rebellion

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• SOURCE: Slate
  12/31/2022
  

  What Happened to Pieing Powerful People in the Face?

  by Rossi Anastopoulo

  For three decades beginning in the 1970s, political groups used the time-honored comedy move as a way of humbling the powerful and (mostly) non-violently resisting bigotry. Why have public pieings nearly vanished? 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  5/19/2021
  

  Reclaiming the Power of Rebellion

  Activist Derecka Purnell interviews Elizabeth Hinton about her new book "America on Fire" and the need to think about urban unrest in political, not criminal or psychological, terms. 

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• 6/21/2020
  

  Witness Against the Beast

  by Christopher Tomlins

  Nat Turner followed his evangelical faith to challenge a profane and degenerate slaveholding regime. Today's white evangelical Christians must decide whether to support the successor of that regime. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/1/2020
  

  The Double Standard of the American Riot

  by Kellie Carter Jackson

  Many people are asking if violence is a valid means of producing social change. The hard and historical answer is yes. Riots have a way of magnifying not merely the flaws in the system, but also the strength of those in power.