Black Community News Service, Saturday September 27, 1969
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Black Community News Service, Saturday September 27, 1969\
This
issue was a critique of the Nixon-Mitchell Law enforcement policies.
Nixon nominated John Mitchell as Attorney General to clamp down on
leftist movements in 1969.
The author points out that: "The black , anyone else with thoughts of rebellion and liberation, were put on notice that there was going to be a new "chief of Politics," a new administrator and overseer of the repressive capitalist state apparatus." pp. 4
John
Newton Mitchell was the 67th Attorney General of the United States
under President Richard Nixon. Prior to that, he had been a municipal
bond lawyer, chairman of Nixon's 1968 presidential campaign, and one of
Nixon's closest personal friends. Wikipedia
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After managing Richard Nixon's presidential campaign, Mitchell
was appointed head of the Department of Justice. While there, he backed
two Supreme Court nominees that were deemed unqualified, approved
unconstitutional wiretaps, prosecuted anti-war protesters and was
involved in the famed Pentagon Papers suit. It was an ignominious reign
(on its own, enough, perhaps, to merit inclusion on this list), but
Mitchell wasn't done. In 1974, he was indicted for conspiring to plan
the Watergate break-in and for perjuring himself during the ensuing
cover-up. Convicted the following year, he served 19 months in prison.
This was a communication letter Eldridge Cleaver sent out to his followers who broke away from the Oakland branch of the BPP. It was later discovered that Cleaver was probably working with federal investigators. This situation was complicated, so I will respond more about it later.
Just wanted to say goodbye to my close friend and comrade in the struggle, (Willie Stevens) who went home to live with the ancestors today. He had a pure heart and loved helping everybody. He was responsible for the clothing drive at the BPP office in Dayton Ohio. God speed Comrade. Raymond Glenn's photo.
I Wor Kuen Contents 1 Underground connections 2 Radical program 3 References I Wor Kuen (Righteous and Harmonious Fists) took its name from a peasant organization that fought to expel foreigners from China during the so-called “Boxer Rebellion.” Founded in 1969 by second-generation Chinese Americans in New York’s Chinatown, it adopted a 12-point program Platform and Program, similar to those previously issued by the Black Panther Party and the Young Lords . It also advocated Mao Zedong thought and engaged in militant struggles in the community. It also started publication of a bi-lingual newspaper, Getting Together . In 1971, I Wor Kuen became a national organization when it merged with former members of the San Francisco-based Red Guard Party , a group which was founded in February 1969 and disbanded in July 1971. Also influenced by the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the example of the Black Panther Party, the Red Guar...
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