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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Can we please have some kind of mercy rule when looking for jobs? I hate being surplus population.
I’m tired of constantly badgering lazy ass people on linkedin if they’re hiring and never getting a response. Ok porky, the scary scary blue tie party is not federally irrelevant, your taxes are lower AND we’re even helping you out with these tariffs…now are you in the mood to wake up and whip up some jobs for us poors? We literally cannot wait to work for you.
“ChatGPT, tell me about the Luddites”
insert uncritical regurgitation of a narrative forced by the bourgeois because ChatGPT’s chain of thought is confined to capitalist talking points
So glad that, because a minority of very loud and annoying people use this for everything, it’s in all the reports and content online, and billionaire ghouls have voiced their approval, it will be forced into all future technology without a second thought.
Worked in marketing for three months and those are some of the most evil person I’ve ever come across. Just fucking cosplaying henchmen work for the most soulless C-suites imaginable AND the parasitic billionaires.
Yay you get the wall twice!
okay nvm the bazaar can still hiteagerly awaiting monday morning so i can see how bad the damage to the DOW JONES is
really starting to feel like there’s no place for me in the us, even though i’ve lived here my whole life. god damn i want to get out
I hate the Hoyo SAG controversy, so many people have literally no idea how our labor laws work. So many people posting about how it isn’t a strike since it’s a union shop, it’s just a “collective refusal of work until their demands are met” (literally just the definition of a strike).
Death to Amerikkka
just seen a bloke out sitting out on the pavement, nothing but his boxers on, with a pack of lager. it’s officially summer
If trump is actually having an affair with Laura loomer I’m somehow going to lose respect for two people I already had no respect for.
vyvanse continues to be overall positive but i definitely need to adjust my caffeine intake down to compensate being on a different stimulant
Keep hearing how good slay the princess is, next time it’s on sale gonna get it. I first found out about it through some fan crossovers with
so I got a feeling it’ll be goodInfinite positive feedback loop of capitalists raising prices because of inflation caused by the capitalists raising prices.
Maybe it’s because i’ve entered into new demographic categories, but the medicine ads that play when i’m watching something that i cant yet use my adblock for have some real dog shit names that dont have any of the pleasant linguistic tricks that make things stick out in memory.
“Ask your doctor today if Tractdadigglia is right for you.”
They used to hire people to name things, now they’ve obviously given up
Managed to fix my siblings computer, all it really needed was a new power source. When they first got it the charger kept having issues but I thought it was the battery and then the drivers but nah was just the power cord. It actually makes me relieved been trying for months to fix it when all it needed a different power cord.
