The Rainbow Coalition was a multicultural movement of cross-racial class solidarity, founded on the 4th of march in 1969, in Chicago, Illinois with the coming together of the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords, and the Young Patriots.
These organizations were under the leadership of Fred Hampton, Jose Cha Cha Jiménez, and William “Preacherman” Fesperman, respectively. It was the first of several 20th century Black-led organizations to use the “rainbow coalition” concept.
The Rainbow Coalition’s first alliance was between the Young Patriots and the Black Panthers by Bob Lee. Hampton then incorporated the Young Lords. The Rainbow Coalition soon included various radical socialist community groups like the Lincoln Park Poor People’s Coalition, and Rising Up Angry. The coalition was later joined nationwide by the Students for a Democratic Society (“SDS”), the Brown Berets, the American Indian Movement, and the Red Guard Party.
In April 1969, Hampton called several press conferences to announce that this “Rainbow Coalition” had formed. The Rainbow Coalition engaged in joint action against poverty, corruption, racism, police brutality, and substandard housing. The participating groups supported each other at protests, strikes, and demonstrations where they had a common cause.
The coalition espoused an iteration of militancy that aimed to decrease urban unemployment, promote public education, and advance “class” solidarity. For instance, in a 1970 issue of The Patriot, the Young Patriots Organization called for nonviolent support of Bobby Seale (on trial), but also declared that “Guns in the Hands of the Police Represent Capitalism and Racism…Guns In the Hands of the People Represent Socialism and Solidarity.” (the patriot 1)
The Coalition brokered treaties to end crime and gang violence and organized to establish class solidarity across racial lines. On December 3rd, Fred Hampton was assassinated by the Chicago Police Department and the FBI, and the Rainbow Coalition effectively dissolved.
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Lots of magpie families out teaching their young uns to forage. V cute
Me looking at my stocks, reminding myself it’s for the greater good
turns out those were load-bearing pronouns
tell trump about vidya game addiction so he will ban playing vidya games for more than 2 hours causing full treatler revolt and nuking any non drug addiction discourse.
HOLY DIVER
YOU’VE BEEN DOWN SO LONG
IN THE MIDNIGHT SEA
OH WHATS BECOMING OF ME?
RIDE THE TIGER
YOU CAN SEE THE STRIPES BUT YOU KNOW HES CLEAN!
OH DONT YOU SEE WHAT I MEAN?
RIFF
after seeing Children of Time recommended here a while back, I’ve been on something of an Adrian Tchaikovsky kick. He’s got some serious range.
But I think I’m getting close to the end of the back log (still have the last two thirds of Shadows of the Apt waiting).
i want to be a piece of shit i want to get worse i want to be more and more and more of this type of animal anymore
dating in organizing struggle sesh lets go im really gonna try and make this shit happen this time
weird hexbear prudes vs the like countless married couples in a lot of actual orgs lets fucking goooooooooooooooo
just kidding i dont have the energy for struggle sessions i just like to be a piece of shit rascal and stir the pot then dip
(but also uh imagine being a socialist and thinking the only acceptable means of dating are atomized compartmentalized venues outside your actual community)
anyone watch the first episode of Lazarus? I really like the futuristic design of the city, and the story seems like it will be good, and fun.
This generation of CEOs are getting lazy. Nobody wants to business plot anymore
Today is just terrible. No reason for it to feel this bad but it is. So tired of it
The Japanese stock market dropped so quickly at open that they had to flip the circuit breaker and pause trading in the first half hour.
Bursts into the meeting room, shoves aside the person speaking, erases everything from the whiteboard and writes in sharpie:
“Spawn Luc Picard”
The boardroom erupts into cheers. People are already calling Paramount and Todd MacFarlane to make it happen. Champagne bottles are being popped everywhere. Cinema is saved.
Crazy that two Nintendo switches released during the Trump presidency. Perhaps all of the switch pro leaks were right but the magic ball only said “first year of the second Trump term” and the journos got confused
