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President "Trump not only needs to not be in office in November but he should resign now," says co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Patrisse Cullors. “We actually do have an ideological frame,” responded Cullors, “myself and Alicia, in particular, are trained organizers.”, “We are trained Marxists,” she added. ", "Activist battles L.A. County jailers' 'culture of violence, "In L.A., Civilians Will Have Power Over Sheriff's Department", "Warner Bros. TV Group Signs Overall Deal With Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors", "Abolition And Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice, And Accountability", "Abolitionists still have work to do in America | Patrisse Cullors", "Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Patrisse Cullors on Her Book", "Black Lives Matter Co-Founder on Building a Movement Through Art", "Black Lives Matter Co-Founder Endorses Sanders and Warren, Says It Is Time for Biden to Stand Down", "Janaya Khan, Black Lives Matter Toronto Co-Founder, On Racism And Self-Care", "This Is What Sets Toronto's Black Lives Matter Movement Apart from America's", "Black Lives Matter co-founder brings message to Naperville", "The Mario Savio Young Activist Award :: The Award", "Glamour's Women of the Year 2016: Gwen Stefani, Simone Biles, Ashley Graham, and More Honorees", "Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi", "LGBTQ Pride Month: A Conversation with Patrisse Cullors". Her book, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir[48] was published in January 2018.

[27][28], Also known as public artist and curator, her website (see External Links section) states that she relies on art to reflect social spaces in ways that words fall flat.

[3] She became an activist early in life, joining the Bus Riders Union (BRU) under the leadership of Eric Mann as a teenager[2][3] during which time she attended a year-long organizing program led by the Labor Community Strategy Center[4] (which organised the BRU[5]). [1], Cullors recalls being forced from her home at sixteen when she revealed her queer identity to her parents. Patrisse Cullors (born June 20, 1983), an American artist and activist, is a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. A journalist who interviewed her for Rolling Stone noted that Cullors turns to art "as a complimentary form of resistance-building." If you’re with us, add your name to the petition right now and help us spread the word.”. [9] She also teaches in the Master's Arts in Social Justice and Community Organizing at Prescott College. Patrisse Cullors (born June 20, 1983), an American artist and activist, is a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement. [8], Cullors teaches at Otis College of Art and Design in the Public Practice Program. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a, OOPS: Millions Mistakenly Raised For Black Lives Matter Charity That Connects Cops To Communities. [12][13] The three started the movement out of frustration over George Zimmerman's acquittal in the shooting of Trayvon Martin. She learned about revolutionaries, critical theory and social movements from around the world, while practicing activism. A 2015 video clip has surfaced of an interview with Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors in which she assures her interviewer that the group has an underlying ideology, saying, "We're trained Marxists." [27] She cites Angela Davis for her "political theories and reflections on anticapitalist movements around the world", her work towards "a broader antiracist and antiwar movement", and her fight against white supremacy in the US. [22] She recently launched a production company with a deal with Warner Bros. [1], Cullors was born in Los Angeles, California. Other topics on which Cullors advocates include prison abolition in Los Angeles and LGBTQ rights. The Daily Wire, headed by bestselling author and popular podcast host Ben Shapiro, is a leading provider of conservative news, cutting through the mainstream media’s rhetoric to provide readers the most important, relevant, and engaging stories of the day. [10][11], Along with community organizers and friends Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi, Cullors founded Black Lives Matter. [15] The group advocated for a civilian commission to oversee the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in order to curb abuses by officers. He is not fit for office. Cullors co-founded the prison activist organization Dignity and Power Now, which succeeded in advocating for a civilian oversight board. Cullors integrates ideas from critical theory, as well as social movements around the world, in her activism. She grew up in Pacoima, a low-income neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley,[2] and attended Cleveland High School in Reseda. "[7] She later earned a degree in religion and philosophy from UCLA. "The Role of Spirit in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement: A Conversation with Activist and Artist Patrisse Cullors". [24] She also cites Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and Mao Zedong, as "provid[ing] a new understanding around what our economies could look like". Patrisse Cullors, who co-founded BLM in 2013 with community organizers Alicia Garza and Opal Tomet, inked the multiyear agreement in what is her first deal with a … Frantz Fanon is another inspiration, his "work on colonial violence in Algeria and across the Third World [making] timely connections" for the understanding of the context in which Black people live across the world. "Meet 6 Black trailblazers fighting racism: "I didn't come to play; I came to dismantle white supremacy. pic.twitter.com/T6mLZ11cEv, — The Lead CNN (@TheLeadCNN) June 19, 2020, BLM founder Patrisse Cullors, reassuring an old communist that she understands that the goal is to destroy freedom: “we’re trained Marxists.” pic.twitter.com/x8sljI05Av, — David Reaboi (@davereaboi) June 20, 2020, Related: OOPS: Millions Mistakenly Raised For Black Lives Matter Charity That Connects Cops To Communities. Myself and Alicia [Garza] in particular, we’re trained organizers. In 2014 Cullors produced the theatrical piece POWER: From the Mouths of the Occupied, which debuted at Highways Performance Space.

He is not fit for office." Television. “We are super versed on, sort of, ideological theories.”. [25] She also favors reparations for what she describes as "the historical pains and damage caused by European settler colonialism", in various forms, such "financial restitution, land redistribution, political self-determination, culturally relevant education programs, language recuperation, and the right to return (or repatriation)". Coalition to End Sheriff Violence in L.A. Jails, 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries, When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir, "How the founder of Black Lives Matter started a global movement", "These Savvy Women Have Made Black Lives Matter the Most Crucial Left-Wing Movement Today", "A case study: LABOR / COMMUNITY STRATEGY CENTER", "Queerness on the front lines of #BlackLivesMatter". [21], She is also a board member of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, having led a think tank on state and vigilante violence for the 2014 Without Borders Conference. Cullors integrates ideas from critical theory, as well as social movements around the world, in her activism. [20] However, the group did not succeed in its efforts. You will be next, but in hindsight it will be better for our nation, the less of our kind, the more safe it will be. It's literally saying, 'Black people, you might be next. The Daily Wire, headed by bestselling author and popular podcast host Ben Shapiro, is a leading provider of conservative news, cutting through the mainstream media’s rhetoric to provide readers the most important, relevant, and engaging stories of the day. “Hate speech, which is what we’re seeing coming out of white nationalists groups, is not protected under the First Amendment rights,” she said. We demand investment in our communities and the resources to ensure Black people not only survive but thrive. [19], In February 2020, she co-endorsed Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries. She told an interviewer in 2015 that "seeking spirituality had a lot to do with trying to seek understanding about my conditions—how these conditions shape me in my everyday life and how I understand them as part of a larger fight, a fight for my life. One is black feminists such as Audre Lorde and her "Black, queer, feminist lens",[24] as well as bell hooks : both "helped [her] understand [her] identity".

In the “What We Believe” section of the official BLM site, the organization calls for the “national defunding of police” and for the “disruption” of the nuclear family.

Other topics on which Cullors advocates include prison abolition in Los Angeles and LGBTQ rights. Marxism is important for Christians to understand, because it is Navigation0 “Trump needs to be out of office. “We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and ‘villages’ that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable,” the section continues.

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[29], Asked whether she believed in violence as a method of protest, she has said that she believes in "direct action, but nonviolent direct action", and that this was also the belief of the Black Lives Matter movement.

Jails. [45] She has contributed articles about the movement to the LA Progressive,[46] including an article from December 2015 titled "The Future of Black Life" [47] which pushed the idea that activists could no longer wait for the State to take action, and called her followers into action by encouraging them to begin building the world that they want to see. And so what we are going to push for is a move to get Trump out.”, “While we’re also going to continue to push and pressure vice president Joe Biden around his policies and relationship to policing and criminalization, that’s going to be important,” the BLM founder said.