#rainbow COALITION

[bootyandgeekeries]

"You can kill a revolutionary but you can't kill the revolution."

This man could have changed the course of US history if it wasn't for the fear and the bigotry of the likes of J. Edgar Hoover.

#fred hampton #the chairman #icons #the man #black history #civil rights #civil rights movement #black panther #black panther party #rainbow coalition

[bfpnola]

introductory excerpts on the rainbow coalition:

The Rainbow Coalition was an antiracist, anticlass[1] multicultural movement founded April 4, 1969 in Chicago, Illinois by Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party, along with William "Preacherman" Fesperman of the Young Patriots Organization and José Cha Cha Jiménez, founder of the Young Lords. It was the first of several 20th century black-led organizations to use the "rainbow coalition" concept.[2]

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The Rainbow Coalition soon included various radical socialist community groups like the Lincoln Park Poor People's Coalition,[3] later, the coalition was 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. Some of the things the coalition engaged in joint action against were poverty, corruption, racism, police brutality, and substandard housing.[4] The participating groups supported each other at protests, strikes, and demonstrations where they had a common cause.[5][6]

The coalition later included many other local groups like Rising Up Angry, and Mothers and Others. The Coalition also brokered treaties to end crime and gang violence. Hampton, Jimenez and their colleagues believed that the Richard J. Daley Democratic Party machine in Chicago used gang wars to consolidate their own political positions by gaining funding for law enforcement and dramatizing crime rather than underlying social issues.[citation needed][7]

The coalition eventually collapsed under duress from constant harassment by local and federal law enforcement, including the murder of Hampton.[6]

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The phrase "rainbow coalition" was co-opted over the years by Reverend Jesse Jackson, who eventually appropriated the name in forming his own, more moderate coalition, Rainbow/PUSH. Some scholars, including Peniel Joseph, assert that the original rainbow coalition concept was a prerequisite for the multicultural coalition that Barack Obama built his political career upon.[11]

The Rainbow Coalition youth—made up of Panthers, Young Lords, and Young Patriots—also launched free breakfast programs that were supported by donations from community businesses and ran free daycare centers for neighborhood children. Several operations were upheld by the women of the Black Panthers and women’s focus groups like the Young Lordettes and Mothers and Others (MAO). The federal government institutionalized the School Breakfast Program in 1975.

“We’re gonna fight fire with water. We’re gonna fight racism not with racism, but with solidarity. We’re not gonna fight capitalism with Black capitalism, but with socialism… We’re gonna fight with all of us people getting together and having an international proletariat revolution,” Hampton was recorded saying.

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In public appearances, the Rainbow Coalition was backed by community residents and Black and brown street gangs—but they also had the support of unions, Independent Precinct Organizations, college students and activists who supported the movement through Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Rising Up Angry, and countless other organizations. Their allies included Concerned Citizens of Lincoln Park, the West Town Concerned Citizens Coalition, the Northside Cooperative Ministry, Neighborhood Commons Organization, and Voice of the People. “It was really based on common action,” said Mike Klonsky, a former Chicago leader of SDS (who, like Hampton and Cha-Cha, had a reward out for his arrest). “If there was a protest or a demonstration, the word would get out and we would all come to it and support each other. If somebody was arrested, we would all raise bail. If somebody was killed or shot by the police, we would all respond together.”

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In December of 1969, the FBI conducted an overnight raid on Hampton’s apartment with intelligence provided by an infiltrator. He had just been named spokesperson of the national Black Panther Party. A barrage of police bullets struck him in his sleep as he lay beside his pregnant fiance, Akua Njeri, who survived. Another occupant, Black Panther security chief Mark Clark, was also killed.  Distraught members of the Coalition unofficially disbanded, and a handful of the leadership went underground after Hampton’s assassination, fearing for their own safety. Thousands of people lined up to witness the open crime scene, while lawyers from the People’s Law Office disputed the later-disproved official police account, which had falsely claimed a heavy firefight on both sides. Having assassinated its most vocal leader, the Feds had effectively crushed the 1960s’ most promising push for united, cohesive social resistance in Chicago.

#reaux speaks #history #rainbow coalition #bipoc #resources #socialism #community #black power #black panther party #young lords #anti capitalism #chicano #indigenous #communism #wikipedia

[lisamarie-vee]

#vintage magazine #rainbow coalition #1970s

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#White Panther Party #WPP #White Panthers #Rainbow Coalition #MC5 #John Sinclair #Black Panther Party #Fred Hampton #outlaws and partisans #New Left #60s #1960s #Communist #Communism #Marxist #Marxism

[offtheshelftru-ism]

I love how the force field of isreal proves they really don’t need money from the US and how the US don’t have money to have proper human rights but we got all the money in the world to make more money off funding and fueling wars. Then love even more how people wanna be all we fighting terrorism when we’ve been the terrorists since 9/11. Not that we weren’t before that but let’s put things into perspective, that was 22 years ago. If you support Israel because you’re Jewish or because you believe “it’s the right thing to do”,

Please educate yourself on the Middle East specifically the horrid things the Israeli gov did to the Palestinians, from beginning to now.

What Hamas did was horrific and it was a lot like 9/11 in not only the hate of which the events spawned but also in how the events seem very staged and well thought out.

Think about all these people as if they were family, put it into perspective on just a human level that it’s very obvious who is the super power and who is not. It’s very clear Hamas doesn’t represent all Palestinians, or that the Palestinian hating Israeli supremacists don’t represent all of Israel.

Now more than ever we’ve been instigated by media into “pick a side” or that opinions are more important than lives, this could not be further from the truth.

POWER TO, FROM AND IS THE PEOPLE AND ALWAYS WILL BE.

#Palestine #Isreal #US #War #truth. #words #classism #unity #division #POWER TO THE PEOPLE #RAINBOW COALITION

[totesmccoats]

More superhero stories should be like Kamen Rider Black Sun

I have not stopped thinking about Kamen Rider Black Sun since watching it, and had to get all this rambly energy out somewhere, so...

~Spoilers for Kamen Rider Black Sun~ Every few years, legendary comic book writer Alan Moore becomes a trending topic for repeating an idea he’s argued since at least 1982 – that superheroes easily slide into fascism. And for the most part, it’s hard to argue against his point, especially considering the impact that Moore’s Miracleman, V for Vendetta, and Watchmen have had on the genre. With…

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#anti-fascism #antifa #black panther #black sun #direct action #fascism #gorgom #japan #kaijin #kamen rider #leftist #metaphor #mutant #non-violence #politics #rainbow coalition #revolution #shinzo abe #Shotaro Ishinomori #superhero #tokusatsu #violence

[lovethingmovie]

Vote for the future Now!

#vote #pride #rights #democracy #freedom #lgbtq #rainbow coalition

[youtwitinmyface]

THE STORY OF FRED HAMPTON AND COINTELPRO by Michael Harriot

            Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, Dirksen Federal Building, 1969                                    Photo by Paul Sequeira, Fair use image         NOTE: HE MEANT J. EDGAR HOOVER, NOT HERBERT HOOVER. Preventing the rise of a ‘messiah’ by Jonathan David Farley           FBI – KING SUICIDE LETTER   NOTE: HE’S ABOUT TO WRITE MARK O’NEAL WHEN HE MEANS WILLIAM…

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#Black History #Bobby Seal #Citizens Committee To Investigate The FBI #CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT #COINTELPRO #Conference For United Front Against Fascism #Fred Hampton #Huey P. Newton #J. Edgar Hoover #John Lewis #Mark Clark #Michael Harriot #Mulford Act #Paul Sequeira #Prevent The Rise Of A Messiah #Puerto Rican Young Lords #Rainbow Coalition #Ronald Reagan #Stokely Carmichael #The Black Panther Party #The Lowndes County Freedom Organization #The Red Guard #William Davidon #William O&039;Neal #Young Patriots

[antifahq]

#antifahq #ACAB #umbrella coalition #rainbow coalition #fred hampton #black panthers

[undergroundrockpress]

Chicago Rainbow Coalition for interracial unity on the anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, 1969. Photo by Linn Ehrlich.

#Linn Ehrlich #Chicago Rainbow Coalition for interracial unity #1969 #1960s #politic #mlk jr #underground press #black panthers #Young Patriots #Rising Up Angry #hippies

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

#talkin #tik tok #food #recipes #nikki.mov #black panthers #the rainbow coalition #the nra #black panther party #fuck ronald reagan #ronald reagan #racism

[shirkers2018dirsanditan]

whenever i see a post like “treating all feminism like terf blah whatever is exactly what terfs want yadda yadda” i’m sorry i can’t help but think God you sound so deranged. sorry LMAO

#the terf cabal this is their plan for the new world order #but in seriousness i feel MOST of these posts are either by people who mean well or radical feminist-adjacent women who are tired of being #harassed and i get it #but also some of these people who are obsessed with ‘terf’ and anti ‘radfem’ shit….are just sexists lol #they are antifeminist and thats their guiding principle and they need to own that #rather than blaming somebody else #many elements of queer theory or other postmodernist social justice is actually designed to be oppositional to feminism #in the same way the new left was in parts oppositional to the old #and the same way that the caste school of race is oppositional to marxism and internationalism and the like #the same way neoliberal and liberal multiculturalism is in opposition to political blackness and the rainbow coalition #like they are built as opposing ideologies by design #it’s fine to address it as such #necessary actually #its a specific political position with specific goals and guiding principles #not morals dictated by God or whatever like people pretend lol

[paracunt]

Writer Jon Freeman from Rolling Stone Magazine talking about Hayley’s performance with Becca Mancari & Brian O’Connor at Love Rising (2023)

#hayley williams #love rising #rolling stone magazine #becca mancari #rainbow coalition band #brian o’connor #jon freeman

[9w1ft]

yes!! i’m so excited. feel is like i’m going as a delegate hahaha/

Southamerican delegate present🙋‍♀️ we kaylors might be a few but we are damn everywhere😼

yesss!

#rainbow coalition 🥴

[l-e-g-i-o-n-losh]

Got to explain the gilbert baker flag and why trans people tried to stop using "transsexual" to dad today happy pride

#it went pretty well actually like the exact second he registered the word change was to try and stop body harrassment he got it #but he literally had no idea why until now he just thought gay people liked non sequitur i guess #and he though the gays stole the rainbow from the rainbow coalition/operation PUSH??? but then hes like OH no they were just high ok #danny shush #do not quote this im paraphrasing but you know

[chillinglikeashilling]

I live in Canada and also can't vote for various geographic reasons so I lack strong feeling about it (even after actively volunteering on a local campaign), so please just take this as me hating if you'd like to:

American leftists are very lucky that Black people vote progressively already because wooo! If you had to rely on the ability of some of y'all on here to reach out to and coalition build with Black people you would be capital f Fucked!

#The rainbow coalition you are not #But hey! You keep condescending to disenfranchised and disillusioned Black and Muslim voters and let me know how that turns out for you #Anyway this has been your daily dose of hating from outside the club