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Welcome to the Freedom Archives' Digital Search Engine.The Freedom Archives contains over 12,000 hours of audio and video recordings which date from the late-1960s to the mid-90s and chronicle the progressive history of the Bay Area, the United States, and international movements. We are also in the process of scanning and uploading thousands of historical documents which enrich our media holdings. Our collection includes weekly news, poetry, music programs; in-depth interviews and reports on social and cultural issues; numerous voices from behind prison walls; diverse activists; and pamphlets, journals and other materials from many radical organizations and movements.

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Panthers in Algiers vs. The Black Panther National Headquarters Panthers in Algiers vs. The Black Panther National Headquarters
Date: 3/5/1971Call Number: KP 032Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Black Panther Party general
(This audio is based on a video recording received in New York.) Split within the Black Panther Party. Statement from the Intercommunal Branch of the Party in Algiers criticizing the national leadership and calling for expulsion of David Hilliard. Includes parts of conversation by phone between Eldridge Cleaver and Huey Newton. Eldridge Cleaver describes and analyses the internal crisis in the Black Panther Party - responds to the purge of the Panther 21, Geronimo Pratt and the International Section of the Party. Roots analysis in Marxism-Leninism, describes repression and contradiction of having to respond to it by having to deal with courts and political prisoners. Goes on to describe Party as a vanguard, not a mass organization. Stresses war as politics, points to Jonathan Jackson as the "fruit of work of the party," calls for public support for the underground, and sees the party as having a right and left wing. Donald Cox discusses democratic centralism, calls for a democratic practice, reinstatement of those purged including Michael Cetewayo Tabor, Connie Matthews and Dhoruba Bin-Wahad who were declared enemies of the people in the BPP newspaper. Pete O'Neal, Sekou Odinga agree and speak. Barbara Cox adds about party's mistreatment of women. Kathleen Cleaver discusses how theory is used in party to dominate and confuse people, not lead. Discusses wave of assassinations and increased repression under Nixon. Speaks about the difference of declaring the organization to be a vanguard party rather than actually being recognized by the people as such. Donald Cox describes why he went underground in 1970. Charlotte O'Neal describes the disbanding of the Kansas City, Des Moines and Omaha chapters by June Hilliard and the bust of Ed Poindexter. Eldridge Cleaver concludes by appealing for a strengthening of the Party and asks Big Man Howard, Emory Douglas and Masai Hewitt to help correct the problems and fight against corruption in the organization.