The original Black Panther Party, was an All Power To All The People!” organization. We believed in black unity, but only as a catalyst to help humanize the world. The Black Panther Party worked for self-determination and social justice for All People. The original Black Panther Party developed a series of social programs to provide needed services to the people. Their intent was to promote a model for an alternative, more humane social scheme. These programs, of which there came to be more than 60, were eventually referred to as Survival Programs, and were operated by Black Panther Party members under the slogan survival pending revolution. The real heroes in my Black Panther Party were all the thousands of sisters and brothers who made the many Survival Programs work. The original Black Panther Party fought to establish greater peoples empowerment via community control politics, through mass organizing of more than twenty different community based survival programs. The party was one of the first organizations in U.S. history to militantly struggle for ethnic minority and working class emancipation - a party whose political electoral agenda was the revolutionary establishment of real economic, social, and political equality across gender and color lines, aligning itself with other people of color organizations including Cesar Chavezs Farm Workers Movement, AIM The American Indian Movement, Puerto Rican The Young Lords Movement and The Peace and Freedom Party, SDS, Young Patriots, etc. When I reflect on the history of the Black Panther Party and ask myself where we go from here, I realize the we truly need young activists who are motivated and dedicated to organizing people, raising consciousness and instilling self-respect and continuing the resistance to racism & class oppression in our community, our country and the world at large. We especially need creative activists who know the history the original Black Panther Party and who understand that black unity and working coalition politics with progressive organizations are a catalyst to help humanize this racist & oppressive world. We need truly socially conscious activists that will work toward the economic empowerment of all people. Activists across all ethnic and religious backgrounds who will work to establish civil and human rights for all, including the right to an ecologically balanced, pollution-free environment. We must create a world of decent human relationships where revolutionary humanism is grounded in democratic human rights for every person on earth. We need more young creatively activists who will continue to develop import community programs that are relevant to the survival of their communities in reference to needs and issues communities face today. Not only did the original Black Panther Party develop enduring and solid coalitions progressive and revolutionary movements, it created a series of social programs to provide needed services to all the people. Their intent was to promote a model for an alternative, more humane social scheme. These programs, of which there came to be more than 60, were eventually referred to as Survival Programs, and were operated by Black Panther Party members under the slogan survival pending revolution. Those were the political revolutionary objectives of our original Black Panther Party. They must now belong to the youth of today. All Power To All The People! Bobby Seale bobbyseale/ ======= #blackpanthers #blackhistory #blackpantherparty #bobbyseale ===
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:36:14 +0000
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