50 years ago today, Fred Hampton was murdered by the FBI at the age of 21. Hampton held a transformative vision that created people-powered coalitions against racism, police brutality, and the fundamentally exploitative nature of capitalism.https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/black-panthers-young-patriots-fred-hampton …
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Hampton's most important accomplishment was his brokering of a nonaggression pact among Chicago's most powerful street gangs. He emphasized that racial and ethnic conflict between gangs would only keep its members entrenched in poverty, and stove to forge a class-conscious...
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multiracial alliance among the BPP, the Young Patriots Organization, and the Young Lords. When the FBI targeted and murdered him, he was creating a merger between the BPP and a very large, multiracial gang on the South Side that would have doubled the size of the black panthers.
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