Black Panther Protest
In 1969, due to two end-of-decade events, the nation’s spotlight was aimed on the New Haven, Connecticut, singeing a hole in the Black Panther Party headquarters.
On April 2, 1969, 21 Panther members were arrested and charged with conspiracy to blow up the New York Botanical Gardens and several department stores, and to assassinate police officers. The following month on May 21, the slain body of Alex Rackley, Black Panther Party member, was discovered in a swamp in Middlefield, Connecticut. FBI agents and New Haven Police officials wasted no time and raided the Panther's headquarters, searching for evidence. That same day, eight of the local chapter's members and the party's notorious national chairman, Bobby Seale, were arrested and charged with murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy.
A group of Northeastern University students sympathized with the plight of the Black Panthers and wanted to demonstrate their support to the Boston community. In April 1970, the Black Panther Support Group formed on Northeastern’s campus. The organization's mission was to educate students, increasing their understanding of the trials of Bobby Seale, the New York 21, and the Black Panther Party. One of their first actions was to name April 14th Bobby Seale Day. The group also strived to tie Northeastern to its surrounding community by initiating a campaign to provide funds and supplies for a medical center in Roxbury and by proposing to Northeastern’s Student Council to start a hot breakfast program for children in Roxbury and Cambridge.
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Panther supporters plan Seale rally
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Panther supporters plan Seale rally
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Black Panthers
Political Activism
African American Students
Black Panthers
Political Activism
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Panther supporters plan Seale rally
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Northeastern NEWS, April 10, 1970 Page 3 Panther supporters plan Seale rally By JIM KELLY The newly organized Black Panther Support Group, which has proclaimed April 14 as (CBobby Seale Day," is planning a demonstration to call attention to the upcoming trial of the party chairman. Seale, who fac s charges of murder and conspiracy to murder, is scheduled to enter his plea on Tuesday before a New Haven court. The agenda includes a rally in the quad, followed by a march to Post Office Square. There the marchers will assemble with other area Panther support ot·ganizations and listen to speeches by various New Left personalities. Proceeds from the exchange program would go to the Boston Pa:nthers, who are directing ef.. forts to provide Roxbury children with hot breakfasts. In addition, the National Committee to Com· bat Facism, a white radical or· ganization which Is also conduct· ing a hot breakfast program, in Cambridge, will be supplied. "It's a way for the Northeestem student to relate to a community which the university has exploit· ed," stated George Fleischner 73LA, a member of the coalition. Speakers will include Mrs. Seale, wife of the Panther leader, Charles Garry, Seale's defense at· torney, David Hilliard, Panther chief of staH, Adria Jones, di· rector of the party's Boston chapter, and Howard Zlnn, professor from Boston University. Boston College presently has a food exchange program similar to the c>ne being proposed here. Saga, the cafeteria service at BC, supplies the Mission Hill and Cambridge hot breakfast pro· grams with food. Dormitory students at that school finance the programs by sacrificing their breakfast once a week. After the speeches the demonstrators will proceed to the Berkely Street police station, where a second prc>test rally will be held. The Panther supporters are also -PatMartln encc>uraging dormitory students "THE. BREAKFAST PROGRAM in itself is revolutionary because it's to participate in a food strike. free/' nid a member of Boston's Black Panther Party at a teach-in Such a strike is designed to dramTuesday noon sponsored by Northeastern's Black Panther Support atize the group's proposal to imGroup. plement a food exchange program. Capitalist resigns to bureaucracy asserts Galbraith in DSS speech By KATHY KEPNER After congratulating the audience for their "good fortune" in having himself replace Senator Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) as the fourth guest in,. this yew's. Dis~ tinguished Speakers Series last Thursday, Harvard Prof. John Kenneth Galbraith explained and defended his theory of economics first expounded in his controversial book "The New Industrial State." According to Galbraith's hypothesis, which denies the neoclassic idea of consumer sovereignty and advances that of producer sovereignty, the growing complexity of technology has Moon man coming Former Astronaut Michael Collins, who flew the command module during the Apollo XI moon w.3.I.k, will speak at commencement exercises June 14, in Boston Garden. Earlier this year Collins was sworn in as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. In this capacity, he is responsible for State Department relations with the American public. In July, 1966, Collins also participated in the Gemini X space flight and became the nation's third space walker. Approximately 3,800 students will be graduated. . COL. MICHAEL COLLINS forced the "one man" behind the corporation to resign his power to the bureaucracy. "The rigid organization has taken over the decision-making power f mn the capitalist in modem industry," the former ambassador to India told the capacity audience. "The power bas been removed from the owners and put impersonally into the organization where the knowledgeable people are." Galbraith stated that the myth of the "corporation genius'' is a fallacy. "The genius who would know everything about an automobile would be rare. The true genius in modern technology is a combination of ordinary men of very specialized knowledge," he said. Galbraith pointed out that an individual genius could be suffering from a hang-over or taking a lunch break when an unexpected emergency arose. Therefore, he concluded, the committee system is much more "predictable and dependable!' Galbraith outlined four main roles for the modem state in industry. First, "if people can't afford beer or an auto they won't buy it," he said. "Therefore, the state must keep the purchasing power of the general public stable." Second, 11this is a system that requires very specialized, and skilled manpower, none of which industry can provide by itself. Therefore, it is the role of the state to aid monetarily very cost· ly modern technological proiects that are not purchased by the general public," the professor continued. Third, the state must help in education. And, finally, the government must stabilize public demands. According to Galbraith the cc>nsumer market is very unpredictable, especially in regards to technical products. Therefore, a "mass persuasion" campaign is necessary to control the public. "Also, necessary in controlling products and stable prices," said the public's demands are fixed Galbraith. Four outstanding criticisms have appeared over the past four years of Galbraith'-s sovereignty of the producer economic theory according to the economist. The first states that Galbraith is merely speaking of the world of the "great corporation" and that in reality there is another world composed of farmers and that this world is still subiect to the market. According to these critics it is here the consumer sovereignty still holds. In rebuttal, Galbraith said, ''I agree, but still large coporations account for half of all economic activity and this is the part of society that has the greatest change." The second criticism attacks Galbraith's methodology. "They say economics should be established through small provable points and that the economist must determine the little things. But, little things must be examined in larger areas, which is consumer sovereignty," he said. Galbraith said he thought this argument is asserted by the conservatives as an attempt to avoid the real question. A petition, calling for immed· iate initiation of the program, is currently being circulated in the dormitories. Furthermore a motion supporting the proposal has already been introduced to the Student Counci I. If successful, both will be presented to the administration and Wilbur's Food Service next week. Plans for the future include both a clothing drive and a campaign for funds and supplies for a Roxbury medical clinic. Fleischner commented that "the reason that we have set up is to serve the people. This is the first time,'' he continued, "that a radical organization has served a comm u n i t y c>f both blacks and whites." The main reason for the existence of the Panther Support, according t() Fleiscbner, is "to educate people about the Panthers. The fear of the Panthers," he continued, "arises out of ignc>rance. The biggest myth we would like to explode is the picture of a black-jacketed, headhunting Panther marching up the streets shooting up middle class whites." r;::::::;:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::I::::::::::H:III.I::::::n:::::::::c::::tj I d II H SDS m.eiDhers arrested :: By JIM KELLY is located, when they observed Four SDS members, two of them from Northeastern's Cienfuegos were arrested Tuesday near English High School. Police charged Bert Weiss 73LA, Richard Ferguson 74LA, David T. Sloane, a student at BU and Terrence O'Grady, formerly of BU, with attempted breaking and entering, and defacing of city prop- four men near the institutic>n's erty. Judge Samuel Eisenstadt of the Roxbury District Court ordered that the four be held for a hearing April 16. They were released on $1500 bail. Officer Vincent Logan of District 10 claimed that he recovered a pinch bar, a number of leaflets, and a iar of glue at the front door of English High. He further stated that the door had been forced open with the pinch bar but that entrance had not been obtained. Police officials stated that P.atrolmen Murphy and McGrath, both of District 10, were driving along Louis Pasteur Avenue, the street on which the high school entrance. The four allegedly fled in an automobile when the policemen tried to question them. Murphy said that he radioed headquarters, summc>ning Patrolman Logan, who repc>rtedly forced the car to the curb of Brookline Avenue, which lies parallel to Avenue Louis Pasteur. The pc>lice report further stated that Weiss received facial injuries in an escape attempt while he was being phc>tographed and fingerprinted at Berkely Street Police headquarters. Officer Logan claimed that Weiss broke loose and ran for the exit, which is located on the third floor. Logan said that in his ensuing attempt to apprehend Weiss, both tumbled down a flight of stairs. Weiss was allegedly iniured from this fall and was taken to Boston City Hospital where he was tr..ted for a swol· len eye, lacerations above the eye and lip, and a possible broken nose. Patrolman Logan apparently sustained no lniuries. Third critics say that "one can't p~ove that this persuasion, that the consumer is subjected to, is effective," said Galbraith. "People deny being influenced by commercials and therefore believe no one else is influenced either." "Fourth, is the general attack from the left who says that the whole argument which puts power into the organizations is a slight-of-hand in which reactionaries take the power from the big capitalist," he said. The leftists must ultimately conceive that the power in the modern economic society and state cannot lie with individuals but must lie in the bureaucracy for they see the USSR is merely changing one bureaucracy for another. i I . JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH �
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On the afternoon of April 7, the Black Panther Support Group’s agenda became evident. Carrying “Free the Panthers” signs and chanting revolutionary slogans, 70 Northeastern students marched from Krentzman Quad through downtown Boston to Post Office Square, the city-wide protest’s first meeting point. There, the students were joined by 1,930 other protesters who also wished to demonstrate support for the Black Panthers during the New Haven murder trials.
The crowd of 2,000 stood in Post Office Square listening attentively to Doug Miranda, former chairman of the Boston Black Panther Party, and Artie Seale, wife of Bobby Seale, urging them to take action. Demonstrators then marched to Boston Police Headquarters on Berkeley Street. Boston’s Tactical Police force surrounded the area, and plainclothes officers were in evidence in the midst of the crowd. As the rally culminated at Boston University’s Sherman Union, marchers pledged to continue the struggle.