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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Better Call Saul spoilers for season 1 and 2
I’ve been watching BCS recently and I’ve got to say it kind of sucks and isn’t as good as I remember Breaking Bad being. Things seem to happen with very little reason and a great deal of convenience. Like why the hell would Jimmy not show the advertisement to his bosses at Davis & Mains first before airing it?? There is absolutely no benefit to not doing so, and he already knew that the bosses had a positive opinion on an ad so they’d almost definitely approve it.And why would Mike choose to get beaten up by Tuco?? “Sorry, it’s too dangerous to shoot this guy with a rifle at distance, instead I’m going to get into a hand to hand fight when he has a revolver and I have no gun.” I mean I know Tuco must live to the next series, but still that was kind of silly. Or like Mike got an in into the criminal underworld of Albuquerque by just asking a rando taxi driver who happened to know a vet who had illegal work.
It’s not alll bad, I really liked the plot about Mike’s son, the show has good moments it’s just that the scenes between the moments make little sense.
Idk maybe I just have rose tinted glasses for BB and BCS is the same quality and I’m just remembering BB being better. Inbetween watching BB and BCS I did watch The Sopranos so maybe my standards just hot higher, idk. Are the later BCS seasons better?
Davis and Maine would not have approved it, they're a stuckup old fashioned firm. There would have been a whole process for approval and the partners would have wanted so many changes, it would have been a different product before they even filmed. He was banking on the commercial working so well they'd have to keep running it. "Better to ask for forgiveness than permission" taken to the extreme. The whole subplot is about how Jimmy doesn't fit in with the traditional legal class, he wants to run fast and do what he wants.
I'll give you Mike confronting Tuco like that, he could have easily gotten killed.
Jimmy also did such amazing work finding the class action, that he assumed everything he'd do after it would be similar homeruns.
Better call my man Saul s1 s2
Jimmy not showing his bosses the commercial is because he got impatient with having to do things on other peoples timeline and attitudes. Its not very subtle about jimmy sticking out and not fitting in Davis and Main and embodying this new social status hes achieved.When he saw the Davis and main commercial he felt that he could do it better or that he believed he knew better than his superiors. His bosses also did not approve it and Clifford Main points this out to Jimmy when hes getting reprimanded for it after the fact that he only said he'd "look into it" and jimmy took that as "green light"
I like it in that Jimmy's perception of the law is challenged here. He is in Chuck's world now where people wear stuffy suits and stick to protocol. He realizes that he doesn't enjoy what the supposed image of success looks like and goes on a self destructive streak (starting with the very obvious flipping on a light switch when it says not to just to see what would happen).
In a way, Chuck is proven right about Jimmy's tendency to cut corners and not think about the consequences. I'd recommend just focusing on that Chuck jimmy dynamic rather than the shows admittedly clunky pacing during the beginning. I think your frustration is very much the same frustration the characters feel and the show will capitalize on that later.
Mike not choosing to kill Tuco ties into his understanding of the criminal world vs. Nacho who sees nothing but the problem right in front of him. Mike is a corrupt cop, he may have not been as immoral as his peers but he has been "in the game" for most of his life. BB also had clunky action scenes so it isnt just a BCS thing and it ties into the whole "crime is boring and also arbitrary on who survives and who doesn't"