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INTERCDMMUNAL NEWS SERVICE PUBLI- S HED W EE KLY BY T H E BLACK PANT H ER PA RT Y ~ fB£11JO , 1974 25C

OP-SECRET DOCUMENTSRELEASED TA AGENCY SPYING ON ACTIVISTS PROVED

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HUE1' P. NEIVTON. a,1d chic'l::;s,liician a/ the Block Panther Party, ,ra& targ <'d for harassment by the IRS r------::--i NSIDE ------­ PAGE ,AGE ,JNSTITUTll\OUTII STAGE " A CIIILDR£N'S NO\'L'l1BER" ll • . • . • 2 •CUBANVIEW OF PUERTOlUCO RALLY· • •OAKIANDIGNORES UNE'\1PLO\'llfE!'IT PROBLEM •S.A.F.E. UNCOVERS BAD SENIOR C1T1Z£NHOUSING . ••• •U.l'I. ArFlRMS PA1£S11NlAJ'ISEl.f ,DETEIIMll'IATIO!\ . .s •llALLYSUPPOJlTS P RISONERFURLOUGHS , • "PJIOBI.E.'15 IN fOOTIIAJ.L" • 21 ' .. 9 •P,B.I. SUGGESTS REVl\'!I. COU(JELPRO • ;.~ "' YA r l,O'lllVT!:> Ceruu.l 0 1,t,1IMlh.on li.u..a.~.t..A 10 AWO , so, ( 141h SIINI XU\18Sn :nvnMI 0 .. ,_,1Cel ,1 '14 1>7I IHWln'I HVH!l..'1l'!V MEYER LANSK\' SH boG1ire•ie w, P"I~ 19, : ntE. BL\Cl{ PA.,'TllER, SAT\/RDA\, N0\'EMll£R 30,1974 EdiToRiAl • COMMENT • A CUBANVIEW : DR. JEKYLL PUERTORI CO RALLY AND VICTORYOVER IMPERIALISM MR. HYDE The Cuban uiew of the massive Puerto Rican Solidarity Day rally A mindless and wasteful action held in New York's J.fadiaon undertaken a few months ago by Square Oarde11 October 27 i4 the Oakland cily Government, presented in the following article can be turned around lo haunL reprinted from the Cuban ncw, ­ those same adminslrators for a poper Granma. long time to come. For although the hiring of In the las t decade, feelings of Floyd Hyde was a biller slap in solidarity have laken on truly lhe face for this cily · s Black and important dimensions . Demon­ poor minority communilies !see Rich and poor: Too n1any words, not enou gli deeds? strations, rallies, speeche s , de­ £lame Brown's comments, page nunciations, productive work ses­ 3) his findings, combined wilh lbe sions, elc., in support of the recent disclosure of housing cause of the peoples are everyday problems (see page 7), un­ occurrence s in today' s world. employment slat isti.cs and pop­ The fact that 25,000 people ulation shifts lseo centerfold), gathered to demand the indepen­ confirm whal we have long dence of a country might see m to suspected . Dnr Editor, n,., Pu,rto Rlc,u, Solidarity Doy Co.mm.ltlee wllhN to llsank yvu for your be jusL one more of those daily Thal is, that the majority or the c:adonemt.1n of the October 27th ci, r.nl u an act of aoUdarhy (o:r the occurrences. But when those members of the Oak.land City lndc,pc-ndentt of Pueno Rloo. 25,000 people have gath ered in Council, Mayor Reading, and We belle•• that the Odobcr 27th R.UyWU a lttmendoas ...... In .., • .,,.. the heart of Yankee imperi nlism particularly City Manager Cecil wa,.,In New Yon mon, llsan 20,000 people auended the Madison Squaro G,,rclen l!ally. Ill the Say Ana, ovu a lhouund people d!Jfflly partldpa~ lo demand recognition for the Riley, don't give a good god­ ihn>uJhaUeadanee at tbt, 1-1 on nt, a.od many more b.....t the program independence of a colony of damn aboul lhe Black and poor lhn>ugh the toOpffllll<>nor 1ta1lo .. KPFAand KPOO. rapacious imperialism, then the residenl.S or lhis city AD toactb,o the adhltl .. have b,,&un to ral,•• lho gencnu OONidou.rn..,of imporlance or that event becomes tbe -lal !llal,a ol foc,rto Rlooa.od the 1trauJ•for lta llberaton bt,auue Thal their own boy, t,fr. Hyde, PwertoRico 1t!D ,-,nu,).,.. a colorty or the United Slat..-, Tho pwinlog and clear; it can no longer be viewed lttmed into a Dr. Jekyll and "'llanlutlon ol the Oetobc,r 27th Solidarity . Day have In..-..-! our as a commonplace occurrence . It exposed lhem, is ironic. coau:n1tmcn1to condn:uc the •bll&ale to btt Puerto Rico u wr.Uu co C!Oo.lJ:nae Lakes on it.s true dimension s. world:oa,u • t'Oalldon on olhe.-r lu:uec or oppru1lon. Hyde reports lhal "'The city You, c:UoN to M"htc,e poUOcaJunlly •arc recognlttd and apprtdAled. This happened on Sunday, government or Oakland (council QUE VIVA PUERTO RICOUBRE ! October 27. in Madison Square lllldstafO have historically le.oded TIie Pueno Rlain Solidarity DaJ' Commluee Garden in New York. lo avoid direct involvement in More than 26,000 Puer to Ri­ lxe A Cuban View of the Putno Rk:anSollcwltr Day Rall1 ln the Comm&&O.) cans, Blacks, Chicanos , Jndians programs adding , "This lack of and other progressive U.S. cit!• direct involvement has created zens gathered lo express U,e1r support for the liberation stru ggle serlolll impediments to 000 res:poll8ive and effective govern­ which has bee_n waged by the ment in Oakland . (Hyde even Puerto Rican people over I.be lost underlined Lhe word "serious" in To the Panther Pape,, • 76 years, from Lhe moment that his report .) I realu.c what 1hc drht for power. money. ere.., c:an do to people bu1 your the Yankee first s et fool short an,clc (Oct. 26 l>,ue) on the wt.consin nn Nixon adminisl.ralion "to move up the new, fede rally legislated against leftist organizations'· in­ community development pro­ cluding the Black Panther Party. gram. The documents, made public The community development by Ralph Nader's Tax Reform program is a new federal program Ms. ELAINE BROWN addres• Research Group, which sued the created by the enactment of the £RS for them under the Freedom sing Cay Council work session. Housing and Community Devel­ of Information Act, make clear opment Act of 1974, which was Panther Party, but, as she noted that starting in July, 1969, en signed into law on August 22. The in her presentation , the large '' Activist Organizations Commit­ program replaces the previous constituency she gathered in her tee" (AOC)-o name later "categorial" grants allocated to 1973 bid for Oakland City changed to' 'Special Services Staff cities by the U.S. Department of Council. (SSS)' ' in fear of media expo­ Housing and Urban Development As early as January o{ this sure- un-Conlltitutionally moni­ HUEY P. NEWTON, leader and (HUD) and replaces those grants year, Councilman Coto urged the tored the tax records of so-ealled chief theoretician of the Black with one lump sum-Sl2.5 mil­ City Council to designate Brother • "ideological, militant, subversive Panther Party. lion in Oakland's case-to be William s and _tpe Oakland Re­ and radi.cal organizations. " Unitarian Society. and t.be Orban used by the city to eliminate development Agency as the city's The names of 99 organizations League. blighted neighborhoods, improve community development agency investigated and harassed by the The documaots reveal that IRS' were released to the Nader the community's standard of en~ propOJled that it .develop contrary io previous ms daims living, and revitaliz .e inner cities. plans for how the new funds people . The groups included in that the AOC program was begun It replaces such individual pro­ might best be utilized . this illegal surveillance were eveo in response to a request from the grams as Model Cities. Urban New directions for Oakland such moderate groups as the Senate Special Committee on Renewal and other subsidies through Community Develop­ National Council of Churches, Inv estigations, initial steps dealing with the physical im­ ment, the report Brother Wil- AmeriC40s for Democratic Ac­ towards ils creation took place on provement of urban areas. tion, the Peace Foundation, the July 2, 1969, one day after Whila CONTINUEDON PAGE I~ The key is that local govern­ House rude Tom Huston told a ments-at least theoretically­ tap IRS official that President will have more say on how federal ATTORNEYINTERVIEWED ONB.P .P. VS. Nixon wanted the agency '° funds are used in their areas. "move s.gainst leftist organiza­ The controversy lies in who will I.R.S. .LAWSUIT lions.'" (This is lhe same who be in charge of the $12.5 million filed the Porty's carefully struc­ man prepared lhe "Buston Plan" ~d whether or not that money (Oakland, Coli/.) - In June, tured June lawsuit. In the follow· will be spent in the interests of ing exclusive interview with THE proposing eitralegal melhods for 1974, the Black Panther Porty dealing with White House politi­ Black and poor communities. BLACK PANTHER, attorney filed o $500,000 damage suit in cal enemies and which was also Speakers al last week's work Hiestand provides his analysis federal district court in Son incorporated into the FBl's notor­ session calling for the appoint­ Francisco against the Internal and interpretalion of the formerly top-secret IRS memos and docu­ ious COINTELPRO operations.I ment of John B. Williams (and Revenue Service and seuerol of Robert C. Brandon, director of implicitly his Redevelopment its top officials chorg;ng that ment.s. the Nader tax group, bas declared agency sta{{) included: Oakland government agency with un-Con· B.P.: How do the latest disclo­ sures of illegal 1RS activities that the docuroents show the ms City Councilman Joe Colo and stitutionol use of its power of affect the Black Panther Party's went .. far afield of its mandale to Joshua Rose, the Council's administrotiue summonses in an coUecl taxes and enforce the only Chicano and Black members; _ ouert attempt to intimidate and lawsuit? HIESTAND: All of the informa­ notion's tax laws." Fellow staff Rev. J.L. Richards, pastor of hara,;s contribut.ors and support­ tion that I've looked at-and I worker Ms. Louise Brown com­ Evergi-een Baptist Church and ers of the Porty and 10 destroy the have the documents that Nader's mented that, " It was like a big representing the Baptist organization itself. people obtained from the Free­ extrnlegal police force." Ministers Union; Rev. White, Although ample evidence exist­ dom of Information oclion against It took slightly over 13 months representing the Christian ed 10 substantiate that assertion, for the lRS to release the last week's startling disclosures IRS-tend to help our case. l Methodist Ministers; Fr. Hassel intend t.o rake them to the court documents efier the Tu Refonn of extralegal, pa/ice-like IRS representing the United East Bay along with a supplemenla! memo­ Research Group, 11.D affiliate of Clergy ; Sister Dorothy Payne, a pro bas of "militant" and radical", consumer-crusader Ralph Na­ organizations at the urging of the randum urging the court to deny \V~sl Ookland community the government's motion to dis­ der's Public Citizen. ~t filed activist; Brother Lonnie Dillard, Nixon administration rronsforms ils Jaw1,uil. that oJ/egoJion into fact. (See miss. presiden t of OCCUR (Oakland They also show another inter­ \Vhon lhl) document, WOl'i' f~t Concerned Citizen· s for Urbon article, this page .) handed over earlier lhil- month, One of the more interestad esting thing. Donald Alexander, Renewal), the city's offical citizen the CommiS!lioner of £RS (one of the nwne$ or thu 99 organit:1,tions Po.rticipolton group: and of parsons in the latest IRS secret those named as a defendant in were blMked out. course, Me. Elaine Brown, re­ reports is Fred J. Hiestand, the COITT1NIJf0 ON PA

WATERGATE• TRIAL UNCOVERS NIXONLIES

Poor people mU-st pay autra· TAPESREVEAL ~ geously hig/1 rents to /iuc in ~ dilupidmed projeclS like this UTTERCORRUPTION ,JOHN E_HRLICHMAN (left) and H.R. HALDEMAN lri ht . one. figu res in e:r•Presidenl Richard Ni:ran •, gang! t,ir aini~l::::tr· "'Jury"· cnme NEWREGULATIONS . The main value or the record­ Watergate prosecutors and 1he (Washington, D.C.) • The ings now lies in their revelations House Judiciary Committee stu­ :,Vatergate cover-"Uptrial is prov­ of some ~f the inner workings of dying impeachmenl from obtain­ BENEFITFEDERAL tog beyond a shadow of a doubt the Presidency . It remains up to ing the tapes was not made to that ex-President Richard Nixon's the people of America Lo see 10 it preserve the independence of the administration was composed of that the tremendous corruption Presidency, os Mr. Nixon HOUSINGTENAN TS criminals of the highest order and that ohsrocterizec:! the Nixon claimed, but to keep the dama­ that Mr . Nixon is probably the administrati on is ended once and ging evidence on the tapes from (~Vss hingto n, D.C.) New most chr onic and highest-placed for all in govern ment . coming to light . Housing and Urbon Development liar ever to be uncovered in . On trial are five former high As Mr. Nixon said in a March (!IUD) regu lation s sho uld mak e it history. N1Xon adminislrallon officials 20. 1973, discussion with Mr . <•ns1er for Federal Housing Au- Th e evidence, tape recordings including John D. Ehrlichman • ~sideman on one of the tapes, he 1horily (FHA) and federnlly-s ub­ or conversations between Nixon Nixon's chief domestic ad.,isor· intended to · 'fight for e:ret.'Utive •idized public hou~ini; tenants 10 ond his top a,des, shows that the H .R. Haldeman. the \\'hi~ privilege" because"we just can't ·hnllenge rent in.:reases in the forme r President willfully. im­ House c!uef of staff, and John ,tllow th.at sort of thing (his future The new regulations went mornlly and maliciously lied to• ~lilchell, :-lixon's close and per­ m,·0J.,t1men1 in \\lolergate into effec t October 1-1. but have the public on numerous occasions sonal friend and former Attome" t"rime,;) to come out " ••~ieved liUle publicity since 1n an effort to conceal his true role General. All five defendantt' ore Th.., playtni! of the tapes in the n. in the \\I otergate affair. charged with conspiracy to ob­ courl also showed that d01.ens of Unde T the new regulauons, Had President ford fl11led to struct justict1 in the orlgina/ ,n('rinunating passllgCS wert! cul before a rent increase can take pardon :\1r Nixon. the tapes \Vatergate in-;estigation. from the edited transc:rip~ 1ru11 pla~e. tennnts must have public alone would have been sufficie nt from Mr. :-lixon's own words \Ir. :-li.itonmade public nnd gave notice of the landlord's desire evide nce to convict the former • on the tape,; it could be ,een to the Judioary Committee Some access to relevant financial infor ­ chie f executive of "higher reports The Neu, l'ork Times, that damuging conversations were o­ mation and be provided the crimes" many times over. his determined fight to keep mitted el10ge1her from the tron­ •1pportunily to make written scnptS. Some of the changes ~1r. Nixon comments. msde included the replacement of Tenants, however, are still not "arious ,'lllgo.rities with less entitle d to n hea ring where they U.S. WORKING WOMEN offens ive words. But other altera­ can cross -examine the landlord tions and deletions in the trans• and challenge his figures. UIU­ DENIED EQUALITY cripts were of major political mutely, the decision is still up to CO\'Or-ups, consisting of possages HUD which has a vested interest (Baltimore, Md,I - Mrs. Doris of femnle college graduates who work nre employed in nonprofes­ that would have been highly Ill ap proving higher rents. Wooten , s pecial assist.ant to damaging to .Mr. Nbton 's defense But the new regulations do give Philip J. Davis, director of the sionnl jobs. Although Executive Order against impeachment. Among tenants access to important infor­ Labor Oeparlment's Office of them were the following: mation nbout their developments. federal Cont ract Compliance 11246 and other Congressionally app roved legislation prohibit fed­ •A decision in which Mr. Nixon as well as new grounds for (OFCC), reported last week that eral contractors from discrimina­ agrees to devise a scheme lO challenging increas es when the "despi te federa l and st.ate legis­ ting in employment because of justify granting clemency to landlord fails to comply with the lation passed during the 60s, race, religion. sex or national convicted Watergate E. rules. working women are still discrimi­ Howard Bunt. nated against in today's labo r origin, job discrlmina tlon is still a F If any Housing AuLhority or very major prob lem for women Evidence on o number of tapes HA owner wants l-0 ra ise rents, market." that Mr. Nixon knew the dimen­ WORKSHOP and minority groups. he musl first follow these proce­ Workshops of this kind, spon­ sions of the \Vatergate cover-up dures: The repo rt was made public by well before March 21, 1973, the Mrs. Wooten al an equal employ­ sored by the Social Security N_olice. Thi rty days befo re date on wltlch he cla.imed he first men t opportuni ty works hop he.re, Administratio n are not enough to asking HUD for s renl incr eas e , end racism and sexism in the learned all the facts . the hou11ing auth ority or owne r held for fede ral contrac tors. •Mr. Ni:ron's statemen t thaL be Also brought out at the work­ employment field, ~h s. Woolen ~us l pos l notices or Lhe proposed would give " full pardons " to shop was that women "

(Washington, D.C.) • Federal program, despite a finding by a Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Justice Department committee Director Clarence M. Kelly has that the program included activi­ refused ~o promise that he would ties that are "reprehensible in a nol revive a secret FBI plan to free society." disrupt act.ivist politica l organiza­ Under COINTELPRO, the FBI lions, including the Black Panther conducted illegal surveillance, Porty. infiltra tion and planned disrup­ Members of lbe House Judici­ tion of domestic political groups, ary Subcommittee on Constitu- slandering them and thei r leaders 1ional Rights questioned Kelly and leaking rabricaled or forged because of his recent statement in documents. defense of the FBI COIN'l'ELPRO Kelly conceded tbal some of the disruptive activities were Police attack Black Panther Party office in Los An~eles. "improper" violations of the Justice Department report on the official confirmation of their Constitutional rights of the tar­ COINTELPRO plan, an abbrevia­ existence until December, 1973, ' BETTERHOUSING geted organizations, but indica­ tion for Counterintelligence Pro• when a court ordered Mr. Saxbe ted that circurnsl.ances could arise gram. lo release two memorandas by ' which would warrant a resump­ The FBI had kept the plan a late FBfDireclor J. Edgar Hoover DEMANDEDIN tion of the un-Constitutional pro­ secret by railing to regularly dealing with steps against the gram. report its activities to the Attor­ New Left and Black liberation Attorney General William B. ney Ceneral or to Congress. movements . EASTOAKLAND Saxbe called some of the targets Although the undercover counter• Mr. Sube said that some "fragmented information" about (Oakland , Calif.) • Specific of the clisruptive activities ''dis­ intelligence operations were re­ the FBI' s undercover efforts was steps l-0 improve the housing turbing" and "improper ." Mr . portedly in existence since 1956, Saxbe was making public a the Justice Department made no available Lo some Attorneys Gen• situation in East. Oakland will be eral and perhaps to the President, presented by represent.olives of and lhal similar dat.a had been (!OvemmenL and business at a provided to members ol the community meeting on Decem­ Congressional Oversight Com­ 1 ber 9. mittee. The meeting is a follow-up to Former Auroneys General Ni­ an open Housing Inspection that cholas B. Ka~enbach and .Ram­ took place November 23. in sey Clark denied having any past wruch reside.nts de.mended spe­ knowledge of COfNTELPRO. ac­ cific commitments l-0 improve cording to The New York Times. housing from government and The public's firsl knowledge of business leaders who claim a secret FBI plan against political lo serve Lhe East Oakland Black organizations clid not come until community. 1971 following a burglary of the Sandre Swanson, represen~ !'Bi's field office in 1-iedia, ing Congressman Ron Dellums, Pennsyh•ania, in which se,•eral said that lack of leadership in \.... revealing documenLS regarding the city of Oakland is responsi­ . surveillance of political groups ble for the severe housing were taken and subsequently problem, where over 1,200 . 4 made public. homes have been exposed as The April 6, 1974, edition of abandoned, dilapidated and un­ THE BLACK PANTHBR reprin~ lit. ___ ed three heavily censored COIN­ ,, TELPRO memoranda dealing cli­ Sponsored by the East. Oak­ rectly with the Hoover-FBI plan land Housing Committee, the to "disrupt, misdirect and otheT• Housing Inspection focused on MORTON SOBELLVISITS wise neutmllie" Black mili!.ant ihe problem of what to do about organizations. One document in the l,200 abandoned homes in COMMUNITY LEARNING particular, described plans to East Oakland, and gene rally destroy the Black Panther Party improve this area's decaying . CENTER and crush the Block liberation housing conditions. The Com­ (Oakland, Calif.I . Accompanied by Ms. ERIC,KA FJUGGLNS movement in Amerito mittee emphasized that the In addition to Black organiui­ l d' 1 r of rhe lntercommunal Youth lnst,tute, J.10RTON abandoned homes could be fg~;;J1~coformer co-defcndant wltJ1Julius and Ethel Rosenberg t1ons which olso included the occupied i( funds could be made . h • ,· al "atom bomb" spy trial of the 1950s, toured the Stud~t Nonviolent Coordtnntin~ avaflable and if purchase and 111 t e sensa ion • 'NI, Sob ff in town Cc . Le ning Center hero last woe,,. , r. e • . Committ<:>eISNCCI. th~ Cong,-es.~ rehabWtation costs could be . ,;:::,~,'::'!oun;:;,•wide speaking 1011r 10 publicize his book On Domg of Rac1nl Equality tC'OREl and lowered. 1111 , • five •('Ors m ;\lcatraz-a< a 1he Southern Chri,tian l.ead,•r• Time served over 18 )'Par$ in prison- , ,. . ·,. . ad 'r, The communjty meeting will • . • A rica 's hysterical Cold War pofray. ...ont,1ct or ~hip Conference (SCLC), th" lake pince on l\llondoy, Decem• u1ct11nof .. '."e the secret of thf' atom bomb to tho Russians, .. th" COINTELPRO operatkll\ "a.s oimed o!!ninst s.,,,,cral ::,i,,\\ L. (t bet 9 al 7:30 p. m. in St. allcg1Jdly gwrng t-l'nccd 10 death a,,d tater exqcuted while Sobeff °eli~abeth 's Church, 1600 • 3-lth Roscnberl{S were sen in risoll-for crimes they did 1101 organimtions. the Scicutlist \\ \ltk­ Avenue in Oakland. Concerned was sentenced to 90 Y,'!a~s pf THE BLACK PANTHER for a11 ers Party and the Communist cornnait. SvtJ next wcci s ,ssue o area residents are urged to c"clusiue interview with J\1orton Sobelf. • Party U.S.A. Bltend. It Tin: 81.ACKPAl-'ll lt:R, SATURDAY, NOVE~fBERJO, 1974 EXCERPTSFROM TOP -SECRET ...' FIRST ENTERPRISE BANK I.R.S.DOCUMENTS EXPOSECONSPIRACY TODESTROY ACTIVIST GROUPS (Washington. D.C.) - RJdden undoubtedly in response lo a wilb the /984-like "Doubles peak " John Dean memo written in early or the recently released 41 [RS 1969 in which the then counsel Lo documents on secret probes of the President ominously wrote to SCH:alled.. sub\'ersive" and "rad ­ the IRS: • 'This memorandum ical" organizations we.re passa­ addresses the matter of bow we ges which blatantly exposed I.he can maximi.7.e the fact of our lies various officials used lo inC?Umbencyin dealing with per­ Just.ify lhe Special Services Staff's sons known to be active in their illegal activities and laid bare opposition to our administration . their true motivating force and SLat.ed a bit more bluntly-how int.enl. (See article, page 3.) we can use the available federal First Enterprise Bank in Oakland, California, refused 10 hand over to The following excerpt from one machinery LO screw our political the IRS i11formation011 B.P .P. contributors. of lhose docu.ments (dat.ed prior enemies." Huey P. Newton and Committee members. Our files or Congressional committees ... to the August, 1969, date I.hat ms the Black Panlher Party were on will be protected with usual (Emphasis added) officials claJmed a Senate sub­ the notorious Wrut.e House '' Ene­ commil.t.ee gave them the power mies List" when Dean wrote his intelligence type seeurity. We do "12. 1n effecl, whal we will to proceed), removes the veil memo.) not want the news media to be alt.empt lo do is Lo gather created by the "Doublespeak'" alerted lo what we are attempting intelligence data on the organize. and allows a closer look at the FUl'l'DS 10 do or how we are operating Lions in which we are interested federal government conspiracy to because the disclosure of such and lo use a Strike Force concept ..... 5. Some or these organiza• information might embarrass the whe reby aU Compliance divisions desLroy progressive organizations tions may be a threat Lo the Admini stra tion oradverselyaffect and all other Service funclioru organizing for the positive lran s­ security or the United States and formation of this country. the Service operations in this area will participate in a joinl effort in one of our principal functions will or those of other Federal agencies our common objeclive ... ' ' 0 000 be to det.e.rmine the sources of their funds, the names of the July 24, 1969 contributors, whether the contri­ butions given to the organizations MEMORANDUM FOR FILE: have been deduct.ed as charitable SUPPORT organizations, what we can find SUBJl:C'l': Activisl. Organizations oul generally about the funds of Committee these organizations. THE COMMITTEE "6. The Federal Bureau or ·'In response to Assistant lnvest.igalion has prepared mono­ Commissioner Bacon's memoran­ graphs on many of the se organi­ FOR JUSTICE dum of July 18, 1969, the zations and has files on most of following persons alt.ended the them . Thal agency will be organizational meeting today ... requested lo furnish data Lo the FOR "The purpose of the meeting Committ.ee... was to establish baaic communi­ "7. Notwithstanding the fact cations between the various func­ that we will cooperat.e with and HUEY P. NEWTON tions of the Service and lo furnish obtain information from outside an overall picture of the purpose sources, (IRS officials later and sensitivity of this Committee . staunchly disclaimed cooperating TIii ! COMMITTEE FOR JUSTICE FOR HUEY P. NEWTON t, .-n lndt~ndcnr The fol.lowing were the principal with other government agencie s) . ,•111,rn... • group m.adt"up of II t"ru,, .,ctdu n or 11Cornc.}s, cl~'lt,). ,1udcn1.s, polltkaJ items mentioned: this Committee will nol conduct ar1hi,1,. •nd olhcr t•On<"cmcd <"lll,c.•n, . 1 he: Commflltt. "'hkh "'•s formrd lrt "I . This is an extremely joint investigations ... ,\us:u ..1 . 197-1,I, prc., .. inJ.:for a (ull fn\l'~llgallon fnlo 1hc lnltn,ifJfn~ pall projoc, ... " ,emi·secretlvc nature. Indeed, (Note: n,,. March 26, 1969, action is being ta.Iconto obtain lop doc:-ument mf!ntion<>d in 12 is secret alearanqe for tha full•dme TR£ BLACKPANTll£R, SATURDAY, NOVE/118£1130,1974 11 SPEECHDELIVERED AT BOSTON COLLEGE NOVEMBER 18, 1970 BY~UEYP . NEWTON In Part Five of his speech deliuorad at Boston College in ~ 1970 and excerpted from To Die « IDUTK .IIICIIDINIIIIMDI4 3 , 000 for lhe People, Huey P. Newton, CAIIAOA.~ ICIWID 8,000 ~ leader and chief theoretician of J»N/1 30,000 the Black Panther Party, de• scribes An1erica 's deuelopment ·~-WAG- from a nation to an empire 011d tl1eformaJio11ofthe BlackPanther «TAIWAII 9,000 Porty's philosophy from Block natio11a/ism to reuolutio11ary in• ff ~ 18,000 terco111mu11alisn1. PART S Sul we must not confine our ~6 ~t«MMl discussion lo theory; we must LATllf AIWaCA M«t«MMl have practical application of our c..~z..-,,-.,..._,,.... .,...... , . -- 180,000 theory to come up with anything 21,000 worthwhile. ln spite of the criti­ llflll'tt 11111 1111111111111 cism we have received from ttttltltttttl • llllttltttltl certain people, the Party bas a ATUlfTICnaTU..- ····••1ttttfj practical application of its theo­ WHERE U.S. TROOPS ,._....,. __ ,,,,,,. ««~ p.acn; n.a:T , 11.- ARE STATIONED ABROAD _..,._....,.,. ,.,, > THAILAIID __ ..,,__.,..,._, ries. (1972) 40,000 ____ ,_ Many of our activilics provide 1he working class and the unem­ /\1odern technology makos it_possib/e for America to transport its troops so $Wiftly that no one peopfo can ployed with a reason and a means /we without the threat of being im,aded by the U.S. for existing in the future . The pen, they. slill want t.o live. and in empire necessarily controls lhe saw thal in order to be free we people will not disappear- not order to live lhey_ha~e lo eat. It is whole world either direcUy or had to crush the ruling circle and with our survival programs they ~ the proletanan s own best indireelly. therefore we hnd u, unite with the will not.. They will st.ill be around. interest to seize the machinery lf we understand dialectics we peoples of lhe world. So we called The Black Panther Party says it that he . has made in order lo · kn'ow that every determination ourselves lotemationnlisLS. We 1s perfectly correct t.o organize the produce m abund~ce, so he and brings about a limitation and soughlsolidaritywith the peoples proletarians because after they bis brethren can hve. every limitation brings abcul a of the world. We sought solidarity are kicked out of the factory and 'Ne will not wail until the determination . 1n olher words with whal we Lhoughl were the arc called unemployable or lum- proletarian becomes the lumpen- while one force may give rise ~ natiorui of th€>world. proletarian to educate him. Today one thing it might crush other But then what happened? We we must lift the c_ons~o~s_nessof things , including itsell. \Ve might ~ound that because every~bing is the people . The wind >1nsmg and call this concepL "lhe negation of m a constant stale of transfor- TO DIE FOR the rivers flowing, times are the negation ." motion, because of the develop- getting h_ard and ":'e can't go So. while in 1917 the ruling meal of technology. because of home agrun. We can I go back to circle created an industrial base the development of the mass THE PEOPLEour mother 's womb, nor can we and used the system of capitalism media,. beca~s~ of the fire power WRITINGS OF J?Oback to J917. thev were also creating the of the unpenalist , o~d because !Jf -·~sro• •1£D , ell!' f __,_,._ the feel thal the Untied SialeS IS T= · ..,_, necessary con ,ons o s=m. . . They were doing this because in a no !onger o nation bu~ an empire. HuevP.Newton The United Stales, or what I socialist society it is necessary IO ~tions could nol exist: fo:they like to call North America, was have some centTS.lization of lbe did. not hove the cntena for transformed al the hands of the wealth, some equal distribution nahon~ood. . . ruling circle from a nation to an of the wealth, and some harmony 'f~eir self-d~ten:nmobon, eco- empire. This caused a total among the people. nom1c dete~ma~1on, and cul­ tural determination bas been change in the world, because no NATION transformed by the imperialists parl of an interrelated thing can and the rulillg circle. They ware change and leave everything else Now, J will give you roughly some charncteristics that any no longer notions. We found that. the same. people who call themselves a in order to be lntemationalists we So when the United States, or had lo be also Nationalists, or al North America, became an em• nation should have. These are economic independence, cultural least acknowledge nationhood. pire it changed the whole com• Internationalism, if I understand position of the world. There were determination, control of the p01itical institutions, territorial tho word, means the inlerrela­ other nations in the world. But tionship among a group of "empire'' means that lhe ruling integrity, and safety. In 1966, we called our Party a nations. circle who lives in the empire (the But since no notion exisLS,a.od imperialists) control other na­ Black Nationalist Party. We called ourselves Black National­ since the United States is in fact tions. Now some lime ago there an empire, it is impassible for us existed a phenomenon we called ists because w~ thought that n11tionhood was the answer. to be lntemationalists. These -we ll, I call-primitive _empil:e. transformations and phenomena An example of that would be Shortly after that we decided thal whal was really needed was require us to caU ourselve$ the Roman Empire because the revolutionary nationalism. that is, "intereommunalist..•· · 611cau.se To pun:hase 1hls book.send Sl .9. Romans controlled all of whal was nations ha1w b<'<'ntransform~ inc.uh or money ordcf'to: Ccn1ral thought IO be the known world. ln nnlionnlism plus socialism. After nnalyring conditions a into communities of the u.-or/d Di11Nbu11on.8501 E. 1'41hS1rec1 , fact they did not know all of t.h1t The Block Panthl!r Petty now Oatland, Californl• 9462]. world therefore some nations still little more. we found that it was A VINTAGE BOOK impractical and even contradic­ disclaims intomationalism and existed independent of it. Now, suppOrLSintercommunalism . probably all of the world is tory. Therefore, we went to a high.er level of con.sciousness. We TO II COIIT ■ UID known. The United States as an 11 ntt BV.CK PMTOEI , SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 197~ INTERCOMMUNALYOUTH INSTITUTE STUDENTS STAGE ''A CHILDREN'S NOVEMBER''

Thanksgiving Play Highlights Program

(Oakland, Calif.I - The children of lhe Int.ercommunal Youth Institute, East Oak­ land's model school for Black and poor youth, are well known for their colorful and entertaining programs. "A Children's Novem• ber," a truly delighLful program, created and written by lhe children and presented on Sunday. November 24 al ilia Community Leaming Center, 6118 E. 14th Street, was no exception. . from beginning to end, the talented childre_n bad the overflow crowd in the palm of thetr hands. Following a welcome from Institute students fl James Banks master of ceremonies, and !i Nyoto Arcluoi:id, mistress of ceremonies for Lbememorable evenmg, the program got under­ way with the dynamic lntercommunoJ Youlh ' "" Band. directed by the noted jazz artisi • I . ~ Brother Charles Moffett. The professional sounding jazz group , composed of many students performing for the first time, ''jammed" on a rendition of "Sunny," They also played an original composition called •••I I "Give Thanks." I l1 • • Next on the program were several expres­ "t sive poeLry selections written and read by Jeanine Williams, Lorene Banks, t.1ary Banks, Sean Carter, Valerie Wilson and Louunna Williams. Led bl students James Banks and Alleroy Kennon, you1h from Groups 4, 5, 6 and 7 gave a demonstration of Tae Kwon Do, a Korean boxing form. The children, whose instrucLOr is Brother Steve McCutchen who has taught scien.ce at the school, gracefully executed lhe movements of Tee Kwon Do. which empha­ sizes developing power from the origin of the movement of lhe hips. ln another facet of their many talents, the In scenes from "A Children ·s Nouember, slu ents c oc w,se rom 10P children next lifted lheir robust voices in song. perform commercial; tl,e play "The Meaning of Thanksgiving"; origina1 They sang a French song and an original songs; and lntercon1munal Youth Band . ·es j composilion by Institute instruct.or Brother . . . bod I " Wh b P'J · · dicale the s 1a, Charles Jackson. Thanksgtv1ng dinner table when some y s aves. en t e 1 gruns in ding The young sisters of the institute next asked, "Whal is the meaning of Tbanksgiv• are the Black people that have been ~Ul~·But showed lhe audience that they could compete mg?" there all along, the Indians cry ?u • then on "Soul Train" any day as they did some They are enlightened by "Grandma" who they're just humans." The 1?d•a~s and 1 "funky'' dancing lo the James Brown hil, "Got answers their ques tion with a history lesson. comme nt that the While man 1~ ~'."~ople To Get Over 'Fore We Go Under." lnt.erspersed with humor, the play was cheating again . The idea of_ "owning le ous noteworthy for its take-offs of history and its that do your work for you ,s prepos r 10 Throughout the 90-minute program , the audience laughed hysterically al the · ·commer­ original bul meaningful and wise int.erpreta- lhem . . • music cials" written. created and performed by lion. Following some more entert.aJnmg d iht nine-year,old Teresa Williams, the sister of The dialogue brings out lhal the Pilgrims from the lntercommunal Youth B~~(iband " Deborah \Villiams, the lnsliLule's first gradu­ came here to Americu with Black sieves from program concluded with a finale from, . g. 1, ate lln June} and a member of the band. Africa to stea l lhe Ind.ions' land. The pilgrim s, and aU the children of the school sinffn the quick lo introduce profit and greed into their Delicious cake and punch was ~erveNo , Already a budding and t.nlenled comedienne, 00 Si.oltl!rTeresa had the audience rolling in their new discovery, repeated ly offer the Indian s cafeteria al the end of the pro~ChUdfon's seat.aduJing one commercial in particular in money in exchange for land. who was there will soon forget : A dJ ector ol which a band-aid thal was supposed to be the The Indians say they don't want money November ." Sisler Ericka liuC!Pns, r fained because how can they know if it's ''real" or lhe lntercommunol Youth lnsutut.e, a:itp ~l on lh,> market just would not stick. pee!el The h•Y.hliv,htof the evening waa a four-act not. Then the Whit.a people offer Lbe Indians lhal the children will be pu tting on a i51>e1ter play written by the Institute children called slaves. The Indians waal lo know what slaves program each month. "\Ve hop~ to ~•idfell's are. The Pilgrims reply, " They do your work ol it each lime," she sold. 'A are'weU011lj Me?Jning of Thanksgiving " The ploy "Thr, for you." At this the Ind.ions are interest.ed but November " demonstrated that they openr.d with the children galhered al the still suspicious. They say, "Show us these their way. D THE BLACKPA.N TIIER,S ATURDAY, NOVEMIIEll30, 1 97◄ IJ

AKLANDCITY GOVERNMENT · spending cutba cks in se rvice programs lilte OEO and housing. Other age ncies may spend as much as they did before. but inflation has increased operating costs thus forcing a GNORESHIGH-RISING redu ction in overall operati ons. The significance or this contraction in local government operations has prod uced a good deal or unemployment in the city. According to UNEMPLOYMENTPROBLEMS 1970 census figures. roug hly 30 per cent of all Oakland residents worked for govemm ent­ sta te, local or otherwise. For Blacks. the In last week 's issue of THE BLACK and which is about lO hit us harde r agrun proportion was highe r. Slightly over 46 peT THER, we presented a ge neral JO·Point during lbe coming year. cent of worker.i in the Black commurtity were ion Plan, deueloped by the Washing ton, In the face of such a situat ion. the city must employed by government . Because of lhe , . -based Moueme11t for Economic Justice, deal with the problem of unemp loyment or face racism practiced by both employers and la~ Black and poor comm unities around the heavy politica l conseq uences. The mayor. John unions, government employment has bee n and ntry might utilize LO halt their i11creasing Reading, is a busi nessman himself, and no will probably continue to be the major sou rce of n omic woes. This week, we focus on the city doub t has a grasp or business trends . If you new jobs for the Black community. Yet, city akland, Colifor11ia, and prese11t one local read business journals lhese days-publica­ government employment has dropped by 10 omisclrcsearchcr 's specially prepared a· tions like Barrons, Business ~Veek, the Wal/ per cent since 1972. Federal govemment sis of the skyrocketing unemployment rate Street Journal, Portune f.1agazine, The Journal employment hos also declined over the past - is city and some proposals to alleuiate the of Commerce, etc.-you learn that business­ couple years. This trend will continue unless blem. men are !earful that the new wave or lbings change. unemployme nt muy ' ' heighten social tensions akland Manpower Direct.or Juan Lopez and set the stage aguin for riots in the cities ." PROC'RAJl1 FOR CHANGE orted this month that the city's unemploy• (Business Week, 11/ 9/ 74, p. 154.) nl rate stood at 10.8 per cent up from 7 .9 There are many causes for unemployment Change. The lime mny be ripe for change. cenl in 1970. today . Some of it is due lO the eoergy crisis and But people have Lo struggle behind n program his is the first lime since lhe mid-1960s that the way it has affected employment in which repre sents their interests. Such a program might include provisions such as ~ city of Oakland has officially admitted that industries depende nt upon the aulOmobile nod IJ4kland has such high unemp loyment. For highway travel (restaurants. gas stations, etc .) these : l. Fifty per cent of all people hired by the rs . peop le in the community have been Some port.ion or the unemployment we are icizing th e city for not doing anything experiencing is caused by the normal shifts in city should have been unempl oyed at the lime ective about jobs . The mayor and the the business cycle • Capitalist economies of their hire. 2. The city should require that those workers · ority of the city council have tu med their develop in prosperity and depression cycles: ks on tho prob lem and repea tedly refused sometime lbe cycles arc mild and sometimes employed on public works projects live in the ~ deal wilh iLseriously . The national economy they are more severe as during the 1920s and city of Oakland and all new governme nt employees should be Oakla.nd residenlS . in general is slipping deeper and deeper into 1930s. wbat economists have dubbed "s logflation · •- But the largest single factor causing S. The city should establish an independent the strange mi.x of high inOation and recessi on unemployment for people in Oakland is lbe a1finnative action commission whicb sball ich we experienced back in 1970 and 1971 reduced level of goveniment operations due Lo review and evaluate the implemenlatioo of city-wide affirmative oction programs . 4. The city should provide workers who have household responsibiliti es with one-monlb ANPOWERREPORT REVEALS OAKLAND paid parental leave and on~yenr unpaid parental leave, paid pareoud leave for illnesses J BLESSRATES, POPULATION SHIFTS of c:hildrcn. and o child-are center for city employees. 'l'he following statistical informalion compar­ J.,fanpower Diroctor, Jua11Lopez, and released s. The city should also provide half-time "'f unemployment rates and population shifts last week to tht! City CounciL employment for those who request it-either infl•c city of Oakland 1uas compilod by the city working full-time sit consecutive months. or working a 20-hour week throughout the year . ~ ',IPLOYMl,NT RATES 8\' AREAS IUt,O Policies such as these would make the city Total No. In Ch·IU•n No. ot Une:mplormcnl government more effective in providini,! jobs Popuuulon 1.o1,o, r.,...., Unemplo,-rd Rate for people who need them most. But the real 12,402 7.9~ lioltand 367 ,548 157, 182 solution is an expansion of aty services, W. Oakland 57,526 2J. 68-l J,820 17,6% especially for housing and health care Taxes Sl ,415 32,769 1.614 a.o, !. ~&Jua.od 1,497 7.J~-- on higner income people and property IL ut.n d 46,034 20,585 ""11,.i. 69,208 30,9 16 l,6 15 lt.3~ transfers could generate enough money 10 21,562 12,080 467 J. 8% UNEMl'lOl'MENT RATES BY AREAS JQ"4 expand services which citizens need des perate­ 41,419 1,375 .J• .) -r'-. ~~ 91.563 Arca Uncmpto, mcol Rat~ ly. \lPI.OYMf-'IT R,\TES 81 AREAS · 1q·n Oakland 10.S ... U lhe people or Oalcland are lO solve I.heir W. OaldJutd 13.4._ problems lhrougb programs such as thes e . 152,189 7.9, 361,561 11,086 E. Oal lhey have to organize and fight ror lbem . There W, OaJuand 39, 152 N. O.UJ1nd 10.9~. is no other alternative. Tho city council, the 31,320 J,145 10.l '!. 6,S'!'. L Oaltw,d 86,437 9.9% fn1 1tvak N. Ou and 41,380 18,481 1,31 1 Lale-Ara 5.3w. city manager and l\1ayor .Reading won't ha.-e 27.074 8.l , ... hvalt 67,845 2,227 HIU A1tt 4.7"' any rcnl solutions. Neither will other city 14,076 691 ..., .. Arca 15,715 47,397 2,044 4,3-; officials. They alrendy represent the banks and Arca 101,011 real estate companies which are interested IIANGE IN POPULATIONDY AREAS only in making mone>y-no l in St>r.,.ing the needs of poople. Peoplo in Oaklandwill ha,·e to 1970 ~. Chan,tc -..i.ru1 1960 organizo for the sakt> o( their own int.erests . 36i,548 .161,561 . \.6.. and soon, in April. 1975. lluly will lut,-._.a­ "• Oalilud 51,526 39. 151 -31.9% ehnncc to elect their n roprcs.,nlntl\,)8. LDul ■ nd 81,41 5 86,437 I S,3% °" •kl■nd 46,0.14 4 1,J&O . 10.1, people who know tho communit~· • ptobl~ m, h'alc 69,208 67,845 • l.0 % and who arc dedi cated 10 crea t.e concrete Ar-.a l l ,S61 25,715 I 16. I"" prognuns Lo solv" them. Artt 91,563 101,0tl j9 .4 .., U TIil Bl \Cl( PANllllR, SAT IJROA\ , N0\ 1EMBER30, L974 NEWB-1 BOMBER MOST EXPENSIVE WEAPONINHISTORY IPalmdale, Calif.I - A proto­ expensive weapon in military type of the n11w8-1 bomber was history, completed and displayed October The American Friends Service ~6 al 1he Palmdale. California Committee (Af'S C) and Clergy planl or Rockwell International. and Laity Concerned. two notion­ B-1: MORE BANG lbe top B-1 conlractor. The al peace organizations, hove been FOR MORE BUCKS unveiling or "roll out." a organizing protesLs against the Worghl : 395,000 lbs traditional ceremony in the aero­ bomber. According to Terry Speed, t,500 mph spuce business. with dignitaries Provance, AFSC coordinato r of Rongo; 6.000 miles g:;,;ng glowing tributes to lbe the campaign . " We want LO Longlh , 144 IOel Wing:spnn· 137 foot the first plane of a new design. corporate - military • government Crew~ Four men The B-1, a strategic bomber for complex that is profiteering from Armament: 115.000 Iba. nuclear and conventional war, the B-l creation." of ,ockot.& and bombs has twice the bomb tonnage of Early m October, the Defense COST $76.4 MILLION the B-52-24 nuclear lipped Department discloaed that, due to cause of this. the price of one of S35 million a plane. The new '"'missiles weighing 50,000 pounds. inflation, its estimate of total 8-l the 244 planes that I.he Air Force budget request will be presented 'Vith its wings spread fully, it will program costs had risen from hbpes to buy has been pushed to Congress in January . be able to fly 01 low nltitudes more than S3 billion Croma .t.larch up to $76.4 million. The original (\Ve thank Liberation News undetected by enemy radar. at estimate, to S18.63 billion. Be- planning estimate in 1969 was Seruice for the information in lhis speeds up to 700 mph for as long article.) □ as four hours, hit its target wllh nuclear weapons or short range ATTORNEYINTER VIEWED ONLAW SUIT missiles, and then fold iLs wings CONTINUEI)FROM Pllt.:E J and escape at supersonic speeds. tho BPP suit) is quoted in the There's another document that Despite the praise that was newspapers as saying that within I can find wh.ich telks about how passed out in Pnlmdnle, the B-1 a few months of assuming the they ' re phasing in the Special program is in trouble because or office of commissioner he aban­ Senrices group and steff into ,ts ever increasing price tag, doned the Special Services Staff ot~er operations within Lbe IRS. making it perhaps the most ISSS). These docu:ments show, In the original stetement that because there's one called a IRS told the Joint Committee on OllUl\ll "Phase Out-Phase In" operation, Internal Revenue Taxalion­ thnl althoughSSSwasabandoned, when they hod an invesligetion EVELOPMENTPOST all of it.s operation$ were splin­ based on the revelations or the ONTllnt.¥111the fund•. ln that case. last paragraph that "I would like order from the court restraining "ge llin g" rad .icol organti 0 !utun, community organizing lo have the total Phase Out them. We will also ask assistance here will cenll:r on Oakland City completed by December 31, 1978, tions. □REG _ Menanircr~ii Riley. a bureau­ roughly four and one-hair months from congressmen and senators !STER seeking LOmake sure lhat none of crat f<:arlul of change end innova­ from the date or tho staff tiUldundOllbledly oppose Wil­ possible Lo meet this Lime TO .. destroyed. liam'• appoinlment. J g oal ..• VOTE • TIIE BUC K PAl'iTH.£ll, SATUIIDAY. NOVEr.lBER30. 1~4 15 lnteteommunalnew, U.N. AFFIRMSPALESTINIAN RIGHT TO SELF- ~. DETERMINATION (United Nations. N.Y.) - Reso­ luLions affirming Lbe rights of the Palestinian people 1.0 self-

I BROUGHT NATIONALCRIME HERE SYNDICATE IN SLAVE EXPOSED "ln lhis book I lry Lo show that SHIPS organized crime is not the The te;r:tbool, cont rouersy in province of one eth nic group or sec ret society. Jus t as no such Kanawha County, West Virgina, group has a monopo ly on virtue, centers arou11d writings such as neither does one have a monopoly the following poem ''l,oue Your on evil. Yet, until this simp le E11emy, " written by Yusef In• truth is accepted there can be man, which e:r:presses Black pride little of lasting valueachleiredina a11d goes against old racist war against whal, afte r all, is but noticns that Blacks must bow an extention of our cherished free down to thei r opp ressors . The enterprise syste m. (Em phasis ontite:r:tbook forces have been added.) T~e close relationship betwee n e.r·President- NIXON and organized uigorously protes ting against the "E qually essentia l is recogni. crime figures AB PLANALP 1/eft) and REBOZO (middle) is evide nce of use of such literature in their lion that wit hout political and mob control in the highest leuel:s of government . schools. economic corrupt:io·n there could Rank Messick in Lansky has Growing up on the slreeLs of be no organized crime syndicate, simply done his homewor k care­ old New York City, Meyer Lansky BroughL here in slave ships and and no Chairman of the Boar d." fully and well. As a resu lt, listed among bis early friends pitched overboard . So writes Hank Mess ick in lhe Mess1ck has spun ouL a top-notch Bugsey Siegel and Lucky Luci­ Love your enemy. preface to his explosive expose of piece of investigative journalism, ano. Language taken away, cultu re a man, who ear ly in life, came to full of names, dates and inci­ Lansky and Luciano planned Loken away. the realization lhat polilical and dents, which should be read by their power coup ol the Mafia­ Love you r enemy. economic corruptness ,did exist anyone and everyone -8 LO 80- the /11\ustache Peles, as l.uciano Work from sunup lo su ndown . and who, undoubtedly more so who wants to undersland the true used to call them-as early as Love your enemy. and better than anyone else ever pulse of America today . 1920, when Lans ky was only 18 Work for no pay. did, parlayed that "essential The most fascinating (and years old and Luciano was 23. Love your enemy . recognition" into a crime empire amazing) thing about t.leyer Said Luciano al II meeting with Lasl hired . first. fired. whose power and influence is Lansky, pe rhaps a tribute if Lansky on this subject: Love yo ur enemy. literally unbounded. right-wing gangsters deserv e " It'll take time. Maybe years . Rape your mother. That man is Meyer Lo.nsky. such praise, is the fact lhat he has We gott.o build slow and careful­ Love your enemy. whose brainy c.limb lo the Lop of survived . ~!eyer Lansky is still you in your world and me in mine. Lynch your father. crime, to lhe posit ion of Chair­ very much alive: he is '72 years ln o way, you've got iL easie r. Love your enemy . man of the Board for the National old; he is living in this country: be Your people have brains and can • Bomb you r chu rches. Crime Syn when will we love ourselves? '"We St,,t e F* r. dlie £1 ra at !N Soal" 7P COl'fl1NUEDON PAGE !2 le T1I£ BLACK PANTlll!R, SATUIU>AY, NOVEMBER 30, 1974

efforts made by the people of thot A CUBAN VIEW country in order lo be free. S.A.F.E. UNCOVERSBADLIVING CO~TIN\JED FROM PAGE ? Todny we recall the remarks keys Lo the front door of the Tlus shows lbat emigration of mnde by lhe Heroic Guerrilla, CONDITIONS building, which is supposed to Puerto Ricans, a phenomenon ~lnjor C:meslo Che Guevara, on CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 remain locked at nil limes and Some of the senior citi1.ens created by lhe Yankee imperia­ December 11, 1964 when be opened only by the O'Brien s. He li.~tswith sini!>ter objectives, now spoke at lhe 19th session of the have housekeepers to ossist lhem noted that one elderly mun was boomerangs back on them with Cknerol Assembly of the U.N.: in cleaning their rooms. How­ ccently robbed in the elevator by considerable force. "For years the Americans have ever, mony nre unable lo afford wo teenagers. In an attempt to divide, isolate soughl lo convert Puorto Rico into this luxury nnd attempt. to clean "I'm trying to get out of this a.nd even exterminate Puerto nn example of a hybrid culture: their rooms themseh•es. This pl~ce, you can believe me," he Rican national identity, the U.S. lhe language is Spanish with often proves unsuccessful be­ said. Another resident of the build­ government instituted a policy of English inflections. A language cause the health of the residents ing who suffers from emphysema gc,nocide that ranged from the wilh lunges on its back to make it may prevent them f:rom doing a destruction or agriculture-the bow do1vn before lhe Yankee thorough job. (disease of the lungs making it counuy's maUl economic pillar ­ soldiers ... However. in spite of One resident, Brother difficult lo breathe). complained lo ideological diversionism-to this tremendous alt.eel

The following intriguing onoly· weaknesse s of the game are not sis of the sport of football and its widely exposed, however, be­ relationship to soaiety was writ• cause people ore reluctant to ten by Garry Smith, an assistant analyze activities that give them professor of physical education at pleasure . the University of Albert4 i11 Harry Edwards, a Black socio­ Edmonton, Canada. logist from the University of Football is the new "opilue of the masses. " California, believes that profes­ PAIT I Football started nt approximately sional football has supplsnted unless the number of injuries and the same time as the industrial deaths caused by football was The sport of foolball bas religion as the "opiate of the growth parallelled the growth of recently been maligned by critics masses."" reduced substantially. The result the ethic of capitalism. of this Presidential intervention from within lhe system. Fonner There is support for Edwards' The capitalist ethic at this time footbal l players such as Dave content.ion when one considers was to creole rule changes which was based on the racis t notion of reduced the violence in the game. Meggy esy. Berni e Parrish, and that last year the Grey Cup game Social Darwinism which was The introduction of the forward Gary Shaw have written books was held on a Sunday . Church popular then, and both Ideas pass was one such rule change. leaders complained that the tele­ denouncing the game, while became entrenched in North • roothall has not changed dras­ vised game would conllict with George Sauer and John McMurty American society. Belief in Social tically since then, except that the have written articles and have their regular church services. Darwinism was a way of defend­ players a.re much better skilled spoken out publicly against abu­ Their pleas to have the game time ing the social hierarchy land now and there is much greater ses in football. These attacks changed were ignored. ~1ost justifying the colonization of Black time and effort devoted t.o have had a negligible impact on clergymen, realizing that their peop le around the worldl . A coaching the game . atten danc e would be low if they football as a spectato r spori.: the person who was wealthy deserved 1{ one were to examine the sello ut crowds certainly are no persisted with regular services, to be better off than a poor person game of football dispassionate­ less frequent in both Oanadian decided either lo change the because somehow he must be ly- perhaps as n Martian ba,•ing and American professional foot­ church service time or to cancel it smarter, better skilled. or more just stepped out of his space ship ba ll. altogether. able to adapt 10 society. would view the proceedings­ Does this mean lhat the points Perhaps more startling than Football was a product of this whnt would he see? raised by these detractors are this incident , was the time in the emergent social milieu. and con­ 1. Basically he would see two invalid, or does it mean there is United States when an NTL sequently the game reflected the groups of people relating to one substance in their criticisms but play-off game took place on dominanL ideology of its society. another in a very violent woy. • that their arguments are being Ch~stmas Day. Despite going The essence of capitalism was tho 2. Ro would notice that tho ignored? I would agree with the head t.o head with the most acquisition of territory and con­ game was played on a highly Isle.er, (or football is highly important Christian holiday in the solidation of wealth . Football was demarcated field. and that the vulnerable to critical attack . The year. football did not suffer . imbued with this ideology by the players used an ellipt.ica.J ball To demonstrate how football early participants of the game, 3. He would quickly discern has achieved such a high status in who just happened to be the sons that the object of the game was to North American culture. it is of capitalists (business and politi­ conquer territory by moving the necessary t.o examin e brieOy the cal leaders) who attended the ball down Lhe marked field. Tho TAXAGENCY historical development of the prestigious universities where ball was moved downfie ld by a game. football developed . ,ery systematic s top-start pro­ Football evolved from the In its formative stoge, football cess, and the teams were reward­ SPYINGPROVEN British spo rt of rugger and was an extremely brutal game. In ed by beinggivenp0intswhenever CONTINUEDFROM PAGE J sprang up sim ultaneously in the United Stutes, the game was they croosed the other team's Il look another legal prod from eastern Canadian universities nearly eli.roinated by Presidential goal line. the attorney in th e case to and in the Ivy League colleges of edict as President Teddy ROOS-O• Basically the gumo is a theatri­ convince the agency that it had no the United States nround 1870. velt threatened to ban the game cal produclion which is symbolic recourse but to supply lhe names . of 1.ak.ing territoy and maki.ng Although the present IRS Com­ money and the whole scene is missioner has said that he JO-NEL'S LIQUOR STORES based on extreme conflict. abolished AOC when he took Port of tbe reason for football· s office in 1978 , other documents SUPPORT popularity is Lhat it is a vory reveal that the surveillance is still THE COMMUNITY powerful socializer. The value going on. (See Fred Hiestand structure or the game is very interview. page S.) Jo-Nel's #1 similar to that ot western society . In football the player has LO be In fact, one memo states AT79.o E, 14th ST., 0A KLA1''D plainly that investigations are competitive and aggressive to EVEKl Tll lr the chief functie>nsor f1>0tballis LO ville, Mississippi, Sister Shirley fNO DEIIV~Kll:.SI teach males to b4)eome men . Chisholm, 0 1972 Democratic Femalos are only pal1 of the nominee for President, and Huey BUY FROM JO-NEL'S supporting cu,1: their function is P. Newton and the Black Panther OPEN to decorate the s,deline?5 while Party. lend to the suspicion that 6AM -lA;\I MONDA~ S Tll RU FIIIDAIS cheering for 1heir male hol:Ot's. the un-ConstitutionaJ activities &AM -J AM $ATUIIDA YSA ND SUNOA\'S JO-NEL'S n TO 11 CONTINUED continue unabated. □ ~ nu: Bl ,n P V."lUER, S-'TURDA \', 1(0\' l MBE R 30. 1974

- NEWREGULATIONS ''LANSKY'' BENEFITFEDERAL CONTINUBO FROM PAGE 19 murder-bu! lhe whys and wherefores of how that process HOUSINGTENANTS COrqJNUED FROM PAGE 2 worked. Messick, who is obvi. CO~"Tl~l'ED FROM PAGE 7 ously impressed by Lansky, goes to great depths lo explain how putp06eS or "inspection and The Black Panther, Meyer Lansky always-always­ copymg." This inc,ludes the mosl Inthe Ausu-" 24, 1974lssu~. you ran an aniclc about• fcncr rt'C!'Clvcdfrom 11 remained in the shadows pulling recenl annual s1atemen1 of in­ VllCOvillelnmote. {Note: The l«1er rei..tt'd details of I thn,e """told hunger \lnl.e ln11latt'd In rcspcm:.c to the shooting of o pnson Inmate by • VocovOle the strings. come and expenses. This type of From the ea rly 1930s to 1960, information has been very diffi. guard.) In thl< aniclt concerned pcrions wen, dlredod "to writ• or call Supcrin1cndent O ■non .. .or the director of the Califoml■ Depamncnt of Meyer Lansky was n scienlific cull to gel in the past. Cont,edons ... dcm&ndlog that the Civil Rights Unit of the FBI lnvc,Ugotc gangste r. utilizing what Messick The documents ere supposed lo Vac:a.vlllc W•l Win¥, Willis Unit, W-2. W-3, ond the Intensive 1'rca1mcnt coils "his favorite tools: insuJa. be available in a .. rcaso1111bly Center •• tion, indirection and public indil. accessible" place during normal AJ. "~ ■ re always concerned wilh the ri;ihts of 1ll our fellow human•. we wrote both Canon ond the dln,c:tor . Enclo:,cd Is the h!tter ... reclcved .., an ference to build up a personal and bl15iness hours. The posted noti­ IIRSWi'U, organizational empire which in­ ces must Slate lbat the informa­ We arc &nS\l>erlogthe endosed lcticr With a.no1hcirs.taling 1hc as facts cluded New '( ork, Miami. Las lion is &\·ailable and where you outlined In your Aug. 24 anicle. can get it. Vegas, Cuba, and hundred s or Oaald J. w Monde smaller locales within its realm . Tenant response . Any written Shdla A. w Mondc More specifically, Lansky was a tenant comments received by the Manito"'~, Wisc. owner or Housing Authority are scientific gungsler in lhal he carefully adopted to be prevailing supposed to be senl to HUD with O.u Mr. •nd Ms. Le,; Monde, political and economic clima te in the official rent increase requesl . Your letter of October 13, 197~ 10 Director Procunior ha, been rorwudcd to Tenants can als o se nd comments America and throughoul the me for 11n»wctl11sas I am Supcrinu:ndcntor the CaliforniaMedical Facility at world - the Depression in 1929, directly to the local HUD area Vuavllle which ls 1he subject of your letter . You a.llNU ED ~'ROM PAGE 7 LI Calle) wu a, the U.S." Disciplinory" B•rraw but under lhe dl spend their time In luxury . Calley ood •A long passage on April 26, othcn ilkc bim are also viet1ou. but officers of lhc 76, people in many nations. 1973, in which ~!r . Ehrlichman Lake:-M11toolm1a ld. "Ch\ckcnt coming home lo F00)1 never made me sad. Tho process that began in J9Z9, warned Mr Nixon thal he: faced lhcy'vc always truode me aJad." Alr,o u Uncle Ho made .o pl ■ln , "When the . when bankrupt busines s mo: impc-achml!nl if 11.ll lho foct.s pnson door~opcn. 1hc real dragons will Oy out," but lhc doora .. m do.., •R•ln turned to bootleggers for ens and I w , if lhe dragon, ny ou1, lhcn who will rcplac,, 1hc draJl()n,1t Answer ll, bt-carne known. Again, Mr. Nixon DOI 1he people . "All Pov.er 10 the People." and credit had conlinued ove.r remariUnr.clwho expowd Mr. Hlz1,n'11r,,J, 111 WaW-rY,al-r,.r- true. □ M.r. THE BLACKPANTHut. SATI.RDAt. NO\ EMBER.30, 1974 23 A PROG FORS ~~~'@li§'@J@@lf@!Jt~J@/~l@f@,'@.~'@JJ PEOPLE'SFREE INTERCOMMUNAL SENIORS AGAINST MEDICALRESEARCH NEWS SERVICE A FEARFUL HEALTHCLINICS Provides news and information about th<· ENVIRONMENT Provides free medical treatment and pre­ world and Black und oppressed communities. ventative medical care for the people. IS.A.F.E.1 PROGRAM

Tit E SICKLE CEl.1, ANEMIARESEARCH FOtJNOA TION /i§l:@lj l'rr,vidl,>!, fret· trnn,pnrcnmmun1li1•,. and an educational program for dental hygiene. PEOPLE'S FREE PLUMBING A'ID \IAII/TE'i i\.'iCE PROGR,IM PEOPI.E'S FREE OPTOMETRYPRO GRAM c1!l (Being Lmplemented) @] Provides (rec pfumhmJ.!oncl rt•pn1r-.(•n·1c:es to l1iJ 1mprnv(' pffipl<''s hnm,•s. Provides free eye examinations. treatment and eyeglasses for the people . ------~ -----'® FREE PEST CONTROL PEOPLE'S PREE AMlltJLANCE PROGRAM Provides free , rapid transportation for sick or PROGRAM injured people without time-consuming FREE BUSING r, ..,. hnus,•hoh1 ,•XIL•rminat,nn of rots. chec ks into th e patients' financial status or rnnchl!Sond ntht•r di"""'"•..-urrying p1,«t,, and means . TO PRISONS PROGRAM rnd,-nL,;. OAKLAND.CALIFORNIA INTERCOMMUNAL FREE FOOD PROGRAM • Provides free food to Black and other YOUTH INSTITUTE oppressed people . Prn, idv~ Hinck and <1thcr oppressed l'hildrcn ~ KEE BREA.KFAST PROGRAM "1th n ,ch,ntifk m ...thod nf ihinkini: ohnul and Provides children with a free, nourishing, hor. nnoly1.ini:thing, This muthod d,•vult1ps hosic skill;, for living in thi,. soci111y, breakfast every school morning. !,IBER.\TIONSCHOOLS: FREEMUSIC ANO OA.'iCE FOODCOO PERATIVEPROGRAJ\1 PROGRAMS l'rrw,des childn•n fret> supplen1t•ntal) e<1ucn- Provides rood for the people through com­ t1onal fodlities ond moll'riols 10 promnl" a munity participation and community coope­ c<>rrect ,,it:" or their r,,le in the socie ty and rative buying . prnv,de~ 5upporl for lhc :\lusic and Dnnce pmi:n1ms of the lnlcrcnmm unal Youth lnsti­ -PEOPLE'SFREE lutt.• COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT LEGALAID AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER PROGRAM EDUCATIONAL Pro,•ides 24-hour child care fecilil1<'s for Provides free job-finding services to poor and PROGRAM infonis o.nd child ren betwn " • PEOPLE'S PREE CLOTHING PIIOGRAt\f Provides imprisoned men and women with runds to purchase neci!ssary commissary -Huev P .V~wiun Provides new. sty lish and quali';· cJothing i . 1 items. rr~ lO lhe people. • INTERCOMMUNAL YOUTH INSTITUTE STUDENTS STAGE

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