i'm not generally a conspiracy theorist, but a lot of preposterous sounding stuff has actually (demonstrably, through documentation) happened & you've got to stay sharp. one of the most egregious perpetrators of government-sanctioned atrocity was j edgar hoover.
his COINTELPRO was responsible for a fucktonne of carnage.
the FBI's programme of sabotage was aimed squarely at anyone with 'unamerican' leanings, an assignation so broad...
#fredHampton #art #illustration #blackPanthers #fbi

#art #history: extensive thread about the chairman, fred hampton (born #otd in 1948), with ugly & unsettling facts, follows. if you know the score & you don't want to be upset, skip it & just know that he's one of my favourite humans.
#fredHampton #cointelpro #blackPanthers #chicago #rainbowCoalition #socialism #illustration #solidarity

Because I‘m bored stiff and can‘t read too long I started an #Audible trial.

I’m very impressed because the entire thing is extremely anticlimactic and does really sod all to convince me not to cancel a few weeks ahead, but apparently I’m on a “profile journey” now. 😂

Anyway, I redeemed my freebie and listen to The #BlackPanthers Speak.

Today in Labor History August 30, 1948: Fred Hampton revolutionary activist and chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party was born. He founded the antiracist, anti-class Rainbow Coalition, a prominent multicultural political organization that included Black Panthers, Young Patriots (which organized poor whites), and the Young Lords (which organized Hispanics), and an alliance among major Chicago street gangs to help them end infighting and work for social change. In December 1969, the Chicago police & FBI drugged Hampton, shot him and killed him in his bed during a predawn raid. They sprayed more than 90 gunshots throughout his apartment. They also killed Black Panther Mark Clark and wounded several others. In January 1970, a jury concluded that Hampton's and Clark's deaths were justifiable homicides.

Stephen King refers to Hampton in his novel “11/22/63” (2012). In that book, a character suggests that if you could travel back in time to prevent John F. Kennedy's assassination, it could have a ripple effect that also prevented Hampton's assassination.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #BlackPanthers #FredHampton #chicago #police #PoliceMurder #PoliceBrutality #fbi #racism #StephenKing #fiction #books #novel #writer #author #BlackMastadon @bookstadon

#hueynewton like was incredibly #media savvy & knew symbolism. "The panther is a fierce animal,” the burgeoning activist explained in his autobiography, “but he will not attack until he is backed into a corner; then he will strike out."

As a little white kid growing up outside of the #bayarea I clearly remember the #radical #blackpanthers & just how iconic they looked. Their ideological views led to a successful #community feeding program.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-misunderstood-visionary-behind-the-black-panther-party-180982740/

Today in Labor History August 25, 1968: The Battle of Lincoln Park occurred during the Democratic Convention in Chicago. Roughly 10,000 demonstrators battled approximately 11,000 riot police, 6,000 National Guard, 7,500 US army troops and 1,000 FBI, CIA & army/navy intelligence services agents. The Democratic Convention riots occurred in the wake of a year of unrest. In April, there were riots in over 100 U.S. cities, after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Presidential hopeful Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June. The incumbent president, Johnson, was so unpopular that he dropped out of the race rather than face the humiliation of coming in 3rd. Mayor Daley vowed that no radicals would be allowed to protest in his city. SDS leader Todd Gitlin warned, “If you come to Chicago, be sure to wear some armor in your hair,” stealing a line from the infamous flower child song, “If You Come to San Francisco.” Yippie leaders, Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, threatened to spike the water supply of the International Amphitheatre with LSD and send in studs to seduce the wives of Democratic Party delegates. They also released a pig at Civic Center Plaza, who they nominated to run as the Democratic nominee for president.Police, FBI and even the CIA had infiltrated virtually every activist group participating in the demonstrations. After four days riots, 668 people had been arrested, 425 were treated at temporary medical facilities, 200 were treated on the spot, 400 had been given first aid for tear gas exposure and 110 went to hospital. A total of 192 police officers were injured. Afterward, 8 activists were tried on conspiracy charges in the infamous Chicago 7 trial (Black Panther Bobby Seale was the 8th defendant, but his case ended in mistrial, after he’d been gagged and dragged from the courtroom), leaving 7 other defendants.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #chicago #riot #Democrat #AbbieHoffman #BlackPanthers #LSD #PoliceBrutality #police #cia #BlackMastadon

"strano che L'Unità non avesse detto niente"

Cinnamon
Offlaga Disco Pax
da "Socialismo tascabile (Prove tecniche di trasmissione)" (2006)

#NowPlaying #aradio
#chewingum #Revolution #Capodistria #BlackPanthers #ColonnineMetano
#ebuongiorno

https://invidious.devianze.city/watch?v=UXL1Cl-ccWg

when you discover that an indisputable guitar virtuoso was also a good human being, file under 'TIL that jimi hendrix supported the seattle chapter of the black panther party'.
#blackPantherParty #jimiHendrix #seattle #blackPanthers #music #radicalPolitics #blackMastodon
https://historylink.org/File/20648

@DamienMarieAtHope I'm proud my state of Minnesota passed this into law this year. You attend a MN public school, you get a free, nutritious lunch. Period.

We have an embarrassing educational gap between rich and poor in MN. I'm predicting this will do far more to close that gap than fancy curricular enhancements.

Ya think maybe the #BlackPanthers were on to something?

RIP #MutuluShakur

https://covertactionmagazine.com/2023/08/05/rip-mutulu-shakur/
#BlackPanther Leader Led Rainbow #Acupuncturists Treating #Addictions
#2pac #tupac #blackpanthers #BLM #BlackHistory

#Bales2023FilmChallenge July 26: various countries ban together for #OneVoiceDay

William Klein's Festival panafricain d'Alger [The #Panafrican Festival in Algiers] (1969)

#WilliamKlein #documentary #CinémaDirect #photography #BlackPanthers #music #jazz #politics #neocolonialism #Africa #AfricanDiaspora #PanAfrica #BLM #film #cinema #FilMastodon #CineMastodon @film

Kicking off the weekend with a Rob Roy and working on my August #HarlemUnbounding post! #BlackPanthers #WorldWar2

"#Panther offers the extraordinary little-told story of the first year the #VotingRightsAct was put to the test, in 1966, deep in the heart of the Jim Crow South. That election would reverberate across the nation, from Alabama to Oakland to the halls of Congress, changing the course of history through to the #VotingRights battles of today."

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reckon-radio/id1420215603

#BlackPower #BlackPowerMovement #BlackPanthers #BlackLiberation #CivilRightsMovement #BlackHistory #USHistory

#ReckonRadio

What You Don't Know About The #BlackPanthers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e7gm5JZc9M&list=WL
#black #history #blackhistory #healthcare #FBI #BLM

Today In Labor History June 29, 1941: Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998), founder of the U.S. civil rights group the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad. He was a key figure in the Black Power movement, becoming honorary Prime Minister of the Black Panther Party and, later, as the leader of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party. The FBI attempted to destroy him through COINTELLPRO, and succeeded in convincing Huey Newton that he was a CIA agent. This, and the Panthers’ embracing of white activists into their movement, led him to distance himself from the Panthers. In 1968, he married the famous South African singer Miriam Makeba and moved to Africa, changing his name to Kwame Ture and campaigning internationally for revolutionary socialist pan-Africanism.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #StokelyCarmichael #BlackPanthers #sncc #BlackPower #fbi #racism #cointellpro #africa #PanAfricanism #BlackMastadon

@MissConstrue @WecanbeGyros

This old hippie keeps thinking about this. Well said.

I also think a lot about how differently this would go if #black folks did what the #MAGA folks do. I don't have to wonder... we already saw it & a lot of folks were murdered
#BlackPanthers #FredHampton #MalcolmX

#solidarity from Tacoma :solidarity:

Panthers! An article from 1970 myth busting propaganda on the Black Panthers by the U.S. government and mainstream media, published by the Guardian.

https://archive.org/details/guardian-panthers-february-1970/mode/2up

#blackpanthers #juneteenth #socialism

If you’re in New York, I strongly recommend the Black Power to Black People: Branding the Black Panther Party exhibition at the Poster House https://posterhouse.org/exhibition/black-power-to-black-people/ #PosterHouse #BlackPower #BlackPantherParty #BlackPanthers

#BlackPanthers #MoveOnOver #Folk #Lyrics :goose_star:

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=RLTDpewIpfw

#Chic #GoodTimes

#music #musique #musik #musikken #musica
#WeAreTheRadio #MastoRadio #FediRadio #pouetradio

If I'm remembering correctly, #NileRodgers was also once a member of the #BlackPanthers