Study materials on the containment & co-optation—largely from “within”—of a Black liberation movement struggling to be [re]born.
Cars, guns, autonomy: On the finer points of the recent revolt in Ferguson, MO, October 2014.
- Zine version, u.s. letter size; web reading version.
- castellano: Automoviles, armas, autonomía. Sobre los puntos más delicados de la reciente revuelta en Ferguson, Missouri.
- français: Voitures, fusils, autonomie : Sur les subtilités de la révolte récente à Ferguson, MO (mise-en-page numérique ici).
Raven Rakia & Aaron Miguel Cantú, The Fight For The Soul Of The Black Lives Matter Movement, April 2015.
- Read without supplying an email address here.
Bobby London, How to Kill A Movement, April 2015.
Keyanna Celina, How Black Lives Matter L.A. Undermined and Co-Opted the Movement for Ezell Ford, February 2016.
Mass Action for Black Liberation, Why Black Lives Matter: Cincinnati Is Changing Its Name, March 2018.
Glen Ford, Black Lives Matter Founder Launches Huge Project to Shrink Black Lives, 2019 (republished with editorial commentary April 2022).
[Elizabeth] Warren endorsed by Black Lives Matter co-founder’s Black to the Future Action Fund, February 2020.
Martin Schoots-McAlpine, Anatomy of a counter-insurgency: Efforts to undermine the George Floyd uprising, July 2020.
- Zine version, u.s. letter size (Tor/onion link).