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Where? chicago, new york, california. where? weve changed laws... give me an example. ..we�*ve elected people into office. youve seen the squad, you know exactly what weve done here, but also in other parts of the world. and i dont think its a small thing for people to go to the streets to take action, to call out their governments. we have to have the cultural movements — the emotions are important. the ability to know right from wrong and have a cultural understanding in order, then, to ha...

As opal claims? no, far from substantial action, you know. these symbols, likewise, pulling down statues here in the uk, they have no impact on the issues you face in your everyday life. blm was politicised in the us as a strategy to remove president trump, and then was pushed around the world by the media. but, you know, in direct answer to blessings question, we must not allow our emotions to dictate our responses and ourconscious thinking. we should be researching the facts, having intelligen...

Indigenous communities, women, across the board, people who live in a multiplicity of intersections of those identities, always benefit. that is a fact. what we know right now is that people who are struggling, no matter what their background is, where theyre from, they identify with the black lives matter movement. they respect, they appreciate it, they know that ultimately, this is a human rights movement that benefits all of us. let me just ask you very quickly, opal, because on social media,...

Anna collinson has more. vanessa wants to be curvier so, two years ago, she started taking apetamin. misusing the appetite stimulant can cause severe fatigue and even liver failure. but she carried on and even promoted it to her followers. it sounds like madness, is madness the extent you will go through but the pressures must be hitting hard for us to think its ok. it is illegal to sell apetamin in the uk, but, two weeks ago, a bbc three investigation revealed it could be bought in shops and on...

Questioners join us via video link from all corners of the world. let me tell you whos in the hot seat this week giving the answers. opal tometi is co—founder of black lives matter, which was set up in the united states in 2013 to fight racism. an american human rights activist, she was the first woman to receive the prestigious international peace honour prize this year. and duwayne brooks is a british conservative campaigner for racial equality. he supports a recent report commissioned by th...

My question to the panelists is how do you respond - to statements like i "all lives matter?" thats the typical response i when we mention black lives matter in australia. opal tometi, all lives matter at the end of the day, dont they? well, i certainly believe that all lives matter, and that is exactly why myself and the two other co—founders of black lives matter created black lives matter. we wanted to be very honest about what we were seeing in our society, in our communities, day in, day ...

You cant find an independent organisation to provide the report that would even answer this question fairly. but i live in the uk, and here in the uk, we have 43 police forces. the met, which polices london, was found to be institutionally racist in 1999. since then, weve had the lambdin report that looked into our criminaljustice system, which is similar to the judicial institutions in the states. and there was no systemic structural or institutional racism, so basically, this question, yeah, o...

Good, ok, thank you. a bit of a ding dong there, lets now go to china. whats your question, please? i want to ask the panelists for their opinion _ about the role of civil l disobedience in protest movements. do you think it is necessary or counterproductive - or simply unavoidable? duwayne brooks. i think the simple answer to that is it doesnt work, and therefore is counterproductive. if you have a family business that has a history well over a hundred years, how devastated would you be seeing ...

They respect, they appreciate it, they know that ultimately, this is a human rights movement that benefits all of us. let me ask you very quickly, opal, because on social media, we had so many people asking us if its possible for there to be a stronger alliance between blm and stop asian hate, because we have seen some really horrific attacks on people of east asian origin in the united states because theyre being blamed for covid—i9, you know, kung flu and that kind of comment weve heard. you...

Those institutions that have been mentioned. but through the media we only get one side of the story, and those stories always, always trigger an emotional response from the observer. once that happens, all rational thought processes disappear and emotion takes over. the sad thing is that in america, you cant find an independent organisation to provide the report that would even answer this question fairly. but i live in the uk, and here in the uk, we have 43 police forces. the met, which police...