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from tim carter
GOODLETT [Carlton Goodlett] (dinner night he came back, next morning to airport)
Tim Carter, Marcie [Marceline Jones], Tony [Tony Walker]
– the night Goodlett returned the thing he was most concerned about was that Jim not go to Moscow before a thorough work-up had been done. He wanted more malaria tests run
– Said you should do at least 7 before ruling out malaria completely. He said it would at not look good if Jim went all the way to Moscow and they found something that could have been caught or dealt with here. He said a thorough work-up should be done. Ranted to rule out all possibilities of indigenous disease.
– Goodlett felt that the Peoples Forum should be published again. He said that we have something to talk about, and the people need to know. He also said there is protection in a newspaper, they don’t like to come after people that have papers.
– He said the reason Jim was being harassed and the Temple was being harassed was because we were a threat. As long as we were just talking in a church that was one thing, but when we started putting people on the streets we became a viable force, a real threat. He said when we put out all those people to help elect the mayor of Oakland that was it. We were the most powerful voice for the movement.
– We can be thankful for small things – big things, acutally. When Goodlett came down to talk on the radio he said – and thank goodness the mic was not keyed – that he was concerned that before Jim go to Moscow to get his cancer treated he should get the tests etc. – I thought I was going toxic shit when I heard that. We told him how to work it after that, but, whew, it was close.
– the next morning at breakfast he started in on Huey Newton. He said the New Times article was scandalous but at the same time we must realize that Huey Newton is not the same man we knew years ago. He went on that Huey had has a Messianic complex, that he goes around pistol whipping people if they don’t treat him with the proper respect, that he did beat up Bobby Seale, he was living above the people in an expensive place doing cocaine, that the Panthers did extort money from the people in their neighborhood, and on and on. He was saying that as revolutionaries we have to face the truth about people. He started in on this by saying something like “you know Jim was showing that article to those reporters yesterday…” It seemed to me he was trying to indirectly criticize that strategy, and also make himself look more knowledgeable than Jim (Tony Walker and Ed Crenshaw were at the table – I don’t know if anyone else heard what he was saying.) I told him that Guyanese for the most part have a hard time relating to racism and to what extent the media is used to smear people who are progressive etc and this is why Jim was showing this article, not because he had any false illusions about Huey Newton. Goodlett acknowledged the point but went on about the Panthers.
He said that he was the one that introduced the Panthers to Charles Garry, and that Garry charged them nothing. He also said that the Panthers used to do stupid things, like David Hilliard saying what he did about Nixon, and going around the neighborhoods telling people what was going to be done. He said that he, the Panthers, and a couple of others were setting up a committee to raise funds (for some Panther thing) and they got several thousands of dollars raised and the Panthers came and took 20,000 dollars of it without even consulting him, and he was the treasurer. He said that the IRS came to his door asking him questions about this committee and he said he told them he knew nothing about what the Panthers were doing and they were just using his name.
– He said the Cubans were having trouble with Huey and they were glad when he decided to go back to the states. Also said it was true that Huey was a coke freak.
– he said that Cleaver was “going to make it” – I don’t know what in hell he means by that. But the insinuation was that Cleaver was really on top of it and by playing along the way he was he would be out from under his charge – and Huey meanwhile by doing what he’s doing is making it worse for himself. -mentioned again about the Forum. Said we have a story to tell the world and we should tell it. He said even if he had to buy the paper for us, he would to help get the story out. Said even if we only run 5,000 or 10,000 copies it would be worth it – if it changed just one person, it would be worth it. Brought up the point about protection again.
– he said he was going to give us a 2 page spread of pictures in all his papers, and when he saw the pictures he would decide what to write. He mentioned putting this stuff in his Richmond, Virginia paper w/ circulation of 76,000.
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– he said he would like to work something out where he covers Jonestown in his papers on a continuing basis. He said possibly every week that the brum doesnt come out he could give us a half-page or something like that to keep the word spreading. He said he wanted to keep getting pictures so he could run them.
– said he would make a ip tape of broadcast quality when he got back to San Francisco. Also said that whenever we need a tape for broadcasting to just let him know and he would be glad to do it. -he said he knew a woman who does documentaries and he was going to get in touch with her and try to. get her to come to Jonestown. She said she has made documentaries that have won awards and has a program on PBS for 2 1/2 years. He said if she did a documentary, on us it would win awards at Cannes, Leipzig and the other major film festivals. He said he was very interested in doing a film.
– said he knew some dental students in Mississippi that he would like to have come down to Jonestown for an entire summer. He said at the same time they could give some dental assistance to the community.
– he said he was going to use Jonestown as an example for all the skeptics back in San Francisco that you can do something if you put your mind to it.
– is very praiseworthy of Larry and our medical care. Said our medical clinic was excellent, said Larry was a very good doctor, called him a brilliant young man, and kept repeating at different times that we really had a good doctor.
– spent alot of time on the way to the airport telling me of his career in the movement – how he was the 84 th black man ever to receive a PhD and he did it in 3 years, about how he marched Paul Robeson to help integrate the big leagues, about some of his old students who are now prominent nationally in the black movement, etc.
– asked me to pass the message on to Blackmon that he would be sending him some forms for him to fill out to join the Publishers Association Caribbean branch he said that perhaps they could get something going here to the point that Guyana could send a delegation to the next Caribbean convention in Jamaica.
– when I told him that his name had been mentioned in an article, he simply replied “good” but his face did register surprise when I first mentioned it.
– kept saying Jonestown was “fantastic” and said it was an example that “dreams can come true” (his emphasis).
GREEN [Hamilton Green] 8/26 Marcie [Marcline Jones] Tim [Tim Carter],Tony [Tony Walker], Terry [Terry Carter]
– Green was friendly – as friendly as he has been in the past, so it seems we still are on good terms. Sonny Ogle told me when I asked if Green was aware we had been trying to get an appointment for months that Green had not been aware, that his secretary had been screening the calls.
– when Marcie asked about the proposal we sent in he said he had seen it, but hadn’t studied it closely. He said he referred it on to Baird to have him take care of it.
– when we explained to him the situation with the customs thing he replied that he had set forth a very simple procedure for us to follow to get things in (to write to him in advance and he would see they’re let in) and why hadn’t we done this. We explained to him the difficulty in communication, that we had been not able to use our radio as much, etc. and he seemed to understand. We told him this had never happened in this particular way – this was a first time thing (which it is, really).
– he told us to write him formally and enclose a list of the supplies and he would see they were released immediately. I asked him if we still had to go to Guyana Pharmaceutical, and he said that even though they had exclusive distributorship of what medications and supplies came in the country, he would bypass that as long as the staff was for our medical clinic. This is a good indicator of how much Green regards, us, I feel. It certainly is a major concession. I just hope he can really pull it off without ruffling any feathers in customs or otherwise.
– He said he had called the airport trying to find Sharon to let Goodlett in visit as a VIP but couldn’t get hold of her. He had been away for days and had just gotten back when he got the message, (once again, Green follows through – I wish Mingo were even one quarter efficient). -Green said he would be visiting, he hoped before the end of the year
– he said he had been extremely busy, he had been out of town at a conference where they were discussing the problem of opportunists setting ups medical schools to try and make up for the shortage, and providing inferior education and training, set up here in the Carib
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