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{ - : . OC ~¢ yg) so , CONPIENTIAL Peace Mobilization April 4 = 6, 1969 we He said that we cannot trust this government with iq. the lives of our children and it is time to declare our ‘4 independence from it. That we must create a new political force in this country, from the people who are sick and tired of war and racism and everything that is rotten and corrupt in this country. . 7 He concluded by stating that we need revolutionary ms changes in this country and we are going to have to learn how ad to make a revolution. . At approximately 4:36 p.m., Ossie Davis, one of the ~ Co-Chairmen of the rally, spoke and stated that they were there to express their determination to have peace and power and that in thinking of the 21 black young men (members of the BPP) that if these 21 young black men were in Vietnam killing the South and North Vietnamese the world would make them heroes. He then asked support for the defense of the "21" and stated that funds were to be sent to the BPP care of Box 122k, Brooklyn, New York, and then announced the appearance of the Reverend Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick, who he described as @& man who is a fighter and artist and a musician and "a man with a message and a guitar." Frederick Douglass Kirkpatrick spoke at approximately 4:40 p.m. and exhorted the group to "get the brothers out of jail,’ eulogized Martin Luther King saying that while Doctor King was talking about integration he was "the golden voice of America,” but when he spoke out “against the evil injustice of this country in reference to the war in Vietnam he became a staunch enemy of Brother Hoover," and that _ Brother Hoover "called him the most notorious liar in the . world." He further said that in the next four years, under the Nixon regime, there would be more people framed up and thrown in jail then there was back in the 1930's and appealed for contributions to the Panthers and stated "Let us march together, fight together, and get them out, of jail because whether you know it or not you are in the mist of a revolution.” He then * CoNPIDMyTIAL 7 «12. ° . —- rr ee rR Oe ne ee ST eel (eR pe a TY ae TSS eee wrnementnaery Sw Y RE A