Fred Hampton, deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party, was born on August 30, 1948 and raised in the Chicago suburb of Maywood, Illinois. In high school he excelled in academics and athletics. After Hampton graduated from high school, he enrolled in a pre-law program at Triton Junior College in River Grove, Illinois. Hampton also became involved in the civil rights movement, joining his local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His dynamic leadership and organizational skills in the branch enabled him to rise to the position of Youth Council President. Hampton mobilized a racially integrated group of five hundred young people who successfully lobbied city officials to create better academic services and recreational facilities for African American children.
In 1968, Hampton joined the Black Panther Party (BPP), headquartered in Oakland, California. Using his NAACP experience, he soon headed the Chicago chapter. During his brief BPP tenure, Hampton formed a “Rainbow Coalition” which included Students for a Democratic Society, the Blackstone Rangers, a street gang and the National Young Lords, a Puerto Rican organization. Hampton was also successful in negotiating a gang truce on local television.
In an effort to neutralize the Chicago BPP, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Chicago Police Department placed the chapter under heavy surveillance and conducted several harassment campaigns. In 1969, several BPP members and police officers were either injured or killed in shootouts, and over one hundred local members of the BPP were arrested.
During an early morning police raid of the BPP headquarters at 2337 W. Monroe Street on December 4, 1969, twelve officers opened fire, killing the 21-year-old Hampton and Peoria, Illinois Panther leader Mark Clark. Police also seriously wounded four other Panther members. Many in the Chicago African American community were outraged over the raid and what they saw as the unnecessary deaths of Hampton and Clark. Over 5,000 people attended Hampton’s funeral where Reverends Ralph Abernathy and Jesse Jackson of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference eulogized the slain activist. Years later, law enforcement officials admitted wrongdoing in the killing of Hampton and Clark. In 1990, and later in 2004, the Chicago City Council passed resolutions commemorating December 4 as Fred Hampton Day.
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It has mostly just increased the scale. Animals were killed after about 1/10th of their lifespan, medical care was non-existent, calves were removed early from mothers and raised for slaughter months later, veal was just this but with less mobility, chickens fought each other in cramped conditions, pigs were fed garbage, etc etc.
Alienation changes the social relation, making one have a relationship to commodities rather than their own or others' production. You know Bob that has chickens. You don't know basically anything about the decontextualized off-white slabs in the refrigerator section, only that it is basically fungible with the other slabs and how much it costs.
Re: using one's labor to do bad things, being the paid animal torturer is just one step removed from the supermarket slab. The conditions and lives of livestock are usually torturous and slaughter isn't exactly kind. As stated earlier, you're effectively just paying someone to do the deed for you. Capitalism helps by making it so you don't have to know their name or directly interact with them and ensures they get paid as little as possible. Being a laborer for the imperial machine is bad, but can be hard to quantify for comparisons. For example, what does one thing of the precarious immigrant workforce that gets stuck with jobs like janitorial work at the bombs sales department? How do we consider the personal complicity of the person clearing the waste bin of someone that just got a big bonus for being part of a successful big bid contract? What if they are employed by that person to clean their personal home instead? What if they are a professor that taught them skills for that job? There is a network with degrees of proximity and we should do our best to remove ourselves from the closest ones in the ways practicable.
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It is different in experience, in the social relation. But not the outcome. "It would already be produced" is an argument that always pops up in conversations about consumption and production. Its logic applies just as well to every commodity consumed and produced. The Cobalt would be mined. The animal would be dead. The bomb would get sold. Paying someone to do it for you via commoditization doesn't remove one's culpability, but it can change the calculus on whether it is practicable to abstain and have that translate into decreased demand for the bad thing. For Cobalt, we can't specifically target child labor via consumption choices. For animal products, we can.
In my opinion, personally killing the animal is identically bad for a person to do as paying someone to do it, only maybe a bit worse in that now another worker is roped into the deed. It all also feeds into the normalization if animals as food, materials, commodities, rather than thinking, feeling beings.
If nobody wanted to move into the house there would be no settlers there. It is an essential part of settler-colonialism. The "less bad" option is really just a division of labor for the bad deed, but the total act requires both, they are part of the same whole. The American moving in us complicit and is a very important part of the expulsion.
They understand politics through bourgeouis electoralism and will stop listening if you tell them you don't vote.
Personally I'm enjoying his fall from grace among the wider population because I can really rub IRL libs' faces in it. Tesls owners that believed "smartest man in the world" nonsense lol