No, the media is very useful. To the left.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/jeff-reynolds/2020/06/24/oregon-emergency-bill-would-suspend-due-process-amid-covid-19-pandemic-n573677

I believe I read somewhere (to much reading happening, I can’t keep track of links) that the training may have occurred in Venezuela as both of them visited there. Great model to work from and towards, eh?

Of the three BLM cofounders- Opal Tometi, Alicia Garza and Patrisse Khan-Cullors- I believe that only Opal Tometi has been in Venezuela. Patrisse Khan-Cullors makes no mention of Venezuela in her memoir. (When They Call You a Terrorist).

The three were hard-core lefties before Opal Tometi visited Venezuela in December 2015. While they probably view Venezuela or Cuba as models, I doubt that Opal Tometi had much time during her short visit during the 2015 legislative elections to get a training course. Maduro took a training course years ago in Cuba that took several weeks to a month, IIRC.

I consider it plausible that at least one of the three got some advice from Venezuelans, in a meeting taking an hour or 2, on how to proceed. The three are very skilled at what they do, which would suggest at least some advice from Cuba or Venezuela. Say what you will about the living conditions in Cuba or Venezuela, those who run those countries are very skilled at acquiring and maintaining power. (I am reading a book on the Weathermen which points out that Cuban advice to the Weathermen was to focus on organizing and on demonstrations against the War. Cubans did NOT advise the Weathermen to go the bombing route that they took.)

Additional link: Black Lives Matter Co-Founder and BLM Movement Hearts Venezuela’s Maduro

Currently in Venezuela. Such a relief to be in a place where there is intelligent political discourse.

The Breitbart article links to an article Opal Tometi wrote for Venezuelanalysis, a Chavista mouthpiece.

Tometi also applauded Venezuela in an article that year stating, “in these last 17 years, we have witnessed the Bolivarian Revolution champion participatory democracy and construct a fair, transparent election system recognized as among the best in the world.”

Yeah, right.

The Breitbart article points out that Opal Tometi’s sympathies for Chavista Venezuela are not an outlier in BLM. It quotes a BLM eulogy on Fidel Castro.

“There is an overwhelming sense of loss, complicated by fear and anxiety. Although no leader is without their flaws, we must push back against the rhetoric of the right and come to the defense of El Comandante,” a eulogy by the official “Black Lives Matter” organization read.
After some thoughts on revolution, the piece ends: “As Fidel ascends to the realm of the ancestors, we summon his guidance, strength, and power as we recommit ourselves to the struggle for universal freedom. Fidel Vive!”

Breitbart points out the irony of BLM, an organization that is against police killing civilians, supporting the Maduro regime, as the Maduro regime has a horrendous record of police killing civilians.
Caracas Chronicles: How Brutal Are Venezuelan Police Forces?” In 2017, Venezuelan law enforcement killed 4,998 civilians. On a per capita basis, that would be the equivalent of US law enforcement killing around 50,000 civilians. Whereas US law enforcement kills around 500-1000 civilians a year. Yet Opal Tometi, a cofounder of BLM, supports the Maduro regime.

That’s how Marxism-Leninism works.
Let’s hear it for the “dictatorship of the proletariat”. Lots of cells in lots of cities at this point, and funding from occult sources. Would not surprise me if Communist China wasn’t involved.

Evil.