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Rules of the Black Panther Party INSIDE : REVOLUTION AND EDUCATION S^SSCTB^18™ i .- r - THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1969 PAGE 2 LOS SIETE DE LA RAZA AND THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY The Black Panther Party goes forth to meet the needs and desires of the people. De La Raza means the seven. The seven are a group of Latin brothers who are accused of killing a fascist San Francisco Pig, on Los Siete de la Raza May 1st this year. Six of these brothers Taken from prison CMC East And would like to tell the par­ are in jail and the fascist forces of S.F. are searching for a seventh. The fascist ents and the Siete group that the Black Panther Party and who man the county jail in San Francisco the community is behind you 100%, and that we intend to do are brutalizing and torturing the brothers everything within our power to see that you're liberated. I've as they do all political prisoners. had the same experience of going through an ordeal similar One of the Latin brothers has a case of hepatitis, he has constantly been refused to what you're going through now. So I know the many the right to see a doctor. Another brother pressures upon you. But I would like to say that it's very is suffering from diarrhea, he has been important for you to remain very strong, in order for your refused a doctor's care. These brothers have parents to be able to go through this. Together you will give been allowed to take only two showers since they were arrested in May. One of the bro­ each other strength, in knowing that the community is be­ thers was put in the "hole" for doing no hind you, and that the whole liberation struggle is support­ more than stepping on a wet floor. The ing you. That you have very little to worry about in the fin­ fascist dog police spit in the brother's food. al effect, because the people are always victorious. So I They are approached individually by the fascist, who tries to get one to sell out the would like to say again, keep your spirit high, because that others. will be very important to surmount the obstacle, and to sur­ mount the oppression that you're facing at this time. Be­ cause once you give up, then it's all lost, but as long as your confident and your spirit is high there's nothing that we can't overcome together. So I would like to say, Power to all the People, Brown Power to Brown People, Black Pow­ er to Black People, and Power to all the Oppressed People Mario Martinez, JOB« Moltmdas and JOB» EL OB f The Black Panther Party sees that there brothers are political prisoners the same as Huey P. Newton. Their community is occupied by fascist police who occupy it like a foreign troop occupies territory. They have been subjected to the intimidation and I CHARLES GARY 1 name calling of Alioto and his gang of City Mr. Charles R. Garry bandits. The Black Panther Party stands in 341 Market Street support of the Los Siete de La Raza and in San Francisco, California June 20, 1969 firm solidarity with the Latin community. Dear Mr. Garry: We will do every thing within our power Reference is made to the Black to see that these brothers are not railroaded Panther organization. We have this day mailed a letter into the gas chamber by the fascist pigs of to the President of the United States urging him to propose legislation FREE LOS SIETE this state. The brothers are being defended affecting the Black Panther mem­ by the best and most revolutionary attorney bership. We urge the President to outlaw in America; Charles R. Garry. the Black Panthers as vicious cri­ MAIL $1 TO On Saturday afternoon of last week the minals who advocate the overthrow of the United States government. Los Siete de la Raza chairman of the Black Panther Party met We suggest that members of the c/o CHARLES R. GARRY Black organization be summarily with the parents and families of the seven. arrested and detained and subse­ Attorney at Law The chairman and the Panthers were greeted quently confined to an internment 341 Market Street camp...The President as Com­ San Francisco, Calif. with warmth and enthusiasm as they ex­ mander in Chief of our armed 94150 plained the Party's ideology and the nec­ forces should have such authority. The internment should also apply essity of forming coalitions in order to sur­ to the SDS and splinter groups... People who advocate the over­ vive fascist Americans. The families of the throw of our form of government seven were given a massage from the Min­ should be removed from society as one would remove a milignant ister of Defense Huey P. Newton which is cancer growth... also printed in this issue of the paper. THE BLACK PANTHER SATURDAY. JUNE 28. 1969 PAGE 3 THE PARAMILITARY lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilimilllililUllllUIIIIJIIIIIIIS | REPRINTED FROM 1 PLAYBOY MAGAZI NE 1 RIGHT «iiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiia those paranoid patriots William Fulbright, the bêle noire of the arm, the Patriotic Party, hatched a plot the picture." —the minutemen—plot ultraright ever since his exposure of to assassinate .Stanley Marcus, millionaire Brooks, who blew the whistle on the to save america by General Edwin A. Walker's indoctrina­ owner of the Neiman-Marcus depart­ cyanide plot in Kansas City's I!. S. Dis­ tion of his troops with Birchite propa­ trict Court during DePugh's trial for assassinating their ment store and one of the city's few ganda in 1961, has received hundreds of outspoken liberals. An informer present violation of the National Firearms Act enemies and taking over threats from Minutemen and their sup­ at the planning sessions told journalist —and who is now hiding out in the the country themselves porters. In 1962, one fanatic Minuteman William W. Turner, an ex-FBI agent, Alaskan tundra to escape his former put aside his pen and reached for his that snipers intended to ambush Marcus comrades' retribution—believes that the article By ERIC NORDEN riHe. The plot to assassinate Fulbright on one of his out-of-town trips, since "an­ Minutemen are biding their time for a was the brain child of "John Morris," the other assassination in Dallas would be too fresh attack on the UN, with or without ". See the old man at the corner nom de guerre of a Dallas Minuteman much.'' Once more, however, DePugh got cyanide gas. "That place is a symbol of where you buy your papers? He may activist and former recruiter for George wind of the plot and aborted it at the everything they hale." he explained to a have a silencer-equipped pistol un­ Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party, last moment. journalist. "They're bound to take an­ der his coat. That extra fountain other crack at it someday." pen in the pocket of the insurance Real or imagined Communists—in salesman that calls on you might be and out of the UN—have been a favor­ a cyanide gas gun. What about your ite target of Minuteman terrorist attacks milkman? Arsenic works slow but in recent years. In the predawn hours of sure. Your automobile mechanic may October 30, 1966, 19 heavily armed Min­ stay up nights studying booby traps. utemen, divided into three bands, were These patriots are not going to let intercepted by staked-out police (tipped you take their freedom away from by an FBI informant) as they zeroed them. They have learned the silent in on left-wing camps in a three-state knife, the strangler's cord, the target area. Targets of the coordinated forays rifle that hits sparrows at 200 yards. were Camp Webatuck at Wingdale, New Only their leaders restrain them. York, where fire bombs with detonators Traitors beware! Even now the cross had already been set in place; Camp hairs are on the back of your necks." Midvaie in New Jersey; and a pacifist community at Voluntown. Connecticut, THE MULTiLiTH LETTER, bordered in established by the New England Com­ black and headed "In Memoriam," mittee for Nonviolent Action. According was addressed to a small group of to Queens district attorney Nat Hentel. liberal Congressmen who had voted who helped coordinate the roundup, the to deny appropriations to the House Minutemen, disguised as hunters, intend­ Committee on Un-American Activi­ ed to burn the camps to the ground— ties for the fiscal year 1904-1965. It along with their inhabitants. A state was one of thousands run off by police official added, "I don't know what superpatriots accusing HUAC's foes they thought they were going to accom­ of aiding and abetting "the interna­ plish, but they had plenty of hardware tional Communist conspiracy"; but who was convinced that the systematic A more grandiose and imaginative available to get the job done."' few of the letter's recipients were liquidation of leading liberals could Minuteman elfort was the attempt to As the Minutemen were being herded inclined to dismiss it as the work of "purify" the country, terrorize the oppo­ introduce cyanide gas into the air-condi­ into custody, raids on secret munitions a commonplace political crank. The sition and enable the paramilitary right tioning system of the United Nations bunkers and basement arms caches by warning was issued by the Minute- lo "gain control of the Government." Building during a General Assembly ses­ 110 state, county and city police officers men of America, an underground Morris persuaded a number of fellow sion.
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