Vol. 5, No. 11

Sand and comrades throughour the hat fe hea ow pubead aad oe meee people who enjoy no equal protection of the law, and our future action must be guided by our sufferance, and notby our prudence, ‘Two centuries ago when the United States was a néw nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the con- ditions which prevailed in the nation, and the assumptions upon which its foundations were built, "were such that, they” ensured the United States : e to its maturity under circum- ‘Stanges which mean that for a sub- ‘oportion of its citizens’ life is nothig@more than a prison of pov- erty, and Q happiness we enjoy is the o keep from crying. e ; ot A America was ica was born at a time when the poptilapion was small and fairly homogeneous hoth racially and caltieeaty ‘Thus the people he Small population and the fertile land eyeutbie meant that weith the sGpi- Wineir motivation and ability. It was new nation rapidly SveIoD fate a Frail: limbed giant. The new nation acquired entire err lndair sith bas few axeer The new nation acquired a populat! fill this newly acquired land, Thig ulation was drawn from the con! of Africa, Asia, Europe a America, Thus a nation con homogeneous people of & sma and in a small area grew of a heterogeneous people fundamental characteris tion andits people subst, the nature of Amer thermore, marked by economir’ and agricultural e- urban and industr’ economy, as farming was rg@ptaced by manu- facturing. The Democratic Capitalism of our early days became caught up in a relentless driye to obtain profits until the Selfish motivation for profit eclipsed the unselfish principles of democracy, Thus 200 years later we FIVE YEAR OLD BLACK CHILD ATTACKED BY MANIAC INSIDE: sanagcioulniral economy and with the THE TOMBS, N. Y. have-an-overdeveloped economy which is so infused with the need for pi dictions found in the hist@Py of this nation, The gov ditions, and the peter freedom fromi oppression, “ah on consequences from ey) portion of hod es achiey _ the lands of their fipbers and slavery PLENARY °SESSION pars We find evidence for majority free- See this when we note the bagic contra . HUEY SMESSAGGE - - REVOLUFONDRY:: PIGNAL “CON labors in che «lite; ithernr end: happ- _ness of the children and grandchildren Century Reéyolution in the trantewerk ment, econ- ed to failure, of that small company of this land are The descenda’ of original in control of wor: tem, The NY =GQN The nh the 20th Century are the dom. and minority ispossessed of the oc ar tw ee ALD EL Pd Ass. Boke = States government and the ac of lands was at the unjust e: the American Indians, the original pos- sessors of the land and still its imate heirs, The long m Cherokees on the ‘'Trail q and the actual dissappeara other Indian nations teg unwillingness and inabilir ernment and this governm tution to-incorporate racia We find evidence for ma a and minority opp fact that even while the ea _ were. deliberately and sys! depriving Africans of thei These basic contradicti ther. exacer bated (m: our Procebears seeorrect the con- eugr constitutional Mee ivil Rights laws have Ggpchange in our condition Hon and due process of law. Precognize then that the oppressive pacts of the United States government when contrasted with the testaments of freedom, carries forward a basic contradiction found in all the legal documents upon which this government is based, Generation after generation of the majority group have been born, they have worked, and they have seen the fruits of their labors in the life, lib- erty and happiness of their children and granchildren. Generation after gen- eration of Black people in America have been born, they have worked, and they have seen the fruits of their Still a people without equal © fe of the 18th Century ciNitenep acres | the He he class of the 20th Century, and the people of today stand giting for a foundation of their own liberty and pursuit of happiness. Bivil Rights Movement has not d this Sg and it can- as well 2 less drive to colonize, oc minorities, This nation from democral capit Now we see that this sma class continues its profit drive pressing and exploiting the peoples” the world, Throughout the world the lumpenproletariat is crushed so that the profits of American industry can continue to flow. Throughout the world the freedom struggles of opppressed _people are opposed by this government because they are a threat to bureau- eratic capitalism in the United States of America, We gather here to let it be known at home and abroad that a nation con- ceived in liberty and dedicated to life, got America, and inthe very MDEPLY ae hue peu oust “has in its maturity become: a PARTY CALLS SING FOR ALLOUR FOR DECENT! PEOPLE, THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CALLS FOR A TRUE EDUCATION OF OUR PEOPLE, THE BLACK PANTHER PARTYCALLS FOR, EXEMPTION FROM MILITARY SERVICE, THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CALLS FOR ANEND TO POLICE BRUTALITY, FOR FREEDOM FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS, THE BLACK PANTHER PARTYCALLS FOR FAIR TRIALS FOR ALL i BY A JURY OF THEIR PEERS, “ THE BLACK PANTHER PARP! DESTINY. Black.gpeople and opp: ¢ in general have lost aith in eme of America, in the go’ ture of American government—-ti is the Constitution, its legal foun , tion. This loss of faith is based upon the overwhelming evidence that this government will not live according to that Constitution because the Consti- tution is not designed for its For this reason we assemble gticubonel Conyention to cousidespa- i h' wil! p Regen phasis on the common man, Alterna- tives which will bring about a new economic system in which the rewards as well as the work, will be equally shared by all people--a ~ Socialist framework, Alternatives which will guarantee that within the Socialist framework all groups will be ade- muately represented in the. decision- Making and administration which af- fects their lives, Alternatives which Ml guarantee that all men will attain ik full manhood rights, that they will @ble to live, be free, and seek out goals which give them respect Gignity while permitting the sarne Weces for every other man regard- shis condition or status. Bacredness of man and of the Spirit requires that human dig- integrity ought to be always iby every other man. We will nothing less, for at this anything less is but a WE WILL BE FREE here to ordain a new Con- Stitution whf€h will ensure our free- dom by enshrining . (cherishing) the dignity of the human spirit. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE HARVEY NOBLES MURDERED BY PIGS, BROOKLYN, N.Y. REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970 PAGE 2 SAN FRANCISCO FIVE YEAR OLD BLACK CHILD ATTACKED BY MENTALLY DERANGED MANIAC California Pig Governor Reagan has cutback millions of dollars in Mental Health Care Institutions in the state of California. Reagan thinks he is so qualified and com- petent in the field of psychiatry and medicine that he can say that “only 10% (10 percent) of the men- tally retarded and criminally de- ranged need to be institution- alized,’’ So, for the last couple of years the state of California under the direction of Pig Reagan, has been funnelling thousands of mentally retarded and mentally ill (criminally deranged) patients into Black and other poor opressed communities. This slow genocidal trick which ultimately eats away the commu- nity by creating the worse type of environmental conditions is apro- gram of the state presented to the community under the guise of money and benevolence. Such in- stitutions as Napa State and Sono- ma State Hospitals have to get rid of these mental patients be- cause of Reagan's budget which cutback the funds for the care of mental patients, Where are these patients placed? Predominantly in the poor oppressed communities. Why? Because the state through the various social service agencies Pays up to $300.00 (three hundred) per patient a month and the poor need this genocidal welfare in or- der to survive in this oppressive present day society. The White communities can refuse to accept these patients because their econ- omic status needs no supplemen- tatioa and they do refuse, aside from the fact that they recognize the corrosive effect that this pro- gram will have on the White com- munity. Black and other oppressed communities because of the racism which determines their economic status are almost forced andcom- pelled to accept these mental pa- tients to supplement their low in- comes (particularily those oa re- tirement and pension). A case in the Haight-Ashbury community of San Francisco Gan Francisco is one of the most hea- vily impacted areas for mental patients in the state of California) where a young Black child was criminally attacked by a mentally retarded, mentally ill patient is a blataat example of how this af- fects the Black community in par- ticular... On August 4, 1970, Yvonne Mar- la Wilson, a five year old Black child of the Haight-Ashbury com- munity was playing with friends in front of her home. Jim Norton, a mental patient living in a boarding care home on the next block, beat, kicked and stomped young Yvonne when the child remarked to her friends that ‘the was a retarded man"’, Mrs. Wilson having in- formed her children of this man’s character and the type of persons living in the community fulfilled her obligation as a parent since there is no protection for the chil- drej, such as an isolated area for them to play in, thus having to play in the streets and exposed to all the vicious elements of so- ciety. Following the attack, Mrs. Wil- soa and members of the commu- nity went to the family home. of the mental patient, Mr, and Mrs. Deeds, an elderly Black couple, who ran the boarding home, ex- pressed their concern and said they would discipline the patient themselves or have the patient's psychiatrist, Dr. Dressler, do it. It was only after the threat of filing suit did Mr. and Mrs, Deeds call Jim Norton's doctor, This pig psychiatrist, Dr. Dressler, stated that the matter was completely out of his hands and blamed it on Reagan’s cutback for mental care, He also stated that Jim Nor- ton was out on his own recogni- zance, foolish enough to think we don’t know that it was on his recom- mendation that this maniac was released, At this point the pig police were called to arrest Jim Norton. They arrived an hour later while all the time this deranged man was t Pi aa BRUTAL ATTACK, still foaming at the mouth making threats on young Yvonne's life and threatening to kill the grandchildren of Mr. & Mrs. Deeds. Jim Norton also had a pop bottle in his hand and he then moved to strike a deadly blow at a young brother standing nearby. But was appre- hended by the people from the com- munity.... Upon the pigs arrival they im- mediately assumed that the Inci- dent was minor because they could not see any surface wounds on the child (she was suffering from in- ternal bleeding), All the sympa- thies from the pig police were for Jim Norton ‘‘the poor menial patienc who lost control’, After questioning Mr. & Mrs. Deeds and Jim Nortoa, who confessed his desire to kill Yvonne Wilson, the pigs reluctantly took him to Mount Zion Hospital. (Mt. Zion trans- ferred him to racist Presbyterian Hospital who later released him back on the streets), Based on the pig report from the pigs point of view that ‘‘the child had been slapped around but was more frigh- tened than hurt"' is a clear exam- ple of their piggish attitudes and the basis of why Jim Norton was released from the hospital two days later. Yvonne Wilson was taken to Kaiser Hospital by her mother whose family is a member of the Kaiser plan, and was REFUSED treatment. Mrs, Wilson stated at the time that her child had been “criminally assaulted’’ was told at Kaiser emergency room ly the head nurse that they didn't handle cases like that, even though the mother presented her Kaiser plan card, No examination bya physi- cian was conducted nor was aphy- sician consulted at Kaiser. Yvonne was treated by a com- munity physician, who found the child to be suffering from internal bleeding in the vaginal area, a re- sult of the stomping by Jim Nor- ton, and traumatic shock, Mrs, Wil- son was advised to file a complaint at the office of the Disteict At- torney. On the following day Mr. & Mrs. Wilson went to the District At- torney’s offce and attempted to file a complaint but were DE- NIED this right based on the fact that these fools did not feel it was necessary to put a warrant out for this extremely dangerous man, The real reason being that in order to prosecute Jim Nor- ton you must prosecute the state 4 YVONNE WILSON, AGE 5, VICTIM OF of California for negligence in tak- ing care and providing institu- tions for the criminally deranged and the District Attorney is a re- presentative and appendage of the state. On Wednesday, August 26, re- presentatives of the Black and White community including Muni Bus Drivers, Women of Westside Mental Health Center, San Fran- cisco PTA, Association of Black Psychologists and Westside Com- munity Advisory Board, many who are Kaiser plan members, met with the administration of Kaiser Hospital, including Dr. John Smil- lie, hospital administrator, to take action on the hospital's refusal to treat this 5 year old Black child who had been attacked by a mentally ill adult White male. In meetings with Kaiser officials the mother, along with other mem- bers of the community group was told that the head nurse ‘‘assumed’’ that the child had been sexually assaulted and had to go to San Francisco General Hospital. This was in fact not the case, The child had been beaten and kicked in her genital area and not sexually as- saulted, In meetings between the com- munity and Kaiser officials, Dr. Smillie admitted that it was an “unfortunate incident’? and most probably a result of ‘conscious or unconscious racism’’ but yet re- fused to take any direct action on the complaint in terms of the parties responsible for the re- fusal of treatment. The hospital administrator also refused to give the community group the names and method of reaching the Board of Directors of the Kaiser Per- manente Medical Group on the re- quest of the group who felt that they did not receive sincere and appropriate action from him. Fur- thermore, the Kaiser officials sta- ted that if the situation reoccurred, policy demands that it would be handled in the same manner again. The community group was also refused, by Dr. Smillie, a copy of the hospital policy that refuses a patient treatment on the basis of sexual assault, the irrelevant argument used by Kaiser to de- fend the refusal of treatment in this instance, The group pointed out that this was not an isolated incident and is a common type of occurrence that needed immediate correction and those persons including Dr. Smillie who refused to deal honest- ly and humanely with these issues should not be in the positions that they hold, The group is angered and de- mands that Dr. Smillie should be removed because by his inaction and resistance to deal with legit- imate community demands, he sup- ports the institutionalracism, pro- fessional incompetence, insens- itivity, and irresponsibility which results in medical negilgence to the community and to the health consumers which support the Kai- ser medical organization. What is a Kaiser card worth? The community further insists that as long as this attitude and behavior continues, the commu- nity will mobilize to effectively deal with it to change it. The same representatives from the community who exposed the ra- cist policies of Kaiser Hospital also moved to deal with the racist police, They met with Chief Pig Nelder, the Deputy District At- torney Clifford and a psychologist from the pig DA's office. This was to take action on how Mr. & Mrs. Wilson were denied their right to file a complaint at the DA's office and the attitudes of the pig police who were called to the scene of the attack. Acting in the manner that all pigs do, they initially denied their responsibility in this matter and Pig Clifford walked out oa the peo- ple when he could no longer defend his lies and rationalizations. The psychologist informed Mr. & Mrs. Wilson that the police at the scene of the attack had the authority to issue a (150) to Jim Norton (a 72 hour hold on’a person for psy- chiatric evaluation), But because of their. piggish attitudes they shined it on and wrote such aflim- sy report that Jim Norton was soon released to roam the streets again. It is clear to the community that if this were a Black person in question that you couldn’t stop the pigs from writing up 5150’s -- just like they write up tickets. Pig Chief Nelder recognized that the police acted illegally and not in the best interest of the com- munity. He promised to discipline the pigs,/ but this is to be seen for the promises of pigs have killed many people. SUMMARY This case involving a young Black child who was brutally at- tacked is not isolated from the type of treatment that many of our chil- dren are exposed to daily, includ- ing the State and its fascist ap- pendages, such as Kaiser who supports such attacks with their racist policies, With mental pa- tients rapidly filling the homes of our communities it will just be a matter of time before oppressed people begin to understand the gen- ocidal effects of this program. Mauy of the homes in which these patients live are not licensed nor are the owners qualified medically to give adequate care to these pa- tients and subsequently many of these patients are treated cruelly. The state of California makes it almost impossible to acquire any information as to how many of these patients exist in the com- munity, licensed or illegal, There is absolutely no co-ordination be- tween the various agencies who re- lease mental patients such as the Department of Mental Hygience, The Department of SocialServices, county and local departments of welfare, etc, In other words there is no rigid restrictions as to how many patients are allowed per block. In Vallejo, California for instance, where 80% of the mental patients are housed in the minority and Black community, you canfind as many as 15 to 20 patients per block (of single family homes), This treacherous scheme of the state of California ‘‘to pay the slaves to care for the lunatics’’ is quickly going to. be reversed by the people--by putting the in- sanity where it belongs. The poor oppressed people of the scate of California have ~ compassion for the people who have been ae oo of their minds fr om — - ciety but the people'willmoralawapm™=- °— the state to further shirk its re- sponsibility of creating adequate homes for these patients under the proper medical and psychiatric care; to do otherwise is to subject the people to murder. FOR SUPPORTOR INFORMATION CALL: Westside Community Health Cen. 563-7710 Comm. Organizer, Carol Henry SEIZE THE TIME! BLACK PEOPLE, WAKE UP TO THE CONDITIONS WE LIVE IN The pigs have been sucking the blood of the people in our Black communities now for too many years and we are now going to put a stop to this madness once and for all. To understand what I mean, you would only have to speak to some of the people who live in the South End in Boston who are victims of inhuman indecent housing or better still, take a look for yourself at the houses they have been toldthar they have to live in because they're Black and poor, Almost three weeks ago the house at 36 Brad- dox street in Boston’s South End that was occupied by poor Black families just caved in. One death and several injuries was the re- sult of this, and yet the pig slum landlords are allowed to continue to suck the blood of the people by collecting their high rents on death traps, If you still haven't gotten the Picture of the oppression that Black people in particular and all poor people generally, are forced into attending; the Dearborn School for instance in Roxbury. Mass., is over-ridden with rats that put up a daily battle for che kids lunches; where the heating system is the cause of continual colds and often pneumonia for most of the kids; where the toilet facilities are in such deplorable conditions that only a pig would want to use them, If you still are not coavinced or if there is any misunderstanding about the blood sucking pig tactics that are used against Black people daily, ask any blood just out on the corner of any Black communi- ty. Speak to him about the blue uniformed pigs that he\has to deal with everday; that have been bru- tally attacking these same young street bloods ior days. You see, so what all Black folks are say- ing now ts death to these blood- sucking pigs and let's get down to TCB right now. ALL POWER TO THE URBAN GUERILLAS! Mazcia Bostoa Chapter Black Paather Party THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970 PAGE 3 THE PEOPLE AND THE PEOPLE ALONE WERE THE MOTIVE FORCE IN THE MAKING OF HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE'S REVOLUTIONARY CONSTITUTIONAL peg 2 SL, ose aasi SESSION! Inspite of all the efforts of the'Phil- new people’s document. Workshops adelphia pig department, the Plenary # were held on all aspects of the shape Session of the Revolutionary People’s of a nzw society, its institutions, its Constitutional Convention was held as ) morality and its culture.These work- scheduled with thousands of people Shops hammered out position papers from all over Babylon attending. ; and proposals that were presented to *‘Bozo”’ Rizzo, the notorious chief- the Plenary in the evening. Taken as a tain of the Philadelphia pigs, had staked ‘ whole these reports provided the basis his prestige on stopping the Plenary .@ for one of the mosi progressive Con- Session. He put pressure on Temple , stitutions in the history of humankind, University to refuse to allow the Ple- — All the people would control the means nary Session to be held there, He @® 2 t of productions and social institutions. sent letters to the pig mediaencourag- Black and third world people were ing them to print vicious lies about the Shy Ss Se Sou eetens guaranteed proportional representa- People’s Convention. When these ef- RAIDED BY PHILLY PIGS tion in the administration of these in- forts failed he turned his pigs loose in pupppeemeeereemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmees stitutions as were women. The right of a full scale attack on all Black Pan- Philadelphia and people’s’ foodcenters "ational self determination was gua- ther offices. The brothers and sisters were operated by volunteers allover Vanteedto all oppressed minorities. at the Panther offices righteously re- the city. Sexual self detemination for women and sisted these attacks, wounding three of The Plenary formally opened late homosexuals was affirmed. A standing the pigs who attempted to hack and Saturday morning with along address army is to be replaced by a people’s shoot their way inside in violation by M:chael (Cetewayo) Tabor of the militia and the Constitution is to in- of the Constitutional Rights of the de- Panther 21. Tabor outlined the vicious jyde an international bill of rights fenders. The pigs then forced their nature of the present Constitution and prohibiting U.S. aggression and tnter- captives to strip naked in the streets how it has functioned historically to ference in the internal affairs of their while other pigs looted and smashed oppress the people of this country and ‘nations, The Constitution also would the ‘offices. Rizzo tried topinthe shoot- the world, particularly people ofcolor. support the liberation struggles of third ing of several pigs earlier that week- In the evening Huey P. Newton world peoples, The present racist le- end on the Black Panther Party, Later Minister of Defense and Supreme Com- gal system would be replaced bya Judge Reed set bail at $500.00 but muander, addressed an overflowcrowd. system of people’s courts where one big D.A. Spector ordered the pigs’ Huey ran down how the presentConsti- would be tried by a jury of one’s vo nor the Fantners. Juage Leo Weim — tution is the legal basis for monopo- peers. Jails would be replaced OP"E rot, a pig who delights in binding and...1y. capital:the-mast-vicious-system.in- community’. rehabilitation programe gagging Black prisoners of war, set the world today. Not only is a new Cyime would be redefined in a social- bail for the 15arrested at $100,000each. Constitution needed, but its needed ist-manner. Adequate housing, health, But all are now out on $1,500 bail. right now, for Black people who face care, and day care, would be considered But Rizzo, like all pigs, grossly u- genocide will not wait for their free- Constitutional Rights, not privileges. derestimated the will and power of the dom. Huey pointed out that the people Mind expanding drugs would be le- people. Within hours after the attack qye not for violence. Whether change galized. These were just some of the on the offices, the people were ve- occurs peacefully or not is up to the provisions of the new Constitution. opening them, tearing down the boards oppressor who has at his commandthe The Plenary Session was marked the pigs had placed over the doors and whole apparatus of state violence which as a strong show of solidarity among windows. Progressive organizations js ysed day in, day out against the op- the various oppressed people of Baby- all over the city issued statem2nts in pressed people of both Babylon andthe lon, The solidarity and mutual respect support of the Black Panther Party, world, Sister Audrea Jones oftheBos- is the key to our being able to take and condemning the fascist tactics of ton Chapter of the BlackPanther Party this Constitution and make it a reality. Rizzo’s team. The people made tt and Panther defender CharlesGarry Plans for the Constitutional Con- clear that nothing could stop the Ple- also spoke. Garry brought amessage yention itself where the will of the nary Session. The pigs, returned items of solidarity from Chairman Bobby people will be concretized in a final stolen from the Panther offices. We Seale, prisoner of war in Connecticut, document will be announced shortly. did not accept these articles. Our He also told of how he became con- The very fact that the Plenary Session priority was the returnofl5 comrades. binced of Huey P. Newton’s great occurred was apeople’s victory. The The courts handed down an injunction oye for the people, relating his meet- people can now rejoice that the Ple- prohibiting the pigs from violating the jing with Huey with two bullets in his nary has moved our liberation strug- vights of the people of the city. BY side, Huey, in great pain greeted him gle to a new level. The People’s Re- Friday night when the Plenary began with a smile and the words ‘‘All volutionary Constitutional Convention Rizzo was in full retreat, licking his power to the people. is tentatively scheduled for November 4, wounds, The people’s love for Huey wasvery 1970 in Washington, D.C. zanwhile thousands streamed into clear Saturday night. Thousands who Philadelphia to register for the Ple- could not be seated inthe hall waited ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! nary. Many more attended but didn’tre- fours outside hoping to be able to gister, At one time there were over hear Huey speak a second time, Rosemarie 10,000 people in and around McGonigle which unfortunately was not possible. PEOPLE‘S POWER TO THE REVO= Hall where the Plenary was held. Sunday the Plenary got down to the LUTIONARY PEOPLE’S CONSTITU- Housing was provided by people in real business of putting together a TIONAL CONVENTION! “THE SACREDNESS OF MAN AND OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT REQUIRES THAT HUMAN DIGNITY AND INTEGRITY OUGHT TO BE ALWAYS RESPECTED BY EVERY OTHER MAN. WE WILL SETTLE FOR NOTHING LESS, FOR AT THIS POINT IN HISTORY ANYTHING LESS IS BUT A LIVING DEATH. WE WILL BE FREE...” THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970 PAGE 4 PIGS AND OTHER REACTIONARY ELEMENTS HARRASS COMMUNITY WORKERS WHILE SELLING PAPERS On September 1, 1970, two bro- thers walked into aSafeway Super- market at 6300 College and right- fully liberated what was theirs from the fascist pigs. Some shots were exchanged and a pig and a brother were wounded, The bro- thers in their get-away, left their a brother and a sister from the Center and asked to see some identification, After being ha- rassed and intimidated for about fifteen minutes the pigs had tho- roughly exposed themselves to the people, By this time the people were able to see the pigs for what in two minutes the Oakland and Berkeley pig departments hadnine to twelve pig cars on the scene, not including plain clothes pigs. The people in the community - immediately responded by coming out-doors and standing around in small groups observing and in- vestigating. We noticed some young kids in a large group standing around the car talking to the pigs. We went over and pulled them a- side, explaining that they should not say anything at all to the pigs. We also alerted all the other bro- thers and sisters around to say BLACK LACKEY PIGS THE PEOPLE OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY CAME OUT OF THEIR HOMES TO WITNESS THE PIGS -- SO-CALLED PROTECTORS OF THE PEOPLE. car on the corner of Harmon and California Sts, in Berkeley, With - they really are, lownatured beasts, who harass, intimidate and mur- der Black people. The people learned a valuable lesson, they reached a level of understanding which is going to be necessary if revolutionaries in the Black colony are going to sur- vive, Because the people related to the teachings ofHuey P. Newton and the Black Panther Party, and because the brothers and sisters from the Community Center car- ried the message to the people on a one to one basis, the Black people of the Berkeley community responded by giving the brothers cover from these vicious torturers LY je OF BERKELEY TRIED TO GET THE PEOPLE OF THE COMMUNITY TO INFORM ON THE BROTHERS, BUT THEIR SO-CALLED TECHNIQUE WAS TO NO AVAIL. little or nothing if the pigs ques- tioned the:n, Thirty minutes later, two of Berkeley's ‘‘finest’’ bootlickin’ house-nigger pigs arrived to begin their routine investigation of the community. The people responded well to the orientation of Legal First Aid by giving the pigs little or no information, Five minutes later, a brother from the. West Berkeley Community Center ar- rived with two cameras and we began taking pictures, By this time the occupying troops had with- drawn from the immediate area in search of the brothers, As the twe lackies remained to continue their harassment, they singled out of humanity, The pigs came into the community in full force, they were oinking because the brothers shot a pig, but the people refused to give up any. information. The brothers were cared for and pro- tected by the people. The pigs left in disgust, but the people had moved to a new level of resistance. We Say Right On to the brothers, Right On to the people, and Death to the Fascist Pigs, We have reached a new level of understanding, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! West Berkeley Community Center PIGS BRUTALIZE PEOPLE OF WEST OAKLAND ONCE AGAIN If the American people, as a whole do not rise up to reverse the present course of this nation which if unchecked, holds out only fas- cist repression and genocide for Black people, then Black people, will be forced to respond with a form of war of salvation that in the chaos of carrying it out and the attempt to repress it, will get this country andutterly destroy it. Before we accept genocide we will inflict total destruction upon Babylon ( excerpt from Message to America which appeared in the June 20, 1970 edition Vol.4 no.29 of the Black Panther Black com- munity new service). Another notch can be written up in the pages of history, showing where the Black people of West Oakland in particular have suffer- ed blatant brutality from the oc- cupying forces of the racist pig cops. Not a day goes by that the Pigs don't trample upon the human rights’ of the people in the Black community of West Oakland. Once again the pigs of the thin blue line, the hired killers of the fascist advocates of law and order, the keepers of the American nightmare struck, time; 2:00 p.m. the third of Sept. 1970. Carolyn Elbert, age 13 was return- ing from running anerrandfor her mother, when she saw a group of brothers running through her back- yard, She immediately told her mother, Mrs. Mary Elbert. Mrs. Elbert and Carolyn, out of concern for the brothers and the community decided to check out what was happening. Carolyn took her mother in the direction from which the brothers had come, (which was from the street be- hind her mother’s house) into a va- cant Ict on through her backyard and onto the next street. When Carolyn and her mother arrivedon the street behind their house they Saw a woman getting into an am- bulance. Someone had supposedly thrown some lye in her face and took her purse, The Elbert's, after investigating had turned and started to walk home, when this red head, freck- led face, racist pig ( badge #415 commonly called Big Red) yelled, “Hey wait a minute, you'rea wit- ness, I want to talk to you,"’ But Carolyn's mother Mrs. Elbert told her to come on, because she didn’t want Carolyn to have any- thing to do with this mess ( per- taining to the pigs) as she went on to explain to us, that she knew from past experience that she ~ couldn't trust the pigs. The pig ran and snatched Carolyn by her arm which had been recently operated on, the arm is permanently paralyzed and very vulnerable to pain. Carolyn’s mother, Mrs. Elbert was telling the pig to release his grip, ex- plaining that in June, her daughter had an operation on that same arm, that he was man handling, and the cast was just taken off last week. But the pig continued his grip with his two cohorts looking on, guarding him as he terrorized the people. The pig was interrogating Carolyn using pain as the conse- quence for her not answering his questions, He (the pig) oinked questions suchas, ‘‘What did you see?’’But Carolyn heldstrong, say- ing she didn’t see nothing, which she didn’t. The pig reacted by oinking, ‘‘If you don't talk, we'll take you downtown and make you talk.”"Mrs, Elbert told the pig he wasn't taking Carolyn no where. The pig oinked out to Mrs. El- quick , The power of the people and the physical destructive con- sequence they would inflict was very visible. One courageous brother stepped boldly forward and told those racist pigs: ‘That's The Elbert Family; all witnesses of pig bru- tality. why ye don’t cooperate with you pigs! And another brother said, That’ swhy riots start.’’ (When we do hit tit for tat let it not be in the forms of riots, but organize ourselves into groups of two's three’s and four's, We must be- come self defense groups, and then move to deal death blows to the racist dog). The pig began to oink at Mrs, Elbert for her daughter’s name, age and address, Mrs, El- bert’s nine year old son, Michael, had just appeared on the scene, and witnessed what happened to his sister, Carolyn, Mrs. Elbert told us that she called the Black PantherParty because “‘if any- one will best inform her of her right the Black Panthers®will"" =. So we say to Mrs, Elbert, Carolyn and Little Michael: ‘‘There is something you should always re- member, we have a human right Carolyn shows marks of to kill in defense of our lives, brutalization. bert,‘‘Be quiet or else I’ll take you downtown too.’* At this time the pig saw fit to let loose the grip he had on the sister's arm, because the people that had gathered was maddening FREE BOBBY! FREE RANDY! FREE THE PEOPLE! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! June Hilliard Assistant Chief of Staff Black Panther Party 14 YEAR OLD BLACK YOUTH SLAIN BY PIG IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA Atlanta, Ga, (LNS) -- It was shortly before midnight when Andra Moore walked from his home two blocks down Georgia Avenue to the Tasty Doz to get his sister a sandwich and a coke. Shortly after midnight, Andra Moore lay dead on his doorstep, shot twice in the back by Atlanta pigs. He was 14 years old, Accounts vary as to the sequence of events leading up to the August 4th murder of Andra Moore. The pig report, submitted by pig H.F, Pharr, states that Moore was stopped on Georgia Avenue by pigs J.T, Hasty, Jr. and J,M. Colbert as a suspect in a robbery case, The “pigs say they shot him when he ran away, Eyewitnesses to the murder give a different account, Moore hadgone to the Tasty Dog to get his order, where he met four or five of his friends, who witnessed the shoot- ing. He was walking back home from the Tasty Dog when he saw, in the Azar’s Liquor Store parking lot, two pigs harassing andbeating another brother he knew, a ment- ally retarded 18 year old who they hit in the mouth and kicked in the stomach and back, calling him names like ‘bald headed Black So and so.”’ Moore apparently yelled at the pigs to stop, that the other brother had done nothing wrong. So the pigs left off on the one, crossed over Georgia Ayenue and grabbed Moore, knocking him down. Moore got up and ran, yelling for his sister. Hasty and Colbertran after him. Two shots were fired, and Moore fell to the ground. He got up immediately and ran to his house, still screaming for his sis- ter. As he got up on the porch of his home, one of the pigs shot again, and Moore fell onthe porch, wounded in the shoulder and in the back, A crowd quickly gathered infront of the Moore house; almost as quickly at least a half dozen patrol cars were at the scene. People were Saying, ‘‘Call an ambulance}! Are you just going to let him lie there and die? Call an ambulance]"’ The pigs, however, were ap- parently too busy surrounding Hasty and Colbert to protect them from the people. Finally a lieuten- ant arrived and called an am- bulance, which came 45 minutes after Moore had been shot. It is not known whether or not Moore was killed instantly, by the bullet in his back, but he was dead on arrival at the hospital. Residents of the Summerhill area bordering on Georgia Avenue are angry over the murder, They are demanding that criminal char- ges of murder by brought against the pigs who killed Moore; they have so far been suspended from the force pending an investigation. I 1 I 1 i a BLACK GI VICTIM OF RACIST MP’S ATTACK AT FORT HOOD, TEXAS Dear Beautiful Black People, This letter which is composed of facts, is not to bring sorrow on the faces of my brothers and sisters nor a feeling of sorrow on me or for me, but an apology to my people for being a fool and a few statements of facts to keep my people from being led astray. While I write this letter there is a death of a negro and a birth of a Black man, On the night of the 23rd of Aug., one Sunday I was accused of start- ing a riot, a riot which the White MP’s had on me. At first an MP and I had a disagreement on the subject of telling me to leave the Roller Rink and not telling the other White devils Well, we grew angry at one another and he left and came backwith more White MP's, They approached me and asked me to show them my I,D, card which I had showed them ear- lier, but had left it atthe barracks. So this officer asked me if I would go with him, I replied with a yes sir. When we reached the park- ing lot where they had their cars and jeep with more White MP's ready to bust my head, I was wearing a black beret, blue shirt, black jeans, and my jump boots. The officer asked, ‘‘Are you in the army boy?"’ I replied with a hellified yes sir, (simply because he called me boy). At this point one MP by the name of Sp/4 Gaines short-jabbed me in the rib cage and said, ‘‘That’s no way to talk to an officer.'’ I replied, ‘‘That’s Brothers, Sisters, Comrades in Arms, My name is Mark Young, and I am one of the many brothers imprisoned in the fascist mili- tary. The branch is the U.S.MC, I have never been an active mem- ber of the BPP, but I follow the progress of the people’s revolu- tion. Around the people I hang with I am considered to be well informed of the Party andits different organ- izations, The free Lunch Program, Free Clothing Program etc. The reason for this letter is to try to tell the people what I have experienced at the hands of the so-called U.S, military. Just recently I tried to escape the bonds that the military thinks it has on me. My escape was made and I stayed home for four months, On August 26, 1970, my door bell rang, and I opened it. There look- ing me in the face was this fed- eral pig and some bootlicking lac- key nigger pig. They proceeded to ask me who I was, I told them, and theyliterallytook me from my home. I shouldn’t say took, be- cause it was a sheercase of kid- napping. They had, or say they had a piece of paper they called a warrant for my arrest. They never showed me this piece of paper. I can’t see where this piece of paper gave them the right to take me from my home and loved PD no way to talk to me."” Sp/4 Marsh gave me a reply with a hook to my mug (mouth), I began to fire all the MP’s up and started shout- ing to my brothers; ‘‘Do you see it brothers?” ‘‘Do you see the pre- judiced MP'’s?"' I didn’t expect them to help me because it was no use they had guns and night sticks and the bodies alone had us out- numbered, I just wanted some wit- nesses, so when I began to shut they put their hands over my mouth and their night sticks in my stomach in a hard poking mo- tion while others fired me up side my mug, throwing me in the car and kicking me with pleasure, They took me to the MP station. When we reached the inside of the sta- tion, that’s when I got my first and worse beating, while being handcuffed, After the beating they asked me afew questions and asked me if I wented a lawyer before they threw me in the cell. I re- plied, yeah, and for him to read me my rights (I knew them but I just wanted to let him know that I wasn't a fool). When I was locked up lt saia, “What are the charges?'’ He re- plied: Disrespect to an officer, dis- respect to MP's and inciting a riot. So I replied, ‘‘Which riot are you talking about, the one when I asked them to look at you, or when you broke out a riot on me.’’ He smiled and started to leave, I stopped him with the question, *thow could I be charged with these charges and locked up without you BROTHERS, SISTERS, COMRADES... ones against my will. Anyway, they took me to the federal pigs hide out in the fed- eral building in Baltimore. There they took my picture and finger _prints and wanted to know where my relatives lived. Wanting to know, so they couldharassthem if I escaped again, Itoldthem nothing they did not already know. Because I knew what they would do if they found out anymore, And I didn’t want them messing with my family. After that they handcuffed me and took me to central pig headquarters in Baltimore. There, still hand- cuffed, I was led up a dirty, nasty flight of stairs in the building. Up to a little room that looked like a rat hole, In this rat hole there were two military pigs. They typed us some forms to sign, but I didn’t sign any, While I was there they brought a brother in, handcuffed. Me and the brother got to rapping, the brother told me how one of the pigs beat him while he was handcuffed. His hands behind his back, The brother didn’t know his rights, so I explained what I knew tohim.They then took us to Fort Meade, to the military headquar- ters, there. We were placed in a small 12X8 hole they calledaroom, The room had one long bench, which one side was broken and nails sticking out. If anyone sat down, and didn’t see it, they would surely hurt themselves. The room REVOLUTIONARY GREETINGS TO R.P.C.C. P LLJ 35 (XPTI008) FS PD -- THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970 PAGE 5 LIVE A REVOLUTIONARY LIFE, DIE A REVOLUTIONARY DEATH -and freedom of every human be~ - PHILADELPHIA, PEEN, 4 1136 EDT REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLES CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, DLY .75 DLR EARLIESTAM CHURCHOF THE ADVOCATE 18th AND DISMOND STS PHILA, PALESTINE SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE OF PHILA SENDS FRATERNAL GREETINGS TO REVO- LUTIONARY PEOPLES CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION AS SUPPORTERS OF PALESTINES LI- BERATION STRUGGLE, WE EXTEND SOLIDARITY (O ALL STRUGGLES AGAINST OPPRESSION AND INJUSTICE BEST WISHES FOR A SUCESSFUL CONFERECE, --- saying that I was under arrest and without being told my rights and forced to answer questions?’’ He did not reply. When my so-called lawyer got there he started rapping to those pigs about what have this one done? The pigs reply was, ‘‘who that nigger over there?’’, and began to whisper an explanation to him while a pig held my Afro-comb he a ay " as if I had tried to use it on them ‘ (Il would have used it on them when they beat me in the parking lot but I didn’t have time to think of it at the time), So my lawyer looked at me and said, ‘‘I don't want to talk to a nigger’’ and left. 1 was taken out of the cell and set free that Monday morning at 5:45 a.m, One MP said, ‘‘Now you know from now on not to mess with us.’’ This letter is composed of facts, HARVEY MURDERED Most Emphatically Yours, Pvt. Ralph El.Lovelace This statement was submitted’ to me from a brother who was beaten, mistreated and persecuted by some of America’s best bootlicking pigs at Fort Hood, Texas. I think that everyone in this land ‘‘so well known for its beauty, ing’’ should be given an example of what goes on here, In the revolutionary struggle here inracist Babylonian America, another revolutionary, unsung hero of the bitter Babylonian war, has fallen in the street in the name of the revolution. Harvey Nobles, a long time activist in the revolu- tionary struggle is to be highly hailed as an ardent fighter for the rights of his people. Bloodshed, death, war -- none of these were foreign to Harvey. He had witnessed classic examples of the atrocities and barbarous deeds that are part and parcel of the unjust war, the imperialist warlords of the U.S. wage on all oppressed people in the world, es- pecially in Asia. Harvey served a prison-like-term in the imperial- ist army. Surviving the hors of the war, he returned home to fight another one, more bloody than the first, to fight for peace andfreedom along with his people. On August 27th at approximately 1:30 p.m. Harvey was slain by the blood-thirsty oppressors inthe streets of Babylon, The account given by the reactionary press to justify this blatant murder went as follows: At :31 p.m. on the night of August 26th, two foot patrolmen as- signed to the (high-crime) area of ‘Springfiled Gardens were ap- proached by two men (one being Harvey) who suddenly without pro- vocation opened fire upon the two surprised policemen, Reportedly a .32 revolver and 48 rounds of am- munition were foundnear Harvey’s body. Both of the brothers were wounded, but not before the pigs had emptied their revolvers and reloaded again, Harvey laid in the Street, dead, a wound in the back of his head, The brother reportedly with Harvey escaped, The foul racists and bootlicking dogs wanted his life as well as Harvey’s, but we the people know that he is safe in the Black community, sur- rounded by revolutionaries and GUNS! The fable presented in the Long Island Press on the murder of this strong, beautiful brother has many contradictions floating around it. Some of them obvious, others not so obvious, Re-read the article in the reactionary press and analyze the situation objectively - not for- getting the fact that the ‘‘element Sgt. R. Davis Fort Hood, Texas also had a bucket filled with sand to use for an ash tray. On the wall was a plaque with the inscrip: tion, ‘‘A man has a right to his own opinions, but no man has the right to be wrong inhis judgment.’” Under the picture was a great big hole as big as the plaque. That just showed me what happened to the people’s money. At the desk they had a so-called brother, or that’s what one of the White pigs called him. I asked the pig for something to eat. About that time some woman came in and began talking about some dogs, My food was forgotten. From there I was taken to Hen- derson Hall, in D.C., to the guard house there, I was put in a room with no windows, and the only way. out was through abarredcell door. They gave me a dirty, torn mat- tress to sleep on, The next morn- ing I was put on thirty day re- striction, supposed to be confined to the barracks, I am not sup- posed to go outside except to wor! and eat, I have no money and they won't give me any. They gave me a phony reason about they had to send to Kansas City for my pay record, But that’s a lot of jive. I say I will be free, even if I have to walk. Revolutionary Yours, Mark Young Political Prisoner of this present fascist governmeat BROOKLY B NOBLES BY PIGS N, N.Y. of surprise’’ and the ‘‘seift rex flex’’ of the police do not seem to be in harmony. Especially if the “‘surprised’’ patrolmen had ample time to empty and reload their guns again, Are their reflexes really that swift that even under unsuspecting circumstances on an open street corner in the heart of “nigger town’’ these greasy, slimy pigs could be the victors in a sur- prise ambush? Have niggers for- gotten the alleyways and side streets in their community? I re- fuse to fall for a fable as being reality. 1 do not know if the truth behind Harvey's untimely death will be discovered or understood by all, but we must be the judge and jury of all actions carried out by re- volutionaries everywhere, There is no one else to rightfully be their judges except ourselves. We should take into account and remember at all times that action is the vanguard and the guerrilla is the com- mander. Also take into account that Harvey was successfully or- ganizing students at Staten Island Community College where he at- tended school. Harvey also had plans, that hopefully will be ful- filled by those who worked along- side him, of opening a Black Com- munity Information Center in Staten Isiand to better serve the people and bring the college and the community closer together. Harvey was also active in Hollis, Jamaica where the drug problem has reached an alarming height. Harvey is gone but he has left behind a host of others to carry on in the name of the revolution. For those of you that are not active in the liberation struggle you should not hastily point an ac- cusing finger towards our fallen heroes. For those \of us.that are active in the struggle, we know who the real criminals are and how. to “arrest” the problem. Harvey Nobles died with two bul- lets lodged in his beautiful brain... but ‘yet on the still, cold face of Harvey Nobles there was the be- ginning of a slight smile. ACTION_IS SUPREME! ALL POWER TO THE GOOD SNIPERS! Dianne Jenkins Brooklyn Branch Black Panther Party THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970 PAGE 6 RACIST PIGS BRUTALIZE AND KIDNAP MOTHER OF TOLEDO N.C.C.F. COMMUNITY WORKER Saturday, August 29, Mrs, Ro- setta Woodard, mother of 16 year old Alvin Woodard who is a right- eous community worker for the Toledo N,C,C.F, was enjoying a quiet evening at her home listen- ing to music, Around 3 a.m, she received three threatening phone calls insulting her and her son’s functioning in the N.C.C.F, The anonymous caller was a woman and after insulting Mrs, Woodard the caller stated that Mrs. Wood- ard better turn down her record Player because the police would be out. About five minutes later the pigs arrived but Mrs. Woodard did not let them in, After the pigs left Mrs. Woodard received another phone call stating she bet- ter turn her record player down, and also insults against her son, Mrs. Woodard then called the N.C.C.F, office where Alvin and some other brothers and sisters were working, fixing up the base- ment of the building, She talked to Alvin; told him about the threatening phone calls and the visit by the Toledo pigs. Alvin and his cousin, Troy Montgom- ery, also a community worker, left to assist Mrs, Woodard. After these brothers arrived they calmed Mrs. Woodard down, but no sooner than they did this the pigs were banging on the front door again. Alvin opened the door asking the Pigs what they wanted. ‘‘Uponsee- ing him’ they began to feebly oink they were called about a disturb- ance and the record player being too loud, Alvin also stated that they had better stop harassing his mother, After the pigs split, Alvin then left to take his cousin: home, Right after he left his mother received another threatening call and no sooner had she hung up the phone, the door bell rang, Mrs. Woodard thought it was Alvin returning home. When she answered the door it was the same two pigs oinking that her neighbors hadcalled again; saying the record player was too loud and people were fighting in- side. Mrs. Woodard then stated that she was home alone and had turned her record player on but it was low. One pig then oinked MRS. WOODARD AND HER SON ALVIN, “Well I want to go in and see,’’ Mrs. Woodard said to him that there was nothing to see but fear- ing for her life she let him in. The pig went through her house and oinked ‘You're right lady you are alone and the record player is very low.’’ He then began to leave. Mrs. Woodard followed him to the front door where the second pig was waiting. She got to the front door to shut and lock it when the pig turned around and grabbed her left arm twisting it, and oinking ‘‘We got to take you in.’ Mrs. Woodard asked this pig why was he putting her under ar- rest. The ridiculous reason this fascist protector of the power structure gave was that any time they receive three complaints about the same address they have to arrest someone, Mrs, Woodard then stated to the pigs that she wasn't going anywhere because she wasn’t doing anything and she was in her ownhome, The pig then began twisting her arm again. Mrs.— Woodard began defending herself the best she could against this pig, when his piglet partner stepped in and grabbed her also. That’s when she really began to fight for her life. The pigs were trying to drag and pull her out of her front door giving no considera- tion to the fact that all she had on was a robe and nightgown. The next thing she knew there were five patrol cars and two wagons in front of her home. One of the pigs ran up and further brutalized Mrs. Woodard by push- ing, and twisting her arms behind her and handcuffing her. After she was handcuffed one of the pigs pulled his billy club out and began to intimidate her like he was going to hit her. Mrs. Woodard told him that if he hit her with his club that he'd better kill her because she was going to defend herself somehow. The pigs then threw her into the Patrol wagon, but not before they insulted her by calling her all kinds of names. She asked them could she put some clothes on, The pigs said ‘You ain't putting nothing on,’’ She asked them could she just shut and lock her front door and turn the lights off, Her answer was the patrol wagon door being slammed in her face. By this time Mrs. Woodard’s neighbors out of their ,homes -to see what was going on, They asked several pigs but the pigs didn't give an answer. A couple of Mrs, Wood- ard’s neighbors began talking to her through the patrol wagon win- dow. She told them what had hap- pened and they agreed that there was no loud record player or dis- turbance at her house and that RACISM.. IN TRENTON, NEW JERSEY In Trenton, New Jersey (capital city of the state of Jersey) as in many other cities across Babylon the Black and White communities are divided only by a street, the street is called Parkside Avenue. On August 17, 1970, four young brothers (14 and under) were on their way to the store for their families and members of the com- munity. The store they had to go to is across Parkside Avenue, on Feldmans Street in the White com- munity. When the brothers got to the store, they found eight White racists, burley men, standing a- round, These creatures began to make remarks about the issuing challeng young brothers. and stating that one all four youths voked by t cepted the ch a ing about the ze ov age of thi racists hit one in the mouth. A fight ensued, with the racists using chains and sticks. and the young brothers, retaliating with bricks and sticks. At this point Trenton pigs ar- rived on the scene andthe brothers knowing the nature of the racist pig cops and knowing from their historical experience that no jus- tice would be dealt out to them, they began to run home. The pigs chased the brothers along some railroad tracks towards the Black community, There was a little four year old brother on the bridge which crosses Parkside Avenue. This little brother hadbeen watch- ing the action and the brothers told him to run home. The scared four year old began to cry and would not move, Jimmy Kelly grabbed the little brother and put him in front. At this point a mad dog racist who worked at the gas sta- tion shot at the brothers, wound- ing Jimmy Kelly in the buttocks with shotgun pellets, If Jimmy had not pulled the young brother in front of him, the four year old would have been shot in the head, Kelly fell on the tracks and one of the other brothers helped him to a yard where he thought he would be safe : continued on to take the young brother home, The other br rs ran to the Safety of the Mlack community and to get some help. While this was t ning the pigs who had run to Kelly the urt and these What's the mat- fast enough?"* replied, ‘‘I'm the saw dge disce im bleeding racist pigs as ter, can't you ru To which Jimmy shot," this pig smiling said#* You are shot aren't you?" A White girl who had been at the store when the fighting oc- curred, had been slightly hit, the pigs called an ambulance and took her to the hospital, while Jimmy Kelly laid on the ground hurt and bleeding. Fifteen minutes later, satisfied that they had found the other brothers, the pigs put Kelly in the patrol car and took him to the hospital. Jimmy’s mother who is White, arrived on the scene and asked the pigs who had been shot. They told her that it was “just a nigger’’, not knowing she was the mother of this “‘nigger'’, thus creating an explosive situa- tion between Whites, a situation so dangerous that the Mayor of Trenton felt it his duty to inter- vene. The Mayor of Trenton, Holland, went to Kelly’s house and to save his White brother's skin, tried to placate the families whose sons had been so inhumanely treated. A brother had been shot, a four year narrowly missed being mur- dered and this pig comes around trying to pacify. The niad dog racist Whites who had wig 1 the incident went to n Mercer H ir condition, with J his parents allowed to visit him. The brothers involved received summons to appear at juvenile court, We are tired of police brutality, all pig brutality and murder, at- tempted murder of our people by racists. It is our right and duty to put an end to the acts of in- justice, and to’ protect “our lives, Whenever the government’ allows these conditions to exist and be- comes destructive to our right to live we have the right to alter or abolish it. Trenton Constitutional Convention Information Center there was no reason for her to be arrested, They again asked the pigs why they were arresting Mrs. Woodard, At this time an ‘‘Uncle Tom’’ Black pig stepped up and oinked this bootlicking statement: “IT know she’ (Mrs. Woodard) didn’t do anything but I got a call to come out and I have to do my duty, and if I don't do my duty I'll get fired.’’ Mrs. Woodard was taken to the. safety building and booked for three charges; being drunk and disorderly, disturbing the peace and resisting arrest, She also stated that the matron on duty harassed her and called her several insulting names after she asked to call home and have her sister bring her special medicine for her heart condition. At this time because of all the mental strain and physical punish- ment she was subjected to, Mrs. Woodard was having chest pains, and thought she was about to -have a heart attack. The pig matron oinked all she would give her was two aspirins and a glass of water. Mrs. Wood- ard replied she couldn't take as- pirins because of her heart con- dition, Upon hearing this the pig matron began screaming that was all she was getting and if she (Mrs. Woodard) didn't shut up and stop bothering her she was going to come into her cell and beat her till she was quiet. Mrs. Wood- ard stated at the time of this interview that she couldn’t believe the things that Alvin told her hap- pened to Black people in jails would ever happen to her, until she faced these fascist Toledo pigs inperson. She further stated that as the pigs drove away her neighbors began barraging the patrol cars and wagons with rocks and bottles. The pigs retaliated by intimidat- ing and harassing these people into their homes, They then patrolled the streets and alleys the rest of the night with between 10 and 15 cars, Mrs, Woodard's neigh- bors also said that the real dis- turbance and loud record player was in the house right across the Street and that the pigs used this as an excuse to kidnap and brut- alize her, Toledo's gestapo pig force led by super pig safety director Clif- ford Quinn are stepping up their intimidation and harassment of the Toledo N.C.C,F, in particular and other Black people in general. Their latest tactic of outright kid- napping the mother of acommunity worker and then almost letting her die because of lack of special medication while she was incar- cerated inthe safety building, clearly proves this fact. So Black people that couldn't relate to articles in the Black Panther Party paper abour pig police commis- sioners Rizzo of Philadelphia, Po- meleau of Baltimore, and pig mayors Daley of Chicago and Alfoto of San Francisco better wake up. Piggery big city style has just hit Toledo, Ohio. The only way we can get rid of pigs like Clif- ford Quinn, Mayor Ensign and a Pig pen full of the rest of Toledo’s pigs is to correctly defend our- selves against their fascist ac- tions, Feeling sorry for a boot- licking Uncle Tom pig because he'll get fired if he doesn’t do his job and throwing rocks and bottles at steel patrol cars with armed pigs inside won't do it. We must arm ourselves with rifles, shotguns, and 257 magnums to off the whining bootlickers and pigs who partici- pate in acts of piggery against Black peple. The pigs said ‘‘ Anytime we get three calls at a house we got to arrest somebody.’’ The N.C.C.F, and Black people of Toledo are Saying to the fascist Toledo pigs, “*We've had two calls on you that's, the last time you'll come into our Black community with your pig- gery, the next time we will right- eously arrest you and the only way we arrest a pig is tooffhim."’ ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE BEGIN TO SEIZE THE TIME BY N.C.C.F,, Toledo, Ohio Mike Cross ON ROBERT WILLIAMS: POLITICAL PRISONER, LOS ANGELES Robert Williams, political pri- soner, is presently confined at New County Jail while awaiting trial for a ‘‘battery on a pig’’ charge. He had been previously convicted along with brothers Romaine “Chip'’ Fitzgerald and Luxey Irvin by a racist Torrance jury on the trumped-up charges of ADW ona pig, robbery, and kidnap. These revolutionary brothers received sentences totalling more than 70 years from these charges. On the day of their conviction, the spirits of Robert, Chip, and Luxey were very strong and the racist pigs, acting in spite, attacked these brothers while they were in the holding tank waiting tobe returned to jail. These revolutionaries de- fended themselves uently, 3; charged with ‘‘batrery ved to New Country 4] for this latest after he ar- these fas- . Not too long . Robert dealt with these warmongerers and* was placed in ‘‘the hole’ (place of punishment where all privileges are taken away) for the sole reason that he had de- fended himself. After he was re- leased from the ‘‘hole’’ these rac- ists moved him to Module 2700. This particular module is reser- ved for the mentally disturbed, Inmates are not supposed to be allowed in this cellblock without first being examined by a doctor. But the pigs placed Robert in this module despite this regulation be- cause they are trying to isolate him from the other inmates. Conditions are very wretched in Module 2700. The pigs contin- uously harass the inmates there. The module is never kept clean and some of the mentally distur- bed inmates defecate on the floor. The other inmates, like Robert, who were placed in this module for punishment purposes are sub- jected to mental torture because they're in the midst of all this madness. Very often brothes sus- tain injuries or contracted (to Pick up) diseases because of the filth and poor living conditions of this module. It is very evident what these pigs are trying to do to Robert. These ad dogs think that by isole bert from ti in this deca desire for freedom anc pigslot, Neweaco Say-—-Givé it up \ because Robert Wiliams is a revolitionary), 2 freedom fighter, a Black Panthers Youcan never crush his spirits or his) strength. If you \don’r re- lease Robert and all politicu! pri- soners, “WE'LL ‘TURN OFP ALL THE LIGHTS, AND THERE WON'T BE NO LIGHTS FOR DAYS.'” LIBERATE ALL POLITICAL PRI- SONERS DEATH TO ‘THE FASCIST PIGS SO, CALIF, CHAPTER BLACK PANTHER PARTY Seale ina BOBBYS APPEAL PART Vil B, WHERE ‘THE TRIAL JUDGE BECOMES PERSONALLY EM- BROILED WITH THE CONTEM- NOR, THEN THE CONTEMNOR IS ENTITLED TO A HEARING ON THE CONTEMPT CHARGES BE- FORE ANOTHER JUDGE, The record in the instant case reveals that the trial judge was not only subject to condemnation of a highly personal nature by appellant but, from the beginning of the trial, was actively embroiled in a personal clash with him, his co-defendants and their attorneys. As indicated supra, the record consists of a series of disputes between the trial judge and Seale regarding Seale’s Sixth Amend- ment rights. Even had the judge remained completely unemotional and objective in his attitude toward appellant, he was necessarily a participant in disputes with a per- son whose conduct in those dis- putes he later was to adjudge and penalize. Moreover, it is clear that the judge was never able to be unemotional and objective about Seale’s conduct. He not only per- ceived himself as the victim of a concerted attack by the defense, supra pp. 81-86, but he was actively hostile and clearly prejudiced from the beginning of the trial. This is described in some detail in Argu- ment VIII, infra pp. 159-65, but will be treated briefly here. The trial judge’s hostility to ap- pellant was revealed in part by tone. Thus Seale was never re- ferred to by name but always as “that man’’ (111). The judge was also deliberately provocative. In- stead of simply ruling onthe merirs of Seale’s Sixth Amendment claims and informing Seale the issue would be settled on appeal, he erigaged continuing battle, attempting in a variety of ways to force Seale to concede, Thus he tasisted always, in denying Seale’s right to speak for himsell. that Seale was represented by “your lawyer’’, Kunstler, (112) when the judge knew that no re- presentation was in fact being pro- vided and that Seale claimed Kunst- Jer was not his lawyer, Whether or not the judge was right indeny- ing Seale’s claim that he had a right to represent himself, by in- sisting throughout that Seale was represented he in effect forced Seale to respond that he was not so represented so as to avoid ap- pearing to accede to the court’s characterization. (111) See, e.g., TR 4069, 4325- 26, 4393, 4609, 4725, 4726, 4727, 5346. (112) See, e.g., TR 4218, 4343, 4393, 4607, 4721, 4757, 5015. (END OF FOOTNOTES) This was part of what can only be seen as a deliberate attempt “STEEL” HELD IN BRIDGEPORT, CONN. FOR A $100,000 RANSOM “Now the pigs will say that I am a criminal and that I am very dangerous and should be shot oa sight but that’s gangster’s logic because all those people saw the pigs trying to murder me so the people know that I am defending my human rights to self-defense.” On Friday, August 21, 1970 at 10;00, James Murphy, a member of the N,C.C.F, of Bridgeport, Con- necticut, came to court with his lawyer, Richard Bieder, and as they tried to enter the courtroom, they were viciously attacked by the fascist pigs of Bridgeport. Steel was to appear in front of the judge on charges of possession’ of explosives, another frame-up by the pigs in Bridgeport. The pigs said they had a warrant for Steel’s arrest for shooting at a pig in to force Seale to waive his claim that he had been wrongfully de- nied the right to counsel of his choice or to represent himself, Thus the court at first refused to allow several lawyers to with- draw and even had two lawyers arrested and held in custody for contempt because of their failure to appear at trial, attempting meanwhile to extract in exchange for their release an admission from defendants that they were adequately represented by the re- maining attorneys and thus that they had not been denied the right to counsel because of Garry’s ab- sence, Only after the government suggested the lawyers be released and contempt charges dismissed did@ the court consent to do so without extraction of such a waiver. At one point the court threatened to revoke the bail of the other defendants unless they withdraw their support of Seale’s claim that he had been denied counsel or the right to represent himself. (113) (113) TR 147-56, 158-70, 4723, 4726, See infra, p. 161-63. (END OF FOOTNOTE) This was only part of a pattern of hostile conduct toward the de- fense in general, The point is not whether defendants or their at- torneys were justified in all their actions but that the judge failed to remain an objective andunemo- tional arbiter. He engaged the de- fense in a series of sparring, hos- tile exchanges, petty and childish in the extreme, (114) and was in- credibly and consistently rude, sarcastic, harassing and insulting to attorneys Weinglass and Kunst- ler (115). Typical of the level of the court’s conduct is the fact that throughout the trial the court purported to forget Weinglass’ name, calling him at various times Weinstein, Feinstein, Fineglass, Weinberg, Weinramer, to the point where the defense finally produced a placard labeled Weinglass, (114) See, e.g., TR* 134-136, 240, 244; TR 453-54. 536, 753, 924, 1134-35, 14477, 1546, 1561, 1566, 2201, 2870, 4398, 5172-73. (115) E.g., TR* 15-17, 24, 29, 67, 87-88, 96-97, 106-107, 124, 136, 172-73, 246, 246-47, 254;TR 31-32, 133-35, 261, 324-25, 395,539, 666- 68, 684, 865-66, 1064, 1126-27, 1136, 1538, 1878 (‘Do you want a gold star...?), 2329-30, 2516, 2600, 2720, 2939, 3326-27, 3733, 3867, 3910. 4045, 4244, 4627, 4629, 4670, 4816-17, 4887, For specific exam- ples see infra p. 160, n.226. (END OF FOOTNOTES) Finally, the court revealed in numerous ways that it was pre- judiced against the defense by, for example, making wholly ar- bitrary rulings and orders, and Father Panik Village, (A housing project, where they have a pig pen and 18 pigs 24 hours a day), This incident supposedly took place on August 5, The pigs as usual have no evidence, which is usually the case in the arrest of Black people. Their case of possession of ex- plosives was so weak that they offered a deal for possession of a fire cracker and a ty aty dollar fine, The pigs in Bridgeport are so sick and depraved that when Steel did finally appear in front of the judge, after a push and shove in- cident in the hallway and the ar- rest of our lawyer for interfering with a pig, he was surrounded by 10 pigs and the superintendent of the pig force. Also, another member of the N.C.C.F, was ar- taking sides with government law- yers against defense lawyers. Gee pp. 161-65 infra) Due process of lawrequires that a judge who has an interest in the outcome of judicial proceed- ings be disqualified. Tumey v. Ohio, 273 U,S, 510 (1927). Where the record shows, as it does in this case, not merely potential for bias but actual interest on the part of the judge by virtue of active participation and emotional involvement in a personal clash with the contemnor, thenhe simply cannot preside over the contempt proceedings, thereby becoming the judge in his own case. Offutt v. United States, supra, dealt with this exact situation and resolved it definitively. There the trial judge, at the close of trial, sum- marily convicted defense counsel of contempt, but the Supreme Court reversed and re:nanded for ahear- ing before another judge because the trial judge ‘‘instead of repre- senting the impersonal authority of the law...permitted himself to become personally embroiled....'’ (116) (116) ...For one reason or another the judge failed to impose his moral authority upon the proceedings, His behavior precluded that atmos- phere of austerity which should especially dominate a criminal trial and which is indispensable for an appropriate sense of re- sponsibility on the part of court, counsel and jury.’’ (348 U.S, at 17). See also Ungar v. Sarafite, supra p. 90, noting in upholding a con- tempt conviction that the judge never became ‘’embroiled in rested for interfering with apolice officer, These people are guilty of interfering, but of interfering " with injustice, interfering with fas- cism, guilty of interfering with the railroading of the courts and the system, Steel was kidnapped and is being held under a $100,000ransom, The N.C.C.F, of Bridgeport will not i sit idly by and watch this happen to Steel. We will get this brother back on the streets by any means | necessary or Jonathan Jackson, William Christmas, McClain died in vain, FREE STEEL MURPHY N.C.C,F., Bridgeport, Conn. 470 Broad St. Joyce Townsend and James , THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970 PAGE 7 intemperate wrangling with peti- tioner’’; and that rather than pro- ceeding summarily he providedicr a hearing on notice ‘‘which was conducted dispassionately and with a decorum befitting a judicial pro- ceeding’’; and concluding therefore that ‘(ijn these circumstances, we cannot say there was bias, or such likelihood of bias or an appearance of bias that the judge was unable to hold the balance between vindicating the interests of the court and the interests of the accused,”’ (376 U.S, at 585, 588), See also United States v. Coombs, 390 F.2d 426, 429 (6th Cir. 1968); Kasson v, Hughes, 390 F.2d 183 (8rd Cir. 1968). (END OF FOOTNOTE) Disqualifying a trial judge from determining contempt charges where he has become personally embroiled does not deprive him of power adequately to deal with trial misconduct in such a case, He may cite the contemnor and provide for his immediate commit- ment pending hearing on the charges by another judge, But he cannot, consistent with the fairness and impartiality required by due process, himself determine those - charges, IV THE COURT BELOW ERRED IN CONVICTING APPELLANT (8OB- BY) SUMMARILY RATHER THAN ACCORDING HIM THE PROCED- URAL SAFEGUARDS DEFINED IN RULE 42 (b) OF THE FEDERAL RULES OF CRIMINAL PRO- CEDURE On November 5, 1969, after the hh Ky) h, at ils mh ; i ‘all in il noon recess, the trial judge spe- cifically found that Seale’s pre- vious actions had constituted cri- minal contempt, and adjudged Seale guilty of contempt. Only then, spe- cifically noting that he was acting pursuant to F, R, Crim. P, 42 (a) (117), did he even read a description of the 16 different al- legedly contemptuous incidents which had occurred throughout the previous six weeks of trial, He then asked to hear from Kunstler and Seale only as to punishment. (TR 5411, 5415, 5475-78) Kunstler refused to say anything onthe ground that he did not represent Seale.’Seale, who was given no idea of what sort of statement might be deemed relevant by the court, spoke generally, The court sentenced Seale to 16 consecutive three-month terms, declared a misirial, and severedSeale’s case, (TR 5475-83) (117) “Summary Disposition: A criminal contempt may be pun ished summarily if the judge cer- tifies that he saw or heard the conduct constituting the contempt and that it was committed in the actual presence of the court, The order of contempt shall be signed by the judge and entered of record,”” (END OF FOOTNOTE) At no previous point in the trial proceedings was appellant (Bobby) cited for contempt. Nor was he ever specifically warned that his conduct constituted criminal con- tempt, or that he would subse- quently be subjected to criminal contempt penalties for it. (118) (118) For a detailed analysis of every statement by the court which might plausibly be described as a warning of any sort, see Argu- ment Vil, infra, pp. 141-46, This makes it clear that despite num- erous vague threats of future ac- tion, the judge never told appel- lant (Bobby), an uncounselled lay- man, that his conduct might sub- ject him to criminal contempt pen- alties. To the extent that appellant (Bobby) was warned at all at the time of his allegéd misconduct (and for most of the incidents he received not even a vague threat of future action) it was entirely unclear what was being threatened, civil contempt, binding and gagging, declaration of a mistrial and severance, adjournment of the proceedings, a more severe sentence if he was convicted on the substantive charge--these and other alternatives were open to the court and one of them (bind- ing and gagging) was both specif- ically threatened and used during the course of the proceedings, Nor did the court ever tell ap- pellant (Bobby), a layman, what constituted criminal contempt in general or whether his conduct at any particular point amounted to such. (END OF FOOTNOTE) mL (i Ni i i i th i i Hill a THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970 PAGE 8 JERSEY CITY... PEOPLE ARRESTED FOR SINGING ! The pigs of the power structure are using every means they can think of to exterminate the Black Panther Party and its organizing bureau the N.C,C.F., At thesame time they are stepping up their program of genocide for Black people. The fascist pigs from Jersey City’s fourth precinct, recently scored a first in the field of har- assment . Five workers from the Jersey City N.C.C.F. were arrest- ed for singing, ‘‘There’s a pig up on the hill, if the people don’t get them the Panthers will,’’ while they walked through the Black community selling papers. This clearly shows thatthe pigs will go to any length to get the people’s servants off the streets. Cheryl Davila, Lois Newton, and Diane Thompson, three sisters from the Jersey City N.C.C.F, were held on one thousand dollar bail apiece. Ralph Portera juve- nile was placed in the youth house at Secaucus,He was not released into his mother’s custody until after’ he had gotten a lawyer, Tony Horton also from the Jer- sey N.C.C.F., was held on one thousand five hundred dollars bail. The additional fiye hundred was because he exercised the fifth amendment of the constitution, At the preliminary hearing the charge was disorderly persons, but that fascist pig judge heard the words to the song and added the charge of inciting people to commit murder, The pigs don’t like to hear the song that we were singing because it talks about their destruction which is inevitable. They are say- ing that if they don't like what you are singing then, it is against the law. They think that by ripping us off that they ripped off the idea that motivated that song, but we know that the idea is manifested in the people themselves. The singing of revolutionary songs has spread throughout the Black Panther Party and N.C.C.F,'s all across the count- ry. Children all across the coun- try have replaced their traditional meaningless songs withrevolution- ary songs that are full of the re- alities of the Black community life anew. The singing of revolu- tionary songs is a very effect- ive form of education for Black people, because they relate very heavily to music. Revolutionary songs not only tell the people that revolution has come and that it's time to pick up the gun but they also tell the people if they want things like, no more pigs in our community, they must seize the time and off the pig. This is the key to make all Power to the people a reality, off the pigs, and the oppresssive ruling class they serve. And the pigs don't like to hear people sing- ing those songs and they get fur- ious when they see someone teach - ing those songs to the people. The pigs realize that they are standing in the way of the people's libera- tion, but the last thing on earth they want is for the people them- selves to find out. Just like acon- man whose game is exposed the pigs leap into some rash acts, They act before they think. All they know is that they must get the people who are singing these songs off the streets,by any means necessary. This is what happenedto the five workers from the N.C.C,F,, but we say that more revolutionary acts must be done and won. Re- volutionary songs must be song un- til all of decadent racist Babylon is ringing with the realities of OFF THE PIG} ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Tony N.C.C,F. / Jersey City 93 Summit Avenue Jersey City, New Jersey AN OPEN LETTER TO THE RIVERSIDE BLACK COMMUNITY The Black CommunityInforma- tion Center, N.C_C F., Riverside, is now closed, The People’s strug- gle for their freedom and libera- tion shall never end until all the pigs of the power structure are put up against the wall and ‘‘Rey- olutionized to Death’’. We want to assure the commu- nity that the brothers and sisters whe staffed the center are still ” struggling and that you, the com- munity, must continue to struggle. We waat to express a special thanks to all of the beautiful chil- dren we had the honor andpleasure to teach in Liberation School and serve Free Breakfast and Free Lunch, We know that you learned your lessons well, Although we were viciously and savagely attacked by more than 200 pigs, we consider the attack as a victory because the contra- diction (the line) between the com- munity and our oppressor has been clearly drawn. We know that the attack on the Black Community Information Ceuter was armed ag- gression against our oppressed community, These inhuman pigs turned 50 caliber machine guns, riot shotguns, M-1 carbines, m-16 assaul; vifles, tear gas and other weapons against the people. The dirty pigs didn't allow anyone to leave cneir homes and ordered the people who were put on the streets on the morning of August 20th, not to make a move, or ‘We'll blow your heads off’’. These low-lifed pigs attacked the Black community with full mili- tary tactics, These imperialist dogs had assault teams, arrest teams, search and destroy teams, and hold and occupy teams. Every- body in the center was arrested and the inside of the center was totally destroyed, These pigs occupy and daily ter- rorize the people of the River- side Black community. They even stoop so low as to arrest and inter- rogate 10 year old children. These scum pigs have pulled rifles onthe people just to give them a traffic ticket. The pigs have stopped and busted brothers and sisters walk- ing down their own street. Our Black communities are suffering daily from the {fascist terror attacks and fromthe foreign troops who are sent into our communi- ties by the downtown imperialist, The Black Community Informa- tion Center hasn’t only suffered from pig attacks and harassments; but we have suffered at the hands of Black fool cultural nationalists. The two biggest fools in River- side, Gary Lawton and Oscar Ger- maine, with their inflated egos have attempted time and time again to close the people’s center and hinder the progress of the people’s MORE PIG REPRESSION IN ASBURY PARK, NEW JERSEY One way of providing knowledge on the subject of freedom through revolution is the selling of the Black Panther Party Newspaper. Black people, oppressed people, can be exposed to many types of exploitation, genocide or degra- dation and not fully understand the reasons behind it or solutions to their problems. In Asbury Park, there is a need for communica- tions to raise the political level of the people, in turn, giving them knowledge of how to deal with the oppressive conditions they are subjected to. The fascist pigs in this commu- nity move around like wild ani- mals, beast, ready to lunge on its prey at any given time not caring about serving and protecting the people, just the brutality and mur- der of Black people. We were working inthe commu- nity selling papers andconversing with the people. About 8:00 p.m. we went to the clubs and stores and proceeded to the White busi- ness section of Asbury Park. We stopped to converse with a Puerto Rican sister. We explained the Black Panther paper and its rela- tionship to the people of this com- munity. The pigs with their inhuman cha- racteristics, went into action inthe area of Cookman Avenue while we were talking to the sister. We heard shots from a pistol about 20 to 30 feet away and saw a brother runniig. The pig cop stood there like a metal-minded robot, firing in the same direction of a Black housing area, During this firing,a young brother rode past on his bi- cycle and the pig kept right on shooting not caring about the young brother who had gotten in the line of fire, just how many bullets he could fire, We approached the fascist pig and asked what he was doing, disregarding all forms of safety or concern for other people. The pig, insane because he didn’t kill any- one, told us ‘‘Boy, if you don't get out of here, I'll lock you up for interfering with apolice officer.’’ Knowing the insane tendencies of this pig, we quickly headed to- wards the pigpen to speak to the Chief of Police. After giving our complaint we left and started back to the Black community and our people . After crossing the high- way, we were vamped on by two pig cars and six pigs. All itching to blow our brains out, including two bootlicking nigger pigs. The pigs, fumbling for their pistols, said, ‘Put your hands in the air, and don’t move or you'll be dead men,” Surrounded by insane, trigger- happy pigs, we were picked up and carted off to the pigpen, After we got to the pigpen, they asked where we were coming from. We told them we had just left the pig- pen and they said, ‘“‘We don’t know what's going on, sit down. "’ We asked if we could make a phone call, they said ‘‘Later, not now.” We weve told that we were being held for questioning for a robbery. The person, who supposedly had gotten robbed, was in the pigpen with the fascist pigs. The pigs be- gan an attempted railroading pro- cedure, The fascists tried to get this drunk to make his descrip- tion of the robber to fit ours, It didn’t work in the open, so they took him behind closed doors. Once in the room, all the pigs colla- borated and tried to pin some trumped up charge on us, They tried with all their insanity and with the assistance of the nigger pigs, finally came over the pig- pen that we did not fit the des- eription, but the fascist city pigs still held us, trying to pin some- thing on us. We asked a nigger pig what we were being detained for, he said that he didn’t know. Finally, at 9:30 p.m, the pigs let us go only after trying to get our names and addressed, The irrational and insane be- havior of these pigs can be seen aS an attempt to intimidate the people and stop them from par- ticipating in the Peoples’ Revolu- tionary Constitutional Convention, Plenary session, We are saying to the pigs of Asbury Park, ‘'We ain't going for it’’ we will not be intimidated, we will continue to educate our people to the need for a new constitution that will guaran- tee us protection of our rights! SEIZE THE TIME! ALL POWER TO THE. PEOPLE! DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! Rochelle Sweet Shay Malamundo Shomo (Community Workers) Black Panther Party Constitutional Convention Information Center 39 Sylvan Avenue Asbury Park, New Jersey (201) 776-6660 revolution and political work. The N.C.C.F, avoided satisfying these Black maniacs’ egos because our main interest was the political education of the countless masses and not using our precious enerzy dealing with afew cultural lackeys. Three weeks ago, Gary Lawton, Oscar Germaine, pig Charles Mac- Warder, Billy Minifield and two other niggers attacked the commu- nity center with guns. They cursed out a sister and just because they had the upper hand they made threats against the center, At that time there were only children, two sisters and two brothers at the center. We wonder if these fools knew that innocent children could have been killed. Gary Lew- ton and Oscar Germaine want to be the big Black bad leaders of Riverside. We say, Right On. We know that many of the people are politically aware enough not to ac- cept anything less thanthe 10 Point Platform and Program of the Black Panther Party. If these ego- tripping fools can’t move on get- ting the people freedorn to deter- mine their own destiny, full em- ployment, decent housing, relative education an end to capitalist ex- ploitation, and the annihilation of these fascist courts just to name a few political aspirations of our people, then they’re only inthe way with their Black spookism, The people can't afford to waste time on such abstract jive. These cultural nationalists even supported a compromise and paci - fication program sponsored by the pigs of the power structure, This pig program is composed of 12 co-opted niggers who would serve as mediators between the pigs and the community. Gary Lawton was considered for the co-ordinator of the program and was to receive $770.00 per month, the starting salary of a pig. We can plainly see this time worn trap by the pigs. This pig sponsored program cannot stop the brutality and murder of our people. This pig sponsored pro- gram will only give the pigs a greater smokescreen to commit genocide on our beloved people. The Black Community Informa- tion Center stood firm on Point No, 7 of the 10 Point Platform and Program: We want the imme- diate end to police brutality and murder of Slack people, For this, we were attacked. la the past two weeks, the pigs have increased their terror by rid- ing four deep with shotguns and have had many occupying forces in the community. The community witnessed and experienced open fasci3m, Gary Lawten took his for- ces down to the City Hall, What foolishness? Malcolm X pointed out that trick long ago, You can’t take the pigs to the pigs and expect any positive results. Our people are still subjected at any given moment to the brutality and mur- der by these fascist pigs. Our last message to the Black community of Riverside is that we know who the uniform pigs repre- sent (the oppressor), Beware of false prophets and Black lackeys. SEIZE THE TIME DEATH Tt) THE FASCIST PIGS N.C.C.F,, Riverside NOTE: CONCERNING THE R.P.C.C. BECAUSE OF THE TREMENDOUS RESPONSE TO THE ‘‘REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTIONAL CON- VENTION PLENARY SESSION BY THE PEOPLE; AND THE REPRESSIVE, FASCIST FORCES OF U.S. IMPERIALISM, IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FOR US TO HAVE SUFFICIENT REPORTS PREPARED BEFORE THE DEADLINE OF OUR PARTY'S PAPER, HOWEVER, NEXT WEEK WE WILL RUN A SUP- PLEMENT ON THE PLENARY SESSION. THIS WILL IN- CLUDE PHOTOS, REPORTS FROM ALL OF THE WORKSHOPS, PLANS FOR THE CONVENTION, (WHICH IS TO BE HELD IN. NOVEMBER) ETC. WE REALIZE THAT ONLY THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE WILL BRING JUSTICE TO AN UNJUST LAND, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE SEIZE THE LAND IF THE COURTS DON'T GIVE JUSTICE TO THE PEOPLE, THEN THE PEOPLE WILL GIVE JUSTICE TO THE COURTS! America’s judicial system (as had been publiclyexposed and de- nounced long ago as being a jive puppet system of racist /fascist in- justice through examples, infor- mation and political education by the Black Panther Party) has now openly declared itself as being FASCIST, And by whatever definition, it is FASCIST as practiced by Hitler’s gestapo and noted in the war time history of Nazi Germany; it is FASCIST as San Francisco's Pig Mayor Mafioso Alioto Capone once thought of the era of Mussolini’s Italy; it is FASCIST as can be seen today inthe lackey neo- colonial (the invisible imperial- ists’) rule of Spain; outright FAS- CIST, period, as ‘‘the people of America could only expect to be the end result of a police state mock judicial system within this decadent capitalist natior Babylon-- which is finally showing out as the foul piggish moaster that the whole world always knew it to be. But it can be dealt with, The peo- ple, on all levels, have become sick and tired of relating to the cruel, racist and unjust verdicts and sentences that are being crim- inally handed down by one or ano- ther FASCIST court throughout the counury -- the vicious legal lynch- ings! And now tie struggle for liberation from oppression has in- tensified and moved on a higher level; namely, ‘If the courts don't give justice to the people, the peo- ple are prepared to move on and give justice to the courts.”” San Quentin proved to be the ace in the hole of FASCIST Amer- ica, On August 24, 1970, we Gi- mone Bressler and Leonard Don- ald, Community News Service, San Francisco) witnessed the racist power structure expose its low~ lifed hold card--the first FASCIST illegal court proceedings held within the walls of San Quentin Prison, a first in the history of this deprayed government's ‘‘pub- lically announced’’ secret trials to be heidonprisongrounds; primarily designed to induce prejudicial court proceedings to harass and intimidate ‘‘the people’’ in attend- ance, as well as to further de~ humanize and unjustly bring to trial (Kangaroo Court, in essence) a number of prisoners who were being forced to submit to the swine’s perverted mockery. Even so, ‘‘the people’’ responded to the jive game being played by Nixon’s, Mitchell’s, Hoover's, Reagan’s racist/ fascist regime. Rallying together behind the mean- ingful slogan of ‘‘secret trials are a tool of the fascist polize stare’’, a mass protest by “‘the people’’ was scheduled on San Quentin's visitors’ parking on this day, tobe held during the time of the inju- dicial proceedings (from 1:00p.m. on), Although the people from all walks of life, of all political view- points, of all colors, or of all whatever showed up to deal with the make-shift FASCIST court that had quietly been set up to be held there. They arrived to find the dismal pig pen completely sur- rounded and blocked-off one mile away by hundreds of smelly FASCIST pig guards -- ihe sick sight of murderous war-prepara- tion and hired-killers in their full over - kill dress (automatic: wea- pons, shotguns, magnums, gas and clubs, along with a roving pig ‘‘Spy Camera'’ squad), At 2:00 Assistant Piz Pen War- den Parks started checking off names from the list of fifty. As- each person passed, he was swept with a metal-detector and ordered to leave all pills and signs at the gate. Anyone carrying quaa- tities of a newspaper, sucii as The Black Panther, was ordered to leave them at the gate, We walked ‘‘en masses’’, escorted by guards up the flower-lined path to San Quentin, past the closed parking lot to a large airy room set up with folding chairs, the correctional officers in-service training room--the site of the ar- raignment. This make-shift, hot, stuffy courtroom was patrolled by ob- noxious pig guards. While we were inside, the rally was going on out- side the gates. Fay and Marvin Stender, two of the lawyers for the Soledad Brothers, claimed that on these grounds: (1) The hear- ings were not open to all of the public because not only were sev- eral hundred people denied admis- sion, but ex-convicts could not attend the hearings. They are not allowed back inside the prison, but in an actual public trial they would be admitted: (2) Jurors would be prejudiced against the defend- ants because the site would re~- mind the jury constantly of the defendants’ previous convictions; (8) The trials would create a sep- arate class of courts, one for prisoners, and one for non-prison- ers; (4) Some people who might ordinarily attend a trial if givea free access tothe courtrooin would be frightened off by the admis- sion procedures, We waited in the courtroom for an hour and i5 minutes until Judge Wilson aad the court officials ar- rived in two unmarked cars, fol- lowed by five sheriffs cars coa- taining 20 riot-equipped deputies. As the arraignment began, five prison guards were stationed along the back wall aad up one side of j Jacobs, , the room by the doors. The claim had been made that this arraignment was unimportant because it dealt only with setting trial dates, and no other judicial proceedings were involved. That is untrue. The first case was Mark Osuna, a young red-haired man with a moustache. He came out chained around his neck and waist, the chains crossed his back and extended to the handcuffs on his wrists. He was granted additional time to negotiate a change of law- yer, but when he tried to make a complaint against the sanitation facilities in the prisoa, the judge ignored him, and called the next case while Osuna was still speak- ing. The second case was Leo Robles, Edward Briggs, his Public De- fender, presented Judge Wilson a paper stating thatthis arraignment inside San Quentin was a viola- tion of the federal constitution, The judge refused to consider it at that time, claiming that the mat- ter had to be brought to a higher court, and scheduled Robles’ trial and all other trials ruled on that day to be held at San Quentin: The judge refused to allow Robles to speak in| his own behalf, and persisted in addressing the room while Robles was attempting to confer with his lawyer, The third\prisoner was Clarence, ! a White Southerner in chains. He’ wanted a private ee yer appointed \by ‘the court, rahi ther thaa the Public Defender. This the judge said he could net do. Jacobs then requested permission to defend himsel’, Judge Wilson attempted to humiliate the man by questioning him on his age and the level he had reached in high THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970 PAGE 9 school. Even though Jacobs had been present at five trials, his request to defend himself was de- nied on the basis of inexperience, When Public Defender pointed out a previous ruling that there were three points a prison- er had to know todefend himself; (1) the nature of the charges a- gainst him; (2) a potential line of defense; (3) the potential punish- ment, Wilson questioned Jacobs on those three points. Jacobs said he didn’t know them, and again the judge denied him the right to de- fend himself, rather than simply making him aware of the neces- sary information, or allowing the Public Defender to do so. The fourth defendant to appear in chains was Car] Black, who was attempting to get his medical and psychiatric records which the District Attorney had controi of. These were records which the de- fense needed for his case. Judge Wilson told Briggs to speak to the D.A, personally to get them, and if that failed, then he could place a motion on it before the court The last defendant, Talamares did not appear, The proceedings were delayed by Judge Wilson two hours and fifteen minutes, and then rushed through in 40 minutes, Complaints were ignored, a man was denied his choice of defense, the illegality of the proceedings was ignored, the judge persisted in speaking while clients were con- ferring with their lawyer and in calling up cases while the defend- ants or the public defender were still speaking. In short, these bro- thers were illegally tried at every turn, and ‘‘the people’, surrounded by sweaty guards inside, and the riot over-kill squads and gun tow- ers, pigs outside, were for the moment, hampered in a meaning- ful protest for the chained mad- men of San Quentin Prison, But, by whatever means necessary, the people are planning to deal with the future of such trials. As we left the in-service train- ing room two squads of riot po- lice, five cars each, pulled out of San Quentin, and dispersed the crowd quietly waiting at the gates. By the time we got to the rally, everyone was gone, there was no one to report the events to. Five highway patrol cars watched as we walked the warm sunny mile back to our ticketed cars, In itself there was nothing un- usual about another illegal arraignment, but it brought itself a step closer to the fascist police siate, to holding unjust trials within the walls of San Quentin, to secret trials where limited persons are admitted to further the sham of ‘justice’. If we, the people, let “them take this criminal step, we will be unable to stop the next, and the next, and the next, and those we never see or hear that’s going on. Even at this point--the prisoners cannot expect a fair hearing; their cases are fabricated and surrounded by the lowly pig guards who brutalize and oppress them. But can the people ensure that ‘‘honest justice’ is meted out when they are plocked-out andiso- lated, finding themselves momentar- ily powerless at the hands of fas- cist prison officials unable to deal with a moment's time to later be seized? But dig, the fascist hold card of this capitalist society has been shown, and it’s a gamblers rule to use the ‘‘ace-in-the-hole’’ to Strengthen his bluff. The people have let America’s racist power structure expose its losing FAS- CIST hand. The pigs have been judicially gaming onthe people with its many ‘‘law and order’? make- believe courts of mandurins--its illegal detentions, imprisonments and executions. What this foul system of fascist government is putting down is no more than wide- spread terror, brutality and mur- der through both public and secret court trials, and solely to further intimidate and force the people to accept the self-interest ‘‘law and order’’ of Babylon’s oppres- sive capitalist society. If the pigs of this country’s racist/fascist government think that the people are jiving when we say ‘‘the sky's the limit’ to its gold-plated super- rich bluff, then deep and sober thought should be given to the brave and courageous actions of four Black revolutionary brothers who accepted revolutionary sui- cide just recently outside a Marin County Courthouse, shouting: ‘‘We are the revolutionaries] We are the revolutionaries!’’ DEATH TO ALL FASCIST PIGS THE REVOLUTIONARY MADMEN OF PRISON MUST BE FREED NOW Simone Bressler Leonard Donald Community News Service San Francisco Branch PIGS SHOW THAT DOWNTOWN HARTFORD IS CLOSED TO BLACK PEOPLE In the afternoon hours of August 22, 1970, two comrades of the National Committee to Combat Fascism and five other brotners from the comm nity were vamped on by fascist pigs. Phil Wright, N.C.C.F., was sitting in a vacant doorwa; selling the Black Panther newspaper when about seven pigs ' came up and said he couldn't stay there, Phil insisted that he had a constitutional right to be on public property as long as he was not stopping people, traffic or caus- ing a disturbance, He was ar- rested for simply being right and exposing the pigs’ racist tactics, After Phil was arrested Tho- mas Corn, member of the NCCF , papers began to really sell. The pigs didn’t dig the bro- ther selling the truth about this murderous system. So, he was arrested along with five broth- ers, Tyrone Jackson, Gregory Davis, Harold Richardson, Leon- ard McImte and Robert Sanders for just being around, The pigs do not want Black people downtown; they have even built a highly exploitative shopping center on Barbour and Charlette Streets (Black community), head- ed by a black boot-licker who is interested only in himself. The walls of the concentration camps are being closed rapidly; soon, black people will see fences around their communities, We must re- sist to exist. We, ofthe N,C.C.F., will not be iarimidated by Vaughn’s stormtroopers; \we will zo any- place we want to go. Public property will be treated as such. The people of Hactford are tired of being denied constitutional aad human rights, They will continue to go downtown If the pigs con- ‘tinue’ to harass the people, the people will deal with the pigs. The people will fight and fail, fight and fail until final victory; the pigs will fight and fail, fight and fail until their final doom. DEATH () THE FASCIST PIGS! Hartford N.C.C.F, Hartford, Connecticut ee __ this, jong train of abus “tions while holding to oie “hope HUEY'S MESSAGE TO THE REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION PLENARY SESSION SEPTEMBER 9, 1970 PHILADELPHIA, PA. Friends and comrades throughout the United States and throughout the world, we gather here in peace and friendship to claim our inalienable rights, toclaim the rights bestowed upon us by an un- broken train of abuses and usurpations, and to perform the duty which is thus required of us, Our sufferance has been long and patient, our prudence has stayed this final hour, but our human dignity and strength requires that we. still the voice of prudence with the _ cries of our sufferance. Thus we ga- of the world regardless of their race or the race ¢ and doctrine of their oppres- sors, We gather to proclaim to the world that for 200 years we ee suffered Us an iat this would pass, We recognize however, that it has now passed and we are a people who enjoy no equal protection of the law, and our future.action must be guided by our sufferance, and not by our prudence, Two centuries ago when the United States Was a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated ito life; liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the con- ditions which prevailed in. the. nation, and the assumptions upon which its foundations were built, were such that they ensured the United States would come to its maturity under circum- stances. which méan that for a sub- stantial proportion of its citizens’ life is nothing more than a prison of pov- erty, and the only happiness we enjoy is the laughing to keep from crying, The United States of America was born at a time when the nation covered _ relatively little land, a narrow: strip ae _ seaboard, The United States of America _ was born at a time when the population was small and fairlyhomogeneous both __. racially and culturally. Thus the people called Americans were a different peo- ple in a different place, Futhermore, they had a different economic system, The small population and the fertile land available meant that with the agri- cultural emphasis of the economy, peo- ple were able to advance according to their motivation and ability, It was an agricultural economy and with the circumstances surrounding it, Demo- mak “ther in the spirit of revolutionary love and friendship for all oppressed people. fill this newly acquired land, This pop- “our economy, They have sought to . thes, cratic Capitalism flourished in the new nation, The following years were to see this new nation rapidly develop into a muiti- limbed giant, The new nation acquired land and spread from a narrow strip on the Eastern seaboard to cover the entire continent with but few exceptions, The new nation acquired a population to ion was drawn from the continents a large number, an entire continent. aaa Neem economy ie an urban and industrialized economy, as farming was facturing, The Den of our early days Bee ime caugh t “up 4 in relentless : obtain profits until the .sel ivation for 5 eclipsed the ur principles of democracy, T ears later we have an.overdeyve conomy which is so infused wit that we have replac ocratic Cap- italism with: Bureauccatic Capitalism, The free opportunity of all men. to pursue their economic ends has been replaced by contraints (confinement) placed upon Americans by the large corporations which control and direg eed for profit crease their profits at the expense the people, and particularly at the pense of the racial and ethnic ming The history of the United S as distinguished from the pronfise of the idea of the United States leads” us to the conclusion that our suffer- ance is basic to the functioning of the government of the United States, We see this when wenote the basic contra- dictions found in the history of this nation, The government, the social con- ditions, and the legal documents which brought freedom from oppression, which brought human dignity and human rights to one portion of the people of this nation had entirely opposite _ ‘descendants’ wallow | poverty and deprivat consequences from another the people, While the majo achieved their basic huma the minorities achieved alier the lands of their fathers ar The evidence for this is incontrovertible, We find evidence for maj dom and minority op fact that the expans States government ; of lands was at the the American India sessors of the la imate heirs, Th Cherokees on t and the actual other Indian unwillingness ernment and tution to inco ness of the children a of their. oppressors, to the hope of chenge ‘ti in tl This hope has sist ained UB yeareaidetins ied us’ to « administ=\cionis of a corrup ment. At the dawn of the 20t this hope Jed us to formula Rights movement in the belie government would eventually promise to Black people, WV recognize, however, that an to complete the promise c Century Revolution in the f of a 20th Century governmge m another portion of > the majority group asic human rights, 1ieved alienation from fathers and slavery. r this is clear and ce for majority free- Oppression in the of the United the acquisition st expense of p original pos- scained us for many sd “us to suffer ‘the f a corrupt sovern- n of the 20th Century to formulate a Civil in the belief that this i eventually fulfill its : people, We did not er, that any attempt promise of an 18th on in the framework y eon peer econ- Tit omy and society was doomed to failure, The descendants of that small company of original settlers of this land are not among the common people of today, they have become a smali ruling class in control of worldwide economic sys- tem, The Constitution set up by their ancestors to serve the people no longer serves the people, for the people have changed. The people of the 18th Cen- tury have become the ruling class of the 20th Century, and the people of the 20th Century are the descendants of the slaves and dispossessed of the i8th Century, The Constitution set up to serve the people of the 18th Century now serves the ruling class of the 20th Century, and the people of today stand waiting for a foundation of their own life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, The Civil Rights Movement has not produced this foundation, and it can- not produce this foundation because of the nature of the United States society and economy, The vision of the Civil Rights Movement is to achieve goals which have been altered by 200 years of change, Thus the Civil Rights Move- ment and similar movements have pro- duced no foundation for life, liberty and the pursuit of Sep Ee Se They — e government con ern of practices. which s demoératic rhetoric: We that we see history. fre-= 4 ; but on an international less drive for-profit led this nation J press and exploit its This profit drive took:this atien from democratic capitalism and underdevelopment; to. bureaucratic capitalism. and overdeveloped industry. Now: we see that this small ruling S continues its profit drive by op- ressing and exploiting: the peopies-of e world, Throughout the woria the penproletariat is crushed so that profits of American -industry can nue. to flow, ae the peievis ’ . struggles. peti: sade power dedicated to death, op= préssion and the puredit of profits. We.-will not,.be, deceived. . by .so-many of our fellow men, we will not be blinded by small changes inform which lack any change in the substance of imperialist expansion, Our suffering has been too long, our sacrifices have been too great, and our human dig- nity is too strong for us to be pru- dent any longer. Epaepe ngs AS TO THEIR NATIONS tie general have lost faith in the lead- THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CALLS FOR FREEDOM AND THE POWER TO DETERMINE OUR DESTINY. THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CALLS FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR ALL OUR PEOPLE, THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CALLS FOR AN END TO THE CAPITALIST EXPLOITATION OF OUR © COM- MUNITY. THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY-CALLS FOR DECENT HOUSING FOR ALL OUR PROPE, THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CALLS FOR A TRUE EDUCATION OF OUR PEOPLE, THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CALLS FOR EXEMPTION FROM MILITARY SERVICE. THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CALLS FOR ANEND TO POLICE BRUTALITY, THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY'CALLS FOR FREEDOM FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS, THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CALLS FOR FAIR TRIALS FOR. ALL. MEN BY A. JURY OF R PEERS, 4 THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY CALLS FOR A UNITEDNATIONS PLEBISCITE TO DETERMINE THE WILL OF BLACK kK people and pepsesee tennis ers of America, in the government | of America, and in the very~struc-,.... = tuze of Anievican government--that - is: thé Constitation,:its legal founda-_ pis jess of faith is based upon g evidence that this govern 1 Hot- live according to that Cor n. because is Consti tution ad fi 2 For-this: reason we assemble a Con-+ ituttonal Convention to consider ra- @cCoOnonal She bh Wilk 1 ith il as well-as the work-will be ecuall shared. by -.all people--a Soc framework; iternatives - which= wilk guarantee that. within. che Socialist framework. .all groups will. be. ade- quately. represented in- the decision- making and administration, which af- fects their lives, Alternatives. which -> Will, guarantee. that all men will attain (; ~ their full inanhood rights, that they will ube able to tive; be free, and seek out those goais which give them respect nd dignity while. permitting the same ‘Hien: BPM Peauites that’ man dig. nity and integ. i soe to] oe gan respecte? by every gettieetor Hadi; fae neh “Pris point in history -angthine les6 is. bi * living death, WE) WILL BE and we are here to ordain’a new Con= stitution which will ensure our free- dom by enshrin ving (cherishing) the. dignity of the human Spirit, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970 PAGE 12 REPORT ON A FIELD TRIP OF THE LIBERATION SCHOOL IN CHICAGO On Wednesday, August 26, the children from Liberation School, ranging in age from 6 to 12, went on a field trip to the ultra-modern pig station of Chicago’s second district. They were prepared for any of the tactics the pigs might use to get them to inform on other people in the Black com- munity. They understood that the purpose for the field trip was to check out the pigs and their facil- ities. The children were ready to ask questions of the pigs and to ignore any prying questions that they might be asked, Before the tour began they hada short introduction from the direc- tor of the community service cen- ter. The pig gave very little infor- mation about the complex except that it costs between 5 and 6 mil- lion dollars and that the ultra- modern equipment made the pigs work more efficiently. Then the part came for which we had all been waiting--he asked the kids if they had any questions, One child immediately raised his hand. “Do you really pick up people who break the law?’’ “Yes, our job is to apprehend criminals,"’ “Well, I've seen you pick up men just for having wine bottles, and for pitching pennies,’ the little brother said, “*We pick up anybody who is breaking the law,’’ the pigrespon- ded. "] didn’t know it was against the law to pitch pennies,’’ another child said, The pig just laughed and said, “‘Are there anymore questions?” “Yeah, I have a question. Why did you kill the Dep. Chairman?’ Everyone is silent, especially the pig. ‘*What did you say?’’ the pig asked. “*Why did you killthe Dep. Chair- man?’ ‘*Dep,Chairman who?” saidthe pig, ‘Dep Chairman Fred!’’ “Fred who?" said the pig pre - tending" ignorance, “Fred Hampton]’ “Who was Fred Hampton?’ the pig said again, “Dep. Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party,'’ the little brother said, “You've heard of FredHampton, haven't you?'’ another child inter- jected, **Yes, I've heard of him,"’ the pig responded, “Well, why did you kill him?” the same brother asked. ‘‘Well, for the same reason any- one is killed by the police, be- cause he is a criminal. Why do you think he was killed?’’ the pig asked trying to corner the child, “‘Because he was a revolution- ary?’ the brother said, “‘Well, I think you're too young to know what you are talking about. Where did you get that from?’ the pig asked, “From books,’ the little bro- ther replied. “I'd like to see those books, A lot of police officers are killed too in the line of duty, like Al- fano. Have you ever heard of Al- fano?'’ (The little brothers and sisters didn't know who Alfano was because we hadn't gone over it in class.) ‘Well, he was an of- ficer, who was murdered last week over in the third district. He was shot in an alley by a gang of youths,” When the little brothers and sis- ters heard this they immediately began to laugh and clap their hands, Then the pig started asking, ‘Where are these kids from? Are they in school or something?’’ “They are from Liberation School,”’ I said, ‘Liberation School? What is that?'’ he asked, “fYou know what Liberation School is,’’ I said. Then another child asked a ques- tion, ‘‘Why do the businessmen rob us and beg us for our rent?’ Another brother said, ‘‘ Yeah, that’s an avaricious business- man,” “They don’t do that? Who told you they dothat?'’ Where did you read that?’’ “It's in the 10 point program,” a little brother replied, “Well, I'd like to see that. If anybody is robbing you then you take them to court. You prosecute them."’ “Nah, you can’t do that ’cause the pigs be shootin’ you while the businessman be robbing’ you,"’ a little brother said. **What do you mean ‘the pigs’? What is a pig?’’ “‘The policeman,’ brother. “Who is a pig?'' the pig asked, again trying to corner a child. Then one little brother sitting square in front of the pig pointed his finger and said, ES nd Everybody began to laugh at the pig and he got so upset that all he could say was, ‘‘Well, since there aren’t anymore questions I'll turn you over to the cadets who will be your guides on the tour.”’ This session didn't last more than 15 minutes, because the pig couldn't deal with these little bro- thers and sisters, who had polit- ical consciousness and were deal- ing with the false image he was trying to project of the pigs pro- tecting the life and rights of the people, when in fact they are taking the lives and denying the basic rights of the people. answered the YOUTH. WILL MAKE AND KEEP THE REVOLUTION POWER TO THE YOUTH BLACK PANTHER PARTY Illinois Chapter TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING BACK 10 THE HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE CAMPUSES Point No. 5 of our Platform and Program says that ‘‘We want edu- cation for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want educa- tion that teaches us our true his- tory and our role in the present day society,’ and ‘‘That we be- lieve in an educational system that will give to our people a knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his posi- tion in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else."’ Here in Winston-Salem, N.C., on September 2nd, and in other towns across the country marks the beginning of another year of indoctrination, Basically an edu- cation is simply passing on the heritage, and learning, the wis- dom and the technology of human history, passing it on to the com- ing generations, This information should be passed on to enable and to help mankind to continue to cope with our environments, Atthis time the environment that poor and op- pressed people should be coping with is the social environment and at the head of that social enyiron- ment is a pig trio: Nixon, Agnew and, Mitchell, who are the ene- mies of allthe people, because they are the ones who are perpetuating the oppression of our people. They are the same pigs who have peo- ple living in injust conditions along with pigs like Tucker in Winston- Salem and J.E, Hoover. All these wavil AweTC pigs are keeping us living like this, in a degrading position, They are the same pigs, along with other lackeys on the college campuses and the high schoolcam- puses who call themselves teach- ers and administrators. The only thing that the teachers should be teaching at this time is how people on the college cam- puses and high school campuses, can throw off the shackles of slay- ery. By pointing out to these people who their real enemy is. They must show the people the real reason why the pigs are try- ing to send Bobby Seale to the electric chair along with Lonnie and the rest of the New Haven 9, They should let the people find out why people live in rat infested shacks, why is it that Black people's Constitutional Rights are violated, Tell the people all of these things, And if they can’t tell the people that, then we, the people should ask them to step forward so that they can deal with them. The peo- ple should ask, ‘‘What’s first, your | job teaching indoctrination or bro- thers like the Chairman. going to the electric chair for our free- dom, and if they would say their job is first, then the people should close down the high school cam- puses, close down the college cain - puses, and take to the streets, Because the streets belong to the people. yd -D10l) The people on these campuses should let the pigs know that these are the things that they would like to know and if these pigs can’t produce this information then the people can see the decadency of this country. They should tell the people how the White people got their freedom and let the people know that when White people were colonized that they picked up the gun, They dealt with their colonizer, on that level and that that is the only way we can get our freedom. These are the things that people need to know that have not been told to them. So let it be heard across the land that the people on the campuses would like to have an education that is explained in No. 5 of the Ten Point Platform and Program of the Black Panther Party, FREE LONNIE, BOBBY AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE N.C.C.F., Winston-Salem Ed McQueen THE YOUTH THE YOUTH WILL MAKE IT AND KEEP IT! MAKES THE REVOLUTION... NATIONAL CHICANO MORITORUIM COMMITTEE PRESS RELEASE The National Chicano Moritor- ium Committee, along with all ma- jor Chicano Organizations planned and prepared for a large, lawful and peacefuldemonstrationtopro- test the injustice that the war has brought onthe Chicano Community. This opprotunity was used, how- ever, by the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department as an excuse to viciously and maliciously attack Chicanos--not only the many at the demonstration, but the Chica- no community of Los Angeles in general, In preparing for this demons- tration, we did everything pos- sible to cooperate with the She- riffs Department to assure a peaceful assembly. Sgt. Hayes, the deputy in charge of the Sheriffs Personnel was informed of our complete plans and agreed to coor- dinate the deputies activities with our own trained monitors. From the beginning, the deputies showed their racist and violent in- tentions by showing up to the ac- tivities in full riot regalia, In ex- traordinary numbers and armed with detailed, fifteen page instruc- tions on how their organized attack would be conducted. Using aminor and isolated incident off the rally site as a justification, the de- puties WITHOUT ANY WARNING WHATSOEVER, charged, clubbed and gassed a peaceful crowd of not only men, but-also women and chil- dren. This charge was conducted in such a way as to corner the mul- titude between an impassible line of busses and police-line of club- swinging deputies. The crowd na- turally panicked; ard many sought refuge inside the busses and pri- vate homes; proceeded to evict and systematically beat and club the people, Tear gas cannisters were shot indiscriminately into the crowd, striking many and seriously injuring several brothers and sis- ters, It should be emphasized that there was never a warning nor an opportunity for the people to dis- perse, Furthermore it should be emphasized that the people were Enter my subscription for (check box. 3 MONTHS: (13 ISSUES) 6 MONTHS: (26 ISSUES) ONE YEAR: (52 ISSUES) (please print) NAME ___ UDR ESS wet CITY obviously trapped, before the noxi- ous gasses were shot into the crowd It is surprising that there were no more injuries than there were. But perhaps the most indicting of the actions of the police in- volved the death of Ruben Sala- zar, Ruben Salazar, a staff writer for the Los Angeles Times T.V. newsmen: nationally and interna- tionally recognized journalist and recently elected Chairman of the National Chicano Media Council, lost his life. His death resulted from the over-zealous efforts of the Los Angeles Sheriff s Depart- ment, who bombarded a location, solely on a rumor that there might be armed men in the places" The rumor was without foundation but Ruben Salazar still died from injuries tohis head, Since the inci- dents of the 9th, the community of East Los Angeles has been in the state of armed siege. A vir- tual police dictatorship exists in the area and is worsening. Civil rights have been abolished and po- lice departments reign as unques- tionable authorities, Terrorism by the police has become a frighten- ing reality in our barios and it cannot be tolerated. This occupation of our barrio by the racist and callous police must be terminated immediately The persons arrested and jailedon ridiculous and manufactured char- ges must be released, All charges must be dropped. Furthermore, an investigatory body must be com- posed as soon as possible to find the murderers of Ruben Salazar and to assure that police riots of this kind do not occur again. The further alienation of an al- ready alienated Chicano Commun- ity is being caused by the increas- ing brutality in the name of Law and Order that is being perpetu- ated by the various police agen- cies, Peace can be restored to East Los Angeles if all the re- pressive forces are removed and all political prisoners released, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE National Subscri Foreign Subscriptions - $9.00 $1200 SIAC we Ee PLEASE MAIL CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO: COUNTRY ___ MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, BLACK PANTHER PARTY, * Box 2967, Custom House, San Francisco, £A 94126 THE TOMBS, N.Y. THERE 1S NO PRISON, EITHER ON AN ISLAND,IN A CITY PENITENTIARY, OR ON A FARM, THAT IS IMPREGNABLE TO THE SLYNESS, THE CLEVERNESS, AND THE FIRING POTENTIAL OF THE REVOLUTIONARIES. The ‘‘Tombs’’, a pretrial de- tention center for men located in the heart of the business-financial district in New York City erupts, and rebels against a concentrantion COWARDLY PIGS SNEAK INTO THE The power structure in an at- tempt to cool this rebellion agreed to meet with the prisoners along to hear their greivances. And thus the five guards were released, “TOMBS” WHERE POLITICAL PRISONERS HELD FIVE OF THEIR COHORTS AS HOSTAGES. camp type system bogged down in the guise of unconstitutional high bails, crowded court calendars and inadequate legal facilities. The “‘Tombs’’ a most appropriate name since it signifies a resting place for the dead; which is precisely how the prisoners are treated. The Tombs, a 12 store facility originally set up to house ap- proximately 900 persons for short periods of time before their trial; now houses more than twice hat number and a short time often turns into 3 years. Each 5 x 9 foot cell originally designed for one person now holds 4 to 5; it indeed resembles a mass burial. The daily routine is so monotonous that it hardly pays one to get up out of his bed. As one inmate put it, you feel as if you're being suspended in reality for an in- definite period of time, It is very typical for a prisoner to go to court once a month for 16 months only to be told each time that his case is being recessed, put off, delayed, anything but due process and justice. On August 11, 1970, about 800 prisoners on the 9th floor of the Tombs brought their plight into the reality of the power structure by seizing 5 prison guards and making 10 demands concerning the inhuman conditions they and their families had received at the hands of prison authorities, Their de- mands included due process, speedy justice and adequate legal representation an end to brutal treatment of prisoners; proper sanitation, clothing, food and medi- eal care reduction of the prison population; and no punitive action taken against the participants of the rebellion. This act on the part of the prisoners was very pro- found and significant for it marks a turning point in our struggle for liberation and freedom, For op- pressed people see ver clearly that they must struggle against the participants of the rebellion This act on the part of the prisoners the enemy on his own grounds, that in this case they took hostages which put them in the position to inflict a political consequence And it was indeed a political move, for the brothers of the Tombs not only wanted freedom for themselves, but wanted freedom for all ‘‘political prisoners’’, They could have used the hostages to make an individual jail break but they were revolutionaries and first, wanted to educate the people in a concrete way to the injustices they have been subjected to. Thus when they made their ultimate move to tear down the walls of the jails and prisons, subjected to. Thus when they make their ultimate move to tear down the walls of the jails and prisons, the people will not only support them in spirit but will help them in body. However, the prisoners recognized that there had already been too many meetings with nothing ac- complished but delays and con-~- fusion. Understanding this, the very next day, the 8th floor seized three more hostages and several other floors joined in the rebellion and attempted to bring their plight to the people. The prisoners made an additional demand - that the previous demands be met im- mediately, especially the over- crowding issue. Old mattresses were burned, windows which held back fresh air were broken. The prisoners wrote notes tothe people and tossed them out of the broken windows in order to let the people know exactly what was going on. Of course the notes were quickly seized by the police stop the inhuman genocidal con- ditions they were andare subjected to. The power structure knows that such actions will be difficult if not impossible to deal with and is trying desperately to stop them be- fore they start. In the case of the ‘‘Tombs’’ the representatives of the power structure namely Mayor Lindsay and Correction Commissioner George McGrath expressed ‘‘genuine concern’’ and announced the forming ofnot onlya team to investigate the complaints but an immediate plan to relieve overcrowding. The plan consisted of transferring several hundred prisoners to an already over- crowded Rikers Island and the transfer of almost 1,000 in monthly installments to the condemned Sing F Sing prisons in Queens, with little mention made of reconditioning the old structure closed some years ago due to the unsafe living con- ., ditions. Of course certain prison- i ers identified as trouble makers-- leaders of the rebellion--did not have to wait for this transfer plan to be put into effect, they were transferred immediately to the Queens House of Detention. How- ever, revolutionary spirit is not vested totally in the individual, but is vested in a whole people, inthis case the total prison population of the Tombs, It is the conditions that created the rebellion, not the individual and as long as these conditions remain, the prisoners and their leaders will come forth to deal with the problem Given America’s past history in dealing with social problems, where the symptoms and never the causes are dealt with, there is little chance that prisons and court conditions will change. For that would mean a complete restruc- turing of the entire judicial sys- tem and there is no chance for such in’ this era of fascism. Take the overcrowding issue, it is crystal clear to everyone who re- lates to reality that illegal ar~ rest, unconstitutional high bails, and archaic court calendar dates are the main causes. That if justice, as opposed to detention was the intent, most of the prisoners could be released on bail that they could afford or on their own LET THE PEOPLE KNOW THAT RESISTANCE IS TAKING PLACE IN THE ‘‘TOMBS’’, Unfortunately much of what is known concerning the rebellion that took place in the Tombs, has been by way of the mass media. How- ever, it is easy enough to read between the lines First of all the power structure is very concerned with well organized rebellions in prisons, especially after the inci- dents in Soledad, and San Quentin prisons in California where prisoners took the ultimate step-- a life for a life--in an attempt to recognizance. The prisoners by their very actions know that the solution which would be posed would be jive and that no change would be forthcoming; thus they took this opportunity to educate the people, so that the next time when they move to break out of the jails they will have the sup- port and help of the people Some prisoners like the so- called ‘‘trouble makers‘'’ who were transferred to Queens, have al- THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970 PAGE 13 LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY PRESS RELEASE A suit filed today in San Fran- cisco’s United States District Court by the Legal Aid Society of Alameda County, charges that un- tried and presumably innocent citizens imprisoned while awaiting trial in the Greystone section of the Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center are subjected to inhuman and brutal conditions and treat- ment, The suit is brought on behalf of those men who are imprisoned in Greystone while awaiting trial be- cause they are unable to post bail on bailable offenses. These citi- zens, even though presumed inno- cent by the law until proven guilty, have not only been deprived of their freedom, but have also been subjected to severe deprivations and crude indignities simply be- cause they are too poor to afford bail. On the average, these men are detained in Greystone for over two months, and often for six months or more. These men are subjected to shocking conditions and treatment pursuant to the intentional policies and practices of the Defendants. More specifically, among other things, the suit charges: 1. They are locked up in a tiny, drably painted 7 foot by 7 foot cell with one cellmate for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except for two short periods each week when they are allowed to shave and shower. The unsanitary cells have cold floors, poor heating, poor ven- tilation, poor plumbing and no win- dows to the outside. The ‘‘ceiling’” of each cell is actually a wire grating which allows the guards to peer in on the prisoners as if the guards were zookeepers and the prisoners the animals. 2. They have no opportunity for exercise or recreation. 3. While confined in these tiny cells, they have no opportunity to associate or speak with anybody except for their cellmate. No con- versations are allowed between cells, and no yelling, whistling or singing is allowed, 4, The reading materials are in- adequate in quantity and quality, and there are no law books or legal materials available, Inprac- tice, it takes a favor from or a bribe to a trustee to get even a book of inferior quality. 5. There are no educational, vo- cational, or work opportunities available. 6. The prisoners must eat in their cells, The food is served by trustees who often use their dirty hands to dish out the food onto unsanitary plates and pass them into the unsanitary cells. 7. The prisoners must use the same clothes, sheets, and towels for periods of from several weeks to many months, 8. The prisoners are denied pro- tection of fundamental and es- sential preventive medical prac- tices and medical care, 9. The prisoners are not per- mitted to go to religious services. 10, The prisoners are allowed limited visitors, but only on Sun- day. During visits, the prisoners are lined up shoulder to shoulder behind a screne in an open yard. The visitors are lined up shoulder to shoulder about 6 feet away be- hind a wire, No privacy is pos- sible, and the prisoners and visitors must shout to each other in order to be heard. ll, There are severe limits and censorship on all incoming and outgoing mail, 12, Those prisoners who have court appearances are awakened at about 2:00 a.m. and crowded into a holding cell where they must wait for 5 or 6 hours before they are shipped to court. 13. Greystone is overcrowded, and sometimes prisoners are placed in the ‘‘hole’’ because there is no place else to put them. 14, The prisoners are placed inthe same building and often the same cells as sentenced prisoners who are often hardened criminals. 15, The prisoners are denied phone calls from Greystone which judges direct to be allowed. Instead, they ~ have been told that the personnel at Santa Rita run the jail and not the judges. 16, They are continually harassed by the guards who attempt to break their spirit. The harassment is physical and psychological, and cruel and inhuman, Weaker prison- ers crack under the continual harassment and on occasion are even driven to take their own lives, Greystone, which is the most deplorable facility in a deplorable jail, was obsolete when it was first opened as a military prison in 1943, and is significantly more obsolete now. As recently as May 1970, two local judges said that the condi- tions at Greystone are ‘a disgrace’’ and one of the judges called it ‘ta hole’, Nevertheless, persons awaiting trial, but unable to raise bail are condemned to the degrading experience of long months of idleness andharassment in Greystone. Isolation in such a Punitive and tragic environment, according to the suit, deprives p.esumably innocent persons of fundamental consitiutional rights, and promotes a hostile attitude towards law enforcement officials, the correctional process, and the community itself. The plaintiffs argue in the suit that they should be entitled to be treated as well as those who can afford bail, except for the loss of their liberty. The irony is thateven prisoners in federal and California state prisons, and the convicted and sentenced prisoners detained in Santa Rita are given substan- tially better treatment than the continued on page 15 ready declared this judicial sys- tem unconstitutdnal and thus not applicable to them, These prison- ers understand that the laws were not made in their interest and cor- rectly consider themselves poli- tical prisoners. Thus, the next Week, large numbers of prisoners at the Tombs and the Queens House of Detention réfused to go to court. Stating very emphatic- ally that they would not participate in a judicial system that did not represent them or have juris- diction over them in any way To this act we say Right on! Their actions indeed echoed the fact that the oppressor hasno rights that the oppressed are bound to respect. Prisoners in maximum security prisons, like Soledad, San Quentin, Joliet and Leavenworth and mini- mun security prisons like Harlem, Watts, Huff and Bedford-Stuyve- sant are conspiring to make a mas- sive jail break. For prisoners are not only demanding their human rights while in the jails and due process and\ justice while in the court, but have gone so far as to take actions in ensure. the ful- fillment of their rights. The Black Panther Party says right on to all the jail breaks--for you have not only dared to want freedom, but have dared to obtain it by any means necessary. We now know that there are many more Jona- than Jacksons, William Christ- mas’, James McClains’ and Ru- chell MaGees on the horizon teaching the people by example. teaching the people by example, and they will be successful because each new example will be more profound than the one befo re. RIGHT ON TO THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS! Brenda Hyson THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970 PAGE 14 DEMARK VESEY’S SLAVE CONSPIRACY OF 1822: A STUDY IN REBELLION AND REPRESSION by ROBERT S. STAROBIN PART Il In the winter of 1821-1822, Den- mark Vesey--a free Black car- penter--began organizing a slave uprising, He recruited lieutenants, established an urban organization, and travelled to out-lying planta- tion districts to muster further support. Together with Monday Gel! and Peter Poyas (two other important leaders), Vesey alleged- ly kept lists of the several hun- dred slaves recruited; a slave blacksmith was employed to make bayonets and pikes (some of which were later found), Other rebels obtained daggers, swords, fuses, powder, and a_ few firearms, Painted disguises, wigs, and false whiskers were to be used. The city’s draymen, carters, butchers, and liverymen were in charge of the horses for the rebel cavalry, The plantation slaves, hundreds of whom came to Charleston in canoes on weekends, were supposed to bring weapons, Vesey then wrote two letters asking assistance to Saint Domingue. which were car- ried to a departing vessel py Gell and Perault Strohecker, In May 1822, Vesey set July 14, the anni- versary of the French Revolution and the darkest night of themonth, for the commencement of the re- volt. The plans were to capture arms, seize Charleston with a seven-pronged as::ault, kill most of the Whites, and if necessary es- cape to the Caribbean or Africa, The rebels followed the Biblical dictum, ‘‘He that is not with me is against me."’ On May 25, William Paul, aslave of J. and D, Paul, attempted to recruit Peter Devany, the elderly personal servant of Colonel J, C, Prioleau, into the rebel group. However, Peter informed his mis- tress, her son, and a free Black named William Pencil, who urged Peter to confide to his master the insurgents’ plans. On May 30, Peter informed Colonel Prioleau of the suspected plot and was inter- rogated by Charleston authorities, led by intendant James Hamilton, Jr., who immediately arrested the slaves of J, and D. Paul, The next day, William Paul implicated Peter Poyas and Mingo Harth, two slave artisans, who Were arrested and questioned, but then released, Vesey now advanced the time for the rebellion to midnight June 16, and the leaders destroyed all rec- ords, On June 8, William Paul made further disclosures, and on June 14, George Wilgon, a slave used as a spy for thegCharleston officials, learned the exact date of the uprising and that the Afri- can Church was one center of the plot. On June 15 and 16, Whites deployed military forces at stra- tegic points inthe city, while Vesey and his lieutenants tried, unsuc- cessfully, to communicate with their rural supporters, and then went into hiding. The uprising never materialized, but between June 17 and 27, about two dozen more slaves were arrested, tried before a specal court of magis- trates and freehd¥ders, and sent- enced to death, ae .e 22, Vesey was captured at his wife's house, tried and convicted the next day, and executed along with Peter Poyas, Ned, Rolla, and Batteau Bennett, personal servants of Gov- ernor Thomas Bennett, and Jesse Blackwood on July 2. Gullah Jack, an important African religious leader, was captured on July 5, after trying to continue the revolt, and was executed a week later. Meanwhile, on July 10, Monday Gell and Perault Strohecker con- fessed, and further arrests followed. The trials continued un- til July 26, when twenty-two more slaves were hanged, bringing the total number of executions so far to thirty-four, From August 3 through 8, another court held trials, and William Garner, a cavalry commander, was put to death, Then, in October, several White men were convicted of the _misdemeanor of inciting slaves to rebellion, and were sentenced to prison terms and stiff fines. (9) Concerning the participants, re- bel recruits came mostly from the slave workers of Charleston and its environs. The conspirators were, ‘according to the Official Report of the Trials, ‘principally confined to Negroes hired or working out such as Carters, Draymen, Saw- yers, Porters, Labourers, Stevi- dores, Meciianics, those employed in lumb: ds, and in short to those who had certain alloted hours at their disposal,’’ Others joined from the weterfront ricemills, one of which was,owned by the Gov- ernor himself, while slaves from rice and cotton plantations adjoin- ing the city and in a seventy-mile radius therefrom had been con- tacted. (10) That recruits came mainly from the urban, industrial slaves of Charleston casts great doubt on the assertion by some historians (like Richard Wade, whose findings will be criticized further below) that urban bondsmen and slave hirelings were more content and less rebellious than rural, plan- tation bondsmen, (11) Indeed, the evidence suggests that urban slaves were, despite their suppo- sedly greater privileges andhigher standard of living, at least as dis- contented as rural slaves, (12) No wonder Whites were horrified when even their most trusted ser- vants and apparently contented bondsmen were implicated in the plot. In contrast to the common- laborer participants stood the rebel leadership, which consisted mainly of skilled urban slave ar- tisans and religious leaders in the African Church, Peter Poyas, for example, ‘twas a slave of great value, and for his colour, a first rate ship carpenter.’’ Poyas en- joyed the ‘‘confidence of his mas- ter, in a remarkable degree, and had been treated with indulgence, liberality and kindness,'’ Mingo Harth was a ‘‘mechanic’’, Tom Russell and Perault Strohecker were blacksmiths, while William Garner and Smart Anderson were draymen, Monday Gell was ‘'a most excellent harnessmaker’’, with his shop on Meeting Street, He could read and write ‘‘with great and equal facility’. Gell was allegedly **much indulged and trus- ted by his master, his time and a large proportion of the profits of his labour were at his own dis- posal, He even kept his master's ARMS and sometimes his money.’’ Other leaders were religious fig- ures or deacons in the African Church. For instance, Gullah Jack--‘‘a little man.,.with small hands and feet and large (black) whiskers’’--was a‘‘conjurer’’ who kept alive African religious tra- ditions. ‘‘A decided majority of the Insurgents’’, according to the Court, “‘either did or had belonged the African Congregation; amongst whom the enlistments were principally and successfully to carried on.” (13) Undoubtedly, Slave artisans had through their worked gained more free time and freedom of movement, a greater sense of independence, and more education than most common work- ers, while religious figures were greatly respected by the Black com- munity. Moreover, artisans and preachers could articulate shared grievances more easily than most ordinary workers, whose rage at oppression was expressed mainly through action. (14) Vesey himself was born either in Africa or the Caribbean around 1767, At the age of 14, he was transported and sold along with 390 other slaves, from St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands to Cap Francois in Saint-Domingue by Cap- tain Joseph Vesey, a Bermuda slavetrader. In 1782, Captain Ve- sey reacquired Deumark after he “was declared ‘‘unsound and sub- ject to epileptic fits;’’ the young slave worked onboard Vesey's Slave ship as a personal servant, The next year, Captain Vesey settled in Charleston, South Carolina, as a ship merchandiser and slave bro- ker, with Denmark as his assist- ant. Then, in 1800, Denmark Vesey won a lottery jackpot of $1.500, with which he purchased his free- dom from his master for $600 and established himself as a car- penter with the rest of the money, By 1817, Denmark Vesey had sev- eral slave wives and children, was a member of the newly organized African Church, spoke several languages, and had become a pros- perous artisan, with his carpentry shop near the center of Charles- ton. Vesey was ‘‘distinguished for great strength and activity. Among his colour he was always looked up to with awe and respect. His temper"’ according to Whites, ‘‘was impetuous and domineering in the excreme"’, Though free, Vesey still strained, along with other free Blacks, under Charleston’s pat- terns of racism, and he still re- garded slavery as a great injus- tice. He would, for example, re- buke Blacks who actedsubmissive- ly before Whites, observing that all men were born equal, When answered by Blacks that they were, after all, slaves, Vesey would sarcastically reply: ‘‘Then you de- serve to remain slaves,’’ When asked for advice, Vesey would re- tort: ‘‘Read the fable of Hercules and the Waggoner.”” He once had the opportunity to return to Africa with a colonizationist group, but he rejected it, according to one rebel, ‘‘because he wanted to stay and see what he could do for his fellow-creatures.’’ Another con- spirator reported that ‘' Vesey said he was satisfied with his own con- dition, being free, but as all of his children were slaves, he wished to see what could done for the:n,”’ (15) Vesey thus combined an acute consciousness of the wrongness of slavery with his charismatic qualities to organize South Caro- lina slaves into a revolutionary cadre, The African background of many of the participants forms another significant feature of the Vesey plot. Since the overseas slave trade remained legal until 1808, and a great deal of illicit importing oc- curred thereafter, many South Ca- rolina slaves had been born in Africa or could easily trace their heritage to their former homeland, It is thus probable that many of the participants were either native- born Africans or only first- generation Americans. Moreover, several of the leaders, including Monday Gell, an Ebo, Gullah Jack, an Angolan, Mingo Harth, a Man- dingo, hailed from Africa or the Caribbean, while Vesey himself had allegedly been born there. Sim- ilarly, the rebel Perault Srohecker “twas born at Jumba Africa, about a weeks travel from Goree,., Perault was engaged in three bat- tles against the people of Hassou (and)...also fought twice against the people of Darrah, but inthe second battle he was taken prisoner and «brought to Charleston in a Brig....He is very tenacious,"’ noted his master, ‘‘whenever he conceives that he is right’’. (16) Certainly, these Africans had not been as acculturatedto South Caro- lina society as those born in the United States. The memory of their previous cultural identity and na- tional independence was still Strong, and they could appeal to other Blacks partly on this basis. The extent of White involvement is an interesting aspect of the Vesey plot, for Whites were--as in. other revolts, like Gabriel’s and Turner's, suspected of colla- boration with Blacks, The Charles- ton authorities never proved that Whites actually engaged ia the planning of the insurrection, but once rumors about the revolt be- gan to spread, some Whites ap- parently encouraged Blacks to re- bel, Eventually, four White men were tried for the misdemeanor of ‘‘inciting slaves to insurrec- tion’’, a non-capital offense, (17) Three of these four Whites were Poor, European immigrants--sug- gestive of the depths of South Caro- lina’s xenophobia--while the fourth man was. not a native of the state. However, though the Blacks were condemned to death or deporation, the Whites received only prison terms and fines, revealing further the racist foundations of southern *‘justice’’, Thus, William Allen, a Scottish sailor, was sentenced to twelve months imprisonment, a $1,000 fine, and had to give security for his good behavior for five years after his release, Jolin Igneshias, a Spanish seaman, and Jacob Danders, a German peddlar, each received three months in jail, $100 fines, and a requirement of security. Andrew Rhodes, a one- time shopkeeper, was sentenced to six months in prison and a $500 fine. The court noted that in Allen’s case the punishment might amount to life imprison- ment, since he was too poor to pay the fine or the security. The same was probably true for Rhodes. Allen was perhaps the most interesting of the four Whites, for when he conspired with the Blacks he declared, according to the Court, ‘‘that :here ought to be an indiscriminate destruction of all the Whites, men, women, and children’, However, the Blacks “‘objected...that he (Allen) being a White man, could not be safely trusted by them’, To this charge, Allen replied that ‘‘though he had a White face, he was a negro in heart’’, (18) The surviving evidence also re- veals somewhat unexpected infor- mation about those Blacks who in- formed against conspiracies, Pop- ular mythology holds that the so- called ‘‘house nigger’’ group usu- ally betrayed revolts, but in this case the informers came from va- rious backgrounds, To be sure, Peter Devany, elderly slave of John C, Prioleau, William, slave of J, and D, Paul, and Rolla Ben- nett, who later confessed, were trusted domestic servants. But William Pencil, another informer, was a skilled, free-Black tinplate worker; George, the spy belong- ing to the Wilson family, was a blacksmith and religious leader in the African Church; and Monday Gell and Perault Strohecker, both of whom turned state’s evidence, were skilled artisans, (19) It is also true that one rebel leader warned recruits not to reveal plans “to those waiting men who re- ceive presents of old coats, etc., from their masters, or they'll betray us’. But other leaders seemed willing to rely on trust- worthy house servants to steal arms, slit their masters’ throats, or to poison the city’s water wells; and even some of the Governor's personal seryants were involved, So incendiary did Whites. these individual acts of sabotage by house servants that references to poisoning wells were deleted from printed records. (20) In any event, the evidence suggests that a revision of the traditional role assigned to house servants is in order, since house servants, des- pite their privileges, suffered a special oppression which could sometimes result in rebellion. The bravery of the conspiracy’s leadership contrasts sharply with the treachery of its traitors, For all the leaders, with the excep- tion of Monday Gell and Rolla Ben- nett, whe confessed under coer- cion, faced their trials with cour- age and met their death with calm and dignity, When Peter Poyas and Mingo Harth were first arrested, they ‘‘behaved with so much com- posure and coolness, and treated the charge alleged against them with so much levity'’, according to the Court, ‘‘that the Wardens were completely deceived and had these men discharged’. Several days later, in order further to de- ceive the authorities, Ned Bennett came. ‘‘voluntarily to the Intend- ent, and solicited an examination, if he was an object of suspicion’’. In jail, Peter Poyas strengthened a fellow prisoner who was being tortured for information by urging him to ‘‘Die like a man.’’ Then, Poyas responded to the Court’s interrogation with only a ‘cryptic smile’, and. from the gallows stated to other Blacks; ‘‘Do not open your lips; die Silent, as you shall see me do]’’ Bacchus Ham- mett reportedly, ‘‘went to the gal- lows laughing and bidding his ac- quaintances in the streets ‘good bye’ "', Vesey defended himself ably in Court, challenging witnes- ses and disputing the charges a- gainst him. He faced his execution with complete composure, Before being captured, Gullab Jack planned to rescue the imprisoned leaders and to continue the revolt. @1) continued on next page CLEVELAND, OHIO... AVARICIOUS SLUMLORD EVICTS BLACK FAMILY “'The plague of capitalism aad fascism is also manifested in the ayaricious landlords; with in- humanistic values, they are part of the repression being perpet- uated upon Black people.’ On Aug. 28th, avaricious landlord Walter Horaty hired four nigger lackeys to illegally evict the Bowman fa- mily from their home. Pig Horaty owns the two family home at 13517 Emily St. in East Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs, Barbara Bowman lived in the home along with her children. She had talked with Horaty and explained to him that she was going to move to another location.Horaty, however, tried to intimidate Mrs. Bowman by obtaining an eviction notice. The notice oinked that she was to be out by the 28th of August. No time was given on the notice so legally she had until midnight to move her belongings. On the morning of August 28th Mrs. Bowman’s daughter, Pat, and son were awakened from their beds by four of pig Horaty's heroes. These nigger lackeys, allowing themselves to be used as tools of the oppressor, illegally entered the home by crawling through a window. This was in direct vio- lation of Mrs, Bowman's human and constitutional rights. Even by the pig’s constitution this was il- legal entry. When our families have to sleep with one eye open in fear of in- trusion by some capitalist pigs, and there is no guarantee against thesetypesof actions.Then we inust begin to rewrite that constitution that allows these vicious animals to wage cowardly atrocities upon the victims of -American capi- talism, and U.S, imperialism. “«,, The housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people.” The legal cadre of the Cleve- land N.C.C,F. has advised Mrs. Bowman as to her rights and the legal avenues she could pursue in dealing with the avaricious capitalists. The essence of this manuever is that these pigs were allowed to commit this illegal act without being brought to justice. The fact that the pigs feel an ir- resistible urge to break into our homes, points out the need for a constitution that will bring about social justice. “*We want freedom. We want the ‘power to determine the destiny of our Black community, We want the power.’’ Not the Cleveland Housing Authority, not Howard Hughes, Chase Manhattan Bank, Nixon, Daley, or Mickey Mouse, they're all capitalists, As revolutionaries we must con- tinue to serve the people’s in- terest. We must expose pigs like Horaty for what he really is, an enemy of the people. In our con- stitutional challenge against the system of oppression, the con- stitutional Convention is very ne- cessary because we have to li- berate ourselves from offensive capitalist exploitation, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! FREE CHAIRMAN BOBBY! JAIL PIG RIZZO! N.C.C,F, Cleveland, Ohio PIGS MOVE ON HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUSES IN WINSTON, SALEM, N.C. The imperialistic Armed forces of the reactionary United States has initiated a ROTC pro- gram on the campuses of two Win- | Ston-Salem high schools.An army ROTC has been started at North Forsyth High School, a predomi- nately White school. Itseems now the fascist murderers can't wait to recruit and indoctrinate our youth ith th ‘philosophy of the ruling circle, They are attempting to make killers of our youth as the mili- tary industrial complex continues to wage imperialist wars of ag- gression against countries throughout the world. It is impor- tant that we at this time expose the intention of these pigs to the people. We know that they only MORE PIG We make no distinction between pigs. We say apigisapigis a pig. Whether he be Black or White, green or yellow or polka dot. No doubt about it, the Winston-Salem pig department has got to be the most fearful bunch of so called law enforcers there are, It is clear- ly evident that these pigs headed by chief, pig Un-Justice Tucker don't know right from wrong, which is typical characteristic of all pigs, Take for example the community of Boston. In this particular community lives the baddest niggers in Win- Ston-Sale! quite a net 50. So in.or m to deal with that he endorses the jive pacifica- tion program to get off into t continued from page 13 LEGAL AID SOCIETY presumably innocent citizens de- tained in Greystone. Convicted and sentenced prisoners at Santa Rita are transferred to Greystone from other parts of Santa Rita as punishment if they are considered dangerous or violate prison rules and then subjected to the same conditions as the plaintiffs in this lawsuit. This class action filed by at- torneys Richard Berg, Dick Duane, Roger Cox, and Cliff Sweet of the Legal Aid Society, was filed on want to use our youth, your sons as cannon fodder. The only ones who will benefit from these wars of aggression will be the ruling class, All parents should demand that the ROTC programs be removed from the campuses of the high schools. No parents should want their sons to participate in inci- dents such as My Lei and Sung Thy, which resulted in the mass slaughter of women and children, It should also be kept in mind that what happened in these two incidents is a common occurance and not isolated incidents, The ROTC (reserved officers training corps ) is nothing more than a program to turn the youth into pigs and make them part and parcel of tie fascist war machine of the United States. We must all call for the abolishment of these fascist programs from our cam- puses colleges and high schools before your ow: sons become ene- mies of the people of the entire world, All parents and students may come to the people’s community _ center at 1602 = dis cuss thi . all work together to expose this fas- cist pig system to all the people. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Nelson Malloy Winston-Salem N.C.C.F. OPPRESSION IN WINSTON-SALEM community, such as the Model ‘*Polkey Pig’ city poverty pro- gram designed to helpridthe peo- ple of their problems and griev- ances, This jive program is also known as so-called, community pig relations, However, we know much better than this. We know that this is nothing more than a scheming ploe to infiltrate the community, brainwash the people into thinking thatthey are working in the best interest of the masses seeking to divide the people and come along to conquer, These pi evidently have n Slack their game which firebombed tremendous 1, Eddie Douglas Kent, Howard Gilliam, Barney, and Conrad Lee. The Defendants are Alameda County Sheriff Frank I. Madigan, all of his agents, subordinates, and employees, and the Alameda County Board of Supervisors. The suit claims that the treatment in Greystone subjects the prisoners to summary punishment without due process of law, and to other constitutional deprivations; and asks the Court for declaratory and injunctive relief, In essence, the suit seeks to ensure that persons held in pre- trial detention in Greystone are aggression towards them should make the community's stand be crystal clear, However,the racist dogs and their bootlicking nigger lackeys feel that they might at- tempt to start all over again. Well,let ther do tits and we know that the people will only standthat much more taller, and be much more stronger and then off the pigs for good. So we say much, much later to the model pig city poverty pacification program and its endorsers and may it be dealt ALL POWER TO THE PS0P BATH TO THE F accorded all of the rights of the innocent, and that they should be subjected only to such inconven- iences, discomforts, andhardships as are necessary to achieve the purpose for which they are being held. If this cannot be accomplished by the Defendants, the suit seeks an injunction prohibiting the placing of any of the plaintiffs or members of the class they re- present in Greystone, Legal Aid Society of Alameda County : Target Cities Unit 1330 Chestnut Street Oakland, California 94607 Telephone: 465-4376 PIGS, THE PEOPLE KNOW YOU FOR WHAT YOU ARE, FASCIST STORM TROOPERS The pigs have heightened their repression in Phila. due to the Party's involvement in an arduous struggle of organizing around the Constitutional Convention’s Plen- ary Session to be held in Phila, Since the Black Panther Party has _ been organizing around the Revol- utionary People’s Constitutional Convention the pigs and all their reactionary elements have been working part and parcel in haras- sing and busting Party members and community werkers. On Tuesday, Aug. 20th, 1970, a community worker named Kenya Shabazz was selling Panther Papers in Center City in front of a record store, when the store manager came out and told the sister to move from in front of his store because she was making his customers stay away. So the sister moved to the next store wien seven of Rizzo's pigs came up to her and told her to move along, Sister Kenya stated that she had just moved from in front of the store next door. The pigs said she was getting smart and continued from last page DENMARK VESEY Compared to other insurrec- tions, the Vesey Plot achieved an extraordinarily rich ideology. Be- yond a general hatred of Whites, Vesey combined the Old Testa- ment’s harsh morality and the story of the Israelites with Afri- can religious customs, knowledge of the Haitian Revolution, andread- ings from anti-slavery speeches from the Missouri debates, Ac- cording to one conspirator, Vesey “fread to us from the Bible how the Children of Israel were de- livered out of Egypt from bon- dage’’, Vesey's favorite Biblical verses were apparently from Exo- dus, Zachariah, and Joshua: ‘‘Be- hold the day of the Lord cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee, For I shall gather all nations against Jeru- salem to battle; and the city shall be taken,...And they utterly des- troyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword,"’ Con- cerning Vesey’s recruiting me- thods, another rebel testified that ‘the was in the habit of reading to me all the passages in the newspapers that related to St. Do- mingo, and apparently every pam- phlet he could lay his hands on that had any connection with sla- very. He ‘one day brow the Black continued, ‘‘a which he told me had livered in Congress by. 1 the subject of slavery: he told s Mr, King was the tk ond, that he, Mr lared that slavery wa e to the country estified “*that Con- gress had made us free’”’, and be- lieved--with an internarionalist perspective--"‘that St. Domingo and Africa would come over and cut up the White -people if only we made the motion here first’’ Gullah Jack provided recruits with African religious symbols, such as crab claws (‘‘cullahs’’), parched corn, and ground wuts, which would guarantee safety and victory. Blacks believed that they would be invulnerable if they re- tained these charms, and that Gul- lah Jack himself could neither be “killed, shot or taken'’, Monday. n de- Mr. King ” told her to get in the wagon where she was taken to the 6th police district, fingerprinted and charged with disorderly conduct. Another incident involving a community worker, took place the next day (Wed.), with bro, Nate Jones, who was selling papers on the corner of Broad and Sus- quehanna Ave. when he was ap- proached by four members of the Muslim clique who demanded that he give up the corner so they could sell their papers there, The ‘ive refused and they tried to take his papers. So now it is crystal clear that it be seen by everyone, that the reactionary forces working against us have done more than enough to sabo- tage the Plenary Session but the beat goes on, the Revolutionary beat and struggle goes on, DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! PHILA, BRANCH BLACK PAN— THER PARTY Doc-Community Worker Geli may have written twice to the Haitians in order to obtain assist- ance or refuge, for it was ‘‘unhesi- tatingly stated to Monday’s face, that he had written. two letters to® St. Domingo, and @iven) them in charge of a Black cook on board of a schooner bound to that island’, After this accusation, Gell ‘‘con- fessed that the fact was so’’, It is also possible that Vesey planned, if the need arose, to escape to Haiti or to Africa, Consciousness of the African homeland was certainly revealed when Vesey chose not to return there several years before the revolt and when one rebel after his conviction ‘‘at his own request was transported to Africa on board of a vessel which sailed from Charleston’’. (22) Indeed, few other slave revolts, except for the Haitian Revolution itself, de- veloped such a high level of polit- ical and cultural consciousness as a revolutionary impetus. (23) FOOTNOTES (9) Ibid., pp. 17-60, 82. (10) Ibid. (11) Wade, ‘‘Vesey Plot'’, pp. 157- 161. (12) Robert Starobin, Industrial Slavery in the Old South, 1790- 1861 (New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1970), ch. 3. (13) Officiai Report, pp. 41-44, 104; James Hamilton Jr., An Ac- count of the Late Intended Insur- rection Among a Portion of the Blacks of This City...(Charleston, August 16, 1822), p. 21 (14) Robert Starobin, ed,, Slavery As It Was: The Testimony of the Slaves The es While in Bon- dage (Chi , Quadrangle Books, Report, pp. 19, 42- (16) Ibid., p, 110 and passim. (7) Apth Slave Revolts; Of- ficial Rep ppendix (18) I p. i (19) 1 I (20) Ibid, 107, compared to manuscript version of the trial record in the SCA, On the oppres- sion of domestic servants, see Al- bert Memmi /DominutedMan (Bos- ton, 1969), ch. 13, (Ql) Ibia., pp. 44-47 52. (22) Ihid., pp. 18, 62, 64, 67, 75, 87-88, %, 103, 118, 163; Hamil- ton, An Account, p. 41. (23) CAL:R. James, The Black Ja- cobins (New York, 1963), on Tous- saint L'Ouverture and the Haitian Revolution. (END OF FOOTNOTES) THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970 PAGE 16 We Wilk Hot Allow America's Lackeys and Bootlichenrs To Live Off of our Sweat Auymore! DEATH 70 THE FASCIST PIGS! AL CANNON - - L.A.’S BOOTLICKER LYING IN THE NAME OF THE PEOPLE Al Cannon, a bootlicking dema- gogic puppet ‘‘leader” of L.A,'s Black community, has once again put his fingers into some more of the people’s money, He has a long history of using the name of the Black people or capitalizing on ‘*Blackness’’, In 1968, he was a member of the now defunct Black Congress, which was sup- posed to be working for the in- terests of the people, but tie goal of the Black Congress wes far overshadows] by the greedy, power hungry niggers like Al Cannon, Hiawatha Harris, Ron Karenga, etc, who controlled this organiza- tion. The people became hip to these bootlickers when John Huggias aad Bunchy Carter were assassinated at UCLA early last year, In Jan- uary, 1959, Al Cannon was amem- ber of the Community Advisory Board which was instituted by the pig establishment to manipulate and con:rol all community oriented programs (Ron Karenga was one of the leadings pigs on the board, To insure Cannon and Company a stronghold in the millions of dol- lars invested in this program which was specifically geared towards helping the community, the Com- munity Advisory Board advised the Black students at UCLA to choose a bootlicker by the naine of Charle? Thomas to be director of the Black Studies Program, At this time, (January 15, 1969) the students exposed Al Cannon and the rest of the Community Advisory Board for what they really were--avari- cious, bootlicking lackeys. Two days afterward, John and Bunchy (both leaders of th Southern Calif. Chapter of the Black Panther Party) who were attending UCLA, were murdered, After John and Bunchy's assas- sination, Cannon retreated into the background but he still had his fingers in every money pie in the Black community. Also during this time, brothers and sisters in Watts and Compton who knew Bunchy formed a community group for the purpose of setting up a psychiatric care committee for the people in the community. (Note: Al Cannon flashes a doctorate in psychiatry as his credentials), They had been working very dili- gently all year in writing up plans for this committee, After the plans were laid out, the people were in- formed the treacherous Al Cannon had been hired as director of their committee by the fascist power structure and would be paid $40, 000 yearly. The people became very uptight and demanded Cannon's resigna- tion. They called several meet- ings demanding that Cannon be pre- sent but he has refused to attend any of them, Instead he sent out his henchmen to intimidate the peo- ple at these meetings, and at the last meeting on Friday, August 28th, his official fascist cohorts, members of the L,A, Sheriff pig department tried to disrupt. One sister who is very active oa this committee, Mrs. Moble of Comp- ton, has had two attempts made on aec life since the people began demanding Cannon's resignation, Al Cannoa’s past practice and present unconcern for the people not only on Lie committee, but in the community, makes his positioa crystal clear. One is either part of the problem or part of the solu- tion. Al Cannon is undoubtedly part of the problem. He is a pig, a traitor, and a deterrent to any form of progressive change, Al Cannon had better put an imme- diate end to misusi13, abusing, and deceiving the people in our Black community or he will be removed wholly and resolutely from our community like all reactionaries aad their lackeys. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS AND THEIR LACKE YS BLACK PANTHER PARTY Southern California Chapter NO. 1 LACKEY OF U.S.A. FASCISM ROY WILKINS Uncle Roy Wilkins has stood up on his hind legs once more to as- sist the facist Nixon—Agnewgangs- ter clique~in villifying Huey and causing doubt, with inueddoes, with half-truths, of whether Huey is working in the interests of our people. Bufoon Wilkins has stooped to a new low while elevating him- self to the highest possible level within the ranks of the ‘I’m Black and I'm proud’ lackey. Uncle Wilkins has ignored the objective facts that Huey is an internationalist. The stratagem that an enemy of our enemy is our friend has been decalared invalid by Wilkins and we can plainly see that Uncle Wilkins is attempting to drive a wedge between the peo- ple and our party by any means at his disposal including covert appeals to racism. Bootlicking Wil- kins is Nixon's chief tool in the oldest strategy known to man di- vide and conquer, Wilkins reward for his attacks upon Huey, who is in the forefront of the Revolution- ary struggle dealing with the right of self-determination for all op- pressed people, will be a firm pat on his senile head and a fist full of paper dollars from his Facist sponsors. However Uncle Wilkins will surely have to return to his own, if not tomorrow then on the day of victory. Uncle Roy Wilkins is the rankest of the foul Black opportunists, who function under the shams slogan of ‘I’m Black and I’m proud’', who dare appoint themselves leaders. Malcolm X aptly describes the unmitigated basedness of this Super Tom. Wilkins is a house nigger above and beyond his call to duty. Un- cle Wilkins is a vastly more so- phiticated than his predecessors or his contemporaries and hence infinitely more a threat to all op- pressed people, Uncle Wilkins has had decades to perfect his brand of flunkyism. This endorsed spoke- man has mastered the techniques of demogogy and diversion, his records speak for itself, He has consistently drained the vitality of “our people and diverted them from revolution, the only solution to ra- cism and exploitation. Inthe 30’s the Jewish people had lackeys of Wilkins infamism stature, who lulled them to death. Judas goats paved the way for genocide, by telling the Jews that everything was all right, that fas- cism wasn’t as ferocious as it appeared, The Jewish people had their traitors who condemned freedom fighters in facist Ger- many just as we have Uncle Wil- kins. As a result, just a few en- doresed lackeys turned the Jew- ish from the appeal to arms by anti-facist nationalist thus assur- ing the genocide of the Jewish peo- ple in Europe. Then as now these infamous traitors to their race will find that their despicable deeds have earned them, have as- sured them a place up against the wall, This is an objective fact which cannot be denied or miti- gated, We «shall fight for our salva- tion no matter what the odds. We shall triumph over the combined industrial, military and technolo- gical might of facist america and pave the road to freedom and sal- vation with the bodies of our ene- mies----smash U.S.A, facism and all its foul allies. Power to the courageous forces of liberation in South America, , Randy Williams Political Prisoner THE BABYLONIAN REVOLUTION IS INEVITABLE ! All of the actions taken by the people of oppressed communities are the reflections of the people’s revolutionary spirits and determi- antion to rise and destroy the op- oppressive conditions in which we live. The pigs of the power struc- ture are oinking to the people that the recent bombings, and pig kill- ings are the acts of ‘‘revolution- aries’’ and ‘‘terrorist."’ They are trying to say that the actions tak- ing place against them are by afew so called maniacs, who advocate the killings of the supposedly “peace officers’’ who are just do- ing their jobs to obtain ‘‘law and order.’’ The law that they uphold is a law of tyranny, a law that stands between the people and freedom, a fascist law that en- dorses terrorism andbrutality up- on the people that it uses as tools to make its power and profit. Laws that eat away the flesh and minds of Black people as weil as all oppressed people, And the order that they uphold is the order of ‘‘oppressor and oppressed,"’ slayemaster and slave, Yes, the so called police are upholders of law and order, but they are the up- holders of the fascist law and op- pressive order, The 76 companies that control the American economy and the racist businessmen who own them, are the main perpetrators of op- pression. They are the oppres- sors, And they use the demago- gic (lying and deceiving) politi- cians as the main functions for the congame that they run down to the people. To make us think that everything is done inour name and for our name sake. When it is quite the opposite. The people realized these things, and those who don’t are beggining to realize more and more everyday the structure of this decadent society. And how it oppresses us, And more andmore everyday the people are also reaching new levels in what actions to take in order to stop this op- pression, The people don’t have to be told that they are oppressed, they already know this. The people of the Black community don’t have to be told what oppresses them, they know that pigs occupy the Black community like troops oc- cupy foreign land, They know that racist pigs use guns to take the lives of brothers and sisters in the streets. The people have spoken out, throughout history against the oppressive structure of the system, for hundreds, of years the people have spoken against the the so called law that is oppres- sing the people but yet we are told that we must serve the law. When the purpose of law is to pro- tect and uphold the rights of the people if fascism and genocide is the law in which the U.S, govern- ment endorses, Then we the peo- ple are taking the stand to destroy that law, because it is the law of warmongers, beastly sadist, that are aroused by the murders and blood of human beings. Huey states: ‘‘Power is defined ability to make phenomenom act in a de- sired manner. The pigs moving to seize that power. The people are moving to control their own des- tinies by any means necessary. And the people realize that when law is exploitation, fascism and Genocide, then revolution is the people’s means to destroy that law which is destroying them. The year of 1970 started outina revolutionary manner. In San Francisco, Calif. on new year’s eve a pig was shot in the Black community, and since then the people’s revolutionary actions has been highly rising, All across this country people are taking re- volutionary actions to deal with the oppressive system that we are subjected to. Pigs are being killed and bombings are taking place within the Black community as well as all oppressed communities throughout the U,S,A, The pigs relate to these revo- lutionary action as being ter- rorist acts. And they say that the so called police officers are the victims of unprovoaked attack, But the people know that the pigs are the terrorist, they brutalize and kill everyday, but they always justify their murderous acts, but when the people move in a revo- lutionary manner to stop the fas- cist (terrorizing and brutalizing) acts within our communities then these people are automatically labeled as terrorist. And they move to distort the word revolu- tionary and try to make the revo- lutionary appear as a terrorist, who only seeks to kill and dis- rupt, but the truth of the matter is that a revolutionary is ahuman- itarian a manor woman who stands oo fight for freedom , justice and the rights of the people and to destroy any force that brings op- pression, fascism and genocide upon the people. The revolutionary is selfless and offers all that he or she has, to take power from the fascist pigs and retain power to the people. The pigs now realize that re- yolution is inevitable, but still they will use every scheme and tac- tic to counteract the people's struggle for liberation. And so the pigs find it necessary to attack all revolutionary forces, all people that struggle to educate the people about revolution, target is all revolutionary orga- nizations that are leading the peo- ple to revolution, The Black Panther Party has be- come the most attacked people's revolutionary organization, We have been labeled by the pigs of the power structure as the major threat to American security. 29 Panthers have been killed since the beginning of the Party in October, 1966 and now there are hundreds of Panthers being held as pri- soners of war throughout this de- cadent country, Our offices are continuously attacked, The U.S. government is also conspiring against the Black Panther, Black Community News service, Because it's the people's paper, that gives the people true infor- mation about the U.S. government and the games that it has played with the lives of the people within the U,S, as well as people of the world, And the Black Panther Party for it’s four years of existance has educated the people by examples as of how to deal with this fas- cist system that we are the sub- jects of. Since we are a revolu- tionary organization and take the responsibility to correctly lead the people, this is why the U.S, government takes the posi- tion to destroy the Black Pan- ther Party with all the forces they have. So that when the people move in a revolutionary manner to endop- pression we \find that the Black Panther Party's name.is somehow connected witheverything that they consider terrorist acts of, in- justice. The Nixon-Agnew-Mitchell re- gime is daily plotting against the people's vanguard, They are at. tempting to destroy the Black Pan- ther Party in hope to destroy the people’s rising revolutionary con- ciousness, But all attempts to des - troy us are attempts made in vain. Due to the fact that it is the struggle, the spirit, and self determination of the people to sur- continued on next page REVOLUTIONARY UNIFICATION: NORTH/SOUTH One of the first noticeable steps toward unity and solidarity is when the masses start to relate to sim- ilar situations with similar ac- tions. The brothers and sisters in the community of Winston-Salem have joined the struggle to rid the Black colony of all forms of oppression. they too have gotten tired of the fascist pig tactics and have decided to deal with them the same as brothers and sisters all over Babylon are doing. The bloods in the northern states have often said that when the brothers and sisters in the south start to deal righteously with the system that the pig .power structure will crumble from within. When racist pig construction ‘S... were running. amuck through the streets of Winston- Salem terrorizing children, the people of the community rallied together and put an end to this madness--physically On Wednesday, August 18th, a pig precinct trailer was fire-bombed and destroyed. Whoever did it, dealt righteously because they didn’t leave a single clue. But you know pigs, they have a way of manufacturing their own evidence and railroading somebody. Tucker's Raiders vamped onthe home of Lawrence Harris, age 72, August 20th, and immediately found out that things had definitely changed, Brother Harris offed one pig and wounded another, in doing so Brother Harris died, His rev- olutionary act will be an example in Winston-Salem, These revolutionary acts in Win- ston-Salem show that wherever the oppressor cracks the whip the peo- ple will rise to fight back. By now I'm sure the pigs know that you can't section a revolution off as north and south. We have dis- solved all boundaries and we will take our struggle anywhere. ‘‘One of our main purposes is to unify our brothers and sisters in the north with our brothers and sis- ters in the south.’’ ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS N.C.C.F,, Winston-Salem Fox ONE OF OUR MAIN PURPOSES IS TO UNITE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE NORTH WITH OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE SOUTH NEW JERSEY... THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970 PAGE 17 BROWN BROTHERS AND SISTERS WITNESS HARASSMENT OF COMMUNITY WORKERS In Jersey City, N.J. the pigs of the power structure have histori- cally tried to keep the Puerto Ri- can and Black communities di- vided along race lines, The me- thods used are the usual methods used by all reactionaries. **you are lighter than niggers you can go further,’’etc. But as Bobby Seale, Chairman of the Black Panther Partyhas taughtus, “The pigs will teach anybody--- with their billy clubs to beat us upside our heads, and vicious ser- vice revolvers to tear our flesh they will teachanybody.’’ It’s not a matter of whether you are Black Brown or Polka dot it is a fact that if you are not a part of the ruling class that pig is paid to serve, your head gets beat and you and your people are murdered. The Puerto Rican, Black com- munities of Jersey City have learned this and are moving to- gether to rid their communities of the fascist troops that occu- py them, the common enemy. The pigs! Early in the morning one day Wayne Curtis, Marilyn Daniels, Cherly Griffin, Deborah Kinderfel, Solomon Kinerfel, James Poin- ter, Pat Taliaferro, and Phillip Webb, were on their way to Rye Beach in Brooklyn, New York, riding in a red volkswagon bus owned by Wayne Curtis, It is im- portant to note that the bus is used by the local branch of the N,C,C.F. (National Committee to Combat Fascism). An organizing bureau of the Black Panther Party during the day to transport neighborhood kids to and from the N,C,C.F.'s free lunch program and liberation school ( much to the dissatisfac- tion of the local fascists) Since Wayne and other com- munity people have been serving the people, they haye been victims of countless incidents such as being followed by pig detectives, being stopped to have their li- cense and registration checked, and also being taken to the pre- cinct for questioning on various occasions. Because of such outright acts of intimidation andharassment by the pig department it is crystal clear to the people that the pigs don’t want anyone serving the needs of educating the people to this fas- cist system. In the Puerto Rican community in downtown Jersey City on the corner of Erie and Barrow streets the bus carrying the community people was met head on by 4 speeding squad car with two pigs in it. After forcing the bus to stop the pigs jumped out of their car guns drawn oinking that ‘‘If anyone of you Black niggers move we'll blow your _ brains out, be- cause all we want is an excuse.” By this time three other squad cars, two detective cars, and two motorcycles had appeared on the scene with each pig pointing his gun at the nearest brother’s head through the window of the bus. Now the pigs moved the occupants from the bus cursing and oinking threats of death, Witnessing this out- rageous broad daylight attack were about forty Puerto Rican brothers and sisters who voiced their disapproval of what was go- ing on by telling the pigs that if they harmed the brothers and sisters in any way that they would never leave the community alive. Realizing that they couldn't frighten the politically aware brothers and sisters, both Black and Puerto Rican, the pigs started pushing the people into squadcars for a trip to the Ist precinct on Newark Avenue for further ques- tioning and intimidation. Upon arriving at the precinct each person was again relieved of their personal possessions such as wallets, keys, money, pocket- books, etc. During the next half hour the pigs thoroughly searched the bus and the parties. concerned for explosives, weapons, narcotics or anything else that could be found which was fruitless. Also the big deputy chief Moran, who supposed- ly lead the attack on the people Started oinking about how sorry he was for the inconvenience but that he had received a bulletinfrom the state pigs that said the bus , the community people were riding in was carrying explosives, Pig Moran also oinked about how sorry he was for the abusive language some of his pigs had used during the search and seizure, Pig Moran also took down the badge number which was #1007 on.a scrap of paper oinking that he was going to put in a report on this pig for using bad language. After the pigs were finished with their at- tempts to frighten the community people, they were told they could leave. After getting outside one pig handed Wayne Curtis and James Poindexter each asummons because James was driving the bus and he had left his license home in another pair of pants, andbecause Wayne had let an unlicensed dri- ver operate his vehicle. The latter of which is ridiculous be- cause Wayne didn’t know James had left his license home, matter of fact, neither did James, Look- ing at the bus which the pigs had dismantled the brothers and sis- ters had to put seats back in and remove litter thrown around by the pigs. And what has to be learned from this whole incident is that people oppressed by a common enemy see that commonenemy for what he really is and began to re- spond in a united fashion to rid both communities of the Pigs! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS! NEW ORLEANS N.C.C.F. MEMBER KIDNAPPED AND BEATEN BY FASCIST PIGS On August 21, 1970, at1;30 pm, Brother Ronald Ailsworth was kii- napped off the streets by twoof the New Orleans pig department fas- cist dogs. Brother Ron who is a hard worker for the N,C,C,F, here has been teying very hardto collect donations from the businessmen so that we can successfully imple- ment the Free Breakfast for Schoo! Children Program. The pigs view the Breakfast Program av being a big threat to their capital and see it as being an effective tool in explaining the true nature of this decadent society. So in their all out efforts to sabotage the Breakfast Program, they movedin a fascist fashion to ripoff the per- son whom they know is directly involved. On this particular Jay Brother Ron had justreturned from coltect- ing donations. He took the garbage across the street for the Project Sanitation to pick up. As soon as the brother put the box down ie was vamped on by two pigs. Reed, who is known throughout the pro- jects for his brutal tactics against Black people, and the other just being a commonly known White racist pig named Spong, stopped the brother and told him to go Pick up the box, The brother being hip to pigs and not wanting to intimidate them, went and picked up the box of garbage. This is when the nigger pig asked his partner what could he arrest him on. The racist dog replied, ‘‘We can get him on putting garbage on a city street without placing it in a con- tainer.”” Pig Reed then made the statement to the brother, ‘' You're the one whose been going around Picking up donations. You're under arrest.'’ Brother Ron didn’t re- sist. he got into the car, and they drove off, They took the brother to a back Street and told him to get out. Ray Reed handcuffed the brother and started beating him in the back with his black jack. He began making statements such as ‘‘Why don’t you resist nigger, so I can pop you in your head, you ain't nothing but a punk,’’ After this he started punching the brother in the mouth, He then threw the brother in the car and took him to the precinct. Theré the “pigs continued their harassment, by trying to get information from the brother and threatening his life. They charged him with putting gar- bage in the city streets and re- fusal to put it in a container. He was then let out on parole. After getting out of jail, he was stopped again by the pigs and re- searched, Du>ing the research the pigs suddenly came up with a stick of reefer, These pigs have stooped to the low level of actually plant- ing weed on the brother, He was then re-arrested and charged with possession of narcotics. Bond was set at $1,000, The pigs thought they had for a while stopped the functioning of the Breakfast Pro- gram, but because of their pig mentalities, they don't understand that because they jail a servant of the people, arevolutionary, that they didn’t jail the revolution. The members of the N.C.C.F, here are courageous warriors that are going forth to meet the people’s basic needs and desires and cannot for one moment be intimidated by the pigs. They attempted to break the spirit of Brother Ron and failed, because the spirit of a revolu- tionary can't be broken, Brother Ron is out on bail andback serving the people and exposing the pigs for what they really are. We know that in the final stages of the strug~ gle that the people willhave com- plete victory and there willbe death to the pigs. So as they (the pigs) intensify their efforts further to suppress the people and the peo- ple’s servants, we will definitely intensify our efforts in organizing the people to bring about their total destruction. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE DEATH TO THE FASCIST PIGS N.C.C,F,, New Orleans VERA ENGLISH/ JOHN FAIRNOT : DISCIPLES OF THE COUNTER- REVOLUTION Let this be known, to the Black Panther Party internationally, that these two cowardly lovers are hereby divorced from the Black Panther Party, andseparated from the Black Revolution. On last Saturday everiing, August 15, 1970, the cowardly cops of the Pittsburgh Pig Department, shot at our N,C,C,F, location in the Black Community of Home- wood. At this time when a per~ son's cool was entirely necessary, these two fools blew their cool. Vera attributed her behavior to her poor health, and John attri- buted his poor behavior to the weak excuse that he was uptight, but Party investigations has showa that there is no excuse for his monumental insult to the Black Community Information Center at Homewood and Brushton, Their poor practice is an insult to the revolution, and they are hereby exposed and released, to the jus- tice of the streets. They did con- spire to commit dissension and unrest among the local organiza- tion. It is in the interest of our people’s struggle that the following be said: They are never to be allowed in ANY chapter headquarters, branch office, section information center, National Committee to Combat Fascism Center, or any other relating serious organizing site in/around Babylon, as long as they both shall live, ‘What you think is on the level is crookeder, brothers and sisters, than a pret- zel...which is most crooked,”’-- Malcolm X N.C.C.F., Pittsburgh 574 Brushton . Mumia continued from last page BABYLONIAN REVOLUTION vive, that motivates the actions and leadership of the Black Pan- ther Party and.as long as the peo- ple struggle for liberation they will have a vanguard, with the strongest revolutionaries to lead them, The Babylonian (American) revolution is something that Nixon, Agnew, J. Edgar Hoover, nor any pigs with any force can stop be- cause the revolution is inevitable, It can’t be stopped, because the survival.of all people depends up- on the revolution we must have it and will have it. Huey says: ‘‘An unarmed people are slaves or sub- jected to slavery at any given moment.”’ And the people are moving to arm themselves, Each day the people move to resist this fascist system more than the day before; and the harder the system,.comes down on the people theharder the peop!= will come down on it, to destroy it’s quest for human life, And unleash upon all of it’s evil the Babylonian revolution, ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! REVOLUTION INOUR LIFETIME! Candi Robinson Ministry of Information Black Panther Party Oakland, Calif. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1970 PAGE 18 4 ff MEE LSS SET FFF SCE PL Ff SEED LPS EEE PF ET SLY EOS FF LF OLS LPF LD LPL I LS | EL FE October 1966 Black Panther Party Platform and Program What We Want What We Believe SRS SO SCOSCE ES x anata arene seetee o <x neo. Se x <5 KOR SOL S55 S55 RKO <> see oe, ~~ x x 2s, x ex , * Huev P. Newton Minister of Defense Black Panther Party . 1. We want freedum. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community. We believe that black peop!e will not be free until we are able to deter- mine our destiny ea A Ohh Ahh Ahhh thts _____ stnee______._ _A¢4ee . ; oe ; . fe % SOS : « @ os 2, Pa » x « « 2. We want full employment for our people. We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income, We believe that if the white American businessmen will not give full employment. then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and em- ploy all of its people and give a bigh standard of living LLL SMT etre LL LS Sf ESS RS LL SL LE LE ES LS SS ET SL SE LS LS LF ES LL LL OS LF FS ED DE ee (1444 3. We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community We believe that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules was promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Ger- mans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people; therefore. we feel that this is a modest demand that we make 4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. We believe that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people. 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society. We believe in an educational system that will give to our people a knowl- edge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else. 6. We want all black men to be exempt from military service. We believe that Black people. should not be forced to fight in the mifi- tary service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary. 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people. We believe we can end police brutality in our black community by or- ganizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We thetefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self-defense. 8. We want freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails. 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 beiieve that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, en- vironmental, hiStorical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the “average reasoning rian” of the black community. 10. We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations-supervised plebis- cite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny. When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and naturg’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life. liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Pru- dence. indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable. than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But. when a long train of abuses.and usurpations, pur suing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab- solute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern- ment, and to provide new guards for their future security. | ET SL LF ED LL SS! SS OY ff! EEE EE FM LP ETRE fF PCA RS EE 6 LO EBD We believe that all plack people should be released. fro mia) 26 «jails and prisons because th»y have not received a . | N | N NY | NI N | ‘ N | NI N | N ‘ | ‘\ N | \ N t CASH__MONEY ORDER__CHECK _ PLUS POSTAGE PLEASE MAKE OUT YOUR OWN ITEM LIST © ALBUM--Dig by Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Infor- mation of the Black Panther Party. 3.50 each ALBUM -- Seize the Time by Elaine Brown, Black Panther Party. ‘After three hundred years of Slavery and caste oppression, unmitigated terror and torture, Physical and otherwise--which continues today though opposed by every means possible of hu- man conception--while all the time remaining faithful to this government in time of war and peace, we feel the United Na- tions must give a hearing to the plight of Black Amer- icans.’’--Brother Malcolm (left to right) Eldridge Cleaver, Huey P. 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