• Enkrod@feddit.org
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    15 days ago

    Remember the first rainbow coalition!

    The Rainbow Coalition was an American anti-racist and socialist political organization that united various marginalized groups in Chicago, Illinois.

    The Rainbow Coalition’s ideology centered on class solidarity, uniting poor and working-class people across racial lines against shared oppression. It emphasized using direct action to pressure local government into achieving tangible improvements, with objectives including reducing unemployment, improving public education, and counteracting gentrification. Members of the Rainbow Coalition also sponsored a wide range of service programs at reduced or no costs to their respective communities, such as breakfasts for children, health clinics, busing to prisons, daycare centers, clothing, ambulance services, among many other efforts.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Coalition_(Fred_Hampton)

  • protist@retrofed.com
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    15 days ago

    Heather Cox Richardson has been talking a lot recently about the period in US politics starting 1933 with the election of FDR, and how moneyed interests have been trying to dismantle everything he built for about 50 years now. It’s time for another FDR