A friend of mine in Ontario, Oregon sent this along to me. He says:
"I've got something for you to put on alt.slack for the High Wierdness
update, a group called the GREEN PANTHERS, they're a kind of potheads
unite organization who seems to take themselves real seriously . . . I
picked it up as a message on the ONENET, ("the internet for the rest of
us") so I don't think many people have seen it."
-Rev. Bob "The El Nino" Richardson
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Ed.GREEN PANTHERS! P.O. Box 31231 Cincinnati, OH
45231-0231(513) 522-6264
Dear Friend:
Resistance is FUN!
If there's anything universal about pot-smokers, it's our love of having
fun--after all, isn't that what life's all about?
While we at GREEN PANTHERS! realize the seriousness of our government
and the war they have declared on us, we believe that we have found ways
to combine something as critical as our very liberty with our desire for
fun.
GREEN PANTHERS! has been working full time for four years resisting drug
war oppression, and we're having a great time at it! If we weren't, we
would probably go out and get well paying jobs, grow a few plants in our
closet and say to heck with everybody else.
Take a look at a few examples of GREEN PANTHERS! Creative Interference,
our method of "monkeywrenching" the War on Drugs, and see if they don't
look like a good time to you:
More than 300 Stop the Drug War stickers suddenly appear on traffic
signs in a midwest city. Newspapers report puzzled police.
Disappointed buyers find that all of the cars offered at a seized
vehicle auction have been mysteriously vandalized and turned into
"mechanics specials" and scrap yard junk.
A drug paraphernalia display disappears overnight from a police
anti-drug exhibit at a state fair.
A Drug-Free Amerika telethon's income is reduced by $30 million because
of a GREEN PANTHERS! initiated phone zap of their 1-800 donation line.
An underground communication network effectively cuts an expected asset
seizure of $100 million to one-tenth of the anticipated bounty.
You can imagine the thrill these activists felt by pulling off these
actions, and if you're not striking back, you're missing the action--and
the fun! It's great to attend a pro-pot rally and for the media to show the
crowd
smoking pot and maybe even give the story a favorable slant, but that's
nothing compared to the rush you feel when the media reports a real blow
to the government's War on Drugs without a clue as to who you are!
Politicians talk softly while police thugs kick down doors. Drug Czar
Lee Brown has called for an end to using war analogies for drug
enforcement, all the while adding 100,000 new cops with guns. But a war by
any other name is still a war. More cops, more prisons,
more intrusion into our homes and harsher laws all focused on people
whose only crime is smoking harmless hemp flowers.
It's time to do more than hide in our houses getting stoned and wishing
for legal pot. It's time for direct action from the oppressed.
Our government, the one we grew up believing was democratic and fair, is
stripping pot smokers by the millions of their jobs, their homes, and
their freedom.
GREEN PANTHERS! believes we must personally stop this tyranny, or it's a
good bet no one will. Good intentions won't do it, but Creative
Interference from the few, the proud, and the pissed--in every
neighborhood--will influence an end to the oppression of pot smokers.
Read the enclosed copy of our newsletter Revolutionary Toker. You will
find usable information to protect yourself, your loved ones, and your
property from the government and its War on Drugs.
We invite you to join with us. When you join, we'll supply you with the
latest tools, tactics and political focus necessary to understand and
resist oppression right where you live. Our voice, Revolutionary Toker,
will give you updates and information unavailable virtually anywhere
else. The information you need to take it to the streets.
Be all that you can be. Be a revolutionary toker!
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
In solidarity,
Loey Glover Terry Mitchell
National Coordinator National Coordinator
P.S.
When you sign up, we'll also send you a copy of our highly
reviewed activist handbook, the GREEN PANTHERS! Action Manual, which is
packed with resistance ideas and facts that may save your stash and your
butt.
P.P.S. So join the fun! Join the GREEN PANTHERS! today. You gotta
fight for your right to party!... Just say "No" to anti-drug thugs.
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Ed.Green Panthers!
Leading the offensive in resisting the War on Drugs.
History and Perspectives
GREEN PANTHERS! was formed in 1990 to perform direct-action protests and
related activities in support of kindred organizations; and to encourage
and lead the entire marijuana legalization movement to a more militant
stand against government oppression.
GREEN PANTHERS! sees the War on Drugs for what it really is--not a war
on addiction, but a guise for a much larger war on the Bill of Rights
and personal freedoms. The government's ban on our choice of natural
medications, and its promotion of dangerous prescription drugs, are
unacceptable to us. Cannabis-based medications have proven effective in
the fight against the AIDS virus, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and
blinding glaucoma, as well as a host of minor ailments.
GREEN PANTHERS! exposes the government's control of natural remedies as
grabs for the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical market. We confront
and defy the government whenever they attempt to make political
scapegoats of the seriously ill.
GREEN PANTHERS! believes the industrial use of hemp can prevent further
damage to the environment with its non-polluting paper, fabrics, and
fuel.
GREEN PANTHERS! confronts drug war offenses with non-violent direct
actions that have effectively mobilized public support and built
movement-wide coalitions. In addition to organized protests,
GREENPANTHERS! encourages and educates individuals, organizations, and
communities to resist the drug war on their own.
Through GREEN PANTHERS! nationwide networks, our operatives document
military and militarized police build-ups and offensives against the
citizenry. This information is then spread across our movement as well
as to the press, selected politicians, and other interested groups and
individuals. When tactically practical, we take direct action to resist
the oppression. Activities range from legal protests, to graffiti,
phone ZAPs, and Creative Interference.Goals and Accomplishments
GOAL: Oppose dishonest and misleading anti-drug propaganda in the major
media.
ACCOMPLISHMENT: GREEN PANTHERS! initiated the noisiest, most
militant, demonstrations ever held in front of the offices of the
Partnership for a Drug Free America in downtown Manhattan.
GOAL: Protest the seizure of homes and personal property for drug
offenses.
ACCOMPLISHMENT: GREEN PANTHERS! held the first-ever protest
against auctions of drug war seized property.
GOAL: Defend the rights of sick people to have government-provided
medical marijuana. ACCOMPLISHMENT: GREEN PANTHERS! responded to the
Department of Health and Human Services efforts to terminate the medical
marijuana program by staging several direct action protests at HHS
headquarters in Washington, DC with four activists arrested for
non-violent civil disobedience.
GOAL: Support and develop community based initiatives to bypass federal
medical marijuana prohibition.
ACCOMPLISHMENT: GREEN PANTHERS! sent a
team to California to gather petition signatures for the San Francisco
Medical Marijuana Initiative, Proposition P, which passed by an 80
percent majority vote.
GOAL: In the absence of a government medical marijuana program, to
provide medications directly to those in need.
ACCOMPLISHMENT:Facilitated supplies of medication to AIDS patients and
other
seriously ill people.
GOAL: Oppose the use of "shock incarceration" Boot Camp prisons forbrain
washing and physically abusing drug users.
ACCOMPLISHMENT: GREENPANTHERS! organized and
initiated the first-ever blockade of the maingate of the Herman
S. Toulson (drug war) Boot Camp prison in Jessup,Maryland. Our actions
brought prison activity to a standstill for overan hour.
(See poster on inside of this document.)
GOAL: Organize coordinated resistance actions across the country to
show the government that there are many who oppose their fascist War on
Drugs.
ACCOMPLISHMENT: GREEN PANTHERS! initiated an annual nationwide
Week Of Outrage, (June 29 to July 4) when activists place signs of
resistance where they cannot be ignored.
GOAL: Bring together our diverse movement in coalition to resist and
work for a peaceful resolution to the War on Drugs.
ACCOMPLISHMENT: Onthe last day of the 1992 Week Of Outrage,
a Stoners With Attitudes Team(SWAT) of PANTHERS!
activists delivered the first movement-wide petition
to the Bush White House calling for an immediate cease fire and urging a
Peace Summit to end the War on Drugs.
GOAL: To take direct action against the censorship of pro-legalization
third party Presidential candidates by puppets of the major media.
ACCOMPLISHMENT: On election day 1992, GREEN PANTHERS! activists held the
first-ever protest of the main U.S. censorship organ, the News Election
Service in New York City. (NES, a corporation owned by ABC, NBC, CBS,
CNN, and the Associated Press claims to gather complete vote counts from
every precinct in the country for the national media on election night.)
GREEN PANTHERS! exposed the existence of this company of liars to our
movement and disrupted activities inside NES with specially designed
information flyers for their employees.
GOAL: To immediately put President Clinton on notice that potheads want
to live in peace--and that GREEN PANTHERS! won't stop resisting as long
as the war continues.
ACCOMPLISHMENT: Held the first protest of the
Clinton administration (Inhale to the Chief) across from the White House
on the first day of work for the new presidency. Over 1,500 people
participated, making it one of the largest winter demonstrations in the
history of the pot movement.
GREEN PANTHERS! goals are also pursued through coalition building with
other militant environmental and personal choice groups. We have
effectively worked with ACT UP, Queer Nation, and Earth First! in
tactical operations. We believe these efforts have bonded the
hemp/marijuana movement with theirs for years to come.
Publications and Resources
GREEN PANTHERS! Action Manual, the first and only book on resisting the
War on Drugs. Revolutionary Toker, the most informative newsletter in
the movement. GP! also publishes numerous how-to flyers on creative
interference designed to frustrate and confuse our declared enemies.
Green Panthers provides training in direct-action, organizing, and
non-violent civil disobedience to interested groups anywhere in the
country.
GREEN PANTHERS! enlists help from doctors, scientists,
engineers, legal and legislative experts, and chemists, who donate their
time, knowledge, and effort because they believe in what we are doing
and see our successes.
Our outrageous actions and history making accomplishments have spawned
questions about our structure and tactics.
Q. How big is GREEN PANTHERS!?
A. Those who say don't know, and those who know don't say. Our
rapidly growing activist base covers the entire country. For tactical
and security reasons, actual GREEN PANTHERS! membership numbers are not
released.
Q. How is GREEN PANTHERS! organized?
A. To reduce the chance of infiltration by enemy agents and
provocateurs, we urge our members to work alone or with friends they
have known for years. When it is necessary to gather forces to protest
or confront politically timely events and issues, we activate our
members through National Calls from GREEN PANTHERS! Washington, DC
headquarters.
Q. Is GREEN PANTHERS! a part of, or front group for, any
other organization?
A. No. While many of our members hold memberships in other
organizations, and we frequently work in coalition with other groups, west
and alone as a separate and independent grassroots direct actiongroup.
Q. What is GREEN PANTHERS! position on violence?
A. GREEN PANTHERS! wages a non-violent resistance to a violent war.
We firmly believe that the initiation of force by the government on the
citizenry is immoral. However, we think that standing passively by
while innocent people are being oppressed or killed is also immoral. We
consider the inanimate machinery of oppression to be a weak link in the
drug war, and it is those objects of destruction and oppression we shall
stop.To those who say we are too radical, too loud and too proud; we say quit
living in the closet! It's time to join the resistance, now!
Count Me In!
Here's My $20.00, I'm Joining GREEN PANTHERS!
My membership includes a copy of GREEN PANTHERS! Action Manual and a
subscription to Revolutionary Toker.
Please Print Clearly
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Address_________________________________
City_____________________State________Zip_____
I understand that as an Active Member I assume personal responsibility
for my actions
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I want to sign up for the Pledge Program starting immediately and
get my monthly Zap/Event calendar.
Here's my first months donation of $_____ until we win!
Here's a contribution of $_____ for war resistance!
Send me a GREEN PANTHERS! Action Manual, enclosed is $10.
Send me an official GREEN PANTHERS! t-shirt,size Lg; _____ XL _____
Enclosed is $15 + $2 P&H.
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IMPORTANT: Send only carefully wrapped cash or checks/MO with the pay
to the order of line left BLANK.
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Mail To:GREEN PANTHERS!
P.O. Box 31231, Cincinnati, OH 45231
Proclamation of
GREEN PANTHERS!
The decade of the 90s demands a new focus and a determination of just
what is required for survival into the 21st century, and whether we
shall enter the century as free people or as slaves. Today we see
genocide against hemp and other plants a national policy, and the
repression of subcultures a national pastime.
Born in the knowledge that at least 30 million U.S. citizens regularly
ingest marijuana (hemp) to medicate themselves, GREEN PANTHERS! was
formed to provide leadership, resources and political focus to this
sleeping giant army of marijuana users--an army many times larger than
all the U.S. military and police combined.
The GREEN PANTHERS! come from
varied backgrounds, but we all agree that the Earth's environment must
be saved and that the hemp plant will play a vital part in the process.
We also agree that oppression in the name of the War on Drugs must end
at once, and wars fought over petroleum must be stopped once and for
all. We are tired of being harassed, beaten, fined, fired from our jobs,
forced to piss in jars, being sent to concentration camps, and having
our property seized and sold. The marijuana users' nonviolent nature
has made them easy targets of police oppression. The arrests of
marijuana users are as high as 400,000 per year with untold suffering at
the hands of "corrections and enforcement authorities.
"Many of the GREEN PANTHERS! have been victims of such oppression , and
we have proclaimed "Hell No!"sitting idly by while this mayhem continues.
We spit back the government's declaration of war upon us. We declare
that we shall resist by whatever methods necessary to protect ourselves,
our families, our property, and our beloved planet Earth; and to regain
the liberties lost under this fascist agenda disguised as the War on
Drugs.
Bearing these things in mind, we take our protests to the streets, to
the countryside, and to the very doorsteps of our declared enemy who
shall know no peace until they let our people go and let our people
grow!... Just say "No" to anti-drug thugs.___
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Well, there you go. I have nothing to do with these guys, and know
nothing about 'em except all that stuff above, which I didn't write.
-Monty
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Yes, _The_ El Nino. In France, he's known as _La_ The El Nino.
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