Stop Tear-Gaslighting Us: Conversations with Portland protesters. Guest: Seemab Hussaini
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Join us for our third interview in our special Stop Tear-Gaslighting Us series. We are sitting down with community members who hit the streets in the 2020 George Floyd protests in Portland to look back and look at where we are now. We are joined this week by Seemab Hussaini, a local Muslim community organizer.
Seemab shares about a vivid, unforgettable memory of teargas Tuesday and recounts the amount of violence that we saw from law enforcement that has gone unaccounted for. Seemab and Beatrix talk about the conversations that were happening in immigrant and refugee communities about protests, and he shares his experience with bridging an anti-fascist movement with the Muslim community in Portland. They talk about why the protest community fractured, the specific role community organizations play in movements (hint: we need diversity of tactics!), the political aftermath, and his feelings towards Mayor Wheeler.
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