WEBVTT 00:00:06.700 --> 00:00:09.008 This episode of It's the End of the World 00:00:09.008 --> 00:00:10.515 As We Know it and I Feel Fine 00:00:10.515 --> 00:00:12.543 was made possible by contributions 00:00:12.543 --> 00:00:13.891 from slaves like you. 00:00:13.891 --> 00:00:15.070 Spank you very much. 00:00:15.070 --> 00:00:16.846 They can do anything they want to to us. 00:00:16.846 --> 00:00:17.870 We might not be back 00:00:17.870 --> 00:00:20.226 I might be in jail, I might be anywhere... 00:00:20.226 --> 00:00:22.095 but when I leave you can remember I said 00:00:22.095 --> 00:00:23.745 with the last words on my lips 00:00:23.745 --> 00:00:27.067 that I am a Revolutionary 00:00:27.067 --> 00:00:28.223 and you're gonna have to keep on 00:00:28.223 --> 00:00:29.085 saying that. 00:00:29.085 --> 00:00:30.123 You're gonna have to say that I am 00:00:30.123 --> 00:00:31.932 a proletariat... I am the people. 00:00:31.932 --> 00:00:33.338 I'm not the pig. 00:00:33.338 --> 00:00:35.231 You gotta make a distinction. 00:00:35.231 --> 00:00:36.493 And the people are gonna have to 00:00:36.493 --> 00:00:37.703 attack the pigs. 00:00:37.703 --> 00:00:38.725 The people are gonna have to 00:00:38.725 --> 00:00:40.109 stand up against the pigs. 00:00:40.109 --> 00:00:41.328 That's what the Panthers are doing here. 00:00:41.328 --> 00:00:42.275 That's what the Panthers are doing 00:00:42.275 --> 00:00:42.784 all over the world. 00:00:49.184 --> 00:00:51.002 Goooooooooooooood morning slaves 00:00:51.002 --> 00:00:52.518 and welcome to another sedition of 00:00:52.518 --> 00:00:54.129 It's the End of the World as We Know it 00:00:54.129 --> 00:00:55.354 and I Feel Fine... 00:00:55.354 --> 00:00:56.858 where children are the future. 00:00:56.858 --> 00:00:58.354 That cop was so drunk 00:00:58.354 --> 00:01:00.390 he waved traffic into his pants. 00:01:00.390 --> 00:01:01.852 Look... a pig on a hog! 00:01:01.852 --> 00:01:03.271 Oink Oink! Bang Bang! 00:01:03.271 --> 00:01:05.028 Hope that badge is bulletproof. 00:01:05.028 --> 00:01:07.493 That's the car where they keep the bribes. 00:01:07.493 --> 00:01:09.335 Car 79... we've got a Black man 00:01:09.335 --> 00:01:10.427 minding his own business. 00:01:10.427 --> 00:01:12.946 Meanwhile.. on the other side of town... 00:01:15.596 --> 00:01:17.128 I am your host the Stimulator, 00:01:17.128 --> 00:01:18.761 and October 15th marked 00:01:18.761 --> 00:01:20.766 the 50th fucking anniversary of 00:01:20.766 --> 00:01:22.494 the founding of one of the most infamous, 00:01:22.494 --> 00:01:23.721 The state assembly was in the midst of 00:01:23.721 --> 00:01:25.265 a heated debate when the young Negroes 00:01:25.265 --> 00:01:27.202 armed with loaded rifles, shotguns, 00:01:27.202 --> 00:01:29.121 and pistols, marched into the capital. 00:01:29.121 --> 00:01:29.814 iconic, 00:01:29.814 --> 00:01:30.901 That look.... 00:01:30.901 --> 00:01:32.456 y'know, the big afro, 00:01:32.456 --> 00:01:34.240 the leather jacket, the shades... 00:01:34.240 --> 00:01:35.579 politically sophisticated, 00:01:35.579 --> 00:01:36.964 They were the ones that really came out 00:01:36.964 --> 00:01:39.741 and started showing us how to 00:01:39.741 --> 00:01:41.717 organize successfully. 00:01:41.717 --> 00:01:42.948 and all-around badass 00:01:42.948 --> 00:01:44.931 revolutionary organizations in the history 00:01:44.931 --> 00:01:46.437 of the United Snakes... 00:01:46.437 --> 00:01:47.661 the Black Panthers Party. 00:01:47.661 --> 00:01:48.675 This anniversary comes at 00:01:48.675 --> 00:01:49.934 a particularly salient moment 00:01:49.934 --> 00:01:51.155 in mothafuckin history. 00:01:51.155 --> 00:01:53.301 In the United Snakes, a growing awareness 00:01:53.301 --> 00:01:55.547 of police brutality and systematic racism 00:01:55.547 --> 00:01:57.250 has been thrust into the mainstream 00:01:57.250 --> 00:01:59.284 by the Black Lives Matter movement, 00:01:59.284 --> 00:02:00.627 while street-level rebellions 00:02:00.627 --> 00:02:02.732 to white supremacist police terror 00:02:02.732 --> 00:02:04.849 have been lighting up urban city centers 00:02:04.849 --> 00:02:07.668 at a frequency not seen since the 1960s. 00:02:07.668 --> 00:02:10.143 Can you dig it?! 00:02:10.143 --> 00:02:12.538 [Applause] 00:02:12.538 --> 00:02:13.955 Over the past two and a half years, 00:02:13.955 --> 00:02:15.339 Black-led uprisings have kicked off 00:02:15.339 --> 00:02:16.353 in Ferguson, 00:02:16.353 --> 00:02:16.921 Baltimore, 00:02:16.921 --> 00:02:17.693 Milwaukee, 00:02:17.693 --> 00:02:19.642 and most recently, Charlotte, NC. 00:02:33.013 --> 00:02:34.306 The Panther's emerged during 00:02:34.306 --> 00:02:36.103 a similarly tumultuous era, 00:02:36.103 --> 00:02:37.973 at a time when the reformist discourse 00:02:37.973 --> 00:02:39.192 of the southern, rural-based 00:02:39.192 --> 00:02:40.367 civil rights movement, 00:02:40.367 --> 00:02:41.792 was rapidly giving way to 00:02:41.792 --> 00:02:43.535 the righteous anger and militancy 00:02:43.535 --> 00:02:45.405 of the primarily urban-based 00:02:45.405 --> 00:02:46.586 Black Power movement. 00:02:46.586 --> 00:02:48.618 Back in the summer of 1964, 00:02:48.618 --> 00:02:50.480 50 years before Ferguson, pigs shot 00:02:50.480 --> 00:02:52.252 and killed 15 year old Black youth, 00:02:52.252 --> 00:02:54.452 James Powell, leading to six nights 00:02:54.452 --> 00:02:56.439 of intense fucking riots in Harlem. 00:02:56.729 --> 00:02:58.410 And 50 years before Baltimore 00:02:58.410 --> 00:02:59.875 came the Watts Rebellion, 00:02:59.875 --> 00:03:02.279 an even more intense six days of rioting 00:03:02.279 --> 00:03:04.675 which, surprise surprise, was provoked 00:03:04.675 --> 00:03:06.660 by an incident of racist police brutality 00:03:06.660 --> 00:03:09.151 at the hands of the LA fucking Pig D. 00:03:09.151 --> 00:03:10.404 Over the next three summers 00:03:10.404 --> 00:03:11.554 riots broke out at a rate of 00:03:11.554 --> 00:03:12.652 nearly one per month. 00:03:12.652 --> 00:03:15.005 Once the Black people of the slums 00:03:15.005 --> 00:03:16.831 got up on their legs and 00:03:16.831 --> 00:03:19.136 defied the white police, 00:03:19.136 --> 00:03:21.664 a tremor of self-recognition 00:03:21.664 --> 00:03:23.939 seemed to go all through the Negro world. 00:03:23.939 --> 00:03:25.845 "Burn baby burn" drowned out 00:03:25.845 --> 00:03:27.276 "we shall overcome." 00:03:27.276 --> 00:03:28.164 This wave of 00:03:28.164 --> 00:03:30.189 insurrectionary mothafuckin rage 00:03:30.189 --> 00:03:31.379 reached its high water mark 00:03:31.379 --> 00:03:33.503 in April of '68, in the nights following 00:03:33.503 --> 00:03:35.729 the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr 00:03:35.729 --> 00:03:37.692 with incendiary riots breaking out in 00:03:37.692 --> 00:03:39.852 over 100 cities across the United Snakes 00:03:39.852 --> 00:03:41.600 in what remains, to this day, 00:03:41.600 --> 00:03:43.379 the largest display of popular unrest 00:03:43.379 --> 00:03:45.689 seen in the country since the Civil War. 00:03:45.689 --> 00:03:47.204 The Panthers effectively seized 00:03:47.204 --> 00:03:49.123 this widespread sense of Black anger 00:03:49.123 --> 00:03:50.341 and outrage, and channeled it 00:03:50.341 --> 00:03:52.565 into sustained revolutionary organizing. 00:03:52.565 --> 00:03:54.851 FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, today 00:03:54.851 --> 00:03:56.314 asserted that the Black Panthers 00:03:56.314 --> 00:03:57.942 represent the greatest internal threat 00:03:57.942 --> 00:03:58.635 to the nation. 00:03:58.635 --> 00:04:00.094 At its height, the Black Panthers 00:04:00.094 --> 00:04:01.964 had over ten thousand members, 00:04:01.964 --> 00:04:03.784 organized into dozens of chapters 00:04:03.784 --> 00:04:04.849 across the country. 00:04:04.849 --> 00:04:06.393 They say a Black Panther 00:04:06.393 --> 00:04:08.188 is born every minute in the ghetto. 00:04:08.188 --> 00:04:09.775 Throw in the fact that the United Snakes 00:04:09.775 --> 00:04:11.436 was at the time engaged in 00:04:11.436 --> 00:04:13.517 a deeply unpopular and socially polarizing 00:04:13.517 --> 00:04:14.775 war in Vietnam, 00:04:14.775 --> 00:04:16.277 in which thousands of soldiers 00:04:16.277 --> 00:04:17.937 were going AWOL, and some were even 00:04:17.937 --> 00:04:19.690 fragging their fucking officers, 00:04:19.690 --> 00:04:20.998 Do it. 00:04:22.974 --> 00:04:24.485 and you can begin to see why the state 00:04:24.485 --> 00:04:26.359 was shitting its proverbial pants. 00:04:26.359 --> 00:04:28.230 Buuuuuuuuuut while that crazy fuck, 00:04:28.230 --> 00:04:30.376 J Edgar Hoover, and his racist crackers 00:04:30.376 --> 00:04:32.212 at the FBI were at the time 00:04:32.212 --> 00:04:34.396 most terrified by the Panther’s so-called 00:04:34.396 --> 00:04:36.595 survival pending revolution programs, 00:04:36.595 --> 00:04:38.234 such as their free breakfast 00:04:38.234 --> 00:04:39.348 for poor school children, 00:04:39.348 --> 00:04:41.483 We feed about 10,000 00:04:41.483 --> 00:04:43.325 across the country each day. 00:04:43.325 --> 00:04:44.876 today they are most widely remembered 00:04:44.876 --> 00:04:46.467 for their militaristic regalia, 00:04:46.467 --> 00:04:48.337 and their embrace of armed self-defense, 00:04:48.337 --> 00:04:49.801 and community patrols, 00:04:49.801 --> 00:04:50.820 which they carried out 00:04:50.820 --> 00:04:51.997 as a self-defense measure 00:04:51.997 --> 00:04:52.973 against racist pigs. 00:04:52.973 --> 00:04:54.799 Is that gun loaded boy!? 00:04:54.799 --> 00:04:56.304 I tell you officer, it wasn't... 00:04:56.304 --> 00:04:57.378 but now it is. 00:04:57.378 --> 00:04:58.717 Many of the white-knuckled, 00:04:58.717 --> 00:05:00.615 racist dipshits who lie awake at night 00:05:00.615 --> 00:05:01.680 stressing about Obama 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:02.698 taking away their guns, 00:05:02.698 --> 00:05:05.580 Come and get 'em Obama! 00:05:05.580 --> 00:05:06.999 would no doubt choke on 00:05:06.999 --> 00:05:08.812 their fucking mayonnaise sandwiches to 00:05:08.812 --> 00:05:11.559 learn that it was the GOP's cowboy mascot, 00:05:11.559 --> 00:05:12.647 the ol' Gipper himself, 00:05:12.647 --> 00:05:13.818 Ronnie fucking Reagan, 00:05:13.818 --> 00:05:14.924 Fuck Ronald Reagan! 00:05:14.924 --> 00:05:16.552 who back in 1967, 00:05:16.552 --> 00:05:18.135 as Governor of California, 00:05:18.135 --> 00:05:19.629 seized on the widespread sense 00:05:19.629 --> 00:05:21.019 of white panic provoked by 00:05:21.019 --> 00:05:22.851 the Panthers' armed community patrols 00:05:22.851 --> 00:05:24.895 and used it as an excuse to 00:05:24.895 --> 00:05:27.252 uhhh... take away peeps' guns. 00:05:27.252 --> 00:05:28.988 I don't think that loaded guns 00:05:28.988 --> 00:05:30.955 is a way to solve a problem that should 00:05:30.955 --> 00:05:33.582 be solved between people of good will. 00:05:33.582 --> 00:05:34.937 And anyone who would approve of 00:05:34.937 --> 00:05:36.274 this kind of demonstration, 00:05:36.274 --> 00:05:37.179 must be out of their mind. 00:05:37.179 --> 00:05:39.820 AAAAAAAAAAGGGGH! 00:05:39.820 --> 00:05:41.553 In our current age of intense corporate 00:05:41.553 --> 00:05:43.269 and social media saturation, 00:05:43.269 --> 00:05:45.048 in which Black-led urban uprisings 00:05:45.048 --> 00:05:46.881 are again becoming a frequent response 00:05:46.881 --> 00:05:48.263 to rampant police killings, 00:05:48.263 --> 00:05:49.526 white reaction is once more 00:05:49.526 --> 00:05:51.375 rearing its ugly fucking head, 00:05:51.375 --> 00:05:53.085 with many pointing to the administration 00:05:53.085 --> 00:05:54.677 of Barack Hussein Obama, 00:05:54.677 --> 00:05:56.182 either as proof that the United Snakes 00:05:56.182 --> 00:05:58.407 has evolved into a post-racial society, 00:05:58.407 --> 00:05:59.793 Surprise! 00:05:59.793 --> 00:06:01.386 Study finds people don't understand 00:06:01.386 --> 00:06:02.939 how racism works. 00:06:02.939 --> 00:06:04.680 or else to frantically accuse him 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:06.589 of trying to start a race war. 00:06:06.589 --> 00:06:09.195 A former federal prosecutor is sueing. 00:06:09.195 --> 00:06:11.146 The suit accuses all of them of 00:06:11.146 --> 00:06:13.789 inciting a race war, and it seeks 00:06:13.789 --> 00:06:17.036 damages of more than $2 billion. 00:06:17.036 --> 00:06:18.338 Buuuuuuuuuuut while pig-apologists 00:06:18.338 --> 00:06:20.334 of the Blue Lives Matter variety, 00:06:20.334 --> 00:06:21.962 endlessly try to paint victims 00:06:21.962 --> 00:06:22.977 of police terror 00:06:22.977 --> 00:06:24.648 and those who participate in riots, 00:06:24.648 --> 00:06:26.761 as thugs or mindless criminals, their 00:06:26.761 --> 00:06:28.346 collective shock and indignant confusion 00:06:28.346 --> 00:06:30.459 over why Black youth would be angry enough 00:06:30.459 --> 00:06:32.207 to loot or burn down shops, 00:06:32.207 --> 00:06:33.673 speaks fucking volumes. 00:06:33.673 --> 00:06:34.854 The fact of the matter is that 00:06:34.854 --> 00:06:36.401 the “race war” has been raging 00:06:36.401 --> 00:06:37.774 for hundreds of years, 00:06:37.774 --> 00:06:39.696 ever since white Europeans brought 00:06:39.696 --> 00:06:41.395 the first enslaved Africans over 00:06:41.395 --> 00:06:43.148 to Turtle Island in chains, 00:06:43.148 --> 00:06:44.812 and forced them to farm the very land 00:06:44.812 --> 00:06:46.204 they'd stolen through the genocide 00:06:46.204 --> 00:06:47.540 of its original inhabitants. 00:06:47.540 --> 00:06:49.534 Settler-colonial capitalism is itself 00:06:49.534 --> 00:06:51.364 a fucking race war, at the same time as 00:06:51.364 --> 00:06:53.721 it's a perpetual class war waged by 00:06:53.721 --> 00:06:54.901 those on the top against 00:06:54.901 --> 00:06:55.966 those at the bottom. 00:06:55.966 --> 00:06:57.628 So peeps shouldn't be so fucking shocked 00:06:57.628 --> 00:06:58.763 when those at the bottom 00:06:58.763 --> 00:06:59.629 decide to fight back. 00:06:59.629 --> 00:07:01.420 We don't hate mothafuckin white people, 00:07:01.420 --> 00:07:02.375 we hate the oppressor. 00:07:02.375 --> 00:07:03.181 Whether he be white, black, 00:07:03.181 --> 00:07:03.864 brown or yellow. 00:07:03.864 --> 00:07:05.920 In fact, they should fucking join in, 00:07:05.920 --> 00:07:07.018 and help overthrow this 00:07:07.018 --> 00:07:09.364 racist fucking system once and for all. 00:07:09.364 --> 00:07:10.837 One two three four five 00:07:10.837 --> 00:07:12.421 Six seven eight nine 00:07:12.421 --> 00:07:14.445 What I use in the battle for the mind 00:07:14.445 --> 00:07:15.820 I hit it hard like it supposed 00:07:15.820 --> 00:07:17.699 Pullin' no blows to the nose 00:07:17.699 --> 00:07:19.809 Like uncle L said I'm rippin' up shows 00:07:19.809 --> 00:07:23.060 Then what it is only 5 percent of the biz 00:07:23.060 --> 00:07:23.956 I'm addin' woes 00:07:23.956 --> 00:07:25.248 That's how da way it goes 00:07:25.248 --> 00:07:27.850 Then you think I rank never drank, point blank 00:07:27.850 --> 00:07:28.873 I own loans 00:07:28.873 --> 00:07:30.582 Suckers got me runnin' from the bank 00:07:30.582 --> 00:07:33.091 Civil liberty I can't see to pay a fee 00:07:33.091 --> 00:07:35.090 I never saw a way to pay a sap 00:07:35.090 --> 00:07:35.813 To read the law 00:07:35.813 --> 00:07:37.932 Then become a victim of a lawyer 00:07:37.932 --> 00:07:39.149 Don't know ya, never saw ya 00:07:39.149 --> 00:07:39.881 Tape cued 00:07:39.881 --> 00:07:41.179 Gettin' me sued 00:07:41.179 --> 00:07:42.483 Playin' games wit' my head 00:07:42.483 --> 00:07:44.520 What the judge said put me in the red 00:07:44.520 --> 00:07:46.504 Got me thinkin' 'bout a trigger to the lead 00:07:46.504 --> 00:07:48.698 No no, my education mind say 00:07:48.698 --> 00:07:49.833 Suckers gonna pay 00:07:49.833 --> 00:07:51.709 Anyway, there gonna be a day 00:07:51.709 --> 00:07:53.091 'Cause the troop they roll in 00:07:53.091 --> 00:07:54.187 To posse up 00:07:54.187 --> 00:07:55.324 Whole from the ground 00:07:55.324 --> 00:07:56.097 Ready to go 00:07:56.097 --> 00:07:57.193 Throw another round 00:07:57.193 --> 00:07:58.209 Sick of the ride 00:07:58.209 --> 00:07:58.858 It's suicide 00:07:58.858 --> 00:08:00.358 For the other side of town 00:08:00.358 --> 00:08:02.390 When I find a way to shut 'em down 00:08:02.390 --> 00:08:07.636 i shut 'em down, shut 'em shut 'em down. 00:08:09.146 --> 00:08:10.591 As white peeps in the United Snakes 00:08:10.591 --> 00:08:11.778 are freaking the fuck out 00:08:11.778 --> 00:08:12.834 over killer clowns, 00:08:12.834 --> 00:08:14.417 Let's show them how Homie gets back 00:08:14.417 --> 00:08:16.492 at Mr. Establishment, shall we? 00:08:17.652 --> 00:08:18.905 Sure. 00:08:23.553 --> 00:08:25.905 [Screaming] 00:08:25.905 --> 00:08:27.181 Black and Brown peeps around the world 00:08:27.181 --> 00:08:28.845 are celebrating the 50th anniversary 00:08:28.845 --> 00:08:30.097 of the founding of 00:08:30.097 --> 00:08:31.256 the Black Panther Party. 00:08:31.256 --> 00:08:34.938 Revolution has come... off the pigs! 00:08:34.938 --> 00:08:38.333 Time to pick up the gun... off the pigs! 00:08:38.333 --> 00:08:39.521 Buuuuuuuuuuuuut to say 00:08:39.521 --> 00:08:41.117 this commemoration is bittersweet 00:08:41.117 --> 00:08:42.815 would be a fucking understatement. 00:08:42.815 --> 00:08:43.924 Outside of a Beyonce 00:08:43.924 --> 00:08:44.900 Superbowl performance, 00:08:44.900 --> 00:08:46.323 no serious acknowledgement of 00:08:46.323 --> 00:08:48.071 the Panther's vital contributions 00:08:48.071 --> 00:08:50.184 to revolutionary theory and practice 00:08:50.184 --> 00:08:52.170 can gloss over the sheer fucking brutality 00:08:52.170 --> 00:08:53.305 of the repression that 00:08:53.305 --> 00:08:54.899 the United Snakes unleashed on its cadre, 00:08:54.899 --> 00:08:56.488 and the organization as a whole. 00:08:56.488 --> 00:08:58.518 This ruthless campaign of repression 00:08:58.518 --> 00:08:59.656 was planned and coordinated by 00:08:59.656 --> 00:09:02.178 the greasy motherfuckers at the FBI 00:09:02.178 --> 00:09:03.838 through a series of dirty operations 00:09:03.838 --> 00:09:05.185 grouped together under the 00:09:05.185 --> 00:09:07.366 infamous umbrella of COINTELPRO. 00:09:07.366 --> 00:09:09.089 COINTELPRO, pig short-hand for 00:09:09.089 --> 00:09:10.997 Counter-Intelligence Program, 00:09:10.997 --> 00:09:12.167 was already up and running 00:09:12.167 --> 00:09:13.356 by the times the Panthers arrived 00:09:13.356 --> 00:09:14.678 on the scene in '65, 00:09:14.678 --> 00:09:16.158 having been earlier used to fuck with 00:09:16.158 --> 00:09:18.722 Independistas in my homeland of Boriken, 00:09:18.722 --> 00:09:20.425 also known as Puerto Rico, 00:09:20.425 --> 00:09:21.473 as well as members of 00:09:21.473 --> 00:09:22.496 the US Communist Party, 00:09:22.496 --> 00:09:23.553 the New Left, 00:09:23.553 --> 00:09:24.979 and various Civil Rights leaders. 00:09:24.979 --> 00:09:26.847 Buuuuuuuuuuuut as it turns out, 00:09:26.847 --> 00:09:28.107 that was just a warm up 00:09:28.107 --> 00:09:29.398 for what was still to come. 00:09:29.398 --> 00:09:30.657 In the five and a half years 00:09:30.657 --> 00:09:31.682 between when they formed 00:09:31.682 --> 00:09:33.511 and COINTELPRO officially ended, 00:09:33.511 --> 00:09:35.748 the Black Panther Party was the target of 00:09:35.748 --> 00:09:38.306 no less than 233 fucking ops 00:09:38.306 --> 00:09:40.657 overseen and carried out by the FBI, 00:09:40.657 --> 00:09:42.155 who used a toxic fucking mix of 00:09:42.155 --> 00:09:43.138 surveillance, deception, 00:09:43.138 --> 00:09:44.763 psychological warfare and 00:09:44.763 --> 00:09:46.707 widespread infiltration to help stir up 00:09:46.707 --> 00:09:48.461 internal beefs and provoke strife 00:09:48.461 --> 00:09:50.370 with other armed organizations, in hopes 00:09:50.370 --> 00:09:52.294 of inciting violent confrontations, 00:09:52.294 --> 00:09:54.364 such as the shooting on the UCLA campus 00:09:54.364 --> 00:09:55.995 that killed two influential leaders 00:09:55.995 --> 00:09:57.054 of the LA chapter, 00:09:57.054 --> 00:09:58.719 Bunchy Carter and John Huggins. 00:09:58.719 --> 00:10:00.789 When this didn't do the trick, the FBI 00:10:00.789 --> 00:10:02.406 engaged in straight up assassinations, 00:10:02.406 --> 00:10:05.204 a prime example being the 1969 murder 00:10:05.204 --> 00:10:06.098 of Fred Hampton, 00:10:06.098 --> 00:10:07.610 who was killed in his bed by 00:10:07.610 --> 00:10:08.913 a Chicago Police death squad, 00:10:08.913 --> 00:10:10.787 acting under orders of the Feds 00:10:10.787 --> 00:10:12.487 and with the active cooperation of 00:10:12.487 --> 00:10:13.624 his personal bodyguard, 00:10:13.624 --> 00:10:15.921 who just so happened to be an FBI plant. 00:10:15.921 --> 00:10:17.404 At a time when every small-town 00:10:17.404 --> 00:10:19.437 police department has its own fucking tank 00:10:19.437 --> 00:10:20.697 and enough military-grade weapons 00:10:20.697 --> 00:10:22.075 to invade Luxembourg, 00:10:22.075 --> 00:10:24.027 it is sometimes forgotten that 00:10:24.027 --> 00:10:25.977 the very first SWAT Team raid was launched 00:10:25.977 --> 00:10:27.487 against the Black Panthers' office 00:10:27.487 --> 00:10:28.500 in Los Angeles, 00:10:28.500 --> 00:10:30.197 culminating in a four hour firefight 00:10:30.197 --> 00:10:32.030 in which four Panthers and four pigs 00:10:32.030 --> 00:10:32.968 were injured, 00:10:32.968 --> 00:10:34.229 but amazingly, no one was killed. 00:10:34.229 --> 00:10:35.444 As a result of COINTELPRO and 00:10:35.444 --> 00:10:37.234 its unnamed covert successor programs, 00:10:37.234 --> 00:10:39.102 dozens of Panthers and former Panthers 00:10:39.102 --> 00:10:41.089 were framed up on bogus charges and 00:10:41.089 --> 00:10:43.193 many sentenced to long prison sentences, 00:10:43.193 --> 00:10:44.827 in some cases serving decades 00:10:44.827 --> 00:10:46.617 in mothafuckin solitary confinement. 00:10:46.617 --> 00:10:47.997 These political prisoners were joined 00:10:47.997 --> 00:10:50.000 in the vast fucking bowels of 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:51.257 the American gulag system 00:10:51.257 --> 00:10:52.265 by captured soldiers of 00:10:52.265 --> 00:10:53.575 the Black Liberation Army, 00:10:53.575 --> 00:10:54.544 many of whom were themselves 00:10:54.544 --> 00:10:55.810 former Panthers who opted for 00:10:55.810 --> 00:10:58.001 underground armed struggle following 00:10:58.001 --> 00:10:59.949 the fateful split between Huey P Newton 00:10:59.949 --> 00:11:00.886 and Eldridge Cleaver. 00:11:00.886 --> 00:11:01.982 As the revolutionary threat 00:11:01.982 --> 00:11:03.239 of the Panthers was receding, 00:11:03.239 --> 00:11:04.906 the state massively expanded the scope 00:11:04.906 --> 00:11:06.613 of its counterinsurgency operations. 00:11:06.613 --> 00:11:08.363 In 1971, Richard Nixon launched 00:11:08.363 --> 00:11:09.904 the so-called War on Drugs, 00:11:09.904 --> 00:11:12.196 which Tricky Dick’s domestic policy chief, 00:11:12.196 --> 00:11:14.043 John Ehrlichman, later admitted 00:11:14.043 --> 00:11:15.465 was a thinly-veiled plot to target 00:11:15.465 --> 00:11:17.412 Black peeps and anti-war leftists. 00:11:17.412 --> 00:11:19.400 What matters is that Mr. Tynan's 00:11:19.400 --> 00:11:21.462 clients and the Bureau have come up 00:11:21.462 --> 00:11:24.186 with a solution to our Panther problem. 00:11:24.186 --> 00:11:26.594 A final solution, you might say. 00:11:26.594 --> 00:11:28.414 You give us free reign of the ghetto, 00:11:28.414 --> 00:11:29.459 we solve your problem. 00:11:29.459 --> 00:11:31.190 The pacifying qualities of heroin 00:11:31.190 --> 00:11:33.259 are quite formidable. 00:11:33.259 --> 00:11:35.011 The resulting wave of mass incarceration 00:11:35.011 --> 00:11:36.436 was only increased under 00:11:36.436 --> 00:11:37.648 the Reagan administration, 00:11:37.648 --> 00:11:40.351 From the early days of our administration, 00:11:40.351 --> 00:11:43.026 Nancy has been abusing marijuana 00:11:43.026 --> 00:11:43.962 on a daily basis. 00:11:43.962 --> 00:11:45.453 which cynically ramped up the 00:11:45.453 --> 00:11:46.679 so-called War on Drugs, while 00:11:46.679 --> 00:11:48.834 simultaneously cutting social programs 00:11:48.834 --> 00:11:50.136 and using the CIA to flood 00:11:50.136 --> 00:11:52.606 inner-city neighbourhoods with crack. 00:11:52.606 --> 00:11:54.397 Shit got even worse under Billy Clint, 00:11:54.397 --> 00:11:55.706 whose three-strikes federal 00:11:55.706 --> 00:11:57.002 sentencing provisions led to 00:11:57.002 --> 00:11:58.752 an explosion of prison population, 00:11:58.752 --> 00:12:00.091 setting the stage for the system of 00:12:00.091 --> 00:12:01.681 mass exploitation of imprisoned 00:12:01.681 --> 00:12:03.017 slave labour - against which 00:12:03.017 --> 00:12:04.730 tens of thousands of prisoners are 00:12:04.730 --> 00:12:06.390 currently waging a historic strike. 00:12:06.390 --> 00:12:08.712 Yup. Like I said, bittersweet….. 00:12:08.712 --> 00:12:10.388 to say the fucking least. 00:12:10.388 --> 00:12:11.610 Buuuuuuuuuuuuut while the United Snakes' 00:12:11.610 --> 00:12:13.521 ruling class was ultimately able to 00:12:13.521 --> 00:12:15.023 contain and destroy the Black Panthers 00:12:15.023 --> 00:12:16.892 and has since honed and sharpened 00:12:16.892 --> 00:12:18.558 its methods of counterinsurgency 00:12:18.558 --> 00:12:19.414 and repression, 00:12:19.414 --> 00:12:21.003 there is still much to be learned from 00:12:21.003 --> 00:12:22.460 those who have experienced, first-hand, 00:12:22.460 --> 00:12:24.338 the extreme lengths to which it will go 00:12:24.338 --> 00:12:25.599 to maintain its domination. 00:12:25.599 --> 00:12:27.787 So, to help uncover some of these lessons 00:12:27.787 --> 00:12:29.000 and how they apply to 00:12:29.000 --> 00:12:30.108 present day struggles, 00:12:30.108 --> 00:12:31.002 I recently caught up with 00:12:31.002 --> 00:12:33.479 JoNina & Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, 00:12:33.479 --> 00:12:34.975 two former members of the Black Panthers 00:12:34.975 --> 00:12:36.244 and current members of 00:12:36.244 --> 00:12:37.627 the Black Autonomy Federation. 00:12:37.627 --> 00:12:39.461 Hey y'all, how the fuck are ya? 00:12:39.461 --> 00:12:41.800 Hanging in there... doing alright. 00:12:41.800 --> 00:12:42.753 We're fine, bro. 00:12:42.753 --> 00:12:43.934 You were both members of 00:12:43.934 --> 00:12:45.715 the Black Panthers back in the day. 00:12:45.715 --> 00:12:47.010 What led you to join the Party 00:12:47.010 --> 00:12:48.360 and what roles did you play 00:12:48.360 --> 00:12:49.619 within the organization? 00:12:49.619 --> 00:12:51.444 Well in my case, it was at an 00:12:51.444 --> 00:12:52.809 earlier stage. 00:12:52.809 --> 00:12:54.940 I had been part of another organization, 00:12:54.940 --> 00:12:56.808 a civil rights organization called 00:12:56.808 --> 00:12:58.674 the Student Nonviolent Coordinating 00:12:58.674 --> 00:13:00.616 Committee, which had gone over 00:13:00.616 --> 00:13:04.199 from Civil Rights - by 1968 had gone over 00:13:04.199 --> 00:13:05.416 to Black Power. 00:13:05.416 --> 00:13:07.771 For a brief period, the Student Nonviolent 00:13:07.771 --> 00:13:09.476 Coordinating Committee linked up with 00:13:09.476 --> 00:13:12.888 the Black Panther Party... in 1967. 00:13:12.888 --> 00:13:14.880 They had an alliance from '67 to '69. 00:13:14.880 --> 00:13:16.417 That's how I got involved. 00:13:16.417 --> 00:13:19.182 I joined the Black Panther Party because 00:13:19.182 --> 00:13:20.938 I saw all the things that were going on 00:13:20.938 --> 00:13:22.449 around the country in terms of 00:13:22.449 --> 00:13:26.271 police brutality, poverty and oppression. 00:13:26.271 --> 00:13:29.319 And I realized as an individual, 00:13:29.319 --> 00:13:31.102 by myself I couldn't do anything. 00:13:31.102 --> 00:13:32.973 J. Edgar Hoover believed that the most 00:13:32.973 --> 00:13:34.759 well-organized and subversive element 00:13:34.759 --> 00:13:36.260 of the Black Panthers was its 00:13:36.260 --> 00:13:37.602 breakfast for children programs. 00:13:37.602 --> 00:13:39.501 Why do you think he found these so-called 00:13:39.501 --> 00:13:41.258 survival programs so threatening? 00:13:41.258 --> 00:13:42.966 And what types of programs do you think 00:13:42.966 --> 00:13:44.797 might pose a similar threat today? 00:13:44.797 --> 00:13:46.912 The survival programs, particularly 00:13:46.912 --> 00:13:49.448 the breakfast program was threatening 00:13:49.448 --> 00:13:52.027 to the US government because we were 00:13:52.027 --> 00:13:54.507 talking about feeding people who were 00:13:54.507 --> 00:13:56.020 hungry... children. We couldn't feed 00:13:56.020 --> 00:13:58.052 all the hungry children, but we fed 00:13:58.052 --> 00:14:00.246 as many as we could... and this drew 00:14:00.246 --> 00:14:02.283 attention to the fact of poverty in 00:14:02.283 --> 00:14:05.247 the United States - especially poverty 00:14:05.247 --> 00:14:07.397 against Black people in the country. 00:14:07.397 --> 00:14:09.062 That was really threatening because 00:14:09.062 --> 00:14:10.659 they didn't want that kind of thing 00:14:10.659 --> 00:14:13.422 to be highlighted at that time. 00:14:13.422 --> 00:14:15.413 So they was particularly threatened. 00:14:15.413 --> 00:14:17.773 There's a lot of hunger and poverty still 00:14:17.773 --> 00:14:19.562 in the United States. 00:14:19.562 --> 00:14:21.064 Obviously we couldn't organize 00:14:21.064 --> 00:14:23.052 maybe in the same kind of way, 00:14:23.052 --> 00:14:25.488 but you've got people who've been cut off 00:14:25.488 --> 00:14:27.242 of food stamps here in Missouri. 00:14:27.242 --> 00:14:29.234 They've cut off - in March they cut off 00:14:29.234 --> 00:14:32.239 26,000 people from food stamps. 00:14:32.239 --> 00:14:34.108 So you drive by these food pantries 00:14:34.108 --> 00:14:36.809 and you see lines stretching, y'know, 00:14:36.809 --> 00:14:37.805 for blocks. 00:14:37.805 --> 00:14:40.086 So there's still a need for those kind 00:14:40.086 --> 00:14:41.831 of programs. And if they had them today, 00:14:41.831 --> 00:14:43.462 it would once again highlight 00:14:43.462 --> 00:14:45.785 what's going on right now in this country. 00:14:45.785 --> 00:14:48.303 This class warfare... war against 00:14:48.303 --> 00:14:50.512 poor and low-income people. 00:14:50.512 --> 00:14:51.999 After your time in the Panthers you later 00:14:51.999 --> 00:14:53.668 became more influenced by anarchism, 00:14:53.668 --> 00:14:54.675 while remaining critical of 00:14:54.675 --> 00:14:56.227 the broader anarchist movement. 00:14:56.227 --> 00:14:57.607 What sparked this political shift? 00:14:57.607 --> 00:14:59.269 And what do you think are some of 00:14:59.269 --> 00:15:00.811 the limitations of the anarchist movement 00:15:00.811 --> 00:15:02.689 that impede its revolutionary potential 00:15:02.689 --> 00:15:03.825 in the United Snakes? 00:15:03.825 --> 00:15:07.706 At the time when I went to prison in 1969, 00:15:07.706 --> 00:15:10.621 the Black Panther Party, the Black Power 00:15:10.621 --> 00:15:13.098 movement was actually going through 00:15:13.098 --> 00:15:15.295 a stage of being attacked and crumbling. 00:15:15.295 --> 00:15:16.801 So when I went into prison, 00:15:16.801 --> 00:15:18.827 into solitary confinement, I was looking 00:15:18.827 --> 00:15:21.351 for something different in terms of 00:15:21.351 --> 00:15:24.205 organization. Also, I saw some of the 00:15:24.205 --> 00:15:27.162 errors that had been made by the Black 00:15:27.162 --> 00:15:29.036 Panther Party and other organizations 00:15:29.036 --> 00:15:31.841 in placing so much emphasis on leadership 00:15:31.841 --> 00:15:34.287 as opposed to mass struggles. 00:15:34.287 --> 00:15:35.999 So my thing was, when I became an 00:15:35.999 --> 00:15:38.271 anarchist it was, the one thing that did 00:15:38.271 --> 00:15:39.975 grab me was the idea that power 00:15:39.975 --> 00:15:41.320 should be in the hands of the people 00:15:41.320 --> 00:15:42.900 instead of in the state. 00:15:42.900 --> 00:15:44.864 And then the criticisms of the state. 00:15:44.864 --> 00:15:46.195 So I thought that was very good, 00:15:46.195 --> 00:15:48.625 and my being a political prisoner, 00:15:48.625 --> 00:15:50.127 my case was adopted by 00:15:50.127 --> 00:15:51.478 the Anarchist Black Cross as it was 00:15:51.478 --> 00:15:54.611 reformed in the UK. 00:15:54.611 --> 00:15:57.444 I still think that anarchism has 00:15:57.444 --> 00:16:01.107 some serious political value. 00:16:01.107 --> 00:16:03.099 The problem is the organization, 00:16:03.099 --> 00:16:05.500 and the failure to make the ties 00:16:05.500 --> 00:16:06.998 to communities. 00:16:06.998 --> 00:16:08.707 There's too much emphasis on activism 00:16:08.707 --> 00:16:10.003 and not enough emphasis on 00:16:10.003 --> 00:16:11.505 community organizing. 00:16:11.505 --> 00:16:12.855 The Black Panthers emerged within 00:16:12.855 --> 00:16:14.278 the context of the Cold War, at a 00:16:14.278 --> 00:16:15.907 time of widespread national liberation 00:16:15.907 --> 00:16:17.845 struggles waged by Marxist-Leninist 00:16:17.845 --> 00:16:18.870 revolutionaries. 00:16:18.870 --> 00:16:20.447 How did this political climate affect 00:16:20.447 --> 00:16:22.406 the organizational structure of the Party? 00:16:22.406 --> 00:16:23.579 And what role do you think this played 00:16:23.579 --> 00:16:24.603 on how things played out? 00:16:24.603 --> 00:16:26.350 Well we were, in the Black Panther Party 00:16:26.350 --> 00:16:29.603 we were very inspired by what was going on 00:16:29.603 --> 00:16:32.083 overseas, particularly in Africa 00:16:32.083 --> 00:16:35.359 - the African liberation struggles. 00:16:35.359 --> 00:16:37.324 We, y'know we saw they had different 00:16:37.324 --> 00:16:39.422 models for how they were organized. 00:16:39.422 --> 00:16:42.205 In a lot of cases they may have had a 00:16:42.205 --> 00:16:44.108 collective leadership, or they may have 00:16:44.108 --> 00:16:46.430 had what they called central committees, 00:16:46.430 --> 00:16:48.745 and we sort of saw ourselves as fighting 00:16:48.745 --> 00:16:50.371 the Black liberation struggle 00:16:50.371 --> 00:16:52.241 here in the United States. 00:16:52.241 --> 00:16:54.233 And to a certain degree we tried to 00:16:54.233 --> 00:16:55.862 pattern ourselves after 00:16:55.862 --> 00:16:57.366 what was going on in Africa. 00:16:57.366 --> 00:16:59.235 We saw what they were doing, 00:16:59.235 --> 00:17:01.802 and we thought maybe it'd be possible 00:17:01.802 --> 00:17:04.974 for us to overthrow state terror 00:17:04.974 --> 00:17:06.420 in the United States. 00:17:06.420 --> 00:17:07.531 What are your thoughts on the role of 00:17:07.531 --> 00:17:09.072 social media, smart phones and other 00:17:09.072 --> 00:17:10.617 modern telecommunication technology 00:17:10.617 --> 00:17:11.998 as it relates to the struggle 00:17:11.998 --> 00:17:13.866 against police and the building of 00:17:13.866 --> 00:17:15.956 a revolutionary movement more broadly? 00:17:15.956 --> 00:17:18.382 I'm no expert when it comes to technology 00:17:18.382 --> 00:17:21.170 but I am clearly able to understand how 00:17:21.170 --> 00:17:25.253 the ability to reach people with a message 00:17:25.253 --> 00:17:27.370 that you ordinarily would not have been 00:17:27.370 --> 00:17:28.182 able to reach 00:17:28.182 --> 00:17:29.904 - the Black Panther Party in its day 00:17:29.904 --> 00:17:31.675 was only able to reach people as far as 00:17:31.675 --> 00:17:33.303 its newspaper would carry it, 00:17:33.303 --> 00:17:34.399 or word of mouth. 00:17:34.399 --> 00:17:36.755 And it was significant to be quite honest, 00:17:36.755 --> 00:17:39.721 but the truth is, in this period you are 00:17:39.721 --> 00:17:41.832 definitely able to reach a lot more people 00:17:41.832 --> 00:17:43.573 through computer networks. 00:17:43.573 --> 00:17:45.653 I was really struck by the fact that 00:17:45.653 --> 00:17:48.862 the fiance, the girlfriend of the brother 00:17:48.862 --> 00:17:49.999 who was killed by the police up in 00:17:49.999 --> 00:17:52.279 Minnesota a couple of months ago, 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:55.245 that she got on her cell phone and hooked 00:17:55.245 --> 00:17:57.191 up with a facebook, I guess, 00:17:57.191 --> 00:17:59.185 video messenger, and was able to let 00:17:59.185 --> 00:18:01.539 people - I mean we actually saw him, 00:18:01.539 --> 00:18:03.447 he was sitting in the car dying. 00:18:03.447 --> 00:18:04.961 The police officer had a gun on her, 00:18:04.961 --> 00:18:06.343 and her little girl. 00:18:06.343 --> 00:18:07.932 And a lot of people in this country 00:18:07.932 --> 00:18:10.816 do not understand how police terror 00:18:10.816 --> 00:18:12.758 has worked for so long against 00:18:12.758 --> 00:18:14.547 Black people and other people of colour. 00:18:14.547 --> 00:18:16.952 And here was a prime example of 00:18:16.952 --> 00:18:17.965 how it works. 00:18:17.965 --> 00:18:19.143 What do you make of the current 00:18:19.143 --> 00:18:20.656 state of anti-police resistance in 00:18:20.656 --> 00:18:22.201 the United Snakes and some 00:18:22.201 --> 00:18:23.745 of the specific calls for police reform 00:18:23.745 --> 00:18:25.127 that have emerged from its 00:18:25.127 --> 00:18:26.226 more prominent elements, 00:18:26.226 --> 00:18:27.582 such as Black Lives Matter? 00:18:27.582 --> 00:18:30.493 For a lot of the young people today, 00:18:30.493 --> 00:18:32.399 y'know, they're becoming more 00:18:32.399 --> 00:18:34.801 aware of police terror, and I think 00:18:34.801 --> 00:18:36.184 Black Lives Matter has helped 00:18:36.184 --> 00:18:38.013 maybe to raise their consciousness 00:18:38.013 --> 00:18:39.276 on that level. 00:18:39.276 --> 00:18:42.082 But I think the limitation is, is that it 00:18:42.082 --> 00:18:45.046 has to get beyond mass protests 00:18:45.046 --> 00:18:47.007 in the streets against particular 00:18:47.007 --> 00:18:48.982 incidents of police brutality. 00:18:48.982 --> 00:18:50.383 I'm not saying that should stop, 00:18:50.383 --> 00:18:52.452 but you have to begin to have a broader 00:18:52.452 --> 00:18:55.212 picture of how do we deal with 00:18:55.212 --> 00:18:57.291 police terror in the United States. 00:18:57.291 --> 00:18:59.644 How do Black and other people of colour 00:18:59.644 --> 00:19:01.497 who are the primary victims of that, 00:19:01.497 --> 00:19:03.803 how do we defend ourselves 00:19:03.803 --> 00:19:05.295 against police terror? 00:19:05.295 --> 00:19:06.465 What we need to think about 00:19:06.465 --> 00:19:08.419 is building a new kind of movement. 00:19:08.419 --> 00:19:10.392 An anti-fascist movement that wants 00:19:10.392 --> 00:19:12.250 to transform the whole of society. 00:19:12.250 --> 00:19:14.116 To understand that the police are 00:19:14.116 --> 00:19:16.344 an intrinsic part of the government. 00:19:16.344 --> 00:19:18.530 We need to educate broad layers of people 00:19:18.530 --> 00:19:20.067 about what the police really are 00:19:20.067 --> 00:19:21.815 - the police death squad. 00:19:21.815 --> 00:19:24.622 We need police! We are not anti-police! 00:19:24.622 --> 00:19:26.533 This whole propaganda line about trusting 00:19:26.533 --> 00:19:28.274 the police, and their right to patrol 00:19:28.274 --> 00:19:28.945 and all that... 00:19:28.945 --> 00:19:30.336 we have to challenge the police. 00:19:30.336 --> 00:19:31.494 And the whole idea that we even 00:19:31.494 --> 00:19:32.663 need the police. 00:19:32.663 --> 00:19:34.133 If we were able to build the kind of 00:19:34.133 --> 00:19:37.708 society that was based on justice and 00:19:37.708 --> 00:19:40.111 equality and freedom for the people, 00:19:40.111 --> 00:19:42.010 we wouldn't even need police forces. 00:19:42.010 --> 00:19:42.933 You know what I'm saying? 00:19:42.933 --> 00:19:45.232 Just like we talk about abolishing prisons 00:19:45.232 --> 00:19:46.129 we have to talk about 00:19:46.129 --> 00:19:47.228 abolishing the police. 00:19:47.228 --> 00:19:48.914 We need a movement that seeks to have 00:19:48.914 --> 00:19:50.452 a social revolution. 00:19:50.452 --> 00:19:51.331 That's what we need. 00:19:51.331 --> 00:19:52.499 We don't need a movement that's 00:19:52.499 --> 00:19:55.469 concerned about just making the 00:19:55.469 --> 00:19:58.025 bed of oppression more comfortable. 00:19:58.025 --> 00:19:59.342 We need to talk about 00:19:59.342 --> 00:20:00.510 smashing it completely. 00:20:00.510 --> 00:20:01.719 Smashing the state completely. 00:20:01.719 --> 00:20:02.923 One of the most enduring legacies 00:20:02.923 --> 00:20:04.548 of the Panthers was its embrace of 00:20:04.548 --> 00:20:06.344 armed self-defense against police. 00:20:06.344 --> 00:20:07.672 What role do you think that guns play 00:20:07.672 --> 00:20:09.255 in terms of community self-defense 00:20:09.255 --> 00:20:11.517 and building a revolutionary movement? 00:20:11.517 --> 00:20:13.441 I think that the armed self-defense 00:20:13.441 --> 00:20:16.166 was very important when the Black Panther 00:20:16.166 --> 00:20:17.873 Party was started. 00:20:17.873 --> 00:20:19.379 I think now we're in a situation 00:20:19.379 --> 00:20:21.775 where the police are almost on 00:20:21.775 --> 00:20:23.402 a daily basis in this country 00:20:23.402 --> 00:20:26.002 arbitrarily executing Black people 00:20:26.002 --> 00:20:27.140 and other people of colour. 00:20:27.140 --> 00:20:28.677 I mean you can have car trouble and 00:20:28.677 --> 00:20:30.594 stop your car someplace and wind up, 00:20:30.594 --> 00:20:32.457 y'know, dead... your family's planning 00:20:32.457 --> 00:20:33.685 your funeral. 00:20:33.685 --> 00:20:35.962 So we have to talk about how, in our 00:20:35.962 --> 00:20:39.286 community, do we begin to defend ourselves 00:20:39.286 --> 00:20:41.000 against this police terror. 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:42.779 One thing that we have to stop doing 00:20:42.779 --> 00:20:44.815 in the Black community is to call 00:20:44.815 --> 00:20:47.447 the police when there is a problem. 00:20:47.447 --> 00:20:49.255 This brother who got killed in California 00:20:49.255 --> 00:20:51.452 recently, he was supposed to have had 00:20:51.452 --> 00:20:52.996 a mental health episode. 00:20:52.996 --> 00:20:56.320 His sister called the police to get help 00:20:56.320 --> 00:20:57.777 for that mental health episode, 00:20:57.777 --> 00:21:00.291 now she had had to bury her brother. 00:21:00.291 --> 00:21:01.844 The Black Panther Party, we talked about 00:21:01.844 --> 00:21:04.519 community control of the police. 00:21:04.519 --> 00:21:06.716 OK... we have to begin to have that 00:21:06.716 --> 00:21:08.873 type of control again in our communities 00:21:08.873 --> 00:21:10.744 where we do not need to rely 00:21:10.744 --> 00:21:12.130 on the police. 00:21:12.130 --> 00:21:14.240 There's no question that we have to talk 00:21:14.240 --> 00:21:15.990 about... the building of the next movement 00:21:15.990 --> 00:21:18.684 has to be - it doesn't have to be totally 00:21:18.684 --> 00:21:20.513 an armed paramilitary movement, but it 00:21:20.513 --> 00:21:22.345 certainly has to be a movement that 00:21:22.345 --> 00:21:24.580 practices armed self-defense, with an 00:21:24.580 --> 00:21:26.977 understanding of going then to the stage 00:21:26.977 --> 00:21:29.727 of revolutionary violence as a means of 00:21:29.727 --> 00:21:32.620 not just defense, but transforming society 00:21:32.620 --> 00:21:34.082 because they're not going to give up power 00:21:34.082 --> 00:21:37.017 without mass-murdering as many of us 00:21:37.017 --> 00:21:38.113 as they can... and they're doing that 00:21:38.113 --> 00:21:40.310 now anyway, so we don't have any choice. 00:21:40.310 --> 00:21:41.651 But the community itself has to reach 00:21:41.651 --> 00:21:44.253 the stage of rejection of authority. 00:21:44.253 --> 00:21:45.794 Rejection of the police. 00:21:45.794 --> 00:21:48.029 And that's the role of the organizer. 00:21:48.029 --> 00:21:49.657 The organizer has to be there agitating 00:21:49.657 --> 00:21:52.297 and pointing out that these people can't 00:21:52.297 --> 00:21:54.655 be trusted, never will be trusted, 00:21:54.655 --> 00:21:57.345 and why they're a criminal death squad 00:21:57.345 --> 00:21:59.012 and that they have to be removed entirely. 00:21:59.012 --> 00:22:00.513 We have to push them out of our community. 00:22:00.513 --> 00:22:02.717 Thanks y'all....and that about does it for 00:22:02.717 --> 00:22:04.994 this sedition of It's the End of the World 00:22:04.994 --> 00:22:06.663 as we Know it and I Feel Fine. 00:22:06.663 --> 00:22:08.203 In case you didn’t know, this month 00:22:08.203 --> 00:22:09.947 we dropped a rap battle video 00:22:09.947 --> 00:22:11.846 entitled Trap News with MC Sole 00:22:11.846 --> 00:22:13.293 to bring an accessible critique of 00:22:13.293 --> 00:22:15.284 US electoral politics to the masses. 00:22:15.284 --> 00:22:16.744 So if you’d like to share it with 00:22:16.744 --> 00:22:18.569 your voting peeps you can find it at: 00:22:21.412 --> 00:22:22.756 As always, make sure you check out 00:22:24.156 --> 00:22:26.304 to find out the music we played or to 00:22:26.304 --> 00:22:28.407 subscribe to our podcast or email list. 00:22:28.407 --> 00:22:30.491 This month we want to send a big shout out 00:22:30.491 --> 00:22:32.645 to the folks at Kindle for hooking us up 00:22:32.645 --> 00:22:34.468 with a nice donation to keep us running 00:22:34.468 --> 00:22:35.693 through the new year. 00:22:35.693 --> 00:22:36.915 Pejelagarto! 00:22:36.915 --> 00:22:38.459 This month the following wage slaves 00:22:38.459 --> 00:22:40.088 dug deep into their broke ass pockets 00:22:40.088 --> 00:22:41.877 to help us keep the tacos rolling. 00:22:41.877 --> 00:22:43.993 So big ups to: Deda, michael, hansen, 00:22:43.993 --> 00:22:46.591 alberto, anton, oliviee, mathew, jacob, 00:22:46.591 --> 00:22:48.586 samuel, ranko, louis, zach, oliver, 00:22:48.586 --> 00:22:51.094 daniel, yania, peter, jennifer, francois, 00:22:51.094 --> 00:22:53.059 ravi, maciej, steven, shannon, jonathan, 00:22:53.059 --> 00:22:55.134 meghsha, sam, liam, margaret, derrick, 00:22:55.134 --> 00:22:57.897 marten, max, igor, gregory, james, philip, 00:22:57.897 --> 00:23:00.820 bridget, luigi, robbie, karen, jordan, maia, 00:23:00.820 --> 00:23:03.867 jorge, tasio, leonard, pablo, sian, yifan, 00:23:03.867 --> 00:23:05.426 christopher, john, 00:23:05.426 --> 00:23:07.827 lara, jakub, jeremy, wolfgang, gavin, 00:23:07.827 --> 00:23:10.050 jonathan, richard, alexander, david, 00:23:10.050 --> 00:23:12.839 sadaf, dimitrios, joni, justyna, veronica, 00:23:12.839 --> 00:23:15.174 kirk, marten, jonathan, khaos, marisol, 00:23:15.174 --> 00:23:17.489 joseph, sawyer, coby, stephen, brett, 00:23:17.489 --> 00:23:19.802 juliano, mathias, marcin, gabriel, michael, 00:23:19.802 --> 00:23:24.034 flyn, bear, per, laura, fatima, glencora, 00:23:24.034 --> 00:23:27.199 artist, angela, jamie, andrew, jane, jan, 00:23:27.199 --> 00:23:30.454 alex rachel and eradour 00:23:30.454 --> 00:23:31.554 Romeritos! 00:23:31.554 --> 00:23:33.421 I also would like to welcome the newest 00:23:33.421 --> 00:23:35.576 members of the taconspiracy: Anonymous, 00:23:35.576 --> 00:23:38.123 Joe Lac, Veronica, Acracyp0nx, Cedzak, 00:23:38.123 --> 00:23:41.619 Jakub, Lara, John, El, Maya, Mathew, 00:23:41.619 --> 00:23:44.557 Apache, Bara and Talisman 00:23:44.557 --> 00:23:45.736 Salbutes! 00:23:45.736 --> 00:23:47.686 Don’t forget to stay tuned for more news 00:23:47.686 --> 00:23:49.839 from the global muthafuckin resistance. 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:51.466 So sing after me: 00:23:51.466 --> 00:23:55.042 Revolution has come... off the pigs! 00:23:55.042 --> 00:23:58.255 Time to pick up the gun... off the pigs!