Rainbow Coalition

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Rainbow Coalition may refer to any of the following groups:

• The ruling Kenyan political party National Rainbow Coalition
• The second coalition of the Government of the 27th Dáil in Ireland. It consisted of Fine Gael, Labour and Democratic Left and was formed after the previous coalition of Fianna Fáil and Labour fell apart.
  Also refers to the official pre-election alliance of opposition parties, Fine Gael, Labour and possibly the Irish Green Party in the current (as of 2007) Irish parliament.
• The rainbow coalition of the Finnish government between 1995 to 2003, when a coalition of the Left Alliance (far-left), the Social Democrats (centre-left), the Greens, the Swedish People's Party (liberal) and the National Coalition (centre-right).
• The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Coalition in Israel.
• The Rainbow Coalition (Boston) was a social, racial and economic justice political organization formed in 1983 by Boston-area politician Melvin King In 2002 it merged with the Green Party to form Green-Rainbow Party. It was a model for Jesse Jackson's National Rainbow Coalition, which merged with PUSH to become the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition.
• An alliance announced June 7, 1969, in the Black Panther newspaper, formed by Chairman Fred Hampton of the Panthers, William Fesperman and June Bug of the Young Patriots Organization (a street gang of white youths that had turned political) and Jose(Cha-Cha)Jimenez of the Young Lords Organization,whom they characterized as Puerto Rican revolutionaries. [1]
• The Liberal-Socialist-Green Belgian government formed in 1999 under the premiership of Guy Verhofstadt. It was the first government to exclude Catholic parties since 1958.