Originally published at: Looking back at the Black Panther Party's community-based "survival programs" | Boing Boing
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It’s hard to say what the white authorities hated more about the Black Panthers: their exercise of the Second Amendment right so sacred to white right-wingers or their successful mutual aid efforts as described here.
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Every Chicago Public Schools student gets free breakfast and free lunch. No means testing, no token payment. They are healthy and low cost. This was a direct response to The Black Panther Party’s free meal programs, fifty years ago, which were popular, effective and an amazing direct action. At peak, about 1970, the Panthers were feeding 10,000 children a day.
Police and FBI raids on meal programs followed, Fred Hampton was shot dead by police, and apolitical alternative breakfast programs were funded nationwide.
“survival pending revolution”
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