Alicia Garza is an Oakland-based
organizer, writer, public speaker, and freedom dreamer who is currently the
Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the
nation’s leading voice for dignity and fairness for the millions of
domestic workers in the United States. Garza, along with Opal Tometi and
Patrisse Khan-Cullors, also co-founded Black Lives Matter, a globally
recognized organizing project that focuses on combating anti-Black
state-sanctioned violence and the oppression of all Black people.
Since the rise of the BLM movement, Garza has become a
powerful voice in the media. Her articles and interviews have been featured
in Time, Mic, The Guardian, Elle.com, Essence, Democracy Now!, and The New
York Times.
Most important, as a queer Black woman, Garza's leadership and
work challenge the misconception that only cisgender Black men encounter
police and state violence. While the tragic deaths of Trayvon Martin and
Mike Brown were catalysts for the emergence of the BLM movement, Garza is
clear: In order to truly understand how devastating and widespread this
type of violence is in Black America, we must view this epidemic through a
lens of race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
Friday,
October 30, 2020 @ 6 PM
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