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Peace Mobilization April 4 - 6, 1969 APPENDIX 2. | BLACK PANTHER PARTY According to its official newspaper, the Black Panther Party (BPP) was started during December, 1966, in Oakland, California, to organize black people so they can take control of the life, politics, and the destiny of the black community. It was organized by BOBBY GEORGE SEALE, BPP Chairman, and HUEY P. NEWTON, BPP Minister of Defense. NEWTON is presently serving a sentence of 2 to 15 years on & conviction of manslaughter in connection with the killing of an Oakland police officer. The official newspaper, “The Black Panther", which further describes itself as the ‘Black Community News Service", states that the BPP advocates the use of guns and guerrilla tactics in its revolutionary program to end oppression of the black people. Residents of the black community are urged to arm themselves against the police who are consistently referred to in the publication as “pigs” who should be killed. "Me Black Panther" issue of September 7, 1968, contains an editorial by BPP Minister of Education, GEORGE MASON MURRAY, which ends with the following: "Black men. Black people, colored persons of \ America, revolt everywhere! Arm yourselves. The only culture worth keeping is a revolutionary culture. Change. Freedom everywhere. Iynamite! Black Pover. Use the gun. ¢%i11 the - pigs everywhere," a Included in the introduction to an article appearing , in the October 5, 1968, edition of "The Black Panther" is the atatement, "... we will not dissent from American Government. We will overthrow it." Issues of “The Black Panther" regularly contain quotations from the writings of Chairman MAO Tse-tung of the People's Republic of China and feature-MAO's statement that "political power grows out of the barre] of a gun." The national headquarters of the BPP 48 located at 3106 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, California. Branches have been established at various locations throughout the United States, ~26- CONrTDRr IAL -~#¢ : peta maps ta RE Ire on ema re ER MTT me FAO OS pg