ItAUidoscopE | fjl^ milwaukee, Wisconsin member: underground press syndicate (u.p.s.) liberation news service (l.n.s.) DEC. 19, 1969 - JAN. 2, 1970 VOL. 2, NO. 25 (#50) GOOD TIMES 1970 GET BACK Photo by Gary Ballsieper v////y////s///s/r///////s////^^^ the house that blood built by Art Heitzer shoot-out. Most of the white Some time ago the Black Pant­ movement calls it a massacre. her Party dropped the last part The Panthers more calmly refer of its name "for self defense" to it as "another search and in an apparent attempt to de-' destroy mission.'' Of the invading emphasize the para-military as­ police, one suffered a glass cut pects. But it still remained as a. on his hand, another a slight shot vanguard group within the black wound in the leg, while the others community urging self-defense escaped from the "shoot-out" as completely justified and the with little more than the stains of duty of any black person in this Chairman Fred's blood, or country. Through its example, perhaps that of some of his it has attempted to do much brothers or sisters. more than pass beyond the stage Significantly, non-panther and of non-violence; it has worked to "non-violent" black leaders de­ politicize its constituency around nounced the raid in the harshest the evils of capitalism and class of terms. Jesse Jackson, who still society, to relate domestic preaches non-violence with racism to the international strug­ Operation Breadbasket, was one. gles against the U.S. forces of« A black alderman, A.A. "Sammy" reaction and intervention. It has Rayner, charged that Hampton also attempted to serve the peo­ was shot in his sleep; the head of ple, with the establishment of the Afro-American policemen's free breakfast programs, and. league announced after the be­ the attempts, occasionally suc­ ginning of an investigation that it cessful, to set up free medical was an,assassination on the part clinics controlled by and for the of the police. The NAACP termed black community. But for most it a modern day lynching. And the Amerikans it seems to be pri-. village of Maywood (Hampton's marily something akin to an army, home) elders announced they just as the allusion Thomas A. would ^attempt tO| get murder Panthers have shown the apart­ have been reported and docu­ It is now almost one year since Johnson cited (in his introduc­ warrants 'sworn out against the ment, complete with mass bullet- mented; for details, see the cur­ 21 New York Panthers were ar­ tion to the SHOOT OUT IN police involved. holes where they were standing, rent issue of the BPP newspaper. rested on charges they "con­ CLEVELAND report to the Na­ These harsh, statements stem and lack of such where police What does it all mean? First, spired" to plant bombs in de­ tional Violence Commission, from the fact that Hampton was were located, to thousands of the leadership of the party at partment stores. Even though no Bantam edition, p. xviii): "The apparently shot in his sleep; he area people since. But one of the top levels appears to be such bombs were ever planted, traditionally lily-white National was admittedly shot to death in the most sobering relics is the largely decimated. The same most of them remain in jail,' Guard functions as the white his own bed, in a back room,. bed of Chairman Fred. The bed­ day as Chicago, Dave Hilliard, awaiting trial on $100,000 bond folks Black Panther Party." And and no one claims he shot at post is riddled with bullets, the chief of staff and next in line each. In Milwaukee, three mem­ it may well be that the black police. Many reports claim that mattress was soggy with his after Seale, was arrested on bers face terms for attempted panther, which never instigates he was shot from a policeman blood. And no one claims he $30,000 bond for saying, in a murder, others for resisting ar- ff When one of us fells. 1. Ill will take his place." an attack but is viscious in its with a ladder to his window, who ever fired a shot, or for that public moratorium speech to se­ rest, others for unregistered self-defense, is a very apt sym­ climbed in and shot as police at matter, knew what hit him. veral hundred thousand people, guns, etcetera. bol for an organization which has the front and back door opened The battle in L.A. came in "Fuck that motherfucking man, The survival of the party itself, come under the heaviest mili­ fire. Panthers report that Mark the wake of the Chicago mas­ we will kill Nixon, we will kill however, may be less important tary assault we can remember Clark was at the front door sacre, and circumstances were any motherfucker that stands in than its example. As a vanguard — and in our own backyard. asking "Who's there" as a bul­ quite different. The headquarters the way of our freedom." Hamp- party, the BPP expects to preach Two, recent incidents, both let responded, shot through the was heavily sandbagged, and those ton, of course, was dealt with* and demonstrate what many will clearly provoked by the govern­ door and instantly killing him on inside were not asleep. Again, for all time. Seale, in jail for only come to realize, perhaps ment, have spotlighted the issues, the inside, as all hell let loose. for blocks around the area was contempt (four years). Cleaver only through constant education, and likely raise the ante as well. Clark was 23 years old. Chairma sealed off. 300 to 400 police went into exile after he was through exposing contradictions, They are, however, but two in a Fred, who was one of the top with automatics, stoner rifles, ordered returned to jail when through seeing what is happening long list of battles, battles national Panther leaders still dynamite, and a tank in waiting his parole was revoked for pa­ in their own lives and commun­ which will continue even if the left, after Bobby Seale, was 21. occupied that part of black L.A. tently political reasons; he will ities. While it is certainly a mis­ party falls, as long as there are The police claim that they to finish off the Panthers there.. return if he receives a guarantee take to glorify violence, or to some black Amerikans alive and forced the door open, were met Two other raids there had been that he will be free unless and preach its use unnecessarily, the still struggling to be free. The by shotgun blast as they fell to completed, but this one was held until convicted of an offense for Chicago and L. A. raids show very closest to home is that of De­ the ground unhurt, and then were off for up to six hours. There which he has not already "paid." clearly the type of situation that cember 4, 1969 in Chicago. In a forced to open fire. Sources a- was to be no second ambush. And Huey P. Newton remains the government is willing to pre­ predawn raid, so reminiscent of round the area report that the Three were wounded on each locked up for perhaps 15 years sent under the guise of law and foreign tyrannies, police raided whole neighborhood had^ pre­ side, one cop seriously. The on a manslaughter conviction that order. And the Panther example of the home of BPP Illinois chair­ viously been sealed off for se­ eleven Panthers finally gave up, is still on appeal, but he is denied actively resisting this genocide man Fred Hampton, killing both veral blocks; that streetlights to the cheers of those outside, bail in the meanwhile, typical' can only win them support and him and downstate (Peoria) lead­ were darkened, and telephone certainly a heroic symbol of re­ treatment for Panther prisoners. sympathy throughout a large area er Mark Clark. Four other Pant­ service cut off, all before the sistance for black Amerika and And throughout the country, of Amerikan and world opinion. hers were wounded by gunshots. attack. The mass media report­ much of the world. Simultaneous excessive bail (or refusal to It may be, as one politicized The police and the. mass' media ed a similar attack plan four incidents of brutality to area re­ grant any at all) and a myriad of refer to it, when they do, as a days later in Los Angeles. The sidents and to arrested Panthers charges.have crippled the party. CON'T ON PAGE 11 n4oros/LyMN/cH>CAao neWSRUL AWMMWMW^^^ KALEIDOSCOPE December 19, 1969 - January 2, 1970 PAGE 3 By Dennis Gall gsjg| Well kiddies, once again it is time for more misadventures of your hero and mine, Christ T. Seraphim, who disguised as a mild-mannered judge of Misdemeanor Court, fights the never- ending battle against truth, justice, and the American Way. Those of you who read the least column, where we pointed Cuban Impressions out that Christ's mother was on a form of Welfare via a County, State, and Federal Medical Assistance program, may be won­ by the Milwaukee Committee of namese people to whom Cuba has means one can gain — not to raise dering why none of the straight papers picked up on the story. Returned Volunteers dedicated the 10 million ton sugar your income and individual stand­ The answer to that is simple. No, they didn't pick up on it be­ My first experience in Cuba harvest. One of the most recent ard of living — but to contribute cause it was untrue, quite the contrary.