Word: rainbows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COVERING Jesse Jackson as the only possible Black Presidential candidate, the press now and then quotes him about the need for a rainbow coalition of Blacks, Latinos, women, poor people, and disadvantaged groups. Mostly, though, the media talks about the maturation of Blacks in politics; whether a Jackson candidacy would get people to register and vote; whether he would divide the Democratic party in the face of what looks to be a long, hard battle in the trenches to oust President Reagan in 1984. Yet the underlying assumption behind all this discussion is that Jackson would be a "Black" candidate...
...narcotics. Those allegations are just now being cleared up after many months and $200,000, leading many to speculate that the accusations were a well-timed frame-up. Georgia State Senator Julian Bond, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, or Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), could also have run on the "rainbow platform"; but all decided not to. As for the possibility of a leftist coalition strategy led by a non-Black candidate, Alan Cranston lacks the strength with Blacks, Latinos, and progressive labor, while Gary Hart lacks the necessary political impact. By elimination and self-selection, Jackson emerged as the only...
...realizing that the platform and not he himself is the key, will be apparent be fore any of the first primaries. This strategy will live or die in the first three months, when Jackson must prove to wary Hispanics, women's groups, progressive labor groups, and others that this rainbow coalition is the key to future political power. If it succeeds, against all the known and unforeseen obstacles. The surge of grassroots citizens groups of the '70s may consolidate in the '80s into new local and national coalitions, capable of a class-based realignment of American politics...
...crew of the Rainbow Warrior for taking on the Soviet Union in its fight against the slaughter of whales [Aug. 1]. Perhaps next year Greenpeace, the environmental group that opposes whaling and ran the Rainbow Warrior expedition, can work on this side of the Bering Sea to stop the butchering of the poor walrus...
Jackson hopes to form a "rainbow coalition" of blacks, other minorities, women, laborers, peace activists and the white poor. Although some Hispanic leaders support his campaign, this rainbow, particularly with him as the pot of gold, is a dream that extends far beyond the visible horizon. Women are wary of Jackson's antiabortion views. He frequently tells the story of how his unwed teen-age mother, on the advice of her doctor, almost had an abortion when she was pregnant with him and was only dissuaded by her minister. Jackson has begun stressing that although he is morally opposed...