Today I learned that a new anti-racist civic group in an upscale suburb near me, that grew out of a local #BlackLivesMatter protest on June 11, 2020, at the height of George Floyd vigils & solidarity protests nationwide... 
... & then carried energy into a campaign to change a derogatory park name over the summer... triblive.com/local/valley-n…
... not only continues to exist but is now hosted events like zoom forums, for community to meet & question local candidates in the upcoming primary. Huh!
I don't think anyone has a clear sense of how widespread this kind of civic consequence of the last spring's protest wave is
I don't think anyone has a clear sense of how widespread this kind of civic consequence of the last spring's protest wave is
Here's me tweeting about that first protest when it happened.... in a thread that grew to include nearly 200 other Black Lives Matter/anti-police violence protests statewide.
https://twitter.com/lara_putnam/status/1271228005201973250
The story of that protest wave as a *socio-organizational* dynamic (not just GOP target, disinfo fodder👇, or posthoc caricature in intra-Dem disputes) has yet to be told.
In part that's because it's still being written, by local people doing new things publicsource.org/comparing-capi…
In part that's because it's still being written, by local people doing new things publicsource.org/comparing-capi…
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