The Reckoning Moment From Ferguson to Minneapolis to Paris

LE BREAKDOWN With Yasser Louati

Guest: Tory Russell, Mission Manager, International Black Freedom Alliance (IBFA)

As the police killing of George Floyd has sparked sparked a historic upheaval across the United States and across the Western world, seasoned activists are already thinking of the step ahead of the emotional momentum. The Ferguson uprising and before it, the one that took place in L.A in 1992 serve as examples of formidable mobilisation and earth shattering emergence of often times silenced realities but with time, many observe no sustainable infrastructure capable of capitalizing of, let’s face it, momentary anger, that could bring about struturral change, if not outright lead to a change of system.

What lessons are to be learned from the L.A, Ferguson and Minneapolis uprisings and where do we go from here?

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“Individualism is no antidote to systemic white supremacy” Tory Russell, Mission Manager IBFA

Today, I sat with Tory Russell in order to discuss with him current events in Minneapolis and what lessons he learned from the emergence of the Black Lives Matter mouvement. Tory Russell is the Mission Manager at the International Black Freedom Alliance and lead organizer during the Ferguson uprising following the racist killing of Mike Brown, again by a white police officer.

This podcast was recorded and made available to you in loving memory of the Ferguson activists that lost their lives in highly suspicious circumstances following their standing against police brutality:

MarShawn McCarrel, Darren Seals, Deandre Joshua, Edward Crawford, Danye Jones, Bassem Masri. May they all rest in power.

Music Credit: and especially JF Beats and OP Beatz