#Black panthers

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(by Harman Singh Heer)

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[ID: Two black and white photos of Kwame Ture/Stokely Carmichael, a young Black man, saying into a microphone with a sardonic expression, "In order for non-violence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none, has none." End ID.]

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[247liveculture]

January 26, 1944 activist and philosopher, Angela Davis, was born!

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Black Panthers, Chicago, Photo by Hiroji Kubota, 1969

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Black Panthers Chicago 1969 l Hiroji Kubota l Magnum Photos

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Gabriel Alix (Haitian, 1930-1998) - The Black Panthers (1977)

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Photographs from the Black Panther Party series by Stephen Shames (1970s)

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(by thejunglechic)

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Our Breakfast for Children program is feeding a lot of children and the people understand our Breakfast for Children program.

We sayin’ something like this—we saying that theory’s cool, but theory with no practice ain’t shit. You got to have both of them—the two go together. We have a theory about feeding kids free. What’d we do? We put it into practice. That’s how people learn.

A lot of people don’t know how serious the thing is. They think the children we feed ain’t really hungry. I don’t know five year old kids that can act well, but I know that if they not hungry we sure got some actors.

We got five year old actors that could take the Academy Award. Last week they had a whole week dedicated to the hungry in Chicago. Talking ’bout the starvation rate here that went up 15%. Over here where everybody should be eating. Why? Because of capitalism.

What are we doing? The Breakfast for Children program.

We are running it in a socialistic manner. People came and took our program, saw it in a socialistic fashion not even knowing it was socialism.

People are gonna take our program and tell us to go on to a higher level. They gonna take that program and work it in a socialistic manner. What’d the pig say? He say, “Nigger—you like communism?” “No sir, I’m scared of it.” “You like socialism?” “No Sir, I’m scared of it.” “You like the breakfast for children program?” “Yes sir, I’d die for it”. Pig said, “Nigger, that program is a socialistic program.”

“I don’t give a fuck if it’s Communism. You put your hands on that program motherfucker and I’ll blow your motherfucking brains out.“

And he knew it. We been educating him, not by reading matter, but through observation and participation. By letting him come and work our program.

Not theory and theory alone, but theory and practice. The two go together. We not only thought about the Marxist-Leninist theory—we put it into practice.

This is what the Black Panther Party is about.

You Can Murder a Liberator, but You Can’t Murder Liberation

- Fred Hampton (1972)

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image description: image is a black and white photograph of fred hampton and a fellow black panther woman standing towards what looks like they are facing an individual or crowd. fred hampton is smokin a cig lookin cool as hell, in a knit vest or sweater... can't really tell. the image has text and it says, "theory's cool, but theory with no practice ain't shit. - fred hampton April 27 1969"

fyi smoking is not cool but rather very cancerous. even when it looks cool.

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The Black Jaguar

A Natural History of British and Foreign Quadrupeds. Written by James H. Fennell. 1843.

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So im doing a bucket full of research of mutal aid programs and ideas for Reaping week

And over the course of this I've ended up digging into the black panthers movement programs and here's a small list from the index of the book I'm reading

But also like?? There's something about the phrase "Survival pending revolution" that just hits in a a really cathartic way.

When we talk about needing to tear down the system but that ppl still need it to survive and a lot of those systems are baked into Capitalism and will need to be rebuilt from the ground up I think that's a really good way to phrase things like Community Fridges and little pantries and clothing drives.

They are programs for survival until we fix it.

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Black Panthers (Agnès Varda, 1968)