a gun and you will either be dead o> you will have pickedup another gun in self preservation, It will have to be your best friend from thar point on—only It will be for the self perservation of a mass of people--Black peop}é, who areex- ploited, onpressed, stint down, de - graded Gere in racist Babylon, NO MOREH : YOURS IN THE/ LIBERATION STRUGGLE, Sharon / Political Prisoser aN THE VOICE F THE PANTHER SHALL BE EARD THROUGHOUT THE LAND ‘Correct Information is the raw material for new ideas; ideas wh!cn | a8 a people, need desperately m8 our Struggle for liberation. For centuries we lave lved within this racist, capitalistic so- clety, a soclety witch has attempt- ed to brainwash us, to accept as our own, the values, morals aad be- havior of our very oppressor. We are taught to honor and respect those “‘patriotic’’ men who held our fathers in slavery, we are pro- to accept the American dream which has (urned into a Babylonian nightmare, and when all else fails, we have been told to walt for that ‘*ple in the sky'’ whille those same meu In clerical cobes sprinkle holy water on hy- drogen boinbs. And the Uterature which we cead is also supposed to bewllder us aad stagnate our movement towards revolutionary freedom. Every major city here in Gaby- lon has at least 2-3 major news- papers. One of them ts usually a rightwing reactionary paper, (Re- publican Party). It supports the war in Viecnam; it calls for morc Police under the guise of “law and ordec; its editorials wondec why niggecs are never satisfied. The Duily News in New York, the Record American in Boston, the Dally News ‘n Chicago, are eMinipis= SF RIS Baar eure of slanted sews. Their furctioa is to covide a basis of public opinion for om—all the waite Supremacists in the city to maintain and increase their level of racism since ‘'] read it in the paper so it must be true,” ‘The other type of newspaper is the so called liberal, De:nocratic ‘Party, newspaper. It calls for an end to the war In Vietaun, 11 modified levels lasting for che next «WIS years; it attacks those who cey for “law oud order" but ack- fowledges that more police pru- tection is necessary: {ts editorials _ praise the accomplishments nlg- _ gers have made, but add, that ex- and militants will under - mine all that has been gained, Ex- amples of this type of newspaper are the Boston Globe, the New York Times, the Sun Times in _ Chicago, and the Washington Post. Their opinions form the standard for all Wberal white middi+ class Opinions. tt& a sign of the nature of this decadent society when the D News in New York City, the most fascist, racist, re- ‘Sctlonary newspaper in Bubylon Se 2 million copies dally and million issues on Sunday, To Starki the essence of all daily hekly newspapers in Babylon isto @rstand that they depend oa ad- ling in order co make money hesses pay the vewspapec for “Space, to tell us of ‘'barzgains”’ and therefore the newspapers can be sold for 10-15 cents. News- ‘Papers in Babylon are intimately Hed into the whole capitalistic sys- fein of exploitation for profit, Tiey ‘ate paid to lle, bewilder andbrain- m, they not only lead us to be cked by big business, they Suck us of our creative abi- remis ¢ following incident will show e clearly the relationship be- tn the pig press,and our need ect information, On Au- 1970, 22 boxes of the Panther Party newspaper i San Francisco destined for the Boston Chapter of the Black Pan- her Party. Only 17 boxes arrived on next page “Line BLACK Gl BEATEN FOR WEARING BLACK UNITY BAND Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif. August 20, 1970 Cliff Mansker, a Black Marine active in the Black Unity Party, is currently being held in maxi- mum security unit with diminished rations of 1300 calories per day in the Camp Pendleton Brig. Cliff was picked up in Oceanside last week for distributing the under- ground paper, Black Unity. Siice being taken into custody Cliff has been attacked several times by MP's and brig guards who re- peatedly rip off his Black unity band, Each time Cliff is beaten they add new charges. Black unity bands are made of braided black shoelaces and are worn on the wrist, like identity bracelets, They originated In Viet- nam, where Black GI's used them as a symbol of Black identity. They have since spread to the states and the majority of Black Marines have organized themselves into the Black Unity Party. The brass at Pendleton permit confederate flags to be flown and worn on uniforms and welcome other sym- bols of racism to be prominently displayed, They are waging war against the Black unity band and against the Black consciousness which it represents. They correct- ly see its use as a threat ro their power, Cliff was originally charged with refusing an ordec to remove his unity band, He intended to fight the legality of that order at his court-martial, but the pigs were afraid he would win so they have trumped up charges through pro- vocation and harassment to insure Cliff's conviction, His court-mar- tlal will be soon but every day Cliff remains in the brig he faces new brutality and possible new charges. o— 0—. 6-—=: O-— 0-—- 6 —. 6 — 9 -— 8 -— 0 -—— 0 — 6 — 0 — BLACK MARINES ATTACKED AT THE PENDLETON BRIG FOR WEARING UNITY BANDS A group of approximately a dozen Bick Mariiics Were arracked and beaten Tuesday for refusing tore- move unity bands from their wrists. A brig commander decided that the band, braided black shoe- lace which signifies Black soll- darity, was un-American. He or- dered all Black prisoners to re- move them. When they refused, he singled them out. One by one they were attacked and the unity bands were forcibly cut from their wrists. Several Marines were In- jured and others were placed in maximum security cells on di- minished rations of 1300 calories per day for resisting this order, MDM --CAMP PENDLETON Cainp Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif, August 20, 1970 Movement for a De:nocratic Military (MDM) at Camp Pendleton has reorganized into two distinct groups which continue to maintain revolutionary relationships. One group has named itself the Black Unity Party. The White caucus {is yet unnamed, Each group publishes its own newspaper, The Black newspaper is called Dlack Unity, The White newspaper is called All Ready on the Left. Both groups still operate out of the same head- quarters and still carry on many activities toyether. The reason for the reorgayl- zation is because we weren't getting the full support of the peo- ple, Third World people (Black, Brown, Red, and Yellow) couldn't relate to it because they thought it was a White organization, White people couldn't relate to itbecause they thought it was a Black organ- ization, We are all struggling to reach the same goals, but we each have to organize our own people first. Once we organize among our- selves, then we can unite, Until all of us are free, none will be free. o— o— o-— e— o— 0 — 0 — 9 —- 9. — 9 0 —- 9 —. 9 -— 9? FOUR MARINES ARRESTED FOR GIVING PEACE SIGN Camp Pendleton, California August 22, 1970 Four White Marines from Camp Pendleton were arrested late Wednesday night for flashing peace Signs at an M,.P, ac the gates to the base. The four Mar ineswere returning from liberty and were sitting at the back of a bus. After the M,P, saw the sign he flagged down the bus and forced the Ma- rines to lie face down in the dirt for about one half an hour. On Thursday they were charged with making obscene gestures, The four are Pfc. Ron Mitchell, 19, of Forest Grove Oregon, Pfc, Jim Howie, 19, of Pocatellor Idaho. Pvt. Cotton, 21, a Vietnam veteran from Pomona, California, and Pfc. Tom Birr, 20, 4 Vistaam vereran from Two Rivers, Wisconsin. WELL JUST BELIRVR IT MY FRIEND THAT THIS SILENCE CAN END, WE'LL JUST HAVE TO GET GUNS AND BE MEN THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 23 PIGS HARASS GI’S AT FT. CARSON, DENVER, COLO. On Monday night, August 9, 1970 at about 11:00 p.m., a fight broke out berween a brother GI and one White GI at the Braves Club, better known on post as the E.M. Club (Enlisted Men Club). For the past moath the E.M. Club has been the target for racial conflict betweeu the brothers of the 3rd Bde., and the fascist Fr. Carson pig department, As the fight was nearing an end, an argument was started by a spectator oa the scene which prompted fight number 2 thar lasted approximately 30sec- oads,. As the brothers were leaving the scene, a White waitress that works at the E,M, joyfully dis- eclminated against the brothers by hollering, ‘‘Niggers take your Black butts back to Africa.”” By this time pig number 3 was out cold, Victory for the people! At about 12:00 the military pigs arrived on the scene, masquecad- ing a8 our protectors, but actually acted as the protectors of the fas- eist ruling class and the blood thirsty Brass. The only Blacks that came along were the good toms and the nigger pootlicking colored boys, protecting the Mas- ter’s Interests, A group of brothers from Co. 3/10 Inf. wece sitting on the back steps bragging about the day’s events when the two pigs walked up and began a series of questions about the Incident that had gone done earlier, Questions Like: “Where were you when the fight broke out?" All answers were ne- gative, which really upset the pigs because they couldn't make an ar- rest. Shortly afterwards a Lr. Col. approached the brothers at- tempting to carry outa light inves- tigation. He was also dissatisfied with the answers he received, This pig then approached brother LeRoy Block and asked aim didn’thehave any respect for the army, continu- ing his questioning by asking brother LeRoy if he knew how to come to attention when an officer approached. He then began to in- quire about names of brothers. At this time brother Mead acting in the best interest of the other brothers, stood up and called the brothers to attention and answered the pig to the best of his ability by saying he war got a soldier bur a Black man, that he didn’t know aaything about the incident at the E.M, Club, and then asked the pig why they were being harassed after duty hours, It was now 12:30 a.m., and the work day begins at 6:00 a.m, in the 3rd Bde. The pigs now upset even more, begantocall the brothers names in a deroga- tory fashion, such as ‘'Mudmen’’ and “dogs”, stating that they had no respect for “law and order’, Now tell me what Black man has any right to cespect the racist oppressor’s law and order? Only a fool. At about 3:30 a.m, Tuesday morning, everyone in H & H Co, 3/10 Inf. were awakened from their Sleep in the inaaner that the pigs use In our Black cominunity dally, The pigs stated that they were looking for stolen money, Pig Ist Lr,, James Mayfield and Cw2 Wright were accompanied by a “‘Whifte bootlicking’’ boy, named Sgt. Robert Wise to carry out their well prepared plan to persecute brother Mead, by then attempting to jastify the incidenr with the White racist waitress earlier, The pigs then asked everyone to get up and stand by their wall lockers. Everyone in the barracks was in @ state of puzzlement and demanded a ee 1 Know the meaning of this pig harassment. Being that this platoon is overpopulated, there were over 50 men in the barracks. The pig Ist Le. seelog the conditioa of the barracks and knowing that it only provides sufficient sleeping quar- ters for approximately 30, asked a typleal pig type question, "Why are there people sleeping on the floor?" Brother Block just happened co be sleeping on the floor when one of the pigs recognized him, walked toward him, stood over him and asked him to stand up and open his locker. While opening his locker he asked brother Pilson if that was the same pig that got hit in the mouth at E,M, Club, So in- dicectly the pigs told brother Block that since he knew $9 much about it (now dig), “Why don't youaccom- pany us toBde. Hq, 7'"Brother Block answered him by saying that he wasa’t going anywhere at 3:30 in the morning, not wien his job re- quired him to be up at 5:00 a.m, Then after harassing the rest of the G.l.'s for approximately 30 minutes more, they departed, Later that morning we were in- formed that brother Block was con- fined in a small interrogation room, facing charges under article 31. Charge 1--Violation of the Uni- form Code of Military Justice, Article 90; charges as follows: Specification charge 1, in thatpri- vate E-l, Leroy Block; 456-76- 4777, U.S, Army, Company A 3nd Batcalion (mechanized 10h Infan- try, having received a lawful com- mand from 1 Lr. pig James N. Mayfield, his superior commis- Sioned officer, did at Fort Carson, Colorado on or about 03:15 hours, 11 August 1970 behaved himself with disrespect toward | Lr, Mav- field, his superior commissioned officer, by saying to him “‘I doa't have to get up, because I doa't see any reason to inspect my wall locker now or never, so I'll go back to bed'* or words to that effect. Ie is clearly obvious that Black brothers are being railroaded through racist courts of injustice out here on the streets of Babylon, Pig brutality and Injustice 18 a blatant attempt by this fas- cist power structure to extermin- ate Black people, To Lisure with- in the fascist camp of the ag- gressor, a bloody and sure down- fall it is necessary that No, 6 of the Slack Panther Party’s ten polat Platform and Program ‘We want all Black men exempt from mill- tary service’’ to be carried out in its entirety. lf you brothers already happen to be in the pig military, do as countless other brothers have done and refuse to cake part in the Jobs and activities of the oppres- Sor’s armed camp of war and demagogy. Tell them that you are Black, that you didq’t have any freedom before you Joined aad that you still ain't got no freedom and that until you do get your free- dom, by any means necessary, that he'll have to carry out his Plans of exploitatioa of man by man by himself, Tell him that your fight is with the Black Liberation Army and that he is your enemy: that you have drawn your line of eS pig is a pig, is a plg. FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS DEATH TO THE FASCIST Pic N.C.C,F,, Denver Chapter Information Cadve \\ 2311 Clarkson Street / Denver, Colorado 80205. 893-1834 (303) Re << THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 24 ANOTHER VICTIM OF INHUMAN LIVING CONDITIONS Potnt number 4 of the Platform and program of the Black Panther Party states that: "We want de- cent housing fit for the shelter of human beings, and that if the land- lords will not give decent housing to the people that the housing and the land should be made into co- operatives so that our community with government aid, can bulld and make decent housing for the peo- ple. shack for a long time, Miss Brown also said thar one of her kidswas bitten on the ear by a rat, She said that she has told the landlord to fix the house and to deal with the rats for the safety of her kids, but the pigs just ler it go in one ear and out the other, with his hand still stuck out for more money, Like the low duwn, lowlifed, greedy mad dog that he is. People are becoming aware that CHILD BITTEN BY RAT In Winston-Salem on Lith street. a sister by the name of Miss Brown is another victim of the rar infested shacks when going in the community to do section work we the people of the N.C.C.F, here talked to Miss Brown, She told us that the rats in her house are as big as cats, She said that Uf she puts down a loaf o° bread at 10 Pam thar at 1! p.m. the rats would have eaten the bread and gone, This kind of crap has been going on here in Winston-Salem and all over racist Babylon, The people have been living in these unfit houses and these rat infested all these unhuman unjust trear- ments are all linked with the pig trio Nixon-Agnew-Mitchell, and that you pigs never meant for the people to have life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. Now that the people are starting to see through your madness and your cricks. It will be only 4 matter of time fore we will have that bar-b-que that Papa Rage was talking about, be- ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! SEIZE THE TIME AND THE LAND! Winston-Salem Ed. McQueen LEGAL LYNCHING OF THE NEW HAVEN 9 The fascist here have decided in advance to make examples of the New Haven 9, Through this act of “legal lynching’ it can be made very clear to Black people and pro- gressive people that any attempts to gain their freedom will be an- swered with ‘"Death,"’ The negation of Black peoples rights here in Babylon will not and cannot be tolerated by Black peo- ple. Black people will not be the tenants of America’s concentration camps and gas chambers, Some- thing has to give, when the every- day struggle of Black people to merely survive is considered cri- minal, Let's examine a situation where the socio-economical status of the Black colony forces 4 Black mother to live in a shanty, the size of a bathroom with kids, The family hasn't eaten in a week and one of the kids goes down to the store and liberates two loaves of bread and some bologna for his brothers and sisters. Can we view this as being criminal? “if there is no struggle there is no progress, those who profess to favor freedom and depreciate agi- tation, are those who want crops without plowing.’’ For there is one thing which should be understood that there is no middle ground for us anymore, we must have all of our rights or truly Babylon will have ashes to sleep on, for we can never again be slaves nor can we cease to trouble all Ameri- cans with the plight of Black people, Suede Dashiki wearing oourgeois Blacks who yell racist poems and lay up in the beds of counter- revolution must also recognize that there is no middle ground, While revolution must also recognize that there is no middle ground, While true revolutionaries are snatched off the streets, shot in their beds and forced to deal underground; you have these romanticists who when the revolution comes will be out trying to make citizen's arrests on the pigs. Freedom from the Auction Block and from legal claim as property is of no benefit to the Black man without the means of protecting his rights. We will free our brothers in Soledad, the Tombs, Cook County, Alameda, the sisters in Niantic and all political prisoners though- out this fascist country with the correct tools of liberation. We as Black people have sat-in ate-in, rapped-in, spoke-in, cried- in, died-in, smoked-in, and danced in and the pigs have told us they'll shoot-in,bomb-in, kill-in tear-gas in, knock-in, plle-in, and spy-in, Which steals all dignity and re- spect thar Blacks have, This will be no more the time is now and there is nothing to do except seize the time and snatch the slave catcher’s head, LIBERTY OR DEATH! Maurice Lawrence Washington, D,C,Chaprer Black Panther Party REGARDING ROY WILKINS’ DEROGATORY ARTICLE ON HUEY NEWTON The Black Panther Party Mintsistry of Information Box 2967 Custon House San Francisco, Calif. 94126 Fellow Field Niggers; 1 am writing in regard to Roy Wilkins’ recent derogatory art- icle on Huey Newton in the Bal- timore Afro-American newspaper. Mr. Wilkins indicates that Black people were disappointed by Huey’s announced plan to send Black peo- ple to Vietnam to fight with the Viet Cong. Mr. Wilkins also states that this is Huey's first priority and Indicates that Huey values this above helping his own people here at home. Finally, Mr. Wilkins ac- cuses Huey of being a pawn for White revolutionaries. Mr. Wilkins is a bootlicking fool who cannot even interpret and understand what he sees andhears. But since he has long been one of the system's “‘negro*’’ running PEOPLE OF BOYCOTT COUNTRY FARM MARKET The people of Compton are organizing a boycott against the Country Farms Market franchise, One store is located on Rosecrans and Central and the other store is located on Compton Blvd, and Oleander. The boycott is being or- ganized because the owners of tus avaricious enterprise don't have any concern for the health and well being of the residents of Compton. The cacist owners and mana- gers of Country Farms Market are all members of the samme fatn ily. They have proven through their practice that they have no concern for the interests of the people whom they ‘‘supposedly’’ serve They cheat and exploit the people as do the rest of the capitalistic businessmen, For example, they ralse the prices of articles on or before the Is¢ and 15th of each month because they know that mo- thers on welfare and many work- ers get paid on these days. Both these stores are véry un- sanitary also. When one walks into the “fresh'’ meat and vegetables section, the stench from these rotten foods is overwhelming, con- sequently, the people pay exorbi- tant prices for inferior goods. As one walks up and down the aisles, it’s necestary to watch your step in order to make Sure that you don't slip and break you neck on OPPRESSION WILL UPON THE PIGS, dogs, this is not surprising. First of all, Huey never said he was going to send only Black people to fight with the North Vietnamese. Huey clearly stated that he wanted all revolutionary people to go, Weathermen and Panthers--White and Black. The stupid, fool, Wil- kins, does not realize that; ‘‘all that the enemy supports we must oppose, and all that the enemy opposes we must support’’-- Chairman Mav, Secondly, Huey did not state that this was his first priority or that he valued it above helping his people here at home, In a recent interview, (Ramparts Sept, 1970) Huey stated that after his release he would work to ex- pand free bus service for therela- tives of prisoners in various pri- sons in California, This willenable them to visit their loved ones more frequently and for free, Huey stated that he would work hard to free the Soledad Brothers, Huey stated that there would be COMPTON Some spilled contents of a broke botela that nobody othered to clean up. Also, there is only one bathroom which is never kept clean, The owners are racist in their hiring practices, They only hire Black people to be box boys and custodians and they hire a sprink- ling of Black cashier clerks, They refused to donate to either the Free Breakfast Program or the Liberation School and the Free Lunch Program, Point No, 3 of che 10 Point Platform and Program states, ‘'We want an em! to the robbery by the capitalist of our Black com- munity.’" The owners of Country Farms Market are clear exam- ples of the capitalistic, avaricious businessmen who value personal profit over the welfare of human beings, invade our communities dally to cheat and exploit us, and then return to thelr owt com- munities at aight. The people of Compton are saying to the owners of this racist enterprise chat they will no longer shop at Country Farms Market until it is turned over to the hands of the people. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK PANTHER PARTY So. California Chapter BRING RESISTANCE a an international rally for the re- ease of Bobby Seale, Finally, Huey stated that the U,N, wouldbe asked to permit Eldridge Cleaver back into the country under diplomatic immunity until ft makes some d= cision on the plight of Black Amer- icans. In accusing Huey Newton of being a pawn of White revolutionaries, bootlicker Roy Wilkins auto- matically exposes himself for what he really is—-a pig! A true house nigger| Passive slaves Uke Wil- kins will not balance “‘two dead flies on the scales of eternity’’. A PIG, GS A PIG, GS A PGI ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Jerome Smith Phi Beta Sigma Frat, Delta Delta Chapter Coppin State College Baltimore, Maryland 21216 contfrom last page VOICE OF THE PANTHER and three were soaked, not in water, but kerosene, in order to have the print run, Why? Because the Black Panther Party newspaper relates to us the historical ex- periences of Black people here in Babylon, And since we are a re- volutionary people, our newspaper must also be revolutionary. Pri- marily, it raises the political con- Sciousness of Black people. The Panther paper not only cuts through the Hes and jive of the pig press and makes us aware of our situation, italso carries infor- mation on our sucess in moving to ah mee onne ed annere tardy dee haw the dual nature of our revolutionary newpaper-- to point our the tee——— nature of capitalistic exploitation and racist repression and at the same time, describe our many vic= tories. 10 pigs killed in Detroit, 7 pigs dead in Hartford, 2 pigs ambushed in Chicago; news the “‘daily"’ press would never print, which is exactly the news which uplifts the spirits of Black people in the struggle for our human rights, Huey has sald that, Power is the ability to define agivenphe- nomena and make it act in a de- sired manner. Before we act we must define; we must know; we must have correct information. And when we look at our reyo- lutionary newspaper we find the truth", we find stories by Eld- ridge on ‘*Time, Method and Re- volution"’; by Huey on**The Correct of a Revolution."’ We find that a bromer by the name of Arthur Davis, stood up to the entire world, and demanded to be spoken to as a man,( the brother defended his home against pigs on a "‘no knock . and sent them to the hospital), Here in Babylon, the “‘dally’” press has been bought off by ava~ ricious pigs and their lies are allowed to circulate, heightening racism to unknown levels and add- ing fuel to the fire of sick, dis- torted minds of the fascist majo- rity. Added to this, the repression of the Black Panther newspaper ex- plodes, for once and for all the myth of ‘freedom of the press’’, a so-called constitutional right. The sum total of the news ar- ticles, information and revolu- tionary art which makes up the Black Panher newspaper, ts us, Black people, politically conscious of our situation and prepared to deal. Our revoutionary newspaper says to us, just ag we Gay to our- selves-- ALL POWER. TO THE PEOPLE AND DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS|, Michael Fulez esr aay) : ; vl 3 1S Fue vETRATING AGAINST R-FANILY AT NOME. be *_..the stockades in 3z/ylon are 2 full ofS soldiers who refuse to fight, ani 19! just because they are cowards, bul because they gained some understanding of the inhumanity of the war that’s being waged in Vietnam - Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information Repression at Fort Carson-- Pigs vs People During the past three years since the emergence of the Black Panthec Party in 1966, one major factor has been pointed out--Americahas the venom of racism which drips from fascist jaws. In all of her institutions of lies, she tries to portray the Innocent lamb, the vic- tim of unprovoked attacks. Any Black man in America’s fascist institutions of war and plim- der can distinctly point to racisin r particularly tn the resctionary ol aich - armed forces known as the army— —————the killer pig army’, as the chief cause of his misery and oppres- sion, These pigs, the cools of the pig forces, the controllers oi those tools and puppets and all White “Yacists in general, have got to go--from within and without. I'm not even going to attempr to cite case examples of racism perpe- _ tuated by the foul, depraved freaks of this hypocritical society. Why Is it necessary for anymore vacil- lation, because our people are not ignorant nor or they blind. They Understaid what is primary--that in totality the most immediate op- pressor is of the color White--for- get a liberal because he's even worse, lying and deceiving and more Our feelings are face-to- face, they are real. Bloods in the South have been made to appear like they are fol- lowing a dream; like the master's “boy--yas suh, nawsuh,yas ma’am, _ “Our house is burning down boss wom we gonna do,"’ But some nig- ‘ In the South have not been fooled by fascist, racist institu- thons of demagogy, the poverty pro- ‘$rams and cultural national'sm : These ‘‘Southerners"’ have ys kaow; toa er extent than their brothers ‘the “'Northerners’’, ‘Here in Colorado at Fr. Carson rmy Base there are a lot of others or shall we say the largest “percentage of Black brothers are from the South; Texas, Mis- ‘ is sippl, Georgia and Alabama and 0 Louisiana, Within the coa- es of this base there is what S generally knows a a stockade, | concentration camp within acon- (ration camp, run by killer pig diers, mercenaries, over- d by racist White boys and g niyyer lackies--uncle oppression E PEOPLE HAVE NORULES THAT SERVE TO PRO- ‘PEOPLE, THERE- ARE NOT BOUND TO ae ARE ENFORCED IN BEHALF OF THE RULING CLASS--the Aaglos, the heathens. Approximately six of these revy- olutionary Slack brothers are being railroaded through racist court-inartials for the color of their skin aad for allegedly enzaz- ing In political activities.One such recent attempt to cailroad more revolutionaries into the stockade occurred July 13, 1970, at approx- Bamely 8:30 p.m. at Fe. Carson Beer Colorado Springs, Colorado, Brothers Lee Adams, Ray Ross, Clarence Carson and Kenneth Dor- Sey were approached by thirty or more M.P,’s (PIGS) at the Fr. Carson Military Installation on some framed up charges thar nel- ther of the brothers had any know- ledge or understanding of. They were charged inder article 81-- passing out political propaganda on 4 military base without author- ized approval, The 9rutaers were not informed of this until some time later, These four brothers were escorted to the Sth M,P, pig station and held in custody for some three hours and 45 min- utes. During this time at the pig station the brothers exchanged words with a number of M.P,’s pertaining to the Incident in gen- eral, remembering the 5th amend- ment. It was sometiing like an indirect interrogation; in other words the pigs were runing 4 “personal fact finding investiza- tion’’, They asked questions like “What gave you the boldsess and authority being Black, 4s to in- tervene, to Interfere in the stoc- kade area?’' The brothers related that the scene that occurred was very obvious from the ‘'get’’ be- cause the four Of them had felt the tension that was coming down due to all the harassment they had been receiving. Deep down Inside they could feel the racism and tension thar was lingering over the base and they knew that the pigs had it in store for them, JULY 14, 8:30 A.M. Lee Adams and Clarence Car- son were the first to go for inter- rogation. they were confined to 4 room (one to each room) wille being interrogated along the same line of questioning--about Slack Panther Party political Une and leadership, Dig 4. These brothers were questioned by the CIA, CID (Central Intelligence Division) Ml (Military Intelligence) and FBI, They were questioned as to wie- ther or not they xnew Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, whether or not they are members of the Black Panther Party and what is their affiliation to the Pacty. where were the newspapers issued from etc, (They were originally charged with throwing Panther papers over into the stockade area and also selling. the newspaper on federal military property.) Clarence Carson and Lee Adams were threatened with various court-martials and were thus con- fined to company area, In other words they were restricted to the base, The various agencies of this pig government were dissatisfied with the result of their question- ing, as is always the case when they don’t get the information they want, It has been like this all week, but yet and still the beat goes on. Interrogation upon interroga- tion, harassment upoa harassment by federal and military pigs--if any distinction can really be made between the two because we know that a pig, is a pig, Is a pig. These brothers want it to be known to GI's at Fr. Carson and all other military installations, that severe repression is coming down on all of you for speaking out in the name of the revolu- tlon. By taking the training thar the pigs have taught you, trying to mske you Into 4 mercenary, an enemy of the people, by taking this knowledge and relating it to the liberation struggle and educat- ing your people as to what you have learned you are considered us enemies of the State. Purple hearts, bronze stars, stripes, bars, nothing makes any difference to the pigs of the power struc- ture if you are not using this defensive knowledge that they have taught you to commit geno- cide on the people. To them you are just another field nigger, ano- thee Black nigger that has to be gotten rid of. This is why these brothers, the Black Panther Party and others that understand this relationship tothe pig power struc- ture say that it’s either me or you and I'm tired of being op- pressed and discriminated agaiast because of the color of my ski, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FREE THE FT. CARSON 26,000 AND ALL BLACK GI's! EDUCATE TO LIBERATE! SEIZE THE TIME! N.C.C.F,, Denver, Colorado/with special consideration and appreci- ation to the political prisoners at the Fr, Carson Stockade and bro- thers, Clarence Carson, Lee Adams, Kenneth Dorsey and bro- ther Francisco Torrez--political prisoner, Ft. Carson Stockade. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 25 THE PENTAGON-- Gl COFFEE HOUSE OPENS IN OAKLAND CALIF., The Pentagon, the Bay Area's first GI coffeehouse opened this Monday at 690 7th St., Oakland. The coffeehouse will give GI's a chance to meet other GI's whic oppose the oppressive military ; establishment, It is very difficult > for people to get together on the ay besos, because the brass forces an isolation on GI's, They drive a wedge between GI's so that * they can’t trust each other with + anything and thus be no match for the brass which is constantly holding conferences among them- selves of how to deal with the non-lifer enlisted men, POWER TO YOU, BLACK BROTHERS AND SISTERS | received your papers, and the brothers over here are very deep- ly indeted to you; for those few papers are yery /elpful in letting the brothers stationed here andthe patient brothers know what's going oa in the states, We read the letter from Brother Jackson In one of the papers and we felt that we oweditto ourselves to answer his message, so we wrote him a letter just as the one we nave sent you, we don't know whether or not he will re- celve it, but we would like to’ know if you could print it in one of the Panther papers so he can read it, And other people can see what is going on over here In Japan, and will know that Black people are struggling together every- where, So Brothers and Sisters, keep on pushing, the revolution is NOW, ALLPOWER TO THE PEOPLE BLACK BROTHERS UNITED, JAPAN, POWER TO YOU, BROTHER JACKSON We Brothers here in Japan read your beautiful letter in the Pan- ther’s paper, We were more than enthused and proud to see that there are Brothers like ourselves attempting to unite and organize our people inspire the fact that we are in the racist army and/ or prison, We have the same pro- blems here with the pigs as is everywhere but we are organizing and trying to keep unity to prevent the pigs from dominating us. At the present time we're hay- ing our real test; as everyone knows this is supposed to be riot season. The pigs are trying to use this against us; but there's ho way, and just by us knowing that we have strong Black Bro- thers like you inthe streets, makes us strive harder and harder to unite, As far as the racist army stands we may be small out fr takes Brothers like you to keep the revolution progressing toward the world of total Lberation, and as each day passes just think one day soon we can all get out of our different prisons and join our Black Army made up of the ‘tmost’’ together Brothers und Sisters in the Black Movement, the Panthers. So Brother Jackson Keep the Rev- olution Moving! Black Brother Desus Black Brother Mack (N.Y.) Brother Clem (Brooklyn, N.Y.) Brother Brown (Virginia) Brother Colerman (L.A,, Calif.) Brother Bennett (Georgia) Gi’s will be able to discuss their common problems there and then take their new confidence in fellow sisters and brothers in the service back to thelr bases, In other words a coffeehouse can never Serve more than as a place where GI's can hold off-base meetings and meet new GI's, but the struggle against the brass must take place on the base, The coffeehouse is now being staffed by a few people from the civilian staff of Movement for a Democratic Military and a few other community people from the Bay Ares, but it's hoped thar GI's will soon take over the operation of the coffeehouse, since it’s supposed to serve their needs. Since the opening day quite a few Gl’s have already walked through the doors of the Pentagon. FT. HOOD Since our last bulletin wehave picked up some more about Fr. Hood's uprising on July 26.Some- how Information is filtering past the extremely tight security the post command has there. (Ft, Hood is located near Killeen, Texas.) Our latest inquire is showing that atleast nine Black soldiers were shot by Miliary Pigs, Thirty-five were taken hostage and others for ‘‘questioning'’. There is also a rumor circulat- ing among the Ft.'s soldiers that one of thelr brothers was killed by the MP's during the riot that took place after some White ca- reer military personnel came and started to make racistreferences to the brothers who were sitting on the steps of their barracks, A fight ensued and the MP’s were called in. It's very difficult to get this type of information because the brass that instigates racial ten- sion also withholds any release about this jive on their bases, for fear that the American peo- ple will lose faith in the military, The United States military Is doomed to failure because all the contradictions of this country are a lot sharper within the military. As the understanding of the cap- fralist system grows among the masses of GI's, so will riots, destruction of government prop- erty and the onright killing of the oppressor, the officers andthe career enlistedmen be an every- day activity on every U,S, mili- tary installation at home and abroad, THE MILITARY MUST BE OURS Bay Area MDM Ministry of Communication “I think that when the generals give orders to the soldiers to go out and kill other Ameri- cans there will be a lot of soldiers who are go- ing to stop and, instead of shooting other Ameri- cans, they’re going to . shoot the traitors who have given them these orders," 1 Eldridge Cleaver = —* a’ Minister of in Black Panther Party a ° = THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 5, 1970 PAGE 26 (2 October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want What We Believe Huey P. Newton Minister of Defense Black Panther Party 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. We believe thal black people will not be free until we are able to deter- mine our destiny 2. We want full employment for our people. We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligatedto give every man employment or a puaranteed income. We believe that if N the white American businessmen will not pive full employment. then the 8) means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and em- ploy all of its people and give a high standard of living die — —=———v c CSE LS ES Ff fC ff ff A ft tf Mem ft ff | mmm | fff fT ff RE LEE EE PIES tt 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 that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowl- edge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance.to relate to anything else. 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people, should not be forced to fight in the 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 arin themselves for self-defense 8. We want freedom for all black men held in foterst, tate, cuumsy and city prisons and jails. We believe that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because th>y have not received a fair and impartial trial. 9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States. We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S, Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, en- vironmental, hiStorical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning 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 nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions‘of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thal, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall scem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru- dence. indeed. will dictate that governments long established should not 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, f. is their duty, to throw off such govern- ment, and to provide new guards for their future security, ce soe See ee —S= Locteneeinnal [SS =, LLG SE EEE ED LEE ee eee 4S. 44S SaaF 444 T. SEF: ee oa — oe eLie } : ee I ee foes ye peor eT Za ——es ee eee f LLL. “er Sttt SELL. "SLEE. 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