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FREE ANGELA! FREE ALL OF US!: ANGELA DAVIS FINALLY ACQUITTED OF FALSE CHARGES

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PANTHERS SWEEP BERKELEY ELECTIONS!: MEMBERS OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY WIN FOUR SEATS IN BERKELEY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL BOARD OF DIRECTORS ELECTIONS

Certainly when the Black Panther Party announced we would become involved in the electoral process, we knew that the many ills which afflict Black and poor people in this country could not be totally eradicated through electoral politics. However, we realized that, still, many positive gains could be achieved by Black and poor people utilizing our collective vote for those political candidates who truly represent our interests.

Recently, the Black Panther Party seized a prime opportunity to make voting operate in a progressive manner, in the interest of the Black and poor people, in the Berkeley (California) Community Development Council (B.C.D.C.) Board of Directors Elections. The U.S. government has been (since Johnson's alleged "War on Poverty"), each year, reluctantly sending poverty funds into the low and no income areas of Berkeley, California. The function of the B.C.-D.C. Board of Directors (who are elected yearly by the community) is to funnel these federal funds into meaningful programs for the poor. In the past, this task has seemed too much for the basically reactionary Board members of the B.C.D.C. to carry out, as the poor of Berkeley have rarely been on the receiving end of these funds. With this in mind, the Black Panther Party decided to run our own Party members to hold positions on the B.C.D.C. Board, as well as support other progressive candidates. The structure of the Board is based on having one representative from each poverty "target area" vote for the channeling of funds that would satisfy the particular needs of his smaller community. The target areas are simply representative of the arbitrary sectioning-off of the city into a variety of "poverty pockets". There is one "at large area" from which lowincome persons (income under $4,000 a year) can vote for a representative. With nine seats to be filled, the Black Panther Party decided to run six candidates.

On May 23rd, one day before the scheduled elections, Comrade Ericka Huggins held a press conference announcing her and the other Party members' candidacy in the B.C.D.C. elections. The following is her press statement:

"My name is Ericka Huggins, I am a member of the Black Panther Party. During the 24 myears of my life, I have witnessed the oppression of poor and oppressed people; and in the most recent years, I have found it hard to ignore the unending harassment, poverty and racism Black and poor people of this country have had to face. I have been a personal witness to this, having spent 2 years in prison only to have the unfounded charges dismissed after standing trial.

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"Because the government realizes its inadequacies in meeting the needs of poor people, because it has become frightened that people may awaken in anger, it has designed programs for appeasement; plans for relieving the poverty of a few, while the greater masses of people still suffer without adequate clothing, preventive medical care, housing, etc., and are confronted with the problems of basic survival from day to day everyday.

"As a member of the Berkeley Black community and a person sincerely interested in seeing some of the immediate needs of poor and oppressed people met, I feel that I should run as a candidate for Board of Directors of the Berkeley Community Development Council. I feel that myself and the other 8 candidates I have chosen to support can best represent the needs of the Berkeley Black community. Therefore, I urge you to make my choices, your choices when you go to the polls tomorrow. The candidates for the 7 target areas and the At-Large candidate to vote for are as follows: Target Area #1, Henry Smith; Target Area #2, Herman Smith; Target Area #3, Norma Armour; Target Area #4, Charles Dorr; Target Area #5, Roberto Mendoza; Target Area #6, Audrea Jones; Target Area #7, myself, Ericka Huggins; Target Area #8, Rick D'Golia; and At-Large, William Roberts.

"A vote for these candidates is a vote for community control. Thank you. All Power to the People."

As expected, as soon as the press statement was read, the Black Panther Party was met with outright vicious opposition from reactionary circles. Leading the pack was one of the candidates, opposing Comrade Ericka, a reactionary named Eric Morton. He, for example, attacked Comrade Ericka personally, as well as the Black Panther Party as a whole, by issuing blatantly ridiculous charges in his underhanded efforts to slide, as usual, into a seat on the Board (Target Area #7). This idiot, while saying he "supports the Survival Programs of the Black Panther Party", in the same breath stated that "… I strongly disagree with the manner in which she (Ericka) and the Black Panther Party have made this `rude intrusion' into the electoral process of Berkeley's Poverty Program". He further stated, in behalf of many others who weren't so bold, that "…if they (the Black Panther Party) sincerely want to help the poor, they should first find out how to best serve their needs." As if there was no end to his madness, Morton went on to say, "If the Black Panther Party wants representation, they should petition for public seats as organizational representatives or run as at-large candidates. But to run as target area representatives, (is) to deny the long time residents of those target areas the right of representation on the Board".

Eric Morton says that he "supports" our community survival programs, yet we have yet to see Eric Morton, lackey that he is, volunteer any of his time to work on any free food or shoe program, or any survival program the Black Panther Party has implemented for the poor and oppressed community, of Berkeley, as well as throughout the U.S. The people have no need for Morton's or any of his unnamed cohort's vile and hypocritical lip service to the People's Survival. What "rude intrusion" were they speaking of? The Black Panther Party has had a Branch office in Berkeley for the past four years. The Black community of Berkeley can attest to the fact that the Black Panther Party has served the Black and poor community's needs since our doors first opened there. Recently, for example, at Berkeley's San Pablo park, the Black Panther Party gave away over 4,000 free, full bags of food (with a chicken in every bag), and administered over 5,000 Sickle Cell Anemia tests, free to the Black community. Where was Eric Morton or the B.C.D.C. Board during all of this? Where was their money? It is evident that the only "rude intrusion" into those Berkeley elections was that of some people who could hear the people, serve the people's needs and not, as in the past, mess over and take over funds that belong to the people. The real "rude intrusion" has long been in the Black community of Berkeley, in the form of racists and lackeys who rip off the few pittances that come our way.

There were many other attempts to sabotage Black Panther Party members' candidacy. Above all else, however, is the overall way in which the people have been sabotaged each year with one day of voting at polling places and then several other days of counting mail-in votes. With the mail-in system (which method Elections officials suggest), one can never really know how votes are counted, or if they are received, making a big

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loophole for rigging elections. One of the specific sabotage attempts came over the airwaves of Oakland, California's so-called "Black" radio station, K.D.I.A. Along with their racist allies in the various other news media, K.D.I.A., on the day of the elections, May 24th, continuously propagated rumorous scare tactics in an effort to keep Berkeley residents from voting. K.D.I.A. said, in its "news" broadcasts of that day, that there were "bomb threats" on all the B.C.D.C. polling places. Berkeley pigs went one step further and actually shot up one of the polling places (in Target Area #2 where Comrade Herman Smith was running). The rumor mongering of K.D.I.A. and others, and the armed attacks of the pigs still did not keep the people from voting. To the contrary, the oppressed community of Berkeley came out to vote in greater numbers than in the history of the B.C.D.C. Board of Directors elections. Previously, very few people had voted in this election, primarily because the pigs have kept knowledge of any such election from the community. As proof of this, last year, one man won a seat on the Board of Directors by just one vote - his own.

Of the six Party members running in the elections (Henry Smith, Herman Smith, Norma Armour, Audrea Jones, Ericka Huggins and William Roberts), only two "lost": Norma Armour and Henry Smith. However, these two Comrades, in fact, did not lose because their opponents were two beautiful people from the Chicano community, who, by being elected, will definitely insure the Chicano community of proper representation on the Board. The Black Panther Party's concern was that the B.C.D.C. meet the needs of all poor and oppressed people in Berkeley. So, we did not lose, the people won. More attention had been brought to the issue than ever before, and the people, in fact, were able to vote for those who will serve all our needs. The other candidates who won the elections, Charles Manning (Target Area #3), Bob Browning (Target Area #5) and Rick D'Golia (Target Area #8, whom the Party supported all the way) will be able to sit down with others, now, who really want to serve the people body and soul.

Now, because of this sweeping victory for the people, the poverty funds can begin to be used to serve the people, rather than line the pockets of corrupt politicians. This is only the beginning. Vote for Bobby Seale for Mayor of Oakland and Elaine Brown for City Councilwoman!

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

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WHAT ABOUT RUCHELL?: STATE REFUSES BROTHER RUCHELL MAGEE ACCESS TO NEWS MEDIA

The following statement was issued on May 31st, by Brother Ruchell Magee, Angela's co-defendant who also faces murder-conspiracy charges as a result of the August 7th Movement:

I hereby request that the public media, particularly the black media, take notice that the Attorney General of the State of California, and the entire judicial system, is in a direct conspiracy to prevent me from exposing a fraudulent conviction from Los Angeles County. They are also using the news media to undermine and deceive the public to believe that I am a criminal and a dangerous person when, in fact, they are committing all types of racist crimes to hide the illegal Los Angeles conviction. This is supported by the following facts:

1. they have used an illegal I.Q. document in the news media, after willfully introducing such false document in a court of law, in an effort to influence the media and the people against me.

a. no one knows who prepared this document but it is clear that the prison officials, the courts, and the Attorney General have conspired to prevent me from exposing such fraud.

b. though Marin County Superior Court judges Joseph Wilson and Warren McGuire disqualified themselves from the case in the month of November, 1970, they thereafter returned to the case, and after illegally refusing to disqualify themselves from any action on the case, issued an illegal and unconstitutional gag order denying me the right to see news people, with the pretense that they were protecting my rights to be free of adverse publicity.

1. this, in itself, was an absolute mockery of the law because all the while that the gag rule was being enforced against me, the mass news media publicized the false information, half truths, and misleading information defaming my character provided by prison officials and the Attorney General.

2. the First Amendment of the United States Constitution is being completely violated since it states therein that Congress can make no law to deny citizens their right to freedom of speech and/or access to the press.

c. thereafter I attacked the Wilson and McGuire gag orders in the Federal District Court by Petition for Removal on grounds of being denied equal opportunity within which to answer the statements and comments made by governmental officials. I was then immediately accused by federal judge Samuel Conti of filing "frivolous documents" and "abusing the process of the courts". This resulted in my being denied the right to file legal documents against governmental officials, based solely on racial prejudice.

d. on March 19, 1971, Marin County Superior Judge Samuel W. Gardiner, who had also previously disqualified himself because of prejudice, made an improper and illegal Order setting conditions on Wilson and McGuire's gag rule stating that no news reporter would be allowed to interview me unless it was approved by my court appointed attorney, by Angela Davis and by Angela Davis's attorneys. This resulted in my being allowed only to see certain reporters, but not reporters of my choice.

e. now that Angela Davis' trial is coming to a close, the Attorney General and the State of California have decided to change their excuse for denying me the right to see news reporters. The excuse now is that Judge Wilson has issued a gag rule in the case of the San Quentin Six. The case of the San Quentin Six has nothing whatsoever to do with my case. The Attorney General's argument is not only frivolous but the grounds argued by the Attorney General are obviously without merit and contrived for my particular case.

1. you should take notice that on May 12, 1972, after being shown examples of adverse publicity and lies published about me in the news media, Marin county Superior Judge Leonard Ginsberg granted my motion for issuance of a Writ of Habeas Corpus

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on the face of the document filed by me and the factual issues raised therein. Judge Ginsberg found I have the right to see news reporters. That right is the right to equally answer to those false allegations published against me. He ordered San Quentin officials to allow me access to the press.

2. again, in a mad rush to keep me silent, the Attorney General filed an application for a stay of the Order allowign me access to the press in the District Court of Appeal. The District Court of Appeal illegally and unjustifiably granted the stay without reviewing the records in the case and without allowing me the opportunity to oppose the application for a stay. The grounds used by the Attorney General in requesting the stay are frivolous, outdated and insulting verbal trickery. The Attorney General states that no news media are allowed to enter San Quentin because of prison rules and regulations. This in itself is a lie because San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner and other white news reporters are continuously not only entering the prison but are interviewing inmates and prison officials at will. Incidentally, these news reporters are the very ones responsible for the adverse publicity against me. These same reporters attend the trial proceedings only to have half stories and adverse publicity published to defame my character.

3. the Attorney General and the courts are fully aware that they have used known fraud I.Q. documents. They are fully aware that they are illegally enslaving me on a conviction that rests on known perjury and false evidence and which they cannot support.

It is necessary that I see news reporters in order that the people may know the truth of what is going on in prison, to prisoners, and what is going on in my case. This point was made by Judge Ginsberg who issued the Order allowing me to be interviewed by the press.

Unless action is taken by citizens, and particularly by news reporters, the courts and the Attorney General will continue to illegally suppress the truth and defame those who have been falsely accused.

I need the support of news reporters in publicizing the actions of prison officials in hiding their illegal activity and in publicizing the actions of the courts and the Attorney General in hiding the facts in my case. All those concerned should review the records in the District Court of Appeal relating to the Attorney General's back door killing of Judge Ginsberg's Order allowing me access to the press and realize the mockery of it all.

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“ALWAYS MISSING…”: ASSEMBLYMAN BARBEE ON THE SHOOTING OF WALLACE

May 23, 1972

One could say it was inevitable, only a matter of time before a bigot and reactionary was shot down. After the rash of political assassinations in the 1960's, not to mention the numerous anonymous blacks and whites killed trying to change an oppressive political system, it was almost anti-climatic that a bullet should find its target in the gut of such a lightning rod for hate and divisiveness.

The ironic thing about previous assassinations, of prominent and anonymous alike, is that nearly all had preached and practiced non-violence in seeking change. While Wallace had never openly preached violent methods, nevertheless his attitude and manner condoned and invited violence.

Recently he had taken to styling himself a new "populist", as a spokesman for the common man. This was a clear attempt to hide his bigotry and racism under a blanket of respectable rhetoric. But his rhetoric is all that changed: From openly opposing black quality education to simply opposing bussing, the result is the same -- segregation and racism. It is only his fellow racists and the establishment press who are beguiled by such nonsense.

Whether it is committed by guys with white hats or guys with black hats, it is unfortunate that violence is chosen as the solution. But the incompetence of such attacks as the attempt on Governor Wallace's life last week, if indeed that is what it was, serve only to make living martyrs out of vile demagogues. Wallace lives with paralysis in the nether portion of his anatomy. Diarrhea of the mouth testifies to Wallace's mental ossification and flamboyant compensation of an inferiority complex. Remember his reaction to the Sunday Birmingham bombing of a Black church which left children killed, Selma marches, etc.

If it is true that Governor Wallace's assailant was a Milwaukeean, then he behaved in keeping with the Milwaukee character -- always missing but often coming close. Perhaps the would be killers (there must have been more than one based on ballistic reports alone) succeeded ironically. Relative immobility and long suffering rather than a quick death may humble Wallace and teach him some lessons in humanity which Blacks learn at birth and live through daily.

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Let this be his epitaph: George Jackson

Blood
in My
Eye

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(author of Soledad Brother)

This angry, passionate, eloquent book -- which takes up where Soledad Brother left off -- was completed only days before George Jackson was shot to death at San Quentin prison during an alleged escape attempt last August.

George Jackson spent the last eleven years of his life behind prison walls, seven of them in solitary confinement. During that time he developed a radical world view, a deep understanding of politics and history in relation to social change, as well as a remarkable voice as a writer. Blood in My Eye speaks out to the poor, the black, the jailed, the disenfranchised throughout the world. Born of a spirit that refused to be crushed, yet filled with a prophetic sense of his own impending doom, this powerful book from prison presents George Jackson's burning vision of the world that could be -- a world reshaped by "total revolutionary war."

George Jackson lived and died for the revolution. Blood in My Eye explains why.

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HOLLYWOOD, SI! CUBA, NO!: U.S. GOVERNMENT CONSPIRES TO KEEP REVOLUTIONARY CUBAN FILMS FROM AMERICAN PEOPLE

On May 25th, 1972, members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives saw 2 of the 25 banned Cuban films at a special screening arranged by Representative Ron Dellums. This was supposedly in an effort to settle the issue of whether or not films from "Communist Cuba" can be seen by the American people. The excuses in the past for government interference in what choices we, the people, have in reading material, films, etc. have usually been because the material has been declared "obscene". What exact excuse the U.S. government can come up with this time is yet to be seen.

The following is extracted from American Documentary Films (which group was bringing the films into the U.S.) press release of May 21st describing the situation:

The two films "For the First Time" and "Memories of Underdevelopment" are part of a group of twenty-five Cuban films, features and short subjects, which were to have been shown at the First New York Festival of Cuban Films in New York City earlier this year. This festival was interrupted by the Treasury Department's confiscation of films, threat of prosecution, and financial harassment to close the festival down.

American Documentary Films, a non-profit educational media organization, and the sponsor of the Cuban Festival, has countered the government's action by filing law suits against the Treasury and the State Departments, charging that their action was arbitrary, unconstitutional, a violation of the first amendment, and of the fourteenth amendment which provides for equal protection under the law. The suit against the Treasury Department is scheduled to be heard by a federal judge in New York City on Wednesday, the day before the screenign of the films for Congress on Thursday.

Although these Cuban films have been shown in other countries, and awarded prizes in all the major festivals throughout the world, they have not been seen by audiences in the United States because of the government's blockade against Cuba. The blockade has been implemented through regulations titled: Trading with the Enemy Act. The government used these regulations to prevent the showing of the films at the New York Festival.

The Trading with the Enemy Act was designed as an economic boycott to force the Cuban government into more favorable relations with United States business groups, but has since been used to prevent the free flow of information, art, and culture between the people in the United States and the people of Cuba.

In the dispute around the Cuban films the Treasury Department claims it intervened to prevent the films from being shown on the basis of suspected violation of the Trading with the Enemy Act; while American Documentary Films claims that free access to art and information is a basic constitutional right and should not be subject to such restrictions. A.D.F. maintains that its argument is further validated in this case because they have signed affidavits and opened their entire records to the Treasury Department to show the absence of any financial dealings with Cuba.

American Documentary Films says that the ban against the Cuban films is a further extension of the Cold War in Latin America, and is another example of the White House intimidating media organizations to refrain from disseminating information on "controversial" subjects.

In a recent congressional speech Senator Fulbright, speaking on the subject of the Cuban film seizure, stated:

"I find it passing strange that the Treasury Department would be so terrified of the impact of Cuban films on the American people, while the State Department is encouraging such exchanges with the Soviet Union.

"In advocating a continuation of the OAS policy of isolating Cuba, the Secretary of State told the OAS foreign ministers that Cuba is still promoting revolution in Latin America, though at a reduced rate.

"One can only conclude that the real basis for administration policy lies in the fact that the Soviet Union is a big strong country that we have to get along with, while Cuba is a small weak country that we can afford to kick around. This may be good geopolitics, but it is not a very smart foreign policy, especially in view of the fact that most countries in the world are small and weak, and in view of the further fact that bullies do not have very good track records for distances."

American Documentary Films stated that the closing of the festival by the Treasury Department imposed

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a direct loss of $28,000.00 on the organization. This was the amount the organization had paid in advance costs for theatre rental for the ten day festival, advertising and overhead costs. For a small non-profit organization such a financial loss is tantamount to a direct attack by the government to put the organization out of business, the leaders of the organization said. In view of the fact that American Documentary Films was the pioneer organization distributing films on social and political problems, and the fact that their films on Vietnam have been seen by over twenty million people in the last few years encourages the spokesmen for the organization to believe that the action by the Treasury Department was more than just a coincidence.

The leaders of the organization were hopeful that the hearing in Federal Court will result in an injunction against the Treasury Department and thereby allow the Cuban films to be widely seen in the United States.

The screening of the films for Congress was organized with the purpose of demonstrating, whatever the merits of the blockade against Cuba at an earlier date, that the use of government regulations to prevent the free flow of ideas between nations and national cultures is not in the interest of Congress or the American people.

Further information on the film screening may be had by phoning Representative Ron Dellums office in Washington, D.C. (202) 225-2661.

"For the First Time" is a six-minute short showing Cuba's mobile cinema truck, bringing Chaplin's "Modern Times" to a tiny mountain community which has never before seen a movie. We watch the audience react. The film was produced in 1966.

"Memories of Underdevelopment", directed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea in 1968, is a sophisticated full-length study of the difficulties of a middle class intellectual in an effort to adjust to the new revolutionary Cuba. Both of these films have won several international festival awards.

Senator Fulbright's complete remarks on the Cuban Film festival are printed in the Congressional Record, 4/19/72.

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YOUNG BROTHERS BECOME SCAPEGOATS FOR OLD CRIMES

On the morning of April 25th, a white restaurant employee was shot and killed in an alleged armed robbery. Customers and other employees at the White Castle restaurant, at the time of the shooting, described the "attackers" as two Black youths. The slain man, identified as Alan Henricy, was shot at approximately 1 A.M., inside the restaurant, located at 2 E. 111th St. on the southside of Chicago, Illinois.

Immediately, Chicago police began looking through their files to "pick" 2 young brothers to charge with the robbery-murder. As usual, they "found" their "suspects". Just hours after the incident, the pigs forced their way into the home of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Haywood, on Chicago's southside. Their 17-year old son, Otis Haywood, Jr., was kidnapped and taken to the pig station to be ironically charged with the robbery-murder at White Castle. The Haywood family had been sitting in their apartment (at 3617 S. Federal) on that Tuesday morning, when a caller at the door asked, "Where is Otis?" Without showing any identification (as is required by law of all policemen), they announced they were "Police!". Mr. Haywood, Sr. asked, "Where are your credentials, and what do you want with my son?" The pigs responsed to this by saying, "We don't need a warrant. Some people have identified him (Otis, Jr.) for snatching two colored women's pocketbooks."

At this point, the pigs stormed into Otis, Jr.'s bedroom where he was asleep. Brother Otis was then brutally forced out of his bed, handcuffed, taken to the pig station, and-charged with the robbery-murder at the restaurant. That same morning, police kidnapped 18-year old Alphonse Newman, who lived nearby, at 3616 S. Federal. Both Brothers Alphonse and Otis had been arrested earlier in the year for another phoney robbery charge, and were out on bond. Although both Brothers can prove that they were nowhere near the restaurant at the time, "eye witnesses" there at the restaurant have identified them through police photos, taken from the earlier arrest.

Mrs. Fannie Haywood became so worried about her innocent son that she suffered a stroke following his arrest. Through all of it, however, she was clear on her son's innocence: "… My son is being railroaded." To compound the Haywood family's misery, while Otis, Jr. was in jail, he was charged with still another "crime". In November of 1970, a Chicago pig was killed while supposedly trying to prevent the robbery of his own father's newsstand. The person who killed the pig escaped capture. Now, with the arrest of Brother Otis Haywood, the pigs decided to "clear up" that case, by accusing their new-found scapegoat, an innocent Black youth, of the November, 1970 act.

Mrs. Haywood and the rest of the community want to know why these pigs referred to a "purse snatching", when they arrested her son for murder and robbery. They also want to know how witnesses allegedly identified her son as one of the robbers of the White Castle Restaurant when her son was at home sleep at the time. Mrs. Haywood further wants to know whether this is what the arresting "officers" had meant when they visited her house every week after March 30th. This was when her son was first arrested for another so-called "purse snatching". At those visits, these racists had told Otis, Jr., "The next time we come to pick you up, we'll pin something on you that you can't get out of."

The arrest of Brother Otis Haywood, Jr. and Alphonse Newman is a blatant example of how innocent Brothers and Sisters can be arrested and railroaded into prison camps for crimes that they did not commit or have knowledge of. Unfortunately, the cases of Brothers Otis Haywood and Alphonse Newman are typical of the senseless and unjustified arrests of innocents by the U.S. power structure, in its long range plan to commit genocide on our people.

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE

Illinois Chapter Black Panther Party

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FREE FOOD ALL OVER MOTOWN!: 1,500 COME OUT FOR DETROIT'S FIRST SURVIVAL DAY

Within the last eight months, the Black Panther Party has given away over one hundred thousand full bags of groceries. Understanding the very fundamental need in the oppressed community for food, free food programs have been implemented by the various chapters and branches of the Black Panther Party throughout the country. This is only one of the many Survival Programs the Party has implemented to insure the survival of the people to the point of complete liberation.

On May 20, 1972, the Detroit Branch of the Black Panther Party also implemented a Survival Day, initiating the Free Food Program into the Jefferies Projects. Seven thousand oppressed people live in Jeffries Projects, a great portion of whom are "senior members" of the oppressed community. The overwhelming majority of the people who live in Jeffries are poor people, who are either living on low income, or welfare. Many of the people, especially the old, were in doubt as to whether not the Black Panther Party would actually distribute free food there, because they had already heard all the promises of relief, dating back to the 1930's, to Hoover with his "chicken in every pot". People are tired of empty promises and empty stomachs.

On that day, May 20th, when the people of Jeffries Projects actually saw the food, many of the lies about the Party, itself, began to be dispelled. Over fifteen hundred people came to receive the over one thousand bags of groceries, with a chicken in every bag, and participate in the ceremonies. One sister from the community, Mother Waddles, from Mother Waddles' Mission, which has provided food for hungry people for sixteen years, spoke to the masses concerning survival. Mother Waddles commented, "There's no difference between our programs, because we both are trying to stop the oppression of our people." Mother Waddles went on to stress the importance of the survival programs and the need to unify around them, to combat that very old "divide and conquer" tactic used by our oppressor. Following Mother Waddles, the masses were entertained by various musical groups: "The Sins of Satan"; "The Skies Unlimited"; "Sharon Hicks, the Psychedelic Sister, Plus One"; and others. All of the people's entertainment was donated by Brothers and Sisters, who only requested a bag of groceries. Comrade Lonnie Dee, of the Detroit Branch of the Black Panther Party, also spoke to the people about the survival programs sponsored by the Black Panther Party and of the necessity of registering to vote and voting for candidates who are true representatives of the broad masses of oppressed people. Many of the older people who were skeptical about the program stayed long after the food was distributed, just to testify as to how they felt about the significance of the program.

Once again the importance of unifying all oppressed people around our survival was demonstrated. It will be through this kind of unity that our complete liberation can be won.

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE

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“GUNS IN THEIR HAIR”: CAROLINA PRISON OFFICIALS REACH NEW LOW IN REPRESSION

At this very time, even though the repression in building ever higher, the prisoners at North Carolina's Central Men's Prison are organizing around the issue of survival with a Free Commissary Program. They are refusing to be defeated, even though presently at this largest and main state prison, located in Raleigh, fascist authorities have completed and begun using a new building which they are trying to pass off as a "medical center". Its actual use is a center for mental repression, for its main program is bringing under control "mentally disturbed" and "incorrigible" inmates. Of course, those Brothers who resist the fascism in the prison and refuse to submit to the out-right brutality and repression are those who are "mentally disturbed" and "incorrigible". To "help" them, they receive shock treatments. Shock treatments consist of wires being attached to an inmate's head and electric current being shot into his head. This treatment is said, by perverted prison authorities, to cause a "violent" or "disturbed" inmate to become "calmer", or what, in reality, amounts to an unthinking vegetable. A person can easily be mentally incompetent after the treatment, with an unstable and wandering mind. However, the goal is accomplished: the prisoner does not have the will to resist anything, for he doesn't even care about anything.

That new wing has become so notorious that it is known as the "maxi-maxi" (maximum-maximum security) by the inmates. Naturally, individual selection for treatment at Maxi-Maxi is up to the whim of the racist prison authorities. Once termed "disturbed" or "incorrigible," a Brother may find himself incarcerated in "Maxi-Maxi" for life.

In May, Central Prison racists moved to institute still another type of repression. Finding nothing better to think of, Central's authorities decided to pass a rule which stated that no Brothers could wear an Afro, or "natural" hairstyle. Those already with long, natural hair were ordered to cut it. The prison had decided that long hair could allow an inmate to hide a weapon in his hair.

The Brothers still resist. Letters have been smuggled out to expose the past viciousness of Central Prisin: "Windows are broken out and cold air is always coming in, roaches are everywhere, and crawl all over your body while you sleep, and are often in your food. All the food is terrible. Punishment for not obeying a pig's racist commands is to be water-hosed and then beaten like dogs. One night, Joseph Wadell, a member of the Black Panther Party and one of the leading organizers of Central Prison said, `All Power to the People', after all the lights were out. A pig immediately threw 4 cans of mace into his cell (one of which could have easily killed him). Afterwards, he was brutally beaten."

The Brothers still resist and the masses of people in North Carolina are uniting around the issue of the Brothers' survival in Central. All over the state, the free commissary program has grown, and defense committees for the Brothers are being organized everywhere. Donations to the Brothers' survival have been mounting, from individual gifts, benefit

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rallies, benefit dances, etc. A big dance was given for the inmates, in fact, on May 25th. "The Blenders" played for the inmates' survival and "Genesis" sang. The Brother who owns the Golden Stag Club where the benefit was held had even donated his club for the evening.

All of this had culminated on May 20, 1972, when progressive Black organizations from all over North Carolina met at the North Carolina Conference on Dual Justice and Political Oppression, to unify around the issue of the unjust and brutal North Carolina prison and court systems. Church leaders, elected officials and political activists all condemned the "vicious criminal system in this country which has the nerve to call itself justice." Courses of action were discussed, to work for the defense of political prisoners in North Carolina, particularly Rev. Ben Chavis, Jim Grant and the Wilmington 11. Comrade Russell McDonald, of the Winston-Salem Branch of the Black Panther Party, put forth the suggestion that persons working to help political prisoners organize free commissary programs. The Conference called for: an end to excessively high bail; a rally at Central Prison in support of the rights of Black prisoners, to be held in conjunction with a state-wide convention of Blacks in Raleigh, in late June; and a reversal of the recent ruling forbidding "Afro's" to be worn by Central inmates.

The Black community of North Carolina is uniting around the freedom of Central Prison's political prisoners. In unity, there will be complete liberation.

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE

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FREE ANGELA! FREE ALL OF US!: ANGELA DAVIS FINALLY ACQUITTED OF FALSE CHARGES

On June 4th we were all tuned in to our radios and T.V.'s and heard the words broadcasted that Sister Angela Davis had been fully acquitted of all the phoney charges the State had brought against her. People around the world have been anxiously awaiting this decision, really, for nearly two years now. It has been a long two years.

The plight of Angela Davis had become everyman's, everywoman's battle. Black and poor people throughout the world had become united around defending the rights of Angela, for it was all so clear. It was clear that she had been falsely charged. It was clear that the reasons for those charges had little to do with the August 7th Movement as much as they had to do with the larger movement of the masses of oppressed people inside the U.S. and around the world to be rid of oppression. Here was a young and intelligent Black woman that had been educated so well by America, but was not educable to America's racism, fascism and greed. If an Angela Davis were to remain able to speak out for too long, there could be real trouble. Everyone saw what the State was doing.

At the University of California at Los Angeles (U.C.L.A.), she had been rejected as a professor, because of her political beliefs. What had America said: that even when you perform your tasks well, pass all the I.Q. tests, and prove capable in her competitive market, fighting up a racist hill all along, that still you would be denied if you disagreed. Angela Davis had disagreed strongly. She had declared herself, openly, a communist. If Angela Davis would do this, then who else? An example had to be made; an attempt to halt the error in American fascism's machinery that had allowed for such to occur.

Ronald Reagan personally began to crusade to save the situation. As the President of the Board of Regents of the University of California he could certainly deal with such an offense. They dared her, threatened her with loss of their credentials. With all of this, the few classes that she was permitted to teach, during the interim while they figured out what else to do, those classes swelled beyond the number in any others. Professor Davis had much more to teach than they had paid their fees to learn. The students understood that.

It had all gone wrong for the State. There were enough issues for which the students could take the University to task. The University, the State was already overwhelmed with student

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protest over its fascist endeavors. Laboriously struggling to turn back the swelling tide, the State erroneously concluded that Professor Davis had to be brought down from her high horse, removed from a position of honor among the people.

As is typical of America, the State devised to kill two birds with one stone, so to speak. After murdering in cold blood Comrades Jonathan Jackson, James McClain and William Christmas, as well as one of their own, Judge Harold Haley, in Marin, California on August 7th, 1970, the State wished to make another killing. Could the American people stand to see Angela Davis involved in a murder. Could the American people, who had come to respect her adamant stand in behalf of all the people, stand to think of Angela Davis as nothing more than a "common criminal".

It had not been enough that Angela had defied all fascist programming, had denounced the racist system which had so "generously" allowed her entrance, but she had become, now, a champion of those who were meant to be forgotten. While teaching, parttime, at U.C.L.A., Angela had begun to use the attention of her own case to turn the people's attention toward the more unspoken ills of this society, specifically the men and women unjustly locked away in America's prisons and jails. Even more specifically, she had been among the first to speak out against the State's vicious treatment of three Black men at California's Soledad prison. Loudly she denounced the State for its unjust incarceration of and, now, latest phoney charges against Comrade George Jackson, Field Marshal of the Black Panther Party, and Brothers Fleeta Drumgo and John Clutchette. It had been enough to contain the revolutionary zeal of Comrade George, for nearly ten years then; of Brothers Fleeta and John, for three. Now Angela Davis was lettign the people know, in fact, what the State had known all along. She was telling it, that these men, these Soledad Brothers, were not criminals, violent elements in society to be locked away for "our" safety. They were men. They had tried to survive the most brutal of systems, like all of us. They had tried too hard. Comrade George Jackson, particularly, had said too much and been too much for the State to permit him even a moment beyond the walls: 10years for a $70 "robbery"; ten years they had robbed, because he had loved his people too much, with too much vigor.

So now she, whom so many could respect, would expose the lie. Never could the State permit it. She had been seen so much with the younger brother of Comrade George, the beautiful Man-child, Jonathan, that with the State murder of him, they could easily get her. She had not been there, to be brought down like the others. Yet, she could be figured into a State-fantasized conspiracy with others they had already murdered. When she refused, they hunted Angela down like a dog. They captured her and began to lay the groundwork for the final blows.

While Angela remained incarcerated for a year, they used every propaganda media available to distort and twist a million events and present the picture of a murderess. After all, with all the support she had gained from the U.C.L.A. business, they couldn't just outright kill her. Even they knew that.

What the State did not know is that the genius of the revolutionary lies among the people. The people saw so well. It was so crystal clear. Beyond the borders of the U.S., of North America and around the world, millions were demanding the freedom of Angela Davis. Within a year, and with no recourse, the State decided to allow her bail. In between, the stage had been set for a sure win. A million people could cry "Free Angela", but would there be 12 people found in the new trial location of racist Santa Clara, California, that would do the same. The chances were a million to one against it.

As the actual trial unfolded, prosecutor Albert Harris presented what the State had. It amounted to nothing. It amounted to an insult to anyone's intelligence. The State had done all this, for nearly 2 years, to say that because of what they had vulgarly labelled "love letters" between Angela and Comrade George Jackson, one could assume that she had participated in a non-existent conspiracy of murder. Harris bickered over words for weeks. Didn't the jury realize she had said she'd do anything for him. Didn't the jury know what "anything" meant. The insulting Hollywood-style monologue only made even that jury realize that even if they were, in the most limited terms, "love letters", the jury was intelligent enough to have a concept of what love was. Even with Harris' twisting of the love among the people to a tinsel version of love between a man and woman, he couldn't convince this "sure-bet" jury that Angela Davis was guilty of conspiring to commit murder.

They listened, those twelve men and women. They knew they had heard nothing. On June 4th, they declared Angela Davis innocent of all the false charges.

What of it? Millions of American people, millions of oppressed people throughout the world had declared her innocent long ago. So they had agreed. It was official. Certainly justice had, indeed, prevailed. Their "justice" is a crying shame.

George Jackson has been assassinated. Angela suffered unjustly for an entire year in prison. Millions of dollars of poor people have gone down the drain. Thousands more men and women are imprisoned unjustly. Brother Ruchell still faces trial. The masses of peopel are still oppressed, still hungry, still go to court and are railroaded, still need jobs and decent places to live. Free Angela. Free all of us.

ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE

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FOUR MUST PAY FOR ONE GUARD DOWN ON ANGOLA PRISON FARM

Typical of most Southern states, Louisiana has its share of small towns, reminiscent, today, of past Southern culture, customs and ideals. St. Francisville, Louisiana is just such an area. There is one important factor which differentiates St. Francisville from other "quaint" Louisiana towns. Within its borders is one of America's most atrocious death camps, known as a prison. To those who have known and know of its horrors, it is called "The Ponder-sa"; to others, simply, Angola.

Angola's fascist administration, headed by racist Murray Henderson, has a history of sadistic and bizarre murders which never make it to the newspapers. However, countless acts of brutality and murder of inmates have been cited and told by Angola's new survivors.

The prison administration's latest plot unfolded when a white prison guard, Brent Miller, was recently found dead. He had been stabbed 32 times. Suddenly, Angola was wide open to press coverage. When pig Warden Henderson got enough attention, he pitiously reported how the guard had been found in one of the dormitory areas with a "hate letter" near him, allegedly proclaiming that Miller had been killed by "revolutionary justice" and that more would follow. Henderson dramatically emphasized that the letter was closed with "All Power to the People".

The guard was found dead back on April 17th. It was not until 2 weeks later that the racist administrators arbitrarily chose Brothers Herman Wallace, Chester Jackson, Gilbert Montegut and Albert Woodfox, all of whom are members of the Louisiana State Chapter of the Black Panther Party, to suffer for pig Miller's death.

Although Henderson had carried out well his duty to American Fascism, the other white guards at Angola felt that Henderson vacillated too long in charging the comrades. Therefore, these low-ranking fascists decided to conduct their own reign of terror, and had the gall to go on strike to dramatize how they felt about pig Warden Henderson's "leniency". Louisiana state troopers instantly replaced their emotional cohorts. The guards, now calling themselves the "Freemen", attacked one of the wardens to show their indignation. Their outrage was supposedly over how one of their numbers had been the innocent victim of an attack and since "nothing" had been done about it, they wanted to be assured of their own future "protection". They were far from being victims; and the real story of pig Miller's killing can concretely attest to that. Comrade Brother Shelly Batiste, also incarcerated in Angola, give this account:

"On Monday, April 17, 1972, a member of the reactionary oppressive state apparatus was found dead. As a consequence, all known Black resisters of Angola's vicious repressive tactics were kidnapped off the big yard, beaten unmercifully and locked in the maximum security section (CCR), left to suffer from head and body injuries and acute burns with no medical attention. We were all locked in 5' X 8' cells (in groups of four, five and six, etc.). We are unable to sleep because there is only one mattress in each cell. The food is cold and has been cut. We only receive a tablespoon of whatever is on the menu of each item. We aren't allowed to shower. Some have been in the dungeon known as CBD administration lock-down for two and three weeks. The guards have come to the dungeon several nights, in consecutive order, dragged Brothers out of their cells, through arbitrary selection, for looking like what they have termed militant and then have beaten these Brothers unmercifully. One Brother in Angola, Wayne, was so viciously beaten he had to be taken to a hospital in Baton Rouge, and a guard checks his cell every hour to see if he is still living. The others who weren't beaten nearly to death were made to sit while 2, 3, or 4 pigs cut their hair in all directions, then made to crawl back to their cells. Their shock treatment consists of baseball bats, iron pipes, pick handles, gas and mace sprayed in Brothers' faces, so those who attempt to fight off the blows can't see.

"The Brothers who weren't locked down, but continued to work in the fields are being worked seven days a week; shots are beign fired at them. They can't get out of line, they're beaten with bats and forced to say they are `whores'; and after these sadistic accomplishments, they are forced to finish working in a badly bruised condition."

The four Brothers, Comrades Wallace, Jackson, Montegut, and Woodfox,

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who are members of the Black Panther Party and innocent victims of the fabrications of racist Warden Henderson and his fascist associates, have been indicted in St. Francisville, Louisiana. This place is infamous for lynchings, "legal" or otherwise.

Just as in the case of our beloved Comrade George Jackson, Field Marshal of the Black Panther Party, the State will try to eliminate these four revolutionary Brothers for resisting the bitter repression to which they are subjected in Angola Prison Camp. The state of Louisiana has certainly not repealed the death penalty, and these Brothers, therefore, face execution at the hands of the State. The "Angola Four" must have the support of the people in order to have justice rendered to them. It is only with the support of the people that these Brothers will be set free.

FREE THE ANGOLA FOUR
FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE

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COMMITTEE

c/o LOUISIANA STATE CHAPTER
BLACK PANTHER PARTY
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New Orleans, Louisiana 70125

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BLACK PANTHER PARTY PROGRAM MARCH 29, 1972 PLATFORM: WHAT WE WANT WHAT WE BELIEVE

1. WE WANT FREEDOM. WE WANT POWER TO DETERMINE THE DESTINY OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES.

We believe that Black and oppressed people will not be free until we are able to determine our destinies in our own communities ourselves, by fully controlling all the institutions which exist in our communities.

2. WE WANT FULL EMPLOYMENT FOR OUR PEOPLE.

We believe that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every person employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the American businessmen will not give full employment, then the technology and means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living.

3. WE WANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BY THE CAPITALIST OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES.

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 were promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of Black people. We will accept the payment in currency which will be distributed to our many communities. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million Black people. Therefore, we feel this is a modest demand that we make.

4. WE WANT DECENT HOUSING, FIT FOR THE SHELTER OF HUMAN BEINGS.

We believe that if the landlords will not give decent housing to our Black and oppressed communities, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that the people in our communities, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for the 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 peopel a knowledge of self. If you do not have knowledge of yourself and your position in the society and the world, then you will have little chance to know anything else.

6. WE WANT COMPLETELY FREE HEALTH CARE FOR ALL BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE.

We believe that the government must provide, free of charge, for the people, health facilities which will not only treat our illnesses, most of which have come about as a result of our oppression, but which will also develop preventative medical programs to guarantee our future survival. We believe that mass health education and research programs must be developed to give all Black and oppressed people access to advanced scientific and medical information, so we may provide ourselves with proper medical attention and care.

7. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE BRUTALITY AND MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE, OTHER PEOPLE OF COLOR, ALL OPPRESSED PEOPLE INSIDE THE UNITED STATES.

We believe that the racist and fascist government of the United States uses its domestic enforcement agencies to carry out its program of oppression against Black people, other people of color and poor people inside the United States. We believe it is our right, therefore, to defend ourselves against such armed forces, and that all Black and oppressed people should be armed for self-defense of our homes and communities against these fascist police forces.

8. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS OF AGGRESSION.

We believe that the various conflicts which exist around the world stem directly from the aggressive desires of the U.S. ruling circle and government to force its domination upon the oppressed people of the world. We believe that if the U.S. government or its lackeys do not cease these aggressive wars that it is the right of the people to defend themselves by any means necessary against their aggressors.

9. WE WANT FREEDOM FOR ALL BLACK AND POOR OPPRESSED PEOPLE NOW HELD IN U.S. FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY, CITY AND MILITARY PRISONS AND JAILS. WE WANT TRIALS BY A JURY OF PEERS FOR ALL PERSONS CHARGED WITH SO-CALLED CRIMES UNDER THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY.

We believe that the many Black and poor oppressed people now held in U.S. prisons and jails have not received fair and impartial trials under a racist and fascist judicial system and should be free from incarceration. We believe in the ultimate elimination of all wretched, inhuman penal institutions, because the masses of men and women inprisoned inside the United States or by the U.S. military are the victims of oppressive conditions which are the real cause of their imprisonment. We believe that when persons are brought to trial that they must be guaranteed, by the United States, juries of their peers, attorneys of their choice and freedom from imprisonment while awaiting trials.

10. WE WANT LAND, BREAD, HOUSING, EDUCATION, CLOTHING, JUSTICE, PEACE AND PEOPLE'S COMMUNITY CONTROL OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY.

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; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people 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 effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.

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PEOPLE'S PETITION

FOR IMMEDIATE PAROLE OF BROTHER DAVID
HILLIARD FROM THE CALIFORNIA PRISON
SYSTEM OR AN APPEAL BAIL BOND WITH
A RETRIAL JURY OF HIS PEER-GROUP.

WE THE PEOPLE, RESIDENTS OF THE WORLD COMMUNITY, IN THE SPIRIT OF REVOLUTIONARY INTERCOMMUNALISM, DO HEREBY REDRESS OUR GRIEVANCE AND PETITION THE COURTS OF AMERICA AND THE CALIFORNIA STATE GOVERNMENT AND PAROLE BOARD: THAT DAVID, HILLIARD BE RELEASED FROM HIS PRISON INCARCERATION IN THE CALIFORNIA PENAL SYSTEM TO THE PEOPLE OF OUR COMMUNITIES ON PAROLE OR AN APPEAL BAIL BOND.

BROTHER DAVID HILLIARD, POLITICAL PRISONER AND CHIEFOFSTAFF OF THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY, WAS IN FACT WRONGFULLY CONVICTED ON FALSE CHARGES BY A PREDOMINATELY WHITE RACIST JURY, AS ALL MEMBERS OF THE OAKLAND BLACK COMMUNITY WERE SYSTEMATICALLY ELIMINATED FROM THE JURY SELECTION PROCESS IN HIS TRIAL.

IN LIGHT OF THESE FACTS, WE THE UNDERSIGNED, THEREFORE PETITION THAT DAVID HILLIARD BE GRANTED HIS HUMAN AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, THAT IS, PAROLE FROM PRISON OR AN APPEAL BAIL BOND BY THE AMERICAN COURTS PENDING APPEAL OF HIS CASE BEFORE HIGHER COURTS, AND THAT HIS RETRIAL JURY BE OF HIS PEERS, A TRUE REPRESENTATION OF A CROSS SECTION OF THE COMMUNITY.

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