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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, Eldridge Cleaver has written the viability of the Black Panther parties approach to solving problems is testified to by the fact that it has engineered to remarkable feats that constitute the foundation for a revolutionary movement that overlooks nothing,

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is afraid of nothing and is able to resolve the major contradiction of our time. On the one hand, the Black Panther Party cemented a working coalition with the predominantly white Peace and Freedom Party. On the other hand, it affected a merger with Snake. This is the

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key center of the eye of the storm, because whether they know it or not, whether they like it or not, neither white radicals or black radicals are going to get very far by themselves, one without the other. Yes, Yeah, yeah, yeah myself. Stop. Okay, world

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that figure. There are a lot of people, particularly in the Bay Area and a growing number across this country who find this whole situation concerning European doing so distasteful that they could not tolerate existing living. Another day after witnessing the execution of European Newton, we say

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that we would rather be witnesses against this than to be witnesses of it We had originally agreed to deliver 10 lectures, and then Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck got involved in the hustle and said that I could only deliver one. So I'm thinking now about delivering

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20. Yeah, you know what? Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. People told me when I came down here that I shouldn't use any four letter words because they said this was Stanford University. Uh, said that, uh, they said this is not

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a state supported institution. This is private money. And, uh, when you curse at a state support institution, you're cursing part of your own money. You could do that. But this is someone else's money, and you gotta have a little respect. There

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are more people in this country than there are pigs. The only way that they can win through the age old technique of divide and conquer by making white people think that is the intention of wildlife. Black radicals, militants, crazy *** with guns, *** to come through

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the white suburbs to kill the babies. See, that's the only way that they can put us up tight. Or, as I said, by frightening black people with the specter of genocide by telling us that the white people are now letting their racism surface and that they're

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going to support George Wallace. So therefore, let's support Nixon and satellite ourselves with four more years of this tyranny Audio all power to the people. Black power to black people. White power to white people. Okay, You haven't had white power. You've had Pete power. All right,

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if you bad fight power, you wouldn't have those kids inflicting power upon you right now. The decision was turned down today by Justice Thurgood Marshall. Oh, yes. And that's where the legal situation of others accuser stands. A man that

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has yet to be convicted of anything in there attempting to send him back to the penitentiary. Yeah. Mrs Cleaver, do you know where your husband is? No, I don't know where you When was the last time you saw him? Sunday night. Did you give any indication

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at that time of his plans for today? No, it's rumored that allergies out of the country. You think this is possible? No, I don't think so. Why not? Said Cuba even. Why not? Nothing. Speak out, Kathleen. Well, first place he hasn't. I saw him on Sunday

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and he couldn't have gotten out of the country that quickly in the second place that he indicated he had no intention of leaving the country. Still think he's still in San Francisco? I think he's in the Bay Area We

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view. The campaign is primarily a means of educating and organizing the exploited and colonized masses, black people, brown people and poor people and those whites who will struggle to end racism and colonialism rather than a move to get votes. May 8th, he was formally charged with

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three charges. One possession of a gun, too. Association with people of bad repute on three refusal to cooperate with his parole officers. Now this is only because it requires three charges on which the violated. Now the possession of a gun is something which is yet to

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be proven in court. This is a charge for the court to decide the association with people of ill repute. Bad character is clearly a political judgment on the part of the pigs, because the people in association with black panthers and the refusal to cooperate with his

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parole officer it's completely grounded. Its on Lee isolate him to prevent him from having visitors prevented from having books prevented from having contact, prevented from having dealings with the press to isolate him, to keep him from dealing with the politics and the people that he was

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dealing with on the outside. My reaction, uh, is not one of surprise, because I know that the California Legislature is full of criminals, retro based scalawags and other negative categories of hypocritical politicians. So that when this man by the name of John Birch stood up and

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made this resolution, I wasn't surprised at all because, uh, with Max Rafferty running around loose on Ronald Regan running around loose, you could expect almost anything. Yeah, I want to thank those who responsible for inviting me down here. I wanna thank Mickey Mouse, Ronald Reagan, Donald

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Duck Rafferty for making it possible. Um, okay. People have lost their spirit that they could no longer deal with the problems confronting society that is necessary to throw up both hands and allow the professionals like Nixon, Regan Humphrey and Georgie Boy Wallace to

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come in and rescue us and to save us and to offer salvation to the people. But we think that this is another life. Ah, part of the tissue of lives that everyone in this country's been fed all of their lives, all of the history of this

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country. And we say that people don't have t to submit allies. I think that a racist pig called Bone knows Richard Milhouse Nixon will be the next president. Um, I think so. Because, uh, he's bankrolling all this publicity for George Wallace. Um, so that he can

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have George Wallace on the far right of him. He'll believe, with the point to George Wallace to come to the people and say George Wallace is far out, right wing extremists that he himself is in the middle of the road with a wild eyed, flaming radical

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on the left by the name of Hubert Hump, Hump Humphrey and stuff like that, you know? Oh, good. Wait. Well, there's on behalf of my husband, I'd like to say thank you very much to the faculty and the students for this very

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beautiful and moving tribute to raid man that has been persecuted from the regions of California till today by the Supreme Court. Yeah, mhm. The Uncle Tom the bootlicker, the pig bootlicker Thurgood Marshall supposedly there to say that we're making progress. Black people are not making any

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progress to the revolutionary struggle. Should go on fourth. That was his cleaver will be defended by hook or crook. Instead of giving you a piece of paper, we're inviting you to our party and lower Sproul Plaza, where we're having a band and corn bread. Thank you.

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States with petition for a stay. Not for a reversal off the order, but simply for a state of the enactment of this order to return him to the penitentiary until the Supreme Court could listen. Marshall? Yeah. Mhm,

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God. Mhm. One of e didn't name the judgment. You need to know. Yeah. Yeah, like that. Right. Mhm. For new educational programs which meet a period of crisis, we dedicate ourselves to the cause that your distinctive message and your voice may be heard in future without

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hindrance in an academic community where no seeker after truth shall be denied. Thank you. Okay, But with it's a committee to mobilize public support and put political pressure on the authorities that have revoked Eldridge Cleaver's parole and maintain him

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in prison as a political prisoner, it's called the International Committee for it is based in San Francisco, New York, Rome, London, Amsterdam We have committees in Detroit, and we are planning to mobilize the international support. Very, very, definitely. The fact that Eldridge's book has been sold

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and published in Italy. Hollande, Paris, London, Germany. Possibility of being in Cuba and Japan and other countries across the world will make it a natural for us to mobilize the international support around this writer who has been politically imprisoned. We feel that the Eldridge Cleaver case

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is a case of political persecution. Uh, not unlike that of Sacco and Vanzetti or Dreyfuss or Eugene Debs or Tom Mooney. And we feel that people all over the world all over this country are going to rise to the support of Eldridge Cleaver, uh, who was

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imprisoned now as a political prisoner. And the revocation of who's parole was done in the most unconstitutional way, depriving him of due process of law. Way already have nearly 5000 sponsors of the committee, and we're going for 70,000, 100,000 money as we could get. Yeah, she

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was going on. It could be my question. Time should be told the charges, so Okay, Yeah, for the on going on holiday. I am way up here. Everybody going up? Yeah. Yeah. This week. So far. Yeah. Good idea. Bernie. Vietnam defenseman. I didn't have any parts

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for five. There's five times right up in the sun. Mhm. We have never said that he could receive a fair and impartial trial in Alameda County. Uh, Deputy District Attorney Lowell Jensen, Um, is a man who has long been involved in persecuting black people in railroading

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black people. To those courts, the fact that he is continued to do this in the case of European Newton is not surprising to us. Shortly before the rally began, the Black Panthers gathered in the yard at the Free Marie Park. There were about 100 of them.

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They went through various drill exercises. They carried banners calling for Huey Newton to be freed. If he goes, I guarantee you this goes every bit of it. We're not playing games any more. Black men have got to stand up and be made way. Must have individual

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acts that individual We must take a stand. Uh, wait. Contributions. I've already accepted it, and it has already gone through, uh, only thing that remains is whether or not the regions will see fit. Thio just strike it off. If they don't do that, then of course,

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is set. The students have already indicated that they want to sign up and, uh, myself for those who are helping me prepare the course, we're ready to go on October the second. So this don't stretch the course from the curriculum, we will be there. Don't give

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me that The word. Oh, yeah, people took happens. Oh, What's that? Yeah. Never really went the basic thing. They have to decide us where they decide whether just Judge Sherwin and Fairfield acted properly and within his own jurisdiction. And I think that the court will decide

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that one of the justices kept mentioning a case which sided that parolee didn't have to have a hearing at all to have his parole revoked. What do you think about that? That was a case. Uh, that came up about six years ago or 12, 8 years

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ago. And the issues were not properly argued. You understand it every time A prisoner who's in our penitentiaries, they filed writs of habeas corpus. They're not represented by counsel. Most of the time. They're done carelessly and haphazardly. And these half has writs of habeas corpus that

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air filed in persona proper by the person himself create bad laws without proper application and proper reasoning of these laws. It's about time that the prisoners and the people who are on parole started having some basic rights. What happens now is that a man on parole

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that is, who has been released from prison and allowed to serve time outside of prison. Uh, if a factual allegation a new fact is alleged against him, for instance, as in the Cleaver case that he didn't report to his parole officer, he doesn't have the chance

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to bring in witnesses to haven't attorney to help him contest that fact. No matter how Maney witnesses, he has to prove that he did report to his parole officer. He doesn't have the chance to present those witnesses. Way told the court that in our opinion, fundamental

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fairness requires that he have the chance to show by witnesses and by evidence that he did not violate his parole. It seems to be a dispute still continuing over the University of California, whether you will or will not lecture 10 times. If you're asked to lecture

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10 times there, will you? Right. My feeling at the present time is that case maybe off campus? Have asked. I said all along that, uh, I take my lead from the students on the faculty members who invited me there. If they request that, I deliver one,

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I'll do that. If they requested, I deliver them off campus. I'll do that. Whatever they request. That's what I'll be there to do. Another major one over at the university. Well, I don't know about that. I guess that depends upon how much pressure Governor on Rafferty,

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uh, try to put on the students and how much the students could take. What do you think of what the students will do? Do you think they'll stand up to this pressure? Yes. I think that they will demand that their rights be vindicated at all costs.

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The battle over Cleaver lecturing at the University of California at Berkeley may be causing lots of problems for lots of different people. But one thing is certain. The publicity has made cleaver big at the box office. This is it are no four eyewitness news at Stanford

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University E Health. The crowd was large, as expected, and the response was warm as expected. For many, this was their first time to hear Eldridge Cleaver speak in person. Now the real test begins. They'll have to

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evaluate whether they want a direct confrontation with the region's over Eldridge Cleaver's right to lecture here, Cal Velvet Davis for Eyewitness News and U C. Berkeley here at the University of California as long as the faculty members, as long as the students can tolerate my profanity,

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and I think the faculty is stand up against this. But I would also say that I found that the performance of Mr Cleaver today here in this campus and another campus was a disgrace. And I would like to point out that the great majority of students

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who are standing out here when Mr Cleaver made his appeal about chanting the phrase that he did about Governor Regan did not join in on it. That's right. There's nothing smart about dirty language. Mr. Cleaver ought to get over his obsession with obscenities. This doesn't add

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to the conversation. There's nothing Mr Cleaver has a very good point to make. He's a very eloquent man, but I think that this obsession with obscenity pornography talk about guns. His statement yesterday that Governor Wallace ought to be assassinated. This is not part of the discussion.

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I support Mr Cleavers. Right. I think he should lecture on this campus, but I think his performance was disgraceful. Okay? It was terrific. He covered you Enjoy? Yes, very much. Mr. Cleaver is very impressive. Did you find it informative? Very much. So. Are you

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enrolled in the course of you know, I'm taking it for credit. May I ask you what you thought of the class? I thought it was very good because it was more of a lecturer than a political figure. Like it was made up to me. Did he

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handle his topic? Well, yes, I thought so. Where the students generally interested. I thought so. But there was too much of an atmosphere of, you know, like a political carnival that it was made up to me instead of a class. Some of the students have said

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that they will continue to demand that the course that the course get credit. What's your impression about the credit? No credit issue. Well, I'm aware of that is very important to the students. Um, I'm aware that they said that they will, uh, be resourceful and demanding

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that they do get credit for this course. Um, because we're dealing with some relevant material because, uh, it is important that people have this information not so much from myself, but this type of information. Uh, the students are approaching this a very serious manner on. I

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don't see why they shouldn't be given credit. And I support them and demanding that the case is so ridiculous. Evidence so non existent that we will be victorious with these and you won't even require any show of support. So you don't know of any planned demonstrations

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there? No, I don't know of any plan. Demonstration, Considering the possibility that you might not be in the White House come next year, what will be doing? Still talking about the pig who is in there? Who do you think will be elected president?