Organizer and visionary

My friend Alicia Garza has a new book. Here she talks about her vision with Trevor Noah on the Daily Social Distancing Show. Alicia has been organizing in the Bay Area for a couple of decades; she is one of the three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement.  

Being an organizer, she knows it is not all about taking to the streets to shout our feelings. She's about building institutions that ensure that Black lives really do matter.

• "There's something that transforms in us when we become part of a movement, that transforms it into love."
  
• "It's not that I want to have Joe Biden over for dinner. The point of [voting for Joe Biden] is to get the kind of terrain where you can get the things you need more easily and more accessibly. That's what we're organizing around now."

The book is The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart. I'm not going to get around to reading the copy I bought until after this desperate election sprint. Too much work on the phones to finish. But afterward ...