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George Floyd and the Urgent Matter of Changing the World

George Floyd and the Urgent Matter of Changing the World

The Radical Power of Bystander Footage, Monument Activism, and Effective Movement Building

Ellen Kirkpatrick
May 26, 2023
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I wrote this piece in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, three years ago on 25 May 2020. Not an isolated wake, but one drawing in and finding force in the unjust killing and brutalisation of more and evermore Black Americans. An ever-growing trail of names — of people gone, of lives stolen violently and unjustly by law en…

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