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Abbie Hoffman — Part 29
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Abbie Holtman of the Chienpo 7 nnd
Drharuba of the Panther 21 bed 500 students
in a fervorous rally yesterday afternoon,
demanding release of the imprisoned J'an-
thers und radical reformation of the Helle.
vue Medical Center.
Some 60 chanting and jeering radical
stedents Inter cnrried their raliy toa the
NYU Medical Center, where they caused
the cancellation of a apeech on biological
warfare after police had kept IBG persons
from entering the Medica] School complex
Staged nt Washington Place between
Greene and Merete Streets, the 2 pm rally,
closely scrutinized) by mounted police and
officers ater the spartment buildimg facing
the congrepation, was aponsored by NYU-
SDS, the Dec, ¢ movement, and NYU radi-
cal_mrdicai students.
“We're going to deal with this shit that’s
coming down on the people that Tricky
Dick's putting on us," aatd Dharuba, one
of 2} Panthers charged with conspiring to
bomb uptown deparunent stores, and mur-
der police. “We don't want to be passive
in the face of being murdered. We don't
want fo le pacave dn the face ef living fa
dlevadent boudes,
“The pizs is up there shuffling their
feet," Dheruba snid, eyeing a helmeted pol-
iceman covering the street “They're trying
to scare the people. fhe people going to put
those punks acainst the wall. If they don't
go, we're going to deal with that.”
New Panther Slogan
Dharuba mentioned the new slogan of
the Black Panther Party to be printed on
pancake-sized buttons shortly, and encour-
aged a repetition of it by the crowd. “We'll
kilt anyone who stands in the way of our
freedom,” Dharuba said. After repenting it
again, and drawing considerable response
from the crowd, he said, “Now here's where
we all go to jail. Wel) kill Tricky Dich if
he stands in the way of our freedom." He
eoncluded by saying, “I think I'll go back
up to Babylon and get arrested,” referring
to Queens, where the Panthers are being
held.
Hoffman took the platform, blowing his
nore with a amall American flog. “It's just
Old Glory blowing in the wind,” he ¢x-
plained. Hoffman then denounced the Co-
lusnhin Hrondcasting System for electronic-
ally blocking out his American flag shirt
en the Merv Griffin Show. He alao scored
the network for refusing t4 cover a Hack
Panther press conference in Harlem.
ers noe - 0,
"MOG Hie arch On bil
"y ‘don't care what the furking Supreme
Court snys Hoffman anid. “Jhrv'rs Ja
bunch of honk; racists too. We're all a biz
eonepiracy. They're not going to take us
all. They're not goire to put us all in jail.
All trials in America ore political trials.
All prisoners are political prisoners.”
“Ninety per cent of the people in jail
are block,” Hoffman said. Ninety per cent
are young. Ninety per ecent haven't had a
furking trial. Everyone skoald go to a min-
imum security jail ike NYU... We're all
niggers. We're al Viet-conc,” he said.
Mgtch To Queens
"We're goyf to march up to Queens,”
Hofman 5 “That's Hubylon, We're poing
to have Bastille Day."
Eric Aesinget. an NYU meslica! student,
scared NYU and Bellevue Medical Center,
and urge:t radical reform. “We're going on
the East Side, screening for lead poisoning
in kids one to six years old,” Lesinger said.
He said J4 of AR urine samples taken fe-
ventod a load compound which produces it-
“The tenomerhe
Tre ye ‘raible henin damuge,
are “fithy.” Lesingeer aie, "I'm aure NY!
owns plenty of thean,”
Pantoyer elated chiblren are aminlier fhe
their ace than (hey used to be, and aren't
ax alert. "The only conclusion you can come
to is that these are discases of oppression.”
he said. He supporied that cenclusion by
rensoning that only poor people are affected,
and becnuse they are preventibic.
“I's penecide becouse it’s preventible,””
Lesinger said. “Thousands of people are
forced to be dependent on NYU. and NYU
explicitly refuecs to tuke that responsibil-
ity.” The dependency on NYU arises, he
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