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SE. 100-61.785 CONEL ENTIAI the white counterpartof the Black Panther Party. But, that. never came tobe due to the different forms of oppression the different constituenciesof the Black and White Panther Par- tes are subjected to. Black people are oppressed raciaily and materialiy; so the ten-point programof the Black Panther Party related to those forms of politica! oppression by making political demands for "land, bread, housing, clothing, edu- Plamondon were attempting to organize were primarily cul- ! .. ture-oriented; so the ten-point program of the White Panther .... Party related primarily to their cultura! oppression by de- manding an opensociety where free dope, free sex, and free rock music abounded. (They did make political references as. wetl, the princip!e ones being theright of armed self-defense ...' and complete support for the ten-point program of the Black Panther Party.) While their followers were primarily culturally oriented, Sinclair andPlamondon were themselves very political. They were thought tobelieve that the perverted system of values in. this country was a direct outgrowth of the undemocratic pol-. itica! systemand the competitive economic system. Sy prim- ariiy reiating to their followers' cultural oppression now, they supposedlyhoped toeducate them to the system's role in that oppression Iater. They were therefore viewed as very : dangerous by the power structure and were moved against. Plamondon was framedon a charge of attempting to blow-up a Federal Building in Ann Arbor and is still in jail today. Sinclair was given a ten year jail sentence for possessing two joints and wasn't released until early this Spring.. TheRainbow People's Party was founded by Sinclair as the successor to the White Panther Party. It concentrated its efforts on local community organizing in the Ann Arbor area and iinked-up with the state-wide Human Rights Party. Five Rainbow candidates, including "Pun"Plamondon's wife Genie, ran for Ann Arbor city counci! seats in April under the Hu-. manRights Partybanner. Part of the agreement between the two parties was that neither would support any Democratic candidates.' But, two weeks after two of their candidates got elected, Sinciair, Genie Plamondon, and the.rest of the Rainbow Party broke the agreement and announced their sup- port for George McGovern.. CONFIDANTIAL 3