Can we ever break out of the political pendulum — that endless left-right swing that seems to prevent lasting change? Walter Riley has been wrestling with that question since growing up in the Jim Crow South. A civil rights attorney, lifelong organizer, and father of rapper-filmmaker Boots Riley, Walter has spent decades trying to bring people together across divides.
He’s joined by Jesse Strauss, Oakland organizer and co-author of their new book Civil Rights and Structural Attacks, in a live conversation recorded at a North Oakland book launch.
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