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Members of the White Panther party in 1970

in front of their headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

 

Photograph: Leni Sinclair/Getty

 

Detroit’s star activist adds BLM rally to her 50 years of rebellion

Leni Sinclair was at the heart of the city’s radical music and politics in the 1960s.

Now 80, she reflects on today’s struggle for equality and social change

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Sun 16 Aug 2020    07.05 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/
detroits-star-activist-adds-blm-rally-to-her-50-years-of-rebellion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White Panther Marsha Rabideaux

with the Gary Grimshaw-designed logo.

 

Photograph: Leni Sinclair

 

Detroit’s star activist adds BLM rally to her 50 years of rebellion

Leni Sinclair was at the heart of the city’s radical music and politics in the 1960s.

Now 80, she reflects on today’s struggle for equality and social change

G

Sun 16 Aug 2020    07.05 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/
detroits-star-activist-adds-blm-rally-to-her-50-years-of-rebellion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

White Panther Party

 

Together with her husband,

John Sinclair,

the native-American activist

Lawrence “Pun” Plamondon

and the Detroit band the MC5,

their roadies and elements

from the artists’ workshop,

Sinclair started the White Panthers

without approval from Newton

and co-founder Bobby Seale.

 

They had heard the panthers

didn’t want white people involved

but they “should start

their own organisation

if they want to help us”.

 

“We were already

organising white people

who wanted change,

so we called ourselves

the White Panthers,”

Sinclair recalls.

 

The group defined itself

with a 10-point plan that called

for “fighting for a clean planet

and the freeing of political prisoners”,

*with additional aims of “rock ’n’roll,

dope, sex in the streets

and the abolishing of capitalism”.

 

The Black Panthers, too,

were unimpressed –

“they called us

psychedelic clowns,”

says Sinclair

– at least until the group

started distributing

the Black Panther newsletter

in south-east Detroit.

 

(...)

 

Sinclair remembers

being in Detroit in 1967

when the city was consumed

by anti-racist protests

that left 43 dead,

over 1,000 injured,

more than 7,000 arrested

and 2,000 buildings destroyed

over three days.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/
detroits-star-activist-adds-blm-rally-to-her-50-years-of-rebellion

 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/16/
detroits-star-activist-adds-blm-rally-to-her-50-years-of-rebellion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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