The Black Panther

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~ " WHY BOYCOTT SAFEWAY? '1" ~, ;:\ No single group of laborers in ,~ America are as fiercely exploited as farm workers, The e Kploitation arises out of the rapid and widescale growth of giant, mechanized agro-business, absentee land ownership by hugecor- porations, the seasonal nature of agri- culture and massive racism, The following expression ofgrati- In California and throughout the tude was written by Ms. Shirley Mit- .Southwest, farm workers are pre- chell, a White medical technician III. dominantly Mexican-American, But Houston, Texas, and appeared ori- in many parts of the country they are ginally in the Texas State Societv Black and poor White, This is no ac- American Medical Technologists cident. It is part of the pattern of Journal, June, 1973. exploitation, Depending on the high level of un- I do not believe most people are employment and under -employment of aware of the constant struggle that MeKican -Americans and Blacks in Blacks face in America. One need areas of their high concentration, for survival in the Black community owners and managers of agro-busi- is to be aware of and to fight Sickle nesses offer starvation wages and 19th Cell Anemia. Century working conditions to those Through my employers, The Fourth who harvest much of the produce that Ward Clinic, and by assisting the the American people eat, Dear EdIt...", Houston Branch of the Black Panther Party in their free Sickle Cell An- Throughout the rural South Black ThIs Is just a short note to let you know how much men, women and children have been 1 enJoy reldlng your weekly paper. 11IE BLACK emia testing program, I have had the exploited for decades as tenant far- PAN'niER. honor of addressing, onnumerousoc- 1 flrKl It very dIrect and Informstlve In dealing mers as well as farm laborers, Today, wJlil community, notional IIKI Intern8tlonal news th8t casions, the student body of the Texas as the individual small farm of A- we 88 Black. poor and oppressed people In thls nstlon Southern University Pharmacy School merican tradition is rapidly being should be aware of. on the topic of Sickle Cell Anemia. It baa alwa ys been of ~moat Imponance. In my replaced by the new, modern, giant opinion. th8t Black IIKI other poor and oppo-essed peo- The students asked to help the Pan- farm "plantation", the Black and ples here In thls country have a viable, effectIve news- thers in two neighborhood screening paper service whose Impetus and dIrection serve 88 the programs this spring. In the process, small farmer is either being pushed voice of the common people. ThIs Is of no concern to off the land or forced into a new the establIshed modia, who Is supposedly doIng thIs. we taught about thirty students to ad- slavery little better than that the What the Black Panther Party Is doIng In Oakland Is minister the screening tests. There- panlculariy beautIful .Imply because the peoples need. Civil Warwas supposed to have ended, are tryIng to be ~t. ThIs Is always Important because after, the stUdents asked the Panthers The federal government and state If Black and poor people don't have s motivating force and me to help them organize a cam- to revolve around. whlcb the Panther Party serve. 88. pus-wide Sickle Cell screening pro- governments bordering on Mexico theIr exploltstJoD by thIs Inhumane social order wI1l .make a pretense of maintaining bor- contInue indefln8tely. gram for the 5,000 students at Texas jer controls to prevent hard-pressed Southern University. Once agaIn. In closIng. 1 really enjoy 'niB BLACK \1exicans traveling north in search PANniER and hope that the Black Panther Pony will Our program consists of the fol- .)f a better life than they have known contInue to be a servant of the peoples needs/alwaysl lowing: (I) making people aware of .n their homeland. In fact, however, what Sickle Cell Anemia is; (2) ad- :he evidence is overwhelming proof Sincerely, ministering the solubility screening FrederIck Clark .)f the complicity of government with St. l.ouls, Ma. test; (3) drawing a Hgb. Electro- agro-business to import cheap Mexi- phoreses on the spot for all positive :an labor to work in the fields, screening tests; ( 4) giving follow-up All this helps to explain why the Dear Brothers aOOSIsters, geneti~ counselling in the patient's Black Panther Party has launched a home through a team of students and 1 would like '0 commen, briefly on on article you .Eull-scale boycott of Safeway super- wro'e pertaIning '0 the fourteen-year-old SIster shot Panthers. We have tested over 7,000 llarkets in Oakland, and has aligned by on Atlanta, Georgia, pIg. Ir shows once aga1nhow people to date following the above pro- : i.tself wholeheartedly with the strug- degenerce aOOruthl..s dIe animals are. FIrst, the barbarIc murder of young 8rod1er ClIfford Glover last gram. .~le of the United Farm Workers Union mondl bY the terrorls,s In New York, Now the Inddent We have benefitted from the co- .UFWU), led by the indomidable Ce- wkh dIe Sister. operation of many people. Mr. Neil Mony more of us will feel some of dIe fasdst wrath .~ar Chavez. before the lnevllable desrruttlon of the western hemIs- Rawlinson, Nivalo Institute of Medi- .The UFWU's dedication to ending phere, To my Black Brothers and SIsters everywhere, cal Technology, does our Hgb. Elec- .:he oppression of America's farm- 1 plead wkh you. Get yourselves together , because we don', have much rIme. trophoreses at no charge and Dr. .Norkers has resulted in vicious re- Jim Guilford, T .S.U. School of Phar- ' )ression. Corrupt elements in the macy, makes our reagent, which : 'eadership and from the ranks of the WIth uMy~ love for my peoplel costs only $40 for 5,000 tests in- : Ilready discredited Teamsters Union All power to the oppres.edl stead of the $2,500 we would have t Thorn.. Msthews. Jr . : lave joined hands with the corporate NewOrleans. La. to pay for a commercially prepared . : ~rowers to stop and break the UFWU product. They, along with others who . n its efforts. saved disposable blood bank tubes, In the interests of farm workers and have helped cut the cost of screening 111 oppressed and exploited of this 5,000 people from $7,200 to and, we urge all Americans: OON'T $140. ;HOP AT SAFEWAYI OON'T PUR- My part in a screening program is ::HA...'E NON-UFWU PICKED LET - to organize the necessary equipment rucE OR GRAPES ANYWHEREI and personnel, to teach people to ad- ;UPPORT THE UFWUI CONTINUEDONPAGE . THE BLACK !,ANTHER, SA'ItJRDi\ Y , JULY 28, 1'T13 PAGE 3

PONTIAC PRISON, ILL. lined a number of plans whichhepro- mises will be implemented by Sep- tember ISth. Two key programs he said would begin before that date are a Prisoners' Rights committee and a Legal Rights committee. The Pri- PRISON OfflCIA LS soners' Rights committee is to be a grievance committee to which prison (Chicago, Ill.) -The Community demagogically stating that! .there was inmates can go for redress of pro- Involvement Committee of Pontiac a lot of hostility between the pri- Prison met with top ranking prison blems they have. soners" after the conference, and According to Brierton, the Legal officials at the facility on July Ist that was the reason for the lock-up. Rights committee would provide for to discuss the implementation of a p etrmi added that some prisoners a legal consultant on the staff of every state prison. Brierton says that a ma- -l:J\!J jor change will be making prisons operate under a .'unit management system, which breaks down the total prison system into separate depart- ments...Most of the money from now on will go into training mid-management people so that we can begin to deliver and support services for the prisoner". Brierton's promises sound good, but only the actual implementation of , these programs and by fulfilling c " " . his promise to work closely with the - committee, can he prove his sincerity . It is doubtful that any of these programs would be implemented, or even discussed at a meeting like this, if there was no strong community support for our incarcerated brothers PHIL COHRAN (le6tl be~~de MA ROU~TON OF P.U.S.H. at meeting w~th Pont~a~ p~~~on o66~~~al~. and sisters in Illinois by progressive groups like the Community Involve- number of positive programs to aid were transferred because of threats ment Committee. Their worthy ex- the prison population here. on their lives. ample will undoubtedly be followed in The lj-member committee, which Dave Brierton, who has held the other communities allover this coun- includes Black musician Phil Coh- position of assistant director of the ran, PUSH community organizer Ma Illinois Department of Corrections for try. Houston, and such organizations as only three and one-half weeks, out- Chicago Connections, Search for Truth, Inc. and the Black Panther men, women and children. However, P arty , met for over three hours with PH ILLY this repression only increased the Dave Brierton, assistant director of determination of the demonstrators, the Ulinois Department of Cor- WELFARE caused the demonstration to growand rections, Pontiac Warden JohnJ.Pet- ultimately resulted in welfare case- rilli, and Assistant Warden Donald workers joining in. CHECK DELAY Harvey. The three officials made By mid-day some of Philadelphia's many promises to the group, but failed poverty programs tried to quell the to r~spond adequately to the group's PROTESTED anger of the demonstration by pro- questions about the penal institution's viding food. But, whenthedemonstra- latest violations of prison inmate (Philadelphia, Pa.) -Seve ral hun- tors saw the bent, unlabeled, rusty rights, an illegal lock-up and unjust dred welfare recipients held ia protest cans donated by the Campbell Soup transferrals. demonstration here last week because Company, they were outraged. The The meeting followed the com- their welfare-checks were t\110 Vleeks Philadelphia Chapter of the Black mittee's successful June 4th Com- late. The checks were hellj up by Panther Party added sandwiches, hot munity Prisoners Conference. At that state capital bureaucracy aJ[ld could dogs and sodas to the food and blan- conference, for the first time, prison not be released until the le~~islature kets provided the demonstrators. As inmates and community supporters passed a new budget. Me anwhile, darkness fell over the crowded in- met in workshops to outline programs many welfare recipients WE!re hard tersection, support shown the to remedy prison ills. pressed to find money for 1'ood and demonstrators had increased even The committee demanded that the other essentials,such as medi,calcare. more. officials explain why prison inmates Welfare recipients arrive !d at the Just after midnight, a policeman were being transferred to other pri- welfare assistance office in dlowntown allowed a friend to drive through the sons without the notification of their Philadelphia as early as 7:30 a.m. blockaded intersection. As the demon- families? Why prisoners were not on July llth to receive auIthoriza- strators moved to stop the car and being afforded an opportunity for re- tions for interest-free bat1k loans ask the driver his reason for runn~ ligious services? Why prisoners were and emergency food stamps. The of- the blockade, the car sped up and just put on lock-up following the l;om- fice was closed, and the wai ting line mowed through the crowd, crushing mittee's June 4th conference? Why the overflowed into the large inte!rsection the legs of an elderly man lying on a ratio of Black guards doesn't nearly of two busy streets. blanket. approach the percentage of Black in- Soon the welfare recipient s had all The demonstration ended when mates? traffic through the inte!rsectioIi police waded into the tiemonstrators Warden Petrilli only gave piece- blocked. Police arrived in bllses and and arrested 18 persons. Three meal answers to these questions, riot wagons, brutalizing and alrresting CONTINUEDONPAGE 15 rnB SLACK PANntBR, SATURDAY, JULY 28,1973 PAGE 4

PRESIDENTIAL POLLS REVEAL

KENNEDY/WALLACE

FRONTRUNNERS

(Princeton,N.J.) -Edward M. Ken- nedy and George C. Wallace of Ala- bama are the two front-runners for the Democratic Presidential nomina- (Marin, Ca.) -SuperiorCourtJudge tion in 1976, according to a Gallup Joseph Wilson has denied all motions poll reported iast week. However, a for a new trial in the case of Earl question designed to test the public's Gibson and Larry Justice, two Black identity awareness, showed George prisoners unjustly convicted of mur- LARRY J.USTJ.CE Wallace edging Kennedy with 94 per- dering a prison guard and assaulting cent, to Kennedy's 93 percent, both an inmate in San QuentinPrison. Wil- leading the list. son made this ruling despite much The Massachusetts Senator is the evidence and testimony clearly in- first choice of 40 percent of those dicating their innocence and the pro- polled. Wallace is second withl6per- ven and admitted evidence of jury cent. Senator Edmund S. Muskie of misconduct. Maine is next choice with 9 percent, Two jurors have admitted re- followed by Senators Hubert H. Hum- searching the case illegally after the phrey of Minnesota and George Mc- jury was excused for the day. Another Govern of South Dakota with 8 per- juror del iberately lied during the jury cent each. selection process. Judge Wilson The poll was based on a nation- maintained that this. 'may not have wide sample of 1,566 adults, but only affected'. the trial results. the views of the 659 persons labeling There was no factual evidence at themselves as Democrats were used all linking the defendentsto the crime. for the nomination choices. Fingerprints found on the murder EARL GIBSON Although the question of whether weapon were proven not to belong to or not Kennedy will be a presidential either defendent. Three civilian pri- candidate in 1976 is reportedly still son employees, reliable witnesses, up in the air, his recent sojourn in- confirmed that the two men running to Wallace's racist territory to test from the scene of the stabbings were the lay of the Southland indicates he not Justice or Gibson. Both de- is rapidly making up his mind to run. fendents had several witnesses to the He recently announced he will reveal fact that they were somewhere else his plans shortly after the 1974 con- at the time. The only prosecution testimony was gressional elections. w ALLACE AND BLACKS the word of ex-Inmate Herman John- Meanwhile, the Associated Press son, who Judge Wilson acknowledged reported last week that Georgia State was an unreliable, non-credible wit- R~presentative Julian Bond and Go- ness, and who is considered a vernor Wallace will be among the .'snitch" by other prlsone~s at San speakers this weekend at a Democra- Quentin. Nevertheless. Judge Wilson tic party delegate selection con- callously denied Brothers Justice and ference in Atlanta, Georgia. Gibson a new trial. The stage is being set. This Gal- The defense Is raising $5,000 for lup Poll result, coming hard on the an appeal. Send all contributions to: heels of Kennedy's appearance inDe- The Glbson-Justice Defense Fund. catur, Alabama, as guest of Gover- c/o Joe Scharlln, 2963 Magnolia Qor George Wallace, the symbol of Street. Berkeley, California 94705. American racism, is part of the pattern. The appearance of Wallace on the GRATITUDE TO B.P.P. same platform as Black Georgia State Representative Julian Bond, is meant CONTINUED FROM P.\GE 2 to suggest to Blacks, and to the minister the tests, to supervise and American people as a whole, that draw blood at the testing location and Wallace isn't so bad on Blacks, after to teach genetic counseling. all. He's speaking on the same plat- I thank the Panthers for showing me form with one, isn't he? the. 'struggle" and involving me in it, But Black Americans will not be the clinic for giving me encourage- fooled. We know who George Wal- ment and time off to work in these lace is, and we know now who Ken- programs, and the T .S.U, Pharmacy nedy is. Kennedy and Wallace in 1976, School for all their help and interest. will make it impossible for us to ex- Mo~t of all I thank all the people ercise our right to vote unless we are \V ho h~ve help~d gnj be~n in'!olved ~i.,en a real alternative to the Nixons with :1\e rrogr lm. ~, ii P~i!' ,1 rre- .f ',': ac~r:;,-e. TQ Ji!f:;'. .,.";r;1~ vo..e .I. menduus l')iJOrtunity for Jll ji 0.;; to ::;'0 .:::!c;!.c:..l '\.1) i.;; t:'J.,Jn:",!fi\oJ- serve the peo?le. ;3te:; for f.lsci~m in ,\me(lc.1.

.. SOUTHERNU. MURDERS actually fired the shots", Sister Kuji said that from films commission SPECIAL INVESTIGA TION "A WASTE members saw and visits they made to the scene of the shooting, they OF TIME" could have determined which police- (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) -' , A Haqulia said after the commission's men shot the brothers, The commission report, released waste of time" is the way in which released its report July 10, .'they last week by Attorney General WU- one Black member of the Attorney could have passed down indictments liam J, Guste, Jr" states: ..Leon- General's Special Commission of In- in November". It is similar to the ard Brown and Denver Smith were quiry described the commission's in- Kent State and Jackson State student shot as they were running away from vestigation of the November 16, 1972, massacres, in 1970, Sister Kuji told the entrance of the administration fatal shootings of two Black students THE BLACK p ANTHER, .'they had building, They were not under arrest on the Baton Rouge campus of South- investigation commissions and in- and were not armed, They were shot ern University .quiries to look into exactly what hap- as they ran along the escape route If they were going to indict any- pened, but no indictments were ever which the law enforcement agencies one for the murders Sister Kuji made against the murderers who had planned in the event gas was used, There was no justification in law enforcement for their being shot, The HAYWARD entire confrontation of November 16, 1972, should never have occurred," BROWN y et, the confrontation did take place, instigated by an insensitive school administration and racist White state WINS THIRD police; as a result Brothers Leonard Brown and Denver Smith were killed, AQUITT AL Referring to these findings of the commission, Sister Kuji explained that these unjust police actions "had (Detroit, Michigan) -Controversy to come out, becausetherewasnoway surrounds the July 6th, acquittal of they could justify the fact that they Brother Hayward Brown on two counts valued property over the brothers' of assault with intent to murder two lives", Wayne State University policemen. STUDENT FRUSTRATION The jury of one Puerto Rican, ten The report further states, "South- Blacks and one Japanese-American ern University is a Black school brought the ten-day trial to a close Haywa~d B~own'4 ju~y 6o~e- under the control of a State Board of after two hours of deliberations. As lIIan STANLEY LEON. Education which has no members who jury foreman Stanley Leon announced "Cahalen is trying to show we were are Black, This fact evidently caused the unanimous, first-vote verdict of biased. He shouldn't try to find bias much of the student frustration, con- the nine man, three woman jury, in our minds just because he feels fusion and distrust that led to the Judge Samuel Gardner's court was we should return a guilty verdict. unrest on the campus in October ana filled with cheers. It was the third What did he want us to do, railroad November of 1972, The commission acquittal Haywood Brown has received someOOdy?" determined that there was a general recently; the other two coming in con- In contrast, Brother Leonfoundde- feeling of helplessness on the part of nection with cases associated with the fense attorney Kenneth V. Cockrel's the students"," notorious killer-cop squad, STRESS. case intelligent and convincing. Brown Although the commission alleges it However, Assistant Wayne COUBty had twice before been attacked with- , 'recognizes the intensity and scope of Prosecutor James T. Lacey did not out provocation by police. Police the Southern students' frustration", share the spectators' jubilation. He Commissioner John F. Nichols had it contradicts itself contending that: was, .'very disappointed by the ver- sent his men on the most intensive , 'the student demonstrations at South- dict". The next day, Wayne County manhunt in Detroit's history to get ern University were beyond the bounds Prosecutor William Cahalan told the the "mad dog killers". Said Bro- of constitutionally guaranteed protest ther Leon, ' 'Here was a young man press that the third acquittal of Bro- and created disorder on the campus, ther Brown on charges of shooting at who'd ventured into danger. He was This escalation of student grievances policemen was a .'miscarriage of being hunted like a slave with a pcic~ to student disorder did, in fact, dis- justice" and declared thar. .'There on his head...When you're hunted rput the normal function of the uni- should have been a guilty verdict". you're afraid. He (Brown) had several versity," What they do not mention, When Brother Stanley Leon, the 57 opportunities to shoot the policemen- however, is the frustration and rage year old jury foreman, saw the pro- one said Brown even pointed his gun of being Black in racist America, secutor's remarks in Sunday's news- straight at him but didn't shoot, he The commission report also papers he felt compelled to respond didn't kill anyone.'. recommends reforms, They include a to the criticism. "We were told the Brother Haywood Brown acted in greater student voice in campus af- law says we should not find him guilty self defense because he was afraid fairs, a better student relationship if there was any reasonable doubt in for his life. One month after his cap- with administrators, and a student bill our minds. I can tell you we all had ture two of his companions, John of rights, However, the commission so many doubts. Boyd and Mark Bethune were gunned contradicted itself again by prQPOsing "It was no fault of the jury's that down by pursuing police, proving the police state policies such as use of that man went free. There were so validity of his fears. We are not outside police on campus and more many holes in the case and too much surprised with Attorney Cockrel's riot control training by state police, conflicting evidence. Among other statement, "There has never been a Once again, despite overwhelming things, the jury found discrepancies conviction (in Detroit) of a White evidence establishing police res- in the ballistics evidence. Some of officer for a homicide against a ponsibility in the deaths of the tWo us work in plants and we're not stu- Black man"--we know the reasons brothers, those responsible remain pid about how guns work", Brother why. free, Stanley Leon said. PEOPLE'S

PERSPECTIVE

TALK SHOWS BUGGED

(New York) -The Secret Service and FBI are tuned in on people who phone radio talk shows with remarks (Brooklyn, New York) -Prison in- critical of President Nixon. Tapes of mates in New York City's Brooklyn their calls are being provided to the House of Detention, a pre-trial de- government. "We've been getting tention center for men, are staging these requests every two or three a month-long court boycott. They are months from Secret Service or the protesting the denial of their constitu- FBI", said R. Peter Straus, presi- tional and human rights by the city and dent of New York station I WMCA, state of New York. Scheduled to end "particularly when the President is on July gist, the boycott involves coming to New York...they monitor us about 65% to 8~ of the facility's very carefully for the voices." 1,200 detainees. The prison inmates seek an end to PRISONERS UNION CALLED the practice by King's County Dls- "RADICAL FRONT" trict Attorney Eugene Gold of over- New Yo~k p~~4On ~nmate4 (Washington, D.C.) -Two Ohio indicting defendents. This is the act (t~ke the one above) a~e p~o- police intelligence officers last week of deliberately charging a defendent te4t~ng aga~n4t eond~t~on4 told the House Internal Security Com- that have e~~4ted 6o~ yea~4. with more crimes or more serious mittee that a prison labor union mo- crimes than the D.A. has any evi- give the D.A. a stronger negotiating vement in Ohio is a' 'front' , for groups dence that the defendent has actually position in the treacherous game of seeking to radicalize inmates. Detec- committed. This practice is used to plea bargaining. The D.A. can pro- tive Robert Hislop of the Columbus, CONTINUENEXT P,\GE Ohio, Police Intelligence Bureau and a former undercover agent, claimed that the Ohio Prison Labor Union formed last April is actually a front for what he called the "radical" Prisoners Solidarity Committee. Both (Atlanta, Georgia) -As part of an they didn't have to come to his house organizations are involved in efforts obvious scheme to harass and/or late at night and surround it. to gain improved prisoner conditions destroy the Atlanta Chapter of the Six days after this arrest Brother and prison reform. Black Panther Party, police here have Ron was arrested again, this time on arrested Party member Ron Carter a downtown street as a result of the BERKELEY COUNCIL twice in one week. city power structure's policy of at- Brother Ron was arrested on June tacking distributors of newspapers SUPPORTS U.F.W. 23rd at his home and held in Fulton they consider controversial. In one County Jail to await extradition on recent incident, in June, police mur- (Berkeley, Ca,} -The Berkeley charges stemming from a New Jer- dered a young Black Muslim while City Council last week moved to dem- sey arrest for alleged arms viola- he was selling papers. A police of- onStrate support for the United Farm tions. Ron's house was completely ftcer was killed in the incident and Workers Union led by Cesar Cha- surrounded by police, who were seven Muslims were arrested. vez and the struggle of farm workers heavily armed. Several days later, Two eyewitnesses to Brother Ron's by ordering city officials to purchase on June 29th. Brother Ron was ar- arrest (who were later arrested them- lettuce and table grapes picked only rested while he was peacefully circu- selves} said that he was standing by unions that have agreed to ..im- lating THE BLACK P ANTHER news- peacefully on the street circulating mediate, free and open elections", paper on an Atlanta street. papers and not bothering anyone when The Teamsters Union, claiming to When police entered Brother Ron's police arrested him. When he was ef- represent farm workers in southern apartment in the first arrest, they fectively under police control, two Cal ifornia, have repeatedly refused to had no warrants or extradition pa- men in dungarees, who were ap- agree to open elections, pers. The police went so far as to parently undercover police, came say that he may have been involved running across the street and beat VETERANS TRIAL TO BEGIN in the New Orleans shootout of Jan- h im up. Brother Ron received lacera- uary in which Mark Essex was killed. tions on one arm, a swollen lip and a (Gainesville, PIa,} -The Gaines- The columns of Atlanta's establish- bruise on the side of his head. He was ville 8, seven members of the Viet- ment press took up this far-fetched charged with creating a turmoil, vio- nam Veterans Against the War (VV- cry and tried to implicate Brother lation of the Safe Streets and Side- AW) and a supporter of the organiza- Ron in the shootout. walk Act, and inciting a riot, How- tion, victims of Watergate/Gemstone At a June 26th hearing, Brother ever, Atlanta police were the only provocation and conspiracy, go on Ron's case was postponed for two ones who were guilty of these charges. trial on July 31in Gainesville, Florida, weeks while New Jersey prepared Brother Ron spent the weekend in for "conspiracy", A five day demon- extradition papers. He was released jail after his friends were told his stration of support, from July 31st to on $1,000 bond. Brother Ron's at- bail was set at $10,000, when it was August 4th, is scheduled in Gaines- torney, AI Horn, said that the case actually $1,700. He was released the ville, including rallies, marches, mu- was "a total political arrest, total following Monday, after a hearing sic, guerrilla theater, courthouse political harassment". He said that which .'reduced" his bail to $1;600. watch and people's assembly/camp- if the police wanted Carter so bad. sites, THE BLACK PANTHER.SAWRDAY. JULY 28,1973 PAGE 7

COURT

BOYCOTT

CONTINUED FROM P.~E 6 mise to drop this or that charge, or reduce a charge to a less serious count, if the defendent will agree to plead guilty to the remaining charges. It is a viclous "game" and failure to play, or play well, has resulted in lengthy sentences for unfortunate victims. Poor defendents must accept legal counsel from the court because they can not pay for private attorney. The court-appointed attorney can only provide inadequate and ineffective defense for the victim. The average "Legal Aid Society" lawyer is Att~ea de6endent4' ~uppo~te~~ out~~de Wa~~aw, New Yo~k handling aOOut 100 cases at a time. eou~thou~e. These attorneys rarely see their clients for more than five minutes before going to trlal. This inadequacy and the slowpaceofthecourtprocess, with some defendents waiting up to two REPRESSION MARKS PROCEEl )/NGS years before going to trial, comprise vlolations of the prisoner's Sixth (Buffalo, N. Y .) -Last month saw the sacre site or read the ballistics and Amendment rights to "a speedyand opening of pre-trial hearings in the autopsy reports. public trial" and"assistanceofcoun- case of 60 prisoners and former pr~- One defendent was beaten on the Bel for his defense". soners who were indicted by the state second day of the hearings by the The ridlculously high bails that of New York in the attermath of the guards and Erie County sheriff's de- CLJNTL"'LEDUNP\GE 1:3 are set keep many defendents, par- Atticl1 Prison rebellion and the sub- ticularly the poor. in jail for up to sequent massacre. two years before going to trial. This Meanwhile, in Washington, D.C., N .C .ACTIVIST RE CEIVES practice flagrantly ignores the Eighth the House Select Committee on Crime Amendment provision that "excessive released a report condemning the SUSPENDED SENTENCE bail shall not be required..." There is needlessness of the use of shotguns no question that the condltions at the in retaking the prison. The senseless (Wilmington, N.C.) -"Even though 1 won't have to serve any time, I'm Brooklyn House of Oetentionalsovio- slaughter of 39 men including hostage not content with this sentence. I'm in- late the Eighth Amendment clause prison guards, and the maiming of prohibiting "cruel and unusual literally hundreds more resulted from nocent.'. These words were spoken by the use of shotguns on that day. Ms. Mollie Hicks, Black community punishments". Despite this. 'lip service' , by the activist, after she received a three- The removal of six judges, the Chief year suspended sentence on June 29th. Clerk and O.A. Gold, all particularly government, not one of the govern- She along with Rev. Ben Chavis and unfair and repressive officials, is ment's agents, troopers or state of- another prison inmate demand. The ftcials, have been indicted. All 60 de- her 19-year old daughter, Leatrice, prison inmates also demand a federal fendents at the Buffalo trial are sur- were accused of being accessories investigation of their grievances, in- vivors of the unarmed prison popula- after the fact in the 1971 accidental cluding irregularities in the Grand tion, who were attacked because of killing of Clifford Wright. (See the Jury proceedings, arbitrary denial of their demand for human rights,cl\using July 7, 1973, issue of THE BLACK defense motions, and unnecessary their oppressors to lose their prestige p ANTHER.) transportation of inmates back and of power; senseless, inhumaneretali- A mistrial was declared against Leatrice. Charges against Rev. Cha- forth to court. ation killing innocent men who sought vis were dropped on June 22nd because At least two national organizations only their dignity . of the flimsiness of the case against have announced their support for the Amid rigid security arrangements, prisoner's OOycott. The Congress of Judge Carmen Ball'g court was the him and because of community sup- Racial Equality (CORE) recently held scene of striking revelations as pro- port from throughout North Carolina. MB. Hicks apparently was chosen as a mass rally in front of the jail. The ceedings began on June 18. Defense Black Panther Party fully supports attorney Don Jellirek, legal coordin. the scapegoat of the trial. Ms. Hicks was accused of the "ac- the prisoners' just demands. ator of the At tic a cases, charged that "Watergate-type surveillance"of278 cessories'~ charge after claiming that members of the legal defense team is Cllftord Wright, who was accidentally occuring. Attorney Arthur Kiney's shot by Donald Nixon while both were phone has been tapped 26 times by guarding her apartment, was shot by the U.S. Justice Department's own a white man as he opened the door of admission. Attorney Jellirek's office her apartment. However, Donald was mysteriously broken into several Nixon, the chief prosecution witness, times in the weeks beforethehear- reversed his previous statement and has now confessed to accidentally ings began. Although the government has al- shooting Clifford while engaging in ready squandered over $3 million re- horseplay, as both were guarding Ms. searching and gathering evidence to be Hicks' apartment during a period of used in the trial, defense lawyers have racial violence in the city. not even been allowed to view the mas- \I c11 THE BLACK PANTHER, SAruRDAY, JULY 28,1973 PAGE 8 , ,

locked to the seat, and another chatn is looped through our leg shackles '" and padlocked to the floor. To stt six ~ic', ~ hours tn tiJat posttlon ts rtdtculous, to

~; use no lesser -term. When we get back from court our elbow and should- er joints are extremely sore because they have been out of use and badly JOHNNY SPAIN DESCRIBES COURTROOM situated for 8 or 9 hours. I refuse to sit there and accept that. Whenin the holding cell, though stilI chained up, TORTURE OF SAN QUENTIN SIX 1 can at least lay down on the wooden 'ART I bench. "(3) San Quentin guards jump us The following, written by San Q!ten- when they please, I'm not going to sit tin Six defendent Johnny Spain, has iri the courtroom all chained up as been excerpted from a lawsuit filed if 'peace is normal', because it's by Brother Spain in Marin County not when the people are not able to Superior Court. The suit "seeks to see. The guards take the liberty to halt all proceedings and matters re- administer severe beatings while lated to this case until such matters we're chained up, (we haven't left as will be described below are heard and given disposition'.. Charging that thetr "Adjustment Center" sinceAu- their human rights have been gust 21, 1971, without being chained neglected and denied, Johnny Spain up), so the court scene is a show, vividly depicts the cruel and vicious a circus. When the chains come off beatings that the San Quentin Six are I'm sure you won't see any of those subjected to; recounting the chaining guards in the courtroom. In order and torture of the defendents as only for the situation to be "orderly", ' t \, as they say, those chains will have \ he can--from the point of view of the 1)1 San Quentin Six themselves. CONTINUEDONPAGE 16 Drastically restricted in their legal moves, and denied counsel of their choice, the San Quentin Six are also planning to file a $1,000,013,000 civil rights suit on these grounds. In view of the fact that the Nixon- controlled media continues to hide from the public view the truth behind 'he case of the San Quentin Six,white- cashing the State's ruthless assassin- Ition of Comrade George Jackson on finally there is a chain looped around \ugust 21, 1971, THE BLACK PAN- our necks and padlocked to the waist "HER is proud to reprint Brother chain in back of us. The most move- , -ohnny Spain's acount of the events at ment we have with our handsis holding "e Marin County Courthouse at the our legal material--very little else. "une 29th pre-trial hearing. In speak- We even have to strain in leaning 'tg out in his own defense, and in the over to smoke a cigarette. It is vir- efense of the San Quentin Six, Johnny tually impossible to comb our hair pain speaks for us all. while in chains and, in fact, one could not even blow his nose ifhe wantedto. "On Friday. June 29th. 1973, the , 'Opoosed to what the Right media " ix had an appearance, in San Rafael's has been saying, I have not been in nfamous Courthouse. for what was the courtroom during any of the pro- aIled a "pre-trial hearing". When ceedings since they started earlier re left the prison that morning every - this year. Some reasons for this are: : !1ing seemed more tense than usual. '(I) I have wrist injuries of the mo- -fote: We are not the ones who made tor and sensory nerves as a re- .'1ingS tense because we are very sult of the handcuffs tightening and "1Oroughly search and even more damaging them whenthe prison guards loroughly chained up. It is only too attacked me September 7th, 1972, and : bvious that the San Quentin guards despite medical record of this as well reate the atmosphere of extra ten- as doctor's orders for protective ban- i' " ~ness. Add: we are unarmed. They dages to go between my wrists and {~ -re armed, excessively and unnec- the handcuffs, the court refuses to en- isartly. force the doctor's orders and allows ~" "The shackeling and chains should San Quentin guards to prevent me "I: !", " ! explained. Mter being stripped and from wearing these bandages.(I re- ~~, ;kin-searched". we are" "chained- fuse to sit in the courtroom pretend- ~ ~1c ,". which means literally that. There ing that the cuffs are not damaging a waist chain, padlocked around my wrists further when the fact is, it', tr waist; there are tWo single hand- they are!) ;ffs on each side of the waist chain ~ "(2) When we go in the court- Itch, once the chain is around our room we are put in more chainsl W 'C' list. our hands are cuffed to our There is a chain placed around our J;' jes; there are the leg shackles, and waist (a second chain) that is pad-

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BY HUEY p, NEWTON

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S"ICIDE

"CHINA"

PA.T 1 On October 8, 1971, in a press con- .ference held at San Francisco Inter- national Airport, Huey P. Newton announced that hehadjustreturnedfrom a IO-day visit to the PeoPle's Republic of China. Accompanying Brother Huey on the trip were fellow Black Pan- ther Party members Elaine Brown and Robert Bay. Below, THE BLACK p ANTHER reprints excerpts from the chapter entitled "China" from Huey P. Newton's brilliant new book,Re- B~othe~ HUEV P. NEwTON~n Tien at M~n Squ4~e, Ch~n4, w~th ELAINE volutionary Suicide. Find out why Huey BROWNand ROBERT BAV. says: "We felt that we were free for Today, when I think of my experi- the first time in our lives." help the people, not to oppress them. ences in the People's Republie of Their courtesy was genuine; no China -a country that overwhelmed division or suspicion exists between me while [ was there -they seem them and the citizens. somehow distant and remote. Time This impressed me 80 much that erodes the immediacy of the trip; when I returned to the United States the memory begins to recede. But and was met by the Tactical Squad that is a common aftermath of travel, at the San Francisco airport (they and not too alarming. What is im- had been called out because nearly a portant is the effect that China and thousand people came to the airport its society had on me, and that im- to welcome us back), it was brought pression is unforgettable. hOnle to me allover again that the "FELT AT HOME" police in our country are an occupy- While there, I achieved a psycho- ing, repressive force. 1 pointed this logical liberation I had never experi- out to a customs officer in San Fran- enced before. It was not simply that cisco, a Black man, who was armed, I felt at home in China; the reaction explaining to him that 1 felt intimi- was deeper than that. What I experi- dated seeing all the guns arourxJ. I enced was the sensation of freedom - had just left a country, I told ~im, as if a great weigh~ had been lifted where the army and the police are from my soul and I was able to be I1ot in opposition to the people but myself, without defense or pretense are their servants. or the need for explanation. I felt RECEIVED INVITATION absolutely free for the first time in I received the invitation to visit my life -completely free among my China shortly after my release from fellow men. the Penal Colony, in August, 1970. This experience of freedom had a The Chinese were interested in the profound effect on me, becauseitcon- Party's Marxist analysis and wanted firmed my belief that an oppressed to discuss it with us as well as show people can be liberated if their leaders us the concrete application <,f theory persevere in raising theirconscious- in their society .I was eager to go ness and m struggling relentlessly and applied for a passport in late against the oppressor . 1970, which was finally approved a few Because my trip was so brief and months later. However, ldidnotmake made under great pressure, there the trip at that time because of Bobby's were many places I was unable to visit and Ericka's trial in New Haven. and many experiences I had to forgo. Nonetheless, I wanted to see China Yet there were lessons to be learned very much, arid when I learned that from even the most ordinary and com- P resident Nixon was going to visit monplace encounters: a question the People's Republic in February, asked by a worker, the response of a 1972, I decided to beat him to it. schoolchild, the attitude of a govern- My wish was to deliver a message ment official. These slight and seem- to the government of the People's ingly unimportant moments were en- Republic and the Communist Party, lightening, and they taught me much. which would be delivered to Nixon For instance, the behavior of the po- when he made his visit. lice in China was a revelation to me. They are there to protect and CONTINUED NUT W&I

~ OAKLAND- A BASE OF OPERATION! PART 53

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"It's a natural alliance of poor people and people that un- surprise to those who had been following this swiftly -movin derstand that everyone has a right to live." chain of events. Two weeks prior, on July 6th, Elaine an With these words, Ms. Elaine Brown announced, on Friday Brother Bobby Seale announced that they had just complete July 20th, an all-out lx>ycott of Safeway supermarkets in the hand-delivering letters to the managers of six Safeway store city of Oakland. In the background, three separate groups of in Oakland, demanding that they end their sale of non-UF' high-spirited demonstrators representing the Black P anther picked table grapes. The letters stated in part: ' 'Your fail Party, the New Oakland Democratic Organizing Committee ure to acceed to this demand will leave us no choice but t and the United FarmWorkers Union, marched in a cadence mobilize... the entire Black, Mexican-American and justice common to all poor an oppressed people throughout this coun- seeking community of this city in a a lX>ycott of Safewa try: "Heyl Hey I I feel all r-ight.Boycottl" stores in Oakland on a scale unprecedented in California.' Standing on the corner 0{ 27th and West Streets, in the This past Wednesday, July 1Bth, Safeway received a fins heart of West Oakland's Black commu&ity, MB. Brown talked ultimatum, this one with a 24-hour deadline. Again, Safe with the press, clarifying the issues as she went along. , 'This is the first store that we are lx>ycotting in support way refused to concede to the demand; one official statin they would, "... accept whatever grapes they could get the! of the United Farmworkers (UFW) struggle for their rights hands on". to organize a union and to receive decent and fair wages. Concerning the possible duration of the lX>ycott as we] Members of the UFW have been put upon by members of the as its outcome, Elaine said, referring to the highly success Teamsters Union. Various thugs and gangsters have been ful six and one-half month lX>ycott of Bill Boyette's Liquo beating people, beating families... and trying to deny them Stores "We have been known to be very lasting in terms c their legitimate rights. our ability to walk picket lines and to have the strengt "This is a very serious struggle and we intend to stay to support what we say and support our convictions. So, 1 here at thi~ Safeway store so Safeway can receive the same we have to be out here for the next year, we'll be out here.' kind of economic strain they have put upon the farmworkers Mentioning that they intended to extend this lX>ycott to s by accepting grapes from other unions and from non-union least five other Safeway locations, Ms. Brown frankly state< people." The nearly empty parking lot behind her testified .'That will be accomplished as we build up momentum. W to the fact that, indeed, a boycott of Safeway stores was true- have a strategy in mind. People have to have a strateg ly underway. when we're put upon by the strategy of guns and terror ...' The initiation of the boycott and picketing came as no The' .strategy of guns and terror' , to which Elaine referre 1s, 1n fact, 1mplemented dally by the Teamster-grower- Safeway alllance. Two weeks ago, 1f an effort to legally combat the vicious repress1on they are fac1ng 1n the fields, the UFW filed su1ts against the Teamsters Union and 27 grape growers, seeking more than $50 million in damages ar1sing from Coachella Valley violence. It was in Coachella Valley this past Aprll that the corrupt Teamsters Union s1gned their now infamous "sweetheart contracts" (CesarChavez, Exe- cutive D1rector of UFW, wryly calls them "marriagecerti- ficates") with the table grape growers in this fertile region. This illegal action not only dentes the m1grantfarmworkers true representation by the union of their cho1ce, but it also sets the stage for the Teamster-instigated violence which has rocked the grape fields ever since. Armed with pipes, sticks, brass knuckles, chains, as well as shotguns and other assorted weaponry, racist Teamster goons --paid I;;: $50 per day --have been witnessed attacking innocent farmworkers whom they suspect sympathize with the UFW, as

well as brutally beating UFW members and picketers. ~ The UFW's struggle has not stopped there. In the Fres- ( no/Kern County reg1ons, a seemingly unconstituional court restr1ction has severely 11m1tedUFW picketing and str1ke- organizing tactics. Several months ago, Superior Court Judge John M. Naivri ordered that noUFW-p1cketers could stand or walk closer than 100 feet from each other and that the p1cketers could come no closer than 60 feet from the entrance to the fields. The use of bullhorns, essential to commun1cations in the fields, was also proh1b1ted. (Seemingly, this last restr1ct1on appl1ed to the UFW only, for the Teamsters, as Elaine mentioned, have taken great joys in singing' 'Bye Bye, Blackb1rd" through bullhorns to the striking UFW members.) Recently, to combat th1s illegal and repressive court in- The pi~~~~n9 demOn4~ato44 ma4~ked to a ~aden~~ junction, the UFW has adopted the pol1cy of mass1ve c1vll ~ommon to aU Opp4e.4'4ed people:"BOYCOTT." d1sobed1ence. Maintaining the1r self-afflrmed non-violent Meanwhile, in a closely associated but definitely distinct postUre, more than 1,500 farmworkers have chosen to be issue, both Bobby Seale and Elaine Brown spoke at a univer- arrested in order to challange the courts. Th1s same tactic sity of California at Berkeley campus rally and announced proved successful in Coachella Valley earlier th1s year and their support of a boycott of Gallo wines. On June 27th, just last week, a Super1or Court judge in Bakersf1eld ind1- Robert Gallo, owner of the world's biggest winery and re- cated that he 1s inclined to agree with the case presented by portedly making between $35 to $40 mUlion annually, end- UFW lawyers. ed six years of UFW contracts and signed new, longterm .'sweetheart contracts" with the Teamsters. At that rally Bobby Seale drew a thunderous ovation when he re- marked: .'We have to relate humanistically to the fact that we're tired of exploitation in this society. We have to relate humanistically when people decide to get themselves together in order to stop being exploited; in order to stop the slave labor, the cheap labor. When people say thcy want decent wages, when they say the want certain fringe benefits, certain health benefits, it is their constituional right to protest exploitation... I ask you to unite with us and strike against these capitalists and support the UFW. Boycott Gallo wines I Boycott grapes I Boycott Safeway I' . It was perhaps a comment made by MB. Brown whicllj best sums up the current situation and puts the entire issue in proper perspective. Speaking again to the press, that Friday morning when the boycott was initiated, Elaine said, .'... We're boycotting Safeway, not just grapes alone. Safeway says that they don't care who picks their grape~ o~ where they get their grap,es from. In oth( words, the}' don't care that eight people in a family ar' living on $I~i a week, they don't care about people bei shot in the fields. AB a matter of fact, we believe t Safeway i& part of the violent activities because they ha' n't shown in any way that they want to stop those activiti~:,.. In the fi- nal analysis, people are powerful and there a. more peo- pie in support of the farmworkers than are 1.1support of exploitation..." And, as Elaine continued r;'~ backbone of the boycott, the picketing demonstrators, uddenly began to chant as they marched, .'1 don't mow, but I've been told, Safeway stores have got t( be closed- Am I right

MS. ELAINE BROWN: "Pe.opte. 4l1.e. pOWe.JI.6ut 4nd .th.e.JI.e. or wrong? Right on. Am I right or wrong? Right on." 4l1.e. mol1.e. people. in 4UpPOl1..t 06 .th.~ 64l1.m Wol1.~e.lI.4 BOYCOTT SAFEWAY. .th4n 4l1.e. in 4UppOl1..t 06 ~xptoi.t4.tion."