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...Black Panthers seem to be changing tactics, getting increasingly involved in community projects. Now Panther Chairman Bobby Seale, 35, has joined the System enough to announce that next year he will run for mayor of Oakland, Calif., and that Panther Information Minister Elaine Brown, 29, will try for the city council. "Our prime purpose," says Miss Brown, "will still be to organize the black community and the poor community toward achieving economic and political power...
...announcement came at a press conference held at the chapter's Roxbury headquarters. Reading from a prepared statement. Gene Jones, a Party member, said. "The Black Panther Party member, said, "The Black Panther Party puts forth a call, to every Black, poor and progressive human being across this country, to unite together to join Sister Shirley Chisholm's campaign for election to the presidency of the United States...
...Same Statement was released the previous day by panther chairman Bobby scale at the Party's national headquarters is Oakland, calif. The statement was signed "Huey P. Newton, servant of the people, Black Panther Party. "This is the first time the Panthers have been officially involved in election politics...
...Panther statement said that the entire Party membership would actively work for Chisholm's election, and noted that control of the economic, political and social institutions of this society by the people was their basic goal...
...statement asked that those people wishing to work for Chisholm contact her campaign headquarters or any Black Panther Party Chapter