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We in the John Brown Caucus of Students for a Democratic Society and

Movement for a Democratic Society, are outraged at the recent arrest of

eight former Black Panthers. Charged with crimes allegedly committed in

the 1970s, these charges are similar to one's originally thrown out

because the confessions, the state's so-called evidence, were extracted

under torture.

We condemn these indictments and demand that the

United States government drop all charges and immediately free the San

Francisco 8!

The FBI and CA police claim an alleged conspiracy to kill cops 35

years ago but the historical evidence is clear that the FBI and police

conspired to destroy the Black Panthers. The arrest of these former

Panthers in light of the growing push to re-open Congressional hearings

into

COINTELPRO, proves that the government's relentless campaign

to discredit the Panthers and silence radical black dissidents never

really ended. In their drive to quash all revolutionary peoples but

especially

revolutionary people of color, the government chose to wage an all-out war

on what it called Black Nationalist Groups. A war that included false

evidence, creating and exploiting "splits", torture, and murder.

The John Brown Caucus stands in solidarity with the San Francisco 8. We

recognize this latest government manipulation as yet another in a long

line of repressive tactics aimed at those colonized peoples who choose

freedom over oppression and who would rather fight than become victims of

America's racist system.



FREE THE PANTHERS!

FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!!



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