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Hey folks - I've lurked on Reddit for a long time, and finally decided to post.
This is my Ruger GP100 and my Sunday morning reading material - Hammer and Hoe by Robin D.G. Kelley
I've got my CCW and act as "backup security" at a church that hosts immigration workshops in a predominantly Latino neighborhood in Chicago. The church is also the base of a long-running, Latina-led community organization dedicated to immigration justice.
I (and a few of my friends) have been working on getting a group of left-leaning shooters together as a "Left Wing Gun Club" - not as explicitly political as Redneck Revolt or a John Brown Gun Club, but also a bit more left than center-leftish "liberal gun owners." Some folks want to join just to shoot in a more politically sympathetic environment, others are interested in providing security for protests/community events.
Are there any Chicagoans that frequent this sub that'd be interested in meeting up and possibly collaborating?
There is actually a really good book about this that will lend some context. Hammer and Hoe.
"A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality.
"The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. In this book, Robin D. G. Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture. The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals."