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Love to four sisters & brothers in prisons; courage & faith to our : two captured soldiers; greetings’ to all oppressed peoples; may we connect. | .My name is Fahizah. The S.L.A. is taking these opportunities to opeak with the people now, decause. we have been having a temporary period of inactivity while waiting for the completion of our unit's last. action. We know that the people want flar more than 6 million dollars of food; & we wil continue to fight for the total liberation of a11 oppressed peoples by the only means avail-~ able, that 4s forcé.of arms. The Court of the People has ismied The Codes of War of the Symbionese Liberation Army. I wish to state, that Cinque Mtume!is the General Field Marshal of: the Synbionese Gueriile Forces, as well as chairman of the United Symbionese War Council. ' Cinque Mtune 4s a black brother who spent meny years of his life tn fascist. Amertkkk concentration camps: manchild years in prison cells & man years in prison cells, Ci nque met literally ‘thousands. of black, brow, red, yellow & white freedom fighters while he vas locke down, courageous comrade George Jackson was one among them. The spirit of all the brothers . Cinque knows lives in him now, and the spirit of all the sisters that Cinque never had the? opportunity to meet, but knows by common bond ~-~Like ‘Assata Shakur, Lelita Lebron & Berna~ Hine Dohens=> ; is always in his heart. wy AS . “a , . When|Cingue’ escaped alone on foot from Soledad prison he did so for « one. reason only: TO; ‘FIGHT WITH: THE PHO. & TO LEAD THE PEOPLE IN REVOLUTION. He did not escape so that he — could: ‘Kick-back & hide & get high; he did not even escape so that he could satisfy a deep an longing’ ‘personal ‘ache to: simply see the people, and be on the streets and re-unite with his family ‘and be’ a father once again to his children, Cinque escaped so that he Gould actively stalk:the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the-psople. The lives both he & the peoples fighting forces lead now may ,be harsh and dangerous, but it is better to work with hard’ ality, than to play. an pleasant, ‘but unproductive, enslaving dreans. “Cingue Mtume ids- the name that was bestowed upon him by his imprisoned sisters & brot] It‘ds'the name of an ancient African Chief who led the fight of his people for fro:iom. The means: Fifth Prophet, ‘and Cin was many years ago given this name because of his keoy. instinct andi! and‘stnses, -his spiritual consciousness and his deep love for all the people and children of thistearth,'. | This does not, however, mean that. Cinque is from Ged or someone that is holv or thatthe: has an extreme ego problem, but simolv_ that he to-us and to all oppressed poples is the! instilled: hope and spirit of his people & all peoples; and that he is of and from the pec A prophet. ‘is’ a leader and fighter who is one of the people. Leaders are individuels who wht! themselves. ‘feel ‘that it is time to lead and bring us one step closer.to freedom for af] veop: A “leader is” one who. dg-ahle to senra and ta «aa what. 4e@ aaming at ve, A leader 4s onh who 41 ahleita-haln the vannts. “index stand the, swiftness and fierceness with which they must move if: they: would: saxvives’ 4 . in | ee _ ; _ iG “Part ‘of the: revolutionary process in which ¢ we are engaged involves the cons tant 3 re- defining "of. thought,. word, and action, We must deal with all the conditions outside~-ours els which"oppress ‘and:enslave us, and we must deal with the enemy within; we must deal with both thesd diseases-.sinultaneously, and with an unrelenting committment and understandinz that in reality. we'are not’ living to die, buf rather all who chose to fight to the death era g te live.Cin’s example to the people hrs taught us thru his. actions and by his own words that ha or’she who, is scared and seeks tofrun’ from death will find it, but she or he who isy NOT. AFRAID’ ‘and. who. ‘actively seeks depth out will find it NOT AT THEIR DOOR... si wh tg embrace the concepts of and spiritual consciousness in material ih term: based: upon the commén conditions of b11 oppressed peoples. We have begun to refief' ne) prt as the natural-creativ: reflection of our. desparate struggle to survive. Art for us is the. tots crocess of ‘sharing and communally using what we learn in order to live and to fight. | We ree- ognize Cin ag an artist for what he teaches the people, but we also realize as he iinislif has said, that truth has no author.. Another thing which we feel is necessary to clierify is the ihe spirit & all that which is erlled spiritual.| The spirit is the bodies anc souls of (st the: ‘Poorer. and the (Spirituel 4s: she intensity of our common instincts, as refircted thru -$