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THE BLACK PANTHER Black Community News Service 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 <n the home ot former Cuban finance II Jan. Granada Hills, Cahl. Three students were charged with arson killed. minister Antonio Prio Socarras were blown out and one car demolished in an attempt to set fire to George K. Porter Junior High School alter #4 by an explosion. boycott ol school cafeteria protesting poor quality of food and higti 4 Mar Vtooltne, Ga. A fire caused slight damage at a higli school. Stu• 2 May. Chicago. W. George B. Swift ElemenUry School was h:t by #••1 Prices. • dents had been demonstrating lor a month in protest ot "deplorable arsonists. 16 Jan. Cleveland, Ohio. A fire caused (15.000 damage to Olmsted #•#1 conditions" at the school. #111 Fills High School library Over 8 000 volu—es were destroyed. 20 fHay..Fresno, Calif. Military-type explosives shattered windows and #•11 destroyed the front door ot the Sigma Nu fralernity house at Fresno w m I 22 Jan. Terre Haute, Ind Women's dorm was the target of a 25 Mar. Atlanta, Ga. A sniper bred at the State Capitol Budding. ^4 StaleCollege, made bomb which exploded outside and shattered windows, 21 May. Wash., D.C. The American Nazi Party HQ. was heavily damaged by a tire. 26 Feb. Detroit, Mich. Two bombs, found in the same rotim at Sterling 9 Apr. Atlanta, Ga. Three policemen were shot and killed by sniper fire. • 1 Township Jr. High School, failed to explode. 29 May. Lebanon. Mo Radio station KLWT was hit with a TNT bomb. 25 May. Kent. Ohio. Arson was charged in a fire at the women's dormi• #114 Reported damage was (3,000. The station was off the air lor 30 miriules. tory at Kent Slate University. Damage'was reported at (100.000. 3 Mar. Parma, Ohio. Atweff Investment Company's front window was Shattered by a bomb after the real estate firm received a threatening 7 July. Chicago. 111. Bombs exploded in downtown office buildings. 4 June. Chicego, III. A black powder pipe bomb damaged the field- 1114 phone call. house doer at the Thomas J. Waters Elementary School. Damage was 18 Mar. Abbeville, Ga. Police chief was shot lo death as he was trying 1114 #••4 ejtimated al (1500. lo break up a street fight. 15 luly. St. LOUIS, Mo. Two boys, ages Sand 10.set a tire in the Shepard 7 June. Los Angeles, Calit, An arson tire at Edwm Markham Junior Grade School. Mo damage was reported. High School in Watts caused an estimated,(25,000 in damages. 26 Mar. Los Angeles, Calil. Vandals at Woodrow Wilson jr. High School #•11 #••1 turned on live lire hoses, emptied 20 lire extinguishers and rampaged III I 8 Aug. Richmond. Va. The Bark and Co. Clothing Store was tut by 7 June. Montgomery Co.. Md. An arson lire at the Oak View Elementary #•11^ through the school dispensary and store causing (15.000 damage. III • arson lor the second time. The lust lire had caused 1500,000 damage. School caused (200.000 m damage. 28 Mar. Los Angeles. Calif. A classroom bungalow at 223rd Street #•11 Elementary school was set ablaze resulting in (15,000 damage. 9 Aug. St. LOUIS, UO. A homemade bomb placed outside the door ol a 18 June. Edison, N.J. A deserted Job Corps building was hit by fires #•11 Selective Service Board faded to explode. and four Job Corps youths arrested. 9 Apr. Cleveland. Ohio. An arson lire at the Giddmgs Elementary 4 1 School caused a reported (250.000 damage. A second arson lire 11 16 Aug. Los Angeles. Call! Approximately 10.000 persons noted in 20 June. Chicago. III. A mobile classroom ot Tilton Elementary School #••1 finished off the school three days later. the 150-hlock section ol Walts. Damages were estimated upwards of was almost completely charred by a fire WWW I 9 Apr. Jefferson City, Mo. Lincoln University's Memorial Hall received (200 million, even airplanes were shol al. Thuly-hve persons were #11J miner damage from lire. There were demonstrations on the campus killed. 20 June. Chicago. Ill Two policemen were wounded by sniper fire. 7^77^1 the previous week. 13 Apr Chicago. III. Slight damage was done to the University ol Chi• 13 Aug. Springfield, Mass. Two trading stamp redemption centers www I were hit with Mototov cocktails after 23 ciwl rights demonstrators cago bookstore when a bomb went off. Students were protesting in- lUt^ were arrested at City Hall. 13 July. Chicago. III. After police turned off a hre hydrant on a hot 'adequate facilities ol store. 4 Oct. Coft City, Ga. A cigarelte-fused firebomb damaged Nash Junior day, firebombs burned a garage and apartment building, and gunfire 7^77^4 16 Apr. Bloominglon, Ind. Central Junior High School was completely High School. and rocks were thrown at firemen. destroyed by a fire. Damage reported at (2,000.000. #••4 6 Aug. Chicago, III. Snipers fired upon police from rooftops in Chicago's 6 Nov.
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