When: February 15, 2015
Where: Admin Plaza on the U of A campus
Why: This annual protest was organized by the Black Student Union and the African American Student Affairs. I was an intern during spring of 2015 and got to see the process of planning and execution. At the core, the goal of the rally was to take a symbolic stand against racist police brutality. While that was technically accomplished, the rally was extremely unrecognized outside of the UA Black student community, and so the protesters were not really seen or heard. Furthermore, symbolic action is great for sparking conversation, but the conversation was already started with the emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement in 2012, so more focus should be on how to remedy the problem. I will, therefore, put forth some ideas of how the symbolic action of HUSU could have been better executed, and include an entirely different way to impact the struggle for justice.
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