Black Lives Matter is a network of over 40 Chapter organisations across the US and internationally. Nurturing local leadership and action, its members call attention to white supremacy and significantly reduce it. But protests are just one tool in a
Australia’s frontier had cruelty to rival the US south. That’s why a racialised insult against Adam Goodes has more power than a comment on Andrew Bolt’s blog n the US, the Black Lives Matter campaign is forcing a long-overdue reckoning with that country’s
Black Lives Matter leader Cazembe Jackson was in conversation with Speaking Out's Larissa Behrendt to discuss the importance of Black Lives Matter Global Network, how it resonates in Australia, and what winning the 2017 Sydney Peace Prize means to Black Lives Matter. "Black
Awarding the founding members the Sydney Peace Prize affirms the goals and the work accomplished by BLM so far have been crucial to any modern peace-building initiative. The founders of The Black Lives Matter Movement — Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza, and
For the Guardian Australia's 'Behind the Lines' podcast, Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter speaks with Aboriginal activist Latoya Aroha Rule. As the Sydney Peace Prize is awarded to the Black Lives Matters movement, Cullors discusses the formation and philosophy of
The organisers of the Sydney Peace Prize have announced that this year’s recipient is the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States. It’s the first time a movement, rather than an individual, has been awarded the prize. The Sydney Peace
New York: Black Lives Matter, the movement against racial inequality and police violence in the US which began as a powerful hashtag and became a global rallying cry, will be the 2017 recipient of the Sydney Peace Prize - the first time
The human rights movement Black Lives Matter has won this year’s Sydney peace prize. The movement, which was founded in the US by Patrisse Cullors, Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi in 2012 after the acquittal of George Zimmerman for the murder
Next month 2016 Sydney Peace Prize recipient Naomi Klein is releasing her new publication No is Not Enough: Resisting Trump's Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need! We already know that the Trump administration plans to deregulate markets, wage all-out war on
This week Professor Muhammad Yunus visits Australia. Professor Yunus received the first-ever Sydney Peace Prize in 1998, eight years before winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Events and lectures are sold out, but Professor Yunus will appear on ABC Q&A on Monday 3 April.