Whites, Blacks, Native Americans and people of color unite in support of Black Panther Party 10-Point Program for social justice and community development.
(Image from Bob Rehak: UPTOWN, Portrait of a Chicago Neighborhood in the 1970s)
March 29, 1972 (Updated Version from 10/15/66)
- We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black and oppressed communities.
- We want full employment for our people.
- We want an end to the robbery by the capitalist of our Black and oppressed communities.
- We want decent housing, fit for the shelter of human beings.
- We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present-day society.
- We want completely free health care for all Black and oppressed people.
- We want an immediate end to police brutality and murder of Black people, other people of color, all oppressed people inside the United States.
- We want an immediate end to all wars of aggression.
- We want freedom for all Black and poor oppressed people now held in U.S. federal, state, county, city and military prisons and jails. We want trials by a jury of peers for all persons charged with so-called crimes under the laws of this country.
- We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, peace and people’s community control of modern technology
(Abbreviated from source: Intersectional Black Panther Party History Project Black Panther Party 10 Platform and Program; What We Want, What We Believe (March 29, 1972)
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