Bobby Seale on the New Black Panther Party [CNN Interview]

Bobby Seale Speaking Across America (Part 1)

Bobby Seale takes to the stage with his charismatic and activist eloquence, illuminating the true sixties birth and youthful intelligentsia of the Black Panther Party. Bobby Seale transports the audience back to the mini-civil-war turbulence of the late sixties and early seventies. Defining himself as "revolutionary humanist", Bobby Seale brings the 60's protest movement era full circle showing how times have changed. How we must reach for the future: Protest, organize peoples programs and evolve a greater direct [participatory] community control democracy.

Bobby Seale Speaking Across America (Part 2)

Bobby Seale, in effect, has become one the last surviving architects of one of the most important social change movements in American and African American history. In this second part of Bobby Seale Speaking Across America, transports you to a time when the civil-rights anti-Vietnam war activism of hundreds of thousands of protesters of many different ethnic groups included 5,000 young Black men and women selling hundreds of thousands of "THE BLACK PANTHER" weekly newspapers. Who created tangible grass roots community programs and registered voters, with law books in their hands and “legal” guns handy for self defense against vicious overt racist attacks at the time. "Today you don't need guns!" charges Bobby Seale. "If you want to observe police brutality use the technology. Network with a thousand camcorders and put it all on the internet! And with it create realistic peoples economic parity & greater “direct” democracy complete with community control of police and economics."

Bobby Seale Speaking Across America (Part 3)

In the third part of Bobby Seale Speaking Across America, Bobby Seale and his wife Leslie take to the stage with their lively charismatic and activist eloquence. Mr.and Mrs. Seale illuminates the true sixties birth and youthful intelligentsia of the Black Panther Party. Spelling out the pragmatic unknown philosophical range of the sixties protest movement. A protest movement in the words of Bobby Seale "which grew out of student activism, historical class analysis, scientific research, and programmatic community organizing. NOT street-life hooliganism as political conservatism continues to distort".

Bobby Seale Speaking Across America (Part 4)

In the fourth and final part of Bobby Seale Speaking Across America, focus again on 60s protest and anti-Vietnam war activism of hundreds of thousands of protesters of many different ethnic groups. Concluding with Bobby again speaking on the true nature of the Black Panther Pather and it's role in the history of United States to void the racist, bigoted or chauvinistic practices of global exploitation. Black Panther Party members were college students who created tangible grass roots community programs and registered multi thousands to vote. They established free breakfast for children and free health clinics all across the USA. They also ran for political office for what was then profoundly progressive social change.

Speaking Across America - "From The Sixties To The Future"

The Original 1966 Founding Chairman & National Organizer of the Black Panther Party [BPP] USA; The eighth Defendant of the great Chicago seven conspircy trial.

With in the last fifteen years the demise of several sixties left radical icons [including Huey P. Newton's death in August of 1989; Abbie Hoffman 1991; Jerry Reubin in 1993, Eldridge Cleaver and Quame Turea in 1998 and now Dave Dellinger in 2004], Bobby Seale, in effect, has become one of the last surviving architects of one of the most important social change movements in American and African American history.

Speaking togeather at some events Bobby Seale and his wife Leslie take to the stage with their lively charismatic and activist eloquence. Mr. and Ms. Seale illuminate the true sixties birth and youthful intelligentsia of the Black Panther Party. Spelling out the pragmatic unknown philosophical range of the sixties protest movement, ["?which grew out of student activism, historical class analysis, scientific research, and programmatic community organizing. NOT street-life hooliganism as political conservatism continues to distort?"].

Mr. Seale and his former BPP wife transport the audience back to the mini-civil-war turbulence of the late sixties and early seventies. A time when the civil-rights protest and anti-Vietnam war activism of hundreds of thousands of protesters of many different ethnic groups included more than five thousand young Black men and women selling hundreds of thousands of "THE BLACK PANTHER" weekly newspapers.

Black Panther Party members were college students who created tangible grass roots community programs and registered multi thousands to vote. They established free breakfast for children and free health clinics all across the USA. They also ran for political office for what was then profoundly progressive social change.

With law books in their hands and "legal" guns handy for self defense, in the beginning days, they patroled and observed racist police: putting thier lives on the line. A stand against vicious overt racist attacks on peaceful demonstrators and brutality of poor people of color. Our American history. Today such grass roots organizing is unheard of.

"Today you don't need guns!" charges Bobby Seale. "If you want to observe police brutality use the technology. Network with a thousand camcorders and put it all on the internet! And with it organize to create realistic peoples economic parity & greater "direct" democracy complete with community control of police and economics."

Social change? "Organizationally we must learn to think and act with a ...polylectic nonlinear view."

Why? Because today we live in an over developed, fast-paced globalized high-tech computerized scientific social order. Our ideas, beliefs, understanding and realizations must correspond correctly to reality. Teaching our youth the same for all peoples earthly human liberation."

Defining themselves as a "revolutionary humanist" Seale and his wife Leslie bring the 60's protest movement era full circle showing how times have changed. How we must reach for the future: Protest, organize peoples programs, and evolve a profoundly progressive society with greater direct [participatory] community control democracy: Void of racist, bigoted or chauvinistic practices. Void of war mongering and all the extremes of avaricious exploitation. Complete with a profound cyber-space science based activism. Polylectically realizing and understanding how all civil-human rights issues today are interconnected, interdependent, intertwined, and interrelated with all our ecological environmental problems, the new millennium political issues and global economics.

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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.