Vol. V — No. 4

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Manhattan Community College ¢@

The City University of New York

February 10, 1971

GENERAL ADDRESS

TO THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE
WHO HAPPEN TO BE STUDENTS

STUDENT
CONTROL

Oppression is not a vague term.
People are oppressed when they
have no control, no power and
cannot determine their own lives.
People are oppressed when their
energies, their labor and their
and benefit of others.

Tf you look at BMCC alone, never
mind our lives outside the schools,
though they are related; it points
to one thing, WE ARE OPPRES-
SED. The whole school structure
is dominated by one man, the
College President. He can veto or
initiate any policy, he can hire or
fire any teacher, and he can su-
spend or kick out any student —
so long as he is responsible to the
people who placed him in that
position, The Board of Higher
Education.

MASS MEETING

12:00 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10
IN THE AUDITORIUM

The people on the Board of
Higher Education are there be-
cause of the political and eco-
nomic power they represent. They
are people who also sit on the
boards of banks and big business-
es, (we are going to publish a list
of these people and their affilia-

_tions and also what ways our

money is being invested). These
same people determine wages, em-
ployment practices, prices, and »
So in the final analysis, decision
making for the whole country is
in the hands of a small group of
competing owners. In the schools,
they have been responsible for the
racist curriculums, racist admit-
tance policies, for the formulation
of racist attitudes. They have
been responsible for the elitist,
anti-people ideology of the schools.
For example, the economic cour-
ses which rationalize four per
cent unemployment, the science
courses which teach you to ig-
nore the uses of scientific research

am

and just put your head in the
book or the psychology courses
which distort reality to the point
where they have you believing
that problems are just in the
mind.

It isn’t any wonder why many
of us cannot cope with our class-
es. Community college were insti-
tuted as Cheap Labor sources.
Their interest is not in educating
us but molding us into a usable
‘product, (the average earning of
a graduating student from Lib-
eral Arts is $5,400; and Career
and Business is $4,500). They also
exploit us in other. ways, each
year their are new editions to
books published and sometimes it
contains no more than one or two
minor changes. We are forced to
buy the new edition, where other-
wise we could have used someone
elses book from last year.

School is where they fill us with
the dreams of climbing to the
top, with the obsession of keeping
up with the Joneses and with

TSS SS. TS |

THIRD WORLD COALITION

(Student Government)

blind patriotism to vague ideals
which have never existed in this
country.

“What Could Be Any Better
Than Having
Slaves Who Support
Slavery”

These are a fraction of the rea-
sons of why we must gain control
of the universities. The schools
must be turned into the kind of
institutions which service our
needs and the needs of our cOm-
munities. Of course, we are not
going to accomplish this by wish-
ing for it or by asking for it or by
just talking about it. It is not
going to come about in a day or
a week or a month. It is only go-
ing to become a reality by a long
hard struggle. Through an or-
ganized student movement which
is united with the struggles of
the whole people in our commun-
ities.

“Dare To Struggle,

Dare To Win”



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Page Three

On Puerto Rican Independence

By DANNY VILLA

On July 25, 1898 United States
troops led by General Miles invad-
ed Puerto Rico. There are two
points on which we have to be very
clear regarding that action. The
first is that the troops were not in-
vited nor welcomed, despite the
fact the United States claims it in-
vaded our country in order to lib-
erate us from Spain. The invasion
of Puerto Rico was marked by the
raping of our women and looting
of our villages. And the purpose
behind it was very simply to make
our country a North American
colony so as to facilitate its exploi-
tation. The second point is that the
foreign occupation of Puerto Rico
is still in effect today with fourteen
percent of our best land covered
by United States’ military bases
and off limits to Puerto Ricans.

Prior to the United States in-
vasion, Puerto Rico was on its way
towards achieving independence
from Spain. At the time it was be-
ing controlled its tariffs, customs
and trade; Spain could not amend
the Charter of Autonomy without
the consent of the Puerto Rican
legislature; and Puerto Rico had
representation in the Spanish Par-
liament.

Needless to say, when the United
States invaded our country these
rikhts were taken away from us. A
military dictatorship was literally

“established. But three years later
in an attempt to give the dictator-
ship the appearance of a democ-
racy, the Foraker Law was whip-
ped up. The law subjected Puerto
Rico control by the United States’
Department of War, where it re-
mained until 1934, and provided for
a governor and executive council to
make the day to day decisions. All
of these clowns that were to run
the lives of Puerto Ricans were
were nortamericans totally unfa-
miliar with Puerto Rico, and to be
appointed by the United States
President.

Secondly, after the invasion in
1898 United States businessmen
began scouting the island. They, of
course, liked the idea of a colony.
Quickly they achieved domination
of sugar, coffee and tobacco produc-
tion and of the entire economy.
Today over 85% of Puerto Rico’s
economy is owned by the United
States. But profit is not only reaped
by owning the means of produc-
tion. Since the United States does
not allow us to trade with other
nations we are forced to buy every-
thing from the United States. Not
only do these goods cost us more
than if we were to buy from other
countries, but we have to use
United States’ ships for all in-
coming and outgoing trade! Final-
ly, Puerto Rico with two and one
hald million people is the United
States’ fifth largest customer in the
world. After digesting this mind
staggering statistic, we can see why
the United States is reluctant to
grant us independence.

There is a silly rumor going
around that the United States has
helped the Puerto Rican economy;

THE COMMON”

— See

that it has provided employment
and that through Operation Boot-
strap the country has been indus-
trialized. Don’t believe the rumor.
Puerto Rico suffers from an unem-
ployment rate of 16%! If the
United States had an unemploy-
ment rate that high (it presently
has a rate of 6%), it would be ina
depression. And now that the
United States’ economy is worsen-
ing, unemployment in Puerto Rico
may well be over 20%. Add to this
the fact that prices are higher there
and wages one third the United
States’, and we can-_begin to see the
true situation of Puerto Rico.

Operation Bootstrap is the name
of the fairy tale which says the
United States has industrialized
Puerto Rico. In reality there has
been practically no industrializa-
tion in Puerto Rico. What the
United States has built is a series
of factories which produce half
finished goods, and these very often
have to be imported from the
United States as raw materials.
The half finished products are then
shipped back to the United States
who completes the production of
the goods and then sells them back
to Puerto Rico. In this manner it
makes a double profit.

For example, it’s well known
that Puerto Rico grows sugar cane,
coffee, and tobacco. But, when we
want to buy sugar, coffee or cigar-
ettes, we are stuck with United
States’ products. Why do we have
this insane situation? Because

F PUERTO RICO

Puerto Rico is not industrialized.
If it were it could become eco-
nomically self-sufficient.

However, the purpose for having
a colony is to squeeze profit from
it like juice is squeezed from an
orange. If Puerto Rico were in-
dustrialized, the profits would stop
coming up North.

But the United States exploits
Puerto Rico in other ways than
economically. Our country is also
used by the military. As mentioned
before, 14% of our land is covered
with United States’ bases. Bases
which also have atomic weapons!

Puerto Ricans are also forced
to serve in the United States mili-
tary. In fact, we were made United
States’ citizens against our will and
the will of the Puerto Rican Cham-
ber of Deputies, because the army
wanted us for troops. Since then,
we have been packed in green
suits and shipped around the world
to fight in wars, which we have no
interest.

Finally, the United States’ Navy
uses our island of Culebra for tar-
get practices. The island has been
and is inhabited and many of its
citizens have either been killed or
wounded by United States shells.

The name or status of Puerto
Rico was changed from colony to
commonwealth in 1952. This was
mainly done to quiet the demands
of the people for independence. In
reality, the country is still a colony
with all the major decisions made
for Puerto Ricans.

It's clear that Puerto Rico is still
a colony, not a “commonwealth”
or even a neo-colony. It is a coun-
try occupied militarily and exploit-
ed-economically and politically by
the United States. Puerto Rico
should be given its independence
so that a government which will
work for the well being of its citi-
zens can be established and Puerto
Ricans can have the right to de-
termine their future.

Black And

Puerto Rican
Courses

For so many years we Blacks
and Puerto Ricans have been ed-
ucated on the false pressure of in-
feriority. We have been taught
about George Washington and
Franklin til they’ve come out of
our ears. And they’ve continued
to negate us right through col-
lege, with the same _ so-called
proud history they stuffed us with
in grammar schools.

Lord knows a change was need-
ed. Because this mis-education
was. as boring as writing “I’m in-
ferior,” one billion times. And the
change was as important to
everyone else, as it was important
to us. (Though some as yet are
reluctant to, or unable to, admit
it.) So the change was this, that
we would have relevance towards
the community, to make this sys-
tem an educational one.

So they gave us the procedure
to follow. A procedure which con-
sisted of one million miles of red--
tape moving at.a snail’s pace. But
we said “later” and took the short
cut. We picketed, got busted,
(even over the heads), took over
buildings, faced cops as well as
national guardsmen. So after the
cuts have yet healed, we have
something now. We have Black
and Puerto Rican courses. I say
something, because we need a lot
more. Simply because those evils
forces which scheme in keeping
our studies from being depart-
mentalized.

They will stop at nothing to
keep us ignorant about ourselves,
They will stop at nothing to crush
our pride. They will stop at noth-
ing to make us good niggers and
spics, whiter than snow. After all,
haven't they been trying ever
since we were kids? If you aren’t
certain, just ask yourself, what
you know about your past and
culture. How long is it before you
run out of facts? Five maybe ten
minutes? And yet, you could talk
all about a culture that has re-
ferred to you with a pack of lies!

Remember this, when you
choose courses that can be sub-
stituted for courses that reflect
you, you negate yourself. You,
whether you are aware of it or
not, are saying, “I’m not impor-
tant.” After all, what good is it
knowing another person’s name,
when you have forgotten your
own?

— Manuel Williams


Page Four

PROMETHEUS

Child Care Center At BMCC

To The Community...

There are many people within
the Black and Puerto Rican com-
munities who are wondering why
students are demanding what
should rightfully be ours such as:
the right to decide who should
teach us, what should be taught as
well as deciding how and where
our money should be distributed.
We also demand the right to voice
our opinions when we see the con-
tradictions of this decayed educa-
tional system showing themselves
to untold heights of distortion as
well. as destruction.

From the very first day a child
attends school, he is brainwashed
into thinking and believing that
he is either inferior (as in the
ease of the Black and Puerto
Rican child) or superior (as in
the case of the White child) by
White racist teachers and admin-
istrators. Until recently history
has been taught in a one-sided
manner. We (as Black and Puerto
Rican students) have experi-
enced disinterest, shame, and
abuse all through our academic
lives from teachers who were un-
prepared to deal with us as. peo-
ple. However through struggle
some of us were able to overcome
these obstacles through self-edu-
cation plus an analysis of our own
shortcomings. As a result of our
awakening, we have come to the
conclusion that the educational
system is not in the interest of
the student who wishes to take
what he is supposed to have learn-
ed back to his community. In
other words, we are not only be-
ing taught lies, we are also being
taught to forget our obligation to
our communities as well by be-
coming agents of the oppressors
of these same communities.

At the Borough of Manhattan
Community College we are con-
fronted with the problem of not
having teachers who are repre-
sentative, of our communities or
the people who live there. Last
semester a free-child care center
was requested for women wish-
ing to attend to attend college,
for students and faculty who also
wished to attend classes or teach
at night. Through first hand ex-
perience, we have- found that

many women with children are
unable to attend school because
they are forced to work instead
of obtaining a skillful education
that would benefit both them and
their communities. We believe
that people from poor and op-
pressed communities such as ours
should not be expected to pay
the unreasonable prices that the
Board of Higher Education ex-
pects us to pay. We are also
aware that there are parents
within our poor and oppressed
communities who are helping to
support colleges by financing
their child’s education, paying
taxes or both!

Since we consider nursing to
be an important and valuable
skill to take back to our com-
munities, we are demanding the
reconstruction of the nursing
program. Last semester, due to
the inadequate teaching methods
as well as the lack of adequate
facilities, only six per cent of the
nursing students passed their
state board exams. A nursing pro-
gram is also needed in the eve-
ning division for those students
who wish to enter into the nurs-
ing program.

We further believe that the
Black and Puerto Rican studies
should be permitted to function
as a department. When the Black
and Puerto Rican program was
characterized in the different de-
partments such as the History
dept., and the English dept., it
was watered down to the point of
being non-effective. It also is im-
portant to mention that B.M.C,C.
is located in the Rockefeller busi-
ness district, which again is not
representative of our communi-
ties or the people who live there.
In conclusion, student control is
parallel to community control.
We will wage our struggle here
as courageously as you have done
in our communities of which we
are a part. Therefore your sup-
port is greatly needed in order for
our struggle to be effective within
the school system from the ele-
mentary level to the university
leyel. There is power in unity!

WE WILL FIGHT!

Traditionally in America high-
er education has been reserved
for men. Of course, many barriers
thrown up against women have
been broken down but one of the
strongest ones still remaining is
the full responsibility for taking
care of the family’s children. Even
if a woman does make it into col-
lege, there is always the question
whether future obligations of
child rearing will keep her from
finishing college or developing her
other potentials. Society must be
reshaped by us so that it serves
the people, rather than holding
back one sex or one race. Which
brings up the question of higher
education in America traditional-
ly being reserved for whites. The
United States economic system
makes it harder for Third World
People (Blacks, Puerto Ricans,
Orientals, etc.) to get into and
finish college. Third World wom-
en have the most difficult time of
all. Free Child Care Centers will
enable more students to have the
time to develop themselves and
perhaps. will lead them to become
more active in understanding the
politics of this country.

The idea of a Child Care Cen-
ter at Manhattan Community
College originated at the three
day conference which was held
last March. A committee was
formed to plan the Child Care
Center and they adopted a fun-
damental philosophy pertaining
to the structuue of the Child Care
Center. This philosophy entails
that:

1. The Child Care Center will
be parent controlled.
a. The parents are the de-
cision making body.
b. Parents select the Direc-
tor of the Child Care and
all the workers of the Child
Care Center.
ec. The parents will be the
ones who determine any
further changes in the pol-
icy of the CCC.
d. By having an active role
in the organization of the
CCC the parents will have
the kind of center they want.
e. Parents will exercise
their rights by actively par-
ticipating in the functions
of the CCC.
f. Parents who qualify for
the work study program can
work in the CCC.

This Child Care Center is es-
sentially for the working class
people of Manhattan Community
College and their interests will
determine what type of education
and care their children will par-
ticipate in. This is a Child Care
Center which will be in the in-
terests of the Third World stu-
dents especially. However it will
be open to all students, staff and
faculty of BMCC who have chil-
dren and need the facility of such
a center.

We anticipate a Child Care
Center which will combat the
endoctrination of this society’s
ills; such as racism, stereotype
sex roles (we will encourage the
female children to develop what-

February 10, 1971

ever potential they have in a
wider area). This Child Care Cen-
ter will promote a healthy rela-
tionship of cooperativeness be-
tween the children and the work-
ers of the center. Basically the
Child Care Center will be where
the children’s individuality will
be respected and their psycholog-
ical growth will be given adequate
freedom.

Our ideals and goals are fine,
but why isn’t there a Child Care
Center ready for February 1st? It
isn’t that the Child Care Center
committee has not been working
hard for the last six months, In
order to understand the delay one
must learn about the tactics that
President Draper and the Ad-
ministration have been using.

The committee has received no
cooperation at all from Dean
Weinberger (Dean of Administra-
tion) who refuses to set aside the
rooms B507 and B509 for the cen~
ter, President Draper who prom-
ised us funds last September had
been playing politics with our
money by not letting us have it.
(Here is the whole issue of stu-
dent control of student money).
To date he has said that until thé
budget goes through “proper
channels” we may not have our
money. However, he refuses to al-
low Student Government to loan
the Child Care Center Committee
money because of conflict between
his personal interests and the stu-
dent. government's effort to give
MCC students equal representa-
tion on the BMCC Association,
This is the only way to get the
money under the current rules
and has the power to negate and
over rule these regulations. Be«
cause of President Draper*s sel-
fish interest and his typical rul«
ing class politics we the students
of BMCC must organize together
to make student control a reality
which will automatically insure a
MCC Child Care Center for all
those who need it.

IOUENUOUUUOOTAEEUOYUEAAEOUANEUANE AE

We

Must

Re-educate

PTTL TALL LLL LLL


February 10, 1971

PROMETHEUS

Page Five

BLACK REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE
OR BLACK HOCUS-POC

Through the years of our life
in school, we have found ourselves
ignored in the textbooks and the
times we were mentioned it was
in a negative way. We were given
heavy doses of the Eiffel Tower,
King Arthur, Shakespeare and
the darkest continent. Every op-
portunity to denigrate us (Deni-
grate; means to smear, to black-
en) was used to make us insecure
and ashamed as a people. Not only
in school but on television, in the
movies, and every other day, we
had a representative on the third
page of the “Daily News.” There
are sociology courses now, which
explain that we are unemployed
and our neighborhoods are run
down because we don’t have a
family structure. If you raise the
argument that the sanitation men
don’t come around or that there
is a racist employment system,
the teacher calmly tells you that,
that has nothing to do with 'the
course. (And you might fail, if
you say different.)

We demand Black Studies! ! !

All over the country, Black stu-
dents waged the struggle for
studies which would give us a
look at our cultural heritage,
which would give us insight into
our past, which would unite our
people. '

Did we win a battle or did we
lose one? It is a law of these here
United States Gov’t, that when-
ever people move in an organized
fashion to demand that their
needs be met, it poses a threat to
their power and position. This
organized force can be in the form
of strikes, sitdowns, mass demon-
Strations, boycotts, anything but
a calm passive population.

They then have to use tactics
which will calm the people but
will not make any basic changes.
During the early civil rights
movement, they used dogs, clubs
and murder in an attempt to in-
timidate the majority of Black
people and to isolate the die-hard
fighters into a small number.
They attempted to bribe the lead-
ers (one of the leaders, who ac-
cepted the money, killed himself
a few days later after realizing

what he had done). When they _

saw that the will and the number
of Black people was becoming
stronger and stronger with each
day, with each attack, they were
forced to shift positions. Black
people comprise thirty to fifty
million of the population, which
is six to ten times larger than all
of the armed forces, and we com-
prise a large number in that. The
tone of the politicians began to
change to a soft-singing “We
Shall Overcome.” There were
more Black appointments, more
Scholarships for Black students,
poverty programs. And dope? It
is no accident that while Black
people fought harder and harder
that dope came into our com-
munities stronger and stronger

Through revolutionary education

and struggle comes liberation.

and that reefer was scarce in the
summertime.

Black Power! * The big trick! !

Black Power, Black economic
development, Black capitalism
are similar to the U. S. pacifica-
tion program in Vietnam. Peace
on her terms. It is an attempt to
dilute the people’s struggle by
getting us involved in hopeless
dreams. (A piece of the pie.) It
has got us talking about building
a nation as if it were a new idea,
that we as Black people never
thought of before. All it takes is
for us to pool our resources to-
gether and we'll be free in no
time. Many Brothers and Sisters
have been sucked into this and
let’s see how? The first Black
Power conference in Newark was
financed by white businessmen
from Philadelphia. Newark and
Atlanta. Soul City which is sup-
posedly owned and operated by
Black-rapping Floyd McKissick in
North Carolina, can be found list-
ed on Chase Manhattan’s finan-
cial statement as a community
relations project.

Does the enemy support its own
destruction? Of course not. You
see it really doesn’t matter to the
rulers of this country whether
they sell red, black, and green
flags or red, white and blue flags
as long as they sell them. It
doesn’t matter to them whether
you borrow money from Chase
Manhattan or from its subsidiary
Freedom National Bank, they both
charge the same interest. And it
doesn’t matter to them hwether
they have a Black college presi-
dent , or a Black senator, or a

Black’ police captain a8 long as
they do the job they want them
to. It also doesn’t matter to them
whether they have Black leaders
in Africa. as long as they can still
exploit the same amount of min-
erals each year.

Now, where does Black Studies
fit in?

The smarter rulers of this coun-
try know that Black people are
not inferior. Because if they be-
lieved that, they would never be
able to deal with us. They would
always underestimate us and
never develop the sophisticated
tactics needed to suppress us.
Look at Afro-American history.
All through our schooling we have
been given names, dates and
places and told to memorize them.
Which is the same as saying that
a full house is a good hand in
poker but never explaining the
game or saying that Martin Lu-
ther King was assassinated in
1968 without explaining the Civil
Rights movement. Yet Black his-
tory is being taught exactly the
same way in many colleges and
universities across the country.
We are given the names of Black
people and their accomplishments
without interpretation of the role
of the masses of Black people in
the development of the world. We
are not taught to approach history
scientifically, which is the only
way you can arrive at valid con-
clusions.

Again it is no accident that one
of the prime supporters of Black
studies is the Ford Foundation.
If you don’t know Ford Founda-
tion owns 90 per cent of Ford

Motor Co. which enable the Ford
family to reap tax free profits.
Ask the Black workers of Ford
Foundation how much Ford is in-
terested in Black people, when
they have to fight to get close to
a half-way decent living wage.

As long as Black studies is in-
volved in poetry, drumming and
dancing; and talking about some
vague white man: the rulers of
the school who are the same rul-
ers of the country are not wor-
ried. Because it camouflages the
people who have real power, like
the Fords, the Rockefellers, the
Morgans, the Mellons; who make
the important decisions and con-
trol the natural resources. Be-
cause after they exploit billions
of dollars in profit from Third
World people as well as white
people, they give back a few dol-
lars in charity so they can come
off clean. Andrew Carnegie gave
Booker T. Washington 600,000
dollars a year to keep up his good
werk in the Black community.
When Black people began to or-
ganize into labor unions, Booker
came out against it. He did not
want to anger his good industrial-
list friends.

So, Brothers and Sisters, we
have some very shrewd enemies,
who will stop at nothing to. keep
control of the wealth that they
have. We cannot let Black faces
fool us, we cannot let anything
because it has Black in front of
it fool us.

We must define our goals and
we must define our enemy accord-
ing to those that support the con-
centration of wealth in a hands of
a few and define our friends ac-
cording to all those which will
never stop fighting until the
wealth gained from our sweat and
blood is redistributed among the
people. It is true that a construc-
tion worker who is white, may be
racist, but he has no decision
making power and it is his racism
which blinds him from his own
oppression. We must wage our
struggle against the owners of
the corporations, the owners of
the banks, the owners of the fac-
tories, and all those which sup-
port them. It is only when these
enemies are overcome can there
be liberation for Third World
countries and the oppressed peo-
ple in the United States. When
you understand this, you will un-
derstand why the Black Panther
Party is being attacked daily, and
why Angela Davis is in jail. You
will understand why Malcolm was
shot just as he was moving to
Socialism, why Lumumba a So-
cialist Freedom Fighter was mur-
dered in the Congo through the
C.1LA. You will also understand
why Nkrumah was. also over-
thrown through U.S. money as
he was on the verge of making
Ghana the first totally indepen-
dent African Socialist State.

We shall survive America.


PROMETHEUS

February 10, 1971

Your

SUGGESTED
_ POLITICAL
READING

Concentration Camps U. S. A. — Allen
The Evolutionary of a Revolutionary — Beitman

United States Imperialism in Puerto Rico —
Patricia Bell

Pentagonism — Juan Bosch

Die Nigger Die — Rap Brown

Introduction to Marxism — Burns

Black Rage — Grier & Cobbs

A Puerto Rican in New York — Jesus Colon

Soul on Ice — Eldridge Cleaver

Post Prison Writings — Eldridge Cleaver

Revolution and Education — Eldridge Cleaver

The Communist Manifesto — Marx & Engels

Wretched of the Earth — Fanon

Black Skin White Mask — Fanon

Toward the African Revolution — Fanon

Dieing Colonialism — Fanon

The Black Panthers Speak — Foner (Editor)

The Black American Experience — Freedman
(Editor)

Guerrilla Warfare — Guevara

The Diary of Che — Guevara

On Vietnam & World Revolution — Guevara

Socialism and Man — Guevara

Che: Selected Works — Guevara

Letters From The Soledad Brothers — Jackson

Free Huey — Keating

Revolutionary Notes — Lester

Puerto Rico Freedom and Power in the Carib-
bean — Lewis

Ghetto Rebellion to Black Liberation —
Lightfoot

Black America and the World Revolution —
Lightfoot

Conversation with Eldridge Cleaver — Lockwood

Castro’s Cuba; Cuba’s Fidel — Lockwood

Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla —
Marighella

The Black Panthers — Marino

. The Assassination of Malcolm X — Breitman &

Porter (Merit)

Selected Articles and Speeches 1920-1967 —
Ho Chi Minh

Class Struggle in Afica — Nhrumah

Revolutionary Warfare — Nhrumah

Axioms — Nhrumah

Genocide Against the Indians — Novack

The Tupamaros Urban Guerrillas of Uruguay —
Carlos Nunez

The Urban Guerrilla — Martin Oppenheimer

Seize the Time — Seale

The “Trial” of Bobby Seale — Bond, Dorsen,
Rembar & Seale

Treblinka — Steiner

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is
the Banner of Freedom and Independence
for our People and the Powerful Weapon
of Building Socialism and Communism —
Kim Il Sung

Revolutionary

Let Us Embody More Thoroughly the Revolution
Spirit of Independence, Self Sustenance
and Self Defense in all Fields of States
Activity — Kim Il Sung

Capitalism Plus Dope Equals Genocide — Tabor

Selected Military Writings — Mao Tse Tung

Quotations the (Red Book) — Mao Tse Tung

Five Articles — Mao Tse Tung

The Afro-American Struggle Against Violent
Repression — Mao Tse Tung

An Afro-American History — Malcolm X

Talks to Young People — Malcolm X

Two Speeches by Malcolm X — Malcolm X

Malcolm X Speaks — Malcolm X

By Any Means Necessary — Malcolm X

The Bust Book (What to do until the lawyer
comes)

NEWSPAPERS

The Black Panther

Palante

Guardian

Liberation Guardian

Ratt

The Daily World

Sundance

MAGAZINES

: Ramparts rth ll ici

RADIO STATIONS

W. B. A. I. — 99.5 F.M.
W. L. I. B. — 107.5 F.M.

RECORDINGS

Message to the World It’s Midnight — King
Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam — King
His Wit and isdom — Malcolm X

Speaking — Malcolm X

The Last Message — Malcolm X

Talks to Young People — Malcolm X
Message to the Grassroots — Malcolm X
Ballots or Bullets — Malcolm X

Free Huey — Carmichael

Dialectics of Liberation — Carmichael
Huey Newton Speaks — Newton

Soul On Wax (Dig) — Cleaver

On The Street In Watts — Black Voices
Right On — Original Last

The Last Poets — The Last Poets

O. D. (45) — The Last Poets

Every Brother Ain’t A Brother (45) —
Gary Byrel

Frankenstein — Gregory
The Light Side: The Dark Side — Gregory
S. N. C. C.’s Rap — Brown & Thomas

Spirit Known and Unknown — Thomas

Gagged and Chained: The Sentence of Bobby
Seal for Contempt

Right On Be Free — The Voices of East Harlem
Seize the Time — Elaine Brown

Angola: A Victoria E Certa (Victory is Certain)
—M.P.LA.

Cancion Protesta — Latin American
Revolutionary

F. T. A.: Songs of G. I. Resistance —
Revolutionary Artist

Chicago Transit Authority — Chicago
Chicago — Chicago

Chicago III — Chicago

Woodstock

Singing Some Soul — Batan

Band of Gypsys — Hendrix

Electric Ladyland — Hendrix

Axir Bold Is Love — Hendrix

The Worst — Jefferson Airplane
Volunteers of America — Jefferson Airplane
Portrait — The Fifth Dimension

Seems Like I Gotta Do Wrong (45) —
The Whispers

Free Bobby Now (45) — The Lumpen
L. G. A. — Martirano

The Polydor Label 24-5001 (6th Avenue and
42nd Street)

ee

BOOKSHOPS

Eighth Street Bookshops
17 West 8th Street
New York, New York

The Jefferson Bookshops
100 East 16th Street
New York, New York

The Benjamin J. Davis Bookshop
2529 Eighth Avenue
New York, New York

Liberation Bookstore

421 Lenox Avenue (at 131st Street)
New York, New York

Black Panther Party

Harlem: 2026 7th Avenue 5
864-8951

Brooklyn: 180 Sutter Avenue
342-2791

Jamaica: 153-23 South Road
526-4531

Corona: 101-16 Northern Blvd.
779-0550

Bronx: Ministry of Information
1370 Boston Road
328-9009

National Memorial African Bookstore
Lenox and 125th Street
New York, New York

Biblioteca Puerto Rico
106 E. 14th Street (3rd Floor)
Bet. Lexington and 3rd Ave.
New York, New York


February 10, 1971

PROMETHEUS

Page Seven

Information Kit

“Does Anybody Know What Time It Is,
Does Anybody Really Care.”

— Chicago

PRISONERS OF WAR

ORGANIZATIONS

Young Lords Party
(El Barrio) 1678 Madison Avenue
427-7754

Lower East Side
533-7870

Bronx Ministry of Information
949 Longwood Avenue
887-1223

Young Workers Liberation League
29 West 15th Street (7th Floor)
924-2011
Harlem: 233 West 15th Street

Pan African Students In America
307 East 6th Street
AL 4-8689

United Front Against British & U. S.
Imperialism
210 East 23rd Street
689-7437

Harlem Youth Federation
2110 Madison Avenue

Lincoln Center
690-1451
TO 2-4088

I Wor Kuen
24 Market Street
267-5850

Indians of All Tribes
186 Rhimr Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
c/o Southern Eastern Indians Council
827-5382

Puerto Rican Student Union
440 East 138th Street
Bronx, New York

585-828

ASA
1064 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, New York
941-6150
638-9494

Republic of New Africa
Jamaica, New York
526-8932

Asians Against the Vietnam War
P. O. Box 642
East Setanket, New York 11733
(516) 242-6516

The People’s Community Center
120 W. 116th Street
864-8360
477-6950

Welfare Right Mother
380 Columbus Avenue
New York, New York

874-9081

United Black Student Vanguard
47 West 53rd Street
New York, New York

Third World Revelationists
233 E. 12] Street
722-0364
722-9330
Post Office Box 33
Triboro Station
New York, New York 10035

SNCC
100 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York

Aspira
296 Fifth Avenue
New York, New York

MPI
271 W. 10th Street
New York, New York
289-9807

106 East 14th Street
New York, New York
473-9764

United Farm Workers
416 State Street
Brooklyn, New York

Union of Women 677-4991
777-3131
254-4488
929-8280
989-0666
248-2260
989-0666
732-4272
691-8787
227-0835
369-2007
929-6076
683-8120
691-1860
749-2200

Media Women

Women Abortion Project

National Organization for Women
Anti Male Supremacy Group
Committee to Defend the Panthers
Alternate U.

Draft Information

Law Commune

Lawyer’s Guild

Community Law Office

American Civil Liberties Union
Emergency Civil Liberties Union
Women’s Center

Liberation News Services


PROMETHEUS

Page Nine

February 10, 1971

Incompetence At BMCC

By EIRMA WILDERSON

Now that the course has ended
IT am outraged at how Professor
Twersky conducted her course on
American Government. Not only
did she have an arrogant attitude
towards her students but she also
made specific biased remarks per-
taining to those enrolled in the
Open Admissions program. Her
statement on this was, “My educa-
tion will not be sold like meat in a
meat market.”

Evidently not all classes are
what they promise to be. From the
outset, the class seemed very in-
teresting; there were three ade-
quate text books (costing $15 and
never used), plus a very extensive
syllabus.

Our grievances were numerous
and when they were taken to the
chairman of the department we
got no response, only an attempt to
distract us from the subject.

Our grievances include:

1, The guideline of the course
was vague. The class. consisted of
daily readings of the New York
Times and nothing more than that.

2. The class material did not re-
late directly to the content of the
examinations.

3. There was a certain amount
of tension and division between the
instructor and the class.

“4, A’s and B’s were given on
papers and tests to appease the
students’ discontent.

5. The instructor was fearful of
controversy. This was proven by
her refusal to answer questions
from the class thus preventing any
kind of spontaneous conversation.

I feel that learning was not moti-
vated; instead there was a manu-
facture of false delusions and a
lack of fulfillment of the supposed
original goals of the course.

Editor’s Note: These student
grievances stemmed from the in-
competence of a faculty member.
The fact that they were not dealt
with is further proof of the need
for student control of the hiring
and firing of faculty in order to
insure the resolution of grievances.

Shop Steward Sellout

Phe shop steward of the college
secretaries union is checking the

time cards of her co-workers. to_

make sure they punch the time
elock. Ts she worried about her
absent-minded colleagues? No!!!
She’s doing the administration’s
work for them by enforcing an in-
sulting rule which most secretaries
have protested against.

A shop steward is elected by
one’s fellow workers to be their
representative. The steward is sup-
posed to follow up the grievances
of the workers, not enforce the
rules of the boss. Many unions
today, like DC 37 the secretaries
union, have leaders and stewards
who serve the interests of their
bosses and receive some small
priviliges in return. This does not
mean that unions are bad as some
of your professors would have you
believe. It means that there is not

ou

Protest

a strong rank and file movement
among the workers of a union to

_ serve the interests of these work-

ers.

Our struggle as students is very
related to those of workers. We are
even trying to get some of the same
things — like child care centers,
less bureaucracy, and certainly
better wages and working condi-
tions for those of us who work on
campus. The administration like
a true boss, will try to use racism,
male supremely picking out “lead-
ers,” arrests and any other means
to split us up. This happens to
workers all the time. When we
leave school we will be workers,
also henee it is in our interests to
support campus workers, relating
their issues to other campus causes
and gaining experience which will
serve us later in our struggle
against bosses.

From the top of your head
To the end of your toenails
You, embody protest.

Yeah you, 100% total you.
You can shut your mouth,
Clog up your ears

And be as cool as an Eskimo
Sippin’ ice tea —

But one look in the mirror
And you will see, that
You, embody protest
Looky here;

With leopard skins on

Or a three piece suit
Youw’re carried in the books
As a dumb-ass brute.
Cause you embody protest.

Nursing Students Unite!

One cannot begin to emphasize
the need for a relevant and effec-
tive nursing program at the
Borough of Manhattan Community
College. There are many existing
problems in the nursing program
that are not being attended to,
by the administration or by the
nursing students. Many of these
problems have been brought to the
heads of the nursing department,
Dr. Reid and Dr. Matheney. These
problems however have been pro-
mised to be looked after time and
time again and have never been
fulfilled. These promises were
made just as a means of sidetrack-
ing the nursing students from the
real issues. It is time the nursing
students did a little more research
into their curriculum and stop ac-
cepting hearsay. Anytime the
nursing department can come up
with a piece of document prohibit‘
ing them from demonstrating or
voicing their opinion against the
notorious atrocities of the nursing
department, and you accept it, then

you’re being a chump, you're be-
ing misguided and cheated. It is
your right to make anything that
is not serving your needs work to
your benefit. Ten students of fifty
students who graduated last June
passed the State Boards, before
that eleven students passed. It’s
getting worse and yet nursing stu-
dents lay dormant to these atroc-
ities.

Freshman nursing students had
to take Math I instead of Nursing
I when they entered the first se-
mester, As a result of this the nurs-
ing students will of course not
graduate at their expected date,
Nursing students should always
remember that they are Black peo-
ple first and they should begin to
use their nursing skills to better
the communities in which they
live. To acquire these skills and to
use them effectively you must have
the proper education that will al-
low you to do so, If the education
that you are receiving is not allow-
ing you to do so then it is your
right and your duty to make the
Nursing Department serve you.

RAMON EMETERIO BETANCES

By MARIO BAEZ

Ramon Emeterio Betances is a
Puerto Rican Club whose goal is
to achieve self-determination and
identity for the Puerto Rican stu-
dents in Manhattan Community
College. The club is named after
the father of Puerto Rico, Ramon
Emeterio Betances, who was one
of our leaders during the revolu-
tion for freedom of 1868 known 4 as
El Grito De Lares,

Ramon Emeterio Betances Club
is comprised of Puerto Rican stu-
dents who see the need to have a
strong Puerto Rican voice in the
development of policies in our
school.

The Administration in the past
has proven that it is not working
in the interest of Puerto Rican stu-
dents. A perfect example of this is
the manner in which it has be-
haved towards Puerto Rican
studies: the Curriculum Committee
has refused to approve a course on
Puerto Rican Spanish; the counsel-
ors have consistently given out
misinformation regarding the
courses. They have tried to control
the content of the courses by

It makes no difference

The shade or hue

From ultra-high yellow
To nearing blue —

Cause you, embody protest.
As gentle as a mouse

Or mean as an Ox.

They'll think of ya’ baby
Like ya’ chicken pox —
Cause you, embody protest.
You can drop your bop
And stop talking that jive
Still hell of a picnic

To stay alive!

Cause you, embody protest.
You can swear ya’ bad
With ya’ alligator shoes

making the studies go to the Social
Science and Modern Language De-
partments for approval of course.

We as Puerto Ricans must unite
into one solid fortified family of de-
termination, power, brotherliness,
and guts to fight off oppressors and
racism. We need to control our
destiny, therefore we must support
the demands of Puerto Rican
studies.

Control is: to have the power to
hire and fire the faculty; to hire
Puerto Rican counselors; Puerto
Rican representatives on the Cur-
riculum Committee, Personnel and
Budget Committee.

Ramon Emeterio Betances Club
therefore urges you to participate
in the mass student meeting on
February 10th at twelve o’clock in
the “A” building auditorium. This
meeting is a mass action by stu-
dents to obtain control of the Edu-
cational Facilities of Manhattan
Community College.

Ramon Emeterio Betances Club
meets every Wednesday at twelve
o’clock in the “A” building, room
392.

But they won’t do

When ya’ feel the blues —
Cause you, embody protest.
You can break your arm
With books to school.

To be a special Spic or Nigger
Which means youre a fool —
Couse you embody protest.

So if protest is

Exactly what you are

Carry it further

To be its star —

So.one day you'll embody
Your beautiful.

— MANUEL WILLIAMS


Page Ten

PROMETHEUS

February 10, 1971

Cops Are Hired To Enforce The

Just before finals, Student Gov-
ernment tried to call a rally and
Open discussion. Its objective was
to find some way to stop the run-
around we’ve been getting from
the administration on every im-
portant issue, whether its racism,
child care, fees, control over stu-
dent money, or a voice in the hir-
ing and firing of faculty.

The rally had to be held before
the midyear break — we couldn’t
waste any more time. It had to
be hald in the auditorium —
there’s no other place for a large
group of people to get together.
And it had to be held on a Friday
when classes were scheduled —
all the available free periods had
been taken.

The administration responded
the way it usually does: it called
the cops. We were breaking the
law, they told us — the Hender-
son Law. We were guilty of “in-
terefering with, and disrupting,
the educational process.” Time for
the Men in Blue.

WHAT COPS ARE FOR

It might help to get a few
things straight. The cops ar-

rived at MCC for the same rea-
sons they arrive anywhere in this
country.

Cops are hired to enforce the
laws. Some laws.

Cops are hired to prevent
crimes. Some crimes.

You never saw a cop run into
a store and arrest the owner for
charging high prices. You never
saw a cop beat a landlord over
the head for raising your rent $20.

The same people who make the
laws, hire the cops. The last time
you hired a cop was the last time
you made a law. And that was
never. If you made the laws, you
wouldn’t worry about the cops.

But you are worried about the
cops. They stand around the
school, they stand around the
block, and if you work and go on
strike, they hang around the
picket line as guards for the man-
agement. If you don’t like the
war in Vietnam and demonstrate
against it, they might well beat
your head.

Hardly any of us like cops. They
enforce laws we don’t like, made

by rich people who don’t like us.
Because we don/t think that some
people should be rich off the
sweat of other people’s backs.

World Cops

One of the laws we don’t like
is the law that turns us into cops
—the draft law. As far as the
Vietnamese are concerned that’s
just what American GI’s are —
cops. he Vietnamese have been
fighting for hundreds of years
against the Chinese, the French,
the Japanese, and the Americans.
For one basic thing — the right
to make their own laws.

The same fat dudes who make
the laws about what goes on in
school and where you can picket
or strike and how and when, don’t
want the Vietnamese deciding
their own future. They know that
the Vietnamese would pass laws
saying that American business-
men and their Armies had to get
the hell out of Vietnam and stop
trying to turn their country into
a little American suburb.

And when they do kick Am-
erica out, Vietnamese cops will be
a lot different from ours. They

won’t have a small bunch of arm-
ed men dictating to everyone else.
The police force will be the whole
Vietnamese people.

There is a saying that “political
power goes out of the barrel of a
gun.” think about it. The only
thing that’s allowed American
businessmen to control the Viet-
namese for so long is the U.S.
Army with all its guns.

Politicians and Cops

It’s the same back home. Rich
people run this country. They buy
politicians and cops. Their poli-
ticians pass laws that run our
lives and their cops make sure we
obey them,

You can’t get into office if you
don’t have millions of dollars or
the backing of people with mil-
lions of dollars. The people who
get elected don’t owe a thing to
ordinary people. The debts they
owe are debts to the businessmen
who paid for their newspaper ads
and TV time and the pjane trips
around the country.

Nixon doesn’t give a damn
about you. Neither does George
Meany, or any other elected of-



February 10, 1971

PROMETHEUS

Page Eleven

Laws

ficial. They bigmouth about how
we elected them, but we know
we didn’t. We didn’t have any
choice.

When we get mad, their cops
come in and beat our heads for
objecting to the laws that give
them the “right” to come in and
beat our heads. Nixon and Rocke-
feller, Lindsay and Bowker don’t
carry guns to enforce their po-
litical power. They’ve got the
money to buy cops to do that.
Their political power grows out
of the barrel of their cops’? guns.

Behind every cop is a million-
aire, and the chairman of the
board of every corporation you
can name. They make a profit off
of working people of all races.
They make bigger profit by keep-
ing some races — black and
brown and yellow — poorer and
less privileged than whites. Third
World people won’t put up with
this anymore.

Stop the Cop

If the millionaries had no po-
lice, Third World people would
take the freedom, property and
power that are rightfully theirs.
But they wouldn’t take it away
from white working people. They’d
take it away from the million-
aires. That’s why the rich buy
politicians to hire cops (with our
tax money). to ride four-deep in
squad Cars through Third World
communities.

We cannot let the police turn
us around. And we can’t let our-
~.sélves be turned into police whose
job it is to turn the people of
Latin. America, Africa and Asia
around.

All over the world barricades
are going up. If you’ve ever seen
a barricade or a police line you
know that you have to be on one
side or the other. The people who
want freedom are all on one side
of the barricades. The cops of the
world are on the other.

COPS AKE HIKED T0 ENFORCE THE LAWS.
SOME LAWS.” ~ q

COPS ARE HIRED T? PREVENT CRIMES.
SOME CRIMES,

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THIRD WORLD COALITION

DAY STUDENT GOVERNMENT

ls Supporting
The Night Students Assn.
And Their Platform

For:

I. A Nurse in the Evening
2. Student Control of Bookstore

3. No Extra Tuition for Evening
Students

4, Faster and More Efficient
Services for Evening Students