Survival Programs

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

I think that these sty;e programs are a good way to win support, as it makes people think.."shit these Commies are doing someting for us".

However this would only be really efective in deprived communities nad FINANCIAL FUNDING is needed, maybe a donation (based upon income like the free peoples movement do) on membership or something?

More info on the panthers ones

[edit] Survival programs

1970 BPP pamphlet combining an anti-drug message with revolutionary politics.Inspired by Mao Zedong's advice to revolutionaries in the The Little Red Book, Newton called on the Panthers to "serve the people" and to make "Survival programs" a priority within its branches. The most famous and successful of their programs was the Free Breakfast for Children Program, initially run out of a San Francisco church. Other survival programs were free services such as clothing distribution, classes on politics and economics, free medical clinics, lessons on self-defense and first aid, transportation to upstate prisons for family members of inmates, an emergency-response ambulance program, drug and alcohol abuse rehabilitation, and testing for sickle-cell disease, which was performed on more than 500,000 African Americans before it was recognized by the medical community as one that affected the black community very disproportionately.[

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

Some sites on the panthers programs

http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Survival_Pr...l_programs.html (http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Survival_Programs/survival_programs.html)

http://anonym.to/?http://www.mindfully.org...-People1998.htm (http://anonym.to/?http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/BPP-Serving-The-People1998.htm)

http://anonym.to/?http://www.stanford.edu/.../programs.shtml (http://anonym.to/?http://www.stanford.edu/group/blackpanthers/programs.shtml)

http://anonym.to/?http://www.mindfully.org...s-Led8oct06.htm (http://anonym.to/?http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2006/Black-Panthers-Led8oct06.htm)

[The-Spark]

This sounds like a great idea, its proves a point to, we must show that the communists care for the people, we gain influence, and people see a different side of communism, and may not be so gullible next time the fox news is on. Communism is a system for the people, we want to stage a revolution for the people, so why dont we go out there and help the people. The black panthers definantly had the right idea.

[Hampton]

The Panthers received free food from businesses in the community, many times they used churches to give out breakfast. They also intimidated some businesses who weren't giving food to do so. The programs were fundamental in the Panthers gaining their prominence in communities and also in getting noticed by the government.


The survival projects included police-alert patrols, The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service, the breakfast for children program, free medical clinics, the Oakland Community School, free busing to prisons, the free food program, the free clothing and shoes programs, the free ambulance program, sickle cell anemia testing, Seniors Against a Fearful Environment (S.A.F.E.), and the free pest control program. These various community activities are easily categorized into four social policy areas: human sustenance, health, education, and criminal justice.

Link (http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/BPP-Serving-The-People1998.htm)

[bolshevik butcher]

The panthers one is probbaly the most obvious and significant example I can think of.

I know around my area when the labour and trade union movement was a more significant force some things were set up that still remain. For instance unemployed workers advice cenetres and community centres that run various programs to help working class people. Such things are very valuable as they show that socialists as fighters for the advancement of the working class in the here and now.

[RGacky3]

The Food Not Bombs organization is also a good example of it, true community service without Capitalist Philanthropy or the State.

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

Do you think this is a good way to gain support???


Should groups start this in deprived communities? Maybe threaten businesses