https://vimeo.com/427466708 People in the streets and at home are talking about the intersection of race, class, and gender in a more substantive way and how the Democratic Party tries to hijack movements. Adrienne Dixson on theAnalysis.news podcast with Paul Jay Transcript Paul Jay Welcome to theAnalysis.news podcast. I'm Paul Jay. As the protests continue across the United States, broaden, deepen and even more sections of the population get involved, including people who have never protested and rallied about anything, the question is, can this movement be sustained? What kind of leadership is emerging? What are the demands of the movement? What should be the demands of the movement? Now, joining us to talk about all of this is Adrian Dixon. She's a scholar of race and gender equity and urban educational context. She's an author of over 30 scholarly journal articles and book chapters and editor of five books on critical race theory and education. She's also a trained musician with an undergraduate degree in music theory and composition. And she lives in Illinois and in New Orleans. She goes back and forth. Thanks for joining us, Adrienne. Adrienne Dixson Thank you for having me. Paul Jay So, first of all, give us a sense of what the protest movement has been like in. I don't know if people are calling it the Black Lives Matter movement or not, but what's it been like in New Orleans? Adrienne Dixson Actually, folks have been fairly active. I have not been out at the protests. I've actually been on self quarantine for a couple weeks because of some travel that I've been doing. I live close to where they come up and have protested a couple of times. They've covered a lot of geography in the city. And it looks like a coalition of groups. So there was a group that was fairly active called Take Down, Take Them Down New Orleans, and they led the charge to remove the Confederate monuments. I was watching some video on, I don't even know the days of the week. I joke and tell people every day is Saturday or Sunday. So it may have been Friday night. I think there was a convening of folks outside downtown somewhere and the Take Him Down Those Folks were kind of trying to corral folks and organize people, ensure that folks are staying safe. I don't know that we have a chapter of Black Lives Matter in New Orleans, but I know that we, again, have a coalition of groups and folks have been you know, they've been really active. They've taken over the highway. So there, though, the protests have gone on the ITEN. They attempted to cross the Crescent City Connection, which is the bridge that crosses from the East Bank up to New Orleans to the West Bank. They were blocked by the police and met some aggression on the part of the police with tear gas and and whatnot, which is very scary because folks are actually on the bridge suspended over the Mississippi River. News Report All right, folks, it looks like we got interrupted a minute ago. A tear gas canister was thrown close to where we are. As you can see, there is a small no man's land dividing line between the NOPD officers on your right. And protesters, several hundred, perhaps thousands on the left shouting, „Don‘t shoot, don't shoot.“ Adrienne Dixson So the situation escalated to its current standoff. A few minutes ago when NOPD attempted to push the protesters back off of the Crescent City Connection. I've seen information posted on Instagram and Facebook and Twitter about when folks are convening. And it's been almost every day. I think yesterday they met at noon. But most days they meet after six o'clock and march.. Paul Jay The demands that are being made, the kind of slogans when people are on the streets and generally, what are they?
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