'Socialism' became this weird household word partially because right-wingers call Obama a socialist, which he is the farthest from.
Saying 'black lives matter' both literally and figuratively restores people's dignity.
Sometimes you have to put a wrench in the gears to get people to listen.
I'll be honest with you, I really struggle with the conversation around gun control.
The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all aspects of life, including housing, employment, and public accommodations.
Whether or not you call it Black Lives Matter, whether or not you put a hashtag in front of it, whether or not you call it the Movement for Black Lives, all of that is irrelevant. Because there was resistance before Black Lives Matter, and there will be resistance after Black Lives Matter.
The open source nature of the Internet is both a blessing and a curse, because just as much as we can watch what's happening around the world, we can also be watched.
People think that we're engaged with identity politics. The truth is that we're doing what the labor movement has always done - organizing people who are at the bottom.
We can make black lives matter in the labor movement by building the kinds of movements that black women need to shape a new economy and a new democracy that don't force them to choose between making a living and being a part of a healthy democracy.
I think that we are all deeply, deeply committed to the liberation of black people. And so, when you put people together who have and share that commitment, the sky is the limit.
What it takes to get people from liking and sharing and retweeting to organising is a hard and long process. Technology has really changed the game in terms of how people participate and what they decide to participate in.
How do we stop violence, looting, and riots? The way that we stop that is by making sure that people have the things that they need to thrive.
What we've seen is an attempt by mainstream politics and politicians to co-opt movements that galvanize people in order for them to move closer to their own goals and objectives. We don't think that playing a corrupt game is going to bring change and make black lives matter.
Certainly, we have to make sure our police forces do not have weapons of mass destruction with which they can terrorize our communities.
If you're to look at people's social networks, not a lot of white people have a social network that has lots of black people - it doesn't happen. It makes sense to me that online would be as segregated as offline because it's just mimicking patterns that exist in real life.
The best advice I ever got as an organizer was that if you can organize your family, you're a good organizer.
The Clintons use black people for votes but then don't do anything for black communities after they're elected. They use us for photo ops.
Ultimately, policing in and of itself is problematic.
Both Alton Sterling and Philando Castile had guns on them, which is part of their Second Amendment right. It is a part of a culture that is largely protected by special-interest groups like the N.R.A., but the right to bear arms, it seems, only exists for white people.
Quite frankly, black folks have always been at the core of what it's meant to make this nation human.
