continued once more.....
The Black Panther, October 26, 1968
by Shirley Williams
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Links:
Angela Davis: PBS Interview in 1998: "We can't think narrowly about movements for black liberation and we can't necessarily see this class division as simply a product or a certain strategy that black movements have developed for liberation.... We have to look at for example the increasing globalization of capital, the whole system of transitional capitalism now which has had an impact on black populations — that has for example eradicated large numbers of jobs that black people traditionally have been able to count upon and created communities where the tax base is lost now as a result of corporations moving to the third world in order to discover cheap labor."
Bobby Seale's Homepage
Interview of Bobby Seale in 1996: "They came down on us because we had a grass-roots, real people's revolution, complete with the programs, complete with the unity, complete with the working coalitions, we were crossing racial lines. That synergetic statement of "All power to all the people," "Down with the racist pig power structure" -- we were not talking about the average white person: we were talking about the corporate money rich and the racist jive politicians and the lackeys, as we used to call them, for the government who perpetuates all this exploitation and racism."
Huey P. Newton Foundation
Interview of Eldrige Cleaver, a year before his death, now using the words of Martin Luther King, in 1997: "I think that it is possible for the capitalist system to have a program of full employment, but we have a spiritual and moral problem in America. Our problem is not economic or political, it is that we do not care about each other.....
http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/calheritage/panthers/rules.htm#10
The Rules Are:
No Party member can have narcotics or weed in his possession while doing Party work.
Any Party member found shooting narcotics will be expelled from this Party.
No Party member can be DRUNK while doing daily Party work.
No Party member will violate rules relating to office work, general meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY and meetings of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY ANYWHERE.
No Party member will USE, POINT, OR FIRE a weapon of any kind unnecessarily or accidentally at anyone.
No Party member can join any other army force other than the BLACK LIBERATION ARMY.
No Party member can have a weapon in his possession while drunk or loaded off narcotics or weed.
No Party member will commit any crimes against other Party members or BLACK people at all, and cannot steal or take from the people, not even a needle or a piece of thread.
When arrested, BLACK PANTHER MEMBERS will give only name, address, and will sign nothing. Legal first aid must be understood by all Party members.
The ten-point program and platform of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must be known and understood by each Party member.
Party communications must be National and Local.
The 10-10-10 program should be known by all members and also understood by all members.
All Finance officers will operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Finance.
Each person will submit a report of daily work.
Each Sub-Section Leader, Section Leader, Lieutenant, and Captain must submit daily reports of work.
All Panthers must learn to operate and service weapons correctly.
All Leadership personnel who expel a member must submit this information to the Editor of this newspaper, so that it will be published in the paper and will be known by all chapters.
Political Education Classes are mandatory for general membership.
Only office personnel assigned to respective offices each day should be there. All others are to sell papers and do Political work out in the community, including Captains, Section Leaders, etc.
COMMUNICATIONS- all chapters must submit weekly reports in writing to the National Headquarters.
All Branches must implement First Aid and/or Medical Cadres.
All Chapters, Branches, and components of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY must submit a monthly Financial Report to the Ministry of Finance, and also the Central Committee.
Everyone in a leadership position must read no less than two hours per day to keep abreast of the changing political situation.
No chapter or branch shall accept grants, poverty funds, money, or any other aid from any government agency without contacting the National Headquarters.
All chapters must adhere to the policy and the ideology laid down by the CENTRAL COMMITTEE of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY.
All Branches must submit weekly reports in writing to their respective Chapters.
Bobby Seale, Seize the Time, N.Y.: Random House, 1971. p. 391-393.
The 10-10-10 program "is based on a very simple theoretical principle which involves dividing a city into ten sections, establishing ten subsections in each of these, and ten sub-subsections in each of these. The principle can be extended to any length depending on the number of recruits one finds."
Forman, James. The making of black revolutionaries. New York, Macmillan, 1972. p529