Will James
speaker
142 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2d ago
Will James’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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David's tall, wears glasses, a newsboy cap, gives off a professorial vibe.
And he became kind of one of these breakout stars.
Like, people just started paying attention to him and deferring to him because he was charismatic and seemed like he had...
Rashilah Levitt was a local bartender, and she brought this gift for connecting with people to the protests.
One thing that made Rashilah and David stand out early on was that they had strong convictions about how to protest effectively.
Like, we're not going to break windows.
We're not going to vandalize.
They wanted these protests to be disciplined.
brutality.
The people flooding into the streets that summer were showing up for all kinds of reasons.
Not everyone was there for George Floyd.
The pandemic was raging.
Some people were just frustrated, scared, lonely, bored.
And leaders like David and Rashila were trying to harness that raw energy to achieve the movement's goals.
While more and more of the movement's energy was focused on the barricade outside the East Precinct, there were still marches going on elsewhere in the city.
At this point, there's real movement in the protesters' direction.
Multiple city council members are showing up to stand with protesters against police.
We sat down and we said, we will not leave until Mayor Durkan comes out.
Mayor Jenny Durkan was a former federal prosecutor and elected as a pro-business, moderate Democrat.
Like a lot of big city mayors, she was trying to maintain order while still showing support for the protest
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