Free Angela and All Political Prisoners Page #5

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How was I to know the police were going

to break into the Panther office

at 4:
30 in the morning?

They obviously didn't broadcast it.

How did you hear about it?

We got a call from someone who was inside,

who said that the police had come

and had attacked their office.

And what do you plan to do?

Do you plan to act as an intermediary

or in any capacity like that?

- I'll do anything I can.

- Thank you.

It was as if we were living in a state of war.

In a state of siege.

For us, during that period, the

revolution was right around the corner,

and we had to do everything we could

to usher it in.

I'm representing the Che Lumumba Club

of the Communist Party.

There is a conspiracy in the land.

It's a conspiracy to wipe out, to murder

every single Black Panther in America

and to wipe out

the black community as a whole.

Brothers and sisters, this is genocide.

We have to call it by its name.

This is genocide.

Right on.

This conspiracy

to commit murder and genocide

on our people forces us

to exercise our constitutional right

to bear arms

and to use those arms to defend

our community, our families and ourselves.

Power to the people!

The overwhelming majority

of the faculty at UCLA

would have supported the position,

and did support the position I took.

But the majority of the general population,

who don't understand

what academic freedom really is,

had concerns about

Angela Davis as a communist,

Angela Davis as a black,

Angela Davis as a woman,

Angela Davis as an activist.

You couldn't have

put things together with anyone

that would've been more

problem-creating than with Angela Davis.

Today, in a rare action,

the Board of Regents voted 15-6

to overrule the university and fire her.

Governor Reagan voted with the majority.

He said it wasn't

because she's a communist,

but rather because she is unprofessional.

While the regents were voting, Miss

Davis was a few blocks away in a rally

protesting the treatment of black

prisoners in Soledad State Prison.

She sees her dismissal

as a case of political repression

which she may or may not challenge.

I'm gonna keep on struggling

to free the Soledad Brothers

and all political prisoners,

because I think that

what has happened to me

is only a very tiny, minute example

of what is happening to them.

I suppose I just lost that job at UCLA

as a result of

my political opinions and activities.

Some UCLA professors plan

to raise money to pay her salary

so she can continue to teach.

The controversy is not over.

I was still at UCLA

defending my right to teach,

and this case emerged

involving three, then young,

black men at Soledad Prison.

All I could think about was

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