Protest

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• SOURCE: Texas Tribune
  6/22/2022
  

  Before the Tragedy, Uvalde Was the Site of a Major School Walkout. Will That History Be Lost?

  In 1970, ethnic Mexican students at Uvalde High School staged a six-week school boycott to protest persistent segregation and pervasive disrespect from teachers and administrators. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/24/2022
  

  Historian Donna Murch on the Long History that Led to BLM

  "In terms of repression and resistance, it takes people and communities time to understand what is happening to them."

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• SOURCE: NextCity
  5/23/2022
  

  Virginia's Governor Took Away the Most Important Piece of Protest Art in the Country. What Should He Have Done?

  Outgoing governor Ralph Northam removed the graffiti-covered pedestal of the former Robert E. Lee monument, which has become a site of community gathering and a public forum to express alternative visions of history. Cities should try to encourage such openness (if not spray-painting). 

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• 5/15/2022
  

  Excerpt: Inside the Gwangju Uprising, a Key Moment for South Korean Democracy

  by Gwangju Democratization Movement Commemoration Committee

  Government forces sprung into action to violently suppress a pro-democracy protest of students and workers in Gwangju, South Korea on May 18, 1980. 

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• SOURCE: In These Times
  5/3/2022
  

  Protest Can – And Should – Influence the Supreme Court

  by Eric Stoner

  Direct action is the only way to push the court's majority more into line with the will of the majority of the public. 

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• SOURCE: Salon
  5/1/2022
  

  How Protesters Pushed Jimmy Carter to Support Disability Rights

  by Matthew Rozsa

  While Carter campaigned on pledges to support the demands of the disabled for fuller participation in American society, he didn't fulfill those problems without a strong push from protesters in the movement. 

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• SOURCE: Dissent
  4/27/2022
  

  The Fatal Siloing of Abortion Advocacy

  by Meaghan Winter

  It was a strategic mistake for abortion rights advocates to emphasize the right to individual choice instead of the vast issues of economic justice, workforce quality, educational equity and personal safety that are impacted by whether women can control their own reproduction. 

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• SOURCE: NBCUniversal
  4/14/2022
  

  Video: When a Protester Hit Anita Bryant with a Cream Pie in 1977

  "Thus always to bigots" declared the Des Moines, Iowa protester who greeted Anita Bryant's anti-gay roadshow with a pie to the face. 

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• SOURCE: Vox
  4/2/2022
  

  A Bizarre War on Protest By Republican Judges

  "If protest leaders can be hauled into court — and potentially forced to pay out of their own pockets — for the actions of a single protest attendee, then no sensible person will organize a protest."

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• SOURCE: Politico
  2/26/2022
  

  The History of Tying Up Traffic for Protest

  by David Greenberg

  More militant leaders in the Black freedom movement advocated obstructing traffic on a large scale as an expanded form of nonviolent direct action; the tensions these plans provoked in the movement show that there are seldom clear principles for which movement tactics are legitimate, outside of our opinions of their goals. 

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• SOURCE: Editorial Board
  2/17/2022
  

  The Ottawa "Freedom Convoy" Takes Inspiration from a Biblical Account of a Divine Massacre

  by Thomas Lecaque

  The Ottawa truck protests featured a contingent of "Jericho Marchers" who are increasingly prominent on the Christian far right. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/16/2022
  

  When Eartha Kitt Disrupted the Ladies Who Lunch

  In 1968, real life imitated "Batman" as the Catwoman actress broke the veneer of politeness at a luncheon hosted by Lady Bird Johnson to denounce the war against Vietnam. But while Catwoman always got away, Kitt's career was destroyed for a decade.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Affairs
  2/16/2022
  

  The Paranoid Style Comes to Canadian Politics

  by Eric Merkley

  Canadian politics, until recently, seemed free of the kind of extreme sorting taking place in other democracies, where partisan affiliation, cultural values, and religious or ethnic identity all align closely. The Ottawa protests show cracks in the nation's liberal order that the far right is trying to exploit, says a political scientist.

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  2/7/2022
  

  Is "Cancel Culture" an Existential Threat to America or a Moral Panic?

  by Michael Hobbes

  Podcaster and moral panic debunker Michael Hobbes asks what's really happening with the current "cancel culture" uproar. 

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• SOURCE: The Cut
  1/31/2022
  

  The Return of the Mass Protest

  by Elizabeth Hinton

  Although mass protests are far more peaceful than they were in the 1960s, reviving nonviolent direct action tactics associated with MLK, the police response to them has been more heavily armed and violent.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/18/2022
  

  Student Protests over COVID Policy (and Adults Ignoring Them) is Part of a Long Tradition

  by Jack Hodgson

  "Their message: Education needs to be delivered in cooperation with young people. They have a right to advocate for their own welfare, feel safe in school and receive teaching, not just supervision."

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  1/5/2022
  

  Bristol Protesters Cleared of Toppling Edward Colston Statue

  "In a 10-day trial at Bristol crown court, the four defendants did not contest their actions on 7 June 2020 but sought to argue they were justified, because the statue was so offensive."

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• SOURCE: DCist
  12/30/2021
  

  Mosaic Theater Is Collecting H Street Residents’ Protest Stories And Turning Them Into Plays

  “We want to be a place where the stories of our community are uplifted and celebrated and given the spotlight — particularly because so many of those residents are African Americans who have seen so much change happen without their input,” says Reginald Douglas, Mosaic’s new artistic director.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  11/13/2021
  

  Direct Action: The Practical Politics of Protest

  by Erin Pineda

  "Protesters may be a loud minority of citizens, a set of especially motivated and impassioned individuals who are in many ways not representative of the general public. But the silent majority of voters are not as disconnected from—or dismissive of—protest as many assume."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  11/17/2021
  

  Law Enforcement Has Long Practiced Double Standards for Activists

  by Denise Lynn

  Nobody should be shocked that the FBI has aggressively surveilled Black Lives Matter organizers while deciding that the online organizing of the January 6 attack on the Capitol was protected speech; this double standard has characterized law enforcement's approach to racial justice protest.