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Black Lives Matter Leaders See Organizing Opportunities During COVID-19 Pandemic

Jeffrey Cawood
Black Lives Matter Leaders See Organizing Opportunities During COVID-19 Pandemic
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Black Lives Matter leaders are using the COVID-19 outbreak as a chance to push criminal justice reforms and advance an anti-capitalist agenda that they say has already been partially implemented by public officials responding to the pandemic.

Dr. Melina Abdullah, a co-founder of BLM’s L.A. chapter, said it is time for “those who’ve been thinking about what the collapse of capitalism could do” to spring into action, “just as crises are used by oppressive regimes to usher in their visions.”

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