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films that provide context for today's public affairs issues. in october 1966, he we knew and bobby seal found in the black panther party for self-defense, later known simply as the black panther party. the 50 minute film "black panther" was originally released as "off the pink -- pig." bobby seal and providing -- reciting the 10 point program and scenes from demonstrations in oakland, california. ♪ >> in america, black people are

treated very much as the vietnamese people or any other colonized people. we are brutalized. the police in our community .ccupy 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 us and murder us, because they have their orders to do so. associates in vietnam are order 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

in the community, and also to see that the status quo is kept intact. >> people are not really aware, but they know shit is going on. a lot of people out there don't know exactly what it is. they think black people are doing it, 'ya dig? all those rights are 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 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. because 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 responsible for all their sons being murdered in vietnam, when they tune into that, they are not going to be

happy. this is what we are tuned into. we see what's going on. and it's just terrible. more and more people are tuning in. i think they are going to do the dog right here in babylon. >> when we first started we had a police alert patrol. we would could alert the community -- we would alert the community if police would brutalize anyone. if the police would arrest an individual we would follow them into jail and bail them out. we would gain many recruits like this. the community started to say, well, these people are really concerned about our welfare. --i think the basic reaction i don't mean you see the guy go back in a black jacket in a beret -- i mean you see the panthers in action with their lives on the line. when we see that, that's the end of it. he's not scared of death.

he's done nothing wrong. he don't jaywalk. earl c comes around -- or else h e comes around. you can dig it. 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. they don't stand in fear of the cops. 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. the only thing that has been lacking was a message that we moved against successfully. those programs -- those nonviolent tactics, those appeals to god and allah and whoever, brothers didn't want 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

group in the limited fashion you think of self-defense groups. i like the use the example of fidel castro with che guevera. they realized they wouldn't be able to topple the oppressive regime in cuba. but 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 the police were not bulletproof.

and that 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 that 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 gonna get better no more brothers in jail things are gonna get better ♪ >> 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 >> 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 community ♪ >> off the pigs! >> ♪ 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! >> ♪ 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! >> ♪ no more pigs in our community ♪ >> off the pigs! >> ♪ no more pigs in our community ♪ >> off the pigs! >> the focus of our activities is the need 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 is for the people to become aware of what this is all about. this is why i like this idea of our film. people get to see more about that. 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 to pick up 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 >> off the pigs! > ♪ the revolution has come

>> off the pigs! >> ♪ time to pick up the guns >> off the pigs! s made alack panther coalition with primarily a white group to fight on two friends. we must liberate the colony. we must also stimulate revolution in the mother country. 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, stop brutalizing the vietnamese people. we feel the white students pay more attention to the colonized situation here of the blacks first because after all, this is home.

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 emphasis upon the criminal activities of america in the homeland. >> let's get into the inner workings and the meanings of this. let's get into the inner workings in the meaning of a black revolution and why black people have the right to take what's theirs. you can read the program. it's a basic program. it's simple he says exactly what black people have been crying for for 400 years. one, we want freedom. we want the power to determine our own future. two, we want full employment for our people. three, we want decent housing to shelter human beings. four, we want an end to the robbery of the black community by the white businessman. five, we want decent education

to teach the brothers the human -- the true nature of this decadent system, education about our true history in the world and our role in society today. six, we want all black brothers to be exempt from military service. [applause] seven, we want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of black people. eight, we want all black brothers and sisters held in federal, county, state, city jails, and prisons to be released because they have not had a fair trial. [applause] they've been tried by all white juries who have no understanding of the average man in the black community. number nine -- this is where brother huey is -- we want the court to make sure we have peers on the juries,

people from the black community, as described by the jive constitution of the so-called united states. ten, summary, that is we want land, housing, clothing, education, justice, we want peace, black colonial subjects can participate in dealing with , analyzing, objecting politically upon the racial atrocities that have been committed against black people in this nation. ♪

>> the concept is this recently. the whole black nation have to be put together as a black army. we are going to walk on this nation, we are want to walk on this racist power structure, and say to the whole government, up, this is a holed up. we have come for what is ours." >> ♪ >> c-span, where history unfolds daily.