What We Want. What We Believe

THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY



Ten Point Platform & Program
October 1966








WHAT WE WANT

WHAT WE BELIEVE


1. WE WANT freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community.
WE BELIEVE that black people will not be free until we are able to determine our destiny.


2. WE WANT full employment for our people.
WE BELIEVE that the federal government is responsible and obligated to give every man employment or a guaranteed income. We believe that if the white American businessmen will not give full employment, then the means of production should be taken from the businessmen and placed in the community so that the people of the community can organize and employ all of its people and give a high standard of living.


3. WE WANT an end to the robbery by the CAPITALIST of our Black Community.
WE BELIEVE that this racist government has robbed us and now we are demanding the overdue debt of forty acres and two mules. Forty acres and two mules were promised 100 years ago as restitution for slave labor and mass murder of black people. We will accept the payment in currency, which will be distributed, to our many communities. The Germans are now aiding the Jews in Israel for the genocide of the Jewish people. The Germans murdered six million Jews. The American racist has taken part in the slaughter of over fifty million black people; therefore, we feel that this is a modest demand that we make.


4. WE WANT decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings.
WE BELIEVE that if the white landlords will not give decent housing to our black community, then the housing and the land should be made into cooperatives so that our community, with government aid, can build and make decent housing for its people.


5. WE WANT education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society.
WE BELIEVE in an educational system that will give to our people knowledge of self. If a man does not have knowledge of himself and his position in society and the world, then he has little chance to relate to anything else.





6. WE WANT all black men to be exempt from military service.
WE BELIEVE that Black people should not be forced to fight in the military service to defend a racist government that does not protect us. We will not fight and kill other people of color in the world who, like black people, are being victimized by the white racist government of America. We will protect ourselves from the force and violence of the racist police and the racist military, by whatever means necessary.


7. WE WANT an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of black people.
WE BELIEVE we can end police brutality in our black community by organizing black self-defense groups that are dedicated to defending our black community from racist police oppression and brutality. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States gives a right to bear arms. We therefore believe that all black people should arm themselves for self- defense.


8. WE WANT freedom for all black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.
WE BELIEVE that all black people should be released from the many jails and prisons because they have not received a fair and impartial trial.


9. WE WANT all black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their black communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.
WE BELIEVE that the courts should follow the United States Constitution so that black people will receive fair trials. The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution gives a man a right to be tried by his peer group. A peer is a person from a similar economic, social, religious, geographical, environmental, historical and racial background. To do this the court will be forced to select a jury from the black community from which the black defendant came. We have been, and are being tried by all-white juries that have no understanding of the "average reasoning man" of the black community.


10. WE WANT land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace. And as our major political objective, a United Nations supervised plebiscite to be held throughout the black colony in which only black colonial subjects will be allowed to participate, for the purpose of determining the will of black people as to their national destiny.


WHEN, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.



WE HOLD these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. **That, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. ** Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. **But, when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. **

Power to the People!




Let us not forget the valiant efforts by John Sinclair and Pun Plamondom of the White Panther party and their assualt on culture by any means necessary:





1. Full endorsement and support of Black Panther Party’s 10-Point Program.


2. Total assault on the culture by any means necessary, including rock ’n’ roll, dope and fucking in the streets.


3. Free exchange of energy and materials — we demand the end of money!


4. Free food, clothes, housing, dope, music, bodies, medical care — everything free for everybody!

5. Free access to information media — free the technology from the greed creeps!

6. Free time and space for all humans — dissolve all unnatural boundaries.

7. Free all schools and all structures from corporate rule — turn the buildings over to the people at once!


8. Free all prisoners everywhere — they are our brothers.

9. Free all soldiers at once — no more conscripted armies.

10. Free the people from their “leaders” — leaders suck — all power to all the people! Freedom means free everyone!







KICK OUT THE JAMS!

And here is a mix from Black_And_Proud_The_Soul_Of_The Black_Panter_VOL.1


Let My People Go 3:55
Take Yo Praise 4:10
11 - s.o.u.l. - tell it like it is 4:19
12 - last poets - black wish 1:46
13 - ghetto reality - james brown 2:47
14 - curtis mayfield - ghetto child 3:15
15 - darongo - let my people go 3:55
sam dees - heritage of a black man 3:51
last poets - panther 5:05
sons of slum - right on 3:27
staple singers - brand new day 3:45
george soule - get involved 3:23
grady tate - be black 3:51
gil scott heron - the revolution will not be televised 2:50
segments of time - song to the system 5:20
derrick harriott - message from a black man 3:52
marvin gaye - youre the man 7:24
Camille Yarbrough - All hid 6:12
Melvin van Peebles - Won't bleed me 2:48
Getto Kitty - Stand up and be counted 3:43
Miriam Makeba - Do you remember Malcolm 3:05

Click here for mix!

Gucking Frooves


Hot damn, what is it now August? AUGUST? We're almost there, fall is almost here. Feeling good and grounded. Love is in the air (right?) and all that good stuff.

Lift that half-tanned arm and celebrate, debauch-like if you want! I guess I feel GOOD. Crazy what a little rest can do.

Watching Sunn O))) next week, then Geronimo, then Six Organs of Admittance later in the month. This has been the best summer ever. Full of surprises and special guests and visits. Los Angeles, amidst the gloom, the heat, the death of capitalism, you've done good this summer. I award you appreciation and above all, my love.


In return let me give you all a little somethin' somethin' - how about some gucking frooves? or Fucking grooves my babies.

Here's a little mix curtosy of one of my best pal WandyPants!!

ENJOY.

1. Lee Fields & The Expressions - Expressions Theme

2. Four Tops - Still Water

3. Mayer Hawthorne - Just Ain't Gonna Work

4. Whitefield Brothers - Eji

5. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - Fish In The Dish

6. Curtis Mayfield - Pusherman

7. Menahan Street Band - Montego Street

8. Raphael Saadiq - Never Give You Up

9. The Revolution of St. Vincent - The Little You Say

10. Al Green - Sha La La

11. Betty Davis - I Will Take That Ride

12. Boris Gardiner - Negril

13. El Michael's Affair - Can It All Be So Simple

14. Ruth Brown - I Don't Know

15. Lee Fields & The Expressions - These Moments

16. Sharon Jones & The Dap Kings - 100 Days, 100 Nights

17. Curtis Mayfield - Gimme Your Love

18. Aretha Franklin - One Step Ahead

Mix by Wandala N.

Lichens


I am extremely excited to see Rob A.A. Lowe playing with Om in a few weeks. Can you believe this is happening? The world MUST be coming to an end, and this might be the new sun rising.

08/03/09 - - UPDATE: i read wrong. :( Lichens is part of the East Coast shows, alongside Om and Six Organs of Admittance. damn.



Also - I haven't forgotten about the Sonny Kay mix...but I want artist and power noise violence guru Greg Curtis to choose the songs for me, so I await patiently.

yours,

diego