'When the state fails, communities have to stand up for themselves' Former Black Panther leader Malik Rahim says history teaches us we are stronger when we come together and defend each other by mowords
for its historical importance to the story of the Black Panthers and as a base for the Common Ground Collective.
When, on 29 August, 2005, hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf states of the USA, the levees broke around the City of New Orleans, which was 8 ft below sea level, and over 1700 people lost their lives. Self-determination is nothing new to Malik he was a founding member and former leader of the New Orleans Black Panther Party and served time on death row for his part in a 1970 shoot-out with the police.
“They must have shot somewhere in the neighbourhood of 35-40,000 rounds of ammunition in that house and we all walked out without a scratch.”was founded in Oakland, California in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale and quickly evolved into a social movement and implemented a number of ground breaking policy programs, including their famous breakfast clubs, which fed 20,000 children each week and their free health clinics.
Within a couple of years the Party had grown to somewhere between 2,000 and 10,000 active members in 38 chapters, with particular strength in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York and Philadelphia.
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