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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 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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 minutes ago

I'm just gonna say it: Demonizing/making fun of Trump & RFK Jr. for having felonies and substance use struggles is wack and I don't really see how it's much different than body shaming them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 minutes ago

All those shitty jb welds I've seen on car fixes I'm about to contribute to being another user. Got some since I messed up an install of a radiator, heat resistant and made for this. Just looking to get it going so I can get back on the job hunt

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

I actually find this incredibly funny

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Caring about shows having too many f bombs in big 2025.

No wonder hazbin hotel didnt even get review bombed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

I’d love to be my cat so much she just seems so fucking comfortable all the time. Like, I’m petting her head for a solid 10 minutes and she’s still like “oh yeah that’s the spot” whenever I rub her little chin. Imagine being this in the moment all the time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

WILYER ABREU lets-fucking-go

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Better Call Saul spoilers for season 1 and 2I’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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 50 minutes ago* (last edited 47 minutes ago)

Better call my man Saul s1 s2Jimmy 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"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

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.

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

“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!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I worked in marketing for a bit. It’s wild how half the ads are so poorly thought out and targeted that you may as well be setting money on fire, the other half are essentially just fraud or otherwise unethical (like I think statistically the most successful ad campaigns were selling casino loyalty cards to potential gambling addicts…). Somehow a nontrivial chunk of the people there still believed in “the mission”, like they’re not paying us enough to afford rent and this place is openly evil how are you a loyalist??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Pop Corn was a bad dude

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

okay nvm the bazaar can still hit

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

eagerly awaiting monday morning so i can see how bad the damage to the DOW JONES is

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

DJI seemed a bit less effected so idk it’s fully sank in for investors that with these tariffs a lot of US manufacturers will go out of business lol. Art of the deal

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

just seen a bloke out sitting out on the pavement, nothing but his boxers on, with a pack of lager. it's officially summer

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago

Dudes Out Rocking

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago

vyvanse continues to be overall positive but i definitely need to adjust my caffeine intake down to compensate being on a different stimulant matt-jokerfied

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Death to Amerikkka

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

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 lt-dbyf-dubois so I got a feeling it'll be good

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

Infinite positive feedback loop of capitalists raising prices because of inflation caused by the capitalists raising prices.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

Guy who thinks Trump is a Russian agent because he got Canadians to cheer for Ovi breaking Gretzky’s record.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing makes feel like a rugged individual like waking up to my pot of pinto beans, chopping an onion and jalapenos into them with some salt and eating them with some tortillas (no one ask me how all these came to me shhh ) while I don't approve of people larping as cowboys it does help give an idea where I'm at most days kitty-cri-texas

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

You should fry the onion first

Onion into beans = you have all that beanis juice in there limiting temps to boiling, so you're boiling that onion and pepper

Beans into onion = you've fried that onion, it's caramelizing, adding so much savory sweet flavor that you need in your mouth

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

I like the strong taste tbh, kind of like pico de Gallo minus the tomatoes that is

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

pico de Gallo

Pico de beano

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

yeah but raw onion is just strong sulfurous sweaty taste, you cook it and it's still strong but it's damn so fucking savory taste

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

panting making want to bite into one now

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

I was watching a small spider move quickly across a wall. He got to the wooden frame of the window and I expected him to move like lightning downward. It's what they always do. Instead - he must have released some silk to slow his fall as he jumped all the way to the floor which is six foot drop. I was so surprised I actually made a "wooooo" sound and I made myself laugh.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Ugh don’t remind me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

My yard is full of wasps

I wanna sit out there and tan

How do i make the wasps leave me alone

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

Tell them a POC moved in next door.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

It won't help you immediately, but if you put up one of those paper fake-wasp-nest things it'll deter real wasps from making a nest there because they think there's already a nest in that area.

I have no idea what they'll do if you set it up after they're already established though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Always get a little rush when I make a new friend on Redbook, when we start talking it's even better. I've come to the conclusion that mfs be shy though so I have to reach out most the time

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