Start Date: 11/13/2024 12:00 PM CST
End Date: 11/15/2024 2:00 PM CST
Venue Name: Hilton Minneapolis
Location:
Minneapolis, MN United States
Organization Name:
ASHE
Contact:
ASHE is excited to partner with the Minnesota Agape Movement whose mission is to transform “street energy into community energy” as they work to “build a stronger, peaceful and safer community.” With an office located on Chicago Avenue just steps from 38th Street, Agape Movement has been an important organization involved in the work to advocate for and educate about the neighborhoods at the intersection known as George Floyd Square.
ASHE members will have opportunity to participate in small group guided visits led by Agape leaders. There are four scheduled opportunities on:
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 10am-12pm
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, 1pm-3pm
Thursday, November 21, 2024, 12pm-2pm
Friday, November 22, 2024, 12pm-2pm
Space is limited; therefore, we ask you to complete this form to indicate your interest.
As you consider whether or not to sign up, please remember that this is a guided experience to the site where George Floyd was murdered. It is a community which has endured several decades of trauma that became infamous following the actions of four Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020. George Floyd Square—as the intersection of 38th Street and Chicago Avenue is now known—is a neighborhood where people live, where businesses are trying to succeed, and an ongoing site of protest advocating for the city to meet the 24 demands of Justice Resolution 001.
George Floyd Square hosts multiple installations memorializing George Floyd’s death and other instances of violence including murals, the Say Their Names cemetery, and the Mourning Passage Project. People’s Way (formerly the Speedway Gas Station) hosts several sites for mutual aid including the People’s Closet and a lending library.
The guided visits are two hours in length and include transportation to and from the Hilton Hotel. A “tour interrupter” from Agape will lead participants through the Square and share history and context regarding the four neighborhoods that converge at the intersection of 38th and Chicago and what has (and has not) happened in the community since George Floyd’s death and the uprising that followed. Introductions to businesses operating in the Square provide opportunities to contribute to the economic sustenance of this neighborhood in South Minneapolis. Moments at key installations in the Square and opportunities for conversation and reflection are centered in this experience to understand the complicated reality of a memorial that marks George Floyd’s murder and extrajudicial police violence in a community systematically underserved and also deeply committed to justice and transformation for their own safety and thriving.
