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3. the Attorney General and the courts are fullya~re that they have used known fraud I.Q. documents.They are fully a~re that they are illegally ~slavingme on a conviction that rests on known perjury andfalse evidence and which they cannot support.

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on the fqce of the document filed by m~ and th~ factualissues r1ised therein. Judg~ Ginsb~rg found I have theright to ;se~ news reporters. That right is the rightto ~quall.3! answer to thos~ fals~ allegations publish~dagainst me. He ordered San Quentin officials to allowme ace~ss to the press.

It is necessary that I see news reporters in orderthat the PQople may know the truth of what is goingon in prison, to prisoners, and what is going on inmy case. This point was made by Jtldge Ginsbergwho issued the Order allowing mQ to be interviewedby the prQss.

2. again, in a mad rush to k~ep me silent,the Attorney General filed an application for a stayof the Order allowing me access to the press in theDistrict Court of Appeal. The District Court of Appealillegally and unjustifiably 8"ranted th~ stay withoutrevi~wing the records in the case and without allowingme the opportunity to oppose the application for a staY.The grounds used by the Attorney General in requestingthe stay are frivolous, outdated and insulting verbaltrickery. The Attorney General states that no newsmedia are allowed to enter San Quentin because of prisonrules and regulations. This in itself is a lie becauseSan Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Examiner andother white news reporters are continuously not onlyentering the prison but are interviewing inmates and

Iprison officials at will. Incidentally, these news reporters

are the very ones responsible for the adverse publicitylagainst me. These same reporters attend the tmaIproceedings only to have half stories and advers~publicity published to defame my character .

Unless action is taken by citizens, and particularlyby news reporters, the courts and the Attorney Generalwill continue to illegally suppress the troth and defamethose who have been falsely accused.

I need the support of news reporters in publicizingthe actions of prison officials in hiding their illegalactivity and in publicizing the actions of the courtsand the Attorney General in hiding the facts in. mycase. All those concerned should review the recordsin the District Court of Appeal relating to the AttorneyGeneral's back door killing of Judge Ginsberg's Orderallowing me access to the press and realize themockery of it all.

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Within the last eight months, theBlack Panther Party has given aUXlyover one hundred thousand full bagsof groceries. Understanding the very.fundamental need in the oppressedcommunity for food, free food pro-grams have been implemented by thevarious chapters and branches of theBlack Panther Party throughout thecountry. This is only one of the manySurvival Programs the Party has im-plemented to insure the survival ofthe people to the point of completeliberation.

On May 20, 1972, theDetroitBranchof the Black Panther Party also imple-mented a Survival Day, initiating theFree Food Program into the Jef-feries Projects. Seven thousand op-pressed peoPle live in Je/fries Pro-jects, a great portion of whom are"senior members" of the oppressedcommunity. The overwhelmingmajor-ity of the peoPle who live in Je/friesare poor peoPle, who are either livingon low income, or welfare. Many ofthe peoPle, especially the old, werein doubt as to whether not the BlackPanther Party would actually distri-bute free food there, because theyhad already heard all the promisesof relie/, dating back to the 1930's,to Hoover with his "chicken in every

pot". People are tired of empty pro-mise~ and empty stomachs.

On that day, May 20th, when thepeoPle of Je/fries Projects act1l4llysaw the food, many of the lies aboutthe Party, itself. began to be dis-pelled. Over fifteen hundred peoPlecame to rfJceive the over one thau-sand bags of groceries, with a chickenin every bag, and participate in theceremonies. One sister from the com-munity, Mother Waddles, from MotherWaddles' Mission, which has providedfood for hungry people for sixteenyears, spoke to the masses concerningsurvival. Mother Waddles commented,..There's no difference between ourprograms, because we both are tryingto stop the oppression of our people."Mother Waddles went on to stressthe importance of the survival pro-grams and the need to unify aroundthem, to combat that very old .'divideand conquer' tactic used by ourop)ressor. Following Mother Wad-

believe the food would be free. They had heard for years the promises of'.'a chicken in every Pot",

-Idies, the masses were entertained by pressed peoPle. Many of the oldervarious musical groups: " The Sins peoPle who were skeptical about the

of Satan"; "The Skies Unlimited"; program stayed long after the food"Sharon Hicks, the Psychedelic Sister, was distributed, just to testify asPlus One"; and others. All of the to how they felt about the si~ifi-people.s entertainment was donated by cance of the program.BroUlers and Sisters, who only re-quested a bag of groceries. Comrade Once again the importance of uni-Lonnie Dee, of the Detroit Branch fying all oppressed people around ~rof the Black Panther Party. also survival was demonstrated. Itwillspoke to the peoPle about the sur- be through this kind of unity thatvival programs sponsored by the Black our complete liberation can be won.PanUler Party and of the necessityof registering to vote and voting for ALL POWER TO THE PEOP LEcandidates who are true represen-tatives of the broad masses of op- -~

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North Carolina's Central Prison (in Raleigh) has devised newer methods of repression. In this new " MaximumMaximum" security unity "mentally disturbed" prisoners can be "calmed".

have been smugl.led out to exposethe past viciousness of Central Pri-sin: "Windows are broken out andcold au- ;s always coming in, roachesare everywhere, aIld crawl all overyour body while you sleep, and areoften in your food. All the food is ter-rible. Punishment for not obeying apig's racist commands is to »e water -hosed and t!,en beaten like dogs. Onenight, Josep!J 'Nadell, a member ofthe Black Panther Party and one ofthe leading organizers of Central Pri-son said, .All Power to the People',after all the lights were out. A pigimmediately threw 4 cans of maceinto his cell (one of which could haveeaBily killed him), Afterwards, hewas brutCIliy beaten."

At this very time, even though therepression in building ever higher,the prisoners at North Carolina'sCentral Men's Prison are organizingaround the issue of survival with aFree Commissary Program. They arerefusing to be defeated, even thoughpresently at this largest and mainstate prison, located in Raleigh, fas -cist authorities have completed andbegun using a new building whichthey are trying to pass off as a"medical center". Its actual use isa center for mental repression, forits main program is brin~n2 undercontrol "mentally .disturbed" and"incorrigible" inmates. Of course,those Brothers who resist the fascismin the prison and refuse to submitto the out-right brutality and repres-sion are those who are' 'mentally dis-turbed" and "incorrigible". To "help"them, they receive shock treatments.Shock treatments consist of wiresbeing attached to an inmate's headand electrIc current being shot intohis head. This treatment is said, bypervened prison authorities, to causea "violent" or "disturbed" inmateto become .'calmer", or what, inreality , amounts to an unthinking vege-

table. A person can easily be mentallyincompetent after the treatment. withan unstable and wandering mind. How-ever, the goal is accomplished: theprisoner does not have the will toresist anything, for he doesn't evencare aOOut anything.

That new wing has become so no-torious that it is known as the "maxi-maxi" {maximum-.maximum security)by the inmates. Naturally, individualselection for treatment at Maxi-Maxiis up to the whim of the racist prisonauthorities. Once termed .'disturbed"or "incorrigible," a Brother may findhimself incarcerated in "Maxi-Maxi"for life.

In May. Central Prison racistsmoved to institute still a);Iother typeof repression. Finding nothing betterto think of, Central.s 1t:;lhorities de-cided to pass a rule which stated thatno Brothers could wear an Afro.or .'natural" hairstyle. Those alreadywith long. natural hair were ordered tocut it. The prison had decided thatlong hair could allow an inmate tohide a weapon in his hair.

The Bromers still resist and memasses of people in North Carolinaare uniting around the issue of theBrothers' survival in Central. Alloverthe state, the free commissary pro-gram has grown, and defense com-mittees for the Brothers are beingorganized everywhere. Donations tothe Brothers' survival have beenmounting, from individual gifts, bene-

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Batiste, also incarcerated in Angola,give this account:

"On Monday, April 17, 1972, amember of the reactionary oppres-sive state apparatus was found dead.As i consequence, all known Btl'ckresi§ters of Angola's vicious repres-sive tactics were kidnapped off thebig yard, beaten unmercifully andlocked in the maximum security sec-don (CCR), left to suffer from headand body injuries and acute burnswith no medical attention. We wereall locked in 5' X 8' cells (in groupsof four, five and six, etc.). We areunable to sleep because there is onlyone mattress in each cell. The foodis cold and has been cut. We onlyreceive a tablespoon of whatever ison the menu of each item. We aren'tallowed to shower. Some have beenin the dungeon known as CBD admin-istration lock-down for two and threeweeks. The guards have come to thedungeon several nights, inconsecutiveorder, dragged Brothers out of theircells, through arbitrary selection, forlooking like what they have termedmilitant- 8ild then have beaten theseBrothers unmercifully. One Brotherin Angola, Wayne, was so viciouslybeaten he had to be taken to a hos-pital in Baton Rouge, and a guard

,checks his cell every hour to seeif he is still living. The others whoweren't beaten nearly to death weremade to sit while 2, 3: or 4 pigs cut.their hair in all directions, then madeto crawl back to their cells. Theirshock treatment consists of baseballbats, iron pipes, pick handles, gasand mace sprayed in Brothers' faces,so those who attempt to fight offthe blows can't see.

Typical of most Southern states,:..Ouisiana has its share of small:owns, reminiscent, today. of past)outhern culture, customs and ideals.;t. Francisville, Louisiana is justluch an area. There is one importantactor which differentiates St. Fran-:isville from other. 'quaint'. Louisianaowns. Within its borders is one oflmerica's most atrocious death'amps, known as a prison. To thoserho have known and know ,of itsorrors, it is called .'The Ponder-sa"; to others. simply. Angola.

Angola's fascist administration.eaded by racist Murray Henderson.as a history of sadistic and bizarre1urders whch never make it to theewspapers. However. countless actsf brutality and murder of inmateslave been cited and told by Angola'sew survivors.

BROTHER HERMAN WALLACEwas " selected", like the other

three Brothers, to pay the pricefor one of Angola's own.

I .placed their emotional cohorts. Theguards, now calling themselves the, 'Freemen", attacked one of the war-

dens to show their indignation. Theiroutrage was supposedly over how oneof their numbers had been the innocentvictim of an attack and since' 'nothing"had been done about it, they wantedto be assured of their own future"protection". They were far from

The prison administration's latest>lot unfolded when a white prison~ard, Brent Miller, was recentlyfound dead. He had been stabbed 32times. Suddenly, Angola was wide)pen to press coverage. When pigWarden Henderson got enough atten-:ion, he pitiously reported how the~ard had been found in one of thejormitory areas with a "hate letter"tear him, allegedly proclaIming thatMiller had been killed by '.revolution-ary justice" and that more wouldfollow. Henderson dramatically em-pha~ized that the letter was closedwith " All Power to the People".

"The Brothers who weren't lockeddown, but continued to work in thefields are being worked seven daysa week; shots are being fired at them.They can't get out of line, they'rebeaten with bats and forced to saythey are 'whores'; and after thesesadistic accomplishments, they areforced to finish working in a badlybruised condition."

The guard was found dead back onApril l7th. It was not until 2 weekslater that the racist administratorsarbitrarily chose Brothers HermanWallace. Chester Jackson. GilbertMontegut and Albert Woodfox. all ofwhom are members of the LouisianaState Chapter of the Black p antherParty. to suffer for pig Miller's death.

Although Henderson had carried outwell his duty to American Fascism,the other white guards at Angola feltthat Henderson vacillated too long incharging the comrades. Therefore.these low-ranking fascists decided toconduct their own reign of terror;and had the gall to go on strike todramatize how they felt about pigWarden Henderson's "leniency". Lou-isiana state troopers instantly re-

BJtOTHER GILBERT MUNTEGUTbecame another innocent trappedby the pigs' vendetta.

The four Brothers, Comrades Wal-lace, Jackson, Montegut, and Woodfox,

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being victims; and the real story ofpig Miller's killing can concretelyattest to that. Cemrade Brother Shelly

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have been indicted in St. Francis-ville, Louisiana. This place is infa-mous for lynchings, I'legal" orother-wise.

Just as in the case of our belovedComrade George Jackson, Field Mar-shal of the Black P anther P arty , theState will try to eliminate these fourrevolutionary Brothers for resistingthe bitter repression to which theyare subjected in Angola Prison Camp.The state of Louisiana has certainlynot repealed the death penalty , andthese Brothers, therefore, face exe-cution at the hands of the State. TheII Angola Four" must have the sup-

port of the people in order to havejustice rendered to them. It is onlywith the support of the people thatthese Brothers will be set free.

FREE THE ANGoLA FOURFREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERSALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE

BROTHER CHESTER JACKSON BROTHER ALBERT WOODFOX

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who are members of the Black p antherp arty and innocent victims of thefabrications of racist Warden Hen-derson and his fascist associates.

For further information, contact:

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the suggestion that persons workingto help JX>litical prisoners organizefree commissary programs. The Con-ference called for: an end to exces-sively high bail; a rally at CentralPrison in suPJX>rt of the rights of Blackprisoners, to be held in conjunctionwith a state-wide convention of Blacksin Raleigh, in late June; and a re-versal of the recent ruling forbidding"Mro's" to be worn by Central in-mates.

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fit rallies, benefit dances, etc. Abig dance was given for the inmates,in fact, on May 25th. "The Blenders"played for the inmateF' survival and"Genesis" sang. n,R 3rother whoowns the Golden Stag ( :lub where thebenefit was held ha<:. .ven donatedhis club for the evening.

Now they're banning Afro's.

All of this had culminated on May20, 1972, when progressive Black or-ganizations from allover North Caro-lina met at the North Carolina con-ference oil Dual Justice and PoliticalOppression, to unify around the issueof the unjust and brutal North caro-lina prison and court systems. Churchleaders, elected officals and politicalactivists all condemned the .'vicious

criminal system in this country whichhas the nerve to call itself justice."Courses of action were discussed, towork for the defense of political pri-soners in North Carolina, particularlyRev. Ben Chavis, Jim Grant and theWilmington II. Comrade Russell Mc-Donald, of the Wington-Salem Branchof the Black Panther Party, put forth

The Black community of North caro-lina is uniting around the freedomof Central Prison's political prison-ers. In unity, there will be completeliberation.

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Further information on the filmscreening may be had by phoningRepresentative Ron De11ums office inWashington. D.C. (202) 225-2661.

TO "For the First Time" is a six-minute short showing Cuba's mobilecinema truck, bringing Chaplin's"Modern Times" to a tiny mountaincommunity which has never beforeseen a movie. We watch the audiencereact. The film was produced in 1966.

"Memories of Underdevelopment",directed by Tomas Gutierrez Alea in1968, is a sophisticated full-lengthstudy of the difficulties of a middleclass intellectual in an effort to adjustto the new revolutionary Cuba. Bothof these films have won several inter-national festival awards.

Senator Fulbright's complete re-marks on the Cuban Film festival areprinted in the Congressional Record,4/19/72.

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a direct loss of $28,000.00 on the last few years encourages the spokes-organization. This was the amount men for the organization to believethe organization had paid in advance that the action by the Treasury De-costs for theatre rental for the ten partment was more than just a coin-day festival, advertising and over- cidence.head costs. For a small non-profitorganization such a financial loss The leaders of the organizationis tantamount to a direct attack by were hopeful that the hearing in Fed-the government to put the organi- eral Court will result in an injunctionzation out of business, the leaders against the Treasury Department andof the organization said. In view of thereby allow the Cuban films to bethe fact that American Documentary widely seen in the United States.Films was the pioneer organizationdistributing films on social and poli- The screening of the films fortical problems, and the fact that their Congress was organized with the pur-

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3. WE W ANT AN END TO THE ROBBERY BY THECAPITALIST OF OUR BLACK AND OPPRESSED COM-MUNITIES.

We believe that this racist government has robbedus and now we are demanding the overdue debt offorty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two muleswere promised 100 years ago as restitution for slavelabor and mass murder of Black people. We will acceptthe payment in currency which will be distributed toour many communities. The American racist has takenpart in the slaughter of over fifty million Black people.Therefore, we feel this is a modest demand that wemake.

9. WE WANT FREEOOM FOR ALL BLACK AND POOROPPRESSED PEOPLE "!OW HELD IN U.S. FEDERAL,STATE, COUN1Y I CI1Y AND MILITARY PRISONS ANDJAILS. WE WANT TRIALS BY A JURY OF PEERS FORALL PERSONS CHARGED WITH SO-CALLED CRIMESUNDER THE LAWS OF THIS COUNTRY.

We believe that the many Black and poor oppressedpeople now held in U.S. prisons and jails have notreceived fair and impartial trials under a racist andfascist judicial system and should be free from incar-ceration. We believe in the ultimate elimination of allwretched, inhuman penal institutions, because the masses:of men and women inprisoned inside the United States orby the U.S. military are the victims of oppressive con-ditions which are the real cause of their imprisonment.We believe that when persons are brought to trialthat they must be guaranteed. by the United States.juries of their peers. attorneys of their choice andfreedom from Imprisonment while awaiting trials.

4. WEWANTDECENTHOUSING,F[TFORTHE SHELTEROF HUMAN BEINGS.

We believe that if the landlords will not give decenthousing to our Black and oppressed communities, thenthe housing and the land should be made into cooperativesso that the people in our communities. with governmentaid, can build and make decent housing for the people.

10. WE WANT LAND, BREAD, HOUSING, EDUCATION,5. WE WANT EDUCATION FOR OUR PEOPLE THAT CLOTHING, JUSTICE, PEACE AND PEOPLE'S COMMU-EXPOSES THE TRUE NATURE OF THIS DECADENT NITY CONTROL OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY.

AMERICAN SOCIETY .WE WANT EDUCATION THAT When, in the course of human events, it becomesTEACHES US OUR TRUE HISTORY AND OUR ROLE necessary for one people to dissolve the political bandsIN THE PRESENT-DAY SOCIETY .which have connected them with another, and to assume,

We believe in an educational system that will give among the powers of the earth, the separate and equalto our people a knowledge of self. If you do not have station to which the laws of nature and nature's Godknowledge of yourself and your position in the society entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankindand the world, then you will have little chance to know requires that they should declare the causes which impelanything else. them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men6. WE WANT COMPLETELY FREE HEALTH CARE are created equal; that they are endowed by theirFOR ALL BLACK AND OPPRESSED PEOPLE. Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among

We believe th t th id these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.a e government must prove, freeof charge for th I h alth f ili i hi That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted, e peop e, e ac t es w ch will ---

not only treat our lllnesses, most of which have come among men, deriving their I just powers from the consentabout as a result of our oppression, but which wlll of the governed; that, whenever any form of governmentalso develop preventative medical programs to guarantee becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right ofour future survival. We believe that mass health edu- the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute acation and research programs must be developed to new government, laying its foundation on such prin-give all Black and oppressed people access to advanced ciples, and organizing its powers in such form, as toscientific and medical information, so we may provide them shall seem most likely to effect their safety andourselves with proper medical attention and care. happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments

long established should not be changed for light and7. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO POLICE transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hathBRUTALITY AND MURDER OF BLACK PEOPLE OTHER shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, whilePEOPLE OF COLOR, ALL OPPRESSED PEOPLE INSIDE evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishingTHE UNITED STATES the forms to which they are accustomed. But, when

We believe that the r .a long train of abuses and uSl!rPations, pursuing invari-aclst and fascist government ably the same object evinces a design to reduce them

of the United States uses its domestic enforcement under absolute despo'tism it is their ri ght it is theiragencies to car ry out its pro

gram of oppressi i ' , .on aga nst duty to throw off such government and to provideBlack people, other people of color and poor people ~ new'guards for their future security. ,

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WHAT WE WANT MARCH 29, 1972 PLA TFORM WHAT WE BELIEVE !

1. WE WANT FREEOOM. WE WANT POWER TO iriside the UnitedStates. We believe it is our right.DETERMINE WE DESTINY OF OUR BLACK AND therefore. to defend ourselves against such armed forces.OPPRESSED COMMUNITIES. and that all Black and oppressed people should be armed

We believe that Black and oppressed people will not for se1f-defense of our homes and communities againstbe free until we sre able to determirie our destinies these fascist police forces.

in our own communities ourselves. by fully controllirigall the institutions which exist in our communities.

8. WE WANT AN IMMEDIATE END TO ALL WARS