personal updates during the week of action during the pandemic of covid
9 june
- restoration city church (6/7/2020): “what does the church have to do with black liberation?”
 - how can you win?
 - how far have the demands come since 1992?
 
4 june
555a
- How You Can Help (MPLS, June 2020)
 - Scaffolded Anti-Racist Resources
 - wear out the silence: conversation suggestions
 
media that is shifting the narrative
- Police Erupt in Violence Nationwide
 - COVID & George Floyd Killing Reveal a Failed State That Only Knows How to Police
 
2 june
1023a
- the characters this week: the police, the protestor, the white supremacist
 - movement for black lives: week of action in defense of black lives
 - basic digital security support: the simplest / easiest things that people can do to protect themselves from the increased surveillance being deployed
 
things i wrote this morning:
| Jun 2, 2020 | use your gifts for the movement | 
| Jun 2, 2020 | some thoughts for my friends during the week of an uprising | 
| Jun 2, 2020 | sell the brownie, not the ingredients | 
1 june
719p
- Trump threatens to deploy military against protesters as teargas fired outside White House
 - https://newrepublic.com/article/157875/pandemic-right-time-defund-police
 - Far-Right Extremists Are Hoping to Turn the George Floyd Protests Into a New Civil War
 
3:26pm
watch this: movement 4 black lives: in defense of black lives call
read this: #GeorgeFloyd Black MN Love Letter
and this: letter from a birminghamjail
11a ET
- i drowning in check-in texts from friends. if we are close enough to be texting and you are not black, know that i love you and instead of asking me how i am, please ask me what i need. i am getting upwards of 20 “how are you” texts a day and i cannot answer them all. if you are black, please ask me how i am.