Reclaiming OUR Narrative: How History Can Inform Policy, the Change, the Future

Pete Haviland-Eduah, national policy and communications director for the Million Hoodies Movement for Justice, spoke on the fourth anniversary of Trayvon Martin's death. He argued that who tells a story shapes the policy that follows, then walked through the Defense Department's 1033 military-surplus program and the arming of campus police, campus-carry laws in Texas, and Executive Order 13688. He recounted being carded by a campus safety officer who told him he "fit the description." Spring 2016 series "Breaking Down Racism: Fighting Racial Injustice in the U.S." An associate director of the Y introduced him. A long audience Q&A followed, including questions about a Champaign police officer then in the news.