black panthers & the left

bpp & sds et al.

I believe that a.) we almost won b.) that’s why COINTELPRO got so much money and c.) the Black Panther Party was the vanguard and SDS and the anti-war movement were in line behind the BPP. Goes a long way to explaining why Bobby Seale was part of the Chicago 8 trial and why he was at the Free John Sinclair rally along with John Lennon. Photos don’t lie.

Jane Fonda a.k.a. Hanoi Jane was a Party supporter. Look what she’s reading!

Leary gets busted outta jail by the Weather Underground and turns up in Algiers Algeria 30oct70, home of the Panthers govt. in exile, with a pocket full of acid and f*cks up the Party’s concentration (sic). At this point both he and Cleaver are wanted men in the U.S.

Jerry Rubin & Stewart Alpert at JFK aiport 14nov70 on their way back from Algiera by way of Britain. Rubin is wearing wooden beads he says Eldridge Cleaver gave him in Algeria.

Not only is this 29oct66 photograph evidence of the early use of the term “black power” I think it significant that Stokely Carmichael is speaking at a Students for Democratic Society black power conference attended by 14,000 people.