Opinion: After Black Lives Matter, citizens' assemblies can help protesters and politicians find solutions

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Opinion: After Black Lives Matter, citizens' assemblies can help protesters and politicians find solutions
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As we slowly emerge from lockdown it has become clear that the amplifying voice of social media has played a major role in fuelling recent political protests. So how can the energy and ideas behind these movements be converted into long-lasting and effective action?

protests in recent weeks? Or are you a supportive spectator observing from the isolated safety of your own home? Either way, the force and energy of this important political movement is unparalleled. We are not only engaging in a timely conversation about institutional discrimination but doing so through the prism of a global health pandemic which is disproportionately killing people from Bame communities.

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