Bring Your Gifts
summary
Shows a concrete community model built at George Floyd Square that replaces police response with neighbor-led systems, documents 24 demands and organizes block-by-block needs assessments, and uses Twitter matching to raise $25,000+ for firewood, propane, warming sheds, a clinic seed fund and to keep a Black family in their home. Describes barricades, on-site COVID testing and vaccination, a community Code of Conduct, and claims these grassroots systems worked to keep people fed, warm and safe during 2020–21.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Welcome and introduction
- 1:57Community after a hard year
- 3:44Neighbors helping neighbors
- 5:56George Floyd Square model
- 8:02Who counts as our neighbors
- 11:14Creating community starts here
- 13:40Messy human work worth it
- 14:38Skills to share with neighbors
- 17:10Ask neighbors what they need
- 20:23Bring your gifts to the Square
- 24:54Avoiding techie traps
- 26:30Work with communities not for them
- 27:47Trust and understanding
- 28:37Bring your humanity
- 29:32Liberate each other now
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