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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Everyone I know: “Ugh, I HATE dating apps. They’re just the worst!” Everyone I know giving dating advice: “Have you tried joining a dating app?”
putting a fit together
Telling my kids this was the Phillies.
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.
I got forklift certification yesterday, I am a new me now. I saw some things that will haunt me in those training videos and demonstrated competency in weilding a forklift or as we professionals call it a powered industrial truck P.I.T for short
Workplace safety is no joke! I’ve worked in a warehouse before, be careful out there! Also, if you like some gory humor, check out Staplerfahrer Klaus, the forklift training video that makes OSHA enjoyer’s eyebrows twitch.
I am saw that video and memes aside I do take safety seriously, number one thing instilled in me was like with a car this is a tremendous responsibility and the lives around me are in my hands
You’ve surely seen this, but for the .01% chance you haven’t, it is my responsibility to ensure you see the German forklift training video
this is so real also had less blood than the videos they showed us yesterdayI found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
so you are a trucker now?
I still have my bass pro shop hat, think I was always meant to be one 🚛
Welcome comrade, the world is an oyster to us.
(I got my certificate while unemployed a little over 10 years back and have never driven a forklift in a professional capacity since, have done it privately a couple of times though)
I do hope to get something soon with it, had to drive a ways but the school was full of forklift drivers needed signs. Hopefully they have similar in my town
Yeah, that was more a symptom of where I was living than actual job prospects. Most of the jobs for “forklift drivers” required you to have a wheel loader license (paper mills, construction, lumber yards etc were the main employers).
join the german competitive circuit so we can bet on your success
I like to think out of the 8 people in the course yesterday I was top 3 since I didn’t hit a come or anything so now I set my sights on this
Ooooohhh another one for the ranks. Faebling I’ve driven electric, gas, and propane. Inside, outside, stand-up, sit down, clamps, rotators, reach trucks I’ve done it all. I’ve loaded and unloaded train cars and barges.
Find a union job if you can, at least here it’s a pretty competitive job market if you’re open shop. I haven’t driven a lift truck in a decade probably but it’s one of the best mid-pay jobs I’ve ever had
Been researching unions near me I planned on using this in the mean time till applications for a union to open up but if I can find a union that includes forklift might just go that route
Narwhal of the golf buggy world
like the sound of that I think
Hexbear is the opposite of progressive. It’s absolutely chock full of hatred of tons of groups. And they just make up shit instead of caring about facts.
We are racist against the people of NATO
“Look! Here’s some FBI statistics that clearly show that people of NATO have a higher war crime rate than normal people.”
Extremely fucked up that video Trump posted of them bombing houthis is extremely obviously some sort of a local tradition thing.
vyvanse continues to be overall positive but i definitely need to adjust my caffeine intake down to compensate being on a different stimulant
my gf has informed me her father has discovered trolling
the man’s a Trump guy, but he goes around his rural church saying bad shit about Trump “just to rile people up”
like he goes in going like “wonder who I’m gonna piss off today”
it’s hilarious
He’s yanking their chains!
LMAO
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> Be me > Go to a protest > 6 different Trot orgs try to sell me a papernature is healing
Did you buy one
just seen a bloke out sitting out on the pavement, nothing but his boxers on, with a pack of lager. it’s officially summer
I watched No Other Land and as early as like 15 minutes in, someone gets shot for trying to stop the IDF from taking their village’s small generator. I can’t type what I feel online because it would be fedposting but just a warning to anyone who hasn’t seen it, if you’re already informed, it’s kind of like vegans watching animal slaughter videos. It was deeply upsetting and ultimately unnecessary for me to watch it, but I definitely think people should in general.
Wow, my lib sister in law even went to the hands off protest today, which was in my hometown and relatively massive, idk if I can remember another protest there that was this big, not even George Floyd.
I’ve also wondered if they would have been nearly this large without the tarriff and market crash. I saw this dumbass fucking sign on r/all and realized that this protest was mostly about treats, less so about the rise of fascism (not to say there wasn’t antifascist sentiment as well). There were a smattering of signs about ICE, maybe one or two Palestine signs if any (but always a Ukraine flag), and some signs mentioning due process but frankly, not vociferous demands for the release of all political prisoners and the cessation of deportations like there should be.
Its also worth noting that among this, there was also a march for Palestine in DC drawing another 10k-20k
I’ve been wondering all day where we are going from here. Even though its a lib protest, I’ll still root for it to grow. Not sure if I will attend the next one, seems kinda boring tbh, but at least an appetite for protest is growing. I wonder if there will finally be something that can spark a similar level of mass action but untied from the liberal organizers. Maybe its copium but I think there must be a movement even dwarfing the George Floyd uprising by the end of 2028.
I actually find this incredibly funny
Ok real talk I basically never bring it up now because many things are going well but i’m almost 30 and have never had a girlfriend, boyfriend, or theyfriend.
. I’m stable financially and am excelling at work but yet I have basically no friends besides chatting with coworkers. I’ve thought about why this is and I think a lot of it has to do with when I work (night shift) and where I work (retail, so I’m burned out at the end of the day). It can’t just be because I’m fat, there has to be more to it. I’m not in close proximity to people for a lot of time except for my coworkers, that leaves very few options. I gave up on dating apps years ago because they never worked and I never met up with a single match in person.Apparently 1 in 5 Americans say they have no close friends.
The very trite but useful strategy is to try to find meetups for any hobbies you might have for when you’re off work. Then you’ll have a built in bonding topic to break the ice and get some sort of connection, be it romantic or platonic. Having a life outside of work is important.
It is trite advice, but it is trite for a reason.
If I’m keeping it a buck, if you’re not in the apps and you’re exhausted at the end of the day, it sounds like the primary factor is that you’re not out there capable of being discovered. Whether that’s fair, practical, or tainted by capitalism aside, where’s a special someone supposed to find you? In terms of strategy I’m the wrong person to ask because all I did was get lucky, but I got lucky on an app. Maybe ask your coworkers if they know anybody who’s looking.
How many times did you try to set up a meeting with your matches in the first back and forth after introductions? The majority of people on the apps are not looking for another online conversation to manage and would rather meet for a coffee to get to know you rather than exchanging backstories in a DM.
spoiler
The mechanics of actually being allowed to message people have changed since my time and i can’t help with actually getting the matches.
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