The Black Lives Matters Global Network and Movement for Black Lives organizations have been the nerve center of the protests.
As the New York Times Magazine explained, "While much of the nation's attention drifted away from Black Lives Matter, organizers and activists weren't dormant." One of the three founders, Alicia Garza, said that "The movement's first generation of organizers has been working steadily to become savvier and even more strategic over the past seven years, and have been joined by motivated younger leaders."
As the Times report elaborates, "One of the reasons there have been protests in so many places in the United States is the backing of organizations like Black Lives Matter. While the group isn't necessarily directing each protest, it provides materials, guidance and a framework for new activists." Deva Woodly, a professor at the New School, told a Times reporter that, "Those activists are taking to social media to quickly share protest details to a wide audience.... These figures would make the recent protests the largest movement in the country's history."
Melina Abdullah, of BLM's Los Angeles chapter, told an interviewer that the demonstrations in that city had been strategically planned: "We built kind of an organizing strategy that said, build black community [to] disrupt white supremacy." Their targets, she said, were the neighborhoods where "White affluent folks" lived.
To Williams we owe the concept of "Transformative organizing," which insists "That effective organizing for social change cannot simply be based on an apolitical and highly specific analysis of what is possible in the short term."
Mann, who served 18 months in prison for assault and battery and disturbing the peace, remains committed to overthrowing the American system and achieving world revolution through organizing.
In their 1969 declaration, You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, John Jacobs, and other revolutionary leaders of the Weather Underground spoke of black people not so much as the reason for their push to destroy American society and institute world Communism, but as a means to achieve their goals.
https://www.city-journal.org/marxist-revolutionaries-black-lives-matter
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