This Is What Democracy Looks Like: Organizing Because Black Lives Matter

• In Event: Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Community Building in the Face of Psychic Restlessness and Precarity

Abstract

Recent youth-led social justice work to end police brutality, racism, and mass incarceration organizing offer us 21st century examples of the struggle against precarity. All three initiatives allow students to transform their psychic restlessness into building multiracial alliances, reach out to elder activists, and support original and creative artistic production. In this talk I will offer specific examples of successful organizing strategies among students in Boston and as part of a larger collective struggle.

Presenter

• Becky Thompson, Simmons College