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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I think today, I’m just not going to worry about anything, and not even do my daily routines. Maybe sleep for sixteen hours if I could do that! Doubtful considering my sleep issues. Just lately things just feel more paralyzing than before, and it just getting harder to do things, again. Even getting up and moving around. Sometimes my limbs feel heavy, taking a lot of effort to move, despite not really. How can they be heavy? Meanwhile yesterday just a blur, cloudy, distant despite being yesterday. It doesn’t help either it’s Sunday today as well, since Sundays are always terrible. Who likes Sundays anyways? I don’t. Besides that I just feel this heavy emotional weight draping on me lately. Perhaps trying to tell me something? Or maybe not?A part of me just doesn’t want to bother anymore. Why bother keep up with everything from appearances to keeping in contact with others, to just even just getting out of bed? In another way a part of me feels like this might be good, just, break the routine just for a brief day. Don’t worry about friends, family or other things. Nothing going away anytime soon, my friends and family will still be there. Another part just feels it’s not worth it and to just keep moving, don’t let this paralysis take hold, and continue to get things done, especially other things I keep putting off.
Maybe just some time to process things is all that is needed. None of this is exactly new either. It just feels like things just gets more difficult and difficult each time this feeling comes and goes, like a canyon slowly being made. Things slowly being eroded and carved away, and it just gets harder to get out of each time. Only issue is humans aren’t canyons! It doesn’t really matter much anyways.