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Abbie Hoffman — Part 29

130 pages · May 12, 2026 · Document date: Apr 13, 1970 · Broad topic: Civil Rights · Topic: Abbie Hoffman · 128 pages OCR'd
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“rr 6U™N rr Pp-350 (fev. F-16-29" Abbott Howard Hotfman Kotfnren, Bheruba Sp neal at Sauare Rally; ed School, Disrupt Speeci | me laiand: Sy Se macirs 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 [Indico'= page, mame of newoepaper, city ond a#tale.; Date: ¢- 3 aa DG Edit Oe CSASHINE Aulbor: a Editor af re) vir Title: A. d Character: or Chauelfication: Submitting Oiltice: {_] Being investigated 4 é Cd lap per ee eee ee: ea
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