THE BLACK PANTHER Black Community News Service
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1970
MINISTRY OF INFORMATION SOX 2S67, CUSTOMHOUSE THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY SAN FRANCISCO, CA94I26
GUERRILLA WAR IN THE U.S.A
That there is a new wave of urban smithereens when he vxLsn't: reports 62 guerilla actions against targets in guerillas carrying out acts of "armed of Che Guevara's death in Bolivia were 17 states. Each target was symbolic, propaganda" inside the confines of this greatly exaggerated at least a dozen Ehe administration has found it ne- imperialist, fascist, racist decadent times before the C.LA, could deliver a cessary to define these freedom fighters community called the United States, corpse to match the story; defeat of the cind their actions by descriptive labels cannot be disputed, Vietnamese has been reported daily, such as "disrupters", "a small min- Whether their ideologies or motiva- when in fact they have won the war ority", "destructive activists","small tions differ, the techniques and the and reports of the decline of the Black bands of destructionists", "acts of vi- ultimate goal of destruction of the sys- Panther Party has been Community ciousness", "blackmail and terror", tem is consistent. News, when infact our rank sand support "assaults which terrorize" and every- Guerilla war is a radically different is at its highest peak, thing else except the true fact that the political reality from anything the United In order to keep the people in the people are rising in anger. States has experienced. It would be communities of the U,S,A, in a per- With all the resources at the hands incorrect for it to be misunderstood petual state of confusion, emphasis is of the F,B,L, the CLA, and various either by those who would wish to crush placed on the atrocities abroad and the other agencies the revolutionary spirit it and thereby attempt to curb the in- true perpetrators of these atrocities, of the people cannot be crushed. The evitable tide of revolution, or by those the U,S, imperialists, manage to hide Pentagon Counter Intelligence Analysis who would attempt reasonably to cope under the covers and demean the sig- Division has a subversive data bank with it as a passing phase, nificance of the present occurrences, with L5 million names. The Secret It is not unusual, or rather, it is It is now getting to the point where Service has indices of 100,000 radical in the interests of the oppressor, to it will not require the services of a names and extensive dossiers on 50,000 deny the success, much less the reality computer to project a full scale civil revolutionaries presumed to be to a guerilla movement opposing it, war resulting from the rapidly multi- dangerous, this includes fingerprint -*'-f-^^xanM^sbread continual plvin^at^ck^f sabotage and guerilla files, pplic^^ords. medical and p^- 19. iwrv EDITORIAL ON GUERRILLA WAR IN U.S.A. Continued from cover ckiatric records^ It also claims to have that occurred in Saigon for the same facts being told. an infiltrator in a top position in every period. The Black Panther Party says - revolutionary group in America^ The voice of the people will and must The map above, compiled by Scan- be heard throughout the land, not only Yet with this colossal Intelligence net• Ian* s, on guerilla acts of sabotage in i'i ' he communities of America, but in work, during 1970 there were 85attacks the United States from 1965 - 1970 all the dispersed communities of the on government property, 28 on corpor• gives a very clear picture of what world. In the spirit of intercom- ations, 62 on capitalist and lackey's has been taking place, munalism the oppressor will be de• homes, 192 on high schools which mis- Scanlan's was unable to bring out feated and the planet earth returned educate, 280 on Colleges which brain• this particular issue of their publi• wash^ 423 on pig stations and lOl on to the people, cation in the fascist community of military installations. Connie Matthews Tabor America, due to duress by the ruling Central Headquarters These sabotage acts outnumber those class who were afraid of the true Black Panther Party GUERRILLA ACTS OF SABOTAGE AND TERRORISM THE UNITED STATES 1965-1970
PART ONE Reprinted from Scanlan's LEGEND
TAH6ET METHOD lU # !#• ^ T^ O G«vtrnmenl Cofpoiitioni Mom« Huh Schools Collo(ts Police Military Smpinj Bomb or Dynamite Time Bomb Arson Mololov Cockleil Terrorism Burldinfi Elementarr Schools
1965-1967
12 Feb Atlania, Ga Two policemen were shot at and one of them 18 Apr. Miami, Fla. Windows
shoot the .,. ^,.L L1 tne longer owned Die ..eL,^.c i^^eiiald fate as their slain colleagues]^ sister's house. The brother, re• told him to go talk to the realtor, wrath of the armed tenants. cognizing the slumlord as ' 'ie- Slumlord S- v ' - ?d to shout ALL POWER TC ^ ^ "" ??!_£ hard rio:5: ief: arai told DEATH TC THE 5 . REESE DRUG STORE NEW HAVEN, WHITE RACIST ATTACK HUSBAND AND WIFE ed a White he (the Black) would CONN. SITE OF FASCIST have been put in jail and given a bond or held until time for court. Instead, by letting this fool stay on the street they allowed him BRUTALITY AGAINST THE PEOPLE another chance to attack other Blacks simply because they are On Saturday November 28th, store owner's wife, whoworkedbe- By this time, there were five pig Black. TJierefore, the pigs only about 8:00 P.M. Mrs. Ivory Cole• hind the counter if the bag of pota• cars and a detective car in the area work hand in hand with the ra• man, her son Stanley, 4 and Mrs. to chips her son had werepaidfor. because the people had heard what cists. Essie Anderson and her daughter She had given him a dime and wanted happened and were coming out of Cheryl, went to Reese's Drugstore to be sure that he had paid before their houses. Pig Reese has report• We urge everyone to support on the corner of Washington they left the store. The store own• edly drawn a gun on people on two Mr. and Mrs. Lawso.n even though and West Street in New Haven, to er's wife, Mrs. Reese said, ''No". other occasions. On Halloweenhe •we know there is no justice in buy a deck of cards and some other Mrs. Coleman said that she was drew it on some children. People the courts for poor people in things. Mrs, Coleman asked the sure they were paid for. Mr. Lewis in the community are hip to the general and Black people in partic• Reese the owner butted in "Give my capitalists who operate Reese's ular; but this wiiJ serve as aiiodier wife respect." The two sisters told Drug Store. We're exposing the example for the people to see the him that they felt he and his wife owner and his wife as racist pigs unjust tactics of Winston-Salem didn't deserve any respect because who have no regard for the life courts. they were robbing the Black com• or welfare of the people. munity. The store owner's wife Last September they were ap• Mr. & Mrs. Lawson FIGHT RACSIM WITH RACUL reached out and scratched Mrs, proached for donations to the Free SOLIDARITY! Coleman in therighteye andmadei: Breakfast Program for Children bleed, When Mrs. Coleman grabbed and refused to donate. It'squiteob- In a trailer camp, on Old Green- ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! •a can of hairspray to defend her• vious that their only interest is boro Road there are about five self, Mr. Reese pulled out a hand money. trailers. ITie occupants are both N.C.C.F. gun and pointed It at her saying Blacks and Whites. As one White Point number 8 of ihe Black Pan• 1616 E, 23rd. Street "Do you want me to sting you?" man stated, "We have no trouble ther Platform and Program states; Winsto.i-Salem, N.C- Then this avaricious businessman uiicU outsider^ come in." This that "We want an end to the rob• called the racists New Haven pigs proved to be true on Sunday, No• bery by the capitalist of our Black for assistance . vember 29, wnen a racist fool community. attacked Mrs, Lillie Lawson be• We must begin to implement sur• cause stie was talking to a white vival programs in our community so Mrs. Coleman, Mrs. Anderson neighbor. -After Mrs. Lawson got that pigs such as Reese with the pro• into her house the same white and the children were leaving the tection of armed policemen do not store as the pigs puUed up, Mrs, racist went and got his shotgun, confront the people without suf• tore down the Lawson's door and Anderson told them that she wanted fering a political consequence., to file a complaint. Mter question• beat Mr. Lawson in the head when ing the store owner, the pigs tried he ran to the door to protect his ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLEI to discourage Mrs. Colemanfrom home. He shot at a guest of the FREE ERICKA .AND CHAIRM.AN Lawson's when he said he was go• filing a complaint and asked her if BOBBY! ing to get the police. an apology could be accepted and the AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS! whole thing forgotten. Also, as the When the pigs did come they AND ALL POLITICAL PRISO• two sisters made out the complaint only cited the racist, Winky Dug- NERS] form the pigs tried to question gins, to court. We well know and Cheryl ( who is eleven years old) New Haven, Connecticut State understand that the Winston-Salem about how long the gun was and what Chapter Police Department is also racist. color it was. Black Panther Party If this had been a Black that attack- BROOKLYN PIGS BRUTAIIZE JiND RAILROAD BROTHER SAMUEL SMITH On December 10, 1370. Mrs. -Vfter appearing in court a second date been able to see a physi• Ibidiim Smirii came to the Black time for a bail hearing and identi• cian to be examined fur possible Panther Party office in Brooklyn. fication, tiie alleged victim of the brain damage. Presently the bro• Like So many others who have robljery couldn't identify brother ther does not have a lav^yer work• visited our office, Mrs. Smith Samuel Smitli; so the robbery ing in his interest; nor does he needed legal assistance for her charged was dropped. However, have the means to obtain one. husband. brother Samuel is still charged On the night of October 26,1970, with attempted murder and illegal It Is obvious that the courts have a robbery of a grocery store possession of a gun. His bail was no justice in store, only death allegedly took place in the Flat- set at $50,000,00 for attempted and destruction. bush section of Brooklyn, in which murder and $15,000.00 for illegal A legal Defense Fund is being possession of a gun; a total of two white police officers were shot set up for Brother Smith. For $65,000.00 ransom. and critically wounded. The inci• furtlier information contact; dent took place, according to the Brother Samuel was beaten so pig press, about 9:00 PM. Tlie viciously by the arresting pigs, Black Panther Party New York Police Department ar• that he could not recognize his 180 Sutter Avenue rested a suspect that matched the wife or mother in court. He did Brooklyn, N.Y, decription given over tlie the dis• not even remember being arrest• 385-2174/5 patch radio near 120th Street and ed; the last thing that he remem• All Black and oppressed people Morningside Drive in Harlem about bered was thiat he was on his are subject to brutality, arrest, one hour later. Awhile later, an- way home and was waiting for imprisonment or murder at any otlier brotlier, a second suspect, the train at the Sutter Avenue given time, as long as they are Samuel Smith (25) of Brooklyn was Station in Brooklyn. unarmed, Ttie Black Panther Party picked-up and taken to tlie Em• His wife has been to visit him is calling on all oppressed people pire Boulevard police station, several times and says that the to come out and support Brother booked and taken to court. He brotlier still suffers a memory Samuel Smith. was held on charges of attempted lapse, apparently from the beating murder, robbery, and illegal pos• lie encountered at the pig pen at Free All Political Prisoners of session of a gun and bail was the hands of the gestapo forces. U.S. Fascism Samuel Smith being kidnapped by racist pigs set at $10,000. Brother Samuel has not to this Nicky
greedy landlady denies any agree• suffering, but we know that capit• DECENT HOUSING A MOCKERY ments relating to repairs, and says alistic greedy slumlords think no• that Jeanette Hawkins was res• thing of the children of the op• IN NEW HAVEN , CONNECTICUTI ponsible for making all the neces• pressed. sary repairs. The Black Panther Party detest If you're poor and oppressed and normal occurrance all over this To further make things unbeara• the 'kind of situations chat sister you're trying to secure decent hous• racist, capitalistic country, greedy ble, the greedy racist landlady has Jeanette Hawkins and her children launched a series of harassments ing in New Haven your chances are landlords exploiting the people have been forced to exist in, we are and intimidations demanding the calling on all the F>eople of West Ha• almost non-existent. Most of the and the people past rent with constant threats of ven, andNewHaven.tohelpandsup- housing in the Black and Puerto Ri- necessity and the needto survive eviction. The landlady stiilhas done port us in any organizing techniques can communities are far below de• succumbing to their greedy de• nothing about the ceiling, she claims we see fit to enact in order to rid our cent housing fit for tlie shelter of hu• mands. the only way that the ceiling col- communities of greedj' slumlords We charge Pauline Wolyniec with man beings. Rent for 3 room fiats, lasped in the first place was be• who have no concern for the poor housing crimes against the people of gas, heat and sometimes electrici- cause someone pulled it down, oppressed people other than to come Jeanette Hawkins needn't be re• calling monthly for dollars, minded of the injustices she has suf• fered as a victim of an avaricious WE WANT DECENT HOllSINC FIT businesswoman's insensitiveness. FOR TriE SHELTO The sister suffers from constant BEINGS I
Jeanette Hawkins example of Black people's deplora• ble living conditions. For months. Sister Jeanette Hawkins insisted that tiie necessary repairs be made in her home. The sister (un• employed) was paying $250.00 a montii for rent. The greedy land• lady was told in advance chat water was leaking to the extent that the ceiling would eventually fall. In turn the landlady only made continuous false promises. The ceiling event• ually fell in and parts of it landed on her neck. From the injury to her neck. Jeanette incurred hospital ex• penses and is now forced to wear a brace on her neck. This lead to a MRS COLEMAN AND SON STANLEY, CHERYL -ANDERSON court suit where she sought justice .MOTHER. (ESSIE ^ANDERSON) CEILINC L\ HALLWAY WHICH FELL UN MRS. HAWKINS, in tiie name of decent housing fitfor ty are extra, and range from $162- West Haven.sister Jeanette Hawkins I the shelter of human beings. pain of her left side and in the back New Haven , Conn. State Chapter $17U per month. Ttiis seems to bea home in West Haven is a typical As the situation now stands, the of her neck. Her children are also ^^^<^^ i'anther Party^ CHILDREN BRUTALIZED BY RACIST PRINCIPAL IN WINSTON SALEM, N.C. EDITOR'S Rachit principal J ackson at This case was taken to court Declaration of Independence, Jamestown Elementary School in on December 1. In the courtroom ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLEl Winston-Salem, N.C. brutalized Lawyer Samuel Chess presented DEATH TO THE RACIST PlcS! Black ^'iidonr-s for noi iiav ng douo his case against Jackson. Jack• Larry Medley STATEMENT iheir hom.-.vurk one little brotiiorby son's lawyer couldn't disagree with George Dewitt In our struggle for freedom we must tlie name of .Arthur Baldwin was llie ciiarges, so instead all he did High Point Winston'Salem, N.C^. beaten very severly by this pig was plead guilty to the judge. combat many evil forces including the lying and had to be taken to the doctor. Judge I3>Ton llayworth, who is force of the establishment news media. Tlie doctor confirmed tliat the child also a racist pig told the law• was beaten5evvM- -'y andliadmarks yers that the teachers or prin• For this purpose and in the service of and bruises on liis back. cipals had tlie right to beat a the people, the Black Panther Community There were several oclier stu• child, but with reasonable force, News Service functions as the voice of the dents that were also beaten by or tlie • force that is necessary pig Jackson, All together there to moke'a student go in the riglit community. were seven kids chat were victims manner or way. Your support is necessary however and of his fascist tactics, 5 Black, Tlie case was then dismissed, we ask you not only to read the people's and 2 White. He stated before lie and tliese children did not get started beating tliem that lie would equal justice in court, Tliis shows organ but to contribute by sending in com- give the Whites three licks and you that Black people have no rights munity news articles to the: the Blacks six licks. Having tliem tliat the racist pigs are bound to Central Ministry of Information to stand aj an angle by touciiing respect. In conclusion, if diecciu:ts their toes, he began to beat them, don't give justice to the people, 1048 Peralta Street .Arthur Baldwin's aunt took out a then the people must rise and Oakland, California warrant for assault with a deadly give justice to the courts by any weapon wliich was a paddle. means necessary, as defined by the UNITED FRONT OF CAIRO INFORMATION SERVICE
"When I say we're going to kill injuries to Chairs as his car hit a contract on the life oftheRev.Koen em," I mean we're going to kill em, tree. Public relations man the Rev. who is executive director of the A, statementby the Mayor of Cairo, Manker R. Harris was also arrested Front. Pete Thomas was the obvious basis as he walkedtowards the spot where "TheWTiite merchants are hurt• for the police riot in downtown Cai• Mr, Herman Whitfield was being ing. They have along with other vi- ro, Saturday, December 5 when clubbed by about seven Cairo po• ligilantes, ordered the police to stop Blacks were peacefully and lawfully licemen. the picketing by killing us if neces- picketing the downtown business Whitfield was the first Black mai sajry, Uiis conspiracy to kill us goes district. The Blacks remained assaulted shortly after pickets ar^ all the way to . "We have one more peaceful and attempted to continue rived indowntown. TTireepolicemei river to cross." We are on the banks picketing although White vigilante exclaimed,"Here comes that dami of that river in Cairo. Our feet are local and county police and civi• Whitfield." Let's get him. As the: in the water. White hats with billy lians wildly and indiscriminately moved in they were joined by se• clubs, guns and armoured cars are fired scores of rounds ofammuni- veral other policemen who bega not going to stop us. We will pick• tion from riot guns, rifles andhand- Striking Whitfield and firing their et. We will march. We willboycott. guns at and over the heads of Blacks, guns. We will defend ourselves until vic• Fifteen Blacks were arrested, in• Another two score or more tory is ours." cluding United Front Chief of Staff rounds were fired by police. All •Quotes from Chicago Daily News James Chairs, who was also treated cars carrying Blacks were stopped, —November 23, 1970 in a Cairo hospital after a White hat occupants and vehicles searched deputy had shot the tires out in the and often the persons were beaten by DEC. 7, 1970 car he was driving . TTiis caused the all-White policemen. Other CONCACT: Rev. Manker R. Harris; Carl Hampton
igs terrorizing the Cairo's Biack community, Blacks on the streets were brutally This obviously unwarranted and beaten as they too were forced to unprovoked attack on Blacks ex• submit to illegal searches. AWhite ercising their constitutional rights worker with the Front, theRev. Ber• gives more credence to a statement nard Bodewes was arrested while made by an employee of the city*: walking downtown and severely bea• "Things won't get better until they ten. As a White lawj'er in Cairo, kill some of them. Yen guys would A local pig unprovoked, threatens and attacks who viewed the White violence from do all of us a favor if you'd kill a peacefully picketing member of the a second floor window said: "U was Charlie Koen." Il also stfiparts the REV, CHARLES KOEN DIRECTOR United Front of Cairo in downtown Cairo. Qotfaing less than a police rioC." conspiracy ^dcfe has developed a OF UNITED FRONT OF CAIRO. RENT A PIGS IN THE HUNTERS THE CASE OF IRVING OCHIKA POINT AREA (CALIFORNIA) YOUNG PROVES ONCE Mayor Alioto and the head these jpQos, have in the past had lidters of San Fraacisoo have set a series of sbooc outs with the AGAIN THAT JUSTICE IS IGNORED up a prugraui far nlgBrrs vicbouc San Francisco Pig Department and Historical experience in Baby• was that Anderson was suspected secution's case, Hillary D.Caplan, guns to watch other niggers with• were key in the rebellions of 1967 lon has taught that no Black person of being a police informer. prosecutor, brought the jury to out guns, and in case of incidoit after the murder of brother Mathew can receive true justice in the TTie first of the defendants to go near tears in a long sermon to call the San Francisco Pig Johnson by the pigs. It is obvious courts. For members of the Black to trial was Irving "Ochika" praising the 'victim'. On theother Department, In Hunters Point they that this is a pacification measure Panther Party even the pretense Young. Ochika's trial began and hand, he indicted without mercy, have hired many of the so called to lie to the people about the pro• of justice is ignored, a trial is ended in less than six days. The Ochika Young for first degree "bad actors," put uniforms and jects getting better and more jobs a complete sham. first day, in 3 1/2 hours, a jury murder. badges on them and turned them being made available. By throwing for a murder trial was chosen out to patrol their own people, nickels and dimes at them as eye Every Chapter of the Black Pan• Hie third day, the case for tiie openers, while the community still ther Party has, in the last year from a panel of less than 60 defense began and on the sixth Hiey ride around in gold station and a half experienced mass ar• jurors. Present in the courtroom day the jury went out. i\fter an wagons and actuaUy believe that suffers from filth, indecent during the jury selection were the they are a service to thecommun- housing, hunger and inadequate rests of its membership. In every' hour and a half of deliberation, schools, the pigs have put potenital case, the outcome of these arrests prosecution and defense attorneys, the jury returned a verdict (rf , ity. One young brother told me was a large number of people being the jury panel and about 40 plain guilty in the 1st degree. that the reason that he took the freedom fighters in a position to clothes pigs. The ten women and job was because they told him he charged widi murder, conspiracy Irving Ochika Young is now a inform on the community, ft is to commit murder or other re• two men who were selected were convicted political prisoner. At wouldn't have to go to tlie Army. all white and in their mid-thirties He said that his job was to see lated charges. this point in history, his sentence the job of these guards to aid or older. is irrelevant because experience to it that the little kids didn't and abet the San Francisco Pig Around April 30, 1970, seven• break the already broken windows teen people were arrested in AH of the state witnesses (in• in the fascist courts and pig pens Department in oppressing this have taught all Black people and or tear up the garbage strewn community of Hunters Point. We Baltimore, Md. for murder, tor• cluding 3 ex-Party members) de• projects. ture, kidnap and binding, AUofthe livered well versed, cold and cal• particularly the Black Panther can say to these rent a pigs seventeen were either Panthers, culated testimony against Ochika, Party that if we want freedom we Many of the brothers who have that they should be glad that they ex-Panthers or Party sympathi• It was brought out that although have to fight for it. Liberate aL don't Jiave any guns because the zers, Tiey were charged in the the skeleton of the alleged victim political prisoners. people of Hunters Point would July 12th, 1969 shooting death of was foundinOctober, the defendant surely take them. 20 year old, Eugene Leroy An• was not arrested until b months derson, in Leakin Park. As In ail later because the prosectuion Hunters Point murder cases involving Panthers, needed that time to build a solid ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLI the alleged motive for the killing case. At the close of the pro• Baltimore Chapter Community Center Black Panther Party ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE In the EJeceniber 5, 1970, issue that Joseph Saunders, Walter Wii of the Black Panther, the people liams and Robinetta Gladden (aj^ were informed of the counter• ROBINETTA ex-Panthers) have joined thos- revolutionary activity of Reggie GL.'\DDEN other fools and are enemies o Schell, ex - Philadelirfiia defense the people. TTiese people are trying captain, James Westcook and Nor• to pimp the good faith of the man Lowery, also ex-Partimiem- masses. bers have formed a group they We, the Black Panther Party call the Black United Liberation request that the people of the Front. Philadelphia community contact our office when they are asked This group has been soliciting for donations in our name. Our funds in tlie name of the party, office phone number in Phila• from people who may not know delphia is: EV 7-2869 that they are no longer members of the Black Panther Party. They WALTER A. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE have also borrowed materials and WILLIAMS equipment which have never been Philadelphia Branch returned in the name of the Party. Philadelphia CTiapter TTiis is to inform the community Black Paiither Party NEGRO SPORESMAII IR BERKELET AN OPEN LEUER TO DISTORTS COMMONITY CONTROL HIGH SCHOOL OF POLICE INITIATIVE STUDENTS- FROM In April llie community control of people go around robbing, stealing, and councils would be the mechanism by police charter amendment will be murdering each other. 1 wouldn't want which this could be made a possible placed on tlie municiple ballot, Be- every Tom, Dick and Harry to live in reality. The present structure of the pig KATARA, N.Y. 21 cuu.w over twenty thousand signatures my neighborhood to have a gun." The department gives no one any legal re• were initially secured to place the ini• potentially dangerous act whicli dress when criminal acts arc committed tiative on the ballot, the Berkeley Sweeny speaks of is an existing consti• by those criminals - tlie upholders of charging them with kidnapping, power structure has begun its campaign tutional right that every US, citizen law and order - who have no respect riot, etc. to sabotage the police initiative by may bear arms - that each home is en• for human life. How many times have If any of you have come to the titled to a shot-gun. This must be un• molding and shaping public opinion. we heard the words 'Justifiable homo- Panther 21 trial or any of the nu• With the help of the fascist Berkeley derstood by every Black brother and cide' echoing from the corridors of the merous political trials going on Gazette the pig power structure is pro• sister in the community, because wc Hall of Justice after a young Black jecting two endorsed spokesmen as the know who the real criminals are and brother has been murdered by the around the country, you know of lorch-bearers of the anti-initiative cam• what we must do to protect our com• pigs? With the present structure, the the blatatu fascism that is going paign. In tiie white eoininunity, Capt. munity and its people. We know we arc- city manager, the mayor, the police, down in the courts, which has now Pluminer (the pig who put together the not criminals if we jiick up a gun and the judges, the city councilman all col• been exposed in all its gore in the run out of our houses the true crimi• armored assault plan on the old Black laborate in a city manager type govern• prison system. We, the inmates, Pantlicr Party Headquarters on nals who for four hundred years have ment to deny people proper legal re• have always known of its exist• Shattuck) is the endorsed sjiokcsnian come to rob us, murder us, starve us dress gainst those who would act in for the White community. What's and dc-Iiumanize us. No. the true cri• the manner of criminals. ence and now it has been exposed important for the Black community to minals arc the barbarians who have de• to the public. Racism, exploita• understand is that Wilniont Sweeny, clared war against Black people and the In this type of operation, the city tion and brutality were and still manager hires all employees, plus vice mayor and city councilman, is the Black Panther Party in particular, Viet• are a part of the prison system namese, Koreans. Africans, Latin police chief. The city manager is ap• Negro endorsed spokesman used by the and now the pigs, with the rising pigs power strilcture to project a posi• Americans, and all oppressed people pointed by the city council, and the level of political awareness among tive and trusting image of tlic pig de• throughout tl*j oppressed world. chief of police is responsible to the city partment to the Black community manager not the city council. People of the prison population, are taking while at the same time projecting a ne- f inally Sweeny claims that Berkeley the community have no control over their wanton brutality to a higher •.ralive and suspicious image toward the has the finest police department be• determining the police actions except level. petition and those responsible, while cause of its rigid qualifications for re• to vote funds. The council itself has no he is projected as the rational, arlicu- cruiting fine police officers and strict control over determining police action To combat this situation thebro- late Negro spokesman for the Black guidelines on the use of weapons. But or policy. The police are responsible to thers are turning to you, the peo• one man. Secret Pig Hanley, the city community. of course, we know tills is the most ple, and asking for your support notorious lie Sweeny has told. Wc manager who is not an elected official by the people, but an appointee of the in our struggle to gain our human The Black community has always know that this projected image will not ruling circles. rights. We, the survivors of Branch been victims of tliese projected images be accepted by brothers and sisters in the community, because wc see object• Queens, come to you, the high created by the pig media. liact time, it The charter amendment offers, not a ive reality everyday. Objective reality is is for the purpose of molding and cre• step backward as boot-licking lackey school students, because we know armed members of the Berkeley pig de• ating a desired mood in the Black com• Wilmont Sweeny would have us be• of your high level of political partment shot to death an unarmed munity to counter-act any mass move• lieve, but a step forward to implement awareness, as sho'wn by your ac• Black youth in the back of the head ment on the part of brothers and a plan of mutual cooperation where with his hands up, at close range on tions. The students of today are sisters inside tlie zone of occupied ter• the people would have total and com• Tenth Street and University Avenue Katara (Alex)McKeiver the leaders of tomorrow; there• ritory. Wilmont Sweeny is typical of plete involvement in the administering with double-'O' buckshot. Objective fore, there are but two ways that the countless number of Negroes who of justice. In each of the three districts, conditions in the Black community is a have been used to projO' the image the people would elect neighborhood At noon of October 1, 1970, you can go: either you willbeco.Tie thiii.'cii year old b'other being beaten that all is well in the comnumity, and councils from the respective areas who the men of the Long Island City leaders of the reactionary pig by Berkeley pigs in the Alcatraz that we are content with oui humiliat• would in turn select a police commi• forces of repression or leaders Avenue area unmercifully until his J ail, Branch Queens, stood up ing position as an occupied people. He ssioner. Policy rules of conduct, recall, bonv: arc broken. Only to find out and demanded the animalistic of the people's forces in their tolls us that community control of hiring, and all other functions of the later :!.at it was supposedly a case of treatment being meted out to them just fight for liberation. We mu.st police would be a step backward into police departments would be deter• mistake n identity. Objective conditions understand that all America is a the dark ages because it is the same mined by the people in the com• cease, and that they be treated ill the black community is 20 Berkeley separate but equal concept likened to munity. as men by being given treatment prison as far as people of color southern segregation. We realize the pig ears surrounding our community afforded to men. according to their are concerned, the streets of the center while the occupants of the cars For Black people it would mean that eontrudiclions in tliis position human rights as human beings. ghetto are patrolled nightly, the stage military manuevcrs armed with the occupying army would have to Invisible wall that separates the because the Black Banther Party shotguns, automatic rilles and leave because the people would be To punctuate these demands, pri- is not a steo hai'kward, but several walkie-talkies. We recognize that these chosen Irotr. the ;"s.op.c .r. Lhe con- = ;.-*eri a-.- »er= steps forward, we want an immediate acts aren't carried out by fine, disci-' munity. Captain Young has already of their former jailers, for the lock-ins come In the form of end to police brutality and murder of plined officers but by vicious undisci• pointed out that the majority of system for which these men work loitering charges and spot car Black people. One way of doing this is plined madmen whose job it is to con• Berkeley police live outside Berkeley. is at a constant state of war to organize and educate the people to• tain Black people in a position of We would know who best represented checks that tend to keep yoa in with these men by denying them ward the necessity of setting up the ever-lasting servitude while protecting our needs. your houses. All the features of their civil and human rights. necessary machinery to rid the com• the interest of those elements which We would simply replace the real cri• the maximum security prison munity of the occupying army which occupy the Black community while minals with the people of the commu• It is to be pointed out that (jail) are shown in the minimum has boon responsible for the real sep• Ihey exploit Black people on every nity. Who is Wilmont Sweeny and all none of these P.O.W.'s were security one(lhe streets). TTiere- aration of people from tlic control of conceivable level of human existence. the other endorsed spokesmen who try harmed or abused in any way, fore, we ask you to help us by their external environment. to project to the people lies piled on as they themselves have stated. any means possible, by organiz• Tlie negative image projected by top of more lies? We say he's a tool Sweeny further claims that the initia• For acting in this manner of giv• ing your respective groups to raise tive would destroy the police depart- Wilmont Sweeny, Negro, vice-mayor, used by the Berkeley power structure ing humane treatment to P.O.W.'s, ball money, educate the people •ncnt and establish three separate com• city councilman, is potentially danger• to mislead Black people. We say the munities. He claims that separate po• ous if taken as a truth by some ele• petition is desirable because it is a these brothers were brutally beat• to what's iiappe:iing, contact diff• lice departments would make it virtual• ments of the Black community. It is practical solution to Point No. 7 of the en and victimized by the fascist erent organizations, etc. For in• ly impossible to mobilize a majority of dangerous because it attempts to nulli- Ten Point Platform and Program: We pigs upon the release of their pri• formation on how you can help (Oliee swiltly to handle an emergency soners. Out of this group of more these brothers, contact: n any particular part of town. If we than 3(X) men, 39 decided it was William E. Grain properly anah ze this statement we un• better to die fighting than to peace• Attorney at Law derstand that it's not so much the divi• sion by the petition of Berkeley into fully submit to these beatings and 640 Broadway three separate communities because certain death for some. On Octo• New York, N.Y. 10012 Hie geographical boundaries are natural ber 6, 1970 these 39 brothers, No one is free until all are free ones. The Black community has in leaving only after being assured If we don't help each other, no reality always been isolated geogra• of being treated as men, were phically from other sections of society. one else will. transferred to another concentra• The imdetlaying concern of those who tion camp and isolated from all would write Sweeny's speech is that if ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! the initiative passed, the pigs could not fy the special value tlie petition lias for want an immediate end to police brut• other prisoners of war. On Friday. mobilize 500 pigs to swiftly move the Black eommunity. F'or too long, ality and murder of Black people. October 29, 1970 pig D.A.Markel. our people have been victims of wan• So wc say later for Wilmont Sweeny against the Black coniinunity. The read four indictments on brothers Katara ton physical aggression on the part of and all the other pigs who say wc Black community would no longer be that had been in Branch Queens, N.Y. Panther 21-politicalprisorier (iiose pigs occupying our community. shouldn't do and can't do what we held in cheek by occupying armies be- Rikers Island Concerttration Camp -juse these pigs would be replaced by Those foreign invaders who wear the want to dot We have a deed wliicli says .lements in the eomimmity who had ma?i of the people's servants, but who that it is our natural right to correct a the interest of the eommunity at heart. in reality use physical force to intimi• long train of usurpations and abuses date, to bend, to break the spirit of upon our natural right to exist with the Sweeny goes on tiirther to say that Black people. Decentralization of the dignity of human beings. ATTENTION- ;hc worst feature of the plan is that it pig department would sot up the neces• 'cdefines wiio has the right to bear sary maciiinery to cheek tlie brutal ALL POWI R TO Till. PI OPLF .inns. "Anybody with the right to bear hand of repression by removing this oc- Jon Turner irms are potentially dangerous. It's not cujiying army from our community. West Berkeley the police wlio commit crimes, other INTELLECTUALS Decentralized, elected neiahborliood Coniiminiti' Center BLACK MAN SHOT DOWN AND ARTISTS To bring forth images requires gress of my own—Tlie TYial of certain stabilities: time, space, Bobby Seal, The John Brown Book BY AVARICIOUS BUSINESSMAN privacy, leisure. The revolution• and Babylon I, with .Mark Lane— ary—on the run in Baby ion—hardly concern themselves with the fate of has a place to lay his head. Tliose those who are living for the future, O n Sunday November 29, 1970, a brother. intelleccuais and artists who do and the royalities are going to go brotlier by the name of El Roy Historically the oppressor has have the class logistics to create into tliis struggle to be born, too. James was shot down while un,irm- used death or the fear of death as are not free to simply peddle the ed it Che hands of an avaricious a major weaponagainstpeople in an A quick accounting will surely be heart of the revolutionary struggle businessman. effort to keep us from getting what demanded of those who think to to the public. stand away and make pretty popular Tlie hrottierwus alleged Iv trying is rightfully ours. We must take Professor Roberts,Starobinhas myths for profit and the agony of the to pass a bad check at G.l. Liquor measures to arm ourselves with dedicated ids book on Denmark Black Pantliers and those others Store in Los .Vngeles, California on the proper tools of liberation to Vesey to the Black Panther Party who are making revolutionary' es• (on Imp. Hwy. and Watts Ave) and force the oppressor out of our com• along with part of the royalities, says of their lives, as he left he was shot down by an munities. Mark Lane, the historian and old racist named Harry wlio owns critic, has done the same with sev• the store. Witnesses said that .\rm Yourself Or Harm Yourself Donald Freed eral projects. Three works inpro- tliere were no checks found on the Southern, California. New Haven WE CAN'T WAIT ANOTHER DAY
In four hundred years of the At the turn of the century, be• tical leadership as in reconstruc• coming of Ray Charles, Little of the revolutionary lumpenfo-ole- existence of black people in this fore the war, everything was fastly tion, so the culture reflected Richard, James Brown and others, tariat. Out of that culture has country, there has been a con• becoming industrialized, 'With the confusion and disappointment. The it was still politically sterile and come a singing group a rev• stant struggle for survival. From advent of new electrical devises music of the Lumpen was still devoid of direction for ending the olutionary singing group. A group the days of chattel slavery, up such as the radio and phonograph, the Blues. problems facing oppressed people. whose music is based on the to the present day, inadequate a new industry was born—there- It's significant to note that during By the time the forties came ideology of the Black Panther food, improper clothing, and' un• cording industry. Because of the the fifties, the Mafia began, with around and a new war with the new Party, vanguard of the revolution• fit housing have plagued the masses effect of the Blues on the people, it Sammy Davis Jr.,theirdomination promises and few jobs, the cultural ary movement. TTie singing group of our people. was exploited for profit by the of black entertainers andthe whole up swing could be heard in the jazz is called the "Dimpen." During the period of chattel power stucture. and jitterbug music of the period. ethnic music field. The music of the Lumpen is . one of the tools used in the strug• The Lumpen didn't change but only After the "war to end all wars" With the Civil Rights agitation revolutionary because the music gle for freedom was music. Dur• got worse. The Blues only served Black people returned to find that of the late fifties and early sixties doesn't compromise with the sys• ing the time of the underground they had been once again used by to pacify the people; the songs something new was added—a tem of exploitation. The music railroad and slave revolts, what the government. The new freedom would describe the conditions but strong sense of nationalism— of the Lumpen doesn't ask the is being passed off today as promised was never delivered; and would give no direction as to how ^^4lich opened anewfield. With Cur• exploited to love those that are "Negro Spirituals" by bootlicking rebellion came. Black peopletook to alleviate oppressive conditions. tis Mayfield's "We're a Winner," exploiting them. Instead, the music preachers, were in fact songs of to the street in just protest to and James Brown's"i'jnBlack and With the fifities came Rock & of the Lumpen not only describes resistance. TTiey were songs and the Injustice that was handed out Roll, Rhythm & Blues, andthe Kor• Vm Proud," the Mafia and other music of the people, "Steal Away by the racist U.S. Government. avaricious record producers had the source of the problem, but ean War. .'Mthough Blues took anew tells the people how to deal with to Jesus" wasn't talking about There was no viable black poli• form, a livlier rhythm with the every nigger that they could find pie in the sky; It was a rallying to sing some "black'' record. the oppressor in order to obtain song for those who were follow• liberation. The Lumpen say that At first the people supported ing Nat Turner, When that song "There's got to be some killing," these early efforts as being polit• was sung in the fields it was sung "If you're going to be free',* ical. But James Brown and all the to let the people know that a others exposed themselves as meeting was going to take place. A state of warexistsbetween the bootlickers, pimping off the "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" was people and thefasclsts BobbySeale people'sjust struggle and not really sung only when the underground is on trial for his life, for doing being involved past the point of railroad was coming to get the nothing more than serving the making money. With the growth people off those plantations. people. The struggle against op• of the Black Panther Party and pression is going on in communi• Songs and music were used the revolutionary movement of ties throughout the world. The time throughout the chattel slavery per• black and oppressed people in the has come for the oppressive chains iod as a means of resistance; their U.S. communities, the old off the of the Mafia and the avaricious content had meaning to the people street slogan songs no longer pac• managers to be broken. The slime because they had created them out ified the lumpen on the street. that has beenpimping off entertain• of the need to survive. Ttiey were Although the petty bourgeois cul• ers must be exposed to the people in religious code only to fool the tural nationalists still relate to and dealt with. The people are on slavemaster and the bootlicking them. the move and the reactionairy boot• overseers. lickers will be one of the first After the period of chattel So the Mafia o}ntrolledentertain- targets. slavery and the jive reconstruc• ' er turned to any off the beat, side So to you, James Brown, Ttemp- tion, the long chain of tricks and line movementtosing about. James tations and all the rest, it's either Brown is now nmning aroundsLng- lies from ibe pow-er so^cture and Eiter ?-_.-zr~. =-iB:_e= is ir£ "A N'Jilicn .=eace 5i£;-.5" A- = Zi serv-e Lie peopie, or •'.America is My Home.*' Edwin you'll soon find yourselves walking of the Blues. As a result of the Starr wants to "Stop the War, out on the stages of the Apollo South losing the war, the country Now." And every Mafia controlled Theatres around the world a.'xJ the was transformed into an industrial N^r-r-i-r: artist has pjt out a peace societ>-. Black people were, ::' course, left oau Tbe »***«*TT oi -.s tr.e revolutionary- struggle poUdcal retkos ilri—ih A sweeps the country, a new culture SEIZE THE TIME ptlf jOuy made hfactiiwniirrtaec« Is taking form—a revolutionary wttboix diatns. Thus from the South culture. A culture that is against Bill Calhoun the Bbies was born. The music the system of exploitation of man The Lumpen of a weary and confused people. by man on any level, A culture Black Panther Party DELEGATES TO THE R.P.C.C. DENIED PASSAGE ON AIRLINES The Capitalists of the trans• back and directing himself to the harassed, the people found that portation industry revealed their delegation, asked what was the they were victims of another fas• role, in the fascist and racists problem. The other passengers cist attack. MIS-EDUCATION U.S. system of government Sunday told him that the delegation wasn't night, November 29,1970. At Dulles causing any type of disturbance Airport in Virginia (just outside and asked why the plane wasn't When we look at the structure, society. The pigs don't want our of Washington D.C.), American in the air. Tben minutes later We must realize that Pigs are organization, and curriculum of children to see these inconsisten• Airline Administrators with the (6:05PM) C^tain House announced not the only invaders in uniform die schools that the pigs institute cies, because once they recognize support of local and federal pigs, on the loud speaker diat the plane who patrol our communities, but here in the Black community of and understandthem they willfully intimidated, harassed, and com• would be departing soon. But at they can also be without uniform America, we see systematic brain realize that the only way to survive pletely denied 14 delegates of the the same time plain clothes pigs and working for the schools, washing and the mental destruction is to change the system and this Revolutionary People's Cconstitu- began boarding the plane. The pigs stores, airlines, etc. We must ex• of our youth. The brainwashing means resisting and fighting for tional Convention transportation stood all around the delegation pose all the Institutions of this process serves to condition our what is right by any and every back to Los Angeles. and then began walking up and fascist establishment, knowing that youth to accept the oppressive and means necessary—in other wn'ds down the aisles, taking pictures to change one, the entire existing repressive nature of this imperial• revolution. Returning from the Revolution• ist monster, fascist '.nerlca. In of the delegates. structure mustbetransformedlnto The pigs will not he victorious ary People's Constitutional Con• essence these pigs are try ii^ to de• one that will meet the needs and hovrever, because the Black youth vention, the delegates. Inspired After a verbal complaint regard• stroy our people's potentiality by by the speech of the Minister of ing this activity was made to the desires of allthe people. American are clearlybeglnnlngtoseethatthe trying to close their eyes andears teachers placed in the Black com• Defense and Supreme Command• Stewardess, an American Air• Airlines is only part of the same to the true facts concerning this de• er of the Black Panther Party, line Supervisor appeared. He told power structure that is keeping munities by the ruling class are cadent, exploitive society. The clearly the enemies of the people, Huey P. Newton, boarded the the group to get off the airplane, our people without food and clo• lackey educators put into our com• and overcome, the pig's attempt airport mobile lounge at 5:50 PM. due to an undefined complaint thing. When people try to secure munities by the power structure to destroy human minds and lives. Excited and making plans to ac• against them made by an unknown even these basic rights by having are desperately trying to hide the Control of the schools belongs complish the program set dovm person. Rather than create a more a constitutional convention, the facts of injustice,unfairness,cru• at the convention, the delegates serious incident, especially in view fascists move on them as usual. elty, and Inhumanity that we are in the hands of the communities. were immediately met and stunned of the fact that two members The people that had boarded that subjected to under this capitalist Point number five of the Black by the hostility and rudeness of of the delegation v/ere 11-years plane had come over 3,000 miles Panther Party Platform and Pro• American Airline agents. At 5:52 old, the group left the plane. They to join with other people in adopt• gram says, "We want ethication PM one sister (the 15th member were transferred back onto the ing a Revolutionary People's Con• for our people that exposes the of the original 25 who flew from mobile lounge, moved in the middle stitution. They had come to Wash• on which words are written. But true nature of this decadent Amer• Los Angeles) was coming toward of the airfield and held hostages ington to adopt guarantees for our that it will be the revolutionary ican society. We want education the lounge, .\lthough the scheduled for approximately 10 minutes. The freedom, peace andfuture security action of the people that will effect that teaches us our true history flight departure was 5:55PM, the lounge was surrounded by Virginia the lasting changes necessary and our role, in the present day racist pig in full knowledge of State troopers and F.B.I, agents. and happiness. And because they came, the temporary authority of for our freedom and happiness. society." This must become a the fact that another passenger reality. was outside, maliciously closed the land did everything possible So we will have our constitution, the door in her face. By 8:30PM all of the 14 people to stop them. written by and for all the people. were left stranded. No other Amer• We will come together again. Now Youth Make the Revolution Once aboard the plane, the dele• ican .Airline flights were leaving Howard University; the super- we will organize ourselves into All Power to the People gates were faced with other overt for Los Angeles that night and all-star-negro-coilege, waited till programs to survive to see that Free the Baltimore Panthers hostile acts by these employees. the other airlines had followed the day before the convention was day. For only then will we be Stewardesses became highly emo• suite by not allowing space; which scheduled to begin to deny the able to give meaning to our words. Robert • Only then will we have our guar• tional and rude. And when one further provoked the situation. use pf its facility. But the people Black Panther Barty antees. brother calmly asked what was Denied the right to know the com• understood what Comrade Huey Baltimore Chapter wrong, one stewardess began act• plaint before being put off the P. Newton meant when he said Communiiy Information Center ing completely hysterical. A few plane, held hostage aboard the tiiai even a revolutionary conven• ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE 567 Mosher Street ^ ^a'si^w aiuitt minutes later, the Captain came mobile lounge, intimidated and tion is only a piece of paper Southern California Chapter 523-9010 COMMUNIQUE ON POLICE RAIDS
This communique is being written If given the chance? a spray of fire from his cohorts out of necessity, not desire. Be• (p) what kind of leader do they Y0UMU5T VOU'U then another run, another spray of cause of the high rise of so-called have? IF WE WORRY fire, etc. justifiable deaths of Blacks and (c) are they skilled in fighting? BE CRAZV!!! fj^^^^ ft&OUT WHAT'S 0) when you are well secured in other oppressed peoples 1 find it (d) have tliey possibly been In the GOING TO HAP• such a manner where you can only an urgent thing to disseminate the armed forces? PEN TO US, WE be attacked frontly, a truck or auto• following compiled methods of (2) Armament COULDN'T ACCOMPLISH mobile with its rear compartment Police surprise and night raids, (a) what specific t>'pe of weapons ANYTHING.,.. loaded with bullet resisting ma• raid tactics inside buildings, raid do they have, rifles, shotguns, hand• terial is used. Packet newspapers, tactics upon the approach of your guns, submacliine guns, etc... magazines, firewood, sandbags, and homes, etc- (b) wtiat doestheirpastrecordshow sacks of coal are used. (For your Everyone must understand the (if any) home also) Then the vehicle is backed up In the area of attack. need to protect their home against (c) is their ammunition limited? Bundles of magazines and news• hostile aggression from occupying extensive? papers tied together compactly, will troops, (d) is there a possibility they might provide a satisfactory shield I. Raid F^inciples employ booby-traps, bombs, etc? against small firearms, twenty Whenever possible police raids (3) Location and Surroundings pounds of newspaper tied in a are executed under conditions and at (a) what type of building are they bundle (full-sheet size) will stop such times as will be complete occupying? How many iiours? ordinary handgun and shotgun surprise to the raided victims, (1) Q)) where are the doors, windows, pellets, but not high-velocity rifle (i.e...raid on Chicago Panthers at fire escapes, skylights, etc. what bullets. Magazines being a higher 4:00 in the morning, where Fred is their relation to adjoining police band surrounding the area Everyone should turn on their lights quality paper, can be made into even Hampton and Mark Clark were is responsible for cutting off at• and come out and observe, remem• buildings and terrain? more effective shields. Scoop murdered.) It should also be noted tempts to escape, for covering the bering to stay in small groups. (c) where in the building are they shovels, heavy planks, sacks and here that the reasonforsuchmanu- police assault band by gunfire, gas -After assembling the raid com• located? Can this be determined boxes of dirt or coal, pieces of evers are to (1) keep witnesses or smoke, and for providing for mander sends the men to their de• by drawing fire, informers, etc? furniture, doubled up mattresses, from seeing search and destroy any unforeseen incidents by holding signated positions. The police then (4) Other factors etc., can be used. In improvising tactics. (2) keeping the people from some men and special weapons in move vehicles to road block and (a) what is the attitude of the sur• such shields it is only common seeing torture and or murder of reserve, Tlie area is sealed off to escape positions. Every community rounding masses towards the at• sense to consider the armament keep out vehicles, traffic, and the should devise some means of com• tacking police using gestapo tac• tliat will be used against them and victims, (3) Makes victims easier public, to permit unhampered munications to secure their homes tics. circumstances permitting. to kill (As with Fred Hampton in operations. Auxiliary police who and-persons from the occupying (b) will the populace have to or (9) in a large attack, especially his sleep), A well planned assault, are not actual members of the troops. The motto should be "An deal with if they resist the wrath? at night the protective cordon placed executed without the benefit of sur• raiding band are used for contain• attack on one of us is an attack on (c) are any women involved? around the area usually includes prise and made in the face of gun• ment phase of any large-raid op• all uf us." Seek Unityl (5) Hostile Capabilities several pursuit cars faced in the fire involves much more risk and erations. V. Raid Tactics-approaching build• (a) considering knowledge and direction of the escape (the police requires skillful execution, Means of Control ings or barricades characteristics of those involved will steal trash cans, logs, dog II. Rai3 Command and Personnel what reaction can be expectedfrom (1) Time-in a surprise operation, In speaking on this stage of the houses, barbedwire and other pro• The raid commander, once a surprise approach; is it possible? ^ set time for initiating the action actual assault we must understand perty from neighboring guards and chosen, is usually given full (b) do they tiave lookouts posted? with all watches synchronized, are the vicious nature of an attacking lawns to seal off the community). authority and his dictations carried (c) can the water, light, gas and considered. raid band. In recognition of this we ^0) when CN tear gas CS or ob• out expUcity by ail members of other utilities be cut off? What will (2) sound signals such as whistle, should begin to institute safety serving smoke are not available, the raiding band. If only one per- be the result? blast, bullhorns public address sys• measures (mesh screens, iron ' Volice will resort to demolitions, gates, first aid, gas masks, sand• dynamite sticks with short fuses . son or agency is involved the choice (d) can an armedbreak be expected? tems and oral communications are bags, alarm systems, tunnels etc.) are used as concusion grenades, to of a raid commander is ordinarily These are just a few of the utilized for raid signals. Basically the following methods are be thrown through windows, dropped dictated by rank, However in a truly questions the raid commander asks (3) sight-in day-tLme. coloredsmoke i-iiated oy me r-iiders; down chimneys, through skylights, revolutionary situation, over-lap• himself. A level neaded family who or at night, colored flares provide etc. ping jurisdiction and a need for recognizes the true purpose of the a means of signaling also. (1) whenever possible, tear gas and additional strength andexperienced raiding bdnd and their cowardly (4) radio- the use of radio equipped obscuring smoke are used, police will at times result in the nature has little trouble analyzing cars and walkie-talkies are usually (2) fields of fire are set to cover This is part 1 of several com• raiding band being a joint mission, for counter-attacks, mandatory, especially in large at• all 0tnown) exits. Machine guns or muniques to come to inform the the band made up of representatives III, Actual Raid Procedures tacks, A raid commander is usually riot shotguns are concentrated on communities throughout the country areas where a break might occur of state, federal, county, and muni• Tlie decision on the type of raid always able to communicate with of the methods and tactics used by or gunfire is most likely, cipal police. to be undertaken will depend on each man. Special helmets with occupying troops. There is not too much doubt in the minds of Black Mixed raiding bands often pose the local situation and the degree radio receivers in the crown are (3) tires on cars are shot out or people who the real terrorist are. the most detrement to their own of expected opposition, A surprise now under development. demobilized by means of the motor. The need for Black people and all lives l)ecause of differences in attack, requiring several simul• 0) Messengers hand wxitren mes• (4) police with rifles are usually oppressed people to dwell within the levels of training experience and taneous entries into a building in sages are preferred to oral mes• located farther away in order to confines of their communities and attitude toward co-operation. Tliis order to try to force immediate sages by the police, the police rely maintain a good 'kill position', homes without the fear of occupying is rectified by weeding out tliose surrender, is one method, oritmay on transmission and speed of the 01) advancing raiders are usually troops weilding mercinary weapons who are apatlietic and fear ctie con• message. The character of each flanked. Most protective vests and shields will not protect against is a great one. The 2nd amendment sequences of the wrath of the people be tried to place men in position, raid will determine the ef• high-velocity rifle fire. (If you to the constitution gives everyone for treading on their Constitutional contact the revolutionaries and try fectiveness of the signals, (cease are protecting yourself from be• the right to bear arms andestablish rights. to order tliem to surrender. Where fire, retreat, surrender) will be hind a car it should be kept in a militia. The 6th amendment gives Failure to cooperate or to obey the latter have been alerted and used. mind that the engine blocks provide everyone the right to be secure in orders for any reason (women, made known your intentions to fight IV. TTie Approach tiie best protection.) their persons, houses, papers and the opening phase of the operations babies, etc.) after the actual raid A secured assembly point for the effects against unreasonable search could he simultaneous, concen• 0) well-trained snipers and obser• Jias started can lead to the total police is designated in the im• seizures. Anyone who violates these trated entries into a building in vers with telescopic rifles are used exposure of tlie true nature of the mediate vicinity of the attack. It rights should be considered part of order to try to force immediate with great advantage in a raid. raid. should be noted here the need for the problem and dealt with in that fire and gas attack upon the build• (7) The charge on your home is Recognizing tliat tiie people deal tlie Black community security, when manner. usually done in a cover-run-cover- witli criminals in many ways tlie ing. police are seen massing in or run manner. When the raiders are raid commander considers tiie Tlie raiding band of any size is around the Black community, some• ready to try and break into your following; usually split into two sections. One one should contact the news media. The radio stations and local com- home, usually one will run toward Washington, D,C. Chapter (1) llie number to be appreiiended section to seal off the area and the munitv self-defense organizations. the door or desired locaton after Black Panther Party (a) will they surrender peacably. other to make the actual attack, Tlie LUTHER OLDHAM AND RICHARD JOHNSON VICTIM OF OAKLAND PIGS! Black people of West (lakhuid money, \fter the pigs got the money up robbery case and for a lawyer very seldom find time to take aday of each of the l.irothers, they com• tliey have a public defender, who from their life long struggle for bined it, saying it was close to the has staled that lie doesn't want to survival, tlieir suffering is continu• amount supposedly stolen. Thepig.s handle the case and that he's only ous little money, no jobs, no power then ordered the brothers to goto doing so because tiie court appointed to determine tlie course of their the so called crime sight, rhorg liini. We fully understand what ver• lUack conununitv . flie en• Ricliard and laither became an ''on dict the court wants. Tlie I*ubUc tire situation of Black tieopleisde- the scene line up" while the so defender has written to Lutlierand lumianizing and deadly. callofl victim sat in a patrol carview-•Richard asking them to come tu.his office and talk so maybe they can Last fall two youiii: Black men ing them ami whispering to tho pigs make a deal. from the Black comnuiiiity of West At one point, the pigs askedtlie vic• Oakland, I.iidierOldliam age 21, and tims if Hichard Johnson andLutherOl- This is nothing new, itsanall day Richard Johnson age 19, liad in• dom wi-'-e the robbers and h" shook life lung tiling witl; Black people and tentions of spending tlie day watch• his head no. lUchard and Luther liecau.--e in no place within tliis em• ing a movie witii some lady friends were put in separate patrol cars and pire can we get redress, we are go• from the comnuinity. However en- some time later Richard was told ing to seek it in tlte streets. ' oute to pick the sisters up, they tliat they would be freed, At this were stopped liy outsiders, invaders point another pig drove up. lie FREE IRlBBV I from downtown pigs. The reason brought with liini a nuteliuok, which PRE EE RANDV I the pigs gave was tliat there had been he and the other pigs read and then FREE ALL ILILITICAL BRl- a robbery some eight blocks away. they placed Richard and Luther un• SONERS: TiiC pigs initiated a full interroga• der arrest. Neither Ricliard nor Lu• tion, cliecking the I.D, of tlie brotli- ther read tlie notebook. West Oakland Community Center ers and then asking to see their Tlie brothers now have a trumped Black I'anther Party ON FOLSOM REPORT ON THE TRIAL OF CHAIRMAN PRISON STRIKE ROBBY SEALE AND ITie Folsom Prison Strike, which ERICKA HUG6INS began November 3, is now over. The strike, a refusal to support the prison system which exploits and oppressed them, lasted 18 days. The 2,300 Folsom prisoners spent those 18 days in constant lock-up, without exercise and sur• should be excused, and no reason viving on two sandwiches a day. December 7, 1970 was publicly given. The warden locked up all prisoners Two of the most promising v/hite in response to the overwhelming Fourth panel now exhausted. people to take the stand so far support for the black, brown and Today 28 candidates were ex• appeared today and state's attorney 3, the prosecution excused 2, Of white prisoners for the strike and amined and 27 were excused for Markel used peremptory chalen- the remaining 12: the 29 demands of the inmates what are becoming very familiar ges on both of them. The first was -excused because of prejudice for human prison conditions. Im• reasons. Specifically: a white woman about 35 or so -excused because of exposure to mediately at the end of the strike, who referred to herslef as a "poor pre-trial publicity 78 prisoners chosen by prison -because of prejudice against white," She defined "militant" as authorities as '' leaders'' were the Party of defendant "standing up for what you want" -excused because of inability thrown into the "hole," and -because of exposure to pre• and said that, although she did not to accept the presumption of inno• many of these were brutally trial publicity believe in violence, she did be• cence beaten to serve as examples to -because of hardship lieve in "picketing," in making -excused because of hardhsip eve of this one that he chooses all the inmates of the "official" -because of opposition to the people know how you feel. At one to elaborate on the original. reaction to demands for human death penalty, point she said, "When I came to It was a very uneventful day. dignity. What the fascists have court the other day, I didn't think The jurors, save one, were dull. December 10, 1970 revealed is the courageous spirit "Die juror chosen is a 41-year of either of the defendants as human The one exception was a young Ericka's lawyer takes exception of the people in America's con• old black woman who works as an beings; they were just disrupting black woman, the one black on to excuse young women with child• centration camps and the undying Avon representative. She lives in my time. But now Iknow that they die whole panel. She said that she ren: No new jurors will of the people to confront Waterbury andreads the Waterbury are real, they are people, just knew almost nothing about the Saying that it is prejudicial to oppression. American, but says that she does like me." Although she said that Party or the case, and even said her client, Attorney Rorabacktook not know much of anything about she had no opinion and that she she could consider capital punish• exception to the statutory exemp• We are all prisoners. Free the the case and has no opinion, would consider capital punishment, ment. Apparently, Markle thought tion granted in this state to young prisoners. Free the people. A young black woman who had Markle, predictably, excused her. she was hipper than her actual mothers. According to the law, been chosen was excused today. answers indicated, because he ex• any woman with vey young child• Free all Political Prisoners It was decided among the attorneys The second was a young white cused her immediately. When he ren can be excused upon request Soledad Defense Committee in the judge's chambers that she woman who said that she has gone did so, Garry rose to enter on re• from jury duty. This makes it to Panther rallies "to hearitfrom cord that she was 22 and black that much harder for a young de• the horse's mouth." She knew about and that the defense took excep• fendant to get a jury of her peers. the 10-Point Program, and said tion to the use of peremptory chal• Obviously, the state should accept that while she agrees with much lenges against the one person in the responsibility for the care of of the Panther's ideology, she fifty who represented the peer jurors' children. As with the questions their means." She said group of Ericka and Bobby. Mar• state's refusal to adequately com• PI6S BLOCK VISITING PRIVILEGES that she had not formed an opinion, kle, in a vain effort to be amusing, pensate jurors financially, this that she "finds it difficult to be• later rose after a juror was dis• neglect drastically restricts the lieve everything that she reads." missed to enter on the record defense in its efforts to obtain Sbe was reluctant lo consider that sbe was white. However, even a cross section of the community. IF POLITICAL PRISONER his sick sarcasm is not likely the death penalty, but she would. Twenty-seven candidates were She seemed very alive, and pretty to hide from any observer the ri• examined and excused today. The open. When she left, she and Ericka diculous under-representation of defense used peremptories to LONNIE McLUCAS smiled at one ar.oth.er. (Almost non-white people, eliminate two. The cc^nt excused ibe ocbers: not ever, iook at Bocby a.nc Ericka. December 9, 1970 -because of prejudice against the Before the proceeding began this Fifth Panel Exhausted: Still Only Party or the defendant morning, Charles Garry made a Three Jurors -because of exposure to pre• motion that the charges be dis• .About 20 people were questioned trial publicity I missed on the grounds of the neg• and excused for that mythical "fair -because of prejudice in favor ative publicity that has been given and impartial" jury goes on. of cops to the case and to Bobby Scale Nearly all were excused because of -because of hardship in the last week. He referred to prejudice. The defense used three J.Edgar Hoover's report to the peremptory challenges; bringing Quotable Quotes: Senate given last week. Garry said their total remaining challenges •"I think they wear black jackets— "He (Hoover) is going out of his to 45. The prosecution used one, like motorcycle riders." way to further poison and contam• bringing theirs down to 49. *"His (Bobby's) intentions might inate the atmosphere (around this The inflammatory statement have been good from the beginning. trial)." Nearly one fifth of made by J. Edgar Hoover vrere Maybe somewhere along the way Hooover's 27-page report con• the grounds again today for a someone went astray." cerned the Panthers and was an motion by the defense for a dis• *"A lot of people don't like the elaboration of his calling them missal of the charges. This time Knights of Columbus; alot of peo• "the most dangerous group in the motion was prompted by cov• ple don't like the Masons; a lot America," which he did thming erage of the repiort, referred to of people don't like the Black the jury selection of Lonnie's trial. on Monday of this week, expan- Panther Party." Motion of course, denied. ed Hoover's earlier statement that •"I'm very prejudiced gainst December 8, 1970 the Panthers were "the most vio• those people—all of them." No New jurors: the one Black lent group in America." It is •"Some of my better friends are on Panel dismissed by Markle worth noting, as defense attorney colored people." David Rosen did on Monday that •I think they're communist-in• Seventeen jurors were examined it was on the eve of Lonnie's spired." and excused today. The defense trial that Hoover made his orig• •"They shouldn't have a party. The following information was used peremptories to eliminate inal statement, and it is on the They corrupt everything." relayed to the Ministry of Infor• LETTER TO: mation, Conn. State Chapter Black Panther Party by John Bancroft Ellis McDougaU latlonship to Mr. McLucas was that Mr. Galligan replied, "Yes, any• because he is a friend of mine, one of the two people from New Commissioner of Corrections of a friend, and that that was why time between 1:00 and 4:00 p.m. Mr. McLucas has indicated through Haven who were given visiting Connecticut Department of Cor• I wanted to visit him. During these on Saturday." When I arrived at his lawyer. Miss Kathy Emmett, privileges with Lonnie. With the rections visits 1 followed the visiting rules Montville on the 14th, however, that he would like to visit with political repression in New Haven 340 Capital Avenue to the letter of the law, and was I was denied access to see Mr, me, and has informed officials at and around the world on the up Hartford, Connecticut 06106 never informed at any time, nor McLucas, despite Mr. Galligan's Montville of this desire. In addition, rise, we see this as just another was Mr. McLucas, that my visits word, and despite the fact that I I have been told by all of Mr. Dear Mr. McEtougall, were in any way detrimental to brought my letter of authorization McLucas's lawyers, Miss Kathy attempt by the fascist to break with me. Emmett, Mr. Michael Koskoff, and the spirit of our Comrades. either Mr, McLucas or the cor• Mr. Theodore Koskoff that they ap• The same Penal System which 1 would like to request action rectional Institution. I called Captain Henry Karney prove my visiting Mr. McLucas. again denies Lonnie, is also re• by you on a matter of great con• Upon being Informed that Mr.Mc• at Montville on November 16th, sponsible for his incarceration. cern to me. As your records will Lucas 'had been transferred to the 17th and 19th, and was finally in• For all of these reasons, I am The Connecticut State Penal System show, I was granted permission to Montville Correctional Center, 1 formed that he was refusing per• asking that you grant permission with the endorsement of PigHoover, visit Mr, Lonnie McLucas on Oct• phoned that office on November 12th, mission for me to visit Mr, Mc• immediately for me to resume my Nixon, Mitchell and others have ober 1, 1970, when he was an inmate and was told by a Mr. Galligan, Lucas, for reasons that were un• visits with Mr. McLucas. If for all left scars upon the people which at Somers Correctional Institution. who identified himself as the person clear to me. He informed me that some reason that I do not know of will never be forgotten until justice I am enclosing acopyoftheoriginal in charge of visitation matters, in any case he would not allow me you cannot meet this request, 1 is done. authorization letter. As your that he recognized my name as to visit Mr. McLucas, despite the would like to be informed in writing records will further show, 1 did having been approved to visit Mr. above history which I related to by December 17th as to the reason FREE BOBBY AND ERICKA indeed visit Mr. McLucas on at McLucas, and that I would indeed him, under any circumstances, and that Mr. McLucas and I are being least 4 occasions following October be allowed to visit him. Specifically, that if I wanted that decision re• denied permission to see each AND ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS 1st. I had filled out the form sent when I asked Mr. Galligan directly viewed, I should contact your office other. Ministry of Information, to me after Mr, McLucas requested "TTien if 1 come up to Montville in Hartford, wherethefinaidecision New Haven, that I be approved as a visitor, to visit Mr, McLucas on November in this matter lay. Connecticut State Chapter stating at that time that my re- Sincerely, BLACK PANTHER PARTY 14th, I will be able to see him?" I would like to visit Mr. McLucas i-niJoh nJ BancrofJ .j; .-'f:L--eht n'Mfi , ,bfri . ST» A BROTHER IS DYING IN
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On Monday, November 3lst Graylon the brother? Why loas his parents Whitehead, bothered by severe head• notified for the first time at 3:30 a,m, ache pains called the University Health Thursday morning, 22 hours after Service to make an appointment. He Graylon had tried to get emergency was unable to get one, Tuesday he was treatment, and 4 hours after a nurse able to get an appointment, hut was only at the Health Service had discovered given darvons and tranquilizers, Wed• Graylon had stopped breathing and nesday morning the painhad become so rushed him to Doctor's Hospital? These intense he woke his room-mate up with are very pertinent questions that the shouts and screams. He was rushed to people demand to be answered. the Health Service at about 5:30 a,m, On Friday December 4th a group of and the nurse denied him immediate brothers proceeded to investigate the emergency entrance because she said case and in an interview with Dr, it was not serious enough to disturb Clarke (attending physician at the the doctor. From 6:00 a,m, until Health Service) they discovered that 8:30 a,m, Graylon was denied ad• Graylon was admitted to the infirmary mittance to the Health Service and around 11:00 Wednesday afternoon. He denied treatment. As a result from was checked over and given pain pills being turned away from the Health and a sedative, Graylon later was Service the brother had to seek refuge described by the doctor as becoming in the Kappa House in pain until the psychotic. This was because Graylon Health Service opened at 8:30, Further• refused to accept the doctor's diag• more, the brother didn't get a chance nosis of a simple headache, Graylon to see a doctor until 11:00 a,m, knew that it was far more serious Graylon was admitted to the Health than that and demanded that he be Service for observation at 11:00, At given a thorough examination. Because this time Graylon was still conscious. of this reaction on the part of Graylon The doctor then diagnosed his case as the doctor interpreted his mental state just a headache and gave Graylon some as being psychotic (insane), Inthe con• darvons and sedatives so he could dition that Graylon was in, ad• sleep. The interesting thing about this ministering pain pills and sedatives diagnosis is that the doctors had in was one of the most destructive things their possession Graylon's medical re• that could happen, A blood clot pressure cord, consequently, they knew that the was building up on the capilaries brother had been in an auto accident bringing blood to his brain. If allowed this summer (August) and that he had to continue the blood and the oxygen received head injuries. As a result of going to his brain would be cut off these injuries Graylon was unconscious and his nervous system would go into for 2 1/2 hours and was taken to shock, affecting and paralyzing the Doctor's Hospital and later to body. And this is exactly what Health Service, The qtiesthn that happened. comes to my mind is why then wasn't On Monday December 7 Graylon has Graylon given this time a head x-ray not regained consciousness and there is after being admitted to the Health a 90% chance that he never will. He Service instead of darvons and seda• is confined to an iron lung. At one tives? Why did the Health Service time the brother stopped breathing and personnel tell his fraternity brothers since then there has been no body that he was in satisfactory condition movement at all. and improving when they inquired about When Mrs, Whitehead arrived she in- THE BLACK COMMUNITY \USE OF APATHY; IF YOU WERE IN Y OF SOUTH AFRICA
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quired about Graylon's condition and get well, black folks catch hell," Only she was told that he had suffered from in this case one of the blacks is on pressure on his brain. Because of this the verge of death. In fact a few weeks pressure he had suffered a massive ago the hospital evacuated 4 of Carbon- stroke^ Furthermore, the doctor (John dale's finest who had been wounded by Powell) told Mrs. Whitehead thai her black guerillas. They were treated in son probably wouldn't live through the the hospital in St. Louis. Once again a night. However, by Friday afternoon double-standard. And a 20 year old Graylon loas still holding on. Mrs. Afro-American is the victim of an Whitehead then asked Dr. Powell if institutionalized method of genocide. there was any hope that Graylon would And we must take the position that recover, the doctor replied without any we will not allow this to happen again. semblence of professional procedure We mil stop this kind of thing, We that, "There's no hope, just isn't any .must SEIZE THE TIME expose the con- hope, there's nothing morewecando". tradicitions and create functional In spite of this pessimistic attitude on machinery that will safeguard this from the part of the doctor, Mrs. Whitehead, ever happening again. Demand adequate brothers and sisters still have hope medical care, free health clinics, and that Graylon will get better. the peoples justice. Perhaps Dr. Powell feels justified "It is necessary for us to make in giving up hope on Graylon because loud noises and to sometimes interrupt he knows howlimitedDoctor's Hospital the normal courses of action because is unequipped with professional help. we are writing history and the acts I Mrs. Whitehead has inquired about the that we commit and the things that \ possibilities of either moving Graylon we accomplish will be owed to pros• to one of Chicago's hospitals or im• perity and paid to humanity." porting a brain specialist here to Car- bondale. The hospital administration is Winston Hill in favor of the former but hasn't Black Panther Party assisted Mrs. Whitehead in getting the Community Information Center Inecessary technical equipment needed Carbondale, Illinois to make such a move. For reasons unknown, the hospital administration is unfavorable to the suggestion to bring Editors note: a brain specialist here, despite the After receiving the above account, fact that they admit that they can't we were informed that Graylon White• do anything else for the brother. We head died on December II, 1970. This say too much time has been wasted was no surprise but further proves already and that if such a specialist that the work of the Vanguard must can be found that Doctor's Hospital be intensified. A clinic sponsored by shouldn't object to letting the specialist the people of Carbondale has now been use the hospital facilities. opened. At present people can receive It is true that often jokes are made free medical attention on Mondays and about how hard it is to get to see a Wednesdays from 6:00 p.m. until doctor at the health service. A bro• 9:00 p.m. Funds are urgently needed ther is dying because of apathy. It's so that the clinic can function daily the same as if you were in South and our revolutionary lives might be Africa. Only this is apathy Babylon saved in order to free our people style, but it's the same "White folks from oppression. GENE ROBERTS- WANTED BY THE PEOPLE CHARGES DROPPED FOR CONSPIRACY TO RAILROAD ON MARINE THE NEW YORK PANTHER 21 IN HAND
For more than 18 months, mouth recesitation, in a so-called ped and charged with some of the GRENADE members of the N.Y. Panther 21 attempt to save his life. most outrageous and fictitious have been incarcerated in concen• Before infiltrating the Black Pan• charges the fascist government CASE tration camps in New York for ther Party, Gene Roberts had been could conjure up. The big tent alletgedly conspiring to blow up assigned to infiltrate R.A.M, had been put up, the ring leader, Press Release five mld-towii department stores, (Revolutionary Action Movement), Pig Judge Murtagh, had been hired police precincts and various pub• O.A.A.U the Mau-Mau's and sev• and the circus was about to begin, clowns and all. It had been de• lic places. These brothers and eral other so-called "militant" At Camp LeJeune, North Car• cided that the N.Y. 21 would be sisters are facing up to 175 years organizations. At the present time olina, on Thursday, November 12th, the majority of the brothers and the main attraction. in concentration camps. Gene Rob• a military judge ordered that char• sisters who were meml>ers of the erts, a member of B.O.S.S, (Bu• At the present time, 13 members ges against Lance Corporal Barry O.A.A.U. are either injailordead, reau of Special Services) since of the original N.Y. 21 are on D. Couter, U.S. Marine Corps, be except Gene Roberts. April 4, 1964, and a lackey for trial for alle-gedly conspiring to dropped and his case dismissed. the pig power structure, infiltrat• In July of 1968, Gene Roberts murder N.Y.C, policemen, con• Coulter, from Harlem, New York ed the Black Panther Party in infiltrated the New York Chapter spiring to blow up five mid-town City was accused of throwing a July 1968, hisassignmc t--to des• of the Black Panther Party with department stores and conspiring hand grenade into a Military Police troy the N.Y. Chapter of the Black the intent of fabricating incidents to blow up railroad tracks, po• Headquartes in Viet Nam. The in• Panther Party--by any means nec• for the purpose of destroying the lice precincts and the Botanical cident occurred last April llih while Garden ^000 tulips). The pigs of essary. Gene Roberts, as well as New York Chapter leadership. he was serving his second tour in the N.Y. pig department, by order Ralph Wyatt, Carl Woods, Raymond Gene Roberts infiltrated the Har• Viet Nam. He was charged with lem Branch of the Black Panther of the Nixon-.Agnew-Hoover clique, Fulton and Lester Eggleson were P ig Gene Roberts intent to commit murder and faced Party. A transmitting device had are attempting to railroad these assigned to infiltrate the New York a threat to the U.S. security and a possiblebOyearsconfinementand been placed under his skin for the 13 brothers and sisters. They sit Chapter of the Black Panther assigned Gene Roberts to infiltrate a dishonorable discharge. Party, with the sole purpose of with the intent of destroying Mal• purpose of gathering information in the fascist courts daily, before of tapes to be distorted for the a jury of their non-peers (which fabricating a conspiracy bust of colm X and the O.A.A.U. Malcolm The prosecution attempted to in• benefit of the pigs. In order to is unconstitutional) while pigs like the N.Y. Panther leadersiiip. began to educate the masses more troduce remarks Coulter made to a avoid suspicion, he worked hard Gene Roberts sit on the witness Gene Roberts is the main wit• and more to the need for armed Marine officer who held himself out and made great efforts to be liked stand day in and day out and ness for the prosecution, whose struggle and the pigs of the power as a lawyer and promised Coulter by the members of the New York blurt out the lines of a memor• structure began to intensify their that his remarks would be confid• construed lies and fabricated in• Chapter. He had all the Partyprin- ized script thai was ^iven to him fascist tactics. Talk of revolution ential. The officer, Lt. Grayson, cidents and occurrences will be ciples down pat and knew the Ide• and the other clowns under the had the pigs of the power structure was then serving as a Battalion Le• used to railroad 13 members of ology of the Party like the back big tent at 100 Center Street. in a very precarious position, thus gal Officer in Viet Nam, though he the New York Chapter of the Black of his fascist hand. He attended The show starts at 10:00 A.M. causing them to feel the need was not an attorney. In fact Grey- Panther Party. The people will all of the political education class• Monday thru Thursday and it is to stop Malcolm and his talk of son had been assigned to investi• Judge Gene Roberts, who we charge es for the people in the commu• open to the public. revolution. gate the bombing of theM. P. Head• with conspiracy to deny the people nity. quarters I food, clothing, housing, and the Or. Febrjary 21, 1965. Malcolm We will not sit back and allow basic needs for survival. We also was to speak at the Audobon Ball• By March of 1969, with the the pigs of the fascist N.Y. courts charge Gene Roberts with conspi• room. By this time Gene Roberts aid of the New York Pig Dep• railroad these 13 btothers and Grayson admitted to the court that ring with Nixon, Agnew and Hoover had shammed his way into the po• artment, Gene Roberts, along with sisters. It is time to put a stop he had offered legal advise to Cou• to railroad the New York Panther sition of being Malcolm's body• Ralph Wyatt, Carl Woods, Ray• to the snow, It is time for the lter, and that he had promised their 21. In order for the people to guard. On February 21, 1965, at mond Fulton and Lester Eggelson tent to be taken down—by any discussion would be confidential. judge this lackey. It is necessary the Audobon Ballroom in New York, had constructed and fabricated en• means necessary. Jonathan Jack• At a pretrial motion the to give an account of the swines' Malcolm was gunned down—ass• ough lies and madness to give son, William Christmas, James Judge ruled that an attorney-client activity for the past 6 years. assinated — while Gene Roberts the go sign for the bust. On April McLain and Ruchell Magee, saw privilege was established and as "supposedly" guarded Malcolm 2, 1969 the homes of more man the need to close the show at such Gra\'son'
REPORT ON N.Y. 21 TRIAL: PIG GENE ROBERT'S TESTIMONY FULL OF CONTRADICTIONS
The obvious attempt by the ulated." Tiierefore, wiiat pig Roberts described t;ie s-jiiedule quite accurately. court-prosecution team i.i.IieN.Y. lackey Roberts had really been perfectly, and af^er he described 21 f raine-up to validate their theory told was: "Kinshasa will start this.documciit, the Panther defense Hierefore, from the lying lips of a Panther Bomb Plot and trans• teaching simulated guerilla tac• produced the schedule in que.stion of a viperous nigger pig, the fall• form tills fascist theory into a tics." This is quite different than and entered it into evidence. Need• acy of the fascist state's conten• factual conviction of the 13 mem• his initial testimony, whicli was les; to say. District Attorney Phil• tion of a Easter Bomb Plot was bers of the Black Panther Party geared to influence the jury into lips w.'S taken aback for he knew shown. Needless to say, the pig was given a setback by Defense believing tliat the training of Pan• nothing of the actual existence of media ignored all of this and con• Attorney Gerald Leftcourt today. thers was in fact actual overt this document in the naiids of the centrated on Robert's newspaper Pig infiltrator Gene Roberts un• acts in a conspiracy. That Black Defense, All lie could do was account of Malcolm X's murder. der cross examination was forced people have a right to prepare stutter. Pig Roberts, who was supposedly for their survival is an obvious Tie reason this schedule is im• a bodyguard of the late Malcolm to reveal that he did not receive threat to tlie pigs w;:.' have sys• portant is because it covers the X, attempted, to worm his way any instruction to bomb anything. tematically iiagiit to murder us end of March and half of April out of his connection with this Also, Roberts reluctantly admitted in so many ways. 1969, including the ..Teged day that assassination and the mass media Dharuba that he had conveniently omitted Ttie most important entry, how• this fantastic plot was supposed to assisted him whole heartedly. Tie certain key aspects in his testi• to label those who move in this ever, and tlie one that caused the be carried out. Tie schedule entire week of testimony by mony before the jury. manner, as outlaws and criminals, biggest upset to the pig prosecu- showed clearly that on Easter of Roberts just served to reinforce to try these revolutionaries in the Primarily, Roberts had testified tio.";was the entr\ of a time sched• 1969, tlie Panthers on trial were the inconsistencies of Robert's courts of the oppressor, where a under direct examination that de- ule witien up by defendant Kin• not scheduled to bornb anything, testimony. Tie major contradic• fair trial is impossible. fenda.nt Kinshasa (WiLiam King) shasa (William King) for his sec• but were due to participate in a tion in the N.Y. 21 case is one would teach guerilla warfare to tion. Attorney Lefcourtas.-vedRo:j - training program for hand to hand primaraily of the right of those all Panthers in Harlem. Roljerts arts aixHii his previous t:;stimony combat. who are oppressed to move in did not testify until he was cross- cnu. r. I'lg a sca.^Jaia •.hat he ob• Previously, Roberts had stated assuring tlieir survival by what examined by Attorney Lefcuurt served wlile lie was an agent in that tlie schedule had outlined the ever means necessary . nnd the Richard Dharuba Moore that he had emitted the word"sim- Kinshasa's section. Running dog activities of Kinshasa's section pigs allegedandself-imposedright New York 21 LUMUMBA AND KINSHASA OF MUST NEVER ALLOW ANGELA DAVIS THE NEW YORK 21 INOICTEO TO BE EXTRADITED
Editor's note: This article was FOR NEW YORK PRISON REVOLT written by 'Lois Newton, a mem• ber of the Black Panther Party who on November 28, 1970 was beaten and arrested by the vicious The conditions in which Black Another autopsy was done by a in Manhattan, now the pigs dog police at N.Y. Port Authority people, Puerto Rican people and private physician and it proved in Queens are trying to put them and as a result lost her unborn other oppressed groups of New that the brain concussion had away for "life." The move by baby. This is Lois' report on York City are forced to live in occured long before the alleged the Queen's D.A, was unprecedent- her meeting in jail with sister are some of the most wretched hanging took place. Angela Davis. conditions that exist on the planet The ten members of the N.Y. earth, WallStreet, the nerve center 21 who are still incarcerated were I met Angela Davis on December of world imperialism, is only a transferred from the Old Branch 1, 1970. She knew me right away few minutes away from Harlem, Queens Men's House of and greeted me with a smile. She El Barrio and Brownsville, yet of Detention to the "Rock." (Rik- was very much at ease and did these communities suffer from ,ers Island) All of them are con• not appear to be worried at all more police brutality, dope addic• fined in what Lumumba calls "trip• about her case. Angela and tion and inhuman living conditions le isolation" and only see one I rapped for half an hour about than just about any community in another or are allowed to leave the revolutionary struggle and I the world, Tne same conditions their cells when they go to court left her knowing she was strong, that exist in the medium security or when they have visitors. The dedicated and unselfish regardless prisons (communities) of New total prison population housed in of the publicity and support which York, are also prevalent in the the Tombs are under twenty-four she has received. maximum security prisons of New hour lock-up. Since it was my first "offense", York City. The New York City It should be reiterated that the I requested to be placed on the Prison revolts of October will sixth floor with the other prisoners. testify to this fact. , prison revolts emanated (came) Angel; Uavis from within the general prison At first I was told that only adoles• cents were placed on the sixth floor, Since the prison revolts which population at the Old Branch (This is the floor that comrade An• resulted in the take over by pris• Queens Men's House of Detention loves them and how she has sac• gela is presently on)The next morn• oners of four of the cities seven and the Panthers did not come rificed her life for them and many, ing Imadearequest again, and again jails, more than 30 brothers have into the picture until they were many more, I was refused. This time I was told been indicted on various charges freed from isolation by their fellow Angela is unique in the sense that I couldn't be on the same floor ranging from conspiracy to kid• inmates and asked to deal with that she has put eyeything she has with Angela, .Ygain I made the re• nap and kidnap, to conspiracy to some type of direction in terms (wisdom, knowledge, exper- quest, more adamantly this tune, commit murder. The latest attempt of leadership. Ironically enough, ience, love), into the strug• and within half an hour I was placed by the Lindsay Administration to the black prison guard have stated gle; and she has practiced on the sixth floor. place the blame for the inhuman publicly that it was the Panthers what so many others merely talk conditions thai exist in the cit\ who were responsible for savLng Angela and 1 talked tLs day about. Her ultiniate goal is the prisons of New York City, r.as the hostages lives. and we very seldom mentioned liberation of her people and the destruction of the oppressive sys• fallen on the heads of William Lumumba and Kinshasa were her situation, TTie welfare of the KINSHASA tem. The masses must not forget (Kinshasa) King and Lumumba Ab• supposed to have been arraigned people and the intensification of her, must stand by her, and not dul Shakur of the N.Y. Panther 21. (officially charged) on December ed in the courts of Babylon, But the struggle were her major con- allow her to be extradicted. Her Virtually all of the "leaders" of 10, 1970 When the Paxahers, the the mamer L-- --.icr. tre :i-'.s cerr, life which she has dedicated so the prison revoks have been in• attorney, members ai the Imnates deal viEfa Black peopie are _s;_aUy -cigela excercises everyda>-, unselfishly to the revolutionary dicted and tbe coodiiions inside Liieratloa From and other con- m^recedented. practices karate stances and be• struggle will be a grave loss if Che maxiaumi security prisons coned people arrived at the Kew Immediately after theprisonre- cause of her high degree of under• she is incarcerated. And it will have DOC cfaaneed ooejoca. IF any• Gardens Court House in Queens, volts, the attorneys for the N.Y. standing of the people's love and be a reactionary death if she is thing, tbey have grown systematic• they found the court room locked. 21 filed a motion in the courts their desire to communicate with allowed to die. ally worse. When attorneys Gerald Lefcourt stating that if any of the N.Y. 21 her, writes by match light until the late hours of the morning. She The inmates' demands pertain• and Charles McKinney asked the were indicted by a grand jury, It is up to the masses of peo• has gotten several sisters to do ing to speedy trials, reasonable D.A, what was happening, the D.A. they reserved the right to be ple CO FREE .•YNGELA DAVIS and exercises along with her, which bails and proper legal representa• said that he didn't want to deal notified in advance of any such FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISON• has been very relaxing, Angela tion have been met with tokenism, with the indictment because the action. The pigs completely ig• ERS OF BABYLON. helps sisters to forget their pro• when they have been met at all. news media had been notified and nored this and the attorneys are blems for a while. Her presence he didn't want any publicity around moving to have the indictment ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE During the negotiations, when the makes "D" corridor a little less inmates were still holding the the case. 3^ attorney had dismissed whenever the pigs de• tehse. She does not demand special Lois Newton guards as hostages, the brothers been informed that the brothers cide to have an arraignment. attention or consideration, but all Black Panther Party were told that no reprisals would had been indicted and the facist In the mean time, the people the sisters know how much she Corona Branch be taken against them. But even Judge Murtagh liad even Dost- v/ho are imprisoned in the med• while the Mayor of New York was poned the the proceeding at 100 ium security prisons of New York lying in the face of the incarcer• Centre Street where the current City cannot rely on the empty ated leaders of the revolt, sadis• trial of the N.Y. 21 is going on promises of Pig Lindsay, Shirley tic guards were trying to beat Chisholm, Herman BradlUo or IN DEFENSE OF JOSE WILSON the rest of the prisoners to death. Louis Faroukquan. Our brothers No reprisals was what the and sisters in the maximum sec• urity prisons are still being mur• inmates were told. Congresswo- Jose Wilson is one of many phoney is this charge tliat ;tliey dered and brutalized and the con• man Shirley Chisholm swore by workers who have been exposing refused to go through with a hear-, ditions aren't getting better. Baby• the power of her office, Herman bad conditions on the job. He ing on it when Jose demanded to lon has a prison population of Badillo swore by his following in has been speakingoutfortherights act as his own lawyer and demand• nearly 10 million people; 80% of the Puerto Rican community and of his fellow workers for the past ed to be tried in an open hearing. which are black, brown, red and Minister Louis Faroukquan of the two years. Now he is threathened The Muni will try to get its yellow. Our prison population suf• Nation of Islam swore by the will with being fired. railroading going again against fers more than any of tine other of Allah that no reprisals would Why? Jose on December 22. Similiar oppressed communities. be taken against the brothers. On November 5, the SFPD at• trumped-up hearings against bro• Since the time that these empty The hour is late and the sit• tacked and brutally beat Muni oper• thers Coates, Hagler and Alberto words were uttered, Comradejulio uation becomes more ghastly by ators Robert Coates, Phillip Al• are scheduled on December 15 and Roldan of the Young Lords Party the moment. Just as the liberMion berto, Leroy Hagler and nine 16. and Comrade Laverne Moore (one of our community is inter-connect• others. Along with other members" Everyone should come to these of the leaders of the prison re• ed with the liberation of all oppres• of the Washington Mason dividion, hearings. volts) have been murdered by sed communities, the destiny of the Jose went on strike in protest At this time, a drive initiated guards in the Tombs, while others prison communities are equally against the police attack and in •for the purpose of raising money have been brutally beaten in the inter-connected with the destiny defense of his fellow workers. for Jose Wilson and his family other penal institutions throughout of oppressed communities around has begun. Send donations to the city. Because the union officials re• the world. fuse to inform the membership FUND COMMITTEE FOR JOSE The official prison reports said It is inevitable that another pri• of what had happened, Jose and WILSON, 491 Guerrero Street, San that J ulio Roldan and Laverne son revolt of a larger proportion many other brotliers went to the Francisco 94110. Moore both committed suicide, is bound to take place In the cUy different divisions to explain the Julio was supposed to have hung jails of New York, The fascist situation and to get support for Schedule of hearings: himself with the shoe laces from American imperialists are forcing the victims. Robert Coates, Tuesday, Decem• his shoes. Yet he had on buckled people in both the maximum and In an attempt to discredit the ber 15, 9:30.'VM shoes. Laverne (Red) Moore was medium prisons to use the only work stoppage and to divide the Leroy Hagler, Wednesday, De• supposed to have hung himself. power that they have and that is membership, the union officials cember 16, 9:30AM An autopsy was performed by the tlie power to disrupt have conspired with the manage• Phil AllJerto, Wednesday Decem• prison doctor at tfie Tombs and it L UMUMBA ment in a move to get these ber 16, 2:30A, showed that the brother had a brain ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE brothers fired. bar 16, 2:30PM concussion. The pigs stated that so that Lumumba and Kinshasa DEATH TD THE F.VSCIST PIGS Specifically, the Muni manage• jose Wilson, Tuesday December while they were in the process could be arraigned in Queens on Zayd Malik Shakur 22, 9:00AM, of cutting him down, he fell and ment has charged Jose with these charges. These brothers Dep. Mill, of Information ALL IN K(X-Vi 287, CITY HALL his head hit the concrete floor. are facing as much as 312 years New York State Chapter allegedly cutting trolley ropes. So OPEN TO THE PLiBLICI tion or standstill in history, so the REVOLUTIONARY PARTY FOR historic advance of "Hyokmyong Chon- son," bom of the storm of the great REUNIFICATION IN SOUTH KOREA revolutionary age and dyed with the red blood of comrades-in-arms, came to see light again thanks to the stren• RESUMPTION OF POBLICATION uous efforts of our Party members and the active support of the masses OF ITS POLITICAL ORGAN of the people. At this moment of history we recall progress or reaction, true history the great historic event when the pat• Introduction by chooses only advance, development and riotic fighters and personages who are Connie (Matthews) Tabor progress. True history knows no other concerned about the destiny of the coun• "Hyokmyong Ckoson" is the political road but its own track—advance to try founded the Revolutionary Party organ of the revolutionary people of a new era. for Reunification, holding aloft as the the Southern community of Korea„ The No dictator can stem the surging avant-garde banner Kim II Swag's imperialist aggressors and war• revolutionary tide and the grandiose thought, the greatest revolutionary mongers have tried to apply the same advance of history of the 20th century ideas of our times. devious methods to stop publication which carry before them all that is The Revolutionary Party for Reunifi• of this organ, as they have attempted old, ailing and corrupt, cation which has traversed the road of to do with the "Black Panther/' the "Hyokmyong Choson" (Revolution• ordeals and exploits recorded a history political organ of the Black commun• ary Front) came into being for this of bloody resistance as the vanguard ity here in the U.S.A, magnificent historic advance and for of revolution and the standard-bearer The communities of the world will this historic necessity. It lives for of the popular movement. Our Party not be intimidated. The revolutionary history, for justice and revolution, which has waged a bloody struggle spirit of the people will always over• it is a beacon fire of revolution throw• and pulled through the death line in come such obstacles. We will find ing eternal light upon the darkness this, course, suffered painful loses ways and means to educate the oppres• of this land and a bell striker her• under the barbarous despotic rule of sed peoples of the planet earth. alding the dawn of the new era. white terror. But in the crucible of In the true spirit of intercommunal- This paper, as the mouthpiece of ordeals, it has been tempered steel ism, we bring to the attention of our the Revolutionary Party for Reunifi• strong and its ranks have grown to community, the plight of our comrades cation, published its inaugural article thousands, ten of thousands strong. in the Southern Community of Korea before history with a lofty aim to The raging winds and waves and and introduce the first article of their fulfil the role of the vanguard in the trials wrought with difficulties have new (resumed) publication. South Korea revolution. Since then further spurred the advance of our the paper had made immortal exploits Party, Obstacles brought about only which will shine forever in the annals a qualitative leap in our ranks. RESUMPTION OF of revolution. Our Party which had waged an POBLICATION In the course of time, we were com• arduous struggle on the underground pelled to temporarily suspend publica• front of revolutionary activities for History cannot be a wheel fated to tion of the paper owing to the frantic several years through its local Party repeat cycles of submission and de• fascist suppression by the U,S, im• organization recently formed the pendence. Dynamic advance touxird jus• perialist aggressors and the Pak Jung central leadership of the Party in con• tice, freedom, and prosperity—this Hi fascist clique—the most heinous formity with the demand for the devel• alone is the true attribute of history. dictators going against history and opment of the Party itself and solemnly At the decisive crossroads of ad• the masses of the people, vance to victory or ruinous retreat, Bui, as there can be no interrup• con'inued on next page dents as they clashed with the of the most recently murdered a member of I.S.A.U.S., was also police. Now there is a new strike under torture are Saidl and Neak- arrested upon his i eturn to Iran. IRANIAN PEOPLES FIGHT occurring at Tehran University. It davoudl. Saldl was a progressive Both men are now undergoing started at the Law School and now religious leader and Neakdavoudi a vicious torture in the Shah's dun• AGAINST THE SHAH'S encompasses the entire University. revolutionary intellectual. They geons. Four more of our brothers The students are again denouncing were arrested when they protested are now facing death sentences for the Shah's oppressive attacks on a conference in Iran of 35 capi• their attempt to cross the border REGIME the Iranian people. talists, David Rockefeller among to join the heroic struggle of the ITie Iranian people's lieroic fight manded political demands on the Adding to the destruction of the them, by distributing leaflets and Palestinian people. against the Shah's fascist regime Shah's regime. Tlie hijacking of one regime's lie that Iran is an island giving speeches. Not intlmidatedby The Shah's regime does not con• and U.S. imperialism intensifies] demanded the releaseof 21 political of "peace and stabilit>'", was the the terror tactics of the regime, fine its terror and harassment to As the peoples struggle mounts, tlie prisoners some of whom were ar• refusal to pay the royalties of the *• Dr. Shehbani, who had justbeenre- Iran. It has stepped up its attacks Shah's relgnof terror has increased. rested for attempting to cross the landowners by the peasants in the leased from jail, came out and re• on members of the World Confed• sumed the struggle against the In February, 1,000 people were border to join the Palestinian Re• north and their protest against the eration of Iranian Students in Shah's regime. \s the Black Pan• arrested, several killed, 600 in• volution, Tlie other liljai^king was execution of peasants in Luristan Europe and the U.S., an anti-im• ther Party says, "You can murder jured and 200 are still in jail initiated as an attack on the Shah's who refused to take part in regime- perialist and democratic organiza• a liberator, but you can't murder support of Zionist Israel. Joining controlled elections. Peasants have tion with a mass line. Tie Shah's as tlie result of the bus strike liberation!" In this spirit. Dr. Sheh• in the struggle were high school continually protested the rising cost regime has unleashed its Sayak dogs rebellion. Nevertheless, the Iranian bani spoke out against the barbarous masses have continued their and university students in Tehran. of living and refuse to pay the heavy on tlie C.I.S. because as a student land installments. Scattered peas• murder of Saidi at Saidi's funeral. organization, its militant struggles struggle against the Shah's terror. Hundreds of students went on strike ant struggles against the regime are Dr. Shelibani now faces a 15 year are directly relatedto the struggles Witness to this are the liiree suc• to protest an imposed c hange in the frequent. Refinery workers in jail sentence. of the Iranian Masses. cessful liijackings to Iraq in die high school final exam grading sys• Abadan and southern parts of Iran tem. Ibis was only one manifesta• Others arrested are Mr. For- At this time, the Shah's regime last few months. All of the hi• rose up in a strike against an im• tion of the students hatred for tlie ouiiar, a political leader, and a has launched a slander campaign jackings nude politi. al demands on perialist oil industry to fight against group of writers in Tehran, one of against the Confederation.Using its the Sliali's regime. Tiie hijacking of Shah's oppression of the Iranian a wage decrease. one of die Iranian planes claimed masses, .\fter liigh school students whom is Hezarkhani, a previous domestic propaganda machinery, that their act was in protest marched through the city to join Terrified by the growing member of the C.I.S. in total col• the regime labeled confederation against the Shah's new attacks on with University students, police struggle, the Sliah's regime met the laboration with the Shah's regime, members as "paid-agitators," the people and the Shah's pliony surrounded the University. Chants people's resistance with its typical the Turkish government arrested "liars," "hooligans," etc. Tie reforms in Iran (i.e., the "White denouncing the unjust school sys• brute force; increased arrests, our brother Shir-Mohamadi and de• massive support gained by the Revolution"). Odier hijackers de• tem rose out of the crowd of stu• brutal torturing and murders. Two ported him to Iran, Mr. llaj-Razavi, continued on next page continued from last pagci famine is imposed upon the masses the South Korean society in all itnaked- of the people writhing in the economic ness. catastrophe and the dire hardships Thus, our Paper will remain true to RESUMPTION OF of living. the great revolutionary task of our In this society of evils where ag• Party to carry out the people's dem• POBLICATION gression is veiled as "protection" and ocratic revolution for socialism, blow published the manifesto and programme treachery as "patriotism," and injus• up the cursed colonial semi-feudal soc• of the Revolutionary Party for Reun• tice is camouflaged as Justice and iety and strive for the democractic ification to the whole world. corruption as uprightness, in this cor• development of this society, set up The manifesto and programme of the rupt society where the rampage of the the people's power on the grave of Revolutionary Party for Reunification^ U.S. imperialists, the aggressors, and the U.S. imperialists and their lackeys an embodiment of the idea ofjuche of the May 16 military hooligans has and accomplish the cause of national Comrade Kim II Sung, the sagacious gone to extremes at the sacred April unification. Leader of the nation, are a bright square of blood, where arch-traitor In this sacred struggle we will light-house of the fatherland illumin• Pak Jung Hi and a handful of hein• hold aloft the avant-garde banner of ating the road of the great cause of ous, privileged members of the ruling the strategy, tactics and idea of the revolution for reunification and an circles are living in luxury, wallowing South Korean revolution which Com• immortal banner delivering from in vice and bleeding people white at rade Kim II Sung, worked out and put oppression the exploited people, who a time when the hunger-stricken people forth with his deep clear-sightedness. have been subjected to the miserable are crying for food, how can we re• We solemnly pledge that "Hyokm- life, to enable them to live in the great main indifferent to the wailing reality? yong Choson" breathes, thinks, judges, era of mankind, the era of Kim II In line with its original mission and proclaims with Kim II Sung's Sung, and leading them to the land of existence and its original ideal thought, the highest peak of human of the new era. our newspaper bom of the storm of ideas. We declare that "Hyokmyong Chan• this reality, the nidus of all roots Kim n Sung's thought representing son'' is an immortal bell striker pow• of contradictions, wages a single- the greatest creative ideas of the world erfully ringing the bell of revolution, minded devoted struggle to save the is the guiding idea of our Revolution• standing in the van of the sacred strug• fatherland and liberate the nation, com• ary Party for Reunification. It is an gle for translating into practice in pletely breaking away from the practice ever-victorious body of thought lead• this land the manifesto and programme of remaining indifferent and turning ing the South Korean revolution to of the Revolutionary Party for Reuni• away one's face from the reality full the peak of victory and joy. The guid• fication, the revolutionary task it of contradictions. ing idea of the Revolution in Korea assmed before the Party, people and We advocate unification against split, and the world, it is the helm of our history. independence against subjugation, self- times, standing in the van of history. We here recall the teachings of Com• reliance against flunkeyism, prosperty Sure to triumph is our South Korean rade Kim II Sung, the outstanding Lead• against poverty, and democracy against revolution which is guided by Comrade er of the revolution and the supreme dictatorship and will hold high the pen Kim II Sung, who has inherited the revolutionary thinker of the nation, of revolution as a dagger thrust into revolutionary traditions of the glorious *' Where there is exploitation and the hearts of the US. anti-japanese armed struggle. oppression, there is always the resis• We reclarify that the mission of It goes without saying that our tance of the people. It is inevitable "Hyokmyong Chanson" is to become struggle to publish each issue of that the South Korean people should a collective propagandist, agitator and "Hyokmyong Chanson" in the fields fight against the oppressors for their weapon for illuminating the road of of arduous underground struggle is freedom and liberation," the South Korean revolution by arming accompanied by rigorous trials. It The explosion of revolution is inev• our Party members and the masses may be dyed with blood as in the past. itable in South Korea, Revolution, a of the People with Kim II Swag's thought, But even if a sea of blood may natural product of the broad basic the guiding ideas of our Party, and with flow and dead bodies may pile up foundations of the South Korean society, the program . and policy, strategy mountain high, the banner of Hyokm• is maturing rapidly in the contradic• and tactics of our Party, its embcii- yong Choson" will smash the fascist tions of reality, making the upper, ment in the South Korean revolution, rampage and flutter high in the vast ruling circle tremble with fear. The' united tens of millions of fellow coun• expanse of azure sky, sharing the present moment is pregnant with great trymen with Comrade Kim II Sung, destiny with the fatherland and his• revolution and the militant call for the sun of the nation, as the centre tory. revolution. and powerfully rouse them to the sacred We declare once again that ours The split into the North and the South, struggle for revolution and reunifica• is a match-for-a-hundred, a-match- forced by outside forces mid- tion. for-a-thousand. "Hyokmyong Chon- I940*s has still not been brought to The organ of our Revolutionary Party son" striking a hundred enemies and an end even today when the I970*s for Reunification will also exist as moving down a thousand enemies with has set This land. South Korea, the most critical, militant revolution• each article. torn- to shreds by the U,S, and Japanese ary publication fully exposing and In conclusion we hope the Party mem• imperialists, has become a foreign openly condemning the agressive nature bers and masses of people will extend land, not Korea, and has been re• and the towering crimes of the U.S. unstinted encouragement to the pub• duced to dependency on the aggressors. Imperialist aggressors, the sworn ene• lication of our paper and love our Liberty and democracy have been my of our nation, and the Pak Jung paper, and hold high the beacon fire stifled in the tightly-closed prison Hi clique, their most heinous puppet, of continued publication of "Hyokm• of South Korea, The lot of constant and disclosing the contradictions of yong Chonson." should be exposed, preferred to their progressive lilies came to prevent this information from continued from last page^^^^^ made an abortive attempt to resort to brutal force against the demonstrate outside the Consulate. reaching friends throughout Che provoke a violenc confrontation to just demands of tlie students. He A hunger strike was declared both world, SAVAK confiscated Dr. break up the successful demon• IRANIAN PEOPLE'S called the S.F. tactical squad who inside and outside. The police re• Heldsman's papers and deported stration. When this failed, the police arrested the 41 and viciously in• sponded by arresting the 66, him. As Rezai was enroute to pick viciously attacked the students and FIGHT jured six. The Consul General is Recently, the C,I.S. in support up his passport, which the govern• arrested seven. Three students continuing his harassment of the 41 of the Iranian people's struggles ment had taken, he was kidnapped were injured but, the students justi• C.I.S. in recent months clearly re• by denying renewal of their pass• in Iran and to expose the regime, by SAV/\K agenis. We have since futes such attacks. fiably retaliated by sending three ports. sent its representative, Mr. Rezai, learned that Mr, Rezai faces a fascist police to the hospital. Demonstrations throughout Eu• On August 4th in Munich, Ger• along wirh the Confederation's at• military tribunal. On June 26, 41 Iranian students rope and the U.S. were held in many, 66 students invaded the torney. Dr. Heldsman (^rom the In defense of our recently ar• invaded the Iranian Consulate in support of the people's struggles Iranian Consulate. From inside the International Amnesty Leag..e_' :o rested brothers and of the Iranian San Francisco. They presented de• in Iran and in demand of the re• Consulate, the students issued im• Iran. Tliese men went to investi• people's intensifying struggle, the mands which they asked to be dis• lease of political prisoners. portant demands to Investigate the gate the state of oppiession in C.I.S. has embarked on a world cussed in a press conference with In New York on September 8th, conditions of the political prisoners Iran, particularly the conditions of wide defense campaign. This cam• following the 18th convention of the the Consul General, Mr. .\dle. The in Iran, the circumstances sur• the jails and the whereabouts of the paign will expose the fascist re• I.S.A., 150 Iranian students demon• demands concerned the where• rounding the deaths of Neakdavoudi recently arrested political prison• pression of the Shah's regime and strated in support of the struggle abouts and conditions of workers, and Saidi, and the release of four ers. Their investigations turned up U.S. imperiahs'i!, and struggle to in Palestine and Cambodia as well students, and peasants who were religious people who were arrested. valuabl.3 evidence which wouldhave release our brothers who have as those in Iran, Shortly after the arrested in mass uprisings. The News of the invasion spread and completely exposed the atrocities heroically fought the dictatorship demonstration began, a few Zion- Consul General fearing tliat the Iranian students from Munich and carried out by the regime. To of the Shah. Shah andhisU.S.imperlalistbosses Comrade Km II Sung said as fof- TTT^ mt tUUISUlJSij Ut IHL AJSri-JAPANtSt laws: ~~ "In the darkest period of Japanese GUERRILLA ARMY AND THE INTENSIFICATION imperialist rule the staunch Com• munists of our country, guided by tlic OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE PARTH Marxist-Leninist theory, organized the The Japanese imperialist aggressor gave one telling blow after another to T3ic second stage of the development World War II. anti-Japanese guerilla army, the first army was equipped with up-to-date the enemy, always holding the init• of the anti-Japanese armed struggle In this period, the anti-Japanese contingent of the revolutionary peo• weapons and combat tcclinical mater• iative firmly in their hands, and won covers the period from 1936 to 1940- guerillas more actively carried on ple's armed forces in our country, with ials which they bragged as "highly ef• victory, fighting heroically like a This was the period when the armed small-unit guerilla activities for annihil• the progressive workers and peasants ficient", and had modern ground, naval phoenix despite all the adverse condi• struggle was extended to wide areas ating the enemy and political activities and patriotic youths who set lliem- and air forces. The Japanese imperia• tions. and waged vigorously on a large scale, among the masses of the people, while selves against Japanese imperialism for lists who were armed to the teeth had Comrade Kim il Sung set forth with the Mt. Baekdu base newly es• exerting efforts on preserving and fost• the national independence and social the active support and patronage of the clear-cut revolutionary lines and scien• tablished and, relying on it, theerin g their own forces and on military emanci|)atiori ol' the Korean people." United States, Britain and other imper• tific strategy and tactics and always led change-over to a positive offensive training and politico-theoretical study The founding ol" the unti-Jaiianese ialist powers in their aggression against the anli-Japancsc guerillas and the mas• against the enemy being effected. And in order to meet the great event of na• guerilla army was a historic event of other countries and peoples, and had ses of the people to a brilliant victory, in this period, the Comniunists, on the tional liberation actively. epoch-making significance in carrying such brigandish allies as fascist Ger• personally surmounting all the difficul• basis of the most correct revolutionary many and Italy. ties at each stage of the development line of Comrade Kim 11 Sung, carried out the great line of the aecomplish- In this period, the Japanese imperial• of the armed struggle. on actively and on a nation-wide scale ment of the Korean revolution set Secondly, the arduousnes.s of the ists, confronted with the crisis of ul• the anti-Japanese united national front forth by Comrade Kim 11 Sung and in anti-Japauese armed struggle was con• The glorious anti-Japanese armed timate downfall, frantically tried to movement and the work of the prepa• strengthening and developing in an nected with the fact that the anti- Ja• struggle over 15 long years developed strangle the armed struggle. But they rations for founding a Marxist-Leninist all-round way the revolutionary move• panese guerillas had to secure all they through the following three stages In could never halt the triumphant ad• Party, along with the anti-Japanese ment of our country in a new, higlier needed entirely by their own efforts general: vance of the anti-Japanese guerillas, stage, and it became the solid guaran• armed struggle. without any fear of the state or aid The first stage of the anti-Japanese nor could they keep their revolu• tee for the victory in the revolution. from outside in the struggle against this armed struggle covers the period up to This period is characterized by the tionary influence from being exerted The anti-Japanese guerilla army formidable Japanese imperialism. 1935 from 1932 when the anti- Japa- fact that the Korean pcoplc',s revolu- on the entire Korean people. founded by Comrade Kim II Sung, the Together with the news of the stren• respected and beloved Leader of the uous and vigorous struggle of the Korean people, ever-victorious anti-Japanese guerillas, the fame of iron-willed genius-commander, was the tlrst revolutionary armed force of the Comrade Kim II Sung, the working class guided by the eve r-victortous iron-willed gen• Marxist-Leninist ideas and fighting ius-commander, spread far and wide to against imperialism for the freedom all corners of the country just as in a and liberation of the Korean people. legend, setting every heart of the Korean people afire with hopes of na• Comrade Kim II Sung said as fol• tional regeneration and vigorously in• lows: flaming their passion for struggle. The "The ideas of the anli-Japanese guer• fame of Comrade Kim II Sung, the re• illa army were the Marxist-Leninist ideas and its purpose was to fight for spected and beloved Leader of the the establishment of a people's jiowcr Korean people, spread with such a opposing imperialism and defending great attraction even in the hor• the interests of the working people," ror-inspiring atmosphere of Japanese imperialist colonial rule under which Tile anti-Japanese guerillas were not Korea had been turned into a prison only a combat force fighting against the enemy, but also propagandists edu• covered with networks of army, police, cating and agitating the people, organ• intelligence and speieal agcnts,ThiSwas izers organizing and mobilizing them. illustrated by the following instance: The anti-Japanese guerilla army After Japanese Imperialism's defeat founded under the leadership of Com• in World War 11. a certain Kamada, a rade Kim II Sung was a revolutionary scholar in the pay of Japanese impcrlal- army true to proletarian internationa• isni, wrote a book, "New Talcs of lism. Korea", in which he said as follows in The anti-Ja]ianese guerilla army was recollection of those days: not only an army fighting for the free• "Around 1944, I gave a lecture to dom and liberation of the Korean peo• the sixth-year and second-year pupils ple but also an army of the working of a primary and a secondary school class fighting for the interests of the together in Soutli Korea. TTicn I asked world revolution. them, 'Who do you think is the The anti-Japanese guerillas armed greatest man among the contemporary tiiemselves thorouglily with the firm l.et's keep up the greal revolutionary upsurge in response Japanese (including Koreans)? Express idea that the thorough accomplishment to ihe call ol the Party and the Leader! your views honestly by secret ballot. of the Korean revolution was a way to To my surprise. 6'' per - assist the working classes of other Under the conditions in which nesc guerilla army was tormed and the tionary movement centering around lots were for Kmn II Sung countries and accelerate the world re• Korea had already been reduced to a armed struggle was organized and the anti-Japanese arnicd struggle volution, and were boundlessly true to complete colony of the Japanese im• started. achieved a great upsurge as a whole, Even in the grimmest days of the this cause. perialists, our country had no revolu• This was the period when the revolu• despite the unprecedented intensifica• closing period of Japanese imperialist in this connection Comrade Kim 11 tionary political power nor military tionary forces were preserved and fos• tion of the Japanese imperialists' rule the attempts to form clandestine Sung .said: foundation of the nation itself to tered and thorough preparations were colonial policy of tyranny and the anti-Japanese organizations and join "The an I i-J apanese guerillas were render powerful assistance to the made for extending the armed struggle enemy's reactionary offensive. the antEJapanesc guerilla units of Com• members of the one family of Com• anti-Japanese armed struggle. to still wider areas and for going over Under the personal command of rade Kim II Sung in the armed struggle rapidly grew as a general trend among munists from the start. The guerillas In the course of the struggle against to a positive offensive in the future, Comrade Kim II Sung the anti-Japanese the people. held fast to Marx's idea 'Workers of all tiie formidable enemy, therefore, the while the guerilla bases - liberated areas guerillas successively waged battles, big countries, unite!' and firmly armed Korean Cominunist.s had to organize were set up in the vast regions covering and small, including such offensive op• themselves with the ideas of proletar• and expand the armed force, secure the northern borders of our country erations in the homeland as the As the Japanese imperialists ad• ian internationalism." weapons, ammunition, provisions, and the eastern Manchuria and the Bochonbo battle on June 4, 1937 and mitted, the numerous "cases of at• Such were the character and features clothing and so on by their own efforts armed struggle was developed by rely• the of the Musan area in May 1939, tempts to form associations" in which ol" the anli-Japanese guerilla army and educate the masses of the people ing on them. thereby dealing fatal blows at Japanese broad sections of youths and students founded by Comrade Kim II Sung. toorganizeanti mobilise tbcni to strue- The Communists led the people to imperialism from behind which was were involved in those days were Under the personal leadership of gle. abolish (he old socio-economie rela• wildly expanding its war of aggression "designed to achieve their rebellious on the continent and preparing for in• aims at the first opportunity, and this Comrade Kim 11 Sung the anti-Japanese In these conditions, the armed strug• tions, establish the people's revolu• vasion of the Soviet Union. was based on the blind conclusion that guerilla army continued to develop tlie gle could not but assume unheard-of tionary power and enforce various the defeat of Japan in the war was a armed struggle vigorously, siinnounting arduousness from tlie outset. democratic reforms including the land The activities of the political orga• seated fact, and in most cases, the con• and tiding over all the hardships and reform in the base areas- nizers dispatched to all parts of the Thirdly, the arduousness of the crete method they sought to follow difficulties over the historical period of Thcy also formed communist organi• country were intensified in combina• anti-Japanese armed struggle was con• was to establish contacts with Kim II 15 long years from the outset of its zations and various forms of mass orga• tion with the active waging of the nected also with the I'act that the strug• Sung whom they worshipped sincerely founding up until August 1945 when it nizations in tlie ba,sc areas, united the anti-Japanese armed struggle. In face of gle had to be waged over a prolonged or place themselves under his com• defeated Japanese imperialism and broad revolutionary masses in those or• the enemy's strict surveillance, they fseriod of time. mand and carry out an armed upris• aciiieved the restoration of the fatiier- ganizations and educated them and skillfully carried on underground poli• The anti-Japanese armed struggle ex• ing..." ("Secret Service Externa! Af• ia nd. brought up cadres through practical tical activities and vigorouslyorganized tended over 15 long years, from the fairs Monthly No. 46," August 1943, struggle. and mobilized broad masses of the peo• The anti-Japanese armed struggle was time when Ja|>auese imperialism was of the PoUcc Bureau of the Japanese ple to the anti-Japanese struggle along an arduous struggle the like of wliieh is I'aseistized anil its colonialist policy of As for the combat actions in this Government-General in Korea.) the bright road indicated by the rarely to be found in the liistory of the t> ranny reached its height until it was period, the anti-Japanese guerilla units, Ten-point Program of the Associa• world. ruined. operating from the base areas, concen• tion for the Restoration of the Ualher- firstly, it was connected with the Under the leadership of Comrade trated at first on capturing weapons Thus, thanks to the victorious orga• land,expanding the lowerorganizations fact that anti-Jajianese guerillas waged Kirn II Sung, the Korean Comniunists, and carrying on small-scale battles and nization and waging of the anti-Japa• of the Association everywhere. an armed struggle against enormous foreseeing the arduousness and pro- thus reinforced their armaments and, nese armed struggle, the revolutionary odds - the .la|ianese imperialists, tractedness of the anti-Japanese armed afterwards, emerged out of the base In this way, even in the grim years spirit of the Korean people ran to the IToni its earliest stage Japanese im• struggle form its early slage, prepared areas and eondueled large-scale of• when the Japanese Imperialists, fascist highest pitch to hasten the defeat of perialism had military-feudal features and organized the armed struggle in fensive battles on the enemy's walled tyranny reached its height, the Korean Japanese imperialism in its deathbed and assumed the most brigaiulisli and sueli a way as to be able to cope with lowns. And as the offensives of the [Tcople derived strength Ironi Comrade and achieve the liberation of the predatory nature. them. enemy were intensified, battles for de• Kim [l Sung and, had faith in the ulti• fatherland, and extensive preparations fending the ba.se areas were also waged were made for actively meeting the Japanese militarism launched aggress• In strengthening the political and mate victory in the restoration of the on a comparatively large scale. great event of the liberation of the na• ive wars on over ten occasions beginn• ideological work among the masses of fatherland, looking up, as tlie great Leader ol" the Korean revolution and tion. ing with the invasion of Taiw an in IS74 the people and the anti-Japanese giier-' Drawing on these successes in the the ouUstanding Leader of the entire to the da> of its deleat, and seized illas. the Korean Communists coneeii- struggle. Comrade Kim II Sung merged people, to Comrade Kim It Sung, the wide areas of eleven eoimlries as its Iraled their elt"orls on enhaneirig their the guerilla units active in various areas The arduous l5-year-!ong anti-Japa• peerless patriot and ever-victorious colonies or ss'mi-colonies. eiimily against Japanese imperialism under a unified military commanding nese armed struggle of the Korean peo• iron-willed genlus-eomiiiander who In this course. Japanese iinpeiiaiisni and its stooges and their confidence in system and reorganized tlicm into the ple successfully accomplished its gener• carried forward the revolutionary became all the more ferocious and bru• Die final victory of tlie revolution and People's Revolutionary Army in 1934. al tasks and scored a brilliant victory struggle unremittingly, hearing tlic des• tal luirglar and found it unable !i> live particularly on cultivating in them the wiien the anti-Japanese guerilla army l ollowing tlie formation of the Peo• tiny ol" the fatherland on his siioiilders. even a single da> without exploitation indomitable lighting spirit of sur• ple's Revolutionary Arms, llie military led by Comrade Kim It Sung, together and plunder, aggression and war. The mounting all difficulties arid trials and activities became more active and as• Placing all their hope and expeeta- with tire Soviet Army, fought the final rapacious iiioriopolislie ruling circles of liie revolutionary s|iiril of self-reliance. sumed larger ilimensions. lions solely on Comrade Kim II Sung, decisive battle lor the liberation of the Japan who fattened on the aggression Under the diflicull conditions in Around that lime, the enemy con- they rose as one man in the sacred war fatherland and thus routed and wiped and colonial plunder of other which everything was either in sliort eeiitraled lii^ armed forces on punitive for the liberation of tile fatiierland lol• out the Japanese imperialists and over• countries, ran wild to expand the arma• supply or lacking, tlie anti- Japanese operations against .tlie guerilla bases In lowing the road indicated by him. threw their colonial rule. ments, sending hellieo.se fascist ele• guerillas loughl the enemy iiivariahly the hope of willing them out. The third stage ol" tiie development ments from war to war. IWIMAWWWWWIfW in the stubborn figbting spirit of "Let In the leetti of the enemy's general of the anti-Japanese armed struggle Ill tlie ear]\ 19.nrs, liie .lapanese im• us beat the enemy even if we die blockade and large-scale punitive ol- covers the period between 1941 and perialist aggressor army iiaii already hundreds ol" million times." fensive. however, the anti-Japanese 1945. "I'his was Ihe period when the I'xcerpts from The Anti-Japanese struggle was waged for the restoration grown into a huge arms two million Ihe anti-.lapanesc- guerillas had to guerillas and tlie masses of the people, of the fatherland, the final victory of strong. The Kaiito army troo|is hurled ]iass the winter in the cold forests under the leadership of Comrade Kim Armed Struggle Of The Korean People the anti-Japanese armeil struggle, into the operations against tlie around 411 degrees iieiow zero and eoii- 11 Sung, fought heroically without the swileliiiig over from ihe former anti-Japanese guerilla units and mobil• limie their struggle sometimes allai ing slightest vacillation and with lirm con• Organized And Waged lender The Per• big-unit guerilla activities to the ized in the preparation for invasion of Iliirsl with melted snow and living oiii> fidence in the victory of the revolu• small-unit ones to coiie uttli the the Soviet I'nion from the late !930"s on rools of grass, lint thanks to tlie tion, and firmly defended the revolu• sonal Eeadersiiip of Comrade Kim II changed international and domestic sit• to the earh l94(Vs alone, ran into one sagacious leadership of Comrade Kim M tionary bases as long as four to five uations caused b\ the outbreak of million. Sung, the anti-Japatiesc guerilla army vears. Sung, Pyongyang, Korea 1968 3. Wo want an end to the robberv b> the CAPITALIST of our Black Cbmmtinitv. T October 1966 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 and two mules was pronrised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor Black Panther Party 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 of the Jewish people. The Ger• Platform and Program 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 is a modest demand that we make. 4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings. 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 miPi- 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 while 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 black 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 thebefore 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 th"-)' 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 jur> 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 r.ian" 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 equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a 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; What We Want that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That,-to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their |ust powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of governmenl becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people What We Believe 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 cfTect their safely and happiness. Pru• t. We want freedum. We want power to determine the destiny of our dence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not Black Community. be changed for light and transient causes; and. accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are We believe that black people will not be free until we are able to deter• sLifferable. than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they mine our deslinv. arc accustomed But. when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pur• suing invui iubly the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under ab• solute despotism. It is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such govern• 2. We Mailt full employment for our people. ment, and to provide new guards for their future security. We believe thai the ItukTal guwinniciil is responsible and obligated to gi\e e\erv man employment or a guaranleed iiuitme. We believe that if the white Ameiu.ni Inisiiu'ssmeii uill ncM gi\e lull eniplox nienl. then the I means oi prodiuUon sliould he taken Iron) the businessmen anil placed in the t (irnnmmtv so Ihal Ihe pet'|)le ol the c
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