In response to a massive uprising in May 2020 against racism, police brutality, and US state violence, Wells Fargo bank-backed activist DeRay Mckesson launched “8 Can’t Wait.”
This campaign is being heavily criticized by grassroots activists, who have called it the status quo’s milquetoast response to protesters’ demands to defund US police departments and a corporate-sponsored attempt to “derail the movement.”
The Grayzone is thus republishing this 2016 report investigating Mckesson’s origins in the corporate education privatization movement
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/07/deray-mckesson-tfa-corporate-school-privatization/
This campaign is being heavily criticized by grassroots activists, who have called it the status quo’s milquetoast response to protesters’ demands to defund US police departments and a corporate-sponsored attempt to “derail the movement.”
The Grayzone is thus republishing this 2016 report investigating Mckesson’s origins in the corporate education privatization movement
https://thegrayzone.com/2020/06/07/deray-mckesson-tfa-corporate-school-privatization/