The activists where George Floyd was murdered

This is about people who have been gathering there, and what they want. I think it may have been Howard Zinn who said something to the effect that whenever you get really down in the dumps, that nothing good seems to be happening, remember all the activists who are still out there every day, working for a better world.

At 8:15 a.m. at George Floyd Square, 16 people — mostly women — are perched on chairs, benches and couches in between the idled pumps at the Speedway, which is covered in graffiti and serves as a gathering space now.

They have met twice a day, every day, since Floyd died on the street under a cop’s knee just steps away.

Meet on the Street, they call it...

After Floyd died and protests erupted in Minneapolis, and then spread across the globe, the city put up cement barricades about a block from the scene in every direction to keep mourners safe. It’s proving much more difficult to remove those barricades, however. These community activists are demanding something new after decades of mass incarceration, which followed a century of Jim Crow, which followed centuries more of slavery. - Minnesota Reformer