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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 JimΓ©nez, 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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

N95-wearing walmart employee woman complimented me on my battlejacket after we made eye contact as seemingly the only two people masking today.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You have no idea how extra I look with an N95 and a bright red denim jacket covered in extreme metal patches and a KGB patch on the arm.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

you sound so cool. n95 gang stays winning πŸ₯°

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Literally no one masks at my uni or at the hospital. I don't even use that as a meaningful exaggeration, I mean that I have not seen a mask either place. Not even at the lung disease clinic.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I see the occasional 60+ customer wearing a mask that I'm pretty sure their GP gave them a box of at some point. And Wal-Mart employees, like maybe 1 in 50 and it's always a cashier or clothing area. Never seen any of the stockers or cart-getters wear one. Don't go out except to grocery shop really so guessing that number lowers to 0% anywhere else.

Also, the 50+ looking greeter said he liked my jacket and he listened to metal too, which I guess is possible now but is still weird. Used to the grey-hairs only liking pop-country and '80s rock around here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

haven't seen anyone else masking in looong time. the brainrot and peer pressure even got to the asian kids at the drive-thru who were the last holdouts i knew of.