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What Made Black Lives Matter ‘Abolish the Police’ Activists Change Course
Can modern social movements survive without the internet? Gal Beckerman, editor at Atlantic, think so.
When I wrote my book, The Quiet Before, he finds that old-fashioned person-to-person spaces can be more effective, if not more, than spaces like Twitter.
Beckerman speaks to Molly Jong-Fast in this extra episode of New anomaly The Black Living Matter movement is a prime example. In 2016, the activists leading the “Abolish the Police” campaign decided to stop their organizing efforts entirely from the Internet for a period known as the “blackout”. In the process, they discovered something they didn’t expect.