Why the Black Lives Matter protests are different in Europe
The Europeans | European news, politics and culture
Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer
4.8 • 162 Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Protests over the death of George Floyd have been spreading on this side of the Atlantic, from Britain to Hungary. This week we're talking about what makes the European anti-racism protests different, with the artist and cultural critic Quinsy Gario. We're also talking about Prague's mysterious poisoned suitcase, and a possible post-COVID rail revolution.
Amsterdam protest recording by Katz Laszlo.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, at least one good thing happened this week, which is that plugging my parents' bike shop on this very podcast has apparently |
| 0:22.6 | done some good because we got a new customer this week. |
| 0:24.9 | My sister. |
| 0:25.8 | So exciting. |
| 0:26.9 | I'm happy that my family can support your family in this nice, nepotistic way. |
| 0:33.3 | It's not nepotism. We just happen to sell quality electric bicycles. |
| 0:37.3 | Wishbikes.co.uk. Go there if you're interested. Maybe we should sell bikes to all of the Kramer's, actually, I was thinking, because there's so many of you, we can make quite a profit. |
| 0:46.2 | I think I should say you're only allowed to carry on pushing your parents' business if they send me a free bike. |
| 0:54.1 | Making this like a real podcast advert. |
| 0:56.6 | Yeah, that would be great. |
| 0:58.9 | Although an electric bike isn't really necessary in Amsterdam considering there are zero hills. |
| 1:03.6 | It's extremely flat. |
| 1:04.8 | It's very much unnecessary. |
| 1:07.0 | But how are you? |
| 1:08.0 | What have you been up to? |
| 1:09.0 | I'm fine. |
| 1:10.5 | For the first time in months, I'm recording in the house alone. My husband's gone to work. |
| 1:15.4 | Whoa, like a physical workplace. |
| 1:17.3 | A physical workplace. Because things are kind of getting back to normal here in Amsterdam, which is really weird and nice and confronting. |
| 1:31.0 | A lot, in other words. It is a lot. What are we talking about this week? This week, we're going to be looking at the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests in |
| 1:35.8 | Europe. I'm sure everyone is aware that there's been this incredible wave of protests that took off |
| 1:41.1 | initially in America after the hideous killing of George Floyd in |
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