Today closing arguments in the federal trial for the other 3 officers involved in #GeorgeFloyd's killing were made. The jury deliberations to start tomorrow.
The impacts of Floyd’s death spread to millions across the world struggling against anti-Black racism. [A thread]
The impacts of Floyd’s death spread to millions across the world struggling against anti-Black racism. [A thread]
"People for the first time saw what many people refused to acknowledge, which is that we've built a system that brutalizes Black people in the manner that we saw #GeorgeFloyd." Jaylani Hussein of @CAIRMN - speaking during a car protest in January 2022. /2 vimeo.com/669314120
In June 2021 Unicorn Riot went to Frankfurt & Berlin to show hear how the murder of #GeorgeFloyd impacted European countries. Germany is significant because it had the 2nd largest #BlackLivesMatter mobilizations in the world following the Floyd killing. /3 unicornriot.ninja/2021/one-year-…
Luna & Jackson from @blackpowerffm, Bafta Sarbo from Initiative of Black People in Germany (@ISDBund), & @der_neukoellner, an anti-racist activist, gave us valuable insight into the German reality and why a movement focusing on Black lives is of enormous importance. /4
Encapsulating Luna, Jackson, Bafta, & Ferat's discussions, our film 'One Year After #GeorgeFloyd in Europe: The Deep Roots of Racism in Germany' highlights Germany's racist past & present & how Floyd's killing led to a rise in Black power movements. /5
vimeo.com/628693103
vimeo.com/628693103
Read the transcripts from the film 'One Year After George Floyd in Europe: The Deep Roots of Racism in Germany' in the images below & watch/read at our site: unicornriot.ninja/2021/one-year-… /6
In #Athens, #Greece, the police killing of #GeorgeFloyd in 2020 was greeted with rage. For the first time in modern Greek history, the broader movement for Black lives appeared & a demo in front of the American embassy ended up in flames. [images v Flash GR] /7
Expanding Unicorn Riot’s ‘One Year After #GeorgeFloyd: A Global Perspective’ series, we heard from an Afro-Greek & two African migrants living in #Athens, #Greece, each from various Black/African communities. /8 unicornriot.ninja/2022/one-year-…
From Senegal & living in Greece, Jeffrey, a lead artist with the African Heritage Music Collective told UR that after watching #GeorgeFloyd be killed, he was reminded that every Black person must “prepare for themselves.” He also spoke about some of the racism he’s faced. /9
Loretta Macauley, who founded the United African Women’s Organization Greece, said that what happened to #GeorgeFloyd made the “whole of Greece … become aware” of racism a& that second generation immigrants & migrants are feeling “empowered to talk about their problems.” /10
Born in #Greece of Nigerian parents, artist/activist Michalis Affolanio is a main pillar at Anasa Cultural Center in Athens. He told UR after #GeorgeFloyd was killed, Africans living in Greece got radicalized from learning "the history of the Black diaspora in the New World." /11
Read the transcripts of the interviews with Jeffrey, Loretta, & Michalis in the images below & for the full special 'One Year After George Floyd in Europe: Afro-Greeks and African Migrants Speak Out', see our site: unicornriot.ninja/2022/one-year-… /12
Words from an anonymous contributor who produced the Greek publication of 'One Year After #GeorgeFloyd in Europe'
"The police murder of #GeorgeFloyd ignited the fuse of the explosive American reality & revealed to the world how entrenched racism is in the United States..." /13
"The police murder of #GeorgeFloyd ignited the fuse of the explosive American reality & revealed to the world how entrenched racism is in the United States..." /13
"... To the world, the killing revealed the ongoing & relentless attack & repression by the police & state against African American communities all over the US.
Through increasingly militarized ways, the United States’ Police forces continue to target the Black community..." /14
Through increasingly militarized ways, the United States’ Police forces continue to target the Black community..." /14
"...conducting racial war which is boiling under a dismantled society with torn social bonds & fear & oppression as the stamps of the social contract.
The flames of the uprising reached all over the world where neoliberal policies permiss police brutality..." /15
The flames of the uprising reached all over the world where neoliberal policies permiss police brutality..." /15
"...racial profiling, and a racist colonial perspective.
Demos appeared in nearly every country in the world with each place showing its own unique, autonomous characteristics. The spread preserved a fire that sent smoke signals of hope all over the planet..." /16
Demos appeared in nearly every country in the world with each place showing its own unique, autonomous characteristics. The spread preserved a fire that sent smoke signals of hope all over the planet..." /16
"...The fight against racism and death threats regarding your skin, language or sexuality belong to a common global struggle which should unite regardless of ideological differences and beyond different political starting points..." /17
"...Bringing together the 3 interviewees from various political backgrounds who are part of this beautiful symphony of protest & creation that lured the country’s ears after #GeorgeFloyd was killed spotlights the connections, bonds & interactions b/t local groups & abroad." /18
For more on the #GeorgeFloyd Uprising from the frontlines in #Minneapolis & it's impacts in the U.S., see our Reporters Reflection series [with more episodes in the works] unicornriot.ninja/georgefloyd/ / End Thread /19
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