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Abbie Hoffman — Part 32
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BLACK P NTHLR PARTY (BMP),
Also knean as
Black Po ather Party for Self Defense
According to the official newspaper of the BPP,
the BPP was started during December, 196A, in Oakland,
Calitor:ia, to organize black people so they can take control
of the life, polities, and the destiny of the black communtty.
Tt was crganived by BOBBY G, SEALE, BPP Chairman, and HUEY P,
NEWTON, Minister of Defense, BPP,
The official newspaper, called "The Black Panther,"
ee regularl,; states that the BPP advocates the use of guns and
; Guerriilli tactics in its revolutionary program to end oppressto
of the biack people. Residents of the black community are
urged to arm themselves against the police who are consistently
referred to as “pips' who should be killed.
LG The newspaper, in its issue of September 7, 1968,
Ss had an avticle by the then Minister of Education, GEORGI. MURRAY
= This art cle ended with the following:
"Black men, Bluck people, colored persons
of America, revolt everywhere! Arm yourselves.
The only culture worth keeping is revolutionary
—— culture, Change. Freedom evervwhere,
Dynamite: Black power, Use the pun. Kill
a the pigs everywhere,"
The BPP newspaper, issue of October 5, 1968, had an
P article introduced with the following statement: “We will
“L not dissent from American government, We will overthrow it."
DAVID HILLIARD, Cnief of Staff, BPP, in a speech
—_— at the San Francisco Polo Field on November 15, 1969, said
"We will kill RICHARD NIXON."
.-_~ DAVID HILLIARD, in the "New York Times," issue of
~ December 13, 1969, wis quoted as follows: “We advocite the very
t direct overthrow of the government by way of force and violence,
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