LICK Pi cents Black Community News Service

VOL. IV NO. 14 SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970

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HUNTER'S POINT 1970 Editoria and cannot be passed off as such since there is a history of similar incidents in The pigs in heightening the repressive this same community. actions against the people have used an On the 23rd of February, the pigs went unfortunate incident in Hunter's Point as into the Hunter's Point area to arrest Butch an excuse to run amuck in the Black com­ Mabrey, one man, but they came as if munity. Years ago the last place pigs went preparing for a major confrontation. The to investigate was Black people killing Black pigs disrespected the whole community... people...It was very minor, as are the kill­ Only in the Black community are over­ ings of oppressed people considered, by the kill tactics used. Only when dealing with troops of the ruling class. Now due to the oppressed people are the pigs' tails shak­ raised level of resistance that the people ing in glee and their eyes lit up with the have reached, the pigs look for, actively anticipation of killing another one of the search for, reasons to come into the com­ "misfits of this society". Only oppressed munity with guns drawn,, people are accorded the 'fist of repres­ The pigs ran through the community of sion' in place of the 'hand of protection'. Hunter's Point on February 23rd with rifles There are too many examples—perfect and drawn weapons, not being concerned examples—that have occurred all over this with the lives and safety of the children country to be able to mention in any one playing in the community or respecting the people. This is not an isolated incident CONT. ON PAGE 2

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CONT. FROM PAGE 1 HUNTER'S POINT 1970 Black people or face the armed wrath of Editorial the people." No longer must we allow the article or book. The transgressions against pigs to run rampant in the streets of our the people perpetrated by the pigs are too community—we must make the occupying numerous to accept the further extension army retreat. The time of these fascist of their doggish policies. moves against the people must be elimin­ The pigs in the streets have been carry­ ated—the pigs are in the streets now but ing on like the mad dogs they are, but this THE STREETS BELONG TO THE PEOPLE. must cease. Huey P. Newton said "The racist dog police must withdraw immediate­ Judi Douglas ly from our communities, cease their wan­ Deputy Communications Secretary ton murder and brutality and torture of BLACK PANTHER PARTY SHOOTING INCIDENT IN HUNTER'S POINT Saturday afternoon at approximately Butch was arrested Monday, the 23rd 2:00 p.m., the 21st of February, 1970, of February at 855 Gottingen at appro­ a shooting incident took place at Joseph ximately 2:30 or 3:00 p.m. While the Lee Gym on Mendell and Oakdale. In­ pigs were setting up to invade the com­ jured was Charles Gillis, 1435 Innis, munity, there were people in the com­ 17 yrs. old, and Jerry Thomas, Quesada munity calling the Center that's located St., 16 yrs old. Charles Gillis was shot at 1494 Jerrold to let us know that the in his head and died Monday from the pigs were running amuck in the com­ wound; Jerry Thomas was shot in his munity: they were on their regular jobs leg, he is now in San Francisco Hos­ and up to their same trick, intimidating pital in satisfactory condition. the people. Running through the com­ Arrested for the shooting incident was munity with rifles and drawn weapons, Butch Mabrey of 855 Gottingen St., San not concerned with the lives and safety Francisco. It was disclosed that Butch of the children that were playing in the entered the gymnasium pulled a piece community, not respecting the people at (gun) and fired a melee of wild shots all, just killing another nigger was the and in the process these two brothers, only objective in mind. The Black Panther Charles and Jerry, were struck by bul­ Party is not saying that Butch is guilty lets. It was told to us that there wasn't or that what went down was cool, but what CONT. any antagonism between the brothers and we do say is that Butch lives and his ON that their relationship with each other family should not have to have their con­ PAGE was good. stitutional rights violated by pigs block - 16 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 3 FROM: DEFENDANTS - N.Y. 21 TO: "JUSTICE" MURTAGH This court represents themostruth- ception. You constantly refer to this termination of the Black Panther Party cerning our bail, and this attitude less system in the world, caring noth­ caseas a "criminal" trial, while all of and justify anything that might be done permeates the "great American ing for the wholesale misery that it the time we know, you know, Frank Ho­ to us. system of justice". All motions on brings, while at the same time, your pa­ gan knows, the people know, the other This unethical behavior gave, aided, this were denied, either without pers are full of verbiage of your "nobi­ prisoners and even the guards know that and abetted further prejudicial pre­ commemt or because of ithe seri­ lity," "righteousness," "justice," this in not a criminal trial. Everyone trial publicity, in direct contradiction ousness" ofthe "charge", butnev- "fairness," and the "good" that you do. knows that this is a political trial, for to your law as outlined in the 14th A- er dealing with the Constitutional We are very, very sick and tired of if we were not members of the Black mendment of your constitution of issues involved, and it is your Con­ the BIG LIE. We cannot stand passive Panther Party, a lot of things would nev­ the United States. Due to this be­ stitution. All of this seems to un­ to the big lie any longer. We cannot er have been done to us in the first place. havior alone, we are positive that derlie "judge" Marks' remarks.,. accept it any longer. Why are we not allowed to be with we could not get a fair trial any­ Yet, we said nothing. It is time to state the truth, for Black other prisoners? Why are we not al­ where in this country....We still I) We have been treated like ani­ people, for poor Puerto Rican, Mexican lowed to even talk to the other prison­ said nothing. mals— in fact, like less than animals. American, Chinese American, Indian ers? Why are we isolated? (Something D) When our attorneys learned of On January 17, 1969, Miss Joan Bird and poor White people. The "Ameri­ we might say or do that can open their our arrest, they attempted to see us, was kidnapped» beaten, and tortured. KKKan system of justice" is a hideous eyes, perhaps?) Allegedmurderers and as we were being held in your Dis­ She was punched and beaten, given the sham and a revolting farce. rapists are not treated in this manner, trict Attorneys' office. They were re­ "Thumb Torture", hung upside down We must look at the situation objec­ even "convicted murderers and rapists fused permission to do so. At the "ar­ by the ankle from out of a third-story tively. As has been explicitly implied are not treated in the manner in which raignment" a similar request by our window of a "Police Precinct". On in the preceding, we realize that we we were treated. Why do you persist counsel was again refused by mr. April 2-3, 1969, all of us were placed are not 2nd Class sitizens at all. We in the big lie? It is one of many clear Charles Marks who presided thereat, under constant abuse and harassment, are a colonized people. (Read your own contradictions. these refusals were in blatant viola­ which included 24-hour lock-in, com­ commission Reports). We see that we B) On April 2, 1969, hordes of "po­ tion of your law as outlined in the 6th plete isolation, no library or recrea­ are still considered chattel. We see lice" broke down our doors, or other­ and 14th Amendments of your Consti­ tion, lights kept on in our cells for how the Fugitive Slave Act has been wise forced entry into our homes, and tution of the United States....We con­ 24 hours, physical assaults, depriva­ modified in worfs.but is still being used ran amuok. Rampaging and rummaging tinued to be silent. tions of seeing our families, at times how the Dred Scott decision was never through our homes, they seized articles E) At this "arraignment" this Mr. denied mattresses, medication, sheets really reversed. That the 13, 14, anf 15 from us with wild abandon while having Charles Marks who was presiding, re­ showers, pillow-cases, towels, soap, Amendments of the Constitution did not no search warrants. The "police" put fused to read, explain or give us a toothpaste, and toilet paper. liberate us—that in fact, in social re­ us and our families in grave danger, copy of this "indictment" against us. Our families have suffered abuse in ality, they only legalized slavery and nervously aiming shotgums, rifles and This is another violation of your law as visiting us, and mental anguish. One expanded the Dred Scott decision to in­ pistols at us and our families—even our outlined in the 6th and 14 Amendments of us suffered the loss of a child be­ clude Indians, Spanish-speaking and children. of your Constitution of the United States cause of this. Some of our families poor White people, had to goon welfare because of our We seo that things have not gotten outrageous incarceration and ransom. better, but only progressively worse, We were denied mail, even from our and that includes tyranny, We con- attorneys—denied access to consult pletely oppose racism and tyranny and all together with our attorneys. We will continue to do so. You wish us to have been subjected to the most one­ act according to a Decorum set down rous and barbaric of jail conditions, by an organization, the "American Bar The objective of all this was our psy­ Association", which is not only racist chological and physical destruction du­ but is also not against genocide. (Per­ ring our pre-trial detention. haps they realized the truth, and see As Newsweek Magazine even states, that the American ruling class is de­ "...the handling of the suspects between finitely liable, for its treatment of their arrest and their trial was some­ Black people?) thing less than a model of American In court you asks us to submit to a criminal justice," and "none of it was code of laws.. .your law s, not our laws very becoming to the state...". (How (Black and poor people) but your laws well we know.) All this is a blatant your laws because we were never ask­ violation of your own law as outlined ed (Black people) if we consented to in the 8th and 14th Amendments of your having them as our laws, nor are these own Federal Constitution...Yet, we still laws relevant to our ghetto reality. remained silent. They are your laws, and we find them MB« \h T5ooKfc~Tc> Lapeer" J) You — Murtagh. You came into racist and oppressive. They, these law the case in May 1%9. You were inform­ perpeturate our plantation continuation. ed of these conditions. You could have Right now, in 1970, 90% of the inmates righted these blatant violations of your of your prisons are non-White. 90%: own law, the laws you have "sworn" to And we (Black people, etc.) have never We were then kidnapped as were some ....yet, we remained silent. uphold. But you did not. You refused to had the right to decide if we wanted of our families. We state "kidnap" be­ F) Bail (ransom) was set at $100,- do this... andremained silent. You tried to be governed by laws which we had cause many of us were never shown any 000, which is ridiculous and tantamount to rush us pell-mell to trial, knowing no part in making. Yet, the primary arrest warrant, even to this day. This is to no bail at all. This is another vio­ full well that we were not, could not, concern of the men who drafted the illegal. This is a blatant contradiction of lation of your own law as outlined in be prepared....We remained silent. "Declaration of Independence" was the your own constitution....We said noth­ the 8th and 14th Amendments of your We filed motions that are guaranteed consent of the governed by laws which ing. Constitution of the United States. We to "citizens" by the 14th Amendment they had a part in forming and which C) Upon the arrest of some of the state that this bail is not only contra­ of your Federal Constitution. Yon de­ was relevant to them. We are in your defendants and before the appearance of dictory to your own law, but that it is nied them all. You denied us the rights prison, but these are not our laws. any of the defendants, New York City also racist. When White "radical" as guaranteed in your laws in the 6th and They are your laws, and in dealing District Attorney Frank Hogan appear­ groups are arrested, their bails do not 14th Amendments of your own Constitu­ with Black and poor people, you don't ed on national radio and national tele­ usually exceed $10,000. When three tion, to conduct a voir dire of the Grand even adhere to your own laws. vision (Channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, snd 11) Yemenites were charged with "con­ Jury in these proceedings, knowingfull In fact, a leading criminologist, Dr. in a press conference, during which spiracy" to murder your President well that they did not comprise mem­ R.R. Korn of ; Stanford University, had time he gave out information from an Nixon, and with the equipment to do bers of our peer group...We remained noted that 80% of the people now in "indictment" against us in an inflam­ such, their bail was $25,000; when silent. prison were put there illegally accor­ matory and provocative manner, delib­ Minutemen in New York were arres­ You denied us a hearing with which ding to your own law. (Strange that the erately designed to incite the peopela- ted and charged with a conspiracy to to be confronted with the witnesses a- overwhelming population is Black and gainst us and to deny us even the sem­ commit murder, the murder of 155 gainst us, as is guaranteed by your law non-White?) blance of a "fair trial". Mr. Hogan persons and were arrested with bombs in the 6th Amendment of your Constitu­ Mr. Murtagh—your record speaks implied a lie—that we had been seized and guns more than enough to do this. tion...We remained silent. for itself. You are known in the ghet­ on the way to commit these alleged Bail was set at $25,000. We had no You denied us a Bill of Particulars to as a "Hanging Judge". (How many acts with bombs in our hands—rather bombs. Our bail was $100,000....We which is guaranteed by your laws in the Black and White poor men did you than the truth—that we had no bombs remained silent. 6th and 14th Amendments of your Con­ convict without their even having coun­ and that most of us were taken out of G) At this arraigmment, this Mr. stitution..., We remained silent. cil just in 1969 alone, in your clever our beds. Charles Marks, the same "Judge" Two "suspects" were kidnapped un­ slick way?) Frank Hogan and his aides Subsequent to that press conference, who is alleged to have signed the der the modification of the Fugitive are well known—very well known in "unidentified police sources"and"per- "Arrest Warrants", stated in words Slave Act in November 1969. You gave the Ghetto—known for what they are— sons close to the investigation" stated or substance that he was accepting all then no bail. (No sense pretending any­ racist and unethical. (We have know­ falsely to the press that we, as members of the allegations in the "indictment" more, it seems). ...We remained silent. ledge of cases, since our incarcera­ of the Black Panther Party were being against us to be true. On subsequent You denied us every state and federal tion of .Assistant District Attorneys, aided and abetted by foreign gobern- hearings during April and May 1969, constitutional right, and remained si­ or D.A.'s men posing as legal aides ments considered hostile to your gov­ concerning reduction of ransom (bail) lent. You substantiated Mr. Marks' "the to get conviction). But in our case ernment (i.e. Cuba and China) — that at which this same Mr. Marks still law does not apply" to us. ...Yet, we re­ you and Mr. Hogan have gotten to­ we, as Black Panther Party members presided, he stated that we were "un- mained is lent. gether and have out done yourselves in were stealing money from federal and/ American" and that the law "did not K) Lee Berry. Lee Berry is a clas­ denying us all, everyone of our "al­ or state agencies and many other false apply to us" (sounds of history?). This sical example of how you and your co­ leged" state, federal and human rights. wild charges, designed to heighten the does not quite show impartiality....Yet horts conduct the "American System The record clearly shows this, when public alarm against us and our Party, we said nothing. of Justice" when dealing with Black not clouded with the mist of racism. rather than diminish it, so as to create H) Our counsel have been in A) Let us clear up one basic miscon­ an atmoshpere conductive to the ex- front of at least 35 "Judges" con­ CONT. ON PAGE 4 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 4 CONT. FROM PAGE 3 VICTORY FROM: Defendants - N.Y. 21 ft OFTHE TO: Murtagh people. On April 3, 1969 Lee Berry enough—more than enough. We had was a patient inthe Veterans' Adminis­ been treated with contempt, in an at­ PHILADELPHIA tration Hospital where he was receiving mosphere of intimidation for too long. treatment as an epileptic, subject to We must reiterate—we are looking at Grand Mai seizures, which can be fatal, the situation objectivity. Objective Re­ Lee Berry is not mentioned particular­ ality. TRASKMEN ly in the "indictment". Yet, on April At the pre-trial hearings we are con­ 3, 1969, your "police" dragged him fronted with a "Judge" who hadadmit- out of the hospital. These "police" ted, in fact, been indicted and arrested stood him up before your cohort, "Judge Fascism has become as much plastic trash bags, telling Phila- for ignoring "police" graft and corrup­ of a historical fact here in Phila­ Marks. Lee was "arraigned" without delphlans to bag their own trash tion.„a "Judge" who by his record delphia as the so-called "Liberty" and haul it tothe city's incinerators. counsel. Bail $100,000, He was thrown shows an unblemished career of "po­ Bell. It has always been here, as The union, led by its courageous into an isolation cell in the Tombs with- lice favoritism and All-American ra­ all across America, but since the Business Manager, Earl Scott, re­ offing of a foul pig in January mained firm in its stand. Pig Tate by persons unknown, the pigs have tried the all too familiar tactic completely dropped their guise of of pacification, by offering to ap­ "law andorder" and unleashed open point Black deputies in the Streets terror upon the people. In recent Department. But the union refused weeks, the "BLACK PANTHER - to compromise and Earl Scott re­ BLACK COMMUNITY NEWS SER­ plied vigorously that it wasn't a VICE' has carried articles from race struggle (even though the Sani­ this branch describing the most tation Union including Stout is most­ blatant of these piggish crimes, so ly Black Halfery is White). Right there is no need to again go into On!! They just didn't want to work detail of them at the present time. for a pig. While his subordinate pigs got Halferty finally abandoned his their rocks off of drawing Black stand that he wouldn't resign un­ people's blood the Chief Pig, less Mayor Tate asked him to and "Commissioner" Rizzo, worked resigned. The workers were vic­ behind the scenes and had his lac­ torious in this small aspect of the key Mayor Tate appoint a pig, an overall struggle for self-deter­ ex-policeman, as Commissioner of mination. the Streets Department. As you Yet, the struggle against fas­ well know, brothers and sisters, cism and a police state here in the Department of Streets has under Philly has only begun. The true its jurisdiction the Sanitation Work­ mayor of this city is Pig Com­ ers (trash collectors). As you know missioner Rizzo, who at the same even better, the trash collectors in time he moved Halferty into his major cities are mostly Black. So, short-lived position as Streets here's the scene--an ex-policeman Commissioner, placed another pig as Streets Commissioner, plus in charge of the Licenses and In­ qualified engineers within the spections Department. While he Streets Department who should fill condones his lackeys constantly out even a mattress. In July 1969, he cism. In your previous dealings with the job, plus trash collectors who escalating murder and brutality of physically attacked without provocation Black people, you have shown your­ don't want to work for a pig. Total the people, his own blood-stained and wich out warning, while he was in a self to be totally unjust, bloodthirsty, these things and the result is a city- hooves are forming his future ad­ drugged stupor. pityless, and inhuman. We are confron­ wide slowdown in trash collections. ministration which will be on hand Day by day, the trash piled up You were aware of his condition—you ted with a District Attorney machine by the time he runs for the title in Philly's streets, to the point of Mayor (he already fills that were quite aware. Numerous motions which has shown itself to be vigilant where a health menace was de­ office in practice) This is the same were in your "Great Court System". It andunswervinginits racist policies. 90% clared in the city. Yet, Mayor Tate low-lifed creature who said, in re­ took four months to even get him medi­ of the inmates convicted are non-White refused to back down on his an­ ply to a lawsuit now in court against cation, and only in November when he and poor. This machine has shown it­ nounced appointment of Halferty him on behalf of all Blacks in Philly had become ill, so progressively worse self to be unethical in its techniques (the pig who was to be Streets for his endorsement of pig bru­ Commissioner). In fact, he called that it was frightening. He finally got and practices—even in front of our tality and murder, that it was part the city Business Manager back of "an insidious plot to gain com­ consent to be transferred to Bellevue eyes—tactics which include going up from a stay in Florida where he munity control of police" ! Hospital. Because of the courts' deci­ and whispering to the witnesses .on was recuperating from an illness The struggle here in Philly is sions under your "AmericanSysremof the stand, signalling and coaching them. for him to deal with the situation escalating by leaps and bounds. Jusrice", Lee Berry has had four ser­ We know as Look Magazine stated in and went to Florida himself. Pigs have been offed or wounded-- ious operations within the last two months. June 1969 "how the police corrupt the On February 16th, Halferty was RIGHT ON!! Meanwhile, the fas­ Because of the courts' decisions under truth... Prosecutors and Judged be­ sworn in as Streets Commissioner, cist nature of the government is in spite of the people's will. The the great American System of Justice at come their accomplices". To cite a daily becoming more apparent by Sanitation Workers Union continued its mounting demagogy and phy­ this precise moment Lee Berry is ly­ small example: A man, a Black man to refuse to work overtime as they sical terrorizing of the people. ing in the shadow of Death with a possi­ was beaten to death in the Tombs always had to do before the Hal­ Philly, as is the rest of America is ble fatal case of pneumonia. At the very in front of forty witnesses in May 1969 ferty mess. The fascist courts, a the world's new Reichstag, every least, your Great Court System is gu il - and the police swore that he died of a tool of the ruling class, passed an pig station as Auchsweitz oven, tyof attempted murder, and D.A. Hogan injunction stating that the Sanita­ every street of the Black community "heart attack". Yes, we know to what tion Workers must work overtime. should be named as a co-defendant. a shooting gallery for American the police will swear to. All Black Since the injunction didn't say how SS troopers, every pig chief an Lee Berry is our Brother, and what is people, poor people, know to what the long they had to work, the trash Adolf Eichmann and the poor and done to him, has been done to us all... police will swear to. With all this, to­ collectors would only work 15 min­ oppressed masses must not be­ and we remained silent. gether with the hostility inculcated in utes to an hour of overtime to come the new Jews! L) In November 1969, four White the dominantWhiteculture towards any­ comply with the injunction. By now, Fascism will not disappear of the streets were gorged with trash, persons were arrested for allegedly thing Black, is shown by you and your its own accord, even though it is being that collections were a week the manifestation of a dying in­ "bombing" various sites in New York cohorts very well indeed. Under these behind; but, the people, especially stitution--capitalism. It can only City. They were arrested allegdly with conditions, and considering your stand the Black community, was strong­ be defeated by the militant action "bombs in their possession", but they against American racism, this in not ly supportingthe trash workers. Pig of the masses, led by a revolu­ were White. For three of them, bail was only a challenge to us and Black peo­ Mayor Tate oinked that he would tionary party striking the death­ reduced 80% in two days, because "the ple, but the whole people. To relate not cancel the appointment in the blows again and again at the pro­ future. In accordance with their per time. The trash collectors of presumption of innocence is basic a- in terms you can understand, even contract, the Sanitation Workers Racist Woodrow Wilson stated (con­ Philly wouldn't stand for a pig as mong both the statutory and constitu- began refusing to drive garbage their Commissioner and struck tioanl principles affecting bail"...if you cerning fascism)"...This isachallenge trucks that were defective in any a blow at fascism. It is up to the poor are White. (The political climate is such to all mankind; there is one choice we way (which eliminated a very large and oppressed American masses today, even this hardlymatters anymore cannot make, we are incapable of mak­ portion of the trucks taken onto to drive fascism to its timely grave if one is dissident.) ing, we will not choose the path of the streets) and taking off on sick by ANY MEANS NECESSARY!!! leave, administrative leave and va- Two days after that decision, we were submission...we will be, we must be as cations.This drastically reduced the harsh as the Truth and as uncompro­ ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! brought in front of you and given a su­ work force. WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! perceding "indictment". We could be mising as Justice—true Justice is on Now desperate, the city's op­ silent no longer. We had been insulted our side"...To that we say, Right On! pressive machinery spent at least BLACK PANTHER PARTY $30,000 to buy and distribute large Philadelphia Branch FRIEND OF PANTHERS TRUCK BOMBED

Joan Siaz, a friend of the Black I didn't", she said. "About ten FRED: What is the general feel­ JOAN: I don't know. Lately I've the depraved individual, is in league Panther Party was recently a vic­ minutes later I heard hollering, ing of your neighbors toward you? noticed someone's been following with the reactionary elements of tim of a racist attack from this-- I decided to run out and see what the truck probably to check on my the lampoons of never-never land society. Her camper truck which was wrong. When I opened the JOAN: Well I don't know, I have association with the Party. which consists of the myopic fas­ she generously lends to the East door the flames were shooting up quite a few friends here; they dis­ cist Labor Force in this infested Oakland Branch for the Breakfast about ten feet high off my truck. agree with things I say but they Joan does a lot of work in and contaminated deplorable land. So we for School Children Program and I put out the fire with my water never condemn me or anything. about her neighborhood. She not recognize that there is right and to work on the Black Pantherpaper hose. I then noticed the front win­ They figure I have the right to only propagandizes in her com­ wrong, left and right, just and un­ was demolished by a fire bomb dow had been broken and on the my own opinion. munity but also her job. Her home just, people and pigs, and revolu­ around 3:00 a.m. on February 22nd. front seat was a gasoline can on is situated on Brookhaulter Ave. tionary and reactionary, and Joan was in the back of her top of what were my Panther Pa­ FRED: Then your feelings are that in East Oakland at the edge of the wherever there's oppression, there house at 3938 Brookhaulter Avenue pers. The whole cab and camper people wouldn't do anything like hills where a lot of pigs, racist has to be struggle. recording music when she heard burned out. It's a total loss of that, or would they? and anglo-niggers stay. So it is BLACK PANTHER PARTY a noise. "I started to go out but about a thousand dollars.' ' easy to say that the traducer, East Oakland Branch THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 5 NEW HAVEN PANTHER CASE: PRESSURE ON DEFENDANTS

N.H., Conn. (LNS) —Monthsbe­ fore the New Haven Panther mur­ der trial is to begin, the prose­ cution and police officials are in­ creasing their coercion and inti­ midation ofthe Puncher defendants. Unwilling to wait uni il the trial starts, the officials are attempting, through the use of various cruel and illegal methods, to pressure the defendants into trying to save their own skins at the cost of betraying their brothers and sisters in the Black Panther Party. The government brandishes the ERICKA HUGGINS FRANCIS CARTER ALEX RACKLEY threat of the electric chair to frigh­ ten defendants into copping a'plea- Political Prisoner Political Prisoner Murdered by pigs pleading guilty to a lesser charge, escaping trial on the capital BOBBY SEALE charge, and in the process, help­ Chairman, B.P.P. ing the government case against Political Prisoner the stalwart defendants who are not so, and in a landmark decision, so easily frightened.If a prisoner bail was granted for the first time can be scared enough, cut off from ever in a Connecticut capital case. any support from friends and Francis Carter was bailed out Jan. steadily threatened, convinced that 19, after her parents, who are no jury will rule anything but guilty, not rich, scraped up a $750 bond plea-copping can be made to look to secure $10,000 bail. like a good deal--even to a prisoner But less than two days later, who knows that he or she is in- . the State called Francis Carter nocent. to the stand, granted her a ra­ To this date, nine of the défend­ ther vague immunity (which de­ ants, although Subjected to eight prives a defendant of the right to < * wmmmmmm months of pressure and brainwash­ keep silent under the protection WARREN KIMBRO ing, have valiantly withstood this of the Fifth Amendment), and told pressure. Two others, Loretta her she must testify. Her lawyer Luckes and Warren Kimbro, have protested the Constitutionality of before. But the word of her coura­ tive was too much: later that week, given in to the pressure and have this move, but she was overruled. geous stand was already out. The he pleaded guilty to second degree pleaded guilty to lesser charges. Facing a bitter choice, Francis prisoners presented her with the murder, a non-capital offense. Al­ Carter nonetheless refused to tes­ The Panther defendants, includ­ best gift they could produce while though Kimbro thus saved his own tify, she explained, "not because ing National Party Chairman Bobby in jail: a box of lotions, candies skin, it is not yet known that what I feared that anything I said would Seale, are charged with the kidnap- and the like. Later, when she story he will tell at the trial, es­ torture-murder of Alex Rackley. result in any harm to me by my walked into the prison theater to pecially on the key issue of Bobby Lonnie McLucas, age 24, is If convicted, all face the death brothers and sisters, but because see a movie, the other prisoners Seale's alleged involvement in the charged with first degree murder, penalty. The Party maintains that I love and respect them and the rose (in clear view of the warden, case. According to Panther Party kidnapping, conspiracy, and bind­ Rackley was a member in good masses of the people and would who watched helplessly), cheered, Captain Doug Miranda, "We know ing. He was arrested in Salt Lake standing of the Panthers, and was never turn on them." and saluted her with clenchedfists. Warren is innocent and he knows City and brought to New Haven. He murdered by police agents, includ­ Francis was immediately held For Warren Kimbro, age 32, is charged by George Sams (the ing George Sams. he's innocent." But the system of in contempt of court. Her bail things did not work out even as plea bargaining took Kimbro as its leading witness for the police) with The police charge that Rackley was revoked ($750 down the drain), well as this. Kimbro is charged victim. having shot Rackley. Now that both was an informer in the New York and she was sentenced to six with first-degree murder, kidnap­ Jeanne Wilson, age 16, is le­ Sams and Kimbro have "confess­ 21 case, and was tried and execu­ months in jail. The State was ap­ ping, conspiracy, and binding. He gally a juvenile', so her case was ed," the pressure on McLucas is ted by the Panthers. The fact that parently afraid to have one of the was a provisional member of the "adjudicated" in juvenile court tremendous. Bobby Seale, who was not even defendants out of jail to tell the Panther Party at the time of his last summer. Although she was But McLucas, who the Panthers in New Haven at the time of the truth about this case, and hoped arrests last spring. He has been placed on probation, she was then described in a recent bulletin as murder, has been charged in the by freeing and then jailing her held, like the other prisoners, jailed immediately as a "material "a truly revolutionary servant of case, is indicative of the fact that to force her to testify. without bail and has been denied witness." Later she was forced the people," has not folded, and this trial, like the other Panther But even this kind of harass­ access to any literature or encour­ to testify for the prosecution at so the pressure upon him is be­ trials around the country, is a bla­ ment, including being separated agement from the Panther Party. the bail hearing for five of the ing stepped up. He is now being tant attempt by the authorities to from lier two-month-old child, did Last month, the prosecution and Panther prisoners. Last month, held in isolation in a tiny cell, with silence the Panthers by any means not break Francis Carter's spirit. police moved to crack Kimbro by however, when the defense tried visits and communication, especi­ necessary. In a statement written just after putting special pressure on him: to call her to testify at a hear­ ally those of a political nature, se­ The best way to comprehend what the bail was revoked, she said, his brother, it turns out, is apolice ing concerning illegal search and verely limited. In what the State's is currently going on in the case "I'd rather rot in jail than give detective, and was brought to the arrest in the case, the authori­ Attorney hoped would be the crow­ is to look at the individual treat­ State's Attorney Markle a chance jail to convince him that his only ties could not "find" her. Since ing blow, it was announced that Mo- ment some of the Party members tQ try to gain some manhood (which hope was to plead guilty to a lesser she was supposedly being held Lucas's case would be separated have received, and how they have he lacks) or inflate his ego any charge. His brother's wo".-ds about in jail, there was quite a bit of from the others and brought to tri­ reacted to it. more than what it is. I have the Kimbro are not surprising for a embarrassment among the court al immediately. It is considered Francis Carter, age 22, is people with me. As long as they policeman discussing a Panther: officials. It turned out that Judge unlikely that this would happen, but continue to have faith in me, I'll charged with being an accessory "He was not innocent...He's always Palmer had secretly let her out the pressure upon McLucas is remain strong...Markle and his nonetheless increased. to murder, kidnapping, conspiracy, been hot-headed. He was having of custody after she had testi­ lackeys cannot jail my spirit and and binding. She was pregnant at domestic troubles, too. And then he fied for the prosecution, and she However, this trick has not they definitely can't jail the revolu­ the time of her arrest, and was met that girl Ericka Huggins." had been taken immediately to worked. McLucas, and the remain­ tion. SEIZE THE TIME. ALL forced to give birth under armed As if this were not enough, a New Jersey. So while the pros- ing eight defendants, haveheldout. POWER TO THr: PEOPLE!" guard. Her lawyer, Catherine New Haven detective spent several cution had been able to question They know that they are being jail­ Roraback, moved last month that When Francis Carter was taken hours the next day questioning her extensively, the defense is ed as part of a systematic attempt bail be granted Francis Carter back to jail, she was isolated from Kimbro, without the knowledge of to be prevented from doing so be­ to silence the Panther Party, and, because there was no substantial the other Panther prisoners and his lawyer, which is strictly il­ cause it is impossible to sub­ like Francis Carter, they are able evidence against her. The court placed in with the convicted cri­ legal. The pressure on Kimbro by poena an out-of-state person in to maintain their faith in the people was forced to agree that this was minals, people she had never met the police brother and the detec- this type of case. and in the Black Panther Party. UNDERCOVER PIG SHOT DEAD IN NEW HAVEN COMMUNITY The pig's name was Frank Haw- for him and if they came up short Hawley had been fighting drug stopped, and a coalition had been ley. He was an undercover pig and they got busted. And if a brother traffic, and how he was viciously formed for the Defense of Fred only one or two people in the com­ bought scag off Hawley there was a shot down in the line of duty- Smith. Now the pig department is munity knew he was a pig. This pig nine out of ten chance he would oink, oink,oink. Then Saturday- trying desperately to justify the Hawley was put into the insurance get busted for possession of scag. night the pigs took out 42 bench fact that they have put pig agents business by the city with tax money This pig Hawley was shot to warrants for arrest of some in communities to consistantly in order to use entrapment on the death after refusing to pay brother brothers for conspiracy to murder. break the law with the people's brothers from the the block. Pig Fred Smith who had hit the num­ Sunday 100 more warrants were tax money, and to trap people. Hawley ran a numbers joint, he bers for $3200. Not only did he re­ issued. The pigs moved in like This was in an editorial in the New was a fence, and he brought in fuse to pay the brother but pro­ Adolph Hitler's fascists. They hit Haven Register - although they also scag (heroin) and bought and sold ceeded to draw his pistol and shoot the most popular pool room and supported the pigs in their other scag in our community. He would twice at Fred Smith. Fred fell busted everyone in the place in­ activities. have brothers stealing for him and back and drew a piece and blew cluding the owner and 27 others. At this time Fred Smith and some pay them off in scag and get them Hawley away with 4 shots to the Then they went to bars and after of the other brothers arrested in busted; he would take the money pigs chest and stomach, then he hours places and just herded r.he the "conspiracy" are on $50,000. that the people put down on the (Fred) split. people into the trucks like animals. bond. numbers alright, but when it came This happened Satruday after­ They busted more than what they to paying off when the people hit, noon and from Saturday night to had warrants to, so the pigs ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE FRED SMITH this pig couldn't be found (that's Monday night, pig chief Ahern and charged them with possession of On $50,000. bond how he got killed). This lowdown the pig news media waged a cam­ scag, loitering, etc. New Haven Chapter dog had young bloods selling scag paign of mis-information about how By Monday night the raids had Black Panther Party THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 6 Racist Pigs of New Haven Continue in their Efforts to Control and Oppress Revolutionary Letter Black The racist pig cops of New Haven 100 warrants in New Haven and country? The people will surely have struck again. In their efforts New York. find out sooner or later and will! From The Community to control and oppress Black peo­ HOW and WHY did this pig agent deal with these hogs who are try­ Panthers: of bull. It won't work itself out. ple, they have gone to many ex­ die? Hawley attacked Fred Smith, ing to repress and to destroy the Up until last month I was the Not today or tomorrow or e.ver. tremes. They have brutalized the shooting at him at least twice be­ Black community at every turn. people by ignoring crime, when it fore Fred shot back in self de­ So we must realize the trea­ most passive, ignorant Black wo­ WE have to do it ourselves. I is committed by the greedy bus­ fense after someone threw him a cherous activities of pig Hawley, man you could ever run across. I can do plenty, and I'm going to inessmen, and by the lying polit­ .32 revolver. especially his deliberate involve­ knew there was a problem, but would start NOW. icians. They have helped to damage The piggish nature of our courts ment in pushing scag (heroin), are not admit that it is as critical as I am enclosing a copy of the Black children with lead poisoning actually presumes a Black man nothing more than "domestic I now know it to be. Now I know McCarran Act, which you may have by refusing to enforce adequate guilty until proven innocent,beyond counter-insurgency programs'' that there are many Black people already read, may have already housing codes on landlords. They the shadow of a doubt. (The op­ the Afro-American equivalent of printed before. I don't know but, have killed Black youths by ignor­ pressed have no rights that the the pig power structure's Vietnam throughout this country who are as ing the sale of dope on all levels, oppressor feels bound to respect.) "pacification programs." Further ignorant of the problems we face I'm going to ask you to print it until it reaches its user in the For this, Fred Smith has been the blatant fascist reaction of the as I was. And this is just a small again, and maybe again if neces­ Black community. They have killed jailed on a first-degree murder New Haven pigs in arresting 23 effort on my part to try to help sary. I have had 20 years of white Panthers and have tried to frame charge without bond. If the pigs brothers and searching for many them AWAKEN. I'm not a Panther, brail washing, and that's really a the People's Party - the Black would have killed Fred, the courts more on the entrapment and frame but I'm Black, and in being that shame. As a matter of fact i~'s a Panther Party for it. And now they would rule it justifiable homocide. charges of their agent provocateur damn shame it took me twenty years have attacked a whole section of the The pig courts did this in Chicago amongst the people, can only be I can't just lay back and say, New Haven Black community for when Deputy Chairman F red Hamp­ equated with the first wholesale "I know there's a problem, but to find out that my life and my the deserved death of one of their ton and Mark Clark were assass­ round-ups for concentration camps what can I do about it, or it will child's life ain't worth a damn. So own. inated in their sleep by Chicago's in fascist Germany. Thus, it must work itself out. That's a whole lot you could never print some articles Frank Hawley, an undercover finest mobsters. be understood that every Black man too many times. The McCarran Act pig, instigated crime-willfully in­ So we see these tactics of the put in prison now is a political to me, could be vital in helping volved Black people in the Hill New Haven blue bandits as blatant prisoner. some of my Brothers and Sisters section in numbers games, and the repression of the Black community We, the people, must understand receiving and selling of stolen from start to finish. What kind of that the pigs are a grave threat see just exactly where the pigs goods, and he especially bought and foul minds can set up a store­ to our continued existence, and that are coming from. And if that don't sold dope, on the assumption that a front pig agent to start and con­ to insure the end of pigs running move them then I'll find some­ dope addict can't be a revo­ tinue crime in the Black com­ amuck in the community, we must thing else. I won't give up be­ lutionary. munity, and to insure the distri­ implement community control of cause Ican't. Iknow what's going on. Pig Hawley's task was to keep bution of heroin to young brothers police through the ballot or the I am AWARE. I am being liberated bullet - through the petitions for track of the Hill area Black youths, and sisters, and when the punk , a and I will be a revolutionary. to involve them in crime, but es­ boot-licker, gets shot by a member decentralization and community pecially in scag (heroin) whenever of the community acting in self- control of the police, or the guns So I have to ask you to please possible. This nigger pig spy for defense, Ahern, Guida and their of the armed people. print this in your paper so that the rich pig power structure made lackeys have the nerve to call hopefully some of the brothers good his job of entrapment, for the him an honorable man. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE and sisters can find out just what Pigs' vengeance on the Hill area How many more undercover the pig has in mind for them. for the righteous and justified death pigs, boot-licking toms and agent Black Panther Party It may not do what it should to of this agentprovocateur was the ar­ provocateurs are running loose in New Haven Chapter rest of at least 23 brothers, and the New Haven Black community? Lt. of Information all of them, but every time one the issuance of perhaps as many as In Black communities all over the Cappy Pinderhughes Black person finally realizes,then they tell another brother and it goes on and on. You may think it's a damn slow process. But right now, today for me it's one Open Letter to the People wayamongmany. I won't stop there. And I'm gonna get me a gun, Comrades R. Palmer and Zip. the streets of Dodge City there is and I won't hesitate to use it. THE YEAR OF THE All power to the people. going to be changes made. I pro­ PEOPLE'S Incarcerated here in this L,A, pig mised if I ever fall by the hands of house, it's kind of hard for the the oppressor, I will take a lot of ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE I ARMED STRUGGLE feelings I have for the people and them, you dig. But only through my my comrades to be expressed. But practice will you know because "1970" I love you all because of the beau­ practice is the criterion of the SHARON BENSON Here in the hell of L.A, fascism, tiful work, all the work that is being truth • you dig, I am a revolutionary and done out there for the people's Tell Elaine to go on and have HUAC s Internal Security Act a political prisoner of war (POW) struggle. the people's baby because I will I speak out loud and clear to all But here in Dodge City time is be out soon you know, you dig. McCarran Act . Title II oppressed people throughout the right for us to show the pigs what All I got is just life. , world. I recognize that we must the spirit of the people really is 11 But who is R. Palmer, you dig. consolidate ourself so we can at­ We are trying to educate all of Tell Zip to be strong and right on. Concentration (Detention) Camps tain freedom for all mankind. As the inmates here. The brothers here Let 'G' know we all love him and Public Law 831-81st Congress: depending upon the violence being you may know in the history of with me say all power to the people I miss him too. Title II: Sec. 102: 103: & 104 perpetrated by the guerrillas, the man their desire is to be free. Have faith in the people and the Free the POW'S (HUAC's original Internal Security following actions could be taken But in this day and time all op- party and be strong. Our spirits Act (McCarran)" by the authorities: ressed people are slaves, because are very high. We love you all. Seize the Time "EMERGENCY DETENTION: In (1)A curfew would be imposed in of this US imperialist aggressor. I want you guys n ssnj .m iAxrx. Right on the event of insurrection...the the enclosed isolated area. No one Because I am a revolutionary that Lenin, and Stalin, We need this would be allowed out of or into the is fighting here in Babylon very badly. When we get out in The Duck President is authorized to make area after sundown. 1 realize that Black and all op­ public proclamation...of an Internal (2) During the night the authori­ pressed people struggle here in talistic Babylon is to protect and der and brutality and torture of Security Emergency...and...acting ties would not only patrol the boun­ fascist America and the struggle serve the property owned by the Black people, or face the wrath of through the Attorney General is... dary lines but would also attempt abroad is one and the same. So capitalist class. The pigs are not the armed people. authorized to apprehend and detain to control the streets and if neces­ we all must join in the fight for here for poor people, but only for ...each person as to whom there sary, send out foot patrols through­ freedom. But here in Babylon the ruling class. This class of Right On ! 11 is reasonable ground to believe out the entire area. Ir" the guer­ the people are used as a tool. people keep the pigs off in the Let's Free Ourselves 11 ...PROBABLY WILL....CONSPIRE rillas attempted to either break out The U..S. fascist government is oppressed people's comrn jnity, L.A. 18 (POW) with others to engage in acts .. of the area or to engage the au­ committing genocide on aU the to make sure that the poor people of sabatoge...Persons apprehended thorities in open combat they would young men here for their own will not get what is rightfully theirs. The Duck and Blue ...shall be confined in....places of be readily suppressed. capitalistic reasons, just so they So now the B.P.P. said that detention...prescribed by the At­ (3) During a guerrilla uprising can profit. They are making the it is time for all this mess to Racist dog policemen must stop torney General. most civil liberties would have to people in Vietnam (soldiers) kill stop because all people want to be the torture and brutality of Brothers be suspended, search and seizure the poor and oppressed people free; and the party is made up by and Sisters held in Federal , State operations would be instituted there, and occupying their the people, for the people, and of County, and City prisons and jails. 50 during the daylight hours, and any­ community just like the pigs are the people. We are for peace and one found armed or without proper occupying the Black community. that is the ultimacy of our goal. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE 11 CHAPTER X identification would immediately be They are committing murder and Huey P. Newton says, "The arrested. Most of the people of the brutality on Black people and all racist dog policemen must with­ Blue CONCLUSION ghetto would not be involved in the poor oppressed people in general. draw immediately from our com­ guerilla operation and under con­ The pigs' duty here in this capi- munities, cease their wanton mur- SEIZE THE TIME Once the ghetto is sealed off, and ditions of police and military con­ trol, some would help in ferreting out the guerrillas. Their help would be Invaluable. (4) If the guerrillas were able to hold out for a period of time then the population of the ghetto would be classified through an officer for the "control and organization of the inhabitants." This office would "THE HEIRS OF MALCOLM X HAVE distribute census cards which would PICKED UP THF, GUN AND ARE MOVING bear a photograph of the individual, the letter of the district in which FOR THEIR TOTAL FREEDOM" he lives, his house and street num­ ber, and a letter designating his HUEY P. NEWTON home city. This classification would aid the authorities in knowing the MINISTER OF DEFENSE exact location of any suspect, and BLACK PANTHER PARTY CONT. ON PAGE 16 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 7 THE PERFORMANCE GAP AND THE RACIST POLICY

In his news conference of Friday, the Black people may opprove of reactionaries. With racist spokes­ January 30, President Richard what we (Republicans) did. I don't men at this strategic point of Nixon stated what he would do think I'm going to win them with government, progressive laborites to gain confidence "among Black the words" (imp. W.L.P.) will find the fight to better their *WMf? people." The iffy speech was over. No conditions imperiled, the peace The task, as posed, was re­ mention was made of the racist advocates will be menaced, the latively simple. Black America, policy of government that violates Nixon-Agnew Mitchell axis masses as the President saw it, was suf­ the nation's commitment to the for an intensification of its war fering from a "performance gap- Charter of the United Nations as against Black Americans and all big promises and little action, and well as the Constitution ofthe U.S.A. semblance of democracy and peace as a result immense frustra­ To close the performance gap pro­ "endangered". tion which flared into violence." found changes in the economic, The evil deeds of Nixon are not The President made no mention political and social structure of aimed alone at Black America. The of the nature of the big promises the U.S. are needed. Such changes call for black-white unity in strug­ or the little action. They concern are needed even for reforms for gle is not a call predicated on the century-old violated constitu­ which desperate struggle continues the needs of Black citizens alone. tional rights of Black citizens, HUE Y P. NE WTON MINISTER OF the contempt shown by those in If DEFENSE B.P.P. POLITICAL PRISONER power for the dignity of Black people and the denial of job, educational and other social op­ portunities to them, and to their HUEY P. NEWTON B-17121 children. They concern the wel­ fare and the unity of the nation. The matter is simple. Black America is frustrated. But its A-ESan Luis Obispo, 93401 frustration stems from the abject failure of City, State and Federal governments to end the February 24, 1970 violence which inevitably must and does accompany a violation of rights and dignity. End the cen­ tury-old racist war against Black America and the frustration ends. RECEIVED MARCH 2, 1970 Nixon didn't entertain that idea. Garry, Drefus, McTernan & Brotsky He said: "Now I know all the words. 1 know all the gimmicks and the phrases that would win the applause of Black audiences Gentlemen: and professional civil rights leaders. I'm not going to use them. I'm interested in deeds. I'm in­ Please place this letter in my permanent terested in closing the performance gap and IF we can get our wel­ personal parole file. fare reform. IF we can stop the rise of crime which terrorizes I hereby request that my Attorneys be those who live in our central cities. IF we can move on the programs present at the hearing when the Adult that I mention with regard to to be waged. Deeds are necessary. They must Authority considers my parole this April, rual areas—where 52 percent of A promise of deeds based upon result from the unity of action the Black people live, IF we pro­ an Iffy program which does not of the peace forces, the National and that my Attorneys have access to vide the job opportunity and the condemn the racist policy of Liberation front fighters of review and reproduction of the documents opportunity for business enterprise government can only be a monstrous America and those from the ranks which the Adult Authority will consider for Black people and other minority hoax. of labor who understand its historic for, then, when I finish office, I The performance gap stems from role as a leader in the fight to and base their decision upon, prior to would rather be measured by my a hundred years failure to enforce save the U.S.A. and bring world the hearing. deeds than all the fancy speeches I the Constitution, Nixon seeks now peace. may have made. And I think then to pack the top court with racist WILLIAM L. PATTERSON I hereby request a written statement of all reasons why I am on Lock-Up, in­ cluding a separate specification of each BLACK MUSLIMS ASSAULT THE PEOPLE reason and a statement of whether the said reason is that I refuse, on grounds AT MALCOLM X FESTIVAL of constitutional principle, to work for less than the minimum wage, and until HELD AT PHILADELPHIA all inmates receive the minimum wage. As you know, and as I previously stated COMMUNITY COLLEGE gle for the libertion of our people. The Black Student League spon­ in writing, I have requested permission On Saturday, because certain sored the affair, their primary ob­ to use the Educational facilities offered Muslims disliked the idea of peo­ jective as stated before, was a sa­ ple honoring Malcolm, they de­ lute to Malcolm. The income from by the State of California to all prison­ cided to disrupt the program. They the benefit was to be used as did this in the form of throwing a scholarship fund for Black stu­ ers, including correspondence courses, chairs at women and children, dents entering and attending the all of which has been denied. direct attacks on brothers and college. total disregard for the human At the onset of the program, the MALCOLM X rights of the people. They re­ Muslims rose from their seats, vealed themselves to the people and began to condemn. When they I further request that my reply and my "The death of Malcolm X left as an enemy, thus lowering them­ were asked to leave, they began to Attorneys' reply in writing to the state­ Elijah Muhammed in unchallenged selves to the level of Pigs. attack the people. One child was control of the largest Black or­ On Saturday, February 21,1970, injured in the chair throwing ment of reasons be placed in the file ganization in this country." it was truly seen by the people, melee. One brother was badly and considered by the Adult Authority. C. Eric Lincoln that the Black Muslims have fallen beaten, kicked in the eye, and the Malcolm X—The Man and His victims to their own predictions of result of his injury may impair Times doom for the White devil; they in his eyesight. turn react as Black devils. The Black Student League is re­ The unprovoked attack by the At this stage and time, one questing an official apology from Black Muslims against the people would hope that the Black Muslims Muslim leader Jeremiah X and attending a Malcolm X Fund would reevaluate their concept of from Muslim leader Elijah Mu­ P 7&*JJ&7 Raising Memorial Program was who and what the oppressor really hammed. Feelings of the group are uncalled for. Black students at­ is, therefore, eliminating their op­ that they did nothing to provoke tending the Philadelphia Commun­ pressive tactics against their own such an attack. ity College were sponsoring this brothers and all people. The feelings expressed by activity so that the people could After the incident occured at the several of those interviewed re­ CC: once again share the thoughts, college, the Black Panther Party lated that the attack upon the pro­ ideas and philosophy of brother was asked by the brothers and gram and the people was planned. Charles Garry Malc.olm, slain leader of our peo­ sisters to come to the school. There is also some speculation that Fay Stender ple. The Party responded by sending the Muslims were also armed. The evening of Saturday, Panthers to investigate the sit­ It is at this point, that the Black Senator Mervin Dymally February 21st, again witnessed the uation. Interviews were held with Panther Party wishes to stress to antagonistic responses of reac­ individuals who had witnessed the tionary elements within the strug­ attack. CONT. ON PAGE 16 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 8 Bobby Seale Raps on the Conspiracy Trial, the New Haven Panther Trial and the New York Panther 21 Trial

LIBERATION NEWS SERVICE for trial there, do you have any munity to one or two or three comment abou that trial? people, or something like this. If they testify they won't be (Editor's Note: The following in­ SEALE: This is going to be ano­ prosecuted. But they probably want terview with Bobby Seale, Chair­ ther fascist operation, it's not to make her say on the witness man of the Black Panther Party, anything else but that. We have stand that somebody did this, was conducted in his San Francis­ a lot of information that I think somebody did this, make her lie co jail cell where he is awaiting we're going to have trouble get­ on the witness stand against other extradition proceedings to ting in. We have a lot of facts, members. She didn't go for it, extradite him to Connecticut we can prove George Sams to be which is very good. I don't know He and 14 other New Haven an agent--and I think the court how long she'd been in the Party Panthers are charged witn is going to do everything they can at the time, but it's good that she conspiracy to murder Alex Rack- to stop us from being able to pre­ understood that this is the way ley. The Panthers claim that Rack- sent these things in court to prove the pig power structure works, ley was a Panther in good stand­ that this is part and parcel of to use one against another. I think ing, murdered by a police agent.) a government operation behind the that it's very progressive and I scenes with fascist agents and a would hope she doesn't get scared INTERVIEWER: Can you tell us Black racist. George Sams is the at any point. what it was like going back to key one, the main person who has We're not guilty of this, and we'11 Chicago to testify in the conspiracy done all this to try to discredit just go right on down to the end trial? the Black Panther Party. I think with it, and let people know what's most people aren't going to want going on. becuase we've got in­ SEALE: I was simply testifying for to understand it, we have a hard formation to expose Sams forwhat^ the other seven defendants, based fight against us in this trial, and he is. on the fact that I was there in we have a lot of things we have to Chicago . They demanded that I be bring out. INTERVIEWER: To your know­ allowed to come as a witness. The Sergeant DeRosa of the New ledge was Alex Rackley a Panther testimony in essence brought out Haven police department is one of in good standing or a police that the speech I gave was about the main ones working on the local agent? our right to defend ourselves and level in conjunction with the fed­ that we won't compromise that eral fascist pigs to get this thing SEALE: I never knew Rackley, right. against us. And one of the re­ but what's been reported to me so Of course Dick Schultz tried to cent things they did concerning far; Alex Rackley was a brother trick me with trick questions but Warren Kimbro was that Sgt. De- in good standing, a brother who I swore to tell the truth, the whole Rosa got a hold of Warren Kim­ was jammed seemingly by this ' truth and nothing but the truth, and bro's brother who is a police­ agent George Sams. Everything in the process of telling the truth man, a pig in my definition of seemingly was done by George I speak my own mind, in my own it, from Florida. He came to Sams from all the information we tone. I literally told Dick Schultz town under an assumed name. got. And then it's all turned around at one point that he was asking Warren Kimbro's sister,who is and the federal government and trick questions and he knew he not in jail,didn't even know that the establishment press has used was, the questions that he was BOBBY SEALE, CHAIRMAN, B.P.P. her policeman brother was in town. all this to try to animalize the throwing at me were basically un­ He and Sgt. DeRosa went be­ Black Panther Party, to try to intelligible. I said, "I don't un­ by those things. A couple of the operation, but everybody can see hind the lawyers' backs and be­ smash the Black Panther Party derstand what it is, and l'm sure jurors even smiled at me, it that the man is completely biased gan to question Warren and scare and blame it on Party members. the jury doesn't even understand seemed that they were glad to and prejudiced toward the defend­ him and threaten him. They scared Alex Rackley was a brother in what it is". Dick Schultz had to see me again, for some reason ants, myself or anybody else who him with the electric chair, they the Black Panther Party and he admit that, well yeah, maybe the or another. protests or dissents. scared him about his kids and was murdered and this is what question was unintelligible. And he everything, who are already being the situation is. proceeded to ask the question in INTERVIEWER: Did you get a INTERVIEWER: How about the oppressed in the community. We're just as mad about that a more intelligible light which I •chance to see the other defend­ jury, is it possible that they haven't Warren Kimbro, seemingly from as about Bobby Hutton or another. answered more readily. ants at all? been taken in or have been moved all the information I got now , is Although I never knew him at all, Under testimony, I always an­ enough by the defense that they a new member to the Party. it's another murderous operation swer questions with qualifications SEALE: They wouldn't let me see won't come in with a guilty ver­ He was scared and copped out that went down. In the beginning so that people will under stand what the defendants at all. I saw them dict? to a second degree murder charge. when this first started hitting us my answer is. A witness has the as I came into the courtroom but His brother,Sgt. DeRosa scared in the face we had to figure out right to answer a question anyway there were two or three marshals SEALE: I feel that the jury has the hell out of him, and he jumped what was going on. But through he wants, he can't be forced to between me and the defendants. been taken in. I really do. But up and hollered he would plead our investigations we' ve come up answer yes or forced to answer And everybody in the courtroom there are a couple of jurors who guilty to this thing which he's with enough information to know no. He has to answer a question stood up and said, "Bobby, how are seemingly, just from watching not guilty of, he was just trying what's going on. We suspected in if he can answer it. ya "doin"? and all that. The judge their actions, more open-minded. to get off, I guess, with some short the first place, because we knew It was a trick operation that didn't like that. I just don't know anything about time or something they supposedly we weren't guilty, and now with Schultz was trying to pull. We At one point in the testimony, the rest of the jurors, I've been promised him Now the lawyer for the other information we've got had a tape recording and a tran­ I was trying to qualify my answer looking at them. I remember that Warren Kimbro has filed a mo­ that we know we can present in scription of my Lincoln Park to a question, but they didn't want one of them actually cried croco­ tion on the basis that it was in­ court, we'll start announcing the speech in the courtroom, so peo­ me to qualify it. They had asked dile tears when the judge sat up voluntary, and one of the most fact that we' re gonna deal with it. ple were able to see exactly what me some kind of question about there like a fool and gagged me. direct violations of constitutional I said. Previously, Pierson, who whether I meant "picking up a Overall, we can't separate the rights for the police to make War­ INTERVIEWER: In New York, a was a witness for the government, piece" as a gun. I said yes, and trial from the Nixon-Agnew- ren Kimbro talk by scaring him. similar case where Panthers have had testified that I had said, "Kill also, I was getting ready to say, Mitchell team, everybody knows The police had told Warren Kim­ been charged with blowing up the the pigs, off the pigs." But of picking up a piece could be any­ that. If they don't know that they bro after._ he talked that he was Botannical Gardens and Depart­ course, those were not my words, thing, a mechanism to defend your­ have to understand it. I under­ going to have to fire his lawyer. ment Stores, where they're still I never even used those words self with because we're a broad stand another thing about the trial, Well, he hadn't fired his lawyer In jail on enormously high bail-- in that form or fashion. political Party. And the true wea­ about the way Hoffman has made and the lawyers filed a motion ts there anything you can say about, Pierson also said in that testi­ pon, as I referred to it in the all those deliberate legal mistakes on an involuntary plea. So we'll the progress of this case? mony that I had said that we should speech, is all the people united and biases with the prosecution. see what happens. Warren Kimbro assassinate Mayor Daley. I had against fascism, pig brutality and When the case goes to higher may retract his guilty pleas. But SEALE: One sister on $100,000 never even mentioned Daley's oppression. That's why I was going courts for appeals, obviously the anyway, this is the behind the ifinally got out. Some organization name in my speech, or ever men­ to qualify myself in saying what Nixon - Agnew - Mitchell admin­ scenes operation that has been con­ paid the whole $100,000 bail They tioned assassinating anyone. The a piece was because a piece could istration would prefer the case be sistently going on. still won't let the others out. This words, the terms, the reference be very broad, it's not limited to thrown out on a mistrial basis Another thing we heard is this is the latest progress in the whole weren't even implied in the speech a gun. or violation of the defendants' con­ so-called Sams is up there in the thing We just don't have enough in Lincoln Park. The tape record­ So this guy says, "No, no he's stitutional rights. They don't want jail and they've given him a club money to bail all the brothers ing cleared that up, the actual tran­ already answered the question, I it thrown out on the constitution­ to walk around the jail with. He's out because they keep it at scription being given to the jury don't want him to answer any­ ality of the said law that we were beating and brutalizing pri­ $100,000 each which is over members while they listened to more." I said, "What do you mean, all charged with. Because under­ soners up there, saying that he's $1,000,000 altogether. And the bail the tape of exactly what I said. I'm going to answer the question standing how the regime builds going to get out of jail pretty bondsmen as usual are scared to So Schultz moved to the other my own say." "Mr. Seale, you've itself into a more overt fascist soon and he'11 run the jail. He's bail them out. This fear doesn't speech that I gave, in Grant Park, already answered." I said, "I state than it is already, they need just a righteous pig brutalizing come from whether or not we can and tried to say that I said that strike the question. I'm not going this law as a means, they need the other inmates in the jail. pay the money, bail bondsmen know we should "Kill all the pigs and to let you use that question to this law on the books for the next we can put up the money because send them to the morgue on a try to incriminate me." ten, fifteen, twenty-five years to INTERVIEWER: Do you have any ultimately we will keep working slab." I never even used the term The judge got mad, "I'll do the scare people away and to trump- information about what happened until we reaise all the funds. But "morgue on a slab", I don't even striking from the record." I said, up charges on the people just to Frances Carter? it's the power struture behind the relate to defining statements that "You can do the striking from the from going to a speaking engage­ scene which threatens the bail way, and I never said that. Garry record, but that question there is ment. That's very important SEALE: They gave her six months bondsman with licenses and stuff said that I shouldn't even answer not answered right. So I don't ac­ for people to see and understand for what they call contempt of not to touch the rest of the mem­ the question because if there was cept it, it's not answered the way in an overall way. court. Because at one point she bers. no transcription of the speech at I wanted to answer it." They didn't My general attitude toward the took the fifth amendment on one Dahruba, one of the leaders of Grant Park the second day, after dig that. Then they went on with overall trial, you know what that question or something like this, the New York Chapter, Is the one the Lincoln Park speech, then the cross examination. is. And it's not only because I'm so she got six months in jail. they definitely don't want to get Schultz would stick someone on a defendant, because I know what out. We need Dahruba out because the stand in the future to lie on INTERVIEWER: Do you have any it's doing to the constitutional INTERVIEWER: Do you think they he has a lot of information--we me and try to send me to jail general feelings now about the con­ rights of the American peole as were trying to bribe her or some­ think they might want to try to for perjury, claiming that I did spiracy trial? a whole. Black people's rights have thing? kill Dahruba because he has in­ say tnat wnen in fact I didn't. been violated for so many years, formation on the provacateur So Garry instructed me that I SEALE: It's a complete railroad and now even White people's rights SEALE: They were trying to set agents directly related to lying shouldn't even answer that ques­ operation, and anyone knows that are violated in the country overtly her up to get her to probably lie on the Panthers and putting this tion on the grounds that it might Hoffman takes the side of the gov­ like this, then Black people will on me, to get her probably to together. Blowing up buildings, one tend to incriminate me, but he ernment. Every once in a while never get any freedom. And if lie on Erica Huggins, the lead­ thing I'll say and I've said before was speaking futuristically of how you read in the papers about how Black people's rights are contin­ ers of the Party--use one to smash and everybody knows is that we Schultz might try to manipulate some slick lawyer for the power ually being violated, then it's ob­ ten, something like that. But it don't blow up buildings with our or operate in such a way as to structure is going to try to clean vious that White people's rights didn't work. It's another one of people it it, we don't blow up get me in jail. up for Hoffman. They say Hoff­ are being violated. My overall the operations I think that people buildings where our people go be­ But that's generally what hap­ man knows how to use the law -- attitude toward the trial is a com­ should look into to show that the cause you don't organize people pened at the trial; I testified all Hoffman don't know how to use no plete rejection of a fascist opera­ case against us is a bunch of day that day. Direct examination law. Hoffman knows some law ver­ tion. flimsy bull, and that they're work­ and cross examination, and I ex­ batim and can take them out of pi­ ing behind the scenes and trying plained the language of the ghetto geonholes and use them against INTERVIEWER: Right now you're to get people to come up scared and what we say and what we mean people to cover up his fascist waiting to be sent to New Haven of the electric chair and offer im­ THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 9 To The World War I Babies KEITH BARNES - SHOT Get off your *do nothing' stool dusty faces and all of them are TO DEATH BY PIGS and do something , like supporting saying help. Think of all the free the Black youth. Remember the breakfasts that could be initiated days when Mama would bring Miss if you would get up off you 'rusty Ann's left over dinners home for dusty'. Do you love your children? her family; and Black Johnny wear­ You say you love your children — It Happened In St. Paul ing white Johnny's clothes. And "I am my brother's keeper". How People of St. Paul! You have way warning Keith. The pig the days of the 'zoot suit' and the can you say you love me whom heard of people being shot by pigs fired, just missing Marion, but *reet pleat', and you couldn't have you have never seen and hate the for no reason in Chicago, New hitting Keith as he was trying to one? I could be talking about Black Panthers. Trust them. I York, or Los Angeles. Many of get back into the building. 40 years ago or I could be talking really want to thank my little Black you said that doesn't relate to me, In the end, Keith was dead, about today because the same brothers and sisters for the pri­ and it can't happen here. Well, Charles was arrested for assault, Keith Barnes is dead. He was shot things are happening. You are vilege of knowing them and enjoying and Marion was set free to be by a pig for no reason. AND IT arrested later at the pig sty when told to support the 'blue feather', them. And to you big brothers and HAPPENED IN ST. PAUL! he went to see about his brother. you support it; you are told to sisters, let's span the 'generation On the evening of February 7, The pig was allowed to walk the support the 'green cross' you sup­ gap' by remembering: the things at the Factory Lounge, somewhere streets to kill more oppressed peo­ port it, now I'm asking you to that happened to 'World War I between 11:30-11:45, Charles, Ma­ ple. He was never put in jail. support the Black youth. Because babies' are still happening to rion, and Keith Barnes entered the The killing of Keith Barnes was, our fore-parents left us no heri­ 'World War II babies'. The word two doors of the factory. After to the smelly pigs, "justifiable Keith had passed a pig ID check homicide". tage, is this what you are going is help, help each other and we without being challenged, Charles Until we are able to take care to leave our Black youth? You can get out of this mess. You was tugged and asked to produce. of our own, until we decentra­ pay for men to go to the moon, have been brainwashed all these An argument started with what lize the fascist police forces, un­ and all the pay our children are years, the only way to remedy Charles thought was an ordinary til we have an end to police bru­ asking is for a little support. this is to think black. racist; the pig hadn't identified tality and murder of Black peo­ My generation has failed, the himself. Charles then followed the ple which is Point No. 7 of the pig outside because the pig had Black Panther Party's Plat­ youth of today are trying-we did suggested that he wanted to fight. form and Program, until we can not try- there's nothing that beats After they had gone out the door make ALL POWER TO THE PEO­ a tryer but a failure ; don't put a bouncer told Marion what was PLE a reality, there is only one them down and they will not fail. happening. Marion, upon hearing thing we can do to protect our­ Look in the mirror. Look in one this, ran out the door to tell selves--that is simply ARM of my little Black brother's faces, Charles not to hit the pig. But, YOURSELVES OR HARM YOUR­ SELVES--for oppressed people of look at the resemblance, (help). even as he ran out, a second pig defense. sprayed mace on the back of his St. Paul, it may be you next. One of the Black's man's faults Remember Emmit Till? Today neck. Charles had already started is the lack of togetherness. With a Black youth cannot stand on the to defend himself. MARTIN LUTHER KING-HUEY P. your knowledge and their youth the corner without the threat of being Keith, seeing that both his bro­ NEWTON COMMUNITY CENTER time is now. Time isn't as long picked up for loitering, etc. thers were under attack, moved 613 Selby Avenue St. Paul, Minnesota 55104 as it has been so let's get to­ Wake up Mr. or Mrs. 'World in their defense by pushing and knocking down the second pig into 612-226-1976 gether. Remember that if some­ War I Baby». thing isn't done there will be no a snowbank. The pig got up draw­ This Black child is mine, ing his gun. Marion who was in future Black generation. The Black Panther or not. What about your the line of fire, got out of the Gary Hogan youth needs you to keep the ball child, is yours so different? They rolling; if you don't know how, are for real with the same listen to them, " out of the mouths physical characteristics as any • of babies"....mygrandmother used other child. You and I have been to tell me about how the streets known as 'animals from the zoo' would be paved of gold , like it but Black youth won't stand it says in the Bible, and the youth LETTER TO any more. Think, what would have * are looking for those streets of happened if we had their guts? gold, now, help them . I've known Panthers personally for , As for violence remember a couple of years and I haven't Billie Holiday's song "Strange been bitten or scratched. 'World Fruit" about the smell of burnt War I Black Babies' please help THE EDITOR flesh? That ain't violence? It's Black youth, if not for their sake, You know I have walked the got to be lynchings. I really didn't for yours. LSCCRC violently opposes the 1) the jailing for contempt of Bob­ streets and looked at little hear about our Black youth lynching actions of Judge Hoffman in his by Seale, Chairman of the Black children some of them with Black anybody lately; the word is self Lois Nichols treatment of the Conspiracy 10. Panther Party. We not only con­ The workings of this trial high­ demn his denial of counsel and BLACK MAN light the tone and climate of to­ deprivation of the right to defend THE day's political world- one of himself but also contend, as he CAN'T AFFORD TO heightened oppression which no did, that a Black man, especially longer escapes the label of a Black man who fights for dig­ TAKE A CHANCE. HE fascism. This trial is only a micro­ nity for the Black race, cannot CAN'T AFFORD TO cosm of the entire political cli­ receive a fair trial in America; School Situation In mate and the social and moral 2) the jailing of the others of the PUT THINGS OFF. HR malaise which inflicts our society, Conspiracy 8 for contempt. We and graphically portrays this coun­ feel that it is not only the right MUST STOP THE try' s manifest evils of racism and but the duty of both defendants WHOLE SHOW NOW imperialism. It is important to and lawyers to protest and ridi­ Roosevelt, Long Island realize that other trials in pro­ cule a system which has become AND GET HIS BUSINESS gress now are faced with the same illegitimate. Only through confron­ STRAIGHT, BECAUSE alarming obstacles; the Panther tation, both in and out ofthe court­ THIS RACIST SYSTEM OF on the school board who is a KKK 21 case in New York, the Panther room, may the system, which has AMERICA HAS SHOWN HOW OP­ member. IF HC DOES NOT DO 14 in New Haven, to name but two. become illegitimate, be moved and PRESSIVE IT CAN BE IN THE The mass corruption not only Political repression has taken on changed; SMALL BLACK COMMUNITY OF exists in the school but extends IT NOW, IF HE FAILS new dimensions in Chicago, 3) the contempt citations against ROOSEVELT, LONG ISLAND into the community. An abortion TO GRASP SECURELY where Dep. Chairman Fred Hamp­ William Kunstler and Leonard right exists in the community to ton of the Black Panther Party, Weinglass. As human beings, these Since the beginning of 1970, three take care of any girl who becomes THE REINS OF THIS has been summarily executed in lawyers followed the dictates of sisters and two brothers have been pregnant by two administrators. HISTORIC OPPORTU­ bed for his political beliefs through their consciences and have helped jumped on by racist teachers and These pigs blackmail sisters who the efforts of a conspiracy of pu­ to open up an avenue of respect one nigger assistant principal. have gotten into " minor trouble" NITY, THERE MAY BE blic officials. It must be remem­ for lawyers. Only when the law­ Joan Marshall was hit twice by a into doing anything and every­ bered that the alleged offense upon yers raise their voices and refuse white guidance counselor, once in thing they want them to do. NO TOMORROW FOR which these public officials to be co-opted by the "rules of the back and then in the chest. Another thing is that the Roose­ HIM. "acted" was illegal possession of the game" may they gain respect This is supposed to be one of the velt School District is supposed to weapons, the same offense which and hope to establish any modi­ "liberal" pigs in the school. But be on "Austerity Budget" which recently caused a White Mafia cum of equality and justice within we know what that liberal stands means that money can't be spent ELDRIDGE CLEAVER member in Chicago to receive a the legal system; for "a liberal amount of racism'. on new books, hot lunches (which suspended sentence of two years. 4) Judge Hoffman, is an alumnus One week later to the day, another in Roosevelt means that almost Min. of Information, Furthermore, the trial of the sur­ of this school, and is inhuman. sister, Gail Mitchell, was offed 30 of the students in the district vivors will soon commence in Chi­ However, we must realize that by a white substitute teacher ; a are not getting the one hot meal Black Panther Party cago; another political trial which Hoffman is only one small cog in third sister was beaten by a white a day they would have gotten be­ will leave the notions of justice the system of injustice which has female gym teacher. No action was cause they are on welfare), or a relegated to the historical junk created the social, political, and taken against any of these teachers. sports program. In other words, heap. Each poor man, each Black economic climate which allows and Besides this, two brothers have every thing that is really essen­ man and those who dare dissent promotes such atrocities. been beaten, one by a nigger tial to learning. In Roosevelt, face this multifaceted guillotine LSCRRC, therefore, asks every­ assistant principal. Black children are starving and which is misnomered as "jus­ one to join in the fight against Another teacher, came out the power structure has set up a tice". To organize, clothe, or give oppression, racism, and imperial­ against the Black Panther Party. sports program, but no books, nor medical aid to the poor, to de­ ism, not only on behalf of lawyers He said the Black Panther Party food. All this man wants Black fend oneself against police bru­ or the Conspiracy 8, but, most was "affiliated with the Catholic people to do is play ball, be a good tality, to demonstrate at welfare importantly, on behalf of all the Church", that it was "a fraternal nigger and never learn to do some­ offices, and to propose low income people of the world who live under organization", and that lt was paid thing constructive. housing become political crimes oppression, whether they be off by the government and various In spite of all the problems the when the disenfranchised and the Black, White, Red, Yellow or government officials to spy on students are facing, we are de­ poor themselves attempt to under­ Brown. other Black groups. When he was termined to keep on fighting until take these tasks • LSCRRC, human confronted by a group of students that school relates to our needs beings first and only secondas law­ as to the real function of the Party, and Black people control that yers, refuses to condone these out­ LSCRRC COORDINATING COM­ he claimed that he was just trying school district,turning it into an rageous injustices. We refuse to MITTEE to start a discussion between the institution of learning instead of become "good Germans" and only (LAW STUDENTSCIVILRIGHTS students. the prison it is now. ask that others fight to retain their RESEARCH COUNCIL) The problem in Roosevelt goes human dignity by fighting for the much deeper than teacher bru­ human dignity of others. Northwestern University of Law tality and bigoted ignorance. 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'The fascists have already decided in advanc Chairman Bobby Seale in the electric cha INTERNATIONAL SECTION, B.P.P. sequence upon the_aggressor for each Alger, Algeria death because of the fearless leadership act of aggressioruThis attempt to mur­ SUBJECT: Press Release that he has given to our people. der Chairman Bobby Seale cold­ DATE: March 2, 1970 Black people will never accept this CONCERNING: The pre-planned po­ bloodedly in the Electric Chair is an premeditated decision of the fascist open provocation and the ultimate ag­ litical murder of Bobby Seale, power structure to murder Chairman Chairman of the Black Panther Party, gression against Black people. ,tt is a Bobby Seale in the Electric Chair. So calculated step taken by fascist pigs in in the electric chair in the state of that the question is nowposed, pure and Connecticut. the unfolding of their vicious blueprint simple: Is America going to have a of genocide against Black people. We, The Primary Task of the American Class War or a Race War? The fascists Black people, if we are forced to go it Revolution, at this point in our history, have already declared war upon the peo­ alone, must be prepared to unleash the is to defeat the Number One maneouver ple. Will the people as a whole rise up ultimate political consequence upon this of the fascist power structure, which is to meet this challenge with a righteous [racist nation. The ultimate political con­ i to make an example of Bobby Seale byi j People's War against these fascist pigs, sequence which Black people have in putting him to death in the Electric or will Black people have to go it alone, their power to unleash is RACE WAR. I Chair in the state of Connecticut. thus transforming a dream of inter­ Indeed, we have been and at this very The fascists have already decided in racial solidarity into the nightmare of a | moment are the victims of a systematic advance to murder Chairman Bobby Race War? racist repression. The Black Panther j Seale in their all-out effort to destroy Our brothers are being murdered in I Party, as everybody knows, has taken a the leadership of the Black P anther | their sleep by the shock troopers ofthe | [leading role in trying to avoid precisely |Party and to intimidate our member­ 'power structure; our offices are being this disasterous RACE WAR which the ship in particular and all other pro­ subjected to all-out military attack; our fascist oppressors have been working gressive people and organizations. This lawyers are being sentenced to prison night and day to bring about, But we should be crystal clear even to a blind along with us; and the fascist Nixon cannot and will not continue this policy man. The vicious political persecution Administration has unleashed the polit­ to the point of racial suicide. We will of Chairman Bobby Seale ranges in time ical police of the F.B.I, and thrown not sacrifice Chairman Bobby Seale on over a four year period--from the very away all pretenses of justice and e- the alter of interracial harmony if White beginning of the Black Panther Party-- quality under the law. Lip-service to people continue to sit back and allow and, geographically, it follows a twisted the Constitution of the United States this ghastly plot to go forward. So if trail of trumped-up charges from Oak­ of America has been replaced by out­ the so-called freedom loving White peo­ land, Sacramento, Berkeley, San Fran­ right fascist terror and naked repres­ ple of America do not stand up now, cisco, Chicago, and now to Connecticut. sion. Hundreds of our Party members while there are still a few moments of The plot against Bobby Seale in partic­ have been jacked-up on highly political time left, and put an end to the perse­ ular is so outrageously obvious that charges. Scores of our Party members cution of Chairman Bobby Seale, then even these shameless pigs should not languish in jails and prisons, subjected Black people will have to go it alone have the gall to try to pull it off. to scandalously high bails that are and step forward alone. This will mean But the fact that they are going full tantamount to RANSOM. Throughout the the end of our dreams for the Class speed ahead with their disgraceful con­ length and breath of this depraved land, War which America needs and the be­ spiracy" should make it clear to the ginning of the Race War which America American people, once and for all, that the situation is the same. It is nothing but an attempt to sabotage the 400 cannot endure. This is the political con­ a desperate hour is upon us and we have sequence which America faces because no time to loose if we are to salvage the year struggle of our people for free­ of this unspeakablly evil attempt to situation. Because one thing must be dom and liberation. murder Chairman Bobby Seale in the made absolutely clear to America: no Our Minister of Defense, Huey P. Electric Chair. matter what the White people of Newton, teaches us that in order to America are prepared to accept, Black have security from the unceasing ag­ people do not accept this ultimate at­ gressions of the enemy, we must always BLACK PANTHER PARTY tempt to bind and gag Bobby Seale with be in a position to inflict apolitical con- Min. of Information Eldridge Cleaver i 4 THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 12 IN DEFENSE OF SELF DEFENSE by Huey P. Newton July 3, 1967 to silence the implacables and to get their show back on the Historically, the power structure has demanded that Black road. leaders cater to their desires and to the ends of the im­ The masses of Black people have always been deeply en­ perialistic racism of the oppressor. The power structure trenched and involved in the basic necessities of life. They has endorsed those Black leaders who have reduced them­ have not had time to abstract their situation. Abstractions selves to nothing more than apologizing parrots. They have come only with leisure. The people have not had the luxury divided the so-called Black leaders within the political of leisure. Therefore, the people have been very aware arena. The oppresssors sponsor radio programs, give space of the true definition of politics: politics are merely the in their racist newspapers, and have shown them the luxury desire of individuals and groups to satisfy first, their basic enjoyed only by the oppressor. The Black leadersservethe needs — food, shelter and clothing, and security for them­ oppressor by purposely keeping the people submissive and selves and their loved ones. The Black leaders endorsed by passive - non-violent. the power structure have attempted to sell the people the Historically, there have been a few Black men who have simple-minded theory that politics is holding a political rejected the handouts of the oppressor and who have re­ office; being able to move into a $40,000 home; being able fused to spread the oppressor's treacherous principles to sit near White people in a restaurant (while in fact the of deceit, gradual indoctrination and brainwashing, and who Black masses have not been able to pay the rent of a $40.00 have refused to indulge in the criminal activity of teaching rat-infested hovel). submission, fear, and love for an enemy who hates the very The Black leaders have led the community to believe that color Black and is determined to commit genocide on an brutality and force could be ended by subjecting the people international scale. to this very force of self-sacrificing demonstrations. The There has always existed in the Black colony of Afro- Black people realize brutality and force can only be in- America a fundamental difference over which tactics from, jflicted if there is submission. The community has not re­ the broad spectrum of alternatives Black people should em­ sponded in the past or in the present to ue absurd and er­ ploy in their struggle for national liberation. roneous, decitful tactics of so-called legitimate Black leaders. One side of this difference contends that Black people are The community realizes that force and brutality can only be in the peculiar position where, in order to gain acceptance eliminated by counter force through self defense. Leaders into the "mainstream" of American life, they must employ who have recommended these tactics have never had the support no tactic that will anger the oppressor Whites. This view and following of the downtrodded Black masses who comprise holds the Black people constitute a hopeless minority and he bulk of the community. Grassroots — the downtrodden that salvation for Black people lies in developing brotherly of the Black community, even though they rejected the hand- relations. There are certain tactics that are taboo. Violence icked handkerchief heads endorsed by the power struc- against the oppressor must be avoided at all costs, because ure, the people have not had the academic or administra- the oppressor will retaliate with superior violence. So Black ive knowledge to form themselves in long resistance to people may protest, but no protect. They can complain, 1 the brutality. but not cut and shoot. In short, Black people must at alii jj Marcus Garvey and Malcolm X were costs remain non-violent. On the other side of the difference, we find that the point " the two Black men ofthe twentieth cen­ of departure is the principle that the oppressor has no rights tury who posed an implacable challenge that the oppressed is bound to respect. Kill the slave- . to both : the oppressor and the endorsed master, destroy him utterly, move against him with im­ placable fortitude. Break his oppressive power by any means ^spokesmen that could be dealt with in any necessary. Men who have stood before the Black masses I other way than precisely the foul manner and recommended this response to the oppression have been " .recorded by history. Malcolm, in our held in fear by the oppressor. The Blacks in the colony who were wed to the non-violent alternative could not relate time, stood on the threshhold with the op­ to the advocated of implacable opposition to the oppressor. pressor and the endorsed spokesmen in a Because the oppressor always prefers to deal with the less radical, i.e., less dangerous, spokesmen for his subjects. -bag that they couldn't get out of. Malcolm, He would prefer that his subjects had no spokesmen at all, implacable to the ultimate degree, held out or better yet, he wishes to speak for them himself. Unable to the Black masses the historical, stu­ to do this practically, he does the next best thing, and en­ dorses spokesmen who will allow him to speak through them pendous victory of Black collective sal­ to the masses. Paramount amongst his imperatives is to vation and liberation from the chains of see to it that implacable spokesmen are never allowed to the oppressor and the treacherous em- communicate their message to the masses. They are never allowed to communicate their message to the masses. Their Wbrace of the endorsed spokesmen. Only oppressor will resort to any means necessary to silence ,with the gun were the Black masses the implacables. denied this victory. But they learned from The oppressor, the endorsed spokesmen, and the implac­ ables form the three points of a triangle of death. The op­ ^Malcolm that with the gun, they can re- pressor looks upon the endorsed spokesmen as a tool to %capture their dreams and bring them into use against the implacables to keep the masses passive withing the acceptable limits of the tactics he is capable Wreality. of containing. The endorsed spokesmen look upon the op­ The heirs of Malcolm now stand mil­ pressor as a guardian angel who can always be depended upon to protect them from the wrath of the implacables, lions strong on their corner of the tri­ while he looks upon the implacables as dangerous and ir­ angle, facing the racist dog oppressor and responsible madmen who, by angering the oppressor, will the soulless endorsed spokesmen. The certainly provoke a blood bath in which they themselves might get washed away.,The implacables view both theop- hires of Malcolm have picked up the gun pressors and the endorsed leaders as his deadly enemies. and, taking first things first, are moving If anything, he has a more profound hatred for the endorsee to expose the endorsed spokesmen for the leaders than he has for the oppressor himslef, because the implacables know that they can deal with the oppressor only Black masses to see them for what they after they have driven the endorsed spokesmen off the scene. are and always have been. The choice Historically, the endorsed spokesmen have always held the upper hand on the implacables. In Afro-American history, offered by the hires of Malcolm to the there are shining breif moments when the implacables edorsed spokesmen is to repudiate the have outmaneuvered the oppressor and the endorsed spokes­ oppressor and to crawl back to their men and gained the attention of the Black masses. The Black masses, recognizing the implacables in the depths of their people and earn a speedy reprieve or dispair, respond magnetically to the implacables and bestow face a merciless, speedy and most timely a devotion and loyalty to them that frightens the oppressor execution for treason and being too wrong and endorsed spokesmen into a panic-stricken frenzy, and HUEY P. NEWTON they leap into a rash act — murder, imprisonment, or exile- MINISTER OF DEFENSE B.P.P. for too long.

THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF DEFENSE BELIEVES THAT THE TIME HAS COME FOR BLACK PEOPLE TO ARM THEM­ SELVES AGAINST THIS TERROR BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. A PEO­ PLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED SO MUCH FOR SO LONG AT THE HANDS OF A RACIST SOCIETY, MUST DRAW THE LINE SOMEWHERE. WE BELIEVE THAT THE BLACK COMMUNITIES OF AMERICA MUST RISE UP AS ONE MAN TO HALT THL: PROGRESSION OF A TREND THAT LEADS INEVITABLY TO THEIR TOTAL DESTRUCTION.

HUEY P. NEWTON MINISTER OF DEFENSE BLACK PANTHER PARTY THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 13

%. Iir 81 Hi:::::: I $&•* mmmmw ma mm^"9 : IHF LJr^mM mam I la •••••••• ^HH 11? ** «Kliiii ST ^CyR IPIG HARASSMENT OF RICHMOND PÂNÏHERSl When a person wants you to ing to produce proper identifica­ ped, the motor died and we just were there at the station at the and let her make a phone call. believe his or her lies, the best tion, smoking in the streets and sat there. The police officer said time. We were then taken up­ She was told that someone had thing for them to do is to keep littering. He began looking for "'Get out of the car." So I got stairs in an elevator, and placed called 3 or 4 times and that a tricking you. Right On? his comrades, Gloria and Eugene, out and stood at the side of the in a "holding" cell for a while. lawyer was trying to get them Well, that's exactly what the pigs but they were nowhere in sight. car looking at the two policemen. Eugene was taken first, then me, out on their own recognizance of the power structure are doing. As they were going around the cor­ They (the policemen) approached then Joe. We gave name, address instead of $315.00 bail. They The pigs viciously attacked with ner onto 6th St., another brother, me, they asked for my driver's and place of birth. The jailer got finally let them out about mid­ intent to destroy the Black Pan­ Joe, who was coming from the license and registration. I uptight, the pigs got uptight and night. ther Chapters in Los Angeles cleaners saw Ray being taken off immediately produced the license, said "to the devil with it, come The pigs tried to be overly and Chicago and many other places by these pigs; he asked the pigs but because I had just purchased with me." They placed Joe and nice even paternalistic, like where the people have a functional what the charges were and the the 1970 sticker and bought the Eugene in a cell together and they were trying to make organ of the Black Panther Party pigs said 'littering'. When they car on the 3rd. of Feb., I hadn't took me down on the far end by everything easy . They informed serving as their (the peoples') got to the pig station and were received the registration yet. the windows. I asked to make them of the right to remain silt-it. eyes by "pointing out" the con­ going through the first jail door, While the police officer had pos­ a phone call, and was denied. Since all that madness happened, tradictions of this decadent ra­ one of the pigs grabbed Ray by session of my driver's license, However, a brother in the cell the pigs came to the corner of cist society. the arm and threw him to the he ordered me to get into the with me was allowed phone prive- 6th and Bissell Ave. pulled out So when the people started em­ floor, while the other pig said, car, start it up, and drive it around leges, so I asked him to notify their pocket knives (concealed bracing as their own (and they "•What's the matter, boy, can't the corner to park it. I refused the party for us. He did it. We weapons) and began to tear down have) the many socialistic pro­ you walk?" They also asked him telling him that I wouldn't drive were held until about 1:30 p.m. the posters relating to a Birthday grams-such as the free breakfast, was his nick name Daoud or Joe the car without a license because The charges were dropped on Benefit for oar Minister of De­ free clothing, and free health Cuba. He kept on saying his name he would arrest me for driving Joe Veale and Eugene Balthazar, fense, Huey P. Newton. clinics the pigs have no choice was Ray Edmerson and that he without a driver's license. He but the pigs prefer to prosecute The pigs fail to realize that they other than to disgise themselves lived at 520 Bissell St. They then got angry behind this and told the traffic charges. can't stop the people from recog­ as 'victims of an unprovoked at­ said "You punks think you're smart 'me to push it then. Eugene, Joe Then, on February 13, 1970, nizing Huey P. Newton and all the tack.' The pigs have quit overtly and if you keep on repeating your­ and I pushed the car around the Eugene and Gloria were putting principles he stands for bytearLig trying to kick down our doors self, we're going to put you in a corner and I parked it next to posters up about 6:30p.m.between down some posters. but they have started ripping off cell and throw the key away." the curb. We then walked back to 6th and 5th on Bissell on an In a message from the Minister the brothers, and sisters in the After they told him this, they the corner of 6th and Ohio where apartment building with no com­ of Information of the Black Panther streets and in the fascist court took him into another room where the street lights were shining. plaints from the people. While Party, Eldridge Cleaver, "Rage" rooms. They kidnapped the Chair­ they took his fingerprints for the One officer was talking to me standing on the corner of 5th and said, "The fearless example of man, Bobby Seale, off the streets Richmond F.B.I. When they finally and the next thing I knew, they Bissell, one pig car with only Huey's leadership, as he stood and dealt with him in the -halls let him go they said, You can go had Joe Veale up against their a driver went by; he looked but with his gun in his hand like a of injustice.' You can also see back and tell all your other friends car searching him and had placed didn't stop. Eugene and Gloria shield between our people and the what happens when you, the peo­ now". him under arrest. I asked the pigs moved between 5th and 4th on pigs is thefulfiUment of the dreams ple, become indignant to this in­ So Ray Edmerson, a member of why were they arresting Joe and Bissell, where Gloria started to of our people and an answer to their sane madness - you get ripped the Black Panther Party was down­ one replied, "Don't you worry put a poster up on a vacated screams for their warriors to step off. town selling the Peoples' News about it, you're not under arrest store window, but a man who said forward and put an end to the tor­ The pigs constantly oink about Service when " out of thegutters" yet." So I asked Joe why he was he owned it told them 'no' (de­ ture and the pain that we ha •» the My Lai Massacre, and we two slimy pigs slinked onto the set under arrest and he said, "I don't facing private property). Less than suffered for so long." .M know it is wrong, but we also and busted Ray for illegal pos­ know, they didn't tell me yet." ten minutes later they were being 3y the pigs teari.ig .down the know that the overall aggression sesion of tobacco, a cigarette. While I was talking to Joe, I busted. posters, causing such an over by the U.S. cut-throat bandits in Within a week the same slimy looked around and the pigs had One pig, probably the same one dramatized scene (as if the posters Viet Nam is wrong. We can ilk arrested the brother for placed Eugene under arrest. I who went by the first time, stopped had a gun?), showing their rue objectively equate the My Lai smoking a pipe downtown. asked them why Eugene was under and told Eugene to come over nature of a low natured beast, Massacure in particular with On Feb. 9, 1970, Joe Veale arrest and they said, "It's none to the car. He asked him his very positive results were seen the attempted genocide of the Black and Eugene Balthazar had been of your business, you're I not name and address and age. Eu­ in the faces of the people that were Panther Party in particular and selling the Peoples' paper (Black under arrest yet." I then asked gene told Gloria to go back to the present. Brothers and sisters were the overall attempt of genocide Community News Service). Daoud the pigs why did they stop us and office and tell what was happening shouting "Pig, you have no right of the Vietnamese People with the Bey went to pick them up and one pig said, "We were going but she decided to stay since she to do that" and "get out of our overall attempt of genocide of pick up breakfast food for the Free to give you a citation for going didn't know what could happen community" and "Pig, your day Black people here in Babylon. Breakfast for Children Pro­ 40 m.p.h. in a 25 m.p.h. zone, to Eugene. The pig had by then is coming soon." Right on to that! So the news media, as apologists gram. The circumstances of their but you're so smart, we'll make stopped his car and walked over The pigs of Richmond finally for the ruling class, comes forth arrest were given as follows: it 60." The pig then began to to where they were. He asked got up enough nerve to slink up to try to divert the American (told by Daoud) question me about my job, phone how many were out and Eugene to the back door of the church on Peoples' attention elsewhere while I was with Eugene Balthazar no., what I do, etc. I gave them said "Just me and her." Eugene 6th and Bissell on Feb. 17, 1970 war is being waged here. and Joe Veale, who had been my name, address, and place of asked the pig if he wanted them Ray Edmerson and Joe Cuba were With in the past few weeks the selling the peoples' News Service birth and was then placed under to take the posters down and the outside hanging up posters when pigs of Richmond have stepped at Mayfair Market. I, Daoud, went arrest. At the time the pig was pig said 'yeah'. All this time they noticed the pigs coming down up their harassment tactics again. to pick them up and pick up writing out the citation for Gloria hadn't said anything but the street. The pigs swooped up For a short period after the breakfast for the Free Breakfast speeding. He then told me to sign name and address, so the pig on the brothers just as Ray headed courageous battle in L.A. where for School Children Program. We the ticket and I refused to do so. said, "So you won't talk, you're toward the office. Three pigs fol­ 11 Panthers defended the peoples left Mayfair Market and headed The pig told me to get against under arrest"; she walked over to lowed Ray and as Joe attempted to ^^i office against at least 350 gestapo straight down Cutting Blvd. to the wall, I complied and was then the car which was in the middle come to the office to warn Panthers storm troopers, the Richmond 6th St. Just as we approached searched, handcuffed (tightly).and of the street and got in. By now inside of all the pig activity, he Pigs seemed tobe leary of messing 6th St. and Cutting, we noticed put in the pig mobile with Eugene. the corner was blocked off by was placed under arrest for resis­ with Panthers. However the "lull" a police car, with 2 police of­ I told the pigs that we had some 3 pig cars with about 4 to 5 pigs ting arrest. About that time Ray didn't last for long. And so on ficers in it, turning onto Cutting food in the back seat that was altogether on the scene. They put had reached the office and informed January 7, 1970, the pigs started from 6th St. They (the 2 officers) for the purpose of serving hungry Eugene in another car handcuffing the comrades that the pigs had Joe their harassment program of the looked at us and we returned children and asked if I could roll him because he was yelling at outside and were arresting him. Panthers in Richmond. looks. We then proceeded to make the windows up and lock the doors them. The whole arrest took ap­ Just as Doaud went out to investi­ Ray Edmerson was downtown the right hand turn off Cutting until I could notify someone to proximately three to five minutes. gate, two young racist punk pigs selling papers when two pigs came onto 7th St, heading for the office pick the food up. He said that Gloria got to the pig station first were approaching the steps. Seeing by. One pig said out of the clear which is on 6th and Bissell Ave. he would do that. They had al­ where a matron was waiting out­ that the pigs were extremely ner­ blue sky "what did you say?" I commented "watch 'em mess ready searched the car and when side and was told to sit on a vous, he immediately asked them Ray did not reply to this and with us." Sure enough the police I told him that he had no right waiting room bench. When Eugene what did they want. One of the kept on conducting propaganda. car turned left off Cutting onto to do that, he just looked at me, came in a few minutes later, they two pigs oinked about wanting some The pigs then proceeded to go 7th St. heading in the same di­ and laughed and said "I just love told the two of them to give them one that was wearing a red shirt down the block looked around, rection as we were. They were potatoes" there were potatoes in some information so they won't and had just ran inside. Doaud and then came back down the block cruising parallel with us until the car. have to book or jail them as it told the pig that unless he had a where he was selling papers. One we reached Florida on 6th St. There were 2 pig cars and 4 was just a misdemeanor violation. search warrant and produced it pig asked, "What's your name?" As we reached halfway between pigs. They drove us down to the They didn't comply so they were he was trespassing on the people's and Ray told him his name. He 6th and Florida Ave. and 6th Richmond Police Dept. We were taken upstairs and half the booking property because he knew no one then said "let's go". Ray asked and Ohio, the police turned on told to get out of the car when process was completed, then they had invited them. The pig stepped him was he under arrest and the their 'cherry top flasher' and I we arrived at the station, marched put them in a separate cell. pig said "yes"; then Ray asked stopped the car at the stop sign into a waiting room to be viewed About 10:00 p.m. they brought 'what for' and was told for fail­ of 6th and Ohio. As the car stop­ by all the rest of the pigs that Gloria out to complete booking CONT. ON PAGE 16 J. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 14 ASU MEMBER SHAG HAIED BLACK BRIGADE NORTH CAROLINA TO VIETNAM In Fauatteville, North Carolina for his country? Is there not fear thousands of miles to fight an op­ a Black organization has been in the Black man's heart when pressed people, when all we have formed which consists of Black he is sent to Vietnam to die for to do is take a look around us PROTEST PLANNED AT FT. LEWIS GI's who have radical ideas about a country which does not accept and see oppressed people within New York. N.Y., Feb 26 - On at the Jan. 21 People's Trial of the him? Yet we die so that this coun­ the structure of the military. It a racist society in our own land. Feb. 19 at 4:00 a.m., in the dark Army, held before 1500 people at is a political organization that is try can stay rich and use its riches If we are fighting oppression then speaking out against the repres­ for the minority...When I speak of the battle is right here, not in of night, American Servicemen's the University of Washington. sion that the minority groups are the minority now, I am speaking some land that we have no claim Union organizer Pvt. Bruce Mac- At this trial, MacLean, then subjected to by the government. of the few who are running this upon. Lean was forced onto a plane by AWOL, declared his support for the Our main purpose is to associate country for their own personal How long do we have to endure the Army and sent to Vietnam National Liberation Front of South the Black man in the military with gains, not the so-called minority being used as machines and not against his will. Pvt. MacLean Vietnam, He was defended while groups" who are poor, not the the political structure and show being looked upon for what we are; arrived at Cam Ranh Bay the fol­ how it is used against hira in "minority" who are hungry and testifying by a guard of 25 ASU are we not human beings? Don't lowing morning. Following the every way. The Black Brigade is without sufficient clothing and de­ we have the same organs as the members. trying to make the Black man rea­ cent housing that is needed for man who tells us to die for a coun­ shang-hai the ASU promtly initi­ This Saturday's demonstration lize how he has adopted himself survival in such a great and pros­ try that believes in the preserva­ ated legal action to have him was initiated by the Seattle Libera­ to the injustices of a capitalist perous land. tion of property more than preser­ brought back. tion Front and is being supported government and see the position Black people HAVE to de­ vation of human lite. This Saturday, Feb. 28, a demon­ by the Shelter-Half Coffee House, he has taken in regards to this velop their consciousness. Is it Because of a few men and their stration will be held with a march the Ft. Lewis ASU, and other local oppressive situation. We believe right to be a slave when we have greed, there has to be a revolu­ on Ft. Lewis, Washington to protest that every Black maa is aware of so many Black men and women tion...Only those capitalist pigs groups. the demoralizing treatment that dead who have spoken out violent­ who are considered "leaders of the Vietnam war and the repression Bob Lemay, ASU Executive he has and is being subjected to; ly and/or non-violently against a the government'' are at fault. If against active members of the Ft. Director, said, "We give fill sup­ we also understand that because slave Institution. Well, my Black I and my Black brothers have to Lewis American Servicemen's port to this demonstration against of fear of the repercussions from people that is what we are, slaves die for the cause of true freedom Union, the increasing repression of ASU the military if he speaks out for for a repressive government. It is then speaking for myself I shall Pvt. MacLean was one of the organizers. The People's Trial the right to be accepted and under­ common knowledge that poor die, but I KEFUSE TO DIE IN- stood, the Black man stands by in Blacks are forced to fight in so- VAIN. organizers of the Oct. 20 meeting sentenced the Army to death. We silentfrustration. Was there not called "American wars for Lib­ Of the ASU at theCascadian Service intend to carry rhis sentence out, fear in every Black man's heart erty" and are dying in them every­ Club at Ft. Lewis at which he and 34 even in the face of such union when he had to stand and fight day. Why should a Black man go IE PEOPLE other ASU members were arrested; busting actions as the brass'shang- he was also one of the key witnesses haing of Brother MacLean. The Declaration Of Devaux, Hi Trouilleux At Their Trial On F< Y 6, TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS At Rennes In France MOVEMENT OF THE On February 6, 1970, at Rennes, play Gaullist opinions, racism, draftee can only be broken, all a military court found the soldiers their nostalgia for the Algiers the more since everything in the Devaux. Herve and Trouilleux, "putsch", or their sympathy for system of punishments, privileges UNITED STATES guilty of disoliedience and under­ the fascist movement "Occident". and leaves is mobilized to de­ mining the morale of the troops. We do not call an army "neu­ velop the "every man for him­ Devaux got a year in prison, tral" which would like to turn self mentality. The reason we Trouilleux six months and Herve draftees into cops, or strike break­ are fighting, to the extent of our OF AMERICA four months ers, and whose every maneuver is modest ability, is to give the We may inform you that the Peace secuted for racial reasons and con­ Their crime was in speaking directed toward suppressing so­ soldiers the means of collective Council of the German Democratic sider it our task to fight racism out against the military and a- cialism and the "Red Menace". expression. And the reason we dis­ Republic on the occasion of the We do not call an army "neu­ tributed these leaflets, which only wherever practised. We, therefore, gainst the daily repression inside International Day against Racism the barracks. tral" which could, in perfect le­ express what the majority of sol­ expressly condemn the suppressive They were found in poi M won gality, bring about a military take­ diers think to themselves, is so '^February 14) issued a statement measures exerted on the Black of anti-arpy leaflets and two news­ over on a single order from the that these soldiers do not become which found wide response in our Panther Party and the numerous papers, EfhcMles, andCrossesen governm ent, enabling it to consider robots who leave their capacity country. We take the liberty of murders of members of this move­ l'Air (Sparks; There is no exact all strikers as military deserters. to criticize outside, along with informing you of our attitude taken ment. From our people's history their personalities. translation of the second title, the We do not consider an army neu­ in this statement: we know that racism as a root of tral which shuts its young men in­ We also wanted to help them cross is. the butt or grip of a On the occasion of International gun, usually held in the air as side barracks for 16 months in to organize to act collectively. war and exploitation is one of the a sign of victory. In 1907 the 17th order to alienate them and for­ This is the only guarantee youth Day against Racism the Peace most terrible crimes. And we are line regiment in France refused cibly impose on them standards has against military brain­ Council of the German Democratic today especially proud that in our to suppress a grape-workers of sycophancy, informing, and re­ washing, against being used by the Republic conveys fraternal and socialist Republic racism in all strike and marched by "crosses spect for authority, by means of people in power as a repressive solidarity greetings to all peoples its forms has been eradicated. The en l'air"). There was also a pe­ a discipline used to break the crea­ force to help the colonels to de­ fighting for full equal rights. people of the GDR have nevertheless tivity and spontaneity characteris­ fend democracy--like they de- tition of protest about a young The people of our peaceable, soldier in an infantry regiment tic of the youth of May '68. There t in Algeria and Greece, to fight discriminatory measures who was hit by an officer and can be no pretense of this dis­ lave been told that a sol­ socialist German state follow with also instigated by the United States made a formal complaint. A pu­ cipline being necessary from a dier is a citizen with certain du­ great respect and sympathy the government and West German im­ nishment was, of course, admin­ military point of view; between ties towards his nation. But we struggle of the American Negro perialist circles who refuse to istered, to the soldier, who Is punishments, fatigue duty, guard maintain that there are no duties citizens and other racial minorities recognize the GDR on the basis now in solitary confinement. duty and inspections, there is no without rights. What would a worker against exploitation and suppres­ of international law and try to re- time, within the 16 months of ser­ In refusing conformity, harass­ *&y If he found himself tried for sion, against discrimination and vice, for any real military for­ going on strike by a jury of bosses vent our people from cooperating ment and army repression, De­ racism. With satisfaction we vaux, Herve, and Trouilleux are mation. Using the words of and foremen? This is exactly what as an equal member of the faily expressing the opinion of tens of "flag and country" as a screen, is happening today, however, when witness the fact that the American of nations. thousands of French soldiers. the army harasses its youth to we are being judged by repre­ Negro citizens in alliance with We may express our gratefulness keep them in line—the line the sentatives of the military hier­ all opponents to racial discrimi­ to all those U.S. citizens who have (Devaux speaks:) I want to be­ cops and bosses want them to stay archy. nation wage an ever more deter­ given us their support. in--so that they can be used to de­ gin by saying that I assume the The only thing that matters to mined fight to achieve the eradi­ We may assure all democratic- entire responsibility for the con­ fend the bourgeois class present­ us now is that we are sure of tents of these leaflets and for their ly in power cation of these evils and that an minded U.S. people of our firm being understood by the youth, sure increasing number of democratic- distribution. We are in prison for having of being understood by the draf­ solidarity and friendship and urge We have written them to ex­ decided that it is not enough to tees who have not been able to minded U.S. citizens render them to put an immediate stop to all press our refusal to put up with complain about an unjust state of express their revolt and, finally, full support. Your courage, your forms of discrimination and to 16 months of joblessness, 16 affairs, but that you have to act of being understood by the workers vigour and willingness to make respect all those discriminated as months of brain-washing, 16 to change it. who do not want their sons to be­ sacrifices will contribute towards equal citizens of the United States months of harassment. We have observed that the whole tray the struggle and the flag that the end that racism will be extir­ of America." We are being judged by a so- system is set up against us, its belong to us all. called neutral army, supposedly at values, its hierarchy, its police pated all over the world and man­ the service of the entire nation. and its prisons. kind will live in happiness and se­ We do not call "neutral" an We have also observed that in RIGHT ON TO THE FRENCH RE­ curity. Sending you our best wishes. army where officers openly dis­ facing this machine alone, the SISTERS! We may assure you that the people of the German Democratic Yours sincerely, Republic firmly stand on the side Werner Rumpel VIETNAM AND ITS RELATION of all those suppressed and per­ Seer'?rjry General pillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll I IllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllVllllllllllli TO THE BLACK COLONY The reported massacres of Viet­ rotten, therefore the fruit Is rotten. 'protective force' they are killing namese people have a direct bear­ No incident is an isolated happen­ the Vietnamese under the same ing on the people In the Black ing, all things are related. pretense. colony here In Babylon. It has In 1954 the Supreme Court out­ Like the Vietnamese we are taken over a year for the atroci­ lawed segregation, and Vietnam meeting aggression with re­ ties committed in Vietnam to reach won its "independence". In both sistance, but if we are to survive the general public. In that same cases freedom was promised but as a people free to determine our period of time the massacres of denied. The right of self-deter­ harder to drive the oppressor from Black people have been stepped up. mination by the Vietnamese people our community. We must stop once Using a large percentage of Black was stifled by U.S. aggression; the and for all the systematic geno­ combat troops has served two pur­ right of self-determination in the cide against Black people. As the "Only by the gun have the Black poses: 1) killing off young Viet­ Black colony was also stifled by Vietnamese have shown, only those namese and 2) killing young U.S aggression. The build-up of willing to fight and die deserve to Blacks from the colony in Babylon troops in Vietnam went right along be free, and "freedom comes out People been denied their freedom:' in other words killing two birds with the build-up of troops (pigs) of the barrel of a gun." with one stone. in Babylon. The Black colony Is an To separate the two Is to deny occupied territory with hostile ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Huey that an apple comes from an apple troops (pigs) as In Vietnam. Pigs From a prisoner tree. Babylon is the tree while have been killing Black people for Denver County Jail Vietnam is the fruit. The tree is years under the guise of being a Denver, Colorado tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiittiiiiniiiiiiiitntiiiiuiiuiiuiuuiuuiuiiiiiuiiiiiniitiiiiiiiitniififltHiiiiHiiituiiiiiiuiuiMi THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 15

FINAL VICTORY BELONGS TO THE FIGHTING ZIMBABWE PEOPLE March 17 is the day for inter­ continent against the African peo­ patched "guerilla specialist" to the cluding the African peoples. national solidarity with the Zim­ ples, the U.S.-British imparlalists part while strengthening their forces Smith clique of Southern Rhodesia. furthermore and enlisting actively African countries and numerous babwe people. rigged up the racist Smith puppet All these facts yividly show that Greeting the day, the Korean peo­ the broad segments of the people countries of the world have taken regime, and have ever since active­ the U.S.-British imperialists who decisive measures for joint sanc­ ple extend their warm militant soli­ ly encouraged its tyrannical rule. into the national liberation struggle. have been instigating the racist Mention must be made of the fact tion by breaking off their diplomatic darity to the Zimbabwe people who The crafty U.S.-British imperial­ Smith clique are, indeed, the chief are fighting against colonialism and that the Zimbabwe and South Afri­ and trade relations with the Smith ists ostensibly pretend to have no culprits and the most vicious ene­ can guerillas are carrying on con­ clique; they are resolutely frustrat­ racism, and for national liberation relationship with the racist Smith my of the entire African peoples. and genuine independence. certed operation. ing the schemes of the U.S.-British clique, though they, in fact, are step­ Today the Zimbabwe people are Their joint struggle has a far- imperialists to maintain the rule The Smith clique backed by the ping up in every way their mili­ fighting stubbornly, taking arms in of the White racists in a deceptive U.S.-British imperialist are ruth­ reaching plan for liberating, with tary and economic assistance to their hands, to overthrow the Smith combined forces, above all Southern manner. lessly suppressing the Zimbabwe them. This is clearly seen in the clique and win national liberation patriots and people who have risen Rhodesia, which is favourable to Comrade Kim II Sung said: "Our fact that the U.S. imperialists' oil and independence. them strategically but a weak link in the struggle for freedom and and other goods and various lethal people...extend support to the strug­ independence. Launching a large-scale armed to the colonialists militarily, and gle of the Zimbabwe people against weapons are being shipped to Sou­ struggle, the Zimbabwe African then freeing South Africa using Sou­ the 'independence' of Southern The existence of the ractsl Smith thern Rhodesia unrestrictedly People's Union issued a statement puppet regime, as well as its bar­ thern Rhodesia as a base. In this Rhodesia unlawfully and arbitrarily through the hands of the South in which it pointed out that the time struggle are joining the underground concoctod by the Smith clique and barous massacre of the Zimbabwe African racists. has come when the racists should to the struggle of the South African patriots are the products of taa fighters who are acting in various In particular, the U.S. imperial­ settle accounts with all the crimes towns and rural areas of Zimbabwe. people ...-.»Inst racial discrimina­ vicious crimes schemes of the ists are letting even the Pak Jung they had committed in the land of tion." U, S -British imperialists for keep­ The sacred struggle of the Zim­ Hi puppet clique of South Korea Africa, and appealed the entire Zim­ babwe people to achieve national The Korean people are con* ing the Zimbabwe people in the and the Japanese militarists have 1 babwe people to rise In the nation­ liberation and independence is an vincod tli.it tin- Zimbabwe peopli shack ..-s of eternal slavery and turn- a hand in their criminal acts. Upon wide armed struggle against the ia<_ Southern Rhodesia into a base important link in the chain of the win final victory in their just strug­ the directives of their master, U.S. Smith clique. struggles for liquidating colonial­ gle to wipe out the Smith racists of aggression against the nationally imperialism, the Pak Jung Hi pup­ independent countries in Africa. The Zimbabwe guerillas have al­ ism and racism in Africa once and who are aided and abetted by the pet clique not only sent tens of ready expanded their armed strug­ In order to build a colonial bul­ for all. That Is why their struggle U.S.-British imperialists. thousands of South Korean youth as gle to wide areas of the country. is enjoying unanimous support and wark, that is, a "detached force", cannon fodder to the aggressive war At present they are administering in the southern part of the African encouragement from the revolution­ (Reprinted from, "Korea Today", in South Viet Nam, but also dis­ heavy blows to the enemy in every ary peoples of the whole world in­ Pyongyang, No. 153, 1969)

Greetings From The FREE BOLIVIAN Palestine Solidarity Campaign To The Black Panther Party PRISONERS The Intensification of amer­ struggle that Comrade Eldridge ican imperialist activity In the Cleaver has said "We have the Middle East, in support of the same attitude towards the Zionists Many members of the most mili­ An Unconditional General Am­ Victor A Cordova, and Thomas Zionist- racist state of Israel In the States as brother Yassir tant anti-imperialist organizations nesty and Freedom for the Rev­ Chambi! and the increasing repression of Arafat has to the one eyed bandit are still in prison or forced Into olutionists Accused of Being Guer­ Freedom for the ELN leader the revolutionary vanguard of the in Tel Aviv". The forces which hiding. The principal victims of the rillas. Enrique Ortega! Black Panther Party In the United the Panthers are fighting in the repression have been the Ejericto Despite the repeal of the State Freedom for Jürgens Schut, States are both part of the same States are strongly reinforced by de Liberacion Nacional (ELN-- Security Law imposed by the im­ Gonzalo Oroza, Dr. Walter Pa- process: the development of revo­ the same people and groups who Army of National Liberation), ini­ perialist counter-revolution, the reja, and all the Imprisoned pa­ lutionary forces throughout the are giving financial and other tiated by Che Guevara; and the freedom of more than thirty Bo­ triots! world are forcing american Im­ forms of material support to the Partldo Obrero Revolucionario livian patriots accused of being Freedom for Loyola Guzman, perialism up against the wall, and Zionist regime oppressing the Pal­ (POR -- Revolutionary Workers guerrillas is being denied and im­ Tertu Tuliikki, and Geraldine de in its dying throes It lashes out estinian people. The pig judges who Party), the Bolivian section of the peded. Coronado. with increased violence. sentenced Bobby and Huey were Fourth International. Paradoxically, now whenimper- Stop the manhunt. Civil rights Those of us in Britian who are also Zionists. The General Secretary of the ialsim is threatening us with the for the General Secretary of the working on the Issue of solidarity We in the P SC recognize an Iden­ POR, Hugo Gonzalez Moscoso is Hlckenlooper Amendment,* the POR Hugo Gonzalez Moscoso. with the Palestinian revolutionäre tity of Interest between all revo­ being hunted by the police and his real anti-imperialist fighters are well aware ofthe identity of strug­ lutionary and liberation move­ family has been subjected to imprisoned and being hunted while Bolivia, November 1969. gle between the Black Panther ments throughout the world in their harassment. the counter-revolutionary lackeys Partido Obrero Revolucionario Party and the Palestinian Revo­ fight against Imperialism and Its The Bolivian Trotskyists are are free to engage in their In­ Freedom for Debray and Bustos! lution. It Is not merely a coinci­ allies. We believe, however, that trying to expose the demagogic trigues. dence that Panther representatives there Is a specially close link be­ nature of the Ovando regime and The POR demands the immediate *The Hlckenlooper Amendment attended the recent congress of tween the Black Panther Party and at the same time compel it to release of all the prisoners tried requires the U.S. government to cut Palestine Support Committees in the Palestinian Revolution in their grant more concessions to the peo­ as guerrillas. Carry out the am­ off aid to any country nationalizing Algiers, nor that representatives fights against american imper­ ple. The following is our transla­ nesty implied in the repeal of the the property of american citi­ from the Palestine Support Cam­ ialism and its offshoot, Zionism. tion of a printed leaflet now being State Security Law! zens if "just compensation" has paign are here today to bring greet­ We offer our fraternal greetings to distributed by the POR. Freedom for the Trotskyists not been made within six months-- ings to the Panther visitors. It is the Black Panther Party in their Jose Moreno V., Felipe Vasquez, IP not irrelevant to the Palestinian fight. VENCEREMOS! THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 16 CONT. FROM PAGE 7 CONT. FROM PAGE 2 Muslims Assault. People at Shooting Incident In Hunter's Point ing off streets, climbing fences and tres­ ple. The 14th Amendment of the Con­ Malcolm X passing on the people's property on their stitution gives a man a right to be tried Festival (pig's) own free will. by his peer group. This will be the only the people the importance of know­ It was a scene at theMabrey's home way that Butch will be able to receive ing who our enemies are, and who our allies are. As related In this yesterday. Pigs everywhere just like they a fair and impartial trial. To the people article, one can conclude, that the had Cole Younger, "Legs" Diamond, Al of Hunter's Point it is high time to start Black Muslims of Philadelphia acted in a reactionary, racist de­ Capone, Alioto or dangerous Dan Mur­ determining their own destiny. Will the humanizing way. One sister re­ people continue to let these jive courts marked in the interview:"!always tagh cornered. Can you dig it? Some real thought that Muslim and Islam cold-blooded criminal. The pigs used their and funnified juries railroad people from meant Peace and the brothers just came with their stuff together. star lackey Palmer (buddy-buddy) Jackson the community off to prison or will the They did not care what women and to set things up. He went to the front people stand together and make a joint children they harmed, they didn't care at all, not at all. They're door and knocked for Butch just like effort to put an immediate end to the vio­ not BROTHERS AT ALL, I'M lations of our constitutional rights. SORRY" The sister was correct, the role and part he plays in the com­ as stated In the rules of the Black munity and that's nothing and knowing Charles is gone and there is nothing Panther Party, "No Party member will commit any crimes against all the time that the Tac Squad was lay­ none of us can do to bring him back. the other Party members or ing in the cut waiting to draw blood. We hurt right along with his family and BLACK PEOPLE at all, and cannot steal or take from the people, not Mr. Mabrey, Butch's father, was sweared his many loved ones. A brother is gone even a needle or a piece of thread." at terribly because of the fact that he told and another one jailed—we are concerned Perhaps the Black Muslims need to deal with the teachings of Huey the pigs to get off his property and that about all of our people. Everytime the P. Newton. It is important for people to see, they weren't coming in. Right there the oppressor takes a brother or sister into that any group that preaches 4th Amendment of the Constitution was custody we hurt, everytime a brother rips racism, their actions will be cor­ rupt In content. As Huey P. Newton violated. Black people's constitutional off another brother we hurt, because now said, "People have to be educated rights are continuously denied as though is the time more so than ever that we that there are forces which control us. The external forces have be­ there were two sets of rights (which there must stick closely together and work side come translated into internal forces through the indoctrination are, let's face it). The pigs ripped the by side to rid ourselves of the major of the ruing class. Thus, we have brother off without a warrant. Point enemy—domestic imperialism. We all internalized certain behavior pat­ terns which we feel are instinctual No. 9 of the Party's 10 Point Platform can see what kind of picture the news- or a basic part of man, but they are and Program states very clearly: "We media has painted of this incident so you not." The Muslims who attacked the want all Black people when brought to can imagine what the racist, fascist courts people are victims of internal will do. forces of hate against Malcolm as trial to be tried in court by a jury of perpetuated by the indoctrination of their peer group or people from their We must all take this incident into the leader, Elijah Muhammed. Eli­ jah Muhammed is the leader of a Black community, as defined by the Con­ consideration and do everything possible cult which has accepted certain be­ stitution of the United States." If found havior patterns, when challenged to see to it that this brother is judged especially by the teachings of guilty by the people in the community, by his peer group or brothers and sisters former follower, eats at that in­ ternal contradiction of their teach­ it is no more than right for Butch to from the Black community as defined ings. The Muslim followers cannot be disciplined for the incorrect handling by the Constitution of the United States... strike out at their leader, they therfore perpetuate aggressive and firing of a weapon around the people, Anything short of this will be totally in­ tactics against the people and all but it should be the people of Hunter's true Revolutionary Organizations. correct and crucial to the welfare of People, beware of groups such as Point that decide what should be done Butch Mabrey. the Muslims, they are one of the and how it should be done. It should many tools of oppression found in our community. be the people from the Point who knew ALL OF THF, POWER LIES IN THE HANDS CONT. FROM PAGE 6 the brothers, knew their inner community OF THE PEOPLE. relations and their social standings in the CONCENTRATION community. It should be the people that know the inner pressures of the com­ BLACK PANTHER PARTY munity and understand them to know what Hunter's Point Community Center C DETENTION D would make a brother just openly fire 1494 JerroldSt. a weapon in public and around the peo­ San Francisco, California CAMPS

who Is in control of any given dis­ trict. Under such a system, move­ CONT. FROM PAGE 13 ment would be prescribed and the REPORT abili.iy of the guerrilla to move freely from place to place seriously curtailed. ON RALLY (5) The population within the PIG HARASSMENT ghetto would be exhorted to work with the authorities and to report both on guerrrillas and any sus­ FOR picious activity they might note. The police agencies would be in a OF RICHMOND position to make immediate ar­ rests, without warrants, under sus­ HUEY'S BIRTHDAY pension of guarantees usually pro­ On February 5th, pig Nixon bili/.cd the masses and took the vided by fho Constitution. visited Indianapolis and oiake-1 to rally to Broadway Christian Center. (6) Acts ai o./er: violence by the PANTHERS the people. We took the opportun­ Again the focus was on the P.O.W. guerrillas W3ulj mean that they ity to hold a rally for Hiey on exchange for Huey and Bobby. Many that day...our subject was the ex­ people from around the state were had declared a "state of war" back and oinked that they (pigs) sergeant) knew what to do. AU change of P.O.W.'s for the ex­ present and we took the opportunity within the country and, therefore, had reason to believe that a crime the young fool hearted pigs could change of Huey and Bobby who to explain the importance of United would forfeit their rights as _._ had been committed so they didn't do was ask the "sarge" what they ar^ being held political pris, Front to Combat Fascism Organ­ wartime. The McCarran Act prLi­ need any warrant. were to do. in fascist Babylon. The rally was izations around the state, vides for various detention centers By that time Ray came to the There were quite a few people held in Military Park. Later every­ Duri.ig the month of February we to be operated throughout the doorway and was answering out looking and giving the pigs one present mo/ed to the site of traveled around the state holding country and these might well be the pigs' crazy questions. The the righteous guidance: "withdraw Nixon's farce. Tin.- reactionary many rallies wherever we spoke utilized for the temporary im­ pigs knew that Ray was 17 years from the Black Community or power structure went through many to the people, Huey's birthday was prisonment of warring guerillas, old so they used that as a reason suffer the Wrath of the Armed changes trying to hide tiie oppressed observed. (7) The very nature of the guer­ to put him in what they call de­ People." Let's move on that! people and give the fool (Nixon y rilla operation as presently envi­ tention custody while they called i chance to lie to the more affluent sioned by certain Communists and his father to see if Ray was a run­ HAPPY BIRTHDAY lIUEY people, but it failed. P.WAV/s FUR PANTHERS Black nationalists would be impos­ away. Sure enough, the pigs oinked ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLEI sible to sustain. According to the that they were arresting Ray be­ The people were shouting "ALL Donald CampbeU, most knowledgeable guerrilla war cause he was a runaway from Oak­ SEIZE THE TIMEII POWER n> THI PEOPLE" and Deforce Captain experts in this country the revolu­ land. "FREE HUEY \Ni) BOBiJY", Wfi Indianapolis , Indiana tionaries could be isolated and de­ Out of all the pigs that were RICHMOND BRANCH •no/ed back to Military Park, mo- Black Panther Party stroyed in a Short period of time. there (5 cars) only one pig (the BLACK PANTHER PARTY I

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October 1966 o. We want an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community.

Black Panther Party 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 Platform and Program 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 ofthe 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 What We Want is a modest demand that we make. 4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. What We Believe 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 mili­ 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 blaek 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 therefore 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.

We believe that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial.

9. We want all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.

We believe that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, en­ vironmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the "average reasoning man" 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 FREE HUEY equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a Minister of Defense. Black Panther Party 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: 1. We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Blaek Community. 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 ofthe governed: that, whenever any form of We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter­ government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right ofthe people mine our destinv. 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 2. We Haul full employment for our people. dence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and. accordingly, all experience We believe ih.it the federal government is responsible and obligated to hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are give ever> man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if suffcrablc. than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which thev the white American businessmen will not give full employment, then the are accustomed. Hut. when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pur­ means ol production should be taken from the businessmen-and placed in suing invariable the same 'object, evinces a design to reduce Ibeni under ab­ the community so that the people of the community can organize and em­ solute despotism, it is llieir right, il is their duty, lo throw off Mich govern­ ploy all ol its people .nul give .i high standard ol living. ment, and to provide new guards for their future security. THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 18 _^iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii»iniiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiN Workers And Funds Needed

The Black Panther Party is now in that other diplomatic machinery have to the process of developing an international deal with. The international section of staff for the international section of the the Black Panther Party is also in need Black Panther Party. We are in need of of funds in which to be able to operate. enthusiastic workers. We need people with All people wishing to send funds to sup­ skills in filing systems, typing, printing, port the international section of the Black shipping and receiving. We are also in Panther Party can send it to: need of people with language skills, people who can speak French and Arabic. We BLACK PANTHER PARTY need people who can function on a diplo­ Boite Postal 118 matic level in all languages, because at Grande Poste I this stage in our struggle we see the Alger, Algeria need to develop diplomatic machinery for the American revolution. Telephone: 579-469 § We have to deal with the same things Alger, Algeria

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We had made up a leaflet for the heard throughout the land" Panther benefit especially related to GP s and had leafleted and rapped with GI's around San Francisto. The line dividing the progressive people On the night of the benefit, we from the machinery of oppression is ever picked up four cats downtown to widening as the people begin to realize bring them over to it. We were rap­ that there can no longer be a middle of ping about the Panthers and the struggle when a pig pulled us over the road position with regards to freedom on the road. This pig called a- for the people of the world; however, it nother pig to come and search the has only been within the past four years side of the road because he said that the ameriKKKan people have shed he saw us throw something out their rose-colored glasses and patriotic of the window. blinders to face the reality of what their The other pig came a few min­ country was doing to the world's popu­ utes later and told the first pig he found a match box of grass lation. With the realization of the "on the side of the freeway" this ameriKKKan role came the closer ex­ dumb pig tried to say it was ours. amination of all the things that had really While one watched us, the other never been questioned before....the searched each of the brothers and 'ameriKKKan dream', the foreign policy, made us stand on the side of the the treatment of minority peoples within road, while they searched the this society, the real role of the 'police' truck. All this was just a normal way for pigs to act. However, and the press. July 1967—Minister of Defense, Huey P. Newton (right) and after they found out that the four Chairman, Bobby Seale (left), reading an early edition of B.P.P. cats were in the service and saw Newspaper at the home of Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of In­ the leaflets in the truck, they freak­ We found we as citizens formation B.P.P. ed out and tried to isolate the four cats from the two of us, but the of this country were being brothers were hip to the game kept duped by the govern­ proved' stories presented they were trying to run. The pigs were vacillating about what to do ment and kept misinformed in the mass media and the about all this because two of the by the mass media. product of an effort to brothers were going to Nam the next day. They didn't want to mess In an effort to give the facts to the peo­ present the faces not with patriotic Americans so they ple, the so-called 'underground press' stories as dictated by the kept threatening them with the developed with various groups setting up shore patrol then changing their newspapers and magazines with differing oppressor, but as seen minds. emphasis. from the other end of a gun. All the while they wanted to at least get John who they kept in The Black Panther Party ALL POWER the pig car, finally taking him away. Black Community News The rest of us went over to the TO THE PEOPLE! benefit to get it together for getting Service was created to John out. The four GI's had a very intensive education that night talk­ present factual, reliable SEIZE THE TIME! ing with revolutionary people and seeing more pigs later oppressing information to the people. the people and manifesting their The Black Panther Party has been or­ fascist nature. GI's weren't born ganized to serve the needs of the peo­ in the army and can see what's ple of the Black community and to Enter my subscription for (check box): National Foreign going on around them and what Subscriptions Subscriptions they are being used for. educate and politicize the masses of Black people, but the Black Panther 3 MONTHS: (13 ISSUES') . . . D $2.50 U $9.00 ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Party realizes that racism can only 6 MONTHS: (26 ISSUES) . . . D $5.00 G $12.00 John be eliminated by solidarity among op­ ONE YEAR: (52 ISSUES) . . . D $7.50 ' a $15.00 pressed people and the educating of all the people. It Is the news & (please print) i:i:Ü' problems of Black and oppressed peo­ NAMF ple in ameriKKKa that are dealth with in the Black Panther Party along with AnnRFss international news. r.iTY The Black Panther Party STATF/7IP* COUNTRY Black Community News PLEASE MAIL CHECK MINISTRY OF INFORMATION, BUCK PANTHER PARTY, Service is the alternative OR MONEY ORDER TO: Box 2967, Custom House, San Fraiicisco , CA 94126 to the 'government ap- j I THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1970 PAGE 19

THE BUCK PANTHER

BLACK COMMUNITY NEWS SERVICE PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY

EDITORIAL STAFF CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF OFTHE THE BLACK PANTHER BLACK PANTHER PARTY

Political Prisoner: Political Prisoner: Minister of Defense Minister of Defense HUEY P. NEWTON HUEY P. NEWTON

Political Prisoner: Political Prisoner: Chairman Chairman BOBBY SEALE BOBBY SEALE

Editor Minister ol Information Minister of Information ELDRIDGE CLEAVER ELDRIDGE CLEAVER Chief of Staff Managing Editor DAVID HILLIARD Deputy Minister of Information Field Marshall BIG MAN RULES OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY DON COX Revolutionary Artist and Lay-out Minister of Education Minister of Culture RAY 'MASAI' HEWITT NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS EMORY DOUGLAS Minister of Finance Production RERKELEY, CALIFORNIA Manager JOHN SEALE Minister of Foreign Affairs

Krer) member »I Ihe BLACK PANTHKR PARTY throughout this Minister of Justice Co-Editors country of racist America musl abide hj these mil's us functional mem­ bers of this'parl>. CKNTRAL COMMITTKK member*. CKNTRAL Prime Minister STAFFS, and I.OCAI. S'I'AFFS, including all captains subordinate lo t'ilhi-r national, statt, and local leadership ol' the BLACK PANTHKR PARTY will enforce* these rules. Length ol' suspension or other dis­ Distribution Manager Communications Secretory ciplinary action necessary lor violation of these rules will depend on ANDREW AUSTIN KATHLEEN CLEAVER national decisions In national, state or state area, and local committees Minister of Culture and stalls where said rule or rules ol the BLACK PANTHKR PARIA Circulation EMORY DOUGLAS WKRK VIOLATED. SAM NAPIER Kvcry member of the part) musl know these vcrhatum by heart. And apply them daily. Kach member musl report ain violation of these The editorial and production cost of THE BLACK PANTHER News rules lo their leadership or thev are counter-revolutionary and are also paper bave increased considerably. We would like to continue subjected to suspension by the BLACK PANTHKR PARTY. increasing weekly circulation and our national and interna­ tional news coverage. To do this we need your aid. Please send IHK RLLKSARK: us news items, general information, and contributions. Help us distribute and get new subscriptions to The Black Panther 1. No part) member can have narcotics or weed in his possession newspaper. Submit tc: while doing part« work. 2. Ain parti member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from BLACK PANTHER NEWSPAPER this party. 3. No party member can he DRL'NK while doing dail) party work. 3106 SHATTUCK AVE. 4. No parlv member will violate rules relating to office work, general BERKELEY, CALIF. meetings of the BLACK PANTHKR PARTY, and meetings of the BLACK PANTHKR PARTY ANYWHKRK. 5. No party member will USF., POINT, or KIRK a weapon of any kind unnecessarily or accidentally at anyone. 6. No party member can join anv other armv force other than the BLACK LIBKRA HON ARMY. 7. No party member can have a weapon in his possession while DRUNK or loaded off narcotics or weed. K. No party member will commit any crimes against other party members or BLACK people al all. and cannot steal or lake from the people, not even a needle or a piece of thread. 9. When arrested BLACK PANTHKR MKMBKRS will give only name, address, and will sign nothing. Legal first aid must he understood by all Parly members. 10. Ihe Ten Point Program and platform ofthe BLACK PANTHKR PAR I Y must he known and understood by each Party member. 11. Party Communications must be National and Local. 12. The 11)-1 (I-Ill-program should be known by all members and also understood In all members. 13. All Kinance officers will operate under Ihe jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance. 14. Kach person will submit a report of daily work. là. Kach Sub-Section Leader Section Leader, Lieutenant, and Captain must submit Daily reports of work. 16. All Panthers musl learn to operate ami service weapons correctly. 17. All Leadership |>crsnnncl who expel a member must submit this information to the Kditor of Ihe Newspaper, so thai it will be published in the paper and will he known by all chapters and branches. IK. Political I ducat ion Classes are mandatory for general member­ ship, a 19. Only office personnel assigned to respective offices each day should he there. All others are lo sell papers and do Political work out in the community, including Captains. Section Leaders, etc. 20. COMMUNICATIONS — all chapters must submit weekly re­ ports in writing to the National Headquarters. 21. All Branches musl implement first Aid and/or Medical Cadres. 22. All Chapters. Branches, and components of the BLACK PAN­ THKR PARIA must submit a monthly financial Report lo Ihe Minis­ try of Finance, and also the Central Committee. 23. Kveryone in a leadership position must read no less than two hours per day to keep abreast of the changing political situation. 24. No chapter or branch shall accept grants, poverty funds, money or any other aid from any government agency without contacting the National" Headquarters. 25. All chapters must adhere lo Ihe policy and the ideology laid down by the CKNTRAL COMMIT II I- of the BLACK PANTHKR P\RIV 26. All Branches must submit weekly reports in wriling'lo their re­ spective ( haplers. t "LET THE PIGS OINK FOR THEMSELVES, TILL THEIR LAST OINK "

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