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An excerpt of a presentation by Black Panther Party founder Bobby Seale titled 'UNFINISHED BUSINESS' delivered at the 45th Anniversary Celebration & Inaugural Ceremony of the Alumni Association of the Black Panther Party - October 28, 2011 in Philadelphia, Pa.

Video footage of Bobby Seale speaking at Colleges & Universities

BBP Photo History Tour

Social Change into our 21st Century
and our Occupy Wall Street movement

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Speaking Across America  www.BobbySeale.com  

"From The Sixties To The Future"

· Bobby Seale is the original 1966 Founding Chairman & National Organizer
of the Black Panther Party [BPP], USA. “The Eighth Defendant: of the Great Chicago ‘7’
Conspiracy Trial.” Title to Bobby Seale’s upcoming book.  Also a defendant in the New Haven
Conspiracy to Murder Trial, the charges trumpeted up by the FBI.  Bobby Seale was the FBI’s
COINTELPRO sixties>   “PUBLIC ENEMY” title to a documentary film by Jens Meurer. Bobby
Seale was a Negotiator @ the ATTICA NY State Prison uprising: Bobby Seale won all political
court room trials except the misdomeanor case of disturbing the peace of the California State Assembly May 2nd, 1967.

· BPP-Founder Board Member: {to the NAABPP} NATIONAL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION of the BLACK PANTHER PARTY.
 [Also: The Bobby Seale Sixties/BPP Archival Arts Center & Youth Jobs Projects]   
   AERYJP.  Arts & Environmental Renovation Youth Jobs Projects.

· Producer: SeizeTheTime Productions.com, LLC: Fourth Coming Feature Film:
  The Eighth Defendant:  A Lonely Rage / Death of A Prince   
and Bobby Seale’s dissertation documentary:  Rise & Decline of the SIXTIES-BPP Protest Movement.

· 1992 Creator-Director of   THE Bobby Seale REACH Foundation,   
R.E.A.C.H!:
"Reclaiming, Recycling and Re-Evolving * 
Ecological Economic Enviro-Empowerment  * 
Around  All-Peoples Artistic & Active *
 Creative Cooperational  * 
Humanism" {AERYJP}         

Bobby Seale  you tube CNN Interview July 2010:

                    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VALtpXOKJ4whttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VALtpXOKJ4w 

BIO:
Within the last two decades plus, the demise of several sixties left radical icons [including Huey P. Newton's death in August of 1989; Abbie Hoffman 1991; Jerry Reubin 1993 & Eldridge Cleaver & Quame Turea in 1998], Bobby Seale, in effect, has become one of the last surviving architects of the most important social change movements in American and African American history, complete with his histrionic political court room trials of that era.

Taking to the stage with his lively charismatic and activist eloquence Mr. Seale illuminates the true sixties birth and youthful intelligentsia of the BPP. Unfolding the pragmatic unknown philosophical range of the sixties protest movement, ["…which grew out of student activism, historical class analysis, scientific research, and programmatic grass-roots community organizing. NOT street life hooliganism as COINTELPRO political conservatism continues to distort…"].

Mr. Seale [and his former BPP member wife, Leslie M. Johnson-Seale who also speaks] transports the audience back to the mini?civil?war turbulence of the late sixties and early seventies. A time when the activism of hundreds of thousands of protesters of many different ethnic groups created coalitions, which included young Black men and women selling hundreds of thousands of "THE BLACK PANTHER" weekly newspaper. Who created numerous community programs and registered thousands to vote, complete with law books in their hands and "legal" guns handy for self defense against racist and fascist police and FBI's planned COINTELPRO vicious overt racist attacks at the time. Today our right to self defense stance is unheard of.

"Today you don't need guns" charges Bobby Seale. "If you want to observe police brutality, use the technology. Network with thousands of cell phone video recorders [from Rodney King to Oscar Grant] and put it all on the internet! Implement real people's economic parity and greater three dimensional direct-democracy complete with real people's community control of police and economics."
"Social change? Organizationally learn to think and act with a "...polylectic nonlinear view. Why? Because today we live in an over developed, fast-paced globalizing high-tech computerized scientific social order. Our ideas, beliefs, understanding and realizations must correspond correctly to reality. Teaching our youth the same for all people's earthly human liberation."
Defining themselves as "revolutionary humanist" Seale and his wife Leslie bring the BPP/Sixties protest movement era full circle showing how times have changed. How we must reach for the future: Demonstrate, Protest, organize real peoples' programs and evolve a greater direct [participatory] community control democracy, void of racist, bigoted or chauvinistic practices. Void of all the extremes of global corporate exploitation. Complete with a profound cyber-space cell phone rights, science-based civil-human rights, and all people's ecological rights activism. Understanding how all civil-human rights issues today are interconnected, intertwined, interdependent, and interrelated with ecological environmental problems, new-millennium political issues, and global economics.

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Books by Mr. Seale:

1. SEIZE THE TIME: The Story Of The
              Black Panther Party & Huey P. Newton

2. A Lonely Rage: The Autobiography Of Bobby Seale

3. BARBEQUE'N With BOBBY SEALE:
  Hickory & Mesquite Smoked Recipes: including veggie-grill, barbeque-quick and very low fat & low salt heart smart barbeque recipies. {A Social Change Fund Raiser book} 

4. "POLYLECTIC REALITY:  The non-linear analytical view: Community organizing in an over developed high-tech computerized globalizing scientific social order.

6. BOBBY SEALE: The Eight Defendant of the Great Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial: in original screenplay story form.

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Bio: Leslie M. Johnson-Seale
Black Panther Party 1969 to 1974

Bobby Seale & Leslie M. Johnson-Seale

    Leslie M. Johnson-Seale was born in April  of 1949. A Baby Boomer. Leslie joined the Black Panther Party [BPP] in June 1969, after receiving a transfer from her job with the Philadelphia Urban League to the San Francisco/Bay Area Urban League. Leslie became actively involved with The BPP from the very first day she arrived in Oakland, California. She was a grass roots organizer out of the Black Panther Party's Central Headquarters in Berkeley CA. She was later assigned to the North Richmond CA. BPP branch's poor & low income community.
As all BPP branches & chapters in those days were attacked, arrested, and threaten by the FBI's COINTELPRO [counter intelligence program] operations, and local police working with them, so was the N. Richmond BPP branch. To the then fascist FBI the BPP was a PUBLIC ENEMY.
     Leslie and her party members faced the same die-hard racist power structure & terrorism that all BPP chapters faced. Many other chapters were literally attacked. It was the BPP 65% female membership who gave the BPP a necessary character with their programmatic organizing, leadership efforts and dedicated work. And in the face of it all, with their lives on the line, across the USA, they organized the Free Breakfast For School Children programs, Free Preventive Medical Health Care centers, sold the BPP weekly newspaper, registered black citizens to vote. Leslie and her party group basically unified that N. Richmond CA. poor & low income black community of twenty-five thousand people in opposition to the then overt but vicious, institutional political exploitation, bigotry, chauvinism and racism.
  Leslie Seale two years later became the Communications Secretary @ Black Panther Party's National Headquarters in Oakland CA. just before Bobby Seale was release from jail without bail: after two historical court room trials, two years a political prisoner, and the BPP ultimately won over the years ninety-five percent [95%] of all court battles. Thanks to Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, William Kunstler, Charles Garry, Jerry Leftcourt, Leon Friedman and many other civil-rights attorneys of the sixties.

       Leslie M. Johnson and Bobby Seale hooked up [married sixties style] and have been together every since. Like all the other thousands of former BPP members [whom they are largely networked with to this day] they have families, raised their children and sent them to college. Leslie & Bobby have worked continually in various programs, from Capitol Hill in Washington DC to radio programs in Denver, Colorado and several programs in Philadelphia to educate and change things, while also Speaking Across America for the generations following them.
     With her open very dynamic, yet kind hearted personality many today wonder how was it that she became a member of the BPP? A rough and tumble confrontational "take-no-crap" from the racist "pig" power structure organization? It was and is the progressive content of the character of so many brothers, and especially sisters like Leslie which gave the BPP profoundness and keep the BPP ideology, always "in-motion" and never stagnant.

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PUBLICENEMY: Featuring Bobby Seale, Kathleen Cleaver, Jamal Joseph, and Nile Rodgers with Bobby's wife, Leslie Johnson-Seale: From the sixties to the present.

A Jens Meurer documentary feature film.
www.publicenemy-seale.com/
PUBLICENEMY: 
A feature length documentary film released in theaters across Europe in May 2001and through film festivals 1999-2000.  Aired on STARZ cable through 2002 & 2003.
Bobby Seale is energetic in Public Enemy.  Jens Meurer's thematically fascinating and strightfoward documentary is a walk through memory lane. Then and now with four former Black Panther Party members plus Seale's wife, Leslie who each in thier way still practice the commitment so emblematic of the old days of the sixties protest movement era...
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X died without giving up thier ideals. The four plus one people portrayed here survived and adapted to the reality they so vehemently tried to change. Dose that make their struggle less heroic? 
Not according to the director, Jens Meurer.
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Historical -Factual Notes on Bobby Seale:
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Bobby Seale is the founding Chairman and National Organizer of the Black Panther Party, 1966 to 1974. In his life time he has lectured at more than 2000 Colleges & Universities, averaging two [2] appearances each across the USA, plus several hundred community and protest movement
Speaking-advocacy events since 1967 when his name first became a house whole reference. Bobby Seale lead an armed delegation into the California State legislature May 2nd, 1967.  Since that time Mr. Seale, who survived two major political court room trials, one slated as the Trial Of The Century, is a sixties icon who has appeared on more than a thousand television interview shows, a thousand radio interviews, with more than two thousand print media  articles, with the latest  TV and Radio appearances numbering over one hundred, plus the media promotion of the musical soundtrack to the documentary film Public Enemy.
With his wife Leslie and they Defining them selves as a "revolutionary humanist" Mr. Seale has remained a social change activist for 40 years: since spring semester 1962 at Merritt College in Oakland California. More than a hundred million plus people know of Bobby Seale and he is today networked with more than a thousand former BPP members across the USA.  His personel files are a working effort in progress.

1. Early life Background.
    Bobby Seale was raised from the age of six years old as a carpenter-builder and hunter-fisherman. He was born in Dallas Texas in 1936 and graduated from BERKELEY High school to become an architect. In High school he rejected "dumb street gangs" to identify with the historical plight of the Souix-Lakota Native Americans. After a four year stint [three years, ten months and eleven days] in the United States Airforce , stationed in Rapid City South Dakota at Ellesworth Air Force Base as an aircraft sheet metal mechanic, by March of 1959, he moved to Los Angeles practicing several skills and trades. In this three year interim while working in the Air Craft industry, Bobby Seale, was also, part time, a stand up comedian and jazz drummer and returned to the San Francisco-Oakland Area in 1961.
At age 26, by 1962 Bobby Seale was enrolled as an Engineering Design major at Merritt College in Oakland California, with full time night shift employment at Kaiser AeroSpace & Electronics as a Gemini Missile non-destruct parts inspector. It was that 1962 spring semester when Bobby Seale became interested in the civil rights protest movement, launching his personnel research, advocacy and study into the whole of African and African American peoples history of struggle for constitutional democratic civil-human rights. He was further inspired by the works, advocacy and protest actions of Martin Luther King Jr.; Nelson Mandella and Malcolm X.

2. Early Sixties Activist Involvement, Employment and Organizations:
    1962 joined Afro American Association [Merritt College]; 1962 co-creator of Afro American Study Group [Merritt College]; 1963 UC Research Center @ Berkeley; 1964 Revolutionary Action Movement [West Coast division]; 1964 North Richmond Tutorial Program; 1965 co-creator BHFG:  Black History Fact Group [Merritt College]; 1966 Creator SSAC: Soul Students Advisory Council [Merritt college]; 1966 to May 1967 City Of Oakland Dept., Of Human Resources with NONSC: North Oakland Neighborhood Service Center.

3. Uncle Sammy Called Me Full Of Lucifer!
By spring 1966 Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale were arrested on Telegraph Avenue near UC Berkeley. Their arrest resulted from a fight with Berkeley police following Bobby Seale's recital of an anti-draft poem, "Uncle Sammy Called Me Full Of Lucifer!" They were arrested and charged with assault on police officers. They were bailed out of jail by Seale's wife Artie Seale and  by mid October, 1966 the court put them on one year probation each, after their no-contest pleas. Attorney John George represented them. By October 15th 1966 Bobby Seale insisted to Huey that they meet at his NONSC office later that night and, "…write out our  program for the new organization." At the time they had no name for their idea of a new organization, about which they had debated others and talked about the need for since the death of Malcolm X. Eighteen months, and through two organizing efforts, SSAC and The Black History Fact Group, both of which were literally started and organized by Bobby Seale out of his home across the street from Merritt College, with the co-creator help of Virtual Murell, who was Seale's close friend and Merritt College student, finally Newton and Seale with the break up of SSAC over legal fees money they decided to create a grass roots community based political revolutionary organization.
The Ten Point Program:
After the program rewrite with Melvin Newton's assistance, Huey's brother and UC graduate student, and Seale's ready to be printed stencil layout completion on October 22, 1966 by Bobby Seale, of their Ten Point Program document entitled "What We Want… What we believe" they agreed upon the name, The Black Panther Party For Self Defense. In effect the final founding date was  October 22, 1966 when Seale and Newton with the flip of a coin, named themselves Chairman and Minister Of Defense, respectively.
While Huey Newton voiced the need for effective dedicated small group organizing, Bobby Seale's stated objective was nation wide organizing so as to unite all the Black Community voters into a political movement  to ultimately run for political offices to man and or take over the majority of localized political city council seats in urban cities and rural counties where African Americans represented large populations. The ballot or the bullet with a preference for the ballot was key to Seale's idea of gaining "constitutional democratic civil-human rights!"
The most immediate activity designed by Newton was to use "legal" guns to patrol police. Along with the objective of organizing armed patrols and observation of the police. Using the first and second amendment rights, complete with law books, legal aid, and copies of the Ten Point Program, and in Huey P. Newton's words, "So we can capture the imagination of the people." In Seale's words, "Then organize the people into a political machine!"
With the armed patrols of police Seale and Newton were reacting to not only to the numerous acts of rampant police brutality in the black community as their main issue to organize around, but they were also reacting to several years of media reporting of [and their personel observation of Anti-Vietnam war Berkeley protesters], peaceful demonstrators being beaten, brutalized and murdered across the USA. Which was an on going legal argument in debates in the community and around UC Berkeley and Merritt College. Debates lead by Huey Newton  that the police and government were violating the first amendment of the US constitution when they brutalized peaceful demonstrators. [By fall of 1966 with the founding of the BPP Newton had completed two years in San Francisco law school]
With their Ten Point Program first draft Seale and Newton secured two guns: An Army .45 for Seale and an M-1 Carbine for Newton from their UC Berkeley academic friend, Richard Aoki, a UC Berkeley student and political revolutionary friend to Seale and Newton. Who gave them the guns to begin their patrols of the police in the San Francisco Oakland Bay Area. The third gun came from "Big Man" Elbert Howard, a Merritt College Student who was the second person to join the BPP after Little Bobby Hutton. Bobby Hutton was Bobby Seale's Youth Assistant employed at the NONSC.
Within two weeks the first six members of the party were: Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, "Little" Bobby Hutton, "Big Man" Elbert Howard, and two brothers, Reggie and Sherwin Forte. Within two months additional members were; Richard Aoki, Orlando Harrison, Warren Tucker, Big Willie, John Salon, and six other young black males who had worked in Bobby Seale's 1966 Summer Youth Jobs Program at the NONSC, and two females named Kathy and Matalaba who were members for only three months. Extended female membership was stated  to Bobby Seale's wife Artie Seale and Huey P. Newton's girl friend, Lavern Williams who came very few to meetings but differed with Seale and Newton about their safety.

4.  First Office and The Black Community News Service.
In the first week of January 1967 Bobby Seale paid the rent and secured the first office of the Black Panther Party For Self Defense at 5624 Grove Street, two blocks from Seale's home at 809 57th Street and one block from Merritt College. The previous BPP headquarters operation was at Bobby Seale's home.
PE, political education sessions were scheduled and held every Wednesday night at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday's at 2:00 p.m. complete with weapons safety. "Big Man" Elbert Howard and Bobby Seale, the only ones with formal military training, taught, with the assistance of Richard Aoki, the first several members, including Huey Newton, safety and how to shoot and, how to break down and reassemble all the several hand guns and rifle weapons accumulated by January 1967. Huey Newton taught legal aid and articulated constitutional rights surrounding the Ten Point Program. Bobby Seale articulated organizing methods and inspired the early membership with ideals of political electoral empowerment. Seale drafted the first application form, drew up a list of reading material: [which included ] Seale laid out the title heading of the newspaper: THE BLACK PANTHER, Black Community News Service. Seale and Big Man Elbert wrote and produced the first mimeograph issue of the BPP newspaper at Seale's NONSC office. [By mid 1969 with the distribution organizing of Sam Napier, the BPP "Black Community News Service" newspaper would have an on time, every Saturday, weekly publication-circulation of over two hundred thousand nation wide which the FBI's COINTELPRO attempted to destroy.  Through the life of the BPP totaling more than three hundred weekly issues by the time of the complete demise of the BPP by the late seventies.]

5. First Media Publicity, First Police Patrols Arrest.

With the armed escort of Malcolm X's wife, Betty Shabazz from the San Francisco airport to Ramparts Magazine, [initially organized by the rival BPP Of Northern California lead by Kenneth Freeman of RAM, who Seale had broke away from upon Malcolm X's death day], a physical tussle with between Newton and TV news reporters followed with an argumentative ready to shoot stand off with the San Francisco police in front of Ramparts magazine building, following Eldridge Cleaver's interview of Mrs. Shabazz, created the first establishment media publicity of Bobby Seale's and Huey Newton's Black Panther Party. Hitting the front page of the San Francisco Examiner in February 1967. [This article included first establishment media photo of Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed, standing  in front of first BPP office.]
While patrolling police, guns were never concealed for legal status, there were no arrest for five months. Only defiant legal arguments and near shoot-out stand-offs. Small crowds of people watched with wonderment, praise and fear. The verbal argumentative defiance, complete with armed but disciplined members, lead by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale, such gun toting legal-arguments with several policemen left the people and police shocked and dismayed. The first arrest connected with observations of police breaking into a black home, were of Huey P. Newton and Warren Tucker which charges were later dismissed. Immediately following Huey's first arrest, Bobby Seale and Little Bobby Hutton were accosted, then arrested following Huey's court appearance the next day. Seale and Hutton were charged with an 1887 law of having guns on grounds adjacent to a jail, in Oakland when they arrived to bail Huey Newton out of jail. Charges were dropped against Bobby Hutton. These particular charges against Bobby Seale would last past and not be resolved until After Seale's historical court trials in Chicago in 1969, and The State of Connecticut in 1971.
 

6. The police murder of Densil Dow: To Sacramento State Capitol With Guns.
 
 

7. Eldridge Cleaver & Kathleen Cleaver Joins The Party.
 
 

8. The Black Panther: Black Community News Service.
 

9. Bobby Jailed for Six Months, The first demise of the Black Panther Party.
 

10.  Huey shot in shootout with police and Seale Released from Jail. Restructuring and Reorganizing BPP.

12. Second Major Shootout. Eldridge Cleaver, David Hilliard & Bobby Hutton.

13. Restructuring and Reorganizing: 1968 Rapid Nation Wide Growth. Eldridge Cleaver exiled to Cuba.

14. Organizing Around The Trial Of Huey P. Newton. BPP members running for Political offices.
 

15. The FBI's COINTELPRO: The violation of constitutional rights and complicity in murder.

16. Coalition Politics; International Politics. Ending the War in Vietnam.

17. 1969: Mini Civil War: The Death rate of BPP members and policemen.

18. The 1969-70 Great Chicago Eight Conspiracy Trial. The gagging of Bobby Seale. In history remain the Trial Of The Century! Political trials of Bobby Seale were the first & second most noted political court room trials in the sixties protest movement history. Free Ericka Huggins & Bobby Seale. Free All Political Prisoners!

19. Third BPP reorganization structure and Bobby Seale For Mayor Of Oakland, Elaine Brown for council at large.

20. Son Of Man Temple.

21. The dedicated membership.

22. Trilogy: Political organizing philosophy of Bobby Seale at odds with Huey Newton's' and Eldridge Cleaver.

23. Decline & ultimate demise of the BPP, USA.

24.  Bobby Seale's July 1974 resignation and the writing of A Lonely Rage. The writing of Barbeque'n With Bobby. Temple University. BPP civil-human rights Relevancy in American as well as African American history.

25. Feature Films, Documentaries, Major TV productions: on or featuring Bobby Seale & BPP history 1988 through -2000: Documentary Film: "Public Enemy"; Soundtrack Record Album: "Public Enemy, The Movie." PANTHER;
Publicity Interviews; Fall 1999 through Spring 2000 Speaking Engagements and all press & media.