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...police raid on a Black Panther apartment in Chicago last December has become a cause célèbre. Police claimed that they were attacked as they sought to enter the apartment, whereas Panthers claimed that the two of their number who were killed had been more or less passive victims. Last week a federal grand jury wound up its investigation by citing "the irreconcilable disparity between the accounts given by the officers and the physical evidence." The results were inconclusive, since they failed to clear up the vital questions of just what happened in the predawn raid that...
Fear and Tension. The grand jury found that the raid had grown out of police fears of a Panther menace "totally out of proportion to the minuscule number of members." It offered its own possible explanation: "That in the darkness and the excitement, [police] mistakenly attributed to the occupants the fire of other officers." Concluded the report: "A careful analysis of the testimony shows the way such mistakes could be made, and is even more credible if one considers the natural fear, confusion and tension that each must have felt." The Panthers claim that the police were on a deliberate...
...second demand calls for an end to political repression, and, explicitly, freedom for Bobby Seale and the rest of the Black Panther Party. The racism of much of the striking community goes so deep that we often don't even realize how badly we've neglected this demand. But there is another implication of ignoring the second demand. We are apparently unwilling to confront repression when our proximity to it would mean a real fight. It is easy to make a verbal commitment to the Panthers, because fighting for them seems far away. But when it comes to fighting political...
...moved more and more towards doing things such as dedicating our performances as a means of spreading information in relation to various things that were going on. Like in relation to the draft. And in the last year almost all our work has been in relation to the Panthers, particularly the New York 21. About a week after we went on our last tour, Fred Hampton was killed and David Hilliard was arrested and accused of threatening the President's life. The juxtaposition of the whole thing that was going on just blew our minds and we found ourselves dedicating...
Petitions urging such action and encourgaging donations to congressional campaigns and to the Panther Defense Fund will start circulating today in the Houses. The group will also try to build interest in the upcoming mass meeting, which is designed for discussion of all feasible protest actions...