Study And Struggle Event: Reboot the Rainbow

Join Catalyst staff, volunteers, and community members to consider the promises and pitfalls of coalition politics yesterday and today and imagine new ways to build lasting multi-racial alliances for racial & economic justice. And what better time to consider this than right now?

Please join us at our next Study & Struggle event:
Reboot the Rainbow: 
Multi-Racial Anti-Racist Alliance Building

Monday, Oct. 24th, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Oakland Public Library, Main Branch
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Right now, nearly a thousand Occupy Wall Street solidarity actions springing up across the country are highlighting the importance of creating strong multi-racial alliances. This event will explore lessons for our movements today from vital histories of building unity across color lines.
 
In the 1960s and 1970s community organizers experimented with the "Rainbow Coalition" model of alliance building. This approach, exemplified by the early partnership of the Chicago Black Panther Party, Young Patriots Organization (poor whites), and Young Lords (Puerto Rican), allowed each to organize their own community while working in tandem with each other.
 
 "The Rainbow Coalition was code word for class struggle.” 
— Bob Lee, former Black Panther member

 
This panel will consider the promises and pitfalls of coalition politics yesterday and today and imagine new ways to build lasting multi-racial alliances for racial & economic justice. And what better time to consider this than right now?
 
We're delighted to host authorsAmy Sonnie and James Tracy to discuss their new book, Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times. Amy and James will be joined by Chuck Armsbury (former Young Patriots/Patriot Party and current Co-Director of the November Coalition), Malik Rahim(former Black Panther and long-time housing and prison activist) and others from the movements described in and influenced by the histories in this crucial book. More panelists TBA. 

Monday, Oct. 24th, 6:30-9:30 p.m.
Oakland Public Library, Main Branch
West Auditorium
125 14th Street, Oakland
Please enter off Madison St. between 13th and 14th
 
This event is open to the public. Donations are suggested, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Copies of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power will be available for sale.

Scent–Free Space: Please help us keep this space keep this space accessible to people with chemical sensitivities and refrain from wearing scented products.

Note: We will be using the auditorium after the library closes. The front doors will be locked, so please enter through the side of the building on Madison St. There are stairs, but volunteers will be available to escort people to an accessible entrance.

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