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Black Panther Party — Part 10
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RE: COUNTERORTFN?T. JON WEr ,
BOBBY LEE: Right new that's functioning?
Question: Right now, and how de you hope these will implement
your ends? :
BOBRY LEE: Okay, well J answered that: earlier, but 1'11 go over
it again. All right now, the programs we have, I'l] start with
Chicago first. We have a focd buying club in Chicago and this is
for welfare mother:. This is where collectively we get the welfare
mothers together an? the reason we got them tegether is because the
money they get once a month is not encvgh to buy food. See,
that’s the first thing. So they were given about $5 er $10 a week,
and we had a long Jist of different grcceries they could get, you
know, and they would strike off what they wanted. And what we'd do
is take all. the méney, 1: © the whelesale store, and buy Grade A,
all Gradn t, vegetahi-.. meate, ford, milk, and everyhing. On
Fridays we woul distribute them, you know. Now the Breakfast
for Children Prograrn, the ‘reo Brerhkfast for Children Program,
the Patriots bave, 1’ Lerds have, the Panthers have, will
eollectively in Chic:10, see, feed 4,000. See, 4,000 kids fed.
And we pvt al) our donatiovs from places like (unintelli-
gible), A and T, national. (unintelligible) gives
a lok of stuff to help us, | _.s« (unintelligible) on Fridays,
jello, meats, you know. And we feed these kids. Nationally we
feed about 40,000 kids, nationally.
The next program wa're opening up in Chicago is the free health
Clinic. And October 4 we'll speak at the doctor's conference in
Cleveland, Ohio, asking {<r yelunterrs. New there is one functioning
in Kansas City right now, a free health clinic, see. And I hope that
we just turned in another pregram fer 2@ free library that would be
open in Chicago, it would be used as a model. Now the whole
pu pose of these programs is number one to heighten the contradictions.
See, like when we set these pr grams up in certain alderman‘'s wards
and then a year agc when he was running to be alderman, and he used
home base as poverty, what he would do for you, what he would do
for you if you wevJd vote him in, see, then once he gets in
there's still poverty, what happened, the people see...
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