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CHICAGOANS UNITE FOR COMMUNITY CONTROL OF POLICE

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EDITORIAL: “ENERGY CRISIS” A PHONEY

How suddenly an "energy crisis"? As long as U.S. bombers, consuming millions of pounds of energy fuel every day, were raining death on the peoples of Indochina, there was no "energy crisis". How then can there be an energy crisis ahead when we're supposed to be "winding down" the Indochina war and all that energy fuel it took to wage that agression is available?

This "crisis" is a phoney. It is being deliberately created by the giant oil interests with three major objectives: 1.) to justify big increases in the price to the consumer for petroleum products, primarily gasoline. 2.) to increase national pressure on Arab oil producing governments to withdraw demands for increases in crude oil prices equivalent to losses sustained as a result of the 10 percent devaluation of the dollar. 3.) to push independent retailers out of business.

Some weeks ago oil company representatives walked away from talks with representatives of Arab oil producing countries refusing to meet Arab demands. However, the oil companies know they will in the end have to comply. Talk among Arab leaders of using the threat of oil flow cut-offs against U.S. policy in the Middle East continues to increase. Stubborness on the part of the oil companies would only increase this threat. Compliance would undercut it, the oil companies believe.

The primary concern of the oil companies is that the consumer -- you and I -- pay the increased costs. The oil producing countries of the Middle East aren't cliaming any decrease in the potential flow of crude oil from the ground. Some of them are literally floating on a sea of oil. They only want a fairer share of the large income the oil giants receive.

Weak efforts to compel oil companies to develop domestic production and refining capacities have failed miserably. Oil companies have no intention of significantly increasing costs to themselves at the inflationary wage and price levels in the U.S.A. On May 10, The New York Times reported that Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz said he had received so little cooperation from the oil companies in his investigation into gasoline shortages, that he might be forced to subpoena their records. "They're playing it cool by not giving me any information", he is reported as saying.

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The oil giants are currently riding high. Washington will facilitate their maneuvers and the consumer will pay. But, there is a limit to consumer patience. A politically conscious and aware public is growing. The under-handed dealing with the lives of the American people in Washington is daily revealed. All the protestations in defense of the "system" fall on a growing army of deaf ears. The greed of corporate and banking cliques in this country will never act in the people's interests. Only the winning of people's power can save the country from greater disaster.

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O.A.U. CELEBRATES 10th ANNIVERSARY

The Organization of African Unity (OAU), founded on May 25, 1963, celebrates its tenth anniversary this month. An anniversary meeting of Heads of State and Governments is currently in progress in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, and headquarters of the OAU.

Thirty independent African countries were represented at the founding meeting of the Organization of African Unity. Today the organization boasts 41 member states.

The OAU was founded on the principles of coordinated cultural, political, scientific and economic policies of member states; to end colonialism in Africa; to promote a common defense of member's independence. In 1963, the cherished goal of continental - wide unity of African peoples seemed near at hand. But, something happened.

The imperialists knew that the unity of the continent of Africa under the leadership of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, first President of Ghana, or Julius Nyerere, first President of Tanzania, or Ahmed Sekou Toure, first President of the Republic of Guinea or Gamal Abdel Nasser, first President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, would be the beginning of their end as exploiters of Africa. They decided

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to undermine that dream of unity.

So, while the highly diverse, culturally varied, firmly established nations of Europe were busy uniting through the European Common Market and an array of various "defense" pacts, these same forces let loose a barrage of propaganda against the possibility of Africans uniting.

This was followed by a series of successful and attempted imperialist-engineered military coups around Africa that removed from power some of the firmest advocates of continental-wide African unity and threatened the stability of others. With the overthrow of President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana, the biggest blow to the ideal of African Unity was struck.

The Organization of African Unity withstood blows from all sides. Agent-provocateurs did their best to destroy the organization. They only succeeded in limiting its effectiveness as a vehicle for the creation of political and economic unity of the continent. The OAU, however, remains to celebrate its tenth anniversary, wiser from the experience of its first ten years.

We join with our African comrades in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the founding of the Organization of African Unity. We pledge ourselves to the original aims and objectives of the OAU as formulated and advocated by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. We carry forward the ideals of our brother, El Haqq Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X), who implemented here the principled unity that exists between ourselves and our African brothers and sisters.

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WATERGATE: ONLY THE EXPOSURE IS NEW

What is happening in Washington, D.C. has been apparent to many of us for a long time. We, the formerly imprisoned, the poor, have consistently stated that America would destroy itself; that the truth would one day be exposed. We said that our years/our lifetimes in jail and in poverty would be a lesson for all people, an introductory course in understanding the corrupt nature of the U.S. government.

Any person who has seen the Senate Watergate investigating committee on television knows that it has finally come into being -- the beginning signs of the fall of the empire, America. People know now, from their past experiences with dishonesty, injustice and the false democracy of this country that all of this could not have occurred in the span of one year. It has been ongoing, for as long as there has been a government in this country. America's foundation was built on corruption, deceit, racism and bias.

Richard Nixon, a candidate for president at the time of the burglary of the Democratic Party files, knew that a conspiracy was going on. He knew that the committee which would eventually re-elect him had to go to any lengths to do that. There was no great uproar. There were discussions, there were meetings; it was done. They knew that nothing would be done unless they were caught and they were. Yet, Black and poor people have been unjustly accused of conspiracy, treason, robbery and burglary. We have been the objects of wiretapping. We have been murdered without cause or jailed because the government disliked us. Now the tables have turned.

The same grimacing faces who stared at us and questioned our existence are now staring at themselves, they are questioning their friends and the families of their friends about the "clandestine" occurrences that former CIA agent James McCord very freely talks about. We expected these things of such a group of individuals as these.

It makes us, the Black and poor, the abused of this country wonder. Should all of the people in the prisons be

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there? Should all the people who are picked up in the streets, harassed and arrested, be accused of crimes? Are they the true criminals? The real criminals seem to be sitting, awaiting trial on Capitol Hill.

Our feeling is that all the prisoners who have been unjustly incarcerated should be released. The jails should be filled with those who have threatened the well being of the people of the United States through their fraud, their thievery and inhumanity.

We are forced to ask ourselves why? Why has David Hilliard not ben released? Why was Huey P. Newton forced to face four trials? Why did Bobby Seale (a more humane politician than any of the Nixoners) find himself chained and gagged in a Chicago courtroom and chided and harassed for no reason in a jail in New Haven. The answers are becoming clearer. They have become illuminated by the "Watergate Affair". However, we will not find the solutions to our problems until we, the Black and the Poor, move in a unified way to alleviate the internal decay that has caused these oozing sores to be present upon the face of America - the beautiful.

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CHICAGOANS UNITE FOR COMMUNITY CONTROL OF POLICE: DRAFT ORDINANCE TO HIGHLIGHT JUNE 1st AND 2nd CONFERENCE

Bobby Rush, coordinator of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party and moderator of the upcoming Community Control of Police Conference, to be held on June 1st and 2nd in Chicago (see last week's issue of THE BLACK PANTHER) recently outlined a proposed ordinance for the establishment of community control of Chicago's police and explained the scheduled conference in terms of short and long range goals.

In a telephone conversation just this past week with THE BALCK PANTHER, Bobby detailed the control of police ordinance proposal, showing exactly how it would function. Minor points remain to be worked out for positive structure for ending police abuse of Chicago's citizenry.

"Of course", Bob Rush stated, "implementation of the ordinance is a long range goal of the scheduled conference, to be reached around 1975." He stressed that immediately after the conference a short range goal of campaigning for voter registration will begin. "We will have Community Control of Police petitions which 10% of all Chicagoans who voted in the last election (about 100,000) must sign in order for the ordinance to be placed on the ballot." Bob Rush further stated that about 600,000 people eligible to vote in Chicago are currently unregistered.

"We have filed suit to force the Board of Election Commissioners to deputize members of the City-Wide Campaign for Community Control of Police (as the movement is called) so that we can begin to register people to vote," he said, "The 600,000 unregistered people are mostly Black and poor."

"Another short range goal is to set up special ward and precinct structures and committees" he said. "Precinct Committees would conduct monthly meetings and investigate citizens' complaints of police abuse. Survival programs, such as food buying clubs and the SAFE program (Seniors Against A Fearful Environment - a program to protect Senior citizens against muggings, originally implemented in Oakland, California by Bobby Seale) would be established on the precinct level."

The far-reaching and progressive control of police ordinance proposed begins with:

The powers of the Mayor, Superintendent of Police, Police Board and City Council…are hereby superceded in the following respects. This ordinance shall transfer the power of supervising and administrating the Chicago Police department and all its affairs to the citizens of Chicago at large via the following structures and provisions…

A. There is hereby created in each of the 21 police districts in Chicago a District Citizen's Police Board. Said Board shall have the powers, duties, composition, and shall be chosen as set forth below:

Each District Board shall have nine members. These members shall reflect the general composition of the population of their respective district. No member of any District Board shall be an employee of the Chicago Police Department nor hold any other public office.

The members of each District Board shall be elected by the residents of each police district commencing September, 1975…

Candidates for members of the Police Board shall be at least eighteen (18) years of age by the date of the

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election.

Each District Board shall set polcy, procedures and regulations with respect to all affairs of the police in its district that they will insure the safety, justice and general well being of the citizenry of each district and the general citizenry of the city of Chicago.

In addition, each District Police Board shall have the following powers and duties:

To review existing police policies and procedures within each district and to alter said policies and procedures…

Each District Board shall receive complaints from citizens concerning police behavior in its district and shall hear such complaints, take evidence, make findings of fact and decisions pursuant to procedures promulgated by the City wide Police Commission… shall have the power to suspend or fire for misconduct unbecoming an officer of the police…

All records of the police department at the district level shall be open to the District Police Board as they shall need them. The right of citizens to privacy shall be well guarded by the District Board.

The above points are but a part of the total control of police ordinance proposal. With such a watchdog nance in operation, it would be more than difficult for Chicago's infamous police to continue their barbarous practices against the city's poor residents.

The June 1st and 2nd Community Control of Police conference to be held in Chicago will feature as keynote speakers such notables as Huey P. Newton, Ralph Abernathy, Julian Bond and Fannie Lou Hamer. The conference will be held at the University of Illinois, Circle Campus.

Workshops will include community control of police and the mentioned ordinance proposal, voter registration, ward redistricting and cooperative economics. Conference registration is free and begins at 4:00 p.m. on June 1st.

Chicago has the highest rate of Black and poor people murdered by police than any other metropolitan city in the United States. It is infamous for the police assassination of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, two members of the Black Panther Party at the time of their deaths on December 4, 1969. Corruption inside Chicago's police department is rampant, reaching all the way up to the Superintendant's desk and further. In this light, THE BLACK PANTHER adds its voice in support of the scheduled control of police conference in Chicago and urges all those capable of participating to do so.

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CHARLES BURSEY DUE FOR PAROLE HEARING

Charles Bursey, incarcerated member of the Black Panther Party, is due for a parole hearing at the end of this month. It will be his fourth. Unjustly convicted of assault against a police officer in the events that led to the police murder of Black Panther Party member 17-year-old Lil' Bobby Hutton, Charles Bursey has been held by the California prison system since August, 1969.

Despite exemplary conduct which is an example to his fellow prison inmates, Charles Bursey has been repeatedly denied parole by a California Adult Authority notorious for such conduct. Following his last parole hearing, in February Brother Bursey was the victim of an unprovoked attack by a white prison inmate, Steven Clark, resulting in a three-quarter inch puncture wound in his midback region.

Efforts on the part of prison inmates at Vacaville to secure a trial for Clark outside the confines of the prison were unsuccessful. Spearheaded by Brother Bursey and David Hilliard, well known member of the Black Panther Party also incarcerated at Vacaville prison, the prison inmates urged that disciplinary action by prison authorities would only result in a white-washing and do nothing to bring an end to the atmosphere of intimidation, harassment, violence and murder that fills this and other prisons.

Since that attack Clark has been removed from Vacaville prison and there is no indication of what disciplinary action, if any, was taken against him.

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Charles Bursey has, in the meantime, become a skilled medical assistant, proficient in the functions of a vocational nurse. He has undertaken this course of action in order to prepare himself better to serve the people, when he returns to the community, through medical work at the George Jackson People's Free Medical Research Health Clinic in Berkeley.

Working a double shift at Vacaville, Brother Bursey during the day, from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., attends to the general medical needs of newly arrived prison inmates at the Reception Guidance Center. There he administers typhoid and tetanus shots at a rate of 60 to 70 a day. He also administers to and dresses wounds and applies first aid.

During the night, from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m., Brother Bursey is the head attendant in Vacaville Hospital. In this capacity he assists the medical officers and supervises a group of prison inmate colleagues in the endless chores required for the care of hospital patients. In addition, Charles Bursey attends to the medical and sanitation needs of paraplegics, senselessly and cruelly held in lockup at Vacaville.

Brother Bursey drives himself at this steady daily 20-hour work pace with one object in mind: to prepare himself to be a contributing member of his community when he is allowed to return.

With such a record to be presented to the California adult Authority when the hearing is held on his parole application, there can be no valid basis for the authority to deny Charles Bursey parole.

Readers are urged to flood the California Adult Authority with letters, postcards and demands for the release of Charles Bursey on parole. This must be done now to assure that they reach the Authority prior to the hearing. Address your letters and cards to California Adult Authority, Ferry Building, San Francisco, California 94111.

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE

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SAN QUENTIN 6 RETURN TO COURT AGAIN DENIED ATTORNEYS OF CHOICE

(San Rafael, Calif.) - The San Quentin Six returned to court after a year of legal harassment on May 11, and were again denied the right to have the attorneys of their choice appointed to their defense. The Six, Fleeta Drumgo, David Johnson, Hugo Pinell, Johnny Larry Spain, Luis Talamantez and Willie Tate, are Black and Latino prisoners charged with murder and conspiracy in connection with the August 21, 1971, incident in which George Jackson was murdered by prison authorities and five others were killed.

The case against the Six has been in recess for the past year as the brothers fought to be represented by competent attorneys of their choice. After winning a decision from the California Court of Appeals which would allow an indigent defendant unable to pay for legal services to have an attorney of his choice appointed, the decision was overturned by the State Supreme Court.

A petition appealing that decision has been filed on behalf of the Six and is now pending in the United States Supreme Court. However, the Marin County Court system is still proceeding with its political railroad of these active political organizers.

San Quentin prison officials have fabricated a well-publicized conglomeration of lies surrounding the assassination of George Jackson, Black Panther Party member and well known revolutionary theoretician. They allege that he and the Six took part in an escape attempt from the Adjustment Center of San Quentin Prison in August of 1971, killing two guards and three white inmates. However, the murder of George Jackson and the story of the prison authorities have been exposed as lies by the public. The State has no evidence to link the Six to the incident. They were arbitrarily singled out because of prior political activity. Since being charged the brothers have been constantly harassed, have suffered beatings and other abuse at the hands of guards.

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A packed courtroom of supporters greeted the Six at their court appearance at the Marin County Courthouse. Police were everywhere, moving nervously and ready to overreact violently for little or no reason. However, the session was quiet, and was mainly concerned with pretrial questioning by Judge Broderick. He adamantly refused to relieve any of the six court-appointed lawyers from the case, even though the attorneys themselves openly stated that they wanted no part in the case.

The next court date is June 1st. If the U.S. Supreme Court decides to consider the Six's petition before they recess on June 5th, the trial will be suspended until a decision is reached. If not, the Supreme Court won't consider the petition until it reconvenes in October. This will allow the Marin County courts to proceed with its intended legal lynching. Public demand must be brought to bear against both the Supreme Court and the Marin County Court in order to save the San Quentin Six and set an example for other political trials around the country.

Donations to the San Quentin Six can be sent to the Legal Defense Fund, c/o National Lawyer's Guild 558 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA. 94110.

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MOBILE, ALA.: PRISONERS PROTEST CONDITIONS IN COUNTY JAIL

(Mobile, Ala.) - THE BLACK PANTHER has learned from Brother Jerry White, a prison inmate in Alabama's Holman prison, that prisoners in the Mobile County Jail are preparing to struggle through Alabama's legal/ judicial apparatus with the Mobile County Jail administration to insure prison inmates' human rights.

During a stay at Mobile County Jail, Brother White learned that a list of grievances was drawn up by Freemen United for Better Conditions, a group of prisoners there, and copies were sent to the sheriff, jail warden and the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama in Mobile. These prison inmates seek to draw the attention of the public to their plight and elicit all the active support they can.

The prisoners' outline of grievances includes the following: The jail is in clear violation of state housing laws. According to law 500 cubic feet of floor space must be allowed for each inhabitant (prisoner). The Mobile Jail facility also fails to meet state requirements in regard to plumbing, ventilation, heating, sanitation and electrical and fire safety requirements.

The prisoners charge that medical treatment is nearly non-existent and physical examinations are not given, hospital care is poor and patients are often returned to their quarters before adequate treatment is administered or sufficient recovery is completed. Dental care is just as poor and meals lack the necessary amounts of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients

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to sustain the prisoners. There is no relaxation or recreation.

The prison inmates asked that Mobile County Jail provide them with the necessities for personal hygiene. These include a change of linen (sheets and towels) three times a week, a change of uniforms twice a week, a pair of shoes for each one.

The prisoners have correctly pointed out that punishments issued out by prison officials without "due process of law", that is, some form of fair hearing where the prison inmate is permitted to offer an argument in his defense, are unconstitutional.

In addition they submit that "the crowding of three men into the hole, a seven by eight by nine foot unsanitary cell constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the 8th amendment of the U.S. Constitution." Prisoners thrown into the hole are denied light, blankets, mattresses, water and toilet facilities.

The serious crimes committed against prisoners by the Mobile County Jail authorities are not uncommon in American lock-ups. We urge our readers to support these prison inmates demands and the legal battles waged to compel jail authorities to honor their Constitutional rights.

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“Until We're free”

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NOW AVAILABLE AT MAJOR RECORD STORES NEAR YOU.

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LONE SURVIVOR OF S.T.R.E.S.S. MANHUNT ACQUITTED

(Detroit, Mich.) - Hayward Brown, the only surviving brother of a massive police/STRESS manhunt that aroused the Black community of Detroit and ended with the police murder of three brothers in Atlanta, Georgia, was acquitted of charges of assault with intent to murder four Detroit STRESS cops. Brown had earlier testified in his own defense.

Brown confirmed that he and two of the three murdered brothers, Mark Clyde Bethune and John Percy Boyd, were fired on by police without provocation on the night of December 4; they fired back only in self defense. Four police officers were wounded in the exchange and the three brothers escaped. The hunt for the brothers by police and STRESS officers terrorized the Black community and resulted in the death of two innocent men.

Brown further confirmed that he, Bethune and Boyd were engaged in serious efforts to undermine the activities of the city's drug underworld. He said that they were upset by the deaths of friends believed to have been victims of narcotics related murders. Brown testified that they had concluded that the police were ineffectual in combating the drug problem in the Black community because he knew certain policemen were taking bribes from dope dealers and shipping heroin themselves.

Brown testified that on the night of the encounter, he and his two friends were shadowing the activities of a particular dealer, preparing to approach him, when one of four white men jumped out of an unmarked car and began pounding on the closed window. Moments later a shot was fired into Brown's car through the rear window and the exchange began.

Brown appeared calm and relaxed during his testimony. He remained on the witness stand for an hour and a half, answering the questions of his defense attorney, Kenneth V. Cockrel and those of Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Thomas Bahen.

The acquittal jury of ten Blacks and two Whites "… was representative of the totality of Detroit", Brown's attorney, Kenneth Cockrel explained. "We said nothing to that jury it didn't already know… from their own life experience."

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POLICE BRUTALIZE DISABLED BROTHER

On Tuesday, May 2nd, misfortune found Brother Wayne Burton while he was riding a Philadelphia bus. Unlike the other bus riders, on this day Brother Wayne never reached his stop. Enroute to his destination, despite his epilepsy and the polio-produced partial paralysis of his right side, he was mercilessly beaten off a bus by a Philadelphia policeman.

Brother Burton was riding the bus through the racist Frankford area of Philadelphia While disembarking at Bridge and 'ratt Streets, a young

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white woman felt that Brother Burton was moving too slow for her. She shoved him off the bus, in utter disregard for his physical disability. Upon leaving the bus, she sauntered down the street smirking and smiling to the tune of Brother Burton's indignation: "Do not touch me again."

While seating himself upon a second bus, Brother Burton was approached and brutally beaten off the bus by a policeman. Brother Burton's new destination suddenly became the 15th precinct police department, where-upon arriving he was further brutalized by several officers. He was then taken to a third destination, Frankford Hospital, where he was given a white hospital gown because his clothes were so terribly blood-spattered. He was then shipped to his fourth destination, Philadelphia General Hospital, where his mother, Mrs. Rush, was called in on the claim that Brother Burton was beaten and robbed. When Mrs. Rush saw her son, he was unrecognizable.

After Mrs. Rush told the hospital attendants of Brother Burton's epilepsy and partial paralysis, they called in neurologist Dr. Calvin Stafford, who examined his skull. Despite Dr. Stafford's effort to send for another specialist, it was decided that Brother Burton would not be admitted to the hospital. The two officers accompanying Brother Burton repeatedly commanded the hospital attendants to "Hurry up and release him so we can take him in and charge him."

Brother Burton's fifth destination turned out to be the Central Police Administration building, where he was denied food, water and medicine for epileptic seizure control for his entire four hour detainment. He was released only after his wife and mother posted $300 bail.

The police side of the incident was given by 15th district commander Captain Guy Kates. He said Sergeant William Brennen boarded the bus after police received a complaint from two girls that Burton had punched one of them in the stomach. According to Kates, Sergeant Brennen asked Burton three times to get off the bus. Kates claimed that Sergeant Brennen finally took Burton by the arm, at which point Burton jumped up and punched Brennen in the eye. At Frankford Hospital Sergeant Brennen received five stitches in his eye and claimed that Burton bit him on the leg. Captain Kates said that Brennen was forced to strike out several times to defend himself from the partially paralyzed Burton.

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ATLANTA: POLICE ARREST BLACK PICKETERS

(Atlanta, Georgia) - Black strikers, picketing Rich's Department Stores now face the harassment, threats and punishment of corrupt Atlanta Police Chief John Inman's predominantly White, racist police department. The police force is being thrust into the economic struggle between the Black community and the business community as a tool of the business interests. It was like this, in 1963, when Rich's officials arranged the arrest and jailing of Dr. Martin Luther King.

In a recent prayer march led by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Rev. Hosea Williams, SCLC leader and organizer of the Rich's employee strike, addressed the scores of Atlanta policemen who arrived on foot, on motorcycles, mounted horseback, in cars and by bus. As they prepared the mass arrest of all those caught striking on downtown Atlanta's Peachtree Street, Hosea told the crowd, "Truth crushed to earth shall rise again." Turning to the outnumbering policemen, he declared, "Our fight is not with you, our fight is with the Atlanta downtown power structure led by the officials of Rich's Department Stores."

As police reinforcements continued to arrive and amass in a wall of night sticks and brawn, the 250 picketing, praying, singing demonstrators dwindled. Rev. Hosea declared "Rich's has become the vanguard of racism and repression in Atlanta." He went on, "Every one of you policemen, including the Black Major Gross,

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who is in charge, should join us in this march to end exploitation of the poor in this rich city…the same set of rich Whites robbing and exploiting the Rich's employees are robbing and exploiting you."

When Chief Inman's men got the order from Major Gross, the Black commander of the force that Rich's/ Inman sent, they made the arrests heedless of Rev. Williams' words. Fifty-one demonstrators failed to be intimidated and were taken into custody for violation of the city's "Safe Streets and Sidewalk Act" and for parading without a permit". Rev. Williams, able to avoid the initial arrest sweep was taken into custody as he attempted to encourage those already arrested.

A questionable two-year-old court conviction leaves Rev. Williams, one of Dr. M.L. King's close aides, in jail for 37 days. The Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy has taken over the leadership of the fight until Rev. Williams' return. Abernathy called Williams a "political prisoner".

The protestors were jammed into two cells, one for men, one for women, and Rev. Hosea was kept separately, in the receiving area. As the closed-in cells began to swelter with the heat and humidity of many bodies, Brother Louis Graham, the Black homicide Lieutenant who was demoted and transferred to jail duty when he exposed as murder the slaying of a Black man by a White policeman (see THE BLACK PANTHER, Vol. IX, No. 30). He opened the cell doors to allow fresh air into the suffering protestors. This proved again that Brother Graham, a servant of the people, has not been broken by Atlanta's ruling elite. The fifty-one demonstrators who remained to face arrest prove the determination and courage of many other Blacks to fight the oppression heaped upon us.

Rich's has lost well over a million dollars during the course of this six week strike and stands to lose more, because of the persistence of SCLC and the striking employees. Rich's may lose some, or all, of 500 experienced workers as well.

In another incident witnesses to the April 24, police shooting of Brother Charlie Oliver gave testimony to the People's Crusader, SCLC's Atlanta Chapter newspaper, to the effect that Brother Oliver was killed "after he was apprehended, for no apparent reason". The robbery suspect was taken to a vacant parking lot and shot in the head by Stake-Out detective H.F. Pharr, the witnesses said.

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GROWERS, TEAMSTERS LOSING BATTLE WITH FARM WORKERS: AFL - CIO VOTES $1.6 MILLION TO U.F.W. STRIKE FUND

Recent events demonstrate that Coachella Valley, California grape growers and the Teamsters Union are losing their self-declared war with the United Farm Workers (UFW). Last week, a grower had to send 73 grape workers home after the workers co-operated with a UFW work slow down. Also, to battle the Teamsters, the AFL-CIO Union voted the farm-workers $1.6 million in strike support funds along with unlimited manpower.

The UFW has been on strike since April 16th when growers signed "sweetheart" contracts with the racist Teamsters, rather than renew UFW contracts. The growers need the Teamsters because they know that they can always arrange" an accommodation" with the corrupt Teamsters Union by paying cash under the table to Teamster Officials.

The 73 dismissed workers were at the Coachella Imperial Distributors skinning seedless grapes close to the road where they could hear the UFW pickets. To show solidarity with the strikers, on cue the workers responded to the direction of the strikers. The workers threw their hats, grapes, scissors and vines in the air, took breaks and drank water. Frustrated, the growers ordered the workers to disregard the strikers, stop taking breaks and increase the work pace to meet a production standard of seven vines an hour. However, while being ignored the outraged growers, ordered the entire crew home.

The $1.6 million was voted to the UFW by the AFL-CIO Executive Council after the Council heard an appeal by UFW Director Cesar Chavez. After giving the money, AFL-CIO President George Meany told Chavez, "There's more money where that came from, if you need it." Meany said that the money was given to conduct a strike against, "The most vicious strike-breaking, union-busting effort that I have seen in my lifetime on the part of the Teamsters." Meany further accused the Teamsters of signing "sweetheart" contracts that make farmworkers "actual slaves to the labor contractor."

Despite claims by one grower that Chavez "is not interested in wages and hours but in social revolution", the UFW wage contract outstripped the Teamster contract. While the Teamsters call for $2.30 per hour, the UFW agreement provided for $2.40 per hour.

During a recent Saturday night rally in Delano, California, at which the 5,000 attending farmworkers constituted a real show of strength, Chavez declared, "if we need 5,000 men, Mr. Meany says he'll send 5,000. He said he would send as many men as we need to beat the Teamsters." Hailing the AFL-CIO support, Chavez exclaimed, "Now we will be able to have a real strike for the first time!" Farmworkers without money in reserve, he explained, could not afford to strike, that left a boycott as the union's only weapon.

Rapport between the strikers and field workers has been very good. Before the workers enter the fields they stop to take leaflets and exchange greetings and small talk with the strikers. Referring to the impact of joining the strike in the critical time, the harvest, the workers comment that when they are wanted, they will come out.

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A NEW WOUNDED KNEE?

In the wake of Wounded Knee, a new thrust in the American Indian Movement is developing in Eastern Montana. Indian leaders of the Northern Cheyenne Reservation there have recently instructed the Bureau of Indians Affairs, which functions as a trustee for the reservation, to cancel billions of dollars worth of strip mining leases granted to four of this country's largest energy corporations.

In cancelling the leases, the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Council charged that the BIA had failed to obtain a fair price for leases on billions of tons of low sulphur coal beneath their 415,000 acre reservation and also failed to prepare the detailed studies of the environmental impact of strip mining on the reservation, which is required by federal law.

The four energy corporations involved in the strip mining dispute are Peabody Company, the largest strip mining outfit in the nation, Consolidated Coal Company of Pittsburgh, Chevrol Oil and American Metals Climax. All totaled, these companies currently hold leases representing the use of about 225,000 acres of Cheyenne reservation land.

Cheyenne spokesmen said that an offer proposed to them last year by Consolidated "opened the Indians' eyes" in regards to the level of exploitation perpetrated against them.

Consolidated proposed to the Cheyenne a 1 billion dollar, billion-ton-a year coal development on the reservation and further offered an exclusive block of coal leases at $35 an acre.

The Bureau of Indian Affairs, since 1966, "acting for" the Northern Cheyenne, has been auctioning exploration permits or mining leases on roughly half the reservation to huge corporations for the absurd sum of $1 an acre.

Already there is much speculation that this Cheyenne reservation will become the "new Wounded Knee." This is borne out by an official statement, "There is the desire of the Administration here in Washington… to keep radical Indians, like those of the American Indian Movement at Wounded Knee, off the Montana reservations."

It makes no difference to the U.S. that the unmined coal beds on the Cheyenne reservation belong to the Cheyenne people, who have every right to re-negotiate exploitative contracts which were previously okayed by the corrupt Bureau of Indian Affairs.

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UNEMPLOYMENT RAMPANT AMONG BLACK VETERANS

Recently released facts and statistics more than substantiate the conclusion that Black service veterans are among the least likely to be employed of any group in this country. What is more, the facts clearly confirm that rather than help alleviate the conditions of Black servicemen, the armed forces of this country contribute to worsening and undermining the job-getting potential of Black G.I.'s.

Let's let the facts speak for themselves. As of last June, Black men constituted 15.1% of the Army, 5.7% of the Navy, 10.8% of the Air Force and 12.5% of the Marines; a total of over 248,000 Black men or 9.1% of the total Black male population between 18-24 years old. Joblessness and the need for skills training are two prime factors for their enlistment in the services. Since 1965, 24.4% of Black youth between 18-24 have been unemployed, compared with a white rate of 12.5% for the same age group.

Although the combined armed services list 237 occupational fields and maintain nearly 300 technical and specialty training schools, Black G.I.'s are systematically excluded from these due to prior educational disadvantages. While Class I, II and III scores on the Armed Forces Qualification Tests can generate a fruitful skills learning experience for a wide variety of reasons, (with racism at the root of most, if not all of them), Black G.I.'s fail to qualify.

This miscarriage of military justice also is a prime factor which disqualifies Black servicemen from future employment. Black servicemen received 19.3% of all bad conduct and 33.3% of all dishonorable discharges in 1971. They also received 18.4% of undesirable discharges and 16.9% of general discharges that same year. Unlike the two former discharge categories, these last two discharges do not reqire the establishmentof guilt through courts - martial, but rather,

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the Black G.I. must prove his innocence to superior officers, 99% white and racist in background and training.

The unemployment figures are correspondingly as bad. In the first quarter of 1972, the jobless figure for Black Vietnam - era veterans, 20-24 years old, stood at 22.4% -- higher than national unemployment at any time during the Great Depression. And, although this rate dropped sharply to 9.5% by December 31, 1972, over 9,000 Black veterans completely gave up looking for jobs and therefore are not listed in unemployment figures.

These statistics form a harsh and stinging indictment of U.S. society, and the overall inability in this country to employ Black service veterans. Unless there is immediate and thorough-going improvement in this regard, the frustration and rage of our Black veterans, their families and friends -- the entire Black community, in fact -- will grow proportionately. Then, as emotions mount, there will be no question concerning the armed services of the U.S. having to repay, in some way, the deaths they have brought to thousands of families across the country.

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BLACK TRADE UNION PARLEY

(Washington, D.C.) - A national convention open to Black trade unionists from throughout the country is being held May 25 through May 27 in Washington, D.C. It has been called by the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, a nationwide organization of Black men and women in the labor movement.

Members of the Coalition's national steering committee include William Lucy of Washington, D.C., secretary-treasurer of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; Charles Hayes of Chicago, vice-president, Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North Ameria, AFL-CIO; Nelson Jack Edwards, Detroit, vice-president of the United Auto Workers; William Simons of Washington, D.C., president, American Federation of Teachers Local 6; and Cleveland Robinson of New York City, president of the Distributive Workers of America.

THE BLACK PANTHER hopes to provide our readers with a report of the results of the convention in the near future.

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NIXON IMPEACHMENT PETITION LAUNCHED

With the continuing surfacing facts which connect President Richard M. Nixon to the Watergate Scandal, and his continuing acts of violence against people both at home and in Southeast Asia, demands for the impeachment of Nixon have arisen from many parts of the country. In the nation's capital, the Concerned Citizens Committee, is circulating a petition calling for Nixon's impeachment.

The groups list the latest revelations that evidence the corruption of the Nixon Administration and describes the actions as "calculated to violate the Constitution by centering practically monarchial power in the Presidency".

The petition accuses the Nixon Administration of:

-- "Preventing the laws from being executed and obstructing justice in regard to the Watergate Case;

-- "Impounding billions of dollars duly appropriated by Congress to meet the health, education, welfare and ecological needs of the country, in such a way as to unconstitutionally item-veto and pocket-veto Congressional law;

-- "Ordering Cambodia mercilessly

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bombed despite the end of all conceivable legal or Constitutional authority or justification;

-- "Creating a special secret para-legal White House police unit to investigate the Pentagon Papers Affairs;

-- "Attempting to influence Judge Byrne's conduct of the Ellsberg-Russo trial by offering him high office."

The Committee is urging persons to copy and circulate the petition, which is addressed to the Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary in the House of Representatives. The motion for impeachment must originate in the House. They also urge that persons write to Congressmen, senators, their local press, and local political parties.

For further information contact the Concerned Citizens Committee at 1808 Wyoming Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

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BLACK CAPITALISM REANALYZED

Theory illumines practice. When Huey P. Newton focused upon and elucidated the phenomenon of Black capitalism, his analysis was as a shining beacon light shed upon the practice of achieving unity within the Black community. Huey P. Newton's article, "Black Capitalism Reanalyzed" is the clear and unequivocal crystallation of The Black Panther Party's, theory concerning Black capitalism. In examining Black Capitalism's positives and negatives, this fourth installment of the five-part series of the article delves into Black capitalism's relationship to the White corporate empire, to the Black community, and to the national bourgeoisie in decolonization wars.

When we say that we see within Black capitalism the seeds of its own negation and the negation of all capitalism, we recognize that the small Black capitalist in our communities has the potential to contribute to the building of the machine which will serve the true interests of the people and end all exploitation. By increasing the positive qualities of the Black capitalist, we may be able to bring about a non-antagonistic solution of his contradiction with the community, while at the same time heightening the oppressed community's contradiction with the large corporate capitalist empire.

This will intensify the antagonistic contradiction between the oppressed community and the empire; and by heightening that contradiction, there will subsequently be a violent transformation of the corporate empire. We will do this through our survival programs which have the interest of the community at heart.

We now see the Black capitalist as having a similar relationship to the Black community as the national bourgeoisie have to the people in national wars of decolonization. In wars of decolonization the national bourgeoisie supports the freedom struggles of the people because they recognize that it is in their own selfish interest. Then when the foreign exploiter has been kicked out, the national bourgeoisie takes his place and continues the exploitation. However, the national bourgeoisie is a weaker group, even though they are exploiters. Therefore the people are in a better position to wipe the national bourgeoisie away after they have assisted the people in wiping out the foreign exploiters. (NOTE: Our analysis of the new conditions in the world, which are revealed in our development of the concept of Reactionary Intercommunalism, indicates that under the present circumstances the national bourgeoisie and their domestic equivalents are in a weaker position now than they were when they were in a state of colonialism or just freed from colonialism. This is because under Reactionary Intercommunalism the national bourgeoisie is in control of a smaller unit (a community) than before. Not only does this make them weaker, it also makes it more likely that a non-antagonistic transformation of their contradiction can take place because the objective interests of the national bourgeoisie are in many ways similar to those of the people who are victimized.)

Since the people see Black capitalism in the community as Black control of local institutions, this is a positive characteristic, because the people can bring more direction and focus to the activities of the capitalist. At the same time the Black capitalist who has the interest of the community at heart will respond to the needs of the people, because this is where his true strength lies.

So far as capitalism in general is concerned, the Black capitalist merely has the status of a victim, because the big white capitalists have the skills, they make the loans, and they in fact control the Black capitalist. If he wants to succeed in his enterprise, the Black capitalist must turn to the community, because he depends on them to make his profit. He needs this strong community support because he cannot become independent of the control of the corporate capitalists who control the large monopolies.

The Black capitalist will be able to support the people through contributing to the survival programs of the Black Panther Party. In contributing to such programs, he will be able to help build the vehicle which will eventually liberate the Black community. He will not be able to deliver the people from their problems, but he will be able to help build the strong political machine which will serve as a revolutionary vanguard and guide the people in their move toward freedom.

CONTINUED NEXT WEEK

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INTERCOMMUNAL NEWS: Africa In Focus

(Khartoum, Sudan)-All political prisoners held in the Sudan were recently set free, according to a government statement. This included leaders of the dissolved Communist Party who were arrested after an abortive coup in 1971. President Jaafar el Numiery is now forming a new government following the formal dismissal of his 16-member cabinet.

(Freetown, Sierra Leone)-The malaria-carrying mosquito was honored in this West African capital recently for making the country the "white man's grave" in past years and preventing Europeans from settling here and setting up "another Rhodesia". The Order of the Mosquito has been created to reward acts of military or civil gallantry.

(Sacramento, California)- California Assembly's Black caucus together with Assemblymen John L. Burton and John F. Dunlap have introduced a series of bills in the California assembly designed to change a state policy which now allows public funds to be invested in South Africa. Some 200 firms from which California buys substantial amounts of goods and services play a key role in economic development in southern Africa, shoring up oppressive, white racist, minority governments.

(United Nations, N.Y.)- Measures designed to tighten the United Nations trade embargo against Rhodesia were unanimously urged in a report recently issued by the U.N. Security Council's Sanctions Committee. They mainly sought to close loopholes going through South Africa and Portuguese-controlled Angola and Mozambique.

(Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)- Azania News, the monthly official organ of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (South Africa), is available to subscribers in the U.S.A. at $10.00 per year. Azania News provides the news behind the news in Azania including ideological aspects of the African revolution. Subscriptions should be addressed to: Editor, Azania News, Revolutionary Command - PAC, P.O. Box 2412, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, East Africa.

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FRELIMO SPARKS MOZAMBICAN PEOPLE'S VICTORIES

Throughout 1970 - 71, General Kaulza de Arriaga, commander of the Portuguese colonialist armed forces in Mozambique gave much publicity to his "operation Gordian Knot", largescale offensive against the African-peoples Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (FRELIMO). Kaulza de Arriaga was said to be putting the finishing touches to his victory plan in April, 1971. In May 1971, he entered what he called the final phase of his offensive against FRELIMO.

Obviously, however, something went wrong with Portuguese plans. Not only was FRELIMO not defeated, but it repelled the Portuguese offensive and went on to the offensive itself.

From the end of October 1971, to the beginning of November 1972, (latest figures released by FRELIMO) FRELIMO forces launched more than 800 operations against the colonialist army. In the course of these operations they destroyed or damaged 107 military posts and camps, killed about 3,000 Portuguese soldiers, destroyed 344 military vehicles, shot down or destroyed on the ground 55 aircraft and helicopters, and sunk 15 war boats on the Zambezi River.

Moreover, dozens of miles of railway line were sabotaged and 20 trains blown up. In recent months FRELIMO has been launching large scale attacks against enemy fortified positions: Mueda, the military headquarters of Cabo Delgado Province, was heavily shelled on September 18th. On November 9th, even the capital of Tate Province was subjected to a heavy artillery attack. Three important Portuguese military centers (each garrisoning a full battalion) were almost completely destroyed by FRELIMO fire this year.

FRELIMO's control over most of the two Northern provinces of Cabo Delgado and Niassa, where the war was started in September, 1964, is now unchallenged, and the Portuguese are confined to a few garrisons where they are constantly harassed and from where they can hardly move.

In July 1972, FRELIMO extended its offensive to Manica e Sofala province. Manica e Sofala is situated in the exact center of Mozambique, and is of great strategic importance. In this province is the port of Beira, which supplies Rhodesia, thus enabling the racist regime to evade UN sanctions. Many foreign economic interests are established there.

As great as the military victories of FRELIMO are, they are not the biggest achievement. This is to be found in the new life being built in the liberated areas. As the Portuguese are driven out of large areas, FRELIMO moves in and sets up new political, economic and social structures. Thus intensive production, commerce, health services and education programs are being carried out, inspired by a completely new spirit: that of serving the people, restoring their dignity, freeing them from poverty, ignorance and disease and creating a new people conscious and proud of their cultural values.

The colonists are well aware of this and, as a reaction, they are now attempting to confuse the masses with talk of autonomy, elections, etc. The idea behind these manuevers is to deter the people from supporting FRELIMO, by attempting to convince them that they are gradually becoming independent without the need for armed struggle.

The people, however, are not allowing themselves to be fooled. An indication of the people's political consciousness was the arrest, last June, of over 1,800 African workers in Southern Mozambique accused of collaborating with FRELIMO.

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T.A.S.C. -- LEGALIZED NARCOTIC ADDICTION

T.A.S.C. (Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime) is a methadone maintenance - methadone substitution program for heroin addiction sponsored by the Nixon Administration and funded by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA). This should give us a clue as to its purposes and goals; whenever the eerie spector of the Nixon-created LEAA is mentioned, the forces of anti-people/anti-community repression and control are at hand. As the following article clearly indicates, government created and government controlled methadone junkies are the goal of T.A.S.C. Their effects in our communities will only increase the deterioration and fear which plagues our communities. For the individual addict, T.A.S.C. involves total control: a "maddening cycle (which) never ends."

THE BLACK PANTHER thanks the Drug Research Project in San Francisco for the following article. We have chosen to reprint it not only for the information it provides, but most importantly, as a timely warning to the community of what the "police-industry complex" is planning for us all.

The government is implementing a plan to addict thousands of persons to a drug that is potentially more potent, more addictive, longer lasting and more harmful than heroin. The secret tool is methadone. The Nixon "game plan" uses many names. One of them is T.A.S.C.

T.A.S.C. (Treatment Alternatives to Street Crime) is a federally funded program coordinated by President Nixon's Special Action Office on Drug Abuse Prevention. Its funds come from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, best known for supplying local police departments with military hardware like helicopters, tanks, chemical gases, and computers.

Behind the T.A.S.C. program is a philosophy vague enough to appeal to liberals and "law and order" conservatives alike. The stated goal of the program is "to interrupt the drug-driven cycle of street crime, to jail, to street crime, by providing the possibility of treatment for drug addicted arrestees…"

Since crime experts believe that up to 80% of all crimes are drug-related, most persons arrested will be eligible for the program. They will be strongly encouraged to enter the program in the first few hours after arrest, while their psychological disorientation is high.

Special deals will be provided for those persons who "volunteer" to join T.A.S.C. They may be released from jail free (on their own recognizance), their charges may be reduced, or they may be offered a light sentence if they agree to enter the treatment program.

People arrested for charges ranging from shoplifting to burglary, loitering to robbery, may end up in the program. T.A.S.C. officials will base their decision on a single urine sample taken from a defendant and a followup interview that includes a check of prior drug use and arrests.

Unfortunately, certain drugs can not be detected in a person's urine, whether or not that person is a narcotics addict. Moreover, Dr. George Lundberg of the University of Southern California School of Medicine has demonstrated that urinalysis tests have an error margin of from 20% to 70%.

The possibility for many nonaddicts to enter the program is obvious. Even Assistant San Francisco District Attorney John O'Brien admits that "the guy in the next jail cell will pee in the bottle if it will help him get his friend out." The only safeguard, according to the physician heading the treatment phase of the San Francisco program, is "that he would not be put on the program in the first place unless he acknowledged that he wanted to be on the program".

One of the more shocking components of this new federal program is the type of treatment that is offered as an alternative to street crime.

CONTINUED NEXT WEEK

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PEOPLE'S PERSPECTIVE

EX-NIXON AIDE AGAIN EXPOSED

(Washington, D.C.) - Federal Judge June L. Green recently ruled that ex-Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, a corrupt Nixon aide before his recent "Watergate" resignation, had deprived Black South Carolinans of their voting rights. Kleindienst purposely "looked the other way" when confronted with a decision on a discriminatory South Carolina voting law.

"HOT SUMMER" IN OAKLAND

(Oakland, Calif.) - Bob Walker, Alameda County YMCA official, warned the Oakland City Council that "a hot summer" might face Oakland if jobs are not provided for the city's youth. He pointed out that Nixon's "Watergate Administration" had cut federal summer job funds by over 50%. The city (Reading's Watergate Administration) has announced it would solicit industry for jobs.

DR. KING WAS NO. 1 FBI INTEREST

(New York, N.Y.) - An ex-FBI agent here reveals that the electronic surveillance and wiretap of Dr. Martin Luther King was the "No. 1 Bureau interest" in the FBI's Atlanta office through the 1960's, and much more extensive than previously indicated. Arthur Murtagh revealed that the Bureau attempted to intimidate those community leaders who admired Dr. King's achievements.

STATES RESTORE DEATH PENALTY

(Washington, D.C.)-Five Northern, five Western and three Southern states, thirteen in all, have enacted laws re-instituting the death penalty. Bills to restore capital punishment have been introduced in several other states.

MASS TRANSIT FOR POOR

(Washington, D.C.) - Atlanta Congressman Andrew Young has called for House legislation to prohibit the grant of federal monies to mass transit systems unless they set up Citizen's Advisory Councils to review all policies and decisions affecting the mostly poor and oppressed "ridership".

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SUPPORT THE SAMUEL L. NAPIER INTERCOMMUNAL YOUTH INSTITUTE

The Samuel Napier Intercommunal Youth Institute is a school designed to help our children think. It is located in the Oakland Bay Area and it points out through example that other schools have provided only the most basic courses; courses that have little relevance to the survival of poor people. We are trying to expand the concept that the whole world is the children's classroom.

The youth at Samuel Napier receive instruction in language arts, mathematics, science, health, physical education, political education and people's art. All of these courses are geared to the development of a well-rounded human being.

We need the help of all interested people in making our school run smoothly. Since its inception in 1970, its enrollment has rapidly increased. We need more instructors; instructors with everchanging ideas to cope with the everchanging ideas of the children.

If you have teaching skills and can donate some of your time, please contact the Black Panther Party at 8501 East 14th Street, Oakland, California; or phone 638-0195. The children, our youth, are our future. Without their growth, we, as a people, cannot survive.

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE

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EXECUTIVE ACTION

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SOON TO BE A MAJOR
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by

DONALD FREED and MARK LANE

EXECUTIVE ACTION MEANS ASSASSINATION
OF A HEAD OF STATE

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"In The Three Year Period That Followed The Murders Of President Kennedy And Lee Harvey Oswald, Seventeen Witnesses Interviewed By The Dalles Police, The FBI, The Warren Commission, Died."

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A PROGRAM FOR SURVIVAL

Free Breakfast Program

Provides children a free, hot breakfast every school morning.

People's Free Food Program

Provides free food to Black and other oppressed people.

Liberation Schools

Provides free educational facilities and materials to Black and other oppressed children to promote a correct view of their role in the society.

Intercommunal Youth Institute

Provides Black and other oppressed children with a scientific method of thinking and analyzing things, basic skills for living in the society and a concrete alternative to established learning institutions.

Legal Aid Educational Program

Provides full legal assistance to those involved in legal problems, as well as legal aid classes.

Free Busing to Prisons Program

Provides free transportation to prisons for families and friends of incarcerated men and women.

Free Commissary for Prisoners Program

Provides imprisoned men and women with the funds to purchase necessary commissary items inside the prison.

David Hilliard People's Free Shoe Program

Provides free shoes to the people made at the David Hilliard Free Shoe Factory and elsewhere.

Seniors Against A Fearful Environment (S.A.F.E.) Program

Provides free transportation and escort service for senior citizens to and from community banks the first of each month.

People's Free Community Employment Program

(Being Implemented)

Provides free job-finding services to poor and oppressed people who cannot find work.

People's Free Medical Research Health Clinics

Provides free medical treatment and preventative medical care for the people.

People's Free Plumbing and Maintenance Program

Provides free plumbing and repair services to improve people's housing conditions.

Community Cooperative Housing Program

(Being Implemented)

Provides decent housing, co-operatively owned and managed by the resident families.

People's Sickle Cell Anemia Research Foundation

Instituted to test and establish a cure for Sickle Cell Anemia, to create better educational programs around Sickle Cell Anemia and maintain an advisory committee of doctors already researching Sickle Cell Anemia.

People Free Clothing Program

Provides new, stylish and quality clothing free to the people.

Intercommunal News Service

Provides news and information about the Black and other oppressed communities throughout the U.S. and the world.

Free Pest Control Program

Free household extermination of rats, roaches, ants and other disease carrying pests and rodents.

People's Free Ambulance Service

(Being Implemented)

Provides free, 24-hour speedy transportation to people in need of emergency medical care.

People's Free Dental Program

(Being Implemented)

Provides free dental check-ups and treatment for the people, as well as an educational program for dental hygiene and preventative dental care.

People's Free Optometry Program

(Being Implemented)

Provides free eye examinations, treatment and eye correctional equipment (glasses, etc.) for the people.

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"MAMA, WHERE IS DADDY?" (THE CHILDREN ALWAYS ASK ME THIS QUESTION. I WANT TO TELL THEM THAT DADDY WAS MURDERED, SHOT IN THE HEAD BY THE POLICE FOR BEING BLACK.) HE'S DEAD BABY.

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COUNCIL STALLS ON CITY CENTER HOUSING