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Babylon Vol.1-1
Publisher: Revolutionary Peoples Communications NetworkDate: 11/1971Call Number: Volume Number: Vol. 1-1Format: PeriodicalCollection: Various Black Liberation Movement Publications
First issue of Babylon, a newspaper published by the Revolutionary Peoples Communications Network. Includes articles on the alleged capture of H. Rap Brown by police after a "gun battle," the problems or heroin addiction and the use of Methadone treatment, Ruchell Magee and the Marin County Courthouse shootout, and the relationship of African Americans to the U.S. military and the war in Vietnam. The centerpiece article is on the struggle of African Americans in Cairo, Illinois against oppression and brutal treatment by the police and other government agencies. Also included are letters from political prisoners, a "Letter To The Lumpen" by Eldridge Cleaver, and various poems.
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