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a Abbott Howard Hoffman oy _pavid Prost: Abbie Hoffman: society in Cook County Jail, which is 90% black, 90% under thirty, you see; and 90% from an income bracket other than theirs. It was like one nation was sitting in judgement on another nation, it was actually a process of colonialization, I think to understand racism which was a key point in the reasons for going to the Democratic Convention was one has to go to prison becauSe you see it is literally a case of black and white. And {I think thate what the seven of us have pledged ourselves to eliminate in this country more than anything else, I mean uh.. here's my prison brecelet, you know you are transformed into a nuwber sort of like the telephone system, you get an area code in prison,mine was 7001920. And we sort of pledged ourselves to the time when nobody has to wear any of these, and we have done that. The same amount of money that was raised for our bail, we raised an equal asount to free some of the people that we were in jail with, and we've come back to live in New York to work exclusively on the Panther 21 trial. Because we feel that it may raise us more important to the revolution at our trial work. Our trial was your issue....it was the New . York Times issue. It kept complaining our antics, our antics and our defiance we were burying (I've had trouble with that word ever since Khrushchev decided to use the term) but they kept saying that we were burying the lssue, you see - put the issues that they thought were the issues were never the issues to us. What was the issue? We feel that it is a struggie between life and death, we viewed it as a struggle between our culture which is emerging a culture that believes that free men and free women have the right to walk on & we be ne Ee 2 BENT mm comm