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e. Yeah, I don't work e u after. No, thank you. Yeah, When I look out, I think to myself as I stand here, what a magnificent thing is toe, Look out and see the thousands and thousands of freedom loving

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people in this country who have made it here tonight. And then I think of how magnificent would be for you if Huey Newton could be standing here and you could be seeing him. The National Revolutionary Conference for a United Front Against Fascism, a unique three day

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workshop, has attracted over 3000 radical students, including the S. D S, various minority groups, including the Third World Liberation Front, members of the black community and, no doubt a few undercover agents. The Black Panther Party is sponsoring the conference and says nearly half of the delegates

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Air White. The Panthers have played down, although not abandoned, the theme of racism and are emphasizing class struggle and the need for unity among revolutionary groups. Few police were in evidence, although it least one on marked car was parked outside the Oakland Auditorium. This is perhaps

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one of the more unconventional conventions ever held here, yet well organized and orderly outside the auditorium, literally, hundreds of revolutionary publications were either sold or given away. Security was tight. Reporters and delegates alike were searched, although few seemed to object. In fact, one girl said she

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might go through the line again. The theme for the opening session, which got underway an hour and a half late, was Women versus Fascism. The weekend schedule includes a wide range of topics. First speaker for the evening was attorney Edward Keating, who recently visited in prison

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Huey P. Newton. Keating went on to say that Huey Newton is happy to hear that Eldridge Cleaver is free in Algiers and is encouraged that so many have attended this conference. This three day conference may well be the turning point for what has up to this

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point, but an increasing but loosely organized revolutionary phenomenon among this nation's minority groups and student radicals. Not so much for what is said in these large open sessions, but for the planning and organization that will no doubt go on behind closed doors planning and organization that

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will probably streamline and solidify what is now called the movement thing is Mike Lee, Eyewitness News, Oakland. Oh, Okay. Well,