Patrisse Cullors - Newsweek "BLM Global Leaders: 'It Feels Like There Is Actually Change Happening Now'"

Newsweek | June 26, 2020

“Can eight minutes and 46 seconds change the world?

From London to Lisbon, Berlin to Brisbane, Pretoria to Paris, as well as Toronto, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro and scores of other cities in dozens of other countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia, the answer, increasingly, seems to be yes.

In the month that's passed since George Floyd was killed and that horrifying, heartbreaking nearly nine-minute video revealed his treatment by four Minneapolis police officers, protests have spread beyond the U.S. and around the globe. The themes are at once universal—demonstrators demand justice for Floyd, and call for police reform and an end to systemic racism—and unique to the particular challenges of racial justice in each country. Protestors invoke the names of Black people killed in their country along with Floyd's, topple symbols of racism specific to their culture, point to what they believe are egregious examples of inequality particular to where they live.

The overarching message that ties the global protests together: ‘Black Lives Matter.’”

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