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BOBBY MEETS THE PRESS

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Editorial: A SECOND CHANCE

The country's attention is now focused on Oakland. For the same reasons, the attention of the voter's of Oakland is focused on all those individuals and groups in Oakland that claim to speak for or represent the people of Oakland. Black and oppressed citizens of Oakland are watching particularly closely. They, after all, constitute the majority.

The May 15th run-off between Bobby Seale, the People's candidate and John Reading, the incumbent Mayor, provides Oakland's community leaders, religious leaders, business leaders and politicians a rare, second opportunity to clearly and demonstratively place themselves on the side of the majority of the people of Oakland.

Those who missed the first opportunity by failing to support the candidacy of Bobby Seale before April 17th, should now bow to the will of the people, swallow their pride and from their platforms of influence, declare themselves openly and boldly in support of the Bobby Seale campaign to unseat Mayor Reading.

The majority of those who voted on April 17th voted to unseat Mayor Reading. Because of the candidacy of Bobby Seale they won the opportunity to do just that on May 15th. Has anyone reflected on Oakland's chances of realizing this proven will of the voters of Oakland if Bobby Seale had not been in the race, or had withdrawn early in the campaign as he was urged to do?

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No one living in Oakland should be ignorant of or confused about Bobby Seale's program for rebuilding this city in decline, least of all those who claim some committment to the welfare of Oakland and its people. Bobby has layed out his program at length and in detail, from the platform, in tens of thousands of pieces of printed literature, in countless radio spots, interviews and discussions, through the friendly press and on the streets.

More than 30,000 persons in Oakland had the special good fortune of meeting him face to face, in order to ask whatever question they had for his response. No one has succeeded and few have even tried to discredit Bobby's program. There was, in fact, overwhelming recognition of its validity and its practicality.

So, what is left for you to do, prior to May 15th, but throw your weight and influence behind Bobby Seale for Mayor? Oakland citizens are watching, particularly its Black and oppressed citizens. They constitute the majority, and, on April 17th the majority voted to unseat Reading. It is the people's will that on May 15th we vote to seat Bobby Seale.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

I'm writing this letter as follow-up to a recent interview BPINS had with Brother James Simmons. I haven't been formerly introduced to the brother, but I say "Right On" to him. I wish that there were more brothers in the Corps that shared his grievances. I can identify with and relate to many of the phases of brutality he spoke of. My respect is very strong for the brother for I've shared most of the same boring, physical and tiring mental trips he went through. But now that phase of Marine brutality has been brought to light. I will bring new perspectives of their harassment program to the brothers and sisters eye level.

I am now serving my final four months out of two years here at Camp Pendleton. After being stationed here for almost two years now, I've witnessed my brothers go through all types of hell. They've been misused by the courts and abused in the slams (brig). But one of the most disturbing and depressing issues that confront the so-called Black Marine here is that they must give up one of their most proudly possessed cultures, the wearing of the natural or "Afro".

Sure it is said that you may wear one, as long as it conforms to the pictures that are posted in the "Butcher", I mean barber shops and along corridors in the area. The specific regulations state: "Hair is not to exceed three inches on top, and present an evenly graduated appearance on the side." Take the picture of Brother Simmons which was printed for example. Leave the hair on top and cut down the sides to about a half an inch to an inch.

This is the natural or Afro that is accepted in the Marine Corps today under certain conditions. Generally these regulations are enforced to the maximum, unless you get a brother that's defiant enough to wear the true look of the natural, or something more suitable to his appearance. But generally this leads to paying $75 instead of 75¢ for a hair cut, and probably result in Non-Judicial Punishment or in some cases even the "Brig" for disobeying a direct order. Yet they place Afro Sheen and other natural products on their counters and shelves to be sold in the Post Exchange. Yes, Brother Simmons was right. It is happening here at Pendleton, and other camps all over the country.

All Power To The People Brother Walter J. Edner Camp Pendleton, Calif. 92055

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WHO ADVOCATES VIOLENCE?

The following letter, written by well-known author Jessica Mitford and Robert Treuhaft, a Bay Area lawyer, brilliantly turns the tables on those who slanderously attacked Bobby Seale as an "advocate of violence".

Editor:

"Charges are being made by Bobby Seale's opponents that Seale is an advocate of violence and that his candidacy represents the breakdown of law and order.

"The irony of this situation is that these slanderous attacks on Bobby Seale are being made by the very people who have condoned and participated in continuing acts of violence against poor people which have been perpetrated by the government for years.

"It is violent to destroy thousands of units of low-rent housing and displace thousands of Black and Brown families in the name of "redevelopment", as was done in West Oakland.

"It is violent to use this same "redevelopment" process to create jobs not for the poor, as city officials promised, but rather for middleclass suburbanites, as in the City Center project.

"It is violent for the city to let the Port of Oakland profit at the expense of the masses of unemployed and underemployed residents of Oakland, men and women, Blacks, Whites, Latinos and Asians.

"It is violent for the city to take Revenue Sharing funds to shore up an indefensible city budget, while denying funds to desperately needed child care centers and programs to train the handicapped and retarded.

"The Black Panther Party does not advocate the use of violence, and indeed the very heart of the Party's survival programs and of the Seale-Brown campaign is to bring an end to the violence practiced by the government on the poor. The Free Breakfast Program, for example, is a nonviolent program to end the violence

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of hunger in young children. Seniors Against a Fearful Environment (SAFE) is a non-violent program to protect helpless senior citizens as they struggle to survive in Oakland.

"When members of the Black Panther Party went to the California legislature in 1967, their action was a non-violent and symbolic protest against government - supported violence. And it should be remembered that the participants were charged with only one offense - the eminently respectable "crime" of civil disobedience.

"Those who attack Bobby Seale as an advocate of violence -- and who at the same time offer nothing but rhetoric as a solution to the real and grave problems of poverty and racism which plague Oakland -- do violence to the people of this city, and do violence to good sense. Such demagogic attempts to stir up hysteria cannot go unchallenged, since their purpose is to divert attention from the real problems that face our community."

Robert E. Treuhaft Jessica Mitford

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BOBBY MEETS THE PRESS

After the results of the Oakland mayoral primary on April 17th revealed that Bobby Seale, the People's Candidate for Mayor of Oakland and incumbent Mayor John Reading, would be in a run-off, media representatives from all over the country and the world tried to contact Bobby for statements or interviews. The election has shocked a usually pro-conservative press into realizing that Bobby Seale is very close to being the next mayor of Oakland, and the election is now a "hot" story.

A press conference was held on Thursday, April 19, at the campaign office on 53rd Avenue and E. 14th Street. There Bobby answered questions put to him by local and national newsmen concerning the campaign and the results of the primary election. Excerpts of that press conference are printed below:

BOBBY: I know that in the past all the candidates had a problem determining who was going to unseat Mayor Reading, I know that all the other candidates interests was to unseat Mayor Reading. Now that the people have made their will very clear, that it will be Bobby Seale who will move to unseat Reading, I'm calling on all the other candidates to throw their support and unity behind unseating the incumbent Mayor, because that in fact was all of our goals. We, the people, can win. The people will turn out to vote stronger on May 15th. John Reading some months ago said that he was not going to run, then later, he decided to run. We speculate that what he is trying to do is get in, resign and appoint someone not duly elected by the people to the office of mayor.

I'm willing, I'm ready and able to represent all the needs and desires of the people and represent the people as Mayor of Oakland. We have a lot of workers who are ready to go to the doors of the people and make sure the vote comes out stronger than it did on April 17. Because such a large number of people did not come out to vote, we could allow ourselves to think that we're not going to unseat Reading, but I say we can.

Q: Do you really think you can beat Reading since he had such a large number of votes?

BOBBY: Yes, I can still beat him. We had over 1000 inexperienced campaign workers. But they are experienced now and know how to pull that vote out. I say I can beat him. There are no other candidates now. Since it's between John Reading and I, I can unseat him.

Q: What's going to be your major ampaign strategy in the run-off? Are there going to be any changes?

BOBBY: We're going to get the vote out. We're going to ask all the people to turn out to vote very heavily May 15th and elect me, Bobby Seale, Mayor of Oakland. We're going to continue going door-to-door, explaining to the people my program and actually getting those votes out. But we're going to organize our precinct workers, who did turn out a greater number of votes April 17th, to an even higher level. Each worker will build face-to-face relationships with each voter. We have more precinct workers than anyone in the city. We are in the process now of organizing and training all our precinct workers to turn out more than 50,000 of the 65,000 people who did not vote April 17th, in addition to the people who did vote for me. That will win this election.

Q: Do you think that the results show that the Black Panther Party is now a viable force in politics in the community?

BOBBY: I'm not running as a Black Panther Party candidate, which I've been trying to explain to people. I'm running as a People's Candidate. I've set forth the best programs. I think the people turned out to vote for me

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because they took time to understand the programs that I formulated.

Q: Did a vote for Green or Sutter mean a vote against Bobby Seale? They were also Democrats, doesn't that mean that you couldn't possibly get their votes?

BOBBY: No. Those votes were against John Reading because the attempt was to unseat him. On a broad scale, in terms of masses of people trying to choose a candidate in a field of nine candidates, I think that people realized that John Reading is a Republican mayor, a Nixon supporter. The people understand that they do not want four more years of Reading, for it would only mean four more years of unemployment, increased crime and no solutions to our problems. We will not have four more years of John Reading.

Q: Did Reading get many votes in the Black community?

BOBBY: No, his vote came predominantly from the white community. He received very few Black votes. However, I did well in many precincts in the white community.

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“WE WERE VICTORIOUS” : INTERVIEW WITH ELAINE BROWN

Elaine Brown received 34,000 votes in the city of Oakland on April 17. She received less votes than the incumbent city councilman, Joshua Rose, but she was still victorious in the eyes of many people.

We print here a short interview that was done with BPINS shortly after the news was released that Bobby Seale would be in a run-off with John Reading for the seat of mayor.

Elaine Brown urges you to vote on May 15th for Bobby Seale. The interview follows:

BPINS: The first question I want to ask you is why didn't you defeat Joshua Rose, the incumbent City Councilman of District 2?

ELAINE: I don't know if we can say that I didn't defeat Joshua Rose, as much as we can say that we, the people, were able to effectively show that we could organize ourselves and make a real inroad into the electoral machine that controls the city. I think in that sense we were not defeated at all. We were victorious. I'm sure that the Black community, as well as most other communities, are not really aware of Joshua Rose. Many of the people, in fact, I would say all of the people who voted for Reading made an automatic choice and voted for Joshua Rose as well as some of the other incumbents.

The real problem was that not enough of those of us who were really opposed to the oppressive machine that runs this city came out and voted. Not enough Black people voted to effectively push us at least into a runoff for that seat or into a position from which we would win that seat. What we won was something that was valuable. We can't feel as though we failed because we haven't failed. In two more years there will be other seats, there will be other people's candidates. That is the importance of what we did in forming the people's political machine.

BPINS: What are you going to do now to see to it that Bobby Seale does become the next mayor of the city of Oakland?

ELAINE: I'm going to use the influence that I gained as a person from the organizing

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that we did around the campaign of Bobby Seale and Elaine Brown. I'm going into those precincts where I did receive a heavy vote. I'm going to go door-to-door. I'm going to get on buses. I'm going to do everything I did before. In other words, the campaign has not ended because we didn't win one seat. I'm going to be campaigning as I did before, because Bobby Seale's program, the program that we've been talking about all along, is even more important now. We have an opportunity, as Bobby said in his statement, for redemption. We've been given a second chance and I think that I'm going to be a part of that same machine and get out those votes.

The main thing is to encourage people to use their power, through the voting machinery, through the electoral process. After May 15th we're going to still campaign because we have programs to initiate that will set an example for the rest of the country and the world.

BPINS: Do you think that the influence that you talked about will make the same people who voted for you vote for Bobby Seale on May 15th?

ELAINE: I hope that it will. I hope that people will see that a vote for Elaine Brown or a vote for Bobby Seale is really one and the same. Our program is what we were really talking about. We weren't talking about putting in the personality Elaine Brown, nor are we really talking about putting in the personality Bobby Seale, although we know Bobby Seale to be a dedicated human being, dedicated to the liberation and freedom of all of us, every single human being. More than that, we know that we're going to be voting in a program, and Bobby Seale represents that program.

BPINS: How, after May 15th, does Bobby Seale intend to establish within the city the programs that you and

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he through all your campaign work formulated?

ELAINE: One of the key ways of course will be to use the ballot again. The significance will not be so much in the power of the ballot as much as it will be in the recognition of the power of the ballot by the people themselves. The main thing is to involve a large mass, really all of the people of Oakland, in the programs. The key to implementing the programs will be to take the programs to the people, let the people make a decision about them. We want to get the consent of the people, not the consent of the city council as much as the consent of the people. We have to bring those kinds of issues before the people, let them vote on them, let them make a decision. This is our government. We are the people who have the real control over what happens. We'll have initiatives and ballot issues going on as often as we can so that not only will people be the ones who actually decide to do a thing but they will also be aware of what they decided, what is going on in their city. This way, in the future, individuals will no longer be able to come along and fool us.

BPINS: I'm sure that people would like to know whether you enjoyed working on this people's campaign?

ELAINE: It was the most exciting period of my life. I can think of millions of our people, Black people in particular, who died trying to vote. I can think of brothers and sisters who died here in our country in the interest of seeing to it that people begin to control the institutions that affect our lives. I think that we're very fortunate to have lived in this period of history. I felt that I could see the beginnings of a new world, I mean that victory for our people is right around the corner. I think that what this campaign did was to synthesize something old and something new. This campaign is a clarion call for that new world, saying here it is, here is the beginning. This is where we begin again. This is where humanity can save itself. To have been personally a part of that, to have felt that was a reward. I don't know of any other thing as rewarding to me personally as this. Although we will go on and there will be many, many victories and I may live and be a part of those victories. I think this was that first step into the future, into a new world, a better world.

BPINS: What is the response now that Bobby Seale does face a run-off with John Reading? Do you feel that people will be just as enthusiastic to go to the polls on May 15?

ELAINE: I don't think people feel defeated at all. They feel that this is really good. We're going to use these few weeks and work with everything that we have in us to push us over this hump. I think we're going to win because I feel that enthusiasm in the streets, from the people.

BPINS: What effect do you think this campaign has had and will have, when Bobby Seale becomes mayor, on the country and the world?

ELAINE: The eyes of the world are on Oakland. On the east coast alone the day after the election every newspaper had front page headlines about the victory of Bobby Seale. From what I understand, in New York, Philadelphia, Detroit and Boston, people who were not that close physically to our campaign were practically dancing in the streets. I think that that is an indication that people are finding hope in this campaign. I think that people all over this country and the world will be watching and waiting with baited breath to see what the results will be.

The day after the election Bobby was interviewed by 30 different reporters from all over the world. From Russia, Europe, the African press, many representatives from the press came into Oakland to see how we did it. Everybody understands that what happens in this country is going to have an effect on oppressed people all over this world and there is no other place in this country where this kind of thing is happening. There are a lot of elections going on but this one is not ordinary. Most of the world is looking with hope to the situation here in Oakland. I think they would all move to Oakland, if they could, so they could vote on May 15th.

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VOTE MAY 15TH: We Urge Everyone To Go To The Polls and ELECT BOBBY SEALE, THE PEOPLE'S CANDIDATE, MAYOR OF OAKLAND ON MAY 15th.

It is very important that the Black, Latino, Asian, Native American and White communities turn out and vote for Bobby Seale as he contests, head-on, John Reading for the Mayor's seat.

Sample ballots will be mailed out 10 days prior to the election. The same polling places will be used this election as on April 17th and if there are any changes they will be announced through the sample ballot.

BECAUSE NONE OF THE NINE CANDIDATES IN OAKLAND'S MAYORALTY RACE WON OVER 50% OF THE PEOPLE'S VOTES THERE WILL BE A "RUN-OFF" ELECTION BETWEEN THE TOP TWO VOTE-GETTERS ON MAY 15th. ANY REGISTERED VOTER IS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE IF HE/SHE WAS REGISTERED BY APRIL 14TH.

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BLACK STUDENT UNION SENDS TELEGRAM TO OTHO GREEN

The BPINS received the following copy of the telegram, which was sent to us by Paulette Aikens, Chairman of the Alameda College Black Student Union.

On March 15, 1973, you spoke to the students at the College of Alameda regarding the April 17 elections. One of the questions asked by the Students was if the election resulted in a runoff between Bobby Seale and the incumbent John Reading would you give your full support to Bobby Seale. Your reply was "Yes". Since you are a man of your word we would like for you to make your support known to the people of Oakland. We will await your prompt reply. Thank you.

Chairman Black Student Union Paulette Aikens

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BOBBY AND ELAINE SWAMPED WITH MESSAGES OF SUPPORT

The victory won by the People's Campaign at the polls in Oakland on April 17th has elicited a flood of telegrams and messages of congratulations to the People's Candidates, Bobby Seale and Elaine Brown from throughout the country.

Among those offering their congratulations are California Congressman Ronald V. Dellums, Chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Louis Stokes, Co-Chairman of the California Black Assembly, Tom Pruit and the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, President of Operation PUSH, which is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. In addition, a flood of telephone calls has come into the campaign offices from around the country from ordinary citizens, community leaders, religious leaders and interested individuals as well as old friends.

In order to share these expressions of support and encouragement with our readers, we are reprinting here a selection from the many messages received:

"My sincere congratulations on your exciting and imaginative campaign. Your efforts to bring heretofore disenfranchised people into the political arena has been overwhelming, successful and has been endorsed by the progressive population in the city of Oakland. I look forward to working with you. Congressman Ronald V. Dellums."

"Applaude your outstanding showing in Oakland Mayoral race. Confident of your victory in general election. Highest regards and warmest congratulations. Sincerely, Louis Stokes, Chairman Congressional Black Caucus."

"Congratulations on a great victory for the people. Will contact you soon concerning Black Assembly meeting. Tom Pruit, Co-Chairman California Black Assembly."

"People's Victory on May 15 and All Power To The People. Mike and Saundra Bradley." (Mike Bradley - recent candidate for School Board - community activist.)

"You did it. I was very pleased to learn of your vote totals putting you in the run-off with Reading. You have my admiration and best wishes for another "People's Victory" in the May runoff. Seize the Time. Robert A. Deleon, Jet Magazine."

"Congratulations for coming into the number two spot, and best of luck in the May 15, run-off election. Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, President and the Staff of Operation PUSH."

"Best of luck on Tuesday, election day. University of Massachusetts, Boston, Social Relations Coalition: Larry Boelsckevy, President; Phil Mahoney, Treasurer; Dave McGrath, Minister of Information."

"Congratulations. Please call me to help you in the run-off. Ella."

"The people's choice was you. We learned that in the prefix we are together. Bobby must be elected. Roma Rehfisch and George Stokes, AFT."

"I have followed your career for many years, and have great respect for your endeavors. I am active in Los Angeles in the political situation there. My occupation is actor and if I can be of any assistance to you, please feel free to call upon me. Respectfully yours, Geoffrey Deuel."

"The very best of success in today's election. Our prayers and hopes are with you. Right on and Power to the People. Jim and Anne Jones, Madison, Wisc."

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DAVID HILLIARD HOSPITALIZED

David Hilliard's chronic ulcer condition suddenly reversed last week and this highly respected incarcerated leader of the Black Panther Party entered Vacaville Prison "hospital". The order for him to enter the "hospital" came only after David had diagnosed the reversal himself and demanded to see the physician in charge.

At the present time Vacaville prison has a population of approximately 1200 prison inmates. It's "hospital", which occupies one floor of one wing of this giant complex called a "medical facility", can only accomodate 65 patients. Conditions in this "hospital" are appalling.

David's room is only large enough to hold an ancient hospital bed, two chairs and a tiny table. This cell-like room contains an open toilet and a small wash bowl, the fixtures of which are rusting. The uncovered concrete floor is dirty.

Knowledgeable prison inmates at Vacaville dread the thought of having to become patients in this hospital. The medical staff consists of two physicians and a full-time contingent of Department of Correction employees called Medical Training Assistants (MTAs). Untrained prison inmates acting as orderlies actually do most of the actual work in the hospital. The MTAs spend all their time acting out their authoritarian roles behind cluttered desks.

The only challenge to the authority of the MTAs comes from the hospital physicians. This results in a running battle between the doctors and the MTAs, with the victims being the patients. The doctor bosses give orders to the MTAs to carry out. The MTAs ignore the orders, change the orders, undermine the orders and make and

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issue their own orders. The prison inmate "orderlies" do their best, generally, to cushion the negative effects on their colleague patients.

The physician in charge ordered that David receive Half-and-Half because of his active ulcer condition. The MTAs have refused to "authorize" the Half-and-Half and David only receives ordinary milk. The physician in charge ordered David be put in a room away from tension-creating conditions. The MTAs put David in a crowded dormitory. The physician in charge ordered that David be fed on an ulcer diet. The MTAs allow David to be brought a lunch containing raw carrots - a roughage forbidden in an ulcer diet.

A close colleague of David's, who is also a patient in the hospital, on learning that David had come to the hospital, assumed personal responsibility for looking after David's needs and placing himself between David and the continuing aggravations. This week this colleague has learned that he is due for transfer out of the hospital.

Vacaville's hospital doctors make their rounds to check on their patients twice a week, instead of twice daily as is normal. They go home at 6:00 p.m. -- the two of them. After 6:00 p.m. only a psychologist is on duty. The assumption seems to be that the only possible emergencies that could arise after 6:00 p.m. would be psychological ones. If they are not, they will be treated as though they were.

But that is the point about Vacaville "Medical Facility". Its real purpose is to act as a laboratory for a wide range of research and testing. It's inmate population are human guinea pigs. The "hospital" is only a last recourse for emergency situations arising out of a laboratory mistake.

David Hilliard is no laboratory mistake, nor is he or any of the prison inmates at Vacaville guinea pigs. David's condition demands an end to his incarceration. He is past due for parole. Nothing on his record justifies his continual incarceration. His confinement in Vacaville's prison hospital increases our concern and anxiety about David Hilliard. Returning him to his family and to the people is the only guarantee of his return to good health.

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CHAVEZ CALLS FOR GRAPE BOYCOTT: TEAMSTERS / GROWERS SIGN “SWEETHEART” CONTRACTS

There is a new threat to the United Farm Workers Union's struggle for justice and human dignity. This latest threat comes from the Teamsters Union, which has formed an unholy alliance with the Farm Bureau and lettuce and grape growers to destroy the Farm Workers Union. Because of this, the Union's director, Cesar Chavez, is again calling for a nationwide boycott of grapes.

The method the Teamsters Union is using to accomplish this is with "sweetheart contracts". This means that where the Farm Workers Union attempted to bring adequate union representation to an agricultural grower's exploited workers, the Teamsters have been stepping in as a third force, serving as a tool for agribusiness, using coercion, trickery and outright lies, then signing a contract with the agricultural grower "in the name of" the farmworkers.

Recently, the Teamsters Union has been invading the grape fields of California. The agricultural growers have been signing contracts with the Teamsters after taking the word of labor contractors that the farmworkers preferred affiliation with the Teamsters rather than the United Farm Workers Union. This practice lends credence to the many charges of collusion between the Teamsters and growers.

Such underhanded tactics are not new to the Teamster's Union. Teamster leaders have prostituted themselves with employers in the past to keep farmworkers poor and enslaved and to further their own ends. In 1966, when the Farm Workers Union was fighting the huge DiGiorgio Corporation, the Teamsters joined with DiGiorgio in staging a phoney election that was boycotted by the field workers. This move was soundly defeated by the Farm Workers Union when a legitimate election was held.

In 1967, the Teamsters signed a "sweetheart contract" with growers during the Perilli-Minetti strike. The strikers could not be stopped, however, and a boycott of Perilli-Minetti wines forced the Teamsters out of the picture and a true union contract was signed. Directly after the Farm Workers Union's grape strike and boycott victory in 1970, the Teamsters again tried the sweetheart collusion role with the purpose of destroying the Union. This prompted lettuce workers to launch the largest agricultural worker's strike in U.S. history.

The Teamsters have now signed a pact with the National Labor Contractors Association which stipulates that anyone working with labor contractors join the Teamsters Union. Also, just as the Farm Workers Union began negotiations for new contracts with grape growers, Teamster "organizers" have been entering grape fields trying to intimidate workers into signing

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authorization cards. Teamster goons have pushed workers around, crossed picket lines, they have surrounded farmworker women in the fields to terrorize them and have fraternized with the growers.

The United Farm Workers, however, are fighting back. A new strike and nationwide boyctott of California table grapes has been called by the Union in answer to Teamster's "sweetheart contracts" that were signed with 15 growers in Coachella, California; they represent 85 per cent of the grape production in that region. Farmworkers are being urged to stay out of the fields and support for the Union is coming in everywhere.

In a press release dated April 16, 1973, California Congressman Ron Dellums condemns the actions of the Teamsters Union and grape growers. The press release stated: "Congressman Ronald V. Dellums, 7th California Congressional District, today denounced the California grape growers for conspiring against the Farm Workers Movement.

"Dellums' statement came in response to growers threats to sign contracts with the Teamsters instead of renewing 1970 agreements with the Farm Workers.

"Any attempt to seek agreement with other unions would be completely disregarding the workers wishes.

"Dellums based his conclusion on the results of a Congressional staff poll of 31 farms in the Coachella Valley.

"The poll showed strong worker support for Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Union.

"The poll showed an overwhelming majority of 83.4% of those contracted in favor of the United Farm Workers, with 8.4% favoring the Teamsters and 8.2% for no union."

There is no question as to whether the Unite Farm Workers will defeat the Teamsters in this latest round, for one fact remains clear: the desire of people to live in dignity cannot be crushed. The Farm Workers Union represents that hope for dignity, while the Teamsters Union, grown fat from corruption, remains the arm of the agricultural growers.

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HIGHLAND HOSPITAL: WOMEN'S DEPARTMENT TO BE CLOSED

Some 13,000 women, mostly poor, will not be able to receive obstetrical and gynecological care if a recent decision to close the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of Highland Hospital, by the Hospital's Executive Board, stands. The decision to close the department made on the recommendation of recently retired chairman of the department and board member Dr. Wilson Footer, was prompted by the department's loss of money and the program's deterioration, Highland Hospital sources said. While both these points are true, stated a BPINS source, the cause and results of closing the Department seem not to have been well-considered.

The Obstetrics and Gynecology Department must operate at greater expense than other departments due to the surprise and emergency nature of clinical and delivery stations. A full staff 24 hours a day is required, and while this is expensive it is nevertheless unavoidable.

Destructive internal conflicts between the residents, grave personality conflicts, poor decisions and bad leadership under chief residents Wolfstein and Jacobsen were factors contributing to the overall deterioration of the program.

The closing of the Obstetrics and Gynecology services will result in first, 13,000 women being denied clinical, emergency, hospital, and delivery services yearly. (Since Highland is a County Hospital it provides services to anyone who applies. The other hospitals in the area either do not provide obstetrics and gynecology services or they are private hospitals that require large payments, often in advance, for services.) Secondly, Highland will not be offering training in Gynecology to interns arriving in July who expect a completely equipped hospital that would give them a few months experience in each department. Thirdly, second year residents

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will have to find jobs in their final year on very short notice. Few third year residencies are available and those that are usually fill early.

So great is the conflict over this issue that even after the executive committee approved closing the department, the chiefs of staff of the departments had their own meetings in which they urged that obstetrics - gynecology stay open. They specifically elaborated on chief Wolfstein's behavior pointing out that he acted in a "demeaning manner" towards the second year residents. Since a decision by the executive committee is usually uncontested, the chiefs of staffs' open opposition to this denial of medical services to the community shows the great intensity of the struggle covering this issue. The conflict will probably not be settled, however, until it is presented to the Board of Supervisers who will determine whether the department stays open or closes.

Among those staff who oppose the executive committee's decision to close the department is the director of the hospital, the chief of medicine, chief of pediatrics, chief of gastroeuterology, chief of staff, director of surgery and the administrator of the hospital.

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CAIRO, ILL.: UNITY CELEBRATION A SUCCESS

(Cairo, Ill.) - A gathering of brothers and sisters from across America attended the Cairo, Illinois, United Front 4th Anniversary and Unity Celebration on April 7th, according to a press release issued by the Cairo United Front. In keeping with the United Front 4th Anniversary theme of "Unite Black People and Poor People With the Land", the brothers and sisters who travelled to Cairo brought food, clothing and medical supplies to the Black and poor people of the community.

The packed congregation at the United Front spiritual service held at the St. Columbia Church in the afternoon heard United Front President Rev. Charles Koen deliver the spiritual message, "We as Black and poor people are in a real turmoil in this country today in our efforts to survive against racism, exploitation and oppression," he said.

In explaining that the farmers conference in the morning was called so

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that Black people can become producers rather than remain as consumers, Rev. Koen announced that the farmers committed 900 acres of land to the United Front to be used to develop rural economic projects.

"The only country that is left which has not been totally exploited by America is Africa", continued Rev. Koen. "That is why the president of Uganda is moving to oust the non-citizens from his country, and why Kodak continues to move in South Africa to oppress our African brothers and sisters", he said.

Brother Les Williams, Economic Developer for the United Front reported that the farmer's conference is organizing to set up a structure to assist the farmers improving their agricultural output and to develop a market for their produce. Williams declared, "We are proud that we are farmers and we know you have to come back to the land to survive."

Rev. Koen announced that the United Front's 4th Solidarity Day will be in Cairo, June 16, 1973.

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GOVERNMENT TROOPS READY TO ATTACK WOUNDED KNEE: FIVE NATIVE AMERICANS SHOT

Government negotiator Stanley Pottinger said on April 19th that the patience of U.S. Marshals surrounding Wounded Knee has "run out". He indicated that the marshalls will become even more vicious in their attacks on the Native Americans under seige there.

A gun battle on Tuesday, April 17th, left one Indian at Wounded Knee in very critical condition. An Indian source also said that there were three more wounded persons inside the village, including one man "very near death". The critically wounded Native American was flown to St. John's Hospital in Rapid City, South Dakota for brain surgery the same day of the gun battle. His name is Frank Clear-water, an elderly Cherokee.

Russell Means, a leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM) said in Cleveland that Brother Clear-water "may not see another sunset" and added that "there will be many more Wounded Knees because the white man has no eyes and no ears."

Rather than placing the blame for Tuesday's gun battle where it rightfully belongs -- with the U.S. Marshals -- Pottinger chose to lie and shift responsibility to the Indians, saying that the violation of a three-week cease-fire was due to a change in Native American leadership and a "hardening of the position on the part of the militants in Wounded Knee". The truth is that the U.S. government has never softened its position against the Indian people.

The besieged Native Americans at Wounded Knee remain firm in their resolve to defend that territory and their lives. They have said that an end to armed defense of Wounded Knee could be achieved if the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868 is restored in substance to the lives of the Sioux people and if its standing as the law of the American land is no longer denied.

To initiate a settlement, the Native Americans have proposed that "certain actions, processes and commitments be undertaken for completion, or that appropriate machinery and systems be set into motion to effect the desired, or just, results". Among their demands are:

1. Establishment of a presidential Treaty Commission for the time needed to examine, review and negotiate articles and provisions of the 1868 Sioux Treaty and other agreements with the traditional headmen and chiefs of all the Sioux tribes, bands, or different reservations under the treaty…

2. Firm guarantee of a 30 - to - 60 day moratorium on arrest actions against persons, Oglala Sioux or otherwise, invited and granted permission to join in the Defense of Wounded Knee; also guaranteed: Unrestricted access in and out of Wounded Knee and protected or free movement upon the Pine Ridge Reservation.

3. That Oglala Sioux and others assisting in the Defense at Wounded Knee not be denied permission to remain in Wounded Knee for reconstruction and restitution activities… and administration of and developments under plans for "The Wounded Knee Memorial Fund of 1973".

4. As soon as possible, within the arrest moratorium period, and subsequently:

a. That prosectuion actions be taken upon the criminal complaints and information on criminal violations already provided to the investigative and police agencies and officials of the Justice Department;

b. That the machinery be operative for processing and prosecuting all additional complaints and information of criminal complaints violations provided federal agencies by Indian people of the reservation;

c. That the existing criminal law be enforced against white ranchers

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and those Indians violating laws to take actions against Indian people at Wounded Knee or otherwise interfering with civil rights.

Other Oglala Sioux demands include: the investigation of expenditures of federal revenue sharing funds provided to the Oglala Sioux Nation; the financing of "volunteer police" and vigilantes on the Pine Ridge Reservation; that the Justice Department, by obligation and on authority of the Sioux Treaty and Agreements, prepare and institute civil suits to protect the personal, property, civil, political and other rights of all individual Oglala Sioux Indians against unlawful uses or abuses by "tribal governing authority"; and that the United States agree to assent to trial of any matters arising out of the Wounded Knee confrontation at judicial districts outside of North and South Dakota… The demands are just ones, and await only the ratification of the U.S. government.

In an editorial, the Wounded Knee National Communications Center accurately reflected the mood and spirit of the Native Americans at Wounded Knee by saying, "To Hell with being proud of my heritage, I am my heritage… it seems to be an accurate contention that nothing can be done to stop the movement…"

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ALBERT WOODFOX OF ANGOLA FOUR FRAMED - GETS LIFE

(Angola, Louisiana) - Prison inmate Albert Woodfox was tried and convicted in March and sentenced to life imprisonment for the alleged slaying of a prison guard on April 17th of last year. Brother Woodfox along with three other brothers, collectively known as the "Angola Four", all Black Panther Party members, were singled out because of their organized resistance to the exploitative prison administration and their supportive work for a successful prison kitchen workers strike.

This conviction is not surprising despite Brother Woodfox's obvious innocence when the situation is examined. Such examination reveals that the 12 whites on Albert Woodfox's jury were racists, incapable of arriving at a just verdict in the trial of a 27-year old, poor New Orleans Black man accused of killing a white prison guard.

Set in the small town of Plaquemine, in Iberville parish, across the Mississippi river from Baton Rouge, the trial proceeded as would be expected. Brother Woodfox was convicted despite the fact that bloody fingerprints found at the scene of the killing did not match any of the "Angola Four's" fingerprints; bloody clothes, apparently worn by the murderer, found tossed near Woodfox's cell, did not belong to him: the argument that the Angola 4 committed the crime, in face of the fact that they were all eating and in the presence of many other prisoner witnesses at the time, who testified to this.

The trial of the remaining three of the four, Herman Wallace, Chester Jackson and Gilbert Montegat, begins on May 7 in the same racist town, Plaquemine, pending the results of an April 23 change of venue hearing. A change of venue hearing follows a request brought by the defense to have the location of the trial changed to New Orleans.

Brother Woodfox maintains that the guard, Brent Miller, in fact may have been murdered by the prison administration itself. In Angola prison, as in many others, a small number of backward inmates are chosen by the administration to become "trustees" or trusted inmate guards. At Angola Prison these prison inmates are

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even given guns to watch over other, less cooperative prisoners. Such a trustee could easily be enlisted by the administration to kill a guard, incriminate Brother Woodfox, and leave the administration an open excuse to attack the strong, developing prison inmate movement through removing its leaders.

In early 1972 regular classes were being held within Angola Prison led by the four brothers who were later to become the Angola Four. By April of 1972, the organizing work done by these brothers and others around the philosophy and ideology of a people's revolutionary structure had brought the prisoner movement to a level where a kitchen workers strike movement was launched. The prison inmates had earlier circulated petitions calling for better food, "disciplinary court" representation and the right to redress of grievances. Among the petitions submitted to the administration was one circulated among workers in the dining hall calling for an end to the forced 16 hour day, 6 day work week. Two weeks after Associate Warden Hayden Dees assented to these demands, the same conditions still existed with no signs of change.

The kitchen workers struck on the morning of April 17, demanding that they see the warden, Murry Henderson; they charged that the associate warden had acted and negotiated in bad faith. After initial threats of violence made by the warden failed, he agreed to meet the demands. If the administraton had resorted to violence at that point, they would have jeopardized the safety and production of the 25,000 acres of the sugar cane grown on the prison grounds with forced prison inmate labor. So they gave in. However, the system of complete administration control over the prisoners, and strict fast retaliation against all defiance was disrupted. The prestige of the captors power over the captives had been badly damaged. The administration needed a terror attack upon the prisoners to restore this prestige and an excuse to unleash such an attack. So, a prison guard, Brent Miller, was found dead and the needed excuse was conveniently on hand.

After eating breakfast on that same April 17th morning, the prison inmates were divided. Most were sent out into the fields to work and the rest were sent to their cells. Once the administration was assured that the sugar cane that brought profit into Angola prison farm was adequately tended, the remainder of the prisoners were again taken out of their cells, into the yard and the terror began. Stripped of their clothes and questioned, the prisoners assembled in the yard were witness to the brutal

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beatings inflicted upon a dozen of their leaders by 200 guards armed with iron pipes, blackjacks, shotguns and submachine guns.

Two days later the Angola Four were indicted for Brent Miller's death. The situation in Angola is not exceptional. Many U.S. prisons parallel Angola but the information is kept from the outside. Support the Angola Four. Send contributions and write to: Mrs. Ruby Mable 2535 St. Ann Street - New Orleans, La. 70712.

Also write to Edwin Edwards, Governor P.O. Box 44004, Capital Station, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804. Demand justice for the Angola Four.

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A CITIZEN'S PEACE FORCE - A PROPOSAL: BY HUEY P. NEWTON

CONCLUSION

The following article is the fifth and final installment of Huey P. Newton's essay, "A Citizen's Peace Force". In this last segment, Brother Huey extolls the virtues of such a proposal: "The peace force could more economically handle the work now assigned to agencies like VISTA, and handle the problems with an incalculably better chance of success…", Huey tells us. In view of the well-known problems which afflict the oppresed communities throughout the country, this newspaper urges our readers to study closely Huey P. Newton's proposal and consider its implementation.

A Citizen's Peace Force would, of course, save vast sums of money depending, as it would, on local, community methods of person to person problem solving. The democratic dynamism flowing from citizen responsibility and decision making would galvanize every level of popular institutional involvement. And as in the equally charged issue of education where the easily exploited tactic of "bussing" begs the entire problem, citizen control would allow each ethnic group to conform to both traditional, cultural and politically evolving mores, morals and values.

Citizen's Peace Control looks beyond failed liberal measures and slogans like "quota system" and "citizen review board"; beyond such reactionary tactics as "law and order" and the "Basic Car Plan".

Peace force would not be, in this new model, a euphemism for police force as it is now. The peace force could more economically handle the work now assigned to agencies like VISTA, and handle the problems with an incalcuably better chance of success than the present neo-colonial bureaucratic apparatus known as the War on Poverty and which is, in effect, a war on the poor (since the fantasy of the American ruling ideology is that the poor cause poverty rather than the reverse).

The Peace Force would be crosstrained to respond to the variety of emergencies that constitute every day life in the poverty community. The comparison to a home guard is valid when one considers that the rat crises alone is enough to occupy cadres year round, or universal innoculation for Sickle-Cell Anemia, or voter registration, etc.?

Finally, the danger in a "professional" national police force is the same as that of a volunteer army. In both we find an elitist, racist, proto-fascist orientation and esprit. Uneducated, unemployed, authoritarian people are attracted to the green machine or the domestic blue machine, there to be integrated into the organized violence of the State's human and technological weapon. That is, of course, why the Nixon administration is pressing for just such a military - one that will not question the search and destroy orders from the Pentagon or inform the public about a My Lai, Kent State or a conspiracy to exterminate the Black Panther Party or the Brown Berets. In 1792, founding father Thomas Paine said:

"Whatever the apparent cause of any riots may be, the real one is always want of happiness. It shows that something is wrong in the system of government that injures the felicity by which society is to be preserved."

America cannot have a content of social redress in a structure of organized electronic and "legal" repression.

ACitizen's Peace Force would provide a human environment for community experiment, growth, identity and responsibility, and, finally, an awareness of what role each must play as the Human Rights Revolution drives toward its climax.

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INTERCOMMUNAL NEWS: RHODESIA: ZIMBABWE REVOLUTIONARY GROUPS UNITE: KUMBIRAI KANGAI EXPLAINS RECENT DEVELOPMENTS TO BPINS

The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service was honored last week with a visit from revolutionary freedom fighter and brother Kumbirai Kangai, from Zimbabwe (named Rhodesia by white settlers). Brother Kangai spent several hours with us in intensive conversation about the situation in Zimbabwe. He also left with us a large amount of printed material concerning Zimbabwe.

The following is the first of a series, based on our talk with Brother Kangai and the material he provided, about the struggle underway to liberate the people of Zimbabwe from white, racist rule. The outcome of this struggle is key to East African development and African self-determination.

Brother Kangai, who is now on his way back to Zimbabwe to rejoin the struggle, has been the North American representative of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), while obtaining a medical degree in a Bay Area Medical school.

On March 8th three Zimbabwe Freedom Fighter guerrillas were sentenced to death by a Rhodesian court for the "murder" of Cpl. Norman Moore, a white Rhodesian soldier. Zimbabwe guerrilla organizations have declared they will put to death a Briton they captured in January and are now holding as a prisoner of war, if the sentence is carried out.

In a statement issued immediately after the sentencing, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) declared that Cpl. Moore died in action and was not murdered. As fighting continues, the statement pointed out, more Rhodesians would be captured. If death sentences were carried out on Freedom Fighters. Rhodesian soldiers would be treated as criminals and not as prisoners of war, the statement said.

"Our men will be forced to treat captured Rhodesian soldiers as criminals also and where appropriate, sentence them to death under penal codes prepared and legalized by people's courts. These courts would be empowered to impose sentences according to the dictum `an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth'", the statement added.

As of this writing the three Freedom Fighter guerrillas have not been put to death.

Also, last month the two Zimbabwe Freedom Fighter organizations, ZANU and the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), declared their intention to form a joint military command and a joint political council. This development is of great significance since it will draw into one force what have formerly been two rival liberation forces preoccupied with ideological battles between themselves rather than with waging armed struggle against the white, racist minority regime of Premier Ian Smith.

The announcement was made in Lusaka, Zambia, where both organizations have offices-in-exile. Mr. Herbert Chitepo, ZANU's leader in exile said: "Our first priority is to ensure that the fighting which has led to panic and to the international crisis (Rhodesia/Zambia border closing), is not allowed to subside". He said ZANU guerrillas had been operating both in the northeast and northwest of Salisbury, the Rhodesian capital, in an area embracing 40,000 square miles and 1,500,000 people.

The death sentences the court gave to the three Freedom Fighters were ordered for the "crime" of entering Rhodesia with weapons. They admitted bringing into the country land mines, grenades, bazookas, mortars, heavy machine guns, sub-machine guns, explosives and ammunition. These three bring to six the number of Freedom Fighters sentenced to death in the recent period in Rhodesia. The death sentences have not been carried out apparently out of fear that the POW held by the guerrillas will be executed.

In other important developments the Organization of African Unity (OAU) Liberation Committee has withdrawn its recognition from the Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe (FROLIZI). FROLIZI was formed in 1970 from dissident members of both ZANU and ZAPU who opposed the decision to wage an armed struggle in Zimbabwe and attempted unsuccessfully to win influence for a compromise political solution to the self-determination demands of the Zimbabwe African people.

The background of the developments presented in this article will be dealt with in future articles in this series.

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NATIVE AMERICAN FRAMED IN MURDER CASE

(Sonora, Calif.) - Recently, Constancio "Tino" Deocampo, a Native American, was charged with first degree murder in a blatant act of racism by the court and the district attorney's office. Tuolumne County District Attorney Tom Marovich broke legal tradition in October of 1972 by pressing charges against Brother Deocampo despite recommendations by the Grand Jury that the case be dismissed. This is the first time in this century that such a practice has occurred in California, the last instance of it having been in 1888.

The murder charge grew out of the death of a white man during a fight at a party in Sonora. Brother Tino was there by chance, he had come to participate in the Tuolumne Acorn Festival, an annual traditional ceremony of his people, the Miwok Indians. Tino lived in Vallejo, California, with his wife and five children, where he was a janitor in a movie theatre. On September 9, 1972, Tino, his wife and James Hicks, a Black friend of Tino's went to the predominantly white party in Sonora. Racial harassment led to a fight, the lights went out, shots were heard and Andrew Nelson, a White man lay dead. James Hicks had been stabbed twice.

Sheriff's deputies spotted a man running from the house when they arrived and arrested this man, Lionel Meyi, for the crime. No weapon could be found. Local news media, playing up the story, charged the fight had erupted because "Negroes crashed the party and "…Negroes tried to pick-up white and Indian girls." However, Lionel Meyi was released for insufficient evidence on September 20th. The next day, Brother Tino was arrested at his home in Vallejo, taken to court, charged with first degree murder and bail was set at $150,000.

On September 27, a spokesman for the State Department of Justice publicly announced that conflicting statements by witnesses made it impossible to obtain "positive identification". At his next arraignment, character references from many establishment figures in Vallejo, the vice-mayor, Tino's employer and others, along with Tino's clean record and steady home and job background, were unable to assuage the racism of the court and convince the judge to lower the bail.

On October 5, Tuolumne County Grand Jury reviewed the evidence, the testimony of witnesses and wouldn't indict Tino. Neither motive nor intent could be established. No weapon was found and there was too much conflicting testimony. On October 10, when defense counsel Rex Sater asked for a time extension to acquire copies of Grand Jury testimony necessary in cross - examining witnesses the motion was denied. Finally on October 11th, bail was reduced to $25,000 and Tino was bailed out with money his family borrowed and had received from the sale of their house.

For more information contact John Robinson, Chairman, American Indian Movement of Oakland, P.O. Box 4030, Berkeley, Calif, 94704.

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BPINS VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service (BPINS) would like your help. What we need are people who know any of the following areas of newspaper related skills:

TYPING

TYPESETTING

PROOF-READING

LAYOUT

EDITING

PHOTOGRAPHY

FILING

If you are interested in placing your talents in service to the people, please contact the BPINS office at 8501 E. 14th Street, Oakland, Calif. 94621 or call (415) 638-0195.

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PEOPLE'S PERSPECTIVE

BLACK VOTES COUNT

(Washington, D.C.)- According to reports made by the Joint Center for Political Studies, Black people have strong influence and potential of determining the outcome of elections in 86 congressional districts throughout the U.S. According to the report Black people make up 25% or more of the population in 58 congressional districts, and in 51 congressional districts the number of Black people of voting age is at least twice as large as the margin by which Nixon was elected in 1972. In past elections the low turn-out of Blacks during elections has reduced the power at hand of Black communities throughout the country.

NO RETRIAL FOR
KING'S ASSASSIN

(Nashville, Tennessee) - James Earl Ray, (accussed assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King), petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus, which was filed by his attorney December 6, 1972, in an attempt to receive a new trial. The petition contends that he was coerced into pleading guilty to the murder of Dr. King. U.S. District Court Judge L. Clure Morto, rejected and dismissed Ray's petition, on the gounds that "no evidentiary hearing" was justified by the pleadings in the petition.

U.S. INAUGURAL PLOT
IN CHILE

(Chile) - President Salvador Allende while addressing an international worker's conference stated that the U.S. government is plotting with the International Telephone and Telegraph Corporation (ITT) to prevent his inauguration. Allende also stated that the U.S. Senate hearings have proven "collusion" between ITT and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in efforts to block his inauguration in November, 1970, and later cause his overthrow.

NEW ZEALAND BANS
RUGBY RACISTS

(New Zealand) - Minister Kirk stated that he felt public violence would occur if the South African Rugby Union football team toured New Zealand. Also the New Zealand police estimated that one-third of the nation's police would have to be called out for just one match. The police predicted that the tour would cause the greatest internal disruption in the nation's history. According to Minister Kirk he has postponed the tour until South African teams are selected on merit, not skin color.

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NOTICE TO PRISON INMATES

You, better than any of us on the outside, know the inhumanity of your conditions inside America's prisons. You live under those conditions every day. Your brothers and sisters outside do not know. We of the Black Panther Intercommunal News Service see it as one of our tasks to expose those conditions, in the belief that knowledge about those conditions is the first step to changing them. So, when you write us follow these simple guidelines:

1. Tell us facts; the details of your conditions, the complete incident of harassment, intimidation, brutality and psychological dehumanizing. Give names, dates and places. Run it down like it is.

2. Tell us what you are doing to change those conditions, however insignificant you may feel what you are doing to be. This includes your self-conducted study efforts and your physical fitness program.

What is important out here is that despite those difficulties, you are shining examples to all of us of struggle. Your struggle is proof that under the worst possible conditions of repression, struggle is still possible, victories, however small, can be won; proof that the final victory is an accumulation of small victories.

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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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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, cooperatively 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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