KING: And so we know that by the end of June, Black Lives Matter had brought in about $13 million in donations. Just how much money, and what are these local organizers objecting to? And this is important because a lot of money was poured into the national leadership - right? - in donations by the end of June. Patrisse Cullors is the founder of Black Lives Matter and in a statement has said that, you know, she had - she did assume the role of executive director with the consent of chapters, yet local chapters said that's actually not the case.ĬORNISH: In an open letter, these local chapters raise concerns about financial transparency. KING: The Black Lives Matter movement has always considered itself, in the words of its activists, leader-full, meaning that no one person has entire say over the direction of the movement or major decisions and that everything is done with the full consent and agreement of all of the members from the local level up to the top. So how does the BLM Global Network kind of interact with these local chapters, and what does it mean to have a leader in Patrisse Cullors? I'm under the impression that this was kind of a leaderless movement, so to speak. And from there, we saw a statement that was released a few weeks ago from local Black Lives Matter chapters calling for accountability and saying that these decisions that were made were done without their consent and without conversation with these local chapters that had been organizing with Black Lives Matter from the beginning.ĬORNISH: Help us understand, though, the infrastructure here. KING: So a series of decisions that the Black Lives Matter Global Network made really were the - really started the tensions that we were starting to see - the appointment of Patrisse Cullors to executive director, the formation of the political action committee and the formation of Black Lives Matter Grassroots, which was an activist arm of the Black Lives Matter Global Network. Welcome back to the program.ĬORNISH: So what was the catalyst to the tensions? What happened between national leadership and local chapters that kicked this off? She's been following this in detail and joins us now. Maya King is a demographics and politics reporter at Politico. and Chicago, are cutting ties with national leadership. Just who owns the future of the Movement for Black Lives, a movement that began as a decentralized grassroots network that's fracturing as it grows in power? Ten local chapters of Black Lives Matter, including groups in Philadelphia, D.C.
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