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Sources -> https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-panther-party-resurges-at-philadelphia-ice-protect/
https://archive.ph/a8U52#selection-931.0-965.286
Excerpt of the archive article:
As the Trump administration increases the presence of federal agents in U.S. cities, a local group identifying as part of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense has become more active in Philadelphia.
The group says it is a resurgence of the militant Black power group dating back to the 1960s, and has been trained by some of the original party’s surviving members. Several attended an anti-ICE protest Wednesday at Philadelphia City Hall, carrying military-style weapons.
They say they’re legally permitted to carry firearms and are showing up as a response to violence from the Trump administration. The group has been holding regular weekly free food programs in North Philadelphia for several years, according to 39-year-old Paul Birdsong of West Philadelphia, who identifies himself as the Black Panther Party’s national chairman.
Birdsong and others attended the Philly protest one day after Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Jonathan Ross shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
“That wouldn’t have happened if we were there,” Birdsong said. “Not a single person would have gotten touched.”
Millions of people have watched videos of the shooting online, sparking national protests. The Trump administration quickly defended the shooter, with J.D. Vance asserting Ross has “absolute immunity” and “was doing his job.” Some have rejected Vance’s suggestion that Ross couldn’t be tried by the state, and Minnesota leaders Friday renewed their calls for state involvement in an investigation of the shooting.
Birdsong said the group wants to see ICE abolished and the Trump administration held accountable.
“You got people that are part of a cabal, that are self serving … and they prey on the common folks of the United States,” Birdsong said.
A free food program
Birdsong said he was recruited by members of the Black Panther Party in the wake of the 2020 police killing of George Floyd, and he listed several surviving elders of the group as mentors. The Philly chapter has “less than 100″ members, he said, though he declined to provide more detail.
On Friday evening, Birdsong and several other Black Panther Party members set up a pop-up food pantry outside Church of the Advocate at the corner of 18th and Diamond Streets in North Philadelphia.
The members laid out bananas, grapes, salad, romaine lettuce, cherry tomatoes, apples, pears, celery, peppers, and mushrooms on folding tables.
They added bread, Tastykakes — immediately popular with passing children — canned food, and hygiene items like shampoo, COVID-19 test kits, and adult undergarments. On another table were children’s clothes and a large pot of chicken soup, all near a banner with the Black Panthers logo.
Birdsong said the money to buy the food comes from members’ own paychecks, as well as donations from people in the community.
“It really helps out,” said Dawn Henkins, 60, who lives nearby. She said it’s especially helpful for older people who are living on a fixed income. “The brothers can help people — they are here for the people," Henkins said.
The Black Panthers previously held food programs at 33rd and Cecil B. Moore, and at Jefferson Square Park, Birdsong said. More recently, the group was able to move into 2123 N. Gratz St. — a location that Birdsong says once was a headquarters for the original Black Panther Party Philadelphia chapter.
The original Black Panther Party was founded by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in Oakland, California in 1966 and was active nationally until the early 1980s. The group formed to fight against police brutality and quickly evolved to promote other social changes including prison reform and access to education, food, and healthcare, according to the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Someone needs to go shove that in the lemmylib’s faces and tell them to take fucking notes. God knows these losers need it.
Interestingly enough, their reactions were not that bad:
I’m surprised by how positively they are reacting to this.
Especially this one:
Reminder to everyone that the hugely successful and wonderful original Black Panther Party were considered “authoritarian” and “violent” by the majority of whites back in the day. The Black Panthers were OG Tankies in every sense of the word, and they were incredibly good as a consequence. From Wikipedia:
The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an American far-left, Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966
Regarding a visit of Huey P. Newton to China:
During the trip, the Chinese arranged for him to meet and have dinner with an ambassador from North Korea, an ambassador from Tanzania, and delegations from both North Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam.[44] Newton was under the impression he was going to meet Mao Zedong, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, but instead had two meetings with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. One of these meetings also included Mao’s wife Jiang Qing. Newton described China as “a free and liberated territory with a socialist government”
THESE are the people that we disregard and insult and call “tankies”!!
Not something you’d think the peoples on these instances would write or give more upvotes than downvotes to.
That comment was an alt account from a comrade over on Hexbear.
I think that this will be the recurrent trend from this day forward.
My hypothesis that may explain this trend is that the privilege that liberals had is quickly evaporating and that forces them to confront the reality that they so much dismissed: the reality that the oppressed have lived and tried so hard to explain to them with no result.
When liberal’s view of reality finally matches with the oppressed, decades of propaganda will be destroyed in the minds of people and that will allow empathy, solidarity and finally organizations to grow. This will be the same for Europe.
I do see more radicalization here in the US Empire. The funny thing is that the Black Panther Party is remembered overwhelmingly positively, but the views of the BPP have been obscured to the public, which is why it’s quite positively percieved by liberals with the odd confusion at them being Marxist-Leninists.
I think so too.
It sure can’t happen soon enough though
Cautiously optimistic. Hoping they have learned lessons from the previous iteration of BPP and will be more vigilant about infiltration of feds and their disruptive tactics. I wish them success in becoming once again the vanguard the working class needs in times like these.
The black communists are the leaders who keep the communist movement in the USA alive
who would have thought that trump’s fascist agenda would help to the revival of an apparently extinct marxist organization? it seems that some ole’ fascism government was the breath of air that the american communism needed after being dead by liberalism
who would have thought that trump’s fascist agenda would help to the revival of an apparently extinct marxist organization?
People who paid attention during Trump 1
The black panthers party is geniunely the coolest thing that has come out of the united states, it’s great to hear it’s still alive.
For those interested, Greg Stoker interviewed Bunchy Carter about the revival of the Black Panther Party in Seattle. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWOZo32XXGA&t=1000s
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Was interested in how similar to the original group they were and found their website here.
Skimming it over they are still explicitly marxist-Leninist and largely seem to uphold the same ideas and values as the original just updated to the current struggle!
RBBP is a different group than BPP.
Easy way to tell us check the National Chairman, they have a different one, also Birdsong mentions them in a post about internationalism he made.
Incredibly based, thanks for posting this!
That fucking rocks. I was afraid it was just going to be BLM 2.0
Guess it can still be turned into it, just like BLM was
They have quite a few of the originals in their leadership.
Based, I was afraid they’d be weird reactionaries like the ‘New Black Panather Party’
I wish them success.
Based
FVCKING BASED
These two weeks really feel like decades are happening.
Video being shared in X.com and in the Cuban Telegrams:
Dayum pig got mogged.
“You have a good day”
“You have a bad one sellout”
that black pig gonna have nightmares about that one for sure
This is the kind of video I need to see to maintain hope. A thing of beauty.
Don’t stay an observer comrade! You also have potential to become the hope for plenty of comrades if you organize. Now more than ever, hope is very much needed.
