Big Brick Energy: A Multi-City Study of the 2020 George Floyd Uprising [Free Digital Download]
Big Brick Energy: A Multi-City Study of the 2020 George Floyd Uprising [Free Digital Download]
A Free Digital Download of Big Brick Energy, authored by Unity & Struggle.
Big Brick Energy takes a step beyond anecdotes and hot takes. For a year, members of Unity and Struggle studied the uprising by interviewing fifteen comrades in five cities, compiling news coverage from the same cities, and surveying official reports from local governments and police departments in seventeen cities nationwide. We drew out common dynamics across locations, identified tactics and strategies that the movement and the ruling class used, explored what worked or didn't, and highlighted important challenges and questions that a future uprising will likely encounter.