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/* Organization and history */
The #blacklivesmatter hashtag became popular following the death in 2012 of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin who was killed by George Zimmerman, a community watch volunteer. Different people tried to capitalize on the slogan and take leadership of the people that have adopted the hashtag. Three lesbians, Garza, Cullors, and Tometi have since created an organization by the name.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blacklivesmatter.com/herstory/|title=The Theft of Black Queer Women’s Work|accessdate=}}</ref> and have started a website.<ref>http://blacklivesmatter.com</ref> BLM’s mission includes a kitchen sink of favored radical Left causes, including support of poverty elimination programs, prison deinstitutionalization, illegal immigration and gay rights.
Garza, Cullors and Tometi all work for [[front groups group]]s of the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), one of the four largest radical Left organizations in the country. The others are the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), and the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). Nelini Stamp’s ACORN—now rebranded under a variety of different names—works with all four organizations, and Dream Defenders is backed by the [[Service Employees International Union]] (SEIU), the [[ACLU]], the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] and others.
BLM's wide network of affiliates and partner organizations like CPUSA and ACORN allows BLM to turn out large crowds. Many participate simply to protest, commit violence, loot or all three.
