The Voice of Black Power, Revolution, and the Hip-Hop Generation NEW BLACK PANTHER NATIONAL CHAIRMAN DR. MALIK ZULU SHABAZZ SPEAKS Page 18 By Amir Meshkin Baby shot by Israeli assassin. Young boy gassed by Israeli assassins. Toddler killed by of Israeli bomb. Young girl shot down by Israeli assassin. Young boy murdered by Israeli bomb. Muslim terrorized by an Israeli assassin. Murdered and disfigured by Israeli bomb. Page 2 What exactly is terrorism? Terrorism is violence, especially bombing, kidnapping, and assassi- nation, carried out for political reasons as defined by most dic- tionaries. Terrorism is used by a stronger people who simply use their military. The problem here is that it is the weaker and usually oppressed people that are labeled the terrorists while the stronger people often get away with mass murder. Every Palestinian killed today was killed by terrorists. Power corrupts and Israel's use of exces- sive force against a weaker people fits in well with the definition of terrorism. Israel was not always the stronger people however. Be- fore Israel got what it wanted, Zionists practically invented ter- rorism. Terror was a policy first adopted by Zionists. The first air- plane hijacking was committed by Israel in 1954 when a civilian Syr- ian airliner was hijacked shortly after the plane took off. Zionists invented the car bomb, and Zion- ists were the first to assassinate United Nations personnel as well as attack their own allies, such as the attack on the USS Liberty in 1967. Today no one seems to re- member the Zionist truck-bomb which blew up Jerusalems King David hotel killing around 200 in 1946. Not many even know that on October 14, 1953, an elite unit under the command of the then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at- tacked the village of Qibya in Jor- dan. Army officials stated that intelligence stated the village was evacuated, but the UN found bul- let holes in the debris. The bullet holes were made from Sharon and his men shooting at the houses to make sure the inhabitants stayed inside while the time bombs went off. Around 66 houses were blown up killing over a hundred civilians, mainly women and chil- dren. Zionist terrorism in the 1930s and 1940s has been forgot- ten because it is obvious that the winners write the history books. There are however many in- stances of Zionist terrorism that would be impossible to fit in one measly article. Terrorism was the only policy of the Zionists, which were deter- mined to scare all Arabs from what they believe to be their land. Cafes and restaurant were favorite targets of Zionists along with poor residential neighbor- hoods. More than 500 civilians were killed in the years of 1937 and 1938 alone. On April 16, 1939, Zionist terrorists randomly shot two Arab civilians near Be- tah Takfe settlements setting up many similar instances where in- nocent civilians were randomly shot week after week. A study showed that the 6 months before the birth of Israel, over 1,000 Ar- abs were killed and almost a mil- lion scared or evicted from their homes. This is not only terrorism but mass terrorism, designed to force Muslims to migrate else- where. These operations became cru- eler when Zionist realized that a Jewish state was a possibility. The problem for the Zionist was the security of the Jews. The world can obviously see that the Zion- ists did not want to mix with Ar- abs. They felt it degrading for Gods chosen people to mingle with inferiors. Around the second half of De- cember 1947, Zionist attacked civilians in villages within the Haifa sub-district and soon they moved to villages in the sub- district of Safad and Tabaraya. Over 170 men, women and chil- dren civilians were killed in these attacks. Although many Arabs were scared away at this point, this did not stop Zionists from attacking residents of Al-Tireh, Saasa, Kfar Husseiniya, Sarafand, Kalounya, Beyt Sourik, Aylaboun, Al-Shajara and Nasser Al-Dine killing 250 civilians. Israel how- ever shocked the world when they slaughtered a few hundred civilians in the village of Deir Yassin, on the 19th of April. Even after the establishment of the Jewish state, Zionist still did not believe Israel to be pure. In the summer of 1953, Israel attacked the camp of Bureig in Gaza, and then the village of Kubeiya killing 60 and wounding 90 Arab civilians. Every week seemed to bring another massacre at the hands of Zionists. The more famous of these were the massa- cres at the village of Nahalin and the coast of Tabaraya lake killing around 20. In the 1956 war, Israel showed its love of human beings by bombing villages in Gaza kill- ing hundreds of civilians. The 1956 massacres of Kfar Kassem and Khan Younus saw the deaths of 450 civilians which were mainly workers and farmers. In 1966 and 1967, raids on Al-Nakib and Al-Sumu saw the deaths of 50 civilians. Palestinians were not the only targets of Zionist how- ever. Zionist terrorism spread across the borders whenever Israel felt like terrorizing Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. In September of 1967, around 200 Egyptian ci- vilians were killed in Al-Suise, the port of Tawfik and Al- Ismailiya. Around 100 were killed in raids on sub-districts of Arbad and Al-Salat. Israel stated that these villages contained Palestin- ian fighters and followed with more attacks the following year. Around 130 civilians were killed in the summer of 1968 in Al-Suise and Al-Ismailiya, and 1969 saw the deaths of 60 civilian in attacks on Al-Hama and Mey- saloon, in Syria and Bour Said, in Egypt. An attack of a factory in Abi Zubel saw the deaths of 70 civilians in 1970, and 50 school children were killed when Israel attacked Baher Al-Bakar school in Egypt. Palestinians have never at- tacked an Israeli school yet they still call Palestinians terrorists. The massacres in Lebanon alone should bring massive condemna- tion of Israel from the world but generally has not. Seems like the holocaust is Israel's excuse for re- peating the evil. When Israel invaded and occu- pied the southern part of Lebanon in 1982, it was clear they truly wanted to add to their nation of hatred. There were reports of ci- vilians rounded up in Mosques and murdered as well as daily rocket attacks, shelling, air raids, naval bombings, mines, car bombs, home demolitions, assassi- nation and napalm attacks. The targets of these atrocities were hospitals, mosques, gatherings, market places, lone houses and schools. Ports were also closed devastating the economy and not allowing medical supplies and other aid to reach needy civilians. Israeli settlers reportedly also poi- soned water supplies while Israel disrupted electricity and stole wa- ter from Lebanese rivers. In con- clusion tens of thousands of Leba- nese were killed, wounded, and missing. Many of these were men, women, children, the elderly, journalists and even religious Continued Page 30 [Bin-Jiddu] It is sufficient to say that we are in the company of Hezbollah Secretary General His Eminence Al- Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah at this time in particular. The battles are still continuing. We are at a certain time in a certain place of this world, and not only in Lebanon, as I used to say earlier. This is why, without any introductions at all, I will start my questions to His Eminence Al-Sayyid Hasan Nasrallah. Your Eminence Al- Sayyid, first of all, thank you for responding to [the request to hold] this interview at this time in particular. Around 10 days have passed since the outbreak of hostilities. What do you say militarily and politically?
[Nasrallah] In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. Politically and militarily all at once, it is difficult. Let us start...
[Bin-Jiddu, interrupting] Not in detail. We will go into details with you.
[Nasrallah] Let us start militarily and in the field. The general headline we can speak about clearly on the military level is steadfastness--the great and significant steadfastness first and, secondly, full absorption of the Israeli strike. Over the past few days, the Israelis, in our opinion, did the maximum that they can do, from the air and the sea. Of course, we will discuss the ground option shortly. There is no target--old, new, as- sumed, expected, based on information or analysis--that they did not hit. Also, when we speak about what was hit, this includes military and civilian targets, but I want to speak now about the military aspect.
I can confirm at this momentthis is not an exaggeration and not part of psychological warfare, but factsthat the command structure of Hezbollah has not been harmed. Yesterday night, they conducted a very violent raid on a building in the southern suburb. They spoke about 22 tons of explosives and a large number of aircraft that conducted the raid. They said that they made an achievement and killed some Hez- bollah leaders and a large number of members of the resistance. This is not true. At any rate, your corre- spondent reported that he saw the area and that no ambulances came to the scene and no rescue efforts were made because the building is vacant and is under construction. The entire command structure of Hezbol- lah, including the political, jihadist, executive, and socialso far, the Zionists have not managed to kill any Hezbollah cadre or leader at any level.
[Bin-Jiddu] Do you mean the political leaders or the military commanders?
[Nasrallah] All of them. Certainly, I would like to tell you and tell the viewers that when a martyr falls, we inform his family and we then announce this. We do not hide our martyrs until the end of the battle. We have never done this. On the contrary, we always take pride in our martyrs. Until this very moment, praise be to God, anything that could affect the command or administrative structure that is managing the battle or that is not managing the battlethose who are directly linked to the battle or have a relationship to some aspects of the existing situation--this structure has remained intact. This is especially true in the case of the military structure that is present in the field. This is first. The second thing that I can confirm is that all the Israeli talk that they hit 50 per cent of our rocket capability and warehousesall of this is untrue and nonsense. Until this moment, they have not been able to hit anything in this context. I confirm this to you. The evidence is that the resistance has continued to fire rocketsnot the regular Katyusha rockets that are fired on the frontline settlementsthe resistance is still striking Haifa, Tiberias, Safad [Zefat] and deep [into Israel] as well. We control even the number of rockets that are fired. Today, the resistance can fire hundreds of rockets in a single day. There is no obstacle in the field despite the intensive air activity of the Zionists.
We control the number [of rockets] because we are managing our battle. I will go back shortly to the man- agement of the battle. Therefore, as far as the rocket structure is concerned, things are excellent and this structure or capability has not been impaired at all. We have the ability to go on for a long time. Also, the fighters in the field have not started action so far. The ground confrontations that occurred over the past two days are the begin- nings of the confrontation. The fighters on the border have so far not made a strenuous effort over the past few days. We are still at the beginning of action. Therefore, as far as the ground and rocket situation is concerned and on the level of capabilities and cadres, leadership, and organization in general, which is broader than the jihadist aspect or other political, social, and media aspects, the structure is still strong and solid and continu- ing, praise be to God.
The strike against the battleship off the coast of Beirut has made the Israelis decide to keep all their war- ships away from the Lebanese coast by tens of kilometers. What is reported sometimes in the media, to the effect that warships are bombarding the suburb or a certain area, is wrong. This is not true. The warships are not bombarding most areas because they are far away from the coast. The Israeli air force is the one that is conducting the bombing. In all events, this air force is a superior force. This is the picture of the field situation. Of course, in the confrontations that occurred, a number of Mirkava tanks have been destroyed so far. Some of these tanks are Mirkava of the fourth generation, which are the most advanced type of the Israeli Mirkava.
The Israelis admit the ferocity, power, and courage of the fighters on the frontlines. Certainly, we are wager- ing on those fighters. I think that if we take the picture of the military situation in general, I can confirm that Hezbollah has so far remained steadfast; secondly, it has managed to absorb the strike; thirdly, to move to the stage of taking the initiative; and fourthly, to offer some surprises, which it has promised. There is still a number of surprises, which we reserve to our- selves in the next stage. In the field, Hezbollah is still managing the battle calmly, slowly, quietly, and without any emotional reaction. You can see this. There are no unnecessary threats and no random rhetoric. We are following things closely and calmly and we calculate the time, place, number, capability, combat, point, front, and all details on the military level. This concerns the military aspect.
[Bin-Jiddu] Excuse me your eminence, what guarantees that what you are kindly describing as calm is not confusion, and what guarantees or confirms that you are running the battle calmly, not with emotional reac- tion to conceal the inflicted enormous military losses as Israel claims?
[Nasrallah] First, you know Lebanon. Today, the Israelis tightened the noose on the mass media in northern occupied Palestine and occupied Palestine. No one can report any news or broadcast any footage. [News reports] are subject to the Israeli censorship which permits and disseminates them. Even you at Al-Jazeera Channel were subjected to arrests, interrogation, restricted activities, and the like. Why do the Israelis resort to concealing the truth on the other side? Why? Do they do that only because they accuse the media outlets of setting the coordinates? This is nonsense. We have the coordinates of these Israeli settlements and military positions in the north, centre, or in any part of occupied Palestine. We do not need anybody to give us information, images, or the like. In that case, they want to conceal the true scene of the war on the other side because it will have definite impact on the Israeli street and media and the morale of the Israelis. This is what Olmert's government and the Israeli Army fear. On the other side, the media outlets in Lebanon today are reporting on everything, including the raids, the civilian martyrs, the combatant martyrs, and the roads. The towns are open even the Southern Suburb. The media outlets entered it. The media outlets entered and videotaped the place, which was bombarded yesterday at dawn, actually today at dawn. So, everything is evident. You know Lebanon more than anybody else that there are no secrets in Lebanon. If we have mar- tyrs, we can only conceal them for an hour or two because their families and the residents of their village will know about it. Those are not fighters from another country; they are from the citizens of this country. If one of the leaders of Hezbollah is martyred, this will be made known within few hours. Therefore, we do not conceal our martyrs and we are proud of them. Secondly, as for the structure [of the resistance], its perform- ance practically assert that things are still ongoing well. Moreover, the Israelis gave a while ago a picture of trucks to the mass media claiming that these trucks are transporting ammunition to Hezbollah. Well, if they videotape every target they strike, let them provide pictures of the rocket launchers, the launching pads, and the military bases that were bombarded. Thus far, they have been bombarding wrong targets. This indicates a technical failure on the one hand and an intelligence failure on the other. The drilling machines in Al- Ashrafiyah are old machines. So, they do not receive intelligence from the ground and I do not agree with the analysis that suggests they pounded Al-Ashrafiyah because they want to instigate the Christians and the residents of Al-Ashrafiyah against the resistance. We should not be hasty [in drawing conclusions]. They came and videotaped the two drilling machines. They might have looked as rocket launchers in the pictures and therefore they bombarded them. This is a failure. If they are depending on the reconnaissance aircraft, this is a technical failure. If they are depending on the agents on the ground, this is an intelligence failure. So, if they have pictures, let them show them to the world. You might wonder and says is it possible that no rocket launcher was hit. Neither me, nor anybody can claim that. There might be, for example, one or two were hit. After nine days, the strongest air force in the Middle East region and one of the strongest air forces in the world that have access to the airspace while we do not have the capabilities to face them at that level - an air force effectively and strongly present in various ways with the reconnaissance aircraft controlling the airspace of Lebanon - could not until this very minute even stop firing rockets or target the missile force. It is very evident.
[Bin-Jiddu] Can we say that the onset of the ground battle has begun or not?
[Nasrallah] We cannot say that accurately. Until now, what have been taking place are infiltration attempts in certain points on the borders. In this context, the Israelis are seeking to make any achievements. I tell that the only achievement made by the Israelis can be made by any air force in the world. It does not need the grandeur of the Israeli Air Force, namely de- stroying the bridges, the airport, striking at the ports, factories, the houses. This does not need any [special air force]. Any army that has some aircraft can do that. However, they failed in the face of the military infrastructure of the resistance. They succeeded in killing the children, women, and the elderly. They suc- ceeded in displacing some people. As for the structure of the resistance, I affirm to you that it is present. They know that they are not hiding-- as they claim-- among the civilians. [The battle] is taking place in the frontlines, the mountains, the valleys, and between the trees in a wide area. They are looking for achieve- ments. They talked at dawn today about the bombing of this building in the Southern Suburb. I heard over the past two or three days that they are talking about great, huge, fortified Hezbollah barracks along the borders that were destroyed. I was discussing the issue with the brothers. We discussed whether we should deny the claims or not. Some said: Let them be happy about it as they are showing their people that they made achievements. Let them be happy about their achievements and this might ease the onslaught. They will be happy in the Israeli Army that they made achievements. Others said: Let our public opinion know because this would have positive and negative psychological impact. Continued Page 32 Al-Jazeera Beirut Bureau Chief Ghassan Bin-Jiddu had an exclusive interview with Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah on Thursday, July 20, 2006. Page 3 The United States continues its legacy of promises broken and the eternal war against Black youth. Up until March 2005 it was legal to lynch Black youth under the age of 18. Even though the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits cruel and un- usual punishment, it took the recent Donald Roprer v. Christopher Simmons Supreme Court case to rule the juvenile death penalty unlawful. On the surface, this decision appears to have prohibited the unjustifi- able killing of Black chil- dren. However, judicial loopholes have made way for another type of murder. Now the U.S. boasts more juveniles serving life sentences without parole than all other nations combined. The criminal system works harder now to kill the spirit of our youth the very future of the Black Nation. Deliverance of these sentences is hypocritical to the laws Amerikkka has written, and the agreements it has made. The U.S. voted for the United Nations to adopt the Declaration on the Rights of the Child in November of 1959; which would provide special safeguards and care, including appropri- ate legal protection due to a childs mental and physical immaturity. Later the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights was formed, to which the U.S. became a party in 1992, specifically ac- knowledging the need for special treatment of children in the criminal system and emphasizing the importance of their rehabilitation. It is an indisputable fact that a life sentence is not a method fit to rehabilitate a child. It is also clear that no safeguards have been made to protect our young people from per- ishing in captivity. When the defendant is a Black teen, he or she is ten times more likely to receive a no-parole life sentence than if the teen were white. They are even more likely to get those sentences when their victims are white, and they are tried by all- white or majority white juries. In addition, a ma- jor portion of those sen- tenced with no-parole did not actually commit murder but were partici- pants in a robbery or were at the scene of the crime when the death occurred. Most of these teens had no prior con- victions, and a consider- able number were aged 15 or under. When our Black ba- bies are taken to Amerikkkan concentra- tion camps, they do what they feel is necessary to survive. Surrounded by prison gangs they often join in order to avoid falling victim to one. Continued Page 30 By Aaleigha Jabril I II III Alabama 14 16 Alaska 0 No LWOP Arizona 0 14 Arkansas 14 14 California 14 14 Colorado 12 12 Connecticut 14 14 Delaware 0 0 District of Columbia 0 No LWOP <18 Florida 0 0 Georgia 12 13 Hawaii 0 0 Idaho 14 14 Illinois 13 13 Indiana 0 16 Iowa 14 14 Kansas 10 No LWOP Kentucky 14 No LWOP <18 Louisiana 14 15 Maine 0 No LWOP Maryland 0 0 Massachusetts 14 14 Michigan 0 0 Minnesota 14 14 Mississippi 13 13 Missouri 12 12 Montana 12 12 Nebraska 0 0 Nevada 8 8 New Hampshire 13 13 New Jersey 14 14 New Mexico 15 No LWOP New York 13 No LWOP <18 North Carolina 13 13 North Dakota 14 14 Ohio 14 14 Oklahoma 7 13 Oregon 0 No LWOP <18 Pennsylvania 0 0 Rhode Island 0 0 South Carolina 0 0 South Dakota 0 10 Tennessee 0 0 Texas 14 No LWOP Utah 14 14 Vermont 10 10 Virginia 14 14 Washington 0 15 West Virginia 0 No LWOP Wisconsin 0 10 Wyoming 13 13 Federal 15 15 IV 15 n/a 30 46 180 46 10 7 n/a 273 8 4 Missing Data 103 2 67 n/a n/a 317 n/a 13 60 306 2 17 116 1 21 16 3 0 n/a n/a 44 1 1 49 n/a 332 2 26 9 4 n/a 0 0 48 23 n/a 16 6 1 STATE LAW FOR PERSECUTING YOUTH I. State II. Age eligible to be tried as an adult. III. Age eligible for life without parole. IV. Number of youth serving life without parole. In the 1980s, Congress established several different mandatory minimum sentences. These laws require offenders of certain crimes to re- ceive fixed sentences without parole. Though crack and powdered cocaine are vir- tually the same drug (crack is powder cocaine mixed with baking soda) possession of five grams of crack gets you a mandatory five years in jail, while it takes 500 grams of powdered cocaine to get this same sentence. Knowing this, what do you think the sentence should be for imported these drugs, and more for distribution? No matter what you think, below you will read about the types of sentences that are handed out. Justice, or just-us? Page 4 Three men from the province of British Colum- bia, Canada were charged with conspiracy to distribute and import mari- juana on July 21st. Francis Devadra Raj, 30; Timothy Woo, 34; and Johnathan Valenzuela, 27 built a 360 foot tunnel that had a concrete floor, wood beams, ventilation and video security system, across the U.S.-Canadian border. This is reported as the first tunnel ever dis- covered on the northern border of the U.S. The tunnel began beneath a large metal shed in Langley (Canada), and ended in the living room of an aban- doned home in Lynden, Washington. Court evidence revealed that over $400,000 was spent in building the tunnel, and purchasing the property. U.S. District Court Judge John Coughenour sentenced the three men to nine years in prison for trying to smuggle drugs across the border and an additional five years supervised release. Picture of tunnel. Black youth protest unjust laws. Page 5 According to a U.S. Army study, unprece- dented numbers o f Af r i c a n American youth are refusing to join the Army . Those young people who have been given more careful instruc- tion see that an- other major rea- son not to fight for a racist gov- ernment is be- cause the people who are sent to recruit you dont even defend Black interests at home. A s t udy, based on inter- views with more than 3,000 youth 16-24, found that Army re- cruitment of Blacks has fallen 41 percent since 2000 and has been steadily decreasing. Now those are the types of statistics that need to be low, moreover obsolete, when it comes to our children. So con- cerned is the Army that they are conducting intense research and intensifying a d v e r t i s i n g strategies. The Army has been stepping up ac- tivities in Black c o mmu n i t i e s where unem- ployment is dis- proportionately high. Official Black unemployment was 10.6 percent in the first quar- ter of 2005 double the over- all 5.3 percent for whites and a quarter of Black house- holds remain below the fed- eral poverty line. Some experts say the lagging r e c r u i t me n t raises the specter of the Pentagon turning to the reinstatement of the draft. While the U.S. military does not cater to the interests of the Black com- munity, we must not dismiss the importance of disciplined self- defense training for Black people of all ages. White suprema- cists are utilizing every available me t h o d t o strengthen their p a r a mi l i t a r y forces, even if t ha t means enlisting in the U.S. military. Military re- cruiters and base c o mma nd e r s , under intense pressure fill the ranks, often look the other way. One cannot also deny the fact that it is highly likely that some recruiters may have the same agenda. Continued Page 32 Most people who enlist are signed up into the Delayed Enlist- ment Program (DEP), also called the Delayed Entry Program, for up to a year before they report for active duty training. The DEP is pushed hard by recruiters to high school seniors who are unsure what to do after graduation. Many people change their minds and more people are realizing that recruiters misrepre- sent military life and lie to them. The military isn't a generous financial aid institution, and it isn't concerned with helping you pay for school. Two-thirds of all recruits never get any college funding from the military. Only 15% graduate with a four-year degree. Joining the military is a dead end. After you've spent a few years in the military, you're 2 to 5 times more likely to be homeless than your friends who never joined. And, according to the VA, you'll probably earn less too. The skills you learn in the military will be geared to military jobs, not civilian careers; when you come out, many employers will tell you to go back to school and get some real training. For whatever reason, people who have enlisted through the DEP have the right to change their mind and do not have to go! Fundamentally, the way to get out of the DEP is NOT TO GO, not to report on your ship date. Some people simply do not go; others choose to write a letter stating their decision not to go. In either case, the results are the same: you do not have to go. There are no consequences and no records as a result of with- drawing from the DEP that cur- rently have any effect on things like employment or your legal record. This is the case for non- citizens as well as citizens. Withdrawing from the DEP has no effect on future employ- ment. The Army Recruiting regula- tions state that recruiters will not threaten, coerce, manipulate, or intimidate DEP members, nor may they obstruct separation Continued Page 30 Confused Black men attempting to lure in vulnerable Latino and Black youth. U.S. DesperateWhite Supremacists Openly Welcomed By Omar Parks White Lies of the White Mans Military Exposed! It is time that America understood Hezbul- lah for what it really is, not what the Israelis and their Zionist friends say it is. Hezbullah is a social, political, educational, medical and military organization based pri- marily among the Shia of Lebanon. In addi- tion, Hezbullah also includes many Sunni and even Christians who ally themselves with Hez- bullah because of the good this organization does in Lebanon. Many of the doctors who work in their centers, as well as teachers in their schools are Christian and Druze. As the Christian President of Lebanon, Emile Lahoud said of Hezbullah, when it was under attack by President Bush, Hezbollah is an integral part of the Lebanese government, it is also part of our military, it part of our social order. This was echoed by the late, beloved, Prime Minister, Rafiq Al-Harriri. This is the truth about Hezbullah; not what Bush and his Zionist cronies, and the unedu- cated Conde Rice has to say about the organi- zation. Let us look at what Hezbullah has done in Lebanon: it has set up over 50 hospitals; it has set up over 100 schools (secular schools pri- marily) and many libraries; it has participated in the governing of Lebanon in the parliament and in the life of the country; it has driven the Israelis out of southern Lebanon and kept them out to this day, it is the force that stands guard against another Israeli invasion of Leba- non. Many of us who witnessed that, and Robert Fisk, the esteemed, award-winning col- umnist for the Independent of the United Kingdom will back me up on this, saw the Hezbullah fight- ers armed with small weapons, mines, bazookas a n d h u ma n bombs chase the Israeli tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, armored cars and troops out of Leba- non.Even with planes and heli- copters, the Israelis could not sustain them- selves in Lebanon; they were defeated by the Hezbullah. Thus, at this point, Israel is the biggest Continued Page 31 Parade showing support for Hezbullah. By Sam Hamod General Nasrallah To inhibit the potential involvement of youth and youth organizations, effectively removing them as a future factor in their freedom struggle. (1) Prevent the COALITION of militant black nationalist groups. In unity there is strength; a truism that is no less valid for all its triteness. An effective coalition of black nationalist groups might be the first step toward a real Mau-Mau[Black revolutionary army] in America, the beginning of a true black revolution. (5) A final goal should be to prevent the long-range growth of militant black organizations, especially among the youth. Specific tactics to prevent these groups from converting young people must be developed. The purpose of this new counterintelligence endeavor is to expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or OTHERWISE NEUTRALIZE the activities of black nationalist hate-type organizations and groupings, their leadership, spokesmen, membership, and supporters, and to counter their propensity for violence and civil disorder. The activities of all such groups of intelligence interest to the Bureau must be followed on a continuous basis so we will be in a position to promptly take advantage of all opportunities for coun- terintelligence and inspire action in instances where cir- cumstances warrant. The pernicious background of such groups, their duplicity, and devious maneuvers must be ex- posed to public scrutiny where such publicity will have a neutralizing effect. Efforts of the various groups to con- solidate their forces or to recruit new or youthful adher- ents must be frustrated. NO OPPORTUNITY SHOULD BE MISSED TO EXPLOIT THROUGH COUNTERINTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES THE OR- GANIZATIONAL AND PERSONAL CONFLICTS OF THE LEADERSHIPS OF THE GROUPS AND WHERE POSSIBLE AN EFFORT SHOULD BE MADE TO CAPITALIZE UPON EXISTING CONFLICTS BETWEEN COMPETING BLACK NATIONALIST ORGANIZATIONS. When an opportunity is apparent to disrupt or neutralize black nationalist, hate-type or- ganizations through the cooperation of established local media contacts or through such contact with sources avail- able to the Seat of Government [Hoover], in every instance careful attention must be given to the proposal to insure the targeted group is disrupted, ridiculed, or discredited through the publicity and not merely publicized... You are cautioned that the nature of this new endeavor is such that UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHOULD THE EXISTENCE OF THE PROGRAM BE MADE KNOWN OUTSIDE THE BUREAU and appropri- ate within-office security should be afforded to sensitive The Federal Bureau of Investigation was created in 1908 by Attorney General Charles Bonaparte while Theodore Roosevelt served as President. In 1910, the FBI declared no authority...to protect citizens of African descent in the enjoyment of civil rights generally. The FBI is no more than another criminal faction of an already criminal government, established to legitimize a national police agency. Afrikan descendants, whom represent a nation within a nation, the Black Nation, came under immediate attack. With the sluggish dissolution of the institution of slavery in the U.S. came a simultaneous ambition to address the Negro problem. The sense of urgency by Afrikans to fight in the war for their own liberation gained increasing momentum. The former Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, would formally construct a plan to dismantle Afrikan efforts for liberation. Although the same principles were used to unlawfully punish the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey in 1927, it was not until August of 1967 that Hoover outlined the FBIs nationwide campaign to target Black civil rights leaders, Black Power advocates, and to maintain surveillance of the Black com- munity. This campaign would be called the counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO). Panther behind bullet ridden door J. Edgar Hoover Panthers are the greatest threat to the internal security of the country. -Hoover Page 6 By Min. Hashim A. Nzinga National Chief of Staff, NBPP The African youth in America feel trapped. Our youth have the spirit much like that of a panther, reacting fearlessly and forcefully to free themselves from a compromis- ing position. But the question is why do the youth feel trapped? Stifling social conditions give our young people the feeling of entrap- ment. The American social system is comparable to South African apartheid. It results from white folk who refuse to accept anyone who looks and acts differently from the way they do, those who live a lifestyle foreign to their own. This helps them to create an at- mosphere that constantly fosters the growth of their own nation and limits the threat of being over- taken by outside ideals and prac- tices. Let us not be fooled, aside from being forced to the fringe of soci- ety, there is also an element of per- sonal responsibility. No people can see through the rise of its na- tion without realizing their com- mon authentic identity. No au- thentic identity can be achieved if in the effort to do so, he denies his forefathers. With an authentic identity comes an internal will to preserve that identity. Living as Africans will move us to protect all that makes us African, because we know that this will ultimately lead to the liberation and survival of our people. We must begin again to teach our children about God. God meets us at the limit of our own understanding. Therefore, we must teach them the truth about who we are and were before the existence of the white man, and why the white man took us from Africa. This will strengthen to- days African youth liberation movement, which is now so nar- rowly focused on militant action. This one dimensional frame of thought represents a grave weak- ness in that movement. The Afri- can youth are denying themselves a historical and psychological di- mension that is essential for having self-understanding and self- respect. Without this understand- ing, the militant minded youth will only use militant action against their brothers and sisters and not toward their real enemy, the white man. Structuring the African family based on white tradition is another social snare. As a consequence of our doing so, many of our African youth wind up in the American juvenile system, the jails and pris- ons, and in some cases even wind up being prisoners in their own homes. This has led to emotional problems like confusion, because our youth are beginning to under- stand the lessons of history that contradict with actions being taught in our homes. They realize that lack of initiative among Afri- can people can entirely or even partly explain their subservient condition, their political domina- tion and economic exploitation. Three and a half centuries of Afri- can labor helped to transform America into the worlds most powerful nation. Today the eco- nomic structure of America has little need for African labor, and as businesses continue to see an in- crease in profit, African people still fail to benefit. Industrial and tech- nological revolutions have never benefited the African community, so despite our ingenious contribu- tions, African people, on a whole, are bound by poverty; as they re- main menial workers and ex- ploited consumers. Racism and history have re- vealed to African youth that there is only one language understood by white people, the language of vio- lence. The white man is not going to let go of anything unless he is hit over the head and it is taken away from him. The youth know that for more than 400 years the white man has raped our women, flogged us, killed us and forced us into slavery. They will be slaves no longer. They want what is theirs in the world and they know there is only one way to get it by force, the same way the white man got it from us. But are we listening to our youth, or are we condemn- ing them? Taking the time to un- derstand their conditions and deci- sions will put us in a position to guide these same actions purpose- fully. Our African children dont want or need the white mans help, because they know what kind of help to expect. If theyre going to make it, they got to make it with their GOD and their war- rior spirit. The African youth will run the world. So, white man, get out of the way. Theyre on the move. Theyre on the move and wont be stopped. Bo b b y J a me s Hutton was born in 1950. Hutton was 15 years old when he met Bobby Seale and Huey Newton, who were working for the mayor's anti-poverty jobs program in North Oakland and asked to join the Black Panther Party as their first member. He was so young they had to ask his mother's permis- sion. In May 1967 he led a Black Panther march in Sacra- mento to protest against a new gun bill. The Mulford Act made it illegal to carry guns in public and was a direct response to the Panthers' po- lice patrols in the community. On the 6th of April in 1968 eight BPP members, includ- ing Hutton, El- dridge Cleaver and David Hilliard, were traveling in two cars when they were am- bushed by the Oakland police. C l e a v e r a n d Hutton ran for cover and found themselves in a basement sur- rounded by police. The building was fired upon for over an hour. When a tear-gas canister was thrown into the basement and the house was ablaze the two men decided to surren- der. Hutton exited first with his hands in the air and shot nearly a dozen times by the police and was killed in- stantly. Over 2,000 people attended his funeral at the Ephesians Church of God in Berkeley, California on April 12, 1968. Page 7 Page 8 Criminally responsible for the deaths of over 2,700 American soldiers and 60,000 injured in Iraq. Criminally responsible for over 100,000 Iraqi civilians while igniting a civil war. Criminally responsible for supplying arms and military equipment to the terrorist state of Israel. Prime suspect in the September 11th World Trade Center attacks. Known to be armed and dangerous and possess weapons of mass destruction. Leader of international outlaw and Zionist terrorist state called Israelthe second largest state sponsor of terror in the world. Personally responsible for the murder of over 1,000 Lebanese civilians and babies in recent barbaric attack on Lebanon. Inheritor of leadership of the illegal, sto- len Zionist State, which has openly defied over 40 Unite Nations Resolutions. Not a true Jewan impostor! Possess weapons of mass destruction and is extremely dangerous. Bush is informed as his 9/11 plot unfolds. Mass grave in Iraq as a result of war. Chaos caused by U.S. induced Iraqi civil war. The hidden power behind the President. Criminally responsible for manufacturing a phony war against Saddam Hussein as a pretext to secure he and his bloody cartels oil control empire. Criminally responsible for every soldier and civilian death in Iraq. Favorite hideouts are normally secret government facilities, in the mountains of Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Seemingly endless caskets of American soldiers Illegally ousted President of a sovereign nation, Saddam Hussein. Zionist influence and Zionist mastermind of Zionist controlled U.S. foreign policy. Ensures that the protection and defense of Israel is a primary goal in U.S. foreign policy, including invading Iraq, neutralizing Iran and destroying Lebanon. Part of an international Zionist network that must be stopped at all costs. Page 9 Political whore and prostitute for George W. Bush Jr. and white right-wing Republi- cans. This stool pigeon and lap dog shamelessly represents and defends the evil and ma- nipulative foreign policy of GWB and both Zionist controlled regimes in Israel and America. Wears the disguise of a Black woman, but is the exact opposite of Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks or any true Afrikan Queen. Queen Yaa Asantewaa Queen Betty Shabazz Queen Coretta Scott King Afghanistan at war. Afghan children killed in war. Afghan Freedom Fighters Burning Israeli flag Burning US flag Warmonger and responsible for on the ground terrorist activities in Iraq and Af- ghanistan. Personally spearheaded command and control over terrorist forces that have killed over 100,000 civilians in Iraq and toppled the government of a sovereign nation unleashing hell and chaos that was never seen before. Masterminds an international prison torture network. Armed and dangerous, known to possess weapons of mass destruction.
Haki Malik Abdullah (s/n Mi- chael Green) # C-56123 PO Box 3456 Corcoran, CA 93212
Mumia Abu-Jamal #AM 8335, SCI-Greene, 175 Progress Drive, Waynesburg, PA 15370 Birthday: April 24, 1954
Sundiata Acoli #39794-066, USP Allenwood, P.O. Box 3000, White Deer, PA 17887 Birthday: January 14, 1937
Charles Simms Africa #AM4975, SCI Graterford, Box 244, Graterford PA 19426 Birthday: April 7, 1956
Delbert Orr Africa #AM4985, SCI Dallas Drawer K, Dallas, PA 18612 Birthday: June 21, 1951
Edward Goodman Africa #AM4974, 301 Morea Road, Frackville, PA 17932 Birthday: October 21, 1949
Janet Holloway Africa #006308, 451 Fullerton Ave, Cambridge Springs, PA 16403- 1238 Birthday: April 13, 1951
Janine Phillips Africa #006309, 451 Fullerton Ave, Cambridge Springs, PA 16403- 1238 Birthday: April 25, 1956
Michael Davis Africa #AM4973, SCI Graterford Box 244, Graterford, PA 19426-0244 Birthday: October 6, 1955
William Phillips Africa #AM4984, SCI Dallas Drawer K, Dallas, PA 18612 Birthday: January 1, 19565
Debbie Sims Africa #006307, 451 Fullerton Ave, Cambridge Springs, PA 16403- 1238 Birthday: August 4, 1956
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin #EF492521, Georgia State Prison, 100 Georgia Hwy 147, Reidsville, GA 30499-9701 Birthday: October 4, 1943
Zolo Azania #4969 Pendelton Correctional Facility PO Box 30, I.D.O.C. 6-6 D Pendelton, Indiana 46064 Birthday: December 12, 1954
Herman Bell 79C-0262 Sullivan Correctional Facility Box 116, Riverside Drive Fallsburg, New York 12733- 0116 Birthday: January 14, 1948
Kojo Bomani Sababu (Grailing Brown) #39384-066, USP Victorville Satellite Camp, P.O. Box 5700, Adelanto, CA 92301
Jalil Muntaqim (Anthony Bot- tom) #77A4283, Auburn Correctional Facility, Box 618, 135 State Street, Auburn, NY 13024 Birthday: October 18, 1951
Antonio Camacho Negrn # 03587-069 FDC PHILADELPHIA P.O. BOX 562 PHILADELPHIA, PA 19106
Rubn Campa #58738-004, (envelope addessed to Rubn Campa, letter addressed to Fernando Gonzles) F.C.I. Oxford, P.O. Box 1000, Oxford WI 53952-05057 Birthday: August 18, 1963
Marshall Eddie Conway #116469, Box 534, Jessup, MD 20794 Birthday: April 23, 1946
Antonio Guerrero #58741-004, U.S.P. Florence, P.O. Box 7500, Florence CO 81226 Birthday: October 18, 1958
Bashir Hameed/York #82-A- 6313, Great Meadow Correctional Fa- cility Box 51 Comstock, New York 12821 Birthday: December 1, 1940
Eddie Hatcher #0173499, PO Box 909 Taylorsville NC 28681
Robert Seth Hayes #74-A-2280, Wende Correctional Facility, Wende Rd., PO Box 1187, Alden, NY 14004-1187 Birthday: October 15, 1948
Alvaro Luna Hernndez #255735, Hughes Unit, Rt. 2, Box 4400, Gatesville, TX 76597 Birthday: May 12, 1952
Gerardo Hernndez #58739- 004, U.S.P. Victorville, P.O. Box 5500, Adelanto, CA 92301 Birthday: July 4, 1965
Freddie Hilton (Kamau Sadiki) # 115688 Augusta State Medical Prison, Bldg 13A-2 E7 3001 Gordon Highway Grovetown, GA 30812-3809
Sekou Kambui (William Turk) #113058, Box 56, SCC (B1-21), Elmore, AL 36025-0056 Birthday: September 6, 1948
Ruchell Cinque Magee # A92051 3A2-131 Box 3471 C.S.P. Corcoran, CA 93212
Abdul Majid (Anthony Laborde) #83-A-0483, Drawer B, Green Haven Correc- tional Facility, Stormville, NY 12582-0010 Birthday: June 25, 1949
Thomas Manning #10373-016, United States Penitentiary - Hazelton Box 2000 Bruceton Mills, West Virginia 26525 Birthday: June 28, 1946
Lus Medina #58734-004 (envelope is addressed to Luis Medina, letter to Ramn Labaino) U.S.P. Beaumont, P.O. Box 26030, Beaumont TX 77720-6035 Birthday: June 9, 1963
Sekou Odinga #05228-054, Box 1000, Marion, IL 62959 Birthday: June 17, 1944
Sara Olson #W94197, 506-10-04 Low, CCWF, P.O. Box 1508, Chowchilla, CA 93610-1508 Birthday: January 16, 1947
Leonard Peltier #89637-132, USP Lewisburg P.O. Box 1000 Lewisburg, PA 17837 Birthday: September 12, 1944
Hugo "Dahariki" Pinell # A88401 SHU D3-221 P.O. Box 7500 Crescent City, CA 95531-7500 Birthday: March 10, 1945
Luis V. Rodrguez # C33000 Mule Creek State Prison P.O. Box 409000 Ione, CA 95640
Hanif Shabazz Bey (Beaumont Gereau) #295933, Wallens Ridge State Prison, P.O. Box 759, Big Stone Gap, VA 24219 Birthday: August 16, 1950
Mutulu Shakur #83205-012, USP Coleman 2 P.O. Box 1034 Coleman, FL 33521-1034 August 8, 1950 Byron Shane Chubbuck #07909-051, USP Beaumont P. O. Box 26030 Beaumont, TX 77720 Birthday: February 26, 1967 Russell Maroon Shoats #AF- 3855, SCI Greene, 175 Progress Drive, Waynesburg, PA 15320 Birthday: August 23, 1943 Carlos Alberto Torres #88976- 024, FCI Oxford, P.O. Box 1000, Oxford, WI 53952 Birthday: September 19, 1952
Gary Tyler # 84156 Louisiana State Penitentiary ASH-4 Angola LA 70712 Herman Wallace #76759 CCR Upper E # 4 Louisiana State Penitentiary Angola, LA 70712 Birthday: October 13, 1941
This is a shortened list of political prisoners. More information can be found at www.thejerichomovement.com. Page 10 Robert F. Williams spearheaded the movement for armed resis- tance to KKK terrorism in defense of the Black community in the South. Robert Williams led the North Carolina chapter of the National Association of Colored People (NAACP) to break from the road of conciliation and to take the road of active resistance, the road of dignity. The very title of the book he wrote describing this period Negroes with Guns sums up what a profoundly revolutionary stand this was for anyone with even the slightest knowledge of the truly evil conditions faced by African people in the south of the United States at that time. He created the Deacons for De- fense whose symbol was a black panther, thereby becoming the direct inspiration and honorary leader for the rising Black Panther Party for Self- Defense a few years later. Later, his insistence that the black people in the United States were not only members of an ex- ploited class but even more impor- tantly a kidnapped African nation with the right to independence and self determination led to his being acclaimed as the first Presi- dent of the Republic of New Af- rica. Not only did Brother Williams initiate a radical turn in the strug- gle of African people in the United Stateshe followed in the tradi- tion of Harry Haywood, Marcus Garvey, Paul Robeson and Dr. W.E.B. DuBois in linking the struggle of African people in the U.S. with the wider world of anti- imperialism and socialism. His creation of Radio Free Dixie in liberated Cuba helped to smash the information monopoly of the imperialists and white suprema- cists. Most significantly, Brother Williams was a personal comrade- in-arms and friend of such great revolutionary leaders as Chairman Mao Zedong, Premier Zhou Enlai, Comrade Deng Xiaoping, Comrade Liao Chengzhi and others. All his loving efforts were in response to the struggle of Black people in the United States, and because of this a deep and sincere the respect and affection for our Brother remains in the hearts of freedom fighters worldwide. Imam Jamil Al-Amin was once known as H. Rap Brown, one of the most renowned Black militant figures of Americas turbulent sixties. The United States Government devised extra- legal methods, including attempted assassination, legal persecution, and public vilification to silence the African-American militant that was so eloquently electrifying that he was named RAP. Indeed, the genre of music we call Rap derives its political linage from the militancy of the sixties and the persona of Rap Brown in particular. Today, Imam Al-Amin the former H. Rap Brown, lan- guishes in an American prison serving a life sentence for what many African Americans believe was the culmination of three decade long government conspiracy to silence and neutralize one of the most effective African-American grass root leaders since Al- Hajji Malik As-Shabazz (Malcolm X) Imam Jamil Al-Amin became an influential Imam just when American politics and the Christian Right under Ronald Reagan consolidated their political power in post Vietnam era America. Jamil Al-Amins return to Islam occurred in 1971 while imprisoned with Black Liberation Army solider Nuh Abdul Qayyum (formerly Albert Washington) in New Yorks notorious Tombs detention center. Al-Amin had been forced underground as a result of a failed government assassination attempt that killed his close comrade. A federal warrant was issued for his arrest on a relatively petty charge of incitement to riot. U.S. authorities had hoped that the warrant would allow any law enforcement agent to shoot Al-Amin on sight; however, instead of dying at the hands of the police, Al-Amin was seriously wounded and captured. He became a Black Political prisoner alongside other freshly captured militants such as Dhoruba Bin Wahad, and California Panther leader Geronimo Ji Jagga Pratt, both government COINTELPRO targets, who years later, would have their criminal convictions overturned after expos- ing politically moti- vated prosecutorial misconduct. According to the statistician of the time, Islam in the nineties was the fastest growing religion in the United States. It was especially attractive to African-American youth seeking moral, spiritual, and political orientation in a palpably racist society. But the U.S. government and its law enforcement agencies feared the potent combination of Black militancy and Islam, and with the success of its COINTELPRO operations against the Black Na- tionalist and Pan-African movements of the sixties, the U.S. em- barked on an unprecedented prison construction boom, and began the militarization of domestic law enforcement agencies. Using War on Drugs as his policy pretext, former Ameri- can President Richard M. Nixon transformed Americas police agencies into extensions of the Defense and State Department, employing an intricate web of legislation, institutionalizing expan- sion of law enforcement powers, and using the media in condi- tioning public opinion. The FBI and DEA began international paramilitary counter drug operatives, while the U.S. Justice De- partment became heavily involved in training domestic police forces and institutionalizing various taskforces and special opera- tions units. In order to fight insurgencies around the world, U.S. intelligence agencies and law enforcement formations shade of armed thug from drug dealing Central American contras to military dictators and Latin American paramilitary formations. It was between Presidents Nixon and Reagan that the U.S. gov- ernment established several programs which were to be the pre- cursor to its current policies of rendition and the clandestine gulags run by the U.S. military and the American CIA. One such early Federal program was called PRISACTS an acronym for Prison Activist Surveillance Program. This programs objective was to monitor, disrupt and neutral- ize the influence of Black Political Prisoners among the general prison population. PRISACT was a follow-up on COINTELPROs success at criminalizing the concept of Black resistance and impris- oning its advocates. The program resulted in the assassination of scores of Black prisoner activists, most notable, the late George Jackson, killed by San Quentin prison guards in 1971. By 1977 PRISACT had helped train scores of professional Correctional Officers and law enforcement personnel in techniques designed to curtail the influence of politically motivated prisoners and their public supporters. PRISACT incited the use of behavioral modifi- cation techniques and psychotropic medication regimens used on so-called hostile and aggressive prisoners, perfection of goon squad tactics and technology to assault inmates, and the perfec- tion of isolation unit operations; which would all later find utility in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. It was during this period, 19721994, that U.S. state and federal law enforcement per- fected, regularized, and institutionalized many of its psychological techniques employed later on prisoners in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantanamo. At maxi-maximum prisons around the United States; super- max federal prison at Marion, state prisons like Pelican Bay, Attica, Clinton, San Quentin, Soledad, and hundreds more, prison staff routinely brutalized, harassed, and abused Muslim prisoners especially those with militant activist histories. Muslim political Prisoners like Basheer Hamid, Abdul Majid, former Black Panthers and Black Liberation Army soldiers were routinely committed to long periods of isolation, their religious beliefs and requirements trampled upon (often requiring extensive legal litigation to re- dress). Others such as Jihad Mumit, author of a number of essays on Islam and armed struggle who had served over ten years behind bars, was re-imprisoned on parole violation Continued Page 31 By Sheik D. Mujahid Bin-Wahad Page 11 By Min. Divine Allah National Youth Minister, NBPP Brother Jamille Shaka, NBPP DC Chairman, records his righteous cypher with Brothers SticMan and M-1 of Dead Prez. NBPP (Chairman Jamille): Do you think that Revolutionary Rap will soon be on the minds and hearts of the masses because of recent events in the media (i.e Wire taps, Police Bru- tality)? SticMan: No. Not to say that it is impossible but the process of Revolution takes time and reconditioning our people to fight oppression. So, not soon but it will continue to grow through our work. M-1: Dont Think. Through constant work we begin to own our airwaves and media net- works. We must prepare to bring this new gen- eration into a state of consciousness where they are ready for Revolution. We must get organized. Black and Brown Power. NBPP (Chairman Jamille): With the Patriot Act still in effect and the Miami Florida 7 inci- dent that has happened recently. What do you think will begin to happen to Revolutionary groups (i.e. All African Peoples Revolutionary Party, NBPP, Prisoners of Consciousness Com- mittee)? SticMan: Before anything we will be targeted because of our revolutionary work. It is now a crucial time to network our strength within our community and globally. The Pigs cant see everything that goes on in the hood. We need to develop a national and international strat- egy. Pigs are now sending people into every organization to destroy and confuse the mem- bership of our Freedom Fighters. NBPP (Chairman Jamille): What plans do Dead Prez have for the future to bring awareness and consciousness to the deserving masses of Black people? M-1: Cant Sell Dope Forever Campaign com- ing to a Hood near you July 25, 2006 featuring the Outlawz. This album sheds light on Drugs in the community and why we need a serious Revolution within our hoods. Our next move is pushing how to information to our people. We need to create and teach practical means for health, nutrition, fitness, education in order to bring about the Revolution. NBPP (Chairman Jamille): I appreciate the in- terview Brothers! All Power to the People! Black Power!!!! DEAD PREZ: No problem Brother. Black Power!!! UHURU! Somebody said it is time for Black people to Define, Develop, and Defend what is in the best in- terests of Black people in Amerik- kka and throughout the world. Is there anything else better to do! Yes indeed, Black Power is way more than a slogan or a chant. Black Power is way more than a raised fist with a Red, Black, and Green band on its wrist. Black Power is color, culture, and con- sciousness in action. When we say Black Power - we are saying Wake Up Black Man, Love Yourself! When we say Black Power - we are saying Wake Up Black Woman, Respect Yourself! When you hear Black Power - you are hearing the sound of commitment, dedication, and sincerity. You are hearing a call to Wake Up, Clean Up, and Stand Up for the uplift and empowerment of your family, community, and Nation. Our people have to see Black Power on every level of activity in this nation. If we really want an end to white supremacy and ra- cism, gentrification (the white takeover), oppression, poor educa- tion, poverty, homelessness, police harassment and brutality, biologi- cal and chemical warfare, unem- ployment, poor education, black on black crime and violence - then we must not only say Black Power - we must breathe life into Black Power, beyond the slogan. We have to become walking and talk- ing examples of what Black power means in a real way. Understanding who you are and what your Divine purpose is in life can make things a lot easier, even if you arent part of an organiza- tion. We all should understand that Black Power is a very power- ful term, and if applied properly to your spiritual, cultural, and politi- cal development you can literally create complete constructive change. Remember - Revolution Is The Only Solution
African American athletes have been at the center of modern culture, but for all their money, fame, and achievement. New York Times columnist William C. Rhoden says Black ath- letes still find themselves on the periphery of true power in the multibillion- dollar industry their talent built. Provocative and contro- versial, Rhodens $40 Mil- lion Slaves weaves a com- pelling narrative of Black athletes in the United States, from the plantation to their beginnings in nine- teenth-century boxing rings and at the first Ken- tucky Derby to the history- making accomplishments of notable figures such as Jesse Owens, Althea Gibson, and Willie Mays. Rhoden makes the cogent argument that bl ack athl etes evolution has merely been a journey from literal plantationswhere sports were introduced as diver- sions to quell revolutionary stirringsto todays figura- tive ones, in the form of collegiate and professional sports programs. Rhoden contends that black ath- letes exercise of true power is as limited today as when masters forced their slaves to race and fight. The pri- mary difference is, todays shackles are often of their own making. Every advance made by Black athletes, Rhoden ex- plains, has been met with a knee-jerk backlashone example being Major League Baseballs integra- tion of the sport, which stri pped the Bl ack- controlled Negro League of its talent and left it to foun- der. He details the conveyor belt that brings kids from inner cities and small towns to big-time programs, where theyre cut off from their roots and exploited by team owners, sports agents, and the me- dia. He also sets his sights on athletes like Michael Jordan, who he says have abdicated their responsibil- ity to the community with an apathy that borders on treason. In $40 Million Slaves, William C. Rhoden shows how Black athletes forfeited power through integration. Page 12 Atlanta, GAAs of late, we have witnessed a generation of young people that many dismiss as a lost cause. Every day another Black child is born into what seems to be a viscous endless war against peo- ple of color. However, one should not lose hope in light of this fact for it is a delicate mix of internal and external factors that decide what role each individual will play in the fight for the sur- vival of Afrikan people. So, in a world where people are open to experience the extreme ends of both joys and sorrow, there is al- ways the possibility that these very experiences will make a man out of that same individual. One thing is very clear, the Morehouse College experience produces men, but this year is unlike any other and the story de- serves to be told. Morehouse Col- leges 2006 Commencement Cere- mony graduated Morehouses larg- est class evernearly 600 educated Afrikan men. This prestigious and notable institution continues to fulfill its objective amid lamenta- tion about the scarcity of Black men in higher education. No other institution in the world can match this impressive number. To our beautiful Afrikan schol- ars, we commend you. Use your foundation as an Afrikan people to mold your goals, and use the strength of your God and our an- cestors to see them through. The 2006 valedictorian is Alan Clarke, a native of Andover, Mass. Clarke, who graduated with a perfect 4.0 grade point av- erage and is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, has deferred Harvard Law School for a year to participate in the Asia Pacific Lead- ership Program. The yearlong program is connected to the East West Center and is designed to acclimate international stud- ies students with foreign policies in the Asian Pacific region. As a teenager, Donald Washington Jr. was forced to live in several homeless shelters after the separation of his parents. Still somehow he found a way to pave the way for a future that would change his life. He was awarded a senatorial scholarship, which opened the door to higher education. Now the summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate is one of only five re- cipients of the prestigious Compton Mentor Fellowship, a $35,000 award offered to graduating seniors nominated by col- leges invited by the Compton Foundation. Washington will conduct a project in Atlanta during the 2006-07 academic year titled "The Peacemakers: Redeem the Dream Youth Leadership Program." Jason T. Garrett 06, a native of Hillside, N.J., will research the business and economic conditions of two distinct Afro- Ecuadorian communities. The business finance major has interned on Wall Street and sought to merge his financial skills with his Spanish-speaking abilities by studying abroad in Mexico and Costa Rica. Chaz Clark, a member of Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude graduate, was the first high school student to receive the UNCF Liberty Scholarship and is the first scholarship recipient to receive a Morehouse degree. The UNCF Liberty Scholarship was founded in October 2001 for children of victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks. His father, Benjamin Keefe Clark, was working as an executive chef for Fiduciary Trust's 250 employees on the 96th floor of the World Trade Centers South Tower Clark on that fateful day. Clark will remain in Atlanta, where he will work for Price Waterhouse Cooper in the Internal Audit Division.
Morgan C. Williams Jr. 06 will conduct research on The Economics of HIV/AIDS: Effective- ness/Cost-Effectiveness of Resource Allocation in the Republic of Mali. The international stud- ies and French major also will work as a technical consultant with the Joint United Nations Pro- gramme on HIV/AIDS to the Executive Secretariat of the High Council on HIV/AIDS, under the office of the President of the Republic of Mali. Morehouse Alumni celebrate joyously. Closing the gates behind the last graduates. Men of Morehouse to Morehouse Men. 2006 Morehouse Graduating Class Class of 06 marching in to Afrikan drums. Morehouse Commencement Ceremony Page 13 By Aza Nedhari Harlem, NY - Over 600 people packed the Metro- politan A.M.E. Church June 17 for a rally of unity, healing and support, under the billing: Stop the War on Black Youth and to Free All Political Prisoners. Sponsored by the New Black Panther Party and the Original Panther Party, the event brought together an array of intergenera- tional leadership expanding from across the five bor- oughs throughout the East Coast. James Mtume of 98.7 KISS FM and Dr. James McIntosh of CEMOTAP moderated the youth sum- mit, while the mighty elder and scholar Dr. Yosef Ben- Jochannan graced the event with his humble presence. An inspirational review of hood news and revolution- ary art was presented as members from every street organization or set and youth organization ex- pressed their struggle, real- ity, artistic talents and soli- darity. Youth in attendance repre- sented the Almighty Latin Kings and Queens, Bloods, Crips, Extended Black Fam- ily Movement, Hebrew Is- raelites, Zulu Nation, Na- tion of Islam and a host of other groups. First to the podium was current Bloods activist Vic- tor Gotti. Everyone must learn how to play their role in this revolutionary strug- gle, he said. Everyone cannot be a Malik Zulu Shabazz or a Louis Farra- khan. You must play your role. A powerful spoken word piece crafted by poet Nailah, entitled M.E. (Mother Earth), brought balance to the evening. Brother True Light spoke on behalf of the representa- tives from the Nuwaubian Nation, brilliantly summa- rizing the plight of the Black nation in three areas in which he stated attack occurs: subliminal seduc- tion (beginning during childhood), pre-encoded genes (beginning at birth) and the re-coding of DNA. The Junior Fruit of Islam from the Nation of Islam brought the crowd to its feet with a rousing drill exhibition called by a dy- namic young drill instruc- tor, 13-year-old Ishmael Muhammad. The monumental event was highlighted with an address of members of the Original Black Panther Party, which pointed out the significance of the Black Panther Party of yesterday and the con- tinuing importance of struggle in the context of the Black Panther today. Then, the Original Pan- thers stood to offer support for their young cubsthe New Black Panthers headed by the dynamic and youthful leadership of Atty. Shabazz. As program host, Atty. Sha- bazz got it crunk with a fiery speech as he spoke up for Dr. Malachi Z. Yorks case, noting that he, too, is a victim of the vicious Counterintelligence Pro- gram that was spearheaded by J. Edgar Hoover over 40 years ago, and is still in op- eration today in the gov- ernments war against the Black Nation and its lead- ers. He noted the denial objec- tives of COINTELPRO spe- cifically aimed at disman- tling the relationship be- tween Black youth and Black nationalist organiza- tions. But we are going after the youth and gang members to show their brilliance, he affirmed, to address, deal with, and offer solutions to how we, as a unified com- munity, can stop the war against Black youth, stop the senseless killing among sets that the White man has pitted against one an- other, and to galvanize our efforts to free our political prisoners. The evening was further inspired with a telephone call from former Black Pan- ther Baba Eddie Conway, a political prisoner who has been unjustly imprisoned for 34 years. We must collectively or- ganize around the country to re-open the cases of po- litical prisoners affected by COINTELPRO, he urged. Additionally, we must at- tack the problem from a national perspective, so that a resolution can be ad- dressed to deal with the cases collectively versus separately. Formerly exiled activist until the late 1980s, Her- man Ferguson stressed the need for support of political prisoners in writing letters as well as the involvement with the Jericho Move- ment, which works on be- half of political prisoners. Many have been condi- tioned to believe that the youth of today do not have anything to offer to society, the Black nation or the lib- eration of Black peoplea belief that was changed by the rallys end. Following the Unity Rally, the Minister of Information of the NBPPs Harlem Chapter, David X, checked the pulse of the streets. Three Brothers give answer the question: Is there a war on the Black Youth? Page 14 Always Black youth, Black men, Black women. The government is corrupted. The police are corrupt. The politicians are fakes and phonies. They fear us, the youth, because we have the ability to band together. If we organize, its a wrap. They see how we hang tough in the hood. The pigs come in and try to stir sh-t up and pit us against each other. We can take this city, if we wanted to. Whites are trying to take the hood. Sh-t, they even moving into the hood. That's another reason the pigs are vamp- ing down on us. They think they can keep us in line. They coming down on us on a regular. They don't come uptown rolling wit' that sh-t. Not yet Big Red PGT BloodsHarlem, NY
Man, Black youth are much bolder today. They got more heart than the old heads. The police mess with us. Stop us in the street, stop us in our rides. Tryin' to test us and provoke some sh-t to make you snap. Why you think they send 'em in more than two to four deep on foot patrol? Cause they know if they send one or two, they the ones gonna' git beat down. Brotha's are fed up wit dat bullsh-t. Check it, now you see Bloods and Crips band together up here to keep 5-0 out our face. Sh-t a lot of us grew up together. We got our beefs. But those white po'-po's, black ones too, gotta un- d e r s t a n d w h e r e w e c o mi n g from. TJ Rangel BoysHarlem, NY
War on black youth? I think its gonna be a race war. Its already a war on us. White people slowly moved up in here on us. We still sleepin'. Use to be a time when they wouldn't come up here to Harlem. That's when things was all run down. Now its built up. They buy- ing into this here. They fixing stuff up for them not us. You see all these cops out here now. You couldn't find a cop back in the days. Them motherfkers waz scared to patrol around here. Whitey wasn't comin' through here pe- riod. Now they wanna come all up in here for the land and the buildings. They pushing us right on out of the picture. We ain't woke up yet. We gotta start coming together. But when they see us rising up, they find all kinds of ways to bring us down. Me and my partners are ready to go to war. Let'em bring it. Raheem Rucker ParkHarlem, NY OPs Bullwhip and Ashanti Alston with NBPs Shaka Shakur and Hannibal X THE EARLY YEARS Minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad, born Harold Moore, Jr. by his parents, blessed this earth on January 12th, 1948 in Houston, Texas. He was the second? of six children to the late Harold Moore, Sr. and Lottie B. Moore. His Aunt Momma Carrie Moore Vann in Houston, Texas reared him. Minister Khallid Muhammad, affectionately known as Butch by the family attended Bruce Elementary School, E. O. Smith Junior High School and all Black Phyllis Wheatley High School in Texas. At Phyllis Wheatley, Brother Khallid was an esteemed member of Stage- crafters, a group of exceptional students where he developed debate and drama skills under direction of Ms. Vernell Lillie. Minister Khallid as a young man would preach to cars from his porch as they passed by on the highway and was president of Houston Methodist Youth Fellowship. Khallid was a star quarterback, team captain of his high school football team, an eagle scout, a class officer and a star debater.
THE CONVERSION Upon graduating high school, our bold and shining Black prince won a scholarship Dillard University in Louisiana to pursue his degree in theological stud- ies. At this time he ministered at Sloan Memorial Methodist Church. While at Dillard University young Khallid first heard Minister Louis Farrahkan, the National Representative of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. He had a big Afro and a huge medal- lion of Malcolm X around his neck. After hearing Minister Farrakhan speak Khallid Abdul Muhammad joined the Nation of Islam under the leadership of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad. Immediately Brother Harold X, as he was known at that time became renown as a top recruiter in the south for the Black Muslims. Dr. Khallid continued his studies and graduated from Pepperdine University in Los Angeles California. He then was the recipient of an academic fellowship, and matriculated to do Intensive Studies at Harvard, Yale, and Columbia Universities. The skills of higher education as well as his fighting spirit made Minister Khallid a valuable weapon to the Nation of Islam and the Black Na- tion in general.
THE EVOLUTION When the Messenger of Allah, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad departed from amongst us in 1975, Minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad kept on fighting. At this time he was known as Dr. Malik Rushaddin. He traveled throughout Africa and trained in revolu- tionary movements with a focus on freeing apart- heid ridden South Africa (Azania) from white oppres- sion. When Minister Farrakhan decided to rebuild the Nation of Islam in 1978. Minister Khallid was right there with him when there were just a few. Minister Khallid Muhammad served as western re- gional minister of the Nation of Islam and leader of Mosque #27, which made lightning progress under his leadership. In 1983 Minister Louis Farrakhan named him Khallid, which has the historical inter- pretation of great warrior after the great follower of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) Khallid ibn Walid. Like this great Islamic general Khallid Muhammad was called the sword of Allah..
Minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad was soon ap- pointed as Supreme Captain over the military in the Nation of Islam. In 1985 Minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad was appointed National Spokesman and Representative of Minister Louis Farrakhan, following in the footsteps of Minister Farrakhan and Malcolm X. At other points he also served the posts of Southern Regional Minister, Minister of Mosque #7 in Harlem, New York City, and National Assistant.
A true Pan-Afrikanist, Minister Khallid Muhammad has traveled on research and fact-finding missions to Kemet (Egypt) Jerusalem, South Afrika and throughout the African sub continent. He made his sacred pilgrimage to the Holy City, Mecca, numerous times. He has earned the title El Hajj Khallid Abdul Muhammad. Minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad was the creator and founder of The New African Cultural Holiday alternative to Thanksgiving called GYE NYAME (G-NY-MAY). Black youth and gang mem- bers loved Dr. Khallid. You have heard this dynamic soldier on rap albums from Tupac Shakur, Ice Cube, Sista Souljah, X-Clan, Public Enemy, Scarface, Shaquille ONeill, Eryka Badu, Lauryn Hill, Dead Prez, Capone N Noreaga and the Black Lyrical Terrorist. Dynamic fiery, explosive, electrifying, spellbinding! He has fired up and inspired audiences at over 100 universities in the United States, Africa, Europe and the world. He spoke at many churches and served as a minister at the 1st Afrocentric Temple in Atlanta, Georgia before his transition to the ancestors.
THE CONTROVERSY After his historic lecture on November 29, 1993 at Kean College in Union, New Jersey which shook the racist, Zionist, imperialist, white supremacist founda- tion of the world, the President of the United States and Vice President Gore condemned Dr. Khallid Muhammad. The United States Senate voted 97-0 to censure him. Minister Khallid and Minister Louis Farrahkan are the only two in history to be cen- sured by the U.S. Senate. And for the first time in history, The United States House of Representatives (The Full Congress) in a special session passed House Resolution 343 condemning a so called pri- vate citizen. At historic Howard University in 1994 Khallid Muhammad keynoted the world wide-watched Black Holocaust conference with Dr. Leonard Jeffries, Dr. Tony Martin and convened by then student organizer Malik Zulu Shabazz. These events shook the world but Khallid Muhammad did not break under the pressure. In May, 1994 an assassination attempt was made on his life. Khallid Muhammad was blessed to recover and fight with even more vigor and intensity. He spoke at many churches and served as a minister at the 1st Afrocentric Temple in Atlanta, Georgia before his transition to the ancestors.
THE FINAL VICTORIES In 1998, Minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad led an armed militant group of New Black Panther mem- bers into Jasper Texas to chase out the Klu Klux Klan who were making a mockery of the beheading and dragging death of brother James Byrd. On Sept 5th, 1998, he was the convener of the Million Youth March Black Power Rally, held on Malcolm X Blvd in New York. With the help of the December 12th Movement, the Million Youth March won historic legal battles against the racist Guiliani administra- tion over free speech constitutional rights. The Million Youth March went forward and the streets of Harlem were flooded with throngs of Black youth and people who supported this massive Black Power revival.
In 1998 Dr. Khallid Muhammad was chosen to serve as The National Chairman of The New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Chapters have sprouted na- tionwide. He leaves intact his National Spokes- manAttorney Malik Zulu Shabazz; National Assis- tantHashim Nzinga; National Chief of Staff Malikah Muhammad; National Minister of Defense Brother David Foreman; National Minister of Infor- mationMinister Quannell X; National Southern Regional RepresentativeSister Zoirada Higgenbot- hom; National Field MarshallMinister Malik Sha- bazz. The New Black Panther Party is alive and well with chapters thriving throughout the country. Dr. Khallids vision of a Black Power Movement shall live on!!!
THE TRANSITION AND LEGACY Minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad leaves to cherish his memories; his wife, Queen Nefertari Muhammad, three sisters; Gloria Glenn from Los Angeles, Cynthia Moore Kelly from Los Angeles, KaShelia Moore Jack- son from Houston, Texas; two brothers, Frank Moore Claybourne from Los Angeles, Darington Moore Smith from Los Angeles; father-in-law, Mr. Thomas Ambush of Cedric, Maryland; his children, David and mother Mattie Morris Van, Khalfani and mother Mahasin Rushiddin, and Farrakhan Khallid, Malik, Kiki, Amir, Ali and mother Khallidah Muhammad; four grand- children and a host of nieces, nephews, friends, and comrades.
BLACK POWER OBITUARY Today we gather to celebrate the courageous life, and fighting spirit of a true soldier and warrior. Minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad was a general, a mentor, a teacher, and a strong Black man who epitomized the tenacity of our liberation struggle. Minister Khallid Abdul Muhammad represented to many of us a father, brother, comrade, trainer and uncompromising leader who lived and gave his life for the liberation of Afrikan people all over the world. He stands in the great revolutionary line of divine with courageous Afrikan Ancestors like Nat Turner, Sojourner Truth, Denmark Vessey, Kwame Nkrumah, Queen Nzingha, Marcus Garvey, Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, Huey P. Newton, Kwame Toure, Louis Farrakhan and many others who organ- ized to free our people from a wicked and cruel enemy. He was proud, strong, dignified, and a man of great character, with a beautiful heart. He loved his people and fought day and night to move us closer to victory over our enemies. He will be remembered as a great field marshal, captain, trainer of men, and one who would not turn heels and run from our enemy- even when under fire. AUGUST 2006 Once again the tragedy of oppres- sive white supremacist state vio- lence has reared its ugly head in the world. George W. Bush, the President of the United Snakes of America, concocted a phony war against Saddam Husseins Iraq in order to seize Iraqs vast oil re- serves and solidify U.S. hegemony in the middle east/Persian Gulf re- gion. The Bush Doctrine bel- ligerently introduced into the world the dangerous notion of preemptive strikes- allowing a nation to use total force and destruction against another nation that has been falsely labeled as a threat. As a result, hundreds of thou- sands are dying and the world has spun into a sick, medieval pattern of brute force as a method to settle grievances. The State of Is- rael, taking its cue and blessing from its Zionist controlled sister in Washington, launched an all out terror attack on the civilian popula- tion and infrastructure of Lebanon, alleging the necessity to neutralize Hezbollah and guarantee the se- curity of Israel. Our position is that the bloody Zionist State of Israel deserves no security, and shall have no security after stealing the land of Palestine from the Pales- tinians and continuing to operate as rouge, terrorist state that inflicts holocaust on the Palestinians and its neighbors. When Adolf Hitler invaded Poland in 1939 and France in 1940, did he burn War- saw and Paris? History shall re- cord that the savage, cowardly and brutal attack of Israel on Lebanon was much worse than the Nazi regimes efforts at the on- set of World War II. THE WORLD IS AT WAR! Africa is barely surviv- ing and being carved up for the next 400 years of exploitation and prostitution by the white, western nations of this world. Black youth continue to suffer violence, poor education, lack of parenting, com- munity resources, and are there- fore either being incarcerated, bur- ied or cremated. WE ARE AT WAR! This is a call to the Black Man and Black Woman to man your battle stations with zeal and tenacity. Dont be a fly on the wall at this critical juncture in history, but make your mark as one who helped bring the White Mans false world of imperialism, Zi- onism, racism and fascism to its well deserved, divine end. Man your battle stations, for the front line in the Black Na- tion is full of challenges and the dead must be raised from their mental graves by the thousands. We say ARM YOURSELF OR HARM YOURSELF. POWER TO THE PEOPLE, AND DEATH TO THE FACIST PIGS!
A Black Panther does not work with the Police- PERIOD! A Black Pan- ther does not act as a slave catcher who runs ar ound capt ur i ng wanted suspects for the local police or Sheriffs department, trying to o b t a i n REWARD MONEY by openly helping the pig to fill the jails with young Black men. Panthers do not work with Pigs-Period! Anyone who runs around like a low down dog, or a whore for the media, attempting to turn over our poor brothers and sisters to the police must not be allowed to represent the Black Panther in any shape or form. The legacy of the Panther is too strong and firm to allow any opportunistic negro to tarnish the stellar revolutionary reputation of the Pan- ther. Some negroes want to be policeman so bad that they help capture Black men who have boldly shot at the police. This is an out- rage! While we may de- bate the merits of so- cialism, nationalism, in- ternationalism, commu- nalism and the like- one thing we are firm on is that the Panther and the Pig do not mix. This is a warning to any of you who want to be po- liceman: Please go and join the police force be- cause all police agents, slave-catchers, bounty hunters, media whores, snitches will be dealt with in the year 2007. Page 16 President Fidel Castro Korean activists protest by burn- ing an American flag and an im- age of Bush in effigy. Warning Flares from the Peninsula The end of Americas satanic reign as one of the worlds most notorious oppressors is draw- ing near. Again and again we see acts of defi- ance as people from all over the world chal- lenge the power of the U.S. On July 4th, the white Americans Inde- pendence Day, while the average American watched fireworks, the North Korean people witnessed quite a different explosion. Kim Jong-Il, North Koreas leader, approved the deployment of seven missiles, which were a part of a group of long range missiles called the Taepodong. Is there any coincidence that bal- listic testing took place on that day, or that the number of missiles (seven) is the same number revered in many traditions as a prophetic, and sacred number? Perhaps this is the precursor to a divine manifestation. Throughout the annals of time, the Creator has consistently used what is righteous, no matter the size or apparent capability, to de- stroy that which is evil. The Creator has al- ways stood on the side of the oppressed. The people of North Korea have been shunned by nations like the U.S. especially since the time of the Red Scare, where anti-communist senti- ment led to the stripping of civil liberties and the U.S. support for South Korea in the Korean War. General Kang Ho Sop of the North Korean Army tells a much more probable version of this war. He has said that America initiated the Korean War, not North Korea as most histori- cal accounts record. He and many others know that American imperialists had ambitions to conquer the Asian world and they sought to use the Korean peninsula as a springboard for this crusade. To begin, the American forces would have to occupy North Korea, hence the start of the Korean War. Present Day Reality The world now knows that North Korea has the intelligence to strike the U.S. Neither U.S. military occupation nor the threat of sanctions against the North Korean province kept it from remaining on task with their nuclear weapons program. They continue to reprocess pluto- nium and they also continue to sell arms to Americas enemies. Now the only difference is that they have the ability to move nuclear arms to American opposition as well. In response to these developments, the U.S. is developing a missile defense system, but it is doubtful that this is enough to stop the collapse of the American empire. U.S. Stalls Korean Unity For decades there has been a U.S. military presence in South Korea, particularly since the Korean War. This military presence has fur- ther intensified the strain between northern and southern sections of the peninsula. In or- der to reunite the two regions the Sunshine Policy was implemented in 1998 by South Ko- reas President Kim Dae Jung, against the ad- vice of the U.S. South Korea wanted to move away from tactics to isolate and contain North Korea in order to foster reform. This led to the two Korean leaders meeting in Pyongyang in 2000, earning Jung a Nobel Peace Prize. The South Korean government believed that to attempt to bring down a government through political pressure and containment has never succeeded. These were the methods en- couraged by the U.S., as these were the policies used toward Cuba, Libya, and Iraq. These types of efforts will only move the North to fortify its arms program. Continued Page 30
Sign found in shop in Seoul, South Korea. Medical student with patient. The people of Cuba have extended, to students from the US, the opportunity to study medicine on a full scholarship at the prestig- ious Latin American School of Medicine in Havana, Cuba. IFCO/Pastors for Peace coordinate this pro- gram in the United States. The Medical School cur- riculum includes a 12-week intensive Spanish language program for those who need it. The program of The Latin American School of Medical Sciences is based on intensive advising and tutoring designed to help every student succeed. Stu- dents must pass compe- tency exams at appropriate points in their course of study. The six-year medical school program, begins every September and is di- vided into 12 semesters. Students study at the LASMS campus for the first two years, and then go to another of Cuba's 21 medi- cal schools to complete their studies. The Cuban medical training model combines theory and prac- tice and is oriented toward primary care, community medicine and hands-on internships. Facilities The LASMS is located in a former naval academy. This campus has 28 build- ing which house 80 class- rooms, 37 laboratories, five amphitheaters, dormitories, an infirmary, and other fa- cilities. The Latin American School of Medical Sciences currently has 3,432 stu- dents enrolled from 23 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa. Extracurricular activities include arts, sports, film, disco, the beach, and regu- lar "Culture House" activi- ties in which the students - who represent dozens of different ethnic groups - share aspects of their own cultures. Applicants should: be US citizens, be between the ages of 18 and 30 at the time of registration, be physically and mentally fit, come from the humblest and neediest communities in the US, and be commit- ted to practice medicine in poor and under served US communities after gradua- tion. Applicants will be pre- screened. Final decisions about admissions will be made by a committee rep- resenting the Cuban Minis- try of Public Health and the faculty of The LASMS. Background During a Congressional Black Caucus delegation to Cuba, organi zed by IFCO/Pastors for Peace, caucus representative Bennie G. Thompson, a Congressman from the Mis- sissippi Delta, remarked to President Fidel Castro that there are large areas in his district which do not have a single physician. Presi- dent Castro responded with an offer of full scholarships for students from impover- ished regions of the US to study medicine in Cuba. This offer was intended to be more than a short-term solution. It is the beginning of the creating of a heath care infrastructure for Continued Page 32 Page 17 NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY NATIONAL CHAIRMAN, DR. MALIK ZULU SHABAZZ, TAKES THE HOT SEAT AND FIELDS THE TOUGH QUESTIONS IN RELATION TO THE NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY, AND THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN. BP NEWS: AS CHAIRMAN OF THE NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT YOUR POSITION AND THE PARTY
SHABAZZ: I know for a fact that a lot has been accomplished, and a lot more progress must be made. I have been serving as Chair- man for over five years now and a lot of sacri- fices and progress have been made. I have traveled and organized for the benefit of the NBPP, and the masses of Black People, to a litany of cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Milwau- kee, St. Louis, Boston, Rhode New York, sev- eral cities in New Jersey, Philadelphia, Colo- rado, Baltimore, Richmond, VA, several cities in North Carolina, Atlanta, Savannah, GA, sev- eral cities in Florida, several cities in Alabama, New Orleans, Dallas, Houston, London Eng- land, The Bahamas, the mighty State of Cuba and a host of college campuses and small towns. I represented us strongly during the Millions More Movement process. I have been blessed to make alliances and connections with a host of National, International, political and spiritual leaders and organizations of all ages. Key battles and campaigns have been waged to defend the interests of Black People around the nation and our national visibility and recognition is high. It is safe to say the New Black Panther Party is on a good track right now and the prognosis for the future is excellent if we will follow the right guidance.
BP NEWS: WHERE DOES THE NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY NEED IMPROVE- MENT?
SHABAZZ: All I can say publicly is that first, the NBPP must effectively distribute, sell, re- distribute and re-sell the NEW BLACK PAN- THER newspaper. Second, the leadership and rank and file must do a better job at sup- porting the National Command in order to in- sure continued National leadership. The hard labor, trials, travels and victories that have been won over the years has benefited the NBPP and the Black Nation and proper re- spect must be given to this kind of unprece- dented leadership if it is to continue. Third, the New Black Panther Party must enhance its REVOLUTIONARY service to the people. WE MUST HAVE MORE PROGRAMS FOR THE PEOPLE, and show the people a living exam- ple of a revolutionary society. In order to serve the people you must relate to the people and that means broadening our approach well be- yond those who are NBPP. We Must Reach The Masses of our People. Fourth, the NBPP must effectively connect and serve our Politi- cal Prisoners and all those who are in need and locked behind bars. Fifth, we must be- come a professional organization in every way. Our political activity, military training, ad- ministrative operations, and human services to the people must be professional, top caliber and enable the NBPP to be a vanguard or- ganization in every way in order for not just some, but ALL BLACK PEOPLE, who want lib- eration will unite with us and vise versa.
BP NEWS: WHAT ARE YOUR OPINIONS IN REGARD TO ISRAELS ATTACK ON LEBA- NON?
SHABAZZ: Israels attack on Lebanon is il- lustrative of the dangerous, destructive and imminent threat that the Zionist State poses to the region and the globe. The State of Israel is no doubt a terrorist state and its malicious kill- ing of over 1,000 Lebanese civilians and ba- bies in Lebanon proves that the terrorist threat coming from Zionist Israel must be degraded and neutralized. One must understand that Is- rael has over 9,000 Lebanese and Palestini- ans held hostage in its unjust, illegal, occupa- tion-driven prisons. Israel has assassinated and captured leaders of Hezbollah, Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and any other group fighting the illegal occupation of Palestine. We are unaware of any international or human rights law that justifies the legal existence of the State of Israel, which is in reality occupied Palestine-stolen from the Palestinians by war- fare in 1948. Israel has launched seventeen offensive attacks against other nation in the re- gion and continues to assault, kill and commit genocide against the Palestinian peoples in the occupied territories, denying them democ- ratic rights, self-determination and sovereignty. The bottom line is that Israel was dead wrong; they achieved none of their military objectives and will continue to pay a high price for these rouge acts of savagery and brutality.
BP NEWS: SO WHO WON THE WAR?
SHABAZZ: Clearly, Hezbollah was the mili- tary victor on the battlefield, killing over 100 Is- raeli soldiers and officers, destroying dozens Israeli tanks, continuing to rocket attack the northern end of the Zionist state, and prevent- ing Israel from securing anything south of the Litani River. Israel killed no more than 30 Hez- bollah Guerrillas, made few arrests and had every military advantage conceivable. All Israel did was bomb civilian apartment buildings from 15,000 feet up like cowards, but they lost on the ground. The brilliance, tenacity and faith of the Hezbollah fighters is a credit and hope to all who battle against Zionism and Im- perialism. Little tenacious Hezbollah, led by its fearless leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, did more damage to Israel than all Arab armies combined in the last 58 years. Israel never achieved its stated military objec- tive, which was to eliminate the rocket threat from southern Lebanon and degrade Hezbol- lah. Hezbollahs rocket power, which is used for self defense, remains in Southern Lebanon and the Lebanese people recognize that Hez- bollah are the only defenders and protectors of Lebanon. All the other bombing that Israel did of Beirut and other civilian areas was nothing more than outright terrorism and murder, which shows the world the true nature of the Zionist State. Many will die in this war to de- feat Zionism and we ask Allahs protection and mercy upon every martyr that was assassi- nated by the Zionist terrorist state in Israeli war on the civilian population and infrastruc- ture of Lebanon. What the states and forces in that region must now do is heavily invest in surface to air missiles, airplanes, drones, artil- lery, longer range missiles, anti-tank missiles and other military technology to properly de- fend themselves and neutralize the military ad- vantage of Israel. All of the oil money should be used to militarily strengthen the immediate states, and forces around Israel and world- wide economic sanctions should be placed on the Zionist entity.
BP NEWS: HOW WAS YOUR TRIP TO CUBA?
SHABAZZ: My trip to Cuba was very enlight- ening. I thank the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan for inviting me on this fact finding delegation. Cuba has a great society that is based on serving the human needs of the peo- ple. If United States sanctions had not been placed on Cuba she would be doing very, very, well by now. Cuba taught me more about so- cialist government and how revolution and revolutionary selflessness is infused in every sector of society. I will have a lot more on this next issue, but it is safe to say that the NBPP has strong relations with Cuba all the way to the top.
The New Black Panther Party has been making interna- tional headway in re- cent months. King Thutmosis Powellthe NBPPs National Minister of Commerce and Dep- uty International Am- bassador for Interna- tional Affairs and the Administrator of the African Nationalist Pioneers Movement has journeyed twice to The Republic of Na- mibia in the name of Pan-Africanism, Prior to becoming The Republic of Na- mibia, the region was called Southwest Af- rica. In the spirit of freedom and inde- pendence, the South- west African Peoples Organization formed. Sam Nujmua was in- strumental in the lib- eration of what is now Namibia and is thus dubbed the Father of the Nation. R e l a t i o n s h i p s formed between free- dom fighters like Jomo Kenyatta, Kwame Nkrumah, Carlos A. Cook, Sam Nujuma, and Thutmosis Powell. Each of these men had one goal in mind revolution. Still today, Powell works to main- tain bonds and con- tinue the movements momentum. During Minister Powells first trip, he traveled as a guest of the government of Namibia, and stayed from January 28th February 7th, He was able to meet with vari- ous National Officials to discuss trade and commerce opportuni- ties for Black people in the U.S. and Namibia. Powell also made use of his time by estab- lishing connections with the people on the Mother continent holding meetings and teaching the ideals of Pan-Africanism. From this the Min- ister successfully es- tabl i shed a co- headquarters there in Namibia, and made arrangements for his subsequent trip. Powell would re- turn to Namibia with a modest delegation from April 30thMay 12th, as guests of the BAM Clan. The Hon- o r a b l e Ma r l e n e Mugunda, BAM s Minister of Gender Equality and Child Welfare, would assist in orchestrating meet- ings between the dele- gation and various Na- mibian Ministers of Trade, Energy and Commerce. These ses- sions fostered progres- sion discussions and p l a ns f o r i m- port/export, as well as harvesting the natural wealth of the country for the benefit of Afri- can people worldwide. As a sign of family love and appreciation, Powell and his accom- panying associates would provide finan- cial assistance for the Namibians HIV/AIDS campaign and the na- tions soccer team ex- penses. Minister Thutmosis Powell has empha- sized the need for con- tinued diplomacy, and more importantly ac- tion on the part of all freedom fighters with plans for true revolu- tions. He has a deep understanding inter- national connected- ness of Africans, and has witnessed and continues to harvest the fruit of Pan- African practices. NBPP in The Gambia The UK Chair- man, Hughie Rose who was recently ap- pointed the Interna- tional Ambassador for the NBPP has traveled from the UK to The Gambia 3 times within 6 weeks. The first mis- sion included a 40 strong delegation to the Historic Roots Homecoming festival 2nd 9th June 06, where he was joined by NBPP National Spokesman, Minister Yusef Shabazz. Minister Shabazz made a strong pres- ence in The Gambia, as he successfully re- layed the mission and goals of the NBPP to the people of The Gambia, and give an accurate assessment of the movement in the U.S. He was able to clearly interpret the NBPPs role in the revolutionary move- ment, in turn helping to bolster the Black Power Movement in the region. During the second trip to The Gambia, Hughie Rose gathered intelligence from the 7th African Union Summit June 25th July 2nd. While there he successfully re- established the inter- national links that had been established by the Original Black Panther Party . Hughie was hon- ored to be part of the closed sessions that were held where the African Head of States brainstormed on re- gional integration, mi- gration, UN reforms and a host of other issues facing the conti- nent. Speaking on the theme: Regional Inte- gration and Rationali- zation of Regional Economies at the opening ceremony of the Summit, President of The Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, pointed out the imperative of re- gional integration, say- ing it is compelling not just in the areas of economics and trade, but it is equally valid in the area of peace and security that we all so cherish and on which our very sur- vival as a people de- pends. President Jammeh stated the theme of the Summit resonates the gestation of the ideol- o g y o f P a n - Africanism. President Chavez of Venezuela and Presi- dent Ahmed Inejad of Iran were specially invited guests of Presi- dent Jammeh, and given rapturous ap- plauses during their speeches. At one point during the Iranian Presidents speech, the communication sys- tem was interrupted for long period of time. Some say it was sabotaged by CIA sur- veillance monitors. Overall the African Union was a success and The New Black Panther Party will be seeking a more inclu- sive role within the African Union and the Pan-African Parlia- ment. There are opportu- nities opening up in Africa for trade, in- vestment and land. It is a fool whose own tomatoes are sold to him, so let us take ad- vantage of what we have been blessed with so that we may rebuild the African Nation.
By Angela Graham and Rahmeena Quadir BISMILLAHIR-RAHMAANIR- RAHEEM A Revolutionary can never team up with his open enemy, especially not, if hes still in captiv- ity. I thank Allah (SWTA) for the Honorable Prophet Nat Turner who was born in South Hampton, Virginia in 1800, and showed signs of his prophethood in child- hood. He believed as I believe and know that he was missioned by Allah to lead Black People out of Slavery, and were not quite out today. The reason is because we have been in denial of Our Prophet and Our Revo- lution. There is no reason to be afraid of our divine destiny and I have yet to understand why you are afraid. He (the white man) has never apolo- gized for his revolution to the bloody brits and they were bloodied up by these 13 little colonies with no army, no navy and very few sharp shooters. The bloody brits bowed down and surrendered to the colonizers because of one major factor; the benefits they have received from The Black Planta- tion Slavery. What can we learn from this? In order to make our enemy concede to our revolution, we must make him aware that there is a chance he will benefit by the even slimmer chance of keeping his life. After all, the only language the devil understands is that of violence and mayhem. Revolutionaries dont collaborate with the enemy. Its outrageous that anyone claiming to be a revolutionary would do this today and claim to have teamed up with the Honorable Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad and Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz. False Patriotism Can Not and Will Not Overshadow The Black Revolution. Out of all of our thought processes after Allah (SWTA), the strongest conscience thought is The Black Revolution, which is complete and constructive change for, by and with Black People. Believe and follow through. Page 20 By Imam Akbar Bilal, NBPP National Minister of Justice Chairman Hughie Rose with President Mbeki. National Spokesman Yusef Shabazz galvanizing support in The Gambian. By Robert WAR Williams West Regional Rep, NBPP Due to the re- cent rash of violent acts in Newark, New Jersey we felt the need to address this issue. First and foremost, we the New Black Panther Party for Self- Defense want an end to Black-on- Black violence, as stated in our Ten- Point Program and Platform. With that said, the issues sur- rounding the recent shootings have not been addressed. The mere fact that an argument at a basketball game could lead to some- one getting shot or killed is a strong indicator of some- thing that is deeply troubling the Black community. There has been much focus on Mayor-Elect Cory Bookers plan to take over hot spot high crime areas by deploying dozens more police officers to the streets, a re- actionary response. It may reduce gun violence in those areas targeted, but only for a short time. The problem is displaced aggres- sion aimed at some- one or something that is despised. Here that someone is oneself. Self- hatred is at the root of these high levels of Black-on-Black violence. Further- more, Black-on- Black violence is a direct result of feel- ings of emascula- tionbeing de- prived of ones manhood. When you con- sider the fact that a Black man who has a college degree will earn less in his lifetime than a white man who only has a high school diploma, it is e ma s c u l a t i o n . When Black males only make up 8% of the public school population, but are 34% of the special education popula- tion in public schools, this is e ma s c u l a t i o n . When you consider the fact that white men buy, sell, and use 80% of all ille- gal drugs including cocaine, heroin, and marijuana, but Black men are ar- rested and impris- oned for 80% of the drug offenses, this is emasculation. Then, in New Jer- sey Black men comprise 13% of the population, but make up 74% of the prison population. This again is emas- culation. Facing these facts is extremely difficult because the enemy is un- seen. Given those statistics it could be argued that Black men do these things to them- selves. However, this line of thinking ignores the laws white men have used to emasculate Black men. There was a time when a Black man could not look a white man in the face, because he could be l y n c h e d f o r reckless eyeball- ing. This is why Black men displace their aggression. An uns een enemy turns the man right in front of you into y o u r e n e my . Whi t e- on- Bl ack violence that leads to feelings of emas- culation One rem- edy is Self Love. Love of self comes from Self Knowl- edge. If Black men are not being taught to love self, they cannot love each other.
NBPP Newark, NJ By Min. Najee S. Muhammad National Field Marshal, NBPP Black Power means constructive changes and the complete emancipa- tion of Black People from white oppression. What are the meth- ods? Boycotting, march- ing, or even G-d damn rebellion! Black Power means Black freedom, Black self-determination, wherein Black people no longer view themselves as without human dig- nity, but as men, human beings with the ability to carve out their own des- tiny. Is Black Power a form of Black racism? Black hate of white people is not pathological. It is a healthy human reaction to oppression, insult, and terror. There is a desper- ate need for Black theol- ogy teachings. The sole purpose of Black theol- ogy is to apply the free- ing power of the gospel to Black people under white oppression. The Black man was shackled in hostility without any power to make the white man rec- ognize him as a person. The Black church was the creation of a Black people whose daily exis- tence was an encounter with the overwhelming and brutalizing reality of the G-d damn white man. Their responses to this overwhelming fact ranged from suicide to outright rebellion and killing this cracker. Blacks rejected the white interpretation of Christianity and revolu- tionary Black theology moved slaves to take up arms against the white world. It was during the vi- cious institution of hu- man bondage that the rallying cry for Black unity, freedom and power began. Black Na- tionalism and Pan- African liberation was born. The seeds of Black Nationalism arose during an era when Black men and women rose up re- peatedly in revolt against the institution of slavery. It under the leadership of Touissant LOverture, Jean-Jaques Dessalines, Gabriel Prosser and Den- mark Vessey. David Wa l k e r s f a mo u s Walkers Appeal de- manded that Blacks eve- rywhere take up arms against slavery. He stated, Look upon your children and answer God almighty and believe this, that it is no more harm for you to kill a man, who is trying to kill you, than it is for you to take a drink of water when thirsty. Our early freedom fighters should motivate us. Embracing a true interpretation of Black Theology will guide us. Page 21 As the Western Regional Repre- sentative, I am announcing the start up of a new chapter in Denver Colorado. Formally the Southern Regional Rep, I packed up and moved to the mile high city of Den- ver. Challenges have always come with the development of the NBPP, as will be the case with the ramp up of a chapter in the city of resort ski- ing and back packing. As I dig in and take note of the conditions of Black folk in Denver I see much of the same thing, just from a different view. I gathered Intel on the city dur- ing a June-teenth celebration in Denver. The event was sponsored by companies like Budweiser beer and I got my first taste of seeing Denvers mixed couples; Black and white delusional folks eating water- melon and showing off there inter- racial babies like a token of We Have Overcome. However, I con- tinued working to recruit member- ship until I touched down in the historic Black area called 5 Points. In July it was the Black Arts Fes- tival. One of the main sponsors was the Gay and Lesbian Fund for Colo- rado, so once again progress must be made. Our people must stay away from mixing Gay Pride with Black Pride. Since coming to Denver a central committee body was immediately formed, appointing a Minister of Kulture, Sis. Sekhmet, and a Minis- ter of Information, Bro RaEl. Two of our other members, Bro. Curtis and Bro. Willie, Denver natives that practice Economic Black Power; from The Nubian Imports Store, also became a part of the solution. This city has some special needs that must be focused on. The lack of oxygen at these heights has caused some mysterious perspectives to take form. But we have a plan and are prepared to fight. So without further pause Denver has braced itself for WAR. For more information on the Denver Chapter or the Western Re- gion, contact Bro. Robert WAR Williams at: 720-435-6343 or visit The Nubian Imports Store located at: 2741 Welton St. Denver, Colo- rado 80205. By Idris McCray President Bush, in his fiscal budget for the federal 2006-2007 year that commences on October 1, 2006, proposes to cut an overwhelming 48 US Department of Education programs. This $2.7 trillion budget is a blueprint of the Bushs priorities and plans. To evaluate an administration, we must examine its budgets. George Bush terminated a total of 99 programs in his 2006 budget. The Education Programs alone account for a savings of $4.3 billion. He wants to replace those with new initiatives costing $2.3 billion. $1.5 billion will go to police and punish high schools hold them "accountable" for teaching and providing "intervention" for "non-performing" students. He also plans to give teachers business-style bonuses of $500 million to improve test scores. The remaining $300 million will be invested in high-end academics as Advanced Placement (AP) and International Bacca- laureate (IB) courses, and a Math/Science Partnership" program. Such programs give an unfair advantage to wealthier schools and districts, and upper middle-class families. Students on AP and IB tracks are segregated into better courses and facilities than mainstream students; like a two-tier social class system. Following his trend in domestic plan- ning, Bush's education budget provide more funds for wealthier students, while taking educational opportunities and assistance away from poor, disabled and immigrant students. Some of the US Department of Education Programs that have been proposed for termination by Bush in 2006-2007 are listed below. Page 22 Educational Technology State Grants, $272 million: assists states in generating and using accurate and timely data to meet fed- eral reporting requirements, and facilitate research needed to eliminate achievement gaps and improve learning of all stu- dents. Even Start, $99 million: designed to improve the literacy of aca- demic achievement of young children and their low-income families. High School Programs Vocational Education State Grants, $1,182 million: aims to de- velop the academic, vocational, and technical skills of students who elect to enroll in vocational and technical programs. Vocational Education National Programs, $9 million Upward Bound, $311 million: provides support to high school- ers from low-income families and to low-income first- generation military veterans to succeed in pre-college perform- ance. GEAR UP, $303 million: designed to increase the number of low-income students who are prepared to enter and succeed in college; GEAR UP funds are also used to provide college schol- arships to low-income students. Talent Search, $145 million: aims at increasing number of dis- advantaged youth to complete high school and attend college Tech Prep Education Program, $105 million: hailed by the Edu- cation Department website as "a significant innovation in the education reform movement in the United States....Tech Prep is an important school-to-work transition strategy, helping all students make the connection between school and employ- ment." Smaller Learning Communities, $94 million: plan, implement or expand smaller learning communities in large high schools, and includes parents, community-based organizations and other community members in the activities of the smaller learning communities. This program was established by the No Child Left Behind Act in 2002. Safe and Drug-Free Schools, $347 million: includes the widely- praised DARE program. Elementary and Secondary Education Programs Parental Information and Resource Centers, $40 million: assists parents whose children attend schools identified for improve- ments or corrections by the No Child Left Behind Act. Arts in Education, $35 million: development of programs de- signed to improve or expand arts education (music, art, theater, dance) in elementary or middle school curricula. Elementary and Secondary School Counseling, $35 million: es- tablishes or expands elementary and high school counseling programs, especially for schools with the greatest need for new and additional counseling services, and the most promising and innovative approaches. Alcohol Abuse Reduction, $32 million: aims to reduce alcohol abuse among secondary school students. Civic Education, $29 million: programs in character, civics, and correctional education in elementary and high schools and col- leges. National Writing Project, $22 million: a nationwide, nonprofit educational organization that promotes K-16 teacher training programs in the effective teaching of writing; serves more than 100,000 teachers at approximately 175 sites, and has served over 2 million teachers and administrators since its inception in 1974. Star Schools, $15 million: improved instructions in math, sci- ence and foreign language for disabled, illiterate and disadvan- taged students. School Leadership, $15 million: assists in recruiting, training and retaining principals and assistant principals in low-income areas. Ready to Teach, $11 million: enables eligible schools to de- velop, produce and distribute innovative educational and in- structional digital/video programming. Javits Gifted and Talented Education, $10 million: meets special needs of gifted students who are disabled, disadvantaged and limited-English proficient. Exchanges with Historic Whaling and Trading Partners, $9 mil- lion: supports culturally-based educational activities, intern- ships, apprenticeships and exchanges for Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and children and families of Massachusetts. Comprehensive School Reform, $8 million: designed to increase student achievement by assisting high-poverty and low- achieving public schools with implementing comprehensive reforms that are grounded in scientifically-based research and effective practices. Dropout Prevention Program, $5 million: assists schools with annual dropout rates above their state average to implement effective dropout prevention and re-entry efforts. Mental Health Integration in Schools, $5 million: funds to in- crease student access to high-quality mental health care by de- veloping innovative approaches that link school systems with the local mental health system. Page 23 "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted shall exist within the United States" -13th Amendment Women's Educational Equity, $3 million: promotes educational equity for women and girls through via funding for local imple- mentation of gender-equity policies and practices. Close-Up Fellowships, $1 million: pays for economically- disadvantaged teachers and students, whose families have moved to the US within the last five years, to spend a week in Washington, D.C. attending seminars on government and cur- rent events and meeting with leaders from the three branches of the federal government. Foundations for Learning, $1 million: support projects to help eligible children become ready for school. Excellence in Economic Education, $1 million: promotes eco- nomic and financial literacy among all K-12 students. Higher Education Programs Education Demos for Students with Disabilities, $7 million: to provide assistance and professional development for faculty and administrators in colleges in order to provide students with dis- abilities a quality education. Underground Railroad Program, $2 million: supports research, exhibition, interpretation, and collection of artifacts related to the history of the Underground Railroad. State Grants for Incarcerated Youth Offenders, $23 million: supports vocational and academic achievement to enable effec- tive workplace and community transition for incarcerated youth. Postsecondary Student Financial Assistance Programs Perkins Loan cancellations, $65 million: cancellation of student loans for qualified teachers in schools serving students from low-income families, of students with disabilities, or in the fields of mathematics, science, foreign languages, or bilingual education. Leveraging Educational Assistance Programs, $65 million: LEAP provides need-based grants and community service work-study assistance to eligible college students. Robert Byrd Scholarship Program, $41 million: the only na- tional, merit-based scholarship program funded through the Department of Education. Thurgood Marshall Legal Educational Opportunity, $3 million: aimed at increasing the number of students from low-income and minority backgrounds in law schools; named after the first Black Supreme Court Justice. Vocational Rehabilitation Programs Teacher Quality Enhancement, $60 million: supports partner- ships among teacher preparation institutions, schools of arts and sciences, and local school districts in high-need areas; supports efforts to recruit highly qualified teachers for high-need areas; helps to improve the quality of teaching forces in high-need areas. The Bush 2006 budget proposal, as submitted to Congress, has three main components: (1) Huge tax cuts. The tax cuts are on the personal income of wealthy individuals, and of corporations. These Bush tax cuts will total $1.1 tril- lion over the next decade just for wealthy individuals. New tax breaks for businesses will sum $73 billion over a decade. Tax cuts cause government revenues to decrease. Therefore, there is less to spend. Less income for the government also means less interest earned by the government. These tax cuts would reduce government interest income by $200 billion over ten years. Therefore, even less to spend. (2) Major increases for the Defense and Homeland Security Depart- ments. Total spending for the two departments would be $455.4 billion, of which $421.2 billion is for Donald Rusmfeld's Defense Dept. That's a 4.8% increase for Defense and a 6.8% increase for Homeland Security. Among Defense budget line items funded are $40 billion to build a more lethal nuclear weapons arsenal; $7.8 billion to develop and test the missile defense system; $9.4 billion to build a new generation of war ships; $4.3 billion for F/A-22 Raptor fighters; $5 billion for the new Joint Strike fighter; $3.7 billion for the C-13 military transport; even $3.4 billion spiffy new Army uniforms. And $1.9 billion to close mili- tary bases in the US. The United States uses prison slave labor to cheaply boost its economy. Prison labor is a capi- talists dream; no strikes, union organizing, health benefits, un- employment insurance or work- ers' compensation to pay. Federal safety and health standards do not protect prison labor, nor do the National Labor Relations Board policies. The corporations do not even have to pay minimum wage. In Califor- nia, inmates who work for the Prison Industrial Authority earn wages between 30 and 95 cents per hour before required deduc- tions for restitutions and fines. Prisons are being filled largely with the poor, the mentally ill, people of color, drug addicts and many combinations of these characteristics. They are not re- served for violent people who are extremely dangerous to soci- ety. In California, then-Gov. Pete Wilson signed the "three strikes and you're out" law in 1994. The law states that if an offender has two or more previous serious or violent felony convictions, the mandatory sentence for any new felony conviction is 25 years to life. Though people thought the three strikes law was intended to protect society from dangerous career criminals, the actual en- actment of the law has been dra- matically different. Kendall Cooke was convicted under the three-strikes law f or stealing one can of beer. Eddie Jordan stole a shirt from a JC Penney store, Juan Murro at- tempted to steal wooden pallets from a parking lot and Michael Garcia stole a package of steaks from a grocery store. All of these people are facing life in prison for petty theft. They are fueling the prison industry. Eighty five percent of those sentenced under the law in Cali- fornia faced prison for a nonvio- lent offense. Two years after the law went into effect, there were twice as many people imprisoned under the three strikes law for possession of marijuana as for murder, rape and kidnapping combined. More than 80 percent of those sentenced under the three strikes law are Black and Latino. Corporations are happily us- ing these people for slave labor, which is perfectly legal under the constitution. Almost 2 mil- lion people are now locked away in concentration camps, and mainly because prisons are big business. Federal prisons operate under the trade name Unicor and use their prisoners to make everything from lawn furniture to congressional desks. TWA uses prisoners to make phone reservations. Many corporations, have learned that prison labor can be as profitable as using sweatshop labor in developing nations. So the focus has shifted from building schools to building pris- ons. The government decides how many prisons to build based on how many children can read by 3rd grade. Get involved in your childs education, too many lives were lost to free us from bondage. Dont help volunteer your baby for slavery. A list of state-owned prison industries: http://www.prisonactivist.org/prison-labor/ By Dr. Kaukab Siddique Page 24 This book review of The Syna- gogue of Satan written by Ashahed M. Muhammad, with foreword by Dr. Malik Zulu Shabazz, is pro- duced by Dr. Siddique; an Associ- ate Professor of English at Lincoln University. This book is written for the reader who has little time but wants to know what's really going on in the United States. The infor- mation it contains is undeniable but one wonders why no one else had the courage to mention it. For instance, the writer notes that the Jewish power structure is an essen- tial aspect of White racism in America. Critics of blatant racism are often misled into thinking that this is the domain of overt cults and groups like the KKK or skin- heads. [p.7] The roots of anti-Black racism run deep in the Jewish way of looking at the world, says our au- thor. He points out that the top Jewish philosopher Maimondes [1135-1204 c.e] said that Blacks: "... have among the beings a rank lower than the rank of man, but higher than the rank of apes." [p25] and yet the name of Maimondes is venerated on the portals of American law schools. The Synagogue of Satan dis- cusses the instruments of oppres- sion through which the Jews of America manipulate and control, and where necessary, suppress, the African American people. These instruments include: (1) ADL [Anti-Defamation League ], the Simon Wisenthal Center and the AJC [American Jewish Con- gress]. Their task involves THOUGHT CONTROL by way of coordinated campaigns through their supporters in the media. The ADL has been involved in spying on Black activists. (2) The Corporate Media are heav- ily infiltrated by Zionist Jews. They play like a symphony. One does not need a conspiracy theory to note how each media outlet has a role to play in support of the Jewish agenda. "News is no longer reported. It is filtered and then distributed. The newscasters are not respected for their objectivity and profes- sionalism. They are marketed like actors, actresses and entertainers because that is exactly what they are. They are given a script, and are told to perform the act with little regard for truth." [p.27] (3) Student network Hillel which works for censorship on college campuses across the country. These Jewish students went after Prof. Tony Martin when he asked his class to read a book about the Jewish role in the slave trade. These Hillel activists gather infor- mation on students, professors and student organizations. They were defeated by Prof. Tony Martin's solid scholarship but they often successfully silence critics of Israel and Jewish control. (4) The war lobby and Jewish- Zionist politicians. Most analysts would agree with the author that the Iraq invasion and occupation was a war conceived and imple- mented by Jews in the power structure. This little book has moral power in it and is quite persuasive because of its factuality. Here are three real "eye openers" from the Synagogue of Satan: (1) Liberal politicians have taken Black support so much for granted that Senator Kerry had the gall to go to a Black university and say that "he was not in favor of repara- tions for Black people." The writer asks: "Would Sen. John Kerry dare go to a Jewish School ... and say that he is against restitution for WWII crimes against the Jews?" [p.23] (2) Slightest criticism of Jewish activity is taken as anti-semitism but Jewish executives " have no problem financially backing and distributing music that reduces Black women and men to savage beasts only concerned with having sex and seeking wealth." [p.18] (3) The book has 12 pages of charts listing politicians who have re- ceived money from American Jews supporting Israel. Continued Page 30 Africa, the continent that has major key re- sources to support the worlds political and eco- nomic infrastructure, is still the continent where unem- ployment, absolute hunger, wars, etc. reign. While people of all races, color, creed, and religion try to go back to their roots to sal- vage what is left after years of colonialism, neo- colonialism and continuous resource siphoning, Blacks all over the world fall short of this endeavor. An aver- age wealthy Black outside Africa will prefer to stay out of the woes of Africa and live in isolation to let the motherland rot in per- petuity. Today, a visit to any of the prospering nations of Africa, like Ghana, makes an average Black person cry. All key businesses in these emerging economies are run by foreigners (non- Black). While the whole world has succeeded in making Africa a land of death to most people by way of TV broadcast, it will be surprising to know that a visit to any of the nice hotels in Africa will have full occupancy and the oc- cupants are neither Afri- cans, nor people of African descent. In most cases and places, they are other peo- ple from all over the world; China, Korea, Lebanon, Turkey, India, Germany, England, USA, etc. The question is what are these groups of people doing in Africa? Are they vacation- ing? The simple answer is no. They are all there to make as much money as they can and leave that country worst than they found it. Is there any reason why successful blacks cannot come together like other groups to go and invest in Africa, fix has been ruined and perhaps bring their profit back home to support the communities here?. If the economic model here in the United States makes it difficult for most Blacks to compete, there is always Africa. In most cases, the government of Africa will work with brothers and sisters if they go with a righteous agenda; to think of going to Africa and using the little money in the sys- tem will not work. Last year, Ghana awarded a $1.5 billion housing contract to a Ma- laysian company. Are we saying that we cannot find reputable Black developers here in the US and other parts of the world that can put a plan together to get funding to secure such a project? No, the reason is we are looking at ourselves as successful individuals who expect the United Na- tions and the World Bank to decide the fate of Africa. Have you ever considered who is profiting from all the gold mines in Ghana and South Africa? Has it crossed your mind that Li- beria and the Congo has lots of diamonds? How can you let the villages in Nige- ria be in the shape they are in today while you take huge amounts of oil from their land? The question is, who is mining these prod- ucts and what percentage of the monies retrieved go to support the economic and health issues of the in- digenous people? Take a trip to a place like Obuasi in Ghana (where I happen to come from), one of the richest gold mining towns in the world, and you will weep for the rest of your life. Remember that the govern- ments of Africa are always looking for the person with money to help harness these resources. Why cant we put together teams of qualified and reputable business people that can put their resources together to support the bidding of big projects in the conti- nent? Mining, road con- struction, housing, energy, etc are all powerful areas that need investments. There are well educated and well trained and ex- perienced native Africans in this system and also in Africa that can help make this model work. After all that is all the other folks do, they bring the money and get the bright Africans to get the job done while paying them nothing. Continued Page 32 By Dr. Robert Baffour Page 25 By Min. Hashim Nzinga There's a saying: you don't no what you got until it's gone. When it came to a man who was dedicated to the liberation of Black and oppressed people, Im so glad that saying didnt apply to me. This book is about my relation- ship to The Truth Terrorist, Knowledge Gang- sta, Black History Hit Man, Lie Killa', Urban Guerrilla, The Revolutionary Ruff Neck. I am talking about The Honorable Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad.
It's been 3 years and six months since my friend made his divine transition, on February 17, 2001. I have tried to sit down and write about Dr. Khallid a hundred times, but I would have to stop. It forces me to deal with the pain of not having my leader, my teacher here with me. This man that I supported one hundred percent, while knowing whom I had with me on this Earth. I lived to help him spread the truth, and am glad that I would always tell the Minister how much I loved and appreciated him while he lived. It will always give me the greatest sense of honor that he would return the same feelings towards my family and me.
The day the spirit left his body, he truly knew I loved him and I am proud of that fact. But I am even more proud of the words he spoke the last time I saw him In front of his brand new house in Snellville, GA. We had returned from what would end up being his last speaking en- gagement in Harlem, New York, and he told me he loved me, and that he didnt know what he would do without my being there for him. Its true, its what he said. It didnt mean much to me at that hour, nor a year or two later, but its beginning to mean more and more now. Being in a leadership role, on a different level, and carrying on his work, I feel his words now. Knowing how important good friends and good soldiers are, and how much they are needed to do this work. The work of The Liberator, The Freedom Fighter, The Revolutionary.
Picture one day walking and working with one of the greatest black leaders of all time and then in one phone call, your life changes for- ever. Next thing you know, Im walking in a nightmare. My mind tells me its not happen- ing, but Im walking down the stairs of that church leading the Panthers who are carrying the casket of Dr. Khallid A. Muhammad cov- ered with a red black and green flag. We carry his body through the streets of Harlem to a hearse that awaits his body in front of the leg- endary Apollo Theater. On the way riding to the gravesite, that would be the final resting place for the Minsters body, his coffin was rocking back and forth up against the front wall of the hearse. It was as if he was trying to talk to me. I was riding there in the front pas- senger side of the car, thinking about the touching eulogy that our National Spokesman Atty. Malik Zulu Shabazz had delivered on the life of our leader. I was really feeling his pain. He took on a task that I would have not been strong enough to do on that day. It was a cold gray day, and the driver had jazz playing on the radio. I will never forget anything about that day, or the feeling of emptiness that came over me. I knew that I would shortly be leav- ing the man that meant so much to me, and millions of people all around the world at his final place of rest. The 40-minute ride in my mind took days.
As the car was rounding the cemetery, and I saw the people waiting on us to put my main mans body in a hole, I started to get really mad. These Jews were there, waiting to re- ceive him. I was not about to let that happen. They were out there in the snow telling us be- cause of insurance reasons they had to handle the Ministers body from the Hurst to the gravesite, and that they also had to cover it with a back hole digger, that would push the dirt over him. But on that day I would have killed one of those crackers. I told them they had better get the hell on, and don't even try to come too close to where we were.
Dr. Khallid Abdul Muhammad, just like Bro. Malcolm X some 36 years before in 1965 would be buried at Ferncliff Cemetery in up state New York. Khallid would be buried not even a stones throw away from Brother Malcolms resting place. We would follow the example of Bro. Malcolms followers, which means the Ministers body would be covered by the hands of his soldierswe, The New Black Panther Party, and friends. Looking at the people as we were leaving the gravesite, I knew on that day that Black people all over the world had lost their right hand man. The voice that we all could count on...the one man that we would never have to worry about selling us out.
I guess it would be best if I start from the be- ginning, then you will understand where Im coming from. The year was 1994. I knew this man had to be something special, because I stood there at the DFW airport, and watched the FOI from Dallas Mosque #48 and Fort Worth, Texas Mosque #54 almost get into a fist fight over which car was going to carry the Minister to his Hotel in downtown Fort Worth. I was over an organization called (M.A.A.T) Metropolitan African American Think-tank, and we were bringing The Min- ster in to speak. I had never heard of this Man, never saw a tape nor heard a speech, at that time I only knew of Minister Louis Farrakhan. The Minister of Mosque #54 Delane X, (who by the way won the battle over who was going to take the Minister to his hotel) got me on the phone with Minister Khallid. I will never for- get that call. We were riding in my car, and Bro. Delane dialed up Dr. Khallid and after two rings he answered, and in his deep voice said: Yes can I help you. As-Salaam Alaikum Sir! was Bro Delaneys response, and then a Wa- laikum Salaam, can you hear me, can you hear me brother? Yes I can hear you sir, its Brother Delane X out here in Fort Worth, Texas; Dr. Khallid cut him off: look Brother, Im getting on a plane call me back in Two hours. OK Doc.. We called Dr. Khallid back after about 3 hours, and I told him who I was and a little bit about my organization, and we wanted him to come to Texas and speak the next month which was in April. From the sound of his voice he liked what he had heard, and he told us to get in touch with a sister in New York who handled his schedule. Her name at this time slips my memory, but we called her and booked the speaking engage- ment.
Well back to the DFW Airport, where it was time for me to meet the Minister. He came off the plane, and still to this day I have never seen anything look like what I saw that day. A Black, Bald Headed man that had on a white shirt and black suit with a red, black and green bow tie. He looked as if he could say the word and a war would have started. He greeted the FOI and the Hosting Minister, Bro. Delane X. Then he said: Where is Bro. Steve Washing- ton? (Which was my name at that time). We shared the Muslim greeting, and to say the least, I was very impressed with the man and feared himsomewhat. He told me how glad he was to be back in his birth state and thanked me for bringing him. They lead him to the pressroom that was packed with reporters from T.V and radio stations. I witnessed someone who manhandled the press. I never saw the press back down like I saw them do that day. It took my mind back to the man himself Malcolm X.
We got the Presidential Suite for him at a ho- tel in downtown Fort Worth Texas. It was the same room where the President John F. Ken- nedy of the United States slept his last night before he was assassinated in Dallas, Texas in 1963. The irony of this president being the reason for Malcolms suspension from the Na- tion of Islam could not escape me as I stood there looking at the modern day Malcolm in Continued Page 31 said it was one of the best he had stayed in. It Excerpt taken from forthcoming book entitled Missing a Friend Dr. Muhammad and Min. Nzinga The arrest of seven men in Miami last month on spe- ci ous t errori sm c ha r g es s mel l s strongly like a case of governmental entrap- ment. The men, six of whom are of Hai- tian descent, alleg- edly planned to blow up various targets including government buildings and the Sears Tower in Chi- cagobut officials found no plans, ex- plosives or any equipment whatso- ever that could be used to effect the plot. In fact, the FBI informant who infil- trated the group pos- ing as an al-Qaeda representative is the one who initiated the idea of blowing up government build- ings. The seven men are charged with two counts of conspiring to support a foreign terrorist organiza- tion, one count of conspiring to destroy buildings by use of explosives and one count of conspiring to wage war against the government. The indictment contains no indica- tion of an overt criminal act, except swearing an oath of loyalty to al-Qaeda, and taking pictures of FBI headquarters in Miami. The plot was more aspirational than operational, said FBI Deputy Di- rector John Pistole at a news conference announcing the mens arrest. In other words, the men com- mitted a thought crime, the infamous offense lampooned in George Orwells novel 1984, which the U.S. Constitution protects us against. Even worse, an agent provocateur i m- planted the thought. The seven men are Narseal Batiste, Patrick Abraham, St anl ey Phanor, Naudimar Herrera, Burson Augustin, Ly- glenson Lemorin and Rothschild Augustine, and they range in age from 22 to 32. Ba- tiste, 32, is the groups ringleader. Family members and friends say the men were part of a group seeking to better conditions in their impoverished Liberty City neighborhood and had no connec- tion to al-Qaeda. By making the connection, the Bush administration is con- flating the activities of those fighting the legacy of slavery with those struggling in colonialisms wake. This is not a random linkage; Mike Brooks, a law enforcement analyst for CNN, revealed on the June 22 edi t i on of Anderson Cooper 360 that, on June 13, the FBI, Depart- ment of Homeland Security, put out a call, an information bulletin, Black Sepa- ratism a Volatile Mo v e me n t o f NodeNode of Do- mestic Radicaliza- tion. Accordi ng to Brooks, the bulletin named the Nation of Islam, New Black Panther Party, the New Black Panther Nation and Five Per- centers as groups of current concern to law enforcement. The focus on black nationalists is a re- prise of the FBIs in- famous COINTEL- PRO program that ran from 1956 to 1971 and was de- signed to neutralize black nationalists and other domestic dissi- dents. The program was discontinued in 1971, after a Senate com- mittee found that many of the tech- niques used would be intolerable in a de- mocratic society even if all the targets had been involved in violent activity, but COINTELPRO went far beyond that. The U.S. govern- ment historically has regarded Black Na- tionalism as a threat because it challenges the white suprema- cist biases that frame much of American society. Some nationalists also infused Islamic imagery and termi- nology into their programs to coun- terpoint what many cons i der ed t he enslaving religion of Christianity. Or- ganizations like No- ble Drew Alis Moor- ish Science Temple of America (begun in Newark, N.J., in 1913) and Elijah Mu- hammads Nation of Islam (Detroit, circa 1931) explicitly re- j ected organi zed Christianity. Since self-professed Chris- tians perpetrated the racist oppression suf- fered by black peo- ple, these groups claimed Islamic pedi- gree. But their race- based belief systems bore little resem- blance to mainstream Islam. According to as- sociates, the Miami Seven were acolytes of Alis Moorish Sci- ence Temple, al- though they werent formally affiliated. That distinction did- nt prevent the media from branding them radical Muslims, implying they shared the ideology of al- Qaeda. Ndnsns Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the group, which neighbors said called itself Seas of David, conducted surveil- lance of several fed- eral office buildings in Miami and discussed bombing the Sears Tower in Chicago. He said they took an oath to al-Qaeda and plotted to create an Islamic Army bent on killing all the devils we can. The al-Qaeda im- personator, who, according to the CBS-affiliated televi- sion station in Miami, was a Middle Eastern native seeking U.S. residential status by aiding the FBI, wrote the oath. He also suggested exploding the FBI buildings, supplied the camera and rented the vehi- cle to take surveil- lance photos of the Miami office. This is a case of governmental entrap- ment, even more threatening than the NSA spying program. Predi ctabl y, the American people, even progressives, seem oblivious to this threat. African- Americans should be particularly vigilant about this COINTEL- PRO re-run in the name of the war on terrorism. By Salim Muwakkil Page 26 Durham, NC - The pre- sent alleged rape case involving members of the Lacrosse team of Duke University has caused a major divide along racial lines in the city of Durham. As a result of the media maligning the character of the rape victim, New Black Pan- ther Party (NBPP) Na- tional Chairman Malik Zulu Shabazz rallied his organization, local lead- ers and residents to take a stand against the in- justice surrounding this heated case, and organ- ized a press conference, demonstration and town hall meeting on May 1. As an attorney, he held concerns about the effective prosecu- tion of the case and an- nounced his decision to conduct a private inves- tigation. The history of Duke University is rooted in racism. Racism existed long before we (NBPP) got here. The two de- fendants must be brought to justice and we will accept nothing else! demanded Atty. Shabazz during the press conference held at the Duke campus en- trance on Chapel Drive. We are here to say to our Sister, you need not fear testifying. You have strong support and backing. He then strongly addressed how the vic- tim has been made out to be the criminal in the media. The burden of this case has been put on the victim and they have made the criminals look like the victims. Her past is on trial and that is unjust. But we cannot stand by and do nothing. We (NBPP) are in this for the long run. The atmosphere sur- rounding the case in- tensified with the vic- tim receiving death threats and the NBPP offered personal secu- rity to the rape victim and her family. Adding to this fer- vor, a few days before the demonstration, Duke University Presi- dent Richard Brodhead sent out an email warning students, staff and faculty of the arrival of the group he and others deemed an extremist group who carry guns that will not be allowed to disrupt the campus. Despite such at- tempts by him and the media to drum up fear and tension with this image, residents show- ered the NBPP with love and support for standing up with cour- age. In his press state- ment, Atty. Shabazz presented eight de- mands formulated by members of the Black community of Durham, which included that the defendants in the rape case, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann, be tried and convicted, Continued on Page 33... By Jesse Muhammad Atty, Shabazz with supporters at the rally for the victim. Photo Courtesy of David X Page 27 www.itsabouttimebpp.com November 7 th marks the historic anniversary of the U.S. Army's 761st "Black Panther" Tank Battal- ion entering into combat against the racist and fascist military forces of Nazi Germany. In 1944 the All Black soldiers of this heroic unit used the "Black Panther" as its logo and; backed up it's motto to "Come Out Fighting" by spearheading General George Patton's liberation campaign through europe; which included the famous W.W. II Battle Of The Bulge in France. If not for a combi- nation of the Supreme Allied Com- mander Dwight Eisenhower's poli- tics and good old amerikkkan ra- cism, these "Black Panthers" would not have been put on hold in Aus- tria. A decision which ultimately led to the Russian army entering the German capital of Berlin ahead of the other allied forces. But this is only one of the many examples of our people utilizing the "Black Panther" as a symbol of struggle and resistance to racist european oppression, imperialism, colonial- ism and genocide. In West Afrika during the 1940s the warrior Leopard Secret Society of Bassaland spread fear and terror to the invading euro- pean by dressing in "Black Pan- ther" leopard skins and utilizing steel claws to kill and mutilate white oppressors in what is now known as modern day Nigeria. These Black guerilla attacks also took place during the very same decade by "Black Panther" Leopard Men in Tanganika. Even earlier, during the 30's, the Makanga of Central Afrika and the Anyoto in the Belgian Congo carried out similar "Black Panther" attacks against the european and his "Negro" sellouts. Historically, our people can even go back thousands of years in the Afrikan Motherland to the Nu- bian Goddess Bastet. Because of both her gentle and fierce nature, this "Egyptian Black Panther" was worshipped in the ancient city of Bubastis as a great symbol of the Nubian Kings. Or as Comrade Huey used to say: "the nature of a Black Panther is that it will never attack; but if cornered or provoked then the Black Panther will come up to wipe out the oppressor abso- lutely, totally and completely". Because she epitomized the pro- tective aspects of motherhood, the "Black Panther Goddess Bastet" was honored by the ancient Nubi- ans as the mother of Kings and the protector of the people. As we return to this continent we find that throughout North, Central and South amerikkka that the indigenous people, AKA "Indians", also revered the Black Panther as a respected symbol of spirituality and struggle. First and foremost it must be understood that the color Black is respected and honored by the entire Red Race; and thus the Black Panther is believed to have great medicinal powers for healing. Among Okla- homa's Caddo Nation, which was originally from Louisiana, the Black Panther Clan was also known as the Midnight or Black Jaguar. The Caddo believe that through dreams, the Black Panther teaches us to look inside of our- selves in order to embrace uncom- fortable territory (oppression) through self discovery and; then courageously face the unknown (struggle). More recently, during the United States civil rights era of the 60's, the Black Panther logo con- tinued its legacy as a symbol of struggle against the oppression for our people. First the Black Panther was used as the symbol by the late Kwame Toure (Stokley Carmi- chael) for the Lownes County, Ala- bama Freedom Organization's struggle against racist voter regis- tration attacks by the white minor- ity. That same Black Panther logo was then shortly picked up and adopted by the Oakland, California based Black Panther Party for Self- Defense, which was Co-Founded by Bobby Seal and the late Dr. Huey P. Newton. Since that time the Black Pan- ther has and; always will remain the historic symbol for righteous- ness, liberation, freedom and resis- tance for our people from geno- cidal oppression. Neither the Pitts- burgh or Carolina "Panthers" foot- ball teams can ever change that legacy nor; can the racist courts and fascist laws of the U.S. govern- ment and it's sell out "knee- grows" in the Huey P. Newton Foundation. In the final analysis, the Black Panther symbol cannot be owned by anyone, because it belongs to the people. 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The American Jew Continued from page 13 Some of the most inter- esting entries are politi- cians who are themselves Jews and yet are heavily funded by the Israel lobby to permit them to work out the agenda with maximum financial sup- port. Some of the biggest money went to Arlen Specter, of Pennsylvania, $463,973, and Lieberman, the Jew who led the charge for the war on Iraq, $228,758. Even a newcomer like Barack Obama, a camou- flaged tom, has received $5,000. If this book could be widely distributed in the African American com- munities, it would de- stroy Zionist influence which has been insidi- ously spread by National Public Radio [NPR] and others. The writer gives the example of Minister Farrakhan as a force for the independence and integrity of the African American people. The activism of Dr. Malik Zulu Shabazz, as mani- fested in the New Black Panther Party, in- dicates that strong resis- tance to the synagogue of satan has emerged in the African American com- munities. 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Israel, The Baby Killer Continued from Page 2 figures. Some of the more discreet weapons of ter- rorism were cluster and vacuum bombs, shrapnel, phosphoric and napalm, and booby trapped dolls. If these actions by Sharon, which master- minded the invasion and occupation, were not eth- nic cleansing and very cruel, then you may need to check whether or not you were born with a heart. Israel has always been a sneaky type of country. UN reports stated that in 1982, Maronite Christians supervised and helped by Israeli soldiers killed around 3000 civilians in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Israel was also known to squash cars full of civilians with tanks and bombing houses. In 1973, Israel also shot down a Libyan civilian aircraft over Sinai killing all 106 civilian passengers aboard. Israel also has an obsession of killing Muslims while they practice their faith as shown in one of the more famous cases in 1994 where 50 Arab Mus- lims were killed in the Ibrahimi Mosque in Al- Khalil. Israel has even committed these types of war crimes against its own allies in the past. During the 1967 war, Israel attacked the USS liberty killing 35 soldiers. Israel stated they saw no flag and mistook the ship for an Egyptian ship. The shiny American ship not only looked nothing like the Egyptian ship but flew a large American flag overhead. Israel then made up a phony and flawed testimony about the incident but the US did not buy it. The two notable terrorist actions against the British were the assassination of Lord Mowin in Cairo and the attempted assassination of Sir Harold McMichel in Jerusalem. Zionist terror- ists assassinated or at- tempted to assassinate many high ranking em- ployees of large compa- nies, officers and judges. Zionists are known to hang opponents from trees and electrical poles, perform crucifixions, and blow up the bodies of kidnapped victims with dynamite. Zionism can be equated with Nazism. Not only were their reports of key Zionists meeting with Hitler, but there were also many terrorist acts against European Jews which Zionists be- lieved were sinners and not pure. The Jewish ship Patria was blown up in November of 1940 of the coast of Palestine. The ship was carrying 1,900 illegal Jewish immigrants into Palestine, 240 of which drowned. In 1942, Zionist gangs blew up the Stromanear the shore of Turkey which was carry- ing 770 illegal Jews, all of which drowned. Even today, some modern Zi- onists show their same hatred and cruelty. These are facts. Israel committed these atroci- ties and many more, some personally performed by Sharon himself. To kill civilians for political rea- son is terrorism. The as- sassination of activists is terrorism. The shooting of kids when all they do is throw stones is terror- ism. Israel does not want peace; it wants all the Arabs to leave the land they believe is theirs. Hundreds of kids have been killed by Israel. Vil- lages have been destroyed with dynamite while the inhabitants were asleep inside. Thousands of houses have been bull- dozed over the years, and they call Arabs and Mus- lims terrorists. Helicopters, naval warships, and tanks pound on civilians in vil- lages daily and they call us terrorists. How come no one ever calls some of Israel's unbelievable and vile acts terrorism? Why are we called terrorists because of a few bad ap- ples when Israel's army commits terrorism against us on a daily basis? All they seem to do is kill, but God forbid we throw a stone, we are suddenly labeled as the terrorists. What to North Korea Continued from Page 17 The native people want to cre- ate an environment where all un- derstand that there is only some- thing to gain through the unifica- tion of the peninsula. The major- ity of the Korean people supported these efforts, and the process of healing was quickened by the change in public portrayal of the northern citizens. From this fami- lies have been able to reunite and both regions have benefited, be- coming less dependent on Ameri- can aid. The people now protest Ameri- can military presence, expansion, and involvement in their political and economic affairs. The stu- dents, the working class and many others believe that U.S. presence makes unification impossible. George W. Bush, Jr. referred to North Korea as the axis of evil, an unacceptable, hampering action when viewed in light of the Sun- shine Process. It is not surprising that the U.S. does not take kindly to reform measures and South Ko- reas progression toward independ- ent operations. America profits from divisions within nations, and bias propaganda. Since Bushs statement was made, North Korean officials have said that their hatred for the United States has reached it peak. In fact, General Sop has viv- idly exclaimed his hatred, vowing to kill Americans and live to keep their revolution going. America needs to know and understand that there will be consequences for infringing on the sovereignty a people. These signals are becoming contagious worldwide, and its the one time I hope Black people catch a lethal bug.
Black Children Sentenced Continued from Page 12 Becoming a member in a gang classifies this member as being a part of a security threat group. This classification justifies their serving time in long-term isolation or super-maximum security confinement. Life in long-term isolation usually involves segregating inmates for twenty-three or more hours a day in their cells. Our young Black children grow old and even die in solitary confinement. Statistics will not accurately depict the amount of children being helddo not show an overwhelming amount of chil- dren being held in captivity, because adult facilities do not take into account the number of children being held be- cause they were charged as adults. There- fore, for every child that goes to an adult facility, they are counted as adults when statistical data is calculated. There is a war on Black youth. Many casualties are the result of a lack of un- derstanding of the criminal system that persecutes them. When children are tried in criminal courts, no accommodation is made because of their age. The child must take part in all the same pre-trial and trial procedures and confront all the same de- cisions that adult defendants do. The child alone must decide what to tell the police and defense attorneys, whether or not to follow attorney instructions, tes- tify, give information to the prosecution, and decide between going to trial and accepting a plea bargain. Common mistakes made by our chil- dren is that they: (1) waive their constitu- tional rights and make confessions (including confessions they later said were false); (2) did not recognize bad ad- vice from defense attorneys; (3) were vul- nerable due to little education (including illiteracy); (4) did not understand what was at stake during their trials. No matter what the alleged crime, what are missing are the societal struc- tures to protect our children from making desperate decisions to protect themselves. Survival is instinct, and much of a childs behavior is learned. Violence, material gain and short cuts to success are glori- fied, to the expense of stable families and truly valuable progression. The capitalist, fascist society that masks itself as Amerikkkan democracy has no regard for humanity; therefore, foolishly retaining hope in this system will only lead to dis- appointment. Revolution is the only solu- tion, take responsibility for one another and we will see our Nation rise, never to fall again. Page 30 Missing a Friend Continued from Page 25 the person. Dr. Khallid loved that suite. He said it was one of the best he had stayed in. It was set up where it had four bedrooms two living rooms, a formal dinning room and much, much more. This place being: the Worthton Hotel. We stayed at the hotel for about an hour, then we had to move out and do a radio show. It was the Bob Ray Sanders show. Bob was Black, but his listening audience was about 95% white. It was a show that took me to 1962, when I heard tapes on Min. Malcolm, X dealing with White audi- ences. It was a great radio show.
April 1, 1994, (April Fools Day) in the early evening; I had met this powerful force of a man, Dr. Khallid A. Muham- mad, but now it was time to hear him speak! The place was in Fort Worth, Texas at the Masonic Temple. There were about six to seven hun- dred people in attendance. Security was tight. The F.O.I. moved the Minster very well all day, and it was the first time I had witnessed a black man moved in this manner. The crowed was electrifying right from the start. I would introduce Bro. Delane X and he would have the honor of introducing Min. Khallid. At that time no one could have told me that over the next seven years I would introduce The Honorable Min. Khallid Abdul Muhammad hundreds of times to thousands of peo- ple all over the country. But that night it was Min. De- lanes time. He fired up the crowd as he talked about how Minister Louis Farrakhan had given Khallid his name, and how he was a flamethrower for Min. Farrakhan. He de- scribed the line of divine with Malcolm X being the first National spokesman for the Nation of Islam, Min. Louis Farrakhan the second, and the third was Min. Khal- lid A. Muhammad. He then talked about how the Min. Muhammad is featured in many rappers songs, with artists like Ice Cube, Public Enemy and many others.
Well it was time. Min. Khal- lids name was called, and the F.O.I. swept him up on stage. There were so many of F.O.I. around him, that you could hardly see the man. He greeted everyone, and then I heard the words that are em- bedded in my mind forever: In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, the Merciful And that minute Allah (GOD) entered that hall thats a fact, I felt the spirit move; this was a God fearing man and he was powerful, The Spirit of God was all over him, any body in that room that needed healing they were about to get what they came for. The lecture flyer that we had spread out all over Dallas-Fort Worth had a picture of The Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad and Bro. Malcolm X and un- der that was a Picture of The Honorable Minister Louis Far- rakhan and The Most Honor- able Min. Khallid Abdul Mu- hammad. The title that Min. Khallid instructed us to put on the flyer was Elijah/Malcolm, Farrakhan/Khallid IS HIS- TORY REPEATING IT SELF. I didnt know what was going on at that time, but in time I would be told about a Kean College speech and some other things that would blow my young mind. I heard for the next two hours what I had knew all my life, but it had finally been put in away that after that lecture you would want to stand up and join what ever church t hi s preacher was speaking for. The militant character that looked as if he would kill his enemy then ask questions later had been judged wrong.
The Islamic values and dress code was highlighted with accountability from this indi- vidual that the media had peo- ple fearing what the men not that men but the truth that Allah had put in him. It was just a night that every Mus- lim, Black man and woman was proud that they had gone through a real spiritual exposi- tion that had come by way of Min. Khallid A. Muhammad on that night.
You have just read the begin- ning of chapter 1 to an up coming book on the life, and my personal relationship With the Hon. Min. Khallid A. Mu- hammad. I spent 7 years be- ing his personal assistant and his National Assistant with The (NBPP) at the time of his divine transition.
This project will co-authored by the National Chairman, Atty. Malik Zulu Shabazz. It will be the most thorough, and serious work done on the Minster, by two of his most dependable and trusted associ- ates, and still to this very day we carry on his work and leg- acy. We thank everyone for their support and help to keep the work and the mission of Min. Khallid going until this great struggle ends in our lib- eration.
The New Black Panther Party for Self-Defense along with the Hon. Min. Khallid Mu- hammads Family ask that if you are not apart of this movement, that you join some Black revolutionary organiza- tion. Black Power Brothers and Sisters and "LONG LIVE THE SPIRIT AND LEGACY of the HON- ORABLE DR. KHALLID AB- DUL MUHAMMAD". Captive Black Muslims in America Continued from Page 11 technicalities after release in order to discredit and silence his writings on militant armed resistance to forces antithetical to the Din and the self-determination of African people. It was while he was imprisoned for seven years that H. Rap. Brown, became Jamil Al-Amin at almost the same historical moment that Islam began to replace godless commu- nism as the Number One enemy of Capitalism and American global supremacy. The story behind the imprisonment of Imam Jamil Al-Amin and other Muslim political prisoners in America is a microcosmic reflection of the symmetry between the racist white supremacy of Americas security and law enforcement apparatus, and the Christian Right and their anti- Islam war on terror. It is a story that Muslims need to hear, under- stand, and factor in when dealing with the European Nation state. Everything has a history. White Christian Night Riders and militias were burning crosses (their symbol of universal atonement) in front of Afri- can-American homes in campaigns of racist terror long before 911. America and the Wests war against Islam and their current efforts to intensify contradictions within the Islamic Ummah through imposition of Western state culture is not devoid of racist arrogance. Unfortunately, more often than not it is immigrant Muslim communities, living inside the US and Europe who aid and abet the racist arrogance of assimila- tion politics for personal gain. The contradiction between Shia and Sunni, Arab Muslims, Pan-Arabism versus African Muslims and Pan-Africanism is now the defining demarca- tion line between the have and have nots of the Muslim world. The fate of the majority of the Ummah who are non-Arab are concealed behind the geopolitical subterfuge of Arabized elites throughout the Islamic world and legitimized in their strategies of survival euphemisti- cally termed diplomacy and positive engagement. Just because Muslim scholars and Ulema have historically failed to combine spiritu- ally and socially ethical insights into Halal interpretation of Islamic Fiqh, offers no reason why oppressed and exploited peoples, Muslim and non- Muslim alike should accept reactionary capitulation to injustice in the name of a peaceful coexistence with Taghuti power. The Islamic world has been saddled with onerous burden of dogmatism passing itself off as shariat and cultural or tribal nationalism masquerading as Sunnah for far too long. It is time for Unity based on common understanding of the historical moment we now find ourselves. As the Prophet (PBUH) predicted that one sign of the last days of Kufr is that the Masjids will be full of Believers but devoid of lead- ership. Today, Imams are appointed and vetted by governments with secular agendas that contravene the geopolitical empowerment of Islamic and equitable society, where humanity matters more than profit mar- gins. This is why almost every Arab and or Muslim government today is either overt or covert allies of Europe and America in those nation- states opposition to Islamic global unity. These Muslim leaders have hijacked the revolutionary character of the Din for their own narrow nationalist and sectarian purposes. Classic examples of this are the conflicts in the Sudan, Western Sahara and Chad. These are conflicts where the politics of Pan-Arabism supersede both Sunnah and Quran; where Arab dominated regimes oppress and murder non-Arabized Black Africans for control of their territory and resources. In the case of the Sudan, Western Sahara and Chad, the Arabs and Blacks are all Muslims. But the genocide of Black African Muslims by the Sudanese Government backed Janjaweed militias does not carry the same weight nor raise an outcry among Arab Muslims as does the Zionist Yehudi occupation of Palestine. Indeed, the Shia character of Iran, has been employed as a bulwark against the geopolitical impact of its Islamic revolution in the region and the spread of what is perceived by Arab Sunni elites as radical (read heretical) Islam among their own populations in much the same manner as the British employed Muslim Arab hatred of Otto- man Turkish rule as a bulwark against Islamic hegemony of the last Caliphate. Arab hatred of the Ottomans, and what had become a decadent empire was transformed by the Arab elites that emerged from the ashes of the Turkish rule into Arab nationalism and politically evolved into the philosophy of Pan-Arabism, as espoused by the late Gamel Abdul Nasser of Egypt, Abdul Azziz of Syria, and the various Baathist nationalist parties of Tunisia, Lebanon, and Iraq. There has never been an appropriate response of the Muslim Ummah to the hi- jacking of Islamic reform by reactionary Arab elites and scholars. Racism or narrow nationalism should not again provide the bul- wark for the division of the Ummah in the face of a global threat to Islam. The struggle of African-Americans for self-determination, human rights, and full legal citizenship in an institutionally racist society, pro- vides a wealth of information and experience to immigrant Muslims now under pressure to integrate and assimilate into fundamentally racist host cultures. The struggles of oppressed national minorities for self- determination should also enlighten the Ummah in its confrontation with the West over what actually constitutes freedom and democracy. It is for these reasons that the 1994 intervention by Dhoruba Bin Wahad at the U.N. Human Rights Commission sitting in Geneva is being reprinted. As Al-Hajji Malik As-Shabazz once noted, history is the best subject to reward all research. This is a partial list, and almost all of the below named political prisoners have been imprisoned for over thirty years: 1. Imam Jamil Al- Amin 2. Basheer Hameed 3. Sekou Odinga 4. Jalil Muntaqim 5. Abdul Majid 6. Jihad Mumit 7. Hanif Shabazz-Bey, and others. Page 31 Hezbullah, The Peoples Choice Continued from Page 5 campaigner to have Hezbullah labeled a terrorist organization by the world, but all that Hezbullah did was to kick the Israelis out of Lebanese land, to kick the occupying Israeli IDF off of Lebanese soil This was defensive action; not offensive action. Hezbullah has never invaded Israel, nor has Hez- bullah ever attacked Americans, though the U.S. media said it has, but this is nothing but lies. True, some of the Shia did fight back, as Amal, against the Americans when the American troops were siding with the Falangist Gemeyal family in attack- ing the Muslims, especially the Shia, but it was not then Hezbullah and every honest historian knows this. But there is no end to lies that the Zionists will go to because of their shame at being beaten by Hezbullah. So why is Hezbullah labeled as a terrorist or- ganization - pure and simple, because it is a strong nationalist Lebanese force that refuses to bow to Israel or America or the Falangists. Remember in America the patriots who fought against the British; Hezbullah is like those Ameri- can patriots just fighting for their land, their country. As an American, I am all for that. Any de- cent, educated and moral human being is for that. We must call those who label as liars those who call Hezbullah a terrorist organization because they have no facts to back up their assertions. That Hezbullah defeated the Israelis is a fact, that the Israelis were an illegal occupying force in southern Lebanon (the area of the Shia) is a fact, that Hez- bullah is now part of the Lebanese defense forces is a fact, that Hezbullah ever attacked American troops is an out and out lie. It is time the world, especially the American people, knew the truth about Hezbullah and its charitable work, its social work, its medical work, its educational work and its standing in the hearts of most Lebanese and its standing in the Lebanese government. The lies of President Bush and his mis- tress of state, Conde Rice, must be undone. Tell your friends the truth; perhaps in that way, the truth will prevail over the propaganda Bush and Rice are putting out in the world. Black Recruits Refuse Continued from Page 5 Unlike many flashy street gang members, they dont brag about their organization or intentions, making it more difficult for some- one who still finds good whiteys to tell them apart. Neo-Nazis "stretch across all branches of service, they are linking up across the branches once they're inside, and they are hard-core," De- partment of Defense gang detective Scott Barfield said. Neo-Nazis dream of race war and revolution. Jon Fain, an Army engi- neer and neo-Nazi Na- tional Alliance member, joined the invasion of Iraq and says he "joined only for the training, and to better defend yourself, our people, and our cul- ture." Fain continued by saying, "We must have people to open doors from the inside when the time comes." Soldiers are trained to be proficient with weap- ons, combat tactics, and explosives, to train oth- ers in their use, and to operate in a highly disci- plined culture that is focused on the organized violence of war. Special Forces soldiers who dou- ble as extremist opera- tives present a special danger, since they have commando skills gained at huge taxpayer expense often including urban warfare, long-range re- connaissance, and com- bat demolitions. Any white supremacist in Iraq who's a Green Beret or a Navy SEAL or Ma- rine Recon, is involved in covert operations, that's far above and be- yond convoy protection and roadblocks. Are you prepared for self-defense? Cuba An Island of Opportunities Continued from Page 17 generations. In his speech on Sept 8, 2000, at New York City's Riverside Church President Castro said, "we are prepared to grant a number of schol- arships to poor youth who cannot afford to pay the $200,000 it costs to get a medical de- gree in the US." Cuba is offering 250 full scholarships per year for students in under served communities in the United States to study medicine in Cuba. Tuition, dormitory room and board, and textbooks are free of charge. What we as The Latin American School of Medical Sciences want is for students from our sister nations to become imbued with the same doctrine in which our own doctors are educated, with that total devotion to their noble future profession - for a doctor is like a shepherd, a priest, a missionary, a crusader for the people's health and physical and mental well-being. Cuba Under President Fidel Castro In Cuba, health care is universal and free. Cuba has continued to make health-care a priority for its citizens, despite the effects of the suffocating US economic blockade, Cuba's public health care system is world-renowned. It maintains one physician for every 168 peo- ple in the country and produced 2000 new physi- cians every year; a remarkable number for any country of 11 million people. The infant mortality rate is less than most cities in the US. The Cuban Ministry of Health maintains a clinic with at least one doctor and one nurse in residence for every 120 families. Cuba is also a health care provider for the world. Cuba has sent thousands of doctors and medical professionals to serve in the poorest areas of Latin America and Africa. Cuba has treated more than 16,000 victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Cuba is organizing a health-care task force to tackle the problem of the AIDS epidemic in Africa. Cuba has trained hundreds of doctors from African and Latin American nations - all free of charge. The Cuban government even offered to send some 1,600 medics, field hospitals and 83 tons of medical sup- plies to ease efforts after Hurricane Katrina. The US rejected Cuban aid. Now Cuba is reaching out to "third world" re- gions in the United States to train doctors for the cities, rural areas and reservations where medical services are most desperately needed. Application Info: P | 212.926.5757 or F | 212.926.5842 www.ifconews.org or email: lasm@igc.org Sankofa Reach and Reclaim Continued from Page 24 The philosophy here is that, a Black owned enterprise will reinvest at least part of the money in the motherland to support the eco- nomic growth of the continent. However, most of the foreigners who go to Africa are only interested in the money and in most cases do not even pay taxes. The reason is simple; there is no bond with the continent. This is similar to the Koreans running all the beauty supply shops in our nationhood and refuse with impunity to contribute even $10 to our little league teams. We have seen this happen over and over and continue to let it happen. Dr. Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana said in his independence speech in 1957 the inde- pendence of Ghana is meaningless unless it is linked up with the total liberation of the Afri- can Continent. Today I say, The destiny of Blacks all over the world is and will always be tied to that of the African continent and a collective respect for Black people in this world is only achiev- able when the African continent is economi- cally emancipated. Hezbollah Victorious Continued from Page 3 So, let our public opinion know. Let me ask: Where are the fortified barracks on the borders of the Islamic Resistance? The border posts are actually surveillance posts consisting of a column on which an antenna is attached and another on which a camera is placed. Beside these columns there is a room where one of our youth stays. This is simply what these posts are consisting of. These posts were evacuated right from the first day. If they come today to say that they de- stroyed frontline positions. They mean these places. If they say that occupied frontline posts, these posts exist along the barbed wires and we evacuated them since the first day when we captured the soldiers. Now that the Israelis' helplessness has been proved, we affirm to you that they have a problem in receiving intelligence from the air and from the ground. Most of their agents are at large, some were arrested, and some disappeared. The agents are facing difficul- ties in their movements now on the ground to locate or give some information [to Israel]. At any rate, they need some commandoes groups to enter the Lebanese territories, either to collect intelligence or to correct some of the mistakes they made in their strikes on the frontlines. They also need them to conduct operations to capture or kill some of the mujahidin of the resistance, or even to say that they killed or made field achievement since the Israeli Navy retreated and was hit. I do not believe that the air raids are an achievement. So, they are looking for an achieve- ment on the ground. What is happening until know is within this context. I do not call it the beginning of a ground incursion. However, I would like to affirm that that these points were strongly dealt with. It would have been better to provide pictures of the tanks that were destroyed, but the difficult travel conditions prevented that. Anyway, they are admitting that some of the tanks were destroyed, and that some people were killed and wounded. I promise them more fighting and toughness from the mujahidin of the resistance along the borders. As for the ground attack option, it is possible that they might resort to it. We have been ready for it since the first day. I do not want to raise the ceiling of expectations and I do not u se speeches. We are fighting a serious battle. I did not say one day that the Israelis will be unable to enter any post in south- ern Lebanon. We are not a classic army extending from the sea to Mount Hermon. We are a popular and serious resistance movement that is present in many areas and axes. They might be able to enter a certain point or a village or conduct a large-scale ground operation. They might enter a mountain or a frontline village and claim a his- torical victory. In order not to say that Hezbollah made a pledged, I did not promise one day something like that or say that. This is not the case. This can happen at any moment. As for us, our equation and principles are the following: When the Israelis enter, they must pay dearly in terms of their tanks, officers, soldiers. This is what we pledge to do and we will honour our pledge, God willing.
[Bin-Jiddu] Do you expect that the battles will be long? Are you preparing, as one of the generals inside [Lebanon] warned, for a war of attrition?
[Nasrallah] The battle here, if we want to answer these questions, we should discuss the background of the battle. We are not convinced at all-- perhaps during the first hours we can say that the reaction that took place was a natural reac- tion to the capturing of Israeli soldiers--but hours after this, the issue has gone far beyond a reac- tion to the capturing of the soldiers. The Israelis entered [ Lebanon ] with a plan. The officials in charge of this plan, commanders, and news media used to talk about it with varying degrees, which we will analyse later. However, they, for example, spoke about destroying Hezbollah, not the missile force, but destroying Hezbollah. Some sides say the dismantling of the military structure of Hez- bollah. Others said the annihilation and destruc- tion of the missile force of the military structure, and others said we cannot destroy the military force of Hezbollah, but we want to pain Hezbollah and weaken this force. Then they said pushing Hezbollah far from the borders. Those who talk about pushing Hezbollah 10 or 20 km know that this does not mean pushing the missile force far from the borders. The one who attacks Haifa, Afula, and farther villages, and has the power to attack farther than this, then the story of 10 or 20 km is considered simple details. Some sides said that the objective of the operation is to free the two prisoners. I assure you that the objective of the operation is not to free the two prisoners. At any rate, the slogans on the one hand, and the objectives that were announced for the opera- tion on the other, means that the operation would take a long time. I cannot say one week, two weeks, three weeks, one month, more, or less. This issue depends on the field developments on the one hand, and the political developments o n t h e o t h e r . N o w . . .
[Bin-Jiddu, interrupting] Excuse me. Does it de- p e n d o n y o u o r o n I s r a e l ?
[Nasrallah] On us and on them. The course of the battle--I will say how--for example, today, the talk began in Israel, and this is a logical analysis, to the effect that the Israeli military operation has reached its peak. What is more than this? I will answer you. What can the Israelis do more than what they did? What is left is the ground incur- sion, which is costly at any rate. There is an argument, not among the politicians on the political level, even on the military and security levels there is a real argument on the level of the military and security commands. What is left is the ground incursion. Except the incursion, every- thing the Israelis could do have done. So, they have reached the peak. Now, they have one of two choices: When they reach the peak they either proceed horizontally, or in other words, continue with the same standard or the dose [preceding word in English] of the peak, or they will begin to decline. So, the military operation will begin to decline and to calm down gradually to pave the way for a political settlement. How much time would this take? This depends on developments. When time drags--the north is brought to a halt, northern Israel, excuse me, I apologize, I mean northern occupied Palestine-- there are two million Israelis who are either in shelters or outside the area, displaced outside the area. The entire economy in the north is brought to a halt. The factories, trade, tourism, and economic movement are all brought to a halt. The number of the killed and injured on their side could be much less than on our side, but this is natural. This is because they have a huge arsenal. Our arsenal is not for destruction, retaliation, and revenge, but a deterrent arsenal. They have a huge destructive power. There is no exaggeration here. They also have shelters. Give me one village in the south that has shelters in it. Up till now a large part of the people of the south are still in the south. Had there been shelters, the people would have remained there and would not have le ft . No one likes to live in school to be given ration. However, on their side, from the borders to deep in the north, there are shelters in the settlements. So, it is only logical that the number of those killed and wounded on their side is less than on our side. However, what affects the economy and the pressure the people are exposed to as a result of displacement and living in shel- ters. [Sentence incomplete as heard] They prom- ised them with a quick operation within a few days. The first day and then the second day passed, and every day they say three or four times in the Israeli news media that they have killed me, killed the Hezbollah leaders, and made false achievements. So, what is next? Until when will this continue? The Israeli society is so far rallying round the government. We have seen this experience in 1993, in 1996, and in past wars, but this solidarity will begin to vanish with the passage of time. So, if the military operation took a horizontal direction or began to decline, then the peak that is higher than this is the ground incursion. I am sure that the ground incursion will be a catastrophe to the Israeli army. This is not a threat. You know from day one that I speak calmly and objectively on these issues. The issue n o w , i f i t c o n t i n u e s . . .
[Bin-Jiddu, interrupting] Excuse me; you repeated the word disaster on more than one occasion.
Continued Next Page Page 32 Continued from Previous Page [Nasrallah] I mean a disaster for their tanks, officers, and soldiers. There will be a high price for them to pay. Right from the first day, I never claimed, even during negotiations and in my past speeches, that I can shoot down F-16's. We have never claimed that. We did not claim such a thing even during the [confrontation] in the sea, but we man- aged to surprise them in the sea. As for the land, we have 24-year experience; we have long and real experience in the land. We have high and efficient fighting capabilities, good armed capabilities, and good reserves.
It is a matter of time now. I rule out that the Israelis can make a military achievement. It is a matter of time. On the one hand, there is our military steadfastness, and on the other there is the political and popular steadfastness. They [the Israelis] are wagering on seeing the country's political situation break up and weaken, and on seeing a decline in the popular support for the resistance in order to achieve political results. We, on the other hand, are wagering on our steadfast- ness and that of our people, and on seeing a decline in the Israeli internal support for the military operation and on the pressures on the enemy's government, the beginning of which we began to see today.
[Bin-Jiddu] We will discuss the political issues. I want to go back to what you said about the popular steadfastness. Your Eminence, it is obvious that there is a real popular support in the areas where mem- bers of the resistance and Hezbollah are present. Now, the people who expressed their genuine support for the resistance are displaced and exhausted, and there is destruction as well. Honestly, do you still have faith in this popular support? Do not you think that you might win militarily and lose popularly, even among your own sect, not among other parties?
[Nasrallah] Before I met you, the brothers, who visited all the places where the displaced people are housed and talked to people, told me that the embassies of western countries are sending opinion-poll teams to the places housing the displaced people. They ask people about their sect and religion. Undoubtedly, they are interested first and foremost in the Shi'is' opinion. Based on the [religious] structure of the country, they believe that if the Shi'is begin to leave and desert the resistance, it would be an indication that the other sects will do the same - this is the [religious] structure of the country. The opinion-poll teams were amazed during their visits and meetings. There is strong support for the resistance; there is readiness to remain steadfast and make sacrifices. They listened to many women who said that they are ready to sacrifice their children, to fight, to remain steadfast and patient, and to endure, and that they will not allow the resistance to lose, be humiliated, or be stricken. Anyway, instead of me going to the people, anyone can go and meet these people and ask them in an objective and honourable man- ner. However, they should not ask a person who is not actually a displaced person and says that he speaks on behalf of them. We have information about the situation on the ground, and we are in constant contact with our people in the villages and cities. Our impression, which I am sure that it is now shared by the embassies that follow the situa- tion and give information to the Israelis and decision-making centres in the world, is that the answers they got today will affect the course of the battle. Therefore, I thank the people for their position and stead- fastness, which will make the war shorter. Why? If the opinion-poll teams see a sign of weakness and fragility, they will tell the Israelis to continue [their operations], that they can achieve their objectives, and that the war will not take a long time. It is not of their interest to fight for a long time. The US Administration, and other administrations, will build on that, and there will be no intervention. Today, yesterday, and the day before - especially today - they heard strong and honour- able words. I tell you that they have began to feel desperate. I want to repeat what I said days ago that we have honourable people - I am talking about the Lebanese people in general, not only the Shi'is. The Lebanese people are honourable, dear, and great; I do not flatter when I say that. You can go to all Lebanese areas where there are Christians, Sunnis, and Druze to see how the rest of the Lebanese people deal with the displaced people.
between sympathy with those displaced persons, since they are Lebanese, and the attitudes towards the actions of Hezbollah and the resistance. It is said that the other parties, factions, and segments are not satisfied with Hezbollah's position, performance, and the way it got Lebanon involved, as they say, in this battle?
[Nasrallah] I am not talking about some political forces. I am talking about the people, the good people, those who in hard times reveal their chivalry, honour, and patriotism. This is especially since the political climate now says what happened has happened, and that there will be time for accountability. We also say that there will be time for account- ability. No problem. The political climate says let's be united to handle this battle. This level of political rhetoric, which contains less incitement - I do not say it contains no incitement - but it contains less incite- ment, gives people a chance to approach matters honestly. Today, neither the masses of the resistance feel alienated at the national and popular levels, nor the resistance feels that its supporters around it have begun to disperse. Never! I stress to you that the masses of the resis- tance are firmer and more resolved. Even when we go to political negotiations - for certainly there will be political negotiations and politi- cal discussions - one of the most important issues that the Hezbollah leadership must keep in mind is that behind it are masses who do not accept to offer concessions that they might be humiliating or something like that. They might demand high positions that are commensurate with people's steadfastness and sacrifices. This is what we are building on.
[Bin-Jiddu] At any rate, your eminence, some say that Hezbollah might be strong militarily on the ground now, at least as you have said, but it seems that it is internationally isolated, excluded, and chased. It is also politically embarrassed at home. Even your former allies, the politi- cal forces with whom you used to hold discussions at home, do not conceal their dismay. True, they say there will be time for accountabil- ity, but they do not conceal their resentment. Moreover, they say: How could Hezbollah involve the country and take it hostage after a unilat- eral decision? The government was neither aware of that decision, nor does it bear its consequences or adopt it. Is this reasonable to happen?
[Nasrallah] Well, let us say that we have begun to go into the political part. First, I just want to close the first part, since we have talked about the battlefield, the shelling, and settlements. I would like to address the family that was hit in Nazareth. In my name and on behalf of my brothers, I apologize to this family. Of course, the word apology is not sufficient. I bear full responsibility. That was not intended at all. However, at any rate, we consider those who were killed in Nazareth martyrs for Palestine, Lebanon, the nation, and the resistance. It is a tough and hard confrontation, in which flaws of this kind might happen. I would like to send them my condolences and apologies. I hope that they would accept my condolences and apology.
Now I move on the political part. Politically, the international commu- nity, first, has never been with us. So I cannot say that is not with us, isolating, and forsaking us just today. It has never been with us. More- over, it has mostly been against. For example, we have been listed on the US terrorism list since they created the terrorism list. We are among the first to be listed on that list. Some European countries also list us as terrorists. The position of the international community is clear. Consequently, we are not surprised by the international community. We have never wagered on the internatio nal community. The international community adopts international resolutions of which Israel implements nothing. Even Resolution 425 was not implemented by Israel; we im- posed it on Israel. It has implemented none of the resolutions concern- ing the Palestine question. It has implemented none of the resolutions concerning the occupied Arab territories. For us, this is neither a new factor, nor a factor of pressure.
Regarding some Arab positions, this is new. True, this is new. In the past, some Arab regimes abandoned the resistance and resistance men. I am so objective and realistic, so today we deem it acceptable if the Arab regimes are neutral. Just like that. If you view the Hezbollah rhetoric, we accepted such stands from them. Perhaps the brothers in Palestine - and rightfully so - have a different rhetoric. Their circum- stances are much harder than ours. So they always attack, accuse, and denounce the regimes and rulers. This is not part of our rhetoric and literature. Why? We have forgotten them. To attack someone, you need to suppose that he captured the soldiers. Now that the Israelis' helpless- ness has been proved, we affirm to you that they have a problem in receiving intelligence from the air and from the ground. Most of their agents are at large, some were arrested, and some disappeared. The agents are facing difficulties in their movements now on the ground to locate or give some information [to Israel]. At any rate, they need some commandoes groups to enter the Lebanese territories, either to collect intelligence or to correct some of the mistakes they made in their strikes on the frontlines. They also need them to conduct operations to capture or kill some of the mujahidin of the resistance, or even to say that they killed or made field achievement since the Israeli Navy re- treated and was hit. I do not believe that the air raids are an achieve- ment. So, they are looking for an achievement on the ground. What is happening until now is within this context. I do not call it the begin- ning of a ground incursion. However, I would like to affirm that that these points were strongly dealt with. It would have been better to provide pictures of the tanks that were destroyed, but the difficult travel conditions prevented that. Anyway, they are admitting that some of the tanks were destroyed, and that some people were killed and wounded. I promise them more to raise the ceiling of expectations and I do not use speeches. We are fighting a serious battle. I did not say one day that the Israelis will be unable to enter any post in southern Lebanon. We are not a classic army extending from the sea to Mount Hermon. We are a popular and serious resistance movement that is present in many areas and axes. They might be able to enter a certain point or a village or conduct a large-scale ground operation. They might enter a mountain or a frontline village and claim a historical victory. In order not to say that Hezbollah made a pledged, I did not promise one day something like that or say that. This is not the case. This can happen at any moment. As for us, our equation and principles are the following: When the Israelis enter, they must pay dearly in terms of their tanks, officers, soldiers. This is what we pledge to do and we will honor our pledge, God willing.
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Page 33 No Woman Should Be Raped Continued from Page 26 an immediate end to all attacks on the victim, an end to irresponsible media reporting, and that the crime scene on Buchanan St. be converted into a Rape Crisis Cen- ter. The press conference gathering included Nation of Islam Durham Representative Minister David Muhammad, School Board Mem- ber Jackie Wagstaff, activist Victo- ria Peterson, Dr. Bruce Bridges, Minnie Brown, the Concerned Citizens of Durham, North Caro- lina Central University (NCCU) student leaders, Hillside High School students and Duke Univer- sity students. We are outraged by the rape of our Sister, Min. David stressed. They dont expect Black men to stand up for their women, but we are here. Victoria Peterson presented statistics that show over 80 rape cases that have occurred in that part of town, with five of them taking place on the campus of Duke. Unshaken by the op- position, during the march resi- dents chanted, Black Power! and Shame on Duke. Once at the scene of the alleged crime, Atty. Shabazz and local leaders ad- dressed the crowd before conclud- ing the demonstration with a unity prayer for the victim and her fam- ily. The respect and protection of the Black woman was the core of the keynote address delivered by Atty. Shabazz to the crowd that filled St. Josephs AME Church to capacity for a town hall meeting addressing the concerns of the Black community. The overwhelming turnout of the Black community was the fruit of the hard labor of NBPP Field Marshall Najee Muhammad, who met with local leaders and organi- zations. The fertile ground of sup- port was further tilled by one of the lead supporters, Dr. Bruce Bridges, owner of The Know Bookstore, who was instrumental in spreading the word about the demonstration. Despite opposition from the Duke University administration and local media attacks on the NBPP, the family of the rape vic- tim welcomed him with open arms for a private meeting at their home. Atty. Shabazz then spoke with the District Attorney Mike Nifong to discuss developments of the case, followed by several radio interviews. Local leaders and the NBPP are gearing up to install economic sanctions against businesses owned and operated by Duke University, as well as mobilizing a national march this fall in Durham that will thematically focus on the Support, Respect and Protection of Black Women. NBPP leader- ship will court monitor and organ- ize throughout the trial to ensure justice is done in this case.
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1. We want freedom. We want the power to practice self-determination, and to determine the des- tiny of our community and THE BLACK NATION. 2. We want full employment for our people and we demand the dignity to do for ourselves what we have begged the white man to do for us. POWER IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE! WEALTH IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE! ARMS IN THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE! 3. We want tax exemption and an end to robbery of THE BLACK by the CAPITALIST. We want an end to the capitalistic domination of Africa in all of its forms: imperialism, criminal settler coloni- alism, neo-colonialism, racism, sexism, zionism, apartheid and artificial borders. 4. We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings, free health-care (preventive and main- tenance). We want an end to the trafficking of drugs and to the biological and chemical warfare targeted at our people. 5. We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this devilish and decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history/herstory and our role in the present day society. 6. We want all Black Men and Black Women to be exempt from military service. 7. We want an immediate end to POLICE HARRASSMENT, BRUTALITY AND MURDER of Black Peo- ple. We want an end to Black-on-Black violence, snitching, cooperation and collaboration with the oppressor. 8. We want freedom for all Black Men and Black Women held in international, military, federal, state, county, city jails and prisons. 9. We want all Black People when brought to trial to be tried in a court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black Communities, as defined by white law of the Constitution of United States. 10. WE DEMAND AN END TO THE RACIST DEATH PENALTY AS IT IS APPLIED TO BLACK AND OP- PRESSED PEOPLE IN AMERICA. WE DEMAND FREEDOM FOR ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS OF THE BLACK RED AND BROWN NATION!
History has proven that the white man is absolutely disagreeable to get along with in peace. No one has been able to get along with the white man. All the people of color have been subjected to the white mans wrath. We believe that his very nature will not allow for true sharing, fairness, equity and justice. Therefore, to the Red Man and Woman, to the Yellow and to the Brown, we say to you THE SAME RABID DOG THAT BIT YOU, BIT US TOO! ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Page 35 Atty. Malik Zulu Shabazz Millions More Movement Washington, D.C. October 15, 2005
Black Power! Black Power! Black Power! Giving honor to God we bear witness that there is but One God. We bear witness you Black people, you are the original people of the planet Earth, the mothers and fathers of civili- zation. Black woman you are the Queen of the planet Earth and the god- dess of the universe.
So old William Bennett, William Bennett says abort all Black babies. We say to William Bennett hell naw! You may want to get rid of us, but God loves us. We speak in the name of Khallid Abdul Muhammad. Long Live Khallid Muhammad! Long Live Khallid Abdul Muhammad! And to Gods man in our midst, Minister Louis Farrakhan.
Free All Political Prisoners! Free All Political Prisoners! Many of our freedom fighters our warriors, those who have labored and suffered for us are locked behind bars as a result of the wicked Counter Intelligence Program of old no good J. Edgar Hoover.
Free Mumia! Free Mumia! Mumia Abu Jamal on death row; Mumia is innocent. Mumia is one of our greats. Mumia is innocent. Free Mumia! Free Mumia! Is Mumia Abu Jamal the real criminal or is the real criminal the president of the United States George Bush, who lies and causes thousands of deaths in Iraq. Who is the real criminal?
Free Jamil Al-Amin! Free Jamil Al-Amin! Jamil Al-Amin is innocent, locked behind bars! One of our greats, H. Rap Brown is innocent. Free Jamil Al-Amin! Is Jamil Al-Amin the real criminal or are the real criminals the ones who drowned our people in New Orleans and the criminal police officers that beat that 64 year old Black man down in New Orleans last week. Who are the real criminals?
Free Malachi York! Free Malachi York! Malachi York is innocent. Malachi York locked down. Is Malachi York the real criminal or are the criminals those who brought us into slav- ery, murdered the Red Indians, drowned our bodies in the Atlantic and committed the Afri- kan Holocaust. Who are the real criminals?
One million Black people locked down, as I leave you, one million Black people locked down in prison socalled gangstas, who are the real gangstas? Real gangstas are in the White House. The real gangstas are in the Pentagon. The real gangstas operate out of CIA headquarters. How are you going to have a War on Terrorism and Mr. Bush has not been arrested. Huh?
Ladies and Gentlemen of the jury on the charges of lying to the public, high crimes and mis- demeanors how do you find George Bush?
[Crowd]: GUILTY!
How do you find him on racism?
[Crowd]: GUILTY!
How do you find him on terrorism?
[Crowd]: GUILTY!
Free All Political Prisoners!
Impeach George Bush!
Stand Up Black People! Stand up like Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman! Stand up in the name of God! If God be for you, who can be against you?
BLACK POWER! BLACK POWER! BLACK POWER!
Mumia Abu-Jamal AM 8335 SCI Greene 175 Progress Dr. Waynesburg, PA 15370 Imam Jamil Al-Amin #1104651 Georgia State Prison, 2164 GA Hwy 147 Reidsville, GA 30499 Dr. Malachi Z. York United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors www.unnm.com Photo Courtesy of Kenneth Muhammad