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shoot you, if you looked at them in the eye. >> tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. >> we are asking students to participate in this year's studentcam competition by asking what is the most urgent issue for the next president donald trump, and the incoming congress, to address in may 17. students can work alone or in a troop up to three to prevent -- to produce a five to seven-minute documentary. of $5,000 will go to the student or team with the best entry. 100,000 dollars in prizes will be shared among 150 students and teachers. the deadline is january 20, 2017 . that is inauguration day. for more information, go to studentcam.org.
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america" provides historical films. 50 years ago, the black panther party was founded. this 15 minute film was originally produced as "off the pig." features an interview with founder hewing to when he was in prison on murder charges, the 10-point program, and scenes from the free huey demonstrations in california. ♪ [gunfire] >> in america, black people are
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treated very much as any other colonized people. because we are used. we are brutalized. the police -- our community is occupied. our community. the police are there not to promote our welfare or our security or our safety, but they are there to contain us, to brutalize and murder us, because they have their orders to do so. just as the soldiers in vietnam have their orders to destroy the vietnamese people. the police in our community could not possibly be there to protect our property, because we own no property. they couldn't possibly be there to see that we receive the due process of law, for the simple reason that the police themselves deny us the due process of law. so it's very apparent that the police only in our community, not for our security, but the security of the business owners
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and the community, and also to see that the status quo is kept intact. >> people are not really aware, but they know something is going on. a lot of people out there don't know exactly what it is. all those riots causing my life to be miserable in all areas. they haven't focused on the fact that it is the pigs and their mentors, the people who control the pigs, the power structure, the businessmen, the chamber of commerce. they are not turned on to that power structure. they just know that life is becoming increasingly miserable for everybody. when they find out who it is that is causing the trouble and who it is that is making life miserable and who it is that is -- who is responsible for all their sons being murdered in vietnam, when they tune into that --
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they are all going to be just like the panthers. because this is what we are tuned into. we see what's going on. it's just terrible. more and more people are tuning in. i think they are going to do the dog right here in babylon. >> we had a sleeping alert patrol. we would could alert the community -- we would alert the community if police would brutalize anyone. the police would arrest an individual following the detail. we would bail the individual out. we would gain many recruits like this. the community started to say, well, these people are really concerned about our welfare. >> i think based on the actions -- experience as a panther, i don't mean you see the guy go back in a black jacket in a beret -- i mean you see the panthers with their lives on the line. when we see that, that's the end of it. he's not scared of death.
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he's done nothing wrong. he don't jaywalk. you don't find a guy, black panther, remains the same after really seeing the panthers. they never have been too impressed by what's been happening. they're not impressed by that. this is the reason, one reason why the panther party is focused on the cops, because the cops are out there and they are visible. this is the direct contact of the black people with the power structure, with the man, the pigs is going to come and bother them. there was a message that we moved against successfully. those programs -- those nonviolent tactics, those appeals -- brothers didn't want
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to hear that. all of a sudden, here comes two niggers with guns talking to a cop just like a cop is talking to them. we really want to know what that's about. if they don't decide their life is too precious -- if they don't decide that, then they come to [indiscernible] ♪ >> we are not a self-defense
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group in that limited fashion you think of self-defense groups. i think of che guevera. they realized they wouldn't be able to topple the oppressive regime in cuba. what they were essentially was an educational body. they engaged with the army and fought with the army. they showed the people that the army was not bulletproof, that
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the police were not bulletproof. by teaching the regime that it was impossible to topple -- the people started to feel their strength. the black panther party feels very much the same way. we think this educational process is necessary, and it's the people that will cause the revolution, and it's the people who will cause the change in the country. the black panther party is simply the vanguard of the revolution, and we plan to teach the people the strategy and the necessary tools to liberate themselves. >> ♪ no more brothers in jail things are going to get better no more brothers in jail things are going to get better no more brothers in jail things are going to get better ♪ >> off the pigs! >> ♪ no more brothers in jail >> off the pigs! >> ♪ no more brothers in jail >> off the pigs! >> ♪ no more brothers in jail >> off the pigs! >> ♪ the pigs are going to get jailed no more pigs in our community ♪ >> off the pigs! >> ♪ no more pigs in our
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community ♪ >> ♪ no more pigs in our community ♪ >> off the pigs! >> ♪ no more pigs in our community ♪ >> off the pigs! >> ♪ no more pigs in our community ♪ >> off the pigs! >> the focus of our activities is to believe and demand that we be set free. we feel the only way he we -- that huey can be taken out of the hands of those who are relentlessly trying to kill him
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is for the people to become aware of what this is all about. this is why i like this idea. it's about seeing things. the people have to stand up and demand -- they have to understand they have a right. they have a right to demand that these judicial procedures be carried out in the right manner. >> ♪ the revolution has come >> off the pigs! >> ♪ time for the pigs to drop the guns ♪ >> off the pigs! >> ♪ the revolution has come >> off the pigs! >> ♪ time to pick up the guns >> off the pigs! > ♪ the revolution has come >> off the pigs! >> ♪ time to pick up the guns >> they have made a coalition
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with primarily a white group to fight on two fronts. we must live the late -- we must liberate the colony. the revolution played a great part in saving america. if it were not for the white students, the black panther party would react to the racism in the country and therefore respond with racism. the white students have been very interested in the path of the foreign policy of the united states. they are demanding that the united states withdraw from vietnam, set up -- stopper or lysing the vietnamese people -- stop ruralizing the vietnamese people. the white students played -- pay more attention here first. this is home.
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this is not to say they should not denounce america's treacherous actions abroad. i think they can be done at the same time. it's just a matter of placing influence on the criminal activities of america in the homeland. >> let's get into the inner workings and the meanings of this. of a breath of -- of a black revolution and why black people have the right to take what's theirs. it's a basic program. it's simple he says exactly what black people have been crying for for 400 years. -- it simply says exactly what black people have been crying for for 400 years. we want freedom. we want full employment for our people. we want decent housing to shelter human beings. we want an end to the robbery of the black community by the white
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businessman. we want decent education to teach the brothers the human nature of this decadent system, education about our true history in the world and our role in society today. we want all black brothers to be exempt from military service. [applause] we want immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people. we want all black brothers and sisters held in federal, county, state, city jails, and prisons to be released some they have not had a fair trial. they've been tried by all white juries who have no understanding of the average man in the black community. number 9 -- this is where brother huey is being -- we want the court to make sure we have peers on the juries, people from the back community -- the black community, as described by the jive constitution of the so-called
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united states. we want land, housing, clothing, education, justice, peace, black colonial subjects can participate in dealing with analyzing, objecting politically on the racial atrocities that have been committed against black people in this nation. ♪ >> so the concept is this, >> so the concept is this,
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basically, the whole black nation has to be put together as a black army, and we're going to walk on this nation, we are going to walk on this race's power structure, and we are going to say to the whole damn government, "stick 'em up, motherfucker! we've come for what's ours!" [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ords,"ight on "afterw
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