HONOR FRED HAMPTON Shut down Chicago City Hall

[XXPANTHAXX]

A struggle has been going on in Chicago since mid-February about who
will write the definitive history of the events of Dec. 4, 1969, the
night of the military assault on 2337 W. Monroe that took the lives of
Ill. Chairman Fred Hampton, and Mark Clark of the Black Panther Party
(BPP).

Will it be Superintendent Phil Cline and his thugs-in-blue who were
responsible for the Massacre on Monroe? Or will it be the
African-American community under the leadership of the Prisoners of
Conscience Committee? POCC Chairman Fred Hampton Jr. is leading a
struggle to re-name that stretch of Monroe,
“Honorary Chairman Fred Hampton Way.�

Hampton says, “We’re calling for mass numbers of the people to come out
and shut down City Hall (121 N. LaSalle) on Wednesday, March 29 at 10
a.m. Wear all-black. We’re calling on all communities—we commend the
Latino community for the courageous stand they took over this whole HR
4437 issue last Friday [March 10]. ...

“It’s not just about the street signs. ... Once you start making the
concrete connections, you know what I’m saying— you can’t talk about
Chairman Fred without talking about the present incarceration of POCC
Minister of Defense Aaron Patterson, who was locked down and beat up in
the same courthouse that former Chairman of the BPP Bobby Seale was
chained and gagged at, 38 years ago...

“Who we be? POCC! What’s our call? Free them all! Where we gonna be at
March 29? City Hall!� The POCC can be reached by mail at: POCC, P.O. Box
368255, Chicago, IL 60636.

—Eric Struch