STITUCT CHIEDENIS 3AM Black Community News Service VOL. IV NO. 4 SATURDAY^ DECEMBER 27, 19694 MINISTRY OF INFORMATION PUBLISHED BOX 2967, CUSTOM HOUSE WEEKLY THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94126 "Although my body may be bound and shackled, the driving force cannot be held down by chains and will always pick freedom and dignity." LANDON WILLIAMS, B.P.P. POLITICAL PRISONER DENVER, COLORADO 0 4'**' "Only with the Death of fascist America can we be free." RORY HITHE, B.P.P. POLITICAL PRISOHER DENVER, COLORADO MO JUSTICE IM AMERIKKKA STATEMENT TO TNE P.R.G. of S.V. FROM ELDRIDGE CLEAVER INSIDE: DAVID HILLIARD SPEAKS ON B.S.U.'s THE BLACK PANTHER. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 27, 1969 PAGE 2 L. A. PIGS CONDEMN PEOPLES' OFFICE Press Release culated to bring about its physical ples generally have been subjected Southern California Chapter, destruction. to for 400 hundred years, a farce Black Panther Party In cohesion with the rest of the and a poor joke. December i9, 1969 various governmental agencies, the The brothers and sisters who defended the office on December 8, Los Angeles Department of Building As part ofthe national conspiracy and Public Safety has joined the ef­ who defended the liberated terri­ to wipe out the Black Panther Party, forts of eradicating the Black tory that belongs to the people, efforts are now being made to lit­ Panther Party ( at least in Los would be very disappointed if we erally put us out, evict us from the Angeles). And are forcing absentee, moved. And the Black Panther Party premises at 4115 South Central slumlord Morris Rosen to serve is here to serve notice along with Avenue, site of our Central Head- us notice to quit the premises. the Black community that we will quarter's. The supposed reason is that the not be moved and that the Central Genocide is the very act or acts building of 4115 South Central Ave. Headquarter's of the Southern Cali­ Political Prisoner committed to destroy in whole or is unsafe and unfit for occupancy by fornia Chapter of the Black Panther in part a national ethnic, racial, human beings. We find this sudden Party is and will remain at 4115 or religious group. Genocide by concern with the living conditions South Central Avenue. ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE Speaks to GI'S definition is also the deliberate that the Black Panther Party inflictionCuRon a groupor members particularly, the Black community Southern California Chapter, GI's ol Camp Pendleton and es­ the other GI's that if the war in of the group) conditions of life cal­ and other poor and oppressed peo­ BLACK PANTHER PARTY pecially to those of you who support Vietnam were to stop tomorrow, the Party wholeheartedly in their that the imperialist beast would just struggle for the liberation of wage war somewhere else. It's our people—I can only say, Right historical that this type of society On, Intensify. For you, inessence, can only survive by means of mak­ and in some instances in totality, ing war. understand that liberation for Only by making revolution a- Black people means freedom for gainst this type of repression, by ALL oppressed people here in the stabbing this fascist beast in the "World's Capitol" of imperialism haart--which is right here in and overt fascism. I hear your bat­ Babylon--and by cutting off its im­ tle cries of anguish through these perialist arms, which stretch walls which hold me, my brothers across the world, oppressing, and my sisters,captive.I hear you bringing terror, and economically saying, "I will no longer be an em- enslaving people, can there be missary for this imperialist mili­ peace eveywhere. So you must tary regime no longer will I be the show them that with their cries cogs and wheels that motivate this for peace, let there be louder cries fascist machine for perpetual for revolution When we say we suppression." will kill ANYBODY who stands in You have taken time to serve the the way of our freedom, we mean people, and by doing this, you have ANYBODY and EVERYBODY. So felt the blows and seen that very the rest of you privileged pigs in mechanism of which you once the White House who happen to thought would make you a man, try see this, don't feel left out, for the to turn you into everything less than people know you have committed human, turn its guns on you. You genocide and you will continue to must not be of a stagnant nature, kill, to suppress freedom. There­ but of a REVOLUTIONARY ONE, fore we will kill you and your gold­ and have less fear for yourselves fish If necessary to obtain it. than you have for the people. For So, GI's, Intensify and Liberate without a revoluionary nature, the the Military. people will suffer, the taste of vic­ ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! tory will be nil, and freedom will FREE HUEY, FREE BOBBY! only be an illusion. You must show Robert Bryan Bill Green on the Condemning of LA. Panther Office FROM: Assembly California Legislature Bill Green, Assemblyman 53rd District DATE: December 18, 1969 Mr. Albert F. Bush, President Commissioner, Department of Public Work City Hall, Rm. 353 Los Angeles, California 90012 Dear Mr. Bush: This is to request that no further action be taken for the condemnation of the building housing the Black Panther Headquarter's in the 4100 block on South Central Avenue, until such rime as there has been assessment of the work necessary to bring the building up to the current City Code requirement. This request is predicated on the fact that the com­ munity which I represent has made the commitment that it will provide both money and labor to refurbish the structure. Please advise my office of your decision on this matter. Respectfully, Bill Green, Member of the Assembly California Legislature 53rd District THE BLACK PANTHER, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1969 PAGE 3 DAVID HILLIARD SPEAKS ON B.S.U.'S The first thing that struck my mind the tacticalsquad that we're not terror­ those people from the community on was the composition of the leaflets. ized by their violence. We're power­ the campuses; whether the pigs like I couldn't even get past the first ful because we out number them. And that or not. Because the pigs don't line, I didn't know what the word that there's nothing that they can do own these institutions. These insti­ tenure meant. So I had to go in my to stop our emancipation, there's no­ tutions are here for the people, and little briefcase and try and figure out thing they can do to stop you from it's the people that are going to put what the problem was on the campus. regaining your humanity. That's what these pigs in their rightful places. So after learning the definition of our struggle is about, it's about re­ They need to be institutionalized, they tenure, I got a little enlightened on volution. It's not just about teachers need to be in prison, they need to be what the problem is that the teachers holding their jobs. It's about teachers done away with. And that's the kind are having here on the campus. educating, and telling the truth on a of language that you have to get used I think the one thing we have to very oppressive and corrupt system. to using. You have to get used to hold clear in our minds is that the The leader of the Korean people speaking in that idiom,because that's campus only occupies the teachers and Kim II Sung, has said that, "reac­ the language of revolutionaries. the students 7 or 8 hours a day; tionary ideas of the imperialist, are You have to keep a very watchful and after that they're back into the the main tools used to produce ideo­ eye on the people that stand up and community. So that it's impossible to logical degeneration in people and use super revolutionary slogans; but make them politically deformed". So you can always catch them in various that it's the duty of the teachers to devious places. Watch these people, teach revolution: it's the duty of the judge these people by their actions teachers to join the revolution. Be­ and not by their words. Because the cause they're not teachers if they're whole revolution has been infiltrated; not teaching something relevant to the it's been infiltrated culturally, and it's community. And we don't make any been infiltrated ideologically. So we distinction between members of the have to be able to make distinctions A. F. T., White people and the Black between people who are really dedi­ students on our campuses. We don't cated to our cause and people who are make any distinctions between the just opportunistically getting on the White students on our campuses and band wagon because it's a popular the B.S.U. As matter of fact, we want trend. These are the things you have to expand the B.S.U., so that we can to think about. We're either going usurpe all the revolutionary individ­ to be revolutionaries or we're going uals, all the organizations; and put to be the children of fascists. together a more formidable force, We know how to judge our friends so that we can withstand the repres­ from our enemies.