What is "rainbow coalition"

Rainbow Coalition may refer to:

• Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, a U.S. political organization, originally separate entities named PUSH and the National Rainbow Coalition
• Green-Rainbow Party, a U.S. political party, originally separate entities named the Massachusetts Green Party and the Rainbow Coalition of Boston
• Rainbow Coalition (Fred Hampton), an alliance of various U.S. political organizations, including Jose Cha Cha Jimenez and the Young Lords.
• National Rainbow Coalition, a former Kenyan political alliance
• The 24th Government of Ireland, formed by Fine Gael, Labour and Democratic Left parties
• A combination of several political parties in Finland, in power between 1995 and 2003 and from 2011 (see List of political parties in Finland)
• The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition in Israel
• A group of political parties in Belgium, formed in 1999 under the premiership of Guy Verhofstadt (see Belgium#Government and politics)
• Any coalition government composed of a coalition of several ideologically unrelated political parties united by opposition to one or more dominant parties.
• Rainbow (Netherlands), an alliance of Dutch left-wing political parties from 1989 to 1990.

See also:

• Rainbow (disambiguation)
• Rainbow (Greece), a political party in Greece
• Coalition

The Rainbow Coalition was a coalition active in the late 1960s and early 1970s, founded in Chicago, Illinois by Fred Hampton of the activist Black Panther Party, along with William "Preacherman" Fesperman, Jack (Junebug) Boykin, Bobby Joe Mcginnis and Hy Thurman of the Young Patriots Organization and Jose Cha Cha Jimenez, the Puerto Rican founder of the Young Lords. It later expanded to include various radical socialist groups. It was associated with the rising Black Power movement, which mobilized some African-American discontent and activism by other ethnic minority groups after the passage of the mid-1960s civil rights legislation under Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson.

The coalition also included later members of various local ethnic gangs, among whom Hampton, the Young Patriots, and the Young Lords under the leadership of Jose Cha Cha Jimenez had brokered treaties to end violence between them. The leaders worked to reduce conflict by the treaties, as they believed that poor youths' fighting each other in gang wars achieved little benefit for them. Hampton and his colleagues believed that the Daley Machine in Chicago and the American ruling class used gang wars to consolidate their own political positions by gaining funding for law enforcement and dramatizing crime rather than underlying social issues.